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By B Izzak
KUWAIT: State-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) yesterday made the biggest ever shakeup in the top positions of its eight subsidiaries and a number of lead- ing posts in KPC itself. The major restructuring replaced the managing directors of all the eight subsidiaries of KPC and appointed new executives for companies like Kuwait Oil Co (KOC), the oil production arm of KPC, Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC), which operates the three refineries for Kuwait, and others. Under the move, KOC managing director Sami Al- Rasheed, the most veteran oil executive, was among top oil officials who lost their jobs. He was replaced by Hashem Hashem. KNPC managing director Fahad Al- Adwah was also among those who were forced to retire and was replaced by Mohammad Al-Mutairi. Maha Mulla Al-Tarkait, the managing director of Petrochemicals Industries Co (PIC), also lost her job to Asaad Al-Saad. Tarkait and several other leading officials at PIC were suspended on Thursday over the $2.2 billion penalty payment to US’ Dow Chemical and the whole issue was referred to the public prosecution. The latest appointments come after the Cabinet on Thursday dismissed KPC chief executive officer Farouq Al-Zanki and appointed Nezar Al-Adasani to replace him. KPC insisted the decisions were not linked to the political crisis over Dow but aim at restructuring the oil sector to be able to cope with current and future chal- lenges and to inject fresh blood in the sector by giving an opportunity to the second generation of executives. KPC also introduced a new system under which a chair- man and a managing director are appointed for each oil company instead of a managing director alone. Separately, National Assembly Apeaker Ali Al-Rashed said yesterday that HH the Amir told a group of MPs NABI SHEET, Lebanon: Lebanese mourners carry the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Hassan Faisal Shuker, 18, who was killed in a battle against Syrian rebels in the that the government will attend the May 28 parliamen- Syrian town of Qusair, during his funeral procession in his hometown in the eastern Bekaa valley yesterday. — AP tary session after boycotting two sessions in protest against grillings. Rashed was speaking after he led a 17- strong parliamentary team in a meeting with the Amir Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria which reviewed local developments. Continued on Page 13 AMMAN/BEIRUT: About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fight- ers and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad have been killed in the Israel calls off UNESCO fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said yesterday. Sunday’s reported death toll was the highest for Hezbollah in a single day’s mission to Jerusalem conflict in Syria, highlighting the increasing interven- tion by the guerrilla group originally set up by Iran in JERUSALEM: Israel said it called off a became members of the organisation in the 1980s to fight Israeli occupation troops in south United Nations investigative mission to 2011. But ahead of the start of the dele- Lebanon. Jerusalem’s Old City due to start yester- gation’s work, the Palestinians were try- If confirmed, the Hezbollah losses also reflect the day because of Palestinian efforts to ing to “politicise” it, Israel said, contrary extent to which Syria is becoming a proxy conflict politicise the visit, as the UN said it was to understandings reached by the sides, between Shiite Iran and Gulf Arab states such as Saudi postponed. “Israel has cancelled the del- and to change the action plan UNESCO Arabia and Qatar, which back Assad’s mostly Sunni ene- egation,” a foreign ministry official told decided upon in 2010. “Palestinian for- mies. Western countries and Russia, an ally of Damascus, AFP. “The Palestinians were not respect- eign minister Riad Malki recently said back opposing sides in this regional free-for-all which is ing the understandings. The visit was they considered the mission a ‘commis- also sucking in Israel. Three times this year Israeli planes supposed to be professional, (but) they sion of inquiry,’” the official said, “and said have bombed presumed Iranian weapons destined for were taking measures that showed they they would discuss political issues with Hezbollah. were politicising the event and not let- the mission.” “The Palestinians are also CAIRO: An Egyptian man walks past a shop that sells alcohol on May 16, 2013. — AFP Syrian opposition sources and state media gave ting the delegation focus on professional pushing for the delegation to visit the widely differing accounts of Sunday’s ferocious clashes sides of it,” the official said. The United Temple Mount,” which is revered as Egypt faces pressure in Qusair, long used by rebels as a supply route from the Nations Educational, Scientific and Judaism’s most sacred place, said the nearby Lebanese border to the provincial capital Homs. Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), howev- official, using the Israeli term for the Hezbollah has not commented but in Lebanon’s Bekaa er, said the mission had only been post- complex known to Muslims as Al-Haram to end alcohol sales Valley yesterday, several funeral processions could be poned. “The mission is not cancelled, it’s Al-Sharif that houses the Al-Aqsa seen. Pictures of dead fighters were plastered on to cars been postponed. There’s no new date for Mosque. CAIRO: Egypt’s liquor stores are under Cairo residents. Like many liquor store and mourners waved yellow Hezbollah flags. Several it yet, and I’ve got no other details to Malki said the Palestinian Authority growing pressure to stop selling alcohol, owners in Egypt, Aziz says the mood has ambulances were seen on the main Bekaa Valley high- give. The mission hasn’t yet arrived,” had expected Israel’s move to block the they say, not from the country’s Islamist changed drastically since the 2011 upris- way and residents said hospitals had appealed for spokeswoman Sue Williams told AFP. mission. “We weren’t surprised by this government, but from society itself. The ing that toppled Hosni Mubarak and blood to treat the wounded brought back to Lebanon. Israel in April agreed that UNESCO decision because we believed that Israel’s shelves of Amir Aziz’s central Cairo prem- brought Islamists to power. “There are no The air and tank assault on the strategic town of could assess the state of the Old City of agreement to (allow the mission) was not ises are stacked with beer, wine and spir- restrictions from the government on the 30,000 people appeared to be part of a campaign by Jerusalem, the first such monitoring mis- convincing,” he said. Cultural and reli- its, but they are invisible from the street. sale of alcohol,” Aziz told AFP. “It’s the Assad’s forces to consolidate their grip on Damascus sion since 2004, following pressure from gious heritage is a highly politicised issue Aziz has covered the window with metal people who are giving us trouble.” Continued on Page 13 Jordan and the Palestinians, who for Israel and the Palestinians. — AFP sheets to avoid angering conservative Continued on Page 13 in the news KAC flight makes Saudis, Manila sign emergency landing US denounces ‘rise’ in deal to protect maids Vendor in Riyadh dies anti-Muslim sentiment after self-immolation KUWAIT: The pilot of a Kuwait Airways aircraft asked MANILA: The Philippines said yesterday it had signed a WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday RIYADH: A street vendor died in Saudi Arabia after Cairo International Airport for permission to make an historic agreement with Saudi Arabia that would pro- denounced what it called a spike in anti-Islamic sen- setting himself on fire in protest at having his goods emergency landing because of a cracked window. The timent in Europe and Asia, pointing to restrictions tect thousands of Filipina maids from being exploited in pilot dumped the fuel and landed safely. Meanwhile, confiscated by police, human rights activists reported and violence against Muslims including the faith’s the Middle Eastern kingdom. The agreement guaran- yesterday. The vendor, Mussa Ahmad Al-Harissi, “tried chaos dominated the arrivals hall at Kuwait minority sects. Releasing a wide-ranging annual tees Filipina maids benefits like a day off each week International Airport because of large crowds due to a to end his life on Wednesday evening by pouring report on religious freedom, Secretary of State John while preventing their hiring costs from being deduct- petrol over himself and setting himself alight,” the malfunction in the passport office. Kuwait Airways has Kerry also voiced alarm at what he called rising anti- ed from their salary among other safeguards, said activists said on condition of anonymity. He was signed a deal with Airbus to buy 15 A320neo and 10 Jewish sentiment. The State Department report, Labour Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz in a statement. “We protesting the seizure of the fruit and vegetables he A350-900 planes with options for 10 more, five from which covered 2012, said that “Anti-Muslim rhetoric are very confident that cases of abuse will be less after and actions were clearly on the rise - particularly in was selling without a licence at the Manfuha market each category. KAC, a state-owned company that is this agreement takes effect because the agreement undergoing privatisation, has received the govern- Europe and Asia.” In Myanmar, officials allegedly in southern Riyadh, witnesses said. He was admitted ensures fair and humane treatment of our HSWs (home ment’s approval for the deal - which is aimed at replac- fanned deadly anti-Muslim violence in Rakhine state to the King Saud medical complex in the capital, but service workers),” she said. She estimated that 60,000 ing the ageing fleet of the state’s national carrier. In while in China, authorities showed less tolerance died a day later. Harissi’s family has refused to collect domestic helpers from among the 670,000 Filipino addition to modernising its fleet, the loss-making com- toward the mostly Muslim Uighur community and his body while they wait for an explanation from the pany wants to make the airline profitable before offer- Tibetans, the report said. It said that Muslims also workers in Saudi Arabia would benefit from the accord authorities, several sources said. It is unclear is the ing a local or foreign investor a 40 percent stake. Kuwait faced new restrictions in 2012 in countries ranging which would also attract more Filipinas to work in Saudi man was a Saudi or of Yemeni origin. Harissi’s death is from Belgium, which banned face-covering religious Airways has posted losses in all but one of the past 21 Arabia. Under the agreement, Saudi Arabia is commit- reminiscent of that of Mohamed Bou Azizi, the attire in classrooms, to India where schools in ted to set up a 24-hour hotline for labour dispute reso- Tunisian vegetable seller who set himself on fire in years, amounting to more than $2.7 billion, which have Mangalore restricted headscarves. been covered by the government. lution, the department said. Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia in Dec 2010. TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 LOCAL Zain voted most famous Arab brand worldwide AMMAN: Zain Group, a pioneer in mobile possible the poll was widely circulated to telecommunications in eight markets all communication channels via an inde- across the Middle East and North Africa, pendent website, ASIP’s website, news today announces that it has been ranked as websites, social networks (Facebook, the top Arab brand across all sectors by the Twitter, LinkedIn), as well as various other Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP) media and direct mailing. Business sectors, poll. The survey included 200 of the most chambers of commerce and industry, asso- recognizable Arab trademarks across all ciations, professional unions and universi- Arab countries with over one hundred ties in Arab countries were specifically tar- thousand respondents participating in the geted to participate in the poll. questionnaire through ASIP’s website: Respondents were allowed to log their www.toparabbrands.com answers anonymously and only via elec- The ASIP is a non-profit organization tronic means. Votes could also only be cast based in Munich established on February once from an individual e-mail address, 23, 1987 with the purpose of enhancing limiting the chance of multiple nomina- and developing the protection of the tions from a single person. Intellectual Property (IP) system in Arab To be included in the short-list for the countries. In November 2012, ASIP opened rank of ‘the most famous Arab brand’, a an online poll requesting participants to specific minimum number of votes were select the Arab brands they believed were set in order for a trademark to be consid- the most visible and why. The five-month ered famous. A trademark also had to poll was based on an online questionnaire obtain votes from at least five different devised by a special committee within ASIP. countries in order to qualify. The winning The polling closed last month and ASIP trademarks were then ranked on the basis collated all the information from responses of the number of votes cast, which was all into two lists: one which included the most done electronically and without human famous Arab trademarks in general; and a intervention. KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received the outgoing ambassador of the Philippines to Kuwait Shulan second which contained the most famous The Zain brand was first launched in Primavera on concluding his tenure in Kuwait. Arab trademarks by sector. Zain was identi- September 2007, becoming the master cor- fied as the top of all Arab Brands. porate brand for the Group and all its oper- Scott Gegenheimer, Zain Group CEO ating companies across the region. said: “We have always been proud to be Countless advertising and promotional viewed as a communications provider from campaigns, matched by modern networks Traffic campaign will the region and for the region, so this wide- and quality mobile service offerings have spread endorsement among so many other contributed to the brand winning this and respectable brands is really gratifying. The many other prestigious awards over the fact that respondents from countries in years. continue: Gen Al-Ali which we do not even operate identified Notably one of the highlights of the Zain as the leading Arab brand is phenom- brands short but successful history was the enal.” Gegenheimer continued: “We will Zain branding of the two Vodafone Complaints on citations welcome continue to work very hard to epitomize McLaren Mercedes racing cars and teams at the values of the brand and fulfill our brand the recent Bahrain Gulf Air Formula 1 Grand KUWAIT: The General Traffic Department wel- taxis. These owners felt that the recent cam- campaigns included failure to produce proper promise of a wonderful world.” Prix that was viewed by a worldwide audi- comes any complaints forwarded by Kuwaitis paigns have been targeting their vehicles. “The licenses, as well as breaking traffic laws, espe- In order to gather as many opinions as ence exceeding 100 million. or foreigners living in Kuwait regarding traffic goal behind the ongoing campaign is to cially with regards to blocking the traffic. tickets issued during the ongoing crackdowns enforce the law on the streets,” the senior offi- Recent reports indicated that nearly 500 against traffic violations. This was revealed by cial said, adding that the crackdowns have taxis were impounded during the campaigns. Undersecretary Assistant for the Traffic revealed that several taxi drivers were involved Meanwhile, Maj Gen Al-Ali revealed that 26 bus- Al-Adasani takes over at KPC Department in the Interior Ministry, Major in illegal activities in which they were using es, 53 tankers and 100 tractor trailers were General Abdulfattah Al-Ali, who insisted at the their vehicles. impounded for committing various traffic viola- same time that a complaint would not be According to Maj Gen Al-Ali, there are nearly tions. The senior official had indicated earlier this KUWAIT: The new CEO of Kuwait the most important files of the oil sector. enough to cancel a ticket that has been issued. 8,000 taxis in Kuwait, operated by around 500 week that 1,258 expatriates were deported for Petroleum Corporation (KPC), Nizar Al- Sources said the new management will Maj Gen Al-Ali made these statements dur- companies. He explained that violations com- committing ‘serious violations’ repeatedly in the Adasani, took up office on Sunday to start a identify the three most important issues in ing a meeting with owners of offices running mitted by taxi drivers and detected during the first four weeks of the campaign.—Al-Qabas new period of change and reform in the oil the oil sector and give priority to files deal- sector and implement the latest plans of ing with those issues. One of the most the council of ministers. important issues involves privatization of According to informed sources, Al- some sectors, because of its implication on Adasani did not hold any meeting either the employment situation in the country. with leaders from the oil sector or within Other issues involve restructuring of sub- the corporation, which was not expected. sidiary companies and the future of mega Instead, he began getting acquainted with projects.
26 violators held from vegetable market By Hanan Al-Saadoun
KUWAIT: On the instructions of Assistant Undersecretary Ministry of Interior Lt General Mahmoud Al-Dawsary, Jahra police, Sulaibiya com- mand, conducted an inspection at the local vegetable market, which resulted in the arrest of 26 violators of the residency law. The ministry’s KUWAIT: On behalf of the Minister of Education Dr Nayef Al-Hajraf, assistant under- security department officials emphasized the importance of security in all secretary for qualitative education affairs, Bader Al-Fraih yesterday opened a special governorates and said such inspection activities will continue. They urged exhibition of the workshop products made by students with special needs at the citizens and expats to cooperate with security officials and not hesitate to special education schools. call emergency number 112 any time they witnessed a crime or an attempt to violate the law. Meanwhile, continuing with the Kuwait Municipality’s campaign against the vendors, the Farwaniya municipality carried out several inspec- tion drives in the governorate in Farwaniya and Khaitan. The campaign resulted in handing out 137 citations to vendors and 17 citations for illegally encroaching upon the public road. A total of 66 oil tins and two gas cylinders were confiscated in the campaign. Public relations authorities at the Kuwait municipality said that the campaign was aimed at securing the health of citizens and expats and ensuring that no unlawful practice happens on the roads. Driver held for drug pushing By Hanan Al-Saadoun
KUWAIT: Drug enforcement agents arrested a driver, work- ing for a Kuwaiti family, for using the family car to distrib- ute drugs to the addicts. MoE official allays fears Earlier, information was received that an Asian expat was involved in the drug trade was active in distribution of over retirement decision drugs too. Immediately, a team was formed to collect nec- essary information and once it was verified and officers KUWAIT: Education Minister Dr Nayef Al- terday. According to the report, the deci- were convinced that the man was actively involved in crim- Hajraf promised a number of senior min- sion was going to make the general direc- inal acts, legal precautions were taken. istry officials that he will coordinate with tor’s post in the ministry “even more unap- The driver was arrested and a search of his person led to the cabinet regarding their demands to pealing for qualified Kuwaitis who prefer the recovery of 80 grams of heroin. He and the drugs were exempt certain senior posts in the min- opportunities with better financial incen- sent to concerned authorities. istry from the government’s 30-year retire- tives.” ment cap, a local newspaper reported yes- They warned that the entire section terday. According to a decision released which oversees curriculums and teaching by the Civil Service Commission and plans in both public and private schools in approved by the Cabinet recently, public Kuwait “will end up being controlled by sector employees are required to retire expatriate directors” if the retirement deci- immediately after they complete 30 years sion was to be applied. Moreover, the offi- in office, while undersecretaries are cials pointed out that the decision was in required to retire after completing 35 conflict with a CSC norm which set the years in service. The new stipulation will retirement age in the Education Ministry help the government ‘rejuvenate’ senior at 65 years. positions as well as in stemming the In other news, minister Al-Hajraf increase in unemployment rate. announced that the Sabah Al-Salem But the decision has reportedly caused University would be ready for inaugura- an uproar within the Ministry of tion by 2019 “after all obstacles were Education, given the large number of sen- removed to help the work process move in ior officials to be affected, as well as the the correct path.” He made this statement lack of trained employees to be promoted during a tour last Sunday around the uni- in their place. “While minister Al-Hajraf versity’s construction site in Shaddadiya, KUWAIT: In collaboration with the ministry of education, the Social Development during a recent meeting said he under- and indicated that six out of the nine fac- Office at HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah’s bureau yester- stood the officials’ concerns, he expressed ulty premises included in the project were day launched a special campaign to alleviate the stress students face when they sit disappointment about the lack of efforts currently under construction. “The first for examinations. The campaign, headed by Dr Kholoud Al-Jouban, is held under the to prepare officials to replace seniors over college set to be completed will be the title of “Tests Are Fun, Not Terror”. the past several years,” Al-Rai reported yes- Faculty of Engineering in 2016,” he added. TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 LOCAL British visa on arrival likely for Kuwaitis
KUWAIT: The British government is consid- on top of the list. He said communication ering waiving the need for Britain-bound between the two countries on the issue will Kuwaitis to collect their visa from the be facilitated through the guidance com- British embassy here and allowing them to mittee, which is working towards bringing get it at British airports, in view of a request their views together, and the second meet- from Kuwait. Director of Europe ing will be held next month during the visit Department at the Foreign Ministry of the British Minister of State. Ambassador Waleed Al-Khubaizi confirmed Al-Khubaizi said the latest develop- this information, saying that Kuwait and ments on the issue will be discussed and some other countries have submitted joint the mechanism through which Kuwait can requests, under the “Gulf Initiative”, to the provide all the vital information related to British government to relieve their citizens its citizens’ passports, along with other of the need to collect entry visas from immigration information, will be agreed British embassies. Al-Khubaizi stated that upon. He added that the British govern- the British government is considering each ment was very cooperative and was work- country’s request separately, and Kuwait is ing hard to accept Kuwait’s request.
Amir receives speaker, MPs
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah sentatives in the parliament in order to listen “The acclaimed achievements of laws, con- Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received to their various points of view, noting that the ventions and decrees in the parliament National Assembly Speaker Ali Fahad Al- MPs are also keen on listening to HH Sheikh praised by HH Sheikh Sabah pleased and reas- Rashed, MP Mubarak Al-Khurainej and a num- Sabah’s directives. sured the MPs,” Al-Rashed added. On whether ber of MPs at Seif Palace yesterday. During the meeting, there was “emphasis the meeting with HH the Amir dealt with the In a statement following the reception, on the completion of the laws that concern repercussion of the Speaker Al-Rashed said “HH the Amir the people of Kuwait for the next stage,” Al- Constitutional Court ruling on the single- informed us that the government will attend Rashed noted, adding that HH the Amir “con- vote decree, Al-Rashed said “This subject was the next Assembly session on May 28.” Al- firmed his follow-up and satisfaction with the not addressed as it is up to the Constitutional Rashed stressed HH the Amir’s keenness to great achievements made by the National Court, and people will be bound to respect KUWAIT: The Ambassador of Lebanon Dr Khodr Heloui visited Kuwait Times and dis- communicate with the Kuwaiti people’s repre- Assembly.” the court’s decision.” — KUNA cussed matters of mutual concern with Editor-in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan. — Photo by Joseph Shagra MP draws flak over segregation proposal ‘Kuwait needs new rules to safeguard tradition’ By Nawara Fattahova
KUWAIT: Recently, MP Saad Al-Bous suggested adding a new paragraph to the Criminal Law No 16/0960 that will ban men and women from wearing indecent outfits on the beaches, on the islands and at public places. The proposed para- graph also mandates segregating men and women at sports halls, playing grounds, swim- ming pools at hotels, public and private sports clubs and health clubs. CAIRO: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Cairo Dr Rasheed Al-Hamad yesterday handed over The MP proposed punishing the violators of Kuwait’s contribution of $150,000 to complete construction of the Islamic charitable this law with up to six months’ imprisonment or complex project in Minya province south of the capital Cairo. Al-Hamad told (KUNA) fines of up to KD500, or both. According to him, that Kuwait’s support of charitable projects in Egypt comes within the framework of the objective of this proposal is to eliminate the the good relations between the two countries in various fields. He also praised the negative phenomena and behaviors that are efforts of the Kuwaiti Office for Charitable Projects of Zakat House for the charitable against the local culture and traditions but have projects that include mosques, hospitals and schools as well as caring for orphans become popular at Kuwaiti beaches, islands, and poor families. — KUNA yachts and sporting venues. Captain Yasser Dawwy, working as a trainer at a health club, noted that such a proposal is not appropriate. “People are coming to train together modern country and people are open-minded, so places and clubs, as there are some visitors who at one place. They are coming to practice sports we can’t go back to old primitive times. The mod- don’t respect our culture and traditions and and not to do something bad. Forbidden behav- ern woman is free to wear whatever she likes. If I wear vulgar outfits. On the other hand, I don’t ior is practiced under the table and not in the wanted to talk to somebody, I can do it far away agree with the idea of a gender segregation law, public. I’ve been working in this gym for more from people. We can’t ban people from talking to as I have never seen any problems in the club than five years and but I have never witnessed each other,” Dawwy stated. “Even in Saudi Arabia, that I visit every week. Also, I’m going to the club any problem or received any harassment com- there are many instances of wrong behavior with my family. How can I enjoy my time if we plaint from any member,” he told the Kuwait although the customs and traditions are legally are segregated?” he asked. Catherine, 27, criti- Times yesterday. “Men and women are together enforced there. In case this law proposal comes cized the law proposal. “With this law, Kuwait will everywhere, in schools and at work. However, I into force, the results will be fatal. Bad behaviour slowly turn into Saudi Arabia. I wonder why the agree that there should be rules to regulate their exists here as well as elsewhere, but is practiced in MP has made this proposal. If he thinks bad outfits. Thus, segregation is a personal matter, and secret. Our country is fine, and we don’t need things will not happen, he is wrong, as people woman can stop anybody from abusing them. such laws on segregation. Otherwise people may will do them in secret. This law will not solve the They can also control how people look at them or protest,” concluded Dawwy. problem; it will just make it worse. I understand talk to them,” Dawwy pointed out. Abdullah, a father of two children, agrees with having certain rules for public places, but this He said rules could be put in place to prevent the idea of having a dress code in the country but MP is crossing the line when he is trying to con- certain types of indecent behavior. “After all, we is against the proposed segregation law. “As a trol private places such as clubs, hotels, health are in an Arab country, where most people Muslim man, I prefer to have set rules for outfits. clubs and others, which are not under his juris- respect the traditions. On the other hand, it’s a There should be a decent dress code for public diction,” she pointed out.
KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait launched for the second consecutive year the “make it easy for them”, during the summer 2013 season. Public Relations team along with several bank employees distributed water coolants on cleaning and con- struction workers in the streets, in addition to medical masks to protect them against dust and sand. Hand disinfectants and drinking water bottles were also dis- KUWAIT: A delegation from the department of supply and transport in the Kuwaiti Army paid a visit to logistics division at National Guard yes- tributed during the novel campaign which was launched last year during summer terday. The visit was in the framework of increasing cooperation and coordination between the two departments and sharing experience with a and winter. view to improving performance. The delegation was met by Brig Faleh Shujaa Faleh who welcomed the visitors to National Guard. TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 LOCAL
Local Letters to Badrya Spotlight
Kuwaitization Traffic congestion
Dear Badrya, By Muna Al-Fuzai Today I read your article in the newspaper. It is no doubt a very well-thought-out and factual analysis of the repercussions of what has beende- cided by the ministries. I think the Kuwaitization drama, which allegedly [email protected] has a part to play in this step, is futile - because none of the Kuwaitis will work as Faraash, taxi driv- er, home driver, Jamia helper or tea boy. Having said that, from what I have observed at offices eaving home to go anywhere has really (please don’t mind), Kuwaitis occupying pivotal become a nightmare in Kuwait, no matter positions in various offices confine themselves to signing documents and spend the rest of their offi- Lhow early you leave in the morning. One cial time having a smoke, coffee or on cell phones. ends up cooped up in the car for an hour or At the end of the day, it is the expats who sit late two sometimes to reach a destination not more or make efforts to complete the work on time than half an hour away. Kuwait is a small coun- either for their job security or to abide by the try, and hence it should not be very difficult to instructions of their Kuwaiti seniors, which in turn implement any new ideas and find solutions to would ensure continuation of their service. end the traffic chaos that people have to suffer Remember, he has left his home town to earn a from every day. better living for his family. He cannot afford to fail kuwait digest in his endeavours. Two MPs came with suggestions which may He is not getting a child education/birth and may not find favour with others. MP allowance, or a stake in any company (few are open The search for scandals Mubarak Al-Orf proposed that the working to the idea of having an expat as a partner), or an hours at the ministries and public institutions annual grant for groceries or other amenities (the be skewed so that the opening and closing costs of which we all know are huge for a Kuwaiti). By Dr Abdulmuhsin Al-Moqatei I would also like to request you to emphasize a timings of the two groups are well separated. bit on the visa restrictions for certain nationalities hat kind of a country would any nation such idleness becomes harmful both to them and the He said while some of these could work from (commercial and family visas). I came to Kuwait in become when people would nothing to work society. This is the state of the majority of people who 7:30 am to 1:30 pm, others could stay open search of a safe and better life. Working in the trou- Wtowards, no point to prove? Such a society comprise the Kuwaiti society. from 9 am to 3 pm. He claimed that this bled city of Karachi as Assistant Vice President in a would see the workplace becoming a platform for chat- We live in a society in which a majority of people are arrangement would reduce the traffic conges- reputed bank, I had no financial need to move to ting and wasting time, and would be no place for pro- always eager to listen to rumors, and appreciate those Kuwait (till date). It was just safety that was the ductivity and improvement. who are capable of crafting and I think the problem in Kuwait is main concern for me. But the restrictions on visas In this society, income would We live in a society in which a spreading rumors. This has have ignited a sense of dislike in me for the current be no longer necessary for allowed for media outlets that because of the population increase system of visas in Kuwait. Even though I am well fulfilling life’s requirements, majority of people are always eager excel in fabricating news and over the last 20 years and yet there settled at work with a good enough salary and but will be instead used to to listen to rumors, and appreciate spreading them, and we have being no additional road length. happy employers, I will go back to my home town acquire an even more luxuri- those who are capable of crafting ended up with many unofficial if I am asked to sacrifice my family life. Anyways, my ous lifestyle. Meanwhile, ‘tabloids’ for those in the habit The highways expansion has been point is about the recent surge in crimes in Kuwait and spreading rumors. This has political work would no of spreading scandals. far from satisfactory and the roads (especially sexual), be it illegal marriages or harass- longer remain a vehicle to allowed for media outlets that excel The problem we have in ment cases. They can be linked to the stress of are not sufficient, considering the improve political life and in fabricating news and spreading Kuwait is that the state is grad- many expats denied their family visas. state management, but ually falling apart as a result of exponential growth in the number Lastly, my request is this: Check everyone them, and we have ended up with would become a tool to mismanagement, deterioration of cars. The solutions in the form of before allowing entry into Kuwait and do not allow boost one’s popularity or many unofficial ‘tabloids’ for those in the level of political work, any criminal to enter this beautiful country. But, serve personal agendas. absence of state institutions skewing office hours or college tim- please, allow the non-criminal ones to enter after in the habit of spreading scandals. This diagnosis can be and decline in constitutional ings would hardly do much to due scrutiny. They will pay tameen to MOH, rent to applied in our society where legitimacy. On the other hand, Kuwaitis, grocery charges to Kuwaitis and school people suffer from a feeling of emptiness because of a the society is disintegrating due to decaying values of reduce the traffic jams. fees to the MoE. What else can they do? sense of irresponsibility, no obligation towards the integrity, honesty, and patriotism. We no more reject country, a lack of financial duties, combined with a sectarianism, tribalism and the spread of rumors. My best wishes, heartiest appreciation and tion during morning rush hours. I don’t person- good financial income. A person who does not find a Meanwhile, there are people behind the scenes who regards. need to work and be productive starts living a dull pub- have influence and watch happily even as our society ally see how it would be any great help since lic life and has no general interest. In the meantime, falls apart in front of their eyes. — Al-Qabas those supposed to start work at 9 am would be Abdullah leaving home by 8 am to be on the safe side. They may still find some of those who left the house late still stuck on the road. Here in kuwait digest Kuwait, you would find the roads clogged at all times, even at mid-day when children and Responsibility of the workers are not on the roads. Popular Action Bloc MP Kamel Al-Awadhi proposed delaying the lecture timings of university students to between 9 or 10 am and 8 pm to ease the traf- By Dr Hassan Abbas fic congestion in the mornings. That I guess needs to be tested for a semes- he Popular Action Bloc earned the reputation ter. If you go anywhere near the college located of being perhaps the ‘loudest’ political move- Tment in Kuwait. They were very vocal when in Khalidiya area early in the morning, you news about Kuwait signing the deal with Dow would see many students racing past you to Chemical hit the headlines, as well as when the make it in time to their lectures. government terminated the contract. The bloc put I think the problem in Kuwait is because of pressure on the government which forced it to uni- the population increase over the last 20 years laterally withdraw from the deal with Dow and yet there being no additional road length. Chemical - a decision that ultimately cost Kuwait The highways expansion has been far from more than two billion dollars. I would like to discuss the subject from different angles. satisfactory and the roads are not sufficient, The first angle: what gave the Popular Action considering the exponential growth in the Bloc or the parliament in general the right to force number of cars. the government into making certain executive The solutions in the form of skewing office decisions? Shouldn’t the lawmakers be monitoring hours or college timings would hardly do much the government’s work and holding state officials to reduce the traffic jams. accountable, instead of taking executive steps? The We need to have new roads. How hard is bloc’s behavior back in 2008 left the state with two that to understand? A short visit to Dubai options: either cancel the deal or engage in politi- cal turmoil. And since it is clear that they interfered would be a lesson in seeing how we need new in the executive authority’s job, I find it strange that ideas. Dubai shows us how to help people the bloc would still talk about defending the con- reach their destination, regardless where they stitution and defend its action of superseding the are and at what time of the day. They have con- state’s authorities, etc. While it has emerged as the structed subways, something I doubt I will ever main reason why Kuwait had to pay that fine, the see in my life time. But, at least adapting such Popular Action Bloc has the audacity to speak now? new ideas instead of just changing timings The second angle: the quantum of the loss. While Kuwait has lost $2.2 billion paid to Dow could help. Chemical as per the penalty clause in the canceled We need solutions, that should surely be contract, the country has also lost the amount of tested, observed, examined and evaluated. profits which the US-based company made in the Maybe these ideas being proposed would help years after the deal was called off. According to offi- and we may not need the subways and under- cial statistics, Dow Chemical earned $8 billion in ground transportation systems. I doubt that the past two years only. Therefore, you can add but we need to remain open to all ideas. Kuwait’s share from the operational profits in Dow Shouldn’t we? Chemical to the money lost as a result of the penal fine. The third angle: accountability. We certainly Letter to Muna Al-Fuzai demand that everyone who dragged Kuwait into this situation be held accountable, and their per- sonal accounts and the accounts of their family members be investigated - as recommended by Hi Muna, Popular Action Bloc members Musallam Al-Barrak There is no country on this planet that has and Ahmad Al-Saadoun. But this also means that ever implemented or even thought of imple- the bloc’s members should be held accountable for menting such a biased and discriminatory law. the state missing the opportunity of investment in the deal. Moreover, the bloc should be held You are right when you say they should just set accountable for its role in suspending the mega a limit or stop giving out work visas or just projects and making accusations without providing “weed out” people through attrition. What they evidence. They did so in the deposits case, the 2007 are doing is discriminatory at best and criminal generators case, the North Zoor project, and oth- at worst. I am sure the international community ers. However, they have never been able to retrieve will eventually intervene and demand that this the allegedly stolen funds or expose the culprits in “silly” practice be stopped. Most of these hard any of these cases. The Popular Action Bloc should be the first to be working people deserve better than this. They held accountable for the disastrous affect it had on are not only here to support their families, but the public funds, because they claim knowledge of are performing critical service related jobs for things allegedly happening behind the scenes, and the public and the citizens of Kuwait. possessing evidence they never come forward Steve with. — Al-Rai TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 LOCAL Man dares authorities to deport arrested driver Car thieves in police custody KUWAIT: Interior Ministry officials ed during unscheduled crackdowns luxury cars as well as vehicles completely barred a Kuwaiti man ordered by Major General Ibrahim offered for sale, Jahra police identi- from hiring any domestic workers Al-Tarrah, the Director of the Jahra fied three stateless residents with in the future after he refused to and Farwaniya security depart- history of criminal behavior as hand over the passport of his driver ments. According to a source famil- being the main suspects. The three who was to be deported. The Asian iar with the checks, Maj Gen Al- were arrested after detectives man was told he will be deported Tarrah first stopped by at the Al- nabbed one of them who led the after he was arrested for jumping a Rehab Police Station and found an police to the others. They led offi- red traffic light - a violation that led officer and four privates smoking cers to a place where they had to the discovery that he had a inside the officer’s office. After that, parked the ten stolen vehicles, record 24 violations against his he headed to the Saad Al-Abdullah including seven whose body parts name - including 15 for jumping police station and found an officer were dismantled to be sold sepa- the red traffic light. and two privates smoking ciga- rately. The suspects were referred to After coming to know about the rettes. The policemen are reported- the proper authorities to face predicament that his driver faced, ly being questioned before being charges. (Qabas) the employer headed to the office referred to the military tribunal. of the General Traffic Department (Rai) Kidnappers arrested Director and tried to talk Major Three people were arrested General Abdulfattah Al-Al into par- Driver without license held while search was on for a fourth doning the driver. Even after his A man faces legal action after he suspect following a fight which appeal was rejected, the Kuwaiti told officers at a driving test facility started after the group unsuccess- man refused to cooperate and left that he had been driving for a year- fully tried to kidnap a teenager in while remaining adamant about and-a-half without a license. Officers Taima. According to the police not handing over his driver’s pass- at the Capital Traffic Department report, the suspects beat up the port. The driver was eventually building became suspicious about young man after they failed to force referred to the deportation depart- the Arab man who applied to under- him into their vehicle. The young- KUWAIT: The Deputy Head of Mission of the Republic of Kenya Wamunyu Kamau visited Kuwait Times and dis- ment after Maj Gen Al-Ali obtained go a driving test after driving down ster rushed to a nearby house and cussed matters of mutual concern with Editor- in-Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan. necessary travel documents from to the facility in his own car. He was sought shelter with its residents, but the embassy of the country to arrested after he admitted he had his attackers followed him and which the driver belonged. In the been driving without a license, and engaged in a fight with the home- meantime, the Immigration General his vehicle was impounded. He was owner. Neighbors eventually joined Kuwait grants $250,000 to Department was contacted to referred to the proper authorities for in the melee before the incident blacklist the employer’s name for further action. (Rai) was reported. The suspects escaped refusing to hand over his driver’s before police could reach, but offi- Al-Quds Open University passport. Car thieves in custody cers learned that they had headed AMMAN: Jahra police arrested three peo- to the Jahra Hospital after sustain- Kuwait has granted $250,000 to Officers disciplined ple responsible for multiple thefts ing injuries during the fight. Three Al-Quds Open University to complete the Eight policemen were referred to reported by car owners around of the suspects were detained at the branch project in Nablus. Kuwaiti the proper authorities for question- Kuwait. Following extensive investi- hospital while search was on for the Ambassador to Jordan Dr. Hamad Al-Duaij handed the donation at the Kuwaiti ing in the wake of violations detect- gations in cases filed by owners of fourth.—Al-Rai, Al- Watan, Al-Qabas embassy here, to the President of Al Quds Open University Professor Dr. Younis Amro, in the presence of Director of the Spate of road casualties University’s branch in Nablus Dr Yousef Diab Awwad and Director of the By Hanan Al-Saadoun University’s branch in Jordan Rushdi Al- multiple injuries in a car accident at the A car accident at the Fourth Ring Fifth Ring Road opposite Reqie which Road opposite Al-Khalidiya left a 33- Qawasmi. KUWAIT: Dr. Al-Duaij said this initiative to the A car accident at the intersec- also left a 20-year-old expat with facial year-old Kuwaiti man with injuries to the university comes as part of the ongoing tion of the Fourth Ring Road and the Al- injuries. Both were taken to the Al-Sabah chest and neck. He was taken to the support to Palestine in various fields. For Ghazali Road left a 35- year-old Egyptian Hospital. Amiri Hospital. his part, Dr. Amr thanked Kuwait and its expat with multiple injuries and a bleed- A car accident at Al-Firdous between Fighting broke out at Hawally, oppo- leadership for this donation aimed at the ing nose while a 43-year-old Kuwaiti block 1 and 2 left a 20-year-old Kuwaiti site Centrepoint, leaving a 28-year-old development of university system in man complained of dizziness after the man with fractures in both his feet. He Pakistani expat with fractures in both his Palestine and the Palestinian people as same mishap. Both were taken to the Al- was taken to the Al-Farwaniya Hospital. hands. He was taken to the Mubarak well. He explained that the grant will ben- Sabah Hospital. A car accident at the Fahaheel Hospital. efit some 65,000 students. —KUNA A car accident at Hawally, Hassan Al- Expressway at Al-Maseela Bridge result- Another scuffle happened at Hawally Basri Street, left a 34-year-old Egyptian ed in a direct head injury for a man opposite the Khalid Commercial expat with facial injuries. He was taken about 60 years of age. He was rushed to Complex, leaving a 29-year-old Pakistani to the Mubarak Hospital. the Mubarak Hospital and admitted to expat with a head injury. He was taken Theft crimes on rise in Kuwait A 39-year-old Indian expat received its intensive care unit. to the Mubarak Hospital.
KUWAIT: More than 27,000 money- breaking in or robbed homes - the next few years, by an average of related crimes, including those blackmail and theft of public funds. 4137 expected for 2013, a figure involving theft and blackmail, were It showed that 27,585 such crimes gradually expected to climb to an reported during the past eight years were committed over the past eight average of 5050 by 2017. in Kuwait, a local newspaper report- years; 14 percent of which were by Meanwhile, Al-Qabas quoted legal ed yesterday quoting a Ministry of Kuwaiti citizens. Moreover, the study experts who commented on the Justice study. showed that suspects in a majority issue by indicating that at least 40 The legal study was carried out of these cases fell in the 40 to 50 percent of such cases were shelved by the Information Technology and years age group. According to the due to lack of evidence, noting at Statistics Department in the min- study, 3929 of these crimes were the same time that investigations in istry, and covered crimes including recorded last year. It further predict- some cases took years without any theft - either through mugging, ed an increase in similar crimes in evidence coming to the fore. Banks report hacking into clients’ accounts KUWAIT: Banking sources revealed that accounts of some of clients’ accounts, particularly those who made purchases the clients at the local banks were hacked two days back by through the internet, or who shared their codes with unli- hackers using advanced programs and hi-tech equipments. censed websites. Once any client’s account was hacked, an The sources also said international hackers could be involved SMS message was sent to the client’s mobile indicating the in the episode. Sources said the hacking was aimed at some amount deducted from his account, though he had not bought anything. Sources added that some clients withdrew their money from banks, lest the hackers laid their hands on their sav- ings. Some clients said they withdrew the money pend- ing a change in their code numbers connected to the accounts. Clients who suffered loss- es in the hacking attempts have filed complaints with the banks, which have taken on record their remarks and are following it up with the Central Bank.
