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MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 RABI ALTHANI 15, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Turaiji slams Egypt president Big dreams but Costa checks KIA chief praises 2011 little action 10-man over press uprising, for Manila’s Arsenal’s statement4 urges patience7 traffic14 nightmare title20 charge MPs reject building of Min 10º Max 21º new churches in Kuwait High Tide 13:48 Panel approves 75% govt ownership in Kuwait Airways Low Tide 09:25 & 19:08 40 PAGES NO: 16766 150 FILS By B Izzak and Meshaal Al-Enezi

KUWAIT: The Municipality has initially approved requests to build new churches in Kuwait, but faces opposition from lawmakers and councilors. Islamist lawmaker Ahmad Al-Azemi yesterday said he and other MPs will reject the plan because this contradicts Islamic sharia laws. He said his rejection is based on constitutional and religious grounds since Islam is the official religion of the country and the main source of legislation, adding that Islamic scholars are unanimous in banning the building of non-Muslim worship places in the Arabian Peninsula. Azemi’s statement came after a top Municipality offi- cial said in comments yesterday that the municipality has allocated a number of sites for the construction of churches in the country. The official also said that the decision to approve the allocations will be made by the Municipal Council. The head of the council’s technical committee Fahd Al-Sane said that the committee had not yet received any such request. Council member and head of the Ahmadi committee KUWAIT: Injured workers are seen after an under-construction school building collapsed yesterday. Mane Al-Ajmi said that he was against building churches in Kuwait because of the awqaf ministry’s fatwas against it. Head of the Capital committee Hassan Kamal said that the topic was not yet discussed by the council and that if 20 workers injured in school collapse all needed documents were in order, the municipality’s primary approval would be taken into consideration. KUWAIT: Twenty people who were injured in an head and thigh fractures, Assistant Undersecretary of collapse would face legal and administrative punish- There are several churches in Kuwait, while some under-construction school building in Sabah Al- the Health Ministry for Supportive Medical Services ment. After attending a meeting with the parliament, churches are operating from leased houses. MP Azemi Ahmad City have been taken to four hospitals by Dr Jamal Al-Harbi told KUNA. Abul said that the Public Authority for Housing urged the government against taking decisions that are medevac planes and ambulances, the Health Ministry Earlier, State Minister of Housing Yasser Abul Welfare will investigate the incident. Wishing those not accepted by Kuwait’s conservative society. said yesterday. Injuries varied between bruises, spine, warned that anyone found negligent in the school Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 Iraq summons Saudi envoy

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s foreign ministry summoned Saudi Sumaria television that the Hashed al-Shaabi paramili- Arabia’s ambassador to Baghdad yesterday to protest tary forces, which are dominated by Iran-backed Shiite his “interference” in the country’s internal affairs over militias, are not wanted in Sunni Arab and Kurdish areas remarks on militia forces fighting the Islamic State as “they are not accepted by the sons of Iraqi society”. group. Thamer Al-Sabhan is the first Baghdad-based In a separate statement, the ministry said the foreign Saudi ambassador in a quarter century, but while full ministers of both countries had met yesterday on the diplomatic relations are restored, there is still significant sidelines of a conference in Bahrain and rejected hostility to Riyadh in some quarters and there have Sabhan’s remarks. “The Saudi foreign minister said these already been calls for the envoy’s expulsion. statements do not reflect the official position of the The foreign ministry summoned Sabhan “to inform kingdom towards brotherly Iraq,” the statement said. him of its official protest regarding his media statements There was no immediate report of the minister’s com- that represented interference in Iraqi internal affairs”, it ments on the Saudi state news agency. said in a statement. Sabhan said in interview with Al- Continued on Page 13

SIDI BOU SAID, Tunisia: This file photo shows a Chinese tourist taking pictures on March 19, 2015 in this village some 20 km northeast of Tunis, a day after an attack on the Bardo National Museum in the Tunisian capital. — AFP Arab nations eye China, locals to revive tourism Record 3m people visited Qatar in 2015

MADRID: Arab nations are looking to Chinese visitors to Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said. The revive their tourism sectors, battered by security fears, number of Chinese visitors to Egypt more than doubled and also need to develop homegrown tourism as a life- from 60,000 in 2014 to 135,000 in 2015, “in a year in line, ministers from the region say. Bookings to nations which we suffered a lot”, he said at a conference on in North Africa and the Middle East, which had been tourism policies in Arab nations at the Madrid interna- recovering after the Arab Spring unrest, fell last year fol- tional tourism fair Fitur, which wrapped up yesterday. lowing deadly attacks claimed by Islamic extremists in In September eight Mexican tourists were mistakenly Tunisia and Egypt that caused foreigners to shun beach- killed by Egyptian security forces in the vast Western es and historic sites across the region. Desert. The following month a Russian airliner crashed But visitor numbers from China to Egypt soared last in the Sinai desert shortly after taking off from the Red year despite a series of security blows to the country’s Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on key tourism sector in 2015 because the government board. began to allow charter flights from the Asian country, Continued on Page 13 LOCAL MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 Amir to attend flag Crown Prince receives Saudi official KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah hoisting ceremony received yesterday at Seif Palace the presi- dential advisor of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities Abdullah Bin KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Mohammed Al Al-Sheikh, as well as Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah will Kuwait’s Ambassador to Mexico Sameeh attend and inaugurate a flag hoisting Johar Hayat. Earlier, His Highness the ceremony at Bayan Palace today. The Crown Prince received His Highness the event, due to be held at 10:30 am, will Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- also be attended by His Highness the Hamad Al-Sabah, Minister of Amiri Diwan Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Affairs Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and senior state offi- Sabah and First Deputy Prime Minister and cials, according to an Amiri Diwan Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al- statement. Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Meanwhile, His Highness the Crown His Highness the Crown Prince also Prince is set to patronize the trophy- received First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al- giving ceremony of the Horse Racing Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Championship at Kuwait’s Hunting and Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Equestrian Club for the 2015-2016 sea- Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime son. Hunting and Equestrian Club Minister, Finance Minister and Acting Oil Chairman Sheikh Dhari Fahad Al- Minister Anas Al-Saleh and Minister of Ahmad Al-Sabah will represent His Information and Minister of State for Youth KUWAIT: His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Highness the Crown Prince at the Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al- Sabah receives the presidential advisor of the Saudi Commission for Tourism Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah event, to be held at 5:00 pm.—KUNA Humoud Al-Sabah. —KUNA and Antiquities Abdullah Bin Mohammed Al Al-Sheikh. — KUNA Ghanem rejects Iranian speaker’s statements against Saudi Arabia Speaker urges ‘Islamic battle’ against terrorism BAGHDAD: National Assembly Speaker conference, “I, personally, and the Kuwaiti del- opment, democracy, transparency, good gov- further losses could be caused and a “disaster The conferees, after resumption of the ses- Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem yesterday objected a egation, represent Saudi Arabia, and will not ernance, culture of human rights and teach- occurs.” He also stressed the dire need for a sion, elected by consensus Algeria, Lebanon, statement by Iranian counterpart Ali Larijani under any conditions accept interference in ings of the great Islamic religion,” he said. national reconciliation in Iraq, through tolera- Sudan and Saudi Arabia as members of the against Saudi Arabia, during the 11th confer- the Kingdom’s internal affairs,” Ghanem told “We have to defeat terrorism by waging our tion among all spectrums of the society. executive committee. Mauritania, Palestine, ence of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC the conference, quashing Larijani’s statement. real wars on illiteracy, ignorance, poverty, Meanwhile, Iraqi President Fuad Massoum Morocco and the UAE were chosen for the (PUIC) member states in Baghdad. Ghanem stressed that the aim of the PUIC inequity, injustice, administrative backward- urged the Muslim countries to extend further commission of political affairs and external If the Saudi delegation is not present at the Baghdad conference is to bolster a unity dis- ness, bureaucracy and corruption...the wars support to Iraq which is “facing a fierce attack” relations. course, not a divisive one. which we can wage through our parliaments, that distorts Islam and fuels sectarianism to Morocco, Bahrain, Iraq and Djibouti were Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament Salim Al- judiciaries, universities, libraries and research divide Muslims, and arouse trouble with fol- given membership in the committee of eco- Jabouri is presiding over the gathering, which centers,” he noted. However, the speaker lowers of other religions, he said. nomic affairs and environment. Mauritania, is attended by delegations from more than 40 warned that while terrorism is growing in Iraq, Iraq, which is facing “terrorism putting on a Jordan, Kuwait and Tunisia for the committee countries, among them parliament speakers Syria, Yemen, Libya and Egypt’s Sinai and other religion cloak,” is defending itself and the of human rights, women and family, while from Kuwait, Syria, Iran, Somalia, Tunisia, areas, the central Palestinian issue should not entire world, Massoum added, noting that his Syria, Oman, Egypt and Libya for the cultural Turkey, Algeria, Pakistan, Mali and the Sudan. be forgotten. country has recently taken the initiative to affairs committee. Then, Ghanem called off the Iraqi President Fuad Massoum and Prime defeat “terrorists and takfiris.” (takfiri: is an session. Minister Haider Al-Abadi are attending the Threat to Islam Arabic word that indicates rejection of reli- Earlier on Saturday, Ghanem held talks with event, together with senior officials and Arab In his opening address to the 11th PUIC gious beliefs of the same sect or another.) his Iraqi counterpart on sidelines of the meet- and foreign envoys to the country. conference, Iraq’s chief parliamentarian Preparatory meetings for the conference ing, the Assembly General Secretariat said in a Jabouri urged the Muslim states to counter were held as of last Thursday, and the confer- statement released here. The two sides dis- Cultural battle sectarianism and terrorism “that came to ence wraps up meetings today. On Saturday, cussed means of boosting bilateral relations Addressing the conference, Ghanem called threaten Islam as a whole.” He said that the President of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary between Kuwait and Iraq, particularly at the for waging an “Islamic cultural battle” against ongoing conflict in the region is perilous, Union (AIPU) and Speaker of Kuwait’s National parliamentary level, main topics on the meet- growing terrorism. “As no country is now safe resulting from disputes among regional pow- Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem chaired a ing agenda, regional and international issues. from terrorism, time is ripe for an Islamic cul- ers, and embroiled other countries, directly or meeting of the Arab Group in PUIC. The statement added that Ghanem had tural battle against this surging phenomenon,” indirectly. also held talks with the first vice chairman of he said. He added that since terrorism could Jabouri called for an overall settlement of Representatives’ election the Iraqi parliament, Hammam Hammoudi. hit any country, all-out cooperation among the issue of the region through “some conces- During the meeting, Ghanem declared the The two meetings were attended by the sec- BAGHDAD: National Assembly Speaker Muslim countries against this phenomenon sions” to realize, and guarantee regional and agenda of the meeting, including election of ond deputy of the Iraqi speaker, Aram Sheikh Marzouq Al-Ghanem speaks during the has become a religious, moral and human international peace and security. In the mean- representatives of the Arab Group in the PUIC Mohammad, members of the Kuwaiti parlia- 11th conference of the Parliamentary duty. “This cooperation cannot be restricted to time, he urged the international community to permanent committees, and shortly later mentary caucus taking part in the PUIC meet- Union of the OIC (PUIC) member states in security, though significant, as it should be a offer assistance to Iraq in the face of “terror- ordered suspension of the session for 10 min- ing and the State of Kuwait Ambassador in Baghdad. — KUNA cultural one armed with science, justice, devel- ism” which has deeply hurt the country, before utes to enable participants hold deliberations. Baghdad, Ghassan Al-Zawawi. — KUNA

Arab-Indian ministers’ meeting reaches understandings on regional, int’l issues

MANAMA: The first ministerial meet- each other, as well as respect of inde- ing international issues,” the official ing of the Arab-India Cooperation pendence, sovereignty and territorial said. Forum (AICF) held in Bahrain yester- integrity, in addition to settling dis- Jarallah also noted the strong his- day has reached understandings on putes through peaceful channels in torical ties between Kuwait and India several regional and international line with the UN Charter and the on all levels. He also added that trade issues, as well as bilateral ties. International Law. exchange between the two countries The Manama Declaration issued by The Manama Declaration con- is currently estimated at $18 billion the meeting stressed the necessity of demned the aggression that took dollars. Moreover, the two sides share concluding a comprehensive and last- place earlier this month on the Saudi a strong economic partnership, as ing settlement for the Arab-Israeli embassy in Tehran and the Kingdom’s trade balance between them has conflict, based on the resolutions of consulate in Mashhad. They also held jumped from about $5 billion in 2011 international legitimacy, and the two- the Iranian authorities fully responsi- to about $50 billion in 2014, said the state solution, namely establishing an ble for the protection of the diplomat- minister. independent Palestinian state on the ic premises. pre-June 1967 borders, with $200 billion Jerusalem a capital. Executive program In the meantime, Bahraini Minister On Syria, the meeting underlined Kuwait’s Deputy Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs Khalid bin Ahmed the importance of maintaining the Khaled Suleiman Al-Jarallah stressed Al-Khalifa said that trade exchange country’s unity and sovereignty, as that the meeting has developed har- between the GCC states and India was well as concluding a political solution mony and agreement on many recorded at $200 billion in 2014. The to the crisis there based on Geneva I regional and international issues such FM, meanwhile, stressed on the and the two Vienna statements. as terrorism, Syria, Yemen and Libya. importance creating further coopera- The Declaration called for provid- Jarallah told Kuwait News Agency tion between the two sides. He also ing further support to the Syria’s (KUNA) after the conclusion of the called for expanding permanent and neighbors hosting refugees, lauding meeting that all these issues which non-permanent membership in the His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah were discussed with the Indian side Security Council, to equally allow all Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah for host- were understood as they expressed world powers to represent their ing the First, Second and Third their willingness to work with the regions and play effective roles in International Humanitarian Pledging Arab side to face these challenges. resolving issues. Conference for Syria, over the past He pointed out that the existence Furthermore, Secretary General of three years. of an executive program between the the Arab League Nabil Al-Araby The Arab and Indian sides reiterat- two parties, besides the Manama hoped India would play a role in sup- ed respect of the independence, sov- Declaration, which was approved porting Arabs’ efforts in the ereignty and territorial integrity, of together, will constitute a future road Palestinian Cause. Israel is violating Iraq and Libya, as well as the principle map for the Arab and the Indian holy monuments including mosques of no-interference in their internal groups. The minister added that the in Palestine and expanding its settle- affairs. They condemned violence Arab group has a special historical ments, he said, adding that interna- committed by terrorist groups in relations with India, due to the aware- tional laws issued on the case are not both, especially the so-called Islamic ness of India’s importance on the yet implemented or respected by State (IS), against the Iraqi people. In regional and global level. Israel. addition, the two sides welcomed the Meanwhile, Jarallah noted that the Skhirat Agreement seeking a political Arab countries are working to No mediation way out for Libya. strengthen cooperation with India in Speaking to reporters on the side- Meanwhile, they voiced support to many fields, due to India’s enormous lines of the meeting, Saudi Foreign the Yemeni people’s expectations for economic bloc which can create eco- Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said that the freedom, democracy and social jus- nomic and commercial relations with situation of Saudi-Iranian relations tice, reiterating significance of full the Arab countries. does not require mediation as Iran commitment to the country’s inde- knows well what it exactly should do. pendence, sovereignty and territorial Fight against terrorism Jubeir said several countries have integrity, as well as no-interference in Jarallah had stressed the impor- asked to act as facilitators between its internal affairs. tance of Arab-Indian dialogue as a Riyadh and Tehran, but “there is no Moreover, the Declaration, reaf- path to cooperation on the fight need for that as Saudi Arabia knows firmed the relevant UN Security against terrorism and issues of mutual its own position very well and Iran Council resolutions supporting the concern. “Recent developments in also knows what it is required to do”. legitimate government, and in the Syria, Libya and Yemen, the tension “Once Iran does what it should do, meantime, condemning unilateral between Iran and Saudi Arabia and there will be no need for mediation,” measures by the Houthis that under- increasing international terrorist he said, accusing Tehran of support- mine political transition in the coun- attacks are threatening security and ing terrorism, adopting hostile poli- try. The AICF ministerial meeting, stability everywhere,” Jarallah said cies against the Arab world, poking its expressed support to peaceful efforts, during the ministerial meeting. nose into the affairs of Arab countries including those exerted by the UAE to The minister also mentioned the and fomenting sectarian strife. reach a political solution to the coun- recent attacks on the Saudi Embassy The Saudi foreign minister reiterat- try’s three islands sized by Iran. in Iran, and the Iranian occupation of ed that several Iranian officials and In addition, they stressed that rela- Emirati islands that is leading to fur- organizations are involved in terrorist tions between the Arab countries and ther tension in the region. “We Arabs activities. He urged Iran to change its Iran have to be based on the princi- look forward to cooperate with India policies in dealing with its neighbors ples of good-neighborliness and no in facing such challenges and benefit- and to observe the principle of good- interference in the internal affairs of ting from the country’s role in resolv- neighborliness instead. —KUNA

MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 LOCAL

Legalese Common questions regarding divorce in Kuwait

By Attorney Fajer Ahmed

aw can be a very negative career and that is because when things get tough, the toughest Lget a lawyer! Something that is very difficult for many lawyers dealing with family disputes. No one wants to see a family split up or argue. It is a horrible sight and I can only imagine how much harder it is for the family members to find a lawyer and understand the actions and consequences. I am not a professional at family law but there is an increasing concern as divorce statistics rise to unprecedented levels in Kuwait. I have been get- ting a lot of inquiries and therefore I decided to put together the most common basic concerns and answer them from a practical point of view and not necessary theoretical and as always I have carefully Ahmad Al-Hassan chosen simpler words that are not necessary diplo- matic or legal, but are understood by the general layman and therefore the most amount of readers Ministry announces partial can benefit from this article. Divorce without notice Question: My husband and I split up a long time opening of Jahra Road mainline ago. He keeps threatening me with divorce. I heard in Kuwait a man can divorce a woman without her presence is this true? How do I know if a divorce KUWAIT: The Ministry of Public Works Engineer Ahmad Al-Hassan, the Assistant remaining sections of the project.” Road Development Project. has been filed against me? announced yesterday the partial opening of Undersecretary for Road Engineering Affairs “We work closely with a number of gov- This mega project involves the construc- Fajer: When one of the parties involved files for one of the largest elevated road projects in at the Ministry of Public Works, commented: ernmental bodies, and for this opening we tion of 17.7 km of viaducts (7.3 km of main- divorce, the other party is notified through an actu- the world, the Jahra Road Development “This opening marks a major milestone for have been actively involved with the line Jahra Road, 2.4 km of bridges on linked al physical paper that I will refer to as a notice. The Project. The joint venture of Pace and Louis the project, and in Kuwait’s strategic plans to Ministry of Interior and the General roads and 8.0 km of ramps), including a notice is delivered to your address were you will Berger are the consultants on this mega- reduce traffic congestion in vital areas. In Directorate of Traffic. Inspections were trough at the 2nd Ring Road intersection, 10 need to sign that you have received the docu- project, with The Arab Contractors under- addition to easing the flow of traffic, the par- undertaken to ensure that all safety stan- pedestrian bridges, and service roads. The ments. If, for some reason the notice did not reach taking the contracting works. The opening, tial opening will result in road users having a dards and necessary opening procedures Jahra Road project also includes major utility you, or let’s say someone signed on your behalf, which commences at the intersection of greater ease in movement. The total distance were met. With more openings expected relocation and works, such as 3.5 km of you could always go to the Ministry of Justice and Jahra Road with Al-Jahez Street, and until of the opening extends 4km and is accessi- this year, there will be visible significant storm water box culverts, 33 km of water check if there is any case against you and this goes just after the United Nations Roundabout, ble by ramps in both directions, drivers will improvements on the Jahra Road and its lines, 8.0 km of sanitary sewer, 51 km of elec- for all other cases and not just divorce. will significantly ease the flow of traffic in be able to bypass the UN roundabout and surrounding areas,” added Yasser tric cables, and 12 km of communication that area. the hospital road. Work is ongoing on the Boudastour, Project Engineer at the Jahra ducts. Length and counselors Question: I also heard that divorce generally ‘Fintas Group’ takes a very long time, is that true? What should I Turaiji slams KIA official expect? Fajer: It really depends on the circumstances. If case adjourned there was any physical abuse, if there are kids involved, the court where you married, if the hus- By Meshaal Al-Enezi and A Saleh over press statement band and wife are agreeing to disagree or not and KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday adjourned hearing the so on. ‘Fintas Group’ case to allow the defendants’ attorney to make By A Saleh Turaiji, noting that instead of refuting Something to keep in mind though is that the his final argument. Thirteen people including media figures, such accusations, Saad used many slo- judge will not look into the divorce without refer- lawyers and ruling family members are accused in the case of KUWAIT: Chairman of the parlia- gans. “How can we trust someone ring you to a marriage counselor first. There is a slandering the government and some state departments. The ment’s public funds protection com- who has been selling public proper- team of experienced professional counselors that next hearing was set for March 6, 2016. mittee MP Dr Abdullah Al-Turaiji ties to his brothers and close acquain- aim to have both parties work on the marriage. slammed statements made by the tances?” he wondered. Sometimes a partner doesn’t want to cooperate or Kuwait Investment Authority’s (KIA) Notably, Saad had earlier called on Scholarships remain both parties agree not to go to counseling, if that’s Managing Director Badr Al-Saad, not- Turaiji to act upon his keenness on The Civil Services Commission (CSC) strongly denied the case then a paper is signed by both parties and rumors about suspending masters and PhD scholarships, ing it was very sarcastic against MPs protecting public funds and the relat- and their rights to use their constitu- ed law number 1/1993 and file a is taken back to the court where the proceedings underlining that no decision had been made yet in this would start. I know quite a few married couple who regard. The denial was made through CSC’s Twitter account. tional tools. report to the public prosecution Saad had urged Turaiji in a press about the ‘alleged’ accusations. were determined to obtain a divorce but came out of the marriage counseling program to reevaluate Suicide attempt statement to approach the public “According to MP Dr Abdullah Al- A 44-year-old female citizen was rushed to Jahra Hospital prosecution with accusations in which Turaiji’s statements, he is not talking their marriage. for treatment after she consumed pesticide in an attempt to the lawmaker claimed that he sold his about suspicions - he is rather talking After counseling the case is taken to court, the kill herself over family disputes. The woman was subjected to brother 20 percent of a company’s about confirmed facts, which means divorce settlement is purely for the divorce, it won’t gastric lavage and survived the attempt, said security sources, shares illegally. that he alone has all the proofs and include other disputes like custody of a child, mon- noting that a case was filed pending further investigations. Turiaji quickly responded to Saad, documents proving a crime, and thus ey settlements and so on. If there is no cooperation saying in a statement: “Will the MP Dr Abdullah Al-Turaiji he should respect the oath he made from both sides if can take a really long time, up to Maid accused of theft finance minister approve such state- and show abidance of article 18 of the a year, if not longer. A citizen reported that his housemaid vanished after steal- ments making fun of lawmakers? Will due to ‘parliamentary follow-up of his public funds protection law by filing a multiple mistakes and violations’. ing jewelry and cash from his house, said security sources, His Highness the Prime Minister report with the public prosecution, Dowry and settlements noting that eyewitnesses said that the maid had taken advan- accepts them and will lawmakers “It seems that Saad felt bad about which is the shortest and most effec- themselves accept them?” Turaiji the exposing of his violations. We tive way if his goal is to protect public Question: When we first married I was told that I tage of her sponsors’ absence and let her boyfriend into the will receive a dowry from my husband and also a house before they both disappeared. A case was filed and a asked, saying Saad had suddenly highlighted these violations pending funds,” Saad said in a statement dis- found himself in a critical situation Saad’s actions to undo them,” added tributed to newspapers yesterday. payment of money should we get divorced, is this search is on for the suspects. true? Fajer: This depends on what you agreed upon when you got married. It should be stated clearly on your marriage certificate. For example let’s say you agreed to KD 1,000 as a dowry and another KD 1,000 should you get divorced. These amounts are to be paid by the husband to his wife. If your husband did not pay you, you can file a lawsuit to obtain these amounts. Please note that this is a separate case all together. Separate of the divorce, therefore most lawyers will charge extra fees to do so.

Expat wives and visa issues Question: I am not a Kuwaiti citizen but I have been married to a Kuwait man and now that we are filing for divorce I am worried about my legal sta- tus/visa, how can I keep my visa, if my husband is no longer my sponsor? This question also depends on whether you have children and whether you are their sponsor, then obtaining a visa should be easier. But let’s assume you don’t have children and once the divorce is finalized your former husband will no longer be your sponsor, what can you do? Unfortunately in this scenario you will have to obtain a working visa to stay in Kuwait. You will have a few months after your divorce to change Mobile clinic boosts diabetes awareness your status. I hope the questions above helped answering By Meshaal Al-Enezi tant undersecretary for technical affairs Dr Qais one the most serious challenges facing health the basic inquiries of divorce, I will get into the Al-Dowairi, the Ministry of Health (MoH) yester- facilities in Kuwait, that has been ranked third details of child custody in a near future post. KUWAIT: Under auspices of Health Minister Dr Ali day launched a mobile clinic to boost public worldwide in the percentage of people with dia- For any legal questions or queries, email Al-Obaidi and with the attendance of his assis- awareness about diabetes. Notably, diabetes is betes. [email protected]. Kuwait determined to operate Housing projects unaffected

direct flights instead of transit KUWAIT: Minister of State for CPI increased by 3.03% and another two were stable. Housing Affairs Yasser Abul asserted The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) MANAMA: The Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) is time and this is a new achievement. In a reply to yesterday that housing projects will for the month of December 2015 Coupons for needy people determined to restore its market quota by cancelling reporters on meeting commitments amid the contin- not be affected by the rationaliza- showed an increase of 3.03 percent Kuwait Red Crescent Society transit flights and working on direct ones (point to ued decline in oil prices, Al-Roumi stressed that the cor- tion of the general state budget, compared to the same period of last (KRCS) yesterday announced it point) to its destinations, KAC CEO Rasha Al-Roumi has poration meets its financial commitments regularly especially that the budget for proj- year, the Central Statistical Bureau would distribute coupons on some affirmed. without any delay. ects included in the development said in its report yesterday. The 1,500 needy families inside the coun- Speaking at a news conference held by the corpora- Meanwhile, Abdullah Al-Sharhan, a KAC senior offi- plan has already been earmarked. monthly report added that the coun- try in coordination with the Kuwait tion on the sidelines of the 2016 Bahrain International cial, said the company’s financial performance The minister said in a statement to try’s inflation rate increased during Awqaf Public Foundation. KRCS’ Airshow (BIAS) on Saturday, she added depending on improved during 2014 and indicators in 2015 gave bet- reporters after the parliamentary last December 0.87 percent com- Chairman Dr Hilal Al-Sayer said that direct flights will be in favor of all destinations and will ter results, expecting that financial data of 2015 would priorities committee meeting that pared to the previous month. the beneficiaries have the option to create a good competition. She revealed that the corpo- be announced in February. He revealed that about ten the electrical work in the new hous- The monthly price index figures determine the cooperative societies ration will appear in a new look to cope with the com- 777-300ER passenger aircraft from manufacturer ing projects are ongoing in accor- during the month of December they need to shop from after the ing period, but will maintain the same slogan. Boeing will arrive in Kuwait next November and 15 dance with the agreed schedule 2015, also recorded in seven major agreement with those co-ops to Asked about the participation in the BIAS, she said A320 aircraft in 2019-2022, noting that some 10 A350 with the Ministry of Electricity and influential groups an increase, while facilitate the shopping procedures of the company is taking part in such an event for the first aircraft will be added to the fleet in 2020-2022. —KUNA Water. two groups witnessed a decrease, the beneficiaries. —KUNA MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 LOCAL KILS opens registration for UN Model Conference

By Nawara Fattahova Kuwait. KILS was founded in Nov 2012. The dents from inside and outside Kuwait. “The stu- ence will open from Feb 7 to 17, 2016. years without a trial. It will also discuss the upcoming conference is a mini model and simu- dents will be divided in nine committees - five “Personal interviews will then be conducted issue of Syrian refugees, the issue of drinking KUWAIT: The Kuwait International Law Society lation of what’s happening in different commit- Arabic and four English. The inaugural session with the applicants, and those who pass will water, and the effect of arms companies on (KILS) announced the opening of registrations tees of the UN,” Roudhan added. will be held on March 3 at GUST and will be pay nominal fees and will participate in the security of the community. The parlia- for the United Nations Model Conference which attended by Sheikh Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem training workshops. This year’s conference ment committee will discuss the drop in oil will be held from March 3 to 5, 2016 at the Gulf Third edition Al-Sabah, who will speak about his diplomatic will discuss important issues such as the def- prices and finding alternative economic University for Sciences and Technology (GUST). This will be the third edition of the confer- and political experience as former foreign minis- inition of ‘terrorist’, especially after Kuwaiti sources, and the amendment of the nation- “KILS is the first professional club founded at the ence. “The first edition of this conference was ter. We also have a parliament committee that citizens were detained at Guantanamo for ality law,” concluded Roudhan. Faculty of Law at Kuwait University and it is an held in 2014 and only consisted of two commit- will hold its first session at the Kuwait parliament, independent student society that aims to tees representing a model of the Arab League. which will be attended by Speaker Marzouq Al- improve academic work. KILS is not a member of The conference was presented in both Arabic Ghanem. It will only be attended by Kuwaiti stu- any student political party in the Faculty of Law and English, and it discussed the most important dents,” she pointed out. or the National Union of Kuwait Students,” said Arab issues. Last year’s conference (2015) repre- Noora Al-Roudhan, President of KILS and head of sented the UN and it included four committees - Cultural sense the organizing committee, during a press con- two in Arabic and two in English - that discussed “This conference aims to raise the cultural ference. international political events. It was held in coop- sense of students about important issues and KILS is the Kuwaiti branch of the International eration with the Higher Commissioner of the UN increase the oratory skills of participants in front Law Society which is a global organization. “This in Kuwait and it took place at their premises. It of the audience, in addition to teaching them the organization has a branch in all prestigious uni- was the first-of-its-kind event hosted there,” principles of debate and convincing the other versities that teach law around the world, so we explained Roudhan. party,” Roudhan said. thought it should also have a branch here in This year’s conference is targeting 300 stu- The registration to participate in this confer-

GUST to represent Mideast in final anti-extremism contest

KUWAIT: A team of five Kuwaiti students from the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) is to head to Washington DC in February to participate in the final stage of an anti-extremism competition as part of an initiative by US state bodies after winning the preliminary stage in Kuwait, US Ambassador to Kuwait Douglas Silliman said yesterday. “The GUST team is one of four international universities that is going to go to the United States in the next week to finish the competition and also to participate in programs KUWAIT: US Ambassador to Kuwait Douglas Silliman visits the Green Flames Gas in Washington DC, New York City, and San Francisco,” Company Booth at the Horeca Kuwait 2016 exhibition. Ambassador Silliman addressed the attendants at the US Ambassador visits Green Flame GUST Auditorium for the students’ presentation of their qualified campaign. Gas Co booth at Horeca exhibition During the fall semester 2015, students; Yousef, Ghalia, Hanan, Fatima, and Salem took part in the “Peer 2 Peer KUWAIT: US Ambassador to Kuwait Douglas ipating of The Green Flame Gas Company at the (P2P): Challenging Extremism” initiative, sponsored by the Silliman visited the Green Flames Gas Company Horeca Show. It emphasized the organization of US Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, Department Booth at the Horeca Kuwait 2016 exhibition. The the show and the exhibitors that offer the latest of Education, and State Department. The program, which Horeca show was held in Kuwait at the Jumeriah hospitality in Hotel Technology. It also mentioned is also facilitated by EdVenture Partners, tasked student Beach Hotel, between the 18-20 of January 2016. that The Green Flame Gas Company is one of the teams to develop campaigns and strategies on various The US Ambassador and his wife were pleased for leading Companies that specializes in Design, social media networks in order to counter the presence the activities at the show, stating the importance for Execution, and maintenance of Gas pipe Lines in and effectiveness of violent extremists’ online messaging. such a specialized exhibition while enhancing and Kuwait and the G.C.C countries. The Green Flame “The State Department has had a competition that supporting the Commercial Trade and the Gas Company executes its network as per the inter- involved 45 universities from the United States and around Government Development Plan. national standard, we carry out works such as the world to find ways to get the message to youth about Chairman of the company Bashar Al-Qattan had Private Villas, Commercial Malls, Hotels, Restaurants, peace and tolerance, and the need to expand them in the the pleasure to greet Silliman and his wife’s visit. Factories and Catering Companies that are also the world,” the US diplomat stated to KUNA. GUST’s students During the discussion the US Ambassador appreci- agents for 14 International Companies in the field of were one of four international teams selected to partici- ated the importance of The Green Flame Gas Gas. At the conclusion of this statement Eng. Bashar pate in the Facebook Global Challenge finals which will be Company in executing the Mega Project in Kuwait mentioned the G.F.G.C is a certified ISO 9001-2008 held in Washington, DC on February 3rd, he indicated. “The such as The Avenues Mall that has used 60 percent and member of International Code Counsel since group from GUST has won the competition for the Middle of US made materials. Silliman has cherished The 2007 and N.F.P.A. member since 2008. The compa- East and will be the only university from the Middle East Green Flame Gas Company’s choice is introducing ny is leading in Project timing and precise specifica- region going to Washington in February to participate in the US made products in this vast Project, and set- tion in the Execution of its projects. The Company is the final evaluation and competition,” he said, noting that ting an example for improving the Commercial 10 years old and has achieved all of the past men- the five Kuwaiti students will also take part in the P2P final Trade between the USA and Kuwait. tioned, and considered to be one of the First presentation at the State Department. — KUNA Qattan has mentioned the importance of partic- Companies specialized in Gas Piping. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 FROM THE ARABIC PRESS

Al-Anbaa Crime Report Integrating students with special needs in Teens stab friend in Jahra KUWAIT: Jahra police arrested four juveniles who beat a education - Part I friend in Jahra and stabbed him in the chest. The victim was admitted to Jahra Hospital’s ICU in a critical condition. By Dr Zainab Al-Hasawi The four suspects were sent to the juvenile protection department. The four said that they had previous disputes his article was previously published in another newspaper with the victim. but in view of specialized readers’ wish to know the strate- Tgy of vocational development for the directors of schools to be integrated in mainstream public education schools in Harboring absconders detail, I intend to explain this strategy in several articles of which this is the first. Residency detectives put an end to illegal activities of Integration is educating students with special needs in main- an Ethiopian man who ran a network of 47 males and stream schools and providing them with special education serv- females absconding from their sponsors’ homes. They ices. Integrating students with special needs into mainstream were all sent to concerned authorities. Information was schools has become an urgent social necessity because school received that a man harbored absconding maids and is an individual’s second environment and plays a great role in forced them on prostitution. When the information forming their characters, tendencies and developing their tal- was confirmed, the arrests were made. ents. Therefore, when all those elements reasonably combine, they will qualify and enable students of this category grow Sectarian

Al-Anbaa Harassers arrested healthily into productive citizens instead of overburdening the state. Kuwait has shown special care for integrating students tensions Four citizens harassed female shoppers in a Jahra mall with special needs into public education as it started back in and exchanged blows with mall guards who attempted 1943-1944 when blind students were allowed to attend regular Playing with fire to throw them out. Police received a call about a fight in Kuttab classes at Al-Mubarakiya school that only taught Quran the mall, so police patrols went to the scene, broke up recitation at the time. the fight, arrested the four and took them to Jahra police When the religious institute was opened in 1948, blind stu- station. dents attended regular classes with mainstream students and formed the majority of the students as four out of seven were blind students. Kuwait then experimentally integrated students Pipe removed with weak hearing in Mohammed Al-Shayeji primary school for KUFPEC Publishes ‘Coral boys in 1993-1994. The most important results of this experi- Coastguardsmen pulled out a plastic pipe with a four- ment was that students with weak hearing surpassed their meter diameter that constituted a navigation hazard. healthy peers and scored higher. Reefs of Kuwait’ Book The pipe was moved to a safe area. Concerned authori- Accordingly, Kuwait is a leading country in terms of caring ties are being contacted to collect the pipe. for people with special needs as law number 49/1996 pertain- ing caring for the disabled was issued and an independent Commitment towards environmental awareness authority was established under the name of the Supreme Drug possession Council For Disabled Affairs, and then the name was changed to the Public Authority for Disabled Affairs as per law number A bedoon man was arrested by patrolmen while roaming 8/2010, which is under direct supervision of the first deputy PM. in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh with five envelopes of shabu and It is authorized to carry out activities needed to take care of peo- drug paraphernalia. He was sent to the Drugs Control ple with special needs, rehabilitate them and integrate them General Department for further legal action. into the society. Many studies have been made on integrating students with special needs into mainstream schools with each focusing on a Boat stolen specific aspect on educational integration. For example, studies made by Nasser Al-Moussawi and others in 2006 and Lindsay in A citizen sought the help of Fahaheel police and 2007 probed the process of education through integration in accused three Indians working for him of stealing a mainstream schools and the obstacles faced on application and boat and fishing tools, along with money, and refusing assessed the main goal of integration through identifying the to return it. Detectives are working on arresting them. following: (a) integration programs followed in integrated schools, (b) the impact of the educational environment on aca- demic achievement, adaptive behavior and self-concept, (c) Pharmacy vandalized public and special education staff’s attitudes towards educa- tional integration, (d) attitudes of mainstream students, stu- A citizen was surprised to find her pharmacy vandalized, dents with special needs and their parents and (e) the negative so she called police and filed a complaint at Salmiya police Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah side effects resulting thereof. station. Criminal evidence men went to the scene, inspect- Results have shown that in terms of the learning environ- ed the pharmacy and lifted fingerprints. Detectives are KUWAIT: Kuwait Foreign Petroleum coral reefs of the State of Kuwait. tography in cooperation with the non- ment, equipment and staffs, it is suitable to integrate students working on the case. — Al-Rai with special needs in mainstream schools and make the best Exploration Company (KUFPEC) The publication of the ‘Coral Reefs governmental organization use of them. They also showed that the integrated education announced today the publication of of Kuwait’ book follows on the success ‘Biodiversity East’ assisted by many of its predecessor ‘Birds of Kuwait’ professional photographers, experts environment had very positive impacts on both mainstream ‘Coral Reefs of Kuwait,’ a book that Kuwait Plans $100 billion and students with special needs who both scored higher. In explores the amazing diversity of book, released by KUFPEC two years and scientific research institutions addition, students with special needs started to fit in and feel marine ecosystems in the Arabian Gulf, ago. The 270-page ‘Coral Reefs of inside and outside Kuwait. sovereign wealth fund being accepted without discrimination by schoolmates, teach- shedding light on the multiple risks Kuwait’ is also the culmination of 8 “Our coral reefs are as important as endangering the sustainability of the years of research and underwater pho- any other natural resource and they ing staff and parents. KUWAIT: Kuwait plans a new state-owned fund to manage Having students from both categories in the same educa- must be protected and preserved for future generations”, says KUFPEC Chief as much as $100 billion in local assets with the goal of sell- tional building increased educational and social interaction and ing them to private investors in five to seven years, provided chances for students to help and assist their peers with Executive Officer, Sheikh Nawaf Al- Sabah. “KUFPEC,” he added, “is commit- Bloomberg.com reported yesterday quoting Al-Anbaa special needs, which in turn leads to individuals growing up newspaper. with great social responsibility towards others. In addition, edu- ted to protecting and preserving our natural and environmental resources The new sovereign wealth fund will include local assets cation based on integrating both categories would increase managed by Kuwait Investment Authority, which has been specialized staff efforts with the educational facility. and ensuring the sustainability of our unique ecological diversity.” burdened by its domestic mandate and will focus more on By reviewing some countries’ experiences in applying inte- its international portfolio, Al-Anbaa reported, citing uniden- gration in mainstream education, it is clear that societies KUFPEC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation tified officials. Stakes in local companies, as well as power become more balanced with stronger beliefs in education- and water projects, will be included in the new fund, the based justice and equality on grounds that education is a right (KPC), is an international petroleum company engaged in exploration, paper said. Energy-exporting countries that amassed large of all citizens without discrimination and not limited to the financial reserves over a decade-long oil boom are exacer- healthy. development, and production of crude oil and natural gas outside the State of bating a collapse in asset prices by selling off holdings to Those countries have achieved different levels of success, meet their obligations, according to Jefferies LLC. Such and so the most important element needed to make integration Kuwait. It is currently active in 15 countries with 64 projects in the inter- nations are also shifting investment strategies with an eye work lies in MoE’s need to apply vocational development pro- on boosting returns. grams on all public education school directors in order to qualify national upstream sector. KUFPEC con- tinues to work aggressively towards Kuwait’s plan to privatize utilities while removing them to lead schools where students with special needs are domestic energy subsidies is intended to make its power integrated. This calls for a further question about vocational meeting its targets and achieving its strategic plans, aiming to increase its and water assets more profitable for the fund and attractive development strategies followed over the past three years in to potential investors, Al-Anbaa said. Saudi Arabia plans to Kuwait in accordance to UN specifications adopted to fit the production to 200,000 BOEPD with reserves of 650 MMBOE by the year set up a sovereign wealth fund to manage part of its oil for- Kuwaiti society. (To be continued) tune and diversify its investments, according to Reuters. — Translated by Kuwait Times 2020, while delivering value to the Kuwaiti oil sector. Bankers discuss how to protect savings in times of recession

KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait Chairman of of this group of companies,” said Mousa. investments, because the more the profits, the high- they cost the state through support of national labor its influence on the economy comes quickly in case the Board Ali Al-Mousa said all global reports point Mousa said many countries including Gulf states er the risks. About the effects of oil prices collapse on KD 7 million per year, but when the state took them, of rises or drops. Ghais said “we can say real estate is to the start of a world economic crisis, as its indica- supported the private sector during the world finan- Kuwait and falling below $20 per barrel, Mousa said the figure jumped to KD 77 million. He said the mid- going through a crisis since the start of 2015, and the tors began with the drop in oil prices and bourse cial crisis in 2008 in order to rescue their financial sys- Kuwait can manage two to three years without dle class in Kuwait has started to disappear, and it’s value of real estate trading in Kuwait in all sectors is collapses, especially in our region and Gulf bourses tems. He expected a new financial crisis and said the exporting oil, and “we have this experience during being looked down at. 27 percent compared with what was achieved in in particular. state must take preemptive steps to find solutions the invasion, as Kuwait did not produce oil for one 2014, which is a very big percentage.” He referred this He said in this regard, the search for investment before the economic situation worsens. When asked year and seven months and was able to overcome Foreign factors drop to several accumulated factors, adding that the opportunities has become a difficult mission for about the available opportunities which normally the crisis due to countries’ confidence in it”. He said When asked about the Kuwait bourse as the sector suffered two strong blows - in 2007, when the investors big or small, adding that the successful emerge from crises, Mousa said “there are not invest- Kuwait is the only country that does not put all its oil largest investment vessel in Kuwait and the opportu- real estate sector saw very high prices, then in 2008, investor is the one who takes the opportunity of the ment opportunities with regret, and one who has income in the budget, as it puts part of it the future nities in it, Selmi said that the problem the bourse is when it went down during the international financial economic recession and buys when others sell, bear- money must look for the best opportunities among generations fund. suffering from is the result of foreign factors repre- crisis. The second blow was the mortgage law and ing in mind that it should be according to a good the bad choices, as there is an investment rule that Chairman of International Financial Advisors (IFA) sented in the defect in the Kuwait economy on one imposing taxes on open lands and banning the pri- reading of those investment opportunities to select says: If people begin selling, buying will be good”. Saleh Al-Selmi said during the 2008 financial crisis, 35 hand and geopolitical conflicts in the region on the vate sector from development, and this led to a big- the best available one that brings good returns. “He who sells is a person who is compelled to investors met then Prime Minister His Highness other, apart from the drop of oil prices, adding these ger problem, because the private sector was building Mousa said even KD 50,000 is not enough to meet his financial commitments or one who is afraid, Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, as well as factors combined led to this situation in the bourse. many residential areas before the passing of the law. invest. The citizen does not save money due to high and naturally he is the worst seller as he does not members of the legislative authority, and all prob- Selmi said steps taken by the state to deal with For example, 75 percent of South Surra area came inflation and a rise in the cost of living, adding that deal with reality but ideas in his mind about coming lems resulting from this crisis were discussed, and the economic situation in general during the crisis from the request of real estate development for the the number of citizens who have large capitals that crises,” Mousa added. About the expected reflections “we demanded that they find the necessary treat- years, such as the financial stability law and the private sector. are enough to invest has become limited. of rising interest rates on the Kuwaiti dinar during ment to avoid the dangerous problems of this crisis”. deposits guarantee law and the national portfolio to “Following these two blows, the real estate sector 2016 as expected, Mousa said he does not expect the The view was that the financial crisis’ repercussions support the bourse, proved ineffective. The deposits began to regain its balance. The average price of a Investment sector raising of interest rates in Kuwait three times this year will not affect the public sector as much as the pri- support law serves banks in the first place, and the square meter in South Surra, for example, during the He asked the government to pay attention to the as rumored, while the drop in oil prices does affect vate sector. He said this sector had good financial goal behind it is not to face the effects of the 2008 crisis fell to KD 400 from KD 600 in 2007, then began private sector, and particularly the investment sector, other countries, only Kuwait and countries that rely reserves all along the years that preceded the crisis, crisis, as much as facing a crisis one of the banks had. to recover and reached an average price of KD 1,000 because “we are not through with the repercussions on oil for revenues. Mousa asked the government to but the money evaporated. As for establishing the national portfolio, it was a big and above in 2014. He said the reason for this huge of the 2008 financial crisis to enter a new one”, and explain its stand towards what citizens are afraid of, Selmi said the amount of that was managed by mistake, because the Public Investment Authority rise in land price is due to the real estate mortgage wondered whether the state needs private or invest- because the dinar maintained its price after libera- investment companies before 2008 surpassed does have rescuing the market among its authorities, law and imposing taxes on lands which made land ment sectors under the challenges it is facing. If the tion as it was before liberation due to a deliberate deposits that were in banks, and this was out of but growing state savings, and with that it entered owners hike prices to pay taxes on the lands in order answer is yes, then the government must prove this and declared decision, although many countries lose investors’ confidence in investments companies the market as an investing party that seeks profits. to make profits, in addition to the fact that the supply through clear measures and new economic laws that more than half of their currencies’ value because of before the financial crisis. Selmi wondered about the About what he believes as a defect in the gov- of lands inside Kuwait is very limited,” said Ghais. allow the private sector to play an effective role in the occupation. But the state persevered and “we main- government’s will to have an effective role for the pri- ernment’s actions to cover the budget, Selmi said Meanwhile, looking at the real estate sectors, it is local economy. tained deposit accounts and there was strong confi- vate sector, adding that if the government is serious it resorted to imposing taxes instead of finding an expected that the “commercial” and “investment” “We are suffering from the state’s negligence of dence in Kuwait by other countries”. in giving clear duties to the private sector, then there added value to the local economy represented by sectors will face problems during the recession that the investment sector in general, as there are 20 to will be real opportunities. production and diversifying sources of income will cause many companies to go bankrupt, as the 25 investment companies only who have human Bank deposits Selmi said that during 2009/2010 to years follow- instead of relying on one source of income, which weak GDP will affect the state’s general budget, and competences, good financial assets and follow a Mousa advised investors, due to stock markets ing the financial crisis, the investment sector made is oil. consequently affect the projects which will face diffi- professional work model, and here the state must fluctuations and high risk factors, to go towards bank contributions to the local GDP of nearly 14%, and culties if not halted, bearing in mind that those proj- differentiate between these companies and those deposits because they are the most secure instru- now this has dropped to zero. He said the private sec- Real estate ects’ foundations is infrastructure and real estate, who form a burden on the sector. He said banks ments despite low returns. Mousa advised investors tor has solutions to get out of the current economic Real estate expert and developer Hussein Al- besides the fact that real estate relies on returns, and have started to avoid granting loans to investment to keep their savings in banks as they are 100 percent situation due to its ability to provide job opportuni- Ghais said real estate is an integral pillar in Kuwait there is no doubt that real estate returns will drop. companies, not because of lack of competence, secure. He said investment in bank shares in the ties for the youth and transform the economy from economy and has a lot of influence, though the size The rent of commercial land will drop to prices equal rather became they became worse than “orphans”. bourse is another thing that requires the ability of the welfare to a productive one. of real estate trading does not exceed KD 5 billion per to the rent of warehouses as in the past, as the price Banks are not social institutes - rather they seek prof- investor to make decisions, read financial data and He pointed to a defect in the employment system year, which is an amount that is not considered big in of renting a square meter in warehouses varies its through avoiding investment risks, so they are bear his investment decision. He also advised in Kuwait when 110 employees were terminated the trading markets, but its importance and effect between KD 2 and 3 while for offices, the price is excused in not meeting the financing requirements investors not to use all their savings in high-risk from the private sector during the financial crisis, comes from affecting the citizen on a large scale, so between KD 5 and 6. — Al-Anbaa MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 Hollande starts India visit, says jet Syria regime advances ahead of peace talks deal will take time Page 8 Page 12 Sisi praises 2011 uprising, urges patience

CAIRO: Egypt’s president paid tribute yesterday to the led the ouster in July 2013 of Islamist President avoid “destructive chaos”- rhetoric harking back to tices that played a large part in igniting the uprising, country’s 2011 uprising that toppled longtime ruler Mohammed Morsi, who hails from the Brotherhood. Mubarak’s 29-year authoritarian rule, when he repeated including torture, random arrests and, more recently, Hosni Mubarak, saying that protesters killed during the The “June 30 revolution” - a reference to the day in assertions that gradual democratization ensures stabili- forced disappearances. Sisi supporters, however, say 18-day revolt had sought to revive “noble principles” 2013 when millions of Egyptians demonstrated on the ty. the ex-general has tirelessly worked to spare Egypt the and found a “new Egypt”. President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi streets against the rule of Morsi and his Muslim “Egypt today is not the Egypt of yesterday, we are chaos and bloodshed roiling regional neighbors like delivered his remarks via a televised speech on the eve Brotherhood - corrected the course of the 2011 upris- building together a modern, developed and civilian Libya, Syria and Iraq. —AP of the fifth anniversary of the uprising. A recent spate ing, Sisi said. The June 30 revolution, he said, took place state that upholds the values of democracy and free- of arrests and a heightened security presence in the to “restore the free will of Egyptians and continue to dom,” he said of the 2 1/2 years since the removal of capital Cairo have made clear Egyptian authorities’ realize their legitimate aspirations and deserved ambi- Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president. Sisi has determination that the occasion will not be marked by tions”. since presided over one of the harshest crackdown popular demonstrations- or militant attacks. Sisi, who came to office in 2014 after a landslide seen in Egypt in decades, detaining thousands of Sisi said the 2011 uprising had deviated from its election win, cautioned against high expectations for Brotherhood leaders and supporters as well as scores course and was forcibly hijacked for “personal gains democracy and freedoms. “Democratic experiences of the liberal, pro-democracy activists who fueled the and narrow interests”. That was a thinly veiled reference don’t mature overnight, but rather through a continu- 2011 uprising. to the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been banned ing and accumulative process,” he said, before empha- Under Sisi, rights activists say, the country’s highly and declared a terror group after Sisi, as military chief, sizing the need to exercise “responsible freedom” to militarized police have resumed the Mubarak-era prac-

CAIRO: A woman walks past an Egyptian policeman a day ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Jan 25, 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square yesterday. (Right) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi gives a televised address from the presidential palace. — AFP INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 Bahrain oppn chief in trouble over tweets DUBAI: The jailed leader of Bahrain’s victed of inciting disobedience and main opposition bloc, Sheikh Ali Salman hatred. An appeals court is reviewing who is currently serving four years for that conviction, but the prosecution is inciting disobedience, could face new demanding the annulment of his acquit- charges over messages posted on tal on the more serious charge of plot- Twitter. The Al-Wefaq chief has been ting to overthrow the regime and seek- “referred to the public prosecution fol- ing a tougher sentence. A ruling on the lowing violations posted on his Twitter appeal is expected on March 30. Al- account”, the authorities announced yes- Wefaq renewed earlier calls for its leader terday on the official BNA news agency. to be released “immediately”. The group Al-Wefaq denounced the move, saying it once held the most seats in parliament, “violates the Bahraini constitution and but its 18 MPs walked out in 2011 in national law, as well as international protest at violence against demonstra- covenants related to freedom of opinion tors during pro-democracy rallies. and expression”. Bahrain’s authorities crushed Shiite- The Shiite grouping in the Shiite- led protests a month after they erupted majority but Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom on Feb 14, 2011. The gap has since been said Salman’s tweets “focused on the val- growing between the Sunni authorities ues of peace and love”. It said they shared and their mainly Shiite opponents. Tiny quotes by American civil rights leader but strategic Bahrain across the Gulf Martin Luther King “about freedom and from Shiite Iran is home to the US Fifth justice”. It was unclear whether Salman Fleet, and on October 31, construction was himself tweeting from prison, or work also began on Britain’s first perma- how. The opposition chief was sentenced nent military base in the Middle East on June 16 to four years after being con- since 1971. — AFP RABIA, Syria: Syrian pro-government forces inspect a building in this town in Syria’s coastal Latakia province yesterday. — AFP Taleban reaffirms authority of its Qatar ‘political office’ Syria regime advances

DUBAI: The Afghan Taleban said yesterday represent it. that its “political office” in Qatar is the only Members of the Taleban’s unofficial entity authorized to carry out negotiations Qatar office are believed to be directly ahead of peace talks on its behalf, reinforcing the authority of linked to Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who offi- the man who took control of the group cially assumed the top position after amid a tussle over command following the Omar’s death was announced last year. He death of longtime leader Mullah was previously Omar’s long-serving deputy. Senior Russian military officials oversee battle Mohammad Omar. The Taleban made the The Taleban first opened an office in Qatar declaration in a summary emailed by in 2013, but when it hoisted the white flag BEIRUT: Pro-government forces overran the and north - by capturing 20 villages,” Dispute Over Opposition spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid of a state- flown during the Taleban’s five-year rule of last major rebel-held town in Syria’s coastal Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. Yesterday, German Foreign Minister Frank- ment it made during unofficial, closed-door Afghanistan it sparked outrage from then- Latakia province yesterday, as the United He said senior Russian military officials oversaw Walter Steinmeier said upcoming talks should talks taking place in the Qatari capital, President Hamid Karzai and the US. The Nations prepares to host talks this week on the battle and that Russian air strikes “played an include Islamist rebels, though not “terrorists Doha. move derailed a previous round of peace ending the country’s nearly five-year war. State essential role” in the fight. With Rabia’s capture, and Islamic extremists”. “Where do you expect to Calling itself the “Islamic Emirate of talks and led to the Taleban office being television said army forces, working with pro- government troops are closing in on rebel sup- find moderate groups after more than five years Afghanistan”, the group also laid out a officially closed in 2013. Members of the regime militia, had seized control of the town ply routes through the Turkish border to the of civil war, extreme violence and spreading bru- series of demands including the release of group have remained in the oil and gas- of Rabia after heavy fighting with rebels. It was north, he added. talisation?” Steinmeier was quoted as telling the an unspecified number of prisoners and rich country, however. the second strategic victory for pro-regime Armed opposition factions have used north- newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine the removal of senior members from a UN In 2014, Qatar helped American officials forces in Latakia in less than two weeks, after ern parts of Latakia province to carry out rocket Sonntagszeitung. “I’m afraid we are past the blacklist. It described the demands as “pre- negotiate the release of captive US Army government troops seized the town of Salma and bomb attacks on the provincial capital point where we can really pick and choose all liminary steps needed for peace”. The talks Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five from rebels on January 12. along the coast. Backed by Russian air power, counterparts and negotiators,” Steinmeier said. in Qatar are organized by Pugwash Taleban detainees sent to Qatar from the “In the coming weeks, we will be able to pro-regime forces are chipping away at that ter- The High Negotiations Committee, a Riyadh- Conferences on Science and World Affairs, a US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In its announce that all of Latakia - city and province - ritory in a bid to secure the Assad clan’s heart- based alliance of opposition groups including Nobel Peace Prize-winning group focused statement from the latest Qatar talks, the is free from armed groups,” a Syrian army com- land. Rabia “is at the crossroads of supply routes the National Coalition, has already announced on resolving conflict. Pugwash last year Taleban said it is serious about peace mander in Latakia told AFP. The army would use in this region” leading northwest towards the three delegates it will send to Geneva. But it organized similar talks that were also should it succeed in its aims of ending for- Rabia as a launching point for ground opera- Turkish border and further east to other rebel came under fire for naming Mohamed Alloush attended by Afghan officials. eign intervention in Afghanistan and estab- tions against rebel-held towns to the east in the strongholds, said Syria analyst Fabrice Balanche. from the powerful rebel group Jaish al-Islam The discussions are separate from offi- lishing an “independent Islamic system.” adjacent Idlib province, he said. Rabia had been “By controlling this road, the Syrian army can (Army of Islam) as chief negotiator. Syria’s gov- held by the opposition since 2012 and was con- ernment regularly refers to Jaish al-Islam and cial peace efforts involving Afghanistan, It said it is committed to “civil activities”, block rebel movements towards the south, trolled by a range of rebel groups including other armed opponents as “terrorists groups” Pakistan, China and the United States. free speech and “women’s rights in the light towards Latakia, and the rebels will have a hard Those negotiations, which do not include of Islamic rules, national interests and values”. some made up of Syrian Turkmen, as well as Al- with whom it will not negotiate. Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front. time getting close and firing missiles at the Staunch regime ally Moscow has stood by the Taleban but aim to pave the way for The group added that it wants good rela- (coastal) airport,” he added. talks between the militants and Kabul, are tions with the world “on the basis of mutual State news agency SANA said government the government’s demand, saying the opposi- forces were “combing the area to dismantle any Russia’s air force has operated out of the tion delegation should be broadened to expected to resume in Islamabad on Feb 6. respect”. “We do not want to interfere in oth- Hmeimim military airport in Latakia province Earlier peace talks faltered last summer ers’ affairs, nor do we use our soil to harm explosive devices or mines planted by the terror- include other groups, like Syria’s Kurds. The ists”. It said many rebels had been killed in the since Sept 30. The regime’s latest advance came talks had originally been due to begin on after the Afghan government announced others, nor allow others to interfere in our as world powers intensify efforts to reach a polit- Mullah Omar had been dead since 2013. affairs,” it said. The Taleban ruled Afghanistan fighting but provided no other details. Monday but officials have said they expect a ical solution to Syria’s war. Representatives of the That announcement prompted the Taleban according to a harsh version of Islamic law According to the Syrian Observatory for Human delay of a few days. On the Turkish-Syrian bor- government and opposition are set to meet in to pull out of talks and led to a power from 1996 until the US-led invasion launched Rights, Rabia fell yesterday after a regime der, Turkish authorities have detained 23 sus- struggle within the group over who would after the Sept 11 attacks. — AP advance that left the town surrounded. Geneva this week as part of a UN-endorsed 18- pected militants with the Islamic State group month peace plan. But sharp disagreements who were trying to cross over illegally from Blocking Rebel Attacks over the makeup of the opposition delegation - Syria. In a statement published yesterday, the “In the past 48 hours, regime forces surround- namely, the inclusion of armed groups among army said 21 children were with the jihadists ed the town from three sides - the south, west, negotiators - have slowed momentum. and were also being held.—AFP

No bomb found on flight from Texas

ISTANBUL/DUBLIN: A Turkish Airlines flight from Houston, Texas, diverted to Shannon, Ireland, yesterday was found to have no explosive devices on board and would take off to Istanbul soon, a spokesman for the flag carrier said. The plane, bound for Turkey’s largest city, was diverted after a piece of paper with “bomb” written on it was discovered in the toilet, a spokesman for Turkish Airlines said. Nothing was found in the search of the aircraft in Shannon, the Turkish Airlines spokesman said, adding that the plane would take off again to Istanbul. An airport spokesman said the Boeing 777 touched down without incident and all 209 passengers, plus crew, disembarked safely. “The incident is now the subject of a follow up inves- tigation from an Garda Siochana (Irish police),” he said. Turkish Airlines has been targeted with a series of hoax bomb warnings over the last year. — Reuters CAIRO: In this Oct 20, 2015 file photo, German restorer Christian Eckmann begins restoration work on the golden mask of King Tutankhamun over a year after the beard was accidentally broken off and hastily glued back with epoxy, at the Egyptian Museum. — AP Teen Canada shooter charged Tut mask scratched, TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday greets a group of with murder Revolutionary Guard officers who were involved in the detention of US Navy sailors eight sent to trial earlier this month. — AFP MONTREAL: A 17-year-old male student has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder following a shoot- CAIRO: Eight Egyptians involved in a on the face of the boy king’s mask and that ing spree that left two brothers and two teachers dead in botched repair of the famed burial mask of a colleague used a spatula to remove it, Iran arrests 100 over western Canada, authorities said Saturday. The high school King Tut, which was corrected late last leaving scratches. Another conservator student was also charged with seven counts of attempted year, were referred to a disciplinary court who inspects the artifact regularly also saw murder over those injured in Friday’s rampage at a home yesterday for “gross negligence” after pros- the scratches and said it was clear that Saudi embassy attack and nearby school in remote La Loche, in Saskatchewan ecutors said that the golden treasure was they had been made by a tool used to province, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superintendent scratched. The 3,300-year old mask, whose scrape off the epoxy. They both spoke on TEHRAN: Iran has arrested around 100 to protest against the execution of a beard was accidentally knocked off and condition of anonymity for fear of reper- Grant St. Germaine told reporters. people over the attack on Saudi Arabia’s prominent cleric from Saudi Arabia’s hastily glued on with epoxy in 2014, was cussions. Prime Minster Justin Trudeau called the shooting “every embassy that led to Riyadh cutting Shiite minority. The Gulf kingdom and scratched and damaged as a result of the Restoration specialist Christian parent’s worst nightmare”. Unlike in the United States, mass diplomatic ties with Tehran, a judiciary some of its allies the next day severed amateur repair job, prosecutors said in a Eckmann said shortly thereafter that the shootings are rare in Canada, where firearms are more reg- spokesman said yesterday. “Since the diplomatic relations with Iran over the ulated than south of the border. The teenager, who has not Sunday statement, which implicated the cause of a scratch found on the mask had attack, about 100 people have been incidents. been named, is suspected of having killed two brothers - then-head of the Egyptian Museum and had not been determined, but that it could arrested, of whom some have been The Islamic republic’s supreme leader Drayden and Dayne Fontaine, aged 13 and 17 - at their the chief of the restoration department. have been recent. The mask was discov- released,” Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday “In an attempt to cover up the damage ered in a tomb along with other artifacts home before going to a nearby school. There, he allegedly opened fire again and shot dead two teachers, 21-year-old was quoted as saying by the official IRNA condemned the attack. “Like the British they inflicted, they used sharp instruments by British archeologists in 1922, sparking news agency. The ransacking of the embassy attack before it, this was such as scalpels and metal tools to remove worldwide interest in archaeology and Marie Janvier and 35-year-old Adam Wood, while also injuring seven other people, according to police. embassy earlier this month “has been against the country (Iran) and Islam, traces of adhesive on the mask, causing ancient Egypt. It is one of the world’s most condemned by all authorities and we and I didn’t like it,” he said, referring to a damage and scratches that remain,” it said, priceless artifacts and the best-known He was taken into custody after police received an have taken immediate and serious mob ransacking Britain’s embassy in citing an investigation. The eight now face piece in the Egyptian Museum, a major emergency call about “a person discharging a weapon in fines and disciplinary measures including tourist draw in Cairo that was built in 1902 the community,” RCMP superintendent Maureen Levy said action,” he added. One individual was Tehran in 2011. President Hassan dismissal. The mask was put back on dis- and houses ancient Egyptian artifacts and earlier. The suspect was also charged with one count of also arrested “abroad” and returned to Rouhani also condemned the attacks as play last month after a German-Egyptian mummies. Lately, King Tut has been at the unauthorized possession of a firearm, according to St Iran, he said. “He had given orders to “totally unjustifiable” and called on the team of specialists removed the epoxy and focus of new archaeology and media buzz Germaine. He is due to make a court appearance in the certain individuals who entered the judiciary to put on trial those accused reattached the beard using beeswax, used after British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves coming days. The possible motive for the crime was not embassy,” Ejeie added, without provid- of being involved. Iran previously said it as an adhesive in antiquity. theorized that Tutankhamun, who died at immediately clear. ing further details. had arrested 40 people over the A year ago, a museum conservator who the age of 19, may have been rushed into Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall called the incident in Demonstrators stormed and burned embassy attack in Tehran, and another was present at the time of the repair told an outer chamber of what was originally the small aboriginal community a “terrible tragedy ... Riyadh’s embassy in Tehran and its con- four after the consulate was torched in the Associated Press that epoxy had dried Queen Nefertiti’s tomb. — AP unimaginable and surreal”. — AFP sulate in second city Mashhad on Jan 2 Mashhad. — AFP INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 Storm-hit US digs out, travel woes continue Record blizzard paralyzed NY, Washington

NEW YORK: Millions of people in the eastern United States started digging out yesterday from a huge Alaska hit by blizzard that brought New York and Washington to a standstill, but the travel woes were far from over. The storm - dubbed “Snowzilla” - killed at least 18 people 7.1-magnitude after it walloped several states over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, affecting an estimated 85 mil- earthquake lion residents who were told to stay off the roads and hunker down in doors for their own safety. WASHINGTON: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake Forecasters said the storm dumped more than 22 struck southern Alaska at 1030 GMT yesterday, US inches (56 cm) of snow on the paralyzed capital seismologists said. The US Geological Survey, Washington and the 26.8 inches that fell in New updating its earlier location for the quake, said it York’s Central Park was the second-highest accumu- was centered about 83 km east of Old Iliamna. lation in the city since records began in 1869. Near- The USGS estimated it had a depth of 127 km. It record-breaking snowfall was also reported in other was not immediately known if it had caused any major cities up and down the US East Coast, with injuries or serious damage. Philadelphia and Baltimore also on the receiving end Twitter however was awash with posts saying of some of the worst that Mother Nature could fling the shaking was pronounced and prolonged. at them. “Everyone in Anchorage is awake and on Twitter With the storm finally tapering off overnight, offi- right? Biggest longest #earthquake of my entire cials in New York lifted a travel ban at 7:00 am Sunday life. Family is all hanging in our bed now,” wrote (1200 GMT), restoring access to roads throughout the @jgrenn. Another Twitter user, @Shelbae97, city and in Long Island and New Jersey. “You never wrote: “Thank Alaska for that earthquake,” and like to disrupt transportation and commerce. posted a photo a broken mirror and other house- However, the storm was fast and furious,” said New hold objects flung to her feet. The Hawaii-based York State Governor Andrew Cuomo. “So far, so good, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no but we have more work to do.” risk of a tidal wave “because the earthquake is Forecasters were predicting an altogether more located too deep inside the earth.” — AFP forgiving outlook for the remainder of the weekend in New York and Washington - blue skies and sun- shine with temperatures hovering at about zero Celsius. However, there were concerns about linger- 13 Costa Ricans ing strong winds and melting snow, with streets in some New Jersey coastal towns filled with water and ice, raising the specter of flooding and dangerous die as ship sinks black ice. “This system dumped copious amounts of snow off Nicaragua over West Virginia, Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. A MANAGUA: Thirteen Costa Ricans died Saturday when few locations came close to, or surpassed all-time a small ship carrying 32 tourists from Central America one-day and two-day snow records,” said the and the United States sank off Nicaragua’s Little Corn National Weather Service. The fatalities occurred in Island in the Caribbean, officials said. Nicaraguan gov- Arkansas, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina, ernment spokeswoman and First Lady Rosario Murillo Maryland and Virginia, while more than 200,000 peo- said that “of the 32 passengers, 13 lost their lives, all of ple were left without power at the height of the them are Costa Rican”. She said the other passengers WASHINGTON: People take part in the DC Snowball Fight at Dupont Circle yesterday. Snowball fights have become storm. a tradition after every major snowstorm in the US capital. — AFP survived and were taken to nearby Big Corn Island. The Corn Islands, made up of Big Corn Island and Little Corn ‘Please be Careful’ Reagan National and Dulles International airports in Christie, a Republican presidential contender who Island, are located around 70 km off Nicaragua’s main- Despite the generally better weather outlook, for the US capital were expected to remain closed left the campaign trail to oversee the emergency land. many the hard work was just beginning and there through yesterday, and buses and the metro system response in his state. “This is very heavy snow so I ask Although remote, they are becoming increasingly was no immediate end in sight to the misery for were also not due to return to action until today. that they please be careful as they clean up their own popular with tourists. Costa Rica’s foreign ministry iden- thousands of air passengers. Nearly 3,500 domestic Back on the streets, plows struggled to clear large property today or their businesses.” tified nine of its citizens who drowned, two of whom and international flights were canceled yesterday, mounds of snow in an attempt to get New York and It was not just the major cities that were hard hit. were US residents. It said in a statement there had been adding to a growing backlog that had built up at the eastern portion of the US back on its feet as soon Snow and sleet also buffeted the southern states of 25 Costa Ricans, four US citizens and three Nicaraguans major airports in New York, Philadelphia, Washington as possible. Parked cars were buried under heavy Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, West on the small vessel, which got into trouble “after strong and Baltimore, which all ground to a halt at the snow and sidewalks were still impassable in places, Virginia and Virginia - unusual for the region. Nearly winds... on Little Corn Island.” Media reports said the height of the wintry onslaught. as authorities scrambled to clear away the deluge for 150,000 power outages were reported in North captain, who was also owns the vessel, was arrested Authorities said they were working around the the start of the working week. “People want to start Carolina alone at the height of the storm, emergency after being rescued, as authorities began an investiga- clock to restore operations, with the first arrivals and to go outside and start shoveling and clearing their officials said. Yesterday, that number had been whit- tion. —AFP departures expected later in the day in New York. But walks and driveways,” said New Jersey Governor Chris tled down to about 50,000. — AFP INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016

Despite patrols, sealing Greek sea border is near impossible

CHIOS, Greece: In the inky nighttime deputy head Commander Christos Fragias. blackness, a small red dot appears on the “Both the crews and the vessels are radar screen, moving fast. “That’s a smug- strained from the overwork.” gler,” the captain of the coast guard’s Those reaching Chios have been lucky. lifeboat says, swinging the vessel around The island has seen few deaths - about four and opening up the throttle, the boat cut- or five, Fragias said, out of 118,000 arrivals ting through the water on a frigid January in 2015. Others have not fared so well. Two night. But the lifeboat, designed for search boats sank off the tiny islets of Kalolimnos and rescue operations rather than high- and Farmakonissi Friday, drowning at least speed chases, is no match for the smug- 42 people, including 17 children. In all, gler’s speedboat. The smuggler ignores the more than 700 people have died or gone searchlight, the shouts and the warning missing in the Aegean Sea, in both Greek shots fired by the coast guard, deftly navi- and Turkish territorial waters, since the start gating his small white vessel onto a tiny of 2015. The crew of Chios’ lifeboat has per- patch of beach among rocks. formed dozens of rescues. “We make super- There he disgorges his human cargo - human efforts. The five of us pick up 50, 60 men, women and children risking their people in 10 minutes,” says its captain. Last lives in a quest for safety and a better year, they rescued nearly 3,000 people, he future in Europe. They use ropes to scram- said. Coast guard crews cannot be cited by ble up a cliff, heading toward a lighthouse name as they are not authorized to speak on an island they are soon to discover is on the record. deserted save for an army outpost. They Racing across choppy seas to check on a will spend a cold, wet, uncomfortable night dinghy sighting as the weather turns for the there until the coast guard can send boats worse, the captain of one of the island’s in the morning. patrol boats described dramatic scenes of Hour after hour, by night and by day, plucking struggling refugees out of stormy Greek coast guard patrol and lifeboats, seas, where waves can hide victims from reinforced by vessels from the European sight and maneuvering a pitching vessel in Union’s border agency Frontex, ply the a sea full of people becomes precarious. “It’s waters of the eastern Aegean Sea along the very difficult to save people in bad weather,” frontier with Turkey, on the lookout for he said. “If there are incidents at sea, we people being smuggled onto the shores of only have a limited capacity so we have to Greek islands - the frontline of Europe’s prioritize which boats are in danger.” massive refugee crisis. KIPOI: Demonstrators shout slogans during a pro-migrant protest march in Kipoi yesterday against the fence of Evros intended to stop the flow Though smugglers are often arrested, JOURNEY of migrants across the Turkey-Greece border. — AFP the task is mainly a search and rescue role. The dinghy he was called on to check Hours spent on patrol shows the near- arrived safely on a beach on southern impossibility of sealing Europe’s sea bor- Chios, so the captain turned the patrol boat ders as some have demanded of Greece, north, heading to the deserted island that Demonstrators march against whose islands so near to Turkey are the the smuggler was ferrying passengers to most popular, if dangerous, gateway into the previous night. By morning, 283 peo- Europe. ple, including dozens of children, a dis- Greece-Turkey border fence abled elderly woman and an amputee HARSH WEATHER await rescue. They will be transported to Some European countries - notably Chios, which will have received 1,026 peo- Hungary and Slovakia - have blasted ple by the end of the day. Russia closes Norway border to migrants over security Greece for being unable to secure its bor- The patrol vessel and a Dutch Frontex ORESTIADA, Greece: Hundreds of people launching pad for 850,000 refugees and Saturday said it was temporarily halting its ders, which also form part of the external speedboat take turns ferrying people in protested in north-east Greece yesterday against migrants who reached Greece’s shores last year. return of migrants mainly from Syria, limits of Europe’s borderless Schengen batches of about 25 to the nearby island of the security fence along the Turkish border, Long a hotspot for illegal migration, the Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq-who had entered area. “We have been saying all along that if Oinousses, from where a large privately demanding the opening of safe routes for Greece-Turkey land border was secured in 2012 from Russia following a request from the author- the Greeks are unable to protect the bor- owned tug converted into a rescue boat migrants, two days after 45 died making the with a 12.5-kilometre fence despite concerns ities there. ders of their country, we should jointly go will take them to Chios. Among the new risky Aegean Sea crossing. Demonstrators, some from the European Commission. Some cam- Some 5,500 migrants crossed from Russia down south and protect them,” Hungarian arrivals was Faysal, a middle-aged man wearing life jackets as a symbol of the flow of paigners have argued a corridor should be into Norway last year, on the last leg of an ardu- Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in from Damascus who would only give his thousands of people making the perilous sea opened for migrants to enter Greece, but the ous journey through the Arctic to Europe. But November, with his Slovak counterpart first name after fleeing Syria following kid- journey from Turkey to Greece, marched from authorities have rejected the idea, with other EU the right-wing government in Oslo has decided Robert Fico echoing the thought. napping threats. the village of Kastanies, which lies close to the countries putting pressure on Athens to do that migrants who had been living legally in But such calls ignore the realities at sea. “It was a horrible, horrible trip,” he said frontier. more to stem the flow of people. Russia, or had entered Russia legally, should be No matter how many patrol boats are out of the boat ride from Turkey, crouching on Police stopped the marchers a few hundred “It is not a bad thing that this fence exists... immediately returned there, on the basis that in Greek waters, attempting to force a ves- the patrol boat’s deck, his hood pulled up metres (yards) away from the border fence, Greece cannot take any more people than it is at Russia is a safe country. sel of asylum-seekers back into Turkish to ward off the rain. “They told us it would located in a restricted-access military zone. The the moment,” foreign minister Nikos Kotzias said Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria waters is both illegal and dangerous, even take 15 minutes, but it took 2 1/4 hours.” protesters waved placards demanding the open- on Saturday at the end of a trip to Berlin, accord- Zakharova told AFP that Moscow had informed in calm seas. So unless a Turkish patrol The smuggler waited at sea for an hour to ing of borders and a group of Pakistani migrants ing to Greek news agency Ana. Norway on Friday that it was halting the return stops a migrant boat and returns it to evade a coast guard boat, Faysal said. “We carried a picture of drowned Syrian toddler Ankara reached an agreement with the EU in of migrants through the Borisoglebsk-Storskog Turkey, there is little Greek or Frontex have no sea in Damascus, we are not used Aylan Kurdi. A picture of his body lying on a November to stem the flow of refugees heading crossing in line with a 2011 bilateral agreement. patrols can do once it has entered Greek to this. We were all sick, and the boat was beach became a global symbol of Europe’s to Europe, in return for financial assistance of Exceptions will, however, be made for any territorial waters but arrest smugglers, and full of water.” refugee crisis. three billion euros ($3.2 billion) in cash. migrants who can be shown to meet the criteria pick up the passengers or escort the vessel Once on land they lit fires, burning their Europe is battling to deal with its biggest After talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet of an earlier agreement that obliges Moscow to safely to land. lifejackets to keep warm. Next to him, tears migration crisis since World War II, but member Davutoglu in Berlin on Friday, German readmit them if they do not fulfil Norwegian The sheer numbers have been over- of pain trickled down the soot-blackened states are split on what to do and despite deteri- Chancellor Angela Merkel said both sides signed immigration laws and have valid Russian visas or whelming. More than 850,000 people, most face of a woman who had hurt her leg on orating winter weather, thousands are attempt- an agreement to “do everything to reduce the residence permits. fleeing conflict in Syria and Afghanistan the rocks getting off the smuggler’s boat. ing the risky sea passage every day. number of refugees” crossing into the EU. “The steps taken by Russia were dictated by entered Greece by sea in 2015, according Faysal ran a successful heating business in In the latest tragedy, on Friday coastguards Yesterday’s protests came on the eve of a meet- security reasons and based on bilateral agree- to the UNHCR. Already in 2016, 35,455 peo- Damascus, but said he no longer had the pulled 45 bodies including 20 children from the ing in Ankara between senior EU officials and ments with Norway,” Zakharova said. Norwegian ple have arrived despite plunging winter option of staying. cold waters of the Aegean after their boats cap- the Turkish government on further implementa- police returned 13 migrants by bus to Russia on temperatures and days of stormy weather. “There is no safety. I left everything sized while on their way to Greece. tion of the November agreement. Tuesday and two similar operations were sched- The island of Chios, second in the num- behind; my business, my home.” He hopes Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias asked uled for Thursday and Friday but were then can- ber of arrivals after Lesbos, has three coast to reach Holland, where his sister lives. But for more help from EU border agency Frontex to Arctic border closure celled, for what officials said were logistical rea- guard vessels and Frontex reinforcements. the onward journey will have to wait a day send migrants rejected for asylum in Europe Russia yesterday confirmed it had shut for sons. The foreign ministry in Norway said there “But when you have 50 or 60 (migrant) or two. “We have no strength to go on back to Turkey. Kotzias said Frontex should “security reasons” an Arctic border post with would be no more returns “until further notice” boats daily, you understand that these ves- tonight,” he says. “We have to have some deploy about 100 boats in the narrow stretch of Norway to migrants being controversially and that Russian border authorities “want more sels can’t cope,” said Chios coast guard rest.” — AP water separating Greece from Turkey, the main returned from the Nordic country. Norway on coordination” in future. —AFP Merkel’s party weighs German ‘border centers’ BERLIN: A senior figure in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s con- servative party has proposed setting up “border centres” along the frontier with Austria to speed up the repatriation of those asylum seekers deemed unqualified to stay. Julia Kloeckner, leader of Merkel’s Christian Democrats in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate, was careful to style her proposal as a “Plan A2” rather than a “Plan B”, adding that the chancellor’s push for a European solution to a large influx of asylum seekers into the continent was still right. “We want to complement it,” she wrote in a paper setting out her position, a copy of which Reuters obtained. In the paper, Kloeckner proposed that: “On the German-Austrian border, border centres will be set up.” The proposal, endorsed by the Christian Democrats’ (CDU) secretary gen- eral, highlights the frustration in Merkel’s party with the slow progress in achieving a European Union-wide solution A refugee woman with a baby eats hot soup on the arrival at the transit center for to the refugee crisis, which is straining the infrastructure of refugees near northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, before continuing their many German municipalities. journey to Serbia yesterday.—AP Germany attracted 1.1 million asylum seekers last year, OUAGADOUGOU: People light candles during the memorial ceremony for the victims leading to calls from across the political spectrum for a of the recent hotel attack where extremists killed foreigners and Burkina Faso change in its handling of the number of refugees coming to nationals, in Ouagadougou yesterday. —AP Scottish leader warns Europe to escape war and poverty in Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Growing concern about Germany’s ability to White-clad marchers pay cope with the influx and worries about crime and security against June EU referendum after assaults on women at New Year in Cologne are weigh- ing on support for the CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the homage to Burkina victims LONDON: Scottish First Minister Nicola ing in parallel would be disrespectful to Christian Social Union (CSU). Sturgeon warned yesterday it would be a those important elections. “The second rea- An Emnid poll for the newspaper Bild am Sonntag OUAGADOUGOU: Hundreds of people Marchers sang the national anthem and mistake to hold Britain’s European Union son is I think it would be better for David showed support for the CDU/CSU bloc down 2 percentage dressed in white took to the streets of carried signs reading “je suis Splendid” and membership referendum in June. British Cameron... if he does get a deal at the points at 36 percent from the previous week. The right-wing Ouagadougou to pay homage to the vic- “je suis Cappuccino”, in a move mirroring Prime Minister David Cameron hopes to February European Council: to leave more Alternative for Germany (AfD) gained 1 point to 10 percent. tims of a jihadist attack on a top hotel and the “je suis Charlie” rallying cry used after finalise a renegotiation of the UK’s terms of time between that deal and the point of Merkel’s coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), a restaurant that left 30 dead and 70 the January 2015 Paris jihadist attacks. membership at the European Council decision.” gained a point to 25 percent. injured, an AFP reporter said. Dubbed a People walked about a half a mile to the meeting on February 18 and 19. Cameron wants to renegotiate Britain’s “chain of light”, the silent march began at site of the attacks, where they placed can- An in-or-out referendum on Britain’s terms of membership, then recommend Camp controversy 19:40 GMT on Saturday, the exact time that dles in a tribute to the victims. membership of the bloc must be held by that the UK remains in the 28-country bloc Merkel, despite appearing increasingly isolated over her Al-Qaeda-affiliated gunmen had launched “I’m not afraid to come to the Kwame the end of 2017, with commentators on that basis. open-door policy on refugees, has resisted pressure from their deadly attack eight days before. N’Krumah avenue because I see the gov- believing it could come this year. Sturgeon Sturgeon said: “One of the big problems some conservatives to cap the influx, or to close Germany’s It was organized over social media by ernment has taken security measures to said holding it in June would be “disre- I see for the In campaign at the moment is borders. Instead, she has tried to convince other European music manager Walib Bara and journalist protect us,” Issouf Cisse, a sales agent work- spectful” to the Scottish, Welsh, Northern that as far as David Cameron is concerned countries to take in quotas of refugees, pushed for recep- Raissa Compaore. “This demonstration ing close to the Cappuccino cafe, said. “Life Irish and London mayoral elections, which it is very much focused on these narrow tion centres to be built on Europe’s external borders, and was called ‘chain of light’ because we know goes on despite the attacks.” are taking place in May. Speaking about a issues of renegotiation, when in actual fact, led an EU campaign to convince Turkey to keep refugees that the intention of those who waged the A national tribute is planned for today, possible June vote, Sturgeon told BBC tele- if the In campaign is going to prevail, this is from entering the bloc. But progress has been slow. attacks was to plunge the country into with President Roch Marc Christian vision: “I think it would be a mistake for going to have to become a positive in prin- CDU Secretary General Peter Tauber presented darkness,” Bara told the press. “We came to Kabore expected to attend a public cere- David Cameron. ciple campaign about why it is better for Kloeckner’s proposals as underscoring the government’s the site of the attack to say that we will mony. The first such attack in Burkina “Two reasons why I would not be in the UK to stay within the European Union.” course thus far. “The proposed border centres are a devel- continue to drink Cappuccinos in a splen- Faso, it was claimed by Al-Qaeda in the favour of a June referendum. “The Scottish Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has opment of existing structures,” he said in a statement. “The did Burkina,” Bara said, using a play on Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and came weeks election is in May, indeed the Welsh, ruled out a referendum in July or August. ball is now with the Social Democrats: they can’t always say words referencing two of the attack sites- after Islamists claimed an attack on a top Northern Irish, London elections are in May. Cameron wants a referendum campaign what doesn’t work, and must fulfil their responsibility as a the Cappuccino cafe and the Splendid hotel in Bamako, capital of neighboring “To have a referendum campaign start- lasting at least three months. — AFP governing party.”— Reuters hotel, both popular with foreigners. Mali.—AFP

INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 Nepal ethnic minorities reject charter amendment

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s ethnic minorities shortages and rationing in Nepal. 461-7 late on Saturday in favor of a provi- Madhesi lawmakers protested and to redraw the internal boundaries of fed- have rejected a constitutional amend- Deliveries of relief supplies to communi- sion of “proportionate inclusion” of walked out of parliament, saying the eral provinces within three months, ment, dashing hopes of an end to a polit- ties hit by earthquakes in April and May minority groups in all government insti- changes had loopholes and were incom- another key demand of the Madhesis. ical crisis that has led to fuel shortages last year have also been disrupted. tutions including the army, and to carve plete. “It is a complete farce. It does not It says other demands such as citizen- and hampered deliveries of relief materi- The Nepalese people had hoped the out electoral constituencies on the basis address our demands,” said Hridayesh ship cards for foreign spouses of Nepali als to survivors of last year’s earthquakes. charter, the country’s first since the aboli- of their population to increase their rep- Tripathi, a leader of Tarai Madhes nationals will also be resolved through More than 50 people have died since the tion of the monarchy in 2008, would resentation in parliament. Loktantrik Party, part of the Madhesi political consensus. But the Madhesis are ethnic Madhesis, backed by some other bring peace and stability closer after The rest of the lawmakers either did Front that is leading the protests. opposed to splitting their region into smaller ethnic groups, launched protests years of conflict. However, the Madhesis, not vote or walked out. “The government Nepal’s giant and influential neighbor more than two provinces, as the govern- in the landlocked, Himalayan country’s who have close familial, linguistic and believes that the amendment will India said the changes were positive. “We ment plan envisages, saying this would southern plains against the amendment cultural ties with Indians across the bor- address the problems in the Tarai and hope that other outstanding issues are scupper their chances of controlling the to the constitution. der, say Nepalese authorities have failed hopes that the protests will end,” Law similarly addressed in a constructive spir- provincial governments. Many in Nepal Protests at the border have prevented to meet their aspirations for greater par- Minister Agni Prasad Kharel told parlia- it,” the Indian External Affairs Ministry blame India for quietly supporting the trucks from entering from neighbouring ticipation in government. ment before the vote, referring to the said in a statement. The Nepali govern- Madhesi protesters, a charge New Delhi India since September, causing fuel The 597-member parliament voted lowlands bordering India in the south. ment says a political panel will be tasked denies.—Reuters Obama urges ‘serious’ action against Pakistan extremists

NEW DELHI: US President Barack Obama said the crackdown on extremists was “the has urged Pakistan to show it is “serious” right policy” but was quoted as saying that about crushing extremist networks operat- Pakistan “can and must” take more effective ing on its territory, saying the latest mass action. killing of students underlined the need for “Since then (Peshawar), we have seen more decisive action. In an interview with Pakistan take action against several specific the Press Trust of India published yesterday, groups,” said Obama. “We have also seen Obama praised recent crackdowns by continued terrorism inside Pakistan such as Pakistani security forces but said more the recent attack on the university in north- should be done to eradicate violent west Pakistan.” Islamist groups. India has blamed gunmen belonging to “Pakistan has an opportunity to show the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e- that it is serious about delegitimizing, dis- Mohammed for an attack on one of its air rupting and dismantling terrorist networks,” force bases close to the Pakistan border Obama told the news agency in earlier this month that left seven soldiers Washington. “In the region and around the dead. Obama said that attack in Punjab was world, there must be zero tolerance for safe “another example of the inexcusable terror- havens and terrorists must be brought to ism that India has endured for too long”. justice.” Twenty-one people were killed last The attack came only days after Indian Wednesday in an attack at a university Prime Minister Narendra Modi had paid his campus in Pakistan’s tribal northwest which first visit to Pakistan, dropping in for talks was claimed by a faction of the Pakistani with his counterpart Nawaz Sharif on his Taleban, barely a year after a massacre at a way home from Afghanistan. school in Peshawar that killed more than Modi has resisted pressure to put ties 150 people. with Pakistan back in deep freeze after the A military offensive against extremists in air base attack, and Obama endorsed the Pakistan’s tribal areas was intensified after continuation of contacts. “Both leaders are the Peshawar attack, although Indian offi- advancing a dialogue on how to confront cials say authorities across the border still violent extremism and terrorism across the turn a blind eye to jihadist groups. Obama region,” Obama said. — AFP

CHANDIGARH: French President Francois Hollande (center left) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center right) pose for a group photo Armed teachers in classrooms: with Indian folk dancers at the government museum and art gallery in Chandigarh yesterday.—AP Pakistan’s horrifying new world PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Headmaster not provide security, so it gave in to the Hollande starts India visit, Naveed Gul walked past the armed guard teachers’ demand they be allowed to carry at the gate into his office. As primary school weapons. pupils studied their morning lessons out- “There is no harm in using them in case side, he reached beneath his warm woolly of an attack,” Yousafzai said. But Peshawar- says jet deal will take time sweater, and pulled out a gun. “This is an based analyst and retired brigadier Saad M20 pistol,” he said. “It’s made in China and Khan said arming teachers is “stupid”. it works perfectly.” A debate over arming “These are young men,” he said. “If a French president chief guest at R-Day parade teachers has surged in Pakistan once more, fight breaks out, you know, the rush of days after assistant chemistry professor blood, and if somebody has a gun.” Instead CHANDIGARH: France’s President Francois Minister Narendra Modi announced in Paris last Times of India newspaper. They will also lay a Syed Hamid Husain opened fire on the of killing attackers on the spot, Khan called Hollande played down the prospect of a swift year that his government had agreed to buy the foundation stone at the new headquarters of the Taleban gunmen who stormed the univer- for rooting out the long-term causes of mil- conclusion to a drawn-out deal for New Delhi to jets as India looks to modernize its Soviet-era International Solar Alliance, a 121-nation group sity campus where he worked. itancy, echoing critics of a national crack- buy 36 French jet fighters as he began a three- military and keep up with neighboring Pakistan launched by Modi at the Paris COP21 conference Students told how the 33-year-old down on extremism who say it has failed to day visit to India yesterday. and China. The two leaders stepped into the in November, to expand affordable solar power. father-of-two died shielding them with a go far enough. The invitation for Hollande to be chief guest long-delayed deal after tortuous negotiations handgun during the attack that claimed 21 “Let them become men of books,” he at India’s Republic Day military parade tomorrow over a much-larger agreement first signed with Solar push lives at the Bacha Khan university in north- said. Syed Hamid Husain, by all accounts, had raised expectations that the multi-billion France’s Dassault Aviation in 2012 broke down. Hollande said he hoped some of the French west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. had been just such a man-a brilliant aca- dollar agreement for the Rafale jets would finally A sticking point has been Delhi’s insistence businesses travelling with him would be at the Teachers there had been given permis- demic lecturing at a university named after be sealed. that arms makers invest a percentage of the val- forefront of the solar energy push. “We are sion to carry firearms after the Pakistani a peace icon known as the “Frontier But after landing in the northern city of ue of any major deal in India, known as the off- going to translate our shared commitment to Taleban massacred more than 150 people, Gandhi”. Husain’s family said that changed Chandigarh, Hollande cooled talk that the con- set clause. Hollande began his second official implement what was agreed in Paris into action the majority of them children, at a school in after the Peshawar school massacre in tract was on the verge of being signed. He said visit to India in Chandigarh, which was designed by launching the solar alliance here,” he said at the provincial capital Peshawar in 2014. At 2014. further discussions were needed on a prior inter- by French architect Le Corbusier more than 60 Chadigarh’s military airport. the Government Primary School Elder brother Sajjad expressed a baffled governmental agreement. “We are going to take years ago. Security will be high on the agenda after Akhunabad in the city, Gul slid his own pride in the actions of his kind-hearted sib- another step on the road which we hope will After Modi greeted Hollande with a hug, the deadly Islamist attacks in Paris in November that gun-a Chinese knockoff of a Soviet WWII- ling, who he said as a child would faint at lead us to India’s acquisition of the 36 Rafale two leaders strolled through Chandigarh’s evoked memories of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, era pistol-quickly into the desk drawer, say- the sight of blood. “We don’t know where jets,” Hollande told reporters. renowned rock garden, with its sculptures made which left 166 people dead. ing weapons in school give him confi- he got that much courage from,” Sajjad told “India needs them and France has shown that out of rubble from the city’s construction, before India launched a nationwide security crack- dence. AFP tearfully at the family home in Swabi, it has the world’s best aircraft. “The commercial heading to an archaeological museum. Ministers down in the lead-up to Republic Day, arresting a “You have guns with you. You can fight it near Charsadda, clutching his three-year- contract can only come after the inter-govern- and business executives travelling with Hollande string of suspected Islamic militants. Security out,” he said. The headmaster, his waxed old nephew in one arm and a picture of the mental accord... which will be discussed during meanwhile signed a series of accords with their was tight for Hollande’s arrival, with armed moustaches straight out of the Wild West, child’s father in the other. The Taleban’s my visit.” Indian counterparts on issues such as e-com- police and paramilitary forces patrolling the already has the scenario played out in his cold slaughter of dozens of children in the While Hollande said he was “optimistic” about merce, renewable energy and the development streets of Chandigarh. Hollande and Modi are mind. “If one terrorist were to come and I’m Peshawar massacre had changed his “soft” the inter-governmental accord being agreed on of “smart cities” which is one of Modi’s pet proj- expected to sit side by side to watch tomorrow’s sitting here... I will automatically take out brother into something more “cruel”, Sajjad Monday, a senior French official acknowledged ects. pomp-filled spectacle of military might-which my pistol,” he said gesturing. “So if I take said. “He said he felt a trembling inside... negotiations were still snagged on the price. Today the leaders are expected to announce includes columns of soldiers and Soviet-era cover from here, and fire with a sharp that something should be done.” And in an interview with the Press Trust of a roadmap for building six French nuclear reac- tanks-along Delhi’s central Rajpath avenue. mind.” India news agency, the French president said tors in the western state of Maharashtra, more The parade is the highlight of annual celebra- ‘We are not scared’ that “agreeing on the technicalities of this than five years after a bilateral civil nuclear coop- tions of the birth of modern India. US President ‘Where did he get the courage?’ In the US the debate over arming teach- arrangement obviously takes time”. Prime eration agreement was signed, according to the Barack Obama was last year’s chief guest. —AFP Psychologists discussing mass shootings ers is nuanced. President Barack Obama’s in the US recently told AFP that post-trau- recent tears over the shooting of 20 chil- matic stress can translate into such hyper- dren in Connecticut in 2012 prompted vigilance: a state of alert close to paranoia. powerful arguments on both sides, as did But Gul is matter-of-fact. Militants have Republican presidential candidate Ben Large metal chunk investigated long targeted education in Pakistan, from Carson’s call for guns in schools last the shooting of schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai October. in Swat in 2012 to the Peshawar massacre In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for parents after washing onto Thai beach and Wednesday’s assault. and students, the question appears unset- BANGKOK: A large chunk of metal that could be of southern Thailand’s Nakkon Si Thammarat Malay Peninsula and Straits of Malacca, which On Friday, the Taliban faction behind the tlingly one-sided. “They (teachers) can from an aircraft washed ashore in southern province, about 370 miles (600 kilometers) south would put it off Thailand’s west coast. Radar con- Bacha Khan attack vowed to continue tar- fight and kill maybe two, three, four peo- Thailand, but Malaysian authorities yesterday of Bangkok on the Gulf of Thailand. tact was lost shortly after the plane entered the geting schools and students, calling them ple,” said Ehsanullah, whose son attends cautioned against speculation of a link to a While debris can drift thousands of miles (kilo- airspace over the Indian Ocean. Analysis of “nurseries” for those who challenge Allah’s the Akhunabad school. “When they come, Malaysia Airlines flight missing almost two years. meters) on ocean currents, that location would exchanges between its engine and a satellite law. our teacher will attack them,” said ten- Flight MH370 lost communications and made a be a surprise based on the data from Flight determined the plane flew south on a straight “I want to protect myself and my stu- year-old pupil Shafey Hussain. “We are sharp turn away from its Beijing destination MH370. The plane was tracked by radar flying path for hours, leading authorities to believe it dents,” Gul said. Provincial spokesman not scared of anybody.” He spoke with before disappearing in March 2014. It is pre- over the South China Sea then making a sharp flew on autopilot until it ran out of fuel and Shaukat Yousafzai said that with 68,000 heartbreaking certainty: both that the sumed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean, and turn west for unknown reasons. It crossed the crashed into the water. — AP schools and just 55,000 policemen in attack will come, and that the adults can only one piece of debris has been identified as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the government can- save him when it does. — AFP coming from the plane, a slab of wing that washed ashore on Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean last July. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said he instructed Malaysian civil aviation officials to contact Thailand about the newly found wreckage, a curved piece of metal measuring about 2 meters by 3 meters (6 1/2 feet by 10 feet) with electrical wires hanging from it and num- bers stamped on it in several places. “I urge the media and the public not to specu- late because it will give undue pressure to the loved ones of the victims of MH370,” he said. Thailand’s Transportation Ministry said four Malaysian officials and two Thai experts will visit the site today. Liow said the search for the miss- ing jet, which carried 239 people, is ongoing in the southern Indian Ocean and that its second phase is expected to be completed by June. Australia has led a multinational search that has so far cost more than $120 million. Australian Transport Safety Bureau spokesman Dan O’Malley said the agency was Thai hospital workers transport an injured Thai ranger on a stretcher after he was shot by sus- PESHAWAR: A Pakistani private security guard watching out as students arrive at a awaiting results of an official examination of the pected separatist militants in the Rueso district of Thailand’s restive southern province of government primary school in Peshawar. — AFP debris. The debris was found on the eastern coast Narathiwat yesterday. — AFP NEWS MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016

MPs reject building of new churches... Continued from Page 1 dies on fuel and public services has become necessary to reduce the budget deficit. Tana meanwhile yesterday Former Islamist MP Mohammad Hayef expressed simi- urged the Assembly’s interior and defense committee to lar opposition to the proposal, saying that the number of approve a proposal he submitted to grant the relatives churches in Kuwait “exceeds the number of Kuwaiti of stateless martyrs Kuwaiti citizenship. Christians”. Kuwaiti Christians number around 200, while Separately, the Assembly’s financial and economic about half a million Christian foreigners live in the country. affairs committee yesterday approved amendments to Meanwhile, a team from the ministry of finance was the Kuwait Airways privatization law giving the govern- scheduled to meet MP Yousef Al-Zalzalah late yesterday ment the right to retain 75 percent of the airline and to discuss government plans to reduce or lift subsidies effectively end the privatization plan. Acting head of the on fuel and services. The government has pledged not panel MP Mohammad Al-Jabri said under the new to take any unilateral decision on subsidies and vowed amendments, 20 percent of the carrier will be offered in to brief the National Assembly on the planned measures. an initial public offering (IPO) and the remaining five MP Mohammad Tana said that there are many solu- percent will be given to current and retired employees. tions through which the government can finance the Jabri also said the panel agreed to grant the national budget deficit instead of raising the burden on the peo- carrier another KD 600 million from state reserves to ple, especially low and middle-income people. A large help it in its development plan and modernization of its number of MPs have publicly rejected government plans fleet. KAC has placed orders for 25 Airbus and 10 Boeing to raise charges on public services after a sharp fall in oil jets with delivery starting later this year. It has also A girl stands high on a snow pile as she poses for a family photo in New York’s Times Square on Saturday, as revenues. The government has said that reducing subsi- leased 12 Airbus planes. a large winter storm hit the East Coast. — AP Arab nations eye China, locals to revive... Iraq summons Saudi envoy Continued from Page 1 mainly British holidaymakers, were gunned down at Continued from Page 1 ambassador’s remarks “included clear attempts to provoke Tunisia’s seaside resort of Sousse in June. “Domestic sectarian strife”. And Hashed al-Shaabi spokesman Ahmed The Islamic State jihadist group said it downed the tourism is the thing that will keep you going during dif- Iraq turned to Shiite militia forces in 2014 to help count- Al-Assadi termed Sabhan an “ambassador of a state that aircraft and tens of thousands of foreign tourists, includ- ficult times. And we have neglected in our region local er an IS onslaught that overran large areas north and west supports terrorism” and called for Iraq to “expel this ambas- ing some 80,000 Russians and 20,000 Britons, were tourism. I think maybe what happened to us in the of Baghdad, and they have played a key role in the fight sador and punish him for his statements”. Among Iraqi stranded in the resort after flights were cancelled for region is a wake up call,” said Jordanian Tourism Minister against the jihadists. But militias and their affiliates have Shiites, Saudi Arabia is widely viewed as a supporter of security reasons. Nayef Al-Fayez. also carried out abuses including summary executions, extremists and opponent of their community. Egypt has also boosted promotion efforts in Saudi The Madrid-based United Nations World Tourism kidnappings and destruction of property, and many mem- But Sabhan’s comments were not universally panned, Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations, leading to a sharp Organization predicts the number of international bers of the Sunni Arab and Kurdish minorities view them with the Alliance of Iraqi Forces, the main Sunni Arab bloc tourists to the Middle East and North Africa will triple to increase in the number of visitors from those nations with suspicion. The foreign ministry defended the Hashed in parliament, describing his remarks as “very natural” and and is doing more to promote domestic tourism, 195 million in 2030. But the head of the body, former al-Shaabi, “which is fighting terrorism and defending the criticizing the “political campaign” against him. Sabhan’s Zaazou said. The country is banking on the short mem- Jordanian tourism minister Taleb Rifai, warned that “the sovereignty of the country, and works under the umbrella tenure in Iraq, which officially began when he presented ory of global travellers who have been scared off and new reality of safety and security and the perception of of the state”. his credentials 10 days ago, was off to a rocky start even returned to the country before, most vividly after the the region is a great big challenge”. “Nobody is denying Shiite politicians had earlier reacted angrily to the Saudi before his recent remarks. Saudi Arabia’s execution of Luxor massacre in 1997 in which over 60 people were the challenges and difficulties that are coming from the ambassador’s comments, but the country’s largest Sunni activist and Shiite cleric Nimr Al-Nimr at the beginning of killed, mostly Swiss and Japanese, he added. “I believe Middle East,” he added. bloc defended him. “The remarks of the Saudi ambassador the month sparked widespread anti-Riyadh anger, protests 2016 will be the year tourists come back to Egypt and Separately, almost three million people visited Qatar indicate clear hostility and blatant interference in Iraqi and calls for Sabhan to be kicked out of Iraq. our part of the world,” the minister said. in 2015, a record number for the energy-rich Gulf coun- affairs,” Khalaf Abdulsamad, the head of the Dawa parlia- Iraq has been plagued by years of tensions between its Like Egypt, Morocco has stepped up its efforts to try, its tourism authority said yesterday. A total of 2.93 mentary list, said in a statement. “His talking about the develop its domestic tourism market to help offset fluc- million people travelled to Qatar last year for a holiday, Shiite majority and Sunni minority, which ruled the coun- tuations in the arrival of foreigners, Morocco’s Tourism business or personal reasons, according to figures in an Hashed al-Shaabi in this way is considered a major insult,” try under Saddam Hussein, with tens of thousands killed in Minister Lahcen Haddad said. The domestic market now annual report released by the Qatar Tourism Authority Abdulsamad said, calling on the foreign ministry to “pre- sectarian violence over the past decade. The United accounts for 33 percent of the nation’s total tourism (QTA). That represented an increase of almost four per- serve the dignity of the Iraqi state and summon the Saudi Nations said last week that more than 18,000 Iraqi civilians activity, up from 25 percent in 2012. “The more domes- cent on 2014, at a time when the country is looking to ambassador and expel him from Iraq”. had been killed in the previous two years, many due to an tic tourism you have the more mature your destination diversify its economy away from its reliance on gas and Alia Nasayif, an MP from the State of Law bloc, said the upsurge in violence with the rise of IS. — Agencies (becomes), the more your industry is used, and also the oil, which accounts for more than 50 per of GDP. more resilient your destination becomes because peo- “The report shows that despite global developments, ple domestically will travel no matter what,” he said. which have adversely affected travel patterns, Qatar has 20 workers injured in school collapse “That has also encouraged a lot of investors to stay in shown resilience as a burgeoning tourist destination Morocco to invest more. We have been able to draw with growing arrival figures and steady hotel occupancy Continued from Page 1 being crushed or struck by a falling object (25.2 per- more investment despite the crisis that started in mid- rates,” the QTA stated. The largest number of visitors, cent). Use or misuse of tools caused the third largest 2014. We have also seen more creation of jobs and seen 855,000, came from Saudi Arabia. India provided more injured in the incident swift recovery, he told number of accidents in Kuwait (18.1 percent). more hotel brands interested in Morocco.” Swiss group 375,000 visitors and the United Kingdom 135,000. There reporters “we will not hesitate to hold those found “The most frequent type of injury is fractures (52.6 Movenpick opened its third hotel in Morocco in was also an increase in the number of Chinese and guilty of negligence accountable”. percent) and the most common injured body part is the Marrakech at the end of last year, one of several major French visitors in 2015. Construction accidents are all too common in upper body (53.4 percent). An average of (82.7 percent) hotel investments in recent years. Tourism contributed the equivalent of $3.7 billion to Kuwait. According to a 2010 research paper published of victims of construction accidents in Kuwait sustain Except for one attack against tourists in 2011 in the economy in 2015, the QTA said, around two percent in the peer-reviewed Journal of Performance of permanent disabilities. It is clear that the Kuwaiti con- Marrakesh - the kingdom’s biggest tourism centre - of total GDP. QTA forecasts up to nine million people will Constructed Facilities, “the construction industry is the struction industry has a safety problem and that there is Morocco has been calm for the past decade. But it still visit Qatar by 2030, allowing tourism to contribute to most hazardous industry in Kuwait. On average, falls are a pressing need to change current practices and legisla- suffered a slump in visitors last year after 38 people, just over five percent of the total economy. — Agencies the major type of accident (33.2 percent) followed by tion in construction and building sites.” — Agencies MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 ANALYSIS

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Focus Disquiet grows over French state of emergency

By Martine Nouaille

hen a state of emergency was imposed in France after the November attacks, numb Wand terror-weary citizens welcomed the show of force. But a sense of creeping unease over civ- il liberties has turned to outright opposition in many quarters as French President Francois Hollande indi- cated this week he would seek to renew the measure for another three months. The state of emergency was imposed after gunmen and suicide bombers attacked a string of Parisian cafes and restaurants, a concert hall and football stadium, leaving 130 dead and hundreds injured on Nov 13. It has led to over 2,500 police raids and hundreds of Lenin watches on over indifferent Russians arrests under emergency policing powers that govern- ment wants written into the constitution. The French Human Rights League (LDH), one of many bodies now By Nicolas Miletitch hoardings and shopping malls of their con- Soviet revolutionary is tangible. “They should idea that he was the founder of the Soviet questioning the efficacy of the harsher measures, said sumerist society appears to stir mixed opin- all be sent to some museum.” For the younger state.” In a poll conducted by the Levada cen- recently that only four legal procedures relating to ter- o reach the gigantic statue of Vladimir ions - or more often just indifference. Every generation, who have grown up outside the tre about views of Lenin in 2015 only five per- rorism had emerged from the spate of police opera- Lenin that overlooks Moscow’s October year on the key Communist holidays such as Soviet system, the presence of Lenin is often cent of people said they thought his ideas will tions. “The political trap of a state of emergency is TSquare, pedestrians can stroll down May 1 or the anniversary of the revolution on little more than a historical oddity. “During the influence people in the future. closing on the government (because) there will always streets named after the Bolshevik revolution- Nov 7 dwindling groups of ageing supporters Soviet era, all these monuments had an ideo- be a good reason to keep” it in place, said LDH lawyer ary’s wife or mother, or cross Lenin Avenue gather with portraits of Lenin at monuments logical role but now they are just relics from ‘Atomic Bomb’ Patrice Spinozi. And Jean-Jacques Urvoas, the presi- that intersects with a road named after his In the heady days of the early nineties dur- dent of the parliamentary commission of laws argued brother. More than a quarter of a century has ing the collapse of the Soviet Union, some of that the “element of surprise” against potential terror- passed since the fall of Communism but the key symbolic statues of Soviet leaders - ist networks has been “largely reduced”. reminders of the Soviet Union’s founding most famously secret police founder Felix The Council of Europe’s human rights commission- father Lenin -who died on Jan 21, 1924 - are Dzerzhinsky outside the KGB headquarters - er Nils Muiznieks warned earlier this month that the still easy to find. Yet the man himself seems were toppled. But as the new country state of emergency could constitute a “threat” to increasingly to mean little to many people in plunged into chaos, Russia’s first president democracy. He raised concerns about ethnic profiling Russia, the cradle of his revolution. Boris Yeltsin - often keen not to alienate the of suspects facing police searches. And a panel of UN Lenin monuments, busts and eponymous large chunk of the population that looked human rights experts said last week the measures streets commemorating the leader of the back on the Soviet era with fondness - left placed what they saw as “excessive and disproportion- 1917 October Revolution still dot cityscapes most of the Lenin statues untouched. ate” restrictions on key rights. across the country and his body still lies President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB embalmed for tourists to visit in the mau- agent whose rule has seen the revival of One and Indivisible soleum on the capital’s iconic Red Square. “On Soviet traditions and controls, followed in The current three-month state of emergency July 19, 1918, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin met in this Yeltsin’s footsteps and just let Lenin be. That building with the party members from facto- includes leaving the embalmed remains of expires on Feb 26 and an extension will give govern- ries of the Zamoskvorechye neighbourhood,” the leader on display outside the Kremlin, ment time to adopt reforms to enshrine new security reads a plaque in the centre of the Russian despite polls showing that the majority of measures into the constitution. None has been more capital. Down the street, another plaque people are in favor of finally saying goodbye divisive than a reform proposed by the Socialist presi- reminds passersby that the Communist leader Lenin and burying his body. dent to strip French citizenship from people convicted addressed workers from the Yaroslavl and But that does not mean that Putin, who of terrorist offences, if they have another nationality. Vladimir regions from a balcony above their has surrounded himself with ex-Soviet securi- Rights activists, intellectuals as well as those within heads. And Moscow’s sprawling subway sys- ty agents and been accused of playing down the Socialist party have criticised a measure they see tem - which carries an average of seven mil- the crimes of Stalinism, is harking back to the as a betrayal of France’s founding principles, in which A file picture taken on Nov 21, 2011 shows people standing in front of a lion passengers every day - also officially ideals of Lenin. “Allowing your rule to be guid- the republic is “one and indivisible”. mosaic portrait of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin at the Kiyevskaya sub- bears Lenin’s name. way station in Moscow. —AFP ed by ideas is right, but only when that idea France’s National Human Rights Commission leads to the right results, not like it did with (CNCDH) said the loss of nationality was “of no use in ‘Relics From Our History’ to him across the country. our history,” said Alexander Polyakovsky, a 20- Vladimir Ilich,” Putin said in a rare reference to the prevention of terrorist acts.” The commission said it In some other former Soviet republics, But while some who are old enough to year-old student. Lenin on the anniversary of his death. “In the would establish “different treatment” between French most prominently Ukraine, many statues of remember the Soviet epoch view these ves- “We are witnessing growing indifference,” end that idea led to the fall of the Soviet people holding dual citizenship and those who are Lenin have been dismantled, toppled or van- tiges of another era with nostalgia, others sociologist Lev Gudkov, the head of inde- Union,” he added. “They planted an atomic only French, a move “radically opposed to all republi- dalized since the fall of Communism. But for look on them with resentment. “These monu- pendent pollster Levada Centre, told AFP. bomb under the building called Russia and it can values.” A group of 70 nongovernmental organiza- ordinary Russians the lingering presence of ments bother me,” said 60-year-old Muscovite “Lenin does not represent anything to the later exploded. We did not need a global revo- tions have called for a protest on January 30 against the Communist leader among the advertising Viktor Dzyadko, whose hostility toward the young generations, who only have a vague lution.” —AFP the measure. “For us it is definitely non!” they wrote in a declaration. On Saturday the National Council of Bars, which represents French lawyers, said it was concerned to see the construction of “a judicial and social model No end to Manila’s traffic nightmare which breaks with republican values”. Prime Minister Manuel Valls told the BBC on Friday that France would By Mynardo Macaraig Manila’s dilapidated rail network tiny in com- meaning people would simply be unable to Dreams of Urban Bliss “use all means” at its disposal to combat terrorism parison with neighbouring Southeast Asian get around the city - if urgent action was not His aides have since sought to project a “until we can get rid of Daesh,” an acronym for Islamic eb designer Maria Zurbano kisses capitals such as Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and taken to build roads and rail lines. Elections for sense of empathy and urgency, pointing to new State. her three-year-old daughter good- Bangkok. A chaotic private bus and mini-bus a successor to President Benigno Aquino, who expressways and an extension of a train line as However, a source close to Valls told AFP “it is not Wbye and sets out in the predawn network with drivers who regularly flout traf- is required by the constitution to stand down planned projects that will ease the congestion. envisaged in any way to extend it indefinitely.” When darkness for a torturous commute through fic laws by, for instance, stopping in the mid- after a single six-year term, will be held in May. They have also emphasized the adoption in asked about the government’s intentions regarding the Philippine capital. Her ordeal, a return trip dle of roads to pick up passengers, is widely Aquino has proved a generally popular presi- 2014 of a “Dream Plan” to fix the urban chaos, the state of emergency, the source said simply that of up to six hours every weekday, is expected perceived as adding to the problem. “This is dent but he has been the target of fierce pub- which outlines $65 billion of infrastructure France was at “war”, hence “we shall see if we are going to get even worse as the number of cars going to be the most critical problem the next lic criticism for a perceived lack of urgency in spending by 2030. The plan envisages a wide to extend it (for) as long as necessary.” The state of explodes in the chaotic Asian mega-city of administration faces,” John Forbes, a senior updating the nation’s creaking infrastructure. range of massive and unprecedented projects emergency boosts police powers, allowing house more than 12 million people. Dubbed “car- adviser at the American Chamber of He earned widespread condemnation mid- for the Philippines, such as a subway, satellite arrests, raids both day and night and the banning of maggedon” by locals, business leaders are Commerce in Manila, told AFP. way through his term with comments that cities linked to Manila by high-speed rail, relocat- public gatherings, without permission from a judge. warning Manila could come to a total stand- Forbes warned Manila risked becoming worsening traffic was merely a sign of a grow- ing air and sea ports, as well as many new roads. The lives of the majority of French people have not still despite grand government plans to tackle “uninhabitable” in the next three to five years - ing economy. Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran, an econ- been affected by the state of emergency, and a recent its traffic. omist who has studied the traffic problem, said poll showed 70 percent of people wanted it kept in “Physically, during these trips, I feel ill. My the plan’s huge price tag is within the govern- place. But there have been cases of violence during back is always hurting. It affects my health to ment’s reach. “Financing should not be a prob- police raids, mistaken identity and people losing their have to sit down for so long,” said Zurbano, 36, lem because the funders are ready,” Beltran told jobs because they were placed under house arrest. For as she waited for a bus outside her home at AFP, pointing to the nation’s improved credit the first time on Friday the Conseil d‘Etat - the highest 5:00 am. After finally ending a cramped mini- rating that will allow cheaper loans, as well as administrative court -stopped a house arrest and fined bus trip of just 17 km to the financial district expected help from the Japanese government the state as the person in question had not been of Makati, Zurbano despaired of being and multilateral lenders. proved to belong to an Islamist grouping. The Conseil trapped in a traffic hell. “Traffic just gets worse But many experts believe there is little d’Etat will on Tuesday examine a request from the LDH and worse. I just get more stressed and chance of many projects going ahead. They to end the state of emergency. —AFP stressed but it doesn’t look like anything will point to the nation’s chaotic and corrupt demo- change. I will just have to learn to bear with it,” cratic system, as well as a strangling bureaucra- she said. cy, which prevent infrastructure development. A glaring example is the construction of a 19- All articles appearing on these Huge Traffic Costs kilometre light rail line on the outskirts of the Traffic in the capital and its surroundings is capital that was meant to have been finished by pages are the personal opinion of already costing the country about three bil- the end of last year - but it has not even been the writers. Kuwait Times takes no lion pesos ($64 million) a day, or about 0.8 started. responsibility for views expressed percent of gross domestic product, according Touting the project in 2013, Aquino joked he therein. Kuwait Times invites read- to government figures. And it is steadily wors- was ready to be run over a train if it was not ening as an emerging middle class fuels an completed by the end of 2015. But his govern- ers to voice their opinions. Please auto boom - car sales rose 23 percent last year ment has not even finalized the tender process. send submissions via email to: opin- with nearly 300,000 new vehicles hitting the Gilbert Llano, president of the Philippine [email protected] or via snail roads. Compounding the problem, decades of Institute for Development Studies, a govern- infrastructure neglect has left Manila with a ment think-tank, echoed the ironic tones of mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. just a few major roads across the city and their many experts when talking about the govern- The editor reserves the right to edit gridlock “peak hours” often last for three or ment’s infrastructure plan. “It’s called a dream any submission as necessary. four hours. In this photo taken on Jan 11, 2016, a major thoroughfare is clogged with plan (because) it will stay in the realm of Commuters have few other options with traffic as an overhead train passes by in Manila.—AFP dreams,” said Llanto. —AFP MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 SPORTS Another day, another record for Lindsey Vonn in Cortina

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO: Another day in women - of 86. Vonn recalled how when Cortina, another record for Lindsey Vonn. she recorded the very first podium result of The American won a World Cup super-G her career in Cortina 12 years ago, she fin- yesterday for her 11th career victory in ished third behind then-reigning Olympic Cortina, breaking the resort record of downhill champion Carol Montillet and retired Austrian standout Renate Goetschl. Goetschl. “I never thought that I would “It’s incredible to think back to when I make it this far in my career,” Vonn said. “If was racing with Renate - it seemed like she you would have made a bet, I would have won every single race in Cortina and she definitely bet against me. Now here I am, so seemed unbeatable,” Vonn said. “And to it’s pretty incredible.” have surpassed her now it’s kind of hard to process all of these records. It’s hard to ‘Pretty good statistic’ imagine having more success than my During the podium ceremony, Vonn and idols.” With another near-perfect run down the US ski team were presented with the the Olympia delle Tofane course, Vonn beat Cortina Super Trophy - awarded to the Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein by 0.69 sec- team that gained the most points over the onds, with Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany two-day meet - which coincided with the third, 1.15 back. 60th anniversary of the 1956 Olympics in Vonn made a slight bobble toward the Cortina. Vonn also holds the record for wins end of her run but was otherwise smooth at any single resort with 18 at Lake Louise - and error-free, leaning into turns further giving her a total of 29 victories between than other competitors to maintain speed the Alberta, Canada, ski area and Cortina. and increasing her lead at each checkpoint. “That’s a pretty good statistic,” Vonn At the finish, Vonn pumped her fists a said. “I think I’ve had more wins in Lake few times and pointed at the crowd bask- Louise because we usually have three races ing in the sun on another crystal-clear day there. I think if we had more races here it in the town known as the Queen of the might be a similar statistic. “But I think both Dolomites Range. Vonn took the lead in the courses really suit me and my style, my tac- overall standings from Lara Gut, who fin- tics and how I’m able to carry the speed,” ished fifth, and now leads her Swiss rival by Vonn added. “It’s so important on both 45 points. courses to execute certain turns to be able By winning a downhill on Saturday, to get the speed you need to win the race Vonn eclipsed Annemarie Moser-Proell’s and I think I’ve always understood that real- mark of 36 career wins in skiing’s marquee ly well on those two courses.” event And last year in Cortina, Vonn sur- For Weirather, meanwhile, it was a bit of passed Moser-Proell’s women’s record of 62 revenge after being denied an apparent wins across all events. “When I look back on podium result a day earlier due to strong my career after I’m retired, I’ll really be able winds. Rebensburg had trouble landing the to appreciate what I’ve done,” Vonn said. “I final jump coming into the finish, almost CENTURION: England’s batsman Moeen Ali (right) plays a shot during day 3 of the fourth Test match between England and South Africa at can’t really think about it too much at this did the splits but recovered to hold on to a Supersport stadium. — AFP point because I’ll get distracted. I need to podium position 0.04 ahead of fourth-place stay focused on my job. Right now it’s just finisher Conny Huetter of Austria. Vonn has my job and when I retire then that will be won all three super-G races this season and Rabada rocks England my legacy.” leads the discipline standings by 130 points Vonn now has 75 wins across all disci- ahead of Huetter. Next up for the women’s plines, and is approaching Ingemar circuit are giant slalom and slalom races in Stenmark’s all-time mark - among men and Maribor, Slovenia, next weekend. —AP with six wickets

