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www.kuwaittimes.net NO: 16609- Friday, August 14, 2015 Another terrorist cell busted

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Another terrorist cell busted ‘Massive weapons, explosives cache uncovered’

By Hanan Al-Saadoun firearms and live ammunition were found in his house. The explosives, PE4, 65 various fire arms, RPGs, 204 hand grenades third suspect (HT) was arrested with three bags containing in addition to electric detonators. The suspects remain in cus- KUWAIT: Three members of an alleged terrorist cell were firearms and ammunition and various types of explosives. tody. arrested yesterday and a massive cache of weaponry and All three men confessed to joining a terrorist group and to This is the third terror cell uncovered in Kuwait in the wake explosives hidden at a farm in Abdaly was uncovered, the owning the weapons and explosives and led police to where of the June 26 suicide bombing of the Imam Al-Saddiq Interior Ministry announced in a statement to the press. they were hidden. Security authorities are continuing their mosque in Kuwait City by a Saudi national. A total of 29 peo- The cache of weapons, hidden inside a hole in the ground investigations to arrest other suspects still at large. ple were arrested in connection with that attack, authorities that had been fortified with concrete, included 56 rocket pro- Explosives teams worked on removing the RPG launchers are seeking the death penalty for 11 of them. pelled grenade launchers, dozens of guns and kilos of explo- from the Al-Abdaly farm, as well as the firearms, ammunition Then on July 31, Kuwaiti authorities announced the discov- sive material. and highly explosive material found in the house. The state- ery of another group of four men, all Kuwaiti citizens, also The 47 year old Kuwaiti owner of the farm, suspect HA, was ment said the weapons and explosives found are as follows: allegedly connected to Islamic State militants in Iraq plotting arrested along with a second suspect, citizen AH. Three 19,000 kilos of various ammunition, 144 kilos of various TNT attacks in the emirate. The four remain in custody.

Local Spotlight Should expats pay income tax?

ends meet? This is really a worthwhile question. attractive point for expats. On the other hand, as a Kuwaiti, By Muna Al-Fuzai Kuwait ranks second in the world after the UAE over if I buy property in the US for example, I will be obliged to migrant workers’ remittances abroad in relation to GDP. pay all taxes. This is the country’s right. Expats in Kuwait sent $12 billion in the past year to their In order to have a fair income tax regime for expats, we home countries. A study reported that expatriates in the must have a comprehensive tax system to support govern- [email protected] Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) remitted $100 billion to ment spending on public services and improving infrastruc- their home countries in 2014, which is twice the amount ture projects, as is the case in all countries of the world. Tax transferred in 2010. This is indeed a lot of money! proposals must come with a wide-ranging change of resi- hat if a tax is imposed on the money remitted by Some are demanding the imposition of income tax on dence regulations, citizenship and investment laws. For expatriates? I know this is scary for many expats expatriates, and although there have been no official voices example, if an expat buys property, he/she should be eligi- Where, but this issue has seen heated debates in a to support any suggestions to make income tax a reality in ble for free residency or citizenship in five or ten years. Then number of Gulf states, some of which seem logical and oth- the Gulf states so far, this is an issue worth talking about. we will find many expats gladly saving their money here to ers weak. The demands do not specify how the country will Expatriates, who are the majority in most Gulf countries buy a house for themselves and their families. Also, benefit from the collected monies. The most important including Kuwait, reject such a proposal regardless of its investors would welcome this opportunity to invest in an question is who are the targeted categories? Not all expats reasons or legitimacy. appropriate environment. are alike. Are they targeting big contactors, traders, doctors, Taxes are the right of the state, which is undeniable, but This issue is like a double-edged sword that needs to be engineers and judges, or simple laborers that barely make identifying the categories to be taxed is important. I under- steered properly towards the right category of people, oth- stand expats view Gulf states as tax-free areas, which is an erwise it’s going to hurt limited-income expats. Friday 14 August 2015

KUWAIT: The young divers returning home. Pearl divers return home ‘Festival closes to congratulations and applause’

By Faten Omar

KUWAIT: Dozens of young men who spent a week at sea as part of Kuwait’s annual pearl diving festival returned to their families yes- terday. The pearl divers arrived in 12 ships, during a celebration known as, Yom Al-Qaffal, or the day of closing - which marks the end of the four-month long traditional pre-oil discovery pearl diving season in Kuwait. Families of the divers welcomed their sons, in a sign of national and local pride. Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah, Minister of Information and State Minister for Youth congratulated the youth on their achievements as chief guest of the event closing the 27th Annual Pearl Diving festival at the Kuwait Sea Sports Club (KSSC) in Salmiya. Sheikh Salman also thanked the Sea Sports Club officials’ efforts in representing and reenacting an important Kuwaiti tradi- tion that commemorates the graciousness and sacrifices of the fore- fathers of Kuwait. The KSSC has held the annual pearl diving trip for the last 27 years and this traditional activity is performed by young sailors from Kuwait and other Gulf countries including Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Under the leadership of experienced sea captains, the young sailors embark on a weeklong sea voyage where they anchor off Khairan island and dive for pearls. The long running festival is a tribute to Kuwait’s economic and cultural her- itage and aims to preserve the art and occupation of pearl diving A diver greeting his mother on the shore. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and to teach younger generations about the life of their forefathers. The slogan of this year’s festival titled ‘These are my children’ goes in line with the phrase used by HH the Amir when he rushed to the scene of the suicide bombing at the Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq Mosque on June 26. When HH the Amir insisted to go inside the mosque even though the mosque was still on fire, he refused his security’s pleas and said ‘these are my children’, which means that the people of Kuwait, all of us are his sons.

Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah sits with One of the proud families poses for a photo. other delegates while awaiting the arrival of the divers.

The pearl diving ships return. A few of the pearls excavated from the journey. Local Friday 14 August 2015

‘Underground tattoo artist on form and self expression’

By Ben Garcia Fifteen minutes to hours to days attooing may be illegal in Kuwait but it has grown in According to Randy, simple art can be done in just 15 to popularity in recent years and there are many tattoo 20 minutes. However, he noted, “I have some customers Tartists operating underground. There are numerous who want their body to be covered with art. Of course I customers from all walks of life - Kuwaitis and expats alike. need hours, if not days, to finish the art on their body.” And requests for tattoos run the gamut of beautiful Arabic Randy disclosed that he also considers the pain it might script, shapes and faces, arm bands, tattoos in memory of a bring to one’s body: “There are some customers who have a lost loved one and more. high tolerance to pain; for them, it’s not painful at all. But Kuwait Times spoke to one tattoo artist about his experi- for some who have low pain tolerance, the needle piercing ences in Kuwait. Due to the illegality of his trade, the man is everything,” he explained. did not reveal his real name. We will call him Randy. From a South Asian nation, Randy has been here for years and is Blue, black and red well known within the circle of tattoo artists and ink afi- The color depends on the customer’s request although cionados in Kuwait. the colors blue, black and red are the most popular. “The colors I am using are ordered from the United States. They Form of art and self-expression are specially designed to be used for tattooing and they are Tattoos were once the domain of sailors, pirates and permanent. I have a supplier here and they are not expen- found mostly in traditional cultures. Recently, they have sive. You can actually order the permanent color from the become mainstream and many young creatives, designers, internet also or you can bring them from your own country writers, artists, celebrities, and ordinary folks now sport ‘ink’. using ‘cargo.’ The colors are not illegal to order so they can For Randy, tattooing is a form of art and self-expression. be ordered from anywhere,” he said. “I think people like to express themselves through the use Randy is not a street-smart tattoo artist, he actually stud- of their own body. For me, it’s an option open to everyone, ied fine arts in his home country and shared that he likes although I know there are countries that prohibit it, like drawing buildings and almost anything under the sun. “My Kuwait,” he said. profession back in my country is really into art. Thank God Randy countered that instead of vandalizing or express- my hand is gifted by God,” he said. ing emotions on the streets, tattooing is better. “In express- Randy started working as a tattoo artist back in 2002. “I ing one’s self using one’s own body, you are not hurting was a new graduate then. At that time, I remember, in my anyone anyway,” he said. hometown, no one was into the business of tattoos yet, so I started it. I borrowed some money from the bank and start- Everything but religious images ed the business,” he said. So what are the tattoo arts available and acceptable to Randy later disclosed, “But you know, sometimes, you Randy as tattoo artist? “Everything except religious images,” are also looking for new environment. When I was invited he said. here in Kuwait, I grabbed the opportunity,” he acknowl- “To be safe, I try not to inscribe any religious images, I edged. can probably do that back in my home country. But as Randy knew his capabilities and talents. He entered much as possible, I want to be safe and not to be mocked Kuwait through his father who provided him a commercial by anyone. I don’t want to get in trouble,” he explained. visa through a private company. Interestingly, he started as “I can do whatever art they want or need. I have here a band vocalist of a music band. “But parties and a singing some pictures which I show to my customers; they can also career here are not as lucrative as compared to my coun- select pictures they like; and what I do, I trace the image try,” he said. So Randy told his father that he is interested in using tracing paper (stencil paper) then eventually transfer doing other things and his father supported him. Randy the art to the body part where they want the art to be per- then bought a tattoo machine from a friend. “Since 2009 manently placed,” he said. I’ve been doing the tattoo artist’s job and I have been feed- Randy has tattooed in areas of the body you would nev- ing my family through this,” he admitted. er have imagined. Primarily, Randy’s customers know the place where to put the tattoo. “Usually they know where to Booming business with reservations place the tattoo. If they ask me for any recommendation I Randy asserts earning from KD 400 to about KD 1,000 a tell them,” he said. month through his tattoo business. Nowadays, he has no other job apart from this. “The business is really good and Safety first booming. But I am giving myself two more years and proba- For health reasons, Randy very strictly observes the prac- bly I will be settling back in my home country. I have one tice of throwing needles after ‘one-time’ use. “I am not only child and he’s growing. I have some money saved in my very particular with the needles; but my customers want to bank so I have the money to start a business back home,” see what I have been using, so I only open the needles he explained. when I’m in front of my customer; you know to avoid infec- Randy confessed to one thing however. “Honestly, I feel tion, and the transfer of disease,” he said. Further, Randy the constant anxiety operating in Kuwait because I know said he uses gloves and stressed getting a tattoo is not too this business is illegal. What if one day, a disgruntled cus- painful and even bloodless when performed by an expert. tomer will just complain against me?” he asked. Friday 14 August 2015

Tattoos were once the domain of sailors, pirates and found mostly in traditional cultures. Recently, they have become mainstream and many young creatives, designers, writers, artists, celebrities, and ordinary folks now sport ‘ink’.

Randy performs his tattoo business in the comfort of to do that here. I think a special laser machine can his home, although there are times he would accept remove that but I cannot afford to buy one. It can be home services especially if the tattooing order is quite removed in a specialized hospital though.” big in sizes or numbers. He would charge customers Randy then gives this advice to those interested in depending on the art or how big the tattoo would be. He having tattoos:”Once you decide to have your body charges KD 10 for the smallest tattoo, to as high as KD inked, make sure you want it permanently and if you 300 for huge sizes of body art. want it removed, don’t ask me to do so. I can only do a remodeling tattoo, but not totally remove them from American, European, Arab and Asian customers your body.” His customers vary from Americans, Europeans, Arabs Why is tattoo art illegal in Kuwait? Here’s the interpre- and Asians. “I have many Kuwaiti customers too, but I tation from an Islamic preacher who requested anonymi- only accept if they are referred to me by someone I know. ty: “Destroying God’s creation is illegal and anyone who I only accept if they call me and if I will be able to trace does so should not be patronized. The very reason why back from where they got my number and if I knew that tattoo is illegal is because the Holy Quran said so, no one they are somehow related to my old customer. There are among us humans is allowed to alter or desecrate God’s groups of people who would come and bring five, six or design and that includes your body. Plastic surgery is in 10 customers at the same time. I will accommodate them fact ‘illegal’ but I am sad that we can find them else- from morning till evening,” he said. where, endorsed and patronized by many Arab celebri- Asked if there was a time a customer requested his tat- ties.” too to be removed, Randy said, “There’s a request for that but I don’t do such. It’s a hard job; I don’t have a machine

Local FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 Denied a future

KUWAIT: Syrian children without valid residency in Kuwait attend a makeshift school in the evening hours in Hawally because they cannot be legally registered in a local private school. All teachers are volunteers. — Photos by Joseph Shagra ‘Illegal Syrian resident children attend ‘free’ school’

By Faten Omar mental health of the children is documents, so the schools did those with expired iqamas, students who left their getting worse. “My older son has not accept them,” he explained. identification papers in Syria and have no papers yria’s civil war is one of the worst ongoing started going to work with his “This is why we started our to prove their identity, and students with financial humanitarian disasters, and is showing no father, who is a building contrac- school - to make these students issues. “For those in the last category, Al-Najat is Ssigns of abating anytime soon. Innocent tor,” the mother said. She is afraid get their right of education. Many planning to sponsor them and help them attend Syrian civilians are suffering everywhere, and not all her children face a bleak thanks to Al-Najat School that regular school,” he said. only in Syria. Syrian children in Kuwait fled the war future. Her two young girls were provides us with this building to hoping for a better life here, but little did they playing around, climbing on the teach Syrian students who have Labor of Love know that doors would be slammed shut in their couch and having fun with big been away from books for years. Dughaim said the school is making sure that faces. Children’s rights include education, but for smiles on their faces. “You see The Al-Najat Charitable Society the students get an education according to their Syrian children here, this is merely a dream. those smiles. I’m afraid they will adopted the idea of the school age, so when they become legal residents, they Schools in Kuwait only enroll children with valid lose it after a while, like what and facilitated us to legally work can pass tests to determine their education level. residencies, which means many Syrian children happened with my elder son. to provide education to Syrian The ministry will then decide in which grade to without papers are excluded from the system. How can I explain to them that children. Al-Najat will also pro- enroll them. “This is so that the students do not For more than three years, Mohammad has we tried everything to achieve a Dr. Mohammad Al-Dughaim vide free books to the children lose any years. Most of my students have perfect been pleading with schools in Kuwait to accept better life for them? Their father is in the new school year,” he intelligence according to their age, but some stu- his children. “I told them that I have an iqama, and making a good salary and helps his orphaned added. dents have learning difficulties, so we hold special I can pay the fees in full, but to no avail,” he said. brothers and sisters. He also tries very hard to put The school started in April this year by accept- classes for them to help them get back to their He has five children aged 5, 6, 11, 12, and 14. a smile on his children’s faces. But we are doing ing students from primary to 12th grade. Teach actual grade level,” he said. Mohammad, who has been in Kuwait since 1996, this with broken hearts, knowing that our kids will me a Letter School applies all the rules of a real All the teachers of the Syrian school are volun- is afraid to send his wife and children back home. have no decent future,” she cried. school, including rewards and punishments. It has teers, and next year Al-Najat will award and honor They came to Kuwait on a family visit visa in 2012. 550 male students and 500 female students and is teachers who dedicate their time and efforts to Since then, the five children do not attend school Makeshift School still accepting more. The school does not give the help the students. The Syrian school runs in the as all schools have refused to accept them. Dr Mohammad Al-Dughaim, the director and students any certificate because it is only func- evenings from 4pm to 8pm four days a week, and “My elder son had a dream to become an engi- the founder of the “Teach me a Letter” Syrian tioning as a means to keep students attached to is planning to add one more day. Students study neer, but now he is 14 years old and cannot even school for boys, told Kuwait Times about the their books and education. Dughaim is working subjects such as Arabic, English, math, sciences read or write. He does not want to study anymore school and its activities. “Because of the situation hard to communicate with the ministries of edu- and religion. The school is also planning to hold and his dream has faded. It hurts to see your child in Syria, some Syrians had to bring their families to cation and interior to look at the Syrian students’ more classes and activities. grow up to be just another worker,” Mohammad Kuwait on visit visas, but they overstayed and nev- files with a humanitarian perspective. “We try our best to study the circumstances of a lamented. He said a new school opened four er went back because of the war. Some have According to Dughaim, the school has four student and make sure that the student deserves months ago for such Syrian kids, but it will not expired iqamas, and some came to Kuwait with no categories of students - those on family visit visas, to be here and is not attending any other school give students any degree - just keep the students and wants “free classes” to do better. The school is updated with other regular students in similar only for needy children who cannot attend any grades. Mohammad was in tears while speaking other school in Kuwait. I wish people stop taking to Kuwait Times, explaining how happy and sad advantage of our efforts because we only have he was last week when his 11-year-old daughter limited seats,” he said. “The only challenges that entered the room with a smile to tell him she got we still face is that we need more teachers for perfect marks in school. “She told me about her many subjects. They are hard to find because you dream of becoming a doctor or a pharmacist and need someone who is committed and has time to work with her uncle,” he said. teach these students four days a week.” Mohammad’s wife, who did not want to be The school provides textbooks for free to the named, told Kuwait Times that she was born and students, and is planning to adopt a formal uni- raised in Kuwait, but because she was in Syria for a form to make the students feel that they are in a long time, she lost her iqama. She said her son is real school to boost them psychologically. “This is an intelligent boy and she hates to see him losing why we have a psychologist to listen to students’ hope. “Three years were spent with no school, problems, and we always ask parents to let us until the Syrian school opened. But we know that know about the situations at home to follow up it is not a real school, and our kids will not have a with the students,” said Dughaim. “Parents have decent degree or go to college after finishing their thanked us for making their kids feel better, more education,” she rued. active and happier to learn how to read and get With a small apartment and big family, the back to school after years at home.” Local8 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

NEW DELHI: Delegates pose for a photo during the farewell party for Kuwait’s Ambassador to India Sami Mohammad Al Suleiman. — KUNA India gives grand farewell party to Kuwaiti ambassador Suleiman grew relations between the countries NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Ministry for his relentless efforts to deepen India-Kuwait beloved country Kuwait for the past six years economic and trade relations as the bilateral appreciated the decisive role Kuwait’s bilateral relations. which saw the bilateral ties grow and deepen. trade increased from USD 12 billion in 2009 to Ambassador to India Sami Mohammad Al Wadhwa pointed out to the strong ties The Ambassador added that the historical, USD 17.250 billion in the current year. India has Suleiman played to strengthen bilateral rela- between the two countries and the contribu- long and multi-dimensional relations between become the second largest importer of Kuwaiti tions between the two countries. In his honor, tion of the ambassador in realizing the high lev- the two countries have turned it into a strategic oil products while Kuwait is considered fourth the Indian External Affairs Ministry organized a el state visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- partnership. Al Suleiman appreciated the largest crude supplier to India. There is constant farewell program in New Delhi with the partici- Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah in 2013 and a achievements during the last few years includ- cooperation between the two friendly coun- pation of officials from the Indian government number of high level bilateral agreements ing the high-level state visit of Prime Minister in tries through the hydrocarbon cooperation and the ambassadors from the Gulf and the signed between the two sides. 2013 and a number of other visits that followed committee. Arab League countries. On his part, Al Suleiman expressed his heart- reciprocated by a number of visits by Indian The Ambassador also appreciated the role Speaking on the occasion, Secretary (east) in felt gratitude for organizing the grand farewell officials. He also pointed out to a number of played by Indian expatriates working in Kuwait. the Ministry of External Affairs Anil Wadhwa party and thanked the high level participants agreements signed between the two sides to He concluded by expressing his heart felt grati- expressed gratitude on behalf of the Indian from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and deepen bilateral ties. tude for the care, acceptance and the reception government and the Ministry of External Affairs. the Arab Ambassadors. Ambassador Al The Ambassador further said that India has that Indians have always shown both at the He appreciated Ambassador Sami Al Suleiman Suleiman expressed his pleasure in serving his occupied the position of strategic partner in the individual and official levels. — KUNA Financial statements by firms liven up trading

KUWAIT: Trading at Kuwait Stock week’s as well. As companies tumble Exchange throughout the week exhib- out their midyear financial standings, a ited a tangible robustness as a cascade noticeable feature this week has been of firms started pouring out their the tendency among investors to buy midyear financial statements, said two selective blue chip stocks, he said. stock market watchers yesterday, the Virtually dormant stocks with rock- last day of trading for this week. bottom prices got a second wind this What really dominated the market week as many traders deemed them a momentum this week was speculative good buy for now, said market watch- trading and profit-taking in addition to er Mohammad Al-Tarrah, head of a KUWAIT: KRCS’s Chairman Dr Hilal Al-Sayer during the meeting with Australian a limited but lively buying of some trading group, in similar remarks to Ambassador to Kuwait Warren Hauck. — KUNA blue chip stocks, namely those from KUNA. He however bemoaned the the banking, services, and real estate continuing reduction of liquidity in the sectors, said the two market pundits. market, which started from the begin- Australian ambassador A large number of companies suc- ning of the third quarter. Trading ceeded in mitigating their previous today ended on a mixed board as the praises KRCS charities losses especially those whose shares weighted index lost 2.27 points reach- were valued below 100 Fils, said mar- ing 418.07 points, the price index KUWAIT: Australian Ambassador to Kuwait also noted that he had learned of the society’s ket watcher and director of Mena con- gained 15.52 points reaching 6,301.12 Warren Hauck has praised the humanitarian humanitarian programs currently executed in sulting co Adnan Al-Dulaimi. He said points and the KSX 15 lost 10.82 points efforts of Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Indonesia and the the rush among traders to buy cheap- reaching 1,002.21. The number of all over the world. Hauck in a press statement Philippines, as well as aiding Syrian refugees ly-priced stocks had been the feature trades was 3,934 with a value of KD expressed his appreciation for the society’s in Jordan and Lebanon. Hauck added he dis- of last week’s trading activity and 15,605,501.292 and a volume of role in aiding those affected by natural disas- cussed with Dr Al-Sayer means of developing apparently it spilled over into this 201,441,787 shares. — KUNA ters, after his meeting with KRCS’s Chairman humanitarian cooperation between Australia Dr Hilal Al-Sayer yesterday. The Ambassador and Kuwait. — KUNA Local9 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

Baseball bats used to smuggle, heroin

By Hanan Al-Saadoun he uses these bats to bring in the drugs with combustible liquids. The firefighters sur- and arrested him after fiercely resisting a partner. The partner was also arrested at rounded the flame to keep it from spreading arrest. On further inspection, he was found KUWAIT: Deputy Premier, Interior Minister the airport hours before his departure. Both and was quickly put out without any to be carrying illegal drugs on his body. He Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al- were sent to concerned authorities. injuries. was sent to the concerned authorities. Sabah supervised the inspection of the evi- dence of the most recent smuggling Massive fire at plant Bedoon convict apprehended Asian in horrific accident attempt of a large quantity of heroin. A massive fire broke out in a Mina A Security source said that detectives per- An Asian was severely injured in a horrific Information was received about an expat Abdallah plant creating large clouds of formed an ambush on a bedoon wanted for accident yesterday when a mini bus collided who brings in drugs through courier compa- smoke. Hazardous Materials Centers from armed robberies. On realization, he attempt- with a dump truck on King Fahad road. The nies, then following the legal procedure, the the Mina Abdallah, Um Al-Haiman, Mubarak ed to escape and try running over the detec- man was trapped in his vehicle so KFSD res- suspect’s house was raided and 32 baseball Al-Abdallah areas responded to the emer- tives. He also caused a few minor accidents cue men had to use special equipment to bats filled with heroin were found. He con- gency. The fire originated in three separate by driving on the wrong side of the road. free him, then carefully handed him to para- fessed that this is the second shipment and containers filled with insulating foam and Detectives were finally able to surround him medics who rushed him to the hospital. Crime Report

Bedoon arrested for passport forgery

KUWAIT: A security source said Residency Affairs Detectives sent two Kuwaiti employees to the Public Prosecution for forgery and placing a residency sticker on a forged Iraqi passport. The passport itself is wanted by Interpol. The source said detectives discovered that the residency was placed on an Iraqi passport whose holder is previously a bedoon.

