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TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 THULQADA 3, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwaiti dead, Libya risks Iraqi PM scraps Murray ends wife injured becoming third of cabinet drought against in head-on ‘another posts in reform Djokovic with collision3 Somalia’7 drive13 Montreal20 win Shuaiba oil refinery Min 35º Max 49º High Tide fire ‘not terror act’ 02:05 & 13:50 Low Tide KNPC shuts down Shuaiba refinery after fire 08:15 & 20:35 40 PAGES NO: 16613 150 FILS KUWAIT: A fire at Kuwait’s 200,000 barrel-per-day Qatar launches Shuaiba oil refinery yesterday which led to its total shut- down was not the result of a terrorist act, the country’s labor reform for spokesperson for the oil industry said in a statement. Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al-Sabah said that any talk of a migrant workers link to terrorism was, “completely devoid of any truth.” DOHA: Qatar yesterday officially launched The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The fire one of its most “significant” labor reforms to led to the refinery’s total shutdown but there were no guarantee migrant workers’ wages, but casualties, an official at state refiner Kuwait National rights groups are concerned over imple- Petroleum Company (KNPC) said. Ahmed Al-Jemaz, act- mentation of the new regulations. The Wage ing chief executive, said in a statement on the compa- Protection System (WPS) aims to ensure ny’s Twitter account that a fire at the heavy oil cracking that migrant laborers, many working on unit at Kuwait’s smallest refinery had been brought 2022 World Cup-related projects, will finally under control. receive their pay on time. Under the new “No injuries were recorded so far. All the refinery’s system, workers will be paid either twice a units have been shut down and all employees were month or monthly, and the wages electroni- evacuated as a precautionary measure,” Jemaz said in a cally transferred direct to their bank statement. He said firefighters and emergency teams accounts. were on high alert. A KNPC source said because of Failure to pay salaries on time, especially refined products in storage, the country’s exports deals for blue collar workers, has been one of the would not be affected by the shutdown. It was too early biggest complaints voiced by rights groups to say when Shuaiba would be back to full operations against companies in the energy-rich Gulf and authorities would investigate the cause of the fire, state. A 2013 academic study, “Portrait of the source said. Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary An industry source had said earlier that there was an Qatar,” found that around a fifth of migrant explosion at Shuaiba. OPEC member Kuwait has three workers were “sometimes, rarely or never” refineries with a combined capacity of 930,000 bpd. paid on time. Today, a six-month grace peri- The ageing coastal Shuaiba refinery in southern od for businesses to ready for the electronic Kuwait, commissioned in 1968, is due to be mothballed payment system expires. after the new 615,000-bpd Al-Zour refinery comes on Continued on Page 13 KUWAIT: Fire erupts at Kuwaitís 200,000 barrel-per-day Shuaiba oil refinery yesterday. The fire led to the refinery’s total line by 2019. shutdown but there were no casualties, an official at state refiner Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) said. Continued on Page 13 LOCAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015

Amir sends condolences to Egyptian President

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable of condolences to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday on the passing of his mother. His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent cables of similar sentiment. —KUNA KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Faisal Nayef Al-Duwaish at Seif Palace yesterday.—KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (center) and his deputies Anas Al- (From left) Ministers Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah, Ahmad Al-Jassar, Yaqoub Al-Sane, Ali Al-Obaidi and Sheikh Saleh (far right), Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled (second right), Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled (second left) and Khaled Al- Salman Al-Humoud. Jarrah (far left) are pictured during yesterday’s cabinet meeting. — KUNA Cabinet briefed on Shuaiba refinery fire Ministers informed about readiness to host Gulf Cup

KUWAIT: The Cabinet listened to an explanation by The Cabinet also was briefed on a message sent to His Minister of Oil and Minister of State for National Assembly Highness the Amir from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Affairs Dr Ali Al-Omair on the fire that broke out at Al- Modi on the importance of supporting international efforts Shuaiba oil refinery yesterday. The ministers lauded efforts and promoting cooperation among UN member states so by workers of the oil sector and the firemen who managed as to maintain security, peace and human rights, and to control the fire. achieve sustainable development in all countries across This came during the Cabinet’s weekly meeting held the globe. yesterday at Seif Palace under the chairmanship of Prime Afterwards, the Cabinet discussed the latest develop- Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. ments at Arab and international levels. It expressed its Meanwhile, the ministers were apprised of the recommen- deep sorrow over the explosion on a marketplace in the dations of the standing committee for youth affairs during Iraqi city of Al-Sadr that killed and injured dozens, stressing its meeting regarding a message to His Highness the Amir that the continuation of such acts targets security of Iraq Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on the Olympic move- and Iraqis. ment in the country, and the readiness of the State of Kuwait to host the 23rd soccer Gulf Cup as planned. Condemnation The ministers announced that the State of Kuwait Relations renewed its strong condemnation of all terror acts that run (From left) Ministers Hind Al-Subaih, Ali Al-Omair, Yasser Abul and Yousuf Ali. Following the meeting, Minister of State for Cabinet counter to all religions, and all humanitarian and moral val- Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubark Al-Sabah ues, wishing the injured a speedy recovery. It reiterated for such an attack, stressing that the State of Kuwait place in Sadr city leaving scores killed and wounded. said that the ministers were briefed on a message sent to Kuwait’s condemnation of the explosion in a marketplace renews its strong condemnation of all terror acts that run Yesterday’s meeting came a day after an extraordinary one His Highness the Amir from Senegal’s President Macky Sall in the Iraqi city of Sadr that killed and injured dozens, counter to all religions, and all humanitarian and moral val- headed by His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al- on relations between the two countries and means of pro- stressing that the continuation of such acts targets security ues, wishing the injured a speedy recovery. A blast that was Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah that focused on the security situ- moting them in all fields. of Iraq and Iraqis. The Cabinet expressed its deep sorrow perpetrated by IS last Thursday ripped through a market- ation in the country. — KUNA

Pakistani embassy hosts 69th Independence Day celebration

KUWAIT: An impressive function was held yesterday at Pakistan Economic Corridor project was attracting the Embassy Chancery to celebrate the 69th world attention and investors, both domestic and for- Independence Day of Pakistan. A record number of eign, were queuing up for the opportunities opening Pakistan nationals living in Kuwait attended the func- up in Pakistan. tion. Touching on the government’s achievements in the The ceremony began with a flag hoisting ceremony. realm of foreign policy, the Ambassador noted that This was followed by a crowded function in the Quaid- Pakistan’s influence was growing among the comity of e-Azam Auditorium, which started with recitation from nations as a result of the Prime Minister’s vision of the Holy Quran, followed by Naat in praise of the Holy “peaceful neighborhood”. Prophet (PBUH). The program included a beautiful seg- He concluded by noting that peace and stability was ment of singing of popular national songs by school returning to Pakistan and the nation, under the leader- children, which was enthusiastically appreciated by the ship of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, was audience. well poised to rid Pakistan of militancy and terrorism The Ambassador read out the messages of the and realize the dream of the founding fathers of build- President and the Prime Minister of Pakistan. In his own ing a stable and prosperous Pakistan. remarks on the occasion, the Ambassador touched on This was followed by a cake-cutting ceremony with the distinguishing features of the Pakistan movement the participation of community members and serving and highlighted the major successes achieved recently of traditional Pakistani breakfast. The crowd was fully including the extraordinary resilience demonstrated as involved in the celebrations, enthusiastically chanting a nation in overcoming the challenges of terrorism and the slogans of Pakistan Zindabad, Pakistan ka matlab extremism, the vast improvement in the security situa- kia, and Pak Fouj Zindabad. tion in the country thanks to the heroic sacrifices made Another highlight of the Independence Day celebra- by our brave armed forces and the people of Pakistan tions this year was a colorful cultural event organized at under the banner of “Operation Zarb-e-Azb”; the stabili- a local five star hotel in collaboration with the Pakistani ty of state institutions; democracy taking roots; and the Community. The program included singing of milli positive trajectory of the economy with an improve- naghmas by school children and national and tradition- ment in economic outlook as a result of the prudent al songs by local Pakistani artists representing all the policies pursued by the government and return of the provinces and screening of the new documentary on confidence of the domestic and foreign investors. Youth Development in Pakistan, forwarded by the EP He pointed out that the transformational China- Wing, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 LOCAL Shuaiba refinery fire natural result of negligence: lawmaker Two more dead dolphins found

By A Saleh and Meshaal Al-Enezi

KUWAIT: MP Dr Abdelhameed Dashti said the fire and explosion that took place in Shuaiba refinery is a natural result of negligence and bad management and of having unsuitable people in this vital sector. MP Dashti asked Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair to quickly solve matters by forming an investigation committee to determine the reason behind the fire. “The absence of the right man in the right US Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled place in this sector led us to the situation we are Al-Sabah. living today, which is threatening the future of the main sector of national income,” MP Dashti Foreign Minister receives said. Corruption in customs message from Kerry on ties MP Dr Abdallah Al-Turaiji asked His Highness KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and concern. Meanwhile, Sheikh Sabah Al- the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak to Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Khaled received a written letter from take decisions in regard to corruption in the Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received a written Sartaj Aziz, adviser to Pakistani Prime state’s establishments, adding that corruption in message from US Secretary of State John Minister on national security and foreign the customs department has reached a peak. Kerry dealing with the solid relations affairs. The letter focused on strengthen- “We presented documents proving that cor- bonding the two friendly countries in var- ing relations between the two countries ruption exists at the customs department during ious spheres. Kerry’s message to Minister in various fields and means to promote the last assembly session and hope the Prime Sheikh Sabah Khaled also deals with joint cooperation regarding the latest Minister sees the documents the finance minis- mutual cooperation toward develop- developments on regional and interna- ter sent to the Corruption Fighting Authority,” ments on the regional and international tional arenas as well as issues of common MP Turaiji said. Environment police members are pictured with the dead dolphin. arenas as well as other issues of common concern. —KUNA MP Turaiji added that Kuwait is going through a stage of random appointments, to a health concerns to employees and patrons. A point where the majority of leaders are appoint- Two more dead dolphins found special room was designated for smokers. The ed through wasta (favor) which contributed to Environment police received a call regarding circular was liked by employees and company Investigation underway in the spread of corruption. MP Turaiji noted that two dead dolphins on the beach, in front of a cit- owners, especially the elderly who process their an official went to Abdaly border outlet and izen’s chalet. A research team from Biological transactions. refinery fire outbreak: KNPC noticed that 30 customs employees were miss- Variation Preservation Department was called ing and were not punished and that, always, along with Kuwait Municipality to move the dol- Cleanliness someone interferes, be it MPs or others, and put phins and to take the necessary safety steps to Farwaniya municipality asked restaurants KUWAIT: A committee was formed a lid on the matter. He said if the finance minis- protect citizens and Kuwait’s environment. owners to strictly comply laws related to cleanli- to investigate circumstances that ter did not care of the violations at the customs ness and stop their violation. An official source led to a fire outbreak in demulsifiers department, he will submit a grilling motion Smoking banned said that restaurants workers were seen taking of heavy crude at Al-Shuaiba oil during the next parliamentary term especially Director of Mubarak Al-Kabeer Labor garbage out during the wrong time and this refinery yesterday morning, Kuwait that the head of the Customs Trade Union is con- Department Hassan Al-Khader issued a circular caused pollution and disturbed pedestrians as National Petroleum Company sidered among the major smugglers in Kuwait. banning smoking in the department because of complaints were filed in this regard. (KNPC) announced. The fire, which was caused by a gas leakage in one of the refinery pipes, was fully contained, KNPC Acting CEO Ahmad Al-Jaimaz said, adding that no injuries were report- ed except for a few exhaustion cas- es. Meanwhile, Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Fawaz Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Sabah expressed relief that the inci- dent did not result in any human loss or causalities, lauding profes- sional and efficient efforts to control the fire in a timely manner. He also praised precautions imposed by KNPC, Public Authority for Industry and the fire department to prevent the occurrence of similar accident. Moreover, the Environment Public Authority (EPA) announced that no increase of gas emission has been recorded, pointing out that percentages of gas concentrations in the accident area are within regis- tered environmental standards. Nearby residential areas including Ali Sabah Al-Salem, Ahmadi and Moataz El-Rafie, Senior deputy CEO, Banking Group, Hesham Zaghloul, General Manager Corporate Banking and Naqeeb Amin, Human Ahmadi Governor Sheikh Fawaz Al-Khaled Al- Fahaheel are environmentally safe, Resources Assistant General Manager in a group photo with Ahli United Bank staff. Sabah tours the site of the fire yesterday. it added. — KUNA Ahli United Bank takes part in Bank Certified Credit Management Program

KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank continues its effective ed the program and were awarded their ious banking fields in future.” role in developing its human resources through Certificates. Naqeeb highlighted the positive outcome of participating in the Bank Certified Credit Commenting on this training program, such training programs which upgrade the per- Management Program organized by the Naqeeb Hamed Amin, Human Resources formance of the Bank’s staff to be consistent Institute of Banking Studies from 4 January to 17 Assistant General Manager, stated that “Ahli with the latest banking techniques and skills. June 2015.The program aims to allow staff join- United Bank views these training programs These courses are within the Bank’s Strategy ing the Bank to obtain the “Professional Certified with special attention as they add more profi- Plan for the current year which aims to promote Credit Management” after a six-month study and ciency and expertise to the personnel”. He personal performance in banking to reflect posi- A pickup truck seen following an accident in Maqwa’a, which left one man dead and three weeks of practical training inside the Bank. added: “We are planning to involve our tively the top quality service rendered by the another injured. Recently members of staff successfully complet- employees in more specialized courses in var- Bank to its clients. Man dead, wife injured Authority follows up on in head-on collision beautification projects KUWAIT: The Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and By Hanan Al-Saadoun General Security Major General Abdelfattah Fish Resources (PAAAFR) announced yesterday that it is still Al-Ali to Drugs Control General carrying out projects of beautifying local parks and KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man in his forties was Department (DCGD). Meanwhile, an improving road conditions. PAAAFR ‘s Chief Nabilah Al- killed and a woman identified as his wife Egyptian man was sent to Public Khalil made this remark during a tour to inspect progress was critically injured during a head-on colli- Prosecution by Drugs Control General of these projects in Nuzha, Adiliya and Kaifan. She added sion with another vehicle on the Artal Road Department for trading in narcotic pills, as that 39 parks are being refurbished and 31 additional ones south of the country yesterday. An investi- they found 10,000 Tramadol tablets on him. are being built; they will be completed within their set gation was opened to determine the cir- The suspect was caught when he agreed to timeframe. The aim of these projects is to provide recre- cumstances behind the accident. In a sepa- sell an undercover 20 tablets for KD 40, and ational spots for public use. — KUNA rate accident, a Kuwaiti man was killed and was caught red handed. The pills were his coworker was injured when their pickup found in his house. truck was involved in an accident in ‘Armed’ client storms Maqwa’a. The two reportedly work in 23 expats deported Kuwait Oil Company. A case was filed for Twenty-three expats were sent to the into bank branch investigations. deportation center for driving without a license, while 37 drivers were detained dur- KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait’s (CBK) spokesman Drug arrests ing traffic department campaigns between Yacoub Al-Ibrahim said a client came in Omariya branch An Indian expat who was caught with August 9 and August 15. The campaigns yesterday carrying what seemed to be a firearm. He said 24 small bags of shabu (meth) and 25 also resulted in the issuance of 46,933 cita- that the branch management took the necessary security KUWAIT: PAAAFR Chief Nabilah Al-Khalil is during a tour to inspect projects at a local Tramadol tablets was sent by Interior tions and impoundment of 2,519 wanted procedures, but the client escaped as soon as police park. —KUNA Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for vehicles. patrols arrived.

The man arrested with possession of 24 The suspect arrested with 10,000 KUWAIT: The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) began yesterday a campaign to release 120,000 fish in Kuwait’s waters to enrich fish small bags of shabu. Tramadol tablets. resources in the country. The campaign includes two types of fish; the shaoum (finned black seabream) and the subaiti (black seabream). —KUNA TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 LOCAL Info minister opens 10th Summer Festival

KUWAIT: Minister of Information and Secretary-General for Cultural Affairs Dr Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Bader Al-Duwaish said the Council, since Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al- its inception, has shouldered its responsi- Sabah inaugurated the Tenth Cultural bility for fostering the skills of talented Summer Festival at Abdulhussain youths, generation after another. Abdulredha Theater in Salmiya area on “The tenth edition of the annual sum- Sunday evening. The festival, titled ‘Kuwait - International Humanitarian Center,’ is being organized by the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) and lasts until the end of August. Addressing the opening ceremony in the presence of a large number of intelli- gentsia, Sheikh Salman said: “The cultural scene in Kuwait is twinned with the national state of affairs and expresses the national unity of our dear Kuwait.” “The cultural movement in the coun- Minister of Information Sheikh Salman try produced creative works of art in such Al-Humoud Al-Sabah inaugurates the areas as painting and drawing which are Tenth Cultural Summer Festival. highly expressive of national affiliation Sarah Al-Qabandi, CSR and Sponsorship Specialist in Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah is pictured with Ooredoo’s team. and the aspirations of the sons of Kuwait,” Ooredoo Kuwait receives the award. he pointed out. Sheikh Salman reaffirmed the keen- ness of the political leadership, topped by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ooredoo receives Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, to pro- award on Youth Day mote culture, creative art useful knowl- edge. He added that Kuwait City is setting NCCAL’s Assistant Secretary-General for the stage for celebrating its designation Cultural Affairs Dr Bader Al-Duwaish as Capital of Islamic Culture for 2016, not- A private sector leader in supporting youth ing that the event highlights the coun- mer festival includes, inter alia, lectures, try’s cultural status and the strategic symposia, training workshops and cine- KUWAIT: Ooredoo Kuwait, a member of the Minister of Information and Youth Affairs such an award from the Ministry of Youth importance of the Amir Decree of 1973 to ma soirees; all aim to promote the sense international Ooredoo Group, received an Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Homoud Al- Affairs. We are happy that our efforts are recog- found the NCCAL. of community, tolerance and forgiving- award from the Ministry of Youth Affairs in a Sabah reiterated that the government is sup- nized. We’re committed to supporting youth Meanwhile, NCCAL’s Assistant ness,” he added. —KUNA special awarding ceremony celebrating portive of all productive youth initiatives. “Our through many initiatives, as this is part of our International Youth Day last week. support to our youth stems from our belief philosophy as a company that aims to enrich The ministry organized a special awarding that they will lead us to a better future,” he the community in which we operate.” ceremony in appreciation of all the youth ini- said. This year, Ooredoo has focused strongly on tiatives in 2014 and 2015. The event was Commenting on the award, Ooredoo Kuwait its corporate social responsibility. It had set up attended by Sarah Al-Qabandi, CSR and Corporate Communication Director Mijbil a tent designated for giving out iftar meals for Sponsorship Specialist in Ooredoo Kuwait. Alayoub said: “We are thrilled to be receiving workers in Kuwait City. The tent was located across Ooredoo’s head office in Soor Street, Kuwait City. Meals were served in the tent dai- ly, and the distribution was operated by the volunteer groups affiliated with the Ooredoo volunteer program. Volunteer groups distrib- uted meals to specific areas near accommoda- tion of workers on Fridays and Saturdays. Ooredoo staff and management also partici- pated in these activities with the volunteers. Ooredoo’s volunteer program has also played a key role in organizing the national KUWAIT: A scene from the opening ceremony of the Tenth Cultural Summer blood drive campaign in the wake of the dead- Festival. —KUNA ly attack on Imam Al-Sadeq Mosque. The company highlighted its goal to encourage giving back to the community, and to raise people’s awareness about the impor- tance of philanthropy and charity. Ooredoo believes that through this experiences, it will contribute to shaping a better generation of youth, who believe in giving unconditionally Sarah Al-Qabandi is seen during an interview with Kuwait TV. and volunteering to create change. Exhibition showcases martyrs’ sacrifices

KUWAIT: ‘Kuwait Unites Us’ a unique exhibition would be organized in coordination with the which a number of citizens had fallen while was launched yesterday with the aim of educat- Kuwait Martyr’s Bureau, as part of the 10th resisting the occupiers. The three-day exhibition, ing young citizens about the martyrs’ sacrifices Summer Cultural Festival, organized by the to be launched at the library’s headquarters will and patriotic deeds. Sheikha Rasha Nayef Al- National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters. showcase personal belongings of the national A performance during the opening ceremony. Jaber Al-Sabah, the Deputy Director General of It coincides with the 25th anniversary of the martyrs, their photos, along with publications the National Library, said that the exhibition blatant Iraqi aggression on the State-during and documentaries. —KUNA Arab Planning Institute, KUNA aspire for more cooperation

KUWAIT: Director General of the Arab Planning and implements research projects, reports and Institute Dr Bader Malallah yesterday stressed the field studies dealing with developmental issues need to continue to support economic and social concerning the Arab world and has many studies development efforts in the Arab countries, espe- and researches that serve directly or indirectly the cially those related to the development of national development process and allow to deal with the cadres, consultations and foundational support. problems and development requirements in light During his meeting with Deputy Director- of developments on the local, regional and inter- General for Editorial sector in Kuwait News Agency national arenas. (KUNA) Saad Al-Ali, Malallah said that the Institute’s advisory services are directed to govern- Opportunities ments and Arab institutions, based on their Meanwhile, Ali praised the role played by the request. institute in finding opportunities to meet and He explained that these services contribute to exchange ideas among experts on the most addressing some of the problems faced in the area important issues related to economic and social of planning, economic and social development, development in the Arab countries. adding that the Institute’s efforts are focused on He welcomed joint collaboration between the the development of national cadres, scientific con- Institute and (KUNA) within the framework of pub- sulting and applied research and to support deci- lishing of studies and specialized publications and sion-making and other areas of development. research concerned with economic and social He said the Institute features a center for small development in the Arab countries as well as the and medium enterprises in order to strengthen its establishment of specialized courses in the field of role in achieving economic and social develop- economic and developmental aspects to raise the ment and raising the efficiency of sponsoring, sup- level of capacity and applied skills for workers in porting as well as offering funding to it at the the field of economy and development at the national and regional levels. agency. He added that the center also contributes to The visit comes within the framework of the spreading the culture of self-employment, entre- joint media cooperation and coordination Sheikha Rasha Nayef Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Deputy Director KUWAIT: Guests tour the ‘Kuwait Unites Us’ exhibition. —KUNA preneurship, development of entrepreneurs and between the Arab Planning Institute and Kuwait General of the National Library. development of capacity of the initiators accord- News Agency (KUNA) in order to develop the ing to the best international practices and stan- mechanism of action to keep up with the latest dards. developments in the fields of development, eco- Malallah said that the Institute also prepares nomic management and planning. —KUNA

KUWAIT: Director General of the Arab Planning Institute Dr Bader Malallah is pictured on the sidelines of his meeting with Deputy Director-General for Editorial sector in Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) Saad Al-Ali. —KUNA LOCAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015

In Brief Minister meets Visit with DACUM Blind Association Pakistani workshop KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh ambassador Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry Al-Sabah received the ministry’s KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry’s organized a training course on the Undersecretary Lieutenant General Undersecretary Lieutenant General DACUM method for 112 operator’s Suleiman Fahad Al-Fahad along Suleiman Al-Fahad received Pakistani officials under the patronage of with a delegation from the Kuwait Ambassador to Kuwait Muhammad Assistant Undersecretary for Blind Association. Aslam Khan yesterday, and discussed Operations Affairs Major general with him matters of mutual concern. Jamal Al-Sayegh.

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KUWAIT: A picture taken from a plane shows cloud formations. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat NEC secures Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery with biometrics

KUWAIT: Japanese tech security firm NEC will implement plants”. Earlier this month, NEC released a new version of biometric security systems for the Kuwait National its facial recognition algorithm NeoFace which it says Petroleum Company’s large-scale Mina Al-Ahmadi provides a 28 percent improvement in accuracy in com- Refinery. The security systems NEC will install video sur- parison to previous releases. The latest NeoFace product veillance, access management and emergency broadcast release also offers eight times fewer errors than the next systems. highest performing algorithm, the company said. - plan- The value of the order is approximately 1.3 billion yen etbiometrics.com ($10.4 million), and NEC will commence delivery of the systems from December 2015. Tan Boon Chin, Managing Director, Global Safety Division, NEC Corporation said, “We are pleased to be Kuwaiti citizens able to contribute to JGC’s cutting-edge refinery project. NEC possesses some of the world’s top-level image in Thailand recognition and communication technologies, such as facial recognition, crowd behavior analysis, super-resolu- safe after blast: tion technologies and Software Defined Networking (SDN).” ambassador He added that NEC hopes to work with engineering companies to propose solutions that integrate these KUALA LUMPUR: Kuwait’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of technologies with plant-oriented systems, “in order to Thailand Abdullah Al-Sharhan affirmed yesterday that all contribute to the even safer and more secure operation Kuwaiti citizens who are currently in Thailand are safe, fol- of important facilities such as refineries and power lowing the blast that took place earlier in the day in the country’s capital. The ambassador told KUNA via a tele- phone interview that Kuwait Embassy in Bangkok is in con- stant contact with Kuwaiti citizens who are in the Kingdom to ensure their safety. He said the embassy in Bangkok has allocated an emergency hotline that is working around the clock and called on citizens not to hesitate to call in the event of any inquiry or desire to ask for help at the follow- ing number (0066918909998). He appealed to Kuwaiti citi- zens to be cautious and vigilant and stay away from suspi- cious places. Scores of people were killed and wounded earlier today when a blast targeted a shopping center in the capital Bangkok. — KUNA OIC condemns terrorist acts in Sirte, Libya JEDDAH: Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Ameen Madani yester- day expressed his strong condemnation of the criminal terror acts perpetrated by the Islamic State (IS) in the Libyan city of Sirte in which scores of civilians were killed and displaced. In a statement, he noted that the persistence of these criminal acts on the Libyan territories presents a serious escalation on the part of this terrorist group and poses a threat to regional peace and security which forms an integral part of international security. Madani emphasized that the international community must consort its efforts in standing by the Libyan people to enable them build state institutions and consolidate security and stability in Libya. He urged all Libyan parties to engage positively with the United Nations-sponsored political dialogue track in order to fortify Libya against terrorism and its devastating consequences and to instate internal sta- bility in the country to ensure the security of the entire region. —KUNA TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 From the Arabic press

Crime in my view Report Leadership Coaching: Tattoo artists arrested Sleeping cells Where did it start KUWAIT: Residency detectives arrested three Filipinos from? Does it expire? who for two years tattooed men and women for large amounts of money, starting from KD 100 and above. The arrest was made following information by Director By Nada Taha Borisly General of Residency Affairs Director Brigadier Saud Al- Kahder who asked to arrest them red handed. An ccording to historians, the word coach was derived undercover was sent there and after the suspects during the 1500’s from the small Hungarian town of agreed to be paid KD 120, the undercover gave detec- A‘Kocs’ just west of Budapest. It was here the culmi- tives the signal and they raided the flat. The suspects nation of all aspects of coaching: transporting people - rented a flat for KD 500 per month and had luxurious teaching students - training athletes would finally take furniture, as their clients are rich. They said that they hold in the American business marketplace due to the sup- have tattooed nearly 900 men and women, majority portive influence of contemporary thinkers echoing in the women. Further, the three said the company that gave past. The foundation of W.T Gallwey thoughts evolved into them their visas charged them for them, but the com- the first major transition from the sports coaching model pany has nothing to do with their activity. Brigadier to interpersonal coaching. According to his book in 1970 Khader ordered that no visas will be granted to the titled The Inner Game of Tennis, Gallwey’s thoughts embraced that individuals should use non-judgmental company that gave the trio their visas. observations of critical internal variables believing in one’s own power from within to accomplish and move forward. As companies have recognized and embraced the con- Overdose cept of people as assets, they have also recognized that people need good, strong leadership to be motivated and A Gulf national who served as a policeman was Al-Jarida productive. As a result, various techniques have evolved to found dead inside his car while parked in Mishref develop leadership skills. One of the most prevalent and co-op society’s parking lot. Preliminary medical popular currently is coaching to develop leaders. examination revealed that he had large doses of drugs in his body. His body was recovered by the Al-Qabas Leadership coaching and the increase in its use coroner to determine the exact cause of death. According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel &Development survey in 2009 coaching was used by 90 The question of all questions percent of the 593 organizations that participated (CIPD, Fight 2009). Then imagine the higher recognition for this tech- nique in 2015 for a process which is perceived as very dif- A citizen was beaten and his car damaged by a person By Qais Al-Osta unknown to him, following a dispute over the right of ferent to traditional training approaches. way in Qairawan. The citizen gave police the license But what are the organizational perspective needs ach day and night there are those who gather in some of his daughters traveling abroad, with the based on in a desire for improvement in performance plate number and detectives are working on the case. a diwan (gathering place) here or a salon there, in excuse of working there to contribute to the cost of In another incident, two youths told Jahra police that management, change management, talent management, Ea ministry here or a cafe there, to put forth the their brother’s school or hospitalization. Whoever career management and overall organization manage- they were stopped by four youths at around 4 am and question of the season and for the third year with reached this stage, everything became equal to him, ment. were beaten by them. One of the youths suffered from a unprecedented success, “Who arms and finances, the including death and life, and will go to IS and thou- As a result of this collaboration and one to one broken wrist, in addition to bruises and scratches. Islamic State (IS)?” America is the easiest answer and sands like it, so he may get rid of the bitter reality that approach coaching can deliver a customized process that Similarly, a citizen was sent to the juveniles’ prosecution sometimes Turkey or even he lives in. will meet the individual’s own personal needs and be for breaking the arm of his neighbor during a fight with Iran and in some other situa- Oppression, insult, need adapted to suit their requirements both professionally and a metal pipe. The victim’s parents took him to the hospi- tions, Arab countries that and suppression of freedoms personally but at the same time challenging their skill set tal and obtained a medical report. could be in the Gulf. All those Oppression, insult, need are the main factors that cre- to improve and develop to become effective leaders. mentioned may have con- ated IS and Al-Qaeda before The rationale behind this surge in popularity for coach- tributed to the making of IS, and suppression of free- that. Yes, there is an interna- ing is that the awareness and self-discovery that individu- Kidnapped and some may have financed tional game, and there are als achieve through the process shows in improvements it. IS was made when the doms are the main fac- interests for countries, but not only in their achievements but in those of their team Mubarak Al-Kabeer detectives are investigating the hope of a better tomorrow why did we not see one and thus their organization. tors that created IS and The advantage of the rapid spread of globalization we claims of a Kuwaiti student that she was beaten, was lost in many Islamic and Swiss or one Dutch national observe today and the increase in multinational, multi-bor- kidnapped and threatened with a firearm. She said Arab countries, where there whose name is Smith or that a young man took her from Khaldiya University Al-Qaeda before that. der operations has meant that leaders need to be adapt- are no jobs and no security, Robert, wearing black to able and flexible in their management styles to be able to parking lot to Adan and threatened her with a where people were sup- hide his ugly face, to do the firearm then returned her to Khaldiya. co-ordinate diverse teams. pressed, and their beliefs and job he is good at, which is But the question that should make our brain sense freedom of expression were suppressed. We made IS beheading? work is “How are organizations anticipating other alterna- Robbery when institutional and individual corruption spread, Did people not have the same demands even in tive leadership development interventions to empower a which hit many heads of small families with the inabili- past centuries? Maybe we all carry a hidden IS seed true leadership culture among the different sectors in busi- A citizen who works for the Interior Ministry told Sabah ty to carry out their duties towards those they care for. within us. All of us may talk so much about idealism, ness today?” Al-Salem police that a man and a woman, both citizens How can they do that when they are without a real but then behave badly. In short, we all may be IS in one Other leadership development approaches, such as 360 she knows, stole her Kuwaiti nationality ID and jewelry respectable job? The same head of the family, who out way or another. So was the message delivered? I hope degree feedback, mentoring, “stretch assignments” and from her flat. The two suspects are being summoned. of poverty, need and compulsion turned a blind eye to so. —Translated by Kuwait Times project based learning may all be used as tools by the —Al-Rai, Al-Anbaa coach during the period of involvement with a client. As a single approach to leadership development however, each one of these has weaknesses that make them less effective than the holistic, individualist approach delivered by Al-Qabas coaching.360 degree feedback can only be valuable when the data being delivered is understood, and there are spe- cific objectives set for change, if this is required. Kuwait and the Frequently, the feedback approach that offers wide partici- danger of sectarianism pation fails to achieve change, and requires a large amount of time and effort to achieve long-term results. However, when used in relation to coaching, the 360 feedback can be a recognition of how the individual is developing, par- By Eman Shamseddin ticularly if the feedback and the reasons for any construc- tive criticism are considered and evaluated. Since, it offers he political and security crises lately revealed to a valuable opportunity for further introspective reflection us the psychology of Kuwait society. It also by the individual on their leadership approaches that they Trevealed the fragility of stability and the truth of can discuss with their coach. unity - it being only a slogan used as a local treatment Using the development of networks to create sharing that stops the pain but do not treat it. of expertise for problem solving offers those in lead of Each time a security or political incident takes place, leadership training to have the opportunity to work with we find the great majority racing to convey the news others and compare their leadership styles and approach- their own way, and not in the way it was announced by es with their own. Moreover, it creates the ability to under- the concerned authorities. Rather, the news is mostly stand shared leadership and breaks down dictatorial lead- conveyed according to partisan or sectarian affiliations, ership styles. The difficulty with this approach is that whilst to fabricate what is in the interest of whom they belong it creates rapport within the organization, there is an to or where their loyalty lay. Moreover, we find elite unstructured focus to the networks that makes it an incon- individuals and symbols who get into the common sistent and thus weaker development process. crowd behavior and go along with their liking, instead Two other approaches are frequently used for leader- of being the brain that guides them to the correct and ship development, “stretch” an assignment that take the individual into new areas of operations and challenges legal methodology in conveying the events and getting their abilities and project based learning. The first gives the the information, and with regret, some of them read individual a broader view of an organization, and thus their the law and constitution and have a knowledgeable place within it, so accelerating their learning. However, background that is supposed to work as an awareness there is again no structured learning and frequently a con- tool and development, not as an ignorance and flict between performance and learning which leads to destruction tool. The majority during these times demotivation. The project or action based learning become crises political analysts and strategic experts approach encourages teamwork and is highly related to and would have information even authorities con- business objectives. The drawback to this approach is that cerned with the event do not have, this in addition to it can be time intensive, and there is not always a clear the bazaar of distributing loyalties or doubting them. In understanding of how it relates to leadership learning. fact, most of the media play a role in the lack of accura- When used within a coaching context however, both these cy in conveying the news or in inflating the news and methods can be used as learning, reflection and evaluation directing the news according to their stand and its opportunities, maximizing the potential development that place in the domestic event or regional events that can be achieved. always played an integral role in dividing our domestic Therefore it appears that coaching, which can bring in arena. elements of other leadership development practices offers Worse than that, we notice during crises, some of an ideal approach. By focusing on an extended, personal- those considered in the opposition settling accounts ized, one on one continual relationship between coach with the government and taking the opportunity of and coachee, it seems that it provides the most effective emergent circumstances to prove their theories. These means to achieve optimum development. However, it is events reveal to us a deeper danger that confronts not always the best solution for every individual or every Kuwait which is the danger of the society’s mentality organization and has limitations of its own. and the methodology of its dealing with the country. The true danger is in this division in the society despite How far do we expect coaching to do wonders? all attempts to appear as one under the umbrella of If the coach and individual do not have, or cannot cre- Kuwait. The truth is the dominant culture is that of nit- ate a working relationship and effective rapport then the picking, choice, exaggeration, rumors and quick lean- sessions plus projects will be not support to achieve suc- ing towards strife and sectarian division, during a criti- cessful outcomes for either party. cal time the region and Kuwait is going through, that They must be willing and accepting the fact that they compels us to be more cautious and rational in dealing will change, and have commitment to the process. If the with security events with more transparency, objectivi- individual undergoing coaching is unresponsive or takes ty and more unity. Each country is subject to security constructive feedback negatively, the coaching will be and political shocks, but the largest worrying danger is ineffective in developing leadership potential. The the society’s behavior and its culture that are uncov- embracing of the process and the development of an ered by those crises and how it deals with it and its pri- ongoing conversation with a coach can be a difficult orities that are preoccupying it instead of uncovering process. its ability to control and determine priorities, and not to The current trend on developing internal coaches, be lured by details that distance it from its true causes whilst cost effective, may not always yield the anticipated and enables officials and those who have interests to results due to potential operational conflicts between pre-occupy it with what it is not supposed to worry those coaching, and those being coached. Therefore, about, so they can pass what they want with the least coaching does not suit every personality and there needs opposition possible. May Allah protect Kuwait from its to also be an understanding from individuals and organi- domestic and foreign enemies, and protect its people zations that it is not a quick fix, one off training approach. from their behavior and their enemies. Rather, it is an ongoing development of underlying skills —Translated by Kuwait Times with a long term focus on change and adaptation. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 Fate of nuke deal still Israel offers to banish Palestinian hunger-striker ‘not clear’: Khamenei Page 8 Page 8

DOUMA: Syrian emergency personnel carry a wounded man following air strikes by Syrian government forces on a marketplace in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus. —AFP Syria death toll nears 100; UN aid chief ‘horrified’ The bloodiest regime attacks in Syria’s four-year war

DAMASCUS: The toll in Syrian government air the death toll continues to rise as some of sacre, they bury the dead one on top of each O’Brien said. “I appeal to each and every party many civilian casualties as possible,” the state- strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus those in a serious condition succumb to their other. Gravediggers have had to create a mass to this protracted conflict to protect civilians ment read. But it also said the international neared 100 yesterday, as the UN’s humanitari- injuries. Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman grave that is four layers deep to accommodate and respect international humanitarian law.” community’s failure to respond to such atroci- an chief expressed horror and appealed for said government aircraft carried out another the dead.” Eastern Ghouta, a rebel bastion reg- ties contributed to the violence. “The UN civilians to be protected. Sunday’s series of four air strikes on Douma yesterday morning, ularly targeted by government air strikes, has ‘Deliberate’ attacks on civilians Security Council and the international commu- raids on the town of Douma, in the rebel bas- but he had no immediate details on casualties. been under a suffocating siege for nearly two The Observatory’s Abdel Rahman described nity’s lukewarm response is a contributing fac- tion of Eastern Ghouta, was one of the bloodi- An AFP photographer on Sunday described years. Amnesty International last week accused Sunday’s Douma attacks as part of the regime’s tor in the escalation of massacres against est regime attacks in Syria’s four-year war. They the attack as the worst he had covered in the the government of committing war crimes “scorched earth policy”. “The regime wants to Syrian civilians,” the Coalition said. came almost exactly two years after devastat- town. He saw dozens of bodies lined up on the there, saying its heavy aerial bombardment of show that it can kill as many people as it wants, It criticized international bodies, including ing chemical weapons attacks on the same bloodied floors of one of Douma’s makeshift the area was compounding the misery created without caring about the international com- the Security Council, for failing to condemn the region that much of the international commu- clinics, as medics struggled to treat waves of by the blockade. munity,” he said. At least 240,000 people have massacres or do more to protect civilians in nity blamed on the Syrian government. The wounded. Two young boys with bloodied faces Yesterday, the UN’s humanitarian chief been killed in Syria’s war, which began in Syria. And Coalition head Khaled Khoja said the National Coalition, Syria’s main opposition sat on a stretcher as they awaited treatment, Stephen O’Brien, on his first trip to Syria since March 2011 with protests against President Assad regime’s “boldness in committing mas- body in exile, condemned both the air strikes one resting as though exhausted while the taking the post in May, fiercely condemned Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. In a statement, the sacres against civilians for 53 consecutive and the “lukewarm response” by the interna- other cried. attacks on civilians. At a news conference in opposition National Coalition accused the gov- months depends on international silence that tional community towards the war’s civilian Damascus, he said he was “horrified by the ernment of “deliberately” targeting civilians in amounts to complicity”. Elsewhere, rebel fire casualties. At least 96 people were killed in the ‘Mass grave four layers deep’ total disrespect for civilian life in this conflict”. “I Douma. on the provincial capital of Assad’s coastal 10 air strikes on a marketplace, according to Yesterday, the photographer said residents am particularly appalled by reports of air “The air strikes were deliberate in that heartland Latakia killed six people and wound- the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a were burying victims of the previous day’s strikes yesterday causing scores of civilian Assad’s jet fighters fired missiles on market- ed 19 yesterday, Syrian state TV said. The Britain-based monitor. attack. “They went early to the cemetery to deaths and hundreds injured right in the cen- places at (a) busy time when they are densely Observatory confirmed the attack in Latakia Another 240 people were wounded, and begin the burials,” he said. “After each mas- tre of Douma, a besieged area of Damascus,” crowded with the intention of inflicting as city but said three had been killed. —AFP

Libya risks becoming Saudi executes three Sri Lankans, Egyptian ‘another Somalia’ RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday executed three Sri Lankans found guilty of robbing and killing a citizen as ROME: Italy warned yesterday that Libya risked these fighters have shelled densely populated well as an Egyptian convicted of murder in a separate turning into “another Somalia” as it signed a joint parts of the city and committed indiscriminate statement with the US and several European allies acts of violence to terrorize the Libyan popula- case, the interior ministry said. The four deaths bring to condemning “barbaric” acts carried out by the tion,” said a joint statement by Britain, France, 120 the number of executions this year in the king- Islamic State group there. Foreign Minister Paolo Germany, Spain and the United States. dom, compared with 87 for the whole of 2014, accord- Gentiloni said if peace talks did not succeed in The governments want all sides in Libya “to ing to AFP tallies. The three Sri Lankans were convicted ending the country’s civil war within a few weeks, join efforts to combat the threat posed by of breaking into the Saudi man’s home, striking him on “we will find ourselves with another Somalia two transnational terrorist groups exploiting Libya for the head and suffocating him before stealing money, steps from our coasts”. “Time is limited, particular- their own agenda”, according to the statement the ministry said in a statement posted on the official ly now that IS in Sirte has become alarming,” he released by the US State Department on Sunday. SPA news agency website. They were beheaded in the told the Italian daily La Stampa, referring to last The situation in Sirte underscores the “urgent Red Sea city of Jeddah, it said. week’s bloodshed in the former bastion of late need for parties in Libya to reach agreement on In a separate statement, the ministry said that Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. IS militants forming a government of national accord that, in authorities in Eastern Province also executed an seized control of the coastal city in June with mili- partnership with the international community, Egyptian man convicted of stabbing and strangling to tants beheading 12 local militiamen who had can provide security against violent extremist death a fellow citizen after an argument. Amnesty been battling them before hanging their bodies groups seeking to destabilize the country,” the International says Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s on crosses, according to the Libyan news agency statement added. most prolific executioners, along with China, Iran, Iraq LANA. Libya descended into chaos after Gaddafi was and the United States. Under the conservative king- Italy has been badly hit by the chaos in the driven from power by a 2011 uprising backed by BENGHAZI: Libyan troops loyal to Khalifa Haftar - a retired general and former dom’s strict Islamic sharia legal code, murder, armed North African country, with hundreds of thou- Western air strikes, with two rival governments chief of staff for Muammar Gaddafi, sit on an armored personnel carrier (APC) robbery, rape, drug trafficking and apostasy are all pun- sands of migrants attempting to reach its shores and several militias now battling for control of the during a demonstration calling on the international community to arm the ishable by death. Executions in Saudi Arabia are almost from Libya on often unseaworthy vessels — oil-rich country. The internationally recognized Libyan army in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. The Tobruk-based govern- always carried out by beheading. The Interior Ministry 102,000 this year alone. But the rise of a jihadist IS Libyan government based in the country’s east ment (recognized by the international community) said in a statement that has cited deterrence as a reason for carrying out the offshoot in the centre of the country is now caus- has asked for an extraordinary meeting of the world powers were using ‘double standards’ by fighting IS in Syria and Iraq punishments but rights experts have raised concerns ing alarm on the other side of the Mediterranean. Arab League, urging Arab countries to “adopt about the fairness of trials in the kingdom. —AFP “We are deeply concerned about reports that measures to confront” IS. —AFP and ‘turning a blind eye’ to the presence of the jihadists in Libya. —AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 Israel offers to banish Palestinian hunger-striker