CENTURION: South African fast bowling prodigy Kagiso Rabada took six wickets to SCOREBOARD put South Africa on top on the third day of the fourth and final Test against England at CENTURION, South Africa: Scores at tea on the third day of the fourth and final Test between SuperSport Park yesterday. England were 318 South Africa and England at SuperSport Park yesterday. for eight at tea, still 157 runs behind South South Africa, first innings, 475 Extras (b1, lb7, w2) 10 Africa’s first innings total of 475. England, first innings (overnight 138-2) Total (8 wkts, 98 overs)318 Rabada, 20, took six for 101, including a A. Cook c De Kock b Morkel 76 Fall of wickets: 1-22 (Hales), 2-78 (Compton), 3-177 devastating burst of three wickets in 12 balls A. Hales c Piedt b Rabada 15 (Cook), 4-208 (Root), 5-211 (Taylor), 6-211 (Bairstow), shortly before lunch. Rabada dismissed Joe N. Compton lbw b Rabada 19 7-252 (Stokes), 8-295 (Woakes) J. Root c De Kock b Rabada 76 Root, James Taylor and Jonny Bairstow in Bowling: Abbott 19-9-36-0, Rabada 26-6-101-6 (1w), J. Taylor c De Kock b Rabada 14 quick succession - all caught behind by wick- Piedt 23-4-74-0, Morkel 23-4-72-1 (1w), Elgar 4-0-13- etkeeper Quinton de Kock - to claim his sec- B. Stokes c Amla b Rabada 33 0, Duminy 3-0-14-1 ond five-wicket haul in successive matches. J. Bairstow c De Kock b Rabada 0 To bat: J. Anderson. He followed up by ending an aggressive M. Ali not out 45 innings of 33 by Ben Stokes, who was caught C. Woakes c Elgar b Duminy 26 Match situation: England trail by 157 runs with two at first slip by Hashim Amla off the second S. Broad not out 4 wickets remaining in the first innings. delivery with the second new ball. Chris Woakes was dropped by a leaping De Kock off Morne Morkel when he had one but went on to score 26, helping Moeen Ali add 43 for Maxwell to miss T20 the eighth wicket, before he was caught at slip in part-time off-spinner JP Duminy’s first over. Root, who hit a century and two fifties opener against India in the first three Tests, made 76 off 128 balls with 11 fours before edging Rabada to wick- SYDNEY: All-rounder Glenn Maxwell will Sydney on Saturday. The series is seen as a etkeeper De Kock. Batting conditions were miss Australia’s T20 opener against India in preparation for the T20 World Cup in India in tricky under a heavily overcast sky on a pitch Adelaide with a hamstring injury, acting March, with Di Venuto-who has replaced with occasional variable bounce but England coach Michael Di Venuto said yesterday. Darren Lehmann while the coach is being lost only one wicket before Rabada’s burst. Maxwell flew straight to Melbourne where treated for deep vein thrombosis-hoping to Alastair Cook and Root made their third the second game in the three-match series give every player in the 17-man squad “one wicket stand worth 99 with largely watchful will take place on Friday, skipping the opener or two games at least”. batting, adding 37 runs in an hour before in Adelaide tomorrow. “Obviously, there’s a big carrot at the Morne Morkel dismissed Cook. The tall fast “He has still got a little, slight hamstring end of this with the World Cup team being bowler, who had been wayward, followed up a wretched wide with a superb delivery from niggle so he flew straight to Melbourne and picked, and you know you can only pick 15 around the wicket which squared up Cook, will spend a few days in Melbourne at home people, so we want to give people oppor- straightened off the pitch and found the out- and join the squad when we get there in a tunities to see what they can do,” Di side edge for wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock couple of days,” Di Venuto told reporters in Venuto, usually the team’s batting coach, CORTINA D’AMPEZZO: Lindsey Vonn, of the United States, poses with the Super Ski to take the catch. Cook made 76 off 186 balls Adelaide. Maxwell was also ruled out of the added. The third game takes place in Trophy after winning a women’s alpine skiing World Cup super-G race. — AP with 11 fours. — AFP fifth one-day international against India in Sydney yesterday. —AFP MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 SPORTS Serena serves up glamour spar with rival Sharapova

MELBOURNE: Serena Williams served up a Spain’s 10th seed Carla Suarez in the other glamour Australian Open quarter-final quarter-final tomorrow after both players against arch-rival Maria Sharapova yesterday came through testing three-setters. as she looks to extend her iron grip over the Radwanska was pushed to the limit by Russian star. The world number one and unseeded Anna-Lena Friedsam, winning 6-7 defending champion smacked down (6/8), 6-1, 7-5 with the German, who strug- Margarita Gasparyan 6-2, 6-1 in just 55 min- gled with injury and cramp, leaving the court utes on Rod Laver Arena to ensure the in tears. “I had no choice, just to fight till the mouth-watering showdown. end for each point. That’s what I did,” said the Sharapova holds the dismal record of nev- composed Radwanska, who kept her cool as er beating her nemesis in 17 contests dating Friedsam wilted. Suarez ended the dream run back 12 years. The last time she managed a of local hope Daria Gavrilova 0-6, 6-3, 6-2 to win was at the WTA Tour Championships in make the last eight for the first time since her 2004. She now has another chance to finally tournament debut in 2009. get the monkey off her back after coming through a 7-5, 7-5 thriller against fast-rising Real deal Swiss teen Belinda Bencic. Williams has been in ominous form this The Russian world number five, who lost year at Melbourne Park and easily swatted to Williams in the Melbourne Park final last aside Gasparyan. It wasn’t vintage Serena but year, said she was always looking to improve even operating at 50 percent she was too and used the losses against the mighty good for the world number 58 and a rout was American to examine what she could do bet- always on the cards. Williams won three ter. “Absolutely. It’s not like I think about what majors-the Australian and French Opens and I can do worse!” she said. “You’re always trying Wimbledon in 2015 which took her to within to-always trying to improve. I got myself into one of Graf’s long-time record of 22. the quarter-final of a Grand Slam. Margaret Court, who was in the stadium to “There is no reason I shouldn’t be looking watch Williams play, holds the all-time Grand to improve and to getting my game in a bet- Slam record of 24. Sharapova had a much ter position than any other previous round. harder task against Bencic, the WTA’s highest It’s only going to be tougher, especially ranked teenager, who has gone from rising against Serena.” A nonchalant Williams, who star to the real deal over the past year, having rarely looks beyond her next opponent in the already claimed 10 top-10 wins in her career. draw, claimed she didn’t know Sharapova was Coached by Melanie Molitor, mother of now in the way of her bid to win a 22nd Martina Hingis, she won tournaments in Grand Slam and equally Steffi Graf’s Open-era Eastbourne and Toronto in a breakout 2015 record. and was a major hurdle for the Russian. But “I’ll be ready, she had a really good match-I Sharapova-the last teen to win a Grand Slam MELBOURNE: Switzerland’s Roger Federer plays a forehand return during his men’s singles match against Belgium’s David Goffin onay d seven had no idea I was playing her (Sharapova) title, aged 19 at the 2006 US Open-has also of the 2016 Australian Open tennis tournament. — AFP next,” she told the courtside interviewer after been in good touch in Melbourne, where she taming Gasparyan. “That will be a good won in 2008, and ultimately her experience match, I have nothing to lose. We are both proved decisive. “These are the players that ‘Brain freeze’ for Djokovic doing the best we can. It’ll be fun.” Polish will ultimately take our spot,” she said of the fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska will face talented Bencic. “But not just yet.” —AFP as Federer nails Goffin

MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic dished up 100 Roberto Bautista Agut 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 to to reach a major singles final. Djokovic hadn’t unforced errors in a five-set struggle with Gilles reach the last eight for the sixth year in a row. By lost to Simon in nine matches stretching back to Simon yesterday as Roger Federer roared into comparison, Nishikori’s win was a stroll as he 2008, but the Frenchman’s probing and counter- the Australian Open quarter-finals with ruthless crushed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets, and punching rattled the game’s top player. efficiency. After the top seed’s “match to forget”, he may fancy his chances against Djokovic after The Serb took nearly an hour to win the first Federer looked in a hurry to brush off David the Serb’s flustered performance against Simon. set and his frustrations were palpable as Simon Goffin when they came on court just before “Actually, it gives me great joy to know that I took the second on a tiebreak, ending an 11:00 pm-and he duly thrashed the Belgian 6-2, can’t get worse than that, than what I played unbeaten sequence of 26 sets stretching back to 6-1, 6-4 in 88 minutes. today,” Djokovic said. “I was obviously pleased to the World Tour Finals. He got the crucial break to There was a big contrast between defending win the match, but in terms of the performance take the third set but the persistent Simon took champion Djokovic, who is going for a record- itself, I haven’t done well at all... It’s a match to it into a fifth after he broke late in the fourth set, equaling sixth Australian Open title, and the 34- forget for me.” He was at a loss to explain his tac- amid another flurry of errors from the Serb. year-old Federer, who hasn’t won in Melbourne tic of continually trying drop shots, which either Djokovic got two service breaks in the fifth set since 2010. While Simon patiently pushed and found the net or were returned with interest by only to be broken back once, but he finally prodded Djokovic during his 6-3, 6-7 (1/7), 6-4, the fast-moving Simon. “Sometimes you have a clinched victory on his third match point with a 4-6, 6-3 win, Goffin couldn’t lay a glove on brain freeze, if I can call it that way,” the 10-time backhand winner. Earlier Nishikori produced his Federer as the clockwork Swiss purred through. Grand Slam champion said. best tennis of the tournament to breeze past for- But both are safely into the quarter-finals, with mer finalist Tsonga 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 in just over two Djokovic facing Kei Nishikori in his 27th consec- Frustrations show hours on Hisense Arena. “Today was one of the utive Grand Slam last-eight clash and Federer up Tomorrow’s clash will be Djokovic and best matches I’ve had this week. Played good MELBOURNE: Serena Williams of the US returns against Russia’s Margarita against Tomas Berdych. Nishikori’s first Grand Slam meeting since the tennis, through in three sets,” beamed Nishikori, Gasparyan during their women’s singles game on day seven of the 2015 Australian Berdych also had to come through a 2014 US Open semis, when the Japanese player who showed no sign of his troublesome right Open tennis tournament. —AFP marathon five-setter as he outlasted Spain’s won in four sets to become the first Asian man wrist injury.— AFP

TS030 Landspeed Prius Supra HV-R A New Age: Hybrid racing

he fierce roar of powerful engines rever- debuted in 2009, featuring a plethora of new the course of modern-day motorsports forev- ment of extremely efficient hybrid cars that sive role in creating fuel-efficient, high-per- berating through your body. The smell of innovations. The gasoline engine was er. can regenerate electricity at any speed range. forming production cars as well. In short, rac- Toil and burning rubber. The excitement increased in size from 1.5 liters to 1.8 liters. The Toyota Supra HV-R Toyota’s philosophy of utilizing motor- ing is how Toyota tests and develops its world- of drivers battling through corners, fighting reduction gear was extensively redesigned to The FIA World Endurance Championship sports as a tool to make ever-better road cars class hybrid technology. for position bumper to bumper. There is noth- be extremely compact, and the electric motor (WEC) series is a grueling endurance champi- has been embraced by the WEC program, with ing like high performance racing to get your was reworked to not only allow for higher out- onship that includes the time-honored 24 hybrid technology transfer from the race track As Mr. Murata says, blood pumping. put, but to also facilitate higher speeds. Hours of Le Mans. Just as the series kicked off benefiting road car development since the “The components and technology devel- The sport appears to be in direct contrast Toyota had been planning a high perform- in 2012, Toyota entered the Le Mans race with beginning of the project in 2012.The WEC’s oped for the TS040 Hybrid will provide the with the ecological path that Toyota has cho- ance Prius for hybrid racing since early in the the TS030 Hybrid equipped with the new THS- revised 2014 regulations put new emphasis on basis for Toyota production cars in the future.” sen. However, a new type of racing has been vehicle’s development. The Landspeed Prius R (Toyota Hybrid System-Racing). In the quali- energy efficiency, requiring almost 25% A powerful hybrid system from Toyota is born: hybrid racing. Many people think of the debuted at Bonneville National Speed Week in fying stage, the TS030 achieved an impressive improvement in fuel economy on each lap. thus quietly changing the face of modern Prius as a quiet, fuel-friendly, family and 2004, based on the second-generation Prius. It speed of 335.2 kilometers per hour, the fastest This meant that Toyota had to focus on reduc- motorsports and perceptions about the capa- youth-oriented car, because it is based on set a record speed for hybrids at an impressive speed of any competitor. ing fuel usage and improving recovered ener- bilities of hybrid racing cars. Racing not only hybrid technology. However, the technology is 130.794 miles (210.5 kilometers) per hour. But that was just the beginning.In 2014, gy. In other words, the same things we focus brings out the best in our engineers, but also versatile enough to be used in full-fledged Toyota debuted their all-new TS040 Hybrid on for production cars. Of course, better aero- spurs technological innovation. The next-gen- racecars, which can zoom down a track at over Proving hybrids have what it takes racecar, and at that time, it was considered a dynamics and lower weight, which are eration Prius is a result of these dedicated 300 km/h. “Whenever we talk about applying environ- rank outsider when the series began. This extremely important in racecars, play a mas- efforts. The fact is that the hybrid system is a win- mental technologies to racing, hybrid technol- vehicle had an additional electric motor on ner in all respects, offering genuine perform- ogy comes up. This is something we have to the front axle, giving the racecar four-wheel ance advantages as well as environmental commit to as a company,” Yoshiaki Kinoshita, drive and dramatically improving regenerative benefits. Racing not only proves how sophisti- President of Toyota Motorsport GmbH braking. The vehicle delivered around 1000 cated hybrid technology is, but it also repre- Yoshiaki Kinoshita’s visionary concept came horsepower and could attain a top speed of sents the fast lane towards developing ever- to fruition with Toyota’s hybrid racing project 340 kilometers per hour on the straightaway. better hybrid technology and drives our engi- in late 2005. Mr. Kinoshita later became the The TS040 went on to help Toyota Racing win neers to attain quantum leaps in innovation. President of Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG), the 2014 drivers’ and manufacturers’ titles to We race to win, and to win, we must continue where he would focus on unifying Toyota mark a successful conclusion to the FIA WEC learning. motorsports activities. Today, Hisatake Murata, season. The win was a clear demonstration of the General Manager of the Motorsport Unit the capabilities of a hybrid racecar and its high The Prius: Clean, green and fast Development Division, is the driving force performance prowess in a challenging racing Before we dive into hybrid racing, let’s first behind Toyota’s hybrid racing development. environment. It also endorsed Toyota’s global take a look back at the THS, or Toyota Hybrid Toyota entered into the Tokachi 24-hour leadership and progress in developing System. The first-generation Prius was released race again the following year, this time using a advanced hybrid technology. in 1997, utilizing the THS to offer dramatic Toyota Supra with a specialized hybrid racing improvements in fuel efficiency. system and achieving a splendid overall victo- Racing helps develop ever-better road cars Unfortunately, while the Prius offered amazing ry. In the wake of this impressive 2007 win, A hybrid system generates electricity to fuel economy, it still needed more power. In hybrid racing seemed to fall out of the lime- recharge the batteries during deceleration by 2003, Toyota released the first big evolution to light at Toyota. But Mr. Kinoshita and Mr. converting kinetic energy into electrical ener- the hybrid system with the THS II, equipped in Murata had actually set a new target: winning gy for storage. Racing cars have to brake vio- the second-generation Prius. Not only was its the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Tucked away behind lently and repeatedly throughout the race, so fuel economy better than ever, but it also fea- closed doors, they worked feverishly to devel- a lot of effort must be spent ensuring that a tured higher battery voltage and increased op a brand new, dedicated hybrid racecar that large amount of energy can be generated over electric motor output-resulting in far greater would eventually be known as the TS030. The a short time. When this technology is fed back acceleration. The third-generation Prius TS030 and its successor were about to change into production cars, it allows for the develop- TS040 MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 SPORTS ‘Goliath squashes David’: Israelis slam Blatt’s firing

JERUSALEM: Israelis yesterday harshly crit- congratulate him. They eventually lost to icized the firing of local hero David Blatt as the ascendant Golden State Warriors and coach of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, call- their star Steph Curry. ing him the victim of superstar LeBron Blatt was not always so lauded in Israel, James’s influence over the team. One where he was for a time seen by some as sports commentator even compared an outsider since he was born in the United Israelis’ hate of James to their hate of States. He relocated to the country more Islamist movement Hamas. than three decades ago, volunteered on a The 2014 hiring of Blatt, an Israeli citizen kibbutz, performed his mandatory military who led powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv to a service and married an Israeli woman. European title, gave Israelis a jolt of pride. Skeptical Israelis embraced him as a coach When the Cavaliers played in last year’s after his success on the court. NBA finals, many stayed up late to watch Blatt also had success as a coach in the games. But a rift between Blatt and Russia and was named Euroleague coach of James, the Cavaliers star player who many the year. But there were apparently trou- rank among the greatest ever, reportedly bles from the start in Cleveland, with US led to his downfall, with the team announc- media reports saying James did not suffi- ing Friday that they were firing him despite ciently respect Blatt. The rift appeared to having one of the league’s best records. play out in public at times, with James “LeBron James is now the most hated admitting to overriding his coach and call- person in Israel,” Sharon Davidovitch, a ing his own plays. sports journalist for Israeli news site Ynet Still, his firing came as a shock both in and Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said. He Israel and the US, as the Cavaliers led their said the decision to move on from Blatt was Eastern Conference with a 30-11 record at correct since the players and coach appar- the time. Cavaliers general manager David ently did not get along, but noted that Griffin said he was “measuring more than Israeli fans were taking the decision hard. wins and losses.” “I’m focusing on a bigger “It’s a little bit joking and a little bit true: picture and I’m really trying to decide-are These days I can only compare the Israeli we working toward a championship, are we hate for LeBron James to the hate for building a championship culture?” he said. Hamas,” he said, speaking of the Palestinian James denied any involvement in the deci- Islamist movement that runs the Gaza Strip sion and said he was “caught off guard” by and which calls for Israel’s destruction. the move.—AFP Israeli newspapers gave the firing front- page treatment yesterday. One said “Goliath eliminates David,” referring to James and Blatt. A cartoon on the back cover of Yedioth Ahronoth showed Blatt walking away from the locker CLEVELAND: Jimmy Butler #21 of the Chicago Bulls shoots over Tristan Thompson #13 of the Cleveland Cavaliers during the second half at room with a box of belongings as James Quicken Loans Arena. — AP photos uncorks champagne behind his back. For The Jerusalem Post, Blatt’s firing meant “the dream came to an abrupt end.” Cavs gored by Bulls as Trouble from the start Basketball is the second most-popular sport after football, but Israelis rarely have success in the NBA, the world’s biggest bas- Tyronn fails on debut ketball league. When the Cavaliers advanced to the NBA finals last season in Blatt’s first year as coach, Israeli Prime CLEVELAND: Tyronn Lue didn’t make much Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called to David Blatt of a difference in his coaching debut for Cleveland as Pau Gasol scored 25 points, leading the Chicago Bulls to a 96-83 win over the Cavaliers on Saturday night. Lue was pro- Al-Sabah Annual Shooting moted Friday, when the Cavaliers fired David Blatt despite him taking the team to the NBA Tournament concludes Finals last season and currently leading the Eastern Conference. The coaching swap By Abdellatif Sharaa March with the participation of 45 coun- didn’t have any immediate impact on the tries. Al-Otaibi said 80 shooters partici- Bulls, who outhustled the Cavs to loose balls KUWAIT: The late Sheikh Fahad Al- pated in this tournament from the club, and won for just the third time in nine Salem Al-Sabah Annual Shooting National Guard and Saad Al-Abdallah games. Tournament concluded Saturday at Olympic Shooting Academy. Jimmy Butler scored 20 points, Nikola Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympic Results of the tournament are as follows: Mirotic added 17 and Taj Gibson 15 for Shooting Complex with a ceremony Air pistol - men: Chicago, which opened a 17-point lead in attended by the tournament patronizer Ahmad Anwar Al-Ahmad, Saad Mane Al- the third quarter and never let the Cavs get Sheikha Latifa Al-Fahad Al-Salem Al- Ajmi, Suhail Al-Shimmari Sabah, Information Minister, State Air rifle - men: closer than eight in the fourth. LeBron James Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Abdallah Al-Harby, Mohammad Adel, just missed his first triple-double this season, Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, Suleiman Al-Asousi. finishing with 26 points, 13 rebounds and Sheikh Mubarak Fahad Al-Salem Al- Air pistol - women: nine assists. J.R. Smith added 18 points. Sabah, President of Arab and Kuwait Athari Qurban, Israa Dashti, Mariam Shooting Federations Eng Duaij Khalaf Ahmad. SUNS 98, HAWKS 95 Al-Otaibi, Secretary General of Arab and Air rifle - women: Archie Goodwin hit a 3-pointer from atop Kuwait Shooting Federations Obaid Heba Irzouqi, Mariam Irzouqi, Duaa Al- the arc with 0.1 seconds left and Phoenix Mnahi Al-Osaimi and KSSF Board mem- Thuwaikhi beat Atlanta to end a six-game losing streak. bers Adnan Nasser Al-Ibrahim and Eng 50m rifle - prone -men: Goodwin led the Suns with 24 points, and CLEVELAND: Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue answers questions during a news confer- Hussam Al-Roumi, the tournament Khalid Ibrahim, Torki Al-Shimmari, Phoenix won for the second time in 17 ence before an NBA basketball game between the Chicago Bulls and the Cavaliers. enjoyed large participation by Kuwait Mishref Al-Daihani games. Tyson Chandler tied a Suns record shooters competing in the 10m air pistol 50m - 3 position - men: with 27 rebounds, including 17 in the first George had 24 of his 34 points in the second from the free-throw line. Charlotte only shot and rifle and archery. Abdallah Al-Harby, Mohammad Adel, half, and also had 13 points and a season- half for the Pacers, who have lost two 34 percent from the field but made 32 of 37 Eng Duaij, Al-Otaibi, in his speech, Khalid Ibrahim high five assists. Kent Bazemore led the straight and five of six. Jordan Hill had 17 free throws as a team. PJ Hairston chipped in welcomed the guests and thanked 50m pistol - men Hawks with 21 points. Bazemore hit a tying points and 13 rebounds, Monta Ellis scored with a season-high 20 points and 10 Sheikha Latifa Al-Fahad Al-Salem Al- Ali Al-Mutairi, Mideth Al-Sahly, Abdallah 3-pointer with 47.4 seconds left, but 16 and rookie Myles Turner added 11 points rebounds for the Hornets, who beat the Sabah for the annual patronage of this Al-Mulla Chandler’s tip-in with 24.6 seconds remain- and five blocks. Knicks for the fifth straight time at home dear tournament, he also thanked 50m rifle - prone - women: ing gave the Suns a 95-93 lead. Bazemore despite being without five players, including Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah Mariam Irzouqi, Heba Irzouqi, Amal Al- tied it again 5 seconds later, setting up TRAIL BLAZERS 121, LAKERS 103 three starters. Derrick Williams led the Knicks and the late Sheikh Fahad Al-Salem fam- Asem Goodwin’s 3. Alex Len had 16 points and 12 Damian Lillard had 36 points and the Trail with 19 points and 14 rebounds, and Kristaps ily, for attending the closing ceremony Compound Archery - men Blazers beat Los Angeles for Kobe Bryant’s Porzingis had 13 points. and handing the cups and prizes to the Ahmad Al-Shatti, Amer Al-Hajiri, Salem rebounds for Phoenix, while P.J. Tucker scored 16 points and Devin Booker had 15. last game in Portland. CJ McCollum added 28 winners, as this tournament comes Al-Saeed points and the Blazers led by as many as 27 PELICANS 116, BUCKS 99 shortly before organizing HH the Amir Olympic archery - men: TIMBERWOVLES 106, GRIZZLIES 101 points in the first half on the way to their Ryan Anderson scored 23 points and tied Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad International Abdallah Taha, Faisal Al-Rashidi, Bader eighth straight victory over the Lakers. a season-high with six 3-pointers, leading Grand Prix to be held from 1st-8th Al-Mutairi Shabazz Muhammad scored 25 points and Minnesota snapped Memphis’ four-game D’Angelo Russell came off the bench with 21 hot-shooting New Orleans to a win over winning streak. Ricky Rubio had 15 points, 12 points for the Lakers, who dropped their Milwaukee. New Orleans trailed 71-69 after assists and six rebounds and Andrew sixth straight game. But all eyes were on Milwaukee’s Khris Middleton scored 14 Wiggins scored 19 points for the Bryant, a Portland nemesis dating back to points in the first 9 minutes of the third quar- Timberwolves, who beat a team with a win- the 2000 Western Conference finals, who fin- ter, but the Pelicans responded with a 31-14 ning record for the first time since Nov. 25. ished with 10 points. It was the second of a run. Jrue Holiday, Toney Douglas, Tyreke Minnesota improved to just 7-17 at home back-to-back for the Lakers, who fell 108-95 Evans and Anderson all hit 3-pointers during this season. Mario Chalmers scored 19 points to the San Antonio Spurs on Friday night. that stretch, and Anderson’s sixth 3 giving for the banged-up Grizzlies. Marc Gasol The game fell on the 10th anniversary of the Pelicans a 100-83 lead with 6:30 left. played through pain and finished with 17 Bryant’s 81-point game against Toronto, Anthony Davis had 22 points, seven points in 32 minutes. The Grizzlies had the which remains the second-highest scoring rebounds and five assists for New Orleans, ball down one with 35 seconds to play but game in NBA history. which hit a season-best 17 of 31 3s. Holiday were whistled for a 5-second call on the added 13 points and nine assists off the inbound. HORNETS 97, KNICKS 84 bench. Middleton and Greg Monroe each Jeremy Lin and Kemba Walker scored 26 scored 22 points for Milwaukee, which had NUGGETS 104, PISTONS 101 points each and Charlotte beat New York for all five starters in double figures but got only Danilo Gallinari scored 30 points, includ- its third win in the last four games. 16 points from its reserves. The Bucks have ing the go-ahead jumper with 23.8 seconds Lin and Walker were a combined 19 of 19 lost two straight. — AP remaining, and Denver rallied to beat Detroit. Emmanuel Mudiay added 18 points NBA results/standings and Nikola Jokic 17 for the Nuggets, who won their sixth in a row against the Pistons in Denver. Marcus Morris had 20 points to lead Cleveland 83, Chicago 96; Portland 121, LA Lakers 103; Sacramento 108, Indiana 97; Denver 104, Detroit 101; the Pistons, who have lost five of their last Phoenix 98, Atlanta 95; Minnesota 106, Memphis 101; Charlotte 97, New York 84; New Orleans 116, Milwaukee 99. seven games. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope Eastern Conference Western Conference added 16 points and Aron Baynes had 13 Atlantic Division Northwest Division points and 10 rebounds. W L PCT GB Oklahoma City 33 12 .733 — Toronto 28 15 .651 — Utah 19 24 .442 13 KINGS 108, PACERS 97 Boston 23 21 .523 5.5 Portland 20 26 .435 13.5 DeMarcus Cousins had a career-high 48 New York 22 24 .478 7.5 Denver 17 27 .386 15.5 points along with 13 rebounds to help Brooklyn 11 33 .250 17.5 Minnesota 14 31 .311 19 Sacramento beat Indiana for its season-high Philadelphia 6 38 .13622.5 Pacific Division fifth straight win. Rajon Rondo had 11 points, Central Division Golden State 40 4 .909 — Cleveland 30 12 .714 — LA Clippers 28 15 .651 11.5 10 rebounds and 10 assists for his second Chicago 25 18 .581 5.5 Sacramento 20 23 .465 19.5 straight triple-double and sixth of the season Indiana 23 21 .523 8 Phoenix 14 31 .311 26.5 for Sacramento. Darren Collison had 11 Detroit 23 21 .523 8 LA Lakers 9 37 .196 32 points and rookie Willie Cauley-Stein had 12 Milwaukee 19 27 .413 13 Southwest Division rebounds. The Kings, winners of eight of 11 Southeast Division San Antonio 38 6 .864 — in January, used a strong third quarter to Atlanta 26 19 .578 — build an 11-point lead and never relin- Miami 23 21 .523 2.5 Memphis 25 20 .556 13.5 Dallas 25 20 .556 13.5 quished it in the fourth. Sacramento has Washington 20 21 .488 4 Charlotte 21 23 .477 4.5 Houston 23 22 .511 15.5 beaten Indiana four straight times, sweeping New Orleans 16 27 .372 21.5 the season series the last two years. Paul Orlando 20 22 .476 4.5 MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 SPORTS Bayern injuries bother Guardiola as Juve loom

BERLIN: Bayern Munich’s Pep Guardiola Bayern have put out a statement sim- in the Bundesliga, but are low on Boateng for a long time, we’ll still field games yet to play. “If you allow yourself admits the latest blow to Jerome ply saying Boateng faces a “long pause” defenders with centre-backs Boateng 11 players.” Bayern host strugglers to gradually think about the Juventus Boateng is a concern, amidst reports he with their last 16, first-leg clash at and Medhi Benatia, plus right-back Hoffenheim in the league next Sunday, game, then you’re not paying enough will be out for three months, as Juventus Juventus now exactly a month away. Rafinha out, while Javi Martinez and then have three away games at Bayer attention,” said Robben. “We have to loom in the Champions League. The news will also be a concern to Juan Bernat have only just returned Leverkusen, second-division Bochum in give our all in every game.” Especially as Boateng limped out of Friday’s 2-1 victo- Germany coach Joachim Loew as the from injury. the cup and Bavarian neighbors the Bayern squad has made no secret of ry at Hamburg and a scan in Munich on world champions’ squad meets today “Without Benatia, Boateng and with Augsburg before hosting Darmstadt at their desire to see off Guardiola with the Saturday revealed a torn groin muscle, when preparations start for March’s Javi Martinez not quite fit yet, we have a home. treble of Champions League, German which German daily Bild claim will keep friendlies against England and Italy problem,” said Guardiola, who has just Netherlands captain Arjen Robben Cup and Bundesliga titles before he him out for the next three months and ahead of the European championships one fully fit centre-back in Holger says the Reds can ill afford to think leaves at the end of the season to be possibly the rest of the season. in France. Bayern are eight points clear Badstuber. “But if we lose Jerome about the Juventus match with five replaced by Carlo Ancelotti. —AFP

Pellegrini: City not just one-man Aguero show

LONDON: Manuel Pellegrini insists set up Valencia for the first. Aguero Manchester City are more than a one-man equalised within seven minutes through a team, despite again needing Sergio Aguero penalty, given away by Carl Jenkinson who to dig them out of a hole in a 2-2 draw at was shortly afterwards taken off with an West Ham. Aguero grabbed an 80th- injury to give Sam Byram his debut, just minute equaliser for his second of the days after signing from Leeds United. game at Upton Park on Saturday while West Ham were back in the lead just Enner Valencia also scored twice-within the minutes after half-time, though, as a long first 60 seconds and then on the 56th Michail Antonio throw was allowed to minute-for West Ham. bounce into the area for Valencia to finish. Pellegrini’s side have only won one away “Of course, we were not very concentrated,” game since September, and have not Pellegrini said of the second goal. “Maybe a claimed successive league wins since throw-in you are not thinking it could be October 17. On Saturday, it could have dangerous. We knew before game he has been a lot worse had it not been for long throw-in. Unfortunately, at that Aguero. “I don’t think our team is just moment we had a distraction.” Pellegrini Sergio Aguero,” said Pellegrini. “If you see, still felt his team “deserved” more as he did- we play 23 games, there are 11 players that n’t think goalkeeper Joe Hart was tested play more minutes (than the Argentine).” too much in the second half. He did, however, insist on the impor- But West Ham manager Slaven Bilic tance of Argentine star Aguero now staying believed his side should have won, and fit and reaching his top form. “It’s very declared himself “disappointed...but proud” important for him to be 100% fit. Always of the performance. He also said his team when he comes back from injury, he needs feel they can finish in the top six. “They two or three games to come back to his believe. And there’s nothing wrong in it. For best performance. (In recent games) he me it’s great if they believe. For me, part of was making the movements that show us that belief is to know what you have to do he will be there soon. to play like this,” said Bilic whose team hit “I don’t know if he is at his best moment. the crossbar late one. I think it is the moment that Sergio normal- He also said he would like to see City NORWICH: With his shirt off, Liverpool’s English midfielder Adam Lallana (center) celebrates scoring their late winning goal with teammates and ly has when 100% fit. I hope he continues win the title due to the quality of their foot- Liverpool’s German manager Jurgen Klopp (2nd R) during the English Premier League football match between Norwich City and Liverpool at like this because he is a top player.” City did ball.”So far in the Premier League, I’ve never Carrow Road. —AFP not show their best defending on Saturday. seen a team that is so dangerous, every They were caught out almost straight time you give them a little bit (of space). from kick-off, as Cheikhou Kouyate For me, it would be good if they win the exposed the slowness of their defense to league.” —AFP 5-4 thriller a heart Van Gaal admits United getting more furious stopper for Klopp MANCHESTER: Louis van Gaal admitted body so it is not for me to answer these NORWICH: Jurgen Klopp admitted his heart the furious reaction of Manchester kinds of questions,” he said. was palpitating after Liverpool stole the United supporters to their side’s dismal United are in desperate need of a lift points in dramatic fashion in their sensational Rampant PSG crush Angers 1-0 defeat against Southampton was the to prevent their season disintegrating 5-4 win over Norwich at Carrow Road. Klopp’s side went ahead through Roberto Firmino worst he has experienced in an increas- even further, but van Gaal could give no but Norwich hit back with goals from to extend huge table lead ingly turbulent season. Van Gaal’s side guarantees that it may come via a move Diemerci Mbokani, Steven Naismith and a failed to score at Old Trafford for the sev- into the January transfer market. He has Wes Hoolahan penalty. enth time this term and were eventually already indicated that he would like to PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain served another keeper Alexandre Letellier denying both Van The Reds responded superbly to draw lev- reminder of their Ligue 1 supremacy with a der Wiel and Blaise Matuidi with his feet in the beaten by a late headed goal from strengthen his defensive options with el through Jordan Henderson and another thumping 5-1 victory at home to Angers on opening half hour. However, there was little the Southampton debutant Charlie Austin. Matteo Darmian, who he said had gone Firmino goal before James Milner put them Saturday that moved the reigning champions Angers keeper could do on 32 minutes when United are now five points adrift of a to hospital for checks after spitting blood ahead with 15 minutes remaining. But that 24 points clear at the top. Zlatan Ibrahimovic PSG broke the deadlock through Ibrahimovic, top-four place in the Premier League and following a collision with Southampton set the stage for Saturday’s heart-stopping opened the scoring at the Parc des Princes with whose low shot from the right side of the area their dejected players trudged off with striker Shane Long, potentially adding to finale, which left the always emotional Klopp his 17th league goal of the season before Lucas took a slight deflection as it flashed through the boos ringing in their ears at full-time. a lengthy injury list. beside himself with frustration and then doubled the lead for Laurent Blanc’s side just legs of Letellier. Inevitably, beleaguered boss van Gaal But regarding the much-needed jumping for joy. before half-time. Di Maria then released Van der Wiel down was also subjected to renewed derision arrival of creative talents, van Gaal said: “I The Liverpool boss was crestfallen when The floodgates then opened after the break the right eight minutes later and the Dutchman from disgruntled fans who have given think one player cannot change every- Sebastien Bassong fired home to equalise for with Gregory Van der Wiel rounding off a broke into the box, recovering the ball after an the Dutchman plenty of abuse for his thing. Sometimes it looks like it but it is Norwich in stoppage-time, but just seconds superb team move for PSG’s third, only for attempted tackle by Romain Thomas, before conservative tactics over the last few always the process of team building that later he was sprinting down the touchline to Pierrick Capelle to pull one back, but Angel Di knocking it back for Lucas to sweep home. months. makes a team stronger. “Sometimes one join his players in a jubilant huddle after Maria then scored twice in the space of four Home keeper Kevin Trapp was a spectator for The pressure on van Gaal will only individual can give the first stimulus for Adam Lallana scored with virtually the last minutes to complete the rout. much of the first half, aside from a Thomas increase with United having won just that process but it is not so easy as you kick of the game. “It was a great second half, although the first header that forced the German to pluck the ball three of their last 13 games and he say or ask.” Southampton manager “Until now my heart has been very stress was a bit trickier against a well-organized oppo- out of the air under heavy pressure inside his accepted the criticism from supporters Ronald Koeman - an old rival of van Gaal resistant,” Klopp said. “I have had a few games nent, which we noticed in the first meeting this six-yard box. in my life similar to this but not with this hap- was more vitriolic than ever. “Yes, from their time together in Dutch foot- season,” said Blanc, whose team won for the The hosts’ two-goal lead allowed them to py end. I have not often had a 5-4 win. “At the because it was very clear,” he said. “I can ball, appears to have managed just that 19th time in 22 league games. “The first goal showcase the more expansive side of their end we can be really happy with nearly every- was crucial. Once we led things became a bit game, with PSG’s third goal on 54 minutes ema- imagine (why) also because I have seen a with the capture of Austin, whose goal thing, especially three points after almost a poor match. “I cannot change that feel- secured a third straight league win for easier, but the team stayed focused and sharp. nating from a slick interchange between draw. A draw would have been deserved for We were rewarded with the goals and it was Ibrahimovic and Di Maria before Matuidi’s ing. I can only work hard with my players the Saints. both teams. really enjoyable.” With Paris still competing in superb volleyed cross was turned in by Van der to improve our game and that is what I The 26-year-old is a proven goalscorer “It was spectacular, wild, good football. It four competitions, the capital club face a fixture Wiel at the far post. But Angers continued to am doing. but only Southampton was willing to was an impressive fightback to be honest. It backlog that will see them play seven games in battle and reduced the deficit five minutes later “Of course I am disappointed but I meet QPR’s modest £4 million ($5.7 mil- was really good.” three weeks ahead of their Champions League as Capelle latched on to a headed clearance have to think and already I put the ques- lion) asking price. “We are very happy we Klopp’s relief was so overwhelming that he last 16, first leg against Chelsea on February 16. and steered a low volley just inside the post. tion how I can change this because we had the possibility to sign Charlie and laughed off having his glasses broken in the That proved merely a blip on the radar, have to change this. “That is my job and Charlie was happy to sign for celebrations following Lallana’s goal. “I have Imposing line-up though, as PSG reasserted their dominance it’s not an easy job at the moment. Southampton because he knows had had this before (smashed glasses),” the Blanc was without captain Thiago Silva, with a fourth goal on 63 minutes when a tum- Nevertheless, we have won three times Southampton produces good football former Borussia Dortmund manager added. Marquinhos, Marco Verratti and Javier Pastore bling Lucas scooped the ball back to Di Maria in 2016 and had a draw, so they were and gives young players a chance and all “They are in a museum at Dortmund because through injury but still fielded an imposing line- and the Argentine brilliantly fired past Letellier very good results in January. “But we the chance to play for their national we won first time against Bayern Munich. And up, although there was no place for Uruguayan on the volley from outside the box. could not show it in this game. I did not team,” Koeman said. Nuri Sahin broke my glasses-and today it’s striker Edinson Cavani, whose future remains Di Maria struck again moments later after he see that confidence today.” “That is the reason we liked to sign Adam. “I won’t be making Adam pay for the unclear amid reports this week linking him to was put through by Matuidi and he once more Charlie Austin - a great numbers of goals. glasses. Usually I have a second pair but it’s Manchester United. Angers held Paris to a 0-0 produced a high-quality finish, chipping over Under threat With Shane together in the last 10-15 really difficult to look for glasses without draw when the sides met in December, the last the advancing Letellier to round out an 11th Although van Gaal knows his approval minutes they did a great job but it is not glasses.” time the capital club dropped points this sea- straight win in all competitions. Hatem Ben Arfa rating is at an all-time low with United fair to mention one player. “It was a great son and the only occasion in which they have netted his 10th goal of the season as Nice beat Defensive horror show failed to score in Ligue 1 this term. Lorient 2-1 to climb to second, while Caen won fans, the former Barcelona and Bayern win. I think it was a difficult game for Klopp could have been forgiven for wish- Munich manager refused to be drawn on both teams today. We knew they are The visitors entered the weekend with the 2-1 at Montpellier and Guingamp secured a 1-0 ing his eye-sight had been impaired earlier as league’s second meanest defence, with goal- victory over nine-man Bastia. —AFP whether his job may be under threat. “I under pressure and if you keep the Liverpool’s defensive horror show made for cannot answer that because normally I organization in your team, they will be difficult viewing. Yet, despite conceding four communicate everything with every- nervous.” —AFP goals against one of the league’s lesser lights, Klopp claimed Liverpool were improving at the back. “It’s not easy to create chances against us. It’s very frustrating in the end of course. Today we scored five,” Klopp said. “It will make me sound crazy but we defended better today. Now we have to solve this problem. I am not happy with the situation for sure.” Meanwhile, Norwich manager Alex Neil voiced his frustration at his side’s even more porous defence, after conceding 14 goals in their last four matches. “We managed to score four goals at home and that should mean three points,” Neil said. “The amount of goals we are conceding is concerning. “It was frustrating because with the for- ward play we had we should have come away winners. “All your hard work goes to waste. They did all the hard work to get us to 3-1 so it is extremely frustrating.” Although outwardly calm, Neil admitted he was furi- ous inside and hoped his players would be too as they try to pull clear of the relegation MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s Dutch manager Louis van Gaal leaves the pitch zone. “I’m angry, extremely angry, the play- ers should be too. They should be feeling PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain’s Argentinian forward Angel Di Maria celebrates after scoring a goal at full-time during the English Premier League football match between Manchester during the French L1 football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Angers. —AFP United and Southampton at Old Trafford. — AFP the pain,” he said. — AFP MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 SPORTS

