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TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 RAJAB 18, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Romania Iran’s vote US typewriter Nadal unfurls largest brings aficionados survives flag in receding rewrite history, French the15 world Web14 access slowly36 Open20 scare Barrak jail term quashed, Max 41º oppn vows poll boycott Min 27º High Tide 02:37 & 13:08 Amir accepts Hussein’s resignation, Shamali to stand in Low Tide 07:55 & 20:50 40 PAGES NO: 15822 150 FILS By B Izzak Amir urges national unity KUWAIT: In fast-paced developments yesterday, the appeals court nullified the five-year jail term against opposition leader Musallam Al-Barrak and ordered a retrial, as the resignation of Oil Minister Hani Hussein was accepted, sparing him from facing a grilling over the $2.2 billion penalty payment to US’ Dow Chemical. National Assembly Speaker Ali Al-Rashed meanwhile said the government will attend today’s session which could discuss the interior minister grilling, while after a lengthy meeting, opposition ex-MPs declared they have decided to boycott any future election if the constitu- tional court confirms the controversial amendment to the electoral law. The ruling by the appeals court nullified the verdict against Barrak by the criminal court, saying the trial pro- ceedings were illegal. But the appeals court did not send the case back to the criminal court and decided to conduct the retrial itself. The court also agreed to hear the testimonies of the witnesses demanded by Barrak’s legal team and denied by the lower court and who include Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Sabah, but it was not immediately known if the premier will actually be summoned to testify. The appeals court set June 9 for the first hearing in order to inform the wit- nesses. Barrak was handed the harsh sentence last month by the criminal court even after his lawyers had walked out of the trial in protest against the judge’s refusal to sum- mon a number of witnesses, including the prime minis- ter. The criminal court jailed the former opposition law- maker on charges of insulting HH the Amir during a speech at a public rally on Oct 15. The appeals court also reduced a two-year jail term against opposition tweeter Rashed Al-Enezi to 20 months on charges he insulted the Amir on Twitter. Enezi has been in jail since January and he still has the right to challenge the ruling in the cassation court. Enezi is also on trial in two other KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah performs a traditional dance as he holds hands with Falah bin Eid bin Jame’ and other dignitaries at a din- similar cases. ner banquet held in his honor by bin Jame’ yesterday. — KUNA (See Page 4) Continued on Page 15

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, with the attendance of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, attended Summiteer seeks to inspire Kuwait Airways yesterday a dinner banquet held in his honor by Falah SHARJAH: Adventurer Raha Moharrak, the first Saudi denies flouting bin Eid bin Jame’. In a brief speech on the occasion, the woman and youngest Arab to conquer Everest, urged Amir expressed satisfaction to meet with his compatri- women in the conservative Muslim kingdom of the Gulf ots and urged Kuwaiti people to protect their national to “challenge themselves” as she arrived back in the rules in jet deal unity. “I am glad to meet my dear compatriots, from all region. Her group of four, including a Qatari royal, a walks of life, and around the table of brother Falah bin KUWAIT: In response to newspaper reports on Eid bin Jame’,” the Amir said. “This meeting shows clearly Palestinian and an Iranian, was greeted with cheers and whether a new deal in which Kuwait Airways the close and candid relations between Kuwaiti people garlands of flowers on arrival from Nepal late Sunday at Corporation (KAC) intends to purchase 25 new air- and ruler.” Sharjah International Airport in the United Arab craft to update its fleet went through the right chan- The Amir noted that the meeting, interaction and Emirates. “It was unbelievable,” an emotional 25-year- nels, KAC’s media office yesterday issued a press consultation between the ruler and people were long- old Moharrak, covered from head to toe in a black cloak statement to confirm that no laws or rules had been respected traditions based on Kuwaiti people’s “reli- or abaya, told AFP. “I’m the first but I really hope I’m not violated and that the deal was more than necessary gious teaching and democratic experience”. Sheikh the last,” she said. “I hope it awakens the intention in to update and upgrade the carrier’s planes in the Sabah urged Kuwaiti people to continue their hard (Saudi) women to challenge themselves more.” course of development. work for the welfare and progress of their homeland. Moharrak reached the peak of Everest on May 19, in a The press release stated that according to article “The challenges we face are many and our ambitions first for Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world 11 of law 6/2008 that stipulates turning KAC into a and aspirations are great which require hard and sin- where women are not allowed to drive and where their shareholding company, and according to the fatwa cere work for serving and achieving the prominence of sporting activities are severely restricted. She left her and legislation department, KAC was exempted from our homeland.” home in the Red Sea port of Jeddah on April 3 after a the supervision and monitoring of the Audit Bureau Sheikh Sabah underlined the importance of national year and a half of rigorous training. By reaching the and the Central Tenders Committee (CTC). unity among Kuwaitis. “I urge my compatriots to retain highest point in the world, she said she has now “Accordingly, KAC violated no monitoring laws by the one family spirit to protect national unity and to achieved her ambition of climbing nine mountains, directly contacting the manufacturers,” stressed the statement, pointing out that article 2 of law 21/1965 counter any attempt that aims to instigate sectarian or including in Europe, Tanzania, the South Pole and on KAC’s aims included authorizing the board of tribal sedition among Kuwaiti people,” he stressed. He Argentina. called for upholding the state of law and the respect of directors to purchase, sell, charter and lease air- Speaking to AFP by telephone from Jeddah, her planes, spare parts and other equipment. The release judicial verdicts. “The law should be applied on all with- father Hassan said: “I’m very proud of her... It’s great out any exception,” he said. The Amir reiterated his also stressed that KAC’s board of directors had been what she managed to tell people here and everywhere.” authorized by Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) to adherence to the democratic approach and respect of Moharrak, who had worked hard to convince her family the state constitution. He thanked bin Jame’ for the kind take all measures needed to upgrade the carrier’s to allow her to scale the 8,848-m (29,029-ft) Saudi climber Raha Moharrak poses with her coun- invitation, and prayed to Allah the Almighty for Kuwait’s fleet and sign necessary relevant contracts. Continued on Page 15 try’s flag on Mount Everest on May 18, 2013. — AFP safety, glory and progress. — KUNA Continued on Page 15 in the news

Kuwait grants Bahrain bans contact Saudi monarch turns Bahrain jails 14 for Oman $2.5bn aid with ‘terrorist’ Hezb guard into ministry killing Pakistani MUSCAT: Kuwait will finance development projects DUBAI: Bahrain yesterday banned opposition groups from RIYADH: Saudi King Abdullah yesterday upgraded the DUBAI: A top Bahraini court upheld a 15-year jail term for in Oman worth $2.5 billion as part of pledges made having contacts with Hezbollah, as the Sunni-ruled king- National Guard, the kingdom’s parallel army seen as a pillar of 14 Shiites yesterday after they were convicted of killing a two years ago by members of the Gulf Cooperation dom moves to limit the Lebanese Shiite movement’s sus- the ruling royals, to a ministry to be headed by his son Prince Pakistani in Manama during the 2011 uprising, a judicial Council, the non-OPEC sultanate announced yester- pected influence on its restive Shiite majority. Last month Mitab. The decisions were announced in a decree by King source said. The Court of Cassation announced its verdict day. Based on the framework agreement signed by the Gulf state listed Hezbollah as a “terrorist organisation” - Abdullah, the state news agency SPA reported. Sandhurst- in the presence of 12 of the accused, the source said, representatives from both countries’ governments in in line with the US - following a recommendation by the educated Prince Mitab, who heads the force, has been adding that the remaining two had been tried in absen- Muscat, Oman will receive the funds in 10 years with parliament that is boycotted by the opposition. “Political appointed Minister of National Guard, the decree said. King tia. A court convicted the defendants of beating the vic- $250 million to be granted annually, Oman’s state associations are prohibited from having any form of con- Abdullah had himself led the National Guard from 1962 to tim to death “for terrorist purposes”, the source said, cit- news agency ONA reported. The money will be used tact with the Hezbollah organisation,” Justice Minister 2010, when he handed its command over to Mitab. The body ing the charge sheet. A semi-military court established to finance joint construction and infrastructure proj- Sheikh Khaled bin Ali Al-Khalifa said in a ministerial decree. is formed of recruits from the tribes who have traditionally under a state of emergency in 2011 had originally sen- ects, such as water, electricity and rail projects, said A second clause in the decree stated the Iran- and Syria- backed the rule of the Saud dynasty since it spread its rule in tenced the men to life in prison. But an appeals court ONA. At a meeting in Riyadh in March 2011, the six backed group was a “terrorist organisation”. Al Wefaq, the the Arabian Peninsula. The National Guard is a trained army reduced the sentence to 15 years in December last year. GCC states decided to establish a $20-billion fund to main Shiite opposition party in Bahrain, said it had no for- of around 200,000 men, divided into infantry units, mecha- Lawyers for the defendants said their clients were “tor- finance development projects in Bahrain and Oman, mal contact with Hezbollah. “Contacts between Al Wefaq nised brigades, special units, and military police. It operates in tured” while in custody in 2011, and no action has been which have limited energy resources. The measure and Hezbollah do not exist,” Al Wefaq member Hadi Al- parallel, and as a palace-directed counter balance, to the taken in response to their complaints. Scores of Shiites was taken in the wake of protests that swept several Moussawi told Reuters. “There is no cooperation between Saudi ground forces. Its duty is mainly to support the interior have been jailed over accusations of involvement in vio- countries as part of the Arab Spring, which also hit us. Our concerns are internal and do not require us to be in ministry in preserving security, combatting terrorism, and lence since protests against the ruling Sunni Al-Khalifa Bahrain and to a lesser extent Oman. contact (with them),” he said. protecting vital installations across the kingdom. dynasty erupted in Feb 2011. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 LOCAL Kuwait hosts first Social Media Summit ‘Insights into trends enhancing electronic media’ By Nawara Fattahova

KUWAIT: The social media and modern technology is interfering in all domains of Electricity our daily life. It is the most important tool and instrument in modern life and has consumption entered the world of business also. Some people are dependent on it to expand their business and spread information. In hits 10,050 view of the ever increasing importance of these new world technologies, Kuwait is hosting its first Social Media Summit at megawatts the JW Marriot Hotel from May 27-28, KUWAIT: Kuwait recorded the highest electricity load 2013. this year on Sunday at 10,050 megawatts with temper- Kuwait’s most high-profile social atures beginning to rise, signaling the start of Kuwait’s media experts gathered at the summit hot and dry summer. Moreover, a Ministry of Electricity titled ‘Insights into trends enhancing and Water official quoted yesterday by a local newspa- electronic media.’ This event is being per revealed that Sunday’s consumption rate exceed- organized with the support of Central ed the rate recorded on the same day last year by 600 Agency for Information Technology. megawatts. “The fact that consumption rates reached Experts from both, public as well as pri- this level at this time of the year indicates that electric- vate sector, are pooling their brainpower ity production is likely going to barely meet expected together to elevate the nation to the record-breaking consumption rates this year,” said the forefront of social and electronic media. source who spoke to Al-Rai on the condition of Underlining the growing importance anonymity. of social media, Facebook users in the Weather forecasts predicted temperatures to reach Arab world have tripled in just two years as high as 53 C degrees sometime this summer, mainly from 16 million to 45 million, with a 50% between the second half of July and the first half of boom in the past one year alone, accord- KUWAIT: (From left to right) Qusai Al-Shatti, Eddie Coates-Madden, Dr Hassan Dawood and Ibrahim Al-Badawi are pictured dur- August. “The MEW has plans to run all units at full ing to the Arab Social Media Report. ing the first Social Media Summit at the JW Marriot Hotel yesterday. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat capacity at that time to meet the projected demand,” Meanwhile, Twitter remains a reliable the source assured. Meanwhile, the source underlined barometer of the region’s biggest talking General Manager of CAIT, social media cations, having created a vast world focused on the development of Kuwait. the importance of signing the necessary contracts for points, with approximately six million has become an effective tool with which where users can exchange information Wataniya wants to be a key contributor to the South Zoor and Subbiya power plants’ tenders, tweets per day, about 70 per second. official government bodies can commu- instantly, monitor reactions, view the our ever changing and dynamic society. hoping that these can add 10,00 megawatts to the However, despite this progress, some nicate with their citizens. He said, “I hope news and read polls in one place - all in a By sponsoring the Kuwait Social Media state’s production by next summer “when consump- challenges remain. One imbalance is that this Summit encourages government transparent environment,” explained Al- Summit, we will help create platforms tion is estimated to increase by eight percent.” the overwhelming majority (70%) of the organizations to be more proactive, Suraie. that will help the community to engage Meanwhile, other ministry insiders blamed “a deficit region’s social media users are youth responsive, and progressive.” In words that sent a strong signal in an open dialogue, provide an easy in water production that resulted due to maintenance (aged 15-29); therefore governments are The media has its importance in social, about the summit’s importance, the access to information, opinions and inter- operations at the desalination units” as the reason keen to encourage a more equitable security, economic and educational Conference’s Chairman, Ibrahim El active communications.” behind water disconnections reported recently in usage of social media among diverse age domains. “The information technology Bawadi, who is eGov and Social Media From a business perspective, the Farwaniya and other places in Kuwait. “A number of groups, making it a more accurate reflec- has provided more abilities and opportu- Consultant, said, “Governments can no region’s LinkedIn users surged by 20% in units at the Shuaiba and West Doha plants were out of tion of the population. Another area for nities for the private media, thus ending longer afford to be reactive, and must six months. Surprisingly, most are not service due to required maintenance, which resulted in growth is language usage. Arabic is the the government’s monopoly of the now be proactive. graduates or fresh jobseekers as is nor- a deficit of 44 million imperial gallons of water when it fastest growing language in Twitter’s his- media. The private media has proven that That means preventing any miscom- mally expected, but young professionals came to the state’s daily production rate,” explained tory, making it vital for governments to it was better than its public counterpart munication or misconception before it and entrepreneurs. This is welcome news, the sources who spoke to Al-Rai on the condition of engage their populations in their own when it comes to making revenues. We even occurs, through regular two-way considering that SMEs contribute over anonymity. They added that the ministry resorted to language. all know that social media is attracting dialogue on social media.” These senti- 40% of the region’s employment and, in the country’s strategic reserve of water in order to The Summit was launched yesterday advertisers as the number of people ments were echoed by Biju Saith, some cases, over 90% of total economic compensate this shortfall in production.— Al-Rai with Salah Mansour Al-Mubaraki, using it has reached one billion in a Conference Director from the organizers activity. Undersecretary of the Ministry of record time, thanks to Twitter, Facebook of the event Streamline Marketing Group. Microsoft Corporation in Kuwait’s par- Information, delivering the opening and others,” added Al-Suraie. He stressed that “it’s not about hosting ticipation in this event revolves around address on behalf of Sheikh Salman Al- He emphasized that the younger gen- another summit; it’s about strategic highlighting the advantages for govern- Hamoud Al-Sabah, Minister of ment and private organizations to Information and Minister of State for embrace the enterprising social tools that Youth Affairs. In that address, he said that will drive real business results with social the Kuwaiti government and business networking, and are “transforming the organizations should not only move businesses.” ahead with time but actually stay a step Ehab Mostafa, Microsoft Kuwait ahead by anticipating social media trends Country Manager, said, “Microsoft has an and planning accordingly. exciting vision for Enterprise Social. We “The biggest challenge that we are want to help companies transform their facing at the Ministry in the world of business with Enterprise Social. Our social media is to ensure the security of vision consists of three parts: Connected the information exchanged between the Experiences - Social must be a natural departments and the individual. We part of how we work, it has to be seam- should make sure that this information lessly woven into the tools you use every must not be hacked and criminals must day to get your work done. Connected not be able to access this information Platform - in order to be successful, social and misuse it. The issues of suitable juris- must be a part of a platform that IT can diction should be decided in this matter,” rely on to manage and secure. Social added Al-Mubaraki. Layer allows embedding social anywhere The number of Facebook users has where people are getting work done, —Photo by Maha Al-Hadi dropped in Kuwait. “According to a latest whether it’s a different device or a differ- study in March last, Kuwait is the only ent application.” Arab country where the number of KUWAIT: Photo shows some of the participants at the first Social Media Summit at Wassim Hamad, Public Sector Director, Girl killed in Facebook users dropped by about 14 per- the JW Marriot Hotel yesterday. Microsoft Kuwait added, “Social has clear- cent, while the number of Twitter users ly rewired the way we communicate in increased at a rate highest in the world. eration knows how to handle mobile thinking, it’s about the future of Kuwait.” our personal lives, and we believe it will bus accident This means that people in Kuwait tend to technologies smoothly due to their Social media has grabbed global have a similar impact on the way people go for the latest social media tools and access to advanced gadgets and their headlines for its role in the region’s poli- get things done at work.” “The impact By Hanan Al-Saadoun refrain from using older ones. Any gov- proficiency in the English language. tics, and panelists explored how it can be social technologies can have on the abili- ernment plan should take into account “They are using their mobile phones as harnessed as a constructive tool in gov- ty of a company to transform and be KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti girl was killed yesterday afternoon after this fact and react as quickly to any their primary means of communication ernment and business organizations. On agile is huge. In fact, more than 64% of a bus driven by an Indian expat ran over her opposite her change as individuals do. Also, some peo- and information exchange, and they behalf of Wataniya, one of the co-spon- the organizations that successfully go school at Umm Al-Hyman area. Security sources said that ple are misusing the social media to expect others to be able to engage with sors of the summit, Fatma Dashti, the through a transformation use social the girl died on the spot after the accident. The driver was break laws and commit crimes,” he fur- them via social media,” he pointed out. Head of Marketing, said, “We are always media to engage and energize people, detained. ther said. “Twitter and Facebook are the most keen on participating and investing in while driving great communication and In another development, the operations center received According to Abdullatif Al-Suraie, successful models of social media appli- social events and initiatives that are involvement.” a report yesterday morning about a house fire in the Saad Al-Abdullah area. Firefighters from the Jahra fire station rushed to the site and evacuated the two families living there. The families consisted of a total of 10 people, most of them being children. Many of those children suffered from suffocation and were taken to hospital. The fire start- ed from under the staircase, where various materials were stored. The fire was brought under control in a very short period of time, before it could spread to other parts of the house. The fire department’s public relations officials urged house owners to avoid a “time bomb” by not storing things at random without meeting safety requirements, and to always keep a fire extinguisher at home. Kuwait lawmaker criticizes ‘Islamic Education’ study KUWAIT: A lawmaker criticized a recently published academic study about the Islamic education curricula in Kuwait, saying that it contained “several misleading notions” mainly with regards to claims that religious teaching methods were out- dated. “The study was based on an incorrect basis, and the results reflected that,” said MP Dr Abdurrahman Al-Jeeran, who is a member of the Educational Affairs and Culture Committee in the parliament. The study, carried out by Dr Fawzi Ayoub and published by Al-Qabas on Sunday had indi- cated that Islamic studies teaching in Kuwait’s schools depended chiefly on making students memorize information rather than utilizing ideas to their benefit. The study also said the Islamic studies domain also needs to face challenges such as accepting the multitude of jurispru- dential ideologies, accepting differences in religion, sectarian groups and ideology, as well as balancing Islamic legislation and the bill of human rights. MP Dr Al-Jeeran questioned an issue mentioned in the study that claimed that the curricula focus on a single topic that hasn’t changed in years. “It is com- mon knowledge that Islam is regarded by Muslims as God’s religion, and that all Heavenly Religions have the same con- tents and beliefs, which is monotheism,” he said. Moreover, Dr Al-Jeeran pointed out certain contradictions that he said he found in the study. “At one point, the researcher claims that the curricula are exaggerated and were not commensurate with students’ minds. At the same time, he recommends that textbooks include information taken from different jurispru- dential schools, just as comparative jurisprudence is taught in institutes of higher studies,” he explained.— Al-Qabas TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 LOCAL

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Cabinet approved the resignation of oil minister Hani Hussein in their weekly Seif Palace session yesterday thanking him for his “loyal efforts, memorable achievements and reforms.” — KUNA

News Impotent Kuwaiti in brief KOC employees demand review KUWAIT: Several employees at the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) contested in the administrative court certain deci- wins divorce case sions taken by the KPC appointments committee set up by Oil minister Hani Hussein. Claiming that these decisions were tarred with discrimination, they demanded a review. They said the appointments committee issued its report in which it discriminated between employees who were pro- Wife gives birth 3 months after wedding moted. It retained 18 and revaluated 38 who were promot- ed, thus proving that the selection criteria adopted were not fair and needed revision. Meanwhile, an official source KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man, whose wife delivered a baby just Drugged man charged bullets found recently near a company premises in Al- in the committee said all the procedures regarding three months after their marriage, won a divorce through Police arrested a man on Sunday after he entered a Ardhiya. Police reached a place described by a Kuwaiti appointments and promotions were adhered to as per a court order. The plaintiff’s attorney explained during the house with a knife in hand while being under the influ- man who made the emergency call. They collected 934 approved rules and laws, and all decisions were in compli- recent hearing at the Court of Personal Status that his ence of drugs. Officers rushed to a house in Qortuba after rounds of AK47 assault rifle that were found scattered all ance with competence tests. client never consummated his marriage with the woman a Kuwaiti woman reported a stranger barging into her around. since he was impotent, and provided documents indicat- house. The woman locked herself up inside the bedroom Agency to help Bedoons ing that the man was undergoing psychological treatment and called the police as soon as she saw the suspect in her Reckless driver costs father KD3000 A total of 22 NGOs, political factions, committees and stu- for his condition. He also explained that his client was not living room. The man was arrested since the police discov- A Kuwaiti man had to pay KD3000 in speeding tickets dent movements announced the formation of a National aware of his wife’s pregnancy since she was obese. A birth ered he was heavily intoxicated. An identity check for violations committed by his son using his car. While Agency for Supporting and Resolving the Issue of those without Nationality. In their statement marking the found- certificate of the newborn that the lawyer presented dur- revealed that the suspect was Kuwaiti and had a history of checking his traffic violations’ status online, the man was ing the hearing showed that the child was born only three criminal conduct. He was charged with entering the house ing of the new body, they said they agreed on the impor- shocked to discover that he was required to pay KD3000 tance of bring this long drawn issue to a logical conclusion months after the marriage. The lawyer also argued that with the intent to commit a crime, as well as drug abuse, a for multiple incidents of over speeding. He realized that after it has lingered for more than 50 years without any the woman plotted to claim paternity for her child after fact proven by medical examination. He will remain in cus- his son was responsible for the violations after learning serious moves or deep rooted solutions to ameliorate the luring the man into marrying her by promising that she tody pending legal action. (Rai) that all these violations were committed at the Second sufferings of nearly 120,000 human beings. They said any will support him during his psychotherapy. The man Ring Road which was his favorite driving destination. resolution will also help boost Kuwait’s reputation in the refused an offer of money made by her to drop the legal Jahra conman nabbed The man was given the option to contest the tickets in human rights domain. suit. Jahra police arrested a conman wanted in six separate court but opted to pay instead in order to ensure that cases in which he collected more than KD35,000 through the suspension order imposed on his transactions at Suicide attempted scams. The man had come to strike a deal at a store in government departments was lifted. KOC wins int’l awards A man was arrested after he tried to commit suicide but Amghara but was caught red-handed since police had Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has been awarded for its distin- was thwarted by a last-second intervention by a family reached there based on prior information. Preliminary Doctor assaulted guished health, safety and environmental standards by member. Police rushed to a Hawally house on Sunday after investigations indicated that the suspect used to claim he British regulators RoSPA and the British Safety Council on A doctor practicing internal medicine filed a case a girl reported that her father had attempted to shoot was the owner of shops to make agreements with suppli- Sunday. KOC was handed the Occupational Health and against a patient who reportedly beat him up inside his himself. She further explained that a family member was ers looking to sell their merchandise in the market. In all Safety Award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of office at the Sabah Hospital recently. Police reached the able to give a shove to the man’s hand a split second the six cases reported in Al-Jahra, the complainants Accidents (RoSPA) and the Safety Award from the British medical facility in response to an emergency call made before he pulled the trigger, making the bullet go astray claimed that the suspect disappeared after obtaining the Safety Council in two separate ceremonies at London and and miss its target. The man, who is a government goods with the promise of paying for them later. The man after a noise was heard from the doctor’s office followed Birmingham. The awards were handed to the Kuwaiti state- employee, fled the scene by the time police arrived. was referred to the proper authorities to face charges. by the doctor calling for help. The suspect managed to owned holding company and Kuwait Petroleum Officers questioned his wife who confirmed her daughter’s escape and drove away before the police arrived, but Corporation (KPC) subsidiary for its export and marine version of events. Meanwhile, the man’s brother handed Bullets found officers obtained his car’s license plate number from operations “in appreciation of the company’s distinguished over to the police the pistol used in the incident. Investigations were on to determine the circum- eyewitnesses. The doctor headed to the Shuwaikh police efforts in redeveloping its policies related to health, safety and the environment,” said the company statement. Investigations were on in search of the man. stances leading to the discovery of a large number of station where battery assault charges were pressed.

KUWAIT: Some workers and drivers are pictured at Shuwaikh Industrial area. Kuwait City and Friday Market used to be a crowded place every Fridays and Sundays. Expats have deserted Kuwait City and Friday Market because of the ongoing crackdown. — Photos by Ben Garcia Charge for ‘helper’ up as crackdown continues

By Ben Garcia like him, so I don’t go out,” he The ongoing crackdown is affecting added. low-income expatriates. Many of KUWAIT: Hasawi and Jleeb used to Kamil’s residency status is legal; them had entered Kuwait through be the go-to places for hiring mar- he is a 20 Visa holder. But 20 Visa bogus employers or companies, and ginal labour if you want to paint now allows holders to work in are now facing difficulties in your house or add bricks to your domestic environments, in the defending their rights. wall. This is not the case anymore. In capacity of gardener, family cook Another per-hour employee has the past two weeks, the places once and driver. If holders of 20 visa are a similar destiny. Muhamad Rahim flocked by labourers look aban- caught working outside their was working as truck driver in doned since the government’s respective sponsors, they will be Shuwaikh. He is a legal worker and crackdown on illegal workers start- subjected to deportation. “That is is never afraid to be checked by the ed. why I am very careful nowadays. As police. But he has a complaint. Kamil is one of those workers long as possible, I don’t want to be Hiring helpers is an expensive affair, who used to wait by the side of the checked by police because I just got and they are also hard to find. “We road every day to get part-time this visa. Because I already got this used to have many Bangladeshi employment on a construction proj- (visa), whatever happens to me is helpers in this place who were help- ect in someone’s house. Kamil, a not the responsibility of my sponsor ing us do our job fast and easy. Bangladeshi helper, is now trapped anymore and they’ll never inter- Now, besides being expensive, they in his house and avoiding places fre- vene,” he said. are also hard to find. They are not quented by authorities. Police In Salmiya, particularly at Shara coming here now like they used to a nowadays are stopping cars and Amman (Amman Street), a place few weeks back,” admitted Rahim, buses, as well as checking worksites, where plenty of labourers such as who is stationed at the Shuwaikh to sniff out illegal expatriates. “I cleaners, helpers and even con- Industrial area. Rahim, a full-time have a friend who was caught by struction workers could be found driver and a holder of Visa 18, is the police early this month and was earlier, is now virtually empty. “They working with a private transport deported. He was living illegally in were coming only for some extra company and driving a waneet (4X4 Kuwait. He was caught on the bus money and some of them were ille- truck). He says, “The holders of 20 while returning home. Then, he was gal workers-but now they are hardly Visa are not allowed to work as detained for some days - and now found. There are some who turn up helpers, so they are very much he is back home in Bangladesh,” but are very careful,” a source from a afraid of the police and are not com- Kamil said. “I don’t want to end up Bakala nearby told Kuwait Times. ing now.”

Kuwait urges citizens in UK to be ‘cautious’

LONDON: The Kuwaiti Embassy in the their safety. It also urged Kuwaiti citi- group of far-right Britons said they UK has asked its citizens in Britain to zens to contact it once they are in trou- would stage demonstrations in London keep a low profile. The embassy ble, affirming that its employees are on and several other cities over the recent warned nationals to be cautious and to standby to provide all types of help to killing of a British soldier with a meat keep away from planned gatherings in Kuwaitis at any time. The warning by cleaver by two suspects who were various British cities in order to keep the Kuwaiti embassy came after a reportedly of the Muslim faith. —KUNA TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 LOCAL

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, with the attendance of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, attends yesterday a dinner banquet held in his honor by Falah bin Eid bin Jame’. —KUNA Traffic dept collects KD5 million in April Year’s income from traffic violations could hit KD50 m

KUWAIT: Kuwait collected nearly will be nearly double the average ish transactions, including those ized by the ministry. Al-Othaina, KD5 million from traffic tickets last annual revenue from traffic tickets, about licenses, insurance, etc,” the who is the also the Minister of month, posting a significant normally pegged between KD25 sources said. Housing Affairs, did not provide increase that security sources million and KD30 million. In other news, Minister of details about the plan or how the attributed to the extensive cam- The extra efforts by the General Communications Salem Al- system was going to “reduce the paigns led by the General Traffic Traffic Department to collect dues Othaina announced that the min- number of international calls Department during the past num- from companies and individuals istry soon planned to introduce a made illegally,” a claim he made in ber of weeks. The insiders who have also been credited by the new system that will help fight a statement to Al-Qabas on spoke to Al-Rai on the condition of source for encouraging quick pay- ‘theft of international phone sig- Sunday. A report last March indi- anonymity believe that this year’s ment of fines. “Fines reaching up nals,’ or cases in which people cated that ‘theft of international income from traffic violations to KD3000 have to be paid before make calls internationally using calls’ costs the MOC at least KD50 could reach KD50 million, which any company or individual can fin- methods other than those author- million annually.— Agencies Iraq’s FM to visit Kuwait over chapter 7’s closure KUWAIT: Iraqi Foreign Minister will take a decision to lift the from the restrictions under this Security Council approved a pro- Hoshiar Zeebari will soon visit restrictions imposed on Iraq under chapter, and the foreign minister posal to transfer the money Kuwait Kuwait to discuss the issue of chap- the chapter 7 rules. Abawi said, will go to Kuwait to discuss this had deposited with the UN fund to KUWAIT: Kuwait Journalists Association Secretary Faisal Al-Qanaei received ter 7’s closure, the undersecretary “Iraq has met all its commitments issue.” An official source at the compensate Iraqi farmers to the News and Communications Manager at the Arab League, Consultant Faleh Al- at Iraq’s foreign ministry, Labeed in regards to chapter 7 and these Kuwait foreign ministry said the Iraqi government. Mutairi, and Director of the Technical Secretariat for the Arab Information Abawi, said. He said based on the have reached their conclusion.” He issue of maintaining the border These farmers were affected by Ministers Council, Yasser Abdulmunem Abdulatheem, who are visiting Kuwait talks in the past, and the ones on added that “Iraq was waiting for the markings between the two coun- maintenance operations of border on an invitation from the Ministry of Information. the anvil, the UN Security Council meetings that will discuss its exit tries stood closed after the UN markings.—Agencies TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 LOCAL Boubyan Bank lauds ITQAN Academy

KUWAIT: A number of Boubyan pass all staff from all levels; the fact advanced educational tools, relying while maintaining our career devel- Bank’s staff praised the role played by that reflects the Bank’s vision towards on its partnership with GUST, which opment,” he added. Industrial sector ‘essential Boubyan ITQAN Academy, which was staff, who are considered one of its gives its curricula a professional Rehab Al-Tawari ( Senior Specialist established in cooperation with Gulf key pillars that should be maintained impression.” at Boubyan Bank) also commented: pillar of Kuwait economy’ University for Science & Technology and invested.” On his part, Khaled Al-Rahmani “Joining GUST to continue my study (GUST) in developing their scientific Meanwhile, Fahad Al-Bader (Manager at Boubyan Bank) said: and obtain the MBA with the support KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary for Kuwait International Fair in Mishref. level and enhancing their profession- (Manager at Boubyan Bank) said that “The current policy adopted by the of Boubyan Bank is a fact that makes Company Affairs and Commercial Licenses He added that the Public Authority of al experience; which will be reflected the Academy strives to upgrade and Bank of encouraging staff to develop me proud of belonging to this institu- Dawood Al-Sabej has stressed the importance Industry is planning a special distribution of in the future on performance level enhance the level of the Bank’s their educational level reflects the its tion paying care to its human of providing the necessary support for the approximately 3,000 industry sites for the next and customer service in the Bank to human resources by providing all the social responsibility towards staff and resources and their development.” industrial sector as an “essential pillar of the four years. With regard to the participation of make it the Islamic bank of choice in moral and material means, as its care for their future, as the encour- Al-Tawari added: “I appreciate that Kuwaiti economy.” The Ministry of Commerce companies and institutions at the exhibition, Kuwait. At the beginning, GM - the Management has given me the and Industry and the Public Authority of Al-Sabej said that the event will include many Human Resources Group, Adel Al- opportunity to join the MBA pro- Industry supervised by Minister Anas Al-Saleh of the country’s local industries, who by doing Hammad said that the partnership gram out of its belief in the impor- turned their attention toward supporting the so - will aim to showcase their products, between Boubyan and GUST opened tance of investing in human industrial sector to provide an appropriate describing the event as “encouraging to the new vistas, whether in terms of the resources and its impact represented environment for industrialists, Al-Sabej said industrial sector.” More than 30 industrial com- types of provided programs or distin- in enhancing the academic level of after the opening of a Kuwaiti industry confer- panies and institutions in Kuwait are set to guished lecturers, the fact that will staff and consequently performance ence and exhibition yesterday at that the take part in the exhibition.— KUNA contribute to the continuous devel- quality, especially considering that opment of staff. GUST is one of the most prestigious Al-Hammad pointed out that the and technologically advanced uni- Kuwaitis, Palestinians ink number of staff joining the Academy versalities, expressing her pride of since its launch last July is 112 Boubyan Bank, which will always be MoU on Gaza healthcare employee including 56 in MBA pro- pioneering in developing staff capa- gram and 56 in Bachelor’s program at bilities and investing in them.” GAZA: The Ministry of Health of the deposed Ahmad Sharaf Director of Al-Rahma society in GUST College of Business On his part, Faisal Al-Ahamd Hussein Khalifa Palestinian government has signed a the Gaza Strip, in the presence of other officials Administration. Al-Hammad added Fahad Al-Bader (Branch Manager at Boubyan Bank) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with from the Ministry of Health. The MoU included a that this large number, despite the expressed his thanks ITQAN Kuwaiti Al-Rahma Society for Relief and completion project including equipping a cen- short history of the Academy, proves Academy’s team including execu- Development, a Kuwaiti non-government fund- tral washing and sterilization unit in Al-Shifaa staff’s care to develop their scientific tives and academic lecturers from raising agency on Kuwait’s financing of several medical complex in Gaza. The two projects capabilities and expertise as well as Boubyan Bank and GUSt, indicating health projects in the Gaza Strip. The MoU was would be funded by the Gulf Cooperation enhancing their practical experience, that the Academy represents an signed by Dr Mohammad Al-Kashef, Director Council (GCC) Reconstruction of Gaza Program which will have significant impact on example of the unique and fruitful General of the International Cooperation and managed by Islamic Development Bank customer service in the future. academic cooperation that combines Department of Kuwaiti Ministry of Health, and (IDB) of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.— KUNA Noteworthy is that in cooperation both scientific and practical study. with GUST under the Bank’s strategic Al-Ahmad added, “When the MBA partnership with the University, the when was offered for us in Boubyan Academic Partner, the Academy pro- Bank, I did not hesitate to join it, as vides a number of training programs the key advantage of this Academy is for the Bank’s staff, which give them that it will enhance both our scientif- the opportunity to get 55% of the of ic and practical expertise at the same MBA credits, and 50% of bachelor’s Khaled Al-Rahmani Rehab Al-Tawari time, in addition that it includes a credits. Since it has started to imple- distinguished group of lecturers with ment its new strategy in 2010, the high academic expertise.” Bank takes into consideration that Meanwhile, Al-Ahmad advised all developing and enhancing the skills those having the ability, willingness and expertise of its human resources and ambition to join Boubyan ITQAN should be the corner stone for Academy. achieving all the Bank’s goals and Firas Al-Qaddoumi (Senior make this strategy successful, noting Manager at Boubyan Bank) said that that the top executive management ITQAN Academy made a qualitative regards this as a priority. leap in the area of professional train- On his part, Hussein Khalifa ing, whether on the level of Kuwait (Executive Manager at Boubyan or the whole region, noting that Bank) said that one of the key trends since his joining the Bank in the early of Boubyan Bank is the care paid to Faisal Al-Ahamd Firas Al-Qaddoumi inception in 2005, no such develop- human resources as manifested in ments were witnessed in the area of supporting and developing the same Boubyan has a unique approach in agement and support provided to us training in the Bank before the through continuous training for staff facilitating and overcoming the by the Bank gives us strong motiva- establishment of ITQAN Academy. in order to develop skills and obstacles that encounter the staff tion to complete this program.” Al-Qaddoumi praised the enhance their capabilities, indicating willing to get higher or university “In view of the increasing work Academy’s care to solicit lecturers that ITQAN is the best example for degrees, stemming from the Bank’s pressure, it has become difficult to with the highest degrees of profes- the Bank’s support to staff and its belief in the key role of science and combine the requirements of work sionalism and perfection and its care to prepare them to face work knowledge in enhancing productivity and study. However, Boubyan’s sup- strive to provide all the requirements challenges by providing them the and creativity. port in providing the appropriate for improving staff performance in best internationally accredited cours- Al-Bader added: “ITQAN Academy atmosphere for study as well as put- manifestation of the Bank’s belief the es. “The key distinctive aspect of enjoys high capabilities and distin- ting the requirements of work in human factor is the cornerstone of ITQAN program is that they are not guished cadre, through which it pro- mind will enable us, God Willing, to the success of any institution and confined to training program for vides its students with the best scien- complete the program and obtain that staff are the true wealth and high-level staff, but rather encom- tific experience using the most the required scientific knowledge investment. Banks to implement rules of governance

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti banks will start implementing the rules of governance from mid- June as stipulated by the Kuwait Central Bank. The banking sources said the Central Bank was serious about making all banks implement the governance standards without any exception. They said banks expressed readiness to operate as per the governance standards at any time designated by the Central Bank. The source said that the banking sector, whether traditional or Islamic, was ready to comply with the standards and there were no more obstacles since the banks had begun preparing for the move two years ago. Such a head start will make it easy for them to implement the standards at the designated time. Central Bank Governor Dr. Mohammad Al-Hashel said that the chairmen of various banks have shown the ini- KUWAIT: Vice Chairman of the Rumaithiya Co-operative Society Khalid tiative to start implementing the governance standards in order to safeguard the Jermen (right) receives a check from the Commercial Bank of Kuwait and banks from potential risks and obstacles. The governance program will help banks presented by Regional Manager - Banking Management Department, avoid unnecessary obstacles, difficulties, and losses. Also, the banks’ working will Lina Darweesh (center) and Rumaithiya Branch Director Fahad Al-Khalifa. stand regulated properly and they will be able to work as per a permanent growth The financial contribution comes as part of the CBK’s efforts to support plan, besides avoiding tripping due to any unforeseen problems.— Al-Watan social activities and events held in local communities. ‘Think.Eat.Save’ KPC, UNEP to mark World Environment Day

KUWAIT: Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has announced that it would be celebrating, in cooperation with United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), World Environment Day (WED) on June 5 under the theme “Think.Eat.Save”. The event will create awareness on the environ- mental impact of food waste and loss across the food supply chain, according to the UNEP website. The latest statistics in Kuwait showed the “astonishing” facts, that the country’s food wastes are estimated at around 50 percent of the total general waste, Mohammad Al- Farhoud, Managing Director for Planning and Finance at KPC said in a press statement, adding that around 38,000kgs of unconsumed food are being destroyed on a daily basis. These “worrying” numbers pushed KPC and its sub- sidiaries to take a positive stance through launching an awareness campaign that aims at decreasing wasteful food consumption. KPC encourages members of the society to take part in limiting this negative phenomenon, said Al-Farhoud. He indicated that the slogan title for KPC’s media campaign would be “Making a Difference”, in which its media messages and announcements are centered around instilling a sense of personal responsibility towards pre- serving the environment through adopting new attitudes on consumption, donating excess food, and spreading awareness to limit the waste of food. KPC was recently awarded a certificate of appreciation by UNEP for its efforts on raising public awareness and pre- serving the environment. —KUNA TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 LOCAL

kuwait digest In my view

Not really a Better solutions ‘dewaniya’

By Abdullatif Al-Duaij

y fellow columnist Emad Al-Seif has com- mented on a recent column in which I had By Labeed Abdal Mcriticized officials’ traditional visits to the dewaniyas. I found his comment understandable given his position as a lawyer of former Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, who is currently the subject of a campaign that is [email protected] neither responsible nor innocent as it has to do with the welcome he receives at dewaniyas and by tribal chiefs. etention centers are full, transfer of spon- I had in a generic sort of way criticized the sors is not allowed more than twice, and the dewaniya visits such as those made by senior state DMinistry of Interior has resumed conducting officials during the early days of Ramadan, to wed- raids. These are the steps being taken by authorities dings, funerals and on special occasions. Since he is concerned to fight illegal employment and deal no longer a state official now, Sheikh Nasser has with uncontrolled rise in the number of illegal resi- every right to spend his time the way that best dents. I think we are in the age of information serves his interests. What I had pointed out in my explosion, in which great software can help record column was a new phenomenon that has emerged kuwait digest the entire population’s data in a portable hard disk. in recent years in the form of heads of tribes invit- We need to quickly start the review process for ing top state officials to luncheons and similar Take it easy, UAE. We are the 100/10 plan, to teach a lesson to those respon- events. sible for the current problems. It is not fair when While such invitations are currently being innocent people are arrested because of mistakes extended only by tribes, there is nothing to stop on the way...... slowly! made during the issuance of arrest orders, which in sectarian groups, families and even individuals from turn happen as a result of names and descriptions doing the same in the future. After all, everyone is getting mixed up, or because civil IDs or passports were left behind at home or with the Mandoob for equal in a supposedly democratic and society. By Hamad Salem Al-Marri While invitations are currently being sent to the the purposes of the making of Iqama papers. Head of State, I am certain that the trend is going to Also, the inspection campaign to arrest residen- he e-government services launched by the UAE both citizens and expatriates. In this, Sheikh Mohammed cy law violators and others involved in various spill over and the same will be extended to the government via smart mobile phones, facilitating considered the UAE government as a hotel and its users crimes should be conducted very delicately, within Crown Prince, the Prime Minister, the Parliament’s both citizens and expatriates to access these any- as the hotel’s tenants who should be able to enjoy best T the parameters of law enforcement requirements Speaker, etc. Soon enough, invitations will become time and anywhere, is a giant leap forward, coming on hospitality and quality services at the drop of a hat. This and international standards. Such steps will ensure a tradition similar to officials’ tours around the heels of similar initiatives in the past that have placed vision of one leader made the UAE people adore their a high level of security for people living, working dewaniyas on certain occasions, something that the UAE ahead of all the countries in the region. This leadership and defend it as if they were all one big family. and travelling in Kuwait. Homes must be made safe was feasible when Kuwait had only a few dozens of remarkable development has made the UAE a global For them, the government is but a guardian that spares from thefts and burglaries, usually done by people these dewaniyas compared to the hundreds that tourist attraction as well as a promising economic power. no effort in achieving their welfare and security. Although, like many other regional states, the UAE At a time when the UAE is moving fast-forward to who are jobless and hungry. dot the country today. In fact, dewaniyas in their was also in a state of slumber, ensure welfare and develop- For developing the long awaited financial hub, current form are considered a ‘new’ phenomenon thanks to its lethargic bureau- ment of its people, our min- transportation must be modernized through the that is not part of Kuwait’s old heritage. cracy, it began to develop sub- Aside from being blessed with a istries here in Kuwait are still construction of new roads and underground trans- In pre-oil Kuwait, only the Nokhatha (captain of a stantially by the mid-1990s and young leadership that keenly living in the 1980s and it takes port systems. Everybody will be happy when such pearl diving ship) had dewaniyas where he could has been posting outstanding responds to the feedback it receives a citizen agonizing efforts to jobs are well done, which will make homes and meet with his sailors, and where pearl divers com- development in various fields get one single transaction workplaces perfect. No doubt, we all just want to ing from the desert or nearby villages could stay ever since. Thanks to the from the people, another secret done as he runs from pillar to guarantee the security of people’s lives and money. before the beginning of the seasonal pearl diving Almighty and to its young lead- behind the UAE’s advancement is the post, especially when a single Above all, we want to return home from work safe ership that is highly competi- ministry’s different depart- trip. Back then, Kuwaitis worked from 6:00 am to speed and decisiveness in decision- at night. 6:00 pm, and went to bed directly after the Isha tive and innovative instead of ments are located in various (evening) prayer. merely imitating, it has become making. This was why the Dubai gov- areas all around Kuwait. A citi- This means that dewaniya gatherings in their a landmark for technical, ernor and UAE premier, Sheikh zen often sets out early in the kuwait digest human and real estate devel- morning but only to get stuck current form were never an original Kuwaiti tradi- opment among the Arab coun- Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, in traffic congestions. Finally, tion, but rather a product of a rentier society. The tries. gave a two-year grace period to all when he reaches his destina- original dewaniya was expected to fade away as the Aside from being blessed tion an hour or more late to Dignity of economic situation in the society in which originat- governmental officials to execute the with a young leadership that ‘Smart Government’ project. start his marathon run ed changed. The current form of dewaniya could keenly responds to the feed- between offices, he is some- a nation not have been compatible with the pre-oil era soci- back it receives from the peo- times told to come back the ety in which Kuwaitis worked hard during the day ple, another secret behind the UAE’s advancement is the following day. Often, he also finds out that the concerned and slept during the night. But it fits perfectly with speed and decisiveness in decision-making. This was why clerk or official is late for work or is absent. By Najat Al-Hashash today’s society in which no one works, or at least the Dubai governor and UAE premier, Sheikh Eventually, it takes him days to finish his transaction. the majority does not work in the comprehensive Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, gave a two-year Often when he is asked to approach another depart- he countdown has begun for June 16, when sense of the word. Most people in industrial and grace period to all governmental officials to execute the ment, it means yet another drive through the city traffic the Constitutional Court is set to pronounce ‘Smart Government’ project. He promised that those who to get that elusive signature before coming back to manufacturing countries sleep around 8:00 pm and Tits highly anticipated ruling on challenges to failed to meet that deadline would have a farewell party square one. Although the government here has also wake up at 4:00 am or 5:00 am to make sure that an emergency decree that reduced the number of awaiting them at the end of that period. launched its e-government project, it is still in its prelimi- votes a citizen can cast from up to four to only one. they make through the traffic to reach their place of Having executed the e-government project, Al- nary stages and a lot of work still needs to be done man- work in time. Here, children sleep past midnight The court is also expected to issue much anticipat- Maktoum thought of taking advantage of the software ually in routine. So, unless and until our officials give due ed verdicts on challenges against the decree to dis- and adults go to work whenever they feel like it. It is installed in the smart phones, and worked towards estab- care to development issues to ensure welfare of the peo- solve the 2009 parliament, as well as challenges no wonder then that dewaniyas have become a lishing a ‘smart government’ accessible through mobile ple, we can only beg the UAE to take it easy so as not to against membership of some current MPs accused necessary tradition. — Al-Qabas phones. This would facilitate government transactions for embarrass us.— Al-Watan of lacking qualification of enjoying a ‘good reputa- tion’. All attention will shift to the Constitutional Court that day to see whether its ruling will result in dis- kuwait digest solution of the ‘single-vote’ parliament or allow it to continue. The Constitutional Court is the highest judicial body in Kuwait as it features top consult- Make it look like the truth ants and judges who determine the constitutionali- ty and legitimacy of controversial laws; a field with

By Thaar Al-Rashidi Everybody is required today to n Kuwait, we cover up political truth reason. Yes, at least without any reason understand that the Constitutional with tons of flattery, because we do that can justify the rise since we have Court’s rulings are not affected by Inot call things by their real names. no industry or operational powers in public pressure or demonstrations Do you believe that due to the new reality except a few companies. National Assembly Council, which All that is happening is based on calling for change. Instead, they are some people refer to as the ‘council of just speculation and money is virtually based on regulations and articles of achievements’, the wheels of corrup- raining. Once this rain stops, specula- the Kuwaiti Constitution, the source tion have stopped moving or at least tion too will stop and the rise in the of all legislation for the judiciary. they are now grinding at a slower stock exchange index will stop too. pace? Believe me, the answer is a clear Our stock exchange index has resounding: No. In fact, corruption has exceeded the 8000 points for the first a long history of crucial decisions. In the meantime, only increased in a way that no one can time since 2009. This is not a sign of Kuwait is a democratic state with impartial judici- imagine, and when a new council good political health, but mostly a sign ary, and having educated people aware of what comes in, whether after the month of of political sickness. Our KSE, contrary freedom means. All of these dictate that we all June or after three years, the size of to other international stock exchanges, must have full respect for and commitment to the mega thefts will be known. has nothing to do with our political Constitutional Court’s ruling, regardless of whom it A British wisdom reality. Things favors. says: when you make might be upside Everybody is required today to understand that A British wisdom says: the Constitutional Court’s rulings are not affected a mistake once, you down, and there when you make a mistake by public pressure or demonstrations calling for are excused but are grilling once, you are excused but change. Instead, they are based on regulations and when you make the motions pending. articles of the Kuwaiti Constitution, the source of all same mistake again, when you make the same Political opponents legislation for the judiciary. Kuwait will be in the then you are to be mistake again, then you are are feuding but international spotlight on June 16, and therefore I blamed. It is so to be blamed. still we find the wish that Kuwaitis harboring different political because the mistake index is greener views reflect a praiseworthy image that improves in the first place was than the verdant Kuwait’s reputation worldwide, and helps each a fate accompli, but committing the house garden. I am not spilling out any Kuwaiti around the world to earn the respect of the same mistake for the second time is a secret if I say that the government, or people around them. Showing respect to the law is matter of choice. more accurately the authority, pumps showing respect to the entire nation and other The Kuwait Stock Exchange market in money into the stock exchange nations. That is why it is important that everyone realizes never saw a catastrophe bigger than whenever the political situation that June 16 is not a date for the ‘final battle’ Al-Manakh, but till this moment we do becomes complicated and reaches a between two bitter rivals, but a day when the repu- not know the reasons, nor who were its critical point. This is not a secret, and to tation of a whole country will be on the line. champions. In 2008, the second KSE this extent, the rule says: “If there is Kuwaiti can earn a good reputation if Kuwaitis tsunami came but till now we have no grilling...sell.” respect the law and do not question the integrity of idea what happened. What we know is NOTE: For a minister, it is impossible to the court. A final word for a certain group of colum- that we blame it on the “international speak the truth even if he tries. To him, I nists who ‘fish in muddy waters’ to achieve personal financial crisis.” say: “Politics is not always about telling gains: remember that staying behind the red lines Billions have disappeared and most lies, but about being very good at this means a lot to the society, and that the nation’s dig- of these from the pockets of the mid- game; so good, in fact, that you must nity is the biggest gain any citizen must aspire to dle class. Today, KSE rises without any make it look like the truth.” —Al-Anbaa achieve. — Al-Rai TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013

