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MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 SHAWWAL 15, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Cuban A year later, West Africa Vibrant Arsenal kids’ group protest’s feels knock-on down City in to perform bloody end effects of battle Community in Kuwait3 divides14 Egypt against28 Ebola Shield20 Kuwait Airways to avoid Max 46º Min 31º Iraq airspace amid raids High Tide 00:22 & 11:33 US strikes spur Kurd fightback against jihadists Low Tide 05:55 & 18:52 40 PAGES NO: 16251 150 FILS KUWAIT/ARBIL: Kuwait Airways said yes- “The peshmerga have liberated Makhmur terday it will no longer overfly Iraq in the and Gwer,” peshmerga spokesman Halgord wake of US air strikes on jihadist positions Hekmat told AFP, adding that “US aerial there, the latest company to re-route its support helped”. flights. The airline said the decision con- Another official confirmed the Kurdish cerned flights heading to Europe and the troops had recaptured the towns, which United States. “Alternative routes will pass Islamic State (IS) militants had seized days over Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt,” a state- earlier, bringing them within striking dis- ment said. tance of Kurdish capital Arbil. The past The Federal Aviation Administration in week saw jihadist fighters make dramatic Washington banned all US civilian flights gains, seizing Iraq’s largest dam, repeatedly over Iraq just hours after American war- defeating the peshmerga and taking over planes Friday carried out the first air strikes large swathes of land. The air strikes which on positions held by jihadists of the Islamic Obama announced on Thursday stopped State, who have occupied swathes of the rot just as the militants moved close northern Iraq. A slew of airlines have also enough to the autonomous Kurdish region said they will no longer overfly Iraq, includ- to cause panic in Arbil, where some US per- ing British Airways, Lufthansa, Austrian sonnel are stationed. Airlines, Swiss, Air France, Emirates, KLM IS attacks have displaced 200,000 peo- Royal Dutch Airlines, Virgin Atlantic and ple since August 3, including all the resi- Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways. dents of Iraq’s largest Christian town, Meanwhile, Iraq’s Kurdish peshmerga, Qaraqosh. Also affected by IS attacks was a buoyed by US air strikes, reclaimed two large contingent of Iraq’s small Yazidi towns from jihadist fighters yesterday, minority, whose main hub Sinjar was while Western powers ramped up efforts to attacked last weekend. According to lead- save displaced civilians stranded on a ers and witnesses, several dozen men were mountain. The third straight day of strikes executed and groups of women abducted, by American jets and drones brought the although reliable information from IS-held first sign that US President Barack Obama’s areas is scarce. When the militants entered KUWAIT: The “supermoon” is seen rising above the Kuwait skyline yesterday. The phenomenon, which scientists call a perigee moon, decision to return to Iraq could turn the Sinjar, tens of thousands of people fled to occurs when the moon is near the horizon and appears larger and brighter than other full moons. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat tide on two months of jihadist expansion. the nearby mountain to hide. — Agencies Erdogan wins Turkish presidency

ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep The result marked a personal triumph Tayyip Erdogan won an outright victory in for Erdogan, 60, who has served as pre- 4 Saudis jailed the first round of presidential elections mier since 2003 and could potentially now yesterday, promising to be a powerful be president for two mandates until 2024. head of state amid fears his country is He has promised to be a powerful presi- for seeking to creeping towards one-man rule. Erdogan dent with a beefed-up mandate, in con- won 51.8 percent of the vote, way ahead trast to the ceremonial role played by his fight in Syria of his main opposition rival Ekmeleddin recent predecessors. The polls are the first Ihsanoglu on 38.6 percent, according to time Turkey - a member of NATO and long- RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Specialised Criminal Court has official results based on a 99 percent vote time hopeful to join the EU - has directly sentenced four men to prison for travelling abroad to count. The third contender, Kurdish candi- elected its president, who was previously fight in Syria’s civil war, local and state media reported date Selahattin Demirtas, won 9.6 percent chosen by parliament, and Erdogan hoped yesterday. King Abdullah decreed in February that citi- of the vote. Erdogan’s inauguration is set for a massive show of popular support. zens involved in fighting overseas faced up to 20 years for Aug 28. Continued on Page 15 in prison in a bid to prevent the radicalisation of young people who might then turn against their own govern- ment. While the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom has backed opposition groups battling President WASHINGTON: A man supporting Israel (left) argues with a protestor demon- Bashar Al-Assad, an ally of Riyadh’s main regional rival strating against Israeli action in Gaza during a rally outside the Holocaust Shiite Iran, it also regards militant groups there as a Museum yesterday. — AFP threat to its own security. “The accused were proven to have ... quit their obe- dience to the ruler by travelling abroad to fight,” the Israel, Palestinians agree official Saudi Press Agency reported. The men were sentenced to terms ranging between four months and midnight truce in Gaza two years and 10 months, it said, adding that their crimes included forgery of travel documents and mon- GAZA CITY: Israel and the Palestinians a Palestinian source confirmed accepting ey laundering. The website of the daily Al-Riyadh news- agreed to a fresh 72-hour ceasefire in the initiative. The Egyptian foreign min- paper said two of the men had fought in Syria before Gaza yesterday, accepting an Egyptian istry called for the ceasefire to begin at becoming disillusioned with the conflict and surren- invitation to resume talks to end fighting 00:01 local time (21:01 GMT yesterday) dering to Saudi authorities. The other two had travelled that has killed more than 2,000 people. “given the necessity to protect innocent to Yemen with the intention of then going to Syria, it The ceasefire deal, which was to come blood”. It called on both sides to use the said. The sentences were lenient as the defendants had into effect at one minute past midnight, lull to “reach a comprehensive and perma- shown remorse and cooperated with authorities. clinched days of frantic mediation to stem nent ceasefire.” Israel had bolted truce The kingdom has called on citizens fighting in Syria, a firestorm of violence that resumed after talks in Cairo on Friday when Hamas Iraq and Yemen to return home, often describing them an earlier truce collapsed on Friday. “Israel refused to extend an earlier ceasefire and as “misled” in official statements. Saudi state media usu- has accepted the Egyptian proposal for a begun firing rockets over the border. ally reserves its harshest criticism for militant groups or ISTANBUL: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to the crowd from the ceasefire,” an official told AFP shortly after Continued on Page 15 clerics who recruit young Saudis as fighters. — Reuters top of a bus in downtown Istanbul yesterday.— AP Now you can wear news 39 killed in Iran plane crash WASHINGTON: Even if you don’t open a newspaper, has expanded to other European markets as well as TEHRAN: A locally built Iranian passenger plane crashed turn on a television, log on to a computer or pull out a North America and China, aggregating news from shortly after takeoff in Tehran yesterday, killing 39 people smartphone, you can get news - from wearable technol- hundreds of outlets, including AFP, Al-Jazeera, Reuters and reviving questions about the safety of a cash- ogy. As wearables gain traction, news purveyors are eye- and Associated Press. Roman Karachinsky, CEO of the strapped aviation sector left hobbled by international ing these devices for their potential to deliver news aggregation app News360, also sees sanctions. President Hassan Rouhani offered his condo- headlines and more to people who want to a future for wearables, but mainly for quick lences to victims’ families and quickly ordered an investi- stay up to date. Some news apps already notifications they might not otherwise see. gation into the crash. Similar planes operated by Iranian have the capacity to deliver news notifica- “We want to change the formula from one carriers will be grounded until the probe is complete, he tions, or full articles, to smartwatches or eye- where you go and seek information out to directed. wear such as Google Glass. a world where information finds you when The plane was based on a relatively obscure Ukrainian “We are going full speed on smartwatch- it’s relevant and useful,” Karachinsky said. design that has been involved in previous Iranian air dis- es,” said Gilles Raymond, the San Francisco- He said the newly introduced Android asters. The Sepahan Air regional airliner, bound for the based chief executive of News Republic, a Wear platform for Google allows for eastern town of Tabas, went down in a residential area mobile app that delivers news to mobile News360 alerts to be sent to some smart- shortly after takeoff at 9:20 am from Tehran’s Mehrabad devices from hundreds of outlets. Raymond watches, and to Google Glass. These alerts airport. State TV said the plane’s tail struck the cables of told AFP he expects people will find it useful fulfill a need of getting information out an electricity tower before it hit the ground and burst to get not only headlines but full articles on quickly - whether it is a sports score, stock into flames. The official IRNA news agency said the plane a smartwatch as the wearable trend revs up. market action or breaking news - in an suffered an engine failure. Whatever the ultimate cause, A person using quick thinking by the pilot may have saved some lives. “When the iPhone came out, people were unobtrusive way. “Instead of digging Google Glass. “We should be thankful to God that the pilot did all he saying that not one would read news on a around your pocket for your smartphone, could to steer the plane away from residential buildings phone. Now nobody is saying that,” said Raymond. now you can just look at your wrist or glance up to and fortunately did not crash into them. Otherwise, we “People will read articles on a watch. They may not read your Google Glass,” said Karachinsky. “It’s a very trans- would have been dealing with a much worse crisis,” said TEHRAN: A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards 300 articles, but people adapt quickly to technology.” formative experience.” Jalal Maleki, spokesman of Tehran’s Fire Department. reacts as he stands next to the remains of a plane that Raymond founded News Republic in France and Continued on Page 15 Continued on Page 15 crashed near Mehrabad airport yesterday. — AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 LOCAL Deputy Amir receives senior officials

KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince of Interior, and Acting Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al- Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah and Minister of State for Cabinet yesterday, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem, His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince also Affairs and Acting Minister of Justice Sheikh Mohammad Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- received Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah. He also received Minister of Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, and Deputy Prime Minister, Minister Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, Minister of Information and State for Housing Affairs Yasser Abul. —KUNA

Amir offers condolences over Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah with Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah with National Assembly Speaker Al-Sabah. —KUNA Photos Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem. Iran plane crash KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable of condolences yesterday to No help for suicidal in Kuwait Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, expressing his deepest sympathy over the victims of the Iranian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran’s Mehrabad airport. His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Lack of help lines, community centers worsens problem Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent By Sara Ahmed Little to no hope similar cables of condolences to Rouhani over the crash There are no multilingual help lines or community cen- victims. —KUNA KUWAIT: New figures recently released by the Ministry of ters that can provide assistance or even someone to listen Interior indicate that there have been a total of 17 suicides for those considering suicide. Moreover, many of those recorded in Kuwait so far this year. The number compares who attempt face criminal proceedings and may be jailed Sudanese workers favorably to previous years, where suicide rates have hov- and / or deported as a consequence. The result is an ongo- ered around 68.4 per year (average over the last five years) ing problem with little or no government intervention. face injustice though with five months left, that may change by the end Kuwait ranks low on the World Health Organization’s KUWAIT: A group of Sudanese migrant workers has faced of the year. Each number represents a preventable death. global list of suicide rates per country. (The top 10 countries a series of injustices in Kuwait. The men signed contracts Suicide is considered a crime in Kuwait but for those facing with the highest suicide rates include: Greenland, Lithuania, agreeing to a KD 100 monthly salary but were forced desperate circumstances and with little or no resources for South Korea, Guayana, Kazakhstan, Slovenia, Hungary, upon arrival in Kuwait to sign new contracts that stated a help, it is all too often considered the only way out. Japan, Sri Lanka and Lativa). Yet the failure to provide a resource or helpline will allow this sad reality to continue. salary of only KD 70. Their employer also allegedly failed Dark reality to pay their salaries on time and after several complaints, The overwhelming majority of suicides in Kuwait are the men filed a grievance with the Social Affairs and Labor Ministry. committed by domestic helpers and low wage workers, warns the US State Department Trafficking in Persons Through mediation, the company agreed to allow the most of them from the Asian subcontinent or the Report 2014. Philippines. The reasons vary but in many cases, the caus- Moreover, both domestic servants and low wage labor- men to transfer their residencies to alternative employers es are connected to the living and working conditions of ers often pay exorbitant fees to recruiters in their home in exchange for waiving any monies due from their origi- the suicide. “Though most migrants enter Kuwait volun- country and often face nonpayment of salaries once arriv- nal sponsor. Once they submitted the transfer papers to tarily, upon arrival some sponsors and labor recruitment ing in Kuwait. They are often isolated from friends and the ministry, however, the paperwork was denied and a firms subject some migrants to forced labor, including family. For domestic servants, they may not be allowed to member of the workers’ committee was, according to Al through nonpayment of wages, long working hours with- leave their sponsor’s residence, may not have access to a Anbaa, beaten and verbally assaulted in the presence of out rest, deprivation of food, threats, physical or sexual phone or computer, may not speak the language of their the deputy director of the manpower sector of the Social abuse, and restrictions on movement, such as confine- sponsor’s family and have no access to someone from Affairs Ministry. A final solution has not been reached and ment to the workplace and the withholding of passports,” their own community who can speak their language. the situation of the workers remains unresolved. Kuwait Science Club celebrates 40th anniversary Encouraging youth to love knowledge, creativity

KUWAIT: Over four decades, the Kuwait Science Club (KSC) has played a pioneering role, acknowledged on the Gulf, regional and Arab levels since it was set up in August, 1974. The KSC celebrates its 40th anniver- sary tomorrow with 30,000 members. The Club is so keen on inculcating the importance of science into the minds of the young, developing their ideas and enhancing their skills. It aims at prompting them to love knowledge and creativity, to make the best use of their leisure time and turn their power into useful and dis- Qatari FM arrives in Kuwait tinguished work. The KSC receives up to 3,000 people under 18 every sum- mer, and offers them scientific Kuwait Science Club during its participation at the Intel KUWAIT: Qatari Foreign Minister Dr Khaled bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah arrived in Kuwait yesterday and expertise covering all fields in a sim- was received at the airport by Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al- plified way at the hands of special- International Science and Engineering Fair in the United States of Hamad Al-Sabah. Al-Attiyah was also received by Acting Foreign Undersecretary Mohammad Al- ists, Chairman Eyad Al-Kharafi told America in 2012. — KUNA Photos Roumi, Director of the GCC Department Nasser Hajji Al-Muzayyen, Acting Director of Sheikh Sabah Al- KUNA. Khaled’s office Salem Al-Loughani and other officials. —KUNA In addition, the Club organizes various events on science, scientists and Kuwaiti innovators in addition to courses on photography and memo- rizing the Holy Quran, for all ages. Al-Kharafi added that the KSC has the first voluntary diving team in Kuwait, formed in Kuwait after the end of the Iraqi invasion, to pick out remnants of war in the sea, such as barbed wires, vessels and sea mines. Over a short time, the team managed to pick out 172 ships and yachts, which weighed thousands of tons and contained 40,000 gallons of The club’s radio controlled cars’ team during an annual championship. harmful oil. The KSC has also made a success general, Ali Al-Gomaa told KUNA that various state institutions, especially in the field of coral reefs farming, they are working on future scientific scientific ones. developing natural coral reefs in an plans that focus on developing scien- According to Al-Gomaa, the KSC is artificial colony in Kuwait. It is a tific workshops inside the Club, working on opening new depart- unique achievement lauded by through modern techniques, besides ments to serve young men and experts, and can offer a good solu- using new curriculum acknowledged women over 18, as part of the efforts tion to the problem of dying out internationally. He also revealed that to develop their mental and intellec- coral reefs in the world. the KSC intends to open up fresh tual abilities for the benefit of the The participants in a group photo. For his part, the KSC secretary channels for cooperation with the society. —KUNA ‘Exercise Eagle Resolve 2015’ scenario discussed

KUWAIT: A series of meetings started yes- Relations said in a statement. managing crisis and catastrophes. This will terday to discuss the scenario of the It added that “Exercise Eagle Resolve be the 13th version of the exercise. “Exercise Eagle Resolve 2015” with the par- 2015” is among the biggest on the region- The statement quoted the General ticipation of commanders and officers al and international levels, aiming to Staff of the Kuwaiti Army as saying that from the various sectors of the Kuwaiti enhance regional defense cooperation “Exercise Eagle Resolve 2015” reflects the Army, the Interior Ministry, the National among the Gulf Cooperation Council professional level of the Kuwaiti Armed Guard and the US Central Command. (GCC) states, and friendly countries. Forces, and will contribute to boosting The five-day meetings include work- The exercise seeks enhancing expertise military cooperation “among the sister and shop for the planning groups of the in the field of managing joint operations. friendly countries”. Exercise to draw up a realistic scenario to In addition, the statement added that the The exercise will be carried out in counter all forms of disasters and catastro- exercise aims at unifying visions on how to Kuwaiti territories, water and airspace, as phes, The Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense coordinate cooperation in various fields, well as the training fields of some GCC Directorate of Moral Guidance and Public countering terrorism, border security and member states. —KUNA Kuwait Science Club at the PADI seminar. LOCAL MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014

(From right) Andres Gonzalez Garrido, Carlos Alberto Cremata, Alfredo Ruiz Roche, and Geober Guibert Pardo, Head of Department for Africa, Asia and Middle East, Cuba’s Ministry of Culture. (Right) A scene ‘Lafrom a previous performance.Colmenita’ — Photo by Joseph Shagra perform in Kuwait Children movement teach art for free

By Nawara Fattahova tools, so the children train there for free,” about three million tourists from around the of Culture as an official project of the National Cantoalegre, etc. And in their casts have been Carlos Alberto Cremata, Director General of La world visiting Cuba annually, and these Council of the Scenic Arts, and in 2006 it was Silvio Rodriguez, Van Van Group, Omara KUWAIT: A group of 11 children from Cuba Colmenita, told Kuwait Times yesterday. include Kuwaiti tourists. Relations are great named center of health promotion in Cuba by Portuondo, Adalberto Alvarez y su Son, Vocal are visiting Kuwait to present a show today at Alfredo Ruiz Roche, Head of International and we hope to improve them even more,” he the Ministry of Public Health. In 2007, it was “Sampling”, The Papines, San Cristobal Dasma Theatre. This is the first visit of the ‘La Relations at the Ministry of Culture in Cuba noted. the first theater group named as UNICEF Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia), The Big Colmenita’ Cuban children group to Kuwait hopes to repeat this visit. “This visit is part of Goodwill Ambassador. Band Ribe from Denmark, etc. Likewise, it has and the Middle East and it will present an the cultural agreement between Kuwait and Brief Story of La Colmenita La Colmenita has performed in more than produced three films of and for kids - the hour-long show ‘Little Cockroach Martina’, Cuba. The National Council for Culture, Arts On Feb 14, 1990 a small theater group 25 countries in Asia, Europe and America. This many times awarded “Viva Cuba!”, which is an American story turned into a musi- and Letters (NCCAL) invited us to participate in emerged that was composed by youngsters has made possible the creation of other “Habanastation” and “Y sin embargo”. cal comedy. the 16th edition of the Cultural Festival for and children, directed by Cremata. In 1994, Colmenitas in Spain (Sevilla and Tenerife), Among its most outstanding plays are “Mid- La Colmenita is a Cuban children’s move- Children and Youth. Since we arrived here, all they premiered a version of the classic Mexico (Chiapas, San Luis Potosi), Panama, Summer Night’s Dream”, Cinderella according ment that teaches art for free. “We teach chil- people have been very kind and generous “Menique”, played only by little girls and boys. Dominic Republic, Colombia (San Cristobal, to The Beatles”, “Andersen’s Cuban Tales”, “Alice dren and give them tools to appreciate art, with us. We are glad to visit Kuwait and per- This was the beginning of what has become Bogota), Argentine (Buenos Aires) and 17 in Wonderland”, “However, it moves...(“Y sin and after they leave, they pass on this spirit to form here, and we won’t mind launching a La through the years into La Colmenita, Children Colmenitas in eight states of Venezuela. embargo..”), “Little Cockroach Martina” and other people in other places. Children Colmenita class here,” he pointed out. Theater Company of Cuba. La Colmenita has made co-productions “Abracadabra”, among many more. Since 2005, between 7 to 15 years old train at Colmenita, Ambassador of Cuba to Kuwait Andres Since 1996, workshops of La Colmenita with Bread and Puppet Theater (US), Odin La Colmenita has its main building in the and they then share its history with others. Gonzalez Garrido praised bilateral relations have been created in 14 municipalities in Theatre (Denmark), Deep Mountain (US), Theater of the Third Order from the San Our goal is to establish a bridge among peo- between Kuwait and Cuba and hoped that Havana and 10 provinces of the country. In People’s Little Theater (Bangladesh), Les Francisco de Asis Convent belonging to the ple from childhood. The state provides all more Kuwaiti tourists visit Cuba. “We have 1998, La Colmenita joined the Cuban Ministry Mordus de Theatre (Belgium), Corporacion Historian of the City Office in Old Havana. Ex-MP demands freedom for Syrian detainees ‘Reports on bankruptcy of blood banks false’

Five face deportation for raising ‘revolution’ flag KUWAIT: A senior official at the Ministry of Health denied reports on the bankruptcy of the Central By A Saleh Borders secure and that the domestic front is very cohesive Blood Bank. Head of the Kuwait Central Blood Bank Separately Security and military sources and security forces are in control. He said Reem Al-Radwan told yesterday that reports by KUWAIT: Former MP Mohammad Hayef said state security and military intelligence are there a few individuals who sympathize with local media in that respect are “groundless”. demanded that the Interior Ministry release coordinating to check any suspicious moves Al-Qaeda and the Peninsula Lions, but they Dr Rana Al-Abdulrazzaq, blood transfusion trans- five Syrians who raised the Syrian revolution on the borders with Iraq. are under close surveillance after halting their mitted diseases specialist at the bank, was quoted flag during a wedding ceremony. He said The sources assured that the borders are propagandist activities. The source said that a by the press Saturday “efforts are being made by some sectarian safe, and Kuwait is secure from terrorist acts warrant has been issued to arrest two persons stating that there is a leaders at the Interior Ministry to deport these by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant accused by American authorities of being ter- ‘huge deficit’ with only five Syrians”. He added that the “interior minis- (ISIL), but “we are ready for any possible rorists, adding that they are currently out of 200 blood bags available ter should release the Syrians because they actions that may take place in areas surround- Kuwait. have been served injustice, or send them to ing us”. out of 1,000 required to the public prosecution to expose the lies of A source said that rumors about the pres- — Translated material from Al-Anba daily cover demand at public sectarian leaders who manipulate the truth”. ence of ISIL elements in Kuwait are incorrect were used in this report medical facilities. But Radwan explained that the Central Blood Bank, just like most simi- lar ones worldwide, wit- nesses times when blood donation is on the decline. This was the case with the Kuwaiti blood bank during the Muslim Dr Rana fasting month of Al-Abdulrazzaq Ramadan and during Eid Al-Fitr, Radwan added, noting that the Ministry of Health is intensifying blood donation campaigns to restore the strategic storage at the Central Blood Bank. Meanwhile, MP Abdullah Mayouf launched a societal initiative for blood donations and asked all to make it a success. Mayouf said his diwaniya is open for voters of the third constituency to donate blood to cover the shortage in the blood bank. He said he will contact blood bank officials to provide everything necessary to hold donations in his diwaniya. Radwan urged citizens and expats in the country to donate blood and save lives, saying the Central Blood Bank is open from 08:00 am for 12 hours, Kuwait sends second aid-loaded plane to Gaza except on Friday, 01:00 pm to 08:00 pm. — KUNA

KUWAIT: Kuwait sent the second humanitarian aid meet the shortage in Gaza hospitals, he said. It is part of the Egyptian authorities, he added. plane to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip yesterday. an airlift recently launched by the Kuwait Red Crescent A nearly month-long devastating Israeli offensive on Corruption and wasta The plane has left Abdullah Al-Mubarak air force base Society (KRCS) to transport urgent humanitarian aid to Gaza has left nearly 1,900 Palestinians dead and over in Kuwait early Sunday heading to the Ismaili Airport in Gaza upon instructions from His highness the Amir 9,000 wounded. rife in ministry Egypt, Deputy Chairman of KRCS Anwar Al-Hasawi told Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The plane’s It has also destroyed totally or partially thousands of KUNA. The plane carries a load of 10 tons of medical load would be transferred to the Rafah border crossing homes and public facilities in the tiny densely-populat- manpower tenders supplies in addition to a number of KRCS volunteers to in cooperation with the Kuwait Embassy in Egypt and ed coastal strip. — KUNA KUWAIT: Some influential people have set up general contracting companies that have nothing to do with trade, are not even recognized by the Chamber of Divers lift abandoned nets off island Commerce and do not even meet the rules and stan- dards of the tenders committee, yet they mostly suc- ceed and rake in the millions of dinars although they do not deserve it. Even the health ministry is not spared from their conspiracies, sources told Al-Rai. The health ministry, like other ministries, puts out tenders to get workers for jobs that Kuwaitis do not want, or those with spe- cialties Kuwaitis do not have, so companies bid to win the tender. Some of the tenders are to bring in techni- cal labor such as nurses and specialties that are in constant contact with patients, and they are brought from countries like India and Philippines at high salaries. Here comes the role of general contracting companies owners, who bid for the tender and win it, though tenderers are supposed to be specialized medical companies. Sources said health workers must have certain stan- dards that are suitable for the profession, while the con- tracting companies do not know anything about such matters and work according to the influence of their owners. They mostly get what they want through wasta from the ministry, otherwise they resort to blackmail. The sources said the ministry puts out a tender for hundreds if not thousands of workers, and as soon as these companies win the tender, they start bargaining on who should selected from the expat applicants. They KUWAIT: Kuwaiti divers have lifted aban- coral reefs, said Walid Al-Shatti, in charge of well as death of various species of fish and approaching the coral reefs, obstructing sea do not have committees that set standards for those to doned fishing nets off the island of Qarouh marine operations at the Kuwait Dive Team of other sea creatures at the spot, Al-Shatti told navigation and divers’ tasks. He also urged and released trapped marine creatures. The The Environmental Voluntary Foundation. KUNA. He reiterated that fisherman must sea goers to report about location of entan- be brought in, rather they ask these workers for thou- divers removed the nets west of the island’s These nets caused damage to the reefs, as abide by fishing regulations, abstain from gled nets. — KUNA sands of dinars (3,000 to 5,000 each), and it does not matter if they are medically fit or not. — Al-Rai MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 LOCAL Firemen put out blaze at Sabhan food factory Four injuries reported

Crime Crime Report Report Women left with Clinic sued for broken jaw in botched cosmetic domestic dispute operation KUWAIT: A citizen charged her brother of beating her and breaking her jaw due to family disputes. The woman went By Hanan Al-Saadoun to Riqqa police station and gave them a medical report. The prosecutor ordered the case to be registered as a KUWAIT: A citizen went to a private clinic to have a felony, and detectives are looking for the suspect. plastic surgery, but the results turned contrary to what she was looking for. The woman sustained sec- ond degree burns after undergoing a body laser cos- Coach’s car robbed metic operation, lawyer Hawra’a Al-Habeeb said in a A football coach told police that someone broke the statement. window of his car and took KD 300 and a smartphone. Habeeb filed a case with police on her client’s Criminal evidence lifted the fingerprints and the case behalf, saying that the woman went to the clinic after is being handled by detectives. reading a newspaper ad which claimed that it had Firefighters tackling the blaze. —Photos by Hanan Al-Saadoun Meanwhile, a thief broke into the car of an highly skilled medical teams. When the procedure Egyptian, stole KD 500, removed all four tires and left it was over, she found herself with burn marks. on bricks. Detectives are investigating the case. Habeeb added that her client is not married and this will cost her a lot, and may hinder her marriage Armed and on drugs plans. “What happened is very dangerous,” Habeeb said in a statement, demanding that the clinic be A security source said that operations received a call about closed ‘to protect other people from falling victim to a person harassing a citizen and his family, so a patrol went its practices.” to the area and noticed a man carrying a pistol. They calmed him down and removed the pistol from him. The man was found to be 48 years old and under the influence Child play sparks brawl of drugs. Police found 17 illicit tablets and hashish on him. He was taken to concerned authorities. Three persons from Sri Lankan and Pakistani families sustained various bruises during a fight in a Jahra restaurant over disputes that were started by children. Barbers fight over shop name Police are investigating. A security source said a fight broke out between a citi- zen and an Iranian expat in front of a salon in Jahra. Police went to the location and took both men to the Fugitive nabbed station. Police learnt that the fight was because the Jahra police arrested a citizen wanted in over 16 cases. A Iranian opened a salon with the same name of the citi- security source said the citizen said she did not have her ID zen’s salon except, for a small word on top of the at first, but when her fingerprints were taken, she was name. Police are investigating the case. found to be wanted.

Drug possession Two suicides reported Special missions patrol spotted a luxury car in An Indian expat committed suicide by hanging himself Khaitan with three passengers inside. They asked the Firemen used special equipment to control the blaze. A fireman gives direction during the process. in his room. A security source said his sponsor told driver to stop, but he sped off, hitting a patrol car. them that he suspected the man had killed himself, so The driver and his passengers then got out of the car By Hanan Al-Saadoun could spread. they broke down the door and found him hanging. and started running, but one of them was caught fol- Meanwhile, another Indian expat accused three per- lowing a marathon chase, while the other two The fire broke out in a factory that contained oil prod- KUWAIT: Four people were injured, including two firemen, ucts, gas cylinders and large quantities of plastic materials, sons of attempting to abduct and rob him. He said that escaped. Tablets, hashish, shabu, a firearm, an elec- the suspects asked him for his ID, so he asked them tronic scale, empty bags and drugs paraphernalia during a fire at a food factory in Sabhan yesterday. The fire Khalid Al-Mekrad, Deputy Director General of the Fire was reported at the 1,000 square meter building, which Fighting and Human Resources Sectors, told Kuwait News who they were. They said they were detectives, but he were found in the car. The arrested man, a citizen, consists of three stories and a warehouse, at 11:52 am, and Agency (KUNA). managed to escape after they attempted to abduct gave police the names of his partners, and they are firemen from the Sabhan Fire Station arrived to the scene Aside from the injuries reported at the scene, the blazes left him. —Al-Rai, Al-Anbaa being hunted in order to arrest them and send them within a minute. It was followed by units from four other only material damage, Mekrad said. He added that an investi- to concerned authorities. stations as they managed to control the blaze before it gation was launched to determine the causes of the fire.

KUWAIT: Children stand at a parking lot in front of major clothing stores in Al-Rai area. —Photo by Sherif Ismail Children on the streets of Kuwait

By Jamie Etheridge

There has been a recent increase in the number of children on the streets of Kuwait offering random services. In Kuwaiti neighborhoods like Khaldiya, Kaifan and Salwa, you can find children curbside with pyramid stacks of watermelon or crates of oranges in the heat of the day. According to a friend of mine, it’s simply understood that the chil- dren are begging and that most passersby will give them money but not take the fruit. They stand in the middle of the day in order to garner the most sympathy. Many times at traffic lights in Salmiya, Shuwaikh and Bayan and Mishref, you can find young boys approaching cars to sell lights or small toys or other cheap items. Even more disturbing, boys as young as eight are now to be found in front of shopping areas directing cars into parking spots and offering to ‘wash’ the car in exchange for a few fils. While the phenomena is far from new to Kuwait, the numbers of children on the streets has definite- ly increased. Moreover it’s clear that the majority are foreign children or else bedoon and they are not going to school. By the looks of it, their only education will come in the form of the life lessons learned on the street. It’s impossible to say the circumstances of each and every one of these children and their families. When asked where his parents were, one such boy simply turned around and walked away rather than be questioned. Are the parents in such bad circumstances that they need the children to beg for their daily bread? Or are they exploiting the generosity of the people of Kuwait at the expense of their children’s education. If the parents are legal here, surely they have jobs and a responsibili- ty to educate their children. The impermanence of their begging stations is likely reflected in a larger impermanence in their lives. As far as I know, there are no laws requiring expatriates living in Kuwait to send their kids to school. The question now is what can be done? Will calling the police or the Municipality to investi- gate result in any kind of help for these kids? Will charity given help change their circum- stances at all? LOCAL MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014

BAA publishes Kuwaiti astronomer’s Statement from the Embassy of the rare phenomenon pictures Democratic People’s Republic of Korea KUWAIT: British Astronomical Association (BAA) published in its spe- Liberation of Korea: cialized scientific magazine photo- graphs of a rare astronomical phe- nomenon taken by the Kuwaiti astronomer Khaled Al-Jamaan. A Turning Point in Its History The images, documented and published by the BAA, show a rare n August 15, 1945, Korea was liberated Korea, which would organize and guide all victo- those ideas. astronomical phenomenon of the from military occupation by imperialist ries of the Korean people, on October 10, 1945. It has given definite precedence to military planet Venus passing directly OJapan (1905-1945). Under the leadership of the WPK, a people’s affairs while holding fast to the line of establish- between the sun and the earth, a This marked a turning point in the history of power organ was established in a short span of ing Juche in ideology, independence in politics, transit that would not occur again for the Korean people. time and such democratic reforms as agrarian self-sufficiency in the economy, and self-reliance another 105 years, Jamaan told KUNA. With the liberation of their country, Koreans reform, nationalization of major industries and in defence as demanded by the Juche idea and The BAA chose the images taken could lead an independent and dignified life as sexual equality were carried out with success, Songun idea. As a result, the WPK has developed by Jamaan after collecting photo- masters of their own destiny, the state and society. making people masters of the government, into a motherly party that takes care of and graphs of astronomers who have fol- Before liberation Japan schemed to obliter- workers masters of factories and peasants mas- leads the destiny of the masses, the, govern- lowed and documented this phenom- ate not only the country itself but also the ters of land and freeing women from the cen- ment into a master responsible for the liveli- enon throughout the globe, starting Korean nation by enforcing a medieval oppres- turies-long feudal fetters. hood of the people and servant for them, and from South Australia crossing Kuwait sive rule. They did not allow Koreans to use their Based on these successes the Democratic the army into a defender of people’s freedom and ending in the United States. own mother tongue, both written and spoken, People’s Republic of Korea, the first people-ori- and happiness. Photos of best quality and scientific and forced them to change their names into ented democratic country in the East, was To look back socialism expanded on a world- Japanese style. founded on September 9, 1948; this enabled wide scale after WWII, but it experienced twists value were selected. Spiritual and cultural treasures which had Korea, which had been eclipsed in the map of and turns. Amid intensified anti-socialist He pointed out importance of been created in the course of their 5000-year the world, to emerge in the international arena schemes committed by imperialists, oppor- communication with the BAA that history were destroyed and plundered. More as a dignified independent and sovereign state. tunism appeared in several socialist countries, was founded in 1820 because of the than 8.4 million young and middle-aged men Thanks to the people-oriented policies of the and this resulted in their tragic collapse in suc- contributions in the field of astrono- were kidnapped or commandeered to serve as state, the Korean people could lead an inde- cession. However, the banner of socialism has my at both European and internation- A photo taken from the magazine, showing cannon fodders of the Japanese army or to work pendent and creative life as genuine masters of remained fluttering as ever in the DPRK. It is out al levels. — KUNA Jamaan’s picture (second row, first picture). like beasts of burden, and 200,000 women were the state and society, and the whole society of question that the international society forced to serve as sexual slaves as comfort became a great harmonious socialist family admires the DPRK which has followed consis- women for the Japanese soldiers. One million whose members help and lead one another for- tently the road of socialism of its own choice people were killed. ward in firm unity. and held fast to its ideology, system and cause More Australian Liberation did not mean merely the revival of In this way, the liberation of the country led for nearly 70 years. the nation for Koreans who had been at the to the building of a socialist society centered on The reality of the DPRK which is achieving crossroad of life or death. It was a historic event the masses and an invincible socialist state unaf- fresh leap and innovations in the building of a humanitarian which brought about a change in their destiny fected by any upheavals. thriving socialist nation along with its history of from that of a slave to that of a master. Socialist Korea has been built according to its dozens of years is a good testimony to the his- After achieving the historic cause of national own original guiding ideology - the Juche idea toric significance of the liberation of Korea assistance for Gaza liberation by leading the 15-year anti-Japanese and Songun idea advanced by President Kim Il which brought about a turning point in shaping armed struggle to victory, President Kim Il Sung Sung and developed by Chairman Kim Jong Il - the destiny of its people in an independent way Statement from the health crisis and has launched a Gaza Crisis (1912-1994) founded the Workers’ Party of and guiding theories and principles clarified by and achieving the prosperity of the country. Hon Julie Bishop MP, Appeal. Of the new assistance, $7 million will be Australian Foreign Minister provided to UNRWA to help it continue to provide shelter, food, water and sanitation Gulf Bank sponsors annual Pearl Diving trip he Australian Government will pro- and essential items to the displaced popu- vide a further $10 million in urgent lation. Priority will be given to women and humanitarian assistance for Gaza. The KUWAIT: Gulf Bank announced yesterday that it will be T children, particularly health care for preg- assistance will be delivered through the the Platinum sponsor of the 26th Memorial Journey for nant women, protection for women and United Nations Relief and Works Agency children in over-crowded shelters, psycho- Pearl Diving. The journey, which begins from the 14th- (UNRWA) and the International Committee 21st August, is organized each year by the Committee social care for children and youth, and edu- of the Red Cross (ICRC). The funding is in of the Marine Heritage at the Kuwait Sea Sport Club, cation on the dangers of unexploded muni- addition to the $5 million provided to UNR- under the Patronage of His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- tions. ICRC will also receive $3 million to WA and NGOs which I announced last Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Amir of Kuwait. bolster emergency health services in Gaza. During the yearly memorial journey, young partici- week, and to Australiaís existing commit- Working through the Palestinian Red pants are reminded of the difficulties Kuwaiti sailors ment of $56.5 million for development Crescent Society and its local branches, faced before oil had been discovered, along with the assistance to the Palestinian Territories in ICRC is helping to keep hospitals and clinics traditions their ancestors developed during these times. 2014-15. The humanitarian situation in operating, assisting in restoring damaged The young divers will revisit the hardships faced by Gaza is serious and requires urgent interna- health facilities and bringing in specialist Kuwait’s forefathers and celebrate the values instilled tional attention. Around 490,000 people medical help where it is most needed. within them from their sacrifices. Values such as have had to leave their homes, many build- The Australian Government continues to patience, cooperation, self-reliance and having faith in ings have been severely damaged, and call for an end to the conflict and for there God that hold true to this day. water, sanitation, power and health services to be a negotiated two-state solution that The Bank supports and emphasizes the true Kuwaiti are barely functioning and unable to meet allows the Israeli and Palestinian peoples to identity and the importance of the Kuwaiti traditions urgent needs. Over 9,000 Palestinians are in live in peace and security within interna- and customs, through sponsoring such events. need of medical assistance. The UN has tionally recognized borders. warned that Gaza is on the brink of a public —Australian Embassy MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest In my view A moment of optimism The Ebola scare

By Nermin Al-Hoti s there a moment of optimism in our life? A question that is now on the minds of many of Destabilizing Ius, when despair is hovering over Arab and security Western societies. As life’s circumstances changed, By Labeed Abdal along with the political and social developments of the world, optimism became a hope that many search for, as things became meaningless and without spirit. This is our world, where everyone is looking for hope and the majority is gasping after Al-Anbaa a smile, even if it is a remote one, to revive opti- [email protected] mism in their souls. Despite this, hope and opti- mism are an indivisible part of humanity. he number of victims of the Ebola epidem- Despite the pessimistic conditions and struggles Law ic, with over 900 deaths around the world, our societies are going through, we find in the is very alarming. It also raises questions midst of these horrors some smiles on the faces of supremacy T about preventive programs to avoid the dis- children in spite of their pains. That smile may be distant and we cannot see closely, but when we see ease’s spread to Kuwait in light of advanced it, it sends positive signs that penetrate the nega- communications in the modern world. tive energy that is in our minds, that hope is lost. Furthermore, it raises concern over the effective- That smile gives us signs that hope exists and that ness of medical institutions in affected African we will one day walk on the optimism road despite countries to protect the lives of people there it being far. who have the right to live a safe life with their children.