Football Results/Standings Arsenal 0 Chelsea 1 (Costa 23); Everton 1 Guingamp 1 (Giresse 90+4-pen) Bastia 0 ; (Cork 26-og) Swansea 2 (Sigurdsson 17- Nice 2 (Ben Arfa 35, Koziello 43) Lorient 1 pen, Ayew 34); Crystal Palace 1 (Jouffre 23). (Vertonghen 30-og) Tottenham 3 (Kane Spanish La Liga results 63, Alli 84, Chadli 90+5); Leicester 3 Athletic Bilbao 5 (Aduriz 12, 52, Merino (Drinkwater 42, Vardy 66, Ulloa 87) Stoke 27, Laporte 40, Dos Santos 80-og) Eibar 2 0; Manchester United 0 Southampton 1 (Baston 4, 49-pen); Malaga 1 (Juanpi 32) (Austin 87); Norwich 4 (Mbokani 29, Barcelona 2 (El Haddadi 2, Messi 51); Naismith 41, Hoolahan 54-pen, Bassong Espanyol 2 (Caicedo 3, Moreno 39) 90+2) Liverpool 5 (Firmino 18, 63, Villarreal 2 (Trigueros 23, Musacchio 88); Henderson 55, Milner 75, Lallana 90+5) Granada 3 (Rico 27, El-Arabi 36, Rochina Sunderland 1 (Van Aanholt 45+1) 77) Getafe 2 (Scepovic 71, MoisÈs 73); Bournemouth 1 (Afobe 13); Watford 2 Rayo Vallecano 3 (Miku 21, Tito 26, (Ighalo 46, Cathcart 58) Newcastle 1 Jozabed 36) Celta Vigo 0 (Lascelles 71); West Brom 0 Aston Villa 0; West Ham 2 (Valencia 1, 56) Manchester Italy Serie A results City 2 (Aguero 9-pen, 81). Fiorentina 2 (Ilicic 24, Rodriguez 83) Torino 0; Verona 1 (Pazzini 39) Genoa 1 French Ligue 1 results (Coppola 19-og); Inter Milan 1 (Palacio Monaco 4 (Silva 28, Coentrao 36, Carrillo 39) Carpi 1 (Lasagna 90+2); Lazio 4 70, Costa 90+3) Toulouse 0; Paris Saint- (Candreva 66-pen, 81, Cataldi 72, Keita Germain 5 (Ibrahimovic 32, Lucas 40, van 90+6) Chievo 1 (Cesar); Palermo 4 der Wiel 54, Di Maria 63, 66) Angers 1 (Quaison 35, Hiljemark 56, Lazaar 77, (Capelle 59); Montpellier 1 (Bensebaini Trajkovski 87) Udinese 1 (Thereau 79); 23) Caen 2 (Rodelin 40, Delort 52); Lille 1 Sampdoria 2 (Correa 45, Eder 73) Napoli 4 (Boufal 25-pen) Troyes 3 (Cabot 77, 80, Pi (Higuain 9, Insigne 18-pen, Hamsik 60, 86); Nantes 2 (Sigthorsson 1, Bedoya 30) Mertens 79); Sassuolo 0 Bologna 2 Bordeaux 2 (Diabate 84, Cana 90+1-og); (Giaccherini 68, Floccari 90+4).

European league tables after yesterday’s early match (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):

English Premier League table Spanish La Liga table Leicester 23 13 8 2 42 26 47 Barcelona 20 15 3 2 52 16 48 Man City 23 13 5 5 45 23 44 Atletico Madrid20 15 2 3 30 8 47 Arsenal 23 13 5 5 37 22 44 Real Madrid 20 13 4 3 57 19 43 Tottenham 23 11 9 3 41 19 42 Villarreal 21 12 5 4 28 18 41 GENOA: Napoli’s forward Gonzalo Higuain (R) from Argentina scores during the Italian Serie A football match Sampdoria Vs Napoli on January Man Utd 23 10 7 6 28 21 37 Celta Vigo 21 10 4 7 32 33 34 24, 2016 at ‘Luigi Ferraris Stadium’. — AFP West Ham 23 9 9 5 36 28 36 Eibar 21 9 6 6 34 26 33 Liverpool 23 9 7 7 30 32 34 Sevilla 20 9 5 6 28 22 32 Southampton 23 9 6 8 32 24 33 Athletic Bilbao 21 9 4 8 32 30 31 Seria A Roundup Stoke 23 9 6 8 24 25 33 Deportivo 20 6 10 4 27 24 28 Watford 23 9 5 9 27 26 32 Getafe 21 7 5 9 26 31 26 Crystal Palace 23 9 4 10 24 27 31 Valencia 20 5 9 6 25 21 24 Malaga 21 6 6 9 16 19 24 Higuain becomes Europe’s Everton 23 6 11 6 40 34 29 Chelsea 23 7 7 9 32 34 28 Espanyol 21 6 4 11 20 35 22 West Brom 23 7 7 9 22 30 28 Real Sociedad 21 5 6 10 24 33 21 Swansea 23 6 7 10 22 31 25 Real Betis 20 5 6 9 13 28 21 top scorer as Inter stumble Bournemouth 23 6 7 10 27 38 25 Granada 21 5 5 11 24 43 20 Norwich 23 6 5 12 28 43 23 Rayo Vallecano 21 5 4 12 26 45 19 Newcastle 23 5 6 12 25 41 21 Las Palmas 20 4 6 10 19 30 18 MILAN: Gonzalo Higuain struck his 21st goal in beat Pepe Reina first-time from 12 yards. Giuseppe Rossi moved on loan to Spanish Sunderland 23 5 4 14 28 46 19 Sporting Gijon 20 5 3 12 22 35 18 as many games to help Napoli tighten their grip A superb piece of individual skill from Napoli league side Levante, made their debuts in the Aston Villa 23 2 7 14 18 38 13 Levante 20 3 5 12 17 36 14 on Serie A with a 4-2 win at Sampdoria as title captain Marek Hamsik helped Sarri’s men restore final stages. Costa replaced Ilicic midway challengers Inter Milan were stunned by a late their lead, the Slovakian shimmying past three through the second half and Zarate replaced French Ligue 1 table Italian Serie A table Carpi leveller. As Napoli battled to their 14th win players inside the area to toe-poke the ball past Nikola Kalinic with seven minutes remaining. Paris SG 22 19 3 0 56 10 60 Napoli 21 14 5 2 45 18 47 of the campaign, Inter paid the price for a series Viviano at his far post on the hour. Sampdoria Fiorentina’s 13th win moved them up to provi- Monaco 22 10 9 3 33 25 39 Juventus 20 13 3 4 37 15 42 of first-half misses when Kevin Lasagna levelled pulled one back on 73 minutes when Eder rose sional third place at three points behind leaders at the death for the league minnows to secure a to meet a corner to fire a glancing header Napoli ahead of the remaining Serie A fixtures, Nice 22 10 6 6 37 26 36 Fiorentina 21 13 2 6 39 21 41 1-1 draw at a stunned San Siro. Napoli now sit through the legs of Reina, but six minutes later with Inter Milan, who host strugglers Carpi, Rennes 22 8 10 4 32 25 34 Inter Milan 21 12 5 4 26 14 41 five points ahead of Juventus, who host Roma in the match was effectively over. dropping one place to fourth. Angers 22 9 7 6 21 18 34 Roma 20 9 8 3 37 23 35 Sunday’s late game, and have a six-point lead on Dries Mertens had replaced Insigne with 15 Caen 22 10 3 9 24 28 33 AC Milan 21 9 6 6 29 25 33 Fiorentina after their 2-0 win over Torino earlier minutes remaining and only four minutes later Milan held by Empoli Saint-Etienne 21 10 2 9 24 24 32 Sassuolo 21 8 8 5 25 23 32 in the day. the Belgian international took on two Samp Mario Balotelli struggled to make an impact Bordeaux 22 7 9 6 27 30 30 Empoli 21 9 5 7 27 26 32 Inter have dropped to fourth at six points defenders before beating Viviano with a low in a second-half substitute’s appearance as Marseille 21 7 8 6 31 22 29 Lazio 21 9 4 8 29 30 31 adrift, enforcing the pundits’ belief that it is now shot at his far post. Empoli dug deep to hold AC Milan 2-2 and dent Lyon 21 8 5 8 27 25 29 Chievo 21 7 6 8 27 26 27 a two-horse race for the title. After what has Elsewhere, Lazio and Palermo gave their stut- the Rossoneri’s European hopes on Saturday. Nantes 22 7 8 7 20 22 29 Torino 21 7 5 9 27 28 26 been a trying week for Napoli, the Azzurri tering campaigns a boost by recording impres- Milan travelled to the Castellani stadium buoyed Lorient 22 6 9 7 30 32 27 Bologna 21 8 2 11 24 27 26 showed their mettle. Coach Maurizio Sarri was sive 4-1 wins over Chievo and Udinese respec- after a 2-0 defeat of Fiorentina last week that left Ajaccio 22 6 8 8 24 27 26 Atalanta 21 7 5 9 21 24 26 caught in the eye of a homophobic storm after tively. Bologna’s purple patch under coach Sinisa Mihajlovic’s men 12 points behind leaders Lille 22 5 10 7 17 18 25 Palermo 21 7 3 11 23 34 24 calling fellow coach Roberto Mancini a “poof” Roberto Donadoni continued with a shock 2-0 Napoli and within sight of the European qualify- Bastia 22 7 4 11 21 27 25 Udinese 21 7 3 11 19 35 24 during a post-match tirade following defeat to win away to Sassuolo, who remain seventh but ing places. But the visitors had left themselves Genoa 21 6 5 10 24 27 23 Guingamp 22 6 6 10 20 29 24 Inter Milan in the quarter-final of the Italian Cup. are now only one point ahead of a resurgent exposed on the half hour when Empoli forward Sampdoria 21 6 5 10 31 36 23 Montpellier 22 6 4 12 23 29 22 Inter drew a line under the controversy on Friday Lazio. Piotr Zielinski was unmarked to level Carlos Carpi 21 4 6 11 20 36 18 Reims 21 5 7 9 22 29 22 by publicly accepting Napoli and Sarri’s apology. Bacca’s eighth-minute opener. And the Milan Frosinone 21 4 4 13 22 45 16 Toulouse 22 4 8 10 24 39 20 A trip to Sampdoria looked a challenging Viola up to third defence was at fault on the hour when veteran Verona 21 0 10 11 14 33 10 Troyes 22 1 8 13 16 44 11 prospect for Sarri’s title challengers, but after Elsewhere, Slovenian Josip Ilicic curled in his striker Massimo Maccarone pounced at the back ballooning an early chance over Higuain was 10th goal of the season and Gonzalo Rodriguez post to convert a rebound from teenaged goal- soon into his usual, predatory stride. In the ninth added a late second as Fiorentina got back to keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma to level again Guidolin off to winning start minute the Argentinian pounced on a poor winning ways with a 2-0 home win against after Giacomo Bonaventura had restored their Edgar Barreto back-pass to power towards the Torino yesterday. Fiorentina welcomed lead on 48 minutes. as Everton falls to Swansea area and fire past onrushing Emiliano Viviano. Giampiero Ventura’s men to the Artemio Franchi Milan’s sixth draw of the season left them in Another Barreto blunder helped Napoli double stadium desperate to get their title chase back sixth place, with Empoli one point and two their lead by the 18th minute, the defender haul- on track after consecutive defeats to Lazio and places further adrift. Bacca spurned an opportu- LIVERPOOL: Francesco Guidolin’s first ball, whereas Swansea centre-back ing down Raul Albiol and the referee pointing to AC Milan. nity to create a last-gasp chance, prompting game in charge of Swansea saw them win Williams adopted a more traditional the spot. Despite Higuain’s chance to match the In spring-like conditions, Ilicic’s superb free- Mihajlovic to speak to the Colombian directly 2-1 away to Everton yesterday as the Welsh approach by concentrating on getting the 22-goal tally that won the league’s kick gave the hosts a 24th minute lead and after the final whistle. But the Serbian coach said club moved four points clear of the ball clear. Capocannoniere (top scorer) award for Luca Toni pulled the Slovenian international level with the Bacca alone wasn’t to blame. Premier League relegation zone. A hard Everton had to make two substitutions and Mauro Icardi last season, Lorenzo Insigne club’s top scorer, Nikola Kalinic. But Paul Sousa’s “We came here to win and I’m disappointed fought victory saw Swansea climb to 15th before the break as both Muhamed Besic stepped up to beat Viviano at his near post. men were on tenterhooks for the remainder because we took the lead twice and that should place. just three positions behind Everton, and Kevin Mirallas went off injured. Napoli were in command but the visitors were until Rodriguez rose to beat Torino goalkeeper have been enough for victory,” he told Sky Sport. who’ve now won just once in their last 10 Swansea were forced to fight a rearguard pegged back after Carlos Carbonero did well to Salvador Ichazo at his near post seven minutes “We made mistakes but in the end it’s a fair league games and only three times in their action in the second half as Everton winger win back possession and powered down the from time with a powerful header from a corner. result.” He added: “Bacca wasn’t the only culprit. past 14 at Goodison Park. Gerard Deulofeu got into the game by pro- right flank. Sampdoria striker Eder’s dummy was New Fiorentina recruits Tino Costa and Mauro We had a couple of late chances but we weren’t Swansea went ahead though Gylfi ducing several excellent crosses. crucial, allowing Joaquin Correa to run in and Zarate, signed in midweek when striker clinical enough.” — AFP Sigurdsson’s 17th-minute penalty but Guidolin responded by sending on Everton were level nine minutes later defender Jordi Amat for winger Wayne when Gareth Barry’s near-post flick was Routledge and Eder for Ayew in an turned into his own net by the Swans’ Jack attempt to bolster Swansea at the back. Cork. But Swansea regained the lead in the But the Toffees were unable to take advan- Atletico miss chance to top 34th minute. Left-back Neil Taylor burst tage of Deulofeu’s fine play, squandering a clear and released Andre Ayew, whose host of chances, with one of their best shot deflected in off the sliding John coming with the final kick of the game Stones. It appeared Swansea defender when Seamus Coleman lofted the ball over table in Sevilla stalemate Ashley Williams may have handled the ball the crossbar from six yards out. in the build-up but referee Anthony Taylor This was a notable win for Swansea as it MADRID: Atletico Madrid spurned the chance to Luciano Vietto just outside the box. place, eight points adrift of Villarreal. was happy that the contact was not delib- meant they had recorded back-to-back move back on top of La Liga as they failed to The hosts still struggled to open up the Earlier, Athletic Bilbao gunned down high-fly- erate and waved play on. league successes for the first time this sea- break down 10-man Sevilla in a 0-0 draw yester- Sevilla defense, but a well-worked free-kick freed ing Eibar 5-2 in a Basque derby at San Mames. For highly-regarded England central son following last week’s 1-0 defeat of day. Antoine Griezmann had the hosts’ best Yannick Ferreira Carrasco inside the area and his On-loan Atletico striker Borja Baston scored defender Stones, this was a match to for- Watford. As well as giving Italian boss effort when he headed against the post early in fierce shot was brilliantly saved by Sergio Rico. twice for the visitors to take his tally for the sea- get as it was his under-hit backpass that Guidolin a victory in his first game in the second-half, but Atletico failed to take The goalkeeper also did well to turn Gabi’s pile- son to 15. However, two goals from Aritz Aduriz led to Swansea’s penalty, with goalkeeper charge, this result was also Swansea’s first advantage after Vitolo was shown a second yel- driver over before Carrasco’s free-kick at the and strikes from Sabin Merino, Aymeric Laporte Tim Howard hacking down Ayew as he league victory over Everton, whose man- low card just after the hour mark. death was deflected behind as Sevilla held on and a late Mauro dos Santos own goal moved tried to clear. There were several occasions ager Roberto Martinez made his name in A point means Atletico and Barcelona are for a point that keeps them in the race for fourth Athletic up to eighth. — AFP when Stones was guilty of overplaying the charge of the Welsh side. —AFP now level on points at the top of the table ahead of their meeting at the Camp Nou next week- end, although Barca also have a game in hand. Real Madrid can close to within two points of the leaders when Zinedine Zidane gets his first taste of action as boss away from the Santiago Bernabeu at Real Betis. “When you don’t score it is normal that is what people talk about, but we had plenty of chances today,” said Atletico boss Diego Simeone. “We hit the post, their keeper made a great save and the only way to score in football is by creating chances. “The team worked hard and there were positives from the game in how we kept going. We tried in every way to break down the Sevilla defense.” There have now been just 17 goals in Atletico’s 10 matches at home in La Liga this sea- son and clear-cut chances were again hard to come by for both sides. Greizmann just couldn’t stretch to turn Diego Godin’s header across goal in at the far post early on. Meanwhile, at the oth- er end, Sevilla’s best chance fell to Ever Banega but his deflected shot spun inches over the bar. Griezmann was desperately unlucky when he timed his run to meet Koke’s cross perfectly just after the break only to see his bullet header LIVERPOOL: Swansea City’s Ghanaian striker Andre Ayew (R) runs with the ball, come back off the post. Atletico were gifted the MADRID: Atletico Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann, center, reacts after missing a chance to score chased by Everton’s English defender Leighton Baines during the English Premier initiative for the final half hour when Vitolo was during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Atletico Madrid and Sevilla at the Vicente League football match between Everton and Swansea City at Goodison Park. — AFP handed a second booking for chopping down Calderon stadium. — AFP Serena serves up Higuain becomes glamour spar with Europe’s top rival Sharapova16 scorer19 MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016

Cavs gored by Bulls as Tyronn fails on debut Page 17 It had to be Costa: Spaniard halts Arsenal’s title charge Reckless Per sees red in 18th minute

qualification remains an unlikely goal, Costa to find himself centre-stage and this was further proof that, even without barely a minute after Gabriel’s Arsenal 0 the departed Jose Mourinho, they con- entrance, he stole between the tinue to hold the Indian sign over Brazilian and Koscielny to convert Arsenal. Branislav Ivanovic’s cross with an adroit Arsenal recalled Mesut Ozil after he near-post volley. The Spain striker Chelsea 1 missed the 0-0 draw at Stoke City with threatened to add a second before a sore foot and he was a typical half-time, but after gathering Willian’s buzzing presence as the hosts forced square pass with a clever touch that LONDON: Diego Costa scored as their opponents back early on. But took him past Nacho Monreal, his shot Chelsea renewed their hold over Arsenal Arsenal lacked precision in the final was repelled by Cech. with a 1-0 win at the Emirates Stadium third, Joel Campbell miscuing a volley From the ensuing corner, Ivanovic’s on Sunday that dented their London from Theo Walcott’s cross and Mathieu header was headed off the line by rivals’ Premier League title hopes. Costa Flamini slipping as he attempted to Monreal. Arsenal finally got in behind had been the central figure in Chelsea’s shoot, and the best chances fell to Chelsea in first-half stoppage time 2-0 win over Arsenal in September, Chelsea. when Aaron Ramsey clipped a pass when he goaded Gabriel into getting In the second minute, Petr Cech had into the area for Flamini, but the sent off, and he drew the foul that saw to drop to his right to turn a shot from Frenchman-not renowned for his Per Mertesacker dismissed in the 18th Oscar around the post after Laurent penalty-box prowess-jabbed a volley minute before neatly converting the Koscielny had tamely conceded pos- over. With Chelsea continuing to probe game’s only goal five minutes later. session. When Cesar Azpilicueta in the second half-ex-Arsenal favorite It was Arsenal’s first defeat in 10 crossed from the left, Willian was given Cesc Fabregas seeing a strong penalty home league games and left Arsene two bites at the cherry, seeing his initial claim waved away after being impeded Wenger’s side in third place, below volley scuffed back to him by by Koscielny-Wenger turned to Manchester City on goal difference and Mertesacker and then putting his fol- Sanchez. three points shy of leaders Leicester low-up straight at Cech. In the 18th The Chilean, sidelined for 10 match- City. Chelsea rose one place to 13th, minute came the game’s decisive es with a hamstring injury, replaced calming any relegation concerns, after moment. Costa reached Willian’s Campbell and spurned a chance to lev- only their second win in six league through-ball just ahead of Mertesacker el when he took an airshot as the ball games under interim manager Guus and with the German already commit- ricocheted around the Chelsea box fol- Hiddink. Arsenal, who welcomed Alexis ted to a sliding tackle, the Chelsea strik- lowing a free-kick. Costa departed, Sanchez back from injury, have now er tumbled and referee Mark beneath a hail of boos, in the 68th gone nine league games without beat- Clattenburg brandished the red card. minute, with Loic Remy coming on, ing Chelsea, during which they have not while Eden Hazard made his return fol- scored in over nine and a half hours, and Hazard returns lowing a three-game groin injury lay- their latest failure left them without a Gabriel, sent off for kicking Costa in off as a replacement for Oscar. With win in three league games. September, unsurprisingly came on to Wenger watching anxiously from the plug the gap, but there were boos corner of his technical area, a late Europe still unlikely when the number held up on the chance fell to Flamini, but his deflected LONDON: Arsenal's Spanish defender Nacho Monreal (L) vies with Chelsea's Serbian defender Chelsea remain 14 points below the fourth official’s electronic board was back-heel was fielded by Chelsea goal- Branislav Ivanovic during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Chelsea top four, but while Champions League striker Olivier Giroud’s. It was typical of keeper Thibaut Courtois. — AFP at the Emirates Stadium yesterday — AFP Saudi to seek foreign non-oil investors Page 23

ECB dovish comments lift market sentiments Page 25 BMONDAY, JANUARYusiness 25, 2016 BEC reveals new Iranian and foreign firms await the good times brand character Page 22 Page 26 VIVA announces net profit of KD 43m for 2015 Profits increase 6% G Total revenues reach KD 277 million

KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and excellence in the Kuwaiti telecom sector, Communication and Information Technology Financial Officer said: “VIVA’s performance con- most developed telecom operator, announced including “Best Industry Call Center” and “Best Regulatory Authority in Kuwait that will have a tinued to be steady and strong which its financial results at the end of the 2015, with Medium Help Desk” from Insights - Middle East positive impact on the development of the enhanced the company’s main financial indica- net profits of KD 43 million, a 6 percent Call Center Awards 2015, the only Call Centre telecom sector and create a fair regulatory tors, and increased its customer base. This has increase compared to 2014. dedicated, Professional Services Organization environment for all local telecom companies,” positively affected free cash flow, which has Dr Mahmoud Ahmad Abdul Rahman, VIVA’s in the Middle East,” continued Al-Badran. concluded Al-Badran. reached KD 32 million in 2015, reflecting a Chairman, commenting on the financial “We are optimistic in the role played by the Abdulaziz Abdullah Al-Qatie, VIVA’s Chief growth of 67 percent, compared to 2014.” results: “VIVA reached in 2015 the best finan- cial and operational results and achieved a lev- el of growth and success that foster its posi- tion as leader Telecom Company in Kuwait and the region, due to plans, strategies, services Missing from US race: Economy and creative offers that meet deeply the mar- ket’s needs and the customers’ expectations.” WASHINGTON: As the US presidential race picks previous presidential elections, especially in 2008 workforce, which, as a percentage of the popula- “VIVA was able to generate KD 43 million in up pace, the speeches and debates are full of when Obama won his first term, has disappeared. tion, remains at a four-decade high. net profit (earnings per share of 86 fils) in 2015 character attacks, arguments on immigration and And that complicates efforts by Republicans to But also grabbing this issue to make political compared to KD 40 million (earning per share worries about national security. brand Obama’s record a disaster as they woo vot- gain is Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, 81 fils) in 2014. These results reveal the solid But there is one glaring omission in the battle ers. They try nevertheless to exploit weaknesses in who argues that the real unemployment rate for performance of the company’s revenues and for the White House: serious talk about the econo- the Obama recovery-especially how it has not Americans is over 10 percent, if one includes peo- operations through the continued upward my. On both the Republican and Democratic benefitted everyone. For the Republicans, said ple forced to work part time. Other issues pull trend of financial and operational indicators. sides, the state of the world’s largest economy is Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute, together White House hopefuls from the two par- This reflected positively on shareholder equity mentioned, of course. But the exchanges in “There’s no easy target, even if there’s definitely a ties, making it hard for them to stand out. which reached KD 93 million, also the debates have mostly been about sound bites general sense that people... haven’t really benefit- Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton and Company’s board of directors recommended good for rebroadcast and social media, rather ed from the recovery.” The one issue that has vot- Trump both oppose the huge new trade deal, the not to distribute any dividends for the fiscal VIVA Chairman than serious discussion of issues. ers on both sides unhappy is the weak growth in Trans-Pacific Partnership, achieved late last year year ended 31 December 2015, this recom- Dr Mahmoud Ahmad Abdul Rahman Why such reticence to engage on a subject wages during the recovery, roughly half the pace by Obama. And both are against US companies mendation is subject to the approval of the crucial in the past two presidential races? Aside that it was before the financial crisis. Ted Cruz, run- being able to move their official addresses off- from the dryness of the topic, the answer comes ning second to Donald Trump in the race for the shore to lower their taxes. Even so, the candidates shareholder’s at the annual general assembly pared to the same period last year,” added Al- from the relative health of the US economy. “The Republican nomination to the White House, has so far have stuck to criticism and complaints and the specialized regulating authority,” Dr Badran. economy is doing reasonably well, although not tried to draw support on the issue. without offering much in the way of detailed pro- Abdul Rahman added. “VIVA continues to build on past successes spectacularly well,” said Joseph Gagnon of the “If you make your money in and around posals. and look forward to benefiting from the best Peterson Institute for International Economics. Washington, things are doing great. The million- “Taxes too high, wages too high, we’re not Technology new technologies to provide our clients with “So it’s good enough for Republicans not to aires and billionaires are doing great under going to be able to compete against the world,” Eng Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Badran, advanced innovative services while achieving have an angle of attack, but it’s not so good as Obama,” he said. And another Republican hopeful, says Trump, for example. Barry Bosworth, of the VIVA’s Chief Executive Officer stated: “VIVA was further growth and accomplishments. We are Democrats can brag about it.” The US unemploy- Marco Rubio, highlighted it as well: “The economy Brookings Institution think tank, said it may able to accomplish this growth in an extreme- proud to be the first leading telecom company ment rate has fallen to half of its peak in 2009 and is not providing jobs that pay enough.” take several more weeks or months for real pro- ly competitive telecom market in Kuwait. VIVA to launch the Voice Over Long Term Evolution now sits at five percent, close to full employment. Even so, the Republicans as a group, who posals on the economy to emerge. “Neither par- was able to maintain its position as the second (VoLTE) in partnership with Huawei for the first The economy is growing at a modest pace, and advocate for tax cuts and economic freedom, are ty has any great suggestions on how to deal largest telecom operator in the Kuwaiti market time in Kuwait and the Middle East. This is in the government deficit has shrunk. not at ease with making wages a political issue. with the issues of employment and income in term of subscribers and revenues, which addition to VIVA’s commercial presence across Those are reasons, Democratic President Most oppose mandated increases to the mini- growth that seem to be the dominant econom- positively affected the company’s financial Kuwait, which was expanded to 70 branches, Barack Obama says, that voters should support a mum wage, for example, an issue the Democrats ic concerns of voters,” said Bosworth. But he performance, expanded our market share enabling us to be closer to our customers and Democrat to succeed him. embrace. Republicans have also tried to chip away said their views could become clearer once the while increasing our customer base by 2 per- to meet the growing demand for our products at Obama’s record of slashing unemployment. parties choose their final candidate for the cent to reach 2.5 million subscribers in 2015. and services. Our achievements were also rec- Wages still weak They point to the still-high level of Americans who November election, and that voters will pay Total revenues reached KD 277 million, repre- ognized in the second half of the current year Certainly, the economic crisis that dominated are unemployed and have dropped out of the more attention then. — AFP senting a strong growth of 16 percent com- as shown by our winning of several awards for MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 BUSINESS Turkish elite bids farewell to industrial dynasty chief

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s political and business elite accounts for around nine percent of Turkish yesterday made a rare show of unity to turn out in exports and eight percent of its GDP. force at the funeral of the head of Turkey’s biggest Prominent Turkish businessmen also made rare family-run industrial conglomerate, Mustafa Koc, public appearances at the funeral. “Mustafa Koc is who died last week aged only 55. an incredible loss. Look at the size of the crowds President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister here,” banking tycoon and founder of the FIBA Ahmet Davutoglu and main opposition holding Husnu Ozyegin told NTV television. Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Mustafa Koc was respected in business circles Kilicdaroglu were among the mourners at the for presiding over sustained growth at Koc funeral at an Istanbul mosque for the Koc Holding Holding. But he also won admiration from Turkish CEO, who died on Thursday after a massive heart liberals with support of anti-government protest- attack. ers in 2013. Koc was the leader of the third generation of Koc allowed protesters in Taksim Square in the dynasty founded by his grandfather Vehbi Koc Istanbul to take refuge in the nearby Divan Hotel, in the 1920s and which now has interests in ener- which is owned by the group, infuriating Erdogan gy, finance and autos grouped together under Koc who criticised Koc for harbouring “criminals”. Holding. Mustafa Koc took over as chief executive The group then found itself the target of of Koc Holding in 2003 after the retirement of his probes over alleged tax violations. But Erdogan on father Rahmi Koc, now 85, who survives his son. Friday paid warm tribute to Koc, revealing that he Rahmi Koc greeted the mourners along with had held talks with the businessman in Ankara his younger son Ali Koc in front of the coffin just a day before he died. “We even joked. We draped in a banner with an inscription in Ottoman talked about weight loss issues. And I even Turkish script. The coffin also bore a ribbon from quipped ‘did you cut down on alcohol? It’s time to the family’s favourite football team, Fenerbahce of stop completely’,” said the pious president. Istanbul. Turkey’s family-run conglomerates are Mustafa Koc was buried in the family plot at the the mainstays of the country’s economy with Zincirlikuyu cemetery in Istanbul, next to his ISTANBUL: People carry the coffin of Mustafa Koc, chief executive of Turkey’s biggest industrial con- interests in every sector. Koc Holding alone grandfather Vehbi Koc. — AFP glomerate Koc Holding, during his funeral yesterday in Istanbul. — AFP Iranian and foreign firms Thousands of Moroccans protest over job cuts await the good times RABAT: Thousands of Moroccan trainee teach- testers say they will keep on fighting to cancel ers and their families took to the streets of the government decrees. Dozens have been capital Rabat yesterday to protest against gov- injured, including three who needed medical Iranians see opportunities in Gulf states ernment plans to cut education jobs, defying an care. official ban on demonstrations. Waving banners The police handling of the protests prompt- and chanting “Repression won’t scare me”, sev- ed Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane’s govern- DOHA: A decade ago, Foad Fanaei money, but we still had hope,” he said. Landi Renzo, an Italian producer of carry out its first banking operations eral thousand protesters marched past hun- ment to order an inquiry into police violence. packed his belongings and left sanc- Arab firms too stand to benefit autogas and compressed natural gas with Iran within months. And a dreds of riot police who watched nearby with More than its North African neighbors, Morocco tion-hit Iran in the hope that the fami- from Iran’s opening. kits for cars, saw annual revenues in British investor, Dominic Bokor- water canon trucks, just weeks after police were has been applauded by multilateral lenders for ly’s engineering firm would thrive in The likely surge in business Iran sink from about 35 million euros Ingram, launched a joint venture accused of violently repressing an earlier progress in controlling high public spending Qatar. Starting up in the Gulf Arab between Iran and other countries in to about 3 million when sanctions fund with an Iranian investment fund protest. that analysts says has also been a problem in state proved to be hard for a 27-year- the Gulf will be just one part of the hit, said Pierpaolo Marziali, the firm’s on Jan. 19 - two decades after he Large-scale protests remain rare in Morocco, neighboring Tunisia and Algeria. old outsider who had to grapple with boom in business expected following head of mergers and acquisitions. took a suitcase of cash onto the floor where the king holds sway. When pro-democra- But touching public jobs, subsidies and oth- Qatar’s complex business laws and the lifting of the nuclear-related sanc- There were no Western banks of the Moscow stock exchange to cy unrest toppled leaders in Tunisia, Egypt and er benefits that Moroccans have enjoyed for navigate the international financial tions on Jan 18. ready to offer guarantees and letters buy up shares after the end of com- Libya in 2011, the palace calmed similar years is starting to generate social tensions, trig- constraints imposed over Iran’s The deal with world powers that of credit, and the sharp decline of munist rule. protests with limited reforms, spending and gering protests, sit-ins and strikes that may test nuclear program. ended Iran’s international isolation, in Iran’s currency under sanctions made But many other banks and firms, tougher security. The teacher trainee protests the government’s nerve. In neighboring Tunisia, Since then Fanaei has endured exchange for restrictions on Tehran’s matters worse. ranging from international oil com- are one of several rallies that have taken place frustration over unemployment and lack of jobs years of financial losses but kept the nuclear program, restored its access “But we stayed the course and panies to small investors, are tread- in the last few months against government last week exploded into rioting in a string of business going in the hope that one to tens of billions of dollars in frozen never stopped producing, albeit at ing carefully because of legal uncer- plans to cut spending and reduce public sector towns, especially in the impoverished central day the nuclear-related sanctions assets, reopened the country to for- minimal levels, and that’s put us in a tainties and making sure they will not hiring as part of reforms meant to revive state city of Kasserine, but a curfew helped restore would be lifted. Cherishing the same eign investment and allows it to sell strong position now since we have a face heavy fines by violating the finances. “I have three children, and I thought calm. hope, his father continued to run a oil again on world markets. kind of preferential channel. Our staff residual US sanctions. we had finally found a job for one, but it doesn’t Around 10,000 young Moroccans passed parent company in Iran. President Hassan Rouhani, who is regularly in Tehran and we’re look- seem so,” said Hassan Dehih, who came from the examination to begin training to be teach- Now that day has come, Fanaei championed the deal, says Iran needs ing forward to relaunching produc- LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES the city of Kenitra to support his daughter. “At ers in public schools. On Oct. 8, the government believes his hard work is about to be $30-$50 billion a year in foreign tion,” Marziali said. Another Italian Small firms face similar concerns least if they beat her, I will be beaten too.” said another exam would be required at the rewarded. “I came here with experi- investment to meet its economic company that stuck it out was SABAF, to bigger companies as they weigh The government said on Thursday that it end of the year to be hired. Only 7,000 would ence and new technology. I met with growth target of eight percent. He which makes components for house- up the risks and opportunities. Like would not allow any unauthorized protests. pass the final tests, according to government many companies but it was tough. has ordered a sharp increase in oil hold cooking appliances, although its their bigger counterparts, some had Organizers said they had the right to protest data. Rachid Oussaid, a spokesman for trainee We missed out on a lot of deals,” he output and, in a sign of the size of the annual sales in Iran fell from about 10 been preparing for years for the under the constitution. Moroccan police have teachers, said the government had held talks explained. “Now, though, politics is in business opportunities that are up for billion euros to around 3 million, opening of Iran. “I have friends in Iran broken up most of the previous teacher trainee with protesters on Saturday, in a meeting facili- the past. It took a long time, but we grabs, Iran has said it wants to buy Administrative Director Gianluca who have been waiting for the sanc- demonstrations across the kingdom, but pro- tated by labor unions. — Reuters are moving forward.” more than 100 Western planes. Beschi said. tions to end so they can come and Fanaei is blazing a trail that other Some companies have moved “We’ve already started talks in the invest here,” Fanaei said in his office Iranian businesses are likely to follow. quickly to gain or regain access to a country and we hope to be able to in Qatar.Iranian businessmen have His company, Reign Engineering & country that is rich in natural boost our sales in 2016 to get back to for decades been travelling to Gulf Aramco head says IPO could be Trading Co, has forged a partnership resources and has a young, well edu- pre-sanction times,” she said. Italy Arab states that provide access to with Abu Dhabi-based construction cated population of about 80 million. hopes its trade with Iran will now Gulf waters and free-trade zones in open to international markets firm AlJaber Group which is set to European and Asian firms have a surge and sees the best opportuni- cities such as Dubai, re-exporting enter an agreement with industrial head start as some US sanctions ties in oil and gas, cars and transport, goods and circumventing sanctions. DUBAI: An initial public offering of Saudi thinking told Reuters that Aramco’s massive group Siemens to start manufactur- remain, tying the hands of American and construction and furniture. But Their number should now grow. Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, size, and the confidentiality surrounding it as ing high-specification electricity-sav- companies. China, India, Russia and Brazil have “Qatar is an ideal market for us. could be on the local or international mar- the main instrument of the kingdom’s oil pol- ing devices. But many international banks, kept or gained a foothold in Iran There is rapid growth ahead of the kets but would not include Saudi energy icy, pose hurdles to any listing of the parent If the deal goes ahead, Fanaei, one businesses and investors are not rush- since sanctions were imposed, and World Cup (to be hosted by Qatar in reserves, the company’s chairman told Saudi- firm. They said Saudi Arabia is considering of a handful of Iranian businessmen ing in because of the risk of falling Beijing is the top exporter to Tehran. 2022). Local partners here appreciate owned al-Arabiya television. selling shares in refining ventures with for- in Qatar, will be involved in the devel- foul of the residual US sanctions and For some companies, the race has Iran’s expertise in industry and tech- “The reserves would not be sold, but the eign oil firms. opment of the largest electronics fac- legal uncertainties. already begun. nology,” Fanaei said. company’s ability to produce from the Falih said there would be legal studies to tory in the country and, together with Some are also concerned that a Senior Iranian officials said yester- Fanaei’s new business partner, reserves is being studied,” Khalid Al-Falih told make sure that what is offered is not the the AlJaber Group, will bid on tenders diplomatic incident could flare day that Iran plans to buy more than Mohammed Sultan Al-Jaber, who is the channel in an interview from Davos, kingdom’s crude reserves “but the company’s for multi-million dollar government between Iran and the United States, 114 aircraft from European plane chairman of the AlJaber Group, said Switzerland where the annual World ability to convert the production of these infrastructure projects. undermining the nuclear deal, and maker Airbus as soon as March, and “political issues” such as a rift Economic Forum was held last week. reserves to a financial value that the owners The venture will not be directly that the US presidential election this is looking for other deals. between Iran and Saudi Arabia would In an interview with The Economist earlier can benefit from. “The economic value of affected by the easing of sanctions - it year might bring to power an oppo- The trucks division of German not impede Arab-Iran business part- this month, Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Saudi Aramco as a company is what will be relies on local manufacturers - but the nent of the deal. automobile maker Daimler quickly nerships. “Iran has so many things Mohammed bin Salman said Riyadh might offered. Naturally, the primary field of Saudi prospect of being able to transfer signed letters of intent with joint ven- that Qatar needs. Qatar used to sell shares in Aramco as part of a privatization Aramco’s work is managing the reserves of money in and out of Iran, travel more WAITING GAME ture partners in Iran and India’s state- import a lot of materials from Iran drive. Aramco has crude reserves estimated Saudi Arabia,” Falih said. freely and sign contracts with For some foreign companies, it run National Aluminium Co Ltd (NAL- like cement, ceramics and soil. It was at about 265 billion barrels, over 15 percent “The reserves belong to the state but the Western companies - all curtailed has been a waiting game. They CO) said it was sending experts to halted,” said Al-Jaber. of all global oil deposits, so it could become company’s ability to convert these reserves... under sanctions - Fanaei says, will stayed in Iran when the sanctions hit Iran to explore the possibility of set- Looking ahead to more coopera- the first listed company valued at $1 trillion into a financial value and at the same time for allow him and other Iranians to thrive and, like Fanaei in Qatar, put up with ting up a $2-billion smelter complex. tion in the post-sanctions era, he or more if it went public, analysts have esti- the company to have a portion of these prof- in the region. “We invested heavily in the bad times in the hope that the Russia’s second-largest state-con- said: “I see no reason why it won’t mated. its will be part of the value of the company,” Qatar and honestly we lost a lot of good times would eventually return. trolled bank, VTB , said it hoped to resume.” — Reuters But several sources familiar with official he told Arabiya. — Reuters

