Stranded Umrah Pilgrims Back in Kuwait After Harrowing Ordeal 52 Expats Stuck in Kingdom for 20 Days After Passports Go Missing from Hotel

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Stranded umrah pilgrims back in Kuwait after harrowing ordeal 52 expats stuck in kingdom for 20 days after passports go missing from hotel

By Sajeev K Peter

KUWAIT: Forty-four out of 52 umrah pilgrims from Kuwait, who were stranded in the holy city of Makkah after losing their passports and documents, returned to Kuwait yesterday. They had spent more than 20 traumatic days in the kingdom waiting for new travel documents. They arrived to a rousing welcome early yesterday, and were received at the border by police officers, office- bearers of the India Sunni Jamaat organization, volun- teers and relatives. However, eight of the pilgrims could not enter Kuwait as they only had exit passes and no passports, and had to go back to Makkah. According to sources, the tour oper- ators who took the pilgrims to the kingdom on umrah visas offered to help them complete their formalities and promised them air tickets to go back to their respective countries at the earliest. “We entered Kuwait around 6 o’clock in the morning, as we had to spend almost a day at the Kuwait-Saudi border because eight people in our group didn’t have passports,” said Razak Cheruthuruthy, one of the pilgrims. He said Kuwaiti officials had to KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah presents the Amir Football Cup to captain of Kuwait SC Hussein Hakim and other players at Jaber Al-Ahmad resolve some technical problems, as they were entering International Stadium yesterday. Kuwait SC defeated Qadsiya 2-0 to secure their 14th Amir Cup. — KUNA (See Page 28) the country on new passports. Continued on Page 24

News in brief Anas Al-Saleh. MPs have also threatened to MPs file to grill grill the prime minister and finance minister. MP Al-Humaidi Al-Subaei has said he will Public sector Ramadan timings file to grill Commerce and Industry Minister Khaled Al-Roudhan, and yesterday said he KUWAIT: The Civil Service Commission decided info minister working hours for government departments during the will grill the health minister if what he called month of Ramadan will be from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm. By B Izzak “treatment tourism” abroad does not stop. These timings apply to the ministries of commerce, The grilling against Jabri was filed by awqaf, justice, public works, education, services and KUWAIT: Three opposition lawmakers MPs Riyadh Al-Adasani, Mohammad Al- information, authorities of housing care, ports, agricul- yesterday filed to grill Information Minister Dallal and Adel Al-Damkhi, who said after ture, youth, sports, environment, industry and minors’ Mohammad Al-Jabri over alleged adminis- handing over a copy of the grilling that their affairs, departments of customs and fire, Credit Bank, trative and financial violations and misuse main object is reform and fighting corrup- Zakat House, Municipality, Civil Service Commission of powers. Acting Assembly Speaker Essa tion. The grilling accuses the minister of and the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters. Al-Kandari said the grilling will be listed on having committed a number of legal, finan- The timings for all other departments are from 10:00 the agenda of the April 30 session, but the cial, technical and administrative violations am to 2:30 pm. — A Saleh minister has the right to postpone the at the ministry of information, the Public debate for two weeks. Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish This will be the second grilling on the Resources and the Public Sports Authority, agenda of the next session, after a grilling which fall under the minister. KUWAIT: MPs Riyadh Al-Adasani, Adel Al-Damkhi and Mohammad Al-Dallal filed to Saudi Arabia executes 37 against Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Continued on Page 24 grill Information Minister Mohammad Al-Jabri yesterday. — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday executed 37 of its citizens convicted of terrorism. The executions were proclaimed its caliphate in mid-2014. carried out in Riyadh, Makkah, Madinah, the province IS claims Lanka “Those that carried out the attack that of Qassim and the Eastern Province. The men were targeted members of the US-led coali- executed “for adopting terrorist and extremist thinking tion and Christians in Sri Lanka the day and for forming terrorist cells to corrupt and destabilize blasts, releases before yesterday are Islamic State group security”, said the official Saudi Press Agency. It said one person was crucified after his execution. —AFP fighters,” IS propaganda agency Amaq pic of attackers said in a statement. In a later statement, the group gave BEIRUT: The Islamic State group yes- the noms de guerre of seven people it UAE launches ‘Ministry of Possibilities’ terday claimed a series of bombings that said were behind the “blessed attack” killed more than 320 people in Sri Lanka, that targeted Christians during their “blasphemous holiday”. Amaq also DUBAI: The UAE yesterday unveiled a new branch of and released a photo and video of the government, a Ministry of Possibilities, three years after men it said were responsible. The mas- released a photo of eight men it said launching a department in charge of happiness. “The vir- sive casualty toll would make the Easter were behind the blasts. Seven of them An image grab taken from a video by the Islamic State allegedly shows eight men it tual ministry, administered by the cabinet, will address Sunday attacks the deadliest overseas had their faces covered and three of said carried out a string of deadly suicide bombings on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, pressing national portfolios and build future government operation claimed by IS since the group them held knives. lined up at an undisclosed location. — AFP systems,” tweeted Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al- Continued on Page 24 Maktoum, the UAE’s premier and ruler of Dubai. — AFP makers - small electrical implants in the Self-powered chest of abdomen - to help regulate their heartbeats after chronic or acute illness. Survivors offered NZ residency Even with recent technological advances, ‘pacemaker for pacemaker batteries can be rigid or WELLINGTON: New Zealand will grant permanent bulky, and may need replacing several residency to all survivors of the mass shooting at two life’ unveiled times over the lifespan of a device. Christchurch mosques in which 50 Muslim worship- Energy harvesters, which generate pers were killed, it said yesterday. Immigration New electricity from pulses sent by the body, Zealand said a new visa category called the PARIS: Scientists yesterday unveiled a have shown to be effective in recent Christchurch Response (2019) visa had been created. battery-free pacemaker that generates years, but only in small animals such as People who were present at the mosques when they its energy from the heartbeats of pigs in rats, as well as cell models with low were attacked on March 15 can apply, as can immedi- what could pave the way for an “implant energy demands. PARIS: A handout photo shows a symbiotic pacemaker (battery-free device), able to ate family members. — Reuters for life” in humans suffering from heart Continued on Page 24 defects. Millions of patients rely on pace- generate its own energy from heart beats to power a cardiac pacemaker. — AFP 2 Established 1961 Local Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Ambassador to the Russian Federation Abdulaziz Kuwait’s Speaker Al-Adwani and the diplomatic staff of the embassy. Ghanem, leading a parliamentary dele- concludes official gation, held talks with Matviyenko and Deputy Chairman of the State Duma (lower house) Sergei visit to Russia Neverov. Boosting parliamentary cooperation between the Ghanem and Neverov, and sharing experience in the field was discussed during the MOSCOW: Kuwait National Assembly Speaker meeting, in addition to issues of mutual concern, Marzouq Al-Ghanem concluded yesterday a especially the recent developments in Yemen, three-day official visit to Russia, which was upon Libya, Syria and Palestine. Moreover, the two an invitation from Chairperson of the Federation sides agreed on holding meetings prior to Inter- Council (upper house of the Russian parliament) Parliamentary Union’s conferences to unify views Valentina Matviyenko. He was seen off by Kuwait and stance on different matters. — KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. — KUNA Amir to attend teachers’ honoring ceremony today

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- condolences to President of the Philippines Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is set to attend an Rodrigo Duterte over the victims of the series of awards’ ceremony to honor distinguished teachers, earthquakes that jolted a number of cities in the held under His Highness’ auspices, the Amiri Diwan country. In the cables, His Highness extended announced yesterday. The event will be held today deepest condolences, wishing mercy to the at 10:00 am at the Public Authority for Applied deceased and swift recovery for the injured. His Education and Training main theatre in Shuwaikh. Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- In other news, His Highness the Amir received at Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the MOSCOW: Kuwait’s National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem meets with Deputy Chairman of Bayan Palace yesterday His Highness Sheikh Nasser Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- the State Duma (lower house) Sergei Neverov. — KUNA Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Hamad Al-Sabah sent cables of similar sentiments Separately, His Highness the Amir sent a cable of to President Duterte. — KUNA PAAET qualified to reform workforce in Kuwait: Official

KUWAIT: His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Minister of Education Dr Hamed Al-Azmi in a group photo with the honorees. — KUNA

KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Applied Education cation and self-consciousness. process in Kuwait, particularly in providing efficient implemented 30 joint programs with most state min- and Training’s Director-General Dr Ali Al-Mudhaf They are also able to transfer their technical experi- manpower to economic sectors, as well as an elite of istries, institutions, and authorities, in addition to part- affirmed Monday that PAAET’s graduates are qualified ence, knowledge, and national affiliation through multi- specialized technicians and their assistants to various nerships with oil and private sectors through organizing to reform the workforce structure in Kuwait and make ple generations simultaneously, he said. Mudhaf fields and occupations the country needs. PAAET has 60 workshops in cooperation with beneficiary bodies new wave of talented workers. Mudhaf made his expressed his gratitude and appreciation to His succeeded in achieving several major projects through and implementing bureaus. Around 170 training courses remarks in a speech at an honoring ceremony held for Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad for his contin- its students, Ameeri noted, adding the number of appli- were held at Ibn Al-Haytham training center during the PAAET graduates under the auspices and attendance ued encouragement and special sponsorship of the cants to study in the Authority continues to be on the academic year 2018/19, with some 3,700 trainees from of His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al- applied education sector, adding Sheikh Nasser Al- rise. This poses a major challenge for PAAET to 40 bodies, including ministries, state and civil institu- Ahmad Al-Sabah and Minister of Education Dr Hamed Mohammad strongly believes in applied training’s sig- accommodate such a large number of male/female tions, he added. All directorates and institutions at the Al-Azmi. The honorees gained their education and nificance in achieving the “Kuwaiti Dream.” applicants, especially since the number of enrolled stu- applied training sector received this year certificates of work experience in PAAET laboratories and practical Meanwhile, Deputy Director General of PAAET for dents reached nearly 9,000 in the academic year quality assurance (ISO 9001:2015) in addition to aca- training in the Kuwaiti labor market, he noted, affirming Training Affairs Tareq Al-Ameeri stressed the impor- 2018/19, he added. demic, programmatic, and institutional accreditation their competency to make decisions based on self-edu- tance of applied training sector in the development In the meantime, Ameeri noted that PAAET has from Paris Academy, said Ameeri. — KUNA

responsibilities of the bank and its partners in terms of Zain concludes AUB organizes the requirements related to the particulars of their coun- terparties in electronic payment operations, the method of implementing them, determining the time schedule for strategic partnership awareness workshop receipt by the bank of all the requirements for regulariz- ing the partner’s status according to the Central Bank’s of Arab Media Forum for its partners requirements and the penalties for non-compliance. The workshop ended with a questions and answers session to KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank (AUB) held an awareness respond to enquiries or concerns raised by the parties Kuwait, concluded its strategic partnership of the 16th workshop for the partners that deal with the bank con- concerned with implementation. edition of the Arab Media Forum. The event, which was cerning the supervision instructions issued by the Central Speaking on the occasion of the workshop, Huda Al- held at Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center (JACC), Bank of Kuwait to regulate the electronic payment of Madani, General Manager, Digital Transformation and came under the patronage of His Highness the Prime funds. The workshop highlighted the Central Bank’s reso- Alternative Channels at Ahli United Bank, said: “Ahli Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. lution no 44/430/2018 specifying all limits and conditions United Bank is keen to comply with the instructions of The representative of His Highness the Prime Minister, that should be observed by those who carry on this the Central Bank in the best interests of both financial the Minister of Information and Minister of State for activity and their partners. institutions and their customers. With the attainment of Youth Affairs Mohammad Al-Jabri and Director of the The resolution set a deadline for them to comply within full compliance in mind, AUB held this workshop in order Arab Media Forum Madhi Al-Khamees recognized Zain the framework of the latest developments in modern finan- to increase the awareness of the partners who deal with Kuwait’s Chief Corporate Communications and Relations cial technologies and electronic payment means with a us with regard to the supervision instructions issued by Officer Waleed Al-Khashti for Zain’s strategic partnership view to serving the interests of the national economy, the Central Bank of Kuwait to regulate the electronic of the forum, which came this year for the eighth consec- improving macroeconomic performance and providing payment of funds. This workshop is part of the bank’s KUWAIT: Minister of Information Mohammad Al-Jabri and utive time. The recognition came during the opening cer- their services within the framework of the Central Bank’s 2019 on-going digital transformation program to enhance Director of the Arab Media Forum Madhi Al-Khamees rec- emony, which witnessed the presence of many ministers, inclusive financial policy. banking services presented to our customers to fulfill ognize Zain Kuwait’s Chief Corporate Communications and media personalities, and public figures from all around the The workshop sought to identify the duties and their needs.” Relations Officer Waleed Al-Khashti for Zain’s partnership. Arab world. Zain is keen on enriching the various media and cultur- al aspects within the community, being a leading private Sultanate of Oman as the 16th edition’s guest of honor. sector company in the country. Zain believes in the strong Zain’s strategic partnership of this forum highlights its impact media has on individuals and communities, and it social commitment, as the company believes in the impor- strives to reach out to all of the different segments of the tance of the role press and media plays in the develop- society through this very vital tool. ment of communities. Zain will continue supporting this This year, the 16th edition of the forum featured the very important sector which carries significant and participation of over 250 Arab media figures and over informative messaging to the public at large and the com- 150 students of media and journalism from all over the munications world as a whole. Arab world. The event also featured 12 panel discussions, The Arab Media Forum has proven itself to be one of workshops, and open talks that hosted high-profile exec- the region’s most prominent events that attend to Arab utives from the Arab world, including foreign affairs min- media. Since 2003, the event brought together many isters, media and information ministers, owners and exec- ministers, editors-in-chief of local and regional newspa- utives of Arab media institutions, and more. In addition, pers, media executives, journalists, academics, authors, the event also featured many media personalities, journal- actors, businessmen, and social figures from all around ists, authors, and actors. This year, the event hosted the the Arab world. 3 Local Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Proposed labor law amendments present great danger to economy: KCCI Chief Bourse’s privatization first true privatization in Kuwait’s history: Ghanem

By A Saleh sector are foreigners, who would have been the main ben- Employees’ rewards eficiaries of the amendment. “Allowing more than 1.7 mil- Director General of the Public Authority for Manpower KUWAIT: The proposed amendments to the labor law in lion non-Kuwaiti workers to get advantages and excep- Ahmad Al-Mousa said the Civil Service Council respond- the private sector present a great danger to the Kuwaiti tional conditions with the claim of attracting Kuwaiti labor ed to the authority’s request to grant its employees the economy, especially small and medium companies, which to the private sector is unjustified,” Ghanem said yester- rewards that are decided according to the council’s deci- will not be able to bear such costs, a leading Kuwaiti econ- sion 45/2006 starting from April 1, 2019, and the authority omist said yesterday. Small and medium projects that are will pay the dues for April retroactively with May’s salary. being formed currently by pioneers are legally committed The decision was taken to prevent any financial discrepan- to hire Kuwaiti labor, and will be the most harmed from the Authorities cies in monthly salaries between the authority’s employees increase in the cost of the labor element, “which contra- coordinate and those of the Manpower and Government dicts the state’s vision and our keenness over projects,” Ali Restructuring Program after activating the Council of Al-Ghanem, President of the Kuwait Chamber of to monitor Minister’s decision 875/2017 issued on July 3, 2017 to Commerce and Industry (KCCI), said in a speech during move the program to the manpower authority. the 55th general assembly of KCCI. Ramadan prices The National Assembly’s health and labor committee Price control had last week succumbed to pressure by the government KCCI President Ali Al-Ghanem Head of the Kuwait Union of Consumer Cooperative and the business community and decided to rescind its Societies Khalid Al-Hudaiban said a joint committee earlier approval of increasing the annual leave for private between the union and social affairs ministry will carry out sector employees to 35 days. The amendment had been day. “It is clear that the proposed amendment looks at the “This success calls upon us to be optimistic,” he said, inspection tours of cooperatives during the month of approved by the committee about two months ago and private sector through its strongest establishments such as adding that Kuwait’s ports are considered the most impor- Ramadan to monitor prices and ensure there are no artifi- then passed by the National Assembly in the first reading banks and telecommunication companies, but small and tant element in its basic economic structure. He said cial price increases. He said the union stands against all last month. The Assembly was due to pass the amendment medium facilities make up 90 percent of the sector, and Kuwait’s political, social and economic history is linked to it attempts by some companies to approve increases in in the second and final reading more than three weeks ago, the majority of these facilities cannot financially bear the being a free, strategically located and highly efficient port. prices, adding that he has designated a hotline for all con- but the government delayed the vote. The government large financial increase in calculating annual leave.” Ghanem said that after successfully privatizing the bourse, sumers - citizens and expats - to call and inform about any clearly told the panel that the amendment harms the inter- the project to privatize Kuwait’s ports must be a guide to a increase in prices. He said the union is about to receive its ests of Kuwaiti businessmen against a minor benefit to a Bourse’s privatization serious and new direction in attracting direct foreign invest- new warehouses in Sulaibiya spread over an area of 6,000 small number of Kuwaitis employed in the private sector. In the meantime, Ghanem said that the bourse’s privati- ment and an effective passage to achieve the development m, which provides place to store food supplies of co-ops The overwhelming majority of employees in the private zation is the first true privatization in the history of Kuwait. vision which includes northern Kuwait and islands. that do not have enough storage space.

are demanding site, remote area, risk, shift and Security sources said this deployment is impor- Acting Premier meets Ministry staff screen allowances. — Meshaal Al-Enezi tant in areas that lack cameras, as it is easier to move them according to reports received by the Attempted murder department about reckless driving, and this will Canadian Defense Minister resume protests A Kuwaiti woman was found stabbed in her curb such behaviors. — A Saleh neck in front of her house. The woman was KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister, Defense tries, the Defense Ministry said in a press KUWAIT: Several employees at the Ministry of rushed to hospital, where medical tests revealed Medical center bills Minister and Acting Interior Minister statement. He stressed deep relations Public Works resumed their sit-in yesterday at the stab is deep. The woman accused her hus- Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah between Kuwait and Canada and pointed the ministry’s building in South Surra, in protest band of stabbing her, but he denied it. A case of asked the assistant undersecretary for financial met the visiting Canadian Defense out mutual willingness to bolster and con- over not receiving their dues and allowances. attempted murder was filed. — A Saleh affairs at the ministry Mohammad Al-Azmi, head Minister Harjit Sajjan at Bayan Palace yes- solidate bilateral ties, according to the The protesters said the ministry did not cooper- of the Kuwait health office in Washington Dr Ali terday. During the meeting, Sheikh Nasser statement. The Canadian minister arrived ate with engineers’ demands and deliberately Mobile traffic cameras Al-Enezi and financial and administrative said such visits contribute to promoting in Kuwait on Monday evening on an offi- stopped paying site allowances to ministry engi- The traffic department has adopted the use employees to settle hospital and medical center cooperation between both friendly coun- cial visit. — KUNA neers and technicians, depriving them of their of mobile traffic cameras to cover the new road bills after getting discounts in favor of public basic rights, according to their statements. They network until permanent cameras are installed. funds. — Meshaal Al-Enezi

Dialogue on the electricity and water sector, Kuwait, Japan which was established by the two govern- Legalese ments in 2015. The dialogue aims to exchange information of future projects in share info on Kuwait and applicable technologies of Japan, and discuss possible cooperation projects in energy projects the electricity and water sector. Ramadan in Kuwait Jassem Al-Nouri, Assistant Undersecretary for Transmission of Electrical TOKYO: Kuwaiti and Japanese representa- Networks of the Kuwaiti Ministry of tives yesterday discussed ways to further Electricity and Water (MEW) briefed the enhance cooperation and shared information participants on the ministry’s future plan for about the electricity and water sector in electricity infrastructure, including the sec- By Attorney Fajer Ahmed Kuwait. In the presence of visiting Kuwaiti ond and third phases of the Az-Zour North Minister of Oil, Electricity and Water Dr IWPP with 2,700 MW production capacity Khaled Al-Fadhel, the ‘High-Level Seminar and the Al-Khairan Phase 1 development with on the Electricity and Water in Kuwait’ was 1,800 MW capacity. According to Nouri, held in Tokyo with more than 100 officials Kuwait’s maximum peak power demand from energy-related Japanese companies recorded 13,910 MW, up 0.8 percent from attending. In his opening remarks addressing the previous year, on July 10 last year, when the one-day seminar, Dr Fadhel commended temperatures reached 50 degrees. the long-lasting relationship between the Meanwhile, Assistant Undersecretary for any of us in Kuwait are getting ready for two countries and voiced his ministry’s keen- Water Projects of the MEW Humoud Al- Ramadan, expected to begin in the first week ness to enhance bilateral cooperation based Rowdhan said in his presentation that, due to Mof May. Ramadan is a chance for many people on the Japanese long-term experience and the scarcity of fresh water from its natural who practice Islam to change their lives for the better, its advanced technology. The minister also resources, Kuwait has worked towards the whether it is by detoxing, forgiving, quitting a bad habit highlighted a target announced by His desalination of seawater to meet the needs of or spending more time with family. What I love about Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad its population to supply fresh water using Kuwait also is that we are very diverse, and this means Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to ensure that 15 percent the latest technologies. Rowdhan also listed if you want to - regardless of what your religion or of Kuwait’s power demand to be met through a number of future water projects, such as belief is - you can also practice or experience Ramadan with the Muslims living in Kuwait. renewable energy sources by 2030. ground reservoir for fresh water with the KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Acting Interior Minister I really do hope this year brings positive changes for The seminar was organized by the Japan total capacity of 115 MIG at Mutla City and Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah meets with Canadian Defense Minister everyone. For those who are new to Kuwait or not sure External Trade Organization (JETRO) in 87-km fresh water pipeline from Wafra to Harjit Sajjan. — KUNA about the legal impacts that Ramadan brings, here is an connection with the Kuwait-Japan Policy the Six Ring Road. — KUNA article that may help you understand. Blessed Ramadan everyone!

Working hours NBK sponsors Question: It is my first year in Kuwait working in a private sector and I have heard that our working hours ‘Digital Business will be less in Ramadan. Is this true? I am not a Muslim though - is this only for Muslims fasting? Fajer: Yes, work hours are reduced in the private Transformation’ forum sector to six hours a day according to the labor law’s article 64, which states: “It is forbidden to allow work- ers to work for more than 48 hours per week or eight KUWAIT: As part of its ongoing support to programs that hours a day, except in such events as are specified in aim to introduce knowledge and experience among pro- this law. Working hours during the month of Ramadan fessionals and the society as a whole, the National Bank of shall be equal to 36 hours per week” for employees Kuwait (NBK) sponsored ‘The Dynamics of Disruption in working six days a week, ie six hours per day. Digital Business Transformation’ forum that was organized by the Institute of Banking Studies and presented by IMD Eating in public Professor of Innovation and Strategy, Michael Wade. Held Question: As it is my first year in Kuwait in Ramadan, at Symphony Hotel, the discussions focused on the strate- can you explain to me if I can eat in public before iftar? gic advantages gained through a flexible business as well Is food available for purchase then? as how to link strategies to on-ground execution. Fajer: Food will be available before iftar time. There Twenty-eight individuals took part in the forum and are legal restrictions on some restaurants, but this does discussed the concept of digital business transformation, not mean that food will not be available. Law no 44 of managing principal business goals, as well as increasing 1968 dictates punishments under the law for eating or revenue, reducing cost, maintaining profitability, increasing drinking in public in Ramadan. The law states the fol- market share, and ensuring customer satisfaction through lowing punishment: digital tools. Punishment up to KD 100 and/or jail for up to one During the workshop, participants were trained on how month to let go of traditional methods in business management, i) for anyone who eats/drinks in public during day- look at changes introduced in other business sectors time in Ramadan regionally and internationally, and identify challenges and ii) for anyone who assists anyone to eat/drink in opportunities associated with the process of digital trans- daytime during Ramadan formation. The punishment is up to one month in jail. So theo- Emad Al-Ablani General Manager of Group Human KUWAIT: The participants pose for a group photo. retically speaking, someone may be jailed on the first Resources, said, “NBK’s main sponsorship of the event day of Ramadan until Eid, but I would think that com- falls as part of our commitment to actively contribute to significance of the role of the Institute of Banking Studies He was named one of the top ten digital thought leaders mon practice has been to only impose a fine for first- increase the knowledge in the work sector and develop the in spreading the culture of banking through programs and in Switzerland from 2016 to 2018. He was also nominated time offenders. skillset of professionals working in the banking sector.” He events that contribute to the development of employees in for teaching awards in the MBA, International MBA, and Whether or not you can get deported for eating or added that the discussions on innovation and creativity are the financial and banking sector in Kuwait. Executive MBA programs. Michael sits on three company drinking in public, under Kuwaiti law, you can get the key focus of NBK in increasing the performance of its Michael Wade is the Director of the Global Center for boards as a digitally-focused advisor. Prior to joining IMD, deported for committing any criminal offense - eating employees through training programs that apply leading Digital Business Transformation at IMD and has published he was the Academic Director of the Kellogg-Schulich in public during daytime in Ramadan is a criminal international standards. nine books, more than one hundred articles, presentations, Executive MBA Program in Canada. offense. As for commercial businesses that are caught Ablani further explained that NBK continues to spon- and case studies, writes a regular column for Fortune on On the sidelines of the seminar, the Director General of serving food/beverages to the public during daytime in sor programs aimed at developing the skills of Kuwaiti digital disruption, and appears frequently in the main- the Institute of Banking Studies, Dr Yacoub Al-Rifai, pre- Ramadan, they will be punished by having their busi- professionals in general and in the banking sector in par- stream media. His Latest book is Orchestrating sented an honorary shield to Ablani in recognition of ness sites shut for two months. ticular, to enable professionals to easily adopt at work and Transformation: How to Deliver Winning Performance with NBK’s role in supporting the seminars and programs For questions or queries, please email us at info@ftl- qualify them to lead in the future. Ablani highlighted the a Connected Approach to Change, published in early 2019. organized by the Institute of Banking Studies. legal.com. 4 Established 1961 Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Local Silk City draft law aims to establish int’l trade region with independent activities, legislations, management

KUWAIT: The Board of Trustees of Silk City and 5- The rules, procedures and conditions of issuing by seven governors to be named by an Amiri decree facilitate investment in the Silk Region. Boubyan Island prepared a draft bill to regulate the visas for the Silk Region’s workforce and the issue of upon nominations made by the concerned minister. l Establish, manage, operate and develop the free affairs of the proposed northern area development visit and residency visas. The decree will appoint one of the governors as zone, industrial zones, economic zones and other project, including the long-awaited Silk City. 6- Regulations on employer-employee relations chairman and another as vice-chairman and will areas within the Silk Region boundaries. Dubbed the ‘Draft Law to Establish the Silk Region,’ within the Silk Region and the rights of each party. determine the wages, bonuses and any other incen- l Forming advisory committees of local and inter- the proposed bill seeks to establish an investment 7- Regulations of monitoring imports and exports tives or allowances of the chairman, vice-chairman national experts for the Silk Region as it deems and commercial region of international character to and from the Silk Region. and other governors. appropriate. that is attractive for investors. The following is a 8- Issue of licenses to practice business within the 2- Appointed governors should be regular, experi- 2- Operation of the Silk Region activities will be translation by Kuwait Times for the draft law, which region, trust systems and the establishment of all enced individuals known for their integrity who have done by: was obtained and published recently by Al-Qabas legal bodies including all commercial establishments, never been declared bankrupt or indicted in crimes or l Establishing legal entities, departments or eco- Arabic daily: companies, banks, joint ventures, organizations, asso- disgraceful felonies or are employees of the govern- nomic bodies and entrusting them to the authorities ciations and other legal bodies. ment of Kuwait. and tasks required in accordance with the needs of Project Aims: 9- Environmental protection and development 3- The Silk Region Establishment (SRE) chairman the Silk Region. 1- To establish an international trade transit region within the Silk Region. will represent it before others and courts and will l To play the role of state administrative bodies under Kuwait’s sovereignty with independent activi- 10- Establishing the bodies needed to regulate the execute the establishment’s decisions. The SRE chair- and replace them within the borders of the Silk ties, legislations and management. banking sector and fighting money laundering and man will also supervise all its technical and adminis- Region in order to achieve the region’s objectives. 2- Provide job opportunities for Kuwaiti youth and terrorism funding in collaboration with the Central trative bodies and practice his liabilities in accor- l Monitor and supervise all activities in the Silk create an environment that will induce creativity and Bank of Kuwait. dance to this law and its executive regulations. Along Region and ensure compliance with all laws and leg- entrepreneurship in a competitive atmosphere open 11- Special real estate registry system that regu- with other governors, the SRE chairman will be islations and implement general strategies and poli- to international expertise. lates all in-kind rights and subjectivity of real estate responsible for running SRE and have the right to cies adopted in the Silk Region. 3- Utilize both local and international private sec- properties within the Silk Region. authorize one of the other governors or any SRE l Approve the licensing, establishment and organi- tor potentials in developing the Silk Region into a 12- Conditions and requirements for people desir- administrative unit with some of his liabilities. zation of all types of legal entities (including, but not basic resource for Kuwait’s economy as well as create ing to own or utilize real estate properties within the 4- In case of the SRE chairman’s absence or the limited to, companies, institutions, limited liability an investment-attracting business environment. Silk Region. vacancy of his position while the vice-chairman is, for companies, corporate and joint-stock companies, sin- 4- Achieve better living conditions and welfare for The Establishment will be committed to issue the whatever reason, incapable of performing his job gle-person companies, investment funds, unions and Kuwaiti citizens and other regional inhabitants in law’s executive regulations within the period responsibilities, the SRE board will meet within two organizations) within the Silk Region. accordance to international standards. motioned in the previous article and in case of violat- weeks and authorize an acting SRE chairman. l Take necessary measures to protect and develop 5- Support Kuwait’s basic goals and plans to ing this and on expiry of the said period, will be com- 5- SRE governors’ tenures will be four years the environment within the Silk Region. develop the national economy in compliance with the mitted to report to the concerned minister in writing renewable for one more term with a maximum of l Set the rules and conditions for practicing bank- New Kuwait 2035 vision and any other strategic explaining the reasons, setting a new date for eight years, with exemption of the first phase mem- ing within the Silk Region in coordination with the plans, as well as establish a flourishing, sustainable issuance and doing whatever needed to avoid further bers, from whom three governors will be reappointed Central Bank of Kuwait. and diverse economy based on developing economic delays. The Cabinet will report to HH the Amir with for an extra term to add up the total to three four- l The conclusion of contracts of partnership with sectors other than oil. the reasons of delay so that he can take proper year tenures. A governor’s position will be deemed the public and private sectors to invest in the Silk 6- Support Kuwait’s security and economic stabil- actions he deems fit. vacant by his demise, disability or resignation. A gov- Region. ity through diversifying its economy, regional linkage ernor will also lose his position, which be declared l The conclusion of agreements, contracts and and attracting more regional and international Relations with the state vacant by force of law, and a decree will be issued memorandums of understanding with any party inside investments. 1- The Silk Region will be under full sovereignty of terminating his membership in the following cases: and outside Kuwait, provided that such agreements 7- Encourage the state’s industrial and socioeco- the State of Kuwait and will be subject to all other l Passing a final court order declaring his bank- shall not prejudice the sovereignty of the state or nomic sectors in parallel to environmental protection. agreements, treaties and memos of understanding the ruptcy. cause any harm to it. 8- Enhance the production of goods and services state is part of on passing this law. l If he is indicted by power of a final court order in 3 - Finance, accounting and financial reporting: by both local and foreign private sectors to enhance 2- None of the state’s public servants will have any a disgraceful crime or subjected to a liberty-restrict- l Managing SRE financial resources. foreign currency reserves. powers, authorities or tasks within the Silk Region ing penalty in a crime. l SRE shall have the right to impose fees on the 9- Increase and encourage the flow of direct local except within the limits stated in this law or the Silk l If during one year, he misses four consecutive or services it provides, as well as on the activities speci- and foreign investments into the region and encour- Region’s laws and regulations. eight non-consecutive meetings without an excuse. fied by the executive regulations of this law. age Kuwait’s industrial and economic cooperation 3- The government of Kuwait will be responsible l If he gets appointed in a government position in l SRE shall have the right to collect fines within with other states. for providing the military protection needed for the the State of Kuwait. the limits of the application of this law and its execu- 10- The establishment will funded from outside the Silk Region and defend it against any foreign threats. 6- SRE governors can belong to any nationality tive regulations. state’s budget after winning international investors’ None of the bodies operating within the Silk Region and will be appointed in accordance with their local l Opening and managing the bank accounts for trust and attracting international capital as a model will object to this regardless of their status. and international experiences in government affairs SRE. for non-oil based development. 4- Kuwait’s ministry of interior (MoI) will be and legislations, international commerce supervision l Issuing bonds and obtaining loans and other 11- Encourage import and export of goods, and responsible for internal protection and security within and administrative affairs and their reputation in oth- financial facilities for the Silk Region from local and work on boosting national products’ quality to cre- the Silk Region, provided the interior minister coordi- er international fields. international banks and any other entity. This shall ate commercial competitiveness for the state’s best nates with the Establishment and issue a decision 7- SRE governors will annually hold 12 meetings at only take place upon the consensus of the Silk Region interests. upon which a special police unit will be formed from least upon invitations from the SRE chairman or governors. The lender shall not have recourse to the MoI personnel (officers and non-warrant officers) requests from two other governors. Meetings will be state for any claim arising from lending to SRE. Charter of Principles who will be selected and appointed according to spe- deemed valid if attended by a majority of governors l Buy, own, sell and lease real estate assets and All the Silk Region’s employees in various positions cific conditions and regulations to be stated in the including the chairman or vice-chairman, with the other assets including securities and any other intan- will abide by the following: decision. Police personnel working within the Silk exception of the meeting mentioned in clause 4 of this gible assets and invest inside and outside the Silk 1- Utilize all their potentials to achieve the Silk Region will be committed to implement only the Silk article. Meetings’ decisions will be issued by a major- Region in the manner it deems appropriate. Region’s success and efficiently and seriously per- Region’s laws and regulations and nothing else. ity of the governors’ votes. l Ensure compliance with the requirements related form the tasks to which they are assigned. 5- The Silk Region Establishment will have all the 8- SRE governors may form permanent or tem- to the financial statements and annual budgets stipu- 2- Not to use the powers or privileges invested in authorities of governmental and public establishments porary advisory committees to be assigned to study lated in this law in respect of the SRE. them through their positions except in achieving the operating in the state. No body, other than the specific topics within their specialties defined in l Submit an annual report to the Cabinet in addi- Silk Region’s goals. They will also vow not to obtain Establishment, will carry out any of the Silk Region this law. tion to any additional special reports that may be any personal privileges or gains. Establishment tasks. In collaboration with officials in 9- SRE will have a legal affairs department that occasionally requested by the Cabinet on the opera- 3- Doing their job tasks, employees will, at all those bodies and the bodies themselves, the reports directly to the SRE chairman in all cases, tion of the Silk Region, the SRE and the courts. times, practice their authorities, make independent Establishment will be committed to founding special represents it before all courts and arbitration author- 4- Powers and real-estate related rights: decisions, opt for objective judgment in various mat- departments and having each play the role of a gov- ities, provides legal consultancy and conducts inves- l The executive regulations of this law shall deter- ters, avoid conflicts of interest, minimize any external ernment body. The executive regulations will define tigations. The department can be also utilized in mine the regulations governing all dispositions of land effects, and make decisions after studying related the mechanism of implementing this clause. preparing bills and regulations related to SRE and its and real estate owned within the boundaries of the facts and invalidating all irrelevant ones. They can 6- Taking the previous clause into consideration, operations. Silk Region. SRE may conclude leasing and all types also seek views from concerned bodies prior to the Silk Region Establishment will have no authority 10- In case a member position is declared vacant, of contracts on such lands and real estate. deciding on a certain matter. Decisions must be clear- or jurisdiction related to the following bodies: this vacancy will be filled by powers of an Amiri l Allocate a residential area within the Silk Region ly causative. l Bodies related to armed forces and national decree passed upon nomination made by the con- and mark its boundaries on the general outline shown 4- All tasks, practice of jurisdictions and decision- defense. cerned minister. in annex number 1 of this law. The SRE shall establish making will at all times comply with the Silk Region’s l The foreign ministry. the regulations governing the sale of real estate in the and the state’s highest interests, requirements and l Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (concerning oil The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Silk Region. All natural persons may apply for their goals. exploration, development and production). 1- SRE governors will appoint a CEO to carry out purchase if they meet the regulations and conditions 5- All tasks, practice of jurisdictions and decision- In collaboration with the state’s relevant bodies, the tasks entrusted to him and which are explained set by the executive regulations of this law. making will be done in a way that ensures effective the Silk Region Establishment will be committed to and regulated in his appointment decision. The CEO’s l The SRE may establish separate entities for the execution, transparency and integrity that will allow the following: appointment will be made upon the approval of at management of real estate within the boundaries of all residents, investors and other stakeholders to 1- Sponsoring and issuing work permits for man- least two-thirds of the board and he will not be dis- the region and may conclude all types of contracts in make the right decisions in view of the available power working with the Silk Region. missed unless with the same ratio. In case the CEO order to facilitate the process of development and information that allows investigating and scrutinizing 2- The jurisdiction of the Silk Region position is declared vacant, SRE governors will construction. all procedures. Establishment employees outside the Silk Region appoint a temporary CEO for no more than three 6- The Silk Region’s laws, charters and legislations boundaries. months or until another is appointed according to the Financial Resources will be respected and put into practice with integrity 3- Imports, exports, loading, unloading, storage or previous regulations. l The SRE will be legally, financially, administrative- and transparency. any other activity related to hazardous, radioactive or 2- The CEO can belong to any nationality and gets ly and economically independent. It has a special com- environment-unfriendly materials. appointed based on his local and international expe- mercially-prepared budget. SRE is deemed a merchant Laws and Regulations 4- Combating criminal activities including money riences, good reputation and achievements in other in its relations with others. It conducts its operations The Silk Region’s laws, regulations, executive reg- laundering, terrorism funding or any other crimes on international fields deemed fit to qualify him for the and organizes its accounts according to commercial ulations and the decisions accordingly made by the both local and international levels in a way that will position. rules. Silk Region Establishment will be applied within the ensure safety of both the Silk Region and the state. l The SRE’s assets and resources consist of: Silk Region side by side with the laws of Kuwait, 5- The currency used within the Silk Region will Tasks and Powers 1- In-kind assets, which comprise of the property except for those exempted by special regulations. be Kuwaiti dinar, and the Silk Region Establishment SRE will do all tasks needed to achieve the Silk allocated to SRE and detailed in the scheme attached will coordinate with the Central Bank of Kuwait Region’s goals in accordance to the provisions of this in annex 1 of this law. Commitment to Issuing Special Regulations through setting protocols of cooperation concerning law, namely the following: 2- Cash contributions provided by the ministry of The Silk Region’s governors will be, within the currency control and regulating banking operations. 1- Work and development plans according to the finance or any other government body upon instruc- maximum of one year effective on issuance of their 6- The minister in charge of the Silk Region following: tions from the Cabinet. appointment decrees, committed to issue this law’s Establishment will supervise the work of and have the l Develop the policies and procedures necessary 3- Cash contributions presented to SRE from any executive regulations that should include a full state- power of requesting reports and documents, procure for the successful development and management of party within the limits of the Silk Region law and its ment of the Silk Region’s rules, activities and works, information and inquire from and advise the region’s the Silk Region in accordance with the provisions of executive regulations. such as: governors. this law. 4- Revenues of services and activities carried out 1- The mechanism of issuing the Silk Region char- 7- Any other matters that need coordination l To establish, develop and maintain the entire by SRE, including corporate and investment returns, ters and regulations and forming committees to pre- according to the region’s governors’ views upon infrastructure of the Silk Region and to provide through any type of companies established, as well as pare amendments for the legislations the region agreement between the Establishment and relevant administrative services, transportation, IT services fees and fines, and any amounts imposed by the SRE in needs to be submitted to the concerned minister. state bodies. and any other service required by the region to accordance with this law and its executive regulations. 2- The mechanism of the Silk Region governors’ achieve its objectives. 5- Gifts and donations that are presented to the work, their authorities, procedures on holding their The Silk Region Establishment l Prepare and adopt the strategies, policies and SRE, provided the rules of transparency and integrity meetings, decision making, execution and rules of A public institution and independent legal entity objectives of the Silk Region in full and follow up the are fully respected. governance. called the General Establishment of the Silk Region implementation of these policies, strategies and 6- Revenues made from issuing bonds, instruments 3- Conflicts of interest and how to avoid them. shall be established under this law. It will be legally objectives. or other financial facilities received directly or indi- 4- The CEO powers, tasks and authorities and his independent under the supervision of a concerned l To develop and provide opportunities for part- rectly by the SRE. relations with the region’s governors, personnel minister. The Silk Region Establishment may open its nership with investors and investment funds from the 7- Any other resources approved by the SRE in affairs and how personnel can apply for jobs with the offices inside and outside Kuwait. public and private sectors and other institutions, both accordance with the provisions of this law and its Silk Region Establishment. 1- The Silk Region Establishment will be managed regional and international, to encourage, motivate and executive regulations. Established 1961 5 Local Wednesday, April 24, 2019

