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TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 RAJAB 14, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Khobaizi How ‘Big Corn’ One body, Clippers honored for lost ethanol two faces: roll over forging battle to Rare twins Thunder to ties with2 EU ‘Big14 Oil’ born28 in Sydney even20 series Amir accepts resignation Max 37º Min 20º of awqaf, justice minister High Tide 10:38 & 23:40 Low Tide MP demands visitors to Kuwait buy health insurance 04:38 & 17:29 40 PAGES NO: 16164 150 FILS By B Izzak

KUWAIT: The Cabinet said yesterday that it had been informed that HH the Amir has accepted the resignation of Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Justice Nayef Al-Ajmi just over a month after rejecting his first resigna- tion. The Cabinet appreciated Ajmi’s dedication and hard work and appointed Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah as acting Islamic Affairs minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah as acting jus- tice minister. Ajmi tendered his first resignation in early April following accusations by a US senior official that he had links with jihadists in Syria. The res- ignation was rejected by the Amir who renewed his trust in him. The Cabinet had also backed him. But this time the resignation was accept- ed without giving any rea- Nayef Al-Ajmi son, although some reports said it was based on health problems. Writing on his Twitter account, Ajmi thanked the Amir for accepting the resignation and understanding his reasons. Continued on Page 15 Drunk convoy

RIYADH: A worker wears a mouth and nose mask as he leads camels at a farm yesterday. — AFP crasher told to behave Saudis home in on camels to combat MERS By A Saleh

KUWAIT: The court of appeals yesterday nullified a US reports second case of coronavirus first instance ruling sentencing an Asian man to one month in jail or a KD 500 fine to suspend the ver- JEDDAH: Saudi authorities have issued fresh warn- ministry has urged Saudis handling camels to wear Earlier research had shown the virus was “extraor- dict’s execution provided he promises to maintain ings on how to handle the desert kingdom’s wealth of masks and gloves to avoid catching the disease, in a dinarily common” in camels for at least 20 years and good conduct for a year, during which his driving camels, thought to be the source of the mysterious statement published in local media. may have been passed directly from the animals to license would be withdrawn. MERS coronavirus in the Gulf state. The Middle East The warning came after scientific studies commis- humans. Camel meat must be cooked and its milk Notably, the prosecution had accused of the Respiratory System has now killed 147 people out of sioned by the health ministry suggested a connection boiled before consumption, the agriculture ministry defendant of driving his vehicle under the influence 491 infected in Saudi Arabia since it first appeared in between camels and the virus. MERS is considered a said, echoing recommendations from acting health of alcohol and with expired vehicle insurance 2012, with cases in the kingdom accounting for the deadlier but less-transmissible cousin of the SARS minister Adel Fakieh following a visit by World Health through HH the Amir’s convoy on Al-Khatabi Street. vast majority registered globally. virus that appeared in Asia in 2003 and infected 8,273 Organisation experts last week. On being stopped, security agents found the man With scientists still struggling to understand the ill- people, nine percent of whom died. Like SARS, it Former health minister Abdullah Al-Rabiah warned reeking of liquor, and he was referred to relevant ness and no vaccine or antiviral treatments available appears to cause a lung infection, with patients suf- last month against assuming that camels were authorities. The defendant’s lawyer Mohammed Al- to combat its spread, Saudi authorities have intro- fering coughing, breathing difficulties and a tempera- behind the virus, insisting that “one should not jump Failakawi questioned the arrest procedures, noting duced new guidelines to try to stem the trickle of ture. But MERS differs in that it also causes rapid kid- to conclusions”. that the arresting forces had no search warrant, new cases reported nearly every day. The agriculture ney failure. Continued on Page 15 “which nullifies all subsequent procedures”. Video shows abducted girls

LAGOS: Boko Haram’s leader said in a request outright. Asked if the government new video yesterday that more than 200 would reject Shekau’s suggestion, Interior Sisi promises abducted Nigerian schoolgirls would only Minister Abba Moro told AFP: “Of course.” be released if the government freed mili- “The issue in question is not about Boko gains in 2 yrs tant fighters from custody. Abubakar Haram... giving conditions,” he added. Shekau made the claim in a 27-minute A total of 276 girls were abducted on CAIRO: Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Egypt’s former military video, which he claimed showed about April 14 from Chibok, which has a sizeable chief who is poised to win the presidency in elections 130 of the girls who were kidnapped from Christian community. Police say 223 are later this month, said he has plans to make improve- their school in the remote northeastern still missing. Nigeria’s government has ments in people’s living conditions within two years town of Chibok nearly a month ago. The been criticised for its lack of immediate but will step down if they rise up against him - without girls’ disappearance has triggered global response to the kidnapping but has been waiting for the army to remove him. Sisi was speaking outrage, in part due to a social media forced into action as a result of interna- with the Emirates-based Sky News Arabia, giving his campaign that has won the support of tional pressure. President Goodluck first televised interview as a high-profile figures from US First Lady Jonathan has accepted help from the presidential candidate to for- Michelle Obama to Pope Francis. United States, Britain, France, China and eign media. The first part of The militant leader said the girls shown Israel, which have sent specialist teams to the interview was aired in the video had converted to Islam and help in the search effort. French President JAUNPUR, India: People wait in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Sunday. the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday. — AP all were shown in Muslim dress, reciting Francois Hollande has also called for a Riding on a wave of the first chapter of the Holy Quran and west Africa security summit to discuss the nationalist fervor, the 59-year praying at an undisclosed location. Boko Boko Haram threat, which could be held Indian election ends as old Sisi faces a single rival in Haram has made prisoner exchange as early as Saturday. The United States and the May 26-27 vote. The demands before without success and Britain have been invited, he said. media and supporters tout Nigeria’s government again dismissed the Continued on Page 15 polls tip Modi triumph him as the nation’s savior for ousting the elected Islamist NEW DELHI: Indians cast final ballots yes- “The politics of arrogance, dynasty and president, Mohamed Morsi, terday in a record election that saw 551 inheritance is being rejected by the peo- in July following massive ral- Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi million people vote over five weeks, with ple of India,” BJP spokesman and parlia- lies against him and a rising exit polls predicting a new right-wing mentarian Ravi Shankar Prasad told a specter of civilian infighting. The protesters were com- government under Hindu nationalist press conference. “The politics of initiative, plaining that a year into office Morsi and his Islamist Narendra Modi. The final phase of voting hard work and accomplishment is being group the Muslim Brotherhood were monopolizing in 41 constituencies ended at 6:00 pm rewarded.” But as the stock market hit a power. Morsi refused to step down or hold a referendum (1230 GMT), with four out of five exit polls new record high on hopes that Modi can on his leadership following an ultimatum from Sisi. released soon afterwards pointing to a jumpstart the flagging economy, analysts The military also moved in to replace longtime narrow majority for Modi’s Bharatiya urged caution due to notorious forecast- autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011 after days of protests Janata Party (BJP) and its allies. The sur- ing failures in 2004 and 2009. “Congress against him. Mubarak stepped down, and the military veys backed forecasts before voting start- has decided not to participate in any dis- ruled for a transitional period before Morsi was elected ed on April 7 that the BJP and its allies - cussion on exit polls on any channel or as part of the Brotherhood’s steady, subsequent sweep would inflict a humiliating defeat on the any platform,” Congress spokesman at the ballot box. A screen grab taken yesterday from a video by Nigerian Islamist extremist group ruling leftist Congress party and its lead- Shakeel Ahmed told reporters. Continued on Page 15 Boko Haram shows abducted Nigerian schoolgirls wearing hijabs and praying in ers, the Gandhi political dynasty. Continued on Page 15 an undisclosed rural location. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 LOCAL

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Zebras are seen at Kuwait Zoo, forming a striking combination of black and white.—Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Khobaizi honored for exemplary relations with EU Advocate of reciprocal communication

More employers to face human trafficking charges KUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor prepares to take legal action against companies involved in human trafficking for the second time this month, minister Hind Al-Subaih announced. The companies will be questioned for failure to provide physical jobs for workers they recruit from outside; a practice generally known as visa traf- ficking. “We felt that we cannot show leniency towards employers who vio- KUWAIT: Waleed Al-Khobaizi and Farizo Nicoletti pose with their visitors yesterday. —Photos by Joseph Shagra late article 10 of paragraph 2 of the labor law, which indicates that an By Ben Garcia aspects of foreign relations, ulti- employer cannot recruit workers from mately establishing the position of outside, then fail to provide jobs for KUWAIT: Waleed Al-Khobaizi, Kuwait among the emergent states them, or it turns out that the compa- Director of the Europe Department of the Mediterranean area, and ny is not actually in need for them,” at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, forging a truly international style in Subaih said Sunday. She spoke to Al- Hind Al-Subaih received the prestigious Medal of opening up and fostering relations Jarida daily reporter from Amman be questioned over trafficking accu- Honor by the President of the on the world stage today. The where she participated in an Arab Italian Republic through the award note reads: He is the merit sations. conference over sustainable develop- International Scientific Committee for innumerable initiatives favoring A total of 2,469 companies were ment. of the Pio Manzu Institute in trade and fraternal relationship referred by the ministry during the Rimini. with the European continent, Subaih was set to arrive to Kuwait first quarter of 2014 alone, compared The presidential award was including a host of fruitful relations soon, and plans to meet with ministry to around 250 questioned based on accorded to Khobaizi for his exem- and exchanges. “Getting to know officials this morning in order to dis- the ministry’s recommendation plary work in forging relations with one another is not only a human cuss proper measures to press throughout the past few years, Al- European countries, especially with instinct but also a spiritual goal, charges with the Public Prosecution, Jarida reported. the Italian Republic. He was cited and a basic objective,” it read. the minister said. Subaih had also announced that being an advocate of reciprocal In response, Khobaizi thank the the ministry canceled visas of 3,325 KUWAIT: Waleed Al-Khobaizi, Director of Europe Department at the communication and knowledge institute and the Italian president Life in prison workers out of 8,264 registered on Ministry of Foreign Affairs receiving award from Italian Ambassador between peoples, within and for the prestigious award validated Inspection teams discovered large companies questioned so far this to Kuwait Farizo Nicoletti. beyond the borders of the Arab by a well-respected institute. “I am numbers of workers hired by the year. world, targeting the international speechless. It means a lot to me countries’ interests. Having been nized their role and what they can companies involved, but were work- Hiring in the private sector is cur- community with a view to enhanc- and for my family, as I am now recognized by the president of provide to the international com- ing for other employers. In addition, rently suspended as the Public Labor ing and exploiting the richness of winding up my career as a foreign Italy and their famous Manzu munity from the political to eco- some companies were discovered to Authority prepares to become fully both economic and intellectual diplomat,” said Khobaizi after Institute is really a great honor!” he nomic sectors. I am greatly hum- have no existing offices at the address operational sometime this month, relations. receiving the gold medal. “I have mentioned. bled and proud to continue work- mentioned in their license. according to local newspaper reports. Khobaizi was recognized for his been working closely with Italy, “I was ambassador of Kuwait to ing with you to help create a better If convicted, the employers face jail The authority will have exclusive outstanding leadership in many and working to the best of both Italy for some time and I recog- world for everyone,” he said. terms ranging between 15 years and powers to hire, sponsor and provide life in prison, Subaih confirmed. labor forces to companies on The minister had announced on demand, effectively phasing out the May 4 that files for 34 employers were flawed sponsorship system in the Obesity problem increasing in Kuwait referred to the Public Prosecution to process. By Nawara Fattahova

KUWAIT: A shocking 70 percent of males and 80 percent of females above 15 years of age in Kuwait are obese, according to the World Health WANTED Organization (WHO). “This problem is increasing, as according to Forbes Magazine in 2007, Kuwait was ranking 8th internationally in obesity rates in the list of fattest countries, while last year we ranked second,” said Dr Majida Al-Qattan, Head of the Technical Editors & Reporters Department at the Ministry of Health during the launch ceremony of the Dr Nadeem Al-Duaij Dr Majida Al-Qattan Fawaz Al-Hasiyan HEYA awareness campaign on Sunday Arabian Gulf as it the first campaign to tion to prevent it. We hope to expand campaign to spread the right behavior at the National Library. This global and be based on the French EPODE and spread our campaign among the and promote more activities,” he point- local concern has encouraged individu- methodology, one of the most success- whole community. Obesity causes oth- ed out. als, NGOs, and various society groups ful and reproducible obesity preven- er diseases, especially the chronic dis- HEYA is a collaborative effort Full time, must be in Kuwait, to hold campaigns and initiatives to tion programs. “Most Arabian Gulf eases, and it even causes mental prob- between the US State Department’s fight obesity. states rank among the ten most obese lems such as depression and can even MEPI program, SAHA Institute, Ministry The SAHA Institute launched the nations of the world. In Kuwait, three in lead to suicide. I met an 11-year-old of State for Youth Affairs, Ministry of have transferrable 18 visa first evidence-based public health cam- four women are overweight and child- boy who wanted to kill himself by over- Health and social marketing leaders paign to tackle soaring burden of child- hood and adolescent obesity rates dosing on pills,” explained Duaij. TBWA, Snipp!, and Socialobby. SAHA hood obesity in Kuwait. HEYA (Health have sharply risen since the Gulf War “The problem is that it has a larger (Strategy and Analysis for Health) and writing experience Empowerment Youth Association) was due to increasingly sedentary lifestyles impact, as if you are obese at a young Institute is an innovative, independent launched to address the growing epi- and poor dietary habits. Obesity is the age, you grow up to develop chronic and non-partisan health policy think- demic of childhood obesity in Kuwait, single most important risk factor for diseases. Also, obesity can reduce life and-do-tank serving the Arab world. It where one in two teens is now over- diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers expectancy by 3 or 4 years and lead to is a platform for scientists, marketers, weight or obese. “The goal of its initial and psychological disorders in the morbid obesity. There is a relation and policymakers to design and imple- Send CV, letters of reference phase is to raise awareness through the young,” he added. between obesity and other problems ment meaningful solutions to public dissemination of key messages about “Our campaign brings the best evi- such as lower IQ, lower education and health threats. SAHA Institute seeks to and 3 writing samples to childhood obesity and its prevention to dence to our communities to tackle academic achievement, discrimination, promote equitable, efficient, and sus- the youth, their communities, and to one of the most critical health prob- unemployment, depression and oth- tainable health systems through local policymakers,” stressed Dr lems our societies are facing. It pro- ers. So the key is the prevention of the research, education, advocacy, evi- [email protected] Nadeem Al-Duaij, Founder and motes collective and concerted action illness, and this starts at a young age. dence-informed policies and strategic President of SAHA Institute and by a coalition of public and private We need to promote a healthy diet, partnerships in the field of global Only those who are shortlisted will be contacted Instructor at Harvard Medical School. stakeholders. We see complications of and this is more difficult to do at a later health policy. It was founded in Kuwait The HEYA approach is unique to the obesity daily, so we have to find a solu- age, and this the reason behind our in 2012. p3.e$S_Layout 1 5/12/14 8:34 PM Page 1

TUES DAY, MAY 13, 2014 LOCAL Sheikh Saad... a leader of courage, loyalty

KUWAIT: Kuwait will commem- Sheikh Saad left a legacy full the launch of constitutional life try’s defense and security sys- After assuming his post as the orate today the sixth anniversary of sacrifice and commitment to in the State of Kuwait. tems. Crown Prince, Sheikh Saad set of the passing of the late Father the country and the people of In January 1978, the late Amir He also contributed greatly in his mind to visiting many coun- Amir Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Kuwait during his long years as Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber approving many housing, tries to enhance diplomatic ties. Al-Salem Al-Sabah who died May Crown Prince, especially during Al-Sabah nominated Sheikh employment, and social security Upon the Iraqi invasion and 13, 2008. the Iraqi aggression against Saad Abdullah to be his Crown laws. In addition, he strived to occupation of Kuwait in 1990, Sheikh Saad was named the Kuwait in 1990. Prince; a few days later, an Amiri guarantee the best service for Sheikh Saad was critical in rally- 14th Amir of the State of Kuwait Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah was Decree was issued appointing the public by all state institu- ing an alliance of 34 countries to following the death of Sheikh born in 1930 and received his him as the state’s Prime Minister. tions. fight to liberate his homeland. Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- education in Al-Mubarakiya On Feb 16, 1978, Sheikh Saad To guarantee strong and Sheikh Saad will always be Sabah, on Jan 15, 2006 and he School and the Royal Military formed and chaired the 10th capable rising generations for remembered as a leader of held the post till Jan 29, when Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) Cabinet amidst critical local and the homeland, Sheikh Saad paid courage and loyalty who strong- His Highness the Amir Sheikh before he served as the Minister regional circumstances. He close attention to media, culture, ly believed a sense of patriotism Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- of Interior in 1962. He left his steered the Cabinet amid great and education where he showed within the hearts of all Kuwaiti Sabah was announced the 15th mark on many key legislations challenge at the time and support for all institutions and people was top priority, first and Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah Amir. and laws, playing a vital role in worked on enhancing the coun- initiatives in these fields. foremost. —KUNA Ministers face grilling over diesel subsidies Subsidization encourages smuggling: MP

By A Saleh Marzouq Al-Ghanem, Minister of Cabinet Affairs voted on collectively.” Rashed meanwhile Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah, Minster of expressed disappointment with Ghanem over KUWAIT: A lawmaker is preparing to file a Health Ali Al-Obaidi and 22 lawmakers. comments in which the speaker called the resig- grilling against Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair should An agreement was reached to appeal to the nations as part of a plot against Kuwait. Rashed the government fail to remove diesel subsidies, MPs during yesterday’s session to withdraw their told Ghanem through an interview with Watan which costs the state around KD 600 million resignations, otherwise voting will be post- TV Saturday to apologize for his comments. annually. MP Jamal Al-Omar made his poned to Thursday’s session, according to Furthermore, Rashed criticized the parliament’s announcement yesterday, days after he made vote to scrap the prime minister’s grilling, argu- similar threats to Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh, ing that the right step would have been to refer who has already stated recently that the govern- the interpellation to the legislative committee. ment considers removing diesel subsidies by Rashed also defended his resignation as a deci- 100 percent, as part of the state’s plans to curb sion to clear his name from association with cor- budget spending. The increased smuggling of ruption that he said is spreading in all state diesel, which is almost completely not used as establishments. an auto fuel in Kuwait, has been a cause of con- cern for the government which since then has Opposition rally Silk City masterplan finalized mulled the idea of ending its subsidization. Separately, the opposition decided at a meet- Omar suggested that diesel subsidization has ing hosted by former parliament speaker Ahmad KUWAIT: The Municipality has finalized a Given Parsons, which signed an agree- run its course, and keeping it further encourages Al-Saadoun Saturday to organize a gathering at new masterplan for the Silk City develop- ment with Kuwait Municipality to pre- smuggling. “The government provides subsi- Irada Square at a date to be determined later. ment in northern Kuwait. pare a masterplan that will replace the dization for diesel so that it can be smuggled out Meanwhile, several oppositionists expressed “We have finalized Silk City,” said Saad previous designs for the City of Silk and of the country and serve those who do not hope that speakers during the event use docu- Saud Muhailbi, director of the master- Bubiyan island developments in January deserve it,” Omar said. In other news, MP Saud ments and numbers to support their arguments, planning department at Kuwait 2011. Al-Huraiji reiterated that the parliament will hold Al-Rai reported yesterday, quoting sources with Municipality during a construction con- Malone Given Parsons worked with a special session Thursday to discuss diversifying knowledge of the meeting.Oppositionists are ference in Dubai yesterday. the local Gulf Consult to review and sources of income based on a request submitted looking for an issue to bring to people’s atten- by MP Yaqoub Al-Sane. tion, and one member suggested during the Expected to cost an estimated KD 25 update the previous masterplans for the billion, the 250 km (62,000 acre) city in northern sub-region of Kuwait, which MP Jamal Al-Omar meeting that clear evidence is shown during the MP resignations seminar in order to ‘respect the intelligence’ of Subiya would include a residential area, includes the Subiya promontory, the The session will also include discussion of res- sources familiar with discussions that took place supporters expected to rally at the square, said business center, sports and athletic are- location of the proposed Silk City, and ignations submitted by MPs Riyadh Al-Adasani, during the meeting. MP Saleh Ashour confirmed the sources who spoke on the condition of nas, nature preserve, hospitals, schools, Bubiyan island, reported MEED. Abdulkareem Al-Kandari, Hussein Al-Quwaian, the news yesterday, indicating that the voting anonymity. A majority of 15 oppositionists in government ministries, parks, hotels, The new masterplan replaces a pro- Ali Al-Rashed and Safa Al-Hashem, Huraiji told will not happen today. “The speaker will be attendance agreed on that idea, and also agreed restaurants and shopping centers. posal launched in March 2006 by UK- Al-Qabas on Sunday. The same daily reported asked to negotiate with the resigning MPs in an to gather at Irada Square in order to gauge pub- Originally approved by the govern- based Eric Kuhne & Associates. The meanwhile that the resignations were discussed attempt to persuade them to change their lic response before studying the possibility of ment in 2008, the Silk City proposal has $77bn Madinat al-Hareer (City of Silk) during a meeting that MP Saadoun Al-Otaibi minds,” Ashour said about today’s session. “On organizing demonstrations in the future, the been repeatedly shelved. The masterplan design was abandoned in the wake of hosted Saturday night, featuring Speaker Thursday, all resignations will be discussed and sources said. was prepared with Canadian firm Malone the global financial crisis. MP slams inedible school meals; minister orders probe

By A Saleh MoE about the quality of the meals reports and complaints, MoE’s public served at primary schools and kinder- services department approved the KUWAIT: Minister of Education and gartens by special contracted catering March reports without referring to any Higher Education, Ahmed Al-Mulaifi companies. violations after rewriting the reports ordered a wide scale investigation The MoH reports were made after that included citation of the violations, about news claiming that inedible examining random samples collected said informed sources, noting that meals is served to primary schools from meals served in various schools catering company also issued their and kindergarten kids. in different educational areas. The bills for March demanding higher pay- The minister also promised that reports showed that some of the ment without any discount. those who would be found responsi- examined food proved to be inedible The sources added that it is also ble for any possible violations would and other samples included bacteria, noteworthy that on April, 14, 2010, the be held legally accountable. harmful fungi and mold. MoH reports Cabinet had invited the former educa- Earlier, MP Mohammed Al-Jabri dated March 12, 13, 16 and 24, 2014 tion minister to discuss some remarks said that he has filed parliamentary stated that a sample taken from ‘inte- made by the Audit Bureau about inquiries to both the Health Minister grated’ meals served to primary school catering violations in the year Ali Al-Obaidi and Education Minister schoolchildren was inedible, contain- 2008-2009 which wasted considerable Ahmed Al-Mulaifi over inedible school ing 9 mm of fungi and mold in addi- sums when the MoH reports deemed meals. “If news reports about this tion to colon fecal bacteria in salads. the meals inedible too. The sources prove that our pupils have been In addition, a kindergarten director added that MoH’s head of the nutri- served inedible food, the education contacted the educational area on tion department then questioned minister will have to either respond to April 21 complaining about the meals MoH reports noting that the meals a grilling motion or resign,” he noting that the cucumber included were only of ‘less quality’ and instead warned. Notably, Al-Anbaa daily had was moldy and inedible and demand- of fining the catering company with published a report about obtaining ed measures to be taken against the KD 5 per meal with a total value of KD recently dated official documents concerned catering company. 72,000, he fined it with KD 0.100 per including MoH reports addressing Nevertheless, and despite all the meal with a total value of KD 4,000. Traditional approaches prove failure in countering graft

KUWAIT: The traditional approaches speech of a workshop on anti-corrup- ence, visions, proposals and recom- have proved failure in the fight against tion challenges. mendations that would be put forward corruption, as corrupt people have The workshop, themed “Corruption and studied during the workshop to developed counter-approaches, strate- Fighting ... National Challenges and help address the growing challenges gies and tools to cover their crimes and International Experience”, is organized on the national level,” Al-Namash said. escape punishment, Kuwait’s Public by the authority in cooperation with He admitted that the government, Anti-Corruption Authority Chief the World Bank to help build capacity with all its branches, could not face the Abdulrahman Al-Namash said yester- of anti-graft workers. corruption challenges alone. day. “The different past experiments He added that the workshop tackle “Cooperation and integration have shown that the anti-graft tradi- challenges facing anti-corruption agen- among government and non-govern- tional approaches had not and won’t cies as well as success stories of the ment organizations became very bear fruits, as corrupt people have world countries in this regard. essential for developing new approach- unlimited capabilities that helped beat “The Authority is looking forwards es to counter corruption and curb its the rap,” Al-Namash said at the opening towards benefiting from the experi- dangers,” he stressed. For his part, the World Bank’s Official Edouard Al-Dahdah said that the WB is Canadian top brass in town pleased to participate in the workshop KUWAIT: Chief of Staff of the Kuwaiti The meeting was attended by and its readiness to support efforts aim- Army Lt Gen Abdulrahman Deputy Chief of Staff of Kuwait’s Army ing to fight corruption. Mohammad Al-Othman met yesterday Lt Gen Mohammad Khaled Al-Khodr He added that there are several fac- with Chief of the Canadian Commander and Deputy Chief of Staff for tors that influence the fight against cor- of Maritime Forces Pacific Rear-Admiral Operations and Plans Maj Gen Bader ruption, at the forefront of them are Bill Truelove along with his accompany- Hajji Al-Muzain. political will, the geographical location, ing delegation, during which they dis- Furthermore, Lt Gen Al-Khodr financial and human resources allocat- cussed a number of issues of common signed with Rear-Admiral Truelove an ed for the mission and the existence of interest. During the meeting, the two agreement on construction of a base active civil society, an elected parlia- sides also addressed most important for support and logistic operations ment and free press. He expressed that issues concerning bilateral military between Kuwait and Canada, said the confidence that these factors will signifi- cooperation and ways to improve them statement. cantly help Public Anti-Corruption between the two countries, Directorate The signing ceremony was attended Authority follow the footsteps of their of Moral Guidance and Public Relations by Kuwaiti foreign ministry’s Counselor counterparts in the world, most notably Department at the Defense Ministry Mohsen Al-Ajmi and Attache Abdulaziz in Hong Kong, Latvia, Mauritius, which said in a press statement. Al-Ibrahim. —KUNA has achieved successes in the fight against corruption. —KUNA TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 LOCAL Girl assaulted by uncles over mystery dispute Man demands protection from ‘terrorists’

KUWAIT: A girl was hospitalized in critical condition after get killed. The man added that the suspects offered to said in an emergency call that she noticed a large num- she was brutally assaulted by her uncles, who tried to pay for his services, and he later pretended to accept their ber of bullets with a man she is romantically involved cover up the crime by deceiving police. Sulaibiya police offer so that he could be allowed to leave. The suspects with. She gave police the young man’s name and rushed to a house in the area late Saturday after a woman took the man’s phone number and told him to wait for address, which helped them put the Kuwaiti national reported that her brothers had killed her daughter. The their call, but he decided to go to the police station under arrest after discovering four boxes of M16 suspects answered the door to police and denied the instead. Detectives are searching for a lead to help them machinegun rounds in his possession. The man said dur- accusation. They showed their niece to officers to show identify and arrest the suspects. ing questioning that he borrowed the bullets from a that she was OK, but the policemen asked them all to friend. Further investigations revealed that the woman come with them to the police station for further investi- Shopper attackers tipped police in an act of revenge over relationship-relat- gations. There, the girl said during questioning that her Police arrested three women accused of physically ed issues with her boyfriend. sister was the one who was severely beaten by their assaulting a female shopper outside a Salmiya mall this uncles. Officers then returned to the house with a war- weekend. The three, described in the report as ‘tomboys’, Heroin smuggling rant. They raided the house and found the victim in a were later released after questioning, during which they A domestic worker faces multiple charges after she pool of blood. She was rushed to Jahra Hospital where accused the Lebanese woman of physical and verbal was caught with 1.5 kg of heroin she tried to smuggle The drug trader The shooting suspect she was admitted in the intensive care unit. Her name or assault as well. The suspects, two sisters and their friend, through Kuwait International Airport. The Indian woman age was not mentioned in the report. Her uncles, whose were identified through investigations in the case that was asked to open her suitcase after inspectors saw dark number was also left out in the report, were arrested and drew public attention, and prompted the Interior spots on the x-ray screen. They could not find anything Shooting suspect detained pending further action. Preliminary investiga- Ministry to release a statement to indicate that an inves- suspicious at the beginning, then emptied the bag and tions revealed that the attack was sparked by family dis- tigation was underway. They did not deny beating the noticed that it was still heavy while empty. They searched putes, the details of which are yet to be discovered. The woman, but argued that it happened during a fight that for any hidden pouch where contraband might be kept, in police net suspects could be charged with attempted murder based escalated when the complainant verbally assaulted and discovered one at the bottom of the bag where the on the investigations. them at first. Investigations are ongoing. drugs were found. The woman, who had come to Kuwait By Hanan Al Saadoun with nearly 150 gm of heroin. The Asian for the first time on a domestic worker’s visa, was arrested used to place the drugs in places and tell Protection appeal Beggars detained and taken to the authorities for further action. KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry yesterday users about them after receiving the State security officials summoned a man for question- Ahmadi police arrested two women who worked announced the arrest of a suspect in a money in other places. The suspect used ing regarding statements in which he claimed smuggling with others for a man that ran a network of beggars in shooting incident that injured a bedoon unknown phone numbers to avoid reveal- smoke bombs to ‘terrorist groups’ in Bahrain. The Kuwaiti the area, according to investigations. Officers later arrest- Israa Holiday in the head. The suspect confessed shoot- ing his identity. The suspect and drugs man said in an emergency call that he received a call ed the main suspect after he was set up in a trap using ing the victim in an attempt to kill him. were sent to concerned authorities. from the people he previously helped in Bahrain, asking the two women’s help. Police had headed to a mosque on May 29 The suspect was arrested in his Andalus for assistance to smuggle weapons, or face repercussions. in the area after receiving reports about a number of area house. Salmiya fight The man requested protection for himself and his family, women begging, which is illegal in Kuwait. They arrested KUWAIT: The Civil Service Commission has Fourteen drunken people were arrest- but police referred the case to the state security service to two of the women while the rest managed to escape. approved a recommendation to set Thursday, Guard attack ed by Salmiya and Salwa police. A securi- handle investigations. The Syrian nationals said during questioning that they May 29, as a day off for the public sector to mark Meanwhile the security information ty source said that a fight broke out in a split the money they collected every day with a man the Israa Wal Miraj that falls three days earlier. issued a statement regarding social media Salmiya flat that led policemen to arrest Bootleggers threat who assigned them to various locations around the area. The approved recommendation was referred to claims that police beat a guard in a nine persons including a Syrian and a Investigations are ongoing in a case involving a man The man, also Syrian, was arrested after detectives the Cabinet which is expected to make an offi- kindergarten. The statement said that bedoon girl. Meanwhile, Salwa police who accused six bootleggers of threatening him with tracked his phone’s signal after asking one of the women cial announcement this week or the next one. while a celebration was going on in the arrested four Syrians who were drunk. murder if he failed to work for them. The Kuwaiti national to call him. Investigations are ongoing in search for the The decision is based on a Cabinet decree kindergarten, a traffic jam occurred so a They all said they had drinks in a Salwa told officers at the Jahra police station that he stopped to rest. issued a few years ago which indicates that sin- citizen called police. When policemen flat. Meanwhile, the Farwaniya Hospital pick a person who signaled for a ride, but the man forced gle-day holidays that fall in the middle of the arrived and asked the guard about the emergency department was the scene of him to change direction at gunpoint as soon as he got in Officer’s arrest week are postponed to the following Thursday, driver of a car, a verbal exchange took a fight that resulted in a citizen and his his car. They stopped outside a diwaniya in Jahra’s invest- A coastguard officer was arrested for suspected except for the New Year Day and the Islamic place that led to a fight. The statement bedoon friend being injured. Hospital ment zone. He met six people inside who gave him an unlawful possession of ammunition after being tipped (Hijri) New Year. added that the guard and policemen sub- security arrested four Egyptians. One of offer he couldn’t refuse - help them sell alcoholic drinks or by the man’s girlfriend. The Kuwaiti woman reportedly mitted medical reports. them said the citizen attacked him when he entered a clinic, then a verbal MPs propose company for domestic workers Drug trader exchange evolved into exchanging Narcotics authorities arrested an Asian blows. By A Saleh The law stipulates establishing at cial and periodic dues for recruited set up centers where workers can stay least one shareholding company with labor in accordance with the executive temporarily once they arrive in Kuwait Increase in airport traffic KUWAIT: Five MPs proposed a bill yes- 51 percent share owned by the govern- regulations. In principle, the company or prepare to leave the country. terday that stipulates establishing a ment through the Kuwait Investment would follow regulations that guaran- The main objective behind the proj- KUWAIT: Directorate General of Civil in a press release. shareholding company to recruit and Authority (26 percent) and Public tee fair pay and medical services for ect is to limit recruitment of labor forces Aviation announced yesterday that the The total number of passengers at the employ domestic labor forces in Kuwait. Institution for Social Security (25 per- domestic workers. Each company must through a limited number of special- passenger traffic at Kuwait International airport has reached 786,000, including The project was adopted by MP cent). The remaining 49 percent are put also follow a system that guarantees ized companies that follow rules which Airport increased by 12 percent. 384,000 arrivals and 402,000 departures in Kamel Al-Awadhi. He forwarded the for an initial public offering, with priori- workers’ rights in case employers stop guarantee basic rights of domestic The flight movement and cargo flight April, the directorate added. draft law jointly with Mohammad Al- ty given to companies listed in the fulfilling their contractual obligations. workers, and ensure that they receive went up by six percent and seven percent The number of commercial flights to Azmi, Mohammad Al-Jabri, Yaqoub Al- stock exchange. The law also obliges the company to salary adequate to the nature of the job respectively in April 2014 compared to the and from Kuwait airport in April reached Sane’a and Faisal Al-Kandari to the par- The company would be obliged provide training for labor forces in cen- they are hired for, reads the draft law’s same month last year, the directorate said around 6,500, it pointed out. —KUNA liament yesterday. according to the law to meet the finan- ters at the workers’ home countries, and explanatory note.

KUWAIT: Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Kahlid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah laid the corner stone for the construction of Marina project, and wave barriers at the police officers club in the presence of Ministry Undersecretary Suleiman Al-Fahad, Assistant Undersecretaries and ministry security leaders. The Marina will accommodate more than 300 boats, and a helipad. Ministry inspects 86 samples for Coronavirus, all results negative KUWAIT: The Health Ministry had run tests on 86 samples WHO statistics about the pervasiveness of this disease with the results coming out as negative for Coronavirus, worldwide, published last April, noted that there have said a source here yesterday. been 254 documented cases of the disease, 93 of them Undersecretary at the Health Ministry Dr Qais Al- ended in death of patient. The statistics also indicated that Dowairi said that the ministry was following up on updates the country with the most cases is Saudi Arabia. released by the World Health Organization (WHO) regard- Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a viral res- ing Coronavirus, noting that the committee assigned to piratory illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It is deal with the virus had already met to evaluate the current caused by a Coronavirus called MERS-CoV. Most people situation. It is important to release media updates on who have been confirmed to have MERS-CoV infection Coronavirus, whether in print or by broadcast, said the offi- developed severe acute respiratory illness. They had fever, cial, adding that the committee decided to continue its cough, and shortness of breath. More than 30 percent of efforts to inform the public of all developments. these people died. — KUNA Zain introduces 120 high school students to its wonderful world KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommu- pany looks to distinguish itself in the gations also visited the company’s main nications company in Kuwait, yesterday local market. branch and learned about Zain’s leading announced that it has welcomed five A number of company officials partic- experience in serving customers’ needs student delegations consisting of more ipated in a series of discussions with the efficiently. Zain’s active Corporate Social than 120 students from public and pri- students, covering topics that included Responsibility and Sustainability strate- vate high schools to its corporate head- looking at the main trends in the tele- gies primarily focus on the wellbeing of quarters in Shuwaikh. The visits were com sector; the importance of technolo- the entire nation, most notably the youth organized in line with the company’s gy in our modern lives; and how private and educational sectors. For this reason, partnership with INJAZ Kuwait under the sector companies operate in Kuwait. The the company has maintained its support Job Shadow Program. Zain’s hosting of interaction between the company’sem- of numerous initiatives that add to the the student delegations aimed to intro- ployees and students was fluidas stu- investment in student and educational duce them with an overview of its suc- dents were eager to share their points of initiatives in Kuwait. cessful and leading experience in the view and ask questions. The company welcomed student del- telecom sector in Kuwait. Zain explained that the students were egations from the Indian Central School, Zain was pleased to host the student impressed by the core quality standards Shareefa Al Awadhi High School, Khaled delegations over the past month, in the company follows to ensure customer Al Zaid High School, Salem Al Mubarak which the students were impressed by service excellence. The company Al Sabah High School, and Abdullah Al the company’s professional and friendly involvedstudents in the actual work envi- Asousi High School. working environment. The students were ronment through allowing them to par- For more information about Zain’s introduced to many of the company’s ticipate in tours inside the Contact sponsorships and initiatives, customers departments and learned about Zain’s Center where they closely observed and are advised to visit the company’s web- economic, social, and technical aspects, listened to employees receiving actual site on www.kw.zain.com, or visit the as well as about ways in which the com- calls from customers. The student dele- company’s social media channels. TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem pictured with winners of the 12th Kuwait Constitution Competition. Top priority to efforts to curb air pollution Kuwait hosts oil industry conference

KUWAIT: Minister of Oil Dr Ali Al-Omair said implementation. “The new refinery is a part “The local oil companies, notably Kuwait yesterday the rising ratio of carbon dioxide of our ambitious strategy to produce clean National Petroleum Company and Kuwait Oil and other oil-associated pollutants in the air fuel for power plants and seawater desalina- Company, attach a great importance to the constitutes a top priority for the state and the tion stations that could meet the environ- conservation of the conventional energy oil companies as well. “Kuwait is fully commit- mental standards,” Al-Omair added. resources and the protection of environment,” ted to the efforts aiming to curb the carbon Al-Humoud pointed out. “These companies dioxide emissions,” Al-Omair, also Minister of Mega projects have introduced several techniques for reduc- State for National Assembly Affairs, told Meanwhile, Kuwait Society of Engineers’ ing the environment hazards of the oil indus- reporters on the sidelines of the technical Chairman Ayad Al-Humoud said the confer- try and leveraging the renewable energies, “ conference and industry exhibition. The two ence will discuss energy issues and the envi- he added. events are being organized by Kuwait Society ronmental challenges posed by the execution Eng. Ahmad Al-Jimaz, CEO of Mina Al- of Engineers in collaboration with a group of of mega projects in the oil industry. Abdullah Refinery noted that the ongoing con- Ghanem rewards winners in Indian oil engineers under the title of “Energy “A constellation of Kuwaiti, Indian and oth- ference and exhibition are being organized and environment - engineering and adminis- er nationality engineers, as well as representa- under an initiative by a group of oil engineers. trative challenges.’ tives of major oil companies, gathered here Al-Jimaz, key speaker at the conference, noted Constitution competition “Kuwait, as a main oil exporter, maintains with a view to brainstorm ideas on the that a large number of international celebrities close ties and fruitful cooperation with India- impacts of the oil industry on environment,” in the oil field take part in the activities of the By Abdulqader Ahmed School to win the boys high schools’ com- petition. one of the world’s major oil consumers with he noted. conference and exhibition. —KUNA KUWAIT: Parliament Speaker Marzouq Al- Several MPs attended the event includ- the fast economic growth rate,” the minister Ghanem awarded schools that won prizes in ing Kamel Al-Awadhi, Madhi Al-Hajri, Dr pointed out. the 12th Kuwait Constitution Competition, Abdullah Al-Turaiji, Dr Yousuf Al-Zalzalah “The ongoing conference provides an Medical consultancy during a ceremony organized yesterday. and Dr Mohammad Al-Huwailah. National opportunity for both countries to share tech- The competition was organized by the Assembly officials were also in attendance nical knowledge in the areas of oil industry General Secretariat of the National including Secretary General Allam Al- and environment protection,” Dr Al-Omair phone service launched Assembly in cooperation with the Ministry Kandari, Assistant Secretary General for affirmed. KUWAIT: The Health Ministry launched, late hopefully answer medical inquires that do not of Education, featuring participation from Members, Public Relations and Media He noted that Kuwait took part in the yesterday, the “151” phone service for medical require immediate attention. all public and privates schools in Kuwait. Affairs Sami Al-Shaya, and Assistant preparations for an international conference consultancy. In case of an emergency, the medical staff The tournament was divided into two Secretary General fir Sessions Affairs Jum’ah on climate change, to be held in Paris next The Ministry’s Undersecretary Dr Khaled Al- in charge of the service will be providing nec- categories, one for girls and one for boys Al-Shatti. year. Sahlawi told the press that 17 family physi- essary information until an ambulance arrives, high schools. Hadiya High School won the The Ministry of Education was represented On the new oil refinery, the minister said cians will answer calls from 2pm to 10 pm. said Dr Al-Sahlawi who indicated that the girls high schools’ competition after defeat- by Badr Al-Furaih, the Assistant Undersecretary the Central Tenders Committee (CTC) There are plans to extend the service for 24 phone service would help improve medical ing Omra bint Rawaha High School in the for Educational Development and Activities, approved the rehabilitation of the consor- hours as soon as more staff are available, said care in the country and also lessen pressure finals. Meanwhile, Mohammad Al-Muhaini Muna Al-Furaih, the School Activities tium implementing the project, noting that the official, noting that the physicians will on hospitals and medical centers. —KUNA High School beat Al-Mubarakiya High Department Director, and other officials. the approval is a crucial step towards smooth Kuwaiti pop music springs from Gulf environment

KUWAIT: Kuwaiti pop music is so dis- the form of a saga, he added. Lute is gence of Gulf art and Gulf song, the tinctive and deep-rooted that it could being used in Kuwait on a wide scale Kuwaiti pop singer believed. never disappear due to the fact that it is while tribesmen use rababa, a type of a Arabian Gulf sailors used to call the closely linked to its local and Gulf envi- bowed string instrument, he said, noting singer who used to perform sea songs as ronment, a pop singer said here yester- that this sort of art was developed and “Naham” and to call all types of sea songs day. Kuwaiti pop music is an expressive disseminated by artist and poet Abdullah as “Nahma”, while lyrics for sailors were art that has something to do with Gulf Al-Faraj. divided into two kinds: “Zuhairi” and people’s inner feelings so that it would The art of sound was spread via music “Muwaili”, he said. remain for good, given that it is firmly CDs which were played through gramo- Sea songs were mostly performed in a connected with the Gulf soil, Salman Al- phone as people used to sit at popular collective manner that was called “Shela” Amari said. Although it is keeping on coffee shops for entertainment and which often composed of two or three developing, this art still holds fast to its enjoying this distinctive art, Al-Amari verses and were performed while sailors original nature and does not hinge upon reminded. were working, he noted. any modern musical instruments, he The art of sound has greatly devel- “Mald” is finally another type of pop added. What really distinguishes Kuwaiti oped thanks to Arab musical tunes that song that used to be played during reli- pop music is the art of sound that were close to their sea environment, he gious occasions and events like the explains the professional song that said, citing Mohammad Fares, Dahi bin Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad appeared in the thirties of last century Waleed and Mohammad Zuwaid as pio- (PBUH) and Al Isra’ wal Mi’raj (the and that is associated with lute, a small neers of this art of sound school. Prophet’s Journey and Miracle of drum known as Merwas, and applaud- The types of sounds include Levant, Ascension), he affirmed. However, the ing, he said. Arab and imaginary sounds and differ Kuwaiti artist regretted that modern The words of the song are composed from each other on the basis of rhythms, songs have seriously affected pop and in the colloquial language, but there he pointed out. traditional arts, hoping that a pop art should be a couple of classical Arabic The Kuwaiti art of sea singing has revival school could be created in the verses in the end of the song played in played an essential role in the emer- near future. —KUNA DKA Prevention Campaign launched

KUWAIT: The Diabetic Ketoacidosis Prevention Campaign in progress. KUWAIT: The Pharmacotherapy Services Department in collaboration with the Public Relations and Media Services, as well as the Clinical Kuwait to host Services Departments of Dasman Diabetes Institute, which was established by Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, AOAD meetings launched the 7th community outreach activity, “Diabetic Ketoacidosis KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Agricultural (DKA) Prevention Campaign” at Sharq mall in Kuwait city on Thursday. Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) will host today This campaign aimed to enhance the awareness of the public in the 33rd session of the Arab Organization for the State of Kuwait about the signs of an early diagnosis of Type 1 Agricultural Development (AOAD) which will last Diabetes in children to avoid or to minimize the development of a until May 14. life-threatening condition known as diabetic ketoacidosis through Most prominent topics on the agenda include identifying and recognizing one of the primary symptoms of the con- an Arab agricultural development strategy, the dition such as night bedwetting. organization’s plan of action 2015-2016, and the The event involved various activities including blood sugar screen- first phase of the emergency program for Arab ing services in addition to distribution of educational material. food security, Director of Public Relations in the Clinical Pharmacists and Medical Information Specialists were PAAAFR Shakir Awadh said in a press statement. available to answer the questions of the visitors regarding DKA and The conferees will also review the Arab agricul- Diabetes in general. A satisfaction survey was conducted and its tural development program for 2013, Awadh results revealed that most of the visitors were highly satisfied with added. —KUNA the DKA campaign and the accompanying activities. TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 LOCAL

Local spotlight In my view Why the US? ‘Competitions’ Has it become in Ukraine a free-for-all now?