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Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. GOLD Saudi Riyals 81.840 US Dollars Mint 0.300400 0.304400 20 Gram 225.300 Jordanian Dinar 428.735 10 Gram 115.570 Asia ASIAN COUNTRIES Egyptian Pound 38.757 5 Gram 58.630 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.119 Bangladesh Taka 0.003519 0.004119 Japanese Yen 2.560 Indian Rupees 4.475 Chinese Yuan 0.044805 0.048305 Indian Rupees 4.501 Pakistani Rupees 2.897 Hong Kong Dollar 0.037123 0.039873 Pakistani Rupees 2.897 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Bangladesh Taka 3.871 Indian Rupee 0.004219 0.004609 Srilankan Rupees 2.118 Philippines Pesso 6.367 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000017 0.000023 Nepali Rupees 2.815 CURRENCIES TELEX TRANSFER PER 1000 Cyprus pound 579.695 Japanese Yen 0.002501 0.002681 Singapore Dollar 214.080 Australian Dollar 198.53 Japanese Yen 3.600 Kenyan Shilling 0.003159 0.003159 Hongkong Dollar 38.980 Canadian Dollar 211.29 Syrian Pound 2.380 Korean Won 0.000244 0.000259 Bangladesh Taka 3.873 Swiss Franc 308.28 Nepalese Rupees 3.795 Malaysian Ringgit 0.066864 0.072864 Philippine Peso 6.350 Euro 336.12 Malaysian Ringgit 70.420 Nepalese Rupee 0.002882 0.003052 Thai Baht 8.450 US Dollar 304.30 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.605 Pakistan Rupee 0.002606 0.002886 Sterling Pound 433.24 Thai Bhat 9.365 Philippine Peso 0.006275 0.006555 GCC COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.64 Turkish Lira 99.960 Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Saudi Riyal 81.110 Bangladesh Taka 3.879 Singapore Dollar 0.209842 0.215842 Qatari Riyal 83.551 Indian Rupee 4.483 Bahrain Exchange Company South African Rand 0.012505 0.021005 Omani Riyal 790.021 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.119 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001763 0.002343 Bahraini Dinar 807.760 Nepali Rupee 2.798 Taiwan 0.008927 0.009107 P0kistani Rupee 2.897 UAE Dirham 82.811 CURRENCY BUY SELL Thai Baht 0.008138 0.008688 UAE Dirhams 0.08281 Europe Bahraini Dinar 0.8087 ARAB COUNTRIES British Pound 0.428174 0.437174 Arab Egyptian Pound - Cash 38.550 Egyptian Pound 0.03876 Czech Korune 0.004219 0.016219 Jordanian Dinar 0.4328 Bahraini Dinar 0.799476 0.807476 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 38.890 Danish Krone 0.040217 0.045217 Omani Riyal 0.7902 Egyptian Pound 0.035418 0.039754 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.419 Euro 0.323777 0.331777 Qatari Riyal 0.08390 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Tunisian Dinar 149.170 Norwegian Krone 0.030823 0.036023 Saudi Riyal 0.08111 Iraqi Dinar 0.000200 0.000260 Jordanian Dinar 428.440 Romanian Leu 0.087205 0.087205 Jordanian Dinar 0.424776 0.432276 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.027 Slovakia 0.009081 0.019081 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Syrian Lira 2.168 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Swedish Krona 0.031566 0.036566 Lebanese Pound 0.000152 0.000252 Morocco Dirham 31.179 Swiss Franc 0.293260 0.303460 Moroccan Dirhams 0.021514 0.045514 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Turkish Lira 0.095638 0.105938 Nigerian Naira 0.001256 0.001891 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES US Dollar 304.350 Omani Riyal 0.783190 0.788870 US Dollar Transfer 304.000 Canadian Dollar 209.745 Australasia Qatar Riyal 0.082790 0.084003 Euro 333.250 Sterling Pound 431.695 Australian Dollar 0.205220 0.216720 Saudi Riyal 0.080180 0.081130 Sterling Pound 437.150 Euro 334.625 New Zealand Dollar 0.191600 0.201100 Syrian Pound 0.001289 0.001509 Canadian dollar 216.910 Swiss Frank 305.475 Tunisian Dinar 0.145708 0.153708 Turkish lira 101.300 Bahrain Dinar 805.175 America Turkish Lira 0.095638 0.105938 Swiss Franc 302.490 UAE Dirhams 83.105 Canadian Dollar 0.209802 0.218302 UAE Dirhams 0.081787 0.082936 Australian Dollar 215.840 Qatari Riyals 84.320 US Dollars 0.299900 0.304400 Yemeni Riyal 0.001374 0.001454 US Dollar Buying 302.800 MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 BUSINESS Return of Iran oil into global market will be slow

ASIYA CAPITAL INVESTMENTS REPORT By Camille Accad West will release frozen Iranian assets, IEA and OPEC projecting a decelera- of low oil prices, geopolitical uncer- sanctions, the safer bet for Iran is to while Chinese investments in estimated to be worth between $10 tion in oil consumption for 2016. On tainty and the outcome of the US rely in the Asian powers, which nev- upstream infrastructure in the last KUWAIT: Western sanctions crippled and $20 billion annually until 2020. the supply front, Iran will also face dif- elections in November may affect er stopped doing business there: several years is expected to gener- Iran’s oil sector in the four years lead- These funds may be used to pay for ficulties. First, Iran is still subject to a the pace of foreign investment into China and India maintained a ate an additional 200,000 barrels ing to 2016, losing around one million much-needed investment in the sec- number of restrictions. Conducting the country. In spite of the lift of strong trade partnership with Iran, per day by 2017. barrels per day of oil exports and pro- tor. Fourth, Iran has improved condi- US dollar transactions, dealing with duction. With major sanctions lifted, tions for foreign firms planning to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard more Persian crude will be available invest in the country. The outdated Corps, which is heavily involved in this year, but the pace and scale at buyback contracting process is the energy sector, and using which it will return into the market is replaced by the new Iran Petroleum American technology are still prohib- unclear. In our view, the increase will Contract whereby foreign companies ited. Second, sanctions have deterio- be slower than generally expected. will be able to sign longer term, less rated Iran’s upstream infrastructure, Iranian officials have expressed risky, deals that would not require the requiring massive investment in the their intention to increase the nation’s contractor to hand over their oil field sector. Iranians claim $100 billion of crude exports, first by 500,000 barrels work by the end of the project. A con- investment is needed to bring oil per day, and by another 500,000 by ference in London in February will production back to pre-sanction lev- year-end. Iran is capable of producing reveal more details as Iranian officials els, compared with Western esti- the oil needed to reach those targets. plan to unveil a number of oil and gas mates of around $300 billion. Finally, First, around twenty million barrels of projects worth more than $150 bil- Iran requires the investments of inter- crude oil are held in inventory, with lion. Overall, there are reasons to national oil companies to develop its half stored in tankers waiting to be believe the country with the fourth oil exploration and production tech- shipped, according to EIA and IEA. largest proven oil reserves in the nology. However, with oil prices at This is the equivalent of forty days of world has the ability to raise produc- multi-year lows, energy firms’ earn- 500,000 barrels per day. Second, Iran tion to meet its export targets. ings are falling rapidly, forcing them will not be pressured by OPEC due to However, Iran’s plans might not to cut near-term capital expenditure. its current strategy of gaining market materialize. On the demand side, the IEA projects that, with the help share. The likelihood of a joint OPEC Chinese economic slowdown is con- of foreign investment, Iran could decision to cut output is also low due tributing to the emerging market reach a production capacity of four to Iran’s rising tensions with Saudi deceleration. Global oil demand is million barrels per day by 2020. Arabia. Third, the agreement with the expected to be weak this year, with However, the current environment Iran to buy 114 Airbuses to revamp ageing fleet Representatives from 85 aviation firms in Tehran

TEHRAN: Iran said yesterday it will million euros) worth of upgrades in the conference. Rouhani’s European tour will see buy 114 Airbus planes to revitalize navigation systems, Akhoundi said. “A whole array of different avia- him seeking to restore commercial its ageing fleet, in the first major tion services and new jobs obvious- ties with Italy and France, which commercial deal announced since Talks with Boeing ly are going to be created,” Harbison were among Tehran’s main econom- the lifting of sanctions under its Only nine of Iran’s 67 airports are told AFP. “Aviation is one of those ic partners before the tightening of nuclear agreement. Transport currently operational. Iran has suf- industries that creates massive eco- international sanctions in January Minister Abbas Akhoundi said a fered several air crashes in recent nomic flow-on benefits, so tourism 2012. Competition to tap the Iranian deal on the purchase would be years blamed on ageing planes, will expand, so you’ll need more market has been fierce as it emerges signed between national carrier Iran poor maintenance and a shortage infrastructure growth in hotels and from international isolation. Air and Airbus during a visit to Paris of new parts. News of the Airbus right across the board.” Meeting with Chinese President this week by President Hassan deal came as aviation industry rep- Akhoundi said yesterday Iran was Xi Jinping on Saturday, Rouhani said Rouhani. resentatives from 85 companies also negotiating with US plane man- the two countries aim to build up AMRITSAR: An Indian Sikh vendor sorts onions as he sell vegetables from his Rouhani will travel to Italy and met in Tehran yesterday to assess ufacturer Boeing, but provided no economic ties worth up to $600 bil- horse cart in Amritsar yesterday. —AFP France from Monday to Wednesday, opportunities in the Islamic republic details. He said Iran was in talks with lion in the next 10 years. on his first visit to Europe since the after sanctions were removed. the United States on the possibility They signed a slew of trade implementation of the deal curbing “It’s a really exciting time, there’s of reopening direct air routes, which agreements, including a $2 billion Saudi to seek foreign Tehran’s nuclear activities in never been a situation like this,” said were cut after the 1979 hostage cri- contract for China to electrify the exchange for the lifting of punish- Peter Harbison, the head of the sis that ended all diplomatic ties railway line linking Tehran with sec- ing economic sanctions. Rouhani CAPA consultancy which organized between the two countries. ond city Mashhad. —AFP non-oil investors has hailed the agreement as a “new chapter” for Iran as its economy RIYADH: Saudi Arabia aims to at least double eign firms to identify their concerns, then dis- returns to global markets. annual inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) cussing them with ministries and other govern- Modernising the country’s air over the next 10 years by focusing on new sec- ment bodies. The investment push is part of a fleet and infrastructure is a top pri- tors such as mining, health care and informa- larger economic reform drive conceived by ority, with Akhoundi saying Sunday tion technology, the head of its investment Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. that only 150 of the country’s 250 agency said yesterday. Details of the program, which includes privati- planes are operational. “We have The plan outlined by Abdullatif Al-Othman, zation, changes to the way in which Saudi been negotiating for 10 months” for governor of the Saudi Arabian General Arabia manages its oil wealth and efforts to the purchase of planes but “there Investment Authority (SAGIA), is part of a radical make state spending more efficient, are was no way to pay for them revamp of economic policy as the kingdom expected to be announced in coming days or because of banking sanctions,” seeks to adapt to an era of cheap oil. In the past, weeks. Iranian state media quoted foreign investment was heavily concentrated in Initially, mining may prove one of the most Akhoundi as saying. the oil and gas sector of the world’s top crude attractive investment areas for foreigners. While “We need 400 long- and mid- exporter, as well as downstream industries such the kingdom has been extensively explored for range and 100 short-range planes,” as petrochemicals. oil and gas, Othman said deposits of many oth- he said. He said the first batch of But the plunge of oil prices over the past 18 er minerals had not yet been fully identified. It new planes would arrive in Iran by months has called that strategy into question. is believed to have big deposits of phosphate, March 19 but provided no financial Othman said SAGIA was now seeking foreign bauxite, base metals and gold. In a joint ven- details of the deal with Airbus. An capital in a wide range of sectors without direct ture that could become a model for future proj- Airbus spokesman declined to com- links to oil. ects, a local firm, majority state-owned Saudi ment. “If you look at an economy that has been Arabian Mining Co, began producing copper Iran, with a population 79 mil- able to fetch about $10 billion a year in the tra- last month at a mine near Madina along with lion, has a good road network but ditional sector...we should be looking at multi- Canada’s Barrick Gold Corp. Othman said Saudi still needs major transport ples of that,” he said in an interview. Arabia aimed to move far beyond resource upgrades, which Tehran hopes will TEHRAN: Iranian minister of transportation Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi (R) speaks during the CAPA boost tourism and trade. Iran’s air- “So our hope is that we would double or extraction, partly because it needs to generate 2016 Iran Aviation Summit in the capital Tehran yesterday. —AFP triple this level of FDI on a rolling average for hundreds of thousands of jobs for a rapidly ports also need $250 million (230 the next 10 years.” SAGIA faces big obstacles. A growing local population. sluggish bureaucracy and an undeveloped legal Last September, the government said it system have deterred foreign investment in the would let foreign investors own 100 percent of past; now low oil prices are slowing growth of retail and wholesale businesses. Previously, the Protests rattle Azerbaijan the Saudi economy. Geopolitical tensions in the ceiling was 75 percent. Authorities have since region may also weigh. received expressions of interest from foreign Inflows of FDI peaked at about $40 billion in retailers, Othman said, declining to name them. 2009 but have been trending down since then Saudi Arabia does not have a major domes- as oil slump hits economy and totalled just $8.0 billion in 2014, figures tic automobile industry. Othman said authori- from the United Nations Conference on Trade ties were in discussions with auto companies, and Development show. Othman said SAGIA especially makers of spare parts and firms in BAKU: Hit hard by falling oil prices, ex-Soviet ed and inflation soared. After having depleted rose dramatically. “People are paying the price would seek to remove bureaucratic or regula- the area of buses and trucks, but did not identi- Azerbaijan has plunged into an economic cri- over half of its foreign currency reserves, of the government’s incompetence and cor- tory obstacles to investment by talking to for- fy the firms. —Reuters sis that has seen rare protests shake the Azerbaijan’s central bank admitted in ruption,” Baku resident Reyhan Ghafarova, 34, authorities in the tightly-controlled nation. December that the economy was being hurt said. Over the last week, violent clashes broke by falling oil prices and moved to stop prop- “No one believes any longer the govern- out between riot police and thousands of ping up the national currency. ment’s claims about Azerbaijan’s strong econ- demonstrators who took to the streets in The manat plunged immediately by over a omy, the myth has burst like a soap bubble.” In Gulf stocks rebound cities across the energy-rich Caspian nation to third against the dollar, with major retailers a bid to defuse public discontent, Aliyev express their discontent against price hikes halting business and anxious consumers fear- moved to cut taxes on essential foods such as on rising oil price and unemployment. ing for their future. Many Azerbaijanis rushed flour and bread and ordered the government The government-which under strongman to the banks to withdraw savings. Others to draw up a major privatization program to KUWAIT: Stock markets in the energy- Oman, the small Muscat Securities Ilham Aliyev allows few signs of dissent-sent expressed fears that the weak value of the revive the stalling economy. rich Gulf states rebounded yesterday, the Exchange rose 1.54 percent, and the in troops to quell the unrest in the city of manat would threaten the banking sector’s “The government will do its best to mini- first trading day of the Islamic week, after Bahrain bourse was down 0.64 percent. Siazan and several other provincial towns stability and lead to loan defaults as a majori- mize the negative consequences” of the eco- a rally in oil and global share prices. The The Saudi stock market, the largest where tear gas, water cannon, and rubber bul- ty of mortgages and loans in the nation of 9.5 nomic crisis, Aliyev’s top aide Ali Gasanov told bourses of Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Abu Arab bourse, opened the day up 6.6 per- lets were reportedly used against stone- million people are dollar-denominated. AFP. “All the necessary measures will be taken Dhabi and Qatar each gained more than cent but was trading at 4.1 percent high- throwing protesters. Some 100 people were to stimulate the industrial sector, eradicate 5.0 percent at the start of trading before er by mid-session, just below the 5,700- arrested in the aftermath, Sadiar Osmanov, ‘Soap bubble’ official corruption, and improve the business cooling off. point mark. head of the opposition Musavat party’s local “I don’t know if I will be able to repay my climate in the country,” he said. On Tuesday, Dubai Financial Market Index shot up All seven Gulf bourses however branch, said. The government blamed opposi- mortgage,” said 40-year-old Baku resident Arif the parliament endorsed the central bank’s 6.6 percent at opening before closing the remain well below last year’s closing lev- tion activists for staging riots, an accusation Gasanov, one of some 2.5 million Azerbaijanis initiative to introduce a 20-percent tax on for- day up 5.15 percent, above the 2,700- els. Oil prices surged for a second straight they rejected as groundless. who have taken a mortgage in dollars. “After eign exchange taken out of the country for point mark. Market leaders Emaar prop- day Friday amid an equities rally on erties and construction firm Arabtec hopes of extra stimuli for Japan and the “People speak out about their woes and the manat collapsed I’ll have to pay to my investment, securities, and real estate pur- gained 8.0 percent and 10 percent, eurozone. the government responds with violence,” bank much more than expected, much more chases. respectively. US benchmark West Texas Musavat’s leader Isa Gambar said. “As a result, than I can afford,” he told AFP. Other steps included insuring all bank Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange fin- Intermediate (WTI) for March leapt $2.66 the protest movement will gain momentum, Highlighting the seriousness of the situa- deposits and imposing limits on foreign cur- ished the day up 2.7 percent supported to $32.19 a barrel on the New York economic turmoil will spiral into a political tion, a spate of suicides were reported by local rency sales. by the real estate sector, which gained Mercantile Exchange. Brent North Sea unrest,” he told AFP. media, with several people who were unable For the time being the measures seem to 7.3 percent. Qatar Exchange, the second crude for delivery in March, the European Exports of hydrocarbons constitute up to to make payments on their bank loans setting have put a lid on the situation but analysts largest Arab bourse, gained 5.0 percent benchmark for crude oil, finished at three quarters of Azerbaijan’s state revenues, themselves on fire. warned that the country needed more pro- at opening to climb above the key 9,000- $32.18 a barrel in London, a 10-percent making the Caucasus country’s economy The currency turmoil was followed by an found change if it was weather the storm long point barrier, but ended the day below jump over Thursday’s settlement. The highly dependent on global energy prices. 11-fold acceleration of inflation, with con- term. “Too little, too late,” said Azerbaijani eco- that benchmark. gains on Thursday and Friday amounted As oil prices fall to 12-year lows and the sumer prices rising in December by 4.4 per- nomic analyst Natig Jafarli, denouncing the Kuwait Stock Exchange added 0.6 per- to 13.5 percent for WTI and 15.4 percent manna of petrodollars diminished, cent after a 0.4 percent increase in November. measures as “cosmetic.” “It’s impossible to save cent but remained below 5,000 points. In for Brent. —AFP Azerbaijan’s once-booming economy quickly Annual inflation stood at 7.6 percent in the country without serious economic hit the skids, the national currency plummet- December, but prices for food and medicine reforms and a political change.” —AFP MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 BUSINESS Fed to shed light on depth of growth concerns

GLOBAL ECONOMY WEEKAHEAD MADRID: For more clues as to how slumping oil than the four initially floated by the Fed. “If the statement acknowledges increased risks Preliminary fourth quarter data on US believe they will soon head back into nega- prices and a faltering Chinese outlook could sway Against a backdrop of volatile trading in global without mention of expected resilience in the output due on Jan. 29 should confirm the tive territory. ECB chief Mario Draghi stressed policymakers in the coming months, look no fur- stocks, Fed officials have shrugged off in recent medium-term outlook, this would be a dovish easing momentum, with the annual pace of on Friday the outlook for a gradual economic ther than January’s meeting of US Federal Reserve weeks the impact of financial market swings on sign,” analysts at BNP Paribas said in a note. expansion seen coming in at 0.7 percent, recovery in the euro-zone had not changed. rate setters. Concerns over weaker global growth their decisions. The Fed is widely expected to leave US data paints a more subdued domestic pic- according to the latest model from the But concerns are mounting about the impact are casting doubt on the pace at which the US its federal funds rate unchanged at 0.25-0.50 per- ture, too, as a strong dollar buffets the economy. Atlanta Federal Reserve. of weaker growth elsewhere after China con- central bank will continue hiking interest rates, cent when policymakers conclude their meeting Consumer prices unexpectedly fell in December. The most recent Reuters poll put US firmed its 2015 expansion was the slowest in after December’s first rise in nearly a decade. on Jan. 27. But falling inflation assumptions, cou- Recent weak reports on retail sales, housing starts growth at 1.3 percent, following a 2 percent 25 years and the International Monetary Expectations for a March rate increase are pled with the market turbulence, could lead them and industrial production suggest a slowdown in rise in the third quarter. Some believe a Fund cut growth forecasts, citing the effects already starting to fade, and economists polled by to signal deepening concern over the US and activity at the end of last year, as did a six-month weaker fourth quarter is unlikely to cloud of the rout in commodities. Reuters now forecast three hikes in 2016 rather world economic outlooks. high in US jobless claims reached in mid-January. longer-term prospects, however, with In Russia, where the next regular interest underlying trends in the labour market still rate decision is due on Jan. 29, the central robust. bank has warned the government faces “dif- “A fourth quarter slowdown is not likely ficult choices” as the price of oil, its main to derail the economy from growing at close export, falls. to the 2.2 percent trend rate in 2016,” HSBC The ruble has crashed to record lows in analysts said. recent days and officials now expect an eco- nomic contraction in 2016. Markets are also GLOBAL GROWTH IN FOCUS bracing for a rate review in Japan on Jan. 28- The Fed will lay its cards on the table days 29, as speculation grows that the central after the European Central Bank signalled bank may expand its stimulus program. that further easing of its monetary policy Economists expect a cut in inflation forecasts, was likely in March. Tumbling oil prices have and some are not ruling out more surprises. sunk the outlook for inflation, pushing the “We maintain our core scenario of no eas- ECB to flag its willingness to act again after a ing at this meeting, but acknowledge the risk deposit rate cut and an extension of its gov- of an unexpected announcement from the ernment bond-buying program in BoJ next week,” said Betty Rui Wang, an econ- December. omist at Standard Chartered. The Bank of A preliminary reading of consumer prices Japan meeting coincides with data, including in the euro-zone due on Jan. 29 should give on factory output and jobs for December, that more clues. Prices are expected to have risen could reinforce fears the economy is still strug- 0.4 percent year-on-year, though economists gling after years of stagnation. —Reuters MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 BUSINESS ECB dovish comments lift market sentiments

NBK MONEY MARKETS REPORT

KUWAIT: Last week, global markets 1.0796. Cable reached a 7-year low bility of further easing measures from Reserve interest rate hike in March. remained on a downturn as negative against the US dollar amid data showing the European Central Bank helped Given the renewed weakness in oil figures from China and the US contin- that the pay growth in the UK slowed, boost the price of oil. Oil managed to prices which touched new lows on ued to bring down market sentiments. indicating that the Bank of England will regain its losses at the end of the week Wednesday; economists say the However, sentiments were lifted a more likely keep rates unchanged for now. The and closed at 32.19 after touching a low expected reversion to the Fed’s 2 per- dovish statement than anticipated from pound opened the week at 1.4258 and of 26.18 due to an unexpected jump in cent inflation target is slowing. The the ECB meeting pushing global equi- dropped to a low of 1.4080. Nevertheless, US oil inventories. Labor department said its Consumer ties to stage a slight rebound at the end the Pound managed to stage a comeback Price Index slipped by 0.1 percent after of the week. On the foreign exchange and closed the week higher amid disap- Disappointing housing figures being unchanged in November. side the US dollar strengthened last pointing figures from the US. The curren- New-home construction in the US Despite last month’s drop, the CPI rose week as divergence in monetary policy cy closed the week at 1.4265. unexpectedly fell in December, indicat- 0.7 percent in the 12 months through between the Fed and other major cen- The Japanese Yen opened the week ing that the industry lost some momen- December, the biggest gain in a year. tral banks continues to widen. Demand with a strong footing, gaining amid the tum entering 2016. Residential starts The data followed a 0.5 percent for the greenback has risen against the risk-off trade triggered by PBoC devalu- declined 2.5 percent to a 1.15 million increase in November. Economists had Euro and the Yen on the back of grow- ation of the Yuan a week earlier. Still, the annualized rate, from the prior month’s forecasted an unchanged CPI in ing expectations for further monetary Yen managed to lose that momentum revised 1.18 million pace, a Commerce December and rising 0.8 percent from a easing from the ECB and the BoJ on the amid improved sentiments and rising Department report showed year ago. back of the recent negative develop- expectations of further easing from the Wednesday. Economists called for an The so-called core CPI, which ments in the global financial scene. Bank of Japan. The USD/JPY opened the increase to 1.2 million. Additionally, removes any food and energy costs, The Euro opened the week at 1.0915 week at 116.98. The pair dropped to a building permits, a measure of future edged up 0.1 percent in December necessary to review and possibly percent in December, matching fore- and managed to reach a short lived low of 115.98. On Friday the Dollar starts, has also dropped from its previ- after advancing 0.2 percent in each of reconsider our monetary policy stance casts and following a flat reading high at 1.0976. The currency quickly surged against the Yen to close at ous level from 1.28 million to 1.23 mil- the prior three months. In the 12 at our next meeting in early March.” November. Jobless rate in the UK unex- weakened after European Central Bank 118.78. lion. Expectations were for a drop to months through December, the core The euro zone inflation outlook is pectedly fell to the lowest level since President Mario Draghi said on On the commodities side, volatility in 1.20 million. CPI increased 2.1 percent, the largest now “significantly lower’” than expect- 2006 in November, while the average Thursday that it would be necessary to oil prices continued to be a major point rise since July 2012, after climbing 2.0 ed in December, Draghi said. Risks earnings index increased less than “review and reconsider” the bank’s mon- of concern for investors as crude traded Weak inflation data percent in November. from second round effects from oil forecast, painting a mixed picture of etary policy stance at its next meeting below $27 for the first time since US consumer prices unexpectedly prices should be “monitored closely,” the labor market. The Office for in March, when new economic projec- September, 2003. Meanwhile, oil prices fell in December as the cost of energy Philly Fed manufacturing index he added. Draghi said inflation expec- National Statistics said that the rate of tions become available. The statement bounced from 12-year lows and man- products and food declined, offering Manufacturing activity in the tations will be low in coming months, unemployment dipped to 5.1 percent brought down the euro to a low of aged to close higher as dovish com- signs of weak inflation that further Philadelphia-region contracted for the and will only pick up later this year. in the three months to November from 1.0778. The currency closed the week at ments from Mario Draghi on the possi- diminish expectations of a Federal second straight month in January, The ECB left the deposit rate at -0.3 5.2 percent in the preceding three- dampening optimism over the health percent earlier Thursday after month period. Analysts had expected of the economy. In a report, the Federal December’s cut and held the bench- the jobless rate to hold steady at 5.2 Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said that mark refinancing rate steady at 0.05 percent. The report also showed that its manufacturing index improved to - percent. The bank expects interest the claimant count fell by a seasonally 3.5 this month from December’s read- rates to remain at present or lower lev- adjusted 4,300 in December, compared ing of -5.9. Analysts had expected the els for an extended period of time, to expectations for an increase of 2,500 index to rise to -5.0 in December. Draghi said. He noted that asset pur- people, and following a drop of 2,200 a chases under the banks quantitative month earlier, whose figure was Claims higher but still below 300k easing program were proceeding revised from a previously reported The number of people who filed for smoothly and added that it clear its gain of 3,900. unemployment assistance in the US monetary policies were working. Meanwhile, the average earnings rose unexpectedly last week to the Finally, he reiterated that the ECB gov- index, including bonuses, rose by a highest level since April. The number of erning council has the determination seasonally adjusted 2.0 percent in the Americans filing for initial jobless ben- to act and there are no limits within its three months to November, missing efits in the week to January 15 rose by mandate. forecasts for a gain of 2.1 percent and 10,000 to 293,000 from the previous after increasing by 2.4 percent in the week’s total of 283,000, compared to German ZEW economic sentiment three months to October. Excluding forecast for a fall of 5,000. The rise in German economic sentiment dete- bonuses, wages rose by 1.9 percent, jobless claims could indicate some loss riorated less than expected in January, above expectations for 1.8 percent and of momentum in the labor market underlining optimism over the health following a 2.0 percent increase in the amid a global economic slowdown of the eurozone’s largest economy. In a three months to October. That may and financial market volatility. report, the ZEW Centre for Economic add to the case for the Bank of England However, claims have now remained Research said that its index of German to keep its benchmark interest rate at a below the 300,000 mark, which is asso- economic sentiment declined by 5.9 record-low 0.5 percent for now. ciated with strong labor market condi- points to 10.2 this month from tions, for 46 straight weeks. December’s reading of 16.1. Analysts China’s GDP lower had expected the index to fall by 7.9 Chinese GDP rose 1.6 percent quar- ECB will reconsider monetary policy points to 8.2 in January. Meanwhile, ter-on-quarter, slightly lower than the European Central Bank head Mario the index of euro zone economic senti- 1.7 percent expected, while year-on- Draghi stated that financial market tur- ment dropped to a 14-month low of year GDP for the same quarter slowed moil would make it necessary to recon- 22.7 in January from 33.9 a month ear- to the weakest level since the financial sider its monetary policy stance in lier, missing forecasts for 27.9. crisis at 6.8 percent. Concerns about March, raising the prospect of further China’s policy making abilities, have stimulus measures. Draghi added that UK inflation rises shot to the top of global investors’ risk while the recovery in the Euro area was Consumer price inflation in the UK lists for 2016 after a renewed plunge in moving ahead, risks to the outlook inched up more than expected in its stock markets and currency. Weak “remain on the downside”, citing the December, but concerns over defla- exports, factory overcapacity, slowing fragility of the global economy and tionary pressures remained. In a report, investment, a soft property market and geopolitical risks. “As we start the New the UK Office for National Statistics said high debt levels are all compounding Year, downside risks have increased the rate of consumer price inflation problems for the PBoC. again amid heightened uncertainty rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.2 per- about emerging market economies’ cent last month, above expectations Kuwait growth prospects, volatility in financial for a gain of 0.1 percent and up from Kuwaiti dinar at 0.30340 and commodity markets and geopoliti- 0.1 percent in November. The USDKWD opened at 0.30340 cal risks,” he said. “It will therefore be Consumer price inflation rose 0.1 yesterday morning. Oil markets remain under pressure in January KAMCO INVESTMENT RESEARCH REPORT China is threatening KUWAIT: Continued high oil inventory levels pouring in the market. On the positive side, January-16 following trade and manufacturing globally during 2015 coupled with rising oil talks of production cut gained momentum data from China coupled with depressed senti- the world economy supply with OPEC producing at historical high after Oman said it is ready to slash production ments since the start of the year on the back of production rates led to a second consecutive by 5-10 percent if other countries decide to do continued weakness in global economic fun- By Hayder Tawfik real slump. This kind of big slow down happened in Japan in the year of fall in oil price in 2015. OPEC oil price so in order to stabilize oil prices. damentals. The latest update from the IMF fur- early 90s, when Japan was going through huge economic boom declined by 40 percent during the year after a The economic slowdown in China, which is ther lowered global growth expectations to 3.4 hould we worry about economic slowdown in China, the lead by the construction industry and financed by very cheap 52 percent slump during 2014 as the supply undergoing a transition to a more consumer- percent and 3.6 percent for 2016 and 2017 turmoil in the world financial markets or the sharp fall in oil credit. Japan is still suffering from the bust which followed the demand gap worsened also due to an excep- led expansion, was one of the key factors that from 3.1 percent in 2015 as the agency expects Sprice? The latest economic data from China are not encour- boom and let deflation take hold on the economy. All this created tionally mild winter temperatures in the US and affected global economic growth and oil growth pickup to be more gradual than previ- aging at all. They are actually worrying. China’s Gross Domestic “Deflation” and this is what we should worry about. When con- Europe during Q4-15. The year also saw two demand. According to preliminary estimates, ously expected. Advanced economies are Products has been weakening over the past few years. sumer prices, investment costs and export prices start falling at OPEC meetings that failed to decide on pro- China recorded a GDP growth of 6.9 percent in expected to post uneven and modest recovery Remarkably, the official data shows that GDP has been weaken- the same time in the second biggest export lead economy in the duction caps for its member countries despite 2015 (7.3 percent in 2014), the lowest growth whereas growth in emerging and developing ing by around 0.1 to 0.3 each quarter. It seems that the figure is lit- world, then we indeed should worry. the situation severely affecting the respective recorded in the past 25 years (since 1990), after markets are expected to be diverse but chal- erally massaged so not cause havoc in the market. I am not sur- The rest of the world should be fully alerted to this and should state budgets. consistent decline in quarterly GDP growth lenging. prised if the GDP numbers is literally engineered and take drastic measures to prevent their own economies Moving into 2016, oil market saw further during the year. The country also recorded 10 Oil demand growth in 2016 was also manipulated by the authority. But the most worrying from importing deflation. Europe and to lesser extent pressure at the start of the year when econom- consecutive months of PMI contraction record- increased slightly to 1.26 mb/d to average is the deflationary wave that is taking hold there. I USA should equip themselves as the lenders of the last ic sanctions over Iran were lifted sending oil to ed during December-15. around 94.17 mb/d according to the latest strongly believe that deflation in China will cause resort and make sure that their economies do not suf- its lowest level since 2003. OPEC oil closed at $ The uneven distribution of growth across OPEC report. However, the latest IEA report havoc around the world. I hope they don’t start to fer from default. One of the main reasons that caused 23.6/barrel on 18-January-16, a decline of the globe was also one of the key factors that says, while highlighting the negative impact of export their deflation to the rest of the world. the financial crises back in 2008 was the collapse of almost 26 percent as compared $ 31.3/barrel affected oil prices during the year. Moreover, a strong $ on oil importers, oil demand is The Chinese government has been acting quickly Leman Brothers bank. At present my biggest fear is at the end of 2015. The lifting of sanctions over risk is expected to be on the downside for a expected to grow at a relatively slower pace of by lowering interest rates. I am sure they will try another financial crises caused by some countries Iran could add another 0.5-0.6 mb/d of addi- majority of the economies, including fragile 1.2 mb/d. According to OPEC, oil demand in again and again and for sure they will come up with going bust. I do not see these events unraveling but tional oil in the market by mid-2016. However, recovery in Europe and other emerging and OECD Americas is expected to rise on the back some other measures. They have spent around $600 the risks are there and should not be ignored. in order to reach pre-sanction levels, Iran could developing markets partially offset by appar- of economic improvements in US and Mexico billion to support the stock market with no luck. What a way to China and India have become very competitive and now are require an investment of around $ 150 Bn, ently improving fundamentals in the US. On whereas Canada is expected to see slight waste money. They have been trying to resist devaluing their cur- moving up the scale, which is a big challenge for manufacturers which could delay the production ramp-up the other hand, oil importers that got a windfall demand growth. For OECD Europe, oil demand rency. But as a typical of any managed economy, they are trying in US and Europe. If it becomes more challenging than they could considerably. gain from lower oil prices were affected due to is expected to slightly decline due to economic to do it step by step and at their leisure. One pure economic way experience collapse in prices with a big deflationary impact for According to the IEA, 2016 is once again the strengthening dollar, especially after the uncertainty and downside risks on related to to counter deflation is to devalue your currency. China is suffering consumers. Some industries such electrical, electronic and the expected to see supply exceed demand by US rate hike decision in December-15 and the taxation policies and fuel substitution. OECD from a slump in the housing market. Most of its competitors in auto industry are complaining about overproduction and price almost 1 mb/d on the back of a first half loaded competitive devaluation of emerging market Asia Pacific is expected to see a steeper slide in Asia have been busy devaluing their currencies. Because China is weakness. Again it brings back the memory of the Japanese supply that will decline slightly during the sec- export oriented currencies. oil demand on the back of bearish economic not an open economy, it will be difficult for outsiders to get a true boom and bust story. These problems are not yet severe to worry ond half. The agency expects non-OPEC pro- Average monthly oil prices reached the forecasts for Japan partially offset by higher picture of the severity of the crisis. about but they do need immediate attention. World leaders from duction to decline by 0.6 mb/d, slightly lower lowest level since April-04 to reach $ 33.6/b demand in South Korea. In the Middle East, The majority of the big banks in China are state owned and the G20 should act together with strong determination and put than the 0.66 mb/d decline expected by OPEC during December-15. The year saw a decline of Saudi Arabia is expected to be the key driver of are run by politburo members. Some state owned industries such measures in place to prevent a worldwide deflation that started in in its latest monthly report; however, this $ 20.7/b to reach $ 31.27/b for OPEC oil. The demand growth partially offset by subsidy as utilities, railways and constructions have been experiencing China. —Rasameel. decline is expected to be offset by more Iran oil price had already declined to $ 23.58/b on 18- reductions. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 BUSINESS

