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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 RABI AL-THANI 14, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Pope Francis Nazi Brunner French chefs Egypt look lauds HH ‘died in Syria hooked on fish to rekindle the Amir’s basement killed the footballing peace efforts3 in10 2001’ Japanese28 way glory19 days MPs call for fundamental Min º changes to constitution Max 20º High Tide 12:40 & 23:10 Low Tide Sports row intensifies • Law seeks to scrap petrol hike 06:08 & 17:50 40 PAGES NO: 17108 150 FILS By B Izzak

KUWAIT: Several MPs called yesterday for fundamental Trump rejects ‘phony’ Russia dossier changes to the country’s 1962 constitution as an essen- tial requirement to resolve the ongoing crises in the NEW YORK: US President-Elect Donald Trump yester- country. The call came during the debate on the Amiri day berated the media and US intelligence agencies address delivered at the opening session of the new as he denied explosive allegations about his ties with National Assembly on Dec 11. Opposition MP Russia - while admitting for the first time that Abdulkarim Al-Kandari said the real requirement for Moscow had likely meddled in the US election. Just reforms is amending the constitution, which was issued over a week before he takes office, Trump confirmed 54 years ago and has never been amended. he had ceded “complete” managing control of his “We have been encountering constitutional problems global property empire to his two sons, seeking to and dilemmas and failed to find solutions simply dispel fears about possible conflict of interests. because we still believe that the constitution cannot be Trump also said he rejected a $2 billion deal in changed. This democratic system has become ineffec- Dubai last weekend, demonstrating he was putting tive,” Kandari, a professor of law, told the house. He his business behind as he prepares to move into the called for immediately setting up a committee to revise White House. “Over the weekend, I was offered $2 bil- and suggest amendments to the constitution, adding lion to do a deal in Dubai with a very, very, very that the main issues that need change is to increase the amazing man, a great, great developer from the number of MPs, amend the article that deals with dis- Middle East,” he told the press conference. “I didn’t solving the Assembly and several other articles, to acti- have to turn it down,” he said. “But I have a no-con- vate the constitution. flict-of-interest provision as president.” He said that there is no democratic system in the But the focus of the hour-long press conference - world that is so greatly under the influence of the gov- his first in six months was firmly on the unsubstanti- ernment like the Kuwaiti system, and the only way out of ated claims that his aides colluded with the Kremlin this is to increase the number of lawmakers. Kandari said to win the US election, and that Russia has compro- that dissolving the Assembly should not remain so easy mising sexual material on Trump. The 70-year-old bil- to do and without conditions. This makes lawmakers live lionaire angrily accused CNN of being “fake news” under the fear of the dissolution of the Assembly, and and called BuzzFeed - which published a dossier with therefore are not able to perform. “After 54 years, we the allegedly incriminating material drawn up by a need to change the system, which is not working. The former British intelligence agent hired to do “opposi- system is old and needs to be amended,” Kandari said. tion research” on Trump - a “failing pile of garbage”. He also called for legalizing political parties. “It’s all fake news. It’s phony stuff. It didn’t happen,” MPs Mohammad Al-Dallal and Osama Al-Shaheen he said, referring to allegations of lurid behavior in a NEW YORK: US President-Elect Donald Trump holds a press conference yesterday, his first in nearly six months, amid explosive allegations over his ties to Russia, a little more than a week before his inauguration. — AFP also called for the need to amend the constitution to Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 Yes we did: Obama bids farewell UAE mourns five diplomats killed in Afghan blast Amir sends condolences KANDAHAR: The killing of five diplomats from the United Arab Emirates in a bombing in southern Afghanistan marks the deadliest attack ever for the young nation’s diplomatic corps, though it’s too soon to tell who was behind it or if the Gulf envoys were even the targets. The federation of seven WASHINGTON: (From left) Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretaries of State sheikhdoms, founded in 1971 on the Arabian Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell attend a reception celebrat- Peninsula, said it would fly the nation’s flag at half- ing the completion of the US Diplomacy Center Pavilion at the State Department staff for three days in honor of the dead from the on Tuesday. — AP attack Tuesday in Kandahar. The Taleban denied planting the bomb, even as CHICAGO: US President Barack Obama cries as he speaks during his farewell the insurgents claimed other blasts Tuesday that address on Tuesday. — AFP Top US diplomats open killed at least 45 people. No other group immedi- CHICAGO: Barack Obama addressed by Donald Trump’s shock election. ately claimed responsibility for the attack in America and the world for the last time Obama urged them to pick up the new diplomacy museum Kandahar, a province in Afghanistan’s Taleban as US president yesterday, in a speech torch, fight for democracy and forge a heartland. The bomb targeted a guesthouse of that was both a tearful goodbye and a new, fairer, “social compact”. “For all our Kandahar Gov Homayun Azizi, who was wounded call to arms. Capping eight years in the outward differences, we are all in this Kuwait among supporters in the assault along with UAE Ambassador Juma White House, Obama returned to his together,” he said, warning that naked WASHINGTON: Four current and former US true to those values like the best of the Mohammed Abdullah Al-Kaabi. The attack killed adopted hometown of Chicago to recast partisanship, racism, and inequality all secretaries of state, including Hillary men and women whose leadership and 11 people and wounded 18, said Gen Abdul Razeq, his “yes we can” campaign credo as “yes threaten democracy. “We rise or fall as Clinton, gathered at the State Department service will be commemorated here, then Kandahar’s police chief, who was praying nearby at we did”. Surveying the staging posts of one. All of us, regardless of party, should on Tuesday to mark the ceremonial open- our country will weather every storm on the time of the blast. his presidency - from the Iran nuclear throw ourselves into the task of rebuild- ing of a museum on American diplomacy. the horizon.” Continued on Page 13 deal to reforming healthcare - the ing our democratic institutions.” The privately funded US Diplomacy Center Former top US diplomats Madeleine speech sought to lift supporters shaken Continued on Page 13 will formally open in 2018. It includes an Albright, who will donate her personal col- exhibition hall named after Clinton, who lection of more than 200 pins to the center, lost the November presidential election to and Colin Powell also spoke at the ceremo- Republican Donald Trump. Other halls in ny. Supporters of the center include private the nonpartisan center are named for US American companies Boeing Co, Intel Corp Secretary of State John Kerry and predeces- and FedEx Corp; the Kuwaiti, Qatari, United sors Henry Kissinger and James Baker. Arab Emirates and Brunei governments; In the light-filled hall named in Clinton’s and the Clinton Family Foundation, accord- honor, marked by glass walls and a glass ing to a panel in the exhibition hall. Nearly roof, she joked that it “is the most transpar- $48 million in private sector funds have ent part” of the center, an apparent refer- been raised for the center, and $18 million ence to the controversy over her use of a more is needed, according to the website of private email server which dogged her the Diplomacy Center Foundation created presidential ambitions. In her brief to support the museum. remarks, Clinton did not mention Trump or Clinton has kept a low profile since the the campaign. She said that democracy, election, popping up at a Broadway shows freedom and the rule of law were under and in selfies snapped by supporters who attack around the world and that the run into her at bookstores and hiking near world faced “a rising tide of authoritarian- her Chappaqua, New York home. In her last ism and illiberalism.” public appearance, an event last month “The longstanding bipartisan goal of a thanking campaign donors, Clinton blamed Europe that is whole, free and at peace is Russian interference for her defeat in the under enormous pressure,” she said. “We presidential race, casting her loss as part of should remember that the world looks to a long-running strategy by Putin to discred- America as the indispensable nation not it the fundamental tenets of American gov- just because of the size of our military or ernment. Trump’s choice to head the State the strength of our economy,” she said. “It Department, Exxon Mobil chief Rex looks to us because America stands for uni- Tillerson, was facing the Senate in his con- versal values and aspirations. And if we stay firmation hearing yesterday. — Agencies KUWAIT: A commercial airliner is seen after taking off from Kuwait International Airport yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 LOCAL