By Muna Al-Fuzai By Labeed Abdal

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believe there are 10 reasons why the United States of ime magazine wrote recently that Ukraine is moving America is the best destination. This was a topic I dis- Political Opposition Al-Anbaa closely towards civil war as violence intensifies east Icussed with friends and we all agreed that even those group Tof the country. It further indicated that while sepa- who criticize US foreign policy wait for hours in queues in group ratists released eight military observers, Ukrainian officials front of US embassies to get a visa to go to the US. So what warned that the situation in the east of the country is is so especial about the US that makes so many people going out of control. dream about going there and maybe become US citizens? This situation requires control to happen from within First, it’s a haven for all intellectual thinkers, writers and first and foremost. The spread of corruption exhausted the activists. Yes, there is no perfect place for people who state’s general budget, while corrupt individuals are inter- belong to this category than the US. The large margin of fering in the state’s affairs and determining its future. freedom of expression makes it the right location for the Furthermore, the international community is required latest books and best libraries. Books are the fuel of the to control ‘competitions’ between superpowers that are soul. Second, intellectuals always want to move from the bar- riers and censorship of their native countries to a place where they can express themselves freely and openly as kuwait digest The international commu- they wish without the taboos of customs and traditions. Third, it is the best place for medical treatment. No one nity is required to control can argue that the US is highly advanced in the medical Act fast to solve issues field, especially with focus on cancer research and deadly ‘competitions’ between diseases. If you need to have an operation, you surely By Dr Hassan Jouhar superpowers that are would want to be in the right hands. Expensive, but it’s worth it. he size of problems and their nature, corruption the rule. These things went beyond all limits to a point looking to take over vital Fourth, Education. Best investment for families abroad. and its stories, talks of political money and that these talks have become a public affair being dealt resources in Ukraine. The US has best schools and colleges and for families who Tbribes and its dealings have become every- with the young and adults under troubled regional situa- go there for good with children - they want their kids to body’s talk starting with diwaniyas and going through tions, and quickly changing international formulas with- get the best education. All kinds of colleges and specialties newspaper columns, social media and ending with the out any official answers or decisive decisions to put an are there for them and this means a better future. Who looking to take over vital resources in Ukraine. If the situa- would say no? National Assembly for several years, in the form of end to such political deterioration. tion remains the same in Ukraine, it would be a serious Fifth, Entertainment. Working 45 hours a week leads to exchanged accusations that nobody, be it a political or The problem is that everybody now knows about the threat to international peace and security, in light of the your body to ask for some rest and fun. Yes, no one wants social group or public personalities are excluded from. various political struggles in the country including differ- increasing pace of foreign intervention by countries look- to be occupied in an office all week long, and in US that Before that, accusations focused on influence, ences between the ruling family. Maybe we all agree that ing to demonstrate their strength. should never be a problem with the latest shows and plays. wasta, competition over leadership posts in the state, the continuation of this situation will contribute to the And as the world watches Ukraine go through a morbid Sixth, man is social by nature. The US is best place for as well as exceptional public weakening of the state’s pres- phase, the international community needs to step in quick- making new friends or not. For those who want to meet services such as promotions, tige, and marginalize the true ly to provide assistance and prevent interventions of con- new people and have a new social circle, it would be easy flicting superpowers, in order to help the country reach for them to be involved with any group they wish and for treatment abroad, transfers The problem is that role of public establishments safety shores and regain sovereignty over all of its lands. those who want isolation and peace, they can easily enjoy and other things. These accu- along with the continued that and no one would care to ask why. Unlike living in sations also included political everybody now knows encouragement of the already Arab states in which your personal business is everyone’s factions and members of the about the various political existing social divisions. The business, even very private ones. National Assembly. harm from that, without any kuwait digest Seventh, the US is the right place for a fresh start. There Regardless of how much struggles in the country shadow of doubt, will affect on you can start all over again with your life at any age. If you and how credible these accu- the core of the state and the have been busy with your life and missed the chance to including differences sations are, and the negative entire people, even with some play golf or learn to dance without being criticized by your What is greed? kin because you are too old, in the US you don’t get judged results from them, as well as between the ruling family. groups being preoccupied by appearances. the piling up of administra- with their concerns, priorities Eight, it’s the best retirement place in the world. This tive problems that led to and special interests. moment is coming and for those who wish to have a little Kuwait’s pioneering reputation in development and Such dangerous files must be solved and closed com- By Dr Hassan Abbas fun in their life, the US has the best resorts and places for all achievement drop, the justification that was assuring pletely in a responsible manner, and people should be was preparing to write about the parliament in to enjoy their last days. But they need to have some money people is that the country was in good shape, and we directed towards a new scene where hope is in redraw- for that. Living in the US is easy. general, but then was struck by some MPs’ as people do not miss anything under a strong econo- ing the map of public interest and signs of a new future. Ninth, Security. It is a safe place for all kinds of financial Istatements that merchants are greedy. The investments. You want to have a safe investment and yes, my that guarantees the deposit of monthly salaries in This responsibility is that of the ruling family in the first least thing that I can say about that statement is the economy can have bad days, but it will always recover our bank accounts, with the famous prayer “May Allah place, followed by the wise elite among Kuwaitis who that it is really laughable! and your investment is safe . not change things for us.” have the people’s trust and respect, before things esca- The context of that statement was discussion Finally, shopping. I’m not a great fan of malls, but I Yet those accusations reached a very dangerous level late and solutions become more difficult and exits get over land prices, rents and the real estate market believe the US to be the best place for shopping. Malls are today, under scary headlines such as conspiracy against narrower and more complicated. —Translated by Kuwait in general. Members of the parliament and a life experience and you could easily forget the time while the country and compromising its pillars and aiming at Times from Al-Jarida just being there. Cabinet believe that merchants seize every oppor- US can’t be compared with Europe or Asia. It is so differ- tunity of discussion over increasing rent ent and worth experiencing. allowances and land distribution in order to kuwait digest increase rents and prices. With that argument, they want us to believe that they are the team Game of Thrones that works to serve the national interests while kuwait digest merchants are only concerned about their own interests. By Hamad Nayef Al-Enezi Growing demand There are many questions about the merchants’ ame of Thrones’ is a series that has been who follow our local ‘series’ to tell who is honest greed that MPs repeated several times. First of all, for residence watched by millions for three years now. and who is a liar; who is good and who is bad and aren’t merchants represented inside the parlia- ‘G The series, set on fictional continents at who is patriotic and who is a self-interest seeker. All ment? Is there a legislator with the slightest level By Suleiman Al-Dilaijan the end of a decade-long summer, interweaves faces are brightly colored; falsity and artificiality of awareness who fails to understand that pump- ing money into the economy without control will he talk about the rise in rents of buildings and vil- several plot lines. The first follows the members of cover the walls of all hearts to the extent that own- las needs analysis to benefit from previous expe- several noble houses in a civil war for the Iron ers of such hearts themselves find it hard to tell create more problems than it would solve them? Triences. A respected person in a diwaniya told me Throne of the Seven Kingdoms; the second covers whether their feelings are true or false...so do we! that when the Lebanese crisis began during the ‘70s, the rising threat of the impending winter and the Many icons are relentlessly fighting for power many Lebanese families sought security and making a mythical creatures of the North; the third chroni- regardless of anything else. Each of them is sup- I hope that MPs explain to living in the Gulf region, and most Lebanese families cles the attempts of the exiled last scion of the ported by a group of ‘hyenas’ waiting for their own preferred Kuwait. realm’s deposed dynasty to reclaim the throne. share of the ‘prey’. There are mere tools for this or us what a greedy merchant The late Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad ordered the estab- Through its morally ambiguous characters, the that iconic figure who has a charming charisma, lishment of an investment area that could absorb the really is, and what is the line number of incoming people, and sure enough Al- series explores the issues of social hierarchy, reli- loud voice and touching way of addressing the between making a profit Riggae area was put up for tendering by companies gion, loyalty, corruption, civil war, sex, crime and public. They all sing praises of love of the nation, and individuals, and this helped to spread liquidity punishment. Each viewer has sympathized with they all express keenness of protecting the consti- and being greedy. invested in Hawally and Salmiya at the time, and this one or another of the sides conflicting on screen, tution, they all seek law enforcement and, most of helped absorb the new community and reduction of wishing that he could join all, they all follow the rents. their fight and help them orders of the uncle they are Pumping money creates inflation, migration of Now, with the clear increase in Kuwait’s population achieve their ultimate goal - It is hard for us who follow our affiliated to in the great capitals, and other economic problems, so where (it reached four million in March 2014), and as oil com- reaching the throne on a state of uncles! are the studies based on which MPs made their panies and ministries have many construction projects local ‘series’ to tell who is honest proposals? and with the increase in the number of Kuwaitis who path paved with enemy and who is a liar; who is good and There is a hidden strug- wish to have a residence, rent has gone up 30 to 40 skulls and devastated king- gle among mighty ones for But that is not important, as much as the idea percent in some areas. The question: Will the ‘70s sce- doms! who is bad and who is patriotic the big ‘cake’ - a struggle that merchants’ goals are different. The obvious nario be repeated by having the municipal council, in The story, based on a unperceivable by ordinary question is this: Why are merchants greedy? What cooperation with the ministry of public works, tender novel by George Martin, is and who is a self-interest seeker. citizens who see it one is the main idea of trade and trader? What is the new investment areas to avoid the growing demand set on the fictional conti- All faces are brightly colored. amongst hyenas snarling to difference between a greedy and a successful for residence in buildings? I hope so. nents of Westeros and Essos each other’s faces, ready to merchant? Can a merchant become successful if On the evening of May 6, 2014 officials of “Nater he was not greedy and loved money?! Bait” (Waiting for a House) campaign invited me, and where seven royalties fight to claim the throne. snap, insult and accuse each other of treason. to be honest I had some reservations on some of the The series tackles many issues such as social hier- However, we must not jump to conclusions in our Of course merchants seek to increase their wrong practices in my view, when they demanded the archy and the effect of religious faiths in stimulat- judgment and blame them because the peanuts wealth! Can you believe for example that a mer- solution for the housing problem by demonstrating in ing conflicts and civil wars and their causes. So far, and bits falling off the table they are fighting over chant builds an apartment building, then rents it front of the housing ministry. But that changed when I the series is the most expensive in TV history as are over a million and might reach tens of millions without money? Or import cars and then sell them saw promising graduate youth who are working hard producers filmed supernatural scenes so magnifi- per each loyal and loud-voiced hyena, according to at cost price? Or opens a restaurant, hires chefs, to help solve the housing problem, which became the cently in a way never watched before. It covers the some observers. then distributes food for free?! talk of diwaniyas, homes and social forums. The ques- epics the seven kingdoms witness on Westeros Finally, years from now and regardless of the out- I hope that MPs explain to us what a greedy tions varied - who bears the housing problem and how merchant really is, and what is the line between to solve it? where noble families fight to get absolute power, come of this conflict, the sure thing is that WE will be Is there any hope to end this problem? My answer in the course of which each side devastates every- the biggest losers. That is you, me, him, her and making a profit and being greedy. If there was an was, through my experience, that optimism never thing and violates all principles and values using everyone who have no other home but Kuwait. So if opportunity for a merchant to increase his profit, stops and the quick answer is not realistic, as projects religion, sex, money and sorcery as weapons to we lose it, we lose everything - our present and the should he avoid taking it so that people don’t call are being executed slowly and the ability of executing reach their goals! future of our children who will surely curse us for our him greedy? Is it better for prices to stay the same companies is limited. The issue needs dismantling the In real life in Kuwait, not on the TV screen, we silence and standing by watching those who got us despite changes in supply and demand levels? problem, updating data, improving government are having a similar conflict these days but ours is preoccupied with their struggle for the ‘throne’ until My advice to MPs: Leave your microphones and departments and setting youth priorities in housing not a fictional one, though as much exciting and our ‘oil’ wall that has been protecting us for decades focus on doing your job, which is legislating. for flats and areas of 400 m or 600 sq m. I was pleased with those present, and the youth’s longing to mod- thrilling and despite our politicians’ remarkable melted, exposing us to be attacked by beasts from Making statements of that level indicates that ernize their country. I wish their efforts all success. acting skills that surpass those of the actors doing everywhere to snap our flesh and spit on our naivety! either you are silly, or we are. Or maybe both! — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas the part in the series. Therefore, it is hard for us —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Rai Key players in India’s polls

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TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 Ukraine rebels declare independence Russia urges talks on Ukraine’s future

LUGANSK: A woman shouts slogans during a celebration of what some people claimed was resounding victory in an independence referendum in the eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk yesterday. — AFP

DONETSK: Pro-Russia insurgents in Ukraine’s Donetsk region declared independence yesterday and asked to join Russia - a day after holding a hastily arranged vote on separatism that Ukraine’s government and its western allies said violated interna- tional law. The Kremlin had no immediate response Monday to the annexation request, but issued a statement earlier in the day that urged Ukraine’s government in Kiev to hold talks with the pro-Russia insurgents in the east. Organizers said about 90 percent of those who cast ballots Sunday in Donetsk and the neighboring Luhansk region backed sovereignty for the sprawling areas that lie along Russia’s border and form Ukraine’s industrial heartland. Donetsk has about 4.4 million people and Luhansk has 2.2 million. Insurgents in the Luhansk region stopped short of mimicking the move made by their kin in Donetsk, but spokesman Vasily Nikitin said the Luhansk region will not vote in Ukraine’s May 25 presidential election. Ukraine’s central government and the West have com- pletely rejected Sunday’s insurgent vote and accused Moscow of fomenting weeks of unrest in eastern Ukraine in a possible attempt to grab more land after annexing Crimea in March - accusations that Russia has denied. “The farce, which terrorists call the referendum, will have no legal consequences except the criminal responsibility for its organizers,” Ukraine’s acting President Oleksandr Turchynov said in a statement.

Cautious stance The interim government in Kiev had been hoping the presi- dential vote would unify the country behind a new, democrati- cally chosen leadership. Ukraine’s crisis could grow even worse if regions start rejecting the presidential vote. In Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s office voiced hope that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe could help broker talks between the central government and the two provinces. The cautious stance - which contrasted with Russia’s quick annexation of Crimea after a separatist vote there - appeared to show Russia favoring a negotiated solution to what has become the worst crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War. “The practical implementation of the referendum results should proceed in a civilized way without any throwbacks to vio- lence through a dialogue between representatives of Kiev, Donetsk and Luhansk,” the Kremlin said. The pro-Russia insur- gents who organized Sunday’s vote claimed 89 percent of those who cast ballots in the Donetsk region and about 96 percent of those who turned out in the neighboring Luhansk region voted for sovereignty. The insurgents said turnout topped 70 percent, but with no international election monitors around it was impos- sible to confirm such claims. Turnout was brisk at some polling stations visited by AP jour- nalists. At one polling station at a school in Donetsk, all the voting slips that could be seen in the transparent ballot boxes showed that self-rule had been selected. Most opponents of sovereignty likely stayed away from the polls rather than risk attracting atten- tion to themselves but there were no obvious signs of outright intimidation by the armed pro-Russia forces who have captured government buildings across the east.

Setting up talks Surveys by polling companies have indicated that a signifi- cant majority of people in Ukraine want to keep their country united. Swiss President Didier Burkhalter, whose country current- ly chairs the OSCE, met with Putin last week to propose a road map for settling the Ukrainian crisis and outlined some of that plan Monday in Brussels. “We have seen in Moscow that there is openness for a dialogue,” Burkhalter said. The OSCE plan urges all sides to refrain from violence and calls for an immediate adoption of an amnesty law. It also envisages a comprehensive national dialogue focusing on decentralization and the status of the Russian language. Burkhalter emphasized that it would be up to Ukraine to fig- ure out how to set up the talks. — AP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 Drone kills 6 Qaeda suspects in Yemen

SANAA: A drone strike killed six Al-Qaeda sus- pects in eastern Yemen yesterday, the first such US extends embassy closure raid since government troops launched their Fears of reprisals as well as a spate of attacks biggest offensive on jihadists in two years, against foreigners prompted the United States tribesmen said. In Sanaa, the US embassy to close its embassy in Sanaa last Wednesday. announced the mission would “remain closed The State Department “has been apprised of for consular services through May 15,” adding information that, out of an abundance of cau- that it could remain shut for even longer tion and care for our employees and others who depending on the situation. may be visiting the embassy, indicates we The pilotless aircraft deployed over eastern should institute these precautionary steps,” said Yemen targeted a vehicle near Al-Husun, a vil- the mission’s website. lage in Marib province, killing at least six “Al- Last week, a Frenchman was killed and Qaeda members”, tribal sources told AFP. The another wounded when gunmen opened fire United States is the only country operating on their car in Sanaa’s diplomatic district. Both drones over Yemen, but US officials rarely worked for a private security firm which officials acknowledge the covert program. said was guarding the European Union delega- Two weeks into its government offensive, tion in Yemen. Defense Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed Yemeni security forces said the head of a ter- pledged an “open war on terror”, at a security ror cell” behind the attack has been shot dead. ALEPPO: A boy collects water from the side of a road in a rebel-held area yesterday. — AP meeting in the southeastern city of Mukalla. The Since Sunday, dozens of Al-Qaeda suspects have war aims to “cleanse the regions of Yemen” of ter- been rounded up in the capital, a source in the ror elements, he said. Yemen’s army says it has security services told AFP. The interior ministry inflicted heavy losses on Al-Qaeda in the said checkpoints were set up around the Assad omnipresent in Arabian Peninsula since it launched a major provinces of Sanaa, Ibb, Baida, Lahij and Marib to offensive against AQAP strongholds on April 29. prevent the entry of jihadists fleeing the offen- But suspected AQAP militants have carried sive in Shabwa and Abyan. The ministry added it out apparent revenge attacks. Washington was on alert to “prevent the infiltration of radical regards AQAP as Al-Qaeda’s most dangerous fighters coming from Somalia”, without elaborat- Damascus before vote franchise and the group has been linked to ing. failed terror plots in the United States. Yesterday, On Sunday, a suspected Al-Qaeda suicide militants opened fire on an army convoy head- bomber killed 12 soldiers and a civilian in an Assad’s Facebook page has over 109,000 likes ing from Azzan to Huta, in the southern attack on a military base in the southeastern province of Shabwa, a military official said, province of Hadramawt. AQAP’s leader Nasser DAMASCUS: Syria’s presidential election campaign, lambasted the election as a “farce”. But the govern- “Together,” and has launched an online presence, prompting an exchange of fire. Al-Wuhayshi recently appeared in a rare video in launched at the weekend, has transformed the ment sees the vote, coupled with recent successes with a Facebook page that had over 109,000 likes Army troops also killed a Saudi militant with which he vowed to attack Western “crusaders” streets of Damascus into a glorification of incum- on the battlefield, as an opportunity to portray itself by yesterday morning, and a Twitter account with Al-Qaeda named as Majid Al-Mutairi in Shabwa, wherever they are. Jihadists use the term cru- bent Bashar Al-Assad, who is expected to easily win as the “victor” in the country’s devastating three- 1,200 followers. In Damascus’s Mazzeh district, sup- the defence ministry news website 26sep.net saders to refer to Western powers, especially the June 3 vote. On the streets, parks and buildings year war. Alongside the slogan “Assad’s Syria,” other porters have hung a banner declaring the cam- said. Troops last Thursday announced they had those countries which have intervened militarily of the city, barely a wall can be seen without a pic- posters in the city announce that the president is paign unnecessary. entered Azzan, which had been a jihadist bas- in Muslim countries, such as Britain, France and ture of the president, who is running for a third sev- “the only choice” for the ballot, which will only take “The decision (to stand) is not yours, the people tion. The interior ministry, meanwhile, said it has the United States. The ongoing army offensive en-year term as his troops battle rebels trying to place in areas controlled by government troops. have chosen you,” it informs Assad, alongside the beefed up security in several provinces to pre- follows a wave of US drone strikes that killed oust him. The president appears in some of the posters signatures of residents. The two other candidates vent likely attacks by jihadists and infiltration by scores of suspected jihadists in southern and For the first time, Assad faces an election rather smiling, and in others he wears a pair of sunglasses are almost invisible by comparison, maintaining a Somali jihadists. central regions.—AFP than a referendum for the post, but with the two as he throws a salute. “Our Bashar, we do not accept low profile, giving no new conferences and remain- other candidates virtually unknown, the competi- any other president than you,” some of the posters ing unreachable by journalists. Their slogans, rang- tion appears more like a one-horse race. In the read. Others proclaim simply: “We love you”. One ing from “Syria... for Palestine” or “for social equality,” Syrian capital, residents profess ignorance when sign near Damascus’s opera house announces that seem out of touch with the reality of the country asked about his rivals, Maher Al-Hajjar and Hassan Assad has become not only “the choice of journal- after more than three years of devastating war. Al-Nuri. ists and intellectuals,” but also for “investors and “Nuri, who’s this one?” asked a student near the entrepreneurs”. “Syria will remain the den of lions,” A ‘masquerade’ University of Damascus in the city’s Baramkeh another poster adds, in a play on the name Assad, Despite the atmosphere, some Syrians in the neighborhood, pointing at a small sign on which which means lion in Arabic. “Yes to the one who capital openly dismiss the election. “This doesn’t the businessman calls for a “free economy”. In a preserved Syria’s pride,” is emblazoned on banners concern us,” one jaded watch-seller at a market said. country where the cult of personality surrounding that hang across busy roads. Two young women, dressed elegantly, pause for a Bashar and his father and predecessor Hafez has moment when asked about the upcoming vote, been built up for nearly 50 years, Syrians are used to ‘We want him to stay’ before bursting into laughter. towering posters of the Assads. Interviewed in public, few Syrians express plans “It’s a masquerade, intimidation,” one said, Their portraits have long appeared on bill- to vote for anyone but Assad.”For us, it’s not even an laughing. “He charges ahead and doesn’t look at boards, in shop windows and stuck to electricity election, it’s a referendum, we want him to stay,” anyone but himself, without seeing what’s happen- poles. Busts of the father and son even watch over said Maher, in his clothing shop in the Salhiyeh ing in his country,” the other one said, referring to the entrances to public parks. And although the commercial district. Mayada, a 55-year-old house- Assad. Elsewhere, the tone is one of simple resigna- election will be the country’s first multi-candidate wife out in the Baramkeh neighbourhood, is equally tion, after a conflict that has killed more than presidential vote in 50 years, and a term seen on adamant. “Those outside must understand that... 150,000 people and wrought massive destruction many of the posters is “mubayaa”-a word meaning we don’t want anyone but him,” she told AFP. “It’s throughout the country. Near the Barada river, HADRAMAWT: This picture shows the body of a man who died in an attack on a mili- to chose a leader by pledging allegiance. those abroad who are the cause of our problems.” Salma is carrying her young daughter. “People are tary base by a suspected Al-Qaeda suicide bomber yesterday. — AFP Syria’s opposition and western countries have Assad is campaigning under the slogan tired, we want peace,” she said. — AFP 10 killed in Somalia bombing Jordan tourism hopes

MOGADISHU: At least 10 people were and guerrilla-style raids. Recent Shebab high for papal visit killed yesterday in a huge explosion target- attacks have targeted key areas of govern- ing a senior official in the southern Somali ment or the security forces, in an apparent AMMAN: Jordan, home to many Islamic and Christian holy town of Baidoa, police and hospital staff bid to discredit claims by the authorities sites, hopes a visit this month by Pope Francis will promote reli- said. “The target was a pick-up truck trans- that they are winning the war against the gious tourism and boost an industry hit hard by regional tur- porting a senior local official,” police Islamist fighters. moil. Tourism contributes 12 percent of gross domestic prod- spokesman Mohamed Moalim Abdirahman Continued conflict, compounded by uct in the desert kingdom and last year saw arrivals drop 10 said of the blast. poor rains and funding shortfalls, are percent to 5.4 million with revenues falling 6.25 percent to $3 Medical worker Mohamed Adan said the threatening the few gains made in Somalia billion (2.2 billion euros). Officials pin the drop to the political hospital had received six dead bodies, and since an extreme famine less than three and security impact from Arab Spring revolts in the region and that “three others died from their wounds years ago, with the United Nations and aid the war in neighboring Syria that has pushed 600,000 refugees in the hospital”. Another dead body was agencies warning the troubled country to flee to Jordan. collected by relatives direct for burial. The could be sliding back into a food crisis. Tourism Board chief Abdul Razzaq Arabiat said “we want to town, which is under the control of govern- A UN appeal for $933 million in humani- focus on religious tourism and make it a priority. It is least likely ment troops backed by African Union tarian aid for Somalia is so far only 15 per- to be affected by political and economic issues.” Pope Francis forces, was wrested off the Al-Qaeda-linked cent-funded. Some 250,000 people, around visits the Holy Land on May 24-26 with the first stop in Jordan, Shebab rebels two years ago. half of them young children, died in Somalia home to seven million people including about 200,000 No one immediately claimed responsi- during the 2011 famine, according to the Christians, more or less evenly split between Roman Catholics bility for the attack, but the Shebab have UN, which has acknowledged it should have and Eastern Orthodox. KAYSERI: People take part in a demonstration yesterday. — AFP carried out a string of bombings and vowed done more to prevent the tragedy. Today, He will only spend a few hours in the tiny kingdom but his to overthrow the war-torn country’s inter- over 50,000 severely malnourished children visit “will be a major opportunity to promote Christian religious nationally-backed but fragile government. are at “death’s door”, a coalition of 22 inter- tourism,” Arabiat said. Jordan features three sites of great Turkey hears witnesses Police sources said the blast had been a car national and Somali aid agencies warned potential interest to Christians, including Wadi Al-Kharrar, or bomb parked outside a busy bank. earlier this month, with almost three million Bethany Beyond the Jordan, where some biblical historians The Shebab have been driven out of people in crisis and over one million forced believe Jesus was baptized and began his public ministry. in police murder trial fixed positions in Somalia’s major towns by from their homes. But the violence contin- It is impossible to determine accurately where the baptism the UN-mandated AU force, but still regu- ues, with attacks even in the heart of the took place, and another site on the Israeli-controlled western KAYSERI: A Turkish court heard testimony yes- “We are demanding the immediate arrest larly launch attacks that include bombings capital Mogadishu. —AFP bank of the Jordan River is also venerated. The remains of sev- terday that eight men, including four police of the suspects pending trial,” he added. There eral churches, baptismal pools and a sophisticated water retic- officers, pummeled a teenage protester to were tense scenes in the courtroom as defense ulation system-some dating to the Roman era-have been dis- death with baseball bats and truncheons dur- lawyers grilled the witnesses with questions Honeymoon murder suspect’s covered in Wadi Al-Kharrar. ing anti-government demonstrations last year. that the victim’s family later described as Ali Ismail Korkmaz, 19, died after being repeat- “provocative”. Around 1,000 protesters gath- Oldest map edly beaten during protests in the western city ered outside the courthouse in Kayseri yester- case postponed in S Africa Excavation in what had been a minefield separating Jordan of Eskisehir on June 2 in an attack that was day despite tight security measures. Riot police and Israel only began in 1996, two years after the countries caught by security cameras. He was one of were on standby, and major roads were closed CAPE TOWN: British millionaire businessman He claims the couple were hijacked at gun- signed a peace treaty. Early Christian pilgrims visited there on a eight people to die in the three weeks of to traffic. “Ali’s murderer is the AKP police”, they Shrien Dewani appeared briefly in a South point during their honeymoon as they drove route that took them from Jerusalem to nearby Jericho, across unrest that convulsed the country.”I saw Ali chanted, referring to the ruling Justice and African court yesterday where his lawyers suc- through the Gugulethu township in a taxi. the river and then to the wind-swept peak of Mount Nebo. Ismail being kicked on his back and head again Development Party (AKP). “Young people will cessfully argued he was not yet fit to stand trial Dewani escaped unharmed, but his wife’s body Overlooking the Dead Sea and the hills of Jerusalem, this is and again,” Semih Berkay Yapici, an eyewitness, take over and the AKP will go.” Many were for the murder of his Swedish bride. Dewani, 34, was found in the abandoned car the next day. where the Bible says God showed Moses the Promised Land told the court. young people who had taken part in last year’s wearing a dark suit and tie, glanced nervously She had been shot dead. Prosecutors allege after bringing the Hebrews out of Egypt. Finally, there is the “He lost his balance, fell on the ground, hit street demonstrations. Some carried portraits around in the dock as his lawyers said psychia- Dewani hired South African Xolile Mngeni to mainly Christian city of Madaba near Amman. It houses the his head on a stone and lost consciousness. His of Korkmaz.”The youth will hold the murderers trists had told them Dewani had been coopera- kill Anni. Mngeni was jailed for life for the mur- oldest known map of the Holy Land, painstakingly assembled eyes were closed,” he said in testimony that accountable,” 15-year-old Mustafa told AFP. tive but lacked the ability to concentrate for any der in December 2012. Two other men also from more than a million pieces of colored stone on the floor moved several in the courtroom to tears. Yapici length of time. jailed over the killing allege that Dewani of a Byzantine cathedral in the middle of the 6th century. said once Korkmaz regained consciousness he ‘I will keep on fighting’ “I am informed that he has been fully co- ordered the hit. The prosecution is expected to Pope Benedict XVI went to both Mount Nebo and Wadi Al- was again kicked in the head. He tried to flee, Korkmaz’s parents, who were applauded as operative and that his condition has improved,” argue that Dewani is gay and plotted to have Kharrar during his 2009 visit to the Holy Land, as did Pope John but was then set upon by plain-clothes police- they walked into the courtroom. “I will keep lawyer Francois van Zyl told the court. “We have his wife killed to escape an arranged marriage Paul II in 2000. John Paul held a ceremony at the restored men, one wearing a gas mask, who ruthlessly on fighting til the end,” his mother Emel told been told by treating psychiatrists not to consult that he was pushed into by his family. Byzantine church at Wadi Al-Kharrar, which the Jordanians kicked and beat him on the legs. “He then reporters outside the court house. “Mother, with him for longer than 30 minutes at a time.” The South African Sunday Times quoted took as a confirmation that this was the baptismal site. But in took a turn and went out of my sight,” said don’t cry, your sons are here,” protesters shout- He said they hoped further improvement sources close to the investigation as saying that 2011, Israel opened to the public what officials there claim is Yapici. “His face is etched into my memory.” ed in solidarity. An estimated 2.5 million peo- would mean that Dewani would be able to one of the prosecution’s main witnesses would the actual site in Qasr Al-Yahud, a closed military area near Korkmaz was wearing a “World Peace” T- ple took to the streets across Turkey over three “instruct us properly”. The judge president of the be a “master” in sado-masochism from Britain Jericho. shirt at the time of the attack. He suffered a weeks last year to demand Prime Minister Western Cape high Court, John Hlope, ordered who will claim that Dewani paid him for sex. brain haemorrhage and died after 38 days in a Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s resignation. More than Dewani to appear in court again on June 20. He The case sparked outrage among South Desert castles coma. Turhan Gurler, a friend who took 8,000 people were injured, according to was remanded in custody at the Valkenberg psy- Africans who accuse Dewani of callously using Jordan is also hoping to attract tourists from other Muslim Korkmaz to hospital, told the court: “Blood was medics.The death in March of 15-year-old chiatric hospital, where he has been receiving the country’s reputation for violent crime to countries. “We are preparing programs to encourage tourists in pouring down his face and there were bruises. Berkin Elvan after 269 days in a coma brought treatment since being extradited from Britain murder his wife in the belief that he would get countries such Indonesia and Malaysia to come to Jordan... I asked him what happened and he answered the death toll to at least eight, including one last month. away with it. after performing pilgrimage in Mecca to see Islamic sites here,” he was beaten with batons on his head.” Eight policeman. Elvan’s father, who has attended Vinod Hindocha, father of the slain bride, said Arabiat. The tombs of many of the Prophet Mohammed’s men, including four policemen, are accused of the Korkmaz trial, had sought permission to be ‘Hijacked at gunpoint’ has expressed the family’s relief that Dewani companions are found in Jordan, one of the first territories to premeditated murder and face up to life in formally involved in the case, saying his son Dewani, who returned to Britain shortly after would finally face trial in South Africa. “Now we which Islam spread outside of the Arabian Peninsula. prison if convicted. They deny the charges. was also murdered by the police, but his his wife’s murder, had fought his extradition for hope we get the answers we’ve been looking And several important battles between Muslims and the An expert report analysing mobile phone request was rejected by the court. At least one three years, claiming he had mental health prob- for the past three and a half years,” he said. Byzantine empire were fought there. Also, Jordan’s 8th century signals and published in local media this lawmaker from the opposition Republican lems including depression and post-traumatic Dewani’s family, who were in court yesterday, desert castles give examples of early Islamic art and architec- month suggested the suspects may have been People’s Party (CHP) attended yesterday’s hear- stress. If he is not found fit to face trial within 18 has said he remains determined to clear his ture, with their mosaics and frescoes inspired by Persian and in the same area as Korkmaz on the day of the ing. The demonstrations last year began as a months, he will be returned to Britain under the name. “We look forward to his health improv- Graeco-Roman traditions. Economist Yusuf Mansur, head of the incident.”New evidence outlined in the expert protest against plans to build over a park in terms of his extradition. Dewani denies ordering ing, his name being cleared, and there being an Amman-based Envision Consulting Group, said a “clear strate- report discredits the police testimony,” Gurkan Istanbul and spread to become the biggest the killing of his 28-year-old bride Anni in Cape end to this legal trauma for all involved,” the gy and funds” were needed to market religious tourism and Korkmaz, the victim’s elder brother and also a challenge to Erdogan’s rule since his AKP party Town in November 2010. family said in a statement. — AFP draw the large crowds of visitors.—AFP lawyer, told AFP. came to power in 2002. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 INTERNATIONAL France to redraw map to save money

PARIS: France’s administrative regions - ‘Welcome to Normandy’ Brittany would be emblematic,” said Normandy, Alsace, Burgundy, etc - have “If it happens, we will be on the way Jonathan Guillaume, spokesman for one long been part of the identity of citi- to destroying our local law, which cur- of the groups that organized the Nantes zens of this diverse country. Now, rently gives us two extra public holidays gathering. “There are two big cities, merging some of them is seen as a logi- and better health care,” said Jean Muller, Nantes and Rennes, quite close to each cal way to save money on bureaucracy, a 55-year-old inhabitant of Strasbourg, other and both attractive. They are part and the French support it - as long as the capital of Alsace. Alsace inherited its of two different regions, which is encour- it’s someone else’s turf. The recent pro- local legislation from the time when it aging competition between them and is posal of France’s new prime minister to was part of Germany, until the end of leading to more public spending. If they cut the number of regions in half by First World War. If the regions merge, were both in Brittany, they could to work 2017 is provoking sharp disputes - “poor Lorraine would find its interest in together.” In Normandy, some fears especially in areas with strong historical receiving subsidies (from the new emerged that Brittany might take over identity. It’s somewhat like erasing the region), while rich Alsace would pay the famed Mont Saint-Michel monastery, state lines between Texas and most of the local taxes,” said Muller. A visited by 3 million people each year and Oklahoma. Facebook group against an Alsace- subject of a long-standing dispute A poll suggests that 68 percent of Lorraine merger has gathered more than between the two regions. In the mean- 10,000 people. In other places, the time, some people are campaigning to the French believe the measure to be a reform offers an opportunity to revisit merge the current two administrative necessity - but 77 percent reject the dis- what some inhabitants consider mistakes entities, Upper and Lower Normandy, appearance of their own region. Polling A handout photo shows migrants standing on a boat during a rescue operation carried out by the Italian Navy. —AFP of history. Around 10,000 people gath- into a single region. agency LH2 questioned 5,111 people ered last month in the city of Nantes, part “We want the region to be based on nationwide in February and March. The of the Pays de la Loire region, to ask to rational geographic and historical crite- margin of error was 1.4 percentage join Brittany. Another gathering is ria,” said Philippe Cleris, member of the Migrant boat carrying points. “This is where we will learn who planned May 13. group “Welcome to Normandy.” “We have the real reformers are and who are the Nantes was part of Brittany until a to do in 2014 what we did in 1790,” he conservatives,” French President 1956 reform that created today’s regions. said, referring to the year after the French hundreds sinks in Italy Francois Hollande said this month on Yet Breton culture remained over the Revolution, when the administrative sys- national TV. He’s trying to counter his years, through food and traditional tem of French departments was created. image as a man afraid of unpopular dances for instance. “The reunification of It is still in use today. — AP 200 rescued, 14 dead cost-cutting reforms that many econo- mists say his nation needs in order to thrive. ROME: Italy’s coast guard said 200 The coast guard and navy could Italian navy launched “Mare Nostrum”- people were rescued yesterday after a not confirm the reports. The La a Latin reference to the Mediterranean- Overseas territories not involved boat packed with migrants sank in the Repubblica daily said the boat sank a large-scale operation that anti-immi- The regions reform is a long-running Mediterranean between Libya and around 50 nautical miles north of the gration politicians in Rome have idea that was considered by the previ- Italy, with Italian media reporting that Libyan coast. The report said Italy’s accused of assisting irregular migration ous conservative government but nev- 14 people also died. The coast guard coast guard was alerted to the inci- in Europe. Hundreds of migrants have said the rescue was being carried out dent by the crew of a ship involved in been landing in Italy on an almost daily er implemented, partly because of the by two commercial ships that were offshore oil extraction in the area. A basis in recent weeks, many of them difficulty of agreeing on a new map. scrambled to the area, some 100 nau- Libyan navy spokesman, Colonel Ayub now being picked up on Italian war- The numerous French territorial divi- tical miles (185 kilometers, 115 miles) Kassem, said Libya “does not have the ships. Most of the immigrants come sions - 22 regions, 100-plus depart- south of Lampedusa island, Italy’s means to help with this shipwreck, from Eritrea, Somalia and Syria and ments and no fewer than 36,000 com- southernmost point. which took place in international arrive on rickety fishing boats from munes - is often referred to as a “mille- “Two-hundred people have been waters”. Kassem said he could not Libya. Libya’s interim interior minister feuille,” after the French dessert made rescued,” a coast guard spokesman confirm that the migrant boat had said on Saturday that Tripoli could up of multiple layers of puff pastry and told AFP. He said he could not con- departed from Libya. “facilitate” those people seeking to get cream. The government wants to halve firm or deny Italian media reports of to Europe illegally unless the European the number of regions to 11 or 12, 400 people on board. A spokeswoman ‘Europe’s turn to pay’ Union helped it combat the problem. though the precise division has not for the navy, which is involved in a In another migrant boat shipwreck “I’m warning the world and Europe in been decided yet. France’s overseas ter- large operation to rescue migrants on Tuesday that was reported by the particular-if they do not assume their ritories aren’t involved. and deter traffickers, said: “There are Libyan navy on Sunday, 36 migrants responsibilities, Libya could facilitate The proposal has stirred up the tra- probably victims”. died and 42 were missing. A naval the transit of this flood” of immigrants ditional attachment of French people The navy said it had dispatched a spokesman said that 52 people were towards Europe, Salah Mazek told a to their regions, and sometimes strong helicopter and two warships “at maxi- rescued. More than 400 migrants news conference. He said Libya was feelings against sharing the same mum speed” to give assistance. The drowned in twin tragedies off “suffering” because thousands of main- authorities as their neighbors. In Alsace, Italian news agency ANSA said “sever- Lampedusa last year and immigration ly sub-Saharan Africans were spread- bordering Germany in the east, 61 per- al bodies” had been recovered and charities estimate that up to 20,000 ing disease, crime and drugs in the cent of respondents to the poll said other media quoted coast guards on migrants have died at sea trying to North African nation. “Libya has paid they don’t want to join with neighbor- CARHAIX: In this photo, protesters wearing red hats and flags of Brittany Lampedusa saying at least seven peo- reach Europe over the past 20 years. the price. Now it’s Europe’s turn to pay,” ing Lorraine, which has suffered from take part in a demonstration against job losses and against the govern- ple had died. In the wake of the tragedy, the Mazek added. — AFP the deep decline of its mining and met- ment’s “eco-tax”, a controversial environmental tax on heavy goods vehi- allurgy industry. cles, in Carhaix, Brittany.—AP No vote next year: S Sudan

JUBA: South Sudan will postpone a ernment to end nearly five months of of the ceasefire hours after it took presidential election set for 2015 as bloodshed. That plan, however, has effect - fighting that will frustrate the country’s warring factions will got off to a shaky start with both sides international mediators who had pres- need time to reconcile, President swiftly accusing each other of violat- sured both sides to stop the ethnical- Salva Kiir said, with a vote possibly ing the truce. ly-fuelled conflict. taking place as late as 2018. South “Elections will not be held in 2015, The rebels yesterday said govern- Sudan’s conflict threatens to tear because reconciliation between the ment soldiers had taken control of apart a nation that only became inde- people will have to take time,” Kiir said Bentiu, capital of the oil-rich Unity pendent from Sudan in 2011 and has at Juba airport late yesterday. “The state and the site of an ethnic mas- curbed its lifeblood oil production. election (timetable) has to be extend- sacre that in April raised fears of the Ethnic divisions have been a signifi- ed for two or three years, so this inter- conflict spiraling into genocide. Rebel cant driver of the violence, which pits im government would remain in pow- spokesman Lul Ruai Koang said gov- Kiir’s Dinka people against the Nuer of er and elections can be held in 2017 ernment troops carried out “extensive his former deputy Riek Machar. or 2018.” shelling” of villages around Bentiu and Kiir and Machar, whom the presi- Kiir said he would have preferred accused Kiir of “acting with impunity”. dent sacked in July 2013, signed a elections to be held in 2015 “so that Colonel Philip Aguer, spokesman new ceasefire pact in Ethiopia on these can come back and contest” it. for government forces, said there had Friday and pledged to hold further South Sudan’s army and rebel forces been no fighting in South Sudan yes- talks about forming an interim gov- traded blame on Sunday for breaches terday. The United Nations has warned the bloodshed could descend into a full-blown genocide and trigger a famine since the violence has pre- vented subsistence farmers from planting crops in some of the coun- try’s most fertile regions. South Sudan’s economy has been hit hard by the violence, with vital oil output down by a third and cash for develop- ment and many other basic services diverted to fund the war effort. IGAD, the regional body mediating the talks, has called on both sides to stop fight- ing so aid convoys can reach some remote areas ahead of the rainy sea- son, which renders much of the Texas- sized country inaccessible by road. The United States and European Union states, which have been press- ing hard for a deal, welcomed Friday’s agreement and called on both leaders to issue immediate orders for calm. Western powers were instrumental in South Sudan gaining independence JUBA: A boy holds a South Sudanese flag as a crowd waits for the South and trumpeted its creation as a policy Sudanese President arrival at the Juba International Airport. —AFP success. —Reuters

Asylum seekers hit dead end in Cyprus

NICOSIA: Roni Amude hoped for a “It comes from the fact that we dire economic situation and hostile new life when he arrived in Cyprus, have no policy of integration in public opinion. Less than 10 percent fleeing the conflict in his homeland Cyprus-it is trying to remain a dead of asylum seekers in Cyprus have Syria, but more than two years later end,” said Nicoletta Charalambidou, a obtained international protection, he is desperate to leave. “As Cyprus is lawyer specializing in immigration. according to Eurostat, considerably in Europe, I thought I’d get something With no prospect of settling in Cyprus less than the European average, and here,” complained Amude, who, like in the long term, Amude is hoping to the authorities rarely grant nationality many immigrants on the eastern travel to Britain where his wife has just to immigrants. Mediterranean island, is disillusioned started applying for asylum. “It is Cyprus is also home to a large after two and a half years in its immi- impossible to get refugee status or number of migrant workers, many gration system. nationality,” said Sami Bilad, a Syrian employed as maids or in domestic Cyprus lies on the eastern limits of Kurd who has spent the past six jobs, who can stay for no more than the European Union and is the mem- months in the island’s main immigra- four years unless they are given spe- ber state closest to Syria, where a tion detention centre, Menoyia. He cial dispensation. If they lose their job, bloody civil war that erupted three lost his job and his residency permit they also risk losing their residency years ago has forced millions to flee. It after spending 12 years in Cyprus and permit unless they can find work with- also shares a porous border with the now faces deportation. in a month. Turkish-occupied north. But Cyprus International lenders agreed to bail has not seen a wave of illegal immi- Hostile public opinion out Cyprus’s troubled economy in gration in recent years, unlike other The integration of immigrants is a 2013 to the tune of 10 billion euros Mediterranean islands. dim prospect because of the country’s ($14 billion). —AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 First lady tells Dillard grads to stay hungry

NEW ORLEANS: A hunger for education from that community in prison or who are should continue beyond graduation and victims of violent crimes. should be used to guide and inspire “the “You may be thinking those numbers next generation of geniuses,” first lady are terrible, but I’m not a part of that prob- Michelle Obama said Saturday. In her com- lem ... but folks like you and me, we can’t mencement address at Dillard University, afford to think like that ever, because we’re the first lady described the 226 graduates the lucky ones. “We got here today because of the historically black college as a “sea of of so many people who toiled and sweat young geniuses” and told them they have and bled and died for us ... people who opportunities and skills that their parents never dreamed of getting a college educa- and grandparents never could have imag- tion for themselves but who worked and ined. saved and sacrificed so that we could be “Imagine the impact you will make,” she here today. We owe them. We owe them. said. “You have no excuses to stand on the And the only way to pay back that debt is sidelines. Education is still the key to real by making those same kinds of sacrifices and lasting freedom. It’s up to us to culti- and investments for the next generation.” vate that hunger for education in those She encouraged the graduates to start coming after us.” Mrs Obama noted how small, such as through volunteering as a people “scrape and claw” their way to an tutor or by rallying their communities to education, acknowledging the parents who start a mentor program, but she didn’t work three jobs to give their children a shot reject the possibility of larger contribu- at a better life. tions, such as serving on a school board, in “This is the realization of the dreams of Congress or as president. “Let’s turn that so many who came before you,” she said. pipeline to prison into a highway to col- “You should be so proud and so happy and lege,” she said. “I want you all to keep rais- so excited, but you shouldn’t be satisfied. ing your bars,” she said in closing. “Let the SILVERTON: A Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad passenger train arrives in Silverton. — AP Ask yourselves, ‘What about all those next generation know that there is no geniuses who’ll never get this chance?’ ... greater investment than a good education. When people fall behind in school, they fall Obama also received an honorary Spring snowstorm hits Rockies behind in life.” Doctor of Humane Letters from the univer- She pointed the more than 200 Nigerian sity as did US Sen Mary Landrieu, who girls who were recently kidnapped “for joined Obama for a meeting later Saturday wanting an education and wanting to go to with spouses of veterans at an event at the LA, Vegas under ‘red flag’ fire warnings school,” and 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai, a National World War II Museum. The top four DENVER: A powerful spring storm dropped closures along Interstate 70 west of Denver on Julie Smith, a spokeswoman for Denver Pakistani girl who survived a gunshot to Dillard graduates all coincidentally come more than a foot of sloppy, wet snow in parts of Sunday afternoon. Multiple accidents were International Airport, said crews have treated the head by a Taleban gunman in 2012 for from Nigeria. The 20-year-old valedictorian, Colorado and Wyoming on Mother’s Day, and reported on the mountain corridor, frustrating runways in anticipation of dropping tempera- advocating education for girls. The first lady Merrilyn Akpapuna, who comes from the forecasters warned that instability ahead of the skiers and snowboarders eager to get a few more tures Sunday night. “At this point we are seeing ticked off statistics about the high rate of southeastern corner of Nigeria, plans post- cold front created conditions ripe for tornadoes runs in before the season ends. Authorities also some delays with our airlines while they are get- unemployment and poverty in the black graduate study at Western Michigan and severe thunderstorms in the Plains states. closed parts of Interstate 25 because of several ting their deicing operations up and running, community and the number of people University in the fall. — AP The National Weather Service issued a winter accidents Sunday afternoon. and we do expect the airlines to be fully deicing storm warning for most of northern Colorado Snow amounts could vary greatly, but up to in the morning,” she said. and parts of southern Wyoming for all of Sunday 15 inches could fall at higher elevations and 4 to Meanwhile, Denver officials planned to and for yesterday morning. Strong thunder- 9 inches could fall at lower elevations, including deploy up to 70 snowplows overnight to prepare storms and tornadoes developed in Nebraska Denver and other cities along Colorado’s Front for yesterday’s commute. In southern Wyoming, and were threatening to push south on Sunday. Range. “May snow certainly isn’t unheard of here the storm forced transportation officials to close The storm also created high winds across the in Colorado, even down in the Denver metro a 150-mile stretch of Interstate 80 from West. Kyle Fredin, a meteorologist for the weath- area,” said David Barjenbruch, another weather Cheyenne to Rawlins on Sunday. The weather er service in Boulder, said the weather pattern is service meteorologist in Boulder. “If we see the service said mountainous areas in Wyoming typical for this time of year, and “it’s going to be total accumulations that we are anticipating from could get a foot or more of snow, and 5 to 10 kind of the same thing pretty much through the this storm, we are certainly going to see a top 10 inches are forecast for Cheyenne and Laramie. end of June.” May snow event for the Denver metro area.” In the West, high winds at the bottom of the Several tornadoes were reported in southeast- Barjenbruch said a foot of snow had already storm sent dust blowing across Arizona and ern Nebraska, the weather service said, blowing fallen in the foothills of Larimer County north- New Mexico, and the Los Angeles and Las Vegas down outbuildings and damaging power poles west of Denver by Sunday morning, and workers areas were under “red flag” fire warnings, with and irrigation systems. Large hail and strong along much of the Front Range could expect a authorities saying blazes could quickly spread winds seen in the state were expected to head “slushy, sloppy morning commute” yesterday. out of control under low humidity, gusty winds south into Kansas and a tornado watch was The weather service also warned that snow could and dry conditions. The storm is the result of a issued for parts of Oklahoma. In Colorado, be heavy and wet enough to snap tree limbs and low-pressure system moving east colliding with Department of Transportation officials said power lines, causing power failures. Winds gust- a cold air mass from the north. Spring-like plunging temperatures and heavy, wet snow ing up to 30 mph could reduce visibility, and weather was expected to return to the Rockies have created icy conditions and forced several slushy roads could be treacherous to drive. by today. — AP