Kuwait blacklists Iran firms, individuals KUWAIT: The Central Bank of Kuwait informed the local banks, investment firms and currency compa- nies to freeze the assets, accounts and other finan- cial activities of individuals or organizations involved in nuclear and ballistic missile programs in accordance with United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran. According to a report published by Al- Qabas yesterday, a letter sent by the Central Bank to local financial firms in this regard included a list of companies and individuals with whom any dealings must be avoided. The Central Bank also requested feedback on procedures followed on in this regard within five days. TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 LOCAL McAfee offers latest cyber security solutions IT security firm holds seminar for partners, customers By Sajeev K Peter KUWAIT: Today’s targeted threats to the Winners of Kuwait IT security call for next generation intru- sion prevention controls and only Prize, Scientific McAfee’s network platform solutions can offer all the required controls for the Production effective security, said Essam Ahmed, McAfee’s pre-sales manager for security, Award announced MENA region. Talking to Kuwait Times on the side- KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah lines of a conference organized by Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah approved the list McAfee for its partners and customers at of nominations for 2012’s Kuwait Prize and the Courtyard Marriott Hotel yesterday, Scientific Production Award, Kuwait Ahmed said with the acquisition of Foundation for Advancement of Sciences Stonesoft, McAfee can address business- announced yesterday. es of all sizes with its software-based In a press statement, KFAS said that Kuwait cyber security solutions that can secure Prize is designed to recognize intellectual information flow and simplify security achievements that serve interest of scientific management. advancement and support efforts to raise Stonesoft’s product portfolio of next- Essam Ahmed during the event KUWAIT: Abdul Karim B Yasin (second right), Hazem Al-Said (right) and other McAfee standards of culture in each of the following generation firewalls include evasion pre- officials during the conference.— Photos by Joseph Shagra ‘trial and error’ method. And the attacker fields: Basic Sciences, Applied Sciences, vention systems and SSL VPN solutions. may be using an email or a social net- vator in next-generation network firewall the first security management system Economic and Social Sciences, Arts and Letters Talking about the persistent cyber working platform such as Facebook, products, for an aggregate equity value that lets businesses instantly find infor- attacks in the region despite several and Arabic and Islamic Scientific Heritage. LinkedIn or Twitter by sending a mali- of approximately $389 million in cash. mation about any computer, deploy Dr Yusuf Hannun, Vice Dean of Stony Brook security systems in place, especially in cious file on PDF or a picture. That can be Abdul Karim B Yasin, Technical products or update configurations in a University School of Medicine Cancer Center the context of the recent attacks in Saudi one point of entry,” he explained. Support Manager, IT & Statistics Sector, matter of seconds. Arabia and Kuwait, Ahmed said now the Ahmed said McAfee in doing a lot of Ministry of Justice, Kuwait told Kuwait McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is and Director of the Stony Brook institute for threat perception has changed drastical- innovations around technologies today Times that the ministry was the first in now actively connected to the McAfee cancer, won prize of the Basic Sciences in the ly. “Now the hackers are not going in for in terms of connecting more technolo- Kuwait to implement the McAfee securi- ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) plat- biogenetic category. big attacks by targeting any single cus- gies together to create more awareness ty system to protect its IT environment form, McAfee Vulnerability Manager, and Dr Salah Muhammad Budair, a professor at tomer or entity. They are now in for tar- enabling industries to take action at the from threats. the McAfee Network Security Platform - the departments of Electrical Engineering and geted attacks by trying to get into the right time. “For that we need to have real Hazem Al-Said, Territory Manager, automatically initiating endpoint and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State environment,” he said recalling the recent time information, only then you can take McAfee, Kuwait and Oman and Kholoud network security policy changes based University, won in category of Applied multi-layer attacks. appropriate action to prevent malware Barakat, Marketing and PR Manager on its powerful correlation capability. Science in the energy field. “This must be a wake-up call for from penetrating. With Stonesoft, MENA were also present during the Together, these solutions set a new The award Economic and Social Science in everybody. If an attack takes place today, McAfee can block all the multi-factor interview. industry standard for time to respond, the management field was earned by Dr the next one may happen only after a entry points, remediate them and make McAfeeis has raised the bar on intelli- situational awareness and operational Ahmed Sakr Ashour, a professor of manage- month and even the next one after sure that your system is secure,” he gent threat identification with the latest efficiency. ment at Egypt’s Alexandria University. The Arts another month. The malware here is like added. updates to its security management McAfee is a wholly owned subsidiary and Letters and Arabic and Islamic Scientific a rat trying to reach a piece of cheese,” he McAfee recently announced the exe- solutions delivering on its recently of Intel Corporation that seeks to Heritage prize was shared by Dr. Ahmad elaborated. cution of a definitive agreement to initi- announced security connected vision. empower businesses, the public sector Dellah from the American University of Beirut “This is what is called the Advanced ate a conditional tender offer for the With the announcement of McAfee Real and home users to safely experience the Persistent Threat (APT), using a simple acquisition of Stonesoft, a leading inno- Time for ePolicy Orchestrator software, benefits of the Internet. (AUB), and the Tunisian researcher Faiza Al- Aridh who translated into French Al-Khazini’s Book of the Balance of Wisdom (Kitab Mizan Al-Hikmah), on mechanics, hydrostatics and Arab Health Council elects physics. Meanwhile, The Scientific Production Prize, which is intended to encourage the elite of the Kuwaiti scientific community to further Kuwait as executive head pursue research for the benefit of the society, is given in five fields: Physical Sciences and GENEVA: Kuwaiti Minister of Health Dr drugs that are of great risk on the lives of Mathematics, Engineering Sciences, Social Mohammad Barrak Al-Haifi announced our citizens, he added. Sciences and Humanities, Biological Sciences here yesterday that Kuwait has been This phenomenon should be faced and Medicinal Sciences. elected Chairman of the Arab Health strictly in coordination with all relevant The Prize of the Physical Sciences was won Ministers Council’s Executive Office. parties, the minister said. Kuwait is great- by Dr Maytham Hassan Safar from Kuwait He added in remarks on the sidelines ly interested in enhancing the health University’s Computer Engineering of the 40th session of the council held awareness among the Arab public Department. Dr Ahdurlrahman Khalid Al- here as part of the World Health through the great role it plays in the pro- Othman from the College of Technology at the Organization’s (WHO) activities that this tection of diseases and elevation of pub- presidency is of great honor to Kuwait. lic health care. Al-Haifi hailed the great Public Authority for Applied Education and Kuwait will exert all possible efforts in care offered by His Highness the Prime Training (PAAET) earned the Engineering dealing with vital health issues concern- Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Sciences Award. ing the Arab citizen, and at the top of Hamad Al-Sabah in boosting the role of Dr Jamal Al-Qanai from the English them non-contagious chronic diseases. A media in spreading health awareness. Language and Literature Department at large number of patients in the Arab Kuwait is a pioneer in supporting and Kuwait University Faculty of Arts won Social world are suffering from diabetes, obesi- encouraging initiatives of Arab expatri- Sciences and Humanities prize, Dr Faiza Yousef ty, cancer, and respiratory system dis- ate scientists through the implementa- Al-Yamani from Department of Aquaculture, eases resulting from smoking. tion of various projects in the field of Fisheries and Marine Environment at Kuwait They are of intensive negative impact health and medical sciences, Al-Haifi Institute for Scientific Research took home the on the patient and the whole family, and said. The Arab expatriate doctors and sci- Biological Science award, and lastly, Dr Nourah also have immense economic conse- entists have made great achievements in Ahmad Sulaiman Al-Suwaih from Kuwait quences on the country, Al-Haifi this field in various countries all over the University Microbiology College won the GENEVA: Minister of Health Dr Mohammad Barrak Al-Haifi addresses the 40th ses- affirmed. Kuwait will also fight the smug- world, and the Arab world should benefit Medical Sciences prize. —KUNA sion of the Arab Health Ministers’ Council. —KUNA gling of medications and adulterated the best from their expertise. — KUNA Kuwait medical sector seeks greater private sector role KUWAIT: A leading Kuwaiti busi- hand with activating the E- every large hospital to help in ness-pharmaceutical figure has Government project and speeding coping with emergencies, upgrad- “prescribed” remedies for the up paper and procedural work for ing work and helping staff. On national economy, namely the entrepreneurs. Moreover in this some pharmaceutical problems in medical sector, saying the bureau- regard, patients should receive Kuwait, Al-Ali indicated at time- cracy must be trimmed, laws better medical services through consuming bureaucratic proce- amended, and the private sector the insurance that costs the gov- dures among some of the depart- given a greater role to upgrade ernment KD three billion per year. ments namely between the work and procedures. Development at these levels is importers of drugs and the con- Mohammad Al-Ali, the achievable, provided “a real part- tracts department, effects of rapid Chairman of the Union of nership is established among all changes of hard currencies’ rates Importers of Medicines and the concerned authorities and and their effects on importation of Pharmacy Owners, expressed his medicines, mainly from Europe views about means that should be and the United States. He also pro- resorted to for upgrading the posed in this regard that the MoH pharmaceutical and medical fields pay 50 percent of value of the in an interview with KUNA. Al-Ali, imported products, immediately, also the Chairman and Managing when the import deals are signed. Director of Safwan Trading and Importing companies may be Contracting Company, revealed compelled to wait for seven his opinions as a leading business months after signing to “get their entrepreneur about steps that financial dues, thus endangering should be taken to shore up the their financial status and affecting national economy. their future liabilities toward the Gulf Bank Sponsors Saleh Al-Shehab In interview with KUNA, he said ministry,” he elaborated. the business environment in The chairman of the Union fur- High School students’ exhibition Kuwait needs a package of incen- ther noted that mounting compe- tives to boost it, within the tition prompted many owners of KUWAIT: Gulf Bank sponsored a an Alshaya card worth KD5. can be opened with no deposit, and is approach of His Highness the Amir pharmacies to join mega medical three-day exhibition organized by the The red account is designed for available for both current and savings Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber groups. He noted that this situa- Saleh Al-Shehab High School for boys’ college and university students aged accounts with monthly interest pay- Al-Sabah to transform the country tion resulted in securing “excellent in Mishref. between 17 and 24 years. The account ments. into a lucrative regional financial services for the citizens and resi- Najla Al-Essa, Executive Manager, and commercial hub. For instance, dents.” In his defensive approach, Consumer Banking at Gulf Bank visit- some laws “should be reviewed” to Al-Ali called on state authorities to ed the exhibition to address senior push the domestic economy for- abstain from standing in face of high school students’ enquiries who ward and contribute to efforts for over-the-counter drugs’ business, were interested in the red (tm) Mohammad Al-Ali boosting state resources. noting that this system is adopted account. In addition to informing Mentioning some of the most parties,” namely the private com- in many other countries. He down- students about banking basics and pressing needs, Al-Ali called for panies and the Union, he said, not- played fears over fraud in the drugs’ saving principles, Al-Essa, along with tackling bureaucracy, particularly ing that such an approach is nec- business in Kuwait, saying “this is the Bank’s team, took the opportuni- ty to showcase some of the unique by taking moves in cooperation essary to back up the government trivial ...” considering supervision advantages of the red (tm) account, and inspection, conducted by the with the Ministry of Health to efforts and improve the medical which has been specifically designed establish speedy work mecha- services. custom and health authorities. by the Bank for university students nisms and back up the govern- Citing an example for major However, he advised consumers to and young people between the ages ment efforts aimed at developing success in the medical sector, Al- buy drugs from pharmacies, not of 17 and 24. Gulf Bank is presently this sector. Ali mentioned the Kingdom of any other vendors, and check validi- offering new red customers a num- The private sector can play a Saudi Arabia, where authorities ty of the product and other neces- ber of joining benefits, including a prime role in this respect, hand in earmarked a special budget for sary specifications. —KUNA KD5 pre-paid petrol card as well as TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 Tornadoes level homes Egypt army boosts forces in Sinai after kidnapping in Oklahoma, one dead
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BAGHDAD: An Iraqi woman passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday. A wave of car bombings across Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed and wounded dozens of people, police said. — AP Wave of attacks kills 86 in Iraq Iraq PM to alter security strategy
BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nuri al- ers were also killed and 19 wounded in Mosul on Sunday. The security situ- Maliki said yesterday he will overhaul in three separate attacks north of ation in Anbar, home to two of the Iraq’s security strategy as a two-day Baghdad. The Sahwa are made up of main centres of Sunni anti-govern- wave of violence killed 86 people Sunni Arab tribesmen who joined ment protests that broke out almost including 24 police, bringing the forces with the US military against Al- five months ago, has deteriorated month’s death toll from unrest to 352. Qaeda from late 2006, helping to turn sharply. “We are about to make changes in the tide against the insurgency. On Saturday, security forces tried the high and middle positions of And a car bomb killed one person to arrest Mohammed Khamis Abu those responsible for security, and the and wounded four in Rutba, a town in Risha, who is wanted in connection security strategy,” Maliki said at a news Anbar province, west of Baghdad, with the killing of five Iraqi soldiers conference in Baghdad. while a roadside bomb in the north- near Ramadi, west of the capital. “We will discuss this matter in the ern city of Mosul wounded three peo- But the bid to arrest Abu Risha, cabinet session tomorrow to take ple. Yesterday’s violence comes after nephew of a powerful tribal sheikh decisions,” Maliki said, without provid- 24 police were killed overnight. Police who is a key supporter of Sunni anti- ing further details. “I assure the Iraqi Lieutenant Colonel Majid al-Jlaybawi government protesters in Anbar, people that they (militants) will not be said police and soldiers carried out a sparked clashes with tribesmen in able to return us to the sectarian con- joint raid to free kidnapped police which two of them were killed. flict” that killed tens of thousands of officers in Anbar province, west of Hundreds of gunmen then gath- people in Iraq in past years, he added. Baghdad, but clashes ensued. ered in the area of the Anbar A car bomb exploded in Shaab, a Twelve kidnapped policemen were Operations Command headquarters Shiite area in north Baghdad, at killed and four wounded, although it near Ramadi, but later withdrew, around the time Maliki spoke, killing was not immediately clear if they police said. Officials also reported kid- 12 people and wounding at least 20, were caught in crossfire, killed by their nappings of people including security officials said-just one in a wave of abductors, or a combination of the forces in Anbar on Saturday, though bombings yesterday. two.Mohammed Hadi, one of the they gave differing figures for how Two car bombs went off in the wounded policemen, told AFP they many were seized. main southern port city of Basra, had been abducted on the highway Tensions are festering between the killing 13 people and wounding 48, between Baghdad and Jordan on government of Maliki, a Shiite, and while a wave of other bombings hit Saturday. Sunnis who accuse authorities of mar- Baghdad, killing at least 11 people In Haditha, a town in Anbar ginalising and targeting their commu- and wounding 102. province, gunmen attacked a police nity, including through wrongful In Balad, north of the capital, a car station, killing eight police, among detentions and accusations of bomb exploded near a bus carrying them two officers, First Lieutenant involvement in terrorism. Iranian pilgrims, killing eight people Murad al-Hadithi and a doctor said. While the government has made and wounding at least 15. Iraq is And gunmen killed four police and some concessions aimed at placating home to some of the holiest sites in wounded three in an attack on anoth- the protesters and Iraqi Sunnis in gen- Shiite Islam and is visited by hundreds er police station in the town of Rawa, eral, such as freeing prisoners and of thousands of foreign pilgrims every also in Anbar, said Qais al-Rawi, head raising the salaries of Sunni anti-Al- year, most of them from neighbouring of the area’s local council. Qaeda fighters, underlying issues Iran. Five Sahwa anti-Al-Qaeda fight- Gunmen also killed a shop owner have yet to be addressed. — AFP Suicide bomber kills 14 at Afghan province council
KABUL: A suicide bomber dressed in a police uniform Mohammad Zahier Ghanizada, a member of parlia- killed 14 people including a prominent provincial coun- ment from Baghlan, said that Mohseni had previously cil chief yesterday in northern Afghanistan in an attack received multiple death threats. outside the council headquarters, authorities said. The A well-known figure in Baghlan, Mohseni was previ- Taleban insurgency quickly claimed responsibility. ously a respected commander in the Northern Alliance Seeking to weaken the Afghan government, Taleban that fought against the Taliban’s hard-line regime before insurgents have been carrying out attacks and assassi- it was toppled in 2001. He comes from a prominent fam- nations intended to intimidate both officials and civil- ily in the province, and his brother Azim Mohseni is a ians ahead of next year’s withdrawal of most interna- member of parliament. tional troops. Taleban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed in a Baghlan provincial council leader Mohammad Rasoul text message to journalists that an insurgent operative Mohseni was entering the compound in the morning carried out the targeted bombing. “Today at 11 a.m. in when the bomber approached on foot detonated his front of the Baghlan provincial council office, we have explosives in the provincial capital of Pul-e-Khumri, said carried out a suicide attack and killed the head of the Baghlan chief of police Asadullah Sherzad. council,” it said. The attacker was dressed in police uniform and Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the blended with officers at a checkpoint near the council bombing yesterday. “Such attacks are against all human headquarters, then slipped into a group of people sur- rights and the principles of Islam,” Karzai said in a state- rounding Mohseni and set off his bomb in the crowd, ment. “Perpetrators of such attacks are enemies of the said Baghlan deputy police chief Mohammad Sadeq Afghan nation and the puppets of foreigners.” Karzai left Muradi. “He was basically waiting for his target, who was later yesterday for a two-day state visit to India, where Rasoul Mohseni,” Muradi said. Two of Mohseni’s police he is expected to request military aid. Both Karzai and bodyguards, four checkpoint police and seven civilians the US have sought peace talks with the Taleban and were killed in the blast, he said. It was unclear whether other insurgent factions in preparation for most foreign the attacker was actually a member of Afghan security troops leaving next year after more than 12 years of war, forces or an insurgent who bought or stole a uniform. but the efforts have borne little fruit. —AP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 2 Brazilians killed in Turkey balloon crash
ANKARA: A hot air balloon collided Turkey’s civil aviation agency said it A Canada-based American tourist telephone interview. “There was a the state-run Anadolu Agency that it with another balloon mid-air during a had launched an inquiry into the acci- who witnessed the accident from large tear in the fabric, probably some appeared that one of the tourists had sightseeing tour of volcanic rock for- dent. As the tours become increasingly another balloon, said and the crash 10 to 15 meters long.” died of a heart attack. Savas, the gov- mations in Turkey and crashed to the popular, there are questions as to occurred some 45 minutes after as As his balloon flew directly over the ernor, said the second person died in ground yesterday, killing two Brazilian whether too many balloons may be many as 100 balloons had taken off for crash site, Ross said he saw one person hospital. They were aged 71 and 65, tourists and injuring 23 other people launching over Cappadocia at the the early morning tour. lying on the ground while other pas- Anadolu said. on board, officials said. same time. In 2009, a British tourist “We could hear the radio chatter sengers were still inside the basket. The balloons were flying above sce- The accident occurred above cen- was killed and nine other people were and we knew something was happen- Several ambulances and trucks were nic canyons and volcanic cones of the tral Turkey’s Cappadocia region, when injured when two balloons also collid- ing. There was a frantic urgent trans- converging on to the scene. Cappadocia region, a popular tourist an ascending balloon struck another ed. mission: ‘Release your parachute! Ross, a professor at University of destination some 300 kilometers (190 balloon’s wicker basket above it, caus- The passengers on board the bal- Release your parachute!” said Ross, British Columbia in Vancouver, said miles) from the capital, Ankara. ing a tear in the balloon’s fabric and loon that crashed were mostly tourists whose balloon was some 200 meters that he and his wife had commented Cappadocia is famed for its “fairy sending it plunging to the ground. from Brazil, Argentina and Spain, (yards) away from the vessel that before the accident that some of the chimney” volcanic cones and its sub- The accident - the second fatal one according to Abdurrahman Savas, the crashed. balloons were travelling “quite close to terranean cities carved out of soft in Cappadocia since operations began governor of Nevsehir province. Many “It was probably some 300 meters each other.” stone. In February, a balloon caught more than a decade ago - has put the had fractured bones and were being in the air and it descended increasing- Halil Uluer, owner of Anatolian fire and crashed in Egypt, killing 19 spotlight on balloon safety and treated in hospital around Nevsehir. ly rapidly to the ground,” he said in a Balloons which operated the tour, told tourists. — AP Egypt army boosts forces in Sinai after kidnapping Group wants release of militants jailed last year EL-ARISH: The Egyptian army sent reinforcements into the Sinai Peninsula yesterday after President Mohamed Mursi said there would be no talks with militant Islamists who abducted seven members of the security forces last week. Islamist militants have expand- ed into a security vacuum in Sinai that the state has struggled to fill since a popular uprising swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. The groups have launched attacks on Israel and targets in North Sinai. TUNIS: Tunisian police fire tear gas as clashes broke out with radical Islamists on May The kidnapping has highlighted 19, 2013, in Ettadhamen, a poor neighbourhood 15 kilometres (9 miles) west of lawlessness in the peninsula bor- Tunis, after Salafist movement Ansar Al-Sharia told its followers to gather “in large dering Israel, enraged Egyptian numbers” near Tunis for its annual congress, defying a government ban. — AFP security forces and piled domestic pressure on Mursi to act. Egyptian security forces have blocked border Tunisia PM vows action crossings into the Gaza Strip to pressure the government into help- after Islamist unrest ing free their colleagues. Witnesses saw armoured per- TUNIS: Tunisia’s Islamist Prime Minister Ali been on the run since September, after an sonnel carriers moving east yester- Larayedh vowed firm action against Ansar attack by Islamist protesters on the US day over the Suez Canal towards Al-Sharia, in remarks published yesterday, embassy in Tunis, which he is accused of North Sinai where militants staged after bloody clashes between police and orchestrating and which left four assailants the abduction and where gunmen members of the radical Salafist group. dead. assaulted a police base on Monday. But the group’s fugitive leader Abu The Salafists’ third annual congress was They later arrived in the North Sinai Iyadh insisted, in a message posted online, to be held on Sunday in the holy city of town of El-Arish, accompanied by RAFAH: Egyptian protesters shout slogans while holding pictures of kidnapped soldiers Sayed Maslub (L) that his followers could not be defeated Kairouan. But the government banned the the commander of Egypt’s second and Ahmed Abdelbadi (R) near the gate of the Rafah crossing border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip despite their “persecution.” Tunisia has been gathering, saying it posed “a threat to pub- field army. A military official said yesterday during a demonstration calling for the release of Egyptian security forces kidnapped by gun- rocked by waves of violence blamed on lic order,” and deployed a heavy security the extra military forces were dis- men. — AFP militant extremists since the January 2011 contingent in Kairouan, prompting Ansar patched to Sinai after a meeting on Egyptian requests to deploy more killed 16 Egyptian border guards. Al-Masry Al-Youm, an independ- revolution, and Larayedh reacted angrily to al-Sharia members to gather in the Tunis Sunday between the army com- troops there than allowed by the Mursi said on Sunday there ent newspaper, reported that par- the latest unrest, in which at least one pro- suburb of Ettadhamen where Sunday’s mand and Mursi, who has promised countries’ 1979 peace treaty. The would be no talks with “the crimi- ents and friends of some of the tester was killed and 15 police hurt. fighting erupted. not to submit to blackmail by kid- Israeli defence ministry had no nals” - a reference to militants who men who appeared in the video He said 200 members of Ansar al-Sharia A hospital official in Tunis said one pro- nappers demanding the release of immediate comment on the new adhere to a more radical school of had confirmed their identities. The had been arrested and vowed firm action tester died of gunshot wounds and the jailed Islamists. deployment. Islam than the president’s Muslim video’s authenticity could not be against the movement considered close to interior ministry confirmed the death, say- Presidential spokesman Omar The Sinai is mainly a large Brotherhood. independently confirmed. Al-Qaeda and which he linked for the first ing in addition three protesters and 15 Amer said: “All options are on the swathe of rugged, thinly populated The kidnappers are demanding “In domestic political terms, time to “terrorism”. policeman had been wounded. table to free the kidnapped sol- desert but its Red Sea coast has a the release of militants convicted Mursi is going to be damned if he “This group is engaged in violence, is Ennahda, Tunisia’s moderate Islamist diers.” The state-run Al-Ahram string of international tourist last year of the attacks that killed does and damned if he doesn’t,” opposed to the state and revolts” against party, has been sharply criticised for failing newspaper said on its website that resorts. “Our impression is that the seven people, six of them members said Yasser El-Shimy, Egypt analyst the authorities, Larayedh was quoted as to prevent Islamist-linked unrest in Tunisia shipping in the Suez Canal had Israelis are eager for Egypt to of the security forces, in 2011. A with the International Crisis Group. saying yesterday by Arabic daily Al-Hayat, since the uprising that toppled Zine El been briefly halted as the reinforce- improve the security situation in video posted online on Sunday “If he negotiates, he will be criti- while on a visit to Doha. Abidine Ben Ali, and of being too lenient ments crossed the waterway. the Sinai, and it’s unlikely that they showed seven blindfolded men cised for being too lenient with In response, “we will deal with extrem- towards the Salafists. “Our patience has run out,” Al- would object,” said a Western diplo- with their hands bound above their Islamist militants, and if he tries to ism firmly, we will be rigid,” added the for- But it has hardened its stance since early Ahram quoted a military official as mat in Cairo. Egyptian security heads. They said they were the wage an operation to free them, mer interior minister and stalwart of the May, faced with the threat of two armed saying in its print edition. As securi- forces launched a security opera- hostages, begging Mursi to free which may entail casualties, then ruling Islamist party Ennahda. But Ansar al- jihadist groups being hunted along the ty began to unravel in the peninsu- tion to re-establish control in Sinai political detainees in Sinai in he is also going to be widely criti- Sharia’s leader, a former Al-Qaeda fighter in Algerian border. Abu Iyadh sarcastically la later in 2011, Israel agreed to last August after an attack that exchange for their own release. cised.” —Reuters Afghanistan whose real name is Saif Allah thanked the Tunisian authorities for help- Bin Hussein, was defiant in his five-minute ing the Salafists. message, apparently taped before Sunday’s “Our religion has taught us to thank the violence. deserving, and you tyrants are the best “God knows well that I would like to placed to be thanked as you have commit- Man refused overdraft have been with you at the moment when ted so many stupidities which have you opened a shining page in the history of allowed us to spread our teaching without our nation. You have shown the entire needing publicity.” Salafists advocate an kills four in Israeli bank world that your efforts cannot be defeated ultra-conservative brand of Sunni Islam. despite the persecution of your leaders,” he Ansar al-Sharia is considered the most rad- said. ical of the extremist groups that have JERUSALEM: A gunman shot dead four people exe- The audio recording was posted on the emerged in Tunisia since the January 2011 cution-style in a bank in Israel yesterday after being group’s Facebook page. Abu Iyadh has revolution. — AFP refused an overdraft and cash from its automatic teller machine. The assailant, identified by media reports as a former paramilitary border policeman, killed himself after police raided the Bank Hapoalim Israel rejects France 2 branch in the southern city of Beersheba to free his hostages. “It appears that we are talking about a lone indi- findings on Dura affair vidual who came to the bank in the morning hours, JERUSALEM: Israel has said that a France 2 “Contrary to the report’s claim that the sought cover for a debt, a loan, and did not get it,” television report seen worldwide on the boy is killed, the committee’s review of the Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said death of a Palestinian child in 2000 was raw footage showed that in the final on Army Radio. “baseless”, following an analysis of the raw scenes, which were not broadcast by After finding that he could also not draw cash footage, drawing an angry reaction yester- France 2, the boy is seen to be alive,” it says. from the automatic dispenser, the man “came back day from the boy’s father. But Mohammed’s father, Jamal Al-Dura, with a pistol and shot dead four people ... bank The report, bolstering the Israeli political told AFP yesterday that the report was employees and customers”, Aharonovitch said. and military stance on the Mohammed al- “completely fabricated.” “The Israelis are “He took a hostage, held her for close to an hour Dura affair, comes ahead of a ruling lying and trying to cover the truth,” he said, or more. The moment the police forces burst in, he Wednesday in Paris on a defamation case adding he had requested the formation of killed himself - shot himself and committed suicide,” between France 2 reporter Charles Enderlin an international commission of inquiry, he said, without disclosing the gunman’s identity. and Philippe Karsenty, director of watch- including his family and the Israelis. Police initially described the incident as a robbery dog group Media Ratings. “I’m ready... to open up the grave to but later said the assailant appeared to have known Enderlin’s reportage shows the death of examine the body and even the bullets his victims and shot them without demanding any 12-year-old Mohammed in the arms of his that penetrated Mohammed,” he said. money. Witnesses quoted by Israeli media said the gunman first killed the bank guard and then shot father Jamal al-Dura on September 30, Haaretz newspaper on Monday said the BEERSHEVA: A woman hostage is evacuated by Israeli security forces following a bank robbery three people who were lying on the floor, checking 2000, after being caught in crossfire report was overdue and pointless, calling it that escalated into a hostage situation in the Israeli city of Beersheva yesterday. Four people the pulse of one of them to make sure he was dead. between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian mil- “probably one of the least relevant docu- were killed and three others wounded in a botched bank heist in southern Israel which ended Police initially announced that two gunmen had itants at the start of the second intifada, or ments written by the Israeli government in when a robber who had held a hostage shot himself dead, police said. — AFP uprising. recent years.” entered the bank and that one had been apprehend- On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin “It seems as though the report was writ- ed, but later said they were still investigating incident a “great tragedy” for Israel, where soldiers event in Israel. An attack like this must not (be Netanyahu praised the findings of the 40- ten for use within Israel alone. The evidence whether the second man was an accomplice. carrying weapons are a common sight but gun laws allowed) to recur,” Netanyahu said at a meeting of his page Israeli report by the ministry of inter- and arguments that were presented might Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the are strict for private individuals. “It is not a common Likud party faction in parliament. — Reuters national affairs and strategy on the incident convince the already convinced, but no as “truth” that could “prevail over lies.” “It is more than that.” important to focus on this incident - which Israel Hasson, a former head of the inter- Bahrain court jails nine Shiites over ‘terrorist’ cell has slandered Israel’s reputation,” he said in nal security agency Shin Bet, also a statement. denounced the report. DUBAI: A Bahraini court sentenced nine Shiites dise the rule of law and obstruct state institu- security forces in mid-March 2011, supported by “This is a manifestation of the ongoing, “All this nonsense is so unprofessional, to jail terms ranging between 10 and 15 years tions from performing their duties... through Saudi-led Gulf troops, protesters were shortly mendacious campaign to delegitimize so off-mark, I just can’t understand why yesterday after convicting them of forming a using terrorism,” the source said, quoting the list back in the streets, mainly in Shiite villages, Israel. There is only one way to counter lies, they’re dealing with it this way. How can “terrorist” group, a judicial source said. of charges. The other seven defendants were where they frequently clash with police. and that is through the truth,” said you determine what killed a person, if you Cleric Ahmed al-Majed and a second defen- accused of joining the group despite knowing of At least 80 people have been killed in Bahrain Netanyahu. don’t have the body, don’t examine it and dant were jailed for 15 years, while a third defen- its “terrorist objectives.” All defendants were con- since February 2011, according to the “The France 2 report’s central claims and what hit it?” Hasson said on public radio. dant was sentenced to 10 years in prison. victed for “possessing explosives,” the source International Federation for Human Rights. accusations had no basis in the material France 2 did not provide the original The three were the only defendants to appear added. Scores of Shiites have faced jail terms Strategically located just across the Gulf from which the station had in its possession at raw footage of the incident, said Yossi in court, as the other six remain at large and over accusations of involvement in violence Iran, Bahrain is home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet the time of the report,” reads the report Kuperwasser, director general of the min- were sentenced in absentia to 10 years, the since protests against the regime of the ruling and is also a major offshore financial and servic- commissioned by Netanyahu in September istry of international affairs and strategy source said. The first two were convicted of Al-Khalifa Sunni dynasty erupted in February es centre for its Arab neighbours in the oil-rich 2012. who penned the report.—AFP “forming an illegal group that aimed to jeopar- 2011. Despite a heavy-handed crackdown by Gulf. —AFP TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 INTERNATIONAL
S Africa officials ‘used Zuma name in wedding jet scandal’
PRETORIA: South African officials used disrupted normal operations. lished in this investigation,” Radebe said the events that followed.” nies including Sahara Computers and President Jacob Zuma’s name to secure The family then turned to an Indian at a press conference in Pretoria, flanked “Our intention was simply to provide the pro-government New Age newspa- landing rights at a military air base to fly diplomat who wrongly told his South by six ministers including those from our daughter with a memorable wed- per. Their convoy of 121 vehicles was in guests for a lavish wedding hosted by African government contacts that the defence, state security and foreign ding,” said the family in a statement late also granted a full police escort to the a well-connected Indian family, a report wedding party was an official delega- affairs. Sunday. “In the process, perhaps some Sun City resort for the four-day affair released Sunday showed. tion, the report found. The Airbus 330 The landing of the plane “following misjudgments may have been made.” billed as “the wedding of the year”. The name-dropping was “very bad” private jet was then cleared to land at the exercise of undue influence had the The incident drew widespread con- The report said that some of the cars and government officials should not the Waterkloof military base near potential to compromise the credibility demnation, with Zuma facing allega- had false registration numbers and esti- have allowed themselves to be “intimi- Pretoria “based on false information and of the government... and could have tions of cronyism from political foes and mated that nearly 200 police officers had dated” into accommodating the Gupta abuse of privileges”, according to the caused severe reputational damage to rare public rebukes from his allies. A sen- been deployed for the convoy. family, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe said panel of ministers tasked with investigat- the state itself,” he added. ior South African diplomat in charge of Police are still carrying out further as he presented the preliminary findings ing the incident, which has embarrassed The wealthy Gupta family, which has protocol and several police officers have investigations that could lead to sanc- from an investigation into last month’s the government. close ties to Zuma and the ruling African been suspended for their role in allow- tions for those implicated in the scandal. incident. The probe found that Zuma himself National Congress (ANC) party, on ing the aircraft to land at the restricted International Relations Minister Maite The probe found that the family had was not involved in the case but that his Sunday issued a fresh public apology for base. Nkoana-Mashabane said she would been denied permission to land their name, and those of the defence and the scandal. The family “wish to once Bollywood stars and politicians were share the probe’s findings with the chartered jet carrying guests at the OR transport ministers, had been used to again reiterate our apology for any among the guests attending the nuptials Indian government, but for now ties Tambo International Airport in manipulate official procedures. “The embarrassment or inconvenience of Vega Gupta, a niece of the powerful between the two countries remained Johannesburg because it would have issue of name-dropping has been estab- caused by the landing of the aircraft and Gupta brothers who own several compa- “robust”. — AFP British PM Cameron faces rebellion over gay marriage Downing Street calls it a ‘wrecking amendment’
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron ior party colleagues and his Liberal Democrat your policy of re-defining marriage,” it urged. faced new splits within his Conservative Party coalition junior partners back the bill legalising Culture Minister Maria Miller, who has responsi- yesterday as a divisive bill to legalise gay mar- gay marriage, large sections of his party are bility for steering the legislation through parlia- riage returned to parliament. The bill was fiercely opposed to the idea. Liberal Democrat ment, has said she wants same-sex couples to be approved by a comfortable 225-vote majority leader Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, able to marry as early as the middle of next year. when it was last debated despite the opposition warned against attempts to “hijack” proposals to But last week, Defence Minister Philip of almost half of Conservative lawmakers. legalise same-sex marriage. Hammond, a senior Conservative, suggested that But dozens of disgruntled MPs are expected It comes at a time when Cameron is already the bill was a waste of parliamentary time. “There to deliver a blow to Cameron’s agenda by back- under pressure from a large section of his frac- is a real sense of anger among many people who ing an amendment saying that if gay couples are tious centre-right party over his stance on a refer- are married that any government thinks it has allowed to marry, then heterosexual couples endum on Britain’s membership of the European the ability to change the definition of an institu- should also be able to have civil partnerships. Union. Grassroots Conservative supporters fear tion like marriage,” Hammond said. The main opposition Labour Party, while it that with a general election two years away, The vote comes after a member of Cameron’s backs gay marriage, has hinted that it could join Cameron’s support for gay marriage is driving inner circle fiercely denied claims that he had the Conservative rebels, because it argues that Tory voters to the UK Independence Party (UKIP), branded grassroot party members as “mad, swiv- the government has failed to make a convincing which had its best ever electoral performance el-eyed loons”. Party co-chairman Lord Andrew case against extending civil partnerships. last month when it made gains in local elections. Feldman, a schoolmate of Cameron’s at the elite Cameron’s Downing Street office called it a A letter signed by more than 30 current and Eton College, has strenuously denied rumours “wrecking amendment” which could delay the former Conservative local association chairmen linking him with the statement and said he was passing of the gay marriage bill by up to two and handed to Cameron on Sunday gave an indi- considering legal action. years and cost £4 billion ($6 billion, 4.7 billion cation of the bitterness felt by some in his party. Conservative backbenchers’ fears over the rise euros) in pension changes. They accused him of “treating the membership of UKIP prompted around 114 Tory MPs last week The delay would come because the govern- with contempt” over the issue. “You have failed to back a motion in parliament expressing regret ment would need to work on the joint imple- thus far to keep the manifesto promise you made that the coalition government’s plans for the year mentation of new rights for gay married couples to recognise and incentivise marriage through a contained no guarantee of a referendum on EU and heterosexual couples in new civil partner- tax break for married couples,” it said. membership. France on Saturday became the KIEV: An activist delivers a speech in front of Ukrainian Interior Ministry in Kiev yes- ships. Lawmakers are allowed a free vote on gay “The bill could cost us the election... therefore, 14th country to legalise gay marriage when terday, during a demonstration of journalists, organized by Ukrainian Journalists marriage, meaning they are not required to fol- prime minister, for the sake of the well-being of Socialist President Francois Hollande signed it Union, calling for the minister’s resignation and thorough investigation and punish- low party directions, because it is considered an the country and the integrity and future success into law, despite fierce protests from the main ment of those responsible in the beating of journalists last Saturday. — AFP issue of conscience. While Cameron, several sen- of the party, we urge you not to continue with opposition right-wing UMP party. — AFP Cleric Abu Qatada Riots in Stockholm over police shooting denied bail in Britain STOCKHOLM: Gangs of youth angered by and that police responded with sending in LONDON: Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada was yes- the police shooting death of an elderly SWAT teams that cordoned off the area. “I terday denied bail in his latest legal skirmish with British man hurled rocks at police and set cars and understand that people react like this,” said authorities, who have been trying to deport him for a buildings on fire in a Stockholm suburb Rami Al-Khamisi from the organization decade. The cleric has been in and out of British prisons early yesterday, forcing the evacuation of Megafonen, which represents citizens in since 2002 as he fights successive government attempts to an apartment block.Around 50 youths were Stockholm’s suburbs. send him to Jordan, where he has been convicted of terror involved in the riots in the suburb of Husby, The organization said police had used charges in his absence. west of Stockholm, police spokesman Lars excessive violence against the youth and To ministers’ horror he was released from his latest stint Bystrom said. also attacked passers-by with batons and in jail in November, but was arrested again in March for The youths set light to a parking garage, dogs. Police have launched an internal allegedly breaching his bail conditions. A judge at Britain’s compelling police to evacuate residents probe to investigate the shooting death on Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) ruled on from an adjacent apartment block, Bystrom May 13 of a 69-year-old man in Husby . Monday that the preacher, once dubbed Osama bin said. Residents were allowed to return They say they shot the man in self-defense Laden’s right-hand man in Europe, should remain in cus- home after a couple of hours. because he had attacked police with a tody. “There is no doubt about the national security threat Husby is one of several neighborhoods knife when they broke down the door to an which the appellant presents,” judge Stephen Irwin said. “This appellant has in the past fled in order to avoid a court of apartment blocks in western Stockholm apartment, where he had locked himself order, equipping himself with a false passport. occupied primarily by immigrants. up with a woman. “He is highly intelligent, has a range of sympathetic and Bystrom said police responded to calls However, Megafonen has criticized supportive contacts, and his risk to national security is of burning cars and were met by masked police for initially releasing a faulty report undiminished. “We reject the submission that he can, even youths hurling rocks at them. Three officers saying the man was taken to hospital. They now, be relied on to comply with his legal obligations and were injured and several cars and buildings said residents had seen his dead body STOCKHOLM: Police officers stand guard in a street during a riot in Stockholm, not to attempt to abscond.” In a surprise move earlier this were damaged. being transported from the scene hours Sweden, yesterday. Gangs of youth apparently angered by the police shooting death month, Abu Qatada’s lawyer told the court that the preach- However, residents said they had gath- after the shooting in a hearse, which police of an elderly man hurled rocks at police and set cars and buildings on fire in a er would return to Jordan voluntarily if its parliament rati- ered to protest against the shooting death later admitted was correct. —AP Stockholm suburb, forcing the evacuation of an apartment block. — AP fies a treaty barring the use of evidence obtained by tor- ture. The issue is at the heart of Britain’s long struggle to deport him to Jordan, where he faces a likely retrial over his alleged involvement in the planning of terrorist attacks. Last year the European Court of Human Rights blocked his deportation due to fears that evidence obtained through torture would be used against him in the new trial. SIAC ruled in November that he could be released despite posing a risk to national security. However, the cler- ic was sent back to jail in March after a stash of mobile phones, computer memory sticks and other digital devices were found in his home in what Irwin said was a “signifi- cant” breach of his bail conditions. Government lawyer Robin Tam said a USB stick found in the bedroom of Abu Qatada’s eldest son had contained schoolwork but also “jihadist files” including references to Al-Qaeda. Abu Qatada had admitted breaching bail condi- tions which prevent him from turning on mobile phones or possessing other communication devices at his taxpayer- funded home in London. But he claimed that he did not use the phones, several of which belonged to his wife and children. Abu Qatada’s lawyer Daniel Friedman had told SIAC that ahead of his return to Jordan, his client “wants to spend time with his family to prepare to leave the country in a manner that safeguards the dignity and security of all involved”. The preacher “has been deprived of his liberty more than any other non-convicted person in British histo- ry”, Friedman claimed. —AFP
LONDON: In this file picture taken on November 13, 2012 terror suspect Abu Qatada arrives at his home in northwest London, after he was released from prison. Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada was yesterday denied bail in his latest skirmish with British authorities, who have been trying to deport him for a decade. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Canadian prime minister heads to Peru, Colombia
OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister doubled to Can$4.2 billion ($4.1 billion). ner. Harper will also attend a leaders’ nomic opportunities for Canadians and In addition, Canada’s “participation in Stephen Harper heads to Peru and Harper is expected to consult with summit hosted by the Pacific Alliance- people throughout the hemisphere,” the the meetings is important because it Colombia tomorrow and Thursday, look- Humala on bilateral and regional trade comprised of Chile, Colombia, Peru and prime minister said in a statement. reinforces our strong and growing com- ing to bolster trade with Latin America possibilities through the emerging Mexico-in Cali, Colombia, on Thursday. His spokesman Andrew MacDougall mercial engagement in both the and beyond. Harper last traveled to Peru Pacific Alliance, before he later meets Bilateral trade between Canada and the noted this would be Harper’s first oppor- Americas and the Asia-Pacific region,” he in 2008 for an APEC leaders summit, but with the group. The two are set to dis- four countries totaled Can$39 billion tunity to participate in the forum and added. Canada is also engaged in trade this will be his first state visit, during cuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), (US$38 billion) last year. Canada became “see what it has to offer.” negotiations with Chile, Mexico and Peru which he will meet with President a proposed free trade agreement an observer to the alliance in October The alliance-formed in 2011 — is still through the Trans-Pacific Partnership Ollanta Humala and his cabinet. between Australia, Brunie, Chile, Canada, and Harper is seeking to use the summit in its infancy and hammering out objec- that aims to bolster trade between Asia Since a Canada-Peru free trade agree- Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, to bolster Canadian cooperation with tives. MacDougall stressed that Canada and the Americas. Closed-door talks on ment took effect in August 2009, bilater- Singapore, the United States and the group. has “very strong relationships with all the TPP are set to be held in Lima until al trade-largely in agricultural products, Vietnam. Japan has also expressed inter- “Canada is committed to increasing four of the founding countries and with Friday. But Harper will not join those dis- machinery, metals and mineral ores-has est but is not yet a full negotiating part- trade with the Americas to create eco- many of the observer countries.” cussions. — AFP Tornadoes level homes in Oklahoma, one dead Twisters, hail and winds strike Iowa, Kansas SHAWNEE: Tornadoes ravaged portions of Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. The tornado in Shawnee was one of several that touched down in the nation’s midsection Sunday. Twisters, hail and high winds also struck Iowa and Kansas as part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from PHOENIX: Jodi Arias cries as Steven Alexander, brother of murder victim Travis Texas to Minnesota. Alexander, makes his “victim impact statement” to the jury in this May 16, 2013 file “You can see where there’s photo, during the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior absolutely nothing, then there are Court in Phoenix. Arias returned to court yesterday for the continuation of her trial places where you have mobile after being convicted of murder in her lover’s killing as jurors consider a life sentence home frames on top of each other, or execution. — AP debris piled up,” Pottawatomie County Sheriff Mike Booth said after surviving damage in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Cartel towns pose challenge Park. “It looks like there’s been heavy equipment in there on a for immigration reform demolition tour. “It’s pretty bad. It’s pretty much MATAMOROS: Just across the Rio across the border. wiped out,” he said. Across Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a Attempts to cross alone are met with Oklahoma, 21 people were injured, dormitory-style shelter filled with people violence. Some immigrants are kid- not including those who suffered recently deported from the US and other napped and their families extorted by SHAWNEE: A tornado caused extensive damage along I-40 at the junction with US 177 on the west side of bumps and bruises and chose not migrants waiting to cross the border. the organization. Shawnee, Okla, Sunday evening. — AP The long rows of bunk beds offer Reported murders in Tamaulipas, the to visit a hospital, said Keli Cain, a effect through late Sunday in much Estates. He said the family went high winds. immigrants a place to rest on their long state that borders Texas from Matamoros spokeswoman for the Oklahoma of the nation’s midsection. into their storm cellar as the storm Gov. Mary Fallin declared an journey. But the shelter is no safe haven to Nuevo Laredo, increased more than Department of Emergency The trailer park was among the approached. When they came out, emergency for 16 Oklahoma coun- in a town controlled by the Gulf cartel. 250 percent in the past four years, Management. Booth said six at hardest-hit areas, and among the their mobile home had vanished. “It ties that suffered from severe according to the Mexican government. Steelman Estates were hurt. Armed men once showed up and took hardest to reach, as overturned took a dead hit,” Hoke said. storms and flooding during the away 15 men, who were probably put to Official statistics are generally thought Forecasters had been warning of a general storm outbreak since tractor-trailers forced the closure of A storm spotter told the weekend. The declaration lets local work as gunmen, lookouts or human to undercount the real toll. Soldiers a section of a highway and power National Weather Service that the governments acquire goods quick- mules hauling bales of marijuana into recently killed six gunmen in a clash in Wednesday, and for Sunday’s storms some residents had more lines draped across roads to the tornado left the earth “scoured” at ly to respond to their residents’ the United States. Matamoros. And yet, even with the high- south. the mobile home park - using a needs and puts the state in line for As Congress takes up immigration degree of danger for immigrants cross- than a half-hour’s notice that a twister was on the way. Tornado James Hoke lives with his wife term used by storm chasers to federal help if it becomes neces- reform, lawmakers may have to confront ing this part of the border, they keep and two children in Steelman describe grass being ripped out by sary. — AP the reality of this place and others like it, coming. watches and warnings were in where people say the current system of Central American migrants continue immigration enforcement and deporta- to use the route up the Gulf Coast side of Gunmen shoot into tion produces a constant flow of people Mexico and through Tamaulipas because north and south that provides the cartel it’s the shortest to the US, said Rodolfo California home, with a vulnerable labor pool and steady Casillas Ramirez, a professor at Facultad 10-year-old killed source of revenue. Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales in “This vicious circle favors organized Mexico City. The smugglers choose the SAN FRANCISCO: Authorities were crime because the migrant is going to route, and even if immigrants have heard searching for at least two gunmen pay” for safe passage, said the Rev. about the violence in Tamaulipas, “they who walked up to the door of a Francisco Gallardo, who oversees immi- trust that the premium they’ve paid Northern California home and grant-assistance efforts for the includes the right of passage,” he said. opened fire, killing a 10-year-old girl Matamoros Catholic diocese. They continue to leave their home and injuring her parents. If Congress sends more resources to countries for economic reasons. “Whoever these gunmen were, the border, the government will also Although the U.S. economy has provid- they were directly outside the front need to account for shifting patterns in ed fewer jobs for immigrants during the door,” Sacramento County sheriff’s immigrant arrests. The cartel controls Great Recession and a long, slow recov- spokesman Sgt. Jason Ramos said who crosses the border and profits from ery, opportunities south of the border Sunday. “This was not a drive-by. each immigrant by taxing human smug- have been even more limited, Casillas These gunmen approached the glers. At the shelter, the cartel threat was said. house and shot inside.” so alarming that shelter administrators That’s why the Rev. Alejandro Sacramento County sheriff’s offi- began encouraging immigrants to go Solalinde, a Roman Catholic priest who cials suspected that a family member into the streets during the day, thinking founded a shelter for immigrants in the had gang ties. “You have to be hard they would be harder to round up than southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, said pressed to think a 10-year-old girl at the shelter. the answer is in regional development, was the intended target,” Ramos said. There have been record numbers of not increased border security. At least a dozen shots were fired deportations in recent years and tens of “This situation has grown because from two guns at the house on thousands landed in Tamaulipas already ultimately the migrants are merchandise Saturday night, killing Elvira Campos this year, the state that borders Texas and organized crime profits in volume,” WASHINGTON: A group of Muslim protesters demonstrate against Burma’s President Thein Sein’s and injuring her parents, Ramos said. from Matamoros to Nuevo Laredo. he said during a recent visit to visit in the US outside the White House in Washington, DC yesterday. Thein Sein will become the The names of the parents - both of Arizona is often singled out as the Matamoros. Rep. Filemon Vela, a member first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, as Washington offers a whom were in their 40s and were busiest border crossing for immigrants of the House Homeland Security strong symbolic gesture to back his reforms. — AFP expected to survive - were not entering the U.S., but more and more Committee whose district includes released. migrants are being caught in the south- Brownsville, said the immigration-reform Obama hosts Myanmar The girl’s 14-year-old brother was ernmost tip of Texas, in the Border debate has so far left out discussion of playing video games in a back room Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector. the security and economic development and was not hurt. Detectives were Apprehension statistics are imperfect in Mexico. leader in symbolic visit canvassing the neighborhood for measures because they only capture a “The incentive for people to cross over possible witnesses and forensic units fraction of the real flow, but the arrest illegally from Mexico will never subside WASHINGTON: Myanmar President Thein Sein Post that the armed forces would “always have a were gathering evidence at the numbers are definitely shifting. until these individuals feel safe and until yesterday became the first leader of his country special place” in government and life in Myanmar. home Sunday, where a cluster of bul- Arrests in the Tucson, Ariz., sector they are able to feed themselves and to visit the White House in nearly half a century, The army seized control of the country then let holes marked a front window and dropped 3 percent last year, while Rio their families,” Vela said. as Washington offers a strong symbolic gesture known as Burma in 1962, ushering in decades of more holes were found in the front Grande Valley arrests rose 65 percent. In At the 150-bed shelter, more than half to back his reforms. In a scene that would have isolation. Military ruler Ne Win in 1966 was the door and a window frame. March alone, the Border Patrol made of the immigrants have just been deport- been unimaginable just a few years ago, the for- last leader to visit the White House, where he met The family had lived in the home more than 16,000 immigrant arrests in ed from the US, Gallardo said. The others mer general entered the White House and into president Lyndon Johnson. Obama has made in an area about 11 miles northeast the Rio Grande Valley sector, a 67 percent are immigrants preparing to cross. He talks with President Barack Obama in the Oval Myanmar a key priority and visited in November. of downtown Sacramento for less increase from the same month last year, said shelter workers constantly chase out Office as a small crowd of protesters converged To some, Myanmar represents the biggest suc- than a year, Ramos said. There were according to the agency. infiltrators who are paid by smugglers to outside. Critics say Obama’s invitation was pre- cess from his pledge in his 2009 inaugural no records of sheriff’s officials being Immigrant deaths are also up. The sec- recruit inside. mature and takes pressure off Myanmar to address to reach out to US foes if they “unclench” sent there previously, he said. address abuses such as recent anti-Muslim vio- their fists. tor reported last month that about 70 At Solalinde’s shelter in southern “I can’t even imagine what would lence to which security forces allegedly turned a Many experts believe that a key motivating bodies were found in the first six months Mexico, threats from organized crime bring people to do that,” neighbor blind eye. Thein Sein, who took office as a nomi- factor for Myanmar’s reforms was to ease its of the fiscal year, more than twice as forced them to bring in four state police James Corbett told The Associated nal civilian in 2011, surprised even cynics by free- reliance on neighboring China, which developed many as the previous year. officers and four federal ones, who have ing hundreds of political prisoners, easing cen- an overwhelming influence in the proudly inde- Press. Corbett, who lives about three lived at his shelter for the past year as The makeup of the immigrants appre- sorship and letting long-detained opposition pendent country amid US and European sanc- houses down from where the girl was hended here is changing, too, driven by protection. Solalinde now travels with icon Aung San Suu Kyi enter parliament. tions. In recent weeks, the United States ended shot, described the neighborhood as people flowing out of Honduras, bodyguards after having fled Mexico for Speaking at the office of Voice of America on sweeping restrictions on visas, and top trade offi- quiet, with a “bunch of young fami- Guatemala and El Salvador. The Border a couple of months last year following Sunday, Thein Sein said he would tell Obama that cial Demetrios Marantis visited Myanmar to start lies.” Patrol made 94,532 arrests of non- threats. the reform path is stable but that Myanmar need- discussions on economic measures such as offer- On Sunday morning, about a half Mexican immigrants along the One immigrant at the Matamoros ed economic development - including a com- ing duty-free access for certain products. dozen grieving relatives arrived at Southwest border last year, more than shelter was a 48-year-old man who plete end to US sanctions. But in a signal ahead of Thein Sein’s visit, the home, The Sacramento Bee double the year before. And nearly half would only give his name as “Gordo” The most critical test of reform will come in Representative Joe Crowley, who has long been reported. “We have no idea what hap- of those came in the Rio Grande Valley because he feared for his safety. He said 2015, when Myanmar is scheduled to hold elec- active on Myanmar, introduced legislation to pened - she was a very happy little sector. he had arrived two days earlier after trav- tions - testing whether the military and its allies extend for one year a ban on the country’s gems - a girl,” Tony Reys, the uncle of the girl, The Border Patrol is responding by eling from Copan, Honduras. Gordo said would be willing to cede power, potentially to key moneymaker for the military. Crowley, a mem- told the newspaper. Sheriff’s officials redirecting personnel, including sending he had lived in Los Angeles for 10 years Suu Kyi. In an interview with the Washington Post ber of Obama’s Democratic Party from New York, were also investigating a separate most new graduates from its academy to but had been in Honduras for the past published yesterday, Thein Sein would not take a said he was “very concerned” about human rights shooting Sunday morning that took the Rio Grande Valley, according to sen- four. He was trying to make it back to position on whether the Nobel laureate would be violations in Myanmar, including “brutal attacks” in place not far from the home. The vic- ior Border Patrol officials. California, where he has a 15-year-old allowed to stand - saying the future direction of recent months against the Muslim minority. A tim of that shooting - a 32-year-old When immigrants from Central daughter. reform was up to parliament. But he is also not recent Human Rights Watch report accused man who survived - was “definitely a America and Mexico arrive in Matamoros Asked about his prospects for success- budging on the constitution’s allocation of 25 Myanmar of a “campaign of ethnic cleansing” gang member” and detectives were ahead of their trip to America, they are fully crossing the river, he said: “It’s diffi- percent of seats in parliament to the armed against the Rohingya, a mostly Muslim minority looking at the possibility the shoot- met by smugglers who have to pay the cult, not so much for the Border Patrol” forces, saying that the military preserved who are not even considered citizens of the pre- ings were related, Ramos said. — AP cartel tax for every person they take but for the cartels. — AP Myanmar’s independence. Thein Sein told the dominantly Buddhist nation.—AFP TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 INTERNATIONAL