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah meets with President of the International Committee of the Peter Maurer presents a memorial shield to His Highness the Amir Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah meets with President of Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer. —Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. ICRC Peter Maurer. Kuwait leads humanitarian efforts in Mideast: ICRC chief

KUWAIT: President of the International with the State of Kuwait to respond to the region. Maurer reaffirmed ICRC’s commitment itarian efforts, especially those which focus on International Islamic Charitable Organization Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter humanitarian needs of the victims of armed to neutral, impartial and independent human- finding Kuwaiti missing persons and POWs in (IICO) and Advisor to the Amiri Diwan Dr Maurer underscored the importance of conflicts and other situations of violence itarian action. The ICRC chief also offered His Iraq since 1991. Abdullah Al-Maatouq and acknowledged Kuwait’s leading humanitarian role in the worldwide.” During his stay in Kuwait, Maurer Highness the Amir a memorial shield in recog- In addition, Maurer met with President of IICO’s valuable work and expressed his grati- Middle East. Maurer, who is paying a one-day has met with His Highness the Amir Sheikh nition of his leading humanitarian role. the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Dr tude for the organization’s support to ICRC’s official visit to Kuwait, stressed in a press state- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Furthermore, Maurer met with First Deputy Hilal Al-Sayer and underlined KRCS’s distin- operations in the region. ment the urgent need for the international thanked him for Kuwait’s generous financial Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs guished role in various humanitarian response Maurer’s last visit to Kuwait was in 2015. community to unify and scale up its efforts in contributions and diplomatic support to Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah operations worldwide and expressed his ICRC has been in Kuwait since the 1990-91 order to respond to current humanitarian ICRC’s humanitarian efforts in the Middle East. and expressed his appreciation for the contin- appreciation of KRCS’s support to ICRC’s oper- Gulf War. It focuses on humanitarian needs challenges. Maurer and His Highness the Amir uous diplomatic and financial support of the ations and the successful collaboration remaining from that war or arising from cur- On the visit to Kuwait, he said: “This visit exchanged views on the dire humanitarian sit- Kuwaiti government. During the meeting, between both institutions. rent armed conflicts and other situations of highlights ICRC’s strategic ties and partnership uation in conflict-affected countries in the Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled praised ICRC’s human- He also met with Chairman of the violence in the wider region. —KUNA

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Minister of Information and Minister Yousef Al-Abdulrazzaq, the winner of the 2016 Aquabike World of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah, as well as Yousef Al-Abdulrazzaq. Championship presents a gift to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- —Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah meets with Minister of Information and Minister of State for Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Minister of Information and Minister Sabah meets with Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Education Dr Mohammad Al-Fares. and Yousef Al-Abdulrazaq. Al-Sabah and Yousef Al-Abdulrazaq. Amir meets with Kuwaiti athlete

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- praised this international achievement and wished Abdulrazzaq His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Meanwhile, His Highness Jaber Al-Sabah received yesterday at Bayan Palace Minister of more success in the future. Hamad Al-Sabah, who stated that the Kuwaiti youth are accus- the Crown Prince received His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al- Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sheikh Salman later presented Abdulrazzaq to His Highness tomed to such great accomplishments, noting that they always Mubarak, Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled, Deputy Prime Minister and Sabah Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, strive for excellence. Minister of Defense Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- During the meeting, Minister Al-Humoud presented to His who extoled Abdulrazzaq’s victory, noting that Kuwaiti athletes Earlier yesterday, His Highness the Amir received His Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Highness the Amir, Yousef Al-Abdulrazzaq, the winner of the are capable of ascending to the upper echelons of the sports Highness the Crown Prince, His Highness the Prime Minister and Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, as well as Minister of Education and 2016 Aquabike World Championship. His Highness the Amir world. Furthermore, Sheikh Salman presented the champion to First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Minister of Higher Education Dr Mohammad Al-Fares. —KUNA

Amir, FM meet outgoing ambassador KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received outgoing Ethiopian Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammed Gudeta Chebsa at Bayan Palace yesterday. The Ambassador also met with First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al- Hamad Al-Sabah, who hailed the efforts of Chebsa in boosting bilateral ties between Kuwait and Ethiopia. The meeting was attended by Assistant Foreign Minister for the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister’s Office Affairs KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Ambassador Dr Ahmad Nasser Al- First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al- meets with Ethiopian Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammed Gudeta Chebsa. Mohammad Al-Sabah and senior officials at Hamad Al-Sabah meets with Ethiopian Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammed Gudeta — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. —KUNA Chebsa. LOCAL THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 Mideast security conditions limit global clout: Former FM

BERLIN: There are a myriad of world. On terrorism, the former threats and challenges facing the Kuwaiti Foreign Minister said that a Middle East that have stifled the spate of attacks in cities including influence of some world powers, a Berlin and Istanbul has claimed the former Kuwaiti Foreign Minister lives of scores of innocent people. said yesterday. Former Kuwaiti Speaking on the root-cause of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign turmoil plaguing the Middle East, he Minister Sheikh Dr Mohammad said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Sabah Salem Al-Sabah made the has plunged the region into remarks in a speech during a cere- upheaval, adding that a solution to mony held by the German-Arab the conflict is “near and possible.” On Friendship Association (DAFG), to the war in Syria, Sheikh Dr mark the start of the new year. Mohammad Al-Sabah said that the Sheikh Dr Mohammad Al-Sabah international community should ful- said that worsening security condi- fill its obligations to put an end to tions in the Middle East have this conflict, as he underscored that VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church meets with curbed the clout of some powerful a military solution is never feasible. Kuwaiti Ambassador to Switzerland and non-resident ambassador to the nations including the United States, The Former Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Vatican Bader Al-Taneeb. —KUNA Britain and France. Moreover, he also heaped praise on the ideology spoke of parliamentary elections of the Gulf Cooperation Council due in four European Union (EU) (GCC), which is one of “openness BERLIN: Former Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign nations, noting that the results of and forgiveness,” urging the GCC to Minister Sheikh Dr Mohammad Sabah Salem Al-Sabah delivers Pope Francis lauds these elections will be crucial to overcome all obstacles thrust upon his speech during a ceremony held by the German-Arab Amir’s peace efforts peace and security in the Western its member nations. —KUNA Friendship Association. —KUNA