Despite the pessimistic kuwait digest It is also important to conditions and struggles A job for an employee our societies are going spread public awareness through, we find in the By Abdulqader Al-Hmoud about the symptoms midst of these horrors he Civil Service Commission (CSC) repre- government now seeks a post for an employee, of the disease some smiles on the faces sents the main cause of what is called not vice versa as in developed countries where Tadministrative corruption in Kuwait. Why? they find an employee for a position. of children. Because the CSC seems to kill our youth’s aspira- Let me pose a simple question - when anyone Kuwait’s Ministry of Health urged Kuwaitis to tions, for those wishing to work in their specialties. visits a clinic complaining of an illness, the doctor avoid traveling to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra For example, a secretary to a director in a tech- might refer him to the hospital’s outpatient clinics. Leone where the Ebola infection rate is high. This There may be some people who may say that we nical ministry holds a bach- But the patient first has to is a very important precautionary measure, espe- are philosophical, and others may laugh because of elor of social services while get an appointment, and cially since the number of infections in these the pessimism in our words, but with this and that, I know a young man who when goes to the office, he three countries, in addition to Mali and Nigeria, we have penetrated the negative energy and made reached 1,323, including 739 deaths, according holds a rank of high seas’ The funny thing is that finds three employees - one the majority think, put smiles on the faces of some to official estimations as of July 27, 2014. lieutenant, a graduate of to fix the date, the second people and questions marks that brightened the the government now And while we thank God that Kuwait has so minds of others when they read this column. We Alexandria Naval Academy to sign it and the third to stand at the start of the path of optimism. seeks a post for an far been free from the Ebola infection, we pray to who sought work in mar- seal it. There is supposed to the Almighty that He heals those infected in the The formula may be difficult for others, and itime companies, but in be a committee composed despite its difficulty, the method of defragmenting it employee, not vice versa. affected countries, and hope that all countries is easy, because thinking about searching for opti- vain. He then resorted to of representatives from around the world, whether rich or poor, are suc- mism is the solution to reach the path of optimism, the civil service bureau Kuwait University, the pri- cessful in preventing the disease’s spread. It is as the smile is the first step towards fulfilling hope. which directed him to work for the ministry of jus- vate sector as well as the CSC, and there may be also important to spread public awareness about Laughter and smiling, the mark of the face, make the tice. Such examples are plenty. other parties to study the market and identify the sunshine of optimism fall on the majority of our the symptoms of the disease, which include gen- society. This is our formula, and this is our aim to The CSC pumped our youth in the ministries of ministries’ dire needs. eral weakness, muscle pain, headaches, nausea, make the smile the sign of our future. the state and its agencies, which negatively affect- The big question now is would it be possible? vomiting, and in some cases, internal or external —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa ed administrative work. The funny thing is that the —Al-Qabas bleeding.

in my view The Tunnel Trap

By Felice Friedson ne hundred Israeli schoolchildren killed in Hamas behind.” Basically, a Hamas terrorist can enter one of these tun- attack.” Israelis say this would have been just one of nels in civilian clothes without arms and pop up somewhere “O many similar headlines announcing mass killings else fully clothed in an Israeli army uniform brandishing a and untold loss of civilian life had “Operation Protective Edge” Kalashnikov, ready to attack someone,” according to Shalicar. not been launched. “Protective Edge” is the army’s designation During Operation Protective Edge there were several for the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip launched July 8, the pitched battles resulting in high numbers of casualties when goal of which was to silence the seemingly endless barrages of terrorists staged surprise raids on Israeli troops from inside Palestinian rockets aimed at Israeli cities and towns; and to tunnels. detect and destroy the vast network of underground tunnels Tunnels not only transverse the Gaza Strip, but many - dug beneath Gaza and into Israel by the Islamist Hamas organi- including 14 of the 32 destroyed during Protective Edge-con- zation. tinue beneath the border and exit inside Israeli territory and As details of the tunnel system are made public, Israelis are even within the perimeters of Israeli communities. at once fascinated and infuriated to learn specifics of the intri- Beneath the collective sigh of relief at the network’s discov- cate Trojan-horse-like network lurking beneath their own com- ery and destruction remains more telling questions as well: munities filled with Hamas fighters waiting to strike; an engi- questions that will no doubt form the core of the national neering feat so lethal that the national patter is obsessed with debate long after the tanks return to base. “Who knew what unsubstantiated tales of nefarious battle plans for the execu- when?” is only the first to be directed to the Netanyahu admin- tion of “an Israeli 9/11.” istration. Consider as well the apparently un-detected noise Frequently heard are comments like, “Surely the hi-tech and dirt that accompanied construction that utilized scores of nation should have the ability to detect tunnels!” while others tons of cement - perhaps the most often-cited example of sub- ask how such an elaborate feat of engineering and construc- stances usually banned for delivery into the Gaza Strip since tion could have proceeded right under the noses of the mili- Israel initiated its blockade in 2007. tary and a security-savvy populous experienced in counter-ter- The passage of goods and people in and out of the territo- rorism? Nothing short of shocking, Protective Edge has ries is overseen by COGAT - the Coordinator of Government revealed that the tunnels not only transverse the Gaza Strip, Activities in the Territories - which answers to the defense min- but a number of them continue beneath the border and exit istry. Its spokesman, Guy Inbar, told The Media Line that per- inside Israeli territory and even within the perimeters of some mission to bring building material into Gaza was denied fol- communities. lowing the discovery of tunnels last October. Later, those items In October 2013, Israeli army (IDF) intelligence located were allowed to enter only in conjunction with requests for entrances to one such tunnel just a couple of hundred meters specific programs of the United Nations; American or European from the entrance to Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, a collective com- organizations. munity in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. Standing A Gaza tunnel first figured prominently in a security sce- at ground level, one sees the tunnel split in the middle, its nario when terror mastermind Mahmoud Al-Mahbrouh avoid- branches extending deep into the earth, with one ed capture by Israel’s security services by escaping to Egypt entrance/exit almost a mile away - through Israeli territory and through one in September 1989. into the Gaza Strip-and the other a mere 600 meters (2000 feet) By the mid-1990’s, tunnels were first dug for small children to the right: sitting on Israeli land. to crawl through in order to smuggle cigarettes. Tunnels quick- Moving closer, it required maneuvering through a steep ly became more prolific, a virtual economy growing up in the downward 46-foot trek assisted by the steadying hand of an Gaza Strip in order to sidestep the Israel blockade. In addition IDF officer to navigate the distance from the surface to the to ammunition and other military hardware, almost anything underground passageway itself. could be obtained through the tunnels. Crawling through the deceptively small opening and out of But in the past five to six years, tunnels became more the desert’s summer heat and humidity into the coolness of a sophisticated and complex, designed specifically to serve as subterranean concrete-lined structure, it was surprising to find staging platforms for terror-related activities. myself standing erect and able to see far enough to sense dis- During the past year, four tunnels crossing from Gaza into tance - and lots of it. Though visibility is limited by the dearth of Israel were located and “de-commissioned”-at which point the ambient light and helped only slightly by the lighting unit army created a task force to deal with the increasingly danger- attached to our camera, the vast dimension of the expanse was ous situation. perceptible; the elaborate nature of the structure striking. From It was at the start of the Second Intifada - the period of the sophisticated construction to the array of cables, conduits unbridled violence between 2000 and 2006 that was typified finished ceilings, communication lines and pulley systems, it by bus and suicide bombings - that tunnels came into regular made perfect sense to learn that each tunnel was estimated to use as ways of getting past Israeli border fences and reaching have required several years and millions of dollars to build - army positions. mostly by hand with a jackhammer and shovels. More than a decade later, the burning question the defense Lest there be any doubt about the tunnels’ purpose, also ministry is still struggling with is how to find the solution to discovered in many tunnels were a variety of weapons, army detecting tunnels. According to the daily newspaper Haaretz, uniforms, motorcycles and chloroform and handcuffs: a by 2001 more than 100 proposals had already been submitted macabre “kidnapping kit.” to the ministry’s Administration for the Development of According to Maj. Arieh Shalicar, dozens, if not hundreds, of Weapons and Technological Infrastructure. these tunnels, lead “from mosque-to-mosque; mosque-to- As yet, no reliable technology has been developed that can house; house-to-hospital; kindergarten-to-house: all within a both cover a wide area and see a man-sized tunnel to a depth mere 50 to 200 meters (150 to 650 feet). It is estimated that of more than a few meters underground, according to Dr. Eado gunmen are able to live inside a tunnel for weeks at a time, Hecht, a defense analyst for the Begin-Sadat Center in apparently sustained by the quantities of dates and water left Jerusalem. —The Media Line MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 4 dead in Kabul suicide Baghdad accuses Islamic State of Yazidi atrocity attack on NATO convoy

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NAYPYITAW: US Secretary of State John Kerry, foreground third left, pose for a group picture with foreign ministers before commencing the 4th East Asia Summit (EAS) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, yesterday. — AP US tries to cool sea tensions ASEAN communique urges self-restraint from all parties

NAYPYIDAW: The United States yesterday pressed its case for a been delayed as members wrangled over the language of the with respect to the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) State Department official said. But the festering South China Sea freeze on hostile acts in waters contested by China and its South China Sea section. “We urged all parties concerned to and the security issues in the region,” Kerry said. The US has dispute is leading the agenda. While China says it is not the Southeast Asian neighbours, but said it did not want to “confront” exercise self-restraint and avoid actions which would complicate called on Pyongyang to release two American citizens facing trial aggressor in the disputed waters, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Beijing over its strategy in the region. the situation and undermine peace, stability, and security,” it said. in North Korea and urged its nationals to avoid travel to the reclu- Yi on Saturday warned that “the Chinese side is bound to make US Secretary of State John Kerry is pushing for an agreement sive state. clear and firm reactions” if provoked. Wang held a bilateral meet- to end all actions that risk further inflaming regional relations, fol- ‘Guns and butter’ Pyongyang has also sent its foreign minister Ri Su Yong to ing with his American counterpart on Saturday. In a statement lowing several tense encounters in the disputed South China Sea Earlier yesterday Kerry also seized the chance to reassure his attend the Southeast Asian meetings. The US said the impover- released by the Chinese embassy in Myanmar following the talks, this year. Washington’s top diplomat is touring the region despite Japanese and South Korean counterparts over the US’ commit- ished state could not expect international economic assistance at Beijing welcomed “the constructive role” played by the US in a slew of major international crises in other parts of the world as ment on a range of other security concerns, particularly over the same time as pursuing nuclear weapons and conducting mis- regional affairs, adding that it “hopes that the US can respect the US looks to reinvigorate alliances in the Asia-Pacific as part of nuclear-armed North Korea. “We have a great deal to talk about sile tests. “North Korea can’t have both guns and butter,” the China’s legitimate rights and interests in this region”. — AFP President Barack Obama’s “pivot” east. Sea disputes are likely to dominate security talks at the ASEAN Regional Forum in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw today. The meet brings together Southeast Asian foreign ministers and key partners, including the US, Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the European Union. A senior US administration official said concern among its Southeast Asian allies about “Chinese behaviour was at an all time high”. But the official insisted there would not be a “show- down” between the two world superpowers. “We don’t want to confront China. But we have a series of interests and principles that drive our approach in the region where they diverge with China,” the official said. Kerry on Saturday formally put forward Washington’s propos- al to cool maritime tensions based on claimant states agreeing to step back from actions that could “complicate or escalate dis- putes”. The US waded in to the South China Sea row following a series of maritime incidents between China and rival claimants, including Beijing’s positioning of an oil rig in waters also claimed by Vietnam which sparked deadly riots in the Southeast Asian nation. CONDOLENCES ‘Galvanising’ role China claims sovereignty over almost the entire sea, which lies on key shipping routes and is believed to be rich in mineral and oil deposits. But its claims overlap with ASEAN states Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, as well as Taiwan. US officials hailed American influence in ASEAN talks that began Friday, saying it had helped the bloc issue a united statement on the sea issue, John Philipose (59) which has previously seen fric- tion between some member Died on 9th August, 2014 states with maritime claims Mortal remains will be and supporters of China. shown to public on “We think we have been successful in galvanising and 11th August from 1 pm serving as a catalyst,” said a to 2 pm at Sabah State Department official. ASEAN said it was “seriously Hospital mortuary. concerned” over the maritime disputes, in a statement by for- SGIOME RIGGAE MEMBERS eign ministers Sunday, that had MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Tunisia’s fishermen save rising tide of migrants

ZARZIS: The fishermen of this small North saves all of humanity.” “Today I have the thing fisherman, paused while cleaning back 107 people, three or four died before the migrants picked up by the Tunisian African port are used to catching sea bass means to bring back 107 people, but I’ll his rustic blue-and-white fishing vessel to my eyes, they fell in the water and they Coast Guard. A Tunisian Red Crescent offi- and sea bream in their nets, but lately lose 3,000 Tunisian dinars ($1,750),” describe the horrific scenes he has wit- didn’t know how to swim. My stability (of cial told The Associated Press they have they’ve been hauling in something else: Bourassine says. “Tomorrow I might not be nessed on the calm, peaceful waters off the boat) didn’t allow me to act. looked after around 400 rescued migrants shipwrecked migrants fleeing war-rav- able to. I have people who work with me. Zarzis, only 80 kilometers (50 miles) from One hundred and seven people repre- but that doesn’t reflect the true number aged Libya on flimsy boats. If I interrupt work once, twice, three times, the Libyan border. He says he has seen sent a great danger for my crew,” out in the sea. Chamseddine Bourassine, a Tunisian it becomes a heavy burden on my shoul- floating bodies decomposing in the Bourassine said. The fishermen complain The Italian navy has stepped up their fisherman in his 50s, and his colleagues ders.” Mediterranean, some missing their heads. that the authorities are turning a blind rescue efforts since Lampedusa. On are on the front lines of a growing human- He estimates he has saved more than “We find them dead but we don’t eye. Unlike the media storm that followed Monday they announced they had res- itarian disaster as waves of migrants take 1,000 migrants on four separate occasions declare it,” said Chouikha. “(If) there is a the October 2013 migrant disaster off the cued more than 93,000 migrants since the to the sea bound for Italy. They do their while out in his fishing boat, twice since body in the water and we are six or seven southern Italian island of Lampedusa - in start of the year. best to save who they can, but Bourassine the Libyan uprising in 2011. Bourassine hours from the land, we can’t get them on which roughly 400 migrants died when Despite the risks, migrants see the jour- says they’re quickly being overcome by and other fishermen don’t take any board.” their boats capsized - similar catastrophes ney as their only option. Abou Bakr this year’s flood of African and Middle rewards for saving the migrants and he The fishermen don’t keep track of the go unmentioned in Tunisia. Boudjan is a Gambian who found his way Eastern migrants seeking a new life in understands why they are trying to leave. number of migrants they recover - dead or The fishermen say they’ve seen up 30 to Libya last year. Two months ago, he Europe. But he says it’s not his job to save them alive. But they are unanimous in saying boats of migrants leaving each day for took a boat trying to reach Europe but The fishermen, who are risking both and he feels there’s been a lack of support the numbers are rising. Last week two Italy, each with a capacity of between 50 was caught by the Coast Guard at sea. their lives and livelihoods to rescue the from rescue organizations and govern- bodies were pulled out the water off the and 250 people, but it’s difficult to get Now he is stuck in Zarzis trying to file for migrants, often cite a saying by the mental authorities. nearby coastal resort of Djerba. exact numbers. Organizations such as the asylum with the support of the Red Prophet Muhammad: “Who saves a life, Mansour Ben Chouikha, a fifty-some- “The other day, with my boat, I brought Red Crescent are trying to help some of Crescent. —AP Baghdad accuses Islamic State of Yazidi atrocity Maliki blamed for worst crisis since Saddam’s fall

BAGHDAD: Islamic State militants threatened Arbil and provoked the Barzani said: “We are not fighting a ter- were from that group of families. have killed hundreds of Iraq’s minority first US attacks in the region since rorist organisation, we are fighting a US military aircraft have dropped Yazidis, burying some alive and taking Washington withdrew troops from terrorist state.” relief supplies to tens of thousands of women as slaves, an Iraqi government Iraq in late 2011, nearly nine years Another senior Kurdish official said Yazidis who have collected on the minister said yesterday, as US war- after invading to oust Saddam Kurds retook two towns southwest of desert top of nearby Mount Sinjar, planes again bombed the insurgents. Hussein. Arbil, Guwair and Makhmur, with the seeking shelter from the insurgents. Human rights minister Sudani said in a telephone inter- help of US strikes but said he did not At the Vatican, Pope Francis held a Mohammed Shia al-Sudani accused view that accounts of the killings had expect a rapid end to the fighting. silent prayer for victims of the Iraqi the Sunni Muslim insurgents - who come from people who had escaped conflict, who include members of the have ordered the community they town of Sinjar, an ancient home of the Taken as slaves Christian minority, during his weekly regard as “devil worshippers” to con- Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking communi- In comments likely to put pressure address on Sunday. vert to Islam or die - of celebrating a “a ty whose religion has set them apart on Washington to step up its response “Thousands of people, among vicious atrocity” with cheers and from Muslims and other local faiths. to Islamic State, Iraqi rights minister them many Christians, banished bru- GAZA CITY: A Palestinian boy looks outside a car, back dropped, by the rub- weapons waved in the air. No inde- “We have striking evidence Sudani said: “The terrorist Islamic State tally from their houses, children dying ble of a house hit by an Israeli strike during the Gaza war, in Gaza City, yes- pendent confirmation was available. obtained from Yazidis fleeing Sinjar has also taken at least 300 Yazidi of hunger and thirst as they flee, terday. —AP women kidnapped, people massa- cred, violence of all kinds,” he said. “All of this deeply offends God and deeply Gaza’s disabled face offends humanity.” Maliki criticism shortages, isolation Obama said it would take more than bombs to restore stability, and criticised Prime Minister Nuri al- GAZA: The attack came from the air in the after- “The borders are closed and they stay without Maliki’s Shi’ite-led government for fail- noon, smashing Jamal Doghmosh’s Gaza work- limbs here in Gaza forever,” he said. Handicap ing to share power with Iraq’s Sunni shop to pieces, pitting his chest with shrapnel and International, a global charity which operates in minority, which was dominant under severing his left arm. Palestinian territories including the West Bank, Saddam. When the 48-year-old Palestinian mechanic says Gaza’s hardships make psychiatric help vital France joined the calls for Iraq’s woke up in hospital, he could not hear properly for the disabled. feuding leaders to form an inclusive and found that three fingers from his right hand “It is one thing to give someone a prosthesis government capable of countering were also gone. and learn how to walk again but it is another to the militants. “Iraq is in need of a “It is not possible for me to work without my make him accept his new condition,” said broad unity government, and all Iraqis hands,” he said from his hospital bed in Gaza City, Guillaume Zerr, head of the charity’s Palestinian should feel that they are represented three days after the Israeli army bombed his dis- operations. “Especially with the trauma of the con- in this government,” Foreign Minister trict. He is one of thousands of Palestinians who flict and the trauma of war, there is a tendency to Fabius said. have been left physically disabled by the conflict reject their situation.” “All Iraqis should feel they are rep- with Israel in the Gaza Strip, which began on July Disabled people may face added isolation resented to take part in this battle 8 after a surge in Palestinian rocket salvoes into because there can be less acceptance of their con- against terrorism,” he told a news con- the Jewish state. dition than in other regions of the world, he said. ference with his Iraqi counterpart in Authorities in tiny, densely populated Gaza say The charity also worries that physically disabled Baghdad. 1,890 Palestinians have been killed and at least people may struggle to evacuate before attacks. Maliki’s critics say his sectarian 9,000 wounded by Israeli air strikes and shelling, a Before the conflict, there were already agenda has prompted heavily armed toll worse than the last two bouts of war com- between 100,000-200,000 handicapped people in Sunni tribes to join the insurgency. But bined, dating to 2008-09. Israel says 64 of its sol- the Gaza Strip out of a population of 1.8 million, Maliki, serving in a caretaker capacity diers and three civilians have been killed. Zerr said, citing local and international statistics FEESHKHABOUR: Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community arrive to the camp of Bajid since an inconclusive election in April, Israel says Hamas, which controls the narrow which vary depending on definition. has defied calls by Sunni, Kurds, fellow coastal enclave, is to blame for the plight of The latest conflict has added many more phys- Kandala at Feeshkhabour town near the Syria-Iraq border, in Iraq Saturday. The displacement of Palestinians because it uses residential districts as ically disabled: Surgeons working in two of Gaza at least tens of thousands of Yazidis- Kurdish speakers of an ancient Mesopotamian faith - Shi’ites, regional power broker Iran and Iraq’s top cleric to step aside for a launch pads and arms depots. With limited access City’s main hospitals estimate that around 80 per- means yet another Iraqi minority have been peeled away as extremists continue their sweep of to rehabilitation facilities and prosthetic limbs, life cent of the patients they treated will not fully Iraq, seizing territory they brutally administer. —AP less divisive leader. The pressure from France came a as a physically disabled person in the impover- recover. “There were just so many,” said surgeon The US Central Command said and some who escaped death, and women as slaves and locked some of day after Obama described the ished and blockaded Gaza Strip is especially Masooud Haji, rubbing his forehead. He saw drone aircraft and fighter jets had hit also crime scene images that show them inside a police station in Sinjar upheaval in the north as a “wake-up bleak. between two to three amputation cases per shift Islamic State armed trucks and mortar indisputably that the gangs of the and transferred others to the town of call” to Iraqis who have slipped back The territory’s crowded, uneven streets are no during the past month at Quds Hospital in Gaza positions near Arbil, the capital of the Islamic State have executed at least Tal Afar. We are afraid they will take into sectarian bloodshed not seen place for a wheelchair, there are few jobs for peo- City, around half of them children. autonomous Kurdish region which 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar,” he said them outside the country. since a civil war peaked in 2006-2007. ple with disabilities and little psychiatric support. “They were nearly all civilians, 90 percent, with had been relatively stable throughout “Some of the victims, including “In some of the images we have Nearly every day police report kid- “The majority stay in bed, they have bedsores, no connections to Hamas. One man I operated on Iraq’s years of turmoil until the insur- women and children were buried alive obtained there are lines of dead nappings, bombings and execution- they do not have sufficient medical care. They had lost not only limbs, but his wife, his child and gents swept across the north this in scattered mass graves in and Yazidis who have been shot in the style killings in many cities, towns and need physical and psychological rehabilitation,” his house.” summer. around Sinjar.” head while the Islamic State fighters villages. said Rafeek Zant, manager of a private company Upstairs at the hospital, Khalid Khattab That marked a third successive day President Barack Obama warned cheer and wave their weapons over The Islamic State, which sees supplying medical equipment like prosthetics and wheeled his 8-year-old son Ibrahim into a ward. of US air strikes, and Central on Saturday that there was no quick the corpses,” he added. “This is a Shi’ites as infidels who deserve to be wheelchairs in Gaza and the West Bank. His other son was also wounded, but it was Command said in its statement that fix for the crisis that threatens to tear vicious atrocity.” killed, has met little resistance. The Israeli-Egyptian blockade on goods into Ibrahim who was the more severe case. they were aimed at protecting Kurdish Iraq apart. A deadline passed at midday yes- Thousands of U.S.-trained Iraqi sol- Gaza led to severe shortages of medical supplies “He was just playing in the street with his peshmerga forces as they face off Kurdish regional president Masoud terday for 300 families from the Yazidi diers fled when its Arab and foreign even before the current, month-old war, humani- brother and there was an aircraft missile,” Khalid against the militants near Arbil, the Barzani urged his allies to send arms community - followers of a religion fighters swept through northern Iraq tarian organisations say. said, looking down at his child, slumped asleep in site of a US consulate and a US-Iraqi to help his forces hold off the mili- influenced by the Zoroastrianism of from eastern Syria in June. the wheelchair with his amputated, bandaged left joint military operations centre. tants, who have bases across the ancient Persia - to convert to Islam or The collapse of the Iraqi army ‘There were just so many’ knee sticking out beneath a blanket. The Islamic State’s advance has Syrian border. During a visit by French die. It was not immediately clear if the prompted Kurds and Shi’ite militias to It has prevented most people with amputa- Palestinian ambulance driver Akram al-Awour forced tens of thousands to flee, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, victims to whom the minister referred step in, with limited success.—Reuters tions from being fitted with artificial limbs hopes to go abroad for treatment. He was trying because Gaza lacks the equipment for testing and to collect injured civilians in Gaza late last month making them, Zant said. Only a small number of when he was caught in a missile strike. Palestinians manage to travel abroad to be fitted, “When the projectiles fell, I saw bodies on the and the process is long and difficult. Some try old- ground...There were a lot of shouts and calls for S Sudan rebel chief meets Bashir fashioned stiff limbs but give up after a couple of help. But I felt immediately that my leg was ampu- months and opt for a cane, walker or wheelchair tated and that I had other injuries and deep KHARTOUM: South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek greater Sudan.” pipelines, although output is down since fight- instead, he added. wounds,” the 39-year-old said. —Reuters Machar held talks with Sudan’s President Omar An IGAD deadline for rebel and government ing began. al-Bashir yesterday as a deadline passed to end forces to agree on a power-sharing deal and The United States special envoy Donald months of civil war in the South. implement a ceasefire expired yesterday. Booth said in May that South Sudan’s crude pro- Machar is on his first visit to Khartoum since Machar said his visit to Khartoum follows duction had dropped nearly 50 percent since December when his forces and those loyal to trips to other IGAD member nations, Djibouti December, sapping both impoverished coun- Yemen airforce raids President Salva Kiir began the war which three and Kenya. In May, he held talks in Nairobi with tries of vital revenue. ceasefires have failed to end. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. “This visit is important for peace and stability Al-Qaeda positions There has been growing international con- Neither Bashir, nor any other Sudanese offi- in South Sudan,” which would also benefit demnation of the fighting which has killed thou- cial, joined Machar to brief reporters after the Sudan, Khartoum’s Foreign Minister Ali Karti said sands of people and uprooted more than 1.5 talks. last week, when Machar was originally expected ADEN: Yemeni warplanes yesterday killed in attacks on two army posts in million. But the official SUNA news agency said to visit. launched a series of raids against sus- Qoton and Sayun, a jihadist stronghold in During the 1983-2005 Sudanese civil war Bashir, who met Machar at the presidential Karti stressed that Sudan has no interest “in pected Al-Qaeda positions in Hadramawt Hadramawt. which led to South Sudan’s independence three guesthouse, called for an end to the war “and continuation of the war in South Sudan and sup- province, a hotbed of jihadist attacks on The army had reinforced its positions years ago, Machar fought at varying times for commitment to dialogue” for solving the crisis. porting one party against the other”, SUNA said. troops, a military official said. in Hadramawt ahead of the anticipated both pro-independence rebels and for Sudan’s Analyst Magdi El Gizouli told AFP that Machar The raids on the outskirts of Qoton operation against militants in the government in Khartoum. Common interests wants pressure on Kiir, “and Khartoum is in a coincided with a visit to the town in province. On Wednesday, Al-Qaeda in the “We have a long history together,” Machar position to do that”. But he said Khartoum is not southeast Yemen by Defence Minister Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility said after briefing Bashir about peace talks in On Saturday, Ethiopia’s foreign ministry, interested in one party to the conflict winning General Mohammed Nasser Ahmed to for several attacks in the south and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, led by the East African which is hosting and helping to mediate the an outright victory. “Any strong administration in inspect troops preparing to launch an southeast of Yemen that killed 20 sol- regional block IGAD. negotiations, announced the launch of peace South Sudan, in any form, would be a risk,” par- offensive against the growing jihadist diers. AQAP is considered by Washington “There are some problems in the negotia- talks once again. ticularly ahead of the expiry in 2016 of the exist- presence in Hadramawt, the source said. as the most dangerous affiliate of the tions,” he told reporters, citing disagreements Despite the South’s separation, Khartoum ing agreement governing fees paid by the South The military official said the raids jihadist network. over whether talks should occur directly with and Juba have common interests, most notably for the export of its oil, said Gizouli, a fellow at caused casualties but could not provide a The group is active across several the government or involve broader representa- oil, Kau Nak, charge d’affaires at the South’s the Rift Valley Institute. toll. During his tour, the defence minister parts of Yemen, taking advantage of a tion. embassy in Khartoum, said ahead of Machar’s Almost 89,000 refugees from South Sudan vowed his forces will “avenge the 15 sol- collapse of central authority during a “We want to solve the issues that led to the visit. have fled north over the border because of fight- diers executed” by Al-Qaeda on Friday 2011 uprising that ousted veteran presi- conflict and after that we want to have a transi- He told AFP that if Machar were visiting “for ing in the South, the United Nations says. after they were seized near the dent Ali Abdullah Saleh. tional government, during which we can write a good of South Sudan or good of (the) two coun- Machar’s delegation said he would leave Hadramawt town of Shibam, according In late April, the army launched a transitional constitution,” Machar said. tries then that would be all right”. Sudan today after meeting Vice-President Bakri to another army official. ground offensive against AQAP in the “President Bashir can help with this because South Sudan pays fees to Khartoum for the Hassan Saleh and political party representa- On Thursday, 11 suspected Al-Qaeda southern provinces of Shabwa and he has experience when he was president of export of southern oil through Sudanese tives. —AFP militants and four Yemeni soldiers were Abyan. —AFP INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 Firefighters burned battling California wildfire SAN FRANCISCO: Eight firefighters who suffered ed to the burn center at the University of California, fire is burning in heaving timber and is proving to be dences to be lifted, the state Department of Forestry minor burns while battling a wildfire in Northern Davis, for treatment, Tolmachoff said. No details quite a challenge,” Tolmachoff said, adding that said Saturday. Officials told residents to remain on California left the hospital Saturday as crews gained were immediately available on how they were crews faced dry, breezy conditions in anticipation of alert because firefighters were concerned about enough ground on other blazes across the West to injured. “They are in good spirits,” Tolmachoff said. more lightning strikes yesterday. “That could create a unburned fuel near the fire, which has charred about allow hundreds of people to return to their homes. “Although their injuries were minor, we still take whole new set of problems,” she said. Elsewhere in 5 square miles since it started Tuesday. Three firefighters from Santa Clara County and them very seriously.” An evacuation order was issued the West: The National Weather Service issued a red A dozen wildfires in central and eastern five inmate firefighters from the Salt Creek Camp, a late Friday for the fire that now threatens nearly 60 flag warning - designed to alert the public that con- Washington state put more than a thousand homes minimum-security facility in California, received structures across six communities, Tolmachoff said. ditions are ideal for more wildfires - for central and structures in some danger Saturday, though minor burns as they battled a fast-moving blaze The blaze, which was started by lightning on Oregon. The warning is in effect from 1 pm Sunday firefighters started to get control of about half the about 160 miles north of San Francisco in Wednesday, has charred more than 11 square miles to 11 am Tuesday. “Thunderstorms will start with lit- blazes. Crews reached partial containment of Idaho’s Mendocino County late Friday night. in steep and rugged terrain but is partially con- tle to no rainfall on Sunday afternoon, then as the largest wildfire, which has burned about 92 square The inmate crews work side by side with firefight- tained, officials said. atmosphere moistens, some areas may receive sig- miles on the Idaho side of the Snake River across ers and do everything from battling blazes to help- nificant rainfall while others will continue to see little from Oregon and Washington. Three firefighters ing build containment lines, California Department New set of problems rainfall,” the weather service said in its announce- there have been injured: One received a gash on his of Forestry and Fire Protection spokeswoman Lynne Nearly 2,000 firefighters and 15 helicopters bat- ment. Crews gained more control over a wildfire in leg from a chain saw and required stiches, another Tolmachoff said. The injured firefighters were tled the fire in the Wilderness Lodge Area near Oregon’s wind-swept Columbia River Gorge, allow- suffered heat-related problems, and a third had a released early Saturday, just hours after being airlift- Laytonville, Capt. Carlos Guerrero said Saturday. “The ing the evacuation order for 740 threatened resi- scratched cornea. — AP Teenager arrested in 6-year-old’s death

BREMERTON: A 17-year-old has been their dogs had showed interest in a home and no indication she was taken arrested in the death and sexual particular area. from her room. Hundreds of people, assault of a 6-year-old girl whose Jenise was last seen when she went including officers from 15 law enforce- body was found near the Washington to bed on the night of Aug. 2. Her par- ment agencies, searched for Jenise and state mobile home park she vanished ents waited a day before calling for went door to door at the mobile home from last weekend, authorities said. help because they say the girl had park on the west side of Puget Sound, The boy was arrested Saturday wandered around the Steele Creek across from Seattle. They also pulled without incident by deputies and FBI Mobile Home Park on her own in the surveillance video from nearby busi- agents at his home in the same past. Officials have said that there were nesses and checked in with sex offend- Bremerton-area mobile home park, no signs of forced entry at Jenise’s ers in the county. — AP Kitsap County sheriff’s Detective Earl Smith said at a news conference. The Washington state crime lab made positive confirmation of the suspect through forensic evidence. Earlier in the week, the sheriff’s office had collected DNA cheek swabs from dozens of nearby residents. Smith said Saturday that the boy was being interviewed and will be HONOLULU: Hawaii State Sen. David Ige, center, addresses his supporters at his campaign headquarters Saturday, booked with second-degree murder, in Honolulu. Ige’s wife Dawn, center right, daughters Amy, third from the right, Lauren, second from the right, and manslaughter and rape in the girl’s his son Matthew, far right, look on. Ige defeated incumbent Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie in the state’s pri- death. The family of Jenise Wright was mary election. -— AP notified of the arrest about an hour after it took place. A growing memori- al at the entrance to the neighbor- Hawaii’s governor ousted hood includes silver balloons, stuffed animals, lit candles and flowers. “There’s a lot of grief,” Sheriff’s in stunning primary loss Office spokesman Scott Wilson told The Seattle Times. Wilson said he was- n’t sure if the suspect and Jenise knew each other. He pointed out that the ‘People power can be money power’ community in and around the trailer park was small. NEW YORK: In this Aug 5, 2014 file photo, a woman, her arm bandaged HONOLULU: A 40-year political career in an email to help Ige “with every ounce name throughout the campaign, align- The FBI’s Specialty Search Dogs and in a sling, leaves after being treated at the scene of a traffic accident came to a close after Hawaii Gov. Neil of energy I possess.” “Whatever short- ing herself with the traditional Hawaii Unit discovered Jenise’s body on apparently involving two double-decker tour buses in New York’s Times Abercrombie lost his bid for a second comings I have, whatever faults that I political establishment, while Schatz Thursday amid thick brush in a nearby Square. Although sightseeing buses are proliferating all over New York term in a stunning primary-election have, I can guarantee you one of them touted his endorsement from Obama. wooded area. Volunteer canine search City, no single agency is charged with making sure their drivers and defeat by a fellow Democrat and state has never been a failure to give all that I teams had previously reported that equipment are safe. —AP senator who defied party leadership to can every day to Hawaii,” he told sup- We need new blood challenge the incumbent. A second porters Saturday night. “Colleen is riding on the backs of old intraparty fight for US Senate was too senior Democrats,” said Andrew Tomoso, close to call. Wrong direction 53, who works in the surfing and film State Sen. David Ige, once seen as an Abercrombie is the first Hawaii gov- industries and voted for Schatz. “She’s underdog, cruised to a decisive 35 per- ernor to lose to a primary challenger been trying to put Schatz down on his centage point win in Saturday’s primary and only the second not to win re-elec- record, which I think is old-school. We after being dramatically outspent by tion. His defeat comes after Obama last need new blood.” Abercrombie, who also had high-profile month cut a radio ad for Abercrombie, Both candidates played up their abili- endorsements including President invoking the Hawaiian word for family to ty to steer federal dollars to Hawaii, a Barack Obama. Ige said his win “proves tell voters in his native state that trait for which Inouye was known. that people power can be money power, Abercrombie is “like ohana to me.” Schatz took another jab at Hanabusa in especially in Hawaii.” The governor was seen as confronta- an election night speech saying he Tropical Storm Iselle, which pounded tional and he angered many voters with wanted to offer representation “that parts of the state earlier this week, also a proposal last year to raise a host of tax- doesn’t divide people across the state, delivered a bizarre twist to Hawaii’s elec- es. The politically influential teachers that doesn’t focus on the negative, that tion, leaving the heated contest union also campaigned for Ige after doesn’t focus on ways to split communi- between incumbent Democratic incum- Abercrombie alienated teachers in 2011 ties up, that doesn’t think about oppor- bent US Sen. Brian Schatz and US Rep. by imposing a final contract that cut pay tunities to topple someone else.” Colleen Hanabusa too close to declare a by 5 percent after negotiations failed. Hanabusa and Schatz immediately winner. Ige, a respected state senator who began emphasizing their concern for In an unprecedented move, elections served in the Legislature for 28 years, felt residents on the Big Island - and their officials postponed voting in two Hawaii was headed in the wrong direc- critical votes. Schatz said he would head precincts in the remote Puna region of tion, and that too many of the gover- to the area to campaign if it does not the Big Island, deciding that damaged nor’s decisions were dividing communi- interfere with clean-up efforts there. roads would make it unsafe for voters to ties. “There’s been so much friction “Can you imagine being in Puna, get to the polls. With Schatz holding between Abercrombie, the Legislature knowing you are determining this elec- only a narrow lead over Hanabusa, both and communities,” said Tom White, 62, tion?” Hanabusa said. The winners of candidates will have to wait for the who voted for Ige and is retired from the each race will face Republicans and results from mail-in ballots that will be US Navy. “He’s too rough around the independent candidates in the sent to as many as 8,255 registered vot- edges.” Abercrombie’s decision to November general election, but such ers there, then returned and tabulated. appoint Schatz to the US Senate seat campaigns are often longshots in heavi- Both races divided the state’s domi- after the death of beloved political icon ly Democratic Hawaii. nant Democratic Party and offered vot- US Sen. Daniel Inouye, who died in 2012, Voters Saturday also chose state Rep. ers a choice between the political estab- also angered many Hawaii voters. Before Mark Takai in a seven-way Democratic lishment and a new generation of lead- he died, Inouye told Abercrombie that contest to represent urban Honolulu in ers. Abercrombie called his four years as he wanted him to appoint Hanabusa to the US Congress. He faces Republican governor “a singular honor,” and pledged his seat. Hanabusa evoked Inouye’s Charles Djou in November. — AP Missouri woman finds grandson shot by police

FERGUSON: Desiree Harris saw her grand- dreds of angry residents out of their apart- she was expecting her 18-year-old grand- son running near her home Saturday after- ments in the predominantly black St. Louis son, Michael Brown, to visit her that after- noon when she passed him in her car. suburb of Ferguson in a confrontation with noon and discovered him dead after she Minutes later, she found his body on the police that lasted several hours. They heard the commotion outside the apart- street - fatally shot by a police officer. shouted obscenities and some threats, ment complex. “He was running this way,” The shooting of the black teenager, a such as “kill the police,” but there were no she said. “When I got up there, my grand- recent high school graduate, sent hun- reports of additional injuries. Harris said son was lying on the pavement. I asked the police what happened. They didn’t tell me nothing.” Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, told an acquaintance the shooting was “wrong and it was cold- hearted,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch report- ed. According to the newspaper, Brown’s stepfather, Louis Head, held a sign that read: “Ferguson police just executed my unarmed son!!!” A spokesman with the St. Louis County Police Department, which is investigating the shooting at the request of the local department, confirmed a Ferguson police officer shot the man. The spokesman didn’t give the reason for the shooting. John Gaskin, a member of the St. Louis County NAACP, said the FBI should get involved “to protect the integrity of the investigation.” He alluded to the 2012 racially-charged shooting of a 17-year old high school student by a Florida neighbor- hood watch organizer who was subse- ST LOUIS: Lesley McSpadden, center, drops rose petals on the blood stains quently acquitted of murder charges, as from her 18-year-old son Michael Brown who was shot and killed by police well as the death of a New York man from a in the middle of the street in Ferguson, Mo., near St Louis on Saturday. police chokehold after he was confronted McSpadden, told an acquaintance the shooting was “wrong and it was for selling individual cigarettes on the cold-hearted,” the St Louis Post-Dispatch reported. — AP street. —AP MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Survivors of Boko Haram attack stranded with no food

MAIDUGURI: Hundreds of people who capital of Maidugur, on Wednesday. “Dozens of our people have been gents took over Damboa, another town support in the deployment of more sol- escaped a Boko Haram attack on their The raid left dozens dead and sent killed by the attackers. Some were in the volatile state that is repeatedly diers to Gwoza,” he said. town in Nigeria’s restive north and fled to others fleeing to the mountain near the slaughtered and many others shot with attacked by the Islamist group. On Saturday, police fired shots at a a nearby mountain said Saturday they Cameroonian border. Survivors said there guns,” resident James Mshelia told AFP. Many Gworza residents who escaped group of about 300 Gworza residents were without any food. “We are in dis- were no soldiers to defend the town Residents said the whereabouts of the the attack, including some who fled to who had gathered in central Maiduguri tress. We need help,” said Liman Ngosha, when the gunmen attacked before dawn. Gwoza emir, Mohammad Idrissa Timta, the mountain, met in Maiduguri on to protest the Boko Haram attack, injur- a farmer from the town of Gwoza. “I cannot tell the exact number of was unknown. Timta succeeded his Saturday with the state governor, Kashim ing a 26-year-old man. “We have been starving for the past people that were killed. Before I fled, over father, Mustapha Idrissa Timta, who was Shettima, who promised to discuss their The head of the state police, Lawan four days. We are surviving now on wild 100 corpses littered the streets of killed by Boko Haram insurgents in May. plight with President Goodluck Jonathan. Tanko, later apologised to the protesters fruits,” he told AFP by phone from the Gworza,” Ngosha said. The palace of the “There is no military presence in “I share your pain and I know the diffi- saying that the policeman who fired the Mandara mountain. Suspected Boko town’s emir, the police headquarters and Gwoza now,” said Halima Jatau, one of culty that you are going through. I want shot that injured the man had been iden- Haram gunmen attacked the town, some scores of other buildings were destroyed, the fleeing residents. The attack on to assure you that I will relay what is hap- tified and would be tried and punished 135 kilometres (80 miles) from the state residents said. Gwoza came a few weeks after the insur- pening to the president and I will seek his accordingly. —AFP Artillery pounds Ukraine rebel bastion as West warns Russia Move into Ukraine would be ‘unjustified and illegal’

DONETSK: Artillery pounded the Warning of ‘additional that Moscow, whom it accuses of already deemed a civil war in the rebel bastion of Donetsk in south- consequences’ backing the separatists, could use industrial region. eastern Ukraine yesterday as the Western leaders reacted strongly the looming humanitarian crisis in Local authorities in the east are West warned Russia that any after Ukraine said it had scuppered a eastern Ukraine as a pretext to send now warning of a looming humani- attempt to send “humanitarian” Russian “humanitarian convoy with in troops. tarian catastrophe, especially in the troops into the conflict-torn region ‘peacekeepers’” moving towards the NATO says Russia has some second largest rebel-held city of would be “unacceptable”. border, accompanied by troops and 20,000 troops on the border with its Lugansk, where residents have been In a round of telephone calls late military hardware. former Soviet neighbour. A without power or running water for Saturday, US President Barack “Any Russian intervention in spokesman of Russian President days, while fuel and food supplies Obama, German Chancellor Angela Ukraine... without the formal, express Vladimir Putin denied Saturday that are running short. Pensions, salaries Merkel and British Prime Minister consent and authorisation of the Moscow tried to enter Ukraine’s terri- and social benefits were also not David Cameron agreed that any government of Ukraine is unaccept- tory as claimed by Kiev. Foreign being paid out as many banks in the region are closed, authorities said. In a phone conversation with Merkel, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko said he was ready to BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Deputy Foreign Minister Nizar al-Khairallah, right, meets accept humanitarian aid for Lugansk with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at Baghdad’s airport in Iraq, and was already in talks with the Red Cross to organise a mission, but only yesterday. Fabius said his country is prepared to join multinational efforts to if it is “an international one without provide aid to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Iraqis and any military escort”. called upon leaders in Baghdad to unite against the Sunni militants. —AP