NEW ORLEANS: Senior class president Nicole A Tinson takes a selfie with first lady Michelle Obama during Dillard University’s commencement ceremony. — AP drug capo Hillary’s past lavished gifts ARTEAGA: Drug lord Servando “La Tuta” Gomez may be among Mexico’s most haunts her future wanted men, but in his western mountain hometown, he was known for throwing parties, sending gifts and handing out WASHINGTON: For Hillary Rodham Clinton, the raise money Thursday for Marjorie Margolies, a cash. Nobody can say exactly the last time last few months might be comparable to a Democratic candidate for Congress in the leader of the cult-like Knights Templar spring cleaning: An airing of her political past Philadelphia’s suburbs. Margolies served one drug cartel visited Arteaga, a small before she sets the course for her much specu- House term in the 1990s and lost re-election Michoacan state town where the teacher- lated about future. As the former secretary of after casting a decisive vote in favor of Bill turned-capo once taught. state and first lady mulls a presidential campaign Clinton’s economic plan. Margolies is the moth- But Gomez is now on the run, as civil- in 2016, reminders of the tumultuous periods of er-in-law of the Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea. ian militias allied with police hunt for him her career have re-emerged in recent weeks: her Hillary Clinton is adding to the scrutiny with in caves and forested hills of Michoacan’s husband’s affair in the White House with Monica the publication next month of her memoir, Tierra Caliente (Hot Land), trying to deal a Lewinsky, her ill-fated attempt to overhaul the “Hard Choices,” about her time at the State heavy blow to the cartel. While Gomez health care system and the deadly 2012 attack at Department. In recent speeches, Clinton has nurtured a Robin Hood image in his a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. described themes in the book. It starts with her hometown, his gang instilled fear in other Bill Clinton said presidential campaigns decision to accept an offer to join her rival’s Michoacan residents who were forced to always need to be about the future, but that Cabinet. It delves into Obama’s authorizing the pay protection taxes or face the worst. gets complicated if Hillary Clinton runs again raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Gomez’s roots are deep in the agricul- after losing out to Barack Obama for the Laden, Clinton’s role in helping Chinese dissident tural and mining town of 22,000 people, Democratic nomination in 2008. Republicans Chen Guangcheng seek refuge in the US and which is two hours from the Pacific coast, might press the argument that at a time when the American effort to normalize diplomatic up a winding road. His mother owns a many Americans are unhappy with the nation’s relations with Myanmar. ranch where roosters are bred for cock- direction, she represents a bygone era marked fights. A lavish family mausoleum, where by political soap operas. Economic boom his father is entombed, lies prominently at WASHINGTON: Visitors line up for tickets which were distributed on a first-come basis at the Yet many Democrats say reminders of the “Everybody faces hard choices in our lives,” the cemetery’s entrance. An ex-wife lives Washington Monument yesterday. — AP 1990s - remember the booming economy? - Clinton said last week. Republicans are trying to in a pink house. could help Clinton, and that rehashing her past define Clinton and her record long before she Some say the 48-year-old kingpin last makes her final decision on 2016. It’s a strategy more than two years before the next presiden- visited Arteaga five years ago, others saw Washington Monument tial election could dispense with a variety of dis- that some in the GOP hope might encourage him just last year. But even absent, people tractions. If a Republican challenger or a her not to run. She remains a fundraising jugger- knew he was behind parties on Mother’s Democratic primary opponent invoked naut for Republicans and potential challengers Day and other holidays. As he diced meat reopens after three years Lewinsky, Whitewater, cattle futures or other are already testing themes that could be used at a taco stand, Miguel Angel, 21, recalled retro story lines in 2016, Clinton’s team could try against her. Kentucky Sen Rand Paul, a potential WASHINGTON: More than 150 cracks have been he calls “patriotic philanthropy.” In time, he predicts that Gomez had planned to build a retire- to dismiss it all as old news. 2016 GOP presidential candidate, has raised the repaired, rainwater leaks have been sealed, and the more philanthropists will make similar gifts. “For the majority of people, this is an eye roll,” Lewinsky affair in recent months and he told ment home. “People respected him. He 130-year-old Washington Monument reopened yester- Rubenstein is co-chair of a campaign to raise funds to contended Maria Cardona, a former Clinton members of the Republican National never messed with the town. He helped day for the first time in nearly three years since an help restore the National Mall, serves as a regent of the campaign adviser. Vanity Fair magazine pub- Committee on Friday that her handling of people economically. He would send gifts earthquake caused widespread damage. The memori- Smithsonian Institution and is chairman of the lished a first-person account this past week from Benghazi “precluded herself from ever being to children for Christmas,” he said. al honoring George Washington has been closed for Kennedy Center. He has also made major gifts to the Lewinsky in which she said Bill Clinton “took considered for” the White House. Also Friday, about 33 months for engineers to conduct an exten- National Archives and Library of Congress. advantage” of her, but that their affair was con- GOP Sen Marco Rubio of Florida said in New On the run sive analysis and restoration of the 555-foot stone sensual. Lewinsky cited recently released papers Hampshire that Democrats were likely to nomi- Unlike other drug lords, the baseball- obelisk that was once the tallest structure in the world. Highlight for many from a longtime Hillary Clinton friend, Diane nate someone “who wants to take us to the cap wearing Gomez is a talkative charac- The monument’s white marble and mortar were During the monument’s restoration, the AP had a Blair, in which the former first lady called the past.” Yet Clinton’s backers view the economic ter who has appeared in several videos cracked and shaken loose during an unusual 5.8-mag- look at some of the worst damage from the 500-foot once White House intern a “narcissistic loony boom of the 1990s as a strong selling point. and interviews as recently as January. But nitude earthquake in August 2011 that sent some of level. Stones were chipped and cracked all the way toon.” Lewinsky wrote that she found Hillary During a recent speech at Georgetown he has vanished and is believed to be hid- the worst vibrations to the top. Debris fell inside and through with deep gashes in some places. Others had Clinton’s “impulse to blame the Woman - not University, his alma mater, the former president ing in the rough mountain terrain. “He can outside the monument, and visitors scrambled to hairline cracks that had to be sealed. Some damaged only me, but herself, troubling.” made an extensive case for his economic record, survive up there. He knows people in the evacuate. Later, engineers evaluated the damage by marble was replaced with salvaged material or stone citing the millions of people who emerged from hills,” said a police official who requested rappelling from the top, dangling from ropes. from the same Maryland quarry as the monument’s Past ghosts haunt future poverty under his watch. —AP anonymity. New exhibits have been installed, and visitors can original marble. The replacement stone had been When the magazine posted excerpts of A dozen sport-utility vehicles packed once again ride an elevator to look out from the high- saved from the steps of old Baltimore row houses. Lewinsky’s account on its website, Clinton was with assault rifle-wielding vigilantes and est point in the nation’s capital. The full restoration The monument was built in two phases between speaking at a mental health conference and was state police officers peeled out of town on cost $15 million. Businessman and philanthropist 1848 and 1884. When it was completed, it was the asked about the 1993 suicide of White House Sunday and headed to the hills. They David Rubenstein contributed $7.5 million to pay half world’s tallest structure for five years until it was counsel Vince Foster. The magazine’s story refused to reveal the nature of their oper- the cost and expedite the repairs. Rubenstein told The eclipsed by the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The monument arrived as the National Archives continues to ation, but insisted that they were not Associated Press on Sunday that he was surprised how remains the world’s tallest freestanding stone struc- release documents from the Clinton White looking for Gomez that time. Authorities much the monument means to people who have writ- ture. It normally draws about 700,000 visitors a year. House that have shed more light on Hillary have killed or captured three Knights ten him letters and email. He said he’s pleased the job The National Park Service will offer extended hours to Clinton’s role leading the 1993 health care task Templar leaders this year, making Gomez was done on time and on budget. visit the monument beginning Tuesday and through force. That’s a politically volatile issue as both the last top target of the cartel that once “It became clear to me that the Washington the summer from 9 am to 10 pm each day. Visiting parties debate the merits of Obama’s health law. held sway in Michoacan. Monument symbolizes many things for our country - the top has been a highlight for millions of people Republicans, meanwhile, have created a special The gang came under pressure after the freedoms, patriotism, George Washington, leader- over the decades during tours of the nation’s capital, House committee to investigate the Benghazi farmers, fed up with the cartel’s reign of ship,” he said. “So it’s been moving to see how many said Caroline Cunningham, president of the nonprofit assault, and that could mean a long spotlight on terror, formed vigilante militias in people are affected by it.” During an early look at the Trust for the National Mall, which is working to raise Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. February 2013 and took control of securi- restored monument, Rubenstein hiked to the top, tak- private funds to support the national park. The mon- “The ghosts of Clinton past are coming out ty in some 30 towns. The vigilantes, whose ing the stairs in a suit and tie. Memorial plaques inside ument is expected to draw big crowds this year. “The to haunt her future,” said Alice Stewart, an movement was legalized and turned into the monument from each state seemed to be clean American people really gravitate to the Washington Arkansas-based Republican strategist. Even her a new rural police force on Saturday, final- and intact, and the view “is really spectacular,” he said. Monument,” Cunningham said. “George Washington first political event of the year brings back mem- ly arrived in Arteaga on April 22.—AFP The billionaire co-CEO of The Carlyle Group has being our leader, it connects them to their country in ories of the Clinton White House years. She will Hillary Rodham Clinton been urging other philanthropists to engage in what a very personal way.” — AP TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Q&A on India’s mammoth election

NEW DELHI: India’s marathon election ended yester- about jobs and price rises, and ready for a change of ning results of the Delhi state assembly elections last Critics see him as a religiously divisive figure, who day after five weeks of staggered polling across the leadership after 10 years of centre-left rule by the December when the party of anti-corruption cham- failed to stop anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in 2002 country by hundreds of millions of voters. AFP Congress party. Fears about India’s religious harmony pion Arvind Kejriwal shocked the BJP and Congress when he was chief minister. The riots left more than explains how it works and what is at stake. have also been raised, with Congress warning that in its electoral debut and seized power. It’s difficult to 1,000 people dead, most of them Muslims. under Hindu nationalist opposition frontrunner accurately gauge the opinions of India’s mostly rural WHY HAS IT TAKEN SO LONG? Narendra Modi, the country could see violence 1.2 billion people, and its first-past-the-post voting MODI IS DESCRIBED AS A ‘HINDU NATIONALIST’. Almost 814 million adult Indians were eligible to between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority. system means minor swings in sentiment can skew WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? vote, making it the biggest election in history. the results significantly. The BJP, established in 1980, has religious issues Organizers say it would have been impossible to WHAT IS THE LIKELY OUTCOME? at the core of its agenda-from protecting cows, operate and guard nearly 930,000 polling stations on Narendra Modi is widely forecast to become WHEN WILL A NEW GOVERNMENT TAKE OFFICE? which are considered sacred, to the possible con- a single day. The first day of voting was on April 7 and prime minister if his opposition Bharatiya Janata If no party wins a majority, the president will ask struction of a temple to honor the birthplace of the the last on Monday, with election results finally due Party (BJP) wins the most seats in the 543-member the biggest party to put together a coalition with Hindu god Ram. The temple issue has been explo- on Friday. parliament as projected by opinion polls. But the BJP smaller ones. That is likely to lead to days, and possi- sive in the past, triggering riots in 1992 because the is unlikely to win the 272 seats needed to govern bly weeks, of intense negotiations. birthplace is a disputed site between Hindus and WHAT’S AT STAKE? alone, meaning it must forge a coalition with smaller, Muslims. Hardliners in the BJP and grassroots India is the world’s second-most populous coun- regional parties to form government, surveys sug- WHAT WOULD A BJP GOVERNMENT BE LIKE? groups which support the party often hold antago- try, a key member of the G20 global grouping and an gest. Narendra Modi has pledged to focus on reviving nistic views on the Muslim minority and seek to increasingly important voice for developing coun- the flagging economy if he becomes prime minister establish India as a Hindu nation, rather than secular. tries on issues from climate change to global trade HOW ACCURATE ARE THE POLLSTERS? under a BJP-led government. He is seen as an effi- Modi has campaigned as a centrist economic deals. It is home to a third of the world’s poor while Their projections have been wrong in the past, cient administrator who has introduced policies that reformer, but observers will look closely for any being the 10th-biggest economy globally. Local sur- most notably in 2004 when they failed to forecast a have encouraged development and prosperity in his signs of this so-called “Hindutva” agenda should he vey shows voters are fed up with corruption, worried Congress win. They also failed to predict the stun- state of Gujarat that could be reproduced nationally. take power. — AFP Key players in India’s polls Modi, Gandhi, or Kejriwal? NEW DELHI: India’s marathon general tions. He has repeatedly resisted calls Manmohan Singh to serve in his cabi- election wrapped up yesterday when to apologies over communal riots net. While insisting that he can pull off polling takes place in the final 41 seats, which erupted in Gujarat soon after he the unexpected and keep Congress in five weeks after the start of the world’s came to power in 2002. More than power, Gandhi told a recent TV inter- largest exercise in democracy. The fol- 1,000 people were killed and most of viewer that “defeat just makes you lowing are brief portraits of the key the victims were Muslims. A yoga-lover stronger”. players in the contest, the results of and strict vegetarian, Modi is steeped which are due to be announced on in the ideology of Hindu nationalism, ARVIND KEJRIWAL Friday, May 16. having joined the Rashtriya The former taxman turned anti-cor- Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as a boy. ruption champion caused political NARENDRA MODI shockwaves in December when his In this combination of photographs, Chief Minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat and India’s main opposi- A hardline Hindu nationalist, Modi RAHUL GANDHI Aam Aadmi Party’s strong showing in tion Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi (left) gestures as he speaks and is widely expected to become India’s The 43-year-old bachelor is the son its electoral debut catapulted him into Congress party General Secretary and party prime ministerial candidate Rahul Gandhi is seen. — AFP next prime minister, with polls show- of the slain former premier Rajiv the post of Delhi chief minister. He ing his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Gandhi, while his grandmother and resigned after just 49 days in power course to win the most seats in parlia- grandfather were also prime ministers after the BJP and Congress thwarted ment. The abrasive 63-year-old has of India. Despite being the ruling attempts to set up an anti-corruption Afghan election result been promising to make India “strong” Congress party’s frontman, Gandhi has commission in a move seen as clearing and campaigning on a program of struggled to shake off the impression his path for the upcoming general good governance and development, during a lackluster campaign that he election. to trigger tense run-off drawing on his record as chief minister has no real desire to emulate his fore- The 43-year-old is looking to pull off of the thriving western state of Gujarat. bears, having once likened power to another election upset by standing KABUL: Afghanistan is due to announce the The son of a tea seller, he has built a poison. against Modi in the ancient city of results of its first-round presidential elections strong support base from within the Often outshone on the campaign Varanasi, although he has been attract- tomorrow, with former foreign minister Taleban kill 21 in ranks of the middle-class and business trail by his younger sister Priyanka, ing a fraction of the support of the BJP Abdullah Abdullah and ex-World Bank econo- leaders who have been dismayed by Gandhi has said he is “absolutely leader at rallies. Kejriwal argues that mist Ashraf Ghani set to go through to a run-off the economic slowdown under the against the concept of dynasty” poli- Congress and the BJP are equally to vote. Full results from the April 5 election were ‘spring offensive’ corruption-plagued Congress govern- tics, even though his mother remains blame for corruption in India as both released late last month, but the final declara- KABUL: The Taleban unleashed a wave of attacks yesterday across ment. Congress party president. Once are in thrall to big business. “What we tion will include the outcome of weeks of delib- However he remains a polarizing described in a leaked US diplomatic are trying to say is that there are a eration over fraud complaints. Afghanistan to mark the start of their spring offensive, storming a govern- ment building in the east where attackers killed two police guards and five figure, even within his own party, and cable as “an empty suit”, he has never handful of people who are running this The preliminary results showed Abdullah opponents worry that his premiership held public office and shunned several country, some of them politicians,” he secured 44.9 percent of the first-round vote, civilians, and striking a police checkpoint to the south and killing nine will undermine India’s secular tradi- offers by outgoing Prime Minister said in a recent interview. — AFP with Ghani on 31.5 percent. As none of the policemen. Also yesterday, rockets hit inside the grounds of the Kabul inter- eight candidates appear to have gained more national airport but caused no damage. Rockets also struck the NATO base than 50 percent, a run-off between the two at Bagram, just north of the Afghan capital, causing minor damage, the leading names is required as Afghanistan alliance said. undergoes its first democratic transfer of pow- This year’s Taleban spring offensive comes at a sensitive time, against the er. backdrop of a key presidential election. Militants have also stepped up ter- Noor Mohammad Noor, spokesman for the ror attacks to sow insecurity and weaken the government as international Independent Election Commission (IEC), said it forces prepare to withdraw from the country by the end of this year. Fewer hoped to stick with the election timeline and than 30,000 US troops remain on the ground in Afghanistan, the lowest publish the final results tomorrow. “If there is to number since the 2001 invasion. Last summer, Afghan security forces took be a run-off, we will announce the date on the full responsibility for the country’s defense, making this Taleban spring same day,” he told AFP. Afghan officials and offensive an important gauge of how well they will face insurgent attacks Kabul-based diplomats say June 14 has been once international forces are gone. penciled in for the head-to-head election that Yesterday’s attack on the provincial justice ministry building in the city of will choose President Hamid Karzai’s successor Jalalabad began around 9 am, just as employees were arriving for work, said as US-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by Nangarhar provincial government spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai. the end of the year. According to the spokesman and the provincial police chief, three attackers Yesterday, front-runner Abdullah received a shot and killed the two police guards, broke into the ministry and took over major boost with the endorsement of third- the building. One of the attackers died when he detonated his explosives’ placed Zalmai Rassoul, a close ally of Karzai. vest inside the ministry, while the other two were killed by police, said Gen Rassoul was seen as the favoured candidate of Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, Nangarhar’s police chief. the outgoing president, but his own campaign Security forces retook the building after a shootout with the Taleban, gained little momentum and he took just 11.5 four and a half hours later. Inside, five civilians were found dead and seven percent in the first round of voting. others were wounded, Sherzad said. It was not immediately clear if the vic- tims inside were all government employees and if more people had been in Winner faces Taleban test the building when it came under attack. Another costly, and potentially violent, elec- Taleban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the tion could be avoided by deal-making in the attack in an email to reporters. He said the attack was retaliation for what he coming weeks, and Rassoul’s support for called harsh rulings by the justice ministry against the Taleban. Last week, Abdullah will increase pressure on Ghani to the Taleban said they would launch their annual spring offensive on May 12. concede. Karzai, who is constitutionally barred In southern Helmand province - the Taleban heartland - insurgents killed from a third term in office, has stayed publicly nine policemen in an attack on a checkpoint in the Sangin district, district neutral in the election, but his elder brother governor Sulaiman Shah Sarwani said. Also yesterday, a rocket hit a market Qayum Karzai dropped out before polling day in the Siagred district of Parwan province north of Kabul, killing two civilians and endorsed Rassoul. and wounding four. The Taleban also claimed responsibility for that attack. “The preliminary results already show the Elsewhere in the east, groups of militants, including some on motor- election doesn’t have a clear winner and will bikes, attacked police checkpoints on the outskirts of the city of Ghazni, need a second round,” Fahim Naeemi, killing three people and wounding eight, said the provincial governor, spokesman for the Free and Fair Election Mohammad Ali Ahmadi. Two women and a policeman were killed, while Foundation of Afghanistan ( FEFA) monitoring two policemen and six civilians, including three children, were wounded, group, said. Of the 121 complaints lodged over Ahmadi added. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the Ghazni the preliminary results, Abdullah submitted 115 attack. and Ghani submitted just four. Elsewhere in Jalalabad, attackers targeted a police vehicle and detonat- The United Nations’ mission has welcomed ed a roadside bomb, wounding six people, including two policemen. In the Afghanistan’s conduct of the elections but capital, Kabul, two rockets fired from unknown location landed inside the warned officials that they must address all com- perimeter of the city’s international airport without causing any damage, plaints in a transparent manner to safeguard Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said. — AP the process. The 2009 election, when Karzai retained power after defeating Abdullah, was marred by massive fraud in a chaotic process that shook the multinational effort to develop the country after the ousting of the Taleban regime in 2001. The first-round election last month was hailed as a success, with turnout far better than in 2009 and the Taleban failing to launch a major attack despite threats to disrupt the vote. A run-off vote in June-at the height of the tradi- tional “fighting season”-is likely to prove more difficult for Afghanistan’s stretched security forces. The eventual winner will lead Afghanistan into a new era as US-led NATO combat troops end their 13-year war against the Taleban insur- gency and international aid money declines. Abdullah secured another useful ally when JALALABAD: The hand of a suicide insurgent is pictured at the another presidential candidate, Gul Agha scene of an attack yesterday. — AFP Sherzai, recently pledged his backing. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014

North Korea ‘should cease to exist’: S Korea

SEOUL: North Korea yesterday accused US and South series of written attacks against the South Korean presi- Korean authorities of fabricating the results of a probe dent, whom it has previously likened to a “comfort that concluded Pyongyang sent small surveillance woman”. South Korean and US officials jointly examined drones, or unmanned aircraft, to spy on key South three drones that were recovered in three different loca- Korean installations in March. A spokesman for the tions near the Korean border over a two-week period North’s military attacked the United States for what it said starting in late March. was a blindly backed confrontational conspiracy devised The second was discovered soon after a three-hour by the government of South Korean President Park artillery barrage between North and South Korea in Geun-hye. waters near a disputed maritime border. In April, North “If Washington pays heed only to what its stooges Korea proposed a joint probe into the crashed drones trumpet, it is bound to be accused of being a senile with the South, but Seoul rejected the proposal. North grandfather trying to stop a child from crying,” the Korea said in the statement the joint investigation into unnamed spokesman said in a statement carried by the the origin of the drones was a “charade”, designed to official KCNA news agency. In a rare direct attack on the divert public criticism of the South Korean government’s North Korean regime, South Korean Ministry of Defense handling of the Sewol ferry tragedy. spokesman Kim Min-seok said the North’s statement was Park’s government has faced continued criticism for “deeply regrettable” and that Pyongyang regularly lies so its handling of the disaster from the families of the ferry deserves to be discredited. victims, many of whom believe a swifter initial response “North Korea isn’t a real country is it? It doesn’t have could have saved many more lives. Reclusive North Korea human rights or freedom. It exists solely to prop up a sin- renewed a threat on Saturday to conduct a nuclear test gle person,” Kim said at a briefing in Seoul. “It is an unreal amid heightened concern that it may set off an atomic country that constantly lies and uses historically back- device for the fourth time on the path to building a ward-looking rhetoric. That’s why it should cease to exist,” nuclear arsenal. North Korea’s official Rodong Sinmun Kim said, using uncharacteristically aggressive language. newspaper said the country was justified in using all North and South Korea are technically still at war after available means at its disposal to counter aggressive chal- their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. lenges by the United States and South Korea aimed at sti- The North Korean statement was the latest in a recent fling its sovereignty. — Reuters SEOUL: A portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is displayed during an anti-North Korea rally. — AP ASEAN fires new warning shot across China’s bows Vietnam efforts to rope in others will fail: China

NAYPYIDAW: Southeast Asian leaders have expressed assertive maritime stance. first time China brazenly brings and installs its drilling “serious concern” over worsening territorial disputes in “This is a far cry from when Cambodia was ASEAN rig deep into the continental shelf and exclusive eco- the South China Sea, presenting a rare united front chair,” said Southeast Asia expert Carl Thayer, a profes- nomic zone of an ASEAN country, which gravely vio- against an increasingly assertive Beijing. Vietnam and sor at the University of New South Wales in Australia. lates the international law,” he said, according to an the Philippines led a successful push for the The statement “represents a slight tightening of official transcript of his speech. Association of Southeast Asian Nations to deliver a ASEAN’s position”, he said, adding it suggests a rare The spat triggered large anti-China protests in thinly veiled rebuke to China over the standoff in level of “consensus” on the vexed sea rights issue. Vietnam at the weekend that appeared to have the waters home to key shipping lanes and thought to Under Brunei’s chairmanship last year, China avoid- tacit blessing of the authoritarian communist regime contain huge energy reserves. ed a public rebuke from ASEAN at a major summit in Hanoi, which usually limits expression of public dis- But a defiant Beijing said Hanoi’s efforts to enlist after offering an olive branch by calling for peace in content. The demonstrations received unprecedented the support of its neighbors in the row were “doomed the flashpoint region. Beijing struck a less conciliatory coverage in Vietnam’s tightly controlled state media to fail”. The 10-nation ASEAN, in a statement released tone yetserday, insisting that the contested Paracel yesterday. Analyst Quang A said more rallies were like- yesterday after a summit on Sunday, called for a Islands, located near the controversial oil rig, were its ly unless Beijing removes the drilling rig. peaceful resolution to the maritime rows, which flared “inherent territory”. “The facts show that Vietnam’s “Our fate is that we are situated here, with a big up this month after China moved an oil drilling rig into efforts to rope others into pressuring China are neighbor who always wants expansion,” he said. China BANGKOK: An anti-government protester cheers during a rally outside the parliament yes- waters also claimed by Hanoi. doomed to fail,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua and Vietnam fought a brief border war in 1979 and the terday. — AP “We expressed serious concerns over the ongoing Chunying told reporters in Beijing. “We hope that the pair frequently trade diplomatic barbs over oil explo- developments in the South China Sea,” said the joint Vietnamese side will see the situation clearly, calmly ration, fishing rights and the contested Spratly and statement from the summit in Myanmar, without face the facts and stop its disruptions of Chinese oper- Paracel Islands. China asserts ownership over almost New twist in Thailand’s explicitly pointing the finger at Beijing. ASEAN called ations,” she said. all of the South China Sea, which is also claimed in part on all parties involved to “exercise self-restraint, not to by ASEAN members Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei resort to threat(s) or use of force, and to resolve dis- Balancing act and Malaysia as well as Taiwan. battle for seat of power putes by peaceful means in accordance with the uni- Prominent Vietnamese political commentator Philippine President Benigno Aquino told versally recognized principles of international law”. Nguyen Quang A described the ASEAN declaration as reporters that “many leaders” at the summit had BANGKOK: Emboldened by the removal of prime minister’s office. But he plans to set up Observers said the statement marked a change of a “big positive” for his country. Vietnam lobbied ener- voiced concern about the South China Sea spats, Thailand’s prime minister, anti-government an office in the compound’s Santi Maitree tone by the regional bloc, many of whose members- getically at the latest meeting in Myanmar for a strong which he said were a “cause for worry and concern by protesters withdrew from the city’s main park Building traditionally used for state visits. In including Myanmar-have close economic and political statement on the maritime issue from its neighbors. all parties”. Philippine prosecutors said yesterday yesterday and marched to the vacated prime more stable times, the building was used for ties with China and have traditionally avoided con- Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung they would charge nine Chinese fishermen arrested minister’s office compound - where the protest meetings with dignitaries such as President frontation with the Asian heavyweight. In 2012 China’s slammed Beijing’s oil rig move as “extremely danger- in separate disputed waters with environmental leader has pledged to set up his new office. Barack Obama and Myanmar’s opposition ally Cambodia caused consternation when it was ous” and accused Chinese vessels of ramming crimes, despite Beijing’s warning of a dire effect on Meanwhile, the country’s new caretaker leader leader Aung San Suu Kyi. ASEAN head by refusing to take Beijing to task over its Vietnamese ships in the disputed waters. “This is the relations. — AFP hosted his first formal news conference with foreign media at a makeshift, suburban out- ‘Civil war’ post that has been the government base for There was no apparent resistance to months. He shrugged off the protesters’ plans Suthep’s plan. The military that provides secu- to occupy the symbolic seat of power. rity at Government House said over the week- “We do not want violence or any problems,” end he would be allowed in to avoid further said acting Prime Minister Niwattumrong clashes in a crisis that has left more than 20 Boonsongpaisan, defending the government’s dead and hundreds injured since November. hands-off approach as good crisis manage- “Every so often, the stewards of the nation ment. In a 40-minute news conference, he reit- rearrange the deck chairs, as ‘Thaitanic’ contin- erated calls for a July election and said he and ues to plough relentlessly further into unchart- his Cabinet were committed to finding a ed territory, without a captain,” The Bangkok peaceful solution to the country’s deepening Post newspaper said in a Sunday editorial. “The political crisis. Yesterday’s developments high- ship is still heading right for that iceberg.” lighted the government’s lack of power as Yingluck’s Cabinet named deputy premier Thailand’s political crisis grinds into its seventh Niwattumrong as acting prime minister, but month. One newspaper compared the political protesters say he doesn’t hold the authority situation to a sinking ship that it called the and status to be the head of the government. “Thaitanic.” Protesters achieved one of their Her supporters have warned that any attempt goals last week when the Constitutional Court to install an unelected prime minister would dismissed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra be a disaster for the nation that could spark for nepotism in a case that many viewed as “civil war.” politically motivated. Like Yingluck, he is forced to work out of the Office to the Permanent Secretary for ‘Final push’ Defense in the unfashionable suburb of But they say her removal is not enough. Muang Thong Thani. Niwattumrong called for- They want to set up an unelected “people’s eign journalists to his makeshift office to show council” to implement still-undefined reforms leadership as the crisis continues to batter the to combat corruption and money politics country’s image, its tourism industry and over- SHENZEN: This picture shows flood water bursting onto a street from a sewer yesterday. Meteorological authorities issued a red lerta as the biggest storm before an election can be held. They oppose all economy. ever since 2008 hit Shenzhen, flooded several districts and submerged more than 2000 vehicles, state media reported. — AFP elections scheduled for July, which the current ruling party would likely win. Protest leader Military coup Suthep Thaugsuban, who has led the move- “I don’t think we’ll have a civil war,” South Korea names three ferry disaster ‘martyrs’ ment for six months, has called for a “final Niwattumrong said, in an effort to ease con- push” to install an unelected leader - a goal cerns that rising tension could trigger wide- SEOUL: South Korea yesterday recognized three peo- who were among the first to abandon ship and have beyond the safety limit. There is intense pressure on that critics call undemocratic but supporters spread violence. “It’s already (been) six months, ple who died saving others in last month’s ferry cap- been widely vilified for leaving trapped passengers to the recovery teams to wrap up the grim task of pulling size as national “martyrs”-lending a heroic chapter to a say is a necessary step to carry out needed and we can manage the country quite well.” die. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said the everybody from the ferry as soon as possible. The fam- disaster narrative dominated by accusations of cow- license revoked yesterday was for the route taken by ilies of those still missing oppose raising the vessel reforms. Both supporters and opponents are holding ardice, corruption and incompetence. The move came the ill-fated, 6,825-tonne Sewol from the western port until everybody has been retrieved. But the search, in Yesterday, Suthep ended a months-long large rallies in the Thai capital, which have as the government revoked the operating license of of Incheon to the southern island of Jeju. The owners, near-zero visibility, is becoming increasingly danger- occupation of Bangkok’s Lumpini Park, a tropi- raised concerns of clashes. the owners of the ferry that sank with the loss of Chonghaejin Marine Co, are also under pressure to ous, with some partition walls on the ship warping cal oasis that protesters had converted into a Thailand’s long-running political crisis around 300 lives, citing safety violations by the com- give up the licenses to its two other routes to outlying and at risk of collapse. “We will put the priority on the litter-strewn campground. He led thousands of began in 2006, when Yingluck’s brother, for- pany and crew. The three part-time crew members islands. A ministry statement said the action was taken safety of divers when they search through dangerous supporters to the Parliament, where the mer Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was hailed as martyrs included an engaged couple-Kim Ki- because the company was deemed to have con- areas,” coastguard spokesman Ko Myung-Suk told a Senate was holding a meeting yesterday to toppled by a military coup after being accused Woong and Jung Hyun-Seon-who could have tributed to the disaster, and in light of the behavior of daily briefing. The Sewol was carrying 476 people discuss the crisis and debate his controversial of corruption, abuse of power and disrespect escaped the sinking vessel but stayed to help trapped the captain and crew. All 15 surviving crew members, when it sank after listing sharply to one side and then proposal for an appointed prime minister. for King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thaksin, a former passengers. The third was Park Ji-young, 21, the including the captain, have been arrested. rolling over. Of those on board, 325 were children from Later in the evening, protesters planned to telecommunications billionaire, remains highly youngest crew member, who became a public hero a high school on an organized trip to the southern march to their new base outside the prime popular among the rural poor in Thailand’s after it emerged that she had given her lifejacket to a ‘Dangerous’ recovery resort island of Jeju. Initial investigations suggest the minister’s office compound, called north and northeast, and parties controlled by passenger as she sought to guide people to safety. The confirmed death toll from the disaster stood at ferry was carrying up to three times its safe cargo Government House. The compound has been him have won every national election since Being designated martyrs entitles them to burial at 275, with 29 still unaccounted for as dangerous condi- capacity. The Sewol’s regular captain, who was off vacant for months due to violent clashes 2001. The anti-government protesters, aligned a national cemetery, and their families will be eligible tions suspended recovery operations for a third duty on the day of the accident, has told prosecutors between protesters and police nearby. Suthep with the opposition Democrat Party, say they for financial compensation, medical assistance and straight day. Divers have been unable to access the that Chonghaejin Marine Co. “brushed aside” repeated says protesters will remain outside the com- want to remove all traces of his political other incentives. The behavior of the part-timers stood submerged vessel since Saturday morning, with warnings that the 20-year-old ship had stability issues pound and that he will not occupy the actual machine from politics. — AP in stark contrast to the captain and most of the crew strong tides and heavy swells pushing conditions following a renovation in 2012.—AFP Philippines tolerates gays but abuses go on

MANILA: Gays are increasingly tolerated in Philippine society Several large cities have passed ordinances banning LGBT dis- ance,” Manila-based gay rights campaigner Jonas Bagas of the Thailand and Vietnam. The Philippine report said LGBT peo- but discrimination persists and they remain vulnerable to crimination, but efforts to pass a national law have foundered TLF Sensuality, Health and Rights Educators Collective told ple generally suffer discrimination, harassment and abuse at hate crimes, according to a United Nations-backed study amid opposition from the powerful Catholic church, it added. the meeting. He said the Filipino LGBT community was “a long work. LGBT staff are routinely assigned to night shifts and released yesterday. Sexual activity is not a crime but same-sex Hate crimes remained a threat, with 28 killings involving way off” the rights enjoyed by their counterparts in many passed over for promotion “since they don’t have families to marriage is not allowed and gay couples cannot adopt chil- the community tallied in the first half of 2011 alone, it added. Western countries. feed”, Tan told the news conference. Transgender people are dren, said the study funded by the UN Development Program Michael Tan, the author of the study, told a news conference a “In many parts of Asia, social and legal environments not allowed legally to change their identity, first name and and the US Agency for International Development. recent informal survey of 700 Filipino LGBT respondents remain far from inclusive for the LGBT community,” UNDP sex, while gays can be discharged from the military, and “Cultural and social attitudes towards LGBT (lesbian, gay, found one in 10 had been a victim of violence and abuse, country director Maurice Dewulf said in a speech launching cross-dressers are barred from nightclubs, the report said. In bisexual and transgender) people are complex, with signs of mostly committed at home by their parents. the report. The UNDP and USAID said they are also collabo- school LGBT youths suffer from discrimination, bullying and acceptance, particularly among the young,” the study said. “What we have in the Philippines is tolerance, not accept- rating in similar surveys in China, Cambodia, Indonesia, abuse, the report said. — AFP

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By Steve Tongue

quad depth, a commitment to attack, an ice- cool manager and greater consistency than Stheir rivals combined to bring the Premier League title back to Manchester City on Sunday. The pain of finishing 11 points behind Manchester United a year ago following their dramatic last-day triumph in 2012 was a distant memory as City beat West Ham United 2-0 to win English football’s most coveted trophy in Manuel Pellegrini’s first season as manager. Italian Roberto Mancini was sacked 12 months ago despite remaining popular with the club’s sup- How ‘Big Corn’ lost the ethanol battle porters, many of whom were not keen on Pellegrini who was little known in England despite his success By Cezary Podkul and Jeff Mason mation” campaign about the ethanol mandates’ impact ing,” said Philip Rinaldi, chief executive of the Carlyle- in South America and Spain. The appointment, on gasoline prices. owned refinery, in a statement. The credits surged from though, proved inspired and the Chilean has now ix months ago the US oil industry scored a sur- Refiners spent at least $81 million on lobbying last about a nickel each in Dec 2012 to a high of $1.05 on joined a select band of managers who have won the prise win against farm groups when the Obama year, nearly triple that of biofuel producers, according to March 11, 2013. The next day, executives from Carlyle title at their first attempt. Sadministration proposed slashing the amount of a Reuters analysis of data from the Center for and its Philadelphia refiner met with White House eco- Almost impregnable at home from the start of ethanol refiners must blend into gasoline, a move that Responsive Politics. The data does not itemize spending nomic adviser Ronald Minsk, visitor logs show. the season, it briefly looked as if City’s away form could save them billions of dollars. Stunned by the on specific issues like the RFS. Farm state legislators also Later that month, Meehan went back to work on might prove to be their Achilles heel. Cardiff City reversal, producers of the corn-based biofuel and their lobbied the White House on behalf of their backyard behalf of Delta, hand-delivering a letter to Sperling urg- and Aston Villa, teams who struggled for much of supporters are now fighting back ahead of a June dead- interests. But the response, some say, was more tepid: ing the president’s help in taming RIN prices. He also the season, found a weak spot to inflict defeats early line for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to “Everywhere along the line it was a little bit like ‘well, raised the issue with White House Chief of Staff Denis in the campaign, each putting three goals past a make a final decision on the cut. yup, I hear ya,’” said Minnesota Senator Al Franken. The McDonough. “They were aware of the issue and they suspect City defence. England goalkeeper Joe Hart The clash has been portrayed as a battle between lost form and was dropped but even though the resulting cuts were thus “completely puzzling,” he said. themselves were trying to work through the compo- number of clean sheets was less than usual from “Big Oil” and “Big Corn,” two powerful and deep-pocket- nent pieces to see if there was a solution,” Meehan said. title contenders, the scoring power of Sergio ed lobbies. But a Reuters review of public records and White House to the Rescue Thanks to the 2012 refinery rescue, “it wasn’t new terri- Aguero, Alvaro Negredo and Edin Dzeko backed up interviews with lawmakers, lobbyists and executives As oil and biofuel groups vied for the White House’s tory,” he said. by David Silva, Samir Nasri and Yaya Toure kept City reveals a more complex picture. A private equity firm attention, the Philadelphia refiners had an advantage, Other refiners joined the chorus. On June 26, a winning. and an airline helped convince the Obama administra- the White House was already familiar with their issues. dozen industry representatives from companies includ- In successive home games in November they put tion to backtrack, at least temporarily, on a policy it has In 2011, the East Coast refining industry was on the ing PBF Energy and Phillips 66 met with Sperling, visitor seven goals past Norwich City and hit Tottenham supported for years: requiring steadily-rising volumes of brink of extinction. Sunoco Inc. was exiting the business logs show. People familiar with the meeting say refin- Hotspur for six before hammering league leaders ethanol to be blended into gasoline each year, a key to and threatening to shut its massive 330,000 barrels-per- ing executives discussed an Oct 2012 study sponsored Arsenal 6-3 in December. When one striker was shifting US energy consumption toward renewable day (bpd) refining complex in Philadelphia - the Point by the oil industry warning the US economy would fall injured another took up the mantle and by mid- sources. Breeze and Girard Point refineries - if it couldn’t find a into a “death spiral” unless the biofuel blending man- January Pellegrini’s team had racked up 100 goals in The ethanol industry, blindsided by the proposed buyer. dates were reduced. Asked about White House meet- all competitions. Postponements, caused in part by cut, has said it was orchestrated by “Big Oil.” However, Enter Brady, a nine-term congressman with deep ties ings, Utech said: “With everybody that comes in, we reaching the Capital One Cup final in which they some of the most effective players in the fight weren’t take seriously concerns that they raise and we look beat Sunderland, meant City always had games in traditional oil majors but rather The Carlyle Group and skeptically at claims that they make.” hand. Delta Air Lines, owners of two Philadelphia-area refiners. Together with their allies, the refiners helped convince Summer Blitz Faltering Rivals policymakers that the rising mandates would cripple On July 18, RINs, painfully, rose further to $1.45. When they lost 3-2 at Liverpool in April and were their businesses and threaten thousands of jobs. Within days, David Marchick, a Carlyle executive who held 2-2 at home by Sunderland, the Merseysiders For key White House officials including Gene had worked with Brady on the 2012 refinery deal, con- were nine points ahead having played two more Sperling, President Barack Obama’s top economic advis- tacted the congressman’s office seeking help, accord- matches. But Liverpool, like fellow contenders er at the time, the pitch was familiar: a year earlier, many ing to a Brady aide. Brady’s first phone call was to Chelsea, faltered when the pressure was on, giving of the same players had worked with him to rescue Biden, who hails from Delaware - another state that City the opportunity to pounce. Pellegrini remained Philadelphia refineries from closure, saving jobs and had fought in 2010 to save local refinery jobs from a calm to the end and, according to City great Mike keeping a lid on East Coast gas prices. In one exchange shutdown. “We did all this work and now we’re going to Summerbee, a title winner in 1968 and now a club last July, Philadelphia Congressman Robert Brady con- lose this thing?” Brady said of the conversation. He said ambassador, his approach and man-management tacted Vice President Joe Biden on behalf of Carlyle, Biden agreed. Biden’s office declined to comment on style were key factors. “The manager brought which bought two struggling refineries in his district in the exchange. attacking football that the people love, just like we 2012. They had been on the brink of closure due to low- Asked about his role, Sperling described himself as a did in the 1960s,” Summerbee told Reuters. er margins then; now they were threatened by biofuel “canary in the coal mine” on the issue, flagging it at “Manager Brendan Rodgers wanted Liverpool to mandates, whose cost eclipses the salaries of all refinery meetings with senior Obama advisers. Broader deci- play that way too and because of all the entertain- workers combined. sions about it involved many voices within the adminis- ing, attacking football, football has come out on top “I talked to the vice president and I told him what the this season. “No disrespect to Jose Mourinho and tration, he said. “We were very committed to the issue was, and he said, ‘we’ve got to try to fix that,’” Brady Chelsea but Manchester City and Liverpool have growth of biofuels, but when RIN prices go up from a been very exciting to watch.” Even when City lost at said in an interview. “And we fixed it.” It is impossible to few cents to as high as $1.45 in a period of months, that Anfield, Summerbee did not lose faith. “After going say how much impact any one group or company had to the city’s labor unions. Loath to lose 850 jobs in his is a degree of potential disruption and volatility that 2-0 down we came right back into the game to on the decision to reduce the mandates. Carlyle and district, he got in contact with Sperling to help save the you have to take seriously,” Sperling said. equalise and if it hadn’t been for Vincent Kompany Delta acknowledged contacting lawmakers and regula- refineries. Once Sunoco identified Carlyle as a potential Meetings intensified in July and August, when 17 uncharacteristically slicing a clearance I think we tors but declined to comment on specific meetings. The buyer, the White House helped expedite environmental refiners and their allies visited the White House’s rule- would have gone on and won the game,” said the EPA said it consulted with stakeholders and other arms approval for the transaction, a person close to the deal making arm, the Office of Management and Budget former City forward. of the federal government but made the final decision said. Brian MacDonald, who headed Sunoco at the time, (OMB) to discuss the RFS. Only six biofuel supporters “Liverpool have been wonderful to watch but itself. said Brady has a reputation for getting things done: visited the OMB over the same time. Biofuel groups three times recently, against Norwich, Chelsea and Still, the efforts of this informal coalition help explain “When he calls down to the White House, they pay eventually stepped up their efforts, but only after an Crystal Palace, they’ve conceded late in the game how an industry with few open allies in Washington was attention to what he’s saying.” October leak of an EPA proposal showed the agency and in two of those games it cost them. The most able to prevail - at least temporarily - over the once- Meanwhile, Delta Air Lines was approaching neigh- was already planning to cut the corn ethanol mandate important thing to say about Manuel Pellegrini is invincible farm lobby, which has seen its sway diminish. boring Pennsylvania Congressman Patrick Meehan to about 13 billion gallons, 1.4 billion less than what was that his man-management has been brilliant,” added “For thirty years, you would have lost a lot of money about buying another refinery located in his district, the called for in the law. In November, the EPA formally pro- Summerbee. “Whether you’re in a big company or a betting against ethanol, which usually wins,” said Bob 185,000 bpd Trainer plant in suburban Philadelphia. It posed the cut, along with reductions to other biofuels. small one, you need that. “Compared to some other McNally, an energy consultant and former White House too was slated for closure. By fall 2012 the deals were people he’s always conducted himself well and han- energy advisor under President George W. Bush. “This done, saving more than 1,200 jobs and averting a possi- Fighting Back dled the media well. Take nothing away from time was different.” ble gasoline price spike just ahead of the election, Biofuel supporters are now trying to make up lost Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers has done a fantastic job, which Obama won. ground. In April, the industry relaunched a public lob- but I think City are deserved winners.” —Reuters Getting the Policy ‘Right’ bying effort, buying TV and online ads and creating a At its core, the fight is about who should bear the For Want of a RIN new website - OilRigged.com - addressing oil industry cost of blending increasing volumes of biofuels like But by early 2013 those refineries and others like “misinformation”. Hearings also have resumed on ethanol into fuel supplies under a 2007 law supported them were once again in trouble, this time because of Capitol Hill, where on April 8 the latest topic was job All articles appearing on these by both the Bush and Obama administrations: the an obscure market for RINs, or Renewable Identification creation and savings at the gas pump thanks to pages are the personal opinion of Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS. Refiners say the law, Numbers. Created by the EPA in 2007 to enforce its Washington’s biofuel mandates. Many policy analysts the writers. Kuwait Times takes no which mandates more biofuels to be blended into mandates, the credits are 38-digit serial numbers used now believe when the EPA finalizes its blending rules in responsibility for views expressed petroleum-based fuels through 2022, is an untenable to identify each gallon of US biofuels. Refiners collect June, the cuts will not be as deep as proposed in therein. Kuwait Times invites read- burden as gasoline demand shrinks. Biofuel groups say RINs to show compliance. Suddenly they were in short November. “I think that the final rule will be slightly less ers to voice their opinions. Please the volumes required by the law should be met. supply. Refiners began to hoard RINs amid fears the ris- severe,” said Divya Reddy, energy analyst at Eurasia Dan Utech, a senior energy adviser to Obama, said in ing mandates would force them to blend gasoline with Group. Biofuels supporters have said they are also will- send submissions via email to: opin- an interview that the administration “heard loudly and more than 10 percent ethanol, exceeding the level ing to go to court, if needed, to defend the RFS from the [email protected] or via snail repeatedly” from both sides. “Our goal was to try to bal- most car makers’ warranties and gas stations allow. cuts. But for now, the groups are busy knocking on mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. ance objectives and get the policy right,” he said. Tom That meant refiners without adequate blending White House doors again. “We’re trying to reach out to The editor reserves the right to edit Buis, CEO of Growth Energy, one of Washington’s top facilities saw their RIN costs surge. In 2013, the indus- White House folks that have heard from the refiners - any submission as necessary. two ethanol groups, pins the proposed cut on the oil try’s tab more than tripled to at least $1.35 billion, dis- but haven’t heard from us,” said a biofuel trade group industry’s heavy spending and an aggressive “misinfor- closures show. “The economic consequences are crush- representative. —Reuters NEWS TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014