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis of the Roman and prosperity on all. The Pope also praised Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican efforts exerted by His Highness the Amir in MEW labor union upset City lauded His Highness the Amir of Kuwait solving disputes, promoting peace and co- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s habitation despite differences. and the state of Kuwait’s efforts in solving Taneeb said that Pope Francis’ New Year disputes and encouraging peace, open dia- message at the event focused on bringing over canteen’s closure logue and humanitarian co-habitation. people from different cultures and back- The Pope made this remark at his annual grounds together. “That is how one builds New Year celebration with ambassadors peace, saying ‘no’ to hatred and violence- Efforts to protect Kuwait Bay from pollution and heads of diplomatic missions to the with action-and ‘yes’ to fraternity and rec- Vatican, including Kuwaiti Ambassador to onciliation,” the Pope said in his message. Switzerland and non-resident ambassador His message also affirmed the good ties By Meshaal Al-Enezi and A Saleh after tests proved that the water was contami- threatening His Highness the Prime Minister to the Vatican Bader Al-Taneeb. between the Vatican and the Arab nations, nated with sewage. Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah via his Twitter Taneeb said yesterday that Pope Francis reiterating his solid position of recognizing KUWAIT: The workers union at the Ministry of account, and acquitted him of all charges. relayed his New Year greetings to His the State of Palestine’s sovereignty under Electricity and Water (MEW) criticized the closure Rent buildings Highness the Amir, wishing world peace international law. —KUNA of a canteen located at the Sulaibikhat water The Kuwait Lawyers Society strongly con- Disabled parking pumping station. The union’s secretary Nawaf demned the justice ministry’s decision to rent The Public Authority for Disabled Affairs’ Buyabes described the withdrawal of the can- special buildings in various governorates for Deputy Director Nadiya Abul said the authority teen’s license as ‘illegal’ and a decision that was family courts instead of waiting till the new has been coordinating with the Ministry of made ‘under political pressure.’ Buyabes also courthouses are built. In this regard, society Interior concerning imposing the law on illegally held the ministers of commerce and municipali- member and treasurer Humoud Al-Radaan parking in spaces reserved for the disabled. Abul ty affairs responsible for the possible conse- stressed that such a decision did not conform to made her statements to reporters after a meet- quences of what he described as their erroneous the state’s strategy of providing the highest lev- ing with officials from the citizenship and pass- and illegal decisions. “Our labor interests are no els of services. He added that law 12/2015 stated port department and legal affairs representa- political tools that the minister uses to please that in view of the sensitive nature of family liti- tives to discuss activating law number 8/2010 some MPs,” he stressed, pointing out that deal- gations, a special court would be built in each pertaining the rights of the disabled. ing with investments owned by the syndicate in governorate to provide privacy such a manner will not be accepted. Fees for services Financial disclosure Kuwait Municipality’s Director Ahmed Al- Pollution The Public Anti-Corruption Authority yester- Manfouhi denied increasing the fees for any of In continuation of its efforts to protect day contacted officials still in service to file their various services it provides. He added that the Kuwait Bay from pollution and implement the financial disclosure statements, notifying them finance ministry had asked several state depart- environment protection law number 42/2014, of the need to do so within six months, ie by ments to conduct comprehensive studies EPA Chairman Sheikh Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al- May 14, 2017. The authority also urged MPs to regarding the services they provide to the pub- Humoud Al-Sabah met officials from PAI and file their reports by Jan 26 and ministers to do lic. “However, studies are still in progress and are MPW. The meeting was dedicated to dis- the same by Feb 8, 2017. The authority called on being reviewed,” he added, noting that some cussing the environmental situation within officials to download the needed forms from its services would be exempted from any fees when the bay and the negative impact of illegal rain website www.kwncor.gov.kw, fill them up and e-services are launched by February. drainage and sewage discharging into the bay submit them during official working hours. in the Free Trade Zone. Notably, the Housing tender Environment Public Authority (EPA) had Blogger acquitted The Public Authority for Housing Welfare will closed two outlets draining rainwater into The court of appeals yesterday cancelled a offer a tender for public bidding in February to Kuwait Bay at the free trade zone in coopera- first instance verdict sentencing a 54-year-old landscape and design areas in South Sabah Al- tion with the Ministry of Public Works (MPW), blogger to three years in prison over charges of Ahmad that include 25,000 housing units. MANAGUA: Kuwait Ambassador to Mexico Mutaab Al-Motawtah attends the Nicaraguan President’s oath taking ceremony. —KUNA Kuwaiti envoy attends Nicaraguan President’s oath taking ceremony

MANAGUA: Kuwait Ambassador to Mexico to President Ortega, adding that His Mutaab Al-Motawtah took part in the oath Highness was looking forward to boost ties swearing ceremony for the Nicaraguan with Nicaragua. Meanwhile, Ortega thanked President Daniel Ortega who is serving for a His Highness Sheikh Sabah for his invitation new term. Motawtah expressed the greet- to visit Kuwait in the near future, noting ings from His Highness the Amir of Kuwait that his country was eager for further coop- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah eration on all levels with Kuwait. —KUNA

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah meets with British Ambassador to Kuwait Mathew Lodge. —KUNA Interior Minister, British envoy discuss common issues

KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah scored that both nations enjoy close and solid ties. Meanwhile, the British Al-Sabah discussed with the British Ambassador to Kuwait Mathew Lodge envoy acknowledged Kuwait’s efforts to promote peace and security in the yesterday, security issues of mutual concern. Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarah under- region, saying that such discussions are crucial to boost bilateral ties. —KUNA

KUWAIT: Damage left by fire in a Hawally building yesterday. Man found dead in Farwaniya apartment

By Hanan Al-Saadoun Department said that an inspection cam- paign was launched in various restaurants KUWAIT: A man was found dead inside the and foodstuff stores in Hawally, which bathroom of his apartment in Farwaniya resulted in filing 14 citations. Meanwhile, yesterday. Firefighters were called to the the Ministry of Commerce and Industry scene in response to an emergency call announced that inspectors busted a ware- about a man being locked up inside his house in Industrial Shuwaikh where they apartment. They broke open the apart- found 47 tons of rice placed in packs that ment’s door and found the expatriate man’s had the expiration date altered. dead body inside. The body was taken to the coroner for an autopsy. An investiga- No injuries tion was opened to determine the circum- A fire broke out in a Hawally building, said stances behind the man’s death. security sources, noting that the fire started in KUWAIT: Ministry of Interior’s Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al-Fahd and his assistant for criminal security affairs Maj Gen the stairway on the ground floor. Firemen Abdul Hameed Al-Awadhi yesterday met the Supreme Planning and Development Council’s Secretary General Dr Khaled Mahdi Municipality campaign evacuated all tenants and controlled the blaze. and the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Zineb Benjelloun, where they signed on the Kuwait Municipality’s Public Relations No injuries were reported in the incident. national project on drug prevention’s policy and management. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 LOCAL