Woman steals expensive perfumes Hawally detectives are looking for a lady who escaped with highly expensive perfumes without paying for them. The perfumes are estimated to cost around 900 KD. They said the lady committed the crimes using a car with stolen plate. KUALA LUMPUR: The Head of the Kuwaiti cultural bureau in Australia Dr Fahad Al-Ajmi during his visit to discuss issues facing Kuwaiti students. — KUNA

Cross-dressers caught Jahra hospital police sent two men wearing a niqab Officials discuss student (veil) and abaya near the maternity gate to Naeem police station for questioning. A security source said the pair might be charged for cross-dressing, which is carries affairs in New Zealand the punishment of a three-year jail sentence. During interrogation, they claimed they were only pulling a KUALA LUMPUR: Head of the Kuwaiti le their affairs. He also stressed on role of subjects regarding the Kuwaiti stu- prank on a friend. Investigations are still ongoing. cultural bureau in Australia Dr Fahad of the cultural office on providing the dents’ affairs in New Zealand such as Al-Ajmi visited New Zealand to discuss students with all support and assis- their annual financial allowance, issues facing Kuwaiti students at uni- tance. health insurance and ways to improve Abdaly farm raided for weapons versities and institutions in the coun- Moreover, Al-Ajmi added that his scholarship plans for Kuwaiti students Security sources said weapons collection detectives try. Al-Ajmi pointed out, in a phone visit to New Zealand included a meet- and help them make their academic, raided a farm in Abdaly following information that there call to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), ing with Kuwaiti students in several cultural, and social experience in New were weapons there. Detectives found a large quantity that he met the Kuwaiti Ambassador universities such as Massey University Zealand successful. The total number of arms, and arrested five citizens who were at the farm to New Zealand Ahmad Al-Razooqi, in Palmerston North, University of of the Kuwaiti students in New at the time of the raid. discussing ways of overcoming diffi- Waikato in Hamilton and University of Zealand universities exceeds 122, culties facing the Kuwaiti students, Auckland in Auckland. while the total students in Australia is and how to meet their needs and tack- The meetings addressed a number 1,200. — KUNA FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 Anger, debate; Prosecutors Former US 10 years drops sexual president after Israel assault probe Jimmy Carter quit Gaza against Assange reveals he 11 15 has16 cancer

NAJAF: Iraqi men unload a coffin outside a mosque in the holy city of Najaf yesterday during the funeral of Shiite victims of this morning’s truck bombing in Baghdad’s northern suburb of Sadr City. — AFP Truck bombing at Baghdad market kills 76 Islamic State claims responsibility, vows more

BAGHDAD: A massive truck bomb ripped plex with water long after the explosion. parked, explosives-laden truck. The claim says across northern Iraq last year, the IS vowed to through a popular Baghdad food market in a “On Thursdays the market is especially the Islamic State seeks to have the “rejection- continue on to Baghdad. But a mobilization of predominantly Shiite neighborhood yester- crowded because people come from the oth- ists (Shiites) experience the same harm as volunteer Shiite fighters deterred any signifi- day morning, killing at least 76 people, police er provinces to stock up on food for the week- their bombardments cause to our Muslim cant attacks on the capital. The IS also claimed officials said. The Islamic State group claimed end,” one of the officers said. He said the people.” responsibility for a suicide car bombing on responsibility for the blast, saying it targeted a truck that set off the explosion was a refriger- The Sunni militant group, which roughly Monday in a busy marketplace in Baquba, the gathering place of Shiites and vowed more ation truck, so it was impossible to distinguish holds a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria in capital of eastern Diyala province, which attacks. The truck detonated in the Jameela it from other trucks delivering produce to the their self declared “caliphate,” views Shiite killed 34 people. The militant group also tar- market in the Iraqi capital’s crowded Sadr City market. A minibus driver, Hassan Hamid, said Muslims, as well as other religious minorities, geted a popular market in Diyala last month, neighborhood shortly after dawn, according he driving not far from the area when the as apostates. It often targets military check- killing more than 115 people in one of the to two local police officers. They also said that force of the explosion threw his vehicle about points or predominantly Shiite neighbor- worst-single attacks to tear through the at least 152 people were wounded in the 10 meters away and onto the sidewalk. “This hoods such as Sadr City, with the goal of country in a decade. The Iraqi military attack. is the strongest explosion I’ve ever seen in my sending a message to the Shiite-dominated launched a large-scale operation last month The market is the main center for produce life,” said the 37-year old father of three, government in Baghdad. Commercial and to retake the western province of Anbar from and food sales in the Iraqi capital. Residents of speaking from his hospital bed where he was public areas are also among the militants’ the Islamic State. A US-led coalition has been the Shiite community rushed to help the vic- being treated for shrapnel injuries. favorite targets as they seek to undermine the reinforcing Iraqi troops in their efforts to claw tims, carrying corpses in garbage bags and “I saw some cars were thrown into the sky people’s confidence in government efforts to back territory from the militants for the past blankets, and sent the wounded to local hos- and a fire erupted all over the place.” Four maintain security. While near-daily attacks are year. While security forces successfully man- pitals in ambulances or personal cars. The hospital officials confirmed the casualty fig- common in the capital, death tolls have rarely aged to recapture Saddam Hussein’s home- blast incinerated much of the market, leaving ures. All officials spoke on condition of reached this level for a single attack in town of Tikrit in April, operations elsewhere charred wooden market stalls and scattering anonymity because they were not authorized Baghdad since the height of the country’s in the country have stalled as government- fruits and vegetables far around it. Fire trucks to speak to the media. In a message posted brutal sectarian bloodletting in 2006 and backed forces struggle to dislodge the mili- and ambulances were at the scene and fire on an IS-affiliated Twitter account, the Islamic 2007. tant group from the country’s biggest Sunni men were dousing the still-smoldering com- State said the attack was carried out by a When they launched their major onslaught strongholds. — Agencies International11 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

‘Tel Aviv beach’ attracts police, protests in Paris

PARIS: A Paris beach event celebrating Tel began arriving around midday to set up their Aviv attracted a handful of visitors but a huge rival “Gaza Beach”. Waving Palestinian flags, number of journalists, riot police and security chanting slogans and handing out flyers, the guards on Thursday, as well as a much larger activists were keen to present the issue as “Gaza Beach” protest. Bemused locals who more than just a media storm in a teacup. headed down to “Tel Aviv Sur Seine” had to “The mayor of Paris wants to make Tel Aviv a manoeuvre through bag checks, security pat- town like all the others, when in fact it’s the downs and metal detectors to reach the capital of a colonialist state that bombards small stretch of sand on the banks of the civilian populations,” said Serge Bonal, of Seine. Paris converts a long stretch of its EuroPalestine, one of around a dozen organi- riverbank into a makeshift beach known as zations taking part in the demonstration. “Paris Plages” every summer, and has this year named certain days after resorts around ‘A bit less festive’ the world. Opposition to Israeli politics runs deep Thursday’s event consisted of little more among left-wing parties in France, who than a few people playing bat and ball in sparked the controversy earlier this week, front of a picture of Tel Aviv, but it has been saying “Tel Aviv Sur Seine” amounted to a PR enough to excite a major media brouhaha exercise for the Israeli state. City authorities after objections from anti-Israel protesters. resisted pressure to scrap the event and “There are 50 visitors for 500 journalists. I feel Prime Minister Manuel Valls voiced his “full like I’m on the red carpet at Cannes,” said one PARIS: People take part in the pro-Palestinian ‘Gaza Plages’ (Gaza Beach) support” for the initiative. “We wanted a fes- onlooker. The Tel Aviv section of the beach, tive atmosphere with fun, free shows, con- not far from Notre Dame cathedral, was only protest, near the ‘Tel-Aviv sur Seine’ beach attraction during the 14th certs, food trucks and the like,” deputy mayor around 200 meters long and guarded by a edition of Paris Plages (Paris Beaches) in central Paris yesterday. — AFP of Paris, Bruno Julliard, told French radio. “In phalanx of riot police on either end. “Coming fact, there will be a significant police pres- today is an act of solidarity with the Jewish on a beach chair, adding that she was “a little On the other side of the police cordon, a ence, so it will maybe be a bit less festive than people,” said Cecilia, an Italian stretched out afraid that this degenerates”. large number of pro-Palestinian protesters we expected.”— AFP

Turkey PM, opposition Anger, debate; 10 years chief hold crunch coalition talks after Israel quit Gaza ANKARA: Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu yesterday met the main opposition leader for decisive talks that will likely determine if the country forges a coalition government or heads to snap polls. Synagogue now stocks fertilizers Turkey has been without a full time government since the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its overall majority in GAZA: A synagogue now stocks fertiliz- by invoking the safety of settlers under landslide victory in a 2006 general elec- June 7 legislative elections for the first time since taking power in ers and a kindergarten has become constant and frequently deadly tion and later seized power in Gaza from 2002. The political impasse comes as Ankara wages one of its offices: 10 years after Israel left Gaza, lit- Palestinian attack and the drain on the rival Fatah faction of Palestinian biggest security operations in years-a cross-border offensive tle remains of its former Jewish settle- resources caused by the heavy army president Mahmud Abbas in a week of against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, and an offensive target- ments bar the anger of those evicted presence needed to protect them. After deadly street fighting. ing Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels in northern Iraq and and a still-heated debate. As for Gazans failing to reach agreement with the The seizure of soldier Gilad Shalit in a southeast Turkey. AKP leader Davutoglu and Republican People’s themselves, they have other things on Palestinians on the plan, Sharon decided June 2006 cross-border militant raid into Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Ankara began meeting at their minds besides the anniversary of to push ahead unilaterally, arguing there Israel traumatized the Jewish state for around 1100 GMT for what is seen as a final chance to agree a coali- what Israel calls its historic “disengage- was no partner on the Palestinian side. more than five years until he was freed in tion. “Whether Turkey will have a coalition or not will be probably ment” from the coastal Palestinian terri- Karim Bitar, a research fellow at the a lopsided prisoner swap. Whatever seen today after the meeting,” said Ozgur Altug, chief economist at tory. The decade since August 15, 2005 Institute for International and Strategic Sharon’s long-term plans, he would not BCG Partners in Istanbul. While an initial round of talks began has seen constant tension with Israel, Relations in Paris, said the Israeli leader see them reach fruition. Hit by a stroke in warmly, opposition politicians and commentators have accused three devastating wars, an Israeli block- also used the plan to shore up settle- 2006, he slipped into a coma and has President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of meddling in the process in ade and tight Egyptian controls on pas- ments in the occupied West Bank. Bitar never regained consciousness. Ten years order to trigger early elections. sage across its Gaza land border. said Sharon sought to show with the later, occupation and settlement build- Turkish press reports yesterday said Kilicdaroglu had warned his On that date, decreed by late prime “psychodrama” of emptying the Gaza ing grinds on Palestinian land and party in a closed-door meeting that while Davutoglu was positive minister Ariel Sharon, also known as “the settlements that “there was no credible prospects of a peace settlement remain on a coalition “there are walls he is struggling to overcome”, in ref- bulldozer” for his determination, Israeli possibility of evicting hundreds of thou- as distant as ever. For Prime Minister erence to Erdogan. The results of the June 7 elections were one of troops began evacuating more than sands of settlers” from the West Bank Benjamin Netanyahu and other right- the biggest blows yet to the combative Erdogan and torpedoed his 8,000 settlers from the Gaza Strip-first and annexed east Jerusalem. He referred wing Israeli politicians, the rockets which dream of parliament agreeing a new presidential system for voluntarily, but later forcefully removing to comments by the premier’s advisor crash into southern Israel from Gaza are Turkey. On Wednesday, Erdogan indicated that he would not be those who refused. Pictures showed set- Dov Weissglass that the Sharon plan just a foretaste of what would happen if bothered by the failure of the coalition talks, saying their collapse tlers, some of whom had lived in Gaza for envisaged an indefinite freeze in the Israel were to pull out of the West Bank. would not be a reason for a party leader to “commit suicide”. decades, escorted, or sometimes peace process to abort the possibility of Netanyahu, who was finance minister dragged, from their homes by young sol- a Palestinian state. in Sharon’s government, resigned at the ‘Favours snap elections’ diers. In some cases, both sides could be time in protest at the Gaza withdrawal. Under the constitution, Davutoglu - as leader of the largest par- seen weeping. The sight of military bull- Everything destroyed Sharon’s maneuver was “a moment of ty - has until August 23 to agree a coalition. Erdogan has said he dozers tearing down settlement build- As it withdrew from Gaza, Israel madness ... bitter failure,” charged Neta does not have the authority to extend the deadline, but several ings is frozen in Israel’s collective memo- destroyed nearly all the settlement infra- resident Dror Arieh, 40, a teacher and commentators cast doubt on this. “If he (Erdogan) thinks a govern- ry. Efrat Louzon, mother of 10 and grand- structure, leaving only a few buildings father of 11 children. “If the Jewish peo- ment may be formed, he may extend this period,” wrote columnist mother to five, still feels “rage” at the intact. One, the settlers’ local govern- ple returned to their homeland after Mehmet Yilmaz in the Hurriyet daily. “But he will not do such a memory. She and her family were evict- ment headquarters, was turned into 2,000 years in exile, there is no reason thing because, indeed, he does not want a coalition-he favors snap ed “without any purpose, without any premises of Al-Aqsa University in the why we should not return to Gaza.” A elections.” Analysts have said such elections could be called as preparation”, she said at her new home southern town of Khan Yunis. Fruit trees survey published last month said 51 per- soon as October or November, or next year if the AKP prefers to in Neta, a village in the southern Negev now stand where once “settlers lived cent of Israeli Jews would back the wait. The pro-government press has in recent days published opin- desert founded in 2012 to rehouse dis- behind their barricade”, said reconstruction of the Gush Katif settle- ion polls suggesting the AKP would improve on its June 7 score of placed Gaza settlers. Abdelrahman Al-Najjar, who grows hibis- ment block in Gaza. But no political just under 41 percent if a new election was held. “Will an election cus and ficus plants. Entire Palestinian leader wants that to happen, said change the result? That is unknown,” wrote commentator Unilateral pullout neighborhoods have sprouted in some International Crisis Group analyst Nathan Abdulkadir Selvi in the pro-government Yeni Safak daily. The main Forged during the second Palestinian ex-settlement areas, with thousands of Thrall. “Everybody is more or less satis- reason for the AKP’s failure to win an overall majority was the intifada, or uprising, amid international people now living there. After the pull- fied to be out,” he said. “Even the army strong performance of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party pressure, the pullout plan was hotly con- out, the militant Islamist movement says they can’t and they don’t want to re- (HDP) which won over 13 percent of the vote.— FAP tested within Israel. Sharon defended it Hamas, Israel’s sworn enemy, scored a occupy.” — AFP International FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 12 Huge explosions kill

TIANJIN: Smoke billows from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China’s Tianjin municipality yesterday. — AP

TIANJIN: Enormous explosions at a chemical ware- even being picked up by a Japanese weather satel- hurt and came running out, bleeding,” 27-year-old other bodies. Xinhua said 701 people were hospi- house in a major Chinese port city killed at least 50 lite, and images showed walls of flame enveloping Huang Shiting, who lives close to the site said. talized, 71 of them in critical condition. Mei Xiaoya, people and injured more than 700, official media buildings and rank after rank of gutted cars at an Paramedics stretchered the injured into the 10, and her mother were turned away from the first said yesterday, leaving a devastated landscape of import facility. “When I felt the explosion I thought city’s hospitals as doctors bandaged up victims, hospital they went to because there were too incinerated cars, toppled shipping containers and it was an earthquake,” resident Zhang Zhaobo said. many of them covered in blood. Citing rescue many people, she said. “I’m not afraid, it’s just a burnt-out buildings. An AFP reporter in Tianjin saw “I ran to my father and I saw the sky was already headquarters, the official Xinhua news agency said scratch,” she said pointing to the bandage on her shattered glass up to three kilometers from the site red. All the glass was broken, and I was really 50 people had been killed, including at least 12 arm. “But mum was hurt badly, she couldn’t open of the blast, a storage facility for dangerous goods afraid.” Residents, some partially clothed, ran for firefighters. Scores of firefighters were already on her eyes.” where the detonation unleashed a vast fireball that shelter on a street strewn with debris. “I heard the the scene before the explosion, responding to a dwarfed towers in the area, lit up the night sky and first explosion and everyone went outside, then fire. At one city hospital a doctor wept over a dead Plumes of smoke rained debris on the city. there was a series of more explosions, windows firefighter still in uniform, his skin blackened from Plumes of smoke still billowed over buildings The explosion was felt several kilometers away, shattered and a lot of people who were inside were smoke, as he was wheeled past along with two hours after the blast, which occurred shortly before midnight local time. “Of course I was afraid, how can you not be afraid?” said a man as he looked at his apartment block behind a police cordon. “I ran. I grabbed my child and my wife and ran.” The blaze was brought “under initial control” yesterday after- noon, Xinhua cited the public security ministry as saying, after 1,000 firefighters and 143 fire engines had been deployed to the site. A 217-strong spe- cialist nuclear, bacteriological and chemical war- fare military unit arrived to help with the clean-up operation, Xinhua said. But officials were unable to say what triggered the initial fire or the subsequent explosions. Xinhua described the facility as a stor- age and distribution centre of containers of dan- gerous goods, including chemicals. Executives from its owner, Tianjin Dongjiang Port Rui Hai International Logistics, were taken into custody by police, it said. Wen Wurui, head of Tianjin’s environment protection bureau, told a televised briefing that “poisonous and harm- ful” chemicals had been detected in the air. He said they were not at levels “excessively high above standards”. But environmental campaign group Greenpeace warned that substances from the site could be dangerous, saying it was “criti- cal” that the potential toxins in the air were TIANJIN: Fire and smoke rises at the site of the massive explosions in Tianjin yesterday. — AFP monitored closely.—AFP International FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 13 at least 50 in China Latest accident to blight developments in China

BEIJING: A lack of answers about vast explo- an explosion,” Zhang Yong, the head of Binhai sions in the Chinese port of Tianjin yesterday New District, told a the press conference. The reinforced questions about standards in the cause of the fire and explosion were still under country, where campaigners say lives are sacri- investigation, Zhang said, declining to elabo- ficed on a lack of respect for safety and poor rate or provide any theories. implementation. At least 50 people died and The panel of officials were peppered with more than 700 were injured in the nighttime questions about what chemicals were in the blasts that devastated one of China’s show- tanks that exploded, but refused to provide piece industrial landscapes, incinerating details, and the briefing ended abruptly with imported cars and scattering shipping contain- officials rushing off stage. “Clearly there is no ers in a key port in the world’s biggest trader real culture of safety in the workplace in in goods. China,” said Geoffrey Crothall, spokesman for Officials could give no reason for the disas- Hong Kong-based China Labor Bulletin, which ter at a storage facility for dangerous chemi- promotes worker rights. Only a year ago a cals, saying only that “before the explosion, massive explosion at a car parts factory in locals saw the fire and reported it”. “Only after Kunshan, near Shanghai, left 146 workers firefighters reached the scene, then there was dead, he pointed out. “The usual statements

TIANJIN: A victim of the explosions lies on a hospital bed yesterday. — AFP were made about how shocking this is and last year. In the coal sector-where China is should never be allowed to happen again, but the world’s largest producer-there have been of course just a year later the same thing hap- significant changes for the better. Accidents pens,” he said. “The problem is that there are a in Chinese coal mines killed 931 people last lot of rules and regulations about safety at year, a top work safety official said in March. work but they’re not enforced.” Crothall, who said the figure was between 6,000 and 7,000 a decade ago, attributed the ‘Massive casualties’ improvement to consolidation of the industry There have been some improvements, at as many small mines were shut down. In 2013 least statistically. Figures from the State a pipeline explosion at state-owned oil refiner Administration of Work Safety show that in Sinopec’s facility in the eastern port of the first six months of this year there were Qingdao killed 62 people and injured 136, 139,000 industrial accidents and 26,000 while a fire at a poultry processing plant in deaths, decreasing by 7.5 percent and 5.5 the northeastern province of Jilin killed 120 TIANJIN: Flames rise from the site of a series of explosions in Tianjin yesterday. — AFP percent, respectively, from the same period people. — AFP International14 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 Pakistan’s top diplomat to visit India ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top diplomat said yesterday he would visit India later this month on an “ice breaking” tour as vio- lence simmers in the disputed Kashmir ter- ritory. “I can briefly confirm that I will be going to India on August 23 for talks,” Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz told a joint press conference with visiting Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif in Islamabad. There has been a rise in cross-border shelling along the de facto border separat- ing the two halves of Kashmir in recent weeks. Yesterday a grenade exploded out- side a mosque in Indian Kashmir, injuring 10 worshippers after morning prayers in the first such incident in 14 years, local police said. After months of stalemate and recrimi- nations, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif spoke for around an hour while visit- ing Russia in July, recognizing their “collec- tive responsibility to ensure peace and promote development”. Modi also accept- ed an invitation from Sharif to visit Pakistan next year, raising hopes of an improvement in perennially difficult rela- tions. Aziz said his visit was “not a break- through in terms of composite dialogue and all the issues but at least it is an ice breaking on some issues.. and let’s hope it SRINAGAR: Jammu Kashmir police officers display their skills on motorcycles during a rehearsal for the Indian will lead to further more comprehensive Independence Day celebrations in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir yesterday. Authorities have beefed up secu- dialogue on the other issues between the rity in Jammu and Kashmir State ahead of India’s Independence Day celebrations tomorrow. — AP two countries”. He added that the two prime ministers had agreed to the step Kashmir, hoping to achieve independence a historic nuclear deal between Tehran Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Iran complet- during their meeting in Russia. or the territory’s merger with Pakistan. and world powers. ed its part of the project in 2013, but India and Pakistan have fought three They agreed on a border ceasefire in 2003, “The impediment to greater and more Pakistan put construction on hold citing US wars since the partition of the subconti- which has largely held, though violations enhanced cooperation between Iran and and European sanctions on Tehran linked nent in the wake of independence from are regularly reported from both sides. Pakistan will have been removed, through to its nuclear program. The International Britain in 1947, two of them over Kashmir. Zarif, meanwhile, expressed hope for the the removal of sanctions and that is why Atomic Energy Agency is set to verify Iran Since 1989 several rebel groups have revival of a stalled gas pipeline project the work on the Iran-Pakistan pipeline has implemented its commitments in waged campaigns against the hundreds of connecting Iran to energy-starved could go ahead more expeditiously,” he December, paving the way for sanctions to thousands of Indian forces deployed in Pakistan, following last month’s signing of said following talks with Aziz and Pakistan’s be lifted from the start of next year.—AFP

Blair warns UK’s Labor faces Fears US ‘national interest’ hurt by partisan Iran row

‘annihilation’ if it veers left WASHINGTON: The former White House official who resigned this week as head of a key US group lobbying against the Iran nuclear Corbyn wants to steer Labor back towards socialist roots deal, warned Wednesday that the partisan row was hurting America’s national interest. Gary Samore, who stepped down as LONDON: Britain’s opposition Labor Labor’s trade union financial backers London Ken Livingstone, dismissed president of United Against Nuclear Iran because he supports the Party faces “annihilation” if it makes with calls to re-nationalize swaths of the Blair’s criticism as “appalling”. “Tony agreement, said a political battle between Congress and the White left-wing lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn its economy, including rail networks and Blair clearly hasn’t read Jeremy Corbyn’s House had crowded out the “pragmatic center.” “This looks like it next leader, former prime minister Tony the energy sector. Rarely seen in more manifesto, because it’s not going back will be a straight-out political battle between Republicans and some Blair said yesterday, warning party formal dress than a rumpled jacket and to the 1980s, it’s dealing with the prob- Democrats against the White House and that’s very unfortunate,” members they are “walking eyes shut, open-necked beige shirt - complete lems we’ve got now,” he told BBC radio. Samore said. His resignation Monday thrust him into the center of arms outstretched, over the cliff’s with white vest showing underneath - But another Labor figure, former the fierce battle over the Iran deal, one fueled by multi-million-dollar edge.” Voting begins today in a month- Corbyn has energized voters disillu- foreign secretary and interior minister lobbying budgets and the 2016 presidential election campaign. long four-way leadership contest trig- sioned by what they see as bland, pol- Jack Straw, said the money-printing Samore, a non-proliferation expert, advised Barack Obama during gered by Labor’s defeat in a national ished centrist politicians. The center- plan was “economic illiteracy ... of the his first presidential term and received wide media attention this election in May. Opinion polls show piece of his anti-austerity stance, worst order” and warned it could send week as former White House colleagues hailed his decision as a vic- Corbyn, who wants to steer the party designed to tap into voter discontent Britain’s economy into an inflationary tory for the “yes” camp. United Against Nuclear Iran immediately back towards its socialist roots, has a over a second five-year cost-cutting spiral. “We know from the history of announced he would be replaced by anti-deal former senator Joe large lead over his rivals. Conservative government, is a proposal the Weimar Republic, we know from Lieberman and unveiled a multi-million dollar campaign to high- The prospect of a Corbyn-led party to fund massive infrastructure invest- Venezuela and you can see the begin- light “key deficiencies and weaknesses” in the agreement. has put Labor in “danger more mortal ment by asking the Bank of England to nings of this in Greece, that it’s bound The Republican-controlled Congress is expected in September today than at any point in the over 100 print money - a so-called “quantitative to end in tears,” he told the BBC. Labor to vote against the deal, but is unlikely to have enough support to years of its existence”, Blair wrote in the easing for the people”. will announce its new leader on Sept overturn Obama’s veto. “I don’t know that this agreement is really Guardian newspaper. Labor’s most suc- Blair’s intervention is his second in 12 after a ballot of party members, going to survive 15 years, in fact my guess is that it probably won’t,” cessful leader, Blair won three national the leadership race. He previously told affiliated trade union members and Samore said. “But if the agreement collapses I have confidence in elections from 1997 to 2005 on a cen- supporters that elections could not be other registered supporters. Corbyn’s our ability to mobilize support for pressure against Iran or use mili- trist platform. “If Jeremy Corbyn won from a left-wing platform. “Jeremy main rivals for the position - former tary force if necessary.” “It would be much better if the White House becomes leader it won’t be a defeat like Corbyn doesn’t offer anything new,” ministers Andy Burnham and Yvette and Congress could come to an agreement on a resolution of sup- 1983 or 2015 at the next election,” Blair Blair wrote on Thursday. “These are Cooper - are campaigning on a prom- port, with conditions that would strengthen the elements of the wrote. “It will mean rout, possibly anni- policies from the past that were reject- ise to broaden the party’s appeal with- deal,” he added Samore insisted Congress could have strengthened hilation.” ed not because they were too princi- out a radical shift in policy. The fourth Obama’s hand vis-a-vis Tehran by reinforcing the agreement with Corbyn, a 66-year-old parliamentary pled, but because a majority of the candidate, Liz Kendall, has embraced “conditions relating to the use of force if necessary, or responding to veteran, has won the support of party British people thought they didn’t Blair’s centrist approach but is lagging Iran’s regional policy, or keeping Congress adequately involved in activists and gained endorsements from work.” Corbyn ally, the former mayor of in opinion polls. — Reuters implementation.” — AFP International15 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 Assange assault Member of infamous probe dropped STOCKHOLM: Swedish prose- ‘San Quentin 6’ killed cutors dropped a sexual assault probe against Julian Assange yesterday, but the move failed to placate the Slaying of Pinell triggers riot in jail Wikileaks founder who still faces a rape claim. Two of the SACRAMENTO: An inmate involved in a bloody 1971 San four allegations against the Quentin escape attempt that left six dead has been killed Australian-who has been by a fellow prisoner, corrections officials said Wednesday. holed up at Ecuador’s London The slaying of Hugo Pinell, 71, triggered a riot Wednesday embassy since 2012 to avoid that grew to involve about 70 inmates at a maximum extradition-have reached their security prison east of Sacramento, said California statute of limitations after five Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokes- years. “Now that the statute of woman Dana Simas. “He was definitely the target,” Simas limitations has expired on cer- said. She would not give more information about the tain offences, I am obliged to alleged attacker for his own protection. drop part of the investigation,” Once Pinell was attacked in a California State Prison, prosecutor Marianne Ny said. Sacramento, exercise yard by his fellow inmate, “everyone But she said she still wanted to else joined in,” Simas said, including members of multiple question the 44-year-old over WikiLeaks founder Julian prison gangs. Eleven other inmates were taken to an out- the more serious claim of rape. Assange side hospital to be treated for stab wounds, while other The accusations dropped injured inmates were treated at the prison. No employees involve one count of sexual assault and another of unlawful coercion. A were harmed. Guards fired three shots and used pepper separate allegation of sexual molestation will run out on August 18. The spray to break up the brawl. Officials initially said about Australian can still however be prosecuted for rape, which carries a 10- 100 inmates were involved and five hospitalized. year statute of limitations that expires in 2020. Assange has always Forty-four years ago, Pinell helped slit the throats of denied the allegations brought by two Swedish women, and insists the San Quentin prison guards during an escape attempt that sexual encounters were consensual. “I am extremely disappointed. led to the deaths of three guards, two inmate trustees and There was no need for any of this. I am an innocent man,” Assange said escape ringleader George Jackson, who was fatally shot as in a statement after the prosecutor’s decision. He accused her of being he ran toward an outside prison wall, according to “beyond incompetence” for failing to going to the Ecuador embassy to Associated Press stories. Jackson was a Black Panther take his statement or to pledge he would not be sent to the United leader, founder of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang, States. and author of the 1970 book “Soledad Brother,” written after he and other inmates were accused in the slaying of Unable to access embassy a Soledad prison guard in January 1970. Guards testified A member of his legal team, Baroness Helena Kennedy of Britain, also that Jackson started the escape attempt when he pulled a took aim at the Swedish prosecution. “The evidence would never have File photo from the California Department of Corrections and smuggled 9-mm pistol from under his six-inch-high Afro Rehabilitation shows inmate Hugo Pinell. Pinell, involved in a stood in any court of law worthy of its name,” she said in a statement, hairdo and fatally shot two correctional officers. adding: “The remaining allegation is just as unlikely to lead to convic- bloody 1971 San Quentin escape attempt that left six dead, Correctional Officer Urbano Rubiaco Jr survived to later tion.” Under Swedish law, if a suspect is not questioned before the dead- has been killed by a fellow prisoner. — AP testify that Pinell used a knife made of razor blades line on the case expires, they can no longer be tried for the alleged embedded in a toothbrush handle to slash Rubiaco’s neck. crimes. Despite repeated attempts, prosecutors say they have been Soledad. The others were freed years ago: Fleeta Drumgo “He said ‘I love you pigs’ and then he cut my throat,” unable to gain access to Ecuador’s embassy. and Luis Talamantez in 1976, Johnny Larry Spain in 1991 Rubiaco said. He was one of two guards taken hostage by They initially insisted Assange return to Sweden for interrogation-a and David Johnson in 1993. Pinell was initially sent to condition he rejected for fear Stockholm could deliver him to US authori- 25 inmates who were released from their cells during the prison in 1965 to serve a life sentence for a San Francisco ties, who may try him for leaking nearly 750,000 classified military and escape attempt. Correctional Sgt. Frank McCray testified rape. He was given a second life sentence for killing diplomatic documents in 2010. In a U-turn in March, prosecutors agreed that he and other guards were blindfolded, bound and Correctional Officer R.J. McCarthey in 1971 at the Soledad to Assange’s compromise offer to question him inside the London mis- piled into a cell, where McCray said his throat also was cut prison. He was given a third life sentence, all with the pos- sion but say they have yet to see their request approved by Ecuador while other guards were shot and strangled. A jury even- sibility of parole, for the San Quentin escape attempt after because of procedural issues-leading critics to suspect Quito of playing tually acquitted Jackson’s lawyer, Stephen Bingham, a he was convicted of assaulting two correctional officers. the clock. Attorneys for Assange however say suspicions Ecuador is grandson of former Connecticut Gov. Hiram Bingham, of Prisoners remained locked in their cells as officers investi- using delaying tactics are unfounded. “The (Swedish) request came in smuggling in the gun. gated Wednesday’s disturbance. The prison commonly late and is being processed by Ecuador, which will certainly approve it Pinell and five other inmates became known as the San called New Folsom houses more than 2,300 maximum- after following its own procedures,” Assange’s Swedish lawyer Per Quentin Six. Only one, 61-year-old William “Willie” Tate, security inmates in Folsom, a suburb about 25 miles east Samuelsson told AFP earlier this month.— AFP remains in prison, at the Correctional Training Facility in of the state capital.— AP