JERUSALEM: Lawyers for a Palestinian in the ninth week Detainee in critical condition of a hunger strike against his detention without trial took Jameel Khatib, one of his lawyers, rejected the offer of exile, his case yesterday to Israel’s Supreme Court, where a new calling instead for his immediate release but also raising the offer to free him in exchange for exile was rebuffed. The possibility of setting Sept. 23, the start of a Muslim holiday, as a condition of Islamic Jihad activist Mohammed Allan, who date for freeing him. In its High Court response, the Justice is unconscious in an Israeli hospital, is being closely moni- Ministry said “classified information” warranted keeping Allan tored by opposing forces in an Israeli-Palestinian conflict detained, unless he was sent abroad. that could erupt in new violence if he dies. Doctors at Barzilai Medical Centre, where Allan is on a Israel sees his hunger strike, which began more than respirator and receiving intravenous nutrients, described his 60 days ago, as a powerful challenge against “administra- condition as critical but stable and said they would consider tive detention”, a practice that has drawn criticism from later in the day whether to try to wean him off the machine. Palestinians and human rights groups but which Israel Daniel Jacobsen, a Barzilai physician, told the court that should Allan regain consciousness and say that he wanted calls a security necessity. It fears that his unconditional to discontinue treatment, the staff would honor his wishes. release - Allan’s lawyers argued that in his current condi- In that case, he said, the patient would likely die in a very tion he posed no security threat - would only encourage short time if no medical assistance was given. Israel’s med- several hundred other Palestinian detainees suspected of ical association has ordered doctors not to abide by a new anti-Israeli activities to refuse food. law that could enable them to force-feed a hunger-striker. It Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan, writing on has denounced the law as unethical and a violation of inter- Twitter, called the petition for his release “ludicrous”, as national conventions. Allan’s medical endangerment was self-inflicted. As the Highlighting the tensions stoked by Allan’s case, five hearing got under way in Israel’s highest court, the Jews and four Arabs were arrested on Sunday during street Justice Ministry said it would consider freeing Allan, 31, if confrontations touched off by a march toward Barzilai hos- he agreed to be exiled abroad for four years. The court pital by supporters of the hunger-striker, Israeli police said. issued no ruling, urging the sides to negotiate further In 2011, under a deal in which more than 1,000 Palestinians before reconvening for another hearing on Wednesday. were freed by Israel in exchange for Gilad Shalit, a soldier Israel has not formally charged Allan with any crime but GAZA: An Islamic Jihad fighter leads a march organized by the militant movement during a rally in held in the Gaza Strip, 42 Palestinian prisoners were exiled alleged that he was involved in “grave terrorism” on support of Mohammed Allan - a Palestinian held by Israel without trial and who has reportedly to countries in the Middle East. Israel said at the time they behalf of Islamic Jihad, which has threatened attacks slipped into a coma after a nearly two-month hunger strike, at the Rafah refugee camp in the south- were too dangerous to be allowed to return to the West against Israel if he dies. ern Gaza Strip. — AFP Bank or Gaza. — Reuters Sisi approves tough anti-terrorism law

Forming ‘terrorist entity’ punishable by death

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi the 30-year state of emergency that helped push approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up spe- Egyptians to the streets in 2011,” Mohamed cial courts and protects its enforcers in the face Elmessiry, Egypt researcher at Amnesty of a two-year-long Islamist insurgency that aims International, said in a statement. “Despite secu- to topple his government. The law has come rity forces having a record of excessive use of under fire from human rights groups who force, this law...paves the way for impunity.” accuse Sisi, who as military chief deposed a Elmessiry also said the law would in effect freely elected Islamist president in 2013, of remove the current two-year limit on pre-trial rolling back freedoms won in the 2011 uprising detention by allowing prosecutors to ask to that toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak. renew suspects’ detention indefinitely. “The law TEHRAN: Khamenei delivers a speech during a gathering in Tehran yesterday. — AP Approved on Sunday, the law details sen- contravenes the Egyptian constitution and tences for various terrorism crimes ranging from national laws, let alone international law,” he Fate of nuke deal still five years to the death penalty. It also shields said. Egypt, the Arab world’s biggest nation, is those applying it, such as the military and police, facing an increasingly violent insurgency in from legal ramifications for what it calls the pro- North Sinai, where the most active militant ‘not clear’: Khamenei portionate use of force “in performing their group has pledged allegiance to Islamic State. duties”. Sisi had promised a tougher legal system Cairo and other cities have also witnessed DUBAI: Iran will remain closed to US influ- “Khamenei wants to keep the deal with in July after a car bomb attack in Cairo that killed militant attacks. The insurgency, which has killed ence and continue to oppose US policies in the US purely nuclear. He is worried about the chief public prosecutor, the highest ranking hundreds of soldiers and police, has intensified the Middle East after its nuclear deal with economic, political and cultural intrusion state official to be killed in years. The law, as since mid-2013 when then-army chief Sisi oust- big powers, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali after the deal,” said Hossein Rassam, former reported by state media, said special courts ed President Mohamed Morsi, a top figure in the Khamenei said yesterday, noting either Iran adviser to Britain’s Foreign Office. “He would “fast-track” terrorism cases but gave no Muslim Brotherhood, after mass unrest against country can still block the accord. The 76- fears integration into the international further detail, such as whether trials would be his rule. Sisi has since overseen a security crack- year-old cleric, Iran’s highest authority, has economy could make the Islamic Republic open or closed to the public. down on Islamists. Thousands of alleged refrained from making decisive statements vulnerable and potentially lead to its col- Forming or leading a group deemed a “terror- Islamist supporters have been jailed and scores on the July 14 nuclear agreement, but gave lapse.” If the deal is fully implemented, Iran’s ist entity” by the government will be punishable have been sentenced to death, including Morsi President Hassan Rouhani crucial political market of nearly 80 million people would by death or life in prison under the new law, and and other senior Brotherhood figures. cover to pursue talks with the six powers. be opened up to foreign investment-after membership in such a group will carry up to 10 The government considers the Brotherhood a Tehran agreed to verifiable limits on its protracted isolation. But unlike European years in jail. Financing “terrorist groups” will terrorist group and does not distinguish atomic energy program to create confi- competitors, US firms will struggle to gain bring a penalty of life in prison, which in Egypt is between it and other militants. The Brotherhood SHARM EL-SHEIKH: In this file photo, dence that it will not be put to developing any toehold in Iran due to fear among 25 years. Inciting violence, which includes “pro- says it is committed to peaceful activism. In Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi nuclear weapons, in exchange for lifting Iranian officials of being seen to be coming moting ideas that call for violence”, will lead to 5- February, Sisi signed off on another anti-terror- speaks during the final day of a major eco- international sanctions crippling its oil- under any American influence, and 7 years in jail, as would creating or using web- ism law that gave authorities sweeping powers nomic conference, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. based economy. because US economic sanctions not related sites that spread such ideas. Journalists will be to ban groups on charges ranging from harming A new 54-article anti-terrorism bill signed “They thought this deal - and it is not clear to the nuclear program will remain in place. fined for contradicting the authorities’ version of national unity to disrupting public order. Sisi into law by El-Sisi was announced yesterday, if it will be passed in Iran or in America - will “It will be a long time, regardless of any militant attack. The original draft of the law essentially rules by decree as Egypt’s parliament establishing stiffer prison sentences for open up Iran to their influence,” Khamenei whether the deal goes through, before US was amended following a domestic and interna- has been suspended since 2012 when a court offences deemed to be terrorism-related, was quoted on his website as saying at a businesses will fully operate in Iran,” said tional outcry after it initially stipulated imprison- dissolved the democratically elected main heavy fines for journalists who publish ‘false meeting with members of the Islamic Radio Sarah Dayan, an analyst at consultancy The ment for such an offence. chamber, undoing a major accomplishment of news’ and a special judicial circuit for terror- and Television Union. “We blocked this path Risk Advisory Group in London. Even if the “This is taking us back to the Mubarak era and the 2011 revolt. — Reuters ism-related cases. — AP and will definitely block it in the future. We nuclear issue is successfully resolved, Iran won’t allow American political, economic or and the United States are likely to remain cultural influence in Iran.” Most analysts see locked in a struggle for influence in the Over 80 killed in Yemen’s Taez the chance of Khamenei rejecting the deal as Middle East. They support opposite sides in small so long as it passes through the US Syria’s civil war and the Saudi-led interven- Congress, where opposition Republicans aim tion in Yemen. “The Americans want to gain ADEN: Heavy fighting between government loyal- the pro-government militia there. 2 Saudi soldiers die to block it. But Khamenei has always dis- influence in the region and reach their ists and rebels for Yemen’s third city Taez has left Clashes were ongoing yesterday with fierce In another development, the Saudi military says two missed the notion that the agreement could goals. We will not let them,” said Khamenei, more than 80 people dead in the past 24 hours, mil- fighting using heavy weaponry reported around soldiers have been killed along the border by a missile reconcile the Islamic Republic with the who has previously said US regional poli- itary sources said yesterday. The dead bodies of 50 the rebel-held presidential palace. The latest fired from inside Yemen. The statement released yester- United States, its arch-adversary since the cies are “180 degrees” opposed to those of Shiite Houthi rebels and allied troops were retrieved advance on Taez came after loyalist forces made day said the soldiers were killed in the Saudi border 1979 Islamic Revolution. the Islamic Republic. — Reuters from the city yesterday, the sources in Taez said, sweeping gains in south Yemen, starting with their region of Jizan. Saudi Arabia has been leading a coali- adding that 31 pro-government fighters were also recapture of main city Aden in mid-July. Military tion of Arab countries in airstrikes against Shiite rebels killed. Military sources said Sunday that pro-govern- sources say the coalition has provided exiled presi- and their allies in Yemen since March. Several dozen ment forces, supported by Gulf air strikes have dent Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s supporters with Saudi soldiers have been killed in border attacks since Islamic State’s chemical made key gains against the Iran-backed rebels in modern heavy equipment, including tanks and the airstrikes began, mostly by missiles launched by the Houthi rebels and their allies. The United Nations says Taez-seen as a gateway to the rebel-held capital armored personnel carriers, and Yemeni soldiers health facilities in Yemen have reported more than attack raises concerns Sanaa. They have seized several strategic locations trained in Saudi Arabia. The conflict has cost nearly 4,000 conflict-related deaths since the coalition began in the city, including intelligence headquarters, a 4,300 lives since March, half of them civilians, THE HAGUE: The Organization for the Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province on airstrikes. The Houthis overran Yemen’s capital and oth- fortress from which the rebels had been shelling according to UN figures, while 80 percent of er cities last year, forcing the country’s Saudi and US- Prohibition of Chemical Weapons yesterday June 28. It said that upon impact, the projec- Taez, as well as the highest peak overlooking the Yemen’s 21 million people have been left in need of voiced “serious concern” over reports that the tiles had released a yellow gas “with a strong backed President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi into exile city, according to Rashad Al-Sharaabi, spokesman of aid and protection. Islamic State group has used chemical smell of rotten onions”. There were no deaths in Saudi Arabia. — Agencies weapons in Iraq. “Recent reports of possible but troops exposed to it had experienced use of chemical weapons in Iraq by non-State burning of the throat, eyes and nose, severe actors are a matter of serious concern,” The headaches, muscle pain, impaired concentra- Hague-based OPCW said in a statement. tion and mobility, and vomiting. “Although German officials said last week that Kurdish these chemical attacks appear to be test cas- fighters had been attacked on Tuesday with es, we expect IS construction skills to advance chemical weapons, possibly chlorine or mus- rapidly as they have for other IEDs (impro- tard gas, in northern Iraq, leaving many pesh- vised explosive devices),” Emmanuel Deisser, merga suffering from “respiratory irritation. managing director at Sahan Research, said at The allegations, deemed “plausible” by a US the time. official, follow claims in March by the autonomous Kurdish government in northern Mosul report Iraq which said it had evidence that the In another development, Iraq’s parliament jihadist group used chlorine in a car bomb yesterday referred to the judiciary a report attack on January 23. calling for the trial of former Prime Minister The Wall Street Journal cited US officials as Nuri Al-Maliki and dozens of other top officials saying they believe last week’s attack used in connection with the fall of Mosul to Islamic mustard gas, which may have come from State last year, two lawmakers said. Lawmaker stockpiles of banned poisons that Syrian Mohamed Al-Karbouli said the vote in parlia- President Bashar al-Assad was forced to get ment was taken by a show of hands and rid of after joining the OPCW in 2013. The passed by a majority. He said the report was OPCW said it was in contact with the Iraqi now due to go to the public prosecutor and government and “will examine any substan- Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, who has the tive reports it receives”. Along with the right to refer officers for court martial. January attack, the Conflict Armament The panel’s report, the most drastic step Research group and Sahan Research group yet taken by Baghdad to provide accountabili- said last month that IS had also targeted ty for the loss of nearly a third of the country’s peshmerga with a projectile filled with an territory to the Islamist insurgency, alleges unknown chemical agent on June 21 or 22. that Maliki had an inaccurate picture of the The chemical used had characteristics and threat to the northern city because he chose clinical effects “consistent with a chlorine commanders who engaged in corruption and chemical agent”, the groups said. failed to hold them accountable. There has The organizations said they had also docu- been no official accounting for how Mosul mented two such attacks against Kurdish was lost, or of who gave the order to abandon fighters from the People’s Protection Units in the fight. —Agencies TAIZ: Tribal fighters against Shiite rebels known as Houthis give the victory sign as they gather following heavy fighting between the two groups, in Taez, Yemen. — AP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 ‘Deny citizenship’ to babies of illegal immigrants in US Trump vows to rescind Obama’s executive orders on immigration US traffic deaths up sharply - 14%

WASHINGTON: Traffic deaths were up safety technology than ever, although 14 percent nationally in the first six drivers sometimes don’t use it or don’t months of this year and injuries were know how to use it, Hersman said. On up by a third, according to data gath- the other hand, a growing number of ered by the National Safety Council. An states are raising speed limits, and improved economy and low gas prices everywhere drivers are distracted by have encouraged Americans to put a cellphone calls and text messages. The record number of miles on the road, council estimated in a report this said Deborah AP Hersman, president of spring that a quarter of all crashes the council. But, she said, that’s not the involve cellphone use. Besides fatal whole explanation for the increase in crashes, that includes injury-only and deaths and injuries. property damage-only crashes. All told, nearly 19,000 people across “For many years people have said, ‘If the country lost their lives in traffic distraction is such a big issue, why accidents through June and the tally don’t we see an increase in fatal crash doesn’t include two of the historically numbers? ’ Well, we’re seeing increas- highest months for traffic deaths, July ing fatal crashes numbers, but I think and August, said the council, a non- it’s complicated to tease out what that profit organization created by is due to,” Hersman said. Jonathan Congress to promote safety. If the Adkins, executive director of Governors trend continues, traffic deaths this year Highway Safety Association, which rep- could exceed 40,000 for the first time resents state highway safety offices, since 2007, when there were nearly confirmed that states have taken note 44,000 deaths, Hersman said in an of the trend as well. Given the stronger IOWA: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump rides through the grounds at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. — AP interview. The increases began in the economy, lower unemployment and last quarter of 2014 and have been low gas prices, “we have expected an WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candi- changed without amending the Constitution. they have to come in legally.” Trump’s plan was recorded consistently through each uptick in travel and, sadly, deaths,” he date Donald Trump wants to deny citizenship to “They’re illegal,” Trump said, describing native- endorsed by Sen Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who month of this year, Hersman said. said. “The increase is definitely trou- the babies of immigrants living in the US illegal- born children of people living illegally in the US. chairs a Senate subcommittee on immigration. “As a safety professional, it’s not just bling,” Adkins said. “But after such his- ly as part of an immigration plan that empha- “You either have a country or not.” Trump’s “This is exactly the plan America needs,” disappointing but heartbreaking to see toric declines in recent years, it’s not sizes border security and deportation for mil- remarks came as his campaign website posted Sessions said in a statement. “Crucially, this plan the numbers trending in the wrong unexpected to see an upswing.” lions. He would also rescind Obama administra- his program for “immigration reform.” Among its includes an emphasis on lifting struggling direction,” she said. The nation’s driving tion executive orders on immigration. Trump details: Making Mexico pay for a permanent minority communities, including our immigrant steadily increased for 15 consecutive Bicyclist death described his expanded vision of how to secure border wall. Mandatory deportation of all “crimi- communities, out of poverty, by preventing cor- months through May, the Meanwhile, a new report says bicy- American borders during a wide-ranging inter- nal aliens.” Tripling the force of immigration offi- porations from bringing in new workers from Transportation Department said in clist death rates for children have fall- view Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” saying cers by eliminating tax credit payments to overseas to replace them and drive down July. Americans drove 1.26 trillion miles en dramatically in recent decades, but that he would push to end the constitutionally immigrant families residing illegally in the US. wages.” in the first five months of 2015, passing have risen sharply for middle-aged protected citizenship rights of children of any Trump said a tough deportation policy was Most other GOP candidates also back com- the previous record, 1.23 trillion, set in men. Experts believe the statistics family living illegally inside the US. needed because “there’s definitely evidence” of pleting the border wall but differ over how to May 2007. However, the cumulative reflect that adults are biking more and “They have to go,” Trump said, adding: “What crimes linked to immigrants living in the coun- treat immigrant families already living in the US. increase in vehicle mileage this year kids are biking less. The biggest rise they’re doing, they’re having a baby. And then try illegally. He repeated comments he’s made Former Florida Gov Jeb Bush recently released through May is 3.4 percent, far less was for men ages 35 to 54. The all of a sudden, nobody knows ... the baby’s previously, noting that: “The good people can his own immigration plan, which calls for the than the 14 percent increase in deaths, Centers for Disease Control and here.” Native-born children of immigrants - even come back.” The New York businessman also use of forward bases and drones to guard the Hersman noted. Also, the estimated Prevention released the numbers those living illegally in the US - have been auto- said he would waste little time rescinding border, but also backing an eventual plan to annual mileage death rate so far this Thursday. The agency looked at bicy- matically considered American citizens since President Barack Obama’s executive actions legalize the status of immigrant families. On year is 1.3 deaths per 100 million vehi- clists killed on public roads in colli- the adoption of the 14th Amendment of the aimed at allowing as many as 3.7 million immi- Sunday, Ohio Gov John Kasich said he would cle miles traveled, up from the prelimi- sions involving motor vehicles, so not Constitution in 1868. The odds of repealing the grants living illegally in the US to remain in the “finish the wall” but would then work to legalize nary 2014 rate of 1.2 deaths. every biking death was included. amendment’s citizenship clause would be steep, country because of their US-born relatives. 11 million immigrants now estimated to live in Other safety trends are at play as During any given trip, bicyclists were requiring the votes of two-thirds of both houses Obama’s November 2014 actions were halted by the US illegally. He spoke on CBS’ “Face the well. In recent decades, deaths due to twice as likely to die on US roads as of Congress and support from three-fourths of temporary injunctions ordered by several feder- Nation.” Florida Sen Marco Rubio worked with crashes involving drunken driving have people riding in motor vehicles. Still, the nation’s state legislatures. Republicans in al courts in rulings challenging his executive senators from both parties to develop a com- dropped from about 50 percent of bicyclist death rates were low - overall Congress have repeatedly failed since 2011 to powers to alter immigration policies without prehensive plan in 2013 that would have legal- pass bills aimed at ending “birthright citizen- congressional approval. The cases could lead to ized the status of many immigrant families. But fatalities to about 30 percent, she said. about 0.2 cyclist deaths per 100,000 ship.” the Supreme Court. Congress balked at the idea as tea party Teen driving deaths are also down, and people in 2012, down from 0.4 in Some conservatives believe that the granti- “We have to make a whole new set of stan- Republicans opposed the deal and Rubio has seatbelt use is up. And cars have more 1975.— Agencies ng of citizenship in such cases could be dards,” Trump said. “And when people come in, since backed away from his support.— AP

KOS: Newly arrived Syrian migrants wait in the port of Kos to be registered on the Eleftherios Venizelos liner yes- terday. —AFP Syrians risk lives to reach Europe ‘for their children’

KOS: Five nights ago, Nada and her ing again. At least the war and bomb- chosocial support to feel normal children braved a perilous journey in ings are behind us now,” she added. again,” she added, warning that some an inflatable dinghy to the Greek Her shy, brown-haired daughter children have become aggressive island of Kos less than a month after Nisreen says she wants to be a doctor while others simply have no way to fleeing the devastated Syrian city of when she grows up. Vian, who is a lit- communicate their feelings. But with Aleppo. “Had it not been for the girls, I tle more talkative, wants to learn bal- their families still on the move and would have never taken that boat,” let. “I want their dreams to come true. amid a dearth of government assis- said Nada as she watched her three In Syria, they never would have,” said tance in Greece, migrant and refugee daughters-all under nine-play on the Nada, who is 33. children have only received a few toys, beach of the resort island. “We risked coloring books and pencils handed everything so they can have a future,” A child’s nightmares out by a handful of kind tourists and she said. Nada’s family are among For now, however, Vian only locals. more than 135,000 people fleeing war remembers her nightmares. “I dreamt and poverty who have arrived in one night, when we were still in ‘War is in their blood’ Greece by sea this year, in an unprece- Aleppo, that the army came into the Nisreen, 34, who also came to Kos dented influx that Europe is strug- house and kidnapped us,” said Vian, from Aleppo through Turkey with her gling to deal with. who is eight years old. “I haven’t had husband and her two children, said The shambolic response of the any dreams since then,” the child the war has had a huge psychological Greek authorities on Kos has become added. It will take a long time for chil- impact on her little boys. “The war is in grimly symbolic of the European dren like Vian and her sisters to find their blood now. They have become Union’s lack of action in the face of the any real sense of stability and normali- savages,” said Nisreen, who wears her humanitarian crisis, with pitiful scenes ty again, says international charity light brown hair short. “I came to last week as thousands of migrants Save the Children. “Children are very Europe for them. I had to get them were gathered by police in a sports resilient and with the right care they out of Syria, the war was destroying stadium on the island without can bounce back,” Save the Children them. They are only four and six, but enough food or water. Nada and her spokeswoman Sarah Tyler said. “But it all they want to play is war games,” husband not happy about sleeping in could be months before (they) see a she said, adding that they fight each a tent while they prepare to go to change for the better,” Tyler added. other with spoons and pencils, mim- Athens and onward to northern Many of the children fleeing Syria icking the sounds of gunfire and Europe, but they are glad their girls have been out of school for several explosions. “They are very aggressive have escaped war-ravaged Syria. years. Many have started acting older and difficult. And whenever they don’t “They still cry and scream in fear than they really are to support their hear shelling, they ask me ‘Mama, why every time they hear a loud noise, struggling parents, losing out on their is there no shelling?’” thinking it could be shelling,” said childhood. “Children need a sense of All Nisreen wants now is “stability”. Nada, who wore a pink T-shirt and a normalcy now,” Tyler said, explaining “We haven’t been able to sleep prop- lilac-colored veil. “But they’ve got that they need safe places to play and erly for three years, since the war their laughter back and they’re play- schools to go to. “They also need psy- came to Aleppo.—AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 Indian, Pakistani arrested over mafia-style slaying

ROME: An Indian and a Pakistani have The execution and the killers’ getaway the help of his friend Singh, 33, in frustra- there is more to it,” Brescia prosecutor Matteo Salvini, the populist leader of the confessed to killing the elderly owners of on a moped was captured on CCTV and tion and anger over being unable to Pierluigi Maria Dell’Osso told a press con- anti-immigration Northern League who a Brescia pizzeria in a mafia-style slaying police said Singh’s fingerprints had been compete with the slain couple’s popular ference. The case threatens to affect has emerged as the most prominent fig- that shocked Italy and threatens to found at the scene. Adnan is the owner business. But investigators are skeptical already-delicate community relations in ure on the right of Italian politics. “If it is inflame racial tensions in the northern of a failed similar pizza and snacks outlet about whether the case is actually that Brescia, where immigrants from South true (that they carried out the murders) city. Prosecutors said Pakistani national he bought from Seramondi. Hours after straightforward in a city known for the Asia and North Africa account for more these two bastards should be locked up Mohamed Adnan and Indian Sarbjit the attack the 32-year-old appeared on involvement of organized crime in extor- than a sixth of the population, high by for life, preferably in their own countries,” Singh had admitted to carrying out the television complaining that the neigh- tion rackets and the drugs trade. Italian standards. Salvini said yesterday. The son of the August 11 attack in which Francesco borhood had become “disgusting” and “Now the difficult phase of the investi- An angry mob gathered to greet slain couple, Marco Seramondi, appealed Seramondi, 65 and his wife Giovanna that the police had been sleeping. gation begins, in which we will try to Adnan and Singh on their arrival at the for calm, writing on his Facebook page: Ferrari, 63, were shot repeatedly with According to prosecutors, Adnan has establish if the suspects simply adopted city’s police headquarters for question- “We want justice to be done, not a sawn-off shotguns inside their takeaway. claimed he organized the murder with the methods of organized crime of if ing and the case was seized upon by vendetta.”—AFP Russia probes selfie with dead online community

MOSCOW: Russia is investigating an online trying to determine whether one individual community that urges members to post or a group of people are behind this,” selfies with dead people and even offers Syktyvkar police spokesman Alexander cash prizes for the best shot, police told Shidyusov told AFP. Shidyusov said the AFP yesterday. A police spokesman in the investigation was still at an early stage and northern city of Syktyvkar told AFP they could not elaborate on the legal repercus- have opened an investigation into a com- sions the community’s administrators could munity called “Selfie with the Deceased” on face. The profile of the community’s main popular Russian social networking site VK. administrator, named as Alfred Polyakov, The community’s administrators pledge has been blocked for “suspicious activity”. to pay between 1,000 and 5,000 rubles AFP managed to speak to Polyakov, with ($15-$76) for the best selfie with a corpse. the help of another individual running the They say the selfie-taker should be smiling site. Polyakov described himself as a 28- because the deceased “has gone to a better year-old university professor from Donetsk, place”. The community’s page is filled with the separatist-controlled city in eastern photographs of people posing alongside Ukraine. He said he created the community dead bodies at funeral homes. a month ago. “We created the group to It was still available on VK as of yester- change popular attitudes toward death,” day morning. The community, which now Polyakov told AFP in a telephone interview. has some 500 members, caught the atten- “Death is the start of a new life.” tion of law enforcement after its adminis- AFP was not able to verify whether trator announced a 5,000-ruble ($76) cash Polyakov was using his real name. Younger prize for the best selfie with the body of a Russians have embraced the selfie culture 13-year-old Syktyvkar girl killed in a car but sometimes with dubious or deadly accident, a police spokesman said. The fam- results. Last month, Russian police ily of the deceased teenager told local launched a campaign urging people to media they were afraid mobile phone cam- take safe selfies, with authorities reporting eras would start flashing at her funeral. that dozens of people have been killed and “We are working to elucidate the cir- hundreds more injured while striking high- cumstances surrounding these reports and risk poses. — AFP

JUBA: In this Monday, April 26, 2010 file photo, then Vice President Riek Machar, (left) and President of South Sudan Salva Kiir, centre, arrive for Sicily cancels fireworks to a press conference. — AFP respect 49 dead migrants S Sudan rivals hold peace ROME: A Sicilian port city receiving the transport to a morgue. bodies of 49 migrants, as well as more than Deputy Mayor Marco Consoli said the 300 fellow passengers rescued in the fireworks tradition was being scrapped “out talks to avoid sanctions Mediterranean, yesterday canceled its of respect for the 49” dead. Forty-nine annual fireworks show as it mourned the white balloons will be released instead, victims of yet another desperate voyage. local news reports said. Italy’s navy found ADDIS ABABA: South Sudan’s warring rivals return as vice-president. African Union, China and the “troika” of Britain, Fleeing war, persecution and poverty, more the migrants, who apparently died after were locked in peace talks yesterday in a bid to Norway and the United States. As well as than 2,300 migrants have died at sea so far inhaling fuel fumes, inside the hold of an broker a deal to end 20 months of civil war, just ‘Enough is enough’ Kenyatta, regional leaders at the talks include this year, with the route between Libya, overcrowded fishing boat. Italian coast hours ahead of deadline to avoid possible sanc- Tens of thousands of people have been killed host Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam where the smugglers are based, and south- guard officials said survivors include many tions. President Salva Kiir and rebel chief Riek in the civil war, and South Sudanese civil society Desalegn, as well as Ugandan President Yoweri ern Italy, being the deadliest by far. of the victims’ widows. The burial will be in Machar met alongside regional presidents in groups yesterday pleaded for a “stoppage of Museveni-who has sent troops into South Sudan Usually, coffins are unloaded onto docks Catania’s cemetery. Ethiopia, under intense diplomatic pressure to bloodshed” and a deal to be struck. “Enough is to back Kiir-and Sudanese President Omar Al- when rescue ships arrive with the bodies of Elsewhere in Italy’s south, a Croatian sign a deal by a deadline, Kenyan President enough,” a dozen groups said in a joint state- Bashir. migrants who died after falling overboard coast guard vessel, part of the European Uhuru Kenyatta said. ment. “The people of South Sudan cannot raise or being trapped in the hold of capsizing Triton rescue mission, brought to Reggio But Kiir, who arrived in Ethiopia late Sunday, another generation of South Sudanese children Ethnic massacres vessels or from other inhumane conditions. Calabria 354 survivors as well as one body said he had been “compelled” to join the talks, in civil war.” Kiir initially said he would not attend At least seven ceasefires have already been This time, authorities devised a new found aboard a crowded fishing boat run and warned it would not be possible to sign a talks, complaining it was not possible to strike agreed and then broken within days, if not hours method, since so many bodies arrived at by smugglers, Italy’s coast guard said. lasting or full peace deal until all opposition fac- an effective deal because rebel forces have split. in Africa’s newest country, which broke away once, aboard a Norwegian container ship Rough seas complicated rescuers’ work. tions could join the agreement. Powerful rebel general Peter Gadet and other from Sudan in 2011. Diplomats have warned any which took on the dead and the living from With southern cities running out of shelters “A peace that cannot be sustained cannot be key commanders last week accused Machar of failure to sign a peace deal could trigger “serious an Italian navy rescue vessel Saturday. A for asylum-seekers, survivors will be sent signed,” Kiir said Sunday. “You should sign some- seeking power for himself, and said they would consequences” for the rival leaders, including crane was being deployed to transfer the north. About 103,000 rescued migrants thing that you will enjoy. If it is signed today and not recognize any deal agreed. possible targeted sanctions and an arms embar- container holding the dead onto a truck for have reached Italy so far this year. —AP then tomorrow we go back to war, then what South Sudan’s civil war erupted in December go. Marked by widespread atrocities on both have we achieved?” Kenyatta however was more 2013 when Kiir accused his former deputy sides, the war has been characterized by ethnic optimistic, saying late Sunday that the talks were Machar of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of massacres and rape. Recent attacks have includ- “on course to strike a deal”. The rivals met retaliatory killings that has split the poverty- ed castration, burning people alive and tying Sunday with talks lasting late into the night, stricken, landlocked country along ethnic lines. children together before slitting their throats. before negotiations resumed yesterday morn- The latest round of talks opened on August 6, More than 70 percent of the country’s 12 million ing, diplomats said. Key issues of disagreement mediated by the regional eight-nation bloc people need aid, while 2.2 million people have include a power-sharing proposal between the IGAD, the Intergovernmental Authority on fled their homes, the UN says, with areas on the government and rebels, which could see Machar Development, as well as the United Nations, brink of famine. — AFP 10 dead as Ukraine violence escalates

KIEV: Fierce clashes in east Ukraine killed at pro-Kiev units. Its capture would allow the Mariupol’s port exports most of the breakaway least 10 people in the past 24 hours, govern- separatist militants to step up their stop-start east’s industrial output and controlling it could ment and rebel officials said yesterday, as campaign to capture Mariupol-a port city of be a step towards creating a land bridge Russia warned that Kiev could be preparing for nearly half a million on the western edge of between the separatist region and the a fresh offensive. The single day death toll is the loosely defined demilitarized zone. Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula. —AFP the highest in over a month as both sides accuse each other of gearing up for an onslaught that would finish off an already-tat- tered February truce. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov alleged that Ukraine’s forces were intensifying CATINA: Migrants wait in line as they disembark from the Norwegian military ship their activities in Shyrokine, a flashpoint village Siem Pilot in the Italian port. — AFP 10 kilometers from the government-held port of Mariupol. “We are concerned by the course of events in recent days which very strongly resembles the preparation for more military Mali groups clash again action,” Lavrov said. Ukraine and the West accuse Russia of ahead of talks in Niger pouring troops and weapons across the bor- der to fuel a conflict that has claimed more BAMAKO: Tuareg rebels in northern Mali aboard pick-up trucks raced out of the than 6,800 lives since April 2014 and has driv- attacked the positions of a pro-govern- town of Kidal, the separatists’ main strong- en at least 1.4 million people from their ment militia yesterday, in fighting that is hold, in the direction of the fighting early homes. Russia denies any links to the pro- undermining government attempts to yesterday, a Reuters witness said. Moscow insurgents and officially provides pacify the region, sources from both CMA spokesman Almou Ag Mohamed them only with political backing at negotia- groups said. Secessionist Tuaregs signed a said the Tuareg rebels had launched yester- peace agreement in June that Western day’s attacks only after Mali’s UN peace- tions and UN Security Council forums. countries including France hope will allow keeping mission failed to prevent Platform On the ground, Ukrainian officials reported the Malian army to focus on stamping out fighters making incursions into CMA-held the death of two soldiers and three civilians, Islamist groups, some of them linked to al areas. He said the CMA was unlikely to while a rebel commander said five civilians Qaeda. But tensions have been rising again, attend the talks in light of the violence. were killed across the conflict zone in the lat- and neighboring Niger is due to host talks “The planned talks in Niger are precisely est surge in violence. Volodymyr Kolesnyk, a to ease the situation on Wednesday. aimed at preventing what is happening spokesman for the local health department, A spokesman for the Platform, an this morning,” Ag Mohamed said. “I don’t told AFP that two civilians were killed in alliance of pro-government groups, said see any point to talks in Niger or anywhere overnight shelling in Sartana village some two fighters from the Tuareg Coordination of else before we are able to calm the situa- kilometers northeast of Mariupol. He said one Azawad Movements (CMA) had attacked tion on the ground.” Mali is seeking to man was killed and six more civilians were two Platform positions in the early morn- break a decades-long cycle of Tuareg upris- wounded in a Kiev-controlled village close to ing, in the third day of clashes. “I think that ings. the rebels’ de facto capital Donetsk. they are looking for a pretext to boycott Most recently in 2012, Tuareg rebels Meanwhile pro-Moscow separatist officials the meeting in Niamey by saying there are formed an alliance with Islamist militant reported the deaths of five civilians in clashes in the north,” said Fahad Ag groups and seized the desert north, overnight bombardments, three of them in Almahamoud, a leader of the Gatia militia, prompting a French-led intervention that the city of Donetsk. Kiev’s pro-Western forces which belongs to the Platform. scattered the Islamists but failed to eradi- in recent days have been fighting the rebels He said his group had not suffered any cate them. Now, Islamist violence is once for control of a strategic highway linking casualties in the fighting, which took place more on the rise and expanding further on two fronts near the towns of Anefis and south, putting more pressure on the gov- Donetsk with Mariupol-the last major govern- Amassine in the northern Kidal region from ernment to defuse tension with the ment-held city in the region. DONETSK: A Ukrainian serviceman walks in front of a house destroyed by shelling perpetrated around 6 a.m. Heavily armed CMA fighters Tuaregs. —- Reuters Most of the road is currently controlled by by pro-Russian separatists in the village of Sartana. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 Air strikes in NW Pakistan kill 24 militants: Officials

BANNU: Pakistani air strikes killed at least military recaptured most of the region in a 24 suspected militants in their northwest- major armed operation launched last June. ern strongholds yesterday, intelligence NATO forces had long urged Pakistan officials said, a day after a bomb killed a for such an offensive, saying Taleban safe provincial minister in the prime minister’s havens in the country were being used to political heartland. attack NATO and Afghan forces in The deeply forested ravines of Shawal Afghanistan. Since May, the military has Valley and Datta Khel are a smuggling stepped up operations in Shawal Valley, route between Pakistan and neighboring where the Taleban still operates freely. The Afghanistan, and are dotted with militant area is a stronghold of Khan “Sajna” Said, bases used as launch pads for attacks on the leader of a Taleban faction whose Pakistani forces. Two intelligence officials, name the United States last year put on a who declined to be identified as they were sanctions list of “specially designated glob- not authorised to speak on the record, said al terrorists”. Monday’s air strikes took place at 10 am in Most phone lines to the area have been the Zoi Nari, Lataka, Mizer Madakhel and cut and military roadblocks limit civilian Shawal areas of North Waziristan. movement. It is not possible to independ- “Jet air shelling destroyed six militant ently verify security forces’ claims of hideouts and killed 24 militants hiding in attacks and deaths. The Pakistani Taleban this area,” said one of the officials, adding mainly fight against the government in that the dead included some foreigners. A Islamabad and are separate from, but second official confirmed the deaths but allied with, the Afghan Taleban that ruled declined comment when asked if the Afghanistan in the late 1990s before being strikes were in retaliation for Sunday’s expelled in a US-led military intervention. attack in Punjab, which killed nine people, Both groups send fighters against including the provincial security chief. The Afghanistan’s Western-backed govern- Pakistani wing of the hard-line Islamist ment. Afghan officials have said the Taleban used to control all of mountainous Pakistani army offensive has driven large North Waziristan, which includes the numbers of fighters over the border, com- Shawal Valley and Datta Khel, and runs plicating the war in Afghanistan’s east and along the Afghan border. But the Pakistani north. — Reuters COLOMBO: Supporters of former Sri Lankan president and parliamentary candidate Mahinda Rajapakse shout slogans after the end of voting in the general election. — AFP Focus on former strongman in tight Sri Lankan elections ‘We have conducted a peaceful and fair election’