A biker passes fresh snow from the fringe of a major spring snowstorm in the nearby mountains in Superior, Colorado yesterday. A spring storm has brought up to 3 feet of snow to the Rockies and severe thunderstorms and tornadoes to the Midwest. In Colorado, the snow that began falling on Mother’s Day caused some power outages as it weighed down newly greening trees. — AP (See Page 10) Iran prods Pak leader on Indian election ends as polls tip Modi.. Continued from Page 1 The four-time chief minister of the western state of Gujarat has campaigned on a platform of clean govern- US ties, security, pipeline Predictions for the BJP and its allies nation-wide ranged ment and development to revive the economy after 10 from 249 to 289, with a poll of polls giving it a wafer thin years of left-leaning Congress rule. But he remains a deeply majority with 273 out of the total 543 seats. Modi has polarising figure over allegations that he failed to curb banditry and political violence and some stretches DUBAI: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran already indicated that he is looking to find further allies swiftly deadly 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat which left urged Pakistan yesterday to avoid “wicked” US influence along the border with Sunni-majority Pakistan are among a host of regional parties which would give him a at least 1,000 people dead shortly after he came to power and build stronger ties with Tehran, blaming largely lawless. much more stable coalition. The predictions, if confirmed, there. Europe and the United States boycotted him for a Washington for rising sectarian violence in the Iranian- The kidnapping of five Iranian border guards early would spell the worst ever result for Congress and be a decade over the violence. “With him winning the Varanasi Pakistani border region that has strained relations. this year brought Tehran and Islamabad to the verge of stringing rebuke to the latest generation of the Gandhi seat, I am also confident about the development of this Speaking to visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz conflict after Iranian Revolutionary guards threatened dynasty, 43-year-old Rahul, who has led campaigning millennia-old city as a tourist destination,” Setupati Tripathi Sharif, Khamenei accused the United States and “some to chase the rebels inside Pakistan. Some Iranian politi- nationally for the first time. Official results are due on told AFP after voting in Varanasi. other governments” of plotting a rift between the cians accused Islamabad of secretly siding with the Friday. Anti-corruption champion Arvind Kejriwal from the new Muslim neighbours. Jaish al-Adl rebels. Relations have thawed, however, Shortly after polls closed for the last time, the Election Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party also competed from the “We do have information on certain movements since four of the border guards were released under Commission gave final figures for the world’s biggest elec- city on the holy river Ganges and was hoping for an upset. along our long borders, with some trying to create inse- ambiguous circumstances, although the fifth was tion, saying 551 million had voted - 130 million more than Exit surveys showed support evaporating for his party curity, and we cannot believe these are unprovoked and reported killed in captivity. in 2009 - with turnout also at a record high of 66.38 per- nation-wide, however, which became a sensation in accidental,” Khamenei said in comments carried by On his first official visit to Iran since his election as cent. High turnout often augurs well for the opposition December when it swept to power after state elections in Iranian media. “America, whose wickedness is known to prime minister last May, Sharif has pressed for steps to and is usually a signal that voters are keen for a change. New Delhi. all, is among the governments trying to make distance boost bilateral trade. It has sunk by one third to around The main contest of the day was in the sacred city of Voters are thought to have turned against Congress between Iran and Pakistan. Besides America, there are $1 billion in recent years as Iran come under increasing- Varanasi where 63-year-old Modi was standing as a candi- over massive graft scandals, spiralling inflation and a sharp other governments at work too.” ly restrictive international sanctions over its disputed date and hoping for a crowning victory on the final day of economic slowdown in the last two years. Despite a Khamenei was referring to a recent spate of kidnap- nuclear program. “We hope to see during your tenure a voting. decade of high economic growth, a fall to a decade-low of pings and cross-border raids in Iran’s easternmost good movement in bilateral relations. One must not In a video message, he paid tribute to the hundreds of 5.0 percent has badly hurt the party, run by the Nehru- thousands who “stood out in the scorching sun for hours to Gandhi dynasty which has dominated post-independence province of Sistan-Baluchistan that have generally been wait for permission from others to develop relations,” give strength to our democracy” over the last five weeks. India. Modi, the son of a tea-stall owner who rose through Khamenei told Sharif, in apparent reference to the claimed by Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) rebels. They Writing later on his blog, he struck a conciliatory tone, say- the BJP ranks, has derided Rahul Gandhi as a reluctant claim to herald the cause of a disgruntled Sunni Muslim United States. Meeting Sharif on Sunday, Iranian ing that “it is natural for the spirit of bi-partisanship to get “prince” whose lacklustre campaign has latterly been over- minority in Shiite-majority Iran. An underdeveloped President Hassan Rouhani urged Pakistan to expedite temporarily lost in the midst of an election campaign but shadowed by his sister Priyanka’s electioneering. The impoverished land with a high unemployment rate, construction of its part of a $7.5-billion natural gas now is the time to regain it”. His decision to stand in Gandhi siblings, joined by their mother and party presi- Sistan-Baluchistan is fertile ground for drug trafficking, pipeline from Iran to South Asia. — Reuters Varanasi was rich in religious symbolism and seen as rein- dent Sonia, have hit back, accusing Modi of being danger- forcing his Hindu nationalist credentials during a campaign ously divisive and prejudiced against the country’s 150 mil- Saudis home in on camels to combat MERS in which he steered clear of his customary hardline rhetoric. lion Muslims. — AFP Continued from Page 1 encourage the public to adopt new hygiene measures Video shows abducted girls recommended by the government. “The campaign tar- He was dismissed days later on April 21 without offi- gets public gatherings, hospitals, and markets... to raise Continued from Page 1 Muslims,” he said. “There are still others who have not con- cial explanation and replaced by Labour Minister Fakieh awareness among people,” said Alia Banaja, who runs a verted and are holding on to your belief. There are many who immediately promised “transparency” in providing campaign in Jeddah, where some people have started The latest footage shows girls in black and grey full- of them,” he added. “You are making so much noise about the public and media with information about MERS. wearing masks, a measure only recommended in hospi- length hijabs sitting on scrubland near trees. Three of the Chibok, Chibok, Chibok. Only Allah knows how many The ministry now publishes a daily detailed bulletin tals. girls are interviewed. Two say they were Christian and had women we are holding, the infidels who Allah commands on its website updating the numbers of MERS infections Meanwhile, US health officials said yesterday a sec- converted while one said she was Muslim. All three pro- us to hold.” and deaths. Last week, Fakieh also announced the sack- ond case of MERS has been found in the state of Florida. nounce their belief in Islam dispassionately to the camera, On the prisoner release, Shekau said Boko Haram’s ing of the head of Jeddah’s King Fahd Hospital, where a The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention con- sometimes looking down at the ground and apparently brothers in arms had been held in prison for up to five spike in MERS infections among medical staff sparked firmed the presence of the virus with health officials under duress. Most of the group behind them were seat- years and suggested that the girls would be released if panic among the public. After its five-day mission to from Florida. The CDC said in a statement it was the sec- ed cross-legged on the ground. The girls appeared calm the fighters were freed. “We will never release them (the Jeddah, the WHO pinpointed breaches in its “recom- ond “imported” instance of MERS, meaning a traveler and one said that they had not been harmed. girls) until after you release our brethren,” he said. Boko mended infection prevention and control measures” as contracted the virus in another country and brought it There was no indication of when the video was taken, Haram has used kidnapping of women and young girls in being partly responsible for an increase in infections in to US shores. The first such imported case involved a although the quality is better than on previous occasions the past and Shekau indicated that more were being held. the Red Sea city. man who flew from Saudi Arabia and traveled to and at one point an armed man is seen in shot with a Eleven girls were abducted from the Gwoza area of Borno Amid rising concerns over MERS’s spread, the WHO is Indiana earlier this month. hand-held video camera. Shekau does not appear in the state on May 4. President Jonathan has previously said preparing for an emergency meeting to discuss the The patient in that case, a US healthcare worker who same shot. Instead, he is seen dressed in combat fatigues, that he believed the girls were still in Nigeria and would virus - the fifth time the UN health agency’s emergency lives and works in Saudi Arabia, flew from Riyadh to carrying an automatic weapon in front of a lime-green be freed soon. committee has met about the mystery coronavirus. London and then Chicago, before boarding a bus to canvas backdrop. There have been fears that the girls may have been Months before the annual hajj pilgrimage to holy sites Highland, Indiana. He then began experiencing symp- Boko Haram has been waging an increasingly deadly taken into neighbouring Chad or Cameroon, from where in Makkah and Madinah, the number of reported cases toms of fever, shortness of breath, and sought care at insurgency in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north since 2009, Boko Haram is said to have launched attacks in the north- is climbing steadily. Jeddah will be the main point of Community Hospital in Munster, Indiana. After confirm- attacking schools teaching a “Western” curriculum, east and may have camps. Nigeria’s army is currently con- entry for pilgrims from overseas when they arrive in ing the patient had MERS, the CDC and state and hospi- churches and government targets. Civilians, though, have centrating its efforts on the Sambisa forest of Borno state September. tal officials traced all of the workers with whom he had borne the brunt of recent violence, with more than 1,500 while international assistance involves specialist surveil- Pilgrims still trickle into Makkah for the lesser pilgrim- contact, and all have so far tested negative for the virus. killed this year alone while tens of thousands have been lance and intelligence teams. Washington said on Sunday age - the umrah - that can be performed at any time, The CDC has also checked airline and bus manifests displaced after their homes and businesses were razed. that no US troops would be used in any rescue mission especially during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, to see if the man might have infected others during his Speaking in his native Hausa language as well as Arabic, while the leader of the world’s Anglicans, Archbishop of which starts in July. Saudi Arabia’s hajj ministry has not journey and so far have not turned up any evidence he restates his claim of responsibility made in a video Canterbury Justin Welby, urged for negotiations to start. yet taken any special measures related to MERS. The that fellow travelers were infected. The patient is now released last Monday and said the girls had converted to But he admitted that back-channel talks would be fraught WHO also said it does not advise special screening at clear of the virus and was released on Friday. Hospital Islam while others had not. with danger because of Boko Haram’s disparate structure, points of entry, nor does it currently recommend any workers remain in home isolation until the end of a 14- “These girls, these girls you occupy yourselves with... its “extremely irrational” action and their “utterly merciless” travel or trade restrictions, “including for upcoming pil- day incubation period, when they will be rechecked for we have indeed liberated them. These girls have become history. — AFP grimage travel to Saudi Arabia”. the virus. Although the MERS virus has been shown to Fakieh has announced an awareness campaign to transmit from person to person and to healthcare help stop the disease’s spread, and doctors, academics workers, it is not easily transmissible to the general Sisi promises gains in 2 yrs and journalists have launched initiatives of their own to public. — Agencies Continued from Page 1 accuses the government of seeking to smear its name. Thousands of Morsi supporters and leading figures in his Amir accepts resignation of awqaf, justice... “Do you think I will wait for a third time? If people go down Brotherhood are behind bars on charges varying from hold- to protest, I will say, I am at your service,” Sisi said. “I can’t wait ing illegal protests to inciting and carrying out violent attacks Continued from Page 1 tion decided to address the Amir directly and this action until the army asks me to (step down), I can’t be like this. I fear and cooperating with foreign militant groups. More than never constituted any crime because the speakers only for my country. I fear for the people.” 1,300 were also killed in the security crackdown on protests. Ajmi was under the threat of grillings first by MP Safa explained the dangers of the amendment which “has Sisi retired in March to run for office, but he was a career Sisi refused to comment on mass trials and sentences against Al-Hashem, who has resigned, over the alleged refusal of been already proven on the ground”. military officer and is unlikely to be at odds with the armed Brotherhood members, including a death sentence already the minister to appoint women as public prosecutors The witnesses also insisted that Barrak’s speech was forces, which have provided all of Egypt’s presidents except issued against the group’s leader Mohammed Badie on and over his alleged jihadist links. Later, MP Yacoub Al- political and never undermined the authorities of the for Morsi since 1952. Sisi was head of military intelligence charges he instigated violence. The sentence can be Sane threatened to grill him over his alleged discrimina- Amir. The criminal court had sentenced Barrak to five when the uprising against Mubarak erupted in 2011 and was appealed. He said the courts are independent and the law tion against women. years in jail. The ruling was scrapped by the appeals promoted to defense minister by Morsi. This was Sisi’s second must be respected. Meanwhile, MP Khalil Al-Saleh said that the court which decided to conduct the trial itself. Barrak is televised interview. Last week, he gave his first interview to The crackdown has widened to include secular and non- Assembly’s legislative committee has accepted his pro- free on a KD 10,000 bail. The court was also supposed to two Egyptian private TV stations. He has so far made no street Islamist critics of the current interim government’s campaign posal that compels visitors to Kuwait to buy health hear the testimony of the prime minister and the finance appearances campaigning because of security concerns. to quell dissent, including issuing a draconian protest law that insurance for the duration of their stay, adding they minister but they did not show up. The court set the In this interview, Sisi repeated his criticism of Morsi’s term bans all political gatherings and protests without prior per- should be treated in private hospitals only, reported Al- next hearing on June 15. in office and the Brotherhood’s rise to power, saying the mission and imposes heavy fines and jail times for violators. Watan daily. MP Mohammad Tana meanwhile yesterday pro- group maintained a parallel leadership and was concerned Sisi defended the law and repeated his concern for improving In another development, three former MPs yesterday posed to make the timings of government agencies about amassing power and not solving the country’s prob- security and fighting terrorism, saying police must be given testified in court in support of opposition leader and for- during the holy fasting month of Ramadan between lems. He said the group must reassess its ideology. Sisi said the chance to combat militants and not be distracted with mer MP Musallam Al-Barrak on charges of undermining 10:00 am and 2:00 pm, and demanded that the govern- the Brotherhood has lost the trust of Egyptians. “It is their protests. “We want to give the police the chance to work with the authorities of the Amir. Barrak was taken to court after ment should declare the last 10 days of Ramadan as a problem, not mine. They need to reevaluate themselves,” he its current capabilities in better circumstances,” he said. directly addressing the Amir at a public rally on Oct 15, public holiday. The government had in the past reject- said, accusing the group of turning a political problem into a Sisi said he plans to be frank with Egyptians about the warning him against amending the electoral law through ed such proposals. religious war. extent of their problems, hoping they will lower their expecta- a decree to introduce the so-called single vote law. Ten MPs have also submitted a motion to hold a spe- He said he would not allow a religious leadership, as he tions and line up behind him to solve the country’s challeng- Former MPs Bader Al-Dahoum, Jamaan Al-Harbash cial session to debate why Kuwaiti women have not said the Brotherhood tried to present itself, to exist in parallel ing economic and security problems. “We say if things go and Adel Al-Damkhi told the court that Prime Minister been given equal rights like men more than 50 years to the state and its religious institutions. “It is not an animosity, according to our planning, they will see improvements within HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah told them that after issuing the constitution and embracing democratic it is not revenge between me and them,” he said. The govern- two years.” Sisi said widening poverty, rising internal and the then proposed single-vote law will be harmful to life. The lawmakers said in their request that they want ment has branded the Brotherhood a terrorist group, accus- external debts and an energy crunch are the country’s most him and the matter was not in his hands but in the to make sure that Kuwaiti women get the same rights as ing it of orchestrating a violent campaign to destabilize the pressing economic problems. “On my own, I can’t” solve the hands of the Amir. As a result, they added, the opposi- men in housing, sponsoring their children and others. country. The Brotherhood denies it adopts violent means and problem, he stressed. — AP TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 SPORTS

Injury scare for Jedinak Cole out of England squad Hodgson: Kids are alright SYDNEY: Australian midfielder Mile Jedinak, who is expected to be named LONDON: Experienced left back Ashley Cole has been left out of the LUTON: England manager Roy Hodgson is adamant none of his World Cup the national captain this week, has sent an injury scare through the World England squad for next month’s World Cup in Brazil, the Chelsea squad are going to Brazil just for the ride despite including eight players under Cup squad after limping off in Crystal Palace’s 2-2 draw with Fulham. defender said on Twitter on Sunday before announcing his interna- 24. Theo Walcott failed to make an appearance when called up by Sven-Goran Jedinak appeared in pain when he was substituted after 59 minutes tional retirement. Cole, 33, has won 107 caps but is not in manager Eriksson as a 17-year-old for the 2006 World Cup but Hodgson is ready to let his Roy Hodgson’s provisional 23-man squad to be named yesterday with a groin strain and he is set to undergo scans this week to determine young thrusters loose. nor among his seven stand-by players. the extent of the problem, Football Federation Australia said on its web- “We shouldn’t get hung up on fact that there are youngsters in the squad,” “Got the call from Roy and agree England team should be about Hodgson told a news conference yesterday. “I’m not taking anyone purely for site. Reports said he would not be able to train or play before the squad the young players,” Cole tweeted. “I think it best I retire from England reaches Brazil, which would rule him out of the the experience.” The youthful flavor of Hodgson’s squad contrasts with the per- team now. “We have a great manager and team and I wish them ception that he does not like to take risks after his methodical Socceroos warm-up against South Africa in Sydney only success. I will be supporting them like a true fan. Thanks to on May 26. Euro 2012 side were knocked out in the quarter-finals by everyone for everything.” Southampton’s 18-year-old left back Luke Italy. National coach Ange Postecoglou will name Shaw, who has one England cap, is to be named as cover for Hodgson, who guided Switzerland to the last 16 at the Australia’s 30-man preliminary World Cup squad Leighton Baines in Hodgson’s squad, British media reported. 1994 World Cup, has been so impressed by his young tomorrow with Jedinak widely tipped to become Shaw made his England debut as a halftime substitute for Cole in England guns that he believes Group D clashes against captain after veteran Lucas Neill was informed last the 1-0 friendly win over Denmark in March. “Baines and Shaw are Italy, Uruguay and Costa Rica hold no fear. “Do I believe the week he was no longer needed. great players, proved this season, and are the future of this country, squad can win the World Cup? Yes, otherwise what is Jedinak, 29, wore the skipper’s armband in it was a pleasure to get 107 caps,” added Cole. “Like me or not, trust the point of taking a squad to the World Cup?” the 66- the Socceroos’ most recent match against me it’s hurt me to stop playing for my country, proud and honored.” year-old quipped. Everton’s prodigious midfield talent Ecuador in March. The injury brought to an Cole, the fifth most-capped England player of all time, has been Ross Barkley epitomises the vibrant, new-look England end his impressive record of playing in first-choice left back since making his debut against Albania in 2001. squad, with the 20-year-old flourishing under the every single minute of the Premier League He has started every tournament match since his first appearance at tutelage of Roberto Martinez at Goodison Park this season for Crystal Palace.—AFP the 2002 World Cup against Sweden.—Reuters season.—Reuters Red Sox pound Rangers

ARLINGTON: AJ Pierzynski and Mike Napoli had run-producing hits in the first inning against their former team as the Boston Red Sox got above .500 for the first time since three games into the season with a series-clinching 5-2 victo- ry at Texas on Sunday. Napoli put the Red Sox ahead to stay with an RBI double, two batters before Pierzynski’s two- run single. Both went to Boston as free agents after being in Texas. Pierzynski was the Rangers primary catcher last season, and Napoli was there the previous two years. John Lackey (5-2) struck out nine while allow- ing two runs over seven innings. Rangers lefty Robbie Ross (1-4) made it through 6 2-3 innings and a career-high 112 pitches.

ROYALS 9, MARINERS 7 Alcides Escobar hit a grand slam and Johnny Giavotella added a three-run shot to give the Royals a comeback victory over the Mariners. LOS ANGELES: San Francisco Giants’ Angel Pagan (left) scores as the throw arrives Escobar had provided a 4-0 lead for the late to Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Drew Butera (right) from center field, on a single Royals in the second with his first career home in the eighth inning. —AP run off starter Roenis Elias. But the Mariners ral- lied behind two homers from Dustin Ackley and Giants defeat Dodgers another from Kyle Seager before Kansas City took the lead in the seventh, scoring four runs ARLINGTON: Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus chases down a single hit by Boston Red off reliever Danny Farquhar (1-1). Louis Coleman Sox’s Xander Bogaerts in the ninth inning of a baseball game. —AP LOS ANGELES: Pablo Sandoval and Hector Hernandez - who started Friday night and (1-0), who worked a scoreless sixth, earned the Sanchez hit RBI singles in the 10th inning threw 99 pitches. Phillies manager Ryne victory. The Mariners committed a season-high a career-high with four walks and struck out five. Both of Norris’ home runs came on identical as the San Francisco Giants recovered to Sandberg said closer Jonathan Papelbon four errors. two-out, 3-0 pitches from Washington starter beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-4 Sunday was sore and unavailable to pitch in a third TWINS 4, TIGERS 3 and former Oakland pitcher Gio Gonzalez (3-3). after closer Sergio Romo gave up a tying straight game. Scott Rice (1-1) got Reid INDIANS 6, RAYS 5 Eduardo Nunez hit a tiebreaking single in the Nick Punto added two hits and three RBIs homer to Hanley Ramirez. Brignac on a grounder with two runners on Josh Tomlin won his second straight start, eighth inning as the Twins rallied for a victory while Brandon Moss singled twice and doubled. Brandon Hicks hit a two-run shot off to finish the top of the 11th. Jeff Manship and Nyjer Morgan and Michael Bourn both over the Tigers. The Twins took advantage of Oakland has won four straight since dropping Clayton Kershaw, and Buster Posey had an (1-1) took the loss. drove in two runs as the Indians beat the Rays. poor defense by the Tigers in the late innings. five of six against Boston and Seattle. Kazmir (5- RBI single for the NL West leaders, who beat New York’s comeback denied Cole Tomlin (2-0), who pitched just once in the big Minnesota scored three runs in the eighth, spoil- 1) bounced back from his first loss of the year to the defending division champions for the Hamels his elusive first win of the season leagues last season after right elbow surgery in ing another fine start by Detroit rookie Robbie pitch seven scoreless innings while allowing seventh time in 10 meetings this season. and the 100th of his career. He struck out 2012, allowed two runs and six hits over six Ray. only four hits. The Giants finished their road trip 7-3 and 10 in seven innings while throwing a innings in his second outing this year. The Tigers led 3-1 with two outs in the eighth played errorless ball over the last five whopping 133 pitches, the most of any Morgan hit his first major league homer since when Josmil Pinto singled to left field off Joba DIAMONDBACKS 5, WHITE SOX 1 games. major leaguer this year. July 30, 2012, an eighth-inning solo shot. Matt Chamberlain (1-2) with runners on first and sec- Chase Anderson won his major league debut, Romo (3-0) came on in the ninth to try Joyce homered and had two RBIs for the Rays, ond. One run scored on the hit, but the ball Gerardo Parra and Miguel Montero homered as and protect a 4-2 lead for Tim Hudson. The PADRES 5, MARLINS 4 who went 1-5 on their homestand. Chris Archer skipped past left fielder Rajai Davis for an error the Diamondbacks beat the White Sox. right-hander struck out Yasiel Puig after a Will Venable hit a leadoff homer as San (2-2) gave up four runs and eight hits in five-plus that tied the game and allowed Pinto to reach Recalled Tuesday from Double-A Mobile, one-out double by Dee Gordon, but Diego beat Miami for its first three-game innings. second. Anderson (1-0) hadn’t seen any action until Ramirez lined his fifth homer to left field. winning streak of the season. The resurgent Nunez followed with his single to make it 4-3. Sunday and he excelled in his first big league The blown save was Romo’s first this season Padres offense, which has scored 24 runs in ASTROS 5, ORIOLES 2 Jared Burton (1-1) won in relief. Glen Perkins got appearance, at one point retiring 12 consecutive in 13 chances. three games, also got two hits and two RBIs Jason Castro and Marc Krauss homered to four outs for his 10th save in 11 chances. batters. He allowed one run and only two hits in Angel Pagan drew a leadoff walk in the from Chris Denorfia. account for all of Houston’s runs as the Astros 5 1-3 innings while striking out six, helping 10th from Kenley Jansen (0-2) before Robbie Erlin (2-4) scattered five hits over beat the Orioles to avoid a three-game sweep. INTERLEAGUE Arizona win for the fourth time in five games Hunter Pence singled. Jean Machi got three 6 1-3 scoreless innings before giving way to Jarred Cosart (2-3) allowed two runs and ATHLETICS 9, NATIONALS 1 and secure its third consecutive series for the outs for his first major league save. three relievers. Huston Street pitched eight hits over six innings for the Astros, who Derek Norris hit a pair of three-run home runs first time since June 2012. Parra’s fifth-inning around a hit and two walks in the ninth to had lost seven of eight before ending Baltimore’s to back Scott Kazmir’s fifth win as the Athletics drive off Hector Noesi (0-3) gave Arizona a 3-0 beat the Nationals to complete a series sweep. lead.—AP REDS 4, ROCKIES 1 earn his 11th save. five-game winning streak. Aroldis Chapman made his first major Erlin, who didn’t walk a batter, had sev- Castro hit a three-run homer off Chris Tillman league appearance since being hit above en strikeouts to match a career high. He (3-2) in the first inning and Krauss connected against T.J. McFarland with a runner on in the MLB results/standings the eye by a line drive during spring train- had lost four straight decisions. Padres seventh. Houston is 11-11 when it hits a home ing, striking out the side in the ninth inning pitchers struck out 48 in the four-game LA Angels 9, Toronto 3; Minnesota 4, Detroit 3; Cincinnati 4, Colorado 1; NY Mets 5, Philadelphia 4 (11 Innings); run and 1-15 when it doesn’t. Although the with his 100 mph (161 kph) fastball to close series to set a franchise record. Houston 5, Baltimore 2; Atlanta 5, Chicago Cubs 2; Cleveland 6, Tampa Bay 5; Arizona 5, Chicago White Sox 1; Astros’ bullpen came in with a 6.21 ERA, Tony out Cincinnati’s victory over Colorado. Henderson Alvarez (2-3), who was com- Milwaukee 6, NY Yankees 5; Boston 5, Texas 2; Oakland 9, Washington 1; Kansas City 9, Seattle 7; San Diego 5, Miami 4; Sipp struck out five in two perfect innings and San Francisco 7, LA Dodgers 4 (10 Innings); St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 5. Todd Frazier hit his second 400-foot ing off his second shutout of the season Chad Qualls worked the ninth for his second American League National League home run in three days to back Homer and third in his last eight starts, wasn’t save. Bailey (3-2) as the Reds won the rubber sharp. He lasted four innings, allowing five Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB Atlanta 21 15 .583 - match of the three-game series. runs and seven hits with three walks. ANGELS 9, BLUE JAYS 3 Baltimore 20 15 .571 - Miami 20 18 .526 2 Chapman was greeted by a standing Christian Yelich homered for the Marlins Jered Weaver won his fourth straight deci- NY Yankees 19 17 .528 1.5 Washington 19 18 .514 2.5 ovation from the crowd of 33,143. He and Jeff Baker had a two-run triple. sion, Hank Conger hit a three-run homer and Boston 19 18 .514 2 NY Mets 17 19 .472 4 reached 100 mph with his first pitch and had a career-high five RBIs as the Angels beat Toronto 18 20 .474 3.5 Philadelphia 17 19 .472 4 topped out at 102 mph in earning the save. CARDINALS 6, PIRATES 5 Toronto for their seventh straight win over the Tampa Bay 16 22 .421 5.5 Central Division Central Division Chapman had been out since a frightening Shelby Miller won his fourth straight Milwaukee 24 14 .632 - Blue Jays. Detroit 21 12 .636 - start and Trevor Rosenthal induced a bases- St. Louis 19 19 .500 5 injury March 19. Conger went 3 for 4 with a walk. He hit an RBI Chicago White Sox 19 20 .487 5 Cincinnati 17 19 .472 6 Skip Schumaker drove in two runs and loaded double play to end the game as the double in the fourth, homered in the sixth and Kansas City 18 19 .486 5 the Reds capitalized on two throwing Cardinals held off the Pirates. added an RBI single in the ninth. Cleveland 18 20 .474 5.5 Pittsburgh 16 21 .432 7.5 errors to send the Rockies to their third loss Allen Craig and Yadier Molina had two Howie Kendrick had three hits, two stolen Minnesota 17 19 .472 5.5 Chicago Cubs 12 24 .333 11 in four games. Charlie Blackmon hit his hits each, including RBI singles in a four-run bases and scored three times as the Angels won Western Division Western Division ninth homer for Colorado. Bailey allowed first inning. Craig went 5-for-11 in the their third straight. Weaver (4-2) improved to 4-0 Oakland 23 15 .605 - San Francisco 24 14 .632 - Colorado 23 17 .575 2 four hits in 7 1-3 innings. Juan Nicasio (4-2) three-game series after entering with a with a 1.71 ERA in his past four starts. LA Angels 19 17 .528 3 LA Dodgers 20 19 .513 4.5 Blue Jays right-hander Drew Hutchison (1-3), Seattle 19 18 .514 3.5 gave up four runs - two earned - in six .202 batting average. Molina was 0-for-12 Texas 19 19 .500 4 San Diego 18 21 .462 6.5 innings. in his previous four games. who has not won in seven starts, allowed three Houston 12 26 .316 11 Arizona 15 25 .375 10 Miller (5-2) walked four and allowed four runs and three hits in 4 1-3 innings. He matched BRAVES 5, CUBS 2 hits in 5 1-3 innings, but held the Pirates to Evan Gattis hit a tiebreaking homer and just two runs - which came on Jordy Jason Heyward added a two-run shot as Mercer’s first home run of the season in the Atlanta beat Chicago to complete a three- fourth inning. NBK announces winner to game sweep. Rosenthal gave up a run in the ninth Gattis gave the Braves a 3-2 advantage that made it 5-4, but got Mercer to hit into with his homer off Edwin Jackson in the a 1-2-3 double play to end it. Charlie Champions League final fourth inning. Heyward added to the lead Morton (0-5) took the loss. with his first home run since April 9. KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) Aaron Harang (4-3) gave up two runs in announced the winner of a fully-paid trip to INTERLEAGUE six innings with nine strikeouts. David Lisbon to attend the final match of the Carpenter pitched the ninth for his second BREWERS 6, YANKEES 5 UEFA Champions League 2013/2014, in save as closer Craig Kimbrel was rested Mark Reynolds hit a game-ending single association with MasterCard International. after pitching two straight days. Jackson (2- with two outs in the ninth inning as Abdulla Zaid Al Mutairi will fly to Lisbon to 3) allowed three runs and six hits in six Milwaukee overcame Francisco Rodriguez’s watch the UEFA Champions League final innings. The NL East-leading Braves have first blown save of the season to beat New match between Real Madrid and Atletico recovered from seven straight losses by York. Madrid. winning four of five. The Cubs, last in the NL Rickie Weeks doubled just inside first The campaign offered NBK MasterCard Central, have dropped seven of eight. base with one out before going to third on Cardholders chances to win six travel pack- a wild pitch by reliever Adam Warren (1-2). ages to the semifinal matches and one trav- METS 5, PHILLIES 4 Reynolds, who spent part of last season el package for the final match. Each travel Daniel Murphy and the New York Mets with the Yankees, held his right index finger package included two round trip airline suddenly rallied for three runs in the ninth in the air after his hard chopper bounced tickets, hotel accommodation, transfer serv- inning against Philadelphia’s improvised past diving third baseman Yangervis ice and match tickets for both the winner bullpen, then ended a five-game losing Solarte. and the guest. NBK’s leadership in the streak off Ruben Tejada’s single in the 11th. New York was one strike from defeat in Credit Card market in Kuwait has been Down 4-1, the punchless Mets fought back the top of the ninth when Mark Teixeira established by consistently delivering supe- in the ninth, sparked by Murphy’s two-run homered off Rodriguez (1-0). It was the first rior value to our customers. NBK always homer off Antonio Bastardo. Chris Young run allowed all season by the veteran clos- strives to develop promotions to reward ended his 0-for-18 slump with a double, er. Before the game, the Yankees put strug- customers. NBK Credit Cards are accepted and Juan Lagares drove in the tying run gling left-hander CC Sabathia on the dis- worldwide and are the safest, most conven- with a slow grounder against Roberto abled list with a right knee injury. —AP ient and rewarding way to pay. TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 SPORTS

Rangers force Game Seven Photo of the day

PITTSBURGH: A grieving Martin St. Louis Brassard sealed the contest for the Rangers scored an emotional goal to help the New late in the second. York Rangers force a series-deciding Game New York goaltender Henrik Lundqvist Seven with a 3-1 victory over the made 36 saves in the victory. “The first Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday. Playing on period hurt us,” said Pittsburgh captain Mother’s Day, just three days after his Sidney Crosby. “We fought hard and tried mother’s sudden death, the right winger to get back, but you can’t continue to do scored 3:34 into the game and the Rangers that in the playoffs.” fed off of his raw emotion to tie the The Rangers held Pittsburgh forwards Eastern Conference semi-finals series at 3- Crosby and Evgeni Malkin to a combined 3. three shots on goal as New York adopted a With their second straight do-or-die physical approach to deal with the win, New York head into today’s decider in Penguins captain, putting a body on him Pittsburgh with all the momentum. St nearly every time he touched the puck. Louis’s goal lifted the Madison Square After appearing to have control of the Garden crowd, who chanted his name as series, Pittsburgh have been out-scored 8- the player unleashed a big fist pump and 2 over the last two games to fall one loss pointed in the direction of his father and from elimination. sister, both in attendance for the contest. New York, on the other hand, are play- “It’s been a tough day for everyone. To ing inspired hockey as they rally around have (my family) here going through this their grieving team mate. “It’s probably tough time - I couldn’t be happier,” St. one of the cooler things I’ve been a part of Louis told reporters. “I know my mom my in my professional career,” Rangers cen- would be proud.” ter Derek Stepan said. Cari Hagelin added a second goal three “With what he’s been through in the minutes after the opener and although past couple of games, for him to score a Brandon Sutter pulled one back for the goal and the way he did, it is something I Penguins in the first period, Derick won’t forget for sure.”—Reuters Blackhawks edge ahead CHICAGO: Chicago captain Jonathan After losing Games Three and Four, the Toews scored the game-winning goal in Blackhawks can close out the series in the third period as the Blackhawks recov- Minnesota today. Thus far, the home team B-Boy Lamine, B-Boy Cico and B-Boy Ronnie pose for a portrait during a pre-shoot for the Red Bull BC One Kuwait Cypher in ered from a pair of losses to edge the has won every game of the series and the Sharq, Kuwait.— www.redbull.com Minnesota Wild 2-1 on Sunday and regain Blackhawks are a perfect 6-0 on home ice the advantage in their Western Conference this post-season. semi-final. “We definitely would like to finish it (in With the game tied at 1-1, Toews scored Minnesota),” Chicago forward Marian Hossa at 4:33 in the final frame to lift the defend- said of Game Six. “We know how hard it is Kaymer survives late ing Stanley Cup champions to a 3-2 lead in to play in their building and we know we their best-of-seven series. have to be better than we were in the last It was his fifth goal of the post-season, three games.” though not necessarily his most attractive. The Wild grabbed a 1-0 lead late in the nerves to win Players “It was just an ugly goal,” Toews told first period when Erik Haula tallied before reporters. “As a line, we were playing well Bryan Bickell evened up the contest in the and we were just trying to find a way to second when he converted a power-play PONTE VEDRA BEACH: Martin Kaymer with- score and just got an ugly one on the side opportunity. Chicago goaltender Corey stood an early challenge by Jordan Spieth, a (of the net). It felt good that we could hold Crawford finished with 27 saves to Ilya weather delay and a late wobble to clinch his on.” Bryzgalov’s 26.—Reuters second PGA Tour title with a nervy one-shot vic- tory at the Players Championship on Sunday. The German, co-leader overnight with American playing partner Spieth, produced rock-solid golf to move briefly four strokes clear, then survived a double-bogey on 15 as he closed with a one-under-par 71 at the challeng- ing TPC Sawgrass. Kaymer, whose previous win on the U.S. cir- cuit came with his playoff success at the 2010 PGA Championship, nervously parred the last three holes in gathering gloom to post a 13- under total of 275. The 29-year-old from Dusseldorf lined up a par putt from just under four feet on the 18th green, stroked the ball into the cup and then looked heavenwards in relief before pumping his right fist in celebration. “It’s very special for me,” Kaymer told Golf Channel. “It is always very difficult to come back after a little (weather) break. “Obviously you see the leaderboard, you see where you are. The first 14 holes, I played really, really well. And then you are really disappointed when they called it (halted play). PONTE VEDRA BEACH: Martin Kaymer of Germany celebrates with the winner’s trophy after his “And then you are a little cold. I made a cou- one-stroke victory at THE Players Championship. —AFP ple of wrong decisions on 15. But a big putt on 17.” Spieth, who at 20 was aiming to become the recorded his first bogey of the tournament at made a complete mess of the par-four 15th youngest champion at the prestigious PGA Tour the tricky par-four fifth after finding the left where he double-bogeyed after pulling his event widely regarded as the unofficial fifth rough off the tee. drive left into trees, missing the green with his major, briefly led by a shot early in the final The young American also bogeyed the par- approach and hitting a poor third shot into a CHICAGO: Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford (50) blocks a shot as Johnny Oduya round before fading to a 74 and a tie for fourth three eighth, after his tee shot clipped some bunker. (27) battles for the puck against Minnesota Wildís Jason Pominville (29) and Mikael at 10 under. trees to the left of the hole, to hand the German That cut his lead to just one and he parred 16 Granlund (64) during the third period in Game 5 of an NHL hockey second-round Level with Spieth was U.S. Open champion a one-shot lead. before miraculously avoiding more trouble at playoff series.—AP Justin Rose (69), whose two-stroke penalty Kaymer, who had not won a tournament the infamous 17th where his tee shot very near- imposed after the third round was rescinded since the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South ly spun back into water. earlier in the day following a review by the Africa at the end of 2012, then got up and down He then chipped 28 feet short of the hole game’s governing bodies and PGA Tour from a greenside bunker to birdie the par-five and stunningly drained the par putt. After split- Psychiatrist: Pistorius Commissioner Tim Finchem. ninth and double his advantage. Spieth ting the fairway off the tee at the par-four last, American Jim Furyk signed off with a flawless dropped another shot after his approach at the Kaymer ended up short of the green with his has ‘anxiety disorder’ six-birdie 66 to secure outright second place at par-four 10th bounced over the back left of the approach before he two-putted from there to 12 under, one stroke better than Spaniard green to hand Kaymer a three-shot lead. clinch the title and the winner’s check for $1.8 PRETORIA: Oscar Pistorius has an anxiety appeared to contradict his initial statement Sergio Garcia (70). The German tightened his grip on the title by million. disorder that may have contributed to the in court documents last year that he shot in draining a 12-foot birdie putt at the par-five Adam Scott fell well short in his bid to fatal shooting of his girlfriend, an expert self-defense because he believed his life FIRST BOGEY 11th to stretch his lead to four shots before become world number one for the first time this testified at his murder trial Monday, was in danger. Kaymer and Spieth both made a fast start to Furyk trimmed that to three when he birdied week, closing with a 73 that included three prompting the chief prosecutor to say the Nel said if Pistorius had genuine anxiety the final round as they sank eight-foot birdie the 16th. Kaymer had good birdie opportunities bogeys and two birdies. double-amputee Olympian should be issues, Judge Thokozile Masipa should putts at the par-five second to move to 13 at the 12th and 13th but ran both putts inches When the Australian signed his card, he was placed under psychiatric observation. order him to be evaluated. Responding to a under, maintaining a three-shot cushion. short of the cup before play was suspended for in a tie for 39th, having needed to finish no The judge has not yet ruled on prosecu- question from a reporter after the trial was Spieth forged one ahead with a superb just over 90 minutes due to the threat of light- worse than joint 16th to have a chance of dis- tor Gerrie Nel’s application that the court adjourned, Pistorius said “Go read the law.” birdie at the fourth where he struck his ning with 11 players still out on the course. lodging the absent Tiger Woods from the top considers a period of mental evaluation for As the athlete sat in the Pretoria court- approach to seven feet and buried the putt, but Once play resumed in light drizzle, Kaymer spot.—Reuters the world-famous runner. room earlier Monday making notes and Dr. Merryll Vorster, a psychiatrist called occasionally looking up at the witness by the defense, testified that a series of stand, Vorster outlined his apparently events in Pistorius’ turbulent life, including unhappy childhood and a life story in con- Lexus RC F powers KeePer TOM team to victory the amputation of his lower legs as a baby, trast to the smiling, triumphant disabled his parents’ divorce, his late mother’s habit runner who made history at the London DUBAI: The KeePer TOM racing team of Daisuke TOM’S Lexus RC F continued to run strongly Representative Office, Toyota Motor of sleeping with a gun under her pillow Olympics in 2012. Ito & Andrea Caldarelli driving their #37 Lexus RC throughout to emerge victorious. For Ito, it was Corporation, “We are delighted with this first win and his own fear of violent crime con- Vorster’s testimony raised the question F has won the first round of the 2014 AUTOBACS his 11th career win in Super GT while for for the all new Lexus RC F in the opening round tributed to his “increasing stress.” of whether Pistorius was now claiming Super GT series (GT500 class) at the Okayama Caldarelli, it was a long-awaited first win in his of the 2014 Autobacs Super GT series. This win is “Overall, Pistorius appears to be a mis- “diminished responsibility” for the shoot- International Circuit in Japan. third season. The best lap timing in the race was a great start to the year and reinforces the proud trustful and guarded person,” Vorster testi- ing, Nel said, because of a possible mental The Eneos Sustina Lexus RC F team of Kazuya achieved by the Eneos Sustina Lexus RC F team performance heritage of Lexus and signals a fied. She said he has “many features of anxi- illness. Nel also asked the psychiatrist if Oshima & Yuji Kunimoto finished second while with a time of 1’21.977. bright future for Lexus in motorsports with the ety.” someone who was suffering from such an the Denso Kobelco Sard Lexus RC F team of Being its debut race, this was of course the new RC F.” Vorster said Pistorius’ anxiety combined anxiety disorder, and had access to guns, Hiroaki Ishiura and Oliver Jarvis finished fourth. first Super GT win for the new Lexus RC F. The According to Daisuke Ito, “I am really happy with his physical disability may have would be a danger to society. Vorster said The next Super GT race will be on May 4th at the previous GT500 engines of 3.4L V8 capacity were that we won. I came to the KeePer TOM team last caused him to act differently from other the person would, indeed, be a danger. Fuji Speedway. replaced for the 2014 season with 2.0L season and we got the support of KeePer as people when he shot four times through a Vorster’s testimony came at the start of The KeePer TOM Lexus RC F team had a time Turbocharged engine. sponsor in our campaign, and although I was toilet stall door in the early hours of Feb. the eighth week of the globally televised of 1:57’15.816 to win the 81 lap race. In difficult According to Nobuyuki Negishi, Chief able to work well with Andrea Caldarelli, we just 14, 2013, killing girlfriend Reeva trial, and a day before Pistorius’ defense conditions involving occasional rain, the KeePer Representative, Middle East and North Africa couldn’t win any races last year. So, I really want- Steenkamp. had predicted it might wrap up its case. It ed to get our sponsor KeePer and the team a vic- Pistorius, 27, claims he mistook now appears unlikely that the defense will tory as soon as possible. I’m very relieved that Steenkamp for a dangerous intruder when rest Tuesday. The prosecution’s cross-exam- we were able to win the opening round of this he shot her with his licensed 9 mm pistol in ination of the psychiatrist could continue memorable debut season with this all new car. the pre-dawn hours. Prosecutors say he on day 31 of proceedings after Nel asked My goal this season is certainly to get another killed the 29-year-old model after an argu- for more time to look at her report on win somewhere and get the series champi- ment and shot in anger and not fear last Pistorius. onship title.” Valentine’s Day. Vorster reached her opinion after meet- Speaking on the occasion, Andrea Caldarelli Pistorius’ chief lawyer Barry Roux said at ing with Pistorius on two occasions this said: “This is my third year since coming to the start of defense-led testimony that the month, and also from interviews with his Japan, and today I have finally got my first win. I double amputee’s vulnerability and disabil- family, friends and agent, she said. am very happy that it came in the opening ity was at the center of his case of a mistak- Pistorius and his brother and sister “were round of the new era of GT500 with this wonder- en killing. But prosecutor Nel questioned reared to see their external environment as ful new car. I’m grateful to the team, to Lexus, Monday if Pistorius was merely trying one threatening,” Vorster said, and this played a and the TRD staff for this. Our car was late in of a number of defenses for shooting his part in his actions on the night of the being completed and we were only able to run it girlfriend. “There must be some reason why shooting. twice in the official test event (Okayama) and the Mr. Roux decided to call this witness. It Vorster said Pistorius was more likely to maker tests (Fuji), but we had no trouble and the might be the third defense that we have,” try and “fight” what he thought was an condition of the car was good. We chose the Nel said. intruder than run away, because his disabil- tires with the intention of going for the win in Pistorius, the first amputee to run at the ity meant it was harder for him to flee. the second half of the race, and that is exactly Olympics, testified at his trial that he fired Pistorius was on his stumps when he shot how things worked out. I’m happy that this has his gun accidentally at the toilet door. That Steenkamp. —AP led to a good result.” TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 SPORTS

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg of Germany steers his car in this file photo. Rosberg aims to strike in Monaco

BARCELONA: Mercedes will give “It’s a bit of a weakness that we “It seems to be a problem relat- take out of it. “I’m fully motivated in Spain, Rosberg left no doubt he Mercedes banish Nico Rosberg every chance of have at the moment,” Rosberg said ed to the clutch,” he told reporters. to just try to get that little bit extra had the mental fortitude to battle turning the tables on team mate of his getaway from second place “That is a special project of ours. and to edge him out next time - against a rival he has known and thoughts Lewis Hamilton in Monaco next on the grid with Hamilton on pole. We expected some improvement and it’s do-able.” Hamilton’s failure raced against since they were week after he lost out to the Briton “Just inconsistent and now I’ve for Barcelona which didn’t kick in to finish in Australia cost the 2008 teenage team mates in go-karts. of winning for the fourth race in a row in had a couple of bad starts in a row. as expected and we just need to champion heavily and consistency “Break me down mentally ? I Spain on Sunday. Rosberg’s fourth Actually, three bad starts in three sort it out for Monaco because has been Rosberg’s ace, with the think he will struggle with that every F1 race successive second place, after win- races. And that’s costly...need to that’s crucial there. We discussed it pair still barely apart in the stand- one,” he said. “He has the momen- BARCELONA: Fernando Alonso reck- ning the Australian season-opener, work on that.” in the debrief right now.” ings despite the Briton’s four wins tum. There is no way round that. I ons Mercedes could win every Formula left him three points behind Qualifying and a quick start is to the German’s one. With double have to try to break it.” One grand prix this season and the Hamilton and ‘gutted’ at the loss of even more crucial in Monaco, HOME RACE points on offer for the final race in Wolff, who introduced a sports idea did not appear laughable after the overall Formula One lead for where overtaking is extremely Rosberg won in Monaco last Abu Dhabi, a first that has not psychologist to the team last Lewis Hamilton took his fourth victory the first time this year. tricky on the tight and twisting year and the German knows every gone down well with fans who month, agreed Rosberg was com- in a row in Spain on Sunday. One more lap at the Circuit de streets - particularly if the man in kink, kerb and corner of what decry the change as a gimmick, pletely focused. “We have seen in In Stuttgart, and at the team factory Catalunya might have seen the front is your team mate with the amounts to a home race in a prin- there is everything to play for. the past that you can win champi- in Brackley and engine plant in German pass Hamilton, who took same equipment. Mercedes cipality he grew up in as son of Even if no driver has ever won onships with three wins if you just Brixworth, such thinking is still consid- the chequered flag just 0.6 of a motorsport head Toto Wolff, who 1982 champion Keke. four races in a row and not gone keep scoring and I guess he knows ered crazy however - even if the possi- second ahead after being chased again assured the fans that his two “Lewis did a great job the whole on to take the title that year, there that,” said the Austrian. “He’s such bility is lurking deep in the recesses of to the line, but he was more con- drivers would be allowed to race weekend and was just that little is always a first time for every- a competitive and tough personal- more than a few minds. “Yes, we will do cerned about the start than the freely, said the team were working bit ahead,” he said on Sunday. “But thing. ity who has no problems with cop- that and then we will retire,” smiled finish. hard to resolve Rosberg’s problem. there’s a lot of positives for me to While ‘gutted’ to lose out again ing with that situation.” —Reuters Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff when the thought was put to him after another dominant afternoon at the Circuit de Catalunya. Penske sweeps top three “It’s just the fifth race,” he added. “If you look at the performance now, that (idea) comes up to your mind and you spots on slow day at Indy say ‘Well, that never happened and could it happen?’. But then we know INDIANAPOLIS: Roger Penske’s team got off didn’t even push Busch’s car out of the racing.” to a fast start on a slow day at Indianapolis. garage until more than an hour after prac- Mercedes have won five out of five Less than 24 hours after working feverishly tice began. But the delay didn’t slow down and started all on pole position. The to convert three cars from road-course Busch, who is attempting to become the last four races have finished one-two, setups to oval setups, the winningest owner fourth driver to attempt “the double” - 1,100 with Hamilton leading Germany’s Nico in Indianapolis 500 swept the top three miles of racing at Indianapolis and Charlotte Rosberg, and the margin of superiority spots on the first day of practice Sunday. on the same day. Both races will be held May over the rest is immense. Australia’s Will Power finished with a fast 25. All but four rival cars were lapped by lap of 223.057 mph (358.975 kph), Busch ran only 29 laps Sunday and was Hamilton on Sunday - with the Briton Colombia’s Juan Pablo Montoya was second right in the middle of the pack, No. 12, after revelling in exactly the success he was at 222.502 (358.082) and Brazil’s Helio going 220.352. That’s not where he intends promised in 2012 when Mercedes Castroneves was third at 222.373 (357.875). to be in two weeks. lured him from McLaren. Red Bull’s Only three other drivers topped 222 mph “It was a nice rookie day to go play in traf- third placed Australian Daniel Ricciardo (357 kph). And Penske’s team made it look fic,” Busch said. “It’s exciting because every was some 49 seconds behind. easy. corner is different and you have to remem- “It’s 14 races to go, we haven’t had “It was important for us to get out there ber where each of those moments were really difficult conditions in the race today and get some qualify running in and from the lap before. Things are moving itself. We haven’t had safety car periods you have to get your engines out of the old quickly at 220 (354) and that’s with just a few at the wrong moment, we haven’t had cars, which is what we did,” Penske President cars” BACK IN LINE: Full-time team owner thunderstorms at the wrong time,” said Tim Cindric said. “Busy times, but I’m really and part-time driver Ed Carpenter was back Wolff. “They didn’t touch (collide) yet, which is eventually going to happen - proud of our guys.” in the cockpit for the first time in seven or not, hopefully,” he smiled. “So it’s The month opened with an unprecedent- months Sunday. Last year’s Indy pole winner much too early (to consider the idea of ed bang. But to nobody’s surprise, Sunday’s finished eighth on the speed chart with a lap winning everything). That would be practice was more of a yawner. Track workers of 221.772 (356.907). Long Beach winner really like losing the plot, thinking and most teams at the speedway scrambled Mike Conway is driving exclusively on the about that.” to make the overnight transition, and it took road and street courses for Carpenter’s team a toll. this year, while Carpenter is driving the INDIANAPOLIS: Will Power, of Australia, puts on his racing suit during practice for MCLAREN 1988 Just two dozen drivers turned laps on the ovals. The 500 is the first race this season to Indianapolis 500 IndyCar auto race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.—AP McLaren are the only team to have 2.5-mile (4-kilometer) oval, most finishing be held on an oval. come close to such domination, when with fewer than 40 total laps and some in PENSKE FIRST: Castroneves, a three-time Indianapolis. He passed the final part of his (fifth) and EJ Viso (sixth). the late Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost backup cars. Power’s practice time more Indy winner, was the first car on the track, three-phase rookie test and at one point was MOTHER’S DAY MAGIC: Team owner battled for the title in 1988 and won all than 5 mph slower than last year’s four-lap too. It’s the fifth consecutive year a Roger actually atop the speed charts. The American Sarah Fisher celebrated Mother’s Day in the but one of the 16 races. pole-winning average, and only a smattering Penske-owner car earned the distinction. turned the most laps (77) of any non-Penske flag stand and brought her daughter and Ferrari also won 15 (of 17) races in of fans came out for opening day, which But the Brazilian, who is attempting to owned car and he had fast lap of 217.310 mother to the track, too. Fisher was one of 2002 and 2004. No driver has ever won years ago was considered an unofficial holi- become the fourth driver with four 500 wins, (349.727). The defending Indy Lights champ the most popular drivers in the series when four races in a row in a single season day in town. None of it was a surprise to the won’t like the historical significance of that is driving a car fielded jointly by Chip she drove and is expecting her second child and failed to take the title that year but insiders. Penske’s team wasn’t the only one feat. Since 1984, only two drivers - Ganassi Racing and Dreyer & Reinbold in June. “It’s so neat that IMS recognizes Rosberg - winner in Australia - is still under the microscope. Castroneves in 2010 and Ryan Briscoe in Kingdom Racing. mothers on Mother’s Day. It’s such a long only three points behind Hamilton due NASCAR driver Kurt Busch’s team not only 2012 - who were first on the track earned the LEADING CHEVY: Chevrolet dominated month and there are such a lot of crew guys to his consistent scoring. had to make changes to Andretti Autosport’s pole, only seven produced top-10 finishes the top 10 in practice. The top non-Penske that are working out here the whole month. There are more rounds (19) in a sea- No. 26 Honda, it had to repair the car that in and none reached Victory Lane that year. driver, JR Hildebrand, was fourth. He also They have wives and moms at home. It’s so son now and Red Bull’s performance a crash during Saturday’s inaugural Grand ROOKIE TEST: Rookie Sage Karam, the drives a Chevy. And the only Honda drivers nice that the track recognizes that Mother’s on Sunday - with quadruple world Prix of Indianapolis. Michael Andretti’s team 19-year-old rookie, had a solid start at to crack the top 10 were Ryan Hunter-Reay Day is important.”—AP champion Sebastian Vettel in fourth place after starting 15th - indicated that engine partner Renault are getting their act together. Red Bull athletes hold the Kuwait flag high in Georgia The next race, in Monaco, could suit Red Bull’s car also with outright engine GEORGIA: Three Kuwaiti Red Bull Athletes an hour warmed our hearts and raise smiles as power - where Mercedes have such an (Mohamed Jaffar, Mohamed Al Attar & Mansour many achieved fantastic personal goals. advantage - less of a factor. Al Safran) joined thousands of runners on May After an hour, 29,847 were still running, and Red Bull are certainly not about to 4 in Kakhti, Georgia by participating in a once in 5,146 were still in at the two-hour mark. By capitulate, even if the constructors’ a lifetime race. The Wings For Life World Run hour three, only 327 were yet to be caught by championship looks a foregone con- supported a great cause for charity and took the Catcher Car and only the ultrarunners were clusion already - something Ferrari’s place simultaneously in 32 different countries left in the race, thrilling the spectators. By hour Alonso recognised after Mercedes around the world. four, just 26 runners were left, warming us up qualified one-two on Saturday. “They Mohamed Al Attar managed to run 15.3KMs for one of the most nail-biting finishes seen in a should be in a position to win all the while Mohamed Jaffar and Mansour Al Safran while. races probably, so it is going to be tight ran 10KMs. “My goal was not to win but to par- The real drama unfolded just after the five- between them,” the Spaniard had told ticipate and support a good cause. I managed hour mark when the final three runners battled the BBC. to achieve this by running 15 Kilometers” said, it. Ketema first passed Evgenii Glyva of Ukraine Red Bull principal Christian Horner, Mohamed Al Attar. in their riveting duel along the Donau River whose team have won the last four “I’m so glad that we managed to put some Valley in Austria while some 11,000 kilometers constructors’ and drivers’ champi- smiles on some faces. I really enjoyed the race away in Lima, Peru Remigio Huaman Quispe onships with Vettel, acknowledged and my time in Georgia.” said Mohamed Jaffar. was his only rival still left in the race. Their virtu- Mercedes were currently out on their Mansour Al Safran said: “The Wings for Life al duel on two different continents sent televi- own. World Run is a unique race format. The three of sion audiences and online viewers watching “We have a choice: We either pack us are proud to represent Kuwait running for a live into a state of frenzy. In the end, Ketema up and go home or we fight and try to good cause”. won the race, in a photo finish at 78km, by just close the gap,” he told reporters. “We Raising a staggering Ä3 million for spinal 90 meters. Wings for Life is a not-for-profit have made small inroads this weekend cord research, 35,397 runners ran a total of spinal cord research foundation. Its mission is and we are determined to keep push- 530,928 kilometers - or the equivalent of one to find a cure for spinal cord injury. We fund ing, keep trying to close that gap person running 13 laps around the world. The world-class scientific research and clinical trials down. “We are going to push like hell 34 races in 32 countries in six continents across around the globe aimed at healing the injured all the way through the year to the last 13 time zones started at 10am UTC, on the dot. spinal cord. 100% of the revenues of the Wings race in Abu Dhabi.”—Reuters In the searing heat of India and the bitter cold for Life World Run - including entry or sponsor of Canada, those runners that finished within fees - goes to spinal cord research. TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 SPORTS Despite City’s title, United still the bigger club