Some see sexism and xenophobia in reaction to Mexico murders

MEXICO CITY: The reaction by Mexican pros- Revolutionary Party (PRI) who has faced accu- would be unimportant if Ruben hadn’t been Navarro, who is Colombian and works in ecutors and the media to the brutal killing of sations of threatening critics. Prosecutors in that apartment. We wouldn’t even have Mexico. five people, including a prominent photo- have come under fire for appearing to down- found out about the women’s murders.” The tabloids have given breathless cover- journalist, has drawn criticism from some play the theory that the killings were politi- age to the case, with chilling photographs quarters as slanted, sexist and xenophobic. cally motivated, suggesting robbery as a Colombians outraged supposedly taken at the crime scene where The country was shocked last Friday when motive. There has also been outrage in Mexico’s some of the victims can be seen naked and four women and a man were found dead at a Amid a swirl of speculation about the rea- Colombian community about media reports bound, including Martin. Mexico City apartment, killed execution-style. son for the killings, officials’ response to the on Martin, whom the tabloid press has sin- Colombian archaeologist Yarima Some of the victims had their hands bound, crime and the media’s treatment of it have gled out as a key piece of the puzzle. The Merchan, who lives in Mexico, criticized this their bodies bearing signs of torture. Three of outraged some observers, who say the media have focused especially on a red Ford media treatment. “It’s shameful to read some the female victims had also been raped. women victims have been treated as statis- Mustang sports car reportedly owned by news reports that stigmatize (Martin) and The murders unleashed new fears about tics, while most of the attention has gone to Martin and used by the killers as a getaway take it almost for granted that she was killed the dangers facing journalists and activists in Espinosa. The female victims-domestic work- vehicle. Amid a near-vacuum of official infor- in a ‘settling of scores,’” she wrote in an article Mexico. Two of the victims, photojournalist er Alejandra Negrete, makeup artist Yesenia mation on the investigation, a string of unat- for news website Animal Politico. The Ruben Espinosa and human rights activist Quiroz and Colombian hairdresser Mile tributed leaks in the tabloids have suggested Colombian community in Mexico has mean- Nadia Vera, had recently fled the violent state Virginia Martin, as well as Vera should not be Martin may have been the main target in a while issued a statement demanding the of Veracruz after being threatened and treated as mere footnotes, say their families, gangland-style settling of scores. “The gener- investigation “respect due process and stop harassed. Both had been critical of Veracruz colleagues and others. “The murder of al feeling is that they’ve begun using the basing its work on a pack of prejudices based Governor Javier Duarte, a member of women is treated cheaply,” said journalist word ‘Colombian’ as if it were a synonym for on nationality, gender or the profession of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s Institutional Catalina Ruiz-Navarro.”It seems as if they organized crime or prostitution,” said Ruiz- the massacred victims.”— AFP International FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 16 Kerry’s date with history in old Havana First US secretary of state to visit Havana since 1945

WASHINGTON: John Kerry has a date with US mission on the Malecon seafront-now nation of a rapprochement that was olution, Raul’s brother and predecessor history. Today, he will become the first US redesignated a full embassy-and into the announced in December last year between Fidel Castro-who celebrates his 89th birth- secretary of state to visit Havana, capital of touristy colonial quarter. President Barack Obama and his Cuban day Thursday on the eve of the visit-has communist Cuba, since 1945. His mission is Officials said that after the ceremony at counterpart Raul Castro. Cuba’s foreign min- sounded a less conciliatory note. Kerry, to raise the Stars and Stripes once again over the embassy and the walkabout, Kerry would ister Bruno Rodriguez was in Washington last therefore, will tread a cautious path. He will the re-opened US embassy and set the seal meet at the US chief of mission’s residence month to inaugurate his embassy, and meet select Cuban opposition figures to on a long-delayed thawing of ties kept on ice with Cuban officials, entrepreneurs, artists, Castro and Obama met in April on the side- reassure them that the United States still through the long Cold War. His trip to activists and dissidents. “Normalization is a lines of the Summit of the Americas in supports a pluralist future for their island, America’s island neighbor will only last a few process. We’ve been very clear about that,” Panama. The US administration has removed while not treading on official toes. No dissi- hours but it will allow Kerry to discuss stick- State Department deputy spokesman Mark Cuba from its list of “state sponsors of terror- dents will be invited to the embassy cere- ing points in the detente process, such as the Toner said. “Certainly, we’ll take another step ism”-opening the path for a further lessening mony alongside Cuban leaders, for exam- trade embargo and the status of the US base in that process on Friday with the raising of of trade and diplomatic sanctions. But the ple, but will instead attend the private event in Guantanamo Bay. He will also have a the flag after 54 years of hiatus. “We’ve been thaw has not been uncontroversial. Obama’s at the head of mission’s residence. “There chance to distance himself a little from offi- very clear that this doesn’t alleviate every Republican opponents at home have will be a broad cross-section of Cuban socie- cial Havana and meet nervous dissidents challenge in the relationship, but it does give accused him of easing up on pressure on ty that will be invited to that event at the wary of the changes underway. And he has us the ability to speak directly with and to Cuba too quickly while it is not yet a democ- mission,” Kerry told Telemundo. “What they even promised to take a stroll through the the Cuban government.” racy, and Cuban dissidents used to are not invited to, quite openly, is the rais- city and meet ordinary Cubans. “I will take an Washington and Havana reopened Washington’s support have protested, fear- ing of the flag at the embassy itself, because open, free walk in Old Havana,” Kerry told embassies in their respective capitals on July ing isolation. that is a government-to-government Spanish-language US network Telemundo 20, 54 years after relations broke down at the moment-with very limited space by the before his departure. This will take Kerry height of the Cold War between the West No dissidents at flag ceremony way-which is why we are having the recep- away from the imposing concrete and glass and the Communist bloc. This was the culmi- Meanwhile, the father of the Cuban rev- tion later in the day.” — AFP

US ex-president Carter California fire rages

reveals he has cancer LOWER LAKE: Erratic winds Wednesday fanned ATLANTA: Former for promoting such global issues as health care and a wildfire burning through President Jimmy democracy, often with his wife Rosalynn by his side. He rugged hills in Northern Carter, who at age joined the staff of Emory University and in 1982 estab- California that has driven 90 still travels the lished the Carter Center to promote those issues. His new people from their homes world supporting role as global statesman took him into places often and pushed the flames the humanitarian shunned by other diplomats. Carter helped defuse across two counties. At endeavors that have nuclear tensions between the Koreas and monitored the least 150 people have consumed his time first Palestinian elections. In 2002, he won the Nobel evacuated their homes in the decades since Peace Prize. According to the Carter Center, he and since Sunday. Many in the he left office, Rosalynn volunteer one week a year for Habitat for region about 100 miles announced Humanity, a nonprofit that helps build and renovate north of San Francisco had Wednesday he has homes for people in need. Despite remaining active only recently returned cancer that has through the years, Carter’s health has recently become after fleeing an earlier spread to other parts the subject of speculation. In May, he was forced to cut blaze. Crews lit backfires of his body. “Recent short an election observation visit to Guyana when he Wednesday along a road liver surgery developed a bad cold. Carter also completed a book tour elsewhere in the region as plumes of black and white revealed that I have Former US president this summer to promote his latest work, “A Full Life.” smoke rose into the sky. cancer that now is in Jimmy Carter Carter included his family’s history of pancreatic cancer in other parts of my that memoir, writing that his father, brother and two sis- The fire had expanded body,” Carter said in ters all died of the disease and said the trend “concerned” across 32 square miles and the statement released by the Carter Center. “I will be the former president’s doctors at Emory. crews had the flames just rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo 16 percent contained, the treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare.” Genetic analysis California Department of Forestry and Fire The statement makes clear that Carter’s cancer is “The National Institutes of Health began to check all CALIFORNIA: Fire burns above address signs widely spread but not where it originated, or even if that members of our family regularly, and my last remaining Protection said. Full con- tainment wasn’t expected along Morgan Valley Road near Lower Lake, is known at this point. The liver is often a place where sibling, Gloria, sixty-four, was diagnosed with pancreatic California. — AP cancer spreads and less commonly is the primary source cancer and died in 1990,” Carter wrote. “There was no until Monday. The fire of it. The statement said further information will be pro- record of another American family having lost four mem- began in dry timber and vided when more facts are known, “possibly next week.” bers to this disease, and since that time I have had regular brush Sunday several miles from the community of Lower Lake. It leapt from Lake Carter announced on Aug 3 that he had surgery to X-rays, CAT scans, or blood analyses, with hope of early County into Napa County, but no vineyards were threatened in the famous wine- remove a small mass from his liver. Good wishes poured detection if I develop the same symptoms.” Carter wrote growing region. Empire Mini Storage manager Desiree Mcalear said the business in on social media after Carter’s announcement, while that being the only nonsmoker in his family “may have in Middletown has had numerous calls and visits from people who want to rent President Barack Obama said he and first lady Michelle been what led to my longer life.” “Our thoughts and units in case they have to evacuate. “They’re absolutely scared and terrified,” she Obama wish Carter a fast and full recovery. prayers go out to President Carter,” said Dr Len said. “If the winds decide to blow this way, then we all need to take action. Right Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American now, we have the luxury of waiting and being patient.” More than 1,100 firefight- US 39th president Cancer Society. ers were battling the blaze that was threatening 50 structures. No homes have “Jimmy, you’re as resilient as they come, and along “There’s a lot we don’t know,” but the first task likely been destroyed, and no injuries have been reported. Meanwhile, firefighters with the rest of America, we are rooting for you,” Obama will be determining where the cancer originated, as that have nearly surrounded a larger nearby blaze that started about two weeks ago said in a statement. Carter was the nation’s 39th presi- can help determine what treatment he may be eligible and destroyed 43 homes. dent, defeating Gerald Ford in 1976 with a pledge to for, Lichtenfeld said. Sometimes the primary site can’t be The causes of both fires remain under investigation. Temperatures have been always be honest. Before his career in politics, Carter determined, so genetic analysis of the tumor might be relatively mild, but the gusty winds and dry conditions have stoked the wildfires. graduated from the US Naval Academy and served seven done to see what mutations are driving it and what drugs In Southern California, evacuation orders were lifted as crews continued to sur- years in the Navy submarine force. A Georgia peanut might target those mutations. “Given the president’s age, round a small wildfire sparked by a burning motor home in rural Riverside farmer who had been a state senator and governor of any treatments, their potential and their impacts, will County. One person from the motor home was burned, officials said. Three fire- Georgia for a single term before running for president, undoubtedly be discussed carefully with him and his fam- fighters were taken to hospitals with minor injuries. The blaze about halfway Carter ended up seeing his second term for president ily,” he added. Age by itself does not preclude successful between Temecula and Palm Desert had been held to 450 acres and was 70 per- doomed by a number of foreign policy conflicts, most cancer treatment, said Dr Lodovico Balducci, a specialist cent contained, with full containment expected Friday, state fire officials said. especially the Iran hostage crisis - losing in a landslide to on treating cancer in the elderly at the Moffitt Cancer Statewide, 16 active wildfires were burning and being fought by more than Ronald Reagan in 1980. Center in Tampa. Much depends on the patient’s “biologi- 11,000 firefighters. — AP He spent the decades since carving out a reputation cal” age versus his actual years, he said.— AP International FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 17

WWII: How did Japan, Germany become global powerhouses?

TOKYO: Germany and Japan rose from the ashes of World War II to become global economic powerhouses in a few decades. But how did they achieve this remarkable feat so quickly, and what is the legacy of these parallel economic “miracles” today?

Japan, Germany after WWII Both nations lay in ruins. A significant proportion of the Japanese population was wiped out during World War II, includ- ing an estimated 210,000 people in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki alone. Germany had also lost millions of soldiers and civilians, with hundreds of thousands more killed in occupied eastern Europe. British and US bombardments of German cities such as Dresden, conducted with conventional and incendiary explosives, caused a firestorm that killed up to 25,000 people and wiped out the historic city centre. A quarter of Japan’s national wealth evaporated during the war. By 1945, Germany was under the control of the Allied Powers in Europe: the United States, the USSR, Britain and France. Japan was occu- pied by the United States after its formal surrender. NAYPYITAW: Workers ride on the back of a truck in Naypyitaw. The leader of Myanmar’s ruling party has been How fast did they recover? removed from his post, an official said yesterday, after a shock police swoop on party headquarters that laid Japan became the second largest economy in the world bare a power struggle among the country’s key political players ahead of elections. — AFP after the United States in 1968, experiencing average growth of up to nine percent per year between 1955 and 1973. The German “Wirtschaftswunder” economic miracle accelerated Myanmar ruling party chief fired even faster, transforming West Germany into the world’s sec- ond largest economic powerhouse by the 1950s. “Unlike Germany, carved up by four victorious allies, Japan had to in power struggle with president engineer its recovery while occupied by a single power,” pro- fessor Tag Murphy recounts in a recent book, entitled “Japan Security forces surrounded ruling party headquarters and the Shackles of the Past”. “The United States took on responsibility for Japan’s security”, allowing to it focus on its economic recovery. NAPYITAW: Myanmar’s powerful ruling party just hours before the overnight drama unfold- first free election in Myanmar in 25 years. chief Shwe Mann has been ousted from his ed. Shwe Mann would remain a party member Tension rose between the two former top mili- post, party members said yesterday, apparently and contest the election in his own constituen- tary officers over the party’s selection of elec- Effect of Cold War In 1949 Germany split into two countries, with the occupied after losing a power struggle with President cy, Than Tun, the head of the CEC, told reporters toral candidates, party sources said. On zones belonging to the three Western powers merging to form Thein Sein three months before a general elec- yesterday. Thein Sein spearheaded reforms Wednesday, the USDP selected only 59 of 159 the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), while the Soviets estab- tion. The feud between the two old rivals after taking power in 2011 that initially sur- senior officers who retired from the military to lished the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The two became public in a dramatic way late on prised the world with their speed and breadth. stand, the party sources said. The decision like- Germanys would only formally reunify in 1990. The FRG Wednesday evening, when security forces sur- But reforms have stalled as the election has ly angered officers and politicians keen to pre- received $1.3 billion in aid for reconstruction from the US- rounded the vast headquarters of the ruling come into focus. serve the military’s sway. The USDP is com- financed Marshall Plan, but the leader of the USSR, Joseph Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Both Thein Sein and Shwe Mann have sug- prised largely of former military officers and Stalin, refused American money for the GDR. The London Debt in the capital, Naypyitaw. gested they would accept the job of president was created from a social movement estab- Agreement of 1953 saw 60 percent of German loans and repara- Shwe Mann’s ouster from the party follows after the Nov. 8 parliamentary election, the lished by the former junta.— Reuters tions written off. rare discord within the establishment over the The establishment of a West German economy built along role of the military, which handed power to a Mastermind of journalist capitalist lines by conservative chancellor Konrad Adenauer and semi-civilian government in 2011 but retains an his finance minister Ludwig Erhard saw the country rapidly effective veto over changes to the political sys- prosper between 1946 and 1975, with annual growth at around tem. Shwe Mann had built ties with Nobel lau- attack ‘must face justice’ seven percent, although it also experienced recession during reate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, those years. Unemployment fell from 11 percent in 1950 to 0.7 who has called repeatedly for the military to HONG KONG: A veteran Hong Kong journal- cast on journalists” by the attack be lifted, he percent in 1965. American occupation in Japan lasted until withdraw from politics. He angered the military ist who was seriously wounded in a savage said. However, he also described the convic- 1952, during which time attempts were made to dismantle by supporting an attempt in parliament in June knife attack called for the “mastermind” of tions as “significant for press freedom”. “The Japanese business conglomerates known as “zaibatsu”. The to amend the constitution to limit the military’s the crime to be brought to justice yesterday verdict today reversed the trend of the past Korean War of 1950-53 was a boom time for Japanese firms, political role. It is unclear what the changes after two men were convicted. Kevin Lau, for- two decades... whenever a journalist was whose technological and manufacturing prowess was in high mean for reforms in Myanmar, but the heavy- mer editor of the investigative Ming Pao attacked and injured, there was always no demand by US forces. Simultaneously, increasing wages in handed involvement of the security forces newspaper, was stabbed in broad daylight in breakthrough,” he told reporters. While no Japan created consumer demand for domestic appliances and smacks of the junta-era approach to political February last year in an attack that intensified motive was specified in court, Lau, 50, said he other goods. disputes. fears over press freedom in the city. Yip Kim- felt he was targeted because of his job. “I see “It’s an unwanted and extreme step,” said wah and Wong Chi-wah were convicted yes- nothing in my personal life that may possibly Khin Zaw Win, director of the Tampadipa Beyond government policy terday of causing grievous bodily harm with trigger such a violent attack. I believe it has to In Japan and Germany, economic turnaround was driven by Institute, a policy advocacy group, and advisor the jury taking less than four hours to reach a be related to my work,” he said. firms with strong employee loyalty gained by the promise of ris- to multiple MPs. “They are using security appa- unanimous verdict. ing wages and jobs for life, as well as innovative products that ratus to affect a reshuffle in the party. They But questions remain over why they car- Attack sparks protests were exported worldwide. Whether they were pre-war con- should have settled this some other way rather ried out the attack and who offered them an The defendants, both 39, remained glomerates such as Mitsubishi or Sumitomo, smaller pre-war than using brute force. This is a reminder of the alleged payment of HK$100,000 ($13,000). expressionless as the decision was handed companies like automaker Toyota or new firms representing very unhappy past.” Shwe Mann was replaced The attack came just weeks after Lau was down. They had pleaded not guilty to the now-familiar brands-such as consumer electronics giant Sony as chairman of the party because he was busy removed from his position at the helm of the charges, saying they had nothing to do with and car manufacturer Honda-Japanese firms were rigidly hierar- in his role as speaker of parliament, the USDP Ming Pao and replaced with an editor the attack, and accused police of beating chical institutions that closely resembled a family or religious said in a statement yesterday that made no ref- deemed to be pro-Beijing. His sacking trig- them into confessions while in custody. institution, according to experts. Tight coordination by the erence to the role of the security forces. It said gered staff protests and widespread fears Prosecutors said Yip had told police he had powerful industry ministry helped drive economic growth. Htay Oo, an ally of the president, was now party that Beijing was tightening control of the driven Wong to a street where Lau usually “Human infrastructure provided a very favorable environment: chairman. press in the semi-autonomous territory. ate after being offered the money, and that Japan had a wide pool of highly motivated, disciplined, diligent The USDP named one of president’s closest Prosecutors said the men had each been there was CCTV footage of the two near and quick-to-learn laborers prepared to work long hours for (ini- aides, Tin Naing Thein, as secretary general of offered the amount but did not elaborate on Lau’s home ahead of the attack. But electri- tially) quite low wages and really committed to serving their the party. He replaced Shwe Mann supporter the source. Lau said whoever planned the cian Yip insisted he only went to the area to companies,” Ivan Tselichtchev, an economist at Niigata Maung Maung Thein. A list of Central Executive attack was still at large. “I urge the police to find an ex-boss who owed him wages. Both University said. “This was amplified by the formation of a unique Committee (CEC) members issued by the USDP take all efforts to continue their investigation men were detained in mainland China Japanese company model with long term employment, seniori- yesterday showed other allies of Shwe Mann until they find out the mastermind behind before being returned to Hong Kong in mid- ty and cooperative company unions as its pillars”.— AFP have been replaced by politicians moved out of the crime.” Only then would the “shadow March last year.— AFP government positions in a presidential reshuffle International18 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 In Burundi, simmering violence may herald new civil war