COLOMBO: Sri Lankans voted in parliamentary Rajapakse’s defeat. He said he voted to build a time prime minister. President Maithripala elections yesterday that will decide the political “decent country that respects the rights of all the Sirisena, who was Rajapakse’s health minister, is future of a former strongman leader seeking a communities and safeguards the democratic backing Wickremesinghe, with whom he formed comeback eight months after being unseated in rights of the people.” Dissanayake noted that an alliance in the January election after breaking a shocking election loss. Mahinda Rajapakse, Sri Rajapakse’s camp lost in the presidential election away from Rajapaksa’s government. Lanka’s leader for nine years until his Jan 8 presi- and said he should be defeated again and “sent Sirisena recently sent a letter to Rajapaksa, dential election defeat to a former ally, was run- home forever.’ which he also released to the media, saying he ning for Prime Minister, a position that is second Others, however, said the allegations against would not appoint him prime minister even if he to that of president. Rajapakse were politically motivated. “A lot of secures a majority in Parliament. Sirisena also Since that election loss, there has been a allegations were leveled at Mahinda Rajapaksa accused Rajapaksa of promoting ethnic dishar- reversal of fortunes for Rajapakse, his family and and his team, but so far no one has been sen- mony. A majority for Rajapaksa would put friends, who were once all powerful controllers tenced and punished. For me it means they were Sirisena in an uneasy position, with loyalists like- of the island nation. Some of them now face politically motivated allegations,” said Lalantha ly to pressure him to name Rajapakse prime min- investigations or lawsuits for corruption, misuse Rasika, a 41-year-old businessman. ister. The prime minister acts for the president in of power and even murder. Polls closed late yes- his absence and replaces him if he is impeached, terday afternoon, and the first results were not Warrior king incapacitated or dies. expected until after midnight. Rajapakse was hailed a warrior king for A majority for Wickremesinghe, meanwhile, Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya defeating the Tamil Tiger separatists to end a would create a cohabitation government said the election was incident-free other than nearly 26-year civil war. However, he is accused between the parties, led by Sirisena and some minor complaints. “We are very happy to of using his popularity to take control of Wickremesinghe, who have traditionally been say that we have conducted a peaceful, free and Parliament, the courts, the armed forces and all bitter rivals. Sri Lanka’s Parliament has 225 mem- fair election,” he said. Rajapaksa was confident government institutions. He was also accused of bers, so any party or coalition must win at least he would win. “I ask the people to celebrate our widespread human rights abuses and suppress- 113 seats to form a government. A local moni- DHAKA: A director of now closed BCI Bangladesh, Shahjahan Sarker (center) appears victory peacefully,” he told reporters after voting ing freedoms. toring group, the Campaign for Free and Fair in court. —AFP at his native village in southern Sri Lanka. Rajapakse was seeking an extended period of Elections, said that voter turnout was high and Jagath Dissanayake, a 40-year-old business- rule after abolishing a two-term limit for presi- that election laws were being followed. The man from the western city of Gampaha, said that dents when he lost in his attempt to win a third group said some candidates who attempted 13 to face charges over he voted to continue what he called positive term. His main rival in yesterday’s election was indirect campaigning near polling stations were Bangladesh teen’s death changes that the country has seen since the incumbent, Ranil Wickremesinghe, a two- told to stop by the police. — AP DHAKA: Bangladesh police have charged 13 like this, I will die.” At one stage he is told to Exodus growing as Afghans escape violence men with murder over the brutal lynching of walk away. But as he tries to get to his feet, a 13-year-old boy that provoked national one of the attackers shouts: “His bones are KABUL: Fingers nervously skittering over his fatal bombings. classes. One middle-class family told AFP the outrage after video footage of the attack okay. Beat him some more.” Ten men have cellphone, one Afghan man calls a people- The truck bombing which engulfed the decision to relocate to Turkey was affirmed went viral, a detective said yesterday. Police been arrested since the July 8 killing and smuggler in a third desperate attempt to area in flames was strong enough to tear a when their friendly neighborhood game of submitted a charge sheet to a court in the have confessed their involvement, Talukder claim asylum abroad, as a record number of massive hole in the ground, evoking compar- “cops and robbers” morphed one day into northern city of Sylhet on Sunday over the said. people escape escalating violence. The top- isons to a meteor strike. As Raheemi cowered “cops and bombers”-with their son playing killing last month of Samiul Alam Rajon, Another three, who fled the city, have pling of the repressive Taleban regime in 2001 inside his home with his family, his resolve to the suicide attacker to mock screams and gig- who was beaten to death by a mob after also been charged in absentia with murder being falsely accused of stealing a bicycle. including Kamrul Islam, who was arrested in had ignited new hope about the future of leave strengthened. gles. “After we filed the charge sheet including Saudi Arabia after officials received a tip Afghanistan, bringing waves of Afghan “A bomb could explode any minute, any- For another, it was the growing weariness the statements of some witnesses, the court from members of the country’s large refugees home, but recent years have wit- where. You could be sitting on the curb in a of navigating labyrinthine back routes to last evening accepted it,” detective Suronjit Bangladeshi expatriate community. A for- nessed a stark reversal of that trend. street and wind up dead,” he said. After cold- avoid possible bombing targets in Kabul-a Talukder, investigating the case, told AFP. eign ministry official said he hoped the The snaking queues outside Kabul’s pass- calling Western embassies did not bear fruit, war-scarred city awash with checkpoints, Samiul, accused of theft, was tied to a pole charge sheet would now prompt Saudi port office are a totemic indicator that the he is attempting to get a visa for neighboring snipers and surveillance blimps. “There is a and then subjected to a brutal assault in Arabia to speed up his repatriation. exodus is gathering fresh momentum as pes- Iran. Four decades of war has brought widespread feeling that things aren’t getting which he pleaded for his life. An autopsy Thousands of people demonstrated in simism abounds about the deteriorating war, endurance, but the expanding conflict, the any better,” said Khushal Nabizada, a 34-year- found 64 separate injuries had been inflicted Samiul’s home city and in a dozen other the tanking economy and a government specter of the Islamic State along with ram- old doctor of internal medicine. “Constantly on the teenager. cities and towns in the days after the murder widely derided as lacking direction. Ashraf, 28, pant joblessness and economic distress have lamenting the dead and girding for the worst A 28-minute video of Samiul, which was as outrage grew. Samiul’s father Sheikh casts worried looks around him as he bolts whipped up an undercurrent of fear and takes a huge psychological toll.” Nabizada widely circulated after being posted on Azizur Rahman told reporters yesterday he the door of his spartan home in a crowded hopelessness. The fractious power-sharing cites the case of his patient who suffered social media, has prompted deep soul- would not rest “until the culprits get proper Kabul suburb and gets the people-smuggler government headed by President Ashraf shrapnel wounds in a suicide attack in Kabul searching among Bangladeshis as well as a punishment”. His family says the boy is inno- named Murad, “highly recommended” by a Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah- in 2012. “He called long after his scars healed series of mass protests. In the video, the ter- cent of the accusation he stole the bicycle friend, on the phone. seen as a “car with two drivers” working some- to complain about regular bouts of rified youngster can be heard screaming in and police say their investigation found no “Meet me in Nimroz (on the Iran border),” times at cross-purposes-is blamed for failing headaches, diarrhoea and sleeplessness.” pain and repeating: “Please don’t beat me evidence of theft. —AFP Murad says over the crackling line after a to halt militant attacks. Those ailments dissipated this month when lengthy exchange of Islamic greetings. “The the US embassy in Kabul approved Special journey to Tehran will take four or five days- ‘Cops and bombers’ Immigrant Visas for his family. “What really partly by car, partly on foot.” “I have a handi- The desire to leave cuts across economic ailed him is the war,” said Nabizada. — AFP Dozens arrested in capped, wheelchair-bound brother,” says Ashraf, who allowed AFP to listen to the con- anti-charter rally versation but requested that his last name be withheld. “For you it’ll cost 2.2 million Toman KATHMANDU: Nepal police yesterday Maoist insurgency, which left an estimated (US$700); for your brother three million- arrested dozens of protestors against a pro- 16,000 people dead and brought down a because he cannot walk,” Murad says. “What if posed new constitution after they attacked 240-year-old Hindu monarchy. we are arrested and deported?” Ashraf asks, vehicles and forced shops to close on the Negotiations faltered on the issue of inter- his tone cagey. “No, no,” retorts Murad. “I’ve second day of a nationwide strike. The nal borders and lawmakers only reached been deported before and got duped (by the shutdown was called to protest plans to agreement after a devastating earthquake smuggler),” Ashraf insists. “Listen brother, I restructure Nepal as a federal state com- in April. give you 100 percent guarantee.” prising six provinces, with opposition par- But the plans are opposed by many in Ashraf, an oil-tanker driver who carries sup- ties saying the new internal borders dis- Nepal’s midwest and southern plains, plies from Kabul to military bases in Taleban- criminate against historically marginalised where hundreds staged violent protests prone provinces, was deported-first from communities. over the long-awaited constitution last Indonesia, next from Malaysia-while attempt- Police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam said week. Two people were killed when police ing to reach Australia in 2012. Hopeless and 82 people had been arrested “for trying to opened fire on demonstrators. The strike broke, his third attempt to flee spotlights the enforce the strike by forcing shops to shut was called by the CPN-Maoists, a break- anguished personal choices of Afghan civil- down and for vandalising seven vehicles”. away faction of the Maoist party, and by ians, increasingly caught in the cross-hairs of Protestors defied an indefinite curfew parties representing minority groups. an ascendant 14-year insurgency. The number imposed overnight in Jumla district in “Our demand is that they should cancel of Afghans seeking asylum in industrialized Nepal’s midwest, taking to the streets to this anti-people draft and write a constitu- nations has surpassed all previous years since demand a separate province as police tion that reflects the people’s aspirations 2001, with the UN refugee agency reporting a baton-charged demonstrators. and demands,” Pampha Bhusal, spokes- “Small groups are still sneaking out to woman for the CPN-Maoists, told AFP. Many 65 percent surge in applications in 2014 over vandalize and torch government buildings,” Nepalis expressed frustration over the the previous year. said Jumla police chief, Bishnu Hari Koirala. strike and its impact on livelihoods already “The situation is not yet under control.” In devastated by April’s quake that killed ‘Everyone is leaving’ neighboring Mugu district, where many nearly 8,900 people. “I can’t shut down my “Almost everyone I know is leaving or plan- also support the call for a separate mid- business every time someone decides to ning to leave-my aunts, my cousins, my neigh- western province, clashes erupted between call a strike,” said Min Bahadur Karki, who bor, my friend in Kandahar,” said Azeem security forces and protestors trying to van- owns a hardware store in the capital. Raheemi, 48, a transporter for a poultry feed dalize government offices, local police said. “Everyone has their own interests, there is supplier. Raheemi, a father of three, lives near Work on the constitution began in 2008, no way the constitution will satisfy all of Shah Shaheed, a working-class Kabul neigh- KABUL: This photograph taken on August 14, 2015, shows Ashraf (left) speaking with his two years after the end of a decade-long them,” Karki told AFP. —AFP borhood which was hit in a recent wave of handicapped eighteen year-old brother Raza in his wheelchair at his residence. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 INTERNATIONAL N Korea resumes speaker broadcasts amid tension

SEOUL: The rival Koreas have resumed first time in 11 years in retaliation. North tem. The North’s broadcasts mark the officials have said that the drills are pure- South Korean Defense Ministry official cross-border propaganda warfare as Korea has denied the accusations and restoration of inter-Korean propaganda ly defensive in nature. South Korea has said. North Korea is intolerant of any out- North Korea on Monday matched South threatened to launch strikes on South warfare along the border after the two said the two soldiers wounded from the side criticism of its leadership, led by Kim Korea’s loudspeaker campaign with Korean loudspeakers. North Korea began Koreas stopped the practice in 2004 as mine explosion were on a routine patrol Jong Un. Last year, North Korean troops broadcasts of its own that reportedly its own loudspeaker broadcasts Monday part of their efforts to ease animosities. at the southern part of the Demilitarized opened fire after South Korean activists included criticism of Seoul and praises for on the eastern part of the border, accord- Other practices, including leafleting and Zone that separates the two Koreas. One floated balloons carrying propaganda Pyongyang. The mutual propaganda ing a South Korean Defense Ministry offi- the operation of frontline billboards, of the soldiers lost both legs, while the leaflets across the border. South Korea attacks mark a further deterioration of cial who spoke on condition of anonymi- remain suspended, according to Seoul other lost one leg. returned fire, but no casualties were relations between the Koreas, who ty because of department rules. officials. South Korean loudspeaker broadcasts, reported. haven’t engaged in any serious talks in The official gave no further details. But which continued on Monday, were aimed The Koreas’ mine-strewn DMZ is the recent months. South Korean public broadcaster KBS, cit- Purely defensive at emphasizing that the mine blast was world’s most heavily armed border, with Last week, South Korea blamed the ing an unidentified military official, report- North Korea’s action also came as provocation committed by North Korea hundreds of thousands of combat troops North for land mine explosions that ed that the North Korean broadcasts Seoul and Washington launched annual and relaying messages about the superi- facing each other. It’s a legacy of the maimed two South Korean soldiers and mainly included criticism of South Korea military drills that Pyongyang calls an ority of Seoul-style democracy as well as 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with resumed propaganda broadcasts for the and praises for North Korea’s political sys- invasion rehearsal. South Korean and US world news and weather forecasts, the an armistice, not a peace treaty. —AP At least 16 dead as bomb shakes central Bangkok Explosion outside popular religious shrine

BANGKOK: At least 16 people were nessed. Charred and shattered that were bandaged, an AFP divided and seen repeated rounds killed, including foreigners and motorcycles littered the scene, along reporter on the scene said. “Some (of of deadly street protests and dozens injured when a bomb with hunks of concrete from the the victims) are Chinese,” Minister for bombings-but none on this scale. exploded yesterday outside a reli- shrine, with pools of blood on the Tourism Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul Many observers had predicted a gious shrine popular with tourists in pavement and two bodies crumpled told AFP as she visited the hospital. A fresh round of violence after the the Thai capital, scattering body on the steps of the shrine. Chinese and a Filipino were among military seized power in a coup in parts and debris. The blast occurred “It was a bomb, I think it was those confirmed dead, Thai police May last year, toppling a civilian about 6:30 pm when the street side inside a motorcycle... it was very big, said. With rumors abounding in a government led by Yingluck shrine was packed with worshippers look at the bodies,” one visibly city that is no stranger to major acts Shinawatra. Thailand’s defense min- and tourists-with the Thai police shocked rescue volunteer, who did of violence, officials denied reports ister said the bombers had targeted “foreigners” to try to damage the tourist industry, which is a rare bright spot in an otherwise gloomy TIANJIN: A resident injured by the explosions that hit a nearby chemical economy. warehouse last week holds a photo of herself injured as she joins a protest “It was a TNT bomb... the people outside the hotel where authorities are holding a press conferences. —AFP who did it targeted foreigners and to damage tourism and the econo- my,” said Prawit Wongsuwong, a China orders nationwide former general who is believed to have been one of the key coup- safety check after blasts makers. Self-exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who is TIANJIN: Beijing yesterday ordered a conferences about the disaster. “Kids are ask- Yingluck’s brother and who was nationwide check on workplace safety and ing: How can we grow up healthy?” read toppled by a 2006 coup, sits at the to correct all irregularities five days after another banner. Tianjin officials have been heart of the political divide. huge explosions at warehouse in the port hard-pressed to answer how the warehouse Parties led by him or his sister or city of Tianjin killed 114 people and left 70 was allowed to operate in its location. supporters have won every election people missing. The directive from the Questions also have been raised about man- since 2001 thanks to the votes of Ministry of Industry and Information agement of the warehouse and the coun- the rural north and northeast. But Technology lamented the frequency of fatal try’s top prosecuting office announced he is loathed by the Bangkok-based workplace incidents and demanded a thor- Sunday that it was setting up a team to royalist elite. Thailand is also fight- ough national inspection on all safety risks. investigate possible offenses related to the ing a festering insurgency in its Meanwhile, prosecutors have been massive blasts, including dereliction of duty Muslim-majority southernmost tasked with investigating possible derelic- and abuse of power. provinces bordering Malaysia. More tion of duties and abuse of power that may Ruihai’s general manager is in hospital than 6,400 people-mostly civilians- have contributed to Wednesday night’s under police watch. Bian Jiang, a resident of have been killed there. In the so- blasts. “We must thoroughly investigate (the one of the nearby housing complexes, said called “Deep South”, bombs are a incident) and hold accountable all those he was asleep when the first explosion near-daily reality alongside shoot- responsible,” said Premier Li Keqiang, as struck Wednesday shortly before midnight. ings and ambushes of security quoted by state media. “We must give an “Twenty seconds later I heard the second forces. answer for families of the victims, an answer explosion and saw the rising mushroom Civilians are overwhelmingly the for all residents of Tianjin, an answer for all cloud. Then, I was thrown out of bed by the BANGKOK: Thai rescue workers transport an injured person after a bomb exploded outside a target. But the conflict, which sees religious shrine. —AFP Chinese people, and an answer for history.” force of the blast. I was wondering if we local rebels calling for greater Upset at government negligence, about would able to get out alive,” he said, adding autonomy from the Thai state, has 100 people whose residences were dam- that his home is now ruined. “All the win- chief confirming at least 10 Thais, not want to be named, told AFP. The of more devices in an area, which is stayed highly localized. There has aged in the explosions gathered yesterday dows are gone.” one Chinese and one Filipino citizen city’s medical emergency centre said home to several high end hotels and never been a confirmed attack by for a protest to demand compensation from The blasts claimed the lives of at least were among the dead. more than 80 people were wounded major shopping malls. the insurgents outside the south- the government. Wednesday’s blasts origi- 114 people, with 70 still missing, including “The death toll is now 16,” police by the blast, which rattled windows ern region despite the years of war. nated at a warehouse for hazardous materi- 64 firefighters and six policemen, Tianjin spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri told several kilometers from the site. ‘Foreigners targeted’ The Erawan is an enormously popu- al, where 700 tons of sodium cyanide - a tox- government spokesman Gong Jiansheng AFP, adding the blast was likely polit- There were chaotic scenes at While there was no immediate lar shrine to the Hindu god Brahma ic chemical that can form combustible sub- told a news conference yesterday. He ically motivated and designed to Chulakongkorn Hospital, one of a claim of responsibility for the but is visited by thousands of stances on contact with water - were being Shushan, a deputy mayor, confirmed there bring “chaos” in a the junta-ruled number of nearby medical facilities attack, suspicion swiftly fell on the Buddhist devotees every day. It is stored in amounts that violated safety rules. were 700 tons of the toxic chemical sodium kingdom. Glass was strewn across that received victims as nurses fer- kingdom’s rival political factions. located on a traffic-choked inter- That has prompted contamination fears and cyanide on the site at the time of the blasts, the street after the explosion outside ried the injured on gurneys. One Thailand has been seared by a section in Bangkok’s commercial a major cleanup of a 3-kilometer -radius, cor- although the authorities said there have not the Erawan Shrine in the central man who was conscious had visibly near-decade of political violence hub and surrounded by three doned-off area in this Chinese port city been any substantial leaks. Authorities also Chidlom district, an AFP reporter wit- burned hair and a number of cuts that has left the country deeply major shopping malls. —AFP southeast of Beijing. said they had sealed all waterways leading into the sea from the blast site and built Logistics failure retention walls to prevent any runoff. Chinese work safety rules require such Weather obstructs efforts to facilities to be at least 1,000 meters away Toxic chemical from residences, public buildings and high- Sodium cyanide is a toxic chemical that ways. But online map searches show the can form a flammable gas upon contact reach Indonesian plane crash Ruihai International Logistics warehouse with water, and several hundred tons would was within 500 meters of both an express- be a clear violation of rules cited by state way and a 100,000-square-meter (1-million- media that the warehouse could store no JAYAPURA: Bad weather hampered efforts yester- to the head of the Jayapura post office. The cash visibility to one meter and rain hindered the bid square-foot) apartment complex. Those more than 10 tons at a time. The ministry’s day to reach debris in remote eastern Indonesian was being carried by four post office officials in to reach the crash site, the head of Indonesia’s apartments had walls singed and windows directive ordered government authorities at mountains believed to be from a plane that bags. search and rescue agency Bambang Soelistyo shattered, and all the residents have been all levels to check whether companies with- crashed carrying 54 people and cash worth almost The plane disappeared about 10 minutes told AFP. Efforts to reach the location, about 15 evacuated. in their jurisdiction that produce and store half a million dollars. More than 250 rescuers had before reaching its destination, soon after the kilometers from Oksibil, were called off for the “We victims demand: Government, buy hazardous materials comply with safety reg- tried to battle through dense forest to reach what crew requested permission to start descending in day at 5:30 pm (0830 GMT) and would resume back our houses,” said a banner carried by ulations, especially if they keep a safe dis- is thought to be the wreckage of the Trigana Air heavy cloud to land. It is just the latest air accident Tuesday, he added. the residents at a protest outside the Tianjin tance from residential areas and do not plane, which disappeared Sunday during a short in Indonesia, which has a poor aviation safety hotel where officials have held daily news exceed storage limits. —AP flight in Papua province. record and has suffered major disasters in recent Fire-blackened The ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop plane was car- months, including the crash of an AirAsia plane in A photo of the suspected site showed an area rying 49 passengers and five crew on the journey December with the loss of 162 lives. that appeared to be fire-blackened and scattered from Papua’s capital Jayapura to Oksibil, a remote A plane yesterday spotted debris engulfed in with debris in thick forest, and Soelistyo said he Philippines can’t afford settlement in the mountains to the south. Also on smoke in the mountains near Oksibil and search was “98 percent” certain it was the location of the the plane was 6.5 billion rupiah ($470,000) in cash, teams, including soldiers and police, set off in the crash. He said the chance of any survivors was military modernization which were social assistance funds being trans- early hours to reach the site, which is at an alti- “very slim”. All those on the plane were believed to ported for distribution to poor families, according tude of 8,300 feet. But thick fog, which reduced be Indonesians. MANILA: The Philippines can only afford a Philippine Air Force chief Lieutenant- Relatives of passengers were becoming “frugal” military upgrade, defense officials General Jeffrey Delgado said the 10 new increasingly frustrated at the lack of hard news. said yesterday, even though maritime ten- helicopters will be used to address internal Some shouted “We want confirmation!” and threw sions with China are growing. Despite a security problems. The military expects a table at a crisis centre set up by Trigana Air at proposed 25 percent rise in next year’s more aircraft deliveries this year including Jayapura airport. “My family and I have been gath- defense budget, the government must still possibly the first two of 12 FA-50 fighter jets ered here for hours. We want to know the fate of divide resources between external defense earlier ordered from a South Korean suppli- my brother, Kepi Deal, who was on board the and internal threats like insurgencies and er, Delgado told reporters. Delgado said the plane,” Rifan Wea, one of about 100 relatives at the natural disasters, Defense Secretary FA-50S were mere “transition aircraft” airport, told AFP. “We want to know whether he is Voltaire Gazmin and other security officials toward more advanced more advanced dead or alive.” added. Since President Benigno Aquino fighters jets which the Philippines cannot Small aircraft are commonly used for transport took office in mid-2010, the Philippines has now afford. in remote and mountainous Papua and bad acquired two former US coast guard cut- Defence department spokesman Peter weather has caused several accidents in recent ters, three landing craft from Australia and Paul Galvez said communist and Muslim years. Last week a Cessna propeller plane crashed South Korea and seven surpluses UH-1H insurgencies remained a priority despite the in Papua’s Yahukimo district, killing one person helicopters. new watchfulness on Philippine borders. and seriously injuring the five others on board. “The goal of updating and modernizing “We are first focusing on internal security Officials suspect that crash was caused by bad our armed forces is a long and painstaking and in the succeeding horizons, we will go weather. Trigana Air, a small domestic Indonesian process,” Gazmin told a ceremony for the towards external defense,” he said, criticiz- airline, has experienced a string of serious inci- commissioning of 10 more newly-acquired ing China’s reclamation work. “They should dents and is banned from flying in European air force helicopters. “That means we have stop their island-building. That steps up the Union airspace. to be frugal and acquire reliable platforms pace of militarization,” Galvez said. The Last year’s AirAsia crash was one of two major at very reasonable costs... as allowed by Philippines has been among the most vocal air accidents that Indonesia has suffered in the our meager financial resources.” The mod- in challenging China’s sea claims, which also past year alone. The second incident happened in est upgrade has been prompted partly by overlap those of Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan June when an Indonesian military plane crashed China’s moves to stake its claim to most of and Vietnam. US ambassador Philip into a residential neighborhood in the city of the South China Sea. These include build- Goldberg said the United States, the Medan, exploding in a fireball and killing 142 peo- ing new islands in the Spratly archipelago Philippines’ closest defense ally, was ready JAYAPURA: Indonesian relatives of passengers check the flight manifest posted out- ple. The aviation sector in Indonesia is expanding and taking effective control of to provide surplus military equipment and fast as the economy booms but airlines are strug- Scarborough Shoal after a standoff with budgeted $50 million in foreign military aid side Jayapura airport yesterday following the crash of a Trigana Air ATR 42-300 twin- gling to find enough well-trained personnel to the Philippine Navy. to the Philippines last year. —Agencies turboprop the day before. —AFP keep up with the rapid growth. —AFP NEWS TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015

AL-WAKRAH: Picture shows foreign laborers working at the construction site of the Al-Wakrah football stadium (one of the Qatar’s 2022 World Cup stadiums) walking back to their accommoda- tion at the Ezdan 40 compound after finishing work in Doha’s Al-Wakrah southern suburbs. — AFP Qatar launches labor reform for migrant... Iraq Prime Minister scraps third Continued from Page 1 last-minute concessions to business or extend the grace period and also to ensure the WPS will be rigorously of cabinet posts in reform drive From that date, companies which fail to pay staff on enforced. “We shouldn’t see August 18 as some sort of time could face fines of up to 6,000 Qatari riyals panacea, now we have the law, how will it be enforced? BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi Sistani, who is revered by millions, have shielded as well as announced the removal of 11 of 33 cabinet posts Sunday, influenced Abadi’s efforts, as it is politically risky for rival ($1,650/1,485 euros), be banned from recruiting new “The government now has a benchmark it can apply the first concrete step in a reform drive to curb corruption Shiite politicians to publicly oppose measures called for by staff, and bosses potentially sent to jail. Inspection teams to business. The government should effectively enforce and streamline the government. The announcement came the top cleric. But even with popular support and Sistani’s will monitor the new system and identify any firms not this law,” added Qadri. “We shouldn’t see August 18 as a as parliament and Abadi made preliminary moves toward backing, the entrenched nature of corruption and the fact complying with the regulations. The WPS is being over- deadline but a new beginning for Qatar.” Doha has said it holding top officials-including ex-premier Nuri Al-Maliki- that parties across the political spectrum benefit from it seen by the labor ministry, which has previously pointed backs “effective and sustainable change” and says the accountable for military disasters in the cities of Mosul and will make any efforts extremely difficult. to its introduction as proof of Qatar’s commitment to WPS, like Qatar’s promise of accommodation improve- Ramadi, which have been seized by the Islamic State Earlier on Sunday, lawmakers said that a parliamentary labor reform. In May, the ministry cited the WPS as an ments for 250,000 workers, demonstrates a commitment jihadist group. investigation found former Prime Minister Maliki-who is example of the “significant changes” being introduced in to this end. Abadi rolled out a reform program a week ago in now a vice president-to be among those responsible for IS response to furious criticism of its labor practices since But reform of the WPS only adds to the calls for response to popular pressure from weeks of protests jihadists overrunning Iraq’s second city Mosul in June 2014. the controversial decision to allow Qatar to host football’s change elsewhere, specifically the biggest reform of all, against corruption and poor services, and to a call for dras- Various former senior officials were also named in the biggest tournament. scrapping of the controversial “kafala” system, which lim- tic change from Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali report detailing the committee’s findings, which has not its the movement of foreign workers. Qadri called “kafala” Al-Sistani. Parliament approved Abadi’s plan along with been publicly released. An MP on the committee said these New beginning? the “elephant in the room” and said the changes being additional measures two days later, but a major gap include defense minister Saadun al-Dulaimi, army chief of Amnesty International, which has previously criticized introduced on August 18 should open the door to further remains between announcements and implementation. In staff Babaker Zebari, his deputy Aboud Qanbar, ground Qatar for its “slow” pace of reform, said the introduction reforms. He referred specifically to the ending of the con- a first move from proposals to action, Abadi scrapped three forces commander Ali Ghaidan, Nineveh operations com- of the WPS was “welcome”. “It’s a positive step in princi- troversial kafala system which has been likened by some deputy premier positions, three ministries and a minister mand chief Mahdi al-Gharawi and the province’s governor, ple,” said Amnesty’s Gulf migrant rights researcher, critics to modern-day slavery. Qatar has pledged by the without portfolio, and merged four more ministries with Atheel al-Nujaifi. Mustafa Qadri. However, Amnesty still has concerns end of 2015 to abolish the system under which employ- others, his office said Sunday. The report was presented Sunday to parliament speaker about what will actually happen in practice following the ers retain the passports of workers, who are not allowed It is unclear whether the scrapped ministries-human Salim Al-Juburi, who said it will be sent to the prosecutor deadline today. It has called on Doha not to make any to change jobs. — AFP rights and the ministries of state for women’s affairs and for general for legal action. “No one is above the law and ques- provincial and parliamentary affairs-will continue in anoth- tioning by the people, and the judiciary will punish those” er form, or will be done away with altogether. Amid a responsible, Juburi said in a statement. IS launched a dev- major heatwave that has seen temperatures top 50 astating offensive on June 9 last year, overrunning Mosul Shuaiba oil refinery fire ‘not terror act’ degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit), protesters have the next day and then sweeping through large areas north railed against the poor quality of services, especially power and west of Baghdad. Continued from Page 1 contracts worth a combined $11.5 billion (10.3 billion outages that leave just a few hours of government-sup- While Baghdad’s forces have regained ground, the euros) to international consortiums for the construction of plied electricity per day. Thousands of people have turned jihadists still hold much of western Iraq, including the city Shuaiba refinery produces light, medium and heavy a 615,000 bpd oil refinery. Last year, Kuwait awarded ten- out in Baghdad and cities in the Shiite south to vent their of Ramadi, which they seized in May after government products, including gas, ordinary naphtha, gasoline, ders for a project worth $12 billion (10.8 billion euros) to anger and pressure the authorities to make changes. forces had held out against militants there for more than a kerosene, fuel oil and diesel. Shuaiba produces around 2 upgrade the Mina Al-Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah refiner- Their demands were given a boost when Sistani called year. Abadi’s office said Sunday that he had cleared the million tons of gasoil and another 2 million tons of jet fuel, ies. When that work is completed by around 2018 and the on August 7 for Abadi to take “drastic measures” against way for the military prosecution of senior commanders another industry source said, adding that while he did not new refinery is built, Kuwait’s refining capacity will increase corruption, saying the “minor steps” he had announced responsible for the disastrous loss of Ramadi. Abadi expect much impact on gasoil exports, supplies of jet fuel from the current 930,000 bpd to 1.4 million bpd. Kuwait were not enough. The following Friday, Sistani said judicial approved “decisions of the investigative commission on could be disrupted. says it is home to 10 percent of the world’s proven oil reforms were needed, and Abadi responded by calling on the withdrawal of the Anbar operations command and Last July, Kuwait announced that it had awarded four reserves and is pumping 2.8 million bpd.—Agencies the judiciary to carry out measures to ensure its independ- units attached to it from the city of Ramadi”, his office said ence and allow it to fight corruption. Calls for change by in a statement. — AFP MANSOORI

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 ANALYSIS

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he following are profiles of key players in Sri Lanka’s general Telection yesterday. Mahinda Rajapakse Sri Lanka’s former strongman president, who was ousted in January and is seeking a return to power as prime minister, is a polar- izing figure. He won huge popularity among the majority Sinhalese for crushing Tamil separatist rebels in a no-holds-barred offensive in 2009 that ended a 37-year-long ethnic war. But he is deeply unpopu- lar with the country’s Tamil minority, who voted overwhelmingly for his successor in January. He has also been criticised for filling posi- tions of power with his own relatives, some of whom now face charges of large-scale corruption. His success in overseeing an end to the war in 2009 propelled him to a huge election win and a second term in office. He used his mandate to give himself more powers and remove a two-term limit on the presidency, but his decision to call a snap election for a third term prompted a stunning revolt from within Volunteers fill aid void in Greek ‘crisis within a crisis’ his own party. Rajapakse publicly blamed his defeat on lack of support from By Michele Kambas lation exchange”, hundreds of thousands of to cross the sea border but the figures formed at clusters of taps where people Tamils and Muslims, who together account for about a quarter of Sri Muslims living in Greece were forced to have soared in the past five months due to washed clothes. Lanka’s 20 million people and can tip the scales when the majority ather Efstratios Dimou knows all move in the opposite direction. Dimou has upheaval in the Middle East and particular- “We walked here,” said Afghan Azadah Sinhalese are divided. His opponents blamed nepotism and huge about physical suffering and his fami- long set off from his home town of Kalloni, ly the Syrian civil war. Mohammad Hussein, 16, sitting in a tent corruption. The new government launched several investigations Fly has also known what it is to be a touring the island in a sturdy old car he Noeske-Riggers, a 60-year-old retired outside Moria, an army barracks surround- into charges Rajapakse and his family siphoned off billions of dollars. refugee. Now the Orthodox priest leads a affectionately calls “Tarzan”, helping where dietary consultant from the northern ed by razor wire which has been converted His second son has also been implicated in a murder, although small army of volunteers on the island of he can. “We fed 100 people today,” he told German town of Eutin, has returned to into a reception centre. She and her family Rajapakse has defended his family, claiming a political vendetta. Lesbos tackling Greece’s crisis within a cri- Reuters. “We offer them love, a plate of Lesbos for three months. “I was here as a walked 50 km through mountains to get to “What ever you may say, we are not thieves and I don’t have blood on sis. Despite suffering from lung cancer, food and hope.” tourist in May. There was something so the facility. “We had no food and we were my hands,” he told a press conference last week. Dimou - along with fellow volunteers from drinking water, dirty water, from the Some of the strongest criticism of Rajapakse has come from out- near and far - has toured the island offering ground,” she said. side Sri Lanka. World leaders boycotted a Commonwealth summit he people help that the Greek state, mired in a Tents surround the camp as its popula- hosted in November 2013 to protest his refusal to investigate alleged five-year debt crisis, can scarcely afford to tion exceeds the official capacity of 1,000 war crimes by his troops. When the United States and the European provide any more. Once Dimou’s group people. Hussein was sharing a tent with her Union cut off aid, Rajapakse leaned heavily on China, Iran and Libya Aggalia - Greek for “Embrace” - fed only the sister, parents and two other families. Water as well as other Asian nations for cash and arms to fight the Tamil Tigers. A lawyer by profession, Rajapakse is strong believer in astrolo- local poor, victims of the long economic supplies are limited and food is delivered in gy. During the current campaign he was nicknamed “lord of the rings” depression. a truck twice a day. “I missed it today,” she because he wore rings as lucky charms-adding to the number as the But now Greece is struggling with what said, as the sun set behind the hills sur- campaign got tougher. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called a rounding the camp. “There wasn’t any left.” “humanitarian crisis within the economic Maithripala Sirisena crisis”. He has acknowledged his cash- State failures President Sirisena was a relative unknown even in Sri Lanka until strapped government cannot cope with Tsipras has appealed for help from the he became the opposition’s surprise choice to challenge his former boatloads of migrants fleeing war and European Union, which has failed to come mentor Rajapakse for the top job. The 63-year-old became an unlikely poverty who are crossing to the Greek up with a comprehensive policy to handle rallying point for disaffected Sri Lankans after walking out of islands from neighboring Turkey. So once the crisis. Eva Cosse, an Athens-based assis- Rajapakse’s government a day after sharing dinner with the former again Aggalia is trying to fill the gap creat- tant researcher with Human Rights Watch, strongman president. He ran on a promise of radical reforms includ- ed by strained government resources. says Greece must share some blame for fail- ing abolishing the executive presidency within 100 days and return- “State services are virtually non-existent so ing to tap 500 million euros in EU funding ing the country to a Westminster-style parliamentary democracy. But volunteers are stepping in. We are doing as for immigration and asylum projects. But his legislative agenda was stalled by a parliament dominated by MPs much as we can, but there are so many she also said EU countries had promised to loyal to Rajapakse, who ruled for over a decade. arrivals,” said Dimou, known as “Papa resettle only “pitiful” numbers of asylum Sirisena has succeeded in introducing some reforms, depoliticiz- Stratis”, who is permanently hooked up to seekers. ing the police, judiciary, and other public services and restoring a an oxygen tank because of his chronic res- One problem is that the migrants do not two-term limit on the presidency. But he has struggled to impose his piratory condition. KOS: Syrian migrants paddle their dinghy to the shores of the Greek island of want to stay in Greece and are trying to authority over his United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and was Greece has become the biggest Kos yesterday after their small engine broke down as they motored across the travel on to wealthier countries in northern powerless to prevent Rajapakse from standing as one of the party’s European gateway for migrants from the sea from Turkey. —AFP Europe where more help and jobs may be candidates. Despite his mild-mannered reputation, he has made no Middle East, Asia and Africa seeking a safer available. Often the EU funds are earmarked secret of his feelings about his predecessor, saying he will use his and better life. Numbers exceeded 135,000 Tourist turns helper wrong when I saw refugees chasing my for people seeking asylum, rather than executive powers to ensure Rajapakse will not be the next prime min- this year at the last count, more even than Not all the volunteers are local. An tour bus, and they weren’t allowed on,” she those classified as economic migrants. “The ister. “If I had not won the presidency, I would be six feet under by those making the perilous crossing of the hour’s drive north of Kalloni, German told Reuters as she handed out turkey and government cannot take funds to build now,” he told a public rally after his win, accusing the former leader of Mediterranean to Italy. On Lesbos, local Konny Noeske-Riggers turns up every cheese sandwiches to a group of Afghan reception centers for asylum seekers and plotting to assassinate him and his family if he had lost. people often sympathize with the migrants’ morning at 6 am at a car park on the out- arrivals in the village of Mithimna. On then host people who don’t apply for asy- Usually dressed in the white sarong and tunic favored by Sri plight because among the population of skirts of a village with crates of juice, Lesbos, migrants are taken to two recep- lum. It’s a tricky thing,” Cosse said. So in the Lankan politicians, Sirisena appeals to a rural electorate while his about 75,000 are many descendents of apples, sandwiches and water. And waits. tion centers run by Greek authorities, but meantime, volunteers such as Papa Stratis main backer, the centre-right United National Party, is more popular refugees from Turkey. A group of about 40 people arrive within where facilities are less than basic. Most fill the void. “One day we helped reunite a in urban areas. Unlike previous Sri Lankan leaders, Sirisena addresses Dimou, 57, himself is the third genera- the hour, exhausted from the sea journey services are offered by volunteers. With Pakistani with his family who got separated international and regional gatherings in his native Sinhalese, even tion of a family that arrived as refugees. In across the narrow stretch of water separat- few tents to go around, Reuters journalists on the road. We took to the streets until we though he is competent in English. The son of a World War II veteran, the 1920s huge numbers of ethnic Greeks ing Lesbos from Turkey. They have just saw families sleeping on cardboard at found him. He was a Muslim, I’m a Christian Sirisena entered parliament in 1989 after settling in the eastern dis- were forced out of Turkey, many settling on dodged the coastguard and sea currents dawn as men huddled around fires. Later, priest and he hugged and kissed me,” he trict of Polonnaruwa. He was jailed for nearly two years after being Greek islands such as Lesbos which lies in for their journey into the unknown aboard they vied for shade from the blazing mid- said. “God is love. He doesn’t know gender, arrested on suspicion of leading a revolt against the government in sight of the Turkish coast. Under this “popu- inflatable dinghies. People have long tried day sun under olive trees as queues race or borders.” —Reuters 1971 when he was just 20. His vision for the country ties in closely with the free-market, investor-friendly policies of the UNP, which pro- vided him with the political base to challenge Rajapakse. Poverty drives Myanmar girls into underage sex work Ranil Wickremesinghe Sri Lanka’s outgoing prime minister is a champion of free enter- prise who has managed to win economic and political support from By Htet Khaung Lin teenage girls to end up in the industry which is beauty salons or massage parlors where it is Sex education both the West and regional superpower India in his eight months in illegal in Myanmar. Aid workers warn the prob- safer than roaming the streets. “I’m scared to ply Aid workers say underage sex workers are at office. The 66-year-old was handpicked by Sirisena to lead a minority eenager Wut Yee was devastated when lem could get worse if not confronted by the trade on the street,” said Poh Poh, a single physical risk as they tend to know little about government after the shock ousting of the country’s longtime leader her mother, a sex worker, told her that she authorities as Myanmar society opens up after mother who became a sex worker a year ago how to protect themselves. A 2014 UNAIDS Rajapakse in January. His United National Party is the favorite in yes- Thad just agreed to sell her daughter’s vir- half a century of isolation under military rule. after separating from her husband. report estimated 189,000 people in Myanmar terday’s polls, giving him a shot at a fourth stint as head of govern- ginity to a businessman for $3,000. Wut Yee, They say support and rehabilitation is more Since Myanmar’s political reforms began, live with HIV - one of the highest rates in Asia ment. Wickremesinghe, a nephew of Sri Lanka’s first executive presi- then 14, had quit school to handle household important than punitive measures. “This issue is campaigners and opposition lawmakers have after Cambodia and Thailand - and government dent, Junius Jayewardene, almost became a reporter. chores and look after her brother but had no directly linked to poverty,” said Sid Naing, coun- called for changes to the law on sex work, the figures estimate 23 percent of HIV-infections in But a government takeover of his family’s newspaper in 1973 other source of income. The monsoon was com- try director for Marie Stopes International 1949 Suppression of Prostitution Act, which Yangon and Mandalay were among sex work- deprived him of a newspaper career and he went into politics instead. ing and their thatch-roofed house in Yangon’s Myanmar, which runs health education and they argue limits workers’ access to healthcare ers. According to Sex Worker in Myanmar He rose to be prime minister in May 1993, when a suicide bomber Hlaingthaya Township required urgent repairs. support programs. “It is ... important for society and makes the women vulnerable to threats Network’s Thu Zar Win, sex education is almost assassinated President Ranasinghe Premadasa. A similar incident Her brother’s school fees and old debts also to not just criticize them, but to understand and harassment from security officials. The law non-existent for youths. Wut Yee never received arguably cost him the presidency in December 1999 when Chandrika needed to be paid. “The next morning, I had to why it happened and help them get on the makes it illegal to solicit in public, force or entice any sex education. She was making an average Kumaratunga, the daughter of the country’s well-known follow this man after the doctor injected me right path.” a woman into sex work, and to operate or work of $30 a day in a country where, according to a Bandaranaike dynasty, was wounded in a suicide bomb attack. The with anaesthetics. He took me in his car to a in a brothel. It was amended in 1998 to increase UN report last year, 43 percent of adults live on attackers struck just three days before the presidential election and house on the outskirts of town. I spent the Virgin market sentences to up to three years in prison. Sandar under $2 per day. “I was happy with how much I Kumaratunga went on to win narrowly on a wave of sympathy. —AFP whole day with him,” said Wut Yee, 16, recalling Naing said the practice of buying underage Min, a lawmaker with the opposition National was making, but what terrified me was that my the events from two years ago. girls for sex is fuelled in part by superstitious League for Democracy, submitted a proposal in mother’s health deteriorated. We found out at “I wasn’t in pain when he sent me back beliefs that sleeping with virgins has health parliament calling for decriminalization of sex the end of last year that she has HIV,” she said. home in the evening because of the medica- benefits, such as long life and curing the human work in 2013, but it was rejected. Without a high school degree, job opportu- tion, but I couldn’t walk properly,” the teenager immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS. Taw Win Khayay, a network of sex workers, is nities for Wut Yee were scarce but she decided All articles appearing on these told Myanmar Now, an independent news serv- Most underage girls leave rural areas for the calling for an analysis and rewriting of the law. to quit prostitution for a lesser-paid job as a pages are the personal opinion of ice supported by the Thomson Reuters cities due to a mix of family difficulties and few Local media reported in July that a parliamen- salesgirl in a mobile phone shop in Yangon. “I’m Foundation. Soon afterwards, Wut Yee, who job opportunities, said Thu Zar Win from the Sex tary committee proposed making procurement only earning $80 a month now but I feel there is the writers. Kuwait Times takes no asked that her real name not be used, ended up Worker in Myanmar Network. “Most child sex of sex punishable with jail of up to one year with more security,” she said, although she remains responsibility for views expressed working at a massage parlor that doubles as a workers enter this profession because their par- hard labor and a fine. It also proposed adding a tempted to return to prostitution, even tem- therein. Kuwait Times invites read- brothel near Bayint Naung market, one of ents or guardians sold their virginity,” she said. section on “rehabilitating” sex workers through porarily, to help her family’s finances. Wut Yee Yangon’s busiest places. She quit after two Government and United Nations figures in education. Major Thi Thi Myint, deputy head of hopes one day to find a husband who she could ers to voice their opinions. Please months to work on the streets. Due to the clan- 2013 estimated that 0.45 percent of Myanmar Yangon Police’s crime statistics department, said be honest with about her past. For now, aware send submissions via email to: opin- destine nature of sex work in Myanmar, it is women aged between 15 to 49 years - an esti- 1,772 prostitution-related crimes were recorded of deep discrimination towards sex workers in [email protected] or via snail impossible to know how many underage girls mated 40,000 to 80,000 - are engaged in paid in 2014 but few related to under-age workers. “If Myanmar, she is not taking any chances and like Wut Yee are involved in the trade in Yangon, sex work. Poh Poh, a 21-year-old sex worker we apprehend underage sex workers, we don’t none of her co-workers know of her past. “I mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. the country’s biggest city that is home to about who requested her real name not be used, said send them to prison. We send them to youth don’t want to blame my mother for what hap- The editor reserves the right to edit five million of the nation’s 53 million people. most girls who became sex workers via the vir- rehabilitation schools and teach them vocation- pened to me. I will get married one day and I’m any submission as necessary. But interviews with sex workers and aid gin market faced difficulties leaving the indus- al skills and general knowledge that would help only thinking of ensuring my daughters do not workers revealed it was not uncommon for try. Many tend to work in brothels disguised as them to leave this job,” she added. have to suffer the same fate,” she said. —Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 SPORTS