MANCHESTER: Manchester City has deposed tige of the Champions League, which United another - possibly much more lucrative - way A prolonged absence from the elite to Old Trafford to visit English football’s most its neighbor as Premier League champions for won in 1999 and 2008, the Europa League to cope with the loss of TV and ticket revenue. European competition could, however, dis- famous club stadium. the second time in three years, but is not would have been a grueling slog across the Taking advantage of its massive popularity suade transfer targets from joining English United has a history of success, with 20 close to usurping United’s global supremacy - continent to play less-illustrious teams in abroad, United has considered using the mid- football’s most successful club or drive up the English titles and three European Cups alone. both as a football club and as a brand. For what seems to be a never-ending competi- week breaks to play lucrative, trouble-free wages they can demand. City’s history is one largely based on near- many people, the word “Manchester” still misses and tales of the plucky loser forever in equates simply with “United.” United’s shadow. Despite more than $1 billion Even Premier League officials marked the being injected into the club by Abu Dhabi’s end of the season by assuring United’s ruling family since its 2008 takeover, City only American owners of the team’s enduring pow- managed to win its fourth title on the final er. day of the season on Sunday ahead of a “They are the world’s largest football club Liverpool side that has enjoyed a fraction of in my view with huge resources, with huge the investment. determination and a fantastic fan base,” City’s principal problem is its spending. Or league chief executive Richard Scudamore overspending, as UEFA sees it, in breach of told Sky Sports television. “Of course their Financial Fair Play regulations. City should be time will come again.” able to celebrate its newly elevated status in However glum United fans felt as the blue world football and the admirable investment half of Manchester celebrated into Monday in youth teams and a new training complex morning, it’s too early to see the humiliating springing up next to the Etihad Stadium, but seventh-place finish as the start of a down- the club’s leadership struggles to promote ward spiral. Declarations that the balance of this grand vision to the world. Perhaps wary power has shifted in Manchester would be as of having their accounts even more heavily premature as they were in 2012, when City scrutinized, City’s leadership - not just owner last wrestled the trophy off United only to end Sheikh Mansour but every executive - remains the following season 11 points adrift. silent in public in England. United claims to have 659 million fans City is embarking on a contrasting global worldwide; City hasn’t even tried to provide strategy to its local rival. While United’s com- an estimate. United has been valued at $2.8 mercial team is gobbling up sponsors of every billion by Forbes magazine - behind Real product imaginable across every major conti- Madrid and Barcelona - while City is seventh nent, Mansour is amassing football clubs. in the rankings at $863 million. And while There’s a team in New York that expects to City’s income last year was around $449 mil- start playing competitively in 2015, an exist- lion, United’s was $602 million. ing club in Melbourne taken over this year, The big difference this time, however, is and Al Jazira in Abu Dhabi, but there will be that there is no Alex Ferguson to plot the little traction for these sides beyond the local reclamation of the trophy. The immediate LONDON: Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini (centre) joins his players during the English Premier League victory parade at markets. implication of United’s fall from grace is the Exchange Square, Manchester yesterday. —AP United, with its brand strength, vast follow- failure to qualify for Europe for the first time in ing and so many years of success to fall back 24 years. But falling short even of the Europa tion. While United earned around $50 million friendlies in the Middle East, which would also Globally it is difficult to assess the impact on, should not be too troubled by its neigh- League spots might have been United’s from the 2012-13 Champions League, it provide a paid-for warm-weather break. City has made, but it will take more than a bor yet. But wary, yes. If their contrasting for- biggest achievement in a season when David would have generated less than $14 million United, most likely under Louis van Gaal, couple of years of silverware to capture any tunes are repeated next season and United’s Moyes’ reign was curtailed with four matches from UEFA for even winning the Europa can focus its resources on the Premier League, fickle fans from rivals. When Barcelona fans share price in New York slumps, the Glazers remaining. League. and seek to emulate Liverpool’s ascent from came to Manchester for a Champions League might start to worry about their cash-rich Gulf With nothing like the TV revenue or pres- Missing out on that competitions provides seventh to second in a year. match against City in February, many flocked rivals. —AP Filly Ria Antonia to run against boys in Preakness

BALTIMORE: A filly is going to challenge Amoss said he sees the Preakness as the boys in the Preakness for the first time Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome since 2009 when Rachel Alexandra won. Ria versus everyone else. He says if California Antonia will be ridden by Calvin Borel, who Chrome runs his race in the 1 3/16-mile guided Rachel Alexandra to victory. Ria Preakness then he will win, but if not, it Antonia is coming off a sixth-place finish in opens up opportunities for other horses, the Kentucky Oaks on May 2 at Churchill including Ria Antonia. Downs, where she has been training. Ria Antonia is scheduled to jog at For the first time in the Preakness, a filly, Churchill Downs today and arrive in a female jockey and a female trainer will all Baltimore from Louisville, Kentucky, tomor- compete at the same time. Rosie Napravnik row. The 139th Preakness is Saturday. will ride Bayern while trainer Linda Rice will California Chrome galloped 1 1/4 miles saddle Kid Cruz. Ria Antonia’s trainer, Tom yesterday at Churchill and then departed Amoss, said Monday the idea to run her on a flight to Baltimore. “Everything is per- against the boys came from her owners. He fect,” said Alan Sherman, assistant to his said she has passed all the tests to take on father and trainer Art Sherman, who will SEVILLA: A combination of file pictures shows Sevilla’s French forward SEVILLA: A combination of file pictures shows Sevilla’s coach Unai the challenge. She joined his barn three rejoin the colt in Maryland. Kevin Gameiro (left) celebrating after scoring during the UEFA Europa Emery (left) reacting during the UEFA Europa League semifinal first days after the Oaks, when the owners Also on the same flight were Preakness League round of 32 second-leg football match Sevilla FC vs NK leg football match Sevilla FC vs Valencia on April 24, 2014 and decided to switch to Amoss from Hall of contenders Ride On Curlin, who finished Maribor on February 27, 2014 and Benfica’s Spanish forward Rodrigo Benfica’s head coach Jorge Jesus shouting instructions at Parkhead in Fame trainer Bob Baffert. seventh in the Derby with Borel on board; Moreno Machado celebrating after scoring during the Portuguese Glasgow, Scotland, on September 19, 2012. —AFP “I don’t know what happened in the General a Rod, who was 11th in the Derby; league football match SL Benfica vs CS Maritimo. —AFP Oaks, but I like the way she looks now,” and Pablo Del Monte, who didn’t run in the Amoss said. “We have a healthy, sound Derby because the owners didn’t like the horse and we are ready to roll the dice.” No. 20 post position. —AP Benfica try to rid themselves Mel parts company of ‘curse of Bela Guttmann’

ITALY: Sevilla will be Benfica’s opponents on the Stadium of Light, something many suggesting that his side were underdogs. with West Brom the field in Wednesday’s Europa League final observers saw as another attempt to break it. Fifth in La Liga, Sevilla have had a long, yet many of the Portuguese team’s fans believe Underneath the statue is a quote from nerve-wracking 18-match route to the final LONDON: English Premier League strug- Hawthorns with 14 years of coaching that other forces will be at work as they Guttmann himself which reads: “Only those of which began at home to Montenegro’s glers West Bromwich Albion brought a experience in Spanish football. attempt to win their first European trophy for us inside Benfica know what mystique really is. Mladkost Podgorica on Aug. 1. swift end to their Spanish experiment He led Betis into this season’s Europa 52 years. There is no other club in the world with a mys- They won a penalty shootout to beat neigh- yesterday, parting company with manag- League but was sacked in December After winning the old European Cup in 1961 tique like Benfica’s.” bours Real Betis in the round of 16 and then er Pepe Mel four months after he took with the club bottom of La Liga. Mel had and 1962, Benfica have gone on to play in sev- scored an injury-time goal to beat fellow over. The former Real Betis supremo took taken charge at Betis in 2010 and helped en more European finals and lost them all, a run NOT SUPERSTITIOUS Spaniards Valencia on away goals in the semi- over in January following the sacking of them win promotion back to the top of failures which many blame on the so-called Coach Jorge Jesus, however, said that expe- finals. Benfica parachuted into the competi- Steve Clarke but Albion only just man- flight in his first season. He has also had “curse of Bela Guttmann”. Guttmann was the rience, hard work and tactics would decide the tion’s knockout stage after being knocked out aged to avoid relegation, finishing fourth stints at Tenerife, Getafe and Rayo Hungarian coach who led Benfica to their two final at the Juventus stadium. “I’m not supersti- of the Champions League, something which from bottom, after Mel collected three Vallecano and bade a tearful farewell at a European Cup wins, but on leaving the club in tious,” he told reporters. “I believe in people’s many feel devalues the Europa League. They wins, six draws and eight defeats in 17 news conference after Betis announced acrimonious circumstances he declared: value and the quality of their work. I believe have played only eight matches in the competi- “Benfica will not win another European final that the best team does not always win in a tion and are unbeaten. league games. his exit. West Brom said Mel’s assistant without me.” final and I also believe that we can be better Benfica have bounced back from a disas- “We would like to thank Pepe for his David Gomez had also left the club but Lo and behold, Benfica went on to lose finals than Sevilla and win this match. trous end to last season, when they lost the efforts over the past four months in help- added that deputy Keith Downing and to AC Milan (1963), Inter Milan (1965) and “It’s the second time we are in one of these Europa League final, Portuguese Cup final and ing to keep the club in the Premier goalkeeping coach Dean Kiely would be Manchester United (1968). finals. We have a better idea of how to deal were pipped by Porto for the league title, and League and wish him well for the future,” staying at The Hawthorns. Guttmann died in 1981, yet the run of with the anxiety.” Sevilla, on the other hand, are on course for a domestic treble. sporting and technical director Richard “Although we have managed to defeats continued as they lost further European have played in two European finals and won The Eagles, who boast a large contingent of Garlick said in a statement yesterday. achieve a fifth successive season of Cup finals to PSV Eindhoven (1988) and AC them both, beating Middlesbrough in the 2006 South American players, have already won the “Pepe and the club set out with the Premier League football it has been a Milan (1990), and UEFA/Europa league finals to UEFA Cup final and Espanyol the following year. league and League Cup and face Rio Ave in the best intentions of making the appoint- very disappointing campaign and les- Anderlecht (1983) and Chelsea last year. “We all thought that Juventus would win Portuguese Cup final on Sunday. “We are in the ment work. However, having reflected on sons have been learned,” said Garlick. The late Eusebio famously prayed at this championship. We all know about Benfica final on merit and we deserve everything that is events on and off the field during talks “The search for a new head coach has Guttmann’s grave in Vienna, asking in vain for and their potential and we’ve seen that they happening to us,” said Jesus, who barely sur- today it became apparent it was in the now begun. We aim to find the most suit- the curse to be broken, and in February, the have knocked out Juventus and Tottenham vived last season’s collapse and is now lauded best interests of both parties for there to able candidate who, with the support of club unveiled a statue of Guttmann in front of along the way,” Sevilla coach Unai Emery said, as one of the country’s top coaches. —Reuters be an amicable parting. the structure we have had in place for six “We are grateful for the manner in years and are presently strengthening, which the existing coaching staff and will enable the club to be more competi- players have rallied behind Pepe to get tive next season.” Fluminense defeat Flamengo the club over the line in what has proved Mel, who had an 18-month contract an extremely competitive division.” with West Brom, bowed out with a 2-1 SAO PAULO: Brazil striker Fred scored an early Fred, Brazil’s likely starter at the World Cup next Horizonte. Marion equalized in the 55th and The balding Mel, who writes mystery home defeat in the season finale against goal to help Fluminense defeat Flamengo 2-0 month. Andre converted a penalty kick for the winner in novels in his spare time, arrived at The Stoke City on Sunday. —Reuters and stay near the top of the Brazilian league on Flamengo, Brazil’s most popular club, has the 72nd, giving Atletico its first victory of the Sunday. won only one match and is near the bottom of championship. Fluminense has nine points after four rounds, the 20-team standings. Fluminense and Cruzeiro had midfielder Luan red carded in one point behind leader Internacional, which ral- Internacional are the only teams with three vic- the 75th, and Moreno was sent off after the lied to beat Atletico Paranaense 2-1 on Saturday tories after four rounds. match for complaining with the referee. thanks to a goal by Argentine midfielder Andres Internacional, still unbeaten, went down a Atletico, the defending Copa Libertadores D’Alessandro. Corinthians was atop the table goal in the 53rd at the Beira-Rio Stadium on champion, played without Ronaldinho and strik- heading into the weekend but conceded a late Saturday in Porto Alegre, but D’Alessandro er Jo because of injuries. Cruzeiro rested its regu- equalizer in a 1-1 draw against Sao Paulo, drop- struck a perfect low shot from outside the box to lar starters ahead of Wednesday’s match against ping to third place, two points behind Inter. equalize the match just two minutes later. San Lorenzo in the quarterfinals of the Latin Defending champion Cruzeiro lost 2-1 to Midfielder Alan Patrick scored the winner in the American competition. Cruzeiro lost the first leg Atletico Mineiro for its first defeat of the champi- 68th with a powerful left-footer into the top cor- 1-0 last week in Argentina. onship, dropping to fifth place. Bolivian striker ner. Also Sunday, Santos beat last-place Marcelo Moreno scored the goal for Cruzeiro, The match in front of nearly 35,000 fans Figueirense 2-0 in Londrina for its first victory, which rested regular starters for the Copa marked the last official test event at the Beira- while fourth-place Bahia scored a 90th-minute Libertadores. Rio, which will host five World Cup matches. goal to draw rival Vitoria 1-1 at the Arena Fonte Argentine striker Barcos scored twice as sev- At the Arena Barueri, Corinthians was beating Nova in Salvador. Sixth-place Sport also got a enth-placed Gremio defeated Chapecoense 2-1 Sao Paulo 1-0 until the 80th minute but former late goal in its 1-0 win at Coritiba. in Chapeco for its second win. Brazil striker Luis Fabiano equalized after a per- On Saturday, Botafogo routed Criciuma 6-0 at Fred put Fluminense ahead just 10 minutes fect through pass by playmaker Paulo Henrique the Maracana with three goals by midfielder into the match at the Maracana Stadium, and Ganso. Sao Paulo is unbeaten but hasn’t won Daniel, while eight-time champion Palmeiras substitute striker Chiquinho sealed the victory in since the opener. snapped a two-match losing streak by beating a breakaway in the 88th. Cruzeiro’s second-stringers moved ahead of Goias 2-0 at the Pacaembu Stadium in Sao Paulo. Pepe Mel “We knew how to be aggressive and our rival Atletico Mineiro after Moreno’s 37th-minute Palmeiras still hasn’t hired a coach to replace counterattacks worked well in the end,” said goal at the Independencia Stadium in Belo Gilson Kleina, who was fired last week.—AP Kaymer survives Penske sweeps late nerves top three spots on to win Players slow day at Indy

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LOS ANGELES: Blake Griffin No. 32 of the Los Angeles Clippers battles for position under the boards with Serge Ibaka No. 9 and Caron Butler No. 2 of the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game Four of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2014 NBA Playoffs. — AFP Clippers rally to silence Thunder

LOS ANGELES: Darren Collison scored eight of Kevin Durant scored 40 points, hitting 15 of after halftime at Los Angeles, including making ter and appeared to be en route to levelling the huge hook shot with 1:02 left in the fourth to his 18 points in the final 2:58 as the Los Angeles 18 free throws, for the Thunder. Game 5 is today six of his franchise playoff-record-tying seven 3- best-of-seven NBA playoff series when the give the Pacers a 94-91 lead. Clippers came back to beat the Oklahoma City in Oklahoma City. It was the 14th comeback by pointers. wheels fell off in the second half. After a series of empty possessions, Wizards’ Thunder 101-99 on Sunday to level the Western the Clippers this season after trailing by double Roy Hibbert had 17 points and nine George tallied 28 second-half points for the Bradley Beal and Pacers’ Hill each made one of Conference semifinal series 2-2. digits. They rebounded from 12 points down in rebounds, continuing his recent surge after a Pacers, who lead the Eastern Conference series 3- two shots from the free-throw line. Hill’s miss In the day’s other playoff, Paul George scored the second quarter of Game 7 to oust Golden poor-as-can-be start to the series. He helped 1. “I was just in a rhythm and it carried out with six seconds remaining gave the Wizards one a career playoff-high 39 points and added 12 State in the first round. The Clippers had no Indiana overcome Washington’s 32-2 advantage through the whole game,” said George, who fin- chance to force overtime. But Washington failed rebounds to lead the Indiana Pacers back from a answer for Durant and Westbrook until midway in bench scoring. ished with 39 points and 12 rebounds. “I was able to get a shot off as Trevor Ariza botched an 19-point deficit and past the Washington Wizards through the fourth quarter. That dynamic duo That was thanks mainly to 30-somethings Al to knock some shots down.” inbounds pass. 95-92 to move one victory away from returning drove the lane with abandon, drew fouls and Harrington, Drew Gooden and Andre Miller, who George Hill scored 15 and David West scored Beal helped pace the Wizard’s attack with 20 to the Eastern Conference finals. made free throws in leading the Thunder to an combined for 28 points, 13 rebounds and six 14 points for the Pacers in the Mother’s Day con- points. Ariza had 16 in the loss. The team made Russell Westbrook, who scored 27 points, early 22-point lead. assists. Wizards coach Randy Wittman likes to call test in front of a crowd of 20,356 at the Verizon half of their field goal attempts through the first missed a 3-pointer and Serge Ibaka’s tip attempt Durant’s three-point play early in the fourth that trio of not-yet-retired, best-days-behind- Center arena in the US capital. three quarters. But they shot just 29 percent was too late at the buzzer, allowing the Clippers extended the Thunder’s lead to 15 points, and them guys - Miller, 38; Harrington, 34; Gooden, “It is about us executing offensively because from the floor in the final quarter. to salvage a game they trailed until the final 1:23. they were still up by 10 with 7:44 to go. 32 - the “AARP group,” but they momentarily we have complete and absolute trust in our “I’m not blaming any of this on any youth or Blake Griffin led Los Angeles with 25 points, Paul willed his team back into the game, scor- turned the game Washington’s way with quite a defence,” West said. Hibbert appears to have dis- inexperience or who has been in the playoffs making 9 of 11 free throws, and Chris Paul had 23 ing six straight points to get the Clippers within second quarter and a key stretch of the fourth. covered his form after struggling early in the and who hasn’t,” said Wizards head coach Randy points and 10 assists. Jamal Crawford added 18 six. Griffin made three of four free throws before Meanwhile, Paul George and Roy Hibbert com- postseason. Wittman. “That’s just an excuse.” Game five is points. DeAndre Jordan had 14 rebounds, help- Collison sealed the win. bined for 43 second half points as the Indiana “He found himself,” George said of Hibbert. today in Indianapolis. George said game five is ing the Clippers win the boards, 45-43 - the first The Pacers lead the second-round series 3-1 Pacers put the Washington Wizards on the brink of “He has been winning games because he has going to be the toughest of the series. “We can’t time in 11 playoff games the Thunder were out- and can close it out Tuesday, hosting Game 5. elimination with a 95-92 win Sunday. been playing at a high level.” Hibbert finished expect it to be easy. We know it is going to be a rebounded. George played 46 minutes and scored 28 points The Wizards led by 19 points in the third quar- with 17 points and nine rebounds and made a crazy environment,” he said. — Agencies Cavendish wins Tour Nishikori pulls out as of California stage Federer opts to play ROME: In-form Japanese tennis player Kei said Dimitrov. “I was flat in the first set and LOS ANGELES: Britain’s Mark Cavendish outdu- opened out a gap of 45 seconds at one point on Nishikori withdrew as expected from the didn’t execute my chances. “I had to fight, eled John Degenkolb in the final stretch to win in the chasing pack. Rome Masters yesterday with the lower but in the third set I rose a level. My racquet a photo finish and capture the first stage of the Meanwhile, Irish police arrested a man after a back complaint which forced him to pull was slipping out of my hand at times, but I 2014 Tour of California on Sunday. huge car bomb was found in Dublin hours before out in the third set of Sunday’s Madrid final found a way around it.” Omega Pharma rider Cavendish finished the the city welcomed a stage of the Giro d’Italia with Rafael Nadal. The Bulgarian said that he asked repeat- However, in a boost to the organisers edly for a plain while towel which would 193.1 kilometer (120 mile) first stage, which start- cycling race at the weekend, police said yesterday. Roger Federer, who missed the majority of absorb sweat on his hands but only ineffi- ed and finished in the California state capital, in The bomb, reportedly containing 50 lb (22 the Madrid Masters after his wife gave birth cient new coloured ones were said to be four hours, 44 minutes and 17 seconds. kilos) of explosives made from fertiliser, was found to twin boys last Tuesday, decided to play available. He next plays Croatian Ivo Karlovic, Cavendish admitted the finish was so close in a Northern Ireland-registered vehicle in a hotel in the Masters event which he has never who beat Spanish qualifier Pablo Carreno he wasn’t sure he had won. He grabbed the razor- car park on Saturday night, police said. won. Busta 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4). Nishikori, who won thin victory ahead of Germany’s Degenkolb, with On Sunday, Germany’s Marcel Kittel won his “Oh and btw ciao tutti, I just arrived in the Barcelona Open on clay last month, had Moreno Hofland of the Netherlands third. second successive Giro d’Italia stage win on the bella Italia! Looking forward to Rome,” the given Nadal a real scare in the Madrid final “I’ve won a sprint by 10 centimeters before and final day of the race in Ireland. There was no Swiss tweeted after a mid-day arrival in the before he finally had to call it quits at 2-6, 6-4, lost a sprint by three, and both of them I knew the immediate claim of responsibility but suspicion Italian capital. 3-0. He now has a fortnight to be ready for outcome,” Cavendish said. “This time, I really had fell on dissident republican groups opposed to Federer hit the practice courts to begin the French Open. no idea who won ... so I’m super-happy.” the peace process in Northern Ireland. preparations for a second-round match However, the 24-year-old is looking Slovakia’s Peter Sagan, who owns the record “The viable device was located in a car in the against French journeyman Jeremy Chardy, ahead with confidence to Paris after his for most stage wins in the race with 10, had to set- car park of the hotel at approximately 9.00 pm while Nadal also arrived to prepare his bid breakthrough win in terms of the clay sur- tle for fourth place. Kiel Reijnen was the sole sur- (2000 GMT) on May 10,” police said in a statement. for an eighth title at the Foro Italico. The face in Barcelona and confirmed that in vivor of a late break away, but he was swept up in They said that the bomb was not primed. Spaniard will open play against talented Madrid. the last of three laps on a downtown circuit as Finnstown Country House, a luxury hotel in west Frenchman Gilles Simon, who beat local “It’s going to be very exciting at the Cannondale and Omega Pharma took control. Dublin that was hosting a wedding at the time, wild card Filippo Volandri 6-2, 6-3. French because I’ve never felt like this on clay. Degenkolb and Cavendish powered to the line was evacuated while army bomb disposal units Bulgarian 12th seed Grigor Dimitrov had I’m very confident of whatever I hit,” he said. side by side, with the Briton getting the win by the made the device safe. Tens of thousands of peo- SACRAMENTO: Mark Cavendish (center) of to stage a comeback to defeat Simon’s com- In the women’s tournament, 11th seed width of a tyre. He didn’t allow himself a celebra- ple lined the route in Dublin Sunday to cheer on Great Britain, riding for the Omega Pharma- patriot Eduardo Roger-Vasselin 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 Ana Ivanovic beginning with a 6-1, 6-1 rout of while the player the young Bulgarian beat in unseeded Italian Karin Knapp. Australian tory smile until the photo confirmed his victory. the cyclists with millions more watching around Quickstep Cycling Team, pulls up after cross- the recent Bucharest Open final Czech Lukas Samantha Stosur upset 15th-seeded The ninth edition of the Tour of California con- the world. ing the finish line to win Stage One of the Tour of California cycling race. — AP Rosol beat Italy’s Fabio Fognini 6-3, 6-2. Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki 6-3, 6-3 tinues on Monday with a 20.1 kilometers individ- A 55-year-old man was arrested on Sunday, The Italian 13th seed left the court to while American 16th seed Sloane Stephens ual time trial in Folsom. Britain’s Bradley Wiggins, police said. It is understood he has close links to Adams, the leader of the Republican Sinn Fein jeers from the spectators. Dimitrov said that defeated Serb Bojana Jovanovski 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. the 2012 Tour de France champion, finished safely the Real IRA, a breakaway faction of the party, over a notorious IRA murder. a reason for his sluggish start was adjusting Italy’s former French Open champion in the pack despite not being content to simply sit Provisional IRA that remains active despite the Around 3,500 people died in three decades of from Madrid’s altitude to sea-level in Rome. Francesca Schiavone, beat Canadian Eugenie in the bunch on stage one. Northern Ireland peace process. The bomb scare violence between Protestants favouring contin- “The first couple of matches are always Bouchard 6-4, 6-2 with 31 winners against the The Briton’s Team Sky put together a bold comes amid heightened tensions over the arrest ued union of Northern Ireland with Britain, and tricky, adjusting to the different conditions,” Australian Open semi-finalist. — AFP move with 60 kilometres remaining, which in Northern Ireland earlier this month of Gerry Catholics seeking a unified Ireland. — AFP UAE’s Aldar sees projects driving revenue growth

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ATHENS: Tourists take photographs during the change of the Presidential guards at the tomb of the unknown soldier in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens yesterday. Tourism is a major earner in debt-mired Greece, and industry officials say arrivals in the first four months of 2014 are 36.1 percent up compared to a year earlier. — AP Saudi willing to fill oil shortage: Naimi OPEC should maintain 30m bpd output cap

SEOUL: Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi said yesterday the Naimi later added that both Saudi Arabia and the producer good price.” 2003 and Iran over the past two years for its nuclear pro- world’s top oil exporter was willing to supply markets with group OPEC would meet any additional demand for oil. The minister also said the Organization of the Petroleum gram. But Naimi ruled out any plans to reduce the Saudi more crude if rising tensions between Russia and the West “Wherever demand is needed, we and other OPEC Exporting Countries (OPEC) should maintain its current kingdom’s output to make way for others. over Ukraine cause a shortage. Russia’s military interven- members will supply,” he said. Potentially adding to the ten- output cap of 30 million bpd when it comes up for review “People like our oil - why reduce?” Naimi said, when tion on Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and its aftermath in sions over the breakaway efforts in eastern Ukraine, pro- at the producer group’s next meeting in June. “Supply is asked if the kingdom would cut production to accommo- eastern Ukraine have rattled oil markets for the last few Moscow rebels declared a resounding victory in a Sunday highly sufficient, demand is great and the market is fairly date rising output from other producers. months, keeping benchmark Brent futures near $108 a bar- referendum on self-rule. Concern over the situation helped stable,” Naimi said. Naimi also said that total global oil demand was steady. rel after hitting $112.39 on March 3, the highest this year. support oil markets on Monday. Brent gained 27 cents to “There is no reason for a change. Absolutely no reason.” “Don’t worry about individual countries - look at the total,” “We are willing to supply any shortage which may arise,” $108.16 a barrel by 0740 GMT, while US crude was 3 cents At the next OPEC meeting on June 11 a new deal may be he said. OPEC in March said world oil demand will increase Naimi said. He said the kingdom’s current output is around higher at $100.02. reached over the production cap to account for rapidly ris- more than expected in 2014, raising its prediction for a sec- 9.6 million barrels per day (bpd), while it has a capacity of ing oil output in the United States and a number of OPEC ond straight month as US and European economic growth 12.5 million bpd. OPEC output target members aiming to restore full output after sanctions and picked up. In a monthly report, OPEC said global demand Saudi Arabia produced 9.66 million bpd of crude in Speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Seoul, civil strife. will rise by 1.14 million bpd this year, up 50,000 bpd from April, up from 9.566 million bpd in March, an industry Naimi also said $100 a barrel was a fair price for oil. “One- Iran and Iraq, OPEC’s No 2 and No 3 producers, both feel its previous forecast. It also raised its 2014 projection for source familiar with the matter said. It supplied 9.650 mil- hundred dollars is a fair price for everybody - consumers, they are special cases because of production lost to sanc- global demand for OPEC’s crude to 29.7 bpd, up 100,000 lion bpd to the market, up from 9.533 million bpd in March. producers, oil companies,” he said. “It’s a fair price. It’s a tions - Iraq over decades under Saddam Hussein up to bpd from the previous month’s report. — Reuters

UK employers to speed up hiring: Report Qatar hits new highs, LONDON: British employers plan to hire staff at the fastest rate since the early days of the financial crisis, a business survey Abu Dhabi’s UNB Q1 showed yesterday in a further sign the economy is picking up Saudi, UAE recover speed. net profit rises 3.5% The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s ABU DHABI: Union National Bank (UNB), 50 percent (CIPD) quarterly net employment balance, which measures the owned by the Abu Dhabi government, posted a 3.5 per- difference between employers intending to hire staff and those cent rise in first-quarter net profit yesterday due to lower MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS planning to cut, rose to +26 from +16 in its previous report. That provisioning, beating estimates of analysts who had was its highest level since late 2007, with surging confidence in expected its earnings to shrink. The fifth-largest lender on the services sector driving the index higher. the Abu Dhabi exchange by market value reported a net DUBAI: Qatar’s bourse continued to conquer new countries that it will include in the index late on The report comes ahead of the Bank of England’s latest eco- highs yesterday while markets in the United Arab Wednesday and the adjustment takes effect at the end profit of 512.1 million dirhams ($139.4 million) in the quar- nomic outlook on Wednesday. Its policymakers have said they ter, up from 494.9 million dirhams a year earlier, according Emirates and Saudi Arabia recovered from the previous of this month. are confident that companies can squeeze more out of their day’s profit-taking. The Doha benchmark rose 0.6 per- “I think the international investors are positioning to a bourse filing. workers and machines as the economy gathers steam. Six analysts polled by Reuters had on average forecast cent to a new all-time closing high of 13,067 points. The themselves in Qatar (ahead of the MSCI upgrade),” A separate report from data company Markit yesterday sug- measure closed just below the 2005 intra-day high of Adou said. that UNB’s profit would fall 3.9 percent, although their gested that may be the case, saying more than a third of staff feel forecasts were based on a slightly different figure that 13,069 but set a new intra-day peak of 13,080 points employers could make more use of their skills. Britain’s unem- excludes profit owed to minority shareholders of the earlier in the day. UAE, Saudi ployment rate fell to 6.9 percent in the three months to February bank’s subsidiaries. Ali Adou, portfolio manager at The National Investor, Dubai’s bourse closed up 1.5 percent after diving as - its lowest in five years. Under this figure, net attributable profit, UNB’s net said the two major factors driving growth in Qatar’s low as 2.5 percent early in the session. Builder Arabtec “The UK jobs market looks set to continue its remarkable profit rose 3.6 percent to 509.1 million dirhams. Banks in market were valuations and the performance of the Holding was both the most volatile stock and the main post-recession performance,” said Gerwyn Davies, labor market the United Arab Emirates have reported strong earnings UAE markets, especially Dubai, which this month will, support, rising 7.8 percent after dropping 8.5 percent adviser at the CIPD. The CIPD also said there was little evidence growth for the first quarter as they benefit from the together with Qatar, move to the emerging market during the day. Trading volume in Arabtec was higher that labor market strength is causing recruitment difficulties for improving economic picture in the Gulf Arab nation, index compiled by MSCI. on upswings, though, and more than doubled com- employers in the short term - contrasting with a report from the especially in the key real estate sector which was buffeted Although Qatar trades close to the Middle East and pared with Sunday. Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) last week. following a 2009 crash. North Africa (MENA) average in terms of price-to-earn- Shares in another Dubai-based construction compa- The REC said the availability of staff to fill permanent positions “The increase in the quarterly profit for the group was ings ratio, the massive spending planned by its govern- ny, Drake and Scull, fell 2.3 percent after the firm missed in April fell at the sharpest pace since October 2004. Davies from driven by consistent business growth underpinned by ment could justify higher multiples, Adou said. Qatar analysts’ expectations with a 27.1 percent decline in the CIPD said skill shortages were relatively concentrated in par- continuing improvement in the asset quality measures, plans to boost government spending by 18 percent to first-quarter net profit, citing unforeseen delays to two ticular sectors and jobs, with pay still weak compared to pre- robust liquidity and strong capital position,” Mohammad 210.6 billion riyals ($57.8 billion) in the 2013/14 fiscal major projects in Saudi Arabia. Abu Dhabi’s bourse recession levels. Nasr Abdeen, chief executive of UNB, said in the state- year as it implements a large-scale infrastructure build- edged up 0.4 percent. Developer Aldar Property was “However, there is a danger that this may change if the labor ment. ing program in preparation to host the 2022 World Cup one of the main supports as it gained 3.9 percent after market continues to tighten,” he said. The Markit survey showed UNB’s profit increase was aided by a 65 percent reduc- soccer tournament. And, since MSCI announced the posting a three-fold increase in first-quarter profit. 40 percent of part-time workers want to work more hours than tion in impairment charges, which fell to 44 million index upgrade last June, Dubai has outperformed Qatar Saudi Arabia’s index climbed 0.2 percent. Food man- they currently do. dirhams in the first quarter of 2014. This helped to offset a by about 86 percent, he said, prompting a catch-up ufacturer Wafrah topped the trading volume, jumping “The survey therefore suggests that there remains plenty of 4 percent decline in net interest income and income from move. 8.0 percent after it called an annual meeting on May 14 scope for employers to get more out of their staff - almost one-in- Islamic financing, which fell due to a reduction in its net interest margin to 2.8 percent in the first quarter of 2014 MSCI will announce the names of stocks from both to discuss last year’s profit distribution. — Reuters five think they could do more work without too much effort,” said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit. — Reuters from 3.06 percent in the same period last year. — Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 India stocks hit record ahead of exit polls

MUMBAI: India’s stock market closed at a second Stocks have risen more than five percent straight record high yesterday while the rupee alone since voting began in early April in the rallied on hopes exit polls will show the right- multi-phased parliamentary election. Analysts, wing Hindu nationalist party on track to win though, note Indian exit polls have sometimes national elections. Release of the exit polls-sur- been spectacularly wrong in the past. veys of voters as they leave polling stations-was Support for the Congress-led coalition gov- due after voting booths closed later Monday. ernment has been undermined by a string of Formal election results will be announced on graft scandals, surging inflation and a sharply Friday. The Bombay Stock Exchange’s benchmark slowing economy during its decade in power. index known as the Sensex rose 2.51 percent to Investors are hoping the BJP and its allies will win hit 23,572.88 points in afternoon trade, surpass- the 272 seats needed to form a government in ing its previous record of 23,048.49 points struck the 543-member parliament, and implement on Friday. structural changes to help lift the economy from But the Sensex trimmed its intraday gains to decade-low growth. Analysts said there was a finish the day up 2.42 percent at 23,551.00 possibility the Sensex could climb to new records points-still another record closing high for the in coming days, index. The rupee strengthened to its highest “The possibility of the Sensex touching against the US currency in nearly 10 months, 25,000 is still very much there because there will touching 59.51 rupees to the dollar, a level last be reaction to the exit polls tomorrow (Tuesday) seen in July. and final results on Friday,” said Alok Churiwala, Since the BJP chose Narendra Modi as its head of Churiwala Securities in Mumbai. But prime ministerial candidate last September, some analysts warn if the BJP and its allies fail to Indian shares have been on a bull run. The quickly form a coalition government after the Sensex has gained over 19 percent-a rise final results are announced, the markets could described by traders as a vote of confidence in go into a tailspin and lose more than 10 percent. the Hindu hardliner’s ability to turn around “The rise has been fast so the dip might also be India’s struggling economy. sharp,” said Churiwala. —AFP Economists back Jokowi’s fuel subsidy cut plan for Indonesia MUMBAI: Indian stock traders monitor share prices on their computers during intra-day trade at a brokerage house in Mumbai yesterday. India’s stock market surged to a second straight record high while the rupee rallied on hopes exit polls will show the JAKARTA: Indonesian presidential fron- prices were raised by 33 percent in 2013. trunner Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s plan to But, President Yudhoyono softened the right-wing Hindu nationalist party on track to win general election. —AFP slowly reduce fuel subsidies over the next blow by providing a 9-trillion rupiah com- few years is the best option to ease pres- pensation package to millions of poor sure on the budget deficit while keeping families, and were no major protests inflation in check, economists said. against the higher fuel prices. UAE’s Aldar sees projects Whoever succeeds outgoing President Prabowo, who is running a distant sec- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in October ond to Jokowi in opinion polls, is expect- will need to quickly tackle the problem. ed to keep fuel prices at current rates but The subsidies cost the government impose measures to ensure subsidies driving revenue growth around $20 billion a year and are the main were only used by the poor and lower factor behind a current account deficit middle class. “We will still give our people that was more than 2 percent of gross subsidies, not reduce it,” said Kardaya Loans worth 2.8b dhs repaid in Q1 2014 national product in the first quarter, and a Warnika, a lawmaker and senior energy budget deficit that is expected to be as adviser for Prabowo’s Gerindra Party. ABU DHABI: Payments for completing projects between Aldar and Sorouh Real Estate, com- Revenue for the quarter jumped 6 percent to high as 2.5 percent of GDP this year. “We won’t give the subsidy to people should drive revenue growth at Aldar Properties pleted last year, which brought together the 1.72 billion dirhams, with recurring revenue 22 Jokowi, the popular governor of who do not need it. For example, foreign- in the next two quarters, as the largest property two main developers in the emirate to cut costs percent higher year-on-year at 497 million Jakarta, and his main rival, former general ers,” Warnika said, adding that the subsidy developer in Abu Dhabi benefits from a and support Aldar’s financial position. Prices dirhams thanks to its hospitality and investment Prabowo Subianto, advocate different should be for those who make less than rebound in the local real estate market, its rebounded strongly last year, rising some 25 property portfolio. The results boosted Aldar’s ways for bringing down costs. Protests 20 million rupiah a month. Under the finance chief said. Abu Dhabi’s real estate mar- percent, on the back of a series of market- share price, which was up 3.1 percent at 0840 over fuel price increases contributed to Gerindra plan, car owners would have to ket slumped by about 50 percent from its peak boosting measures by the government includ- GMT against a flat Abu Dhabi market. the downfall of President Suharto in 1998, register their car and include their income in 2008 after a bubble burst in the wake of the ing the scrapping of annual rent caps. That was Payments for completing projects would and presidential candidates are mindful of to obtain the fuel subsidy. Some econo- global financial crisis, with Aldar receiving reflected in Aldar tripling its first-quarter net continue to drive earnings, Greg Fewer, chief the political sensitivities as they campaign mists believed Jokowi’s plan was the bet- around $10 billion of government support in profit to 453.4 million dirhams ($123.4 million), financial officer at Aldar, told reporters on a con- for the July 9 election. ter of the two options for Indonesia. exchange for assets to help manage a signifi- well ahead of the forecast from brokerage SICO ference call, adding revenue from the sale of Jokowi has told local media that he “The cut in prices is the preferred one,” cant amount of debt taken on in the boom Bahrain, as project competitions - which usually 1,400 units would also accrue over the next two would gradually reduce fuel subsidies said Santitarn Sathirathai, an economist years. lead owners to settle the full cost - and sales of quarters. Beyond that, revenue growth would over a four or five-year period. Indonesian at Credit Suisse. “Typically, when the There was also a government-backed merger developments boosted revenue. come from assets due for completion including fuel prices are some of the cheapest in the price is wrong the quantitative measures the Yas Mall - a 2.5 million square foot retail region, currently priced at 6,500 rupiah have limited use. There tends to be leak- complex set to open in November - and some ($0.56) a litre for gasoline and 5,500 for ages.” Wellian Wiranto, an economist with Jeddah Economic Co to raise residential projects that could add between 1.5 diesel. An annual increase of up to 1,500 OCBC Bank, said Jokowi’s plan was the billion and 1.6 billion dirhams of net recurring rupiah for fuel would be manageable and “cleanest way” to get rid of subsidies, funds for Kingdom City tower revenue in 2016, he added. should help to avoid street protests like in providing fiscal stability that would ben- Last month, Aldar launched three new devel- 2005 and 2008, said Sri Adiningsih, eco- efit the country’s bond market. A third DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Economic Co of land plots to other investors. The first phase opments in Abu Dhabi worth 5 billion dirhams nomic adviser to Jokowi’s Indonesian option, one the finance ministry is hop- said yesterday it was in talks with local Saudi of the project is over an area of 1.4 million and said it was exploring 23 real estate develop- Democratic-Party of Struggle (PDI-P). ing to add to the 2015 budget, is to fix banks to raise funds for the 14-billion-riyal square metres, centered around the Kingdom ments, excluding government projects, as con- Adiningsih told Reuters the money fuel subsidies at a certain amount. That ($3.73 billion) first phase of its Kingdom City Tower. The tower is expected to be completed ditions in the local market rebounded. would be better spent on infrastructure would allow fuel prices to adjust with project. If completed, the project’s over one by 2018 and will cost the company 6 billion Fewer said the majority state-owned devel- projects like roads, ports and trains. Fuel market prices. —Reuters kilometre tall Kingdom Tower will replace riyals, Hammoud said. Dubai’s Burj Khalifa was oper would continue to focus on reducing debt, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, 828 metres tall, as the high- built by Emaar Properties for a total cost of $1.5 having paid off 2.8 billion dirhams - around 20 est in the world. billion. percent of its gross debt - since the start of 2014 Dubai’s Drake & Scull Kingdom City in Jeddah will also include “We will hand over the tower with 251 floors using contractual payments from the govern- mixed-use residential and commercial develop- completed by 2018.” Jeddah Economic Co, is ment of Abu Dhabi. “We are significantly ments, the chief executive of the Jeddah 16.63 percent owned by the Saudi Bin Laden deleveraging the business and managing debt posts Q1 profit drop Economic Co said at a construction conference Group, while Kingdom Holding holds a 33.35 to our targeted levels. We also have ample cash in Dubai. “The financial requirement is for 14 percent stake in the venture. Abrar and liquidity,” Fewer said. Aldar was still due 6.7 DUBAI: Dubai’s Drake & Scull said yesterday that recovering slightly to 1.72 dirhams, a 1.7 percent billion riyals to complete phase one by 2020,” International Holding Co also has a 33.35 per- billion dirhams from the Abu Dhabi govern- unforeseen delays to two major projects in reverse. Mukhtar Safi, the firm’s chief financial Mounib Hammoud, said at the side lines of the cent stake while businessman Abdurrahman ment for asset sales and infrastructure works Saudi Arabia were responsible for the contractor officer, said in a statement it had faced “a slow- conference. “Our owners have already invested Sharbatly will own 16.67 percent. and had 9.7 billion dirhams in cash available at missing analysts’ expectations with a 27.1 per- down in our general contracting business in about 8.7 billion riyals into this project, which is Hammoud said the next phases of the proj- March 31. cent decline in first-quarter net profit. The firm Saudi Arabia due to unforeseen delays in two a huge investment. The remaining will be ect would be driven largely by market demand. Aldar has 6.1 billion dirhams of outstanding made a net profit of 45.7 million dirhams ($12.4 major projects which are not recurring,” and that financed and we are closing a financing deal BNP Paribas is advising the company on its debt due by the end of 2014, including a $1.25 million) in the first three months of 2014, com- things would improve in the second quarter of with banks which will be announced soon.” finances, he said, adding that the company is billion bond maturing this month. The firm, pared with 62.7 million dirhams in the corre- the year. He did not name the delayed projects. He added that the funding would be also looking at raising finance through the builder of the emirate’s Formula One race sponding period of last year, it said in a bourse Safi added that the contractor’s strategy for the through local Saudi banks but did not reveal bond markets. “We are looking at the bonds track, was still hunting for a new chief execu- filing. Three analysts polled by Reuters, on aver- rest of the year was aimed at strengthening its how much will be raised. Hammoud said some and sukuk market but this will need a structure tive following its merger with Sorouh, Fewer age, had forecast a net profit for the period of balance sheet and reducing costs as it delivered funds for the project would also come from sale in place, which we are working on.” —Reuters said. —Reuters 58.9 million dirhams. Shares in Drake & Scull ini- on its backlog of work worth 12.2 billion tially slumped 3.4 percent in early trading before dirhams. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.900 Sierra Leone 0.000069 0.000075 Nepalese Rupees 3.880 Singapore Dollar 0.222174 0.228174 Malaysian Ringgit 87.040 South African Rand 0.021153 0.029653 ASIAN COUNTRIES COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 45.395 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001845 0.002425 Japanese Yen 2.768 Australian Dollar 268.31 265.31 Indian Rupees 4.726 Thai Bhat 9.680 Taiwan 0.009234 0.009414 Canadian Dollar 262.86 263.86 Thai Baht 0.008323 0.008873 Pakistani Rupees 2.862 Swiss Franc 322.93 320.93 Turkish Lira 134.045 Srilankan Rupees 2.162 Euro 391.54 392.54 Nepali Rupees 2.943 Arab US Dollar 281.50 284.50 Singapore Dollar 226.310 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.741820 0.749820 Hongkong Dollar 36.393 Sterling Pound 478.70 481.70 Egyptian Pound 0.036413 0.039513 Bangladesh Taka 3.628 Japanese Yen 2.83 2.85 Iranian Riyal 0.000078 0.000079 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.455 Bangladesh Taka 3.628 3.898 Iraqi Dinar 0.000181 0.000241 Europe Thai Baht 8.673 Indian Rupee 4.708 5.008 Jordanian Dinar 0.393659 0.401159 Belgian Franc 0.007331 0.008331 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.159 2.594 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 British Pound 0.468384 0.477384 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Nepali Rupee 2.944 3.479 Lebanese Pound 0.000138 0.000238 Pakistani Rupee 2.863 2.790 Czech Korune 0.006148 0.018149 Danish Krone 0.047895 0.052895 Moroccan Dirhams 0.025272 0.049272 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 76.71 77.17 Nigerian Naira 0.001191 0.001826 Saudi Riyal 75.257 Bahraini Dinar 749.24 751.31 Euro 0.382375 0.390375 Norwegian Krone 0.043617 0.048817 Omani Riyal 0.726694 0.732374 Qatari Riyal 77.543 Egyptian Pound 39.41 40.01 Qatar Riyal 0.076776 0.077898 Omani Riyal 733.110 Romanian Leu 0.087272 0.87272 Jordanian Dinar 400.64 406.29 Saudi Riyal 0.074590 0.075290 Bahraini Dinar 749.570 Omani Riyal 732.08 739.38 Slovakia 0.008064 0.018064 Syrian Pound 0.001749 0.001969 UAE Dirham 76.856 Qatari Riyal 77.74 78.29 Swedish Krona 0.038843 0.043843 Tunisian Dinar 0.171426 0.179426 Saudi Riyal 75.20 75.60 Swiss Franc 0.311356 0.321556 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.136807 0.143807 Turkish Lira 0.136807 0.143807 Egyptian Pound - Cash 39.470 UAE Dirhams 0.075824 0.076973 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.573 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia Yemeni Riyal 0.001281 0.001361 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.317 Australian Dollar 0.255447 0.266947 New Zealand Dollar 0.236764 0.246264 Tunisian Dinar 176.090 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Jordanian Dinar 398.530 America Al Mulla Exchange US Dollar 281.500 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.893 Canadian Dollar 0.253260 0.261760 Canadian Dollar 259.510 Syrian Lira 2.011 US Dollars 0.278000 0.282350 Sterling Pound 475.750 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 35.619 US Dollars Mint 0.278500 0.282350 Euro 391.810 US Dollar 281.050 Euro 389.450 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Swiss Frank 320.975 Asia US Dollar Transfer 282.100 Bahrain Dinar 749.235 Bangladesh Taka 0.003299 0.003899 Pound Sterlng 477.000 Euro 389.580 UAE Dirhams 76.620 Chinese Yuan 0.044034 0.047534 Canadian Dollar 260.350 Sterling Pound 479.850 Qatari Riyals 78.200 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034302 0.037052 Indian Rupee 4.708 Canadian dollar 259.880 Saudi Riyals 75.340 Indian Rupee 0.004371 0.004772 Egyptian Pound 39.550 Turkish lira 135.920 Jordanian Dinar 396.715 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.158 Swiss Franc 319.300 Egyptian Pound 40.115 Japanese Yen 0.002679 0.002859 Bangladesh Taka 3.617 Australian Dollar 265.170 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.154 Kenyan Shilling 0.003231 0.003231 Philippines Peso 6.333 US Dollar Buying 280.900 Indian Rupees 4.679 Korean Won 0.000265 0.000280 Pakistan Rupee 2.855 Pakistani Rupees 2.852 Malaysian Ringgit 0.083256 0.089256 Bahraini Dinar 749.600 GOLD Bangladesh Taka 3.622 Nepalese Rupee 0.003000 0.003170 UAE Dirham 76.650 20 Gram 245.000 Philippines Pesso 6.322 Pakistan Rupee 0.002654 0.002934 Saudi Riyal 75.150 10 Gram 124.000 Cyprus pound 691.420 Philippine Peso 0.006328 0.006608 *Rates are subject to change 5 Gram 64.000 Japanese Yen 3.750 TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 BUSINESS Kuwait’s March sales up across all sectors

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KUWAIT: Real estate data for March show sales totaling KD 351 million, up 20 percent y/y. March monthly sales are the highest this year, closing the first quarter with sales totaling KD 923 mil- lion. Sales were up across all sectors with an exceptional performance by the commercial sector. The residential and investment sectors remained solid, and the real estate sector is expected to have another strong year. Sales in the residential sector reached KD 177 million in March, a 19 percent y/y increase. Although there was a 10 percent y/y decline in the number of transactions to 439, this was more than offset by a rise in the average transac- tion value. The latter increased 32 per- cent y/y to KD 403,000. It is worth not- ing that despite strong year-on-year increases in sales, the number of trans- actions has been dropping (year-on- year) in past months - a possible reflec- tions in the first quarter followed by In quarter analysis, the investment sec- from KD 22 million a year earlier. The first is a 4,000 m2 residential plot in tion of the short supply of residential Mubarak Al-Kabeer, which has been see- tor sales grew 35 percent compared to sector recorded 12 transactions, with Messila sold for KD 9 million, while the properties available on the market. ing increased activity in the Abu Fateera Q1 of 2013. one plot in Jahra selling for KD 11 mil- second was a 3,700m2 commercial In terms of location, 34 percent of and Funaitees areas. Individual apartments made up more lion. Sales in this sector are often ‘shops’ transaction in Mahboula, for KD 7 transactions were in Al-Ahmadi gover- Sales in the investment sector stood than half of all transactions in the invest- uneven month-to-month. While the sec- million. norate, followed by Mubarak Al-Kabeer at KD 132 million in March, up 9 percent ment sector - the majority in Mahboula. tor’s performance in the first two Kuwait Credit Bank approved KD 29 with 25 percent of transactions. Sales of y/y. The sector also saw a 53 percent y/y Whole buildings came in second, months of 2014 seemed to be cooling, million in loans in March, down 16 per- land plots - as opposed to finished increase in the number of transactions, accounting for 32 percent of transac- March sales confirmed a strong bounce cent from a year ago. The past year has buildings - accounted for 57 percent of recording 195 transactions by the end of tions, followed by plots with an 11 per- back. nevertheless been a very active year for all residential transactions in March. March. The increases reflected on the cent share. March also witnessed two significant the bank. The slowdown in the past cou- Quarterly, Al-Ahmadi also led the gover- average size of transaction which Sales in the commercial sector soared transactions classified by the Ministry of ple of months may be linked to a slow- norates with 33 percent of all transac- dropped 29 percent y/y, to KD 680,000. 92 percent to KD 42 million in March, Justice as ‘coastal line’ properties. The down in the distribution of plots.