In Brief Amiri representative Kuwait condemns blast Speaker offers offers condolences KUWAIT: Kuwait condemned an explosion against a condolences guesthouse of Kandahar’s provincial government, KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- Afghanistan, which killed five UAE diplomats and KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Ghanem yesterday sent a cable of condolences to injured the UAE ambassador on Tuesday. “This terror- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s representative, Deputy Speaker of the UAE’s Federal National Council ist crime, which targeted the noble humanitarian Minister of the Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali (FNC) Amal Al-Qubaisi, over the death of five action and those supervising it, showed again how Jarrah Al-Sabah conveyed yesterday the Kuwaiti Emirati diplomats in the terrorist attack on the menace of terrorism has been targeting mankind leadership’s condolences over the death of former Afghanistan’s Kandahar city. Ghanem also and those seeking wellbeing of others,” a foreign Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani dur- expressed Kuwait’s full support for any measures ministry source said. — KUNA ing an event in Tehran. — KUNA taken by the UAE to fight terrorism. — KUNA Photo of the day

KUWAIT: A jokey and his horse pose in front of an aircraft. — KUNA photo NCCAL honors popular poet

NCCAL Assistant Secretary-General for the Arts Sector Dr Bader Al-Duweesh speaks during the event. Mubarak Al-Hudeibi KUWAIT: The National Council for Culture, Art and Letters Jowhar, Nabil Shu’ail and Abdulmajid Abdullah, Dr Al- (NCCAL) organized a singing seminar at Abdulhussein Duweesh said. He also commended as outstanding Hudeibi’s Abdulredha Theater on Tuesday evening in honor of Mubarak contributions to the Kuwaiti radio and Kuwait Artist Al-Hudeibi, a celebrated Kuwaiti poet. Association, noting that Hudeibi is one of the pioneers of the At the beginning of the function, NCCAL Assistant Kuwaiti media. Secretary-General for the Arts Sector Dr Bader Al-Duweesh NCCAL’s Secretary-General Ali Al-Youha and Assistant spoke highly of Hudeibi’s eloquent lyrics which helped Secretary-General for Culture Sector Mohammad Al-Asousi enrich the national library with love and patriotic songs. honored the great poet in the presence of a dozens of artists Hudeibi’s lyrics are sung by most of singing stars in Kuwait and media celebs. Later on a documentary featuring the and other Gulf countries such as Shadi Al-Khaleej, Gherrid Al- biography of, and interviews with, Hudeibi was screened. Shat’e, Hussein Jassem, Abdulmohsen Al-Mehanna, Talal Born in Al-Mergab area in 1946, Hudeibi is married and has KUWAIT: An artist performs during an event held to honor poet Mubarak Al-Hudeibi. — KUNA Maddah, Mohammad Abdo, Abdullah Al-Ruwaished, Abadi Al- one son. — KUNA University professor touts new Society covers obesity management procedure education fees for 1,840 Syrian By Abdellatif Al-Sharaa refugee students KUWAIT: Kuwait University Professor, liver disease and endoscopy consultant at ANKARA: Kuwait’s Al-Najat Charitable Mubarak Hospital Dr Jaber Al-Ali spoke Society covered the education fees of recently about a highly advanced tech- some 1,840 Syrian refugee students at nique used for the first time in Kuwait and Al-Najat schools in the cities of Arabian Gulf region to treat obesity called Sanliurfa and Hatay southern Turkey ‘Endomina System’. It is a new and highly yesterday. The society opened a advanced technique that is already avail- school in Hatay and two schools in able in Europe, and considered one of the Sanliurfa, Kuwaiti volunteer most modern ways in obesity manage- Mohammad Al-Khaledi said. Najat ment, he indicated. Society, alongside other bodies and The system complements in with the organizations, also offered 460 food stomach endoscope to reduce the size of baskets, blankets, in addition to winter the stomach in a sleeve gastrostomy form, clothes for Syrian refugees and Dr Ali said. He reassured that the technique Orphans in a different campaign, he is completely safe to use, adding that it is said. — KUNA designed in a way to prevent any kind of Dr Jaber Al-Ali liquid leakage or bleeding. Patients might initially experience some pain, nausea and hours from the time he is admitted to the vomiting that lasts for up to two days how- hospital. It helps the patient lose nearly 40 percent of excessive weight, he added. This ANKARA: Members of Kuwait’s ever, he noted. Al-Najat Charitable Society during In addition to being safe, the procedure technique is considered a complementary for sleeve gastrostomy and bypass opera- their visit to Syrian refugee does not involve surgery and does not take students in Turkey. — KUNA time as the patient can leave within 24 tions, and not a replacement, he noted. LOCAL THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017

KFAED offers Grenada KD 4 million loan

KUWAIT: Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed an agreement with the government of Grenada on Tuesday under which the fund will offer Grenada a loan amount- ing to KD four million (nearly $13.6 million). The document was signed by Grenadian Prime Minister Keith Mitchell and KFAED Deputy Director-General Ghanim Al-Ghaniman. The fund- ing will be used in financing the third stage of a road-building project in the rural communities in the Caribbean island country, according to a state- ment by the Fund. The project is to promote the socio-economic development in Grenada through the improve- ment of the road network in the rural areas and facilitating the exportation of farm products. It aims to rehabilitate 12 roads and bridges in six provinces, and improve the sewage system in the rural areas by the end of 2019, the statement added. — KUNA

Antiquities exhibited at Kuwait National Library Private sector invited

KUWAIT: The Kuwait National Library yesterday opened an exhibition to display antiquities recently recovered from archeological sites discovered in for ‘innovation Subbiya and Tal Buhaita north of Kuwait. They include potteries, some of which date back to the early Islamic era, and belong to civilizations that inhabited the coastal area of Kuwait during that time. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat challenge’ program KUWAIT: Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences on Tuesday invited private sector companies to register for the applied executive education program ‘innovation challenge’ 2017. In a press statement, Head of the Companies Management and Innovation Department at KFSA Bassam Al-Faili stated that KFAS invites companies in Kuwait’s private sector to take advantage of this exciting opportunity to develop their company’s science-based innovation capabilities. He added that registration for the free-of-charge training program would be closed on January 15. “This unique program uses the modern learning tech- niques such as interactive mentoring, simulation and distance learning in addition to case studies and experi- ential projects to help participants drive innovative change into their companies,” Faili said. The KFAS Innovation Challenge program specifically intended to drive companies in Kuwait to become more innovative. This program is customized for Kuwait through a partnership between KFAS and the Executive Education for Business at the Royal College of Art (RCA), the world’s top postgraduate design University based in London. The programs modules will be balanced between classroom style learning and experiential exercises, site visits and co-creation sessions alongside practical les- sons based in ‘real world’ contexts. He indicated that the program is part of KFAS efforts to support the private sector to be a catalyst in transforming Kuwait’s economy into knowledge based economy. — KUNA THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 From the Arabic press