Mbiwa eyes French recall Alptekin stripped of gold SA prosecutors file appeal PARIS: Former French international Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa is hoping his BERNE: Turkey’s Asli Cakir-Alptekin has been stripped of JOHANNESBURG: South African state prosecutors filed an appeal yesterday transfer to Olympique Lyonnais will help him regain a place in the national the 2012 Olympic women’s 1,500 metres gold medal and against the verdict of culpable homicide passed on Oscar Pistorius for killing team. The defender signed a five-year contract last week after leaving AS banned for eight years for a doping offence, the Court of his girlfriend, arguing the athlete should have been convicted of murder. Roma for an initial fee of eight million euros ($8.86 million) that could rise to Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said yesterday. CAS said “abnor- The Paralympic gold medallist admitted 29-year-old killing Reeva 10 million with bonuses. mal values” were found in blood samples collected from Steenkamp in February 2013 by firing four shots into the locked door of a toi- “I want to have a great season with Lyon,” Yanga-Mbiwa said on Monday. the athlete between July 2010 and October 2012. let cubicle in what he said was the mistaken belief that an intruder was hiding “The aim is to finish top and then, once that’s done, why can’t I claim a place Although Cakir was cleared of doping violations by the behind it. in the France team?”. “I’m very happy to be able to play at a club Turkish Athletics Federation in December 2013, the Pistorius, whose lower legs were amputated as a baby, is due to be like OL. They’re a great team,” added the 26-year-old who International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) released on Friday after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence, in line with last played for his country in 2012. disagreed with the ruling and referred the case to CAS. South Africa’s custodial guidelines for non-dangerous prisoners. Born in the Central African Republic, Yanga-Mbiwa Cakir, 29, had already served a two-year suspension in 2004 During sentencing, Judge Thokozile Masipa said the state had failed prove Pistorius’ intent to kill when he fired. Prosecutors won the Ligue 1 title in 2012 with Montpellier where he after a positive dope test at the world junior champi- want the verdict, equivalent to manslaughter, changed to mur- spent six seasons before moving on to Newcastle United in onships. der because they argue that if Pistorius knew someone was “All competitive results obtained by the athlete from 29 January 2013 and then AS Roma in June 2014. behind the toilet door when he fired, he had the intention to He played 28 Serie A matches and nine Champions July 2010 onwards are disqualified and all related titles, kill, one of the prosecution team said. League and Europa League games for Roma. “I made awards, medals, points and appearance money are forfeit- “We filed the appeal today,” National Prosecuting Authority a lot of progress in Italy,” said Yanga-Mbiwa. ed,” said CAS. spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku said. Pistorius’ legal team has a “Serie A is a much more tactical champi- “This includes in particular the Olympic gold medal won month to file its response to the appeal, which the onship than Ligue 1 and I also improved my in London in 2012 and the gold medal won at the European Supreme Court is expected to hear in November, positioning a lot.” — Reuters championships in the same year.” —Reuters Mfaku added. — Reuters

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CHICAGO: White Sox’s Jose Abreu (right) hits a solo home run during the third inning of an interleague baseball game against the Chicago Cubs. — AP

CHICAGO: Chris Sale matched a career high with Parnell (1-3). The Pirates went 6-0 vs. New York this MARLINS 6, CARDINALS 4 two hits and scored two runs as Miami won for the Chris Narveson (1-0) pitched 2 2-3 innings. He also 15 strikeouts while pitching seven scoreless innings year. Arquimedes Caminero (4-1) got this win. Derek Dietrich drove in three runs and Dee fourth time in six games. Jason Heyward homered drove in a run with a squeeze bunt. A.J. Ramos closed as the Chicago White Sox snapped the crosstown Gordon had three hits as Miami broke a six-game los- twice and drove in three runs for St. Louis, which for his 19th save in 24 opportunities. Carlos Martinez Cubs’ nine-game winning streak with a 3-1 victory DODGERS 2, REDS 1 ing streak against St. Louis. Adeiny Hechavarria had sports the best home record in the majors at 44-18. (12-5) gave up one earned run in five innings. Sunday. Sale (11-7) allowed one hit - Dexter Fowler’s Zack Greinke lowered his major league-best ERA one-out single in the sixth. to 1.58 with seven sharp innings and drove in the MARINERS 10, RED SOX 8 The Cubs were trying for their first double-digit go-ahead run with his second homer of the season, Robinson Cano got five hits and Nelson Cruz win streak since they won 12 straight in 2001. But leading the Los Angeles Dodgers over Cincinnati. connected for his majors-leading 36th home run as Dan Haren (8-8) allowed homers to Jose Abreu, Greinke (13-2) allowed a run on six hits, struck Seattle blew a big lead before edging Boston. Melky Cabrera and Alexei Ramirez in 4 2-3 innings. out eight and walked one. The right-hander is 8-0 Franklin Gutierrez homered twice for Seattle, David Robertson gave up Jorge Soler’s two-out with a 1.16 ERA over his last 11 starts. which led 7-0. The Mariners had been outscored 37- homer in the ninth before finishing for his 24th save Joc Pederson and Greinke hit back-to-back 11 in the first two games of the series. Xander in 30 chances. home runs in the fourth off rookie Anthony Bogaerts and Rusney Castillo homered for the Red DeSclafani (7-8). Kenley Jansen got four outs for his Sox, who lost for the first time under interim man- GIANTS 5, NATIONALS 0 24th save in 25 chances and 130th of his career, just ager Torey Lovullo. Rob Rasmussen (2-1) worked Madison Bumgarner homered and doubled, hours after becoming a father for the second time. two scoreless innings and Danny Farquhar got his struck out 14 and pitched a three-hitter as San first save. raig Breslow (0-3) took the loss. Francisco handed Washington its sixth straight loss. ORIOLES 18, ATHLETICS 2 Hunter Pence also homered as the playoff-con- Adam Jones hit two home runs and Gerardo BREWERS 6, PHILLIES 1 tending Giants finished off a four-game sweep. Parra had five of Baltimore’s 26 hits as the Orioles Ryan Braun hit a grand slam to tie Robin Yount’s Washington matched its longest skid of the season breezed past Oakland. Four days after Seattle’s franchise home run mark as Milwaukee swept the and fell below .500. Bumgarner (14-6) held the Nats Hisashi Iwakuma pitched a no-hitter against them, season series from Philadelphia. Braun finished with hitless into the fifth inning. The World Series MVP the O’s tied a team record for hits. five RBIs. His 251st career homer came in the fifth matched his career high for strikeouts while pitch- Parra and Jones homered off Kendall Graveman when he homered off the scoreboard girder in left- ing his first shutout of the year. Bumgarner hit his (6-9) in the third, and Baltimore put up a nine-run, center field. Rookie Taylor Jungmann (7-4) set a fourth homer this season and 10th overall. Joe Ross 10-hit fifth. The A’s, who lost their sixth in a row, career high with nine strikeouts in 6 1-3 shutout (3-5) took the loss. brought in first baseman Ike Davis to pitch in the innings. Francisco Rodriguez got his 29th save. eighth. He allowed a single and a walk in a scoreless Aaron Harang (5-14) leads the majors in losses. ROYALS 4, ANGELS 3 inning. ei-Yin Chen (7-6) is 5-0 with a 2.30 ERA in Kendrys Morales had an RBI single with two seven career starts against Oakland. KANSAS: Los Angeles Angels pitcher Hector Santiago delivers during the first inning of a RANGERS 5, RAYS 3 outs in the 10th inning to lift the Royals. Ben Zobrist - Adrian Beltre and Ryan Strausborger hit solo baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium. — AP singled with one out in the 10th, the Royals’ first hit BLUE JAYS 3, YANKEES 1 home runs to spoil Drew Smyly’s return as Texas since Eric Hosmer’s RBI single in the first inning. Jose Bautista hit a two-run homer and Drew beat Tampa Bay. The Rangers swept the three-game After Hosmer walked, Morales singled against Hutchison won his third straight start as Toronto series and have won four straight games and seven Trevor Gott (2-1) as Kansas City improved to 7-2 in avoided a three-game sweep by beating the New MLB results/standings in a row at home. Beltre broke a tie in the third extra-inning games. Kelvin Herrera (4-2) pitched a York Yankees. The Blue Jays and the division-leading inning with a solo shot. The next inning, perfect 10th to pick up the victory. Kole Calhoun Yankees, separated by a half-game atop the AL East, Toronto 3, NY Yankees 1; Pittsburgh 8, NY Mets 1; Baltimore 18, Oakland 2; Atlanta 2, Arizona 1 Strausborger hit his first major league homer in his homered in the eighth off Wade Davis to put the meet seven more times this season. third game. Smyly (0-2) allowed five runs in four Angels up 3-2. Angels closer Huston Street, howev- New York’s Carlos Beltran hit big homers in the (10 innings); Seattle 10, Boston 8 (12 innings); Chicago White Sox 3, Chicago Cubs 1; Houston innings. He made his first start since going on the er, could not hold the lead in the ninth. He walked first two games of the set. This time, he sparked a 6, Detroit 5; Milwaukee 6, Philadelphia 1; Minnesota 4, Cleveland 1; Miami 6, St. Louis 4; Texas disabled list with a torn labrum in his shoulder in the bases loaded before Alex Rios’ sacrifice fly Toronto burst in the third by losing Troy Tulowitzki’s 5, Tampa Bay 3; San Francisco 5, Washington 0; LA Dodgers 2, Cincinnati 1; Colorado 5, San May. Yovani Gallardo (9-9) got the win and Shawn scored Hosmer to tie the score. Mike Trout made a fly to right field in the sun. Diego 0; Kansas City 4, LA Angels 3 (10 innings). Tolleson pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his diving catch of Paulo Orlando’s scorcher to right- Tulowitzki wound up with a two-out double, 23rd save in 24 chances. center for the third out to preserve the tie. Josh Donaldson hit an RBI single and Bautista American League National League added his 28th homer. Hutchison (12-2) improved Eastern Division Eastern Division TWINS 4, INDIANS 1 ASTROS 6, TIGERS 5 to 10-1 with a 2.57 ERA in 13 home starts. W L PCT GB NY Mets 63 55 .534 - Tommy Milone returned from the disabled list and Jose Altuve hit an RBI single with two outs in Roberto Osuna closed for his 13th save.Making NY Yankees 64 52 .552 - Washington 58 59 .496 4.5 pitched five innings and Kurt Suzuki had two key RBIs the ninth inning as AL West-leading Houston, his third big league start, Luis Severino (0-2) struck Toronto 65 54 .546 0.5 Atlanta 53 64 .453 9.5 as Minnesota defeated Cleveland. Trevor Plouffe hit boosted by two homers from Colby Rasmus, beat out nine in six innings. Baltimore 60 56 .517 4 Miami 47 70 .402 15.5 his 17th home run and four Twins relievers held Detroit. Miguel Cabrera homered, doubled and Tampa Bay 58 59 .496 6.5 Philadelphia 46 72 .390 17 Cleveland scoreless over the final four innings, drove in three runs for the Tigers. Jake Marisnick BRAVES 2, DIAMONDBACKS 1 capped by Glen Perkins working the ninth for his 31st Boston 52 65 .444 12.5 Central Division tripled off Tom Gorzelanny (1-2) with two outs in Shelby Miller took a no-hit bid into the eighth Central Division save. Milone (6-3), making his first start since coming the Houston ninth. Alex Wilson relieved and Altuve inning as Atlanta went on to beat Arizona on St. Louis 75 42 .641 - off the DL with a left elbow strain, was limited to 76 Kansas City 71 46 .607 - Pittsburgh 69 46 .600 5 singled on the first pitch for his third hit of the Cameron Maybin’s home run in the 10th. Minnesota 59 58 .504 12 pitches. He allowed one run and three hits, Carlos game. Will Harris (5-2) allowed two hits and a run in Miller, an NL All-Star last month and among the Chicago Cubs 67 49 .578 7.5 Carrasco (11-9) struck out seven in seven innings. Detroit 56 61 .479 15 two innings. league leaders in ERA, wound up with his 16th Cincinnati 51 65 .440 23.5 Chicago White Sox 55 60 .478 15 straight winless start. Leading 1-0, Miller’s no-hit try Milwaukee 51 68 .429 25 ROCKIES 4, PADRES 0 Cleveland 54 62 .466 16.5 PIRATES 8, METS 1 ended when Nick Ahmed led off the eighth with a Western Division Chris Rusin pitched a five-hitter for his first Western Division Aramis Ramirez had four hits and three RBIs and bloop single to right field. Pinch-hitter Jarod LA Dodgers 67 51 .568 - career complete game and Carlos Gonzalez home- Houston 64 54 .542 - Pedro Alvarez homered as Pittsburgh finished off its Saltalamacchia followed with another single that San Francisco 64 53 .547 2.5 red as Colorado beat San Diego to snap a six-game first season series sweep of the NL East leaders. finished Miller, who struck out 10. LA Angels 60 57 .513 3.5 losing streak. It was the first complete game by a Alvarez, Ramirez and Gregory Polanco each had Maybin opened with the 10th with a drive over Texas 59 57 .509 4 Arizona 57 59 .491 9 Rockies pitcher since Tyler Matzek blanked the run-scoring hits in a breakaway four-run seventh, the left field wall off David Hernandez (0-3) David Seattle 55 63 .466 9 San Diego 56 62 .475 11 Padres last Sept. 5 . usin (4-5) retired the final 10 keyed by a throwing error from reliever Bobby Aardsma (1-1) struck out the side in the 10th. Oakland 51 68 .429 13.5 Colorado 48 68 .414 18 batters. Ian Kennedy (7-11) got the loss. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 SPORTS Lahiri optimistic of future

KOHLER: Anirban Lahiri notched up India’s tournaments co-sanctioned by the European best-ever result at a major championship by Tour that carried more weight. finishing tied fifth at the PGA Championship His world ranking has surged from 195th to on Sunday, leaving him in no doubt he 38th with a spot on the Internationals team for belonged at golf’s top table with the game’s the Presidents Cup in October all but assured. current crop of rising stars. The biennial team event in South Korea would The 28-year-old closed with an assured final see Lahiri mix it again with Day and new world round of four-under-par 68 and a 13-under number one Spieth and the Indian said his PGA total on the notoriously tricky Whistling Straits display, where he out-performed second- track, seven shots back of winner Jason Day of ranked Rory McIlory, showed he had no reason Australia who held off double major winner to feel inferior. “I didn’t really feel out of place. I Jordan Spieth. think that’s a massive positive for me,” he said “It’s been a fantastic week,” Lahiri told of his Sunday display where he played along- reporters after eclipsing the previous Indian side world number 15 Matt Kuchar. major record of a tied ninth finish by Jeev “I felt really comfortable whoever I was Milkha Singh at the 2008 PGA Championship. playing with and whenever I was playing and “I won’t really say I was in contention here whatever I was doing, I felt very much at home. because I was a long way out but I was in the I think that’s a good sign.” Lahiri, though, was mix. It’s a great feeling, it’s massive for me. It already eyeing improvements. His second gives me so much confidence. “It also tells me bogey of the day came on his final hole on that I can compete with the best on the tough- Sunday and with it the opportunity to push for est courses and the best fields. It also tells me better playing opportunities. that I need to get just a little bit better and “It’s obviously the scoring aspect that I feel maybe I’ll be back here more often.” is lacking a little bit. I think that’s where I need Lahiri, who finished tied 30th at the British to tighten it up, just around the greens and Open and made the cut at his first Masters this make a few more 10 and 12-footers,” he said. “I year, has enjoyed a whirlwind 18 months. think a couple of shots better would have got He has won four times on the Asian Tour, my card on the PGA Tour. So a little bummed with two of those triumphs coming crucially in about that.” — Reuters Bubka and Coe — two legends battle to save track and field BEIJING: Two modern-day legends of track willing to step down from his role as an and field will battle to take over the presiden- ambassador for US equipment company Nike. cy of athletics’ world governing body next The manifestoes of the two former stars are WHISTLING STRAITS: Jason Day, of Australia, poses with the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the PGA Championship golf tournament. — AP week in the knowledge that they face a major not hugely differing to the layman, though overhaul to salvage the sport’s doping-blight- one major divergence is Coe’s insistence that ed face. Either Sergey Bubka or Sebastian Coe an independent drug-testing body be estab- Day seals major in record style will become president of the International lished. Bubka, who also won Olympic gold in Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on 1988, would prefer to continue working with Wednesday after the body’s 214 member fed- the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). KOHLER: Australia’s Jason Day held his nerve to expense of Rory McIlroy. Day, who was a bogey at the eighth after driving into a bunker. erations vote, with incumbent Lamine Diack Interestingly, Coe went for the messen- end five years of close calls at the majors with an embraced by his pregnant wife Ellie as he made And he was in danger of dropping another stepping down after 16 years in charge at the ger’s jugular in the wake of ARD/Sunday emotional breakthrough victory by three shots his way off the green, became the fifth shot at the ninth after chunking a wedge age of 82. Times claims that more than 800 athletes over American Jordan Spieth at the PGA Australian to win the PGA Championship after approach shot from the middle of the fairway. Facing the Ukrainian 10-time world pole recorded suspicious blood tests between Championship on Sunday. World number five Steve Elkington (1995), Wayne Grady (1990), He pitched his third shot to nine feet and vault champion and British two-time Olympic 2001 and 2012. Day, two ahead of Spieth overnight, never relin- David Graham (1979) and Jim Ferrier (1947). sank the clutch putt to salvage par and go to the 1500m gold medallist is a monumental task of He described the finding as a “declaration quished his lead as he closed with a five-under- “It’s an amazing feeling,” a visibly emotional back nine with a spring in his step and a two- tackling the doping scourge that has rocked of war” against athletics, adding that the cov- par 67 on a blustery afternoon of hazy sunshine Day told CBS Sports after being presented with shot lead. athletics. The IAAF has in recent weeks been erage was “wrong” and showed “a breathtak- at Whistling Straits to post a major record low of the coveted Wanamaker Trophy, which he hoist- Day picked up further shots at the 11th and at the centre of allegations of widespread ing ignorance or a level of malevolence”. 20-under 268. ed high in celebration. 14th to move four strokes clear and could afford cheating and suspicious blood tests involving Bubka, however, avoided taking aim at the The previous best at a major was the 19- “Winning the PGA Championship is very spe- the luxury of a bogey on 15 before finishing hundreds of athletes. The Monaco-based media outlets, instead reiterating his calls for body has responded whole-heartedly, calling more transparency and admitting that the under 269 by Tiger Woods when he triumphed cial. I felt no one was going to stop me today. I birdie-par-par. the claims “sensationalist and confusing”. IAAF needed to be “more proactive”. by eight shots in the 2000 British Open at St. played fantastic, through the whole round. Even Spieth, who ended his remarkable 2015 cam- In much the same way as football’s world Both men have some serious experience Andrews. though I made a couple of mistakes, I really felt paign in the majors with two wins, a tie for body FIFA has been torn apart by allegations of sports management and are masters in Day fended off the challenge of Spieth, who good about my game. “Just to be able to finish fourth and a runner-up spot, was lavish in his of corruption, with Sepp Blatter agreeing to confidently holding their own in the public had been bidding for a rare third major victory with a birdie on 16 and two pars on 17 and 18 praise for Day’s performance in the final round. stand down as president as a result of the fall- domain. in the same year, with four birdies in the first sev- felt fantastic. I never expected to be here. I can’t “He was sitting there swinging as hard as he out, the IAAF finds itself in turbulent waters. Bubka, 51, has been involved with the en holes, followed by three more after the turn. say anything else because I’m going to cry.” could off the tee, and every single drive was And rarely can someone be parachuted IAAF since 2001 and has served as vice-presi- The 27-year-old Australian, who had previ- South African Branden Grace, who pulled right down the middle of the fairway,” said the into a job at such a pivotal time in a sport dent since 2007. He has also been president ously recorded nine top-10 finishes in the within a shot of Day’s lead after making four 22-year-old American. craving more public and media interest and of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee in majors-six of them in the top four- had to wipe birdies in five holes from the third, signed off “Jason ... it was his day. He played like a cham- support in a world so dominated by football. Ukraine since 2005 and a member of the tears from his eyes before he tapped in a one- with a 69 to place third at 15 under. pion and he fully deserved this win.” McIlroy, Insiders say the race is too close to call. Bubka, International Olympic Committee (IOC) since foot putt for par on the 18th green. Spieth, the back in action this week to defend his PGA 51, is standing for both the presidency and 1999. He decided, rather ambitiously, to run Masters and US Open champion, had to settle CONFIDENT START Championship crown after being sidelined with the vice-presidency, the 58-year-old Coe just for IOC president in 2013, but lost to current for second after closing with a 68 and securing Day made a confident start to the final round, an ankle injury, shot 69 to finish 17th at nine the former, having announced he was also head Thomas Bach. —AFP the number one ranking for the first time, at the although he stumbled just before the turn with under. — Reuters

Sir Chris Hoy wins again for Nissan

DUBAI: Sir Chris Hoy and his Ginetta-Nissan team mate handed the car over in the lead to Hoy. the chequered flag as overall race winner. This is the first drove his best ever race which meant that I was right in Charlie Robertson stormed into the lead of the Hoy’s job was to maintain the lead and he did just European Le Mans Series victory of 2015 for the 2014 the hunt when I took over to the chequered flag. Safety European Le Mans Series LM P3 category yesterday by that throughout a faultless double stint before handing LM P2 Le Mans winners and the result takes them Cars disrupted my own stints but I just got my head winning the ‘4 Hours of the Red Bull Ring’ in Austria. back over to Robertson for the run to the flag. straight to the top of the leaderboard. down each time and pulled away and thankfully it was Following them home in the LM P3 class were fellow “The whole team were faultless today,” said Chris. Tincknell, who also took outright pole position in the enough! A stunning effort by all of the team as always. Ginetta-Nissan drivers and GT Academy winners Mark “The car never missed a beat, the stops were perfect, we JOTA Sport Gibson-Nissan said after the race: “I’m really, Pole, win, fastest lap and championship lead - job Shulzhitskiy and Gaetan Paletou who took third place. can feel the progress that is being made with the LM P3 really happy with our performance in Austria. Achieving done!” Nissan powered the top four finishers in the LM Robertson took the start in the #3 car after taking and it really sets up the Championship fight for Paul pole-position at the Red Bull Ring for a second consecu- P2 class: JOTA Sport, Thiriet by TDS Racing, SMP Racing pole position earlier on Sunday morning. After a great Ricard.” JOTA Sport dominated the LM P2 class and tive year was great. Filipe (Albuquerque) drove a perfect and Greaves Motorsport. All of the European Le Mans run by Charlie, which saw him get into battles where despite being given a run for their money by another opening stint at the start but kept having his lead erod- Series teams will be back in action at Paul Ricard, France cars were going three or four abreast into corners, he Nissan-powered team, TDS Racing, Harry Tincknell took ed by the Safety Cars. In my opinion, Simon (Dolan) on 5-6 September. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 SPORTS Rising Aussie stars ‘losing the plot’

SYDNEY: Australia’s rising tennis stars are fast earn- not before his unsavoury comment sparked fierce “(Kokkinakis) is 19. If he wants to get into it, I will Miami last month for failing to follow police orders ing a reputation as the new brats of the sport with condemnation in the women’s game, led by WTA bury him. Wawrinka should have decked Kyrgios over a raucous penthouse party. recent antics sparking stinging criticism and calls to Tour chairman Stacey Allaster, tennis legend Martin and I should deck that kid.” Kokkinakis has not been It came on the eve of Australia’s ultimately suc- change their ways. Navratilova and commentator Pam Shriver. in trouble before and moved Monday to distance cessful Davis Cup quarter-final tie against Bernard Tomic, Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi “The statement made by Nick Kyrgios is crude himself from the Kyrgios controversy, slamming his Kazakhstan, from which Tomic was dumped after an Kokkinakis have been making headlines for all the and unacceptable,” Allaster said, in comments friend for drawing him into it. earlier tirade against Australian tennis administra- wrong reasons, leaving Australian media to ask echoed by Australian media. “I let him know. I made it pretty clear that he tors. While Australia boasts a rich history of quality Monday: “The problem with the type of venomous poison can’t be doing that. If he’s got a problem, he’s got to players, including Rod Laver, Ken Rosewell, Pat “Are the trio of stars losing the plot because they Nick Kyrgios spewed last week is that it spreads like say it in private,” he told Australian Associated Press Rafter and Margaret Court, Lleyton Hewitt was also are young, stupid or victims of their own poor a cancer, entangling and embroiling others in its vit- of the brash Kyrgios, whose behaviour has met with a loose cannon in his youth, once labelling match judgement?” Kyrgios has been the chief culprit, riol,” wrote The Australian newspaper’s Courtney outrage before. At Wimbledon this year, Kyrgios was officials at the French Open “spastic”. picked up by on-court microphones telling Grand Walsh. He was referring to Kokkinakis almost com- accused of “tanking”, and he also argued with He eventually matured and is now the elder Slam winner Stan Wawrinka that “Kokkinakis ing to blows with Ryan Harrison in qualifying for the umpires and gave sarcastic answers at press confer- statesman many feel could get the current young banged your girlfriend” in an on-court sledge at the Cincinnati Masters at the weekend. ences. While some see his behaviour as petulant guns back on track, particularly in his new role as Rogers Cup in Montreal last week that infuriated Kokkinakis was agitated by a pair of call over- and disrespectful, others view his colorful antics as Kyrgios’s coach and mentor. the Swiss star. The 20-year-old Kyrgios was fined rules by the umpire in 23-year-old Harrison’s favour, good for a sport in need of characters, although he As Shriver said in comments reported by US$12,500 by the ATP Tour, which launched an pressing his complaints to annoy the American who is not the only Australian to raise hackles. Australian media after the Kyrgios and Kokkinakis investigation into the remark which could result in railed about these “new age little kids”. Tomic, 22, has endured a turbulent career, and fiascos: “Channel your inner Laver, Rosewell (Tony) further action against him. He later apologised but “They are going to get hurt,” Harrison said. was most recently in the headlines over his arrest in Roche, Rafter. Bring the class again.” — AFP JGR leaps ahead of pack, eyes Sprint Cup title

NEW YORK: Listen to Joe Gibbs and he was back in victory lane Sunday at will tell you his race teams lagged behind Michigan. Up next? Saturday night’s race the competition just 10 weeks ago. at Bristol Motor Speedway, where Statistics show the organization has not Kenseth won in April. only caught up, but passed the leaders. As David Wilson, president and gener- Gibbs drivers have won seven of the al manager of TRD, collected the last 12 races, including a victory Sunday Michigan Heritage Trophy given to the at Michigan International Speedway with winning manufacturer, he insisted this Matt Kenseth. A Toyota team win in the surge is not sudden. shadow of Detroit was a triumph for the “People tend to think that this came manufacturer - it ended a seven-race on like a light switch,” said Wilson, who winning streak for Ford and Chevrolet vowed to display the trophy at the teams - and a way for Joe Gibbs Racing Detroit Auto Show. “The reality is, this to thank the automaker for its commit- sport is so difficult, so competitive, it’s ment to the organization. about working hard, and really that turn- Without the guidance of Toyota, JGR around started last summer. We knew we might still be struggling to keep up with were in trouble. We buckled down, and the Hendrick’s and Penske’s of the world. we kept digging.” “We’ve got great partners, thanks to The question, though, is if JGR can Toyota, all the hard work they’ve done maintain this pace and win Toyota its first over the last year-and-a-half,” Gibbs said. Sprint Cup championship. JGR for years Behind the scenes, Toyota Racing has been strong in the 26-week regular Development has quietly worked with season, only to fall apart in the Chase. JGR on closing gaps that clearly ham- Hamlin was twice in title contention in pered the organization last year. the finale, losing to Johnson in 2010 and Although Denny Hamlin made it to the Kevin Harvick last year. Kenseth came up final round of the Sprint Car champi- short in 2013, and Busch has always seen onship, it was a struggle to convince any- his regular-season gains unravel once one that JGR’s cars were on the same lev- the Chase begins. So even though the el as the top contenders. Busch comeback has been phenomenal - Kenseth, a seven-race winner who four wins in 12 Cup races, plus two took Jimmie Johnson all the way to the Xfinity Series victories and two Truck SPAIN: US forward James Harden vies for the ball during the 2014 FIBA World basketball championships final match USA vs Serbia ni this file finale in the 2013 championship race, Series victories - few are convinced he photo. — AFP went winless. Hamlin and Kyle Busch had can keep that up in the Chase. Or JGR, just one victory apiece, and all three driv- either, for that matter. The organization ers felt TRD’s engines were not up to par. has three Sprint Cup titles, but none Adidas takes shot at US JGR brought in Carl Edwards to since Tony Stewart’s in 2005. expand to four teams this season, and Plus, there are cars on the track capa- both the team and the manufacturer had ble of keeping up with the JGR contin- work to do to remain a powerhouse. gent. They include former Gibbs driver market with Harden deal Their efforts took a hit the day before the Joey Logano, with two wins this season, season-opening Daytona 500 when reigning series champion Harvick and FRANKFURT: NBA star James Harden will soon gy,” said Cedric Rossi, an analyst at investment European vision on the US market ... We never Busch was seriously injured in a crash. He six-time champ Jimmie Johnson. be dribbling the ball with Adidas sneakers on his bank Bryan Garnier. “It no longer sponsors the allowed the US to work as entrepreneurs.” He missed the first 11 races of the season - Still, Johnson is coming off his worst feet as the German sportswear maker hopes to NBA league, but it is backing a few key players ... said this could have included adapting its mar- otherwise known as the period in which race of the season Sunday amid a curious retake US market share from basketball giant Consumers associate and identify with these keting strategy and, for example, investing in JGR was struggling this season. slump at Hendrick Motorsports. This Nike and number two Under Armour. stars much more easily.” university sports. Busch returned in late May for the All- could be JGR’s best shot at the Sprint Signing up the Houston Rockets guard in a Nike will, meanwhile, take over from Adidas The company’s previous costly mistakes, Star race, and just one week later, Cup, and Toyota desperately wants its reported 13-year, $200 million (180 million euro) as NBA’s official apparel supplier from the 2016- made from its headquarters in Herzogenaurach Edwards had his first JGR victory with a first title. Wilson doesn’t deny that JGR deal aims to make Adidas trendy in a market 17 season. From then, Adidas will reallocate the in southern Germany, have included declining in win in the Coca-Cola 600. seems ahead of the pack right now, but where it has been caught flat-footed before. $10 million a year it paid to the league to indi- 1984 to sign up Michael Jordan, then a rising Busch grabbed his first win a month in watching Sunday’s race sensed that Charismatic Harden, 25, known as “The Beard” vidual players, said Rossi, explaining the value of star, the former executive said. later on the road course at Sonoma, then other teams are “closing the gap.” to his fans and voted the NBA’s second best play- Harden’s contract. “We must not forget that it is Adidas has also had trouble with the integra- reeled off three straight wins. Kenseth “So we need to keep digging and er last season, will switch from Nike to wear for about 13 years. In the end, he makes $15 mil- tion of Reebok, acquired in 2005 in a deal that is won at Pocono to make it four in a row keep our heads down,” he said. “What Adidas shoes on the court, and its gear in social lion a year.” just starting to bear fruit in the fitness sector. for JGR, Busch settled for second the we’re trying to do right now is not get settings, from October. Adidas has stayed quiet Adidas pulled out its chequebook because The German company has started to shift next week at Watkins Glen, and the team full of ourselves.” — AP about the sum reported by ESPN, but confirms it the stakes are high for CEO Herbert Hainer, who course and in 2014 brought in American Mark is taking a big bet on basketball. is under pressure from shareholders. King as head of the North America region. “His connection with the fans is unique and The sportswear maker was relegated last year Product design is now done in the United States, unprecedented,” an Adidas spokesman told AFP, to number three rank in the US market, behind and King has a free hand . in marketing cam- noting that the salary will be linked to athletic newcomer Under Armour. Adidas, a giant in paigns, with plans to sponsor 500 athletes from performance. “He can take the game and our football-obsessed Germany, presented a new American football and baseball. brand to new heights.” In a market where strategy in March for the market across the “The American subsidiary gained independ- teenagers love custom sneakers, Adidas is taking Atlantic. “The United States has always been a ence and it was essential,” said Rossi, who said on number one Nike, which already sponsors problem,” even in the time of Robert Louis- Adidas made “the right steps” in the US, where superstars LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Kobe Dreyfus, its former chief, recalls an ex-company sales rose three percent in this year’s first half. Bryant. “Adidas is changing its marketing strate- executive. “The view of Adidas has always been a “Now we expect a growth in turnover.” — AFP Kiprotich ready for worlds

KAMPALA: Uganda’s Olympic work. I’m always focusing on and world marathon champi- my competition, my training,” on Stephen Kiprotich said he he added. was “feeling good” yesterday After breaking the east as he flew out for the world African country’s 40-year championships in China. Olympic gold medal drought, Uganda is an emerging dis- Kiprotich has become a tance running country that is celebrity in Uganda. establishing itself as a chal- He has been a water brand lenger to the dominance of ambassador, has a hotel in neighbouring Kenya and Kapchorwa, eastern Uganda, Ethiopia. where there is an athletes’ Kiprotich, who worked as a training base named after prison warden, claimed the him, and stars in a new second ever gold medal for his Ugandan movie. He was said country when he won the to have received 200 million men’s marathon at the 2012 shillings ($56,577) and a car London Olympic Games. from the country’s president, At a flag hand-over cere- while his parents had a house mony in Kampala with 10 oth- built for them after his er athletes, he said he was London win, according to the “prepared” for the Uganda Athletics Federation International Association of (UAF). Athletics Federations (IAAF) “My family is doing well world championships starting and they’re happy I’m going on Saturday in Beijing. “At this for the championships,” said time I’m feeling good, my Kiprotich. Apollo Musherure, health is okay,” the 26-year-old UAF assistant general secre- told AFP. tary, said the federation was “I’ve done very well, yes,” he proud of the entire team, added, referring to his previ- which includes one woman, ous wins, which include a Juliet Chekwel. “The surprise 2013 world marathon gold was Kiprotich winning in medal in Moscow. London,” he told AFP. “All our BROOKLYN: Kyle Busch raises his arms in victory lane after winning the “You know to do some- athletes are in good form and NASCAR Truck series Careers for Veterans 200 race at Michigan International thing better you have to do we expect them to perform Speedway. —AP hard work, so I’ve done hard well.” — AFP Kiprotich TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 SPORTS Chung slams Blatter, Platini to launch FIFA campaign

PARIS: South Korean billionaire Chung Mong-Joon organisation is because the same person (Blatter) vice president from Jordan, is considering a run. “If Europe had provided healthy and discerning yesterday launched his campaign for the FIFA presi- has been running it for 40 years. Absolute power Platini is considered the frontrunner and has leadership, would FIFA be in this kind of mess today? dency with a blistering attack on outgoing leader corrupts absolutely.” FIFA has been embroiled in cor- already secured public support from key national This is not a criticism but an appeal to you to think. Sepp Blatter and his rival to head football’s world ruption turmoil since 14 FIFA and sports business federations and regional confederations. “The core issue of this election is whether the 40- governing body, Michel Platini. executives were charged by US authorities in May But Chung said the Frenchman should not be a year-old system of corruption should continue or not.” Chung, who said that Platini is too close to over more than $150 million in bribes allegedly paid candidate because he was so close to the FIFA sys- The FIFA election campaign is already turning into a Blatter’s legacy and the ills that have hit FIFA, vowed for television and marketing deals. Seven FIFA offi- tem and a former close ally of Blatter, who has said bitter affair with allegations of behind-the-scenes dirty to clean up the scandal-tainted body in one four- cials have been detained but Blatter has not been he will stand down when the election is held on tricks. Blatter alleged in a Dutch newspaper interview year term and then stand down. The election cam- linked to any corruption case. February 26. “This is not a good situation for Michel that Platini warned him he faced prison if he did not paign, however, is becoming increasingly bitter. Chung, a member of the family that owns the and I think it is good for Michel Platini not to be a withdraw from the election for the head of the world “Today FIFA is undergoing a profound crisis. Hyundai conglomerate, vowed that if successful in candidate this time. He is still very young. body in May. Blatter won the vote but announced four Under these circumstances, the FIFA president must the election on February 26, 2016, he would serve “His problem is that he does not seem to appreci- days later that he would stand down. be a crisis manager and a reformer,” the 63-year-old just one term. “I can change FIFA in four years. That is ate the seriousness of the corruption crisis at FIFA.” Blatter told De Volkskrant that the warning was Chung, a former FIFA vice president, told a Paris my pledge to football fans in the world.” Chung said that Blatter and Platini once had a made to his brother. But German newspaper Die press conference. “The problem at FIFA is that those UEFA president Michel Platini, Brazil football leg- “father and son” relationship even though the Welt said on Sunday that Blatter was behind the dis- mired in corruption, the only thing they are interest- end Zico and Liberian Football Association chief Frenchman has turned against the FIFA leader. tribution of an article by a Swiss journalist which ed in is hiding the corruption,,” he added. Musa Bility have also announced they are candi- The South Korean football official said it was time lambasted Platini. UEFA has written to FIFA calling “The real reason FIFA has become such a corrupt dates. Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, another former FIFA for the FIFA presidency to move away from Europe. for an investigation into the article. — AFP Van Gaal braced for playoff pressure game

MANCHESTER: Manchester United (Rooney) in the striker’s position,” manager Louis van Gaal admits Van Gaal said. “So it is very amazing today’s Champions League play-off that after two matches you are against Club Brugge will be the doubting your own opinion so I can- most pressurised games of his not understand that. But I have tenure so far. always confidence in my players. The Red Devils host the Belgian “We don’t just have only Wayne Pro League side in the first leg at Old Rooney in the striker’s position. We Trafford today seeking a return to have Adnan Januzaj who played in European football’s elite competi- the USA pre-season in the striker’s tion after a one-season hiatus. position. Given the extra revenue that par- “I have given him that chance ticipation will generate United’s and he has shown he can do that. hierarchy made a place in the group We have Javier Hernandez and stage a key target for van Gaal, while James Wilson, so I don’t think we expectation among the club’s sup- have a lack of strikers.” porters remains high. Van Gaal restored Januzaj to the And when asked if the tie will starting line-up against Villa last represent the most significant Friday, but responded to claims that matches he has faced since he he underused the Belgium interna- replaced David Moyes as manager tional last season following the 20- the Dutchman agreed. year-old’s impressive breakthrough Van Gaal said: “Of course. under Moyes. Because the players want to partici- “Adnan has eight starts last sea- pate, and the board wants to partici- son and 13 substitutions so he pate, but especially the fans want to didn’t have any chances? This is not participate so the pressure is high. true, in my opinion,” explained the “There is a lot of pressure because 64-year-old. “He has to compete our aim and goal is to reach the with 23 or 24 other players. The Champions League. “This kind of characteristics of a young player is matches are difficult and because of he is not consistent. He has to show the draw I think it is much more dif- that. “Maybe he can show it this sea- ficult because we have drawn son. It is possible. In a club like Brugge and Brugge can defend very Manchester United never you have a well, and they can attack also. guarantee of a position in the top “It will be a difficult match and 11.” Januzaj has been linked with that is why the pressure is high. season-long loan moves to Everyone wants to participate in the Sunderland and Everton, but insists Champions League but first you he is happy at Old Trafford and has a have to beat Club Brugge.” good relationship with Van Gaal. Speaking at a pre-match press “I am happy at Manchester United conference ahead of the first leg, and I am happy the way the manager Van Gaal also addressed questions worked with me so I don’t have any regarding the subdued start to the Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal issues with that,” added the winger. SPAIN: Real Madrid’s defender and captain Sergio Ramos speaks during a press con- season made by United captain “The manager spoke to me a few ference announcing his contract renewal in Madrid. — AFP Hotspur and Aston Villa, but strug- three shots on target in both fix- Wayne Rooney. The England inter- gled to make an impact. tures, but Van Gaal’s faith in the 29- times and I can feel I am developing national has been deployed in a Rooney touched the ball once in year-old has not wavered. “I think all myself. I have not had a lot of games Man United riches not lone striker role in United’s Premier the penalty area, in injury time, the media has written for one year but this season maybe I get a few enough to sway Ramos League matches against Tottenham against Villa and has managed just and advised me I have to put him more opportunities to play.” — AFP

MADRID: Real Madrid captain Sergio And Perez insisted Los Blancos needed Ramos insisted he wasn’t motivated by Ramos more than ever in the post-Casillas Palace win can be title money after ending speculation surround- era. “Sergio Ramos has won everything, but ing his future by signing a new five-year just like Real Madrid he wants more, there- deal with the club yesterday. fore we need him to maintain that desire,” turning point for Wenger Ramos had been courted by Manchester he said. United during a standoff in negotiations Despite holding an unwanted record as between his representatives and Madrid the Madrid player to have seen most red LONDON: Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal’s campaign, after an extended break following president Florentino Perez over the Spanish cards in the history of the club with a stag- gritty 2-1 win against Crystal Palace will Copa America duty, brought an extra menace international’s salary with his previous deal gering 19 dismissals, Ramos is a hero prove a significant moment in the Premier to the Gunners’ attacks. set to expire in 2017. According to Spanish amongst the Real support and is most League title race. Wenger admitted Sanchez was still short media reports, Ramos will earn up to 10 fondly remembered for scoring the goal Wenger’s side could ill-afford another set- of full fitness, but he was delighted with the million euros ($11.1 million, £7.1 million) a that saved Los Blancos from losing the season. “The circumstances of the renewal 2014 Champions League final to local rivals back after their embarrassing opening day Chilean’s commitment, epitomised by his have made it drawn out but my head and Atletico Madrid. meltdown against West Ham and they rose to leaping header that led to Damien Delaney’s heart have always been here,” said Ramos. His stoppage time header forced the the challenge at Selhurst Park on Sunday. own goal. “It is clear and I can’t deny it that there game into extra-time where the white half Still haunted by last season’s spluttering “He brings drive, he brings pressure on the were certain things I was uncomfortable of Madrid went onto dominate and run out start, which he regards as the root cause of opponent, he brings chances,” Wenger said. with. I never said that I wanted to leave 4-1 winners to complete his own personal their failed title bid, Wenger was desperate to “When it was 1-1 it is no coincidence that he Madrid but I couldn’t continue like that. repertoire of honours, which also includes avoid being cast adrift of early pace-setters found the header for the goal over Joel Ward. “You can see the economic part is the three La Liga titles and two Copa del Reys Manchester City because he feared the dam- He is a fighter. It was more desire than fitness last thing I mention, but there were things as well as the World Cup and two European age to his players’ morale would be fatal. at this stage. we needed to talk about. My happiness is Championships at international level with Although they were still someway short of “He has had only two weeks’ training but here, so why would I waste time some- Spain. By committing to stay at the their best, the Gunners did enough to sub- he still had the mental resources to score a where else. Bernabeu, Ramos has offered a huge lift to due a dangerous Palace outfit with a com- vital goal for us. “If it was an economic issue I wouldn’t a Real side in need of a confidence boost posed performance, prompting Wenger to “It’s not a 100 per cent fit Sanchez but it’s a have stayed. I could have made more mon- ahead of the kick-off to the La Liga cam- hail the result as a huge moment in his club’s 100 per cent motivated Sanchez and some- ey in another place, but there were other paign next weekend. season even at this early stage. times that’s enough.” Wenger also reserved circumstances that I had to fix.” Ramos was among a host of high-profile “We have shown a strong response. We special praise for Mesut Ozil, whose clever United had hoped to lure Ramos to first-team players also including Cristiano have shown aspects of our game that are passing was allied to the kind of unstinting England with the backing of a £750 million Ronaldo and James Rodriguez who showed important in the Premier League,” Wenger work rate he is sometimes criticised for lack- ($1.3 billion) kit deal with Adidas and a their discontent at the sacking of Carlo said. “When Palace came back to 1-1 we were ing. “Ozil had a very good performance, it is a record new Premier League television Ancelotti in May. tested after what happened last weekend. It pleasure to watch his passing and his intelli- rights deal to start in 2016. The appointment of Rafael Benitez as Arsenal’s French manager Arsene Wenger The two clubs have been locked in Ancelotti’s successor was met with scepti- was important to see how we responded gence,” Wenger said. “The rest of his game transfer talks all summer with Real still cism by the vast majority of the club’s fans because this is a difficult place to come. I’m was absolutely magnificent as well. He works while already on a booking. hopeful of landing Ramos’s international and Perez has unusually decided against sure they will beat many strong teams. harder than people think he does. “He is not “The foul before half-time is debatable but teammate David de Gea before the transfer the lavish signing of a “galactico” this sum- “It was a bit scary when we missed those spectacular in his defending but he wants to then he makes another foul after half-time window closes at the end of the month. mer, instead settling for a deeper and chances. We are used to being punished after help the team. What I want from him is a few and he should have gone. There was an Ramos is now Madrid’s longest serving younger squad. that which makes the three points more more goals this season.” immediate reaction because they took him player having signed from Sevilla 10 years However, without the injured Ronaldo, important. “To get the points is already a bit While Wenger was relieved to get back on off,” Pardew said. “Arsenal were sharp and ago as a 19-year-old and will be club cap- Benitez’s men have struggled in pre-sea- of turning point because to lose would have track, Palace manager Alan Pardew was left bright. They were a lot more intelligent in tain for the first time this season after Iker son, failing to score in four of their seven been a big blow mentally.” to rue what might have been if referee Lee their passing than against West Ham, but we Casillas’s 18-year career at the Bernabeu friendlies so far. Madrid begin their league One of the key figures in Arsenal’s strong Mason had sent off Francis Coquelin, the had better shape as the match went on and it came to an end when he joined Porto last campaign away to newly promoted finish to last season was Alexis Sanchez and Arsenal midfielder who went unpunished might have been a different result if we’d got month. Sporting Gijon on August 23. —AFP the Chile winger’s belated first start of the despite making several crunching challenges the second goal.” — AFP Messi, Tevez join Argentina for friendlies