Don’t give up on India’s new govt must wrestle emerging markets with weak output, inflation

Blackstone Market Commentary Economy shows little sign of improvement NEW DELHI: India’s ailing economy showed lit- week national election, the data underscored Capital goods production, a barometer of By Byron Wien tle sign of improvement yesterday, trapped in a the enormity of challenges awaiting a new gov- investment in the economy, has contracted in spell of weak growth and high inflation when ernment that takes over after the counting of nine of the past 12 months. In March, it fell 12.5 t the beginning of the year, there the country is on the cusp of political change votes on May 16. percent from a year earlier. Persistently high were three potential areas of asset that is widely expected to script an economic inflation and elevated interest rates in an econo- Aallocation that very few global port- revival. Output from mines, utilities and factories Optimism my hit by slowdown have crimped consumer folio managers wanted to consider serious- fell for a second straight month in March, shrink- Indian shares surged to a record high and the demand. Consumer goods output, a proxy for ly. As I traveled around the United States ing 0.5 percent from a year earlier compared rupee rallied to its strongest in 10 months on ris- consumer demand, has grown just once in the and elsewhere in the world, almost none of with analysts’ median forecast of an annual con- ing hopes that exit polls later yesterday will like- past 11 months. It fell an annual 0.9 percent in our clients wanted to hear about Japan, traction of 1.5 percent, government data ly show opposition challenger Narendra Modi’s March. commodities or emerging markets. So far showed on Monday. Output had fallen a revised Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies win- they have been wrong about commodities, 1.8 percent in February. ning a majority in the election. A win for a BJP- Challenges which are a part of my radical asset alloca- In other data, consumer inflation accelerated led coalition is expected to set the stage for a While many analysts are hoping for a rapid tion and have broken out of their trading to a three-month high of 8.59 percent in April revival in confidence and investment. implementation of pending labor, fiscal and tax range and headed higher. The standard of from 8.31 percent in March. Asia’s third-largest Modi has run a gruelling campaign mainly on reforms for a faster economic recovery, some say living continues to improve in the develop- economy is battling the worst slowdown since promises to create jobs and restore India to a high corporate leverage and rising bad loans at ing world, and one of the first things con- the 1980s as GDP growth has almost halved to path of high economic growth. India’s National Indian banks will hamper a pick-up in invest- sumers do when their income increases is under 5 percent in the past two years. The slow- Stock Exchange has surged nearly 19 percent ment activity. Stressed loans in India - those cat- start to eat better. This means more meat down, however, has not cooled inflation that has since he was named as the BJP’s prime ministeri- egorized as bad and restructured - total $100 bil- and poultry where grains are used for feed sumer. Also, China has a centralized govern- been averaging nearly 10 percent for the past al candidate. While financial markets are betting lion, or about 10 percent of all loans. The debt- as well as more consumption of grains by two years, way above the central bank’s comfort on him to replicate his pro-business policies in equity ratio of Indian firms has hit a two-decade individuals. As a result of continuing growth ment structure that can make decisions quickly and implement them without delay. zone. Monday’s data will likely put Reserve Bank the western state of Gujarat on a national level, high of 97.9 percent, Nomura said. in the developing world and flat to uneven of India (RBI) chief Raghuram Rajan into a an economic revival depends on his success in Compounding economic worries are the agricultural production because of variable This is in sharp contrast to the Japanese Diet, where the legislative process can drag quandary ahead of a policy meeting on June 3. boosting consumer and investment demand. prospects of a below-average monsoon this weather, prices for corn, wheat and soy- Higher inflation readings make it tougher for “If the (new) government fails to impress summer, which could hit farm output and fuel beans have risen. on endlessly in a manner similar to the US Congress. him to support a flagging economy. quickly, investor optimism could soon turn to inflation. In 2009, patchy monsoon rains led to As for the other two areas of investor dis- “There is no scope for the RBI to reduce inter- disillusion,” cautioned Miguel Chanco, India India’s worst drought in nearly four decades, interest - Japan and emerging markets- per- What China must do is deal with its enor- mous pollution problem. My eyes burned est rates given the sustained increase in con- Economist at Capital Economics. Capital invest- resulting in runaway food inflation. formance this year has been poor. Japan has sumer price inflation despite a favorable statisti- ment growth probably hit an 11-year low last fis- Already food prices have started moving up been hurt by the increase in its sales tax and my throat was sore while I was in Beijing. There are also reports that 280 mil- cal base,” said Rupa Rege Nitsure, chief econo- cal year as firms shelved more than $100 billion after recent unseasonal hail and heavy rains in from 5 percent to 8 percent in April as well mist at Bank of Baroda. “We are looking at an in projects, the highest in the past 18 years, data parts of the country damaged crops. Food infla- as concern about a weakening Chinese lion people do not have access to safe drink- ing water, resulting in high cancer rates. extended pause in interest rates.” from think tank CMIE showed, due to policy tion for consumers last month edged up to 9.66 economy. And Emerging markets have suf- Coinciding with the final day of India’s five- uncertainty and pending regulatory clearances. percent from 9.10 in March. — Reuters fered for two reasons. The first is the belief Ground pollution from industrial waste is that continued Federal Reserve tapering will also a serious problem. The pollution condi- cause interest rates in the United States to tion must be faced if China expects to have rise and the dollar to strengthen. This would an increasingly important role in the world be bad for those whose assets are in emerg- economy and geopolitics. ing market currencies. As a result there has Another investor asked me what I would been selling of equities in Asia and Latin do to get Chinese consumers to spend America by local and global investors in more. I told him that improving the social spite of the fact that growth in those areas is safety net would help. The Chinese save for considerably above that in the developed the after-school education of their children, world. healthcare and their retirement. If the gov- The Russia/Ukraine situation has also ernment played a greater role in providing had a broad influence in the emerging mar- services in these areas, perhaps the Chinese would spend more time at the malls. That kets because it has highlighted the second change is not likely to come quickly. Some reason for investor concern, the issue of investors are also concerned that the econo- political risk. While Ukraine was never an my is slowing because of a lack of both area of investor interest, Russia’s action domestic and export demand, which could there caused concern throughout the reduce job creation, causing problems for developing world. It all started with the authoritarian government. Most Ukraine’s decision to move closer to the Chinese would want to have a lot of cash on European Union. Vladimir Putin believes the hand if that happened. break-up of the Soviet Union was the worst Everywhere I went in Asia investors were geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century skeptical about their home markets, but and he was not about to let Ukraine Japan was extreme in this respect. Perhaps become a part of Europe. His actions have it was because the Nikkei 225 had a difficult led to the current troubles in the country. first quarter and is down 14 percent in yen I had an email exchange with my former and 11 percent in dollars so far this year. In Morgan Stanley colleague Steve Roach. We the longer term the aging population will have been in a dialog over the last few cause the work force to peak in the next few TOKYO: Cranes unload containers from cargo ships at a pier in Tokyo yesterday. Japan’s annual current account surplus is the lowest on record, months about the slowdown in Chinese years and this would make growth difficult. government figures showed yesterday as fossil fuel bills and a sliding yen overshadow rising exports.—AFP economy and if the consumer segment The country has initiated a guest worker becomes the dominant driver of growth program to mitigate this. Shinzo Abe’s first rather than credit-driven spending on state- two arrows, fiscal and monetary expansion, Weak Japan exports could owned enterprises and infrastructure. Steve have produced growth of 1.5 percent and believes the economy may not weaken inflation approaching 2 percent, achieving because the service sector is becoming two of his objectives. The third arrow, regu- more important and each service sector latory reform and sustainable growth, shake BOJ into action percentage point of growth generates 30 requires legislative action and that will be percent more jobs than a point of growth in harder to achieve. TOKYO: The Bank of Japan is increasingly confi- But exports remain the biggest risk to the outlook,” recovery, saying they may not increase strongly the manufacturing sector. He thinks growth Investors wondered why my asset alloca- dent that the economy is weathering a recent tax said an official familiar with the BOJ’s thinking. even as overseas demand picks up. Kuroda, for all will moderate very gradually and a consid- tion had a 5 percent position in Japan in the increase and is on its way out of deflation, but The central bank still forecasts export growth his optimism, also keeps bringing up exports as a erable number of new jobs will still be creat- face of all of these problems. My response another threat to that optimistic scenario is lurking will accelerate and Kuroda’s assurances that prices significant risk factor. Big manufacturers, too, are ed each year, reducing the likelihood of was Japan was clearly out of favor, few insti- - weak exports. If shipments abroad continue to fall are on track to hit his 2 percent inflation target cautious. Toyota Motor Corp warned on Thursday social unrest. tutions held positions, the economy was short of the central bank’s forecasts, the recovery in have prompted investors to scale back expecta- its profits may fall this business year as the export Moving on to China, several discussions finally growing and recent data was quite the world’s third-biggest economy could stall and tions of further easing later this year. tailwind that it and other Japanese carmakers have during my trip there yielded insights worth positive. Finally, there were a number of rea- the BOJ might be forced to ease policy again in the But Kuroda is always careful to say the BOJ will received from the yen’s 18-month slide fades. passing on. One investor was concerned sonably valued stocks available. I thought coming months. not hesitate to ease again if its price goal is threat- about similarities between China now and the risk of a further decline was low and Growth has returned to Japan, helped greatly ened. Some analysts say that if exports remain fee- Clinging to hope Japan in the 1980s, when it saw dramatic there was an opportunity to make money by massive monetary stimulus unleashed 13 ble, the BOJ may be forced as soon as July to That creates a communication headache for the growth before the Nikkeii 225 declined by from these levels if and when investors months ago when Haruhiko Kuroda took the helm expand its stimulus by ramping up its purchases of BOJ. Preserving confidence in a sustained econom- 75 percent. I pointed out some significant turned constructive. While monetary at the BOJ. Early signs support the bank’s view that government bonds and other assets. ic recovery is an essential part of Kuroda’s strategy. differences. China has a population ten growth and bank loans have slowed recent- last month’s increase in the national sales tax will In a further sign that slow shipments are weigh- Voicing doubts about a key element of that sce- times that of Japan. Its per capita income is ly, and this may have dampened the enthu- not derail the recovery or drag Japan back into ing on the recovery, Japan on Monday posted a nario too openly could hurt that confidence. “That’s one-tenth of that of the United States, and siasm of some investors, I believe there is no deflation. But the BOJ has been notably wrong much lower-than-expected current account sur- why the BOJ needs to cling to its projection that by improving its standard of living, China chance that Prime Minister Abe will let the about exports. The weak yen was supposed to plus for March, capping the smallest fiscal-year sur- exports will recover,” said a former BOJ official with can hope to see its economy grow for a long country slip back into a deflationary reces- boost overseas shipments in time to take up the plus on record. There are growing signs that poli- knowledge of the central bank’s thinking. “The time, especially if it is successful in shifting sion and another round of stimulus is ahead slack when consumption took a hit from the April 1 cymakers are becoming less confident about an export recovery hasn’t happened as quickly as the the components of growth toward the con- if it is needed. tax increase to 8 percent from 5 percent. “The BOJ’s export upturn. The central bank’s half-yearly out- BOJ wanted. I’m not sure whether everyone at the main scenario is for exports to gradually pick up. look cited exports as a key threat to economic bank is confident this will happen.” — Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 Chinese stocks outperform world markets

LONDON: Stocks in China and Hong Kong outperformed endums in the eastern part of Ukraine where the majority al budget today. Stocks in Hong Kong and mainland China Hong Kong leapt 1.82 percent, or 398.62 points, to end yesterday after authorities promised financial reforms. of voters allegedly said they backed sovereignty for their ended sharply higher after the Beijing government out- at 22,261.61. Shanghai jumped 2.07 percent or 41.73 Markets elsewhere were solid after the Dow closed at a regions. Though the Kremlin made it clear yesterday that it lined moves to develop the country’s capital markets. points to 2,052.87 while the Shenzhen Composite Index, record high but kept in check by ongoing concerns over has no intention to try to annex Ukraine’s eastern Kiev and the West dismissed the disputed referendum which tracks stocks on China’s second exchange, jumped Ukraine. provinces, investors think there’s still a long way to go as an illegal “farce”. Oil rose above $100 a barrel as investors 2.25 percent, or 22.85 points, to 1,040.54. China’s Shanghai Composite jumped 2.1 percent to before the crisis abates. fretted that any escalation of the tensions leading to con- China’s State Council, or cabinet, late Friday issued 2,052.87 after the Cabinet promised in an announcement “Tensions in Ukraine have not gone away,” said Chris flict could disrupt supplies and send prices rocketing. guidelines to promote development of the stock, bond late Friday to allow local governments to issue bonds and Beauchamp, market analyst at IG. In Europe, France’s CAC- Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei index lost 0.35 percent, or 50.07 and futures markets, including expanding the scale of for- to streamline the approval process for initial public stock 40 was up 0.2 percent at 4,484 while Germany’s DAX added points, to close at 14,149.52 as investors awaited the eign investment in the capital markets. “The guidelines offerings. It gave no details, but the news also boosted 1 percent to 9,673. Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.4 percent to release of key Japanese and US data later in the week, boosted investor confidence,” Haitong Securities analyst Hong Kong’s market with the Hang Seng up 1.8 percent to 6,840. Wall Street was poised for a solid opening with Dow including US retail sales and housing starts. Zhang Qi told AFP. But he said gains could be capped by 22,261.61. Elsewhere, markets were more as tensions futures up 0.3 percent and the broader S&P 500 futures 0.4 “This will be a week when investors will assess the US worries over upcoming initial public offerings. The broad- between the West and Russia over the future of Ukraine percent higher. Seoul closed 0.43 percent higher, gaining economic outlook after the impact of the polar vortex based S&P 500 added 2.85 (0.15 percent) to 1,878.48, while continue to provide a negative backdrop for investment 8.39 points to 1,964.94, while Sydney eased 0.23 percent, (cold weather) has rounded off,” SMBC Nikko Securities said the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index gained 20.37 points sentiment. The latest market jitters have centered on refer- or 12.44 points, to 5,448.4 before the release of the nation- in a note to clients. (0.50 percent) to 4,071.88. — Agencies

BEIJING: A woman walks past a fashion boutique outlet under construction covered by its advertisement board at a shopping mall in Beijing yesterday. Chinese president Xi Jinping has told the country to get used to slower growth, damping expectations of a new stimulus, following weakening trade and manufacturing. — AP Oil rises towards $109 on Ukraine tensions

LONDON: Brent crude oil climbed Russia, but in terms of supply and demand towards $109 per barrel yesterday as the - that is not going to change anything,” deepening crisis between Russia and Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix in Zug said. Ukraine unsettled investors. Though the Foreign ministers from the 28-nation likelihood is remote that the turmoil could bloc were due to meet to decide whether lead to an energy supply disruption, Saudi to add about 15 people and several Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi said the world’s Crimean-based companies to its list of 48 top oil exporter was willing to supply Russians and Ukrainians already targeted more crude in the event of a shortage. with asset freezes and visa bans. Investors Pro-Moscow rebels claimed a resound- are also keeping an eye on industrial pro- ing victory in Sunday’s referendum in duction and retail sales data expected eastern Ukraine, with some saying that from China today. meant independence and others eventual Negotiators from Iran and the union with Russia, as clashes broke out International Atomic Energy Agency between separatists and troops. Brent will meet in Vienna yesterday, a day crude was up 80 cents at $108.69 by 1108 before talks resume between Tehran GMT, while US crude gained 49 cents to and six western nations over Iran’s $100.48. nuclear program. The two sets of talks The European Union, which called are separate but closely linked as both Sunday’s polling illegal, could tighten the focus on fears that Iran may be covertly sanctions it placed on Russia after seeking the capability to develop Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimea region nuclear weapons. Any sign of progress following a similar vote in March. towards a final resolution to the West’s But analysts say tougher action is dispute with Tehran would pressure oil unlikely to impact supply. “The EU might prices in anticipation of a ramp-up in come up with more sanctions against Iranian oil exports. — Reuters Media-Saturn slow to move online, grows fast

DUESSELDORF: Europe’s top electronics the same service for large items like retailer Media-Saturn is hoping express washing machines and big-screen televi- home delivery services will help offset sions. pressure on margins and boost online Media-Saturn, which accounts for revenues as it tries to make up for a about a third of the Metro group’s rev- delayed e-commerce launch caused by enues, is facing a squeeze on all fronts. It in-fighting among its owners. saw sales slide 5.8 percent in Germany in Media-Saturn’s online presence was its fiscal second quarter, prompting delayed until 2010 by a long-running dis- Metro to cut its full-year outlook for the pute between majority owner Metro and unit last week, as it faces stiff competi- founder, Erich Kellerhals, which prompt- tion from Amazon and smaller online ed chief executive Horst Norberg to quit traders, like its rivals Dixons Retail and last week. Darty Plc. But Wolfgang Kirsch, head of Media- Recently Britain’s online domestic Saturn in its home market Germany, said appliances retailer AO World said it was recent leadership wrangles should not considering expanding into Germany. affect the company’s strategy to quickly “We have to position ourselves, as the grow its online revenues, adding the margin pressure will continue,” Kirsch chain now plans to roll out express deliv- added, saying he expected no radical ery to five more German cities this week strategy shift from the new, acting CEO after pilots in Berlin and Munich. Pieter Haas, noting Haas had always “Our online turnover...will rise signifi- backed a “multichannel” strategy of sell- cantly in coming years,” Kirsch told ing via stores and online. Reuters in an interview on Friday. Kirsch Kirsch said Media-Saturn was also said Media-Saturn, the world’s second- considering other services like repairs biggest consumer electronics chain after for smart phones and plans a big Best Buy, would exploit the fact that its increase in the number of the items it 420 stores in Germany make it closer to offers online from about 40,000 now to customers than online dealers operating 100,000 in coming months. Media- from distant warehouses. Saturn, which has more than 950 stores Its new express services offer delivery in 17 countries, saw online sales rise of smaller items like smartphones and over 35 percent in its fiscal first half to laptops within 30 minutes and a maxi- account for almost 7 percent of sales mum of three hours for a fee of 9.90 and is targeting around 20 percent in euros, and it hopes to eventually offer the medium-term. — Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 BUSINESS Pfizer presses AstraZeneca case as CEO faces UK grilling

LONDON: US drugmaker Pfizer pressed the Prime Minister David Cameron said on scientific case for its controversial plan to Sunday he had made “very good progress” acquire AstraZeneca yesterday as its chief in securing guarantees from Pfizer. executive prepared for a grilling from British However, Dolsten’s remarks contained no lawmakers. new pledges on preserving British science In the latest phase of Pfizer’s campaign to jobs. counter critics of its proposed $106 billion deal, research head Mikael Dolsten said he Sweetened offer? had been through five different mergers Pfizer is widely expected to come back and acquisitions and denied such big trans- with a sweetened offer for AstraZeneca this actions disrupted drug research. “If you keep week, though people familiar with the mat- your sense of curiosity and an open mind, ter said it was likely to wait until after the you can learn tremendously,” he said in a parliamentary select committee hearings. video posted on the company’s website. The British group rejected a May 2 cash- “We must stay laser-focused on our and-stock offer worth 50 pounds a share important projects. And that’s, of course, from its larger American rival, and CEO true for Pfizer scientists and AZ scientists Soriot has been on a roadshow to meet and will be true also if we can make a poten- leading investors and lay out his strategy tial combination come together.” British law- for a prosperous independent future. makers are due to quiz Dolsten’s boss, Soriot has secured the backing of several Scottish-born Chief Executive Ian Read, on high-profile shareholders, but others have May 13 about his plans to acquire Britain’s told Reuters they would like him to engage second-biggest pharmaceuticals business - with Pfizer if the U.S. group makes an a deal driven in large part by Pfizer’s wish to improved offer. In addition to wanting a cut its tax bill. higher price - many analysts think Pfizer They will also interrogate AstraZeneca will have to offer around 55 pounds a CEO Pascal Soriot and business minister share - investors are also keen to increase Vince Cable. A second parliamentary com- the proportion of cash in any deal from 32 mittee on May 14 will question both CEOs percent at present. again about the science aspects of the deal, Pfizer is limited in the amount of cash it along with Pfizer’s Dolsten and science min- can offer since in order to keep the tax ister David Willetts. advantages of re-domiciling to Britain it Buying AstraZeneca would be the must ensure at least 20 percent of the largest foreign takeover of a British firm. enlarged group is British-owned. Pfizer’s approach has been rejected by Under British takeover rules, Pfizer has Two Kingdom Street building which houses the headquarters of AstraZeneca, in the Paddington area of London. —AP AstraZeneca and the idea of a merger is until May 26 to make a firm bid for opposed by many scientists and some AstraZeneca or walk away. A slide in Pfizer’s politicians who fear it would damage the share price following its first-quarter results country’s science base. Dolsten said there last week has reduced the current value of French CB sees recovery was “a really great fit” with the products that its May 2 offer to just under 48 pounds. AstraZeneca had in its portfolio, with poten- AstraZeneca shares traded barely changed tial for combining drugs in areas such as at 46 pounds early yesterday. Political con- lung cancer to offer much more effective cerns about the proposed takeover have struggling to gain steam treatments. been fuelled by Pfizer’s record of making big Pfizer has given a five-year commitment job cuts after past acquisitions. It also has a to complete AstraZeneca’s new research tarnished reputation in Britain after shutting Bank of France estimates Q2 growth at 0.2% centre in Cambridge, retain a factory in the down most of its drug research in Sandwich, northwestern English town of Macclesfield southern England, where Viagra was invent- PARIS: The French economy will grow by just 0.2 Although Hollande has billed the move as a recovery in investment and consumption, which and put a fifth of its research staff in Britain if ed, with the loss of some 1,700 jobs. percent in the second quarter of 2014, the cen- major shift towards more business-friendly poli- remains highly dependent on the overall politi- the deal goes ahead. But the US firm has Pfizer’s Read also laid out the case for a tral bank forecast yesterday, as company morale cies, companies’ outlook remained tepid and cal and social environment,” he added. INSEE will also said it could adjust those promises if cir- merger in videos posted by the US group on faltered despite a pro-business push by the lagged behind morale in other major euro-zone report GDP on Thursday using new international cumstances change “significantly”, prompt- Saturday, when he said strong British research Socialist government seeking to tame unem- countries. The central bank gave its estimate in rules to account for research and development ing demands for more watertight pledges. was a key reason for the deal. —Reuters ployment and cut the deficit. The Bank of France its monthly business climate survey for April spending and military hardware investment. estimated that the euro-zone’s second-biggest which showed morale in the industrial sector Eurostat estimates that could boost France’s economy would also grow 0.2 percent in the first slipped to 98 from 99 in March, pulling back total GDP level by two to three percent, three months of the year, half the euro-zone from the index’s long-term average of 100. In a although the impact should be minimal on per- average according to a Reuters poll of econo- sign of still weak demand, factories’ idle capacity centage changes from one period to another - mists. Germany is forecast to grow 0.7 percent. was reduced only marginally last month to 76.4 the general measure of economic growth. Economists polled by Reuters expect on aver- percent, still well below the long-term average However, an increase of up to three percent age that the INSEE national statistics agency will of 81.5 percent. In the services sector, the indica- in total nominal GDP would have the benefit of report first quarter growth of 0.2 percent for tor was unchanged from March at 94. Business reducing France’s public deficit ratio slightly. On France when it publishes GDP data for the period leaders polled in both sectors said their cash that basis, the 2013 deficit would be 4.1 percent on May 15. President Francois Hollande has made positions had improved despite cutting prices of GDP instead of the 4.3 percent the govern- cutting unemployment, at 10.2 percent, his priori- for clients and that they expected activity to ment originally reported, according to Reuters’ ty, but has made little headway, driving his improve this month. calculations, helping the government as it strug- approval ratings to a record low of 18 percent, “After monthly data pointing to downwards gles to meet a pledge to bring the deficit in line according to an OpinionWay poll released on risks to the first quarter, surveys are now sending next year with an EU-agreed limit of 3 percent. Sunday. He hopes to spur economic recovery by bearish signals into the second quarter,” Barclays The government says it will meet the target. The phasing out 30 billion euros ($41.3 billion) in economist Fabrice Montagne said. “Eventually, European Commission expects the French deficit payroll tax on companies over the next year. the capacity to rebound will depend on the to come in at 3.4 percent next year. —Reuters Taiwan privatizes state aircraft

ATHENS: Cleaning staff of the Greek finance ministry who were laid off maker AIDC chant slogans at their camp staged outside the ministry in Athens yesterday. After months of protests, laid off cleaning staff camped outside Greece’s TAIPEI: Taiwan’s sole aircraft maker AIDC was giv- finance ministry for the fifth continuous day, demanding that the govern- en the green light to list on the local stock ment revokes its decision to cut thousands of public sector jobs under the exchange yesterday, as part of a government financially troubled country’s bailout commitments. —AFP drive to privatize large state-owned enterprises. The application for Aerospace Industrial Swiss business fears world’s Development Corp to begin trading shares was approved by the Taiwan Stock Exchange during a highest minimum wage committee meeting, the company said. Company spokesman N J Lin said that the air- ZURICH: Swiss business leaders shocked by wage, warning in February that it “would past popular votes to cap executive pay and threaten jobs and make it even more difficult craft maker, which has reported profits for seven curb immigration are wary of a May 18 refer- for little qualified staff and young people to years in a row, would continue to benefit from endum that could see Switzerland adopt the find a first job”. robust global demand for commercial aircraft. NEW YORK: The American flag and Wall St Street sign outside the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. Stocks opened higher on Wall Street yester- world’s highest minimum wage of nearly $25 Supporters say it would help smooth out “Looking ahead, we have faith in the company’s day, sending major indexes to their latest all-time highs. —AP an hour. salary inequalities and ensure a person work- operations, as current strong demand is expect- A recent opinion poll by gfs.bern found 64 ing full time can live decently. In 2012, percent of voters reject the proposal, made according to the federal statistics office, 10 ed to remain unchanged for several years,” Lin by the SGB union and supported by the percent of full-time or equivalent Swiss jobs said. AIDC posted a net profit last year of Tw$1.3 Russia ready for gas talks Socialist and Green parties. But Switzerland’s paid less than two-thirds of the median billion ($42.7 million) on revenues of Tw$23 bil- system of direct democracy, with frequent salary, with lower paid jobs found mainly in lion. with Kiev if it pays debt popular votes on social, political or economic shops, hotels and personal services. Of Privatization plans have swirled since the mid- matters, has brought surprises before. 339,000 people on a low salary, two out of MOSCOW: Russia will be ready to hold 16 and deliver gas only in volumes that 1990s after the firm produced the last of its The Swiss unexpectedly voted in February three were women. more talks with Ukraine on its natural gas reflected what payments it had received to curb immigration from the European “What matters is not the level of the mini- Indigenous Defence Fighters (IDF) — the island’s supplies only when Kiev pays its gas debt before May 31. Ukraine wants to change Union - Switzerland’s biggest trading partner, mum wage but the number of people con- only locally designed fighter-as the air force to Moscow, Deputy Energy Minister the conditions of a 2009 contract, negotiat- with which it now shares free movement of cerned,” SGB, Switzerland’s biggest union, moved to the US-made F-16. The firm has since Anatoly Yanovsky said yesterday. “We want ed by an earlier government. This deal labour - ignoring warnings from business said in a statement, noting that the sum of all become a supplier of commercial parts, produc- contract liabilities to be fulfilled... To contin- locked Kiev into buying a set volume, that such a move would hurt the economy. Swiss salaries would only rise by 0.4 percent if “I’m feeling uneasy about the upcoming the initiative was accepted. ing components for several aerospace giants ue talks, the debt should be paid,” Yanovsky whether it needs it or not, at $485 per 1,000 vote,” said Ralph Mueller, division head at George Sheldon, a Basel University profes- including Boeing, Airbus, Bell, Sikorsky and told reporters. Moscow says Kiev owes it cubic metres - the highest price paid by any electronic components maker Schurter. “We sor of labor market and industrial economics, Bombardier Aerospace while retaining mainte- $3.51 billion for gas, and has told Ukraine it client in Europe. would have to significantly raise the salaries said that although the proposed minimum nance contracts with the air force. must pay in advance for its gas from June. Moscow dropped the price to $268.5 after Russia’s top natural gas producer, President Viktor Yanukovich turned his back in our factory in Mendrisio, where about 80 of wage was very high, its negative impact Founded in the eastern Chinese city of our 100 workers commute from Italy, but we would be small because it would apply only Gazprom, supplies about 30 percent of the on a trade and association agreement with would also have to raise the wages of our to a few people. “Unemployment won’t jump Nanjing in 1946, AIDC was reorganized as the gas consumed in Europe, and ships about the European Union last year but reinstated higher-paid staff. It would cost about 250,000 from 3 to 4 percent. The impact will be well Aero Industry Development Center in 1969 and half of that via Ukraine. Russia’s Energy the original price after Yanukovich was oust- francs a year.” Swiss voters overwhelmingly below one percentage point,” he said. as a state enterprise in 1995. —AFP Ministry said last week Gazprom would ed in February. Yesterday, Gazprom said gas rejected a proposal in November to cap the Some of Switzerland’s lower-paid workers send a preliminary bill for June before May flow to Europe remained stable. —Reuters salaries of top executives at 12 times that of have already seen their wages rise as the their company’s lowest earner, but they did debate over pay intensifies although employ- back a plan last year to give company share- ers do not acknowledge a direct link to the holders the final say on pay and incentives. proposal. Discounter Lidl raised minimum The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs Swiss salaries to 4,000 francs last year and Al Tijari announces winners (Seco) says the proposed minimum wage of retailer H&M has vowed to follow suit next 22 Swiss francs ($25.13) an hour would be the year. The electrical and mechanical engineer- world’s highest even when adjusted for pur- ing industry, whose lobby group Swissmem of Najma Account draw chasing power in notoriously expensive opposes a national minimum wage of 22 Switzerland. The economically liberal country francs, for the first time accepted regional KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait held l Yousef Abdulla Abdulaziz — KD 7000 tomers will be eligible for the daily draw pro- does not currently have a nationwide mini- minimum wages in its collective bargaining the Al-Najma Account Daily draw on 11th The Commercial Bank of Kuwait vided that the money is in the account one mum wage. Pay is determined by individual agreement with unions last year. May 2014. The draw was held under the announces the biggest daily draw in Kuwait week prior to the daily draw or 2 months pri- employment contracts or via collective bar- supervision of the Ministry of Commerce & with the launch of the new Najma account. or to the mega draw. In addition, for each KD gaining agreements, some of which also set Uncertainty Industry represented by Abdulaziz Customers of the bank can now enjoy a KD 25 a customer can get one chance for win- industry-specific minimum wages. Switzerland’s direct democracy has Ashkanani. 7,000 daily prize which is the highest in the ning instead of KD 50. The proposed minimum wage would cor- allowed its citizens to vote on a number of country and another 4 mega prizes during Commercial Bank of Kuwait takes this respond to a monthly paycheck of 4,000 issues affecting the economic framework in francs, almost two-thirds of Switzerland’s recent years. Some fear the uncertainty that The winners of the Najma daily draw are: the year worth KD 100,000 each on different opportunity to congratulate all lucky winners median salary in 2012, and a higher ratio than creates could make the country a less attrac- l Mona Abdullah Mohammed — KD7,000 occasions: The National Day, Eid Al-Fitr, Eid and also extends appreciation to the Ministry in most other countries, Seco said. Germany’s tive base for companies. “Switzerland has l Amira Hussain Al-Sayegh — KD7,000 Al-Adha and on the 19th of June which is the of Commerce and Industry for their effective planned minimum wage of 8.50 euros always been known as a reliable, stable, liber- l Mahmoud Kamel Mahmoud — KD7, 000 date of the bank’s establishment. supervision of the draws which were con- ($11.83), for example, is about half its median al and open country,” said UBS economist l Abdulnabi Khaled Al-Sadaqa — KD7,000 With a minimum balance of KD 500, cus- ducted in an orderly and organized manner. salary. The government opposes a minimum Daniel Kalt. —Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 Burgan Bank net profit rises 10% to reach KD 17.1 million Operating income surged to KD 61.7m in Q1 2014

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank Group announced grew by 19 percent while net fees and performance going forward. “ yesterday its first quarter earnings for 2014. commission grew by 7 percent compared “On behalf of the board, I take this Net profit reported at KD17.1 million to the first quarter of 2013. opportunity to thank our customers and reflecting a growth of 10 percent from KD Majed Essa Al-Ajeel, Chairman of shareholders for their confidence in our 15.6 million reported for the first quarter in Burgan Bank Group said: “Every analysis capabilities. I would also like to thank our 2013. The continuation of the solid growth confirms that as a group, we are still pre- executive management team for their lead- pattern has characterized the group’s per- serving the trend of growing faster than ership and the excellent execution of the formance in 2013 amid the complexity in the markets”. corporate strategy, and to our staff for their the regional operating environment. “once Again, we are still reaping the continued support and commitment,” con- Compared to the same period last year, benefits of our focused execution of the cluded Al-Ajeel. Operating income surged to KD 61.7 mil- two core elements of our strategy: Grow The consolidated financials encompass lion registering a growth of 10 percent market share with profitability in the core the results of the Group’s operations in while Operating Profits before provisions market, and, diversify into faster growth Kuwait, and its share from its regional soared to register KD 34million reflecting a markets. The quarters-to quarters trends subsidiaries, namely Jordan Kuwait Bank, growth of 14 percent. Earnings per share confirm that we are achieving both,” added Gulf Bank Algeria, Burgan Bank - Turkey, grew from 10.1 fils to 11.2 fils mirroring a Al-Ajeel. Bank of Baghdad, Tunis International growth of 11 percent. Majed Essa Al-Ajeel also said: “Our lead- Bank, in which Burgan Bank owns a The performance during the first quar- ing financial indicators continue to point to majority stake. Burgan Bank Group has ter of 2014 delivered a continuous solid the right direction, Our regional operations one of the largest regional branch net- growth in all business lines across the remain profitable and contributing 47 per- works with more than 233 branches group with high quality earnings registered cent to the group’s revenues. I remain con- across Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Algeria, Chairman of Burgan Bank Group Majed during the quarter, net interest income fident and optimistic of the group’s strong Iraq, Tunis, Lebanon and Palestine. Essa Al-Ajeel Special May offer from Honda Alghanim

KUWAIT: Honda Alghanim has always prided itself in giv- ing customers the best value for their money by consis- tently offering the best deals in the market on their favorite Honda cars. And from that tradition, Honda Alghanim is pleased to announce its exclusive offer for the month of May with impressive discounts on select 2014 models. This offer features the Accord Sedan, a car that elegantly combines comfort and exceptional performance while complementing the needs of its passengers. Thanks to an impressive array of available features such as LED Headlights and Taillights, ODMD Touch Screen and i-MID, Lane Watch System, Bilingual Navigation System, Power Boodai Travel Mart 2014 opens Leather Seats and Smart Entry and Smart Start, the 2014 Accord is the epitome of modern performance. As for the 2014 CR-V, the car boasts its remarkable 4-Wheel KUWAIT: Monzer Najia inaugurat- mer vacations plans through Independent Suspension as well as Real-Time AWD, HID ed Boodai Travel Mart 2014 at 360 Boodai Aviation staff who were Headlights, Leather Seats and Sunroof, Reverse Camera, 18” Mall in the presence of his Dato’ confirming instantly all bookings Aluminum Wheels and Dual-Zone Automatic A/C with rear Adnan Haji Othman representing requests based on the special vents. The offer is also valid on the 2014 Accord Coupe, Malaysia Tourism Promotion offers. Odyssey and Pilot. Board, the main sponsor of BTM Eman Khalil, Manager of This offer continues throughout the month of May as to and Sultan Al-Shouwayee repre- Boodai Aviation Holidays Center encourage both customers and Honda enthusiasts to test- senting the president of the invited all travelers who did not drive a Honda vehicle of their choice as well as receive Directory of Civil Aviation, Fawaz have the chance to visit the BTM, exceptional benefits when buying a new car from Honda Al-Farah. to call Boodai Holidays Center and Alghanim. The Honda showroom in Safat Alghanim wel- During the opening ceremony book their summer vacation ben- comes visitors from 8:30 AM until 10:00 PM from Saturday attended by several social person- efiting of exceptional deals. to Thursday, and from 9:30 AM until 10:00 PM on Fridays. alities and Ambassadors of the On another hand, Robert Alghanim Motors, the sole distributor of Honda auto- participating countries, Najia Hayek, Senior Sales & Operations mobiles, motorcycles, power products, and marine prod- expressed his gratitude to more Manager, announced that Boodai ucts in Kuwait, is committed to providing customers with than 60 participants of Tourism Aviation will organize BTM on flexible payment solutions and efficient and cost-effective Boards, Hotels and Airlines who yearly basis attracting more and services. The waiting lounge offers entertainment and contributed to the success of the more participants offering attrac- comfort for customers with gaming consoles, digital satel- event. tive packages combined with pre- lite TV, free wireless internet and relaxing massage chairs. The Travel Mart attracted lot of mier service to all travelers in For more information, please call 1822777. visitors who finalized their sum- Kuwait. Burgan Bank announces names of Yawmi account winners

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yes- will be eligible to enter the draw after 48 open a Yawmi account and/or increase terday the names of the lucky winners of hours only from opening the account. their deposit to maximize their chances its Yawmi account draw, each taking Customers are also required to deposit to becoming a daily winner. The more home a prize of KD 5,000. KD 100 or equivalent only to enter the customers deposit, the higher the The lucky winners for the daily draws daily draw, and the coupon value to chances they receive of winning the took home a cash-prize of KD 5000 each, enter the draw stands at KD 10. draw. and they are: The newly designed Yawmi account Opening a Yawmi account is simple, 1. Entesar Saoud Belal Abdullah has been launched to provide a highly customers are urged to visit their nearest 2. Heirs of Humoud Sulaiman innovative offering along with a higher Burgan Bank branch and receive all the Almudhaiyan frequency and incentive of winning for details, or simply call the bank’s Call 3. Kholoud Ibrahim Abdulaziz Alqoud everyone. Today, the Yawmi account is a Center at 1804080 where customer serv- With its new and enhanced features, well understood product, where its pop- ice representatives will be delighted to the Yawmi Account has become more ularity can be seen from the number of assist with any questions on the Yawmi convenient, easier, and faster for cus- increasing account holders. account or any of the bank’s products tomers to benefit from. Now, customers Burgan Bank encourages everyone to and services. Australia to axe public servants in budget