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PARIS: Anti-gay marriage demonstrators face riot police, not seen, while teargas canisters smoke during clashes in Paris, France, Sunday. Tens of thousands of people protested against France’s new gay marriage law in central Paris on Sunday. The law came into force over a week ago, but organizers decided to go ahead with the long-planned demonstration to show their continued opposition as well as their frustration with President Francois Hollande, who had made legalizing gay marriage one of his keynote campaign pledges in last year’s election. — AP Thousands protest gay marriage in Paris

PARIS: At least 150,000 demonstrators took to Police said 150,000 people turned out to the streets of Paris to protest a new law allow- protest, a figure immediately contested by ing gay marriage, a largely peaceful gathering organisers who said one million opponents of that later turned violent as riot police battled the law had shown up. Some of the far-right hundreds of right-wingers. activists briefly unfurled a banner at the ruling Kosovo war veterans rally Police said they had made a total of 293 Socialist party’s headquarters urging President arrests and that six people were injured in the Francois Hollande to resign. course of Sunday’s demonstration: four police As the protestors dispersed, after a largely against EU crimes probe officers, an AFP photographer and a protester. peaceful march, police said up to 500 people Interior Minister Manuel Valls, in a statement, began attacking them by throwing metal barri- PRISTINA: Thousands of Kosovo Albanians, Among those arrested were Sylejman Brussels launched the EULEX mission to blamed the “extreme right” for the violence. ers, smoke flares and beer bottles. The youths mainly veterans from the country’s 1998-99 Selimi, a former KLA commander in the strengthen the rule of law and assist the “These incidents were provoked by several shouted slogans against the government such hundred individuals, most from the extreme as “Socialist dictatorship” and also threw separatist war with Serbia, protested yester- area, and current ambassador to Albania, local judiciary in tackling the most sensitive right and the (nationalist) Identity Bloc, who objects at journalists covering the event. day against an EU war crimes probe into and central Kosovo town Srbica mayor Sami cases or even pursuing them independent- violently attacked police,” he added. The rally Late Saturday, police had detained 50 peo- former guerrilla fighters. Lushtaku, a top official of prime minister ly. came as the jury at the Cannes film festival in ple involved in an anti-gay marriage protest on The protest comes after the European Hashim Thaci’s ruling Democratic Party of KLA guerrillas fought the armed forces of southern France on Sunday awarded its Palme the busy Champs-Elysees avenue. Fears of Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo Kosovo. then Serbian strongman Slobodan d’Or top prize to the sexually graphic lesbian unrest at Sunday’s protest had been fuelled by (EULEX) last week detained seven former They were ordered to serve 30 days Milosevic during a 1998-1999 war. They are love story “Blue is the Warmest Colour” by violence that erupted earlier this month during fighters with the ethnic Albanian Kosovo under house arrest despite a request by still considered heroes among Kosovo’s French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche. celebrations marking football club Paris Saint- Liberation Army (KLA). Italian prosecutor Maurizio Salustro for majority ethnic Albanian population of The main demonstration on Sunday saw Germain’s league victory, which saw tourists The seven are being probed for war them to be held in prison pending the out- almost two million. three separate processions converging on the attacked and shop and car windows smashed. crimes against civilians held in a KLA deten- come of his investigation. Last month, a top former KLA command- Invalides esplanade, filling the huge prome- Some 4,500 security forces were mobilised tion centre in the central Kosovo municipal- It was unclear whether Selimi would er Fatmir Limaj, also an official from Thaci’s nade with pink and blue-the colours adopted for Sunday’s demonstration that was billed as a ity of Srbica, EULEX said in a statement. keep his ambassadorial post and Kosovo’s party, went on trial for war crimes along by the anti-gay marriage movement. last-ditch show of force by opponents of the The detention centre was located in the foreign ministry was not available for com- with nine lower-ranking KLA fighters. bill allowing same-sex mar- northwestern Drenica region, the wartime ment. Protestors in Pristina chanted “KLA, The war, which claimed around 13,000 riage and adoption, which was voted into law on May 18 stronghold of the ethnic Albanian guerril- KLA!” and carried photos of the seven sus- lives, ended when a NATO-led air campaign following months of bitter las. “EULEX is tarnishing the most promi- pects as they marched peacefully along the halted Milosevic’s crackdown on the pro- protests. nent personalities of our freedom war,” said main streets of the capital. independence Kosovo Albanians and oust- But those in the protest Smajl Elezi, head of the war veterans’ union Kosovo unilaterally declared independ- ed his forces from the territory in June ignored the recent tensions, in Pristina. ence from Serbia in 2008. Just months later, 1999. —AFP bringing their children along as others had in previous demonstrations. “We keep hearing about a far-right movement, I can see only families here,” said one man called Raoul, who came from the city of Dijon. Onlookers were instead treated to creative forms of protest. One man dressed in black held a scythe and wore a mask of Hollande as he stood behind a coffin contain- ing a mannequin dressed as Marianne, the emblem of France. “Hollande, your mother isn’t called Robert”, shouted some of the demonstrators in a slogan that gained in popu- larity as the afternoon pro- gressed. Supporters and opponents of the bill began protesting last autumn when it was adopted by the cabinet, and continued to do so at reg- ular intervals throughout the country during the legislative process. The definitive vote in the French parliament came on April 23 when the law was passed legalising both homo- sexual marriages and adop- tions by gay couples. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Peacekeepers cannot protect civilians in S Sudan’s east

JUBA: The United Nations peacekeeping Pibor town in Jonglei have fled their problems we have with air transport and road access. On April 9, gunmen tank, the Clingendael Institute, which said force in South Sudan lacks sufficient troops homes, aid agencies say, following looting by road. So we can not protect civilians in ambushed and killed five UN peacekeep- the UN mission steered clear of confronta- and aircraft to protect civilians affected by by the state security forces and rebel big, big, big numbers,” Johnson told ers and seven civilian staff in Jonglei. tion with the government and failed to ful- fighting in an eastern region, the UN envoy threats to attack it. The head of the UN mis- Reuters. The UN mission has 6,560 troops Earlier this month President Salva Kiir said fill its role as a watchdog. “If you come as said yesterday. sion, Hilde Johnson, said she has doubled to cover a country the size of France with he would punish ill-disciplined members an outsider with no history, and you come Tens of thousands of people have been the number of peacekeeping troops in barely 300 km (200 miles) of paved roads. of the security forces engaged in acts of waving the whip, I can assure you that the uprooted by clashes between the army Pibor. Seasonal rains have turned the region, violence against civilians in Jonglei and outcome is not necessarily going to be the and rebel forces in Jonglei state. “We can not sustain a presence with the where the government hopes to drill for oil also those who gave the orders. Johnson most positive one for your cause,” the Almost all of the 10,000 residents of logistical capacity that we have, with the with France’s Total, into a swamp, severing also dismissed criticism by a Dutch think- Norwegian envoy said. — Reuters Neighbors in Lebanese city fight Syrian proxy war

TRIPOLI: In a rundown district of Lebanon’s sec- up checkpoints around the Alawite neighbor- Tripoli’s Alawites feel they face an existential ond largest city, residents have adapted to wag- hood. Heading there is risky because of snipers. threat. “The Alawites are being subjected to an ing war with their neighbors. Whenever violence Bab Tabbaneh is more safely accessible from organized campaign that aims to eliminate them breaks out, they string large cloths across inter- the center of Tripoli. The Lebanese army moved on all levels,” Ali Feddah, a community leader, sections to block snipers’ view, sleep in hallways two armored vehicles to the edge of Bab said earlier this month. to take cover from mortar shells and abandon Tabbaneh over the weekend, but the deploy- Alawites make up just 2 percent of the popu- apartments close to the front line. ment seemed largely symbolic. lation in Lebanon and are surrounded by a large The sectarian fighting between the two During a visit Friday, local gunmen controlled Sunni majority in Tripoli, a city of half a million neighborhoods stretches back four decades to the streets. Some sat in groups on plastic chairs people about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Lebanon’s civil war. But it has become more fre- along the sidewalk of Syria Street, a main thor- Beirut. quent and increasingly lethal since the start of oughfare just a block from Jabal Mohsen. They In Bab Tabbaneh, some said they can the Syrian conflict in 2011. The two districts sup- were on a break, smoking and talking. Most of empathize with those on the other side. “They port opposite sides. the fighting takes place after dark, when com- also have children,” 45-year-old Bab Tabbaneh The latest round between Bab Tabbaneh and batants fire machine guns, mortar shells and housewife Sahar Ashrafiyeh said of the Alawites. Jabal Mohsen over the past week has been the rocket-propelled grenades at each other. Bullets have hit her balcony and bedroom wall, bloodiest yet, leaving at least 28 dead and more Their current battle coincides with an offen- and her exposed kitchen has made it hard for than 200 wounded. sive by Syrian troops and Hezbollah on Qusair, a her to cook for her family of nine. Bab Tabbaneh is mostly Sunni, while Jabal predominantly Sunni town in western Syria. The The Ashrafiyehs fled the neighborhood in Mohsen is home to most of Tripoli’s Alawites, fol- fighters offered a range of reasons for shooting 1985, after her husband Mahmoud was shot in lowers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam. An 18-year- at their neighbors, from defending their district the leg, she said. The family settled in Germany old with a patchy black beard and a Kalashnikov to taking revenge for previous bloodshed or let- but returned in 1992, a decision her husband assault rifle had nothing good to say about Jabal ting off steam against Assad and Hezbollah. But now bitterly regrets, she said. Mohsen. “They don’t fear God, they are bad peo- beyond inflicting as much pain as possible on Lebanese leaders have expressed concern ple,” he said of his neighbors. the other side, there seemed to be no clear about the risk of escalation. Referring to the US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) shares a light moment with Jordan’s Prince The teen said he is one of 10 brothers who objective to the fighting. clashes in Tripoli, President Michel Suleiman Hassan bin Talal in Amman, yesterday. Kerry unveiled a plan to boost the Palestinian have taken up arms, including one who tried to Khaled Shahsheer, a 42-year-old taxi driver warned last week that “with our own hands we economy by attracting $4 billion in private investment, saying it could transform the join the Syrian rebels but was captured and lives of the people. —AFP killed by Assad’s troops. Lebanon, a fragile patchwork of more than a dozen religious and ethnic groups, has with- Iran, an increasingly burning stood many sectarian flare-ups since its 15-year civil war ended in 1990. issue for world powers But there are signs the spillover from the Syria conflict is getting more serious. In addition PARIS: A controversial nuclear pro- rejected Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi to the Tripoli fighting, gunmen from rival reli- gramme, suspected growing involvement Rafsanjani, a moderate ex-president who gious sects are increasingly engaged on oppo- in the Syrian conflict and tightly-controlled had held huge political sway.Analysts say site sides in Syria. presidential elections-Iran is an ever- the move indicates that Khamenei is tight- Over the weekend, Lebanon’s Shiite Muslim increasing source of concern for Western ening his grip and eliminating any poten- Hezbollah, which has been fighting alongside powers. Tehran last week excluded most tial in-fighting ahead of a new government. Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces, said it would-be candidates from its June 14 elec- “The lack of transparency makes it highly would do battle until victory over Syria’s rebels, tions, keeping only those loyal to the all- unlikely that that slate of candidates is most of them Sunni Muslims. On Sunday, two powerful supreme leader, dashing any either going to represent the broad will of rockets struck Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut, hopes that a more moderate president the Iranian people or represent a change,” apparent retaliation for Hezbollah’s support of would be voted into power. And as world US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday. Assad. powers concentrate on rallying support for Alireza Nader of the US-based non-profit In Syria, Shiite-dominated Iran and Hezbollah a June peace conference on Syria, the role research organisation RAND Corporation have lined up behind Assad, an Alawite, while of close Damascus ally Tehran in the bloody said “there was some hope that a more Sunni states like Saudi Arabia support the rebels. conflict is coming under increasing scruti- moderate figure like Rafsanjani could be In Bab Tabbaneh, many say they are caught in ny. elected and soften Iran’s stance on the the same kind of proxy war between the region’s “We see... that day after day Iran’s forces nuclear issue.” But he said the eight candi- Sunni and Shiite powers. are strongly engaged on the side of (Syrian dates allowed to contest the polls are “Their problems are being played out here,” President) Bashar Al-Assad, and this is cer- almost all “tightly linked to Khamenei. So Bab Tabbaneh resident Mohammed Bukhari, 53, United Nations peacekeepers stand next to their armored vehicles on the Lebanese side of the tainly not the way to advance peace,” we must not expect much if one of them said. Bukhari’s second-floor apartment faces border with Israel, opposite the northern Israeli village of Metulla (background), on May 27, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said becomes the next president.” Jabal Mohsen, just a few dozen meters (yards) 2013. The Israeli army was investigating the possibility that projectiles were launched at the Sunday. The issue is likely to come up at a Western powers accuse Tehran of devel- away. On May 19, when fighting broke out again, northern Israeli border village from Lebanon overnight, after residents reported hearing Monday meeting in Paris on the Syria con- oping an atomic bomb under cover of a Bukhari moved with his wife, five children and explosions. — AFP ference-planned for June in Geneva- civilian nuclear programme, which Iran has two grandchildren into an empty apartment fac- between Fabius and his US and Russian always categorically denied, and the two ing away from Jabal Mohsen. wearing camouflage, said unemployment and are turning Lebanon into an arena (of conflict).” counterparts. Iran is accused by Western sides have for years been locked in negotia- “My own apartment is very dangerous,” he poverty in Bab Tabbaneh are feeding sectarian The Lebanese army has not been able to act and Arab countries which back rebels fight- tions on the issue. said, pointing to bullet holes in a wooden cabi- tensions. Two others, who spoke on condition of decisively, in part because of Lebanon’s complex ing Assad of supplying weapons and send- These talks-involving Iran and the so- net and an interior door. Many leave for safer anonymity for fear of retribution, said they are political constellations and because it does not ing military forces to the Syrian military, in called P5+1 group that includes the United areas during the fighting. Those who remain also settling old scores. have a monopoly on power - Hezbollah’s militia a conflict that has claimed some 94,000 States, Britain, France, Russia, China and behind try to cope. They’ve strung large sheets “We have a long blood account open with is a powerful rival. lives since 2011. Germany-have not delivered any break- of tarpaulin across streets that are otherwise them,” said a 28-year-old money changer with an In Tripoli, the government is particularly weak A top US official has said that Iranians throughs so far. exposed to snipers from Jabal Mohsen, blocking M-16 sniper rifle. “It’s not just about Qusair.” and the army, perceived here as Shiite-dominat- are working alongside their Shiite And the IAEA, the UN atomic agency, their aim. One family, near the Bukharis, climbs The neighborhood forces clashed repeatedly ed, has to ensure local political support before Lebanese ally Hezbollah fighters to back said this month that Iran was making sig- out a second-floor back window and down a during Lebanon’s civil war. They fought again in moving in. Some in Bab Tabbaneh take the fight- Syrian troops battling to retake the rebel nificant progress in expanding its nuclear ladder to reach the street because the front 2008, after Hezbollah overran several Sunni ing in stride. A Syrian refugee family living in two stronghold of Qusayr, near the Lebanese programme and had accelerated the instal- entrance faces the front line. Tempers flare neighborhoods in Beirut for a week and Tripoli’s small rooms next to the Andalus cinema said border. But Iran has denied this, saying it lation of advanced uranium enrichment quickly. On a recent morning, a young bread Sunnis retaliated. Since the start of the Syria con- Tripoli is still preferable to Homs, the battered has never sent military forces to Syria “and equipment at its Natanz plant. Khamenei’s vendor who tried to set up his tray of goods near flict, there have been more than a dozen rounds Syrian city they fled 18 months ago. will never do so”. attempt to consolidate more power comes the local Harba mosque was quickly spotted as of fighting. The money changer’s sniper position In Homs, no one was safe from raids by pro- France has expressed reservations over at a time when Iran is struggling to cope an outsider. A crowd of men, shouting and push- - a sandbag-reinforced hole poked into the wall regime forces, said the father, who spoke on any involvement of Iran in the peace con- with harsh economic sanctions over its ing him, accused him of being a Syrian spy and of the neighborhood’s dilapidated “Andalus” cin- condition of anonymity because he did not want ference, and Fabius said Sunday that nuclear programme, targeting its vital oil marched him to the mosque, where he was ema - goes back to the 2008 fighting. He said his to endanger relatives back home. “It’s better Tehran’s participation risked “preventing a exports. locked in a room. Jabal Mohsen sits on a slope grandfather was killed in clashes with Jabal here,” he said. “They attack each other, but every- political solution rather than favouring According to a top official at the US above Bab Tabbaneh. The Lebanese army has set Mohsen in 1979. one stays in their place.” — AP one.”Any hope that Iran’s presidential elec- Treasury, Iran loses 3 to 5 billion dollars per tion would bring about a change of tack month due to these sanctions that have was dashed last week when the country’s pushed inflation in the country above 30 Guardians Council barred hundreds of percent. One Western diplomat who Bahrain jails Kenya president faces salary would-be candidates from taking part in refused to be named said there should be the vote. even more pressure on Iran. 14 Shiites for reform rebellion by MPs The unelected election watchdog “Either we bring them to their knees NAIROBI: Kenya’s new President Uhuru “These are not small promises, they are cleared just eight individuals loyal to economically, or there will be a military killing Pakistani Kenyatta faces an early test of his reform quite substantial, and Kenyatta knows that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s ulti- strike, which we would like to avoid,” said plans to cut spending and create new jobs, by allowing higher pay for MPs there could mate decision maker. Most significantly, it the diplomat. — AFP DUBAI: A top Bahraini court upheld a 15-year jail term for 14 Shiites yesterday after they were convict- with lawmakers seeking huge pay hikes for be a spiralling effect among other public ed of killing a Pakistani in Manama during the 2011 themselves. servants, who will demand more pay and uprising, a judicial source said. Kenyatta, who won a closely-fought this could destabilise his agenda,” said The Court of Cassation announced its verdict in March 4 election, has backed a move by a Kuria. the presence of 12 of the accused, the source said, state agency to cut salaries for members of The president wants to cut a public sec- parliament, among the best-paid legisla- tor wage bill that is now 50 percent of adding that the remaining two had been tried in tors in the world, whose pay is a source of annual tax revenue. The International absentia. popular anger. Monetary Fund puts the global benchmark A court convicted the defendants of beating the The lawmakers are to vote as early as at about 35 percent. victim to death “for terrorist purposes”, the source this week on a motion to overturn a reduc- The commission set the lawmakers’ pay said, citing the charge sheet. A semi-military court tion in their pay decided by the state’s at 532,000 shillings ($6,300) per month to established under a state of emergency in 2011 had Salaries and Remuneration Commission, try to trim the public wage bill after MPs’ originally sentenced the men to life in prison. arguing that the pay cut was against the numbers rose to 350 from 222 previously But an appeals court reduced the sentence to 15 law. Kenyatta, 51, son of the nation’s found- following the creation of new constituen- years in December last year. Lawyers for the defen- ing president, spoke of the need for slim- cies before the March elections. dants said their clients were “tortured” while in cus- mer government in a speech to mark the Ignoring Kenyatta’s repeated pleas to be tody in 2011, and no action has been taken in opening of parliament last month, and of frugal, the MPs want to be paid 851,000 response to their complaints. Scores of Shiites have economic reforms meant to deliver on a shillings - similar to what their predecessors been jailed over accusations of involvement in vio- campaign pledge to achieve double-digit earned during the last parliament - as well lence since protests against the ruling Sunni Al- growth. Officials say the economy will grow as higher perks to pay for their cars and Khalifa dynasty erupted in February 2011. 6 percent in 2013, up from 4.6 percent the other allowances. That would guarantee Despite a heavy-handed crackdown by security previous year. A lawmakers’ salary increase them more than 130 times the legal mini- forces in mid-March 2011, supported by Saudi-led could also trigger wage pressure from rep- mum wage of 6,498 shillings. Gulf troops, protesters quickly returned to the streets, resentatives in the country’s newly-demar- Many Kenyans view members of parlia- mainly in Shiite villages, where they frequently clash cated counties, as well as teachers, police, ment as symbols of an “it’s our turn to eat” with police. and doctors. political culture, in which officials view Kenyatta’s Jubilee coalition, which con- public office as an opportunity for personal At least 80 people have been killed in Bahrain trols parliament, has promised to deliver gain, which has poisoned Kenyan politics since February 2011, according to the International free maternity care, laptops to primary for decades since independence. Federation for Human Rights. Strategically located school children, better roads and a million “Legislators must work for us first, not Israeli school children study in a shelter of their school during a simulation rocket across the Gulf from Shiite Iran, Bahrain is home to new jobs a year, in a country where the demand more pay before they even start attack as they take part in national exercises in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet and is a major offshore finan- unemployment rate stands at 40 percent. their term. They should go to the villages to yesterday. Israel launched a national civil defense drill, which the army said will this cial and services centre for its Arab neighbours in the Moses Kuria, a strategist for the coali- see real poverty,” said George Wafula, 37, a year focus on the threat of unconventional weapons at a time of growing regional oil-rich Gulf. — AFP tion, said Kenyatta was urging his coalition security guard in a wealthy suburb of the tensions. —AFP to tone down members’ pay demands. capital. — Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Trio arrested over London attack released on bail Two women released without charge LONDON: Three people arrested over the grisly on Saturday on suspicion of conspiracy to mur- spouting Islamist rhetoric has raised concerns murder of a soldier in London have been der have been bailed. Another man arrested for about a backlash against Muslim communities. released on bail, British police said yesterday, the same offence on Thursday was also bailed, Despite calls for calm from Prime Minister David while the two main suspects remain in hospital. while another remains in custody. Cameron and Muslim and Christian leaders, one Detectives are trawling through CCTV Two women arrested last week were released charity said it had recorded a huge spike in anti- footage, social media, forensic evidence and without charge. “This remains an ongoing inves- Muslim incidents, while there have also been a intelligence reports relating to the hacking to tigation, focussed upon pubic safety and identi- number of attacks on mosques in recent days. death of 25-year-old Lee Rigby near a barracks in fying any others that may be involved,” said An Islamic cultural centre in Grimsby in north- Woolwich by two Islamists. Stuart Osborne, Scotland Yard’s head of counter- east England was hit by petrol bombs on Sunday They have arrested a total of nine people, but terrorism. “The investigation is progressing well, night, although police said it was “too early to have yet to formally interview the prime sus- but there is still a lot more work to be done.” speculate” on why the fire was started. pects because of the men’s injuries sustained in Separately, police won judicial approval on Two people have been arrested over the police gunfire at the scene. Michael Adebolajo, Sunday to question a 31-year-old man for anoth- attack, which did not result in any injuries, and 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, both British er five days on suspicion of the commission, police said they were monitoring messages post- Muslim converts from Nigerian Christian fami- preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. ed on social networking sites that “appear to be lies, remain under armed guard at separate Abu Nasaybah was arrested on BBC premises an attempt to incite trouble”. London hospitals. late Friday shortly after giving an interview Eleven teenagers aged 16 or 17 were arrested They are “in a stable condition and will be for- about his friendship with Adebolajo, in which he for attacking the Grimsby mosque and cars MOSCOW: A picture taken on May 23, 2013, shows Russian Prime Minister Dmitry mally interviewed when it is possible to do so”, claimed MI5 had tried to recruit the murder sus- parked outside on Thursday night after a party Medvedev (R) walking near a helicopter during his interview to NTV channel presen- Scotland Yard said yesterday. Three men arrested pect. Last week’s brutal attack by two men nearby got out of control, police said. — AFP ter Vadim Takmenyov (C) in Moscow. — AFP Mozambique deploys riot Nigeria’s ‘war on terror’ police amid medics’ strike wins tentative support

MAPUTO: Riot police and soldiers he had been charged with sedition. $600 (460 euros) a month, want MAIDUGURI: Nuradin Mohammed lem that would be over soon. In declar- centres in an earlier crackdown last deployed at Mozambique’s main He was arrested during a meet- their salaries doubled. They are dis- used to resent and fear the troops who ing an emergency on May 14 in Borno, year, the Islamists, whose name in the government hospital yesterday ing with his striking colleagues. satisfied with a 15 percent-raise they swept past his fish stall in this north- Yobe and Adawmawa states and order- Hausa language means “Western edu- amid high tension following the Police believed some of their plans received last month following a east Nigerian city on the trail of Islamist ing thousands of troops and air strikes cation is sinful” withdrew to the remote arrest overnight of the leader of a “were damaging to human rights,” strike in January. There were no doc- insurgents Boko Haram. Now, for the on suspected Islamist camps, he said semi-desert region of the northeast week-old strike by the country’s the head of operations in the police tors in sight at the emergency first time, he thinks they may be on his they were “terrorists” whose “declara- bordering with Chad, Cameroon and medics. force, Antonio Pelembe, told state rooms of the Maputo Central side. tion of war” could not go unanswered. Niger. Around a dozen helmeted police radio. Both the government and the Hospital yesterday morning. “We are pleased the president has Civilians like Mohammed appear to In this isolated zone, they scared off patrolled the parking lot of Central striking medics accuse each other of “We have been waiting here for finally recognised our peril and we have had enough of being caught in local officials and took de facto control Hospital in the capital Maputo using intimidatory tactics. three hours. They don’t seem to pray his plan works,” Mohammed said, the crossfire of a rebellion that has of at least 10 out of 27 council areas. while unarmed soldiers kept a The government says strikers have emergency doctors. We don’t frying fish by the roadside as a crowd killed thousands in Africa’s No. 1 oil This recalled what happened in 2012 in watchful eye in the hospital’s corri- have been locking clinics and hospi- know whether to stay or leave,” of young children looked on hungrily producer and provoked fears of a Mali, where al Qaeda-allied Islamist dors as the strike by doctors, nurses tals to prevent anyone entering, Adelina Taimo, who had brought in and trucks packed with troops rum- descent into chaos in one of the conti- rebels seized control of the Sahel coun- and support staff entered its sec- while the strikers say their members an injured friend, told AFP. bled past. President Goodluck nent’s most dynamic economies. try’s Saharan north before taking sev- ond week. have been the victims of “physical Mozambican authorities have Jonathan took a gamble when he Even usually critical northern gover- eral cities and towns. A French military On Sunday night police arrested and psychological torture”. had to call in military and foreign launched a big offensive this month on nors and elders have been cautiously offensive drove them back earlier this the leader of the Mozambican Despite the wage dispute by doctors and volunteers from the Boko Haram’s four-year-old attempt to supportive of Christian southerner year. In the past two months Boko Medical Association, Jorge Arroz, doctors, nurses, ambulance staff, international Red Cross, as well as establish an Islamic state in mainly Jonathan’s new firm tactics, which Haram mounted some of their boldest holding him for four hours, local cleaners and laboratory staff, the drafting in nursing students to fill in Muslim northern Nigeria. include the offer of an amnesty to any attacks to date, including one that media reported. Authorities said health ministry claims to have the the gaps. Several retired nurses told The crackdown risks stoking, rather militants who willingly surrender. killed 55 people. police took him in for questioning situation under control. Medical AFP they had agreed to come back than quashing the rebellion, but has so “I now fully understand the strate- Jonathan’s administration knows and denied local media reports that workers, many of whom earn under to work to help out. — AFP far met with a surprising degree of gy: show strength and be magnani- that just sending in more troops will support in a region that has long mous at the same time,” previously crit- never totally defeat a foe that can hide accused the oil-rich Christian south of ical northern opposition politician among the civilian population, even if neglect. “We felt let down and ignored. Alhaji Bashir Tofa told Reuters. that population has been put off by We are afraid soldiers will come bully- But it will take more than just firm- Boko Haram attacks on churches, uni- ing the public, which makes people ness to win against a movement that versities and markets. “In some ways want to join the Boko Haram, but we has proved remarkably resilient under youths had more in common with hope this time is different,” the leadership of Abubakar Shekau, a Boko Haram than soldiers and wealthy Mohammed said. Only a few months fiery militant who likes to make finger- politicians,” said Borno public servant ago, Jonathan was telling foreign lead- waving Internet videos holding a Ali Shuwa. Behind him, scrawny goats ers that Boko Haram was a small prob- Kalashnikov. Ousted from Nigeria’s city chew on a rubbish pile. —Reuters

BERLIN: The Prime Minister of China, Li Keqiang, right, talks to the chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), Sigmar Gabriel, second right, and the top candidate of the SPD for the federal elections in 2013, Peer Steinbrueck, left, during a meeting in Berlin, Germany, yesterday. — AP Azerbaijan using drug charges to stifle dissent

BAKU: Azerbaijan is Four activists critical of state, the New York-based South Caucasus researcher increasingly using false strongman Ilham Aliyev’s rights group said in a state- at Human Rights Watch, was charges of drug possession government were detained ment. quoted as saying in the to arrest government critics between March and May “The latest cases are part statement. in a bid to stifle dissent this year on “bogus” drug of an intensified govern- “These arrests and beat- ahead of presidential polls charges as part of a growing ment campaign against its ings send a very clear mes- in October, Human Rights crackdown on civil society critics as elections grow sage to anyone who wants Watch said yesterday. groups in the former Soviet near,” Giorgi Gogia, senior to engage in serious activism.” The four men-a prominent blogger, an opposition activist, a youth movement member and an imam-were detained by police after they were allegedly found in posses- sion of small amounts of narcotics. The activists, who remain in pre-trial detention, all deny the charges and three of the four say they have been badly beaten by secu- rity officials while in cus- tody, the rights group said. Any display of public dis- content or political dissent usually meets a tough gov- ernment reaction in Azerbaijan, an oil-rich nation on the Caspian Sea ruled by Aliyev since 2003. Earlier this year security offi- cials ruthlessly suppressed a rare spate of protests, including one against alleged hazing in the army, and detained scores of activists across the country. Aliyev has been in power since succeeding his father Heydar, a former KGB officer and Communist-era boss. He looks almost certain to win the presidential elec- tion in October. Human Rights Watch says authori- ties have previously used unfounded allegations of drug and weapon posses- sion to detain critics, arrest- ing five activists on drug charges between August 2011 and May 2012. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Guatemala ex-leader due in US court today

NEW YORK: Guatemalan ex-president check, but was quickly discharged and on Friday from a military hospital in of public funds and laundering the mon- the plane headed for the United States, Alfonso Portillo, jailed in New York after transferred to a jail in southern Guatemala City, where he had been con- ey through US and European banks, adding that the government was being extradited from his home country, Manhattan, the consulate said. valescing in recent weeks, and rushed to including $1.5 million intended for “responsible for anything that may hap- will face his first US court hearing today, US prosecutors in Manhattan have so the main Air Force base south of the cap- Guatemalan school children. pen to my health.” officials said. far not confirmed the hearing date indi- ital under heavy protection, where he He faces a sentence of up to 20 years Although he is the first to be extradit- The 61-year-old, who faces charges cated by Guatemala’s foreign ministry. was flown to New York. if convicted. But the ex-president, who ed, Portillo is not the first Latin American he laundered $70 million of swindled Consul Oscar Padilla planned to return to Washington welcomed the extradi- has been fighting extradition since it was ex-leader to wind up in the US facing government funds through US banks, the detention facility on Sunday to visit tion as “an important affirmation of the approved by then president Alvaro criminal charges. was the first former Latin American Portillo, who suffers from heart and lung rule of law and due process in Colom in 2011, has called the case Panama’s former dictator Manuel leader ever to be extradited to the ailments, after he was unable to see ex- Guatemala.” Portillo, who ruled against him “political persecution.” Noriega was ousted by US troops in United States. president the night before for unspeci- Guatemala from 2000 to 2004, was “They have acted illegally against me 1989, convicted on drug trafficking After arriving in the US on Friday, he fied reasons. indicted by a US grand jury on charges from the beginning. They have violated charges and jailed in Florida for 20 was taken first to a hospital for a medical Portillo was picked up unannounced of embezzling tens of millions of dollars all my rights,” he declared as he boarded years. — AFP Americans gather to honor fallen service members Obama to lay a wreath at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier

ATLANTA: Americans planned to gather at cemeteries, memorials and monuments nation- wide to honor fallen military service members on Memorial Day, at a time when combat in Afghanistan approaches 12 years and the ranks of World War II veterans dwindles. President Barack Obama was expected to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac River from Washington. Earlier in the morning, he and first lady Michelle Obama planned to host a breakfast at the White House with “Gold Star” families of service members who have been killed. WASHINGTON: In this Jan. 16, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama and Vice In one of several ceremonies honoring President Joe Biden walk from the White House to the Treasury Department in Americans killed in Afghanistan, the city of Washington. With his political future tied irrevocably to Obama, Biden is still work- South Sioux City, Neb., planned to unveil a stat- ing to preserve his own, distinct identity as he contemplates a third presidential run ue honoring Navy Petty Officer 1st Class John in 2016. — AP Douangdara, a dog handler for the SEALs killed in a 2011 helicopter crash. His service dog was Tied to Obama, Biden forges also killed in the crash and is memorialized beside him in the statue. his own distinct identity At the American Airpower Museum on Long Island, N.Y., a program was planned to honor WASHINGTON: With his political future Obama has been a major asset for the Women Air Service Pilots, or WASPs, who tested tied irrevocably to President Barack Obama, White House. and ferried completed aircraft from factories to Vice President Joe Biden is still working to As he moves from issue to issue with flu- bases during World War II. Thirty-eight died dur- WASHINGTON: Motorcyclists ride past the US Congress during Rolling Thunder 2013 in preserve his own distinct identity as he idity and unchecked enthusiasm, it’s easy ing the war, including Alice Lovejoy of Scarsdale, Washington on May 26, 2013. The 26th Annual Rolling Thunder rumbled into the US capital to contemplates a third presidential run in to see how the Biden brand - blue-collar, N.Y., who was killed on Sept. 13, 1944, in a midair show support for veterans and those who have fallen in past and present wars. Some one mil- 2016. solidly liberal, disarmingly candid - could collision over Texas. lion riders are expected to gather in Washington DC during the Memorial Day weekend. — AFP With nearly four years left in Obama’s have distinct advantages when Democrats “It’s very important that we recognize not Another wreath-laying ceremony was The holiday weekend also marked the tradi- second term, it would be untoward for select their candidate for 2016. only their contribution to American history, but planned at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms tional start of the US vacation season. AAA, one Biden to be openly self-promotional, and Whether Democrats, in picking their first women’s history,” said Julia Lauria-Blum, curator Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island in of the nation’s largest leisure travel agencies, his advisers say he’s focused on his current nominee to follow Obama, will sour on the of the WASP exhibit at the museum. “These New York City. expected 31.2 million Americans to hit the road job. Still, with the jockeying for 2016 nomi- notion of an “old, white guy” as their stan- women really blazed a path; they were pioneers The park is a tribute to President Roosevelt’s over the weekend, virtually the same number as nations already well under way, there’s an dard-bearer is an open question. Another for women’s aviation. And most important, they famous speech calling for all people to enjoy last year. Gas prices were about the same as last advantage to staying part of the conversa- factor in Biden’s equation - and every con- gave their lives serving their country and must freedom of speech, freedom of worship, free- year, up 1 cent to a national average of $3.65 a tion. So the freewheeling man from versation about 2016 - is Hillary Rodham be honored like anyone else on Memorial Day.” dom from want and freedom from fear. gallon Friday. — AP Scranton, Pa., is polishing a reputation Clinton, who Democratic insiders say carefully nurtured over four decades in would start out a heavy favorite if she seeks Washington, playing up his own strengths the nomination. even as he stays fiercely loyal to his current A match-up with his former Senate col- Commanders should be fired for sex assault boss. league, 2008 primary opponent and West “The good news is my dad understands Wing teammate would test the loyalties WASHINGTON: From Congress to the White wife’s health issues, encouraged commanders to Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of that he works for the president, first and and relative influence of a number of key House, pressure is mounting to hold military address the issue and tell subordinates exactly the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has acknowledged the foremost,” said Beau Biden, the vice presi- Democratic constituencies. commanders accountable for the rising number what was expected. severity of the problem. He said recently that dent’s son and Delaware’s state attorney Fiercely popular with women and with of sexual assaults in the armed services. “Commanders can’t be ambiguous about military leaders are losing the confidence of the general. “I hope he takes a real, hard look at strong bipartisan appeal, Clinton stands to The extent of the assaults came to light when this. We can’t not talk about that,” Allen said women who serve that they can come up with running, but now’s not the time.” gain from fond memories of a booming the Pentagon released a report earlier this Sunday. “Commanders (have) got to stand in solutions. That time will come soon enough. In the economy under her husband’s presidency. month estimating that as many as 26,000 mili- front of their units and tell the people what they But Dempsey said in a May 20 letter to the meantime, the vice presidency has afford- Like Biden, she also lays claim to the tary members may have been sexually assaulted expect. Because silence isn’t good enough. This chairman of the Senate Armed Services ed Biden ample opportunities to keep his Obama legacy. But Biden, on many issues, last year and that thousands of victims are is an opportunity to lead, and we should be seiz- Committee that any legislative remedies must name in the spotlight without seeming also has cast himself to the left of Obama, unwilling to come forward despite new over- ing it.” maintain the commander’s role in the military overtly political. He’s hit the pavement, staking out ground that could make him an sight and assistance programs. That figure is an The comments from Durbin, Graham and justice process. Cutting them out or limiting keeping a strenuous schedule that would attractive alternative to Clinton for the par- increase over the 19,000 estimated assaults in Allen capped a week of attempts to address the them too severely would undercut their authori- wear out many 70-year-old men. ty’s liberal base in presidential primaries. 2011. Pentagon’s findings. President Barack Obama ty to enforce discipline and execute their duties, On a Monday earlier this month, Biden “When he takes on gun control or Several recent arrests have added to the mili- and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel raised the he wrote. hosted religious leaders for hours at a comes out ahead of the curve on gay mar- tary’s embarrassment. A soldier at the US issue separately in graduation speeches at the “Good order and discipline is essential to mili- White House meeting on gun control, even riage, he is also right where people are,” Military Academy at West Point was charged US Naval Academy at Annapolis and the US tary efficiency and effectiveness,” Dempsey said though efforts to revive a failed bill had said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster with secretly photographing women, including Military Academy at West Point. in the letter to Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the stalled. On Tuesday, he spoke about voting who worked on Obama’s re-election. “He’s in a bathroom. The Air Force officer who led the “Those who commit sexual assault are not Senate Armed Services Committee. “Removing rights at an African-American think tank. evolved just like everyone else.” service’s Sexual Assault Prevention and only committing a crime; they threaten the trust commanders from the military justice process He talked immigration with Asian- Unlike Obama, whose appearances are Response unit was arrested on charges of grop- and discipline that makes our military strong,” sends the message to everyone in the military Americans at an awards dinner Wednesday, carefully choreographed to leave nothing ing a woman. And the manager of the Army’s Obama said Friday. “That’s why we have to be that there is a lack of faith in the officer corps and the Boston bombings in a keynote to chance, each of Biden’s public events has sexual assault response program at Fort determined to stop these crimes, because and the serving commanders. Conveyance of a address to firefighters on Thursday. By an element of suspense. Campbell, Kentucky, was relieved of his post they’ve got no place in the greatest military on message that commanders cannot be trusted Friday, he was preparing to return home to His supporters say his seeming inability after his arrest in a domestic dispute with his ex- Earth.” Hagel called on the graduating West will only serve to undermine good order and Delaware, where he spends many week- to hide his true feelings about an issue wife.“This needs to end,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Point cadets Saturday to use their leadership to discipline.” ends. “Part of the challenge of being presi- speaks to an honesty and candor that are Graham, a member of the Armed Services address the epidemic. Dempsey and the chiefs of the military servic- dent is you have to be president. It doesn’t at the heart of his appeal. But White House Committee, said Sunday. “When a victim “This scourge must be stamped out. We are es are scheduled to testify June 4 before the give you time to go out and travel the officials have privately griped about the comes forward, they should have an advocate to all accountable and responsible for ensuring Senate Armed Services Committee on legisla- country as you’d like,” said Ron Klain, fallout and distractions when he struggles walk them through the military justice system, that this happens. We cannot fail the Army or tion to prevent sexual assaults. Biden’s former chief of staff. He said the to stay on message in a highly politicized and commanders who allow this to continue to America. We cannot fail each other, and we can- Sharon Disher graduated from the Naval ability to deploy Biden as a surrogate for environment. —AP allow this to flourish quite frankly should be not fail the men and women that we lead.” Academy in 1980 in the first class that included fired.” Members of a House panel on Wednesday women. She said Friday she’s disappointed the Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said the mili- approved legislation that would strip command- military is still grappling with sexual assault tary’s future includes both men and women in ing officers of their longstanding authority to issues but applauded the president for raising leadership, and cultural changes are needed unilaterally change or dismiss court-martial con- the subject. “when it comes to the command structure” to victions in rape and assault cases. The bill would “The more we talk about it, the more we’re make sexual assault and harassment “unaccept- also require that service members found guilty going to do something about it, and that’s the able, intolerable; and those who engage in it of sexual offenses be dismissed or dishonorably thing we never did,” she said. “I guess we’ve just should pay a price.” discharged. The legislation will be folded into a got to keep the conversation going until we fix Retired Marine Gen. John Allen, who retired broader defense policy bill that the full House of the problem.” Durbin and Graham spoke on “Fox in February after 19 months commanding allied Representatives will consider in the coming News Sunday.” Allen appeared on ABC’s “This forces in Afghanistan in order to attend to his weeks. Week.” — AP One dead, 10 hurt in car-party bus crash

SAN FRANCISCO: A car whose driver seatbelt, but his wife was not, accord- had been drinking crashed with a par- ing to the CHP. ty bus on a San Francisco Bay Area Padilla and his wife had “consumed highway Sunday, leaving the driver alcohol” before the crash, but toxicolo- critically injured, his wife dead and gy tests would have to be conducted nine others hospitalized with minor- to determine if Padilla had been driv- to-moderate injuries, authorities said. ing under the influence of alcohol at A red Honda coupe driven by 43-year- the time of the crash, Montiel said. “If it ANCHORAGE: An officer in the Anchorage jail court removes the paperwork that old Raul Padilla appeared to have is determined he was under the influ- Jerry Andrew Active was using to shield his face during his arraigned on charges of slammed into the center divider of ence, he could face felony DUI charges murder and sexual assault of a minor on Sunday, in Anchorage, Alaska. — AP U.S. 101 before it came to a stop fac- and manslaughter charges,” Montiel ing oncoming traffic, California said. Initially, based on their driver’s Highway Patrol Officer Art Montiel license information, authorities had Man charged in double homicide said. After the Honda stopped, the said the woman was from San Mateo front end of the party bus, which had and Padilla was from Oakland, but the ANCHORAGE: A man has been charged The suspect - wearing boxer shorts and 18 people on board, hit the disabled information may have not been with killing an elderly Anchorage couple socks - was captured a block from the car. Two other cars were also involved updated, Montiel said. The bus was and sexually assaulting their 2-year-old scene. Police discovered the bodies of 71- in the collision. “We’re still trying to equipped with seatbelts, but Montiel great-granddaughter. year-old Sorn Sreap and his wife, 73-year- figure out who came into contact with did not know how many, if any, of the Police say the man refused to identify old Touch Chea. Both had been beaten and what,” Montiel said. The woman killed passengers were wearing them at the himself and is being held without bail. police say Chea had been sexually assault- was a 36-year-old passenger in the time of the crash. Bus passengers in Police on Saturday night were summoned ed. Honda and married to Padilla. Her California are not required to wear by a 911 call to an apartment in the 400 The couple’s granddaughter had left her name has not been released while seatbelts, Montiel said. The bus was MOORE: President Barack Obama is greeted as he tours a tornado block of North Bragaw Street by a woman 2-year-old in their care. Police say the tod- officials try to contact other family towed to an impound yard, but affected area on Sunday in Moore, Oklahoma. Obama is in the who said a man had murdered her grand- dler underwent surgery for sexual assault members. Padilla was hospitalized in Montiel did not know the name of the Oklahoma City area to survey damage from the tornado which struck mother. injuries. — AP critical condition. He was wearing his company. — AP a week ago and meet with victims and first responders.— AFP TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Japan, India to discuss military plane sales

TOKYO: Japan is close to signing an agreement to aircraft must be classed as for civilian use if it is to spokesman for the company said. The reported talks on sales “are based on policy supply amphibious planes to India, a report said yes- comply with Japan’s 1967 self-imposed ban on arms “We hear there is some demand from the Indian decisions made a few years ago that Japan has to terday, in what would be the first sale of hardware exports, part of the post-World War II anti-militarist government but decline to comment further as we support its defence industry by diverting military used by the military since a weapons export ban was drive. have yet to reach a contract,” he added. The Nikkei technology to civilian use for export”, said Takehiko imposed. During a four-day visit to Tokyo by Indian The US-2, which was developed by ShinMaywa said India is looking to acquire at least 15 of the air- Yamamoto, professor of international relations at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, starting today, the Industries and has been sold to the Japanese navy at craft. Waseda University. two sides are set firm up plans for Delhi to purchase a price tag of roughly 10 billion yen ($99 million), has Japan has sought to expand the market for its Otherwise, major Japanese firms such as the US-2, a domestically-developed aircraft used by a range of 4,700 kilometres (2,900 miles) and can defence industry. It has previously exported technol- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kawasaki Heavy Japan’s armed forces. land in seas with waves of up to three metres (nine ogy or parts of military hardware, but has not sold Industries “will not able to maintain their pool of The sale, reported by the Nikkei business daily, feet). any finished products. engineers to develop military technology that is would be the first of a finished product made by “If the US-2 is exported to India for civilian use, The plane could be deemed to have a non-mili- essential for the defence of Japan”, he said. Japan’s homegrown defence industry since rules that would be the first case of exports of Japanese- tary-for example, search and rescue-purpose if Boosting exports from Japan’s manufacturing were imposed restricting the export of weapons sys- developed weaponry used by the defence ministry “friend-or-foe” identification systems were disabled, behemoths is a key part of Prime Minister Shinzo tems and other equipment. for civilian use,” a trade ministry official in charge of officials said, making it eligible for export. Abe’s plan to revive the economy. It would also mark a strengthening of the alliance arms sales told AFP. In 2011 Tokyo eased the decades-old ban on arms Abe and Singh are scheduled to meet on between Japan and India, which both see rising ShinMaywa opened a sales office in New Delhi exports, paving the way for Japanese firms to take Wednesday for a summit expected to concentrate on China as a threat to regional stability. Experts say the last year and has been promoting the plane there, a part in multinational weapons projects. trade and investment. — AFP

Pakistan police India anti-terror agency rescue Facebook kidnap teen probes Maoist attack KARACHI: Police in Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi yesterday res- cued a teenage boy ‘The buck has to stop somewhere’ who was kidnapped for a half-million dollar RAIPUR: India’s chief anti-terrorism agency is est in a decades-long conflict that pits the insur- ransom after apparent- investigating a Maoist rebel attack that killed 24 gents against authorities in the forests of mainly ly being lured through people including top local politicians in the central and eastern India. Facebook, officers and insurgents’ deadliest strike for three years, offi- Maoist rebels, who have been described by relatives said. cials said yesterday. premier Singh as the country’s most serious Officers raided the A team from the National Investigation internal security threat, are demanding land and gang’s hideout to the Agency (NIA) has arrived at the scene of jobs for the poor. Security forces have launched west of the sprawling Saturday’s bloody ambush in the central state of a major search for the guerrillas in the thickly city, which is plagued Chhattisgarh, where a hunt for the Maoists is forested region, said a senior police official. by gang violence and under way, officials said. “Commandos and a large number of security “I have asked the NIA to launch a probe. The forces have began the operation against the extortion rackets, buck has to stop somewhere,” junior home min- Maoists,” said Rajinder Kumar Vij, who heads the killing four of the Mustafa ister R.P.N Singh told reporters. anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh. A NIA abductors in a shootout and arresting a fifth. Hundreds of heavily-armed rebels ambushed official said on condition of anonymity that the The kidnappers started chatting to their 13-year-old a convoy carrying local leaders of India’s govern- rebels took advantage of lower than normal lev- target, identified only as Mustafa, six months ago, senior ing Congress party as it travelled through the els of security for the convoy. police officer Niaz Khoso said. They enticed him to a forested Sukma area, about 345 kilometers (215 “We will investigate every aspect of the latest meeting on Friday. miles) from the state capital Raipur. attack. The rebels used sophisticated weapons in The youngster, the son of a senior customs official, They detonated a land-mine before opening the attack to target politicians. Their security was was whisked away to the town of Hub outside Karachi in fire on the convoy, spraying 25 cars with bullets, not handled seriously by the local cops,” the offi- restive Baluchistan province, and his family received calls then dragged people out and killed them, police cial told AFP. demanding 50 million rupees ($508,000) in ransom. said. Vishwaranjan, a retired police chief of AHMADABAD: Supporters of India’s ruling Congress party burn an effigy represent- Police said they used mobile phone records to track Among those killed were state Congress Chhattisgarh, described the latest attack as “a ing Maoist rebel during a protest in Ahmadabad, India, yesterday. — AP the kidnappers to the hideout in Hub and rescued him chief Nand Kumar Patel, his son Dinesh, and for- clear result of intelligence failure”. The targeted yesterday morning. Mustafa’s mother made a tearful plea mer state home minister Mahendra Karma-who convoy had been returning from a political rally According to the government, the rebels believed to have cost tens of thousands of lives. to parents to supervise their children’s use of social had set up a controversial anti-Maoist militia in the area. Security forces should have been number between 8,000 to 12,000 hardcore In 2009 government forces launched a huge fighters who have laid land-mines in the miner- anti-Maoist offensive known as “Operation media. group in 2005. extra-vigilant against the possibility of an attack al-rich state and resist mining activity potentially Green Hunt”, but the often poorly-trained police “This is my request to all the parents to never let their Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who rushed to given that Maoists openly oppose such organ- Raipur along with Prime Minister Manmohan ised political events, he said. worth billions of dollars. have had to contend with a deadly series of children make friendship on Facebook,” she told media, Singh after the ambush, condemned what she “The Maoists are against any political or The Maoists, who have been fighting since attacks. Critics believe attempts to end the revolt sobbing as she sat beside her son. “I beg you for God’s called a “cowardly act.” development activity pursued by the govern- 1967, want to establish a communist society by through security offensives are doomed to fail, sake that you never do.” — AFP The attack was the most brazen since 2010, ment in the region,” said Vishwaranjan, who uses overthrowing what they call India’s “semi-colo- saying the real solution is better governance and when a rebel assault killed 76 police. It is the lat- one name. nial, semi-feudal” form of rule. The revolt is development. — AFP Karzai’s brother plans to run in Afghan election