Pakistan army will be watching Sharif’s cosying up to India India, China vow to ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s all-powerful mili- plans to tackle militants, especially the tary overthrew Nawaz Sharif 14 years ago Pakistan Taliban. and hustled him off into exile in hand- The army distinguishes between end border dispute cuffs. Now he’s back as prime minister- “good” Taleban - who do not attack elect, with the army watching his every Pakistani security forces and fight in move, especially steps planned to ease Afghanistan - and “bad” Taleban, who ‘Peace and tranquillity has to be preserved’ tension with arch-rival India. have killed tens of thousands of soldiers Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League- and civilians in Pakistan. NEW DELHI: The Indian and Nawaz (PML-N) won 124 of 272 contested Sharif favours talks with the Pakistan Chinese premiers pledged yester- seats in this month’s parliamentary elec- Taleban. Many in the military believe this day to resolve a border dispute that tion. Its nearest rival, the Pakistan People’s could help address sokme individual has soured ties for decades, saying Party, won just 31 in the first democratic grievances but they do not want any good relations between the two handover of power since independence compromise on things like changing the Asian giants were key to world in 1947. But Sharif is inheriting an almost- Pakistani constitution. peace. broke nation that has been ruled by the The army wanted to know if Sharif Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, military for more than half the 66 years could unite Pakistan’s four provinces, making his first foreign visit since since then. It is wracked by a Taliban each most likely headed by a different taking office, said that Beijing was insurgency, sectarian violence, daily pow- party, to rein in militancy, said Major determined to build up trust with er cuts and spiralling unemployment General Mahmud Durrani, national secu- New Delhi as he and a team of min- among its 180 million people. rity adviser under the previous govern- isters signed a series of joint agree- “Pakistan has so many problems that ment. Pakistani militants have previously ments with India. he needs the help and support of every- enjoyed the backing of the army, which His host, Indian Prime Minister body, including the army,” said Shazad used them as a proxy to attack India. That Manmohan Singh, also stressed he Chaudhry, a former air vice marshal. has changed, officers insist, although ele- regarded a good bilateral relation- The question is: will the army give ments within the military are still some- ship as crucial to the wider region’s Sharif the freedom to do what he wants? times accused of supporting militant development. Li’s visit comes after The top source of potential friction is his groups.India blamed elements of the a flare-up last month in a long-run- aim to boost trade and ties with India. The Pakistani security forces for supporting ning border dispute between the two nuclear-armed neighbours have gunmen who attacked the Indian city of two countries in a remote fought three wars since both became Mumbai in 2008, something Pakistan Himalayan region. independent of colonial Britain, two over strongly denied. New Delhi accused Chinese the still-disputed Himalayan territory of Durrani said attitudes to India were troops of intruding nearly 20 kilo- Kashmir. slowly changing, meaning that top offi- metres (12 miles) into Indian- Sharif’s policies towards India will be cers are unlikely to stand in the way of claimed territory, triggering a heavily scrutinised some in the army justi- Sharif’s outreach this time. three-week standoff that was fy its massive budget on the potential “For Pakistan to move ahead, it needs resolved when troops from both threat from India - but there are signs the peace with India,” he said. “But the mili- sides pulled back. NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, right, applauds as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, military may be slightly more amenable tary will not just slink back to (the) bar- The Line of Actual Control addresses the media during a joint press conference in New Delhi, India, yesterday. Li said yesterday he to overtures than in the past. racks. It still has a lot of input on foreign between the nuclear-armed neigh- chose India for his first foreign visit because cooperation between the world’s two most populous nations In 1999, the army torpedoed Sharif’s policy and needs to be weaned off that bours has never been formally is crucial to world stability and economic growth. He was visiting India just weeks after the two nations attempts to improve relations by secretly gradually.” demarcated, although they have resolved a tense standoff between their troops over the disputed Himalayan border between their two sending soldiers disguised as militants to The current army chief, Ashfaq Kayani, signed accords to maintain peace countries. — AP capture Indian outposts in the heights of obliquely refers to India as an “external since the border region saw a brief said. “Both sides believe we need to agreed that it (the issue) needed a Bharatiya Janata Party before head- Kargil, in the north of Indian Kashmir. threat” in speeches but also now men- Indo-Chinese war in 1962. When Sharif tried to fire Pervez tions the “internal threat” of militancy - a improve the border mechanisms detailed examination and that is ing today to India’s financial hub, Singh said there was now a that have been put into place and what the special representatives Mumbai. Musharraf, his then-chief of army staff, significant change in rhetoric. mutual desire to resolve the dis- Musharraf took power in a coup. “The army is now enlightened enough make them more efficient.. and have been charged with,” S. China is a key India trading part- pute and that a joint working appropriately resolve our differ- Jaishankar told reporters at a brief- ner, with two-way commerce Sharif has promised an inquiry into the to understand the significance of peace group would be established to Kargil invasion. Most officers believe that with India,” one high-ranking officer said. ences. “The two sides should con- ing on the visit. totalling $66.5 billion last year, and reach a lasting agreement. “We tinue to advance the negotiations The comments followed signing the two countries are hoping that is a political move aimed mostly at con- “Everybody wants the Kashmir issue to be agreed that our special representa- taining Musharraf, who is now under resolved.” But any changes would need to on the boundary question and ceremonies on a series of issues figure will reach $100 billion by tives will meet soon to continue jointly maintain peace and tranquil- ranging from agriculture to tourism 2015. Several major roads in the house arrest in the capital, rather than a be slow and be matched with conces- discussions seeking an early agree- plan to punish senior officers. sions from India, cautioned Durrani and lity in the border area,” he added. and trade. There was also an agree- Indian capital were closed to pre- ment on a framework for a fair, rea- Speaking earlier, Li had said that ment to resolve a dispute over a vent Tibetan protesters from dis- Sharif was at pains to absolve the mili- Chaudhry, the former air vice marshal. sonable and mutually acceptable tary of blame for his overthrow at a recent “It’s a fallacy to imagine that foreign good relations between India and Chinese plan to build three more rupting Li’s visit, and exile groups boundary settlement,” Singh said China would “be a true blessing for hydropower dams across the cross- complained of heavy-handed polic- news conference. “I never had any trouble policy can be changed overnight,” after talks with Li. with the army. The coup was staged by Chaudhry said. “Can you wish away the Asia and the world”. “World peace... border Brahmaputra river, known in ing in their neighbourhoods. “Peace and tranquillity on our cannot be a reality without strate- China as the Yarlung Tsangpo. Police detained three Tibetan one single person,” he said. “The rest of problems with India? Can you wish away border has to be preserved,” the the army was not taken into confidence. the problem of Kashmir?” gic trust between India and China,” Singh said he had raised Indian protesters near the luxury Taj Indian leader added at a joint news he added. concerns about the Chinese activi- Palace in the Indian capital where We have to work together.” Sharif may also benefit from divisions conference in New Delhi. Li said the Officers say they are watching three between generals over the controversial India’s envoy to China later told ties “on the upper reaches of our the Chinese premier was staying, border dispute was a historical reporters that the boundary issue shared rivers”. Li was also scheduled an AFP photographer said. After things closely: the formation of a commis- extension of the term of the chief of army hangover and that there was a sion to investigate the 1999 invasion; who staff, said analyst Ayesha Siddiqua, who was complicated and both coun- to meet foreign minister Salman wrapping up his visit to India, Li is desire on both sides to overcome it. tries would study the mechanisms Khurshid, ruling Congress party due to travel to neighbouring replaces the army chief in November has written extensively about the “We have established the princi- when his term expires; and how Sharif Pakistani military. —Reuters that are currently in place to deal leader Sonia Gandhi and senior fig- Pakistan before heading to ples for settling the question,” Li with it. “The two prime ministers ures from the main opposition Switzerland and Germany. — AFP Court grants Musharraf bail in Bhutto murder
RAWALPINDI: A Pakistani court yesterday granted bail to next to Islamabad, court official Mohammad Aslam Joya former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the murder of told AFP. The bail does not mean his automatic release as Benazir Bhutto, an official said, but the retired general he also faces legal cases over the sacking of judges when remains under house arrest. he imposed emergency rule in 2007, and the 2006 death of Musharraf has been detained in his farmhouse on the a Baluch rebel leader. Judge Habibur Rehman has ordered edge of Islamabad since April 19 on charges of conspiracy Musharraf, who ruled Pakistan from 1999 to 2008 after seiz- to murder two-time prime minister Bhutto, who was assas- ing power in a coup, to pay two bonds worth one million sinated in a gun and bomb attack in 2007 in Rawalpindi. rupees ($10,000) each, he added. Musharraf’s government “General Musharraf’s bail has been confirmed” by an blamed Bhutto’s killing on Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who denied any involvement and was killed in a US drone attack in 2009. The 69-year-old returned from exile in March to stand in last week’s general election, vowing to “save” the coun- try from militancy and economic collapse but he was barred from running over charges dating back to his time in power. Taking the former chief of army staff into custody was an unprecedented move in a country ruled for more than half of its life by the military and was seen by many as a challenge to the armed forces’ power. Since Nawaz Sharif, ousted by Musharraf’s coup in 1999, won the May 11 general election there has been specula- tion a deal would be reached to allow Musharraf to leave Pakistan without facing the courts. But his lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri told AFP he would not flee. “He will get free from all cases one by one. He has got bail in Benzair Bhutto murder case today and will get bail from other cases very soon,” he said. anti-terrorism court in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, “He will stay in the country and won’t go abroad. He will ISLAMABAD: In this Monday, April 15, 2013 photo, stay very much here. Rumours that he will go abroad Pakistan’s former President and military ruler Pervez before Nawaz Sharif takes charge of the prime minister Musharraf gestures during a party meeting in office are false.” Prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar told AFP he Islamabad, Pakistan. Yesterday, a lawyer for Pakistan’s opposed bail for Musharraf, saying there was a risk he former military ruler says a judge has granted Pervez would leave the country. The main prosecutor in the case, Musharraf bail in a case related to the murder of former Chaudhry Zulfiqar, was shot dead on his way to court on Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. — AP May 3. — AFP Imran Khan’s party wins Karachi election rerun
KARACHI: The party of former and paramilitary rangers backed up new era of peace, tolerance,” Alvi Pakistani cricket hero Imran Khan by armoured personnel carriers said. “The people have shown their secured victory in a repeat election guarded polling stations in the NA- strong will for a change in the politi- held in one constituency of violence- 250 constituency after PTI provincial cal landscape of this city, which is plagued Karachi, election officials vice-president Zahra Shahid Hussain the backbone of the country in all said yesterday. was killed on Saturday night. terms.” The MQM has long dominat- Voting was held under tight secu- Her death followed a bloody elec- ed in Karachi but lost seats at the rity in 43 polling stations on Sunday, tion campaign marked by more than election and senior party leader a day after a senior official of Khan’s 150 killings since mid-April. Khan Farooq Sattar rejected the results of Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party was shot was quick to pin the blame on the what he called the “farcical” re-run dead outside her home in the city. MQM and specifically its chief Altaf Polling was re-run after complaints poll. Hussain, who lives in exile in London, The election was won by the of ballot-stuffing in the upmarket saying he had “openly threatened PTI district of the vast port city, Pakistan Muslim League (N) of for- workers and leaders through public Pakistan’s economic engine, during mer prime minister Nawaz Sharif, broadcasts”. the May 11 general election. The who is set to serve an unprecedent- PTI’s Arif Alvi secured 77,659 votes to The outcome was not a surprise ed third term as premier nearly 14 beat his closest rival Khushbakht as the MQM boycotted Sunday’s par- years after he was deposed in a Shujaat of the Muttahida Qaumi tial polls after its demand for re- coup. Khan’s party came in third, Movement (MQM) who polled polling in the entire constituency according to partial official results, 30,365 votes, election commission was rejected by the election com- behind the Pakistan People’s Party spokesman Najib Ahmed said giving mission. (PPP) which led the outgoing coali- the unofficial results. Troops, police “Our victory in Karachi marks a tion government. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Cambodia opposition urges UN, EU help on fair polls
PHNOM PENH: About 2,000 Cambodian of their leader-in-exile Sam Rainsy to United Nations rights office where party led the country since 1985 and Rainsy, Hun Sen recently said he would step opposition members yesterday marched contest polls on July 28. leaders briefly met with visiting UN his main challenger, is barred from run- down as prime minister when he turns through the capital Phnom Penh to The demonstrators from the recently envoy Surya Subedi. “We are seeking ning in the polls due to a string of con- 74 having previously said he would appeal for the help of the United Nations formed Cambodia National Rescue Party their intervention to push for reforms to victions that the opposition says are serve until 90. The strongman premier and the European Union to ensure free (CNRP) marched with posters that read the National Election Committee to politically motivated. has warned that Cambodia risks a return and fair elections. “Change The National Election ensure a free and fair election,” said Kem Rainsy, who lives in exile in France to to war if the opposition wins due to It was the second time in less than a Committee” and “No Sam Rainsy, No Free Sokha, deputy head of the CNRP. “We are avoid prison, faces 11 years in jail if he Rainsy’s vow to prosecute members of month that the opposition has taken to And Fair Election”. They submitted a peti- also demanding that Sam Rainsy be returns, after he was convicted in absen- the government for their alleged roles in the streets of the Cambodian capital to tion at the EU delegation asking for the allowed to fight in the election,” he told tia for charges that included publishing a the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror in the demand election reforms and the return bloc’s intervention, and marched to the reporters. Prime Minister Hun Sen has “false map” of the border with Vietnam. late 1970s. — AFP N Korea fires sixth missile in three days Pyongyang angrily rejects criticism
SEOUL: North Korea fired a sixth short-range missile into the Sea of Japan yesterday, defying warnings from UN chief Ban Ki-moon and South Korea after a flurry of similar tests at the week- end. The latest firing was confirmed by the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), who said it was unclear if the North was testing guided missiles or rock- ets from multiple launchers. “North Korea launched two projectiles yester- day-one in the morning and the other in the OSAKA: Osaka Mayor and co-leader of the Japan Restoration Party Toru Hashimoto afternoon,” a JCS spokesman told AFP. Such drills (L) speaks before press at the Osaka city hall in Osaka, western Japan yesterday. A are not unusual but they come as the Korean large majority of Japanese people disagree with a high-profile politician who said peninsula is only just emerging from a period of women forced to provide sex during World War II were a military necessity, polls particularly elevated military tensions triggered issued yesterday. — AFP by the North’s nuclear test in February. In a statement yesterday, Pyongyang angrily Majority reject Japan mayor rejected criticism that the missile exercises were a deliberate attempt to kick off a fresh cycle of on comfort women: Poll tensions. “Military training ... is the indisputable right of any sovereign nation,” the North’s TOKYO: A large majority of Japanese peo- Hashimoto’s comments, the latest episode Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of ple disagree with a high-profile politician in a decades-long controversy over inter- Korea said. who said women forced to provide sex dur- pretations of history in East Asia that “Viciously taking issue with our military’s rocket firing training ... is an unacceptable chal- ing World War II were a military necessity, colours present-day relations. SEOUL: A mock Scud-B missile of North Korea, center, and other South Korean missiles are dis- lenge and a wanton provocation,” it said. North polls issued yesterday said. Unbowed, Hashimoto yesterday hit back played at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday. North Korea fired Korea fired three short-range guided missiles off Up to 200,000 “comfort women” from at the polls, criticising their methodology. two more short-range projectiles into its own eastern waters yesterday for a third straight day its east coast on Saturday and another on Korea, China, the Philippines and elsewhere “The way the Mainichi did the opinion poll of such launches, Seoul officials said, as Pyongyang threatened to retaliate against what it Sunday. South Korea had labelled the weekend were forcibly drafted into brothels catering is unfair,” he tweeted. “Even though I have calls South Korean and US criticism of its sovereign rockets tests. — AP to the Japanese military during WWII, main- repeatedly said that I didn’t think the com- tests “deplorable”, while UN chief Ban Ki-moon stream historians say. Outspoken Osaka fort women system was necessary, it is ... urged Pyongyang to exercise restraint. “It is time weapons were removed from their launch pads project. “A more pressing issue than removing mayor Toru Hashimoto said last week these based on the premise that I believe the for them to resume dialogue and lower the ten- in early May. the finished goods is whether the complex will women served a “necessary” role keeping comfort women system was necessary.” sions,” Ban said in Moscow on Sunday. The most significant fallout from the recent collapse or not,” said a spokesman for the North battle-stressed soldiers in line, sparking out- The embattled mayor has tried to distin- North Korea argues that the real provocation months of sabre-rattling has been the withdraw- side of the management committee that runs rage in China and South Korea and inviting guish between forcing women into sexual is coming from South Korea and the United al of both sides from the Kaesong joint industrial Kaesong. US criticism. Two surveys carried out over slavery, which he says was wrong, and States, which have carried out a series of small park which lies 10 kilometres (six miles) over the Neither of the two Koreas has officially the weekend indicated that Hashimoto’s allowing troops to have a sexual outlet, and large-scale joint military drills in recent border in North Korea. declared the complex closed, and Seoul has con- opinion is not shared by many, despite reg- which he says was necessary. months. Established in 2004 as a rare symbol of inter- tinued to supply a minimum amount of electrici- ular foreign criticism that the Japanese pub- Hashimoto, a lawyer by training, rose to The joint exercises have included the use of Korean cooperation, Kaesong had come through ty. Owners of the South Korean firms in the com- lic has still failed to come to terms with the prominence as an outspoken television nuclear-capable B2 stealth bombers and, most previous crises on the Korean peninsula plex said Monday that they were the victims of a country’s bellicose past. In a poll of 1,550 talk-show guest. He rode the wave of his recently, the participation of the nuclear-pow- unscathed. In early April, however, the North catfight between Seoul and Pyongyang. Japanese households conducted by the popularity into local politics and last year ered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Yesterday South ordered all of its 53,000 laborers working for the “Entrepreneurs and company employees are Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, 71 percent of established a national party, becoming its Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye’s top security 123 South Korean companies in Kaesong not to being squeezed by the emotional struggle respondents said Hashimoto’s comments joint leader. He has a reputation for colour- advisor, Kim Jang-Soo, again urged Pyongyang report to work. Seoul responded by pulling out between the governments of the two Koreas,” an were “inappropriate” against 21 percent ful pronouncements that frequently and to desist from any more drills. its personnel soon afterwards. association representing the owners’ interests who said the comments were “appropriate”. unapologetically offend. On Sunday he took “Whether it’s just a test or a show of force, the South Korea has proposed formal talks on said in a statement. In a separate survey among 3,600 house- to Twitter to demand that Tokyo do more to North should not get involved in actions that recovering stockpiles of raw materials and fin- Some 200 CEOs and managers filed a request holds by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, 75 boost women’s rights at a Group of Eight create tension,” Kim said. At one point, North ished goods the South Korean firms left behind, Monday to visit the complex, but the South’s percent of those who answered said the summit taking place in Britain next month. Korea had been primed to test a pair of medium- but Pyongyang yesterday suggested any dia- Unification Ministry said North Korea would first comments were “problematic”, while 20 per- “Japan should play a leadership role in look- range missiles, but US intelligence said the logue should focus on the overall future of the have to agree to working-level talks. — AFP cent said they had little or no problem with ing at how countries in the world have them. The United States on Thursday con- trampled women’s rights on the battlefield,” demned Hashimoto’s opinion as “outra- he said. “Japan’s comfort women system geous”. In response, he claimed that was wrong. However, militaries in other China asks North Korea to American troops abused Japanese women countries used women. Nevertheless, the during their seven-year occupation after world only criticises Japan as it used ‘sex Japan’s 1945 surrender. slaves’.” “A sex slave is something completely China, South Korea and the Philippines different from a comfort woman,” he said release fishing boat, crew have all voiced their disapproval at without elaborating. —AP BEIJING: China is urging North Administration official who identi- believed was behind the boat afford the ransom and was con- Korea to release a Chinese fishing fied himself only by his surname, seizure, but made clear it was look- cerned that the 20 days’ food supply boat whose owner says it was seized Liu, said Monday. “We had such cas- ing for the North Korean govern- onboard would run out soon. by gun-toting North Koreans earlier es last year and the year before. ment to deal with it. In May of last year, a North this month and held for ransom, in There’s very little we can do to pre- “China already filed a representa- Korean boat hijacked three Chinese the latest irritant in relations vent them.” Yu’s post asking for help tion to North Korea through rele- boats with 29 fishermen on board, between the neighboring allies. from Internet users and China’s vant channels, urging North Korea reportedly for a ransom of $190,000. Boat owner Yu Xuejun, who was- Foreign Ministry was reposted and to properly handle the case as soon Two weeks later, the fishermen were n’t aboard, first publicized the commented on more than 13,000 as possible, and earnestly ensure the freed - some of them stripped of seizure on his microblog late times. In a sign that he was trying to fishermen’s legal rights and safety everything but their long johns - Saturday, and yesterday posted that increase pressure on the govern- and their property,” he said. and were widely quoted in Chinese his terrified captain had communi- ment, he wrote on Monday after- The official Xinhua News Agency, media on their return as saying they cated to him a new deadline to pay noon: “We can only hope the coun- in its first report of the incident late had been beaten and starved. a ransom. try can defend our rights.” Sunday, said Chinese diplomats in A report by the Washington, D.C.- “My captain gave me the phone. “My boat was captured by for- the North Korean capital had based Center for Strategic and His voice was trembling. Could feel eign forces in my country’s own received a request for help from Yu International Studies in November he was very afraid. Told me no later waters. Of course we hope the gov- as early as May 10, and that they had last year said that the seizure of than 5 p.m. today,” Yu wrote on a ernment will support us fishermen demanded at the time that North Chinese fishing boats by North verified Tencent Weibo account. The and protect our lives and property,” Korea release the boat. Koreans to extract a payoff was “not tweet was accompanied by photos Yu wrote in response to a posted In an interview with China’s unprecedented.” It said that what of the captain and 15 sailors. question on what he wanted the Global Times newspaper, Yu said the was exceptional in last year’s case Yu wrote over the weekend that government and military to do. kidnappers expertly removed a pair was the publicity, whipped up by North Koreans seized his boat May 5 At a routine Chinese Foreign of global positioning systems and the vessels’ owners and families of in what he maintained were Chinese Ministry briefing in Beijing, confiscated all communication the captured sailors who were dis- SITTWE: Rohingya men construct new barracks at Bawdupah’s Internally Displaced waters, and that they demanded a spokesman Hong Lei declined to devices after boarding the boat. He satisfied by the inaction of local offi- People (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe on May 18, 2013. Myanmar’s victims of sec- 600,000 yuan ($100,000) ransom. Yu answer a question about who China also told the paper that he couldn’t cials. —AP tarian strife were spared the full force of Cyclone Mahasen, but many are now returning was quoted by the Southern to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon just weeks away. — AFP Metropolis on Sunday as saying the North Korean side had first asked for After cyclone, Myanmar the ransom to be paid by noon Sunday to a company in Dandong, a camps face monsoon threat city in northeastern China on the North Korean border, or that they SITTWE: Myanmar’s victims of sectarian tarpaulin flung up in soggy paddy fields. would confiscate the boat and repa- strife were spared the full force of Cyclone Sanitation is a key concern. Rain last triate the crew. Mahasen, but many are now returning to week left standing water in many of the Yu wrote yesterday that he sus- flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the camps and Mildren said water-born dis- pects his crew had been mistreated. monsoon just weeks away. eases such as cholera were a particular fear. The seizure of the Liaoning-based Myanmar’s Rakhine state is pockmarked “Thousands are sheltering in areas that boat adds to China’s frustration with with makeshift settlements for up to make them vulnerable and we need to find North Korea over its recent tests of 140,000 people-mainly Rohingya Muslims- solutions to this, “ she said. “If one week of nuclear and rocket technologies in displaced by sectarian unrest last year that rain has done this, imagine what it’s going defiance of international efforts to claimed about 200 lives and saw whole vil- to be like in a couple of months.” curb the country’s nuclear ambi- lages razed. Many Rohingya are completely reliant tions. In addition, the Chinese gov- Many were evacuated last week ahead on humanitarian aid, with an almost total ernment is under intense pressure of Cyclone Mahasen, which later veered segregation of Buddhist and Muslim com- domestically to ensure the safety of into neighbouring Bangladesh. But most munities. A lack of adequate food has also citizens who venture abroad or out have now returned, according to Kirsten raised fears about malnutrition among chil- to sea to seek their livelihoods. Mildren of the UN’s Office for the dren, many of whom have gone without Another abduction by North Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs access to education for almost a year. Koreans of Chinese fishermen about (OCHA). “They are actually no better off “It makes me sad just to talk about our a year ago - along with allegations than where they were last week before the life here,” 55-year-old Hla Hla Myint told they were beaten - sparked furious storm,” she said, adding the cyclone was AFP, describing conditions at the Mansi criticism among Chinese online. simply a “dress rehearsal” for the rainy sea- camp near the state capital Sittwe. “Ants, “Whatever you call North Korea - PYONGYANG: Local residents rest on a pier in a fishing village at Dalian Bay fishing port in Dalian, north- son-set to hit in a few weeks. leeches and earthworms come into our rogue state or whatever - these kind east China’s Liaoning province yesterday. China has called on Pyongyang to intervene over North Koreans Many of the camps consist of little more tents. We are living in the water. I am so of cases just keep happening,” a detaining a Chinese fishing boat from Dalian, authorities said yesterday, after the vessel’s owner said than ramshackle bivouacs of bamboo and sad. We have no food,” she said. —AFP Liaoning Maritime and Fishery armed hijackers had demanded a ransom for 16 sailors. — AFP NEWS TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013
A picture taken on May 3, 2013, shows Vladimir Kouklatchev performing with a cat during a show in the Moscow Cat Theatre, founded by his father, famous Russian clown Yuri Kouklatchev, shortly before the fall of the USSR. The theatre was recently reopened after a top to bottom renovation. — AFP
Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria
Continued from Page 1 miles) from the Lebanese border, had pushed back most of the halt terrorists in the country. That is unrealistic,” he told the power in Syria from his father in 2000, have put rebels under attacking forces to their original positions in the east of the Argentine newspaper Clarin, in a reference to Syria’s mainly pressure in several of their strongholds in recent weeks. and secure links between the capital and government town and to the south on Sunday, destroying at least four Sunni rebels. Assad, from Syria’s minority Alawite sect, has been battling strongholds in the Alawite coastal heartland via the contested Syrian army tanks and five light Hezbollah vehicles. Assad ruled out “dialogue with terrorists”, but it was not clear an uprising which began with peaceful protests in March central city of Homs. The government campaign has coincided The Western-backed leadership of the Free Syrian Army, the from his remarks whether he would agree to send delegates to 2011. His violent response eventually prompted rebels to take with efforts by the United States and Russia, despite their differ- loose umbrella group trying to oversee hundreds of disparate a conference that may in any case falter before it starts due to up arms. Hezbollah has supported Assad throughout the crisis ences on Syria, to organise peace talks to end a conflict now in rebel brigades, said the Qusair fighters had thwarted Hezbollah disagreements between its two main sponsors and their allies. but for months denied reports it was fighting alongside its third year in which more than 80,000 people have been with military operations it dubbed “Walls of Death”. Syrian gov- The fractured Syrian opposition is to discuss the proposed Assad’s troops. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put killed. ernment restrictions on access for independent media make it peace conference at a meeting due to start in Istanbul on the Hezbollah casualties on Sunday at 28 dead and more than A total of 100 combatants from both sides were killed in hard to verify such videos and accounts. Thursday, during which it will also appoint a new leadership. 70 wounded, while 48 rebel fighters and four civilians were Sunday’s offensive, according to opposition sources, including The fighting raged as Western nations are seeking to step Attacks by troops and militias loyal to Assad, who inherited also killed. — Reuters the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Troops up pressure on Assad - Britain and France want the European have already retaken several villages around Qusair and have Union to allow arms deliveries to rebels - while preparing for attacked increasingly isolated rebel units in Homs. “If Qusair the peace talks brokered by Russia and the United States next falls, God forbid, the opposition in Homs city will be in grave month. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said “no danger,” said an activist who called himself Abu Jaafar Al- option is off the table” over the possible arming of rebels if the Mugharbil. State news agency SANA said the army had Syrian government does not negotiate seriously at the pro- “restored security and stability to most Qusair neighbourhoods” posed talks. and was “chasing the remnants of the terrorists in the northern Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, whose country has district”. shielded Syria from UN Security Council action, said Syrian Syrian television also showed footage of what it said was an opposition representatives must take part without precondi- Israeli military jeep which it said the rebels had been using and tion, apparently referring to their demands for Assad’s exit which showed the extent of their foreign backing. An Israeli mil- before they come to the table. Assad has scorned the idea that itary spokeswoman said the vehicle was decommissioned a the conference expected to convene in Geneva could end a war decade ago and dismissed the footage as “poor propaganda”. that is fuelling instability and deepening Sunni-Shiite rifts Opposition activists said rebels in Qusair, about 10 km (six across the Middle East. “They think a political conference will Egypt faces pressure to end alcohol sales Continued from Page 1 drinking on religious grounds, are worrying. “We have hired extra security outside the shops,” Sherif told AFP. Another Since the fall of Mubarak, Islamists long-suppressed by his employee at the store, Samir, said they have to endure insults regime have set up political parties and gained a voice in the from passers-by because they sell a product that is prohibited media. In June, Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim by Islam. “We’re not forcing anyone to buy alcohol,” Samir said. Brotherhood, was elected Egypt’s first civilian president. “Drinking alcohol is a personal issue,” said Galal, a customer at Consuming alcohol is banned under sharia, Islamic law, which Drinkies. “It’s not for anyone to interfere.” is the main source of legislation according to Egypt’s new con- Despite the absence of official restrictions, many liquor stitution. But Aziz was doubtful the government would move stores are covering their storefronts because of pressure from to prohibit the sale of alcohol completely. “I don’t think the society, residents told AFP. At a duty free shop in central Cairo, government will ban alcoholic drinks because they generate a employees said they would welcome a ban, even though they lot of revenue from taxes,” said Aziz, who recently renewed his know it is unlikely because 80 percent of their revenue comes shop’s alcohol licence without any difficulty. “We have had no from alcoholic drinks. “I am for a ban because it’s forbidden (in problems with the government so far. Our problems are Islam) and it’s against our customs, regardless of the Islamists always with the Salafists (ultraconservative Islamists) who being in power,” said Shaimaa Hassan. harass us, either verbally or with violence,” he told AFP. Mohammed Zeidan, a spokesman for the Freedom and Earlier in May, gunmen opened fire on a cafe in the north Justice Party (FJP) - the political arm of the Muslim Sinai town of El-Arish that sold alcohol, killing a waiter. Brotherhood - insists that in Islam “what is allowed is clear, and Officials from Morsi’s government have made a string of state- what is banned is clear”. He said the current laws do not repre- ments in recent months that have raised the spectre of tighter sent the views of the FJP. “The laws that would satisfy us will restrictions on alcohol sales. The government doubled beer be drafted by the people through their members of parlia- tax to 200 percent this month, with taxes on other alcoholic ment,” said Zeidan. Egypt has been without a parliament for drinks rising from 100 percent to 150 percent. In February, the almost a year after a top court declared it unconstitutional for New Urban Communities Authority said it would stop issuing technical reasons. alcohol licences to new housing developments, and in March The price of a bottle of beer in Egypt has risen from 7.5 Aviation Minister Wael Al-Maadawi announced plans to ban Egyptian pounds (around $1.10) to almost 12 Egyptian alcohol in the duty free shops his ministry runs. pounds. According to the 2013-2014 budget, the government But authorities say no formal instructions have been issued expects tax revenues of around one billion Egyptian pounds banning the sale of alcohol. Sherif, who did not want his last ($220 million) from beer alone, six times the amount of the name used, manages Drinkies, an outlet for Al Ahram previous budget. “Of course raising taxes on beer can be seen Beverages, Egypt’s largest liquor store chain. He said they had as a restriction but it also leads to more revenue for the gov- not had any problems with authorities. “The police give us no ernment,” said economist Mahmud Negm. “The figures show trouble, we get our licence renewed,” he said. But he says that the Egyptian government needs Egyptians to drink more statements by Islamists, who oppose the sale of alcohol and beer, and not restrict them,” he said. — AFP More heads roll in oil sector shakeup Continued from Page 1 achievements of the Assembly and names. is very pleased with the achieve- The lawmaker also criticized the The government boycotted the ments. He said members of the del- government’s decisions to make Assembly sessions on May 14 and egation were pleased with the sat- key appointments or force senior 15 after five MPs filed two separate isfaction of the Amir over the government bureaucrats who requests to grill the oil and interior achievements. served 30 years and above to retire, ministers over alleged violations Meanwhile, Shiite MP Saleh adding that the government which that included the $2.2 billion pay- Ashour charged yesterday that has resigned is not allowed to ment to Dow. some ministers are conspiring make such important decisions. Rashed however insisted that against the Assembly with the aim Ashour also charged that a number the highly anticipated ruling of the to make it fail. Ashour said that the of MPs are negotiating with the constitutional court on the amend- political situation in the country is government to become members ment of the electoral constituency unstable and “unfortunately, plots in the next Cabinet, describing law was not discussed as the issue are being hatched against the such moves as a conspiracy. Ashour is totally left to the court and all are National Assembly by some minis- warned that the government will obliged to respect its verdict. The ters in cooperation with some have to bear the political conse- speaker also said the Amir told influential people with the aim to quences of continuing to boycott them he is following the great make it a failure.” He provided no the Assembly sessions. TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 ANALYSIS14
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Issues What Muslim parents tell their kids
By Naazish YarKhan
ike all parents, Muslim parents have their fair share of do’s and don’ts for their children. Unlike Lmost parents though, terrorism and how to handle its misguided association with Islam figures in some of our talks. In the wake of the Boston bombings and given that one of the suspects was only a few years older than my own boy, the need for us to talk with Yousuf took on even greater urgency. Conversations usually begin with “most Americans recognise that not all Muslims are violent just because a few are,” and progress to “but I still don’t want you to talk about bombs, guns or shoot- ‘War on mosque ing, even if it’s a game you’re discussing”. These are tough conversations to have with an 11-year old, but they’re discussions we cannot avoid. By Mohamad Ali Harissi “People have become reluctant to go to husseiniyahs, but I security forces moved against protesters near the town of As Muslim parents, we recognise just how vulnera- did not stop,” Ali said. On Sunday, Prime Minister Nuri Al- Hawijah in Kirkuk province, sparking clashes that killed 53 ble our children are. The harder conversations go “war on mosques” - deadly attacks by militants on Maliki called for joint Shiite-Sunni prayers on Fridays in a people. something like this: “If you are harassed or teased Sunni mosques and Shiite places of worship called hus- major Baghdad mosque. “Those who target mosques are ene- Dozens more died in subsequent unrest that included and called a terrorist, tell a teacher.” When my 11- Aseiniyahs - using weapons ranging from bombs to mor- mies of Sunnis and Shiites alike, and are planning to ignite revenge attacks on security forces, raising fears of a return to year old insists that is tattling, I explain that even if it tar rounds is raging in Iraq. Dozens of attacks this year have (sectarian) strife,” he said in a statement. the all-out sectarian conflict that ravaged the country makes him look weak, it’s wiser to tell a teacher than stirred already-simmering sectarian tensions between Iraq’s Tensions are festering between the government of Maliki, between 2006 and 2008. The violence has not let up in May, to navigate these waters alone. I don’t want him to Sunni minority and Shiite majority, and led some would-be a Shiite, and Sunnis who accuse authorities of marginalising with more than 260 people killed in attacks so far this month. get into a potential argument because there’s a worshippers to stay away. “There is an increase in the fre- and targeting their community through wrongful detentions United Nations envoy Martin Kobler has appealed for Iraqi chance it could escalate. Best-case scenario, my child quency of reciprocal attacks targeting Sunni and Shiite and accusations of involvement in terrorism. Protests broke leaders to bring a halt to the violence, including the attacks could put up a brave front, maybe while fighting mosques,” political analyst Ihsan Al-Shammari told AFP. “It is a out in Sunni areas of Iraq almost five months ago. While the on mosques. “It is the responsibility of all leaders to stop the back tears. Worst-case he could push back and end war on mosques.” Iraqis have lived with near-daily violence government has made some concessions, freeing prisoners bloodshed,” Kobler said. “Small children are burned alive in up suspended. since the 2003 US-led invasion of the country that toppled and raising the salaries of Sunni anti-Al-Qaeda fighters, the cars. Worshippers are cut down outside their own mosques. Like the rest of the nation, I feel such regret and dictator Saddam Hussein, and militants still attack both secu- underlying issues have not been addressed. On April 23, This is beyond unacceptable.” —AFP sadness that the Boston bombing suspects, both rity forces and civilians almost each day. well-liked seemingly well-integrated young men, Now, they have set their sights on mosques as well. In one came to be so terribly misled. As a parent, I also of the deadliest attacks, two bombs exploded near the Sunni recognise the agony their mother and father must Saria mosque in Baquba, north of Baghdad, after prayers on Friday. One device blew up as worshippers were leaving, and have felt, watching helplessly, from thousands of the second went off after people gathered at the scene of the miles away, as their children were hunted and first blast, killing a total of 41 people. The attacks came after a gunned down. As much as I fear I will alarm him with suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged belt on talk of the bombings in Boston, I take on the subject. Thursday at the entrance to Al-Zahraa husseiniyah, where “If there are Muslims who try to tell you it’s okay to family members were receiving condolences for victims of be violent, remember what your parents have violence the day before. That bombing killed 12 people. And taught you. In Islam, war is between militaries alone there have been many more such attacks. - no civilians, women, children, schools, hospitals Sheikh Sami Al-Massudi, deputy head of the Shiite endow- and other civic amenities can be targets.” ment which manages Shiite religious sites in Iraq, said that A preteen, my son actually listens to me and more than 45 mosques and husseiniyahs belonging to the shares his thoughts and concerns. Shielding him endowment have been targeted this year. And an official from these difficult discussions today may mean los- from the Sunni endowment said that more than 10 mosques ing an opportunity to imprint the idea that, in Islam, had come under attack in the past month alone. “We are taking an innocent life is tantamount to killing all of threatened, to the point that we did not go to work last humanity. Not talking about this may mean throw- Monday after we received threats,” the official said. It is ing away a chance to warn my child that he needs to unclear which group or groups are behind the violence. be conscious of those who may try to lead him Sunni militants are almost certainly behind attacks on astray. Shiite places of worship. But Sunni mosques may be attacked I talk about how terrible the bombings have been by either Shiite militants, or by Sunnis punishing worshippers for the victims and their families. “If you, as you grow for not adhering to a hardline interpretation of Islam. older, have issues with the policies of any nation or Whoever is behind the bombings, they have certainly had an differences of opinion, civic involvement is the way effect on attendance. “I stopped going to pray after the clo- to change the status quo, not violence,” I drill into his sure of the mosque near our house because of the attacks,” young mind. I reiterate that there are acceptable and said Ihsan Ahmed, a 25-year-old Sunni. A bomb killed the unacceptable ways to address issues and differences muezzin, who calls worshippers to prayer, at the mosque of opinions, violence not being an option. I fear about two weeks ago, Ahmed said. “All this happened in front there may be a time when we aren’t there to be a of my eyes. How can I go again? Even my wife and my chil- sounding board for our kids. As my son takes in dren prevent me from going,” he said. every word, I quietly hope I’m not scaring him. Ali, a 29-year-old Shiite, said that some people have An Iraqi security officer stands outside the Sunni 17 Ramadan Mosque in Al-Firdos Square on May 18, Frustrated, my son asks, “Why do some Muslims become afraid to go to husseiniyahs for prayers as well. have to go and mess it up for the rest of us?” 2013 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. — AFP “Because, somehow, they’ve come to believe that their actions are justified,” I respond. “But they aren’t,” I am quick to add. But there is more on my mind that Aging Yahoo! faces new Tumblr generation I don’t bring up. I don’t get into a tirade about how the media ties this crime to our faith or calls it a By Rob Lever Yahoo! chief executive Marissa Mayer, in CEO. The product, service and brand will Mayer to keep her promise of keeping return to terrorism to US shores. What about the announcing the deal, pledged to allow continue to be defined and developed sepa- Tumblr independent while seeking ways to Sandy Hook murderer who opened fire on little chil- ahoo! is under two decades old and is Tumblr to remain independent, while inte- rately with the same Tumblr irreverence, wit, make the deal pay off. “If I’m the CEO of dren? Deemed mentally ill, no ties were drawn to an already showing signs of age. Tumblr, grating technology and advertising oppor- and commitment to empower creators.” Karp Tumblr I would be concerned,” said Daniel ideology for his actions. Or the white supremacist, Ythe cool blogging platform, represents tunities. “Per the agreement and our promise echoed those comments, saying in his own Odio, senior vice president of California- who shot and killed six people at a Sikh temple in a new generation. This split marks both a not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independ- blog post: “We’re not turning purple,” in ref- based Internet firm Share This, who has been Oak Creek, Wisconsin? He was not considered a ter- challenge and an opportunity for the firms, ently operated as a separate business,” Mayer erence to the Yahoo! portal’s signature color. involved in a number of technology start- rorist by the media. Why are only Muslim suspects’ after the announcement that Yahoo! is buy- said in a statement. “David Karp will remain But some analysts it could be hard for ups. “Marissa is promising to keep it inde- and criminals’ actions automatically motivated by ing the six-year-old startup for $1.1 billion, pendent, but I just don’t buy it. Just looking faith? mainly in cash. “Yahoo users are behind the at history, I would say that the culture that These thoughts aren’t far from my mind, but I curve, Tumblr users too cool for school,” said makes Tumblr special is going to change,” don’t need to add that kind of baggage to this con- Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton University Odio told AFP. versation with my 11-year old. He has enough on his computer scientist, in a tweet. “From this Roger Kay, analyst with Endpoint plate. POV (point of view) the acquisition seems Technologies Associates, also was skeptical ironically appropriate.” Tumblr could be key about integrating the two different firms. Naazish YarKhan is a writer, publicist and communi- to Yahoo! because of its popularity with “There’s a particular thing in the hacker cul- cations strategist in the Chicago area. — CGNews younger Internet users. A survey this year ture, and it is difficult for a large bureaucratic conducted by the online data group Survata company like Yahoo! to keep that alive,” Kay found Tumblr more popular than Facebook said, “Yahoo! once upon a time was an entre- among those aged 13 to 25. preneurial company with all the spirit that All articles appearing on these “Yahoo skews toward older demograph- Tumblr has, but they have been though a pages are the personal opinion of ics. Tumblr is ridiculously strong among number of retreads. The best programmers the writers. Kuwait Times takes no Millennials,” said a tweet from Brian Solis, have long since gone to other places.” analyst with Altimeter Group. Some com- Kay said the deal also could prompt some responsibility for views expressed ments posted on Tumblr as the news broke of the staff at Tumblr, many of whom will get therein. Kuwait Times invites read- highlighted this generation gap, as if their a big windfall from the deal, to cash out and ers to voice their opinions. Please parents were intervening to spoil the party. move elsewhere. “Marissa Mayer might have “YAHOO, CLOSE TUMBLR AND YOU’LL DIE!” thought that she was buying a staff, but this send submissions via email to: opin- one Tumblr user wrote. Another wrote: “Dear is a place where you can least expect people [email protected] or via snail Yahoo ... If you change anything, we will to stick around,” Kay said. “What they are mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. show up at your headquarters with fire and buying is a bunch of code, and the cus- pitchforks. Don’t try us.” Still another posted: tomers and maybe the revenue stream,” he The editor reserves the right to edit “Please leave Tumblr alone. You acquired it A picture taken yesterday in Paris shows logos of Tumblr and Yahoo! on the said. “You can’t assume you’re buying the tal- any submission as necessary. for the cool factor... Don’t tinker with it; screen of tablets. Yahoo! bought the popular blogging platform Tumblr for ent. The talent likes to decide which master don’t change it ... Leave it alone.” $1.1 billion. — AFP they want to serve.” — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 SPORTS