Donetsk under fire Donetsk meanwhile came under French FM on Iraq visit to renewed shelling overnight and on Sunday morning, with city authori- offer humanitarian aid ties reporting that a home and a clin- ic in a district north of the centre had BAGHDAD: France’s foreign minister said Worst crisis been hit, injuring at least one per- yesterday his country is prepared to join “I don’t think we are going to solve this son. multinational efforts to provide aid to hun- problem in weeks,” Obama said. The lighting AFP journalists on the ground dreds of thousands of internally displaced advance of the Islamic State group across said they heard more than 20 explo- Iraqis and called upon leaders in Baghdad to Iraq in June plunged the country into its sions in the early morning and that unite against the Sunni militants. worst crisis since US troops withdrew at the the assault was continuing. A mater- Speaking at a press conference with Iraq’s end of 2011. nity hospital had its windows shat- acting Foreign Minister Hussain al- Al-Maliki is under mounting pressure to tered while mothers and babies hud- Shahristani, Laurent Fabius said his visit is step aside despite his bloc’s winning the dled in the cellar for safety, one AFP aimed at boosting humanitarian efforts in most votes in April elections. Critics say the journalist reported. northern Iraq, where tens of thousands of Shiite leader contributed to the crisis by Ukraine’s military said in a state- minority Yazidis have fled into the moun- monopolizing power and pursuing a sectar- ment that it was “tightening its grip tains and even into neighboring Syria to ian agenda that alienated the country’s on Donetsk” although it also report- escape the extremist Islamic State group. Sunni and Kurdish minorities. He has, how- DONETSK: A woman holds her newborn baby as she stands inside a bomb shelter in a maternity ed that several of its positions were The French diplomat also met with Iraq’s ever, insisted on remaining in his post. still coming under mortar fire from hospital during shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, yesterday. Artillery pounded the surround- embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Obama said he spoke to French Russian territory. before traveling north to the Kurdish region- President Francois Hollande and British ed main rebel bastion of Donetsk in east Ukraine Sunday as the West warned Russia that any Heavy fire also continued on al capital Irbil. Islamic State fighters have Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday attempt to send “humanitarian” troops into the conflict-torn region would be deemed “unaccept- Lugansk. Ukrainian forces have been rampaged across northern and western Iraq, about joint humanitarian efforts and that able.” Shelling meanwhile continued throughout the night and into yesterday in Donetsk, a one- trying to wrest back control of the and their advance on Irbil in recent days has both expressed strong support for his million strong city that rebels now say has been surrounded by Ukrainian forces. —AFP main rebel-held cities in the east and prompted the US to launch airstrikes for the actions. US, Iraqi and British cargo planes cut them off from Russia. The head first time since troops withdrew at the end dropped tons of food, water, tents and oth- unilateral move by Russia into able,” Obama and Merkel agreed in a Minister Sergei Lavrov however later of the self-proclaimed Donetsk of 2011 following eight years of war. er equipment to the refugees Friday and Ukrainian territory would be seen phone call late Saturday. telephoned his US counterpart John People’s Republic, Alexander The US military said a third round of four Saturday. Iraq’s defense ministry released a as “illegal” and “unacceptable”. Such a move “violates interna- Kerry, seeking support for an aid Zakharchenko, called Saturday for a airstrikes carried out by fighter jets and video showing people in the Sinjar moun- Russia on Saturday denied an tional law, and will provoke addition- mission to southeastern Ukraine. ceasefire on humanitarian grounds drones took out Islamic State armored carri- tains rushing to collect food and water as allegation by Kiev that it had tried al consequences,” on top of the More than 285,000 people have after admitting the city was sur- ers and trucks being used in an attack on Iraqi C-130 cargo planes dropped 20 tons of to send in a convoy disguised as an many economic sanctions already in fled their homes in eastern Ukraine, rounded. civilians. US Central Command said the aid at a time. aid mission. Shelling meanwhile place against Moscow, the White according to the UN refugee agency But he also pledged that insur- Islamic State militants were firing indiscrimi- The video shows aerial views of hun- continued through the night in House added. In a separate conver- UNHCR. Fighting between govern- gents would fight “for every nately on members of the Yazidi minority dreds of cars on top of the mountain and Donetsk, a city of one million that sation, Obama and Cameron said ment troops and insurgents has also street, for every house, for every taking shelter in the mountains outside the men rushing to collect the deliveries. rebels now say has been surround- that a Russian move into Ukraine left some 1,300 people dead and metre of our land” if the Ukrainian town of Sinjar. For weeks Kurdish peshmerga fighters ed by Ukrainian forces. There were would be “unjustified and illegal”. more than 4,000 injured in four army attempted to push into the US and Iraqi aircraft have also dropped managed to slow the advance of the Islamic no reports of casualties however. The West has warned for days months of what the Red Cross has city. —AFP aid for the Yazidis, thousands of whom have State militants in the north, but in recent been stranded on a scorching mountaintop days their overstretched and increasingly since the Islamic militants seized Sinjar last outgunned forces were forced to pull back, week. in part because of Baghdad’s delayed Pope to boost booming Asia President Barack Obama warned response. Americans on Saturday that the latest US As the Kurdish forces fell back and the military campaign in Iraq will be “a long- Islamic extremists seized Sinjar, the Kurdish- church with South Korea trip term project,” the extent of which would speaking Yazidis had nowhere to go but depend on how soon Iraq’s feuding leaders uphill, into the Sinjar mountains, where can set aside their differences to confront their ancient religion holds that Noah’s ark VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis travels to South Korea this the insurgency. came to rest. —AP week with a message of peace for the divided peninsula on his first papal visit to Asia, where the Catholic Church is undergoing dramatic growth. The 77-year-old will fly German coalition bickers into Seoul on Wednesday in a trip also aimed at making up for his predecessor Benedict XVI never visiting Asia during his whole eight-year papacy. over arms exports Vatican watchers say Francis will address the whole continent on the seven-day trip where the number of BERLIN: German Economy Minister Sigmar larly concerned about the latter. Catholics, although only 3.2 percent of the population, Gabriel is raising hackles among conservatives But the minister’s plan, seen by some as an is rocketing. in the coalition government with plans to attempt to reach out to the opposition Greens With the Roman Catholic Church dogged by increas- tighten rules on arms exports, amid tit-for-tat and far-left Linke party in the distant eventuali- ing secularism in the West, “it’s a chance for the pontiff sanctions between the West and Russia. ty of a post-Merkel alliance, is rattling some to flash a thumbs-up to a region upon which “If you’re not very careful, (selling arms conservatives. Catholicism is increasingly reliant”, said Vatican expert abroad) can very quickly become a deal with The head of the Christian Social Union John Allen, who writes for the Boston Globe. death,” Gabriel, who is also vice chancellor, (CSU) party, Horst Seehofer, accused Gabriel of In January, the pope will return to Asia on a trip to Sri warned recently on public television. acting “without a concept and without a com- Lanka and the Philippines-the region’s largest Catholic Normally, the position of deputy chancellor pass” and of endangering jobs. country-to nurture the burgeoning number of faithful is largely a symbolic one. “German companies will disappear from and would-be clerics from China to India, Myanmar and But Gabriel, a Social Democrat, is taking the market or relocate abroad,” he warned. Vietnam. advantage of the absence on holiday of con- The CSU is the Bavarian sister party of Merkel’s As a young man, Francis dreamt of becoming a mis- servative Chancellor Angela Merkel to lobby Christian Democratic Union and the wealthy sionary in Japan, where Catholics in the 18th and 19th publicly for a topic close to his heart. southern state is home to companies such as centuries kept their faith alive without the help of Exporting arms was already an issue for his Airbus Defence and Space, tank maker Krauss priests, who had been expelled or murdered by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) during last year’s Maffei Wegmann-which plans to tie-up with imperial government. general election campaign, but with the crisis French rival Nexter-and guided missile maker In South Korea he will preside over a beatification VATICAN: A nun listens to Pope Francis as he delivers his Angelus prayers in St Peter’s in Ukraine, it has taken on added currency. Diehl. ceremony for 124 Korean martyrs and is expected to Square, at the Vatican, yesterday. Pope Francis has expressed outrage at violence Gabriel believes that European sanctions Germany’s defence industry is tight-lipped use his speech to warn of a recent escalation in anti- aimed at religious minorities in Iraq that has seen children die of thirst, and said his against Moscow do not go far enough, and about its actual sales, preferring instead to Christian persecution from Afghanistan to Iraq, Syria emissary would depart Rome today. In a strongly worded message during his tradi- last week he blocked a major contract for publish its output. German company Rheinmetall to provide a In 2011, the most recent data available, the and Somalia. tional Sunday blessing, Francis said the news from Iraq “leaves us in disbelief.” He cit- In the last census to include religious affiliation in fully-equipped training camp to Russia. sector’s output amounted to 22.6 billion euros. 2005, close to 30 percent of South Koreans identified ed “the thousands of people, including Christians, who have been brutally forced The minister is not looking to change It employs nearly 100,000 people directly themselves as Christian. The majority are Protestants, from their homes, children who have died from thirst during the escape and women Germany’s current laws on arms exports. while more than 200,000 are employed by but Catholics are the fastest growing group with around who have been seized.” —AP But he wants the authorities to be much sub-contractors and suppliers. 5.3 million adherents-just over 10 percent of the popu- technically at war because the 1950-53 conflict ended in Vatican. However, spokesman Federico Lombardi said more watchful when awarding export According to the Stockholm International lation. a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty. “the pope is always capable of surprises”. licences, particularly with regard to the coun- Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Germany is In North Korea, the Church is only allowed to oper- Seoul’s Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, who Religious watchers have also speculated that Francis try buying the weapons and their record on the world’s third-biggest exporter of arms, ate within the confines of the state-controlled Korean crossed into North Korea for a historic one-day visit in might take the chance to travel on to Beijing in a bid to human rights. after the United States and Russia. Catholics Association (KCA). The country is repeatedly May, said he hoped Francis would bring about “a great ease a bitter feud between the Church and China’s Germany’s own security and defence ranked worst for oppression of Christians by interna- miracle” for dialogue between Korea’s Communist and Communist regime, which has its own state-controlled A discreet industry industry federation, BDSV, is more modest. tional watchdogs. capitalist halves. Catholic Church. In 2013, Merkel’s previous administration “We’re definitely among the top 10,” a Reports that the pope may pray at the demilitarised During the visit to South Korea, the first by a pope, authorised 5.8 billion euros’ ($7.8 billion) worth spokesman said. But according to the business ‘A great miracle’ zone between the two Koreas-in an echo of his he will meet relatives of the victims of the Sewol ferry, of arms exports, 62 percent of which were des- daily Handelsblatt, weapons is one area where The pope will hold a mass in Seoul’s cathedral for impromptu stop at Israel’s separation wall during a trip which sank in April with the loss of some 300 lives-most tined for non-NATO countries such as Algeria, Germans are not proud of their export reconciliation between the two Koreas which remain to Bethlehem earlier this year-were ruled out by the of them children. —AFP Qatar and Saudi Arabia, with Gabriel particu- prowess. —AFP 10,000 top jobs daily

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www.bayt.com Register Upload your CV Apply INTERNATIONAL MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 From an Indian jail, tycoon tries to sell the NY Plaza NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: It’s hardly the $30,000 a night roy- Sahara conglomerate: Under a deadline set by the costs $30,000 a night. Sahara bought the Plaza for about from Aug. 5 to complete any sales, setting a deadline of al suite, but after five months in India’s biggest jail, the Supreme Court, Roy has just a few days left to post the $570 million in 2012. Two years earlier, it paid 470 million Monday. The source said that may not be enough and owner of the New York Plaza and London’s Grosvenor 100 billion rupees in cash and bank guarantees that pounds ($790 million) for the 494-room Grosvenor House that Roy may ask the court to extend the deadline. House is thrilled to be able to use a modest office as he would secure his release. opposite Hyde Park and just a stone’s throw from “Due diligence has to be done, all the negotiations tries to sell the iconic hotels. The only higher bail ever appears to be a $3 billion Buckingham Palace. Opened in 1929, it houses the Great have to be completed and the deal has to be signed. All Indian tycoon Subrata Roy is putting up the two tro- bond set by a judge in Texas in 2004 for a wealthy fugi- Room, which is one of Europe’s largest banqueting halls these take time,” he said. “Sahara cannot do a distressed phy properties and another luxury New York hotel for tive, although that was reduced to $450,000 on appeal. and can seat 2,000 guests. Sahara is also seeking to sell sale of these properties.” sale to raise $1.6 billion for the bail bond that will get him Roy was jailed in March after he failed to appear at a con- the Dream Hotel in New York’s midtown Manhattan. In The source declined to be named as the deal talks are out of Tihar, a sprawling New Delhi prison complex that tempt hearing in the long-running dispute with the capi- Tihar, the office given to Roy has a conference room with not public. Sahara did not respond to an e-mail request- houses about 12,000 inmates. tal markets watchdog over the company’s failure to repay a big table, office chairs, and Wi-Fi and video conferenc- ing comment submitted by Reuters. About a minute’s walk from the headquarters of the billions of dollars to investors who were sold outlawed ing facilities, said the prison official, who declined to be One of its main businesses is the sale of financial prison, Roy now has a 600 square feet (56 square metre) bonds. He is yet to be charged over the dispute and named as he was not authorised to speak to the media. products, largely to small investors in towns and rural office where he can hold video conferences and receive denies any wrongdoing. His Sahara group has vast real Roy and his two associates sleep in a tiny adjoining areas. It was two such products, later ruled illegal, that visitors to try and sell or mortgage the hotels, say prison estate, media and hotel interests, part-owns a Formula 1 room, get meals from the prison canteen and have to use drew the market regulator’s attention. officials. In a small adjoining room, there are three beds team and used to sponsor the Indian cricket team. shared toilets. The complex is under round-the-clock Roy, who is outside mainstream corporate India, has for Roy and two associates who have also been jailed. video surveillance, with people allowed to visit from 6 am often been photographed with senior politicians, crick- “They are happy, they can now talk to known people all Glittering prizes to 8 pm. Roy received four or five visitors on one day last eters and stars of the Bollywood film industry. day,” said one Tihar official, who described the setup to a One asset that could raise quick cash is the landmark week and local media said they included representatives Based in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, Roy Reuters reporter visiting the prison. “He is very satisfied New York Plaza Hotel - a 107-year-old luxury property of prospective buyers. calls himself “managing worker and chairman” of Sahara with the arrangement.” that overlooks Central Park. Studded with chandeliers, “All options are being explored. It can be an outright and chief guardian of the “world’s biggest family”, over- “Our work will be done now,” Roy told a senior prison the hotel’s decor recalls the Great Gatsby era. sale or mortgage lien. Phone calls are being made to seeing businesses with almost a million staff and agents. officer after moving to the new office-cum-cell, accord- Jointly owned with the Saudi Arabia-based Kingdom interested parties, and things will become clear by early Industry consultants said trying to sell the hotels from ing to the official. Entry to the office was not possible Holdings, the Plaza offers an overdose of luxury for (this) week,” said a source with direct knowledge of inside a prison was unlikely to dampen the appetite of because Roy was inside and contact with prisoners is pro- guests in its 282 rooms, from round-the-clock butlers to Sahara’s position. “The response has been good so far. buyers for the prestigious New York and London hotels. hibited without permission. Three guards stood by an in-room iPads for booking a restaurant or requesting a There have been some inquiries by investment funds in “The properties are quite iconic and would be sold at the unlocked metal gate before the building, one stood on wake-up call. Its 4,490 square-foot Royal Suite has three the Middle East and other places,” said the source, declin- right price,” said an international property consultant who the roof and one patrolled its grounds. bedrooms, three bathrooms, a dining room for 12, a ing to give names of the bidders who have shown inter- did not wish to be named. “Whatever Roy does, he does it It’s a race against time for the 66-year-old head of the kitchen, a gymnasium, a grand piano and a library. It est. The Supreme Court has given Roy 10 working days in style.” — Reuters Typhoon Halong rips through western Japan

TOKYO: Typhoon Halong slammed into massive damage-for Mie prefecture, some western Japan yesterday, leaving dozens of 300 kilometres west of Tokyo, warning that people injured while the coastguard “unprecedented” torrential rain in the areas searched for a man who went missing could trigger massive landslides or major apparently while surfing when the storm floods.Houses and rice paddies were sub- hit. Halong was over the Sea of Japan (East merged in a wide area of western Japan, Sea) as of 5:00 pm (0800 GMT), some 60 mainly on Shikoku island, public broadcast- kilometres (37 miles) northwest of the cen- er NHK said. tral city of Kanazawa, after making landfall Television footage showed trees uproot- on the largest and most populous island of ed and electricity poles toppled due to the Honshu. strong wind. Local authorities, mainly in Packing winds of up to 162 kilometres western Japan, issued evacuation advi- per hour, the typhoon was moving north- sories to more than 1.6 million people in northeast at 40 kilometres per hour and total, NHK said. expected to move away from the Japanese More than 300 flights were to be can- archipelago, the Japan Meteorological celled on Sunday due to the typhoon, Agency said. which came just as Japan began its annual The weather agency lifted its highest “Obon” summer holiday, NHK said. On warning for torrential rain as of 5:15 pm. In Saturday some 470 flights were grounded southwestern Wakayama prefecture, a man as the storm approached. who was apparently surfing on the Pacific Also yesterday, a 6.0-magnitude earth- coast went missing early Sunday, local quake struck off northern Japan, with the police said. Japan Meteorological Agency warning “According to a witness, a man in a wet- against landslides due to expected heavy suit was seen drifting about 30 metres off- rain. Japanese authorities did not issue a shore and then disappeared,” said a local tsunami warning, and there were no imme- police spokesman. The coastguard dis- diate reports of damage after the quake. patched helicopters to the area, he said. Halong comes a month after Typhoon The storm injured at least 70 people Neoguri killed several people and left a trail throughout the country, public broadcaster of destruction in southern Japan. NHK said. Earlier yesterday the typhoon In other weather-related incidents, the KABUL: NATO and Afghan security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. A suicide car bomber attacked a barrelled into the main western island of body of a 78-year-old man who was NATO convoy moving through Afghanistan’s capital yesterday, killing several civilians and wounding more than 35 in an assault claimed by the Shikoku, with huge waves battering the washed away last week was recovered from Taleban, authorities said. — AP coast. It then hit Honshu near the city of a river in northern Japan Saturday, a local Ako on the southwest coast, ripping official said. Also last weekend a man through western Japan, the weather drowned in a raging river, while more than agency said. On Honshu, the weather half a million people were advised to evac- 4 dead in Kabul suicide agency had earlier issued its highest warn- uate as heavy rain from Typhoon Nakri ing-meaning a threat to life and the risk of lashed the country. — AFP attack on NATO convoy Insurgents claim responsibility

KABUL: A suicide attacker targeted a NATO convoy are shattered. “Several vehicles were damaged.” US- large in Afghanistan since Abdullah refused to in Kabul yesterday, killing four civilians and wound- led foreign troop numbers in Afghanistan have accept preliminary results that put Ghani ahead, ing at least 35 others, officials said, in the latest vio- declined from a peak of 150,000 in 2012 to just accusing his rival of stealing the election by massive lence to hit the capital as politicians wrangle over 44,300 now. ballot-box stuffing. The dangers of international mil- election results. itary intervention were underlined on Tuesday The NATO force made no immediate comment Ethnic conflict when a rogue Afghan soldier shot dead a US gener- on the attack, which came as foreign troops rapidly All NATO combat soldiers will depart by the end al at an army training centre in Kabul, wounding wind down combat operations at the end of a 13- of the year, though a follow-up support mission of more than a dozen others including a senior year war against Taleban insurgents. about 10,000 troops is planned if the next president German officer. Karzai, who has been Afghan presi- “Two children, a woman and a man were killed signs security deals with the US and NATO. dent since the Taleban regime was ousted in 2001, and 35 others were wounded in the attack,” a state- Afghanistan’s two rival presidential candidates has called for the inauguration of his successor ment from Kabul police said. signed a deal on Friday to form a national unity gov- within weeks, saying uncertainty was damaging the “Foreign forces vehicles were partially damaged ernment, opening an apparent way forward in a bit- nation’s fragile security and economy. Taleban insur- but, according to our initial information, there were ter dispute over the election that threatens to revive gents have launched new offensives in the south no casualties to them.” A spokesman for the Taleban ethnic conflict. Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah and east in recent months, and violence is increas- said the insurgents claimed responsibility for the vowed to work together-whoever becomes presi- ing across the country according to several inde- attack. Ahmad Shah, a shopkeeper at the scene, dent-after an ongoing audit of all eight million pendent reports. Earlier this month, a Taleban sui- told AFP: “I saw several people covered in blood votes finally declares the winner of the June 14 elec- cide bomber in Kabul killed eight military officers in TOKYO: Ground crew cover the field with sheet in the heavy rain caused by around the area. The blast was huge, our windows tion. The risk of spiralling instability has loomed an attack on an air force bus. — AFP approaching typhoon ahead of a professional baseball game in Yokohama, near Tokyo, yesterday. A tropical storm was moving out into the Sea of Japan yesterday after lashing the country with rain and winds, leaving one person dead, more than Pakistani police register 50 injured and prompting evacuation alerts for about 1.2 million residents near swollen rivers. — AP murder case against cleric

China says 18 surrender LAHORE/MULTAN: Pakistani police registered a Policy differences particular because of the prosecution for treason murder case yesterday against an anti-govern- Yesterday, hundreds of Qadri’s supporters of Pervez Musharraf, a former army chief who after Xinjiang violence ment cleric after three policemen were killed in stood outside his house in the eastern city of went on to become president. Some in the army clashes with his supporters ahead of a demon- Lahore reciting the Koran as a helicopter rattled have privately criticised the legal action against BEIJING: Eighteen people who took part in Uighur rights advocacy group said the 18 stration. The cleric, Tahir ul-Qadri, has called for high over overhead, apparently monitoring the their old boss, who, as army chief in 1999, over- violence that killed almost 100 people near had surrendered out of fear for their lives. protests on Sunday, saying he wants to bring crowd. The spectre of tension between the civil- threw the current prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, China’s border with Pakistan last month Amid a manhunt for the participants in the down the government by the end of the month ian government and the military has arisen in when he held the office then. —Reuters have handed themselves in to authorities, violence, armed forces encircled a corn field because it is corrupt. Another protest, led by Chinese state media said yesterday. where the 18 Uighur farmers, the youngest opposition politician Imran Khan, is due in the Authorities say a terrorist gang attacked of whom was 15, had retreated and were capital on Thursday. a police station and government buildings shooting in the air, said Dilxat Raxit of the The protests have unnerved the civilian gov- in Shache county near Kashgar on July 28, World Uyghur Congress. ernment and raised fears of tension with the mili- killing 37 people before police shot dead 59 He said authorities took their family tary. Some ruling party members believe the pro- of the attackers. Xinjiang has experienced members and other relatives to the field and testers are getting support from elements in the rising unrest in recent months blamed on gave them loudspeakers to persuade them militants from the region’s native Muslim to give up, “telling them the government military in an effort to weaken the government Turkic Uighur ethnic group who are seeking can ensure their safety after they surrender.” and stymie its pursuit of policies the military to overthrow Chinese rule. Of the 37 civil- Neither account could be independently objects to. The law minister of Punjab province, ians who were killed, 35 were Han Chinese verified. The Shache incident appeared to be where the clashes between the clerics’ supports and two were Uighur, according to the offi- the most serious single instance of blood- and police erupted on Friday, said police were cial Xinhua News Agency. It has not released shed in Xinjiang since riots broke out in out to arrest him. “Qadri is responsible for killing any details about the attackers. 2009 that left nearly 200 people dead. The police officials and his own workers. Police have The Xinjiang Daily, the region’s official World Uyghur Congress has disputed the booked him for terrorism and murders and will newspaper, reported Sunday that 18 people official version, saying that police killed arrest him soon,” said the minister, Rana had since surrendered because of a publicity Uighurs who had been protesting the Mashhood Ahmad. In Pakistan, police must regis- campaign urging local people to provide authorities’ heavy-handed security crack- ter a case against someone before charging him tip-offs about who was involved in the vio- down during the Muslim holy month of with a crime. A spokesman for Qadri said eight of lence. It said that most of the 18 were “ordi- Ramadan. his supporters had been killed and more than a nary people,” some of whom had been insti- Last week, the regional government 100 wounded in clashes with police over the past gated or coerced into taking part in the vio- announced it had arrested 215 people in two days. lence without knowing the reasons for it, relation to the attack. People who answered The nuclear-armed country of 180 million has and that because they had surrendered the phones at the Shache county govern- KARACHI: A Pakistani supporter of cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri gather during a ceremony in memory would be dealt with “leniently.” ment and police offices said they had no a history of coups, protests and violent political of victims of violence, in Karachi on Saturday. Two people including a policeman were killed in But a spokesman for a Munich-based information. —AP rivalry though the military denies meddling in renewed clashes on August 9 between followers of a populist, moderate Pakistani cleric and politics. police after authorities blocked roads leading to his headquarters in Lahore. — AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

50 years on, fateful Vietnam Khmer Rouge verdicts bring resolution resonates NEW YORK: A dubious threat to US interests. attacks were barely a year old, and the history alive for students A swift vote in Congress for broad presiden- midterm election was just a month away, a tial war powers in response. A long, costly difficult time to turn away the president or PHNOM PENH: Pointing at photographs of two and bitterly debated war. the Pentagon. former Khmer Rouge leaders a day after they Fifty years ago yesterday, reacting to The Senate approved the Iraq resolution were sentenced to life in jail, history teacher Ung reports of a US Navy encounter with enemy by 77-23, the House 296-133. A US-led Ratha asks his students whether justice was warships in the Gulf of Tonkin off Vietnam - coalition invaded Iraq, opening a conflict served. reports long since discredited - President that lasted for years. As Graham and others One volunteers the punishment was too Lyndon Johnson signed a resolution passed feared, the weapons were not found. lenient, as others in the class try to grasp how overwhelmingly by Congress that historians Former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, Cambodia’s “Killing Fields” era, once whitewashed call the crucial catalyst for deep American who had been badly wounded in Vietnam, from textbooks, left up to two million people involvement in the Vietnam War. Many also was among those who supported the 2002 dead. see it as a cautionary tale that has gone legislation. “I can’t believe I volunteered for “Some students do not believe it happened unheeded. one war, which turned out to be a massive because their parents were born after the “I think we are probably a bit better tragedy for the United States, and I went to regime. So they feel that the teachers are making informed now, but I don’t think that makes the Senate and voted for another war, it up,” said Ratha, 43. us a lot safer,” says Edwin Moises, author of which turned out to be a massive tragedy,” But having lived through the Khmer Rouge’s “Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the he says. brutal 1975-1979 rule, he brings a first-hand Vietnam War.” Every era brings new foreign “It was right before my re-election, and I account to lessons which only became compul- policy and political challenges, said the felt compelled for my own hide,” explains sory for high school students three years ago. Clemson University history professor, “and I Cleland, who nonetheless was defeated. “It The students flinch when Ratha shows them think it is utterly unpredictable what kind of became the worst vote I made in my life.” images of skulls from execution sites, before misunderstandings may come along.” Trust in the White House was high at the turning to the first-ever convictions of top ex- “If you ask whether we learned anything, I time Johnson signed the Tonkin resolution leaders to bring this gruesome period of history PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian teacher (top L) teaches students about Khmer Rouge history in a would say not enough,” says former US Sen. on Aug 10, 1964. The resolution was sub- up to date. classroom at a private school in Phnom Penh on August 8, 2014. Pointing at photographs of Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat who mitted and passed within 48 hours. On Thursday, Cambodia’s UN-backed court two former Khmer Rouge leaders, a day after they were sentenced to life in jail, history teacher opposed the war in Iraq, long after Tonkin For months, the US had been conduct- found “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, 88, and Ung Ratha asks his students whether justice was served. — AFP and Vietnam. In the last five decades, Tonkin ing clandestine missions, engaging in what ex-head of state Khieu Samphan, 83, guilty of has not kept Washington from backing wars, historians now consider provocations. On crimes against humanity, sentencing them to life the period was eventually allowed in Cambodian themselves, so they would insist on a different but it has shadowed relations between presi- Aug. 2, gunfire was briefly exchanged in prison. schools in 2009, paving the way for a compulsory version (of history). Some were victims, and they dents and Congress. Debates about foreign between the North Vietnamese and the “The verdicts taught me more about the lead- curriculum a few years later. would insist on more stories of survivors,” said conflicts, whether in Bosnia, Syria or Iraq, Americans, leading to the sinking of a North ers of the Khmer Rouge, the torture and other DC-Cam director Youk Chhang, recalling at least have also been referendums on trust. Is the Vietnamese boat. According to Stanley things they did,” said Khun Monalisa, 18, a final Different versions of history two who quit. war really necessary? Is the president telling Karnow’s respected history, “Vietnam,” year student at Beltei International School in The Khmer Rouge forced more than two mil- As part of the moral reparations for victims everything he knows? What should be the Johnson considered pushing for the resolu- Phnom Penh. lion people out of Cambodian cities and into awarded by the court Thursday, schools will now parameters, if any, for military action? tion but decided to hold off because no She has been following the case closer than rural work camps during their rule, wiping out incorporate a new chapter in their teaching Graham was chairman of the intelligence Americans had been harmed. many young Cambodians-more than half of the nearly a quarter of the population through exe- about the regime, including on the forced migra- committee when the Senate debated, in the Two days later, the commander of the population was born after the regime was oust- cutions, starvation or overwork. tions. fall of 2002, whether to authorize military destroyer Maddox, Capt. John J. Herrick, ed-as, until recently, schools have taught little Teachers were among the prime targets of the “It’s no longer a story, it’s history,” Chhang said action in Iraq. Did Saddam Hussein, as believed he had picked up radio messages about the period. communist regime which systematically killed of the educational impact of the verdict, adding alleged by President George W. Bush’s communicating a planned North Vietnamese According to the Documentation Center of former state officials and intellectuals deemed a though that it triggered more questions than administration, possess weapons of mass attack. The Maddox and a second vessel, the Cambodia (DC-Cam), the government went on to threat to its quest to forge an agrarian utopia. answers. destruction? Graham found the case “soft Turner Joy, began firing at what they thought remove all reference to the regime from school Incorporating this history into a nation still “The court was looking at individual responsi- and unreliable” and voted no. But most of his were enemy patrol boats launching torpe- curriculums between 1993 and 2002 in an traumatised by the horrors has been a massive bility, not the whole history of the Khmer colleagues disagreed. The Sept. 11, 2001, does against the Americans. — AP attempt at reconciliation with former cadres. challenge. Rouge... (The judgement) should make more stu- It took years of lobbying before a textbook on “Some of the teachers were Khmer Rouge dents interested to find out more.” — AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By Emmanuel Parisse fghanistan’s feuding presidential rivals may have struck a breakthrough deal to try and solve their Afraud-tainted elections, but analysts warn the war-weary nation still has a long way to go to avoid political chaos. Both Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah signed an agreement Friday to form a national unity government in a deal overseen by US Secretary of State John Kerry, opening an apparent way forward after weeks of dispute. The feud had threatened to derail the country’s firstpeaceful democratic transfer of power and revive ethnic conflict as US-led NATO troops Protest’s bloody end divides Egypt withdraw after more than a decade. Under the terms of the newly signed agreement - which Kerry brokered in July - Abdullah and Ghani reaf- By Hamza Hendawi Shater was willing to have a dialogue but only leaders had committed crimes. Sisi grew “very agi- Rahman Al-Bittar, a volunteer guard. “We had to firmed their earlier commitment to an audit of all 8.1 “between equals” - meaning prisoners must be tated” and said “order must be restored,” McCain run over the injured and the dead to get out.” On million votes cast during the second round of voting. A round 6:30 am, police armored vehicles rum- released, Leon said. Shater suggested that Saad Al- told the AP. “The meeting came to a rather abrupt the sit-in’s western side, police fired warning shots national unity government will undertake a compre- bled up to the barricades at the edges of the Katatni, a senior Brotherhood figure, should be the end”. After the meeting, McCain told a press con- in the air for the first 20 minutes. Then they came hensive political reform program, while a new “chief Aanti-government sit-in where thousands of first freed. Shater recognized that he and Morsi ference that he considered Morsi’s ouster a coup, under gunfire from nearby buildings, the two gen- executive” position will be created by presidential Islamists had camped out for weeks in a Cairo would not be immediately released, according to further angering the government. The next day, erals said. Lt Mohammed Gouda, who was circulat- decree and held by a member of whoever’s camp is square. First came tear gas. Then quickly, police Leon, giving the AP his first detailed account of the the government announced that mediation had ing with a loudspeaker to tell residents to stay declared the runner up. started using machine guns. Every five minutes, stu- mediation. It seemed a good sign. Diplomats had failed. indoors, was the first policeman shot and killed. dent Mahmoud El-Iddrissi remembers, they swept already proposed to the government that it release A key question about Rabaah is who shot first. ‘A Long Way to Go’ the barricade with bullets. A friend next to him Katatni and Brotherhood-allied politician Aboul-Ela Degrees of Escalation A comparison of accounts does not definitively The deal caused sighs of relief among those negotia- stood to throw a firecracker and immediately fell, Madi to act as negotiators. A few days before the assault, a top Interior answer that because witnesses’ recollection of tim- tors charged with trying to find a way through the cur- shot in his neck and shoulder. But in Rabaah, Brotherhood leaders and their Ministry official gave a fiery speech to Central ing is likely not exact. The generals said that when rent political impasse, but many analysts remain scepti- The scene on Aug 14, 2013, was the start of the allies adhered to their stance that Morsi must be Security troops vowing revenge for policemen Gouda was killed, security forces panicked and let cal. “We have a long way to go to come up with a pack- biggest massacre in modern Egyptian history, as freed. “Any dialogue must be with the legitimately killed by Islamic militants. “The blood of our sons in loose with heavy fire. Even worse, Gouda was shot age on national unity. We took just one step yesterday,” security forces crushed the sit-in by Islamist sup- elected president,” Gamal Abd-ul-Sattar, a senior fig- the police will not go in vain,” he told them, in the planned safe passage. However, accounts by Abdul Waheed Wafa, director of Afghanistan Centre at porters of Mohammed Morsi, the elected president ure in the Brotherhood-led anti-coup alliance, told according to the two generals. The basic dispersal Bayad, Bittar and Iddrissi suggest the first gunshot Kabul University, told AFP. Wafa said it is the details that who had been removed by the military a month the AP in response to questions sent to the plan was for forces at one end of the surrounded casualties among protesters had already hap- have yet to be hammered out, rather than those that earlier. At least 624 people were killed during 12 Brotherhood’s press office in London. Leon said sit-in to drive protesters out through “safe pas- pened - on the far side of the sit-in from Gouda’s have been agreed upon, which could cause future hours of mayhem in Cairo’s Rabaah Al-Adawiyah each side demanded the other act on reducing ten- sages” at the other end. The orders to police were shooting. headaches. “For instance, the authority of chief execu- Square, though rights groups have said the toll may sions, but neither did. Authorities wanted an end to to “act according to the situation by degrees of The following hours were mayhem, with police tive position is unclear,” he said. be several hundred higher. rhetoric from Rabaah they saw as inciting violence. escalation,” the two generals said. backed by armored vehicles and bulldozers advanc- Ali Mohammad Ali, deputy director of the Afghan An AP investigation shows that commanders The protesters pointed to media portraying them as But also, police were told to expect protesters ing slowly down streets thick with obstacles - tents, Institute for Strategic Studies, is even less sanguine. gave security forces virtual carte blanche to use terrorists. to have weapons and to swiftly move to eliminate cars, sandbags, brick barriers and the protesters “The problem with both candidates is that they have deadly force. Authorities contend police only Protest leaders were convinced that concessions them, they said. “The orders were clear not to give themselves, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails. agreed on general basis of a framework on the princi- responded with live ammunition on anyone who were useless and that the military was determined any opportunity for the police to be targeted,” one Bullets flew as men and women fled for cover. Tents ples, but not on the details,” he said. “I don’t see the fired on them - and eight policemen were killed by to crush the Islamist movement. “I do not believe general said. “We explained to them self-defense is caught on fire. At one point, a nearby gas station future of this unity government. It would be a weak gunmen during the assault. But broad orders to the anything could have averted them as they were legitimate and they will not be subjected to prose- burst into flames. The crisis quickly spread nation- government. I don’t think it’s going to work.” security forces, revealed to AP, emphasized crushing intent on stifling any dissent,” Abd-ul-Sattar said. cution later on.” Steps were taken to ensure that. wide. Angered by the Rabaah assault, Islamists Both analysts cited concerns that having the run- resistance. Police were told to expect to come under And protesters themselves did not want to back One of the generals said ammunition was brought attacked police stations and churches in cities ner-up working within the government could lead to fire and to move strongly to eliminate any threat. blockages, with the eventual winner reluctant to share They were also told no one would be prosecuted for power. But Ghani and Abdullah have struck optimistic any deaths, two generals in the Interior Ministry, notes since the deal was announced. “We are positive which is in charge of police, told the AP. The gener- als spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the and optimistic,” said Ashraf Ghani’s spokesman Faizullah planning. The investigation also showed both the Zaki. “The declaration signed by both sides yesterday military-backed government and Morsi’s Muslim has paved the ground for a more positive future, a Brotherhood, the main force behind the protest, future in which both election teams will work together staunchly resisted any concessions that internation- to form a strong national unity government.” However, al mediators hoped could have averted the disaster. Afghanistan’s political system meant that the new chief The AP interviewed more than 20 surviving protest- executive’s powers will be determined by the president, ers, security officials and diplomats. A year later, the said Zaki. division is even stronger, now drawn in blood, between Egypt’s traditional two strongest powers: Afghanistan Entering ‘a New Phase’ A military aiming to restore its old order, and the In an interview with AFP Saturday, Abdullah said his Muslim Brotherhood trying to survive after being country was entering “a new phase”, stressing that the ousted from power. That rivalry likely locks Egypt vote audit must be completed in time to have a new into continued conflict, with fears democracy will president before a NATO summit in Britain on Sept 4-5 - be the loser. a key demand of the US. “The success of the political framework will depend on the sincerity of both sides,” All or nothing he said. The summit is scheduled to endorse a US-led After the 2011 uprising removed autocrat Hosni NATO “training and advisory” mission in Afghanistan Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood rolled to victory next year after all foreign combat troops withdraw by in a series of Egypt’s first democratic elections, December. bringing Morsi to the presidency. But opposition But Abdullah cautioned that his supporters would quickly grew. A year after Morsi’s inauguration, mil- only accept the result if the audit was “legitimate”, rais- lions joined protests against him, prompting then- ing concerns of future disagreements between the two army chief Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi to remove and camps. “If our people, our supporters are convinced detain Morsi on July 3, 2013. The Brotherhood did about the legitimacy of the process they will accept it not go quietly. Over the next month, its sit-in the same that I will accept it,” he said. Without an end to protest at Rabaah Al-Adawiyah Mosque grew. Morsi the political impasse, Afghanistan faces an uncertain supporters camped out in hundreds of tents. From future. NATO members have expressed reluctance to a stage at the center, prominent clerics and other make costly commitments if Afghanistan fails to com- figures daily told crowds they would hold out until In this July 28, 2013 file photo, supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohamed Morsi chant slogans against plete its first democratic transfer of power - a key goal Morsi was restored, denouncing Sisi and the mili- Egyptian Defense Minister Gen Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi in Nasr City in Cairo. —AP of the massive international military and aid effort since tary leadership as traitors fighting a war against 2001. Taleban insurgents have launched new opera- Islam. A second, smaller sit-in was located across the down, he said, adding that with the assault immi- to the troops from multiple storehouses to obfus- around the country, killing policemen. In Rabaah’s tions in the south and east in recent months, and vio- capital in Nahda Square. nent, sit-in organizers asked women to leave the cate its origin. Release logs were also covered up, reception hall clinic, bodies were lined up in rooms lence is increasing across the country, according to sev- Tensions swelled. Security officials called protest but they refused. he said, so they could not be used as evidence if and volunteers frantically performed basic first aid. eral independent reports. US-led foreign troop num- Rabaah a threat that must be dealt with, saying At the same time, a prominent ultraconserva- any policemen were prosecuted for deaths, as had In the chaos, many died untreated. “I know I’m bers have declined from a peak of 150,000 in 2012 to armed “terrorists” were among the protesters. tive Salafi cleric, Sheik Mohammed Hassan, was happened after the protests against Mubarak. going to die, just give me something for the pain,” just 44,300 now, and NATO combat operations are Rights groups have since confirmed that there were secretly mediating with both sides. In an Aug 3 ser- Egyptian law allows police to use weapons to one patient told Bayad. Tear gas barrages forced winding down fast after 13 years of fighting that have a few with automatic weapons, but that it hardly mon, Hassan announced that the military prom- disperse assemblies that “present a danger to public staff and wounded in the clinic to flee to a nearby failed to defeat the Taleban. —AFP constituted an “armed camp” as officials depicted. ised not to break up the sit-ins if protesters ease security.” Rights groups, however, say the issue is hospital, a few dozen yards away behind the Twice, police fired on protesters who marched out their rhetoric and not leave the square in marches. proportionality. Courts tend to give wide leeway to mosque. Bayad described a mad dash ducking wild of the camp, and more than 100 were killed. The Furious that talks were revealed, Rabaah leaders police. “Everything today is up to who has the right gunfire until they reached the hospital. Perhaps the protesters, in turn, contended they were standing denounced him. One of them, Salah Sultan, vowed and power to interpret (the law) and impose his day’s heaviest battle took place at an apartment All articles appearing on these up for democracy and vowed never to recognize a never to recognize the post-Morsi government, interpretation,” said prominent Egyptian rights tower still under construction behind the mosque. government installed by what they called a coup. calling Sisi “the traitor, the murderer, the liar”. lawyer Bahy Eddin Hassan. Notably, the interior Youths inside rained down rocks and firebombs. pages are the personal opinion of Their protest failed to garner wider public support, The international envoys presented their pro- minister announced after the dispersal that the Police say they came under fire by gunmen in the the writers. Kuwait Times takes no but the Brotherhood and its allies increasingly posal: The government would release some weapons found in the square totaled nine automat- building. In the afternoon, police opened an all-out responsibility for views expressed pinned their cause on an all-or-nothing stand in Brotherhood leaders, while the protesters would ic weapons, a pistol, five homemade guns and assault on the building with a massive fusillade, Rabaah. Those entrenched stances doomed media- reduce numbers in the squares and tone down ammunition. including using snipers firing from helicopters, therein. Kuwait Times invites read- tion attempts led by four envoys: US State rhetoric. International experts would investigate according to the two generals. The hail of bullets ers to voice their opinions. Please Department official Robert Burns, EU envoy claims of weapons among the protesters and of Who Shot First? pulverized the building’s brick facade, showering send submissions via email to: opin- Bernadino Leon, and diplomats from Qatar, an ally violence on both sides. Each side replied, “It is the Within 15 minutes into the assault, casualties red dust on protesters lying flat in the street for cov- [email protected] or via snail of the Brotherhood, and the United Arab Emirates, other side who should start first,” Leon said. Things flooded into a clinic set up by protesters in the er, said Mohammed Gamal, a 21-year-old protester an ally of Egypt’s military. On Aug. 4, the diplomats were falling apart. US Senators John McCain and reception hall of Rabaah Mosque: guards from the who was on the building’s fifth floor. Down in the mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. met in prison with the Brotherhood’s most powerful Lindsey Graham arrived to meet with both sides. barricades on the sit-in’s eastern edge with gaping street, he saw a man throwing stones fall from a The editor reserves the right to edit man, deputy leader Khairat Al-Shater, arrested soon Their 45-minute sit-down with Sisi on Aug. 6 wounds from heavy caliber guns, said Fatma Yahya shot. “Another protester tried to crawl to him,” any submission as necessary. after Morsi’s ouster. As the group’s top decision- quickly soured. They pressed him to release Bayad, a surgeon in the clinic. The clinic quickly Gamal remembered. “The minute he touched the maker, Shater’s say was crucial. detainees, while he insisted the jailed Brotherhood filled with bodies and with tear gas, said Abdel- body, he too was shot.” —AP NEWS MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014

This picture taken on Saturday shows students from Tagou martial arts school performing during a rehearsal of the opening ceremony of Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing in east China’s Jiangsu province. — AFP

Now you can wear news Israel, Palestinians agree midnight truce... Continued from Page 1 Ken Doctor of the media research firm Outsell said news organizations may be able to bring in more readers with Continued from Page 1 Gaza plunged back into an abyss of violence after a It remains unclear at the moment how fast wearable alerts tailored to their interests, by delivering through 72-hour truce ended on Friday, with the Israeli military technologies will catch on, and how people will use the wearables. Doctor said that major news organizations are More than a month of bloody fighting in and around Gaza hitting more than 160 targets and killing at least 19 peo- devices. While News Republic’s Raymond sees a demand now delivering millions of email alerts on important news has killed at least 1,939 Palestinians and 67 people on the ple, and Palestinian militants launching 110 rockets of for full articles, he differs from News360 on Google Glass. for readers who register, and that this drives more traffic to Israeli side, most of them soldiers. The UN says just under which 85 smashed into Israel. Israel said it had been But he said smartwatches may gain more traction when the websites. The same could be true for alerts on wear- three quarters of those killed in Gaza were civilians, and forced to close its Kerem Shalom crossing used to truck they become independent of smartphones, allowing peo- ables. “The news alerts business, which has been around around a third of the civilian victims were children. supplies into the southern Gaza Strip after it was struck ple to shed their phones for some of the time. Roger Kay, for 20 years, is having a huge revival,” he said. “This is a On the ground, eight Palestinians were killed, includ- twice by rocket fire. “After continuous and intentional analyst at Endpoint Technologies Associates, said news on technique that works because of mobile and smart- ing a woman and two 17-year-olds, in a barrage of Israeli rocket fire at the Kerem Shalom crossing this morning smartwatches and Google Glass will probably be limited phones.” air strikes and 10 bodies were pulled from the rubble east and this afternoon, during which trucks carrying flamma- to short items that can be absorbed in a glance. “The Important in this effort is getting readers to register, to of Gaza City, local medics said. Throughout the day, Israeli ble materials to the Gaza Strip were almost hit, we took glanceability of it is important,” Kay said. “I don’t imagine be able to determine the news they want to see - essen- warplanes hit 41 targets, including a factory in Gaza City the exceptional decision to close the crossing in order to people squinting at their watches to read articles; they tially tracking their habits using the same techniques as used to make cleaning products close to the main hotel protect the lives of workers and traders,” a defence min- have enough trouble reading on their phones.” Still, Kay retailers like Amazon or services such as Netflix. “People where foreign journalists are based. Militants launched istry statement said. noted that “a well-written headline can encapsulate an are expecting alerts for news that is important to them,” 35 rockets over the border, 23 of which struck southern For days, Egyptian efforts to broker an end to more entire story”. Doctor said. “And I would think the ability of wearables to Israel and eight which were shot down, with the rest than a month of fighting led nowhere. “Israel will not For news organizations struggling with the transition deliver alerts is very good and that it could spur news falling short inside Palestinian territory, the army said. engage in negotiations under fire,” Prime Minister to digital, wearables may offer some help, analysts say. reading.” — AFP In Deir al-Balah, an angry crowd of young men bel- Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday, warning lowed slogans as they carried the bloodied body of one the operation would not stop until there was a pro- 39 killed in Iran plane crash of the teenagers to its burial side. The army described the longed quiet. In the West Bank, an 11-year-old Palestinian youth as a “prominent terror operative”. “God loves mar- boy was shot dead by Israeli troops as he played outside Continued from Page 1 chronically strapped for cash, rely on aging planes and tyrs! We will march on Jerusalem in our millions,” chanted his home in Al-Fawwar refugee camp near the southern have a spotty maintenance record. While some operate mourners. At the graveside, neighbours passed around city of Hebron, relatives and medics said. The army said Black smoke billowed from the mass of burnt out and Boeing and Airbus models, spare parts for Western-made pieces of shrapnel as he was laid to rest in a plot where troops had opened fire during a “violent riot” but said it twisted metal, with officials saying the plane hit a wall planes are often hard to come by - largely because of several other freshly-dug graves laid open, as if prepared had opened an investigation into the circumstances of and trees. “The scene was terrible, with the back of the sanctions aimed at Iran’s nuclear program. Those difficul- for further deaths. the shooting. — AFP plane in the middle of the street,” one witness said. “But ties have left Iranian airlines increasingly reliant on planes we were lucky because there was a market 500 metres developed by the Soviet Union and its successor states, away and a lot of people were there.” though parts for aging Soviet-era planes can also be Another witness told state television: “I was on my tough to get. motorbike and I heard something behind me. I turned At the crash site, members of the elite Revolutionary round and it was a plane, so I got on to the ground Guard worked to secure the scene from onlookers while because it was so close. With other people, we ran to try security and rescue personnel combed the wreckage. to save the passengers but there were two or three loud The plane’s mangled but largely intact tail section was explosions and a huge fire.” One survivor said he was torn from the fuselage and came to rest on a nearby saved by jumping through a hole in the plane’s body cre- road. State TV said the bodies of some of the victims were ated by a blast. “The force of the blast threw us out of the so badly burned that they could not be identified. They plane,” Mohammad Abedzadeh was quoted as saying on will be handed over to relatives after DNA tests are car- Iranian state news channel IRINN’s website. “Seconds lat- ried out to determine their identities, it said. er, I saw the entire plane in flames,” he said through tears. Eyewitness Hassan Molla said he heard a roaring Known as an IrAn-140 or Iran-140, the twin-engine sound as the plane came in low overhead, one wing tilt- turboprop is a version of the Antonov An-140 regional ing. “There was no smoke or anything. It was absolutely plane and is assembled under license in Iran. It can carry sound and in good condition” before the crash and what up to 52 passengers. A Ukrainian-made An-140 crashed appeared to be multiple explosions, he said. An official near the central Iranian city of Isfahan in 2002, killing 46 for Sepahan Air told AP from the central city of Isfahan mostly Ukrainian and Russian experts traveling to wit- that the carrier is affiliated with the Iran Aircraft ness the maiden flight of the Iranian-built version of the Manufacturing Industrial Company, also known as HESA. plane. A similar Iranian-made version crashed during a The airline was set up in 2010 and has not had any previ- training flight in Isfahan in Feb 2009, killing five onboard, ous crashes, said the official, who refused to provide his according to a report by state-run Press TV at the time. name. HESA has ties to Iran’s Ministry of Defense and is Iranian airlines, including those run by the state, are the company that assembles the IrAn-140. Erdogan wins Turkish presidency Continued from Page 1 larger section of our society,” Zahide, 52, a retired nurse, after voting in Istanbul for Erdogan. But Ozlem, 24, a uni- As the results came out, Erdogan briefly addressed versity student, said she voted for Ihsanoglu. “Our country hundreds of supporters in Istanbul before praying at the is at a turning point. It’s either democracy or dictatorship. historic Eyup Sultan mosque built after the 1453 conquest Everyone should come to their senses.” Regional break- of Constantinople by the Ottomans. “As long as I am alive, downs of the results showed a clear geographical polari- I will continue our struggle to sustain a more advanced sation of the country, with Ihsanoglu taking the strongly democracy,” said Erdogan before heading to Ankara secular western coast, Demirtas the Kurdish southeast but where he is expected to give a full victory speech. Erdogan the Black Sea coast, Istanbul and the entire heart Erdogan has said he plans to revamp the post to give the of the country. presidency greater executive powers, which could see The third candidate Demirtas, 41, from Turkey’s Kurdish Turkey shift towards a system more like that of France if minority, hoped to attract votes not just from Kurds but his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) succeeds also secular Turks with a left-wing, pro-gay and pro- in changing the constitution. women’s rights message. But even though his charisma, But Erdogan’s opponents accuse him of undermining flashing grin and fondness for white shirts with rolled-up the secular legacy of Turkey’s founding father Mustafa sleeves have earned him the moniker “the Kurdish Kemal Ataturk, who established a strict separation Obama” in some quarters, he failed to make the stunning between religion and politics when he forged the new breakthrough some expected. state from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. “A ballot Erdogan endured the toughest year of his rule in 2013, paper with only one name does not represent the democ- shaken by deadly mass protests sparked by plans to build racy, it does not suit Turkey,” said Ihsanoglu, 70, as he cast a shopping mall on Gezi Park in Istanbul that grew into a his ballot in Istanbul. He complained that the campaign general cry of anger by secular Turks who felt ignored by had been “unfair, disproportionate”, nonetheless predict- the AKP. Later in the year, stunning corruption allegations ing that the votes of the “silent masses” would help him to emerged against the premier and his inner circle, includ- victory. “I congratulate Mr Prime Minister and wish him ing his son Bilal, based on bugged conversations that success,” Ihsanoglu later said in a brief statement to enthralled the country like a soap opera. The future of reporters in Istanbul after results broadcast by Turkish outgoing president Abdullah Gul, a co-founder of the AKP media showed Erdogan had won. who appears to have distanced himself from Erdogan, is Erdogan ran a lavish three-month campaign that unclear. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is tipped as a swamped those of his rivals, his face glaring down at possible choice to be premier. Recalling that he was the pedestrians in Istanbul from gigantic billboards at almost last Turkish president to be elected by parliament, Gul every street corner. The campaign of Ihsanoglu - a book- said after voting that he wished Turkey proceeds “on its ish former head of the Organisation of Islamic path by keeping its democracy and law stronger and con- Cooperation (OIC) whose candidacy was backed by the solidating its economy”. two main opposition parties - was modest by comparison. Analysts warned that Erdogan may face stiff resistance While many secular Turks detest Erdogan, he can still when he seeks to change the constitution and gain extra count on a huge base of support from religiously conser- powers for the presidency. “Winning the presidency has vative middle-income voters, particularly in central Turkey never been the main challenge for Erdogan. The main and poorer districts of Istanbul, who have prospered challenge ... is what happens next,” said Ziya Meral, a under his rule. researcher on Turkey at University of Cambridge and “He has helped feed the poor and reached out to a Foreign Policy Centre in London. — AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 SPORTS