Al-Qabas Crime Report

Education woes Probe continues in containers case KUWAIT: The public prosecution is continuing its investiga- By Khalid Al-Tarrah tions in the case of containers containing liquor that were smuggled out from Shuwaikh Port, and that in order to uncov- uwait’s failure to achieve educational goals set er the causes of other major security breaches at the port in in 2000, and improve education in the second- the past few months. The discovery of the two containers can Kary and elementary stages is old news. A solve the puzzle of other containers that left Shuwaikh cus- UNESCO report about ‘failure and setback’ in general Fighting toms without being checked. The arrest of the main accused, a education stages in Kuwait explained that the per- corruption Kuwaiti, and his Indian partner, helped the prosecution solve centage of graduates who have Bachelor’s or Master’s this mystery. degrees in Science in Kuwait are among the least in The accused citizen (J. B.) worked at Shuwaikh Port as an the world, and are comparable to those of countries official for a company, and had the authority to sign permits like Madagascar, Rwanda, Brunei, Comoros, and for containers to leave, said an informed source. Investigations Sudan. Meanwhile, Kuwait was surpassed in this field revealed that the containers left behind many pieces of evi- by each of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunis and Lebanon. dence including forged papers and policies that belong to Kuwait is among the countries that has a relatively others. The accused got the containers out at a time when higher rate of spending on education, but the prob- containers arrived in the name of the Amiri Diwan with furni- lem lies within the planning method. The Kuwait ture for Jaber Cultural Center in the name of a ruling family National Competitiveness Committee’s reports member, said the source. “The suspect used a copy of the civil showed that the largest part of budgets allocated for ID attached to the clearance papers of the Amiri Diwan con- education is directed towards the salaries for teachers tainers and got his containers out,” he said. The suspect also at the Education Ministry, Public Authority for Applied said some containers left Kuwait after they were unloaded, as Education and Training (PAAET) and Kuwait port papers show. Investigations are continuing to get all the University. Meanwhile, developing curricula, means of Al-Jarida details and bust those who are involved. teaching, educational facilities or environmental and educational activities receive limited funding com- pared to the total annual expenditure on education. Sentenced to death The committee’s report for 2012-2013 showed that The criminal court sentenced a Sri Lankan man to death KD 500 million were spent on education for the fiscal for murdering his wife. The suspect confessed he was year 2000-2001, which is three times more than what behind an explosion in a three-storey building in Salmiya was spent in the last 10 years. The report warned that injured him and killed his wife and another woman. against low education efficiency levels and pointed Al-Rai The suspect confessed that he planned to make the crime out that parents preferred to register their children in look like an accident, so he made a hole in the gas pipe, private schools. Furthermore, it point out the increas- Awareness key to success which caused a huge explosion. He said the move was ing number of teachers in 2001-2002 at a rate of 6.4 the result of complicated disputes he failed to resolve. percent on average, compared to the drop in the By Dr Khalid Al-Saleh number of students in the same period. Reports of Kuwait’s committee were completely t is said that advanced countries are highly aware his importance as a human being when he starts receiving Exonerated based on official data and not estimations. These nations, and a country’s advancement can be distin- education and distinguishes between what is right and The appeals misdemeanors court canceled a ruling of the results underwent careful analysis and highlighted Iguished by assessing the public awareness level of its wrong about his surroundings and how to respects others. court of first instance that convicted a school vice principal the deviation in educational policies and expenditure, people. A person’s history or culture does not prove any- He is corrected when making a mistake, and punishment and jailed her for six months for defrauding a computer com- so that decision makers can use these information for thing, but the proper way to gauge is to know how much becomes a lesson. pany, and exonerated her from the charges. The case began the better good. But the education ministry did not awareness is spreading among the people. When you The question is, are we a country that has a high level of when the company told police it was swindled by a person benefit neither from these reports, nor from the World visit a country with citizens who have high awareness awareness? I believe that the answer is yes. Who makes us who made it believe that he can mediate with a school to sup- Bank’s studies in regards to the educational curricula. levels, you can see that the employees are appreciated aware? In Kuwait, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) ply it with several computers. The vice principal’s lawyer said The dilemma is found in policies that has no for their work, the people follow traffic laws despite the play this role, and have succeeded in increasing awareness there are no merits of being party to the swindling charges accountability, and because of which Kuwait is wit- jams, and you would find that the country is beautiful among citizens. We can complete the picture by convincing against his client based on the judicial principle that a person nessing regression and failure in the educational and clean in general. the government to allocate a suitable budget to be spent on may be questioned if he contributed to the action that field while education is considered the most impor- But on the other hand, when you visit a country with citi- spreading the importance of awareness. The interior min- required the punishment, which does not exist in this case. tant form of human investment for all individuals in zens who have low level of awareness, you can see chaotic istry for example can increase traffic awareness. Traffic is a the society. Kuwait is currently suffering from a and filthy streets that are jammed with vehicles. The differ- problem that we experience every day. Meanwhile, there are Fake notes budget deficit that happened as a result of random ence between both countries is found in the people living in other responsibilities that ministries cannot be held respon- Airport customs officers foiled an attempt to smuggle policies and hesitation in reform. The victim as a them. An aware citizen is a respected one who helps himself sible for alone, but we also should be responsible for them. fake $500 notes. The officers suspected a parcel from result is not only the state’s wealth, but also the and his country, and believes that he alone can bring a I would like to thank the education ministry for adding China in the name of two Asian expats. The parcel includ- efficiency of education which is supposed to be change. However, an ignorant citizen is the one who does the word ‘health’ to the official title of physical education, ed an ad magazine with $500 notes between its pages. what helps us overcome all challenges. Hopefully not appreciate his own country or other human beings. This increasing awareness about health education among chil- The person who went to receive it denied anything to do minister Dr Mohammad Al-Fares rescues us from proves that awareness among people is very important. dren, which will help drop the rate of obesity, diabetes and with the contents, so they suspected that the notes might this crisis, regardless of the hurdles the ministry When a child is born, he mother is educated about the will increase awareness about early cancer detection. be forged. The parcel was sent to concerned authorities. suffered in the past. baby by an expert who explains to her what she has to do to Awareness is the key to success, which is a scientific fact. — Translated by Kuwait Times protect her baby’s health and well-being. The child discovers — Translated by Kuwait Times — Translated from the Arabic press