BUENOS AIRES: Barcelona star Lionel Messi, who recently left Italian champions Juventus to with River Plate. Argentina play both games in Defenders: Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester Biglia (Lazio/ITA), Javier Pastore (Paris Saint- who suffered more disappointment with play at home for Boca Juniors, has also been the United States, against Bolivia on September City/ENG), Facundo Roncaglia (Genoa/ITA), Germain/FRA), Erik Lamela (Tottenham Argentina in the Copa America last month, has named in the 24-man squad along with three 4 in Houston and against Mexico four days later Ezequiel Garay (Zenit St Petersburg/RUS), Hotspur/ENG), Roberto Pereyra (Juventus/ITA), been called up by national coach Gerardo players from French champions Paris Saint- in Dallas, before opening their 2018 World Cup Nicolas Otamendi (Valencia/ESP), Milton Casco Fernando Gago (Boca Juniors), Angel Di Maria Martino for friendlies against Bolivia and Mexico Germain-Angel Di Maria, Javier Pastore and qualifying campaign against Ecuador on (Newell’s Old Boys), Marcos Rojo (Manchester (Paris SG/FRA) in September. Ezequiel Lavezzi. October 5 in Buenos Aires. United/ENG), Ramiro Funes Mori (River Plate), Strikers: Lionel Messi (Barcelona/ESP), Sergio Argentina lost the Copa America final to Defender Ramiro Funes Mori, the only player Goalkeepers: Sergio Romero (Manchester Martin Demichelis (Manchester City/ENG) Ag¸ero (Manchester City/ENG), Carlos Tevez (Boca Chile on penalties a year after falling in the who did not feature in the Copa America, joins United/ENG), Nahuel Guzman (Tigres/MEX), Midfielders: Javier Mascherano Juniors), Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli/ITA), Ezequiel World Cup final to Germany. Striker Carlos Tevez, the squad having won the Copa Libertadores Agustin Marchesin (Santos Laguna/MEX) (Barcelona/ESP), Ever Banega (Sevilla/ESP), Lucas Lavezzi (Paris Saint-Germain/FRA). —AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 SPORTS Day win confirms change of the guard

KOHLER: Jason Day’s breakthrough victory at the post-Tiger era. This year in all four majors, it seems watching Jason Day. He is a mega talent, and he there a long time. I still want to accomplish that PGA Championship served notice that a changing like the same cast of three or four characters are certainly proved that this week at Whistling Straits.” number one goal of mine, which is to be the best of the guard is now complete with an exciting right at the top. “Dustin Johnson, Jason Day, Jordan Day, after several close calls at the majors over player in the world.” posse of young guns set to dominate the majors for Spieth have all been in contention, and now Rory the past five years, finally crossed the finish line tri- Day is excited about facing multiple rivals. “Golf the next decade. Newly crowned world number one McIlroy is back after his injury absence (a ruptured umphantly on Sunday with a major record low of is in a very healthy stage now,” he said. “Three to five Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy are already estab- ligament in his left ankle).” 20-under 268. years ago, it was kind of struggling a little bit with lished as the game’s leading duo but Australian Day, Northern Irishman McIlroy, now aged 26, won His emotion-charged win lifted him to a career- the identity of who was really going to be that num- 27, American Rickie Fowler, 26, and rising Japanese the last two majors of 2014 and the remarkable high third in the world rankings and he looks for- ber one player in the world, who was going to be talent Hideki Matsuyama, 23, are in hot pursuit. Spieth, who celebrated his 22nd birthday last ward to challenging players such as Spieth and the next best thing. Six of the last seven major championships have month, clinched the first two majors this year McIlroy on a regular basis in golf’s blue riband “Rory came out and was really dominating, but been won by twenty-somethings, proof positive before tying for fourth at the British Open and fin- events. “I know exactly what I have done to get there was no one really kind of challenging him for that the ‘Big Five’ era of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, ishing second behind Day at the PGA myself in a position where I’m holding the (PGA that role. For young guys like myself, Jordan, Rickie Ernie Els, Vijay Singh and Retief Goosen is over. Championship on Sunday. Championship) trophy right now,” said Day. Fowler and Hideki Matsuyama, we’re starting to “The game now is certainly very healthy, exciting “Jordan Spieth continues to amaze,” said Azinger. “As long as I keep working on those things and play better golf and starting to challenge. and strong,” American Paul Azinger, who won the “I don’t know if anybody would have even thought get the process right, I know that there’s going to “That’s what I’m looking forward to in the future 1993 PGA Championship at Inverness and has since we would ever see anybody like him with that be plenty of these to hold as long as I really am feel- is the sheer competition of being able to fight been become an acclaimed golf analyst on televi- maturity at such a young age. ing motivated and I want it more than anyone else. against these guys each week. It’s going to be a lot sion, told Reuters. “We are beginning to blend into a “He’s my favorite golfer to watch and I also love “As long as I am healthy, I feel like I’m going to be of fun over the next five to 10 years.” — Reuters PSG ease to victory as Marseille lose again

PARIS: Reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain eased to a 2-0 win against Corsican minnows Gazelec Ajaccio to maintain their perfect start to the Ligue 1 season on Sunday after Marseille slumped to another defeat. A stunning Blaise Matuidi strike and a Thiago Silva header, both in the first half, put PSG out of sight against newly- promoted Gazelec at the Parc des Princes and left Laurent Blanc’s side with six points from a possible six at the start of the new campaign. “It was a good evening. The match could have been a bit more spectacular if we had taken a couple more chances but their ‘keeper made several very good saves,” acknowledged Blanc. Argentina winger Angel di Maria, the 63 mil- lion-euro (£44.3m; $68.9m) signing from Manchester United, was introduced to the Paris fans before kick-off, although he was not yet fit enough to make his debut. And with Zlatan Ibrahimovic again sidelined, PSG were not at full strength, as 18-year-old forward Jean-Kevin Augustin was handed a first start in the top flight. But this was always likely to be a trying night for Gazelec, a club whose overall budget for their debut season at the top level barely equates to Ibrahimovic’s annual salary at the Parc des Princes. It always seemed a question of when, not if, FRANCE: Paris Saint-Germain’s Brazilian defender David Luiz (left) vies with Ajaccio’s French Paris would open the scoring and they duly did defender Roderic Filippi as he tries to head the ball during the French L1 football match. — AFP so in the 11th minute thanks to Matuidi, the France midfielder taking the ball into the box Luckily for us there are not 19 teams like PSG in OM, it has been a great start to the season for and then sending a fizzing left-foot drive high this league.” Earlier, Marseille slumped to a sec- Reims, who had already beaten Bordeaux on the into the net at the near post. ond defeat in as many games, a first-half strike opening weekend. PSG added their second goal midway by Hamari Traore giving Reims all three points in Sunday’s other match saw Lorient scramble a through the first half, captain Silva putting the a 1-0 win in Champagne country. 1-1 draw at home to Bastia thanks to a stop- disappointment of being dropped from the Marseille, still reeling from the shock resigna- page-time Benjamin Moukandjo penalty, which Brazil squad last week behind him as he headed tion of coach Marcelo Bielsa following their cancelled out Floyd Ayite’s early opener. home a Thiago Motta corner. opening 1-0 defeat to Caen, never really looked Mathieu Valbuena made his Lyon debut in a At that point it looked like turning into a rout, like scoring and find themselves in the relega- 1-0 win at Guingamp on Saturday as Claudio but Edinson Cavani failed to convert several tion zone in the fledgling standings. Bielsa’s for- Beauvue netted the only goal of the game openings in the second half and Serge Aurier mer assistant Franck Passi took charge of the against his old club. headed a great chance wide. away side in Reims but he insisted the Rennes and Caen were the weekend’s other SWANSEA: Swansea City’s French-born Ghanaian striker Andre Ayew (center) cele- David Luiz was denied by a brilliant Clement Argentine’s departure could not be used as an winners, while Monaco warmed up for their brates in this file photo. — AFP Maury save as the hosts settled for a win that excuse for a disappointing display. Champions League play-off first leg away to leaves them, ominously, already in top spot on “We have to stop talking about trauma! We’ve Valencia by drawing 0-0 at home to Lille on goal difference. Gazelec are still looking for their put last weekend (Bielsa’s resignation) behind Friday. It was a difficult night for the principality Fairy-tale EPL start first top-flight goal, but their coach Thierry us,” said Passi. “We mustn’t hide behind that club, who lost influential midfielder Joao Laurey said: “We knew it would be complicated, excuse. But it’s clear that it will not be easy and it Moutinho to an ankle injury that will keep him for Ayew continues but we kept fighting after losing the goals. will take time to find a solution.” In contrast to out for up to six weeks. — AFP Five early-season worries for Chelsea PARIS: A fairy-tale start to English FRANCE Premier League football for Ghana play- HAMARI TRAORE (Reims) MANCHESTER: Chelsea’s one-sided 3-0 loss third goals, being out-jumped by Vincent equaliser at the Etihad, shooting too close to maker Andre Ayew continued at the The Malian right-back was making his away to Manchester City on Sunday left the Kompany at a corner and then presenting the Joe Hart. weekend with the second goal for home debut as a Reims player after signing defending champions five points below their ball straight to Fernandinho. The arrival of Swansea in a 2-0 victory over Newcastle. from Lierse in Belgium in the summer and opponents in 16th place in the nascent Premier Ghana left-back Abdul Rahman Baba from 5. Recruitment hiccups Ayew, a son of Ghana legend Abedi he marked it with the goal that secured a League standings. Augsburg may offer a chance to take the 31- Chelsea’s close-season transfer dealings in Pele, also scored for the Swans in an memorable 1-0 win against Marseille. The season may be only two games old, but year-old out of the spotlight, as it would give 2014 were masterful, with Cesc Fabregas, Diego opening-round draw at defending cham- Chelsea already appear to be in difficulty, hav- Mourinho the possibility of switching Cesar Costa, Filipe Luis and Didier Drogba all arriving pions Chelsea last weekend. ALAIXYS ROMAO (Marseille) ing failed to record a win in their opening two Azpilicueta to his preferred position of right- before the end of July, giving Mourinho time to Algeria winger Riyad Mahrez claimed Togo international midfielder Romao league games for the first time since 1998. back. shape his new-look team. This year, Chelsea his third league goal in two outings with was sent off for two second-half yellow Here, AFP Sports lists five issues that will be have not materially strengthened, having mere- the winner as Leicester City triumphed 2- cards in Marseille’s defeat at Reims as OM troubling Chelsea’s fans ahead of this weekend’s 4. Hazard warning ly replaced the outgoing Petr Cech, Luis and 1 at West Ham United. slumped to a second defeat in as many trip to West Bromwich Albion, where they lost 3- It says much that Hazard’s most notable con- Drogba with Asmir Begovic, Rahman and games this season. 0 on their last visit: tribution to Chelsea’s campaign so far has been Radamel Falcao. A new centre-back is a priority, ENGLAND the injury he sustained in the latter stages of but Chelsea also look light in attack, where the ANDRE AYEW (Swansea City) HENRI SAIVET (Bordeaux) 1. Mourinho’s mood the game against Swansea that launched the champions are unhealthily reliant on Costa and Ayew’s smooth adaptation to life in Senegal forward Saivet captained Bordeaux Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho wrote the Carneiro/Fearn polemic. Last season’s multiple his troublesome hamstrings. Falcao and Loic book on diversionary tactics, but the spikiness Player of the Year, the Belgian winger has Remy do not pose anything like the same goal England continued as he scored his sec- at Saint-Etienne in the absence of several key with which he has attacked the new season sug- looked off the pace in the campaign to date, threat and Juan Cuadrado, a £23.3 million ($36.4 ond goal in two games in Swansea’s 2-0 players due to injury and it was he who res- gests that all is not well behind the scenes at sleep-walking through pre-season and failing to million, 32.9 million euros) signing from win over Newcastle United. The former cued a point for his side with a stoppage-time Stamford Bridge. It is only mid-August and he make an impression against either Swansea or Fiorentina in January, has been a major disap- Marseille midfielder claimed Swansea’s free-kick going in to secure a 1-1 draw. has already launched barbs at Everton manager City. He squandered Chelsea’s best chance of an pointment. — AFP second goal in the 52nd minute at the Roberto Martinez, his old Arsenal adversary Liberty Stadium, heading in a cross from FLOYD AYITE (Bastia) Arsene Wenger and City manager Manuel Jefferson Montero. France-born Togo forward Ayite made Pellegrini, made a cruel jibe about Rafael Anger driving Man City to it two goals from as many games this Benitez and demoted two of his medics, Eva MAME BIRAM DIOUF (Stoke City) season with the opener for Bastia in their Carneiro and Jon Fearn, after they angered him Senegal striker Diouf completed a late 1-1 draw at Lorient. by running on to treat Eden Hazard during the new heights — Pellegrini Stoke fightback with an 83rd-minute 2-2 draw with Swansea City. He may have header to earn his side a 2-2 draw at BENJAMIN MOUKANDJO (Lorient) signed a new contract on the eve of the season, LONDON: Manuel Pellegrini said his In truth, City could have had the points in Tottenham Hotspur. Having twice been A summer signing from Reims, Cameroon but Chelsea fans who remembered how Manchester City players were “hungry and the bag before halftime-such was their thwarted by Spurs goalkeeper Hugo international Moukandjo netted his first goal Mourinho’s first spell at the club unravelled acri- angry” after being eclipsed last season by domination. “It is very satisfying because it’s Lloris, Diouf prevailed at the third for new club Lorient, a stoppage-time penal- moniously in 2007 will hope that his mood Chelsea and the evidence was everywhere not easy to beat the champions. Chelsea are attempt with a glancing header from ty saving a 1-1 draw against Bastia. improves quickly. on Sunday as they crushed the Premier the best team-they won the title last sea- substitute Stephen Ireland’s left-wing League champions 3-0 at a rocking Etihad son-and in the first 45 minutes, we really cross. GERMANY 2. Defensive frailties Stadium. deserved at least three goals,” Pellegrini told PIERRE-EMERICK AUBAMEYANG Chelsea boasted the league’s stingiest “What happened last season was maybe a news conference. RIYAD MAHREZ (Leicester City) (Borussia Dortmund) The Gabon striker defence in the first two seasons following a good experience. Now they have that “We played very well without conceding Mourinho’s return from Real Madrid, but the Mahrez preserved his place at the top opened his goal account for the new sea- desire to win every game and the only way chances for Chelsea to score and it was only sight of Sergio Aguero repeatedly strolling to do it is to play consistently for 90 min- a great performance from (their of the Premier League scoring chart by son with a superb header as Dortmund through their back line at the Etihad Stadium claiming his third goal of the campaign routed Borussia Moenchengladbach 4-0 utes,” the Chilean told reporters after his keeper)Asmir Begovic that meant we could- showed the extent to which it has become an side stormed to the top of the table. n’t score more goals. in his side’s 2-1 victory at West Ham in their first league game under new area of concern. “I’ve never seen them so disor- United. coach Thomas Tuchel. The 26-year-old Sergio Aguero looked lean and mean as “Yes, the second half was more equal- ganised,” said Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville. he found space that did not seem to exist to Chelsea played better-but I only remember The Algerian scored what proved to headed home Marcel Schmelzer’s superb Mourinho said that John Terry’s unceremonious fire City ahead before halftime and after one chance which Joe Hart saved. be the winning goal in the 38th minute, cross after 21 minutes. half-time withdrawal had merely been a means Chelsea’s attempts at a fightback had been “We played better and 3-0 is the mini- meeting Marc Albrighton’s cut-back with by which to add more pace-in the form of Kurt repelled, captain Vincent Kompany and mum we deserved.” Aguero has scored 10 an unerring left-foot finish. ERIC CHOUPO-MOTING (Schalke 04) Zouma-to his floundering back four, but it may Fernandinho scored late on to emphasise goals in his last nine league games and The Cameroon forward netted also have been intended as a message to City’s superiority. Pellegrini believes the Argentine, who YAYA TOURE (Manchester City) Schalke’s second in a 3-0 win at Werder Chelsea’s directors to step up their pursuit of Fernandinho even managed to provoke topped last season’s Premier League scoring Everton’s John Stones. Ivory Coast international Toure fol- Bremen. Right winger Choupo-Moting Chelsea striker Diego Costa to near boiling charts, is still improving. lowed up a goal-scoring performance in converted a pass from his international point with a flying elbow just before half- “Aguero is in the best moment of his City’s 3-0 win at West Bromwich Albion team-mate Joel Matip on 68 minutes. 3. Ivanovic struggles No player has symbolised Chelsea’s problems time, leaving the Spaniard bloodied. career. This season, he can be even better with a dominant midfield display as his City collected four yellow cards in all, two than before. He has matured and his work side overpowered champions Chelsea to SALOMON KALOU (Hertha Berlin) more in their opening two league games than right-back Branislav Ivanovic. A Stamford Bridge more than Chelsea, as they put down a ethic is good. He is improving a lot of win 3-0. He set up Sergio Aguero’s 31st- The Ivory Coast veteran converted a clear statement of intent. They are now the things,” he said. “Three important saves minute opener with a wall pass and second-half penalty to seal Hertha’s 1-0 stalwart for the last six seasons, the Serbian was left chasing shadows by Swansea’s Jefferson bookmakers favourites at 11-8 to reclaim denied him from scoring three or four goals forced visiting goalkeeper Asmir Begovic win at Augsburg. Both sides ended with 10 the title they won in 2011-12 and 2013-14. today.” — Reuters to save a curling shot in the second half. men after two-caution red cards. — AFP Montero and was at fault for City’s second and Day seals major Man United riches in record style not enough to sway Ramos

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MONTREAL: Tournament winner Andy Murray (right) of Britain chats with his opponent Novak Djokovic of Serbia during ceremonies following the men’s final at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament. — AP Murray ends drought against Djokovic

MONTREAL: Andy Murray recorded his first win over starting in New York at the end of the month. Djokovic game to consolidate his lead in the fifth game before other in junior events. Novak Djokovic in more than two years on Sunday, suffered just his fourth loss this year and his first in a claiming his third title on the Canadian hardcourts, and Fierce rivals on the court, the pair embraced at the beating the world number one 6-4 4-6 6-3 in the final of Masters Series finals since falling to Roger Federer in first since 2010. net after a three-hour battle of attrition that left both the Rogers Cup. Cincinnati in 2012. “We’ve played many matches like that, especially in men exhausted as courtside temperatures reached 40C. Murray snapped an eight-match losing streak to “Andy is deservedly a winner today on the court,” grand slams,” Murray said. “If this was the U.S. Open, “Everybody wants me and Novak to dislike each oth- Djokovic with his first win over the Serb since the 2013 Djokovic said. “I thought what made the difference was we’d have to play another couple of sets like that, which er and people always try to stir things up between us,” Wimbledon final, then dedicated the victory to his his serve and my serve. I didn’t serve well the first set isn’t easy. “He’s obviously one of the best returners in Murray said. “It’s impossible to be extremely close when coach Amelie Mauresmo, who gave birth to a baby boy and a half. the world and he obviously has a lot of confidence to we’re playing in these sorts of matches because it’s so earlier in the day. “But not taking anything away from him, from his stand and fight right to the end, so you have to play mentally challenging and physically demanding and “I’m not sure she will have stayed up to watch this victory. He deserved it. He stepped in, played some right to the end of the match and weather the storms you need to try to still have that competitive edge as one but, Amelie, this one’s for you,” Murray said. The great shots. Most of all the moments when he needed when they come, and I managed to that today.” well. “But it’s not easy, not only because we get on but Scotsman climbed a spot to number two in the world to, he served very, very well.” Born just a week apart, Murray and Djokovic have because he’s bloody good, he’s number one in the rankings after capturing his fourth title of the year in a Murray got the decisive break in the second game of known each other since they were children, attending world and he hasn’t lost in a Masters Series this year. To major boost to his confidence ahead of the U.S. Open, the final set but had to survive an 18-minute service the same training camps and competing against each win against him is extremely tough.” — Reuters Bencic claims Rogers Millions to play Cup as Halep retires

TORONTO: Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic capped a brilliant run to the for in CL playoffs Rogers Cup title on Sunday when a distressed second seed Simona BERNE: Rank outsiders Skenderbeu and sons, are facing the uncertainties of the Halep retired from the final after losing the first three games of the third distant Astana will line-up alongside tradi- playoff round for the first time since 2005, set. Bencic needed nearly two hours and 30 minutes on a sweltering cen- tional powers such as Manchester United, when they overcame Hungary’s Debrecen tre court to see off a determined Halep 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 3-0 and claim the Valencia and Bayer Leverkusen as the 6-0 on aggregate. biggest title of her young career, putting down a marker as a player to Champions League playoffs get under United, who host the first leg on watch at the upcoming U.S. Open. way with first legs this week. Tuesday, have never been knocked out in The 18-year-old’s Rogers Cup debut was a memorable one as Bencic’s With millions of euros’ revenue, plus the Champions League qualifying rounds drive to the title included a stunning semi-final upset of world number the prestige of a place in the group stage and have won four of their side meetings one Williams and two former number ones in fourth seed Caroline at stake, the playoffs often serve up more against Belgian opponents. Wozniacki and fifth seed Ana Ivanovic. drama and tension than the group stage Valencia, who have spent more than “I’m really sorry it had to end like this, I am really sorry for Simona, I itself. The outcome can also have a signifi- 100 million euros on transfers in the close hope she will be fine for the next tournament,” said Bencic, the first Swiss cant impact on the rest of the season for season, host last season’s quarter-finalists woman to reach the final of the Rogers Cup since her mentor Martina clubs who miss out on the group stage Monaco on Wednesday as they attempt to Hingis in 2006. windfall. return to the group stage after a two-sea- Italy’s Napoli never really recovered last son absence. “For me it has been an incredible week, I cannot believe it. A win is a season from their defeat to Athletic Bilbao In the other top tie, Italy’s Lazio, who win and I had to fight really hard today.” It was Bencic’s second title in one year ago. They eventually limped in have not played in the group stage since two months, following her breakthrough win at the Aegon International fifth in Serie A, well short of expectations 2007-08, host Bundesliga outfit Bayer on grass in England in June. She arrived in Toronto ranked 20th in the and outside the Champions League Leverkusen on Tuesday. world. Halep produced a gutsy effort but the Romanian appeared in places, and coach Rafael Benitez left the Sporting host CSKA Moscow on trouble right from the start as she struggled with the heat and a sore left club at the end of the season, although Tuesday in a repeat of the 2005 UEFA Cup thigh that required treatment throughout the match, including a med- subsequently landed on his feet when he final which the Russians won while Rapid ical time out when medical staff checked her blood pressure. was appointed by Real Madrid. Vienna, who stunned Ajax Amsterdam in “In the first set I felt a little bit muscle and then it was going to the For teams such as former European the previous round, host group stage reg- knee and in the second set I felt bad, like stomach cramps and dizzy and champions Manchester United, who ulars Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday. stuff like that,” explained Halep. “I was thinking that I need a miracle to raked in 32 million euros ($35.54 million) Skenderbeu, aiming to become the finish the match. from their last group stage appearance in first Albanian side to reach the group “I tried just to finish the match, but at 3-0 I said it is no sense to contin- 2013/14, getting through the playoffs is stage, host more experienced Dinamo ue, and I stopped.” Down 5-3 in the second and with Bencic serving for considered little more than an obligation. Zagreb, Croatian champions for the last 10 Even so, with United still getting into years on Wednesday. the match, the 23-year-old Halep dug deep into her reserves and forced their stride, their tie against Belgians Club Their hopes of a historic win lie large- the set to a tiebreak which she won to thundering applause from the Bruges is anything than a formality. ly on the shoulders of striker Hamdi sun-baked crowd. But the effort to force a third set proved too much. “Bruges are a good side, they reached the Salihi who has scored five goals in four Trailing 3-0, Halep went to her chair during the changeover and then quarter-finals of the Europa League and qualifiers this season. Kazakhstan could quickly rose and walked over to Bencic and shook hands, telling her she finished second in the Belgian League last also be represented for the first time if could not continue. season,” said Louis Van Gaal when the Astana can overcame Cypriot champions “I don’t know why I continued to play, maybe for the fans,” said Halep. draw was made. APOEL, who must make a 7,000 kilome- “They were like screaming all the time to push me to still play. TORONTO: Belinda Bencic, of Switzerland, kisses the winner’s tro- Van Gaal’s side, absent from the group tre round trip to Central Asia for the first “I have no idea why I still played the second set but I did great, and I’m phy after defeating Simona Halep of Romania in the women’s final stage last term for the first time in 19 sea- leg today. — Reuters happy that I could find the power to win the second set.” — Reuters at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament. — AP Eradication spells misery for Peru’s coca farmers Page 23

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DR CONGO: This file picture taken on June 22, 2015 shows men carrying bags of flour on a broken bridge on the road between Zongo and Libenge in the northwestern Equateur province. — AFP Bad roads, low rivers stifle life in DR Congo Decades of neglect has changed aspiring country

ZONGO: Imagine living in a place bigger than Germany years has prevented cargo boats from heading upstream kilometers to the south. After the rains start, it takes up to Decades of decay and Belgium combined but with few or flooded roads, bro- from the spot place where the Ubangui flows into the twice as long, with a constant risk of skidding or getting A few signs remain of other once-lucrative export prod- ken bridges and un-navigable rivers as your only link to mighty Congo River. stuck in mud.“Since it’s soon the rainy season, we’ll be cut ucts, such as rubber and coffee. Dutch food and cosmetics supply lines. Welcome to the Democratic Republic of off from the rest of the country.There will be shortages,” firm Unilever would most likely not be a multinational giant Congo’s lush Equateur province, which once made multi- ‘Challenge... is the roads’ said Eudes Eloko, Zongo’s deputy mayor. Local people and today without the palm oil plantations it managed in the nationals rich and exported food to other parts of the “The real challenge in Equateur is the roads,” said Ursula refugees can make up some of the losses by shopping in province in the first half of the 20th century. But three country before decades of neglect changed all. Nathalie Dzietham, bureau chief in Zongo for the UN High Bangui. Even in Zongo, traders tend to shun the Congolese decades of dictatorship under Mobutu Sese Seko (1995-1997) “When the bridge is repaired, I’ll drive on. Now, I sleep Commissioner for Refugees, which struggles to reach peo- franc for the CFA franc, a multinational currency used in brought decline and conflict, and the country’s infrastructure in the lorry,” said sheet metal worker Jean-Pierre whose ple who fled the latest strife in the CAR. “The means of get- the CAR. was left to fall apart. Equateur has gotten little help since the supply trip between the towns of Zongo and Libenge, 120 ting around really aren’t obvious,” she said. The UNHCR Much of Equateur-whose 7.5 million residents account change of regime when rebel leader Laurent-Desire Kabila kilometers apart, turned into a three-week saga. tries to maintain several wooden bridges in the region, but for about 10 percent of the country’s population-is covered ousted Mobutu and took power, to be succeeded in turn by Land transport is difficult at the best of times in they are prone to breaking. by trees forming part of the Congo Basin forest, often his son Joseph Kabila when he was assassinated in 2001. Equateur, where a chronic lack of infrastructure has seen On a recent day, a dozen men unloaded a truck full of called the planet’s “second lung” after the Amazon. The Local officials complain that the province is being punished the scarce roads fall into disrepair and complicate trade chickpeas sent by the UN World Food Program. The lorry tropical forest is so dense that light barely penetrates it. by Kinshasa authorities because it was the birthplace of and daily life. Locals’ only alternative is patience. “I was left can only cross the bridge when it is empty, so the men will Major logging firms working in the region sometimes Mobutu and Jean-Pierre Bemba, a businessman and rebel with a little money, but it’s almost run out. You eat once a reload it later, hoping to earn a little food. A farming com- assume the role of the state by building roads and keeping leader during the Second Congo War (1998-2003) and rival of day, you sleep,” said Jean-Pierre. A potential lifeline is the munity of about 140,000 people, Zongo sprawls across rich them operational, but heavy rain can make slippery mud Joseph Kabila in the 2006 presidential vote. But isolation can Ubangui River, which forms the border between Equateur green land in a bend of the Ubangui. On the far bank lies of the paths. Most tracks date from Belgian colonial times, occasionally be an advantage. It enabled health workers to and two neighboring states, the small Republic of Congo Bangui, capital of the deeply poor and partly arid CAR. when people in Equateur grew essential foodstuffs to sup- prevent the spread of the last Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, and the restive Central African Republic (CAR). But a During the dry months from mid-April to mid-July, it takes ply other provinces, including cassava, palm oil, ground- which claimed 49 lives between July and November 2014, marked dry-season decline in water levels over the past 20 roughly an hour and a half to drive from Zongo to Mole, 30 nuts and rice. according to official figures. — AFP Lotte chief wins key Oil’s fresh drop could battle in family feud further depress Gulf

SEOUL: The chairman of South Korea’s Lotte Group including Dong-Bin, questioning his management ability. DUBAI: Gulf stock markets may remain under pressure ing that December’s low of 7,226 points could be repeat- secured crucial shareholder support yesterday in his bitter But Dong-Bin fought back, with the board not only nullify- and test technical support levels yesterday after oil prices ed in the coming months. Dubai’s index closed at 3,930 struggle against his father and elder brother for control of ing the dismissals but also removing the father as co-CEO. fell to near six-year lows on news of an economic contrac- points, just above technical support at 3,913 points, its the family-run retail giant. Shareholders of Lotte Holdings- The dispute further escalated as the two brothers tion in Japan and a growing rig count in the United States. May low. Any clean break below that level would trigger a the group’s Japan-based de facto holding group-approved accused each other of mismanagement and manipulating Both Brent and US crude have fallen more than 1 per- triple top formed by the highs since April and pointing corporate governance proposals to be implemented the frail, 92-year-old Shin Kyuk-Ho whose mental faculties cent in Asian trade. Japan’s economy, the second biggest down to the 3,600-point area. “under the leadership” of the chairman Shin Dong-Bin, have been called into question. The company’s board in Asia, shrank in the second quarter from a year earlier, Egypt’s bourse, which is outside the Gulf but has close Lotte said in a statement. It said Lotte, the country’s fifth members as well as the labor union voiced support for adding to fears that slowdowns in leading Asian economic ties with the region and often moves in sync largest conglomerate, “welcomed” the vote. The keenly- Dong-Bin. But Dong-Joo soldiered on, saying he would economies will weigh on oil demand. Bourses in the Gulf, with its major markets, is near chart support at its July low watched shareholder meeting moved a step closer to await the verdict from the shareholders. which had previously resisted pressure from tumbling oil of 7,527 points after dropping 3.2 percent to 7,626 points resolving a very public feud between Shin, his father Shin The family feud has renewed public criticism of the prices, fell in broad sell-offs on Sunday, with Saudi Arabia on Sunday. On global markets, Asian equities have edged Kyuk-Ho and his elder brother, Shin Dong-Joo. wealthy founding families behind the South’s family-run leading losses as it dropped 2.5 percent to an eight-month down yesterday because of faltering Chinese stocks. Lotte-founded in Tokyo in 1948 by Shin Kyuk-Ho-oper- conglomerates, known as “chaebol”. Squabbles over con- closing low of 8,464 points. MSCI’s emerging markets index has fallen 1.0 percent to ates a vast network of businesses including department trol of the business empires have often made headlines, The benchmark fell below technical support around its lowest level since October 2011. According to data stores and hotels in South Korea and Japan, whose com- prompting public calls to overhaul their governing struc- 8,500 points, where it had bottomed in March and April. from VTB Capital, emerging market funds have been con- bined assets are worth around $90 billion. The feud began ture and improve transparency. Many families now own a A second straight close below that level would trigger a tinuously registering outflows on a four-week average after Dong-Joo and his father sought last month to dismiss small fraction of the groups’ entire stake but still retain con- double top formed by the March and April peaks, indicat- basis since late last year. — Reuters a group of senior Lotte Holdings executive board members trol via a complex web of cross-shareholdings. — AFP BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 Merkel to shore up support for another Greek bailout Skepticism among voters and her conservative party

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s gov- ernment is trying to shore up domestic support for another bailout for Greece - despite skepticism among voters and her conservative party - ahead of a key vote in Parliament this week. Though the bailout deal is expected to pass easily in Germany’s Parliament on Wednesday thanks partially to support from Merkel’s center- left coalition partners, the German leader will like- ly face a rise in dissenters within her conservative CDU party. To counter that, Merkel’s government has been talking tough on the new rescue package, insisting Greece will be supervised closely and that there will be no write-off - or “haircut” - on the loans the country owes Germany. Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said yes- WASHINGTON: This June 19, 2015 file photo shows the seal of the US Securities and terday that while there is room to negotiate with Exchange Commission at SEC headquarters. — AP Greece on how it deals with its massive debt, “from the German perspective, it’s a success that there’s no more talk of a (debt) haircut.” On 2 Citigroup affiliates paying Sunday, Merkel said that although there is no cer- tainty the latest bailout for Greece will succeed, $179.5M to resolve SEC case she is hopeful the country can overcome its eco- nomic crisis if it sticks to the agreements forged BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel puts down her handbag under her table at the beginning of a board meeting of her Christian Democratic Union party, CDU, at the party’s WASHINGTON: Two Citigroup Inc. affiliates be returned to investors in two hedge with its creditors. Her hawkish finance minister, headquarters. — AP have agreed to pay $179.5 million to funds managed by the firms. The two Wolfgang Schaeuble, spelled it out more bluntly, resolve federal regulators’ charges of mis- firms neither admitted nor denied wrong- telling Bild newspaper on Sunday that though the Wednesday, however, could see a rise in dissatis- guishes itself through the fact that all sides leading investors in hedge funds that later doing but did agree to refrain from future bailout was a risk worth taking, “the reforms must faction within her political bloc. The German approached each other,” German daily Die Welt collapsed. violations of securities laws. be implemented point-by-point and we will Parliament has to vote on all new rescue pack- reported. The Securities and Exchange The SEC said the firms sold securities in watch closely.” ages and major amendments to existing ones, Gabriel called the prospects of stabilizing Commission announced yesterday the set- two hedge funds from 2002 to 2007, raising The bailout deal that Germany and other Euro- and in a similar poll last month lawmakers voted Greece economically “higher than in the last five tlement with Citigroup Alternative nearly $3 billion from mostly wealthy zone countries agreed on Friday would give the 439-119, with 40 abstentions, to give the govern- years.” Merkel’s government is in a bind on one Investments, a subsidiary of the bank, and investors or institutions. The agency says country up to 86 billion Euros ($93 billion) in ment a mandate for talks with Greece that led to key issue in the Greek bailout - the role of the Citigroup Global Markets, an affiliated the fund managers falsely told prospective loans over three years in exchange for harsh Friday’s proposal. International Monetary Fund. company. The amount they are paying will investors they were low-risk. — AP spending cuts and tax hikes. It would be the third Significantly, however, the “no” votes included Merkel has been keen to have the IMF con- bailout package that Greece gets from its euro- 60 of the 311-strong conservative caucus - double tribute to the bailout, but IMF head Christine zone partners in five years all funded with taxpay- the previous record set in February when Lagarde has said that would only be possible er money. Germany has been the largest single Parliament approved a four-month extension to when Germany and the rest of the eurozone Saudi, Egypt extend losses contributor to Greece’s previous two bailouts, Greece’s previous bailout. There’s speculation agree to ease the terms of Greece’s debt by lower- which amounted to almost 240 billion Euros (cur- there could be more conservative “no” votes on ing interest rates and delaying repayment dates on oil, currency worries rently $266 billion). Wednesday, though the measure is still expected for Greek loans. to easily pass. Though Merkel’s government has ruled out a DUBAI: Stock markets in Saudi Arabia port around 8,500 points, where it had Hard stance Yesterday, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, the debt write-off, it has indicated more flexibility on and Egypt extended losses in early trade bottomed in March and April. A close So far, Merkel’s popularity rating has kept up, head of Merkel’s coalition partner Social debt relief - to a degree. “At most, there is limited yesterday, with the Riyadh bourse trad- below that level would trigger a double thanks in part to her hard stance during the Democrats, threw his support behind the bailout. room for improvement in terms of the maturities ing below technical support following a top formed by the March and April peaks bailout talks that forced Greek Prime Minister He wrote in a letter to party members that “the for loans or the amount of interest charged,” sen- fresh drop of oil prices, and Cairo testing and pointing down to December’s low of Alexis Tsipras to back down in his demands for negotiated third aid program is not only better ior Finance Ministry official Jens Spahn told the its own chart support amid currency 7,226 points in coming months. easier terms. The parliamentary vote on than all previous proposals, but it also distin- dpa news agency. — AP depreciation worries. The main Saudi Egypt’s bourse fell 1.1 percent to index fell 0.8 percent to 8,396 points as 7,540 points in another broad sell-off. It heavyweight National Commercial Bank, held just above technical support at its the kingdom’s biggest lender, dropped July low of 7,527 points. Orascom 2.1 percent. Another drag on the bench- Construction Industries tumbled its daily mark was telecommunications firm 10 percent limit, even though the firm Etihad Etisalat (Mobily), which fell 4.3 said on Sunday it had made a net profit percent to a fresh 6-1/2-year low of in 2014 of 4.6 billion Egyptian pounds 26.70 riyals. ($588 million), compared with a loss in Early this month the firm posted a sec- 2013 of 1.4 billion pounds. ond-quarter loss after announcing yet The Egyptian pound, like other another negative earnings restatement; emerging market currencies, may come in total it has slashed its profits by 3.63 under pressure following the devaluation billion riyals ($967.8 million) for the 27 of the Chinese Yuan. months to March 31, 2015, citing While the tightly controlled official accounting errors related to the booking exchange rate remained steady on of revenue from wholesale broadband Sunday, traders at exchange bureaus said leases and mobile promotional cam- the pound was changing hands at paigns. Most other Saudi stocks also fell 7.91/92 per dollar, weaker than the 7.865 as the index traded below technical sup- quoted on Thursday. — Reuters Egyptian unemployment eases to 12.7 pct in Q2

CAIRO: Egypt’s unemployment rate edged the statistics agency said in a statement, down to 12.7 percent in the second quarter citing an “improvement in some economic of 2015, from 12.8 percent in the first quar- activities.” ter and below the 13.3 percent recorded for But unemployment for those between the same period last year, the statistics the ages of 15 and 29 was 26 percent for agency said. the second quarter and 44.6 percent for President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi has those holding a university degree or high- pledged to reduce joblessness to 10 per- er, it said. A survey earlier this month cent over the next five years. The 2011 showed that non-oil private sector employ- uprising against Hosni Mubarak was partly ment in Egypt fell in July at the fastest rate fuelled by anger over the lack of job in three months, although the decline was prospects for young Egyptians. Egypt’s modest. Analysts believe actual unemploy- labor force added 66,000 new jobs during ment may be higher than the official fig- LOURDES: People walk past religious souvenirs’ shops in Lourdes, southwest France, on August 15, 2015. The PRG (Radical Party of the Left) may- the second quarter to reach 27.8 million, ures. — Reuters or of Lourdes Josette Bourdeu wants to apply the law that supervises the overgrowth of religious shops and bars on the public space. — AFP