French women beat Aussies Runner dies after fun run Southampton sign Forster PARIS: Hosts France set up an all-northern hemisphere Women’s Rugby World LONDON: Southampton continued rebuilding their depleted squad on SYDNEY: A young man died yesterday after collapsing near the finish line of Saturday when the Premier League club signed England goalkeeper Fraser Cup semi-final stage with a 17-3 win over Australia on Saturday after England Sydney’s biggest road race, which saw 80,000 participants run from the city to and Canada drew 13-13 to leave four-times champions New Zealand out in the Forster from Celtic on a four-year deal. Bondi Beach, Australian authorities said. The 26-year-old was in the England squad for this year’s World Cup finals in cold. Ireland — whose surprise defeat last week of favourites and holders the The 27-year-old was taking part in the 14-kilometre (8.7-mile) City2Surf fun Black Ferns turned the tournament on its head — also go through to the last Brazil, although he did not play, and will provide competition for club captain run when he had a heart attack and collapsed near the end of the course, New Kelvin Davis and experienced Poland international Artur Boruc. four as Pool B winners which is already their best showing in the tournament’s South Wales police and ambulance spokesmen told AFP. He was taken to a history. The women in green have been the side to watch so far and they did The transfer fee was not disclosed by the clubs but local media said nearby St Vincent’s Hospital in a critical condition but died shortly after, a hos- Southampton had paid 10 million pounds ($16.77 million) for the highly not disappoint with a 40-5 win over Kazakhstan on Saturday to top the group pital spokesman said. The man, from the Sydney suburb of Coogee, has not ahead of New Zealand and win the right to play Pool A victors England in the regarded keeper. been named. In 2008, a 26-year-old Briton collapsed and died after suffering a Saints have allowed several internationals to leave in the first semi on Wednesday. heart attack near the end of the race at Bondi Beach. “We came here with a job to do and I think the strength of a transfer window including Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert Australian Olympian Craig Mottram won Sunday’s race in just under 42 min- and Dejan Lovren, who are at Liverpool, with Luke Shaw good side is one that can adapt according to the game,” said utes, joining a crowd peppered with celebrities alongside runners dressed as Ireland captain and centre Lynne Cantwell. joining Manchester United and teenage right back Lego superheroes and pandas, among other things. American pop star Redfoo Calum Chambers moving to Arsenal. “There were nerves, but we had it under control. The key kicked off the race with a live performance. thing was to keep it nice and simple and to allow all the new The exodus continued on Wednesday when the club’s Organisers said more than Aus$4 million (US$3.70 million) — one of the unsettled record signing Dani Osvaldo was loaned to combinations to get up to speed. “It was always going to highest amounts collected-was raised for hundreds of Australian charities. The take 20 minutes to click and we managed to put them away Inter Milan although Algeria midfielder Saphir Taider race was launched in 1971 and is one of Australia’s biggest fund-raising drivers. moved the other way. in the second half.” France’s Pool C-winning victory over More than Aus$20 million has been collected for charities over the past four Australia - the last pool match of the seventh Women’s Manager Mauricio Pochettino also left Southampton, who decades, organisers said. Mottram, 34, who was taking part in the race for the finished eighth last season with a record points tally, to join World Cup - was a torrid affair in which Les Bleus’ first time, crossed the finish line in 41 minutes and 56 seconds. “It was a tough heavier pack made the difference. —Reuters Tottenham Hotspur and was replaced by Dutchman Ronald course. I underestimated a bit,” Mottram told the Channel Seven. —AFP Koeman. —Reuters Orioles pound Cardinals, Indians roll

BALTIMORE: Caleb Joseph homered in his Sunday. fifth consecutive game, Nelson Cruz hit his Chicago starter Edwin Jackson (6-12) 30th and Delmon Young also went deep as the allowed four runs - three earned - and five hits Batlimore Orioles beat John Lackey and the St. in six innings. He is 1-5 in his past nine starts. Louis Cardinals 10-3 Saturday. All three home runs came with a man on against Lackey (1-1), ROYALS 5, GIANTS 0 making his second start since coming from James Shields threw a four-hitter and Alex Boston in a July 31 trade. The right-hander Gordon homered as the Royals won their sixth gave up nine runs and 13 hits in five-plus straight, beating the Giants. The Royals have innings to fall to 14-8 lifetime against won nine of 10 to move within 1 1-2 games of Baltimore. AL Central-leading Detroit. The Royals, who The Orioles have hit nine homers in win- have not made the playoffs since beating St. ning the first two games of the three-game set Louis in the 1985 World Series, are in second by a collective 22-5 score. Baltimore has won place in the AL wild card standings. seven straight series and leads the AL East by Shields (11-6) gave up three singles in the six games, its largest margin since September first four innings. He allowed only two Giants 1997. to reach second base. He walked Joe Panik in Joseph, a rookie, had three homers in first the fifth and he moved to second on a wild 48 games before his recent power surge. The pitch with two outs, but was stranded. Panik club record for homers in successive games is doubled in the eighth. It was Shields’ ninth six, by Reggie Jackson and Chris Davis. career shutout, his first since Sept. 9, 2012. Tim Hudson (8-9) gave up a home run to Gordon INDIANS 3, YANKEES 0 to lead off the fifth inning. Corey Kluber pitched four-hit ball for a superb six innings and Jose Ramirez hit his BREWERS 4, DODGERS 1 first career homer as the Indians ended a four- Mike Fiers held the Dodgers to three hits in game skid with a victory over the Yankees. his first big league start in more than a year, Michael Brantley also homered and had and Khris Davis and Carlos Gomez homered to three hits for Cleveland, which won at Yankee give the Brewers a win. Stadium for the first time in eight games. Fiers (1-1) struck out five in eight strong Ramirez hit a two-run drive in the second innings, filling in for injured veteran Matt inning and had three hits. Derek Jeter had an Garza. The Dodgers mustered only a solo infield single in the sixth inning to pass Honus homer by Adrian Gonzalez into the second Wagner for sixth on the career list with No. deck in right field. Fiers outdueled former 3,431. But New York was 0 for 9 with six strike- Brewers pitcher Zack Greinke (12-8), who gave outs with runners in scoring position in losing up Gomez’s homer off the left-field foul pole for just the second time in eight games. that made it 3-1 leading off the sixth. Kluber (13-6) did not allow a hit until The Dodgers brought the tying run to the Jacoby Ellsbury doubled with one out in the plate in the ninth with two outs against fourth. He struck out 10 to beat New York for Francisco Rodriguez, but the closer got Matt the first time in three tries. Kemp to ground out for his 35th save. BALTIMORE: Caleb Joseph No. 36 of the Baltimore Orioles tags out Matt Holliday No. 7 of the St. Louis Cardinals at the plate on a ball hit by Jhonny Peralta No. 27 (not pictured) in the first inning during a baseball game. — AFP BLUE JAYS 3, TIGERS 2 PADRES 2, PIRATES 1 Houston’s Scott Feldman (6-8) allowed eight Nolan Reimold hit a game-winning double Eric Stults got his first road win of the sea- the 10th inning helped the White Sox to a vic- sparked Washington’s three-run 11th inning, hits and three runs with six strikeouts in 6 1-3 tory over the Mariners. With Jordan Danks on and the Nationals beat Atlanta. The start of in the 10th inning and the Blue Jays rallied son, going 6 1-3 innings as the Padres beat the innings. past the Tigers, spoiling Max Scherzer’s bid to Pirates. Stults (5-13) gave up one run and sev- second base, Gordon Beckham reached when the game was delayed by 3 hours, 41 min- become the first 14-game winner in the en hits, struck out six and walked none. He Seattle shortstop Chris Taylor booted his utes, and the final out wasn’t recorded until METS 2, PHILLIES 1 grounder. Danks advanced to third and scored Sunday at 2:29 a.m. American League. entered the game with an 0-9 record away Lucas Duda singled home the go-ahead Danny Valencia singled off Joba from Petco Park. The Padres scored both runs when Gillespie, who entered as a pinch hitter Anthony Rendon and Adam LaRoche led run with one out in the 11th inning to lead the in the eighth, hit a hard single to right off off the 11th with singles against David Chamberlain to begin the 10th and Reimold in the first inning off Francisco Liriano (3-8). Mets to a victory over the Phillies. It was New followed with a double to the wall in left-cen- San Diego loaded the bases with no outs and Fernando Rodney (1-5). Carpenter (4-2), and Bryce Harper walked to York’s 11th victory over the Phillies in the last The loss ended the Mariners’ four-game load the bases. ter as Valencia scored without a play. Scherzer scored on Jedd Gyorko’s RBI single and 12 games in Philadelphia. allowed one run and four hits in eight innings. Yasmani Grandal’s sacrifice fly. winning streak and the White Sox snapped Ramos drove in Rendon with a single up Long after starters Cole Hamels and Dillon their four-game losing streak. Former Mariner the middle off Anthony Vavaro, and Devin Gee exited following their duel, Curtis Hector Noesi worked 7 1-3 innings for the Frandsen’s double to right field drove in two Granderson opened the 11th with a single off White Sox, allowing one unearned run and runs to make it 4-1. Tyler Clippard (7-2) Antonio Bastardo (5-5). Following an out, five hits with four strikeouts and a walk. Eric pitched a scoreless 10th inning, and Rafael David Wright singled and Eric Campbell Surkamp (1-0) got the last two outs of the Soriano got three outs for his 26th save in 30 walked to load the bases. Duda then lined ninth for the win and Jake Petricka worked the chances. The Nationals increased their NL Bastardo’s first pitch sharply into right field to 10th to pick up his eighth save. East lead over Atlanta to 41/2 games. score Granderson. Justin De Fratus relieved Bastardo and got the final two outs. Dana ATHLETICS 9, TWINS 4 ANGELS 5, RED SOX 4 Eveland (1-1) retired the Phillies in order in the Derek Norris hit a three-run homer, Albert Pujols homered leading off the 19th 10th for the win. Jeurys Familia earned his sec- Stephen Vogt added a two-run shot, and the inning, and the Los Angeles Angels outlasted ond save in six opportunities but had to wrig- Athletics won their 12th straight against the Boston in the longest game in the major gle out of a two-out jam to get it. Twins. Jeff Samardzija (3-1) improved to 3-0 at leagues this season. home since coming to the AL West-leading A’s Pujols’ 514th career homer and 22nd of MARLINS 4, REDS 3 in a trade from the Cubs on July 4. He fol- the season came on a 3-2 pitch from Brandon Brad Penny rejoined the Marlins for the first lowed winning lefties Jon Lester and Scott Workman (1-6). The towering drive disap- time in 10 years and pitched five solid innings Kazmir, who kept Minnesota in check over the peared into the seats above the 18-foot wall to get a notable win, over the slumping Reds. first two games of the series, with six tough in right-center. The 36-year-old helped the Marlins win the innings that forced him to throw 109 pitches. Boston manager John Farrell made a World Series in 2003 and played one more sea- Vogt hit his second clout in three games fol- replay challenge, claiming there was fan son in Miami before moving on. Called up ear- lowing a long funk. Oakland drew seven walks interference, but the home run stood. The lier Saturday, Penny (1-0) put the Marlins in in two innings to chase Trevor May (0-1) quick- Angels had run out of relievers, so Matt position for their second straight win over ly from his forgettable major league debut. Shoemaker (10-4) came in and retired all nine Cincinnati, which is 8-14 since the All-Star batters he faced to get the victory. The Angels break. Penny gave up Jay Bruce’s solo homer NATIONALS 4, BRAVES 1 tied the game in both the eighth and 14th and an unearned run in five innings, fanning Wilson Ramos’ bases-loaded single innings. — AP three while throwing 95 pitches. Bryan Morris gave up two hits and a run in the eighth. Steve Cishek pitched the ninth for his 29th save in 32 chances. MLB results/standings Christian Yelich had two hits, scored a run, NEW YORK: Corey Kluber No. 28 of the Cleveland Indians pitches in the first inning against and drove in two with a groundout and a sac- Cleveland 3, Ny Yankees 0; Toronto 3, Detroit 2 (10 Innings); Baltimore 10, St. Louis 3; Tampa the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. — AFP rifice fly off reliever Sam LeCure (1-4). Bay 4, Chicago Cubs 0; Ny Mets 2, Philadelphia 1 (11 Innings); San Diego 2, Pittsburgh 1; He walked none and struck out 11, two shy of Pittsburgh answered in the home half DIAMONDBACKS 14, ROCKIES 4 Kansas City 5, San Francisco 0; Milwaukee 4, LA Dodgers 1; Washington 4, Atlanta 1 (11 Innings); Miami 4, Cincinnati 3; Houston 8, Texas 3; Arizona 14, Colorado 4; LA Angels 5, his season high. Chamberlain (1-5) came on to when Josh Harrison led off with a single, stole David Peralta hit a grand slam in Arizona’s Boston 4 (19 Innings); Oakland 9, Minnesota 4; Chicago White Sox 2, Seattle 1 (10 Innings). start the 10th after Joakim Soria, who finished second and scored on Russell Martin’s RBI sin- nine-run eighth inning, Mark Trumbo home- the ninth, appeared to suffer a back injury gle. After the first inning Liriano retired the red and drove in four runs, and the American League National League while warming up before the inning. Aaron next 17 batters he faced before walking Diamondbacks routed the bumbling Rockies. Eastern Division Eastern Division Loup (4-3) worked one inning for the victory. Grandal with two outs in the seventh. He gave Arizona led 5-4 heading into the eighth W L PCT GB Washington 63 52 .548 - up three hits and a walk in seven innings. inning behind Trumbo’s a three-run homer off Baltimore 67 49 .578 - Atlanta 59 57 .509 4.5 RAYS 4, CUBS 0 Jorge De La Rosa (11-8) and seven effective NY Yankees 61 55 .526 6 Miami 57 59 .491 6.5 Jake Odorizzi struck out nine in six score- ASTROS 8, RANGERS 3 innings by Trevor Cahill (2-8). Toronto 62 56 .525 6 NY Mets 56 61 .479 8 Tampa Bay 57 59 .491 10 less innings and combined with two relievers Jon Singleton drove in three runs, and the The Rockies came apart in the bottom half Philadelphia 52 65 .444 12 Boston 51 65 .440 16 on a five-hitter to lead the Rays to a victory Astros handled Yu Darvish again in a win over of the inning with two errors, a passed ball Central Division over the Cubs. Evan Longoria drove in a run the Rangers to stretch the streak against their Central Division Milwaukee 65 52 .556 - and a wild pitch. Colorado also walked in a run Detroit 63 51 .553 - and scored two. Yunel Escobar added two hits in-state rival to seven victories in a row. and Peralta capped the eight-hit inning with Pittsburgh 62 54 .534 2.5 and three RBIs. Ben Zobrist had two hits and Darvish (10-7) allowed nine hits and six Kansas City 62 53 .539 1.5 St. Louis 61 54 .530 3 his first career grand slam over the pool in Cleveland 58 59 .496 6.5 scored twice for the Rays, who improved to a runs - five earned - in four-plus innings in his Cincinnati 59 58 .504 6 right-center. Alfredo Marte added a solo Chicago White Sox 56 62 .475 9 Chicago Cubs 49 66 .426 15 major league-best 15-6 since July 12. They will second-shortest start of the season. It was his homer. Cliff Pennington had three of Arizona’s Minnesota 51 64 .443 12.5 try to complete the three-game sweep on second straight tough outing against the 15 hits and scored three runs. Nolan Arenado Western Division Western Division Sunday. Astros after they tagged him for a season-high homered and had three RBIs for Colorado, Oakland 72 44 .621 - LA Dodgers 66 52 .559 - Odorizzi (8-9) gave up three hits and didn’t 10 hits with six runs in six innings on July 9. which has lost eight of nine. LA Angels 68 48 .586 4 San Francisco 62 55 .530 3.5 walk a batter. The right-hander came within Singleton had an RBI single in Houston’s Seattle 61 55 .526 11 San Diego 53 62 .461 11.5 two strikeouts of his career high after getting two-run first and added a two-run double as WHITE SOX 2, MARINERS 1 Houston 49 68 .419 23.5 Arizona 51 66 .436 14.5 hit hard in a loss to the Los Angeles Angels on the Astros tacked on four runs in the fifth. Conor Gillespie’s RBI single with two outs in Texas 45 71 .388 27 Colorado 45 71 .388 20 MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 SPORTS

National Scrabble Championship Photo of the day BUFFALO: Scrabble fanatics from Richards, a 47-year-old Australian and around the globe have come to Buffalo, resident of Malaysia who has won the New York, to compete for the $10,000 past four championships. top prize at the 25th National Scrabble Participants say the event is competi- Championships. tive but social, providing opportunities The Buffalo News reports that the for players to bond over their shared love event has attracted 525 players from 11 of the popular board game. countries. It started Saturday. Contenders The tournament comes days after the will each play 31 games over five days, announcement that 5,000 new words with winners based on number of victo- had been added to “The Official Scrabble ries and point totals. Players Dictionary.” Winners will be One returning competitor is Nigel announced Wednesday. —AP Federer sets up Tsonga showdown

TORONTO: Roger Federer eased into the final of his record against Lopez to 11-0. the Rogers Cup with a 6-3 6-4 win over Spain’s “I think I played extremely well in the first set Feliciano Lopez on Saturday, putting the Swiss and was able to make Feliciano probably over- maestro on the brink of a landmark 80th career serve and over-hit a little bit and make him feel title. Standing between Federer and another tro- the pressure from the baseline,” said Federer. phy is Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who “Second set probably wasn’t as good in quality claimed his third straight upset by dispatching but I got the break early.” seventh-seeded Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 6-4 6- 3. After knocking off world number one Novak A LITTLE REWARD Djokovic in the third round, twice champion Dimitrov, rated one of the top young talents Andy Murray in the quarters and Dimitrov in the on the ATP Tour, had lost all three head-to-head semi-finals, the powerful Frenchman will need to meetings with Tsonga but with three titles under produce one more upset to deny Federer a third his belt this season stepped onto a sunny centre Canadian title. court as the favorite. It will be Federer’s 120th career final while The scrappy Bulgarian traded shots with the Tsonga will be playing for a title for the 20th muscular Frenchman in a tight opening set but time. Federer said Tsonga would be on a high could not convert any of his four break opportu- after his series of upsets in Toronto. nities. Tsonga, who also has a reputation as a bat- RB7 show car presented in Almaty, Kazakhstan. — www.redbull.com “I think it was a matter of time that he got it tler and bears a resemblance to a young all together again, especially in terms of confi- Muhammad Ali, showed his stomach for the dence,” said the second seeded Swiss, who is fight from the opening serve and his determina- looking for his third title of the season. tion was rewarded with the only break of the first Venus upsets Serena to “So for him to beat Murray and Djokovic... it’s set, going up 5-4 then holding serve for a 1-0 a really good effort for him and it’s going to give lead. The second set was not as close, Tsonga him loads of confidence going into the finals. breaking in the third game to take control and “He just can overpower guys, serve up a then again to clinch the match, raising his fist storm and then play really aggressive with his into the air and shadow boxing his way out to reach Rogers Cup final forehand and also be solid in his backhand. centre court where he acknowledged the crowd. “You think you’re in a safe place sometimes in “I’m waiting for this moment since a couple of the rally, and he takes one step and, you know, years now,” said Tsonga, who has enjoyed success MONTREAL: Venus Williams upset little sister just hits it and the point is over.” on the Canadian hardcourts, reaching the semi- Serena 6-7(2) 6-2 6-3 on Saturday to register the Federer, who celebrated his 33rd birthday on finals in three of four visits but advanced to the first win over her top ranked sibling in five years Friday, was in imperious form, dropping just four finals only once. and move into the Rogers Cup final in Montreal. points on his serve in taking the opening set. “It’s good because I always believe in myself The meeting marked the 25th time the sisters The 17-time grand slam winner kept up the during all these years and all this week where I had squared off but the first time Venus had pressure in the second with a break to open the lost against those guys and finally I get a little come out on top since a 2009 semi-finals set and was never seriously challenged, running reward.” — Reuters encounter in Dubai. World number one Serena holds a 14-11 lead in their head-to-heads after coming out on top in their previous five encounters, including the 2009 Wimbledon final. Clashes between the pair, which at one time were an almost regular and welcome occurrence on tennis courts around the world, have become rare and their meeting in Montreal was just the second since the 2009 Tour championships. The siblings have won 106 WTA Tour singles titles, including 24 grand slams, between them. “It was a tough match out there,” said Venus, who will meet Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska in Sunday’s final. Third seed Radwanska beat Ekaterina Makarova of Russia 7-6(1) 7-6(3) to advance to her second final of the year. MONTREAL: (Left to right) Serena Williams of the USA and Venus Williams hug after the match “I don’t think we played for a number of in which Venus won during the women’s semifinals match in the Rogers Cup. — AFP years, as well. It’s not like we’ve been playing year in and year out,” added Venus. out. There was little excitement when the match do the best that she can. I want to do the best “I definitely expected a tough match. She was over, the two players walking slowly to the that I can, too. “I just got to do better, that’s all.” played well. She hit so many aces. “What’s so net and hugging briefly. In the other semi, neither player broke serve unique about the situation is that we’re both Venus’s reaction at ending her sister’s Rogers in the opening set, but Radwanska broke twice very good players. “I think typically you may Cup title defense was muted as she turned and in the second to serve for the match at 5-4. have some siblings, one is quite good, one is not offered a small wave to the crowd before slump- However, she was broken a second time herself as good, so you kind of know what the result is, ing into her courtside chair and staring blankly and the set went to a tiebreak, where or the one that’s better knows they’re going to across the court. If losing to her sister stung Radwanska prevailed to gain revenge for her win. “I think we both know when we walk out Serena, she hid it well. fourth round defeat by Makarova at Wimbledon. there, it’s not like you’re guaranteed a win. I think “For me it was just a regular match,” she “I think it was a great match, two hours of fight- that’s what makes it challenging for both of us.” shrugged. “Obviously she’s my sister but I still ing and long rallies and tight games,” she said. “I While a Williams-Williams matchup is one want to go out there and try to play well and try had to really run a lot to win that match because tennis fans have always looked forward to, for to win. “I think Venus played a great match. It she’s so good. I think I was just better on a few the sisters it is something they could live with- was what it was. “Obviously I always want her to points today.” — Reuters McIlroy leaves pack behind after wild day

LOUISVILLE: Rory McIlroy, seeking his fourth two-time winner on the European Tour. “I knew I late yesterday,” said the American. “My game feels TORONTO: Roger Federer of Switzerland serves to Feliciano Lopez of Spain during major title, ended a pulsating third round of low was prepared well and the course really suits my so close to clicking. And when I say clicking, their Rogers Cup Toronto semi-final match at Rexall Centre. — AFP scoring and frequent lead changes to preserve his eye. “So far I’ve taken advantage of this and it’s shooting really low.” Former British Open champi- one-shot advantage at the PGA Championship on great to finish the round with three birdies in a on Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa (67) and Saturday. A stroke in front overnight heading into row, basically tap-in birdies as well. Swedish world number four Henrik Stenson (67) Park surges ahead at what is traditionally known as ‘moving day’, the “That gives me hopefully good momentum were among a group of four at nine under on a British Open champion birdied three of the last going into tomorrow. It’s a new situation for me in high-quality leaderboard that sets up an intrigu- four holes on a receptive, rain-sodden Valhalla a major championship.” American ‘young gun’ ing battle for the title. Meijer LPGA Classic Golf Club layout to card a four-under-par 67. Rickie Fowler, a top-five finisher at each of the However, most eyes in Sunday’s final round In pursuit of a third consecutive victory on the year’s previous three majors, was at 11 under after will be focused on McIlroy, who has produced BELMONT: Inbee Park made two long birdie birdied Nos. 7 and 8 to tie for the lead. The tie PGA Tour, McIlroy fended off a series of chal- firing a 67 with 2005 PGA Championship winner spectacular form over the past month and came putts on the back nine Saturday and finished lasted one hole before Park rolled in a 12-foot lenges to keep his position at the top of a tightly Phil Mickelson (67) and Australian Jason Day (69) into this week as an overwhelming favourite. with a 3-under 68 to remain a stroke ahead birdie putt at the ninth. congested leaderboard as he posted a 13-under a further stroke adrift. Left-hander Mickelson, The Northern Irishman completed a wire-to- after the third round of the Meijer LPGA Pettersen birdied the par-4 13th with a 20- total of 200 in the year’s fourth and final major. who played with Wiesberger in the third round, wire victory at last month’s British Open before Classic. footer to tie again, only to have Park roll in Austrian Bernd Wiesberger, one of six players vaulted into contention for a sixth career victory winning the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational last The third-ranked South Korean player the 25-footer from the fringe at 14. Pettersen who held at least a share of the lead in a wildly in the majors with four birdies in the last five Sunday in his next start. “I came from three shots holed a 25-footer from the fringe on the par-3 then matched Park’s bogey at 15, also missing fluctuating third round, was alone in second holes. behind last week,” said McIlroy. “The guys got 14th, bogeyed the par-4 15th after missing a a 3-foot par try. place after matching the day’s best score with a “It’s so fun for me to be back in the thick of it, pretty close to me at the (British) Open 3-foot par try and rebounded with a 35-foot That’s when Lee slipped in between the 65. “It’s not the biggest lead I’ve ever had, but I’m have a chance, being in contention heading into Championship. —Reuters birdie putt on the par-4 16th. two with birdies at Nos. 15 and 16. Pettersen, still in control of this golf tournament,” said world “I feel like I haven’t holed that kind of putt who for much of last year was No. 2 in the number one McIlroy, who had been two strokes for a long time and it’s all of a sudden hap- rankings to Park’s No. 1, said she struggled clear after seven holes before bogeying the par- pening this week,” Park said. “This putter, it with her game, gusty wind and greens that three eighth. “It’s a great position to be in going seems like it’s going really on line and I feel are firming up. into tomorrow.” McIlroy was delighted with his like I’m stroking the ball better this week.” “Overall it was one of those days where finish to the round, sinking a 20-footer on 15, a The 26-year-old Park won six times last you just fight to stay in it,” said Pettersen, two-footer on 16 and getting up and down from season and took the Manulife Financial in ranked fourth in the world. “I didn’t have the a greenside bunker to birdie the par-five last. “I June in Canada for her 10th LPGA Tour title. greatest of feels throughout the round. There just knew that I needed to make a couple coming She had a 13-under 200 total at Blythefield were a lot of challenges out there, and there down the back nine to keep the lead I had or at Country Club. will be as many tomorrow and hopefully I can least be tied for the lead going into tomorrow,” “I think it would have been nice if I had do just a little better.” said the 25-year-old Northern Irishman. “The two probably two- or three-(shot lead),” Park said. Park, who shot 66 in each of the first two birdies on 15 and 16 were huge. To get up and “That gives me more breathing room, but one rounds, said it was easily the toughest day of down out of the bunker on 18 was big. “It’s not is still better than nothing. I’m in better posi- the three. “The wind was quite tricky to me,” like it’s that huge of a difference between tied for tion than everybody else.” she said. “I played pretty consistent again, but the lead and being one ahead going into tomor- South Korean rookie Mirim Lee was sec- the golf course was tougher, the conditions row, just sort of makes you feel better about your- ond after a 67. Norway’s Suzann Pettersen harder. I have to stay consistent and keep self going to bed tonight.” was another stroke back after a 69. rolling in some putts.” Park knows very little Cristie Kerr matched the low round of the about Lee. SURPRISE PACKAGE tournament with a 64 to jump 44 spots to a “I know she’s from Korea and she played Surprise package Wiesberger, who had missed tie for 12th at 5 under. She hit 10 of 13 fair- on the KLPGA Tour, and I know she’s hitting it the cut in four of his previous five major appear- ways and had only 26 putts. quite long from seeing it from behind today,” ances, was still coming to terms with his lofty Park, using a blade putter instead of a mal- Park said. “Except for that, I really don’t have position going into the final round. LOUISVILLE: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland waves on the 16th green during the third round let for the first time since 2008, birdied the much information. Obviously she played “I didn’t expect any of this really coming into of the 96th PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club. — AFP first hole and stayed in front until Pettersen quite solid for three days.” — AP this week,” said the 28-year-old from Vienna, a MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 SPORTS Wretched form exposes India’s batting woes

MUMBAI: Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli’s and Manchester, last month’s stirring win at Lord’s DOWNHEARTED DHONI ing porous while England paceman James wretched form in England has again exposed India’s appears to stand out as a flash in the pan. India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni did not Anderson has found a walking wicket in Kohli, who failure to fill the huge void left in the batting line-up Pujara, who bats at the number three spot left mince his words in finding where to lay the blame has kept the slip cordon constantly interested with when Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar retired. vacant by Dravid, had been impressive with his for one-sided defeats in the last two tests as regular edges flying towards them. Dravid, India’s formidable number three bats- technique and temperament when India play at England stormed 2-1 ahead with the final match to But Dhoni, who himself has looked slack in his man, ended his career in January 2012 after scoring home and also during the 1-0 series loss in South come at The Oval next week. captaincy and with the gloves behind the stumps, 13,288 runs in 164 tests, with many of those coming Africa last year. The flamboyant Kohli, who took “What is important is to put runs on the board,” sounded less than convincing as he grasped for in tricky overseas conditions. Tendulkar’s number four position, had been marked Dhoni said after the innings defeat at Old Trafford excuses to defend his failing star batsmen. Run-machine Tendulkar bid farewell last out as India’s next great batsman - a reputation on Saturday. “To some extent, Lord’s and the per- “Consistently we are exposing Pujara in the sec- November after a career spanning 24 years, during underlined by his consistency in the last two years formance of the eight, nine, 10 and 11 so far in the ond, third or fourth over and he might feel that he is which he played 200 tests for India and scored close at home and on the tours of South Africa and New series camouflaged the question of the top order better off opening the batting,” Dhoni said, target- to 16,000 runs in the longest format. Zealand. However, their collective failures against not performing. ing his top two batsmen for offering little or no pro- The lack of a succession plan was bemoaned as the moving ball in England has given rise to doubts “But when you are playing with five bowlers, the tection against the new ball. the ageing batsmen reached the twilight of their about their class and ability and if they are the fifth bowler actually has scored more runs for us. “Our openers haven’t given us good enough careers during a horrid spell for the team away from answer to India’s search for batting solidity in the That actually puts pressure on, whatever the reason start and that has put a lot of pressure on Pujara home, when they lost eight tests in a row in absence of their retired heroes. may be. “Maybe a few of the batsmen are having a coming in at number three, who has never felt set- England and Australia. After batting eight times each in the first four lean period at the same time. But overall, we will tled. “Virat has had a lovely spell for two-and-a-half India had not won a test match outside the tests, Pujara has an average of 25.87 with one half have to put more runs on the board so that the years and this is something that will happen in country since 2011 when they set foot on English century while Kohli has dismal figures of a 13.50 bowlers can get the opposition out.” international cricket. But I am not really worried as soil and after the thumping losses in Southampton average with a highest score of just 39. Pujara’s solid defence has suddenly started look- he is middling the ball well.” — Reuters Slow S Africa creep up on Zimbabwe

HARARE: Zimbabwe stifled South Africa’s on the stumps. De Villiers’ demise was lazy in usually fluent top six but the world’s top- the end as if the boredom of it all overcame ranked test side remained in control by reach- him as he tried to hit a ball from off-spinner ing 201 for four, 55 runs behind, at the close John Nyumbu over cover, but succeeded only on the second day of the one-off test at in picking out Sibanda. Harare Sports Club yesterday. Usually so fluent and difficult to contain, The day yielded just 209 runs in the 90 De Villiers’ torturous seven came from 34 balls. overs on a wicket that is becoming increas- Opener Dean Elgar fought his way to 61 from ingly difficult to bat on as Zimbabwe posted 146 balls before he was superbly caught flash- 256 in the morning session. Faf du Plessis (69) ing at a wide delivery by wicketkeeper and Quinton de Kock (27) will resume on day Richmond Mutumbami off the bowling of three. In the hour after tea South Africa scored Donald Tiripano, handing the debutant seam- 11 runs for the loss of Hashim Amla and AB de er his maiden test wicket. Villiers as the home sided packed the offside Under-pressure opener Alviro Petersen field and bowled wide of off-stump, daring (32), who averages 21 in his last 10 test the South African batsmen to blast their way innings, was also caught by Mutumbami - at through the ring of men. the second attempt - after he attempted to Amla (four) tried, but succeeded only in paddle a leg-side delivery from Nyumbu. In picking out Vusi Sibanda at cover off the the morning session, Dale Steyn completed bowling of seamer Tendai Chatara. It was the his 24th five-wicket haul in tests to end the perfect execution of home captain Brendan Zimbabwe innings. Steyn finished with five Taylor’s plan, hatched no doubt given his lim- for 46 from 22.4 overs to take his tally of test ited bowling options. wickets to 380, three short of Ian Botham in That subdued the attacking instincts of Du 13th place on the all-time list. Off-spinner Plessis and De Villiers, who left anything wide Dane Piedt recorded figures of four for 90 in and what runs came were from rare deliveries his first test. — Reuters SCOREBOARD

HARARE: Scoreboard at the close of play on the second day of the one-off Test between Zimbabwe and South Africa at Harare Sports Club yesterday: Zimbabwe first innings Bowling: Steyn 22.4-11-46-5, Philander V. Sibanda c Petersen b Steyn 0 18-5-51-1, Morkel 19-3-39-0, Piedt 24-1- H. Masakadza b Piedt 45 90-4, Duminy 9-0-26-0 M. Vermeulen lbw b Piedt 14 GALLE: Sri Lankan cricket team captain Angelo Mathews celebrates after winning the opening Test match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. — AFP B. Taylor c Duminy b Piedt 93 South Africa first innings R. Chakabva c Amla b Piedt 0 D. Elgar c Mutumbami b Tiripano 61 S. Williams c de Kock b Steyn 24 A. Petersen c Mutumbami b Nyumbu 32 R. Mutumbami lbw b Steyn 21 F. du Plessis not out 69 Sri Lanka defeat rain, T. Panyangara c de Kock b Philander 12 H. Amla c Sibanda b Chatara 4 D. Tiripano not out 15 A. de Villiers c Sibanda b Nyumbu 7 T. Chatara c de Kock b Steyn 22 Q. de Kock not out 27 J. Nyumbu c de Kock b Steyn 2 Extras (1nb) 1 Extras (4lb, 2wd, 2nb) 8 Total (4 wkts, 84 overs, 334 mins) 201 Pakistan in first Test Total (all out, 92.4 overs, 403 mins) 256 To bat: JP Duminy, Vernon Philander, Dale Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Sibanda), 2-33 Steyn, Dane Piedt, Morne Morkel. GALLE: Retiring Mahela Jayawardene took on the (Vermeulen), 3-90 (Masakadza), 4-90 Fall of wicket: 1-57 (Petersen), 2-132 unusual role of opening batsman to hand Sri Lanka (Chakabva), 5-120 (Williams), 6-179 (Elgar), 3-146 (Amla), 4-157 (de Villiers). a thrilling seven-wicket victory on the final day of SCOREBOARD (Mutumbami), 7-204 (Panyangara), 8-220 Bowling: Panyangara 16-7-18-0, Tiripano the first Test against Pakistan in Galle yesterday. (Taylor), 9-246 (Chatara), 10-256 15-4-42-1, Nyumbu 24-4-71-2, Chatara The hosts, needing 99 to win in a minimum of 21 GALLE, Sri Lanka: Final scoreboard of the first Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Galle yes- (Nyumbu). 15-9-17-1, Williams 14-1-53-0. overs, beat fading light and approaching rain to terday: cruise home in the 17th over in front of some 5,000 jubilant home fans. Pakistan 1st innings: 451 (Younis Khan 177, Asad Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Manzoor), 2-11 (Ajmal), 3-39 Jayawardene, who is due to retire from Test crick- Shafiq 75, Sarfraz Ahmed 55, Abdur Rehman 50, (Shehzad), 4-55 (Younis), 5-111 (Ali), 6-111 (Misbah), et after the two-match series, scored 26 before Dilruwan Perera 5-137, Rangana Herath 3-116) 7-133 (Shafiq), 8-153 (Rehman), 9-178 (Talha), 10- Kumar Sangakkara (21) and skipper Angelo Sri Lanka 1st innings: 533-9 declared (K. Silva 64, 180 (Junaid). Mathews (25 not out) chipped in lower down the K. Sangakkara 221, M. Jayawardene 59, A. Mathews Bowling: Herath 30.2-11-48-6, Eranga 14-5-44-1, order. Mathews and Kithuruwan Vithanage smashed 91, Saeed Ajmal 5-166, Junaid Khan 2-104) Perera 28-6-68-2, Prasad 17 runs in the 16th over bowled by Junaid Khan and Pakistan 2nd innings (overnight 4-1): 8-3-10-1. then scored the winning run in the next over just Khurram Manzoor c Dickwella b Herath 3 Sri Lanka 2nd innings: before rain hit Galle. Ahmed Shehzad lbw b Perera 16 U. Tharanga b Junaid 12 The win was set up by left-arm spinner Rangana Saeed Ajmal c Dickwella b Prasad 4 M. Jayawardene b Junaid 26 Herath, who claimed six for 48 that bundled Azhar Ali c Dickwella b Herath 41 K. Sangakkara c Manzoor b Talha 21 Pakistan out for 180 in their second innings in the Younis Khan b Herath 13 A. Mathews not out 25 post-tea session. “It was one of the best games I Misbah-ul Haq lbw b Perera 28 K. Vithanage not out 11 have been part of,” said Mathews. “I was praying for Asad Shafiq lbw b Herath 8 Extras: (lb3, w1) 4 a bit of sunshine and the rain staying away for some Sarfraz Ahmed not out 52 Total (for three wickets, 16.2 overs) 99 more time, but we managed to get through in the Abdur Rehman c Dickwella b Eranga 1 Fall of wickets: 1-28 (Tharanga), 2-59 (Jayawardene), end.” Mathews attributed the win to Sangakkara’s Mohammad Talha c Dickwella b Herath 4 3-73 (Sangakkara). 221 in the first innings and Herath’s six wickets earli- Junaid Khan lbw b Herath 0 Bowling: Ajmal 6-0-29-0, Junaid 8-0-55-2 (w1), Talha er on Sunday, and hoped they would also win the Extras: (b7, lb3) 10 2.2-0-12-1. final Test to give Jayawardene a perfect farewell. Total (all out, 80.2 overs) 180 Sri Lanka won by seven wickets. “Sangakkara is such a great player and Herath was unbelievable,” he said. “We want to focus on the must forget this game and get ready for the next 13 to reduce the tourists to 55-4. Ali and Misbah put next game and win it for Mahela, who is such an one.” Pakistan, who started the day at 4-1, lost three on 56 for the fifth wicket on either side of lunch unbelievable player.” wickets in the morning session to go to lunch on 66- when both fell at the same total to make it 111-6 — 4. The tourists added eight runs in the morning just 29 runs ahead with 45 overs left in the game. Ali DROPPED CATCHES when seamer Dhammika Prasad had nightwatch- (41) was caught behind off Herath and Misbah (28) Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq rued the missed man Saeed Ajmal edging a catch to wicket-keeper was leg-before to Perera in the next over. Pakistan chances on the field, but admitted Sri Lanka were Niroshan Dickwella. Opener Ahmed Shehzad made found themselves pinned against the wall at 133-7 deserving winners. 16 when he was given out leg-before to off-spinner when Asad Shafiq, the last recognised batsman, was “Dropped catches cost us badly, especially the Dilruwan Perera to make it 39-3. Shehzad, who con- leg-before to Herath for eight. Seamer Shaminda one off Sangakkara,” Misbah said, referring to the sulted his partner Azhar Ali before deciding not to Eranga had Abdur Rehman caught behind at the chance spilled at point by Abdur Rehman off the ask for an umpire’s review, would have survived if he stroke of tea before Herath dismissed Mohammad first ball of the fourth day when the batsman was on had signalled for it. Television replays showed the Talha and last man Junaid to leave gutsy Sarfraz 102. “Also our batting in the second innings could HARARE: South African batsman Quinton de Kock in action as Zimbabwe wicket ball missing the leg stump. Ahmed stranded on 52 not out. The second and have been better. This was too good a wicket to get Herath dealt Pakistan a bigger blow when he final Test will be played at the Sinhalese Sports Club keeper Richmond Mutumbami (right) looks on during the second day of a Test match bowled out for 180. But the better team won. We between South Africa and host Zimbabwe. — AFP bowled first innings century-maker Younis Khan for in Colombo from Thursday. — AFP Marquez takes pole position