Pistorius rules out return Sporting appoint new coach Vettori joins NZ squad CAPE TOWN: South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, who is charged LONDON: Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori could play his first Test for 10 LISBON: Troubled Portuguese soccer club Sporting have with murdering his girlfriend, will not compete in any events this year, local media months after spinner Bruce Martin was ruled out of the rest of the tour of England reported yesterday. appointed Leonardo Jardim as their sixth coach in just over two with a calf injury. The sprinter’s agent had previously said August’s world championships in years of difficulties on and off the pitch. “Bruce Martin out of England tour, Dan Vettori to join squad early, BJ Watling Moscow were “on the radar” after Pistorius’ bail conditions “Leonardo Jardim will coach the senior team next season, making good progress,” New Zealand Cricket tweeted were relaxed on March 28 and the 26-year-old was with a contract valid until June 2015,” Sporting wrote in a com- yesterday. Wicketkeeper Watling hurt his knee on granted permission to travel abroad. munication to market regulator CMVM (www.cmvm.pt) yester- Saturday diving to make a run-out and captain But the double amputee, nicknamed ‘Blade day. Brendon McCullum took over the gloves for the rest Runner’, will not return to the track in 2013 accord- The 38-year-old Jardim, who unexpectedly parted company of the first Lord’s Test which New Zealand lost by 170 ing to his coach, Ampie Louw. “We have decided as with Greek club Olympiakos in January even though they were runs. Vettori, who has been struggling with a long- a team we are not talking any training or athletics. leading the league at the time, replaces Jesualdo Ferreira, who term Achilles injury, was originally included in New We have postponed (races) for the whole year,” failed to secure the target of a Europa League spot for the Lisbon Zealand’s one-day squad that will also contest the Louw told South Africa’s EyeWitness News. club. Sporting finished seventh in the championship with 10 Champions Trophy in June but not the test side. “He is nowhere close to being in a position to defeats and nine draws, in one of their worst seasons. Before his The second and final Test starts at Headingley in train. He just does fitness exercises in the morning spell in Greece, Jardim led Braga to third place in the 2011-2012 Leeds on Friday. “Daniel’s come over 24 hours earlier with his family.” Pistorius is accused of premeditat- for us to have a chance to have a look at him,” New ed murder after shooting Reeva Steenkamp in his season. Sporting are considered one of Portugal’s big three clubs, Zealand coach Mike Hesson was quoted as say- Pretoria home on Feb. 14. His next court appearance ing by the BBC. is scheduled for June 4. along with Porto and Benfica, but have run into financial trouble and been forced to sell several key players, including top Dutch “We won’t risk Dan for the sake of a test but, in After his arrest, Pistorius cancelled scheduled appear- saying that, it is an important test match for us. ances in March, April and May in Australia, Brazil, the striker Ricky van Wolfswinkel who went to Premier League side Norwich.—Reuters “We won’t be pushing Dan if he’s not ready but if United States and Britain.—Reuters he is we’d certainly love to have him.”—Reuters Rangers tame Tigers
ARLINGTON: David Murphy put Texas ahead ond inning off Hernandez (5-3), who failed to 20th anniversary. with a three-run home run as the Rangers go at least six innings for the first time this The game resumed about 80 minutes after spoiled a three-homer game from Miguel season. the movie ended and many fans moved into Cabrera with an 11-8 victory against the Staked to an early lead, Masterson (7-2) the first eight rows behind the dugouts. Detroit Tigers on Sunday night. was dominant for the second straight start. He Lackey (2-4) gave up one unearned run Murphy’s shot just over the fence in right allowed three singles, easily outdueled and struck out five before dark skies and field gave Texas an 8-7 lead and answered a Hernandez and ran his consecutive scoreless heavy rain sent fans running for cover as he bases-loaded double from Prince Fielder that innings streak to 19. He shut out the New York was warming up to start the seventh. put Detroit up by two in the sixth inning after Yankees 1-0 on four hits in his previous out- Lackey ended his three-game losing streak. the Rangers had walked Cabrera intentionally ing. He didn’t allow a runner until Trevor Plouffe even though first base wasn’t open. The Indians improved to 7-1 against Cy led off the fifth with a double. Plouffe later PHILADELPHIA: Joey Votto No. 9 of the Cincinnati Reds throws to first after fielding Cabrera hit a three-run homer in the third Young recipients, knocking off Hernandez, scored on shortstop Pedro Ciriaco’s throwing the ball in the fifth inning of the game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens and a solo shot in the fifth off Derek Holland, R.A. Dickey, David Price, Roy Halladay, Cliff error. Bank Park. —AFP then went deep again in the eighth against Lee, Bartolo Colon and Justin Verlander. Tanner Scheppers. ANGELS 6, WHITE SOX 2 Cabrera, the 2012 AL Triple Crown winner RAYS 3, ORIOLES 1 In Anaheim, Jason Vargas scattered four Phillies edge Reds and this year’s leader in average and RBIs, In Baltimore, Matt Moore pitched seven hits through seven scoreless innings, while went 4 for 4 with 5 RBIs and has 11 homers, innings of five-hit ball to stay unbeaten, while Erick Aybar and Howie Kendrick each hit two- PHILADELPHIA: Freddy Galvis and Erik Kratz each tory against the Nationals and a split of their four- one off the AL lead. Luke Scott and Matt Joyce homered as the run doubles as the Los Angeles Angels coaxed homered off closer Aroldis Chapman in the bottom game series. Cashner (3-2) allowed three runs and Robbie Ross (2-0) pitched a scoreless sev- Rays beat the Orioles for a three-game sweep. a pair of bases-loaded walks out of Jake Peavy of the ninth innings Sunday, helping the seven hits, struck out six and walked one. The enth inning for the win, and Joe Nathan Moore (8-0) gave up one run, struck out in the fourth inning of a victory over the Philadelphia Phillies secure a stunning 3-2 win over Padres tied their season high in runs and their 15 worked around a leadoff walk in the ninth for three and walked one. The left-hander has White Sox. the Cincinnati Reds. Chapman (3-2) blew his second hits off four Nationals pitchers were two short of his 13th save. He has saved all 36 career won nine straight decisions, breaking the Vargas (3-3) struck out six and walked three straight save opportunity after converting his first their season best. San Diego’s Yonder Alonso home- eight chances this season. Antonio Bastardo (2-1) red off Drew Storen leading off the eighth to finish 3 chances against Detroit. franchise record of eight set last year by David while helping the Angels gain a split of the pitched a scoreless ninth inning for Philadelphia. Jay for 4 with two RBIs and three runs scored. It was his The Tigers led 4-1 after Cabrera hit a three- Price. The Rays’ ninth win in 11 games put four-game series. Peavy (5-2) gave up four Bruce homered and Homer Bailey tossed seven sixth homer. The Nationals have lost two straight run homer over the Texas bullpen in right- them a season-high three games over .500 runs, four hits and five walks over six innings. scoreless innings for the Reds. Joey Votto went 2 for and six of nine. Haren (4-5) got off to a rough start center field in the third and added a solo shot (23-20). Adam Jones had two hits, stole two Alex Rios drove in Chicago’s first run with 4 in extending his hitting streak to eight games. He by allowing three runs in the first inning and was to center off Holland, who had given up just bases and drove in a run for the Orioles, who an eighth-inning double against Dane De La is batting .515 (17 for 33) over the stretch. Chase gone after the fourth-run fifth. Haren allowed nine two homers in 57-plus innings this year after have dropped five straight - all at home. Chris Rosa. It extended Rios’ hitting streak to 14 Utley’s RBI single in the eighth inning snapped the hits while striking out five and walking two. setting a club record by allowing 32 homers Tillman (3-2) allowed three runs and five hits games, eclipsing his previous best in 2006 Phillies’ 16 scoreless innings skid. last year. in six innings. with Toronto. ROCKIES 5, GIANTS 0 MARLINS 2, DIAMONDBACKS 1 In Denver, Juan Nicasio scattered three hits over The Rangers had wiped out that lead - and In Miami, Ricky Nolasco struck out 11 as the six innings, Carlos Gonzalez and Troy Tulowitzki another one after Fielder’s double - and were RED SOX 5, TWINS 1 ATHLETICS 4, ROYALS 3 Marlins stopped a season-high seven-game losing each drove in two runs as the Rockies won their first ahead 11-7 when Cabrera hit another solo In Minneapolis, John Lackey allowed one In Oakland, Yoenis Cespedes hit a leadoff streak by holding off Arizona. series over San Francisco in two years. homer to center off Scheppers. hit over six innings before a three-hour rain home run in the eighth inning as the Athletics The Diamondbacks scored once in the ninth. Dexter Fowler tied a career high with four hits to delay, and Dustin Pedroia and Will beat the Royals to complete a three-game Mike Dunn, the Marlins’ third pitcher of the inning, help the Rockies take three of four from the reigning INDIANS 6, MARINERS 0 Middlebrooks homered as Boston beat sweep. got pinch-hitter A.J. Pollock to ground out on a 3-2 World Series champions. Jordan Pacheco also drove In Cleveland, Justin Masterson struck out a Minnesota for its fifth straight win. Fans at Cespedes hit his eighth homer, connecting pitch with the bases loaded to end it. Marcell Ozuna in a run for Colorado. Nicasio (4-1) shut down one of season-high 11 in seven shutout innings and Target Field saw more than the Twins lose against Kelvin Herrera (2-4). Jerry Blevins (3-0) broke a scoreless tie with a two-run double in the the top-hitting teams in baseball, striking out five Michael Brantley homered and drove in four their fifth in a row. pitched one scoreless inning. Ryan Cook sixth. Didi Gregorius had three hits for Arizona, and allowing only an intentional walk before being which had won four in a row. Nolasco (3-5) was lifted for a pinch hitter in the sixth. runs off Felix Hernandez as the Cleveland The longest delay ever at the ballpark last- worked the ninth for his first save of the sea- coming off his worst start of the season, allowing six Barry Zito (3-3) couldn’t get on track as he Indians toppled yet another former Cy Young ed long enough for the 1993 movie “The son. runs in five innings in a loss to Cincinnati on turned in a second straight ineffective outing. He Award winner on Sunday with a 6-0 win over Sandlot” to be shown in its entirety on the Alex Gordon matched his career high of Tuesday. Wade Miley (3-3) gave up two runs and five allowed 11 hits and five runs in 5 2-3 innings. the Seattle Mariners. videoboard. Several cast and crew members four hits for Kansas City. The Royals have lost hits in six innings while striking out six. Brantley hit a three-run homer in the sec- were at the stadium to celebrate the film’s 10 of 13 and fallen back to .500.—AP BRAVES 4, DODGERS 2 CARDINALS 4, BREWERS 2 In Atlanta, Ramiro Pena had a tiebreaking sacri- In St. Louis, David Freese had an RBI in a four-run fice fly in a four-run eighth inning, Jordan Schafer fourth inning to go with big plays at third base, drove in two runs and the Braves rallied against Los helping the Cardinals beat former teammate Kyle Angeles’ beleaguered bullpen for a rain-soaked vic- Lohse for the third time this season. tory. Kenley Jansen (1-3) was the loser for the sec- John Gast (2-0) won his second straight start in ond straight game, this time allowing one hit, two place of the injured Jake Westbrook and fellow runs and a walk while getting just one out in a game rookie Seth Maness escaped a bases-loaded, none- twice delayed by rain for a total of 2 hours, 15 min- out jam in the seventh to help the Cardinals win for utes. Jansen began the eighth by allowing a single the 14th time in 17 games. to Freddie Freeman and walking Brian McCann. Edward Mujica earned his 13th save in 13 Dodgers manager Don Mattingly brought in closer chances after a third rookie, Trevor Rosenthal, gave Brandon League for the first time in the series, but up a hit in the eighth. Lohse (1-5) has lost all three of he fared no better than his teammate. his starts against St. Louis after going 16-3 for the After Atlanta loaded the bases when third base- Cardinals last season and then leaving in free man Juan Uribe was charged with a fielding error agency when they opted to go with younger play- on Andrelton Simmons’ sacrifice bunt attempt, ers. He gave up four runs in six innings, and is 0-4 League gave up a tying RBI single to pinch-hitter overall in his last five starts. Yuniesky Betancourt and Gerald Laird to make it 2-all. Pinch-runner B.J. Upton Jeff Bianchi each drove in a run and Norichika Aoki scored Pena’s fly. had three hits and a walk for the Brewers, who have The Braves added two more runs off League on lost 14 of 17. Chris Johnson’s RBI single and a sacrifice bunt by Schafer. Luis Avilan (2-0) pitched a perfect eighth METS 4, CUBS 3 inning, striking out one. In Chicago, Daniel Murphy hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning as the Mets beat the INTERLEAGUE PIRATES 1, ASTROS 0 Cubs for their first series win at Wrigley Field since In Pittsburgh, Jeff Locke allowed three hits over 2007. The Mets won two of three on this trip to seven innings and Pedro Alvarez homered as the Chicago. Murphy hit a leadoff shot against reliever Pirates won for the eighth time in 10 games. Kyuji Fukikawa (1-1). Murphy has homered twice in Locke (4-1) won his fourth straight decisions and three games and has an eight-game hitting streak. gave up one run or fewer for the fifth time in his Mets rookie Juan Lagares hit his first major past eight outings. He struck out four and walked league homer, a tying, two-run drive in the seventh three. Alvarez’s longball was his second of the series against Cubs starter Travis Wood. Scott Rice (2-3) and third in eight games. It was the lone mistake by pitched two scoreless innings. Bobby Parnell earned Astros starter Lucas Harrell (3-5), who lost his third his sixth save. Wood hit his first homer of the season consecutive decision despite allowing four hits and and fourth of his career. one walk in seven innings. Off to their best 44-game start since 1991, the PADRES 13, NATIONALS 4 Pirates (26-18) have the National League’s third-best In San Diego, Andrew Cashner pitched 6 2-3 record. They won despite the absence of outfielder strong innings and Kyle Blanks and Will Venable Andrew McCutchen, who was a late scratch homered off Dan Haren to lead the Padres to a vic- because of soreness in his right knee.—AP MLB results/standings
Cleveland 6, Seattle 0; Miami 2, Arizona 1; Tampa Bay 3, Baltimore 1; Atlanta 5, LA Dodgers 2; ARLINGTON: Robbie Ross No. 46 of the Texas Rangers throws in the seventh inning against the Detroit Tigers at Rangers Ballpark. —AFP Philadelphia 3, Cincinnati 2; Pittsburgh 1, Houston 0; Boston 5, Minnesota 1; St. Louis 4, Milwaukee 2; NY Mets 4, Chicago Cubs 3; La Angels 6, Chicago White Sox 2; Oakland 4, Kansas City 3; San Diego 13, Washington 4; Colorado 5, San Francisco 0; Texas 11, Detroit 8. New wrestling rules used in LA exhibition American League National League LOS ANGELES: American Jordan new rules,” Oliver said. “We’ve been mark, they were exhausted.” execute my moves.” The lack of an Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB Atlanta 25 18 .581 - Oliver had a late takedown to beat training under the old rules. It’s Chris Pendleton, a two-time Iranian team didn’t seem too disap- NY Yankees 27 16 .628 - Washington 23 21 .523 2.5 Russia’s Magomed Kurbanaliev in something we have to adjust to.” NCAA champion at Oklahoma pointing to the few thousand spec- Boston 27 17 .614 0.5 Philadelphia 21 23 .477 4.5 the opening match Sunday in The International Olympic State, needing 1:16 to score a tech- tators. Wrestling fans happily Baltimore 23 20 .535 4 NY Mets 17 24 .415 7 United 4 Wrestling, a three-team Committee removed wrestling as nical fall over Canada’s Manjot voiced their approval when actor Tampa Bay 23 20 .535 4 Miami 12 32 .273 13.5 exhibition tournament using new one of the core sports in February. Sandhu. Tom Arnold stepped to the center Toronto 17 26 .395 10 Central Division rules approved a day earlier in It is now one of eight sports com- Opan Sat, a three-time European of the ring and announced that the Central Division St. Louis 28 15 .651 - Moscow in a bid to keep wrestling peting for an open slot at the 2020 champion from Russia, said there Olympics should not “become Cleveland 25 17 .595 - Cincinnati 26 18 .591 2.5 in the Olympics beyond 2016. Games. The United States, Russia was some confusion about how ‘Dancing with the Stars.” Detroit 23 19 .548 2 Pittsburgh 26 18 .591 2.5 Kansas City 20 20 .500 4 Under the changes approved by and Canada competed Sunday, points are awarded but was happy The event featured 13 matches. White Sox 19 23 .452 6 Chicago Cubs 18 25 .419 10 the sport’s international governing with Canada a late replacement to be a part of a movement to save The United States’ male wrestlers Minnesota 18 22 .450 6 Milwaukee 17 25 .405 10.5 body, matches are now made up after Iran pulled out Friday. Jon the sport. He won two matches went 3-0 against their Canadian Western Division Western Division out of two 3-minute sessions Reader, an NCAA champion out of Sunday. “I was shocked (with the counterparts and finished 2-2 Texas 29 15 .659 - Arizona 25 19 .568 - instead of three 2-minute periods, Iowa State, beat Canada’s Tamerlin IOC decision) because for a lot of against Russia. The Russian team Oakland 23 22 .511 6.5 Colorado 24 20 .545 1 and scoring is cumulative instead Tagziev 12-2. “You’ve got to get people, myself included, wrestling was 2-0 against Canada. Among Seattle 20 24 .455 9 San Francisco 24 20 .545 1 of the previous two-out-of-three used to it,” Reader said. “I love the is a way of life,” Sat said through an female competitors, the United LA Angels 17 27 .386 12 San Diego 20 23 .465 4.5 system. new rules. In the first four matches, interpreter. “I like the idea of having States and Canada split their four Houston 12 32 .273 17 LA Dodgers 17 25 .405 7 “We just found out about the once the wrestlers hit the 5-minute to periods because I have time to matches.—AP TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 SPORTS Lowe reunited with Hamilton at Mercedes
LONDON: Lewis Hamilton will be reunited McLaren had already put Lowe on ‘gar- cant balancing act between this year and for them, while Toto Wolff is executive relishing. I have worked closely with with Paddy Lowe sooner than expected dening leave’, removing him from sensitive next. But it is perhaps less obvious that we director for business and head of Mercedes-Benz for almost 20 years and after Mercedes announced yesterday that work, with Tim Goss being promoted to will also see major changes for the 2015 Mercedes’ motorsport programme. deeply admire the company’s phenomenal the former McLaren technical head was the role of technical director. They and 2016 seasons, as development pro- Brawn, Bob Bell, Geoff Willis and Aldo commitment to Formula One. I look for- joining their Formula One team next announced last week that they would gresses with the new generation of car Costa were all previously technical direc- ward to much success together in the month. switch from Mercedes engines to Honda in design and Power Unit,” he added. tors at other teams and Lowe makes it a years ahead.” Mercedes have been on pole Mercedes said in a statement that the 2015. Lowe’s arrival at Mercedes, who “To deliver in these circumstances, a quintet on a Mercedes payroll that also position for the last three races but have Briton had been appointed executive signed 2008 world champion Hamilton last successful team needs strength in depth. includes outspoken former champion Niki had problems managing the tyres and director (technical) and would start on year, had been flagged up since January Paddy’s arrival will further strengthen our Lauda as non-executive chairman and have faded on the Sunday, with Hamilton June 3 - the week of the Canadian Grand when reports indicated that he was being organisation and puts us in a strong posi- shareholder. slipping from second on the grid to 12th at Prix - after agreement was reached with lined up as Brawn’s replacement. tion for the future.” “The team has already produced proba- the last race in Spain. McLaren for him to be released from the “I am delighted to welcome Paddy to The rules are changing significantly bly the fastest car of the 2013 season while Hamilton and German team mate Nico remaining seven months of his contract. the team and to begin working together. next year, with a new 1.6 litre tur- the technical challenges of the new regula- Rosberg will however be among the Lowe will work closely with team princi- He has an excellent record of success in the bocharged V6 engine with energy recovery tions for 2014 will give us the opportunity favourites at this weekend’s Monaco Grand pal Ross Brawn, the man he could one day sport and would be an asset to any of our systems replacing the current 2.4 litre V8 to maximise the synergies available to a Prix, where overtaking is tricky and the replace, who retains overall responsibility rivals in the pit lane,” said Brawn. “It is no units. Mercedes already have a long list of works manufacturer,” said Lowe in the driver starting on pole has a considerable for technical and sporting matters. secret that every team is facing a signifi- former team technical directors working team statement. “That is a challenge I am advantage.—Reuters Bae wins PGA Tour title
IRVING: South Korean Bae Sang- moon made a fast start, then overcame strong winds and a mid-round wobble to clinch his maiden PGA Tour title by two shots at the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas on Sunday. The 26-year-old, an 11-time champion on various professional tours in Asia, held his nerve in dif- ficult conditions on a firm, fast- running layout to close with a one-under-par 69 at the TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas. Bae, who had charged four strokes clear with 11 holes to play, fell back into a tie for the lead with overnight pacesetter Keegan Bradley after bogeying the 15th but recovered with a birdie on 16 to post a 13-under total of 267. “I am very, very happy,” a smil- ing Bae told CBS Sports after sink- ing a three-footer for par on the MOBILE: Jennifer Johnson poses with the trophy after winning the Mobile 18th green and thrusting both Bay LPGA Classic at the Crossings Course at the Robert Trent Jones Trail at arms skywards in jubilation. “I had Magnolia Grove. —AFP a great time. “Actually I was a little nervous Jennifer bags LPGA Classic the last hole but that was not a big thing. I did it. This course was MOBILE: Jennifer Johnson got a hug and con- “The birdie putt on 17, that’s when I started really tough and the winds were IRVING: Sang-Moon Bae of South Korea celebrates with the championship trophy after winning gratulations from the defending Mobile Bay thinking a little more about winning the tourna- very strong but I did very well this the 2013 HP Byron Nelson Championship. —AFP week.” LPGA Classic champion before it even sunk in ment. A little bit on the front nine, but you can’t Bae, who topped the 2011 behind trees before hitting his The Korean bogeyed the hole Sunday that she had won her first tour title. afford to think about that.” American Bradley, the 2011 Japan Golf Tour order of merit second into water right of the after lipping out from five feet “It was fun there at the end, because Jennifer She went home after missing her second cut winner who had led after the first after winning three times, was a green on the way to a double- after the American had made his was making putts and I don’t think she realized of the year at the Kingsmill Championship and three rounds in pursuit of a stroke behind Bradley overnight bogey six. only birdie of the day by coaxing what she was doing,” said Stacy Lewis, her play- switched to what she calls her “spaceship putter” fourth PGA Tour victory, had to but benefited from a two-shot Out in two-under 33, he led in an 18-footer. Bae immediately ing partner. “I told her when I hugged her, ‘I think because of its appearance. Johnson aid that part settle for second place after bat- swing at the third to edge one Bradley by two strokes at 14 rebounded with a birdie at the you just won yourself a golf tournament.’ And of her game had been her Achilles heel. tling to a 72. ahead. under, the American having sunk par-five 16th, hitting a spinning she’s kind of like, ‘What?’ It was really cute.” “I hit the ball really well. It was like when I “I am disappointed but I will While Bradley bogeyed the a 14-footer to save par at the wedge to six feet and calmly sink- Johnson’s game was better than cute. missed the cut I felt like I should be playing,” she get over it,” said Bradley, who hole after pushing his tee shot ninth. Bae’s advantage was briefly ing the putt. Bradley horseshoed The 21-year-old Californian closed with her said. “And I went and saw my coach right away in took initial control of the tourna- right into water, the South Korean cut to one after he found the out with his birdie attempt from second straight 7-under 65 for a tournament- Florida and worked some things out, I put the ment after opening with a blister- recorded the first of five birdies right rough off the tee and a just four feet to hand the Korean record 21-under 267 total on The Crossings spaceship putter in the bag and now the putts ing course record 60. course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail’s are going in.” he piled up on the day as he bunker with his approach to a one-stroke advantage. “There is some good that I can Magnolia Grove complex. She birdied four of the Johnson made the winning point in the 2010 drained a 26-footer. bogey the 10th but Bradley fal- Bradley’s title bid effectively bring out of this but I am happy final six holes for a one-stroke victory over Curtis Cup and was 3-0-1. She improved 19 Bae tightened his grip on the tered with a three-putt bogey at ended at the tricky par-three for Moon. He played really good Jessica Korda and Pornanong Phatlum. strokes from her 45th-place tie in Mobile last tournament with three consecu- the 11th to slip two behind the 17th, where he bogeyed after today.” Former Masters champion A 15-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole year. Between this win and Prattville, she’s think- tive birdies from the fifth, sinking Korean. overshooting the green off the Charl Schwartzel of South Africa, secured the win, and not long after Lewis passed ing maybe the cuisine deserves some credit. a 22-footer, a five-footer and then As the gusting crosswinds con- tee. who missed several birdie putts the torch from her 2012 victory. “I think the barbecue has something to do two-putting at the par-five sev- tinued to wreak havoc for the Two ahead playing the difficult from between eight and 15 feet “Before I hit my birdie putt on 17, I saw that with it because I’m a real foodie and like when I enth to forge four strokes clear at players, Bae succumbed to a two- par-four 18th, Bae split the fair- as 40mph (64.37 kph) winds gust- Pornanong was tied with me at 20 and I didn’t eat good, I’m happy,” Johnson said. “And in both 16 under. However, Bae stumbled shot swing at the par-four 15th to way with his drive, then struck a ed across the course, was a fur- want a playoff so I was like, ‘I’m going to make these locations I’ve been eating barbecue and badly at the ninth where he drop back into a tie for the lead brilliant six-iron to 18 feet to set this thing,’” Johnson said. good tea and pudding and that has a lot to do ther stroke back at 10 under after pulled his tee shot way left with Bradley. up a rock-solid par.—Reuters The former Arizona State star two-putted for with my mindset more than I think.” closing with a 68. par on the final hole, tipped her cap and headed Phatlum three-putted the opening hole for toward the practice range to hit a few balls in bogey for the third straight day, but rebounded case of a playoff. nicely. “I just concentrate on my game and do But Phatlum was already done and the lead what I have to do and try my best,” Phatlum said. was safe even with Korda’s closing birdie. “Putting very good today, so like I just didn’t Phatlum, a 23-year-old from Thailand, closed have pressure on myself.” with a 63. Her previous best finish was third at Korda finished with a 68 that included three the Kia Classic. bogeys and seven birdies. Five players finished Johnson had only one previous top-10 finish, two strokes back, including Hall of Famer Karrie an eighth-place tie at the 2011 Navistar LPGA Webb and third-round leader Chella Choi, a Classic in Prattville, Ala. This time she got a win South Korean who was seeking her first win. along with a hug and a “Good job, champ” from Swede Anna Nordqvist followed up a course- her father, Mike. record 61 with a 69. South Korea’s Jiyai Shin shot “I’m a little shocked,” Johnson said. “I didn’t a 63 and birdied the final three holes, while even realize I shot 65. The whole back nine, I Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn had a 65 to join the don’t know what was happening. group at 19 under.—AP
Preview Brilliant Ashour seeks to end 50-year-old jinx HULL: World number one Ramy Ashour will He has done much to improve that since try to become the first Egyptian to win the early last year when visits to the Aspire centre British Open in nearly 50 years when the in Doha helped him repair a body which had world’s oldest tournament starts in Hull late been breaking down. This has enabled Ashour yesterday. The 25-year-old from Cairo may be to express the full flow of his shot-making a strong favourite to succeed after winning genius on a more consistent basis. He did seven successive tournaments during a 36- though still have hamstring problems in match unbeaten run, but he will be battling a December while taking away Matthew’s world Group photo of winners and officials curious jinx which has frustrated some of title, and last week was recovering from a Egypt’s greatest squash legends. sprained ankle. Ashour knows he also needs The brilliant Ashour became another of to control his wildfire emotions. “ I have to stay KTF under-16 tournament them last year while losing the final to Nick myself, to be myself, and do what I have to do,” Matthew, who thus became the first home was how he explained this. KUWAIT: The Kuwait Tennis Federation Yarmouk Club player to win the British Open three times. “A lot is about always being better every Tournament for the under-16 players con- The final standings of the clubs were as These two are seeded to contest the final day - whether it’s in training or a match or cluded at Qadisiya Sport Club in the presence follows: again. everywhere. With a 100% effort I will achieve of secretary general of KTF Abdelredha Al- 1. Salmiya Club with 190 points Ashour is unclear why so many of his com- what I can.” Ghareeb, Assistant Treasurer Ahmad Al-Qallaf, 2. Kazima 176 points patriots, especially great ones like Gamal This is the first time since 1974 that the Director of National Teams Abdallah Al- 3. Yarmouk 174 points Awad, Ahmed Barada, and Amr Shabana, British Open has been staged in Yorkshire, Adwani, Kazima Club Board Member 4. Kuwait 134 points have failed to land the title ever since brought back there by Assem Allam, the Abdelaziz Al-Roumi, Tennis Director in 5. Shabab 40 points Abdelfattah Aboutaleb did so in 1966. Anglo-Egyptian owner of Hull City football Salmiya Club Mahboub Jumaa. 6. Sahel 32 points “Egyptians have won a lot of other tourna- club. The demountable all glass court has 7. Sulaibkhat 32 points ments - it’s just the British Open (that they been erected inside the Tigers’ stadium. Results of the tournament as follows: haven’t),” he said. “It’s not that we don’t want to With almost perfect timing Hull were pro- 1. Dawood Salman - Yarmouk Club Secretary General of KTF Abdelredha Al- win it. I don’t know why it is. moted back to the English Premier League a “There is something,” Ashour added myste- fortnight ago, perhaps encouraging Allam to 2. Abdelaziz Maayouf - Kazima Ghareeb congratulated the winners, and riously.” Every time we came to England we hope for an ambient connection with plans to 3. Rashid Abdelaziz and Tameem Al-Hallaq thanked Al-Qadisiya Club for hosting the just couldn’t make the best result. It’s simply elevate the old tournament to new heights. competition which witnessed very strong not gone well here.” The venue’s location may help Yorkshireman In the doubles matches matches and winners of top places were not His chances will depend on him sorting Matthew, who lives only 60 miles away in 1. Hussein Ali + Ritwik Surat, from Salmiya determined until the final of the individuals out this “something”, which in Ashour’s case Sheffield - though he has chosen to base him- Club match. Al-Ghareeb wished all clubs success in might be manifested by his physical condition. self in Hull for the week. —AFP 2. Dawood Hashim + Faisal Buqrais from upcoming events. Yarmouk Club player Dawood Suleiman TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 SPORTS England ponder top-order problems ahead of Ashes LONDON: England secured the convincing vic- gap between bat and pad you could drive a bus tory over New Zealand they demanded in the through,” Boycott said. first Test at Lord’s but question marks remain “Nick bats with such intensity, expending so over the make-up of their team for the Ashes much mental energy and there is a rigidity and series against Australia starting in July. stiffness to his batting.” The fast bowling of James Anderson and Cook, as the captain and with more than Stuart Broad was largely responsible for the 170- 7,000 test runs to his name and 24 centuries, is in run win over the New Zealanders who more no danger of being dropped but Boycott thinks than held their own for three days of the match he has a weakness against left-arm fast bowlers. against a team ranked six places above them. He was dismissed by Trent Boult in both England openers Alastair Cook and Nick innings at Lord’s, caught by the wicketkeeper Compton failed to score above 32 in their two and third slip. “Cook has a problem with left-arm innings and with the reliable but limited over-the-wicket seamers,” Boycott said. “He does Jonathan Trott at number three, there is a grow- not judge the line of what to play and what to ing feeling the top order may struggle to lay a leave very well.” solid platform and score quickly enough to put Australia have Mitchell Starc in their squad, a opponents under pressure. quicker bowler than Boult and one of the best One solution might be to promote Joe Root left-arm fast bowlers in the world. “Good foot- to open, the 22-year-old enhancing his bur- work is nearly always the key to good batting so geoning reputation with scores of 40 and 71 he needs to make a bigger stride forward,” against New Zealand made with a blend of care- Boycott said. ful defence and ruthless attacking strokes. “As captain, if the Aussies find a chink in his Opening with Root would also free up a batting and start getting him out cheaply he will place in the middle order for Kevin Pietersen if lose confidence. So he needs to sort it out.” the powerful right-hander recovers from injury Cook was heartened by the form of in time to face Australia. Anderson and Broad who took 15 wickets Former England opener Geoffrey Boycott between them and bowled New Zealand out for believes Compton, despite his two test centuries just 68 in their second innings. “Broad has done in the recent series in New Zealand, is struggling. it on numerous occasions now,” Cook told “Nick Compton is under pressure for his reporters. place because of the ways he got out at Lord’s,” “He bowls in the high 80s and from a great Boycott wrote in the Daily Telegraph yesterday. height. With the ball swinging it is very hard. I “His strength is patience, concentration, know as an opening batter that if you challenge good defence and the ability to bat for long peri- off stump as much as he does it is very hard. ods and give England the platform for the stroke “That hour of Jimmy and Broady bowling was as players later on.” good as I have seen as an opening spell.” Compton made 16 in the first innings at The second Test starts at Headingley, Leeds Lord’s but, frustrated by the accuracy of the New on Friday and England may consider playing Zealand bowling, he charged down the wicket Tim Bresnan on his home ground in place of STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s forward Henrik Sedin (right-top) celebrates after scoring against Switzerland’s goalkeeper Martin Gerber to spinner Bruce Martin and sliced a catch into Steven Finn, who took four wickets in the first during the final match at the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships. —AFP the covers. innings at Lords’s but struggled for rhythm. “It was not smart, did not look good and cost Bresnan’s inclusion would also strengthen the him his wicket,” Boycott said. “We were all think- lower order batting which failed miserably at Sweden thump Switzerland ing what the hell did he do that for?” In the sec- Lord’s, with Broad’s unbeaten 26 in the second ond innings Compton was comprehensively innings the only double figure score con- bowled by left-armer Neil Wagner. tributed by numbers 7-11 in the England bat- “He was late on an 80 mph delivery with a ting line-up.—Reuters to win world championship
STOCKHOLM: Sweden swept aside Switzerland they racked up a total of 14 minutes in penalties fashion a goal, and when a shot from Sedin 5-1 in the final to become the first team since in the first period. sailed past Gerber off the skate of Loui Eriksson, 1986 to win the ice hockey world championship Sweden’s Henrik Sedin was on hand to pun- the game was all but over as a contest. on home ice on Sunday. ish that indiscipline when he flipped the puck Sedin then took his tally for the tournament The Swedes’ victory snapped a nine-game into the net for a power play goal in the 12th to four goals and five assists as he sent the puck winning streak that carried the unfancied Swiss minute to put his team ahead. sailing into an empty net with the Swedes short- all the way to their first final since 1935. The second period was a stalemate with handed. With the clock counting down, the The Swedes were made to work hard in the chances at a premium as both sides enjoyed Swedes threw gloves and hockey sticks to fans beginning and fell behind in the fifth minute periods of dominance. The Swiss started the behind the bench and the victory was greeted when tournament MVP Roman Josi cut across third period strongly and looked like getting by an ear-splitting roar from the home support. the ice before slotting a backhand shot between back into the game, but when Julien Vauclair United States secured the bronze medal earli- the legs of Swedish goalie Jhonas Enroth. gave away the puck cheaply in his own zone, he er in the day as they beat Finland 3-2 after a The Swedes then started to get to grips with left his side with a mountain to climb. His miss shootout. Craig Smith and captain Paul Stastny the Swiss pressure and equalised through Erik allowed Gabriel Landeskog to streak in on goal had given the U.S. a first-period lead but Lauri Gustafsson, who fired home in the ninth minute and though his two efforts rebounded off Korpikoski fired in two goals in the middle of the to get the hosts back in the game. Gerber, Simon Hjalmarsson made no mistake as final period for the Finns to force overtime. The Swiss defensive discipline that was the he poked home the second rebound. In the end, Alex Galchenyuk converted two bedrock of their semi-final victory against Switzerland put up a tenacious fight but shootout penalties to give the Americans their United States was sorely lacking in the final, as despite exerting serious pressure, they could not first medal since 2004.—Reuters
LONDON: England’s Steven Finn (left), Stuart Broad, James Anderson (third left), Joe Root and Nick Compton (right) celebrate winning by 170 runs on Senators sink Penguins, Bruins roll the fourth day of the first International Test cricket match between England and New Zealand in this file photo. —AFP OTTAWA: Colin Greening scored 7:39 into dou- of-seven series will be played in New York. in Games 6 and 7 of the first round against the ble overtime as the Ottawa Senators rallied for a Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, last year’s Washington Capitals when the Rangers faced 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins that cut Vezina Trophy winner, had his second straight elimination. Tuukka Rask was solid for Boston, India mulls spot-fixing law their series deficit to 2-1 on Sunday night. tough game after posting consecutive shutouts stopping 35 shots.—AP Tyler Kennedy scored with just over a minute NEW DELHI: India is mulling a law to deal in sport. Media estimates put the amount to play in the second period to give the with the issue of spot-fixing in sport following gambled on India’s top cricket Twenty20 com- Penguins a 1-0 lead. That goal stood up until last week’s arrest of cricketers and bookmak- petition at $427 million in 2009. “We need to Alfredsson Daniel Alfredsson leveled by scoring ers, government officials said yesterday. have a separate law,” Law Minister Sibal told a short-handed goal for Ottawa with 29 seconds Former India test bowler Shanthakumaran reporters on Sunday. “I don’t think the Indian left in regulation, just after the Senators pulled Sreesanth and two other players were arrest- Penal Code has matchfixing and spot-fixing as goalie Craig Anderson for an extra skater. ed along with 11 bookmakers on Thursday on an offence and I don’t think the ‘offence of Anderson made 49 saves, including 18 after suspicion of spot-fixing in the country’s ongo- cheating’ is something that adequately deals regulation. Tomas Vokoun stopped 46 shots for ing Twenty20 league. The cricket board with issues of spot-fixing and matchfixing,” the Pittsburgh and took his first loss (4-1) since tak- immediately suspended the trio, who have law minister told reporters. “I have requested ing over for No. 1 Penguins goalie Marc-Andre been accused of taking money to concede a my ministry to work on such a law ... Once the Fleury. Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifi- certain number of runs in a particular over. broad parameters of the law are made out, I’ll nal series will be in Ottawa tomorrow. Law Minister Kapil Sibal has consulted hand it over to the sports ministry to take it to sports minister Jitendra Singh and the new the cabinet and hopefully introduce it in the BRUINS 5, RANGERS 2 bill will likely be introduced in the next session coming session of the parliament.” In Boston, Johnny Boychuk broke a deadlock of the Indian parliament. Spot-fixing is manipulation of individual midway through the second period, and Boston “We have been looking at different ways to incidents within a match which may not affect scored two goals in the third to beat the New control and regulate that part of illegal bet- the outcome of the contest, most famously York Rangers and take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern ting,” sports secretary P.K. Deb told Reuters by exposed in a London trial and jailing of three Conference semifinal series. telephone. Pakistan cricketers in 2011. Former Pakistan Boychuk’s third playoff goal made it 3-2 at “We have been studying how they deal captain Salman Butt and team mates 12:08 of the second. Brad Marchand, whose with it in the UK and Australia and the infor- Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were overtime goal won the opener, and Milan Lucic mation we have gathered will be shared with jailed in Britain for their role in a spot-fixing stretched the Bruins’ lead in the final period. the Law Ministry. We are still some distance scandal relating to a test match against Boston rookie Torey Krug scored the first goal away from it (the law).” Legal sports betting in England at Lord’s in August 2010. The before Ryan Callahan tied it for the Rangers in India is confined to horse racing while illegal International Cricket Council subsequently the first period. Gregory Campbell made it 2-1, OTTAWA: Paul Martin No. 7 of the Pittsburgh Penguins uses his stick to slow down betting syndicates thrive in the absence of a banned the three players for a minimum of and New York pulled even again on Rick Nash’s Jakob Silfverberg No. 33 of the Ottawa Senators in Game Three of the Eastern law dealing specifically with such corruption five years.—Reuters goal in the second. Games 3 and 4 of the best- Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.—AFP Zhang Jike wins Seven more Al Zarooni world title horses test positive PARIS: Zhang Jike sealed a Werner Schlager was crowned in remarkable hat-trick of major Paris in 2003. LONDON: Seven further horses trained by statement that no separate action would be tak- titles when he beat fellow The turning point came in the banned Mahmood Al Zarooni, including 2012 St en “in respect of these additional positive results Chinese Wang Hao 4-2 in the fourth set when Zhang saved four Leger winner Encke, have tested positive for whilst Mr Al Zarooni’s appeal process is on- men’s final of the world champi- set points to eventually open a 3- anabolic steroid stanozolol, the British going”. No date has been set for the appeal. onships at Bercy yesterday. 1 lead, giving away the fifth Horseracing Authority said in a statement yes- “These test results endorse the swift action Zhang, who had already beat- before outplaying the 2009 world terday. Godolphin trainer Al Zarooni was hand- and measures taken by the BHA in this matter,” en Wang in the 2011 world cham- champion in the sixth. ed an eight-year ban by the BHA last month for said BHA chief executive Paul Bittar. pionships final and the Olympic Earlier yesterday, Li Xiaoxia, doping horses with anabolic steroids after 11 “Whatever the outcome of his appeal before final last year, prevailed 11-7 11-8 the women’s singles world and tested positive at his stable in Newmarket, the independent Appeal Board, the gravity and 6-11 14-12 5-11 11-7 on his first Olympic champion, won the dou- England. scale of the infringements warranted Mahmood match point. bles title with Guo Ye for the third Al Zarooni, who admitted administering pro- Al Zarooni being removed from control of the “It was a tough match,” the 25- time in succession. hibited substances to four others, has appealed yard as quickly as possible.” year-old Zhang told French TV China, however, failed to against the severity of the ban. Following Al The scandal has caused serious embarrass- Channel L’Equipe 21 after running achieve a clean sweep after Kim Zarooni’s disciplinary hearing, the BHA conduct- ment to Sheikh Mohammed. The BHA accused towards the stands to hug his Hyok Bong and Kim Jong won the ed tests on all Godolphin-owned horses in train- Emirati Zarooni of “deliberately flouting” the parents in a rare display of emo- mixed doubles title for North ing in Newmarket. Blood samples were taken rules and a “widespread systematic misuse of tion. Korea last Saturday. The last time from 391 horses at the stables of Al Zarooni and illegal substances”. “I will try to make history. I China failed to win all the titles at Saeed bin Suroor, who also trains for Godolphin Al Zarooni, appointed Godolphin’s second have won all the titles already a world championships was in owner and Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin British-based trainer in 2010, won the Dubai and I want to do it again,” he 2003 when Schlager claimed the Rashid Al Maktoum in the town best known as World Cup - the world’s richest horse race - in added, confirming he was look- men’s singles title. China have the headquarters of British flat racing. March last year and followed up by landing the ing to take part in the 2016 also won all but one of the All of the horses under Bin Suroor’s care test- prestigious St Leger with Encke at Doncaster in Olympic Games. Olympic titles since 1996, South ed negative, clearing the way for him to take September. The BHA said Encke, who has not It is the fifth time in a row that Korea’s Ryu Seung Min taking the FRANCE: China’s Zhang Jike holds his trophy dur- charge of Al Zarooni’s Moulton Paddocks stable, raced since the St Leger, had tested negative the men’s singles title was won by men’s singles gold in Athens in ing a ceremony after he won the Men’s Singles of subject to BHA clearance. The BHA said in a after the race. —Reuters a Chinese player since Austrian 2004.—Reuters the World Table Tennis Championships. —AFP TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 SPORTS Corinthians win Photo of the day Sao Paulo title
SAO PAULO: Corinthians won the Sao the open net. Paulo state championship for the 27th Santos continued to attack but it was time and kept Santos from lifting the tro- Corinthians which had some of the most phy for the fourth straight year after a 1- significant chances the rest of the match, 1 draw in the second leg on Sunday. hitting the goal-frame three times. Corinthians won 3-2 on aggregate to Neymar, reportedly sought after some claim its first title since 2009. Led by of Europe’s top clubs, had a lackluster young Brazil striker Neymar, Santos performance in the first leg and couldn’t needed a victory at its Vila Belmiro do enough to help his team overcome Stadium to have a chance of retaining the deficit on Sunday. the title. “It’s nice to celebrate a title for the first Cicero opened the scoring for Santos time since returning to Brazilian football,” in the 26th minute, but Corinthians play- said striker Alexandre Pato, who joined maker Danilo equalized two minutes lat- Corinthians from AC Milan in the begin- er to leave his team in position to cele- ning of the year. brate winning the title. A few hundred Santos fans got into a Corinthians is the most successful confrontation with police outside the club in Sao Paulo state and now it has stadium before the match, but no serious five more titles than Palmeiras and Sao injuries were reported. Paulo, which have 22 each. Santos was In Minas Gerais, former two-time FIFA trying to win the trophy for the 21st time. player of the year Ronaldinho converted It has made the final in every tourna- a penalty in the 78th to secure the state ment since Neymar started playing regu- title for Atletico Mineiro, which won the larly in the senior squad in 2009. first leg 3-0 last week. Striker Dagoberto The title comes as consolation for scored twice for Cruzeiro with penalties Corinthians, which was coming off a dis- in the 18th and 34th minutes. It was appointing home loss to Argentina’s Atletico’s second straight title win in a Boca Juniors in the Copa Libertadores, a row and Ronaldinho’s first at the club. competition it won last year. “It’s an important title in my career,” “Whether we were going to win or Ronaldinho said. “Hopefully it’s the first lose here, we knew that we had to come of many with this club which has great out playing with the same determination fans who have embraced me from the as before,” Corinthians coach Tite said. start.” Atletico is in the quarterfinals of A flying performance during the Powderdays Europe in Hohenmolsen, Germany. www.redbullcontentpool.com “We were still motivated and it showed.” the Copa Libertadores, Latin America’s Needing to win, Santos came out most important club competition. In attacking and midfielder Cicero scored Bahia state, Freddy Adu’s Bahia was not Next EPL season could be with a volley from the penalty spot after able to erase a 7-3 first-leg loss to rival the ball was headed across the area by Vitoria, losing the title 4-8 on aggregate Santos defender Durval following a free after a 1-1 draw on Sunday. Regional kick. championships are played in the first most unpredictable ever Corinthians equalized through few months of the year in Brazil, and Danilo’s close-range shot after goalkeep- the national league starts in May. MANCHESTER: Get ready for the Premier League shot to the team and the fans after the turbulent - if and rediscover the consistency and attacking spark er Rafael had made a great save off mid- Clarence Seedorf’s Botafogo won the like you’ve never seen it before. No Alex Ferguson. ultimately successful - tenure of Rafa Benitez. that was lost in the final 12 months of Mancini’s 3 fielder Paulinho’s shot in front of goal. Rio de Janeiro state title two weeks No Roberto Mancini. The expected return of Jose “With him at the helm, we are going to give it a 1/2-year reign. The ball rebounded to Danilo, who found ago.—Reuters Mourinho. The likely influx of more world-class play- great go,” Lampard said. Others say Mourinho has City demonstrated in the way it beat United 2-1 ers on the back of a bumper new TV deal. Two Welsh lost his magic after what he has described as his away in the derby last month that, on its day, there is teams for the first time. Don’t forget the introduc- “worst” season as a coach in the trophyless year at no better team in England. And with Mancini gone, tion of goal line technology, either. Real Madrid. Also, can his relationship with Chelsea the likelihood is that the cracks which reportedly The English season only finished on Sunday, yet owner Roman Abramovich, who sacked Mourinho developed in the squad in recent months should fans across the globe are already counting down the six years ago, be repaired? Whatever happens, it will heal. days to Aug. 17 - when the next campaign begins - be an entertaining ride under Mourinho. Is Pellegrini the man to restore City’s fortunes, with a mixture of excitement, trepidation and It will be no less fascinating to see how Moyes though? He has never coached in the Premier intrigue. Much of the buzz has been sparked by gets on at United. Ferguson has urged fans to get League and was overwhelmed by all the egos in Ferguson’s decision to step down as Manchester behind his fellow Scot but what will be the reaction Real Madrid’s squad during his one season at the United manager after nearly 27 years. That one deci- if United loses its opening two games? How quickly Spanish giant in 2009-10. Yet, his record at Villarreal sion has grabbed the attention of the world over the will Moyes be able to gain the respect of his players? and Malaga, his current club, is impressive and has past two weeks and its reverberations will be keenly Can Ferguson hold himself back from meddling in been hailed for his skills in man-management. felt next season, and beyond. team affairs from his position up in the director’s It is another appointment that could go either To many, it signals the end of United’s strangle- box? “He will have his own ideas and that’s good,” way, adding to the intrigue next season. There hold on English football dating back 20 years. The Ferguson has predicted. “He will be fine.” should be plenty of new faces among the playing future of the Premier League may have been thrown Moyes will have to act quickly to sort out the squads, too, with the transfer kitties of clubs boost- wide open. futures of Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand this ed by a 70 percent increase in TV revenues Come August, four of this season’s top six - summer and maybe sign the world-class playmaker announced last summer and taking effect from the United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Everton - will many United fans have been craving for years, with start of next season. The financial pull of the Premier have newly appointed managers in the wake of an Paul Scholes having retired and the team’s central League has never been so strong, especially with unprecedented amount of high-profile coaching midfield still lacking creativity at times. many top clubs in Spain and Italy still suffering from upheaval in May. “I was with the chief executive of With Ferguson gone, there hasn’t been such the impact of the economic downturn. Liverpool at our reserve game the other night and uncertainty swirling around Old Trafford since the The recently completed Premier League cam- he told me that Brendan Rodgers, who has not been late 1980s and opponents will be keen to seize on it. paign had one of the most anticlimactic finishes in in the job a year, is the 30th longest-serving manag- Particularly Man City, which will be desperate to years, but Ferguson has just ensured that the new er in the country,” Ferguson said last week. “That’s reclaim the Premier League trophy from its neighbor season won’t be short of excitement.—AP incredible.” With David Moyes taking control of United, Mourinho set for Chelsea and Manuel Pellegrini - a coach largely unknown to English audiences - heavi- ly tipped for the City hot seat, there will be a new dynamic at the top of the world’s most-watched league. Arsenal cannot be discounted, with the club benefiting from a string of new, lucrative commer- cial deals and the club once again in the Champions League, while Liverpool and Tottenham appear to be on an upward curve under the forward-thinking stewardship of Rodgers and Andre Villas-Boas. It is anyone’s guess what will happen next season - and the gurus in the Premier League’s marketing department must be licking their lips in delight. In Villas-Boas’ opinion, it could be time for Chelsea to reassert its dominance under Mourinho, who won back-to-back league titles in his first spell at the club from 2004-07. “Chelsea next season will absolutely be the team to beat, bearing in mind the manager change and the manager that we expect to come in,” the Portuguese coach said. “Plus, they will be strength- ening an already very good squad.” The likelihood of Mourinho returning to Stamford Bridge is dividing opinion, though. Some LONDON: Manchester United fans sing after their team scored a goal during the feel it is a perfect match, a union that shouldn’t have English Premier League football match between West Bromwich Albion and been broken up in the first place. Frank Lampard Manchester United at The Hawthorns. English football witnessed the end of an era as BRAZIL: Corinthians’ captain Alessandro holds the Paulista championship Cup and Petr Cech have already spoken out in favor of Alex Ferguson signed off as Manchester United manager in his 1,500th and final the return of the “Special One,” giving an adrenalin after the final match against Santos FC at Vila Belmiro stadium. —AFP game.—AFP Prospects for start of the next EPL campaign in 89 days