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GOLD Saudi Riyals 81.725 US Dollars Mint 0.299900 0.303900 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. 20 gram 223.090 Jordanian Dinar 428.010 10 gram 114.240 Asia ASIAN COUNTRIES Egyptian Pound 38.680 5 gram 57.800 Bangladesh Taka 0.003558 0.004158 Japanese Yen 2.446 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.265 Chinese Yuan 0.046563 0.050063 Indian Rupees 4.771 Indian Rupees 4.653 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Hong Kong Dollar 0.037058 0.039808 Pakistani Rupees 2.983 Pakistani Rupees 2.979 Indian upee 0.004636 0.005026 Srilankan Rupees 2.270 Bangladesh Taka 3.896 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 Nepali Rupees 3.008 CURRENCIES TELEX TRANSFER PER 1000 Philippines Pesso 6.550 Japanese Yen 0.002358 0.002538 Singapore Dollar 220.500 Australian Dollar 203.13 Cyprus pound 578.550 Kenyan Shilling 0.003154 0.003154 Hongkong Dollar 39.199 Canadian Dollar 235.15 Japanese Yen 3.435 Korean Won 0.000248 0.000263 Bangladesh Taka 3.905 Swiss Franc 315.06 Syrian Pound 2.605 Malaysian Ringgit 0.073245 0.079245 Philippine Peso 6.640 Euro 340.06 Nepalese Rupees 3.910 Nepalese Rupee 0.003044 0.003214 Thai Baht 8.653 US Dollar 303.70 Malaysian Ringgit 75.390 Sterling Pound 477.98 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.880 Pakistan Rupee 0.002813 0.003093 Philippine Peso 0.006552 0.006832 GCC COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.48 Thai Bhat 9.590 Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Saudi Riyal 81.070 Bangladesh Taka 3.899 Turkish Lira 117.480 Singapore Dollar 0.212363 0.218363 Qatari Riyal 83.510 Indian Rupee 4.649 Bahrain Exchange Company South African Rand 0.017628 0.026128 Omani Riyal 789.630 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.267 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001982 0.002562 Bahraini Dinar 807.360 Nepali Rupee 2.909 CURRENCY BUY SELL Taiwan 0.009699 0.009879 UAE Dirham 82.770 Pakistani Rupee 2.981 UAE Dirhams 0.08263 Europe Thai Baht 0.008396 0.008946 Belgian Franc 0.007919 0.008919 ARAB COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 0.8071 British Pound 0.467852 0.476852 Arab Egyptian Pound - Cash 40.825 Egyptian Pound 0.03868 Czech Korune 0.004475 0.016475 Bahraini Dinar 0.798044 0.806044 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 38.872 Jordanian Dinar 0.4319 Danish Krone 0.041120 0.046120 Egyptian Pound 0.038831 0.041661 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.419 Omani Riyal 0.7886 Euro 0.330866 0.338866 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Tunisian Dinar 155.500 Qatari Riyal 0.08373 Norwegian Krone 0.032898 0.038098 Iraqi Dinar 0.000198 0.000258 Jordanian Dinar 4.292 Saudi Riyal 0.08100 Romanian Leu 0.087062 0.087062 Jordanian Dinar 0.424068 0.431568 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.039 Slovakia 0.009058 0.019058 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Syrian Lira 2.166 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Swedish Krona 0.031622 0.036622 Lebanese Pound 0.000152 0.000252 Morocco Dirham 31.325 Swiss Franc 0.303453 0.313653 Moroccan Dirhams 0.019874 0.043874 Turkish Lira 0.108824 0.115824 Nigerian Naira 0.001253 0.001888 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Omani Riyal 0.782300 0.787980 US Dollar Transfer 303.850 US Dollar 303.450 Australasia Qatar Riyal 0.082653 0.083866 Euro 336.060 Canadian Dollar 234.075 Australian Dollar 0.215315 0.226815 Saudi Riyal 0.080297 0.080997 Sterling Pound 473.400 Sterling Pound 475.955 New Zealand Dollar 0.192122 0.201622 Syrian Pound 0.001286 0.001506 Canadian dollar 232.300 Euro 338.810 Tunisian Dinar 0.151891 0.159891 Turkish lira 109.340 Swiss Frank 297.505 America Turkish Lira 0.108824 0.115824 Swiss Franc 311.640 Bahrain Dinar 806.190 Canadian Dollar 0.225969 0.234469 UAE Dirhams 0.081651 0.082800 Australian dollar 227.740 UAE Dirhams 82.995 US Dollars 0.299400 0.303900 Yemeni Riyal 0.001372 0.001452 US Dollar Buying 303.400 Qatari Riyals 91.000 BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 Problems mount for Italy’s Renzi as economy stumbles ROME: Italian Prime Minister Matteo years ago, making it the most sluggish per- ment. Giorgio Squinzi, president of tory of Italy,” he said this month, echoing reform kicked in. Unemployment among Renzi’s mounting problems were com- former in the bloc, even worse than employers’ lobby Confindustria, said claims made by his recent predecessors as job-seekers below the age of 25 hit an all- pounded on Friday when data showed a Greece. The economy ministry said the Friday’s data “unfortunately confirms that he promised 35 billion euros ($39 billion) time high of 44 percent. PD rebels say long-awaited economic recovery is already data left Italy on track to reach the govern- there is no real recovery”. of tax cuts by 2018. Renzi has taken the party too far to the losing steam. Not much has been going ment’s 0.7 percent growth target for 2015. “The situation for Italy remains precari- right and aim to sink his plans to abolish right for Renzi lately. His approval ratings But even this would again be less than half ous and the recovery is far from estab- Ratings decline the Senate as an elected chamber when have plummeted, his governing party is the projected euro zone average. lished,” added Raj Badiani, senior econo- But Renzi’s ambitious plans no longer parliament resumes in September. deeply divided, his parliamentary majority It would also be a very poor return giv- mist at IHS Global Insight. Things have seem to convince so many Italians. His He may no longer have a majority in is fragile and his economic reforms are en a weak euro, which should boost been going downhill for Renzi since his approval ratings have dropped by around the Senate, where 176 of the 315 mem- struggling to make an impact. Italian exports, low oil prices and rock- Democratic Party (PD) won a record 41 35 percentage points over the last year, bers have said they favor maintaining a After assurances from Renzi and bottom interest rates generated by the percent at European elections in May last according to recent polls, emboldening system of direct election. Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan that European Central Bank’s bond-buying year, three months after he became prime opponents outside and inside his party. This could trigger the collapse of the they expected positive surprises as the programme. The same favorable condi- minister by ousting his predecessor in an Meanwhile, evidence that his signature government and an early return to the recovery picked up pace after three years tions are benefiting Spain, the euro zone’s internal party coup. reforms - concerning the education sys- polls. The PD remains Italy’s largest party, of grinding recession, the latest data pro- fourth largest economy and which, hav- Critics say his much touted reform tem, labor market and banking system - although its lead over the anti-establish- vided little comfort. Growth was just 0.2 ing endured a tough economic reform agenda has lost momentum amidst the are having a significant impact is hard to ment 5-Star Movement in second place percent between April and June, statistics program, is forecast to grow by more than usual mudslinging of Italian politics - pin down. Changes that make firing easier has shrunk sharply in recent months to bureau ISTAT said, below analyst expecta- 3 percent this year. something Renzi himself strongly denies. and give tax breaks to companies that around 6 points. tions and slowing from 0.3 percent in the He can point to a strong performance by offer permanent contracts to staff have so Renzi still has the advantages of a first quarter. Listless recovery the Italian stock market, which has risen far failed to create the jobs that Renzi had divided centre-right opposition and no It is a familiar story for Italy, the euro Italy’s comparatively listless recovery, 22 percent this year amid growing foreign hoped for. obvious rival in the PD. But the assump- zone’s third largest economy. Overall it has even if confirmed, would not be enough investment. Data this month showed a jobless rate tion this time last year that he would posted virtually no growth since it joined to appreciably improve living standards “No one has ever done so many of 12.7 percent in June, up from 12.3 per- dominate Italian politics for years now the euro zone as a founder member 16 or bring down record high unemploy- reforms in such a short period in the his- cent at the start of the year when the looks far less certain. — Reuters Brazil’s currency nears fair value after massive decline

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO: The Brazilian real is against the real, joined the chorus last week in trading at or near fair value after losing one his Verde Asset Management’s monthly letter. quarter of its worth since Jan 1, economists “There are still no relevant capital flights, flows said, suggesting a possible respite for one of are reasonably balanced,” he wrote. “The cur- the year’s most battered currencies. Emerging rent exchange rate, considering carry costs, market currencies in general have been slid- looks fairly priced.” Verde is Brazil’s largest ing, and unexpected domestic and interna- hedge fund, with about 30 billion Reais ($9 bil- tional events could still cause the real to over- lion) in assets. shoot toward its all-time low of 4 reais per dol- lar. But even Brazil’s political crisis, one of the Real threat main drags on the currency this year, does not To be sure, a few banks, including Credit look as bad as it did a couple of weeks ago. Suisse and Societe Generale, are still forecast- Nine of 10 economists surveyed by Reuters ing an all-time low of 4 reais per dollar in 2016. estimate that, considering Brazil’s economic Brazil’s political crisis remains severe, and hun- fundamentals, the real is now fairly priced at dreds of thousands of Brazilians returned to between 3.20 per US dollar and the current the streets on Sunday to call for Rousseff’s level of 3.50. So far this year, it is the fourth- ouster. “An impeachment (of Rousseff) is on worst performer among the 152 currencies the table,” said Schroders emerging markets tracked by Reuters, only outperforming those economist Craig Botham. “It’s not an idle of Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan. threat.” Botham, who oversees more than $470 Economists acknowledge the real could billion in assets, agreed that an overshooting keep falling as a weaker China cuts back on to 4-reais-per dollar could not be ruled out commodity imports from Brazil. But additional because of the uncertain political situation. losses are looking less likely following signs Still, there are tentative signs that the political that President Dilma Rousseff may be break- crisis might be subsiding. The number of ing a political logjam that has been blocking Brazilians marching on Sunday in Sao Paulo reforms. and Brasilia was roughly in line with similar “Could the worst be over for Brazil?” Brown protests in April but more modest than the Brothers Harriman emerging markets strate- turnout in March. NUEVO CANAVERAL: In this July 18, 2015 photo, Edma Duran, 40, (left) walks home through thick mud with her daughter Miguelina and Jack gist Ilan Solot wrote in a research note. “Only Also, a Supreme Court ruling last week after salvaging damaged coca leaves on their farm that were affected by a government eradication program two days prior. — AP time will tell. But the idea that we are granted Senate President Renan Calheiros, a approaching an inflection point is not as far- government ally, more powers to prevent fetched as it was just a month ago.” A more impeachment proceedings against Rousseff in stable currency comes at a crucial moment Congress. Some economists believe the real Eradication spells misery since it would help the central bank rein in could weaken slightly beyond its fair value inflation without a need for further rate hikes. without overshooting to all-time lows. Alberto It could also reassure Brazilian consumers, Ramos, head of Latin America research at whose confidence has sunk to record lows. Goldman Sachs, said a range of 3.65 to 3.75 for Peru’s coca farmers Also shoring up the real is the central would be preferable to help local manufactur- bank’s decision to step up intervention in the ers and to narrow Brazil’s current account gap. foreign exchange market, as well as Moody’s “The real is now trading broadly in line with its Investors Service’s recent declaration that the fundamental fair value,” Ramos wrote in a Eradication campaign affects half a million Peruvians country’s investment-grade rating was safe for note. “However ... a slightly weaker real would the next couple of years. Luis Stuhlberger, one support the struggling tradable sectors of the of Brazil’s most influential investors and widely economy and increase the efficiency of the NUEVO CANAVERAL: Edma Duran uses a machete seeds and then they forget about you,” she com- brings them a little less than $1,000 at harvest respected for making huge profits betting (macroeconomic) adjustment.” — Reuters to salvage the leaves she can from the family’s coca plained. Some growers are pushing back. A protest every four months. “Nobody buys anything but plot, which government workers have just by 5,000 people in the nearby central Amazon coca,” she said. The US Hueys returned in July and destroyed in an record-breaking US-backed eradi- town of Ciudad Constitucion turned violent last 70 men with hoes, guarded by police armed with cation campaign that has affected roughly a half month, with one farmer killed by a police bullet assault rifles, destroyed the family’s coca plants in a million Peruvians. “This is what we live off,” says and 23 other people injured. It was Peru’s first vio- half hour. Duran’s is like thousands of families who Duran, who lives with her husband and six children lent “cocalero” protest since 2012, when several have migrated to coca-growing areas on the Andes’ in a village of 110 people that lacks electricity, hundred growers attacked eradicators and police. eastern slope since the cocaine boom ignited in phones and running water and is five hours from The growers say they want eradication halted Peru and neighboring Colombia and Bolivia in the the nearest doctor. until the government offers them better alterna- 1970s. Duran is among thousands of Peruvians who tives for making a living. Hipolito Rodriguez, a have lost their livelihoods to the government’s protest leader, says authorities waste alternative Violent resistance campaign to destroy the plant used to make development funds on useless and frivolous proj- Under Humala, eradication teams largely cocaine. They say officials have offered only paltry ects - “internships, car rentals and officials’ juicy cleared the plants from the Upper Huallaga Valley, compensation, or none at all. A record 55,000 salaries.” the cradle of the cocaine trade, but many cocaleros hectares (just over 210 square miles) of coca were Since Humala took office in 2011, his govern- moved elsewhere. Many settled in the Apurimac, destroyed in 2013-14 - dropping the Andean ment has spent $285 million on counterdrug Ene and Mantaro river valley, where 68 percent of nation to No 2 behind Colombia in land area under efforts - more than triple the amount under the Peru’s coca is grown and the government doesn’t coca cultivation. previous administration of Alan Garcia. Over that eradicate for fear of violent resistance. About 60 Peru nevertheless remains the world’s top same period, the United States put more than $60 Shining Path guerrillas, remnants of the Maoist cocaine-producing nation, and its most dense coca million into eradication after previously footing the insurgency that convulsed Peru in a 1980-2000 fields grow undisturbed far from Duran’s ravaged entire bill, and it plowed more than $100 million conflict, protect the drug trade there. Police say it’s plot of less than a hectare (2.5 acres). The two-year into crop alternatives, principally cacao, coffee and one of about 15 trafficking bands in the area. effort has yielded a 30 percent decrease in the palm oil. Carlos Figueroa, an alternative development amount of Peruvian land planted with coca, and Washington also supplies the 22 Huey helicop- expert with Peru’s counterdrug agency, says that the government says it’s on pace this year to ters used to transport eradication teams and their while Peru has spent more than $169 million in SAO PAULO: Demonstrators protest against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and destroy another 35,000 hectares (135 square miles) armed police escorts. Juan Manuel Torres, a drug programs to wean farmers off coca growing under the ruling Workers Party (PT), at Paulista Avenue. — AFP - an area the size of Philadelphia. policy expert with the nonprofit Center for Humala, it takes time for assistance to get traction Research into Drugs and Human Rights, advocates in faraway villages like Nuevo Canaveral. Drug trafficking a more integrated approach to coaxing coca farm- One reason is the insecurity caused by traffick- “For the first time in the country’s history we ers to plant different crops - low-interest loans and ers. Police say that in the region where Duran lives Japan’s economy stalls have broken the rise in coca leaf production (used) a phased eradication that would let farmers keep they’ve detected more than 300 cocaine laborato- for drug trafficking,” President Ollanta Humala said some coca while introducing new crops. ries in the past two years and about 20 clandestine in April-June quarter last month after the United Nations announced the Duran and her husband planted bananas after a airstrips used by small planes to fly cocaine to latest numbers. According to Peru’s government, government crew uprooted their coca crop for the Bolivia. Counter-narcotics police Sgt. Miguel Ore TOKYO: Japan’s recovery stalled in the April- said. The government did revise upward its 42,000 families got financial support or help with first time in 2013. But when the fruit ripened, the says the people who flee when police arrive with June quarter, with the world’s third-largest estimate for growth in the January-March alternative crops last year after their coca fields river connecting them with the nearest market eradication teams are almost always processing economy contracting at a 1.6 percent annual quarter, to 4.5 percent from 3.9 percent. The were destroyed. But many of the 95,000 families town was dry and they trekked for five hours with coca leaves into paste. But plenty stay put. “They pace thanks to feeble consumer and corpo- contraction in April-June represented a 0.4 affected by eradication get no assistance or, like 100 bananas between them. Duran said the are very poor people,” he said. “They drop to their rate demand and slowing exports. The dis- percent quarterly decrease. Duran, have rejected what was offered. bananas turned out to be worth just $1 at market. knees and beg us to leave them a little, because mal data reported yesterday was expected, “They give you a machete and a few cacao The family went back to planting coca, which that’s what they live off.” — AP based on earlier reported figures, but it raises Lower oil prices the likelihood the central bank may opt for The Bank of Japan, whose lavish mone- fresh stimulus measures in coming months. tary easing is pumping trillions of Yen (hun- Indian airline makes huge It also comes at an awkward time for dreds of billions of dollars) of cash into the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has champi- economy through purchases of government oned a strategy of heavy monetary stimulus bonds and other assets, has persisted in fore- order for 250 Airbus jets to help push prices higher and drive a “virtu- casting a rebound later in the year. ous cycle” of stronger consumer spending Lower oil prices have hindered progress and corporate investment. Abe has seen his toward achieving the official inflation target PARIS: Indian budget airline IndiGo finalized an popularity ratings slip following damaging of 2 percent, and the contraction will likely exceptionally large order for 250 single-aisle Airbus legislative skirmishes over his proposals to raise questions over whether the Abenomics A320neo jets yesterday to keep up with rapid expand the role of Japan’s self-defense force approach is working, said Fung Siu, an ana- growth in the country’s air travel. IndiGo, India’s and could use some positive news on the lyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit. “The largest domestic airline, had signed a preliminary economic side. But heavy rains in the spring data will prompt calls for more policy action order last year and firmed it up yesterday, Airbus and early summer are thought to have dis- from the Bank of Japan,” Siu said in a note. said in a statement. The manufacturer based in couraged shoppers. Demand for autos has The data released yesterday show that pri- Toulouse, France, called it the biggest order by also slumped following a tax hike for smaller vate consumption, the biggest driver of number of jets that it had ever received. At list cars. As China’s economy has slowed, its growth, fell prices, the jets would cost $26 billion, though cus- demand for exports has also lagged. 1.7 percent in annual terms despite an 8 tomers usually negotiate discounts. Economy minister Akira Amari, however, percent increase in residential investment. Several Asian low-cost carriers are building up acknowledged inadequate progress toward Corporate investment slipped 0.3 percent. fleets amid growing demand, and both Airbus and getting companies to use their surging cor- Exports fell 16.5 percent from a year earlier, rival Boeing Co have been wooing Indian airline NEW DELHI: An India’s budget airline IndiGo aircraft approaching for landing at the Indira porate profits to raise wages and domestic the worst quarterly performance in four companies. India is expected to become the third Gandhi International (IGI) airport. — AP investment - a priority seen as vital to a sus- years, with net exports minus imports down largest aviation market globally by 2020, with the low-cost travel in India and abroad. The company and stiff competition. Except for IndiGo, most other tainable recovery. nearly 10 percent. The economy got a boost number of airline passengers tripling to some 450 has already taken delivery of around 100 Airbus air- airlines, including state-owned Air India, have been “Improving private consumption is cru- from public investment, which rose almost million trips per year, as an expanding middle class craft that were part of an order for 180 aircraft incurring huge losses and are in financial distress. cial,” he said. Amari shot down speculation 11 percent from a year earlier, as spending trades up from slow train journeys to taking a worth $15.6 billion signed in 2011. The A320neo is an upgraded, more fuel-efficient that Japan was planning further stimulus to was “front-loaded” at the beginning of the plane. IndiGo’s president, Aditya Ghosh, said the Despite the projected growth, airlines in India version of Airbus’ popular A320 jets, usually used on spur growth. “We have no such intention,” he fiscal year, which starts April 1. —AP order would allow his company to further develop are generally unprofitable due to high fuel costs mid-range flights. — AP BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 Why technology stocks are trending again

NEW YORK: Technology stocks are trending big- Room to grow Surprisingly affordable Google is another giant with modest valuations. names in the sector even pay better-than-aver- time as investors latch on to innovative compa- The economy is still expanding, but at a tepid Despite its run-up, the sector is not that The Internet company’s stock surged in mid-July age dividends. Microsoft has a 2.6 percent divi- nies racing ahead in a slow-growth world. The pace. Tech companies, however, are generating pricey. In fact, tech stocks are trading at a slight after it reported better-than-expected earnings dend yield, which measures how much a compa- tech-heavy Nasdaq is the best performing major rapidly rising sales and profits as they disrupt discount to the market. The average price-earn- for the first time since October 2013. It rose fur- ny pays in dividends compared to its stock price. US stock index this year, gaining 6.6 percent as older industries. And that is drawing in investors. ings ratio, a measure of how much investors are ther this month after it announced that it was The S&P 500 average is 1.9 percent. IBM and Intel the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Dow Jones Many think the Internet boom that ended in willing to pay for each dollar of earnings, is 16.2 changing its corporate structure. The change are also offering higher rates than the market. Industrial averages have wavered between small 2000 was just the first leg in a wave of technolo- for tech companies in the S&P 500. That is below was welcomed by investors who want more Those quarterly payments are especially appeal- gains and losses. gy growth. the 16.5 ratio for the entire index, meaning that transparency about how Google spends its ing to investors in an era of extraordinarily low The industry has re-established itself as the “The global digital economy is in its infancy. It’s tech as a group is fractionally cheaper than the money. yields in other investments, such as high-quality dominant sector in the US stock market and cur- still being constructed,” says Joe Quinlan, chief overall market. Investors also liked what they heard from bonds. rently accounts for 20 percent of the value of the market strategist at US Trust in New York. “So we “I don’t see a valuations bubble,” says Jeremy Google’s new chief financial officer, Ruth Porat, a S&P 500 index. That is tech’s largest share since have tremendous upside when it comes to social Zirin, head of investment strategy at UBS Wealth Wall Street veteran, who has delivered a message Overseas exposure the dot-com bubble, and makes it the biggest media, e-commerce, retailing, you name it.” Management in New York. “It’s not that there of newfound austerity. Businesses are still mov- Tech is the most exposed of all the S&P 500 sector in the market. But the sector’s success isn’t Facebook’s revenue jumped 39 percent in the sec- isn’t froth in some areas, it’s just not that perva- ing to the Internet and increasing their spending sectors to demand from overseas. About 60 per- universal. Some of the most recent earnings ond quarter. That compares with a 4 percent fall sive.” Even after a 19-fold increase in the price of on advertising, trends that are far from over, says cent of the sector’s revenue comes from abroad, reports from big tech companies have highlight- for S&P 500 companies in the period. Revenue at Apple’s stock during the past decade, it’s difficult Matt Peron, managing director of global equity according S&P Dow Jones Indices. As a result, ed both the good and the bad for the industry. business software company Salesforce.com, to argue that it costs too much. The P/E for at Northern Trust, an asset manager. Those earnings in the group will be hit if the dollar con- Here are three positive trends for tech, and two which hasn’t released its second-quarter figures Apple’s stock is 12, considerably less than the trends should benefit Google, the dominant tinues to strengthen, as it has done over the past negative ones. yet, has tripled over the last five years. average tech company and the overall market. force in online search and marketing. That out- two years. That’s because a stronger dollar look, combined with a reasonable valuation, reduces the value of overseas sales and makes makes Google an attractive stock to own, he US-produced goods more expensive for foreign says. The company’s P/E is 20.7, above the aver- buyers. age for the S&P 500, but not excessively so. Microsoft and eBay were two technology companies that lamented the impact of the Dividends stronger dollar in their most recent earnings. During the last Internet boom, tech compa- Tech companies are also vulnerable to weaker nies developed reputations for being extrava- growth in economies overseas. That was illustrat- gant spenders. The money was spent chasing ed last week when Apple slumped on worries growth, not pleasing shareholders. Nowadays, that the Chinese economy was slowing more many of the larger, more established tech com- markedly than investors thought. Apple’s stock panies are returning cash to shareholders in the dropped 5.2 percent on Tuesday after the form of dividend payments. Two-thirds of tech- Chinese government devalued its currency, the nology firms in the S&P 500 pay a dividend, yuan. Most analysts saw the move as an attempt according to S&P Dow Jones Indices, accounting to prop up growth. The iPhone maker generates for 15 percent of all dividend payments made by almost 17 percent of its sales from China. Liedtke companies in the index. Some of the biggest reported from San Francisco. — AP BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015

Inflation at 3.5% in June; upward price pressures appear to ease

NBK’s WEEKLY MONEY MARKET REPORT

KUWAIT: Inflation in consumer prices ing near 3.5%, as core CPI (ex-food) also At the same time, the Dinarís trade- 2014. falling slightly in both sectors. Prices in rose to 3.5% year-on-year (y/y) in June, steadies near 3.5%. weighted exchange rate rose by around Other sources of inflation over the recreation & culture have declined by though there were indications that pres- Inflation in food prices has been the 4%. last three months included furnishings & 0.5% y/y while prices of clothing & sures have eased in the last three largest source of overall inflation in the household maintenance as well as footwear are down by 1.5% y/y. months. Housing inflation continued to last three months, but remains relatively Housing rent remains key restaurants and hotels. Inflation in fur- We can expect inflationary pressures rise in June to 6.5% y/y, though pressure subdued. Food price inflation rose to Housing rent inflation remained a key nishings and household maintenance to continue to moderate in the coming appears to be waning in Q2.Price pres- 3.6% y/y in June, its most rapid pace in source of inflation, though its contribu- edged up in June to 4.2% y/y after a few months with international food prices sures also came from food inflation, over a year. Stronger demand attributed tion has diminished in Q2. While rent months of easing. Meanwhile, price dropping and a cooling real estate mar- which increased for the fourth consecu- to the Holy Month of Ramadan may inflation rose to its highest pace in over inflation in the restaurants and hotels ket limiting growth in housing rents. tive month on a y/y basis; however, con- have played a factor in pushing prices six years in June to 6.5% y/y, upward sector continued to accelerate, rising to Indeed, annualized price growth during tinued weakness in international food higher. Still, this trend is not expected to price pressures in the last three months a new multi-year high of 6.9% y/y. This the three months through June declined prices suggests food inflation can be be maintained in the coming months, have diminished significantly. Prices rose comes two years after the sector had to 2.6% for the general CPI index, the expected to ease in the coming months. especially with international food prices by an annualized 3.2% during the three seen a period of stagnating prices. slowest pace since August 2014. A The stronger Dinar (against the Yen and declining and with the strong Dinar. months through June, the slowest pace There was virtually no inflation com- stronger Dinar will also help keep price the Euro) is also projected to limit any Indeed, international commodity food in nearly a year. The sector may be bene- ing from the recreation and culture and inflation in check in the coming months. significant inflationary pressures. We see prices are down by over 15% y/y accord- fiting from a healthy cooling off in the clothing and footwear sectors in the last We expect CPI inflation will average an average annual inflation in 2015 stay- ing to the Commodity Research Bureau. real estate market following a strong three months. In fact, prices have been 3.5% this year.

Manufacturing in New York shrinks by most since 2009 WASHINGTON: Manufacturing activity in and China that have cut into exports. The New York state contracted in August at the dollar has also risen about 20 percent in fastest pace since the Great Recession, value in the past year, which can also pulled down by sharp declines in new reduce exports by making them more orders and shipments. The Federal Reserve expensive. Bank of New York said yesterday that its Nationwide, however, factories are Empire State manufacturing index plunged boosting output on the back of stronger to minus 14.9 from a positive reading of 3.9 domestic demand. Employers have added in July. That is the lowest level since April nearly 3 million jobs in the past 12 months, 2009. Any reading below zero indicates enabling more Americans to spend on large contraction. items such as autos. A separate report from A gauge of new orders fell to minus 15.7 the Federal Reserve in Washington last from minus 3.5, while a measure of ship- week showed that US manufacturing out- ments dropped to minus 13.8 from positive put rose a healthy 0.8 percent in July after 7.9. US manufacturers have been strug- falling 0.3 percent in the previous month. gling with a variety of headwinds, includ- July’s gain was driven by greater production ing weak overseas economies in Europe of autos, clothes and plastics. —AP Gold steady as focus back to US rate hike

MANILA: Gold was steady yesterday ing construction all pointing to next after pulling back from a three-week month as gross domestic product stays high hit last week, as more upbeat US above trend for the world’s largest econ- economic data strengthened the dollar omy. and the case for the Federal Reserve to Hedge fund Paulson & Co cut its stake hike interest rates next month. Spot gold in the world’s biggest gold-backed was flat at $1,114.05 an ounce by 0038 exchange-traded fund in the second GMT. The metal has come off Thursday’s quarter of 2015, after holding it three-week peak of $1,126.31, though unchanged for six straight quarters, just INDIANA: This Oct. 20, 2009, file photo, shows a home with a reduced price for sale in Carmel, Indiana, neighborhood. Short of cash and unset- still managed to snap a seven-week los- before prices took a tumble. Hedge tled in their careers, young Americans are waiting longer than ever to buy their first homes. — AP ing run. US gold for December delivery funds and money managers sharply cut was little changed at $1,113.80 an ounce. their net short position in COMEX gold China’s devaluation of its Yuan last contracts in the week ended Aug. 11, as Millennials facing major week helped gold recover some lost the surprise devaluation of China’s cur- ground, but bullion has pared some of rency lifted bullion prices further above a those gains as fears abated that Beijing 5-1/2-year low, US Commodity Futures would pursue a sustained depreciation Trading Commission data showed. financial challenges of its currency. That has put the market In Greece, Prime Minister Alexis focus back on a looming US rates Tsipras faced the widest rebellion yet increase. US industrial output advanced from his leftist lawmakers as parliament Americans waiting longer than ever to buy first homes at its strongest pace in eight months in approved a new bailout program, forcing WASHINGTON: Short of cash and unsettled in down payment and qualifying for a mortgage.” ure above 30 percent as financially burden- July in another bullish sign for third- him to consider a confidence vote that their careers, young Americans are waiting Millennials increasingly find themselves in a some.) quarter economic growth that boosts could pave the way for early elections. longer than ever to buy their first homes. The situation like that of Lou Flores, a 30-year-old the prospects of a rate hike next month. The dollar edged higher as traders typical first-timer now rents for six years before portfolio manager in San Diego. He shares a Cost burdens Minutes from the Fed’s July 28-29 looked to the prospects of a US rate hike buying a home, up from 2.6 years in the early one-bedroom apartment with his boyfriend, Some of the cost burden stems from a shift meeting due on Wednesday will offer next month. Asian stocks were little 1970s, according to a new analysis by the real paying $1,400 a month to live within walking toward people who envision themselves rent- vital clues about its plan to hike rates for changed as investors’ nerves continued estate data firm Zillow. The median first-time distance of Balboa Park and the zoo. ing for several years and therefore seeking the the first time since 2006, with rebound- to settle after China’s surprise Yuan buyer is age 33 - in the upper range of the mil- Flores’ parents had built their nest egg by kinds of amenities more commonly associated ing retail sales, solid jobs growth and ris- devaluation last week. — Reuters lennial generation, which roughly spans ages steadily upgrading their homes, ingraining him with home ownership. Based on searches for 18 to 34. A generation ago, the median first- with the notion that “renting was a waste of rentals on RadPad in June and July, for exam- timer was about three years younger. The delay money.” But the median home in San Diego ple, apartments with stainless steel appliances reflects a trend that cuts to the heart of the costs more than a half million dollars, accord- and swimming pools were disproportionately financial challenges facing millennials: ing to the area’s association of Realtors. So popular in cities with lower homeownership Renters are struggling to save for down pay- Flores figures ownership is at least a few years rates such as Los Angeles, Chicago and ments. Increasingly, too, they’re facing delays away. Washington. Nearly a fifth of Washington-area in some key landmarks of adulthood, from “Here in California, if you’re not married or searches sought apartments with stainless marriage and children to a stable career, with someone, it’s impossible to buy a home steel appliances, compared with 5 percent according to industry and government reports. without financial backing from your parents,” nationwide. More than a third of Chicagoans These shifts help explain why homeownership, Flores said. Few first-timers around the country wanted an apartment with a pool, versus 18 long a source of middle class identity and eco- can lean on their parents. Among homebuyers percent nationally. nomic opportunity, has started to decline. The last year under age 34, 14 percent received Job security has become a more central share of the US population who own homes down payment help from family or friends, consideration for first-time buyers. The Money has slid to 63.4 percent, a 48-year low, accord- according to a Federal Reserve survey. Source, a mortgage lender and servicer, exam- ing to the Census Bureau. And when young Most first-timers still depend on personal ined applications from 5,404 millennial home- adults do sign the deed, their purchase price is savings for at least some of their down pay- buyers. It found that the buyers had averaged now substantially more, relative to their ments. But rising rental prices have complicat- nearly 4.5 years in their field of work and had income, than it was decades ago. First-time ed the task of socking away money for a down held their current job for slightly more than buyers are paying a median price of $140,238, payment. Fueled by a surge of renters across all three years. Those figures point to how critical nearly 2.6 times their income. In the early age ranges, rental prices nationally have grown career stability has become for a generation 1970s, the starter home was just 1.7 times at roughly twice the pace of average hourly that entered the workforce during the Great income. wage growth, which was a paltry 2.1 percent Recession and its slow-growth recovery. over the past year. Housing industry experts note that surveys still Delaying decisions A result is that those prices are consuming show a strong desire to buy among millennials, Millennials are “still very interested in buy- more income. A striking 46 percent of renters but that their timelines for purchasing depend ing a house, but they’re delaying that decision,” ages 25 to 34 - the core of the millennial popu- on achieving more stability in their careers. “As said Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow. lation - spend more than 30 percent of their long as there is the job market to support mil- “Once they start having kids, they begin look- incomes on rent, up from 40 percent a decade lennials - just as it has for previous generations NEW YORK: A pedestrian walks past the New York Stock Exchange. World stock mar- ing for homes. We’re also finding that - given earlier, according to a report by Harvard - I don’t believe their habits will change,” said kets were mostly higher yesterday, as the Yuan steadied and Greece inched closer to how much rental rates are currently rising - a University’s Joint Center of Housing Studies. Darius Mirshahzadeh, CEO of The Money receiving its latest bailout. — AP lot of folks are having a hard time saving for a (The housing industry generally regards a fig- Source. — AP BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015

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He also noted that other crore (1.25 million) people of India are not just a Plus you get to enhance your drive each mend all motor enthusiasts to check the ties in the country’s tourism, infrastructure and investment opportunities existed in the real- market, they are a source of great strength.” day by simply by having replaced your condition of their vehicle tires on a regular existing tires with a leading international basis, and take the necessary corrective brand of new tires giving you comfort, con- measures especially with back-to-school fidence, and in some cases extreme noise season coming up”, added Mr Rajesh reduction (depending on vehicle perform- Panjwani, Deputy General Manager-Sales Etihad Airways supports ance & tire specifications). of Kuwait AUTO1 - Tires. Arab Film Festival Australia GCC can reduce energy costs KUWAIT: Australian filmgoers can look for- and Cultural Exchange (ICE). Its organizing The Arab Film Festival Australia will run in with new sun control fabric ward to tales of street racing women, disas- committee represents Australia’s diverse Sydney until 16 August, Melbourne from 21- trous road trips and a father’s quest for Arabic-speaking communities and cultures. 23 August and Canberra from 28-30 August. DUBAI: GCC buildings can reduce energy require advanced solutions to cope with acceptance of his special needs son at the costs by up to 25 percent with a new line of harsh daylight, while ensuring people have 12th annual Arab Film Festival Australia, sun control fabric launched today by Hunter a comfortable climate and visibility. Screen which is sponsored by Etihad Airways. The fes- Douglas, according to industry experts. Nature Ultimetal pushes the boundaries of tival, which opened its 2015 program in Demonstrating the strong potential for sustainable sun control, combining visual Sydney will showcase 10 films from the building sustainability, the GCC hosts 1,236 appeal, thermal performance, and environ- United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon LEED-rated projects, with 837 (68 percent) in mental properties, while substantially reduc- and Palestine. Etihad Airways’ Senior Vice the UAE, according to a report by Ventures ing energy consumption.” Screen Nature Middle East. Qatar has 190 projects, the Ultimetal is recyclable by being made with President Marketing, Shane O’Hare, said the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 158 projects, of fiber glass with a reflective aluminum lay- airline was proud of its partnership with the and Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain combining er, is fire-safe, and free of PVC, odors, toxic Arab Film Festival Australia. for 51 projects. vapors. Wouter Beck, Director of GreenTech, “Etihad Airways first supported the Arab With the UAE as the region’s leader in Hunter Douglas, said: “Fibreglass shading Film Festival Australia in 2008, which makes green buildings, Dubai has one of the fabrics often come with a protective layer of this one of the airline’s longest-running spon- region’s more ambitious plans, with the PVC. Despite its strong protective proper- sorships in Australia. “As the national airline of Dubai Supreme Council of Energy expecting ties, PVC is not the most environment- the United Arab Emirates, Etihad Airways is nearly one quarter - 30,000 of Dubai’s friendly material in terms of production or committed to promoting a deeper apprecia- 130,000 buildings - to be energy-efficient by recyclability. The yarns used in Screen tion of modern Arabian arts and culture and 2030, at a cost of USD 820 million, according Nature have a patented inorganic coating to playing a small but important role in bring- to the report. that offers excellent protection. Screen ing stories from the Arab world to Australian Supporting sustainable buildings in the Nature Ultimetal has two additional advan- audiences.” region, Hunter Douglas, an international tages: the material is fire-safe as well as Arab Film Festival Australia Co-director manufacturer of sun control systems based odourless, due to the absence of softeners.” Fadia Abboud said Etihad Airways’ support in The Netherlands, has released the new Job Hoevenaars, Product Manager, was the key to the festival reaching a wider Screen Nature Ultimetal sun control fabric, Hunter Douglas, said: “The fabric halves the audience. “It’s our mission to showcase the which reflects 70 percent of solar energy solar heat gain coming through the window. diversity of the Arab experience to Australian that strikes buildings and can substantially This means the interior temperature will audiences, and our partnership with Etihad reduce energy costs. In projects with a lot of remain pleasant in summer without much Airways is important for delivering that objec- glass, such as skyscrapers, Screen Nature additional cooling. This also makes the Ultimetal can cut the amount of energy Screen Nature Ultimetal sun control fabric tive. “The airline’s support has enabled the fes- needed for cooling by 25 percent by block- ideal for projects facing high requirements tival to bring acclaimed director Amin Dora ing out glare, while minute holes allow for with regard to Energy Performance from Beirut to Sydney for opening night as light and openness. Certification and sustainable schemes, such this year’s special guest. This is a significant Robin Van Der Velden, Manager of as BREEAM and LEED.” Screen Nature coup for the festival as Mr Dora’s opening Window Covering Division, Hunter Douglas Ultimetal is part of Hunter Douglas’ roller night film Ghadi was Lebanon’s official sub- Middle East, said: “With GCC countries blind range, EOS 500, an innovative, modu- mission to the Academy Awards and has been International Digital Emmy Award winning director, Amin Dora with Etihad Airways Premium among the world leaders in focusing on sus- lar roller blind system consisting of 300 well received around the world.” Lounge staff en route to Sydney from his home in Beirut to attend the opening night of Arab tainable buildings, skyscrapers in particular interchangeable components. The festival is produced by Information Film Festival Australia. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 TECHNOLOGY AT&T helped US NSA in spying on Internet traffic

WASHINGTON: Telecommunications customer. network hubs in the United States. and I.S.P.s,” or Internet service providers, access to contents of transiting email powerhouse AT&T Inc has provided The documents date from 2003 to AT&T installed surveillance equip- according to another NSA document. traffic years before Verizon started in extensive assistance to the US National 2013 and were provided by fugitive for- ment in at least 17 of its US Internet AT&T started in 2011 to provide the March 2013, the Times reported. Security Agency as the spy agency con- mer NSA contractor Edward Snowden, hubs, far more than competitor Verizon NSA more than 1.1 billion domestic cell- Asked to comment on the Times ducts surveillance on huge volumes of the Times reported. The company Communications Inc, the Times report- phone calling records daily after “a push report, AT&T spokesman Brad Burns told Internet traffic passing through the helped the spy agency in a broad range ed. AT&T engineers also were the first to to get this flow operational prior to the Reuters by email: “We do not voluntarily United States, the New York Times of classified activities, the newspaper use new surveillance technologies 10th anniversary of 9/11,” referring to provide information to any investigat- reported on Saturday, citing newly dis- reported. invented by the NSA, the Times report- the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United ing authorities other than if a person’s closed NSA documents. The documents describe how the ed. States, the Times reported. life is in danger and time is of the The newspaper reported that the NSA’s working relationship with AT&T “This is a partnership, not a contrac- AT&T’s providing of foreign-to-for- essence. For example, in a kidnapping company gave technical assistance to has been particularly important, tual relationship,” according to one NSA eign Internet traffic has been especially situation we could provide help track- the NSA in carrying out a secret court enabling the agency to conduct surveil- document describing the link between important to the NSA because large ing down called numbers to assist law order allowing wiretapping of all lance, under various legal rules, of inter- the agency and the company. amounts of the world’s Internet com- enforcement.” Burns said AT&T would Internet communications at the head- national and foreign-to-foreign Internet AT&T’s “corporate relationships pro- munications pass across U.S. cables, the have nothing further to say on the quarters of the United Nations, an AT&T communications that passed through vide unique accesses to other telecoms Times reported. The company gave report.—Reuters

Malaysia seeks help to stem ‘false’ online content

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will ask three from 1MDB. Authorities are investigating social media and Internet companies to allegations of graft and financial misman- curb content in the interest of public safety, agement at 1MDB, a fund with debts of the communications minister said yester- more than $11 billion. Najib chairs the day. fund’s advisory board. The request is the latest attempt by The prime minister sacked his deputy Malaysia’s embattled government to quell and other ministers last month after they dissent after Prime Minister Najib Razak questioned him publicly about the 1MDB became embroiled in controversy over big affair. The government has suspended two debts at state fund 1Malaysia Development newspapers and a website that were Berhad (1MDB). reporting on 1MDB. The Malaysian Communications and Pro-democracy activist Mandeep Singh Multimedia Commission will meet Karpall said the government was trying to Facebook, Google, and Twitter “soon to control freedom of expression by clamping seek their cooperation to stem the increas- down on social media where many ing tide of false information and rumours”, Malaysians express political views, especial- Communications Minister Salleh Said ly younger people. Keruak wrote on his blog. “They’re doing it to create a climate of “The online environment is not a lawless fear,” said Karpall, acting manager of the space and action can be taken against any- pro-democracy group Bersih that is organ- one found to have breached the law, ising an anti-government rally in the capital including in the online space,” he added, this month. without elaborating. A Google spokesman in Kuala Lumpur Najib, 62, has been under pressure since said the Internet giant was “always in con- reports emerged that nearly $700 million versation with” the Malaysian were transferred into his personal accounts. Communications and Multimedia Reuters has not verified those reports. Commission but he declined to comment The prime minister has denied wrong- on the request from the government on doing and the anti-graft agency investigat- curbing content. Facebook and Twitter ing the funds transferred into his accounts were not immediately available for com- said the money was a “donation” and not ment. —Reuters ANAHEIM: In this Sunday Aug. 16 2015 photo, Ironman characters appear larger than life at the D23 Expo where John Vignocchi (at left) and John Blackburn talk about Battlegrounds a new name for the Marvel playset for Disney Infinity 3.0. —AP ‘Infinity’ creators have faith in ‘Force Awakens’ edition