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KUWAIT/DAVOS: Zain Group, a can overcome collectively through efforts are an opportunity for us to tal that links students, parents and leading mobile telecom innovator our desire of a more enabling envi- review the factors that can aid teachers through a digital platform in eight markets across the Middle ronment. From Zain’s perspective, socio-economic development from to improve communication East and Africa, announces the our ties to the region run deep, and a technological standpoint, and between the parties and make publication of its latest thought- we look forward to continuing to also gives us a chance to draw educational process more effective leadership report entitled, ‘Bringing render support and inspiration that attention to our own efforts given that has seen over 650,000 register; the Future Closer with Innovation: results in positive outcome to peo- our position as a leading regional * The Smart Schools Project in Pursuing Innovation as a Means to ple’s lives even beyond our own innovator.” Jordan highlighting the long-term Overcome Challenges in the MENA customer base.” Bringing the Future Closer with benefits of familiarizing young stu- Region’. The report sets about illus- The challenges faced by the Innovation: Pursuing Innovation as dents with the application of mod- trating the indispensable role of ern technology and exposing them innovation in achieving sustainable to the tangible benefits that can be development and transitioning produced through ICT. towards a knowledge-based econ- * Zain’s support of the MIT MOSCOW: Currency exchange rates are illuminated at an exchange office as omy, from a regional perspective. Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab Startup the street is reflected on a shop window in downtown Moscow yesterday. —AP The report was revealed and dis- Competition to enable and assist cussed at the annual World aspiring entrepreneurs from across Oil wealth a blessing, but energy Economic Forum held in Davos, the region convert their startup Switzerland 20-23 January, 2016, concepts into viable businesses; dependence a curse for Russia where Zain Group CEO, Scott * The Light a Candle App in Gegenheimer; Emre Gurkan, Group Lebanon aimed at enabling people MOSCOW: Abundant oil and gas deposits its business climate and fight corruption to Chief Strategy and Business to easily donate money towards have been a blessing for Russia, but they attract foreign investment. Development Officer; and the assisting children with cancer that now feel like a curse as low prices propel The Kremlin has also acknowledged the Group’s Head of Corporate saw over 770,000 people donate the country into a deep economic crisis that need for change. In his 2006 address to the Sustainability, Jennifer Suleiman, * The Family Reconnection shows no signs of abating. nation, Putin called on his government to conveyed the findings of the report Project that was launched in Jordan The ruble fell to a record dollar low this restructure the economy to focus on new liaising with leading political and and South Sudan as part of an past week as global crude prices slumped technologies. economic personalities from across effort to reconnect displaced peo- to 12-year lows, highlighting at once In a much-touted modernisation drive, the globe. ple that were separated from their Russia’s vulnerability to changing oil prices the country founded Rosnano, a public Importantly the report empha- loved ones due to conflict. and the fact President Vladimir Putin’s gov- holding company specialised in nanotech- sised the role of innovation in * The strategic collaboration ernment has squandered opportunities to nology, and Skolkovo, an innovation centre enabling the MENA region to over- with neXgen Group, a leading diversify the economy. that has branded itself as Russia’s answer to come prevalent socioeconomic regional smart city advisory and Although the ruble bounced back on Silicon Valley. deficits and promote overall human consulting services provider, for the Friday after a slight recovery of the oil mar- But these initiatives have not come any- development. It addresses the purpose of deploying smart city ket, the head of Russia’s central bank, Elvira where close to challenging the deep-rooted question: “How can stakeholders in solutions across the region Nabiullina, publicly called for “structural public energy giants. “It’s easy to talk a good the region come together to fur- * Zain’s strategic partnership efforts to diversify the economy.” game on the need to diversify away from ther society’s innovative capacity as with Uber across the region that “We should not expect to see oil prices energy sectors, but the reality of pushing a means to driving sustainable, provides Zain customers preferen- return to high levels,” she said. Calls to through the necessary reforms is more diffi- inclusive growth while promoting region include: High unemploy- a Means to Overcome Regional tial treatment when using the Uber develop long-neglected sectors of the cult,” said Neil Shearing, chief emerging human development?” ment (particularly amongst youth); Challenges in the MENA Region platform, with Uber drivers benefit- economy come as the government faces markets economist at Capital Economics. Commenting on the release of insufficient economic growth; showcases Zain’s innovation by ting from preferred telecommuni- increasing pressure to react to a crippling “This is particularly true when oil and gas the report, Scott Gegenheimer said, undiversified economies; ongoing providing case studies undertaken cation services .The partnership economic crisis that has seen inflation soar prices are high.” High oil prices in fact “Given the high-profile nature of socio-economic exclusion and by the company including: was recognized by the global and Russians’ purchasing power shrink dra- enabled the authorities to adopt a wait- our business, and the profound inequality; high rates of displace- * The Zain Innovation Center research company, Ovum, as the matically. Booming oil prices in the 2000s and-see policy and prop up the ruble, impact it is able to have on people’s ment due to conflict; an innovation (ZINC) in Jordan dedicated for the most innovative service for when Putin came to power helped fill state which in turn made Russian companies less lives across the region, we feel it is deficit; and high vulnerability to cli- purpose of building and empower- November 2015 due to the vast coffers and ushered in an era of prosperity. competitive on the international stage. our responsibility to publish infor- mate change, to name only some. ing a more vibrant entrepreneurial opportunities for mutual gain that Oil wealth, which led to higher living stan- “Ironically, it could be the collapse in mation that offers insights into how Jennifer Suleiman commented, ecosystem in Jordan; it provides. dards after the country’s tumultuous transi- global energy prices and the ruble that innovation and technology in gen- “Corporate social responsibility * The Zain Great Idea challenge Zain believes that by developing tion to capitalism in the 1990s, also boosted gives the biggest spur to diversification,” eral can drastically improve living and sustainability initiatives repre- in Kuwait that aims to generate the innovative capacity of the Putin’s popularity. 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Thanks to big data, US Tech ‘Unicorns’ may be parties decode voters

WASHINGTON: If you’re an American vot- National Rifle Association, America’s lead- mauled by bear market er and have provided personal informa- ing gun lobby, also shares data on its tion to a company, chances are data members. “They buy information from groups have shared it with political par- corporate databases... or newspaper sub- WASHINGTON: After a year in which free-flowing not quite at that dire stage now,” but that if capital 7,800. But it noted that some companies which ties to help them target potential sup- scriptions,” Thurman explained. capital fueled unprecedented growth in so-called dries up it may mean that promising startups would went public “fell short of recent private valuations, porters. One of the main players is NGP Clients may not necessarily be aware tech “unicorns,” the sector is bracing for a slowdown either need to sell themselves or “hit the wall.” no doubt rattling VC (venture capital) investor confi- VAN, which manages the Democratic of this practice, which is legal. “They want which could thin the herd. Unicorns-a term coined dence.” National Committee’s database. to know what type of product you for the usually rare billion-dollar, privately funded Wounded unicorns The most prominent in the group was mobile Its name recently surfaced in connec- bought,” said Sasha Issenberg, a journalist startups-have been proliferating in the United The unicorn population-estimated by Forbes this payments startup Square, led by Twitter co-founder tion with a data breach blamed on a who has published a book, “The Victory States, China and elsewhere as venture capital month at 173 companies worth a collective $585 Jack Dorsey. Square debuted with a market value of technical glitch that enabled the cam- Lab,” on the issue. These groups also sell investors bet on the next Google or Facebook. billion-is still alive, but some are hurting. CB Insights just over $4 billion-well below the $6 billion value paign of presidential hopeful Bernie their clients’ email address. But the prospect of a “bear market” where prices chief executive Anand Sanwal said he expects to see assigned by private investors in its latest funding Sanders to access voter data belonging With NGP VAN’s information, the are falling, combined with other factors, could send “some wounded unicorns” but that there is still capi- round. Square’s value has since fallen to less than to rival Hillary Clinton. The incident raises Democratic Party can also learn about unicorns running for cover, observers who follow tal available from private equity and corporate ven- $3.4 billion. Most stock markets are in a “correction,” questions about the reach of the data- someone’s educational history and, often, the sector say. Some warnings have already ture funds. which means a drop of 10 percent from their peak. base. “Everyone” is in there, Kevin his or her ethnic background. Then comes appeared. “Some of those companies that got ahead of Some Asian bourses however are in “bear” terri- Thurman, who served as Clinton’s deputy the analysis. A 30-year-old woman living Venture-backed startups globally saw a 30 per- themselves on valuation are going to have difficult tory, with a drop of 20 percent or more, and the Internet director during her last cam- in a major city and subscribed to a literary cent drop in funding in the fourth quarter to $27.2 conversations. You can’t just keep selling your tech-heavy Nasdaq has neared that level. Unicorns, paign in 2008, said with a laugh. magazine, for example, has more chances billion, according to a survey by KPMG and research dream and your business model can’t be raising say analysts, may not fare well if the bears come out “Every voter in America, since 2004, of voting for Clinton than a 60-year-old firm CB Insights. A separate survey by 451 Research venture capital.” Charlie O’Donnell at Brooklyn in force.”If indeed venture firms start keeping their dead or alive.” NGP VAN estimates the man living in a southern rural area and found more than half of tech investment bankers Bridge Ventures said many of the unicorns are likely money in their own bank accounts-rather than number at about 195 million people, far subscribed to a magazine for weapons predict venture funding will tighten in 2016 com- to face a “down round” if they need new capital, investing it in entrepreneurs-that could well put more than the 146 million currently regis- enthusiasts. When they go knocking on pared to last year, the most bearish outlook since because investors are more cautious. “It’s not that startups under pressure, resulting in slower growth tered as voters. Voter registration is not doors, volunteers can then further refine the 2008-2009 recession. they’re concerned that the world will implode and rates and lower valuations for those that survive mandatory in the United States. The the data by asking whether the targeted Some unicorns have seen their value slashed by that startups won’t still be a good bet over the long tighter times as well as dramatic flameouts for those database even includes adults who don’t voter cares more, say, about climate investors aiming to put a fair market evaluation on term,” O’Donnell said in a blog post. “They’re just.... that don’t,” wrote 451 Research analyst Brenon Daly vote but who the campaigns hope to change or ending unemployment. their holdings. Mutual fund company Fidelity last busy taking care of their wounded.” in a blog. Daly said the message has not yet reached convince to turn out ahead of the Among NGP VAN’s dozens of competi- year marked down the value of its Snapchat hold- A report by KPMG and research firm CB Insights the unicorns. November presidential election. tors, some, like Aristotle, build their own ings by 25 percent. In this scenario, cash-hungry uni- found that 2015 was a blockbuster year for startup “Most money-burning startups continue to run All Democratic candidates-be they databases. NationBuilder said that French corns are likely to face a harder time getting fresh venture funding despite a cooling in the fourth their businesses as if there’s an inexhaustible supply involved in local elections or a major political parties have sought its services capital, said David Erickson, a senior fellow at the quarter. For the year, the report found $128 billion in of money,” he said. “But at some point this year, start- presidential campaign-use NGP VAN’s ahead of next year’s presidential election University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and for- venture funding for startups, up 44 percent from ups will almost certainly have to make different data. The group helps candidates better in France. The Republicans have a similar mer Wall Street banker who led technology share 2014. The number of funding rounds was more than decisions than they’ve made up to now.” — AFP target potential voters by avoiding those database. offerings. who will probably never cast a ballot for them, thereby reducing campaign ‘I agree’ ‘Down rounds’ expenses. Other companies provide simi- Data collectors stress that all informa- The weak stock market could impact private Cuba, US officials hold lar services, including for Republicans. “If tion is obtained legally, even if Americans firms, potentially forcing a delay of initial public you’re Trump, you’re not going to lose are often unaware of the extent of par- offerings (IPOs). If they need to raise cash, it will like- time targeting the Clinton list,” explained ties’ knowledge of details of their person- ly be “down rounds” with a lower valuation than pri- meeting on Internet Brandi Travis, spokeswoman for NGP VAN al lives. “When you click the ‘I agree’ but- or funding efforts. “Valuations will typically come competitor Aristotle. ton online, you don’t read the text, but down,” he said. you accept that your information can be Since the “softness might be prolonged, venture HAVANA: Cuban officials say they have accompanied the delegation to Cuba, but Companies sell data sold,” said Joe Curran, founder of Filpac, capital firms will be focused on protecting the value held two days of talks with their US coun- did not give details. The Democratic Party has been col- which works with the Republicans. in their existing investments rather than spending terparts about telecommunications and Washington and Havana have advanced lecting information on American voters “It’s public, but people just don’t too much time investing in new names.” Erickson the Internet. A Foreign Ministry statement talks on several areas of cooperation in the since 2004. The data-which includes a know it.” Thurman agreed-people simply said there are some similarities to the tech bubble of says the two sides exchanged views on year since they announced they would registered voter’s age, address and histo- don’t realize what they’ve signed up for 1999-2000, even if the new firms have more devel- using the Internet for “economic and social restore diplomatic relations. Internet ry of election participation-is based on when they register on a website. “There oped business models. “While the companies are development.” access in Cuba remains rare and restricted. more seasoned, the issue similar to 2000 is that publicly available information. is no way our information can compete The Ministry said Friday that Cuban offi- Last year the government opened up many are burning tons of cash,” he said. Through brokers, the party then buys with the information the private compa- cials also raised complaints about the US dozens of public Wi-Fi hotspots, though information that private companies own nies have on Americans,” Thurman “If they need to have enough cash to break even and if they can’t access capital either through the Embargo’s negative impact on island com- the cost is prohibitively expensive for on their clients. CVS pharmacies, for added. “Compared to them, we are munications. It said US telecom executives many islanders at $2 per hour. — AP example, sell this information. The weak.” — AFP public markets or private markets, then they face more difficult decisions.” Erickson added that “we are ‘Citizen Scientists’: Drones to map El Nino flooding

LONG BEACH: Forget about selfies. In ect was a novel way to raise public aware- California, residents are using smart- ness. Because of its crowd-sourced nature, phones and drones to document the however, they cautioned the experiment coastline’s changing face. Starting this might not yield all the results organizers month, The Nature Conservancy is asking hoped for, although any additional infor- tech junkies to capture the flooding and mation is useful. “It’s not the answer, but coastal erosion that come with El Nino, a it’s a part of the answer,” said Lesley Ewing, weather pattern that’s bringing California senior coastal engineer with the California its wettest winter in years - and all in the Coastal Commission. “It’s a piece of the name of science. puzzle.” The idea is that crowd-sourced, geot- In California, nearly a half-million peo- agged images of storm surges and flood- ple, $100 billion in property and critical ed beaches will give scientists a brief win- infrastructure such as schools, power dow into what the future holds as sea lev- plants and highways will be at risk of inun- els rise from global warming, a sort of a dation during a major storm if sea level ris- crystal ball for climate change. Images es another 4.6 feet - a figure that could from the latest drones, which can produce become a reality by 2100, according to a high-resolution 3D maps, will be particu- 2009 Pacific Institute study commissioned larly useful and will help scientists deter- by three state agencies. mine if predictive models about coastal Beaches that Californians take for flooding are accurate, said Matt Merrifield, granted will become much smaller or dis- the organization’s chief technology officer. appear altogether and El Nino-fueled storms will have a similar effect, if only ‘Projected models’ temporarily, said William Patzert, a clima- “We use these projected models and tologist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion they don’t quite look right, but we’re lack- Laboratory. “When you get big winter ing any empirical evidence,” he said. “This storm surge like they want to document, is essentially a way of ‘ground truthing’ you tend to lose a lot of beach,” he said. “In those models.” Experts on climate change a way, it’s like doing a documentary on the agreed that El Nino-fueled storms offer a future. It’ll show you what your beaches KITCHENER: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, back second right, and Jennifer Flanagan, center, president and CEO of Actua, pose with sneak peak of the future and said the proj- will look like in 100 years.” — AP children after taking part in a virtual reality tour at the new Google Canada Development headquarters. — AP MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE E-cigarettes tied to reduced odds of quitting smoking

NEW YORK: People who use electronic ciga- people use e-cigarettes for various reasons, Overall, they found that the odds of quitting very effective in getting people to quit, Haven, Connecticut. “This is not the fault of rettes, or e-cigarettes, are less likely to quit including to quit smoking traditional ciga- smoking were 28 percent lower among peo- Glantz said. “By blunting that effect it’s proba- the authors; abundant, published, method- traditional cigarettes than people who don’t rettes and to get nicotine where smoking is ple who used e-cigarettes. The researchers bly undermining the motivation to quit and ologically rigorous studies simply do not use the devices, suggests a fresh look at prohibited. Both motivations are themes in also checked to see if the results differed the ease of people quitting,” he said. exist yet,” he wrote. some past research. “The odds of quitting e-cigarette marketing, they add. For the new depending on study design, how e-cigarette Glantz said that it’s important to were 28 percent lower for smokers using e- review, the researchers searched online cata- use was measured, the type of people includ- Gold standard acknowledge that some people have quit cigarettes than people not using e-ciga- logs of medical research to find studies that ed in the study and other factors - but the Dr Steven Bernstein wrote in an editorial smoking while using e-cigarettes. Also, four rettes,” said senior author Stanton Glantz, of examined e-cigarette use and whether peo- results were the same. “So e-cigarettes are that one limitation of the new review is that of the studies included in the new analysis the Center for Tobacco Control Research and ple ultimately quit smoking. They found 38 not only not helping people quit smoking, the odds of quitting smoking were not tied found e-cigarettes may help people quit Education at the University of California, San studies, and combined the data from the 20 they’re also inhibiting people from quitting to e-cigarette use when the analysis was smoking. But, he said the overall pattern was Francisco. E-cigarettes often look like tradi- that compared cigarette smokers who use e- smoking,” Glantz told Reuters Health. restricted to people who said they actually that e-cigarettes reduced the odds of quit- tional cigarettes, but they use a battery and cigarettes to smokers who don’t use them. It’s not clear why e-cigarettes may keep wanted to quit. An additional limitation is ting. The researchers also caution that these heating device to deliver nicotine and possi- The 20 studies with combined data were people from quitting smoking, he said. One that there are only two randomized trials - results may changes in the future. “It may be bly other flavorings through vapors instead conducted between 2008 and 2015, and possible explanation is that e-cigarettes have considered the “gold standard” of medical that next year or five years from now the of smoke. they all followed between one hundred to been allowing people to get their nicotine fix research - included in the analysis, wrote product will be different along with the mar- Glantz and his co-author Sara Kalkhoran several thousand smokers, typically tracking in otherwise smoke-free environments. Bernstein, of the Yale School of Medicine and keting and regulation environments,” said write in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine that them from a few months to a couple of years. Smoke-free environments are known to be the Yale School of Public Health in New Glantz. —Reuters Rio carnival goers celebrate Olympics but fear Zika virus

RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio de Janeiro car- host the Olympics and with the looking around at the samba Those fears are accelerating with the nival goers celebrated the coming country facing deep recession, a dancers. “The gods of Rio are mixing onset of carnival and mass tourist Olympics on Saturday and even vast corruption scandal and an with the gods of the whole world.” travel. So Saturday’s “bloco” did its turned fear of infection from Zika- impeachment attempt against The bloco also had a serious health bit to aid the anti-mosquito war, carrying mosquitos into an excuse President Dilma Rousseff, Brazilians message for the carnival, now in its including with a song advising to party. Participants at one of the can’t wait to lighten the gloom. warm-up phase ahead of the five against leaving stagnant water many street parties popping up “We picked the Rio Olympics official days and their famously elab- around. “If the water stops, the lar- ahead of the official carnival, which theme for the party because this orate parades. vae come, the larvae give birth to starts February 5, honored the city’s year our magnificent city Rio will Authorities in Brazil are strug- the mosquito,” one verse went. hosting of the Summer Games in six host the Games for the first time,” gling to combat the rapid spread of “Chase away Zika!” months by dressing in ancient Greek said Chico Nogueira, coordinator of the Zika virus, which is carried by Condoms were handed out and a garb. Some came as Dionysus, oth- the pre-carnival event known as a mosquitoes and is believed to cause pregnant woman danced in a ers as Aphrodite and Apollo. Rio will “bloco.” “This is the veritable serious defects among babies born Wonder Woman costume. “This ill- be the first South American city to Olympus of the gods here,” he said, to women infected while pregnant. ness is very serious and everyone must take part in fighting it,” Nogueira said. “Everyone must unite against the mosquito.” “I’m very wor- ried,” said Paula Couto de Oliveira, 35, who is 19 weeks along and was attending the “bloco.” “Every few hours I put repellant on, but I’m try- ing not to go crazy or become para- noid and not going out of the HONG KONG: Three girls walk in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong house,” she said. “But I’m avoiding yesterday. —AFP dark clothes because they attract mosquitos.” —AFP Hong Kong hit by coldest temperatures in nearly 60 years

HONG KONG: A cold snap gripped Hong avoid prolonged exposure to wintry Kong yesterday, with residents shivering winds,” read a note published on a city as temperatures plunged to the lowest government website. point in nearly 60 years and frost dusted As the mercury dropped, curious resi- the mountaintops of a city accustomed dents flocked to higher ground in search to a subtropical climate. Weather officials of frost, according to local broadcaster issued a frost warning saying an “intense Cable TV. “It’s very cold, my feet feel cold surge” was in place, coupled with numb,” a young visitor to Tai Mo Shan, the chilling monsoon winds. Morning tem- highest mountain in Hong Kong, told the peratures dropped to 3.3 Celsius (38 broadcaster. Screenshots of flakes also Fahrenheit) in urban areas of the south- swamped social media but weather fore- ern Chinese city, where most buildings casters said the precipitation was “rain lack central heating, and below freezing with small ice pellets” rather than snow. on the hills. It is the coldest weather in About 20 participants of a cross country 59 years, senior scientific officer Wong race were sent to hospital after experi- BRAZIL: A graduate student works on analyzing samples to identify the Zika virus in a laboratory at the Fiocruz institute in Rio de Wai-kin told AFP. encing symptoms associated with Janeiro. (Inset) This January 2016 image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a Zika virus, a “It is the coldest day since 1957. The hypothermia, according to local media. mosquito-borne disease that has been linked in Brazil to a large number of cases of microcephaly, a rare birth defect. —AP photos daily minimum dropped to 3.3 degrees Conditions are not expected to warm Celsius, the previous record was 2.4 up until the middle of the week, said degrees in February of 1957,” he told AFP. weather forecasters. According to the While the cold snap is by no means on Hong Kong Observatory, the coldest Classroom standing desks the scale of the weather now affecting weather occurred in January 1893, when the US and swathes of mainland China, temperatures plunged to 0 C. Meanwhile, such temperatures are a novelty for the state-run People’s Daily in China said many residents. “It is very cold and on its weibo social networking account may curb kids’ sedentary time windy over Hong Kong. People are that the city of Guangzhou recorded its advised to put on warm clothes and to first snowfall since 1929. —AFP ‘Children spend over 50 percent of the school day sitting’

NEW YORK: Standing desks in classrooms could achievement and low self-esteem. Educational benefits be an easy way to help make kids’ time in school For the current study, researchers focused on Six studies looked at physical activity and didn’t less sedentary, a new research review suggests. standing desks used in first through sixth grades. find significant changes with standing desks by The study team analyzed data from eight previ- Students in the studies were around eight to 12 looking at total steps or time spent stepping. ously published papers and found, not surpris- years old, on average, and the studies ranged in Limitations of the analysis include the small number ingly, that kids spent more time on their feet size from eight to 337 participants. Four studies of studies and participants, as well as the varied when these desks were used instead of tradition- were done in the US, while two were from New ways of tracking the impact of standing desks, the al classroom furniture. Standing desks were also Zealand and one was in Germany. An additional authors acknowledge. More research is needed to linked to a decrease in sitting time ranging from article included data from Australia and the UK. determine whether standing desks might be cost- 59 to 64 minutes per school day. “In schools, chil- The types of desks varied across the studies, with effective or feasible to provide in schools, and addi- dren spend over 50 percent of the school day sit- some configurations fixed at a standing height tional studies are also necessary to assess any poten- ting - traveling to school, during class, at lunch, and other adjustable options that allowed stu- tial health or educational benefits of standing desks. sometimes during recess, traveling home after dents to alternate between sitting and standing Still, the preliminary evidence on standing desks school, etc,” said lead study author Karl Minges of throughout the day. points to their potential to help reduce sitting time the Yale School of Nursing in Connecticut. Five of the studies tracked the effect of these and increase standing time among elementary chil- “While one cannot easily reduce sitting time desks on standing time. In two studies, children dren, the authors conclude. “The long term use of at lunch or during transportation, changing the spent significantly more time standing after they these desks might result in reduction in sedentary classroom environment to be more conducive got the desks than they did before, with increas- behavior amongst children not just in schools but to standing seems like low-hanging fruit,” es ranging from about 26 percent to 31 percent. even outside the school environment,” said Dr Minges added by email. Reducing sedentary In two other studies, children stood 24 minutes Seema Kumar, a pediatric endocrinologist at the time among school-age children is important longer per school day with standing desks. One Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who wasn’t because inactivity is linked to a wide range of study also looked at screen time, often used as a involved in the study. “Children may become more health problems including obesity and dia- proxy for sedentary behavior, and found that active overall and these changes in behavior may betes, Minges and colleagues note in the jour- after standing desks were put in classrooms, stu- translate into better weight outcomes, improved CHINA: This photo taken on January 23, 2016 shows a ship stuck in the ice after nal Pediatrics. Some previous research has also dents spent 71 fewer minutes each day watching ability to learn and pay attention and greater self- linked sedentary time to poor academic television and using computers. esteem.” —Reuters coastal waters froze in Dalian, in northeast China’s Liaoning province. —AFP Rapid early weight gain tied to higher childhood blood pressure

CALIFORNIA: Infants and preschoolers 1.5 mmHg (millimeters of mercury) in blood pressure suggests that more rap- harder to detect in children than in ers than the infants, the study also who gain weight rapidly may have systolic blood pressure. id accumulation of fat may be impor- adults. In adults, 140/90 or greater is found. Birth size didn’t appear to influ- higher-than-average high blood pres- “Previous studies have emphasized tant,” Belfort said. “Our research does considered high. There’s no single cut- ence the results. One limitation of the sure later in childhood, a US study sug- the importance of rapid weight gain in suggest that more is not always better off in children, however. In general, chil- study is that it can’t prove that rapid gests. The relatively small differences in early infancy in determining later blood when it comes to weight gain in dren with blood pressure higher than increases in BMI directly caused higher blood pressure linked to rapid weight pressure; the current study adds to babies.” Belfort and colleagues 95 percent of children of the same gen- blood pressure, only that there was a gain for youngsters in the study may be emerging data that weight gain during reviewed data from medical records der, age and height can be diagnosed connection between the two things, tied to an increased risk of other health the preschool years is at least as impor- starting when babies were born. On with high blood pressure. Since chil- researchers acknowledge in the journal problems in young adulthood, such as tant as infancy weight gain in relation average, the kids were around 8 years dren’s blood pressures will vary greatly Hypertension. Still, the findings sup- high cholesterol or elevated blood sug- to blood pressure,” said senior study old at the mid-childhood checkup, with based on these factors as they’re grow- port recommendations that mothers ars, say the authors of the study. author Dr Mandy Belfort of Brigham average systolic blood pressure (the ing up, there is no set range that breastfeed infants until age 6 months The researchers tracked changes in and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Linear top number) of 94.4 mmHg and aver- defines normal or high. because this is linked to less weight weight and height for 957 babies up to growth - when children add pounds at age diastolic blood pressure (the bot- Kids in the study who experienced gain than formula feeding, noted Caryl age four and found the children who a steady pace - doesn’t appear to be a tom number) of 54.3 mmHg. unusually large surges in BMI before 6 Nowson, a diet and nutrition expert at gained excessive weight for their problem for childhood blood pressure, months of age or between ages 2 and 3 Deakin University in Australia who was- height, as reflected by higher body Belfort added by email. Instead, the cul- Solid food years had higher systolic blood pres- n’t involved in the study. Once young mass index (BMI), tended to have high- prit may be sudden surges in weight While ideal blood pressure for chil- sure in mid-childhood then their peers children move on to solid food, parents er blood pressure than peers at ages 6 that aren’t matched by increases in dren at any given age varies by gender who experienced steadier growth should avoid giving kids soft drinks and to 10 years. Each additional increment height. and height, this average for 8-year-olds throughout those periods. The magni- limit consumption of fruit juice, both of of BMI gained as an infant or toddler “Our finding that gain in body mass would be in a range generally consid- tude of the increase in systolic blood which can contribute to weight gain, was linked to an increase of about 1 to index, not linear growth, predicted later ered healthy. High blood pressure is pressure was larger for the preschool- Nowson added by email. —Reuters MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 HEALTH & SCIENCE Miss Universe to push HIV awareness after crowning blunder

MANILA: The new Miss Universe, back in the Philippines after an epic televised blunder sur- rounding her crowning, said yesterday she would use the attention the incident attracted to campaign for HIV awareness, especially in her home country. In front of an estimated one bil- lion television viewers worldwide last December, pageant host Steve Harvey mistakenly announced Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutierrez, as Miss Universe before correcting himself minutes later. The diamond and sapphire crown was removed from the head of a sobbing and humili- ated Gutierrez and transferred to Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines. Wurtzbach, speaking to reporters about her plans, said she would undergo a “public testing” for HIV when she returns to the United States WASHINGTON : Michael speaks during an interview with Agence France- where the Miss Universe Organization is based, Presse in Washington, DC. —AFP photos to erase the stigma surrounding the disease. “It’s about time someone like me should step up and Art soothes kids in gun-plagued hopefully others would follow suit as well,” Wurtzbach, 26, told AFP. “I think in the Washington neighborhood Philippines, there’s a bit of a stigma because we’re a conservative country.” The Philippines ‘connect, create, contribute, celebrate’ reported a 22 percent increase in HIV infections year-on-year in September last year. Four in ten MANILA: Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines waves during her WASHINGTON: This is one place where Chinatown neighborhood-brimming of the new cases were reported in the capital homecoming press conference at a hotel in Manila yesterday. —AFP Jamar feels safe, painting with other boys with art galleries, upscale dining and Manila. to escape from the gunshots that ring young professionals. The nation of 100 million people, on whom 80 percent are Catholic, is heavily influenced by she stood by her statement during the pageant’s of the capital’s biggest indoor stadiums. out through his Washington neighbor- Last year, the group raised $22,000 the church which frowns on contraceptive use. interview question, that Filipinos welcomed the Wurtzbach had been modeling since she was 11 hood, one of the most violent in the from sales of the artwork. Other works Testing for HIV is also considered taboo. In the return of US soldiers to their former bases in the and played bit roles in movies and television, United States. “Life Pieces is a good place. are loaned out to places like libraries and very few minutes she stood at the back of the Philippines. “The Americans have always been but her entertainment career never hit the big You’ll always be safe at Life Pieces,” says children’s hospitals for free, or, for a fee, Las Vegas stage at the end of the pageant, our friend, we’ve always worked with them... I league until she won Miss Universe. She lost in Jamar, who is nine years old. Ward 7 of to the headquarters of Capital One bank. Wurtzbach said she accepted being first runner- don’t think there’s anything wrong with asking the local contest twice before earning the right the US capital is home to 70,000 people “It’s very empowering for them to see up as a huge crowd of disappointed but proud for help when we need it,” she said. Beauty pag- to represent her country in the pageant. — 95 percent of them black-and has an their artwork exhibited elsewhere,” said fans in the audience waved Filipino flags. “I told eants like Miss Universe have cult followings in The Filipina-German, with her smoldering unemployment rate more than double Waldron. These collaborative acrylic myself, I fell short, what a waste. But it’s okay. I the Philippines and former titleholders go on to gaze, said she dreams of becoming a “Bond Girl” that of national levels. “I prefer to do my paint canvases are in fact a patchwork, did everything I could and the most important lucrative careers in movies and modeling. in future 007 movies. Wurtzbach, who is homework here-it’s not safe at with different pieces sewn together. thing is everybody is proud of me,” she said. That It was the Philippines’ first title in 42 years and rumored to have dated the 55-year-old Aquino, Grandma’s,” Jamar, a bit shy at times, told The boys can also paint their own was until Harvey admitted his unprecedented the third since the pageant started in the 1950s. said she would stay single to concentrate on her AFP. individual pieces. “We have fun at Life gaffe. Her one-week long homecoming itinerary duties as Miss Universe and pursue her Jamar says he wants to be a firefighter Pieces. There’s food, we read, we draw. “I was so happy. I was so excited. I couldn’t includes a grand parade around Manila today, Hollywood dream. “This is my boyfriend for now,” or a police officer when he grows up. He We do a lot of fun stuff,” said Jamar, a reg- describe it. It was something the Philippines has courtesy calls on President Benigno Aquino and a beaming Wurtzbach said, as she clutched the is among 140 boys aged three to 17 who ular here for the past four years. Michael been waiting for for a long time.” Wurtzbach said both houses of parliament and a concert at one porcupine-shaped crown on her head. —AFP attend the Life Pieces to Masterpieces has enjoyed the food, art activities and (LPTM) after school program each day. mentors at LPTM for the past five years. The non-profit group, launched in 1996, “Life Pieces is like a second home. It provides an oasis of calm for young boys helps you to get your act together.” California marijuana growers living in an area east of the US Capitol that is prone to gang activity and where Citizens of the world the murder rate is among the nation’s The organization also seeks to open up face new crop of local bans highest. LPTM “focuses on the develop- the world to these boys, with special pre- ment of black men using the concept of sentations from outside speakers and SACRAMENTO, California: When in jurisdictions that do not have members to enact cultivation bans advice. The California branch of the artwork,” explained executive director trips beyond Ward 7. “We offer them a role the California Legislature passed the laws on the books by March 1 ahead of the original cutoff date as National Organization for the Selvon Malcolm Waldron. model, an example. We provide a struc- state’s first comprehensive medical specifically authorizing or outlaw- a precaution to preserve local con- Repeal of Marijuana Laws, or “It’s a safe space to be, in a loving ture, a male model. We teach them values, marijuana regulations in ing cultivation. trol. The two groups fought hard NORML, which has been monitor- September, pot advocates hoped Lawmakers involved in crafting last year for provisions stating that ing what it’s termed “the bana- environment.” That’s a sharp contrast life lessons,” said Maurice Kie, known at the move heralded a new era of the package say the deadline ended to be eligible for licenses the state palooza,” said more than 160 juris- with what many of these children expe- Life Pieces as Brother Mo. “We take the trust in their often-tumultuous rela- up by mistake in the final compro- expects to start issuing in about dictions either have passed or intro- rience on a daily basis. Most live in sin- young men on a good ride.” A former tionship with wary local officials mise regulations. Assemblyman Jim two years, anyone involved in the duced legislation to outlaw only gle-parent homes, where they are awak- LPTM apprentice, Brother Mo has served and police. So far, it hasn’t turned Wood, a Democrat who represents commercial medical marijuana commercial cultivation or both ened by police sirens in the dead of as program coordinator since 2006. out that way. Facing what appears California’s prime pot-growing trade must first obtain a local oper- commercial and personal growing. night and shootings. And sometimes, “It’s kind of a therapeutic process, like to be a rapidly closing window for region, included it in earlier versions ating permit. The crackdown has been a their reality hits even harder than that. a good group therapy,” he explained. “We action, dozens of cities and counties as a way to free local governments Tim Cromartie, a lobbyist with the source of frustration for veteran pot One of the LPTM “apprentices,” as the teach them to be gentlemen, global citi- from across California are racing to from a responsibility they might not League of California Cities, said the farmers who hoped the new state children are called here, was playing zens.” In a neighborhood where only 33 enact new bans on marijuana- want, spokeswoman Liz Snow said. guidance to ban all medical marijua- regulations would bring clarity to with friends when he saw his grandfa- percent of youths graduate from high growing. Some apply only to com- “It was a way to try to make it clear- na growing outright stemmed from their gray corner of the medical ther killed in a drive-by shooting, school, Life Pieces apprentices have had mercial cultivation, both indoor and er in terms of, ‘OK, local jurisdic- the conclusion that the short time marijuana industry and instead find Waldron said. Jamar says he once found a 100 percent success rate over the past outdoor, but many would also pro- tions. If you want to act, you should frame did not give local officials themselves “recriminalized,” said a firearm abandoned in an alley near his five years. Some have gone on to univer- hibit personal pot gardens that be thinking about it, working on it enough time to draft, debate and Hezekiah Allen, executive director home. “When I hear shootings, I’m sity or job training programs. An addi- have been legal - or at least over- now. Otherwise, we will all defer to refine their own cultivation rules. of the newly formed California scared they will kill me, that they will tional 25 teens aged 14 to 17 participate looked - for 19 years. the state,’” Snow said. “Most cities, their staff have no clue Growers Association. Unless the shoot at me,” said Michael, 11. in a university preparation program once “Any other industry that created how to begin writing one of these local bans are lifted or modified, a week. four months of seasonal labor and Cultivation bans ordinances. Their first thought is, they would make medical marijua- hundreds of thousands of jobs...we Even before Gov Jerry Brown ‘Don’t the feds prohibit this? How na growers in those areas automati- The Four Cs And the organization also trains 10 to would be giving tax breaks to those signed the regulations, which create can we do this?’” Cromartie said. “We cally ineligible for the potentially Life Pieces aims to “connect, create, 15 young adults each year to become businesses,” medical marijuana dis- the first statewide licensing and know of jurisdictions that didn’t lucrative and limited number of contribute, celebrate” through its art pro- teachers’ aides. Waldron wants to “shake pensary owner Robert Jacob, a operating rules for California’s want to have to ban, but they did it agriculture licenses the state gram-the so-called 4Cs. Students con- up this profession,” where 60 percent are member of the Sebastopol City sprawling medical marijuana indus- under the point of a gun.” expects to start issuing in 2018. nect by choosing a theme after dis- white women and only two percent are Council who has been fighting pot- try, Wood announced he would “Certainly we have been disap- cussing it and meditating, create by black men. LPTM has about 30 paid growing bans proposed in Sonoma introduce an emergency bill this Agriculture licenses pointed with the League of Cities, working on a piece, contribute by work- employees and around 50 volunteers, County. At issue is a paragraph in month deleting the March 1 dead- With new proposals being intro- how they have chosen to proceed,” ing together on the artwork and cele- and operates on the grounds of a pri- the 70-page framework approved in line. The League of California Cities duced and voted on almost daily, Allen said. “A lot of the jurisdictions brate by exhibiting the works. Dozens of mary school. Its $1.5 million budget is the closing hours of the legislative and the California Association of no one knows yet how many of had a predisposition to ban, and the the pieces are exhibited at shows, espe- largely funded by local private founda- session that would give the state Police Chiefs, while supporting the California’s 58 counties and 482 March 1 deadline unfortunately cially in Washington’s busy downtown tions. —AFP alone authority to license growers fix, nonetheless have advised their cities have taken the league’s gave them cover to ban.” —AP WHAT’S ON MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 British expert: We cooperate with College of Aviation Technology to provide our expertise to students

he College of Aviation Technology in Kuwait is cur- Air Force and Kuwait Airways are graduates of “AST” rently being visited by the British expert and repre- Center, as we are working in the field of aviation mainte- Tsentative of “AST” Scottish Center, Robert Sutherland, nance in Europe since long decades and our graduate who confirmed that “AST” Center is the oldest in Europe in receives a certificate by the “British National Aviation the field of aviation, and its most prominent alumni Authority”, a prestigious certificate due to being the best include Jordan’s late King Hussein, and Ruler of Dubai license in Europe. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Further, the Sutherland pointed out that the graduate has 13 fields first generation of pilots in the Kuwaiti Air Force and of work represented in the following : engineering man- Kuwait Airways trained in “AST” Center in Scotland, and cur- agement, aircraft design engineering, aircraft pressure rently, there is cooperation with the air force in the engineering, performance engineering, engineering pro- Sultanate of Oman and the Ministries of Defense and curement, asset management, technical services, engineer- Interior in the Kingdom of Bahrain. ing support, reliability and planning engineering, payment engineering, quality and safety engineering, aircraft sys- Professional license tems engineering , aircraft maintenance engineering, Sutherland said in a press statement after arriving in the equipment sales, and operations management and logis- country, as he represents “AST” Center in the Board of tics. Trustees of the College of Aviation Technology in Kuwait: cooperation with the College academically and in training Prestigious center is the first of its kind in the Gulf region and the Middle East, Meanwhile, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the where the student at the College of Aviation Technology in College of Aviation Technology, Dr Abdel Razek Al- Kuwait studies to obtain the aircraft maintenance engi- Mahmoud said: cooperation with a prestigious center such neer license, approved by the European Aviation Security as “AST”, comes out of concern for the settlement and Association “EASA” which gives graduates the opportunity expansion in the field of aviation engineering and technol- to work in various countries of the world and different air- ogy in the country and ease the trouble of travel by our lines, including Kuwait Airways. The graduate receives an sons and daughters overseas in demand for information academic diploma, in addition to the professional license from certified universities and scientific centers. Therefore, in accordance with the standards adopted in Europe and we are keen that the study at the “College of Aviation internationally. Technology” is accredited, not only locally, but also interna- He added that selecting Kuwait to be the regional cen- tionally, from long-standing global institutions with aca- ter for cooperation through the College of Aviation demic weight. Hence, the “College of Aviation Technology” Technology was not fortuitous, but began since 2005, awards the graduate with a diploma in aviation engineer- when a decree was issued establishing the college, in addi- ing, and a license approved by “ EASA “International, in British expert Robert Sutherland with the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the College of Aviation tion to the historical relations between Kuwait and “AST” cooperation with AST / Perth College of Highlands Technology Dr Abdul Razak Al-Mahmoud, and member of the Board of Trustees Marzouk Al-Sharifi. Center in Scotland, as most of the leaders of the Kuwaiti Wayland HI University “in Scotland.