The Penal Law l Taking the preceding clause into consideration, viduals other than the accused by fax or email. The hear appeals on verdicts passed by the Silk Region l With exception from the application of the pro- it is prohibited to sell the property during the period executive regulations shall regulate how to notify in court, and its ruling shall not be challenged by any visions of law no. 16 of 1960 pertaining the issuance of development, processing and construction of the this manner. means of appeal. The appeal chambers in the court of of the penal code, the prison sentence provided for Silk Region. The property will only be leased. The Notwithstanding the rules relating to the declara- appeal and the comprehensive court will continue in articles 237 and 240 will be abolished and only executive regulation of this law shall specify the tion of judicial documents stipulated in the civil and hearing appeals issued in cases that have become the financial penalties will be imposed for offenses with- rules for sales operations exempted from the appli- commercial proceedings law, judicial documents jurisdiction of the Silk Region court and have been in the borders of the Silk Region, provided this pro- cation of this clause. relating to civil, commercial and administrative dis- referred to it following this law’s entry into force vision shall not apply to crimes relating to cheques l The executive regulations of this law shall regu- putes stipulated in this law may be communicated by until a final judgment is issued. unless it shall be proved in writing that the issuance late the conditions of real estate development in light fax or email. In coordination with the ministry of Upon filing appeals, contests or challenges against of the cheque was linked to a contractual obligation. of the Silk Region’s general structural plan and the communications and the SRE, the minister of justice sentences, the presiding judge will determine to l The governors of the region shall be committed establishment of regulations that lead to avoiding will issue a decision on the conditions and regula- schedule a hearing for the appeal to be filed in the to prepare a proposal for alternative amendments to speculation in real estate and ensure fair dealing in tions for the organization of declaration and notifica- writ of summons at the time of its submission. This the exempted texts referred to in the preceding all real estate transactions. The regulations should tion procedures, the quality of the devices and pro- shall be regarded as a declaration for the appellant, clause and submit them to the concerned minister also include the proportion of real estate designated grams used in making the declaration, the forms and even if the appeal is filed by his legal representative. pending submission to the National Assembly and for housing purposes. shape of the summons notifications and response The declaration department will communicate the issuing a law thereon. thereto, and the method of payment of judicial fees petition to the rest of the opponents by fax through l In all cases, the customs, traditions and norms of Establishment of Independent Courts for them. Violation of the provisions of this article SRE representatives. the countries of the persons residing in the Silk The Judicial Organization of the Silk Region leads to annulment. A special prosecution, called the Prosecution of Region shall be observed in respect of the acts The comprehensive court shall establish the “Silk Notwithstanding the provisions of articles 49, 59 the Silk Region, shall be established to be exclusively occurring therein, as well as the laws issued for the Region Court”, which will be headquartered in the and 91 of the code of civil and commercial proceed- responsible for investigating, disposing and prose- region. Silk Region. The court shall consist of the following: ings, the following shall be observed: cuting crimes heard by the Silk Region court and 1- Criminal chambers will solely have jurisdiction 1- Upon the defendant’s request, the case will be challenging the verdicts issued therein. Trade Law over criminal cases related to the crimes stipulated deemed null and void, if due to the plaintiff’s With exception of law no. 23/1990 pertaining the l Articles 23, 24, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285 and 286 of in this law and crimes within the borders of the Silk action, the defendant had not been summoned organization of the judiciary and its amendments, the law no. 68/1980 are excluded from implementation Region. The criminal chamber shall consist of three within 30 days from the date of submitting the writ judges, attorney general deputies and public prose- of the law promulgating the trade law within the Silk judges, at least one of whom should be a counselor. of summons. cutors appointed in accordance with the provisions Region. The misdemeanor chamber shall be composed of at 2- If neither the plaintiff nor the defendant of this law shall meet the following conditions: l The executive regulations of this law shall set least one first-degree judge. The regulations and appears at the first hearing or at any other hearing, 1- Fluency in English. the rules governing the practice of foreigners for procedures set forth in this law, and the code of the court will pass a sentence or decide to cancel it, 2- International expertise in legal disputes and their commercial activities within the boundaries of criminal trials and proceedings, will be followed after verifying the validity of the declaration process. litigations. the Silk Region. In any case, the foreigner may before these courts. The court will also decide to cancel the case if both Whenever needed, foreign judges who are good in engage in trade without Kuwaiti partners. 2- Non-penal chambers will be exclusively con- parties are present and agreed to write it off. If the Arabic may be appointed or legal translators shall be l The executive regulation of this law shall specify cerned with adjudicating non-criminal cases relating plaintiff or appellant fails to attend the hearing for appointed for them. the activities foreigners are banned from practicing to commercial, civil and administrative disputes aris- the second time, the court will then deem the case All proceedings and sentences will be done in within the borders of the Silk Region. ing out of the implementation of the provisions of null and void rather than dismissing it. Arabic. l Commercial agency contracts shall regulate the this law and the regulations relating to the region 3- If the absentee opponent shows up in court 1- An arbitration center shall be established in the rights of both agents and principals and the compen- and substantive implementation disputes arising from before the end of the hearing, the write-off shall be Silk Region under the name of the Arbitration Center sations arising from termination of the agency. The the judgments issued therein, regardless of the value deemed null and void. The court shall also consider for the Silk Region, and will have the authority to courts of the region shall hear disputes arising from of these disputes. These chambers shall be composed the case null and void if both parties fail to attend adjudicate the following disputes: contracts of commercial agencies executed within of three judges, at least one of whom should be a the proceedings or if one of the other litigants does l All civil and commercial disputes and proceed- the borders of the territory unless the concerned counselor. not declare others with the case within 30 days of its ings to which the parties expressly agree on the parties agree to resort to arbitration. 3- One or more judges to be appointed by the write-off. Calculation of this period will include the jurisdiction of the arbitration center in respect of court in a timely manner and without prejudice to the write-off period, even if it intermittently recurs. The disputes arising between them. Shop Licenses origin of the right in matters the court has jurisdic- timing will be deemed void unless the declaration l Disputes the center will be responsible for will be With the exception of the provisions of law no. 111 tion over time. The court shall also issue temporary reaches the opponent before it expires. in accordance with the legislation of the Silk Region. of 2013 pertaining the licenses of shops, non-Kuwaitis orders and orders for petitions and performance 4- Upon litigants’ agreement to withhold the case 2- The judgments issued by the center shall be may open shops within the boundaries of the Silk orders in accordance with the provisions of this law for a maximum of two months effective on the court final and enforceable under the terms and conditions, Region in accordance with the conditions and terms and its executive regulations. approval of such an agreement, the case may be sus- unless the concerned parties agree otherwise. specified by the executive regulations of this law. The judicial papers and summonses issued by pended. Such suspension shall not have an effect on 3- The arbitration center shall be responsible for investigators or the court to the accused shall be any time limit that the law has determined for its exe- establishing regulations governing and regulating the Non-Kuwaitis’ Property Ownership submitted by representatives of the SRE in accor- cution. If one of the litigants fails to decide resuming procedures to be followed before it, forming the l With exception from the provisions of law no. dance with the rules set forth in chapter two of part litigations within 15 days following the expiry of the members of the arbitral tribunal and their assistants, 74 of 1979 regulating non-Kuwaiti ownership of one of the code of criminal procedures and trials. suspension term - whatever the duration of the sus- and the manner of their appointment and selection, real estate, non-Kuwaiti citizens shall have the right The accused may also be notified at his workplace pension is - the plaintiff shall be deemed to have including the rules for the establishment of the center to own real estate within the boundaries of the Silk by handing over photocopies of the summon war- dropped his claim and the appellant to have given up and the issuance of judgments. Region, in accordance with the conditions and reg- rant to whoever he deems responsible for managing his appeal. 4- The arbitration clause shall be independent of ulations specified by the executive regulations of this shop or one of his employees. Such documents The court of appeal shall have a criminal, non- the contract to which it is incorporated, and shall not this law. and summon orders may be communicated to indi- criminal chamber or more specialized chambers to be invalidated for any reason. International WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2019 In post-apartheid S Africa interracial India’s polarized politics: How two teenagers will vote couples stand out Page 9 Page 8

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan woman cries during a burial service for a bomb blast victim in a cemetery in Colombo two days after a series of bomb attacks targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. — AFP Islamic State influence outlives caliphate Sri Lanka attacks show extremist ideology remains dangerously intact PARIS: The devastating bomb attacks in Sri Lanka, claimed is a new front being opened in the global jihadi insur- Syria in what was hailed as a final military defeat for the strongholds in Syria and Iraq and instead relaunch a ter- by Islamic State jihadists, show that the influence of the gency,” he told AFP. He said IS was still able to inspire group after it list its strongholds one-by-one in Syria rorist campaign on a planetary scale”. group’s extremist ideology remains dangerously intact even attacks and give militants anywhere in the world a sense of and Iraq. But governments and analysts have always after the collapse of its so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, “urgency”. “Anyone can act in the Islamic State’s name, warned that the risk of attacks anywhere in the world ‘Serious proposition’ experts say. Over 320 people were killed in a string of and they will take credit for it,” Abuza said. remains just as high, be it from extremists who fought for Bruce Hoffmann, senior fellow for counterterrorism and deadly suicide bomb blasts on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka IS in Syria and Iraq or those simply inspired by them. homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations, said targeting churches and luxury hotels. Colombo said it ‘Compensate for losses’ After the Sri Lanka bombings, US Secretary of State such attacks require considerable expertise and logistical believes that the little-known Islamic extremist group Rohan Gunaratna, a security expert with the S. Mike Pompeo warned that “radical Islamic terror support at every stage — from recruitment to transport to National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) was behind the attacks. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, remains a threat”, saying the United States needs to stay the target sites. “A half-dozen simultaneous attacks is a seri- But it has also suggested that a bigger international told AFP he believed NTJ was indeed now linked to IS. “IS “active and vigilant”. ous proposition. It would be very unusual for a group that group helped plan the carnage as “retaliation” for shoot- has created support groups around the world,” he said, According to the SITE Intelligence Group, a known basically had no track record,” he said. Little is known about ings at two mosques in New Zealand last month that killed adding that some NTJ members were radicalized by the supporter of IS published on a social media channel pic- the NTJ, which previously has only been linked to vandalis- 50 people. Yesterday, a statement released by the Islamist local group then joined IS. At the peak of its military suc- tures of three purported “commandos” involved in the ing Buddhist statues. Ethnic and religious violence has State (IS) propaganda agency Amaq said the attackers cess, IS claimed a string of attacks around the world, from Sri Lanka attacks standing with raised fingers against an plagued Sri Lanka for decades, with a 37-year conflict with were “fighters” from the terror network. the November 2015 coordinated attacks in Paris to the IS flag. Jean-Pierre Filiu, professor at Sciences Po-Paris, Tamil rebels followed by an upswing in recent years in clash- Zachary Abuza, professor at the National War College deadly rampage of a gunman at an Istanbul nightclub min- said IS is now adopting what he dubbed a “glocal” strat- es between the Buddhist majority and Muslims. But it had in Washington, said the Sri Lanka attacks were a warning utes into 2017. egy by staging local attacks anywhere in a bid to make a not been seen by analysts as a potential crucible for Islamist of a new jihadist strategy following their military defeat in In late March, Kurdish-dominated and US-backed global impact. The jihadist group is “trying to compen- extremist terror. Yet IS has made inroads in Asia, notably in Iraq and Syria. “I would say that what we saw in Sri Lanka forces flushed out IS fighters from their last bastion in sate symbolically and in the media for the loss of its Afghanistan, the Philippines and Indonesia. — AFP

much power and control governments have “We need more nuanced solutions.” Prior the tops of two yellow excavation vehi- Sri Lanka social over these companies and the need to protect research has indicated that internet and social 50 feared dead cles. Hundreds of onlookers gathered the free press.” According to NetBlocks, a media blackouts may lead to more, not less, nearby, staring at the site and taking digital rights and cyber security group, the violence. photos with their phones. media shutdown shutdown in Sri Lanka may prove counter- Stanford University researcher Jan Rydzak in landslide at productive by taking down sources of said in a February 2019 paper based on find- Prized in China raises fears on authentic information. “Nationwide internet ings from India that “shutdowns are found to Myanmar mine The open jade mines in Kachin’s restrictions accelerate the spread of disinfor- be much more strongly associated with Hpakant township have turned the mation during a crisis because sources of increases in violent collective action than with remote area into a vast moonscape-like free expression YANGON: More than 50 people were authentic information are left offline,” non-violent mobilization.” Efforts to regulate terrain. Fatal landslides in the area are feared dead after a landslide in northern NetBlocks said in a tweet. social media have picked up since the mosque common with victims often from impov- Myanmar engulfed jade miners while WASHINGTON: Sri Lanka’s decision to “This allows third parties to exploit the sit- shootings last month in New Zealand erished ethnic communities looking for they were sleeping, local police said yes- block social media following deadly suicide uation for political gain and profit.” Sri livestreamed on Facebook and reposted on scraps left behind by big firms. A major terday, the latest deadly accident in a attacks highlights a growing distrust of online Lankan authorities’ pledge to maintain the other apps. Facebook and others struggled to collapse in November 2015 left more notoriously dangerous industry. Dozens platforms, but critics said the move is likely to shutdown until its investigation is complete is remove various versions of the video. The than 100 dead. In July last year, the bod- troublesome, said Amy Lehr, director of the missteps of social media, however, have put die each year in landslides caused by restrict the flow of important news and infor- ies of 23 landslide victims were recov- human rights initiative at the Center for governments on alert and sparked efforts to jade mining, a poorly regulated industry mation as well as abusive content. The move ered after a days-long search hampered Strategic and International Studies, a control information flows. rife with corruption and sandwiched comes amid growing frustration by govern- by heavy monsoon rains. Washington think tank. “We all have some between the country’s borders with ments around the world with internet plat- The jade industry is largely driven by sympathy when there is a terrorist attack, but ‘Inevitable but unfortunate’ China and India. forms over the propagation of misinformation insatiable demand from neighboring and incitements of violence. According to the what if it were a democracy protest in Iran?” Misinformation is often seen during Local police described a freak acci- China, where the translucent green gem- digital rights group NetBlocks, Sri Lanka Lehr asked. “Who decides what is an emer- moments of crisis, including during last week’s dent in Kachin state on Monday night so stone has long been prized. Watchdog blocked Facebook, Facebook Messenger, gency?” fire at the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. The big it created a huge “mud lake” that Global Witness estimated that the indus- Instagram, Snapchat, Viber, WhatsApp and ban in Sri Lanka “is the inevitable but unfor- buried the miners as well as some 40 try was worth some $31 billion in 2014, YouTube following the Easter bombings tar- No more ‘safety check’ tunate consequence of the platforms’ inability vehicles. “Fifty-four people are missing although very little reaches state coffers. geting churches and hotels. By blocking Facebook, Sri Lanka also shut to stop the online amplification of conspiracy in the mud,” a duty officer from Hpakant Northern Myanmar’s abundant natural Sri Lanka’s move was the second time it down the leading social network’s “safety and outrage,” said Karen Kornbluh, a former township police station told AFP, asking resources - including jade, timber, gold has blocked social networks, following similar check” feature that enables users to commu- White House policy director who now heads not to be named. “There’s no way they and amber - help finance both sides of a actions after an outbreak of violence in 2018. nicate with friends and family after a disaster. the Digital Innovation Democracy Initiative at (the missing) could have survived.” Only decades-long civil war between ethnic The decision highlights the troubled reputa- “These attacks are horrific. And people need the German Marshall Fund. two bodies had been recovered so far. Kachin insurgents and the military. tion of mostly American-owned social media social media platforms to obtain accurate “This shows the false premise of the plat- The Ministry of Information con- information & to contact loved ones,” tweeted forms’ mantra that any change in their prac- The fight to control the mines and the companies, which several years ago had been firmed the accident and number of miss- Allie Funk, a researcher with the human rights tices will squash free speech... if they continue revenues they bring frequently traps seen as a force for freedom of information. ing, adding that the area was mined by group Freedom House. to turbo-charge disinformation this will lead local civilians in the middle. A 17-year “Governments around the world, including Myanmar Thura Gems and Shwe Nagar “The government’s decision to restrict to less online free speech.” Lehr said one of ceasefire broke down in 2011, and since those who exploit social media and state Koe Kaung companies. Myanmar Thura these apps is a dangerous one.” Emma Llanso the challenges for social platforms using algo- then more than 100,000 people have media... have come to realize the risks associ- Gems director Hla Soe Oo told AFP by ated with platforms such as WhatsApp,” of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a rithmic feeds is how to prevent false and abu- been displaced by fighting - some of phone he was on his way to the site and Jennifer Grygiel, a professor of communica- digital rights group, said there are no easy sive content from going viral. “It’s not always them multiple times. On coming to power had no further details. Local media tion at Syracuse University, said in an email. solutions to misinformation on social media. a matter of blocking hate speech but also de- in 2016, civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi shared images, unverified by AFP, that “They are quick to take action now in the “Blocking websites can fuel disinformation by amplifying it,” she said. “I’d like to see us get promised to make the peace process showed the walls of a mine stretching wake of terrorism to prevent rumors and leaving journalists and other credible sources to a place where a shutdown isn’t necessary, with the country’s myriad armed groups vertically a couple of hundred meters social unrest, but the ease at which they are of information with fewer avenues to reach but the social media platforms need to rebuild her top priority — a pledge that has yet above a vast pool of mud, revealing only able to shut down platforms also unveils how people and to debunk falsehoods,” she said. public trust.” — AFP to yield significant results. — AFP Established 1961 7 International Wednesday, April 24, 2019 China shows off new destroyer; President Xi views naval parade China marks 70th anniversary of PLA navy with major parade

QINGDAO: China showed off the first of its new genera- marines, and state television did show submarines taking tion of guided missile destroyers yesterday as President part in the display. Singapore-based regional security Xi Jinping reviewed a major naval parade through mist expert Collin Koh said that based on the available evi- and rain to mark 70 years since the founding of China’s dence, the larger submarine on show was a modified ver- navy. Xi is overseeing a sweeping plan to refurbish the sion of China’s existing Jin-class nuclear-powered ballistic People’s Liberation Army (PLA) by developing everything missile submarines - a key part of its nuclear deterrent. from stealth jets to aircraft carriers as China ramps up its The navy has four Jin-class submarines, which are presence in the disputed South China Sea and around based in Hainan island in the south, and the Pentagon says self-ruled Taiwan, which has rattled nerves around the it believes construction on a new generation of ballistic region and in Washington. missile submarines will start in the 2020s. “It does appear The navy has been a major beneficiary of the mod- that this is a modified version rather than an entirely new ernization, with China looking to project power far from submarine, something which would have been a more sig- its shores and protect its trading routes and citizens nificant development,” said Koh, of Singapore’s S. overseas. After boarding the Rajaratnam School of destroyer the Xining, which International Studies. was only commissioned two “Outside analysts still don’t years ago, Xi watched as a have a complete picture of the flotilla of Chinese and foreign China’s military precise modifications.” China’s ships sailed past, in waters off last major naval parade was the eastern port city of modernization last year in the South China Qingdao. “Salute to you, com- rattles region Sea, also overseen by Xi. rades. Comrades, thanks for Yesterday’s parade featured 32 your hard work,” Xi called out Chinese vessels and 39 aircraft, to the officers standing on as well as warships from 13 for- deck as the ships sailed past, eign countries including India, in images carried on state tel- Japan, Vietnam and Australia. A QINGDAO: Soldiers stand on deck of the ambitious transport dock Yimen Shan of the Chinese People’s evision. “Hail to you, chairman,” they replied. “Serve the total of 61 countries have sent delegations to the event, Liberation Army (PLA) Navy as it participates in a naval parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of people.” which includes a naval symposium today and tomorrow. the founding of China’s PLA Navy yesterday. —AFP China’s first domestically produced aircraft carrier, For a special report on China’s military click: which is still unnamed and undergoing sea trials, was not present, though the carrier the Liaoning was, the report ‘Long for peace’ as equals, enhance mutual trust, strengthen maritime dia- its military intentions, especially as its defence spend- said. The Liaoning, the country’s first carrier, was bought Earlier, meeting foreign naval officers at Qingdao’s logue and exchanges, and deepen pragmatic cooperation ing reaches new heights. Beijing says it has nothing to second-hand from Ukraine in 1998 and refitted in China. Olympic sailing centre, Xi said the navies of the world between navies,” he added. “There cannot be resorts to hide, and invited a small number of foreign media State television also showed pictures of the Nanchang at should work together to protect maritime peace and force or threats of force at the slightest pretext,” Xi said. onboard a naval ship to watch the parade, including the review, the first of a new fleet of 10,000-tonne order. “The Chinese people love and long for peace, and “All countries should adhere to equal consultations, from Reuters. China’s last naval battles were with destroyers, though details of that and other ships were will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful develop- improve crisis communication mechanisms, strengthen Vietnam in the South China Sea in 1974 and 1988, hard to determine from the footage, due to the intermit- ment,” Xi said, in remarks carried by the official Xinhua regional security cooperation, and promote the proper though these were relatively minor skirmishes. Chinese tent thick mist and rain. news agency. settlement of maritime-related disputes.” ships have also participated in international anti-piracy China had said it would also show new nuclear sub- “Everyone should respect each other, treat each other China has frequently had to rebuff concerns about patrols off Somalia since late 2008. —Reuters

when sustained rocket and shellfire Life must go on for could be heard in several districts and some witnesses reported air strikes. Libyans despite war Tripoli residents fear that the battle could escalate into a wider conflict Yemen rebels can on their doorstep that would devastate the North African country, already rocked by TRIPOLI: Despite the war on Tripoli’s years of instability and economic hit targets in doorstep, residents are filling the hardship since dictator Muammar salons and cafes in some quarters of Gaddafi was ousted in 2011. Saudi, UAE: Chief the Libyan capital as they carry on as But for now, the honking of car best they can. “Life has to go on. It horns on the seafront is louder than DUBAI: Yemen’s rebel chief warned that the rebels will end when it ends,” said Samira, the distant boom of rockets and gun- could launch attacks against targets in Saudi Arabia who runs a hair and beauty salon in fire. Schools and businesses in Tripoli and the United Arab Emirates, who lead a military Tripoli’s central Ben Achour neighbor- remain open when they can, while coalition against them. Abdulmalik Al-Houthi said hood. Originally from neighboring the rebels were prepared to continue fighting the Tunisia, Samira has been living in residents of the Mediterranean city try to indulge in their favorite leisure coalition in a four-year war that has pushed the Libya for years and her salon is country to the brink of famine. “We are ready on always packed with clients. “At least activities. “Libya is not just about television the ground and on the fronts,” he said in a rare tele- three or four brides come in each vision interview broadcast by the Houthi-run Al- footage showing tanks and militiamen week to have their hair done and get Masirah TV. ready for their big day,” she said, as brandishing their guns or destroyed TRIPOLI: Libyan children play near the port of Tripoli. Despite the war on Tripoli’s “We are ready for sacrifice. We are ready with she prepared a palette of eyeshadows buildings,” said schoolteacher Mariam doorstep, residents are filling the salons and cafes in some quarters of the Libyan men, money and weapons.” Houthi said the rebels capital as they carry on with life as best they can. —AFP and brushes to start making up a Abdallah. “We are still having wed- have the capabilities to reach “important and strate- young bride. dings, parties, school activities and gic” targets in Saudi Arabia and the UAE if there is an “That’s as well as dozens of women sports events.” displaced more than 30,000 people, Ramadan, which begins in early May, escalation of fighting in the key port city of Hodeida. who come for a haircut, to get a according to the United Nations. during which Muslims fast from dawn “The missiles can reach Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and makeover, or skincare before a big ‘Blood and violence’ But the number could be much to dusk, breaking at sunset for lavish Dubai... vibrant and sensitive targets,” he said. event,” she added. Tension has been On the seafront in the west of higher, as many people who fled their family meals. “New things inspire me The Iran-linked Houthi rebels have targeted Saudi high in Tripoli since military chief Tripoli, outdoor cafes are packed, homes and moved in with relatives in to create new dishes for the family,” border towns and the capital Riyadh with ballistic Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive especially towards the end of the day safer areas did not register with inter- she added, her grandchildren running missiles and also claimed drone attacks on the air- on April 4, aimed at seizing the capital when residents like to unwind after a national organizations. “My daughter, up and down the aisles of the super- ports of Abu Dhabi and Dubai during the course of from the UN-backed unity govern- day’s work. Many of the clients are her husband and their children came market. “It’s hard to come up with the conflict. Saudi Arabia has said the missiles were ment based there. The battle for con- students and young employees to shelter in our house because of the different meals to break the all intercepted by its air force, with one civilian trol of the capital has so far left more attracted by the offers of free wifi. fighting, so the family has grown,” (Ramadan) fast every evening for a reported killed by falling shrapnel, while the UAE has than 260 dead and wounded more Issam, a waiter at a cafe, said coffee said Faiza, as she shopped for some month,” she said. But not everyone denied the alleged drone attacks. than 1,200 others, according to a toll shops and restaurants provide a crockery and other supplies. “It is was as cheerful as Faiza. “It is too late Saudi Arabia and its military allies joined the from the World Health Organization. “rare” form of leisure in Libya, a always nice to have something new in to speak of a political solution,” said Yemeni government’s war against the Houthis in Clashes have centered on the country that has “no cinemas, theatres the kitchen,” she said cheerfully as she a man in his fifties who owns a gro- March 2015, triggering what the UN calls the southern outskirts of the city, just 15 or concert halls”. So the “best places checked out some bowls with a flow- cery store in the seafront district of world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Both sides to the kilometers from the centre. Fighting to meet (friends) and spend some ery motif. Gargaresh. “The situation won’t be conflict stand accused of acts that could amount to war crimes. —AFP intensified with a counter-attack good times are cafes and restaurants,” Faiza said she needed to prepare resolved until we’re drowning in launched by GNA force on Saturday, he said. The Haftar offensive has also ahead of the holy fasting month of blood and violence.” —AFP Stubbed out: Japanese Out with the government!” chanted stu- Algerian students dents, many of them drapped in Algeria’s university stops hiring national flag. take to streets in Architecture and civil engineering students wearing white and yellow con- smoking professors fresh protests struction helmets held banners aloft TOKYO: A Japanese university has stopped hiring profes- reading “Let’s build a new Algeria”. sors and teachers who light up, officials said yesterday, as ALGIERS: Thousands of Algerian stu- Algerians are demanding a complete the nation steps up an anti-smoking campaign ahead of the dents marched through the capital call- overhaul of the political system in the 2020 Olympics. Nagasaki University spokesman Yusuke ing for the overthrow of the “system” North African country, including the Takakura told AFP they have “stopped hiring any teaching and trials for members of ousted presi- ouster of an interim government set up staff who smoke”, although applicants who promise to kick dent Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s inner circle. in the wake of Bouteflika’s fall. They are the habit before taking up their post could still be offered The rallies came as state media report- demanding that regime stalwarts be employment. The university will also ban smoking entirely ed that Algeria’s richest man has been excluded from any political transition in on campus from August, opening a clinic for those who can- detained in jail after his arrest as part the country, where presidential elec- not give up, said Takakura. of a corruption probe and Sunday’s tions are due to take place on July 4 “We have reached a conclusion that smokers are not fit for arrest of four other business tycoons. according to acting president the education sector,” the spokesman said, adding that the Some have close links to Bouteflika’s Abdelkader Bensalah. university had sought legal advice and does not believe the entourage. “We demand the departure of the policy contravenes discrimination laws. Local media said it Students chanting “out with the gov- entire gang that inherited Bouteflika’s was the first state-run university to introduce such a condition ernment” gathered outside the iconic reign, headed by Bensalah and (Prime ALGIERS: Algerian protesters flash the V for victory sign as they take part in an anti of employment and the move comes after Tokyo’s city gov- post office in the heart of Algiers as they Minster) Noureddine Bedoui,” said government demonstration in the capital Algiers yesterday. —AFP ernment passed strict new anti-smoking rules last year ahead have every week since the Bouteflika Hamza, a third-year civil engineering of the 2020 Summer Games. Japan has long been an outlier in stepped down on April 2 in the face of student at the University of Blida south the developed world, considered a smoker’s paradise where mass protests against his 20-year rule. of the capital. “We want a new system news agency said. Karim and Tarek-have dealings in every- lighting up is allowed in many restaurants and bars. The police dialled down the security that is committed to fighting the corrup- Late Sunday four brothers from the thing from agribusiness to civil engineer- Tokyo’s new laws ban lighting up at restaurants in the presence at the site after deploying en tion that has plagued the country,” said powerful Kouninef family with links to ing. Business tycoon Rebrab, however, capital, regardless of size. Restaurants can set up sepa- masse last Tuesday to prevent protest- Hamid, a finance student in Algiers. Issad Said Bouteflika, the younger brother and said last month he backed the protest rate indoor smoking areas, but customers cannot eat or ers from reaching what has become the Rebrab, Algeria’s richest man and chief former advisor of the president, were movement but he has had tense relations drink there. Smoking is also banned entirely on school emblematic point of rallies since anti- executive of the country’s biggest pri- arrested, state television reported. The with the Algerian authorities, which he premises from kindergartens to high schools, although government demonstrations first erupt- vately-owned conglomerate Cevital, was Kouninef family is hugely influential and accuses of blocking his investments in space can be set aside outside university and hospital ed in February. “Either it’s us, or it’s you. placed in detention overnight, the APS the four brothers-Abdelkader, Reda, the country. —AFP buildings. —AFP 8 Wednesday, April 24, 2019 International Britain’s Obama moment? What Harry and Meghan’s baby says about race Mixed ethnicity will be a historic first