Boecker, MUMS join Horeca 2017

KUWAIT: Preparations for the Horeca Kuwait 2017 exhibition are steadily pro- gressing, and the event is attracting more companies to take part, since it is an event which provides a golden opportunity to exchange expertise to meet the local market’s needs and future expansion plans. In this regard, Boecker announced its intention to join other companies spe- cialized in hospitality, hotel equipment, catering, transportation, cooking gas and design, which have already signed up to take part in Horeca Kuwait 2017 exhibition. In this regard, Boecker’s administra- tive associate Abraham Hilal stressed that Horeca Kuwait is a leading special- ized exhibition that provides golden opportunities for companies to display various key products and services that help improve progress in the fields of hospitality and food industries in Abraham Hilal Kuwait, while also support the state’s plans to diversify sources of income and food waste using the latest technolo- create more job opportunities. Abraham gies in this field, also announced plans added that Boecker provides top health to take part in Horeca Kuwait. KFH participates in ‘Managing for Success’ seminar services in various Middle Eastern coun- MUMS will display many of its prod- tries including Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi ucts during the exhibition, including a KUWAIT: Kuwait Finance House (KFH) partici- effective leadership, and the concept of leaders participation of managers and dignitaries from Arabia and Jordan. He also stressed that newly-invented device to help dispose pated in ‘Managing for Success’ seminar organ- as decision architects. It also focused on man- different sectors. KFH participated with 22 Boecker plans to highlight and display food waste in homes, restaurants or ized by the Institute of Business Studies IBS. The aging talent and solving organizational issues: seats. The IBS hosts the seminar in collabora- its creative solutions in pest control, hotels. The device has been a success in seminar that was led by Francesca Gino- leaders as decision architects, effective leader- tion with Manpower and Government food safety and disinfection services Korea, Japan, Malaysia and China, and Professor of Business Administration, tackled ship and how it requires creative deal-making, Restructuring Program (MGRP). It is worth not- related to hospitality and restaurants. has successfully been tried in a restau- several subjects that are of great importance to team preparation and negotiation, the art and ing that Professor Gino has won numerous He added that all Boecker services have rant in Kuwait. employees of different sectors, such as a brief science of negotiation, debrief, in addition to awards for her teaching, including the HBS earned it the prestigious ISO 9001 cer- Horeca Kuwait 2017 has so far overview of the objectives for the day, as well question and answer and general discussions. Faculty Award by Harvard Business School’s tificate for quality. Furthermore, he indi- attracted over 80 companies due to dis- as a quick tour through core concepts such as The seminar witnessed huge turnout and MBA Class of 2015. cated that Boecker is a member in the play their products in the presence of a National Pest Management Association group of international experts and chefs (NPMA), the British Pest Control and a large group of company and hotel Association (BPCA) and the Chartered owners. The exhibition is organized by Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH). Leaders Group in collaboration with Spark Marathon 2017 kicks off on Jan 14 Meanwhile, the International MUMS Hospitality Services Company at Kuwait Food Waste Disposal Company, Korea; a International Fairgrounds in Mishref on KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and with our CSR strategy, as we are keen to sup- leading company in the disposition of January 16-18, 2017. most developed telecom operator, invited all port activities that serves the society and sport activities’ fans to participate in Spark spread awareness.” Marathon 2017. The marathon is set to be held It is noteworthy that VIVA is always proac- on Saturday, January 14, 2017 at Marina tive to brace the local and international sport Crescent in Salmiya. It is organized by Spark activities, for example and not limited to: main Athletic Center, under the patronage of Sheikh sponsor for Kuwait Soccer League, sponsor for Salman Al-Homoud Al-Sabah, Minister of Real Madrid and Manchester United soccer Information and Minister of State for Youth teams, to grant opportunities for Kuwaiti youth Affairs, and presence of Sheikh Ahmad Al- to explore new experiences through VIVA Real Mansour Al-Sabah, Director General of the Madrid and VIVA Manchester United soccer Public Authority for Youth and Sports. The academies. marathon starts at 6:30 am, composed of four VIVA is keen to continue its ongoing socially categories: 5 km, 10km, 21km and 42 km, and responsible role in the community by spread- $100,000 in cash prizes, will be distributed at ing the spirit of goodness amongst Kuwaiti the marathon’s conclusion at 1:00 pm. society. We believe at VIVA in taking a holistic The marathon sponsored by VIVA, aims at approach to our CSR activities, one that spreading sport and health awareness in the engages our employees, and creates goodwill Kuwaiti society, highlight new healthy life in our communities with a focus on helping to styles and emphasize on health programs. grow and develop the State of Kuwait. Many participants, from inside and outside VIVA’s Corporate Social Responsibility ‘CSR’ Kuwait, are expected to race in the marathon. activities can be reviewed on the company’s Ayman Salem Al-Mutairi, Senior Manager website at https://www.viva.com.kw/csr. This Corporate Communications said: “We decid- offers a description of each CSR initiative that Leaders Group’s General Manager Nabila Al-Anjari (third from left) poses with ed at VIVA to sponsor such event that com- VIVA has supported, or taken on since its officials from MUMS Food Waste Disposal Company. Ayman Al-Mutairi bines between health and sport and meets inception. Cocaine gang war drives Brazil prison bloodbaths

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 Firestorm over Trump-Russia report publication ‘This is not fake news, it is real documents’

WASHINGTON: A media firestorm erupted of allegations that might or might not be yesterday after BuzzFeed published an entirely scurrilous,” Graham wrote. unverified report with salacious details on “The reporter’s job is not to simply dump purported intelligence gathered by Russia as much information as possible into the on President-elect Donald Trump. Many public domain ... It is to gather information, media outlets and analysts joined Trump in sift through it, and determine what is true denouncing the decision by BuzzFeed to and what is not.” He added that “transparent release the report, which had been circulat- transmission of misinformation is no more ing in Washington for weeks. “I think it was helpful or clarifying than no information at incredibly irresponsible.” said Dan Kennedy, all.” Michael Tracey of Vice News offered a a journalism professor at Northeastern dig at the online news rival, tweeting: University. “These allegations are complete- “BuzzFeed breathlessly promotes a ‘dossier’ ly unverified, and as BuzzFeed acknowl- that it admits is unverified / riddled with edged some are unverifiable.” errors, and reaps the rewards in traffic. A Kennedy said the decision could further win-win.” erode public trust in media after a bruising campaign in which news organizations ‘Kudos’ to BuzzFeed were pilloried by Trump and his supporters Richard Tofel, president of the investiga- and during which “fake news” became an tive news organization ProPublica, wel- issue. “It is unfortunate because this is not comed BuzzFeed’s decision to publish, not- ‘fake news,’ it is real documents,” Kennedy ing that CNN had earlier reported on the said. “And it’s not ‘the media,’ it’s BuzzFeed.” existence of the document without reveal- BuzzFeed published the 35-page docu- ing its contents. ment, compiled by a former British intelli- “Kudos to @BuzzFeedBen and his team gence operative hired by other US presiden- for publishing the dossier. Once CNN story tial contenders to do political “opposition out, citizens should have evidence to con- research” on Trump last year. Kelly McBride, sider for themselves,” Tofel tweeted. “Thus a media ethicist at the Poynter Institute, a the dossier became focus of public debate. media education center, said in a blog post What remained was whether the debaters that “publishing an entirely unvetted docu- should be allowed to know what they were ment is a significant departure from the way debating.” editors of most significant publications Analysts at the blog Lawfare, which fol- would define the role of reporting.” lows national security issues, noted that it had the document “for a couple of weeks” ‘Transparency’ and had chosen “not to publish it while the BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith allegations within it remain unproven.” But defended the decision to publish the docu- the analysts-Benjamin Wittes, Susan ment, saying his goal is “to be transparent in Hennessey and Quinta our journalism and to share what we have Jurecic of the Brookings Institution-said with our readers,” while noting that “the this is nonetheless an important issue to be document was in wide circulation at the investigated. “The President and president- highest levels of American government and elect do not get briefed on material that the media.” Trump, who was set to hold his first NEW JERSEY: In this photo, Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis stands with President-elect Donald Trump in Bedminster, intelligence community does not believe to news conference since the election yester- New Jersey. — AP be at least of some credibility,” they wrote. day, blasted what he called “fake news,” and tions joined in criticism of BuzzFeed’s deci- meaning that it requires further investiga- David Graham of The Atlantic said BuzzFeed “While nobody has confirmed any of the his spokesman Reince Priebus called it sion. Washington Post media writer Erik tion,” Wemple wrote. “BuzzFeed has started “sidestepped a basic principle of journal- allegations, both inside government and in “complete garbage.” Wemple lamented BuzzFeed’s “ridiculous that process and pledges to continue pursu- ism.” The release “unfairly forces a public fig- the press, it is clear to us that they are the Media writers at other news organiza- rationale” for publication. “It is unverified- ing it. So why post the documents now?” ure-Trump, in this case-to respond to a set subject of serious attention.” — AFP INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 Top press rights defender charged in Turkey court