ANAHEIM: It probably would have been easier “Disney Infinity 3.0” will feature a collection of “We don’t want to show too much because to break into the Death Star. For the video game characters from across George Lucas’ sprawling you need to first see the film,” said Blackburn. makers working on “Star Wars: The Force sci-fi universe, such as Luke Skywalker and Darth “The first time you see these characters should Awakens” content in the forthcoming install- Vader from the original trilogy, Yoda and Anakin not be in our game. That’s just a baseline belief ment of the “Disney Infinity” toys-to-life fran- Skywalker from the prequels and “Clone Wars” because we’re taking it and putting it through a chise, getting their hands on the top-secret animated series, as well as all-new recruits from different lens. The palette we had to choose script involved high-security protocols rivaling filmmaker J.J. Abrams’ “The Force Awakens.” from was basically of things that people had the Galactic Empire. During a presentation at the fan-filled D23 already seen.” It’s uncharted territory for “Infinity.” “We had to go through biometric scanning, Expo on Sunday, actors John Boyega and Daisy Unlike most well-known Disney, Marvel and and there were codenames for everything,” said Ridley unveiled the figures of their “Force Lucasfilm characters, these “Force Awakens” John Vignocchi, vice president of production at Awakens” protagonists, soldier Finn and scav- newbies aren’t arriving with fan clubs or back- Disney Interactive Studios and emperor of the enger Rey. The pair will be featured in a playset stories. Heck, Finn and Rey’s last names are still a “Infinity” franchise. “It was without a doubt the that will serve as the only way for fans to interac- mystery. (Blackburn, however, knows them. most complicated thing we’ve ever worked on in tively experience the plot from the hugely antici- Despite the clandestineness, he read the film the five years I’ve been here.” pated new film. script over a year ago.) That’s probably not hyperbole considering “It’s been a lot of work,” said Vignocchi earlier “There is an awareness challenge because the ambitious “Infinity” has featured a wide vari- this week during a break from the Toy Box people aren’t as familiar with these characters, ety of characters from across Disney’s alliance of Summit, an annual gathering of top “Infinity” but there are other characters from the ‘Star NIAMEY: This January 2, 2015 file photo shows a US made Reaper drone part of intellectual properties. Everyone from Iron Man players. “It’s an honor but also a huge responsi- Wars’ universe that are in the film and other play- Operation Barkhane’s aerial detachment as it flies over the Nigerian military airport of Marvel’s “The Avengers” to Elsa of Disney bility because we’re the only game in town with sets,” said Matt Fillbrandt, executive producer of Diori Hamani in Niamey.—AP Animation’s “Frozen” has appeared as playable ‘Episode VII’ content on consoles. We have to franchise management at Lucasfilm. “There’s characters that can uncharacteristically play deliver a video game experience that’s just as connective tissue that I think will pique fans’ together. great as the film.” interest.” Regardless of the rise of “Star Wars” in Similar to Activision’s “Skylanders” series, When “Infinity” launched in 2013, Disney “Infinity,” it won’t totally choke the toy-game US military to step “Infinity” requires users to place a physical toy dubbed it a platform - not just a game - and series. Disney Interactive announced at D23 that figure on a reader to virtually portray that char- promised it would be a new way to give con- caveboy Spot from Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur,” acter on screen, either in franchise-specific “play- sumers interactive content based on films and as well as rabbit police officer Judy Hopps and up drone flights sets” or in the open-ended “toy box” mode, TV shows, instead of typical stand-alone titles. popsicle-wielding fox Nick Wilde from Disney which allows users to design their own levels That’s never been more apparent than in the Animation’s “Zootopia” are also coming to WASHINGTON: The US military plans to reached for comment. with an array of Disney characters, vehicles and company’s decision not to release a separate “Infinity,” while the Marvel superheroes will widen its surveillance and firepower in con- Unmanned drone flights can be used on props. “Force Awakens” game. receive a rock-’em-sock-’em four-player multi- flict zones worldwide, including in Ukraine reconnaissance missions to gather video, The brand-busting introduction of “Infinity” in John Blackburn, general manager at lead player expansion called “Battlegrounds.” and the South China Sea, with a major photos and other surveillance data. They 2013 helped push Disney’s interactive division to “Infinity” developer Avalanche Software, said “We have a plan for what’s next, and it’s not expansion of U.S. drone flights, the Wall can also be used to launch air strikes, become profitable for the first time in six years, creating “Episode VII” content for “Infinity” predicated on a huge franchise release,” said Street Journal reported. which has been controversial under though Disney reported in its Aug. 4 earnings proved challenging since the team secretly Blackburn. “Opportunistically, are we going to The Pentagon plans to increase daily President Barack Obama. Under the call that “Infinity” sales have recently slipped. working on it had to be kept small and testing use those things? Yeah, definitely, but we’re hard flights by 50 percent over the next four phased-in plan, the U.S. Air Force would They are expected to strike back Aug. 30 when a the game before “Force Awakens” footage was at work on the next content. When you look at it years, expanding them from 61 a day now continue to launch 60 drone flights a day, “Star Wars”-centric third installment is released meant employing codenames for char- as a whole, we’ve launched everything, and now to as many as 90 by 2019, the Journal said the Army would dispatch 16 and the unleashed. acters and locations. it’s like we’re going into sustainment mode.”—AP in its report late Sunday, citing senior Special Forces Command could contribute defense officials. Increased flights could up to four, according to the newspaper. As also be used in other areas such as Iraq, many as 10 non-strike flights a day would Syria and North Africa, the paper said. come from private government contrac- LG to put OLED first as Chinese Reuters could not immediately confirm the tors, it said. There were no immediate cost report, and representatives for the estimates for the plan from Pentagon offi- Pentagon could not be immediately cials, the Journal said.—Reuters LCD makers narrow the gap

PAJU: South Korea’s LG Display said productions. expected to account for 27 percent has stagnated. DisplaySearch, a Monday that it will change its But LG vowed to continue its of global LCD production in 2020, market research firm, forecasts investment priority to advanced high-stake bet. The company said up from 16 percent this year, OLED shipments to jump about displays called OLEDs as Chinese that in order to stay ahead of according to LG Display. threefold to $28.3 billion in 2022 manufacturers quickly catch up Chinese companies, it must contin- LG believes its giant investment from $8.7 billion in 2014. Han, the with their South Korean rivals in the ue its early OLED push. will pay off as the OLED market LG Display CEO, said the company’s LCD market. LG Display Co., a sup- LG Display’s CEO said that while poses a greater growth opportunity OLED business will turn profitable plier to Apple Inc., said that over the Chinese firms will eventually than the LCD market, where growth in the next two years.—AP the next three years it plans to catch up to South Korean makers in spend 10 trillion won ($8.4 billion) the LCD market, there is still an on future displays including OLED, opportunity in the future displays. flexible displays and high-end LCD “But there is still a gap in OLED,” screens. It did not give breakdown CEO Han Sangbeom said at a news figures, saying the size for each conference. On the back of massive type of display will hinge on market investments, South Korean elec- situations. LG Display and LG tronics companies surpassed Electronics are the lone manufac- Japanese companies to become turers of OLED TVs, which are still the world’s largest supplier of flat more expensive and more difficult display panels in the early 2000s. to produce than LCD TVs. LG Those displays are used to produce Display’s OLED business has been televisions, computer screens and losing money.OLEDs, or organic mobile devices. light-emitting diodes, require no But helped by government sup- backlight and can be made into a port, Chinese companies are quick- flexible display. Rival Samsung ly narrowing the gap with South Electronics uses OLEDs only for Korean firms, threatening the PAJU: LG Display CEO Han Sangbeom speaks during a press conference. small-size devices such as smart- Korean companies’ leading posi- South Korea’s LG Display said yesterday it will change its investment CESSIEU: A young boy, born with a right hand malformation, tries on his new 3D- phones, saying that big-size OLED tion. priority to advanced displays called OLEDs as Chinese manufacturers printed hand by a member of the Association for the Study and Assistance of Child TVs face challenges in prices and Chinese display makers are Amputees (ASSEDEA) on yesterday in Cessieu. — AFP quickly catch up with their South Korean rivals in the LCD market.—AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE US foundation helps French boy get ‘superhero’ hand

LYON: Maxence was born without a right but does allow users to do things like riding hand, but yesterday the six-year-old French on swings or a scooter that are difficult to boy got one through an effort highlighting do without fingers. the growing use of 3D printing technology According to Thierry Oquidam, the vol- to make prostheses. “He is going to have a unteer who produced the prothesis, the superhero hand the color of his choice, that advantage of the hand is its “fun” aspects he can take off when he wishes,” said his which can make the child feel like he is mother Virginie. “It will be fun for him on dressed up in a costume instead of wearing the school yard with his friends.” The pros- a medical prothesis. Maxence is among the thesis comes through an American founda- roughly 100 children born each year in tion called e-NABLE, which since 2013 has France with one or more malformed limbs. been connecting owners of 3D printers His condition is a result of agenesia-the fail- with families of children missing fingers or ure of a limb to develop while a child is in hands. More than 1,500 prostheses have the womb. already been provided through the founda- Yet since birth, Maxence-who lives with tion, and the hand for Maxence was the his family in Cessieu in southeastern group’s first in France. France-has found a way to get by with just The device, which is worn like a glove one hand, his family said. For the moment and attatches with Velcro, cost less than 50 protheses like Maxence’s have neither been euros ($55) to produce and can easily be tested nor approved by France’s health replaced with a larger model as the boy authorities. But this did not dampen sup- grows up. It is designed for children who, port for the device among its supporters. like Maxence, have a wrist and a palm. The Oquidam said “just like Uber completely artificial hand grasps objects when the user changed how we use transportation... 3D bends his or her wrist, and is attached with- printing is completely changing the out surgery. The prothesis does not allow approach of certain professions, in particu- for more precise activities like tying shoes, lar medicine.” —AFP

Imperfect test fuels alternative treatments for Lyme disease

WASHINGTON: Lyme disease conjures Drug Administration, unlike traditional test BEIRUT: A pile of garbage blocks a street in Lebanon yesterday. —AP photos memories of checking for ticks at camp and manufacturers. But last year the FDA said fretting over bug bites after hikes in the the growing number of so-called “home woods. But far from a summertime nui- brew” tests - estimated at 11,000 for all sance, Lyme is a potentially debilitating dis- sorts of diseases - demanded closer atten- Lebanon health minister warns ease - and the subject of a vigorous debate tion. in modern medicine. Doctors not only “We have concerns that people can be debate how to treat the disease, which misled and act on information that may or of dangers from trash crisis starts with fever and rash but can develop may not have validity,” says Katherine into long-term problems such as fatigue, Serrano, an FDA deputy division director. BEIRUT: Lebanon’s health minister arthritis and concentration problems. After Under a 2014 proposal, FDA would require decades, they still argue over the standard labs to begin demonstrating the accuracy says the country is on the brink of test for Lyme, which is subject to severe of their tests, including those for Lyme dis- a “major health disaster” unless an limitations. The conflict has given rise to a ease. The proposal has not yet been final- immediate solution is found for its cottage industry of alternative Lyme physi- ized. Serrano says the FDA would take a mounting trash problem. Garbage cians, laboratories, medical guidelines and risk-based approach to reviewing tests, has been collecting on the streets even research centers at universities. meaning tests for diseases like cancer in Lebanon for the past month Here’s a look at the debate surrounding would likely come before conditions like amid government paralysis and Lyme disease, which infects an estimated Lyme. She estimates it could be more than inability to agree on a solution 300,000 people in the US annually. five years before FDA begins reviewing after Beirut’s main landfill was alternative Lyme tests. closed down. Some residents have Q: How does the blood test work? resorted to burning the trash on Lyme disease is caused by a strain of Q. But at least doctors agree on how to the streets, sending toxic fumes bacteria carried by certain ticks, primarily treat Lyme, right? over the city’s skyline and into found in Northeast and Midwestern US and Mainstream medical authorities say bac- people’s homes. parts of Europe. But the only US-recom- teria that cause Lyme can be eliminated Health Minister Wael Abu Faour mended Lyme test doesn’t detect the bac- with 2 to 4 weeks of antibiotics. But self- said yesterday that Lebanon’s air, teria. Instead, it measures the immune sys- described “Lyme literate” physicians recom- water and food were threatened tem’s response to Lyme in the form of anti- mend a variety of other treatments; a paper with contamination and called for bodies, proteins that help fight infections. published by Lantos and his colleagues in an emergency committee to While it’s the best approach available, May identifies over 30 advertised online, come up with immediate recom- experts acknowledge it is fraught with including lasers, magnets and dietary sup- problems of accuracy and interpretation: plements. The most popular alternative mendations. Political disputes in The test usually comes back negative even involves long-term intravenous antibiotics recent weeks have blocked the several weeks after infection. Yet the test for patients with lingering symptoms - government from taking deci- also can show a positive result years after sometimes multiple drugs for years. sions, including agreeing on alter- infection, even after successful antibiotic At the core of that approach is a contro- native ways of dealing with the BEIRUT: A Lebanese woman covers her nose from the smell as she walks on a street partly treatment. versial concept called chronic Lyme dis- garbage crisis. —AP blocked by piles of garbage. “We don’t have a way of telling, once we ease. Doctors who diagnose the condition put you on therapy, how successful that believe patients who have extended symp- Bird flu aftershocks to drive has been,” says Dr John Branda, of Harvard toms like arthritis and fatigue are still, in Niger steps up fight Medical School. The test’s inability to detect fact, infected with Lyme bacteria. Five stud- US turkey, egg prices higher early-stage Lyme isn’t a problem for ies from the US and Europe failed to show against cancers patients who display the signature bull’s lasting benefits from extended antibiotic eye rash caused by disease-carrying ticks - therapy. And researchers point to serious stalking women NEW YORK: Limited supplies of baby poultry firm Urner Barry. More Americans are eating guidelines instruct doctors to skip the test potential complications, including allergic and barn space to house them will hamper US breakfast out, putting further upward pressure and treat those patients with antibiotics. reactions, infections and life-threatening NIAMEY: Niger has stepped up the fight against breast farmers’ efforts to rebuild ravaged egg sup- on prices. The USDA, which uses New York But as many as 30 percent of those infected diarrhea. and cervical cancer, using screening and public aware- plies after the nation’s worst-ever outbreak of wholesale egg prices as a benchmark, last never get the rash, leaving doctors to diag- Still, doctors who diagnose chronic ness campaigns to reverse a scourge affecting more bird flu. As a result of the shortages and the week raised its forecast for 2015 and 2016, cit- nose the disease based on symptoms and Lyme say some patients respond to extend- and more women in the prime of life. “The situation in loss of more than 48 million chickens and ing the tight supplies. patients’ recollections of possible exposure. ed antibiotics. They argue that Lyme cases Niger is very alarming,” said oncologist Issimouha Dille. turkeys to the disease, egg prices will climb In the fourth quarter of this year, the higher than previously expected this year and USDA sees New York wholesale egg prices vary and care must be customized to each “Breast and cervical cancer are serious public health remain high through 2016, according to esti- averaging $2.38 to $2.52 a dozen, up about a Q: Is there really no other way to test? patient. “We’re interpreting the literature in problems.” The World Health Organization (WHO) says mates from the US Department of Agriculture third from its July estimate of $1.79 to $1.91. A host of independent laboratories, such a different way that we feel is responsible some 8,000 new cancer cases are recorded each year (USDA). Frozen wholesale turkey prices are It predicts prices next year will average $1.64 as Advanced Laboratory Services in Sharon and helping others,” says Dr Samuel Shor, in the poor Sahel country with a life expectancy of 56 expected to be up to 19 percent higher for the to $1.78 a dozen, up about 20 percent from Hill, Pennsylvania, sell alternative tests claim- president elect of the International Lyme years. More than a quarter of the cases — 27 percent- key Thanksgiving holiday than they were a its July estimate, and still above the record ing to be able to detect the bacteria directly. and Associated Disease Society, the leading are breast cancer, followed by cervical cancer, which year ago. average high recorded in 2014 of about But scientists at the Centers for Disease group for alternative Lyme practitioners. accounts for 14 percent of cases, according to hospital Chicken and turkey producers say the egg $1.42. Control and Prevention have been unable to Q: Many patients diagnosed with chron- statistics. and poultry industry faces up to two years of Poultry breeders and hatcheries like Hy- reproduce their results. And a CDC paper ic Lyme have never had any confirmable Dille, who heads the humanitarian group SOS- rebuilding to fully replace flocks. Almost two Line International, the world’s largest seller of published last year suggested the compa- signs of the disease - rash or a positive Cancer, said ignorance and poverty impeded efforts to ny’s findings may have been marred by lab- blood test. If their symptoms aren’t due to months have passed since the last case of flu baby chicks that grow into egg-laying hens, address the problem. “Especially deep in the country- was detected, and farmers whose flocks were are already overwhelmed with orders for oratory contamination. Mainstream experts Lyme, what causes them? Experts do not side, women suffer in silence,” viewing cancer as an say inaccurate alternative Lyme tests lead to yet have an answer. They point out that wiped out are now cleaning their barns before replacement birds from farmers desperate to “evil spell”, Dille said. A humanitarian official added: “In bringing in new birds. But the USDA has yet to resume production, according to customers. over diagnosis and costs hundreds of dol- symptoms like arthritis and cognitive prob- the absence of medical care, sufferers consult witch lars, since insurance doesn’t pay for them. lems overlap with other little-understood give the clearance that would allow any chick- “Every egg that is out there is spoken for, as doctors and often die in their huts.” Dille said screening en sites in Iowa, the top egg-producing state, far as hatching eggs,” said Steve Welch, Iowa- Yet patients request them. conditions like fibromyalgia and chronic for the two forms of cancer has previously been aimed “Patients are so convinced they have fatigue syndrome. “I think there are people to bring in replacements. based sales representative for Centurion at women between 50 and 60 years of age, but that Some farms that raise egg-laying chickens Poultry, which hatches Hy-Line eggs and Lyme disease that there’s a demand for who are just desperate for help,” said Dr today clinics are seeing patients aged 35 and even tests that will prove they have it,” says Dr Paul Auwaerter of Johns Hopkins are expected to start bringing in new chickens delivers the chicks to egg producers. younger. this fall, although sites that lost millions of Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc, which franchis- Paul Lantos, an infectious disease specialist University. “And doctors who may be well- “A woman who is still active can succumb to ill at Duke University Medical Center. meaning try and help these people, but birds will likely remain empty until the end of es the Dunkin’ Donuts chain and serves health because we don’t have the means to treat her,” the year due to the long cleanup process. The breakfast sandwiches with eggs, withdrew a Laboratories that develop alternative tests they’re helping them with a paradigm that she said. “This woman will die.” When “a portion of the for Lyme are not regulated by the Food and is false.” —AP USDA clears farms on a case by case basis after “major promotion” for the third quarter active population, which helps the country develop, testing to make sure the virus has been elimi- because of tight supplies. A spokeswoman when this portion dies, what will we do? There will be nated. And the rebuilding process could last declined to provide details. Michael Foods, a no development,” Dille said. With the help of interna- even longer if the virus re-emerges this fall unit of cereal maker Post Holdings Inc that tional partners such as the WHO, the former French when wild ducks, which carry the disease, distributes egg products, has suspended pro- colony has decided to give priority to prevention begin their seasonal migrations. duction of some items, furloughed workers efforts. “We can prevent cervical cancer by screening,” Minnesota and Iowa turkey farms, infected and raised prices several times. On August 7, Dille said, noting that the test costs less than six euros before some of the chicken farms, have begun Post Chief Executive Rob Vitale said “all of the ($6.5) per patient. restocking thanks to a faster cleanup process. dynamics that are in place now will continue Treatment costs are astronomical in comparison Unlike laying hens, turkeys are not kept in through the bulk of calendar year 2016.” “when we account for the surgery, radiation, cages, but it won’t be quick enough to avert chemotherapy-with little chance of recovery, I might sticker shock come November’s holiday. Top All eyes on Iowa add,” she said. Last month SOS-Cancer carried out a US turkey hatcher Willmar Poultry Co has told Iowa-based Hy-Line, owned by Germany’s public awareness campaign in several towns, offering customers it expects shortages of baby turkeys EW Group, dominates up to 80 percent of the free screening to more than 500 women, a number of needed to restock barns, said Brad Moline, an market for selling the baby birds needed to whom it said tested positive. In 2014, the government Iowa farmer and representative of the National replace chickens that died, according to launched a free program to vaccinate girls between Turkey Federation. Willmar did not respond to industry members. Farmers with orders on nine and 13 against cervical cancer, reaching more requests for comment. the books for chicks this autumn are “hang- than 19,000 girls, most in the capital Niamey. The pilot The USDA, in a monthly supply and ing on to those orders in hopes that they can project will soon be extended to the whole country, demand report on Aug 12, raised its estimate get approval” from the USDA to restock, said with Health Minister Mano Aghali stressing on national for wholesale frozen turkey prices in the fourth Tom Jorgensen, general counsel for Hy-Line. television that the vaccine offers lifelong protection. quarter to $1.28 to $1.36 per pound, up from Farmers can cancel orders about a month A radiation therapy centre is under construction in an average of about $1.14 a year earlier. ahead of delivery if they do not win approval, Niamey with support from the International Atomic Grocers often discount turkeys during the holi- and Hy-Line can resell the birds. “Right now Energy Agency. Currently, most cancer patients have days to drive traffic in stores. However, rising this whole re-population thing is a bit of a access only to palliative care, with only a “handful” of wholesale prices could still sting shoppers. moving target,” said Jorgensen, who called the Nigeriens able to afford the prohibitive cost of seeking “Some chains might not discount them quite industry’s market share estimates for Hy-Line treatment abroad, a hospital source told AFP. The as heavily,” USDA agricultural economist Dave “fair”. He said he could not confirm whether message that screening is a “necessity” is one that SOS- Harvey said. there would be a shortage of baby chicks. Cancer is trying to spread nationwide through televi- Large egg farms typically only replace a small sion and radio broadcasts in local languages. Posters Egg promotion canceled portion of their egg-laying hens at a time as with pictures of cancer patients who have had a breast Wholesale shell egg prices in the Midwest the birds grow older and produce fewer eggs. WASHINGTON: A deer tick under a microscope in the entomology lab at the or a limb removed hang in a variety of public places, as reached a record high of $2.88 a dozen in the Now, farmers want more birds than usual all at well as outside pharmacies.—AFP first week of August, more than double the once to restart their businesses after losing University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown. price a year earlier, according to commodities entire flocks to the flu. —Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE WISH to present As seas rise, saltwater plants global research at leading healthcare forum in Manila offer hope farms will survive

DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), VEDARANYAM, INDIA: On a sun-scorched tolerate nearly twice the salinity of seawa- about 1.2 million hectares (3 million acres) Change has said. a global initiative of Qatar Foundation for Education, wasteland near India’s southern tip, an ter, have enormous potential as a biofuel of its coastal farmland has been degraded That will undermine the world’s ability Science and Community Development (QF), will present unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and crop, with seeds containing high concen- by salt, according to India’s Central Soil to find the additional 120 million hectares its landmark Global Diffusion of Healthcare Innovation spindly greens is growing, seemingly trations of oil. The problem, however, lies in Salinity Research Institute. Inland, India has of farmland it needs for a staggering 70 (GDHI) research to lead- against all odds. The plants are living on realizing profits. For any crop to work on a lost another 5.5 million hectares of arable percent increase in food production to feed ing healthcare stake- saltwater, coping with drought and possi- large scale, inexpensive methods and farmland, out of its nationwide total of 163 the world by 2050, according to the UN holders at the Global bly offering viable farming alternatives for machinery for harvesting will have to be million hectares, though India’s soil salinity Food and Agricultural Organization. Forum 2015 on Research a future in which rising seas have inundat- developed. Then processing plants, pro- troubles are exacerbated by industrial salt Experts say there will be little choice but to and Innovation for ed countless coastal farmlands. Sea rise, duction lines and markets would need to flats, a grow some non-food crops along the Health taking place from one of the consequences of climate be built. As of now, none of that exists. growing number of shrimp farms and coasts. The world’s irrigated acreage could 24th to 27th August in change, now threatens millions of poor Chellammal is dubious, but interested. “If the depletion of groundwater reserves. The be increased by about 50 percent by Manila, the Philippines. subsistence farmers across Asia. As ocean we can make money from what we grow, trend will only continue as seawater creeps reusing saline water and salinized crop Through its partici- water swamps low-lying plots, experts say we’ll try it. Why not?” she said. “Maybe all is onto low-lying lands along the 7,500-kilo- fields for halophytes, said University of pation in the Forum many could be forced to flee inland. not lost.” meter (4,700-mile) coast that outlines the Arizona environmental sciences professor 2015, WISH aims to “It’s hard to imagine how farmers will The timing for an agricultural crisis due country along the Bay of Bengal, Indian Edward Glenn. “As with aquaculture replac- inspire and diffuse live,” said Tapas Paul, who as a World Bank to sea rise couldn’t be worse. India’s poor Ocean and Arabian Sea. ing wild fisheries, it is inevitable that halo- healthcare innovation official helped channel about $100,000 to farmers already struggle with frequent phytes will have their day,” he said. and best practice, help build the small garden a decade ago flooding, drought and soils degraded by Loss of farmland remaining closely in a swampy, seaside town dominated by agrochemical overuse. Those on the coast “Saltwater agriculture is considered a Staple foods aligned to the vision salt flats in southern Tamil Nadu state. “In are also hit by storms, with at least 27 of futuristic area. But it really shouldn’t be,” Sesuvium portulacastrum. Paspalum and mission of QF to Professor Lord Darzi, the places subject to inundation and sea the 35 deadliest cyclones in history barrel- said marine biologist V Selvam, the MS vaginatum. Prosopis juliflora. These are just unlock human potential level rise, there are few options.” A team of ing through the Bay of Bengal before slam- Swaminathan foundation’s mustachioed a few of the 350 known species of salt-tol- Executive Chair of WISH and serve to underscore Indian scientists is searching for solutions erant plants that are candidates to become Qatar’s pioneering role as an emerging centre for to what they describe as a fast-approach- crops for the future. Saltwater plants are healthcare innovation. ing agricultural crisis. Their neatly plotted unlikely to become staple foods, because Organized by the Council on Health Research for rows of naturally salt-tolerant plants, while often high in nutrients they’re also Development (COHRED), in partnership with the known as halophytes, could be a part of very salty and so should be eaten in moder- Philippine’s Department of Science and Technology, the answer. The scientists from the MS ation. Species such as Salicornia europaea, Department of Health, and the Philippine Council for Swaminathan Research Foundation are also also known as glasswort or samphire, are Health Research and Development, the Forum 2015 trying other approaches: tweaking genes already sold in European markets as a fancy will provide a platform for low- and middle-income and cross-breeding plants by conventional salad addition or side dish. The bright pur- countries to play an active role in defining the global means to discover which might grow and ple-and-white blossoms of Limonium are a health research agenda, while presenting solutions even flourish. florist’s delight, while another species and creating effective partnerships for action. called Atriplex or saltbush is eaten by The meeting will bring together all stakeholders Stronger storms sheep. Supporters note a host of potential who play a role in making research and innovation “Sea level rise is inevitable, and we are uses to make harvests profitable, including benefit health, equity, and development, including not prepared,” said Swaminathan, who pio- firewood, decorative flowers, kitty litter, high-level representatives from government, busi- neered high-yield wheat and rice varieties nutritional supplements, cooking oil and ness, non-profits, international organizations, aca- for India in the 1960s. “The biggest prob- biofuel. Cattle fodder is another possibility, demic and research institutions, and social entrepre- lem in India is just the very large popula- and Indian herders already graze their cat- neurs. Over the course of three days, the Forum 2015 tion. We can say people can relocate, but tle on thorny shrubbery by the sea. will use informative and interactive discussions, work- where could we even accommodate all Despite the potential, saltwater agricul- shops, networking sessions, and activities to allow those who need to move inland?” Saltwater INDIA: Beakers hold salt-tolerant plant genes grafted onto tobacco shoots to ture is still seen as a fringe topic, even after participants to interact, inspire, learn, and partner to for a farmer long meant certain crop failure. find how well the plants cope with different salinity levels at the laboratory of decades of research by universities world- increase their own impact. Wartime foes sowed enemy fields with salt MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. —AP photos wide along with studies and pilot projects Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, Executive to ensure social collapse. Natural disasters in countries including Mexico, Pakistan, Chair of WISH and Director of the Institute of Global such as the 2004 Asian tsunami left count- Jordan and Eritrea. The aviation company Health Innovation at Imperial College London, said: less plots unproductive for years. Boeing is also researching biofuels from “WISH is delighted to be a content partner for the Asia’s coastal farmers, including millions saltwater plants. India’s scientists aren’t Forum 2015, a key gathering that will highlight the impoverished in India, now face such prob- waiting for markets to develop. Nor are need for research and innovation in healthcare. By lems. Climate change will bring stronger they relying on just the halophyte garden sharing our content and expertise in global health storms and warmer temperatures that to offer up new options. They’re scouring innovation, we hope to inspire policymakers and expand ocean waters and melt ice caps and coasts for wild grain species that might nat- healthcare leaders around the world to adopt and dif- glaciers. As a result, seas are set to rise up urally tolerate some salinity, and using fuse innovations more rapidly to help them overcome to 1 meter (3.2 feet) in this century, accord- arduous breeding methods to create new the most pressing healthcare challenges.” ing to the latest scientific forecasts. salt-tolerant strains. Chellammal, a graceful, 65-year-old farm- Healthcare systems ing housewife in the Tamil Nadu village of Numerous genes As part of the program, WISH will present its GDHI Tetakudi, knows the nightmare of farming The foundation has also developed research in a session titled: ‘From evidence to policy - on salt-contaminated land too well. genetically modified rice using genes from thinking outside the box’ to highlight the need for “I struggled so long to get things to mangrove trees. It says the resulting plant innovation and research to improve economies and grow, but nothing worked,” said can tolerate salt concentrations of 12-15 population health. GDHI is an assessment of how Chellammal, who goes by one name. “Every grams per liter. Seawater is typically two to healthcare systems around the world adopt new inno- year just got worse until there was nothing three times saltier, but that’s still a major vations and spread them successfully, with the aim of left,” she said, crouched in a bright pink sari improvement from currently cultivated rice inspiring other countries to implement the best meth- by her fields. The land her family had saved varieties, which can handle only up to 3 ods and ideas. Through interviews and surveys with a for decades to buy went completely barren grams per liter. Genetic modification is con- range of experts in each country, including policy- about five years ago, after a neighboring sidered the most difficult approach, makers and healthcare professionals, the GDHI village took up shrimp farming when flood- INDIA: A villager carries a bucket of salt as he walks through the salt pans in the because salt tolerance is a trait that research focuses on the factors and key enablers that ing from a nearby ocean canal salted their low-lying marshes of India’s southern Tamil Nadu state. involves numerous genes. But the molecu- allow the selected countries and systems to take up lands. The shrimp ponds were never lined lar biologist leading the development of new health innovations, including funding for properly, so their saltwater seeped into sur- ming into either India or Bangladesh. director of coastal research. “Very soon GM halophytic rice believes it’s essential. research and their relationships with other sectors. rounding soils. The farmland lost by India’s freshwater sources are also in peril, there won’t be enough land and water to “Conventional breeding just takes too This year’s report, published at the second WISH Tetakudi’s 200 households now supports with over-tapped groundwater reserves so meet our needs.” And India is not alone. long, and this problem is urgent,” said Ajay summit which took place in Doha, Qatar, in February, little more than a vast expanse of salt-toler- low the country is expected to have only Countries including Egypt, Bangladesh and Parida, the foundation’s executive director. identifies the critical factors needed to ensure that ant shrubs called Suaeda maritime along half the water it needs by 2030. Grain pro- much of Southeast Asia also face heavy His work stalled in 2007 under an effective new health innovations, including new technology, with succulents called Salicornia brachiata, duction, meanwhile, has stalled around 260 saltwater intrusion and loss of farmland. moratorium on field testing GMOs, but the policies, and practices, are quickly and effectively known to locals as “chicken feet.” million tons in recent years, despite global Already, 62 million hectares, or 20 percent, Indian government is considering shifting adopted across a country’s health system. Through in- pressure for India to boost yields, eliminate of the world’s total 300 million hectares of its GM testing policy and Parida now depth case studies, the report offers guidance for oth- Processing plants waste and eradicate widespread poverty irrigated farmland has been salinized to expects his trials to start soon. “We could er healthcare systems that are looking to diffuse inno- To the villagers, the bright green bushes and malnutrition. some extent. Another 50 centimeters (1.6 eventually be cultivating wastelands and vation, by examining how innovators harnessed the are no better than weeds. Already, 12 fami- To feed its growing 1.26 billion popula- feet) of sea rise, which is just half of what’s places considered entirely unsuitable,” he factors and behaviors that ensured success. The lies have boarded up their homes and left. tion, India must increase food production expected by 2100, would swamp up to 1.9 said. “But it’s only after crisis hits that peo- report’s key findings and recommendations will be But scientists say suaeda is good for fire- 45 percent by 2050, for which experts say it million more hectares, the ple realize the magnitude of the problem presented at the Forum 2015. wood. And salicornia species, which can may need to cultivate more land. Instead, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate and start pushing for an answer.” —AP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015

Dubai Court slaps fine on UKTV Abroad services’ distributor he Dubai Court has imposed a fine before the court. The court ordered that David Butorac, Chief Executive Officer access to high quality Western content. is also prohibited by UAE law. of AED 50,000 on a distributor of all the digital set-top boxes/decoders of OSN, said: “This is a major victory in Illegal IPTV services affect providers who OSN has been leading efforts to curb TUKTV Abroad packages, an unli- confiscated from the vendor be our fight against the new and evolving are investing significantly in bringing TV piracy through its ‘Do the Right Thing’ censed and unauthorized IPTV (Internet destroyed. The dealer, a British national, forms of television piracy. It reiterates such content and causing loss to the campaign. Raids have been carried out in Protocol Television) service in the UAE, in can appeal the ruling within 10 days. that distributing and accessing illegal economy.” all seven emirates predominantly to curb a significant ruling that will support the Lately, there has been increased pro- IPTV services is a crime punishable by The fight against illegal IPTV services the illegal distribution of Dish TV servic- fight against digital piracy. liferation of illegal IPTV services in the law. The court ruling will serve as a deter- has been further fortified with govern- es. Several unauthorized operators have Following a copyright infringement country through platforms such as UKTV rent for other such providers and also mental agencies adopting sophisticated been fined, shops closed and equipment complaint filed by OSN against the mer- Abroad, IP888 TV, Prime TV and Expat TV. help strengthen awareness among the equipment to locate law-breaking ven- confiscated. For more information, chant, the Dubai Criminal Investigation OSN and the authorities have stepped up public about IPTV piracy. dors effortlessly. The authorities have please visit: Department (CID) conducted a raid on measures to make the public aware and “The UAE’s TV industry is rich and var- urged the public to be cautious in using www.dotherightthingme.com the provider and presented evidence clamp down on illegal operators. ied with several providers offering legal such illegal services as accessing content

The Sultan Center hosts summer students at TSC Sharq Store

s part of TSC’s ongoing commitment to the Kuwait the multiple food products and their country of origin. Commenting on the educational initiative, Marketing nutrition and a healthier lifestyle in a fun and informa- community, TSC Sharq branch recently hosted a Accompanied by their teachers, students were manager Lisa Al-Ghareeb said, “We wanted to give stu- tive way.” Agroup of summer students from Safiee Home informed of the variety of healthy items available at the dents the opportunity to learn more about the prod- TSC is committed to supporting educational oppor- Science Centre. Upon their visit, school students of various TSC store that range from fruits and vegetables, to spices ucts they consume and from where their food is tunities across its countries of operation and encour- ages were given a personal tour of the TSC Sharq store by and oils, to honey, and other categories of nutritious food sourced. It’s a good chance for the youth to be aware of ages school students of various ages to visit throughout the Sharq Management team where they learned about and fresh produce including a section of organic products. the healthy options offered at TSC to promote healthier the year to learn about TSC operations.

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The Palace of Ahmed Bey in Constantine, Algeria. Reception hall at the Palace of Ahmad Bey.

hmad Majdi Shihab and Dorsaf Al- Hashimi Jabsi were married in a ceremo- Any that was attended by family mem- bers and friends. We wish the newly weds all the best.

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2015-16 The corridors of the Palace of Ahmad Bey in Constantine, Algeria.

OCC (Friends of CRY Club) is proud to announce the calendar for the upcoming Algeria renovates palace built during Ottoman rule Fevents for the year 2015-16. CRYchess: Nov 13, 2015; CRYwalk (Abassiya) Nov 27, 2015; he Palace of Ahmad Bey is situated in the heart of rock-topped palace. It contains two floors. There are the ancient Al-Kasabah district in the Algerian 121 chambers and 500 doors and gates at the ground CRYwalk (Mahboula) Dec 18, 2015; CRYwalk Tcity of Constantine, the 2015 Arab Culture Capital. floor. Wooden windows are adorned and colored in (Salmiya) Jan 22, 2016; CRYcket Apr 08, 2016. All It narrates times of the Ottomans’ rule. Rashid Amghar, green, red and white. the events take place on Friday. Notices and press a researcher at Constantine University, said in remarks The mother of the late Ottoman ruler, Ahmad Bey, its releases will be issued approximately one month to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the palace was builder, is remembered with a huge chamber named in advance. But don’t wait! Get yourselves in gear, built in 1825 and served as headquarters of the after her. Now, it is a Mecca for many tourists who enjoy Ottoman rule of Algeria. The Ottomans however did touring the ornamented palace as well as the sites in right away. For more information and inquiries not enjoy using the palace for a long time because it the ancient city, also known as the city of bridges. Bey is contact the following numbers - 99364073, was occupied by the French colonialists. Currently, a title used during the Turkish Empire times-like other 99578073, 66810338, 97990162, 66204295. authorities have allotted $500 million to renovate the titles such as efendi, pasha and hanem. —KUNA

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KFH names banking cards campaign draw winners ‘Win Daily up to $3000 for 100 Days’

even KFH clients have won valu- September 15th. able prizes getting back up to The campaign is considered as a con- S$3000 of their daily spends in the tinuation of KFH distinguished offers eighth draw of the new banking cards presented to various KFH credit card promotional campaign themed “Win holders, thus ensuring that KFH credit Daily up to $ 3000 for 100 Days with cards will always achieve an added val- KFH Cards”. The campaign encourages ue for their holders clients to use KFH credit, prepaid and KFH marketing campaigns play a sig- debit cards while making purchases in nificant role in underlining KFH’s princi- Kuwait and overseas. The winners are: ples that include boosting sales, bene- Waleed Alhamad, Nadia Almutawtah, fitting clients and merchants, and Norah Almutairi, Kulthum Alansari, encouraging clients to use their cards Anood Alrashidi, Hadeel Alfahad, and instead of cash. The launch of the cam- Siham Alshlahi. paign coincides with summer and trav- For every KD 10 spent on their KFH elling season, which grants clients more cards, clients will get a chance to enter a opportunities to win and to avail this draw and get back up to $3000 of their offer. daily spends. KFH Credit and Prepaid Furthermore, KFH strives to further cards used in domestic and internation- bolster its leading position in the field al retail spends and KFH Debit cards of banking cards. It is committed to used in international retail spends are continue launching new campaigns eligible for the draw. and offers to meet clients’ aspirations It is worth noting that the campaign and boost their loyalty and confidence lasts for 100 days and expires on in KFH’s banking products and services.

GUST Students embarkon US Consular Services Message

he Department of State’s Bureau of the American Citizens Services Unit Journey to Sri Lanka Consular Affairs is currently experi- [email protected]. Tencing technical problems with our PLEASE NOTE: Kuwait immigration overseas passport and visas systems. authorities do not recognize US emer- Trip organized in collaboration with OXadventure This issue is not specific to any particular gency passports as legitimate travel doc- country, citizenship document, or visa uments. While you may be allowed to category. We apologize for the inconven- depart Kuwait with a US emergency ight students from Gulf University for Fahad Al-Sumait, Head of the Mass zens. By traveling abroad and out of their com- Science and Technology (GUST) joined Communication and Media Department (MCM) fort zones, the result will be a team of potential ience and are working urgently to cor- passport, you will not be allowed to EOXadventure for a two-week charity trip to said, “It is inspiring to see our students getting future leaders for Kuwait,” said Saud Al-Juwaiyan, rect the problem and restore full oper- enter Kuwait using one. Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka on August 7. Throughout involved in such a heartfelt activity. It is a rare Founder of OXadventure. ability. Applications for a US visa made after their stay in Sri Lanka, the students will be help- opportunity for them to witness life from a more Khaled Al-Rashidi, GUST student, said, “A trip US passport applications accepted June 8, 2015 are also affected by this ing the locals build a community center through humble perspective.” like this comes once in a lifetime. To give back to overseas on or after May 26, 2015 are delay. hands-on labor. Established by Kuwaiti youth in 2013, communities that are in so much need of our affected by this delay. If you applied for Nonimmigrant visa applicants who During their trip, students will also get the OXadventure is a local organization which focus- help is an enriching and unforgettable experi- a US passport during this time frame and did not submit their DS-160 online appli- chance to visit centers for the elderly, orphanages, es on globalizing the younger generation and ence.” have travel plans within the next 10 busi- cation prior to June 9, 2015 should and pre-schools, while also experiencing the gift educating them on the global and local issues This is the second volunteer trip that GUST ness days, please consider requesting an reschedule their interview appointments of giving, and broadening their perspective on the that need attention and support. “Our vision is to students have participated in. Last year, a previ- emergency passport at the consular or atwww.ustraveldocs.com. Individuals world. Students volunteered for this trip as part of influence the youth of Kuwait to begin making ous group of GUST students travelled to India embassy at which you originally applied. with urgent travel requirements should the summer internship program accredited positive changes in the world and their country, and spent time helping to improve the living For information about how to apply for go towww.ustraveldocs.com for more towards their Mass Communications Degree. by shaping their attitudes to be stand up citi- facilities of local communities. an emergency passport, please contact information.

The Kuwait University Construction Program (KUCP) held the conclusion ceremony for a summer course for civil engineering students at the College of Engineering and Petroleum. The course, titled ‘Young Civil Engineers,’ was organized in cooperation with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and was carried out at the Sabah Al-Salem University City’s project site.

Sheikh Abdullah Al-Humoud Al-Malek Al-Sabah hosted a lunch banquet at his residence in London for the visiting Prince Sultan bin Mohammad bin Saud Al-Kabeer. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

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Mob: SHAD AGZAA 7:15 PM VACATION 3.500 66572082. (C 5020) SHARQIA-3 SHAD AGZAA 9:30 PM Gulf Zone is reported to INSIDE OUT 1:30 PM SHAD AGZAA 11:45 PM AVENUES-4 have been lost. Anyone 17-8-2015 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 3:45 PM SHAD AGZAA 1:00 PM finding the same or claim- BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN -Hindi 6:30 PM FANAR-5 SHAD AGZAA 3:15 PM ing any interest in it should Doctor’s single owned MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 9:45 PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 12:00 PM SHAD AGZAA 5:30 PM communicate with the Dodge Durango 2012 with MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 12:30 AM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 2:30 PM SHAD AGZAA 7:45 PM Manager Kuwait State Life Pentastar engine (used by MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 5:15 PM SHAD AGZAA 10:00 PM office - Ph: 22452208. Mercedes), AWD, chocolate MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 7:45 PM SHAD AGZAA 12:15 AM (C 5021) brown color, 23,000 km MUHALAB-1 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 10:15 PM 18-8-2015 only, full golden insurance FANTASTIC FOUR 11:30 AM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 12:45 AM AVENUES-5 and warranty, not a single MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 1:30 PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 11:45 AM accident, in excellent condi- SRIMANTHUDU - Telugu 4:15 PM MARINA-1 BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN -Hindi 2:15 PM VACATION 7:15 PM VACATION 12:00 PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 5:15 PM ACCOMMODATION tion as good as new. Price FANTASTIC FOUR 4:15 PM OPERATOR 2:00 PM BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN -Hindi 8:00 PM KD 8,250, can negotiate. FANTASTIC FOUR 9:15 PM INSIDE OUT 4:15 PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 11:00 PM Sharing accommodation Contact: 66239707. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 11:30 PM VACATION 6:45 PM available in Khaitan near (C 5017) OPERATOR 8:45 PM 360º- 1 KFH need one or two Indian 13-8-2015 MUHALAB-2 OPERATOR 11:00 PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 1:30 PM VACATION 11:30 AM VACATION 1:00 AM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 4:15 PM bachelors, sharing with OPERATOR 1:45 PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 7:00 PM Indian Goan small family INSIDE OUT 3:45 PM MARINA-2 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 9:45 PM with 2 bathroom central VACATION 6:00 PM FANTASTIC FOUR 12:45 PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 12:30 AM A/C. Please Call 66724593, OPERATOR 8:15 PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 2:45 PM 50985850. (C 5019) 112 VACATION 10:15 PM FANTASTIC FOUR 5:15 PM 360º- 2 SRIMANTHUDU - Telugu 10:30 PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 7:15 PM MINIONS 11:30 AM OPERATOR 12:30 AM FANTASTIC FOUR 9:45 PM MR. HOLMES 1:45 PM THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 11:45 PM MR. HOLMES 4:00 PM FOR CIVIL INFORMATION MUHALAB-3 MINIONS 6:15 PM SHAD AGZAA 12:45 PM MARINA-3 MR. HOLMES 8:30 PM Automated enquiry SHAD AGZAA 3:00 PM SHAD AGZAA 11:30 AM MR. HOLMES 10:45 PM SHAD AGZAA 5:15 PM SHAD AGZAA 1:30 PM MR. HOLMES 1:00 AM about the Civil ID card is SHAD AGZAA 7:30 PM SHAD AGZAA 3:45 PM SHAD AGZAA 9:45 PM SHAD AGZAA 6:00 PM 360º- 3 1889988 SHAD AGZAA 12:05 AM SHAD AGZAA 8:15 PM OPERATOR 12:15 PM SHAD AGZAA 10:30 PM OPERATOR 2:15 PM FANAR-1 SHAD AGZAA 12:45 AM OPERATOR 4:15 PM Prayer timings FANTASTIC FOUR 12:00 PM OPERATOR 6:15 PM INSIDE OUT 2:00 PM AVENUES-1 OPERATOR 8:15 PM Fajr: 03:52 ANT-MAN 4:15 PM INTO THE GRIZZLY MAZE 12:00 PM OPERATOR 10:15 PM Shorook 05:17 FANTASTIC FOUR 6:45 PM ANT-MAN 2:30 PM OPERATOR 12:15 AM FANTASTIC FOUR 8:45 PM INTO THE GRIZZLY MAZE 5:00 PM Duhr: 11:53 FANTASTIC FOUR 11:00 PM ANT-MAN 7:00 PM AL-KOUT.1 FANTASTIC FOUR 1:00 AM SRIMANTHUDU - Telugu 6:30 PM MINIONS 11:30 AM Asr: 15:28 SRIMANTHUDU - Telugu 9:30 PM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 1:30 PM FANAR-2 ANT-MAN 12:45 AM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 4:00 PM Maghrib: 18:26 VACATION 1:00 PM INTO THE GRIZZLY MAZE 9:30 PM ANT-MAN 6:30 PM OPERATOR 3:15 PM ANT-MAN 12:05 AM MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION 9:00 PM Isha: 19:56

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

It’s stressful trying to determine how much to reveal when discussing your cur- Your eyes are on the horizon and you can’t help but dream of the opportunities rent predicament at work. It helps if you have a concrete plan in mind, but you ahead while the Moon in your sign stirs the winds of dissatisfaction. But prior to are likely to misjudge the size of the task anyhow. From a practical standpoint, making any drastic changes in your life, create a list of what is left to do before you don’t have sufficient time to go back and start over. Instead, keep inching you can realistically move on. Finish up as much as possible today, even if your your way forward and do the best you can to cross things off your list. The more work isn’t quite up to your exacting standards. You will feel more relaxed about you take care of today, the easier your workload will be tomorrow. your current situation as you continue to anticipate something extraordinary in your future.