KANDAHAR: Afghan President would guarantee he would not be ruption was costing Afghanistan Hamid Karzai’s older brother investigated for mismanagement $2.5 billion a year, equivalent to Qayum will run in next year’s presi- or corruption during his time as about a quarter of the country’s dential election, their younger leader. gross domestic product. brother said, as the country’s most “President Karzai wants some- Afghanistan relies on foreign aid powerful family seeks to maintain a one to succeed him who should for the bulk of its spending, but political hold in Afghanistan. not review his performance (while many international donors say they President Karzai is constitution- in power) and there is no doubt he are reluctant to channel aid ally prohibited from running for a will support his brother Qayum,” through Afghanistan because they third term when the country votes said independent analyst Ahmad fear it will be stolen by corrupt for a new head of state on April 5. Sayeedi. politicians and officials. “Qayum will announce his candi- But some analysts say that Mahmoud Karzai, who reported- dacy soon and will represent our Qayum’s decision to run without ly dropped his US citizenship early political movement ... the party will his powerful brother’s backing this year in order to pursue an run his election campaign,” could indicate a family rift. Across Afghan political career, was a key Mahmoud Karzai told Reuters in an his two terms as president he has shareholder in Kabul Bank during interview at his home in the south- had a rocky relationship with many the period marked by a $900 mil- ern city of Kandahar. of his close family members. lion fraud case. Qayum Karzai will have the Last week, Mahmoud told a That case saw the bank collapse backing of De Woles De Mulatar gathering in the family’s birthplace, in 2010, though Mahmoud was Baheer, or the Movement for the Kandahar, that if Qayum was elect- spared a jail sentence following a Support of the People, which is ed a top priority would be ending presidential decree that granted dominated by the country’s power- the widespread corruption. immunity to those who repaid ful Pashtun ethnic group. The “If Qayum comes to power we funds. Mahmoud denied any group has no affiliation with the will take the corruption issue very wrongdoing and said he repaid $22 incumbent president. seriously; it has defamed us to the million. Neither Qayum nor Hamid whole world,” he told the crowd. The credibility of next year’s Karzai’s office could be reached for After more than a decade of war vote will be vital to the security and comment. and billions of dollars in aid, cor- stability of the country, with NATO Kabul-based political analysts ruption in Afghanistan is rampant. withdrawing most of its combat said, however, that the president In January a report by the UN’s troops from Afghanistan by the would likely support his bid, as it Office on Drugs and Crime said cor- end of 2014. — Reuters

KABUL: Afghan university students and independent civil society activists take part in a demonstration in support of passing the Elimination of Violence against Women law in front of Parliament in Kabul yesterday. The Afghan parliament on May 18 cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some tra- ditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teaching. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 INTERNATIONAL South Korea dismisses North dialogue ‘offer’ ‘We need to see N Korea’s sincerity in its actions’

SEOUL: South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Washington, meanwhile, insist that the North two months of elevated military tensions that Byung-Se brushed off yesterday a reported must demonstrate its commitment to abandon- followed the North’s nuclear test. Established North Korean offer to resume nuclear disarma- ing its nuclear weapons programme in order for just north of the border in 2004 as a rare symbol ment talks, saying he would first need to see evi- formal talks to begin. of cooperation, the showpiece project had more dence of its sincerity. “We need to see North Korea’s sincerity in its than 120 South Korean firms employing some “Our stance is that there should not be dia- actions,” Yun said, adding that all outward signs 53,000 North Korean workers. logue for dialogue’s sake,” Yun said in his first were of Pyongyang going in the opposite direc- The North barred South Korean access to the press briefing since taking office in the new gov- tion and strengthening its nuclear arsenal. The zone and pulled out its workers in early April. ernment of President Park Geun-Hye. “The North Korean state media’s coverage of envoy Seoul withdrew the last of its nationals early this important thing now is for North Korea to show Choe Ryong-Hae’s visit to China made no men- month. The South has called for talks on secur- its sincerity to the international community by tion whatsoever of a dialogue proposal. Of the ing the raw materials and product stocks left by TOKYO: Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, second right, walks off after a press confer- implementing its past denuclearisation pledges,” letter handed to Xi, Pyongyang’s official Korean the departing South Korean managers, but the ence at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo yesterday. The outspo- he added. Yun’s remarks followed a visit to China Central News Agency said only that it conveyed North has so far refused. The unification ministry ken Japanese politician apologized yesterday for saying US troops should patronize by a top North Korean envoy, who brought a Kim’s desire to deepen the “traditional friend- also criticised the North for a recent personal adult entertainment businesses as a way to reduce rapes, but defended another con- personal letter from leader Kim Jong-Un to ship” between North Korea and China. attack on Park Geun-Hye, in which it labelled troversial remark about Japan’s use of sex slaves during World War II. — AP Chinese President Xi Jinping. China is North Korea’s key economic benefac- South Korea’s first female president a “confronta- Chinese state media said the letter stated the tor and diplomatic protector, but it signed off on tion maniac”. North’s willingness to resume long-stalled six- UN sanctions punishing Pyongyang for its “For the sake of healthy inter-Korea relations, Outspoken Japan politician party talks on denuclearisation involving China, nuclear test in February. South Korea’s the North needs to control and restrain itself... the two Koreas, the United States, Russia and Unification Ministry said North Korea needed to and immediately stop such remarks that are too apologizes for sex comment Japan. The reported message was greeted with set its priorities straight. unspeakable for us to quote here,” spokesman TOKYO: An outspoken Japanese politician wartime military. Hashimoto has previously scepticism in South Korea, where observers saw “If the North genuinely wants dialogue, the Kim told reporters. apologized yesterday for saying US troops supported the view by Prime Minister it as an effort by the North to appease its key ally first step should be responding to our repeated Park, who is scheduled to visit Beijing for a should patronize adult entertainment busi- Shinzo Abe’s government denying official Beijing rather than a genuine signal of intent. call for working-level governmental talks on the summit with President Xi next month, said yes- nesses as a way to reduce sex crimes, but proof of coercion but open to further inves- North Korea has repeatedly declared that its Kaesong industrial complex,” said spokesman terday she would seek to “work more closely defended another inflammatory remark tigation. programme to develop a viable nuclear deter- Kim Hyung-Seok. with China in order to resolve North Korea about Japan’s use of sex slaves before and Before taking office in December Abe rent is not open to negotiation. Seoul and Kaesong was the highest-profile victim of issues”. — AFP during World War II. had advocated revising the Kono state- Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, who is ment, but has said recently he stands by also the co-head of an emerging nationalis- that statement and won’t revise it. He said tic party, said his remarks two weeks ago the murkiness of the Kono statement has Communist rebels ambush rose from a “sense of crisis” about cases of contributed to longstanding disputes sexual assaults by US military personnel on between Japan and South Korea. “We Japanese civilians in Okinawa, where a should bring an end to irrational debate.” Philippine police, kill seven large number of US troops are based under Hashimoto did call the use of so-called a bilateral security treaty. comfort women an “inexcusable act that MANILA: Communist guerrillas set off a road- “I understand that my remark could be violated the dignity and human rights of side bomb and opened fire on a truck carrying construed as an insult to the US forces and the women, in which large numbers of police in the northern Philippines yesterday, to the American people” and was inappro- Korean and Japanese were included.” killing seven and wounding seven officers. The priate, he said at a news conference at the Still, he claimed he had been quoted out members of the elite police Special Action Force Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Tokyo. “I of context to say that he personally were en route to a hospital for a regular medical retract this remark and express an apology.” believed that the use the system was nec- test when the rebels, hiding in the bush along Hashimoto had created an uproar with essary. He was trying to say that armed the road, detonated the explosive device and comments to journalists two weeks ago forces of nations around the world “seem to sprayed the vehicle with gunfire, said the region- about Japan’s modern and wartime sexual have needed women” in past wars and also al police director, Chief Superintendent Rodrigo services. They added to recent anger in violated women’s human rights during de Gracia. neighboring countries that suffered from wartime. Such hit-and-run attacks are common Japan’s wartime aggression and have com- Singling out Japan was wrong, as this throughout the 44-year rural-based Marxist plained about the lack of atonement for issue also existed in the armed forces of the insurgency, which has claimed an estimated atrocities committed during that time. United States, the United Kingdom, France, 120,000 lives. Philippine security forces have Hashimoto said on May 13 that on a Germany and the former Soviet Union dur- been stretched thin by fighting communist recent visit to the southern island of ing World War II, he alleged, without elabo- rebels while also battling Muslim militants in the Okinawa, he suggested to the US com- rating. south. On Saturday, al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf mander there that the troops there “to “Based on the premise that Japan must guerrillas killed seven marines in a clash on Jolo make better use” of the legal sex industry. remorsefully face its past offenses and Island in an operation aimed at rescuing six for- “If you don’t make use of those places you must never justify the offenses, I intended eign and Filipino hostages. cannot control the sexual energy of those to argue that other nations in the world The government recently suspended peace tough guys,” he said. must not attempt to conclude the matter talks brokered by Norway after the communist He also said that Japan’s wartime prac- by blaming only Japan and by associating rebels rejected an immediate cease-fire. De tice of forcing women from across Asia but Japan alone with the simple phrase of ‘sex Garcia said the police commandos returned fire mostly from South Korea and China to slaves’ or ‘sex slavery,’” Hashimoto said in but were overpowered by the rebels, who later MANILA: Relatives mourn at the wake of seven Philippine Marines killed Saturday in a clash work in front-line brothels was necessary to the statement. fled with weapons from the slain officers. with Abu Sayyaf militants in Jolo, southern Philippines, at the Philippine Marines headquar- maintain discipline and provide relaxation Hashimoto said any forms of sexual The seven wounded managed to escape on ters at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines yesterday. — AP for soldiers. exploitation of women at conflict, whether foot and were rescued by government troops in dled to an estimated 4,000 fighters amid battle impasse. In Saturday’s clash in the south, seven He didn’t apologize for those comments it is commercial or military run, is inexcus- the Ballesteros Municipal Hospital in Cagayan setbacks, surrenders and factionalism. They are guerrillas also were killed. Six marines and about yesterday, and insisted that Japan’s able. Historians say up to 200,000 women, province, more than 400 kilometers (250 miles) listed as a terrorist organization by the US and 10 gunmen were wounded, marine Col. Jose wartime government did not systematical- mainly from the Korean Peninsula and northeast of the capital, Manila. European Union. Cenabre said Sunday. Government troops ly force girls and women into prostitution. China, were forced to provide sex for Troops set up roadblocks and dispatched Chief government negotiator Alexander backed by assault helicopters were hunting “If only Japan is blamed because of the Japanese soldiers in military brothels. While reinforcements to track down the assailants, Padilla said early this month that the exiled rebel down the fleeing militants, who were believed widely held view that the state authority of some other World War II armies had military police spokesman Generoso Cerbo said in leader, Joma Sison, had himself proposed to fast to be led by Jul-Aswan Sawadjaan, an Abu Japan was intentionally involved in the brothels, Japan is the only country accused Manila. The New People’s Army rebels accuse track the talks by establishing a cease-fire and a Sayyaf commander accused in the kidnappings abduction and trafficking of women, I will of such widespread, organized sexual slav- successive Philippine administrations of sub- committee with the government to discuss of a Jordanian journalist and two European bird have to inform you that this view is incor- ery. servience to US interests and failing to improve political and economic reforms. But Sison later watchers who are still being held by the mili- rect,” he said. Hashimoto, 43, has become well-known the lives of the poor. Their numbers have dwin- backed off and blamed the government for the tants. — AP Hashimoto also urged the government in recent years for his outspokenness. Last to clarify Japan’s landmark apology in a year, he formed a conservative party, the 1993 statement by then-Chief Cabinet Japan Restoration Party, with former Tokyo Secretary Yohei Kono, and clearly state that Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, a strident national- Japan’s government did not systematically ist. The party is now an opposition party in Sydney nurse pleads guilty to 11 murders force women into prostitution for its the parliament. — AP SYDNEY: A man accused of delib- He also admitted eight counts of points in the building, which was “just quickly did what I could to get erately lighting a deadly blaze that causing grievous bodily harm to badly damaged. everyone out”. “The smoke is just ripped through a Sydney nursing other mostly infirm residents of the At the time Dean was described overwhelming but, you know, we home in 2011, killing 11 elderly res- home, some of whom suffered by locals as a friendly but quiet got a lot of people out, so that’s the idents, pleaded guilty to murder from dementia or were blind. Three man who kept to himself and he main thing,” he said in 2011. yesterday. Roger Dean, 37, was a residents perished during the infer- was initially hailed a hero after Reports said family members of nurse at the facility and entered 11 no Dean started and eight others fronting media outside the home the victims in the packed court guilty pleas to murder on the first died later from their injuries. The as firefighters battled to contain room wiped away tears and one day of his trial in the Supreme court has previously heard Dean the flames. woman was left sobbing. Others Court. started the blaze at two separate He told reporters then that he were seen weeping outside. Elly Valkay, whose 90-year-old mother Neeltje Valkay was killed in the fire, said the guilty plea was the best outcome they could hope for. “My perfect scenario was that he would stand up in court and say guilty to all charges. My prayers were answered,” she told reporters, adding that she still had night- mares over the way her mother died. “There has been upheaval in our family because we miss her so much. There has been nights of no sleep ... I still have nightmares.” The fire led to the New South Wales state government ordering a review of criminal screening of staff at nursing homes and an audit of buildings at all aged care facilities. Although the home had fire SYDNEY: A file photo taken on November 18, 2011 shows nurse Roger Dean (2nd R) receiving oxygen after doors and fire extinguishers, it KAILI: This picture taken on May 26, 2013 shows villagers pushing their van along a a fire at a rest home killed 11 residents in the outer Sydney suburb of Quakers Hill. Dean was a nurse at the did not have a sprinkler system. flooded street in Kaili, southwest China’s Guizhou province. China is stepping up moni- facility in Quakers Hill and entered 11 guilty pleas to murder on the first day of his trial in the Supreme Dean will be sentenced at a later toring of water levels in its rivers and reservoirs, the government said, after rainstorms Court in Sydney yesterday. — AFP date. — AFP hit the south earlier this month and left dozens of people dead or missing. — AFP Taiwan, Philippines swap shooting probe investigators

TAIPEI: Taiwan and the Philippines the Philippine coastguard on 9 May, an spokesman said. Taiwan said its team in boat’s voyage data record and insist that dent but Taiwan has rejected his apology swapped teams of investigators yester- incident which has sharply raised ten- the Philippines would visit the coast- the ship was fishing within its exclusive and introduced sanctions against the day following weeks of acrimony over sions between Manila and Taipei and guard vessel, inspect the guns used to economic zone when the shooting took Philippines. the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisher- prompted economic sanctions by fire on the vessel and review video place. The zones claimed by the two The measures include a ban on the man. Taiwan. footage. A spokesman for the Philippines’ sides overlap in some areas. hiring of new workers, recalling its envoy A team of eight Philippine officials “The (Philippine) visitors will have a National Bureau of Investigation con- Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou has and staging a naval drill in waters off the including experts from the National look at the autopsy report on Hung Shih- firmed the Taiwanese team had arrived termed the killing “cold-blooded northern Philippines. Taipei has repeat- Bureau of Investigation flew to the island cheng this afternoon,” a spokesman for but would not comment on what they murder” based on an initial inquiry edly pressed Manila to issue a formal and were promptly whisked away upon Taiwan’s justice ministry told AFP. were doing or how long they would stay. report by Taiwan, which showed that the government apology, to compensate the arrival at Taoyuan airport in the north. A Before leaving on Friday, the Filipino The Philippines has claimed that the fishing ship was studded with more than fisherman’s family and to apprehend the Taiwanese team of experts also flew to team will also inspect evidence from fishing boat intruded into its waters and 50 bullet holes and displayed no sign of killer. Philippine officials say the issue of a the Philippines. local prosecutors, visit the fishing boat, that coastguards were forced to open fire having rammed the coastguard vessel. formal apology is complicated by the fact Both teams will review how 65-year- review voyage data records onboard the when it tried to ram their vessel. The Philippine President Benigno Aquino that Manila officially recognises Beijing old Hung Shih-cheng was shot dead by vessel and inspect ballistic evidence, the Taiwanese authorities have released the has personally apologised for the inci- over Taipei. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Myanmar Rohingya two-child rule ‘discrimination’

YANGON: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi AFP that the rule had been reaffirmed in “abhorrent, inhumane” and “completely yesterday criticised a ban on Rohingya two Muslim-majority townships in the contrary to human rights”. An official having more than two children in strife- state. Win Myaing, spokesperson for the commission’s report in April into the torn Rakhine state as counter to human Rakhine government, said the order was unrest suggested voluntary family plan- rights, in rare comments on the plight of designed to “enforce monogamy and not ning to stem a high birthrate among the the Muslim group. to have more than two children”. Rohingya that it said stoked tensions. The opposition leader, who has been He said the policy had previously Local authorities have previously accused by activists of failing to speak been put on hold because of fears over been accused of trying to restrict up for the marginalised Rohingya, said “conflicts among communities” in the birthrates among the Rohingya by refus- she opposed the controversial rule, state. Up to 140,000 people-mainly ing to acknowledge any more than two imposed by the previous junta and reaf- Rohingya Muslims-were displaced in two children per married couple-thereby firmed recently by local authorities in the waves of sectarian unrest between denying them legal rights and access to wake of deadly unrest. Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine last services. “It is not good to have such discrimi- year. Myanmar views its population of nation. And it is not in line with human Human Rights Watch has accused the roughly 800,000 Rohingya as illegal rights either,” the veteran democracy authorities of being a party to ethnic Bangladeshi immigrants and denies activist told reporters in Yangon, adding cleansing over the violence, which killed them citizenship. They are considered she could not confirm whether the poli- some 200 people and saw mobs torch by the United Nations to be one of YANGON: Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech dur- cy was being implemented. whole villages. the world’s most persecuted minori- ing the National League for Democracy (NLD)’s first Central Executive Rakhine authorities on Sunday told It described the population policy as ties. —AFP Committee meeting in Yangon yesterday. — AFP Australia’s Catholic cardinal says abuse claims have fallen Church slow to address victim suffering

CANBERRA: The head of the abuse issue. Pell was giving evidence accused priests. “So I don’t think church being “bled to death” by Catholic Church in Australia yester- to a Victorian state inquiry in many persons in the leadership of abuse inquiries referred to concern day blamed a former culture of Melbourne, in relation to his role as the Catholic church knew what a about compensation payments. silence for the cover-up of child Archbishop of Melbourne from 1996 horrendous, widespread mess we “In my mind it was a secondary abuse by clergy, making it difficult to to 2001 when he implemented pro- were sitting on,” he said. But since consideration, the financial consider- know the full extent of abuse, but tocols for dealing with abuse com- the 1990s, the church was more ation. Whatever the legislature added that the number of cases had plaints. open in dealing with the issue, and decides is appropriate, we will pay,” dropped significantly since the Before a packed public gallery, conducts stronger background Pell said. The parliamentary inquiry church started taking stronger with many in tears during his testi- checks on people joining the clergy, has heard child abuse by members action. Cardinal George Pell, an mony, Pell issued another apology to he said. He also denied acting like of the church was covered up, and adviser to Pope Francis on Vatican the victims of sexual abuse, and said “Pontius Pilate” in brushing aside that the Catholic church was more reforms, told a parliamentary hear- church leaders in the past had been claims and rejected accusations from concerned with protecting priests ing the church had been slow to reluctant to share information about MPs that his past references to the than protecting victims. address the suffering of victims and It has been told that Pell’s prede- again issued an apology. cessor as Archbishop of Melbourne, “I am fully apologetic, and Frank Little, dealt with complaints absolutely sorry,” said Pell in a tense confidentially, kept no records, and hearing marked by at times angry moved accused priests to new questioning over the church’s com- parishes where some continued to pensation and investigations. Pell sexually abuse children. was questioned for more than four Little died in 2008. But Pell hours. acknowledged Little covered up the Pell said the number of reports of issue and did not discuss it with abuse by clergy members peaked in advisers or other bishops. “He inher- the 1970s and 80s, but had fallen as ited a situation where there were no the church changed its approach. protocols, no procedures. And he “The evidence of misbehaving, never spoke to anybody about it. He crimes, has been significantly didn’t know how to deal with it,” Pell reduced. I hope the worst is behind said. Pell has also been criticised by us,” Pell said, adding 300 people in victim support groups for his deci- Victoria had received compensation sion to accompany an accused pae- for abuse. dophile priest into court in 1993, but Child abuse scandals have haunt- said the action was not meant as a SYDNEY: This file photo taken on November 13, 2012 shows Sydney ed the Church for more than two slight against abuse victims. The Archbishop Cardinal George Pell holding a document during a press decades in Australia, Europe and the priest, Gerald Ridsdale, was convict- conference in Sydney. Fear of scandal had prompted the cover up of HONG KONG: Protesters carry a mock grave that reads “Grave of Freedom” during a United States, with Ireland shutting ed and jailed for 19 years for molest- some sexual abuse allegations within the Catholic Church, Australia’s rally in downtown Hong Kong yesterday, ahead of the 24th anniversary of the June 4 its embassy to the Vatican in 2011 ing and raping 40 children between military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. — AP due to strained relations over the top ranking Catholic Cardinal Pell said in Melbourne yesterday. — AFP 1961 and 1987. — Reuters Japan nuclear lab accident affect 30

TOKYO: The number of researchers exposed to low-level According to the agency, radiation was accidentally radiation in an accident at a nuclear laboratory in Japan released during the experiment “due to overheating, which last week has hit 30, officials said yesterday, with human we suspect was caused by some technical problems”. error likely worsening the problem. Radiation then leaked from the facility after workers used The accident happened on Thursday as 55 people were fans to reduce levels of radioactivity in the laboratory, it working at a laboratory in Tokaimura, 120 kilometres (75 said. miles) northeast of Tokyo, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency The agency spokesman said the fans should not have (JAEA) said. Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority con- been used, adding: “We don’t know why they switched on demned site operator JAEA for lacking a “culture of safety” the fan. We suspect some wrong decisions were made by and said it was a “Level 1” event, the lowest of an interna- workers concerned.” tional scale measuring nuclear incidents and accidents. Nuclear safety is a particularly sensitive issue in Japan, The disaster at Fukushima in the aftermath of the 2011 which in 2011 experienced the world’s worst atomic acci- tsunami was a “Level 7”, the most serious on the scale. The dent in 25 years when a tsunami crippled a nuclear power researchers were carrying out an experiment that involved plant in Fukushima. firing a proton beam at gold when the accident happened, The Nuclear Regulation Authority criticised JAEA for it said. releasing radioactive materials when it knew their facility The agency, which had initially said six researchers were was contaminated. “It operated ventilation fans and exposed to radiation, announced late Sunday that 24 more released radioactive materials outside when it acknowl- people were affected. There was no widespread radiation edged contamination inside the building,” the authority leak, although two researchers were exposed to up to 1.7 said. “It has failed to appropriately control radioactive millisieverts of radiation, a dose roughly equivalent to a materials and shows the absence of a culture of safety.” strong medical X-ray. Tokaimura is the site of Japan’s previous worst nuclear “None of them required medical attention,” a JAEA accident in 1999, when workers at a uranium processing spokesman said. JAEA has come in for criticism, from a plant poured too much uranium into a precipitation tank, public already wary of nuclear energy after the Fukushima sparking a nuclear chain reaction. crisis, for reportedly continuing with the experiment Two of the workers who triggered the disaster later died despite an alarm warning of abnormality and for waiting from their injuries in hospital, while more than 600 people more than 30 hours before reporting it. were exposed to radiation. — AFP

China Nile relic vandal hunted down: Report

BEIJING: A Chinese tourist who all night” after learning of the wilfully carving characters on defaced an ancient Egyptian mon- cyberattacks, to issue an apology items in scenic zones”. ument was hunted down by in a local newspaper. The incident China has seen rapid growth in Internet users who prompted his highlights fears over perceptions outbound trips in recent years, parents to apologise, state media of the growing number of Chinese and Chinese travellers are now the reported yesterday. A photo post- heading abroad for their holidays. biggest source of international ed on Chinese social networking “This incident is not just about tourism cash in the world, accord- service Sina Weibo showed crude- the problem of one person but has ing to a the United Nations World ly drawn Chinese characters writ- everything to do with national Tourism Organization. ten over an ancient sandstone quality,” one Weibo user wrote. Renaud de Spens, a Beijing- panel lined with hieroglyphics, the “People must die if they lose face based independent expert on Global Times newspaper said. for the nation,” another said. both the Chinese Internet and According to the China Daily, Earlier this month a top official Egyptology, told AFP that com- the vandalism took place in a tem- said the dire manners and menting on the case gave ordi- ple at Luxor, on the banks of the “uncivilised behaviour” of some nary posters the opportunity to Nile River. Internet users hunted Chinese tourists overseas were “denounce the behaviour of their down the perpetrator, a 15-year- harming the country’s image, as elites”. old boy named Ding Jinhao, and he lamented their poor “quality “Chinese media feel compelled hacked the website of his school, and breeding”, according to state- (to) draw a moral from this... It forcing users to click on a sign par- run media. amounts to propaganda, with the odying Ding’s graffiti before enter- Wang Yang, one of China’s four message: ‘Be careful, citizens. ing. vice premiers, singled out for con- When you are abroad you repre- The online furore prompted his demnation “talking loudly in pub- sent China. Be loyal, wherever you parents, who said Ding had “cried lic places, jay-walking, spitting and are,’” he said. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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Issues Film trends to watch post-Cannes

By Richard Ingham

hat films will we be watching in the near future, and how will we be watching them? Here’s a snap- Wshot of trends that emerged in the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, a weathervane of the movie industry:

TV, NOT CINEMA Hollywood’s grip on big movies is being broken by TV, to which big-time directors, actors and money are migrating. Dark, offbeat critical and commercial successes like “The Wire,” “Mad Men,” “The Sopranos” and “Game of Thrones” show what happens when bold programming and video- on-demand (VOD) come together. At Cannes, there was no greater symbol of the change than “Behind the Candelabra,” a biopic that has Michael Douglas as the flouncing enter- Syria contagion strikes deep into Lebanon tainer Liberace. “Too gay” for Hollywood, the movie was financed by HBO - which means it cannot even be consid- By Dominic Evans analyst at the consultancy Eurasia Group. “If the conflict is Syrian army are waging a week-long assault to drive out ered for an Oscar if it premieres to the public on television. expanded, Hezbollah and Iran are willing to support the rebels. “Our brothers in Qusair appealed for our help, so it was “TV is really taking control of a conversation that used to be wo rockets fired at Hezbollah-controlled southern Beirut regime no matter where it leads”. our duty to call on those who could do so to perform jihad to the exclusive domain of movies,” said director Steven bring Syria’s escalating civil war deeper into the heart of Nasrallah’s comments also follow weeks of counter-offen- support them,” Rafei told Reuters in Tripoli. Banners in a Tripoli Soderbergh. “(...) I think it’s a second golden age of TV that’s TLebanon and closer to unrestrained regional conflict. The sives by Assad’s forces around the capital, in the southern square celebrating the “martyrdom” of local fighter Ahmad Al- happening in the States now.” Richard LaGravenese said cre- two-year-old conflict in Syria has already tumbled into province of Deraa and around the town of Qusair on the Shihab in Qusair highlight how the two towns are effectively ative types found TV refreshingly experimental compared to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, exploded into deadly street fighting in Lebanese border, which have strengthened Assad’s hand twin battlegrounds in the same war. “There’s no doubt that Hollywood studio films. “TV is where a writer can write his its northern city of Tripoli and driven half a million refugees ahead of planned peace talks which Damascus says in princi- what is happening in Tripoli is an echo of what is happening in novel. You can have episodes that are purely character-driv- across the same porous border to escape the bloodshed. But ple it is ready to attend. Kamel said Hezbollah’s impact on the Syria, especially Qusair,” Rafei said. en (...) that are just about nuance and about shades of the Sunday’s rocket attack, which wounded five people in a Shiite Syria’s civil war was not as dramatic as believed in some Both Rafei and Nasrallah urged Lebanese fighters to keep human condition that you can’t do in film anymore.” neighbourhood of Beirut, marked the first apparent targeting Western capitals and that reorganising Assad’s armed forces, their battle within Syria, reflecting near universal anxiety in of Hezbollah’s stronghold in the south of the capital and most likely on the advice of his international allies, to confront Lebanon to avoid a repeat of its ruinous 1975-1990 civil war. GREY IS GOLD raised memories of years of civil war in the city. the rebels had been a greater factor behind his recent battle- “Those who want victory for the Syrian regime and those who Expect more and more films that cater to ageing Baby The rockets struck hours after a defiant Hezbollah leader field gains. want victory for the opposition should go and fight in Syria Boomers, the biggest and wealthiest population bulge in Hassan Nasrallah vowed that his guerrilla group, waging war “There has been a strategic plan to restructure the Syrian instead. Leave Tripoli to itself,” Nasrallah said on Saturday. history. Robert Redford made a screen comeback with “All is alongside President Bashar Al-Assad against Syrian rebels, was military and its divisions to make them more effective for Lebanon, a Mediterranean state of 4 million people, made up Lost,” about a retired-but-virile yachtsman caught in a storm. fighting for victory whatever the cost. Both events were mile- urban warfare and to establish new forces,” he said referring to of a mosaic of Christian, Sunni and Shiite Muslim sects, is Senior-friendly projects that were announced or touted at stones in the creeping contagion of a conflict which has units which had been formed out of local militias and which struggling to cope with an estimated million Syrians including Cannes include “Life Itself,” a marriage comedy starring already killed 80,000 people within Syria’s borders and fuelled together added up to additional forces of tens of thousands. refugees, labourers and their families. Morgan Freeman, 75, and Diane Keaton, 67; “And So It sectarian tension from Beirut to Baghdad. It has sucked in “The restructuring is important ... the additional forces have Still saddled with a heavy debt burden from its post-war Goes,” with Douglas, 68, who is introduced to the grand- regional rivals Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Iraq and Israel been important, and I’d put Hezbollah third on that list. All are reconstruction and suffering a sharp slowdown in economic daughter he never knew he had; and “Look of Love,” where and polarised major powers - the US and Europe siding with indispensable for the regime, but there are different levels,” growth, Lebanon is also in political limbo after the resignation Annette Bening, 55, falls for a man (Ed Harris, 62), who hap- the opposition and Russia and China with Assad. Kamel said. The number of Hezbollah fighters in Syria so far of Prime Minister Najib Mikati two months ago. Mikati’s suc- pens to look like her dead husband. “You really need ele- “It is hugely alarming. It points to the fact that there are a was likely to be in the “low thousands”, Barnes-Dacey said, cessor, Tammam Salam, has so far failed to form a new govern- ments that appeal to the older audiences,” The Hollywood decreasing number of brakes that can be applied to this situa- with plenty more in reserve. Nasrallah himself said on ment and squabbling over a parliamentary electoral law Reporter quoted Mimi Steinbauer, an executive with tion,” said Julien Barnes-Dacey, senior policy fellow at the Saturday Hezbollah could summon “tens of thousands” with a means next month’s election will be delayed - threatening the Radiant Films International, as saying. “These actors have European Council on Foreign Relations. “It’s spiralling out of couple of words. “I don’t think Hezbollah would leave them- country with political vacuum. fans in those demographics. That is very important.” control, moving deeper and deeper within Syria but clearly selves exposed in their own backyard to secure Assad, but Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said on Sunday parliament now across Lebanon and the region.” No one claimed respon- clearly they have a significant fighting force and could should be extended for at least a year, since political stability LOOKING TO ASIA sibility for Sunday’s attack but it was widely assumed to be a increase what they are sending to Syria to quite a large degree was a priority if Lebanon was to overcome its security chal- Asian markets and money, as well as Asian content, are response to Nasrallah’s speech by Syrian rebels or their sympa- before they have to make those choices,” Barnes-Dacey said. lenges. “There is still some minimal level of commitment by exerting a widening influence. China is at the forefront. thisers. One Syrian rebel described it as a warning to Lebanese Assad’s Western foes are already reluctant to commit to the mainstream Sunni Muslim, Shiite Muslim and Christian “China is coming on strong not just as a market place for authorities to rein in the Iranian-backed Shi’ite Muslim group, intervention in Syria or military support for the rebels, who parties not to let Lebanon become a battleground,” Kamel international motion pictures, but coming on strong as a which is armed and financed by Iran, or face further conse- include al Qaeda-linked groups equally hostile to the United said. “But this has become a regional conflict, so the risk of creative force,” Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg told a quences. By dropping any ambiguity about Hezbollah’s deter- States and Europe as they are to the Syrian president. Closer uncalculated scenarios has gone up.” press conference. Big-budget US-Chinese co-productions mination to keep Assad in power, Nasrallah may have been to Syria, Assad’s enemies are less constrained. Sunni Muslims For now, Hezbollah’s unquestioned military ascendancy in such as “Kung Fu Panda 3” are sometimes shot with a laying down a marker to the Syrian leader’s Western and Arab from the Lebanese port of Tripoli cross into Syria to fight Lebanon itself means that the group which fought Israel to a Chinese location and storyline. In the case of “Iron Man 3,” foes that any increase in support for rebels would be futile. Assad while their city itself has endured a week of fighting in standstill in a 34-day war seven years ago is unlikely to face a producers included two Chinese characters for a version The European Union is considering whether to amend sanc- which 25 people have been killed, showing how Syria’s neigh- sustained challenge from domestic rivals. But its deepening released only in China: a character named DrWu, played by tions on Syria to allow EU states to send weapons to the rebels bours can simultaneously suffer from the spread of its conflict war in Syria may prove more challenging than anything it Wang Xueqi, and a woman close to him, performed by and a US Senate panel voted last week to arm them - though and further fuel the fighting within its borders. faced in three decades fighting Israeli troops, said Peter actress Fan Bingbing. Some co-productions are being vol- it is not clear whether any such bill could ever get through “When Hezbollah sent fighters to Syria and occupied Sunni Harling of the International Crisis Group. “Hezbollah will soon untarily submitted to Beijing’s censors in the early stage of Congress. “The message Hezbollah is trying to send is a signal villages, that provoked the Sunnis,” said Sunni Muslim preach- realise that this conflict is far bloodier than anything it has the creative process to avoid rejection further down the that both Iran and Hezbollah are willing to match any increase er Sheikh Salem Rafei, referring to the area around the Syrian seen before. This is a very deadly conflict. If they go all in, they line, according to the industry press. Asian-made movies in support to rebel groups,” said Ayham Kamel, Middle East border town of Qusair where Hezbollah fighters and the will have huge losses”. — Reuters can make it big in Europe and the United States provided they move out of a narrow cultural range and address uni- versal themes, say some. “I find film from India can be sold in Latin America, in Europe, in parts of the world we never Iran’s vote brings receding Web access thought of before because human emotion and drama are the same everywhere,” said US-based film producer and dis- By Nasser Karimi and Brian Murphy establishment-friendly winner. It’s also anoth- claims were launched by the US and Israel. A better at controlled cyberspace,” said tributor Raaj Rahhi. er showcase of Iran’s expanding online date-siphoning program known as Flame Theodore Karasik, a security and political rom a computer keyboard in London, an prowess led by the powerful Revolutionary forced Iran’s Oil Ministry to completely shut affairs analyst at the Dubai-based Institute for DOCUMENTARIES Iranian emigre plays the role of coun- Guards. A special Web-watching corps estab- down its computer system last year. Three Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. “But Iran’s They are the biggest growth area of films, driven by Fselor, social media guru and all-around lished two years ago has the mission of years ago, Iran’s uranium-enrichment labs Internet generation is very clever at beating interests in content ranging from social and environment adviser for Internet users back home seeking patrolling the domestic Internet and fighting were penetrated by a virus called Stuxnet, them at their own game.” issues to history, sports and music. “People today want ways around the cyber-blocks set up by suspected cyberwars with the West and its which was tailored to disrupt Iran’s nuclear The legions of well-educated and highly more than escapism,” said Martijn te Pas, in charge of pro- authorities in Tehran. These have been busy allies. Some say it even creates false activist centrifuges. Web literate Iranians under 30 are the back- gramming at Amsterdam’s International Documentary Film days. His Twitter account - which goes under profiles to try to ferret out dissidents. On Sunday, Iran inaugurated a 5,000-km bone of a kind of cyber-underground. Names Festival. Driving the trend are cheap digital technology for the handle of Nariman Gharib - registers a Iran is believed by many security experts fiber-optic line running to Germany via and Web addresses of proxy server sites that content makers, niche markets for non-fiction program- steady stream of calls for help from Iran and to be behind computer-virus attacks last year Russia. Iran’s North Korean-educated commu- allow users to sidestep controls are passed ming ranging and the Internet as a form of distribution. “If responses about new proxy servers, dial-up on Saudi Arabian state oil giant Saudi Aramco nications minister, Mohammad Hasan Nami , around like hot gossip. Lately, however, you own a Mac and a camcorder, you can make a documen- modems and other possible workarounds. and Qatari natural gas producer RasGas. Last said it will boost the “security” of telecommu- authorities appear to be gaining the upper tary, basically,” said Tyler Konney of Taylor & Dodge, which is The goal is to defeat Iran’s Internet clamp- week, The New York Times reported that Iran nications as part of Iran’s wider efforts to seek hand. Each morning, Hossein Razaei, a marketing “After Porn Ends,” about actors who struggle to downs, which have intensified in the is considered a chief suspect in a series of a self-contained Internet with its own mechanical engineer who runs a small engi- resume normal life after a career in pornographic films. approach to presidential elections on June malware breaches into US energy companies, Google-style search engines and vetted web- neering company in Tehran, checks up on the Another push for documentaries and low-budget fiction 14. “Here is a new link for Siphon,” he wrote, citing American officials and corporate securi- sites such as Twitter and Facebook accounts best-working path to beat the censors. is crowd-sourcing, where Internet sites such as Kickstarter describing a site that directs users to a server ty experts. Iran has repeatedly denied similar attributed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Sometimes that means scanning banned bring small investors and creators together. “Kickstarter is outside Iran. Minutes later, replies stream claims. But Iran also has been hit by viruses it Khamenei. “Iranian authorities are getting news sites such as Voice of America or con- something that harnesses people for a project which has back that it worked on Android systems but necting to foreign engineering firms to look great ideas but no money,” said Toby Rose, a British writer not PCs. He sent a tweaked Web address. at new ideas. “Nowadays,” he laments, “we seeking 10,000 pounds ($15,100) for a movie idea, “Fashion “Hope this works,” he wrote. cannot open many sites.” Victim: The Musical.” — AFP State controls on the Internet in Iran are Iranian authorities have not commented nothing new. Authorities have steadily tried directly on any possible new Web controls. to choke off social media and political opposi- Some lawmakers have suggested that Web All articles appearing on these tion sites - among others since they became restrictions are needed to prevent “enemies” - pages are the personal opinion of tools for protesters alleging vote rigging after a reference to US and allies - from influencing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed the election. But Iran’s leaders certainly have the writers. Kuwait Times takes no re-election four years ago. Now, with the elec- factored in the chaos in 2009, which marked responsibility for views expressed tion to pick Ahmadinejad’s successor loom- Iran’s worst domestic unrest since the 1979 therein. Kuwait Times invites read- ing, the constraints are drawing even tighter. Islamic Revolution. It also was a precursor to Iranian authorities appear to be stepping up the Arab Spring in the use of social media. ers to voice their opinions. Please their efforts to block the pathways to servers Sites such as Facebook and Twitter - still rela- send submissions via email to: opin- outside Iran that open access to outlawed tively obscure in the region at the time - were [email protected] or via snail sites such as Facebook, the BBC’s Persian serv- essential to organizing protests and giving ice and websites from what’s left of Iran’s accounts of crackdowns after blanket media mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. opposition Green Movement. restrictions were imposed. A YouTube video The editor reserves the right to edit The Internet squeeze signifies more than a of a dying protester, Neda Agha Soltan, any submission as necessary. display of widening state controls before an became an iconic image of the demonstra- election that is almost certain to bring an Iranians surf the web at an Internet cafe in Tehran yesterday. — AP tions.— AP NEWS TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013

BUCHAREST: An aerial picture shows a huge Romanian flag on the Clinceni Airfield south of the capital yesterday. — AP Romania unfurls world’s largest flag

BUCHAREST: A Romanian village yesterday unfurled low and blue flag covers an area of about 79,290 sq m, Summiteer seeks to inspire what is the largest flag ever made, Guinness World downing Lebanon which had held the previous record. Records said. It took about 200 people several hours The five-ton flag was displayed in Clinceni, 35 km south- Continued from Page 1 against society to achieve amazing things.” Moharrak, like yesterday to roll out the flag, which measured about east of Bucharest. Workers struggled to keep it firmly many other Saudi women, hopes that “we do drive one day,” 349 m by 227 m, about three times the size of a football planted on the ground because of windy conditions mountain, is also the youngest Arab to reach the peak of but if this is difficult to bring about, “there are so many other field, according to Jack Brockbank, an adjudicator for and had to use small sandbags. Adrian Dragomir, man- Everest. Her parents had “faced disagreements from family more important things you can be great at.” Guinness World Records who measured the flag before ager of the Flags Factory which created the flag, says it members and people in Saudi Arabia in general,” she told AFP. Her Palestinian co-climber Raed Zidan said he had left pronouncing it the biggest flag in the world. “It gives took weeks to sew and 70 km of thread was needed. A “As a Saudi girl, it’s normal that I get negative feedback, but it behind a political message on Everest. “We spent a long me great pleasure to recognize a new Guinness World military brass band played as Prime Minister Victor was minimal and the good outweighed the bad,” she added. time on the mountain... We met climbers from all over the Record title,” he said after measuring the flag. Ponta and other ministers arrived in the village to view Awaiting her arrival at Sharjah airport was the Saudi world,” he told reporters. “I told them about the Palestinian “Congratulations Romania!” He said Romania’s red, yel- the flag. — AP embassy’s cultural attache in the UAE, Abdul Mohsen Al- cause, about our prisoners in the jails of the Israeli occupa- Harthi. “This is a message from a woman who wants to say ‘I tion.” Zidan is only the second Palestinian to summit Everest have reserved a place for myself among you men’,” said Harthi. after Suzanne Al-Houby completed the feat in 2011, becom- “The message is for men in Saudi saying that ‘I, a daughter of ing the first Arab woman to reach the top. With Moharrak More than 70 killed in this country, have achieved top positions and am capable of and Zidan was Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al-Thani - a doing whatever men can do’,” he said. Saudi Arabia, which young member of Qatar’s ruling family and the tiny emi- implements a strict form of Islam and imposes segregation of rate’s first to make the climb. Their Iranian companion, wave of Iraq bombings the sexes, this month gave the green light for girls at private Masoud Mohammad, suffered from frostbite in his foot schools to take part in sport, but only under certain condi- which will take months to heal. All four, graduates of the tions. Under pressure from international sports bodies, Saudi American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, BAGHDAD: More than 70 people were and shouting, “You must know, this was Mosul left a police colonel dead. Iraq’s Arabia sent two women athletes to the London Olympics last climbed Everest to raise funds to help educate Nepalese killed in a wave of bombings in markets an organised operation.” “Checkpoints, autonomous Kurdish region wants to summer. “I did nothing against my culture and religion,” said children. Thani said they have succeeded in raising “one mil- in Shiite neighbourhoods across they do not actually check the cars incorporate oil-rich Kirkuk over the fed- Moharrak, a slim and tall brunette. “You don’t have to go lion dollars”. — AFP Baghdad and northern Iraq yesterday entering here,” he said, alluding to the eral government’s strong objections - a in worsening sectarian violence in Iraq. multiple searches vehicles had to pass dispute diplomats and officials say is a No group claimed responsibility for the through to get to the dealerships. major threat to the country’s long-term blasts. But Sunni Muslim Islamist insur- Tensions between the Shiite leader- stability. Barrak jail term quashed, oppn vows poll... gents and Al-Qaeda’ s Iraqi wing have ship and the Sunni Muslim minority The areas of north Iraq where the increased attacks since the beginning are at their worst since US troops left in attacks occurred are home to substan- Continued from Page 1 December polls. Mislem said the resignation. MP Yacoub Al-Sane, one of the year and often target Shiite dis- Dec 2011, and the conflict in Syria is tial populations of Sunni Arabs, the opposition will contest parliamentary of the three lawmakers who filed to tricts. More than a dozen blasts tore straining Iraq’s fragile communal bal- community that has for months held The court also confirmed a two- polls only if the elections are held on grill him, said Hussein remains into markets and shopping areas in dis- ance. More than 700 people were demonstrations against alleged gov- year jail term against tweeter Jamal the basis of the original electoral law responsible legally for the payment of Al-Dhawi but ordered the sentence to issued in 2006. the Dow penalty and action must be tricts across the Iraqi capital, including killed in attacks in April, according to a ernment targeting and discrimination. be suspended for three years. Meanwhile, an Amiri decree was taken against him and other officials. twin bombs just several hundred UN count, the highest monthly toll in While the government has made some Opposition activists expressed anger issued yesterday accepting the resig- MP Safa Al-Hashem strongly criticized meters apart that killed at least 13 peo- almost five years. Thousands of Sunnis concessions aimed at placating pro- against the rulings against Enezi and a nation of oil minister Hussein who the minister’s reshuffle of the oil sec- ple in the capital’s Sadr City area, police began staging street protests last testers and Iraqi Sunnis in general, such large number of other tweeters and resigned apparently to avoid a grilling tor and said MPs will take action to and hospital officials said. “A driver hit December against Shiite Prime as freeing prisoners and raising the called for a gathering late yesterday in over his alleged role in the payment of rectify the situation. another car and left pretending to Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, whom they salaries of Sunni anti-Al-Qaeda fighters, the heart of Kuwait City. In addition, the huge penalty to Dow and over Earlier yesterday, Al-Qabas news- bring traffic police. Another car rushed accuse of marginalising their sect since underlying issues have yet to be the appeals court upheld the convic- other alleged irregularities. State paper quoted Hussein as saying he to take him away and right after his car the fall of Saddam Hussein after the addressed. And an April 23 security tion of former pro-government MP Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh hopes “the new oil minister will pro- exploded among people who had 2003 invasion. The latest surge in vio- forces raid on a protest site that Mohammad Al-Juwaihel for insulting Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah vide the political cover for the massive gathered to see what was happening,” lence began in April after a raid by the sparked clashes in which dozens died the Mutairi tribe but increased his jail said a second Amiri decree was issued change” introduced to the oil sector said bystander Hassan Kadhim. “People Iraqi army on a Sunni Muslim protest sent tensions soaring higher still. term from three months to eight appointing Finance Minister Mustafa last week. “I am comfortable by all were shouting for help and blood cov- camp in the town of Hawija led to Analysts say government policies months. Juwaihel has been in jail for Al-Shamali as acting oil minister. standards, I have performed my ered their faces.” clashes with the security forces and that have disenfranchised Iraqi Sunnis, about a month. Hussein had been in the post for duties... I hope the oil sector will be Two of the blasts, both involving more attacks. Bombings on Shiite and coupled with Shiite-led authorities’ In a related development, about 30 just over 15 months as he was relieved of political pressures,” he told vehicles rigged with explosives, went Sunni mosques, security forces and refusal to make any major concessions former opposition MPs said yesterday appointed to the Cabinet formed fol- the newspaper. off near used car dealerships in Sunni tribal leaders over a month-long to the protesters, have given militant that they will boycott any future elec- lowing the Feb 2, 2012 elections. He Speaker Rashed said the govern- Habibiyah, destroying dozens of cars as surge in violence are heightening wor- groups fuel and room to manoeuvre tions under the controversial amend- was retained in the Cabinet formed ment will attend today’s session after Iraq’s national football team were play- ries Iraq risks returning to the level of among the disillusioned community. ment of the electoral law that trig- following the Dec 2012 elections. boycotting the sessions on May 14 ing Liberia in a friendly at Shaab stadi- sectarian violence that killed thou- With the latest attacks, more than 500 gered the current political standoff in Barely one week before quitting, and 15 in protest against the filing of um a short distance away. “Guards are sands in 2006-2007. people have been killed in May. Maliki the country. Speaking on their behalf Hussein made the biggest shakeup in two grillings against the oil and inte- following a lengthy meeting that con- the history of oil sector that included rior ministers. Asked if the Assembly here, and a car explodes here,” Baghdad has been hit by a number last week ordered a shake-up of top tinued until the early hours of yester- the removal of a number of senior will approve an expected govern- screamed Fadhel Hanoun, a used car of bombings, often in Shiite areas, so security officers in the country’s day, former MP Faisal Al-Mislem said executives from Kuwait Petroleum ment request to delay the grilling of dealer who lamented that not only had far this month, in which dozens of peo- provincial security commands and that the former lawmakers agreed Corp and the top managers of the the interior minister, Rashed said the people died, but many had lost their ple have died. Elsewhere, shootings in division-level leadership. One of those that they will not contest any election eight subsidiaries. Assembly will deal with any request savings, locked up in cars they had the disputed province of Kirkuk killed changes was to sack the head of the under the amended law even if the The resignation will certainly spare within the framework of the constitu- hoped to sell. “How can we understand an anti-Al-Qaeda militiaman and a pri- Baghdad Operations Command, constitutional court confirms it. the minister of having to face the tion. Rashed’s comments came amid this?” he said, adding: “This is a failed vate generator operator, while a road- which is responsible for security in the Last October, the government grilling filed by three MPs which was reports that the debate of the interi- state.” Another man walked past, crying side bomb in the main northern city of capital. — Agencies amended the electoral law to reduce scheduled to be debated in today’s or minister’s grilling will most likely the number of candidates a voter can session. A number of MPs however be postponed until after the crucial pick from four to just one and as a vowed that they will press for legal ruling of the constitutional court on result, the opposition boycotted the action against Hussein even after his June 16. Kuwait Airways denies flouting rules... Continued from Page 1 improve its performance, KAC went with KD 200 million in debts to local directly to Airbus in search of integrat- banks and annual KD 100 million oper- The statement also refuted an exam- ed solutions to develop the current ational losses in addition to some prob- ple given about cancelling the founda- fleet and replacing it. lems with insurance companies and tion of another company for violating KAC also said that a contract was some European airports. KAC also its authorizations according to an Amiri made with Airbus to charter planes stressed that turning losing carriers into decree, noting that unlike that compa- until the new ones are delivered. “This profit-making ones, such as the Middle ny which was still in the process of contract ensures having additional East Airlines, Royal Jordanian and Egypt foundation, KAC already exists and is maintenance services and privileges Air, necessitate restructuring and fleet operational. “KAC only turned from a other charter companies do not offer,” updating in order to be able to com- public establishment into a sharehold- stressed KAC, noting that it could not pete with peers and make profits. ing company,” it highlighted. go on operating the same old 20-plane In further defense of the current Moreover, the press release pointed fleet and jeopardize its passengers’ deal, KAC stressed that the purchased out that KAC had been through excep- safety, lose its market share and lag planes would be state-of-the-art ones tional experiences in view of its ageing behind all other regional and interna- with economic fuel consumption, more fleet - especially after cancelling a simi- tional carriers because of not purchas- comfortable seats and more onboard lar deal in 2007 under pressure amid ing modern planes. In addition, KAC safety and entertainment facilities. It similar media and parliamentary criti- explained that Airbus would shoulder also noted that purchasing only two cism - high operation costs due to the cost of any possible delay in deliver- types of planes, short range and long maintenance and a drop in revenues ing the new planes. range ones, would save expenses by and the carrier’s market share. It also Furthermore, KAC underlined that hiring less pilots, flight engineers and explained that in order to remain oper- operation of the current ageing fleet spending less on spare parts and main- BAGHDAD: Iraqis gather at the scene of a car bomb attack at a used car dealer’s parking lot in the Habibiya ational with minimum cost and to had overburdened the national carrier tenance. neighborhood of eastern Baghdad yesterday. — AP TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 SPORTS