LONDON: A far-from- vintage Premier with no striker reaching 15 goals. a Premier League season as they tried to masked a disappointing campaign for the squad before next season. League season reached its conclusion on With Roberto Mancini sacked and his recover from the loss of Van Persie but in Liverpool who never recovered from a terri- Stoke City - Brought virtually nothing to Sunday with a flood of goals, a host of retire- replacement yet to be named, the next cou- Santi Cazorla they discovered a midfield ble start. Played some attractive football at the party and appear to have gone back- ments and a familiar-looking top four. ple of months will be hectic at The Etihad as gem and Theo Walcott’s scoring contribu- times but the jury is out on coach Brendan wards. Vulnerable next season. Following is a brief end-of-term report City attempt to strengthen the team up tion inspired a stirring late run. Rodgers and fans will expect more. Southampton - Made a strange decision on the 20 teams in the top flight and, with front and on the flanks. With funds now available, manager West Bromwich Albion - Eighth place to sack Nigel Adkins mid-season but new the most lucrative ever television contract in Chelsea (third, Champions League) - Arsene Wenger will be hunting for a world- for the Midlands club usually battling relega- coach Mauricio Pochettino impressed with a place for next season, a look ahead to their Began the season on a high under Roberto class striker, a central defender and a mid- tion was no mean achievement. Relied on notable victory against Manchester City. prospects for the start of the next campaign di Matteo but his sacking, an early exit from field enforcer during the off-season. the goals of on-loan Romelu Lukaku but he Aston Villa - Paul Lambert’s young side in 89 days: the Champions League, a slump in league Tottenham Hotspur (Europa League) - may go back to Chelsea next season. looked to be careering towards relegation in Manchester United (champions) - form and the controversial appointment of Despite their record Premier League points Swansea City - Season ran out of steam December but a late flourish steered them Signing Robin van Persie proved to be the Rafa Benitez as interim manager saw the haul of 72, they suffered a second consecu- but Michael Laudrup’s first season in charge away from trouble. Need to add experience. final masterstroke before Alex Ferguson wheels come off. tive failure to qualify for the Champions was a memorable one with Swansea win- Newcastle United - A dreadful season called time on his 27-year reign at Old However, Chelsea ended the season full League and the latest near-miss could have ning the League Cup. Keeping 18-goal for the Geordies, slumping from fifth the Trafford. of beans with Frank Lampard becoming the a big impact on whether footballer-of-the- Michu, and juggling the Europa League and previous season to within a few points of The Dutchman’s 26 league goals allowed club’s record goalscorer, the Europa League year Gareth Bale stays. Premier League will be the challenge next being relegated. Some serious soul-search- United to romp to the title but there were trophy in the bag and Champions League Bale’s 21 league goals, most of them season. ing in store for manager Alan Pardew over questions marks about the defence at times football assured. spectacular, put him on the most-wanted list West Ham United - Tipped as relegation the coming weeks. and a lack of creativity in central midfield. With Jose Mourinho expected to return of Europe’s top clubs and his future is bound strugglers pre-season but manager Sam Sunderland - Came within a whisker of With Wayne Rooney’s future at the club as manager and owner Roman Abramovich to overshadow Tottenham’s preparations for Allardyce used all his experience to get the being relegated and lacked quality through- uncertain, and time running out for under- set to flex his financial muscle, Chelsea will next season. Hammers safe. Squad lacks quality and out the team. Paolo di Canio, who took over performing wingers Nani and Ashley Young, be serious title contenders next season. Everton - Another solid season for needs strengthening. as head coach in March, should at least add new manager David Moyes should be grant- Arsenal (Champions League playoff) - Everton under David Moyes, finishing above Norwich City - A topsy-turvy season for some passion next season. ed a large transfer budget to strengthen his No silverware yet again but Arsenal’s proud Liverpool. Flirted with a top-four finish Norwich who began badly, then had a great Wigan Athletic, Reading and Queens squad. record of finishing in the top four continued despite a lack of spending power. run, then flirted with the drop. Survival will Park rangers (relegated) Wigan at least went Manchester City (runners-up) - A disap- with a final-day win at Newcastle United Keeping Belgian midfielder Marouane be the priority next season. down with honor, winning the FA Cup, and pointing fall from grace for City after they sealing a 16th consecutive season in the Fellaini and choosing their next manager Fulham - Speculation swirled around will be hopeful of a return. QPR have a huge won the title the previous year. Champions League, providing they win their wisely will be vital for Everton if they are to Craven Cottage about the future of boss wage bill and little quality and their manag- Failure to upgrade in key areas pre-sea- playoff tie. progress. Martin Jol after a poor run of form and he er Harry Redknapp has a big job on his son, particularly in attack, cost them dear The Gunners endured their worst start to Liverpool - Luis Suarez’s 23 goals will want assurances that he can reinforce hands.—Reuters SPORTS TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 Hard work gets Lukas a racing record
BALTIMORE: The old guy still gets up science. The top trainers at the time Lukas hadn’t won a Triple Crown race his barn in shirt sleeves, McGaughey your phone starts ringing, people want crack-of-dawn early. Not because D were folksy guys like Woody Stephens since 2000 and became a sort of emi- told the tale after getting beat, without you. ... This is super, super sweet and it Wayne Lukas has something left to and wise-cracking Charlie Whittingham, nence grise, holding court regularly out- being entirely sure whether that encour- happened for the right guy.” prove, or anything more to gain. He but Lukas was undeniably corporate. side his barn at the classic races, more aging bit about another big win was Not long after, the “right guy” was already has it all: Fame, fortune, a bronze The gravel outside his barns was always charming than competitive. His return to meant for him or for Lukas himself. asked about his travel plans for Oxbow, plaque in the Hall of Fame and — after perfectly raked, his buttoned-down Derby year after year, despite not having Either way, McGaughey was hard- who’s likely headed for the Belmont lightly-regarded Oxbow stunned Orb on shirts pressed to match. While his more a real shot to win it, became a kind of pressed to think of someone more after a stop at Churchill Downs. Saturday at the Preakness — he has the famous rivals focused on one or two running joke. deserving. That sentiment rippled “4:30 tomorrow morning,” Lukas top spot in the Triple Crown trainer’s quality horses, Lukas overwhelmed the Just two weeks ago at Churchill through the trainers’ ranks. announced, “if you want to watch him record book, too, passing “Sunny Jim” game with quantity, setting up cookie- Downs, Lukas poked fun at himself on “We were out of it early,” said Baffert, load on that van. My truck driver and I Fitzsimmons with No. 14. “It’s been a cutter operations in dozens of barns that very topic. When someone remind- who became a close of pal of Lukas’ over will get in that big old truck, and we’ll while,” Lukas chuckled, “but it never gets from coast to coast and bringing three, ed him he’d brought 44 horses to the the last few years, “and after it was clear head down the road and make about old. “I ran last with the first horse I start- four and sometimes even five mounts to Derby - a race he’d last won with Orb couldn’t win it, we all got behind two Wendy’s stops on the way and be in ed. The second one doesn’t even finish,” the Kentucky Derby. Charismatic in 1999 - he laughed and Wayne and (jockey) Gary Stevens.” Louisville, Ky., but 5:30 tomorrow night. he added a moment later. “What a roller By the mid-1990s, he perfected the said, “I lied to you; 35 of ‘em I didn’t want That part of this win will go largely As a few reporters rolled their eyes, coaster.” Lukas was thoroughbred rac- approach, at one point winning six Triple to run.” Yet Lukas never lost his zeal. He’s unnoticed by some, but not Stevens. At Lukas continued, “Some of us in this ing’s first organization man, a former Crown races in a row with four different still the first trainer up on a horse and 50, the jockey now has nine Triple Crown great nation get up and get after in the Wisconsin high school basketball coach horses. He shuffled jockeys like a deck of out on the track in the morning, and wins on his resume - three at each of the morning. Others sleep in.” None of that who brought the principle of “flooding cards and balanced the competing every bit as gracious as always. While the classics - but Stevens was out of the would have surprised Baffert, or any of the zone” from the court to the race demands of those owners, all the while entire sport was focused on Orb, trainer sport for seven years. In a nice bit of the other members of the fraternity. track. never taking his eye off the ball or the Shug McGaughey and the potential to symmetry, Lukas gave Stevens his first “Wayne loves it so much, when he When he cracked the big time with a business. But then rivals like Bob Baffert see the sport’s first Triple Crown winner Triple Crown-winning mount with goes, I’m pretty sure we’re going to find horse named Codex at the Preakness in and disciple Todd Pletcher, who bor- in 36 years, Lukas sidled up to him two Winning Colors. him lying in the shed row one morning 1980, fans of the sport still thought of it rowed liberally from Lukas’ playbook, mornings ago and said “We got another “Wayne put me on the map,” Stevens and holler, ‘Hey Wayne, why are you as art, but Lukas relied on cold-blood began stealing his thunder. Now 77, one on the agenda.” Standing outside recalled. “When you win that first classic, sleeping?’”—AP Napoli in London to meet Benitez: Reports
MILAN: Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis already coached in Italy, taking over from Jose was in London yesterday to meet Rafael Benitez Mourinho after the Portuguese led Inter Milan to in a bid to lure Chelsea’s interim manager to the a treble of league, Cup and Champions League. Serie A club, according to reports in Italy. After signing a two-year deal, the Spaniard Napoli’s runner-up place to Juventus was steered the Nerazzurri to victory in the Italian confirmed when the season ended on Sunday, Super Cup and Club World Cup but a run of poor meaning the Neapolitans have qualified for next results in the league left his position fragile and season’s Champions League. after seeing his request for new players turned Napoli’s need to find a new coach is pressing down he was eventually sacked in December. as Walter Mazzarri confirmed on Sunday his Benitez took over on an interim basis at departure from the club. Chelsea last November following the sacking of “My cycle at Napoli has come to an end. I Roberto Di Matteo and led the defending need a change of scene,” Mazzarri, who has been Champions League winners to victory in the tipped to replace Aurelio Andreazzoli at Roma, Europa League final over Benfica. Benitez’s agent said after Napoli’s 2-1 defeat to the Giallorossi. Manuel Quillon is reported to have told Napoli Several reports in Italy said De Laurentiis was Network the Spaniard’s is keeping his options accompanied by the club’s sporting director open. “Napoli is a great club, so we won’t Riccardo Bigon and another official, Andrea exclude or confirm anything,” said Quillon. “No Chiavelli, on the trip. decision has been made on Benitez’s future, so Chelsea’s Spanish interim manager Rafael Former Liverpool manager Benitez has anything is possible.”—AFP Benitez Cruz Azul meet America in final
MALAYSIA: Wong Wing Ki of Hong Kong dives for a return against Lee Dong Keun of MEXICO CITY: Cruz Azul beat miss the final. America secured South Korea during their match at the 2013 Sudirman Cup world mixed team bad- nine-man Santos Laguna 2-1 on their place in the final with minton championships. —AFP Sunday with two goals from striker Saturday’s 2-1 win over Monterrey Javier Orozco, setting up a at the Azteca. They had held CON- Mexican Clausura championship CACAF champions Monterrey 2-2 Taiwan thrashes Germany final against America. in the first leg. Brilliant 3-0 winners in the first “I think a lot of people will KUALA LUMPUR: Underdogs Taiwan ify for the quarter-finals. Indonesia team leg, Cruz Azul won 5-1 on aggre- watch the final to push for us not thrashed European champions Germany manager Rexy Mainaky, a former world gate to reach the final against the to win. We all know you either 5-0 to top Group C of the Sudirman Cup and Olympic champion, tipped the Mexico City giants, who are look- hate or love this team,” America yesterday and sail into the quarter-finals. Chinese to win their fifth consecutive ing to equal Guadalajara’s record midfielder Rubens Sambueza said. Former champions Indonesia also Sudirman Cup, but believed that his team of 11 league titles. “People always talk about us, reached the quarter-finals with a compre- could still upset the top seeds. Cruz Azul, chasing a ninth well or badly ... That’s the nicest hensive 4-1 victory over India in Group A. “Maybe we also can beat them 5-0,” league crown of their own, have thing, it means people aren’t indif- Defending champions China, Mainaky said with a laugh when told won eight of their last nine match- ferent towards us and we have to Denmark, Japan, South Korea and Chinese coach Li Yongbo is confident of enjoy (our successes) for those Thailand make up the other five quarter- beating Indonesia 5-0. “We have a big es and will be pitting their fine final contenders with just one last space squad to choose from and everything will form against America’s pedigree. who speak badly,” said defender left-for either Germany or Malaysia. be decided on the court.” Orozco opened the scoring in Miguel Layun. Japan crushed Singapore 5-0 in Group The 1996 Atlanta Olympic men’s dou- the eighth minute of the semi- Raul Jimenez put America D, a result that ensured Denmark also bles gold medalist has won all the major final second leg after pouncing on ahead with a 64th minute penalty qualified from the group as the trophies in badminton except one-the a mistake by defender Rafael after defender Jose Basanta had Singaporeans were eliminated. Sudirman Cup. China thrashed India 5-0 Figueroa, then put Cruz Azul fur- brought down Sambueza. Meanwhile, South Korea beat Hong Kong on Sunday, but the defending champions ther ahead with a header in the Striker Cristian Benitez took his 4-1 in Group B. were given a tough workout. 25th minute. Striker Andres tally as the championship’s top But the day’s biggest surprise was Mainaky said he had expected to beat Renteria pulled one back for scorer to 17 with America’s second Taiwan, who already upset hosts Malaysia India and was pleased with his players, Santos, Clausura champions a year goal seven minutes from time 3-2 on Sunday. The Taiwanese finished all especially women’s singles Lindaweni ago, in the 36th minute but any after a one-two with Jimenez. but two matches in two games, stunning Fanetri, as she kept calm to defeat P. V. hope of a fight back were crushed Benitez has scored 30 goals in the the Europeans. Sindhu. He admitted world number two when they had two players sent season, including 13 in the Germany will take on Malaysia on Saina Nehwal’s absence through injury off in the space of seven minutes, Apertura. Tuesday to decide who will follow the from the India team made it easier for both for second yellow cards. Striker Aldo de Nigris pulled Taiwanese into the quarter-finals to take her. Darwin Quintero was first to go, one back for Monterrey in added up the final place there. Meanwhile, Kashyap Parupalli who in the 51st minute, and defender time. La Piedad won promotion to Indonesia will meet eight-time cham- defeated Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka for Felipe Baloy followed him in the the top flight when they beat India’s lone point said losing Nehwal had pions China today to decide the Group A 58th. Cruz Azul substitute Neza 5-3 on penalties in the sec- winner, while Japan play Denmark and been a big blow. “If she was in the team, I Alejandro Vela was shown a red ond division playoff final. They South Korea take on Thailand to decide think we could have stolen a point today MEXICO: Javier Orozco (left) of Cruz Azul vies for the ball with Cesar who tops in their groups. and that would have lifted our players’ card for diving, his second book- take the place of relegated Ibanes (right) of Santos during their Mexican Clausura Tournament The top two teams in each group qual- spirits,” he said.—AFP ing, in the last minute and will Queretaro.—Reuters semifinal football match. —AFP Atletico kick off busy Asian summer
SINGAPORE: Atletico Madrid kicked off a good season,” their captain, Gabriel busy summer of Asian tours by top Fernandez, said of the win against Real. European football clubs yesterday when Atletico have also secured third place in La they arrived in Singapore fresh from down- Liga behind Barcelona and Real. ing city rivals Real to win the Spanish Cup. “The team achieved a good position and Atletico, brandishing the trophy they won this is the best way to end the season, beat- in dramatic fashion on Friday, are making a ing our arch-rivals Real Madrid in the King’s whistle-stop visit despite still being (Spanish) Cup. All the players were very involved in Spain’s La Liga, in which they happy to finish the season on a high note.” will play their penultimate game this week- Atletico, whose prolific striker Radamel end. “The first thing to do is to rest and Falcao is attracting strong interest from sleep,” cautioned their manager Diego other clubs, are at the head of the queue Simeone, at a packed press conference this year as the some of Europe’s best where he appeared next to the gleaming teams head east to bolster their ranks of trophy. Asian fans. Barcelona and Manchester “It’s a very good feeling to have the feel- United, the champions of Spain and ing of winning two days ago and here, two England respectively, and Liverpool, days after, in Singapore on a high note,” Chelsea and Arsenal are all expected to added the former Argentina international. draw large crowds to their friendly games Atletico will play a Singapore select and publicity sessions in the coming weeks. team on the artificial turf of the wealthy, Manchester United will play their first Southeast Asian city-state’s 8,000-capacity games under new coach David Moyes, Jalan Besar Stadium on Wednesday. while Arsenal will break new ground by They have enjoyed a heady weekend, becoming the first English Premier League after they won 2-1 against Real-whose team to play in Vietnam. coach Jose Mourinho and star player Pre-season tours have become a staple Cristiano Ronaldo were both sent off-and of the big European teams, who are closely went on an open-top bus parade in front of followed by Asian fans and draw significant DOHA: Barcelona’s Argentinian football player Lionel Messi is seen following a press conference at the Aspire Academy of Sports Excellence, in thousands of fans in central Madrid. income from the sale of TV rights and mer- Doha. —AFP “It’s a dream come true after such a chandise across the region.—AFP Bae wins Napoli in London PGA Tour title to meet Benitez: Reports
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SPAIN: Barcelona’s players celebrate after winning the Spanish League after the soccer match against Valladolid at Camp Nou stadium. — AP Barcelona toast title with victory
BARCELONA: Newly crowned Spanish champi- Vilanova underwent surgery in December to having fought back to be here.” ons!” throughout the match. Valladolid offered extend his contract beyond the end of next sea- on Barcelona celebrated winning the league remove a second throat tumor in two years, and Messi held baby son Thiago in his arms to little resistance after having long secured a sec- son, meaning the club may look to sell him in title in front of its home fans by easing to a 2-1 only returned after receiving further cancer watch the firework show alongside his team- ond consecutive season in the top flight. the offseason. victory over Valladolid on Sunday. treatment for 10 weeks in New York. He is set to mates and their children in a subdued celebra- With Messi out after aggravating a hamstring Barcelona was without defenders Dani Alves, While rain and dropping temperatures return to New York this week for more tests. tion for a team that has now won the domestic injury, Xavi took charge and played a part in Adriano, and Abidal due to muscle-related threatened to dampen the party in the stands, Abidal, meanwhile, returned to the pitch crown in four of the past five years. Vilanova’s both of Barcelona’s goals. injuries. Defender Javier Mascherano, however, Barcelona had little trouble keeping alive its bid recently after having recovered from a liver side has 94 points and games left against Xavi stole a pass from defender Jesus Rueda returned for his first game since injuring his to equal Real Madrid’s 2012 record haul of 100 transplant last year. “From all of us, it is a real Espanyol and Malaga to reach the 100-point and laid the ball off for Pedro to slot it under right knee on April 2, the same date that Messi points even without the injured Lionel Messi. pleasure to share this title with you,” Vilanova milestone held by its fierce rivals. goalkeeper Jaime Jimenez while sliding to the picked up his injury that has nagged him ever The weather cleared up in time for Messi to told the fans. “It was gone for one year, but now “We are happy for the win. It’s a great joy to turf for the 21st minute opener. Valladolid’s since. Elsewhere on Sunday, Francisco “Piti” join the rest of his teammates to receive the tro- it is back.” celebrate the title with our fans,” said Pedro Marc Valiente then bumbled Xavi’s corner over Medina scored a double as Rayo Vallecano won phy, which captain Carles Puyol handed over for While Barcelona had trouble in the Rodriguez, who scored Barcelona’s first goal. his own goal line to double the lead three min- 3-2 at Levante to stay in the hunt for a Europa coach Tito Vilanova and defender Eric Abidal to Champions League and was eliminated from “We wanted to give a good image tonight and utes before halftime. After Barcelona had squan- League berth. lift to the cheers of the Camp Nou crowd in the Copa del Rey with Vilanova absent, the team we’re happy we were able to do so. “We have dered its chances, Victor Perez scored Deportivo La Coruna beat visiting Espanyol recognition of the serious health problems both never faltered in its march toward a 22nd the motivation to reach the 100 points, which Valladolid’s consolation goal one minute from 2-0 to escape the relegation zone, with Real have come back from this season. “We won the league title as it dethroned Jose Mourinho’s would be something important for this team.” time after Barcelona defender Martin Montoya Zaragoza taking its place after conceding two league, but the most important thing is that Eric Madrid. Barcelona received a guard of honor from fouled Manucho in the area. late goals to fall 2-1 to Athletic Bilbao. After a and Tito are with us,” said Puyol, before adding “We are proud of this title but we are also Valladolid at the start of the match, and then Perez rifled his penalty by Victor Valdes, who disappointing season, Bilbao’s comeback victory the traditional battle cry of “Long live Barca! proud of (Vilanova and Abidal),” said Barcelona kept on strolling to the comfortable win as its was making his 500th appearance for Barcelona secured its place in the top flight with two And long live Catalonia!” midfielder Xavi Hernandez. “They deserve it for fans sporadically chanted “champions! champi- and possibly one of his last. He has said he won’t rounds to go. — AP Late Mexes winner saves Mourinho to leave Real Milan’s Champs League bid at end of the season ROME: Frenchman Phillipe Mexes scored a late winner for AC Milan in a 2- 1 comeback victory at Siena on Sunday which saved the Serie A giants’ MADRID: Jose Mourinho will leave Real world class players, but Perez hailed his chances of appearing in next season’s Champions League. Madrid at the end of the season after a tur- demanding standards throughout his time in Milan were facing a fourth-place finish after falling behind to a 25th bulent three-year spell in charge of the charge. minute goal from Claudio Terzi. However, after spurning several chances Spanish giants, club president Florentino “He is a very demanding coach, with him- Perez confirmed yesterday. self and with the rest and this wears you throughout the match in which both sides finished with 10 men, the sev- “After the conversations we have had down,” he said. “The important thing is that en-time European champions were given a lifeline when Mario Balotelli with our coach Jose Mourinho we have we have recovered the level that we didn’t levelled from the spot in the 84th minute after being fouled in the box. arrived at an agreement to end our working have before.” Mexes, one of two defenders at fault when Terzi was allowed space to relationship at the end of this season,” Perez Mourinho’s time in charge did have its head home his opener, then bundled the ball home from close range after told a press conference. successes as he guided Real to the Spanish seeing his initial effort blocked. “The coach and the club agreed this is the title last season and won the club’s first Copa Milan finished third on 72 points behind second-placed Napoli (78) right moment. I want to thank Jose del Rey for 20 years back in 2011. and recently-crowned champions Juventus, the latter two qualifying auto- Mourinho for the work he has done in the Los Blancos also reached three matically for the Champions League. last few years.” Champions League semi-finals under Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri’s job was reportedly in jeopardy if the Mourinho, who has been strongly linked Mourinho, but ultimately it was his failure to former European giants failed to clinch a third-place finish. with a return to Chelsea - a team he man- lead Real to their treasured 10th European Although Allegri has been linked with a move to Roma, he was given aged between 2004 and 2007, has endured a title that will mark his legacy in the Spanish an indication by club CEO Adriano Galliani that his job at the San Siro is torrid final season in charge of Los Blancos capital. The Portuguese was heavily criticised safe. culminating in Friday’s defeat by Atletico for his overly defensive approach in a num- “Massimiliano Allegri can rest assured: in the past two years he’s col- Madrid in the Copa del Rey final that ensured ber of meetings with eternal rivals Barcelona lected more points than Juventus,” said Galliani. Fiorentina were Milan’s Real end the season without a major trophy. during his first year in charge as Madrid were However, Perez denied that Mourinho humbled 5-0 at the hands of the Catalans sole rivals for third spot, which offers qualification for the competition via had been sacked by the club and said they and also dumped out of the Champions a preliminary round. will not have to pay the Portuguese coach League by Barca in a bad tempered semi- But despite Adem Ljajic scoring a hat-trick in a 5-1 win over already- compensation despite the fact his current final. relegated Pescara, it wasn’t enough to push the Florence-based side up to contract runs until 2016. The following season was to prove third. “No one has sacked anyone, it has been a Mourinho’s best in Spain as Real finally over- Fiorentina finish fourth, two points adrift of Milan, and earn an auto- mutual agreement,” Perez said. “It is not nice came Pep Guardiola’s all-conquering matic Europa League place, in which they will be joined by Udinese follow- for anyone to have to leave but it is also true Barcelona side on the domestic front to claim ing the northerners’ superb 5-2 away win at Inter Milan. that after three years we both decided it was their first title in four years. Asked if the team were bitter, Fiorentina coach Vincenzo Montella the right moment to break this relationship.” It was also a title won in style as Real said: “No, we shouldn’t be feeling that. We will be going on holiday feeling And despite rumours linking Paris Sant- racked up 121 goals and a record 100 points. proud of what we’ve achieved this season.” Germain boss Carlo Ancelotti with the man- Mourinho’s generally successful first two Inter’s European hopes faded a month ago after injuries and a series of ager’s job at the Bernabeu, Perez also years in charge has now been blotted by a consequent setbacks left Andrea Stramaccioni’s team out of the running ITALY: AC Milan’s Philippe Mexes controls the ball during a Serie A soc- claimed he has not reached an agreement disruptive final season when he seemed to for the European places. cer match against Siena. — AP with any coach to succeed Mourinho. be in constant conflict with senior members Lazio, likewise, finished the season on a low note after succumbing to a However, it may well have been the Uruguayan’s last goal for the club, “I want to clarify that we have not estab- of his squad. 75th minute goal from Cagliari’s Daniele Dessena. who are expected to accept an offer for the striker who has been linked lished any agreement or pre-contract with Sergio Ramos and Mesut Ozil were sin- Along with Roma’s superb 2-1 win over Napoli, Lazio dropped to sev- with a move to Real Madrid or England’s Premier League. any coach. This is a job we have ahead of us gled out early in the campaign as Real start- in the coming days,” he said. ed slowly on the domestic front to hand enth place, one place and one point behind their city rivals. Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri, meanwhile, had been widely expected to leave the club and he confirmed he will take up a fresh challenge else- “I want to show my maximum respect to Barcelona an early advantage in the league Roma midfielder Marquinho opened the scoring for Aurelio PSG, their president and all the clubs.” The 50- which they have never relinquished. Andreazzoli’s men in the 47th minute and striker Mattia Destro doubled where. “My cycle at Napoli has come to an end. I need a change of scene,” said year-old Mourinho’s time in charge of the Thereafter, club icon Iker Casillas became the the hosts’ lead 11 minutes later. The only silver lining around Napoli’s sixth nine-time European champions has been lit- subject of the former Chelsea boss’ ire as he defeat of the season was the late consolation goal scored by Edinson Mazzarri, who like Allegri has been tipped to replace Aurelio Andreazzoli. “It’s been four fantastic years, I thank all the lads and everyone who’s been tered with high profile bust-ups with the was dropped in favor of Diego Lopez and Cavani, which took the Uruguayan striker’s league-leading tally to 29 in 34 local media and many of his stellar squad of hasn’t played at all since January. — AFP appearances this season. with me.” — AFP Don’t wear socks, Pakistanis told amidst huge power crisis Page 22
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BARCELONA: An airplane of the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair takes off from Barcelona’s airport. — AFP Ryanair’s profits soar high Shares up more than 9%, create new record
DUBLIN: A sharp rise in earnings from add-on charges for items growth in add-ons. Chief Operating Officer Michael Cawley said June will be lower as the busy Easter period fell in the fourth jobs and shelving growth plans as they grapple with soaring fuel such as baggage and pre-assigned seating helped boost in an interview last week it was difficult to predict ancillary rev- quarter. But bookings on new routes, which include Morocco, prices and a weak economy. IAG for instance last week posted Ryanair’s earnings above expectations in the past year, lifting its enues in the medium term, saying management had been sur- the Netherlands and Greece, in the coming summer were ahead an operating loss of 278 million euros in the first quarter, tradi- shares to a record high. Ryanair, which helped pioneer a busi- prised by the success of reserved seating. He said ancillaries of expectations, albeit with fares at modest levels. tionally a weak period for airlines. Ryanair’s largest low-cost rival ness model in which low ticket prices are supplemented with would likely grow a little ahead of passenger growth. Profit growth of 5 percent would still be impressive com- easyJet last week said it expected 4 percent growth in revenue charges for extras like printing boarding passes and carrying pared with some of Ryanair’s peers. Airlines like British Airways- per seat in thenext six months and improved profitability for the luggage, flew 5 percent more passengers last year, but earned Slower growth owner IAG, Lufthansa and Air France-KLM have been slashing full-year. — Reuters 20 percent more on extras. That helped lift net profit 13 percent Total revenue increased 13 percent to 4.9 billion euros as to a record 569 million euros ($730 million) in the year through average fares increased by 6 percent. Costs, measured per pas- March, ahead of an average analyst forecast of 558 million in a senger mile, increased 8 percent, mainly due to an 18 percent company poll. increase in the price of fuel. In a relatively downbeat outlook, Its shares rose more than 9 percent to a 6.90 euros peak. O’Leary forecast profit would grow by 5 percent at most in the Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said the result was a “testimony coming year, with prices for fuel and air traffic control eating into to the strength of Ryanair’s ultra-low cost model.” Key to the profits. increase in so called “ancillary” charges was the roll-out of a Capacity growth will slow to 3 percent from 5 last year as it scheme to allow the advance booking of specific seats across waits for deliveries to begin on 175 Boeing jets it ordered in the network, allowing passengers to bypass the sometimes March and most of that will come from grounding fewer planes unruly rush to secure good seats on Ryanair flights. in the traditionally weaker winter months. But Ryanair typically Ryanair said the service had proved particularly popular with underestimates its performance at the start of the year and business people trading down from Europe’s older national car- Ryanair Chief Financial Officer Howard Millar described the out- riers, many of which are struggling to deal with high fuel prices look as “cautious.” A year ago Ryanair had forecast net profit of and more cost-conscious travellers. Ryanair regularly raises the between 400 million euros and 440 million for the year to March ire of customers and consumer groups by introducing charges 2013. Analyst Stephen Furlong at Davy Stockbrokers said: “It’s for everything from printing boarding cards to booking flights not unusual that the guidance is quite cautious, but they are still on its web site. But O’Leary, its outspoken boss, insists the fact forecasting higher profits ... Their cash generation remains spec- Ryanair flies more international passengers than any other air- tacular.” The company had net cash of 61 million euros at year line makes Ryanair the “world’s favourite airline”, a slogan previ- end despite having returned almost 500 million to shareholders ously used by British Airways. in November. It remains to be seen if Ryanair can sustain the same level of O’Leary added that profit in the first quarter to the end of
Saudi to import Kuwait extends rally high diesel volumes MIDEAST STOCKS DUBAI: Kuwait’s bourse extended sharp year-to-date gains in SINGAPORE/DUBAI: Saudi Arabia will import near heavy trading yesterday, while profit-taking weighed on bourses record high diesel volumes this summer, as it gears in the United Arab Emirates and other markets were mixed. up to beat the sweltering heat and meet rising travel Kuwait’s index rose 1.3 percent to hit a fresh 46-month high, needs during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, trading 111 million dinars ($387.9 million). Companies owned by trade sources said. State oil giant Saudi Aramco will one of Kuwait’s largest merchant families rose after a favourable import up to 8.9 million barrels of diesel in June, up court ruling. Kuwaiti newspaper reports said Libya will have to from an estimated 6.7 to 7.5 million barrels in May, pay the Kharafi Group $930 million in damages for former leader according to the sources, who expect at least the Muammar Gaddafi’s cancelling of the construction of a vacation same volume or higher to be booked for July. resort. Telco Zain gained 2.9 percent, National Industries Group Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia shipped in record Holding climbed 2 percent and National Investments Company diesel volumes of 8.99 million barrels in July, 2011, rose 2.4 percent. up from 8.13 million in June that year, government Most large-caps rose, pushing the bluechip Kuwait 15 index data published from 2002 through the Joint up 13 points. “We expect the market to continue its positive per- Organisations Data Initiative showed. “I think this formance and maintain above the 8,000 points level mainly driv- year, the July, 2011 number might be surpassed as en by the positive sentiment and the new liquidity channelled to Saudi’s diesel demand is growing every year and the market,” said Fouad Darwish, head of brokerage at Global their new refinery is not expected at least until later Investment House. The index closed at 8,126 points. this year,” a Gulf-based trader said. In Saudi Arabia, shares in developer Dar Al-Arkan halted two Higher overseas purchases by Saudi Arabia sessions of sharp gains after the firm said in a bourse statement should help boost spot premiums and support weak it would not be paying a dividend for 2012 as it looks to fund Asian gasoil margins as Aramco imports from coun- business growth. The stock fell 6.3 percent. tries such as India and Singapore. Aramco relies The kingdom’s benchmark climbed 0.1 percent, up for a heavily on imported diesel in summer when demand fourth-straight session to hit a fresh one-year high. Bluechips for electricity peaks with rising use of air condition- supported gains, with the banking shares measure adding 0.5 ing as temperatures soar to a grilling 50 degrees percent and the petrochemical sector index up 0.3 percent. “I’m Celsius. waiting to see if the positive momentum will continue - there To cut its imports, Aramco has planned three new aren’t huge risks in the market right now but there also aren’t refineries. But the first of these which will produce huge rewards,” said Faisal Al-Othman, portfolio manager at 176,000 barrels per day of diesel comes online in the Riyadh-based Arab National Bank. “Sectors relying on local second half of 2013, instead of the second quarter as demand will be outperformers this year.” previously expected, traders said. Until the refinery-a In the United Arab Emirates, profit-taking slowed the recent joint venture with France’s Total and Saudi Aramco rally on the two main bourses. Dubai’s Arabtec fell 2.1 percent Total Refining and Petrochemicals Co’s (SATORP) after thousands of workers at the firm staged a rare strike, Jubail refinery-is at full capacity, Aramco will buy demanding higher pay. The emirate’s benchmark snapped a heavily to ensure it is covered for Ramadan, when nine-session rally, falling 0.5 percent to trim year-to-date gains travel within the region significantly picks up. to 44.3 percent. Abu Dhabi benchmark slipped off its 54-month This year, Ramadan is due to start in early July. high, falling 1.2 percent. Turnover has surged on the two mar- “Aramco’s expecting very high demand this summer kets as fresh cash is chasing gains following a sentiment revival and they are stocking up before Ramadan. The in the property and banking sectors. “Foreign interest has been demand growth is higher compared to previous holding up markets but there is heavy retail buying now,” said summers as there are several infrastructure expan- Amer Khan, fund manager at Shuaa Asset Management. “I sion projects ongoing,” one middle distillates trader wouldn’t speculate where the money is coming from - this is a said. Refinery glitches also led to higher imports, rich country.” Elsewhere, Qatar’s measure gained 0.6 percent traders said. —Reuters after breaching 9,000 points for the first time since January 2011 in the previous session.—Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 BUSINESS Turkey hopes and fears investment ‘Promotion to investment grade not a game-changer’
LONDON: The coveted investment grade rating national chief investment officer in the fixed is quick to take fright if the global - or local - back- has arrived in Turkey and foreign capital may fol- income division at Pramerica, the asset manage- drop changes and which drives up the lira, forcing low - possibly a lot of it. But here’s the multi-mil- ment arm of Prudential Financial. “With negative tech central bank to cuts rates as it did on lion lira question: What kind of cash will it be? real yields showing on most developed market Thursday. Turkish authorities are not oblivious to What Turkey desperately wants is long-term bonds, investors might as well increase exposure the risks. A central bank paper last year warned bricks-and-mortar investment into factories and to those types of emerging market economies that currency appreciation, current account deteri- infrastructure. What it is more likely to get initially where they are still hugely underweight,” Rajan oration and higher credit growth usually ensue in is more interest in already booming stock and said. emerging markets after promotion to investment bond markets - and possibly a fresh battle in its grade. And Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek war against currency appreciation. Not game changer acknowledged at a conference in London a need An investment grade rating, which Moody’s But the promotion to investment grade, while to manage “implications associated with invest- gave Turkey on Thursday, potentially opens Turkey welcome, is not a game-changer. Turkey already ment grade.” “Investment grade can lead to exces- to more conservative funds. It could lead to inclu- trades as an investment grade market and despite sive build up of risk and we may have to look into KARACHI: Pakistani stockbrokers chat as they watch share prices on a digital screen sion in global debt indices tracked by trillions of the latest rally, the move is unlikely to be a signifi- that ... we can always step in to stop corporates during a trading session at the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) yesterday. — AFP dollars and might cut borrowing costs for the gov- cant trigger for more huge inflows, says Angus from borrowing if needed,” he said. ernment and companies. “This could bring a Halkett, a fund manager at Stone Harbor What Simsek and his colleagues in government whole new investor base to Turkey,” says Tim Ash, Investment Partners in London. are hoping for is a bonanza of foreign direct Don’t wear socks, Pakistanis head of emerging markets research at Standard At last count, Turkey had a record $150 billion investment (FDI) in a country which is still bedev- Bank. in overseas investment in its stock and bond mar- illed by poor infrastructure and poverty. FDI is told amidst huge power crisis Not surprising then that bond yields tumbled kets. Two-thirds of Istanbul’s equity free float is in more desirable than portfolio flows, simply to fresh record lows, stocks hit new all-time highs. foreign hands and Turkey is fund managers’ because it is less volatile but it covers less than a Pakistan says can’t end power blackouts Average yields on Turkish sovereign dollar bonds biggest net overweight in emerging markets, a fifth of Turkey’s whopping balance of payments fell to around 3.6 percent, trading for the first time Bank of America/Merrill Lynch poll showed this deficit. Simon Quijano-Evans, head of emerging ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has told civil ser- Musadiq Malik and Sohail Wajahat below erstwhile emerging markets darling, Brazil. month. The proof is also in debt insurance costs markets research at Commerzbank, Turkey, agrees, vants not to wear socks as the country Siddiqui “expressed their inability to over- But compare this to what an investor would that are below those of investment grade peers, noting an FDI pickup in Brazil following its ascent turns off air-conditioners amid a chronic come the crisis”, the Daily Times quoted receive on “safe” bonds from the United States or Russia and South Agrica, and in bond yields that to investment grade in mid-2008. “Probably the power crisis and soaring temperatures. them as telling a news conference in Germany or the 4 percent or so that debt-ridden are negative when adjusted for inflation. “There main positive of the Moody’s move is that it will The government has turned off all air- Lahore, where the temperature was 40 C Spain is paying for 10-year euro risk. may be some extra positive impetus, the market is start to help change the view of foreign direct conditioning in its offices as the country (104 degrees Fahrenheit) yesterday. An investment grade Turkey might well attract squeezing a bit out today but in terms of price investors,” he said, noting Turkey currently has the endures blackouts of up to 20 hours a day “They have termed financial con- that marginal yield-seeking dollar. “Turkey is a there is not a great deal more juice left in Turkish biggest current account deficit of all big emerging in some places. “There shall be no more straints as a major, and incompetence as a great example of an economy ... where the debt- bonds,” Halkett says. Many argue that the last economies, if net FDI is included. “This is the one use of air-conditioners in public offices till minor, hurdle in resolving the issue,” the to-GDP ratio is shrinking,” said Arvind Rajan, inter- thing Turkey needs is more portfolio capital, which priority area for Turkey.” — Reuters such time that substantial improvement newspaper said. “Presenting the realistic in the energy situation takes place,” a cab- picture, the ministers announced that inet directive said. As part of a new dress they were going to increase the price of code, moccasins or sandals must be worn electricity and gas for all sectors.” GM Gulf wealth without socks. They gave no details but said the prob- Oil slips near $104 The power shortages have sparked vio- lem would get worse before it gets better. funds raising lent protests and crippled key industries, About two-thirds of Pakistan’s energy is on demand outlook costing hundreds of thousands of jobs in generated by oil and gas and there are private equity a country already beset by high unem- widespread gas shortages, with cars run LONDON: Brent crude oil slipped towards umes in most financial markets were low ployment, a failing economy, widespread by CNG, compressed natural gas, queuing DUBAI: Sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf Arab region $104 per barrel yesterday, weighed by with several countries celebrating religious poverty and a Taleban insurgency. The up for hours overnight to fill their tanks. are raising their allocations to private equity invest- ample supplies, weaker demand for fuel and festivals. Traders awaited the minutes of a “load-shedding” means many families Meanwhile, two Pakistani ministers in ments at a faster rate than other types of investment, US a strong dollar, despite gains in equity mar- US Federal Reserve meeting due to be cannot pump water, let alone run air-con- charge of water and power explained fund manager Invesco says in a new study. “Contrary to kets. The dollar was within 0.2 percent of its released on Wednesday to assess the out- ditioners, with a disastrous knock-on what can be done to end power cuts of popular perceptions these vast state funds are not pil- highest level since July 2010 against a bas- look for the oil markets, as any hints of con- effect on health and domestic life. up to 20 hours a day in parts of the coun- ing into global property and global infrastructure proj- ket of currencies, keeping a lid on a range of tinued monetary easing by the US central Frustration over the power cuts con- try enduring temperatures of 40 degrees ects,” Nick Tolchard, head of Invesco Middle East said. commodities prices. bank would be bullish. tributed to the former ruling party’s poor Celsius and above - absolutely nothing, it “As well as a rise in co-investment deals, over and A strong dollar tends to depress oil and Analysts at US brokerage Jefferies Bache showing in a May 11 general election. seems, except raise prices. The power above private equity funds we are seeing an emergence other commodities that are priced in the US said they had turned more negative on oil Two ministers in charge of water and shortages have sparked violent protests of direct private equity investments coming out of currency on international markets. The fun- markets and saw the chance of at least $10 power explained what can be done to and crippled key industries, costing hun- SWFs.” Large sovereign funds have been looking for damental outlook for oil also looked less more of falls in crude prices from current end power cuts in parts of the country dreds of thousands of jobs in a country alternative investments to give better returns than low- positive with a weaker demand growth for levels: “We can see a renewed disconnect enduring temperatures of 40 degrees already beset by high unemployment, a yielding staples such as US Treasuries. 2013 as well as higher supply, according to from the strong equities, especially if the Celsius and above - absolutely nothing, it failing economy, widespread poverty and Average allocations to private equity by the region’s the West’s energy watchdog, the dollar index continues to march higher,” they seems, except raise prices. Ministers a Taliban insurgency. —Agencies developmental wealth funds have increased in the last International Energy Agency. wrote in a note to clients. “We look for 12 months by 33 percent, whereas investment funds Brent crude futures for July were down underlying petroleum fundamentals to have raised their private equity allocations by 13 per- 50 cents at $104.14 per barrel by 1240 GMT, deteriorate further.” “We have shifted to a cent in the same period, the study showed. bearish stance with particular emphasis on Qatar sets up $1bn energy fund In comparison Invesco said the percentage rise in after three straight sessions of gains. US crude fell 30 cents to $95.72. “The strength the crude markets,” they added. “Ultimate other alternative investments such as real estate and DOHA: Three Qatari state-backed entities, loading and unloading equipment,” QEWC infrastructure was only in single-digits. Invesco classifies of the dollar has been negative for com- downside price possibilities in the crudes modities,” said Olivier Jakob, analysts at still exist about $10-$11 below current lev- including the Gulf Arab nation’s acquisitive said in the statement. The new company, to the funds as “developmental” or “investment” depend- sovereign wealth fund, are setting up a $1 be called Nebras Power and will be 60 per- ing on whether they are engaged in investment activi- Swiss energy consultancy Petromatrix. “But els.” But David Hufton, managing director of billion fund to invest in overseas energy cent owned by QEWC, with 20 percent held ties that contribute to the progress of the local econo- short-term the market looks fairly balanced, brokers PVM Oil Associates in London, said infrastructure assets. The new fund will be by QPI and 20 percent by Qatar Holding, a my or aiming to invest for future generations. The Gulf with Brent trading in a range between $90 Brent may stay above $100 a barrel. run by Qatar Holding, Qatar Petroleum separate statement issued later yesterday region is home to some of the world’s most prominent and $110 per barrel. It is difficult to see it “As long as US investors remain bullish International and Qatar Electricity and said. sovereign funds such as the Abu Dhabi Investment breaking out of that for a while.” Gold fell for and ‘risk on’ there has to be a good chance Authority (ADIA), and the Qatar Investment Authority, an eighth session to its weakest in over a that Brent will get through the second quar- Water Company (QEWC), a bourse filing “Its initial capital will be $1 billion, with which are also two of the the most active funds, holding month as fears the US Federal Reserve may ter without dipping below $100.” Oil mar- from QEWC said yesterday. A country with the idea to provide power outside Qatar,” stakes in a range of large European corporates. Funds wind back its economic stimulus pro- kets found some support from tension in one of the highest per capita incomes in Qatari Energy Minister Mohammed Saleh like Abu Dhabi’s state-owned vehicle Mubdala has as its gramme hurt its appeal as a hedge against the Middle East, which raised worries over the world and backed by its huge hydrocar- Al-Sada told a news conference. “We will main mandate to invest to generate employment inflation. Bullion is down 20 percent so far the security of supply from the biggest pro- bon wealth, Qatar has been snapping up focus on the Middle East and parts of the opportunities for the state and contribute to local eco- this year. ducing region. Lebanese Hezbollah mili- assets globally. Far East, including North Africa, where we nomic output, while sovereign funds such as ADIA and Volumes low tants attacked a Syrian rebel-held town The fund will invest outside Qatar “in the feel there are opportunities for investment. Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) invest for future gen- World stock markets were close to five- alongside Syrian troops on Sunday, and fields of power generation, water desalina- This will include both greenfield and exist- erations. —Reuters year highs yesterday, boosted by optimism Israel threatened more attacks on Syria to tion and treatment, heating and cooling ing projects,” QEWC General Manager over the outlook for global growth. But vol- rein the militia in. — Reuters systems, provision of fuel as well as fuel Fahad Al-Mohannadi said. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES
Irani Riyal 0.273 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Guinea Franc 0.0000446 0.0000506 Commercial Bank of Kuwait Hg Kong Dollar 0.0344385 0.0375385 GCC COUNTRIES Indian Rupee 0.0051576 0.0052216 US Dollar/KD .2770000 .2880000 Saudi Riyal 76.577 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Indonesian Rupiah 0.0000244 0.0000296 GB Pound/KD .4310000 .4470000 Qatari Riyal 78.903 US Dollar 286.550 Jamaican Dollars 0.0028712 0.0038712 Euro .3680000 .3760000 Omani Riyal 745.880 Canadian Dollar 284.780 Japanese Yen 0.0027155 0.0028956 Swiss francs .3020000 .3170000 Bahraini Dinar 762.720 Sterling Pound 447.730 Kenyan Shilling 0.0033724 0.0036024 Canadian Dollar .2780000 .2920000 UAE Dirham 78.194 Euro 371.435 Malaysian Ringgit 0.0900415 0.0970415 Australian DLR .2940000 .3020000 Swiss Frank 297.210 Nepalese Rupee 0.0031107 0.0033107 Indian rupees .0040000 .0069000 ARAB COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 758.655 Pakistan Rupee 0.0028865 0.0029265 Sri Lanka Rupee .0020000 .0035000 Egyptian Pound - Cash 40.700 UAE Dirhams 77.995 Philippine Peso 0.0065085 0.0069785 UAE dirhams .0771240 .0778990 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.455 Qatari Riyals 78.655 Sierra Leone 0.0000733 0.0000763 Bahraini dinars .7513970 .7589480 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.340 Saudi Riyals 76.375 Singapore Dollar 0.2247824 0.2307824 Jordanian dinar .3930000 .4110000 Tunisian Dinar 174.180 Jordanian Dinar 403.940 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.0022315 0.0022735 Jordanian Dinar 405.520 Saudi riyals .0720000 .0770000 Egyptian Pound 40.620 Thai Baht 0.0092222 0.0098222 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.927 Omani riyals .7366120 .7440150 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.265 Syrian Lier 3.120 Egyptian pounds .0370000 .0440000 Morocco Dirham 33.771 Indian Rupees 5.235 Arab Pakistani Rupees 2.904 Bahraini Dinar 0.7549788 0.7634788 CUSTOMER TRANSFER RATES EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bangladesh Taka 3.675 Egyptian Pound 0.0384732 0.0405032 US Dollar/KD .2841000 .2862000 US Dollar Transfer 287.050 Philippines Pesso 6.969 Ethiopeanbirr 0.0129584 0.0194584 GB Pound/KD .4338920 .4370990 Euro 372.300 Cyprus pound 702.930 Ghanaian Cedi 0.1459587 0.1477487 Euro .3707360 .3734770 Sterling Pound 439.470 Japanese Yen 3.800 Iranian Riyal 0.0000798 0.0000803 Swiss francs .3043390 .3065880 Canadian dollar 281.970 Thai Bhat 9.730 Iraqi Dinar 0.0001749 0.0002349 Canadian dollars .2795430 .2816100 Turkish lira 158.720 Syrian Pound 4.095 Jordanian Dinar 0.3993401 0.4068041 Danish Kroner .0497330 .0501010 Swiss Franc 297.920 Nepalese Rupees 3.365 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Swedish Kroner .0443660 .0446940 US Dollar Buying 285.850 Malaysian Ringgit 95.500 Lebanese Pound 0.0001762 0.0001962 Australian dlr .2963730 .2985640 Moroccan Dirhams 0.0216896 0.0456896 Hong Kong dlr .0365940 .0368650 GOLD Nigerian Naira 0.0012241 0.0018591 Singapore dlr .2291130 .2308060 20 Gram 298.000 Bahrain Exchange Company Omani Riyal 0.7345758 0.7455758 Japanese yen .0029600 .0028810 10 Gram 150.000 Qatar Riyal 0.0781901 0.0789731 Indian Rs/KD .0000000 .0052870 5 Gram 77.500 CURRENCY BUY SELL Saudi Riyal 0.0760133 0.0766533 Sri Lanka rupee .0000000 .0022880 Europe Sudanese Pounds 0.0466754 0.0472254 Pakistan rupee .0000000 .0029190 British Pound 0.4291864 0.4381864 Syrian Pound 0.0031297 0.0033497 Bangladesh taka .0000000 .0036810 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Czech Korune 0.0062562 0.0182562 Tunisian Dinar 0.1722599 0.1782599 UAE dirhams .0773800 .0779520 Danish Krone 0.0455761 0.0505761 UAE Dirhams 0.0767259 0.0781759 Bahraini dinars .7538810 .7594530 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Euro 0.3635893 0.3710893 Yemeni Riyal 0.0012953 0.0013953 Jordanian dinar .0000000 .4048090 Australian Dollar 284.76 283.000 Norwegian Krone 0.0449829 0.0501829 Saudi Riyal/KD .0757800 .0763400 Canadian Dollar 283.20 283.000 Scottish Pound 0.4262578 0.4337578 Al Mulla Exchange Omani riyals .7382100 .7436660 Swiss Franc 301.02 299.000 Swedish Krona 0.0388967 0.0438967 Philippine Peso .0000000 .0069870 Euro 372.39 372.000 Swiss Franc 0.2913289 0.2983289 US Dollar 286.65 288.000 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Australasia US Dollar 285.700 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Sterling Pound 439.14 438.500 Japanese Yen 2.85 3.300 Australian Dollar 0.2708190 0.2828190 Euro 374.550 New Zealand Dollar 0.2242488 0.2342488 Pound Sterling 440.000 Bangladesh Taka 3.692 3.740 Uganda Shilling 0.0001139 0.0001139 Canadian Dollar 285.150 ASIAN COUNTRIES Indian Rupee 5.209 5.540 Japanese Yen 2.781 Japanese Yen 2.855 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.272 2.460 America Indian Rupee 5.228 Indian Rupees 5.233 Nepali Rupee 3.266 3.420 Pakistani Rupees 2.912 Canadian Dollar 0.2724247 0.2814247 Egyptian Pound 40.550 Srilankan Rupees 2.270 Pakistani Rupee 2.913 2.990 Colombian Peso 0.0001461 0.0001641 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.257 Nepali Rupees 3.271 UAE Dirhams 78.11 78.800 US Dollars 0.2849000 0.2870500 Bangladesh Taka 3.668 Singapore Dollar 229.640 Bahraini Dinar 762.94 763.500 Philippines Peso 6.933 Hongkong Dollar 36.980 Egyptian Pound 40.43 40.500 Asia Pakistan Rupee 2.905 Bangladesh Taka 3.676 Jordanian Dinar 407.96 415.000 Bangladesh Taka 0.0036408 0.0036958 Bahraini Dinar 760.850 Philippine Peso 6.970 Omani Riyal 745.47 748.000 Cape Vrde Escudo 0.0031854 0.0034154 UAE Dirham 77.850 Thai Baht 9.643 Qatari Riyal 78.16 79.500 Chinese Yuan 0.0457455 0.0507455 Saudi Riyal 76.300 Malaysian ringgit 94.221 Eritrea-Nakfa 0.0166033 0.0197033 *Rates are subject to change Irani Riyal 0.271 Saudi Riyal 76.57 77.000 TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 BUSINESS
Middle East should nurture CSR for economic prosperity
By Ramez Shehadi, Salim Ghazaly, ment goals and coordinate with govern- ects, they are establishing best practices tion of CSR. Almost all Gulf Cooperation business schools can influence the mindset Mounira Jamjoom ments, academia, and civil society. that other companies can follow. These Council members now have corporate of tomorrow’s managers and entrepre- Such a coordinated effort is critical to best practices include ensuring high-pro- governance codes or guidelines in place neurs by introducing CSR-related concepts or many years the approach to tackle regional sustainable development, file support and engagement of senior for publicly listed companies. into the curriculum. Civil society organiza- achieving long-term prosperity and including the main challenge of training leaders, and practicing more transparent Eventually, when the CSR environment tions, for their part, can form partnerships Fstability in the Middle East and North and educating young people for jobs. Just corporate governance to encourage can- is mature, MENA governments may not with private companies to lend credibility Africa (MENA) has been economic growth. keeping employment at 2011 levels will did discussions and create clear guidelines need to intervene, except to offer encour- to CSR initiatives, and can monitor the per- That approach has to change. Instead, gov- require an additional 75 million jobs by for tackling CSR issues. These CSR leaders agement. For the time being, however, giv- formance of the private sector on issues ernments should be pursuing sustainable 2020-a 43 percent increase on the number also integrate CSR with their operating en the region’s substantial development ranging from child labor, to fair trade, to development. Unlike previous policies, sus- of jobs in 2011, according to the World model by, at the very least, coordinating needs and the undeveloped nature of CSR, community involvement, and environmen- tainable development is a strategy for eco- Economic Forum. Until recently, too many the activities of their company’s business- governments need to play a more active tal protection. While there is an important nomic progress that aims to create jobs, MENA companies consider CSR initiatives es, functional units, and partners. They also role in setting CSR priorities. At the very role for government, and to an extent civil alleviate poverty, provide education, and an optional extra and define such work too focus on a few CSR themes that leverage least, governments can define and man- society and academia, the main burden of carefully manage the environment. narrowly, and too few governments fully the company’s expertise; and they tap the date minimum standards for business per- CSR and sustainable development falls on Companies have a particularly impor- comprehend how CSR can dovetail with credibility and expertise of civil society formance through legislation. companies. By aligning their CSR work with tant role to play in the sustainable devel- national development. One sign that the organizations, public-private partnerships Governments can also facilitate CSR by national development goals, MENA com- opment through corporate social responsi- tide is turning is the number of regional and social business ventures. Finally, these naming a ministry or department to coor- panies can be good corporate citizens, and bility (CSR) initiatives. Many MENA compa- companies that have joined the UN Global CSR pioneers measure CSR results to assess dinate CSR strategies and policy making. by supporting sustainable development nies are increasing the scale and range of Compact-a strategic policy initiative for and refine their initiatives. In tandem with The authorities can also offer incentives for can contribute to the betterment of the their CSR projects, part of a global trend businesses committed to ten principles in companies aligning their CSR projects with companies to pursue CSR. Governments societies in which they operate. and an extension of longstanding cultural the areas of human rights, labor, environ- national development goals, governments can provide funding and research around traditions. Unfortunately, too many com- ment and anti-corruption. The list of signa- need to help define these goals and create CSR, and can spearhead training and pro- By Ramez Shehadi, Partner, Salim panies conduct these initiatives on an ad tories from the MENA region has grown an environment in which CSR is encour- motional campaigns. Ghazaly, Principal with Booz & Company, hoc basis that limits their effectiveness. For from just three in 2003 to 262 by the end of aged and, indeed, expected from compa- The education sector also has an impor- and Mounira Jamjoom, Senior Research maximum impact, companies need to 2012. nies. Encouragingly, MENA governments tant role to play in shaping the attitudes of Specialist at Booz & Company’s Ideation align CSR projects with national develop- As more companies conduct CSR proj- have become more active in their promo- future business leaders. Universities and Center South African mine wage demands roil shares, rand Threat of mines unrest is headache for ruling ANC