NAIROBI: It started as street protests three months ago, with furious citizens demonstrating against Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza’s now success- ful bid for a third term in power. But while the demonstrators who blocked city streets in daily protests are now gone, analysts warn the nature of violence has shifted-and some fear they may have already seen the opening shots in a new civil war. In Africa’s troubled Great Lakes region, an area with a grim history of massacres and war, “a new rebellion is being born before our eyes”, a Burundian analyst said. The UN Security Council on Monday expressed “deep concern on the political and security” situation. UN Assistant Secretary- General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic warned about an escalation, with his spokesman saying “the risk of severe violence, of a spiraling out of control of the situation in Burundi is, indeed, very real”. Burundi had been slowly getting back on track after the 1993-2006 conflict, in which some 300,000 people were killed. Back then, the battlefields were green hills and farmlands where rebels from the majority Hutu people clashed with an army domi- nated by the minority Tutsi. Today, the violence is mainly in the capital, Bujumbura. Most nights, the city rattles with bursts of automatic gunfire and the blasts of grenades. “The war, in reality, has already begun,” said Innocent Muhozi, a key civil society leader. At dawn, signs of the fighting become visi- ble: the blackened remains of burnt-out vehicles and corpses lying in the streets. BUJUMBURA: Mourners hold portraits of Burundian General Adolphe Nshimirimana during a vigil in Bujumbura. Nshimirimana, widely seen as Burundi’s de-facto internal security chief and close aide of President Nkurunziza, whose successful bid for a third Opposition arming themselves term has fuelled violence resulting in about a hundred deaths, a crackdown on protests and an exodus of citizens fleeing the coun- “At night, neighborhoods are barricaded with try, was killed in a rocket attack on August 2. Burundi’s prosecutor on August 9 said the killers had been identified and “a certain armed men patrolling,” said one resident describ- number” had been arrested. —AFP ing young men carrying AK-47 rifles in the dark. “Peaceful demonstrators before the election were accused of being insurgents-now they have become that,” said the analyst, who declined to be North Korea slams South-US identified. Some 200,000 people have fled fearing further violence into neighboring Tanzania, as well as to Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. drill as ‘declaration of war’ Nkurunziza’s successful effort to bulldoze his way into a third term in a controversial July election fuelled protests, a sweeping crackdown and an exo- Pyongyang threatens White House, Seoul dus of citizens fleeing the unrest. When his candidacy was announced in April, it SEOUL: North Korea yesterday condemned a In May, the North claimed to have successfully continental ballistic missile capable of reaching was condemned as unconstitutional by the opposi- looming South Korea-US joint military exercise test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic mis- the continental US. Ulchi Freedom will kick off tion and sparked months of protests. In mid-May, as a “declaration of war” and boasted of its sile (SLBM) - a technology that could eventual- amid elevated cross-border tensions following generals attempted a coup, which failed, with its ability to make retaliatory strikes against Seoul ly offer a survivable second-strike capability. A the recent mine attack that maimed two South leader Godefroid Nyombare-a powerful Hutu army and the White House. The annual, two-week fully developed SLBM capability would take Korean soldiers. Pyongyang has yet to react to commander-vanishing. His supporters have since “Ulchi Freedom” exercise, which kicks off the North Korean nuclear threat to a new level, the charge that it was responsible, but the promised to topple Nkurunziza. Now security forces Monday, involves tens of thousands of troops allowing deployment far beyond the Korean South has already responded by resuming are hesitant to return to neighborhoods opposed in what is a largely computer-simulated peninsula. But numerous experts questioned high-decibel propaganda broadcasts across to the government, fearing they will be attacked. rehearsal for a North Korean invasion. It is one the authenticity of the May test, saying photos the border, using batteries of loudspeakers Earlier this month, insurgents used a rocket to of a number of annual joint drills that of the launch might have been digitally manip- that had lain silent for more than a decade. assassinate top general Adolphe Nshimirimana, Washington and Seoul insist are purely defen- ulated. Officials in the South say restarting the broad- who was widely seen as the country’s de-facto sive in nature, but which Pyongyang con- And North Korea has never conducted a casts is only the “first step” in a series of retalia- internal security chief. demns as provocative rehearsals for a full-scale test to back its claim to have a working inter- tory measures.—AFP Now people are living in fear of further attacks. attack on the nuclear-armed North. This year’s The city is rife with secrets and rumors of young Ulchi Freedom comes at a time of particularly men vanishing overnight, leaving to join an under- heightened tensions, following a recent land- After a decade of peace, ground rebellion, or of desertions within the army. mine attack on a South Korean border patrol Rebels are growing in strength with greater profes- that Seoul blamed on North Korea. many in Aceh left behind sionalism and “increased operational capacity”, the A statement by the North’s Committee for analyst said. A Western security source confirmed the Peaceful Reunification of Korea (CPRK), BANDA ACEH: Fakhruddin Kasem hoped for country, are believed to have travelled to the recent reports about apparently well-trained men which oversees cross-border issues, a prosperous new life when Indonesia struck Middle East to join IS, sparking fears they infiltrating into the capital’s opposition neighbor- denounced Ulchi Freedom as a “drill for a sur- a deal to end a separatist conflict in Aceh, but could revive sophisticated militant networks hoods. Burundi’s government has pointed the fin- prise nuclear war” against the North. “Such a decade on the unemployed former rebel is responsible for attacks on Western targets on ger of blame at neighboring Rwanda the base of large-scale joint military exercises... are little so desperate he hopes to join the Islamic their return. It is not clear whether the ex- many opposition figures who have fled into exile-a short of a declaration of a war,” the statement said, warning of the potential for an accidental State group to make ends meet. While many rebels will really join the fight in Syria and claim Kigali has not commented on. ex-fighters have benefited from peace in the Iraq, but the threat highlights how the transi- Nkurunziza, a 51-year-old former sports teacher, military clash that could trigger an “all-out” conflict. Echoing a threat it has made repeat- western Indonesian province, with ex-rebels tion to civilian life for many Free Aceh and born-again Christian, was a key Hutu rebel now Aceh’s key political players, former local Movement (GAM) rebels has not always been edly in the past, the committee said South leader during the civil war. But his opponents now commander Kasem is among a number that smooth. In 1976, GAM launched its fight for Korea and the United States should be aware appear to be fellow Hutus, not only the members of feel let down. “As a rebel fighter, I feel an independent Islamic state in Aceh, which is that their “strongholds of aggression and the Tutsi minority he battled in the 1993-2006 con- betrayed by the leadership as they have not fiercely proud of its identity and was histori- provocation”-including the White House and flict. Main opposition leader Agathon Rwasa-who taken care of me,” said the 35-year-old, one of cally an important trading centre and seat of presidential Blue House in Seoul-were in range led a different Hutu rebel faction in the war, the about 100 ex-rebels who pledged last month Muslim learning. Over the next 29 years, fight- of the North’s “ultra-precision” military National Liberation Forces-denounced Nkurunziza’s to join IS in Syria as they claim being salaried ing between rebels and Indonesian govern- weapons. win but took his seat in parliament. But on the jihadists is the only way they can support ment forces left about 15,000 people dead- North Korea has an extensive missile devel- ground, Rwasa’s traditional supporters are on the their families. with abuses committed by both sides-before “front line” in the hills surrounding Bujumbura, opment program to complement its nuclear Up to 500 nationals from Indonesia, the the 2004 tsunami finally persuaded GAM and from where they are bringing in guns into the capi- weapons strategy, although experts are divid- world’s most populous Muslim-majority Jakarta to strike a peace deal. —AFP tal, the Burundi expert added.— AFP ed as to how advanced its delivery systems are. www.kuwaittimes.net FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

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Models present creations by designer label ‘Yan’s creations’ during the Islamic fashion showcase of the 2015 Kuala Lumpur Fashion week yesterday. — AFP photos Malaysian Islamic Fashion

Models wear creations from the Aini Models wear creations from the Bakker collection. Farel Mikhail collection. Lifestyle FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

Models wear creations from the Yajameel collection. Models wait backstage before the start of Islamic fashion showcase.

A model gets her make-up done as she waits backstage before the start of Islamic fashion showcase.

Models wear creations from the Yan’s Creations collection. Models take selfies as they wait backstage. Casting call returns by popular demand

s your child amazingly awesome, brave, curi- on how to enter can be found on ous, confident, carefree, eager, fearless, funny, https://www.facebook.com/GapMiddleEast Iloving, loud, proud, blunt, thoughtful, honest, Entry phase: From July 30th - August 17th modest, kind, quirky, clever and cool? Are they 2015 parents can upload one photo of their baby wonderfully-naÔve-yet-independent, unstop- (ages four and under) or child (ages five to 12) pable and perfectly imperfect kids? along with contact information. Submissions are On July 30th Gap is launching Casting Call accepted on Gap Middle East’s, Casting Call App. 2015 in UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar, A jury panel consisting of 5 influencers/ editors the widely popular contest that celebrates kids will then select the top 20 finalists, 5 per category being kids, by inviting parents to submit photos (Boy, Girl, Baby Boy, Baby Girl). of their children for the chance to win Gap Gift Fan voting phase: From August 24th - Vouchers, as well as the opportunity to be fea- August 29th, fans can vote on the Casting Call tured in a leading magazine and select Gap store App for their favorites for each category. window displays. “Casting Call is one of our favorite programs at Winner phase: In September 2015, the four Gap and we think that it’s a favorite for parents winners will be announced on the page, the win- around the world as well,” said Olivia Doyne, ners will then participate in a photo-shoot taking Senior Director of Global Marketing at Gap. “By place in UAE. celebrating kids and their individual personalities Families are welcome to drop by the Gap and interests, we hope to encourage them to stores with their little ones in Marina Mall in Abu always believe in their unique selves.” Dhabi, Villaggio Mall in Qatar or The Avenues Mall in Kuwait on August 1st, 2015 for the Casting Casting call 2015 submission process Call launch event. There will be a professional As part of the submission process, Gap is ask- photo-shoot opportunity and fun kids’ activities. ing parents to submit one photo of their child between July 30th and August 17th, 2015. Details Lifestyle FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

Comedian Colbert to host Billy Joel, wife NY anti-poverty Alexis announce concert birth of daughter eading US comedian and talk-show illy Joel and wife Alexis are the parents of a baby girl. A presenter Stephen Colbert was representative for the 66-year-old singer confirmed that announced yesterday as a host of L Della Rose was born early Wednesday morning in New the Global Citizens Festival in New York, B York. The couple married during a surprise ceremony on July 4 which aims to fight extreme poverty. The at Joel’s home on Long Island. Central Park show on September 26 — This is his first child with the 33-year-old Alexis. He has which is free for fans who take action to another daughter with previous wife Christie Brinkley. Last support development-already announced month, the Piano Man set a record for most performances by a headlining musical acts who include single artist at New York’s Madison Square Garden with 65 Beyonce, Pearl Jam, Coldplay and Ed shows. — AP Sheeran. Colbert, who takes over September 8 as the host of CBS televi- sion’s “Late Show” after gaining acclaim as an acerbic satirist, will be among co-hosts Alexis Roderick, left, and Billy along with Mexican-born actress Salma Joel arrive at the Elton John Hayek and Australian actor Hugh AIDS Foundation’s 12th Annual Jackman. ‘An Enduring Vision’ benefit “I am honored and thrilled to join gala in New York. — AP Global Citizen in urging world leaders to commit to ending extreme poverty. Finally, all that UN traffic will have a pur- pose!” Colbert said, joking of the notori- ous congestion in New York when world leaders converge for the annual UN General Assembly. Launched in 2012, the Disney brings ‘Beauty and the Beast’ to India Global Citizen Festival coincides with the UN summit in hopes of putting poverty isney India will bring hit Broadway musical “Beauty and the Beast” India will become the 29th country to stage the musical when it plays high on the agenda. This year’s festival, to India. The production will retain the original script and music, in Mumbai and Delhi from October through December. Disney Theatrical which will be broadcast internationally for Dbut will feature more than a 100 local performers. The show will be Productions produced the Broadway show, with music by Alan Menken, the first time, comes as the United Nations directed by Vikranth Pawar, Creative Head, Live Entertainment at Disney lyrics by Howard Ashman and additional songs with music by Menken and announces new targets at the end of its India. Leslie Lewis will oversee the music and Terence Lewis the choreog- lyrics by Tim Rice, and the book written by Linda Woolverton. — Reuters 15-year push known as the Millennium raphy. Development Goals. Since the headliners were announced a month ago, the Global Citizen Festival says it has seen some 500,000 actions, which include pressing governments on foreign development New ‘Star Wars’ film aid. One key goal is to urge governments to direct more than half of foreign aid to the least developed countries-a figure images showcase Dark Side that stands at around 32 percent in the United States. — AFP he Dark Side is front and center in the latest images of villains from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”-the highly anticipated Tnext chapter in the blockbuster space saga due later this year. Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday released several new photos of baddies Kylo Ren (Adam Driver from “Girls”), Captain Phasma (“Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie) and General Hux (British actor Domhnall Gleeson). The Hollywood industry magazine also revealed some origin stories about the characters, who will appear for the first time in Episode VII of the mega-franchise, due out on December 18. Kylo Ren is allied with the First Order, a remnant of the Empire, and his appearance seems heavily influenced by Darth Vader-he is clad in black and wears a mask. He is seen flanked by Stormtroopers and striding through the ruins of a ransacked village on the planet Jakku. Kylo Ren is not even his real name-he adopted it when he joined the Knights of Ren, director JJ Abrams-the brains behind both the new “Star Wars” film and a highly successful “Star Trek” reboot- told the magazine. “He is not your prototypical mustache-twirling bad guy,” Abrams said. “He is a little bit more complex than that, and it was a great joy to work with Adam Driver on this role.” The article hints that perhaps his parents are characters already known in “Star Wars” mythology. Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan not- ed: “I’ve written four Star Wars movies now, and there’s never been a character quite like the one that Adam plays.” Also included in the magazine’s film preview are images of the black-clad General Hux, a ruthless leader of the First Order played by Gleeson, who played Bill Weasley in the last two “Harry Potter” films. And Captain Phasma, a First Order warrior, is shown clad in full armor. Lucasfilm and its parent company Disney have offered a slow drop of information about the film, tantalizing the millions of fans eagerly awaiting a return to the “Star Wars” universe. Those fans are Stephen Colbert as he celebrates win- hoping for a bit more information this weekend at the Disney D23 ning the Outstanding Variety Series convention in Anaheim, California. But Entertainment Weekly, quot- Award for ‘The Colbert Report’, during ing an unnamed source, said no new trailer will be released at the the 66th Emmy Awards. — AFP event. — AFP Lifestyle FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

Stranger than fiction

Telepathy by Amir Tag Elsir

Reviewed by Jamie Etheridge rator grows more and more confused about what is real and what isn’t. A short read, Telepathy is hindered by clunky writing. Whether it’s trange and fantastical happenings are nothing new in fiction. But the original Arabic or the translation by William Hutchins, the writing in Telepathy by Amir Tag Elsir, strange takes on the form of reality fails the plot. In English, the story bumps along the narrative road like an Sgone horribly awry. The story centers around a successful overloaded donkey cart. Sudanese novelist living in Khartoum who has recently published a Take this excerpt: book, Hunger’s Hopes. The protagonist of the book is a disheveled, “What I wanted, quite seriously, was to counteract the arid destiny I schizophrenic homeless man, Nishan Hamza Nishan, who suddenly had written and attempt to adorn it with some verdure, even if it proved appears in the author’s life as a real person. Now the author must figure obstinate and insisted on remaining dry. I wanted to perform what I out how to save the real Nishan from the fate proscribed him in the nov- considered my imperative duty, while stepping away from my career as el and determine if Nishan is as real as he claims. a novelist whose works are distributed nationally and internationally, in The first person narrative takes the reader on a winding journey order to be an ordinary person who would sweep his neighbor’s court- through the streets of Khartoum, and Elsir introduces the reader to a yard if he found it dirty, milk a goat for an elderly woman with shaky cast of strange characters including the young hopeful writer Najma hands, or carry a small child on his back while crossing a street bristling who seeks the novelist’s advice and critique only to reject it, Umm with traffic accidents. I thought this would not be out of character for Salama, a woman who takes care of him, a playwright named Abd Al- me, because I have a benevolent personality and in the past repeatedly Qawi, the Shadow and his mysterious daughter, Linda along with Hajj Al performed such chores. It was just that at this time, I needed to change Bayt, an imam from the slum where Nishan lives among others. my life’s pattern to allow this character to succeed.” The novelist is torn between trying to focus on his writing, caring for The writing is so maladroit and convoluted its difficult for the reader the bizarre real life Nishan and following the thread of all the strange to enjoy the story. The novel’s short length and surprise ending, howev- things that seem to keep happening. A sort of Quixote-esque journey er, make it worth the effort. through the absurd, there are diversions into Facebook posts and visits Published in June 2015 by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, to psychiatric hospitals and proposals of marriage. All the while, the nar- Telepathy is now available at selected bookshops in Kuwait.

Hublot and Paris Saint-Germain score atop Rockefeller center

ublot and Paris Saint-Germain, the world- Football’ and d the Art of Fusion by blending football. Hublot’s relationship p with the French renowned French Football Club, debuted together different aspects of the French culture Club began in 2013 when it became the Official Hthe official watch of Paris Saint-Germain, Big through sports, art, music and food.” Timekeeper and Official Watch of the team and Bang Unico Bi-Retrograde Paris Saint-Germain, in The Big Bang Unico Bi-Retro grade Paris Saint- introduced the first timepiece known as the King celebration of the team’s North America summer Germain - Hublot’s second timepiece with the Power Paris Saint-Germain. tour. Hot on the heels of the FIFA Women’s World French football champion - is limited to 100 pieces Paris Saint-Germain recently launched a new Cup Canada 2015, where Hublot served as the offi- and features a 45.5mmm titanium case with a sap- campaign, “Paris Loves US,” to support its North cial timekeeper, this partnership and timepiece are phire anti-reflective treatment and the Paris Saint- America tour during the Intern national Champions another example of Hublot’s love for global “foot- Germain logo printed on the case back glass. Cup - demonstrating how keen it is to pursue ball” and ongoing support of the “Hublot Loves Inspired by the iconic team colors, embellishments development on the continent. Throughout the Football” campaign launched during FIFA World of red, white and blue are reflected throughout the team’s 18 days in North A America they will travel Cup Brazil last summer. dial, hands and strap. Manufactured with Hublot’s from New York City to Charrlotte, Chicago, and Hublot’s US Managing Director, Jean-Francois in-house UNICO self-winding bi-retrograde move- Montreal to play matches against some of Europe’s Sberro, hosted an exclusive cocktail event with the ment and designed to time two halves of a soccer top clubs. Paris Saint-Germain also launched a team at a private rooftop g garden atop the historic match, the sleek and sporty timepiece will be avail- dedicated website for their North America Tour, Rockefeller Center to o launch the Big Bang Unico able exclusively at Hublot boutiques around the allowing fans across the world to follow along the Bi-Retrograde Paris Saint-Germain timepiece. Star world. team’s journey and celebrate “Paris Loves US.” players in attendance included Zlatan Ibrahimovic, As the first luxury watch brand to become Blaise Matuidi and Thiago Silva, as well as Kevin involved with European football in 2006, Hublot Trapp who officially joined the Parisian Club last has since built a strong presence in the world of week. The night celebrated French culture, including music by French DJ, Oliviier Meiji, and a live art demonstration by French artist, Jon One. As a sur- prise to guests, Paris Saint-Germain players also tried their hand at paint ting, creating a one-of-a- kind painting on a large canvas with the help of the artist. The painting will be auctioned off later this season to benefit the team’s charitable foundation, Foundation Paris Saint-Germain. To top it off, guests enjoyed desserts made by the team with cult pastry chef, Dominique Ansel. The timepiece unveiling was hosted by former New York Giants’ Quarterback and friend of Hublot, Jesse Palmer, and included VIP attendees, including New York Giants’ star Victor Cruz, New York Knicks’ basketball player Lance Thomas, FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 champion Kelley O’Hara, and LVMH USA CEO, Pauline Brown. Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot, noted, “Hublot is thrilled to welcome the Paris Saint- Germain team to New York City as we show our support for this great team through our dedication to the sport of football. Our brand has an exciting history with h Paris Saint-Germain, and here tonight, we continue to celebrate ‘Hublot Loves FRIDAY 24 14 AUGUST , 2015

3 mouth-watering crab recipes

Ingredients Preparation 1 lb lump crabmeat Mix together eggs, mayo, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and mustard, until 1/2 cup breadcrumbs creamy. Add bread crumbs, mixing evenly. Add in the crab meat, being sure 2 eggs to mix evenly. Shape into cakes. Makes 6 large or 9 medium crab cakes. 1/4 cup mayonnaise (do not use dressing) Saute in pan with a little oil for about 5 minutes on each side. You can also 1 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning broil them until brown. This may require you to flip them, depending on 1/4 teaspoon pepper your pan. Serve with tartar sauce and lemon. Tip: Try a crab cake sandwich. I 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce use a Martin’s Brand potato roll topped with tartar sauce and crisp lettuce. 1 teaspoon dry mustard Crab FRIDAY Ragtoon 14 AUGUST, 2015 Ingredients 1/4 cup sour cream 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, at room temp 3/4-1 cup crabmeat, picked 2 green onions, sliced thin 1 clove garlic, minced (large clove) 1 teaspoon ginger, minced 2 teaspoons soy sauce 1 teaspoon sugar wonton wrapper

Preparation Whip together the sour cream, cream cheese and soy sauce and sugar until smooth. Fold in remaining ingredients (except wrap- pers) Heat oil to med-high and you want it around 2 inches deep. Place a small bowl of water on your work surface and lay out 6 wrappers, and place around the center of each wrapper. Moisten edges, bring up corners and pinch together, along with sides-you donít want filling to float away. Place all 6 in the hot oil and repeat process. By the time you have the next set of 6 ready to crimp it should be time to turn the rangoon’s. You want them a nice golden color. When done remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Repeat until done.

Garlic Butter Baked Crab Legs

Ingredients 2 lbs king crab legs 1/2 cup butter (salted or unsalted) 1/2 head garlic, about 5 garlic cloves, minced pressed 1/2 lemon, juice of 1/2lime, juice of 1/8 cup extra virgin olive oil Sea salt (optional) Dried parsley (optional)

Preparation Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Meanwhile, grab yourself a small saucepan. On med low heat, melt the butter. Add the garlic and LIGHTLY saute. Squeeze in the juice of the citrus of choice. If using a lemon, squeeze the juice into your hands so that you can remove the seeds with ease. Turn the heat to low and let those flavors mesh until the oven is nice and hot. Toss in as much salt (to taste) and a couple pinches of parsley. Then whisk in that olive oil with a fork. Turn off your burner. Arrange your tasty crustaceans in a 9x13 baking dish, brush- ing each leg with the sauce. Now toss the pan into the oven on the center rack. Bake your crabs for about 25 minutes or so (depending on how thick the legs you have are), brushing the sauce from the bottom of the pan onto the legs every 5-7 minutes. Remove from oven. Sprinkle with a few pinches of parsley for garnish. FRIDAY 14 AUGUST, 2015 Entertainment

By Tom Frank

ecently, Dustin Hoffman said in an interview with The Independent that “right now televi- Rsion is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been - in the 50 years that I’ve been doing it, it’s the worst.” Now, although this idea had been bouncing around much of the internet and in popular discus- sion for quite a while, it hadn’t really been dis- cussed too much by the traditional media outlets until very recently. And with Hoffman, one of Hollywood’s greatest living actors, siding with the idea that TV has overtaken film in some regards, it looks as if more people within the film industry are beginning to take notice of the increased quality of television programming. However, is this definitely the case? Has the once great medium of storytelling that was cinema been overtaken by television?

Massive audiences Firstly, let’s assume that Hoffman and many oth- ers are correct and TV has picked up the mantle of being the best medium for visual media and story- telling. There is little doubt that in the last decade there have been dozens of excellent dramas. Dead and Game of Thrones all have blockbuster more chances in their action sequences it immedi- Breaking Bad, Fargo, Mad Men and The Wire are level budgets and have wowed audiences with ately raises them above the PG-13, one man army merely just the best known of these which have some of their set pieces and action sequences. films like Taken 2/3, Three Days to Kill and The managed to attract massive global audiences. Now the question is are these shows the equals November Man. There have been some brilliantly inventive comedy of the movies that fall into the same genres in However, all this truly shows is how far televi- shows like Community, It’s Always Sunny in terms of storytelling and/or entertainment? I would sion has come in recent years, not how far films Philadelphia and Bojack Horseman, and there have say that there have been several great dramas in have fallen. Most of these problems have been even been forays into the kind of territory once the past few years which have gained critical and only occupied by films. Daredevil, The Walking financial success which show that despite the strength of television drama it will probably never overtake their big-screen counterparts. The Social Network, Drive, 12 Years A Slave, Prisoners, Whiplash and Birdman and many more films prove that dramatic films are alive and well. However, I would be willing to accept that there is a possibility that the general quality of comedy is higher on tel- evision than in films. You could argue that films like The Grand Budapest Hotel and Silver Linings Playbook count as comedies and maybe they do but they have too many dramatic elements for my liking. Quality comedies like the Jump Street films are few and far between nowadays as the genre is now dominated by films which mistake crudity and/or stupidity for comedy.

The case for action One could also argue that action based TV shows also seem more impressive because of the sorry state of action films right now. The action sequences in Daredevil, Game of Thrones and True Detective only seem so impressive because most action films, apart from a few exceptions like The Raid, are lacking in real grit or half decent action direction. When TV directors and writers are taking FRIDAY 14 AUGUST, 2015

less cheap in comparison to their cinema counter- parts. However, all of these points completely dis- count one fact. When anyone says films are worse than they used to be they are usually referring to films from western countries. This is completely dis- counting films from much of Europe, Asia, South and Central America and even Africa. Just in the last couple of years films like Two Days, One Night, Blue is the Warmest Colour, The Hunt, Leviathan, Ida, The Wind Rises, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and The Babadook have all shown you don’t have to be western or in Hollywood to produce a brilliant film. It is this consistent, international qual- ity of film that makes it stand above television in the end. Whereas TV has come to the fore in America and Britain as almost equal to cinema, across the rest of the world cinema is still king present for years, it just hadn’t been so apparent which is almost unprecedented in television dra- — (www.movierehab.com) because there was nothing to compare it to. Also, mas. Fukunaga had already directed feature films there are many genres where television isn’t even but chose to take what many would consider to be coming close to the film industry. There hasn’t a backwards move by directing a TV series. been a truly brilliant Sci-Fi series since Battlestar However, many even higher profile names like Galactica, Utopia did come close though. And in David Fincher with House of Cards have become this time we’ve had Inception, Looper, District 9, creatively involved with TV series in recent years. Edge of Tomorrow, Moon, Interstellar and Gravity TV series can also now hold onto big name actors which goes to prove that the best science fiction like Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in can still be found in the cinema. the case of Sherlock because it is no longer consid- In a similar vein, the invention of the “Cinematic ered the lesser medium in a creative sense. Universe” and the resurgence of many franchises associated with “nerd culture” the movie industry Technical similarities has developed a new concept which could be seen All of this could lead to one saying that the two as similar with the episodic nature of television. are arguably now equal because they have been Every few months or so there is a new installment brought closer together in terms of creativity. in what could be seen as a larger Marvel series, it’s There are also closer technical similarities with the like a really irregular miniseries. majority of films being shot digitally like TV series. Similarly, with the rise to prominence of sub- This has led to films arguably losing their own dis- scription services the so-called “binge watch” has tinct visual identity as fewer and fewer filmmakers turned TV series into very long films. I watched the continue to use film. Tarantino has vehemently entire first series of True Detective in one sitting tried to preserve film because he despises how and it may have been several hours long but it films are beginning to look like TV shows. The neg- worked as a single cohesive narrative. True ative effects of this aside the fact that films now no Detective is also a good place to start with another longer have their own distinct beauty has led to TV point. Cary Fukunaga directed the entire first series shows looking and feeling not more expensive but Tr a v e l FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

Tr a v e l Philippines island adventure Tr a v e l FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

he Philippines is justifiably known for its beaches, but the country Tisn’t just about finding an isolated patch of sand and sinking into a sun- kissed stupor. The 7000-plus islands of the Philippines offer an array of more adventurous pursuits that can raise any adrenaline junkie’s pulse. Here are half- dozen ideas to find the right island for your adventure.