INDIANAPOLIS: World champion Marc Marquez Marquez said that he changed from soft tyres reconfigured for this year’s event, drew praise stormed to his eighth pole position of the sea- in Saturday’s practice run to hard tyres for the from the riders. son for yesterday’s Indianapolis Grand Prix afternoon qualifying. “Tomorrow, (it) depends on While the course still has 16 turns, the overall where he will be chasing a perfect 10th win in 10 the temperature,” Marquez added. “This morn- length is shorter at 4.17 kilometers (2.59 miles) races. The Spaniard clocked 1min 31.619sec on ing, the rhythm with the soft tires was so good. and turns 3, 4, 7, 15 and 16 have been modified. his Honda with Andrea Dovizioso in second This afternoon, with the hard tires, was also Also, the circuit’s entire infield section was place on a Ducati, 0.225sec off the pace. good. With both options, I feel comfortable.” repaved, to the delight of riders who com- Jorge Lorenzo, Aleix Espargaro and Valentino Dovizioso, whose only other front-row start plained in the past about the bumpy surface. “It Rossi filled out the top five places on the grid for this season came in France where he started in looks like they did a very good job,” said seven- yesterday’s race. Marquez, who won at the third place, was 10th at the Indianapolis Grand time series champion Rossi of Italy. Five of this Brickyard last year as a rookie in the elite class, Prix a year ago. year’s riders have competed in the previous six now has 17 poles in 28 races in MotoGP. The Italian’s highest finish at the venue came MotoGP races at Indianapolis-Rossi, Dovizioso, “This afternoon, I felt so good,” said Marquez. in 2012, when he took third. Lorenzo, the 2010 Lorenzo, Pedrosa and Colin Edwards. “In the qualifying and practice, I’m happy for the and 2012 world champion, won this event in The 40-year-old Edwards, who recently pole because after holidays, to get confidence 2009. He finished behind Marquez and Dani announced plans to retire, is the lone US entry in again, it’s important. Pedrosa a year ago in a one-two-three finish for this year’s race. In Moto2, Mika Kallio of Finland “Our pace is high and if it’s dry I think we can Spanish riders. won the pole with a qualifying time of 1:36.883. INDIANAPOLIS: Marc Marquez of Spain and Repsol Honda Team rounds the bend fight for the victory. The tyres will be a big deci- Late yesterday, he’ll start in the front row for Australia’s Jack Miller had the day’s quickest per- during the MotoGp Red Bull US Indianapolis Grand Prix qualifying at Indianapolis sion, especially for the rear.” the fifth time this year. The MotoGP course, formance in Moto3 with a 1:40.727. —AFP Motor Speedway. — AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 SPORTS Ledecky sets world record

IRVINE: American teenager Katie Ledecky set a world record in the 400 meters freestyle at the US National Championships in Irvine, California on Saturday, while Michael Phelps struggled home in sixth in the 100m backstroke. The 17-year-old Ledecky clocked 3 minutes, 58.86 seconds to better the previous record of 3:59.15 held by Italy’s Federica Pellegrini. The Italian’s mark was set in 2009 before high-tech polyurethane swimsuits were banned. Ledecky, who became the first American to hold the 400, 800 and 1,500m freestyle world records at the same time since Janet Evans, took her latest record-breaking performance in stride. “Honestly, I didn’t think about it too much,” the 2012 Olympic 800m freestyle champion told NBC sports. “I just wanted to put together a good swim and go a best time. I did, so I’m happy.” Ledecky, the reigning 400m world champion, came close to the world record with a time of 3:59.89 in the morning heats. She went out hard in the final and was under record pace at halfway by more than a second when she turned at 1:57.72. When Ledecky touched at 300m more than 1.5 seconds ahead of Pellegrini’s mark, a world record seemed almost a formality. She slowed over the next lap to hit 350m in IRVINE: Katie Ledecky swims in the women’s 400-meter freestyle final at the US nationals of WATKINS GLEN: Marcos Ambrose, driver of the No. 09 Stanley Ford, celebrates with 3:29.41, just .38 seconds ahead of world record swimming. Ledecky won the race and set a world record. — AP the trophy in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Zippo 200. — AFP pace, but it was enough of a cushion and she held on to touch the wall .29 faster than team are a powerhouse in the event and In the women’s 100m backstroke, Missy Ambrose wins Pellegrini’s mark. Phelps, meanwhile, made a Americans have won the past five Olympic titles. Franklin clinched her fifth straight national title in slow start and was never in contention in the “Whatever I really put my mind to, I know I 59.38, which ranks her third in the world this 100m backstroke as Olympic and world champi- can accomplish,” said Phelps. “I’m not going to year. Her time was significantly slower than the Nationwide race on Matt Grevers won in 52.75, the third fastest use the excuse of taking off (nearly two years).” 58.33 she recorded to win the event at the 2012 time in the world this year. On the comeback trail In the most significant meet since Phelps Olympics. In other events, Michael McBroom after coming out of retirement, Phelps was more launched his comeback in May, the 18-times edged Matt McLean to win the men’s 400m WATKINS GLEN: With The King atop the pit the 2009 event and went on to win the race. than a second behind in 53.95 though given the Olympic champion finished seventh in the 100m freestyle in 3:47.19. Jessica Hardy and Micah box at Watkins Glen International, Marcos “I looked up halfway down the back event has never been one of his strongest, and freestyle on Wednesday and second in the 100m Lawrence tied in the women’s 100m breaststroke Ambrose wasn’t about to disappoint. The straight, he was close and he ducked out late,” he has never contested it at the Olympics, his butterfly on Friday. He is also scheduled to swim in 1:06.51, while Cody Miller won the men’s race aggressive Australian dueled early with Kyle Ambrose said. “I turned in late because I was Busch to fall off the pace in the NASCAR very committed. He bumped my left rear. It performance was not a huge surprise. The US the 200m individual medley late yesterday. in 59.91. — Reuters Nationwide race, then was flawless the rest of wasn’t intentional. He was trying to get out of the way Saturday, holding off a hard-charging the way. No harm, no foul. Just hard racing.” Busch at the end to win the race for the fourth Both spun out into a big runoff area after time in his last four starts. the contact, dropping several spots in the Death of NFL dynasties “It’s just something special. I’m just so running order as the Penske duo of Logano thrilled for the guys,” Ambrose said. “I had my and Keselowski took control. tongue hanging out the whole day. There was “I knew it wasn’t over, that’s for sure,” said NEW YORK: The NFL does what it can via the nothing left. I tried to hold him back. Another Ambrose, his young daughters smiling as they draft, salary cap, free agency and, coming soon, lap and I would have been in trouble.” watched in the media center. “The moment I expanded playoffs to engineer a sense of parity, Ambrose raced to three straight victories at spun out, I tried 110 percent the rest of the making each team and each fan base believe it the track from 2008-2010, then missed the way. It just goes to show you these races are has a chance to win on any given Sunday - and to 2011-2013 events after failing to find a spon- never over. You can’t quit.” reach any season’s Super Bowl. sor. Ambrose’s future in NASCAR with Richard A decisive moment came just past the Those efforts might finally have brought about Petty Motorsports remains in doubt, and he midpoint of the race. Logano pitted after the death of dynasties: It’s been a decade since desperately needs a victory in late yesterday’s Ambrose and zoomed onto the track as the New England Patriots won the 2003 and 2004 Sprint Cup race to have any chance of making Ambrose came streaking by. Both ran side-by- titles, the longest stretch without a repeat cham- the Chase for the championship. “There’s a lot side through the first two turns and into the pion in nearly a half-century of Super Bowls. “The at stake, a lot of stuff going on in my mind,” uphill section until Ambrose edged ahead. Ambrose said. “If I can repeat my performance “Super important,” Ambrose said. “If I hadn’t days of the dominant teams may be gone forever,” today, I’ll be happy.” cleared him right there, he would have been said Ted Sundquist, a former general manager of At least Ambrose will start from the front gone. It would have been hard to pass him.” the Denver Broncos and their director of college row alongside Jeff Gordon, so the catbird seat “That was definitely a key moment,” scouting when they won back-to-back Super will be up for grabs as soon as the green flag Logano added. “If I could have gotten out Bowls in the late 1990s. “It’s hard. It’s beyond hard. waves. “Maybe this will give him a little more front of him there, I felt like if I got clean air There are different types of players now, different incentive,” Petty said. “He’s just unreal. He’s and ran hard, I could gap him. It would have types of systems set up. The game’s changed.” doing his job, for dang sure.” Joey Logano fin- been close. I’m not going to say I would have Sundquist is among those who thinks the ished third, followed by Penske teammate won the race, but if I didn’t run so hard and reigning champion Seattle Seahawks could be and polesitter Brad Keselowski. Matt Kenseth burn off the tires, would it have been enough equipped to buck the recent trend. Their roster was fifth as Sprint Cup drivers dominated on to beat him? I don’t know.” was the fifth-youngest in the league last season, the speedy 2.45-mile road course. Points When the race restarted with 20 laps to go according to STATS. They have plenty of stars on leader Chase Elliott finished sixth, Ty Dillon after the fifth caution, the four cars that both sides of the ball, including quarterback was eighth, and Regan Smith had a difficult began the race in the first two rows were still Russell Wilson and cornerback Richard Sherman; race and came home 17th. That boosted there, just in a different order. and GM John Schneider and coach Pete Carroll Elliott’s lead in the standings to 12 points over Ambrose cleared Logano when the green set the tone. “From a leadership perspective, John Smith and 13 over Dillon and Elliott Sadler, flag flew, with Busch and Keselowski right and Pete are not the kind of guys who will lose who was seventh. Ambrose led 48 laps of the behind. Busch challenged Keselowski for third their focus - and I think that will trickle down to 82-lap race for his fifth Nationwide victory, all entering the chicane, and Keselowski’s defen- the players,” Sundquist said. “What’s really work- on road courses and a series record. The race sive move sent him spinning off course, grass became intense early when Busch and and dirt flying as he dropped to sixth. ing against Seattle is that they’re in a dadgum Ambrose, who started together on the sec- Logano stalked Ambrose as the two front- competitive division.” ond row, tangled in the chicane, or inner loop, runners pulled away from Busch by over 2 Joe Theismann, the quarterback on on the sixth lap. Busch drove inside of seconds as Keselowski tried to rebound from Washington Redskins teams that won the Super Ambrose entering the quick four-turn section, his mistake. Busch began to close, passing Bowl after the 1982 season and lost in the cham- a move reminiscent of one Ambrose made Logano with less than five laps to go but nev- pionship game a year later, also thinks Seattle is in when he stunned Busch in the same place in er got to Ambrose’s back bumper. — AP a strong position. “They have a lot of things going for them. Their stars are young. They play in a very tough place to compete for other people,” Theismann said. “I would be extremely shocked to Risk-taking Marshall set see what we’ve seen from other world champi- ons. Baltimore, two years ago - so many guys for New Zealand gamble retired, so many guys left, and now they’re retool- ing a little bit. That’s not happening in Seattle.” SAN DIEGO: In this Jan. 25, 1997 file photo, Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway holds the WELLINGTON: Never one to shy away from After university, he was invited to a tryout The Seahawks’ fans certainly are holding onto last Super Bowl trophy as he celebrates the Broncos 34-21 victory over the Green Bay Packers in taking a calculated risk, Canadian prop Jason with the Canadian Football League’s Edmonton season, trotting out fake Lombardi Trophies to Super Bowl XXXII in San Diego. — AP Marshall is hoping his latest gamble will reap Eskimos but that ended as abruptly as it began. training camp practices. But Seahawks are not both short-term benefits at next year’s rugby He returned to rugby - ‘as a hobby’ - and boasting about the franchise’s first championship World Cup and usher in long-term gains for his was waiting for an accountancy job to start or talking about the route to No. 2. From the compatriots. when his athleticism and ball handling skills moment the preparation for this season began, Stewart pulls out of The 29-year-old Marshall has signed a four- drew the attention of Rugby Canada, who they were concentrating on the facets of the month contract for Hawke’s Bay in New asked him to commit to the sport full time. game that helped them rule the league a year Zealand’s provincial championship, which He made his international debut as a ago, primarily the sure-handed offense and race after fatal crash starts on Aug. 14, and is one of the few replacement flanker in Canada’s 41-0 loss to opportunistic defense that allowed Seattle to lead Canadian internationals playing professional Scotland in 2008 but was then immediately WATKINS GLEN: Tony Stewart pulled out of the trying to confront Stewart, the three-time rugby around the world. forced to take another calculated risk. the NFL in turnover differential. “When we came back in, there was no talk NASCAR race at Watkins Glen yesterday, 12 hours NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion. The video showed “That’s the one thing about Canada, we “The coach came to me and said that I was after the three-time champion struck and killed a Ward standing to the right of Stewart’s familiar don’t often get the opportunity to play profes- lacking the basic skills I would’ve gained if I’d about repeating,” receiver Doug Baldwin said. “It was (about) going back to the basics.” sprint car driver who had climbed from his car No. 14 car, which seemed to kick out from the rear sional rugby,” Marshall told Reuters via tele- been playing rugby for a long time but they and was on the darkened dirt track trying to con- and hit him. Moments earlier, Ward and Stewart phone from Napier. “I hope rugby is on the rise felt that if I make the transition to prop there The Seahawks opened the preseason Thursday front Stewart during a race in upstate New York. were racing side-by-side for position as they exit- in Canada. It seems like it is. “If we can show was more of a future for me with Canada,” he night with a penalty-filled 21-16 loss in a Super everybody that we’re pretty decent rugby play- said. “So I decided to make the transition to Bowl rematch against the Denver Broncos. The Greg Zipadelli, competition director for Stewart- ed a turn. Ward was on the outside when Stewart, ers then that may be the opportunity for other tighthead prop.” While he felt the metamor- history of the Super Bowl has often been very Haas Racing, said at a news conference that on the bottom, seemed to slide toward Ward’s car Canadians to showcase their skills.” phosis to rugby loose forward from a physical, much about prolonged success, from the Packers’ Stewart “feels strongly” about not racing Sunday and crowd him toward the wall. The rear tire of The ‘we’, includes fellow front rower Hubert running quarterback was not that difficult, triumphs in the first two meetings between the following Kevin Ward Jr.’s fatal accident. The deci- Stewart’s car appeared to clip the front tire of Buydens, who has joined neighbouring moving from flanker to prop, was a different champions of the AFL and NFL, to the repeats by sion was an about-face for the organization, Ward’s car, and Ward spun into the fence. Povero province Manawatu. Injuries and selection story. “My scrummaging was quite poor at the the Dolphins, Steelers (twice), 49ers, Cowboys, which had said when the track opened that said Ward, who was wearing a black firesuit and issues notwithstanding, the pair are scheduled start of my propping career... and there was a Broncos and Patriots. Stewart would be behind the wheel of his No. 14 black helmet, had walked into the racing area and to meet in a clash between the traditional long time where I was dreading every scrum in Chevrolet when the green flag waved. one car swerved to avoid him before he was rivals on Oct. 5. “We play each other and will be a game,” he added. SO WHAT HAPPENED? “We gave Tony some time to sleep on it. He struck by Stewart. butting heads, which could be quite interest- “But the Canadian coaches liked how much Teams are less deep nowadays. That makes feels strongly this is the right thing to do,” “The next thing I could see, I didn’t see (the ing,” he added. “It’s up to us to show a positive I got around the field and the way I got health more important, because if a key player Zipadelli said. “All you can do is what you feel is other driver) anymore,” witness Michael Messerly foot for younger Canadians and hopefully our involved. So they slowly let the propping and right, and we feel this is right. We get through said. “It just seemed like he was suddenly gone.” form will speak for itself and create more inter- scrummaging develop over time.” goes down, there tends to be a bigger drop-off. Keeping a roster intact is tougher, because play- today and do it the best we can as a group. “He’s A spokesman for Stewart’s racing team called est.” The Simon Fraser University accounting After an 18-month ‘re-education’ he earned going through a tough time. It’s emotional for Ward’s death a “tragic accident.” The dirt track, graduate’s path to the east coast of New ers depart via free agency (Seattle lost receiver his second cap in June 2010 against Uruguay him.” Regan Smith will drive Stewart’s car instead. about 30 miles southeast of Rochester, canceled Zealand’s North Island has been littered with and has cemented himself since as the first Golden Tate and defensive end Red Bryant, for having to make, and take, calculated risks. choice tighthead for Canada. example). Assistant coaches get hired away. Ward had crashed following contact with Stewart the remainder of the race and later posted a mes- None more so than his move to Hawke’s He started all four of the team’s 2011 World Younger players might think they’re under-appre- one lap earlier and got out of his car as it was sage on its Facebook page encouraging fans to Bay after he walked away from a lucrative con- Cup games, where All Blacks prop Tony ciated and demand more money (Seahawks run- stopped along the fence. Video of the incident “pray for the entire racing community of fans, tract in France for the 2014-15 season. Woodcock gave him the best scrummaging ning back Marshawn Lynch initially held out). showed Ward walking from his crashed car onto drivers, and families.” Ward’s website said he There were no guarantees of playing. No lesson he ever could receive. “He taught me a Older players might not have the same drive any- the racing surface as cars circled by, and, as he began racing go-karts in 1998 at age 4, but didn’t long-term promises. Just the opportunity to lot... that’s for sure,” he added with a chuckle. more. gestured at Stewart’s passing car, he was struck. start driving sprint cars until 2010. The 20-year- press his claims when he stepped off the plane “The lessons weren’t all positive. They were The shorter offseason, Baldwin pointed out, Authorities questioned Stewart but said no old from Port Leyden, New York, was Empire at Napier airport. pretty negative. “Though he didn’t say one means champs “don’t have as much time to criminal charges were imminent. Stewart traveled Super Sprint rookie of the year in 2012 and this “I’m definitely taking a risk in that it’s just a word to me. The stare and his performance recover” physically or mentally. The instant- to Watkins Glen International following police year was his fifth season racing the Empire Super four-month contract and anything can happen said it all.” celebrity world and heightened media attention questioning. Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero Sprints. Stewart often competes in extracurricular in terms of injuries or just not playing well,” he create more distractions. said Stewart was “visibly shaken” and had been events like the race on Saturday. The multimillion- said. “I’m putting one foot forward and hoping WORLD CUP Schedules get tougher for a winner - another cooperative in the investigation. Authorities were aire is known to participate in races with purses to train well and play well and then see what Marshall’s eyes are unlikely to meet asking spectators and others to turn over any worth less than $3,000 and drive alongside driv- happens after that.” Woodcock’s again unless Canada cause major element in the NFL’s path toward parity - and, of course, everyone wants to try to beat the previ- video they recorded of the crash. “This is right ers of varying ages and talent levels. upsets at next year’s World Cup in England now being investigated as an on-track crash and I The crash Saturday came almost exactly a year AMERICAN FOOTBALL where they have been drawn in Pool D with ous season’s best. don’t want to infer that there are criminal charges after Stewart suffered a compound fracture to his Prior to his move into professional rugby, France, Ireland, Italy and Romania. Canada’s “There’s always the unknown. Injuries. Off-the- Marshall had ambitions as an American foot- ‘realistic’ ambitions, he said, are of at least two field and offseason situations. Contract holdouts. pending,” Povero said. “When the investigation is right leg in a sprint car race in Iowa. The injury ball quarterback where he started for three victories and a third-place finish in the pool, Kind of that ‘fog of war,’ I like to call it,” Sundquist completed, we will sit down with the district cost him the second half of the NASCAR season. seasons at SFU and was forced to abandon which automatically qualify them for the 2019 said. “It’s like NASCAR: You can be flying along and attorney and review it. But I want to make it very Stewart only returned to sprint track racing last rugby - a sport he had played at high school. World Cup in Japan. —Reuters all it takes is one cylinder to pop on you and clear: there are no criminal charges pending at month, and won in his return, at Tri-City Motor you’re not running at full efficiency.” —AP this time.” A witness said it appeared Ward was Speedway in Michigan. —AP Venus upsets Sri Lanka defeat Serena to reach rain, Pakistan in 17Rogers Cup final 18first Test MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014

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LONDON: Arsenal’s Spanish midfielder Mikel Arteta (right) raises the Community Shield trophy after Arsenal won the FA Community Shield football match against Manchester City at Wembley Stadium. —AFP Arsenal thrash City in curtain-raiser Community Shield

LONDON: Arsenal delivered a rousing demonstration of their with the same confidence and belief.” return to Wembley, with new signing Mathieu Debuchy obliging keeper Willy Caballero-who was preferred to Joe Hart-but he Premier League title credentials by overwhelming league cham- Victory in the traditional season curtain-raiser-which wit- Gael Clichy to head a cross clear. helped limit the damage in first-half stoppage time by rushing pions Manchester City 3-0 in the Community Shield at Wembley nessed the first use of vanishing spray in English football-sug- Debuchy then blocked a shot by Samir Nasri-lustily booed by out to prevent Sanchez collecting a pass from Sanogo. yesterday. gests Arsenal are in fine fettle ahead of their opening league fix- the fans of his former club-at the other end, before Cazorla gave Sanchez made way for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain after a lively Buoyed by last season’s FA Cup success over Hull City, Arsene ture at home to Crystal Palace on Saturday. Arsenal the lead in the 21st minute. first-half cameo on the right flank, while City were given fresh Wenger’s side took charge with first-half goals from Santi Cazorla In mitigation for City, manager Manuel Pellegrini could point Jack Wilshere was felled on the edge of the box by Dedryck impetus by the introduction of David Silva. and Aaron Ramsey before substitute Olivier Giroud added a glori- to the absences of first-teamers such as captain Vincent Boyata, but play continued and the ball ran to Cazorla, who Jovetic twice threatened to halve Arsenal’s lead, heading ous long-range third. With £30 million ($50.5 million, 37.8 million Kompany and Sergio Aguero, but his side’s rustiness will be cause threw Clichy off-balance with a clever feint before drilling home against the post and blazing the rebound over before seeing a euros) new signing Alexis Sanchez also impressing on a sunny for concern ahead of their season opener at Newcastle United. left-footed. rasping 15-yard shot blocked by Wojciech Szczesny. afternoon in northwest London, Arsenal’s fans will hope it proves “These things happen before the season starts,” Pellegrini told BT Edin Dzeko looked to get City level by racing away from But Giroud put the game to bed on the hour, gathering the the precursor to a sustained title challenge, after seeing their side Sport.”It was not the pace we played in pre-season, but I will talk Calum Chambers and teeing up Stevan Jovetic, but Laurent ball in the inside-right channel and launching a superb, dipping fall away last season. with the players and I am sure we will be ready to start the Koscielny produced a timely block. Moments later it was 2-0. strike from 25 yards that plunged beneath the crossbar. “Two things were important today: to win a trophy, even Premier League.” From Sanchez’s sweeping through ball, Yaya Sanogo played a Arsenal’s fans goaded their City counterparts by aping their though it is not a major one, and to play well, and I am very hap- pass inside that was slightly behind Ramsey, but the Welshman backwards-facing ‘Poznan’ goal celebration. The teams will py because we played some very good football,” said Wenger. SUPERB STRIKE checked his run and smartly chipped the ball on before drilling a resume hostilities in the Premier League on September 19, by “This showed that when the team is focused, we have a With the millstone of a nine-year trophy drought no longer shot into the bottom-left corner. which time Pellegrini will expect to have witnessed significant chance to win a league game. We want to go into each game weighing them down, Arsenal made an assured start on their It had been a less than ideal first 45 minutes for new City goal- improvements. — AFP

Juve strike late to Liverpool down Dortmund LIVERPOOL: Liverpool warmed up for the ished for a lack of concentration from a win Sydney friendly start of their Premier League campaign Steven Gerrard corner five minutes later, with a Philippe Coutinho-inspired 4-0 with the unmarked Lovren allowed time SYDNEY: Juventus will have to given the hosts the lead in the ninth friendly win over Borussia Dortmund at and space to head home from inside the improve their fitness before they minute when he found space for his Anfield yesterday. six-yard box. begin their quest for a fourth shot on the edge of the box and Brendan Rodgers’s side dominated their straight Serie A title, new coach stroked the ball past Gianluigi final pre-season match with Brazilian play- INTELLIGENT MOVEMENT Massimiliano Allegri said after they Buffon. maker Coutinho the most impressive per- The remainder of the first half was needed two late goals to snatch a 3- Carlos Tevez hit the post just former as he scored one goal and had a played at a more sedate pace although 2 win over an A-League All Star XI before the break after a slick one- hand in another. Coutinho, full of intelligent movement and yesterday. two with Fernando Llorente but it Coutinho, who will be expected to carry clever flicks, continued to threaten in the The All Stars, captained by was not until the 59th minute that much of Liverpool’s creative burden follow- final third in combination with Sturridge Juventus great Alessandro Del Piero, the latter headed Juve’s equaliser ing the sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona, was and Sterling. Gerrard brought a superb were deservedly leading 2-1 with from a Patrice Evra cross. a constant menace throughout as Daniel one-handed diving save from Langerak two minutes to go in the friendly Substitute Tomi Juric lashed Sturridge, Dejan Lovren and Jordan with a curling free-kick on the stroke of played in front of a crowd of 55,364 home the All Stars’ second goal in Henderson also got their names on the half-time, and shortly after the interval the at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium. the 77th minute after a defensive scoresheet against German club Dortmund. home side put the result beyond doubt. French midfielder Paul Pogba, error by Kwadwo Asamoah but Liverpool, looking to gone one better Sterling seized upon a misplaced pass who was named best young player Pogba and Pepe saved the blushes after finishing runners-up to Manchester and found the unmarked Coutinho who at the World Cup, got Juventus back of the visitors. City in the Premier League last season, swivelled and then placed it into the net on terms when he chested the ball Allegri said a tactical switch in the handed debuts to new defensive signings past the hapless Langerak to get the goal down and steered it into the top cor- last 10 minutes had helped his side Javier Manquillo and Lovren while his performance deserved. ner of the net with an exquisite half get back into the match. “The 3-5-2 Sturridge had shaken off a hamstring injury Henderson, who had been full of volley in the 88th minute. has worked well for Juventus but we to start in attack. endeavour and energy throughout, tapped Simone Pepe scored the winner would also like to have the ability to Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp had only home Liverpool’s fourth from close range three minutes later with a low drive show some flexibility in our forma- one of Germany’s quartet of World Cup- just after the hour mark. from a similar position on the edge tion,” Allegri added. winning players at his disposal in the form Rodgers, with one eye on the visit of of the box to give new coach two Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal, of Kevin Grosskreutz, who remained on the Southampton in their opening league wins from his first two matches after the subject of intense speculation bench. game, made a number of substitutions they beat an Indonesia XI 8-1 on over a big money move to Liverpool’s passing looked crisper than throughout the second period as Lucas Wednesday. “It was a good game,” Manchester United, was again left that of their Bundesliga counterparts in the Leiva Jordan Ibe, Rickie Lambert, Jose former AC Milan coach Allegri told out of the matchday squad. early stages, and Coutinho created the first Enrique, Martin Kelly and Joe Allen were all reporters through a translator. “They Allegri has already said he would opening with a weighted ball for Raheem introduced. were well organised and we were like to keep Vidal and maintained Sterling who saw his shot beaten away by The changes to personnel saw put under some pressure, particular- that the 27-year-old, who had knee Mitchell Langerak in the Dortmund goal. Liverpool’s passing become disjointed in ly in the first half when we made surgery before the World Cup, only Coutinho was instrumental in the final half hour as the game petered out some technical mistakes. returned to training properly this Liverpool’s opening goal in the 10th minute as contest. “We got better in the second half, week. when he played a first-time pass which sent But Dortmund, well short of match fit- but we’ve still got plenty of work to “Vidal has started to train again, Sturridge clear and he angled a shot past ness, rarely troubled a Liverpool defence do, particularly on our physical con- he’s well and we hope to have him SYDNEY: Juventus player Fernando Llorente (center) heads the ball as Langerak into the corner of the net. marshalled well by Martin Skrtel and ditioning.” back on board as soon as possible,” Australian A-League All Stars players Michael Thwaite (left) and Thomas Dortmund looked rusty and were pun- Lovren throughout. — AFP Argentine Marcelo Carrusca had Allegri said. — Reuters Broich (right) challenge in their exhibition football match in Sydney. — AFP China State Grid quietly builds Mediterranean power network

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HONG KONG: A woman waits at a pedestrian crossing surrounded by residential buildings in Hong Kong. The southern Chinese city has been hit with a serious housing shortage as property prices have doubled since 2009, becoming unaffordable for many. — AFP (See also Page 23) India on course to meet inflation targets: CB Bank loan to troubled Kingfisher airline being probed

NEW DELHI: India’s central bank governor said yesterday Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addressed the meeting, fuel suppliers, staff and others. The low-cost airline, which sions to private companies. the country was on course to meet the bank’s targets on the first since the government’s maiden budget was did not make any profit since it started operating in 2005, Prasad said the two cases were not connected, saying reduced inflation, adding that it was working with the announced last month. Jaitley told the bank board that lost its license to fly two years ago, after it failed to end a the watchdog was not targeting loans by state-run finan- new government on monetary policy. Reserve Bank of the government’s “policy regime is being geared towards strike by staff including over a failure to pay wages. cial institutions as part of a specific investigation. India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan said the bank had attaining higher growth rate, lower inflation and sustain- Owners of Kingfisher’s grounded planes have taken them Mallya, once the self-proclaimed “King of Good Times”, started discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s able external balance”, an RBI statement issued after the back. Prasad said the CBI had carried out a “preliminary who made his fortune through his liquor business, has right-wing government on a monetary policy framework meet said. Rajan explained yesterday that the recent cut enquiry” into the loan over the past two months. The next been battling to maintain control over his empire. The that includes measures to control inflation. in the statutory liquidity ratio, the amount banks must step could be the filing of a formal case. Last week, the CBI flamboyant businessman, also a co-owner of a Formula The RBI on Tuesday left the benchmark repo rate, at keep in government securities, by 50 basis points to 22 arrested the chairman of state-run Syndicate Bank over One team, was known to host lavish yacht parties with which it lends to commercial banks, unchanged, at a percent, would not immediately help expand credit allegations that he took bribes in exchange for loan exten- Bollywood stars and politicians as guests. — AFP steep 8.0 percent, citing a need to clamp down on rising growth. prices. Retail inflation slipped to 7.3 percent in June, and “Over time as the private sector, public sector starts the RBI said earlier this year it was aiming for consumer- investing more, you will see that credit growth would pick price inflation of 8.0 percent next January. up,” he said. The central bank governor, who famously pre- KIPCO rejects $3.2bn offer “We think at the current interest rate policy rate we are dicted the 2008 global financial crisis, earlier this week on course to meet those targets,” Rajan told reporters warned of another market crash as asset prices surge. after a meeting of the RBI’s central board in New Delhi. to buy pay-TV unit OSN “We will be discussing the monetary policy framework Kingfisher probe through the course of the year. Just now we have started India’s top crime fighting body is investigating a $155 a preliminary discussion (with the government),” he said. million loan by a state-run bank to debt-ridden Kingfisher DUBAI: Kuwait Projects Company (KIPCO) has rejected a KIPCO. It said the offer was for between 51 and 100 per- Airlines, a police official said yesterday. The Central Bureau $3.2 billion takeover offer from a US private equity firm cent of OSN; it did not elaborate. Dubai-based brokerage Growth target of Investigation (CBI) was conducting an initial probe into for its pay-television subsidiary OSN, the parent company Arqaam Capital last year valued OSN at $4.3 billion. The Businesses have been clamoring for a cut, saying high why the 9.5 billion rupee ($155 million) loan from the IDBI said in a bourse filing yesterday. KIPCO owns 60.5 percent TV company has operations across the Middle East and rates discourage investment needed to help India’s econ- bank was approved given Kingfisher’s levels of debt. of OSN while Saudi Arabia-based Mawarid Group holds North Africa, and posted earnings of 139.5 million dinars omy get back on its feet. The government, which swept to “When the company was in the red why did the IDBI bank the remainder. They jointly refused an offer from the US ($494 million) in 2013. KIPCO said early this year that OSN power at elections in May, has pledged to reform and give the loan?” CBI spokeswoman Kanchan Prasad said. firm, which was not identified in the statement. might float on the London stock exchange in 2014, but revive an economy growing at less than five percent over Kingfisher, owned by India’s liquor baron, the flamboy- The offer comprised $2.4 billion in cash and a further OSN chief executive David Butorac told reporters in May the last two years. ant Vijay Mallya, owes nearly $1.5 billion to banks, airports, $800 million subject to certain conditions, according to that a public share sale was not imminent. — Reuters Saudi rises for 10th day, other markets mixed

MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS DUBAI: Middle East stock markets Saudi population is a major theme Abu Dhabi, Dana Gas rose 1.5 per- were mixed yesterday as turnover in for prospective foreign investors. cent after it said an international tri- most places shrank to low levels, Hospital firm Al-Hammadi, which bunal had issued a favourable ruling although Saudi Arabia rose for a listed at an IPO price of 28 riyals in in the dispute over a natural gas tenth straight day as it continued a mid-July, jumped 7.5 percent to a supply contract between its affiliate rally triggered by its plan to allow fresh record closing high of 79.25 Crescent Petroleum and Iran - direct foreign investment in equi- riyals. although it remains unclear when ties. The Saudi index climbed 0.3 Dubai’s index edged up 0.1 per- supply might actually resume. percent to a six-year closing high of cent. Budget carrier Air Arabia However, Abu Dhabi National 10,579 points and has gained 8.6 gained 2.2 percent after reporting Energy Co (TAQA) fell 1.8 percent percent in the past ten trading days. its second-quarter net profit more after saying it had suspended its Alinma Bank was the second than doubled to 173 million dirhams activity at the Atrush Block in most heavily traded stock, rising 1.8 ($47.1 million), well above analysts’ Kurdistan because of the mounting percent, but by and large attention average forecast of 123 million instability in that area. has shifted beyond the large-cap dirhams. Kuwait’s Agility, the largest listed banks and petrochemical firms But construction firm Drake & Gulf Arab logistics company, rose 1.2 which foreign investors are expect- Scull sank 4.2 percent after report- percent after reporting a 12.2 per- ed to favor, to a wide variety of ing a 41 percent drop in second- cent rise in second-quarter net prof- shares. The most heavily traded yes- quarter net profit, as delays on it. Another Kuwaiti stock, Gulf terday was telecommunications major projects in Saudi Arabia hit Petroleum Investment. jumped 4.8 NEW DELHI: Indian finance minister Arun Jaitely (second left) along with Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor operator Zain KSA, which climbed earnings. Drake made a profit of percent as its trading volume bal- Raghuram Rajan (third left) look on ahead of a meeting with the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of 2.0 percent. 25.88 million dirhams; analysts had looned to its highest level since India in New Delhi yesterday. — AFP Medical care for the growing predicted 48.8 million dirhams. In January. — Reuters BUSINESS MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014

Time to invest News in value stocks in brief

By Hayder Tawfik Dubai’s Drake & Scull Q2 net profit drops t is always said that who dares who wins but also DUBAI: Dubai contractor Drake & Scull reported we can say that everything comes to he who waits. a 41 percent drop in second-quarter net profit IHere lie the two approaches to investments. Being yesterday, missing analyst forecasts, as delays on adventurous and courageous major projects in Saudi Arabia hit earnings. Drake in a world clouded by geopo- made a profit of 25.88 million dirhams ($7.05 mil- litical turmoil and scattered lion) in the three months to June 30. This com- wars here and there may be is pares with a profit of 43.96 million dirhams in the not the right approach to corresponding period of 2013. Analysts polled by equity investments but being Reuters on average forecast Drake would make a patient with your investments quarterly profit of 48.8 million dirhams. Revenues can indeed be very reward- in the second quarter reached 1.1 billion dirhams ing. What I am talking about compared to 1.34 billion dirhams in Q2 2013, the here is two different statement said. Revenue growth was slightly hin- approaches to value invest- dered and profitability dropped year-on-year due ing. These two approaches to the “significant delays” on the company’s major have their own merits but the difficulty is to be able to projects in Saudi Arabia, Drake’s Chief Financial combine both of them in one investment approach. Officer Mukhtar Safi said in the statement. Over the past few years’ investors worldwide wor- ried about falling interest rates, falling bond yields and Emicool gets $245m zero rates on cash deposit, chased growth stocks financing for expansion around the world in the hope of getting much higher returns. Some of them have been successful and oth- Buses wait to be exported in Lianyungang port in Lianyungang, east China’s Jiangsu province. China’s ABU DHABI: Dubai-based Emirates District Cooling (Emicool) said yesterday it had signed a $245 million, ers just managed to get the reasonable returns. Some monthly trade surplus leaped to a record $47.3 billion in July, nearly tripling year-on-year, official data showed. —AFP 12-year facility with Dubai Islamic Bank to refinance investors found growth stocks in the emerging mar- existing debt and fund its expansion. Emicool, a ven- kets and with some patient may be they will get some ture between Dubai Investments and Union rewards. Investing in growth stocks should be the cor- China State Grid quietly builds Properties, offers cooling services in some areas of ner stone for equity investors at all times. However, as the emirate and has an installed capacity of 330,000 most investors around the world poured billions of tons of refrigerant. It did not reveal pricing details of dollars in search of growth stocks they totally ignored Mediterranean power network the facility. The company has said it plans to expand value stocks. The technology sectors took the lion into Saudi Arabia and Qatar in coming years. shares of that money invested in growth stocks. PARIS/HONG KONG/MILAN: The European Commission Patient and discreet, State Grid only invests where it is has long wanted the continent’s power grids to work in welcome, shying away from hostile bids, and has seized on Why value investing now after Industries Qatar Q2 profit unison for reasons of efficiency and supply security, so far the opportunities afforded by privatizations in cash- falls 38%, misses estimates nearly 5 years of dismal returns? to little avail, but a regional power network could soon be strapped southern euro zone countries. State Grid Before investing in value stocks, investors should a reality, courtesy of State Grid Corporation of China. Executive Vice President Zheng Baosen told Reuters last DUBAI: Industries Qatar (IQ) reported a 38 per- understand why these stocks are cheap rather than While Europe’s utilities have met hostility to cross-bor- year China was ready to invest further in European utilities cent drop in second-quarter net profit yesterday, just investing in them because they cheap. Cheap der forays and been outbid by infrastructure funds, State “if the price is right”. missing analysts’ forecasts. The Gulf’s second- stocks are generally cheap because they are in bad Grid, the world’s largest utility by revenues, with its deep In addition to Europe, it has made major investments in largest chemical producer by market value made shape and face big risks. Therefore a value effect over pockets and reputation for hands-off management, has power grids in Brazil, the Philippines, Australia and Hong a net profit of 1.25 billion riyals ($343.34 million) time is just what would be expected in an efficient had an easier ride, buying minority stakes in Portuguese Kong. Its total overseas assets now exceed $23 billion, and in the three months to June 30, according to Reuters calculations based on a company state- market - higher risk is related to higher long-term and Italian grid operators and pursuing designs on Greece the profits of its overseas operations rose to 3.2 billion ment. This compares with a profit of 2.02 billion returns. Another explanation why they are cheap, and Spain, too. yuan ($520 million) in 2013 from 800 million in 2009. riyals in the same period of 2013. Industries Qatar comes from behavioral finance, and suggests that An official at a Brussels-based utilities lobby said If all goes to plan, it would become the first utility to made a net profit of 2.84 billion riyals in the first markets are inefficient. As humans we get excited build a major regional electricity grid portfolio, a feat that Chinese utilities have huge ambitions in Europe and are about stocks with a great story to tell, and tend to half of 2014, the statement said, down from 4.57 the Commission had hoped Europe’s big grid operators sending countless missions to ask for advice on where to billion riyals in the prior-year period. The compa- ignore the more dull and boring stocks that plug would have achieved in the five years since it forced the invest. away producing predictable profits and dividends. ny did not explain the decrease. Analysts polled separation of the grids from power production to increase Besides China’s grid operator, its power producers are by Reuters on average forecast Industries Qatar’s Buying such stocks is a way of taking advantage of market competition. For wholly state-owned State Grid, also breaking into Europe. In 2011, China Three Gorges quarterly profit would be 1.63 billion riyals. inefficiency and in the long run it will pay off. Both which distributes electricity to 1.1 billion people across 90 paid 2.7 billion euros for a 21 percent stake in Energias de approaches are about “value”, but they are different. percent of China, the appeal of the consistent, regulated Portugal, and EDP chief executive Antonio Mexia has said Investors who invest in value stocks must apply income from European power assets is obvious. his shareholder is looking at other opportunities in Saudi PetroRabigh restarts both approaches i.e. to be brave and very patient. A State Grid official familiar with its overseas strategy Europe. In October, China General Nuclear Corporation units after shutdown Efforts must be spent on how to systematize both said projects abroad typically yield high single-digit to and China National Nuclear Corporation agreed to take a ABU DHABI: Saudi Arabia’s PetroRabigh is gradually strategies. double-digit returns, compared with low single digits at joint 30-40 percent stake in an EDF-led consortium to resuming production after a technical failure at one Those investors who can be patient should focus home. build a 16 billion pound nuclear plant in Britain. of its units forced a shutdown of some operations on on those stocks that are cheap and have very strong Its relatively low yield requirements give it an edge over Saturday, the petrochemicals producer said in a balance sheet and pay regular dividends. This strate- Western infrastructure funds and European sector peers. Hand-off, hand-on? bourse statement yesterday. The unit that failed, gy makes sure that regardless what happens in the In a recent statement, an official in State Grid’s internation- Fear of foreign control of electricity networks has been which handles air supply for control systems, has stocks market the investors has a regular income over al business department said it was actively investing in a powerful inhibitor to the integration of EU grids. With now been restarted and other units are gradually regulated electricity assets and realizing steady returns. the exception of Elia and Dutch Tennet’s grid investments coming back online, with a full return to normal the long term. The disadvantage is that regular divi- operations planned for this Friday, the statement dend-payers tend to underperform in a strong bull “When we make overseas investment, we are not doing in Germany, there has been remarkably little cross-border grid investment in Europe. Consulting firm Accenture’s said. It did not give further technical details. The dis- market, as we have had for five years. Patient charity,” he said. As State Grid builds up its portfolio, it could start thinking about linking up its assets across the Jean-Marc Ollagnier, who advises Chinese utilities, said the ruption will cause PetroRabigh’s third-quarter profit investors can also be brave by investing in a big num- region; the ownership of several grids by one operator Chinese are welcome partners as they provide investment to fall by nearly 30 million riyals ($8 million), the ber of cheapest stocks, relative to their own sectors in allows easier cross-country power-load balancing, so it and don’t usually get involved in operations. statement added. The firm, a joint venture between the developed economies. This compensates for the doesn’t get caught out by peaks in one area and can shift “In general, when a Chinese firm acquires a foreign state oil giant Saudi Aramco and Japan’s Sumitomo fact that some sectors will naturally look “cheaper” on power within its own network rather than being forced to company, it will leave local management in charge. When Chemical, posted in July a 58 percent drop in sec- basic measures than others, and uses a weighted parlay with a competitor. a European or US utility buys a stake in a foreign company, ond-quarter net profit to 172 million riyals. combination of five value measures - price/earnings, you will likely soon have 10 guys who come and tell it forward price/earnings and price/book multiples as Strategic positioning what to do,” he added. well as free cash flow to price, and earnings before In 2012, State Grid bought 25 percent of Portuguese Insiders say State Grid has given a free rein to Portugal’s Egypt’s consumer inflation interest, tax, depreciation and amortization to enter- grid operator REN, then last month it entered Italy with a REN and helped it get credit. Last year, REN won access to jumps to 10.6% in July prise value. deal to buy 35 percent of CDP Reti for at least 2.1 billion a 1 billion euro financing line from China’s Development CAIRO: Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation Bank thanks to its Chinese shareholder. But indications are Investors should regularly monitor the per- euros ($2.8 billion). CDP Reti owns 30 percent of gas trans- jumped to 10.6 percent in July from 8.2 percent in June, formance of those stocks and measure them port group Snam and is set to receive a similar stake in that State Grid wants to play a more active role in CDP the official statistics agency CAPMAS said yesterday, against the 5 basic value measures. Also, a set of power grid Terna. Reti, which might foreshadow a more interventionist after the government introduced a fuel price increase disciplinary targets should be put in place before State Grid, with Terna and Belgium’s Elia, is also bidding Chinese stance in Europe. last month. Egypt’s economy has been in turmoil since investing. These targets should also be monitored for 66 percent of Greek grid operator ADMIE, sources told A CDP Reti group source said the SGCC deal was “a bit a popular uprising ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in regular. Stocks that do very well and reach the tar- Reuters in May, and is interested in bidding for German more than just a financial operation”. He said the deal 2011, deterring tourists and foreign investors and strain- gets either can be reviewed or can be sold. By utility E.ON’s northern Spanish grid, which serves 650,000 envisages a five to seven year period of “inserimento” ing the country’s finances and foreign reserves. doing this the portfolio of these stocks will not customers and could sell for as much 1 billion euros, a (insertion), during which the Chinese will get to know the Annual core inflation, which strips out subsidized goods ride for long time with its winners whose share source familiar with the parties told Reuters. E.ON has local market. The Chinese company puts it much more and volatile items such as fruit and vegetables, rose to forcefully. “State Grid is not just a passive financial investor. price takes off. Being a brave investor and at the launched the sale process and first bids are due next week. 9.35 percent in July from 8.76 percent in June, the cen- “After the recent investments of SGCC in South Europe, It will actively take part in the management of CDP-Reti. same time patient should complement each other tral bank said in a statement later on Sunday. there is indeed a strategic positioning within the region,” This is not a financial investment, more like a strategic in the long run. —Dimah Capital ADMIE Chairman and CEO Yiannis Yiarentis told Reuters. investment,” the State Grid official said. —Reuters

EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.905 Sierra Leone 0.000062 0.000068 Nepalese Rupees 3.870 Singapore Dollar 0.223434 0.229434 South African Rand 0.020586 0.029086 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 89.290 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.430 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001892 0.002472 Japanese Yen 2.785 Australian Dollar 245.06 242.06 Indian Rupees 4.638 Thai Bhat 9.820 Taiwan 0.009342 0.009522 Canadian Dollar 263.63 264.63 Turkish Lira 130.325 Thai Baht 0.008557 0.009107 Pakistani Rupees 2.874 Swiss Franc 317.88 315.88 Srilankan Rupees 2.179 Euro 384.02 385.02 Nepali Rupees 2.893 Arab US Dollar 283.35 286.35 Singapore Dollar 228.420 Bahraini Dinar 0.747257 0.755257 Sterling Pound 480.31 483.31 Bahrain Exchange Company Hongkong Dollar 36.657 Egyptian Pound 0.038750 0.041850 Japanese Yen 2.81 2.83 Bangladesh Taka 3.659 Iranian Riyal 0.000079 0.000080 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.451 Bangladesh Taka 3.653 3.923 Iraqi Dinar 0.000180 0.000240 Thai Baht 8.859 Indian Rupee 4.654 4.954 Europe Jordanian Dinar 0.397357 0.404857 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.179 2.614 Belgian Franc 0.007387 0.008387 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Nepali Rupee 2.910 3.445 British Pound 0.469516 0.478516 Lebanese Pound 0.000137 0.000237 Pakistani Rupee 2.876 2.790 Czech Korune 0.005646 0.017646 Moroccan Dirhams 0.022358 0.046358 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 77.21 77.68 Danish Krone 0.047009 0.052009 Nigerian Naira 0.001142 0.001777 Saudi Riyal 75.804 Bahraini Dinar 754.16 756.23 Euro 0.375333 0.383333 Omani Riyal 0.732021 0.737701 Qatari Riyal 78.106 Egyptian Pound 39.62 40.22 Norwegian Krone 0.041444 0.046644 Qatar Riyal 0.077339 0.078552 Omani Riyal 738.440 Jordanian Dinar 403.27 408.92 Romanian Leu 0.085456 0.085456 Saudi Riyal 0.075137 0.075837 Bahraini Dinar 755.020 Omani Riyal 736.89 744.19 Slovakia 0.008159 0.018159 Syrian Pound 0.001763 0.001983 UAE Dirham 77.415 Qatari Riyal 78.25 78.80 Swedish Krona 0.037141 0.042141 Tunisian Dinar 0.162722 0.170722 Saudi Riyal 75.69 76.09 Swiss Franc 0.307204 0.317404 Turkish Lira 0.134102 0.141102 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.134102 0.141102 UAE Dirhams 0.076382 0.077531 Egyptian Pound - Cash 43.400 Yemeni Riyal 0.001281 0.001361 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.656 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.327 Australian Dollar 0.255013 0.266513 Tunisian Dinar 166.360 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate New Zealand Dollar 0.233799 0.243299 Jordanian Dinar 401.430 Al Mulla Exchange US Dollar 283.900 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.907 Canadian Dollar 261.720 Canadian Dollar 0.253292 0.261792 Syrian Lira 2.026 US Dollars 0.280550 0.284600 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 34.484 Sterling Pound 478.675 Euro 381.540 US Dollars Mint 0.280550 0.284600 US Dollar 283.500 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Swiss Frank 313.990 Euro 380.450 Bahrain Dinar 755.635 Asia Pound Sterlng 478.650 US Dollar Transfer 284.150 Bangladesh Taka 0.003305 0.003905 Euro 383.460 UAE Dirhams 77.275 Canadian Dollar 260.000 Qatari Riyals 78.860 Chinese Yuan 0.044665 0.048165 Sterling Pound 479.080 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034566 0.037316 Indian Rupee 4.627 Saudi Riyals 75.975 Canadian dollar 260.930 Indian Rupee 0.004519 0.004920 Egyptian Pound 39.645 Jordanian Dinar 401.000 Turkish lira 132.550 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000021 0.000027 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.176 Egyptian Pound 39.651 Swiss Franc 316.780 Japanese Yen 0.002697 0.002877 Bangladesh Taka 3.657 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.181 Australian Dollar 265.820 Kenyan Shilling 0.003222 0.003222 Philippines Peso 6.490 Indian Rupees 4.642 US Dollar Buying 282.950 Korean Won 0.000263 0.000278 Pakistan Rupee 2.875 Pakistani Rupees 2.874 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085699 0.091699 Bahraini Dinar 755.100 GOLD Bangladesh Taka 3.659 Nepalese Rupee 0.002945 0.003115 UAE Dirham 77.250 20 Gram 245.000 Philippines Pesso 6.442 Pakistan Rupee 0.002775 0.003055 10 Gram 124.000 Cyprus pound 697.315 Saudi Riyal 75.750 Philippine Peso 0.006489 0.006769 5 Gram 64.000 Japanese Yen 3.770 *Rates are subject to change MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 BUSINESS Stronger US dollar against major peers

NBK MONEY MARKETS REPORT

KUWAIT: An eventful weekly market ses- The GBP fell to 1.6822, as inflation data against a forecasted 56.6, and higher receive jobless benefits fell to an 8-year between the policy makers on the tim- sion took place, as almost all-major cen- dropped the most on record in July, and than the previous months’ figure of 56.0. low, showing that the labor market ing of raising the interest rate. Several tral banks have met last week. Figures a gauge of inflation expectations for the The increase signals that the US econo- continues to gain momentum. Jobless MPC members have stated that, “the from the United States are getting better next decade declined to the lowest my is stepping up its pace, entering the claims declined by 14,000 to 289,000, time is coming to ease off on stimulus through time, with an exceptionally since January 2013. Cable continued to second half of the year. Moreover, facto- against a forecasted rise to 304,000. after unemployment fell to 6.5 percent strong GDP in the second quarter of the fall against the US dollar, after the Bank ry orders also hiked, indicating that this Private firms are holding onto more in the three months to May from 7.8 year, bolstering hopes of hiking the of England officials maintained their key pickup in demand will raise prospects workers in an effort to keep up with the percent a year earlier. However, others interest rates sooner than expected. interest rate at a record low. The sterling that the jobs market will extend its increase in consumer demand. on the MPC point to very slow growth Europe, Japan, England, Australia, and pound ended the week at 1.6773. recent improvement. Readings above 50 in wages as a sign that the recovery in Switzerland, all have kept their bench- The Japanese yen opened the week indicates expansion, while below 50, ECB kept rate unchanged the labor market has further to run mark interest rates unchanged. at 102.61, weakening only slightly to indicates contraction. The European Central Bank has kept before it starts to push up inflation, Meanwhile, geopolitical risks still prevail, touch a low of 102.93, after the US dollar its benchmark interest rate unchanged which was below-target at 1.9 percent with Obamas’ authorization of air strikes gained against all major currencies. The Trade balance shrinks at the record low, as the Ukrainian crisis in June. in Iraq, and conflicts in the Ukraine JPY then reversed its trend, gaining The US trade deficit unexpectedly intensifies, creating disturbance threatening EU countries, driving against the greenback, as risks escalate shrank by 7 percent in June to USD 41.5 towards the Euro area’s recovery. In Industrial production German bond yields to drop and hiked Frankfurt, the 24-member governing The United Kingdom’s Industrial pro- Japanese government notes. council voted to keep the main financ- duction rose less than economists’ fore- The Euro started the week at 1.3427, ing rate at the record low of 0.15 per- casted in June while the output esti- dropping significantly on Tuesday cent, as expected by economists. The mate for the second quarter was against a strengthening US Dollar after deposit rate remains below zero at -0.1 revised lower. Industrial production the United States showed some gains in percent, and the lending rate at 0.4 per- rose by 0.3 percent, after a fall of 0.6 factory orders and the services indus- cent. ECB President, Mario Draghi, has percent in May. The country’s industrial tries, adding further evidence that assured during the press conference production fell below the forecasted growth in the world’s largest economy is that the central bank will closely moni- 0.4 percent. The report sent fear and gathering pace, boosting demand for tor the impact of geopolitical risks uncertainty over the future of the UK’s the greenback. The single currency con- bestowed on the continents modest economy, adding signs that some sec- tinued to fall the following day to touch recovery. President Draghi added that tors of the recovery might be weaken- a low of 1.3333. The Euro regained some “the fallout from the Ukrainian crisis is ing, as the Sterling Pound remains at of its losses, after escalations in the hard to asses”, stating that the recovery levels that are relatively high for manu- Ukrainian crisis, pushing investors to is “weak, fragile, and uneven” whilst facturers. safer assets, thus weakening the US recent data shows a “slowdown in the Dollar. The Euro then dropped again growth momentum” and that the risk Gold drops dramatically after ECB President Mario Draghi sig- in the Ukraine, acting as a safe haven. billion while analysts were expecting recovery are to the “downside”. Gold hiked to a 3-week high, as naled that the central banks’ monetary The Japanese Yen strengthened to a the deficit to shrink to $ 44.8 billion, unrest in the Middle East spurred policy would diverge from the US for an high of 101.51, after Obama’s authoriza- driven by the biggest drop in imports BoE kept rate unchanged demand for safer assets. US President, extended period. The single currency tion of air strikes in Iraq, adding to the in a year as the economy moved closer The Bank of England kept its bench- Barrack Obama, authorized air strikes in regained almost all its losses during the appeal of haven assets amid geopolitical to energy independence. The drop in mark interest rate unchanged. The cen- Iraq, while Russia banned agriculture week, after the US commitment to air conflicts in Eastern Europe and Middle purchases of foreign goods from the tral bank’s monetary policy left the rate imports from the US and EU in retalia- strikes in Iraq pushed investors away East. Towards the end of the week, the highest levels on record included at the record low of 0.5 percent, tion over the sanctions, creating panic in from the USD. The euro ended the week Japanese Yen weakened slightly, as year- declines in autos, cellular phones, and unchanged since 2009, the deepest the financial markets. Gold rose almost 2 at 1.3410. end estimates rise the fastest against the lowest petroleum imports in more point of the financial crisis. With percent since the beginning of the The sterling pound opened at 1.6820, major peers, to 105.00 JPY per USD. The than 3-years. Britain’s economy set to grow by more week, touching a low of 1,282.66 and a rising gradually to touch a high of JPY ended the week at 102.04. than 3 percent this year, the Bank of high of 1,322.76. Gold advanced 9.4 per- 1.6889, as UK services strengthened Unemployment Claims England is widely expected of all the cent this year amid geopolitical tensions more than expected, and at the fastest ISM manufacturing index Number of Americans filing for major developed economies to be the in East Europe and the Middle East. pace in 8-months, as wages picked up, The Service industry in the United unemployment benefits dropped more first to raise rates. Economists’ predict a sustaining hopes that the BoE might States rose more than forecasted in July than forecasted last week to pre-crisis hike either later this year, or early 2015. Kuwait hike the interest rate. The Pound then at fastest pace since December. The levels, showing further improvement in The better than expected performance Kuwaiti dinar at 0.28330. The USD- erased its gains, as the country’s econo- Institute of Supply Management non- the labor market. The monthly average of the UK is raising speculation that KWD opened at 0.28330 yesterday my fell short of analysts’ expectations. manufacturing index rose to 58.7 number of people continuing to there might be a split in decision morning. High-end ‘micro-flats’ latest trend for Hong Kong buyers Developers reeling in young middle class buyers

HONG KONG: At a glitzy show stall for a new ership,” he said. small, it is repressive. You are paying that much residential development in Hong Kong, property Agents are selling the pint-sized flats on the to be living there, it’s ridiculous,” Kenneth Tong, a agents with loudspeakers are promoting the lat- basis that the market boom will only continue. spokesman for local NGO “No Flat Slaves” told est trend in the overcrowded city-high-end “You want to buy now because prices will just go AFP. “micro-flats” which still come with an eye-water- up,” said one agent at the new Mont Vert devel- The organization believes the government is ing price tag. opment in the suburban neighborhood of Tai Po. to blame for a lack of affordable homes and Hong Kong’s poorest residents are used to “You are saving, in a sense.” being slow to build more public rental housing. making their homes in cramped accommoda- Mont Vert boasts a clubhouse, sea views and “People have no other choice,” says Tong. tion, but now developers are touting minuscule surrounding greenery-but at 16 square metres, There is a “surging need” for cheaper homes in upmarket apartments to reel in young middle- its smallest units are only three times larger than the city, vice-chairman of Hong Kong’s pro- democracy Labour Party Fernando Cheung said. “As a result, you see these very small flats that I think could be described as inhumane if you compare (them)... with units that would be used SEPANG: Passengers stand in front of information desk at Kuala Lumpur to house refugees, or even earthquake victims, International Airport in Sepang. —AP in other places,” Cheung said. With many larger and pricier flats bought by wealthy mainland Chinese buyers, the smaller homes are targeted Malaysia Airlines revamp: at young professionals, university graduates and newly married couples, among others, who are New start or false hope? seeking to live independently from their parents and are looking for more reasonable prices, he HONG KONG: Hemorrhaging cash after issue because the airline is state-owned. added. almost unfathomable double disasters Experts say the airline could also reduce “It’s really mind-boggling to see how the pri- that killed 537 people, Malaysia Airlines its fleet. Passenger capacity has risen in vate residential market in Hong Kong has devel- will be brought back under the wing of recent years as the airline brought in new oped to such an extent,” Cheung said. The over- the Malaysian government as a prelude to planes, forcing it to discount airfares crowded southern Chinese city suffers from a a comprehensive overhaul of the airline. It aggressively to fill enough seats. There’s serious housing shortage, with property prices will be the latest in a string of restructur- also talk the carrier could sell its profitable doubling since 2009. The dearth of new affordable homes has ings of the carrier over the past decade, maintenance division. spurred protests and sentiment against the city’s all of which failed to put it on a steadier big developers. Now micro-flats are seeking to flight path. Some analysts doubt the air- * HOW COULD THE AIRLINE LOOK LIKE? fill the gap-though they will remain well outside line will be in a much improved position Malaysian Airlines could be slimmer, many househunters’ budgets. Half of the apart- in another five years. Here are some ques- have new executives, and fly less often to ments in the new Le Riviera tower project, in a tions and answers on what lies ahead: some destinations. Some have suggested quiet neighborhood to the east of Hong Kong a new name is needed but don’t expect HONG KONG: People walk in front of residential buildings in Hong Kong. The southern Island, measure less than 300 square feet and are * WHY AN OVERHAUL? radical changes. It’s unlikely to expand Chinese city has been hit with a serious housing shortage as property prices have dou- priced around $HK5 million. But developers say Malaysia’s struggling national airline heavily into the discount market to com- bled since 2009, becoming unaffordable for many. —AFP they will attract single “yuppies” and young fami- continues to lose money in spite of four pete with AirAsia, the country’s highly lies. major restructurings in 12 years. Two dis- successful low-cost carrier, said Brendan class buyers. cells in Hong Kong’s most populous prison. The “A lot of people who have studied overseas asters within months of each other- the Sobie, analyst at CAPA The Centre For Although they are part of swish modern com- main space doubles as both bedroom and living and return love this kind of lifestyle,” says David disappearance of flight MH370 and the Aviation. Other analysts are doubtful that plexes, some of the newly-built studio flats room, with a kitchen and bathroom tucked away Fong, managing director of the tower’s private downing of MH17 over Ukraine - may its fifth restructuring will do the trick. “I’m measure as little as 16 square metres (177 square in the corners. Developer Cheung Kong says developer Hip Shing Hong. have dealt a fatal blow to the airline’s skeptical of the success of this new meas- feet) and are on sale for HK$1.5 million-almost that 10 percent of the 1,000 apartments on offer “In London, even in metropolitan New York, finances. ure,” said Shukor Yusof, founder of aviation $200,000. are studios, but could not confirm how many of the flat size is both small and old. We are small research firm Endau Analytics. “The root Single entrepreneur Mike Ko is typical of the those had been sold. but beautiful,” he added. Fong says that the * WHAT IS THE PLAN? problems are not being looked into seri- The development is not yet completed, and- apartments offer a “European continental buyers that developers are targeting: aspiring Few details have been released by ously, things like the strategy, the busi- home owners who are priced out of the over- despite being a massive investment for potential lifestyle”, with balconies, and interiors decorated Khazanah Nasional, the Malaysian sover- ness model and what they want the com- heated Hong Kong housing market. buyers-there were no show flats, models, or pic- by a group of Spanish designers. “I’m 33 years old and I really need my own tures of the interiors of the studio units immedi- “It’s a compromise. Everyone would love to eign wealth fund that has a controlling pany to be in the long term.” place,” says Ko. “Studios are good enough. ately available. live in much bigger flats if they could afford it,” stake in the airline and wants to mop up They’re quite hip and cool as well.” Ko current- he said. the minority of shares it doesn’t own. The HOW HAVE OTHER NATIONAL ly lives with his parents in public housing and ‘Inhumane’ conditions But campaigner Tong says the demand for fund said that after it owns all the shares AIRLINES FARED? has been saving to buy, but says that current While some prospective buyers are desperate tiny apartments is “twisted”, a product of the it will carry out a “complete overhaul” Following bankruptcy in 2010, Japan price tags mean he can only afford tiny prop- enough to snap up the tiny flats, there are those city’s entrenched desire for home ownership. including operations, business model, Airlines Co. returned to solid profitability. erties. “The market is too expensive, so buying who are outraged by the conditions Hong Kong “You lose your dignity even though you have the finances, staff and regulations. “Nothing The airline, once a Japanese icon, was a studio flat is a good first step to home own- residents are having to bear. “They are not only bricks and mortar,” he said. —AFP less will be required in order to revive our saddled with a bloated workforce, unpop- national airline to be profitable as a com- ular routes, safety lapses and mountains mercial entity and to serve its function as of debt. New management trimmed a Traders brace for crackdown as easy money dries up a critical national development entity,” it third of the payroll, invested in budget said. carriers, retired big jets in favor of smaller LONDON: Regulatory pressure to undo Total spending is estimated at 2 bil- to merge or cut costs. Scarth, a principal at Frost Consulting. ones and focused on international routes the traditional way brokers sell research lion pounds ($3.4 billion) in the UK and Advocates of new rules say such “We think that (new) research budget- * WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE? instead of less profitable domestic ones. alongside share dealing is alarming about $10 billion in the US. The asset changes will lead to a healthier and ing is going to cause them to cut fur- Malaysian Airlines needs to cut costs to The company returned to the stock mar- traders in Europe, who fear a further managers are already reining in spend- more transparent financial market, ther.” Traders say the bundled commis- stem the red ink that amounted to 1.3 bil- ket with an $8.5 billion IPO in 2012. drop in business and more cost-cutting ing in the wake of new UK curbs on though for the industry it means anoth- sion system helps grease the wheels of lion ringgit ($405 million) in losses last Swissair International Air Lines was creat- in an already tough environment. At charging clients for research some- er hit to trading profits in a post-crisis equity trading and allows brokers to be year alone. Top of the list is trimming staff, ed out of the ashes of Swissair, which stake is the lucrative but opaque system times deemed “questionable” and world where bank risk-taking has been more than just “dumb pipes” into the under which fund managers pay bro- company visits, traders say. A ban pro- curbed and trading activity has yet to stock market, but critics argue that which at nearly 20,000 is “relatively size- went out of business in 2002, becoming kers an all-in commission on every trade, posed by European markets watchdog recover fully. there is no price transparency for clients able” compared with other full service car- the first airline to collapse after the Sept. charged to the fund’s clients, which cov- ESMA on charging clients for research - “Brokers have already cut enor- and that a culture of one-payment-fits- riers such as Singapore Airlines and 11 attacks. The new airline suffered finan- ers not only the execution of the deal though not yet final - is also seen eat- mously, even the big ones, but equity all has led to excess spending and little Cathay Pacific Airways, analyst Jerry Lee cial problems for several years but subse- but research and other services. ing into brokers’ profits, pushing them markets have been difficult,” said Neil scrutiny. —Reuters of RHB Bank wrote in June. But staff cuts quently returned to profit. It’s now owned have always been a politically sensitive by Lufthansa. —AP BUSINESS MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 Europe’s fragile economy put to test

GLOBAL ECONOMY WEEK AHEAD

FRANKFURT: Investors will gauge the said James Knightley, an economist with ING. wider euro-zone are expected to see much, if instance, has invested 6 billion euros ($8 the month so that they are not borrow- strength of the euro-zone’s fragile economy “In Europe, the situation seems to be going any, improvement on the first three months of billion) since 2007 in Russia, while chemi- ing out of necessity.” In China, industrial this week as escalating conflicts in Ukraine into reverse.” The growing sanctions fight the year. cals firm BASF has a joint venture with output readings will give investors a and Iraq darken the mood globally. In stark between Russia and the West over Moscow’s To compound matters, tit-for-tat sanctions Gazprom. “For a long time, the market glimpse of the country’s performance in contrast to the United States and Britain, backing of rebels in Ukraine and US air strikes between Moscow and the European Union has been ignoring the geopolitical risks,” the third quarter of the year after gov- which are growing strongly, economic output to block Islamist militants in Iraq are also and fears that Russia could even invade east- said Gregor Eder, an economist with ernment moves to boost lending to busi- in the euro bloc is likely to have all but ground upsetting the markets. ern Ukraine are already sapping business con- Allianz, one of the globe’s largest fund ness, such as shrinking the amount of to a halt in the three months to June. Its star On Thursday, the European Union fidence and will eat into paltry economic investors. cash that banks must hold in reserve. economy, Germany, is losing momentum and announces economic output data for the 18 growth later this year. “The escalation in Ukraine and a spiral China’s economy gathered pace Italy is sliding back into recession. countries in the euro zone for the April-June Not only does Moscow supply about a of sanctions could be a turning point for slightly to grow by 7.5 percent in the sec- “The United States and the United quarter, and Germany will reveal its own gross third of the European Union’s gas needs, trade that. Exports to Russia were already ond quarter as the government stepped Kingdom are going to be among the fastest- domestic product for the same period. By ties in other areas between Russia and Europe falling even before Ukraine and could fall up construction of railways and public growing economies both this year and next,” these yardsticks, neither Germany nor the run deep. German energy giant E.ON, for further. The Iraq crisis increases nervous- housing. But a downturn in property ness further.” prices, despite efforts to make it easier to buy, as well as high local government Pay check debts, are holding up the economy. With Europe looking gloomy and the Analysts believe that deeper reforms, days of mega-growth in China over, the such as overhauling giant state compa- United States has offered some hope for nies, will be needed in the long term to the world economy. Investors will seek to keep the economy growing at the pace gauge the strength of the US rebound the authorities want. by examining the latest figures for retail In the meantime, the euro-zone sales and producer prices there. Many remains the globe’s problem child. Last are looking for reassurance, as they are in week, the European Central Bank sig- Britain, that economic growth is trickling nalled that it stood ready to print money down to workers’ pay - important proof and buy bonds if the euro-zone deterio- that the recovery will stick when central rated, a pledge to act that the Frankfurt- banks make it more expensive to borrow. based bank has made many times in the But the Bank of England is set to past. acknowledge surprisingly weak pay ECB President Mario Draghi under- growth on Wednesday when it publishes scored that he would not be discouraged economic projections, raising questions from taking such action by the fact that about Britain’s readiness for its first inter- the United States was plotting a different est rate hike since the financial crisis. course. His words alone, however, may Although unemployment is set to fall, not be sufficient to reassure investors earnings are also forecast to be lower unnerved at the prospect of the US than a year earlier. There is a similar gap Federal Reserve drawing the purse in the United States between rising num- strings ever tighter. “There has been this bers of people in work and lagging pay. fantastic monetary policy experiment “To have confidence in the recovery in where policy has never been looser,” said the United States and United Kingdom, Paul Dales of Capital Economics, which wages need to rise in line with credit,” advises companies and others. said ING’s Knightley. “You have to get things back to nor- “The cost of living continues to mal. But no-one really knows how it’s exceed wage growth. People need to see going to play out because no-one has that they have more cash at the end of been through it before.” — Reuters UK truckers busy as recovery builds

LONDON: Truck drivers in the Midlands cially those with skills in short supply in areas region of England have not been this busy for such as engineering, construction and cater- six years, but there’s little sign of it in their ing. pockets. It’s a theme repeated across the “We’ve got clients down on the south coast country, as workers’ pay has failed to reflect of England who are asking for chefs to move Britain’s surprisingly strong economic recov- from Scotland, from Wales, from Ireland, from ery. “There is an absolutely huge shortage of northern England,” said Fraser McLeod, man- drivers in the Midlands,” said Neil Renwick, 46, aging director of recruitment firm Blue Arrow. a self-employed driver of 44-tonne vehicles That kind of scramble for talent led to the who has been crisscrossing Britain for nearly biggest increase in almost 17 years in starting 30 years. salaries for new staff in June, and almost as He said he was getting 10 notifications of large a rise in July, according to the work each day as retailers, which use the Recruitment and Employment Confederation Midlands as their distribution base, try to keep (REC). Growth like that would normally trans- up with rising demand in one of the world’s late into average pay growth among all work- fastest-growing rich-world economies. “But it’s ers of about 4 percent a year, but this time the very difficult to get your wages up because link has broken down, said Samuel Tombs, an everyone is cutting each other’s throats for economist at consultancy Capital Economics. the work,” Renwick said as he neared home in Kevin Green, REC’s chief executive, is mak- Leicester after a day on the roads. ing no predictions for when the strength in The best rate he can find of 13 pounds starting salaries will be seen in the broader ($22) an hour is about the same he was earn- earnings figures. ing 10 years ago. “I can’t see my rate going up “Historically there has been a lag in previ- for the next year and a half or two years to be ous recessions,” Green said. “But this one honest,” Renwick said. “If I charge too much, seems to be more pronounced.” I’m not going to get the work.” After years in the doldrums following a BoE on wage watch severe 2008-09 recession, Britain’s economy It’s not just workers who are anxious to recently clawed its way back to where it was know when their pay will start to rise. The before the financial crisis. This year it is likely Bank of England is increasingly focused on to grow more than 3 percent and by almost as earnings growth as it weighs up whether the much in 2015. But stagnant wages have so far British economy is strong enough to cope confounded forecasts that this year would see with an interest rate hike. It said as recently as the start of a turnaround in living standards - a May that average weekly earnings would phenomenon that may be decisive in delaying grow by 2.5 percent in 2014, a figure that now interest rate hikes by the Bank of England. looks too optimistic and is likely to be lowered Real wages are still about 6 percent below on Wednesday when the BoE publishes its lat- their 2009 level, according to the National est projections for the economy. Institute of Social and Economic Research, A Reuters poll published on Friday showed which does not expect the lost ground to be economists expect earnings to rise 1.4 percent recovered until around 2018. this year, followed by 2.9 percent in 2015. Yet the BoE’s policymakers are increasingly split Electoral liability over the risks that wage pressures might push It’s not just in Britain that wages have been up inflation soon. weak. US wages rose by 2 percent over the Some at the Bank think the slow pay past year, a touch less than inflation. German growth is little more than an unusually slow workers endured a decade of wage restraint response to the sharp fall in British unemploy- before getting above-average pay hikes in the ment and that the record number of people in past year, and Germany’s central bank has tak- work could mean the labor market is about to en the highly unusual step of calling for high- heat up. er wage settlements. But in Britain, pay has Others say there has been a major change been particularly stubborn, giving Prime in the labor market that means more people Minister David Cameron a problem ahead of a will be looking for work and a long-awaited national election in May next year. recovery in the productivity of British workers Late last year, the opposition Labor party will finally materialize, easing inflation risks. briefly toned down its criticism of falling living A former BoE rate-setter urged the Bank standards - central to its claim that the recov- not to try to snuff out inflationary pressures ery is not helping ordinary Britons - because it just as they start to build. “If we raise rates pre- was sure that wages were finally about to rise. maturely and abort a recovery, the costs ... are In fact, average weekly earnings - the most much higher than the costs of waiting just a widely watched measure of pay - did not grow little bit and seeing tangible signs of wages at all in cash terms between January and May, picking up from very low levels,” said Sushil the latest month for which data is available. Wadhwani. Data this week could show earnings actually For Britain’s truck drivers, at least, there are fell in the April-June period, partly because a some hints that wages will grow later this cut in income taxes last year had distorted the year. Michael Cooper, a specialist recruiter, comparison by changing the timing of bonus said an existing shortfall in drivers was likely payments. to get worse from September. That is when In the face of such weak numbers, the Bank retailers start to transport more goods ahead of England looks set to revise down its fore- of the end-of-year holiday season and when casts for pay growth on Wednesday, raising new training requirements kick in, possibly fresh questions about when it will start to preventing some drivers from taking to the raise record-low interest rates. At the finance roads or prompting others to retire. ministry, officials point out that weak pay Rates for drivers who are now on about 9 growth has been partly offset by growing tax- pounds an hour were likely to go up by one free allowances for earners. They also say dif- or two pounds and possibly by as much as ferent, private sector surveys might paint a five, said Cooper, a director at The Best more accurate picture than the official num- Connection Group, one of the largest suppli- bers. ers of temporary drivers in Britain. “I can’t see Those surveys have suggested that earn- rates of pay going anywhere other than up,” ings are picking up for some workers, espe- he said. — Reuters BUSINESS MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 Kuwait to score KD 13bn actual surplus for 2013/2014

AL-SHALL WEEKLY ECONOMIC REPORT

KUWAIT: By the end of July 2014, the first occupying the 5th position among gainers third of the current fiscal year 2014/2015 end- after the Indian market which achieved 22.3 ed and oil prices are still above $100 per bar- percent gains since the beginning of the rel level for the 13th consecutive month since year. It shared the 5th position with the July 2013. Oil prices continue to receive sup- Bahraini market. This positive performance in port from the geopolitical developments like general of the regional markets which was the events in Iraq, Libya and Ukraine, which associated with negative performance of do not seem to end shortly. The lowest price other main markets resorted the positions in for oil recorded in July scored about $103.7 favor of the regional markets 7 of which were per barrel on July 15 and the highest price among the 8 advanced positions of the sam- scored $108.2 per barrel recorded on July 2, ple, with only one penetration for the Indian 2014 (Source: KPC). The average price for the market. Kuwait price index remains an Kuwaiti oil during July was $105.8 per barrel. exception in the negative zone. Therefore, the average Kuwaiti oil price for The gap between the weighted and the the first third of the current fiscal year scored price indexes remained constant. While the $104.7 per barrel which is still $29.7 per bar- weighted index added about 2.6 percent in rel, 39.6 percent, higher than the new hypo- July to its gains achieving 6.4 percent gains thetical price estimated for the current budg- compared with the beginning of the year, et at $75 per barrel and is $4 per barrel high- the price index achieved in July 2.3 percent er, or by 4 percent, than the average price for gains to reduce its losses which were at 7.7 the first third of last fiscal year 2013/2014 percent in the end of June to 5.5 percent in which was $100.7 per barrel. The average the end of last July. This means the Kuwaiti price for the last fiscal year 2013/2014, which market achieved weak performance com- ended in the end of last March, scored an pared with the performance of the losing average oil price by $103.5 per barrel. Kuwait regional markets in June and was the fourth is supposed to have achieved oil revenues in loser then. More important still is the contin- July in the amount of KD 2.6 billion. ued shrinkage of market liquidity compared Assuming production and prices would with last year and compared with June and continue at their present levels -an assump- before. tion which may not become true- it is expect- We do not anticipate active performance ed that the value of potential oil revenues for in August. The markets which achieved big the entire current fiscal year would score gains in the region are assumed to be quiet about KD 30.5 billion, which is higher by and those which lost, main markets, will about KD 11.7 billion than the revenues esti- remain under pressures of due correction. mated for the budget. Adding some KD 2.2 Therefore, it is likely that August perform- billion in non-oil revenues, in accordance ance will be closer to the horizontal than to with the actual collection for last fiscal year either the positive or the negative. but not the estimated for the current fiscal year, total budget revenues for the current fis- AUB financial results cal year would score KD 32.7 billion. Ahli United Bank announced its results for Comparing this figure with the adjusted the first half of the current year, which indi- expenditures allocations of about KD 21.8 bil- cate the bank achieved net profits, after lion and if we assume 9 percent saving as in deducting taxes, of about KD 25.3 million, up fiscal year 2012/2013, total actual expendi- by KD 1.7 million, or by 7.1 percent, (KD 23.7 tures would be about KD 19.8 billion. million for the same period 2013) due to the Therefore, the general budget for the fiscal rise in operational incomes by more than the year 2014/2015 would likely score surplus rise in the total operational expenditures. close to last year and it will be the 16th fiscal The bank’s total operations incomes year in a row which achieves surplus. Kuwait increased to KD 53.4 million, up by KD 7.1 is supposed to have achieved about KD 13 million, or by 15.5 percent, compared with billion actual surplus for the fiscal year KD 46.2 million in the same period last year. 2013/2014. This rise resulted from the rise in net financ- ing incomes by KD 3.7 million, or by 10.2 per- KSE liquidity features cent, to KD 40.5 million (KD 36.8 million for Market liquidity during July 2014 (18 the same period in 2013). It is also due to the working days) achieved a daily trading value rise in the net gains on sale of investments by KD 13.7 million, a drop by -31.6 percent by about KD 3.9 million to KD 4.4 million (KD below the daily trading average value in the 448 thousand for the same period 2013). On preceding month of June 2014. the other hand, item of share of results from Compared with the average daily trading an associate scored loss by KD 158 thousand value for July 2013, liquidity dropped by vis-a-vis profit by KD 650,000. about -56.2 percent. The market added about On the other hand, total operational KD 246.8 million liquidity during last month expenditures increased by less than the rise pushing the market liquidity in seven months in total operations incomes and rose by KD to KD 3.625 billion. Market liquidity is still 611,000, 4.1 percent, to KD 15.6 million (KD characterized by sustained drop until now. 15 million in the first half 2013). This was due Utilizing the same measurement tool, ie, to a rise in staff costs by about KD 674,000 to monitoring the share of the top 30 compa- KD 9.6 million (KD 9 million in the same peri- nies from trading value, we notice a notice- od last year). Total provisions increased by able drop in liquidity deviation despite its KD 4.8 million, 74.2 percent, to KD 11.3 mil- unjustifiable continuity. They captured lion (KD 6.5 million for the same period KD2.531 billion, or by 69 percent, of market 2013). Therefore, the net profit margin liquidity and represented about 60.8 percent dropped to 47.5 percent (51.2 percent in the of its total capital value. Speculative compa- same period 2013). nies within the sample were 19 companies The bank’s total assets scored about KD which captured about 26.7 percent of total 3.571 billion, up by 12.8 percent (KD 3.165 market trading value, ie KD 968.2 million, or billion in the end of 2013). The increase was by 6.4 percent of the total value of market by 19.5 percent when compared with KD companies. 2.988 billion total assets in the first half of This low concentration rate on specula- 2013. Item of financing receivables rose by tion companies extended to their shares KD 321.4 million, 15 percent, to KD 2.462 bil- turnover average, though they remained lion (69 percent of total assets) when com- high. The turnover average of all market pared with KD 2.141 billion in the end of companies continued weak at about 11.4 December 2013 (67.6 percent of total assets). percent until July (19.5 percent calculated on It also increased by KD 453.5 million, or by an annual basis) and weak even for the 30 22.6 percent, when compared with the same companies sample, the highest in liquidity at period in 2013 when they scored KD 2.009 about 13.1 percent (22.5 percent on annual billion (67.2 percent of total assets). Item of basis), ie scored about 48 percent for the 19 deposits with other banks and financial insti- companies (82.3 percent on annual basis). tutions increased by KD 32.6 million to KD The highest turnover average for one of the 316.3 million (8.9 percent of total assets), or companies within these scored around 486.8 by 11.5 percent, compared with KD 283.7 percent, about 388.1 percent for the second million in December 2013, (9 percent of total highest, and 335.9 percent for the third high- assets). When we compared with the its est. Despite their high rise if calculated on amount in the same period last year by KD annual basis remain much lower than the 122.2 million, (4.1 percent of total assets), it turnover average of this sample of compa- increased by KD 194.1 million, about 158.8 nies in 2013 which is a healthy development percent. if it continues. Most of it is due to the Capital Figures indicate that the bank liabilities markets Authority’s strict measures in chas- (without including the total equities) ing bogus trading. increased by KD 404.7 million, 14.2 percent, and scored KD 3.247 billion (KD 2.842 billion Comparative performance in the end of 2013) and increased by KD for selected stock markets 558.1 million, 20.8 percent growth rate, com- Performance of the sample markets in pared with the total in the end of the first July came within our expectations and was half of last year. positive in general. Indexes of 10 out of 14 Results of analyzing the bank’s financial markets were gainers, some of which were statements calculated on annual basis com- very high, while 4 were losers. Because most pared with the same period 2013 indicate of the losers were at the lower edge of the that the return on average bank capital index positive zone, three other markets fell into (ROC) dropped to 37.1 percent 38.1 percent the negative zone making their total at 6 in first half of 2013). The return on average compared with their levels in the beginning bank assets index (ROA) also dropped to 1.5 of the year (3 markets in the end of June). percent (1.7 percent in the end of the first The six markets in the negative zone are all half of 2013). While the return on average main ones after the fall of the German, US equities relevant to the bank shareholder and French markets. Five of them achieved index (ROE) achieved slight increase and high gains until the end of 2013. But the talk scored 16.4 percent (16.3 percent in June now about lifting the interest rate, the with- 2013). EPS increased to 19.7 fils (18 fils in the drawal of quantitative facilitation, and the same period 2013). Price multiplier/to the warning from stocks bubble led to an early earnings per share (P/E) scored 20.8 times drop, maybe healthy. (16 times in the same period last year). Price The biggest winner in July was Dubai multiplier/to book value (P/B) scored 2.8 market by adding 22.6 percent gains in one times (3.3 times in 2013). month pushing its gains since the beginning of the year to 43.4 percent and making it The weekly performance of KSE take the lead though it was the biggest loser The performance of Kuwait Stock in June. The second biggest gainer in July, Exchange (KSE) for the last week was more which was the biggest loser in June, was the active, where all indexes showed an increase, Qatari market which added 12.1 percent in the traded value index, the traded volume one month making its gains since the begin- index, the transactions index, and the gener- ning of the year at 24.1 percent and became al index showed an increase, AlShall Index the second biggest gainer since the begin- (value index) closed at 497.7 points at the ning of the year. The third gainer in July, closing of last Thursday, showing an increase which was the third biggest loser in June, of 8.6 points or about 1.8 percent compared was Abu Dhabi market which added 11.1 to the end of the previous week, and an percent in one month promoting its gains increase of 43 points or about 9.5 percent since the year beginning to 17.8 percent and compared to the end of 2013. MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 BUSINESS UK’s Lillywhites makes ME debut with Kuwait entry