JOHANNESBURG: Big wage hikes demanded by and Construction Union (AMCU). AMCU has are anywhere between $1,100 and ounce and the government-allied trade union in South poached tens of thousands of platinum miners $1,400 an ounce,” said David Davis, mining invest- Africa’s coal and gold industries helped push the from NUM in an increasingly violent struggle at ment analyst with SBG Securities. rand to a four-year low yesterday, highlighting mine sites. the ripple effect of the prospect of more turmoil The union battle poses a headache for Strike threats in the industry. The National Union of President Jacob Zuma’s ruling African National NUM still represents the bulk of the rank and Mineworkers’ (NUM) call for pay rises of up to 60 Congress (ANC), which faces criticism that it mis- file in the gold and coal sectors and needs to be percent in a submission to the Chamber of Mines handled last year’s mines violence. Opponents seen taking a tough line with management to seen by Reuters on Sunday rattled mining say it and the mainstream NUM have neglected head off the assault from AMCU, which now dom- investors after wildcat strikes at platinum and the rights of workers and sided with mine bosses, inates the platinum sector specifically. AMCU has gold mines killed 50 people and cost billions in a charge they both deny. The ANC’s Secretary not yet submitted its wage demands to produc- MYANMAR: Workers push sections of a huge bamboo raft as others try to dismantle lost output last year. Employers and workers are General Gwede Mantashe, a former top NUM offi- ers, which negotiate with unions on a company- parts of it yesterday. Workers started to unlash thousands of bamboo poles that they squaring off for next month’s salary bargaining cial, defended the union yesterday, saying that by-company basis. floated down a river for three days at a construction metrical distribution site.— AP period against a backdrop of high inflation and “recent attacks” on it were akin to an attack on the Anglo American Platinum, the world’s top pro- shrinking company margins in Africa’s largest ruling party’s alliance with its labour allies. Last ducer, is planning to cut 6,000 jobs from an initial economy due to soaring costs and sinking com- year’s mine violence dented South Africa’s image target of 14,000 as it seeks to restore profits after Danone strikes sweet deals to modity prices. This is making South Africa vulner- with investors and led to ratings downgrades for recording a loss last year. It scaled back its original able, said George Glynos, managing director at the economy. NUM, a key political ally of the ANC, plan under government pressure, but workers meet Chinese taste for yogurt financial consultancy ETM Analytics. is seeking an entry-level minimum monthly wage and unions have threatened strike action on the “Commodity prices are retreating, you have of 7,000 rand ($750) for gold and coal surface platinum belt if the announced lay-offs go ahead. PARIS: French food industry group Danone dairy market Danone said this activity wage negotiations which look like they are turn- workers and 8,000 rand for those underground, African Bank Investments, a lender to lower- is ramping up its presence in the growing would account for an estimated 21.0 per- ing pear-shaped even before they have begun, according to the submission to the chamber of income South Africans such as miners, said yes- Chinese market for dairy products with two cent of the Chinese market and would and all that on top of a fragile economy,” he said. mines obtained by Reuters. The latter would rep- terday many of its debt-laden customers were deals yesterday to tap sales of yogurt and comprise 13 factories in China. It would Reflecting the jitters over the threat of fresh resent a 60 percent rise from the current mini- struggling to pay back their loans. “The knock-on health foods, the firm said yesterday. benefit from the two brands, Danone and mines unrest, the South African currency fell to a mum wage of 5,000 rand a month. effect from the recent strike activity led to Danone said it was investing about 325 mil- Mengniu. The second venture would also new 4-year low of 9.4790 to the dollar early yes- NUM also said it wanted 15 percent increases increased debt servicing burdens,” the bank said lion euros ($418 million) to strengthen its develop synergies by using expertise from terday before recovering to 9.4580 by 1228 GMT, for “all other wage categories,” meaning more in announcing its first-half earnings. AMCU’s rise place in the potentially vast Chinese mar- Danone in terms of quality and innova- still down 0.6 percent on the day. experienced and skilled workers. Wage talks are has been built in part on perceptions that NUM’s ket, via two joint ventures in distribution tion and would benefit from the market Shares in Africa’s top bullion producer due to begin next month. South Africa’s leaders have grown too close to management and production. leadership and “vast” distribution network AngloGold Ashanti fell over four percent and rival Solidarity trade union, which represents mostly and the ANC. The view from the boardroom is The intention is to build on a joint mar- operated by Mengniu which would hold Gold Fields shed 4 percent to 4-1/2 year lows. On skilled workers, said yesterday it was seeking 10 somewhat different as NUM has been wringing ket share of about one fifth of the Chinese 80.0 percent of the new business. Danone market for dairy products. The two ven- is a world leader in the sectors of dairy and global markets, gold fell for an eighth straight ses- percent pay increases for its members from the above inflation wage hikes for its members over tures are with arms of the Chinese compa- health foods, baby food and medical nutri- sion to its weakest level in over a month, as fears country’s gold and coal producers in the upcom- the past decade, a huge squeeze on company ny COFCO which says it is “the largest sup- tion and the supply of bottled water, the that the US Federal Reserve may wind back its ing negotiations. Spot gold is currently fetching margins. But even increases above inflation do plier of diversified products and services in statement said. The company has more economic stimulus programme hurt the metal’s around $1,350 an ounce, down close to 20 percent not go far for workers at the bottom end of the the agricultural products and food industry than 190 production facilities around the appeal as a hedge against inflation. A fierce union so far this year, and South Africa’s mines, the deep- pay scale who on average have eight dependants in China”. world and employs 102,000 people. Last turf war is roiling labour relations at South African est in the world, are hard pressed to turn a profit at and are mostly drawn from poor rural areas. A joint statement said that the strategy year it achieved sales of more than 20 bil- mine shafts, with the NUM fighting an aggressive these levels. “If you look at the all-in-costs for Inflation, which is currently running near 6 per- targeted “the production and sales of lion euros, more than half of which were challenge to its once near monopoly of members South African gold miners, including capex (capi- cent, looks set to accelerate further given the chilled yogurt products in China, combin- made in emerging economies. The chair- from the growing Association of Mineworkers tal expenditure), the break-even costs right now recent weakness in the rand. — Reuters ing their respective assets in this category.” man of COFCO, Frank Ning, said that as the The statement said: “Danon’s BIO (Activia) biggest Chinese state-owned company in brand will put the new fresh dairy business the food sector, “COFCO has the responsi- in a solid position to build its strong leader- bility to further develop dairy products in World stocks rise on signs of US recovery ship in the active health sector.” China.” — AFP Danone chief executive Frank Riboud BANGKOK: Evidence of a steady economic this week, including U.S. homes sales and quantitative easing. HSBC’s survey on China’s said that the deals “will create the winning recovery in the U.S. helped push world stock durable goods orders. Analysts are somewhat manufacturing growth, to be released combination to unlock the potential of the markets higher yesterday. A gauge of future pessimistic about the strength of China’s recov- Thursday, is also highly anticipated. Analysts at fresh dairy products category in China. economic activity issued Friday rose more than ery but are expecting to see solid improvement Credit Agricole are expecting a slight decelera- With the support of COFCO’s expertise in expected, a sign that the world’s biggest econo- in the US. In Washington, remarks by Federal tion due to seasonal factors, from 50.4 in April the Chinese food industry “our brands will my is improving. Consumer confidence also Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to members of to 50.3 in May. “More signs of weakness will add benefit from significantly wider reach to rose, offsetting several lackluster reports on Congress on Wednesday will be closely exam- to global growth worries. I think markets are the largest number of Chinese consumers,” slowing manufacturing and an increase in ined for hints about the future direction of the particularly sensitive to this data release,” he said. applications for unemployment benefits. central bank’s monetary policy. Kotecha said. Wall Street stocks again pushed COFCO said that it was “devoted to util- Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.7 percent to The Fed is currently conducting the third higher Friday after the Conference Board said ising renewable natural resources to pro- 6,735.31. Germany’s DAX gained 0.5 percent to round of massive bond purchases known as its index of leading economic indicators rose vide healthy and nutritious food.” Under the 8,440.38. France’s CAC-40 advanced 0.3 percent quantitative easing to help drive down interest 0.6 percent last month after a revised decline of agreements, Danone is to create a venture to 4,012.55. Wall Street looked set for a flat rates and spur lending. But recently improving 0.2 percent in March. The index is intended to with COFCO opening the way for a strate- opening, however. Dow Jones industrial futures data on the US economy has led to speculation predict how the economy will be doing in three gic partnership with Mengniu, described as were nearly unchanged at 15,316. S&P 500 that the Fed might consider winding the pro- to six months. Separately, the University of a leading Chinese dairy product company. futures were flat at 1,663.10. Asian stock mar- gram down earlier than expected. Michigan’s preliminary survey of consumer con- Initially, Danone will hold 4.0 percent of kets were broadly higher. Japan’s Nikkei 225 “What everyone is watching for is any com- fidence climbed to 83.7. Economists had pre- Mengniu with the intention of increasing index jumped 1.5 percent to 15,360.81. Hong ment from the Fed chief on asset purchases or dicted that the gauge would climb to 76.8. this stake in line with future market condi- Kong’s Hang Seng surged 1.8 percent to any clarification on current thinking,” said Mitul Benchmark oil for June delivery was down tions, the French firm said. The second ven- 23,493.03. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.5 Kotecha of Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong. 57 cents at $95.45 a barrel in electronic trading ture will be linked directly to operating percent to 5,209. Benchmarks in mainland “The timing of any decision on winding down on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In cur- activities. The venture will group assets PARIS: Picture shows French food group China, Taiwan, and Indonesia also rose. South asset purchases is still very much undecided so rencies, the euro rose to $1.2846 from $1.2829 from the two companies and achieve total Danone chief executive Franck Riboud Korea’s Kospi fell 0.2 percent to 1,982.43. it seems unlikely Bernanke will be categorical or late Friday in New York. The dollar fell to 102.54 sales on the basis of figures for 2012 of 500 during the company’s annual general Investors will have a slew of data to sift through provide strong timing about a reduction” in yen from 103.18 yen. —AP million euros. COFCO to develop Chinese assembly. — AFP On fleeting Hong Kong trips, Chinese make frugal stylish
HONG KONG: Armed with empty suitcases and biggest consumer market in three years, and how times a week, made Citygate the best performer same-day return tickets, an army of mainland mainland tourists shop is big business. Sluggish among the big malls operated by realtor Swire Chinese is descending on suburban outlet shop- sales growth in Europe and the United States also Properties. First-quarter sales rose 22 percent at ping malls and international fashion chains in makes China, with its rapidly expanding middle the outlet mall, beating a one percent loss at the Hong Kong, turning cheap into the new chic as class and rising incomes, especially attractive. luxury-focused Pacific Place and a 3.5 percent luxury falls out of favour. Wealthy Chinese used to Chinese nationals were the largest single increase at the mid-tier Cityplaza mall. At the Nike stop over in Hong Kong for a few days to pick up group of tourists to Hong Kong last year. Of the outlet, Chung said all sales staff were now a Louis Vuitton bag or a wristwatch for up to 40 35 million who visited, 20 million came and left required to be fluent in Mandarin, the most percent less than in Beijing or Shanghai. the same day, an increase of more than a third on prevalent Chinese dialect. Most Hong Kong resi- These well-heeled tourists have now been 2011, according to tourism bureau data. Many dents speak Cantonese. overtaken by bargain-hunters that stay for a few short-term visitors come by shuttle bus or train hours, spend more at shops like Inditex SA’s Zara from the southern Chinese province of Mass-market retailers muscle in and malls such as Citygate Outlets, turning Hong Guangdong. Thrifty Chinese tourists are also proving a Kong into a must-be location for retailers who are They often head straight to Citygate, where boon for New Town Plaza, a shopping mall locat- braving some of the world’s most expensive com- more than 80 international brands including ed in the suburban Sha Tin district and owned by mercial rents. “There are more mainland con- Levi’s jeans, Coach Inc, Polo Ralph Lauren and Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. Retail rents at New sumers than locals,” said Tsz Chung, a salesman at Burberry are offered at steep discounts.“It’s Town, which is miles away from spots frequented a Nike Inc store in Citygate, located in the satellite cheaper here and there’s a wide range of options,” by tourists, are among the city’s highest. Last town of Tung Chung near the airport. “Typically, said Chen Yunlong, a 29-year-old tourist from the month, L Brands Inc lingerie chain Victoria’s mainland consumers look for cheap goods.” border town of Shenzhen as he strolled through Secrets chose to locate its first Hong Kong stores Foreign retailers treat Hong Kong as a gateway to the mall on a recent Saturday. Visitors like Chen, at the mall and the prime downtown district of China, which is poised to become the world’s who said he shops in Hong Kong up to three Central. — Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 BUSINESS Economists predict rise in consumer spending
WASHINGTON: Consumer spending is tioned between April 16 and April 30 4 percent next year. Boosted by new fourth quarter and 6.8 percent in late cuts will continue into the next fiscal likely to pick up this year, while govern- predicted that consumer spending will construction, they predict a 15 percent 2014. Corporate profits after taxes are year. Lower government spending, ment spending declines at a faster rate, rise 2.3 percent this year, up from a fore- jump in residential housing investment expected to rise 5.3 percent in 2013 and especially by the military, “has already according to a survey of business econ- cast of 1.9 percent in February. They this year. Housing starts hit a 5-year 7.5 percent next year. Both of those are had a sharp effect on GDP growth,” she omists. The economists predict that the were also more upbeat about auto sales, peak in March then fell in April, with more bullish forecasts than the econo- said. GDP, or gross domestic product, is US economy will grow 2.4 percent this predicting 15.4 million vehicles sales, an most of the decline due to less apart- mists offered in February. the measure of the economy’s total out- year and 3 percent next year. That’s increase of 1 million over 2012. ment construction, which can swing While consumers might spend more, put of goods and services. The NABE unchanged from their forecast in Nayantara Hensel, chair of the NABE wildly from month to month. the government sector is expected to survey found little alarm about potential February. survey and a business professor at Applications for building permits hit a 5- shrink 2.3 percent this year - sharper inflation. The economists expect the But they are more bullish on con- National Defense University, said con- year high in April, suggesting that the than the 1 percent cut that the econo- Consumer Price Index to rise 1.9 percent sumer spending and housing than they sumer spending will get a boost from housing market will continue to recover mists predicted in February, before a this year and 2.1 percent in 2014. were three months ago, in part because gains in the stock market, home values from the recession. A recent survey by series of automatic federal spending On Friday, the Conference Board of a more positive view about unem- and lower unemployment. “Home prices the National Association of Home cuts kicked in when Congress and the reported that its index of leading eco- ployment. The survey was released yes- are going up, and with also the improve- Builders found continued optimism White House failed to reach a deal to nomic indicators rose in April after dip- terday by the National Association for ment in the unemployment rate, people among builders. avoid them. The economists expect gov- ping in March. A board economist said Business Economics, which periodically will be more willing to buy,” Hensel said The NABE economists, who were sur- ernment spending to decline a more the economy was getting a lift from surveys economists for banks, manufac- in an interview. veyed before April unemployment was modest 0.9 percent in 2014, but Hensel steady job gains and the housing mar- turers and universities. The economists predicted that home reported at 7.5 percent, predicted that said the forecast could change to a big- ket, offsetting government spending The 49 economists who were ques- prices will rise 4.4 percent this year and the rate will decline to 7.4 percent in the ger decline if it looks like the automatic cuts.— AP China’s hot money triangle flourishes despite regulations ZHUHAI: In an underground mall just a Collectively, the cities form part of a stone’s throw from China’s teeming border giant, unregulated underground banking with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with triangle between China, the world’s gam- identical golden plaques does a brisk, bling capital of Macau and the global finan- though shadowy trade with mainland cial hub of Hong Kong. Chinese visitors, many of them bound for In Zhuhai alone, over 1 billion yuan ($163 the gambling hub. “Good rates. Better than million) is transferred daily through under- the banks,” shout salespeople jostling to ground networks, according to a straw poll usher clients into shops where thick wads of of six agents who spoke to Reuters - part of Chinese 100 yuan ($16.31) and HK$1,000 a tight-knit group of 100 operating in the ($130) bank notes change hands and shuffle border area. “Our business has gone up noisily through electronic cash-counting some 30 percent in the past three years,” machines. Licensed as liquor and dry goods said one who gave his name as Li. stores with stacked shelves of rice wine and Besides retail-level agents clustered cigarettes, many conduct their real business around the borders at Zhuhai and nearby in back rooms - as underground bankers Shenzhen, another deep-rooted echelon of and remittance agents. shadow bankers exists across Guangdong “It’s very simple,” said one agent sur- out of public view, often working from named Choi, dressed in sandals and ripped secret offices, with deals conducted jeans, as he served tea in a back office where between trusted, well connected parties, larger transactions are typically carried out. often with just a phone call. “I went to see a “You give me renminbi here. Then we deliv- friend in this business once. It was just a tiny er Hong Kong dollars to you in Macau. We 100 square foot room filled with banknotes. can move tens of millions each day,” he said, Can you imagine how much money there glancing up at six security camera images of was?” said a Hong Kong businessman sur- his shop front flickering on a flat-screen TV. named Chan who has run a factory in As China’s economy and financial mar- Guangdong for over 20 years. “They’re kets mature and gain in sophistication, so everywhere. In every village, town and city.” too does a vast underground banking The Washington-based Global Financial industry offering swift, cheap and low risk Integrity group estimated about $2.83 tril- cross-border fund transfers - shifting hun- lion flowed illicitly out of China from 2005 to dreds of millions of dollars each day. Much 2011, with Hong Kong the largest recipient. of that activity is conducted openly on the “The enormity of money laundering right streets of southern China’s Guangdong now is a problem,” said a senior law enforce- province, where businesses and individuals ment official in Hong Kong, who asked not depend on underground networks to get to be named given the politically sensitive around strict currency controls - both for nature of his comments as a public official. legitimate commercial purposes and to “Chinese banks in Hong Kong are basically a safeguard assets beyond the reach of black hole, even now.”—Reuters authorities. Beijing is finding it increasingly difficult to stem the tide of speculative and illegal cash. In the decade since China began cracking down on money laundering, the government has amended its criminal laws and strengthened commercial banking rules, but loosening restrictions on capital transfers has made it easier for hot money to be channeled across the border. “China’s financial markets are not that mature,” said Yu Yongding, an economist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and former adviser to the central bank. “There are lots of capital controls that certainly have contributed to these kind of activities, while corruption and money laundering also play an important role.”
Underground banking triangle In affluent Guangdong in the Pearl River Delta, cities like Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan are major underground conduits for Chinese hot mon- SHANGHAI: Greece’s Prime Minister ey. The province, where imports and exports Antonis Samaras delivers his speech at amounted to $984 billion last year - a quar- a Greece-China Business gala dinner. ter of China’s foreign trade - has served as a Samaras is seeking investment and portal for capital flows since China’s eco- trade deals to help revive his country’s nomic opening over 30 years ago. recession-battered†economy. — AP Mercedes-Benz Kuwait beats the heat with Service Week
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BANGKOK: Asia’s mobile revolution is set to transform still “live outside the world’s financial system”, particu- had to travel long distances to a bank or other payout two percent of that of branch banking, and 60 percent the region’s financial services industry, offering a cheap larly those from rural areas, with limited access to sav- locations to receive their money in cash. But techno- of leading remittance service providers now offer way for millions of migrant workers to send money ings accounts, the report said. “Mobile telephony offer logical advances mean that these days “mobile wallets” mobile transfers. “The promise of low-cost, instanta- home to their families, a report said yesterday. Nearly the prospect of cheaply connecting hundreds of mil- can be used to receive and store money for future use. neous transfers of funds over large distances directly 60 million migrant workers from the Asia-Pacific region lions of unbanked rural and low-income people to Some mobile devices also allow customers to through mobile phones is one of the most exciting sent almost $260 billion home to their families in 2012, financial services,” it added. receive money from ATMs without a bank card as well prospects in the industry today,” the report said. But according to the study, co-authored by the World Bank Asia is the fastest-growing market on the planet for as to pay for goods and services at retail locations, even the authors also sounded a note of caution about and the International Fund for Agricultural mobile financial services, which now reach almost if such services are in the early stages. In the past work- mobile banking, saying its long-term success depend- Development.An estimated 70 million Asian house- every town and village, enabling people to send mon- ers sending money home to families in rural areas ed on the development of economically sustainable holds-one in 10 — benefit from these flows. ey, transfer funds between accounts and pay bills, the faced higher remittance charges, but that is also business models, which they warned “remains a chal- Yet most Asian households receiving remittances report said. Traditionally rural recipients of remittances changing. The cost of mobile transactions is also about lenge”. — AFP Asia shares higher on US gains Chinese shares rise over property bargains
HONG KONG: Asian shares rose yester- US stocks had closed another week S&P 500 rose 0.95 percent to 1,666.12. in New York late Friday but still up from day reflecting a bullish mood on Wall of record highs Friday as investors A pair of better-than-expected US the lower 102-yen range seen before Street and extending their two-week focused on the positive side of mixed reports Friday-on consumer confidence the Tokyo market closed on Friday. rally, buoyed by better-than-expected economic news and corporate earnings. and the economic outlook-drove a rally The dollar dipped early yesterday US data. Tokyo stocks were up 1.47 per- Global stocks have rallied over the past that pushed the Dow and S&P 500 to after Economy, Trade and Industry cent, or 222.69 points, to 15,360.81, and four weeks, bringing up market capitali- end-of-the-week all-time highs for the Minister Akira Amari on Sunday sug- Sydney gained 0.54 percent, or 28.2 sation by $2.3 trillion. The Dow Jones third straight week. The dollar was gested the Japanese government may points, to close at 5,209.0. Hong Kong Industrial Average jumped 0.80 percent changing hands at 102.69 yen in Tokyo not want the yen to weaken further. ended 1.78 percent higher, or 410.35 to 15,354.40 while the the broad-based afternoon trade, down from 103.19 yen Responding to a question on how far points, to end at 23,493.03, as Shanghai the unit should fall, Amari said: “It’s closed up 0.75 percent, or 17.12 points, being said that the correction of the to 2,299.99, and Seoul finished flat at strong yen is largely completed. If the 0.22 percent, or 4.38 points, to 1,982.43. yen keeps on weakening a lot more, it Chinese shares were up as investors will have a negative impact on peoples’ hunted for bargains in property and lives (by pushing up import costs).” MOUNTAIN VIEW: In this photo, bottles of Heinz organic tomato ketchup banking stocks, dealers said. “Fund His comment came after the dollar are on display inside Costco in Mountain View, Calif. — AP managers are buying property devel- rose past the 103-yen mark for the first opers and banks, both of which are time in more than four years late consumer demands aid trading at low price-to-earnings ratios,” Friday, making a three-percent gain in Soochow Securities analyst Deng the past week alone and a 30-percent Wenyuan told Dow Jones Newswires. rise since mid-November. The euro was organic industry sway Tokyo stocks were buoyed by gains in quoted at $1.2841 and 131.86 yen overseas stock markets last week, as a against $1.2834 and 132.44 yen in US WASHINGTON: The organic food motional campaign if the industry Japanese minister said the recent cor- trade. Oil was down in Asian trade with industry is gaining influence on decided it wanted one. rection against the yen was nearly over. the US benchmark contract, West Texas Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry Laura Batcha of the Organic “Bullish equities markets and the Intermediate for June delivery, was into traditional farm states and by Trade Association says one reason progressively weaker yen should help down 19 cents at $95.83 a barrel and increasing consumer demand. the industry would approve a cam- drive the market to a fresh multi-year Brent North Sea crude for delivery in That’s not going over well with paign is that many organic produc- high after much profit-taking in the last July dropping five cents to $104.59. everyone in Congress. Tensions ers are concerned that consumers several sessions,” said Hiroichi Nishi, Gold was at $1,355.55 at 1100 GMT between conventional and organic don’t understand that products general manager of equities at SMBC TOKYO: Pedestrians pass before a share prices board in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP from $1,379.02 late on Friday and just agriculture boiled over this week labeled “natural” aren’t necessarily Nikko Securities. above a two-year low. — AFP during a late-night House organic, which requires certifica- Agriculture Committee debate on tion. The organic industry has farm legislation that for decades exploded in the past decade, with Goldman has propped up traditional crops $35 billion in sales and 10 percent EU law key to ending and largely ignored organics. growth just last year. There are Sachs to When Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore, more than 17,000 certified organic a former organic farmer, offered an businesses in the country. ‘too big to fail’ banks invest in Japan amendment to make it easier for Producers of organic crops and organic companies to organize conventional crops long have been LONDON/STRASBOURG: A European Union law up up without taxpayer cash. Tucker said a discussion on green energy industry-wide promotional cam- at odds as organic products have for a vote yesterday will only fully shield taxpayers such a cushion at the global level was still needed. paigns, there was swift backlash grabbed market share and the from bailing out troubled banks if there is a global This “loss-absorbing” cushion should be equivalent TOKYO: US investment banking giant from some farm-state Republicans. industry has advertised organic framework as well, a top UK regulator said on Monday. to the amount of capital a lender holds in its capital Goldman Sachs said yesterday it will start investing in Japanese renewable energy One lawmaker said he didn’t want foods as healthier than other foods. Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker said buffer with an added margin for safety, he said. The to see the industry get a free ride That share was more than 4 per- projects, with a reported $2.9 billion outlay the EU law on bank recovery and resolution would be biggest banks will have to hold a core capital cushion over the next five years. The injection comes and a second complained about cent of food and beverage sales in a milestone towards a global system and help con- of up to 9.5 percent by 2019 though many are already organics’ “continued assault on 2011. Organic products are after Japan’s government stepped into the vince markets that governments were no longer will- at or above this level due to market and supervisory green power market to set minimum prices required to be certified by the agriculture.” ing to rescue “too big to fail” lenders. pressures. Banks should not hold large amounts of in a bid to encourage the sector as the “That’s one of the things that USDA and are grown without pesti- Since governments had to shore up banks during bonds of other banks and nor should insurers hold country seeks to rebalance its post- has caught me and raises my con- cides and genetically modified the 2007-09 financial crisis, regulators have wanted to chunks of bank debt, Tucker said. He backed EU con- Fukushima energy mix. A wholly owned cerns, is that industry’s lack of ingredients, mainstays of tradition- stop markets assuming big banks would not be sensus that depositors with up to 100,000 euros unit in Tokyo said it will invest in a solar respect for traditional agriculture,” al agriculture. allowed to go out of business. The European ($128,000) in their account should not suffer losses in a power generation project in Ibaraki prefec- said Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga. He was Government-managed promo- Parliament’s economic affairs committee holds a first bail-out, a step Monday’s vote is expected to confirm. ture on the outskirts of Tokyo, which is due referring to some organic compa- tional check-off programs such as vote in Strasbourg, France at 1830 GMT. It has joint say There was also case for some uninsured depositors, to start operation in January 2015. nies’ efforts to reduce the number the one that would be allowed with EU states on the law that gives regulators powers such as small businesses and charities to be shielded The firm, Japan Renewable Energy, will of genetically modified crops in the under the amendment are required to impose losses on creditors, replace management also, he added. EU finance ministers agreed last week put some 13 billion yen into the project, its marketplace. At the same time, to be positive and not disparage and take other steps when a bank gets into trouble. that large, uninsured depositors should be subject to first, which will have power generation Scott acknowledged that he and other products. Some lawmakers In a speech in the Netherlands, Tucker said there losses and the vote on Monday is expected to back capacity of 40 megawatt, a company spokesman said. The Ibaraki project is just his wife buy organic foods. seemed wary that such a campaign had been “marked convergence” recently on a global this, on condition that any losses are imposed only one of a number of ventures involving wind Growing consumer interest in would be possible. “How do I pres- approach to winding down banks which typically after the bank’s bondholders have been tapped first. or solar that Japan Renewable Energy is part organics has proved tough for ent organic pork without disparag- have operations in many countries. But more political Even with an EU system in place, many banks will still of in Japan, it said, with the business daily some Republicans on the commit- ing non-organic pork?” asked the impetus was needed as it would still be a “nightmare” need to restructure themselves to be wound up easily, Nikkei saying it would pour up to 300 billion tee to ignore. Eight Republicans, House committee chairman, Rep. to wind down a big bank, he added. The EU law will Tucker said. The EU’s financial services chief Michel yen ($2.9 billion) into the sector over com- most of them newer members of Frank Lucas, R-Okla., who opposed have powers to force big banks to hold a cushion of Barnier will say in the autumn whether big banks ing years. Electricity generated at the Ibaraki the committee, joined with all of the amendment. bonds that can be converted into equity to shore itself should be broken up. — Reuters facility will be supplied to major utility the committee’s Democrats in sup- Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) — the opera- porting the amendment, which took issue with part of the amend- tor of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant- was adopted 29-17. Rep. Vicky ment that would allow the organic over an expected span of about 20 years, it Hartzler, a Missouri Republican producers to opt out of other com- said. Goldman Sachs has already invested in who owns a farm equipment busi- modity campaigns, an option that renewable energy firms in the United States ness and a corn and soybean farm, isn’t given to conventional produc- and India. Last year the government intro- duced a scheme that guaranteed generat- ers. “Looks to me like they have a said she supported the amend- ing companies a premium for the electricity ment not only because helping free ride on this thing,” Conaway produced from renewable sources and organics is good for agriculture but said, in an at times angry exchange forced the country’s power monopolies to because many of her constituents with Schrader. Despite the rancor, buy whatever was on sale over 20 years. eat organic foods. the chances that the amendment The move was part of a plan to dramati- “Organics are a niche market in will become law are good, as the cally increase the amount of electricity from agriculture with a growing market Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and renewables, up from its current less-than 2 share, so it makes sense for me to Forestry Committee added the percent, and reduce Japan’s reliance on allow farmers to invest some of same amendment to its version of expensive imported fossil fuels. Until the their own funds to promote their the farm bill. tsunami-sparked disaster at Fukushima, products,” she said. The amend- Schrader told his colleagues that more than 50 atomic reactors produced ment would allow the organic embracing organics is essential to around a third of Japan’s electricity, but pub- lic nervousness about nuclear power has left industry to organize and pay for a appealing to consumers in a time all but two units offline. The premium for unified industry promotional cam- when big farms are often demo- firms producing energy from solar, wind, paign called a “check-off” that is nized by popular culture. He said hydro-electric and bio-gas is part-funded by facilitated by the Agriculture that many young people are com- a 100 yen ($0.98) monthly levy on con- Department but is no cost to the ing back to farms because of non- sumers’ bills. In recent years, Japanese firms government. These promotional traditional agriculture. “American from a range of industries-including mobile programs have traditionally been agriculture is under siege,” he said. phone operator Softbank, a joint venture led limited to individual commodities “Urban folks do not understand by Mitsui Chemicals, and ship- and plant- or crops, producing familiar cam- where their food and fiber comes building firm IHI, have entered the renew- paigns like “Got Milk?” and “Beef: It’s from. The point here is to hopefully able energy business. In the last fiscal year to What’s for Dinner.” The amendment position American agriculture March, at least 1.39 million kilowatt of renew- able energy generation capacity was created would not set up such a program where we’re not always trying to LISBON: Vitor Goncalves greases a printing press as he works in his printing house. Goncalves, who started running in Japan, most of it solar power generation, for organics, but it would allow catch up to what the American his own business in 1986, claimed he had three employees on the payroll three years ago but nowadays he mostly according to the industry ministry. — AFP USDA to approve an organic pro- consumer wants.” — AP runs the company alone due to the drop in orders. — AP Thai economy contracts in first quarter
BANGKOK: Thailand’s economy shrank 2.2 percent in reported. That marked a sharp slowdown from the chases appears to have hurt car sales in January and Arkhom said growth would be affected by a weaker- the three months to March from the previous quarter- fourth quarter of 2012, when growth hit a record high February,” said Daniel Martin, Asia economist at the than-anticipated economic recovery in the United the first contraction in more than a year-as manufactur- of 19.1 percent, according to an updated estimate. “The Capital Economics consultancy firm. States, Europe and Asia. The Thai government has urged ing output fell, official data showed yesterday. main drivers were domestic consumption and tourism,” “However, the effect has been shortlived-sales were the central bank to reduce its key interest rate-now at The decline followed a blistering year-long recovery NESDB secretary general Arkhom Termpittayapaisith back to a record high in March. Consumer confidence 2.75 percent-to rein in a rising baht, which is bad news from devastating floods in late 2011 that hit major fac- said of the most recent quarter. remains buoyant, while hikes in minimum wages at the for exporters. The Bank of Thailand last cut rates in tories north of the capital Bangkok and caused a dou- Growth in those sectors helped to offset a 5.9 per- start of this year should support spending,” he added. October 2012 to help manufacturers. Martin said the ble-digit drop in gross domestic product (GDP). On a cent quarter-on-quarter slump in manufacturing, which The NESDB reduced its forecasts for 2013 economic Bank was “unlikely to risk undermining its credibility” by year-on-year basis, GDP expanded by 5.3 percent in the had expanded rapidly last year, helped by a govern- growth to 4.2-5.2 percent, from a previous projection of taking action when it meets next week, predicting that first quarter of 2013, the government’s National ment scheme to encourage people to buy new cars. 4.5-5.5 percent, because of the weaker-than-expected the policy rate would be left at its current level for the Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) “The expiry of a subsidy scheme for first-time car pur- first quarter performance. rest of the year. — Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 Jet Airways celebrates 20 years of excellence
MUMBAI: Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, yes- nationally, both in terms of inducting the latest technology in of the few iconic Indian service brands to successfully create a has evolved into a beautiful journey of twenty years. To each terday celebrated the completion of two decades of service terms of new aircraft and also service, both on the ground and name for itself globally. Looking ahead to the future, Jet and everyone that has been a part of the Jet Airways journey excellence in the skies, since it began operations as an Air Taxi in the air. Thus, enabling its staff to deliver a new and superior Airway’s will continue to afford its guests significant benefits over these past two glorious decades I say thank you for giving Operator on May 5, 1993. The mission at Jet Airways, even 20 air travel experience, ensuring that guests truly experienced the through an expanded international network and enhanced us the self belief and strength to spread our wings and soar..... years ago was simple, the airline wanted to widen connectivity ‘Joy of Flying’. codeshares. The airline will also attempt to connect guests from Goyal further added, “As India’s premier airline, we are com- within India and overseas and facilitate the movement of peo- Following Jet Airways’ domestic success story and growing 23 cities across India seamlessly through its primary home hubs mitted to offering our guests the very best travel experience ple, encouraging both tourism and trade, while contributing in liberalisation, the airline then embarked on a phase of interna- of New Delhi and Mumbai onto the US, Europe, Africa Middles both in the skies and on the ground. As we set our sights firmly tandem to the development of the Indian economy. Thus, when tional expansion in March 2004 with a flight between Chennai East in the West and the SAARC and South East Asian markets in on the future with even bigger goals for the years ahead, the Jet Airways took delivery of its first aircraft at Mumbai in the and Colombo. Jet Airways then opened new international the East. together with all of my staff at Jet Airways, we re-dedicate our- presence of J R D Tata, the father of Indian Civil Aviation, it routes initially within the SAARC region and then onto Speaking on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary, Naresh selves to ensuring that the flying experience of all our guests, marked the beginning of a glorious new chapter for civil avia- Singapore, Bangkok, and London. Once again became the first Goyal, Chairman, Jet Airways’ Group - said, “The Jet Airway’s will always be nothing but the best, with a truly world-class in- tion in the country. The airline has since then emerged as the private Indian airline to fly to international destinations. Little Group is justifiably proud to celebrate over two decades of serv- flight product and the very same warm service that has made first private airline to introduce the Indian air traveller to the wonder than that Jet Airways has today emerged as India’s pre- ice excellence and imparting the Joy of Flying amongst our Jet Airways - India’s premier international airline. The Jet reliability, safety and comfort of new technologies - a paradigm mier international airline and one of the few iconic Indian serv- most valued guests. What has made this important milestone Airways family looks forward to welcoming all our guests on that Jet Airways has pioneered throughout the past two ice brands to successfully create a name for itself globally. The possible, has been the unstinted support, trust and confidence board now and in the future and we hope our guests truly par- decades. airline, today, with over 105 aircraft, offers customers in India of the millions of guests who have flown and loved our services, take of the Joy of Flying with us.” Undeterred by its humble beginnings, Jet Airways even in its and abroad a schedule of over 600 flights daily, spanning 20 and our partners who have imbibed the values of adhering to To celebrate the airlines 20th anniversary and its commit- formative years challenged and changed the concept of guest international destinations across the globe and over 52 destina- the strict quality standards of the airline, of that I have no ment to service excellence over two decades, Jet Airways has satisfaction, constantly evolving and continuously innovating tions pan-India. doubt. Lastly, I would like to thank each and every single mem- outlined a program of festivities, on ground and in the skies to to create the legend of India’s most preferred domestic airline. Thus, it has been Jet Airways Indian roots, coupled with its ber of our staff across all departments and at all levels, for their thank all its guests for their continued patronage, support and Benchmarking itself with the best, not in the country but inter- legendary service, that have helped the airline emerge as one unstinting support, commitment and belief in a dream, which trust. BMW posts best ever April sales Strong gains in Asia and the Americas
MUNICH: The BMW Group continued on its successful course in April with around 1,500 vehicles delivered to customers since its launch in with an increase of 6.8 percent in sales. A total of 155,419 (prev.yr. mid-March. Year-to-date, MINI sales are around last year’s level with 145,541) BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles were sold worldwide last 90,737 units sold in the first four months (prev.yr.92,005/ -1.4 percent). month. Over the past four months the number of deliveries climbed 5.7 BMW Motorrad also achieved an increase in sales in April. Deliveries percent to a new all-time high of 603,619 vehicles (prev.yr. 571,084). climbed 11.5 percent to reach a total of 14,587 (prev.yr.13,088) vehicles. “We have achieved our most successful April worldwide sales ever, Year-to-date, 39,319 BMW motorcycles have been delivered, an increase despite the current weakness of some car markets in Europe. We report- of 5.0 percent (prev.yr.37,461). ed a growth of 2.8 percent in Europe last month and made strong gains The BMW Group made gains on nearly all continents in the month in Asia and the Americas. This momentum in worldwide sales will con- under review. The company achieved robust sales in Asia with 43,872 tinue as we add new vehicles throughout the year to our very attractive vehicles delivered (prev. yr. 39,769/ +10.3 percent). China accounted for ABK sponsors retirement ceremony product line-up, such as the new BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo”, said Ian 30,311 deliveries, an increase of 11.4 percent over the same month last Robertson, Member of the Board of Management, Sales and Marketing year (prev.yr.27,197) in China. Sales were solid in The Americas with KUWAIT: As part of its corporate social responsibili- financial support that was handed to Ahmad BMW, in Munich on Monday. 36,547 vehicles delivered in April (prev.yr.32,705/ +11.7 percent). In the ty that encompasses support of youth and sport Baroun. Ali Ibrahim Al-Baghli, Assistant PR Manager Worldwide sales of BMW brand vehicles climbed 7.5 percent to U.S., 29,011 vehicles were delivered in April which reflects an increase of activities, in accordance with its ongoing CSR at ABK stated: “ABK is keen to support sport and val- 130,598 (prev.yr. 121,507) in the month under review. Demand for the +8.3 percent over the same month last year (26,793). In Europe, sales Campaign “Our Society... Our Responsibility”, Al-Ahli ues the immense contribution of athletes, our spon- BMW X1 remained strong with 11,837 vehicles delivered in April, an increased by 2.8 percent to 69,957 vehicles (prev. yr. 68,070). Several Bank of Kuwait was pleased to support the retire- sorship for Ahmad Baroun’s retirement ceremony increase of 14.8 percent over the same month last year (10,310). The markets attained solid growth in April, for example ment ceremony of renowned player Ahmad comes in recognitionof hisexcellent achievements BMW 3 Series also reported strong gains with a total of 38,491 vehicles Belgium/Luxembourg (4,499/ +13.9 percent) and Russia (3,489/ +7.5 Baroun, belonging to Kuwait’s Water Polo national in Kuwait’s water polo field.” International retired delivered to customers, an increase of 16.0 percent compared to last percent). team and a member of Al-Arabi Sporting Club. player Ahmad Baroun thanked ABK for their kind year (33,192). The BMW 3 Series Touring contributed to this growth, with At the occasion ABK’s Public Relations team support and generosity, and hoped ABK would con- 8,358 units delivered last month, an increase of 104.6 percent on the attended the felicitation ceremony and presented tinue to honor meritorious athletes of the future. previous year (4,085). The BMW 5 Series reaffirmed its position as seg- ment leader, with 29,955 units delivered last month (prev.yr. 26,770/ +11.9 percent). Growth was further driven by the BMW 6 Series which was delivered to 2,200 customers worldwide in April (prev.yr.1,559/ +41.1 percent). A total of 512,000 BMW vehicles (prev.yr. 478,069) have been delivered to customers worldwide since the start of the year - an increase of 7.1 percent. MINI: With 24,581 vehicles delivered in April, worldwide sales for MINI increased by 3.3 percent (prev. yr. 23,794). In the month under review, MINI achieved solid growth in retail sales in some of its key mar- kets such as Great Britain/Ireland (3,393/ +43.6 percent), and China (2,038/ +7.0 percent). The new MINI Paceman has had a successful start APICORP gains record annual profit for third consecutive year in 2012
KUWAIT: The Arab Petroleum Investments strong performer in the global banking sector. $150 million APICORP Petroleum Shipping Corporation (APICORP), the multilateral devel- “APICORP has continued to maintain a very Fund aimed at leveraging growth opportuni- opment bank owned by the 10 members of high asset quality and ensure sustainable ties in the petroleum product tanker charter Easa Husain Al-Yousifi & Sons the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting growth through continued diversification of market. Co-managed by Tufton Oceanic, the Countries (OAPEC), the government of Kuwait its business streams and funding portfolios, Fund is the first investment fund to be estab- Company unveils Panasonic camera owns a 17 percent stake in APICORP while also ensuring continued discipline lished by APICORP and the first fund in the announced net profits of $109 million for around maintaining strong banking funda- region aimed at a specific vessel category. KUWAIT: Panasonic is proud to introduce a new Digital video and the Clear Retouch function enables to erase 2012, the highest-ever in the organisation’s mentals. In 2012, we were able to reduce our “In 2013, APICORP remains committed to Single Lens Mirror less Camera DMC-GF6 from the stylish, unwanted part of a picture after shooting - both opera- 37-year history. The 2012 record profits repre- funding costs, while at the same time increase building on its track record of successfully most compact GF series of LUMIX G. The new 16.00- tions completes with stunning ease in camera. sent a growth of over 3 percent from the pre- our lending activity,” said Al-Nuaimi. catalysing value creation in the Arab energy megapixel Live MOS Sensor achieves high-resolution, With the Wi-Fi connectivity featuring NFC (Near Field vious year and further highlight APICORP’s industry and to contributing to the economic high sensitivity image recording. The Venus Engine is also Communication) technology, users can connect the cam- successful track record in generating sustain- development of Arab countries. As part of our newly developed for DMC-GF6 to attain high-perfor- era to their smartphone/tablet anywhere at one-touch, able returns while effectively supporting the current five-year strategy, we will continue to mance signal processing and the advanced noise reduc- which makes sharing images much easier. It is also possi- Arab energy industry. investigate opportunities to diversify our tion system minimizes noise and even achieves shooting ble to use a smartphone/tablet as a multi-capable remote APICORP’s total assets rose to over $5 bil- investment and financing portfolios into new at max. ISO 25600(Extended) high sensitivity taking best shutter with a monitor. With the Instant Transfer function, lion, an increase of 9.6 percent from 2011 oil and gas and utility sectors. We are particu- advantage of the new sensor. photos are automatically sent to the smartphone/tablet while net asset value per share jumped over 7 larly looking at supporting projects that will The DMC-GF6 boasts high-speed, high precision Light right after shooting. On the other hand, both photo and percent to $1,744. Ahmad Bin Hamad Al- boost the region’s midstream and down- Speed AF system including practical full-time AF and video can be archived to the registered digital equipment Nuaimi, Chief Executive and General Manager stream capabilities, which are crucial for Arab tracking AF is available in video recording. Newly integrat- such as PC automatically via the wireless access point of APICORP said:”We are delighted to have countries to maximize economic benefits ed Low Light AF enables quick, accurate focusing on the (router) at home. achieved record financial results for a third from energy resources,” Al-Nuaimi further said. target subject even in low-lit situations. Getting ready to The DMC-GF6 records 1920 x 1080 at 50i (PAL) full-HD year in a row. APICORP has a successful history “APICORP is particularly keen to support shoot in only 0.5 sec after start-up, the DMC-GF6 never video in AVCHD with high quality stereo sound. The in facilitating the availability of capital for the cross border projects that facilitate collabora- misses fleeting shooting opportunities. P/A/S/M mode in video recording is also available for Arab energy sector, and despite the continued tion between Arab countries. In the immedi- “The GF series is designed for those who want better more expressive creation of motion picture footage. economic headwinds in 2012, it has continued ate pipeline are a number of opportunities image quality compared to the point and shoot cameras Despite its sleek, compact profile, the DMC-GF6 is a practi- Ahmad Bin Hamad Al-Nuaimi including acquisitions and joint ventures. without the size and weight of the DSLR. We have one of cally reliable digital camera with a built-in flash and 3.0- to play a strong counter-cyclical role in sup- the best Auto modes in the industry and several features inch large approximately 180 degree tiltable monitor. porting its clients across the Arab world. API- Though APICORP has traditionally invested that allow the users to express their creativity very easily. Dressed in stylish colors - black, white, brown and red, the CORP remains committed to driving efficien- APICORP maintained strong focus on diver- largely with governments and their National And with the 4 different color variations that the GF6 DMC-GF6 brings new opportunities to enjoy shooting cy, innovation, enterprise and value creation sifying its funding composition and expand- Oil Companies, we are also seeking to signifi- comes in, I am sure that ladies would love to have the GF6 higher quality image with cutting-edge digital technolo- in the Arab energy industry and these robust ing its services for clients in 2012. In February cantly broaden our exposure with the private in their hand-bags at all times, for capturing those un- gies. Furthermore, the optimum design of newly adopted set of results have come in a year in which we last year, it closed a three-year SAR 2.5 billion sector,” he added. expected special moments and uploading to sites via Detail Reproduction Filter Process enhances the limit reso- further increased our investment in support- ($667 million) syndicated Shariah-compliant Over the last 37 years, APICORP has invest- their smartphones,” Commented Wael Deeb , General lution by maximum 3 percent and the contrast of middle ing the industry’s development.” facility aimed at increasing its medium term ed, as an equity owner, in a total of 22 oil and Manager of sales dept at Al-Yousifi. The DMC-GF6 is not to high range, by a maximum 5 percent. Plus, the APICORP’s strong fundamentals were funding while in October, it partnered with JP gas joint venture projects worth in excess of just an interchangeable lens camera but a creative magic advanced Intelligent D-range Control offers wider dynam- endorsed by Moody’s upgrade of the multilat- Morgan to widen its energy trade finance $16 billion. APICORP has also participated in box full of wide-ranging attractive features including the ic range while maintaining the smooth gradation thanks eral development bank’s issuer and senior services. direct and syndicated energy finance transac- new Self Shot, Creative Panorama and Stop Motion to the higher-precision signal processing performed by unsecured rating from A1 to Aa3 in October Another key strategic focus in 2012 was tions worth in excess of $130 billion. Animation in addition to the popular Creative Control the redesigned signal processing circuit. Suppressing 2012. At a time when substantial credit the development of specialised investment APICORP’s aggregate commitments in these mode with a total of 19 fascinating filter effects. The Stop both blocked shadows and blown highlights, every part upgrades for financial institutions remain rare, funds in vital energy sectors, a strategy that transactions, both in equity and debt, are val- Motion Animation allows producing unique stop motion of an image - from dark to bright - is faithfully reproduced. the upgrade distinguished APICORP as a resulted in the establishment of the landmark ued in excess of $11 billion. Private equity focus shifts to western hemisphere
Private equity (PE) investment activity in the Investors are hungry for yield wherever they improvement in the three major exit channels: long term and will continue to do so going for- Americas is positioned for a solid year, while mar- can find it in today’s climate of sustained near- • Sponsor-to sponsor (“secondary”) deals will ward kets in Europe and Asia-Pacific tread water; this zero interest rates. With capital pouring into col- broaden and deepen: Bain finds that returns on • The pressure for LPs to boost returns and the according to the fourth annual edition of the bell- lateralized loan obligations and loan mutual sponsor-to-sponsor deals are comparable to need for GPs to secure capital is leading the two wether report on the state of the industry, released funds, the availability and cost of debt rival other deal types but are significantly less risky parties to experiment with a range of new mod- recently by Bain & Company, the world’s leading what they had been during the boom years. • The rising tide of corporate M&A may create els - including separate accounts, non-tradition- advisor to PE investors. Bain finds that North • Helped by robust credit markets, conditions new paths to exit, as strategic acquirers look for al fund models, and direct investment pro- America enters 2013 with favorable winds at its have become more favorable for public-to-pri- new targets grams. back: vate deals, which powered the 2006-2007 • Brightest signs of life on the IPO front are in the “In a world economy that remains prone to boom. It only takes a few large deals to move US, where the strong run-up in the public equi- macro shocks, North America continues to be one • Private equity showed clear signs of strength in the needle on buyout deal value. Based on a ty markets has lifted stock prices to the pre-cri- of the most attractive markets to PE investors,” said North America and Brazil, South America’s screening of all US publicly-traded companies sis peak, boding well for the mega-buyouts that Hugh MacArthur, head of Bain’s Global Private largest market, in 2012. Buyout deal value in with a total enterprise value in the range of $3 will likely need to return to the public markets Equity Practice and lead author of the report.” North America was up 23 per cent in 2012, billion to $50 billion, Bain finds that approxi- for liquidity Alexander De Mol, Bain Partner in Dubai, said: while deal activity in Europe and Asia-Pacific mately six per cent of companies have the • Limited partners (LPs) increase PE asset alloca- “The new findings of Bain & Company’s Global fell. potential to be attractive public-to-private tar- tions and exposure: Private Equity Report provide invaluable insights • General partners (GPs) are optimistic that deal gets. • The average target allocation to private equity that have benefited key market players worldwide. activity in North America will continue to • GPs are more motivated than ever to sell the for US public pension funds increased from 7.5 This strongly demonstrates the value we bring to increase into 2013 -majority of GPs surveyed growing backlog of investments, many of which percent to 8.3 percent over the course of 2012 investors and businesses, particularly here in the expect investment activity to be up in North were made during the during the boom years. • They recognize that, on average, returns from Middle East where Bain is committed to help clients America in this year. But with the “exit overhang” now at more than PE have outpaced other asset classes (i.e. fixed broaden their reach and optimize their investment • Debt markets are once again open for business. $2 trillion, the industry will be counting on an income, real estate, listed equities) over the potential across global markets.” Alexander De Mol TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 technology Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1bh deal for Tumblr Tumblr’s young founder now a multimillionaire