Dutt named Bremen coach Best gets Lions call Cotter to coach Scotland GERMANY: Robin Dutt was named as the new coach of Werder Bremen yesterday after the LONDON: Ireland hooker Rory Best admits he has gone from a low ebb to one SCOTLAND: New Zealander Vern Cotter, who has been with French club Clermont Auvergne since German football association agreed to release him from the post as their sporting director. of the best moments of his career after earning a late call-up to the British and 2006 and led them to this year’s Heineken Cup final, will take over as Scotland coach next year. The 48-year-old will replace Thomas Schaaf who was the country’s longest-coaching top Irish Lions’ squad for the tour to Australia. Best was devastated to have been “Vern is rightly regarded as one of the top coaches in the world and to have secured someone of flight coach when he was sacked by the four-times German champions earlier this month omitted from the original 37-man squad for the Australia trip when it was his calibre is a coup,” Scottish Rugby Union chief executive Mark Dodson said in a statement yesterday. after 14 years. “I’m very happy to take my place on the bench again,” former Germany defender announced at the end of April. “He was our first choice and we are pleased to have secured him on a two-year contract taking us up Dutt told the club’s official website (http://www.werder.de.”Werder Bremen is a great club and The 30-year-old Ulster star was considered unfortunate to have lost out to to and beyond the Rugby World Cup in 2015. We compiled a short list of world-class candidates in it’s a very interesting task.” England’s Dylan Hartley for a place among the three hookers. But just as Best December and Vern was top of that list.” The 51-year-old Cotter, who led the Dutt made a name for himself after guiding Freiburg into the was coming to terms with another hammer blow in Saturday’s Celtic League Canterbury Crusaders to successive Super 14 titles in 2005 and 2006, will Bundesliga in 2009 and keeping them there until his departure final defeat by Leinster, news filtered through that Hartley had been sent off for honor his contract with Clermont and stay at the club until the end of in 2011 for a season at Bayer Leverkusen. “With Robin Dutt we abusing referee Wayne Barnes in the English Premiership final earlier that after- next season. He will assist temporary coach Scott Johnson dur- have signed our preferred candidate for the trainer’s job and noon. An 11-week suspension was issued to Hartley on Sunday and Best was ing the November internationals and next year’s Six Nations are convinced that we can make a successful new start,” said handed a reprieve by the Lions as he was brought into the squad as his before taking over as head coach for Scotland’s June tour. sports director Thomas Eichin. Schaaf led Werder to the 2004 replacement. “I’m absolutely thrilled and honored to have been German league and Cup double and two more German Best, who has been capped 67 times, had been appointed captain of appointed,” Cotter said. “Mark Dodson and the team at Scottish Cup wins and two runners-up places in the Bundesliga. But Ireland’s tour to North America, but instead he is now due to fly to Hong Kong Rugby have a strategic vision and a determination to do some- the club struggled this season, finishing 14th in the 18- with the Lions on the first leg of their tour. “When the initial squad was thing very special ... and working with them and a talented group team table and only three points clear of the relegation announced that was as low as I’ve felt. We were training at Ulster at the time and of players and coaches I look forward to the team growing in playoff spot after failing to win any of their last 13 match. more and more people on our management were avoiding eye contact with competitiveness and stature. “We will build a winning team Schaaf’s ties with Werder stretched back to 1972 when he me,” Best said. “Nobody avoids you when it’s good news, so I had an idea from together.” Australian Johnson, who took over the team in joined as an 11-year-old before embarking on a 17-year play- that. It was bitterly disappointing and on that Tuesday afternoon I allowed November after Andy Robinson resigned, was appointed ing career at the northern club. —Reuters myself to dwell on it and think deeply about the whole thing. —Reuters Scotland’s director of rugby three weeks ago.—Reuters Nationals pound Phillies

WASHINGTON: In a showdown of aces with disappointing records, Stephen Strasburg and Cole Hamels matched each other until the Washington Nationals scored five runs in the seventh inning of a 6-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday. Strasburg (3-5) allowed five hits in eight innings, walked none and struck out a season-high nine, giving up a run in the eighth on his first big league balk. Making his latest no-support start, Hamels (1-8) struck out six and allowed KANSAS CITY: Scott Downs No. 37 of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim only three hits through six innings. Ryan throws in the eighth inning against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Zimmerman’s infield single started a ral- Stadium. —AFP ly that included a pair of errors and Steve Lombardozzi’s two-run double. Hamels has lost five straight starts, has Angels down Royals had only 20 runs of support scored all season when he’s been in the game and KANSAS CITY: Josh Hamilton started the Angels’ make it 6-1. Mike Pelfrey (3-5) allowed five runs and hasn’t pitched with a lead since April 7. comeback when he homered leading off the seventh five hits in 5 2-3 innings. He walked three and struck inning, and Los Angeles beat the Kansas City Royals 5-2 out five. Minnesota has lost 11 of 12. CUBS 5, REDS 4 Sunday for its eighth straight win. In Cincinnati, Alfonso Soriano hit a The Angels were unable to get into their dugout BLUE JAYS 6, ORIOLES 5 tying two-run homer in the eighth until about 90 minutes before the game because bees In Toronto, Munenori Kawasaki hit a game-ending inning and Welington Castillo had a go- swarmed into it. A beekeeper was summoned to solve two-run double in a four-run ninth inning, lifting the ahead double in the 10th, helping the Blue Jays to a victory over the Orioles. WASHINGTON: Bryce Harper No. 34 of the Washington Nationals hits a ground ball into a double play to the problem. Cubs rally from a four-run deficit in a win Jerome Williams (4-1) then allowed two runs and Trailing 5-2 to begin the ninth against Orioles clos- end the sixth inning during a game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Nationals Park. —AFP over the Reds that stopped a season- seven hits in six innings for the Angels, on their longest er Jim Johnson (2-5), the Blue Jays got a leadoff double high, six-game losing streak. winning streak since taking eight straight from May 22- from Edwin Encarnacion, a single from Adam Lind and runs on seven hits in five innings to earn start a season 8-0. Eric Chavez homered 14 attempts. Kershaw (5-3) gave up four Soriano singled in the seventh and 29 last year. Kansas City has lost nine of 10 and 16 of 20, an RBI single by J.P. Arencibia. Brett Lawrie flied out and the victory. He struck out four and didn’t for the second straight game, Prado runs, seven hits and three walks in seven scored Chicago’s first run off Johnny dropping to 21-26. In only three of those 16 losses Anthony Gose walked to load the bases for Mark walk a batter. Jason Grilli pitched a drove in a run in the seventh inning after innings and struck out five as his ERA Cueto on Luis Valbuena’s two-out single. have the Royals scored more than three runs. DeRosa, who made it 5-4 with a fielder’s choice. That scoreless ninth for his major league- getting three hits the night before and rose from 1.35 to 1.68. Anthony Rizzo hit an RBI double against Los Angeles trailed 2-0 before Hamilton homered brought up Kawasaki, who lined a double up the alley leading 20th save. Heath Bell worked a perfect ninth for his Logan Ondrusek in the eighth - his third on the first pitch of the seventh from Wade Davis (3-4), in left-center, scoring Arencibia and DeRosa from first Pittsburgh got to Milwaukee starter eighth save. Carlos Quentin hit a two- GIANTS 7, ROCKIES 3 double in two games - and Soriano fol- giving the former AL MVP home runs in consecutive with the winning run. The blown save was Johnson’s Yovani Gallardo for a run in the second run homer and Kyle Blanks also had two In San Francisco, Brandon Belt hit a lowed with his fifth homer of the season games for only the third time since signing with the fourth of the season and fourth in five chances. Steve on Jordy Mercer’s two-out triple, which RBIs for the Padres. tiebreaking, two-run double in the fifth and first since May 13, a 394-foot drive Angels during the offseason. Delabar (4-1) got the win despite allowing Matt scored Michael McKenry, who walked. inning to back a shaky outing by Matt Wieters’ two-run double in the ninth. to left-center. Gallardo (3-5) labored through just four CARDINALS 5, DODGERS 3 Cain, and the Giants rallied past the RED SOX 6, INDIANS 5 JJ Hoover (0-4) walked Scott Hairston innings. In Los Angeles, Matt Carpenter drove Rockies. In Boston, Jacoby Ellsbury hit a game-ending, two- RAYS 8, YANKEES 3 with two outs in the 10th, and Castillo in the go-ahead run with an infield sin- Buster Posey homered and Andres run double on Joe Smith’s first pitch, capping a four- In St Petersburg, Alex Cobb took a three-hit followed with his double into the left- DIAMONDBACKS 6, PADRES 5 gle and Pete Kozma hit a three-run dou- Torres added two hits and an RBI to help run, ninth-inning rally that lifted the Red Sox over the shutout into the ninth inning and led the Rays to a win field corner. Kevin Gregg (1-0) pitched 1 In Phoenix, Patrick Corbin worked six ble against Clayton Kershaw, leading the the Giants close a six-game homestand Indians. Boston won three of four against Cleveland, that extended CC Sabathia’s winless streak to five, one 1-3 hitless innings, stopping the Reds’ innings without his best stuff to become Cardinals to a victory over the Dodgers. with consecutive wins. The defending managed by Terry Francona in his first series back at short of his career high. Cobb (6-2) lost his shutout bid five-game winning streak. the first Arizona left-hander to start with The Cardinals improved the major World Series champions play 14 of their Fenway Park since leaving the Red Sox after the 2011 when Brett Gardner homered leading off the ninth and eight straight wins, Martin Prado league’s best record to 32-17 and next 18 games on the road. season. he wound up allowing two runs and five hits in 8 1-3 METS 4, BRAVES 2 matched a career high with four hits increased their NL Central lead over Cain (4-2) matched his season high Cleveland led 5-2 entering the ninth, when Chris innings with eight strikeouts. In New York, Ike Davis busted out of and the Diamondbacks beat the Padres. Cincinnati to 1 1/2 games. of five walks but allowed only two runs Perez (2-1) walked Dustin Pedroia leading off. David Sabathia (4-4) dropped to 0-2 with a 4.85 ERA since his prolonged slump with a tiebreaking Corbin allowed more than two runs Seth Maness (4-1) got credit for the and two hits in five innings. In his first Ortiz doubled, and Mike Napoli and Jarrod he beat Toronto on April 27. He allowed seven runs and single in the eighth inning and the Mets for the first time this season, but helped victory in relief of starter Shelby Miller appearance at AT&T Park, Jon Garland Saltalamacchia hit consecutive RBI groundouts. seven hits in seven innings and is 10-11 in 31 starts rallied past the Braves to end an eight- himself with a run-scoring single in the despite retiring only two of the six bat- (3-6) allowed five runs - two earned - Walks to Jonny Gomes and Jose Iglesias around against the Rays, including a 3-10 mark since joining game losing streak at home. fifth inning off Tommy Layne (0-1) to ters he faced. Edward Mujica pitched a seven hits and four walks in five Stephen Drew’s single loaded the bases. Perez fell the Yankees. His overall ERA is 3.96. Shaun Marcum struck out a career- become the third Arizona pitcher to perfect ninth inning for his 14th save in innings. —AP behind Ellsbury 2-1 in the count and left with an arm Sabathia’s career-high streak for consecutive win- high 12 and Lucas Duda homered for injury. Ellsbury then doubled to left-center. Craig less starts is six, from July 3-Aug. 1, 2002, and March 31- the Mets, who stopped Atlanta’s eight- Breslow (2-0) allowed one run and two hits in two April 27, 2003, according to STATS. game winning streak and avoided a MLB results/standings innings. three-game sweep. The Braves had won 15 of 18 against New York and five in a MARINERS 4, RANGERS 3 Toronto 6, Baltimore 5; Detroit 6, Minnesota 1; Chicago Cubs 5, Cincinnati 4 (10 innings); Boston 6, Cleveland 5; OAKLAND 6, HOUSTON 2 In Seattle, Jason Bay hit a two-out RBI single in the row at Citi Field. Pinch-hitter Justin Turner led off the Washington 6, Philadelphia 1; Tampa Bay 8, NY Yankees 3; Chicago White Sox 5, Miami 3; LA Angels 5, Kansas In Houston, Bartolo Colon struck out a season-high 13th inning, lifting the Mariners to a victory over Texas City 2; Pittsburgh 5, Milwaukee 4; Oakland 6, Houston 2; San Francisco 7, Colorado 3; Seattle 4, Texas 3 (13 nine in seven scoreless innings, and the Athletics won that snapped an eight-game skid. eighth with a single against Cory innings); St. Louis 5, LA Dodgers 3; Arizona 6, San Diego 5; NY Mets 4, Atlanta 2. their ninth straight against the Astros this season. Bay came through after he was robbed of a game- Gearrin (1-1). David Wright struck out Oakland’s Nate Freiman, who was with the Astros winning homer in the 11, when David Murphy leaped but Duda punched a ground-rule dou- American League National League in spring training as a Rule 5 selection, had a double above the fence in left-center field to catch Bay’s drive. ble to left and John Buck’s run-scoring Eastern Division Eastern Division and home run with three RBIs for the A’s. Raul Ibanez tied it at 3 earlier in the 11th with a single tied it at 2. Pinch-hitter Mike W L PCT GB Atlanta 30 19 .612 - Baxter was hit by a pitch to load the Dating to 2007, Oakland has won 11 straight home run. AJ Pierzynski had given Texas a 3-2 lead in NY Yankees 30 19 .612 - Washington 26 24 .520 4.5 bases for Davis, who pulled a two-run against Houston, tied for the third longest winning the top half with a pinch-hit RBI single off Oliver Perez. Boston 31 20 .608 - Philadelphia 24 26 .480 6.5 streak against one team in A’s history. Colon (5-2) won Yoervis Medina (1-0) worked out a jam in the top of the single through the right side for a 4-2 Baltimore 27 23 .540 3.5 NY Mets 18 29 .383 11 his second straight start, scattering nine hits two day 13th. Michael Kirkman (0-1) was the loser. Mets lead. Tampa Bay 25 24 .510 5 Miami 13 37 .260 17.5 after turning 40. The Astros are 14-36 in their first year LaTroy Hawkins (1-0) worked a score- Toronto 21 29 .420 9.5 in the AL, their worst 50-game start in club history. INTERLEAGUE less inning and Bobby Parnell struck out After leaving runners on third in two of the first WHITE SOX 5, MARLINS 3 two in the ninth for his seventh save. It Central Division three innings, Oakland sent nine batter to the plate in a In Chicago, Dayan Viciedo and Alex Rios each was a spirited and heartening win for Central Division St. Louis 32 17 .653 - five-run fourth against Dallas Keuchel (1-2). threw out a runner at the plate, and the White Sox beat the Mets heading into their Subway Detroit 28 20 .583 - Cincinnati 31 19 .620 1.5 Alex Sanabia and Marlins to sweep their weekend Series against the crosstown-rival New Cleveland 27 22 .551 1.5 Pittsburgh 31 19 .620 1.5 TIGERS 6, TWINS 1 series. York Yankees beginning Monday night. Chicago White Sox 24 24 .500 4 Milwaukee 19 29 .396 12.5 In Detroit, Max Scherzer pitched six solid innings The White Sox have won five of six and nine of 12 Kansas City 21 26 .447 6.5 Chicago Cubs 19 30 .388 13 to remain undefeated this season, and Avisail Garcia to climb back to .500 for the first time since they were PIRATES 5, BREWERS 4 Minnesota 19 28 .404 8.5 broke the game open with a bases-loaded triple, lead- 4-4 on April 10. Dylan Axelrod (3-3) benefited from a In Milwaukee, Wandy Rodriguez Western Division two-run homer by Adam Dunn and a tiebreaking two- won his fourth consecutive start, Pedro ing the Tigers over the Twins. Scherzer, who retired his Western Division Arizona 28 22 .560 - last 22 batters in a win at Cleveland on Tuesday, run double from Alejandro De Aza to pick up his third Alvarez had a two-run double and the Texas 32 18 .640 - San Francisco 28 22 .560 - allowed a run and three hits Sunday in improving to 7- consecutive victory. Pirates built an early four-run lead before Oakland 28 23 .549 4.5 0. He struck out six and walked three. Sanabia (3-7) pitched into the seventh inning holding off the Brewers. Colorado 27 23 .540 1 LA Angels 23 27 .460 9 San Diego 22 27 .449 5.5 Torii Hunter homered for the Tigers, and Prince against the Phillies to end a personal five-game losing The Pirates have won 13 of 15 and Seattle 21 29 .420 11 Fielder drove in a run with a fourth-inning double. streak. But he was unable to sustain that success are a season high 12 games over .500. LA Dodgers 20 28 .417 7 Houston 14 36 .280 18 Garcia, pinch-hitting in the sixth, cleared the bases to against Chicago (24-24). —AP Rodriguez (6-2) gave up three earned

KUWAIT: Al-Ahli United Bank was crowned as the winner of the 2013 KBC Bowling Cup which concluded recently at the Cozmo Bowling Hall in Salmiya. The win comes after Al-Ahli United defeated Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait in a match that was attended by senior Kuwait Banks Club officials including Chairman Ahmad Sultan, Vice Chairman Mahmoud Bastaki, Assistant Secretary Jassem Haidar, and Head of the Social Committee Reem Al-Wuqaiyan. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 SPORTS Danger levels high for America’s Cup sailors

SAN FRANCISCO: The margin for error is New safety regulations proposed last Island and Fisherman’s Wharf, he had hoped chipping in about $32 million, about the opening their throttles wide to keep up. exceedingly small for a sailor sitting three week addressed capsizes at length and as many as 12 challengers would sign up to third of the cost of supporting a team. Though this was only New Zealand’s stories above the San Francisco Bay on the eased competitive rules in favor of assisting face him. Only three materialized. Those that The other three teams are backed second run on San Francisco Bay, they’ve side of a high-tech catamaran as it leans an overturned yacht. The number of round passed said they were put off by the cost almost entirely by a single wealthy funder: completed more than four dozen practice toward the water literally flying along the robins in the first round of sailing among the and the complicated specifications of the Ellison pays for Oracle Racing, Swedish oil runs at home. They’ve mastered “foiling,” surface like a giant stingray at 40 mph. challengers has been reduced from seven catamarans powered by airplane-like wings magnate Torbjorn Tornqvist backs Artemis the technique of lifting the 7-ton boat’s It doesn’t take much for these top-heavy races a series to five. instead of traditional, flapping sails. Racing and Prada owner Patrizio Bertelli hulls out of the water so it can skim along craft to topple - it’s already happened twice On Friday, three of the four America’s Cup Each boat costs upward of $10 million funds the Luna Rossa Challenge. the waves on four small fins known as in these waters since October. That’s why entries took to the water for the second day and three of the four teams built two yachts One of Artemis’ two boats capsized and “foils.” Foiling reduces the drag on the boat these America’s Cup sailors are suited in of practice runs since Andrew “Bart” apiece. Each team employs about 100 full- broke into pieces, trapping Simpson under and increasing speed dramatically. padded body armor and crash helmets. It’s Simpson’s death on May 9. Each of the 72- time workers at water-front bases equipped wreckage under water for more than 10 On Friday, New Zealand’s black-clad rig- the reason they carry emergency oxygen foot catamarans on the water was followed with giant cranes and other heavy equip- minutes. Artemis chief executive Paul ger was being hoisted in the air to affix the tanks. closely by an armada of chase boats carry- ment to move the boats from their storage Cayard said his team still plans to compete catamaran’s front sail when Ellison’s 2003 The days of tanned sailors in Sperry Top- ing scuba divers, doctors and other support berths to the water and back again for every for the cup, but only if conditions are America’s Cup entry came into sight. Siders boat shoes, baseball caps and shorts personnel in case one of the space-age ves- training run. “It’s too expensive,” Team New deemed safe. Artemis has not sailed since Called USA 76, the single-hulled boat furiously changing sails amid a spaghetti sels capsized. Simpson died when he was Zealand leader Grant Dalton grumbled the accident while the other three teams with the mainsail and jib setup of a tradi- mess of ropes are long gone. They’ve been trapped under the wreckage of Artemis before heading out for the team’s first sus- returned to practice this week after observ- tional sloop now serves as tour boat and replaced by billionaire Larry Ellison’s made- Racing’s capsized boat. tained practice on the bay in light winds ing a brief moratorium on sailing after the grinning guests aboard eagerly waived for-television vision of fixed-sail yachts No one was hurt when Oracle Racing’s Friday morning. “It’s too complex.” Simpson’s death. and yelled their hellos to the kiwis. equipped with cutting-edge technology yacht capsized in October, but it required Dalton promised to simplify the next On Friday morning, the winds were light Someone asked Team New Zealand’s controlled by professional athletes who rely millions of dollars in repairs after its sail was America’s Cup if his teams’ derisively dubbed and stubbornly refusing to pick up, flutter- David Thomson the difference between more on computers than ropes. destroyed. “sailing billboard” for all of its NASCAR-like ing between 8 and 12 knots. The recre- the 2003 boats and the entries of today. Following a sailor’s death two weeks ago Since Ellison’s boat won the last America’s advertising beats Ellison’s boat in ational sail boats out on the bay not using “That’s a dog,” said Thomson, gesturing after a capsize during an America’s Cup train- Cup in 2010, the Oracle Corp. founder September. their motors were bobbing with the cur- toward the USA 76. He then turned and ing run on San Francisco Bay, even more designed the race course and boats that “We don’t have a billionaire backer,” said rent in the sunshine. The America’s Cup pointed at New Zealand’s sleek catamaran safety gear is being mandated and gladly would compete this summer. When he Team New Zealand spokesman Hamish catamarans, on the other hand, were each with the rigger back on deck, the jib sail in donned by sailors, some of whom privately unveiled the plan to race some of the Hooper. The team is the only America’s Cup reaching speeds of 30 knots as they place and the boat picking up as it glided predict more capsizes and crashes before a world’s fastest sail boats on a tight course entry to receive government backing with whizzed up and down San Francisco’s toward the Golden Gate Bridge. “And that’s winner is crowned in September. between San Francisco’s iconic Alcatraz lawmakers in sailing-crazed New Zealand waterfront with the flotilla of motor boats a cat.” —AP Weekley ends title drought

FORT WORTH: Boo Weekley enjoyed hearing his name yelled again and again while he was on the golf course. What will mean even more is seeing it engraved on Colonial’s famed Wall of Champions along with the likes of Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson. Weekley got his first PGA Tour victory in five years Sunday, closing with a 4-under 66 that included three consecutive birdies midway through his round and a momentum-seizing 22- footer at the par-3 13th hole. “It’s unreal,” he said. “Ever since I’ve been coming here and looking at that wall, and you see all of them names on the wall, and finally I get to have my name up there, it don’t get no better than that.” Finishing at 14- under 266, Weekley won by a single stroke over Matt Kuchar, the second- and third-round leader who closed with a 68. Defending champion Zach Johnson, who also won in 2010, shot a 66 to finish third at 12 under - his first top-10 finish this season. It was his fifth consecutive top-10 at Hogan’s Alley, where he has played 19 of his last 20 rounds under par. Weekley was at the 13th hole before he finally glanced at a leaderboard and saw his name on top. When his birdie putt dropped to get him to 14 under, Weekley thrust his putter above his head and acknowledged the loud chorus of “Boo!” coming from the often rowdy crowd surrounding the picturesque hole on a back edge of the prop- erty. He then finished with five consecutive pars, even missing a pair of 4-foot putts before a 29- foot birdie try at No. 18 lipped out of the cup. By moving to No. 55 in the world ranking, BAHAMAS: South Korea’s Ilhee Lee receives the trophy after winning the Weekley is now eligible for the US Open. Both of Bahamas LPGA Classic golf tournament at the Ocean Club course in Paradise his previous wins had been at Harbour Town, in Island. —AP 2007 and 2008. Like the Heritage winner, the Colonial champion gets a plaid jacket, though the 2008 Ryder Cup team member wasn’t able to Lee bags first LPGA Tour win compare any differences between them. “I could- n’t tell you, it’s been so long,” he said. PARADISE ISLAND: Ilhee Lee never stopped smil- trick. Then she felt the wind, gaining strength by Weekley’s check of just more than $1.1 mil- ing, even in the most trying times during a most the hour, and figured even par might be the best lion matched what he earned over his previous bizarre week on the LPGA Tour. she could do. Her thinking changed quickly. 14 tournaments this season while making 12 When the course was closed for two days Lee opened with a 30-foot birdie putt from cuts and finishing in the top 10 three times. He because of severe flooding, she swam in the just off the green. On the next hole, she chipped never trailed after consecutive birdies at Nos. 8- ocean and spent five hours in the pool one day, in from 60 feet for birdie. And even after running 10, those coming about the same time Scott taking endless trips down a glass tube slide into trouble off the tee on her third hole, she hit a Stallings - who had a front-side 6-under 29 - through an aquarium of sharks at the Atlantis 5-iron for her third shot on the par 5 to 10 feet for made double bogey with three shots from Resort. At night, she headed to the casino and another birdie that gave her a share of the lead. bunkers at No. 15 to drop out of the lead. The counted minimal losses over four nights. “I lost 45 “After the third hole I was thinking, ‘Maybe this win for Weekley came the same week he went bucks. That’s it,” she said. “Not bad, huh?” is the day to win,’” she said. Lee hit 9-iron to tap-in to see a doctor about the problem he has had And when the Bahamas LPGA Classic finally range on her eighth hole to take the outright lead, recently maintaining focus in his left eye, some- got started on a course that had to be shortened but she left a long birdie putt from the fringe times causing bad twitches and making it prob- to 12 holes, she was never more excited, especial- some 5 feet short. With a one-shot lead, she lematic reading greens. ly when it was over. couldn’t afford a bogey, and Lee drilled the par “I had a few out there. It was coming and With three great birdies to start her round, a putt right in the center and lightly pumped her going in that wind,” Weekley said. “I don’t know clutch par putt toward the end and a final birdie fist leaving the green. “The most important putt,” what’s going to happen. We’re going to get that was merely a bonus, the 24-year-old from she said. Cho, who teed off two hours before Lee, home and work on it.” South Korea had her first professional win. got into the mix by holing a 9-iron into the wind Kuchar, at No. 13 the highest-ranked player “This week I was very happy because I can play from 118 yards on the par-5 11th hole - the fifth in the field, was 12 under after a 55-foot birdie FORT WORTH: Boo Weekley poses with the trophy after his one-stroke victory at the golf. I can swim. I can play. I can gamble,” Lee said. hole her round - and birdied three of the last five putt at the 436-yard 12th hole. Kuchar punched Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial. —AFP “This is the best job in the world. I love golf.” holes for a 7-under 40. The 7 under matched the his right arm into the air to punctuate the shot Lee closed with a 5-under 42 for a two-shot low score of the week. that got him within a stroke of Weekley for the from 1963-68. hole, when he took two shots from a greenside win over Irene Cho, who had her own brand of Anna Nordqvist had a 2-under 45 to finish lead. Stallings’ closing 66 put him in a tie for fourth bunker. Then came a steady stream of pars until excitement Sunday by holing out from the fair- alone in third. Cristie Kerr, coming off a win in Johnson was at No. 17, where a 19-footer for at 11 under with John Rollins (68) and Matt rolling in that long putt at No. 12. He didn’t have way for eagle and then playing a shot off the Kingsmill two weeks ago, was in position for so his second consecutive birdie also got him to 12 Every (69). The best round of the day was a 62 another birdie until a closing 20-footer put him beach for an amazing par save. much of the day and couldn’t make a putt, the under and led to his own fist pump. by Web.com Tour player Franklin Corpening, a alone in second place for his sixth career run- Perhaps most amazing of all is that this inau- strength of her game. She even laid flat on her Almost as quickly, their one-stroke deficit Fort Worth native who grew up at Colonial and ner-up finish. gural tournament was in the books as the sky stomach for a 7-foot attempt on her ninth hole, was back to two after Weekley’s birdie at No. 13. played at TCU. He finished at 8 under and tied “It’s a bummer for me. This is a tournament, darkened and showers pelted the course for a only for it to bump off line. Kerr had to settle for a “I played well, that’s all you can do and whoever for 14th, earning an automatic invitation to play and this is a golf course, that I love,” said Kuchar, final act. How fitting. 46 and a five-way tie for fourth that included wins, tip of the cap,” said Johnson, who is the again next year. a five-time PGA Tour winner. “It’s difficult at the The flooding came from a foot of rain in about Paula Creamer (45) and Mika Miyazato (45). first player with five consecutive top-10 finishes Kuchar made an 11-foot birdie putt off the moment coming just one shot short but you five hours Tuesday night that turned a lake into a “They did the best they could,” Kerr said. at Colonial since Gene Littler did it six times back fringe at No. 2 before a bogey on the next can’t control what other guys do.” —AP lagoon in the middle of the course. One green “Today was brutal with the wind. I didn’t putt well was completely submerged. Water nearly covered enough and I couldn’t steady myself in the wind. the tee sign on the 18th. The crew at the Ocean I’m glad the week is over. It was weird playing the Club wound up pumping 45 million gallons of 18th hole for the first time all week. I haven’t seen Idoki wins water off the course. Despite a start to her round it since Monday. I hope we get to play the whole that indicated this might be Lee’s day, she had to golf course next year.” Cho’s eagle from the 11th Senior PGA title look at her yardage book to remember not how fairway was but a small part of her exciting round. she made birdies, but where. Two holes later, her shot drifted onto the sandy ST. LOUIS: Japan’s Kohki Idoki clawed back a five-stroke The LPGA Tour was determined to play with beach and she figured she might as well try to deficit to win the Senior PGA Championship on Sunday fol- two new title sponsors, Ohio-based Pure Silk and play it. “It was in the beach, and there was some lowing a final round collapse by Kenny Perry. the Bahamas Tourism Ministry, so they found a 12- water around it,” Cho said. “And I was like, ‘Shoot, Idoki shot a final-round 65 to vault past the field on his hole route that would allow them three rounds to I’m going to pull out a little Bill Haas and just try to way to a two-stroke victory at the Bellerive Golf Club in St. reach 36 holes and make it an official event. get this up and over.’ I got it out perfect.” Louis. The 51-year-old charged with four birdies on the front All the players started on No. 10, and then She saved par, just like Haas did in a playoff at nine and two more on the back to finish on 11-under-par moved to a stretch of holes on the front nine the Tour Championship in 2011 that led him to 273. It was more Major disappointment for Perry, who before going to the back nine, and then returning win the FedEx Cup. As hard as the wind was blow- endured playoff defeats at the 2009 Masters and 1996 PGA to the front nine. As confusing as that was, it ing over the final hour, and as the sky began to Championship. changed on Sunday when the par-5 18th hole darken, it looked as though Cho’s score of a 9- The 52-year-old ended on nine under, tied for second with drained well enough to be used in competition. under 128 might be enough to win, but Lee was Jay Haas and just ahead of Mark O’Meara (eight under) and Officials eliminated the fourth hole from the rout- simply flawless. Most first-time winners get show- Kiyoshi Murota (seven under). Perry had entered the final ing - a par 5 that had been converted to a par 3 ered with beer after it’s over. In the rain, Lee was round with a two-stroke lead and built momentum with because a bunker had caved in from the rain - sprayed with shaving cream. “I can’t believe it three birdies on his first five holes before falling apart on the meaning par went from 45 to 47 on Sunday. For right now,” she said. “It feels amazing. Awesome.” back nine. the record, Lee finished on 11-under 126. She was Lee won $195,000 and was asked if she was ST LOUIS: Kohki Idoki of Japan poses with the Alfred S Bourne Trophy on the He made a double bogey on 13 that dropped him into a three shots out of the lead going into the final going back to the casino. She smiled and showed 18th hole green after winning the Senior PGA Championship presented by tie with Idoki, then fell out of the lead with a bogey on 16 and round, and was thinking 4 under might do the two thumbs-up. —AP KitchenAid at Bellerive Country Club. —AFP added another on 17. —Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 SPORTS Kanaan wins Indy 500 Photo of the day

INDIANAPOLIS: With a good luck charm he lowed by American Ryan Hunter-Reay. a note that read: “Here’s your good luck charm had given to a sick child back in his pocket, Marco Andretti, grandson of former back. Now you take it and win the Indianapolis Brazilian Tony Kanaan won his first Indianapolis Formula One champion and Indy 500 winner 500.” 500 on Sunday to end a decade of disappoint- Mario Andretti, finished fourth in a furious and As Kanaan drove his Dallara-Chevy into a ment at the famed Brickyard. The former frenetic race that featured a record 68 lead packed Victory Lane he pulled the medal out of IndyCar champion captured the crown jewel of changes, double the previous mark set in 2012. his race suit and held it high before he was North American motor racing in his 12th One of IndyCar’s most popular figures, mobbed by team mates and friends, including attempt to complete his resume, taking the Kanaan had known nothing but bad luck at the former series champion Alex Zanardi. checkered flag under caution after defending sprawling 2.5 mile oval speedway, coming close Kanaan, who ran at or near the front most of champion Dario Franchitti crashed with just but never able to reach Victory Lane. the afternoon, holding the lead 15 times, was over two laps to go. Kanaan’s luck, however, changed when he sitting second behind Hunter-Reay with six laps “This is it man, I made it,” Kanaan said before received a package four days before the race left when a caution flag came out after Graham he dumped the traditional winner’s bottle of containing a good luck charm he had given to a Rahal slammed into the wall. milk over his head. “Finally I am going to put my young girl nine years ago just before she was On the restart, Kanaan blew past Hunter- ugly face on that trophy.” about to undergo brain surgery. Reay when his luck took a dramatic change as Colombia’s Carlos Munoz crossed the finish The woman, now 24 years old and healthy, Franchitti’s crash further back in the field line second in his IndyCar racing debut fol- returned the charm back to Kanaan along with brought out the yellow, allowing the 38-year- old Brazilian to coast unchallenged to the checkered flag. “I have to say, the last lap was the longest lap of my life. I wanted the pace car to hurry up so bad,” said Kanaan. “I got a little bit of luck today.” Zanardi, who had both legs amputated above the knee after crashing in a 2001 race, also brought Kanaan some luck, turning over the gold medal he won at the 2012 London Paralympics in hopes that some his good for- tune would rub off on his friend. “Alex Zanardi gave us some luck today. He gave us his gold medal from London and told us, ‘Rub this all over the car,’” said Kanaan’s team owner Jimmy Vasser. “Tony took the medal to Mark Webber of Australia and Infiniti Red Bull Racing drives during previews to the Monaco Formula his motorhome with him for an hour.” One Grand Prix at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. —www.redbullcontentpool.com The day began under dreary, grey skies but the race got off to an uplifting start as runners who were unable to finish last month’s Boston Marathon were given a chance to symbolically complete the distance. The runners were unable to finish the Boston Marathon as the Swann spins England race was halted when two bombs left at the fin- ish line exploded, killing three people and injur- ing 264 others. to brink of Test victory A massive crowd packed in the home straightaway grandstands stood and cheered LEEDS: Graeme Swann bowled as runners, who started at Turn Four and fin- England to the brink of victory against ished on the front stretch, crossed one of the New Zealand in the second and final most famous finish lines in all of sport — the Test at Headingley yesterday. Yard of Bricks. The off-spinner took four for 61 in The crowd, estimated at close to 250,000, 21.4 unchanged overs, extending his was back on its feet a few minutes later when match haul to eight wickets, before drivers were given the command to start their bad light ended the fourth day with engines and pole sitter Ed Carpenter led the 33- New Zealand 154 for six. That left the car field into the first turn of the 200-lap race. Black Caps still needing a further 310 Carpenter, IndyCar’s only owner driver, set runs to reach their victory target of the pace until the first caution came out on the 468. fourth lap when JR Hildebrand, who famously New Zealand captain Brendon crashed in the final turn while leading the 2011 McCullum was nought not out and Indy 500, spun into the wall bringing out the Tim Southee four not out. The most INDIANAPOLIS: Indianapolis 500 Champion Tony Kanaan of Brazil, yellow flag. any side has ever made in the fourth The day featured just five cautions and the innings to win a Test is West Indies’ driver of the Hydroxycut KV Racing Technology-SH Racing low number of yellow flags helped make it the Chevrolet, kisses the Borg Warner Trophy at the yard of bricks dur- 418 for seven against Australia in fastest Indy 500 ever with Kanaan posting an Antigua in 2002/03. ing the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race Trophy Presentation. —AFP average speed of 187.433 mph. —Reuters And the corresponding record for New Zealand is the 325 for four they posted against Pakistan in Pakistan battle back Christchurch in 1993/94. It seemed only forecast rain for today’s final day could now deny LEEDS: New Zealand’s Ross Taylor (right) is bowled out by England’s England victory and a 2-0 series win. Graeme Swann (not pictured) as England’s Matt Prior (left) looks on to defeat Ireland In that case, they might rue both cap- during the fourth day’s play in the second cricket Test match tain Alastair Cook’s decision not to between England and New Zealand. —AFP enforce the follow-on on Sunday and DUBLIN: Kamran Akmal and Wahab Set 230 for victory, Pakistan eight boundaries took the game away indeed bat on after lunch on Monday New Zealand’s first innings, needed Brownlie was eventually dismissed Riaz led the Pakistan fightback as the slumped to 133 for seven at the end from Ireland in a stunning partnership in a match where the whole of Friday’s just nine balls to strike again Monday for 25 when, swaying away from a tourists secured a two-wicket victory of the 37th over but Akmal, with a of 93 in 62 balls. first day was washed out without a when Kane Williamson was lbw on Steven Finn bouncer, he gloved to Bell in the second one-day international classy 81 from 85 balls and Riaz, with a Akmal, named man of the match, ball bowled. review. before Martin Guptill (three) edged against Ireland in Clontarf on Sunday. hard-hitting 47 from just 35, with was out with four needed for victory, Jonathan Trott, who pressed on to Swann then grabbed his second Swann to Trott at slip. but by then Pakistan finished the job 76 yesterday after taking 69 balls wicket in three overs when left-hand- Then 153 for five became 154 for with two wickets and eight balls left. Sunday to make 11 not out, defended ed opener Hamish Rutherford was six when Taylor, who batted for more A superb new ball spell by Trent England’s approach. “We’ve had a caught off bat and pad by Joe Root at than two-and-a-half hours, fell to Johnston and Middlesex’s Tim great day with bat and ball and we’re short leg for 42. That left New Zealand Swann. Murtagh reduced Pakistan to 17 for in a really strong position,” he told BBC 65 for three and in danger of suffering Earlier, Cook scored 130, further four in the 10th over, but Misbah-ul- Radio’s Test Match Special. yet another top-order slump. extending his England record for Test Haq (24) and Shoaib Malik (42) started “If we’d taken the weather into Taylor, however, counter-attacked centuries to 25, before declaring the the recovery. consideration we might have made by cover-driving Swann for four and hosts’ second innings on 287 for five. The loss of Malik, leg before to the them follow on,” the South Africa-born came through reviews on 47 and 60, Cook, 88 not out overnight, was impressive George Dockrell, was batsman added. while receiving solid support from out when he was caught at mid-off off quickly followed by a superb catch in “We’re 1-0 up in the series so Dean Brownlie in a fourth-wicket the bowling of part-time spinner the covers by Kevin O’Brien to dismiss there’s no need to chase the game, stand of 79. Williamson. —AFP Abdur Rehman and at that moment but we want to win every Test we play. even the Pakistan contingent in the “You look at time and runs and you crowd expected an Ireland win. want to get it spot on, and I think SCOREBOARD But while Akmal and Riaz kept we’ve done that.” their heads, the Ireland bowlers pan- For New Zealand, only former cap- LEEDS: Scoreboard at stumps on the fourth day of the second Test between icked, the four-balls became more fre- tain Ross Taylor, with a stylish 70, England and New Zealand at Headingley yesterday: quent and the experienced batmen offered much in the way of significant didn’t miss out. England 1st Innings 354 (J Root 104, J New Zealand 2nd Innings resistance yesterday before he was Earlier, Ed Joyce scored his first Bairstow 64; T Boult 5-57 P. Fulton c Bell b Broad 5 yorked by Swann to leave New one-day international hundred for New Zealand 1st Innings 174 (G Swann 4- H. Rutherford c Root b Swann 42 Zealand 154 for six. Ireland in Ireland’s 229 for nine in con- 42, S Finn 3-36) K. Williamson lbw b Swann 3 “England put the ball in the right ditions much improved on the cold England 2nd Innings (overnight: 116-1) R. Taylor b Swann 70 areas and asked us questions, but we and wet weather the teams experi- A. Cook c Southee b Williamson 130 D. Brownlie c Bell b Finn 25 should be in a lot better position than enced in the thrilling tie on Thursday. N. Compton c Rutherford b Williamson 7 M. Guptill c Trott b Swann 3 we are at the moment,” Taylor said. Joyce came to the middle in the J. Trott c McCullum b Wagner 76 B. McCullum not out 0 “It’s another day tomorrow and first over after Paul Stirling, the Ireland I. Bell c Guptill b Williamson 6 T. Southee not out 4 we’ll have to see what the weather century-maker in the first game, was Extras (lb 6) 6 gods have in store for us, but hopeful- J. Root c Guptill b Wagner 28 caught off a mistimed pull at mid- ly Brendon and Timmy can bat out J. Bairstow not out 26 Total (6 wkts, 54.4 overs, 240 mins) 158 DUBLIN: Pakistan players react during their match against Ireland wicket for a duck and the Sussex cap- time as we’ll see what will happen.” M. Prior not out 4 Fall of wickets: 1-21 (Fulton), 2-40 tain stayed for the remainder of the which they won by two wickets during their One Day Cricket In their first innings, New Zealand Extras (b8, lb1, w1) 10 (Williamson), 3-65 (Rutherford), 4-144 innings, finishing on 116 from 132 International at Clontarf Cricket Club. —AP collapsed to 174 all out-although this Total (5 wkts dec, 76 overs, 320 mins) 287 (Brownlie), 5-153 (Guptill), 6-154 (Taylor) balls with 12 fours and a six. was an improvement on the 68 they Fall of wickets: 1-72 (Compton), 2-206 To bat: D Bracewell, N Wagner, T Boult He gave one chance, on 61, in the managed in the second innings of (Cook), 3-214 (Bell), 4-249 (Trott), 5-268 Bowling: Anderson 11-4-28-0; Broad 8-2- first over of the powerplay, to SCOREBOARD their 170-run first Test defeat at Lord’s. (Root) 19-1; Swann 21.4-7-61-4; Finn 11-1-43-1; Mohammad Hafeez at backward Stuart Broad, who took a Test-best Root 3-2-1-0. point, a juggling effort which should Did not bat: S Broad, G Swann, S Finn, J DUBLIN: Final scoreboard in the second one-day international between seven for 44 at Lord’s, removed Peter Match position: New Zealand need a fur- have been held, and he and Kevin Anderson Ireland and Pakistan yesterday: Fulton for five on Monday after he ther 310 runs to reach their victory O’Brien made Pakistan pay scoring 53 Bowling: Boult 2-1-2-0; Southee 15-4-51-0; fended a rising delivery to Ian Bell in Pakistan E. Joyce not out 116 in the next five overs. Wagner 17-3-67-2; Williamson 24-4-68-3; target of 468 with four second innings the gully. Imran Farhat c K O’Brien b Johnston 5 N. O’Brien c Kamran Akmal b Wahab Riaz 29 O’Brien’s innings was cut short on Bracewell 13-3-49-0 (1w); Guptill 5-0-41-0. wickets standing. Swann, who’d taken four wickets in Nasir Jamshed lbw b Murtagh 0 G. Wilson c Hafeez b Abdur Rehman 5 38 by Rehman, one of three changes Mohammad Hafeez c Wilson b Murtagh 2 K. O’Brien c Jamshed b Abdur Rehman 38 to the Pakistan team from the first Asad Shafiq c K O’Brien b Johnston 4 J. Shannon b Mohammad Hafeez 2 game. Out went the world’s leading Misbah Ul-Haq c & b Cusack 24 T. Johnston lbw b Abdur Rehman 1 one-day bowler Saeed Ajmal, Police arrest six bookies in Goa Shoaib Malik lbw b Dockrell 43 A. Cusack c Imran Farhat b Abdur Rehman 0 Mohammad Irfan and Ehsan Adil, an Kamran Akmal c Porterfield b K O’Brien 81 T. Murtagh c Misbah Ul-Haq b Junaid Khan 8 in came Riaz, Asad Ali and Rehman. PANAJI: Indian police said yesterday tions were still in progress. from any involvement in the sport Abdur Rehman c K O’Brien b Cusack 7 G. Dockrell not out 3 Asad Ali made an immediate Wahab Riaz not out 47 they have arrested six bookmakers in He told reporters that equipment pending an inquiry into his role in the Extras (7lb 2nb 17w) 26 impression when he had Ireland cap- Junaid Khan not out 2 Goa state who were part of a syndi- including laptops and mobile phones spot-fixing scandal. Total (9 wickets, 50 overs) 229 tain William Porterfield caught behind Extras (1b 5lb 9w) 15 cate betting on Indian Premier League had been seized from the Goa premis- Gurunath Meiyappan, part of the Fall: 1-2 (Stirling), 2-4 (Porterfield), 3-69 (N. in his second over for one and Riaz cricket matches. es where the bookies, all from management team of IPL team Total (8 wickets, 48.4 overs) 230 also got among the wickets when Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Farhat), 2-10 (Jamshed), 3-13 O’Brien), 4-84 (Wilson), The IPL tournament has been reel- Mumbai, had been staying for the last Chennai Super Kings, was arrested by 5-178 (K. O’Brien), 6-186 (Shannon), 7-188 Niall O’Brien also gave a catch to wick- ing from a spot-fixing scandal which 45 days-since the IPL tournament police in Mumbai on Friday for (Hafeez), 4-17 (Shafiq), 5-60 (Misbah), 6-112 et-keeper Akmal for 29. (Malik), 7-133 (Rehman), 8-226 (Akmal) (Johnston), 8-198 (Cusack), 9-222 has led to the arrest of three cricketers began. allegedly betting on matches in con- (Murtagh) Rehman was the pick of the and 11 bookies, but police said the They did not appear to be involved nivance with bookies and a Bollywood Bowling: Murtagh 10-2-54-2 (1w), Johnston 9.4- bowlers with four for 48 from his 10 0-35-2, K O’Brien 8-0-39-1 (4w), Cusack 9-0-48-2 Bowling: Junaid Khan 9-0-59-2 (2w 1nb), Asad Goa arrests did not appear to be con- in spot-fixing from the initial evi- actor. Ali 10-4-26-1, Wahab Riaz 7-0-45-1 (5w 1nb), overs ripping through the middle nected to that case, based on initial dence, police said. Betting on cricket The three cricketers are accused of (3w), Dockrell 10-1-32-1 (1w), Stirling 2-0-16-0. order. Murtagh stayed with Joyce to Mohammad Hafeez 10-0-33-1 (2w), Abdur probes. is illegal in India, while spot-fixing is deliberately bowling badly in specific add 33 for the ninth wicket, but in the Rehman 10-1-48-4-1 (1w), Shoaib Malik 4-1-15- “We have arrested six persons in the illegal practice of rigging specific overs in return for tens of thousands Ireland end it wasn’t enough and Ireland are W. Porterfield c Kamran Akmal b Asad Ali 1 0-2 (2w). connection with cricket betting activi- parts of a match for financial gain. of dollars, after striking deals with still waiting on their first home win ty,” Goa’s deputy inspector general OP On Sunday the son-in-law of India’s bookmakers. This year’s IPL tourna- P. Stirling c Asad Shafiq b Junaid Khan 0 Result: Pakistan beat Ireland by 2 wickets over a major Test nation. —AFP Mishra told AFP, adding that investiga- cricket board chief was suspended ment ended on Sunday night. —AFP TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 SPORTS19 Phillips fires Palace into Premier League