Luzon for trekking Rugged terrain of all stripes makes the Philippines’ massive main island a trekkers’ delight. The hiking is best in the northern Cordillera Mountains. Camp overnight on peaks such as 2922m Mt Pulag or Mt Napulawan (2642m) and wake up to watch the sun rise over the sea of clouds - a magical sight. Secure guides and camping equipment before you set out and dress warmly, as temperatures drop into the single digits up top. Trekking amid the Unesco-recognised rice terraces around Banaue, Ifugao Province, is an experi- ence not to be missed; while remote Mountain Province and Kalinga Province are great places to visit hill tribes on village-to-village hikes. Heading south of Manila, volcanoes are the name of the game. With its per- fect cone, Mt Mayon (2462m) in south- east Luzon is the headliner. ‘Mayon’ means ‘beautiful’ in the local dialect, but it’s an angry, active beauty. If it’s rumbling or threatened by a typhoon don’t climb it, as there have been acci- dents - heed any warnings and exclu- sions zones that are in place (see the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, phivolcs.dost.gov.ph, for volcano alerts). Several additional volca- noes line the nine-hour route between Manila and Mt Mayon along the ‘ring of fire’. Luzon has plenty of additional adventures - surfing on both the east and west sides of the island, wake- boarding, mountain biking, rafting, and kayaking, just to name a few. North Luzon Outdoor Center in hippie-haven Sagada, Mountain Province, organizes rafting and other tours in the Cordillera.

Samar for spelunking Any mention of the island of Samar is usually preceded by the word ‘rugged’. Surfers speak in awe of the barely acces- sible waves on the east coast, while the dense interior forests provide a rare chance to spot the Philippines’ national bird, the endangered Philippine Eagle. But caving is by far the biggest draw. The tours run by Trexplore out of Cataloging will blow you away. Don your full-body canvas spelunking suit and helmet equipped with a calcium- carbide gas lamp, and follow your tour leader into the abyss. For the next five hours you’ll be swimming through underground streams, plunging through karst tunnels, and slithering under low-hanging stalactites. It’s the ultimate Indiana Jones adventure. Multi-day underground odysseys are also available.

Mindoro for diving The Philippines are well known as a top-class dive destination, but the country’s best scuba spot is somewhat Tr a v e l FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

off the radar of the average visitor. That north of El Nido by boat is the adventure would be Apo Reef, a glorious, mostly paradise of Coron. Scuba divers flock to the sunken atoll just two hours off the west area to explore several dozen WWII wrecks coast of Mindoro. in Coron Bay off Busuanga Island. The bay is While most of the Philippines is known dotted with idyllic islands that provide shel- for its colorful macro (small) sea life, Apo ter and good camping spots, and some of Reef is a smorgasbord of both macro life the best snorkeling in the Philippines. Sea and larger creatures. On some dives you kayakers can spend up to a week hopping might lose count of how many sharks, rays around the islands here, fishing for their and sea turtles you spot. For years it was dif- food and basking in the serene aura of iso- ficult to access Apo Reef because of poor lation. Tribal Adventures has quality kayaks roads leading to the main jumping-off and can tailor a trip to your tastes and skill town, Sablayan. Now smooth highways and level. improved flight connections from Manila to nearby San Juan mean you can depart Bohol for stand-up paddleboarding Manila in the morning and be on the reef by The southern Visayan island of Bohol is midday with Apo Reef Club, an hour north best known for its diving, but lately it has of San Juan. emerged as the place to try a more new- fangled type of activity: stand-up paddle- Mindanao for whitewater rafting boarding (SUP). The emerald-green Loboc While some parts of Mindanao are no-go River slithers through a deep canyon zones because of safety concerns, the draped in tropical forest - set out early in northern part of the Philippines’ largest the morning when the rich birdlife is at its island is considered safe - not to mention most active. A ways upstream a waterfall scenically splendid and ripe for adventure. provides a perfect backdrop for SUP yoga, While the big rapids are in North Luzon, the which sees practitioners go through yoga rafting window up there is short. In the poses on their boards. - northern Mindanao city of Cagayan de Oro, (www.lonelyplanet.com) you can raft the Cagayan River year-round on rapids that can reach Class IV. It’s equal parts thrilling and scenic, and longer trips involve a lunch and hangout time with your super-cool Filipino rafting guides - CDO Bugsay River Rafting is one of several opera- tors. From Cagayan de Oro you are just a couple of hours by boat to another adven- ture wonderland, volcano-studded Camiguin.

Palawan for sea kayaking Palawan is best known for the spectacu- lar limestone formations of the Bacuit Archipelago off El Nido, but several hours Leisure FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

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Theater 13:30 Good Luck Charlie 14:15 Coronation Street 02:30 Veep 12:15 American Muscle 13:55 Dog With A Blog 14:40 The Chase 03:00 Men At Work 13:05 Auction Hunters: Pawn Shop 14:25 H2O: Just Add Water 15:35 Coach Trip 03:30 Galavant Edition 14:55 Lolirock 16:00 Coach Trip 04:00 The Simpsons 13:30 Storage Hunters UK 15:25 Austin & Ally 16:30 Blue Go Mad In Ibiza 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 00:45 Tanked 13:55 American Digger 16:00 Jessie 00:00 Chopped 17:25 Come Date With Me Australia Jimmy Fallon 01:40 Gangland Killers 14:20 Gold Rush 16:30 Jessie 01:00 Trisha’s Southern Kitchen 17:45 Come Date With Me Australia 05:30 Til Death 02:35 Big Fish Man 15:10 Fat N’ Furious: Rolling Thunder 17:00 Aladdin 01:30 Trisha’s Southern Kitchen 06:00 The Goldbergs 03:25 Gator Boys 18:20 Murdoch Mysteries 16:00 Fast N’ Loud 18:40 Liv And Maddie 02:00 Australian Food Adventures 06:30 Cristela 04:15 I Was Bitten 19:10 Coronation Street 16:50 What Happened Next? 19:05 Liv And Maddie With Matt Moran 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 05:02 Treehouse Masters 19:35 Coach Trip 17:15 How Do They Do It? 19:30 Lolirock 03:00 Man Fire Food 08:00 The Simpsons 05:49 Gangland Killers 20:00 Coach Trip 17:40 Deadliest Catch 19:55 Hank Zipzer 03:30 Man Fire Food 08:30 Til Death 06:36 Meet The Orangutans 20:30 Blue Go Mad In Ibiza 18:30 Fast N’ Loud 20:20 Binny And The Ghost 04:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 09:00 Men At Work 07:00 Meet The Orangutans 21:25 Come Date With Me Australia 19:20 Extreme Car Hoarders 20:45 H2O: Just Add Water 04:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 09:30 Modern Family 07:25 Too Cute! Pint-Sized 21:55 Come Date With Me Australia 20:10 Junkyard Empire 21:10 Good Luck Charlie 05:00 Chopped 10:00 Modern Family 07:50 The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner 22:20 Coronation Street 21:00 Fast N’ Loud 21:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 06:00 Iron Chef America 10:30 Cristela 08:15 Gangland Killers 22:50 Emmerdale 21:50 Extreme Car Hoarders 22:00 Wizards Of Waverly Place 07:00 Man Fire Food 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 09:10 Treehouse Masters 23:15 Emmerdale 22:40 Street Outlaws 22:25 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 07:30 Man Fire Food Jimmy Fallon 10:05 Tanked 23:30 Hellriders Witch 08:00 Chopped 23:45 Murdoch Mysteries 12:00 The Goldbergs 11:00 Too Cute! Pint-Sized 22:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 09:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 12:30 The Simpsons 11:25 The Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner Witch 10:00 The Kitchen 13:00 Til Death 11:55 Treehouse Masters 23:10 Wolfblood 11:00 Easy Chinese 13:30 Cristela 12:50 Austin Stevens: Snakemaster 23:35 Wolfblood 11:30 Easy Chinese 14:00 Galavant 13:45 Big Fish Man 12:00 Chopped 14:30 Modern Family 14:40 Gator Boys 13:00 Guy’s Big Bite 15:00 Modern Family 15:35 Tanked 13:30 Guy’s Big Bite 16:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 16:30 Austin Stevens: Snakemaster 00:00 Violetta 00:10 Megastructures 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Wilmore 17:25 Gangland Killers 00:45 The Hive 01:00 Mega Factories 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 16:30 The Goldbergs 18:20 River Monsters 00:50 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 02:00 Innovation Nation 15:00 Man Fire Food 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 19:15 Gator Boys Witch 02:25 Innovation Nation 00:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 15:30 Man Fire Food 18:00 Baby Daddy 20:10 Tanked 01:15 Sabrina: Secrets Of A Teenage 02:55 Cosmos: A Spacetime 00:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 16:00 Chopped 18:30 Galavant 21:05 The Lion Queen Witch Odyssey 17:00 The Kitchen 19:00 Melissa & Joey 22:00 River Monsters 01:40 Wolfblood 00:55 Extreme Close-Up 03:50 Star Talk 18:00 Easy Chinese 19:30 Melissa & Joey 22:55 I’m Alive 02:05 Wolfblood 01:25 Keeping Up With The 04:45 The Big Picture With Kal Penn 18:30 Easy Chinese 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 23:50 Gator Boys 02:30 Violetta Kardashians 05:10 The Big Picture With Kal Penn 19:00 Chopped Jimmy Fallon 03:15 The Hive 02:20 E! 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00:00 National Lampoon’s European Vacation 02:00 Struck By Lightning 04:00 Mafia! 06:00 Planes, Trains And Automobiles 08:00 Liar, Liar 10:00 Struck By Lightning 12:00 Planes, Trains And Automobiles 14:00 Foodfight! 16:00 Liar, Liar 18:00 The Pretty One 20:00 Life Of Crime 22:00 The Right Kind Of Wrong

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01:30 He Got Game 03:45 Safe Haven 06:00 Annie 08:30 Bobby Jones: Stroke Of Genius 11:00 Safe Haven 13:00 The Magic Of Belle Isle WORLD WAR Z ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD 15:00 Salinger 17:15 Bobby Jones: Stroke Of 14:45 Epic-PG 13:45 The Good Mother Street-PG 15:15 Ben 10: Omniverse 05:50 Calimero Genius 16:30 Until She Came Along-PG15 15:15 Wreckers 19:25 The Four Horsemen Of...-PG 15:40 Ninjago: Masters Of 06:00 Zou 19:30 Gravity 18:15 Snitch-PG15 16:45 The Village 22:00 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Spinjitzu 06:15 Loopdidoo 21:00 Prisoners 20:15 Deliverance Creek-PG15 18:30 Speak Anymore-18 16:00 Matt Hatter Chronicles 06:25 Limon And Oli 23:30 American Hustle 22:00 Dom Hemingway-18 20:00 Dedication 23:50 Sweet Bird Of Youth 16:25 Teen Titans Go! New 06:35 Art Attack 21:45 That’s What I Am 16:35 Teen Titans Go! 07:00 Calimero 23:30 Frankenweenie 16:45 Teen Titans Go! 07:10 Zou 17:10 Uncle Grandpa 07:25 Minnie’s Bow-Toons 17:21 Uncle Grandpa 07:30 Jake And The Never Land 17:30 Regular Show Pirates 01:00 Blood-PG15 02:00 Golfing World 18:15 Adventure Time 07:55 Sofia The First 03:00 When The Game Stands Tall- 07:00 Golfing World 18:40 The Amazing World Of 08:20 Doc McStuffins PG15 08:00 World Rugby Gumball 08:45 Loopdidoo 05:00 Non-Stop-PG15 08:30 ICC Cricket 360 Cartoon Network 18:51 The Amazing World Of 09:00 Limon And Oli 07:00 Paranoia-PG15 09:00 NRL Premiership 03:20 Total Drama: All Stars Gumball 09:10 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 09:00 How To Train Your Dragon 2 12:45 Live NRL Premiership 00:00 American Idol 03:42 Total Drama: Revenge Of 19:00 Johnny Test 09:35 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 11:00 The Giver-PG15 19:30 This Is The President’s Cup 01:00 MasterChef Australia 02:00 The Listener The Island 19:11 Johnny Test 10:00 Sofia The First 13:00 Lucy-PG15 20:00 Live The PGA Championship 04:05 Ninjago: Masters Of 15:00 Hours-PG15 03:00 The Listener 19:25 Clarence 10:25 Nina Needs To Go 04:00 Castle Spinjitzu 19:45 Uncle Grandpa 10:30 Jake And The Never Land 17:00 How To Train Your Dragon 2 04:28 Ninjago: Masters Of 19:00 Guardians Of The Galaxy 05:00 Happy Endings 19:57 Uncle Grandpa Pirates 05:30 Happy Endings Spinjitzu 20:10 Teen Titans Go! New 10:55 Miles From Tomorrow 21:00 Divergent-PG15 04:50 Teen Titans Go! 23:15 The Expendables 3-PG15 06:00 The Simpsons 20:20 Teen Titans Go! 11:20 Doc McStuffins 07:00 Super League 06:30 The Simpsons 05:00 Teen Titans Go! 20:30 Teen Titans Go! 11:45 Henry Hugglemonster 09:00 Golfing World 07:00 Lost 05:10 Grojband 20:41 Teen Titans Go! 12:10 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 10:00 World Rugby 08:00 American Idol 05:35 Grojband 20:55 Ben 10: Omniverse 12:35 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 10:30 Trans World Sport 09:00 MasterChef Australia 06:00 Regular Show 21:17 Ben 10: Omniverse 13:00 Sofia The First 12:50 Live AFL Premiership 10:00 The Listener 06:40 Uncle Grandpa 21:40 Adventure Time 13:25 Loopdidoo 19:00 WWE Bottomline 11:00 The Listener 06:50 Uncle Grandpa 21:51 Adventure Time 13:40 Limon And Oli 20:00 WWE Superstars 07:00 Adventure Time 01:15 Goat Story 2 12:00 Castle 22:02 Adventure Time 13:50 Cars Toons 21:00 WWE Main Event 07:25 Steven Universe 02:45 Marvel’s Ultimate Avengers II 13:00 Happy Endings 22:13 Adventure Time 13:55 Jake And The Neverland 22:00 Live Super League 07:35 Steven Universe 04:15 Asterix: The Mansions Of The 13:30 Happy Endings 22:25 Johnny Test Pirates 07:45 The Amazing World Of Gods 14:00 The Simpsons 23:10 Regular Show 14:20 Miles From Tomorrow Gumball 06:00 Dixie And The Zombie 14:30 The Simpsons 23:55 Total Drama: Pahkitew 14:45 Messages From Miles 08:10 Ben 10 Rebellion 15:00 Lost Island 14:50 Doc McStuffins 08:55 Ninjago: Masters Of 08:00 Hammer Boy 16:00 MasterChef Australia 00:20 Total Drama: Pahkitew 15:15 Sofia The First Spinjitzu 10:00 The Dragon Pearl 17:00 Cougar Town Island 15:40 Art Attack 00:30 Natwest T20 Blast H/L: 1st 09:15 Regular Show 11:45 Jelly T 17:30 According To Jim 00:40 Grojband 16:05 Nina Needs To Go Quarter Final 09:27 Regular Show 13:15 Scooby-Doo! 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New 03:10 Henry Hugglemonster 19:00 Jake And The Never Land 12:25 Teen Titans Go! 02:45 Scarecrow-18 03:20 Calimero Pirates 12:40 Regular Show 00:00 Shiver-PG15 04:35 Dark Victory-PG 03:35 Zou 19:30 Loopdidoo 13:25 Adventure Time 01:45 The Hobbit: The Desolation Of 06:20 TCM Presents Under The... 03:45 Loopdidoo 19:45 Doc McStuffins 00:00 The Station Agent 13:35 Adventure Time Smaug-PG 07:00 High Society-FAM 04:00 Art Attack 20:00 Adventures Of The Gummi 01:30 The Good Mother 13:45 Uncle Grandpa 04:45 Grace Unplugged-PG 08:45 The Wonderful World Of The... 04:25 Henry Hugglemonster Bears 03:00 The Eagle 14:10 Steven Universe 06:30 Breakout-PG15 10:50 Beau Brummell-PG 04:35 Calimero 20:30 Sofia The First 05:00 Picture Claire 14:21 Steven Universe 08:00 Until She Came Along-PG15 12:40 Lust For Life-FAM 04:50 Zou 20:55 Cars Toons 06:30 Love Potion No.9 14:30 Total Drama: Pahkitew 09:45 2 Fast 2 Furious-PG15 14:40 Texas Carnival-FAM 05:00 Loopdidoo 21:00 Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers 08:15 Barricade Island 11:45 The Hobbit: The Desolation Of 16:00 Return Of The Gunfighter-PG 05:15 Art Attack 21:25 Ducktales 09:45 Legendary 14:55 Ben 10: Omniverse Smaug-PG 11:30 Face Off 17:40 The Barretts Of Wimpole 05:35 Henry Hugglemonster 21:50 Lilo & Stitch Stars FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

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In a review of more than 70 gushed from a Colorado mine and threatened clinical trials involving nearly 7,000 patients, researchers found music downstream water supplies in at least three to be a powerful analgesic under almost all circumstances. On a scale states will continue to be dangerous when of one to 10, post-operative pain was reduced on average by about a contaminated sediment gets stirred up from fifth compared to standard treatment, said lead author Catherine the river bottom, authorities said Wednesday, Meads of Brunel University in Uxbridge, England. “If you imagine a suggesting there is no easy fix to what could 10-centimetre (four-inch) line where at zero you have no pain and at be a long-term public health risk. The immedi- 10 it is the worst pain imaginable, the impact of music was to shift ate impact of the 3 million gallon spill on Aug the pain you feel two centimeters towards zero,” she said by email. 5 eased as the plume of contamination dissi- According to the study, the benefits held true regardless of the kind pated on its way to Lake Powell along the of music or who selected it. The sampling also covered all types of Utah-Arizona border. But the strong dose of procedures except surgery on the brain or central nervous system. arsenic, cadmium, lead and other heavy met- Surprisingly, even listening to music under general anaesthetic als settled out as the wastewater traveled resulted in feeling less pain, though the effects were larger when downstream, layering river bottoms with con- patients were conscious during an operation. “Currently music is not taminants sure to pose risks in the future. used routinely during surgery to help patients in their post-operative “There will be a source of these contami- recovery,” Meads said in a statement, pointing to widespread skepti- nants in the rivers for a long time,” said hydrol- cism among health professionals. “We hope this study will now shift ogist Tom Myers, who runs a Nevada-based misperceptions and highlight the positive impact music can have.” consulting business. “Every time there’s a high The link between music and healing has a long history. The ancient flow, it will stir it up and it will be moving Greek philosopher-and musician-Pythagoras practiced “musical those contaminants downstream.” The US medicine,” favoring stringed instruments. DURANGO, COLORADO: The Cement Creek flows down a valley a few miles Environmental Protection Agency had pushed downstream from the Gold King mine, where a wastewater accident several for 25 years to grant Superfund status to the days earlier has raised alarm, outside Silverton. —AP Positive impact partly collapsed Gold King mine and other Today, music therapy is an established field, with thousands of idled mines leaking heavy metals above the nel across the country to cease field investiga- dent, mines in the Silverton area that were first practitioners and its own academic literature, including the Journal old mining town of Silverton, Colorado. That of Music Therapy, published by Oxford University Press. But the new tion work on abandoned mines while the spill developed in the late 1800s had been releasing would have brought in major funds for a com- was investigated. EPA officials said they were steady streams of contaminated wastewater study, published in The Lancet, is the first to demonstrate the benefi- prehensive cleanup. Local authorities spurned cial effect of song and melody on those going under the knife. “We seeking details on what the stop-work order into area creeks, leaving some of them virtually federal intervention, leaving a smaller EPA-led means. State attorneys general from Colorado, lifeless. No fish swim where the runoff from the have known since the time of Florence Nightingale that listening to team to investigate a small if steady stream of music has a positive impact on patients during surgery,” said co- New Mexico and Utah appeared separately in Gold King mine flows into Cement Creek and pollution. That team accidentally breached a Durango, pledging to make sure residents are the upper reaches of the Animas, which in turn author Martin Hirsch at the Queen Mary University of London. debris wall at the mine, unleashing the pool of “However, it’s taken pulling together all the small studies on this sub- compensated for damages from the spill. But feeds the San Juan River. One week after the contaminated water that turned the Animas they said they would hold off on legal action spill, the EPA said runoff had returned to its ject into one robust meta-analysis to really prove it works.” Tens of River yellow. millions of operations are performed around the world every year, 50 against the federal government to give the normal levels of about 213 gallons per minute. EPA a chance to prove it will be accountable. Agency cleanup crews hastily built a series of million in the United States alone. Exactly how and why music eases Legal action anxiety and pain is still not known. Some researchers have speculat- Also Wednesday, Colorado state health offi- four sedimentation ponds, bulldozing mounds EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, on a visit cials informed residents in Durango that they of earth and covering pits in plastic, to clean ed that it distracts patients from the business at hand, while others Wednesday to Durango, downstream of the focus on the intrinsic qualities of music itself. —AFP can resume using treatment facilities that draw the runoff from the mine before it drains into spill site, said she had ordered agency person- water from the Animas. Long before the acci- the creek.—AP FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 India court overturns Australia’s taste for fast food puts innovation on menu Nestle noodle’s ban PAGE 38 PAGE 41

MUMBAI: Foreign nationals walk past a wall displaying a foreign currency exchange advertisement in India’s financial capital Mumbai yesterday. Asian currencies gained, recovering from the worst two-day rout in almost 20 years after China reassured markets it would not engage in a currency war. — AFP Some states sidestep stalled reform India’s states go it alone to woo investment MUMBAI: It took two months of courting, with stalled reforms in New Delhi, which has wise there is no point,” said Bhushan Gagrani the market consensus had hoped, but a bit of dozens of negotiators and final talks that ran some Indian businesses fretting a full fledged head of the Maharashtra Industrial realism is necessary,” said Kamakshya Trivedi, into the early hours, but the western Indian recovery will not happen until 2016-17. Development Corporation, who travelled with managing director in emerging market state of Maharashtra secured its prize: a $5 bil- “The states have to move towards making Fadnavis. research at Goldman Sachs in London. Of lion investment commitment from iPhone investments easier, that is in the power of the course, not all industries can work without maker Foxconn. The 5-year deal, announced state government,” said RC Bhargava, the vet- Traffic jams national laws. Foreign supermarkets have last weekend, is a reminder of the pulling eran chairman of Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest India’s states have been sidestepping what found it hard to open in India because only power of India’s wealthiest states - even as carmaker. “The expectation is the competition officials call reform “traffic jams” in New Delhi, certain states allow them to, affecting scale. the central government under Prime Minister between states will drive the so-called less making the most of greater freedoms under Most of the recent flush of foreign invest- Narendra Modi hits its biggest reform road- fortunate states to change their systems and Modi to manage everything from budgets to ment, including this week’s new plant launch blocks to date, over tax and land reform. regulations, to create the infrastructure and relaxing rigid labour laws for the first time in in Andhra Pradesh by Chinese phone maker India’s states, often led by charismatic local environment for investment.” Maharashtra’s decades. After spending much of the year Xiaomi, in partnership with Foxconn, is from heavyweights, have long courted big busi- chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, a young battling tough opposition to his bid to make businesses targeting India’s increasingly afflu- nesses individually. But for the first time party official from the Hindu nationalist heart- it easier to buy farmland for industry through ent consumers. under Modi, previously chief minister of the land said to enjoy favor with Modi, met a federal law, Modi last month decided that it And there are risks to a states-led develop- state of Gujarat, states are actively encour- Foxconn’s management for the first time would be easier to let states set their own ment that will be skewed to India’s wealthier aged to find solutions to reform hurdles and when he travelled to China with Modi in May. rules. regions, like Gujarat, Karnataka, which to compete themselves for investors’ cash. Officials travelling with him said Terry Gou, Ten states accounting for almost half of includes Bengaluru, or Maharashtra, home to That has provided reassurance for Foxconn’s chief, spent a day with Fadnavis India’s economy, and most of them led by the financial hub Mumbai, and at the expense of investors betting on India’s economic growth, then, and led a factory tour. They met several ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, have said they others. “We have seen some states coming a lifeline for big business and a boost for more times before a charm offensive - and want to enact their own laws to ease land up reasonably well over the last few years - states desperate to create jobs. Days before possibly Gou’s professed love of Indian naan deals that boost infrastructure development. Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan - but to make a Foxconn’s agreement, General Motors bread - got Foxconn what it needed: a hint Local businesses are fretting over reform set- bet there will be more even development is announced it would invest $1 billion in India, that value-added tax refunds could be backs - such as delays to a tax shake-up - but a difficult,” said Gautam Chhaochharia, head largely to expand its main plant in extended beyond the usual 7-9-year limit, crash in commodity prices as well as slowing of India research at UBS in Mumbai. “It’s a Maharashtra. On Tuesday, South Korean steel- permission for solar power generation and global growth have made India a relatively chicken and egg thing. You already have maker POSCO said it would set up a new steel help with financial transfers. “The bottom line more attractive bet for foreign investors. industry clusters ... and if you are setting up plant in the state, with an Indian partner. The of this entire thing is the production cost per “The pace of implementing reforms has manufacturing, you can’t ignore those clus- forward motion in the states contrasts sharply unit. That should be less than China, other- indeed been more disappointing than we or ters.”—Reuters Business FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 38

Australia’s taste for fast food puts innovation on menu 40% of Australian adults dangerously obese