ISTANBUL: The Turkey representative for guest-editing pro-Kurdish Turkish newspaper of the paper in a campaign of solidarity as it faced imposed a state of emergency in the wake of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and two other Ozgur Gundem. pressure from authorities. July 15 failed coup. campaigners appeared in court yesterday, risking Onderoglu told reporters outside the court Onderoglu and the others were initially arrest- Critics say that the state of emergency is being years in jail in a high-profile trial charged with aid- they risked 14 years and six months in jail if con- ed in June but then freed pending trial. The daily used against any opponent of Erdogan and not ing Kurdish militants. The trial has sparked interna- victed. Turkey ranked 151st of 180 countries in the was then raided and permanently shut down in just the suspected coup plotters. The Istanbul court tional howls of protest from press rights’ defenders 2016 World Press Freedom index published by RSF. August on charges of links with the PKK, which has was also the scene Wednesday of a fresh hearing in who claim the climate for press freedom in Turkey “Since then, the situation has been getting worse waged an insurgency against Ankara for more the separate trial against the exiled former editor- has deteriorated sharply under President Recep every day,” Christophe Deloire, RSF secretary gen- than three decades. “This trial is a matter of hon- in-chief of Turkish opposition newspaper Tayyip Erdogan. RSF representative Erol eral, told reporters outside the court. “Pluralism is our for me and my friends, because we stood up Cumhuriyet, Can Dundar, and his Ankara bureau Onderoglu, rights activist Sebnem Korur Fincanci almost totally dead in this country, there is no and we fought for a noble cause,” Fincanci said. chief, Erdem Gul. Dundar and Gul, who are fighting and journalist Ahmet Nesin have been charged independent TV, there are only two or three news- Onderoglu’s detention on June 20 triggered inter- previous convictions for revealing state secrets, are with making “terror propaganda” on behalf of the papers that try to resist as they can,” he said. Ozgur national alarm over press freedom in Turkey but accused of ties to the US-based cleric Fethullah outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) after Gundem had invited guest editors to take control concerns have grown further as the authorities Gulen, a former Erdogan ally turned foe. —AFP