LONDON: Veteran striker Kevin Phillips came off the bench to score a superb extra-time penalty as Crystal Palace returned to the Premier League with a 1-0 win over Watford in the Championship play-off final yes- terday. Phillips, 39, struck mid-way through extra time on a sun- splashed day at Wembley Stadium, after Manchester United-bound winger Wilfried Zaha had drawn a tired foul from Watford right-back Marco Cassetti. The Championship play- off final is said to be the richest game in world football and pro- motion to the English elite will reportedly swell Palace’s revenue by up to £120 million ($181,000, 140 million euros). “We’re in the Premier League now, so God help us,” said Palace manager Ian Holloway, who was appearing in his third play-off final in four years. “It’s absolutely massive for the club and I’m delighted for every- one connected. I feel very privi- leged.” Palace last played in the LONDON: Crystal Palace’s English striker Kevin Phillips takes a penalty during the English Premier League in 2005, the last Championship Play Off final football match between Crystal Palace and Watford at Wembley of four single-season stints in the Stadium.—AFP top flight, and join Cardiff City guiding Palace to promotion. was the electrifying star turn. He before plunging to his left to and Hull City in graduating from “I’m exhausted and speech- produced three dazzling runs grasp a Mile Jedinak header in the Championship this term. less. It’s a dream come true,” he down the right flank, the last of stoppage time. Phillips, who began his career said. “This is a all I wanted, leav- which culminated in a cut-back Watford made the more enter- at Watford, said he was yet to ing Palace knowing they are in for Owen Garvan, whose shot was prising start to extra time, Palace decide whether or not to play on the Premier League.” blocked. By that stage Palace had goalkeeper Julian Speroni next season. “To come on and get Watford coach Gianfranco already lost Kagisho Dikgacoi to superbly swatting the ball away the winning goal against the club Zola, the former Chelsea star, was an apparent calf injury, with from Troy Deeney, before MEXICO: America’s Christian Benitez (center)and Diego Reyes (left) hold up the where it all started is a fairytale,” gracious in defeat. “It has been a Stuart O’Keefe coming on in his Almunia’s resistance finally gave Mexican national soccer league trophy after beating Cruz Azul during the final said the on-loan Blackpool striker, great season for us as we have place. way. match of the Mexican soccer league.—AP who had tasted defeat in three done something not many peo- It was not until the 57th Zaha’s dart into the box pro- previous play-off finals. ple expected,” he said. “Games minute that Watford substitute voked a rash swipe from Cassetti “If that is my last game, what a like this are very much on the Alex Geijo produced the first shot and after referee Martin Atkinson Cruz Azul lift way to sign off. I’m going to have day, and the better team was on target, but as the game wore pointed to the spot, Phillips a break now. Every bit of my body Crystal Palace.” on, Palace began to turn the swept an unerring penalty into is aching. I’ll see what the future A crowd of 82,025 turned out screw and Watford goalkeeper the top-left corner. Mexican title brings.” for the final game of the English Manuel Almunia was called upon Fernando Forestieri almost Zaha was a torment to the season, with Real Madrid coach with steadily increasing frequen- sent the game to penalties at the MEXICO CITY: Ten-man America beat the 89th minute from Argentine Rubens Watford defence throughout a Jose Mourinho among those in cy. The former Arsenal player death, but although his shot beat Cruz Azul 4-2 on penalties to win a Sambueza’s corner. scrappy game and will now link attendance, fuelling speculation thwarted Palace on five occasions Speroni, Joel Ward was on hand record-equalling 11th Mexican league In the third minute of added time, up with United, in a move that that his return to Chelsea is now in the closing stages of normal to head the ball off the line and title on Sunday, snatching victory from America goalkeeper Moises MuÒoz came could be worth up to £15 million, only a matter of time. time, saving from O’Keefe, Garvan safeguard Palace’s return to the the jaws of defeat after two late goals up into the Cruz Azul box for another having fulfilled his ambition of In a cautious first half, Zaha and Aaron Wilbraham, twice, big time.—AFP forced extra time. The Eagles trailed 1-0 corner and his header was deflected by from the first leg of the final and were defender Alejandro Castro into the net to quickly a man down at the Azteca after force an extra 30 minutes. midfielder Jesus Molina was sent off in There were no goals in extra time Newell’s rout Boca ahead of decider the 14th minute. leading to penalties with Cruz Azul, who They fell behind on the night, and 2-0 been so close to their first championship on aggregate, to a 20th minute goal by since 1997, starting the shootout badly BUENOS AIRES: Newell’s Old Boys opened a Colombia striker Teofilo Gutierrez and when striker Javier Orozco had his penal- three-point lead in the Argentine champi- looked set for defeat before staging a ty saved and Castro slipped and sent his onship by crushing Boca Juniors 4-0 on miraculous late salvo at two corner kicks. over the bar. America equalled arch- Sunday, three days before their decisive Colombian centre back Aquivaldo rivals Guadalajara with their 11th Libertadores Cup quarter-final clash. The Mosquera headed America’s equaliser in crown.—Reuters points gap for coach Gerardo Martino’s side was helped by Lanus’s first defeat, 3-1 away to San Martin in San Juan. Lanus’s defeat enabled River Plate, who Lyon secure third place wore a new black strip to celebrate the 75th PARIS: Olympique Lyon clinched a Le Lan’s penalty. First choice keeper anniversary of their Monumental 1978 World Champions League spot when goals by Salvatore Sirigu was suspended. Cup stadium, to climb above them into sec- Lisandro Lopez and Clement Grenier At Lyon’s Gerland stadium, Onyekachi ond place after they beat Atletico Rafaela 3-0. secured a 2-0 home win against Stade Apam’s handball earned the hosts a penal- With four matches to go in the Clausura Rennes and third place in Ligue 1 on ty that was converted by Lisandro midway championship, Newell’s have 32 points, River Sunday. through the first half. 29 and Lanus 28. Newell’s, at their Marcelo Lyon, who have 67 points, will take part Grenier doubled the tally with a jaw- Bielsa ground in Rosario, met Boca in the sec- in the third qualifying round of Europe’s dropping 35-metre free kick that went ond of three clashes in a week between the premium club competition while surprise under Benoit Costil’s bar. Lyon’s arch-rivals two sides. packages Nice qualified for the Europa St Etienne, who qualified for the Europa Both fielded a number of reserves, resting League playoff round after claiming fourth League third qualifying round by winning key players for Wednesday’s second leg of place with a 2-0 win at AC Ajaccio. the League Cup, settled for fifth after being their Libertadores Cup quarter-final at the Nice finished with 64 points, one point held at Lille. same venue. ahead of St Etienne who drew 1-1 at sixth- Salomon Kalou tapped in from a Ronny Thursday’s first leg at Boca’s La Bombonera placed Lille. Troyes were relegated after a Rodelin header two minutes from the inter- was a 0-0 draw. Peru midfielder Rinaldo 2-1 defeat at Valenciennes, joining Nancy val to put the northeners ahead only for Cruzado gave Newell’s an early lead with a and Stade Brest in Ligue 2. Romain Hamouma to equalise with a deft penalty after he had been fouled by goal- Zlatan Ibrahimovic became the first curled shot shortly before the hour. Josuha keeper Sebastian D’Angelo. Boca had ARGENTINA: Boca Juniors midfielder Walter Ervitti (left) and Newell’s Old Boys midfielder player to score 30 goals in a single season Guilavogui was sent off in the 67th minute Lisandro Magallan sent off just before half- Pablo Perez vie during their Libertadores Cup quarterfinal match. —AFP since Jean-Pierre Papin reached that tally after picking up a second yellow card as St time for stamping on forward Maximiliano when playing for Olympique Marseille in Etienne finished with 10 men. Urruti and were then brushed aside in the sec- win) is a prize for them,” River coach Ramon easy high ball slip from his grasp and defend- 1989-90. The result benefited Nice, who snatched ond half by goals from Horacio Orzan, Martin Diaz told reporters. “It was one of our best er Damian Ledesma steered it into the net. The Sweden striker chested in a Kevin fourth place courtesy of goals by Dario Tonso and Urruti. first halves. ... We needed a show of what the Ledesma then took off his shirt to cele- Gameiro cross in the 51st minute and his Cvitanich and Eric Bautheac at Ajaccio. The only possible joy Boca could have tak- team is capable of,” he added. River got the brate, earned a second yellow card and was team mate then netted a double as cham- Second-placed Olympique Marseille en from the match was that the result did not second when Rafaela defender Eduardo sent off. Striker Gaston Caprari had put the pions PSG beat Lorient 3-1 away. ended the season with a disappointing benefit their arch-rivals River, now Newell’s Dominguez deflected the ball into his own home side in front in the seventh minute and Third choice keeper Ronan Le Crom, in goalless draw at home against Stade Reims. closest challengers for the title. net in the 14th minute trying to defend a low midfielder Fernando Barrientos equalised in his only appearance of the season after Ten of the 18 players who were on the River, in their best performance of the cross close to the goalline, while the third the 28th. Claudio Riano hit a fine late third for coming on a as a second-half substitute, team sheet when Marseillewon the championship, wrapped up their win in the came when winger Juan Manuel Iturbe beat San Martin. was sent off 10 minutes from time. Champions League in 1993 stood in the opening half hour, starting in the eighth his marker for pace and then crossed to Carlos “Everything is so even in Argentine foot- With no goalkeeper left on the bench, middle of the pitch as they were celebrated minute with left back Leonel Vangioni’s sear- Luna, who headed past Sara. ball that the top team can lose to the bot- France centre back Mamadou Sakho ful- by the crowd on the 20th anniversary of ing drive from 25 metres that goalkeeper The match at San Martin turned on a blun- tom. We knew (San Martin) were strong at filled that role but could not stop Arnaud the 1-0 win against AC Milan. —Reuters Guillermo Sara got a hand to but could not der by Lanus goalkeeper Agustin Marchesin in home,” Lanus coach Guillermo Barros stop. “It’s a special day for all the fans, (the the 70th minute when he let an apparently Schelotto. —Reuters Relegation battle goes into final match day MADRID: Valencia edged ahead of Real Valencia’s bid to qualify for the Champions ahead in the 14th minute. Sociedad in the race for Spain’s last available League foundered when they lost 4-2 at With several key players watching from the Champions League berth and Barcelona moved Sociedad at the end of last month but four bench, Barca comfortably controlled the game a step closer to equalling the La Liga record straight victories have put them back in pole and Cesc Fabregas hit the post before Pedro points total in the penultimate round of match- position to secure fourth spot and a place in the exchanged passes with fellow substitute Xavi to es on Sunday. qualifying round of Europe’s elite club competi- make it 2-0 four minutes from time. Valencia’s 1-0 victory at home to Granada tion. At the other end of the table, a 3-1 defeat for lifted them above Sociedad into fourth, two Their final match is at ninth-placed Sevilla 17th-placed Depor at Malaga means that all points clear of the Basque club who drew 3-3 next Saturday, who have nothing to play for, three teams in the relegation places - Celta with second-placed Real Madrid in San while Sociedad are at relegation-threatened Vigo, Real Zaragoza and Real Mallorca - still Sebastian. Deportivo La Coruna. have a chance of avoiding the drop. Champions Barca, missing the injured Lionel “It was very important for us to get ahead of Celta, in 18th on 34 points, won 2-0 at Real Messi, coasted to a 2-0 win at city rivals Sociedad as it means we have our fate in our Valladolid, Zaragoza, who also have 34 in 19th, Espanyol that put them on 97 points and victory own hands,” Valencia coach Ernesto Valverde were thrashed 4-0 at Real Betis and Mallorca, in next Saturday at home to Malaga would mean told a news conference. 20th and last place on 33 points, drew 0-0 at they equal Real Madrid’s record total of 100 set “The Sevilla match is going to be tough as third-placed Atletico Madrid. Deportivo, who last term. they are very strong at home,” he added. After host Sociedad next weekend, have 35 points. Real’s draw at Sociedad means Barca are now the Espanyol players applauded their Barca In other matches on Sunday, Athletic Bilbao 15 points ahead of their arch rivals, three more opponents onto the pitch before kickoff in played their last La Liga game at their storied FRANCE : Rennes’ Ghanaian defender John Mensah (left) fights for the ball with than the biggest winning margin in La Liga his- recognition of their fourth La Liga title in five San Mames stadium before they move to a new Lyon forward Alexandre Lacazette during a French League football match. —AFP tory set by Barca in the 2005-06 season. years, Alexis Sanchez fired the champions facility close by, losing 1-0 to Levante.—Reuters Weekley ends Kanaan wins title drought Indy 500

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FRANCE: Russia’s Maria Sharapova serves to Taiwan’s Su-Wei Hsieh during the French tennis Open first round match at the Roland Garros stadium. — AFP Nadal survives scare in Paris Sharapova brushes aside Hsieh PARIS: Rafael Nadal’s bid for an historic eighth French Open of Wimbledon last year. Sharapova brushed past hapless world number 42 Hsieh, Schiavone, the 2010 title winner, saw off Hungary’s Melinda title was almost spectacularly derailed yesterday by big-hit- Brands even led 3/0 in the second set tie-breaker as he 6-2, 6-1 and will next face Canadian teenager Eugenie Czink 6-0, 7-6 (7/1). ting German Daniel Brands. appeared poised to deliver the first defeat of a men’s cham- Bouchard. Polish fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska, who has never But there were no such problems for defending women’s pion in the opening round in tournament history. Sharapova, who completed a career Grand Slam in Paris got beyond the last 16, breezed past Israel’s Shahar Peer 6-1, champion Maria Sharapova who eased past Taiwan’s Hsieh But Nadal eventually found his rhythm to steady the ship in 2012, fired 25 winners to Hsieh’s eight and kept her 6-1 and will face America’s Mallory Burdette in the next Su-Wei in just 54 minutes, surrendering only eight points on as the 25-year-old German eventually ran out of firepower. unforced errors to just four against 24. round. She is scheduled to face younger sister Urszula, who serve. “He was playing unbelievable. I tried to find my game and The Russian second seed had her match shifted to Court knocked out Venus Williams on Sunday, in the third round. Seven-time champion Nadal dropped the opening set of tried to resist his fantastic shots,” said Nadal, who will face Suzanne Lenglen while Monfils and Berdych slugged it out Elsewhere in the men’s event, French sixth seed Jo- a Grand Slam for the first time in his career before he pre- Martin Klizan of Slovakia for a place in the last 32 on Court Philippe Chatrier. Wilfried Tsonga, who is looking to become the first home vailed 4-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-4, 6-3 against a player who had lost all “He played a great match and put me in a tricky situa- “I wanted to finish tonight; it was a good decision to player to win the men’s title since Yannick Noah in 1983, four of his previous matches in Paris. tion.” Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych was the biggest casu- switch courts especially when I saw the guys were still play- started confidently enough with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 win over The Spaniard, who before this year had only lost once in alty of the day when the 2010 semi-finalist fell to French ing,” she said. Sharapova was joined in the next round by Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia. 53 outings at Roland Garros, came into the tournament hav- wildcard Gael Monfils. Monfils, whose career has been three former champions-Li Na, Svetlana Kuznetsova and “My groundstrokes pretty solid from the baseline. I ing won six titles in eight finals since he returned from a sev- plagued recently by a knee injury, triumphed 7-6 (10/8), 6-4, Francesca Schiavone. Li, the 2011 champion, enjoyed a 6-3, played pretty well, but my service was really low quality,” enth-month injury lay-off. 6-7 (3/7), 6-7 (4/7), 7-5 in a shade over four hours. 6-4 win over Anabel Medina Garrigues, the experienced said Tsonga. But the 26-year-old was caught cold by world number 59 The flamboyant 26-year-old Frenchman, a semi-finalist in Spaniard playing in her 38th consecutive Grand Slam event. In the women’s singles, there was a first ever win in the Brands who unleashed a fearless barrage of attacks off both 2008, will next tackle in-form Ernests Gulbis. “There was the Li, who had lost all of her three previous meetings on clay majors for Slovakian 20-year-old Zuzana Kucova who defeat- sides to leave the third seed reeling. adrenaline and the match and the crowd, but I didn’t think I against Garrigues, goes on to face Bethanie Mattek-Sands of ed German 24th seed Julia Goerges 7-6 (10/8), 6-0. It was almost a carbon copy of the tactics employed by would do this well,” said Monfils, who was fresh from a run- the United States. Qualifier Kucova is ranked at 1,152 in the world and had Robin Soderling, the only man to beat Nadal in Paris four ners-up place in Nice at the weekend. “It was a match up Kuznetsova, the 2009 champion, put out fellow Russian, lost in qualifying on 21 occasions before making her break- years ago, and Lukas Rosol, who dumped the Spaniard out there in my top five.” the 22nd seeded Ekaterina Makarova, 6-4, 6-2. Italy’s through this week. — AFP Heat stop Pacers Napoli appoint Benitez as coach INDIANAPOLIS: The Miami Heat rediscov- They matched the highest scoring out- ered its offensive punch and beat the put in a quarter during this season’s playoffs ROME: Rafael Benitez was appointed coach of Serie A Indiana Pacers 114-96 on Sunday to take a with 34, broke the franchise playoff record side Napoli yesterday the club president announced. 2-1 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference for points in a half (70) and fell one point The 53-year-old Spaniard - whose previous experience finals. short of tying the third-highest point total in in Serie A was a painful short-lived spell with Inter Milan LeBron James profited from a tactical a playoff game in franchise history. - had been widely expected to be named and Napoli switch, scored 22 points and got plenty of But the biggest difference between the supremo Aurelio De Laurentiis tweet confirmed that to help as the Heat reclaimed the home-court first two games and Sunday’s comfortable be the case. advantage they lost two nights earlier. win was what James’ work on the inside. “Rafa Benitez is the new coach of Napoli,” tweeted Dwyane Wade had 18 points, and Udonis “It was something we wanted to get to De Laurentiis, whose side finished runners-up in the Haslem added 17. just to help settle us and get into a more recently finished Serie A season. “I made a conscious effort to get down in aggressive attack,” coach Erik Spoelstra said. “He is a man of experience and a true leader.” the post tonight, to put pressure on their “We wanted to be a little more aggressive, a Benitez, who had also been linked with French champi- defense,” James said. “The coaching staff little more committed to getting into the ons Paris Saint-Germain, had a successful spell in wanted me to be down there tonight, and paint and seeing what would happen. charge of Chelsea after replacing the sacked my teammates allowed me to do that.” It LeBron was very committed and focused Champions League winning coach Roberto di Matteo. was a move reminiscent of when the Los not to settle.” The Spaniard guided Chelsea to the Europa League Angeles Lakers played Magic Johnson in the Now, with Game 4 scheduled for crown and also helped them qualify for next season’s post in place of the injured Kareem Abdul- Tuesday, it’s the Pacers turn to adjust. David Champions League after being brought in on a short- Jabbar during the NBA Finals more than two West led Indiana with 21 points and 10 term basis. decades ago. And it worked just as well. rebounds, while Roy Hibbert had 20 points However, despite being popular with owner Roman James rebounded from the two late and 17 rebounds. Paul George finished with turnovers that cost Miami in Game 2 by 13 points and eight assists, not nearly Abramovich he never won over the supporters, who scoring 22 points, grabbing four rebounds enough to keep the Pacers perfect at home verbally abused him from the stands from the start. and dishing out three assists. Hours after in the postseason. The Chelsea fans yearned for the return of their Dwyane Wade learned he would only be Indiana, which fell to 6-1 at home in the adored Jose Mourinho, after he largely failed at Real tagged with a flagrant foul from Game 2 and playoffs, must win its next home game to Madrid, and appear likely to get their wish. not a suspension, he finished with 18 points, even the series again. “He (James) was in the According to the Spanish press Benitez was to sign a eight assists and four rebounds. Chris Bosh post doing a lot of work, and we have to do two year contract with the option of extending it by a added 15 points and three rebounds and all a better job of helping Paul out,” Hibbert further year and an annual salary of 3.5million euros. five Miami starters reached double figures. said. “LeBron can’t get five or six dribbles to Benitez replaces Walter Mazzarri, widely rumoured to The move allowed Miami to outscore get a post move. ... We have to make adjust- be heading to Inter Milan next season. Indiana 56-32 in the paint. Perhaps that ments.” Ironically, Benitez’s last Italian adventure was at Inter should be expected from a team with so Miami took advantage of a wild first but lasted only six months and ended just after having much scoring punch and that has won 23 of quarter to build a 34-30 lead, then turned won the Club World Cup. its last 24 on the road, but there were more the game with James taking control in a 12- His team had struggled in the league and he had surprising statistics in other areas. point second quarter. forced officials’ hands by telling them to strengthen his Miami committed a playoff franchise-low He scored half of the points in an 8-2 run squad or find another solution, which they did. one turnover in the first half and finished that gave the Heat what was then their Although his joining Chelsea was hugely unpopular with only five. James finished with none. biggest lead of the series, 42-32. A few min- with many fans, he has a good record. The Heat shot 54.5 percent against a utes later, James did it again, making a 15- He won two Spanish titles and the Europa League team that finished the regular season with footer with 1.3 seconds left in the half to with Valencia while he led Liverpool to Champions the NBA’s best defensive field goal percent- give Miami a 70-56 halftime lead and the INDIANAPOLIS: Roy Hibbert No. 55 of the Indiana Pacers shoots over Chris Bosh No. 1 of League success in 2005. — AFP age and also made 24 of 28 free throws. franchise first-half scoring record. — AP the Miami Heat during Game Three of the Eastern Conference Finals. — AFP Abu Dhabi fund ADIA turns to new markets Page 22

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BERLIN: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) delivers a speech next to the Chairman of the Asian-Pacific Committee of German Business (APA) Peter Loescher (second left) German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler (second right) and Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng (right) yesterday. — AFP Germany says ‘no’ to EU tariffs against China EU accuses China of selling solar panels below cost

BRUSSELS: A majority of EU govern- tions, diplomats told Reuters. The EU’s have happened without illegal state ness interests in China, he wants to ments oppose a plan to impose hefty 27 countries had until Friday to submit support. Chinese companies have cap- show Beijing that the Commission is duties on solar panel imports from a formal, written response to De tured more than 80 percent of the serious about preventing dumping UAE markets China, a survey of member states Gucht’s plans. While the trade commis- European market from almost zero a and that China must play by interna- showed yesterday, undermining sioner would still have the right to few years ago. De Gucht met China’s tional trade rules. France holds the resume rally efforts by Brussels to pressure Beijing impose the duties, doing so in the face deputy commerce minister for infor- same view. over its trade practices. of member states’ opposition would be mal talks in Brussels yesterday, a day “We want to see a balanced relation- DUBAI: UAE markets rose yesterday, resuming a ral- The European Commission, the EU’s hard. after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and ship between China and the European ly after recently being hit by a bout of profit-taking, executive, accuses Chinese firms of Provisional duties will more than German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Union,” said French Industry Minister while Kuwait’s measure hit a 53-month high. Dubai’s selling solar panels at below cost in likely still go ahead on June 6, once meeting in Berlin, called for an end to Arnaud Montebourg. “Countries that benchmark climbed 1.1 percent to 2,306 points, tak- Europe - a practice known as “dump- they are published in the European the dispute, as well as another conflict use protectionism, and China is one of ing” - and plans to impose duties, mak- Union’s official journal, officials say, over Chinese telecoms companies them, should accept reciprocal rules,” ing its year-to-date gains to 42 percent. The market ing it far harder for China to gain mar- but the pressure to roll them back accused of dumping in Europe. he told reporters. fell for four of the previous five sessions. Emaar ket share. before they become permanent in Germany initially supported De EU officials told Reuters earlier this Properties rose 2.1 percent, extending gains to 55.7 The duties, averaging 47 percent, December will be intense. The split Gucht’s plans for duties, and it was a year they were frustrated with the percent in 2013. The developer is reaping the bene- will come into force from June 6 for a underlines the depth of division in the German company, Solar World, which Chinese leadership’s lack of engage- fits of a turnaround and recovery after the property trial period and could be withdrawn if EU over how to deal with China, a criti- first raised the complaint against ment. By levying provisional duties, slump which began in 2008. On Sunday, it started both sides can reach a negotiated set- cal market for many EU exporters and Chinese dumping. But rather than the Commission feels it has leverage sale of a new project in Downtown Dubai called Burj tlement. Chinese officials were holding the region’s second biggest trading punitive measures, Merkel now because under EU law, the sanctions Vista II. talks with EU officials in Brussels yes- partner over all. appears to favour a negotiated solu- could be cemented for up to five years “The bulls are here to stay and doesn’t look like terday. The case is the largest trade Reuters spoke to 21 of the EU’s 27 tion, wary of the potential impact on from December if no solution is found. they are going anywhere,” said Firass Yaish, business case the Commission has undertaken, countries and confirmed that 15 - a German exporters if China were to take According to a copy of the Commission’s development manager at One Financial Market. with around 21 billion euros of China- majority - opposed the duties while six retaliatory steps. “There is no need for solar investigation obtained by Reuters, “Who can say no to a market with relatively lower made solar panels sold in the EU. The supported them. more sanction measures,” German the Commission found clear evidence risk and high returns? DFM index might see the duties are being proposed by the EU’s The other six either declined to say Economy Minister Philipp Roesler told of dumping by Chinese producers. 2,320 level next.” Abu Dhabi’s benchmark advanced trade commissioner, Belgian lawyer or were unreachable. France and Italy a news conference yesterday after talks “The Commission was presented with 1.2 percent, snapping a four-session losing streak. Karel De Gucht. are leading a group of countries who with Li. prima facie evidence that dumping Banks recovered after recent selling. First Gulf But fearful of losing business in say De Gucht is right to go ahead with occurred. They can’t just ignore that,” Bank and National Bank of Abu Dhabi climbed 1.8 China, Germany, Britain and the sanctions, arguing that China’s rapid Trade chief’s strategy said Stuart Newman, a legal advisor to percent and 1.3 percent respectively. In Saudi Netherlands are among at least 14 rise in solar panel output to more than Although De Gucht says he had no the Foreign Trade Association, a lobby Arabia, the measure climbed 0.1 percent, up for a member states who oppose the sanc- the world’s entire demand could not intention of damaging European busi- group based in Brussels.— Reuters first in the last three sessions since hitting a one- year high. The market is looking for fresh catalysts which may come in the form of corporate earnings in early July. OPEC almost off radar of risks for oil market “The market is consolidating at a slow pace as large portfolios adjust positions for corporate earn- LONDON: Oil traders should not lose report released earlier this month fore- OPEC’s two smallest producers, Qatar reached in 2012 of 10 million bpd, ings,” said Mohammad Omran, a Riyadh-based inde- too much sleep worrying about what cast US shale oil supply will help meet and Ecuador, produce in total. Some of pumping 9.3 million bpd in April. That pendent financial analyst. “There’s a pattern of sec- OPEC, often unpredictable and quarrel- most of the world’s new demand in the that shale oil is among the most expen- put OPEC production at 30.46 million ond quarter earnings recording a jump over first some in the past, will do when it meets next five years, leaving little room for sive globally to produce, but Saudi bpd, right in line with its calculations for quarter numbers for the past few years. We’re next week. The producer cartel, say dele- OPEC to lift output without risking lower Arabia - holder of most OPEC spare average demand for its crude in the sec- expecting this to continue.” Retail sector stocks sup- gates who attend meetings, is odds on to prices. “OPEC is in a hard situation,” said capacity - shows no sign of opening the ond half of the year. ported gains. Fashion and retail chain Fawaz leave output policy unchanged. As a risk Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s oil minister from taps to bring down prices and curtail OPEC used to give traders more to Abdulaziz Al-Hokair rose 4.4 percent, Saudi Airline factor for oil markets, its May 31 gather- 1999 to 2010. “The demand for OPEC oil that output by making it uneconomic. worry about. In the early 2000s it met as Catering added 3.4 percent. Petrochemical stocks ing in Vienna barely features on traders’ is going down, while increasing demand Far from it, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al- many as seven times a year compared to rose with the index adding 0.2 percent. radar. One reason is that Brent oil prices is being met by others, not by OPEC.” Naimi in a speech last month in just twice now, often making surprise Kuwait’s index rose 0.9 percent to 8,393 points, its are very close to top producer Saudi North America’s supply growth will cause Washington hailed the U.S. energy ren- decisions as it tried to micro-manage oil highest since December 2008. The market needs to Arabia’s favoured $100 a barrel. While a decline in demand for OPEC oil until aissance as “good news.” Shale’s impact is markets. But it may not be out of the close above 8,439 points for three successful ses- that is expensive by historical standards, the end of the decade and a build-up of felt most by those in OPEC who relied headlines for long. Next year could see a sions to confirm a breakout. Local retail investors it is well below the $125 price that its spare capacity, said Christof Ruhl, heavily on exports to the United States. drop in world demand for OPEC oil contribute to the bulk of trading on the bourse, with sounded alarm bells for major consumer chief economist at BP. The rise in domestic U.S. supplies has put which delegates said may argue for sup- institutional activity also getting strong as a reduced countries last year. “OPEC has its work cut out already,” a squeeze on Nigeria and Algeria in the ply curbs. “We’re heading for a problem political unrest spurs hopes the country will move In fact, the shale revolution in the Ruhl said. Only a year ago, the shale US market, forcing them to cut prices in 2014 and we’ll probably have to make ahead with massive infrastructure and development United States, still the world’s biggest oil boom was dismissed by OPEC as of little and send more oil further afield. a supply cut,” said a senior OPEC source. projects. Improved company earnings have also consumer ahead of China by a big mar- concern. Kuwait’s oil minister Hani OPEC delegates say the 12-member “And if OPEC were proactive, we’d start to helped to lift sentiment. gin, has raised hopes among importers, Hussein said producers would “wait to group’s meeting will stick with an output look seriously at individual production Large-cap National Bank of Kuwait gained 1 per- that the relentless rise in fuel prices over see more research to get a better idea target of 30 million barrels per day (bpd). allocations.” It has been unable for sever- cent, telecom operator Zain added 1.4 percent. Mid- the past decade may be at an end. about the impact of shale oil” and his “The price is still reasonable, and not less al years to agree individual output quo- cap stocks also rose. Gulf Finance House climbed 3.5 Annual nominal average world oil prices Venezuelan counterpart Rafael Ramirez than $100,” said a delegate from one of tas but may need them if it is required to percent. In Qatar, the index shed 0.2 percent, easing rose more than four-fold on average in said: “I’m not worried at all, they are only OPEC’s Gulf members. “So it looks very cut back heavily and share out reduc- off a 28-month high. The market is up 8.5 percent the decade from 2002 from $25 a barrel projections.” straightforward. Continue with the offi- tions. It is also unable to agree on who year-to-date. United Development was the main By the end of the year, the US had cial production ceiling and make infor- should be it next secretary general. Saudi to a record $111 a barrel in 2012. This drag, losing 4.1 percent to trim 2013 gains to 15.2 year on average to date they are down, if recorded the biggest annual increase in mal adjustments, if necessary.” Arabia, Iran and Iraq have fielded candi- percent. In Egypt, Cairo’s measure climbed 0.4 per- only a little, and Brent was trading at just oil output since it first became an oil pro- Short-term market management will dates to succeed Libyan Abdullah Al- cent, up for a second in the last five sessions. over $102 a barrel on Friday. ducer in the early 1860s. The 850,000 continue to be guided by Saudi Arabia. Badri. None has gained the necessary Foreigners buyers returned. — Reuters An International Energy Agency bpd increment was more than each of Saudi has trimmed from a 30-year high consensus. — Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 BUSINESS

Gold rises due to Abu Dhabi fund ADIA physical demand LONDON: Gold rose yesterday, extending its gains after its strongest week in a month, as the dollar slipped and European stock markets steadied, while physical buying turns to new markets remained strong in Asia. Volumes were likely to remain thin throughout the day as both Britain and the United Sates had public holidays. Spot gold rose two percent last week, most- ly benefitting from a lower dollar and a shift of funds out of Fund lowering reliance on external fund managers equities. It was up 0.5 percent to $1,392.71 an ounce by 1012 GMT. US gold futures for June delivery rose 0.4 percent to DUBAI: Abu Dhabi Investment yesterday. In an annual review and relying less on index funds. first change in the broad ranges securing the approval of the $1,391.80 an ounce. Authority is reducing target which provides rare insights into With undisclosed assets that it maintains for different assets Chinese market regulator. Gold is still down nearly 17 percent this year, however, after exposures to developed market the strategy of ADIA’s executives, analysts estimate at between since it began publishing an Sovereign wealth funds general- last month’s rout pushed prices down to a more than two-year stocks and looking for growth in it also gave an ominous signal to $400-$600 billion - equivalent to annual review three years ago. It ly are focusing on emerging mar- low of $1,321.35. The drop was caused by worries about cen- emerging markets, the sovereign asset management firms hoping about 1 percent of the value of lowered its target exposure to kets and alternatives to tradition- tral bank sales and fuelled by a drop below $1,500 an ounce. “Gold is holding around the levels seen at the end of last week, wealth fund that is one of the for its business - it is handling the world’s major stock developed market stocks in 2012 al securities, such as infrastruc- as there are few factors that are balancing each other out at world’s biggest investors said more of its investment in-house exchanges - ADIA revealed the to a range of 32-42 percent from ture investment and private the moment,” Commerzbank analyst Daniel Briesemann said. 35-45 percent in 2011 - meaning equity, to offset lower growth “On the one side you have continued ETF (exchange-traded a reduction at the middle of that prospects and greater volatility fund) outflows and speculators cutting bullish bets on COMEX, range of 7.5 percent. in established markets. while on the other hand the metal is finding some support ADIA also cut its minimum At the end of a year of gains from continued demand for coins and bars amongst retail exposure to Europe across its in world equities markets, the investors and ongoing purchases by central banks from asset portfolio to 20 percent in review showed that ADIA had emerging countries, which kept buying in April.” 2012 from 25 percent in 2011, made a return of 7.6 percent on Holdings in SPDR Gold Trust, the world’s largest gold- while keeping its maximum allo- an annualised basis over the 20 backed exchange-traded fund, fell 0.24 percent to 1,016.16 cation unchanged at 35 percent. years to Dec 31, higher than the tonnes on Friday, their lowest since mid-February 2009. The Funds with long-term objectives 6.9 percent recorded a year earli- fund held 1,350.50 tonnes at the beginning of 2013. shift such broad target ranges er. Over 30 years, its return was Meanwhile, speculative net long positions - the difference only rarely, given the flexibility an annualised 8.2 percent, up between bullish and bearish contracts - held by COMEX gold they already offer. ADIA, which from 8.1 percent in 2011. ADIA futures and options hedge fund traders, fell to 35,686 lots in manages the surpluses the Gulf said it expected equities to the week to May 21, the lowest level since July 2007, while emirate earns from oil exports, remain attractive as bond yields short positions continued to rise, a report by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed on Friday. maintained its exposure to stayed low and investors pre- Traders said that the expiry of June COMEX options, on emerging market stocks in a 10- pared to take on more risk. It Tuesday, may leave the market around current levels in com- 20 percent band but signalled a had started allocating money to ing sessions. “COMEX option expiry tomorrow and good growing interest: non-investment grade bonds sized open interest at $1,400 will likely see the market sticky “Economic leadership is pass- and was looking for external around here for at least the next few sessions,” MKS Capital ing to emerging markets, not managers for such assets. ADIA senior trader Alex Thorndike said in a note. just as their weight in the global said about 75 percent of its port- economy passes 50 percent, but folio was run by external asset Asian buying as their share of likely future managers, down from 80 per- Physical demand for the metal remained strong in Asia, global growth moves far higher,” cent in 2011. The fund also allo- where premiums for gold bars hit a record high amid tight Sheikh Hamed Bin Zayed Al- cated 55 percent of its assets in supplies last week. Lower spot prices over the past month Nahayan, ADIA’s managing direc- index-replicating strategies, low- have attracted buyers mainly in China, the world’s second tor and a member of the ruling er than the 60 percent it allocat- biggest consumer of the precious metal after India, traders family, said in the review. ed in 2011. That could be a wor- said. “Since prices have been going down, we have seen rying sign for big global fund almost 300 percent increase in sales,” said Gregor Gregersen China managers who market some of of Silver Bullion Pte Ltd, a gold and silver dealer in Singapore. The fund raised its exposure their flagship products to the Data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) showed that Russia, Turkey and Kazakhstan were among the central KARACHI: Pakistani stockbrokers look at a stock graph during a trading session at the limit on Chinese equities to $500 likes of ADIA. It may also offer banks buying gold in April, despite the metal’s price fall. Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) yesterday. The benchmark KSE-100-Index closed at 20958.86, million from $200 million in the Abu Dhabi a tighter control on down 324.91 points at the end of the day. —AFP In wider markets, the dollar index dipped 0.2 percent, third quarter, ADIA said, after costs. —Reuters while European shares steadied as markets were awaiting more macro economic data out of the United States to assess whether the Federal Reserve will slow its $85-billion monthly bond purchases in coming months. Elsewhere, sil- Valeant to buy Bausch + Lomb for $8.7bn ver rose 1.1 percent to $22.63 an ounce, platinum was up 0.4 percent to $1,457 an ounce and palladium edged up 0.6 per- Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals said yes- “I am confident that under their stewardship, the medicines. Valeant’s CEO, J Michael Pearson, said in a cent to $728.97 an ounce. —Reuters terday that it will pay $8.7 billion to buy Bausch + Lomb, Bausch + Lomb brand will continue to stand for excel- statement that the deal will make his company a world one of the world’s best-known makers of contact lenses, lence and innovation in eye health,” Brent Saunders, CEO leader in both eye health and dermatology. in a massive expansion of Valeant’s smaller ophthalmolo- of Bausch + Lomb, said in a statement. “Bausch + Lomb “Bausch + Lomb’s world-renowned brand, compre- Iran offers insurance to gy business. Valeant said the cash deal will help it capi- has undergone a profound transformation over the last hensive portfolio of leading eye care products and prom- talize on increasing demand for contact lenses and other few years,” Saunders said. “We introduced innovative new ising late-stage pipeline are an ideal strategic fit for our India to spur oil sales products because of aging populations, growing products for patients, built a robust pipeline, expanded current ophthalmology business,” Pearson said. Bausch + demand in emerging markets and increasing rates of dia- into new markets and strengthened our relationships Lomb had been taken private in 2007, when New York- NEW DELHI: Iran has offered insurance for Indian refiners to boost its betes. Complications of the complex blood sugar disor- with eye care professionals around the world.” based Warburg Pincus bought the struggling company crude sales, industry sources said yesterday, as the Islamic nation looks der can damage the eyes over time. Valeant’s ophthalmology business will be folded into for $3.67 billion. to counter a fall in revenues hit by tough western sanctions. US and Investment firm Warburg Pincus, which leads an the new Bausch + Lomb division. The combined global That happened after Bausch + Lomb had to recall its European Union sanctions aimed at choking the flow of oil money into investment group that owns Bausch + Lomb, will receive business would have 2013 revenue topping $3.5 billion ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution because it Iran and forcing Tehran to negotiate curbing its controversial nuclear $4.5 billion in cash. The remaining $4.2 billion will be on a pro forma basis, meaning the total of sales from had been linked to dangerous fungal infections. Bausch programme slashed its crude exports in half in 2012, costing it as used to repay Bausch + Lomb’s debt. Reports that the both companies’ eye care businesses for the full year. + Lomb then paid out about $250 million to settle more much as $5 billion a month. purchase was in the works surfaced late last week. The Much of that will come from Bausch + Lomb, which than 600 lawsuits blaming the MoistureLoc solution for a The sanctions have forced refiners in India, Iran’s second-largest oil deal, which requires approval from regulators and other anticipates it will have revenue of about $3.3 billion this potentially blinding infection of the cornea, the clear buyer, to reduce imports because Indian insurers have said they can standard closing conditions, is expected to be complet- year. Bausch + Lomb expects adjusted earnings before membrane over the pupil and the colored part of the no longer cover refineries that process Iranian crude. “They (Iran) said ed in the third quarter. It will be financed with debt and interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of about eye. they can provide insurance for our refineries,” said one of the sources, about $1.5 billion to $2 billion in new stock. $720 million. After the deal closes, Saunders will become Bausch + Lomb has since worked to rebuild, most after a meeting between Indian Oil Minister Veerappa Moily with his Valeant expects to achieve at least $800 million in an adviser to Valeant to help with integrating Bausch + recently with a series of acquisitions. Last year, it nar- Iranian counterpart Rostam Qasemi. annual cost savings by the end of next year. Rochester, Lomb. Other senior Bausch + Lomb executives will join rowed its net loss to $68.3 million from $123.9 million in “We had a fruitful meeting...Our meetings are about the energy NY-based Bausch + Lomb Holdings Inc. makes contact Valeant as well. 2011. Revenue rose to $3.04 billion in 2012 from $2.85 sector,” Qasemi told reporters, without elaborating. Qasemi is on a lenses, eye drugs and ophthalmic surgical devices. It will The $8.7 billion purchase price is about 2 1/2 times billion. Two months ago, the company said it expected to three-day visit to India from Sunday to woo New Delhi for stepping up keep its name and become a division of Valeant the 2012 revenue reported by Valeant, which specializes go public again. On Friday, amid rumors it was going to oil imports and invest in the OPEC-member’s oil and gas sector. Two Pharmaceuticals International Inc., which is based in in dermatology medicines. It also sells a range of brand- buy Bausch + Lomb, shares of Valeant jumped $9.80, or refiners - Hindustan Petroleum Corp, and Mangalore Refinery and Laval, Quebec. name and generic drugs, as well as nonprescription 13.1 percent, to $84.47. —AP Petrochemicals Ltd - halted Iranian oil purchases in April due to insur- ance problems. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

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Canadian Dollar 279.700 US Dollar 286.40 287.500 Australasia Australian Dollar 0.2677639 0.2797639 Japanese Yen 2.875 Sterling Pound 440.36 439.500 New Zealand Dollar 0.2246165 0.2346165 Indian Rupee 5.160 ASIAN COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.86 3.300 Uganda Shilling 0.0001140 0.0001140 Egyptian Pound 40.430 Japanese Yen 2.837 Bangladesh Taka 3.689 3.720 America Sri Lankan Rupee 2.268 Indian Rupees 5.168 Indian Rupee 5.186 5.380 Canadian Dollar 0.2713010 0.2803010 Bangladesh Taka 3.672 Pakistani Rupees 2.918 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.268 2.460 Colombian Peso 0.0001462 0.0001642 Philippines Peso 6.890 Srilankan Rupees 2.272 Nepali Rupee 3.258 3.400 US Dollars 0.2850000 0.2871500 Pakistan Rupee 2.912 Nepali Rupees 3.286 Pakistani Rupee 2.910 2.960 Asia Bahraini Dinar 762.200 Singapore Dollar 229.200 UAE Dirhams 78.04 78.700 Bangladesh Taka 0.0036421 0.0036971 UAE Dirham 78.000 Hongkong Dollar 37.017 Bahraini Dinar 762.27 762.000 Cape Vrde Escudo 0.0031866 0.0034166 Saudi Riyal 76.500 Bangladesh Taka 3.679 Egyptian Pound 40.40 40.000 Chinese Yuan 0.0457618 0.0507618 *Rates are subject to change Philippine Peso 6.906 Jordanian Dinar 407.61 410.000 Eritrea-Nakfa 0.0166100 0.0197100 TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 BUSINESS World markets mixed after Japan market dip German, French stocks and euro firm