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo is buying online blog- their early stages, focused on building a loyal friends, Tumblr has become one of the places ging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO audience before turning its attention to making where the cool kids hang out. Tumblr emerged Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet money. has a trendy online hangout by providing a serv- icon that had fallen behind the times. The deal Tumblr will remain based in New York and led ice that makes it easy to share blog posts, photos, announced yesterday represents Mayer’s bold- by Karp, 26, who may now have a mentor in video and other content in an enthralling mosaic. est move yet since she left Google 10 months Mayer, 37. The startup has about 175 employees. The service says it has amassed more than 50 bil- ago to lead Yahoo’s latest comeback attempt. It The deal also has some symbolic significance for lion posts from 108 million blogs. Tumblr users marks Yahoo’s most expensive acquisition since Yahoo, an 18-year-old company that had spent rely on a dashboard to pinpoint the kinds of the Sunnyvale, Calif., company bought online much of the past decade aimlessly drifting blogs that they want to track and also have tools search engine Overture a decade ago for $1.3 under different management teams while to pass along the posts that interest them. billion in cash and stock. Yahoo is paying all cash Google Inc overtook it in terms of size and influ- That wealth of content could be interwoven for Tumblr, dipping into some of its remaining ence. At the same time, newcomers such as into Yahoo’s other services that provide coverage Dan Smith stash from a $7.6 billion windfall reaped last year Facebook Inc and Twitter began to command of general news, sports, finance and entertain- from selling about half of its stake in Chinese the attention of people who found themselves ment. Tumblr also will fill Yahoo’s gaping void in Internet Company Alibaba Holdings Group. spending less and less time on Yahoo. the realm of social media. Yahoo so far has had to Xerox: Repositioning the Taking over Tumblr will devour about one-fifth Part of Yahoo’s problems stemmed from connect its services to Facebook and Twitter to of the $5.4 billion in cash that Yahoo had in its missed chances to improve its service and tech- give its users a social networking outlet. Having brand for transformation accounts at the end of March. nology. Yahoo flirted with potential acquisitions its own social networking service will also give Yahoo also says that “per the agreement and of Google and Facebook in those two compa- Yahoo more insights into the things that people t Xerox, we continue to take pride in ered through clever creative, making them our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be nies’ early days, only to have the talks unravel like - a key to distributing ads to consumers most being ranked as one of Fortune memorable. independently operated as a separate business” because Yahoo wasn’t prepared to pay asking likely to be interested in specific products. That AMagazine’s World’s Most Admired It was different, creative, memorable - with David Karp staying on as CEO. Tumblr, a prices that were far below the current market data, in turn, should help Yahoo sell more ads Companies, and recently The Ethisphere but we were still challenged to help cus- service started six years by Karp, a high school values of Google ($300 billion) and Facebook and accelerate its revenue growth. After three Institute recognized Xerox as one of The tomers (and potential customers) make dropout, now figures to play a pivotal role in ($63 billion). Yahoo also considered buying successive years of declines, Yahoo’s revenue World’s Most Ethical Companies. While we sense of why Xerox-a brand we all think we Mayer’s attempt to reshape Yahoo. To take on YouTube in 2006, only to be outbid by Google, rose slightly last year, but lagged far behind celebrate these rankings, the analysis that know so well-was talking about call cen- the challenge, Mayer ended a highly successful which snapped up the world’s leading online the growth at Google and Facebook. Mayer has goes into them gives us a glimpse of how ters. It became clear that we needed to 13-year career at Google, which she helped sur- service for $1.76 billion - a price that now looks vowed to bring Yahoo’s revenue growth back our reputation is perceived by the business draw the connection between who we pass Yahoo as the Internet’s most influential like a bargain. to at least the level of the overall Internet ad and investment community - making it a were and who we are. We needed to get company. Since coming to Yahoo, Mayer has Even when Yahoo did pull off deals, the com- market. good time to reflect on how our brand back to the basics of explaining our pur- concentrated on improving employee morale, pany has been criticized for mismanaging a list of Yahoo’s acquisition will deliver a jackpot to positioning influences overall perception. pose and giving people a reason to believe redesigning services and bringing in more engi- acquired services that includes photo-sharing Karp, who dropped out of high school to concen- Two and a half years ago, Xerox that the copier company could stand for so neering talent through a series of small acquisi- Flickr, online help-wanted service HotJobs and trate on computer programming. He ended up launched a campaign that put our cus- much more than copies. tions that have collectively cost less than $50 content-sharing service Del.icio.us. Yahoo ended being home schooled while taking classes in tomers in the spotlight, giving us the That’s why our latest campaign, which million. up selling HotJobs and Del.icio.us, but Mayer has Japanese and working on gambling software. opportunity to talk about how we’re broke in February, acknowledges our past, Her efforts have been well-received on Wall been looking at ways to spruce up Flickr and Later, he became a product executive at a parent- behind the scenes helping them be suc- even embraces it, while helping people Street so far, although most of the 69 percent blend its photos into more of Yahoo’s other serv- ing website called UrbanBaby. After CNet bought cessful. It was well-regarded creative, fea- connect the dots to today’s Xerox. It’s a no- surge in Yahoo’s stock price under Mayer’s lead- ices. Mayer is expected to discuss more changes the site in 2006, Karp set up his own a develop- turing Procter & Gamble, Michelin, Marriott nonsense, straight-talk effort. One 30-sec- ership has been driven by the rising value of for Flickr at an event in New York last evening. ment service called “Davidville” before deciding and Virgin America to name a few. Many ond spot from Young & Rubicam opens Yahoo’s remaining 24 percent in Alibaba. When Tumblr could help Yahoo recapture some of to create an outlet for personal expression - an other clients reached out asking if they with a woman standing in front of-yes! — a Alibaba goes public within the next few years, its cachet with teens and adults in their early 20s, endeavor that hatched Tumblr. Karp’s cut from could be in the campaign. It was award- copying machine. “When I say Xerox, I analysts have estimated Yahoo could collect a demographic that has become tougher for the Yahoo deal is about $275 million. Most of the winning, clever, memorable creative that know what you’re thinking,” she says, then another $10 billion to $20 billion by selling the Yahoo to reach in recent years as it fell behind rest of the money will be paid to the venture cap- cut-through traditionally dull B2B market- prints an image of a transit map. “Transit rest of its Alibaba stock. If this deal pays off the the technological curve and struggled to devel- italists that invested about $125 million into ing. But it was a story told in chapters. And fares, as in the 37 billion transit fares we way Mayer envisions, Tumbler could help Yahoo op compelling services. While Facebook has Tumblr. That list includes Spark Capital, Sequoia to get the entire plot, you really needed to help collect each year.” Another commercial finally get its stock price to $33. That would be a turned into a mainstream social network where Capital, Greylock Partners, Union Square absorb the entire book. features the same woman proclaiming that major coup because many investors soured on even grandparents now connect family and Ventures and Insight Venture Partners. —AP You see, Xerox is going through a huge revolutionizing an industry is a hard act to Yahoo after a previous regime led by co-founder transformation. After acquiring Affiliated follow, and then explaining some of the Jerry Yang squandered an opportunity five years Computer Services-the largest diversified breadth and scale of services offered by ago to sell the entire company to Microsoft for outsourcing company in the world and Xerox. Our new approach is to stop resist- $33 per share. The stock spent more than four likely one of the biggest companies you’ve ing the strong perceptions around our years trading below $20 before the recent surge never heard of-in 2010, we quickly shifted copy/print business, and to start embracing that lifted the price to $26.52 through last week. from the document company to one that it and-through our latest ads-start leading The deal could backfire though if Yahoo’s generates more than half its revenue from with it. Chester Carlson, the patent attorney effort to make more money alienate a Tumblr business services, like operating call cen- who invented the first Xerox Model A pho- user base that so far has been subjected to hard- ters, processing insurance claims, handling tocopier, did it because he wanted to make ly any advertising during the service’s six-year automated toll payments, like EZ Pass, and the laborious task of filling out patent history. “Yahoo has to manage this acquisition in more. To start challenging the perception applications easier. The connection a way that keeps Tumblr’s user base while trying of Xerox as just a printer and copier compa- between Xerox then and Xerox now is sim- to add advertising, which historically tends to ny, we changed the message using the plicity-making complicated processes easi- turn off a lot of people,” said Forrester Research phenomenal clients who outsource their er. We’re just getting started, but we’re analyst Zachary Reiss-Davis. Mayer is betting back-office functions to us. working much harder than before to share that Tumblr will provide Yahoo with a captivat- There’s an ad about how Virgin America the big picture in simple, believable ways. ing hook to reel in more traffic and advertisers trusts Xerox to manage its call center oper- The lesson for us-now featured in our on smartphones and tablet computers. ations, another about how Michelin storytelling-is that acknowledging our pur- That rapidly growing market is expected to depends on Xerox for assistance with pose makes it OK to give a nod to our her- become even more important during the next finance processing. Solid messages deliv- itage even as we grow beyond it. decade as people increasingly consume digital content on mobile devices instead of laptop and desktop machines. Besides offering one of the top mobile apps, Tumblr also runs one of the Review: Toshiba brings world’s busiest websites, featuring 75 million daily posts about everything from politics to high-res screen to Windows pets. Advertising has been a missing ingredient NEW YORK: A news headline about the Tumblr sale to Yahoo scrolls on a building in New York’s so far as Tumblr, like many online services in Times Square, yesterday. —AP NEW YORK: Last year, Apple added a MacBook Pro with Retina costs $1,700). visually stunning option to its MacBooks: Two hundred dollars more gets you a screens with ultra-high resolution. These touch screen. For $2,000, you get a “Retina” displays reveal four times as touch screen and a top-line i7 processor. EMC Syncplicity adds policy-driven hybrid much detail as any Windows laptop All come with 256 gigabytes of solid- screen ... until now. Toshiba just released state storage. The model I tested was the a new laptop line with a Retina-level dis- most expensive one. The Kirabook has a cloud, EMC ViPR and EMC VNX support play. Does this mean Windows users can screen that measures 13.3 inches diago- DUBAI: At EMC World 2013, EMC tributed from systems like EMC opment effort of the policy engine l Provide a consistent set of fea- let go of MacBook envy? Sort of. The nally, just like the “13-inch” MacBook announced increased storage flexi- Documentum, or files with data resi- from the access methods and fea- jump in resolution with the Toshiba with Retina display, but the screen is tures (e.g., geo-replication) across bility and control for EMC Syncplicity dency requirements, might go to on tures of each individual storage Kirabook comes with significant com- actually slightly wider, shorter and small- multiple storage solutions, even if enterprise file sync and sharing solu- premise storage solutions in specific solution promises, however: Most notably, it’s er overall. The resolution is 2,560 by the native storage solution does not tion. Available in 2H2013, EMC data centers l Eliminate the need to certify LOUD. If you tax the processor on the 1,440 pixels, compared with the support that feature. Syncplicity policy-driven hybrid lOther files like large videos that with new storage layers machine by firing up, for instance, a 3-D MacBook’s 2,560 by 1,600 pixels. In other cloud will allow customers to utilize are part of a global marketing game, the cooling fan at the bottom words, you can fit 10 percent less detail both private and public clouds launch or CAD diagrams from engi- starts revving up like a jet plane about to vertically on the Kirabook’s screen, but simultaneously, automatically opti- neering might need to be geo- take off. Not only is it distracting to the images look just as crisp and smooth as mize storage utilization and per- graphically distributed on premise Shakespeare’s sonnets user, it can be heard across an office on the Retina screen. The big deal with formance, and adhere to security to optimize performance. landscape. Having a private jet confers the Retina, and now the Kirabook, is that and regulatory compliance require- The policy-driven hybrid cloud come to life in new app status; sounding like one does not. its individual pixels are so small that they ments based on user and content approach is critical because enter- The loud fan probably has something blend together imperceptibly. It doesn’t TORONTO: A new app launched yesterday aims to bring William types. In addition, Syncplicity will prises need a way to utilize different to do with how Toshiba has jammed a sound like a big deal until you try it. Shakespeare’s sonnets to the masses with the help of short films star- expand its supported storage cloud deployment models to opti- powerful Intel processor into a slim After that, other screens look coarse and ring stage actors performing them in front of New York landmarks. The options by providing native support mize storage utilization based on body. Small fans tend to be whiny when barbaric. The Kirabook screen is excel- Sonnet Project is a free app for the iPhone and iPad that showcases for EMC VNX storage in 2H2013 and the file security and user require- cooling a hot chip. Like supermodel lent in other ways, too: It looks good the bard’s poetry through films of up to two minutes and performanc- utilize EMC ViPR software defined ments. At the same time, users turned rapper, the Kirabook sounds bad from almost any angle. One of the sam- es by Tony-Award winning actors Joanna Gleason and Cady Huffman, storage to give users even greater should be able to work with their but looks good. It’s beautifully done in ple units loaned to me suffered from among others. “Shakespeare gets a bad rap. A lot of people say ‘I don’t flexibility in their choice of storage files as easily as they use consumer magnesium, a tougher metal than the uneven brightness, but this was rarely an like Shakespeare, he’s over my head,’ or ‘Shakespeare is boring,’” said solutions. File sync and sharing gives applications, without being exposed aluminum found in MacBooks and some issue. The problem with quadrupling the Ross Williams, the artistic director of the New York Shakespeare end users an easy way to access to the underlying storage approach other laptops. Magnesium is rarely used resolution of the laptop screen is that Exchange, the non-profit organization behind The Sonnet Project. their files across all their devices and deployed by IT. in consumer electronics, but when it is, you have to make sure that you’re not “I wondered what happens if we share Shakespeare in really easily share with colleagues inside and the results can be spectacular: I had a shrinking the size of everything that’s digestible chunks so people can get used to having him in their lives?” outside the firewall. However, not all EMC VNX highlights: magnesium-bodied point-and-shoot shown on the screen. A character that’s he added. Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, first published in 1609 explore content is created equal, and enter- EMC VNX will be added as a camera that didn’t show a scratch after 28 pixels high on a regular screen is a themes such as the love, beauty, and death. Different locations across prises require different cloud Syncplicity on-premise storage 10 years of use. quarter of an inch high - easily legible. If New York were selected for each sonnet, including the World Trade deployment models to optimize option in 2H2013. EMC VNX support The Kirabook starts at $1,600 for a you show a 28-pixel character on the Center Memorial and the Brooklyn Bridge. Actors and directors and costs and performance while still gives customers a simple, efficient, model with a mid-range i5 processor Kirabook screen, it’s one-eighth of an text coaches helped to interpret the themes. adhering to strict security and com- and powerful storage platform for and a non-touch screen (a comparable inch high, or practically illegible. —AP To mark the launch of the app, 10 short films was released yester- pliance requirements. on-premise, private cloud deploy- day, and a new one every few days after that. About 75 more films Today, Syncplicity offers unprece- ments and can be easily configured have been completed or are in the works. Users can receive notifica- dented storage deployment options to utilize existing storage capacity. tions with the iPhone app when a new one is released. Another iPad by allowing organizations to choose Support for EMC VNX comple- app released last year called The Sonnets by William Shakespeare a private cloud deployment through ments EMC Syncplicity’s existing includes performances by actress Kim Cattrall, of “Sex and the City” EMC Isilon Scale-out NAS or EMC support for EMC Isilon, the industry- fame, Patrick Stewart of “Star Trek” and British actor Stephen Fry. Atmos object-based storage, or a leading Scale-Out NAS solution, and Created by Britain’s Touch Press, it also features commentary and public cloud option to store user EMC Atmos’ object storage solution information about the sonnets. The app, which costs $6.99, also files and version history and sync and supports EMC Syncplicity’s strat- includes a replica of the original sonnets, and interviews with scholars them across all their devices. egy of providing choice and flexibili- and Shakespeare experts. ty for users on both their approach Cambridge University Press also launched two new iPad apps for Policy-driven hybrid to cloud deployment, and use of dif- Shakespeare lovers in February as part of their “Explore Shakespeare” cloud highlights: fering storage solutions based on series, including the plays “Twelfth Night” and “A Midsummer Night’s Syncplicity’s strategy is to pro- overall storage solution require- Dream”. Other plays in the series include “Macbeth” and “Romeo and vide a policy-driven hybrid cloud, ments. Juliet.” Each cost $13.99 and feature audio performances, commentary which gives IT the ability to set rules and other interactive content. which automate how different con- ViPR highlights: Williams said the New York Shakespeare Exchange’s mission is to tent within the enterprise should be Syncplicity will be the first file bring Shakespeare to the masses. He hopes that by introducing handled. As part of the file sync and sync and sharing solution to utilize Shakespeare’s sonnets in small bites people will appreciate and under- sharing process: software-defined storage from stand the works. “When you hear those words something just moves, lNon-sensitive documents might EMC’s ViPR platform. Support for shifts inside of you,” he explained. “There is simplicity of spirit within be stored in a public cloud to opti- ViPR will allow Syncplicity to: the poetry and I think that’s why people can connect to it in such an mize costs l Support hybrid cloud deploy- amazing way.” —Reuters l Regulated content that is dis- ments while decoupling the devel- TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Measles surges in UK years after flawed research
LONDON: More than a decade ago, that published it. Britain’s top medical which dramatically cut cases of the rash- British parents refused to give measles board stripped Wakefield of the right to causing illness. Since 2001, measles shots to at least a million children practice medicine in the UK, ruling that deaths have dropped by about 70 per- because of now discredited research that he and two of his colleagues showed a cent worldwide; Cambodia recently linked the vaccine to autism. Now, health “callous disregard” for the children in the marked more than a year without a sin- officials are scrambling to catch up and study, subjecting them to unnecessary, gle case. stop a growing epidemic of the conta- invasive tests. As part of his research, Globally, though, measles is still one gious disease. This year, the UK has had Wakefield took blood samples from chil- of the leading causes of death in children more than 1,200 cases of measles, after a dren at his son’s birthday party, paying under 5 and kills more than 150,000 peo- record number of nearly 2,000 cases last them about 5 pounds each ($7.60), and ple every year, mostly in developing year. The country once recorded only later joked about the incident. countries. Measles is highly contagious several dozen cases every year. It now Still, MMR immunization rates plum- and is spread by coughing, sneezing and ranks second in Europe, behind only meted across the UK as fearful parents close personal contact with infected peo- Romania. abandoned the vaccine - from rates over ple; symptoms include a fever, cough, Last month, emergency vaccination 90 percent to 54 percent. Wakefield has and a rash on the face. Across the UK, clinics were held every weekend in Wales, won support from parents suspicious of about 90 percent of children under 5 are the epicenter of the outbreak. vaccines, including Hollywood celebrities vaccinated against measles and have Immunization drives have also started like Jenny McCarthy, who has an autistic received the necessary two doses of the elsewhere in the country, with officials son. Nearly 15 years later, the rumors vaccine. But among children now aged aiming to reach 1 million children aged about MMR are still having an impact. 10 to 16, the vaccination rate is slightly 10 to 16. “This is the legacy of the Now there’s “this group of older children below 50 percent in some regions. To TEESSIDE, England: In this April 25, 2013 photo, Lucy Butler,15, gets ready to Wakefield scare,” said Dr David Elliman, who have never been immunized who stop measles outbreaks, more than 95 have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick as a national vacci- spokesman for the Royal College of are a large pool of infections,” Elliman percent of children need to be fully nation catch-up campaign has been launched to curb a rise in measles cases in Paediatrics and Child Health, referring to said. immunized. In some parts of the UK, the England. — AP a paper published in 1998 by Andrew The majority of those getting sick in rate is still below 80 percent. States, where the measles vaccination Wales. “They see what’s happening in Wakefield and colleagues that is widely the UK - including a significant number Unlike in the United States, where rate is above 90 percent. So far this year, Wales, so some of them are now sensible rejected by scientists. of older children and teens - had never most states require children to be vacci- there have been 22 cases, including three enough to come in and get their children That work suggested a link between been vaccinated. Almost 20 of the more nated against measles before starting that were traced to Britain. In previous vaccinated,” she said. Clinic patient Ellen autism and the combined childhood vac- than 100 seriously ill children have been school, no such regulations exist in years, the UK has sometimes exported Christensen, mother of an infant son, cine for measles, mumps and rubella, hospitalized and 15 have suffered com- Britain. Parents are advised to have their more cases of measles to the US than acknowledged she had previously had called the MMR. Several large scientific plications including pneumonia and children immunized, but Britain’s some countries in Africa. some “irrational qualms” about the MMR studies failed to find any connection, the meningitis. One adult with measles has Department of Health said it had no Portia Ncube, a health worker at an vaccine. “But after reading more about it, theory was rejected by at least a dozen died, though it’s unclear if it was the dis- plans to consider introducing mandatory East London clinic, said the struggle to I know now that immunization is not major UK medical groups and the paper ease that killed him. The first measles vaccination. Last year, there were 55 convince parents to get the MMR shot is only good for your own child, it’s good was eventually retracted by the journal vaccines were introduced in the 1960s, reported cases of measles in the United being helped by the measles epidemic in for everyone,” she said. — AP
Malaysia hydropower meet to open amid controversy KUCHING, Malaysia: The world hydroelec- corruption, which watchdogs say bleeds tric industry’s decision to meet in a Malaysia of billions of dollars annually. Yet Malaysian state where dams have uprooted Malaysian authorities have failed to act rainforests and native peoples is drawing against Taib, whose political party is vital to bitter fire from environmental and tribal keeping the 56-year ruling coalition in groups. The International Hydropower power. “He is basically untouchable,” said Association’s (IHA) four-day biennial meet- BMF head Lukas Straumann. Taib’s office ing to push “sustainable hydropower” did not respond to requests for comment. opens Tuesday in Kuching, the languid cap- He has previously denied wrongdoing and ital of Sarawak state on Borneo island, and defended his policies as necessary to devel- a highly contentious choice. Sarawak’s op Sarawak. powerful boss is widely accused of felling Prime Minister Najib Razak’s office huge swathes of rainforest in a much-criti- declined comment. “IHA is pleased to be cised dam-building drive. convening its congress where hydropower Opponents of Taib Mahmud - is under focus, and where we can share Sarawak’s chief minister for 42 years - plan knowledge and experience,” IHA President to hold their own “parallel congress” in Richard Taylor said in emailed comments to Kuching and other protests, bringing to the AFP, adding the congress will hear “alterna- capital a resistance campaign previously tive” voices. But Kallang said those voices confined to the interior. “The Taib govern- will be chosen by Taib, and that poor native ment is using the IHA name to ‘greenwash’ stakeholders are excluded by high delegate CHIANG MAI, Thailand: Leaders pose for a photo at the 2nd Asia-Pacific water summit yesterday.— AFP all the damage it has done,” said Peter fees. The IHA board includes the head of Kallang, head of Save Sarawak Rivers, a Sarawak’s Taib-linked energy firm, which coalition of local NGOs and tribal groups. Kallang said raises questions about how “The IHA also will promote dams and get Kuching was chosen. Asia-Pacific leaders warn more business. It’s scandalous.” Activists say Taib and his family, through Malaysia’s largest state, yet one of its control of some of Sarawak’s biggest com- poorest, Sarawak was a vast jungle wilder- panies, pocket huge kickbacks for ill- of water conflict threat ness of mighty rivers and hunter-gatherer advised big projects. Malaysia’s biggest tribes. But activists say 95 percent of pri- dam, Sarawak’s Bakun hydroelectric facility, mary forest has been destroyed, accusing has been called a “monument to corrup- Taib of profiting through his grip on land tion” by Transparency International (TI), dis- Efforts to secure water have sparked tensions and timber concessions. Swiss-based for- placing more than 10,000 people, many est-protection group Bruno Manser Fund now living in squalid resettlements. CHIANG MAI, Thailand: Fierce competition for countries Vietnam and Cambodia which fear it Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina cited a water-shar- (BMF) estimates his worth at $15 billion, Officials admit Bakun will produce twice as water could trigger conflict unless nations coop- could ruin their farming and fishing industries. ing treaty between her nation and India over the based on financial and corporate records, much energy as Sarawak needs, yet plans erate to share the diminishing resource, leaders Delegates yesterday adopted a sweeping Ganges river as an example of successful water which would make him Malaysia’s richest for up to a dozen more dams have been from Asia-Pacific nations warned yesterday. From “Chiang Mai declaration” pledging to build diplomacy. “Only judicious management of man. Taib, 76, is regularly cited by anti-graft mooted. Construction has begun at one, Central to Southeast Asia, regional efforts to regional resilience to natural disasters, share access to water resources” will prevent conflict, groups as the prime example of endemic sparking native protests last year. —AFP secure water have sparked tensions between technical skill on management of the resource she said, adding that low-lying Bangladesh has neighbours reliant on rivers to sustain booming and push water security to the top of the agenda. around 30 million people exposed to rising sea populations. Breakneck urbanisation, climate Asian nations need to plough an estimated $380 levels. change and surging demand from agriculture billion into water and sanitation systems in the The Asian Development Bank last month have heaped pressure on scarce water supplies, decade to 2020 if they are to achieve water secu- warned that nearly two-thirds of people in Asia- Hydropower frenzy while the majority of people in Asia-Pacific still rity, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah warned the Pacific have no clean, piped water at home lack access to safe water despite strong econom- forum. The “vital undertaking” comes against a despite the region’s strong growth, blaming poor threatens Carpathians ic growth. backdrop of competition that “could lead to management and a lack of investment in infra- “There could be a fight over resources,” international disputes”, he cautioned. structure. Climate change and environmental BUCHAREST: The frenzy to build environmentalists say. “In Romania, two EU- Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra One such row is between Uzbekistan and its damage are also posing unpredictable threats to hydropower stations across the Carpathian protected Natura 2000 sites in the Fagaras cautioned in an address to a regional water secu- neighbours Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan which want the region’s water supply, with glaciers that feed mountains poses an “imminent” threat to Mountains, one of which designated for rity forum in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. to build two of the world’s biggest hydro-electric rivers in retreat and once-pristine waterways pol- biodiversity in Eastern Europe, conserva- the protection of endangered species such “No country in this region can handle these chal- power stations. Speaking at the conference on luted with waste. The region must co-operate to tionist group WWF warned yesterday. “The as otters and different species of fish, inver- lenges alone,” she said, hailing forums such as the Sunday, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon tackle the “new reality”, Georgian President planned construction of thousands of tebrates and amphibians, have been ‘invad- Asia-Pacific Water Summit as the route to satisfy- defended his country’s right to exploit its natural Mikheil Saakashvili said. “Things are happening hydropower stations across the Carpathian ed’ by more than 50 small hydropower ing countries’ thirst peacefully. A Thai firm is resources but pledged to pursue a “peaceful that have never happened before” because of cli- mountains presents an imminent threat to installations, causing destruction of moun- behind a controversial dam over the Mekong riv- solution” to the dispute which has seen angry mate change, he warned. “There’s no place for hundreds of streams and rivers”, the WWF tain rivers and species”, Ivanov said. er in Laos, a project decried by downstream rhetoric soar over recent months. Bangladeshi conflict there.” — AFP said in a press release, ten years after seven More than 430 hydro power stations are Eastern European countries signed a con- currently planned in Romania, over a quar- vention to protect the unique mountain ter of them in or near protected areas, WWF range. “Romania and Ukraine are particular- says. The construction of major infrastruc- What do we eat? New food map will tell us ly at risk from planned small-scale ture for transportation is another source of hydropower stations”, Konstantin Ivanov, concerns as it could lead to dramatic habi- CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina: Do are buying and eating. Part of the that chocolate milk has about 11 able, eventually turning to UNC the head of communication for the tat fragmentation for bears and large carni- your kids love chocolate milk? It uniqueness of the database is its calories per cup more than the gov- with grants totaling $6.7 million. Danube-Carpathian program, told AFP. vores. In western Romania, the planned may have more calories on average ability to sort one product into ernment thought. Aided by supercomputers on cam- Small-scale hydro generally does not Deva-Lugoj motorway could bisect a major than you thought. Same goes for what it really is - thousands of The researchers led by professor pus, Popkin and his team have tak- involve the construction of a dam. Instead, corridor for bears and other wildlife, WWF soda. Until now, the only way to brands and variations. Barry Popkin at the UNC School of en existing commercial databases part of the flow is diverted through a pipe told AFP. The Carpathian mountains are find out what people in the United Take the chocolate milk. The Public Health, are figuring out that of food items in stores and people’s to a downstream turbine which generates home to Europe’s largest populations of States eat and how many calories government long has long classi- chocolate milk equation over and homes, including the store-based the electricity. In theory, this should not bears, wolves and lynx. On May 22, 2003, they consume has been govern- fied chocolate milk with 2 percent over, with every single item in the scanner data of 600,000 different have a big impact on the environment. But seven countries - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, foods, and matched that informa- ment data, which can lag behind fat as one item. But the UNC grocery store. It’s a massive project in many cases pipes have been installed in Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, tion with the nutrition facts panels the rapidly expanding and chang- researchers, using scanner data that could be the first evidence of the bed of the stream and diverted water signed the Convention for the protection on the back of packages and gov- ing food marketplace. Researchers from grocery stores and other com- how rapidly the marketplace is amounts to as much as 80 percent of the and sustainable development of the mercial data, found thousands of ernment data on individuals’ from the University of North changing, and the best data yet on flow, posing lasting threats to biodiversity, Carpathians. — AFP Carolina at Chapel Hill are trying to different brands and variations of 2 dietary intake. The result is an enor- what exact ingredients and nutri- change that by creating a gargan- percent chocolate milk and aver- mous database that has taken tuan map of what foods Americans aged them out. The results show ents people are consuming. That almost three years so far to con- kind of information could be used struct and includes more detail to better target nutritional guide- than researchers have ever had on lines, push companies to cut down grocery store items - their individ- on certain ingredients and even ual nutritional content, who is buy- help with disease research. ing them and their part in con- Just call it “mapping the food sumers’ diets. The study will fill gaps genome”. “The country needs in current data about the choices something like this, given all of the available to consumers and questions about our food supply,” whether they are healthy, says says Popkin, the head of the UNC Susan Krebs-Smith, who researches Food Research Program. “We’re diet and other risk factors related to interested in improving the public’s cancer at the National Cancer health and it really takes this kind Institute. Government data, long of knowledge.” The project first the only source of information came together in 2010 after a about American eating habits, can group of 16 major food companies have a lag of several years and neg- pledged, as part of first lady lect entire categories of new types Michelle Obama’s campaign to of products - Greek yogurt or ener- CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina: In this photo taken April 3, 2013, nutri- combat obesity, to reduce the calo- gy drinks, for example. tion scholar Prof Barry Popkin, head of the University of North ries they sell to the public by 1.5 With those significant gaps, the CURTEA DE ARGES, Romania: This photo taken on Nov 2, 2011 shows an excavator Carolina Food Research Program, points to an ingredient label while trillion. The Robert Wood Johnson government information fails to working in to the bed of a stream in a protected area of the European network discussing his study, what foods Americans are purchasing in stores Foundation agreed to fund a study account for the rapid change now Natura 2000 in the Fagaras mountains, 200 km northwest from Bucharest, to make and eating, in his office at UNC-Chapel Hill. — AP to hold the companies account- seen in the marketplace. —AP room for a water pipe. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Dar Al Shifa conducts training for pharmacists
KUWAIT: Dar Al Shifa Hospital recently held a training course on quality and accreditation management, led by Ghada Welwel Strategy and Business Mavala Scientifique for Development Executive at Dar Al Shifa Hospital. The training, which took place for three consecutive days May 7th, nails like diamonds 8th, and 9th, was attended by pharma- cists from the Ministry of Health (MOH) ails are an essential part in women’s elegant and primary healthcare centers along look, yet some women suffer from soft, fragile with pharmacists from the Kuwait Nand even breaking nails. This common problem National Petroleum Company (KNPC). has became an obsession for housewives as well as In her lecture, Welwel highlighted working women. It may be due to heredity aspects or importance of quality concepts and the exposure to water and cleaning detergents. Science ensuring consistently good quality is Saleh Ibrahim, Training Center emphasizes health system perform- has proved that the tip of the nail is the most fragile delivered by the healthcare staff, while Manager, I realized the significance of ance, risk prevention planning, client and exposed part of the nail. Therefore, it must be also introducing pharmacists to the educating our community’s healthcare safety, performance measurement, and strengthened. Mavala laboratories, the Swiss Company fundamentals of accreditation to specialists on ways to elevate the bar in governance. Accreditation Canada has specialized in hand and foot care, studied different healthcare organizations. quality healthcare services in their been committed to improving quality types of nails and came up with Mavala Scientifique, Ms. Welwel also came to educate respective work places, and how this and safety in health services through which is the key solution to nails’ problems that allows would be enough to maintain solid and healthy nails. them on medication management will affect the society as a whole.” accreditation, wherein Ibrahim trained the nail to regain healthy and long-lasting growth. As additional to the regular package, Mavala standards. Commenting on this train- Welwel concluded, “I would like to the attendees on how to integrate Mavala Scientifique is considered the only nourish- Scientifique comes in “Applicator Pen” that is easy to ing, Welwel said: “It was a pleasure to thank you for being here and be these health service standards into the ing and nail hardener product which penetrates the use and to carry around. Al-Jothen Company, the exclu- meet with a great group of enthusiastic assured that we will always support clinical sector in Kuwait. Ibrahim said: nail surface, bonds the three layers of the nail together sive distributer of Mavala Swiss products, provides and determined pharmacists at both a you in every possible way, to achieve “One of the most important courses and reinforces the tip to allow it to regain natural Mavala Scientifique as well as full nails solutions at all personal and professional level. After the best results for our beloved Kuwait delivered to clinical staff is the quality growth. One or two weekly applications of Mavala Al-Jothen gallery showrooms in-addition to some this 3-day training program, I believe and its community”. and accreditation program. This 3-day Scientifique allow soft, flaking or splitting nails to they will become very effective con- Ibrahim, on the other hand, intro- course highlights the essentials of salons and pharmacies such as Al-Shamiya Pharmacy, become healthy and strong. Once reaching satisfying tributors, with an excellent reputation duced the Qmentum Accreditation practicing with safe and quality- Keifan Pharmacy, Granada Pharmacy, Khuzama and guaranteed results, twice or three times a month at their place of work. Having led such Program, a new accreditation program focused approaches in order to meet Pharmacy, Al-Mutakamela Pharmacy. an event, with the collaboration of Mr under Accreditation Canada, which international healthcare standards. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013
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Announcements Inter School Quiz - KQ Matters Prelims at IES Classical music at AUK he Department of Music and Drama is hosting a demonstration/ masterclass with the German clas- he preliminary round of the fourth edition of the Head Boy, Revanth Vishnuvajhala elucidated the rules competitive spirit stand by Bhavans always in all its ven- sical guitarist Friedemann at the American prestigious KQ Matters, the only Interschool Quiz and regulations of the preliminary round and enlight- tures. He eulogized the escorting teachers for their T Competition organized by an Indian school in ened the audience on the benchmark to appear for the efforts and support to their students and for making it University of Kuwait (AUK), 28 May 3 pm, Liberal Arts T Building, room 205. Wuttke is a gifted performer, having Kuwait, was held on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at IES. preliminary round and to enter the final round of KQ to Bhavans and also appreciated the solidarity of Sunil played with major ensembles and orchestras. Besides Leaving it open to all the students of all the Indian Matters 2013-2014. More than 80 erudite participants Kumar Menon (HoD, Sanskrit), Chief Coordinator, KQ various concerts in Germany, he has toured in the Schools and Bilingual Schools in Kuwait Bhavans has from 11 renowned schools appeared for the preliminary Matters and his team for the smooth conduct of the United States and South East Asia, as well as several manifested its vision of imparting equal opportunities written test round. With a marginal distinction in preliminary round of KQ Matters 2013-2014. The European metropolises. This, his first visit to the Gulf to every student alike. The ensuing rush of entries and scores, 6 teams comprising 2 members qualified for the Cultural Secretary of IES, Ashita George proposed the region, has been realized with the support of the the receipt of sonorous plaudits stand testimony to the final round of KQ Matters. Drizzling ease to the anxious vote of thanks. Sam Mathew Tharichan and Sakina Juzer German Embassy in Kuwait, in cooperation with the Dar virtue of Bhavans, raising a challenging platform for palpitations in the IES auditorium, Principal T Bankoda were the masters of the ceremony. al Athar al Islamiyyah. The AUK performance is free and young enthusiastic minds breaking the barriers of rigid Premkumar announced the names of the six qualifying The grand finale of KQ Matters 2013-2014 will be open to the public. selection and elimination. schools, namely FAIPS, Gulf Indian School, United Indian held at IES after the summer break. Bhavans has in store The Student Council of IES accorded a warm wel- School, Indian English Academy School, Indian for the winners thundering applause and a booming come and escorted the participants and the escorting Educational School and Salmiya Indian Model School. cash prize coupled with a memento and a certificate AIP shaam-e ghazal teachers to the IES auditorium. The events of the day He congratulated the winners and extended his grati- and for the public unique questions, sundry rounds and he Association of Indian Professionals (AIP), began with the blessings of the Almighty. Head Girl of tude to the principals of the Indian Schools in Kuwait thought provoking segments that cap entertainment Kuwait, forthcoming event has been scheduled for IES, Alishba Tanya John delivered the welcome address. who with their support and healthy participation and and information. Tthe evening of May 25, 2013 at 6 pm at the audito- rium of Indian Community Senior School, Salmiya and is titled as AIP Shaam-e-Ghazal. We have invited Raghuram Krishnan, a Ghazal singer from Cochin, India to make this evening more melodious and vibrant. He Carmel School holds felicitation will be supported by few local musicians also. Ambassador of India, Satish C. Mehta will be the Chief Guest. Admission is by invitation and children below 10 for academic excellence years of age will not be allowed.
The TIES Center’s ‘trip’ he TIES Center cordially invites those who are interested in its trip to the Historical, Vintage and TClassic Car Museum, which is the first museum in Kuwait specializing in old cars on May 30th at 6:00 pm. Revisit past memories or learn something new. If you love cars then this is the trip for you. Even if you don’t love cars, come anyway; you will enjoy the trip. For more information/registration, log onto: www.tiescen- ter.net.
Photography exhibition he Embassy of India, Kuwait in association with National Council of Arts, Culture & Letters is organiz- Ting an exhibition of photographs of Islamic monu- ments of India by Benoy K Behl, Art - Historian & Photographer at Al-Edwani Hall, Dahiyat Abdullah Al- Salem. The exhibition is being inaugurated at 1900 hrs tomorrow 21 May, 2013. The exhibition shall be kept open till 27 May 2013 from 0900 hrs to 1230 hrs and 1700 hrs to 2100 hrs. All are cordially invited to the exhibition. IMAX
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Tuesday: ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Tornado Alley 3D10:30am, 6:30pm, 8:30pm Flight of Butterflies 3D 11:30am, 9:30pm To The Arctic 3D 12:30pm, 7:30pm Born to be Wild 3D 5:30pm
Wednesday: ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups To The Arctic 3D 10:30am Tornado Alley 3D11:30am, 6:30pm, 9:30pm Flight of Butterflies 3D 12:30pm, 7:30pm armel School held its annual felicitation for aca- step of the way. They advised the children that motiva- The chief guests felicitated the high achievers with demic excellence and overall performance on the tion, hard work, consistence and perseverance are medals, plaques, trophies and certificates. The heads of Journey to Mecca 5:30pm C2nd, 7th and 9th May 2013 respectively. Presiding needed for the climb to success. the different sections emphasized the fact that the Born to be Wild 3D 8:30pm over the programmes was Garnet Andrade, Executive The curtain went up to a thought provoking back- climb is hard but when you reach the top the view is manager- Group Risk NBK and Mrs. Andrea Andrade drop of ‘The Climb’- One that successful people took amazing. She hoped that more Carmelites aim high and Thursday: (Primary school); Dr. Umair Farooq, Project Manager, with diligence and a faith undaunted. Beginning with a continue the climb. Every year Carmel raises the bar and ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Fluor Kuwait (Middle school) and Dr. Mrs Kamlesh prayer song the Carmelites entertained the audience gives us moments to cherish. Climb on Carmelites and Flight of Butterflies 3D 10:30am, 5:30pm, 8:30pm Kumari, Chemistry Dept-Kuwait University (High with music, song and dance that brought home laurels stay on “The Top of the world”. Born to be Wild 3D 11:30am school). They all applauded the children and congratu- in interschool competitions over the year and a pan- Tornado Alley 3D12:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm lated the teachers and parents for being there, every tomime that displayed the values engrained at Carmel. To The Arctic 3D 6:30pm
Friday: Fires of Kuwait 2:30pm Tornado Alley 3D3:30pm, 5:30pm, 8:30pm To The Arctic 3D 4:30pm, 7:30pm Flight of Butterflies 3D 6:30pm Born to be Wild 3D 9:30pm
Saturday: ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Flight of Butterflies 3D 10:30am, 1:30pm, 8:30pm Tornado Alley 3D 11:30am, 2:30pm, 5:30pm, 7:30pm, 9:30pm To The Arctic 3D 12:30pm, 6:30pm Born to be Wild 3D 3:30pm Journey to Mecca 4:30pm
Write to us Fund board chairman Al-Abder with the winners. Three winners receive congratulations. Send to What’s On MOE Social Fund runs supplementary elections upcoming events, birthdays or he Social Fund of MOE employees recently Following a general assembly meeting, the elec- Winners, Tareq Ragheb (won 183 votes), Salah celebrations by email: conducted its supplementary board elec- tion process was done under the supervision of Zohni (won 167 votes) and Ahmed Abo Taleb ( won [email protected] T tions where three new members were select- the social fund board chairman, Waleed Abdul 159 votes), received congratulations from every- Fax: 24835619 / 20 ed from among six candidates running the elec- Rahman Al-Bader and MOE’s legal affairs depart- body wishing them all the best in serving fellow- tions. ment manager, Salem Al-Shemmari. colleagues working for MOE and fund members. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013 Embassy Information
EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters in conducted by The Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: info.aus- [email protected] (VFS) [email protected] (Visa Office); Tel: +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 (Visa Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). In Kuwait applications can be lodged at the Australian Visa Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, Al-Banwan Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem Arab Planning Institute seminar Street, opposite the Central Bank of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait. Working hours and days: he Arab Planning institute the speakers discussed various topics mercial field”, arguing that “govern- 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - Thursday. Or visit their organized a seminar recently in and focused mainly on the law per- ment support” has allowed foreigners website www.vfs-au-gcc-com for more informa- Tcooperation with the Kuwait taining with a national fund set up by to control investment in the commer- tion. Kuwait citizens can apply for tourist visas Forum for Small and Medium Projects, the government to sponsor small proj- cial and store markets while resulting on-line at www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm. to discuss the role of these projects in ects. Kuwait Forum member Abdullah in Kuwaiti partners to having limited Congratulations Suganya for your job at n n n n n n n Kuwait’s development process. Buwair spoke during the event about roles in their own investments. Kuwait Hayatt Hotel .. I hope your career lad- During the event which saw large “the need to increase investment EMBASSY OF CANADA der flies high. All the best from Sherif Ismail attendance and wide media coverage, opportunities for Kuwaitis in the com- The Embassy of Canada in Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration depart- ment. All processing of visa and immi- gration matters including enquiries is conduct- Marriott executives in Kuwait to showcase ed by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Individuals who are interested in working, see the world on global sales mission studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu arriott International executives from across International system. area for expansion due to the increasing number of Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.going- the globe have arrived in Kuwait as part of a On an international level, executives will be promot- mid-term visitors to the region, be it for business or for tocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: abdbi-im- MGlobal Sales Mission taking place across the ing the global portfolio, including: Autograph pleasure. The mission is also looking forward to dis- [email protected]. The Embassy of Middle East this month, showcasing the company’s Collection, whereby each property is selected for its cussing the 2013 opening of the Renaissance Cairo Canada is located at Villa 24, Al-Mutawakei St, “See The World” campaign. The initiative highlights bold originality, rich character and uncommon details; Mirage City, Dubai Marriott Zabeel and MEA Zabeel Block 4 in Da’aiyah. Please visit our website at Marriott International’s global spread of hotels with and Renaissance Hotels, the brand that speaks to pas- Dubai. www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The Embassy of Canada is senior executives from London, China, Paris, the US sionate travellers in search of local authentic experi- According to Kuwait Infrastructure Report Q22 The open from 07:30 to 15:30 Sunday through and other destinations joining the mission. ences. The mission will also highlight the 2013 intro- Kuwait Infrastructure sector continues to perform well Thursday. The reception is open from 07:30 to Vladimir Dabbah, Vice President Global Sales, ductions of both Gaylord, a destination focused her- driven by strong oil revenues. The government has 12:30. Consular services for Canadian citizens Middle East and Africa at Marriott International, said: itage hotel brand and Moxy, which combines contem- been providing stability and stimulus for the sector. As are provided from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday “The exclusive Global Sales Mission concept epitomis- porary stylish design with an affordable price point. a result, growth remains positive for 2013, with a fore- through Wednesday. es the innovative way of doing business at Marriott On a regional level, focus points for discussion and cast of 3.6% year on year (y-o-y). This will take the International. This unique approach helps to maximise promotion will be the company’s expansion in the industry value to US$3.2bn this year, rising to n n n n n n n the sales efforts and reflects the company’s proactive US$6.6bn by 2022. EMBASSY OF CYPRUS strategy to strengthen relationships with key cus- This factor, along with the expansion of numerous In its capacity as EU Local Presidency in tomers. It is also a step towards, further enhancing our airports across the GCC including the Kuwait the State of Kuwait, the Embassy of the long-term strategic customer relationships in the International Airport, and the 11.4 percent increase in Republic of Cyprus, on behalf of the region - the cornerstone of success at Marriott visitors to the GCC3, positions Kuwait and the region as Member States of the EU and associated International whilst demonstrating the company’s a key area in terms of growth in passenger numbers States participating in the Schengen cooper- commitment to the region”. and ultimately hotel occupancy rates. ation, would like to announce that as from Marriott International manages and operates over The comprehensive two-week programme kicked 2nd October 2012 all Schengen States’ 3,800 hotels under 18 brands around the world, includ- off in Abu Dhabi on May 5, and will culminate in Consulates in Kuwait will use the Visa ing JW Marriott, Marriott Hotels and Resorts, Kuwait on May 21 seeking to empower the company’s Information System (VIS). The VIS is a central Renaissance, Autograph Collection, Courtyard by sales force and develop strategic customer relation- database for the exchange of data on short- Marriott, Gaylord and Moxy, the company’s latest intro- ships across the region. stay (up to three months) visas between duction. In the Middle East and Africa, the company Coinciding with the Arabian Travel Market, this mis- Schengen States. The main objectives of the currently has a regional presence consisting of 42 sion provides a platform to bring senior executives VIS are to facilitate visa application proce- properties in 12 countries - including five properties in closer to customers for a unique networking opportu- dures and checks at external border as well the Kingdom - offering 12,237 rooms and spanning nity, while updating them on the various events and as to enhance security. The VIS will contain all seven lodging brands, including JW Marriott, Marriott promotions from Marriott International. During this the Schengen visa applications lodged by an Hotels & Resorts and Residence Inn by Marriott to Extended Stay segment, with its Residence Inn by road show, executives visited Jeddah, Riyadh, Al applicant over five years and the decisions name a few. There are a further 48 announced proper- Marriott and Marriott Executive Apartments (MEA) Khobar, Bahrain, Doha and are now ending their mis- taken by any Schengen State’s consulate. This ties scheduled to join Marriott International’s portfolio brands. A key discussion point will be the 2013 open- sion in Kuwait, all in order to strengthen Marriott’s will allow applicants to establish more easily in the region through 2017, eight of which are in Saudi ing of the 83-unit Residence Inn by Marriott Jazan. strategic relationships and grow Marriott the lawful use of previous visas and their Arabia, adding 11,567 rooms to the Marriott Marriott International views Extended Stay as a key International’s sales force. bona fide status. For the purpose of the VIS, applicants will be required to provide their biometric data (fingerprints and digital pho- tos) when applying for a Schengen visa. It is a AMX picks 6 winners in Abassiya Branch promotion simple and discreet procedure that only takes a few minutes. Biometric data, along with the data provided in the Schengen visa applica- tion form, will be recorded in the VIS central database. Therefore, as from 2nd October 2012, first-time applicants will have to appear in person when lodging the application, in order to provide their fingerprints. For subse- quent applications within 5 years the finger- prints can be copied from the previous appli- cation file in the VIS. The Cypriot Presidency would like to assure the people of Kuwait and all its permanent citizens that the Member States and associated States participating in the Schengen cooperation, have taken all necessary technical measures to facilitate the rapid examination and the efficient process- ing of visa applications and to ensure a quick and discreet procedure for the implementa- tion of the new VIS.