SYDNEY: Dozens of Australian agencies and ciencies which were imposed by the previous Commission (ASIC), but Australia Post would be hundreds of public service jobs face the axe in government in their dying days before the last spared. Bracing for a backlash against the cuts, Oman Air wins double today’s budget, with Finance Minister Mathias election.” In terms of asset sales, the govern- the government has also flagged a pay freeze Cormann saying government was too big, ment has already announced the sale of private for politicians and top public servants. wasteful, and needed streamlining. health insurer Medibank Private, and Cormann Cormann said the decisions were not politi- at World Travel Awards Cormann refused to confirm specifics of the said “asset recycling” would continue. cal as much as practical. “This is not a matter of conservative administration’s first budget since The Australian Financial Review said the targeting one area of government more than taking office in September, which comes as a Royal Australian Mint would be privatized along another,” he said. “We are very systematic and KUWAIT: Oman Air, the national airline of the staff throughout our global network, who have mining boom fades and growth remains slug- with the registry function of corporate regulator very methodical in going right across govern- Sultanate of Oman, has won two categories of ensured that Oman Air continues to offer the gish. But the minister agreed there was room to the Australian Securities Investments ment.” — AFP the World Travel Awards, which were announced very best in 21st Century air travel.” scrap or merge some government agencies, a in Dubai on May 4. At a dazzling ceremony The World Travel Awards were established in move which could reportedly save Aus$470 mil- which was held at the JW Marriot Marquis Dubai, 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate lion ($440 million). Oman Air was named ‘Middle East’s Leading excellence across all sectors of the tourism “Government has become way too big and Airline - Business Class’ and ‘Middle East’s industry. Now in their 21st year, the awards are way too wasteful under the previous govern- Leading Airline - Economy Class’, beating some hailed as ‘the Oscars of the travel industry’, and ment,” Cormann told the ABC yesterday. “When of the region’s largest and best-known carriers in are acknowledged across the globe as the ulti- we came into government we were told by each category. mate travel accolade that aims to celebrate Finance (Department) that there were nearly Acting Chief Executive Officer of Oman Air, those brands that are pushing the boundaries of 1,000 different individual government bodies. Salim Al-Kindy, commented: “Winning two cate- industry excellence. There was a lot of waste, a lot of duplication.” gories of the prestigious World Travel Awards is a This is the second year running that Oman Air The ABC said the bodies to be abolished remarkable achievement for Oman Air, especial- has been named as the ‘Middle East’s Leading included the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, the National Water Commission and ly when we were pitted against some of the Airline - Economy Class’ at the World Travel the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Business Policy world’s largest airlines. Our Business Class and Awards, and the Business Class accolade follows Advisory Group. Economy Class services were both recognized Oman Air being named at the World Airline Others will be merged, with Customs and the awards are testament not only to the Awards in 2011 and 2012 as the airline offering becoming part of the Immigration Department outstanding quality of our onboard products, the ‘World’s Best Business Class Airline Seat’. under changes announced last week. Cormann but also to the extremely high standard of hos- Furthermore, Oman Air has just received a Gold confirmed there would be more job losses in pitality offered by our highly trained flight atten- Award for the fourth year in a row at the the public service in addition to the 12,000 dants. TravelPlus Airline Amenity Bag Awards. already targeted by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, “It is particularly satisfying that these awards And Oman Air’s passenger experience will and asset sales. were voted for by travel trade representatives shortly receive a further boost, when the first few “This is about making sure that government and high end travel consumers - true experts in of the 20 aircraft it currently has on order - three is as efficient and as effective as possible,” he KUWAIT: Qamar Hameed Abdul Jaleel, the 2nd raffle draw winner of†”Summer Surprises” campaign by Malabar Gold & Diamonds receives the prize quarter KG gold from Afsal their field. I would therefore like to thank every- Airbus A330s, six Boeing B787 Dreamliners and said. “There will be a further reduction in the Khan - Zonal Head in the presence of other officials of Malabar Gold & Diamonds. The one who voted for Oman Air, as well as all those 11 Boeing B737s - enters service later this year. size of the public service over the forward esti- mates, which comes on top of some of the effi- winner has purchased from Malabar Gold & Diamonds, Al-Rai Lulu outlet. TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 technology Parrot launching smartphone-controlled drones SAN FRANCISCO: Wireless products maker Parrot unveiled a drone on Sunday aimed squarely at smartphone or tablet owners keen on getting bird’s eye views of the world. Parrot billed its Bebop Drone as a flying high-quality camera that will land in the market in the final three months this year. The Paris-based maker of wireless accessories for automobiles and hand- held mobile devices did not disclose how much it plans to charge for the drones. “The experience is like being a bird, an insect,” Parrot founder and chief Henri Seydoux said while providing an early look at Bebop drones in San Francisco. “You fly through the device and see the same thing as if you were a bird.” A Bebop drone can be controlled using smartphones or tablet computers pow- ered by Apple or Android software, dis- playing on screens what is captured by its high-definition camera with a 180- degree “fish-eye” view. SAN FRANCISCO: Eliane Fiolet (left) of the technology news website Ubergizmo SAN FRANCISCO: Parrot product manager Francois Callou shows off a Bebop The drones can also synch to Oculus uses Skycontroller to maneuver a Bebop Drone with help from Parrot founder Drone at historic Old Mint in San Francisco.—AFP Rift virtual reality headsets, letting wear- and chief Henri Seydoux (right) in San Francisco. —AFP ers essentially look around by moving their heads as though they are actually using standard Wi-Fi connections and ling Bebop drones order them to return hovered in an inner courtyard at a his- flights, according to Parrot product man- flying. Consumer targets for the drones, have ranges of about 980 feet (300 automatically to where they took-off toric former US mint building in down- ager Francois Callou. Bebop drones will which are essentially motion-stabilized meters). Parrot said it will sell separately a using GPS capabilities, according to town San Francisco. debut as communities and regulators cameras, include people who want to Skycontroller accessory dock for mobile Seydoux. A 2.2-pound (one-kilogram) The drones are designed to fly grapple with privacy concerns, aviation capture aerial shots for movies made devices to boost flying distances to Bebop drone, whose camera is taken indoors or outdoors. Imagery captured risks and other issues raised by personal using smartphones or tablets. about 1.2 miles (two kilometers). aloft by four propellers, buzzed like a by drones is stored and can be digitally or business use of such devices in the Bebop drones link to mobile devices A homing feature lets people control- swarm of bees as it swooped, circled and downloaded after Bebops return from skies. — AFP FTC says Snapchat Japan’s Sharp returns deceived customers to full-year profit NEW YORK: Snapchat has agreed to settle Snapchat failed to secure its “find friends” with the Federal Trade Commission over feature. A security breach in January charges that it deceived customers about allowed hackers to collect the usernames the disappearing nature of messages sent and phone numbers of some 4.6 million Stronger sales, cost-cutting pay off through its service and that it collected Snapchat users. The breach occurred after users’ contacts without telling them or security experts warned the company at TOKYO: Struggling Japanese electronics maker asking permission. least twice about a vulnerability in its sys- Sharp said yesterday it had swung back to profit Snapchat is a popular mobile messag- tem. Snapchat later issued an update to for the full year to March after two years of huge ing app that lets people send photos, its app that fixed the issue and allowed losses, thanks to stronger sales and cost-cutting. videos and messages that disappear in a users to opt out of the “find friends” fea- The Osaka-based company booked a 11.56 few seconds. But the FTC said Snapchat ture. billion yen ($114 million) net profit in the 12- misled users about its data collection Snapchat’s Android app also transmit- month period, reversing an eye-watering net methods and failed to tell users that oth- ted users’ location information, the FTC loss of 545.35 billion yen a year earlier. Sales ers could save their messages without said, even though the company told users jumped 18.1 percent to 2.93 trillion yen on brisk their knowledge. it didn’t collect such information. demand for panels, including its popular “IGZO” Snapchat agreed to settle without The settlement doesn’t have a financial displays for smartphones. admitting or denying any wrongdoing component, but if Snapchat is found to “We have produced unique devices and prod- and the company said it has addressed violate the agreement, the company ucts while we have strengthened sales activities” many of the issues the FTC raised. As part could end up paying a civil penalty of up including 4K high-definition television sets, IGZO of the settlement, Snapchat must imple- to $16,000 for each violation. The Los displays and solar batteries, Sharp said in a state- ment a privacy program that will be moni- Angeles startup reportedly turned down a ment. tored by an outside privacy expert for the $3 billion buyout offer from Facebook last “In addition, we implemented comprehen- next 20 years. The arrangement is similar fall. sive operational improvement measures such as to privacy settlements that Google, In a blog post Thursday, Snapchat said cutting inventory and curbing investment,” it Facebook and Myspace have agreed to in that when its app was being created, said. At the operating level, it also achieved a recent years. “some things didn’t get the attention they profit of 108.56 billion yen, compared with an Although Snapchat said its app noti- could have.” “One of those was being operating loss of 146.27 billion yen the previous TOKYO: Japan’s electronics giant Sharp president Kozo Takahashi (left), accompanied by exec- fied users when a recipient takes a screen- more precise with how we communicated year. utive vice president Tetsuo Onishi (right), announces the company’s financial result to March in shot of a “snap” they’ve sent, the FTC said with the Snapchat community,” the com- Sharp has been undergoing a huge restruc- Tokyo yesterday.— AFP recipients with an Apple device that runs pany said in the post. turing process to pare losses largely tied to its an operating system that predates iOS 7 Snapchat, however, said it has since ailing electronics business. sions and smartphones-were almost flat at 733 yen operating profit on 3 trillion yen sales. “We could evade the app’s screenshot detec- fixed the problems. “Even before today’s But that business appeared to have turned a billion yen but sales of solar cells surged 68.9 will make efforts to produce revolutionary prod- tion. Apple’s iOS7 launched last summer. consent decree was announced, we had corner in the year to March, with sales surging percent to 439 billion yen, it said. ucts and solutions that will address the needs of In addition, the FTC said Snapchat’s resolved most of those concerns over the 17.9 percent on-year to 1.32 trillion yen. Sales in For the current year to March 2015, it now our customers, seeking to move on to ‘regrowth app stored video snaps that were not past year by improving the wording of our digital information appliances-including televi- forecasts 30 billion yen net profit and 100 billion stage’ from ‘restructuring stage,’” it said. — AFP encrypted on the recipient’s device. The privacy policy, app description, and in- videos remained accessible to the recipi- app just-in-time notifications,” the compa- ent, the agency said. A user could access a ny said. “And we continue to invest heavily video message, even after it supposedly in security and countermeasures to pre- Air traffic system failure caused disappeared, if the user simply connected vent abuse.” the phone to a computer and accessed The settlement will be formally the video in the device’s file directory. approved in 30 days once a public com- by computer memory shortage The FTC complaint also alleges that ment period ends. —AP NEW YORK: A common design problem in the had a complex flight plan that put it close to tion of the system,” said a former military and US air traffic control system made it possible for the system’s limit, the sources said. The plan commercial pilot. Cyber-attacks on aviation Plaintiff in tech hiring suit asks a U-2 spy plane to spark a computer glitch that showed the plane going in and out of the Los have been an area of increased concern for judge to reject settlement recently grounded or delayed hundreds of Los Angeles control area multiple times, not a sim- intelligence officials, who said earlier this year Angeles area flights, according to an inside ple point-to-point route like most flights, they they will set up a new center in Maryland for account and security experts. In theory, the said. The flight plan did not contain an altitude sharing information on detected and possible SAN FRANCISCO: One of the plaintiffs in a lion in damages at a trial scheduled to for the flight, one of the sources said. While a threats. Security experts said that from the lawsuit that accuses tech firms including begin at the end of May, according to same vulnerability could have been used by an Apple Inc and Google Inc of conspiring to court filings. That could have tripled to $9 attacker in a deliberate shutdown, the experts controller entered the usual altitude for a U-2 description by insiders, the failure appeared to hold down salaries has asked the court to billion under antitrust law. said, though two people familiar with the inci- plane - about 60,000 feet (18,300 metres) - the have been made possible by the sort of routine reject a $324 million settlement negotiat- “As an analogy,” Devine wrote, “if a dent said it would be difficult to replicate the system began to consider all altitudes between programming mistake that should have been ed by his own lawyers. Michael Devine, shoplifter is caught on video stealing a exact conditions. ground level and infinity. identified in testing before it was deployed. one of the four named plaintiffs in a class $400 iPad from the Apple Store, would a The error blanked out a broad swath of the The conflict generated error messages and “That’s when you put in values anywhere that a action of 64,000 people, described the ten- fair and just resolution be for the shoplifter southwestern United States, from the West caused the system to begin cycling through human could put in a number, like minus one tative settlement as “grossly inadequate” in to pay Apple $40, keep the iPad, and walk Coast to western Arizona and from southern restarts. “The system is only designed to take so feet, or a million feet, to see what that would a letter to the judge in the case. away with no record or admission of Nevada to the Mexico border. As aircraft flew much data per airplane,” one of the sources do,” said Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and The proposed settlement is about one- wrongdoing? Of course not.” through the region, the $2.4 billion system said. “It keeps failing itself because it’s exceed- Def Con security conferences and an advisor to tenth of experts’ estimates of potential The case has been closely watched due made by Lockheed Martin Corp, cycled off and ed the limit of what it can do.” the Department of Homeland Security. damages and is lacking in any penalty, he to the potentially high damages award and on trying to fix the error, triggered by a lack of While it might be logical to limit the amount said. the opportunity to peek into the world of altitude information in the U-2’s flight plan, Cyber attack concern of data associated with one flight plan, anything “The class wants a chance at real jus- Silicon Valley’s elite. The case was based according to the sources, who were not author- The sources said the circumstances would exceeding that amount should not be able to tice,” Devine wrote in the letter to judge largely on emails in which Apple’s late co- ized to speak publicly about the incident. be difficult for an attacker to mimic, since they render the system useless, they said. Though Lucy Koh on Sunday. “We want our day in founder Steve Jobs, former Google CEO No accidents or injuries were reported from involved a complex flight plan, an altitude dis- they welcomed the FAA’s assurance that a fix court.” (http://r.reuters.com/geb39v) Eric Schmidt and some of their Silicon the April 30 failure, though numerous flights crepancy and an input from the controller that was being rolled out, they said the incident sug- Tech workers filed the lawsuit against Valley rivals allegedly hatched plans to were delayed or canceled. Lockheed Martin added to the flight plan data. Former military gested that similar failures could be found. “If it’s Apple, Google, Intel Inc and Adobe avoid poaching each other’s prized engi- said it conducts “robust testing” on all its sys- and commercial pilots said flight plans are gen- now understood that there are flight plans that Systems Inc in 2011, alleging they con- neers. The case in US District Court, tems and referred further questions about the erally carefully checked and manually entered cause the automated system to fail, then the spired to refrain from soliciting one anoth- Northern District of California is In Re: into the air traffic control computers, which are flight plan is an ‘attack surface,’” said Dan er’s employees in order to avert a salary High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation, En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) war. The workers planned to ask for $3 bil- 11-cv-2509. —Reuters system to the Federal Aviation Administration. owned by the FAA. Kaminsky, co-founder of the White Ops security FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said the “It would be hard to replicate by a hostile firm and an expert in attacks based on over-fill- computer had to examine a large number of air government, but it shows a very basic limita- ing areas of computer memory.—Reuters routes to “de-conflict the aircraft with lower- altitude flights”. She said that process “used a large amount of available memory and inter- Mobile driving up US rupted the computer’s other flight-processing functions”. The FAA later set the system to require altitudes for every flight plan and online retail sales added memory to the system, which should WASHINGTON: US online retail sales are include 30 retail categories, “and that doesn’t prevent such problems in the future, Brown expected to grow to $294 billion this year, with even include another $28 billion in additional said. nearly one-third of the total from mobile mobile transactions on sites and apps like devices, a research firm said yesterday. Uber and Domino’s Pizza that aren’t even in Complex flight plan Forrester Research said it sees online sales that aforementioned mobile commerce num- When the system went out, air traffic con- growing at a pace of 9.5 percent from 2013 to ber.” trollers working in the regional center switched 2018, which would bring total online sales to Mulpuru, in a blog post, said the growth in to a back-up system so they could see the $414 billion, or 11 percent of all retail sales. e-commerce does not mean that traditional planes on their screens, according to one of the This year, mobile commerce-sales on phones brick-and-mortar retailing is dead. “Yes, old sources. Paper slips and telephones were used or tablets-are likely to hit 87 billion, according store concepts located in B and C centers are to relay information about planes to other con- to Forrester. absolutely in peril, but new fresh concepts in A trol centers. The ERAM system failed because it “The Web keeps doing what it has always properties are doing quite well,” she said. NEW DELHI: Managing Director Nokia India P. Balaji, left, with Head of Microsoft limits how much data each plane can send it, done well: it provides huge assortments of “While there are dying shopping centers that Smart Devices Vipul Mehrotra display Lumia 630 mobile phones during its launch, in according to the sources. Most planes have products, at comparable, often lower, prices need to be razed and reconstructed as office than physical stores, with 24/7 access and parks or farmland or whatever, there are malls, New Delhi yesterday. Microsoft Devices yesterday launched Lumia 630 with the lat- simple flight plans, so they do not exceed that est Windows Phone 8.1. The Dual SIM Lumia smartphone with quad-core processing often free shipping,” said research analyst even indoor malls, which are doing absolutely limit. Sucharita Mulpuru. Mulpuru said the figures fine.” —AFP will be costing $191 and with single sim $175. — AP But a U-2 operating at high altitude that day HEALTH & SCIENCE TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 One body, two faces: Rare twins born in Sydney

SYDNEY: An Australian couple have welcomed en other children in his family with Young. the birth of conjoined twins who have separate “We just want to bring them home, happy and brains and identical faces but share a body, healthy to make our family a little bit bigger and a describing their girls as “little Aussie fighters”, a bit more chaotic.” Woman’s Day said there had report said yesterday. Sydney couple Renee Young only been 35 cases in which babies with diproso- and Simon Howie learned at a 19-week ultrasound pus-meaning two faces-were born joined in a sim- that their babies would be born with a rare condi- ilar way as the girls. None have survived. tion called diprosopus, Woman’s Day magazine reported. “Even though there is only one body, we Beautiful heart beat call them our twins,” Howie told the magazine. “Their face had actually duplicated.... they actu- “To us, they are our girls and we love them.” ally have their own brain; two arms, two legs, one Young gave birth last Thursday by emergency cae- body and the one heart beat,” Howie told the Nine sarean, some six weeks early. Named Hope and television network. The couple said they could not Faith, the girls share one unusually-shaped skull face terminating the pregnancy, despite fears with duplicated facial features and separate brains about the sisters’ survival. “The heart beat was joined at the stem. They have one set of limbs and beautiful,” Young said in an interview with Nine organs. They are in intensive care at the Westmead before the birth. “If I only get two days with the Children’s Hospital in Sydney’s west where they baby, I only get two days with the baby. At least I have impressed doctors with their progress. “They get some time with it. are breathing perfectly on their own and feeding,” “I want people to know about it. It does hap- Howie said, adding that they had their first bath pen. It might be very rare, but it does happen,” she on Sunday night. added. Sitting in the intensive care ward with her “They are little Aussie fighters.” Woman’s Day newborns, Young said that doctors had told her said the girls were conjoined in an extremely rare they didn’t know what the future held for her girls. way and the implications of their condition was “We are still in unknown territory,” she said. “I’m not fully clear, but they were being monitored proud as punch,” Howie said. “Just to see them closely in hospital. “We have no idea how long come this far when all the odds were against us to Renee Young with Hope and Faith, who share a heart, a body, limbs and a skull, but each they will be in hospital,” said Howie, who has sev- be honest.”— AFP have their own brains and a set of identical facial features. — Woman’s Day

Study lists harmful chemicals linked to breast cancer WASHINGTON: Certain chemicals that are com- and breast cancer has largely been ignored. mon in everyday life have been shown to cause Reducing chemical exposures could save many, breast cancer in lab rats and are likely to do the many women’s lives.”Brody described the paper same in women, US researchers said yesterday. as the first to comprehensively list potential The paper in the peer-reviewed journal breast carcinogens and detail ways for experts Environmental Health Perspectives lists 17 to measure them in women’s blood and urine. chemicals to avoid and offers women advice on The study also recommends seven ways for how to minimize their exposure. They include women to avoid these chemicals: Limit exposure chemicals in gasoline, diesel and other vehicle to exhaust from vehicles or generators, don’t idle exhaust, flame retardants, stain-resistant textiles, your car, and use electric lawn mowers, leaf paint removers, and disinfection byproducts in blowers and weed whackers instead of gas- drinking water. “The study provides a road map powered ones. Use a ventilation fan while cook- for breast cancer prevention by identifying ing and limit how much burned or charred food high-priority chemicals that women are most you eat. Do not buy furniture with polyurethane commonly exposed to and demonstrates how foam, or ask for furniture that has not been treat- to measure exposure,” said study author ed with flame retardants. Ruthann Rudel, research director of the Silent Avoid stain-resistant rugs, furniture and fab- Spring Institute. “This information will guide rics. If you use a dry-cleaner, find one who does efforts to reduce exposure to chemicals linked to not use PERC (perchloroethylene) or other sol- breast cancer, and help researchers study how vents. Ask for “wet cleaning.”Use a solid carbon women are being affected,” she said. Some of block drinking water filter. Keep chemicals out of ‘Summit on Liver and Kidney Transplant’ the biggest sources of mammary carcinogens in the house by taking off your shoes at the door, the environment are benzene and butadiene, using a vacuum with a HEPA (high-efficiency which can come from vehicle exhaust, lawn particulate air) filter, and cleaning with wet rags hosts leading experts to find solutions equipment, tobacco smoke and charred food. and mops. The research was funded by the Avon Other concerns are cleaning solvents like Foundation. The Silent Spring Institute is a 20- KUWAIT: Approximately 250 international al experts to identify how best immune sup- transplants take place each year1 but the methylene chloride, pharmaceuticals used in year-old organization made up of scientists who experts were brought together at the Novartis pression therapy can be used to improve the requirement is far more than the availability. This hormone replacement therapy, some flame focus on the environment and women’s health. supported ‘Kidney and Liver Transplant Summit’ long-term survival rates of post-transplant is resulting in growing transplant wait lists and retardants, chemicals in stain-resistant textiles It is named after the best selling environmental to discuss the challenges associated with the patients Leading global surgeons, nephrolo- increasing number of people dying while wait- and nonstick coatings, and styrene which comes book “The Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson, who increasing organ gap and the impact of recent gists and hepatologists from Asia, Australia, ing.2It is often noticed that in spite of successful from tobacco smoke and is also used to make died of breast cancer in 1964, two years after the advances in the management of kidney and liver Turkey, Middle East and Africa, gathered for transplant operation and lowered post-surgery Styrofoam, the study said. Carcinogens can also book was published. Dale Sandler, chief of epi- transplant patients on the prolongation of the a two-day scientific summit on Liver and complications, long-term patient and trans- be found in drinking water, researchers said. demiology at the US National Institute of patient and transplanted organ survival. Kidney Transplant. Chaired by Dr Steve planted organ survival is needed to be improved Environmental Health Sciences, described the Every woman exposed paper as a “terrific” resource for epidemiologists • Kidney and liver failure is caused by sudden Chadban- Director of Kidney Transplantation “There is an increasing gap worldwide “Every woman in America has been exposed who study environmental causes of breast can- at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia and between the number of organs available for complications like injury or damage from to chemicals that may increase her risk of get- cer. “This paper is a thorough review of toxicolo- medicine or long term chronic diseases like Dr Gary Levy- Director of Transplantation donation and the number of patients who need ting breast cancer,” said co-author Julia Brody. gy data and biomarkers relevant to breast can- kidney or liver disease, diabetes, high blood Institute at University of Toronto, Canada; a transplant, and unfortunately many patients “Unfortunately, the link between toxic chemicals cer in humans,” he said. — AFP pressure and heart failure the summit aimed to find solutions to the die while on the waiting list. There is a need for policies that can enhance awareness of organ donation to increase the number of organs Alcohol kills one person available and for techniques to allow organs presently not being used to be repaired and every 10 seconds worldwide used as well as approaches to keeping the trans- planted organ functioning for as long as possi- GENEVA: Alcohol kills 3.3 million people Health unit said in a statement launching a ble and to improve long term survival of trans- worldwide each year, more than AIDS, tuber- massive report on global alcohol consump- planted patients”, said Professor Gary Levy culosis and violence combined, the World tion and its impact on public health. “Success in transplantation goes beyond the Health Organization said yesterday, warning surgery. The choice and careful management of that booze consumption was on the rise. China, India drinking more the most appropriate immunosuppressive treat- Including drink driving, alcohol-induced vio- Drinking is linked to more than 200 health ment for the individual patient is crucial to lence and abuse, and a multitude of diseases conditions, including liver cirrhosis and some achieve the balance of preventing graft rejec- and disorders, alcohol causes one in 20 cancers. Alcohol abuse also makes people tion and ensuring long-term graft function and deaths globally every year, the UN health more susceptible to infectious diseases like patient survival”, said Professor Steve Chadban. agency said. “This actually translates into one tuberculosis, HIV and pneumonia, the report death every 10 seconds,” Shekhar Saxena, found. Most deaths attributed to alcohol, Through series of lectures, workshops, panel who heads the WHO’s Mental Health and around a third, are caused by associated car- discussions and interactive sessions the experts Substance Abuse department, told reporters diovascular diseases and diabetes. Alcohol- debated the latest advances in Liver and Kidney in Geneva. Alcohol caused some 3.3 million related accidents, such as car crashes, were transplantation. “Scientific forums like this meet- deaths in 2012, WHO said, equivalent to 5.9 the second-highest killer, accounting for ing offer a great opportunity for experts in trans- percent of global deaths (7.6 percent for men around 17.1 percent of all alcohol-related Dr Gary Levy-Director of Transplantation Institute at University of Toronto, Canada. plantation from different countries to meet to and 4.0 percent for women). deaths. Binge drinking is especially damaging review data and define novel approaches to In comparison, HIV/AIDS is responsible for to health, the WHO pointed out, estimating • According to American Diabetes Association unmet challenges of kidney and liver trans- improve the care of transplant patients. 2.8 percent, tuberculosis causes 1.7 percent of that 16 percent of the world’s drinkers abuse prevalence of type 1 diabetes is 2.8% among plant to improve patient long term out- Although short-term results of transplantation deaths and violence is responsible for just 0.9 alcohol to excess. While people in the world’s expatriates and 2.3% among natives (age- comes in the region. are excellent, toxicity associated with the use of percent, the study showed. More people in wealthiest nations, in Europe and the Americas group 0-20 years) in Kuwait. Asian expatri- Kidney and liver transplant is the ultimate immunosuppressive agents limits longer term countries where alcohol consumption has tra- especially, are boozier than people in poorer ates (age-group 30-60 years) exhibit higher hope for patients with acute kidney and liver outcomes and thus new approaches must be ditionally been low, like China and India, are countries, rising wealth in emerging prevalence of type 2 diabetes at 33.25% failure. According to Global Observatory on considered”, said Professor Gary Levy. Novartis also increasingly taking up the habit as their economies is also driving up alcohol consump- than natives at 25.4%. Prevalence of hyper- Donation & Transplantation, supported by WHO, has more than 30 years of history in transplanta- wealth increases, it said. “More needs to be tion. Drinking in populous China and India is tension is 37% amongst Asians and 28% around 77818 kidney transplants and 23986 liv- tion and is deeply committed to develop new done to protect populations from the nega- rising particularly fast as people earn more amongst natives of Kuwait.3 er transplants were performed across 91 coun- treatments that can improve the lives of trans- tive health consequences of alcohol con- money, the WHO said, warning that the aver- • Local experts joined hands with internation- tries in 2012.1 Currently, 112,000 solid organ plant recipients. sumption,” Oleg Chestnov of the WHO’s age annual intake in China was likely to swell Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental by 1.5 litres of pure alcohol by 2025.—AFP US children read, but not well or often

NEW YORK: Although American children still spend part of on average between 30 minutes and an hour daily with that their days reading, they are spending less time doing it for activity, the report found. Older children and teenagers tend pleasure than decades ago, with significant gaps in proficien- to read for pleasure for an equally long time each day. cy, according to a report released yesterday. The San Rideout cautioned that there may be difference in how peo- Francisco-based nonprofit Common Sense Media, which ple encounter text and the included studies may not take focuses on the effects of media and technology on children, into account stories read online or on social media. published the report, which brings together information The report also found that many young children are from several national studies and databases. “It raises an struggling with literacy. Only about one-third of fourth grade alarm,” said Vicky Rideout, the lead author of the report. students are “proficient” in reading and another one-third “We’re witnessing a really large drop in reading among scored below “basic” reading skills. Despite the large percent- teenagers and the pace of that drop is getting faster and age of children with below-basic reading skills, reading faster.” scores among young children have improved since the The report found that the percentage of nine-year-old 1970s, according to one test that measures reading ability. children reading for pleasure once or more per week had The reading scores among 17-year-olds, however, dropped from 81 percent in 1984 to 76 percent in 2013, remained relatively unchanged since the 1970s. About 46 based on government studies. There were even larger percent of white children are considered “proficient” in read- decreases among older children. A large portion rarely read ing, compared with 18 percent of black children and 20 per- for pleasure. About a third of 13-year-olds and almost half of cent of Hispanic kids. Those gaps remained relatively 17-year-olds reported in one study that they read for pleas- unchanged over the past 20 years, according to the report. ure less than twice a year. “To go 20 years with no progress in that area is shameful,” WASHINGTON: In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb 6, 2013, Campbell Hill Elementary kindergarten stu- Of those who read or are read to, children tend to spend Rideout said. —Reuters dents work on reading skills in Renton. — AP HEALTH & SCIENCE TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014

Chevrolet Alghanim sponsors Kuwaiti Camaro Club event in UAE

hevrolet Alghanim was pleased to sponsor three driving season was definitely celebrated in style! Speed-loving adrenaline seekers need not look further Indeed, once you get over the rush of the all-aluminum members of the Kuwaiti Camaro Club as they partici- Chevolet Alghanim looks forward to supporting the than the stunning Chevrolet Camaro, which comes in three 6.2L supercharged V8 engine and its 580 horsepower and Cpated in the closing event of the Camaro season. The Kuwaiti Camaro Club next season as part of its on-going models: LT, SS and ZL1. The Camaro is available in three 556 lb.-ft. of torque, you’ll realize that this Camaro is about event, which was held on Friday, April 25, 2014, in the UAE, activities to build a long-term relationship with the youth engine variants, a powerful 6.2L V8 automatic transmission much more than raw power. The performance and preci- witnessed a parade of over 150 Camaros. of Kuwait. It all bodes too well, considering that Camaro is that pumps out 426 hp; an impressive 3.6L Direct Injection sion continues with a remarkable array of features such as The Camaro Club of Kuwait participated with three vin- a car that embodies the youthful spirit that lives on the V6 engine that sports a 6-speed automatic transmission the Magnetic Ride Control, the world-class braking and the tage 1968 Camaros; the only 3 vintage Camaros on display, road. Known for attitude and power, it is the dream of and pumps out an amazing 323hp; and a monstrous ZL1 4-wheel independent suspension that you won’t get from which wowed the Camaro enthusiasts. The event started every sports car aficionado and a preeminent icon for that marvelously boasts 580 hp. the competition. This is the kind of vehicle that engineers with a gathering at the Global Village in Dubai and was fol- those old enough to know its history. The Camaro lives up On that note, it’s worth mentioning that the 580-horse- dream about designing and sport car enthusiasts dream lowed by a convoy ride to the YAS Marina Circuit in Abu to those dreams and more, delivering a level of perform- power Camaro ZL1 is the fastest Camaro ever built, thanks about owning. It is the artistic quintessence of youth and Dhabi, concluding with a drag race. The end to the Camaro ance and engineering that will only cement its legacy. to its supercar levels of performance and technology. freedom.

Future Kid organizes future firemen’s festival

n cooperation with Kuwait Fire Services train and raise kids’ awareness of the differ- in the Company Elham Mabrouk stated in a Directorate, Future Kid Entertainment & ent methods of fire fighting and the press statement that the programs of the IReal Estate Company organized a work- process of dealing with it . party have attracted many children as well shop entitled “Future Firemen”. It aims to Marketing and Public Relations Manager as their families. “The workshop includes awareness lectures for children and practi- cal training about the types of fire and the ways of fire fighting. Also, it included the right methods of fire fighting so as to avoid injuries and fire results from different acci- dents.” Mabrouk said. She also stated that the programs of the party included many interesting items. Children who participat- ed in the party wore firemen’s uniform and rode in fire brigade trucks. “Firemen inform children about the equipment and tools used in fire fighting in a simple scientific way. In addition, many artistic activities like face painting and free drawing competi- tions were introduced. All these activities helped the children to learn many skills in an enjoyable way.” Mubrouk added . At the end, Elham Mabrouk thanked the team of public relations department in Kuwait Fire Services Directorate and awareness depart- ments in all governorates for their hard efforts that helped in the success of the festival. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa celebrates award Luxury hotel receives ‘Kuwait’s Leading Business Hotel 2014’ award umeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa, been voted as the Leading Business Hotel Kuwait’s idyllic resort, is delighted to in Kuwait,” said newly appointed General Jhave won its first industry award after Manager Hakan Petek. “Such recognition is being voted ‘Kuwait’s Leading Business truly reflective of the luxury hotel brand’s Hotel’ for 2014 at the prestigious 2014 consistency in delivering service excellence to all our guests. This achievement would not have been made possible without the tireless efforts of the hotel’s hardworking colleagues. I wish to thank and congratu- late them for a job very well done.” Apart from its 407 elegantly appointed guest rooms that include 316 rooms and suites, 79 residential suites and 12 private and luxurious villas, there is an impressive selection of six restaurants, cafÈs and lounges. Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa also offers conference and banquet facilities that make it a perfect venue for meetings and events. Its centerpiece, the ‘Badriah’, is the largest ballroom in Kuwait and is comple- mented by Al Reef, a hidden haven, ideal for VIP events, board meetings, small social events and cocktail receptions. The hotel also has two meeting halls, the Messilah ballrooms one and two, which can flexibly provide five break-out rooms for meetings and exhibitions. Furthermore, Dewan, com- prises five break-out rooms for board meet- ings and social events. IDAK hosts football tournament A complete destination for business and General Manager Hakan Petek leisure travellers in Kuwait, the luxurious DAK (Indian Dentist Alliance Kuwait - affiliat- Rino, Dr Bobby, Dr Abraham and Dr Anil respec- lone winning goal. The best player of the tourna- beachfront development offers the most ed to Kuwait Dental Association) held a foot- tively. The teams played seven a side, league for- ment was awarded to Joshua Anil Philip. The World Travel Awards (WTA). The award, sought after Talise Spa, the Sinbad’s Kids Iball and dodge ball tournament for its mem- mat. At the end of the league FJAS and Private IDAK ladies were in action for the dodge ball, which was presented at the WTA’s Middle Club and the Scene Teens Club, floodlit ten- bers on May 2 at the Arabic school Grounds were undefeated with private topping the played between the Ballistic Ballerinas led by East Gala Ceremony in Dubai, coincides nis court, two swimming pools and 200 opposite SIMS school Salmiya. The event was league with stellar performance by their star Regina Thomas and Dodging Divas led by Anju with the hotel’s first anniversary. meters of private beach, providing guests organized by IDAK Sports Committee and spon- player Jaal James. Manoj Koshy. The match was won by the Divas. “We are proud and delighted to have of all ages with fun activities. sored by Ashraf & Co. The four teams for the The finals saw the defending champions pri- The winning trophy was presented by Rajesh football tournament were FJAS Germans, Private vate Oranje humbled by FJAS with their captain Varkey from Ashraf & Co. IDAK thanks all its MEGlobal CEO awards Oranje, Poly Spain, and ABG Italians, led by Dr Dr Rino leading from the front and scoring the members for making the event a big success. GUST students

EGlobal CEO and management team globe. The company used their experience to recently visited Kuwait to attend a full- create these cases to test the ability of students Mday session of presentations given by to analyze problems that do not have one right business administration majors and MBA candi- answer and students were asked to investigate dates at the Gulf University for Science and and recommend courses of actions. To deliver Technology (GUST), as part of the university’s their case study, the students had to execute annual Case Writing Competition. In their pre- their own investigative case work by interview- sentations, students gave solutions to real- ing MEGlobal management, staff, and third par- world challenges and opportunities facing ty experts. MEGlobal, defended their presented strategies, The real-world challenges posed to students and best-performing students were awarded by included determining whether the company the company’s management. should end its relationship with a loyal cus- The awards were presented by President tomer whose payments are not insured, or find and CEO of MEGlobal, Dr Ramesh other alternatives to cover the uninsured pay- Ramachandran, and CEO of Petrochemical ments, and how to deal with a senior employee Industries Company, Kuwait, Asaad Al-Saad. if he violates the company’s Code of Business MEGlobal is a world leader in manufacturing Conduct. GUST Business Administration and marketing ethylene glycol (EG) products. Professor, Dr John Hayes, said: “Students partici- Established in July 2004, the company is a joint pating in the case study competition were giv- venture between Petrochemical Industries en different challenges to tackle in different Company of Kuwait and The Dow Chemical business scenarios, which they might be in Company. MEGlobal President and CEO, Dr when they join the workforce. These case stud- Ramesh Ramachandran, said: “This is the sec- ies give the students an opportunity to apply ond year in-a-row that we sponsored this com- what they have learned in their academic cours- petition by offering our company as a live es, and help them better understand what hap- example for students to build their strategies pens in the business environment.” and case studies. Every year, students impress Today’s event saw six semi-finalist teams us with their detailed analysis and presentation present their cases related to Finance, Sales and of the cases, as well as by the solutions they pro- Marketing, and Ethics, to the judges. Dr John pose. On behalf of our management team, I Hayes said: “It’s a great opportunity for GUST would like to congratulate each student on students to work on such real life corporate their hard work and great presentation today, challenges. These are the challenges we aspire and I wish them best of luck in pursuing their to train them to tackle while empowering them careers.” Today’s session was the highlight of the with the appropriate skills they must possess in AUK inaugurates first centre for RISE 2014 Case Writing Competition for GUST the real world.” MEGlobal is rewarding the first n an official ceremony held on May 8, 2014, the ties, which will support national research and devel- AUK science and engineering departments. It adapts Business Administration students and MBA can- place winning team with $10,000 in addition to President of American University of Kuwait (AUK), opment efforts. Dr Rawda Awwad, Dean of the an integrative model by forging connections didates. In January, students were presented a weekend trip to Dubai, the second place win- Professor Dr Nizar Hamzeh, officially announced College of Arts and Sciences at AUK, pointed out that between academic disciplines, local and internation- with real-world challenges and opportunities ning team with $5,000, the third place winning I the inauguration of AUK’s first research and develop- “RISE strategically supports the values that guide al innovators, academia and industry, as well as tech- based on some MEGlobal experiences in the team with $2,500. ment center f in informatics, sciences and engineer- AUK in areas of research and scholarship, and pro- nology and society. The main objectives of RISE ing (RISE). The event, which took place at the AUK vides an important venue that enables both faculty include: Expanding the innovative research and Auditorium, featured remarks by the event honoree and students to partake in an essential ingredient development environment within Kuwait, hosting and keynote speaker, Professor Dr Adnan Shihab- that informs progress and positive change, namely collaborative research and development projects Eldin, General Director of the Kuwait Foundation for the production of knowledge-the hallmark of the lib- with selected local industries, establishing research the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). eral arts.” collaboration and joint research projects with world- The event started with opening remarks by Situated within the lively Salmiya campus of class institutes, hosting scholars and initiating origi- President Hamzeh who officially announced the Kuwait’s first liberal arts institute, RISE will serve as nal research projects of international interest and inauguration of RISE, emphasizing that “The new the University’s primary source for research and organizing international conferences and workshops. center reflects our goal and commitment to excel- development in the various areas of sciences and The inauguration event, which took place at AUK, lence in research. I am confident that the center will technology.”The center holds unique opportunities saw a significant number of attendees who included lead our future research efforts in the area of infor- for multidisciplinary research in Kuwait,” said Dr. Amir AUK faculty and staff members, AUK students and matics, sciences, technology and engineering into Zeid, RISE Director and Associate Professor of alumni, as well as selected invitees from the business the future.” Professor Dr. Shihab-Eldin acknowledged Computer Science and Information Systems. “In the sector. The American University of Kuwait (AUK) is an AUK for taking forward such a project which he said early Golden Age of this region, our strength lied in independent, private, equal opportunity, and co- will be another step towards the advancement of sci- the multidisciplinary knowledge of our scientists. educational liberal arts institution of higher educa- entific research within Kuwait and the Arab World at Today, with its strong commitment to liberal arts, tion. The educational, cultural and administrative large. He specifically emphasized the importance of RISE aims to revive the old trends.” structure, methods and standards of AUK are based establishing research centers within private universi- RISE is a collaborative effort between the different on the American model of higher learning.

KNES’ Omar Al-Gharabally Scholarship

uwait National English School in ship are now studying in universities around Hawally is a member of the UNESCO the world and many have successfully KAssociated Schools and is fully joined the work force. This year’s scholarship accredited by the Council of International took place on Saturday, March 14, 2014. Schools (CIS), the New England Association Applicants from schools across Kuwait sat of Schools & Colleges (NEASC), The British the examination in a variety of subjects in Schools in the Middle East (BSME) and with the hope of gaining a place. The Omar Al- the British Schools Overseas (BSO) which we Gharabally Scholarship is awarded every are expecting the successful report as men- year to students of exceptionally high aca- tion by the inspection team. One of our aims demic ability. is to give the opportunity to the most able The Holders for the Prestigious Omar Al- and dedicated students regardless of their Gharabally Scholarship for the Academic financial means. In this connection, every Year 2014 - 2015 are: Mariam El Safty, Halvor year Kuwait National English School offers Tonsberg, Yousef Waleed Galaf, Pamela the Omar Al-Gharabally Scholarship to the Nassar, Abdelrahman El Safty, Malak best and brightest students. The Scholarship Chamkha, Yousef M. Mekawy, Omar M O is in the memory of Omar Al-Gharabally, the Burghul, Raghda Ashraf Zaher, Adam son of Madame Chantal Al-Gharabally, the Tonsberg, Louzan Al-Laham, Qassim Ali, School Director, who was killed by a criminal Kenan Al-Alaham, Zeinab A Chamkha and driver a few years ago. As Omar would have Farah Abu Shanab. We would like to thank all applicants for participating and we look said: “to be educated doesn’t mean only Al-Najat Middle School for Boys Hawally organized an academic forum which discussed ways to reach an improved educational knowledge but to be able to demonstrate forward to the successful candidates making the intelligence of the mind and also the a positive contribution to the future of level. The event was attended by Dr Yousuf Al-Sanad, General Director for Educational Affairs at Al-Najat Schools, Ismail Al- intelligence of the heart”. Kuwait National English School and reach- Failakawi, head of the educational affairs committee, as well as assistants Khalid Al-Ghaber and Abdulelah Hejazi. The forum was All of the previous holders of this scholar- ing their full potential. supervised by mathematics teacher Anas Abdullah and science teacher Hussam Salahuddine. TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014

02:10 Gold Divers 08:10 Ant And Dec’s Saturday 16:00 The Glass Slipper-FAM 20:00 Cajun Pawn Stars 03:00 You Have Been Warned Night Takeaway 17:45 The Barretts Of Wimpole 20:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 03:50 Border Security 09:20 May The Best House Win Street-PG 21:00 Pawn Stars 04:15 Baggage Battles Abroad 19:50 The Champ-PG 21:30 Storage Wars 00:45 Air Jaws Apocalypse 04:40 Lost And Sold 10:15 Doc Martin 22:00 The Gypsy Moths 22:00 Storage Wars Texas 01:35 Untamed & Uncut 05:05 How It’s Made 11:10 Emmerdale 23:50 The Wild Bunch-U 22:30 Storage Wars Texas 02:25 Wild Africa Rescue 05:30 How Stuff’s Made 12:00 Coronation Street 23:00 Duck Dynasty 02:50 Wild Africa Rescue 06:00 Survive That! 12:30 The Jonathan Ross Show 23:30 Duck Dynasty 03:15 Too Cute! 07:00 You Have Been Warned 13:25 May The Best House Win 04:05 Preposterous Pets 07:50 Flying Wild Alaska Abroad 04:55 Animal Cops South Africa 08:40 Fast N’ Loud 14:20 Doc Martin 05:45 Bondi Vet 09:30 Border Security 15:10 Paul O’grady: For The Love Of 00:00 Storage Wars 06:35 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 09:55 Baggage Battles Dogs 00:30 Pawn Stars 00:10 Hoarding: Buried Alive 07:00 Escape To Chimp Eden 15:35 The Hungry Sailors 01:00 Pawn Stars 10:20 Lost And Sold 01:00 Iyanla, Fix My Life 07:25 Extreme Animals 16:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 01:30 Pawn Stars 10:45 How It’s Made 01:50 Breaking Amish 08:15 The Magic Of The Big Blue 18:20 Doc Martin 02:00 Cajun Pawn Stars 11:10 How Stuff’s Made 02:40 Sister Wives Special 09:10 Baboons With Bill Bailey 11:35 Gold Rush 19:10 Coronation Street 02:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 09:35 Baboons With Bill Bailey 03:30 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant 12:25 Klondike 19:35 The Hungry Sailors 03:00 Storage Wars 10:05 Wild Africa Rescue 03:55 Long Island Medium 13:15 Gold Divers 20:30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 03:30 Storage Wars 10:35 Wild Africa Rescue 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 14:05 Border Security 22:20 Coronation Street 04:00 Pawn Stars 11:00 Animal Precinct 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress 14:30 Baggage Battles 22:50 Emmerdale 04:30 Pawn Stars 11:55 Escape To Chimp Eden 05:00 Shaun Ryder On UFOs 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras 14:55 Lost And Sold 23:45 Doc Martin 12:20 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 06:00 Storage Wars Texas 06:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 15:20 Manhunt 12:50 Charles & Jessica: A Chimp 06:30 Counting Cars 07:00 What Not To Wear 16:10 Fast N’ Loud Tale 07:00 Pawn Stars 07:50 Ultimate Shopper 17:00 Flying Wild Alaska 13:45 Austin Stevens Adventures 07:30 Pawn Stars 08:40 Craft Wars 17:50 Wheeler Dealers 14:40 Wild Africa Rescue 08:00 American Restoration 09:30 Toddlers & Tiaras 15:05 Wild Africa Rescue 18:40 You Have Been Warned 08:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 10:20 Say Yes To The Dress 00:00 Megacities 15:30 Treehouse Masters 19:30 Survive That! 09:00 Storage Wars Texas 10:45 Say Yes To The Dress 01:00 Bite Me With Dr. Mike Leahy 16:30 Galapagos 20:20 How It’s Made 09:30 Counting Cars 11:10 Cake Boss 02:00 Hunter Hunted 17:25 Crocodile Hunter 20:45 How Stuff’s Made 10:00 Pawn Stars 11:35 Jon & Kate Plus 8 03:00 A Traveler’s Guide To The 18:20 Animal Battlegrounds 21:10 Baggage Battles 10:30 Pawn Stars 12:00 Little People, Big World Planets 18:50 Animal Battlegrounds 21:35 Lost And Sold 11:00 Storage Wars 12:25 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 04:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest 19:15 Animal Clinic 22:00 Ed Stafford:Naked And 11:30 Storage Wars 13:15 Oprah’s Next Chapter 05:00 Animal Intervention 20:10 Bizarre Animal ER Marooned 12:00 Pawn Stars 14:05 Oprah’s Next Chapter 06:00 Salvage Code Red 20:40 Bizarre Animal ER 22:50 Get Out Alive With Bear 12:30 Pawn Stars 14:55 Extreme Couponing All-Stars 07:00 Convoy: War For The Atlantic 21:05 Wild Africa Rescue Grylls 13:00 Ancient Aliens 15:20 Cake Boss 08:00 Megacities 21:35 Wild Africa Rescue 23:40 Dual Survival 14:00 Cajun Pawn Stars 15:45 What Not To Wear 09:00 Bite Me With Dr. Mike Leahy 22:00 Animal Clinic 14:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 16:35 Toddlers & Tiaras 10:00 Hunter Hunted 22:55 Bizarre Animal ER 15:00 Pawn Stars 17:25 Say Yes To The Dress 11:00 A Traveler’s Guide To The 23:25 Bizarre Animal ER 15:30 Pawn Stars 17:50 Say Yes To The Dress Planets 23:50 Animal Cops South Africa 16:00 Pawn Stars 18:15 Jon & Kate Plus 8 12:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest 16:30 Pawn Stars 18:40 Little People, Big World 13:00 The Pack 17:00 Pawn Stars 19:10 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 14:00 Salvage Code Red 00:00 Chelsea Lately 17:30 Pawn Stars 20:05 Extreme Couponing All-Stars 15:00 Convoy: War For The Atlantic 00:30 The Spin Crowd 18:00 Storage Wars 20:30 Cake Boss 16:00 Megacities 00:25 Doctors 00:55 The Spin Crowd 18:30 Storage Wars 21:00 Secret Eaters 17:00 Bite Me With Dr. Mike Leahy 00:55 Waking The Dead 01:25 Style Star 19:00 Pawn Stars 21:55 My 600lb Life 18:00 Dogtown 01:50 Only Fools And Horses 01:50 Style Star 19:30 Pawn Stars 22:50 Long Island Medium 02:25 The Fixer 02:20 E! Investigates 19:00 Nat Geo’s Top 10 Photos 23:15 Sister Wives 03:15 Spooks 03:15 Extreme Close-Up 20:00 Mega Breakdown 04:15 The Weakest Link 03:40 Extreme Close-Up 21:00 Engineering Connections 05:00 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 04:10 E!ES 22:00 Air Crash Investigation 05:20 The Green Balloon Club 05:05 E! Entertainment Special 23:00 Lords of War Kim Kardashian s 05:45 Poetry Pie 06:00 THS 23:30 Mystery Files ’ 05:50 Nina And The Neurons: In 07:50 Style Star RED DAWN ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION The Lab 08:20 E! News $750,000 make-up room 06:05 Balamory 09:15 Scouted 02:30 Weeds 06:25 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 10:15 Married To Jonas 16:00 Flight Of The Intruder-PG15 22:00 Krazzy Planet 03:00 Community 06:45 The Green Balloon Club 10:40 Chasing The Saturdays 18:00 Red Dawn-PG15 23:30 Sky Force im Kardashian is spending $750,000 on a “glam 03:30 Community 07:10 Poetry Pie 11:10 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 00:20 In The Womb 20:00 Layer Cake-18 room” in her new home. The ‘Keeping Up with the 04:00 Seinfeld 07:15 Nina And The Neurons: In 11:35 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 01:10 Shark Men 22:00 Flight Of The Intruder-PG15 KKardashians’ star and her fiance Kanye West have 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring The Lab 12:05 E! News 02:00 Man-Eater of The Congo had their new Bel Air mansion undergoing renovations for Jimmy Fallon 07:30 Only Fools And Horses 13:05 Extreme Close-Up 02:50 Alaska Fish Wars over a year, with the building work unlikely to be complet- 08:00 Me & Mrs Jones 03:45 Python Hunters 05:30 My Boys ed before they marry later this month, and one of the 13:35 E!ES 00:00 Battlestar Galactica: Blood & 08:30 Rev. 04:40 Bug Attack 06:30 Friends changes they are making to the luxury property is the 14:30 Style Star 00:00 See No Evil, Hear No Evil- Chrome 09:00 Eastenders 05:35 Man-Eater of The Congo 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers installation of a special make-up room for the brunette 15:00 Keeping Up With The PG15 01:45 Iron Man 3 09:30 Doctors 06:30 Alaska Fish Wars 08:00 Seinfeld beauty. The staggeringly-priced room comes equipped Kardashians 02:00 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo- 04:00 3 Times A Charm 10:00 Upstairs Downstairs 07:25 Python Hunters 08:30 My Boys with a “glam bath” that she can access through metal doors 16:00 Keeping Up With The PG15 06:00 From Prada To Nada 10:55 The Weakest Link 08:20 My Life Is A Zoo 09:00 Community from her master closet. Among the other changes the cou- Kardashians 04:00 Three Men And A Little Lady- 08:00 You Will Meet A Tall Dark 11:40 Only Fools And Horses 09:15 Dangerous Encounters 09:30 2 Broke Girls ple - who have 10-month-old daughter North together - 17:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On PG Stranger 12:10 Me & Mrs Jones 10:10 World’s Weirdest 10:00 Trophy Wife are making to the house is the installation of a wine room 17:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 06:00 Spy Hard-PG15 10:00 Love Birds 12:40 Rev. 11:05 Night Stalkers 10:30 Friends 18:00 The Drama Queen 08:00 Home Alone: The Holiday 11:45 Iron Man 3 and wet bar, a music studio next to an existing library and 13:10 Eastenders 12:00 Planet Carnivore 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 19:00 Beyond Candid With Giuliana Heist-PG 14:00 Interview With A Hitman a top-of-the-range gym, which boasts its own closet, bath 13:40 Doctors 12:55 Monster Croc Hunt Jimmy Fallon 20:00 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 10:00 A Christmas Story 2-PG 16:00 You Will Meet A Tall Dark and full-length mirror wall. According to planning docu- 14:10 Upstairs Downstairs 13:50 Alaska Fish Wars 12:30 Seinfeld 20:30 Giuliana & Bill 12:00 Three Men And A Little Lady- Stranger ments filed at the Los Angeles Department of Building and 15:05 The Weakest Link 14:45 Python Hunters 13:00 My Boys 21:30 Giuliana & Bill PG 18:00 Red 2 Safety and obtained by RadarOnline.com Kim and Kanye’s 15:50 Me & Mrs Jones 15:40 Mustang Millionaire 13:30 Friends 22:30 Fashion Police 14:00 Frankenweenie-PG 20:00 Ruby Sparks master bedroom will boast separate closets, and their 16:20 Lark Rise To Candleford 16:35 Dangerous Encounters 14:00 Community 23:30 Chelsea Lately 16:00 A Christmas Story 2-PG 22:00 21 & Over bathroom will have his and hers sinks and toilets, while 17:10 Eastenders 17:30 Man v. Monster 14:30 2 Broke Girls 18:00 Asterix And Obelix-PG15 their baby daughter will also sleep in the lap of luxury. Her 17:40 Doctors 18:25 Night Stalkers 15:00 Trophy Wife 20:00 Your Sister’s Sister-18 room across the hall from her parents will feature a walk-in 18:10 The Weakest Link 19:20 Monster Croc Hunt 15:30 Last Week Tonight With John 22:00 See No Evil, Hear No Evil- closet, a private bathroom and chalkboards on the walls. 19:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 20:10 Alaska Fish Wars Oliver PG15 02:00 AFL Premiership Highlights And the renovations will extend to a new maid’s bedroom 19:30 Hunderby 21:00 Python Hunters 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 03:00 Premier League Darts and bathroom, as well as restained wood floors, new 20:00 Upstairs Downstairs 21:50 Mustang Millionaire 18:00 The Simpsons 06:30 ICC Cricket 360 Balzac limestone floors, new wood, metal and glass doors 20:55 Mistresses 00:35 The Jonathan Ross Show 22:40 Dangerous Encounters 18:30 Raising Hope 07:00 AFL Premiership Highlights throughout, new stone sinks and sconces, tempered glass 21:45 Absolutely Fabulous 01:30 Emmerdale 23:30 Man v. Monster 19:00 About A Boy 08:00 Super Rugby showers, and a $30,000 kitchen. In the grounds of the 22:15 Silk 02:25 Coronation Street 19:30 Hot In Cleveland 10:00 Super Rugby property, the current pool will be replaced with a fenced-in 23:05 The Weakest Link 02:55 Come Dine With Me Ireland 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 12:00 Golfing World 23:50 Eastenders 03:30 Blandings Jimmy Fallon 01:00 The Good Doctor 16-foot by 62-foot infinity pool with cabana, at a cost of 13:00 PGA Tour Highlights 04:05 Ant And Dec’s Saturday 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 03:00 Blue Like Jazz $83,000. The pool house will boast a concrete recreational 14:00 AFL Premiership Highlights Night Takeaway Stewart 05:00 Dark Horse area with bluestone paving,a bar, fire pit and planter boxes, 15:00 NRL Premiership 05:15 May The Best House Win 22:00 Sean Saves The World 07:00 Scents And Sensibility while olive trees will line the property. The couple will be 17:00 HSBC Sevens World Series Abroad 00:00 Parks And Recreation 22:30 Web Therapy 09:00 The Good Doctor able to park their cars in a three-car garage, while another 20:00 NRL Full Time 06:10 The Jonathan Ross Show 00:30 Last Week Tonight With John 23:00 Wilfred 11:00 The Twilight Saga: Breaking floor added to the outbuilding will feature a patio. 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers Dawn Pt. 2 20:30 Futbol Mundial 00:30 Gold Rush 07:05 Come Dine With Me Ireland Oliver 13:00 A Woman 21:00 Golfing World 01:20 Klondike 07:35 Blandings 01:30 Girls 02:00 Silicon Valley 15:00 Kathmandu Lullaby 22:00 NRL Premiership Osbourne has thanked 17:00 Someday This Pain Will Be 00:00 Graceland Useful To You her ‘perfect’ mother 01:00 Game Of Thrones 19:00 The Company You Keep 02:00 The Blacklist 21:00 01:00 PGA Tour Highlights 03:00 Nip/Tuck 23:00 Zero Dark Thirty 02:00 Live NHL elly Osbourne has thanked her “perfect” mother for 04:00 Revenge 05:00 NRL Premiership always being there for her. The 29-year-old star has 05:00 Drop Dead Diva 07:00 Golfing World Kwritten a heartfelt letter to her mother Sharon 06:00 Graceland 09:00 NRL Premiership Osbourne, wishing the former ‘X Factor’ judge a happy 07:00 Devious Maids 10:00 Prague Marathon mother’s day and thanking her for her continued support, 08:00 Helix 13:00 Futbol Mundial despite admitting she was often ungrateful in the past. 01:00 Savages-18 09:00 Revenge 13:30 Sevens World Series Writing on her official website, she said: “Thank you for all 03:15 Flatliners-18 10:00 Drop Dead Diva Highlights the sacrifices you have made in order for me to have a bet- 05:15 Life Happens-PG15 11:00 The Blacklist 14:00 ICC Cricket 360 ter life. Thank you for never giving up on me when I 07:00 Tricks Of A Woman-PG15 12:00 Emmerdale 14:30 Golfing World blamed you for everything I was doing wrong. “Thank you 09:00 Encounter With Danger- 12:30 Coronation Street 15:30 IndyCar Series for teaching me what love is and guiding me to become PG15 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 18:00 NHL the person I am today. I am the person I am today because 11:00 Darling Companion-PG15 14:00 Helix 20:00 IndyCar Highlights 13:00 Remember Sunday-PG15 of you.” The E! ‘Fashion Police’ critic also apologised for try- 15:00 Graceland 21:00 Bellator MMA Season 10 15:00 Another Harvest Moon-PG15 ing to push her mother - who is married to Black Sabbath 16:00 Emmerdale 23:00 Super Rugby 17:00 Darling Companion-PG15 rocker Ozzy Osbourne - away and confessed she’s happy 16:30 Coronation Street 19:00 You Got Served: Beat The she’s grown to be more like her. She wrote: “You are the 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show World-PG15 beautiful, kind, generous, loving and let’s not forget 18:00 Helix 21:00 Charlie Wilson’s War-18 strongest person I have ever met and the best part is that 19:00 Once Upon A Time In 23:00 Once Fallen-18 you are MY mum. “I may not be exactly like you but if there Wonderland is anyone in this world I am most alike it is you Mumma, 20:00 Grey’s Anatomy 02:00 ICC Cricket 360 and I am so proud to be your daughter.” Kelly did joke, 21:00 24: Live Another Day 02:30 IPL Highlights however, that there is one thing her mum didn’t teach her, 22:00 True Detective 03:30 IPL Highlights and she’s happy about that. She said: “The only thing you 23:00 Nip/Tuck 01:15 Love And Honor-PG15 04:30 IPL Highlights never taught me was how to cook! (I really am grateful that 03:00 All In Good Time-PG15 05:30 IPL Highlights YOU never taught me because I probably would have poi- 05:00 Muhammad Ali’s Greatest 06:30 ICC Cricket 360 soned someone by now.) (sic)” Fight-PG15 07:00 IPL Highlights 00:00 Below Zero 07:00 Thunderstruck-PG 08:00 IPL Highlights Miranda Kerr prays every day ’ 02:00 Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines 09:00 Hyde Park On Hudson-PG15 09:00 ICC Cricket 360 ‘ ’ 04:00 ATM 10:45 Argo-PG15 09:30 IPL Highlights he 31-year-old model - who has three-year-old son 06:00 Premium Rush 12:45 Les Miserables-PG15 10:30 IPL Highlights Flynn with ex-husband Orlando Bloom - is a “spiritual” 08:00 F/X 15:30 The Call-PG15 11:30 IPL Highlights person and thinks it is important to be thankful for 09:45 Shadow Conspiracy 17:15 Hyde Park On Hudson-PG15 12:30 IPL Highlights T 11:30 Transformers 19:00 Jack The Giant Slayer-PG15 13:30 Live IPL everything she has. She said: “I’m not Buddhist. Orlando is. 14:00 Red Dawn 21:00 Hick-PG15 17:00 ICC Cricket 360 I’m not Buddhist. I’m Christian. I pray every day. I meditate 16:00 Shadow Conspiracy 23:00 Django Unchained-18 17:30 Live IPL every day and I do yoga. I’m not religious, I’m spiritual. 18:00 Flight Of The Intruder 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 “And praying is something my grandmother taught me as 20:00 Red Dawn 21:30 IPL well. To pray and be grateful, have gratitude, is a big thing 22:00 Layer Cake for me.” The former Victoria’s Secret beauty admitted she tries her best to see every side to a situation, but if she is 01:00 Emperor’s Secret struggling with something, she finds it helpful to write 02:45 Gnomeo & Juliet down her feelings - and then burn the piece of paper. In an 04:30 Wheelers interview with the Telegraph online, she said: “When I have 06:00 Cher Ami 01:30 The Prodigal-PG challenges now, I feel like I sit with them, I try to look at 03:25 Flipper’s New Adventure- 00:00 Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines-18 08:00 The Apple & The Worm things, because there’s always a positive and a negative to FAM 02:00 ATM-PG15 09:45 Problem Child 2 everything. “And sometimes I’ll speak to friends, and some- 04:00 Premium Rush-PG15 05:15 Hotel Paradiso-PG 11:30 Wizards And Giants times I’ll just meditate and I’ll visualise letting it go, or 06:00 F/X-PG15 07:00 The Main Attraction-PG 13:00 Gnomeo & Juliet whatever it might be. Meditation and yoga, and having 07:45 Shadow Conspiracy-PG15 14:30 Krazzy Planet 09:20 Les Girls-PG 09:30 Transformers-PG15 11:15 Speedway-FAM people, as I said, who you trust, who you talk to. But also 16:00 Sky Force writing. I like to write, and then I can rip it up or burn it.” 12:00 Red Dawn-PG15 18:00 Problem Child 2 12:50 Hotel Paradiso-PG ATM ON OSN MOVIES ACTION 14:00 Shadow Conspiracy-PG15 20:00 Turboosters 14:25 Girl Happy-FAM Classifieds

TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014

Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (08/05/2014 TO 14/05/2014)

SHARQIA-1 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 11:45 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 1:00 PM AVENUES-4 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 3:00 PM FANAR-4 JOE (DIG) 1:15 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 5:45 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 1:45 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 3:45 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 7:45 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 4:30 PM JOE (DIG) 5:45 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 9:45 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 7:15 PM Special Show “TINKER BELL SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 11:45 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 10:00 PM AND THE PIRATE FAIRY (DIG)” 5:45 PM IN THE BLOOD (DIG) 12:45 AM JOE (DIG) 8:15 PM SHARQIA-2 THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 10:45 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 1:45 PM FANAR-5 JOE (DIG) 12:45 AM JUNGLE SHUFFLE (DIG) 4:30 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 2:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG-3D) 6:30 PM NO FRI+SAT 360 º- 1 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 9:15 PM JUNGLE SHUFFLE (DIG) 2:00 PM JOE (DIG) 1:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 12:05 AM FRI+SAT JOE (DIG) 3:30 PM JUNGLE SHUFFLE (DIG) 4:15 PM JOE (DIG) 6:00 PM SHARQIA-3 THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 6:15 PM JOE (DIG) 8:30 PM JOE (DIG) 1:00 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 8:15 PM JOE (DIG) 11:00 PM TINKER BELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY (DIG) 3:30 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 10:15 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 5:30 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 12:15 AM 360 º- 2 JOE (DIG) 7:30 PM TRACKS (DIG) 1:45 PM JOE (DIG) 10:00 PM MARINA-1 TRACKS (DIG) 4:15 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 12:30 AM JUNGLE SHUFFLE (DIG) 1:30 PM TRACKS (DIG) 6:45 PM TRACKS (DIG) 9:15 PM JUNGLE SHUFFLE (DIG) 3:30 PM MUHALAB-1 TRACKS (DIG) 11:45 PM JOE (DIG) 5:30 PM JOE (DIG) 1:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED TRACKS (DIG) 8:00 PM TINKER BELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY (DIG) 4:00 PM JOE (DIG) 10:15 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 6:15 PM 360 º- 3 JOE (DIG) 12:45 AM JOE (DIG) 8:15 PM TINKER BELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY (DIG) 2:00 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 10:45 PM TINKER BELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY (DIG-3D) 3:45 PM MARINA-2 JOE (DIG) 12:45 AM TINKER BELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY (DIG) 5:45 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 1:45 PM TINKER BELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY (DIG-3D) 8:00 PM MUHALAB-2 SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 3:45 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 9:45 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 1:45 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 5:45 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 12:30 AM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 3:45 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 7:45 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 5:45 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 9:45 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 7:45 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 12:05 AM AL-KOUT.1 SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 10:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 1:30 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 12:05 AM MARINA-3 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 4:15 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 1:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 7:00 PM MUHALAB-3 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 4:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 9:45 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG-3D) 6:45 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 2:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 12:30 AM ACCOMMODATION JUNGLE SHUFFLE (DIG) 5:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 9:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 7:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 12:15 AM Sharing accommodation THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG-3D) 9:45 PM AL-KOUT.2 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 12:30 AM AVENUES-1 SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 1:45 PM available for decent execu- THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 2:30 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 4:00 PM tive bachelors at Abbassiya FANAR-1 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 5:30 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 6:15 PM near United Indian School TRACKS (DIG) 1:15 PM NO FRI+SAT THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 8:30 PM (Kalabhavan building) sep- RIO 2 (DIG) 3:30 PM Special Show “THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG)” SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 10:30 PM arate bathroom/ balcony, SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 5:45 PM 5:30 PM THE LOVE PUNCH (DIG) 12:45 AM rent KD 75. Tel: 50903076. SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 8:00 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 8:30 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED (C 4717) SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 10:15 PM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 11:30 PM 10-5-2014 TRACKS (DIG) 12:30 AM AL-KOUT.3 AVENUES-2 JUNGLE SHUFFLE (DIG) 1:30 PM FANAR-2 THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 1:15 PM RIO 2 (DIG) 3:30 PM FOR SALE name to Sarfraz Hussain TINKER BELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY (DIG) 12:30 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 3:30 PM JUNGLE SHUFFLE (DIG) 5:45 PM Diwan as per Gazette of MATRIMONIAL TINKER BELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY (DIG) 2:30 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 5:45 PM TRACKS (DIG) 7:45 PM 2014 Suzuki 5x4 Sedan, Gujarat State, India. JOE (DIG) 4:30 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 8:00 PM TRACKS (DIG) 10:00 PM color seashell white, (C 4718) CSI parents working in JOE (DIG) 7:00 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 10:15 PM TRACKS (DIG) 12:15 AM mileage 21,000 km, original 9-5-2014 Kuwait invite proposals for JOE (DIG) 9:30 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 12:30 AM NO SUN+TUE+WED owner, price KD 2,450. Tel: their son 28/182, JOE (DIG) 12:05 AM 99526902. (C 4719) I, Mohdmed Shabeer, Mechanical Engineer work- AVENUES-3 AL-KOUT.4 12-5-2014 Indian Passport No: ing for Kuwait University, FANAR-3 SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 12:30 PM JOE (DIG) 12:30 PM J5340171, hereby change from parents of God fearing BRICK MANSIONS (DIG) 12:30 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 2:45 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 3:00 PM my name to Mohamed girls from Kuwait. Email: CHANGE OF NAME THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (DIG) 2:15 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 5:00 PM JOE (DIG) 5:00 PM Shabeer. (C 4716) [email protected] TRACKS (DIG) 5:00 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 7:15 PM THE QUIET ONES (DIG) 7:30 PM 5-5-2014 (C 4713) I, Sarfraz Hussain, holder of TRACKS (DIG) 7:15 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 9:45 PM JOE (DIG) 9:30 PM 7-5-2014 TRACKS (DIG) 9:30 PM SALEM ABO OKHTO (DIG) (Arabic) 12:05 AM JOE (DIG) 12:05 AM Indian Passport No. F 8709331 hereby change my

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You could lose money as quickly as it accumulates. You should take cau- You should be attentive to all the work you do as there could be a tenden- tion in engaging in enterprises or activities that could create any debts. Avoid the desire cy to gloss over details that need to be completed, particularly now. Your interest in pro- to attain material status at this time. There is a tendency for you to be extremely hard fessional success is great and you may inspire others. A lull in the afternoon allows a time working and ambitious on the professional level. It is important to develop a team spirit for you to become aware of an unfinished project that needs trashing. During the next in order to make friends and influence people, and that is what you set out to do today. few weeks, additional responsibilities may be placed on you in the context of the home When making a decision, consider all sides to a situation before jumping in with both setting. This may encompass the care of young children. You have tremendous drive to feet. You will make decisions that are right for the situation of the day-move forward. do just about anything possible. However, now would be a good time to slow your pace Communicating feelings becomes important with neighbors this evening-someone is a bit and just enjoy the communication with loved ones. Doing just about anything with too loud. You handle the problem with the right words. friends or family will create some good memories.

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

You are learning to recognize the ways in which you manipulate your life Truth is essential to your life. You are painstaking and deliberate when it so as to live and manage your life successfully. You may now be able to adjust your ideas comes to sorting through ideas and values for what is lasting and solid. You and response to situations so that you can create your ideal circumstances. If you want to may appear to others as a little too sober. You can bring people around to your way of be a servant to others, you will be the most honored and admired of all the servants thinking through your actions and behavior better than through any conversations or lec- because you will know how to make positive changes happen. If you decide to be a her- tures you may want to conduct. You will find you have lots of energy and drive, perfect for mit, you will be self-sustaining and may write the most popular book ever! Whatever you starting something out or taking care of business. Very physical too-exercise may be in plan in the future seems most positive as you have the determination and inner knowing order. You could be involved in some interesting conversations with a foreign person to complete goals and rise above any difficulties. Now is the perfect time to plan a change today. Things of a global or universal nature interest you and talk of travel may be in the air. You may find yourself in a position to teach. You are talented. that would improve and enlighten. Happy birthday!

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) This workday moves along at a good pace most of the day. If you are won- Your determination may be interpreted as a sign of stubbornness at times. dering how you impress others and you want to look as though you are in Others may not realize this is just a desire to accomplish things quickly. Be aware of the control-check yourself out at noon by looking at your reflection in a store window. You can ACROSS 9. Type genus of the Elopidae. sound your words make and maintain low tones, if possible. If maintaining low tones is tell if your posture is confident appearing or your person is well kept. You will be able to 1. Alternative names for the body of a human 10. Belonging to or prescribed for celiac dis- not possible, take some time to think before you express your thoughts. Considering the make any changes necessary to feel more powerful. You are learning that looks and atti- being. ease. general feelings of today-it may be best to take mental notes of the things you want to tude are the first impressions that go through the door. If your attitude is good and your change and meditate on them, one at a time-for another day. You will be pleased at the 4. An ACE inhibitor (trade name Vasotec) that 11. A ray of sunlight. clothes neat, you will have an edge on any competition. This afternoon is a good time to outcome. Do not allow the need to look good interfere with your progress today. You visit with the young people in your family, perhaps a glass of tea and a joke or two. Your blocks the formation of angiotensin in the 12. Humble request for help. have a strong psychic ability and may find this ability working overtime now. You will ability to communicate on a one-on-one level helps others as well. kidney and so results in vasodilation. 13. An organic compound that contains a know just what to say, in order to help a friend this evening. 11. Expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or spu- hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom tum) from the mouth. which in turn is doubly bonded to another 15. A loose sleeveless outer garment made carbon atom. from aba cloth. 14. A baton used by a magician or water Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. A small pore especially one in the repro- diviner. This day marks a time where you should enjoy great success and attention You could be in danger of acting spontaneously today. Take time before ductive bodies of certain algae and fungi 23. More or less flat-topped cluster of flowers through your profession. This is another great time to be with others and to making any major or minor decisions and know that you will do well in your decision work together. Your management and directional abilities are in high focus. Others may through which spores pass. in which the central or terminal flower opens making when you think about your choices. New outlets for growth and success should 17. The inner and longer of the two bones of first. solicit your help regarding a particular job. This afternoon you may be asking yourself appear soon. There are excellent opportunities for monetary success at this time. You are what you have outgrown and how you can let go of some of your excessive collections. the human forearm. 25. The persistence of a sound after its source positive and upbeat and spread a bit of sunshine to many people. Make sure the changes There is time to think about how to clear the emotional things that block your sense of 18. Mild form of diabetes mellitus that devel- has stopped. you make for yourself at this time will include keeping old friends around. Good will and well-being. These are the questions you may ask yourself as spring fever kicks in and ops gradually in adults. 26. Tall coarse perennial American herb hav- compromise are the expressions of this day. An after work-gathering at a coffee shop or encourages you to clean up and get rid of old stuff. In your personal life, this can be a time 19. Second brightest star in Perseus. ing small white flowers followed by blackish- bookstore is fun. of getting rid of old habits and creating new habits or patterns. 20. A colorless odorless gaseous element that red berries on long drooping racemes. give a red glow in a vacuum tube. 29. Pertaining to the phonic method of teach- 21. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet. ing reading. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 22. A ballistic missile that is capable of travel- 30. (in Gnosticism) A divine power or nature ing from one continent to another. emanating from the Supreme Being and Your practical concerns now may be with getting ahead and fulfilling your You may find yourself having emotional differences with someone in the 24. Having sections or patches colored differ- playing various roles in the operation of the ambitions. Nobody minds hard work when there is something to be gained from it. Today workplace today. Take time to see where changes can be made and begin your plans to ently and usually brightly. universe. the message seems to be that you will soon be rewarded for all the effort you are putting create a more positive atmosphere. You are sympathetic to an older member of the work team and may also look for ways to lessen the stress for this person. You may have several 27. A region of northeastern France famous 31. Genus of widely distributed agarics that into a work project. You may, for the moment, ignore your more deep-rooted dreams. Set aside some time to really dig down and bring this work to completion. Stop on the way interactions with a parent or parent figure today as well. With your own children, you for its wines. have white spores and are poisonous with home to exercise or run errands to help you transition from your workday. The pleasure of include them in any real-estate upgrades that you want to make; today is a good day to 28. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft. few exceptions. a massage is tempting and you may end your errand running with a stop by the chair- make or plan for those upgrades. This may mean a better apartment or an additional room 32. A place of worship that has its own altar. 33. Russian physiologist who observed condi- massage section of one of the stores you frequent. This gives you time to clear your mind or furniture. Young people will have input on the schools. Real estate may be the subject of 36. A proposition deducible from basic postu- tioned salivary responses in dogs (1849- and relax or contemplate some future plans. discussion throughout the late afternoon. lates. 1936). 39. Of or relating to Oman or its people. 34. Render capable or able for some task. 40. The chessman that can move any number 35. In a straight unbroken line of descent Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel from parent to child. to the sides of the chessboard. 37. A container. Seek a balance between your personal and professional work. If asked, There is an abundance of creative energy, which will make work projects successful. There could be mistakes in math this morning. Inventiveness 41. A promontory in northern Morocco oppo- 38. American prizefighter who won the world allow others to help you in your work and push for breaks or time-out in order to catch and creative ventures will most likely be lucrative. Nobody minds hard work when there is heavyweight championship three times your breath and to stretch. Regardless of how stressful it can become today, you have site the Rock of Gibraltar. something to be gained-the message seems very clear-rewards are just around the corner. good luck in the subject of money. You can take a deep breath and relax; your money 44. Artists or writers whose ideas are ahead of (born in 1942). You may become so involved in your work, however, that you could find it difficult to their time. 42. An authoritative direction or instruction to decisions are good. Recognition in the workplace comes unexpectedly. This recognition is leave for home this afternoon. You will be attentive to your loved ones but you may seem do something. for past deeds as well as your current efforts. Your ideas and your style of working make it to have other things on your mind as well. Be easy on your nervous system and involve 45. Located inward. easy for you to work with and teach others. You understand and perform well with young 47. (Sumerian and Babylonian) A solar deity. 43. Inability to walk. yourself in some fun activity that includes the interaction with others this evening. You will people-you create a supportive environment. This would all work well in a volunteer have fresh thinking in the morning-don’t worry so much. 49. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth. 46. A reproach for some lapse or misdeed. organization if you so wished to try your talents. 50. Harsh or corrosive in tone. 48. Tropical African herbs. 52. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly 51. An esoteric or occult matter that is tradi- for security reasons) was made the capital in tionally secret. WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution 1998. 53. A festival featuring African-American cul- 54. An international organization of European ture. countries formed after World War II to reduce 55. A title of address formerly used for a man trade barriers and increase cooperation of rank and authority. among its members. 56. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent 57. A coupling (as in a chain) that has one end metallic element (resembles arsenic and anti- that turns on a headed pin. mony chemically). 59. Relating to or characterized by basidia. 58. A yellow pungent volatile oil (trade name 61. The capital of Croatia. Agene) formerly used for bleaching and 63. A cord with an attached hook that is used aging flour. to fire certain types of cannon. 60. A metric unit of volume equal to one 67. American novelist (1909-1955). tenth of a liter. 68. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising 62. Advanced in years. solely the razorbill. 64. A woman hired to suckle a child of some- 72. Any of various cycads of the genus Zamia. one else. 73. The force of workers available. 65. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of 77. Black tropical American cuckoo. e.g. a fruit. 78. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit 66. The lower house of the parliament of the juice. Republic of Ireland. 79. A great raja. 69. The syllable naming the sixth (submedi- 80. A lipoprotein that transports cholesterol ant) note of a major or minor scale in solmiza- in the blood. tion. 70. An independent agency of the United DOWN States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterin- 1. Something causes misery or death. telligence activities abroad in the national 2. A notice of someone's death. interest. 3. An informal term for a father. 71. The month following March and preced- 4. A person who vomits. ing May. 5. A very poisonous metallic element that has 74. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 three allotropic forms. meters (or 0.621371 miles). 6. A thrusting blow with a knife. 75. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 7. A person who owns or operates oil wells. 76. A person who announces and plays popu- 8. Provide with clothes or put clothes on. lar recorded music. Yesterday’s Solution

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Justin Timberlake: My parents encouraged me ustin Timberlake’s parents encouraged him to put in “115 percent” when work- ing. The 33-year-old pop star and actor, who rose to fame began his career as Jpart of boy band ‘N Sync, before becoming a successful solo star, credits his mother and father for teaching him the importance of hard work. Speaking to Oprah Winfrey for her Oprah’s Master Class series, Justin said: “That was something I remember my parents telling me. The idea that if you put in more than 100 per- cent, if you put in 115 percent, then there’s a good chance that you’re going to end up getting back somewhere in the 90’s. That made sense to me.” Justin practiced singing and dancing growing up for hours on end and only performed live when he felt ready to face an audience. He continued: “And the idea that something worth having was worth putting all of yourself into it. Practice, rehearsal, working on it when no one’s looking. “Getting comfortable in it. So that when you step on that stage, you’re ready. And then you can literally forget all of that and just be in the moment. And do something different. Do something original, do something different every time.” Meanwhile, Justin appears on Michael Jackson’s posthumous album, ‘Xscape’, which was released last week and revealed it was Michael who made him believe he could go solo.

Harry Styles: I’ve fallen in love with South America arry Styles has “fallen in love” with South America while on tour with One Direction. HThe pop star - who has been performing with band mates Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne - has already had a tat- too of ‘Brasil!’ tattooed to his groin and has now posted a tribute to South America on his Twitter account yesterday. He wrote: “South America, you have been absolutely incredible. I have fallen in love with you. Hope to see you again soon. H. (sic)” The ‘You & I’ hitmakers performed their last South American show in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last Mariah Carey proud of musical twins night and will now enjoy a couple of weeks relax- ariah Carey says her twins were fantastic while they worked on her album. The star’s daughter Monroe and ing before their world stadium tour resumes in son Moroccan, both three, both contributed to a song on ‘Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse’ and Dublin, Ireland later this month, and Niall is excit- Mtheir famous mother was delighted at how they handled the recording sessions. She told the Sunday ed about performing on home soil. He also Mirror newspaper’s Notebook magazine: “It’s astonishing to hear my daughter sing and to sing with her, she’s a tweeted his thanks after their gig in Brazil, posting natural. “I feel like I’m bragging, but they’re both featured on a song called ‘Supernatural’ on the album, I wrote it on Twitter: “That was incredible Sao Paulo ! about them and for them. “It blows my mind, the attention span they have when we’re recording.” Mariah suggest- Stadium was huge ! Thank you ! Xx (sic)” The boys ed her “script” parenting with regards to technology could be a reason they were more tuned into the session. She have been seen cozying up to Brazilian pop singer explained: “I guess it’s because I don’t let them sit on the iPad all day, I’m strict about that. “Monroe if I put her on Anitta during their trip and were also approached stage, doesn’t want to leave, and I’ve noticed she wants to sing a song in her own way. She’s taking creative con- by legendary footballer Pele for a collaboration. A trol. “Roc is a true guy, he’ll be there in his pyjamas and lie next to me and watch a whole movie - he’ll know the message posted on the band’s offical Instagram dialogue, know what scene is coming next, they’re both aware of everything.” account, with a photograph of Harry, Louis and Zayn, also read: “South America - you’ve been incredible! Next stop is Ireland! #WWATour.”

Sarah Jessica Parker and Kevin Spacey: Horrible Jessica Lange join Wild Oats Bosses 2 cast are hilarious

arah Jessica Parker and Jessica Lange have been evin Spacey says the cast of ‘Horrible Bosses 2’ spent most their time laughing on cast in ‘Wild Oats’. The 49-year-old actress - who set. The 54-year-old actor is working on the sequel to 2011’s ‘Horrible Bosses’ and Swas catapulted to the spotlight following her Kinsists his co-stars Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis had everyone role as Carrie Bradshaw on HBO series ‘Sex and the in stitches of laughter while they were “riffing” and “improv-ing”. He told collider.com: “I City’ - and the award-winning ‘Blue Sky’ actress will think it is a little bit crazier. I’m very glad that almost everybody is back for it and I so join Shirley Maclaine and Alan Arkin in the comedy, love working with Jason and Jason reports Variety.com. ‘Hitch’ director Andy Tennant will and Charlie because being oppo- helm the project from a script penned by Claudia site them in a scene when they’re Myers and Gary Kanew. Producers are Blythe Frank of riffing and they’re improv-ing and Wild Pictures and Kip Konwiser of the Konwiser they’re trying different ways to do Brothers, while the Stealth Media Group is executive scenes, it is the hardest thing in the producing. The story follows MacLaine who is wid- world not to absolutely lose your owed and given a life insurance cheque worth $5 mil- cookies. We spend most of our lion instead of the expected $50,000 accidentally and time laughing and any time some- her close pal Lange urges her to cash-in the money body wants to pay me to come and retire to the Canary Islands. Maclaine - who made and laugh all day long, I’m there.” her film debut in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Trouble with He added: “It’s like that, those guys Harry’ - most recently hit the big screen as Edna Mitty that just are innately funny, they in Ben Stiller’s ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’, just are. Anything they say, they Meanwhile, Lange is currently filming ‘The Gambler’ just go off and they’re so good at which is due for a 2015 release. it. I love being around them, it’s just great.” ‘Horrible Bosses 2’ is being directed by Sean Anders and is set for a November 2014 release.

Rita Ora’s Fifty Taylor Swift gets fashion Shades of nerves tips from Lena Dunham ita Ora was careful not to “embarrass anybody” filming ‘Fifty aylor Swift has been getting fashion advice from Lena Dunham. The ‘I Knew Lady Gaga auctions convertible Shades of Grey’. The 23-year-old singer is set to try her hand at You Were Trouble’ singer - who walked the catwalk at the annual Victoria’s Racting in the new blockbuster adaptation of E.L. James’ best-sell- TSecret fashion show last year - has been picking up style tips from the ‘Girls’ red Rolls-Royce for charity ing erotic novel and she admits she was so nervous about her role - creator, who she claims has great taste. Speaking to E! News at her Keds Style Icons playing Christian Grey’s sister Mia - she worried she would mess up. event at Nordstrom in Glendale, California, she said: “[For] fashion inspiration ... ady Gaga is auctioning her red Rolls-Royce convertible for charity. Appearing on Capital FM’s Vodafone Big Top 40 on Sunday night she Lena Dunham always has great websites and shops at great stores. “She always The 29-year-old star’s prized ride - believed to be the only car she said: “I’ve just shot the movie, ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. That took up a lot of tells me her newest obsession, whether it [is] a new website, a blog or a store, she’s Lowns - will be sold at auction later this month, and could fetch my time as I didn’t wanna embarrass anybody, so I made sure I knew really good with that stuff. And Zooey Deschanel is one of the most fashionable between $30,000 and $50,000. Gaga famously perched herself atop the exactly what I was doing. “It was an incredible experience. I went from people I know.” The 24-year-old star is influenced by styles of past decades from the 1990 Rolls-Royce Cormiche III, flanked by her entourage, as she arrived not knowing what it’s like being on a movie set, to feeling like I knew 50s and 60s through to the 90s and likes “feminine” clothing and classic pieces. She in style for the launch of her perfume Fame at New York’s Guggenheim them all for years, and I wasn’t even there for that long.” ‘Fifty Shades of said: “I like to wear pearl earrings, I like red lips. I Museum in September 2012. The car will be sold by Julien’s Auctions as Grey’ will star Irish hunk Jamie Dornan in the role of bondage-loving figure if I stick to classics I won’t have as many part of its Music Icons auction Auctioneer Darren Julien told MailOnline: Christian Grey and newcomer Dakota Johnson as his virginal paramour cringe-worthy moments looking back 25 years “Lady Gaga bought the car because she liked it and has owned it for Anastasia Steele. Ora admits part of her nervousness stems from join- from now.” Asked if she feels the pressure of quite some time, I believe around five years. “It was her personal car but ing the film’s cast so late into production. The singer explained: “They’d being called a style icon, she joked: “It takes me I don’t know if she drove it or not, although people living in New York already been filming for months and months, so I came in mid-way months to plan outfits and I put them on a don’t really drive anywhere. “She through the film. I can chart, I dress them on mannequins and I have a doesn’t collect cars so this may honestly say it’s so cool actually an entire wing of my house dedicated well be the only car she has, so it to be in it. I’m so excited, to the planning and plotting of me wearing dif- is a pretty rare item. The title is I was really nervous. I ferent outfits. As a style icon, you have to take in her real name, Stefani kind of came in last yourself very seriously.” On a serious note, she Germanotta, and it’s the first minute, I auditioned last said: “No I don’t actually, I decide what I’m going time a car belonging to her is minute.” ‘Fifty Shades of to wear five minutes before I walk out of the going up for sale.” Proceeds Grey’ is out next door. I shop where most girls shop. “I think the raised from the sale of the con- Valentine’s Day.Catch whole purpose of Keds is to portraying some- vertible will be donated to The Vodafone Big Top 40 thing classic and easy and fun and casual. “The Musicares, which provides finan- every Sunday at 6pm fact that Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn cial aid to struggling musicians. with Capital presenter wore Keds, you look back and they looked just —Bang Showbiz Marvin Humes. as great then as they do now. Some things are classic.” lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014 Music and Movies Booming Israeli cinema sends 5 films to Cannes ive Israeli films feature at the Cannes directors, and Yedaya’s “That Lovely Girl” Film Festival this year, evidence of an about a 60-year-old man’s incestuous rela- Findustry in bloom because of bigger tionship with his 22-year-old daughter fits budgets and recognition of a growing cine- the bill. Two other Israeli movies feature in matic prowess. Ten years after winning sev- the Cannes Critics’ Week competition. In eral prizes, including the Golden Camera Shira Geffen’s “Self-Made”, a Palestinian and award for “My Treasure”, feminist director an Israeli woman accidentally trade lives Keren Yedaya is back in 2014 with an entry after a mix-up at a checkpoint. The other is in the festival’s Certain Regard section. This “The Kindergarten Teacher” by Nadav Lapid, a closely watched category is for provoca- whose first feature “The Policeman” won the tive films or follow-up works by emerging 2011 Locarno festival and is finally slated for US release in June. The final two Israeli films are being screened in the Directors’ Fortnight category. Ronit Elkabetz co-directs, co-screenwrites with her brother Shlomi and also stars in “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem”. Also showing is “Next to Her” by Asaf Korman, in which a young woman struggles to care for her mentally challenged sister and hold down a job. Critics say the wave of Israeli films selected for international festivals over the past few years is a reflection of better quality production and rising box-office numbers at both home and abroad. “International recognition and the implica- tion of quality that it brings has rocketed Israel’s cinema production to the forefront,” In this June 23, 2010, file photo, Timbaland performs at a graduation party for students at Culver City High School in Culver City, film critic Meir Schnitzer told AFP. Calif. —AP photos

‘Revolution in production quality’ “The miracle of Israeli cinema in the last 10 years isn’t measured just by the number of films or their public reception, but by what has been a revolution in production quality.” Pepsi releases visual album A file picture taken in Cannes shows Over the past decade, four Israeli movies Israeli actress Ronit Elkabetz arriv- have received Oscar nominations for best ing for the screening of “Hors La Loi” foreign film. These were “Beaufort” in 2007 (Outside of the Law). about an Israeli outpost in southern Lebanon, “Waltz With Bashir” (2008), an ani- to celebrate soccer mated thriller in which Israeli soldiers recount their harrowing experiences during epsi is pairing singers and filmmakers to album is another attempt to build its brand with the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, “Ajami” (2009), release a visual album that celebrates soc- major figures without mentioning the event, and “Footnote” (2011). Pcer during World Cup. Spike Lee, Timbaland, which occurs every four years. “To be honest, it’ll Israel’s first Oscar nomination in 1964, Idris Elba and Kelly Rowland are some of the be a great marketing tool for Pepsi,” Lee said. “Sallah”, a warm-hearted satire about waves artists whose work is featured on the Pepsi-curat- “There’s no reason I’d try to deny that.” of immigration to the Jewish state, was fol- ed album, “Beats of the Beautiful Game,” to be Pepsi recently began a campaign that includ- lowed by a string of films in the 1970s which released June 10. The soda company announced ed soccer’s top stars such as Argentinean forward competed in the Academy Awards, although yesterday its album will be a collection of 11 Lionel Messi, English midfielder Jack Wilshere, none won a coveted golden statuette. A sub- anthem-like songs and short films. “What I love Spanish defender Sergio Ramos and Belgian sequent fall-off in Israeli movie production about this is how creative it is,” said Rowland, defender Vincent Kompany. The new album also has since been reversed, and in 2013 a whose song “The Game” will have a video direct- features rising British singer Rita Ora and Elba will record 38 films emerged, including the ed by Lee. “It’s a project with a whole bunch of dif- direct a video for the song “Unstoppable” from acclaimed “Bethlehem” about a Palestinian ferent artists being able to do different songs. I’m the DJ-producer R3hab and singer Eva Simons, boy recruited to spy for the Shin Bet security excited about being a part of something like this.” both Dutch-based acts. The performers are not service. Move-going increased as Israelis’ The Janelle Monae track, “Hero,” is the first sin- expected to appear in the short films, but Lee, - fears of Palestinian militant bombings on the gle and will debut May 20. The album will be who is filming in Brazil promises to include streets, buses and in places of entertainment released through Capitol Music Group’s inde- Rowland somehow. “I love the idea, but I got to lessened with the end of the second pendent label, Caroline. Pepsi is looking to gain sneak a picture in there somewhere,” the director Palestinian intifada or uprising. global attention in a battle with Coca-Cola, which said with a chuckle. “Somewhere she has to In this July 31, 2013, file photo, filmmak- In a population of around 8.2 million, is the main sponsor for the World Cup that kicked appear. She’ll be lip singing, but she’ll be in there. er Spike Lee is interviewed on the floor some 14 million cinema tickets were sold off yesterday in Brazil. The launch of the visual I promise you.” —AP of the New York Stock Exchange. last year, almost double the eight million of 2005, according to leading local film critic Yair Raveh. A record 700,000 of the tickets A file picture taken at the Theatre du sold last year were for domestic produc- Chatelet in Paris shows Israeli film tions. “The crisis in Israeli cinema passed 10 director Ari Folman receiving the years ago,” Raveh said, adding that 2012 Mix of celebrity and art award for best foreign film for drama “Fill The Void” about Tel Aviv’s ultra- “Waltz with Bashir” during the 34th Orthodox Jewish community sold some Cesars French film awards ceremony. 300,000 tickets alone. —AFP set to mingle at Cannes n hour’s drive down the French Riviera from Formula One’s annual Monaco Grand Prix, Athe Cannes Film Festival is arguably its equal as an endurance test, a high-speed frenzy and, yes, a race course with a checkered flag. The obstacles in Cannes are a little different: beige-suited guards who dismiss premiere attendees lacking proper shoes or bowties; hordes of star-gazers amassed outside the seaside luxury hotels; movie audiences with famously fiery tastes that can make or break a film’s debut; and even fellow filmmakers competing for the festival’s prestigious trophy, the Palme d’Or. “I used to race cars and motorcycles,” says direc- tor David Cronenberg. “I’m competitive enough that if you put me on the race track, I’m going to want to win. Sure, I would want to win the Palme d’Or.” Cronenberg, the Canadian maker of horrors like “The Fly” and violent dramas like “Eastern Promises,” is one of 18 filmmakers in competition at Cannes for the Palme d’Or, a prize that will be selected by a jury headed by director Jane Campion. A file picture taken on May 27, 2007 shows Israeli directors Shira Geffen and Yet Cannes, which opens Wednesday with the Etgar Keret posing with their Camera d’Or for best first film prize for their premiere of “Grace of Monaco” with Nicole Kidman, film ‘Meduzot’ during a photocall. —AFP photos is much more than that heightened contest. It’s a Cote d’Azur crush of celebrity; the world’s largest movie marketplace, where countless films are bought and sold; a sprawling cinema event - the Review biggest in the world - that encompasses several sidebar fests; and a promotional palace where movies try to capture international attention. But Dolly Parton delivers its foundation is the movies in competition. This year brings a selection somewhat light on Hollywood and perhaps missing some of the year’s best album in years most anticipated releases (like Paul Thomas olly Parton, at age 68, creates her Anderson’s “Inherent Vice,” due in December). But best album in more than a dozen it’s heavy on world-class auteurs, including Jean- Dyears by returning to the blue- Luc Godard, Ken Loach, the Dardenne brothers, grass-flavored sound that worked so well Mike Leigh and Michel Hazanavicius, returning to for her at the turn of the century. “Blue where his “The Artist” became a sensation. —AP Smoke” succeeds partly because the Country Music Hall of Fame member’s songwriting pen remains sharp. “Unlikely Angel” and the family melodrama “”Miss You-Miss Me” join the three-part harmony of the title cut in adding to Parton’s consid- erable legacy as a songwriter. The emphasis on banjo, fiddle and gospel-style harmony is reminiscent of Britney Spears adds shows 1999’s “The Grass Is Blue,” a Parton career highlight. Her update of the traditional murder ballad “Banks Of The Ohio” fits the bill, too. But Parton expands her musical to Las Vegas residency palette with two risky covers. She gives Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice” a bluegrass treatment, turning Dylan’s bitter sneer into a melancholy farewell. She also trans- aesars Entertainment says Britney Spears is adding more than 30 dates to her Las Vegas residency. “Britney: Piece of Me” will now play shows in forms Bon Jovi’s “Lay Your Hands On Me” into a surprisingly effective Baptist rave-up. The Giant official poster of the 67th Cannes The album could have done without the silly “Lover Du Jour” and the tacked-on COctober through December and February. Shows have also been added in duets “You Can’t Make Old Friends” with Kenny Rogers and “From Here To The Moon Film Festival, featuring Italian actor Marcello August and September. The Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino says the first And Back” with Willie Nelson that previously appeared on other albums. But overall Mastroianni yesterday on the facade of the round of shows in August and September sold out. The 31-year-old Spears kicked “Blue Smoke” is another triumph from one of American music’s most treasured Palais des festivals in Cannes, southeastern off the two-year residency late last year around the time she released her eighth artists. —AP France. —AFP album, “Britney Jean.” —AP lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014

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Models present creations by designer Nauman Arfeen on the third day of the Bridal Couture Week in Karachi. — AP/AFP photos

Indian Bollywood actors Vivek Oberoi and Neil Nitin Mukesh pose with designer Vikram Phadnis. Neil Nitin Mukesh displays a creation by designer Vikram Phadnis.

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Indian television actress Parizad Indian Ghazal singer Penaz Bollywood actress Bhagyashree Bollywood actress Gauhar Khan Bollywood actress and producer Kolah Masani Divya Khosla

Vivek Oberoi and models display creations by designer Vikram Phadnis. Indian Bollywood actor Neil Nitin Mukesh displays a creation. lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014

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Models present creations by Pakistani designer HSY during the last day of the Bridal couture Week in Karachi yesterday. — AP/ AFP photos Bollywood actress Vidya Malvade displays a creation by designer Vikram Phadnis. Deepak Perwani

Models present creations by Pakistani designer Tabassum Mughal.

Al-Jothen sets new levels of innovation l-Jothen, one of the Middle East’s leading dis- where models will be prepared from head to toe in and beauty products catering to every need and tributors of internationally reputed professional front of the audiences in these semi-salons. Once they requirement. We have planned a very engaging and Abeauty brands, is set to unravel something are ready, the models will present their work on the interactive program of presentation and catwalk on totally unconventional when it takes centre stage with catwalk. These catwalks will run through the day, each our purpose-built stage. We have worked closely with its annual Walk of Beauty event later this month. The time showcasing a new make-up, nail design, hairdo beauty world Middle East and Epoc Messe Frankfurt to ‘Walk of Beauty’ event, held in conjunction with beau- or look. reinforce the importance of ‘Walk of Beauty’, which is ty world Middle East, will be showcased between May To add to the surprise element, Al-Jothen also an excellent backdrop for live demonstrations within 27 and 29, 2014 at Dubai International Exhibition and plans to unveil two international star brands, two hair the professional beauty sector.” Convention Centre. The ‘Walk of Beauty’ extravaganza care solutions, at the high-profile event. Madi also expressed optimism that the beauty is being held continuously for the past nine years and Mohammed Madi, President of Al-Jothen Group, experts and aficionados from across the region and is a major attraction at the show. said: “Our ‘Walk of Beauty’ is among the most awaited beyond will be mesmerized with the unique format However, this year promises to be a major hit, with event in the regional beauty sphere, year-on-year, and and presentation on offer. From its renowned brands its unique format and presentation, going with Al- this time, we are taking this to unprecedented levels of such as LCN - the leading European nail care solution Jothen’s strategy to present innovative ideas. In a revo- innovation. In a never-seen-before experience, we will which was unveiled recently by Al-Jothen in a grand lutionary step, Al-Jothen will set up a stage, which will present the charisma of the most talented profession- way, to the other products for hair care and beauty, Al- be divided into ten semi-salons, fully equipped like al hairdressers, make-up artists, nail technicians and Jothen is set to showcase its creative talent and latest any salon - with hair setup station, nails station, make- skin and spa experts with our world-class products trends in the world of beauty. up equipment and accessories, skincare station etc. and expertise which will definitely catapult the audi- In short, Al-Jothen will make the ‘Walk of Beauty’ as ence on to the stage of latest global beauty trends.” a complete platform for professional makeover - He added: “It cannot get bigger, as we have brands Pepsi releases visual album to celebrate soccer

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World Heritage site, the Mahabodhi Temple is illuminated with lights on the occasion of the 2558th Buddha Jayanti celebrations at Bodhgaya yesterday. Buddha Jayanti, the most sacred Buddhist festival, celebrates the birthday of Lord Buddha and commemorates his enlightenment and death. It is held on a full moon in May each year and this year, Buddha Jayanti falls tomorrow. — AFP

Thaikkudam Bridge: Bridging cultures and genres

Thaikkudam Bridge performs at AIS auditorium.

By Shilpa Sajeev band is the heartthrob of thousands of youngsters across the enthralled. Vian Fernandes, sporting a lungi and a Marley-esque the intricacies of Hindustani music. Anish’s solo performance on world and is quite the rage. hairdo was the crowd-puller of the evening. With his phenome- the drums, his international debut, was yet another exquisite eamlessly blending with the electric guitar are the notes of When asked how the band got this name, Govind very non- nal bounds of energy, the very talented Vian ensured the audi- highlight of the evening. an ancient harvest song. The bass drums keep perfect sync chalantly replies: “The place we met for the jam sessions and ence was always up and screaming for more. The audience could not have asked for more as the band Swith a lofty Hindustani raga and the sixty-something rehearsals was near Thaikkudam Bridge in Cochin. It’s as simple With his stunning rendition of “Tum ho paas mere” Siddharth sailed to a perfect climax with their electrifying performance of Peethambaran Menon head-bangs to the beats of an old Indian as that. Nothing fancy.” Menon robbed many hearts. Mithun, Vian, and Ashok on the gui- ‘Fish Rock’, drawing many encores. Lending new idioms to Indian folk song. Thaikkudam Bridge, the 17-member livewire band from India, tars along with Ruthin Thej on the keyboard proved to be master- folk music, their music is eclectic in its appeal. Drawing rich from A stunning confluence of old and new, eastern and western, performed to a packed audience on Friday at The American fully dexterous with their instruments and rivetingly experimen- the traditions of classical and folk music, these avant garde exper- folk and classical, Thaikkudam Bridge is a melange of many cul- International School in a show titled ‘Desert Rain’, conducted by tal with their music. The very soulful “Nostalgia”, a medley of old iments in melody offer new dimensions to alternative music. tures and many genres. Creating a new aesthetic for music, NAFO Kuwait. Beginning with an invocatory piece on Ganesha, Malayalam songs that rocketed the band to fame, was a definite Thaikkudam Bridge is the brainchild of a set of musicians from “Vakratunda Mahakaya” rendered by Krishna and splendidly high point of the evening. The very gifted Vipin and Christin Jose, Mumbai, Chennai and Kochi who came together for a television accompanied by Govind and others, was a brilliant complement with their beautiful voices, lent an interesting flavor to the per- program on Kappa TV. When Govind Menon, the band’s main to the evening’s show. formances. man and violinist, and cousin Siddharth Menon came together Showcasing an array of extremely talented musicians, two of for “Music Mojo”, roping in some musician friends from Mumbai, Beat it the members - Krishna and Madhav are disciples of the leg- what ensued was a phenomenon. With over 300,000 likes on Piyush, who donned a Guy Fawkes mask and performed endary Ustad Rashid Khan. With pieces like “Khwaja meri Khwaja” Facebook and no less than 8,000 people talking about them, the Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” with elan, kept the audience and “Haq Allah”, they displayed their commendable prowess in Blood, guts and ribs as Chinese performer suffers for his art aving one of his own ribs cut out to turn into a necklace, endur- Cut from neck to knee watch as they are agonizing for him. In a 2010 performance titled ing a slashing from neck to thigh-He Yunchang will do any- He’s still photos, paintings and sculptures have been exhibited and “One Meter Democracy”, He gathered 25 people for a poll on whether Hthing for art as long as it does not kill him. The extreme per- sold across Europe and America. Their popularity derives from his he should endure a knife gash-without anaesthetic-from his collar- formance artist’s head is almost entirely shaved and his face flecked drastic performances, often almost as excruciating for his audiences to bone to his knee. with faint scars from his shows. His blood-drenched, often naked The idea was approved by 12 to 10, with three abstentions, and a masochistic displays are intended to demonstrate that some things doctor carried out the incision in a procedure that lasted several min- are worth making sacrifices for. The 23-centimetre (nine-inch) rib he utes, with voters posing for a group photo afterward while He lay had voluntarily surgically removed as China celebrated the opening naked and bloodied on a bed. day of the Beijing Olympics-on the auspicious, once-in-a-century date The artist has also stared at panels of 10,000 glaring watts of light of 8/8/08 — hangs around his neck on a gold loop, dragons’ heads bit- bulbs to damage his eyesight, encased himself in a cube of quick-set- ing down on either end. The operation was intended to demonstrate ting concrete for 24 hours, and burned his clothes while wearing his own individual autonomy, he said, a decision he could take for him- them. self “while many other things are out of my control”. He once hung upside down from a crane for 90 minutes holding a “There are more powerful people in society who make decisions knife in a rushing river, blood dripping from cuts in his arms made with for others, and there are rules and social morality which restrict peo- the blade, in a symbolic mixing of the liquids. Among his less extreme ple,” he told AFP late one night in his studio on the outskirts of Beijing, endeavors, he also carried a stone from a beach in England on a 112- in the raspy voice of a 120-cigarette-a-day smoker. day journey over 3,500 kilometers (2,200 miles) by foot-only to put the In one of his latest works, in March he painted the fingernails and travel companion back where he found it. —AFP toenails of 10 mannequins-with his own blood. “I want to convey the This picture taken on April 18, 2014 message that I am ready to pay a high price to show my concern” shows Chinese artist He Yunchang about the world, said the 48-year-old, a married father of one. “My wearing a necklace he made during his principle is that, if it’s worth the pain, then my safety comes second. A cat standing by a photo of Chinese artist He Yunchang project ‘One Rib’, with one of his ribs in But I keep things under control. It is important that I do not let myself performing his artwork ‘One Meter Democracy’ in Heís stu- his studio in Beijing. — AFP photos die.” dio in Beijing.