AMSTERDAM: With US markets closed, world gram, dubbed quantitative easing or QE, also helped the Hang Seng. stocks were mostly higher yesterday, with Japan caused investors to curb their enthusiasm. South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.3 percent to the notable exception as the Nikkei sold off Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index reversed early 1,979.97. Benchmarks in mainland China and sharply for the second time in a week. The decline losses yesterday to rise 0.3 percent to 22,686.05 Taiwan rose. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 declined 0.5 came after Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko after pledges by China’s leaders to pursue sustain- percent to 4,959.90. Benchmarks in the Karoda said over the weekend Japanese interest able growth helped push up alternative energy Philippines, New Zealand and Indonesia fell. rates could rise without causing instability, despite the country’s large national debt. The Nikkei 225 shed 3.2 percent to close at 14,142.65, with exporters hit hardest due to the rising yen. That’s the reverse of the picture for PYONGYANG: In this photo, North Korean women work in a thread factory. —AP most of this year, as yen losses have helped pro- pel the index to a 36 percent gain since January. Among major losers yesterday, Nissan Motor Corp. dropped 6.8 percent. Yamaha Motor Co. North Korea relaxes tumbled 7.9 percent. Sony Corp. slid 6.3 percent. The index also lost 7.3 percent on May 23, as investors have begun to wonder whether poten- controls on salaries tial benefits of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s aggressive campaign to lift consumer prices and PYONGYANG: North Korea relaxed state con- neighbors, Japan and South Korea. encourage borrowing and spending have already trol of salaries last month, a government Kim, the third generation of his family to been priced in. In European trading, Germany’s economist said, outlining a change in policy lead North Korea since 1948, inherited a DAX rose 0.8 percent to 8,370.67. France’s CAC-40 intended to boost production by giving com- nation plagued by chronic food, fuel and advanced 0.8 percent to3,989.20. Markets in panies latitude to provide workers with finan- power shortages. He has said improving the Britain and the US were closed for public holidays. cial incentives. In an interview with The economy is a priority, acknowledging eco- European Central Bank board member Joerg Associated Press, Ri Ki Song, a professor at the nomic hardship in North Korea and pledging Asmussen said in a speech in Berlin that with the Institute of Economics at North Korea’s to raise the standard of living. Kim in a speech Eurozone countries in recession, the bank would Academy of Social Sciences in Pyongyang, in January said the country’s most important continue to pursue easy monetary policy “as long said enteprises are now allowed to use some task is the “building of an economic giant” as necessary.” Cees Smit, director at Amsterdam of their earnings to pay workers more. and called for all of the year’s economic brokerage Today’s Vermogensbeheer in Until recently, most salaries were set by undertakings to be aimed “a radical increase Amsterdam, said most of the excitement in the state. The new policy gives managers of in production and stabilizing and improving European stocks came in the morning. factories and other businesses the right to the people’s living standards.” “We were looking at Japan earlier and it was determine workers’ salaries if they are able to “We should hold fast to the socialist eco- surprising how well European markets were improve productivity. The change follows a nomic system of our own style, steadily reacting,” he said. He said trade had quieted by similar move last year to give managers at improve and perfect the methods of eco- the afternoon and stocks drifted off their earlier TOKYO: Pedestrians walk past a share prices board yesterday. —AFP North Korean farms more power to make nomic management on the principle of highs as investors began contemplating US May management decisions and to allow farmers encouraging the working masses to fulfill unemployment figures due out Tuesday. Other stocks. China Everbright International jumped 5 Benchmark oil for July delivery was down 58 to keep any surplus harvest to sell or barter their responsibility and role befitting the global markets were mixed. percent. Anton Oilfield Services, which is pursu- cents to $93.57 in electronic trading on the New instead of turning them over to the state. masters of production,” Kim said. Hopes for a global economic recovery were ing shale gas development in China, surged 8.3 York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 10 “After repaying the state for its investment, However, Kim also has made the costly undermined last week when a survey on China’s percent. “We have seen a lot of funds buying cents to $94.15 a barrel on the Nymex on Friday. enterprises can set salaries themselves, building of a nuclear arsenal a priority at a monthly manufacturing pace showed a bigger- into shale gas, wind power and environmental In currencies, the euro rose slightly to $1.2940 regardless of salaries fixed by the state, and time when the United Nations says two- than-expected decline. Less-than-clear indica- protection,” said Jackson Wong, vice president from $1.2934 late Friday in New York. The dollar pay workers according to their performance,” thirds of the population is coping with chron- tions from the U.S. Federal Reserve on whether it at Tanrich Securities in Hong Kong. Wong also was at 101.01 yen, down from last week’s high of Ri said last week. Companies must also put ic food shortages. The new policy on salaries might scale back its aggressive bond-buying pro- said that a recovery in mainland Chinese stocks more than 103 yen per dollar. —AP aside funds for investment, continued pro- went into effect after a trial period, Ri said. “In duction, development of technology and cul- the past, the state used to fix standard tural activities, he said. salaries, which meant you couldn’t pay more But Ri said the new economic manage- than a certain amount,” he said. Now, facto- OECD monitor slams ment methods enacted April 1 were not signs ries and enterprises that perform well will be that North Korea is adopting a capitalist free allowed to raise salaries, Ri said. Norway wealth fund market system. “This is nothing to do with “And individual workers who work more reform and opening,” Ri said. “As I’ve said, the can earn more,” he said. Last September, AP OSLO: Norway’s oil fund, the world’s largest sover- socialist ownership of the means of produc- quoted farmers as saying new directives eign wealth fund, has no strategy for dealing with tion is firmly established in our country, and aimed at boosting productivity at collective possible violations of human rights by the compa- we defend this.” farms give managers more control over deci- Foreign governments have looked for indi- sions on how to farm the land and allow nies in which it invests, an independent commit- cations that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un farmers to keep any surplus after they fulfill tee set up to safeguard OECD ethical guidelines might be open to reform since coming to state-mandated quotas. By giving farmers said. The Norwegian committee pointed to the power in December 2011. North Korea has a incentives to grow more food, North Korea fund’s investment in South Korean steel maker per capita GDP of $1,800 per year, according could be starting down the same path as to the US State Department, just a fraction of China when it first began experimenting with POSCO, which plans to build a $12 billion steel the living standards in its Northeast Asian a market-based economy, analysts said. —AP plant in India, saying the fund was not doing enough to protect against human rights breaches. Several non-governmental organisations say Ireland must change the plant in Odisha state would displace more than 20,000 people, among them indigenous peo- ple who receive special legal protection. While the tax code: EU lawmaker committee of experts, set up by the Norwegian government, has no legal power, its criticism could MILAN: Cyclists ride in downtown Milan. —AFP DUBLIN: Ireland is preparing to officially government departments and the state reject accusations by US Senators this agency charged with attracting invest- potentially damage the fund’s reputation as a week that it acts as a tax haven for large ment into Ireland to discuss the next socially responsible investor. Crisis-hit Italians swap cars multinationals and launch a diplomatic steps. The oil fund, whose investments totalled $740 offensive to repair the damage done to its billion on Monday, is one of the world’s most for bikes despite dangers reputation abroad. Ireland has been Dinner jokes in Brussels forced to defend its low corporate tax rate Within weeks of coming to office in transparent wealth funds and has excluded com- MILAN: Bikes are outselling cars in cash- In the Italian capital, those who use exist- after the Senate said last week that 2011, Prime Minister Enda Kenny sum- panies for what it has deemed to be unethical strapped Italy but while cyclists in Milan say ing routes complain of daily trials, from junk iPhone and iPad maker Apple paid little or moned all the country’s ambassadors to behaviour, such as the production of nuclear their city is ready for a two-wheel lifestyle, strewn across the paths, to stretches along the no tax on tens of billions of dollars in Dublin to brief them on how best to weapons and tobacco or the use of child labour. there are daily nuisances for riders on Rome’s riverbank which periodically flood and in one profits channelled through Irish sub- restore a reputation he said was in tatters. The committee said on Monday that the fund had sidiaries and that it had effectively negoti- The fresh assault will be similar, one trafficked streets. Some cities in Italy have case a path blocked by a sprawling Roma ated a special corporate tax rate of less diplomatic source said, adding that the “failed to take appropriate steps to prevent or mit- bike-sharing initiatives, bike paths and public camp. Famed for its annual Giro d’Italia bike than 2 percent. key focus would be liaising with a strong igate negative human rights and environmental awareness schemes, while cyclists are still race, Italy has yet to embrace bicycles as a Irish ministers and officials have lined network of contacts in the US impacts in connection with its investment in barely tolerated in others. “The economic crisis form of transport, though a “Bikemi” bike- up to insist that their tax system is trans- Administration and on Capitol Hill, where POSCO”. parent and that other countries were the leaders of Ireland and the United has had repercussions for everyone, including sharing scheme in Milan has been enthusias- responsible if Apple paid tax at such low States traditionally meet for lunch to mark The fund lacked “a strategy for identifying and in transport. There’s been a small revolution in tically received by locals and sales in foldable rates. Finance Minister Michael Noonan St. Patrick’s Day. handling possible violations of human rights in the terms of lifestyle,” said Giulietta Pagliaccio, models are on the up. said Ireland would not be the “whipping While Dublin was able to call on ex- companies they invest”, it said. Hans Petter Graver, head of the Italian Federation of Friends of the Specialist shops in the economic capital boy” for the Senate subcommittee. The President Bill Clinton to tell US companies head of the committee, said a company or invest- Bicycle. have begun stocking bikes specifically government will likely put its response on last year that they would be “nuts” not to ment group that had this type of complaint direct- the record this week, two government invest in Ireland, the task could be trickier “We have seen a lot of people who have designed for urban life, such as the British sources said, and will tell the committee this time with the criticism emanating ed at it might face questions from future business re-discovered this means of transport. Its ease, Brompton model, which folds up neatly and led by veteran tax sleuth Senator Carl from its normally friendly ally. “That was a partners. The OECD - Organisation for Economic its simplicity, its speed for short distances... “ has a handle so it can be pulled along like a Levin that Ireland is not a tax haven, nor blindside for Ireland Inc. because we Cooperation and Development - is a forum of 34 she said. There were 2,000 more bicycles sold suitcase. The world’s oldest bicycle-making did it cut Apple a special tax deal. always thought we were on the same countries aimed at promoting economic progress than cars in Italy in 2011 — a differential that company, Bianchi, famed for kitting out biking “Undoubtedly there’s a risk of reputa- page as Anglo-American capitalism. We tional damage if we don’t defend our cor- thought it would stick up for us,” said and trade. Member states are required to set up an rose to more than 200,000 units last year, champions such as Fausto Coppi, has ner and set out the facts, so of course Hugo Brady, senior research fellow at the independent committee to police possible breach- according to figures from an association of branched out into electric bicycles to meet a that’s happening,” Ireland’s European Centre for European Reform in Brussels. es of OECD ethical guidelines. biking businesses and the transport ministry. growing demand from Italians keen to swap Affairs Minister Lucinda Creighton told “The PR side of it is really bad for Norway’s oil fund, which invests the country’s The car sector has been hit by what the four wheels for two. Reuters, referring to the response being Ireland because Ireland and tax haven are revenues from oil and gas for future generations, head of auto giant Fiat, Sergio Marchionne, “Customers are asking now for high-range drafted. “I’ve no doubt there will be a going together in mainstream conversa- strong response, and we will strongly tion in Brussels. It hasn’t done our image has a 0.9 percent stake in POSCO and is the dubs “Carmageddon”-with a 20-percent drop commuter models, they are looking for a defend Ireland as a safe, a legally sound much good when people start making eleventh-biggest shareholder, according to Reuters in sales in 2012. Pagliaccio said Rome is a par- long-term investment that supports the idea and a good place to do business. What dinner jokes about Apple being an Irish data. The fund is managed by Norges Bank ticularly “difficult” city for cyclists and that in that they are turning away from the car,” Bob you see is what you get, and that is why company.” While Ireland will concentrate Investment Management (NBIM) on behalf of the general conditions are worse in the southern Ippolito, head of Bianchi, told AFP. Commuter so many global companies are headquar- its energy in the United States to keep half of the country, with poorer quality roads bikes are now the company’s fastest selling tered in Ireland.” attracting jobs from the likes of Apple, Norwegian central bank, Norges Bank. NBIM says Creighton was speaking from Dublin Google and Pfizer, it will also need to that while it was following the complaint against and few bicycle paths. models-up 35 percent last year-which is partly airport ahead of a four-day trip to keep an eye out for any backlash in POSCO “with interest and concern”, it did not think She said mentalities were beginning to because some customers “instead of having Washington and New York where she will Europe where its low corporate tax rate of the OECD guidelines should be applied to change-except for a few motor die-hards two cars, now prefer to have a car and a bicy- meet business leaders and politicians and 12.5 percent has drawn criticism in the investors. “who would drive from their bedroom to the cle”, he said. address the prestigious Columbia past. kitchen if they could”-but that politicians Ancma’s Nigrelli insists Italy must play to its University. While the trade mission was One influential member of the “In our view, the guidelines apply to the compa- planned long before last week’s revela- European Parliament said that while nies Norges Bank invests in, their business opera- remain “very behind” in terms of bike-friendly strengths as “a kingdom of taste, design and tions on Capitol Hill, Creighton said she Dublin should be given time to adjust, it tions and subcontractors, but not to Norges Bank policies. “They are afraid of losing votes. It’s ter- fashion, and make the (bicycle) trend a cool and her fellow ministers would use every should adopt a standardised European as a minority shareholder,” NBIM said. POSCO says rifying since everything is done in this per- and innovative thing”. But in Rome at least, it Union tax system and ultimately a mini- opportunity to put right the “misinforma- on its website it has been highly sensitive to the spective, without a long-term urban vision,” will take more than a fleeting fad to get citi- tion” heard in the Senate last week. mum rate of corporation tax. “Ireland she said. zens to swap their comfortable gas-guzzlers Ireland has a network in place to quick- should take its hands out of other coun- human rights of the local community in Odisha ly spread that message. After it took a tries’ pockets. Ireland’s tax system is and has never infringed upon any human rights. Piero Nigrelli, head of bicycles at the for a sweaty peddle through the streets. A financial bailout in late 2010, Dublin set designed to tax income other people The company has so far waited eight years to get Ancma association of biking businesses, said it bike-sharing scheme launched in Rome in up its Economic Messaging Unit to coor- have earned,” Sven Giegold told Reuters, the necessary clearances in India to start work on was “breathtaking to what point politicians 2008 with 450 bikes at stations near monu- dinate communications between all gov- underscoring how emotive the issue will the project. Protests from rights activists, environ- lack awareness of the bicycle’s value”. He said ments such as the Colosseum failed miser- ernment agencies, departments and be in elections in his native Germany. “If Germany boasts some seven million cycling ably and had to be scrapped. “We tried, but embassies. Irish embassies from Beijing to you want to heat up a room in an election mentalists and ex-politicians could yet scupper its Buenos Aires were issued rebuttal points meeting in Germany, you have to talk plans to build the plant, even after a recent court tourists a year who generate nine billion euros the bikes kept getting stolen,” said the city’s last week, a normal practice for major sto- about tax avoidance. It has become one decision on a mining licence moved the project a ($11.5 billion) in turnover, and only “a modest mayor Gianni Alemanno, who is accused by ries, while Ireland’s ambassador in of the most emotional topics. People are step forward. —Reuters investment in bike paths” would be needed to critics of wasting 1.8 million euros on the Washington held a conference call with outraged.” —Reuters bring such benefits to Italy. scheme. —AFP TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 BUSINESS Firms push healthy ways on workforce DETROIT: See a doctor? Just the thought made and diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol human resources issues, as a pro bono account. Linda Broome fume. But the request came from management. Lifestyle modification products like “I’d say that’s a lot of money,” for a smaller com- her employer, the Judson Center in Royal Oak, these are one of the newest trends in the health pany with 360 employees, Kahler said. Most of the Mich., where she has worked nine years. The non- insurance industry. Only a few dozen companies policies don’t tie future employment with compli- profit social services agency is one of 200 compa- now offer them. But expect to hear more about ance to health goals. The few companies that have nies in the state to sign up for Healthy Blue Living. them soon, possibly in your own workplace. imposed penalties for unhealthy behaviors have The Blue Care Network program, started in They reward good health practices with lower invited controversy, as occurred in 2005, when an October, offers enhanced insurance benefits, such insurance co-pays, gift cards, diet- and fitness-pro- Okemos, Mich., firm fired four workers who as lower co-pays for medical care, to employees gram discounts, cash and other rewards. The refused to take drug tests for smoking. and their spouses who commit to healthy lifestyle Judson Center, which faced an 8.5 percent “We believe in carrots, not sticks,” said Dr. Jack goals. increase for its Blue Care plan, got a price cut of Mahoney, corporate medical director of Pitney For now, the program centers on six high- $58,200 - a smaller hike - off its charges for the Bowes Inc., an international Stamford, Conn.- impact health modifications that can contribute to program, said Paul Kahler, a consultant for Judson based management solutions firm and a leader in lower health costs: Smoking cessation or at least project with JS Clark, a Southfield, Mich., benefit the wellness field. It has 34,000 employees world- reduction; alcohol moderation; weight reduction; solutions company that helps the agency with wide.—MCT

CANTON: Adam Lucas, 11, of Milford, looks through CDs in the Rock/Pop/R&B music section at Wal-Mart in Canton, Michigan. —MCT CD distributor tries branching out DETROIT: Handleman Co has kept the Kmarts After Handleman bought a company called of the world stocked with music for more than Reps LLC for $21 million, it is doing the same 50 years. But these days, the Troy, Mich.-based for other products in the stores, like batteries music distributor is starting to deal in greeting and razors. cards, DVDs and video games, all to redefine -Video games: In 2005, Handleman bought itself in a quickly changing music industry, Crave Entertainment, a distributor of discount where CD sales are dropping and more peo- video games priced at less than $20. Crave’s ple than ever are buying their music online. As customers include Toys “R” Us and Sam’s Club. it adjusts, the company has cut jobs in the The acquisition has helped maintain United States, hired people across the Atlantic Handleman’s revenue, which was up 3 per- and made acquisitions to offset falling music cent for the 12 months ending in May. sales. But so far, Crave, a $123.5 million purchase, Handleman, which turns 73 this year and hasn’t lived up to expectations, in part, Kirby has 3,200 employees in three countries, is said, because of delays in new gaming con- another firm that finds itself in an industry soles hitting the market; and when they did that may be changing faster than the compa- get to the market, they were hard to find. As ny can change itself. The same situation can Handleman has changed its business, it also be found in retail, autos and newspapers, all has cut costs. The company has cut back its changing because of technology and global pension plan, is charging more for health care competition. and in the last six months eliminated 200 jobs. For Handleman, it’s not competitors on the Those and other cost cuts are expected to other side of the world that are forcing it to save the company at least $20 million a year. change, but technology and music compa- In March, Handleman also suspended its 8- nies on the other side of the country that have cents-a-share dividend to shareholders. moved buyers to download their music. The Michael Friedman, an analyst with Noble compact disc isn’t dead. Last year, retailers Financial Group in Boca Raton, Fla., has been sold 554 million of them, liner notes and all. watching Handleman for more than five years. But that’s 8 percent fewer than 2005, accord- He says the company could be on a fruitful ing to Nielsen SoundScan. And in 2005, retail- track in the greeting card business. But ers sold 7.6 percent fewer than they did the Friedman wonders whether video games will year before. go the way of CDs. He expects consolidation So far, 2007 is looking worse. For the first among music distributors. “It’s a tough busi- three months of the year, CD sales plummet- ness to be in right now,” Friedman said. ed 20 percent. At the same time, digital album To grow its music business, Handleman sales on the likes of iTunes and eMusic dou- broke down its services to offer them a la bled, both in 2006 and the first quarter of carte. At Best Buy, Handleman supplies and 2007, SoundScan reports. manages Latin music and CDs from small This is a problem for Handleman, a compa- music labels and stocks new stores. In a new ny that makes about 80 percent of its revenue account with British retailer Tesco, Handleman by distributing and managing CD collections won’t supply the music, but it’ll keep track of for big-box stores like Wal-Mart and Kmart. what sells. This new business and its entry into “The things we’ve seen are foreboding of the greeting card segment has prompted what’s going to happen in the future,” said Handleman to hire about 1,000 people in Bob Kirby, who joined Handleman in England. November as its chief operating officer. Even with all of the changes in buying Kirby, who is charged with guiding trends, Handleman has faith that people will Handleman into new markets, isn’t a music still pick up a CD while shopping for tooth- guy. Sure, he’s a fan of jazz and swing. But paste and telephones, even though sales at Kirby, 50, was president of personal products large stores have been flat. On Friday, at Johnson & Johnson and has worked at Schalayia Warren, 25, of Inkster, Mich., picked Procter & Gamble Co. He knows about a lot of up the latest Fergie release, “The Dutchess,” the products that Handleman’s customers sell along with carpet cleaner, detergent and outside the music section. paper towels at the local Wal-Mart. In the past, Handleman has entered, and “I come here for household stuff,” said exited, the book, video and software markets. Warren, who usually buys her music at Wal- Handleman’s new plans are starting to steer Mart or Kmart. “You just end up in the elec- the company away from entertainment - a tronics section.” A few feet away, Adam Lucas, sign of things to come for the company. Here 11, of Milford, Mich., looked for CDs from his are a few of the initiatives Kirby is in charge of favorite band, AC/DC. Adam says he usually shepherding: buys CDs on shopping trips to Wal-Mart, - Greeting cards: Handleman has started Meijer or Target. But Kirby knows that buying managing greeting cards in 320 ASDA stores, trends can change fast, which is only rein- Wal-Mart’s nameplate in Britain. Handleman forced by recent digital music programs at will do for greeting cards what it does for Wal-Mart and Best Buy. music: track what’s selling, where it’s selling, “We are going to plan our business around and add stock where needed, all with the aim the worst- case scenario so that we maintain a of selling more cards. sense of urgency for change that we have to -In-store: Handleman’s employees have make in the business,” Kirby said. “We are not long restocked CD shelves and set up music going to stick our head in the sand or under- displays in stores like Kmart and Wal-Mart. estimate what could happen.” —MCT Packing Pampers and PowerPoint

RALEIGH: John Stultz was as gentle as he child-care businesses recognize an oppor- could be when he placed his sleeping 3- tunity and are expanding services to year-old son over his shoulder. The last accommodate them. Bright Horizons, thing Stultz wanted was to wake him up: “I which has child-care centers in major tried to keep him asleep because I knew cities across the country, lets corporate that potentially I was going to have a clients drop their kids off on short notice livewire on my hands.” It was nearly 11 pm when traveling for work. on a recent Monday when the two arrived The Raleigh Marriott at Crabtree Valley at the Raleigh Marriott after driving down has children’s menus in all the food service from Arlington, Va. Stultz was halfway areas throughout the hotel to cater to across the hotel’s parking lot when the guests with kids in tow, said Karris Deis, cold air woke the boy up. “Where are we?” director of sales and marketing. “If we Luke asked his father. Stultz reminded him know they have a baby or a young child, that they were on a business trip. we ask them, ‘Do you need a refrigerator Stultz, an engineer and manager for in the room, or do you need a crib?’” she SAS, prepared himself for a long night - said. getting his son back to sleep and readying And Deis has noticed that more corpo- himself for back-to-back business meet- rate travelers are bringing their families ings the next day at the Cary, NC, software along on business trips. “There is definitely company’s campus. At a time of mounting a difference from 10 years ago,” Deis said. demands on working parents, Stultz and “It used to be very unusual to see families others are squeezing time in with the kids during the day. Now we are seeing a lot any way they can. For an increasing num- more strollers during the weekday than ber, that means business trips with chil- we used to.” Zoe Hatzidakis has been to dren in tow - and coping with all the chal- Greece, London, Miami, Las Vegas, lenges that creates. Pittsburgh, New York and San Francisco. According to Travel Industry She’s 2. Association of America, the number of She got her passport when she was 14 business trips with kids has increased 19 months old, said her mother, Denise percent over five years to more than 80 Hatzidakis, an Apex, NC-based chief tech- million in 2005. “We are working longer nology officer of Perficient Inc., a software hours, making it more difficult to balance consulting firm in St Louis, Mo. Hatzidakis work schedule and family life,” said Allen sometimes takes along a nanny or a rela- Kay, a spokesman for the TIA. “More peo- tive to help. Even so, she admits it’s still a ple are finding that one way to do it is to challenge. “It’s not easy, nor is it cheap. But combine leisure trips with business trips.” for me, it’s the right thing to do,” As a result, many hotels, airlines and Hatzidakis said.—MCT TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 BUSINESS Italy presses ILVA managers to stay after funds seizure Future of Italy’s biggest plant at risk ROME: Italy’s government hopes the board of ty to continue production. Investigative sources cer-causing chemicals caused an “environmental ILVA, the steel giant mired in an environmental said the Taranto plant would continue to work disaster”, damaging the health of Taranto resi- scandal, will withdraw its resignation over the normally following the asset seizure. dents and affecting farming and fishing for miles latest move by magistrates against the group’s ILVA has been at the centre of a long judicial around. Italy, stuck in its longest postwar reces- owners, a senior official said yesterday. The battle over accusations that toxic emissions of sion and fighting unemployment running as board of ILVA announced its resignation on dust particles from the sprawling site have high as 40 percent among young people, can ill Saturday over the seizure of 8.1 billion euros caused abnormal levels of tumours and respira- afford the loss of one of the few major industrial ($10.5 billion) in assets from the Riva family, tory diseases around Taranto in the region of employers in its poor and underdeveloped which controls Italy’s biggest steel plant in the Puglia. south. southern city of Taranto. “We want to under- Industry Minister Flavio Zanonato and the The seizure of the Riva Fire assets will not stand what prompted the resignation and what president of the Puglia Region, Nichi Vendola, directly impact steel production in Taranto but the financial and management situation of the are due to meet ILVA management later yester- the resignation of the two administrators in group is after the seizure,” industry ministry State day to discuss the situation. charge of ILVA - chairman Bruno Ferrante, who is Secretary Claudio Di Vicenti told RAI News 24 tel- “If a company of this kind closes down, we now under investigation himself, and chief exec- Roberto and Eva Cavalli evision. “We hope that circumstances will allow a can say goodbye to the whole steel industry and utive Enrico Bondi - has left its future in the bal- rethink.” we’ll also have problems with the engineering ance. Antonio Gozzi, president of steel industry unveil Life Ball MINI 2013 At stake are the jobs of some 12,000 ILVA industry,” Zanonato said on Sunday. Actual job association Federacciai told the daily La Stampa employees and at least another 8,000 ancillary losses, including those at feeder companies, the asset seizure would make it impossible for MUNICH: For the 13th consecutive year, has already featured in his own fleet of cars: workers at the plant, situated in a region already could reach 40,000, according to some officials. the company to pay suppliers and would threat- MINI has donated one of its models to the a special iridescent paint that shimmers suffering from high unemployment, as well as en its ability to operate. Life Ball to be styled by an internationally between black and brown depending on the future of one of the mainstays of Italy’s steel Future in balance “The company will be forced to come to a renowned designer for a good cause. 2013 the incidence of light. industry. Magistrates ordered the assets to be The government has been caught in the mid- halt,” he said, adding that it faced the risk of sees the MINI Paceman endowed with the This flamboyant paintwork accentuates seized from holding company Riva Fire on suspi- dle of a complex battle over the future of ILVA acquisition by foreign buyers who would have creative signature of Roberto Cavalli. A few the clear lines of the first Sports Activity cion of criminal association to commit environ- since prosecutors ordered the partial closure of no interest in saving domestic industry. hours before the start of the AIDS charity CoupÈ by MINI and turns it into a very spe- mental offences linked to steel production at the plant in July last year following a damning Magistrates operate independently of govern- event on 25 May, the Italian fashion design- cial one-off. ILVA, one of the biggest industrial employers in series of environmental reports. ILVA, which pro- ment control, which has made it difficult for min- er and his wife unveiled the one-off MINI The expressive Cavalli logo on the roof southern Italy. duced some 8.5 million tonnes of steel in 2011, isters to criticise their actions, but industry lead- during the official Life Ball Press of the car along with his signature on the They placed the group’s chairman Emilio Riva almost 30 percent of total Italian output, has ers have been bitterly critical of what they see as Conference. As part of the AIDS Solidarity wide coupÈ door leave no doubt as to the under house arrest last year and opened investi- been operating under special administration a campaign against the company. Gala in Vienna’s Hofburg Palace, the Life designer who has left his unmistakable gations into alleged corruption and tax evasion ever since and has outlined a two-year cleanup “It seems obvious to me that the decisions of Ball MINI 2013 will be auctioned from 17 imprint on the car. The logo can also be by the group’s management. ILVA said on plan for the site. the Taranto magistrates can only mean they hrs on, with the proceeds benefiting proj- found on the inside, where the headrests Saturday it would mount a legal challenge to the According to prosecution documents, emis- want to force the closure of our most important ects committed to combating AIDS. and sun visors feature the stylish motif. The asset seizure, which it said threatened its capaci- sions of dioxins, benzoapyrene and other can- steel company,” Gozzi said. — Reuters Tonight at Life Ball’s magenta carpet interior design of the Roberto Cavalli will present the MINI to the MINI Paceman is swathed in black, with public. individual gilded elements - such as the A first glimpse of the Life Ball MINI 2013 decorative stitching on the leather seats Retailers highlight service unquestionably reveals the distinctive style and the MINI Center Speedo surround - of the famous fashion designer. Cavalli lending it an extravagant look. This is fur- upgraded the exterior of the MINI Paceman ther reinforced by the hallmark Cavalli ani- to fight showrooming - the youngest and seventh member of the mal prints on the leather-lined steering MINI family - with an exclusive colour that wheel and parts of the instruments att Norcross has been sell- doesn’t have to collect the sales tax- ing books for two decades, es. And while customers are still Mbut lately he must contend supposed to pay the tax when they with readers who go to his Petoskey, file their state income tax returns, Mich., shop to see and touch the many don’t. printed works he offers, only to buy “Someone who’s strictly driven them later from Amazon.com at a by price will come in and take savings. Even if he offers the books advantage,” said Bo Brines, the own- at the exact same price, shoppers er of Little Forks Outfitters, an out- can save 6 percent by not paying doors retailer in Midland, Mich. “Add sales tax online. “Our store is being that to a lack of a level playing field used as a selling tool for online by not having to collect sales tax, retailers,” said Norcross, the owner of and it’s a potent combination.” A McLean & Eakin Booksellers. A few recent study, by Seattle-based days ago, he added, he even caught group Placed, found 40 percent of a shopper taking pictures of recipes the shoppers participated in show- to avoid buying a cookbook. “Brick- rooming and concluded the threat and-mortar stores can’t continue to retailers may be more serious that way.” than they realize. The study was To address this trend, which the based on survey results from nearly MICHIGAN: Gorman’s Furniture in Novi, Michigan†works to compete in retail industry calls showrooming, 15,000 people. the Internet culture with their National Low Price Guarantee. — MCT small stores like McLean & Eakin are In addition to Best Buy and increasingly touting their personal Target, the study found other ones take their phones out right in want, when they want it,” he said. service. Other retailers, including national retailers, including Bed the store.” Showrooming was a big topic at national chains, are offering price Bath & Beyond, PetSmart, Toys R Us, Gorman’s President Tom Lias has this year’s National Retail Federation matching - and bringing more tech- Sears, Barnes & Noble, Kohl’s, a long list of reasons why shopping Expo in New York, as retail experts nology, such as iPads, computer JC.Penney - even discount ware- online can’t match the experience outlined how online technology is kiosks and digital codes for scan- house Costco - were at risk. “There of shopping in the five Gorman’s both a threat and an opportunity, Chinese group in bid ning, into their shops to direct cus- will be more showrooming,” Placed Furniture stores in Michigan. said Andrew Cherwenka, the co- tomers to their online sites. In an founder and CEO David Shim pre- Among them, he said, are the choic- founder and CEO of analytics com- attempt to curb tax-free online dicted. “Now, it’s as simple as ‘I’m es, customization and service that pany Authintic in Toronto. for Club Med holidays shopping, the US Senate passed the going to open an app.’ “ Some retail- customers get when they walk in “If you get to the heart of it, Marketplace Fairness Act earlier this ers - such as Best Buy and Target - the store, and being able to rely on retailers don’t care how or where PARIS: The two main shareholders in up- ers to benefit from action to move the month. The vote was 69-27, with started offering to match online the company. people shop _ as long as it’s with market holiday group Club company up market, and would enable opponents of the bill arguing that prices to combat showrooming. But Lias said he’s also encouraging them,” said Vicki Cantrell, the execu- Mediterranee, including a Chinese firm, the business to enter a new phase of the legislation makes it harder for competitive pricing is only part of his employees to accept technolo- tive director at Shop.org, a division said yesterday that they would make a development. This would mean speed- online businesses to sell in multiple the problem. “Customers come in gy: They’re using email and social of the National Retail Federation. As bid for the company, driving Club Med ing up the strategy for developing the states. It was sent to the House for and look at the merchandise. media to keep in touch with cus- an example of this, Wal-Mart, the shares up 22.53 percent to 16.97 euros. business in emerging markets and for consideration. Oftentimes they tie up an associ- tomers. Some are now carrying world’s largest retailer, started a The two bidding companies, AXA Private strengthening its position in mature Forty-five states and the District ate’s time for 10, 15, 20 minutes - iPads. And the stores have comput- program it called Endless Aisle, Equity and Chinese conglomerate Fosun, markets, which would involve the open- of Columbia require customers to and then they go buy the product er kiosks that customers can use to which encourages its customers to said that their bid would be friendly and ing of new holiday villages. pay sales tax. But unless an online on the Internet,” said Tom Scott, sen- price and shop certain furniture use smartphones in stores to read involved top managers of Club Med. The board of Club Med said that it retailer has a brick-and-mortar store ior vice president of the Michigan brands. digital codes and to order products The bid would be pitched at 17.0 noted that the bid was friendly but that or office on the ground in a state, it Retailers Association. “The ruder “Customers want what they from its online store. —MCT euros per share, representing a premium it would give its assessment of the offer of 28.4 percent on the average price of later. AXA PE and Fosun said that if their the share over a month, the two bidders bid succeeded, Henri Giscard d’Estaing said in a statement. The terms value the would remain chief executive and holiday company at about 540.6 million Michel Wolfovski would remain general Great Lakes region pins euros ($700 million). Club Med has been manager. The shareholdings held by the through difficult times and a refocusing two bidders and Giscard d’Estaing of its strategy, and the financial outlook account for about 19.33 percent of the economic hopes on water for the business now looks strong capital and 24.87 percent of the voting despite a depressed economic climate in rights. MILWAUKEE: A century ago, the seven-storey freshwater science and engineering programs. 2011 authorized a $6 billion bond issue for Europe. AXA PE and Fosun said that if they brick building a few blocks from downtown Businesses are developing products such as water infrastructure, including building more At the same time, Club Med reported obtained the support of 95.0 percent of was a factory - a symbol of an era when advanced filtration systems for sale in countries than two dozen reservoirs in coming decades. a 7.1-percent rise in net profit for the first the share votes, they would de-list Club Milwaukee and other cities ringing the Great where water isn’t just scarce, but also polluted. Besides just warm weather, “We provide eco- six months of its financial year to 18.0 Med from a stock exchange quotation. Lakes were industrial powerhouses churning Milwaukee has taken a pivotal role from its nomic opportunity,” said Tom Hayden, mayor of million euros and said that the level of Fosun is the biggest single shareholder out steel, automobiles and appliances. perch beside Lake Michigan, with $83.5 million the Flower Mound, Texas, a Dallas suburb of bookings for the holiday season in in Club Med, having become a share- Eventually the region’s manufacturing core in public and private money budgeted over the 70,000 where the population has tripled in the Europe was higher than at the same holder in 2010 and owning 9.96 percent crumbled, and the structure became an all-but- next year to support water-related businesses past two decades. “We help businesses grow time last year. In 2012, Club Med made a of the equity and 8.48 percent of voting forgotten warehouse. Now it’s getting a and research. “We all recognize that water has instead of seeing how much we can squeeze net profit of 2.0 million euros, and its rights. AXA PE owns 9.4 percent of the makeover and a new mission. It will reopen this become more and more of a precious com- them with taxes.” Water availability is just one operating margin was unchanged. equity and 16.48 percent of the votes. summer as a hive of business experimentation modity,” said Tom Barrett, mayor of Milwaukee. factor that influences where businesses locate, The statement yesterday said that the Giscard d’Estaing owns less than 0.01 swarming with scientists, engineers and entre- “We have to do a much better job of promot- said Jason Morrison of the Pacific Institute, proposed bid would enable sharehold- percent of the capital. — AFP preneurs. They’ll share a lab where new tech- ing it.” The Great Lakes - Superior, Huron, author of a report on likely economic fallout nologies can be tested. Office suites will host Michigan, Erie and Ontario - hold nearly one- from a drier climate. Still, he acknowledged, startup companies, including one devising a fifth of the freshwater on the Earth’s surface. the outlook is disconcerting. system for cultivating algae as biofuel, another But in one of the nation’s most vivid anomalies, “It’s pretty certain that water-related risk for producing a type of pavement that lets rainwa- some of the saddest, most bedraggled urban business will increase over the long haul in ter seep into the ground instead of flooding wastelands sit on the shores of the vast inland more places,” he said. Al Henes, who runs a sewers. seas. After the collapse of heavy manufacturing brewery and pub in Flagstaff, Ariz., has water- The center is part of a broader effort unfold- unleashed an exodus of jobs to the South and less urinals and reuses water in his beer-mak- ing across the Great Lakes region to regain lost West, one proposal after another for turning ing operation, but worries about the future as prosperity by developing a “blue economy” - a things around fell short. housing developments and golf courses keep network of industries that develop products But drought has gripped the Sun Belt in springing up. Even so, he said, he’s not ready to and services related to water, from pump and recent years, and federal scientists predict forsake his beloved canyon country’s stunning valve manufacturers to resorts offering vaca- recurrent periods similar to the 1930s Dust scenery and outdoorsy lifestyle. tions along redeveloped lakeshores. As grow- Bowl if climate change models prove accurate. “You guys get a little colder up there,” Henes ing water scarcity casts a shadow over the eco- Worried leaders there are floating increasingly said dryly. Recalling childhood winter visits nomic boom in warmer states, many in the radical proposals, from billion-dollar pipelines with his grandmother in Michigan, he added: long-scorned northlands are hoping they can traversing hundreds of miles to creating artifi- “Some of my words would just freeze in my finally make their abundance of freshwater a cial lakes. “I don’t like to get into an us-versus- mouth and fall on the ground and shatter.” magnet for businesses and jobs that are now them situation, but the drought in these other Milwaukee reflects the grandeur of the lake going elsewhere. The idea is either a perfect locations is going to get worse and worse and region’s past as well as its decline and the nexus of opportunity and timing, or- as some what we have to offer is going to get more and quest to rebuild. A downtown statue of “The in the Sun Belt believe- just another longshot more attractive,” said David Ullrich, executive Fonz” evokes wistful memories of “Happy Days” attempt by a cold and downtrodden region to director of an organization representing the prosperity, when more than half of the adult reverse history. In the eight Great Lakes states, Great Lakes region’s mayors. workforce had factory jobs with manufacturers organizations devoted to the venture are Sun Belt leaders, while acknowledging the like Allis-Chalmers, now defunct. Some ware- springing up, with headquarters, government problem, scoff at the idea of companies choos- houses and storefronts still sit empty, and the BEIJING: A picture shows ClubMed holiday brochures at a Chinese tourist grants and binders full of Power Points and ing the Midwest instead. They say they’re remnants of beer giants Schlitz, Pabst and Blatz agency yesterday. — AFP five-year plans. Universities are establishing already working on solutions. Texas voters in have been turned to other uses. —AP BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013

Al-Zayani Kuwait welcomes arrival of Jaguar F-TYPE

KUWAIT: Luxury automotive manufacturer Jaguar and structure of the F-TYPE, defined by two ‘heart- ed Jaguar F-TYPE, Mr. Derek Davies, Automobile Three models will be available - F-TYPE, F-TYPE S and Al-Zayani in Kuwait announced the arrival of lines’ forming the front and rear wings. The cabin Director at Al-Zayani said: “Since its launch at the and the F-TYPE V8 S. They are powered respectively one of the most anticipated models from the luxury architecture reflects its role as a ‘one plus one’ sports Paris Motorshow last September, the Jaguar F-TYPE by Jaguar’s new 3.0-litre V6 supercharged petrol car manufacturer to date; the Jaguar F-TYPE. Jaguar’s car, focused upon the driver and their interaction has been eagerly awaited in this market, and we engine in 340PS and 380PS outputs and its 5.0-litre F-TYPE is a continuation of a sporting bloodline that with the electronic and mechanical components. have already received a considerable number of V8 supercharged petrol producing 495PS stretches back more than 75 years and encompasses Sports seats featuring electric adjustment are the orders from loyal Jaguar customers here. I foresee a The range-topping F-TYPE V8S reaches 0-100km some of the most beautiful, thrilling and desirable standard specification and optional Performance significant increase in traffic through our showroom in 4.3 seconds and has a top speed of 300 kmph. The cars ever built, representing a return to the compa- seats can be supplied. as a result of this very welcome arrival.” The Jaguar F- 380PS V6 F-TYPE S reaches 0-100km/h in 4.9 seconds ny’s heartland with a two-seater, convertible sports The F-TYPE is available with three audio systems, TYPE is now available, along with the fullline-up and has a top speed of 275 kmph, the equivalent fig- car focused on performance, agility and driver two of which come from globally recognised British including the XK, XF and XJ models, from Al Zayani’s ures for the 340PS V6 F-TYPE are 5.3 seconds and involvement. experts Meridian. These offer either 10 or 12 loud- showroom in Kuwait. 260 kmph speakers with outputs of 380W and 770W respec- All engines drive through an eight-speed Design tively. The Meridian systems benefit from the com- Key points ‘Quickshift’ transmission, a centrally mounted Visual appeal is fundamental to Jaguars and, as pany’s huge experience in digital signal processing A front-engined, rear-wheel drive convertible, the SportShift selector offering full manual sequential such, the F-TYPE is immediately recognisable. The to create audio reproduction that is second to none. F-TYPE is engineered to deliver pure dynamic driving control, as do the steering wheel-mounted pad- company’s eye to the future is evident in the shape Speaking about the arrival of the much anticipat- reward and stunning performance. dles.

NBK’s business outlook to remain resilient over next 2 years: S&P

KUWAIT: Standard & Poor’s, the international credit rating position will remain stable, underpinned by its leading agency, said that its outlook on National Bank of Kuwait position in Kuwait, long track record of good and stable (NBK) is stable, reflecting the agency’s belief that NBK’s performance, as well as good and experienced manage- overall business and financial profile will remain resilient ment. Strategy has proved flexible through the global and generally unchanged over the next two years. financial and economic crisis so far. Earnings by segment Earlier this month, Standard & Poor’s affirmed the long- and geography tend to be well diversified.” term credit ratings of National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) at A+, “We view NBK’s capital as strong on the basis of the the highest in the Middle East. All the bank’s ratings carry a bank’s strong capitalization and good earning capacity,” stable outlook. the agency added. “We believe NBK will continue to man- “Our outlook on NBK is stable, reflecting our belief that age its domestic and foreign organic growth conservative- its overall business and financial profile will remain resilient ly in the current economic environment.” The agency stat- and generally unchanged over the next two years,” said ed that “NBK is the largest bank in Kuwait, with $63.4 bil- Standard & Poor’s in a report on NBK published yesterday. lion of consolidated assets on March 31, 2013.” It added: The agency pointed out that NBK’s main rating “Total assets grew by 20.5 percent in 2012, notably as NBK strengths include the bank’s leading commercial position increased its stake in domestic Islamic lender Boubyan in its domestic market, its strong capitalization on the back Bank to 58.3 percent. We consider Boubyan a positive addi- of good earning capacity, and more resilient asset quality tion in NBK’s strategy.” NBK has consistently been awarded than that of its peers. the highest credit ratings of all banks in the region by the Standard & Poor’s said: “our assessment of NBK’s busi- major international rating agencies Moody’s, Standard & ness position is strong. We believe the bank’s business Poor’s and Fitch Ratings.

Warba Bank GCC women’s UAE’s economy estimated to be wealth estimated becomes a 30th largest economy in the world

member of KNET ABU DHABI: Preliminary estimates indicate real GDP growth Nominal gross domestic product rose to $383.8 billion at $224bn was +4.4 percent y-o-y in 2012, up from +3.9 percent y-o-y (+10.1 percent y-o-y). The oil sector’s relative contribution to KUWAIT: Warba Bank, the most recently opened in 2011. The estimate was slightly higher than earlier official nominal GDP growth was 48.7 percent. UAE’s economy is KUWAIT: Kuwait Financial Centre “Markaz” has recently Islamic bank in Kuwait, yesterday became the 11th indications of circa +4 percent y-o-y. Growth was driven by a estimated to be the 30th largest economy in the world, rank- published a report titled “When GCC Women Invest: An member bank to join The Shared Electronic sharp rise in hydrocarbon activity (+6.3 percent y-o-y) which ing above Venezuela and almost the same size as the South Underserviced Market”. Based on the report’s proprietary Banking Services Company (KNET) in Kuwait. accounted for 46 percent of output growth. Non-oil growth African economy. Looking forward, we expect the modera- calculations which takes into account the inheritance KNET provides electronic banking services to all was anemic at +3.45 percent y-o-y, up from +2.6 percent in tion in oil prices to weigh down nominal growth as will be law, GCC women’s high net worth market is currently Kuwaiti banks and is committed to adopting state- 2011. The silver-lining was that there were no sectors which the case for other oil exporters. Current assumptions are for worth about $224 billion and accounts for 20.2 percent of-the-art technology in varies areas of electronic registered contraction in real terms in 2012 (construction relative flattening in oil output compared to 2012 and this of the total wealth; that’s more than the Japan, where banking services. KNET provides the highest stan- and quarrying sectors had contracted in 2011). Real estate will weigh on overall real GDP growth which is forecast at women controls 14 percent of the wealth. Yet the report dards and services available worldwide to its mem- and business services accounted for almost 15 percent of circa 3.5 percent y-o-y in 2013. Authorities are targeting 4 notes that most investment products and opportunities ber banks in the Kuwait and covers also the GCC growth and government services 11.1 percent. percent growth. were designed for male investors. states. KNET is committed to accuracy and high “Markaz” expects GCC women’s contribution to international standards of efficiency and security in wealth to grow by 15 percent during the next 10 years completing customers’ electronic banking transac- Gulf Installments Company due to several factors including the increasing labor par- tions. ticipation of women as well as participation in business Warba Bank’s membership of KNET is an exam- and the increasing capital spending in GCC countries. ple of cooperation and mutual benefit in the bank- expands reach in Jeddah According to the report, by 2020 women of the ing sector, where the bank’s services to its cus- United Arab Emirates and Qatar are expected to see the tomers integrate with the services provided by JEDDAH: Gulf Installments Company tion and contracting sectors. Saudi 435 billion, and is expected to grow by largest growth in wealth by 27.3 percent and 23.3 per- KNET in the local market, giving Warba Bank a com- (‘Gulf Installments’), the Saudi-based economy is currently flush with oil rev- 4.5 percent in 2013. Even though Saudi cent respectively. Kuwait and Qatar have the highest petitive position among others Kuwaiti banks. installment company focused on pro- enues; the Kingdom has embarked SMEs account for 90 percent of Saudi women labor participation rate among GCC nationals, The cooperation between Warba Bank and KNET viding Shariah-compliant installment upon a major economic diversification businesses and 24.7 percent of total this coupled with a relatively liberal stance on women will offer the best banking services for customers, and leasing to businesses across a vari- programme which includes the con- employment, they represent only 2 per- empowerment (nationals) is expected to contribute to a covering their needs locally and internationally. ety of sectors and assets, has struction of several new economic cities cent of the Saudi banks’ lending market. sustainable growth rate in women wealth. That been Membership will also enable the bank to provide announced that 5 months after com- and the expansion of heavy industries With over 220,000 SMEs in the Kingdom, said, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will take value added services to its customers by deploying mencing operations from its Jeddah- such as aluminium smelting. Over the many of which are underserved, credit the lead in wealth creation of $10.5 billion and $15.79 the latest technologies in various advanced pay- based headquarters, the company has course of 2011, contracts awarded demand outpaces supply. billion respectively by 2020. ment channels. opened a full-fledged branch office in totalled SAR 264 billion, a 140 percent David Hunt, Chief Executive Officer The report explains that low women participation Warba Bank’s membership of KNET was a strate- Jeddah and will be launching its offices year-on-year increase, driving a robust of Gulf Installments said: rate in the first oil boom riches in GCC countries during gic objective of the bank’s management to in the capital Riyadh during the 3rd and higher-than-expected 11.6 percent “Gulf Installments has had a success- the 1970’s was due to the generating wealth, while enhance service provision to customers. KNET effi- quarter of this year. In addition to that, real growth in the construction sector. ful launch here in Saudi and is currently women managed the house hold. Therefore, investment ciently provides quality services to all banks operat- plans to serve Small and Medium Sized Strong demand for residential accom- providing Shariah-compliant install- products were constricted to men who based on several ing within Kuwait and across the region, providing businesses (SMEs) in the Eastern modation and improved availability of ment and leasing to SMEs from across a research polling tend to be more risk takers, have higher its members and their customers with electronic Province are underway with a Gulf bank credit also means that the private variety of sectors, from contracting and stock turnover velocity and have more conviction in banking transactions throughout the GCC through Installments branch opening up during sector will create a growing source of construction, to healthcare and educa- their decisions. its connection to Gulf Network (GCCNET). Having the second quarter of 2014 in demand for construction projects dur- tion; whether they need to establish Dammam. This expansion is in line with ing 2013. It is therefore anticipated that their business or expand it by purchas- However, the societal picture during the new millen- Warba Bank as a member in KNET will increase the the company’s commitment to make its this trend should continue in the short ing assets such as heavy plant and nium has become more colorful as social dynamics efficiency and accuracy of financial transactions evolved and women started entering the workforce. As Shariah-compliant credit solutions to medium term on the back of the gov- machinery, medical equipment, or con- conducted by customers in Kuwait or in the GCC available across the Kingdom to small ernment’s vast infrastructure invest- tracting and constructing equipment. GCC women became empowered and family dynamics region. changed, the idea of managing the legacy based on age and medium businesses that represent ment scheme. We have already achieved more than 20 Through the membership, Warba Bank will be 90 per cent of the Saudi business com- Saudi Arabia is the largest economy percent of our targets within the first and gender began to decline in popularity, ushering a able to activate the Points of Sale service for com- new client base for money managers - GCC Women munity. in the GCC, with a nominal GDP of USD quarter of the year serving the growth panies and merchants within the local market, Gulf Installments was established in of the Saudi business community Investors. which will reinforce the presence of Warba in the Referring to global polls, the report highlights the 2012 by SHUAA Capital psc following through a wide range of installment and commercial sector. Additionally, the bank will be the success of Shuaa’s subsidiary Gulf David Hunt leasing solutions. These solutions are in high dissatisfaction level among women with various able to participate in the special promotional dis- financial services, noting that 62 percent -73 percent are Finance Corporation in the UAE. The demand by a large number of clients counts that are provided to the holders of any of company commenced its operations in which paves the way for building signifi- dissatisfied on the quality of service and the products Warba cards. offered to them. The issue is rampant in financial advice January this year, and since then, Gulf cant market share. Our focus is on the Warba Bank’s membership of KNET is considered Installments has already provided SME community, which is central to segment and insurance segment. to be a long term investment that will provide sta- Shariah-compliant installment and leas- Saudi’s economy, and we are committed The report also captures the differences between ble and continuous returns over the coming years. ing to more than 15 businesses where to the Kingdom for the long term and genders when it comes to investment styles in GCC It will also ensure the application of the latest tech- the average deal size is 2 to 3 million expanding our reach across Saudi in countries. Although actual investment style might differ nology which will allow Warba Bank to provide cus- Saudi Riyals. record periods of time. Our installment based on education level, marital status and age, tomers with services and solutions according to the Central to the company’s growth has and leasing deals are an investment in women in general tend to be more risk averse when it highest international standards of efficiency and been the considerable increase in the success story of Saudi Arabia, and comes to investments, while men seek higher returns security. demand for equipment [financing] underscore our confidence in the grow- and assume higher risks. mainly in the manufacturing, construc- ing private sector in the Kingdom. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 technology

Netflix looks to hook subscribers with ‘Arrested’