SYDNEY: Fast food may be falling out of favor system inspired by Uber Technologies’ ride- Executive Steve Easterbrook told reporters in food, more often,” CSIRO research director in many countries around the world but com- sharing app that lets customers follow their the U.S. last month. Manny Noakes said. “This type of food is no panies are making healthy profits and boldly pizzas’ journeys using smartphones, tablets longer just an indulgence, it’s becoming main- innovating in the unlikely market of Australia. and TV screens. It aims to use that technology Fast food junkies stream and Australians are eating it each and Contrary to stereotypes of a beach-going to charge customers extra for guaranteed 15- Australia is considered a perfect testing every day.” community of fitness fanatics, official data out minute delivery, a premium service designed ground for new ideas because the country of this week showed 40 percent of Australian to steal customers from drive-through out- about 23 million people has a mature fast Fattening profits adults are dangerously obese and have a poor lets. Domino’s plans to roll out its driver track- food market, educated consumers and its iso- So far, consumers have gobbled up the diet that includes lashings of fast food. ing service to the Netherlands by Christmas lation affords clear analysis of how well inno- new products and technology. McDonald’s That makes Australia a hotbed for innova- and to Japan, France and Belgium by the end vations are performing. “Opportunity costs are Australian business bucked the US down- tion by companies including homegrown firm of next year. It also offers crowd-sourcing app low, global competitors don’t closely track the ward trend to post 10 consecutive months Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd, McDonald’s Pizza Mogul. Launched a year ago, it allows market, so you can camouflage what you’re of positive sales in June after rolling out its Corp and Yum! Brands Inc’s KFC and Pizza Hut customers to design their own pizzas, market doing,” said Rohan Miller, a business expert at DIY burger menu service, home delivery and as they struggle to win over health-conscious them on social media and pocket a cut of the Sydney University, who studies the fast-food cafe redesigns. The burger chain counts the diners in other countries. “We’ll continue to sales. US giant McDonald’s now has 750 market for commercial groups. “If something “create your taste” idea as its most signifi- push the boundaries of digital innovation this stores around Australia with touchscreen is missing, you can understand why and cant innovation since the introduction of year, creating barriers to entry for our com- kiosks, another world first, allowing cus- change it before taking it to the main market.” McCafe, which was also first launched in petitors,” Domino’s Chief Executive Don Meij tomers to customize their burger. Don’t like And there’s clearly demand for fast food. A Australia. It also quietly opened The Corner said this week after reporting a 40 percent pickles? Leave them out. Want a different study by the government-backed cafe in Sydney late last year, a completely jump in annual profit globally. condiment? Choose from a selection. In Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial rebranded outlet with white frontage, rustic Domino’s, which operates in six countries, some outlets the “create your own taste” Research Organization (CSIRO) released this wooden seating, potted plants on the is adopting ideas from the new sharing econ- burgers are presented on wooden boards week shocked much of the public with a find- counter and fashionable South American omy to grow its slice of the A$14 billion and the fries come in a basket. “We are going ing that on average Australians consumed grain quinoa on the menu. McDonald’s said ($10.33 billion) quick service restaurant trade to learn a lot of how that works and when three times more junk food than the recom- it currently had no plans to take the concept in Australia. In what it claims as a world-first, something works we can transport it from mended daily allowance. “What we’re finding overseas, but analysts are watching the Domino’s in May launched a driver-tracking market to market at pace,” McDonald’s Chief is people are having larger portions of junk experiment closely.— Reuters

Glencore cuts spending, take $790 million writedown on Chad assets First-half copper output down 3%

JOHANNESBURG: Miner and commodity own sources fell 3 percent to 730,900 due to reduction in Australian thermal ply contract with South African power company said in a statement. Glencore trader Glencore yesterday cut back its tons and full-year output would be output. utility Eskom. Glencore says Eskom was shares fell to record lows on Wednesday spending plans for this year and said it between 1.5 million tons and 1.55 million Coal prices have also been weak and paying too little for its coal. “The directors and are down around 40 percent since would take a $790 million charge on oil tons. Copper is the largest earner for the as a result Glencore plans to shut part of of Optimum are of the view that if the the beginning of the year, under pres- assets in Chad after a fall in oil prices. The company. Production of coal, another its Optimum Coal mine in South Africa. It supply agreement with Eskom can be sure from the rout in the commodity London-listed company, due to report major commodity for Glencore, fell 4 per- has also begun a “business rescue” for renegotiated, there is a reasonable prices. They were 0.5 percent up by 0927 half-year results next week, said its capital cent decline to 68.7 million tons, mainly the mine as it tries to renegotiate a sup- prospect of rescuing Optimum,” the GMT yesterday. — Reuters expenditure ceiling for 2015 was expect- ed to be $6 billion, down from a range of $6.5-$6.8 billion announced in February. UK wage growth may level off, muddying rates picture for BoE Glencore’s action on spending follows sharp falls across commodity prices this LONDON: This year’s rebound in British wage growth year, partly on the back of a slowdown in risks petering out, potentially wrong-footing the Bank China, which is one of the world’s biggest of England as it gets closer to raising interest rates, if consumers of metals and other raw mate- omens from labor market data prove correct. British rials. wages have risen far more slowly in recent years than The 19-commodity Thomson before the financial crisis, and a move back towards his- Reuters/Core Commodity CRB Index , for torical rates of increase is one of the main things the example, is currently at a 12-year low. BoE is looking for before it starts to tighten policy. Other big mining groups have reined in Last week it forecast annual wage growth would spending plans and begun cutting costs. reach 3 percent by the end of this year. It predicted Rio Tinto this month said it planned $1 even bigger rises in 2016 and 2017, as productivity picks billion in cost cuts this year and Anglo up and unemployment falls, forcing firms to compete American is to cut thousands of jobs in harder for workers who are increasingly willing to the next few years and may sell assets. switch jobs. This points to annual growth in basic pay of Glencore bought Chad-focused oil com- around 4 percent, the rate that was common before the pany Caracal Energy for about 800 million financial crisis. Many economists broadly back the BoE’s pounds ($1.25 billion) last year, a deal that view. But a dig through some of Britain’s many business allowed the commodity group to move surveys suggests the predictions for the coming year upstream in the oil sector. may be too high. The company said it had made “signif- Data on Wednesday showed the sharpest slow- icant amendments” to the Chad opera- down in wage growth in more than a year-mostly due tion’s work program following a sharp to relatively modest bonuses-and there are signs this decline in oil prices, including changes to could spread to basic pay as well. Responses to ques- the fields’ capital expenditure and pro- tions about wages in surveys from the British Chambers duction profiles. Oil prices are down of Commerce (BCC), the Recruitment and Employment because of a supply glut. The company Confederation (REC), and a survey by the BoE’s own said it expected to take the $790 million regional offices all suggest wage growth could soften. “I impairment charge on the value of the think there probably has been a pick-up in the underly- LONDON: A woman holds an umbrella as she walks through torrential rain in London yesterday. — AP operations in its interim accounts. “We ing rate of wage growth, but that occurred in the sec- expect the company to unveil further ond half of last year,” said Stephen Lewis, chief econo- or leveling off in the rate of wage growth, which stands tailed off over the past six months. Analysis using capex reductions in 2016-17 at the results mist at ADM Investor Services. “There doesn’t seem to at just under 3 percent. While the BoE expects total Thomson Reuters Datastream points to a strong correla- next Wednesday, underlining the com- be very much evidence that there’s been further wage growth to soften towards the end of this year tion between this measure and official wage growth in mitment to its credit rating and divi- upward progress so far this year.” because of the effect of strong bonuses in late 2014, the nine months’ time. There is a similar strong link-this dends,” Barclays analysts said in a note. surveys point to an underlying flattening in the private time with a five-month lag-between official data and In Glencore’s 2014 results in March, Data at odds sector. Every three months the BCC asks companies the BoE’s own score of labor cost per services employee the company said net debt fell by $5.3 bil- All three surveys have elements that give a reason- across the vast services sector what pay deals they are in its monthly regional survey. This measure has lion to $30.5 billion. Glencore said its first- ably good prediction of what Britain’s official wage data reaching with staff. Late last year these hit their highest plateaued since it hit its highest since September 2008 half copper output using feed from its will show in several months, and they all point to a fall level since the pre-crisis days of early 2008, but then last October. — Reuters Business39 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

Oil prices up on US stock draws, demand outlook

LONDON: Oil prices rose yesterday cies this week also helped strength- export near-record volumes of Basra Forum. “There is so much pes- as lower US crude stocks and opti- en oil markets. The US currency ral- crude in September, adding to an simism attached to this move (yuan mistic global demand projections lied yesterday but reached a one- already oversupplied market. devaluation). For China to start a overrode concerns about a glut of month low on Wednesday. China’s shaky economic growth, and fresh currency war... smacks of des- supply. US stockpiles of crude and A weaker dollar makes oil more recent moves by Beijing to devalue peration,” he added. Falling mar- gasoline fell last week, data from the affordable to holders of other cur- its currency, have cast doubt on its gins at Asian refineries have led Energy Information Administration rencies and tends to support com- potential oil consumption. Chinese and Korean refiners to cut (EIA) showed on Wednesday, bol- modity prices. “It matches very well China’s implied oil demand fell production, thus lowering their stering sentiment in the US market. with the US dollar curve,” Bjarne in July from the previous month demand for crude oil. Problems Benchmark North Sea Brent crude Schieldrop, chief commodities ana- amid a continuing drop in its vehi- with a major refinery in the US oil was up 60 cents at $50.26 a barrel lyst with SEB in Oslo, said of oil’s cle sales that could mute growth Midwest, along with the coming by 0855 GMT. US crude was trading gains. “That was a clear driver in my further in the second half of 2015. refinery maintenance season, have at $43.50 per barrel, up 20 cents. view.” Despite the rise, plenty of “All is not well with the Chinese also raised fears that the country’s Traders said a slide in the value of bearish factors loomed. Iraq, OPEC’s economy,” Howie Lee of Phillip Cushing, Oklahoma, oil hub could the dollar against a basket of curren- second largest producer, plans to Futures told Reuters Global Oil fill its storage tanks. — Reuters

Gold dips; worries over yuan devaluation ease

LONDON: Gold fell yesterday, snapping five sessions of gains, as concerns over further losses in the yuan after China devalued the currency this week eased, allowing stock mar- kets and the dollar to rebound. Falling equi- ties, dollar strength and speculation that the weaker yuan could delay a US interest rate rise sparked a short-covering rally in gold this week after its recent drop to 5-1/2 year lows, pushing prices to their highest since mid-July. Spot gold was down 0.7 percent at $1,117.26 an ounce at 0942 GMT, while US gold futures for December delivery were down $6.70 an ounce at $1,116.90. Spot prices earlier reached a three-week high of $1,126.31, 4.5 percent above last month’s low. “Many people had short positions in the gold market-it was a crowded trade,” LBBW analyst Thorsten Proettel said. “In the last few days we’ve seen a short squeeze, but this isn’t the end of the pressure on the gold price. We still have interest rate hike positivity in the United DHAKA: A poster advertises the services of a bKash agent (right) at a market in Dhaka. Bangladesh has been the heartland of States, and that will pressure gold prices in microfinance - thanks to the pioneering efforts of Nobel prize winner Muhammad Yunus, whose small loans empowered millions the future.” of poor. But the bKash Wallet service has reached further, allowing anyone with a mobile phone to receive wages, send remit- The dollar index rose 0.3 percent yesterday, tances and pay bills for a fee of less than two percent of the transaction. — AFP after falling in the previous session on doubts over whether the Federal Reserve will raise rates in September given the devaluation of China weakens yuan for 3rd the yuan. Investors had been betting the Fed could raise rates at its next policy meeting, a move seen as negative for gold, as it would lift day but reassures markets the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion while boosting the dollar. China’s yuan US shares seen following Europe, Asia higher fell for a third day yesterday but the People’s Bank of China said there is no basis for further LONDON: European shares rallied yesterday as banking sources said the PBOC had stepped up safe-haven government debt, pushing up US and depreciation in the currency. European shares calm returned to global markets after China’s cen- intervention in a bid to stabilize prices. European bond yields. German 10-year bond yields rallied yesterday after the comments. “Verbal tral bank said there was no basis for further depre- Still, traders remained cautious. Sources told were 3 basis points higher at 0.63 percent while intervention by the PBoC on (the yuan) has ciation of its yuan currency following a sharp deval- Reuters some powerful voices in the government benchmark US 10-year yields were 4 bps up at 2.17 given markets a better risk tone today,” RBC uation this week. US stock futures were up 0.3 per- were pushing for an even deeper devaluation to percent in European trade, following a lacklustre Capital Markets said in a note. cent, with shares having recouped a lot of their falls help China’s struggling exporters. PBOC Vice- auction on Wednesday. The dollar, which had also Gold demand hit a six-year low in the sec- in the previous session already. The global rally in Governor Yi Gang dismissed such talk as ground- suffered as investors pared back bets that the US ond quarter, a World Gold Council report equities started on Wall Street in late trade on less, but some in the market still expected that Federal Reserve’s long-awaited interest rate hike showed, as sluggish prices and the prospect Wednesday, with major indexes ending roughly China would let the yuan slide further in the face would come as early as its Sept. 16-17 meeting, of better returns in equities curbed interest flat after falling in early trade. The perkier mood in of weakness in the economy. “Investors have rebounded yesterday. in the metal. SPDR Gold Trust, the world’s riskier assets soured investor appetite for safe- pounced on those reassurances from China to The dollar index was up 0.3 percent at 96.558 largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, haven government bonds, which had benefited push the markets back up a bit. They’re taking the recoiling from a one-month low of 95.926 hit on said its holdings rose 0.6 percent to 21.6 mil- from a sharp sell-off in equity and commodity mar- Chinese central bank at its word, but I’m still tak- Wednesday with focus also on US retail sales data lion ounces on Wednesday, the first increase kets prompted by the devaluation that saw the ing those comments with a pinch of salt,” said due at 1230 GMT for further hints on the Fed rate in days after falling to the lowest since yuan slide around 4 percent. Hantec Markets’ analyst Richard Perry. The pan- outlook. “The US clearly needs to watch the global September 2008. Spot palladium was down The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said there European FTSEurofirst index of leading 300 blue- economy and China, but ultimately, if we get a 1.1 percent at $615.90 an ounce after hitting was no basis for more yuan depreciation in light of chips rose 1.7 percent to 1,543.23, having fallen as very strong release today, market expectations for strong economic fundamentals, even though the much as 4 percent this week. The MSCI’s broadest a September interest rate hike will probably a two-week high of $627 earlier. Platinum yuan dropped for the third straight day. The PBOC index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged bounce right back,” said Rabobank currency was down 0.5 percent at $991.70 an ounce set its guidance rate at 6.4010 per dollar prior to up 0.3 percent. strategist Jane Foley. Against the safe-haven yen, and silver fell 0.8 percent to $15.36 per the market opening, weaker than the previous fix the dollar also rose 0.3 percent to 124.51, bounc- ounce.— Reuters of 6.3306. The gap between the guidance rate and US Fed focus ing off a two-month high of 125.28 yen set on the traded spot market rate narrowed sharply as The recovery in equities dimmed the allure of Wednesday.— Reuters Business40 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 Euro-zone economic recovery stalled LONDON: The euro-zone’s hopes for a percent. “Recent European data have tended ner after years of crisis. In the first quarter of second-largest economy - and its economic strong economic recovery this year have to underwhelm, suggesting that the euro 2015, the euro-zone’s big four economies - slowdown and market volatility in the last soured over the past couple months, partly area has struggled to build upon the Germany, France, Italy and Spain - were all few months are having a negative impact because of the crisis over Greece’s future in momentum gained earlier in the year,” said growing at the same time for the first time around the world. Just like the United States, the currency zone and fading growth in James Nixon, chief European economist at since 2010. if China sneezes, the world catches a cold. China. So there’s growing speculation that Oxford Economics. “The recovery is therefore Since then, the euro-zone has seen the Still, the euro-zone economy is expected official figures released Friday will show the delicately placed.” Greek debt crisis explode again and suffered to push ahead in the second half of the year, 19-country bloc’s growth rate eased during The stalling in growth would be disap- from growing uncertainty over the Chinese now that the worst of the crisis over Greece’s the second quarter. pointing for the euro-zone, where there was economy. Though Greece may only account future is over. “We are fairly confident about With most elements of economic activity much optimism in early spring that the for around 2 percent of the euro-zone’s the recovery continuing despite the potential - such as industrial production, retail sales region was set for a strong pick-up. With oil annual GDP, it has proved a headache for its headwinds,” said Mark Wall, chief economist and construction - already shown to have prices sharply lower, the euro at multiyear partners in the region. As the prospect of a at Deutsche Bank. He noted the biggest dan- had a subdued quarter, economists think the lows and the European Central Bank on a 1.1 Greek exit from the euro grew in June and gers to the euro-zone were uncertainty over quarterly growth rate was unchanged at 0.4 trillion-euro ($1.3 trillion) bond-buying spree July, tensions grew, hurting confidence Greece, the economic slowdown in emerg- percent. Many note, however, that the figure to keep market interest rates low, there were among investors and consumers. By con- ing markets and China, and possible interest could disappoint and come in as low as 0.2 hopes that the euro-zone had turned a cor- trast, China is not a minnow - it is the world’s rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve.— AP

Ukraine crunch debt talks move into the second day

KIEV: Ukraine’s crunch talks with its biggest creditors moved into a sec- ond day yesterday as both sides sought a workable solution for keeping the former Soviet country from hurtling into default. Two people close to the discussions told AFP that no deal was reached when Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko met debt managers of the Franklin Templeton investment giant in San Francisco on Wednesday. Templeton and three other financial titans hold two-thirds of the $15.3 billion in savings that cash-strapped Ukraine is seeking on its total foreign debt over the coming four years. The group has refused to accept any major reduction to its bonds’ face value and wants a proposed matu- rity extension to expire as soon as Ukraine’s imploding economy returns to growth. Sources said the bondholders have put strict conditions on a proposed write-down of between five and 10 percent-well off the 40 per- cent figure originally sought by Kiev. Ukraine’s US-born finance minister has since submitted a number of counter-proposals whose details remain private but reportedly include a smaller write-down request. Kiev is next due to make a $60 million (54 million euro) Eurobond interest payment on August 23. But it faces the much larger hurdle of covering $500 million in principal that matures on September 23. The pro-Western government that emerged in the wake of the 2014 ouster of a Moscow-backed leadership has signaled repeated plans to impose a potentially devastating debt moratorium if no solution is reached within days. “Time is running out,” one source said ahead of the negotiations. “There is a clause written into the September 23 repayment which states that any changes to the payment must be approved by the bondholders ATHENS: Elderly women wait at a bus stop in central Athens yesterday. The Greek government defended its at least 21 days before the payment is due,” the person said. new bailout program as tough but essential to avoid the nation’s financial collapse, as it faced a rebellion in A $40 billion IMF-led rescue program requires Ukraine to restructure parliament ahead of a vote on the deal later in the day. — AP the $15.3 billion in order to keep down its debt-to-growth ratio and be able to tap into foreign money markets by the end of 2017. An agree- ment with the California creditors could open the door to similar deals Greece MPs debate being struck with the other three members of the Ad-hoc Committee of Noteholders to Ukraine. But Kiev also needs to find a compromise with several additional bondholders who are negotiating on their own. All these arrangements must be signed by September 2 in order to keep Ukraine from entering a so-called “hard default” that could potentially third bailout deal shut it out of global borrowing markets for years to come. Templeton under pressure Euro-zone finance ministers meet in Brussels The commercial lenders argue that Kiev is under-reporting the size of its expected 2016 economic bounceback from a contraction that should ATHENS: Lawmakers in Greece began yester- going into the ballot. to be approved by euro-zone members. Euro- reach about nine percent this year. They demand higher coupon pay- day debating a third international bailout, National statistics agency estimates zone finance ministers will meet today in ments in return for any big restructuring deal. The creditors also expect ahead of a vote on the 85-billion-euro ($94.8- showed the economy expanding 0.8 percent Brussels to give their verdict on the 400-page Kiev-now mainly making payments on interest to resume covering its billion) rescue package, on which euro-zone in the second quarter of 2015 - when debt- document. Tsipras has expressed confidence maturing principal as early as next year. finance ministers are to give their verdict laden Greece came dangerously close to the new plan will carry the day, both in Some analysts expect Ukraine to seek a temporary debt maturity today. “The timetable is tight so we are crashing out of the euro-zone-compared with Athens and in other European capitals. “I am extensions that could provide all sides more time to talk. But both the forced into this emergency procedure,” the first three months of the year, when it and remain confident that we will succeed in International Monetary Fund and Washington have mounted pressure Gerasimos Balaouras, a lawmaker from the posted zero growth. Previous estimates by reaching a deal and loan support... that will on lenders to accept sacrifices for the benefit of the war-torn east leftist Syriza party of Prime Minister Alexis the agency had shown the economy shrink- end economic uncertainty,” he said. Berlin, European state. Billionaire George Soros-famous for making a daring cur- Tsipras said, kickstarting the debate in parlia- ing 0.2 percent in the first quarter, and EU however, has urged caution. “We have for- rency bet against the Bank of England as well as supporting countries mentary committees. source predict it will tumble back into reces- mulated questions,” Germany’s finance min- emerging from decades of communist rule-said the creditors were doing Balaouras reminded parliamentarians that sion this year. During the last two votes on istry said in a statement Wednesday. “These themselves a disserves by rejecting any short-term sacrifice. Athens had to repay 3.4 billion euros owed to reforms demanded by creditors in exchange are part of the review process which is not “When a country and its lenders can reach a speedy deal, even one the European Central Bank by August 20 - for another cash injection, dozens of Syriza yet completed.” German newspaper Bild cit- that imposes losses on lenders, the country is usually back in the market and that by adopting the European- lawmakers mutinied, leaving Tsipras relying ed a two-page finance ministry document in a year or two,” Soros wrote in a commentary for The Wall Street International Monetary Fund bailout hoped on the opposition to push through more of that raised questions about Greece’s debt Journal. “Former US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady understood this to unlock default-saving funds on time. From the austerity he once vowed to dump. sustainability, privatizations and the role of when he unveiled the Brady Plan in 1989, which urged banks to accept the committees, the debate will move to a the IMF, among other matters. Finnish debt relief, at least for those Latin American countries pursuing sensible full parliamentary session yesterday evening, Euro-zone verdict awaited Finance Minister Alexander Stubb-whose reforms,” Soros noted. “Today, Mr Brady is chairman of Ukraine’s largest with a vote expected during the night. After weeks of talks, Greece and its credi- country is also a firm believer in the econom- bondholder, Franklin Templeton, which is pressing hard against debt Better-than-expected growth figures tors reached a technical agreement on the ic healing properties of austerity-has also relief. It is difficult to reconcile his position in 1989 with Franklin released yesterday gave Tsipras a boost new bailout on Tuesday, but the deal has yet sounded a cautious note on the deal.— AFP Templeton’s position today.”— AFP Business41 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 India prepares to pay $1.4 bn Iran oil dues India seeks US clearance for oil payments NEW DELHI: Indian refiners have got the green light to prepare to pay Iran $1.4 billion in oil dues, two sources with knowledge of the issue said, in Lenovo faces one of the first signs that last month’s nuclear deal is helping Tehran unlock Motorola frozen funds. The landmark nuclear deal between Iran and six major world hangover, powers was struck on July 14 and sanc- tions could begin to be removed later this year if UN inspectors confirm cuts 3,200 jobs Tehran is complying with its provisions. Indian Finance Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi BEIJING: China’s Lenovo Group Ltd will lay asked refiners this month to prepare to off 10 percent of white-collar staff after sales pay Tehran two installment of $700 of Motorola handsets fell by a third, raising million, part of the money owed for oil doubts over the personal computer giant’s imports, said the sources, who declined bet that a money-losing brand it bought for to be identified due to the sensitivity of nearly $3 billion will help it become a global the issue. smartphone leader. Shares in the world’s Iran is desperate for funds and biggest maker of PCs slid nearly 9 percent investment to help its economy, crip- yesterday after it said its quarterly net profit pled by decades of sanction. Mehrishi was halved as its mobile division lost nearly last month led a delegation of officials $300 million. Lenovo, which uses the US dol- from the Reserve Bank of India and lar in operations rather than the recently state-run UCO Bank to Tehran to dis- devalued Chinese yuan, said it plans to cut cuss oil payments. The exact timing of about 3,200 non-manufacturing jobs with a the payments is unclear since the one-time cost of $600 million. finance ministry is seeking clearance from the Office of Foreign Assets Beijing-based Lenovo said the restructur- Control (OFAC) of the US Department ing would yield savings of about $1.35 billion of treasury to go ahead, one of the on an annual basis. But the difficulty in sell- sources said. The office of India’s ing handsets, combined with a continuously finance secretary did not immediately shrinking global market for PCs, meant the respond to a request for comment. The firm was facing its “toughest market environ- US Treasury said it did not comment ment in recent years”, Chief Executive Yang specifically on countries or institutions Yuanqing warned. “I still believe mobile is a involved in payments. new business we must win,” Yang told But in a statement said “the US gov- Indian court overturns Nestle Reuters in an interview, saying Lenovo’s ernment has committed to render non- ambition to rival Apple Inc and Samsung sanctionable the release in installments noodle ban, orders new tests Electronics Co in smartphones remains of certain Iranian restricted funds held undimmed. ZURICH: Swiss food giant Nestle yesterday some Indian states found lead in the prod- overseas in an amount consistent with “I still believe this acquisition (Motorola) installments provided under previous announced slightly lower first half profits ucts exceeding approved levels, the court in compared to last year, with the strong Swiss Mumbai called the ban arbitrary, and said was the right decision...Except Apple and JPOA relief periods.” JPOA, or Joint Plan Samsung there is no third strong (global) of Action, refers to an interim nuclear franc and Maggi instant noodles recall in the noodles could go back on sale once a player. I believe that will be Lenovo.” pact. The Indian payments are likely to India undercutting better-than-expected further round of tests was completed. Maggi be conducted using a mechanism sales. The maker of Nespresso and KitKat had held 80 percent of the noodle market in Motorola, bought from Google Inc last year based on a series of back-to-back trans- reported profits of 4.1 billion Swiss francs (4.1 the world’s second most populous nation for $2.91 billion, shipped 5.9 million hand- actions in different currencies that are billion euros, $4.5 billion) for the first six before the ban, with some experts valuing sets in the quarter, a 31 percent decline from months of the year, 2.5 percent lower than the brand at $2.4 billion. initially channeled through the Reserve a year earlier. Yang cited poor sales in Brazil during the same period in 2014. “The first The company said the impact of the fra- Bank of India, the sources said. Iran and China, saying Lenovo would prioritize half results were in line with our expecta- cas with Indian food regulators would con- would eventually get the payment in marketing smartphones outside its home tions, broad-based across categories and tinue to affect the company’s income in the dirhams from the United Arab turf, where market saturation and price wars geographies, solid even in difficult circum- second half of the year. “In India, our with- Emirates’ central bank. India is Iran’s have hobbled firms from Samsung stances,” Nestle’s CEO Paul Bulcke said in a drawal of Maggi noodles resulted in negative biggest oil client after China, though statement. He sought to highlight the com- organic growth which will continue into the Electronics to domestic startup Xiaomi Inc. New Delhi has reduced purchases pany’s burgeoning health and wellness strat- second half,” the company statement said. At 0600 GMT, Lenovo shares were down under pressure from sanctions and egy, in which Nestle has been heavily invest- “We are engaging fully with the authorities 8.7 percent, hitting their lowest level since Tehran has slipped to the seventh ing over the last several years. as we work to relaunch the product,” it late February 2014. “The market was worried biggest supplier from the second The Nestle Nutrition line saw 3.9 percent added, without making specific comment on about a slowdown at Motorola and the China before sanctions. organic growth over the first half of the year, the latest legal developments. Although market share decline, and then they reported Indian refiners Mangalore Refinery a figure that Bulcke said underscored the profits were slightly below analysts expecta- the investors’ worst fears,” said Nomura ana- and Petrochemicals Ltd, Essar Oil, “relevance and strength” of the company’s tions, organic growth which ignores currency lyst Leping Huang. He said the stock drop Indian Oil Corp, Hindustan Petroleum pivot towards health products. Nestle’s first fluctuation and is considered a benchmark of could have been worse: “It’s quite positive Corp and HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd half revenues of 42.8 billion Swiss francs the company’s performance-came in slightly they can move so quickly to announce cost (HMEL) together owe Iran more than were also slightly lower than last year’s 42.9 higher than expected. Nestle shares were up $6.5 billion. This represents just over reductions and inventory writeoffs.” billion, due mainly to the soaring Swiss 3.3 percent in late-morning trading yester- For the quarter, revenue rose 3 percent to half of the bill for crude bought since franc. The Swiss National Bank had been day at 74.6 francs, with the rise likely helped $10.7 billion, but missed analyst expecta- February 2013, when a route to pay for holding down the value of the franc for by the Indian court victory. Iranian oil through Turkey’s Halkbank more than three years, but in January sud- The main Swiss SMI index was up 1.9 per- tions for $11.29 billion, according to analysts was stopped. Under an interim nuclear denly announced that it was abandoning cent. Bulcke said that despite the turmoil in polled by Thomson Reuters SmartEstimates. deal in November 2013, some of Iran’s the minimum rate of 1.20 francs to a euro. India and strong franc, Nestle was prepared Net profit plummeted 51 percent to $105 blocked funds were released by Asian The strong franc has been a headache for to confirm the full year outlook of five per- million, but analysts had estimated it would buyers, including India. Indian compa- companies that report income in the Swiss cent growth. A relaunched line of frozen fall 59 percent. Looking ahead, executives nies have deposited 45 percent of their currency. meals in the US was showing “promising” downplayed the effect of China’s yuan oil payments in a rupee-denominated early signs, the company said. The hugely depreciation, saying the company was well account at an Indian state bank that Noodle row successful Nespresso brand also continued hedged and its gross margins would be Iran is allowed to use to buy goods not An Indian court earlier yesterday over- to grow, including through 20 new bou- largely unaffected. Yuan depreciation has covered by sanctions such as food and turned a government ban on Nestle’s hugely tiques launched around the world and a new “no significant implication to our cost of bor- medicines. About 170 billion Indian popular Maggi noodles, which the company dedicated Nespresso cafe in the Austrian rowing,” said Chief Financial Officer Wong had always insisted were safe. While tests in capital Vienna. — AFP rupees ($2.62 billion) are in Iran’s Waiming. —Reuters account with UCO Bank.—Reuters Sports FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 42 Coe ready for Gatlin fall-out at worlds