KUWAIT: Elite Brands for General cated sections for the racquets, Lillywhites’ will be carrying inter- Trading (a member of the Al-Homaizi home gyms and football. Following national brands in their outlets that Group), one of Kuwait’s leading retail the Kuwait launch, Elite Brands will cater to both sports enthusiasts as companies, announced yesterday drive the Lillywhites Middle East well as those who lean towards a that it has signed a franchise agree- expansion by opening stores in oth- more casual lifestyle. Among the ment for the Middle East expansion er countries across the Middle East. brands that will be carried in the out- of the legacy British sportswear store Al-Homaizi Group Vice Chairman lets are: Nike, Adidas, Puma, Reebok, Lillywhites, the largest sports store in Saleh Al Homaizi said, “Customers in EA7, Speedo, Everlast, Giant, Trek, the world. Kuwait will soon experience first Head, Dunlop, Spalding, Mikasa, With a flagship store in Piccadilly hand a store loved by UK customers Skilz and Ketler. Lillywhites is still the UK, Lillywhites is one of London’s and visitors from across the world for UK’s oldest, finest and the world’s most famous shopping outlet and is over 150 years. We are thrilled about largest sports store. With almost 150 also the oldest sports store in the being selected as the chosen part- years of experience, Lillywhites offers Film star Kajal Aggarwal inaugurating the 117th showroom of Malabar Gold world established in 1863. ners in the Middle East and look for- premium sports equipment, trainers Lillywhites will make its Middle ward to a long partnership with and sports wear. Lillywhites is the & Diamonds at Bhimavaram, Andhra. Also seen, Malabar Group Executive East debut in Kuwait through three Lillywhites.” world’s number one destination for Director - Asher O, Regional Head - Siraj PK and guests. retail stores to be launched in the Lillywhites CEO Dave Forsey said, sporting goods and attracts celebri- last week of August. The stores are “We’ve chosen Elite Brands as our ties and tourists alike. Malabar Gold & Diamonds geographically distributed in key partners to drive our expansion into Elite Brands for General Trading, a locations across the country, while the Middle East market for their track member of the Al Homaizi Group is a the brand’s 20,000 square foot flag- record in managing and growing Kuwait-based sports retailer. Elite launches its 117th ship store will be located in Kuwait’s sports stores, and for their commit- Brands also operates Sports Box and shopping landmark The Avenues ment towards customer service. We Sports Direct, two sports brands showroom in Andhra Al-Homaizi Group Vice Mall and will be one of the Kuwait’s look forward to growing the catering to different market seg- Chairman Saleh Al-Homaizi largest footwear outlets with dedi- Lillywhites brand with Elite Brands”. ments. alabar Gold & Diamonds, the lead- region before setting up business. Wedding ing jewelry retailer has unveiled rituals, festivals, ornamental preferences, Mtheir brand new showroom in are all looked into and we ensure that the Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh as a part of jewellery is not only innovate and trendy, strengthening its presence in South India. but also region specific and occasion spe- The world class showroom located in Dr cific, to cater to the ethnic taste and social Vijaya Babu Plaza, Juvvalapalem Road was preferences endemic to the region. inaugurated on August 3 by Malabar Gold Precisely this is the reason why we could & Diamonds brand celebrity, filmstar Kajal successfully expand the network to differ- Aggarwal, in the presence of Asher O, ent regions, each with its unique cultural, Group Executive Director, Malabar Group, religious and social fabric,” said M P other directors, personalities from media Ahammed, Chairman, Malabar Group. “ In and well wishers. our vision to be the No 1 brand in the The focus of Malabar Gold & Diamonds world in the realm of gift & value appreciat- has always been on providing an impres- ing articles, we will not only widen our geo- sive range of choice for jewellery cus- graphical presence but also explore niche tomers who seek the best value for money. product categories that will appeal to the Their true strength is the shopping experi- global youth”, the Chairman added. ence, with appealing stores staffed by Malabar Gold & Diamonds’ value-added friendly and knowledgeable staff who help services include lifelong free maintenance customers in making effortless purchase and buy-back guarantee for all its orna- decisions. The store showcases the exclu- ments. Apart from being a successful busi- sive range of Malabar Gold & Diamonds ness entity, Malabar Group has always been sub brands: Mine - Diamonds Unlimited, in the forefront of social responsibility ini- Era - Uncut Diamond Jewellery, Precia - tiatives. Malabar Gold & Diamonds ear- Precious Gem Jewellery, Divine - Indian marks a distinct share of its annual profit Heritage Jewellery, Ethnix - Handcrafted for CSR activities in the field of health, edu- designer Jewellery and Starlet - Kids’ cation, housing, environmental conserva- Jewellery. tion and women’s empowerment. “Malabar Gold & Diamonds has been In the words of the Chairman, MP warmly received by the jewellery lovers of Ahammed, Malabar Group instills social Andhra and Telangana regions. Malabar responsible thinking and believes in giving Gold & Diamonds conducts in depth analy- back to the society by making a difference sis of the jewellery tradition of a particular in human lives. China and India manufacturing build-up Al-Tijari announces winners KCIC ASIA ECONOMIC REPORT of Najma Account daily draw KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait mega prizes during the year worth KD By Camille Accad economies, represented by the US, Europe and involved, and hence have helped stimulate the held the Al-Najma Account Daily draw on 100,000 each on different occasions: The Japan, have imported goods at the fastest rate in manufacturing sector. The strength in manufac- August 10, 2013. The draw was held National Day, Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha and ompared with last year, emerging Asia is more than two years in the last three months. turing is also heavily related to the improved under the supervision of the Ministry of on the 19th of June which is the date of less vulnerable to external risks. The US The increased demand by advanced economies American and European demand, which were Commerce & Industry represented by the bank’s establishment. With a mini- CFederal Reserve began to taper its QE3 has helped boost emerging Asia’s exports, and China’s two largest export destinations in the Saquer Al-Manaie. mum balance of KD500, customers will program at the start of the year without causing hence its manufacturing sector. second quarter of this year. be eligible for the daily draw provided any major havoc, and large trade deficit coun- The latest purchasing managers’ index (PMI) India faces a different situation. Although The winners of the Najma daily draw are: that the money is in the account one tries, the ones most affected last year following results confirm the robustness of the manufac- both its manufacturing and services sectors l Bader Yonas Al-Majade — KD 7000 week prior to the daily draw or 2 months the tapering announcement, fared well this year. turing sector in the two largest emerging Asian embarked on a similar path as China’s in July, l Mohammed Hussain Al-Bandar — KD 7000 prior to the mega draw. In addition, for India and Indonesia’s currencies are both up economies. The PMI is an index composed from India’s business cycle is at a different stage. The l Nada Eissa Al-Hasawi — KD 7000 each KD 25 a customer can get one year-to-date, as well as for the majority of Asia, data based on monthly questionnaires regard- victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in May, l Ahmed Abdulaziz Mohammed — KD 7000 chance for winning instead of KD 50. which all depreciated in 2013 with the exception ing business conditions answered by purchasing led by charismatic Narendra Modi, has created a l Bodour Khaleel Al-Qallaf — KD 7000. Commercial Bank of Kuwait takes this of China and South Korea. Overall, stock markets executives in different sectors. A reading above sense of euphoria among businesses and The Commercial Bank of Kuwait opportunity to congratulate all lucky across the region have been buoyant, already 50 would indicate a higher number of respon- investors in India. 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MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 technology Split views on robots’ IT outsourcing boom raises employment benefits hard-hit Bulgaria’s hopes WASHINGTON: In 2025, self-driving cars included research scientists and a range could be the norm, people could have of others, from business leaders to jour- more leisure time and goods could nalists. become cheaper. Or, there could be Respondents in this latest survey Bulgaria needs to develop aggressive marketing strategy chronic unemployment and an even generally agreed that the education sys- SOFIA: Excellent IT and language skills have wider income gap, human interaction tem is failing to teach the skills that stu- helped Bulgaria’s outsourcing sector boom, rais- could become a luxury and the wealthy dents need for the future. Smith said ing hopes that it could prop up the badly stag- could live in walled cities with robots serv- some survey respondents criticized the nating economy of the EU’s poorest country. ing as labor. Or, very little could change. system for promoting memorization of After a timid start 15 years ago, the Balkan coun- A new survey released Wednesday by tasks rather than creativity, teaching a try is now a hub for information technology and the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project “Henry Ford education for a Mark back-office outsourcing. As well as call centers, and Elon University’s Imagining the Zuckerberg economy.” firms offering software and web development, Internet Center found that, when asked Also, Smith said, some respondents data services and technical support are attract- about the impact of artificial intelligence concluded that jobs that don’t require ing business from foreign companies finding it on jobs, nearly 1,900 experts and other specifically human traits - such as empa- cheaper to sub-contract abroad. respondents were divided over what to thy, ingenuity or resourcefulness - are at Growth in the sector has rocketed at up to 25 expect 11 years from now. Forty-eight risk for being replaced, including low-skill percent annually in recent years, helping percent said robots would kill more jobs blue collar jobs or even white-collar jobs Bulgaria’s economy to rebound to growth of 0.9 than they create, and 52 percent said that have people performing repetitive percent in 2013 after shrinking 5.0 percent in technology will create more jobs than it tasks. Respondents offered a few theories 2009. The 22,000 people employed in outsourc- destroys. about what might happen if artificial intel- ing generated up to three percent of Bulgaria’s Respondents also varied widely when ligence takes over some positions and gross domestic product in 2013, according to asked to elaborate on their expectations fewer jobs are created. the Bulgarian Outsourcing Association, with of jobs in the next decade. Some said that Judith Donath, a fellow at Harvard’s turnover of more than one billion leva (510 mil- self-driving cars would be common, elimi- Berkman Center for Internet and Society, lion euros, $685 million). nating taxi cab and long-haul truck driv- foresees chronic mass unemployment The industry profits from top-quality IT spe- ers. Some said that we should expect the with the wealthy living in “walled cities, cialists, as well as the wide range of over 20 lan- wealthy to live in seclusion, using robot with robots providing the labor.” Some guages other than English taught in Bulgarian labor. Others were more conservative, respondents see people returning to high schools and universities. “Bulgaria ranks SOFIA: Employees work in a call center in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. — AFP cautioning that technology never moves small-scale, handmade production, and third worldwide in the number of certified soft- quite as fast as people expect and an appreciation would grow for products ware engineers and first in the number of IT spe- er foreign outsourcing giants have also bought potential to do some work, it does not come to humans aren’t so easily replaceable. with the “human touch.” Others thought cialists per capita,” Deputy Economy Minister local firms. A number of global players have also you. It goes to whoever is better known,” Bumov “We consistently underestimate the people could also face abundant leisure, Krasin Dimitrov told a recent outsourcing confer- set up shop in Bulgaria including Adecco, IBM said. intelligence and complexity of human allowing them to pursue their personal ence in Sofia. Excellent Internet and telecommu- and Sutherland. Coca Cola HBC opened its own The Bulgarian boom has also caused a severe beings,” said Jonathan Grudin, principal interests. Stowe Boyd, lead analyst on the nication services, as well as a pre-crisis surge in back-office services centre in Sofia in 2005 and is personnel shortage, with companies resorting to researcher at Microsoft, who recalls that future of work at Gigaom Research, said if, high-quality office real estate, have also con- now serving 26 countries from here. It was fol- stealing each other’s IT specialists as more and 40 years ago, people said that advances in as he predicts, widespread joblessness tributed to the boom. lowed by Hewlett-Packard, which opened a more of them find better-paid jobs abroad. computer-coding language were going to comes to pass, humanity would have to global delivery centre in 2006 and picked Finding experienced high-level managers is a kill programming jobs. Even as technolo- confront its deeper purpose. “The funda- Jobs could triple Bulgaria as one of its six “delivery hubs” in 2010. particular headache, senior executives say, gy removed jobs such as secretaries and mental question lurking behind all of this According to outsourcing association chair- But Kerry Hallard of Britain’s National although the industry has already started work- operators, it created brand new jobs, is ‘what are people for?’” Boyd said. man Stefan Bumov, the burgeoning industry has Outsourcing Association said most investors ing with universities to train the extra employees including Web marketing, Grudin said. For this survey, Pew posed closed- and the potential to employ two or even three times would still pick Bangalore over Bulgaria, which it needs. And, as Grudin and other survey respon- open-ended questions to technology more people-a promising prospect in a country still suffers from a “very low profile as an out- “Outsourcing offers the best start-up jobs for ders noted, 11 years isn’t much time for experts - researchers, futurist and tech where more than a quarter of youngsters are sourcing destination”. newly qualified graduates. Salaries are 40-50 significant changes to take place, anyway. developers - and other interested parties, unemployed. “The demand for this type of serv- percent above the country average of 400 euros Aaron Smith, senior researcher with including writers and business leaders, ices is set to grow and we could double-and why Raising Bulgaria’s profile and a top IT specialist can earn up to 3,000 euros the Pew Research Center’s Internet about how far they expect robots and arti- not even triple-the industry in the next two to Bulgaria ranked 17th in the latest AT Kerney a month,” Industry Watch economist Georgy Project, said the results were unusually ficial intelligence to grow, and what the three years,” Bumov told AFP. global services location index, while India usual- Stoev said. Expanding the talent pool by setting divided. He noted that in similar Pew sur- impact will be on jobs by 2025. The study His company Sofica Group started with 30 ly takes the top spot. Exports say Bulgaria’s sec- up more outsourcing centers in university towns veys about the Internet over the past 12 was not representative of a particular people in 2007 and has grown to become the tor needs government help to develop a more outside Sofia, which hosts 90 percent of the years, there tended to be general consen- group of experts, only of those who chose largest home-grown player in the sector, with aggressive marketing strategy and raise its pro- companies, and encouraging more students to sus among the respondents, which to respond. — AP more than 900 employees. In March it was file. “This is an export-orientated business and if return after studying broad are other options to snapped up by US-based firm Teletech, and oth- your name is not known, even if you have the help boost growth, Stoev added. — AFP Cultural changes in attitude towards TV NEW YORK: Manjula Stokes has twice sworn off televi- sion, once throwing a set off her deck in a fit over an ex- husband’s sports obsession. Now she’s a devotee of pro- grams like “Downton Abbey,” “Mad Men,” and “Survivor” The teacher from Santa Cruz, California, illustrates a sub- tle change in society’s attitude toward television. The medium is growing in stature, propelled by both art and technology. More worthy programs are available at a time when viewers are becoming more comfortable setting up their own schedules to watch. “I feel it’s more like reading a good book,” Stokes said. “The acting is better, the direc- tion is better. I think it’s more serious as an art form.” A CBS survey of 700 people in the US with Internet and television connections last year found that 28 per- cent said they’re watching more television than they did a year ago. Seventeen percent say they’re watching less, with the remainder indicating their habits are unchanged. That may not seem like much, but there’s a long history of people saying they are watching, or plan to watch, less TV - even as Nielsen measurements proved SALT LAKE CITY: Visitors walk next to a large display at the Outdoor Retailer’s sum- SALT LAKE CITY: Brad Brochocki, of EnerPlex, powers his cell phone as he stands in the opposite is true. In other words, liking television is mer show in Utah. — AP photos front of a display of EnerPlex Packr Series solar charging backpacks. becoming more socially acceptable. “You can go to a sophisticated party in New York City now and people will be talking about television program- Outdoor enthusiasts use gadgets to stay plugged in ming, not the latest art film or the latest play,” said David Poltrack, CBS’ veteran chief researcher. “You can go to a SALT LAKE CITY: It used to be that outdoor enthusiasts el from 1,300 vendors ranging from mega companies like Lifeproof makes a series of rugged cellphone cases that bar in a lower socio-economic neighborhood and they’ll went into the wilderness to unplug. Now, most want to Patagonia and Columbia to well as smaller, unknown busi- includes one that is waterproof floats that costs about $80. be talking about television. They may be talking about stay plugged in to their electronic devices as long as they nesses. All are trying to gain a foothold in the lucrative out- At the company’s booth, a man wearing a helmet, life jacket different programs, but they’ll be talking about televi- sion.” Now, for every award-winning drama there’s a series can. As a result, companies are catering to hikers, bikers, door recreation industry that attracts an estimated $646 and swim suit had the floating case with a cellphone inside about botched plastic surgeries, naked dating or skiers and paddle boarders by making an expanding num- billion annually from consumers, according to the Outdoor dangling around his neck while he simulated being on a Kardashians. Industry Association. paddle board in the water. Brunton, a company based in ber of products that protect smartphones from hard falls More than one, truthfully. But the push among cable and water and keep electronic devices charged up for as At the EnerPlex booth, salesmen were showing off a Boulder, Colorado, specializes in portable devices that networks during the past decade to make their own origi- many hours as possible. new line of backpacks that have a 3-watt solar panel with a charge up electronics. They’ve made a line of hydrogen-fuel nal series has significantly increased the amount of quali- One company has made a backpack with a built-in solar USB port embedded. They will be sold for $130 to $250, cell based chargers that cost $169 and this year are unveil- ty programs. For years, polls uncovered a certain shame- panel that charges a phone while a person hikes up the based on the size of the solar panel. The smaller one ing a $49 battery that attaches to GoPro wearable cameras ful attitude toward watching television. When asked in mountain. Another makes a portable battery that attaches charges a smartphone in three hours, said Brad Brochocki, that doubles how long the camera stays charged. “It’s not 2000 how much time they spent watching TV the previ- to the widely-popular GoPro helmet camera and doubles of EnerPlex, based in Thornton, Colorado. “These bags can just being outdoors and eating s’mores and going for a ous day, 84 percent of respondents told the Pew Research how long it stays charged. A wide array of cases and be kicked, they can get wet, and they will continue to oper- hike, they want their downtime to consist of what they do Center it was less than four hours. That didn’t jibe with devices that protect phones and tablets, including several ate,” Brochocki said. at home,” Kaihatu said. “Bringing e-readers, surfing the net, the Nielsen company’s finding that the average American that float. talking to their friends and updating their social media. You that year watched four hours, 15 minutes of television a Hydrogen-fuel cell based chargers have to deliver power to them in a reliable format.” day. Excess energy A biomass cooking stove made by BioLite that uses dry Whether it’s for safety, social media, pictures or videos, “In order to enjoy the outdoors it used to be a just a nap twigs and pine combs to heat up also produces 2.5 watts everybody wants their smartphones with them no matter Cutting back on TV time sack and some freeze dried food,” said Walter Kaihatu of of excess energy that can be used to power phones and where they are, said company representatives at the A Gallup poll in 1990 found 49 percent of people said Brunton, a company that makes portable battery chargers. other devices in a USB port built in, said company repre- show. “They want to be able to take pictures, they want to they spent too much time watching television. Only 19 “Now, people are bringing $5,000 to $10,000 worth of sentative Adrian Caponera. It retails for about $130, he be able to take video, do the things that they do in their percent said they watched too little. Nine years ago when equipment with them into the outdoors.” The latest gadg- said. Loksak sells sealable bags of all sizes for phones and normal, everyday life, but they want to do if they are CBS began its annual survey, more people said they were ets are on display this week in Salt Lake City at the world’s tablets that keep devices safe while allowing a person to mountain biking or climbing a mountain,” said Jim cutting back on TV time. This year, Nielsen estimates the largest outdoor-gear trade show. The biannual expo brings still use the touch screens. A three pack of the phone-size Silvestri, president of Summit Distribution based in East average American watches four hours, 50 minutes of TV a 25,000 people to Utah to browse the latest gear and appar- bags costs $8.50. Norwich, New York. — AP day. “I think the quality is better,” said Yael Chanoff, a 25- year-old writer from San Francisco. She’s a fan of smart US names test site for small drones comedies like NBC’s “Parks & Recreation.” Many older shows Chanoff has seen, even hits like “Friends,” strike her WASHINGTON: The Federal Aviation surge in popularity for UAVs and their varied as clichÈ-ridden. Some better shows now have an atten- Administration (FAA) announced Thursday a fifth potential uses. Rome is south of rural Jefferson tion to detail that reminds Stokes, who is 59, of work test site for small drones, as it continues to ham- County, New York, where sheriffs working a bur- done by the MGM movie studio during the last century. mer out regulations for their use in US airspace. glary case have acknowledged the help of a local Cory Phare, a 33-year-old academic conference director In a statement, the FAA said researchers at Griffiss drone start-up in finding stolen guns beneath a from Denver, said he grew up watching a lot of television airport in Rome, upstate New York would focus body of water. but drifted away. The ability to binge on well-written dra- on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, “They said they had a bit of an odd request,” mas like “Breaking Bad,” “The Americans” and “Dexter” in agricultural applications. They will fly a recalled Amanda DesJardins, who founded through Netflix drew him back in. He just finished going PrecisionHawk Lancaster Platform UAV, a remote- Horizon Aerial Media Services in Glen Park, New back to watch the entire run of “The West Wing.” controlled airplane that has a four-foot (1.2 York earlier this year with husband Jason, in a meter) wingspan, weighs three pounds (1.35 telephone interview with AFP. Flying a grid pat- Ad spending to be hit kilograms) and carries a 2.2-pound payload. tern, 15 meters (five feet) off the surface, “Even when I’m on a lunch break, I pull it up on my “The safe integration of unmanned aircraft Horizon’s camera-equipped Phantom 2 Vision+ smartphone,” he said. That’s another key to television’s into the national airspace is our number one quadracopter pinpointed the loot “within half resurgence. Viewers no longer depend on prime-time priority, but the agricultural research per- an hour,” she said. The Phantom 2 is among the schedules set up in Hollywood boardrooms; they don’t formed in Rome also may have far-reaching most popular small drones on the market today. even have to depend on television. Stokes, Chanoff and benefits to farmers in New York and across With a built-in camera, it sells for about $1,200. Phare all consider themselves fans of modern-day TV, and the nation,” said Transportation Secretary “When we spotted something, we could tell none of them have cable or satellite subscriptions. Anthony Foxx. FAA is authorizing six locations (investigators) where to go and look so they did- “My friends all watch it on computer,” Chanoff said. in the United States to test how small, low-fly- n’t have to go traipsing through everything,” said She finds a friend with cable to watch “Parks & ing drones can safely operate within busy DesJardins, adding that Horizon undertook the Recreation,” the only show she cares to watch live. American skies, as it continues to draft a com- mission for free. In Washington, the FAA is cur- Television continues on firm footing financially, despite prehensive set of rules to govern their use. rently considering 22 petitions for exemption the rise of digital video outlets like Netflix and YouTube. Other sites announced so far are in Alaska, from its ban on commercial drone-flying, filed The research firm eMarketer Inc predicted TV ad spend- Nevada, North Dakota and Texas. Pending regu- by film-makers, surveyors, pipeline patrollers LOS ANGELES: Tara, the YouTube sensation “Hero Cat” is seen at the No Bull 2014 ing will hit $78.6 billion in 2018, up from $66.4 billion lations, the FAA says flying drones for commercial and a real estate agent, among others, an FAA Teen Video Awards at The Westin Hotel on Saturday, August 9, 2014 in Los Angeles, last year. — AP gain without its approval is prohibited-despite a spokesman told AFP. — AFP California. — AP MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Battle to contain Ebola intensifies Nigeria seeking volunteers • India scrambles to slap measures LAGOS: The battle to contain the deadly Ebola confirmed cases had stemmed from. Beyond the outbreak continued yesterday, after Nigeria epicenter of the epidemic, countries as far away appealed for volunteers to help halt the spread as India were also taking action. Airports in the of the virus but Guinea went back on a state- Asian country of 1.25 billion people went on ment it was shutting its land borders with two of alert and the government opened an emergency its neighbors. A day after the World Health helpline on Saturday. Organization declared the epidemic an interna- India, the world’s second most populous tional health emergency, countries as far afield country, has nearly 45,000 nationals living in the as India were scrambling to impose measures to four Ebola-affected West African nations, and prevent contagion of the virus which has health officials said there was a possibility of claimed almost 1,000 lives. some returning to their home country if the out- The UN health agency stopped short of call- break worsens. ing for global travel restrictions, but some coun- India’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said in a tries on Saturday began imposing bans. Zambia statement that his country has “put in operation announced that it was denying entry to citizens the most advanced surveillance and tracking sys- from countries hit by the virus, while Chad sus- tems” for the haemorrhagic virus. pended all flights from Nigeria. Nigeria along “There is no need to panic,” Vardhan said, call- with Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are the ing the risk of Ebola cases in India “low”. hardest hit countries by the epidemic, which the WHO has called the worst in four decades. ‘No need to panic’ Authorities in Lagos, the largest city in Africa’s Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan most populous country, said they needed volun- warned against spreading false information teers because of a shortage of medical person- about Ebola “which can lead to mass hysteria, nel. panic and misdirection, including unverified sug- “I won’t lie about that,” Lagos state health gestions about prevention, treatment, cure and commissioner Jide Idris said on television, as the spread of the virus.” city, home to some 20 million people confirmed Local media reported on Saturday that two nine cases of Ebola, including two deaths. people had died in Nigeria’s central Plateau state In Guinea, the government had announced and about 20 have been hospitalized after they that it was temporarily closing its land borders ingested an excessive amount of salt which they FREE TOWN: Health workers (center rear) screen people for the deadly Ebola virus before entering with neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone but believed could prevent Ebola. Nigeria’s Health the Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, 300 kilometers, (186 miles) from the capital city of later went back on its statement arguing that it Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu dismissed the salt Freetown, Sierra Leone. Over the decades, Ebola cases have been confirmed in 10 African coun- wanted to avoid clandestine border crossings. and water solution as “total rubbish”. tries, including Congo where the disease was first reported in 1976. But until this year, Ebola had never come to West Africa. —AP “We’re not talking about closing the borders Mauritania meanwhile stepped up health between Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but checks at its border with Senegal and Mali, a called for an experimental drug being used on week to discuss the issue, said on Saturday that rather of coercive measures to better control Mauritanian health ministry official said, but so two infected Americans to be made available to clinical trials of a preventative vaccine by British cross-border movements”, notably by people far no suspicious cases had been detected. Africans. pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline may begin next who risk carrying the virus, said government The two Americans, who worked for aid agen- month, and it could be available by 2015. spokesman Albert Damantang Camara in a tele- ‘Africans should get new drug’ cies in Liberia before returning to the United States Separately, Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant direc- phone interview with AFP late Saturday. Spread by close contact with an infected per- for treatment, have shown signs of improvement tor-general of the UN health agency, told AFP it son through bodily fluids such as sweat, blood since being given ZMapp, made by US company was “realistic” to expect a vaccine to be ready by Epicenter and tissue, Ebola causes fever and, in the worst Mapp Pharmaceuticals. There is no proven treat- 2015. The WHO, Kieny said, was “engaging with Sierra Leone meanwhile deployed some 1,500 cases, unstoppable bleeding. As African nations ment or cure for Ebola and the use of the experi- quite a number of developers ... to see what we troops to enforce quarantine measures in two struggled with the scale of the epidemic, the sci- mental drug has sparked an ethical debate.The can do to help accelerate and facilitate the devel- eastern districts where most of the country’s entists who discovered the virus in 1976 have WHO, which is planning a special meeting next opment”. — AFP Hunger stalks as Ebola cuts off Liberian provinces US emergency labs ready to work on Ebola drugs if asked NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: All three US facilities estab- varieties grown in mammalian or bacterial cells. “The whole lished to quickly make vaccines and therapeutics in the idea is to take a process that may exist only on sticky notes at event of a major public health threat say they are standing a small biotech company and scale it up as fast as possible.” by to support any US government effort to scale up a treat- The three centers are required to have the ability to produce ment for Ebola. vaccines against pandemic flu but must also dedicate at least The facilities, called Centers for Innovation in Advanced six months a year to developing products against other Development and Manufacturing (ADM), were set up by the threats, and at sufficient volume to meet a sudden spike in US Department of Health and Human Services in partner- U.S. demand, Giroir said. ship with private industry, to respond to pandemics or The Texas facility collaborates with British drugmaker chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear threats. They GlaxoSmithKline Plc. A center led by Emergent Biosolutions have the expertise to quickly switch production lines to in Baltimore, Maryland, collaborates with various universities manufacture, for example, a smallpox vaccine if that scourge as does the third center, in Holly Springs, North Carolina, led were to re-emerge, or an anthrax vaccine, and other life-sav- by Swiss drug company Novartis AG. ing compounds against both natural outbreaks and bioter- Their operations are funded with $400 million from HHS rorism. and are overseen by the Biomedical Advanced Research and “They know our number and they can call us 24 hours a Development Authority (BARDA), part of HHS’s Office of the day,” said Brett Giroir, chief executive of Texas A&M Health Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. Science Center, site of one of the facilities. “We are prepared.” Combined, the centers have the capacity to produce and Global health agencies are only starting to consider deliver at least 50 million doses of vaccine against pandemic whether to make experimental drugs, most of which have influenza, the most likely source of a health emergency, with- only been tested on monkeys, available to patients in West in 12 weeks. Africa, which is suffering the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Any Ebola order would be for much fewer doses, said The World Health Organization is convening a group of Giroir. “Even if Ebola were spreading here, it’s not an airborne bioethicists to consider such as issues as who decides which transmissible disease like influenza so you wouldn’t need 50 MONROVIA: Liberia’s Health minister Walter Gwanigale (right) washes his hands as he arrives to attend a meeting patients would receive the treatments or vaccines. U.S. offi- million doses. At most you’d need a few thousand, maybe a with Liberia’s President and health workers in Monrovia. — AFP cials have repeatedly emphasized the importance of public million.” health measures such as quarantines to stop the spread of MONROVIA: Residents of northern Wednesday when Liberia declared a Monrovia, said the restrictions were the disease. Scaling up Liberia have existed in a state of peril for state of emergency to try and stop the “severe” and warned people would die of Among the Ebola treatments that have shown promising The centers are not set up to invent drugs. They are months as the deadly Ebola epidemic spread of virus. The army has been starvation if they are not relaxed. results in lab animals is an antibody cocktail from Mapp designed to take what Giroir calls “the scientific substrate” or swept through the region. Now they face deployed to restrict movement, particu- Biopharmaceutical, a tiny biotechnology company in San recipe for the product, either an existing one or, as in the case a new threat as measures to stem the larly from the worst-affected provinces to ‘We’re starving’ Diego; a vaccine from Profectus in Tarrytown, New York; and of Ebola treatments, an experimental one and develop a spread of the virus spark fears of starva- the capital. President Ellen Johnson “My county has been completely an RNA-interference drug being developed by Vancouver- process for making it. Of the three, only the Texas lab said it tion. Sirleaf warned that the extraordinary quarantined because soldiers don’t allow based, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, which late last week got can produce proteins such as human antibodies in plant- In an effort to contain an epidemic measures were needed “for the very sur- anyone to get out of the area and they approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to based systems, which is how Mapp’s Ebola drug has been that has cost nearly 1,000 lives through- vival of our state”. don’t allow anyone to go there,” he told resume safety trials in human volunteers. The decision to made in limited quantities, so the government may sub-con- out west Africa, the Liberian government AFP by phone. order any of the three advanced labs to begin making Ebola tract with a company that has additional plant technology. quarantined the most affected northern State of emergency “A bag of rice that sold for 1,300 LD treatments would be made at the highest levels of the One candidate is Bryan, Texas-based Caliber provinces-cutting off access with military Defense Minister Brownie Samukai ($14, 11 euros) is now selling for 1,800 Obama administration. Biotherapeutics LLC. Mapp currently works with Kentucky roadblocks and restrictions on travel. said residents of virus-hit areas in the LD. The poor people will die of hunger BioProcessing, a unit of tobacco giant Reynolds American to The quarantine has meant that north to stay put. “Stay where you are for God’s sake. These are Liberians like Bus-length clean rooms produce its drug. More capacity would be needed to scale traders have been unable to travel to buy because if you leave your place for others.” At a military checkpoint on the edge The Texas facility consists of a dozen bus-length mobile up. Emergent Biosolutions’ facility does not have the recipe to food and farmers cannot harvest their another place you may not be allowed to crop, which has in turn caused shortages go back to where you came from,” he of the quarantine line in Bomy County, clean rooms, each supplied with sterile air, nutrient media for develop an Ebola treatment, but Adam Havey, president of and sent prices soaring. “People are pan- said. many expressed anger at the restrictions. growing cells, and other clean-manufacturing requirements. the company’s biodefense division, said that if the govern- icking here. We are afraid to die from As a result, traders in those areas have “Let the government see reason,” said “We are prepared to make any kind of vaccine,” Giroir said, ment asked it to produce something against the virus “we hunger,” said Siaffa Kamara, from Bopolu, dared not go to Monrovia for supplies. Augustine Kimber, a plantation worker. “If from the traditional kind grown in chicken eggs to newer would absolutely respond to that.” — Reuters north of the capital Monrovia. “The goods I had are finished. I don’t they do not, there will be many deaths ... “This is rainy season and it is raining have any more rice here. The little that I not from Ebola but from hunger.” everywhere. The little money I had I used have I am keeping it for my family,” Paul Others simply doubted the govern- to buy rice, which is very expensive. What Fahnbuleh, a rice-trader from the north- ment’s plan of action would work. “I Spanish priest to be treated I bought is not enough for three weeks. I west said. think there should be another means put have 25 people to feed in my house,” he On Thursday, Liberian lawmakers into place that will actually curtail the with experimental Ebola drug said by phone. “We agree that measures approved an emergency package to pro- spread of Ebola,” said student Morris V. have to be put in place to contain the vide compensation for families who have Ware. The Ebola virus can fell its victims MADRID: A Spanish priest infected He was brought back to Spain on Congolese nun, died on Saturday due virus but at the same time we don’t have been directly affected by the Ebola epi- within days, causing severe fever and with Ebola will be treated with an Thursday on a medically equipped to Ebola, the charity said. There is no to die from hunger,” said Miatta Sharif, demic, as well as health workers on the muscle pain, weakness, vomiting and experimental drug that has been used Spanish airforce plane, the first proven treatment or cure for Ebola, also from Bopolu. frontline. They also considered paying an diarrhoea-in some cases shutting down on two Americans infected with the patient in the fast-spreading Ebola which causes severe fever and, in the “Clinics are closed, if we cannot get advance on the salaries of civil servants organs and causing unstoppable bleed- deadly virus, the government said. outbreak to be evacuated to Europe worst cases, unstoppable bleeding. food to eat how do we survive? The vic- caught in quarantined zones. ing. The World Health Organization The drug called ZMapp arrived at for treatment. Some 55 percent of cases in this out- tims will be more than that of Ebola,” she But for many, the help is not coming (WHO) has declared the latest outbreak added. fast enough. Sando Johnson, a senator in “a public health emergency of interna- Madrid’s La Paz-Carlos III hospital Spanish health authorities said break have been fatal. The restrictions came into force on the province of Bomi, northwest of tional concern.” — AFP where the 75-year-old missionary Thursday the priest was in a stable Two Americans infected with was being treated in isolation, the condition. The hospital is not provid- Ebola while treating patients in health ministry said in a statement ing medical updates for the mission- Liberia have shown signs of late on Saturday. ary at his request. The military flight improvement since being given Spain’s drug safety agency also evacuated Spanish nun Juliana Zmapp back in the United States but allowed the “exceptional importation” Bonoha Bohe, 65, who worked at the health authorities say it is too early of ZMapp under a law that allows same hospital as Pajares in Liberia to tell if the drug had anything to do “the use of non-authorized medica- and who was found not to have with that. ZMapp, a treatment made tions in cases where a patent’s life is Ebola. by private US company Mapp in danger and they can’t be treated The Spanish charity Pajares Pharmaceuticals, is still in an satisfactorily with an authorized worked for, the Hospitaller Brothers extremely early phase of develop- medication,” it said. The Roman of St. John of God, had asked Madrid ment and had only been tested pre- Catholic priest, Miguel Pajares, was to bring to Spain for treatment two viously on monkeys. The use of the one of three people who tested posi- African missionaries infected with medication has sparked an ethical tive for Ebola at the Saint Joseph Ebola who also worked at the hospi- controversy as experts call for it to MONROVIA: Health workers listen to Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf speaking during a meeting. In an effort to Hospital in the Liberian capital tal but the request was turned down. be made available to African contain an epidemic that has cost nearly 1,000 lives throughout West Africa, the Liberian government quarantined the Monrovia where he worked. One of those two missionaries, a nations. — AFP most affected northern provinces — cutting off access with military roadblocks and restrictions on travel. — AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Crisis-hit Spaniards seek seaweed riches

Australian couple in baby scandal wants boy back

PERTH: An Australian couple at the David Farnell claimed Pattharamon centre of a Thai surrogate scandal yes- said: “If we try to take our little boy, terday denied they deliberately aban- she’s going to get the police and she’s doned their baby son because he had going to come and take our little girl Down’s syndrome and said they ... and she’s going to keep both would fight to get him back. David babies.” Pattaramon has said she Farnell, 56, a convicted child sex agreed to carry another Thai donor’s offender and the biological father of egg fertilised by the Australian man in the boy, Gammy, told Channel Nine exchange for around $14,900. he and his wife Wendy had “wanted to An agency, which she refuses to bring him with us”. name for legal reasons, acted as the It was their first interview since go-between. She claims the agency sparking global controversy after told her the Farnells wanted her to leaving the boy in Thailand with his have an abortion which is illegal in 21-year-old Thai surrogate mother Thailand-once medical tests revealed Pattaramon Chanbua and taking only the boy had Down’s syndrome, but his healthy twin sister Pipah back she refused. home. “We never abandoned him, we “We never said you (Pattaramon) never said to the surrogate mother can have this baby, no matter what,” ‘have an abortion’,” said David Farnell, said an emotional David Farnell. The although he admitted it crossed their couple claimed Pattaramon wanted to minds. “Because he has a handicap keep the girl and said they left and this is a sad thing. And it would A piece of seaweed lies on the rocks at Picon beach, in Ortigueira, northern Spain. — AFP Thailand without Gammy because be difficult, not impossible, but diffi- “we were getting scared that we cult.” Farnell also admitted the couple would lose her too and we had to try had not tried to contact Gammy since ORTIGUEIRA: Three young Spaniards in wetsuits mental minister, Rosa Quintana. ty, the choice of raw material and the way we prepare plunge into the sea to harvest a culinary delicacy that it,” Sanchez said, stressing the ecological nature of and get her out”. they left Thailand to check on how he promises them a way out of troubled financial waters: Gourmet seaweed their seaweed product when compared to that of The Farnells, from Bunbury south was. seaweed. Armed with stainless steel scythes, they Baamonde worked at a laboratory in La Coruna their larger competitors. of Perth, Western Australia, previously “We have been trying (in Australia) swim in low tide from rock to rock cutting down codi- University until “they cut the grant”. From 2007 to Instead of using machinery, much of the seaweed claimed they were told Gammy had a to make sure first that Pipah is safe um seaweed and kombu kelp, which they gather up 2009 he worked as a consultant on on seaweed farm- preparation such as washing is done by hand. congenital heart condition but not and no one can take her away from in bags. ing to Galician fisheries associations as part off a Down’s syndrome, and left him us,” he said, explaining that as she was The trio — 35-year-old marine scientist Alberto regional government program. Unexpected flavors because doctors said he would not born in Thailand she was not yet Sanchez, his sister Maria and his friend, 33-year-old “Then the economic crisis hit and there was no Baamonde, Sanchez and his sister Maria do every- survive. legally Australian. biologist Sergio Baamonde-carry the sea greens by money for the program,” said Baamonde, who found thing from harvesting to preparation to sales of the foot to their car, parked at the top of nearby cliffs. other jobs for a short period before entering into the seaweed-canned, fresh or dried-as well as finding Gammy, now seven months old, “When we know 100 percent that Then they transport the algae to a processing fac- seaweed business with his friend. new customers. Among their customers are chefs has since been cleared of a heart con- she is safe with us, we can go and try tory set up by the two friends in the Galician sea port “There is a gap in the market right now in Galicia including Javier Olleros, who has a Michelin star, and dition by Bangkok specialists, an to get our boy back.” of Ortigueira, northern Spain. for this type of gourmet seaweed product and we are Daniel Lopez, chef at the “O Camino do Ingles” restau- Australian charity which has raised Their comments came as Canberra “It is tough but we are very motivated,” said trying to fill it,” said Sanchez, who worked at a bio- rant in the city of Ferrol. “You can achieve flavors that more than $240,000 for the infant said urged Thailand to allow for a transi- Baamonde, who joined up with Sanchez in April 2012 medical research centre in Barcelona before launch- people don’t expect,” Lopez said as he prepared a dish on Friday. tion period before implementing any to launch into the seaweed business, with other ing the venture. “It took us a year to find the financ- of hake wrapped in sea lettuce and marinated tuna The charity, Hands Across The ban on commercial surrogacy to pro- prospects scarce in a country hit by an economic cri- ing,” said Sanchez, sitting in a small office at their fac- garnished with codium seaweed while chatting with Water, said the boy had been released tect earlier arrangements made by sis that has left one in four people out of work. They tory, which has been running since the start of the Baamonde about ways of preparing the algae. have established a company, Ardora Sea Preserves, to year at an industrial park in Ortigueira. Baamonde and Sanchez are keen to pursue the from hospital-where he was being Australians. The Thai government is sell edible seaweed, an industry that took root in the The young entrepreneurs invested 300,000 euros, scientific side of their business, too, by seeking new treated for a lung infection-and was proposing tighter controls on com- Galicia region in the 1980s. which they raised from relatives, loans and a small environmentally friendly ways to process and grow living in Bangkok with his family. ‘We mercial surrogacy in the wake of the In 2012, sales of ecological seaweed and related state subsidy which allowed them to buy the land for seaweed. “Our plan is to invest a lot in research and never abandoned him’ - Gammy scandal. — AFP foods in Galicia amounted to 3.8 million euros ($5 mil- the factory, which prepares the seaweed for sale. “We development and we have a lot of ideas,” said lion), according to the region’s maritime and environ- want a product that differentiates us in terms of quali- Baamonde. — AFP WHAT’S ON MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 Warba’s chief internal auditor awarded CMIIA certification n line with Warba’s commitment to develop the professional performance of its executive management, the bank Iannounced that the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors, UK and Ireland has awarded CMIIA certification to Mahmoud Mohamed Yousef, Chief Internal Auditor of Warba Bank, after successfully passing an assessment stage to evaluate his pro- fessional qualifications and subsequently attending a panel interview with the CIIA assessors who are Chartered Internal Auditors, on 25th June 2014 at head office in the UK to evalu- ate his vast experience in internal auditing. As a Chartered Internal Auditor holding CMIIA Certification, Yousef has gained international recognition of his professional excellence in the field of internal audit, risk management, control and corporate governance. He has become a full voting member of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors, UK and Ireland. The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors has affirmed that Yousef is the only profession- al currently holding this presti- Mahmoud Yousef gious certificate in the State of Kuwait and this will enable him to provide independent consulting services that add value and improve operations and internal control systems applied at banks. The Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors is the United Kingdom and Ireland chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors and is a member of the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditors. It was founded in 1948 and is the only professional association for internal auditors in Ireland and the UK. The Institute received its Royal Charter in October 2010. Yousef has been holding the position of Chief of Internal Auditor at Warba Bank since 2011 when he set up the Internal Audit Group and contributed in developing the Group’s poli- cies and procedures manual as well as training all necessary technical staff. He has also contributed in laying down func- tional rules applied at the internal Audit Group, enhanced the internal control systems and the implementation of the cor- porate governance rules and the Bank’s compliance with instructions of external regulators. Mr. Yousef’s experience extends for more than 30 years in the field of internal audit at both local and international banks. He promoted his profes- sional experience in internal audit and executive management through training courses, workshops and benchmarking visits for exchanging experience with several American and European banks and universities such as Chase Manhattan Bank (New York), HSBC (London), Harvard University and the American University of Beirut. Before joining Warba, Yousef had worked at renowned financial institutions.