SAN FRANCISCO: Netflix is hoping this ing that out in favor of Internet streaming.) Netflix’s departure from TV’s traditional subscribers, although there is no way of during the traditionally sluggish April-to- weekend’s release of the resurrected TV “We want our members to choose one-episode-per-week strategy has been knowing for sure. In any case, “Arrested June period, Hastings told The Associated series “Arrested Development” will draw Netflix in these moments of truth,” well received by subscribers who have Development” is expected to attract even Press in a recent interview. The Los Gatos, more subscribers to its Internet video Hastings wrote in a recent essay outlining watched the service’s previous forays into more new subscribers than “House of Calif., company predicted that it could service. The award-winning show about Netflix’s philosophy. By bringing back original programming. February’s release Cards” because of its built-in fan base and gain as many 880,000 US Internet stream- the dysfunctional Bluth family returns “Arrested Development” this weekend, of “House of Cards,” a political drama that the success that several of its cast mem- ing subscribers during the second quarter. Sunday, seven years after Fox cancelled Netflix is also trying to prove that people stars Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey, bers have enjoyed since the show’s can- Without the series, Hastings said, the pro- the series. The revival coincides with still want to see quality entertainment helped Netflix add 2 million more US sub- cellation. jected increase probably wouldn’t have Netflix’s own resounding comeback from even when the weather is getting nicer scribers during the first three months of The original cast, including Jason exceeded 530,000, the growth it had dur- a customer backlash over price increases and the days are growing longer. That the year, more than analysts anticipated. Bateman, Michael Cera and Will Arnett, is ing the same period a year ago. and shareholders’ worries about rising runs counter to the philosophy of broad- “Hemlock Grove,” a quirky horror series, returning to the zany series revolving If “Arrested Development” does as well expenses. The adversity had raised doubts cast TV networks, which for decades have attracted additional viewers during the around a family whose opulent lifestyle as Hastings hopes, it will mark another tri- about the company’s management and typically started the new seasons of their umph for a company that had fallen out of future. top TV series in September and stopped favor with subscribers and investors less Now, Netflix is winning back sub- showing new episodes just before than two years ago. Netflix infuriated cus- scribers and investors with a bold attempt Memorial Day weekend. tomers in July 2011 when it announced to establish its $8 per-month service as a BTIG Research analyst Rich Greenfield price increases of as much as 60 percent home entertainment powerhouse that believes the scarcity of compelling choices for people who wanted to rent DVDs by rivals the broadcast television networks on broadcast TV at this time of year is mail and stream Internet video. Then, and premium cable channels such as HBO. bound to help Netflix draw more viewers Hastings unleashed even more outrage by “Arrested Development,” a comedy that to “Arrested Development.” In a recent outlining plans to spin off the DVD-by- won six Emmy awards during a critically analysis posted on BTIG’s blog, Greenfield mail option into a separate service called acclaimed three-year run, is the third predicted that the total number of hours Qwikster - an idea that seemed so absurd exclusive series from Netflix Inc. this year. watched on Netflix in June might even that it was mocked on “Saturday Night It’s part of Netflix’s effort to add more orig- surpass the Fox broadcast network for the Live.” inal programming to a selection that con- first time. Netflix didn’t waver on its new pricing sists primarily of old TV series and movies. If that were to happen, it would be an system, even though it resulted in the loss With 29.2 million US subscribers - far ironic twist, given that Fox canceled of 800,000 customers at the time. But more than the 21.9 million TV subscribers “Arrested Development” in 2006 over the Hastings scrapped the Qwikster concept that leading cable provider Comcast Corp. protest of the series’ fervent fans. “Arrested amid the backlash. The DVD-by-mail serv- has - Netflix has already reshaped home Development” had low ratings during its ice, which has lost 6 million customers in entertainment. The service is encouraging run, but the viewers who did watch loved the past 18 months and now has 8 million, more people to forego cable and satellite it. Others discovered the show later on is being allowed to slowly fade away. TV service and rely on Netflix to watch DVD or Internet streaming - both of which While Netflix subscribers were howling, popular TV series a year or more after they have been available through Netflix. The SAN FRANCISCO: This undated publicity photo released by Netflix shareholders were dumping their stock. originally were shown. Netflix also is first three seasons of “Arrested shows David Cross (left) and Portia de Rossi in a scene from “Arrested Investors feared the company wouldn’t be empowering viewers to watch an entire Development” were being watched by so Development,” premiering on Netflix. —AP able to attract enough subscribers to cov- season of a TV series in a matter of days many subscribers that Netflix knew anoth- er the steadily rising fees for licensing instead of months. er season would be well-received by its first weekend after its mid-April release, was torn apart by the arrest of a corrupt video rights. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings isn’t done existing audience and would likely lure according to Netflix, although the compa- patriarch played by Jeffrey Tambor. In the Those worries have dissipated now disrupting things yet. He is spending more new subscribers, too. ny hasn’t provided specific numbers. new episodes, viewers will get updates on that Netflix is growing rapidly again, than $2 billion annually, including about Like Netflix’s previous series, all 15 new It’s difficult to quantify how many sub- the characters, one by one. Although that something that Hastings had promised $200 million to finance original program- episodes of “Arrested Development” will scribers joined Netflix to watch “House of was done because of difficulties booking would eventually happen after apologiz- ming that can be watched on traditional be released simultaneously to allow view- Cards” and then decided to stick with the the actors all at once, it ended up allowing ing for the Qwikster mistake and the way computers, smartphones, tablets, video ers to watch the show as if they were service after seeing all the other material for a non-traditional viewing experience, he handled the price increase. After hit- game consoles and Internet-connected perusing a book and deciding how many available. That’s because “House of Cards” one more fitting on Netflix than a tradi- ting a high of nearly $305 in July 2011 and TVs. By expanding its library of content, chapters to pore through in a single sit- debuted during a winter period that is tra- tional network. Viewers, for instance, will then falling to below $53 last August, Netflix is hoping people will decide to ting. “Arrested Development” is scheduled ditionally one of the service’s prime times. be able to pause an episode on one char- Netflix’s stock is trading at nearly $230. “I spend their idle time on its Internet video to be available at 12:01 a.m. PDT Sunday For instance, Netflix added 1.74 million acter to watch the same scene from don’t have a sense of ‘I told you so,’ or service rather than play video games, frat- (3:01 a.m. EDT), meaning Netflix sub- subscribers in the first three months of another character’s vantage point. something,” Hastings told the AP last ernize on Facebook, surf cable or satellite scribers could conceivably devour the 2012. The difference between the two The long-awaited return of “Arrested month. “I have a sense of satisfaction that TV or watch a DVD. (Netflix started out as a entire season before grilling on Memorial years could be an indication that “House Development” prompted Netflix to be we are doing what we do best, which is DVD-by-mail rental service, but it is phas- Day afternoon. of Cards” generated an additional 250,000 more optimistic about subscriber growth steadily improving our service.” —AP Robots to drones, Australia targets high-tech farm help Australia - leader in developing robots in agriculture SYDNEY: Moving carefully along a row of apple Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the “Berry picking by a robot would be difficult but trees, two of Australia’s newest agricultural workers University of Sydney and developer of Mantis and if they could produce a robot, I could make a check if the fruit is ripe or the soil needs water or Shrimp, says the next phase aims for robots to do significant saving,” said Allan Dixon, co-owner fertilizer. Meet “Mantis” and “Shrimp”, agricultural increasingly complex jobs such as watering and of the Clyde River Berry Farm in New South robots being tested to do these tasks and more in ultimately harvesting. Wales, who typically takes on five people every a bid to cut costs and improve productivity in “We have fitted them with a lot of sensors, year. To get enough agricultural workers, Australia’s economically vital farm sector, which vision, laser, radar and conductivity sensors - Australia allows in some labor from neighbor- NEW YORK: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during an announcement that exported A$39.6 billion ($38.8 billion)of produce in including GPS and thermal sensors,” said Sukkarieh, ing Pacific island countries and East Timor, as Yahoo acquired the Tumblr blogging site in order to upgrade its Flickr site, in 2012. speaking at his laboratory housing a collection of well as using backpackers on temporary work New York, in this May 20, 2013 file photo. —AFP Australia is one of the leaders in the field and, both ground robots and unmanned air vehicles. visas. with a minimum wage of A$15.96 per hour and a The technology could have the biggest application Some fruit farmers remain sceptical. “Apples limited workforce, has a big incentive to use robots in horticulture, Australia’s third-largest agricultural will always need to be harvested by hand, due Yahoo, pay-TV operators and other technology such as unmanned aircraft sector with exports of $1.71 billion in the last mar- to their fragile nature. They bruise very easily,” to improve efficiency. It hopes to tap fast-growing keting year, since a fixed farm layout lends itself said Lucinda Giblett, director at Newton Asian neighbors, where the swelling ranks of the better to using robots. Orchards in Western Australia. “We see no cur- among the Hulu bidders middle class increasingly want more varied and Robots and an unmanned air vehicle that are rent opportunities offered by agricultural better quality food from blueberries to beef. being developed at the University of Sydney had robots. Even as a pruning device, application is LOS ANGELES: Online video site Hulu is again up the service. It offers free viewing of recent episodes “The adoption of new technology is going to be passed field tests at an almond farm in Mildura, very limited,” added Giblett. for sale, with Yahoo and pay TV operators DirecTV of broadcast network shows like ABC’s “Modern crucial for Australia to maintain its competitiveness Victoria state, said Sukkarieh. Propelled by sets of and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders, Family” or NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” with ads, but in terms of the global agricultural sector,” said Luke wheels and about the height of a man, the robots PRODUCTIVITY according to a person with direct knowledge of the those episodes are also available elsewhere, such as Matthews, commodities strategist at the were named after the native Mantis shrimp Further productivity gains will be needed if matter. The person wasn’t authorized to speak pub- on the networks’ own websites. Commonwealth Bank of Australia. “If we don’t because of the marine crustacean’s 16 different col- Australia is to reach its target of being the main licly and spoke Friday on condition of anonymity, The paid version, called Hulu Plus, provides adopt new technology, we can give up on these or receptors, capable of detecting up to 12 colors. food supplier to Asia. A 2011 study by the after several news outlets reported on the bidding. access to a deeper catalog and allows viewing on high-flying ambitions of being the food bowl of Humans only have four, three of which pick up col- Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource The person didn’t offer details on the prices offered. mobile devices and Internet-connected TVs, but Asia.” Agriculture now accounts for 2 percent of ors. Economics and Sciences said around two-thirds Published reports have pegged a bid by a group led several networks including ABC and NBC have Australia’s gross domestic product, but the govern- This capacity to recognize color already allows of the increase in the monetary value of agri- by former News Corp. executive Peter Chernin at developed apps that allow full episode viewing on ment forecasts it could reach 5 percent by 2050. Its the robots to sense whether fruit is ripe. The data cultural production in the last 50 years in the $500 million. mobile devices for free. Hulu made $695 million in growth is particularly important now the once- can then be processed by computer algorithms to country was down to gains in productivity. The other three bidders were all private equity revenue last year and said in April that more than 4 booming mining sector is slowing. determine what action the robot should take. This Another survey by the Grains Research and firms: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co; Guggenheim million customers pay $8 a month for Hulu Plus. Australia is the world’s second-biggest wheat could be to water or apply fertilizer or pesticides, or Development Corporation showed 67 percent Partners; and Silver Lake, in partnership with talent Both Disney and News Corp. have said Hulu is los- exporter and arable farmers are already using spe- to sweep and prune vegetation, and eventually the of respondents in 2011 used auto-steer tech- agency William Morris Endeavor, according to the ing money. The ad revenue is small compared to cialized technology aimed at improving efficiency, aim is to harvest the crop. “If tomorrow we got an nology to guide machinery such as harvesters person. The person said the bidders would be nar- the billions of dollars made on traditional TV, and including satellite positioning software to allow apple, orange or tomato farmer that wants a robot and sprayers, up from 47 percent in 2008. rowed down in the coming weeks. The Walt Disney Hulu lags far behind Netflix in paying subscribers. farmers to map out land and soil to determine to go up and down these tree crops reliably and Obstacles to using more technology remain, Co and News Corp control Hulu through their Netflix boasts 29.2 million subscribers in the US optimal inputs. Using such technology to optimize accurately, we can do that within six months to a however, including the cost of buying or rent- broadcast subsidiaries, ABC and Fox. Comcast Corp, alone. the use of fertilizer can boost profitability at grain year.” “The question is can we make them more ing equipment and slower growth in research owner of NBC, is also an investor, although it gave Hulu could also be a contributing factor to view- farms by 14 percent, according to a study by intelligent,” added Sukkarieh, who also sees the and development spending. Some studies up its say in Hulu’s affairs as a condition of its pur- ers choosing to cancel traditional pay TV packages, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial technology being attached to standard farm vehi- show growth in the use of satellite imagery and chase of NBCUniversal in 2011. which are far more expensive, in favor of watching Research Organization. cles and foresees a fully automated horticulture soil mapping has stagnated in Australia and the Hulu’s owners tried to sell the site before, but video over the Internet. Representatives for DirecTV farm within 10 years. United States in recent years. Regardless of decided against it in 2011 after months of enter- Group Inc., Time Warner Cable Inc., KKR, Silver Lake COLOUR RECEPTORS whether it can meet its targets to supply more taining outside offers. Talk of a sale resurfaced after and William Morris declined to comment. A robot effortlessly plucking fruit is some way BRUISED APPLES food to Asia, Australia is expected to play a big CEO Jason Kilar announced in January that he Spokespeople for Yahoo Inc. and Guggenheim did off, though a range of simpler tasks are within Australian farmers, who depend on seasonal role in global food security by being one of the would step down at the end of March. Since then, not immediately return messages seeking com- reach to add to existing technology such as auto- labor for jobs such as picking fruit and vegeta- test beds for new ways to produce food more Hulu has been led by interim CEO Andy Forssell. Its ment. A representative for The Chernin Group could matic steering of harvesters. Salah Sukkarieh, bles, said they would welcome high-tech help. efficiently in often harsh conditions. —Reuters owners have struggled over the right strategy for not immediately be reached. —AP EMC announces new solutions and services

KUWAIT: EMC yesterday announced new innovation and competitive advantage nents include the following: Maximized Site Recovery Manager to help provide NEW SERVICES transformational solutions and services while reducing costs. performance and scalability throughEMC customers disaster recovery using VMAX Working in collaboration with SAP that are intended to help customers move fully automated storage tiering (FAST VP); and VNX series interchangeably as produc- and VMware, EMC is offering services workloads of SAP solutions to next-gener- NEW EMC PROVEN SOLUTIONS IT management leveraging virtual- tion and disaster recovery storage for SAP designed to quickly and safely move ation privatecloud infrastructures. To help Customers making the transformation izedtechnology and integratedwith SAP applications and is expected to enable: workloads of SAP solutions to virtualized build a foundation for private cloud com- to on-premise cloud computing will seek NetWeaver(r) Landscape Virtualization APPLICATION CONSISTENT FAILOVER - ful- x86 environments that are high perform- puting, EMC is also deepening its relation- to optimize their IT landscape to maximize Management software; Setup and deploy- ly automated failover across multiple stor- ing, easier and less expensive to manage. ship with SAP and VMware by integrating productivity of SAP application-based ment of virtual IT chargeback models; age systems with write-order integrity of Services available today address the their respective services capabilities and workloads and the IT and Basis administra- Cloud stack monitoring across virtualized SAP applications all in a matter of minutes; complete lifecycle transformation of SAP POINT-IN-TIME RECOVERY - granular recov- helping customers accelerate full-lifecycle tors responsible for managing them. The servers and infrastructure running SAP applications, including:Initial blueprint- transformation of SAP applications to vir- EMC Proven Solution for private cloud applications and on-stop operations and ery of SAP applications from a logical cor- ing and design of virtualized x86 infra- tualized x86 environments. computing running SAP solutions discuss- continuous data protection for SAP solu- ruption without the need to restore and structure; IT operational process changes These new additions are expected to es common business drivers for private tions with EMC RecoverPoint and VPLEX. roll forward the entire database, accelerat- help and revolutionize IT organizations cloud computing as well as industry stan- ing recovery; NON-DISRUPTIVE FAILOVER and planning; SAP application and infra- and operations by simplifying the design, dard requirements. The solution docu- AUTOMATED DISASTER RECOVERY TESTING -online testing through restoring structure migration planning, execution planning and operation of on-premise ments the key components of a virtual The EMC Proven Solution for automat- a snapshot of SAP applications and encap- and testing; Setup of efficient and agile cloud computing infrastructures that take stack designed to support a virtualized pri- ed disaster recovery of SAP solutions out- sulating it in a private network during the data management of cloud-based envi- advantage of the latest EMC, SAP and vate cloud environment running SAP solu- lines how to extend private cloud infra- test. The result is a disaster recovery plan ronments running SAP solutions. The ini- VMware technologies. Through a combi- tions. The solution may also facilitate high structures for disaster recovery across het- that is anticipated to allow for non-disrup- tial phase of this collaboration is being nation of services and solutions EMC, quality of service, optimization for per- erogeneous storage infrastructure as well tive testing to meet information security executed in the EMEA region to help cus- together with SAP and VMware, intends to formance, and ease of management, while as how to perform non-disruptive testing and audit requirements and help increase tomers move their SAP solutions to virtu- enable customers running SAP solutions helping to control costs through virtual of disaster recovery plans. This solution leverage of existing storage assets for alized x86 environments in less time and to simplify IT management and focus on infrastructure consolidation. Key compo- leverages EMC RecoverPoint with VMware higher return on investment. with less risk. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Decline in biodiversity of farmed plants, animals gathering pace

OSLO: A decline in the diversity of farmed plants and live- stock breeds is gathering pace, threatening future food supplies for the world’s growing population, the head of a new United Nations panel on biodiversity said yesterday. Preserving neglected animal breeds and plants was neces- sary as they could have genes resistant to future diseases or to shifts in the climate to warmer temperatures, more droughts or downpours, Zakri Abdul Hamid said. “The loss of biodiversity is happening faster and every- where, even among farm animals,” Zakri told a conference of 450 experts in Trondheim, central Norway, in his first speech as founding chair of the UN biodiversity panel. Many traditional breeds of cows, sheep or goats have fall- en out of favour, often because they yield less meat or milk than new breeds. Globalisation also means that people’s food preferences narrow down to fewer plants. Zakri said there were 30,000 edible plants but that just 30 crops accounted for 95 percent of the energy in human food that is dominated by rice, wheat, maize, millet and sorghum. He said it was “more important than ever to have a large genetic pool to enable organisms to withstand and adapt to new conditions.” That would help to ensure food for a global population set to reach 9 billion by 2050 from BRAZIL: A protester wearing a protective suit and mask holds up a sign BRAZIL: A protester wearing a protective suit and mask holds up a sign 7 billion now. toward passing cars that reads in Portuguese “A better world according to toward passing cars that reads in Portuguese “A better world according to Zakri noted that the UN’s Food and Agriculture Monsanto is a world with more cancer”.—AP Monsanto is a world with more cancer” in Sao Paulo.-AFP Organization estimated last year that 22 percent of the world’s livestock breeds were at risk of extinction. That means there are fewer than 1,000 animals in each breed. The extinctions of some domesticated animals and Protesters across globe plants was happening in tandem with accelerating losses of wild species caused by factors such as deforestation, expansion of cities, pollution and climate change, he said. Irene Hoffmann, chief of the FAO’s animal genetic rally against Monsanto resources branch, told Reuters that eight percent of live- stock breeds had already become extinct. Many nations had started breeding programs for rare livestock, from lla- LOS ANGELES: Protesters rallied in would have considered that a success,” Clermont, Fla, said she learned about arguing that the modified seeds are float- mas to pigs. dozens of cities Saturday as part of a she said Saturday. Instead, she said an Monsanto and genetically modified food ing from field to field and contaminating Some were freezing embryos or even stem cells that global protest against seed giant “incredible” number of people responded by watching documentaries on YouTube. traditional crops. The groups have been might be used in cloning, she said. In 2010, governments Monsanto and the genetically modified to her message and turned out to rally. “It “Scientists are saying that because bolstered by a growing network of con- set goals including halting extinction of known threatened food it produces, organizers said. was empowering and inspiring to see so they create their own seeds, they are sumers who are wary of processed and species by 2020 and expanding the area set aside in parks Organizers said “March Against Monsanto” many people, from different walks of life, harming the bees,” Wilson told the modified foods. The US Senate this week or protected areas for wildlife to 17 percent of the Earth’s protests were held in 52 countries and put aside their differences and come Orlando Sentinel. “That is about as per- overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would land surface from about 13 percent now.—Reuters 436 cities, including Los Angeles where together today,” Canal said. The group sonal as it gets for me.” Chrissy Magaw allow states to require labeling of geneti- demonstrators waved signs that read plans to harness the success of the event was one of about 200 protesters who cally modified foods. The Biotechnology “Real Food 4 Real People” and “Label to continue its anti-GMO cause. walked from a waterfront park to the Industry Organization, a lobbying group GMOs, It’s Our Right to Know.” Genetically “We will continue until Monsanto com- Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in that represents Monsanto, DuPont & Co modified plants are grown from seeds plies with consumer demand. They are Pensacola. She told WEAR-TV that know- and other makers of genetically modified that are engineered to resist insecticides poisoning our children, poisoning our ing what you eat and put into your body seeds, has said that it supports voluntary and herbicides, add nutritional benefits or planet,” she said. “If we don’t act, who’s is the most important decision you make labeling for people who seek out such otherwise improve crop yields and going to?” Protesters in Buenos Aires and every day. In Birmingham, Ala, about 80 products. But it says that mandatory increase the global food supply. other cities in Argentina, where protesters turned out at Rhodes Park, labeling would only mislead or confuse Most corn, soybean and cotton crops Monsanto’s genetically modified soy and some dressed as bees and butterflies, consumers into thinking the products grown in the United States today have grains now command nearly 100 percent Al.com reported. aren’t safe, even though the FDA has said been genetically modified. But critics say of the market, and the company’s SI Reasoning, an activist, artist and there’s no difference between GMO and genetically modified organisms can lead Roundup-Ready chemicals are sprayed musician who lives in Vestavia, Ala., organic, non-GMO foods. However, state to serious health conditions and harm the throughout the year on fields where cows described Monsanto’s handling of GMOs legislatures in Vermont and Connecticut environment. The use of GMOs has been a once grazed. They carried signs saying as a “huge, uncontrolled experiment on moved ahead this month with votes to growing issue of contention in recent “Monsanto-Get out of Latin America” the American people.” Monsanto Co, make food companies declare genetically years, with health advocates pushing for In Portland, thousands of protesters based in St Louis, said that it respects peo- modified ingredients on their packages. mandatory labeling of genetically modi- took to Oregon streets. Police estimate ple’s rights to express their opinion on the And supermarket retailer Whole Foods fied products even though the federal about 6,000 protesters took part in topic, but maintains that its seeds improve Markets Inc. has said that all products in government and many scientists say the Portland’s peaceful march, and about 300 agriculture by helping farmers produce its North American stores that contain technology is safe. attended the rally in Bend. Other marches more from their land while conserving genetically modified ingredients will be The ‘March Against Monsanto’ move- were scheduled in Baker City, Coos Bay, resources such as water and energy. labeled as such by 2018. Whole Foods ment began just a few months ago, when Eugene, Grants Pass, Medford, Portland, The Food and Drug Administration says there is growing demand for prod- founder and organizer Tami Canal created Prineville and Redmond. Across the coun- does not require genetically modified ucts that don’t use GMOs, with sales of a Facebook page on Feb. 28 calling for a try in Orlando, about 800 people gath- foods to carry a label, but organic food products with a “Non-GMO” verification rally against the company’s practices. “If I ered with signs, pamphlets and speeches companies and some consumer groups label spiking between 15 percent and 30 had gotten 3,000 people to join me, I in front of City Hall. Maryann Wilson of have intensified their push for labels, percent.—AP Heart device delays leave US docs frustrated

NEW YORK: Americans accustomed to imme- the device to treat more patients like this the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in tors said. Farb said the FDA is concerned by diate access to the newest technology may doesn’t seem to be a particularly good idea,” New York, shot back: “You mean because such trends and is seeking ways to move ear- be shocked to find that is not the case when said Dr Martin Leon, director of the Center for Algeria had TAVR before the US?” “Even the ly-stage human trials back to the United it comes to devices that treat ailing hearts. US Interventional Vascular Therapy at Columbia FDA recognizes the problem, but they are States. approval requirements for cardiac devices are University Medical Center in New York. answerable to Congress, not us,” Mintz said. much more stringent than in Europe, where Heart disease remains the world’s No. 1 Europe may seek tighter controls there is no centralized decision-making body. killer. An estimated 500,000 Americans suffer FDA’S bid to streamline In Europe, device makers must prove a But a growing number of US heart doctors from severely diseased heart valves, accord- The FDA requires proof of efficacy as well product’s safety to the satisfaction of one of feel the regulations are so demanding that ing to the American Heart Association. Many as safety through carefully controlled, ran- some 80 designated regulator bodies and patients are being denied access to beneficial could be candidates for valve replacements. domized clinical trials before approving prod- show it functions as intended. Effectiveness is therapies. The approval delays are also costing device ucts, and may ask for long-term follow-up determined through post-approval surveil- CHINA: This picture taken shows Wu Yuanhong, From 2006 to 2011, European regulators makers, such as Edwards and Medtronic Inc, data. “We recognize that some of our regula- lance as it is used in patients. Some European 42, a mentally ill Chinese man, sits in a cage, approved mid-to-high-risk medical devices, hundreds of millions of dollars in potential tory requirements have been viewed as politicians view the system as too lax and which he has been kept for more than a decade including heart devices, an average of four sales while they are being asked to help pay impediments compared to other parts of the have called for a model closer to the US. by his family, at their home in Lijiachong village years ahead of the more conservative US for U.S. healthcare reform through new taxes. world,” said Andrew Farb, medical officer in “I think we need to meet somewhere in in Ruichang Jiangxi province.—AFP Food and Drug Administration, according to a Dismay among heart doctors over delayed the FDA’s division of cardiovascular device between,” said Dr David Holmes, a cardiolo- report last year by Boston Consulting Group. access to new devices gained momentum at evaluation. gist at the Mayo Clinic and a past ACC presi- Family kept The quicker road to market in Europe did not this year’s American College of Cardiology The FDA is working on a new program to dent, of the two regulatory systems. He said lead to a discernible increase in recalls or (ACC) meeting, which featured several US help streamline the path to US approval that Europe may need to tighten its regulations safety problems, according to BCG and the clinical trials of devices long available in would involve the agency much earlier in without necessarily adding years to its Chinese man in California Healthcare Institute, which con- Europe. One top researcher at the meeting device development - possibly discussing process. ducted the study, and Eucomed, the called the United States “a Third World coun- results with researchers after use in the first One suggestion put forward by Eucomed - cage for 11 years European trade group. try” when it comes to availability of cutting- patient, according to Farb. The agency a device industry trade group that represents “There is frustration among the US investi- edge heart devices. expects to publish this year its “early feasibili- thousands of companies - and others would BEIJING: A mentally ill Chinese man has been kept in a gators(researchers) and US care providers Only Edwards’ original Sapien valve has US ty study guidance,” which it hopes will outline significantly cut the number of European reg- cage for more than a decade by his family after he beat a around delayed access to certain interven- approval - which it received in 2011, four a path toward swifter reviews and approvals ulators allowed to approve higher-risk child to death, media reported yesterday carrying images tions that appear to be a winner,” said Dr years after Europe and elsewhere. European of devices in development in the United devices. US doctors are actively looking for of him staring blankly though the bars. Wu Yuanhong, 42, Patrick O’Gara, a cardiologist with Brigham cardiologists have been using a next-genera- States, Farb said. ways to address the issue. “We need a coali- was shown sitting on blankets in the narrow enclosure, his and Women’s Hospital in Boston. An example tion version, which doctors find easier to “When you’re starting a new way of think- tion of involved, thoughtful and balanced feet shackled with a heavy chain and wearing only a T-shirt cited by several doctors is a replacement for maneuver into place and believe may cause ing, getting this really ramped up is a chal- individuals who see things on both sides of and his underwear. He was diagnosed as a schizophrenic at diseased heart valves made by US device less trauma to the artery, for three years. That lenge, but we’re hopeful,” he said. Some com- the equation and look for every opportunity the age of 15 and in 2001 he beat a 13-year-old to death, maker Edwards Lifesciences. The Sapien tran- is why Leon, who is co-lead investigator of US panies, eager for faster returns on their to shorten this time line,” O’Gara said. the Information Daily newspaper said on its website. scatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) sys- clinical trials for both the original Sapien investments, have moved early-stage device Holmes said such a coalition, including Judicial authorities in Jiangxi province released him a year tem is particularly suited for elderly and frail heart valve and the smaller, newer Sapien XT, trials overseas, since they know they are likely researchers, manufacturers and physician later as his illness meant he was not legally responsible for patients, since it can be put in place via a sends some patients to Europe for treatment to be able to begin selling the products there groups like ACC and the Society of Thoracic his actions, it said. catheter threaded through an artery rather if he believes them better suited for the sleek- years earlier. That has added to delays of US Surgeons, is looking to work more closely No independent confirmation of the circumstances was than replacing a valve by cracking open the er XT. Medtronic has a similar heart valve trials and approvals, Farb and others said. with the FDA on the issue. He said the group immediately available to AFP. Wu was placed in shackles chest for heart surgery. replacement awaiting US approval that has Enrolling patients in randomized US trials is compiling a database of all patients getting after his release, but his mother Wang Muxiang, built the “With this disease, if you wait two or three been used in Europe since 2007. Asked at the mandated by the FDA is also being hampered TAVR to enhance understanding of the proce- cage after he escaped and walked around his home village years, 60 or 80 percent of (patients) are dead. ACC meeting if he found the situation frus- by patient fear they would be put in a control dure’s long-term performance and aid the of Shangfan scaring local residents, the report said. Family So not to have the most updated version of trating, Dr Gary Mintz, chief medical officer of group that did not get the new device, doc- FDA in making decisions.—AP members cried as they put him in the cage, the report added, but he escaped again and they were forced to build a stronger structure to hold him. “My son may be insane, and beat someone to death, but he’s still my son. To No new H7N9 cases in use my own hands to place him in a cage was very hard to take, like being stabbed with a knife,” the paper quoted China for second week Wang as saying. Wang gives her son three meals a day, placing a cloth BEIJING: No new human cases of the dead- between humans, with the potential to over the cage and providing a pan when he needs the toi- ly H7N9 bird flu strain were recorded in trigger a pandemic. Flu viruses are often let. “Every time I delivered food, I would sit at his cage and China for the second week in a row, nation- seasonal and much of China is experienc- cry,” she reportedly said, adding: “Now my tears are dried al health authorities said yesterday, sug- ing warmer weather following the end of up.” Many mentally ill people in China go without proper gesting the outbreak has slowed. The total winter. But the world is not ready to deal treatment due to a lack of resources and qualified profes- number of fatalities from the virus stands at with a major pandemic, the deputy head of sionals, especially in the countryside. The Ministry of 37, after one previously infected patient the World Health Organization told a con- Health said in 2010 that there were only about 20,000 psy- died in the week beginning May 20, the ference last week, despite efforts since an chiatrists to serve the country’s population of 1.35 billion, National Health and Family Planning outbreak of another form of avian influen- the state-run China Daily reported. Commission said in a statement. But the za, H1N1, in 2009-10. Authorities estimated in 2009 that about 170 million total number of confirmed cases was “Even though work has been done since people had some form of mental illness, while more than unchanged at 130. Of those, 76 have recov- that time, the world is not ready for a large, 16 million suffered from severe mental health problems. ered and been discharged from hospital, it severe outbreak,” Keiji Fukuda said. China The Information Daily quoted local officials as saying they said, adding that no evidence of human-to- was accused of covering up the outbreak of had supported Wu’s family with donations of oil and rice, human transmission had been detected so Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) adding Jiangxi had launched limited subsidies for poor far. that killed about 800 people around the families with mentally ill relatives. An official at the police One other case was recorded in Taiwan. world a decade ago, but Chan thanked station in Nanyang, which covers Shangfan, told AFP he Experts fear the possibility of the virus authorities for their close collaboration was not aware of the case.—AFP CHINA: A man weighs a chicken in a poultry market in Hong Kong.—AFP mutating into a form easily transmissible with the WHO over H7N9.—AFP TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE ST..ST..ST..STOP STUTTERING

awzia Sultan Rehabilitation this number is predicted to be much normal flow of speech. These speech dis- example, a person who speaks normally the other hand encourage the patient to Institute provides insight on the higher. Studies also indicate that if stut- ruptions may be accompanied by strug- will verbalize words one after the other voluntarily stutter to gain self-control,” Fcauses of stuttering and tips on tering begins after eight years of age, gling behaviors, such as rapid eye blinks without any fillers, “We went to the store”. said Mohammed. preventing this condition through the condition is more likely to last into or tremors of the lips. However, someone who stutters will end Mohammed also encourages family speech therapy A recent study by The adulthood. Stuttering affects people of all ages up using filler words such as “uh” whilst members and friends of the patient to Oakland County Speech-Language- According to Mohammed Al Ameer, and skin colors. It occurs most often in saying out a sentence, “We..uh..went to help reduce the stuttering and anxiety Hearing Association found that four out Senior Speech Therapist at Fawzia Sultan children between the ages of two and the..uh..store,” Mohammed explains. by listening patiently to the patient, of 100 children in America alone stutter Rehabilitation Centre and currently pur- five as they are developing their lan- The diagnosis of stuttering requires showing acceptance and most impor- during childhood, and on a global level, suing his PhD thesis on stuttering, this guage skills. Most children outgrow stut- consultations with a speech-language tantly, avoid finishing the sentences for condition and the statistics are often tering but approximately one percent or pathologist whereby the type, frequen- them. overlooked as it isn’t perceived to be less of adults continue to stutter. cy, and duration of stuttering is evaluat- dangerous or harmful. “However, this According to Mohammed, the root ed. Additionally, an evaluation of Stuttering Services in Kuwait condition causes the person to live with cause of stuttering is still unknown. “The speech-related anxiety will take place as The field of communication disorders fear and embarrassment of themselves most evidence-based answer could be well, in which specific situations that is fairly new in Kuwait, and unfortunately, and the restraint to even attempt to the genetic theory suggesting that stut- might increase the level of anxiety will there are only a handful of speech-lan- speak. This severely affects one’s quality tering is passed on by one or both par- be identified. guage pathologists in Kuwait who offer of life,” he said. ents, which may be activated by environ- proper treatment for stuttering. Due to Mohammed provides us with insight mental factors such as stressful lifestyles.” What treatment is available? the lack of speech-language pathologists as to the causes and symptoms of stut- There is no 100% cure for stuttering at in Kuwait, people tend to visit their local tering and the importance of embarking What are the early symptoms of present, but speech-language patholo- doctors for treatment. However, it is on speech therapy sessions to improve stuttering and how can this be tested? gists tend to use ways to manage and strongly recommended that people who this condition. Mohammed explains that the stutter- reduce stuttering and speech-anxiety. stutter seek treatment from a certified ing can be diagnosed early on when the “Various techniques are used on a case- speech-language pathologist. Currently, What is stuttering and why do peo- person repeats consonants specifically by-case basis. Fawzia Sultan Rehabilitation Institute is ple stutter? for words that begin with the letters - K, For example, the “exposure” technique conducting a series of studies on stutter- Stuttering is a speech fluency disorder G, T. Mohammed also explains that other exposes the patient to an anxiety-pro- ing which is considered to be the first Mohammed Al-Ameer, in which sounds, syllables, or words are symptoms could include pausing or hesi- voking situation until the level of anxiety treatment-based study series in Kuwait, Senior Speech Therapist repeated or prolonged, disrupting the tating when starting sentences. “For is diminished. Behavioral experiments on and possibly the Gulf. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 Mais Alghanim To Go launches SEND US YOUR the Mega Mix Meals promotions INSTAGRAM PICS ais Alghanim To Go announced the new Mega hat’s more fun than clicking a beauti- Mix meals, its latest offers for the summer of ful picture? Sharing it with others! Let M2013. The Mega Mix offers gives customer the option to choose between three varieties that include other people see the way you see W mixed grills and chicken, including flame-grilled Arrayes Kuwait - through your lens. Friday Times will (meat spread sandwiches), and the new addition feature snapshots of Kuwait through Instagram Italiano Kabab which has been an item of top demand feeds. If you want to share your Instagram pho- since its introduction at the Mais Alghanim restaurants. tos, email us at The promotion also contains Baghdadi Kebab, low-fat [email protected] chicken Kabab, shish tawook, and Mais Alghanim’s sig- nature Lebanese appetizers prepared using the finest ingredients such as Hummus, Moutabal, Baba Ganouj, and Batata Harra (spicy potatoes). In addition, the offer includes varieties of fresh salads, Fattoush, Rocca salad Announcements with beetroot, and coleslaw with garlic and lemon. In addition to choices form side dishes of French Fries or Legal awareness camp saffron rice with their orders, which also come with a ichar Bharathi Kuwait in association with the Coca Cola bottle. Indian Lawyers Forum will hold a ‘Legal The Mega Mix meals come in three varieties: The VAwareness Camp’ on May 31 at the United ‘Mega 8’ meal which is served for eight people and is Indian School from 10am to 1230pm. The program ideal for Dewaniyas and gatherings, the ‘Mega 4’ meal will be inaugurated by Adv Labeed Abdal who will which is served for four people and is great for families, also will join our experts panel. The participating and finally the ‘Mega 2’ meal which is served for two lawyers from Indian Lawyers Forum are Adv. Thomas people and is a perfect option to order during lunch customers a unique experience to share great food with ment and safety methods are used at Mais AlghanimTo Panicker, Adv Sumod MK, Adv Mohammed Basheer, breaks. family and friends any time and any place and for Go in order to insure quality of orders which are deliv- Adv Thomas Stephen. The function will be organized An award-winning restaurant, Mais Alghanimgives exceptional prices. Only the top quality packing equip- ered all over Kuwait. in three sessions, as follows. Subject presentation by the Lawyers Panel, on the following topics: Creating expatriate awareness on basic Kuwait Jumeirah Messilah Beach hosts bloggers and journalists Labor/Civil/Criminal Laws. And creating expatriate awareness on basic Indian Civil/Criminal Laws.

Classical music at AUK he Department of Music and Drama is hosting a demonstration/ masterclass with the German Tclassical guitarist Friedemann at the American University of Kuwait (AUK), today28 May 3 pm, Liberal Arts Building, room 205. Wuttke is a gifted performer, having played with major ensembles and orchestras. Besides various concerts in Germany, he has toured in the United States and South East Asia, as well as sev- eral European metropolises. This, his first visit to the Gulf region, has been realized with the support of the German Embassy in Kuwait, in cooperation with the Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah. The AUK performance is free and open to the public.

IMAX umeirah Messilah Beach Hotel and his management team welcomed the great pleasure to engage with our pared dinner was served in an exquisite Spa, Kuwait’s idyllic resort on the bloggers and journalists to the hotel and friends from the media who graciously setting overlooking the beach among JArabian Gulf, hosted its first event for offered detailed insights into the proper- accepted our invitation, to offer them the palm trees, with a gentle sea breeze influential bloggers and journalists from ty and its plans for the future. “In this day our hospitality and to provide them with and the sound of the fountain in the May 21-22, 2013 to introduce the differ- and age, when the flow of information a genuine taste of what our hotel has to background. A raffle draw was held dur- ent venues and facilities of the hotel, moves quickly across so many different offer,” Griffiths added. “Our lines of com- ing the dinner with prizes including a which is in its soft opening phase. The platforms, we recognise the important munication are always open and I look one-night stay at the hotel. IMAX film program tours were followed by a sumptuous din- role played by bloggers and journalists in forward to a strong working relationship ner and a raffle draw. both informing and influencing opinion,” with the country’s writers and reporters.” General Manager Mark Griffiths and Griffiths said. “It has therefore been a Following the tours, a specially pre- Tuesday: ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Tornado Alley 3D10:30am, 6:30pm, 8:30pm IB braced Kuwait Bilingual School embraces ‘iPadcare’ Flight of Butterflies 3D 11:30am, 9:30pm To The Arctic 3D 12:30pm, 7:30pm Born to be Wild 3D 5:30pm

Wednesday: ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups To The Arctic 3D 10:30am Tornado Alley 3D11:30am, 6:30pm, 9:30pm Flight of Butterflies 3D 12:30pm, 7:30pm Journey to Mecca 5:30pm Born to be Wild 3D 8:30pm

Thursday: ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Flight of Butterflies 3D 10:30am, 5:30pm, 8:30pm Born to be Wild 3D 11:30am Tornado Alley 3D 12:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm To The Arctic 3D 6:30pm By Sunil Cherian Friday: bdullah Rashed, a 5th grader surprised his native Fires of Kuwait 2:30pm homeroom teacher one day early this year. After Tornado Alley 3D3:30pm, 5:30pm, 8:30pm Acompleting an art project, Abdullah asked showing To The Arctic 3D 4:30pm, 7:30pm his hand bathed in glue and paint: May I scrape off the glue? The proud teacher happily nodded. A year ago, Flight of Butterflies 3D 6:30pm Abdullah could not have used a phrase like scrape off. At Born to be Wild 3D 9:30pm best he would have settled by using the word ‘clean’. Now Abdullah’s interest in discovering new words and phrases has enriched not only his vocabulary, but his grades. Saturday: The clan of Abdullah is on the rise at Kuwait Bilingual ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups School, Jahra, a governorate known for its traditional val- Flight of Butterflies 3D 10:30am, 1:30pm, 8:30pm ues and lifestyle, 40 km west from Kuwait City. Three years ago the school took a paradigm shift from the scratches. Tornado Alley 3D 11:30am, The newly taken over administration team scraped off the 2:30pm, 5:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm chalk and talk method of teaching and introduced a new To The Arctic 3D 12:30pm, 6:30pm philosophy for its International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (IB PYP), an inquiry based, concept driven educa- Born to be Wild 3D 3:30pm tional program with an international mindedness. Journey to Mecca 4:30pm Many of Jahra’s parents saw a large number of native speaking teachers for the first time. They began to browse through the school website for announcements, news and Notes: program schedules. In classrooms, smart boards replaced All films are in Arabic. For English, headsets are content heavy text books. Upper graders started doing math and science on laptops. available upon request. Holiday Inn Kuwait appoints Now, over 1,000 students in its K through 12 programs, “Fires of Kuwait” is in English. Arabic headsets are the school breathes technology almost every minute. available upon request. Children as young as KG are happy to learn through their new General Manager iPads after the school introduced Bring Your Own Device Film schedule is subject to changes without notice. program early this month. ‘Even recess time is fruitful’, the HG (Inter Continental Hotels years (6 years as General Manager) school’s 110 plus teachers agree. Group) has appointed Carlos and was prior to this current The student community is busy throughout the year. Malliaroudakis as Area General appointment General Manager for With its bilingual educational program the learners are I exposed to topics (units of inquiries) in Arabic and English. Manager for InterContinental InterContinental Kuwait (A posi- The learners do activities as varied as bake sale, inter Write to us Kuwait and Holiday Inn Kuwait tion he is still holding). Carlos, school sports and educational exhibitions. “Making chil- Down Town effective May 1, 2013. speaks English, French, Arabic and dren independent and responsible learners to be the lead- Carlos, a Greek national born in Greek. In 2009 he was elected as ers of tomorrow is what we are striving for”, said Ghassan Beirut, brings with him 25 years of General Manager of the year for Al-Jilani, the school director. Send to What’s On Kuwait Bilingual School is the second school in Kuwait experience in the hospitality IHG in EMEA region. Carlos was to adopt the IB PYP program. For the multicultural teachers’ upcoming events, birthdays or industry in different countries recently involved as well in differ- community the program is challenging but rewarding, as celebrations by email: such as Greece, Lebanon, Jordan, ent projects related to career they collectively say. With attending workshops the school [email protected] Qatar and Kuwait. He has been development, hotels opening, and organizes and being part of the after school clubs, teach- working with IHG in different hotels quality evaluation. ing experience is fully alive. “But our happiest moment is Fax: 24835619 / 20 when children beat the expectations”, said Janice Dennis, brands and roles for more than 13 the primary school principal. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 Safir Hotel & Residences has special summer package Embassy Information

EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters in conducted by The Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: info.aus- [email protected] (VFS) [email protected] (Visa Office); Tel: +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 (Visa Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). In Kuwait applications can be lodged at the Australian Visa Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, Al-Banwan Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem Street, opposite the Central Bank of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait. Working hours and days: 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - Thursday. Or visit their website www.vfs-au-gcc-com for more informa- tion. Kuwait citizens can apply for tourist visas on-line at www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm. n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF CANADA The Embassy of Canada in Kuwait does he Summer and Ramadan Seasons under 6 years can dine-in and stay with not have a visa or immigration depart- are fast approaching and Safir their families for free, and those ment. All processing of visa and immi- THotel & Residences, Kuwait - Fintas between 7 to 12 years of age get 50 per- gration matters including enquiries is conduct- is shaping up early to ensure a blissful cent discount on restaurants. ed by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, back-to-back summer experience and a Making Ramadan an extra special UAE. Individuals who are interested in working, serene Ramadan atmosphere for all its occasion this year, Safir Hotel & studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada valuable patrons. Covering the period Residences Kuwait - Fintas is also offer- should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu from the May 30 to July 8 and from ing a varied selection of cuisine tailored Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.going- August 15-31, 2013, Safir Hotel & to cater to Ramadan tradition. Al- tocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: abdbi-im- Residences, Kuwait - Fintas is offering Roshinah Restaurant is offering an [email protected]. The Embassy of special packages that will guarantee a exclusive venue for Iftar and Ghabka, Canada is located at Villa 24, Al-Mutawakei St, well-spent Summer & Ramadan holiday offering a traditional Kuwaiti Iftar and Block 4 in Da’aiyah. Please visit our website at for the whole family. Ghabkha set menu. Open from sun- www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The Embassy of Canada is Experience a luxurious stay and take down until sunrise for daily Iftar and open from 07:30 to 15:30 Sunday through advantage from our special room pack- Sohour, Flavors Restaurant is an ideal Thursday. The reception is open from 07:30 to ages for a deluxe room. Families can place to start and break the fast, serving 12:30. Consular services for Canadian citizens enjoy home comfort with our spacious 1 Iftar buffet from 6:00 pm until 8:30 pm are provided from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday bedroom apartment or for bigger fami- and Sohour starting 1:30 am. Hilal Al- through Wednesday. lies a 2 bedroom apartment. These rates Fintas Ramadan Tent is your ideal indoor n n n n n n n are inclusive of a complimentary buffet venue set in a traditional Ramadan Tent For a more private venue, relax and from 8 pm until 4 am. Make this breakfast during the summer or a setting with daily live Oud Band and enjoy shisha with light snacks and Summer and Ramadan holiday a memo- EMBASSY OF CYPRUS ‘Sohour” during the Ramadan period at serves Ghabka buffet for KD9 per per- refreshing drinks at the Anchor Beach rable one for the whole family, stay at In its capacity as EU Local Presidency in Flavors Restaurant. In addition, kids son. Shisha is available right after Iftar. Garden’s air-conditioned tents open Safir Hotel & Residences Kuwait - Fintas. the State of Kuwait, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, on behalf of the Member States of the EU and associated States participating in the Schengen cooper- British Council hosts ‘Assessing ation, would like to announce that as from 2nd October 2012 all Schengen States’ Consulates in Kuwait will use the Visa Students’ English’ seminar Information System (VIS). The VIS is a central database for the exchange of data on short- ritish Council’s “English for the British Council Kuwait stated on Saturday stay (up to three months) visas between Future” project Kuwait in partner- during the conference “British Council is Schengen States. The main objectives of the Bship with Australian College of dedicated to the professional develop- VIS are to facilitate visa application proce- Kuwait (ACK) and TESOL Kuwait (Teaching ment of educators by bringing teachers dures and checks at external border as well English to Speakers of Other Languages) together to explore their practices. We as to enhance security. The VIS will contain all have brought together around 100 English believe such events offer opportunities for the Schengen visa applications lodged by an language teaching professionals to attend growth and we hope this seminar was suc- applicant over five years and the decisions a seminar on “Assessing Students’ English” cessful in doing so.” taken by any Schengen State’s consulate. This on Saturday, May 25 at the Australian Dr Abdessattar Mahfoudhi, Head of will allow applicants to establish more easily College in Kuwait. English at the Australian College of Kuwait the lawful use of previous visas and their With the aim of promoting professional stated “on behalf of ACK, we were pleased bona fide status. For the purpose of the VIS, development for English language teach- to co-sponsor this professional develop- applicants will be required to provide their ers, the seminar and workshop explored a ment event for English language educa- biometric data (fingerprints and digital pho- shift of emphasis from knowledge towards tors. Effective assessments and feedback tos) when applying for a Schengen visa. It is a learner outcomes and its implications for give students the opportunity to improve assessment and training. their overall language proficiency.” simple and discreet procedure that only takes Keith Morrow - guest speaker and UK Hosting the “Assessing Students’ a few minutes. Biometric data, along with the based English Language Teaching (ELT) English” seminar falls in line with the data provided in the Schengen visa applica- consultant, author and trainer said: “There Australian College of Kuwait’s objective of tion form, will be recorded in the VIS central is clearly a real interest in assessment not only finding ways to better serve its database. Therefore, as from 2nd October issues amongst Kuwaiti teachers and I was student body, but to also aid in the devel- 2012, first-time applicants will have to appear very pleased to meet them to discuss this.” opment of Kuwait’s teaching community. in person when lodging the application, in Fetwi Yosief, English Project Manager at order to provide their fingerprints. For subse- quent applications within 5 years the finger- prints can be copied from the previous appli- cation file in the VIS. The Cypriot Presidency Taste of Italy with Carluccio’s ongoing would like to assure the people of Kuwait and all its permanent citizens that the Member Pomodoro e Peperoncino promotion States and associated States participating in the Schengen cooperation, have taken all his summer Carluccio’s continues to cel- For a simple yet flavoursome pasta dish cus- necessary technical measures to facilitate the ebrate some of its much loved products tomers can try Orrecchiette combined with rapid examination and the efficient process- Twith the ongoing Pomodoro e Salsa di Pomodoro e Peperoncini which is ing of visa applications and to ensure a quick Peperoncino (tomato & chilli) promotion. The made from a traditional Puglian recipe using and discreet procedure for the implementa- promotion highlights the classic ingredients unskinned tomatoes. tion of the new VIS. of South Italy perfect for a quick flavorsome For a great pasta sauce, or a pizza base cus- summer pasta or pizza. tomers can make used for simple products n n n n n n n Ripened in the intense Southern Italian such as Polpa di Pomodoro - crushed tomato Sun, tomatoes are an iconic Italian ingredient. pulp or paired with the fiery Calabrian chilli as EMBASSY OF ITALY in Salsa Arrabbiata. Both of these sauces are The Board of the Kuwait Italian Business great with pasta and make quick and simple Group (KIBG), will unveil the KIBG website on meals, when topped with freshly grated 28 May 2013. The event starts at 18:00 with Parmigiano Reggiano. registration and socialization and includes a wel- The key ingredient of the promotion is Olio come address at 19:00 by the Ambassador of Italy to al Peperoncino - chilli oil. This spicy oil is made Kuwait followed by the formal presentation of the from Extra Virgin Olive Oil & chillies from KIBG website. The event will end at 20.00. Event Calabria. It is great drizzled over pizza, pasta or Location Italian Embassy Jabriya Block 9 Street 1 even marinades. For an extra hit of heat try Villa 84. Valet service will be provided . No mobiles Pesto di Peperoncino, chilli paste. With this promotion we are giving our cus- nor equivalent devices are allowed in the Embassy. tomers a taste of Southern Italy which pro- n n n n n n n duces a rich and diverse range of products perfect for the summer months. Other prod- EMBASSY GREECE ucts available during this promotion period The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the are Penne Regine (large Puglia pasta tubes to pleasure to announce that visa applica- use for baked pasta dishes), Pomodorata (sun- tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa dried tomato and caper paste), Canelli all Application Centre (VFS office) located at 12th uovo (egg pasta from the marche) and Il floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al- Fiasco (extra virgin olive oil from Puglia) Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collec- Riccardo Restaurant at Sheraton tion from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications please visit the following website welcomes new Italian chef www.mfa.gr/kuwait.

he Sheraton’s Italian restau- around the world bringing with him General Manager of the Sheraton n n n n n n n rant, Riccardo, is pleased to a wealth of global experience from Kuwait. EMBASSY OF SOUTH KOREA Tannounce the appointment of countries such as London, France... Sheraton Kuwait’s Riccardo The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in its new Venetian Chef Cristiano he also worked extensively in the Restaurant was first established in Kuwait will organize 2013 K-POP Contest on Goattin. In his role, Chef Cristiano Gulf region covering Bahrain, Oman, 1979- the first Italian restaurant in Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 6:00 pm. The aim will lead a team of experts to pres- Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and now in Kuwait. Since then, it has enjoyed of the contest is to provide an opportunity to the ent exquisite offerings to the restau- Kuwait. an unrivalled reputation for provid- participants to showcase their exciting talents to the rant and its lovers. “We welcome Chef Cristiano to ing a truly exceptional dining expe- audience. Everyone is encouraged to participate in Chef Cristiano, after middle the family of Sheraton Kuwait, a rience where delectable Italian cui- the contest. Application forms can be downloaded school moved away from Venice to Luxury Collection Hotel, wishing sine, the finest in Kuwait, can be from the Embassy’s website: http://kwt.mofa.go.kr pursue his studies at a semi private him a successful tenure and we are savored in the refined elegance of (Select English from the menu at the top of the hotel school where he chose to join confident that with his specializa- this most stylish and sophisticated page then Bilateral Relations) or visit the “Korean the Kitchen. Since then he spent 24 tion in authentic Italian style dining, restaurant. Culture Diwaniya” Facebook Group. Interested appli- years of his culinary career outside he will create a culinary magic to cants must send their application forms to of Italy, having worked in a number the delight of our guests”, said [email protected] by 24 May 2013. of renowned restaurants and hotels Fahed Abushaar, Area Director and TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013