LONDON: Prince Harry’s wedding to Meghan Markle, barrier and be, as black people, somewhere were Black Princesses reporting critical comments made about her by mem- an American actress of African-American heritage, we’re not expected to be that is to be celebrated. For Ingrid Seward, editor of “Majesty” magazine, the bers of her own family. was a historic moment for Britain’s royal family. Some “Because we should not be in a box. Not in a box, not new baby will be a small but important step in the royal Valentine Low, who covers the royal family for the say the imminent birth of their baby is, if anything, outside a box - there is no box! So, to be royalty family’s evolution. “In order for the monarchy to survive Times of London, wrote in February that some US net- even more significant. Due in the coming weeks, the should be normal,” Ebanks told Reuters. But Kehinde it has to evolve and this is another way of it evolving works gave the impression that Britain’s media was baby will be seventh-in-line to the throne and, it is Andrews, a sociology professor at England’s and becoming more in tune with the multiracial society racist and sexist. “The problem is that in some quarters, believed, the first person of mixed race in such a sen- Birmingham City University who writes on race issues, in which we now live.” Royal biographer Robert Jobson particularly in the US, any negative coverage is seen as ior position in the history of British royalty. “I think is less sure that the royal said Meghan’s ethnicity res- racist,” he wrote. “Anything less than unqualified adula- this baby is going to be hugely important historically baby indicates any improve- onated with many young tion comes under a barrage of abuse on social media.” because it’s going to break new ground,” royal biog- ment in racial equality. Britons. But some British journalists say Meghan has been rapher Claudia Joseph said. “Whether it’s a girl or a “Unfortunately, because “I was at the wedding treated differently from other members of the House of boy, it will be the first Afro-American baby to be born racism is so bad and so his- reporting for American televi- Windsor, citing a difference in attitude towards Kate, into the royal family.” toric and so entrenched, we New baby will be sion and there were little the wife of Harry’s elder brother Prince William. With a black mother and white father, Meghan’s eth- tend to look at things, any seventh-in-line black girls dressed up as Broadcaster Afua Hirsch, author of “Brit(ish): On nicity has never been far away from discussions about things,” he said. “So any sym- princesses in their princesses Race, Identity and Belonging”, said ethnicity played a her relationship with Queen Elizabeth’s grandson - bol that could possibly be to the throne dress with little tiaras,” he part. “I would like to see more honesty and introspec- scrutiny that has often been unwelcome. In late 2016 good we tend to over-cele- said. “Now even though they tion in journalists who have repeated some of these when he first announced they were dating, Harry issued brate: Barack Obama becom- would have been excited to tropes about Meghan Markle, and a willingness to at a rare rebuke to the press, condemning the racial ing president, the film ‘Black be at a royal wedding or even least look at the fact that her treatment has been differ- undertones of articles. One commentator had written Panther’ got people excited, talk about a princess, I don’t ent,” she said. Meghan herself has said she avoids how Meghan would bring “rich and exotic DNA” to the anytime we have someone which ... looks like a similar think that those little girls would have ever dreamed newspapers and Twitter, but asked about the focus on Windsors. progress - unfortunately we get carried away. “But I that they could be part of this story.” However, those her ethnicity when her engagement was announced, she Michelle Ebanks, head of the company that pub- think when we sit back and actively analyse what’s hap- like Jobson whose job it is to cover the royals on a daily such coverage had been “disheartening”. “At the end of lishes “Essence”, a US magazine for African-American pened and what’s changed we realize that this is noth- basis have found themselves accused of racism on the day I’m really just proud of who I am and where I women, sees the positive. “Every time we can break a ing, means nothing at all.” social media by supporters of Meghan, often for come from,” she said. —Reuters

are in their own bubble,” said Mpho. News in brief In post-apartheid In one incident an elderly white cou- ple in a restaurant in northern Limpopo Motorbike gunmen kill 10 S Africa interracial province muttered “disgusting” in Afrikaans, the language of the original KANO: Gunmen killed 10 people and abducted couples stand out Dutch settlers’ descendants. Cheryl said two women in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state, she was “shocked” while Mpho nodded. police and residents said yesterday, the latest vio- JOHANNESBURG: Less than 40 years “It is going to take more than 25 years lence involving armed criminal gangs. They drove ago, Mpho Mojapelo and his wife Cheryl for things to change. We were in that motorcycles into the village of Yar Santa Sherere might have gone to jail. “We would be stage of turmoil for so many years,” said on Sunday evening, shooting and torching vehi- hiding our relationship, we would have Mpho. From 1948 the white-dominated cles and businesses. “The bodies of nine people had to live separately, or maybe leave government formalized centuries of were evacuated by a police team and residents the country,” said Mojapelo, a black man racial segregation. One of the first laws, after the attack,” said Katsina state police married to a white woman in South adopted in 1949, banned “mixed mar- spokesman Gambo Isa. He called the gunmen Africa. “We are so fortunate to live in riages” between Europeans and non- “criminals” and said police tried to pursue them. these times,” he said. The 35-year-old Europeans. Local resident Sada Iro said another body was married Cheryl in 2015. They had both found shortly after, taking the death toll to 10. “white” and “African” weddings after the ‘A social divide’ “The bandits also kidnapped two women during payment of “lebola” (dowry) and a ritual To be able to marry a person of a dif- the attack, and burnt many shops and vehicles sheep slaughter. ferent race, applicants could ask to before leaving,” Iro said. Katsina state, 350 But they are an exception to the norm change their own race - bureaucratic kilometers north of Nigeria’s capital Abujua, has even 25 years after the end of apartheid surrealism permitted by law. The policy JOHANNESBURG: (Left to right) Cheryl (31), Camden (6 months) and Mpho Mojapelo (35) pose in their home in Johannesburg. —AFP seen a string of violent attacks in recent white-rule when Nelson Mandela was scrapped in 1985, nine years before months. —AFP became the first black president, promis- apartheid’s end. Around that time, ing a “rainbow nation”. “There is still not Mpho’s family left the Soweto township, “A neighbor ran up to me, I was seven or Mpho did grow up in Soweto his whole a lot of mixing in terms of relationships a hotbed of anti-apartheid activism, for eight, he said: ‘Oh there is a black man life and he did not speak English, would I S Africa mudslides kill 23 and interactions,” said Mpho, who wears Roodepoort, a white suburb 20 kilome- coming, we need to hide, he is going to still date him?” she asked, her eyes fixed Doc Martens boots and sports several ters (12 miles) away. steal from us’,” she said. “I did not behind glasses. “There is not a racial JOHANNESBURG: The number of dead from tattoos. “We stick out so much,” he Mpho said his new school “was an all understand.” The couple attended the divide, there is a social divide.” floods and mudslides that crushed homes in the added with a smile. Over time the pair new world I dived into”. “In my primary same school, a few years apart, and met Researcher Haley McEwen at the Wits South African port of Durban yesterday has risen have become accustomed to being school, there were only three black kids... at a party thrown by mutual friends in Centre for diversity studies said: to 23, authorities said. Among those killed were a stared at - mostly because of “fascina- That is when I saw I was different,” he the early 2000s. “Couples who go out are given poor six-month-old baby and a child aged around 10, tion” suggested Cheryl, 31, laughing said. Cheryl grew up in Cape Town fol- “We got the same education, we can service, they are stared at, people don’t they added. “Last night the weather conditions along with her husband. But sometimes lowed by Roodepoort and had an relate to each other because we grew up take their relationship seriously like their worsened significantly ... in various parts of the “there are still people behaving like they upbringing she described as “sheltered”. in similar environments,” said Cheryl. “If families.” —AFP province, claiming at least 23 lives,” Nomusa Dube-Ncube, a KwaZulu-Natal provincial minis- decided to return to what remains of their ter said during a televised news conference. At Alcohol shops in homes and rebuild their stores. Hassan least 32 people have been hospitalized. The vic- reopened his shop and said he hasn’t faced tims were either crushed to death by mudslides Mosul reopen after any problems. or drowned in flood waters, Rescue Care “When we came back after Daesh spokesman Garrith Jamieson said. It was not recapture from IS (Islamic State), the security forces were con- known how many people were missing, but trolling Mosul. There are no problems, thank search and rescue operations combed the debris MOSUL: Almost two years after Iraqi God. There have been no threats by any for those who might be trapped underneath. In forces recaptured the city of Mosul from groups, no problems in Mosul.” Another addition to collapsed buildings and flooded Islamic State (IS), small shops selling alco- liquor store owner, Adel Jindy, said many roads, sewer lines were blocked and electricity hol are reopening their doors and new ones more stores are appearing in the neighbor- pylons had toppled over. —AFP are appearing. Customers purchase bottles hood as more licenses are being granted. or cans of liquor which are then placed in “Before there were four stores in Al Dawasah black plastic bags, or emptied out into non- (neighborhood) now there are many licensed 10 missing as jeep crashes descript plastic bottles. Mosul was home to shops,” he said. Business is generally good - two million people before being overrun in the only time customers are afraid of coming LUBUMBASHI: Ten people, including eight stu- 2014 by IS, which proclaimed a “caliphate” in is after an attack or a car bomb. But once dent trainees, are feared dead after the jeep they stretching into neighboring Syria. It held the initial panic fades, it’s business as usual, were travelling in fell into a dam at the Nzilo Mosul for three years. said Jindy. hydropower station in southeast DR Congo, the Under the militant group’s strict rule, In Iraq members of the Yazidi and plant’s boss said yesterday. Around closing time items such as alcohol and cigarettes were Christian religious minorities are allowed to Monday, the car transporting 11 workers careened banned. Shops that sold alcohol were burned have alcohol licences. Alcohol is prohibited MOSUL: A man rides a motorcycle among devastated buildings in the old city of Mosul in northern Iraq. —AFP out of control, left the road, and rolled several down and destroyed. Liquor store owner by Islam. Mosul has been the site of several times in the ravine before falling into the dam, Nemat Hassan said IS burned his store down bomb blasts in recent months. In an attack Henry Tchibanze, head of the hydroelectric plant in the city. “There was more than $40,000 this March, a car packed with explosives two million Iraqis are still displaced by the Many say they are not ready to go home said. “We have just rescued a survivor and recov- worth of stock. They burned it,” he said. blew up killing two people and wounding fight against IS, according to a survey by because of the destruction and lack of ered two bodies” from the water, said Adolphe Since the city was recaptured, some have another 24 near Mosul University. Nearly REACH, a non-governmental organization. services. —Reuters Mwenzi of the Snel national electricity provider. The survivor “told us there were 11 people in the jeep” including three Snel workers and eight counted for what I believe in”. The ardent trainees, he said. The crash appears to have been Sibling rivalry European Union supporter once said she caused by a front wheel of the jeep coming off, would “walk down Whitehall in my birth- said Mwenzi. According to the Congolese press, day suit to stop Brexit.” the trainees were students from the ISTA techni- behind Britain’s She now writes a weekly column in The cal university in Lubumbashi. —AFP Mail on Sunday, and was unveiled on a Brexit politics roster of candidates for Change UK at an event in Bristol in southwest England. New IRA apologizes LONDON: Rachel Johnson, the sister of Boris Johnson was a key figure helping leading Brexit proponent Boris Johnson swing the 2016 referendum vote in favor BELFAST: The New IRA militant Irish nationalist yesterday became a candidate for new of Leave. He has criticized May’s with- group has apologized for the killing of journalist pro-EU party Change UK - the latest drawal deal struck with the EU for keep- Lyra McKee - its first acknowledgement that one high-profile sibling split over the con- ing Britain too closely tied to the bloc, of its members was involved, the Irish News tentious issue. The former Financial Times putting him at odds with other members newspaper reported yesterday. The organization, and Daily Telegraph journalist, 53, joined of his family. His brother Jo, also a which opposes Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace the new party formed by 11 cross-party Conservative politician, quit as a minister deal, described McKee’s death as tragic and europhile MPs, to run in the upcoming in November, believing May’s deal would offered “full and sincere apologies” to her partner, European Parliament elections. sever too many ties with the EU. family and friends in a statement that the Irish She is the younger sister of former for- He has since backed calls for a sec- News said it received on Monday night. The 29- eign secretary Boris, who is favorite to ond referendum on the issue. The power NEWCASTLE: Anti-Brexit activists fly EU flags as they take part in a demonstra- year-old reporter was shot dead in Londonderry of Brexit to cut across family bonds- take over as prime minister after current tion on the River Tyne in Newcastle, northeast England, against the terms of the even if on the same side - was also evi- on Thursday as she watched Irish nationalist leader Theresa May steps down once the current Brexit deal being offered by Britain’s prime minister. —AFP youths attack police following a raid. Police said first phase of Brexit is completed. “I’m dent earlier this month. Annunziata McKee was hit when a gunman opened fire in the sure that Boris understands why this is Rees-Mogg, brother of influential direction of officers. The group said it had sent not a vote against Boris,” she said, telling Conservative Brexiteer Jacob Rees- Farage’s new Brexit Party. Her brother Tory”. It was revealed she has been a volunteers to the area after the raid. —Reuters London’s Evening Standard newspaper Mogg, announced she was leaving the tweeted that “Annunziata would be a member of the Conservatives since the she felt “impelled to stand up and be party to stand as a candidate for Nigel brilliant prime minister but I hope as a age of five. —AFP 9 International Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Women’s temple ban debate rages in India flashpoint vote Traditionalists outraged as women defy longstanding ban PATHANAMTHITTA: Voters in a flashpoint constituency Anto Antony, who won the last two elections and has in southern India went to the polls yesterday after a cam- backed the traditionalists. The Bharatiya Janata Party paign dominated by the fallout from the controversial deci- of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brandished its sion to allow women to enter a Hindu temple. The district of pro-Hindu credentials as it seeks to make an impact in Pathanamthitta in the state of Kerala includes the a state where it has always struggled. The BJP has Sabarimala Hindu temple, where two women finally defied a fielded K Surendran, who became the symbol of the longstanding ban on women of menstruating age last year. massive temple protests across Kerala. He now faces Traditionalists were outraged and many women remain more than 200 police cases related to violence during divided over the move, which has overshadowed the cam- last year’s Sabarimala protests. paign with candidates staging election parades on the “The Communists have an issue with our prayers and issue. Kanaka Durga and Bindu Ammini made history in religion but they can’t crush believers’ rights,” Modi told a December when police guided them into the hilltop shrine, rally in Kerala last week. “We won’t tolerate any attack on after the Supreme Court ruled that the ban was unconsti- a tradition that has lasted thousands of years,” Modi tutional. Days of pitched battles erupted between tradi- added to wild cheers. Many women have backed the tradi- tionalists and activists. The anger has not died down and tionalist cause. “Local men and women agree. There is only core issues such as unemployment, health and education one issue in this election - our faith. And the court have been pushed aside during the campaign. shouldn’t have intervened,” Lakshmi, who works at a local The whole country is expected to follow the result hospital, and only uses one name, told AFP. “I feel hurt as when it is announced on May 23 after India’s marathon a Hindu when I see things going against our culture and election. Two of the three main candidates in the election are men who support the ban, while the third is a woman tradition,” added Bindhu, a housewife. who has tried to dodge the topic. Veena George, who is “The temple has always been a place where women standing for the alliance of left wing parties that runs could not go. It is not acceptable to see people coming Kerala’s state government cited an election commission and fighting to enter now,” she added. Tens of thousands advisory to avoid using the temple to get votes. “We need of people, including many women, took part in street a revival of job opportunities, agriculture and infrastruc- marches and protests in support of the ban. However, ture. Educated women need jobs,” she told AFP on the last uncertainty remains over how many women will vote for day of campaigning before the vote. their right to enter Sabarimala. “Women should be free to choose whether to enter or not. To me, women’s safety, PATHANAMTHITTA: Indian supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), National Congress Party and Communist Protest symbol here and all over India, is the only issue that is important,” Party of India celebrate in front of each other during the final day of election campaigning in the city of India’s main opposition Congress party has fielded said Ansa S, a medical student. — AFP Pathanamthitta, in the south Indian state of Kerala. — AFP

Rohingya Muslims that forced some 740,000 to flee over “We really hoped our husbands would be released but Myanmar’s court the border into Bangladesh. it hasn’t happened.” Supporters believe the pair were pun- News in brief The initial ruling in September was upheld by the ished for investigating a massacre of 10 Rohingya in Yangon High Court in January. Yesterday, the reporters Myanmar’s western Rakhine state in September 2017. The rejects appeal of were not at the Supreme Court in the capital Naypyidaw story earned the team the Pulitzer, one of the top honors in 5 killed in Yemen fighting to hear the ruling that once again went against them. journalism. Myanmar’s armed forces insist the brutal cam- Reuters reporters Under Myanmar’s judicial system, the Reuters journalists paign in Rakhine was justified as a means to root out DUBAI: Five people have been killed and dozens could take their appeal back to the Supreme Court judges Rohingya militants. But soldiers involved in the massacre wounded in Yemen’s third city of Taez, Doctors Without twice more, but it is unclear whether they will try this investigated by Reuters were jailed. Borders (MSF) said yesterday after clashes erupted NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s Supreme Court rejected the lat- option or if they will pin all their hopes on a pardon. The case against the journalists has become a cause between various pro-government factions. “Heavy fight- est appeal yesterday by two Pulitzer-prize winning “Our appeal was rejected,” Khin Maung Zaw told AFP. celebre for press freedom. Prominent rights attorney Amal ing has once again resumed inside Taez,” a city just Reuters journalists who were jailed for seven years on “They upheld the ruling of the lower court.” He added that Clooney joined the legal team, and Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe inland from the Red Sea port of Mokha, MSF wrote on charges linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, as the reporters had indicated they did not want to continue Oo were featured on the cover of TIME magazine. But Twitter. “MSF supported facilities have received some hopes now turn to a presidential pardon. Reporters Wa with the legal process but a final decision had not yet been despite global outcry the two remain in Yangon’s Insein 91 wounded and recorded five deaths directly related to Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, have been behind bars made. Both of the journalists’ wives were at the Supreme prison. Rights groups and legal experts say the case against the fighting,” since April 19, it added. The medical chari- since their arrest in December 2017 under the colonial-era Court for the ruling and spoke side-by-side to reporters the Reuters reporters was riddled with irregularities. A ty added the clashes are preventing patients from Official Secrets Act. They were convicted of possessing afterwards. “I’m very upset by the Supreme Court’s deci- whistleblowing police officer testified during their trial that reaching an MSF supported hospital in the city - the classified documents relating to security operations in sion,” said Chit Su Win, wife of Kyaw Soe Oo, visibly fight- his superior had ordered his team to trap the reporters in a only facility providing maternal healthcare to Taez resi- Rakhine during a brutal military crackdown against ing back tears. sting — testimony the judge chose to ignore. — AFP dents. The city is under siege by the Iran-backed Huthi rebels but controlled by pro-government forces, who are backed by a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia Second earthquake and the United Arab Emirates. — AFP strikes as Philippines Communist rebels kill six MANILA: Communist guerillas killed six Philippine sol- hunts for survivors diers and wounded six others yesterday, the military said, in one of the deadliest recent attacks in the coun- try’s 50-year-old Maoist insurgency. Members of the PORAC: Philippine rescuers raced yesterday to reach New People’s Army (NPA) detonated bombs in a pre- some two dozen people still feared buried under a dawn ambush of soldiers marching through a mountain- building near Manila that collapsed a day earlier in a ous area of central Samar island, triggering a four-hour deadly earthquake, as a powerful second tremor hit the firefight. “Our troops had received a report that NPA nation. The US Geological Survey put the second forces were extorting money from residents and so they quake-on the central island of Samar-at 6.4 magnitude, went there to take action,” said regional military stronger than the one that wrought significant damage spokesman Captain Reynaldo Aragones. Rebel casual- Monday near the capital in the north. ties had not been determined, but Colonel Ramon The latest quake sent terrified locals fleeing into the Zagala confirmed the soldiers’ deaths to AFP. The streets, with the authorities reporting 10 injuries-mostly 4,000-strong NPA, the armed wing of the Communist from falling objects and one person who panicked and Party of the Philippines, has waged a guerrilla campaign injured a leg jumping off a building. “No one started cry- PORAC, Philippines: A church worker walks past rubble of the 18th century St Catherine of Alexandria after its that has killed up to 40,000 people since 1969. — AFP ing, but of course some panicked because it was really bell tower was destroyed following a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that struck the town of Porac, pampanga strong,” said Rey Estrobo, a supervisor at a hotel in province yesterday. — AFP Borongan town, near the epicenter. At the same time, the Quebec Spring floods kill 1 toll in Monday’s quake rose to 16, with most of the fatali- ties in the worst-hit northern province of Pampanga, brief power outage. Scores of rescuers in the northern the world, it’s our end,” he told journalists. “I looked for OTTAWA: Spring flooding has killed one person and national disaster officials said. town of Porac spent yesterday using cranes and jack- a way out.” The quake also damaged several centuries- forced nearly 1,700 people from their homes in More than 100 others were injured by falling rub- hammers to peel back the pancaked concrete structure old churches which were crowded with worshippers in Canada’s Quebec province, with waters expected to ble on Monday, including in Manila, according to of a four-storey market building where the Red Cross recent days as the majority-Catholic Philippines marked continue rising on Monday due to rising temperatures police. However, initial reports indicated relatively said 24 people were unaccounted for. “Every minute, the Easter holiday. Porac-based Father Roland Moraleja and more rain forecast for the coming days. Aerial pho- minor destruction in Samar given the strength of every second is critical in this rescue,” Cris Palcis, a vol- said the 18th-century belfry of the Saint Catherine of tos showed entire neighborhoods submerged, with tele- Tuesday’s quake, which could be down to differences unteer rescue dog handler, told AFP. “Time is short for Alexandria church collapsed in the quake. “It was the vision news broadcasting video of residents frantically in ground composition. “The damage is more pro- the people under the rubble so we have to be quick.” only part left from the old church,” he told AFP. “The piling sandbags around their homes to hold back nounced if the houses and buildings are built on a Pampanga Governor Lilia Pineda told journalists that historical value is now gone, but we are hopeful that it swollen rivers. An elderly woman died over the weekend foundation of soft soil,” seismologist Myla Advincula rescuers could still hear at least one person trapped will rise again.” High-rise buildings in the capital after rising waters washed out the road she was driving told AFP, referring to Pampanga’s soft sediment. “It beneath the rubble, and were digging delicately to swayed after the tremor struck Monday evening, leav- on, according to media reports. The flooding has so far enhances the shaking effect.” avoid accidentally crushing the survivor. Rogelio Pacelo ing some with large cracks in their walls. Thousands of affected more than 4,000 properties across Quebec, “We’re thankful we avoided serious damage com- was shopping with his wife and child when the market travelers were stranded after aviation authorities shut according to the Urgence Quebec website, including pared to Pampanga,” regional civil defense chief Henry building collapsed around them, but incredibly they down the secondary Clark Airport, which is located on homes in the Montreal suburb of Laval and Gatineau, Torres said, adding damage in Samar was limited to made it out, almost without a scratch. “I thought this the site of the former US military installation that lies part of the Ottawa capital region. — Reuters road and building cracks, a collapsed church wall, and a only happens in movies. I thought that was the end of about an hour’s drive north of the capital. — AFP

the first time during the Reuters interview. Jadhav hesi- from the landfill. His disrespect for Muslims defines my politi- Comforted by Modi India’s polarized tantly acknowledged Rafiq’s presence but said they were cal choice,” said Rafiq, who said he will be voting for the By contrast, Jadhav’s family returned to their partially too shy to talk. “I have many Muslim female friends but I Congress party at the polls in Gujarat on Tuesday. damaged house in Naroda Patiya after the riots to live don’t talk to Muslim boys,” she said in the presence of her The votes from a 39-day staggered election will be among Muslim neighbors. “We had no choice. Muslim vic- politics: How two mother. But despite the silence between them, they have a counted on May 23. Back in 2002, at least 97 people, tims left this area and new Muslims came to live here. We lot in common. Both are largely uneducated and work 10 mostly Muslims, living in Naroda Patiya were killed and are stuck,” she said. Over a dozen members of 37 Hindu teenagers will vote hour-days in menial jobs to support their families, who fled 950 houses and shops were set on fire in less than 10 families in Naroda Patiya interviewed by Reuters said they with them from one-room homes on that fateful day. Both hours. Modi, the state’s chief minister at the time, has faced want to live in a Hindu neighbourhood but they lack the after surviving riots want to secure permanent employment but do not have the allegations of allowing, or even encouraging, the Hindu financial resources to move. When Modi became prime educational qualifications, and say they want to vote for a attacks on Muslims, but he has vehemently denied the minister in 2014, Jadhav said her mother, a widow, cele- party that will resolve this problem. charges and a court-appointed investigation panel found brated his victory. “Seeing her happy made me happy too. AHMEDABAD: On the night of February 28, 2002, two They also want get married within their communities, no evidence to prosecute him. I have nothing against Muslims, but I like Modi,” said toddlers living in adjacent alleys were dragged out of a move to better homes and forget the 2002 riots. But both The attacks were in retaliation for the death of at least Jadhav, who works as a domestic helper. slum district in Ahmedabad in the western state of Gujarat grew up in a world of communal anger and are wary of peo- 59 Hindus after a train carriage carrying hundreds of pil- Jadhav says she is comforted by BJP rule, especially liv- that had been set ablaze by a mob in one of India’s worst ple from the other religion. That is also reflected in their poli- grims caught fire following a scuffle between Hindus and ing among Muslims. But she declined to say who she will ever Hindu-Muslim riots. The attack in the Naroda Patiya tics. “Even before I understood the word politics or elections, Muslims at a railway station in Gujarat. Demarcation along vote for. “We live in a country ruled by the BJP and I was told that the BJP is an anti-Muslim political party,” said religious lines has become pronounced in Ahmedabad area of the state’s biggest city was among scores of clash- Muslims know that they cannot behave badly with us. No Rafiq who works at a factory printing election flags with since the riots. Hindus refused to sell houses to Muslims, es in which more than 800 Muslims and 255 Hindus were one wants riots again,” said Jadhav. She says she enjoys lis- killed in the month-long violence in the home state of symbols of the BJP and the main opposition party, Congress. forcing them to set up ghettos on the edges of the pros- tening to Modi’s speeches emphasizing his pro-Hindu Narendra Modi. He had just become its chief minister and perous city. Rafiq’s father sold the house in Naroda Patiya brand of nationalism. “I have heard about the riots and would rule there until becoming India’s prime minister in ‘Rage’ towards BJP and used the money to start a metal trade business, and 2014. Rights groups say about 2,000 people were killed, Rafiq’s family-run furniture shop and house were looted buy clothes and items for their new home, which was given since then I know Muslims and Hindus should not engage mostly Muslims, and including scores of children. by Hindu men during the riots. His father was hit in the leg by to them by a Muslim charity organization. “We had a after a point. There has to be a boundary forever,” she said. The toddlers who survived, a Muslim boy and a Hindu a police bullet as he was fleeing the slum and his mother suf- choice to go back and live in the house where my neigh- The teenagers are both products of angry times. girl, were both one-year-olds at the time of the riots. Now, fered head injuries when terrified people stampeded. The bors were killed or live near this garbage site. My father “Children read comic books, fairy tales but we have grown 17 years later, they are among an estimated 15 million first- family lived in a relief camp and later moved into a house sit- chose the garbage site,” said Rafiq. Rafiq travelled with up listening about Hindu, Muslim riots. My vote will be my time voters in a general election in which Modi and his uated next to Ahmedabad’s biggest garbage collection site. Reuters to his old home in Naroda Patiya for the first time reaction to our painful past,” said Rafiq as he scanned his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are seeking “My rage towards the BJP is part of my life story. I can for- in two years. He met his relatives and stood near the house mobile phone to play and sing the latest Bollywood hip a second term on a platform that, critics say, marginalizes give but I cannot forget,” said Rafiq as he stood next to a huge now owned by Muslims not known to him. “The air is bet- hop song. “Our time will also come,” he sang in the Hindi Muslims in favor of the nation’s majority Hindus. black mound of garbage. “If Modi ever cared for Muslims he ter here. There is no stench. I would have been happier if language and smiled at Jadhav. She hesitantly smiled back Mohammad Rafiq and Pooja Jadhav, now both 18, met for could come to see how we have learned to live with the stench we lived here,” said Rafiq. as she stood at door of her home. — Reuters 10 Established 1961