Saudi artist Huda Tutunji opened her gallery in Kuwait recently as part of the 22nd Al-Qurain Cultural Festival, and Kuwait’s celebrations as the Capital of Islamic Culture 2016. —KUNA

SKM celebrates 16th grand event

enthamil Kalai Mandram (SKM) Kuwait is a non- with preparation of Pongal by SKM ladies wing subse- guest Kumar, Thamizhosai to SKM president Rajashekar about the precious traditional value of our soil. Musical profit association exclusively for Indian Tamil quent to that various colorful cultural programs staged and distributed it to all the members of SKM. extravaganza by renowned musical troop of Sspeaking Community. SKM celebrated its 16th by SKM children and members, such as Pongal and tra- The event structured with the core objective of Themmangu pattu and colorful cultural and entertain- grand event at Mugalai auditorium, Fahaheel, to com- ditional Dance, Bharathanathiyam, comedy skit, cine- Indian traditional values and sacrifices related to ment programs performed by highly talented SKM memorate New Year, Pongal festival and Indian repub- matic dance, allocutions, debate, light music songs, Republic day and Tamil formers festival Pongal, our members were also highlights of the event. The pro- lic day. Tamil traditional songs etc. invited guests Kumar, Ramasubramanium and gram was culminated with delicious south Indian tradi- People Gathering and celebration begun at 9:30 am The daily calendar of 2016 was launched by our chief Thamizhosai office bearers were addressed in the stage tional food, served in Banana leaf.

Kuwait University’s College of Engineering and Petroleum students recently finished a field training program organized by Kuwait Oil Company, Schlumberger, Kuwait Gulf Oil Company and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation for the first semester of the 2015/2016 academic year. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 WHAT’S ON

Hala February camp opens he 17th Hala February Camp was recently launched along Benaider highway number 258. The camp remains open until March 1st. Speaking on the occasion, the Information Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for TV Affairs Yousif Mustafa praised the camp, noting that it has turned into an annual social and recreational activity for families and visitors. “The Hala February Festival has also Tenhanced the culture of patriotism through various competitions and seminars,” he underlined. Further, Mustafa stressed that the information ministry provided all equipment needed for live coverage throughout the festival, namely a carnival due on January 29. Notably, Ooredoo took part in opening the camp and presented awards and gifts to participants who took part in competitions held on the side- lines of the inauguration. MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 TV PROGRAMS

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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

You could be teaching a school class or attending a spiritual meeting There may be a new system of communication between family or room- today. Refinement and relationships are the keys to emotional satisfaction for you now. mates now. Everyone in your living area may be quite busy today. Domestic problems Harmony and beauty are deeply satisfying-the lack of them can be disconcerting. cannot be ignored for too long. In order for everyone’s living space to run smoothly, Circumstances converge this day that will reveal you at your most elegant, particularly in you may want to initiate family or roommate meetings once a month. You will have a social situations. A reunion of some sort takes place and brings plenty of smiles and better grasp of expectations and may even gain some insight. A keen interest in what times of reminiscing. You will have a grasp for abstract and spiritual ideas and the ability makes things tick may find you inventing the latest shortcut to wherever or whatever. to present or communicate these to others. You and a close friend will have fun general- Others may tease you because you have dreams and a highly creative mind. The pay ly just hanging out together. Close special ties to other people are a focal point for your for your hard work may be slow in coming but you will certainly receive acknowledg- feelings. Future plans to gather are finalized. ment. The poorest of all men is the man without a dream.

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

Young people surround you today and you will enjoy guiding them in You may discover there is enough money this month to use toward the their activities. Loved ones, children and other people or things dear to your heart are updating of furniture or painting your house. When people visit you, they rarely want emphasized this day. Being appreciated and admired for your gifts and talents are pow- to leave. You create a warmth that brings people in out of the cold. Elegance and fam- erful needs. Taking chances can bring big rewards. Responsibilities may balance out the ily ties are the keys to emotional satisfaction for you. Harmony and beauty are deeply remainder of the day. An important friendship is growing and you will find mutual inter- satisfying-and the lack of them can be emotionally disquieting. You demonstrate to ests will bring you even closer. There are fun times for communicating back and forth others the feelings that our capacity to be happy and useful cannot truly be ham- with ideas and shared interests can have you talking for hours. You can be one of the pered by external conditions. Continue to seek happiness from the inside. Laughter is most exciting companions and your respect for others along with your attention to their more fun with two. There is talk of wanting to adopt an animal. Romantic opportuni- needs is probably all that one could ever ask. ties are pleasant this evening. Perhaps a romantic dinner out could be enjoyed.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Harmony is important to you and having clean surroundings will con- As a lover of freedom and liberty you may be creating music, poetry or tribute to those feelings. You may feel a push to clean clothes-do some some other sort of writing today. You will find that if you stick with this for a time you will ACROSS 79. A short trip that is taken in the perform- mending-pick up around the house or work on your car. This is a busy but productive be able to have some great results-possibly a profitable piece of art. You could also and rewarding day. You may find yourself being put to good use by your friends this 1. United States liquid unit equal to 4 ance of a necessary task or mission. come up with new solutions or inventions today. Some interruptions may occur-but the afternoon. There are some wonderful opportunities to deepen a friendship. Deep and quarts or 3.785 liters. 81. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian sooner you learn to work with the interruptions, the faster you will see results. You may serious conversations along with funny anecdotes can be shared. A serious matter can be in a rare mood of self-enjoyment and can appreciate your own better qualities. You also be tended to today. A situation with some budgeting problems can turn into a 4. The basic unit of money in Guatemala. mythology. may have much compassion for an older person in your family. You will find the work 11. An inclined surface or roadway that 82. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and compromise. You have a clear vision into your own inner sense of values, how you you have done towards better health is taking hold and your level of energy is appreciate and love. moves traffic from one level to another. the Ivory Coast. improved. Your loved ones notice and enjoy your positive presence. 15. Used of a single unit or thing. 83. An analgesic for mild pain. 16. A bitter yellow powder used to treat 84. A small cake leavened with yeast. skin diseases. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. English essayist (1775-1834). DOWN Caution while exercising today is a wise move. Warm up before exercising and 18. A member of the Uniat Church. 1. Wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern What you thought you wanted is not as important as you once used to think. This realization may start you to thinking about working up a short try walking instead of running, pushing instead of pulling, twisting instead of India. 20. Measuring instrument in which the questionnaire to keep your customers happy. Helping them to be happy with their shop- lifting, etc. Removing stress through exercise is important and caution is necessary in order echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is 2. A former copper coin of Pakistan. ping tendencies may take a little psychological insight but you have what it takes to work to avoid pulling muscles. A domestic situation may call for you to intervene with your more used to detect and locate distant objects. 3. English film actress (1913-1967). up something catchy. If you get too deep in the search you may forget the humor. commonsense qualities. You will be able to settle some confusion and simplify some mat- Special attention to an old project makes your afternoon move along quickly. Take some ters today. This is a time to broaden your horizons both intellectually and spiritually. There 21. (heraldry) An ordinary consisting of a 4. Of or concerning Qatar. are plenty of professional opportunities in teaching, education, publishing, broadcasting, broad horizontal band across a shield. 5. An ancient city of Sumer located on a time to be with nature this afternoon-perhaps while you are walking a dog or walking for exercise. legal and political interests and advertising, if you are looking for them. 22. A motley assortment of things. former channel of the Euphrates River. 24. Being one more than one hundred. 6. The sense organ for hearing and equilib- 25. Smooth and soft to sight or hearing or rium. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) touch or taste. 7. An extended area of land. Leo (July 23-August 22) 26. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient 8. Relating to or included in the zodiac. This is another inventive and creative day! Your creative style today goes Harmony and beauty are what you strive for this morning-you may decide to in the direction of art instead of human care. It is about time you balanced those ener- Greek mythology. 9. A loose sleeveless outer garment made consider a plan for home or neighborhood landscaping-perhaps you will be planting bulbs for 27. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh. from aba cloth. gies. You may decide to color or dye sheets in order to make curtains or chair covers, or spring. Friends may enjoy your company this afternoon; however, you will need to take the perhaps you will be making birdhouses. Whatever you design or create will be attractive 29. Suggestive of the supernatural. 10. Immature of its kind. back seat and let others express their opinions. You can draw on the passion and ideas of oth- and a noticeable addition to your surroundings. You may just decide to keep your hobby 30. Being ten more than one hundred nine- 11. (of leaves) Bent downward and out- ers at this time. Enlightenment through your relationships is the key to emotional satisfaction. to yourself but it could become profitable. You may also decide to look into alternative ty. ward more than 90 degrees. Harmony and beauty are deeply satisfying-and the lack of them can be emotionally disturb- health remedies, homeopathic, reflexology, zone therapy, acupuncture, herbal medi- ing. You are one of those wonderful people that feel that, regardless of what you have already 32. Either of two folds of skin that can be 12. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug cines, i ching, yoga, etc. Join in the fun and do something different. There are plenty of learned, there is always room to expand and grow. opportunities today to celebrate life. moved to cover or open the eye. (trademarks Aleve and Anaprox and 33. Type genus of the Culicidae. Aflaxen). 35. Type genus of the family Arcidae. 13. A stingy hoarder of money and posses- Virgo (August 23-September 22) 37. A member of a Turkic people of sions (often living miserably). Pisces (February 19-March 20) Uzbekistan and neighboring areas. 14. Resembling paste in color. Making a good impression and putting your best foot forward take on a This morning there may be a situation that could present a test of faith. 40. Capable of being corrupted. 19. French philosopher and theologian. greater importance as a new cycle begins. Appearances and style may count more than sub- Through study you will be able to understand what has been misunderstood. Ultimate 44. British artist and writer of nonsense 23. Type genus of the Gadidae. stance. Romance, the arts and others of life’s pleasures seem to take center stage. If you want answers come from a surprise pathway. After lunch and perhaps out with friends, you verse (1812-1888). 28. A famous waterfall in Venezuela. to win someone’s attention today, you will find positive results. Reach for the brass ring-grab may feel like really joining in the laughter and camaraderie. There is a lot of pleasure in the simple things. You could find ways to spend your money today but take care that you 45. A river that rises in central Germany 31. Make or cause to be or to become. the merry-go-round ring. Whatever you are planning, today will be successful. You are in the mood to be expressive, insightful, creative and lighthearted. Everything seems to bring out do not indulge too much for now. A team sport may be considered. You could sway and flows north to join the Elbe River. 34. At any time. your unique qualities. There are opportunities to join your friends this afternoon-perhaps a someone around to your way of thinking later this afternoon-perhaps that friend gone 46. Deduce (a principle) or construe (a 36. A military trainee (as at a military acade- play or movie. Afterward, there is much talk about how the movie or play relates to each per- astray. Only some of us learn by other people’s mistakes; the rest of us have to be the oth- meaning). my). son’s personal life. er people. You have a grateful heart. 47. A genus of Ploceidae. 38. Any of various cycads of the genus 49. A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 Zamia. WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution kilograms. 39. A Chadic language spoken south of 50. Resonance of protons to radiation in a Lake Chad. magnetic field. 41. The back side of the neck. 52. An independent agency of the United 42. Harsh or corrosive in tone. States government responsible for collect- 43. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true. ing and coordinating intelligence and 48. The capital and largest city of Ghana counterintelligence activities abroad in the with a deep-water port. national interest. 51. Tropical Asian starlings. 53. Goddess of criminal rashness and its 58. A city in western Germany near the punishment. Dutch and Belgian borders. 54. A state in midwestern United States. 59. Gained or acquired. 55. The branch of computer science that 60. The basic monetary unit in many coun- deal with writing computer programs that tries. can solve problems creatively. 61. The dialect of Albanian spoken in 56. A lipoprotein that transports choles- northern Albania and Yugoslavia. terol in the blood. 62. 1 species. 57. An order of Eutheria. 65. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked 63. A constellation in the southern hemi- on a skewer usually with vegetables. sphere near Telescopium and Norma. 66. Tropical American tree grown in south- 64. A member of the Siouan people for- ern United States having a whitish pink- merly living in the Missouri river valley in tinged fruit. NE Nebraska. 68. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed 67. Childcare during the day while parents by a demon. work. 69. God of the Underworld. 71. German dramatist (1813-1863). 70. Long-bodied long-tailed tropical 73. A woman hired to suckle a child of American wildcat. someone else. 72. English monk and scholar (672-735). 74. City in Sudan. 75. The products of human creativity. 77. Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. 76. Black tropical American cuckoo. a puffball or stinkhorn. 80. A metric unit of volume equal to one 78. Informal terms for a human head. tenth of a liter.

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This photo provided by Paramount Pictures shows, Jeremy Strong, from In this file image released by Paramount Pictures, left, Rafe Spall, Hamish Linklater, Steve Carell, Jeffry Griffin and Ryan Christian Bale appears in a scene from “The Big Short.-AP Gosling in the film, “The Big Short.” — AP photos

he fifth season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” has won the noted in his acceptance that the season had been a chal- “Til It Happens to You” as part of the introduction to “The Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television Norman Felton Award for top drama series from the lenge because “The Revenant” had the snow makers in Hunting Ground” winning the Stanley Kramer Award. The 6- Transparent (Season 1): Danny Thomas Award for TProducers Guild of America. Amy Winehouse docu- Calgary tied up. The first season of “Transparent” won the song, co-written with Diane Warren, is up for the Oscar for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy mentary “Amy” won for top documentary for James Gay- Danny Thomas Award for top comedy series. Amazon’s trans- Best Original Song. The theatrical motion picture and televi- 7- The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst: Award for Rees. “Amy,” the front-runner for the Oscar, topped “The gender skein won the award for producers Jill Soloway, sion nominees are as follows (winners in boldface): Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television Hunting Ground,” “The Look of Silence,” “Meru” and Andrea Sperling, Victor Hsu, Nisha Ganatra, Rick Rosenthal The Darryl F Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of 8- The Voice: Award for Outstanding Producer of “Something Better to Come.” and Bridget Bedard. It topped “Modern Family,” “Inside Amy Theatrical Motion Pictures: Competition Television Disney-Pixar’s “Inside Out” won the award for top animat- Shumer,” “Silicon Valley” and “Veep”; “Orange Is the New Black” 1- The Big Short: Producers: Brad Pitt & Dede 9- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Season 2): Award ed movie for producer Jonas Rivera. “Inside Out,” which won the award last year. Winners of the 27th Producers Guild Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk delved inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl and became a of America Awards were announced Saturday night at the 2- Game of Thrones: Norman Felton Award for Television surprise hit with worldwide grosses of $856 million, topped Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. “Last Week with John Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama 10- Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Award for “Anomalisa,” “The Good Dinosaur” and “The Peanuts Movie.” Oliver” won the Live Entertainment and Talk Television award. 3- Inside Out: Award for Outstanding Producer of Outstanding Sports Program “We set out to make a movie that spoke to us as parents,” NBC’s “The Voice” took the competition TV award for the sec- Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures 11- Sesame Street: Award for Outstanding Children’s Rivera said in his acceptance speech. The second season of ond year in a row. “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert 4- Amy: Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Program FX’s “Fargo” won the David L Wolper Award for long-form tel- Durst” won the non-fiction TV award. Theatrical Motion Pictures 12- Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: Award for evision for the second year in a row. Producer Noah Hawley Lady Gaga dazzled the audience with her performance of 5- Fargo (Season 2): David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Digital Series. — Reuters

llen Page lands her best starring vehicle since “Juno” in “Tallulah,” orris from America” isn’t your typical coming of age story. Ea very different story of a young The film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival woman coming to terms with the Mon Friday, focuses on a pair of Americans - a widowed idea of being a mother. The feature- father and son - living in Heidelberg, Germany. The father coaches length scripting-directing debut of a soccer team. The 13-year-old son, Morris, is trying to learn the “Orange Is the New Black” staff writer language and make some actual friends. And, to make matters Sian Heder offers juicy roles not only even more trying, they are essentially the only black people in to Page but also to Allison Janney town. and Tammy Blanchard, in a strong The result is delightful. In “Morris From America,” Chad Hartigan, showcase of female talent both who came to Sundance previously with “This Is Martin Bonner,” behind and in front of the camera. avoids both the clichès and banalities of this tired genre and has Netflix acquired SVOD rights prior to instead made something entirely fresh. This big-hearted film about the pic’s premiere in competition at that strange time in life when adolescents dip their toes into reck- Sundance, but Heder’s compassion- less teenager-dom is not to be missed. Stars Craig Robinson ate, audience-friendly dramedy (Curtis) and newcomer Markees Christmas (Morris) bring Hartigan’s deserves a shot in theaters, too. vibrant story and script to life with their effortless chemistry and Vagabond Tallulah (Page) lives out nuanced performances. From left, actors Carla Juri, Craig Robinson, and of her van and drifts from city to city Actress Allison Janney, left, and director and writer Sian Heder, right, Curtis isn’t a run-of-the-mill father, and Morris isn’t the proto- Markees Christmas pose with filmmaker Chad Hartigan with no ties to anyone or anything, pick up and swing actress Ellen Page, center, as they pose at the pre- typical rebellious youth either. They are profane, they are senti- for a portrait to promote the film, “Morris From except her boyfriend, Nico (Evan miere of “Tallulah” during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival .— AP mental, they are difficult - they are fully drawn characters with America”, at the Toyota Mirai Music Lodge during the Jonigkeit), and that’s just the way she complexities, contradictions and all. Morris isn’t having a great time Sundance Film Festival on Friday. - — AP photos likes it. When Nico surprises her one drunk and defeated Carolyn returns able job of opening up the charac- in Germany until his sweet tutor (Carla Juri) suggests he hang out night by suggesting they go back to at a youth center to try to make friends. It doesn’t go very well - hours later and promptly passes out ters’ backstories without over-analyz- throughout, whether it’s just a language lesson or an awkward tal- his hometown in New York and one kid gives him a hard time, while the others mostly ignore him. on the bed, Lu can’t bring herself to ing their behavior. ent show. Hartigan also imbues the film with gorgeous cinematic maybe settle down or start a family, But he does become attached to a beautiful, troubled 15-year-old leave a wailing Madison alone and flair that’s always interesting, if not always completely coherent she flips out. The next morning Nico girl, Katrin (Lina Keller, an ethereal, beguiling Julie Delpy-type), makes a rash decision to bring her Physical comedy within the language of the film. For example, in one scene, Morris is gone, and a penniless Tallulah, who who lets him tag along with her on her increasingly defiant into the van overnight. The next Page is simply superb in a com- is listening to a hip-hop song while touring a castle and everyone goes by “Lu,” makes her way to New exploits. morning Carolyn wakes up in a panic plex role that perfectly plays to her (even the stained glass windows and sculptures) bob their heads York City anyway and barges into the The film never goes exactly where you’d expect, and Hartigan and by the time Lu arrives to hand gift for balancing deadpan comedy along with it. This surreal moment is strangely affecting, but it’s an fancy apartment building of Nico’s and his lovely cast keep the energy up and the scenes moving Madison over, the police are already with surprisingly deep emotional odd one off, too. — AP mother, Margo (Janney). on the scene and Lu makes another reserves. And while she was a sterling rash decision to take off with support opposite Page in “Juno,” Extramarital hook-up Madison in tow. Janney rises here nearly to the level Dealing with issues of her own- With nowhere else to go, she of co-lead as an uptight control freak stemming from Nico’s two-year long winds up back on Margo’s doorstep- whose desire to cling to her family absence and her ex-husband (John this time telling her Madison is Nico’s only serves to push them away. The Benjamin Hickey) coming out of the child. Margo reluctantly lets Lu into film could probably do without a closet and asking for a divorce-Margo her home, and even more reluctantly half-baked subplot involving Margo’s slams her door in Lu’s face, despite into her life. Meanwhile, Carolyn relationship with her doorman (Felix the young woman’s connection to hopes to prevent her husband Solis), but even in that digression her missing son. Wandering into a (Fredric Lehne) from finding out what Janney nails the physical comedy and hris Rock is still on board to host the Oscars this year swanky hotel to scavenge for room happened, which makes both the pathos of a woman looking to make despite calls for him to join the boycott protesting the service scraps, Lu is mistaken for a lead detective (David Zayas) and a connection. CAcademy’s lack of diversity. Variety had first reported maid by spacy trophy wife Carolyn child protection agent (Uzo Aduba) Reliable character actress Friday that sources said Rock would remain as host of the cere- (Blanchard), who is desperately look- assigned to the case dubious of her Blanchard is perhaps the biggest rev- mony. Academy Awards producer Reginald Hudlin told ing for anyone to babysit her 1-year- motives. One woman’s coincidences elation, playing Carolyn at first as a Entertainment Tonight at Saturday’s NAACP Image Awards In this file photo, Chris Rock appears onstage at old daughter, Madison (Evangeline are another woman’s contrivances, spot-on parody of a certain kind of lunch that Rock’s opening monologue will address the Comedy Central’s “Night of Too Many Stars: America and Liliana Ellis), while she tries to and Heder’s script likely won’t please real housewife of self-absorption, but #OscarsSoWhite conversation in a big way. Rock reportedly Comes Together for Autism Programs” at the Beacon score an extramarital hook-up. those who prefer their indie dramas gradually peeling back her layers-in reworked his entire set of jokes when such figures as Jada Theatre in New York. — AP Seduced partly by the wads of naturalistic and event-free. But the collaboration with Heder-to reveal Pinkett Smith and Will Smith announced they would be boy- cash and jewelry Carolyn leaves lying freewheeling storytelling enacted the wounded woman underneath. cotting the ceremony. make some controversial statements. around, and partly by Madison’s obvi- here has an excellent anchor in the The men on hand are asked to do “Chris is hard at work. He and his writing staff locked them- “And, yes, the Academy is ready for him to do that,” Hudlin ous need for a responsible caretaker grounded work of the ensemble cast. more with less, and Jonigkeit sells selves in a room,” Hudlin told ET. “As things got a little provoca- said. “They’re excited about him doing that. They know that’s (the toddler roams around diaper- Even Lu’s initially inexplicable actions Nico’s love for Lu with only a handful tive and exciting, he said, ‘I’m throwing out the show I wrote what we need. They know that’s what the public wants, and we less, peering out the balcony window in holding onto Madison become of scenes. — Reuters and writing a new show.’” He added, “Chris is that thorough. He’s deliver what the people want.” Confirmation of Rock’s hosting and grabbing at bottles of drinks), Lu more understandable as the film pro- that brilliant, and I have 1000 percent confidence that he will duties come on the heels of the Academy’s Friday announce- stays and Carolyn bolts. When a gresses, and Heder does a commend- deliver something that people will be talking about for weeks.” ment that it would overhaul its membership in order to pro- Hudlin indicated that he and his team are prepared for Rock to mote diversity, aiming to double its number of female and minority members by the year 2020. — Reuters

pike Lee applauds the Academy was said to be a sort of spiritual for making changes to increase sequel to Solondz’s “Welcome to the Sdiversity in its ranks, but he is still Dollhouse,” but Solondz warned skipping the Oscars. “We have princi- before the Festival that those looking ples,” Lee said in an interview with The for a sequel might be “a little disap- Associated Press. “I commend the pointed.” Academy for what they’ve done. But Indeed, though “Welcome to the that does not change our mind. The Dollhouse’s” Dawn Wiener does reap- Knicks will be victorious - I hope. I’ll be pear for a segment (played this time at the Garden.” After last week’s Oscar by Greta Gerwig, not Heather nominations revealed an all-white slate Matarazzo), “Weiner-Dog” is not a of acting nominees for the second con- sequel by any means. It’s a series of secutive year, Lee said he would skip loosely connected vignettes following the Feb. 28 Academy Awards and go to a toffee-colored dachshund around the Knicks game instead. from owner to owner. There’s the “My wife and I will be in my court- young only child of a wealthy, unhap- side seats,” he said. Still, he praised py family (Tracy Letts and Julie Delpy), Academy president Cheryl Boone Cast and filmmakers of “Wiener-Dog” pose at the premiere during the there’s a grown Dawn Wiener who Isaacs and the organization’s board of 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. — AP goes on a road trip with an old class- governors for “trying to do the right This image provided by courtesy of the Sundance Institute and Optimum magine Danny DeVito walking and, thus nothing plays out as you mate (Kieran Culkin), there’s a depres- thing.” The Academy of Motion Picture Productions shows director Spike Lee whose documentary film, “Michael down the street with a dachshund might expect. Everything in “Wiener- sive screenwriter/professor (DeVito), Arts and Sciences announced Friday Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall,” is included among the bedecked in a yellow polka-dot Dog” is both funny and tragic, heart- and there’s an elderly grump (Ellen that it would double the number of its documentaries premiering at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Park I female and minority members by 2020 dress. To be clear, the dachshund is breakingly sincere and laced with Burstyn) and her troubled grand- City, Utah. — AP wearing the dress, not DeVito. In any stomach-knotting cynicism, and it’s daughter (Zosia Mamet). — AP and implemented other changes other film, it would be an obvious perfect. The film, which premiered at aimed at increasing diversity among “It’s a start.” The filmmaker is at the “Michael Jackson’s Journey from joke. But this is a Todd Solondz movie, the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, the largely white and male organiza- Sundance Film Festival this week to Motown to ‘Off the Wall.’” —AP tion. Lee thinks the changes could help: premiere his new documentary, LIFESTYLE37 MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016 Fashion Paris catwalks rediscover their cavalier swagger

old onto your horses. French fashion year-old designer, a favorite of pop divas is back to its swashbuckling best and Beyonce and Rihanna, told AFP. “I want to Hthe designer leading the charge is a bring back the dream and beauty that is young mixed-race man determined to give Paris... and make all men feel like princes post-attacks Paris a new swagger. “I want again. “I want to show the diversity and col- to make all men feel like princes again,” ors of France and to show that Paris has a Olivier Rousteing declared Saturday after past, a present and it will have a future,” he his dashing, unashamedly masculine show added. Rousteing, who was adopted by his for Balmain. Not since the days of the white parents when he was one year old, Charge of the Light Brigade has there been said his show was an ode to the racial and such an onrush of braid, breeches and cultural diversity of the French capital. boots. Rousteing’s models were not the pallid sexless automatons of so many shows. Instead, they were dashing hussars and Cossack officers you half expected would pull cavalry swords from their gorgeous scarlet and leather cummerbunds as they thundered through a Parisian mansion. Half of them looked like they had come straight from the ball the night before

‘Selfie-made man’ Rousteing’s high-cheekboned good A symphony orchestra, playing live to a looks, social media savvy and friendships hip-hop soundtrack, provided the musical with stars such as West and his wife Kim tone. “Mixing Kanye West and Rihanna Kardashian has led to him being called a with a symphony orchestra is my universe. I “selfie-made man”-a joke he appears to am French in a French fashion house with a delight in. Earlier in the day there was a couture tradition which also has a very similar defiance against giving in to fear international influence. That for me is Paris- after the November massacres from Dior’s it is that internationalism and the richness Kris Van Assche. of the mixing of cultures. This singular Although much of his collection was in eagerness to embrace a diversity of cul- black, it was not the black of mourning, he tures and ideas... enrages intolerant minds insisted.“The events mean that we have to Waterloo in their silk and velvet breeches, both here and abroad,” he said. An Internet be stronger to make people dream. The with big brass-buttoned greatcoats thrown darling, with 2.1 million Instagram follow- darkness is so omnipresent that as a on their shoulders, and fur and tassels fly- ers, Rousteing has become a reference for ing. stars as diverse as Jane Fonda and Nicki Minaj, who even rapped on the venerable ‘Bring back the dream’ couture brand’s name as sales have soared. “Paris is the City of Light and those lights should continue to shine,” the 30-

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designer who have to go further. You tight. Japanese label Christian need more power and strength,” he Dada-in its first official appear- told AFP. “In fact I like the idea of dark- ance on a Paris Fashion Week ness pushing creativity,” he said, echoing the sombre luxu- runway-showed off models in ballooning stovepipe riance of Dries Van Noten stand-out line, and fellow trousers and oversized overcoats, some with belts as wide Belgian creator Walter Van Beirendonck, whose show was as a copy of Vogue. The bondage crept in with the image simply called “Woest”, which means furious in Flemish. of a nude kneeling woman-hands bound together behind Paris-based label Etudes-whose studio is near the Bataclan her back-printed onto some of the spacious coats paraded concert hall were 90 people died in November’s attacks- on the catwalk to the echoing sound of a beating heart. seemed almost to be on a war footing in their Saturday The risque theme did not stop there, with designer show, with a collection largely comprised of military- Masanori Morikawa saying he sprinkled the autumn and inspired and camouflage outfits, fighter pilot fatigues and winter collection with embroidered flowers and elephants parachute suits. to represent male and female naughty bits. “This collection There was a similar ready-for-anything air in newcom- is about tying, like everything, like belts, like buckles, like ers OAMC, whose nifty high-end functional streetwear is bondage,” Morikawa told AFP after the show, which was also created only a few blocks away and is replete with the inspired by controversial Japanese photographer spirit of Parisian resistance. But if you were looking for a Nobuyoshi Araki. “I’m really mixing his iconic things and sign that “Paris will always be Paris”, look no further than my iconic things.” Founded in 2010, Christian Dada-a the Hermes show on Saturday night. All the elements of mashup of Christian Dior and the anarchic art movement- ineffable casual French style were there, the discreet is known for an edgy, rock n’ roll influence on its designs, charm of the bourgeoisie personified. Only that dried- which have included chain mail t-shirts and studded blood red, a color that crops up across the collections like a shoes. wound, would lead you to believe that anything untoward had happened. Cerruti stays chic Bondage hits the runway at Paris Fashion Week Cerruti’s new star designer, American-born Jason The odd-couple mix of bondage and big sizes collided Basmajian, sent a serious, subdued collection onto the cat- on the Paris catwalk Friday, in clothing that was at once walk that was certain not to offend house founder-Nino roomy and adorned with nude women who were tied up Cerruti. High-end materials-cashmere, silk and sheep skin- formed the basis for the somber-coloured collection that deviated little from standard suit and coat cuts. “I imag-

Models present creations by Balmain, during the men’s Fashion Week 2016-2017 Fall/Winter collection in Paris. —AP/AFP photos

French fashion designer Olivier Rousteing acknowledges the audience at the end of the Balmain show.

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ined a luxurious, masculine chic, but without pretension, a abandon ourselves to that nostalgia, it subtle collection with a focus on the cut and a choice of won’t get us very far,” he said. His last top-of-the-line materials,” Basmajian told AFP. “Working for collection full of the white rose Dior this international house, with Italian roots and based in motif was “particularly colorful for me”, Paris, allows me to take advantage of all my past experi- he said. ences. Ahead of his arrival at Cerruti last year, Basmajian had worked at Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, ST Dupont and Black as night Brioni before taking his talents to legendary British tailor “After that I wanted to do the oppo- Gieves & Hawkes. site, to do black, the night, Berlin, a col- lection with a very different tone.” And Dior: Kraftwerk cool it seemed to go down well with his Van Assche said he took his new dark-and-dangerous- celebrity guests. Korean K-pop star T.O.P to-know look-a big departure from the bright and flowery said he “loved it” while Chinese movie colors of his previous more “bourgeois” collection-from a heartthrob Yang Yang was equally tak- mix of eighties New Wave music, the Berlin of electronic en. “It’s great,” he said. Van Assche pop pioneers Kraftwerk and skateboard culture. In case you denied, however, that the collection’s didn’t get those influences, WestBam’s “You Need The heavy reliance on black and other som- Drugs” was playing as guests were led into the show’s set, bre colors was a reflection of the mood the world’s blingiest skate park lit by a huge red chandelier in Paris after the terror attacks. and ramps edged with red neon. With long sleeves that “I have never found that black was almost become mittens, Dior has mostly resisted that bag- about darkness. I think there is a lot of gy giganticism that has been seen a lot elsewhere in Paris beauty and romanticism in it,” he said. this week. Earlier the Paris-based label Etudes- Van Assche did however combine big baggy belted whose studio is near the Bataclan con- trousers with Scandinavian knit jumpers and hoodies, cert hall were 90 people died in although most of the trousers with his more tailored pieces November’s attacks — seemed almost were short and close-fitting to showcase red-laced shoes. to be on a war footing, with a collection “I am distancing myself from Christian Dior,” the designer largely comprised of military-inspired told AFP before the show. “We wanted to be radically 2016- and camouflage outfits, fighter pilot 2017. There is a younger, more fashion, perhaps less mid- fatigues and parachute suits. — AFP dle-class edge about this collection that is not at all nostal- Models present creations by Cerruti. gic.” “It is good to have certain references, but we mustn’t

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A woman wearing Indonesian dress takes part in a fashion shoot in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong yesterday. Indonesian and Filipino women were taking part in a fashion show on one of the cruise ships docked at Ocean Terminal in Hong Kong. — AFP Virtual reality experience highlight of new Dali Museum show

isitors to a new exhibition at The moon, a stone tunnel and even an Dali Museum in St Petersburg, image of rocker Alice Cooper, whom VFlorida, won’t just be looking at Dali featured in a hologram he created art. Thanks to virtual reality, they’ll be in 1973. “You actually have a three- exploring a Dali painting in a dreamy, dimensional feeling that you’re inside a three-dimensional world that turns art painting,” said Jeff Goodby, whose firm appreciation into an unforgettable, Goodby Silverstein & Partners created immersive experience. The new exhibi- the VR experience. “It’s not just like tion, “Disney and Dali: Architects of the you’re inside a sphere with things being Imagination,” tells the story of the rela- projected. It’s actually like there are tionship between Salvador Dali, the objects closer and further away and surrealist artist, and Walt Disney, the you’re walking amidst them. It’s a vul- great American animator and theme- nerable feeling you give yourself up to. park pioneer. It’s not like anything you’ve ever felt But the museum exhibition’s high- before.” The VR experience was pre- light comes after visitors have seen the viewed in New York for the media 10 Disney-Dali show’s paintings, story days before its opening Saturday at the sketches, correspondence, photos and Florida museum. other artifacts. As visitors leave the Disney and Dali met in the 1940s in exhibition area, they’ll be invited to don Hollywood, according to museum a headset to try the virtual reality expe- director Hank Hine. “Their sensibilities rience. Called “Dreams of Dali,” the VR were very connected,” Hine said. “They experience takes viewers inside Dali’s wanted to take art off the palette, out This image provided by The Dali Museum in St Petersburg, Fla, shows a This image provided by The Dali Museum in St Petersburg, Fla, shows artist 1935 painting “Archeological of the canvas and into the world.” The 1957 photo of artist Salvador Dali and Walt Disney by the beach in Spain. Salvador Dali’s surrealist painting, “Archeological Reminiscence of Millet’s Reminiscence of Millet’s ‘Angelus.’” The exhibition looks at the castle motif that — AP photos ‘Angelus.’ painting depicts two towering stone became a symbol of Disney parks, figures along with tiny human figures along with Dali’s “Dream of Venus” came along out of a dream. ... You are which I imagined sculptures of the two in a bare landscape with a moody sky. pavilion from the 1939 World’s Fair, my destino.” Clips will be played within figures in Millet’s ‘Angelus’ carved out of which some consider a precursor of the gallery for the Disney-Dali exhibi- the highest rocks.” Stone tunnel contemporary installation art. tion and the full short will be shown at Museum marketing director Kathy Users can move around inside the the museum’s theater. The show also Greif said record numbers of visitors painting, using Oculus Rift headsets to Surrealist work displays the Dali painting that inspired attended its last two major shows navigate a trippy three-dimensional Disney and Dali also collaborated on the VR experience, “Archeological exploring Dali’s relationships with Andy environment that includes motifs from a short animated movie, “Destino,” that Reminiscence of Millet’s ‘Angelus.’” The Warhol and Pablo Picasso. Given the other Dali works like elephants, birds, was eventually completed by Disney surrealist work was Dali’s interpretation Disney brand’s immense popularity ants and his “Lobster Telephone” sculp- Studios. The six-minute movie, which of a 19th-century painting by Jean- and the VR novelty, attendance expec- ture. Accompanied by a haunting piano can be found on YouTube, features a Francois Millet depicting two peasants tations for this show are high as well. soundtrack punctuated by bird cries, dancing girl with long dark hair, a sun- in a field, heads bowed in prayer. Dali Dali “wanted art that took you over,” the VR visuals also include a crescent dial motif and a song with the line, “You said that his work was a “fantasy during said Goodbye. “He wanted to take you away and do something different with your head and that’s what this does.”

If you go... Disney and Dali: Exhibition through June 12 at the Dali Museum, One Dali Blvd, St Petersburg, Florida; http://www.thedali.org or 727-823- 3767. Open daily 10 am -5:30 pm and Thursdays until 8 pm Adults, $24; dis- This Jan 14, 2016 photo shows Skift.com reporter Dan Peltier using an counts for seniors, military, students, Oculus Rift headset as he tries out a virtual reality experience presented by children. — AP The Dali Museum at a preview in New York.

Furniture from JFK’s Florida home fetches $400,000 at auction

urnishings from late US president said in a statement, adding that the chased the home and much of its con- John F Kennedy’s winter retreat in beds sold for $20,000. tents from the Kennedy family in 1995. FPalm Beach, Florida sold Saturday “The walnut framed massage table The walled, beachfront Kennedy for some $400,000, an auction house where the president took massages to estate in Palm Beach and its contents said. Leslie Hindman Auctioneers sold relieve his back pain sold for $10,625,” it had been sold to the Castles after the furniture and decorative arts from the said. “A pair of green faux leather chairs death of family matriarch Rose famed “Winter White House” with best- from the bedroom where John F. Kennedy in 1995. JFK as a child vaca- selling items including twin beds and a Kennedy stayed sold for $6,250.” The tioned at the mansion, and spent a massage table. “Popular items include auction was conducted simultaneously great deal of time there after being a pair of Venetian style walnut twin online and at the Hindman Palm Beach elected president in 1960, holding staff beds where the future president slept showroom. The collection of Kennedy meetings and numerous press confer- alongside his brother Joe, and later paraphernalia was consigned by John ences. — AFP A one-of-a-kind ice sculpture, carved from 300-pound blocks of solid ice, are on display as part of the (first lady) Jackie Kennedy” Hindman and Marianne Castle, a couple who pur- Ice Magic Festival in Lake Louise. — AP