n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA l Mulla International Exchange (AMX), the pre- KD 1000 for his transaction with Al Mulla International Exchange’s commitment to its valued customers. The The Embassy of the Republic of South mier exchange company in Kuwait, announced Exchange, Mr. Muhammad Asif So Zahoor Hussain, exchange continues to strive in order to make money Africa will be closed on Tuesday, 28 May Athe six lucky winners from the draw held last Mohammad Jabed, Santi C Sreedharan, Varghese Paul transfer a quick, safe and relaxed experience for cus- 2013, for an official event. The Embassy will week at their Abbasiya branch. A total of six prizes Kannampuzha and Taba Mahboub won KD 500 each. tomers, including the facility to send money from the resume it’s normal working hours on Wednesday, were given away which included the 1st prize of KD The promotion period which lasted from Feb 14 to comfort of one’s home or office through their online 29 May 2013, from Sunday to Thursday. Please 1000 and 5 prizes of KD 500 each. The winners from May 14 and was open to all nationalities. service at www.amxremit.com note that the Working hours will be from 8h00 to the draw are as follows, Faraj Salah Amien Elsayed won The promotion was conducted as a part of Al Mulla 16h00 & the Consular Section operation hours will be from 8h30 to 12h30, for any emergencies AAW supports healthy living through “Eat Healthy Q8” initiative please contact: 94924895. n n n n n n n li Abdulwahab Al Mutawa community’s benefit. EMBASSY GREECE Commercial Co. (AAW) yesterday “We hope the awards from our fitness The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the Aannounced a partnership with brands will encourage the winners to pleasure to announce that visa applica- the Public Administration for Private continue in their journey towards tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa Education at the Ministry of Education, healthy living. We are very proud of all Application Centre (VFS office) located at 12th the Ministry of Health, the International the students and hope they become floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al- Organization for Migration (IOM), and future ambassadors of healthy living in Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For Diet Center in a two-month drive to Kuwait.” information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to help students adopt healthier lifestyles There are various local research data 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: through nutrition and fitness. including the latest report by Kuwait Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collec- AAW supported 30 students across University Professor Dr. Mustafa Hayat tion from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications ten schools in the “Eat Healthy Q8” initia- that indicates eighty percent of Kuwaiti please visit the following website tive during their four-week program and children are overweight. www.mfa.gr/kuwait. awarded all the students in a finale Through this initiative, each partici- event held on Thursday, including first pating student entered a four-week diet n n n n n n n and fitness plan and was monitored on and second place winners NawafKhater EMBASSY OF SOUTH KOREA and Mariam Al Kandari, who respective- a weekly basis by top-of-the-line nutri- The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in ly received top-of-line sports footwear tionists in Kuwait. AAW provided full- Kuwait will organize 2013 K-POP Contest on from Reebok and a three-month mem- support to the initiative, as well as Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 6:00 pm. The aim bership at Curves For Women. encouragement to the students. of the contest is to provide an opportunity to the Head of Retail Operations at AAW, AAW has an on-going commitment participants to showcase their exciting talents to the Malik Saad said:”The results of the initia- in supporting and encouraging youth, audience. Everyone is encouraged to participate in tive have been reassuring, especially athletic and sports activities in Kuwait. the contest. Application forms can be downloaded when witnessing first-hand the invest- Last year, AAW and Nike came together from the Embassy’s website: http://kwt.mofa.go.kr ment and commitment these young- to sponsor the Kuwait Charity Run that (Select English from the menu at the top of the sters have taken towards a healthier gathered thousands of athletes and run- page then Bilateral Relations) or visit the “Korean lifestyle. At AAW, we have a long-stand- ning enthusiasts in a 10-kilometer and Culture Diwaniya” Facebook Group. Interested appli- ing commitment in supporting health 20-kilometer race. The company also cants must send their application forms to and fitness initiatives like Eat Healthy Q8 sponsors Aymstrong athlete [email protected] by 24 May 2013. and we will continue to do so for the YousefAlQenai and Inspire Gym. TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013
03:30 Asia Business Report 18:05 The Garfield Show 17:00 International Desk 03:45 Sport Today 18:30 Tom And Jerry: The Magic 18:00 Global Exchange 04:00 BBC World News Ring 19:00 World Sport 04:30 Asia Business Report 19:30 Tom And Jerry Tales 19:30 News Special 00:45 Beast Lands 04:45 Sport Today 19:40 Tom And Jerry Tales 20:00 International Desk 00:00 Dirty Soap 01:35 I’m Alive 05:00 BBC World News 19:45 What’s New Scooby Doo 21:00 Quest Means Business 00:55 Style Star 02:25 Safari Vet School 05:30 Asia Business Report 20:10 Tiny Toon Adventures 22:00 Amanpour 01:25 E! 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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013
Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (16/05/2013 TO 22/05/2013)
SHARQIA-1 PHANTOM (DIG) 10:15 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 12:45 AM PHANTOM (DIG) 12:45 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 12:30 AM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 2:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED AL-KOUT.3 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 5:30 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 1:30 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 8:15 PM MARINA-3 JAVA HEAT (DIG) 4:15 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 10:15 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 1:45 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 6:30 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 1:00 AM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 4:15 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 9:30 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 6:45 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 12:15 AM SHARQIA-2 THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 9:30 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 1:45 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 12:15 AM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 4:30 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED BAIRAQ-1 IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 7:15 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 12:45 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG-3D) 9:45 PM AVENUES-1 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 3:30 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 12:30 AM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 2:00 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 6:15 PM RISE OF THE ZOMBIES (DIG) 4:15 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 9:00 PM SHARQIA-3 JAVA HEAT (DIG) 6:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:15 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 8:45 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 11:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:30 PM RISE OF THE ZOMBIES (DIG) 11:00 PM THE CALL (DIG) 5:45 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 1:15 AM BAIRAQ-2 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED PHANTOM (DIG) 12:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:00 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 2:30 PM THE CALL (DIG) 12:15 AM AVENUES-2 THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 4:45 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 1:45 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 7:30 PM MUHALAB-1 WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 4:00 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 9:45 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 1:45 PM THE CALL (DIG) 6:15 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 12:30 AM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 4:30 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 8:30 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 6:30 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 10:45 PM BAIRAQ-3 THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 9:15 PM THE CALL (DIG) 1:00 AM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 2:00 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 4:15 PM MUHALAB-2 THE CALL (DIG) 6:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:00 PM AVENUES-3 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:30 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 3:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 12:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 5:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 2:45 PM THE CALL (DIG) 1:00 AM PHANTOM (DIG) 7:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 5:00 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 9:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:15 PM PLAZA SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 9:30 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 5:30 PM MUHALAB-3 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 11:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:15 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 1:30 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 10:30 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 4:15 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 7:00 PM 360º- 1 LAILA STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 9:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:30 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG) 5:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:45 PM NO WED FANAR-1 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 6:00 PM THE GREAT GATSBY (DIG) 8:00 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 8:15 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 1:15 PM NO WED SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 3:30 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:30 PM THE CALL (DIG) 5:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 12:45 AM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 10:45 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED NO WED SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:00 PM FOR SALE SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 2:15 AM 360º- 2 AJIAL.1 EMMANUEL (DIG) (MALAYALAM) 6:30 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 12:45 PM Mitsubishi Jeep Pajero, FANAR-2 WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 3:00 PM EMMANUEL (DIG) (MALAYALAM) 9:30 PM PHANTOM (DIG) 2:45 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 5:15 PM model 2012, engine v6 3.5L, PHANTOM (DIG) 3:00 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 7:30 PM AJIAL.2 brown color, done km nently after retirement. All No. 633002599 of LIAQAT TADAKHA (DIG) (TELUGU) 6:45 PM RISE OF THE ZOMBIES (DIG) 5:00 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 9:45 PM 19,000, registration till 15-2- households including ALI by the state Life SITUATION VACANT PHANTOM (DIG) 7:00 PM WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 12:05 AM THU+FRI 15, alloy rim, fog lamp, CD, fridge, electrical items, jog- Insurance Corporation of PHANTOM (DIG) 9:00 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 5:30 PM wooden interior, shaded PHANTOM (DIG) 11:00 PM NO THU+FRI ging machine, furniture etc Pakistan, Gulf Zone is Required English speaking PHANTOM (DIG) 1:00 AM 360º- 3 SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 7:45 PM roof sahallah etc. (install- or full flat on sale. Contact: reported to have been lost. nanny / maid. Contact: JAVA HEAT (DIG) 1:00 PM NO THU+FRI ment possible). Cash price 99798432. (C 4418) Anyone finding the same or 99824597. (C 4422) claiming any interest in it FANAR-3 JAVA HEAT (DIG) 3:15 PM SAMEER ABOO ELNEEL (DIG) 10:00 PM KD 5,250/-. Contact: 19-5-2013 21-5-2013 JAVA HEAT (DIG) 1:00 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 5:30 PM 66507741 (C 4421) should communicate with WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 3:15 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 7:45 PM AJIAL.3 21-5-2013 the Manager, Kuwait State AURANGZEB (DIG) (HINDI) 5:30 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 10:00 PM NERAM (DIG) (TAMIL) 7:00 PM MATRIMONIAL Life office - Ph: 22452208. Prayer timings JAVA HEAT (DIG) 8:30 PM JAVA HEAT (DIG) 12:15 AM NERAM (DIG) (TAMIL) 10:00 PM (C 4424) WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (DIG) 10:45 PM NO SUN+ TUE+WED Chevrolet Captiva (LT) JAVA HEAT (DIG) 12:45 AM Jeep, black color, model AJIAL.4 I am an American Muslim Original document Policy AL-KOUT.1 2008, very good condition, AURANGZEB (DIG) (HINDI) 6:45 PM No. 633004170-3 of MR. MARINA-1 IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 2:00 PM AURANGZEB (DIG) (HINDI) 9:45 PM 135,000 km, price KD man looking for a Muslim STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 1:30 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 4:30 PM woman from ages of 23 to MOHAMMAD ATIF SULTAN JAVA HEAT (DIG) 4:30 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 7:15 PM 2,600/-. Contact: 50994848. by the state Life Insurance METRO-1 (C 4419) 33. Please only Muslim STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 6:30 PM IRON MAN 3 (DIG-3D) 10:00 PM NERAM (DIG) (TAMIL) 6:30 PM Corporation of Pakistan, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 9:15 PM STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG-3D) 12:30 AM NERAM (DIG) (TAMIL) 9:30 PM woman reply. My email is: Gulf Zone is reported to STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (DIG) 12:05 AM NO SUN+ TUE+WED Mazda Zoom (6), model [email protected] have been lost. 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CROSSWORD 196 STAR TRACK
Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)
This day is full of interesting dialogues. There is recognition of your career You should take advantage of the opportunities available today for further- accomplishments. You may be too concerned with making your own point, but ing your professional aims. You are at your most appealing and can have the greatest impact in listening to the views of others, you will open the door for others to listen to you. on those at work who pass out the raises and promotions. If you have been out of work, try par- Fortunately, any dispute you find today will cause little delay in the art of problem solving. This ticularly hard during this time to find the kind of job you really want. You have fluency in com- could be a mentally draining day. You are more open-minded and creative in your thinking at munication—your intellect is sharp. You will be curious, talkative and adept at solving any this time. You have many things going in your favor and that includes positive thinking, mental problems just now. You will find today full of productive conversations. This afternoon you may stability, good feelings, relaxation and opportunity. This is a good time to make long-range want to contact a friend or family member that has moved far away. There is ardent passion plans, take advantage of further education, take a long-distance trip or take up religious stud- that manifests itself in art and creative pastimes. This evening is a good time for planning a ies. It is a mentally stimulating time. future social event.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)
Your career can end up at right angles to your own inner sensitivities and Perhaps this is a good time to think and study—you have a real apprecia- need for growth and change. Emotional material wells up from within you and may challenge tion for ideas and thoughts. You may find yourself enjoying a long conversation, writing a letter, and threaten the current path you travel. Stop and consider your next step with care. If you or making a special phone call. Others value you for your ability to make practical decisions think that you might lose your mind under the current mental pressure—probably not. concerning group issues. Sales, lectures, presentations of all sorts can be successfully experi- However, you will be intensely examining ideas, thoughts and concepts—with an eye to get- enced. Clear decisions affecting others could be made now. This evening you could be espe- ting rid of unwanted ideas. Searching, research and detective work are likely. You are in a plan- cially witty and eccentric. You may have insights or breakthroughs in regard to your living situa- ning mood and are very clearheaded. Go ahead and make those decisions. You can see the tion or life circumstances and find yourself communicating these ideas to others. Others value road ahead and will make the right choices. You may find yourself serving to guide someone you for your independence and unique qualities. This is a time when you can expect a little younger than you in matters of importance. recognition.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)
You may be very forceful in what you say and think at this time. With all of Good eye-hand coordination and a sustained effort make almost any task this passion, you could speak to a crowd or simply communicate very well. run well. These are the days you may feel more like ignoring responsibilities and Proud, you have an inner need to express feelings and emotions to others. You can be self-cen- doing some social visiting. Realities may creep in and bring your attention back to the responsi- tered and are driven to leadership positions by a sense of your own inner worth. However, you bilities for the day. If you are at home today, interruptions can make it difficult to concentrate ACROSS 2. Any of a number of fishes of the family have compassion and perhaps you are a good listener to those that are in need. You have the on your project. Agree to visit or be with the family in the afternoon if they will allow you the 1. Inquire about. Carangidae. mental drive to get much accomplished and there are very few interruptions this day. Heed a morning to accomplish some needed work—you will have better cooperation. You could find that you are appreciated or valued for your feelings or your ability to act and get things done. 4. A line drawn on a map connecting points 3. God of love and erotic desire. warning you may hear today from an older person—do not take roads that go nowhere just for the ride. Pay attention to your dreams—you could have real insight and vision into some You may feel like getting outside this afternoon. A friend or relative that has been estranged having the same numerical value of some 4. A Greek island west of Greece. will soon become reacquainted. variable. 5. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring successful future event. 12. A syndrome that occurs in many women on the sea or ships. from 2 to 14 days before the onset of men- 6. Frogs, toads, tree toads. struation. 7. Any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous 15. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which substances obtained either as exudations Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) the pilot is talked down by ground control from certain plants or prepared by polymer- CAPRICORN using precision approach radar. ization of simple molecules. This is the perfect time to take risks and dare to be a little unconventional. A You are at your most practical when it comes to dealing and working with 16. A Spanish island in the Atlantic off the 8. A strong emotion. seemingly magical talent will have everyone enthralled. You enjoy interactions that others. You know just what to do and can act without haste and emotion. You northwestern coast of Africa. 9. Glittering with gold or silver. involve anything progressive, inventive and independent with regard to viewpoints. If you are around are called on to make decisions pertaining to customer satisfaction today. You are able to make 17. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac 10. A gray tetravalent metallic element that people that are involved with an original and creative idea, you are appropriately attentive. Events good use of your natural abilities and common sense. A need to be respected is an emotionally insects. resembles zirconium chemically and is found make it easy for you to have breakthroughs and find new solutions to old problems. You may find charged issue in your life at this time. You develop a sense of ambition and practicality and may yourself able to implement your ideas and put them into practice. This afternoon is a good time for strive for achievement. There is also a need to communicate and experience the exchange of 18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked). in zirconium minerals. ideas. Contact with others in the home today brings feelings of security. A landline will work 19. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass. 11. Containing or constituting or character- surrounding yourself with friends and young people and for having a good time. You appreciate your particular situation and enjoy the support of loved ones. well but a cell phone can be used from every room. You may find yourself shopping in a book- 20. A woody climbing usually tropical plant. ized by pleasing melody. store later this evening. 22. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man. 12. A cloth having a crisscross design. 24. A state in New England. 13. United States educator who introduced 25. Breathing during sleep with harsh noises reforms that significantly altered the system caused by vibration of the uvula or soft palate. of public education (1796-1859). Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 27. Swedish oceanographer who recognized 14. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug. Pleasant attitudes are created in the home or the workplace. the role of the Coriolis effect on ocean cur- 21. Conducive to peace. In the workplace you could expand your thinking and share your ideas. If Communal activities that take place at this time should be both well attended and suc- rents (1874-1954). 23. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling). you are not working, you will be celebrating the love of family, fresh air and beautiful surround- cessful. A need for emotional security is accented and you should not pressure a partner ings. You enjoy a bit of game playing and may enjoy partaking in some guidance for organizing 29. Having come or been brought to a conclu- 26. The compass point that is midway into doing things just to please you. You have an increased tendency to partake in work- children and children’s games in the community. Competition is fun wherever you decided to sion. between north and northeast. ing partnerships or group activities. Mental stimulation is the key for you right now and involve your energies—your energies match the challenges. Put your visions and dreams to 30. The French-speaking part of the Canadian 28. A group of African languages in the Niger- it is a good idea to make every effort to cooperate and compromise with others. Any work. You can be intense, passionate and very personal. Your imagination drives you to make Maritime Provinces. Congo group spoken from Senegal east as far project begun today should be very successful. This is a time where you might find a your dreams and inner vision a reality. Your desires are strong and you will want to enjoy your- 36. (New Testament) The sages who visited as the Ivory Coast. deepening of a love relationship. If you have no love relationship, this could be a time in self. Family, creativity and the ability to interact and understand each other well are very impor- Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus 31. Type genus of the Caricaceae. which you will meet that special person. was born. 32. Highly excited. tant. 37. 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha. 33. Large brownish-green New Zealand par- 39. A roll of tobacco for smoking. rot. 41. Thick heavy expensive material with a 34. Italian sociologist and economist whose Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) raised pattern. theories influenced the development of fas- 43. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized cism in Italy (1848-1923). Career choices may appear to go against you or challenge you beyond You are happiest when your goals for the day are understood. People by behavioral and learning disorders. 35. An angular shape made by folding. your idea of how you would be working as an adult. Stop and consider what you wanted as an that are honest and straightforward have a special place in your heart. It is easiest to 45. A medicine or therapy that cures disease 38. French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw end result and weigh the options. There is more than one way to achieve your goals. You may work under a boss that has clear expectations and makes clear demands. Revising or or relieve pain. the United States into the war between have become concerned about being able to achieve your end result. Do you realize that this is reassessing your work responsibilities and scheduling may take up most of the day. You 46. A sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue France and England (1763-1834). only a competition with yourself perhaps you have overshot the mark, so to speak. Now is a could be helping to change several procedures just now. In-depth discussions and connecting bones or cartilages or supporting 40. A narrow gorge with a stream running good time to obtain an employment guide at a nearby university to gain some information of inquisitive conversations find you at your rational best. Your investigative abilities are at muscles or organs. through it. your best talent and a few job hunting strategies with tips and advice. You must not work all a high point. There are some fun surprises today that will have you planning a vacation 48. A radioactive element of the actinide 42. Before noon. your life in a profession that is unsatisfying. Find your peace—act, refocus and merge in some for this summer that you have always dreamed about. If your goal is to lose weight series. 44. An informal term for a father. positive upbeat pastimes. before this takes place, you will be wise to pace yourself. 49. A unit of length of thread or yarn. 47. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that 50. An international organization of European is highly corrosion-resistant. countries formed after World War II to reduce 52. The airforce of Great Britain. Word Search Yesterday’s Solution trade barriers and increase cooperation 53. A period marked by distinctive character among its members. or reckoned from a fixed point or event. 51. Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) 54. American professional baseball player who from having corners turned down. hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 55. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal 1934). to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material. 56. An official prosecutor for a judicial district. 59. A member of a North American Plains peo- 57. Consisting of or made of wood of the oak ple (now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming). tree. 61. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great dis- 58. A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black tance. Sea and the Sea of Azov. 63. The syllable naming the fourth (subdomi- 60. Seed of a pea plant. nant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization. 62. A federally chartered savings bank. 64. A trivalent metallic element of the rare 66. Any group or radical of the form RCO- earth group. where R is an organic group. 65. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 68. The (prehensile) extremity of the superior 67. Work hastily or carelessly. limb. 74. Someone who works (or provides workers) 69. (obstetrics) The number of live-born chil- during a strike. dren a woman has delivered. 76. An unwholesome atmosphere. 70. Any of numerous local fertility and nature 79. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agricul- deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peo- ture and patron of scribes and schools. ples. 80. A port in southwestern Scotland. 71. An island in Indonesia east of Java. 83. (Irish) The sea personified. 72. In bed. 84. In or of the month preceding the present 73. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake one. Chad. 85. Moths whose larvae are cutworms. 75. The products of human creativity. 86. An agency of the United Nations affiliated 77. An enclosed space. with the World Bank. 78. Type genus of the family Myacidae. 81. Date used in reckoning dates before the DOWN supposed year Christ was born. 1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially 82. A white soft metallic element that tarnish- in Turkey). es readily. Yesterday’s Solution
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Theatre director Yukio Ninagawa watches the stage rehearsal of ‘Karasu yo, Oretachi wa Tama o Komeru (Crows, we will load bullets)‘ at the Saitama Arts Theater in Saitama, a Theatre director Yukio Ninagawa instructs during the stage rehearsal. northern suburb of Tokyo.— AFP photos
hen amateur actress Etsuko Shigemoto walks out in After five successful productions in Japan, Ninagawa is tak- world, is expected to rise to around 40 percent over coming front of a Paris audience in an all-Japanese produc- ing his troupe abroad, with Paris as the first destination and decades, putting a strain on health and welfare services as the Wtion this month she will forget about being 87 years hopes for other countries in Asia in the future. The Maison de wages of relatively few young people need to be spread ever old. “I have weak hearing and poor sight. I have problems all la culture du Japon a Paris will play host to the avant-garde further. over my body,” she said. “But I am still young in spirit.” “Ravens, we shall load bullets!” from May 30 to June 1, a play “The ageing issue is one of the most pressing problems Shigemoto is one of a troupe of elderly actors-average age 74 he first directed in the 1970s which tells the story of the some- Japan is facing,” said Ninagawa. “With this company I can — under the tutelage of world-renowned director Yukio times violent struggle in Japan against societal repression in examine this issue and can highlight the difficulties with the Ninagawa. “I have already reached the afternoon of my life, the aftermath of World War II. present situation using this play.” As well as providing social but it’s wonderful to spend my last days with the company,” In the play by Japanese author Kunio Shimizu, old ladies commentary, the company is also a font of inspiration and ful- Shigemoto told AFP at a recent rehearsal in Saitama, near occupy a courtroom where they sentence a judge, a prosecu- fillment for participants-a key challenge for a greying society. Tokyo. “I really like acting. This is what I live for.” tor and their grandsons to death before a spectacular clash Actor Kiyoshi Takahashi, 85, said the stage had given him a Ninagawa, whose directorial prowess has taken him to with riot police brings the whole protest to a brutal climax. new zest for life. “Drama makes me vigorous. I’m too busy to some of the world’s finest theatres, founded the Saitama Gold Ninagawa said the play that he presents to Parisian audiences, get senile,” he said. “I still feel as if I were 20 years old and now Theatre seven years ago and made a rule of auditioning only which will be in Japanese with French subtitles, will be a chal- my dream is to become a good actor.” people aged over 55. Acting experience is not required. He lenge to them. “I don’t want to produce a carbon-copy of a Ninagawa, who underwent a heart operation in January, said he began the “experiment” to create a new style of the- European drama,” he said, adding that he has no plan to says although he sometimes forgets his own age, working atre that would see older people take roles not usually open change his style of direction or the staging from that he has with a group of older actors feels very appropriate. “As you get to them-like the leads in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. “To used in Japan. older, you fluff lines and sometimes forget about your Theatre director Yukio Ninagawa instructs during the ordinary theatre people, it is an unconventional group,” said “I don’t expect the whole of the audience will appreciate it,” entrances and exits,” he said. “But acting gives everyone vigour stage rehearsal. Ninagawa, himself 77 years old. For him, the company is the he said. “I only hope that people in Paris will say: ‘Hey, grand- and is proof that people can grow at any time in their lives. antithesis of the visually-arresting and vividly-staged works nature of their deeper wrinkles or their sagging cheeks. “You mas and grandpas have come from the Far East as a group “This company gives me the energy to keep going and hang that have given him a global reputation, in which young can’t obtain such expressions before you are 60,” the veteran and did what they called drama, but it’s inspiring’.” The compa- on in there.”— AFP actors take on huge roles. director said. “It is meaningless for youngsters to pretend to ny is also his attempt to cast a spotlight on the issue of ageing The elderly players he directs have proved something of a have that.” “With this company, I can feel a sense of excite- in Japan, where people aged 65 or over make up around a revelation to Ninagawa, who says they are capable of bringing ment,” Ninagawa told AFP. “Without this I’m afraid I could be quarter of the 128 million-strong population. a huge range of emotions to bear, sometimes simply by stuck where I am.” The figure, already one of the highest proportions in the
wo microscope slides bearing the blood of “It is an artefact which is revered by disciples of former Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi are Gandhi, particularly in India and therefore that is Tgoing on sale in London today and are the sort of person who would go for it,” he added. expected to fetch from 10,000 pounds to 15,000 The slides are part of a larger collection of pounds ($15,200-$22,800). The slides were items obtained by Mullock’s, which include the obtained in 1924 when the father of the Indian former leader’s sandals, shawl and bed linen. independence movement was recovering from an Demand for Gandhi memorabilia has been steadi- appendectomy near Mumbai. He was thought to ly growing since Mullock’s sold soil samples and have donated the blood to the family he was stay- blades of bloody grass purportedly from the spot ing with at the time. where Gandhi was assassinated in 1948, for 10,000 “To Gandhi devotees, it has the same status as pounds ($15,200) last year.—Reuters a sacred relic to a Christian,” said Richard Westwood-Brookes, a historical documents expert at Mullock’s auctioneers which is selling the item.
Revelers dressed as Neytiri from the movie Avatar pose during the Carnival Of Cultures parade in or summer 2013, Armani Exchange takes inspiration Berlin, Germany, yesterday. Some 75 groups representing different countries from all over the world from the tropics and its natural environment. The mood take part in the parade and tens of thousands of spectators gather along the streets. — AP Ffor summer 2013 is relaxed and romantic with new sil- houettes, colors and fabrications. The collection takes a bold approach as silhouettes shift from sophisticated to sporty. Combining relaxed resort style and sophisticated city attitude, the collection includes tailored pieces with a twist; utility details, bold prints and bright colors add a touch of the unex- pected to classic suiting styles. The juxtaposition of soft patterns and motifs create a tropi- he head of Azerbaijan’s state broadcaster has ques- came second behind Danish winner Emmelie de Forest. cal feel while contrast color blocking completes the collection tioned the vote tally in Saturday’s Eurovision Song Garipova, who was chosen to represent Russia at the with urban edge. Seasonal neutrals like indigo, black, sand, TContest where it embarrassingly gave “nul points” glitzy event in Sweden after winning a national talent to the entry from neighboring Russia, claiming votes for show, finished in fifth position. Once known for politi- heather grey, and chalk white balance the palette of fiery red, Russia were apparently not taken into account. “It is of cised voting, Eurovision has sparked its fair share of boy- turquoise, tangerine and hot pink. The collection also includes serious concern and surprise that at the final count of cotts, bitterness and international backbiting. Last year key essentials consisting of chic separates and dramatic den- votes from Azerbaijan, Russia was not given any points,” Azerbaijan-which was hosting the event-squabbled with im. The overall look is cool, modern and edgy, embodying director Camil Guliyev said in a statement yesterday. neighboring Iran after Tehran alleged the country was Giorgio Armani’s signature elements of design. In fact, Russia’s entry by singer Dina Garipova received hosting a gay pride event under the cover of the contest. the second highest number of votes submitted via cell That spat came after Azerbaijan’s arch-foe Armenia phone text messages and high marks from the country’s decided not to participate in the competition. Relations professional jury, he claimed, hinting at vote violations. between oil-rich Azerbaijan and Russia have cooled in “We sincerely hope that this incident, possibly initiated recent times with strongman President Ilham Aliyev by certain interest groups, will not cast a shadow over determined to turn the former Soviet state into an alter- the brotherly relations of the Russian and Azerbaijani native gas supplier for Europe.—AFP peoples,” he said, without blaming anyone specifically. Russia, which has a large Azerbaijani diaspora, gave the maximum 12 points to Azerbaijan’s entry, a schmaltzy ballad from crooner Farid Mammadov, which eventually lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013
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nashamedly escapist, with wafer-thin plots subjects with non-traditional narratives and struc- and cheesy dialogue, all punctuated by exu- tures.” In southern states in particular there had been Uberant song and dance routines, Bollywood huge changes to the way films were made. “In the musicals are beloved by millions despite the critics’ south they have led the way in terms of how to reservations. But India’s biggest star Amitabh make completely new narratives, new kinds of films Bachchan, in Cannes this week for a celebration of and smash box office records. Bollywood has started Indian cinema at the Riviera film fest, admitted he taking narratives from them,” he said. prefers not to use the word “Bollywood”. “I just feel Fellow “Bombay Talkie” director Karan Johar’s that the Indian film industry has its own identity... so short film about a gay relationship is an example of I’d rather call it ‘the Indian film industry’, especially the risks some directors are now willing to take with now we celebrate 100 years of the Indian film indus- the subject they choose. Johar, 40, is one of India’s try this year,” the actor known as the “Big B” said in highest-profile directors and a darling of the masses Cannes. for films starring some of the biggest names in In fact, Bachchan was articulating an increasingly Bollywood such as Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and common view among actors and directors-that Hrithik Roshan. His short film focuses not just on a there is a lot more to Indian film than Bollywood gay relationship, an enormously taboo subject in potboiler musicals. They argue that just as India has India, but also on the theme of denial. Johar had changed rapidly over the past 15 years, so too have broken “away from his earlier narrative and struc- the sort of films being made and the people making tures and subjects”, Banerjee said. them. Four members of India’s new generation of “He has completely discarded his comfort zone filmmakers on Sunday appeared on the red carpet and tried to say something absolutely new to the at Cannes for a gala screening of their film “Bombay extent that his film has become the most controver- Talkies”, an anthology to which each contributed sial film in India,” he said. Karan told AFP it had been one short film. India is the guest country at Cannes important to him to grasp the opportunity offered this year and the event was timed to coincide with to explore a difficult subject. “I took it up as a chal- the nation of one billion’s celebration of a century of lenge because I knew that if I didn’t do it in a con- cinema. cept like this then I wouldn’t be justifying my pres- “There are a lot of directors who started directing ence,” he said. “I just felt it was very critical for me to movies in the early 2000s... they kind of took main- take on a theme that I felt very passionate about, a stream Bollywood films, big sets, stars and narratives story that I felt I needed to tell. and gave them a very new tilt which reflects the “It needed to be done and addressed. Normally urban India of today,” Dibakar Banerjee, one of the everyone is pussyfooting around it... but this one is four, told AFP. Banerjee, 43, said the transformations making no bones about it and it’s in your face and (From left) US singer Lana del Rey, British singer Florence Welch, Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan, British-Australian actress Isla Fisher, brought about by economic growth had “created a out there for everyone to see and judge or diss Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki, British actress Carey Mulligan, US actors Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio, Australian direc- new generation of filmmakers and a new generation depending on how they look at it,” he said. The direc- tor Baz Luhrmann, Australian actor Joel Edgerton (3rdR) and Australian production designer Catherine Martin pose as they arrive for of actors and stars”. They were working in a number tor, also known as the host of a popular TV celebrity the screening of their film ‘The Great Gatsby’ ahead of the opening of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. — AFP of Indian states, not just in Bollywood, the name giv- chat show, said Indian society was still “not very en to the film industry in the Maharashtra state, of accepting of homosexuality” and that “levels of ing the subject of child abduction, got a warm jects. But she said there would always be a place for which Mumbai is the capital. homophobia are quite high”. The film would proba- reception when it was shown at Cannes in the the traditional Bollywood musical even if some fea- His own short film tells the story of a theatre bly not “start a movement” but it was “definitely a Directors Fortnight last week. The other “Bombay tures evolved. —AFP actor who has been out of work for years and sud- first” in terms of tackling the subject on film, he said. Talkies” film by Zoya Akhtar focuses on a young boy denly lands a part. “There were a lot of filmmakers Kashyap’s film, meanwhile, tells the story of a boy who dreams of becoming a dancer even though his who were not from the film fraternity, who came sent to Mumbai to get Bachchan to taste the pickle father wants him to be a footballer. Akhtar, 39, said from outside-like me or Anurag Kashyap-who came his father sells in his shop. The 40-year-old “Gangs Of Indian film was changing to accommodate new sub- in and started making films about non-traditional Wasseypur” director’s kidnap thriller “Ugly”, explor-
blood-soaked vengeance tale from Japan drew the biggest boos in the race for the ACannes Film Festival’s top prize yesterday, with critics savaging a “risible” parade of cliches. Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike unveiled “Shield of Straw” (Wara No Tate) about a nationwide bounty hunt for a child rapist who mur- ders the seven-year-old granddaughter of a billion- aire politician. The man offers a one-billion-yen ($9.7-million) reward for the criminal’s capture and killing. The offer touches off a frenzy in the country, sending hordes of would-be vigilantes on the chase for the murderer. Fearing for his life, the paedophile turns himself in and a team of cops-a widower whose wife was killed by a drunk driver and a single mother-see it as their duty to protect him at all costs despite his Dutch-Palestinian film director Hany Abu-Assad waves as he arrives with vile crimes. But they must fend off all manner of the cast of his film ‘Omar’ for the screening of the film ‘Borgman’ pre- armed assailants-some driven by greed for the sented in Competition at the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in reward and others, crime victims themselves who Cannes. Cannes, one of the world’s top film festivals, opened on May 15 feel let down by the system, by a desire for a and will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this delayed sense of justice. The picture, one of 20 year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. — AFP vying for the Palme d’Or award, got off to a promis- ing start with impromptu applause for a spectacu- lar ambush scene executed with military precision. But reviewers said the film went off the rails (From left) Japanese director Takashi Miike and actors Nanako Matsushima and Takao Osawa pose during a bullet-train scene in which the cops deliv- yesterday during a photocall for their film ‘Wara No Tate’ (Shield of Straw). — AFP er long speeches about their personal motivations and reflections on the moral quandary they face action movies have been so dedicated to the cause said, noting that Japanese authorities had objected over risking their lives to guard a remorseless killer, of liberal democracy and trial by jury. Shield of on security grounds. Miike admitted that his film only pausing to brutally dispatch blood-thirsty Straw is the anti-Dirty Harry,” it wrote, referring to was unlikely to capture the top prize when jury bounty-hunters. British critic Geoff Andrew took to the iconic Clint Eastwood franchise. Miike, a president Steven Spielberg announces the winner Twitter to deride “risibly overacted, overemphatic remarkably prolific director whose work has been Sunday. “I don’t really think that this is a film that’s he tensions of Palestinian life films or follow-up works by emerging nonsense that constantly states the obvious cliche”. banned in some countries for excessive gore, made for the Palme d’Or but I’m happy a different under Israeli occupation directors. Abu-Assad told AFP he was Movie magazine CineVue posted a review within lamented that the Japanese cinema industry was class of film has been allowed in the official compe- Texploded onto the screen at “very nervous at first but then I was minutes giving the picture one star out of five and turning its back on what he called a proud tradition tition,” he said. “If the film can stimulate audiences Cannes yesterday, where a tale of amazed” at the audience’s reception. calling it a “stone-cold dud” while cult film watcher of blockbuster action movies. I’d be delighted.” A Japanese film has not won at love and betrayal won a five-minute “They were involved in it, and it was Electric Sheep said it went “down like a lead bal- “It’s not the viewers who don’t want to see Cannes since “The Ballad of Narayama” by Shohei standing ovation. “Omar” is the new good to see that, especially as this loon”. these films, it’s the professionals, the people who Imamura two decades ago. — AFP work by Hany Abu-Assad, who shot public, in Cannes, is the most critical The Irish Times reviewer, however, had a few make films,” he told reporters. “Some of the scenes, to prominence in 2006 with “Paradise public you can get,” he said. The kind words for the “classy action sequences” and particularly the high-speed train, we weren’t able Now,” which won a Golden Globe Nazareth-born 41-year-old Dutch- predicted a big-budget Hollywood remake. “Few to make in Japan so we did them in Taiwan,” he and, in the race for best foreign-lan- Palestinian studied airplane engi- guage film, became the first-ever neering before dipping his toes in Palestinian film to be tipped for an film-making, emerging with his first Oscar. Abu-Assad dips into the con- feature, “Curfew,” in 1994. ceptual source of Palestinians who Of the five principals, three of take up arms, just as “Paradise Now” them are making their feature-film recounted the tale of two men debut: Adam Bakri as Omar, a gradu- scar winner Marion Cotillard and her part- Cotillard in the competition, sparked major buzz in becomes pregnant and the mother of his two other preparing for a suicide attack in Tel ate from New York’s Lee Strasberg ner, French actor and director Guillaume the run-up to the event. children (Cotillard), spirals into drugs and prostitu- Aviv. Institute; Samer Bisharat as Amjad, a OCanet, teamed up for the all-star “Blood Ties” “Blood Ties” is a remake of a 2008 French film in tion. Chris plots a bank-truck heist and when Frank The new story, though, is darker 16-year-old high school student; and premiering Monday in Cannes but faced audiences’ which Canet also starred, with the action trans- catches wind of it, he must choose between his and more complex-a political drama Nazareth-born Leem Lubany, another stony silence after high hopes for the picture. The posed to the mean streets of 1970s pre-gentrifica- family loyalties and his police badge. A press pre- interwoven with a story of lovers 16-year-old school pupil, who is film features one of the most high-wattage casts of tion Brooklyn. It tells the story of Frank (Crudup), a view of the two-and-a-half-hour-long picture met caught in a vice, with Israel’s secret superb as Nadia. Filming took place the festival including Clive Owen, James Caan, Billy cop whose brother Chris (Owen) has just been with crushing indifference and reviewers blasted a police on one side and Palestinian in Nablus, Nazareth and Bisan, but Crudup, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis and Lili Taylor. And released from prison after 12 years on a murder rap. clunky story with uneven performances. Canet, who gunmen on the other. Both are equal- there were no problems at all with the hard-boiled screenplay by Canet and New York- Chris aims to get back on the straight-and-narrow became the youngest director to capture a Cesar, ly ruthless. At its centre is a young the Israelis. “There was no opposition based director James Gray, another Cannes but is quickly sucked back in to the life of crime. France’s Oscar, for the 2006 thriller “Tell No One”, said baker, Omar, who falls in love with to us shooting anywhere,” said Abu- favourite who will unveil “The Immigrant” starring Cash starts running low when his new wife (Kunis) he found inspiration from the movies of Martin Nadia, the sister of an old friend, Assad. “We managed to get permis- Scorsese and John Cassavetes. “I got a lot of offers Tarek, who runs a resistance cell in sion for all of the places, even the from Hollywood after ‘Tell No One’ and it gave me the occupied territories. To visit wall. For the wall, we had permission the desire to make a film in English with English- Nadia, Omar must clamber over the to climb up to a certain height and speaking actors,” he said. occupation wall built by Israel that then, for the moments at the top, we “I didn’t want it to be a studio-type film, I found it divides the territories-an act that is used a fake wall on a set in Nazareth.” difficult to work on a film with a lot of pressure on fraught with risk. “Omar” cost $2 million-less than me. I wanted a project that I’d be in charge of Arrested one day after scaling the one-fiftieth of a Hollywood block- myself.” Cotillard said working with Canet in the wall, Omar is humiliated and beaten buster and all of it came from individ- United States instead of Europe had been a bit odd up by police, prompting him in anger ual Palestinians and Palestinian busi- for the couple. “He knows how to work with actors to join Tarek and another friend, nesses, said Abu-Assad proudly. “For and he has a great respect for them,” she said of Amjad, in an operation to kill an the first time, we have convinced Canet. “It was rather strange because we’d often Israeli soldier. From then on, Omar’s businessmen from Palestine to invest speak in English together but we really fed off the life goes into a spiral. Picked up and in their (film) industry. It’s incredible,” energy of the American experience.” Owen’s per- interrogated by the Israelis, who learn he said. Asked which audience he tar- formance drew more positive reviews than the film of his love for Nadia, he is under pres- geted, he said: “My first audience, itself. “For me the thing that was really great was sure to betray his comrades. Just as honestly, are the Palestinians and the complexity of all the relationships in the movie he is fingered as a traitor, he begins to Arabs. I hope from the bottom of my and there was something I was really attracted to doubt whether Nadia has been true heart that they will be engaged with about the idea that these two brothers were inextri- to him as she avows, or whether she it, that they will love it. — AFP cably linked together and however difficult things has yielded to the wooing of Amjad. got it was very, very hard for them to pull apart,” he The dramatic denouement led to said. —AFP huge applause at a press screening in Cannes, where “Omar” is in the French director Guillaume Canet poses yesterday with French actress Marion Cotillard and US “Certain Regard” section-a closely- actress Zoe Saldana during a photocall for the film ‘Blood Ties’. — AFP watched category for provocative lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013
nother day, another domination for Taylor Swift: She was the red hot winner at the Billboard Music AAwards. Swift won eight of 11 awards, including top artist and top Billboard 200 album for “Red.” She told the crowd: “You are the longest and best relationship I ever had.” She also had a colorful performance of her hit “22” - starting backstage and working her way to the main stage on the back of a bike with help from a dozen background dancers and a flurry of red balloons. Justin Bieber also per- formed - twice - and was also a multiple winner with three awards, including top male artist, social artist and the fan- voted milestone award, beating out Swift and Bruno Mars. When accepting the latter - where boos were heard - he alluded to the tumultuous weeks he’s had in the public eye. “I’m 19 years old; I think I’m doing a pretty good job. And basically from my heart I really just want to say it should really be about the music, it should be about the craft that I’m making. This is not a gimmick,” he said. “I’m an artist and I should be taken seriously and all this other bull should not be spoken.” Bieber performed with will.i.am and solo when he sang “Take You” in leather pants, a leather vest and a Taylor Swift poses backstage with her awards at the Billboard Music black shirt that had one sleeve, as blue laser lights beamed. Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday in Las Vegas. Miguel, too, had a show-stopping performance, though he —AP photos seemed to kick a fan when he jumped over the crowd while Singer Taylor Swift performs. (above , below). singing his hit “Adorn.” The R&B singer seemed to have land- ed part of his body on one woman, who walked away, and kicked another, who held her head low.
Madonna poses in the press room with the Top Touring Artist Award. Musician Justin Bieber accepts the award for “Top Male Artist”.
Contest Winner Shaniece Cole, Musician CeeLo Green and ‘Milestone Justin Bieber performs. Singer Shania Twain presents the award for ìTop Rap Artistî to rapper Nicki Award’ Winner Justin Bieber onstage. Minaj.
Singer Miley Cyrus speaks onstage. DJ David Guetta performs. Chris Brown, center, performs.
Presenters Kelly Rowland and Austin Mahone Christina Aguilera, right, and Pitbull perform. Tracy Morgan, left, and Psy participate in a ‘dance-off’. lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013
Singer Jennifer Lopez performs. Maroon 5 and fun. were also nominated for 11 awards and walked away with one win each in pre-telecast announcements. Gotye and Rihanna had the second-most wins with four awards each. But the awards show, airing live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on ABC, is less about the trophies - which reflect success on the Billboard charts - and more about the performances. Selena Gomez sang her seductive new hit, “Come & Get It,” while Chris Brown danced around the stage to his latest single, “Fine China,” though his voice began to crack during the perform- ance. Duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis also performed their Selena Gomez performs. massive hit, “Thrift Shop,” which won top rap song. “First and foremost, gotta thank Goodwill, gotta thank Value Village,” Macklemore said to laughs. Kid Rock, who presented the award, sparked controversy when he told the crowd, “Let’s give it up for people lip-synching under pre- recorded music.” Mars and his band kicked off the show in silky red suits that matched their silky dance moves, with bright gold disco balls hanging above them during a per- Singer Carly Rae Jepsen accepts the formance of the upbeat and old-school flavored “Treasure.” award for “Top Digital Song”. Nicki Minaj won the first award in the live telecast for top rap artist, beating out Drake, Flo Rida, Pitbull and Psy. “I definitely did not expect this one,” she said, wearing a bright red dress. She later performed “High School” with Lil Wayne and gave the rapper a provocative lap dance onstage. Prince, who received the icon award, closed the awards show with a melody of his jams in a turquoise and purple ensemble. He sang, dance and rocked on the guitar. Musician Prince performs. Madonna won top touring artist, dance artist and dance album for “MDNA.” “Thank you for supporting me for three decades. Without you I truly wouldn’t be here,” she said. Pitbull made two appearances, one with Jennifer Lopez and another with Christina Aguilera. His hit with Aguilera, “Feel This Moment,” samples A-Ha’s “Take On Me” and Morten Harket came out to sing a line from the song. Comedian-actor Tracy Morgan was the show’s host, and he dressed as Psy in a bright yellow suit when the rapper- Justin Bieber performs. singer was onstage to present an award. They had a dance battle to Psy’s new single, “Gentleman.” — AP
Presenters Erykah Badu and Janelle Monae
Singer Miguel performs. Singer Kid Rock performs. The Band Perry performs.
DJ David Guetta accepts the award for Musician Will.i.am performs. ‘Dance Artist of the Year’. Singer Bruno Mars performs.
Host Tracy Morgan performs Alyssa Milano, left, and Avril Lavigne present the award for top digi- tal song. Swift wins 8 trophies at Billboard38 Awards TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2013
Ibrahim Rauza Complex, Bijapur, Karnataka, 17th century
Taj Mahal in Agra, 17th century Jama Masjid, Junagarh, Sourashtra, Gujarat, 13th century
By Sajeev K Peter The confluence of local talent with inspirations from Iran, Arabia, and Central Asia resulted in mausoleums, mosques, Madrassas, Global view he Mughal monuments have been well-known and the palaces and fortresses that were unique in the history of Islamic “There is a range of Islamic architecture that came from different Taj Mahal is the best recognized Islamic monument of architecture,” he said. Islamic countries. There is a very rich blend of influences,” he point- “Tthe world. However, there is a fascinating richness of The architecture of Islamic mosques and tombs is an invaluable ed out. “Unfortunately, it has not been recognized well enough that Islamic architectural heritage in other parts of the country, especial- treasure of world heritage. Many countries have taken inspiration the monuments of Islam have been the most notable contributions ly in the South, which has not been recognized very well,” said from this tradition. In fact, surface decoration with tiles and the to the architecture in the world,” he pointed out. Benoy K Behl, renowned Indian art historian and photographer. making of arches and domes in the European countries and in India In addition to documenting Islamic monuments across India, Talking to Kuwait Times in an interview, Behl said India has a are only some of the obvious Islamic influences. Benoy K Behl has also documented Islamic monuments in vast, rich and varied heritage of Islamic architecture. “These monu- Samarkand and Kuva in Uzbekistan, in Esfahan in Iran, Afghanistan, ments are a great treasure of India’s culture and are of particular val- South India Indonesia, Malaysia and Bangladesh. ue as they reflect India’s artistic and cultural links with many coun- “What is not known is that the Deccan in India has a very large “I’m doing a project where I am photographing Islamic monu- tries around the world,” he said. number of beautiful Islamic monuments, in fact much more than ments in 42 countries of the world which will include the Grand Behl arrived in Kuwait on Sunday to put on display his photo- the north of India has. The Deccan and the extreme south of India Mosque in Kuwait,” he said. He is also planning to document other graphs at an exhibition titled, ‘Islamic Monuments of India’ today were a meeting place of cultures,” Behl argued. major Islamic monuments in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, (May 21) evening at Al-Edwani Hall Dahiyat Abdullah Al-Salem, The earliest mosque in India was built in Kodungallur, Kerala, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Mali, Spain Kuwait. The exhibition, jointly organized by the Embassy of India, which is probably the second or third oldest mosque in the world and Romania. Kuwait and National Council for Arts, Culture and Letters (NCACL), “I’m keen on making the Islamic world aware of this wonderful Kuwait, give a kaleidoscopic view of India’s rich Islamic heritage contribution of theirs and also the whole world to recognize that through the eyes of Behl. The exhibition will continue till May 27. we are talking about one of the most sophisticated, thoughtful and “The vastness of India’s Islamic architectural heritage is astonish- kindest cultures of our times,” he mentioned. Agra Fort, Agra ing. India has more beautiful medieval Islamic monuments than any “What the world does not recognize or speak enough about other country,” Behl said, who is also a film-maker known for his tire- these days is that when it comes to monuments, for instance in less and prolific output of work over the past 35 years. He has taken Europe, the Roman arch has been completely forgotten. over 36,000 photographs of Asian monuments and art heritage and “We tend to forget that the Greek philosophers were introduced made a hundred documentaries on art history. His exhibitions have to medieval Europe through Arabic translations. The Western been warmly received in 29 countries around the world. Europe did not know the names of Aristotle, Socrates or Plato until “I have been to every corner of India many times. In my travels the Arab translations from the Greek and Arab commentaries of the across the length and breadth of India, I’ve found out that the coun- Greek came out. The Renaissance in Europe was borne out of the try has an absolutely vast Islamic heritage. I don’t think any other concepts of science and arts, which were taken to Europe through country in the world has even a fraction of the number of Islamic the translations and writings of Islamic Spain (Al-Andalus). Europe monuments that India has,” Behl said, who holds a few world learnt mathematics and astronomy from the Arabs,” he said. records of having exhibited his photographs in more than 32 coun- His films, including 26 documentaries on ‘The Paintings of India’ tries by over 250 major institutions. He also has been recognized by and 26 documentaries on ‘The Sculpture of India’ have been nation- Limca Book of Records as the ‘most travelled photographer.’ Besides Benoy K Behl ally telecast on prime time in India, as well as repeat telecasts. Behl the well-known Mughal monuments, this exhibition presents the has also done works on Buddhist heritage, Hindu heritage, Christian exquisite mosques and dargahs of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, after the holy Makkah. And by the 12th and 13th century, there heritage and his exhibition of the churches in Goa have been pre- Gujarat, Kashmir and other parts of India. were three or four mosques that were built on the coast of Tamil sented all over the world. Nadu. Behl said he is quite excited about the exhibition in Kuwait. “I’m World heritage “So, it is really the south in India which first received Islamic hoping that the Islamic world, through this exhibition in Kuwait According to Behl, India is an enchanted land, watered by influences. This followed a wonderful confluence of cultures which may become a little aware of my project. Because there is a coming streams of compassionate philosophies since ancient times. “There took place in the Deccan,” he explained. “There are marvelous mon- together of peoples here, and a significant step in the coming are flourishing communities such as the Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, uments in Bidar in Gulbarga, Bijapur. Bijapur has the largest dome together of humankind, towards which all of us are working. All my Sikhs, Islam, Christians, Zoroastrians and Jews in India. And there is in the entire Islamic world, the Gol Gumbaz which is second in size work is to convey the warmth, beauty and dedication of those peo- a great cosmopolitan heritage of India’s culture and art,” he pointed only to St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Similarly, a madrasa in Bijapur ple whose exquisite works can really move people and help think of out. resembles a typical structure in Uzbekistan. something that is beyond the materialistic side of life,” Behl said. From the 12th century onwards, Islamic dynasties were set up in “As a matter of fact, many of the Sultans, who once ruled the different places across India. The Mughal monuments of North India Deccan, were direct descendants of people from the other Islamic are very beautiful and are well known. There were, however, many countries. There were even descendants from the Ottomans. So other important centers in which distinctive idioms in architecture there was a rich meeting of cultures,” he pointed out. The Deccan, Qutb Minar, Delhi, early 13th century were created. not the north was the center of Arabic learning in India. To begin “In the cosmopolitan environment that developed across India, with, it was Kerala and Tamil Nadu and then the Deccan, he argued. many architectural innovations were seen. Guilds of craftsmen, who Behl has documented four mosques on the coast of Tamil Nadu had hitherto worked on Buddhist, Hindu and Jain monuments, now and many others in Kerala that are believed to have built in the 12th utilized their talent and skills to serve the new Muslim patrons,” he or 13th Century. “Because the British interest was confined only to elaborated. North India, the real history has been forgotten,” he said.
Charminar, built by Sultan Muhammed Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur, Karnataka, 17th century Buland Darwaza, Fatehpur Sikri, near Agra Turkash Mahal, Bidar Fort, Bidar, Karnataka, 15th -16th century Quli Qutub Shah, Hyderabad