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Journalist murder marks upsurge in N Ireland unrest he killing of a journalist in Londonderry marks the latest upsurge of violence in TNorthern Ireland - where fears are growing that a fragile and hard-won peace is increasingly at risk. Lyra McKee, 29, was shot dead during a riot as This photo taken on April 17, 2019 shows recycled paper at the Northern Adelaide Waste Management Authority’s recycling site in Edinburgh, near Adelaide. —AFP dissident republicans clashed Thursday with police in the province’s second city-a historic flashpoint in the three decades of violence known as “The Troubles”. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement largely ended the turbulence in Northern Ireland - mandat- China ban throws global recycling into chaos ing a withdrawal of British security forces and the disarming of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) para- rom grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian as far afield as Germany, the United States, and Brazil. ly. “Twelve months on, we are still feeling the effects but we military group. communities to waste piling up in plants from the US to Residents soon noticed the acrid stench over the town - have not moved to the solutions yet,” said Garth Lamb, presi- But dissident republicans - seeking Northern FAustralia, China’s ban on accepting the world’s used the kind of odor that is usual in processing plastic, but envi- dent of industry body Waste Management and Resource Ireland’s departure from the United Kingdom and plastic has plunged global recycling into turmoil. For many ronmental campaigners believe some of the fumes also come Recovery Association of Australia. integration into the Republic of Ireland through vio- years, China received the bulk of scrap plastic from around from the incineration of plastic waste that was too low quality Some have been quicker to adapt to the new environment, lent means - remain active. Police believe the New the world, processing much of it into a higher quality material to recycle. “People were attacked by toxic fumes, waking such as some local authority-run centers that collect recy- IRA splinter group is behind McKee’s murder. that could be used by manufacturers. But at the start of 2018, them up at night. Many were coughing a lot,” local resident, clables in Adelaide, southern Australia. The centres used to it closed its doors to almost all foreign plastic waste, as well Pua Lay Peng, told AFP. “I could not sleep, I could not rest, I send nearly everything - ranging from plastic to paper and Volatile fringe as many other recyclables, in a push to protect the local envi- always felt fatigued,” the 47-year-old added. glass - to China but now 80 percent is processed by local Among commentators there is a wide-held belief ronment and air quality, leaving developed nations struggling companies, with most of the rest shipped to India. “We that the perpetrators are youngsters not old enough to find places to send their waste. Toxic fumes moved quickly and looked to domestic markets,” Adam “It was like an earthquake,” Arnaud Brunet, director gen- Pua and other community members began investigating Faulkner, chief executive of the Northern Adelaide Waste to remember “The Troubles”, and are being manipu- eral of Brussels-based industry group The Bureau of and by mid-2018 had located about 40 suspected processing Management Authority, told AFP. “We’ve found that by sup- lated by a radical older element. “There’s a danger- International Recycling, told AFP. “China was the biggest plants, many of which appeared to be operating secretly and porting local manufacturers, we’ve been able to get back to ous radicalisation of young people in Derry by market for recyclables. It created a major shock in the global without proper permits. Initial complaints to authorities went pre-China ban prices,” he added. those linked to and on the periphery of the New market.” Instead, plastic is being redirected in huge quantities nowhere but they kept up pressure, and eventually the gov- IRA,” wrote The Irish Times newspaper’s security to Southeast Asia, where Chinese recyclers have shifted en ernment took action. Authorities started closing down illegal Consume less, produce less correspondent Allison Morris. Police Service of masse. With a large Chinese-speaking minority, Malaysia was factories in Jenjarom, and announced a nationwide temporary In mainland China, imports of plastic waste have Northern Ireland detective superintendent Jason a top choice for Chinese recyclers looking to relocate, and freeze on plastic import permits. Thirty-three factories were dropped from 600,000 tons per month in 2016 to about Murphy, who is leading the probe into McKee’s official data showed plastic imports tripled from 2016 levels closed down, although activists believe many have quietly 30,000 a month in 2018, according to data cited by a new death, warned: “What we’re seeing is a new breed to 870,000 tons last year. moved elsewhere in the country. Residents say air quality has report from Greenpeace and environmental NGO Global of terrorist coming through the ranks.” In the small town of Jenjarom, not far from Kuala Lumpur, improved but some plastic dumps remain. Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. Once bustling centers Two men aged 18 and 19 were arrested Thursday plastic processing plants suddenly appeared in large num- In Australia, Europe and the US, many of those collecting of recycling have been abandoned as firms shifted to but later released without charges. Police appealed bers, pumping out noxious fumes day and night. Huge plastic and other recyclables were left scrambling to find new Southeast Asia. On a visit to the southern town of Xingtan again to the community for help in finding the killer. mounds of plastic waste, dumped in the open, piled up as places to send it. They face higher costs to get it processed last year, Chen Liwen, founder of environmental NGO China “I know there will be some people who know what recyclers struggled to cope with the influx of packaging from by recyclers at home and in some cases have resorted to Zero Waste Alliance, found the once-booming recycling happened but are scared to come forward but if you everyday goods, such as foods and laundry detergents, from sending it to landfill sites as the scrap has piled up too quick- industry had disappeared. —AFP have information, no matter how small, please con- tact detectives,” said Murphy, stressing that the information would be treated as “100 percent anonymous”. Falungong It was time for Brexit fuels the fire McKee’s murder follows a car bomb in surviving Londonderry in January and a spate of letter bombs Bashir to go, sent to British targets in March - both claimed by the New IRA. There is speculation that Brexit - underground say residents of which has raised the specter of a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland - is acting as in China home village an irritant to dissident republicans. Proposed divorce deals with the EU could see Northern itting lotus-style on an apartment floor, two esidents of deposed Sudanese Ireland more closely aligned to the Republic of women quietly rotate their arms in front of A man walks past anti-cult posters beside president Omar Al-Bashir’s home People are seen in the village of Ireland or bound tighter in union with mainland them - a rare sight in China where public a sidewalk in Beijing yesterday. The village are still coming to terms S deposed Sudanese president Omar Al- posters have gone up in Beijing as it R Britain-raising competing loyalist and republican displays of Falungong meditation have all but with his ouster, but most agree that the Bashir, Hosh Bannaga, some 170 km visions of the future. disappeared. It is a shadow of the spiritual approaches the 20th anniversary of a time had come for him to go. “I’m from north of the capital Khartoum, on April Kieran McConaghy, a lecturer in terrorism at the movement’s heyday in China, where the group mass protest by Falungong practitioners his village and I did not benefit from his 21, 2019. —AFP University of St Andrews in Scotland, said it was once boasted more than 70 million followers outside the Zhongnanhai leadership com- rule,” said Mohamedali Abdel Hamid, a “hard to say” whether Brexit has played a “major before it was outlawed in 1999, giving police pound on April 25, 1999. —AFP farmer from Hosh Bannaga dressed in a role” in recent attacks, as such events have been carte blanche to persecute members. But 20 traditional Sudanese robe. The village, streets amount to sand tracks, while a consistent since the ceasefire. Since the British gov- years on, the group has remained stubbornly own flesh and blood, resulting in my aunt hating on the Nile some 170 km north of single road connects the village to the ernment began publishing security assessments in persistent, even as practitioners in mainland her own brother for many years,” she told AFP, Khartoum, was Bashir’s childhood highway leading to Khartoum. Hosh 2010, the threat of terrorism in Northern Ireland has China continue to face arrests and torture, shuddering with tears. home. He was born there on New Year’s Bannaga has a hospital that provides remained at “severe”-denoting that an attack is con- according to rights groups. David Ownby, a history professor at the Day 1944. “Only his family relatives medical aid to nearby villages, but part sidered “highly likely”. Before the crackdown, Falungong members University of Montreal who has studied benefitted” from his rule, Hamid told an of it is still under construction. The vil- However, “Brexit hasn’t been good for stability in would congregate in parks in large numbers to Falungong, said cults emerge in China because AFP correspondent who visited the vil- lage has a community center for women Northern Ireland”, McConaghy told CBC. “It has practice “qigong” meditation. Now they do their the officially atheist state has successfully kept lage. “They have cars, farms and cows, and children set up by Bashir’s first slow movement exercises behind closed doors. made people more uncomfortable with the peace traditional religions weak. “That means that part but we did not benefit. I don’t feel sad wife, Fatima Khalid. “It doesn’t matter how the Communist Party process in Northern Ireland, which is seen to be fal- of the market is open to groups that are not that he is gone.” In the scorching heat of the after- suppresses (Falungong), I don’t think about it too sanctioned,” he said. “That is the basic paradox tering at present. “Politicians would do well to try In power for three decades, 75-year- noon, most people stay indoors. The much,” one of the women, who requested at the heart of the religion policy.” village has a small market that sells and clarify some of the uncertainty... so that organi- old Bashir was ousted on April 11 by the anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic, told A Falungong follower in China, who joined in locally grown vegetables. Located not sations like the New IRA and others don’t fill that army after months of protests against AFP. “I just do what I want to do,” she said. 2010, told AFP that her dissatisfaction with soci- his iron-fisted rule. A career soldier, he far from Sudan’s famed Meroe pyra- political vacuum.” There are particular fears that a Falungong, which emphasizes moral teach- ety and family life turned her towards the spiritu- swept to power in an Islamist-backed mids, archaeological relics have often no-deal hard Brexit would see checks erected along ings, was once encouraged by Chinese authori- al movement. “I thought that maybe a bit of (reli- coup in 1989, toppling the elected gov- been uncovered around Hosh Bannaga. the 500-km border, which would offer dissident mil- ties to ease the burden on a creaky health sys- gious) faith would make me better,” she said, ernment of prime minister Sadiq Al- Ibrahim, who said he is related to itants a natural target. tem after it was unveiled in 1992 by Li Hongzhi, adding that she had also been exposed to Mahdi, who is now chief of Sudan’s Bashir, stated that the longtime leader who emigrated to the US four years later. But Buddhism. While Falungong survives under- main opposition National Umma Party led a “normal life”. “He ate what we all Sea change after over 10,000 Falungong members sur- ground in mainland China, it has swelled among and part of the protest movement. One ate. When he used to come for social Following McKee’s murder, police in the republi- rounded Communist Party headquarters in cen- the Chinese diaspora, as followers have fled of Africa’s longest-serving presidents, occasions, he sat with us and talked can area of Londonderry where McKee was killed tral Beijing on April 25, 1999, to protest the overseas in search of asylum. Bashir was renowned for his populist about his memories from the village,” say they have experienced a “sea change” in previ- detention of some of their members, the govern- Falungong is practiced in over 70 countries, touch, insisting on being close to he said. Bashir “is not corrupt,” Ibrahim ously-strained community attitudes towards offi- ment leapt into action. according to Falun Dafa Info Centre, the group’s crowds and addressing them in collo- contended, but as president was cers. The Free Derry Corner landmark wall has been Then-president Jiang Zemin issued orders to press office. The movement has also turned quial Sudanese Arabic. responsible for an entourage that was repainted to reflect the local community’s revulsion. eliminate the group, which was later declared an “hard-edged” over the years, said Ownby, with But his fate was sealed when the corrupt. “For this (reason) I believe that Underneath the sign “You are now entering free “evil cult” - a tactic to justify the repression, some academics reporting harassment for calling army bowed to the demands of tens of 30 years is enough” for him to have Derry”, marking the start of a republican area, a scholars say. Top officials “see Falungong, first Falungong a sect or cult. Levi Browde, the cen- thousands of protesters in Khartoum served in power, Ibrahim added. message now reads: “Not in our name. R. I. P. Lyra.” and foremost, as an ideological and political ter’s executive director, said he believes if and elsewhere, nearly four months into In the wake of her murder, Northern Ireland’s six threat”, Maria Cheung, a University of Manitoba harassment has occurred, it is simply an effort by demonstrations sparked by a tripling of ‘He deserved to go’ main political parties - including rival unionists and professor who has researched the movement, Falungong practitioners “to provide more infor- bread prices. The protests have not But there are some who were sad to republicans who have been unable to form a told AFP. The demonstration had been the mation to the scholars”. extended to Hosh Bannaga’s sand see Bashir go, including Mahmoud Issa. devolved government for more than two years - biggest protest in Beijing since the Tiananmen strewn streets. But Naseer Ibrahim, “Yes, there is an economic crisis and issued a rare joint statement. “It was a pointless and Square pro-democracy sit-in in 1989. More political stance another villager, was glad to see the people are unable to get essential futile act to destroy the progress made over the last It is about “making sure we’re not adding back of Bashir. “Look at the condition items, but it is because of the wars,” 20 years, which has the overwhelming support of ‘Flesh and blood’ momentum to the wave of violence and death of the village - even the school where Issa said. Bashir’s presidency was people everywhere,” it read. —AFP Following the protest, Chinese authorities that engulfs the lives of Falungong practitioners he studied was rebuilt only last year marred by several conflicts, including a launched a special security bureau known as the throughout China”, he said. The spiritual move- after a child fell into a toilet,” he said. 1983 to 2005 war that left hundreds of “610 office” to suppress and monitor Falungong ment has also adopted a more political stance in thousands dead and culminated in followers. Practitioners and rights groups have some parts of the world. In Hong Kong, where ‘30 years are enough’ secession by South Sudan in 2011. A All articles appearing on this page are the also reported death, torture, and abuse at labor Falungong activists hand out flyers and try to talk Most homes in Hosh Bannaga are separate deadly conflict also erupted in personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait camps. One woman from northern China to people - especially mainland tourists - the made from mud, but Bashir’s family res- the western region of Darfur in 2003 recounted a traumatic period when her father movement has taken on a stridently anti-commu- idence - an extended one-storey build- when marginalized ethnic rebels took Times takes no responsibility for views was pressured by local authorities to beat his nist tone. One key slogan, seen on banners and ing with a courtyard - is one of the vil- up arms against the Arab-dominated expressed therein. younger sister, who was a “very resolute practi- blared through loudspeakers is: “The heavens will lage’s few well-built structures. Most government. —AFP tioner of Falungong”. He was “forced to break his destroy the Chinese Communist Party”. —AFP Established 1961

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2019 Business

KAMCO acquires HP Plaza class-AA Lexus celebrates GAC Motor presents Mutawa Alkazi 12office campus in Houston, Texas 13 spectacular milestone 14 with prestigious awards

SHANGHAI: Visitors walk past a Tesla Model 3 at the Shanghai Auto Show in Shanghai. — AFP Tesla eyes self-driving ‘robotaxis’ by 2020 Musk expects regulator approval in ‘some jurisdictions’ WASHINGTON: Tesla said Monday it is expecting to said. Musk commented on the robotaxi plan after the com- best chip in the world?” he said. next year and that he hoped for regulatory approvals in deploy self-driving “robotaxis” by 2020 as it unveiled its pany unveiled computer hardware for “full self-driving” “But that is objectively what has occurred.” some areas later in 2020. upgraded technology for driverless vehicles. Chief execu- capabilities-part of its strategy to bring autonomous cars The new chip is being installed in all its vehicles, clear- He maintained that Tesla’s approach using data from its tive Elon Musk told an investor presentation he expected to the mainstream. ing the way to improve its software and “neural networks” vehicles on the road was better than those of its rivals, regulator approval in some jurisdictions for autonomous Tesla already enables partial autonomy for its cars, but that will effectively drive the autonomous vehicles. which rely on simulations. “We have quite good simulation ride-hailing that could use some of the Teslas on the road if the road to full autonomy faces considerable legal and reg- “All Tesla cars being produced have all the hardware too, but it does not capture the long tail of things that hap- their owners agree to share the vehicles. ulatory hurdles. The chip announcement comes as Tesla necessary... for full self-driving,” Musk told the event. “All pen in the real world,” Musk said. “I feel very confident in predicting autonomous robot- races with Waymo, Uber and traditional automakers to you need to do is improve the software.” “The real world is really weird and messy.” axis next year,” Musk told the event, saying he expected bring autonomous vehicles to market. Despite Tesla’s claims, its electric vehicles are not using Musk also argued that the neural network technology, the plan to operate on a model similar to that of Uber or Musk said its custom-designed chip for the vehicle, the standard definition of “level 4” autonomy that would based on artificial intelligence, was better than the Lidar Airbnb. He said Tesla would be adding a rideshare app and which he called the best available, was a significant mile- handle all functions with a human on standby or “level 5” systems used by rivals that are based on light pulses. that owners who chose to participate in the network could stone in self-driving. autonomy that would need no human. Musk said his space exploration firm SpaceX uses Lidar benefit from that. “The fundamental utility of the vehicle “At first, it seems improbable-how could it be that Tesla, Musk said he expected that with Tesla technology, driv- for some purposes but that “in cars it’s pretty stupid, it’s increases by a factor of five” with a rideshare system, he which has never designed a chip before, could design the ers “would not need to touch the wheel” sometime early expensive and unnecessary.” — AFP

Belt and Road in 2013, China has invested $90 billion in China wins Belt and projects while banks have provided between $200 billion and $300 billion in loans, according to Xiao Weiming, a Chinese government official overseeing Belt and Road. Road fans but Examples of debt trouble abound. Sri Lanka turned over a deep-sea port to China for 99- criticism persists years after it was unable to repay loans. Pakistan needs an international bailout. And Montenegro has had to make dif- BEIJING: President Xi Jinping will lead a hard sales push ficult choices after taking on crushing Chinese debt to pay a at a Beijing summit this week, to corral more countries into Chinese company to build a new highway. a global infrastructure project at the core of China’s super- It has also become an election issue in some countries. power ambitions and win over those who see a strategic Chinese officials say the projects foster development in threat. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) envisages massive poor countries and Xiao dismissed “debt trap” warnings as investments in maritime, road and rail projects across 65 repeating “the same old tune”. Foreign Minister Wang Yi countries from Asia to Europe and Africa that collectively denied last week that the project was a “geopolitical tool”, account for 30 percent of global GDP. If fully realized, it though he admitted that “jointly building the Belt and Road could shape the world economic and geopolitical landscape is a developing process, it won’t happen overnight, and for decades to come. But its scope and ambition have divid- there will inevitably be some troubles.” ed Europe, while US officials have called it a “vanity proj- Italy rolled out a red carpet for Xi Jinping in Rome last ect”, and detractors have warned that it is laden with debt month and signed a memorandum of understanding on the risks and opaque deals favoring Chinese firms and labor. Belt and Road, with Beijing planning to invest in Italian Despite the criticism, momentum appears to be on Xi’s ports. The NATO member country’s ascension drew con- side, with leaders from 37 countries flocking to Beijing for sternation in Brussels and Washington, and even within the the three-day summit beginning Thursday. It’s the second leadership of Rome’s ruling coalition-Deputy Prime such event, with an inaugural 2017 summit bringing 29 lead- Minister Matteo Salvini said Italy would be “no-one’s ers together. BEIJING: Banners are displayed along a street ahead of the Belt and Road Forum in colony”. Beijing on Monday.— AFP Italy breaks ranks Pushback China added a key nation to its Belt and Road roster For China, the initiative is both a practical solution to than in China.” The World Bank estimates that Belt and push is used to whip up fears about eroding sovereignty. when Italy became the first G7 member to sign on to the economic issues at home and a way to expand its global Road funded infrastructure could marginally boost trade In the Maldives, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih claimed victory project last month. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will par- influence-a key concern for Xi, who frequently trumpets the and officials there say it is offering funding in areas where it last year on the back of an anti-corruption campaign tar- ticipate in the summit and Switzerland appears set to sign goal of a “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”. It “alle- is sorely needed. geting the opaque deals with Beijing and “China’s colonial- on with President Ueli Maurer flying to Beijing. viates a lot of the built up excess industrial capacity that But the money comes as loans instead of aid, requiring ism”. Opposition candidates in Sri Lanka and Malaysia sim- Russian President Vladimir Putin and other leaders from results from the Chinese economic model,” said James countries to pay China back for the massive projects its ilarly wielded the debt laden deals to victory. Europe, Asia and Africa will also attend, but major EU Bowen of the Perth US-Asia Center. companies and people build. Pushing back has proved a The new Malaysian prime minister cancelled some nations are sending ministers and the United States said it “Chinese workers need jobs and China has materials that successful election issue in Asia, including in Sri Lanka, the and renegotiated a rail project cutting 30 percent off would not have a high-level delegation. Since Xi launched need to be exported and built out in other countries rather Maldives and Malaysia, as the trademark infrastructure the price tag. — AFP 12 Established 1961

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Business KAMCO acquires HP Plaza Class-AA office campus in Houston, Texas Acquisition could generate a net cash yield of 7.50% per annum

KUWAIT: KAMCO Investment Company, a leading future” open workspaces. The office campus provides on future momentum and investment company with one of the largest AUMs in the top-tier tenant amenities including a full-service cafete- growth,” said David region, announced that it has purchased HP Plaza in ria and dining room with seating for up to 330 people, Jackson, President of CityPlace at Springwoods Village in partnership with coffee shop and juice bar, fitness center with men’s and Northridge Capital. “While Northridge Capital, a Washington D.C.-based real estate women’s locker rooms, a conference center with product this asset certainly meets asset management firm. The acquisition will generate a showroom and multiple breakout rooms. those criteria, we are espe- net cash yield of 7.50 percent per annum across the tar- Mohammad Al-Othman, Senior Vice President and cially excited to complete get holding period. The state-of-the-art, Class-AA office Head of the Alternative Investments Department at our first transaction with campus is located in a newly-developed urban center in KAMCO, said, “We are excited to partner with KAMCO Investment north Houston, Texas which is also home to Northridge Capital and HP, Inc. on this highly desirable Company” ExxonMobil’s 385-acre corporate campus. asset located in what we believe will be the most dynamic “HP Plaza checks the Completed in November of 2018 and built to Class- mixed-use environment in Houston. We are especially three boxes Northridge AA standards, HP Plaza houses HP, Inc., which occupies thrilled that the property is 100 percent powered by Capital looks for when pur- 100 percent of the Premises pursuant to a long-term renewable energy sources and is strategically located at suing single tenant oppor- lease. The Property sits on 11.78-acres and features two the confluence of the I-45 and the Grand Parkway. This tunities: 1) strong credit Mohammad Al-Othman Dave W Jackson David Etemadi buildings, totaling 378,402 rentable square feet. acquisition is in line with KAMCO’s commitment towards quality and cash flows; 2) The newly constructed Property is designed for sus- scaling its real estate portfolio through diversified assets.” desirable underlying, functional real estate and 3) a Acquisitions for Northridge Capital. “We believe more tainability and offers efficient, rectangular floor plates, “Our partners focus on Class A properties with strong dynamic suburban/urban location that will cater to the and more Fortune 500 companies will choose to locate structured parking at a ratio of 6.00 per 1,000, modern cash flows from credit tenants that are strategically workforce of the future and serve as a recruiting tool for in these types of locations around the country in the interior finishes with exposed ceilings and “office of the located in dynamic markets well-positioned to capitalize the tenant,” said David Etemadi, Vice President of “arms race” for the best human capital.”

Top 6 innovations Italy’s fiscal spat on Huawei P30 with EU might Pro decoded KUWAIT: Huawei’s recently unveiled its latest flagship resume after debt smartphone, the Huawei P30 Pro. Dubbed the Supercamera Phone, it is packed full with the compa- exceeds forecasts ny’s latest and greatest innovations. Here’s what’s new on the super powered flagship. BRUSSELS: Public debt in Greece and Italy, the two ultra-wide 3p lens and a large aperture, which works in most indebted countries in the eurozone, grew last 1. Optimized Snapchat Experience tandem to the pixel photosensitivity enhancing the year while the bloc as a whole saw its liabilities Huawei announced that it has worked to optimize the Microlens. The new sensor also supports auto ring-tun- decrease, the European Union statistics office said Huawei P30 series camera for Snapchat, bringing more ing focus, further improving the autofocus accuracy by yesterday. camera innovations to users, aiming for Snapchatters to 35 percent ensuring every senor on the device lands Rome’s growing debt, which is also higher than soon be able to enjoy more experiences using the the most precise focus. Unlock speed is also improved Brussels had predicted, is seen as further stretching Huawei P30 camera. by 30 percent thanks to the industry-leading multi- EU fiscal rules that require countries with high debts threaded dual-matching algorithm, which also uses a to gradually bring them down. Italy, whose euroscep- 2. Leica Quad Camera Setup fluid unlock animation and hover sensing to improve tic government adopted free-spending policies last The Huawei P30 Pro packs a revolutionary Leica year that have so far had little impact on growth, had user experience. Quad Camera setup. This includes a 40MP main camera allows for better viewing angles while recording, it also debt equivalent to 132.2 percent of national output in Keeping in mind users who require their phone at with the Huawei SuperSpectrum Sensor which brings in 2018, up from 131.4 percent in the previous year, gives users a more creative way of recording videos. any point of the day, Huawei has worked towards Eurostat said. more light so taking pictures or shooting videos in the For example, this feature can come in use when watch- developing the battery on the Huawei P30 Pro for The European Commission, which monitors euro- dark is not a challenge, a 20MP Ultra-Wide angle lens ing a football game, where users can have a wide- extended use. The 4,200 mAh battery can give users up zone states’ budgets, refrained in December from for both horizontal and vertical shooting, an 8MP tele- angle recording of the match, with a close-up of their to an entire day of intensive use and is complemented starting disciplinary steps against Italy over its photo SuperZoom lens and a 32MP front camera for favorite player. by the 40W Huawei SuperCharge which will give users growing debt. shooting selfies with unparalleled quality. approximately 70 percent in just 30 minutes. The It predicted then that Italian debt would be 131.1 The camera setup also includes the Huawei Time of 5. Definitive Performance thanks to powerful hardware phone also supports 15W Wireless Charging, and a percent of gross domestic product in 2018 — lower Flight (ToF) camera that is designed to measure depth Powering the Huawei P30 Pro is the Kirin 980 unique Wireless Reverse Charge feature, allowing users than Tuesday’s data showed. The Commission has of field for beautiful portrait shots with blurred back- chipset, Huawei’s most powerful smartphone chipset to place their friend’s phones or other devices including said it will reassess Rome’s compliance with EU fiscal grounds and sharp foregrounds. yet. One of the world’s first commercial 7nm chipsets, earphones and wearables on the Huawei P30 Pro to rules, including the requirement to cut debt, in June, the Kirin 980 packs 6.9 billion transistors, cutting- instantly start charging it, provided it supports the Qi taking into account the final debt data from Eurostat. 3. SuperZoom edge process technology, a revolutionary architecture wireless charging standard. A spokeswoman for the EU executive declined to Huawei’s engineering marvels have come up with a and a Dual-NPU, all which contribute together to a comment on the new figures released by Eurostat. way to embed a massive zoom lens into the ever-so thin more efficient performance. The Kirin 980 7nm 6. Night Shot She said Brussels’ new evaluation of Italy’s posi- body of the Huawei P30 Pro. This SuperZoom lens lets process technology compared with the 10nm process, Night photography on smartphones has always been tion will also be based on fresh forecasts due in May users enjoy a 5x optical zoom, 10x hybrid zoom and an improves performance by 20 percent, power efficiency a challenge due to hardware and software limitations, of debt developments, and on Italy’s report on its fis- unprecedented 50x digital zoom that can bring even by 40 percent. often resulting in blurry or shaky shots. This will no cal plans for the next three years which Rome had the farthest objects up close. The Kirin 980 can quickly adapt to AI scenes such longer be a challenge on the Huawei P30 Pro thanks to just submitted. Italy bucked the euro zone trend, as as face recognition, object recognition, object detec- overall debt in the 19-country currency bloc fell to the Night Mode, which stabilizes pictures with the help 4. Dual-View Video tion, image segmentation and intelligent translation. So 85.1 percent of GDP last year from 87.1 percent in of AI Image Stabilization and Optical Image Sometimes a single recording is just not enough and 2017, Eurostat said. whether it’s dancing to a fast song or quickly running in Stabilization. The Huawei P30 Pro also takes advantage The bloc’s aggregated budget deficit also you might even miss some details. With the Huawei front of the camera, the Kirin 980 can focus on the of the SuperSpectrum sensor which brings in more light dropped to 0.5 percent of GDP from 1.0 percent P30 Pro, this is not a problem anymore, thanks to joints and lines of the human body in real time. and supports ISO levels up to 409,600. This makes it in 2017. Huawei Dual-View Video1 technology, which splits the The Huawei P30 Pro also houses a new and easier to take pictures and shoot videos even in dark The fall coincided with Germany’s reduction of its screen in two and allows users to record a wide-angle improved In-Screen Fingerprint sensor. Fingerprint conditions without having to compromise on details debt to 60.9 percent of GDP, from 64.5 percent in shot and a close-up shot at the same time. While this recognition is improved by taking advantage of the and clarity. 2017. The bloc’s largest economy also widened its public surplus to 1.7 percent of output from 1.0 per- cent in 2017. In Greece, debt climbed to 181.1 percent Trump had previously criticized Harley for its plans to world’s most iconic motorcycle brand, which has strug- of GDP in 2018, the largest ratio in the euro zone. Harley-Davidson shift some US production overseas to avoid European gled to attract younger fans as its core customers won in The increase from 176.2 percent in 2017 was mostly Union duties imposed in retaliation for the tariffs the the rebel heyday of the 1960s and 70s grow older. due to the last instalment of eurozone creditors’ White House placed on imported steel and aluminum last Earlier this year, Harley said the retaliatory import loans as part of the country’s third bailout program profit tops estimates year. But ahead of a speech on Saturday in Wisconsin, duties imposed by the European Union on its bikes which ended last summer. where Harley is based, the president said on Twitter that would cost the company between $100 million and $120 The recent exit from the bailout program exempts as Trump weighs in the bloc’s treatment of the company had been “unfair” million in 2019. Greece from the normal application of EU rules that and vowed to reciprocate. EU tariffs on US-manufactured motorcycles, which require countries with public debt above the 60 per- NEW YORK: Harley-Davidson Inc surged past expecta- “The shares have rallied (we think) in anticipation of increased from to 31 percent from 6 percent last June, are cent of GDP threshold allowed by EU law to cut the tions for first-quarter profit yesterday and drew a change potential tariff relief ... we remain cautious in our outlook set to rise to 56 percent in 2021. Similarly, China’s tariffs excess by 5 percent a year. Cyprus, another of the of tack from US President Donald Trump, who vowed to for the US motorcycle industry, and continue to rate the on the bikes exported from the US have increased to 55 bloc’s most indebted countries, saw its debt rise to shares Hold,” Stifel analyst Drew Crum said. The costs of percent from 30 percent as a result of the trade war 102.5 percent of GDP from 95.8 percent. —Reuters protect the motorcycle maker from European tariffs, driv- ing its shares up 3 percent. Trump’s trade wars have only added to the troubles of the between the world’s two biggest economies. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.225 Turkish Lira 54.575 Chinese Yuan 0.043986 0.047486 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Tunisian Dinar 105.170 Singapore dollars 225.511 Hong Kong Dollar 0.037113 0.039863 Jordanian Dinar 430.670 Indian Rupee 0.003835 0.004607 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.033 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000017 0.000023 US Dollar Transfer 305.000 Syrian Lira 0.000 Japanese Yen 0.002649 0.002829 Euro 345.110 BAHRAIN EXCHANGE COMPANY WLL Morocco Dirham 32.344 Korean Won 0.000258 0.000273 Sterling Pound 398.480 Canadian dollar 229.240 Malaysian Ringgit 0.070583 0.076583 CURRENCY BUY SELL Nepalese Rupee 0.002684 0.003024 Turkish lira 52.630 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Europe Swiss Franc 303.630 Pakistan Rupee 0.001511 0.002281 British Pound 0.390155 0.404055 Philippine Peso 0.005856 0.006156 US Dollar Buying 303.800 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Czech Korune 0.005334 0.014634 Singapore Dollar 0.219957 0.229957 US Dollar 304.840 Danish Krone 0.041851 0.046851 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001402 0.001982 ASIAN COUNTRIES Canadian Dollar 228.350 Euro 0. 336250 0.349950 Taiwan 0.010180 0.010360 Japanese Yen 2.729 Sterling Pound 95.450 Indian Rupees 4.379 Georgian Lari 0.132204 0.132204 Thai Baht 0.009231 0.009781 Euro 344.725 Pakistani Rupees 2.187 Hungarian 0.001150 0.001340 Swiss Frank 307.490 Vietnamese Dong 0.00013 0.00013 Srilankan Rupees 1.743 Norwegian Krone 0.031812 0.037012 Bahrain Dinar 810.685 Nepali Rupees 2.737 Romanian Leu 0.065393 0.082243 UAE Dirhams 83.400 Arab Singapore Dollar 225.760 Russian ruble 0.004792 0.004792 Bahraini Dinar 0.794448 0.810948 Hongkong Dollar 38.875 Qatari Riyals 84.640 Slovakia 0.009127 0.019127 Saudi Riyals 82.185 Egyptian Pound 0.017763 0.020363 Bangladesh Taka 3.603 Swedish Krona 0.028756 0.033756 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000086 Philippine Peso 5.893 Jordanian Dinar 431.245 Swiss Franc 0.294543 0.305543 Iraqi Dinar 0.000210 0.000270 Thai Baht 9.616 Egyptian Pound 17.628 Jordanian Dinar 0.425280 0.434280 Malaysian ringgit 78.005 Sri Lankan Rupees 1.744 Australasia Indian Rupees 4.412 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Australian Dollar 0.210335 0.222335 Lebanese Pound 0.000157 0.000257 GCC COUNTRIES Pakistani Rupees 2.160 New Zealand Dollar 0.198185 0.207685 Saudi Riyal 81.388 Bangladesh Taka 3.618 Moroccan Dirhams 0.021257 0.045257 Philippines Pesso 5.851 Omani Riyal 0.785890 0.791570 Qatari Riyal 83.826 America Omani Riyal 792.723 Cyprus pound 18.135 Qatar Riyal 0.079486 0.084426 Canadian Dollar 0.222684 0.231684 Bahraini Dinar 810.420 Japanese Yen 3.725 Saudi Riyal 0.080247 0.081547 US Dollars 0.300900 0.306200 UAE Dirham 83.095 Syrian Pound 1.595 Syrian Pound 0.001293 0.001513 US Dollars Mint 0.301400 0.306200 Nepalese Rupees 2.758 Tunisian Dinar 0.096943 0.104943 ARAB COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 75.435 Turkish Lira 0.046199 0.057699 Egyptian Pound - Cash 20.850 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.805 Asia UAE Dirhams 0.081616 0.083316 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 17.726 Thai Bhat 10.550 Bangladesh Taka 0.003030 0.003831 Yemeni Riyal 0.000992 0.001072 13 Business Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Lexus celebrates spectacular milestone 30th anniversary of the brand launched in 1989

KUWAIT: Lexus announced its 10 millionth vehicle sold, a President, Yoshihiro Sawa. Lexus launched in 1989 with a landmark achievement after a strong 2018 year-end sales flagship sedan and a guest experience that helped define performance with Lexus achieving multiple best-ever sales the premium automotive industry. In 1998, Lexus intro- goals around the globe. In addition, the brand that pio- duced the luxury crossover category with the launch of neered the world’s first luxury self-charging hybrid vehicle the Lexus RX. The luxury hybrid sales leader, Lexus deliv- in 2005, and offers the largest line-up of electrified models ered the world’s first luxury hybrid and has since sold over globally, surpassed the 1.45-million-unit mark in self- 1.45 million hybrid vehicles. charging hybrid vehicles sold worldwide. Lexus hybrid A global luxury automotive brand with an unwavering vehicle sales jumped nearly 20 percent in 2018 from the commitment to bold, uncompromising design, exceptional prior year, a result that underscores the brand’s heritage craftsmanship, and exhilarating performance, Lexus has with, and commitment to, electrification. developed its lineup to meet the needs of the next genera- The brand announced yesterday that 698,330 vehicles tion of global luxury guests and is currently available in were sold worldwide during the 2018 calendar year, repre- over 90 countries worldwide. senting a 4.5 percent increase over calendar year 2017. A Lexus associates/team members across the world are solid array of luxury utility vehicles such as the RX and dedicated to crafting amazing experiences that are NX, the LC and LS flagships, along with the all-new ES uniquely Lexus, and that excite and change the world. In and the first-ever UX, combined to lead the global luxury Kuwait Lexus was voted best Service which reflects the lifestyle brand to its best-ever year of sales. strong commitment by Al-Sayer Lexus to offer only the “Lexus continues to enjoy substantial growth around best service consistent with Lexus strategy to offer an the world, expanding its footprint in emerging markets as amazing experience to their customers. well as reaffirming its strength in established ones. The Mubarak Naser Al-Sayer CEO said that “it is no sur- brand’s clear focus on amazing products and guest experi- prise that the Lexus team continued to strive to offer best ences provided by the finest dealers will support its global possible service in Kuwait. It is the one of our core sistent with the hospitality that Kuwait’s is famous for. sary initiatives that will guarantee this high level of serv- growth for years to come,” said Lexus International strategies to ensure we offer a guest service that is con- The Al-Sayer board will continue to support the neces- ice to our customers”.