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All photos submitted for What’s On should be minimum 200dpi. LuLu Exchange opens 14th branch in Kuwait Articles must be in plain text and should include name and phone dding to its fast-growing network of branches Dedicating the branch to the service of the customers, with greater access to our products and services,” added across the region, LuLu Exchange opened a new Adeeb Ahamed, Director, LuLu Exchange Company - Ahamed. numbers. Articles and photos that Abranch yesterday. The new branch of LuLu Kuwait said, “LuLu Exchange’s expansion, especially to The new branch has been strategically located to pro- fail to meet these requirements will Exchange Company, in the Khaitan region, is the 14th in areas where developmental activities are gaining momen- vide easy access for LuLu Exchange’s wide and growing the State of Kuwait. tum, highlights our focus and commitment to meeting the customer base in various areas. It has been outfitted with not be published. As one of the leading Exchange and Remittance com- expectations of our customers at all levels. We at LuLu state-of-the-art technologies enabling it to provide even panies in Kuwait, LuLu Exchange is well-known for open- Exchange facilitate financial transaction services that are more efficient and effective services to the exchange Please send them to ing branches in locations of convenience to customers. secure, instant and compliant through state-of-the-art sys- house’s customers. The new branch in Khaitan will grant [email protected] With its expanding branch network, LuLu Exchange is tems that deliver flexibility, speed, reliability, and trans- customers access to all of the competitive and innovative bringing multiple financial services including money parency.” products and services that the exchange house has to transfer and foreign exchange closer to the reach of cus- “Our vision of becoming the customers’ first choice in offer. tomers. financial services, and the most sought after exchange It is the company’s ongoing commitment to enhance The branch situated in Al Dabous Tower was inaugurat- house in Kuwait by setting high standards in customer sat- the customer experience by identifying customer require- ed by Major General Mohammad Ashab Uddin, ndc, psc, isfaction and compliance, started a few years ago. I am ments. The company’s corporate slogan, ‘Valuing Your Pravasi Bhartiya Divas the Ambassador of Bangladesh to the State of Kuwait and happy and contended that our clear strategy and an Trust’ is the reflection of the company itself. LuLu the non-resident Ambassador of Bangladesh to the unwavering commitment to deliver outstanding service Exchange has been successful in tirelessly delivering the he Government of India has decided to Republic of Yemen, in the presence of several dignitaries for our customers no matter how big or small, has not best of service excellence to its customers earning their hold the next Pravasi Bhartiya Divas and senior management of the company. gone unnoticed. We will continue to enable our customers complete satisfaction and trust in the bargain. T(PBD-2015) at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat in January 2015. The effort would be to have more meaning- ful and interactive sessions that would address the issues and concerns of the overseas Indian community effectively. Since 2015 marks the hundredth anniversary of the return of the greatest “Pravasi”of all, Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa, it is desired that PBD-2015 would be celebrated in a grand way. The detailed programe of PBD-2015 is being prepared and will be uploaded on the Embassy’s Website in due course. More detailed information on Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD-2015) can be accessed at the Ministry of Overseas India Affairs’ website (http://www.moia.gov.in). Home Centre to help customers sleep easy with dream offer

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India’s 68th Effective from: 3rd August 2014 Penguins 3D Great White Shark 3D 11:30am Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D Monday: 5:30pm Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D 10:30am, 8:30pm Independence Day ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Fly Me to the Moon 3D 7:30pm 12:30pm, 6:30pm Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D 11:30am, 2:30pm, n the occasion of Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D Fly Me to the Moon 3D 7:30pm 5:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm the 10:30am, 8:30pm Wednesday: Penguins 3D 9:30pm Flight of Butterflies 3D 12:30pm Independence Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups O Penguins 3D 1:30pm Day of India, a flag hoist- 11:30am, 7:30pm, 9:30pm Great White Shark 3D Friday: Great White Shark 3D 3:30pm ing ceremony will take Penguins 3D 10:30am, 8:30pm Fires of Kuwait 2:30pm Journey to Mecca 4:30pm place at the Embassy of 12:30pm Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D3:30pm, Fly Me to the Moon 3D 6:30pm Flight of Butterflies 3D 5:30pm 11:30am, 7:30pm, 9:30pm India premises at 6:30pm, 8:30pm Diplomatic Enclave, Arabian Gulf Street on Friday, 15 Great White Shark 3D 6:30pm Penguins 3D 12:30pm Notes: August 2014, at 0800 hours. Fly Me to the Moon 3D 4:30pm Tuesday: Journey to Mecca 5:30pm - All films are in Arabic, except “Fires of Kuwait 2. After the flag hoisting, Ambassador will read Great White Shark 3D 5:30pm ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D6:30pm 2D” and “Fly Me to the Moon 3D” out the message of Hon’ble President of India, fol- Penguins 3D 7:30pm Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D - For English, headsets are available upon lowed by a short cultural function/singing of patriot- Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D 10:30am, 6:30pm, 8:30pm Thursday: request. ic songs. 9:30pm Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups - Film schedule is subject to changes without 3. All Indian nationals are most cordially invited to Saturday: Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D notice. For information call 1 848 888 attend the function. Refreshment/tea/juice etc. will 11:30am, 9:30pm ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups or visit www.tsck.org.kw be served. Great White Shark 3D 12:30pm 10:30am, 5:30pm, 8:30pm WHAT’S ON MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014

Slovak ambassador farwell Senegal Ambassador to Kuwait, dean of diplomatic Core Abdou Lahad Mbacke held a dinner in honor of outgoing Slovak Ambassador to Kuwait Ivan Lancaric, at Crowne Plaza hotel. Foreign ministry represen- tative, ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions attended the event. A special memento was presented to Ambassador Lancaric. — Photos by Yasser Al Zayyat

Al-Mulla Exchange holds seminar

he Al-Mulla Exchange in association with Kuwait in the last three years. While the Finance Ministry has amendment is made because an Indian citizen is now per- that will complement the government focus on develop- Chapter of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India acknowledged the need for curbing the creation of black mitted under the Foreign Exchange Management Act to ing what he called industrial corridors, schemes for devel- Tand other major Indian associations recently organ- money, no specific steps have been outlined by him in this invest up to $125,000 in every financial year in assets outside opment of new airports in tier-1 and tier-2 cities, and the ized a seminar at the AIS, Maidan Hawalli on the annual regard. India. Indians were purchasing properties in foreign coun- target of constructing 8,500 km of national highways. Indian budget. He disclosed, the Finance Minister has tried to assuage tries by selling their Indian homes and claiming benefit of Along with the growth and investment, the present The guest speakers were H.P. Ranina, eminent lawyer and the feeling of foreign investors who were disheartened the exemption by investing the capital gains in a house out- government’s focus is on employment creation for the former Director of the Reserve Bank of India and G about the investment climate in India after the retrospective side India. This will not be permitted with effect from the youth. The Finance Minister has announced a new scheme Padmanabhan, Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India, amendment to the tax law in March 2012. However, he has financial year 2014-2015. ‘Skill India’ to increase the employability and entrepreneur- Central Office, Mumbai. The chief guest was the Indian not deleted the retrospective provisions but has announced A few amendments have been made to rationalize the ial skills of the youth. The budget underlines the high prior- Ambassador to Kuwait Sunil Jain. that a high level committee will be constituted to review the tax law specially pertaining to transfer of pricing regula- ity the government places on health, elementary educa- Speaking to the audience, Ranina, said “The maiden cases affected by the retrospective amendment and advise tions and advance pricing agreements. tion and announced setting up of five new IITs and IIMs, he budget of Arun Jaitley, India’s Minister of Finance lays down the government appropriately. It is doubtful whether this He disclosed, in the budget speech Jaitley has referred said. the road map for a strong and vibrant economy, the fruits of move will change the investment sentiment which is per- to allocations being made for several social schemes, like The government vision will be tested by the outcome which will be reaped in the next four to five years.” ceived by foreigners to be negative. health, education, sanitation, drinking water, irrigation, rather than the outlays proposed in this year’s budget doc- “Considering the limited time at his disposal and having The shareholders will continue to enjoy the tax exemp- roads and highways, etc. uments. The government has been acting from day one regard to the fact that he also holds the important defence tion in respect of dividends received by them under section It remains to be seen, he said, whether Jaitley will walk that it has been sworn in and therefore there is lot of hope portfolio,” Ranina added, “he has put forth a set of measures 10(34) of the Income Tax Act. There will be a marginal saving the talk and deliver on his promises before the five-year to see better days in the next three to four years. However, to kick start the economy which has been stagnating during in personal income tax as the initial exemption limit has term of the present government comes to an end. the key will be for the government to put its act together the past few years. The main thrust of his budget proposals been increased to Rs 250,000 and 300,000 for senior citizens, He added, for the medium term the Finance Minister and deliver on the promises, he asserted is to restrict the fiscal deficit to a low level of 4.1 percent of he added. has placed emphasis on fiscal consolidation, creating infra- The one immediate task for the government is to bring the GDP, with a promise that in the next fiscal year 2015- In addition, the deduction under section 80-C which structure, increasing investments in manufacturing and down the rate of inflation which has been worsened by the 2016 he would attempt to bring it down to 3.6 percent and applies to certain investments has also been increased by Rs agriculture and social sectors. To achieve the goal of mini- weak monsoon and the crisis in Iraq which has led to high to 3 percent in the subsequent year.” 50,000. This would mean that generally taxable income up mum government, maximum governance, the Finance cost of fuel, he said. He asserted, apart from the fiscal consolidation, the to Rs 400,000 would be exempt, and in case of senior citi- Minister has stressed on the need for improved allocation He summed up saying, “If the government can fulfill budget proposals seek to boost investments in the manu- zens the exemption would be Rs 450,000 per annum, if and operational efficiencies in government expenditure. even half of the promises which it has made in this year’s facturing sector which would also lead to greater job cre- investments are made up to the full limit under section 80 C, He has also announced the setting up of an Expenditure budget proposals, the Indian economy will be put on a ation. The proposal to allow investment allowance on capital he said. Management Commission to recommend expenditure sound footing and may emerge as the third largest econo- expenditure of Rs 250 million or more in a financial year on To give fillip to the housing sector, it is proposed that per- reform. The government also intends, he said, to overhaul my in the world by 2020. plant and machineries is a step in the right direction, sons who borrow monies for purchase or acquisition of a the entire subsidy regime, including on food, fertilizer and Al Mulla Exchange in association with the Institute of “because the rate of growth can only be increased if more self-occupied house property would be eligible to claim a petroleum, to make it more targeted. Chartered Accountants of India, Kuwait Chapter arranged and more funds are invested by industrial units.” deduction under section 24 in respect of the interest paid on In the longer term of three to four years, the govern- for a seminar for the Indian Community on the Indian The rationalization or provisions pertaining to Special the loan up to a maximum of Rs 200,000 as against Rs ment expects India to grow at 7 to 8 percent and the Budget 2014-2015. The vent was held on 03rd August 2014 Economic Zones and setting up of new manufacturing hubs 150,000. Finance Minister has assured that he will bring in effective at American International School. Two prolific speakers will undoubtedly help in boosting industrial production For example, if a person sells a residential house and policies to achieve the target. from India, Homi Ranina- eminent tax lawyer and G thereby initiating the virtuous cycle of growth, he added. invests the full capital gains in buying another residential To begin with, he raised the limit of Foreign Direct Padmanabhan, Executive Director- Reserve Bank of India The one challenge which the Government of India has house within the prescribed time limit, the capital gains are Investment in defense and insurance sectors. Recognizing addressed the gathering with their eloquent and analytical been facing, he says, is that tax revenues collected have exempt under section 54. It is now provided that the new the urgent need to develop pockets of urban prosperity, he speeches. The ambassador of India to Kuwait was the chief been going down and the tax-GDP ratio has actually fallen residential house must be purchased only in India. This has earmarked Rs 70,600 million to create 100 smart cities guest for the occasion. TV PROGRAMS MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014

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Farm the government. 20:00 Marvel’s Ultimate Avengers II 05:00 Ancient Aliens 22:50 Shake It Up 06:00 Appalachian Outlaws 23:10 Wolfblood AP: What made you want to work on a film about 07:00 American Pickers 23:35 Wolfblood your father’s life? 08:00 American Restoration Femi: It wasn’t really my idea, but I supported it. ... It 08:30 Cajun Pawn Stars was very important for the world to hear my father’s story 00:00 Over/Under-PG15 09:00 Storage Wars: New York from the mainstream point of view. 02:00 The Forger-PG15 09:30 Counting Cars 04:00 Lego Batman: The Movie - DC 10:00 Pawn Stars AP: Your father died as a victim of the disease that Super Heroes Unite-PG 10:30 Pawn Stars has taken its toll on Africa. 06:00 Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds 11:00 Storage Wars 00:10 Your Style In His Hands Femi: At the time the whole world was shouting about Away-PG 11:30 Storage Wars 01:00 Mob Wives HIV or AIDS. Africa had no knowledge about it. When the 08:00 Steel Magnolias-PG15 12:00 American Pickers 01:50 Hoarding: Buried Alive news start(ed) coming from Europe, (it) was that it started 10:00 Planet 51-PG 13:00 Ice Road Truckers 02:40 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant in Africa and that Africa was sleeping with monkeys. My 12:00 Parental Guidance-PG 14:00 Storage Wars 03:05 Mob Wives generation didn’t believe it. If the world was very serious 14:00 4 Wedding Planners-PG15 14:30 Barry’d Treasure 03:55 Long Island Medium about making Africa aware of such a disease, I mean I think 16:00 Steel Magnolias-PG15 15:00 American Pickers 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 18:00 Hitchcock-PG15 16:00 American Pickers 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress more steps should’ve been taken at that time to convince 20:00 The Call-PG15 17:00 Pawn Stars 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras Africans. 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

Visiting with neighbors and catching up on weekend chores and enjoying You look forward to being with friends and family in some fun or spiritual fun times with young people make up most of this day. The afternoon pres- activity today. This day makes for a deepening of relationships, plus that added feeling of ents a good time to get into reading some of a book, to watch the news or to take in a security and belonging. Later today there is time to prepare for the week ahead. Any chron- movie. Ideas will have greater meaning and form. You may be encouraged to try your hand ic health problems need to be studied; perhaps a trip to a health-food store is in order. at or to help with some creative project later today. You can appreciate an imaginative Allergy problems may be part of this need to understand and perhaps, make changes in approach and may value some shared ideas. Refinement and relationships are the keys to your eating habits. You tend to be radical when it comes to self-analysis, which means emotional satisfaction now. Close personal ties to other people are a focal point for your health care, food, physical wellbeing, etc. Serving and caring for yourself and others are pri- feelings-marriage and other partnerships could be a key arena for this. You are encouraged mary sources of inner growth and changes. Quick answers, great wit and a surplus of to help improve or to build upon a love relationship this evening. insights and solutions are available this evening.

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

A love relationship can blossom now if you are willing for this person to Religion or spiritual matters, relationships, music and creative projects will move closer to you. A balance of give and take situations may be an important issue that keep you busy today. The world is a sacred place to you and you have an absolute commit- needs your attention. Convening with your higher power may consist of sitting under the ment to spiritual ideas. Intuition is a fact of life and you are sensitive, kind and gentle, a big oak tree in the park. Some alone time is enjoyed and that might take the form of feed- romantic too-with a tender heart. You always work for a real future, doing what has to be ing the ducks, a picnic lunch, people watching, etc. Remember what they say about jack done. You love all that is musical and artistic. You have sensitivity to all that is psychic. You being a dull boy-too much work! This is just one of those great days, even if it is raining. have real faith in life. Capture-the-moment is your attitude and you live in the fullest way There is time to stop and be thankful for all that you have. The best magic is what happens possible. This evening is a good time to relax with loved ones. Perhaps a quiet walk or a din- to your spirit when you meditate in solitude within nature’s arms. The power that surrounds ner outside your living area will give you opportunities to come face to face with each other us at those times is great beyond understanding. in a positive atmosphere. Romance is possible.

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

Although you could use a day of rest you may find yourself involved with You may find yourself surrounded by friends and young people and having young people-coordinating outside activities. If you try to have authority a good time. You appreciate your particular situation and enjoy support from over these young people, you may find yourself working at odds with them. This is more of those around you. Sympathy and understanding are emotional qualities that take on a a time of play than guidance; however, play can be used to guide. You may find yourself greater importance now. It’s wisdom, not knowledge, that counts now. Coming to grips ACROSS 8. Of or relating to the Iberian peninsula or its reflecting on your own youth or some event from your past. Communication with these with the past or getting in touch with the spiritual gives a sense of satisfaction and com- 1. (used especially of commodities) In the inhabitants. young people may be difficult or combative if you do not take part in the activities as well. pleteness. This evening you may be helping a relative or friend by babysitting. You have a great creative imagination, perhaps a strong sense for the dramatic and the ability to natural unprocessed condition. 9. An extension at the end and at right You have a stick-to-it attitude that always finds you in the thick of things, toughing it out, so to speak. Find time in the afternoon to be by yourself for a time of relaxation. This evening express ideas of a mystical or otherworldly flavor. Entertaining children with enchanting 4. French painter best known for his satirical angles to the main building. should bring an opportunity for love. stories is indicated this evening. lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879). 10. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic element 11. Slanting diagonally across the grain of a that resembles manganese chemically and is fabric. used in some alloys. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 15. The capital and largest city of Japan. 11. Harassment especially of a tethered ani- Cancer (June 21-July 22) 16. Completely lacking nobility in character mal. You may appear very much at ease today. Everything seems to be working or quality or purpose. Your home and surroundings are tidy and airtight. You have done some together and you may find yourself expressive and able to commune with 12. (Old Testament) The second patriarch. wonderful work on your living quarters and if you were thinking about a move, you might 17. United States writer (born in Poland) who others in the best way possible. You are very skilled at creating a positive change and 13. A book of the New Testament. decide to reassess that idea. You have just reached the comfort zone. You usually keep your improving existing circumstances. You will seek to understand and improve situations in wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957). 14. Title for the former hereditary monarch of feelings and emotions to yourself. However, today you may find yourself in such a safe the home surroundings today, finding new but secure ways to better conditions. Inventions 18. 4-wheeled motor vehicle. Iran. place that it is easy to communicate and be helped, as well as help others. You may be and discoveries in communications, computers and electronics may be possible. Perhaps 19. Lower oneself with a double rope coiled 20. Take something away by force or without attending a lecture or a fair this evening. You learn the art of aromatherapy and a few other you have a new computer, exercise machine or cooking tool. You bring incentive to areas aroound the body from a mountainside. the consent of the owner. talents that promote relaxation. All that is mystical and transcendental is your appointed where new development or improvement is taking place. You can teach and help others to territory-spiritual in the best sense of that word. You feel at home in these realms. Poetry, art improve their life. This is a good day with much incentive to better health. 21. Bright with a steady but subdued shining. 22. German chemist who did research on or music is part of your activities today. 23. A trivalent metallic element of the rare high-speed chemical reactions (born in earth group. 1927). 25. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling). 24. A syndrome that occurs in many women Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 26. (prosody) Of or consisting of iambs. from 2 to 14 days before the onset of men- This will be a time of introspection and you may find yourself letting go of 31. Given or having a specified name. From now until the middle of next year there are special energies that struation. plans and projects started in a more outward phase. You may also take an interest in your are at work stimulating love and passion and commitment. Whether you are in a rela- 38. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan 27. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the own psyche, religion and spiritual ideas. You find new ways to relate to your loved one at tionship or not, this is the time for wonderful things to happen and the deepening of River. Gulf of Antalya. this time. You are learning tolerance and are becoming accepting of differences. You have feelings and of oneness is present. A new way of thinking and a positive pattern will 39. A public promotion of some product or good insights into a need for better communication. You will simplify and compromise in 28. (often followed by `of') A large number or soon immerge. New technology has your attention and you will find people to chat situations where problem solving is necessary. There is an opportunity for a social affair this service. amount or extent. with that have your same interests. This afternoon you and a friend may decide to fly a afternoon with positive communication among friends, neighbors and relatives. Take the 40. The waging of armed conflict against an model airplane or get a team together for a sports game or perhaps a board game with 29. Any member of Athapaskan tribes that opportunity this evening to relax and enjoy a loved one’s company, play with a hobby or enemy. neighbors. Homemade ice cream, watermelon and groups of friends make for a happy migrated to the southwestern desert (from catch up on your reading. 41. (informal) Roused to anger. Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico). birthday! 42. A young woman making her debut into 30. Read anew. society. 32. American Revolutionary patriot. Virgo (August 23-September 22) 46. A member of the Siouan people formerly 33. A woman of refinement. 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David Duchovny divorces Tea Leoni he ‘X Files’ star is said to have quietly ended his marriage to the actress after he cited “an irretrievable break- down of the relationship” when he filed the documents. According to gossip website TMZ, the actor made Tthe decision in June, with the pair settling all the terms themselves in a split that managed to go under the radar. Meanwhile, under the terms of the divorce the two stars - who have daughter Madelaine, 15, and son Kyd, 12, together - will have joint legal custody of their children. While Tea will have primary physical custody of the kids, she and her ex-husband both live close by in New York City. In addition, David is paying $8,333 a month in child support, plus all other expenses - including summer camp, private school and college - along with $40,000 a month for spousal support. The pair got married in 1997 but separated in 2008 with Duchovny checking into a facility to be treated for sex addiction the same year. The pair rekindled their romance before splitting again in June 2011. In 2012, the ‘Californication’ star insisted they were still married, but separated.

Eva Marie’s flame-haired look boosts her confidence he 29-year-old WWE star is a striking on-screen presence, due to her dyed locks, and says that she’s felt the benefits of chang- ing her hair color. She explained: “Originally I was supposed to go blonde but it’s all about feeling confident and empowered, Russell Brand Tso, for me, my confidence would not have been the same if I’d have gone blonde. “So I decided to go red and make that statement and feel comfortable in my own skin. I decided to go against the grain and that’s definitely what I did and the girlsare definitely shocked. “I think it definitely made a statement.” Eva - who joined the WWE in 2013 - is currently starring in new reality TV show ‘Total Divas’, follows the lives of the WWE girls outside the ring. The show underlines her feisty personality and Eva had no is making a qualms in ruffling the feathers of her WWE co-stars. She said: “It’s all in good fun but, you know, we are girls at the end of the day, and all of us are competing on WWE.” And the former model thought joining the WWE was “perfect” for her because she had been such a tomboy. She said: “I did every single sport, but soccer was my major sport and I played that through college and then after I rap album got my degree in southern California, I went to LA and kind of just started dabbling in modeling and acting and I was doing that for a little bit. “And then, the WWE had a diva search, so I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is perfect for me’.” he 39-year-old comedian and actor - who famously dated Katy Perry - has Tasked to work with ‘La La La’ hitmak- er, Naughty Boy. A source told ‘The Sun on Sunday’: “Russell thinks it would be really fun to put some of the poems to music and Cara Delevingne wants asked Naughty Boy if he would get involved after getting to know him through his girlfriend Jemima [Khan]. “He will pick out some of his favorite quotes to star in a ‘Bond’ film and go into a studio to record them. “Naughty Boy is then planning to trans- he 21-year-old supermodel - who is currently form them into a spoken-word rap. It’s all a filming a Peter Pan movie with Hugh Jackman bit of fun and there are no plans to release it as an official chart single as yet. “But T- is keen to follow her dream of being a ‘Bond’ who knows what this project could actually turn into.” The poems - which will be tak- girl. A source told ‘The Sunday Mirror’: “Cara hinted en from Russell’s new book, ‘rEVOLution’, due out in October - are said to heavily fea- she would love to be involved, but the makers of ture love and what he has learned from his past romances. A source said: “No one Bond had already started considering her as some- knows what Russell is going to be like rapping - if he’s as good as Eminem then it may body they would be interested in.” Cara has previ- well become a huge single.” ously starred alongside Keira Knightley and Jude Law in ‘Anna Karenina’ and has reportedly been approached by ‘Bond’ bosses after she admitted she’d love to star opposite Daniel Craig. The source continued: “Obviously she’s striking, she’s well known and she’s establishing herself as a talented actress. “There would be a real buzz about getting Emily Berrington her involved and the signs are all good. ≠Everybody is excited.” The forthcoming ‘Bond’ movie - which was bullied has the working title ‘Bond 24’ - is expected to see Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw reprise their roles as Bond and Q respectively. ‘Skyfall’ director Sam in school Mendes will also return to his post and the movie is expected to include other big names like Naomie he ‘Inbetweeners 2’ actress thinks teenagers Harris, Ralph Fiennes and Rory Kinnear. Filming will can be “evil geniuses” and says she was sin- start towards the end of this year with the film Tgled out for being quiet and awkward when being released in November 2015. she was younger. She said: “I was really shy at school. I was like an ‘Inbetweener’ but a female one. “Teenage girls are just the most evil geniuses. If a teenage girl sets against you, your life is over. And that happened to me a lot.” However, as time has passed, Emily, 27, has learned to appreciate that what happened at school becomes insignifi- cant in life. She added: “So, I kind of just learned gradually that although it seems massively impor- Taylor Swift is ‘unbelievable and talented’ tant at the time, as time goes on you’re like, ‘Whatever happened to so and so?’ “ The ‘24: Live eff Bridges, the 64-year-old actor stars alongside the ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’ hitmaker in new science fiction block- Another Day’ star recently admitted she is embar- buster ‘The Giver’, and he took the opportunity to “jam” with someone he has a lot of admiration for as an artist. Speaking rassed about her parents seeing ‘The Jon ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’, he said: “I can’t get Inbetweeners 2’. She said: “I don’t want to give enough of Taylor Swift, she is unbelievable and talented... Most away any good gags but there’s a scene with of our scenes are on the piano. “Between setups we broke out some drunk snogging that I remember thinking the gits [guitars]... We just jammed, it was wonderful.” Recently, as we filmed it, ‘I look forward to Mum and Dad Jeff admitted he was unsure whether to take it easy because having to watch this.’ “I’m sure I’ll be embarrassed of his advancing years, or take advantage of the time he has for some of it, but my family are so excited about left by taking on as many projects as possible. He previously seeing the film, I couldn’t possibly deny them that explained: “I’ve got two conversations going on in my head. chance. I think they’ll be cool about it, but maybe One says, ‘Hey, you’ve got a lot of stuff you want to do, man. I should warn them about a few things first.” Now’s the time, because you’re gonna kick the bucket pret- ty soon.’ “The other says, ‘Oh, Jeff, you want to make the rest of your life a giant homework assignment? Just relax, man. Just relax.’ “ lifestyle MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014 GOSSIP

Sinead O’Connor is ‘irregular’

he ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ singer insisted she wanted to try to be ordinary, because there is a pressure to act a certain way “from the minute you’re born”, but she has Tmoved past that and wants to be an individual. She told Billboard magazine: “I gave being a ‘regular’ woman a good few tries. “There is pressure to be a ‘regular’ woman from the minute you’re born, so I was duty-bound to try. But I’m ‘irregular.’ I don’t try not to be irregular anymore.” Meanwhile Sinead, 47, has “learned” to accept and “love” herself no matter what, and feels her new attitude has come from her maturity as she has more expe- rience of life. She said: “I have learned to love myself unconditionally. When people used to say that thing to me about ‘You have to love yourself before you can love anybody,’ I had no idea what they were talking about. “But I’ll be 48 in December, and I think that as you get older, it becomes obvious.”

Brooklyn Beckham ‘smitten’ with Chloe Grace Moretz he son of superstars David and Victoria Beckham is rumored to be dating the ‘Kick-Ass’ actress, and he is Tdelighted to be getting close to her. According to PEO- PLE.com, Brooklyn, 15, is “totally smitten” with the 17-year-old North ‘fascinated’ by movie star, although he is reportedly quite “shy” whereas she is a little “more sophisticated”. A source added: “Brooklyn is very sweet and shy, a really nice boy. Chloe is more sophisti- cated.” The ‘Carrie’ actress has opened up about her friendship with the British star, and admitted when it comes to their Kim’sbeauty regime hobbies, he’s much more likely to be the “risk taker” of the pair. Asked who is a better skateboarder, she recently replied: he reality TV star has revealed her 13-month-old daughter loves to “I don’t know. I mean, he has a pretty small skateboard, and I watch her get ready and it gives them some quality time together. like more of a long board. “I think he’s a risk taker, like a typical TShe told UsMagazine.com: “North actually will totally sit on my lap guy, weaving in and out of people. I’m a safety boarder - I and is fascinated when I’m getting my hair blown out. “And when I’m get- don’t want to break any bones.” As well as skateboarding, it ting my makeup done [too] I’ll give her a little makeup brush, and she’ll was revealed Chloe and Brooklyn have enjoyed low-key dates be entertained.” Kim also explained how her growing family with hus- at popular spinning gym Soul Cycle in Brentwood, Los band Kanye West has meant she isn’t able to get spray tanned as often as Angeles over the summer. A source previously said: “They she used to, and she has instead decided to do it herself because it’s hard cycle next to each other and are very cute. Always look to be to find time to make an appointment. She added: “I used to spray tan cheering each other on with smiles. They also both seem very more before I got married. I would get it so dark and look so crazy... I competitive, but in a fun way.” don’t really have as much time [now], so I just like to spray myself. “The baby and husband are in bed sleeping, I spray myself and go to bed. No one wants to come in the middle of the night once everyone’s down, so it just makes it easy.” Kendall Jenner falling Jennifer Aniston says for Chandler Parsons? he 18-year-old model, who was previously linked to no to plastic surgery Harry Styles and 5 Seconds of Summer singer Ashton TIrwin, was reportedly set up on a date with the 25-year- ennifer Aniston claims Justin Theroux will kill her if she ever has plastic sur- old NBA star by her mother, Kris Jenner, and he has now gery or Botox. The 45-year-old actress feels under pressure to be “ageless” backed out of an upcoming appearance on a reality TV dating in Hollywood, but says her fiancé “will put a gun to my head if I touch my series to be with her. A source told the MailOnline: “Mama Kris J met Chandler a few weeks ago and was blown away by not face in any way.” She said: “I think, what I have been witness to, is seeing women trying to stay ageless with what they are doing to themselves. I am grateful to only his good looks, but his promising B-ball future. “Chandler learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting crap into my face. I see was just about to start filming a series similar to ‘The Bachelor.’ them and my heart breaks. I think, ‘Oh god if you only know how much older He was going to be introduced to a group of gorgeous you look.’ They are trying to stop the clock and all you can see is an insecure women in hopes of being fixed up with the girl of his dreams. person who won’t let themselves just age. I also have a fiancé who will put a “But before the cameras had a chance to roll, he’s pulled out of gun to my head if I touch my face in any way.” She added: “I am fortunate the show.” However, not everyone is happy for the couple, enough to know women like Gloria Steinem, who I think is one of the most including Kendall’s father, Bruce Jenner, who split from Kris stunning women on the planet, and doesn’t touch her face. Diane Keaton, last October. The source said: “On one hand Bruce knows how Annette Bening, all of these fabulous most professional athletes are major players and he doesn’t fearless women who are flawless, want that for his daughter. On the other hand, he doesn’t they embrace it! To each their want to cause trouble since his daughter’s already been own-I don’t judge it if you do it- through so much this year with her parents’ separation. but sometimes I wish I could “Besides, it would be like trying to close the barn door after beg the people I know, who I the horse is already out.” Kendall was first spotted “flirting” am very near and dear to, to with Chandler, who recently signed a three-year, $46 million not touch their face.” But deal with the Dallas Mavericks, at STK LA last month. Jennifer admits she isn’t entirely happy with her body and wants to lose five pounds. The ‘We’re the Millers’ star also told Yahoo! Jay Leno is newest Beauty: “These days, if I was being super picky, I would love Fatburger XXX champ to drop five pounds. That is ay Leno devoured a 24oz burger in just five minutes to be crowned just where I the latest Fatburger XXX challenge champion. The 64-year-old talk- have always Jshow host has gone some way to further his status as a big mouth by been really chowing down on the three-patty calorific treat at the new Beverly Hills comfortable Fatburger branch, TMZ reports. The monster meaty meal may not have at about 110 done Jay’s waistline any favors, but it was enough to earn him a certificate to 113 and secure a place in the Fatburger unofficial hall of fame. Another high- pounds. But profile customer at Fatburger is US boxing champ Floyd Mayweather, who it is harder to was snapped devouring some fat-filled grub in the Nevada version of the get that restaurant earlier in the year. However, both stars still lag some way down, at this behind one former customer who managed to consume a 16-patty, 128oz age.” burger in 35 minutes. It seems that meat-eating challenges are popular in the celebrity community at the moment, as Joe Thomas and Blake Harrison - who play the roles of Simon and Neil in ‘The Inbetweeners 2’ movie - revealed at the premiere of their new film that they did some- thing similar on their jaunt to Australia. The boys filmed much of the new movie Down Under, and revealed they took some time out in between filming to take on a similar challenge - but were significantly less success- ful. Blake, 29, told BANG Showbiz: “Me and Joe did a meat-eating chal- lenge where we were quite sick afterwards.” Joe added: “It was a horrible experience in every way, in every bodily way it was horrible. But mentally it was very nourishing.” —Bangshowbiz lifestyle MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014

Art from Watterson’s comics return auctioned rtwork from “Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Auctions says the three comic strips sold Friday for a Watterson collaborated with “Pearls Before Swine” honor of cartoonist Richard Thompson, who has Watterson’s three-day return to comics has combined $74,040 to three collectors, all of whom cartoonist Stephan Pastis in June after a long Parkinson’s. Proceeds will go to the Michael J Fox Abrought more than $74,000 at auction to ben- wish to remain anonymous. Heritage had expected absence from the funny pages. The artwork was sold Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. “Calvin and efit Parkinson’s research. Dallas-based Heritage the strips to sell for more than $30,000 combined. on behalf of Team Cul de Sac, a charity established in Hobbes” ended in 1995. — AP

Revelers of the Holi Festival of Colors throw colored powders in the air in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Aug 9, 2014. The festival is fashioned after the Hindu spring festival Holi, which is mainly celebrated in the north and east areas of India.

Madrid city square exploded in a color another and danced to the rhythms made Hindu immigrants, the majority of the party- seething mishmash of rainbow colors. Some soon season. The Mediterranean version was kaleidoscope when hundreds of popular by India’s Bollywood films. The Holi goers were young, scantily dressed had come dressed in all-white garb; others a purely festive affair that attracted many ASpaniards and tourists celebrated their festival is held each spring in India and other Spaniards. risked the ruin of whatever clothes they were tourists. version of a traditional Hindu religious festi- countries in southern Asia where the Hindu Participants bought small pouches of col- wearing or went shirtless to turn their torsos This was second time the festival was held val. Around 300 revelers packed the Plaza de religion is practiced, and its popularity has ored powder- red, blue, green, yellow, orange into canvases. In India and Nepal, the Holi in Madrid, but the first time it was held out- Agustin de Lara on Saturday, where they grown recently in other countries. While the and purple - which they then launched in the festival is celebrated and usually held in doors. Similar Holi festivals have been held in tossed handfuls of colored powder at one festival’s organizers in Madrid were mainly air, quickly turning the multitude into a March to mark the beginning of the mon- Barcelona and in other countries. — AP US action hero Steven Radcliffe now into indies, but ‘Potter’ trails K Rowling published a new Harry Potter short story last month. And JDaniel Radcliffe braced himself once Seagal plays gig in Crimea again. The 25-year-old British star faces con- sistent and persistent questions from fans ollywood tough guy and musician Steven Seagal ed. In a March interview with a Russian newspaper and the press about whether he’ll return to played a weekend concert in the Black Sea penin- Seagal was quoted as saying that President Vladimir the character that he spent much of his Hsula of Crimea, appearing on a stage adorned Putin’s desire to protect Russians in Crimea was com- childhood playing. Rowling’s story of a 34- with the flag of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. pletely reasonable. Crimea’s largely Russian-speaking year-old Potter posted online was not Seagal and his blues band played late Saturday at a bik- residents voted in March to become part of Russia in a going to help matters. ers’ show held in the city of Sevastopol, home to Russia’s hastily organized referendum held as Russian troops “I go, ‘OK, thank you Jo. I’ll be answering Black Sea Fleet. The martial artist has come under fire for patrolled the Black Sea peninsula they had occupied questions about this,’” Radcliffe said in a supporting Russia’s March annexation of the peninsula only weeks before. Seagal said he considers Putin, with recent interview. “She can’t help it. She from Ukraine, a view which saw him bounced from the whom he has promoted martial arts in Russia, “a friend wrote me 10 years older and people are still line up at a Estonian blues festival this summer. and I’d like to consider him a brother.” Putin’s spokesman asking me if I’m going to be doing it. He’s At the corner of the stage hung the black, blue and Dmitry Peskov last year told reporters that the Russian 10 years older than I am in this story so it’s red flag of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), declared president and Seagal have been friends “for a long time” really not even a hypothetical at the independent by separatist pro-Russian rebels fighting to and regularly meet. Russian media also reported that moment. I would obviously never say never break away from Ukraine. Fans waved Russian and DNR Seagal put on Putin t-shirt given to him by the concert’s because that’s a foolish thing to say, but I flags as Seagal sang and played his guitar. The United organiser. would have to think long and hard before I States and European Union have imposed sanctions on In television footage broadcast on a channel owned ever went back to anything.” This file photo shows actor Daniel Radcliffe at the RADiUS-TWC “Horns” Russia over its annexation of Crimea and for allegedly by Russia’s defense ministry, Seagal can be heard telling Radcliffe was at Comic-Con panel on Day 2 of Comic-Con International in San Diego. — AP providing weapons and support to the rebels in eastern his hosts about his Russian ancestors. In the March news- International in San Diego promoting one of his two upcoming films, the darkly comic movies from 2001 to 2011. similar phenomenon, since they’re in the Ukraine. paper interview Seagal said he doesn’t rule out eventual- horror tale “Horns.” In it, he plays a man “Being a celebrity who is associated with homes of audiences so regularly. Still, he Seagal said he had travelled to Crimea because music ly seeking Russian citizenship in addition to his US citi- accused of killing his girlfriend who grows something that was very much part of peo- doesn’t want to be the sole person hearing unites people, Russia’s RIA-Novosti news agency report- zenship. — AFP horns that prompt people around him to ple’s childhoods and very close to a lot of about tough times. “I often say, you should reveal their darkest secrets. The actor is peoples’ hearts, yeah, you get people who talk to somebody else who you can have used to hearing unexpectedly personal sto- do come up to you,” he said. “And I’m always regular conversations with about this,” ries from strangers. Fans tend to overshare happy to talk to people. I never mind hear- Radcliffe said. “Horns,” directed by Alexandre some of their troubles when they get a ing something deeply personal, but I always Aja, is set for release Oct 31. Radcliffe’s other chance to meet the man who played the do think, ‘Should you be telling me this?” new film, the romantic comedy “What If,” famously scarred boy wizard in eight Radcliffe notes that soap opera actors face a opened this weekend. — AP San Diego Comic-Con sues Utah convention over name rganizers of the biggest comic-book marks to promote their own convention, said convention in the nation sued their the complaint, which seeks damages and an US action Ocounterparts in Salt Lake City over the injunction. The conventions have become a movie actor event’s name, saying it confuses fans into pop-culture phenomenon and feature the Steven Seagal thinking the two are affiliated. San Diego best in movies, television shows, gaming, sci- Comic-Con’s lawsuit, which was filed fi/fantasy and comic books. Many attendees (right) takes Thursday in US District Court in Southern dress up as their favorite characters. part in a California, says the use of “comic con” in Salt Salt Lake Comic Con’s “actions have bike-show in Lake Comic Con’s name constitutes federal caused, and will continue to cause, irrepara- the Crimean trademark infringement. ble harm to (San Diego Comic-Con) and to city of Utah organizers have been capitalizing on the public which is deceived as to the source Sevastopol. San Diego’s “creativity, ingenuity and hard and sponsorship of (San Diego’s) goods and — AFP work” through unauthorized use of its trade- services,” the suit said. —AP lifestyle MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014

Citroen owners take part in a utility vehicles and 2 CV parade during the “Euro Citro 2014”, on the circuit of Le Mans, western France yesterday. Almost 2,500 Citroen cars - DS, Traction Avant, TUB, 2 CV - took part in the event dedicated to French carmaker Citroen’s fans and car owners. — AFP photos Hollywood uses sequels to cash in big on the cheap f that film looks familiar there’s a reason: Hollywood is relying more than ever on the cash cow that is the safe-bet sequel. From I“X-Men” to “Transformers” to “Planet of the Apes,” this season’s blockbusters increasingly are sequels-and sequels of sequels-to escape ever more unwelcome financial risks. “Sequels are like safety nets for studios and investors; they consistently deliver the most potent box office punch,” said Jeff Bock, a spokesman for industry tracker Exhibitor Relations, which keeps the numbers at US and Canadian box offices. “Consider this: seven of the 10 top-grossing movies this year are sequels and/or reboots. And that’s very typical, as the last few years have trended the same way,” he said giving examples like “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” which has earned a whopping $715 mil- lion worldwide. “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” has netted $710 million; “22 Jump Street” a more than respectable almost $300 million; and “How to Train Your Dragon 2” with a noteworthy $465 million. The northern hemisphere summertime is famously thick with sequels, with many people on vacation and most children with more time than usual to catch a movie. A few weeks later, roughly from September onwards, films that are hoping to get attention as poten- tial Oscar candidates jockey for moviegoers attention.

‘That familiar feeling 2’ There is nothing new, really, about Hollywood wheeling out big- Stellar box office budget sequels to successful global hits. Franchises like “James Bond” and “Superman,” “Star Wars,” “Rocky,” “Terminator” and “Harry Potter” debut for ‘Guardians have tended to keep on remaking it big. And “one look at the release schedule over the next few years shows more of the same: sequels, sequels and reboots,” Bock said. 2014 of the Galaxy’ On Friday, the United States will get the rollout of a new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” flick, the animated favorite; and in weeks to uardians of the Galaxy,” the latest Marvel come there will be premieres for familiar-sounding “The Expendables superhero flick, stormed the North 3” with Sylvester Stallones and Antonio Banderas, and “Sin City 2”, “G American box office over the weekend, with Jessica Alba, Eva Green and Mickey Rourke. “Having a property taking in a whopping $94.3 million, industry figures studios don’t have to sell to new audiences is key: that saves a lot of showed. With an ensemble cast that includes Bradley money on the back end, and it’s much easier to tie-in to companies Cooper, Vin Diesel and Chris Pratt, “Guardians” easily that want to cross-promote and invest in a franchise that is a known bested last week’s number one earner, sci-fi thriller commodity,” Bock said. “Lucy,” which sank to second place with a weekend gross of nearly $18.3 million, according to box office Better safe than creative? tracker Exhibitor Relations. “Get On Up,” a biopic In other words, betting on a “Star Wars” sequel and tie-in toys, is about US soul singer James Brown, debuted in third pretty safe business in a jittery industry. “It is so competitive, to get place with nearly $14 million in ticket sales. In fourth people’s attention, that studios feel like that (sequels help them) place at $11 million was big-budget action film have pre-awareness” benefiting even from potentially short attention “Hercules,” starring Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson. It spans, said Glenn Williamson, a film professor at UCLA. Olivier dropped two places from last week. “Dawn of the Margerie, a spokesman for global heavyweight Disney, said that in Planet of the Apes,” the critically praised latest install- many cases, studio bigwigs decide to rev up the sequel machine ment in the sci-fi film series about apes co-existing even without knowing if the first movie will be a smash. with humans, drew $8.7 million for fifth place. “Production on ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ started when the first Disney’s “Planes: Fire & Rescue,” the computer-ani- mated movie about a talking plane that helps fire- ‘Planes’ hadn’t even been released,” he said, describing it as basically fighters save a national park, made $6 million, leaving as a “financial” bet. Of course, not every sequel catches everyone’s it in sixth place. Horror sequel “The Purge: Anarchy,” imagination. There have been plenty of underwhelming bets, from meanwhile, dropped to seventh place at $5.9 million. “Ghostbusters II” (1989) to “The Exorcist 2” (1977) and even “Basic “Sex Tape,” a comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Instinct 2.” Jason Segel as parents frantic to keep their sex tape But Hollywood keeps getting better at tweaking the recipe for off the Internet, was number eight, pulling in $3.5 success. “Sequels if they do their work (help them) not having to edu- million. Not far behind in ninth with $3.3 million in cate audiences about what this movie is,” said Bock, noting that helps receipts was “And So It Goes,” a romantic comedy star- fuel their big budgets. “Big markets like China, Russia, and India are ring Oscar winners Michael Douglas and Diane almost incentivizing them to make these movies,” Williamson said. Yet Keaton. “A Most Wanted Man,” a spy thriller with the he says any hit franchise worth its bucket of popcorn can “run out of late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his last per- steam” at some point. In this industry with some incredibly big bot- formances, held to 10th place in its second week in tom lines, Williamson was not afraid to throw some shade. “They are theaters, earning $3.2 million. —AFP afraid to take creative risks,” the professor said. — AFP Euro Citro David Duchovny divorces Tea36 Leoni MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2014

Surfers and body boarders wait for waves at Sandy Beach Park in Honolulu. — AP photos Tourists back to paradise as Hawaii struggles

is generator whirring at top electricity as Hurricane Julio lingered Andrew Fujimura and others armed down,” he said, adding that there are speed, Gene Lamkin used rain hundreds of miles off the coast. with chain saws spent Saturday hack- long lines for gasoline. “This is a mas- Hcaptured from Tropical Storm “Those that didn’t prepare are going ing at trees blocking roads or helping sive undertaking to get all these lines Iselle to wash his hair as he and thou- to be in dire straits,” he said. “We neighbors patch up damaged roofs. back up.” Still, many were relieved that sands of others in a rural swath of the invested in a generator years ago, but “The government road is unpassable Iselle didn’t pack a bigger punch Big Island remained in the dark and this is the first time we’ve had to use it and probably will be for a week or throughout the island chain. unable to traverse roads blocked by at a full-time capacity. We always have two,” he said. “This was no Sandy or Katrina or toppled trees. It was a far cry from the our shelves stocked with food and Hawaii County Civil Defense any other storm that you remember way tourists in popular parts of Hawaii water.” Director Darryl Oliveira worries there the name of,” said Sylvia Dahlby, 58, of spent their Saturday - sunbathing, At 8 pm Hawaii Standard Time, the could be injured people rescuers can’t the Big Island’s more populated Hilo kayaking and otherwise back to para- National Weather Service downgrad- reach. “We’re hopeful even with the area. Voters were casting ballots dise despite an overcast sky. “It’s like ed Hurricane Julio to a Category 1, the damage, we don’t have casualties that Saturday after primary election polls camping right now,” Lamkin said from lowest level. Julio’s winds have weak- are unaccounted for,” he said. On the opened statewide, said Rex Quidilla, a cellphone he charged using a gener- ened to about 90 mph, said Sam island of Kauai, rescuers found the spokesman for the Office of Elections. ator after his electricity failed at 8:30 Houston, a forecaster with the weath- body Saturday of a 19-year-old Two polling places in the Puna area of pm Thursday. “We’re using water from er service in Honolulu. Julio was woman believed to have been swept the Big Island were closed, with voters our catchment system to bathe our- expected to pass roughly 250 miles away in a stream while hiking Friday there to cast mail-in ballots after the selves, shampoo our hair - trying to northeast of Maui early Sunday and in a closed state park during a tropical election. The Hawaii Department of remain in a civilized manner.” linger near the state through Sunday storm warning. A boogie boarder Education said schools statewide will Lamkin knows life in the isolated, night, the weather service said. The mostly agricultural Puna barrels over a wave reopen today, except a high school on jungle-like Puna region, where region is as big as the island of Oahu. at Sandy Beach the Big Island that about 400 people unpaved roads of volcanic rock are Tropical storm waning Although it’s quickly growing because Park in Honolulu. used as a shelter Thursday to not maintained by the county, means Iselle brought heavy rain and vio- of affordable property, it’s nowhere Saturday. — AP being prepared for the worst. The lent wind early Friday when it made near as populated as the tourist desti- region, home to about 40,000 people, landfall over the southeastern part of nation home to Waikiki Beach and Pack a bigger punch has spent a day and a half without the island. In the storm’s wake, Pearl Harbor. Umbrellas, surfboards Meanwhile, in the hard-hit Puna and kayaks were back Saturday at region, lines of cars snaked around a Waikiki Beach, but surf shop worker fire station giving away water, tarps Sparky Barros said business was still a and ice, which is in short supply for little slow compared with a normal those without power. sunny day. It was damp and cloudy at The area had the bulk of the 9,200 the popular tourist spot, and rain was customers still without power, accord- off and on throughout Honolulu, but ing to Hawaii Electric Light Co. people went about jogging, swim- Outages could last through the week- ming and lying on the beach. end or longer, the utility said. A public Tourists Ginny and George pool and community center opened Gardner, who were celebrating their to allow residents to shower and 42nd wedding anniversary, spent an charge cellphones. extra day on Oahu after Iselle delayed Self-proclaimed storm-chaser Jeff their flight to Maui. “We’re from Piotrowski of Oklahoma said he’s seen Boston. This wasn’t a storm for us... it some crushed houses and power lines was just a normal windy day,” Ginny down on highways. “There are literally Spectators watch a few surfers at La’aloa Beach just south of Kailua Village Gardner said. tens of thousands of trees that are in Kailua-Kona on the island of Hawaii.

A boy holds an umbrella to a wave in Kailua-Kona on A boogie boarder looks at the waves at Makapuu Beach in Waimanalo, the island of Hawaii. Hawaii.