03:45 Sport Today 18:30 Wakko’s Wish 20:00 International Desk 03:15 Style Star 04:00 BBC World News 19:45 What’s New Scooby Doo 21:00 Quest Means Business 03:40 Extreme Close-Up 04:30 Asia Business Report 20:10 Tiny Toon Adventures 22:00 Amanpour 04:10 THS 04:45 Sport Today 20:35 Puppy In My Pocket 22:30 CNN Newscenter 05:05 THS 00:45 Beast Lands 05:00 BBC World News 21:00 What’s New Scooby-Doo? 23:00 Connect The World With 06:00 THS 01:35 I’m Alive 05:30 Asia Business Report 21:25 Looney Tunes Becky Anderson 07:50 Style Star 02:25 Wildwives Of Savannah Lane 05:45 Sport Today 21:50 Dexter’s Laboratory 08:20 E! News 03:15 Karina: Wild On Safari 06:00 BBC World News 22:15 Tom & Jerry Tales 09:15 Ice Loves Coco 03:40 Karina: Wild On Safari 06:30 Hardtalk 23:05 Pink Panther And Pals 09:45 Ice Loves Coco 04:05 My Cat From Hell 07:00 BBC World News 23:30 Pink Panther And Pals 10:15 THS 04:55 Shamwari: A Wild Life 07:30 World Business Report 23:55 Moomins 00:15 Gold Divers: Under The Ice 12:05 E! News 05:20 Echo And The Elephants Of 07:45 BBC World News 01:10 Alaska: The Last Frontier 13:05 Chasing The Saturdays Amboseli 08:00 BBC World News 02:05 Flying Wild Alaska 13:35 Chasing The Saturdays 05:45 Clinically Wild: Alaska 08:30 World Business Report 03:00 Mythbusters 14:05 Kourtney & Kim Take New 06:10 Clinically Wild: Alaska 08:45 BBC World News 03:55 Border Security - Series 6 York 06:35 Wildlife SOS 09:00 BBC World News 00:30 Grim Adventures Of... Specials 15:00 Style Star 07:00 The Really Wild Show 09:30 World Business Report 01:20 Johnny Test 04:20 Auction Hunters 15:30 E!es 07:25 Trophy Cats 09:45 BBC World News 02:10 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien 04:50 Storage Hunters 16:30 Extreme Close-Up 08:15 Dogs/Cats/Pets 101 10:00 BBC World News 02:35 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien 05:15 How Stuff Works 17:00 Playing With Fire 09:10 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 10:30 World Business Report 03:00 The Amazing World Of 05:40 How Stuff’s Made 18:00 E! News 09:35 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 10:45 BBC World News Gumball 06:05 Sons Of Guns 19:00 THS 10:05 Wildwives Of Savannah Lane 11:00 BBC World News 03:25 Regular Show 07:00 Mythbusters 20:00 Kourtney And Kim Take Miami 11:00 Animal Cops Phoenix 11:30 Hardtalk 03:50 Ben 10: Omniverse 07:50 Robson Green’s Extreme 21:00 Chasing The Saturdays 11:55 Shamwari: A Wild Life 12:00 BBC World News 04:15 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Fishing Challenge 21:30 Fashion Police 12:20 Wildlife SOS 12:30 World Business Report Incorporated 08:45 Gold Rush 22:30 E! 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Mystery 13:40 Flying Wild Alaska 01:20 Unwrapped 17:50 Chris Humfrey’s Wildlife 16:30 Impact With Mishal Husain Incorporated 14:35 Border Security - Series 6 01:45 Reza’s African Kitchen 18:20 Karina: Wild On Safari 17:00 Impact With Mishal Husain 08:10 Evil Con Carne Specials 02:10 Reza’s African Kitchen 18:45 Karina: Wild On Safari 17:30 Hardtalk 08:55 Adventure Time 15:05 Auction Hunters 02:35 Andy Bates American Street 19:15 Escape To Chimp Eden 18:00 Global With John Sopel 09:45 Regular Show 15:30 Auction Kings Feasts 19:40 Bondi Vet 18:30 Global With John Sopel 10:35 Angelo Rules 16:00 Ultimate Survival 03:00 Andy Bates Street Feasts 20:10 Shamwari: A Wild Life 19:00 Global With John Sopel 11:25 Ben 10: Alien Force 16:55 Gold Rush 03:25 Food Wars 20:35 Echo And The Elephants Of 19:30 World Business Report 11:50 Ben 10: Alien Force 17:50 Mythbusters 03:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Amboseli 19:45 Sport Today 12:15 Hero 108 18:45 Sons Of Guns 04:15 Unique Eats 21:05 Wildwives Of Savannah Lane 20:00 BBC World News 12:40 Hero 108 19:40 How Stuff Works 04:40 Chopped 22:00 Gator Boys 20:30 BBC Focus On Africa 13:05 Mucha Lucha ! 20:05 How It’s Made 05:30 Iron Chef America 22:55 World Wild Vet 21:00 World News Today With 13:30 Angelo Rules 20:35 Auction Hunters 06:10 Food Network Challenge 23:50 Animal Cops Houston Zeinab Badawi 14:20 Evil Con Carne 21:00 Storage Hunters 07:00 Guy’s Big Bite 21:30 World News Today With 15:10 The Amazing World Of 21:30 Dual Survival 07:25 Guy’s Big Bite Zeinab Badawi Gumball 22:25 Yukon Men 07:50 Reza, Spice Prince Of India 22:00 World News Today With 15:35 Adventure Time 08:15 Unique Sweets 00:40 Come Dine With Me Zeinab Badawi 16:00 Regular Show 08:40 Kid In A Candy Store 01:30 Masterchef: The Professionals 22:30 World Business Report 16:30 Johnny Test 09:05 Barefoot Contessa 22:45 Sport Today 09:30 Food Network Star 02:15 Gok’s Clothes Roadshow 17:00 Ben 10: Omniverse 00:05 How Tech Works 03:05 To Build Or Not To Build? 23:00 Business Edition With Tanya 17:25 Dreamworks Dragons Riders 10:20 Extra Virgin POWDER BLUE ON OSN CINEMA Beckett 00:30 Sci-Fi Science 10:45 Extra Virgin 03:30 Cash In The Attic Of Berk 01:00 Things That Move 23:30 Hardtalk 17:50 Gormiti New 11:10 Cooking For Real 04:15 Bargain Hunt 01:25 Things That Move 11:00 NBC Early Today 18:15 Young Justice 11:35 Food Crafters 22:55 Gone to save the planet 05:00 House Swap 01:50 Sport Science 11:30 ABC America This Morning 05:45 Gok’s Clothes Roadshow 18:40 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien 12:00 Ultimate Recipe Showdown 23:20 David Rocco‚Äôs Dolce Vita 02:45 Under New York 12:50 Grill It! 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Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (23/05/2013 TO 29/05/2013)

SHARQIA-1 DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 4:15 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 1:00 PM MARINA-1 DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 6:15 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 3:00 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 12:30 PM DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 8:15 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) :00 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 2:30 PM DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 10:15 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) :00 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 4:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 12:15 AM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 9:00 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 7:15 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 11:00 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 9:15 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 1:00 AM PHANTOM (DIG) 12:05 AM AL-KOUT.1 NO SUN+ TUE+WED NO SUN+ TUE+WED IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 1:00 PM DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM SHARQIA-2 MARINA-2 DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 5:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:30 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 7:00 PM DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 3:00 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:00 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 9:45 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 5:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 5:15 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 12:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 7:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 10:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 10:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:45 AM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:30 AM AL-KOUT.2 NO SUN+ TUE+WED NO SUN+ TUE+WED AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 12:30 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 2:30 PM SHARQIA-3 MARINA-3 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 4:30 PM THE CALL (DIG) 12:30 PM DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 6:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 2:30 PM DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:45 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 4:45 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 5:30 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 11:00 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:30 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 7:30 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 1:00 AM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 9:45 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 10:15 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 12:05 AM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 12:15 AM NO SUN+ TUE+WED NO SUN+ TUE+WED AL-KOUT.3 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 2:00 PM MUHALAB-1 AVENUES-1 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 5:00 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 1:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 7:45 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 4:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 3:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 10:15 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 6:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 6:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:45 AM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 8:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 9:00 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 10:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 11:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED BAIRAQ-1 MUHALAB-2 DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 12:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 12:30 PM AVENUES-2 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 2:30 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 2:45 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 1:00 PM DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 5:00 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 4:45 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 3:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 7:00 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:00 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 6:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 9:45 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 9:15 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 9:15 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:30 AM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 12:05 AM NO SUN+ TUE+WED MUHALAB-3 NO SUN+ TUE+WED DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 12:45 PM BAIRAQ-2 FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 2:45 PM AVENUES-3 AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 1:30 PM DINO TIME (DIG-3D) 5:15 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:30 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 3:45 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 7:15 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:45 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 6:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 9:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 6:00 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 8:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:15 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 11:00 PM FANAR-1 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:30 PM AT ANY PRICE (DIG) 1:00 AM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:00 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 12:45 AM NO SUN+ TUE+WED CHANGE OF NAME SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:30 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED THE CALL (DIG) 5:45 PM BAIRAQ-3 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:45 PM 360º- 1 THE CALL (DIG) 1:00 PM I, Moidin Kunhi Badiyar SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 12:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:00 PM Husan, S/o Husan Kunhi SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 12:15 AM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 3:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 5:15 PM Urmene Moidin holder of NO SUN+ TUE+WED FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 6:00 PM THE CALL (DIG) 7:30 PM Indian Passport No. FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 8:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 9:30 PM F4932532 have changed FANAR-2 NO THU SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 11:45 PM my name to Mohammed PHANTOM (DIG) 1:30 PM Special Show “FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG)” NO SUN+ TUE+WED Mohideen for all purposes. IRON MAN 3 (DIG) 3:30 PM 8:45 PM (C 4427) PHANTOM (DIG) 6:00 PM THU PLAZA FOR SALE 26-5-2013 IRON MAN 3 (DIG) 8:00 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 11:30 PM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 5:45 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 10:30 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:15 PM For sale Honda model 2001, IRON MAN 3 (DIG) 12:30 AM FAST & FURIOUS 6 (DIG) 10:45 PM gold color, good condition, ACCOMMODATION NO SUN+ TUE+WED 360º- 2 price KD 750/-. Contact: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 2:00 PM LAILA Fully furnished 2 bedroom, FANAR-3 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 4:45 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG) 5:30 PM 50952218. 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CROSSWORD 203 STAR TRACK

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

This could be a stressful day if you are trying to finish a backlog of things as You may have difficulty in concentrating on your work this morning. well as new business today. Perhaps you could call a temporary for this week Weather permitting, perhaps you can get outside during the noon break—bringing your and get some outside help. Take plenty of breaks and get away from your work during the thoughts into focus. Take advantage of a business opportunity that comes your way this after- noon hour. Begin to care more for yourself and realize that your body needs good nutrition noon. You deserve the success that is set before you now. You may need to take a humble atti- and rest to operate well. You have a natural understanding as to what people want. Your career tude this afternoon as you will be in the limelight with your peers. This evening you can enjoy gets all kinds of support and you are comfortable making practical and management deci- good relations with members of your family and your finances could improve because of a sions. You may enjoy eccentric or unconventional friends this afternoon. You have very original family member’s suggestions, ideas or offering. Budgeting can be rewarding for all family ideas when it comes to community and will create ways to help improve the area in which you members. Working with a friend on a favorite project this evening is successful. You are particu- live. Rest and relax. larly friendly and witty.

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

Academic or educational pursuits and travel may figure prominently in your Paperwork, technical problems and organizing people seem to come career growth now. You may talk seriously with higher-ups about the route you need to take in easily today. You are self-motivated and thrilled to try new endeavors. There is confi- order to advance your career and more education is an important step. A positive attitude ben- dence and success within your reach—you have a good attitude. In a group meeting efits you greatly. Your communication skills are at a high. You will enjoy a debate with friends today, others may find you warm and compassionate. You could act as a catalyst for oth- and may be surprised at the results, which are positive. You have a strong psychic potential ers to express feelings and unresolved complexes. There are social opportunities this today. Your imagination is strong and lends itself to writing or some form of art. However, since evening and you will be at your most elegant. You will have a grasp for abstract and spir- you do not like to waste time, you may find it difficult to start such an endeavor. A good con- itual ideas and the ability to present or communicate these to others. This is a great time versation with loved ones is possible tonight. Let optimism lead you to a successful conclusion to reflect and understand your own situation. Emotions in particular, or the feelings of in a love story. those around you, may be very clear.

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

There is a powerful drive available today—do not rush through projects; You are at your most practical when it comes to dealing and working with you could make mistakes that you would regret later. Use your power wisely others. You can help others learn organizational skills. Work, achievement and and pace yourself. Now is a good time to finish those jobs you have been putting off, whether ambition are the things that mean a lot to you now. You have the ability to inspire and lead oth- it is from fear of failure or lack of confidence. Applying yourself to work and helping your co- ers through your attitude and your actions. This afternoon you will respond to a long overdue ACROSS breath. workers, even in the subtlest manner, should prove successful. You will excel in activities that correspondence before you have to leave town or catch the next flight out of town. You have 1. A nucleic acid consisting of large molecules 77. (British) Informal term for information. involve understanding and self-sacrifice. Your burning zeal for the ideal world and your need to news to convey and then you have gossip to catch up on, perhaps from a sibling’s latest adven- ture. Personal achievement with children will bring big rewards this evening and throughout shaped like a double helix. 78. Largest city in Washington. be a part of a group of like-minded souls is a major factor in your makeup. You learn and grow though your efforts to help others and to make your inner vision a reality. Tell someone you the weekend. This could mean a big camp out with friends or relatives. Perhaps an outdoor 4. Canadian writer noted for his analyses of 79. An American who lives in the North (espe- cooking contest!?! the mass media (1911-1980). cially during the American Civil War). appreciate him or her. 11. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system. DOWN 15. The fatty flesh of eel. 1. Dearly loved. 16. Addressing an audience formally (usually a Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 2. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agricul- CAPRICORN long and rhetorical address and often ture and patron of scribes and schools. After being pulled in many different directions at the beginning of this year, now Administrative ability comes easily this morning and you are able to coordi- pompous). 3. By bad luck. nate people and events. You are able to influence and guide others in matters of 17. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey is the time when things settle down and you can make decisions and move forward 4. A port city in southern Kenya on a coral with your own ideas. This time is rich with opportunities to achieve and be noticed for your special tal- importance. You may ask where your guidance is, since you are so willing to help or guide oth- (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows island in a bay of the Indian Ocean. ents. In dealing with colleagues, diplomacy and tact is the best path to take. You are naturally magnet- ers. Help will come from surprising avenues just when you need it the most. You will be able to generally eastward through Armenia to the 5. A squeaking sound. ic because of your knowledge and your assurance. Your actions are right for you and probably very make smart decisions. You may also glean new techniques from your co-workers as well as Caspian Sea. 6. A long pointed rod used as a weapon. innovative. People just naturally have questions and want to follow in your path. It is good to lend a those you might consider under you. A great person shows his or her greatness by the way he 18. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 7. A resident of Utah. helping hand when you can. A nice restaurant, a concert, a private club with music for dancing is just or she treats others. You might be pleasingly surprised at the suggestions you receive from the from aba cloth. 8. A person regarded as greedy and pig-like. where you can be found this evening—probably with a group. questions you ask. This afternoon you could find yourself intuitive and tuned in to others’ feel- 19. A social unit living together. 9. A city in southern Peru founded in 1540 on ings. Emotions may be very clear. 21. A battle in the Seven Years' War (1757). the site of an ancient Inca city. 23. Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poi- 10. A Mid-Atlantic state. sonous seeds. 11. Formed or conceived by the imagination. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 24. Australian shrubs and small trees with 12. A republic in the Middle East in western You could lose money as quickly as it accumulates this day. Fortunately, evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense Asia. You feel and are lucky today. This could be a good time to plan your invest- you happily work to replace any losses or accrued debts. Working with groups of people clusters of showy flowers. ments and perhaps, include the family in the steps that concern them. This afternoon there are 13. (law) A comprehensive term for any pro- may pull on your patience. It is important to develop a team spirit in order not to alienate 25. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tanger- opportunities to read, enjoy music, spend time in a bookstore or enjoy a child’s company and ceeding in a court of law whereby an individ- fellow workers. Obtaining and exchanging information takes on more meaning. Some of ine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled the out-of-doors. There are decisions to make regarding maintenance and upkeep of your ual seeks a legal remedy. your favorite people encourage you in your goals. A party for someone who used to be a landscaping and a young person in your home will have some excellent ideas—ask. You have a skin. 14. United States tennis player who was the schoolmate or a co-worker is in the making this afternoon. This evening you may choose clear understanding of your position in the world and among the people you care about. You 27. (Greek mythology) A Titan who was forced a quiet time for rest and relaxation. Your creative expression may come as poetry. You may first Black to win United States and English must realize that friends and relatives rely on you as much as you depend on them. A q and a by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders. find yourself working on a bit of poetry for a special event. The public awaits the publish- singles championships (1943-1993). time will open up the communication flow. This evening is favorable for all sorts of fun activi- 30. Horny plate covering and protecting part ing of your poetry! 20. United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts ties. of the dorsal surface of the digits. or 3.785 liters. 32. The persistence of a sound after its source 22. A painful emotion resulting from an has stopped. awareness of inadequacy or guilt. 36. Tropical tree of Central America and West Virgo (August 23-September 22) 26. Russian composer (1804-1857). Pisces (February 19-March 20) Indies and Puerto Rico having spikes of white 28. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs. flowers. 29. Of or relating to the lips of the mouth. You are full of enthusiasm and creative expression. You rise above any You are a hard worker today but it may be very beneficial to remain 38. (computer science) A measure of how behind the scenes and quietly plod along with your work. Do not let any nervousness or 31. (usually followed by `to') Having the nec- problems that may come your way. You tend to have a quick wit today and you can get things densely information is packed on a storage done on sheer willpower. Your creative fervor is expressed through your business and private extreme mental activities deter you from getting things done. There may be a serious essary means or skill or know-how or authori- medium. affairs, giving you an edge over others. Be aware of your need to dominate and look for ways to decision made today regarding the future of a project or investment. You could find that 39. French couturier whose first collection in ty to do something. express your appreciation. Your sensibility may cause you to shy away from someone today for you are valued for your ability to get things accomplished. You will enjoy a little physical 1947 created a style (tight bodice and narrow 33. Stout-bodied insect with large membra- fear of getting hurt. However, used correctly, your sensitive nature is the very thing that helps activity this afternoon with friends or family to get rid of the buildup of stress. You may waist and flowing pleated skirt) that became nous wings. you to be creative and loving. Enjoy the creative brush of nature—observe the way the colors enjoy a social get-together with friends this evening. This could mean dinner, a movie, dancing or some other fun entertainment. Mingling with friends in social surroundings is known as the New Look (1905-1957). 34. A pipe with a long flexible tube connected blend together. There is a chance to understand those around you and to have a special time with a loved one. a boost to your ego. 40. A river in central Europe that arises in to a container where the smoke is cooled by northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows passing through water. northward through Germany to empty into 35. Edible viscera of a butchered animal. the North Sea. 37. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and Word Search Yesterday’s Solution 41. A city in western California on San intense devotion to a cause or idea. Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco. 42. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a 44. Tooth on the rim of gear wheel. skewer usually with vegetables. 45. Being one more than two. 43. Dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid. 47. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects 46. A ductile gray metallic element of the lan- including social and solitary species. thanide series. 48. New Zealand timber tree resembling the 49. An easy victory. cypress. 51. Type genus of the Ranidae. 50. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat 52. A state of being carried away by over- trimmed off. whelming emotion. 53. A port city in southwestern Iran. 58. A Chadic language spoken in northern 54. The arch of bone beneath the eye that Nigeria and closely related to Hausa. forms the prominence of the cheek. 59. Obvious and dull. 55. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. 60. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame. 56. (informal usage) A general feeling of bore- 62. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger dom and dissatisfaction. than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and 57. A period of time spent sleeping. long hind legs. 61. Dry red Italian table wine from the Chianti 63. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in region of Tuscany. western Asia. 65. Regional and archaic. 64. The United Nations agency concerned 69. A river in north central Switzerland that with atomic energy. runs northeast into the Rhine. 66. Avatar of Vishnu. 70. The basic unit of money in Paraguay. 67. Any place of complete bliss and delight 73. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the and peace. Middle East that remains dry except during 68. A couple who both have careers and no rainy season. children. 74. An undergarment worn by women to sup- 71. Decay usually accompanied by an offen- port their breasts. sive odor. 75. Relating to or like or divided into areolae. 72. Angular distance above the horizon (espe- 76. A primeval personification of air and cially of a celestial object). Yesterday’s Solution

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ngelina Jolie’s aunt has died of breast cancer; it was sands of supporters, who took to social media to praise her complex,” she wrote. “I can tell my children they don’t need to reported Sunday, less than two weeks after the Oscar- openness. Jolie and Pitt have six children-three adopted and fear they will lose me to breast cancer.” Cancer campaigners Awinning actress announced that she had undergone a three biological. cheered Jolie but warned women against rushing out to be preventative double mastectomy. The Hollywood entertain- The actress’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian tested for the gene mutation that threatened the actress’s life. ment website E! News cited Jolie’s uncle, Ron Martin, as saying cancer at the age of 56 and passed on the gene, BRCA1, that Not only is the BRCA1 mutation rare in the female population, that his wife, Debbie-the younger sister of Jolie’s late mother- put Jolie at higher risk. Jolie’s doctors estimated she had an 87 they said, but it is also expensive to test for-Jolie paid $3,000 died early on Sunday at Palomar Hospital in Escondido, percent risk of developing breast cancer and a 50 percent risk — at a US laboratory that controversially claims patent rights California. “Angelina has been in touch throughout the week of ovarian cancer, prompting her to take action to cut the on the gene. — AP and her brother Jamie has been with us, giving his support chances that she might die at a young age. The actress said in day by day,” Martin was quoted as saying on E!’s website. the newspaper article that her likelihood of developing breast “They both loved Debbie very much and although Angie is cancer is now just five percent, though she still runs a relative- not able to come right now she has sent her love and support ly high risk of contracting ovarian cancer. Jolie, respected for which was very nice.” Jolie, 37, revealed in an article in the May her humanitarian work overseas with the UN, said she was 14 edition of The New York Times that she chose to undergo speaking out to help other women understand their options, File photo shows actress Angelina surgery to minimize the risk she might develop breast cancer and also to urge governments in lower-income countries to Jolie arrives at the Mathaeser cinema due to the inheritance of a “faulty gene.” The actress’s partner provide the health care women need. in Munich, Southern Germany, to and fellow screen star Brad Pitt led worldwide praise, declar- “I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is attend the German premiere of her ing Jolie heroic, followed by her doctors, other stars and thou- higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more latest movie ‘Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.’—AP

cademy Award-winning actor and director Ben Affleck The Massachusetts native directed, produced and starred President Risa Lavizzo-Mourey; and Miami Dade College has received one of six honorary doctorate degrees in “Argo,” which won this year’s Oscar for Best Picture. Others President Eduardo Padron. The university conferred more than Afrom Brown University. Affleck was among artists, writ- getting honorary doctorates were author and MIT Professor 2,400 degrees Sunday. — AP ers, scientists and educators to receive the degrees from the Junot Diaz; retired Stanford University bacteriologist Stanley Ivy League school at commencement exercises Sunday. He Falkow; Tougaloo College President Beverly Wade Hogan; received a doctor of fine arts degree. medical doctor and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

In this photograph taken on March 22, 2013 Indian Bollywood film directors Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar pose in creations by designer Manish Malhotra on the first day of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Summer/Resort 2013 show in Mumbai. — AFP

ew Bollywood film “Bombay Talkies” is billed as a milestone not only for marking 100 years of Indian cinema-it is also one of the country’s N Ben Affleck reacts as he receives an honorary degree. few mainstream movies ever to have shown a gay kiss. Ben Affleck speaks after receiving an honorary degree at Brown Universityís 245th The centenary film, which had a special screening at commencement in Providence, RI. — AP photos Cannes, comprises four self-contained short stories by leading directors looking at the impact of Indian cine- ma on people’s lives. The short film from director Karan Johar features a kiss between a young man and his best friend’s husband as part of an exploration of sexual identity and marital discord. While such scenes in the past may have elicited cat- calls in India’s populist single-screen theatres, this time the kiss has been winning applause from audiences, according to gay rights advocate Nitin Karani. “That’s a positive reaction, which may indicate that society is rmanno Marzorati has rarely been so busy. “There are no text windows in blue popping more ready than film producers when it comes to gay He is currently fixing a 1930 Underwood up, you can’t play music on it,” he said. “I shut off rrfan is no stranger to Hollywood. The producers to find new markets, to find stories,” he said. Etypewriter for Tom Hanks. But there are my iPhone, I take my typewriter and sit and I Indian actor, who uses only his first new languages of cinema, to find an And with one of the characters in the kiss played by plenty more ancient writing machines awaiting don’t worry about the typos, I keep moving for- name, has played roles in acclaimed Indian universal language of cinema. his tender care. While the modern world taps ward, and I go dah dah dah dah ding!” He com- I ‘sex symbol’ actor Randeep Hooda, the film “shatters films such as “Life of Pi”, “Slumdog stereotypes faster”, Karani believes. In another of the away in an ever-increasing frenzy online, the pares the experience of using a typewriter to rid- Millionaire” and “A Mighty Heart”. His new Q: At Cannes was Indian cinema short stories, director Zoya Akhtar shows a young boy Italian senses a new trend, from his calm Beverly ing a bicycle. “It’s an alternative to the most effi- film “The Lunchbox”, an Indian-French- being taken more seriously? exploring his feminine side by emulating and dressing Hills studio: the return of the art of slow writing. cient way of doing something, it’s about enjoy- German co-production, won the Grand A: We still need to come up with up as Katrina Kaif, his Bollywood heroine. “Bombay Marzorati has restored typewriters belonging to ing the ride, and nobody gets angry about the Rail d’Or at Critics’ Week at the 66th strong films to really make our mark. Talkies was an important film for Karan and Zoya as it Ian Fleming, Tennessee Williams, Jack London, notion of a bicycle. But people are like ‘typewrit- Cannes film festival and the North Although people know about India, we was projected as a movie celebrating 100 years of cin- Ray Bradbury, Ernest Hemingway and Orson ers are impractical.’ American movie rights were acquired by still need to make films one after the oth- ema,” said Karani. “So for them to take up issues of sex- Welles, as well as celebrities like Julie Andrews, “Well, so is a bicycle and people are still mak- Sony Pictures Classics. er to be talked about as a filmmaking uality and gender was commendable.” Greta Garbo and John Lennon. ing bicycles and it’s not an issue,” he said. Director Ritesh Batra’s debut feature country. We make films for our audience, The tales in “Bombay Talkies” have sparked debate He proudly shows photos of some of his best Lockett, a cameraman and documentary-maker, film is about a wrongly delivered lunch- we are not making films for international over such issues in Bollywood, where homosexuality work, including an orange-colored Underwood made a film on the subject last year called “The box that connects a young Hindu house- audience. has long been kept in the closet-or portrayed in machine dating from 1926, on which Orson Typewriter in the 21st Century,” which is current- wife to a Catholic man played by Irrfan. stereotypical roles. “Mainstream Hindi cinema has por- Welles wrote “Citizen Kane.” It was totally ly showing on the independent movie circuit in Irrfan, 46, told Reuters about his latest Q: What is the general view of trayed gay characters as feminine, over the top, destroyed when he got it. “To me the typewriter Los Angeles. “I thought: if the typewriter is going film and how he sees Indian cinema Indian filmmakers? obsessed with sex, and to be laughed at,” said director is better than the computer, not because I’m old away, and is in part responsible for every great changing to become more international: A: Indian cinema has to come of age. Onir, who only uses his first name. “When they are not fashioned, but because it slows you down. You novel from the 20th century, they deserve a They are still waiting. There are elements stereotyped like this, they are shown as boyfriend have to choose the words carefully because you proper send-off,” he told AFP. When he set about Q: Tell us about “The Lunchbox”. in Indian commercial cinema which are stealers or home-breakers,” he said, pointing out than cannot correct,” he told AFP. “It takes a long time making the film he was surprised to find that, A: It’s a sweet love story, it’s a feel- excellent, which are original, but we need even “Bombay Talkies” shows “the gay boy hitting on to press the key.” Collector Steve Soboroff says not only are typewriters not disappearing, but good film, it makes you feel nice but the to find a story telling language which is his best friend’s husband”. —AFP typewriters, unlike computer keyboards, have an there is a surge of demand for old machines to narrative is very simple. The strength of relatable to anybody, everybody. That’s intimate relationship with their owners. be repaired and brought back to life.—AFP the film is that it says so much without the language “The Lunchbox” could “I just love the idea of authors, famous peo- talking. It is the things which the charac- strike. ple, would spend hours of their lives on these ters are not saying that are the most pow- typewriters, so they are very personal. And erful in the film. That’s the uniqueness of Q: Are we only making films for our there’s only one of them, is not like there are the film. own audiences? hundreds of them. “There’s only one for each,” A: We have a diverse generation of added the biggest customer of Marzorati, whose Q: “The Lunchbox” is directed by a filmmakers coming up and they should studio is full of old printing machines, typewrit- first timer director, Ritesh Batra. What diversify our filmmaking. If we go on mak- ers and mechanical calculators. Occasionally were your expectations and why did ing similar kinds of films they will have a Hanks tweets photos of the vintage typewriters you agree to be part of it? limited appeal. We need to experiment, that Marzorati restored in his own collection. A: The story, the writing, it was spe- we need to come out with a different lan- Marzorati has a shelf dedicated to his most cial. The story was unique. I saw he hadn’t guage, we need to come out with differ- famous client, and he currently holds 12 made full-length features but he had ent cinema. machines belonging to the “Forrest Gump” star. made some short films and that gave me In all, the talkative Italian has some 60 a clue. He is one of the directors who cap- Q: India is celebrating 100 years of machines waiting to be fixed-an enormous ture actors, their performances, and that cinema this year. How do you see numbers compared to a few years ago. “I’m is a great combination. I had full faith in things changing in the next 100? booked up for six months,” said the 68-year-old, him. There was an international team A: I can’t see 100 years ahead but I who started repairing typewriters in 2003. around him. The editing happened in can definitely tell you that in five years “Collectors are the exception. Most of the people America then there was the music which I the industry is going to change. You will I fix typewriters for are people who are going to think happened in France. I knew the pro- have great cinema coming up. The pat- use it,” said Marzorati, who was born in Italy in ducers involved in the film ... were experi- tern of cinema is such that every 10-15 1945 and moved to Los Angeles in 1969. “I feel enced producers and they know how to years it changes because of the genera- people, honestly, are getting fed up because all arrange a team. tion of filmmakers, the generation of the these iPhones, all these electronics, they like to audience. I believe cinema will evolve get back to the basics,” he said. Q: Since most big studios are averse very drastically and very quickly. ‘Writing on an computer is very distracting, to making films like “The Lunchbox”, — Reuters you get stuck’ do you think that collaboration with But the obvious question is, why would Ermanno Marzorati, owner of Star Office international studios is the way for- someone in the 21st century want to type on a Machines is working on an old typewriter ward? heavy and difficult-to-use mechanical device, in his shop in Los Angeles. — AFP A: It is. I think it’s a new thing which without the possibility of cutting, pasting, eras- will erupt in the Indian market and I have ing or copying? Marzorati said the advantages of been telling this to producers for many computers are over-rated. “Writing on a comput- years - collaborate with other countries, er is very distracting, because you get email collaborate with producers from other coming in, you type a word, you delete it, you countries and we will have our interna- change it, you get stuck,” he said. His view is tional product. Somehow this has started Indian Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda poses for a echoed by Christopher Lockett, who regularly photo during the special screening of the upcoming happening and this will keep going on takes his 1950 Hermes Baby typewriter with him and this will help our directors and our film ‘Bombay Talkies’ in Mumbai. to write in the open air in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, next to the hipster Los Feliz district. lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013

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A passing boat and Stockholm’s Old Town are seen reflected in the window of a ferry during a water tour of the A scene from a hill in the Sodermalm neighborhood of Stockholm, Sweden, overlooking the water, across from city in Stockholm. Old Town. From ship to prison: Unique hostels in Sweden

By David Joles Fresh off the walking tour and back at the ship hostel, my legs ached. A bottle of Swedish pear cider and French fries In Sweden, unique hostels spring from old quarters: with ketchup from the restaurant atop the boat were the per- fect remedy. The people-watching from our restaurant perch • Gustav AF Klint also took my mind off my sore legs. Swedes scurried to nearby My wife and I booked a two-bed cabin on the Gustav Af cruise ships bound for Finland and Estonia, luggage on rollers Klint, a beat-up, decommissioned steamship-turned-hostel, in tow. because it was a bargain at around $60 a night and in a great Back in our berth, the view of the water and Old Town out location, near Stockholm’s Old Town and the metro. Turns out, our portal window felt almost cinematic. it was a memorable, pleasant base for our time in Stockholm, On our last night there, as a storm approached, a tall ship too. Our room was spartan at best, with a porthole for a win- sailed slowly past our window, with city lights blinking in the dow and two bunks, but what the lodging lacked in amenities, distance and the sky turning from gray to black as rain began it more than made up for in location and ambience. to fall. We never left our spot on the bunk, watching the lights The hostel was very near Skansen, the open-air Swedish of Stockholm’s cityscape change outside that little round win- folk museum and park where we celebrated Midsummer dow. Even the muffled thud of dance music from a nearby floating disco club couldn’t keep us from sleep, as waves rolling off the passing ship gently rocked the boat. More info: The Gustav Af Klint floats on the water at Stadsgardens Kajplatser 153, just steps from the Slussen metro stop (www.gustafafklint.se; click the “in English” button at the upper right).

• Visby Prison Hostel A Royal Guard stands sentinel outside the Royal Palace. A three-hour ferry ride took us from Nynashamn, near Stockholm, to Visby, on the Island of Gotland. As we approached the port, we could see the watchtowers of the Visby Prison Hostel, where we would spend the night. The place did not look like a typical, welcoming hotel. The 150-year-old squat stone and concrete fortress was ringed with razor ribbon, though the prison closed decades ago. Inside, the building had its own eeriness. Heavy metal hinges and door locks remind visitors that their hostel room was once a prison cell. The names of the last inmates who dwelled in the cell and the crimes that sent them to the prison are printed in Swedish on many of the doors. The rooms are clean, if austere. The original solid wood doors help drown out any bustle of tourists in the hallway, though during our visit in late June, the hordes had yet to descend on Visby, a popular summer retreat for Swedes. Large, stylish common areas were a reprieve from the sim- ple rooms. On our floor, a red velvet couch and a pair of wicker chairs draped in red cloth set the tone. The Swedish sun streamed in through tall windows. English- and Swedish-lan- guage fashion and gossip magazines sat on a table. The breakfast salon featured high ceilings, deep red walls and views of the Visby harbor. A traditional Swedish breakfast, including caviar, orange marmalade, hard-boiled eggs and liver pate, is included in the A person in a strange costume walks up the cobblestone street near the Royal Palace. hostel fee, where a two-bed cell can be had for about $65 to $100, depending on the season-but not the linen for the prison bunks, which were an extra couple dollars. A pub and cafe tent called Las & Bom sits just outside the prison, affording tourists a chance to sip beer or coffee with a close-up prison view. A footpath cuts through a field of tall grass beyond the prison, following the prison wall. Some of The port of Visby can be along with throngs of others (www.skansen.se; click the the walls are now partly covered in graffiti and shaded by seen to the left of the “English” button at the upper right). nearby hardwood trees. ringwall of the old city Also nearby is the once gritty Sodermalm neighborhood. A More info: Visby Prison Hostel is near the ferry dock in wall of Visby, perhaps five-minute walk from the hostel landed me on its cobble- Visby, on the Island of Gotland (Skeppsbron 1, Visby; www.vis- the best-preserved stone streets, where hipsters and bohemians hung out in byfangelse.se; click the British flag at the right). — MCT Medieval city in open-air restaurants and cafes, many quaffing Swedish brew Scandinavia. and taking in the magnificence of the Swedish summer in late June. The neighborhood is also home to a tour based on Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s wildly popular Millennium tril- ogy, the first of which is “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” The Stieg Larsson Millennium Tour, offered in nine languages, begins at the Stockholm City Museum and winds up and down the hills of Sodermalm, where the book’s main charac- ters, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, lived and worked (www.stadsmuseum.stockholm.se).

A street musician works the scene outside the Slussen subway station in Stockholm, Sweden. — MCT photos

Following a wrong turn onto a gravel road into a A tall ship is visible from the portal window of the Gustaf Af bird sanctuary during nesting season, an angry Klint boat hostel, anchored in the waters of central arctic tern attempts to dive bomb unsuspecting Stockholm. tourists through the open sunroof of a beater 1980s model Audi rental car.

Part of Old Town Stockholm and a tall ship is visible near the Gustaf Af Klint boat hostel, anchored in the waters of central Stockholm. lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013 Features

French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche poses with his Palme díOr award flanked by French actresses Lea Seydoux (left) and Adele Exarchopoulos during a photocall at the 66th Cannes film festival in Cannes.— AFP/AP photos

The members of the Feature Film Jury (from left) US director and President of the Feature Film Jury Steven Spielberg, Australian actress Nicole Kidman, French actor Daniel Auteuil, Indian actress Vidya Balan, Taiwanese director Ang Lee, Japanese director Naomi Kawase, Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu and British director Lynne Ramsay attend on May 26, 2013 the closing ceremony of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes.—AFP

ook at these people, this wildlife.” As the par- tying journalist of Paolo Sorrentino’s “The “LGreat Beauty,” Toni Servillo was surveying Rome’s colorful nightlife, but he might as well have been contemplating the Cannes Film Festival. The 66th edition of the Cote d’Azur extravaganza drew to a close Sunday, awarding the sensual, heartbreaking lesbian romance “Blue is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele” the festival’s top honor, the Palme d’Or. The Cannes Film Festivale is a 12-day circus of per- petual red-carpet flashbulbs, beachside soirees and, yes, a feast of some of the finest, wildest movies the world has to offer. The most exotic creatures weren’t the high- heeled ones parading the Croisette, they were the ones gracing Cannes’ pristine movie screens. This year, the festival was a particularly captivating coterie of rare birds. There was Tilda Swinton as a white-haired, cen- turies-old vampire (Jim Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers Left Alive”); Joaquin Phoenix as a 1920s pimp, sticking out his jaw like Marlon Brando (James Gray’s “The Immigrant”); a sequin-covered Michael Douglas as Liberace (Steven Soderbergh’s “Behind the Candelabra”); a battered and bloodied, but still cool Ryan Gosling (Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Only God Forgives”); and the disabled but acrobatic dancer US director Alexander Payne poses with the Prix d’zInterpretation Masculine (Best Actor) he received on behalf of Souleymane Deme (Mahamat-Saleh Harouns “Grigris”). US actor Bruce Dern. There was literal wildlife, too, including a cat named Hercules (the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis”), a vanishing giraffe (“The Great Beauty”) and an unfortu- nate pooch caught up in Mexico’s brutal drug war (Amat Escalante’s “Heli”). Cannes, alas, is a dog eat dog world. A strong, deep slate of films in competition left some mystery before Steven Spielberg’s jury named Argentinian-born French actress Berenice Bejo poses “The Life of Adele” tops of the festival. The three-hour on stage with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi after coming-of-age tale, by Tunisian-born director Abdellatif being awarded with the Prix d’Interpretation Feminine Kechiche, emerged as a landmark film not for its (Best Actress). lengthy, graphic sex scenes, but for its tender intimacy. It won the Palme on the same day thousands marched in Paris protesting France’s recent legalization of gay marriage. The global stage of Cannes immediately catapults Kechiche to greater international renown, inducting him into the prestigious group of Palme d’Or winners, from Francis Ford Coppola to Terrence Malick. But this year’s festival boasted many breakout stars, including the two daring actresses of “Life of Adele,” Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux, who, in a twist, also shared in the Palme d’Or. As a bitter, sarcastic 1960s folk singer in “Llewyn Davis,” newcomer Oscar Isaac also shined in Cannes’ spotlight. Familiar faces turned in some of their best work including Berenice Bejo, as a single mother juggling a new man and an old one in Asghar Farhadi’s shifting domestic drama “The Past”; Kristin Stewart Thomas, as Lady Macbeth meets Donatella Versace in the stylish Bangkok noir “Only God Forgives”; and Bruce Dern, as a gruff, aging father in Alexander Payne’s black-and-white Midwest road trip “Nebraska.” British director and member of the Feature Film Jury US actress Uma Thurman arrives on stage. Lynne Ramsay arrives on stage.

Indian actress and member of the Feature Film Jury Mexican director Amat Escalante poses on stage with US actor Korean director Moon Byung-gon poses during a photocall with the Special Mention winners Italian Vidya Balan arrives on stage. Forest Whitaker after being awarded with the Best Director award director Adriano Valerio and Iceland’s director Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson after he was for the film ‘Heli’. awarded with the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film for ‘Safe’. lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2013

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Chinese director Jia Zhangke speaks on stage after being awarded with the US actor Oscar Isaac speaks on stage on behalf of US directors Joel and Singaporean director Anthony Chen poses with French director and Best Screenplay award for the film’A Touch of SIn’. Ethan Coen after they were awarded with the Grand Prix for the film ‘Inside President of the Camera d’Or Jury Agnes Varda and Chinese actress and Llewyn Davis’. member of the Un Certain Regard Jury Zhang Ziyi after winning the Camera d’Or for Best First Film. Screenings at Cannes begin with the festival intro of festival. “Inside Llewyn Davis,” “Nebraska” and perhaps the red steps ascending from the sea up to the heavens, but Ellis Island melodrama “The Immigrant” will likely be play- for the first half of Cannes, it felt as though the festival ers in this fall’s Oscar season. Soderbergh’s “Behind the was stuck underwater. Constant rains dampened the Candelabra” marks the director’s final film, at least for a French Riviera atmosphere in the early days, and the time, as he’s withdrawing from filmmaking. Soderbergh, films - though full of intriguing entries - didn’t quite whose film was broadcast on HBO, is planning to work catch until the Coens premiered their melancholy story more in television - an arena many directors discussed in of a frustrated artist passed over by history. Reality also Cannes, claiming its quality and cultural relevance now threatened to overshadow the movies. On the same equals or even surpasses movies. While that may be true night as the premiere of Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling in many parts of the world, it isn’t in Cannes. At the annu- Ring,” a film about Los Angeles teenagers who rob the al glamour fest, the big screen - and all its varied vitality - houses of celebrities, news broke that $1 million worth still reigns supreme. — AP of jewelry had been stolen in a Cannes hotel. Never mind that its value turned out to be significantly less: The world had already conjured cinematic images of Cary Grant nimbly tiptoeing on Riviera rooftops. Hollywood’s noisiest intruder was “Catching Fire,” the “Hunger Games” sequel that used Cannes’ platform to stir up worldwide fervor for the next installment of the Jennifer Lawrence blockbuster. American films - includ- Korean director Moon Byung-gon celebrates on stage Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda poses on stage ing those by the Coens, Payne, Jarmusch, Soderbergh after winning the Palme d’Or for Short Film for the film after being awarded with the Prix du Jury (Jury’s Prize) ‘Safe’. for the film ‘Like Father, Like Son’. and Gray - were among some of the best entries at the

Winners and hosts stand on stage after French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche won the Palme d’Or for the film ‘Blue is the Warmest Colour’ during the closing ceremony of the 66thCannes film festival in Cannes.

French actress Laetitia Spanish actress Rossy de Australian actress and member of the Feature Film Italian actress Asia Argento arrives on stage. Casta arrives on stage. Palma arrives on stage. Jury Nicole Kidman arrives on stage.

French actress and mistress of cere- monies at the Cannes Film Festival Audrey Tautou speaks on stage.

US actress Kim Novak speaks on stage to announce the Grand Prix during the closing ceremony. Angelina Jolie’s aunt dies of breast cancer

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Paige Mycoskie, designer and founder of Venice- based Aviator Nation cloth- ing line, is photographed inside her flagship store.

An inside view of the flagship store of Venice-based Aviator Nation clothing line, on Abbott Kinney in Venice.

alking into the Aviator Nation store on Abbot Mycoskie one of its best new menswear designers in there. “The brand personifies everything wonderful about Kinney in Venice, Calif, is like stumbling into a frat America for 2013, an honor that includes the opportunity to California beach life.” Whouse with a feminine touch. Steely Dan, Doors collaborate with Gap on a capsule collection that will be She stopped when she had three stores, and then got and Grateful Dead album covers and vintage skate decks sold in Gap locations worldwide. “I always urge young down to sewing, dyeing and washing the shirts. “I did it all nailed to the walls, a record player spinning Aerosmith’s designers to pull every penny together and open a store as from scratch,” she says. The first deliveries landed in stores in “Sweet Emotion,” a “720 Degrees” arcade game in the corner, soon as they can,” he says. “That’s what she did, and it February 2007, and sold out in weeks. One thing led to stacks and stacks of foam trucker hats, T-shirts and hoodies became her laboratory.” another, and now she has 120 retail accounts, most of them spreading good vibes like “Pray for Surf” and “California Is A native of Arlington, Texas, Paige Mycoskie grew up the small boutiques except for Bloomingdale’s, and her own fac- For Lovers”. ... It’s such a sensory experience, you half expect middle child between two brothers. Her older brother Blake tory south of downtown L.A. producing four collections a your shoes to be sticking to the floor from last night’s keg- Mycoskie founded Toms Shoes on the model that for every year. ger. pair of shoes sold, a pair is donated to someone in need, and “Over the course of all this, I saw it as an opportunity to Aviator Nation is the vision of Paige Mycoskie, who is her younger brother Tyler Mycoskie works in sales at Toms. have fun, make clothes and employ people in the USA,” she turning a passion for 1970s nostalgia into the next California She was always into sports, waterskiing and playing on says. Because the clothes are produced locally, they are not lifestyle brand. “This is my little oasis of awesomeness,” says the volleyball team, but also happened to have an artistic inexpensive; prices range from $35.99 for a hat to $139.99 the designer, 33, the picture of surfer girl blondness dressed streak and a penchant for rainbows-rainbow window blinds for a hoodie. on a recent afternoon in her signature uniform of checker- and switch plates in her bedroom, rainbow birthday cakes, She opened the first Aviator Nation store in Venice in Paige Mycoskie, designer and founder of Venice-based board Vans, cut-off jean shorts, aviator sunglasses and an Rainbow Brite dolls, rainbows on every drawing that ended 2009, in a building that used to be an art gallery and before Aviator Nation clothing line, is photographed inside her Aviator Nation tank top. “I hope people leave in a better up on the family’s refrigerator. “All of the artwork I did as a that an auto body shop. Out back are her office and design flagship store on Abbott Kinney in Venice, California. mood than when they came in.” child was basically the same stuff I’m doing now, but not as perfect,” she says. Going into business for herself wasn’t out of left field. She showed entrepreneurial skill at a young age, figuring out that the best place to set up her lemonade and cookies stand for the summer was on the edge of the golf course where her grandparents and their friends played every day. She took home as much as $500 a day-as a 6-year-old. She first came to LA for a summer internship at Shape magazine and returned in 2002 when she was cast, along with her brother Blake, in the second season of the CBS reali- ty show “The Amazing Race.” They came in third place on the show, ultimately missing the $1 million prize. Afterward, she moved to LA permanently, settling in Venice, and working as a freelance writer and a saleswoman at the Santa Monica surf shop ZJ Boarding House. She got the idea to make T- shirts after noticing the vintage ones that were a mainstay of her tomboy chic wardrobe were becoming more expen- sive and harder to find. “My idea of dressing up still to this day is wearing a rare rock tee with jeans and cool shoes and a leather jacket,” says Mycoskie, who has been collecting vintage T-shirts since age 14. She only buys originals, numbers her collection in the hundreds and includes among her favorites a Jimi Hendrix “Just Ask the Axis” tee from 1970 and Live Aid festival shirt from 1985. Lots of color, like the clothing, and vintage surf and skate lifestyle items, like an old pinball game, fill the flagship storef o “It dawned on me I should start making shirts like the Venice-based Aviator Nation clothing line. vintage ones I liked,” she says. “I have always been a ‘figure it out’ type of person, so I bought a how-to book on sewing, a In just seven years, she’s gone from sewing up T-shirts in how-to DVD on screen printing, and used $150 my grand- Paige Mycoskie is photographed on the back patio of her her bedroom to designing a full brand of men’s, women’s mother had given me for my birthday to buy a sewing flagship store. and children’s clothing and accessories that generated $5 machine.” Because she couldn’t find a multiple color screen million in sales last year, plus two freestanding Aviator press that was affordable, she sewed colorful strips of fabric studio, as well as an outdoor space with a stage for music Nation boutiques and a mobile Aviator Nation store housed onto the shirts to create rainbows and stripes that way. performances, a pingpong table and plenty of room to hang in an Airstream trailer that will be cruising Orange County, Those first pieces must have had a homespun charm, out. Calif, all summer. because whenever she wore them, she got attention. “One “Her talent lies in creating a retail experience as much as While most T-shirt companies use computer-generated day, when I was out and got asked about my shirt three in design,” says her brother Blake, who opened the first Toms graphics and artwork, Mycoskie hand draws the lightning times, I thought, ‘OK, I could sell these,’” she says. store last year, just down the street from Aviator Nation on bolts, rainbow stripes, big wave surfers and psychedelic So she quit her job, moved back to Texas to live rent-free Abbot Kinney. “We talk about business a lot because we’re maidens that decorate many of her designs, then scans with her parents, and set to work on a sample line. “I sewed both in love with our companies,” Paige says of her brother. them into the computer. The slight imperfections lend an all day and night,” she says. “I would turn on music and the “It’s the topic of conversation 90 percent of the time when authenticity to the line, which also includes snowbunny- time would just fly. It wasn’t work, I was enjoying making we are together. But we have different ways of doing things. style pom-pom hats, reversible cord puffer vests, fleece clothes and being creative.” I’m real slow and steady, and very particular about keeping sweatpants, and dolphin shorts made from dead-stock The name of her company, Aviator Nation, is inspired by it authentic, not rushing into everything and not selling to Hawaiian shirt fabric, all in vivid bright colors and all of her love of aviator sunglasses. “When you put on a pair of everyone who knocks on my door,” she says. “Blake’s in a dif- which bring to mind OP, CB Sports and other lovable surf aviator sunglasses, you immediately look cool,” she says. ferent business. He wants to sell as many shoes as possible and snow labels of yore. The gift-with-purchase Aviator “Aviators are also something that will never go out of style, to give away as many shoes as possible.” Nation drink koozie is the perfect loungin’-by-the-water, like a T-shirt. And I wanted my brand to be about bringing They have both built their companies without partners good-ole-girl touch. people together. And that was what was happening. I was or outside investors. And next spring, they will collaborate “Everything I design or put in the line is something I per- wearing the clothes, and cool people were coming up to for the first time on an Aviator Nation for Toms line of shoes. sonally want,” she says of the collection, much of which me, and asking me about them.” It’s just one in a series of product extensions in the works. looks like it could have been swiped from a cool older broth- After she had 40 pieces, she headed back to LA She took “Some day, I would love to have a full line of Aviator Nation er’s closet. “I don’t look at trend reports or runway shows. I’m her shirts to Fred Segal in Santa Monica, Calif., showed them lifestyle products including luggage, wetsuits and not in that world.” to a salesperson, and before she had even left the parking swimwear,” Mycoskie says. “But I’m taking this one season at “She’s an original, a true bohemian who understands lot, the buyer was calling with a $3,500 order. The next day, a time.”— MCT men’s (clothing) as well as women’s, knows how to have Planet Blue in Santa Monica placed an order. “From the something for each and how to blur the lines a little,” says moment I saw Aviator Nation, I was struck by her use of col- Paige Mycoskie is photographed against a mural based on Jim Moore, creative director of GQ magazine, which named or and fabrics,” says Patrick Thompson, the men’s buyer her original drawing. — MCT photos