In a note to employees, Boeing South Boeing seeks Carolina Site Leader Brad Zaback denounced the article as a “skewed and Gulf Bank launches inaccurate” picture of the 787 program, to exit crisis adding that “quality is the bedrock of who we are.” But Scott Hamilton of the aviation new Visa Business mode as it consultancy Leeham Company said the 787 issues, coupled with Boeing’s other Signature Credit Card reports results woes, raised the possibility Boeing is fac- ing systemic problems. “There is no simple answer, nor is there KUWAIT: Gulf Bank has launched the new Visa Business NEW YORK: Under growing scrutiny from a quick one,” Hamilton told AFP in an Signature Credit Card, which is designed to benefit both investors and regulators, embattled US email. “Boeing has to improve its quality employers and employees. For employers, it offers aerospace giant Boeing will have a chance control and it has to be transparent and greater protection against misuse reducing unnecessary this week to reset the narrative as it aims to detailed with airlines, lessors and regula- exposure. Gulf Bank’s latest business offering also aids in reducing front-end processes, with payments directly pivot from two deadly crashes that have tors in the MAX fix.” debited from Gulf Bank’s Corporate Account. grounded a top-selling plane. The compa- Further profit hit? Employees will also enjoy an unlimited number of ny will report earnings today for the first benefits and features. Benefits range from unlimited time since a deadly March 10 plane crash Financial analysts have already slashed their 2019 profit forecasts after Boeing complimentary access to over 1,000+ airport lounges, plunged the company into crisis-mode. to full coverage travel insurance of up to $500,000 for announced on April 5 it was cutting its BERLIN: Passengers embark on a Boeing 737-800 aircraft of low cost airline Ryanair Then, on April 29, the company will face the whole family. They will also have access to 24/7 monthly production of the 737 by about 20 at Schoenefeld airport near Berlin. — AFP its shareholders at an annual meeting that Visa concierge services, providing them with a large percent. Lower plane deliveries directly includes challenges to the company on array of lifestyle and booking services, including hotel leadership structure and government lob- affect revenues. But analysts will want to Shareholder rebuke? “The company faces serious challenges and flight reservations. In partnership with YQ, employ- bying disclosure. The events come as gauge whether to lower expectations fur- This year’s annual gathering comes at a in regaining the confidence of regulators, ees will also enjoy up to 25 percent off with a global Boeing’s 737 MAX remains grounded ther due to the hit from the production cut vulnerable moment for the company. The airlines, pilots and passengers worldwide,” network of specialist Airport meet and greet services, globally following March’s Ethiopian or because of other impacts, such as com- yearly meeting can become a forum for ISS said in a note to clients. “Any missteps available at over 450 airports worldwide. Airlines crash. Together with the Lion Air pensation to airlines that have been forced venting shareholder fury at company mis- in the process of remediating the issues That, in addition to the instant discounts up to 20 crash of October, accidents involving 737 to ground their planes. steps, as companies such as Wells Fargo and open questions that have led to the percent at over 300 renowned restaurants and coffee MAX aircraft have claimed 346 lives. Other front-of-mind questions include and General Electric have discovered in grounding of the 737 MAX, or any repeat shops in Kuwait, and instant discounts up to 25 percent Analysts have been waiting for Boeing whether the company expects more order recent years. Boeing also faces the risks of of the problems in future aircraft programs, at over 150 retail outlets in Kuwait across Travel & to formally seek certification from the cancelations and the seriousness of govern- an embarrassing rebuke by investors if could have a devastating impact on the Entertainment, Health & Beauty and Lifestyle segments. Federal Aviation Administration for a tech- ment probes, including a US criminal inves- more than 50 percent side with a share- company’s prospects, its band and its rep- Ahmed Al-Amir, Assistant General Manager for nical fix to get the planes flying again, a tigation. Analysts have varied in their holder proposal for the company to make utation, for years.” External Communication, Gulf Bank, said: “Gulf Bank’s key step and one critical to Boeing’s bot- assessments of the impact to Boeing’s long- its chairman an independent director, a ISS also backed a shareholder proposal latest offering is designed with both corporate and tom line. Boeing chief executive Dennis term prospects. Bank of America Merrill shift from the current structure in which to require Boeing to disclose its lobbying SME customers in mind, aimed at adding value to Muilenburg could announce progress on Lynch this month downgraded Boeing CEO Muilenburg also serves as director. activities and trade association member- their banking experiences. The bank is committed to this front during an earnings conference shares and slashed its profit forecast for the Boeing has fought the proposal, even ships. Supporters of the proposal have cit- continuously providing services that enhance cus- call, said a person close to the matter. next four years, citing a “reputational loss” though it would give the board discretion ed the crashes as sharpening the need for tomer experience, and we are delighted to be Adding to Boeing’s travails, The New treats to long-term market share. on the timing to implement the idea, mean- transparency. announcing the launch of the new Visa Business York Times on Sunday published an But Morningstar predicted Boeing ing it could be phased in for the next CEO “I think if the resolution receives the Signature Credit Card.” expose claiming the company had left would be able to lift 737 MAX production after Muilenburg. support we hope it receives will be part of Commenting on the launch, Marcello Baricordi, Visa’s debris on 787 aircraft during manufactur- after moving past the current rough patch, Institutional Shareholder Services, the solution to the moment we’re facing,” General Manager for MENA said: “We are delighted to partner with Gulf Bank to launch the new Visa Business ing, potentially threatening safe operations, concluding that “Boeing’s ability to gener- which opposed the same proposal last said Robert Wotypka, corporate responsi- Signature Credit Card that is designed to benefit both and printed allegations from former ate returns above its cost of capital will year, reversed its position and urged sup- bility agent for the Province of Saint employers and their employees. This is an excellent employees who said they had been pun- remain strong well into the next decade port from shareholders in light of the cur- Joseph of the Capuchin Order, a share- ished for raising safety concerns. and most likely beyond.” example of how Visa solutions tailored to specific audi- rent problems. holder. — AFP ences can help improve customer satisfaction through seamless and secure payment experiences.”

growth in the quarter bounced back quickly after the US may follow longest shuttering of federal agencies in US history ended P&G, Coca-Cola on Jan. 25. While a surprise narrowing in February’s US trade deficit also implied a much stronger pace of growth, China with Q1 weak manufacturing output-which resulted in the first report higher profits quarterly drop in production since President Donald GDP upside surprise Trump’s election-may explain the wide range in estimates. NEW YORK: Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola reported The main wild card for Friday’s release could be private higher quarterly profits yesterday, lifted by premium con- inventories, according to a number of analysts, including sumer items at Procter and new beverage offerings at Coca- DUBLIN: A temporary government shutdown with no end Unicredit, whose 1.3 percent GDP forecast sits at the more Cola. P&G, whose brands include Bounty paper towel and in sight, rising trade conflicts and a global growth slow- pessimistic end of the range. Crest toothpaste, reported profits of $2.7 billion in its fiscal down: the first quarter outlook for the US economy did not “After pronounced stockpiling in the second half of the third-quarter, up 9.3 percent from the year-ago period. look promising at the turn of the year. But Friday’s gross year, our forecast assumes that inventories were a signifi- Revenues rose 1.1 percent to $16.5 billion. P&G scored KUWAIT: Ahmed Al-Amir, Assistant General Manager for domestic product data for the first three months of 2019 cant drag in Q1. The latest numbers suggest that the drag a solid five percent increase in “organic” sales, which External Communication at Gulf Bank and Marcello could strengthen the case that while the current period of may occur only later,” Unicredit analysts wrote in a note. strips out foreign exchange effects and divestitures. The Baricordi, Visa’s General Manager for MENA global expansion is in its late stages, some of the biggest company pointed to strength in higher-end cosmetics, contributors have yet to run out of steam. ‘Cause for hope’ toothpaste and detergent, among other items. This group After China’s economy defied expectations that it The other key piece of data in a relatively quiet week is of products includes “Tide Pods,” which combine a tradi- would slow further in January-March, US growth is Germany’s Ifo business climate index, the main sentiment tional detergent with stain removers and brighteners. expected to be 2.1 percent in the same period, although reading for Europe’s biggest economy, where the growth P&G typically boosts prices when it introduces CBK to be present the range of analysts’ estimates was wider than usual at 1.0 outlook has drifted in the opposite direction. premium products, lifting profits. However, Chief to 2.9 percent. If the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow The German government cut its 2019 growth forecast Financial Officer Jon Moeller said the company was model, based on data already released, is to be believed, for the second time in three months last week and now also focusing on better basic-level products in shaving in Grand Avenue growth will come in almost at the top of that range and sees the economy growing just 0.5 percent as exporters and baby care, which have been weak spots at P&G in KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait will be available in bang in between the 2.2 percent pace seen in Q4 2018 and struggle with weaker demand from abroad, trade tensions the recent period. July-September’s brisk 3.4 percent. the Grand Avenue from Thursday 25/4 until Saturday 27/4 and uncertainty over Brexit. “We’re doing very well at the high end, but we need to in order to inform mall patrons about the features of Al- “Despite all the prophecies of doom, the US economy Subsequent business surveys showed that while do better at the low end,” Moeller said on a conference Najma Account and the draw program of this account, did not collapse in the first quarter,” said Commerzbank German manufacturing contracted for the fourth month in call with reporters. Coca-Cola, meanwhile, reported first- which the bank promoted through the advertisement “With economist Christoph Balz. “On the contrary, next week’s a row in April, buoyant services activity compensated. quarter profits of $1.7 billion, up 22.7 percent. Najma Account you Become A Millionaire and A Half.” GDP figures are likely to show decent growth. In addition, Wednesday’s Ifo print may offer some slight additional Revenues climbed 5.2 percent to $8.0 billion. Sparkling The presence is to inform clients and Grand Avenue companies have boosted investment, which argues against relief. After a surprise rise in the March index to 99.6, ana- beverage volumes grew one percent, boosted by an espe- patrons that the opportunity is still there to open an an imminent recession.” lysts polled by Reuters see a further marginal improvement cially strong performance by the recently-revamped account or increase their balance to enter the half annual The Atlanta Fed raised its expectations after data last to 99.9, matching a brighter mood among German Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, a diet cola. The soda giant also draw for KD 500,000 and benefit from the innovative week showed domestic retail sales grew at their strongest investors after last week’s ZEW survey improved for a pointed to a successful launch of its Orange Vanilla Coke banking services of the bank. The deadline to enter the pace in 1-1/2 years in March, the latest indication that sixth month. — Reuters and Orange Vanilla Coke Zero Sugar. — AFP draw for the prize is May 1st, 2019. 14 Established 1961 Business Wednesday, April 24, 2019

GAC Motor presents Mutawa Alkazi with ‘Best Sales Performance,’ ‘Best Distributor’ awards

Awards ceremony held by GAC Motor at an annual conference

KUWAIT: The Mutawa Alkazi Company, ence of the brand and achieving the highest any queries regarding choosing the best car the exclusive agent of GAC Motor in sales for all GAC models. that meets customers’ requirements, while Kuwait continues to succeed in its field, as Mutawa Alkazi expressed its pride and giving the opportunity to test drive the it has been presented with two prestigious gratitude in winning these awards from vehicle of their choice. awards; Best Sales Performance and Best GAC Motor. The company added in a press Furthermore, the company explained Distributor. The awards were given during statement that the awards reflect the suc- that it provides customers with the best an annual conference held by GAC Motor cess in keeping abreast of the brand’s prices, services and benefits at its show- for distributors in China, under the theme ambitions by enhancing its presence glob- rooms, most notably the 11-year warranty “Together Stronger, Better Future,” which ally, while gaining customers’ confidence with open mileage, free traffic registration, brought together all its agents from around due to its great line up of cars that cater to maintenance and warranty, as well as free the world. all segments. third-party insurance. Moreover, the com- Winning such awards reflects the trust Mutawa Alkazi reiterated its strategy of pany offers customers the best facilities Mutawa Alkazi has earned from the GAC constantly unveiling new models of GAC for buying their vehicles in collaboration Group, while confirming its great success in Motor in Kuwait once unveiled in global with several banks and financing compa- enhancing the brand’s presence in the markets. This is in efforts to meet customers’ nies in Kuwait. Kuwaiti market and increasing the sales of huge turnout on buying new models once The Mutawa Alkazi Company enjoys a vehicles that fit all customer segments. available in the local market. Moreover, the history spanning more than 61 years spent The annual event organized by GAC company mentioned the lineup of GAC on offering the best automotive technolo- comes as part of its commitment to Motor vehicles available at showrooms in gy in the world. Through a constructive strengthen ties with distributors, who are Kuwait, which include the GS4, GS7, GA4, partnership with the giant of China’s auto- considered the focal point between GAC GS8, GS3 and GA8 models. Furthermore, motive manufacturer, GAC Motor GAC is and conditions in terms of quality and unveiled soon, as part of their efforts to Motor and customers in the market. The the company hopes that the number of vehi- distinguished by its outstanding innova- advanced technology. reward loyal customers in the Kuwaiti mar- event is held to reward record holders cles in the lineup reaches up to 20. tions, providing cars to suit all needs in The company revealed that several pro- ket to increase their appetite for GAC throughout the year who promote the pres- Mutawa Alkazi’s team is ready to answer accordance with the latest specifications motions on GAC Motor cars are to be Motor vehicles. Flydubai launches Kajol Devgan opens new flights to Sochi Joyalukkas showroom in in Russia A S Rao Nagar, Hyderabad KUWAIT: Dubai-based flydubai yesterday HYDERABAD: The world’s favorite style and design. To celebrate the open- has announced the start of flights to Sochi, jeweller, Joyalukkas, with further expan- ing, Joyalukkas has a ‘Free Sure Gifts’ Russia. Flights between Dubai and Sochi will sion in India inaugurated their brand-new offer to reward every customer for their operate twice a week, on Mondays and showroom in A S Rao Nagar, Hyderabad. purchase. Fridays, starting from 07 June 2019. flydubai The showroom was inaugurated on 17th Joy Alukkas, Chairman & MD, will be the first carrier to offer direct flights on April 2019 and Joyalukkas brand ambas- Joyalukkas Group said “The brand-new this route from the UAE and the GCC. sador iconic Bollywood star Kajol showroom in A.S. Rao Nagar, Hyderabad Commenting on the occasion, Ghaith Al- Devgan inaugurated the showroom. Kajol is a step further to our vision 2020 of Ghaith, Chief Executive Officer of flydubai, also unveiled the much-awaited Akshaya having 200 showrooms across the world. said: “Russia is an important market for fly- Tritiya collections during her visit. Our vision is to ornament the world and dubai and we are pleased to announce the “Hyderabad is special for us. Our cus- hence we are spreading our presence to new direct flights to Sochi which will support tomers’ support and patronage has make Joyalukkas accessible to every jew- the growing flow of travel, trade and tourism as well as for hosting the 2014 Winter over 1,000 hours of entertainment and more encouraged us to expand our presence elry lover around the world. I cordially between the two countries. We remain com- Olympics and being home to some of the best than 150 films available in Russian on HD here,” said Joy Alukkas, Chairman & MD, invite all the residents in and around A S mitted to opening up previously underserved facilities for winter sports. Earlier this year, touchscreens. Passengers in Economy are Joyalukkas Group. Kajol Devgan, the Rao Nagar to visit our new showroom, markets and to providing more travel options authorities of the UAE and the Russian offered comfortable RECARO seats and can Joyalukkas brand ambassador said, “I am explore our exclusive traditional to fly to Dubai and beyond through one of the Federation announced a visa-free regime purchase an extra-legroom seat and light extremely excited to be a part Hyderabadi jewelry collection and take world’s busiest travel hubs.” between the countries for the respective snacks (or preorder hot meals prior to the Joyalukkas. I am not only honored to advantage of our best in products, serv- Flydubai has been operating to the Russian passport holders for the first 90 days upon flight) and access to In-Flight entertainment. inaugurate the new showroom but also ices and our ‘Free Sure Gifts’ offer.” market since 2010 and offers passengers from the arrival. Emirates will codeshare on this route and unveiled the auspicious Akshaya Tritiya During the inaugural ‘Free Sure Gifts’ the UAE and the combined flydubai and Asiet Zhukova, Vice President of Tour for bookings under the codeshare Emirates collections. Other than this, I had the offer period, customers will also be pre- Emirates network, easier access to Moscow Operator Group WOWSOCHI, said: “The new passengers will receive complimentary meals pleasure of meeting thousands of jewelry sented with free home appliances on and other major Russian cities like flydubai service offers travellers from the UAE and the Emirates checked baggage allowance lovers who come for the grand opening.” every purchase. Customers can avail the Yekaterinburg. and around the world a more convenient on flights operated by flydubai in Business and The new showroom offer its cus- exclusive celebratory offer across all Jeyhun Efendi, Senior Vice President, option to reach Sochi and get a chance to Economy class. The partnership between fly- tomers the same world-class shopping showrooms in Telangana and Andhra Commercial Operations and E-commerce at explore this year long popular destination in dubai and Emirates announced in 2017 has jewelry experience expected from brand Pradesh. Apart from the above offer, flydubai, added: “We are confident that our Russia. We are happy to be collaborating with expanded to meet increasing demand as pas- Joyalukkas. For diamond lovers, the new patrons can also enjoy free maintenance high quality and reliable service and the con- flydubai to start the new service and we are sengers realize the benefits, such as access to showroom has a dedicated floor for dia- and a one-year free insurance on all jew- venience of these direct flights, together with sure this will contribute to the further growth an expanded global network, the convenience mond jewelry, covering the latest in trend, elry purchased at Joyalukkas. the recent changes in visa requirements for of tourism flows to Sochi.” of travelling on a single ticket with seamless Russians and UAE nationals visiting both Business Class passengers enjoy a com- point to point baggage handling, the alignment countries, will make this resort city located on fortable spacious seat, a choice of meals from of the frequent flyer program and a smooth Russia’s Black Sea Coast a popular choice for an internationally-inspired menu, a generous transfer during transit in Dubai. Flydubai oper- passengers.” checked baggage allowance and fast track ates flights to over 90 destinations in 47 coun- Sochi is one of the major touristic hubs in through immigration and security. They also tries, including popular routes among Russian Russia located on the Black Sea, popular for are offered a complimentary access to In- travellers, such as Dubai (UAE), Kathmandu its beaches, forests and Caucasus Mountains, Flight Entertainment (IFE) system, offering (Nepal) and Zanzibar (Tanzania). ABK makes mobile banking simpler with digital services on mobile app Hani Abdaljaber Zahrah wins

KUWAIT: Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) yes- KD 4,000 in Burgan Bank draw terday announced the expansion of its mobile and online banking offering, with more digital KUWAIT: Burgan Bank yesterday for one year, application for a loan, in services being made available on both plat- announced Hani Abdaljaber addition to a chance to enter the quar- Abdulwahed Zahrah as the winner of terly draw to win KD 4,000 as well as forms. This comes in line with ABK’s commit- the Value Account KD 4,000 draw. The other discounts from selected mer- ment to continuously invest in technology, allows customers to split bill payments or account balance, transfer local or international winner expressed his excitement of chant stores. innovation and customer service under its transfer money to their ABK account from funds, make credit card payments and pay bills winning the cash prize of KD 4,000. Burgan Bank will continue present- ‘Simpler Banking’ strategy, and to improve the other local bank accounts. By sharing a secure instantly for prepaid and postpaid mobile Dedicated to offer the best in-class ing exclusive services and draws with customer’s digital experience. K-Net payment request via SMS, email, phone subscriptions from Ooredoo, Zain and services, Burgan Bank’s Value Account an aim of exceeding customers’ expec- The new services being added to the WhatsApp and other channels customers can VIVA, among other services. ABK is commit- presents customers with exceptional tations while offering them chances to mobile app and online banking include: ‘Global receive money instantly. ted to making their clients digital banking features which were specifically win valuable cash prizes all year round. View’ -a first-of-its-kind in Kuwait, the inno- ‘eServices’ - customers can instantly open a experience simpler and more convenient, and designed to suit the needs of expatri- Opening a Value account is simple, vative Global View service enables customers savings account online without visiting a with these enhancements to the mobile banking ates living in Kuwait. Account holders interested Individuals with salaries to manage multiple ABK accounts through a branch by using eServices. The mobile bank- app, the Bank is enabling customers to access will be able to enjoy matchless benefits starting from KD 150 and above are single login point. ‘ABKPay’ - this service ing app also enables customers to check their the services they want, remotely and securely. that include receiving a free credit card eligible to open a value account. Established 1961 15 What’s On Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Lebanese director Labki presents special screening of ‘Capharnaum’ ebanese Director Nadine Labki at the invitation of Loyac carrier full of achievements through movies. is told in a flashback format, focusing on Zain’s life and leading to his Academy of Performing Arts “LAPA” presented a special screen- The film ‘Caramel’ premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight at the attempt to sue his parents for child neglect. Ling of her film “Capharnaum”, which won the special officiating Cannes Film Festival in 2007, which was a commercial success in the Nadine Labki graduated from Saint Joseph University in Beirut with committee award at Cannes festival, and is nominated for the Oscar for summer of that same year. In 2010, Labki directed and starred in her B Sc in Cinematic Sciences, and directed its graduation film (11 Pasteur best foreign film. The special screening took place yesterday, at 3.00 second feature film, Where Do We Go Now? The film humorously St) in 1997, which won the best short film award during the Arab cine- pm in the 360 hall, followed by a discussion with the director, press tackles a delicate subject about a village in which church and mosque ma celebration at the Arab world institution in Paris, and in 1998 she and fans. Lebanese Director Nadine Labki is one of the most notable stand side by side as women try to keep their blowhard men from participated in an acting workshop at the Cours Florent French drama Arab directors who excelled in the world cinema industry through a starting a religious war. Her latest distinguished movie is ‘Capharnaum’ school in Paris.

GUST holds a mission to spread autism awareness GIG marks and to put in place an accurate seminar ‘Educational Program’ for children with autism (a lifelong disability). This Autism includes improving their educational, to support societal and exceptional abilities while Awareness taking into consideration the individ- Vision 2035 ual differences, as well as supporting their vocational talents and the possi- ulf University for Science and month bility of integration with society. Technology’s (GUST) hosted a semi- Gulf Insurance Group supports this nar on its campus on the subject of ulf Insurance Group (GIG), one G of the leading insurance serv- cause to help the community under- “Sustaining the competitive identity of ice providers in the Middle stand the many different aspects of Kuwait: The role of social media users”. The G autism and what it really means for the main objective of the seminar, which was East and North Africa, marked World children and their families. Khaled Al open to the public, was to present research Autism Awareness month by collabo- Sanousi, Group Senior Manager - conducted on Kuwait’s competitive and digi- Dr Yasser Abdelrahim rating with the Kuwait Center for Jose Filipe Torres Corporate Communications and tal identity, and how the image of Kuwait can Autism. The event included a fun play Investor Relations at GIG said: “As an be sustained globally through the contribu- talk about the concept of having a digital day for autistic children, with gifts and insurance company, we support health tion of the social media users and how to identity, and presented the data Bloom activities such as arts and crafts at improve its digital image, all in line with the Consulting gathered to examine the digital Kidstop, a center for arts and enter- in many aspects. We are grateful to be nation’s vision for 2035. identity of Kuwait, and explain how the digi- tainment. The aim of the event is to able to be a part of the autistic chil- The event, funded by the Kuwait tal identity of Kuwait could be enhanced. raise awareness about the disorder, its dren’s lives and be able to make a dif- Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences To end the event, Antonia Jolic spoke prevalence and ways to manage it. ference. We see it as a great opportu- (KFAS), featured three speakers, Dr Yasser about her graphic design students’ contribu- The Kuwait Center for Autism was nity to give back to the community and Abdelrahim, Assistant Professor at the GUST tion to the digital image of Kuwait and the established by Dr Samira Al Saad with make a real impact on their lives and.” Mass Communication & Media Department, process they went through to design the Jose Filipe Torres, CEO of Bloom Consulting, logos, all of which fall in line with presenting a nation and city branding agency focusing Kuwait in a positive light with regards to its on the digital approach, and Antonia Jolic, digital identity. With this, GUST is the first Instructor of Visual Communication at GUST, university in Kuwait that has produced a who spoke about the logos conceptualized research project about the ‘competitive and and developed by GUST graphic design stu- digital identity of Kuwait’. More so, it will also dents supporting Kuwait’s digital image. be the first university to highlight how the The seminar started with an introduction image of Kuwait can be globally sustained in Antonia Jolic by Dr Yasser Abderlahim about the concept collaboration with an international nation and of a competitive identity, which was followed city branding agency, like Bloom Consulting. by a presentation of the responses of social With this, GUST maintains its position as a the government of Kuwait efforts and enhance media users to the survey designed for the host to events that exemplify how academic the visual position Kuwait has as part of the research. Jose Filipe Torres followed with his research goes hand-in-hand with supporting 2035 New Kuwait development plan.

their annual vacation in Germany from now on not exceeding 90 days per a six-month period, German Embassy and not just a few days before their actual trip in even if the Schengen visa has been issued with a order to avoid any disappointments. At the validity of one year or more. Customers some- moment, appointments at the application Centre times find it difficult to calculate this period of Kuwait explains VFS Global Kuwait can be obtained within 1-2 stay. Therefore, you can find an electronic calcu- days - during the summer travel season waiting lator on the homepage of the German Embassy tourist visa process times for an appointment of one week or more under (www.kuwait.diplo.de/visa) to assist you can occur due to the high demand. with your travel planning. he travel season is about to begin and the Last summer, the Visa Section of the German German Embassy Kuwait welcomes all Embassy processed between 10,000 and Visa fees TKuwaiti and third country nationals who 12,000 visas per month, but could not avoid the Depending on the daily exchange rate, the are choosing Germany as their summer destina- building up of waiting times due to the high processing fee for a Schengen visa is currently tion 2019. In 2018, over 50,000 Schengen visa number of last minute applicants. Please bear in KWD 21 for adults, regardless of the visas valid- applications were processed by the German mind that for Kuwaiti nationals a minimum of 3- ity period. VFS is adding a standard service Embassy Kuwait. The majority of applicants 5 working days is required from the moment charge of KWD 6 on top of the Embassy’s’ pro- consisted of Kuwaiti citizens and their families your application arrives at the Embassy until cessing fee and you can find all these amounts for holiday, leisure and medical visits. Also the you get back your stamped passport. For other transparently documented on their homepage. expatriates in Kuwait show growing interest in nationalities, the procedure might take 10-12 The validity of your Schengen Visa depends Germany for holiday, trade fair and business vis- days. However, in individual cases the process- on the travel purpose, travel history and overall its, owed to the continuously expanding busi- ing can take up to two weeks for all nationalities. situation of each applicant. 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Therefore, and travel experience for this summer as con- processing time. frequent travelers are welcome to add an venient as possible, we have prepared the fol- If you are a frequent traveler, then please explanatory letter to the application as well as lowing information about the visa application attach copies of your previous Schengen visas proof of regular travel in the last years (e.g. copy procedure for you: to your application file in order to enable the of old visas and entry stamps or recommenda- Visa Team to check whether you might be eligi- tions by business partners) and the Embassy’s VFS Global Kuwait ble to a multiple entry visa with a longer validity visa team will gladly take that information into After many years of good cooperation and period. 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However, for German customs office in writing without being to book a prior appointment through their web- your entry and departure you may cross any explicitly requested to do so. The purpose of site www.vfsglobal.com/germany/kuwait in Schengen border to reach your destination with the obligation to declare is to prevent the illegal order to allow for short waiting times and effi- a visa issued by any Schengen Member State. movement of money across the external borders cient customer service. VFS Global Kuwait is the At the border of entry or during other con- of the European Union in order to combat mon- only officially Visa Service Center appointed by trols you may have to show the visa but also ey laundering, the financing of terrorist organi- us. Unfortunately, some private persons, busi- provide additional documentation, for example zations and criminal activities. The obligation to nesses and agencies are claiming to render visa information on your travel destination or that submit a declaration and the customs inspec- or messenger services to German Schengen you have sufficient means to cover the stay and tions are not intended to restrict the free move- customers, without being endorsed by the the return trip. It is therefore recommended that ment of capital in any way. Travelers who intend German Embassy. Please be aware of the prices you carry with you copies of the documents to bring an amount of €10,000 or more per per- and quality of service of such agencies since which you presented when applying for the visa son to Germany can download the necessary various complaints have been received about (e.g. hotel booking or letters of invitation, flight cash declaration form at http://www.zoll.de pri- overpriced services and wrong visa information. confirmations, travel health insurance or other or to their trip and present the completed decla- We would like to call upon all travelers to documents stating the purpose of your stay). ration form upon arrival to the German customs start filing their Schengen visa applications for A Schengen visa entitles the holder to a stay officers to facilitate entry procedures. 16 Health Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Researchers calculate decades of ‘scary’ Greenland ice melting Greenland’s glaciers contribute to 13.7 mm rise in sea levels WASHINGTON: Measuring melting ice is a fairly melting. Firstly, satellites measure altitude with a on average. Then, it lost an equivalent volume in the precise business in 2019 — thanks to satellites, laser: if a glacier melts, the satellite picks up its 1980s. The melting continued at that rate in the weather stations and sophisticated climate models. reduced height. 1990s, before a sharp acceleration in the 2000s By the 1990s and 2000s, scientists were able to make A second technique involves measuring variations (187 Gt/year) and even more since 2010 (286 pretty good estimates, although work from previous in gravity, as ice loss can be detected through a Gt/year). Ice is melting six times faster than in the decades was unreliable due to less advanced tech- decrease in gravitational pull. This method has been 1980s, researchers estimate-and Greenland’s gla- nology. Now, researchers have recalculated the available since 2002 using NASA satellites. Thirdly, ciers alone have contributed to a 13.7 millimeter rise amount of ice lost in Greenland since 1972, the year scientists have developed so-called mass balance in sea levels since 1972, they believe. the first Landsat satellites entered orbit to regularly models, which compare mass accumulated (rain and “This is an excellent piece of work by a well- photograph the Danish territory. snow) with mass lost (ice river discharges) to calcu- established research group using novel methods to “When you look at several decades, it is best to sit late what is left. extract more information from the available data”, back in your chair before looking at the results, These models, confirmed with field measure- said Colin Summerhayes, of the Scott Polar because it is a bit scary to see how fast it is chang- ments, have become very reliable since the 2000s, Research Institute in Cambridge. ing,” said French glaciologist Eric Rignot, of the according to Rignot-boasting a five to seven per- As with a similar study carried out by the same University of California at Irvine. Rignot co-authored cent margin of error, compared to 100 percent a team on Antarctica, the new study affords a longer the study, published in the Proceedings of the few decades ago. The research team used these term view of the rapid ice melt being observed in National Academy of Sciences of the United States models to “go back in time” and reconstruct Greenland in recent years. “This new data better of America (PNAS), with colleagues in California, Greenland’s ice levels in the 1970s and 1980s. The enables us to put recent, dramatic, changes to Grenoble, Utrecht and Copenhagen. “It’s also some- limited data available for this period-medium-quali- Greenland’s contribution to global sea level rise into thing that affects the four corners of Greenland, not ty satellite photos, aerial photos, ice cores and other a longer-term context-the ice loss we’ve seen in the just the warmer parts in the south,” he said. observations-helped refine them. last eight years is as much as was lost in the preced- “We added a little bit of history that did not ing four decades,” said Amber Leeson, a lecturer in Ice melting six times faster exist,” said Rignot. The results: during the 1970s, Environmental Data Science at Lancaster The Zachariae Glacier on Greenlandís east coast is seen in a photo- Glaciologists use three methods to measure ice Greenland accumulated 47 gigatons of ice per year, University. —AFP graph taken by a NASA satellite. 17