LONDON: British track great Sebastian Coe great Usain Bolt in the process. The Jamaican, of legal reasons. ment by the IAAF that it had provisionally sus- has said he will be prepared to present Justin who has a clean doping record, is arguably the “Justin Gatlin is eligible to compete. If you pended 28 athletes for suspected doping Gatlin with a gold medal if the controversial greatest athlete of his era and certainly the are saying to me would I rather not have ath- offences at the 2005 and 2007 world champi- American wins the 100 metres final at this one with the biggest worldwide fan base. letes that have served bans competing in onships in Helsinki and Osaka, was proof of month’s World Championships in Beijing. Since winning the 100m and 200m finals major championships, the answer is probably the governing body’s desire to root out Last week Coe, a candidate for the presi- in world record time at the 2008 Beijing yes...(But) if he eligible to compete, he has to cheats. Officials insisted this move was in no dency of the International Association of Olympics, only a false start in the 100m at the be presented with a gold medal (if he wins).” way related to last week’s allegations made by Athletics Federations (IAAF) hit out at fresh 2011 World Championships in Dagu has pre- ‘Bullied’ German broadcaster ARD and Britain’s Sunday allegations that officials had not done enough vented Bolt from a clean sweep of sprint titles Meanwhile Coe was cautious when asked Times newspaper of hundreds of allegedly in the fight against doping, saying they were a at four major global meetings. if athletes should follow the example of suspicious blood tests based on the leak of an “declaration of war” on the sport. Coe, the Olympic 1500m champion at Britain’s European 10,000m champion Jo IAAF database. But although personally in favour of life both the 1980 and 1984 Games is standing Pavey, who said she would publish her own “That shows we were right to hold sam- bans for dope cheats, Coe, currently an IAAF against Ukrainian former pole-vault star blood test data, saying he didn’t want them to ples in 2005 in the belief that more sophis- vice-president, said he and his fellow officials Sergey Bubka in the race to succeed Lamine be “bullied” into making public information ticated (anti-doping) techniques would would have little choice but to present Gatlin, Diack as IAAF president, with an election that could be “misinterpreted” as one-off emerge,” said Coe. When the Sunday twice found guilty of taking banned sub- scheduled for August 19. readings. Times/ARD reports were made public, Coe stances, with gold if he wins the blue riband Speaking to reporters via a telephone con- “I would hate them to feel they are under said they were a “declaration of war” on event on August 23. It is a prospect that has ference call in London on Wednesday, Coe pressure to do this because if they don’t there athletics and he insisted Wednesday his created a sense of dread among many athlet- said: “I was always in favour of a life ban. I is somehow an assumption they are guilty”. words had not been aimed at the IAAF ics insiders, particularly if Gatlin beats sprint realise that train has left the station for all sorts Meanwhile Coe said Tuesday’s announce- electorate.— AFP

Team Bolt confident sprint king will be fit

KINGSTON: Usain Bolt’s coach is convinced the Jamaican phe- nomenon can once again put aside injury concerns and mediocre form to maintain his grip on the major sprint titles at this month’s world championship. The 28-year-old returns to the Bird’s Nest stadium where he first stunned the world at the 2008 Olympics for the Aug 22-30 championships, bidding to retain his 100 and 200 metres titles. Bolt is certainly short of competitive races and struggled for times this season until he twice clocked 9.87 sec- onds in the 100 metres in London late last month. His coach Glen Mills, though, believes the Olympic champion and world record holder in both sprints will be able to hit his straps when it mat- ters. “The last two years have been very challenging for both Usain and myself,” Mills told Reuters. “Unfortunately, he has had a num- ber of different injuries to overcome which have affected his training and the number of competitions he has been able to compete in. “But Bolt is a champion who knows nothing but excellence when performing on the world stage.” American Justin Gatlin enters Beijing in better form than the Jamaican with world leading marks of 9.74 and 19.57 seconds as he seeks to win his second world sprint double since first doing so in Helsinki in 2005. In seven head-to-head clashes over 100 metres, Bolt has beaten Gatlin six times. Bolt’s record at major meetings since he wrote his name into track history by winning HAVEN: Hideki Matsuyama, of Japan, hits a shot on the 18th hole during the first round of the PGA Championship golf the 100 and 200 metres in world record times at the Beijing tournament yesterday, at Whistling Straits in Haven, Wis. — AP Olympics is quite extraordinary. Only a false start in the 100m four years ago in Daegu has pre- vented him from sweeping the sprint titles at the 2009, 2011 and 2013 world championships and London Olympics. Bolt, who McIlroy sets bar high turns 29 the day before the world championships open, under- went surgery on his left foot in 2014 which restricted him to run only a few 100m races as well as the 4x100 relay at the Commonwealth Games, where Jamaica won gold. This season, a for injury return blocked sacroiliac joint which restricted his movement and placed pressure on his knee and ankle has affected his prepara- tions for Beijing and forced him to withdraw from the Paris and KOHLER: World number one Rory McIlroy three ligaments that stabilize the outside of some experts said would need six weeks of Lausanne Diamond League meets. expects to be in the mix this week as he the ankle. “As well as that, I tore the joint rehab at least, but McIlroy said the constant “We have been making a number of changes on the way he defends his PGA Championship crown after a capsule. I looked down and 30 seconds later treatment he was able to receive made that trains and have been getting results,” said Mills. “However, I five-week injury absence. it got the size of a tennis ball, basically possible. would have wanted him to have had more races.” “Expectation levels are the same,” the 26- because all the fluid came out of the joint While still in a walking boot he practiced Bolt’s season best marks of 9.87 and 20.13 are only ranked year-old Northern Ireland star said capsule.” putting to keep the feel in his hands. By the sixth and 19th respectively in the world this year and well shy of Wednesday on the eve of the championship McIlroy also suffered a partial tear of time of the British Open at St. Andrews he the records of 9.58 and 19.19 he set at the 2009 world champi- at Whistling Straits. “I have played quite a another ligament, but says he was ultimately was walking regularly, and now he’s running onships. Like Mills, though, his agent Ricky Simms is confident number of rounds of golf. I’ve been practic- “lucky” that the damage wasn’t worse. and playing golf without pain or swelling. “I Bolt can outdo all challengers once again. “Everyone knows that ing for over three weeks getting my game Although the ruptured ligament “is basically played 72 holes walking in Portugal last Usain shows up when it comes to championships,” he told ready, getting my game sharp. “I expect to just scar tissue now” he believes strengthen- week, and once I completed that, that was Reuters by phone. play well. I don’t see any reason why I can’t ing exercises can maintain the integrity of basically like my fitness test,” he said. “Four “He’s been in this situation before, he’s had a few races where bring the sort of form that I’ve shown in prac- the joint for the rest of his career. “It’s really days in a row, 72 holes, playing with no pain, it didn’t go to plan and then at the Championships he always tice rounds and on the range to the tee.” not anything to be concerned about in the no swelling, no anything like that. “Then we delivers, so I would say I’m extremely confident in Usain’s ability.” McIlroy admitted he feared the worst when long-term,” he said. McIlroy will tee it up on knew that, OK, you’re ready to go.” Mills, who also guided Yohan Blake (2011) and Kim Collins he hurt his left ankle playing football with Thursday just 40 days after he was hurt, hav- McIlroy won’t be easing back into the (2003) of St. Kitts and Nevis to 100m world titles, has now been friends on July 4. “I thought I broke it, ing missed title defences at the British Open game. He’s paired in the first two rounds coaching Bolt for a decade and said the lean times made the suc- because as soon as I went over on it I heard and the World Golf Championships with Open champion Zach Johnson and cesses all the more enjoyable. “It certainly would mean a great like a snap,” said McIlroy, who in fact rup- Bridgestone Invitational. Jordan Spieth, the breakout American star dealt to me to continue to pilot his successes and more so in tured his anterior talofibular ligament, one of It’s a quick turnaround after an injury who won the Masters and US Open. — AFP these difficult years.” — Reuters Sports43 FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

EA Sports drops Patrick Kane from NHL 16 promotional

NEW YORK: EA Sports dropped Chicago motional activities.” may have happened at the player’s offsea- Hockey Equipment, but that could come Blackhawks star Patrick Kane from promot- Kane was to appear alongside son home outside Buffalo on Aug. 2. under review, Performance Sports Group ing and appearing on the cover of its NHL 16 Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews in what Police Chief Gregory Wickett would only spokesman Steve Jones said in an email to video game because he is under police was supposed to be the first time two NHL say that police are gathering information The Associated Press. investigation. players have been featured on the cover. In and awaiting forensic results. Police are “Patrick Kane is currently a Bauer athlete,” The popular video game company June, the two stars were key players in lead- looking into something that happened Jones wrote. “But we are obviously aware of announced its decision on its Twitter ing the Blackhawks to their third Stanley between Kane and a woman in her 20s, a the investigation announced late last week account Wednesday. Cup championship in six years. person familiar with the investigation said by the Hamburg Police Department, and we “In light of the ongoing investigation Kane’s lawyer, Paul Cambria, and agent, earlier this week on condition of anonymity are closely monitoring the situation.” involving Patrick Kane, he will no longer be a Pat Brisson, did not return messages seeking because authorities have not revealed that The EA Sports website on Wednesday spokesperson for the launch of EA Sports comment. detail. afternoon still featured a photo of Kane and NHL 16,” the company said. “He will not EA Sports’ decision comes less than a It’s unclear how much Kane was to be Toews together. However, EA Sports NHL’s appear on the EA Sports NHL 16 cover nor week after Hamburg police announced Kane paid for promoting NHL 16. Kane maintains Twitter account featured a picture of just participate in other EA Sports NHL 16 pro- is under investigation for something that a sponsorship commitment with Bauer Toews. —AP Shock exits in Jakarta for Li, doubles pairs Sindhu stuns Li as Indian women advance

JAKARTA: Top seed Carolina Marin battled her way through into the semi finals where he’ll likely end the gold medal aspi- injury to the quarter finals of the badminton world champi- rations of fourth-seed Kento Momota of Japan, who made onships in Jakarta yesterday, while Olympic champion Li short work of Nguyen Tien Minh in his third round match. Xuerui and Japan’s top-ranked pair were defeated in spectacu- Five-time world champion Lin Dan defeated 12th seed lar upsets. Hans-Kristian Vittinghus with ruthless efficiency, Jan O. Li, twice runner up at badminton’s premier event, became Jorgensen put away ninth-seed Son Wan Ho of South Korea the highest-ranked casualty of the tournament thus far when while fellow Dane Viktor Axelsen prevailed over India’s H.S. Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu stunned her in a marathon contest Prannoy. But it was the sensational dismissal of eighth seed 21-17, 14-21, 21-17. Wang Zhengming by recently returned Malaysian superstar The devastated third seed had been seeking revenge-and Lee Chong Wei - his second proper scalp in 24 hours - that got an elusive world crown-after Marin upstaged her in last year’s tongues wagging. championships, but badminton fans will now have to wait for Lee, unseeded for the first time in years after returning that grudge rematch. Xi’s shock exit takes a load off Marin, from an eight-month doping ban, looked hard to beat as he JAKARTA: Spain’s Carolina Marin makes a forehand return but it was a day of mixed fortunes for the world number one swept aside Zhengming 21-17, 21-19, but he insisted the field to Taiwan’s Pai Yu Po during their women’s singles match as she rolled her ankle during her third-round win over was wide open to anyone who wanted it. “This year, in the at the Badminton World Federation championships at Taiwan’s Pai Yu Po. men’s singles, everyone is better,” he said. The quarter finals of Istora Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday.— AP The injury-prone Spaniard fell to the ground in pain after the men’s and women’s singles and doubles gets underway in an awkward stumble in the first set, with several tense min- Jakarta today.— AFP utes passing before she gingerly returned to the court to win Top seed Marin 21-11, 18-21, 21-17. Marin will undergo physiotherapy on her ankle, but it’s an unwanted distraction as she seeks to defend her title less than a month after returning from injury. suffers injury “I just tried to not think about my ankle, because I was so scared, because maybe I could not play,” she said. scare in Jakarta Fifth seed Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand was less fortu- nate, retiring mid-match against Indonesia’s Lindaweni Fanetri JAKARTA: World number one Carolina Marin will undergo after sustaining an injury. With Li out of the way and Marin physiotherapy ahead of her quarter final appearance at the under an injury cloud, second seed Saina Nehwal could pose a world championships, after rolling her ankle yesterday during real threat for the top gong. The Indian shuttler progressed to her third-round win over Taiwan’s Pai Yu Po in Jakarta. the quarter finals Thursday along with fellow seeded players The injury-prone Spaniard fell to the ground in pain after Tai Tzu Ying, Wang Yihan, Wang Shixian and Sung Ji Hyun. an awkward stumble in the first set, with several tense min- utes passing before she gingerly returned to the court. Double trouble Marin went on to defeat the unseeded Pai 21-11, 18-21, 21- It was a day of monumental upsets in the doubles, with 17 but it was an unsettling experience for the top seed, who Japan’s top-ranked women’s pair Misaki Matsutomo and nearly missed the world championships entirely due to a sep- Ayaka Takahashi and China’s second-seeded men’s duo Luo arate injury. Ying and Luo Yu tumbling from the competition. The “I just tried to not think about my ankle, because I was so Japanese were considered one of the few pairs capable of scared, because maybe I could not play,” she told reporters ending China’s stranglehold on the women’s doubles event, after the match. “I have a physiotherapist here, so he is going but they came unstuck against unseeded Malaysian duo to treat me now.” It was a case of history repeating itself for Amelia Alicia Anscelly and Soong Fie Cho 21-15, 12-21, 21-14. the defending champion, who sustained an injury to the same “We made so many mistakes, everything was bad,” ankle in last year’s world championships in Copenhagen, Takahashi said. Unseeded Japanese men’s pair Naoko which she went on to win. Fukuman and Kurumi Yonao fared better, putting away Elsewhere, men’s number four seed Kento Momota of China’s formidable Luo duo in a gritty three-set contest 18-21, Japan breezed into the quarter finals with a straightforward 22-20, 21-19. 21-15, 21-16 win over Vietnam’s Nguyen Tien Minh. There have been casualties across the board in the doubles But the 20-year-old shuttler’s campaign for a maiden world events in Jakarta, with men’s defending champions Shin Baek crown is about to hit a major hurdle, with a quarter final show- Choel and Ko Sung Hyun failing to make it beyond the second down against world number one Chen Long almost round and fourth-seeded Chinese pair Chai Biao and Hong inevitable. Denmark’s mixed doubles pair Joachim Fischer Wei also bowing out early. Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen suffered a dramatic loss to There were disappointments in the men’s singles too, with Indonesia’s Praveen Jordan and Debby Susanto, with the fifth third-seed Srikanth Kidambi crumbling against 13th seed Hu seeds falling 22-20, 19-21, 23-21 to their lesser ranked oppo- Yun of Hong Kong 14-21, 21-17, 23-21 in a match that lasted nents. Chen, number-two seed Jan O. Jorgensen, five-time more than an hour. JAKARTA: P.V. Sindhu (L) of India hits a return against Li world champion Lin Dan and Malaysian superstar Lee Chong World number one and defending champion Chen Long Xuerui of China during their round of 16 women’s singles Wei are among the bigger names fighting for a quarter final thrashed Thailand’s Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk 21-12, 21-7 match of the 2015 World Championships badminton tour- slot later yesterday. — AFP to book a spot in the quarter finals. He’s expected to coast nament in Jakarta yesterday. — AFP Sports FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 Victorious Pumas change seven for Boks rematch

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina have made seven changes to Lezana and France-based 64-Test veteran Jean Martin the team that humiliated South Africa last weekend for a Fernandez Lobbe. Juan Manuel Leguizamon, another Test rematch in Buenos Aires tomorrow. long-serving warrior in the Pumas pack, moves from the Apart from the personnel alterations, coach Daniel flank to No. 8 in a positional alteration. Hourcade has made two positional switches as the Pumas While Hourcade is rotating with the World Cup in mind, seek to build on a stunning 37-25 win over the Springboks he retained props Marcos Ayerza and Nahuel Tetaz in Durban. It was the first triumph for Argentina over South Chaparro and hooker-cum-skipper Agustin Creevy, who Africa after 19 failed attempts since the countries first met tormented South Africa last weekend. in 1993 in Buenos Aires. The passionate Pumas dominated the scrums and And it was the first Rugby Championship away victory breakdowns as South Africa suffered their most humiliat- for the South Americans after 10 losses in Australia, New ing Test loss since a 49-0 meltdown in Australia nine years Zealand and South Africa over four seasons. ago. Out of the Durban starting backline go right winger It is the final Test warm-up for both countries before Horacio Agulla, centres Marcelo Bosch and injured naming 31-man World Cup squads with Argentina due to Jeronimo De la Fuente and scrum-half Tomas Cubelli. reveal theirs Sunday. South Africa are in Pool B at the glob- They are replaced by Santiago Cordero, Matias Moroni, al rugby showcase with Japan, Samoa, Scotland and the Nicolas Sanchez and Martin Landajo for the match at the United States, while Argentina are in Pool C alongside 50,000-capacity Estadio Jose Amalfitani in a western sub- Georgia, Namibia, title-holders New Zealand and Tonga. urb of the Argentine capital. Team (15-1) Veteran Hernandez, who was outstanding at fly-half Joaquin Tuculet; Santiago Cordero, Matias Moroni, Juan last weekend, retreats to inside centre to accommodate Martin Hernandez, Juan Imhoff; Nicolas Sanchez, Martin Sanchez in the pivotal role. Sanchez disappointed in Rugby Landajo; Juan Manuel Leguizamon, Juan MartÌn Fernandez Championship losses to New Zealand and Australia last Lobbe, Tomas Lezana; Tomas Lavanini, BenjamÌn Macome; month and his form will be closely monitored with the Nahuel Tetaz Chaparro, AgustÌn Creevy (capt), Marcos MURRAYFIELD: In this Nov. 23, 2013, file photo, Australia’s Quade Cooper is 2015 Rugby World Cup kick-off just over a month away. Ayerza tackled by Scotland’s Sean Maitland, right, during their international rugby Among the forwards, lock Guido Petti Pagadizabal, Replacements: Julian Montoya, Lucas Noguera, Juan match at Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland. Cooper will start at flyhalf with flanker Pablo Matera and No. 8 Leonardo Senatore step Pablo Orlandi, MatÌas Alemanno, Pablo Matera, Tomas Nic White as scrumhalf in a reconfigured halves combination among six down. Cubelli, Juan Pablo Socino, Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino. changes to the Wallabies team to face New Zealand in the second Bledisloe Into their places come Benjamin Macome, Tomas Coach: Daniel Hourcade. — AFP Cup match at Eden Park tomorrow. — AP

SCOREBOARD India on top after

GALLE, Sri Lanka: Scoreboard at stumps on the second day of the first Test between Dhawan, Kohli tons India and Sri Lanka at the Galle International Stadium yesterday: GALLE: Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli hit cen- with Ashwin, then bowled Kaushal Silva for no Dhawan said he was happy to eschew his nor- Sri Lanka 1st innings: 183 (A. Mathews 64, turies before the spinners struck as India took score to provide a dramatic start to the innings. mally aggressive game to play a patient innings D. Chandimal 59, R. Ashwin 6-46, A. Mishra charge of the first Test against Sri Lanka at the Galle Kumar Sangakkara, playing the penultimate that helped his team take a big lead. 2-20) International Stadium yesterday. The tourists, reply- Test of his international career, resumes today on “I feel my shot selection has got better and ing to Sri Lanka’s first innings total of 183, moved one facing a tough challenge to prevent India from that’s why I am not getting out in the 20s and 30s India 1st innings (overnight 128-2): from their overnight total of 128-2 to 375 before running away with the first match of the three- now,” he said. “The major difference in my batting L. Rahul lbw b Prasad 7 they were all out just before stumps on the second game series. Nightwatchman Dhammika Prasad is that I am not giving too many chances to the S. Dhawan b Pradeep 134 day. Sri Lanka, who trailed by 192 runs on the first was the other batsman at the crease on three, with opposition. “Even if I wanted to hit I could not, R. Sharma lbw b Mathews 9 innings, slipped to 5-2 from four overs in their sec- Sri Lanka trailing by 187 runs. because the Sri Lankans were bowling in really ond knock by close as the Indian spinners removed Left-handed opener Dhawan scored 134, his good areas. Maybe if the wicket was flatter I could V. Kohli lbw b Kaushal 103 both openers in the first two overs. fourth Test century and the second in succession have played more shots.” A. Rahane lbw b Kaushal 0 Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who opened after making 173 against Bangladesh in June, and W. Saha c Chandimal b Pradeep 60 the bowling after taking six wickets in the first skipper Kohli returned to form with 103. ‘Great to bat with Virat’ R. Ashwin b Pradeep 7 innings, bowled Dimuth Karunaratne with his fifth The pair put on 227 runs for the third wicket in a Dhawan said the partnership with Kohli made H. Singh b Kaushal 14 delivery before a run had been scored. fine partnership after India were reduced to 28-2 him relax at the wicket and enabled him to play a A. Mishra b Kaushal 10 Leg-spinner Amit Mishra, sharing the new ball after tea on the first day. long innings. “It’s great to bat with Virat, who is one I. Sharma not out 3 of the best batsmen in the world,” he said. “You feel V. Aaron c Mathews b Kaushal 4 at ease when such kind of a batsman walks in Extras: (b1, lb9, w3, nb11) 24 because you know he will take control of the Total (all out, 117.4 overs) 375 game.” India were cruising at 255-2 when Sri Lanka Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Rahul), 2-28 (R. hit back with four quick wickets on either side of Sharma), 3-255 (Kohli), 4-257 (Rahane), 5- the second new ball to make it 302-6. 294 (Dhawan), 6-302 (Ashwin), 7-330 Wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha, who walked (Singh), 8-344 (Mishra), 9-366 (Saha), 10-375 in at 257-4, smashed a gutsy career-best 60 with six (Aaron). boundaries and a six to boost the total. Bowling: Prasad 22-4-54-1 (nb1, w1), Off-spinner Tharindu Kaushal finished with five for 134, while seamer Nuwan Pradeep took three Pradeep 26-2-98-3 (nb1, w2), Mathews 4-1- for 98. Dhawan, who was on 53 overnight, reached 12-1, Kaushal 32.4-2-134-5 (nb9), Herath 33- the three-figure mark 20 minutes before lunch by 4-67-0. driving Prasad through the covers for his 10th boundary. But Dhawan was lucky to survive a loud Sri Lanka 2nd innings: appeal for leg-before against Kaushal when he was D. Karunaratne b Ashwin 0 on 79. Replays showed the ball pitched in line and K. Silva b Mishra 0 would have gone on to hit the stumps, but since D. Prasad not out 3 the Decision Review System is not being used in K. Sangakkara not out 1 the series, umpire Bruce Oxenford’s decision stood. Extras: (nb1) 1 Kohli went to his 11th Test century with an off- Total (for two wickets, four overs) 5 driven boundary against Kaushal, his first 50-plus Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Karunaratne), 1-1 (Silva). knock in 12 innings across all formats since making Bowling: Ashwin 2-2-0-1, Mishra 1-0-1-1 107 in the World Cup match against Pakistan in (nb1), Harbhajan 1-0-4-0. Adelaide in February. Kohli was given out leg-before Sri Lanka trail by 187 runs with eight wickets GALLE: Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli (R) plays a shot as Sri Lankan wicketkeeper Dinesh later in the same over as he attempted to pull the in hand Chandimal (C) and Kaushal Silva look on during the second day of the opening Test match between off-spinner, but replays indicated the ball may have Sri Lanka and India at the Galle International Cricket Stadium in Galle yesterday. — AFP turned enough to miss the leg-stump. — AFP Sports FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 Garcia lifts White Sox to 3-2 win over Angels