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

You might have assumed that a minimal amount of effort would be enough to You may be feeling uneasy about a subject you don’t wish to discuss now, even if accomplish your goals today; however, you quickly realize that it’s going to take you know you should speak up. Nevertheless, you might still attempt to circum- a lot more work than you expected. Luckily, you don’t discourage easily when it navigate a conversation that could complicate a close relationship. Thankfully, comes to matters of importance. If unforeseen difficulties slow you down now, you are able to push past your resistance because you intuitively know that tem- just continue to apply steady pressure to produce the outcome you desire. Some porarily making a situation worse can ultimately transform a delicate situation people succeed because they are destined, but most reach the top because they into a happy one. A calculated risk could clear the air of secrecy that’s been lin- are determined. gering around for too long.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You might have to manage an unexpected crisis with a close friend or relative today, even if your life appears to be running smoothly on the out- It doesn’t appear to matter how hard you push yourself today because you are side. People with the best of intentions may not have a clue that you’re upset dependent on events outside of your control. Ironically, your most successful and the more others say or do now, the worse you feel. However, there’s no rea- ACROSS DOWN strategy is to methodically slow down before someone or something else does it son to prevent anyone’s self-expression, since that will only raise the frustration 1. Divulge information or secrets. 1. A Chadic language spoken in northern for you. Rather than frustrating yourself trying to overcome the current resist- level even higher. You don’t have to act like everything is sunshine and roses all 5. Capable of being added or added to. Nigeria. ance head on, relax a bit. Let the circumstances dictate your progress now rather the time; sharing your concerns makes the weight of the world easier for your 12. The ratio of the distance traveled (in 2. (Welsh) Corresponds to Iris Ler. than focusing solely on your destination. Go with the flow for the best results. miles) to the time spent traveling (in 3. American prizefighter who won the world shoulders to bear. hours). heavyweight championship three times 15. (prefix) Indicating difference or varia- (born in 1942). tion. 4. 3rd largest island in the world. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. A alloy of tin with some copper and 5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made Cancer (June 21-July 22) antimony. from aba cloth. 17. A unit of surface area equal to 100 6. Indigo bush. You’re a champ when it comes to sensible planning and time management. Your square meters. 7. A logarithmic unit of sound intensity. A recent shift of plans might have been somewhat upsetting, even if it was unwavering discipline enables you to work long hours to reach your goals. 18. A language of Australian aborigines. 8. A United Nations agency created to assist absolutely necessary. Retrospectively, it’s obvious that your response was totally Often, you remember to reserve energy for when you need it, but something is 20. A sedative and tranquilizer (trade developing nations by loans guaranteed valid. In fact, you continue to make positive changes as you gain new perspec- driving you from within now and tempting you to burn all your fuel at once. name Miltown and Equanil and by member governments. tives. It’s not a sign of failure if you see something today that wasn’t previously Nevertheless, throwing caution to the wind is not a good idea since you won’t Meprin) used to treat muscle tension 9. A heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metal- apparent. A current obstacle is merely a test to see if you are listening to the get what you want any faster. Retain some resources to sustain your momentum and anxiety. lic element (resembles arsenic and anti- feedback the universe is giving you. Your mind is like a parachute; it works only for the final push down the road. 22. A trivalent metallic element of the rare mony chemically). when it’s open. earth group. 10. Your general store of remembered infor- 23. A colorless odorless gaseous element mation. that give a red glow in a vacuum tube. 11. Continuing forever or indefinitely. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 24. A doctor's degree in education. 12. Cuban poet and revolutionary who Leo (July 23-August 22) 26. A switch made from the stems of the fought for Cuban independence from rattan palms. Spain (1853-1895). You might try to slog your way through an obstacle course at wo rk, but you will 29. A composition that imitates some- 13. (Greek mythology) The last king of Troy. Your unflagging tenacity continues to accelerate your progress in life, but it’s useful to stop for a moment to take stock of your past accomplishments. Set co ntinue to face the co nsequences of past foolish actions until you get it right. body's style in a humorous way. 14. A reddish brown dye used especially on This is not the best time to explore an unproven shortc ut or try any clever 31. Being or relating to or resembling or hair. aside enough time to reassess your needs and then revise your plans so they reflect your current desires. Don’t worry if satisfaction seems beyond your reach maneuvers. Simply apply yourself in a consiste nt manner, even if you don’t seem emanating from stars. 19. Hardy breed of cattle resulting from cross- to be making a lot of progress today. Don’t panic; you’re accomplishing more 33. A port in southwestern Scotland. ing domestic cattle with the American today. Do whatever is required now while holding onto the belief that the good times will soon return. Believe it or not, the best is yet to come. than you think and your valuable contribution will garner the re spect you 34. A nucleotide derived from adenosine buffalo. deserve. that occurs in muscle tissue. 21. Shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979 by 37. A genus of Lamnidae. Islamic fundamentalists (1919-1980). 41. Uttered with a trill. 25. A nucleic acid consisting of large mole- Pisces (February 19-March 20) 43. An anxiety disorder characterized by cules shaped like a double helix. Virgo (August 23-September 22) chronic free-floating anxiety and such 27. A sandal attached to the foot by a thong symptoms as tension or sweating or over the toes. Your eyes are on the horizon and you can’t help but dream of the opportunities There are no quick escape routes for you today, so don’t waste your time and trembling of light-headedness or irri- 28. A colorless and odorless inert gas. ahead while the Moon in your sign stirs the winds of dissatisfaction. But prior to energy attempting to avoid your work. Nevertheless, taking a few steps back is a tability etc that has lasted for more 30. Any of several evergreen perennials of the making any drastic changes in your life, create a list of what is left to do before smart move because it allows someone else to hold the reins of control for a than six months. genus Pyrola. you can realistically move on. Finish up as much as possible today, even if your while. Sharing the heavy burden of leadership lightens your sense of responsibil- 46. Characteristic of false pride. 32. Used of the language of the deaf. work isn’t quite up to your exacting standards. You will feel more relaxed about ity and can bring you a taste of the freedom you crave. The current changes may 47. An artificial language for international 35. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal your current situation as you continue to anticipate something extraordinary in not be huge, but even a small, sensible shift positively affects your attitude and use that rejects rejects all existing of Madagascar. your future. improves your productivity. words and is based instead on an 36. A sliver-white metallic element of the plat- abstract analysis of ideas. inum group that resembles platinum. 48. The longest division of geological time. 38. Of or relating to the Isle of Man or its 50. In or of the present month. inhabitants or their language. Word Search Yesterday Solution 51. By bad luck. 39. Not final or absolute. 53. The 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. 40. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutraliz- 54. A radioactive transuranic element. ing. 56. Denoting a quantity consisting of 12 42. Least expensive statin drug (trade name items or units. Lescol). 57. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny. 44. A radioactive element of the actinide 59. A deep bow. series. 62. An abstract or general idea inferred or 45. Leave a camp. derived from specific instances. 49. Used especially of lower plants. 63. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny. 52. A department of Greece in the central 67. Sluggish tailless Australian arboreal Peloponnese. marsupial with gray furry ears and 55. The United Nations agency concerned coat. with the international organization of 69. A collection of objects laid on top of food and agriculture. each other. 58. (electronics) Of a circuit or device having 71. Any of a group of Indic languages spo- an output that is proportional to the ken in Kashmir and eastern input. Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. 60. Spider monkeys. 72. A condition (mostly in boys) character- 61. The vein in the center of a leaf. ized by behavioral and learning disor- 64. An Indian side dish of yogurt and ders. chopped cucumbers and spices. 73. Has a good chance of being the case 65. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt. or of coming about. 66. Swelling from excessive accumulation of 76. A woman who has recently been mar- serous fluid in tissue. ried. 68. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir. 77. Being one more than six. 70. An Indian nursemaid who looks after chil- 78. Overeat or eat immodestly. dren. 80. A distinct part that can be specified 74. Any of various coarse shrubby plants of separately in a group of things that the genus Iva with small greenish flowers. could be enumerated on a list. 75. Range of what one can know or under- 81. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods. stand. 82. God of wisdom or prophesy. 79. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that 83. A small cake leavened with yeast. is highly corrosion-resistant.

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zealia Banks has accused Diplo of owing her £12,780 ($20,000). The ‘212’ per. Meanwhile, Azealia - who surprise released her debut album ‘Broke with hitmaker has embarked on an online ranted aimed at the producer, insist- Expensive Taste’ through Prospect Park Records last November after ending her Aing he still owes her a considerable amount of money as a result of their record deal with Interscope and Polydor - recently revealed she won’t be able to lawsuit last year for their 2012 collaboration ‘ Up the Fun’, which was allegedly release any new music until February 2016 after further troubles with manage- stolen from Dutch DJ MasterD. In the tweets, which have since been deleted, she ment and labels. Earlier this month, she tweeted: “So prospect park has me for raged: “@Diplo I don’t need your advice. I just want your beats. If no beats then management and Label (stupid azealia, right) now Jeff kwatinetz no longer wants go away. “Yes, and passing off beats to me that aren’t yours and leaving me to to manage me BUT... “is holding me in my album contract until february 2016. foot the bill when we get sued is also not cool @diplo “@diplo you owe me so..... there won’t be any new music until March 2016. sorry guys. :( (sic).” $20,000 by the way. “@diplo I really don’t understand why my name is in your mouth at all. Didn’t you say you never wanted to work with me again ? (sic)” The strange tirade of abuse seemed to come out of nowhere as Diplo, whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz, has not recently mentioned the 24-year-old rap-

ir Patrick Stewart is making music with Taylor Swift. The ‘X-Men’ actor has teamed up with the ‘Bad Blood’ hitmaker to produce and appear on his first pop music project, which will be an album of him covering Sthe pop star’s hits. Patrick, 75, was approached by Taylor after the singer witnessed him and his ‘X-Men’ co- star Sir Ian McKellen doing hilarious readings of her song lyrics last month. The stage and movie actor gave a dramatic rendition of ‘Blank Space’ whilst Ian, 76, recited lyrics from ‘Bad Blood’. Patrick enjoyed the moment so much he immediately took to Twitter and asked Taylor to accept him and Ian into her “squad”. He wrote: “So IanMcKellen recited Bad Blood and I did Blank Space. May we join the squad, @taylorswift13? (sic)” The chart- topper was keen to thank the British knights and replied: “You’ve made my day. You two are the ultimate squad goals”. Soon after Patrick read a dramatic version of Taylor’s ‘Style’ from her ‘1989’ album on US show ‘Entertainment Tonight’ and it has now been confirmed that he passed the audition and will lend his booming voice to an album of her songs. Despite his best efforts, the star has confessed the results could be “ridiculous”, according to the Daily Star newspaper. The ‘Star Wars: The Next Generation’ actor isn’t the only star to be cover- ing the 25-year-old singer’s work, after Ryan Adams revealed he is also covering all of the tracks from her most recent album, ‘1989’.

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ennifer Lopez’s Las Vegas residency will be “glamorous five and beautiful”. The 46-year-old beauty is set to begin Jher residency at Axis theater stage in Planet albums’ amela Anderson isn’t convinced the Hollywood Resort and Casino in January, and is already ‘Baywatch’ movie will be a success. The 48- struggling to contain her excitement, promising her fans Pyear-old actress rose to worldwide promi- she’ll deliver a never-to-be-forgotten show. She said: “It’s nence thanks to her starring role on the drama really an exciting prospect for me to create the quintessen- series, but she is skeptical of plans to make a tial Jennifer Lopez experience in Vegas. “It’s just an oppor- movie reboot of the show with Dwayne ‘The tunity that is overwhelming and at the same time the most Rock’ Johnson and Zac Efron. She told TMZ: “No exciting thing that has happened to me in a long time, so one appreciates the remakes.” Although Pamela I’m giving it all I have.” Jennifer revealed the show will fea- enjoyed incredible success during her time on ture funk and hip-hop with a live band. She told Billboard: the show, she’s unsure if it’s suited to the big “It is going to be glamorous and beautiful and the cos- screen. Last week, meanwhile, Zac Efron admit- tumes and all of it. “The production is something that I ted he was “stoked” to have been handed a lead- haven’t gotten to do yet. So it’s going to be me in my ele- lla Eyre wants to “record at least five albums”. The one for Sigma and Paloma Faith.” The ‘Gravity’ singer also ing role in the ‘Baywatch’ movie, admitting he ment doing what I do at the highest level and it’s exciting.” 21-year-old singer - whose debut album ‘Feline’ is revealed she’s inspired by the late Amy Winehouse - who can’t wait to appear alongside The Rock. Zac - And Jennifer - who’s enjoyed amazing success as a musi- Eset for release later this month - has admitted she died in 2011 - as she too wrote songs about personal who also appears alongside Emily Ratajkowski in cian and as an actress - admitted the residency will mark wants to have a long career in both the music and acting experiences. Ella told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: new music drama film ‘We Are Your Friends’ - one of her career highlights. The ‘On the Floor’ hitmaker industries. She said: “I started out doing musical theatre “Amy is one of my biggest influences. Not only was her told BANG Showbiz: “I’m pretty stoked, yeah. I’m explained: “I’m excited about it. You know, I feel like I’ve at school, realizing I loved to sing when I played Tallulah voice incredible, but also her music is so tragic and relat- very, very excited.” What’s more, Zac said he was been preparing for this my whole life.” in ‘Bugsy Malone’. I’d like to do more acting, record at able. I like to write only about things that have hap- keen to test himself against The Rock, who’s least five albums, and write lots more - I want to be in the pened to me, so her songs are an inspiration.” made the transition from professional wrestling industry in 30 or 40 years time. “I’ve written more than in to the film industry. Asked how he plans to 300 songs. Some have sold in Japan and Europe, while bulk up for the role, Zac explained: “I’m not sure. others get big here, like ‘Changing’, which was a number I’m just going to be swimming. I’m gonna outswim The Rock, man!”

ara Delevingne wasn’t cast in ‘Paper Towns’ because of her successful modeling career. The film’s director, John Green, Cinsists the 23-year-old beauty’s previous work had nothing to do with her landing the role of Margo. He said: “She did not get cast because she was a supermodel. In the movie, she looks like a kid. Cara’s public persona has a lot in common with Margo. Cara is com- plicated, multifaceted, smart, talented and she is also very sensitive, which maybe we don’t see as much in public.” The 37-year-old film- maker also suggested Cara’s experience of fame helped her to channel her character’s emotions. He told the Observer newspaper: “She is able to go to deep, difficult places when she is acting, and I was very impressed by that. There is a moment where Quentin says, ‘I love you Margo’, and Margo says, ‘Love me? You don’t even know me’. In her audition, Cara said that with such depth of feeling, it olin Trevorrow doesn’t consider directing ‘Star Wars: seemed to me that maybe she was a person who knew what it was Episode IX’ to be “a job or an assignment”. The 38- like to have people love you and not know you.” Cyear-old filmmaker - who recently helmed the mon- ey-spinning ‘Jurassic World’ - has been tasked with direct- ing the third movie in the latest ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, which will begin with the release of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, and is eagerly looking forward to the responsi- bility. Colin said: “It is a seat at a campfire, surrounded by an extraordinary group of storytellers, film-makers, artists va DuVernay shed a tear watching at times is to be in love with your abuser. and craftspeople. “We’ve been charged with telling new the NWA biopic ‘Straight Outta Because the music was and is that. And yet stories for a younger generation because they deserve ACompton’. The ‘Selma’ director - the culture is ours.” Ava added that the “fan- what we all had - a mythology to call their own. We will do who’s a self-confessed hip-hop fan - has tastic” new movie even caused her to shed this by channelling something George Lucas instilled in all heaped praise on the film’s maker F Gary a tear. She tweeted: “Hundreds of black of us: boundless creativity, pure invention and hope.” Gray and admitted the new movie about young people cruisin’ down Crenshaw. The Meanwhile, Lucasfilm’s president Kathleen Kennedy hailed the iconic rap group has brought back raw energy. The cars. The brothers and sis- Colin’s film-making credentials, saying he is “an incredible some powerful childhood memories. In a ters. The majesty of it all. A tear. “It was talent”. She said: “Colin is someone I’ve been interested in series of tweets, Ava said: “All the stifling of maybe a one-minute sequence in the film working with ever since I saw ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’. “The our voices as young black people in that but it all came rushing back. This film did power of that film paired with the enormous success of place at that time while a war was going on that for me on multiple levels. It’s fantastic.” ‘Jurassic World’ speaks volumes about his abilities both as a against us. ?[F Gary Gray] captured it. “He storyteller and skilled film-maker. “We are thrilled to have captured the plight of the black artist in —Bang Showbiz such an incredible talent as Colin join our family and step general, once consumed by systems and into the ‘Star Wars’ universe.” structures not made for them. The struggle is real. “To be a woman who loves hip-hop lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015

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Hundreds of women dressed as ‘Rosie the Riveter’ gather in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record. Some of the original ‘Rosie the Riveter’ women sitting in the first row, who worked in the Richmond shipyards during WWII. Hundreds of ‘Rosie the Riveter’ attempt record in California

undreds of women of all ages donned blue coveralls, red socks, and red bandannas with white polka dots and Hgathered near San Francisco in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most Rosies in one place at one time since World War II. The attempt was likely successful but Guinness must still review and authenticate the headcount. It will also verify all the Rosies conformed to uniform specifications, which detailed the acceptable size of the polka dots on their bandannas, the Contra Costa Times reported Sunday. Event organizers say they believe the record was broken because more than 800 bandannas that met the requirement were sold before the event held Saturday at Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Richmond’s Marina Park. The last record was set in May when 776 Rosies gathered in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The Rosies are credited with empowering young girls and redefining a woman’s role in the workplace. Phyllis Gould, who participated in the record breaking event, worked for three years as a welder at the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond until World War II came to an end. “I felt like I could do anything if I set my mind to it,” said Gould, 93. Her then husband, also a welder, wasn’t so sup- portive and their marriage broke up, she said. — AP

Agnes Moore, 95, and Phyllis Gould, 93, from left, who both worked as welders in the Jessica Curtis, of Long Beach, Calif, and Sarah Neller, of Vacaville, Calif, pose for a Richmond shipyards during WWII. photograph in front of a ‘We Can Do It’ backdrop as they joined with hundreds of women dressed as ‘Rosie the Riveter’. Depp, Simmons ‘Carol’ to receive Gala screening rock together at BFI London Film Festival

for kids’ charity odd Haynes’ 1950s-set drama “Carol” will screen at convenient marriage. Festival director Clare Stewart the 59th BFI London Film Festival as the event’s described the film as a “deeply romantic, emotionally ohnny Depp didn’t say a word as he stepped onto a TAmerican Express Gala. The film will receive its UK honest love story.” It is “cinema at its most intoxicating small stage inside the Lucky Strike bowling alley. He premiere on Oct 14 at London’s Odeon Leicester Square, and immaculate,” she added. “Carol” was produced by Jjust strapped on a guitar and started playing with the attended by Haynes and stars Cate Blanchett and Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley of Number 9 band. One song later, Gene Simmons joined in. The super- Rooney Mara. Phyllis Nagy’s screenplay was adapted Films alongside Christine Vachon of Killer Films. The full star pairing capped off a fundraising concert Sunday for from Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Price of Salt.” It cen- program of the festival, which runs from Oct 7-18, will be MendingKids.org, an organization that provides hundreds ters on a woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet (Mara), who announced on Sept 1. — Reuters of free corrective surgeries each year for children around is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and the world. Besides Depp and Simmons, the event also fea- dreaming of a more fulfilling life. She meets Carol tured a surprise reunion of rock group Extreme for a per- (Blanchett), an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, formance of their 1991 classic “More Than Words.” After appearances by various musicians, Depp quietly joined the house band to play Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out.” The 52-year-old actor announced last week that he is form- ing a band with Cooper and guitarist Joe Perry called China film lambasted Hollywood Vampires that will release a self-titled album next month and donate proceeds to charity. Simmons was online for distorting history the last to take the stage. A supporter of MendingKids.org for several years, the 65-year-old entertainer invited any- ocial media users blasted a new Chinese film yesterday one with $1,000 to donate to the organization to come up for depicting a summit of world leaders during World and sing with the band. About 10 donors took him up on SWar II which embellished history by portraying revolu- the offer, including his son and daughter, and they shared tionary leader Mao Zedong as vital to a conference he never the stage with Depp, Simmons and the rest of the band attended. The Cairo Declaration-an upcoming war film pro- during the closing number, the Kiss hit “Rock and Roll All duced by a company affiliated with China’s military-is part of a Nite.” After the show, Depp waved to fans and disappeared host of government-directed events to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender. The US, Britain, Soviet out a side door. — AP Union and China all met in Cairo in November 1943 to map From left, Sophie Simmons, Gene Simmons, Shannon out a post-war path for Asia, during which they decided that Tweed-Simmons and Nick Simmons attend the “Music On territories ceded to Japan before the war should be returned Jenner Kylie A Mission” benefit concert. to China. But the film’s trailer and poster have faced a backlash on social media and state media, with internet users pointing out Kylie Jenner Mao played no major role at the conference. China-then offered $10 known as the Republic of China-was instead represented by Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, who went on to lose million to be an adult star China’s civil war to Mao’s Communist forces. “I’m sad that my contributions at the Cairo Conference haven’t been recog- ylie Jenner has reportedly been offered $10 million to nized in the film,” joked one user yesterday. become an adult movie star. According to TMZ.com, Others were more jaded. “Let Mao be a part of the confer- KVivid Entertainment has sent the 18-year-old beauty a ence, it’s not like the rest of our history is real anyway,” wrote formal offer which states they will pay her the seven-figure another user. China is planning to hold a large-scale military sum for X-rated footage featuring her with her rapper parade in Beijing next month to commemorate what it calls boyfriend Tyga. Kylie’s half-sister Kim Kardashian West became the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese a celebrity sex tape star after erotic footage of her with ex- Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. A trailer for the boyfriend Ray J in 2003 was leaked in February 2007. film posted on YouTube opens with Mao making an impas- The racy recording was eventually bought and released by sioned speech saying, “The task for Communists around the Vivid Entertainment under the title ‘Kim K Superstar’ after Kim world is to oppose Fascism through struggle”. dropped a lawsuit and settled for $5 million. The tape become The poster advertising the movie features the actor playing one of the adult company’s best-sellers and made Kim a Mao looking out into the distance, but a website has been set household name, and Vivid co-chairman Steve Hirsch believes up allowing Internet users to mockingly edit themselves or a tape of Kylie can do the same for her career. In the letter to others in his place. Edited versions circulating on social media Kylie, Hirsch writes: “Kim’s sex tape helped launch her career variously had in Mao’s place Gollum, the fictional character and would be nothing but positive for you.” from The Lord of the Rings, as well as a Minion, the yellow But Vivid isn’t the only adult entertainment company inter- workers from the Despicable Me film franchise. One even has ested in working with Kylie. BangYouLater has also written a current Chinese President Xi Jinping, who was born in 1953, in letter to the ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ alumni offering Mao’s place. $1.8 million as an upfront payment to make her a porn actress. “By featuring Mao, who was not present at the meeting, TMZ reports the company’s offer says: “This event will but excluding Chiang, the poster shows no respect for history make you even more famous than either Kim K or Paris Hilton nor to Mao,” culture critic Sima Pingbang was quoted as saying ... Your scene must be at least 22 minutes in length.” Paris by the Global Times tabloid. An editorial in the Chinese-lan- Hilton featured in her own X-rated tape with her former lover guage edition on Monday of the newspaper, which has close Rick Salomon which was released in 2004 and was called ‘1 ties to the Communist Party, called the use of Mao to promote Night In Paris’. Meanwhile, Digital Playground has contacted From left, Gene Simmons, Steve Ferlazzo and Gilby Clarke perform during the “Music On A Mission” benefit con- the film “inappropriate”. — AFP Kylie to ask her to be their “Brand Ambassador” as well as a cert held at Lucky Strike Live - Hollywood. — AP photos performer. — Bang Showbiz lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015

Awards ‘Empire,’ One Direction win at 17th Teen Choice Awards

Lauren Jauregui, from left, Ally Brooke, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane Hansen and Camila Cabello, of Fifth Harmony, win- Cameron Dallas accepts the Choice Web Star Award: Male. ners of the Choice Summer Song Award for ‘Worth It.’ he 17th Teen Choice Awards threw its full support behind the hit series “Empire,” honored late “Furious 7” Tstar Paul Walker and paid homage to a respected elder: Bethany Mota accepts the award for Choice Web Star: Britney Spears. The two-hour teen celebration, broadcast live Female. — AP photos Sunday night, kicked off with a victory lap for the weekend box-office hit “Straight Outta Compton.” Ice Cube and the young stars of the N.W.A biopic, which earned an estimated $56.1 million over the weekend, welcomed the young crowd to Los Angeles’ Galen Center. Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges, the rapper and “Furious 7” co-star, was one of three hosts, alongside “Jane the Virgin” star Gina Rodriguez and actor Josh Peck. Bridges’ film, one of year’s biggest big-screen hits, was one of the night’s top winners, winning best action movie and best actor in an action-adven- ture for the late Paul Walker. “Paul Walker is here in spirit with us,” said Vin Diesel, a star in the street racing franchise. He applauded a “special, special” teen in the crowd: Walker’s daughter Meadow. The Teen Choice Awards spread awards across movies, music, TV, fashion, sports and digital media, celebrating the favorites - from Channing Tatum to Wiz Khalifa to Stephen Curry (all winners Sunday) - of one of media’s most powerful demographics. As a pop star, Spears was a regular at the Teen Choice Awards, collecting its trademark trophies - surfboards - many times over the years, including its version of a lifetime achievement award in 2009. On Sunday, Spears, her blonde hair partially dyed blue and purple, was honored for being a style icon. She dedicated the award to her sons, Sean Preston Actresses from left, Vanessa Ray, Lucy Hale, Janel Parrish, Shay Mitchell and Ashley Benson, and actor Tyler Blackburn and Jayden James, and niece Lexie, who were in the audience. accept the award for Choice TV: Drama Show for ‘Pretty Little Liars’. The Teen Choice Awards’ new reigning powerhouse, One Direction, landed eight awards, bringing their “lifetime” total to 23. The British boy band, currently on tour, accepted the awards in a taped video. The hip-hop drama “Empire” won breakout TV show and provided one of the show’s most mem- orable moments. While Jussie Smollett and Yazz performed “You’re So Beautiful,” a song from the series, the show’s Gabourey Sidibe made a surprise cameo, exuberantly dancing among the back-up dancers. Ellen DeGeneres won for best comedian. Adding a Teen Choice Award to her People’s Choice Award, DeGeneres requested awards from other age groups: the elderly and babies. Several awards went to “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1,” including best actor in a sci-fi or fantasy for Josh Hutcherson. He reflected on the end of the franchise, with this fall’s “Mockingjay, Part 2,” like a coming graduation. “‘Hunger Games’ has been a huge part of my life for almost Michelle Rodriguez, center, Vin Diesel, left, and Ludacris, five years now. It’s coming to an end and it’s really sad,” said Actress Nina Dobrev accepts the Choice TV Actress: Rapper Wiz Khalifa accepts the Choice Music: R&B/Hip- of ‘Furious 7’ accept the Choice Movie: Action/Adventure Hutcherson. “So if we want to cry together, we can do that Fantasy/Sci-Fi Award for ‘Vampire Diaries’. Hop Song Award for “See You Again”. Award. because it breaks my heart.” — AP

Recording artist Bryshere ‘Yazz’ Gray poses in Actress Chloe Grace Moretz poses with the Lea Michele poses in the press room with the NBA player Stephen Curry poses with the Bella Thorne, winner of the award for Choice the press room. Choice Drama Movie Actress award for ‘If I Award For Choice TV Actress: Comedy for Choice Male Athlete Award. Movie: Villain for ‘The Duff.’ Stay’. “Glee”.

Shawn Mendes accepts the award for Choice Web Star: Actor Josh Hutcherson accepts the Choice Movie Actor: TV personality Ellen DeGeneres accepts the Choice Skylar Astin, winner of the award for Choice Movie Actor: Music. Sci-Fi/Fantasy Award for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Comedian Award. Comedy. Part 1. lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015

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Actress Lucy Hale, winner of Jordana Brewster, from left, Michelle Rodriguez, Vin Diesel and Ludacris of Rocky Lynch, Ross Lynch, Rydel Lynch, Ellington Ratliff and Riker Lynch of the group ‘R5’ Rocky Lynch, Ross Lynch, Rydel Lynch, Ellington the Choice TV Actress: Drama ‘Furious 7’ accept the Choice Movie: Action/Adventure Award. present the Choice Summer Song Award. Ratliff and Riker Lynch of the group ‘R5’ present the award for Pretty Little Liars. Choice Summer Song Award.

Actors Jussie Smollett and Bryshere “Yazz” Gray accept the Chloe Lukasiak, accepts the Choice Dancer Award. Britney Spears, winner of the Choice Style Icon Award, The Janoskians speak at the Teen Choice Awards. Choice TV Award for Breakout Show for Empire from rap- from left, poses in the press room with her niece Lexi and per Wiz Khalifa onstage. her sons Sean and Jayden James.

CHOICE WEB STAR: FEMALE CHOICE MOVIE ACTRESS: ACTION CHOICE MUSIC SINGLE: MALE ARTIST CHOICE TV: ANIMATED SHOW Bethany Mota Shailene Woodley, The Divergent Series: Insurgent “Thinking Out Loud” - Ed Sheeran Family Guy CHOICE WEB STAR: MALE CHOICE MOVIE: Drama CHOICE MUSIC SINGLE: GROUP CHOICE TV: REALITY SHOW Cameron Dallas If I Stay “Steal My Girl” - One Direction The Voice CHOICE SUMMER SONG CHOICE MOVIE: Sci-Fi/Fantasy CHOICE MUSIC: INTERNATIONAL ARTIST: CHOICE TV: VILLAIN “Worth It” -Fifth Harmony The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 Super Junior A, Pretty Little Liars CHOICE FASHION: FEMALE HOTTIE CHOICE MOVIE ACTRESS: Sci-Fi/Fantasy CHOICE MUSIC: COUNTRY SONG CHOICE TV: SCENE STEALER Fifth Harmony Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1 “Little Toy Guns” - Carrie Underwood Dylan O’Brian, Teen Wolf CHOICE MUSIC: FEMALE ARTIST CHOICE TV: BREAKOUT STAR CHOICE MOVIE: COMEDY CHOICE MUSIC: R&B/HIP HOP SONG Fifth Harmony “See You Again” - Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth Grant Gustin, The Flash Pitch Perfect 2 CHOICE SELFIE TAKER CHOICE MUSIC: ROCK SONG CHOICE TV: CHEMISTRY CHOICE MOVIE ACTRESS: COMEDY One Direction “Take Me To Church” - Hozier Jensen Ackles & Misha Collins, Supernatural CHOICE FASHION: MALE HOTTIE Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect 2 CHOICE MUSIC: LOVE SONG CHOICE TV: LIPLOCK One Direction CHOICE MOVIE: VILLAIN “Night Changes” - One Direction Nina Dobrev & Ian Somerhalder, The Vampire Diaries CHOICE TV ACTOR: COMEDY Bella Thorne, The Duff CHOICE MUSIC: BREAK-UP SONG CHOICE TV: SUMMER SHOW Ross Lynch, Austin & amp; Ally CHOICE MOVIE: CHEMISTRY “Bad Blood” - Taylor Swift & Kendrick Lamar Teen Wolf CHOICE MUSIC: PARTY SONG Anna Kendrick and Brittany Snow, Pitch Perfect 2 CHOICE SUMMER MUSIC STAR: FEMALE ARTIST CHOICE TV SUMMER STAR: MALE “No Control” - One Direction CHOICE MOVIE: LIPLOCK Taylor Swift Tyler Blackburn, Pretty Little Liars CHOICE TV: DRAMA SHOW Shailene Woodley and Theo James, The Divergent Series: CHOICE SUMMER MUSIC STAR: MALE ARTIST CHOICE TV SUMMER STAR: FEMALE Pretty Little Liars Insurgent Ed Sheeran Ashley Benson, Pretty Little Liars CHOICE MOVIE ACTOR: ACTION CHOICE MOVIE: HISSYFIT CHOICE SUMMER MUSIC STAR: GROUP CHOICE FEMALE ATHLETE Paul Walker, Furious 7 Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect 2 One Direction US Women’s Soccer Team CHOICE MOVIE: ACTION CHOICE MOVIE: SCENE STEALER CHOICE SUMMER TOUR CHOICE WEB STAR: COMEDY Furious 7 Chris Evans, Avengers: Age of Ultron On The Road Again Tour, One Direction Colleen Ballinger CHOICE TV ACTRESS: SCI-FI/FANTASY CHOICE MOVIE: BREAKOUT STAR CHOICE MUSIC: BREAKOUT ARTIST CHOICE WEB STAR: FASHION/BEAUTY Nina Dobrev, The Vampire Diaries Cara Delevingne, Paper Towns Little Mix Zoe Sugg CHOICE MUSIC: R&B/HIP HOP ARTIST CHOICE SOCIAL MEDIA KING CHOICE SUMMER MOVIE CHOICE MUSIC: THE NEXT BIG THING Wiz Khalifa Bea Miller Justin Bieber Paper Towns CHOICE MALE ATHLETE CHOICE MUSIC: COLLABORATION CHOICE SOCIAL MEDIA QUEEN Winners Stephen Curry CHOICE SUMMER MOVIE STAR: MALE “Bad Blood” - Taylor Swift & Kendrick Lamar Caitlyn Jenner CHOICE MOVIE ACTRESS: DRAMA Channing Tatum, Magic Mike XXL CHOICE MUSIC: SONG FROM MOVIE OR TV SHOW CHOICE TWIT Chloe Grace Moretz, If I Stay CHOICE SUMMER MOVIE STAR: FEMALE “See You Again” - Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth, Furious 7 Taylor Swift CHOICE MOVIE ACTOR: Drama Cara Delvingne, Paper Towns CHOICE TV ACTOR: DRAMA CHOICE VINER Scott Eastwood, The Longest Ride CHOICE MUSIC: MALE ARTIST Ian Harding , Pretty Little Liars Cameron Dallas CHOICE WEB STAR: MUSIC Ed Sheeran CHOICE TV ACTRESS: DRAMA CHOICE INSTAGRAMMER Shawn Mendes CHOICE MUSIC: FEMALE ARTIST Lucy Hale, Pretty Little Liars Ariana Grande CHOICE TV: BREAKOUT SHOW Taylor Swift CHOICE TV: FANTASY/SCI-FI CHOICE YOUTUBER Empire CHOICE MUSIC GROUP: MALE ARTIST The Vampire Diaries Kian Lawley CHOICE MOVIE ACTOR: Sci-Fit/Fantasy One Direction CHOICE TV ACTOR: SCI FI/FANTASY CHOICE FANDOM Josh Hutcherson, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 1 CHOICE MUSIC: COUNTRY ARTIST Jared Padalecki, Supernatural Super Junior CHOICE COMEDIAN Carrie Underwood CHOICE TV: COMEDY CHOICE DANCER Ellen DeGeneres CHOICE MUSIC SINGLE: FEMALE ARTIST The Big Bang Theory Chloe Lukasiak CHOICE MOVIE ACTOR: COMEDY “One Last Time” -Ariana Grande CHOICE TV ACTRESS: COMEDY CHOICE MODEL Skylar Astin, Pitch Perfect 2 Lea Michele - Glee Kendall Jenner-Reuters

Robin Thicke, left, and Flo Rida perform ‘I Don’t Like It, I Co-hosts Josh Peck, Gina Rodriguez and Ludacris speak Cat Deeley, left, and Jason Derulo present the Choice Actors Victoria Justice and Jake T Austin speak on Love It’. on stage. R&B/Hip-Hop Song Award. stage.

Jussie Smollett, left, and Gabourey Sidibe of the “Empire” cast perform at the Teen Choice Awards. Luke Hemmings, of 5 Seconds of YouTube comedy group The Janoskians jump for a photo. Summer, performs on stage. ‘Empire,’ One Direction win at 17th Teen Choice Awards

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The Northern Lights shimmered in the skies above Kroshel, Minn Sunday. — AP

Hit maker David Foster: Asia looking to dominate world music usic hit maker David Foster said yesterday he’s always on the lookout for fresh talent, Mand Asia with its huge population seems to have a lot of it. Foster is in Manila for a concert today with Natalie Cole, Boyz II Men, Ruben Studdard, Filipino singer Charice Pempengco and new Filipino The Denim Dungaree, one of many Momppy Mpoppy dolls, layed on a table. The Denim Dungaree, one of many Momppy Mpoppy dolls, set against a sewing machine talent Mark Mabasa. Foster told The Associated in Johannesburg. — AFP photos Press in an interview that Filipinos have an edge because they grow up on karaoke and American music, and from there formulate their own sound. The record producer and composer of hit songs said Asians are figuring out how to dominate the S African black doll breaks world with their music, with K-pop in South Korea well on its way to doing so. Foster has mentored Charice, who broke into the global music industry through popularity on YouTube. He has also prom- the mould in high style ised Asia’s Got Talent Season 1 finalist Gerphil Flores that the world will know her. He compared Flores’ he is black and trendy and young South African girls lished toy brands, but she was encouraged by the “over- opera-style singing to Sarah Brightman and Josh are learning to love her. Meet Momppy Mpoppy, whelming response” from buyers. “Parents and children Groban. “It’s not that I’m particularly looking for Swho is a step ahead of other black dolls across have quickly taken to the doll. But we still need to con- stars in Asia. I’m just always looking for stars and I Africa who are often dressed in traditional ethnic clothes. vince large retailers to sell our brand,” she said, declining spend so much time in Asia. I know they are out Decked out in the latest fashions and sporting an impres- to reveal exact sales numbers. Nokuthula Maseko, a 30- there,” he said. He said he is hoping to see more sive afro, complete with a tiara, Momppy could play her year-old mother of two, said her children had “fallen in singers whom he can help break into the music own small part in changing the way that black children love with the unusual doll” after she came across it on industry during the second season of Singapore- look at themselves. Maite Makgoba, founder of Childish social media the company’s biggest marketing tool. “I like based Asia’s Got Talent, where he is a judge. — AP Trading and Manufacturing, told AFP she started her the fact that the doll looks like my kids, in a world where small business after realising that black dolls available on the standards of beauty are often liked to caucasian fea- the market “did not appeal to children”. tures,” said Maseko. “They were frumpy and unattractive, some in tradi- “The kids love the doll.” “This is a big social move- tional attire. That is not the reality of today,” said the 26- ment... it can help prevent body image insecurity among year-old entrepeneur. The dolls are assembled in China, children,” she added. However, the Johannesburg mother Maite Makgoba, founder of Childish Trading and Manufacturing, gestur- but the real work starts in Makgoba’s tiny workspace in said she was not in a hurry to throw away her kid’s white ing behind a Momppy Mpoppy doll in Johannesburg. downtown Johannesburg, where they are styled and dolls. “At school they play with their white friends, so this packaged before they are sent to independent distribu- is my idea of maintaining that realism, so that they are tors. Inside the two-room warehouse, miniature pieces of aware of different races and not that everything is just clothing are sewn and pressed by hand. Appearance is white and only look a certain way,” she said. Black dolls everything. are not new, but the African market has for a long time Eye-catching ballerina skirts, denim pants and “on been flooded with white dolls, creating an image of trend” jumpsuits with bright high heels are some of the porcelain skin perfection with long shiny tresses. items in Momppy Mpoppy’s impressive wardrobe. The iconic 57-year-old Barbie range has dominated Among the different Mpoppy outfits are “Denim global sales, selling over one million a week globally- Dungaree Delicious”, “Rockstar Tutu”, “Mohawk Fro” and including a selection of black dolls. It’s a tough challenge “Seshweshwe Fabolous”-with each doll costing 180 rand to build a brand name for start-up companies like ($14, 12 euros). To complete the experience, the company Makgoba’s and others such as Queen of Africa, a popular also makes matching clothes for girls who own the doll. black doll from Nigeria who is kitted out in ethnic attire. “This is more than just a business, we are creating aware- According to Johannesburg child psychologist Melita ness, that our dark skin and thick afro hair are pretty as Heyns, toys have a long-term influence on children. “It’s they are,” said Makgoba. not just entertainment... dolls are a big part of a girl child’s “We want kids to see beauty in Mpoppy, to see them- life, therefore it is important that such toys help build a David Foster, Natalie Cole, Charice Pempengco, selves while playing with her. “Dolls are often white, peo- child’s character and self-esteem,” said Heyns. Mpoppy’s Ruben Studdard, Mark Mabasa Musician David ple in magazines are white, even in a country like South creators now plan to export to neighboring African coun- Foster, front center, poses with singers, clock- Africa where the majority are black. “Black children are tries, changing young mindsets one doll at a time. — AFP wise from bottom left, Natalie Cole, Ruben confronted with growing up in a world that does not rep- Studdard, Mark Mabasa and Charice resent them, everything is skewed towards whiteness.” Pempengco, following a news conference for their concert yesterday at suburban Pasay city, Body image south of Manila, Philippines. — AP A worker sitting beside a sewing machine with Momppy Mpoppy dolls Makgoba admits that the fledging company which layed next to it in Johannesburg. she started in 2013 faces a stiff competition from estab-