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If you have time and the opportunity before going to work this morning, This is a time to get people to listen to you which you can do easily. Make perhaps you should invest in a moment with your lover. Start the day off with some money now by showing people what they need as only you can. Business and financial friendly exercise. You may need the distraction later. At work you find that you’re very opportunities abound. Stay up on current events. You have a special way of looking at serious and want items to be done in what you consider a timely fashion. The only these opportunities and making them yours. Others follow you because they know you problem with that is others may not consider you the best judge of timely. Aggravation have the knack for making money. Don’t be too strict on yourself. It could cause you with those who test you may not be tolerated lightly now. Ambition makes you less problems. Love the ones you’re with, Libra. Relationships make you more creative in easy to get along with where scheduled events are required. business.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) Ambition is something you’re experiencing along with thinking about your age. And you should. It’s your birthday but instead of celebrating gaily you’re worried about making more money. That’s okay but you need to enjoy your time on You may be too serious and too strict on yourself today. You’re looking earth too. Let others give you birthday wishes and show their love. You’re too strict on life over to see what you like and don’t like about your life’s endeavors. You’re pulling yourself now. You have a one-sided view of life and that’s all you want to see. Anything your energy in and are probably feeling the need to stay home alone or at least to else is purely trivial. Take time to enjoy loved ones tonight. Feel free to smile and relish wear black. Although you may have to work today, you’re not in the mood to be overly today. These days only come along once a year. enthusiastic or friendly towards work mates. Part of your day will be introverted behavior by you and the other part will be totally extroverted. You speak well with a crowd and make others listen. They want to be part of your world.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Though you’re all better and back to work now, you find that you’re Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) really not in the mood because you’re unable to keep your mind solely dedicated to tedious work. Instead you’d rather connect with knowledgeable people who have You’re thinking about money, how much you make and how much you good communication skills. That’s part of work too, Gemini. This is a mental cycle that want to make. Ambition is at a high right now. Anything that doesn’t ACROSS 4. Protected from heat and light with you’ve begun. You have to set yourself up for all the other niceties of life, so to speak. involve the monetary subject isn’t worth thinking about in your mind at the moment. 1. Occurring widely (as to many people). shade or shadow. Get back into the swing of things while looking for good, practical, with a hint of non- Something may take your attention in another direction though. Sympathy could 5. Engaged in as a pastime. 5. Any organic compound formed by conventional, ideas you can take further and help all involved. Be sure and get rest direct you to helping others which is part of your soul’s education on earth, Sagittarius. 12. 10 grams. adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde tonight with someone you love. Just be sure to remember that you matter too. You can’t do enough for others if it 15. (of persons) Highest in rank or authori- molecules. takes away from your ability to take care of self. You have to eat to live. ty or office. 6. The capital and largest city of Equatorial 16. The area for food preparation on a ship. Guinea on the island of Bioko in the 17. A federal agency established to coordi- Gulf of Guinea. nate programs aimed at reducing pol- 7. The blood group whose red cells carry Cancer (June 21-July 22) lution and protecting the environment. both the A and B antigens. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 18. (Middle Eastern) Small croquette of 8. A family of birds of the order Being able to keep your mind on work comes easily today. As a matter of mashed chick peas or fava beans sea- Coraciiformes. fact, any job you take whether personal or at work is breezed through like a hot knife You need someone you care for to acknowledge the good work you’re soned with sesame seeds. 9. (Greek mythology) The winged goddess through butter. You’re that sharp, Cancer. You’ve been too strict on yourself but it’s doing on your life and especially the job. Introverted behavior has you wanting to 19. An honorary degree in science. of the dawn in ancient mythology. because you’re watching life go by which means you’re getting older. After the age of spend more time with your lover without others intruding. Emotional relationships fill 20. Lower in esteem. 10. North American republic containing 50 thirty the years seem to race by. Knowledge comes with age more often than not the void made by some of your more inner thoughts and gives rise to the strength 22. In bed. states - 48 conterminous states in because you’re living life. Think of it this way. You’re gaining knowledge by having you’re known for, Capricorn. Your unique qualities seem to rise out of the mist for all to 23. A sock with a separation for the big North America plus Alaska in north- another birthday. Look forward to all that new brain power, Cancer. You’re just get- see especially at work. People seem to flock to you even though you only want the one toe. west North America and the Hawaiian ting better. you love close. 25. Indigo bush. Islands in the Pacific Ocean. 26. A rare heavy polyvalent metallic ele- 11. Having been read. ment that resembles manganese 12. Made of fir or pine. chemically and is used in some alloys. 13. A domed or vaulted recess or projec- 27. A port city in southwestern Iran. tion on a building especially the east Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 29. Any of a number of fishes of the family end of a church. Carangidae. 14. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the After thinking about the issue since yesterday, your mind is on a hair Problem solving has your intelligent mind working overtime now. It’s like 31. Relating to or applicable to or con- earth and mother of Cronus and the trigger and could cause more trouble for you. You’re not sure you want to make this a puzzle you keep open all the time. Your sober orientation only serves to promote cerned with the administration of a Titans in ancient mythology. right. You didn’t start this, you think, but you’re sure as heck not going to allow anyone continuing to analyze your current situation, how you got there and how to stay on city or town or district rather than a 21. German organist and contrapuntist else to push you. This isn’t being diplomatic. Nostalgia makes it worse because of top. Ambition serves to make you want to work much harder without much break, larger area. (1685-1750). things that might have been. On top of that, you’re thinking that you really want to be Aquarius. Everyone needs time to rest. Make sure you take that time to recharge your 36. A white metallic element that burns 24. An indehiscent fruit derived from a sin- settled, have a happy home life and make someone else happy too. Getting what you mental and physical battery. Though time is passing, you’ve got all the time you need with a brilliant light. gle ovary having one or many seeds want with another you love should be easy, you think, but it’s not always that way. for your accomplishments. Enjoy your life. 38. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase within a fleshy wall or pericarp. `without cease') End v 1. 28. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike 40. A room equipped with toilet facilities. part of an organism. 41. An associate degree in nursing. 30. A historical region of southwestern Virgo (August 23-September 22) 44. An esoteric or occult matter that is tra- India on the west coast. Pisces (February 19-March 20) ditionally secret. 32. Small beads made from polished shells 46. A bowl-shaped vessel. and formerly used as money by native You’re thinking your life over again. That generally means you’re getting After having the day you did yesterday, you may feel shopping is the 50. Genus of tropical American epiphytic Americans. ready to do something dramatic for change. It can also refer to the bit where you’re psychological approach to fixing your mood. The stars, however, are warning you orchids having striking axillary 33. A state in the southeastern United getting older. Quit thinking about the older thing and start thinking about what and not to go shopping now. You may spend too much and be sorry for it later. Your racemes of yellow to green spiderlike States on the Gulf of Mexico. how you can lead your life in order to be happy and achieve your best. Stop beating deepest feelings tell you that you know you need to be practical but the devil on flowers with long slender sepals and 34. Capital of the state of Oregon in the yourself up. You have other people who have no confidence in themselves chomping at your left shoulder is telling you that you need to spend some money now, Pisces. Let warty lips. northwestern part of the state on the the bit to do that for you. Leave no openings for these people who aren’t your friends. your feelings win this time. Later on you can enjoy some therapeutic shopping. 52. A compartment in front of a motor Willamette River. Right now, get ready for better to come. vehicle where driver sits. 35. Avoid or try to avoid, as of duties, 53. Pathetically lacking in force or effec- questions and issues. tiveness. 37. A province in north-central China. 54. A skullcap worn by religious Jews 39. A device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that Wordsearch Puzzle Yesterday’s Solution (especially at prayer). lets divers breathe under water. 56. A woman of refinement. 42. Depressing in character or appearance. 57. An official prosecutor for a judicial dis- 43. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of trict. intense vermilion velvet-textured 58. The basic unit of money in Bangladesh. blooms and yielding a yellow dye. 61. (trademark) A cobalt-base alloy with 45. When dried yields a hard substance chromium and other metals. used e.g. in golf balls. 67. The atomic weight of an element that 47. The Italian region on the island of has the same combining capacity as a Sardinia. given weight of another element. 48. A white trivalent metallic element. 68. An ugly evil-looking old woman. 49. Young sheep. 69. Tending to soothe or tranquilize. 51. Inflammation of the ileum. 72. A master's degree in fine arts. 55. South American cavy. 73. A hotel providing overnight lodging for 59. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked travelers. on a skewer usually with vegetables. 74. Important marine food fishes. 60. Jordan's port. 75. Extremely pleasing. 62. The taste experience when a savoury 76. Title for a civil or military leader (espe- condiment is taken into the mouth. cially in Turkey). 63. Being or occurring at an advanced 77. A person who escapes into a world of period of time or after a usual or fantasy. expected time. 78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 64. A fine grained mineral having a soft from aba cloth. soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate. DOWN 65. A caress with the lips. 1. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake 66. Not fake or counterfeit. Chad. 70. An abnormally large amount of this 2. An Arabic speaking person who lives in fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an Arabia or North Africa. abnormality of the neural tube (as 3. Whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) spina bifida or anencephaly). that with the cornea forms the outer 71. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 covering of the eyeball. items or units.

Yesterday’s Solution

Daily Sudoku Yesterday’s Solution Established 1961 Lifestyle

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2019

Members of the Mayo-Yoreme ethnic group celebrate Holy Week in their typical costumes dancing in San Miguel Zapotitlan, Sinaloa state, Mexico on April 19, 2019. — AFP

Pride and pique as Louboutin Prince memoir to be released takes Pakistan chappal global in October amed for luxury red-soled stilettos, French shoe ing and comfortable,” said resident Abdul Rehman, rince’s unfinished memoir, “The Beautiful designer Christian Louboutin has taken inspiration adding that the sandal’s ventilation helped keep the foot Ones,” will be released in October, its pub- Ffor a new sandal from Pakistan’s tribal frontier, cool in the area’s stifling heat. “I have been wearing P sparking claims of cultural appropriation along with chappals for all of my life and never used any other lisher announced Monday-three years after grins from grizzled Pakistani cobblers. A post on shoe,” he added. the singer’s sudden death in April 2016. The “Kid Louboutin’s Instagram last month announcing the The shoe’s popularity had been in decline for years, from Minneapolis,” who died of an accidental fen- release of the shoe sparked a social media frenzy in according to chappal makers in Peshawar, as the coun- tanyl overdose aged 57, had announced a month Pakistan, with fans praising the latest homage to the try’s youth adopted more modern footwear tastes. The before his death he would tell his story in his own country’s rich artisan traditions-and critics rolling their trend was only reversed with the political ascent of for- words in a book originally set for release in 2017. eyes. The “Imran”-a flamboyant sandal complete with mer World Cup cricketing captain Imran Khan and his Publisher Penguin Random House said the book- metal studs along with splashes of orange and silver-is fondness for the shoe, spotlighted as he led mass protests now to be released on October 29 — would con- inspired by the country’s traditional Peshawari chappal, in 2014. Khan’s adoption of the chappal was part and tain previously unseen photos, scrapbooks and according to the fashion house. parcel of a makeover the former cricketer and playboy lyric sheets, as well as the memoir Prince had The chappal has long been a staple for ethnic has embraced since retiring from the sport, taking on a started to write. Pashtuns-from ordinary labourers to the country’s pious image in Pakistan to accompany his crusading political elite-in Pakistan’s northwest. The sandal is populist agenda. The ploy has largely succeeded, with distinguished by its overlapping leather strips that cov- Khan elected prime minister last year on promises to er the foot and has a small heel with a hardy rubber reign in corruption and cut back on excessive spending, sole. Louboutin’s version was named after famed while chappal sales have boomed as the youth seek to Pakistani contemporary artist and friend of the design- A Pakistani shoe maker makes a pair of sandals outside a imitate the country’s new, stylish leader. er, Imran Qureshi. shop in Peshawar. “I made chappals for Imran Khan when he was hold- While most celebrated the shoe’s debut, others jeered ing the protests in Islamabad... that’s why it has become at the thought of paying designer prices-Louboutins no initial mention of the Pakistani shoe, sparking fiery famous and people overwhelmingly like them,” explains often retail for upwards of $500 — for the ubiquitous protests online and in the press in Pakistan. Chacha Noor Din-the owner of a string of shoe stores in sandals, which can cost as little as $5.50 in Pakistan. Pakistani fashion designer Kamiar Rokni praised Peshawar — who counts the premier as a loyal customer Some social media users also suggested that the Louboutin’s latest creation, saying claims of cultural and named a version of the shoe after him. And while the European brand was the latest perpetrator of cultural appropriation were misplaced in this instance. “When chappal’s popularity continues to thrive in Peshawar and appropriation. “Highly recommend asking your friend to you visit different parts of the world, you do get throughout the country’s northwest, fans of the tradition- rename it though, so that it doesn’t become another cul- inspired... and that seeps into your design,” said Rokni. al sandal are less convinced by Louboutin’s new take. “I turally appropriated thing,” wrote Instagram user “There’s nothing wrong with somebody being inspired will not wear this shoe because it’s a ladies shoe,” said Mehreenfkhan under a post by Qureshi about the shoe. by the Peshawari chappal,” he explained. Riaz-u-Din after looking at a picture of the “Imran” on a phone as he shopped for a pair of chappals. He insisted: Paying tribute Durable and comfortable “No one will wear it here in Peshawar.” — AFP Louboutin later removed the Instagram announce- Far from the shoe boutiques of Paris, chappal makers ment, saying the sandal was just the latest creation and wearers in Peshawar, the northwestern Pakistani city expressing his “love for embellishments from different near the Afghan border, greeted the arrival of the “Imran” cultures” and was sorry some people felt “offended”. with bemusement, pride, and some confused shrugs. “I’m “This work is not just a tribute to Prince, but an “My designs often pay tributes to artisanship, craftsman- totally amazed,” said Ghazan Khan-a self-proclaimed original and energizing literary work, full of ship, traditions or various cultures,” Louboutin said in a chappal fanatic who has bought more than 20 pairs of Prince’s ideas and vision, his voice and image, his statement. “The world and its diversity has always been the sandals in recent years alone. “People are getting undying gift to the world,” Penguin Random House the core of my work.” The chappal is no stranger to con- addicted to this kind of chappals, so it’s good,” he added, troversy. In 2014, British designer Paul Smith released a while suggesting that local designers deserved a cut of said of the book, which will be published by its sandal that looked strikingly similar to the chappal with the profits from the “Imran”. “[The chappal] is long-last- imprint Spiegel and Brau. The memoir will also fea- ture an introduction by Dan Piepenbring, who col- laborated with Prince on the book in the months before he died. Prince-one of the most influential but elusive figures in music-became an international sensation in the 1980s as he popularized the Minneapolis Sound of danceable funk, with 1984’s “Purple Rain” often described as one of the greatest albums of all time. Born Prince Rogers Nelson, he became famous in his later career for eccentricities that included changing his name to an unpro- nounceable “love symbol,” announcing his con- certs at the last minute and refusing to let reporters take notes on-let alone record-encoun- ters with him. — AFP

Chacha Noor Din, the owner of a string of shoe stores, makes sandals at his shop in Peshawar. — AFP photos 20 Established 1961 Lifestyle Gossip Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Crow re-releases Cash duet heryl Crow has released a re-recorded version of her duet ‘American VI: Ain’t No Grave’, in 2010. Sheryl performed the track on S with the late Johnny Cash. The nine-time Grammy Award-win- stage as a duet with a recording of Cash in 2014, which inspired her to ning artist originally released ‘Redemption Day’ with the late approach his estate with the idea of re-recording a collaboration of their star on her self-titled 1996 album, but she has now unveiled a voices for her new project. Alongside the new recording, the music video re-recorded version of the hit song as the lead single from her upcoming for the song - which couples footage of Cash next to scenes of a young album, which is set for release this summer. ‘Redemption Day’ was child watching history unfold - was projected around iconic locations in penned after Sheryl visited Bosnia with then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, central London on Friday. Sheryl said of the video: “As a mom of two where she visited military bases, played for troops, and met with families. young kids. I see that our kids watch what we do on their behalf and how Speaking of the trip, she said: “I’d never been anywhere even close to a we shape their future. They’re privy to everything visual, especially now, war-torn area. We had all these resources tied up in Bosnia, and I kept and there’s no way to shield your child from the roughness of reality. If thinking about how and why do we choose where to get involved. Is it we could see the world through a child’s eyes, we would make different desire for control, greed for oil - what is it?” In 2003, one of Johnny decisions.” And Sheryl hopes Cash’s voice will “offer some hope”. She Cash’s sons-in-law played the track for the music icon, who then wanted said in a press release: “With what’s happening in our nation now, and to speak to her before getting involved in it himself. Sheryl added: “He how dire things look, to have Johnny’s voice offers some hope. Knowing asked a lot of questions about different lines and what I meant. He didn’t how he felt about the song, I feel pretty certain that he would have some want to put his voice to the song without being able to believe it heart wisdom to impart about what’s happening now and who we are becom- and soul.” Cash - who passed away in September 2003 - recorded the ing. I hope that wherever he is, he feels proud to be a part of it - I cer- song and later released his own version on the posthumous album tainly feel his presence in the song.”

BTS want to be Take That: We ‘sincere’ in their music should’ve had lifetime

TS believe their connection to their fans seem surreal. Speaking to ‘CBS This Morning’, he said: “I achievement BRIT comes from being “sincere”. The K-pop idols suddenly think, like, am I really here? We have to prac- B ake That feel they should have received a - comprised of RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, tice the same choreography again and again, we have to lifetime achievement BRIT Award by now. and Jungkook - have taken the world by storm keep the promise.” Meanwhile, although the ‘Fake Love’ T Howard Donald - who is joined by Gary in recent years and have amassed a mammoth fanbase, singers are garnering worldwide popularity, they’ve said Barlow and Mark Owen in the Manchester and the group now say their fans are so loyal to them they won’t be releasing a track fully in English any time band - has admitted he is bemused as to why US star because they’re always open to “sharing their emotions”. soon, as they don’t want to change who they are just to Pink was honored with the Outstanding Contribution To Jimin, 23, said: “I think we’re able to quickly engage with gain more success in America and Europe. RM said: “A Music gong at the ceremony in February. The ‘Back For our fans by being sincere with our feelings. We try to Hot 100 and a Grammy nomination, these are our goals. Good’ hitmakers already have eight BRITs to their share our emotions with our fans.” love listening to the But they’re just goals - we don’t want to change our name, but the 50-year-old star thinks their dazzling 30- “shouting and screaming” of their fans before they start a identity or our genuineness to get the number one. “Like year career should be recognized by the biggest music performance. Jungkook, 21, added: “Whenever we begin if we sing suddenly in full English, and change all these awards ceremony in the UK, though his bandmate a performance, I take out my earpieces and listen to the other things, then that’s not BTS. We’ll do everything, Mark, 47, doesn’t think it will happen because former shouting and screaming. It fills me with energy.” Whilst we’ll try. But if we couldn’t get number one or number member Robbie Williams already won the prize in 2010. the group’s leader RM, 24, says listening to their fans’ five, that’s OK.” Howard told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: screams of support always makes their level of fame “We’re not going to get anything from the BRITs. We’re not bloody Americans, we’re Brits. It doesn’t make sense to me. “There should have been some recognition for the 30 years, 100 per cent. You need to tell them.” Mark Eilish gets added: “I mean, they gave it to Rob one year so maybe they think they can’t give it to Take That again.” Meanwhile, the ‘Shine’ hitmakers also confessed that Glastonbury they are “embarrassed” by their “crap” name. Mark admitted: “There have been times when we’ve been a bit embarrassed about our name. “We used to apolo- gize when we introduced ourselves saying ‘We’re Take stage upgrade That’ and thought we should be called something differ- illie Eilish has been promoted to a bigger ent.” Gary agreed: “It’s a little bit like The Pet Shop B stage at Glastonbury because she is so popu- Boys-as a name you think it’s stupid. “When you say the lar. The 17-year-old pop phenomenon - who name Take That you do tend to think of us in a stadium only released her debut album ‘When We All or something, but it is a crap name.” Take That - which Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ last month - will no also featured Jason Orange until his final departure in longer be performing on the John Peel Stage as planned, 2014 - are currently on their ‘Greatest Hits Live Tour’, as the Worthy Farm festival’s co-organizer Emily Eavis and although they plan to take a long break to spend has revealed she is “much too big” and they are currently time with their families after the run, they will be back trying to work out a slot on The Other Stage. Emily - for the next “chapter” in a “few” years time. Howard who curates the line-up with her father Michael Eavis - said: “We’re going to rest for a bit and not even think told Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2: “We’re currently moving about any other tours or albums. “This is the end of Part her - she’s on John Peel at the moment but she’s much Ugandan police Two and when we feel like it, we can come back and too big, really, for the slot. “It’s happened so quickly for The Jonas Brothers start talking again about where we want to go next, Billie Eilish. It’s been such an amazing year. It really is rather than having the pressure of coming straight out going to be her summer. “We are trying to give her a detain popstar MP of a tour and thinking, ‘Right come the middle of the bigger stage where we can get a larger audience in announce new album year we’ve got to start writing another album and go there. “So we are going to move her on to The Other over to LA and do this and do that’. “It’s actually really Stage and we are just working out exactly where that’s Bobi Wine nice, because we’ve all got big families and we want to going to be.” The ‘Bury Your Friend’ hitmaker - who ‘Happiness Begins’ spend time with them rather than saying ‘We’re only recently became the youngest female artist to score a gandan police detained pop star-turned-MP going to stay with them ‘til August and then we’ve got number one album with her debut studio effort - might he Jonas Brothers have announced their Bobi Wine yesterday after shutting down one to go over to LA and do another album’. “It’s nice to say have become a huge star overnight, but she recently comeback album, ‘Happiness Begins’. T U of his concerts and firing tear gas at his fans, we know we’ve got another few years.” admitted she “can’t” stay famous forever. The ‘My The sibling trio of Kevin, Joe and Nick the singer’s wife and supporters said. “He has Strange Addiction’ singer wants her career to be suc- Jonas have confirmed their new LP will been arrested in Busabala, where he was to address the cessful but admitted she’s looking for a “weird balance” be released on June 7 as Kevin admitted this is the media on the cancellation of his concert by the police,” because she also dreams of having a quiet “life” away album he is most “proud” of. Sharing the album art- Wine’s wife Barbie Itungo Kyagulanyi told AFP, referring from public scrutiny. Speaking about chats she’s had with work on Twitter, they simply captioned it: to a suburb in southern Kampala. Ugandan police her brother and collaborator, Finneas O’Connell, she said: “#HappinessBegins June 7th ... So proud of this spokesman Fred Enanga confirmed that officers “We can’t have this be the rest of our lives. We were new record and we can’t wait for you guys to have “engaged him earlier and drove him away from Busabala” talking about it the other day, we’re just like, ‘I’m 17, these songs!! (sic)” And in a post on his personal but would not say if he was formally arrested. Bobi Wine, dude.’ I can’t have my life exactly like this forever, and he Twitter account, Kevin wrote: “#HappinessBegins whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was scheduled to can’t either. He’s just become an adult. He just got a June 7th ... After 7 years of not working together & perform yesterday but the much-anticipated show was house. He has a girlfriend and wants a dog. You know finding ourselves we’re back to give you our jour- cancelled by police. His attempt to reach the venue on what I’m saying? “It’s a weird balance, because I want to ney in album form. Out of all the albums we’ve done the shores of Lake Victoria, flanked by dozens of sup- grow in my life, and grow up and have a life. But I I’m most proud of this one. Wish you could have it porters, was blocked by police who fired tear gas and already have my career.” now, but you’ll just have to wait a little bit longer. water cannon at his convoy. Before being detained, Wine (sic)” Nick and Joe also posted about their new LP posted on Twitter that police were trying to tow the on social media, with the younger sibling writing: singer’s car away. “People teargassed, beaten, Many “So excited to share that our new album arrested. We shall overcome... Stand firm,” he wrote. #HappinessBegins will be out June 7th! (sic)” And Later, a post on his Twitter account signed “admin” said Joe added in his own message: “Can’t wait for you the singer had been “violently arrested”. Police said the guys to hear this album! (sic)” Nick had previously concert was cancelled because inadequate safety meas- Minogue to confessed that “transparency was the key factor’ in ures were put in place. Wine is among the most promi- the Jonas Brothers reunion. He said: “I think the nent critics of Uganda’s longtime President Yoweri thing that was so great about this next chapter was Museveni, and authorities have repeatedly blocked him debut new song that it really began with us getting to the healthiest from performing publically. Young Ugandans have place we could be as brothers and as family before recently been energized by the singer-MP, who has we decided to work together at all, given that the become a thorn in the side of the government through his way it ended before was not the best. “We just at Glastonbury? songs about social justice. thought, let’s dive in, let’s really open up and pull this thing apart and see what would need to be dif- ylie Minogue reportedly plans to debut a new ferent for this to work this time around for a healthi- K song during her Sunday afternoon Legend’s er relationship. I think that honesty, that transparen- slot at Glastonbury. The 50-year-old Australian cy, really was the key factor. And I built the founda- pop princess has reportedly been working with tion now to where those things that used to be hic- songwriter and producer to the stars Eg White - who con- was originally meant to appear there and so much has cups before for us, are no longer a problem and tributed to her last album ‘Golden’ - and the pair have happened up to now. “I can’t wait to see you all there to we’re able to really enjoy this ride and the reaction reportedly registered a track titled ‘A Rose Is A Rose’, share the special show.” Kylie - who released her 14th stu- so far to the new music and everything that’s going which could get its debut when the ‘Dancing’ hitmaker dio album ‘Golden’ last year - made no secret of the fact on has just been incredible.” plays the festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset this summer. An insider told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: that she’d love to perform at Glastonbury, and previously “Kylie’s been writing and recording new music for a while admitted that it would be a very “emotional” show for her and its likely fans will hear some of the material when she to do. She said at the time: “When I was supposed to do it plays Glastonbury in June. “She’s just registered a song I think I would have been the first solo female to headline called ‘A Rose Is A Rose’ which she wrote with producer in however many years it was, so I was really proud of that EG White. “He worked with Kylie on her most recent at that time. Obviously it didn’t happen. “So yes, it would album and has written songs for big-name artists including be amazing and very emotional to be standing there and Adele and Celine Dion.” Kylie was scheduled to hit the doing what I didn’t get to do all those years ago, for sure.” stage at the music extravaganza in 2004, but was forced to Kylie does have some experience when it comes to enter- pull out a month before when she discovered that she had taining the Glastonbury crowd though, as she appeared on breast cancer. However, more than a decade on, the stage with the Scissor Sisters back in 2010. The ‘Love At ‘Spinning Around’ hitmaker will finally get her chance to First Sight’ singer follows in the footsteps of the likes of perform at the five-day festival on the Pyramid stage on the Bee Gees star Barry Gibb, Dolly Parton, Neil Diamond June 30. She wrote on Instagram: “I’m so thrilled to and Lionel Richie in performing the Legend slot. announce that I’ll be playing the ‘Legend slot’ on Sunday 30th June at @glastofest 2019. It will be 14 years since I Established 1961 T 21 L i f e s t y l e G o s s i p Wednesday, April 24, 2019 ‘Child’s Play’ producer says film has ‘intensity’ and ‘gore’ hild’s Play’ producer Seth Grahame-Smith had just a truly psychopathic killer in the body of a doll. Dourif - and star Aubrey Plaza, 34, as Karen Barclay a “big ambitions” for the film. The upcoming “[Also, there is] the mother/son story, the emotional mother who unwittingly gives her son Andy (Gabriel Orion Pictures revival of franchise - which will component of the movie, which I feel like the movie really Bateman) a toy doll that hides the soul of a serial killer. In ‘C see Mark Hamill voice the iconic horror doll delivers. “Then above all that, just the intensity, the gore, the original film, Andy’s mother gives him a talking Buddy Chucky - promises “something different” to the original the fact that the movie is rated R, that it really does go doll, however, in the remake Buddy is an “Artificial series and not only does it “really deliver” in the emotion- there when it goes there. “I think the movie looks big, is Intelligence human companion” manufactured by the al stakes, there’s also a lot of “intensity and gore”. much bigger than a lot of movies that are our size - very Kaslan Corp, the world’s leading developer of interactive Speaking to CinemaBlend, the producer said: “We sort of affordable movie, we are. But we had big ambitions. tech products for home and lifestyle. lean into more of the AI/Kaslan story and hint at a Those are, I’d say, the primary things we’re going for.” Chucky that is driven by something different than he is in The forthcoming film will use the same plot as the origi- the original series, when he’s Charles Lee Ray and he’s nal 1988 film - in which Chucky was voiced by Brad

Portman to narrate Bad Boys for Life Dolphin Reef wraps up production atalie Portman will narrate Disney’s ‘Dolphin Reef’ movie. The 37-year-old actress is set to ad Boys for Life’ has wrapped production. to portray the head of a drug cartel, Armando Armas, tell the story through the role of the narrator The film’s official Instagram account has who is on a mission to take down Lowry. Nunez is N in the feature film, which is being created by a shared a behind-the-scenes snap of Will play the Miami Police Department’s elite AMMO new Disney-branded film label called Disneynature and ‘B Smith and co-star Martin Lawrence team’s newly recruited head, criminal psychologist will be shown on the company’s upcoming direct-to-con- announcing that the long-awaited third installment of Rite, who is also a former love interest of Lowry. A sumer streaming service, Disney+. According to The the much-loved buddy cop franchise has finished film- description of the synopsis reads: “The new install- Hollywood Reporter, ‘Dolphin Reef’ is being directed by ing. The ‘Bad Boys’ Instagram page posted a photo of ment centers on the Miami PD and its elite AMMO Keith Scholey and will follow a young Pacific bottlenose the pair sat on chairs in front of a fence holding up team’s attempt to take down Armando Armas (Scipio), dolphin named Echo, who can’t decide if it’s time to grow umbrellas with the caption: “That’s a wrap. head of a drug cartel. “Armando is a cold-blooded up and take on new responsibilities, before realizing he #BadBoysForLife 1.17.20 (sic)” Will and Martin are killer with a vicious, taunting nature. “He is committed can’t resist the many adventures the ocean has to offer. back as their respective alter egos Detectives Mike to the work of the cartel and is dispatched by his Paul Baribault, vice president of Disneynature, said in a Lowry and Marcus Burnett, whom they first portrayed mother to kill Mike (Smith). (Paola) Nunez will take on statement: “Disneynature takes audiences to spectacular in 1995 film ‘Bad Boys’ and 2003 sequel ‘Bad Boys II’. the role of Rite, the tough and funny criminal psychol- and remote places to share remarkable wildlife stories The all-star cast will also include the likes of DJ ogist who is the newly appointed head of AMMO and captured by our award-winning film crews.” ‘Dolphin Khaled, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Mike’s former girlfriend - and the one who got away.” Reef’ will join the line-up for streaming service Disney+, Melton, Jacob Scipio, and Paola Nunez. Scipio is set which is set to launch on November 12 as a family-friend- ly platform with an expansive library of Disney classics, including ‘101 Dalmatians’, ‘Bambi’, ‘Sleeping Beauty’, Alex Ross Perry ‘Mary Poppins’, and ‘Fantasia’. The service will be home to 7,500 TV episodes and 500 movies, as well as original content such as ‘The Mandalorian’, ‘High School Musical: The Musical: The Series’ and the live-action remake of adapting King’s ‘Lady and the Tramp’. The Hollywood Reporter also states Disney+ will feature movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and National Geographic. For Natalie, the narration role comes as she’s Rest Stop also set to appear on the service in her role as PadmÈ lex Ross Perry is adapting Stephen King’s Amidala in the prequel trilogy of the ‘Star Wars’ franchise short story ‘Rest Stop’ for the big screen. The - which was created by Lucasfilm - and as Jane Foster in 34-year-old indie filmmaker will be writing the Marvel’s 2011 movie ‘Thor’, and 2013 sequel ‘Thor: The A screenplay for the iconic author’s 2003 story, Dark World’. which was originally published in Esquire magazine and later featured in the horror writer’s 2008 collection ‘Just After Sunset’. The ‘Her Smell’ director will also helm the project, which follows author John Dykstra, who writes under the pen name Rick Hardin. The writer overhears a couple arguing in a rest stop bathroom and the sounds of domestic abuse - and although he is too timid to act, his tougher alter-ego Rick intervenes and attacks the man with a tire iron, sparking a dangerous game of cat-and- mouse. The latest of the legendary author’s novels to be adapted for the big screen was the 1983 book ‘Pet Semetery’ which stars Jason Clarke as Dr. Louis Creed Damon Albarn: and Amy Seimetz as his wife Rachel. The story follows a family that discovers a mysterious graveyard in the woods behind their new home which has the ability to bring animals back to life. Jason, 49, previously admitted Eastwood to direct Music needs to that he was “out of his mind” about certain scenes in the film - which has been directed by Kevin Kolsch - as they are not part of the book and he worried they could be The Ballad Of be political “more wrong than right”. When asked which scene he was most nervous about shooting, he said: “There are a couple of big sequences in there, there was a lot of pres- Richard Jewell? sure to try and find them and even in the fact that we didn’t know what was the right version of them. “Then lint Eastwood has reportedly held talks there’s other scenes we shot and their not really in the about directing ‘The Ballad Of Richard book properly and we sort of are explaining what’s going C Jewell’. The 88-year-old icon has been on which was terrifying. Because that’s one of the big in negotiations with Disney/Fox about jumps in the film you can really lose the audience there his potential involvement with the project, which you can make more wrong than right so I was out of my focuses on the Olympic Park bombing during the mind about those scenes.” 1996 Atlanta Games. The movie specifically centers on the story of a security guard whose life is trans- formed after the police leaked that he was a sus- pect in the incident, according to Deadline. Jewell - who found a suspicious backpack in the Olympic Park, before clearing the area and saving lives - quickly went from being considered a hero, to one Lopez and Wilson to of the most disliked people in the US. The script has been penned by Billy Ray, who previously wrote 2013’s ‘Captain Phillips’. Meanwhile, Clint play couple in Marry Me previously insisted he doesn’t have any intention to amon Albarn says music “needs” to be politi- retire from the movie business, although he is plan- cal. The Blur and Gorillaz rocker has been ning to be more selective about his projects in the known to inject political messages into his ennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson are set to ‘Notting Hill’ and ‘The Proposal’. Jennifer - who recently coming years. He explained: “Maybe I just don’t D songs both in his groups and as a solo artist, couple up in the new rom-com ‘Marry Me’. got engaged in real life to baseball star Alex Rodriguez - want a certain volume of work, but, no, it hasn’t and has said there’s a need for music to have a strong The 49-year-old singer-and-actress is team- will play a pop star who marries a stranger (Owen) after lessened. I love what I do... “I’ll probably keep on message because “selfie music” isn’t “sustainable”. When J ing up with STX Entertainment - the company finding out her fiance has cheated on her. The pair meet going. I feel good, but it depends on material. I asked about the influx of political songs in the wake of behind the ‘Medicine’ singer’s last film ‘Second Act’ - for after the singer holds a ‘marry me’ sign at one of her con- probably wouldn’t do something just because it was several recent political events, Damon said: “It needs to - the forthcoming flick, which has been compared to certs. STX chairman Adam Fogelson commented on marginal - I have to kind of think it has some validi- it really, really needs to. The selfie music is not sustain- ‘Marley & Me’ star Owen’s addition to the movie: “Owen ty and has some relationship to today.” able. Have I made a selfie tune? I probably tried to but is a hilarious and charismatic addition to this film, and the my innate obtuse nature prevented me from doing it perfect person to play opposite Jen in a role that was properly.” Damon also spoke about his love of travelling, quite literally made for her.” It’s not the first time Jennifer and said seeing the world is important as it allows people and Owen, 50, have starred alongside one another. The to “connect with the world” and become less “isolated in pair appeared in the 1997 horror ‘Anaconda’ together, their own little bubble”. Speaking on BBC 6 Music’s ‘The along with the likes of Ice Cube and Jon Voight. Jennifer Leisure Society’, he said: “[Travel is] really important and is also producing ‘Marry Me’ alongside Elaine Goldsmith I honestly feel that we could definitely tone down the Thomas and Benny Media. The trio also worked on last extremist views people seem to behold at the moment if year’s ‘Second Act’. According to Variety, ‘Marry Me’ will they weren’t so isolated in their own little bubble. “The begin filming in the autumn. Meanwhile, Jennifer previ- internet has given this weird access to everyone to feel ously admitted she is “quite particular” about the roles like they’re informed and they connect with the world but she takes on. She said: “I’m quite particular. I’ve been they’re not physically going to the places. If you physi- offered a couple of movies over the past couple of years cally see the bigger picture, not just the harsh edit of but unless it’s the right thing and I get the right types of what something is, and you see the human side of what it opportunities, I’d rather create them. That’s mine and actually is, you have such a different view.” Meanwhile, [producing partner] Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas’ mantra. the ‘Parklife’ hitmaker recently said he plans on disap- We don’t force things, but we don’t wait around either ... pearing from the pop scene “for a few years” to head to If no one is giving us the stories that we want to tell, then Africa to work on a new project. The 50-year-old singer we’ll create them ourselves.” said: I’m doing this really fascinating thing in west Africa based on the poem of Sundiata. “Sort of disappear from pop music and go a bit into new territory for a few years.”—-Bang Showbiz 22 Established 1961 Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Lifestyle Movies

US actor Robert Downey Jr arrives for the World premiere of Marvel Studios’ ‘Avengers: Endgame’ at the Los Angeles Convention (From left) Actor Matt Damon, his wife Luciana Barroso, Samantha Hemsworth and her husband Chris Hemsworth attends the world premiere of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures “Avengers: Center on Monday in Los Angeles. actor Luke Hemsworth. Endgame”.— AFP photos Hollywood celebrates the finale of the ‘Avengers’ movies

obert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth and other mem- bers of the Avengers superhero team on Monday Rcelebrated the final chapter in a 22-movie saga that ranks as the movie industry’s highest-grossing franchise of all time. At a lavish premiere in Los Angeles, hundreds of industry VIPs, cast members, fans and media watched the first showing of “Avengers: Endgame,” the three- hour action spectacle that has been held tightly under wraps. The movie begins rolling out in theaters around the world today. Downey Jr (Iron Man), Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Chris Evans (Captain America) and others walked a purple carpet underneath a giant, spinning Avengers logo set up inside the Los Angeles Convention Center. A cavernous exhibit hall was turned into a movie theater with a large screen and stadium-style seating. “I’m excited that I’m finally going to get to see the movie,” said Paul Rudd, who plays Ant-Man and, like other cast members, had not seen the finished film due to Marvel’s secrecy around the project. Rudd said he had been traveling the world to promote the movie and “trying to talk about it the best we can, and to do all of that without having seen the film is a strange experience. So now, to finally see the movie is great.” Other A-list stars packed the premiere, including Chris Hemsworth’s brother Liam and his wife Miley Cyrus, and Matt Damon, who had a cameo in 2017 film “Thor: Ragnarok.” “Endgame” concludes the story of the six original Avengers in Marvel’s cinematic universe - Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk and Thor. It Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus. Australian actor Chris Hemsworth and his wife Spanish US actress Scarlett Johansson and US actor Colin Jost. picks up after last year’s “Avengers: Infinity War” left fans actress Elsa Pataky. hanging when many of the Marvel heroes seemed to turn to dust at the hand of the villain Thanos, played by Josh Brolin. In “Endgame,” the surviving superheroes plot to kill Thanos and try to undo his damage. After the screening, the stars gathered on stage and hugged. Evans told the crowd that he “cried like six times” while watching the film. “I cried more than six times, Chris,” Hemsworth said. Mark Ruffalo, who plays the Hulk, said working on the films had been “the trip of a lifetime”. The 21 previous movies from the Walt Disney Co-owned Marvel studio are the highest-grossing franchise in film history, generating more than $18.6 billion at global box offices since 2007. “Endgame” may set an opening weekend record in the domestic market, according to box office analysts. “Infinity War” holds the current record of $257.7 million over its first three days in the United States and Canada. Initial reactions to “Endgame” were positive. Erik Davis, manag- ing editor at Fandango, called the movie a “masterful epic.” “If Infinity War is the brawn, Endgame is the brains. And wow, what an ending!” Davis wrote on Twitter. While “Endgame” wraps up the “Avengers” story, many Marvel characters will live on in future movies. Spider-Man, for example, returns to the big screen in July in “Spider-Man: Far from Home.” A “Black Panther” sequel is also in the works. “There will be new beginnings,” said Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. “There will be new stories. There will be new ways of doing it, but for now the focus is on the endgame.” — Reuters US actor Chris Evans US actress Brie Larson US actress Danai Gurira US actor Paul Rudd.