CHICAGO: Avisail Garcia didn’t need to hit the was hit hard by the Blue Jays for the second time Cardinals 4, Pirates 2 walked one and struck out four while allowing ball out of the park this time. He just hit it hard in his career. Toronto, which won 11 straight in Yadier Molina tripled in the go-ahead run in only one runner past second base. Luke and far enough. Garcia’s line-drive double to the June, is the first team with two winning streaks the sixth inning when right fielder Gregory Gregerson pitched the ninth for his 23rd save. wall with one out in the 13th inning drove in Jose of 10 games or more in single season since Polanco missed an attempted shoe-top catch and Giants starter Chris Heston (11-7) allowed one run Abreu from first base and lifted the Chicago Atlanta in 2013. The last AL team to do it was Michael Wacha got his 14th win to tie for the and over 6 1/3 innings. White Sox to 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Angels Kansas City in 1977. major league high as St. Louis beat Pittsburgh. on Wednesday night to finish a three-game The game didn’t live up to the anticipated mar- Tigers 7, Royals 4 sweep. Garcia’s hitting and power have picked up Indians 2, Yankees 1 quee pitching matchup between Wacha (14-4) Ian Kinsler doubled home two runs and - he has four homers in his last eight games. But Danny Salazar pitched neatly into the eighth and Gerrit Cole (14-6), both of whom were gone Detroit batted around in a four-run eighth inning he just tried to make contact off Cesar Ramos (2- inning, and Cleveland dropped New York out of by the seventh inning. Seattle’s Felix Hernandez to defeat Kansas City. The loss snapped the 1), the Angels’ sixth pitcher out the bullpen. first place in the AL East. The Yankees, who have also has 14 wins. St. Louis gift-wrapped a run, too, Royals’ eight-game home winning streak, their Ramos gave up a single to Abreu and then lost five straight, trail surging Toronto by a half- when center fielder Randal Grichuk badly mis- longest since winning their first 11 games in 2003 Garcia’s double to left-center. “I’m staying back game in the division and fell out of the top spot played an attempted diving catch on Andrew at Kauffman Stadium. Royals right-hander on the breaking ball now and recognize the for the first time since July 2. New York has scored McCutchen’s RBI triple that tied it at 2 in the fifth. Edinson Volquez (11-7) had retired 13 straight pitches and don’t try to do too much,” the 24- six runs in its losing streak. Abraham Almonte’s Grichuk landed early and bounced as the ball batters entering the eighth, which James McCann year-old Garcia said. “Just learn to put the ball in RBI single broke a 1-all tie in the sixth and rolled past him to the wall. Kevin Siegrist worked led off with a single. Volquez walked Anthony play because we had a tough game. “We’ve been Cleveland won its fourth straight. Salazar (10-6) two perfect innings and Trevor Rosenthal finished Gose, and Jose Iglesias had an infield single to fighting, so I think I found a good pitch to hit.” was pulled after issuing one-out walks to Brett for his 35th save in 37 chances. load the bases with none out. Kinsler doubled Matt Albers (2-0), Chicago’s sixth reliever, pitched Gardner and Chase Headley in the eighth, but down the left field line to score McCann and Gose two scoreless innings for the win. to finish Volquez’s night. J.D. Martinez’s single scored Iglesias. Kinsler scored on Collins’ fielder’s Mariners 3 Orioles 0 choice grounder as Detroit sent 10 to the plate in Hisashi Iwakuma has become the second the inning. Neftali Feliz (2-3), the former Texas Japanese-born pitcher in major league history to Rangers closer, picked up the victory, retiring all throw a no-hitter, leading the Seattle Mariners to three batters he faced. Bruce Rondon worked the a 3-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on ninth to log his second save. Wednesday. Iwakuma struck out seven and walked three in throwing the first no-hitter by an Twins 11, Rangers 1 American League pitcher in nearly three years. Aaron Hicks had four of Minnesota’s 17 hits, He joins Hideo Nomo, who threw two no-nos, as Miguel Sano homered twice and Mike Pelfrey the only Japanese-born pitchers to accomplish picked up his first win since June as the Twins the feat. Iwakuma is the fourth pitcher to throw a routed Texas. Sano’s second home run drove in no-hitter this season, joining Philadelphia’s Cole three in the fourth inning and reached the upper Hamels - prior to his trade to Texas - deck down the left field line. It gave the Twins a 7- Washington’s Max Scherzer and San Francisco’s 0 lead. Hicks got the Twins going with a leadoff Chris Heston. Iwakuma is the first American homer in the first. He jumped on a 2-0 fastball League pitcher to throw a no-hitter since team- from Nick Martinez (7-7) and drove it 432 feet off mate Felix Hernandez tossed a perfect game the facing of the upper deck in right-center for his against the Tampa Bay Rays on Aug. 15, 2012. seventh homer of the season. Pelfrey (6-7) had Baltimore starter Kevin Gausman (2-4) took the gone 0-5 with 6.22 ERA in his last 10 starts, but he loss. was sharp on Wednesday, scattering four hits and one walk while striking out four in seven innings. Dodgers 3, Nationals 0 Clayton Kershaw tied Sandy Koufax’s fran- Reds 7, Padres 3 chise record of six straight 200-strikeout seasons CHICAGO: The Chicago White Sox celebrate after Avisail Garcia #26 hit a walkoff one run RBI Rookie Raisel Iglesias pitched six strong while tossing eight scoreless innings, and NL double against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at US Cellular Field on Wednesday in innings and Joey Votto scored the go-ahead run West-leading Los Angeles defeated Washington. Chicago, Illinois. — AFP on a balk by James Shields and later homered to Kershaw (10-6) took a perfect game bid into the lead Cincinnati to a victory against San Diego. sixth inning, when Michael Taylor doubled to Iglesias (3-4) retired 16 straight from the end of deep center field. Kershaw retired the next two Cody Allen got Alex Rodriguez to hit into a dou- Cubs 3, Brewers 2, 10 Innings the first inning through the sixth to help the Reds batters on grounders to end the inning. The 27- ble play to end the inning. Salazar gave up one Miguel Montero homered in the bottom of avoid a three-game sweep. He allowed three runs year-old left-hander struck out the side in the run in 7 1/3 innings. Cody Allen earned his 23rd the 10th inning to give Chicago a victory over and six hits while striking out eight and walking second to equal the mark set by Koufax from save. CC Sabathia (4-9) allowed two runs in six Milwaukee for the Cubs’ sixth straight win and one. He had lost four of his previous five deci- 1961-66. Koufax and Tom Seaver (1968-76) are innings. 12th in 13 games. Montero, who allowed a cou- sions. Votto hit a two-run homer - his 20th - off the only pitchers in modern NL history to accom- Mets 3, Rockies 0 ple wild pitches to get past him in the ninth as Frank Garces with one out in the ninth. Votto had plish the feat in six or more consecutive seasons. Jacob deGrom conceded only two hits and the Brewers rallied to tie the score, led off the three hits and drove in three runs. Shields (8-5), Kenley Jansen retired the side in the ninth to struck out 10 in seven innings, pitching New York 10th with a solo blast to left field off Michael who signed a $75 million, four-year contract as a earn his 22nd save in 23 chances. Jordan past Colorado. Yoenis Cespedes hit his first home Blazek (5-3). Tommy Hunter (3-2) pitched a score- free agent in February, has just one win in his last Zimmermann (8-8) nearly matched Kershaw, giv- run for the surging Mets, who have won 10 of 12. less 10th to get the win. Kris Bryant homered and 13 starts. ing up two hits and one run in seven innings. He Juan Uribe stroked an RBI double in the fourth Anthony Rizzo made a circus catch falling into the struck out a season-high nine, including Adrian and Michael Cuddyer followed with a run-scor- stands to lead the keep the Cubs surging. Ryan Phillies 7, Diamondbacks 6 Gonzalez three times, and walked one. ing single on a night when both players reached Braun went 3 for 4 with a home run for the Cameron Rupp homered and drove in a 1,500 career hits. Surprise leaders in the NL East, Brewers. career-high four runs and Philadelphia avoided a Blue Jays 10, Athletics 3 the Mets (62-52) matched their season high at 10 series sweep with a win over Arizona. Rupp Toronto surged to the top of the AL East with games over .500. They handed Colorado its ninth Astros 2, Giants 0 capped a four-run sixth with a three-run shot off its 10th straight win, beating Oakland behind a defeat in a row at Citi Field since 2013 - after the Colby Rasmus homered to lead off the sev- Arizona reliever Keith Hessler, who did not allow pair of three-run homers from Chris Colabello Rockies won eight straight at the ballpark the enth inning to help Scott Feldman earn his first a batter to reach base in his two previous outings. and Justin Smoak. The Blue Jays trailed the previous two years. New York improved to 41-18 win in more than two months, and Houston held Rupp’s homer broke a 4-all tie. Rupp drove in Yankees by six games on July 31. But after mak- at home, surpassing its 2014 win total (40) in the on to beat San Francisco. Jed Lowrie also home- another run with a sacrifice fly. Cody Asche ing several bold trades, they have gone on a cozy stadium. Last season’s NL Rookie of the red for the Astros, who stumble back to Minute scored on Rupp’s double-play grounder - not an streak that included a sweep of New York, losing Year, deGrom (11-6) entered with the second- Maid Park with a slimmer AL West division lead RBI - in the fourth inning. Phillies rookie Aaron only once since Troy Tulowitzki joined the team lowest ERA in the National League at 2.13. He fin- after going 2-7 on their nine-game road trip. Nola pitched five innings for the win. Nola (3-1) to move a half-game up in the division. Josh ished with his eighth career double-digit strike- Feldman (5-5) missed 45 games earlier this sea- allowed four runs and nine hits for his third win in Donaldson had two hits and two RBIs, boosting out game and fourth this season. Jeurys Familia son with a torn meniscus and had been winless in four starts. The Phillies bullpen almost gave up his major league-leading total to 85. got his 32nd save. four starts since coming off the disabled list in the lead. Arizona scored once in both the seventh R.A. Dickey (7-10) won his won his fourth Jorge De La Rosa (7-5) gave up two runs and July. He combined with four relievers on the five- and eighth innings before Ken Giles got the last straight decision, allowing three runs and six hits four hits over six innings for the last-place hit shutout. The Astros right-hander - winless out in the eighth and three in the ninth for his in six innings. Right-hander Aaron Brooks (1-1) Rockies. since May 26 - gave up four hits over six innings, seventh save. Chase Anderson (5-5) took the loss. Sports FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015

Wozniacki blasts Tour for being forced to play Rogers Cup

TORONTO: Fourth seed Caroline because I wanted to make sure that I You get zero points to your ranking. “I’ve been on the players council for Wozniacki dropped her opening was 100 percent healthy,” said the for- Plus they wouldn’t allow me to play a long time and I’m not anymore match at the Rogers Cup on mer world number one. “I went out small tournament in this half of the because these rules are things that Wednesday but did not go quietly there and actually my leg and my back year, which is crazy.” players complain about all the time, blasting the WTA Tour for forcing her are feeling pretty good, so that’s good. As premier mandatory event top but we can’t do anything about it,” to play in the tournament without “But today was the first time that players can only decline playing in the said Wozniacki. “I think the WTA is all proper preparation. I’ve practiced for a week. I want to be tournament with a legitimate injury or about we want the players healthy, we Wozniacki, playing with a heavily able to play up to my best tennis, and risk heavy sanctions. want them to play at their best level at strapped left calf, squandered a 5-2 you’re not going to do that if you Wozniacki, the 2010 Canadian every tournament and we want to first set lead before tumbling out of don’t practice. champion, opened the North make it tough for them. the tournament with a 7-5 7-5 loss to “But the rules if you’re a top-10 American hardcourt swing last week in “That’s good, but the fact that Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic, saved player that this was my commitment Stanford where the Dane also dropped they’re pushing you to play whenever, her best shots for the Tour. tournament, you’re forced to play. “If her opening match to Varvara if you are not feeling 100 percent is “I haven’t practiced for a week you don’t, you get huge money fines. Lepchenko. not okay.” — Reuters

Wawrinka demands action after Kyrgios girlfriend comment

MONTREAL: French Open champion Stan Wawrinka yesterday demanded action by tennis authorities over “beyond belief” com- ments made by Australian bad boy Nick Kyrgios about his “girl- friend” at the Montreal tournament. On-court microphones picked up the scurrilous sexual remark over Wawrinka’s girlfriend by the 20-year-old Australian during a changeover at the Montreal Masters on Wednesday. Kyrgios said that the woman had been involved with his close friend Thanasi Kokkinakis. “Sorry to tell you that mate,” Kyrgios is heard to say. Wawrinka reacted with fury. “There is no need for this kind of behaviour on or off the court and I hope the governing body of this sport does not stand for this and stands up for the integrity of this sport that we have worked so hard to build,” Wawrinka said in a Twitter statement after. “So disappointing to see a fellow athlete and colleague be so disrespectful in a way I could never even imagine. “What was said I wouldn’t say to my worst enemy. To stoop so low is not only unac- ceptable but also beyond belief,” the Swiss player added. The com- ments were made after the first set which Kyrgios won 7-6 (10/8). Wawrinka won the second set 6-4, but withdrew with back prob- lems when he was losing the third set 4-0.

Target of criticism At the stadium, Wawrinka, who has been linked to Croatian tour player Donna Vevic, said the Association of Tennis Professionals should take “major action this time” against Kyrios. “It’s not the first time that he has big problems on court in terms of what he says MONTREAL: Andy Murray of Great Britain hits a return against Tommy Robredo of Spain during day three of the Rogers Cup and in terms of how he acts. I hope the governing body does not at Uniprix Stadium on Wednesday in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Andy Murray defeated Tommy Robredo 6-4, 7-5. — AFP stand for this.” Kyrgios, whose Twitter motto is “Play Your Own Rules”, has been the target of criticism from the tennis establish- ment several times for his on-court behaviour. But Australian veter- Murray beats Robredo an Lleyton Hewitt began a mentoring role with Kyrgios that started in Montreal. Hewitt and Kyrgios were beaten in the first round of the doubles. At Wimbledon, Kyrgios drew jeers from the public as he appar- after weather delay ently did not bother to compete for a game in the second set of his fourth-round defeat by Richard Gasquet. He also had problems with chair umpires on occasion during the fortnight.— AFP MONTREAL: Andy Murray completed a job summer hard-court campaign as the Spaniard ing the season. That’s a positive moment.” left hanging from the night before because of recovered to defeat Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-6 Japanese fourth seed Kei Nishikori, winner rain, advancing to the third round of the ATP (7/4), 6-3. The seventh seed had to wait for two at the weekend of the Washington title and Montreal Masters Wednesday with a 6-4, 7-5 hours before his match at the Uniprix stadium now ranked fourth on the ATP, started 6-3, 6-3 win over Tommy Robredo. The Scottish sec- could begin, after a morning rain shower was over Spain’s Pablo Andujar in 70 minutes, win- ond seed and two-time winner ended the followed by a towel-drying effort and repairs ning his 50th match at the Masters 1000 level. match, after nearly two hours, with a drop shot to bubbles on the rubberized surface. Nishikori made a successful comeback which bounced dangerously on the top of the But once down to business, Nadal made last week after a long-running thigh injury net before falling onto Robredo’s side of the the most of his opening contest on the and said that his current fitness is good. “I’ve court for the winner. cement, winning the first set in a tiebreaker been feeling pretty good. After winning the Murray set up a meeting with Gilles Muller- and sweeping the second to reach the third title, you have to feel good. My tennis is get- whom he has defeated twice this season-as he round and a date with Mikhail Youzhny, who ting better,” he said. “I didn’t start quite well, finished his second round contest with 24 win- beat French ninth seed Gilles Simon 6-1, 6-4. but it was windy. We had a little wait, so it ners and 30 unforced errors and breaking four Nadal is playing Canada for the first time since wasn’t easy in the beginning. But after a cou- times. The pair resumed play Wednesday after winning his third title here in 2013. The world ple of games I was playing well, concentrat- standing 4-4 in the opening set on Tuesday number nine improved to 40-12 on the sea- ing well, too. night. “It was a very tough match, there were a son. “I go day by day. Today is a victory that I “I’m very happy with my tennis today.” lot of nerves near the end of the first set,” said am happy with,” said Nadal. “I’m satisfied with American Jack Sock sprang an upset on trou- Murray. “I won two close games to take it. the way that I played. I’m practising well and bled 14th seed Grigor Dimitrov, who went “Conditions today were a lot different, practising more than ever now because I am down 5-7, 7-6 (7/5), 7-5. Over recent weeks, there was a lot of wind. It was difficult to attack healthy and because I feel that’s what I need the Bulgarian once tipped as a future Roger and play aggressively. I had to chase down a today. “I won in Hamburg a couple weeks ago, Federer lost both his Australian coach Roger MONTREAL: Stan Wawrinka, of Switzerland, returns to lot of balls and got lucky a few times as well.” that was an important victory. Six consecutive Rasheed and Russian girlfriend Maria Nick Kyrgios, of Australia, at the Rogers Cup tennis tour- Rafael Nadal made an encouraging start to the wins hasn’t happened for me very often dur- Sharapova. — AFP nament Wednesday, in Montreal. — AP Sports FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 Bundesliga starts with Bayern Munich as favorite

FRANKFURT: Bayern Munich kicks off the Bundesliga season in the familiar role of favorite for a historic fourth consecutive title despite questions hanging over the future of coach Pep Guardiola. No Bundesliga team has won four straight titles and if any team can do it, it’s the current Bayern side. Guardiola’s team has bolstered its already loaded squad and few expect anything but another title. In a poll conducted by Kicker magazine, 16 of 18 Bundesliga coaches saw Bayern as champion again, with two undecided. Bayern finished last season 10 points ahead of Wolfsburg, which again is likely to be the nearest chal- lenger. Borussia Dortmund could return to the group of pursuers again after struggling last season. The season kicks off Friday in Munich, when Bayern hosts Hamburger SV, a team that barely escaped rele- gation in a playoff and that got eliminated from the German Cup by fourth-tier Jena last weekend. Not to mention that Hamburg lost 8-0 the last time it visited Munich. Bayern captain Philipp Lahm thinks his team is unstoppable. “If the team is hungry and willing, and has enough energy, there can be no other German champion,” he said ahead of the opening match. Here are some things to know about the upcoming season:

Should I stay or should I go? Coach Pep Guardiola has left fans and Bayern offi- cials second-guessing about his future. Guardiola is in the final season of his three-year deal and raised eyebrows recently by saying that he wasn’t fully convinced of being the “right man” in charge and that three years at a club are a “long time.” Bayern is keen to keep Guardiola but director Matthias Sammer has said the club would not fall apart if the BARCELONA: Barcelona’s coach Luis Enrique (left) and Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (R) take part in a training session at the Sports coach leaves. Guardiola won the domestic double in Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in Sant Joan Despi, near Barcelona yesterday. — AFP his first season and the Bundesliga title last season, while his team was eliminated in the semifinals of the is reportedly not entirely happy with his limited role Premier League side Manchester City. Wolfsburg has will be a speedy partner for Marco Reus, if the latter Champions League both seasons. but he is likely to stay. brought in German striker Max Kruse. Wolfsburg can shake off injuries. angered Bayern again by lifting the domestic Super Bayern additions Wolfburg’s rise Cup on penalties two weeks ago. The newcomers Bayern has added muscle and speed to its squad. Wolfsburg enjoyed its best season since its surprise Darmstadt returns to the Bundesliga after 33 years With Arturo Vidal in its midfield, Bayern will become run to the 2009 title. It beat Bayern 4-1 and finished Dortmund’s return? and will be an unknown quantity. It has progressed more robust, while the speed of winger Douglas second, while lifting the German Cup. Sponsored by Dortmund has turned a new page with the depar- from third to first division in successive seasons but its Costa could be a major asset. Franck Ribery is still Germany’s biggest car maker, Wolfsburg has been ture of seven-year coach Jurgen Klopp. His successor is limited budget and a squad of castoffs from other nursing an ankle season and Costa will see plenty of able to assemble a strong squad and is likely to remain Thomas Tuchel, was one of the most sought-after clubs make Darmstadt the top candidate for relega- action, at least at the start of the season. The two the No. 2 club, especially if midfielder Kevin de Bruyne coaches following a successful stint in Mainz, his only tion. Ingolstadt also will be hard-pressed to remain in should compensate for the departure of Bastian stays. De Bruyne was voted Bundesliga’s top player Bundesliga job. Unsettled striker Ciro Immobile has the Bundesliga longer than a season. And goal-line Schweinsteiger for Manchester United. Mario Goetze last season but has been linked with a move to English been loaned away, but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang technology is also making its debut. — AP Late Killie comeback stops Celtic Arturo Vidal praise sees GLASGOW: Celtic slipped to second in the Scottish The ‘keeper had barely picked himself up before Premiership after Kallum Higginbotham scored a he had to get down low to smother the danger from Aranguiz join Leverkusen late penalty for Kilmarnock who twice came from a low drive from Commons before stopping a Rogic behind to seal a shock 2-2 draw at Rugby Park. shot. Griffiths was next to see a swerving shot saved BERLIN: Charles Aranguiz says a positive apprais- been out of the top teams for many years,” said Celtic found themselves in front as early as the sec- as the Celtic bombardment continued. al of Bayer Leverkusen by Arturo Vidal convinced Aranguiz. “My national team-mate Arturo Vidal ond minute as Leigh Griffiths finished off a Kris Kilmarnock had barely threatened before him to sign for the Bundesliga side and join his has raved about Bayer 04, so I definitely wanted Commons free-kick. Magennis blew a golden chance to fire the home Chile international team-mate in Germany’s top to go to this club. “In addition, this is a great Killie ‘keeper Jamie MacDonald then made a host side level in the 35th minute. The Northern Ireland flight. Leverkusen announced yesterday that opportunity to play Champions League football of saves as the Hoops threatened to run riot. striker raced behind the Celtic defence to collect a Aranguiz has signed a five-year contract. The 26- with Leverkusen. However, the hosts punished Celtic in the 44th clever through ball from Rory McKenzie but he year-old has won 40 caps for Chile and was part “They almost always qualified for it in previous minute when Josh Magennis levelled matters as blazed his effort high over. of the team which won the Copa America last years and we want to do that again this time. “I Celtic conceded in the league for the first time since Craig Gordon then instinctively stuck out a foot month by beating Argentina on penalties in the am looking forward to the big challenge of play- April 22. The Glasgow giants regained the lead in to keep out Lee Ashcroft’s header as he connected final. ing in another country.” Aranguiz will slot into the style in the 55th minute as Israeli international Nir with Steven Smith’s free-kick. Celtic hit back and The defensive midfielder scored twice in a 5-0 defensive midfield alongside Germany interna- Bitton smashed a sensational strike past Jamie Rogic saw his header hit the post, a follow-up strike group win against Bolivia before netting in the tional Christoph Kramer in a new-look MacDonald from 25 yards. saved by MacDonald before sending his third effort penalty shootout victory over Argentina and Leverkusen midfield with Gonzalo Castro having With time running out Higginbotham dinked an over the bar. The Hoops were immediately pun- Leverkusen are reported to have spent 12 million joined Borussia Dortmund, Simon Rolfes has 87th minute penalty past Craig Gordon to seal ished for their missed chances as Magennis grabbed euros (US$13.3m) on him. He has signed from retired and Stefan Reinartz has joined Eintracht Kilmarnock’s first point of the season. Celtic are an equaliser in the 44th minute. The striker got in Brazilian club Internacional, who reached the Frankfurt. Premier League side Leicester City were replaced at the top of the Scottish Premiership by front of Efe Ambrose to stick out a leg and turn the semi-finals of South America’s Copa Libertadores also reported to have been interested in signing newly-promoted Hearts who made it three wins out ball past Gordon from Darryl Westlake’s low cross. last season. Aranguiz hopes to play in the him. “We are happy that our perseverance has of three following their 2-0 victory over Motherwell Griffiths and Rogic both missed chances before European equivalent, the Champions League, if paid off with Charles Aranguiz having chosen to thanks to a Gavin Reilly penalty and a Billy King Rogic teed up Bitton 25 yards out and he took a Bayer Leverkusen beat Lazio over two legs in their join us,” said Leverkusen’s managing director strike. Saidy Janko made his first start for Celtic at touch before unleashing an unstoppable swerving play-off tie for a place in the group stages. Michael Schade. Rugby Park as one of three changes manager Ronny strike into the top corner to restore Celtic’s lead. Bayern Munich’s ex-Juventus star Vidal spent “Our efforts to sign him weren’t made any Deila made from the weekend win over Partick Charlie Mulgrew had an effort ruled out for five years with Bayer from 2007-11 and he con- easier by his exceptional performances for his Thistle. Celtic got off to a dream start as the alert offside before Killie earned a late penalty. vinced Aranguiz to sign for Leverkusen. club and country, so it’s all the better that we Commons sent a free-kick over the static Kilmarnock Emilio Izaguirre fouled Greg Kiltie in the box “The Bundesliga is one of the best and most were able to prevail against strong international defence and Griffiths got on the end of it to poke and Higginbotham cheekily chipped home the attractive leagues in the world and Bayer has competition.” — AFP the ball past MacDonald. spot-kick. —AFP FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 Murray beatsRobredo Murray beatsRobredo after weather delay after weather delay Page 46 www.kuwaittimes.net shot againstHeather of theRogersCupat Britain duringDay3 the AvivaCentreon TORONTO: Andrea Toronto, Ontario, Germany playsa Canada. —AFP Watson ofGreat Wedensday in Petkovic of