“always” be willing to return to the MCU - she feels she’s “off to other Marvel pas- Paltrow tures” adding that “they don’t tell me Ruffalo got ‘dummy script’ Kevin Feige ‘got chills’ when anything”. She quipped: “I thought we were done? Look I would always [come for Avengers: Endgame Avengers assembled for first time jokes she’s back] if they needed me, but I think, you know, the movie is called Endgame. “I evin Feige says he “got chills” for the first time, was so much spec- feel like maybe we’re off to other Marvel ark Ruffalo got a “dummy guys. Yeah, that’s when it really when the Avengers assembled tacle, so many visual effects “It was pastures, I don’t really know, they don’t script” for ‘Avengers: means something.” Anthony, 49, Kfor the first time. ‘Avengers: filmed in an open air warehouse in the ‘grandma’ M Endgame’ is released Thursday and New Mexico, not in New York. tell me anything. And all the scripts are Endgame’. The 51-year- insisted that he and his brother redacted and everything, so it’s a very old actor - who plays Bruce Joe feel they’re doing the cast a will wrap up 21 films and 11 fran- There was nothing but green of MCU secret process.” — Bang Showbiz Banner and his alter-ego The Hulk “favor” with the fake scripts by chises taking place over a decade, screen behind them. “Hulk wasn’t in the Marvel Cinematic Universe making it easier to keep secrets. and will complete phase three of the in the shot. Iron Man wasn’t in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The shot because they were CG and wyneth Paltrow feels like “the films - admitted that in order to He explained: “It’s like doing Marvel Studios President explained put in later, but it looked pretty grandma” of the Marvel Cinematic avoid spoilers, directors Joe and them a favor, because it’s hard to that he knew the franchise would be cool and Joss had a great vision Universe. The 46-year-old actress Anthony Russo gave him a script keep secrets, it’s hard to keep G a success while making 2012’s ‘The for it. “Cut too many months later, - who has played the girlfriend of Iron with fake scenes in it so he didn’t your mouth closed. “We spend Avengers’ - when the movies the visual effects are coming Man (Robert Downey Jr), Pepper Potts, in accidentally let any details of the all day, every day, doing this for heroes were brought together for together, it’s starting to look cool, the movie series since the first ‘Iron Man’ highly-anticipated film slip. like, the past couple years. So it’s the first time - and praised the film’s Iron Man’s now landing, Hulk’s movie back in 2008 - joked that she and Speaking to Entertainment Tonight hard not to talk about what you director Joss Whedon for “pulling it there. “ But the moment when I her co-star 54-year-old co-star are the at the ‘Avengers: Endgame’ world spend all your time doing. It’s a off” and creating an “iconic realized that this could be an icon- “grandparents” of the franchise and premiere in Los Angeles on little bit of a mercy we give them moment” in cinema. ic moment not just for the MCU, insisted she had “no idea” the MCU Monday he said: “I got a script, by not giving them too much Speaking in a video for Rotten but for these kinds of films, was on would go on for as long as it has. but it was a dummy. There were information.”— Bang Showbiz Tomatoes, he said: “That shot, the the mix stage. — Bang Showbiz Speaking to ‘Entertainment Tonight’ at scenes in there that I thought we shot of all the Avengers assembling the ‘Avengers: Endgame’ world premiere were shooting that nobody ever in Los Angeles on Monday she said: “It’s shot.” Mark went on to insist that pretty cool, you know? he’s been “dying” to see the film - “I think when we did [the first] ‘Iron which will wrap up phase three of Man’, Marvel had no idea what it would be, the MCU and see an end to 21 films and this level of success it would have, and and 11 franchises taking place over all the other movies that would come out of the course of a decade - because it, so it’s pretty cool. “I mean yeah, we kind he held off seeing previews of feel like the parents or grandparents at because he wanted to “experience” this point, but it’s pretty awesome.” the screening in a full cinema. ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is set to wrap up “I’ve been dying to see it. We phase three of the MCU and see an end had a chance to see it yesterday, to 21 films and 11 franchises taking place but I held off because I want to (From left) Anthony Russo, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige and Joe over the course of a decade and Gwyneth see it with an audience, I want to Russo. explained that although she would US actress Gwyneth Paltrow be in that experience with you US actor Mark Ruffalo Classifieds Wednesday, April 24, 2019

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20:40 ABY 126 Sharjah 09:40 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 JZR 731 Cairo 09:45 KAC 353 Bengaluru 20:50 RBG 217 Asyut 20:55 DLH 624 Dammam 20:55 IGO 1753 Ahmedabad 09:40 KAC 172 Frankfurt 21:00 UAE 856 Dubai 09:50 JZR 410 Delhi 09:50 JZR 301 Istanbul 09:55 OMA 648 Muscat 21:05 KLM 445 Amsterdam 21:00 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 IAW 157B Al Najaf 10:00 ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:10 ETD 302 Abu Dhabi 09:55 AXB 889 Mangalore/Bahrain 10:20 OMA 642 Muscat 10:00 KAC 301 Mumbai 21:25 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 RBG 214 Sohag 21:35 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 KAC 101 London 10:05 ALK 229 Colombo 21:15 QTR 1089 Doha 21:50 MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 GFA 210 Bahrain 10:05 KAC 168 Paris 21:20 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 JZR 216 Jeddah 10:55 THY 764 Istanbul 21:30 IRA 664 Shiraz 10:15 KLM 445 Bahrain 22:10 JZR 708 Luxor 10:55 KAC 616 Bahrain 21:40 KAC 617 Doha 10:40 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 QTR 1074 Doha 11:00 GFA 219 Bahrain 21:50 QTR 1071 Doha 10:40 ALK 230 Colombo 22:20 UAE 2541 Dubai 11:00 KAC 564 Amman 21:55 IGO 1754 Ahmedabad 10:40 UAE 860 Dubai 22:35 JZR 122 Dubai 11:45 QTR 1082 Doha 22:05 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 KAC 383 Delhi 22:35 IAW 157 Al Najaf 12:00 JAV 621 Amman 22:15 IAW 158B Al Najaf 11:00 JZR 407 Ahmedabad 22:40 AHY 119 Baku 12:05 ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:15 JZR 221 Riyadh 11:20 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:50 THY 766 Istanbul 12:30 KAC 786 Jeddah 22:20 AXB 890 Mangalore 11:20 KAC 783 Jeddah 22:55 RBG 553 Alexandria 12:30 AIC 975 Chennai/Goa 22:25 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 KAC 411 Bangkok 23:00 KAC 614 Bahrain 12:30 SVA 514 Riyadh 22:30 MEA 405 Beirut 11:55 KAC 1543 Cairo 23:00 SAW 701 Damascus 12:30 SVA 502 Jeddah 22:45 JZR 213 Jeddah 12:05 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:05 UAE 871 Dubai 12:45 JZR 128 Dubai 22:50 QTR 1075 Doha 12:10 JAV 622 Amman 23:15 CLX 7912 Luxembourg 12:45 MSC 411 Asyut 23:15 UAE 2542 Dubai 12:30 QTR 1083 Doha 23:20 IAW 157C Al Najaf 12:55 MSR 614 Cairo 23:30 IAW 158 Al Najaf 13:00 SVA 515 Riyadh 23:30 KAC 774 Riyadh 13:35 FDB 071 Dubai 23:35 AHY 120 Baku 13:05 SVA 503 Jeddah 23:45 24 Established 1961 News Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Modi among tens of millions voting on ‘Super Tuesday’

AHMEDABAD, India: Tens of millions of Indians, including sense of purity that one gets by taking a bath at the al seat in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Under Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, voted on India’s “Super Kumbh festival,” he said. The nationalist leader, who is election law, candidates can contest two seats, though Tuesday” in the latest round of polls when the biggest seeking a second term, met his 98-year-old mother and they can only keep one if they win both. Gandhi is also on number of seats are decided in the country’s marathon then waved to supporters from an open top car that took the ballot for Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. election. Nearly 190 million voters were eligible to vote on him to vote in Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s main city. His An estimated 60 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot 117 seats spread across 15 Indian states, stretching from rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is considered the in the third round, according to election authorities, lower the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, in the third of the sev- frontrunner in the vote but faces a significant challenge than the 70 percent participation in the poll’s two previ- en phases of the mega polls. Heavy security has been put from regional parties and lead opposition Congress party ous phases this month. Authorities bolstered security in in place, with violent clashes erupting between rival of Rahul Gandhi. Modi has made national security and the restive Kashmir valley, where anti-India sentiment and groups in eastern India’s West Bengal state, killing one fighting terrorism his main campaign theme to blunt armed militancy often overshadow polling. Roughly 10 political worker. opposition attacks on his handling of the economy. percent of voters turned out in the Anantnag constituency, State election official Amit Yyoti Bhattaharya told AFP Many see the election as a referendum on his five-year where polls were open on a truncated schedule for securi- that a 30-year-old man was killed in the clashes near a rule - which has seen impressive economic growth but not ty reasons. polling booth in Murshidabad region. Two more people the jobs that the BJP promised. Gujarat sends 26 lawmak- Election results are to be released on May 23 and ana- were injured elsewhere in the state in similar clashes. ers to the Indian parliament and the right-wing BJP won lysts say Modi is likely to see a repeat of the BJP’s 2014 Suspected Maoists also detonated an improvised explo- all of those seats in 2014. Modi voted in the constituency performance, when the party won 282 seats. Modi has sive device in neighboring Jharkhand state without caus- where his close associate Amit Shah, the BJP president capitalized on nationalist fervor that followed India’s air ing any damage. and key powerbroker, is contesting his maiden election. strikes on Pakistan in February in a dispute over Kashmir. After casting his ballot in his home state of Gujarat, Gandhi is standing in Wayanad in Kerala state, taking a India accused its neighbor of harboring a militant group which he ruled for over a decade before leading his party risk as south India is considered a stronghold of regional that claimed a deadly suicide bombing in Kashmir. The to national power in 2014, Modi compared the experience parties. The opposition party leader says contesting fractured opposition, led by Congress, has sought to AHMEDABAD: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi displays his of voting to the Hindu practice of cleansing sins by Wayanad is a sign of his commitment to southern India. attack the government over employment, the economy ink-marked finger after casting his vote yesterday. — AFP bathing in the Ganges river. “By voting, I feel the same His opponents say it shows he fears defeat in his tradition- and a debt crisis for Indian farmers. — AFP

ease international pressure on the coun- Egypt hosts cil to yield power. Sudan’s army toppled Bashir on April 11, but protesters have Kushner: Mideast summit on crises continued to hold mass rallies and world powers have backed their calls for a swift transition to a non-military govern- plan after Ramadan in Sudan, Libya ment - demands the council has so far resisted. NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump’s son-in- CAIRO: Egypt hosted African leaders for Addressing the Sudan meeting, Sisi law Jared Kushner said yesterday he would present emergency talks yesterday on the called for “African solutions to African his long-awaited Middle East peace proposal around upheavals in Sudan and Libya, as problems” and urged the country’s polit- June and that it would include a “robust business President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi warned ical actors to “safeguard the state’s insti- plan” for the Palestinians. Kushner, speaking at a against “a slide into chaos”. Sisi called tutions... in order to prevent a slide into forum of Time magazine, said he had hoped to offer for a coherent regional response, as pro- chaos”. Last month, he warned against the proposal late last year but that Israeli Prime testers in Khartoum keep up demands the dangers created by protests, without Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called elections for a civilian government and Libyan mil- explicitly naming Sudan or Algeria, and still needs time to form a coalition. itary strongman Khalifa Haftar’s forces where demonstrations have toppled “Once that’s done we’ll probably be in the middle of Ramadan, so we’ll wait until after Ramadan and bear down on Tripoli. The leaders in another long-time leader, president CAIRO: A handout picture shows Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (center) hosting then we’ll put our plan out,” said Kushner, a senior Cairo urged Sudan’s military rulers, who Abdelaziz Bouteflika. African leaders for summit talks on the upheavals in Sudan and Libya yesterday.— AFP The Egyptian president also called on advisor to Trump, referring to the Muslim fasting took power after toppling longtime pres- month which ends in early June. Kushner’s plan has the international community to “shoulder ident Omar Al-Bashir, to implement already been met with deep skepticism from the “peaceful, organized and democratic the pressing economic burden” facing protesters’ demands, saying “a military- crises in Sudan and Libya. The summit Palestinians, who say Trump cannot be an honest bro- transition measures” within three Sudan. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab led transition would be completely con- on Libya would focus on “relaunching a ker after he took the landmark step of recognizing months, the Egyptian presidency said. Emirates (UAE) on Sunday announced trary to the aspirations of the people of political process... (and) the elimination bitterly disputed Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. But they also agreed on “the need for three billion dollars in financial aid for Sudan”. Attending the Cairo talks were of terrorism”, Egypt’s presidency said. But Kushner, whose own role has been questioned more time” for a transition, urging the Khartoum. The AU suspended both senior officials from across the continent, Strongman Haftar’s self-styled Libyan due to his longstanding family ties with Netanyahu, African Union to extend its end of April Egypt and the Central African Republic including South Africa, Nigeria and National Army launched an offensive said he remained hopeful that his “unconventional deadline for the ruling military council to in 2013 following coups in both coun- Ethiopia. against Tripoli, the seat of the interna- approach” would bear fruit. “I think that if people hand power to civilians or face suspen- tries. Both have since had their member- The summits in Cairo were the first to tionally recognized unity government, on focus on the old traditional talking points we will nev- sion from the bloc. An extension would ship restored. It has echoed Sudanese be convened by African leaders on the April 4.—AFP er make progress,” he said. He declined to answer if the plan would include longstanding US support for a Palestinian state, after hints by the administration that it would not, but said it would include investment to giant GlaxoSmithKline in partnership with the PATH boost the Palestinian economy. Malawi to pilot Malaria Vaccine Initiative. It passed previous scientific “Our focus is really on the bottom up, which is testing - including five years of clinical trials on 15,000 how do you make the lives of the Palestinian people people in seven countries - and was approved for the better, what can you resolve to allow these areas to groundbreaking pilot program in 2015. Malaria episodes reduced by 40 become more investable?” he said. “We deal with all percent in the trials. the core status issues because you have to do it, but malaria vaccine Although the potential vaccine will not give full protec- we’ve also built a robust business plan for the whole tion against the mosquito-borne disease, it is the furthest region,” he added. along in development and so far the most effective. LILONGWE, Malawi: Malawi will yesterday spearhead Scientists say if it was rolled out on a large scale it could ‘Compromises for both’ large scale pilot tests for the world’s most advanced save hundreds of thousands of lives. The World Health experimental malaria vaccine in a bid to prevent the dis- Kushner also said the plan would address Organization (WHO) believes that the new vaccine brings Israel’s concerns over security. “I think that what ease that kills hundreds of thousands across Africa each a key new tool beyond mosquito nets, insecticides and year. After more than three decades in development and we do is something that allows for Israel to main- drugs in the battle against the disease. Malaria killed tain security, but there will be tough compromises almost $1 billion in investment, the cutting-edge trial will 435,000 people in 2017. The majority of them were chil- be rolled out in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe this week and for both,” he said. Netanyahu in his election cam- dren under five in Africa. LILONGWE: Mothers wait for their sick babies to receive treat- paign vowed to annex parts of the West Bank then in Kenya and Ghana next week. It aims to immunize “Malaria can kill a child in less than 24 hours,” said ment at the beginning of the malaria vaccine implementation 120,000 children aged two years and under to assess the where Israeli settlers live, a prospect that would researcher Tisungane Mvalo, a paediatrician at University pilot program at Mitundu Community hospital yesterday.— AFP doom longstanding Palestinian hopes of a state. The effectiveness of the pilot vaccine and whether the delivery of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Project-Malawi in process is feasible. Israeli leader said yesterday he plans to name a Lilongwe. “And even if the child survives, malaria can new settlement in the occupied Golan Heights after Four successive doses must be administered on a impact every organ, causing brain injury or even kidney ed female anopheles mosquitoes. WHO’s latest report on strict timetable for it to work. Trade-named Mosquirix, Trump in appreciation of his recognition of Israel’s issues. Prevention is better than treatment.” malaria showed that the number of cases climbed to 219 claim of sovereignty there.—AFP the drug has been developed by British pharmaceutical Malaria is spread to people through the bites of infect- million in 2017, two million higher than 2016. —AFP

devices they found that the pigs’ irregular heartbeat distribution of state land parcels, obstructing investiga- Self-powered was corrected. Furthermore, the energy retained from MPs file to grill tion into alleged corruption at the authority and stripping every heartbeat turned out to be higher than the ener- the authority head of all his powers. gy demands of most current pacemakers in humans, At the sports authority, the minister is accused of mis- ‘pacemaker for... opening the door to someday giving patients a perma- info minister... using his powers. The grilling also accuses the minister of nent power source for their implants. failing to curb corruption and violations at all the three Continued from Page 1 “It could be an ‘implant for life’,” said Zhou. “This is Continued from Page 1 bodies under his supervision to the extent that remarks our aim and the final goal of the scientific research in by the Audit Bureau about these bodies increased Now researchers in China and the United States the field.” The team stressed however that more work At the ministry, the grilling charges that the minister markedly after the minister took over. The grilling could believe they have successfully trialed a self-powered was needed to determining the long-term safety and committed financial violations by squandering public end in a no-confidence vote against the minister, which if pacemaker in adult pigs - an animal remarkably physio- durability of the devices before human versions could funds, and claims irregularities in appointments and pro- passed, would mean an automatic dismissal. Adasani logically similar to humans. The animals selected suf- be developed. Zhou said the self-powering technology motions. It also charges Jabri of committing wide ranging hoped the minister meets the same fate as his two prede- fered from irregular heartbeat similar to human pace- could also have a range of applications in areas such as violations at the agricultural authority that includes unfair cessors, who were forced to resign following grillings. maker patients. The team developed an implantable self-charging devices and “smart” clothing. generator that sits on the surface of the heart and Tim Chico, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine bends with each heartbeat, thereby generating electric- and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, University of ing Sri Lankan extremists. ity from kinetic energy. Sheffield, who was not involved in the research, called IS claims Lanka Police sources told AFP yesterday that two Muslim “(The pacemaker) was fully implanted in adult pigs the experiment “very encouraging”. “This study was brothers - sons of a wealthy Colombo spice trader - were and all of the energy for cardiac pacing is reclaimed performed in pigs, whose hearts are the same size as among the perpetrators of the attacks. They blew them- from the heart-beating energy of the same animal,” humans, and so are often used to test devices or treat- blasts, releases... selves up as guests queued for breakfast at the Shangri- Zhou Li, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and ments before use in man,” he said. The study was pub- La and Cinnamon Grand hotels in the capital, the source lead study author, told AFP. When they powered up the lished in the journal Nature Communications. — AFP Continued from Page 1 said. The pair were key members of the NTJ, which the government has previously blamed for defacing Buddhist The one man who displayed his bearded face also statues, according to an investigation officer. over their passports to the hotel authorities, who report- appeared to be carrying an assault rifle. The IS statement yesterday said three fighters it Stranded umrah edly put them in a bag. According to sources, the pilgrims Amaq later released a video of the eight fighters named as Abu Obeidah, Abu Baraa and Abu Moukhtar were informed by the tour operator on April 9 that it had pledging allegiance to IS supremo Abu Bakr Al- were behind the attacks on the Shangri-La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury hotels. Three other fighters it lost their passports. To their dismay, they were told to be Baghdadi in Arabic, a black IS flag hanging in the back- ground. The authenticity of the image and video could named as Abu Hamza, Abu Khalil and Abu Mohammad pilgrims back... prepared to travel to Jeddah to apply for new documents. carried out attacks on churches in the cities of Colombo, Many pilgrims called their relatives in Kuwait and told not be independently verified and the reason for the discrepancy in the reported number of attackers was Negombo, and Batticaloa, it said. The seventh fighter, Continued from Page 1 them their passports were lost due to “gross negligence Abu Abdallah, killed three police officers in an attack in of the hotel staff”. “We were shocked to learn that they not immediately clear. Sunday’s bombings targeting churches and high-end hotels are among the deadliest a Colombo suburb, it said. The 52-member expatriate group, consisting of men, had misplaced our passports,” one of the pilgrims said. Yesterday’s claim comes one month after a Kurdish- Cheruthuruthy said they were stressed and distraught such attacks worldwide since the 2001 strikes on the women and children, traveled to the kingdom on April 3 United States. led Syrian force announced the fall of IS’ self-declared since they learned about the loss, but many people were by bus from Kuwait on a weeklong package. The expats, The Sri Lankan government yesterday blamed the “caliphate”, after routing militants from their last holdout all holding valid work visas in Kuwait, included 43 there to help them. “Indian associations like OICC Jeddah little-known National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) in east Syria with backing from a US-led coalition. The Indians, five Egyptians, three Bangladeshis and one and KMCC Makkah took painstaking efforts in sending us Islamist group for the blasts, saying they were carried jihadists retain a global network of recruits and have Pakistani. Twenty-one of the pilgrims are from the Indian back to Kuwait,” he said. He also praised Indian Embassy out in retaliation for last month’s attacks on two claimed attacks in Iraq, Syria and beyond. On Sunday, IS state of Kerala. officials in Jeddah who worked relentlessly for the pilgrims mosques in New Zealand. The presidency cited intelli- claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 10 people Arriving at their hotel in Makkah, the pilgrims handed to get their new passports and travel documents. gence saying “international terror groups” were back- in the Afghan capital Kabul the previous day. — AFP 25 Sports Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Harper tossed as New York Mets beat Philadelphia Phillies 5-1 Arenado notches hit number 1,000 as Rockies beat Nationals

NEW YORK: Jeff McNeil had two hits, including a solo home run, to lift the host New York Mets past the ROCKIES 7, NATIONALS 5 Philadelphia Phillies 5-1 on Monday in a game that saw Nolan Arenado homered and finished with three Phillies right fielder Bryce Harper get ejected while hits-including the 1,000th of his career-while Mark arguing from the dugout. Mets starter Steven Matz (2- Reynolds and Raimel Tapia also went deep to lead 1) was effective, allowing three hits and one run in six Colorado past Washington in Denver. Trevor Story had innings. He struck out six and walked two. It was a two hits and Seunghwan Oh (1-0) pitched an inning of completely different outcome from his last start against relief for the victory. Colorado has won seven of its past the Phillies in which he faced eight batters and failed to eight following an eight-game losing streak. Wade record an out on April 16. Rhys Hoskins ripped a solo Davis pitched the ninth inning for his second save. homer for the Phillies. Cesar Hernandez had Arenado’s milestone hit came leading off the seventh Philadelphia’s only other two hits in the game, as the inning, when he hit his fourth home run of the season Phillies failed to support starter Jake Arrieta (3-2). The off reliever Wander Suero (1-2) to make it 6-5. Brian right-hander threw six-plus innings and gave up seven Dozier homered, and Howie Kendrick drove in two for hits and four runs (three earned). He fanned seven and the Nationals. walked one. In a bizarre circumstance, Harper was tossed with two outs in the fourth. After a questionable CARDINALS 13, BREWERS 5 called strike to Hernandez, plate umpire Mark Carlson Dexter Fowler matched his career high with four hits, motioned to the dugout and ejected Harper for arguing drove in four runs and scored three to help St. Louis balls and strikes. Harper had reached base in all of his throttle visiting Milwaukee in the opener of the three- previous 21 games with the Phillies before going 0-for- game series. Paul Goldschmidt had three hits and three 2 with two strikeouts and being ejected. RBIs, and Jose Martinez, Paul DeJong and Matt Carpenter contributed two hits each for St. Louis, which YANKEES 4, ANGELS 3 (14 INNINGS) blew the game open with seven runs in the seventh Gio Urshela’s two-out RBI single in the top of the inning. Cardinals right-hander Jack Flaherty (2-1) made 14th inning lifted New York to a win over Los Angeles his third start of the season against the Brewers and in Anaheim, Calif. Angels reliever Luke Bard actually delivered his longest outing, going six innings and giving up four runs and three hits, all homers. He struck out a struck out the first three batters of the inning, but the NEW YORK: Steven Matz #32 of the New York Mets pitches against the Philadelphia Phillies during their game at season-high 10 and walked one. Milwaukee’s Adrian first-Gleyber Torres-reached when strike three was in Citi Field in New York City. —AFP the dirt and got away from catcher Jonathan Lucroy. Houser (0-1), making his first major league start, went Lucroy retrieved the ball in time to get Torres at first, four-plus innings and gave up five runs on nine hits. but his throw sailed over first baseman Albert Pujols’ seventh, scoring three runs to emerge with a win over Eduardo Escobar homered and drove in three runs, head for an error. Torres moved to second on a wild TWINS 9, ASTROS 5 visiting Kansas City. Mike Zunino hit a 425-foot, two- and John Ryan Murphy added three hits for Arizona, pitch and scored on Urshela’s single. Bard (0-1) then Jorge Polanco recorded his second four-hit game of run home run to dead center for the key hit in the which has won six of its past eight games. struck out Kyle Higashioka to end the inning, his fourth the season, and he belted a two-run, two-out homer in inning. Wilmer Font (1-0) recorded the final out of the Diamondbacks starter Zack Godley gave up four runs strikeout of the inning. Jonathan Holder (1-0) pitched the eighth inning to carry Minnesota to victory in the seventh and picked up the victory for the Rays, who and seven hits in four innings, but Matt Andriese (3-1) two scoreless innings to get the win. opener of a three-game series in Houston. The Twins, snapped a four-game losing streak. Emilio Pagan got the win with two scoreless innings of relief. winners of five of their past six, scored two in the first pitched the ninth to record up his first major league A’S 6, RANGERS 1 and another run in the second-Jason Castro’s first home save. Brad Keller (2-2) took the loss for the Royals, WHITE SOX 12, ORIOLES 2 Stephen Piscotty drove in three runs with a home run of the season leading off the frame-off Brad who dropped their fourth in a row. He had not surren- Jose Abreu hit his 150th career home run and drove run, a single and a sacrifice fly, and Chris Bassitt threw Peacock (2-1). Minnesota’s Jake Odorizzi (2-2) limited dered more than three earned runs in any of his first in five runs while James McCann hit a homer and had five shutout innings in his season debut as host Oakland the Astros to two runs on eight hits over 5 2/3 innings, five starts, but he gave up five runs on seven hits in 6 four RBIs as Chicago scored a season high in runs to eased past Texas. Bassitt (1-0), injured when hit in the striking out two without walking a batter. Houston 1/3 innings. win at Baltimore. Orioles starter David Hess (1-4) kept knee by a line drive in an exhibition game in Japan, was trailed 7-1 before getting a solo homer from Michael the White Sox quiet in the first four innings, but brilliant in his first appearance this season, shutting out Brantley in the sixth inning and a three-run blast from DIAMONDBACKS 12, PIRATES 4 homers have troubled him this season, and it happened the Rangers on two hits over five innings. He walked Carlos Correa in the seventh, but like Sunday night David Peralta smacked a three-run triple and again in this game. With the game scoreless, Tim four and struck out seven. Texas starter Mike Minor (2- (when Houston rallied from a nine-run deficit and Christian Walker added a two-run homer during a sev- Anderson started the fifth with a double and Nicky 2) went six innings, giving up four runs and four hits. He loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth inning en-run seventh inning as Arizona clobbered host Delmonico walked. McCann then crushed a three-run walked three and struck out four. Bassitt was pulled before falling 11-10), the Astros couldn’t complete the Pittsburgh. Pirates starter Joe Musgrove, who had shot to left-center-the eighth surrendered by Hess. after 92 pitches, handing the ball off to A’s relievers comeback. allowed two earned runs this season, was charged with Manny Banuelos made his first start this season for Ryan Dull, J.B. Wendelken, Joakim Soria and Fernando three runs and five hits in six-plus innings. He struck Chicago-his first major league start since September Rodney, who combined to limit Texas to one run and RAYS 6, ROYALS 3 out five and walked two. Kyle Crick (0-1) took the loss 2015 — and scattered five hits in four shutout innings. four hits over the last four innings. Tampa Bay hit for the cycle in the bottom of the after giving up four runs in two-thirds of an inning. Jace Fry (1-0) got the victory in relief. — Reuters Berger says Hamilton is now on a par with ex-team mate Senna

LONDON: Gerhard Berger has always rated former team mate Ayrton Senna in a league of his own but he says Lewis Hamilton now ranks alongside the late Brazilian Formula One champion in his estimation. Speaking ahead of the 25th anniversary of Senna’s death at Imola on May 1, Berger told reporters his friend still led as a personality and the legend that surrounds him. In purely sporting terms, however, the similarities were clear. “Everybody asks me ‘How do you see this driver against Ayrton?’ and I always, in all the years, say ‘I don’t see anybody near to Ayrton’,” explained the Austrian, Seventh Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup who partnered Senna at McLaren from 1990-92. “But KUWAIT: The 7th Turkish Airlines World the Grand Finals. Sang Hong Park was run- Lewis is (now) the first driver I put on the same level as Golf Cup came to Kuwait on 21st April ner-up, going on to represent Kuwait in the Ayrton.” Berger, who won 10 races for Benetton, 2019 and is the world’s biggest corporate Grand Finals. Sheik Khaleh was third. McLaren and Ferrari between 1986 and 1997 and now golf tournament. The airline prides itself on The Nearest the Pin competition was runs the DTM (German Touring Car) series, said statistics the quality of its products and services, won by Deepak Malhotra for the men and were only one way of measuring greatness. “I go more by from the freshest seasonal ingredients used M. O. Cha for the women. Ahmed Al Bader feeling and watching, and for me-and there were great in onboard catering to the Stopover won the lowest gross score with 72. champions like Nelson (Piquet), like Niki (Lauda), like Service in Istanbul and bonuses like free “We warmly thank all of our guests who (Alain) Prost, like Michael (Schumacher) - there has transport of sports equipment including made the Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup always been one above: Ayrton,” he said. golf clubs. here in Kuwait a huge success,” said “And now Lewis I see in the same league.” Hamilton Now in its seventh year, the Turkish Mohammed Baltu, General Manager for has five championships, one with McLaren in 2008 and Airlines World Golf Cup continues to deliv- Turkish Airlines Kuwait. “Once again, it four with Mercedes in the last five seasons. He is leading er the highest quality as players, all invited was a thrilling tournament in the TAWGC the championship into this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand by the airline, will once again play at some series, congratulations to our finalist, Sang Prix. The 34-year-old Briton holds several records, of the finest courses in the world. Hong Park. We wish him the best of luck in The event at Sahara Golf Club was one Turkey.” All Turkish Airlines World Golf including most pole positions (84), and his 75 wins are of 103 tournaments in this year’s record- Cup finalists will fly to Turkey in the luxury second only to seven times champion Schumacher’s breaking Turkish Airlines World Golf Cup - of Turkish Airlines’ Business Class. Events career haul of 91. Senna won three championships with with the victors competing in the Grand such as the Turkish Airlines Open and McLaren and held the record for poles (65) before Finals in Turkey later this year. TAWGC have made Turkish Airlines’ sup- Hamilton. The Brazilian won 41 races and would surely From a global total of 103, those that port essential to Antalya being recognized have gone on to many more had he not died at the age of win will go through to the Grand Finals and as an international premium destination for million in 2018, the best year on record. in 2028 including six runways, four termi- 34. “The comparison? I see still Ayrton winning the game have the chance to play in the Turkish golfers with outstanding facilities. The newly-opened Istanbul Airport hub nals and 233 aircraft parking positions, because in the end Ayrton was such a charming guy and Airlines Open pro-am where previously Turkish Airlines continues its unparal- will facilitate the growth of Turkey’s avia- with the capacity to serve up to 200 mil- a personality. And obviously if someone loses his life and winners have teed it up alongside the likes leled and ambitious growth throughout its tion sector as global aviation shifts east- lion passengers a year with 500+ check in stays with us in the way of a legend, it’s always something of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. network of 306 destinations in 124 coun- wards, with Istanbul at the centre. The desks and 225,000 employees. The Turkish special,” said Berger. Aryan Vedant won the competition with tries, with a 10 per cent increase in passen- megaproject will be launched in four phas- Airlines World Golf Cup is supported by “But I try to see it from a performance point and from 43 points but is too young to advance to ger numbers, from 68 million in 2017 to 75 es with the final phase set to be complete National Car Rental. a performance point, Lewis is going from one pole posi- tion to the next one and Lewis is going from one race win to the next one. Just like Ayrton did.” Berger said Hamilton was “outstandingly fast”, made Japan needs Sunwolves replacement to compete globally: Jones fewer mistakes than rivals and knew when to be patient. “It looks like he’s just running the game in such a good TOKYO: Japan need to find a replacement for competing agency yesterday. “The purpose of the Sunwolves was to (2018) and Tonga (2017), and managed a draw with France way that he’s unbeatable at the moment,” said the in Super Rugby following Sunwolves’ expulsion if they are give opportunities for young Japanese players to prepare in Paris (2017). The Brave Blossoms also pushed Jones’ Austrian. “Yes he’s in the best car and best engine, but he to become a major rugby power, former coach Eddie Jones for test rugby,” said Jones. “What Japan was missing was England when the two sides met at Twickenham in has said. The Sunwolves, Japan’s representatives in Super that opportunity for younger players to go from a good November before the home side prevailed 35-15. also is the best. By far the best man at the moment.” Rugby, have been by the competition’s governing body domestic Top League into a higher level of competition Jones believes much of this improvement is down to He said Hamilton had a good chance of breaking SANZAAR in March that they would be removed from the without being exposed to test level, and the Sunwolves competing in Super Rugby. “Absolutely, 100 percent,” said Schumacher’s records. “I would like to protect Michael’s competition from 2020. provided that opportunity. “It hasn’t worked out for them Jones. “They were physically in a different condition success because such a tragedy, it’s so sad to see these Jones, who now coaches England, lamented the deci- and I think it is a massive opportunity missed.” because they have to and they believe they can win now, things,” Berger added, referring to the 2013 ski accident sion and said the Japan Rugby Football Union should start Japan, who host the 2019 World Cup beginning on which is massively different from the side I first inherited.” that left the German with severe head injuries. looking for alternative competitions. “If Japan wants to be Sept. 20, have made huge strides since their famous victo- The Sunwolves currently sit bottom of Super Rugby’s “But when you put this all out (aside) for a moment, a top 10 country in the world, which they do, they need ry over South Africa at the 2015 Rugby World Cup under Australian Conference with two wins from nine matches then Lewis Hamilton is a very special driver in all the time their players to be prepared,” Jones told Kyodo news Jones. They have recorded comfortable wins over Italy played. — Reuters I watched and have been in Formula One.” — Reuters 26 Sports Wednesday, April 24, 2019 World Cup discard Pant hits 78 to help Delhi take IPL top spot Turner earns unwanted T20 record with five straight ducks

JAIPUR: Rishabh Pant said the thought of missing out over of the innings. “We probably didn’t finish off with on World Cup selection was on his mind as he hit a the bat as well as we could have. I thought (Chris) match-winning 78 to lead Delhi Capitals to the top of Morris and (Kagiso) Rabada executed well in the back- the Indian Premier League table. The 21-year-old Pant, end,” said Smith. who was not picked in the preliminary 15-man Indian “(For Delhi) Shikhar played a magnificent knock, and squad for the 50-over showpiece event in England and Rishabh is a powerful young man, and he plays the ball Wales, helped Delhi outplay Rajasthan Royals by six in strange spots.” Meanwhile the IPL announced wickets in Jaipur. Monday that the final of the world’s most popular T20 He smashed six fours and four sixes including the league will be played on May 12 in Hyderabad. winning hit over the fence during his 36-ball unbeaten The first qualifier is scheduled on May 7 followed knock as Delhi achieved their target of 192 in 19.2 by the eliminator the next day and the second qualifi- overs. “Feels really good to make your team win a cru- er on May 10. cial match,” Pant said after receiving the man of the Meanwhile, Australia’s Ashton Turner has notched up match award. five ducks in-a-row in Twenty20 cricket-including Dinesh Karthik was prefered as second wicket keep- three in the Indian Premier League-entering the record er in the Indian squad, but Pant said he had tried to books for the dubious distinction. concentrate on Monday’s match. “I won’t lie that the Turner, who missed out on Australia’s World Cup thought wasn’t running through my mind, but I just squad announced last week, extended his horrific run focus on my process and that’s what I was doing,” said for his IPL side Rajasthan Royals after getting out for Pant. Pant, who is often accused of throwing away his nought to Delhi Capitals paceman Ishant Sharma on wicket, built crucial partnerships, including an 84-run Monday. It was the 26-year-old’s third consecutive third-wicket stand with Prithvi Shaw, who made 42. golden duck-meaning out first ball-since being picked Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan laid the platform for by Rajasthan for $72,000 in the December auctions. Delhi’s comfortable chase as he hit 54 off 27 deliveries. The tall right-handed batsman was caught at extra cov- Earlier’ Ajinkya Rahane struck an unbeaten 105 off er after being deceived on a slower delivery by Sharma 63 balls days after being replaced as Rajasthan captain in a match that Rajasthan lost by six wickets. by Australia’s Steve Smith to guide his team to 191 for Turner was trapped lbw by Mumbai Indians fast JAIPUR: Delhi Capitals cricketer Rishabh Pant plays a shot during the 2019 Indian Premier League (IPL) six. Smith, who made 50 off 32 balls, struck his second bowler Jasprit Bumrah in his team’s previous game on Twenty20 cricket match between Rajasthan Royals and Delhi Capitals at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in successive half-century after taking over the leadership Sunday. He fell to Kings XI Punjab leg-spinner Jaipur. — AFP role on Saturday. His knock on the weekend came in a Murugan Ashwin on his IPL debut last week after mist- winning cause. iming a hit to long off. Perth Scorchers against Adelaide Strikers in the Big his match-winning 84 in a one-day international against Rahane and Smith put on 130 runs for the second His two previous ducks came in the first T20 against Bash League on February 9. India in March, and was lauded for his finishing wicket after Sanju Samson fell for nought in the second India in Visakhapatnam in late February and for the The middle-order batsman rose to prominence with prowess. — AFP

ances for the Hoops over 18 seasons. Lisbon Lions’ He also won 29 caps for Scotland. But it was arguably as the captain of the Celtic side that overcame the notoriously defensive Inter Milan 2-1 in the 1967 captain McNeill final of the European Cup-”the trophy with the big Stars edge ears” as he called it-in Lisbon that he will be best dies aged 79 remembered. McNeill was at the heart of a brilliantly successful Celtic side assembled mainly from players in Predators to and around the Glasgow area by celebrated manager LONDON: Former Celtic captain Billy McNeill, the Jock Stein that dominated Scottish football in the late advance, Hurricanes skipper of the ‘Lisbon Lions’ side that became the first 1960s and early 1970s. British team to win the European Cup in 1967, has died That team won nine league titles in a row, seven aged 79, his family announced yesterday. Scottish Cups and six League Cups. McNeill retired as force game seven McNeill, who spent the whole of his playing career a player in 1975 and then had spells in management with the Glasgow giants, also went on to manage Celtic. with two other Scottish sides in Clyde and Aberdeen. LOS ANGELES: Defenseman John Klingberg He returned to Celtic for two stints as manager, from Paying tribute to McNeill, current Celtic manager Neil scored with less than three minutes remaining 1978-83, and 1987-91 with spells at English sides Lennon told the club’s website: “This is such sad news in overtime as the Dallas Stars advanced to the and I want to send thoughts and prayers to Liz Manchester City and Aston Villa in between. McNeill second round of the NHL playoffs with a 2-1 (McNeill’s widow) and all the family from myself and all later became a Celtic ambassador and in 2015 a statue win over the Nashville Predators on Monday. the backroom staff here at the club. of him holding the European Cup aloft was unveiled MONACO: In this file photo taken on August 29, 2013 “Billy was a brilliant Celtic player, and a great man- outside Parkhe His fellow Lisbon Lion Bertie Auld said Scottish former football player Billy McNeill arrives The Stars are the third wild card team to ager, and as a player and a fan myself, it was always a yesterday that even as a teenager McNeill had made a with the Champions League trophy during the UEFA knock off a division winner in the NHL play- great experience whenever I would meet him and chat major impact on his team-mates. “I was there when the 2013/2014 Champions League group stage draw in offs this season and that trend could continue to him.” McNeill had suffered from dementia for a num- boss (Stein) signed Billy at 17 years of age and even Monaco. — AFP on Wednesday if the Carolina Hurricanes beat ber of years and a statement issued by his children said: then he had tremendous presence about him,” Auld told the reigning Stanley Cup champions “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Britain’s Press Association. Washington Capitals in game seven. Russian our father Billy McNeill. “I remember in Lisbon, him carrying the ball out player when taking part in Old Firm derbies as a forward Alexander Radulov fired a sharp pass “He passed away late last night (Monday, April 22) onto the park in Portugal. His chest was out and his Rangers striker. to Klingberg, who made no mistake by wrist- surrounded by his family and loved ones. He suffered head was back. “He knew we would win and that fil- “He was a giant in Scottish football, a man with an ing a shot over the glove of Nashville netmin- from dementia for a number of years and fought bravely tered through the rest of us. He was never arrogant or incredible presence,” Ferguson, who succeeded der Pekka Rinne to give Dallas a 4-2 series to the end, showing the strength and fortitude he egotistical. He just believed in himself and the rest of McNeill as manager of Aberdeen, told Celtic’s website. victory. The Stars captured a playoff series on always has done throughout his life.” McNeill joined us.” Alex Ferguson may be best known for his hugely “He was also a truly good man and will be a loss to home ice for the first time since 2008. Celtic from junior side Blantyre Victoria in 1957 and the successful time as manager of Manchester United, but everyone who knew him. Farewell Cesar (sic),” he Blake Comeau scored his first goal of the defender went on to make a club record 822 appear- he had first-hand experience of McNeill’s quality as a added, using McNeill’s nickname. — AFP series and goaltender Ben Bishop stopped 47 shots for the Stars, who will face the St. Louis Blues in the second round. Bishop broke into the NHL with the Blues back in 2008-09 and Osaka ‘dodged played parts of two seasons for them. Leaders Zenit The Blues eliminated Winnipeg in six games bullet’ in Stuttgart during their first-round series. Austin Watson looking to end scored a goal and Rinne finished with 49 saves for the Predators, who failed on all four power- as rival Halep pulls out play opportunities to finish 0-for-15 with the four-year man advantage in the series. STUTTGART: World number one Naomi Osaka said Elsewhere, the Hurricanes bounced back title drought yesterday she had “dodged a bullet” after Simona from a game five beatdown to rally and defeat Halep, her main pursuer in the WTA rankings, pulled the Capitals 5-2, forcing game seven in their out of this week’s tournament in Stuttgart. first-round series. Jordan Staal and Dougie MOSCOW: Premier League table-toppers Zenit St Japanese rising star Osaka, 21, launches her clay sea- Hamilton each had a goal and an assist as the Petersburg are looking to tighten their grip on the son in Stuttgart this week, and her hopes of holding on Hurricanes scored three third-period goals to domestic title today when they play hosts to lowly to her spot at the top of the rankings were given a Dynamo Moscow. Zenit, in the hunt for their first stay alive in the first round Eastern Conference boost when world number two Halep withdrew with a best-of-seven series. domestic title in four years, are hoping to consolidate hip injury earlier yesterday. their eight-point lead over second-placed reigning Defenseman Brett Pesce said Carolina is “She was getting really close,” said Osaka, who is champions Lokomotiv Moscow. starting to figure out the formula needed to Krasnodar, who suffered a 3-2 home defeat at the less than 200 points ahead of Halep in the WTA rank- upset the reigning NHL champs, after the ings. “I feel like I dodged a bullet there.” Osaka said hands of Zenit last week, sit third, one point further Naomi Osaka Capitals had put the Hurricanes on the brink of that winning was not everything in Stuttgart, where she back. Though Dynamo have been in a battle all sea- elimination by dominating game five 6-0. son to avoid relegation, Zenit manager Sergei Semak last played as a qualifier in 2017. “I don’t want to overhype myself and say, ‘I will win Osaka is expected to play her first game on “We have been underdogs all year,” said warned his men not to take the 12th-placed strug- Pesce, an American who assisted on Justin glers lightly. the tournament’,” she insisted. “I just want to have fun Thursday, where she faces a potential clash with Williams’ third-period goal. “We didn’t give “We need to prepare for the next match in all seri- and experience the German crowd, because last time I Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei, who beat her in Miami last ousness as Dynamo defeated us in our last league was here, I was kind of a nobody.” month. Reigning Wimbledon champion Angelique them much time and space. We don’t give up. meeting in October. We need to play at our best if we She is definitely no longer a ‘nobody’, having won Kerber, meanwhile, has recovered from illness in time to “We are going to be ready for it (game seven). want to avoid point loss,” he said. back-to-back Grand Slam titles in the United States launch her clay season on home soil as she eyes a We have so much resilience in this group. It Semak also expressed hope that Artem Dzyuba, and Australia since September. However, she admitted career Grand Slam in Paris this year. showed tonight.” who netted twice in Krasnodar to end his 1369- finding it difficult to adjust to her newfound global Kerber has won every major except the French Open Williams scored the insurance goal on minute scoring drought in the Premier League, will be fame. “It is something that happened really quickly. In since 2016, but she has never got past the quarter-finals Monday just seconds after the Capitals had a equally deadly today. Lokomotiv meanwhile desper- the beginning it was tough for me, because I put a lot of at Roland Garros. “You know clay and me, you know potential tying goal disallowed. Canadian for- ately need to win in Rostov to keep alive their slim pressure on myself,” she said. “I feel like there is certain the story,” she told reporters with a smile on Monday. ward Warren Foegele and Teuvo Teravainen hopes of retaining the title. things, I should be doing, that I am not doing right “It’s a tough challenge (to win all four Grand Slam also scored, Hamilton added the empty-netter Lokomotiv’s Yury Syomin said he was happy with now.” Osaka has not won a title since her Australian tournaments), but I will not put too much pressure on and Czech goaltender Petr Mrazek made 23 his team’s performance in the 1-1 derby draw with Open triumph in January, suffering early exits at three my side.” “Right now, I will focus on the tournaments CSKA last week adding however he was upset with saves to extend their first postseason appear- recent WTA tournaments. She was reluctant to speak ahead, and then when I’m in Paris, I will think about the the result. “We’ve played well and dominated the ance in 10 years by at least one more game. about her split with her German coach Sascha Bajin major part of the match with CSKA,” he said. “But Paris situation.” Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin became CSKA are one of Russia’s top clubs. They’ve beat earlier this year. Kerber missed out on Germany’s Fed Cup play-off unglued at the end of the game and took a Real Madrid twice in the Champions League this sea- “I feel like I get in trouble for answering questions win over Latvia last week after she picked up an illness two-handed swing with his stick at Carolina’s son. “I expect my men will show the same quality like this. There were irreconcilable differences,” she earlier this month, but said on Tuesday that she had Saku Maenalanen which earned the Russian an said. Osaka said she hoped to get more used to playing returned to full strength. football in Rostov. We have no right to lose points any ejection from the game. on clay ahead of the French Open next month. Halep’s absence has given the German a little more more if we want to stay in the title race.” Despite the Game seven is today in Washington. The “I feel, that on every surface of the season I do have breathing space. Instead of playing a first-round match weekend defeat Krasnodar have a one-point lead winner will play the well-rested New York over fourth-placed CSKA Moscow in their race for a a lot more experience than on clay.” “The bounces are against Donna Vekic today, Kerber gets a bye to the place in next season’s Champions League.—AFP different and you have to swing for the ball. For me it is second round, where she faces a potential clash with Islanders in the second round. — AFP a little bit difficult, because I can¥t hit as flat.” compatriot Andrea Petkovic. — AFP Established 1961 27 Sports Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Chelsea up to fourth after frustrating Burnley draw Chelsea climb one point above fifth placed Arsenal

LONDON: Chelsea accused Burnley of time-wasting couldn’t build important rhythm,” Zola moaned. and playing “anti-football” after Blues boss Maurizio “We expected it to be a tough game. We didn’t Sarri was sent off before a touchline skirmish marred expect so much time wasting. We expected (referee) their frustrating 2-2 draw on Monday. Kevin Friend to give more extra time. That’s why we’re Sarri’s side fell behind to Jeff Hendrick’s fine finish very unhappy.” Chelsea defender David Luiz went before N’Golo Kante equalised moments later. In a even further in his criticism of Burnley. frantic opening 24 minutes at Stamford Bridge, “It’s anti-football. Wasting time all the time, espe- Gonzalo Higuain put Chelsea ahead, only for Burnley’s cially when you have the ball. Their players went to the Ashley Barnes to punish more dismal defending from floor and stopped the game,” he said. Now Arsenal can the Blues. replace Chelsea in fourth if they avoid defeat at Without a win in their last two league games, Wolves today. “We need to improve but we’re in a Chelsea will take only slender comfort from climbing good way. We care, as we showed today,” Zola said. one point above fifth placed Arsenal into fourth place, Adding to Sarri’s problems, he was hit by first half level on points with third placed Tottenham. Chelsea injuries to France midfielder Kante and England winger would have gone third with a victory, but instead they Callum Hudson-Odoi. have now played a game more than top four rivals “It doesn’t look very good unfortunately,” Zola said Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United, who are of Hudson-Odoi. “It’s a problem with his Achilles ten- three points behind in sixth. don.” Brushing off the bench-clearing clash, Burnley It was a missed opportunity after defeats for boss Sean Dyche said: “By the time I turned round Tottenham, Arsenal and United at the weekend and there was something going off in the tunnel. Chelsea were booed off at full-time. In a fitting coda to “I don’t know what you can call it now. Handbags? a damaging evening, Sarri was sent to the stands for Manbags? Bumbags?” protesting in the final seconds before several members Chelsea were stunned in the eighth minute when of the Blues bench were involved in a tetchy touchline Hendrick’s rocket put Burnley ahead. It was a poor clash with their Burnley counterparts. goal for Chelsea to concede as Cesar Azpilicueta could Sarri’s assistant Gianfranco Zola said his boss was only head a Burnley corner to the edge of the area, so “emotional” after the game that he couldn’t fulfil his where Hendrick was left unmarked to volley a superb media duties. “He was very upset because he has heard dipping strike past Kepa Arrizabalaga. not good words towards him from the Burnley bench. Eden Hazard’s majestic assist helped Chelsea draw LONDON: Chelsea’s Argentinian striker Gonzalo Higuain (C) celebrates after scoring their second goal during the The only reason he walked over there was to get our level four minutes later, underlining why the club are so English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Burnley at Stamford Bridge in London. — AFP players to go into position, he was trying to help the keen to keep their talisman out of Real Madrid’s ref,” Zola said. clutches. Cutting in from the left, Hazard twisted and Zola took a swipe at Burnley’s perceived games- turned so rapidly that Burnley defender Matt Lowton went in front two minutes later when Higuain turned But Burnley punished more poor defending to manship, which included Clarets keeper Tom Heaton fell flat on his backside as the Belgian picked out Kante smartly to pick out Azpilicueta. The Chelsea defender equalise in the 24th minute. With Chelsea slow to react being booked in the first half for time-wasting. “We are for a powerful shot that flashed past Heaton from 10 executed a deft back-heel to Higuain, who continued to a Burnley free-kick, Ben Mee’s header was glanced unhappy. There was too much time wasting. Five min- yards out. his run and crashed a brilliant finish into the roof of the on by Chris Wood and the unmarked Barnes apply the utes injury time wasn’t enough to compensate. We Pushing forward with pace and precision, Chelsea net from an acute angle. finishing touch with a close-range volley. —AFP

Solskjaer confident he’s right man for United revival mission Defence the key MANCHESTER: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer insisted yes- to Arsenal’s terday he is the right man to take Manchester United forward despite an alarming loss of form that has left them in danger of missing out on a place in next sea- top-four bid son’s Champions League. After a magnificent start as United caretaker manag- LONDON: Unai Emery is faced with a defen- er following Jose Mourinho’s sacking, Solskjaer has sive dilemma that could make or break seen his side suffer an equally dramatic slump, losing Arsenal’s hopes of a top-four finish to their six of their last eight games in all competitions. Premier League campaign. During that run, United have exited the FA Cup, Champions League and dropped to sixth in the Premier The Gunners travel to Wolves today having League table with their form hitting a low point in the missed a chance on tightening their grip on a woeful 4-0 defeat at Everton on Sunday. top four finish ahead of at least two of Questions are now being asked about whether Tottenham, Chelsea and Manchester United United acted too hastily in making his appointment undermined by a 3-2 defeat at home to permanent last month-although Solskjaer himself insists Crystal Palace on Sunday. that is not the case. “Well I would like to say yes but it’s Arsenal were extremely poor defensively not down to me to say that” he said. that day. Two goals were from badly-defended “I’m confident in my team and myself. I’ll be ready to set-pieces while the other was the result of an take this challenge on. “I know it’s a big challenge and extraordinary individual error by Shkodran that’s why, when I came in here, I said I’m going to Mustafi. Gunners manager Emery had opted enjoy every single second. I don’t like losing but it’s a LIVERPOOL: Manchester United’s Norwegian manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (C) reacts after the final whistle in the to rest a number of players after a win at challenge all the managers at this club have had. English Premier League football match between Everton and Manchester United at Goodison Park in Liverpool. — AFP Napoli the previous week that had seen north “When you go through bad results, you’ve got to be London side Arsenal into the last four of the confident enough to say this is the way we’re going to Europa League. do it and plan ahead.” Solskjaer’s lack of managerial meeting after the debacle at Goodison Park-a result and when you watch those games they commit so many Now, after that plan backfired, the experience at the very highest level of the game, espe- which means his club have leaked 48 goals, their worst players forward.” Spaniard must decide whether to keep the cially in the transfer market, have raised questions over defensive record in a league season in 40 years. After the Everton defeat, Solskjaer warned that three-man back line that allows Mesut Ozil to his suitability to return United to the top of the football “That (the derby) is the best game we could ask for, many of his under-achieving players will not survive at flourish in an advanced midfield position ladder. with the players hurt as they definitely were,” Solskjaer United although, when pressed 48 hours later, he behind Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and But he was adamant his coaching and recruitment said. “We had a meeting after the game and all the refused to expand on the personnel he had in mind. Alexandre Lacazette, or play safe with a tradi- abilities make him the right man for that task, saying: “I players were definitely, definitely disappointed but “Of course, you learn about players and now is not tional back four. would like to think so, yes. “I like all these boys, I love really, really hurt by that performance and the City the time to talk about making wholesale changes in a Arsenal won 1-0 at Watford in their most them because they’re great lads. But I’ve got to make game is the perfect one. squad that’s been doing so great-only City and recent away day outing with a back four and decisions and manage for the club. I’m managing the “There is no hiding place on the pitch and the fans Liverpool have taken more points than us in the last 18 switched to one at half-time against Palace. It club and helping the players but I manage for the club. will back you if you give that effort. games and that’s it,” he said. would be no surprise, therefore, if Nacho Solskjaer’s task does not get any easier, with a derby “We’ve got to be ready for the press, for their press- “We were where we were when we came in, really Monreal came back on the left of the defence meeting against treble-chasing Manchester City loom- ing, so we’ve got to defend well, got to be ready for gave it a go, and you can see loads of Man United stan- and Ainsley Maitland-Niles, who came off the ing for his side at Old Trafford today. The United man- their aggression, they will snap at your heels and kick dards, the DNA in these players. You have to get play- bench at the break on Sunday, was restored to ager revealed he called his players in for a clear-the-air you, there will be fouls, absolutely no doubt about it ers in and some players will go out.” — AFP the right. Emery’s biggest headache though is to decide if the veteran Laurent Koscielny can wrote in The Times. that a club or governing body fails to act appropriately carry on playing at a time when Mustafi can- Sterling calls “So it seems crazy that, in 2019, I feel the need to against racism, I would love to see that company pull not be relied on. Sunday was not the first time write a piece in a newspaper calling for radical changes its money out and make a moral stand. “I don’t know Mustafi’s errors had been costly-an attempt to to the game that I love. “But I do because the racism how long it will take for things to change but we have shield the ball from Wilfried Zaha merely for nine-point problem in football is so bad, runs so deep and is to start now. I don’t want the next generation of black allowed the Palace forward a free run on goal- nowhere near being sorted.” players to have to put up with this evil.” — AFP yet no Gunner in any position has been picked racism penalty He added: “You will all have read about the various more in the Premier League this season than high-profile racist incidents in recent months: the abuse the Germany international. LONDON: Raheem Sterling has called for clubs I received playing for Manchester City away to Fortunately, Sokratis Papasthopoulos has whose fans racially abuse players to be hit with a nine- Chelsea; the booing that the black England players served a two-game ban and is expected to go point penalty, saying current punishments meant the were subjected to in Montenegro; the nastiness that Matches on TV straight back in the team. issue was “nowhere near being sorted” by football Moise Kean of Juventus endured in Italy and the end- (Local Timings) The inexperienced Konstantinos authorities. less insults thrown at players on social media. Mavropanos is another option and started The Manchester City forward has become increas- “But that is sadly just the tip of the iceberg. Up and against Watford and Palace but was substitut- ingly outspoken on racism in football, having received down the game, across the world, black and Asian play- ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE ed before the hour mark against the former abuse on the pitch while playing for both his club and ers, fans and coaches are subjected to racism. Every Wolverhampton Wanderers v Arsenal 21:45 and lasted just 45 minutes in last weekend’s on England duty. day, from park football to the Champions League. beIN SPORTS match with the Eagles. Recently, he cupped his hans to his ears in response “In my opinion, the people who run the game are “I have the confidence in our way and I Manchester United v Manchester City 22:00 to derogatory chants from Montenegro fans while doing nowhere near enough to solve the problem. And want to be positive because this season we playing for England last month. Now Sterling has that’s not good enough.” beIN SPORTS have been working and fighting to be in this become one of the signatories to a manifesto published Sterling said punishment for racist abuse should key moment with the possibility to be in the in yesterday’s edition of Britain’s The Times newspaper start with an automatic nine-point deduction for clubs ITALIAN CUP top four, and we are,” Emery said after the calling for more black, Asian and minority ethnic and three games behind closed doors rather than the AC Milan v SS Lazio 21:45 Palace loss. (BAME) people in positions of power within football, current system of fines, which he said were an insuffi- beIN SPORTS “We are also in the semi-final of the more severe punishments for racist abuse and greater cient deterrent. Europa League and we can be proud of all the action by social media organisations, sponsors and tra- “It sounds harsh, but which fan will risk racist GERMAN DFB POKAL season. “Today we can be frustrated, but ditional media. behaviour if it might relegate their team or ruin their tomorrow stand up and be ready for the game Werder Bremen v Bayern Munich 21:45 “When I was a boy growing up in London, going to title bid? “Small fines do no damage to clubs and coun- today against Wolves knowing it is going to school and playing football, I didn’t know what racist tries, but one group of people who do have the money beIN SPORTS be very difficult but it is in our hands.” — AFP abuse was because I never suffered any,” Sterling to make them take notice are sponsors. The next time Established 1961 Sport

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KUWAIT: The victorious Kuwait Sports Club holding HH the Amir trophy after beating Al-Qadsiya in the finals yesterday. — KUNA Kuwait SC bag 14th Amir Cup

KUWAIT: Kuwait SC defeated Al-Qadsiya 2-0 yester- tion, attended the game which was held at Jaber Al- day in the final showdown of the 57th version of His Ahmad International Stadium. Highness the Amir Football Cup, thus securing their Following the match, His Highness the Amir presented the Everton embarrassment. “Old Trafford at home, in 14th trophy. the cup to captain of Kuwait SC team Hussein Hakim, Title, top four and front of our fantastic fans, they were unbelievable Fahad Al-Hajeri scored both goals as early as at min- the first place medals to the winners and the second again and they never ever moaned at our players, utes 5 and 25. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- place medals to Al-Qadsiya players. Khaitan and Burgan which they could have, but they’ve been supportive Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the sponsor of the competi- players co-chaired the third place medals. — KUNA pride at stake in and I’m sure they will be tonight.” Yet, there is a dilemma even for United fans keen to halt City’s rise. Manchester derby Should City fail to win at Old Trafford, Liverpool-his- 17-3 run, taking a 10-point lead into the fourth after the torically United’s fiercest rivals-will be just three Even by the rarified atmosphere Pistons had led much of the way. The Blake Griffin-led MANCHESTER: games away from a first league title in 29 years. Bucks sweep of Manchester derbies, there will seldom have been Pistons set an NBA record with their 14th consecutive Liverpool have already set their highest ever so much on the line for both sides of the city when playoff loss, a losing skid that began in 2008. points tally in the Premier League era of 88 to Manchester United host Manchester City today. For Pistons to advance Milwaukee was also the second team in playoff history lead City by two points. However, Guardiola’s men City, the Premier League title is at stake with Pep to sweep their first round series by at least 15 points in have a game in hand and should they move top LOS ANGELES: The Milwaukee Bucks wiped away 18 Guardiola’s men needing to win their remaining four each game, joining the 1980 Celtics. Last year, the Bucks once more with a win today, would just need to years of frustration on Monday by beating the Detroit matches to be sure of becoming the first side since lost to the Celtics in a seven-game series. This year’s sec- see off Burnley, Leicester and Brighton to guaran- Pistons 127-104 to complete a four-game sweep of their United a decade ago to retain the title. tee the title. first round Eastern Conference playoff series. ond round series will have some new faces. Milwaukee has Brook Lopez as a starter and added veterans George Those days of dominance are long gone for the “With this Liverpool side, our side we know if Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 41 points as the Bucks Red Devils with just a place in the top four and we lose what happens,” warned Guardiola. City’s reached the second round of the postseason for the first Hill and Nikola Mirotic. Gordon Hayward and Kyrie Irving were out with injuries for the Celtics last year. Champions League qualification their target. quest for a quadruple of trophies fell short by the time since the 2000-01 season when they made it all the However, United also have to restore some sense of finest of margins as they lost on away goals to way to the NBA semi-finals. Top-seeded Milwaukee Elsewhere, Donovan Mitchell scored 19 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter as the Utah Jazz staved off pride after a 4-0 thrashing at Everton on Sunday. Tottenham in the quarter-finals of the Champions cruised through the first three games and after a slow Defeat at Goodison Park was United’s sixth in League last week. start in game four, they took control late and won by a elimination in game four with a 107-91 victory over the Houston Rockets. “It’s not over,” Mitchell said. “We have eighth games, a run that has seen them crash out of However, they can still claim an unprecedented comfortable 23 points. the Champions League and FA Cup, as well as slip domestic treble by winning the league and FA Cup “I think it’s important that we take a second tonight. another one, and another one, and another one.” Jae Crowder added 23 points, Ricky Rubio tallied 18 back down to sixth in the Premier League. But with over the next month to go with their League Cup Enjoy it,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said. “It’s a Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea also faltering, they win in February. “I love my team being there,” good night for Milwaukee. It’s a good night for the points and 11 assists and Derrick Favors finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds for Utah, who trail three games to remain just three points off the top four. added Guardiola. Bucks.” Breaking their streak of eight straight playoff The momentum and feel good factor built up by “I am not going to criticise them because we are exits so quickly means Milwaukee has more time to pre- one. Utah outscored Houston 31-12 in the fourth quarter to set up game five today. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s first few months in charge out (of the Champions League). I see every day pare for their next opponent-the Boston Celtics, who are has gone. Now the Norwegian, only hired on a per- what we have done over the past two seasons, they coming off a sweep of Indiana. Mitchell said they now realize what they have been manent basis last month, has to show he has the show me character every three days. “I have good The Bucks matched their regular season dominance doing wrong and what it is going to take to win the ability to arrest the slump even before a major players, but they have to do it. And when people over the Pistons, winning all four games. They had met in series. “We all been struggling with our shots all series,” restructure of his squad takes place in the summer. expect them to do it, it’s harder to do it. That’s why the postseason four times with the Pistons winning them said Mitchell. “We didn’t play hard at the beginning. The Solskjaer questioned the work rate and desire of we push them but they respond really well. I love all. Antetokounmpo had a quiet night in game three with last two games we played harder. some of his players on Sunday, making it clear that my team.” just 14 points but he had all his weapons at his disposal in “There is no way we were going to go out like that. big changes are needed. However, he is clinging to City gained a small measure of revenge on the close-out game. We figured out what we have to do. The best thing for us the hope that those he currently has to call on will Spurs with a 1-0 league win on Saturday, but “I remember our first playoff series (in 2015),” is to continue to play team basketball.” James Harden be shocked into a short-term response. victory came at a cost with Kevin de Bruyne Antetokounmpo said. “Chicago, the last game, game six, scored 30 points to lead Houston. Chris Paul added 23 “Against City at Old Trafford today, that’s the unlikely to play again this season due to a ham- they beat us by 50 or something insane. But where we points, eight rebounds and seven assists. Eric Gordon tal- biggest incentive we can have,” said Solskjaer after string injury. — AFP were and where we are right now, it’s been an unbeliev- lied 16 points. The Rockets shot a dismal 17 of 46 from able journey.” Milwaukee finished the third quarter with a three-point range. — AFP