Fresh Syria raids as Moscow sets January 23 peace talks

BEIRUT: Syrian warplanes launched strikes in ters northwest of Damascus is the main several parts of the country yesterday despite water source for the capital, but supply has a fragile truce, a monitor said, as Russia con- been cut since Dec 22. firmed a Jan 23 date for new peace talks. The Some 5.5 million people in Damascus negotiations, to be held in the Kazakh capital and its suburbs are suffering water short- Astana, are intended to build on a ceasefire ages as a result, the UN says. The govern- in effect since late December, brokered by ment accuses rebels, among them Fateh al- regime ally Russia and rebel backer Turkey. Sham, of deliberately cutting the supply. The truce has brought quiet to large parts of The rebels say regime strikes damaged the country, but has been threatened by con- pumping facilities and deny that Fateh al- tinuing violence, particularly near the capital Sham, previously known as Al-Nusra Front, Damascus. has forces in the area. Overnight and into Wednesday, govern- Fateh al-Sham and its jihadist rival the ment warplanes hit opposition areas in the Islamic State group are excluded from the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, as well as the truce, and President Bashar al-Assad’s gov- Eastern Ghouta region near the capital, the ernment has said it plans to “liberate” Wadi Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Barada despite the deal. “The role of the The overnight strikes in Idlib, in the north- Syrian army is to liberate that area in order west of the country, targeted positions to prevent those terrorists from using that belonging to former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh water in order to suffocate the capital,” al-Sham Front, which is not party to the Assad told French media on Monday. On ceasefire, the Observatory said. The strikes on Tuesday, the regime sent reinforcements the town of Taftanaz killed three rebels from to Wadi Barada, the Observatory said, an Islamist group allied to the jihadists, the without providing further details. Britain-based monitor said. Yesterday, however, state television said a An AFP correspondent in the town saw a deal had been reached with rebels to building that had totally collapsed in the allow repair crews to enter the region “in attack. The White Helmets, a rescue service the coming hours.” operating in rebel areas, spent hours clearing The delicate ceasefire has held in other debris with picks and hammers. Yesterday parts of the country, though rebels and morning, government air strikes also hit Turkey have warned the fighting in Wadi Eastern Ghouta, the Observatory said. The Barada could threaten the planned Astana rebel-held region has been hit by artillery fire talks. A Russian foreign ministry source said during the truce, but the air strikes, which yesterday that the talks were scheduled for SYRIA: People are seen crossing at an army checkpoint, as rebel fighters and their families prepare to leave the town of Deir Kanun in the Wadi killed a woman and wounded nine other Jan 23, a date previously floated by Turkish Barada region, yesterday, as part of a ceasefire deal with the Syrian government. —AFP people, were the first since the start of the officials. “At this time there is no indication ceasefire, the monitor said. The Observatory that the meeting will be postponed. The also reported clashes and air strikes in the date of January 23 is set,” the source said, Wadi Barada region, which has seen some of adding that work was underway to compile Army to enter area near the most serious violence since the truce a list of participants. Regime ally Iran is also went into effect on Decr 30. helping to organize the talks, which are the latest bid to find a political solution to the Jan 23 peace talks nearly six-year-old civil war that has killed Damascus, water to resume The rebel-held region some 15 kilome- more than 310,000 people. —AFP ‘Agreement requires militants to give up heavy weapons’ Yemen war claims DAMASCUS: The Syrian government has region. “The agreement that was reached in ground in Wadi Barada said Wednesday that reached a deal for the army to enter a rebel- principle requires the militants to give up their some 600 civilians had left, passing through a lives of 1,400 children held region near Damascus and restore the heavy weapons and for non-local militants to makeshift tent where government officials capital’s water supply, the provincial gover- leave the area of Wadi Barada,” he said. “(Then) were checking documents. SANAA: Nearly 1,400 children have been parties in the conflict to protect children nor said yesterday. Opposition sources the Syrian Arab Army will enter the area to Syria’s government accuses rebels, including killed, hundreds more injured and many and stop attacks on schools. The plea fol- denied there was any such deal, but a source clear it of mines and bombs to prepare for the former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front, schools closed by the war in Yemen, the lows a coalition air strike near a school in inside the Wadi Barada region reported sev- entry of maintenance teams... to fix the dam- of deliberately cutting the supply to the capital. UN children’s fund said yesterday. rebel-held northern Yemen on Tuesday eral hundred civilians were leaving under an age caused to the water pumps and pipes by But the rebels say regime strikes damaged “Attacks on civilian areas continue to kill that medics and a local official said killed agreement. Wadi Barada, some 15 kilome- the terrorists’ attacks.” pumping facilities and deny that Fateh al-Sham, and injure scores of children in Yemen,” five people, including two children. ters northwest of Damascus, provides most But Ahmed Ramadan, an official with the previously known as Al-Nusra Front, has forces said UNICEF’s representative in Yemen, UNICEF said that it had confirmed the of the water to the capital, but mains sup- opposition National Coalition, denied any such in the area. The government has concluded Meritxell Relano. “Instead of learning, death of one child in the strike. “Schools plies have been cut since Dec 22, causing deal had been reached. “This information is dozens of so-called “reconciliation deals” with children are witnessing death, war and have to be zones of peace at all times, a shortages for millions. untrue and is a part of the (regime and its rebel-held areas in Syria in recent months, par- destruction,” she added, warning that sanctuary where children can learn, President Bashar al-Assad said this week he allies’) psychological warfare,” he said. The ticularly around the capital. The deals usually the actual casualty toll was likely to be grow, play and be safe,” Relano said. was determined to retake the area and secure Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain- offer civilians and rebels safe passage to oppo- much higher than the verified figures. “Children should never risk their lives the water supply, and fighting has continued based monitor of the war, also said the govern- sition-held territory elsewhere in exchange for More than 7,300 people have been only to attend school.”She said that near- despite a nationwide truce in place since Dec ment had not reached a comprehensive deal surrendering the area to the army. The opposi- killed in Yemen since a Saudi-led coali- ly 2,000 schools in Yemen can no longer 30. Provincial governor Alaa Ibrahim told state with rebels. But it reported that residents wish- tion says it is forced into such deals by govern- tion intervened against Iran-backed be used because they have been dam- news agency SANA there was now a deal to ing to leave were being offered safe passage ment sieges and assault, and terms them a Huthi rebels in March 2015 in support of aged, destroyed or are used as shelters allow the government to retake control of the on an individual basis. And a source on the “starve or surrender” tactic. —AFP the government. Relano called on all or for military purposes. —AFP France’s Macron hit Venezuela opposition renews for speaking English assault against president PARIS: French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has come under fire CARACAS: Venezuelan opposition lawmakers His grip on the courts, electoral council and mili- do better to focus on local and state elections from the far right for showing disrespect sought to trigger early elections by passing a tary has allowed him to stymie a series of oppo- due this year. Venezuelans, meanwhile, must for the French language by daring to key censure motion Monday against President sition strategies: a recall referendum, legislative queue hours to buy rationed food and supplies address a conference in English. Macron, Nicolas Maduro, who is ruling over a national onslaught and street protests. The Supreme at shops. Soaring inflation has driven up the a 39-year-old centrist whose prospects economic crisis and consequent food shortages. Court five months ago declared null all acts prices of what goods are available. are being taken increasingly seriously, The opposition majority in the National passed by the opposition-dominated parlia- Maduro has launched a series of measures to took what amounts to an unusual move Assembly legislature declared that Maduro ment. It maintains that Maduro is exercising his tackle the crisis, with limited success. Last in French politics by defending the effectively “abandoned his post” by failing to constitutional prerogatives. month, he announced that new, higher-denomi- European Union during a visit to Berlin stem the “economic devastation” in the oil-rich Political analyst Diego Moya-Ocampos of the nation banknotes would be printed to spare on Tuesday. And he raised eyebrows fur- country, according to the speaker of the legisla- London-based research group IHS said the Venezuelans handling unwieldy wads of bills. ther by doing it in the language of “les ture, Julio Borges. opposition’s motion will not succeed as long as That triggered chaos as Maduro tried to with- anglosaxons”-too much for far-right However, the Supreme Court, which has con- the Supreme Court remains loyal to Maduro. draw the prevalent 100-bolivar bill from circula- leader Marine Le Pen, whose nationalist sistently sided with Maduro, was expected to “And we will have to wait and see whether it will tion before replacements had arrived. He said in instincts are matched by a contempt for overrule the motion. It has stated that “the be accompanied by a strategy of pressure from televised comments on Monday that he now the European Union. National Assembly is not qualified to remove the the street to escalate the protest,” he said. Other aimed to launch the new series of banknotes on “Presidential candidate Macron goes president.” The opposition blames Maduro for an analysts said the opposition-itself divided-would Jan 16. —AFP to Berlin to do a conference in English... “unprecedented economic crisis” that has poor France!” she wrote on Tuesday in a BERLIN: French presidential candi- prompted deadly riots and looting amid short- tweet personally signed by her. date Emmanuel Macron at Humboldt ages of food and medicine. And it plans to hold Responding to a tweeted suggestion university in Berlin. —AFP a session Tuesday on the grounds of Vargas Iraq forces retake that Macron’s language skills had Hospital, one of the 320 public health facilities upstaged his monolingual opponents, Hollande.” It was an embarrassing mis- wracked by shortages. “People need to know Le Pen’s loyal lieutenant Florian translation of the French word “amicale- that we are there with them,” Borges said. 80% of east Mosul Philippot went further. “He just shows ment”, used at the end of letters to mean Maduro has blamed the crisis on a US-backed that he has no respect for our language “best wishes.” In 2006, then French presi- conspiracy against his socialist policies inherited MOSUL, Iraq: Iraqi forces have retaken at stepped up their coordination and, with and that he doesn’t believe in France,” dent Jacques Chirac famously stormed from his late predecessor, Hugo Chavez. The least 80 percent of east Mosul from the increased air and advisory support from a wrote the vice-president of the National out of an EU summit in protest at a opposition wants to hold early elections, saying Islamic State jihadist group, the spokesman US-led coalition, launched a fresh push just Front party. The French government French businessman who had addressed the situation is too serious to wait until Maduro of the special forces spearheading the cam- before the New Year. Over the past two fiercely protects the language of the room in English. ends his term in 2019. “An electoral end to paign said yesterday. “I think you can say weeks, Iraqi forces have overran several Moliere, spoken by more than 220 mil- Macron, a former banker and econo- Venezuela’s crisis is needed. So that the people that we have retaken 80 to 85 percent” of districts and reached the Tigris River that lion people worldwide thanks to my minister who is running as an inde- can express themselves through a vote,” Borges the eastern side of Mosul, Sabah al-Noman, runs through the heart of the city for the France’s colonial past. pendent, claims that his movement “En said. The lawmakers’ declaration accuses Maduro spokesman for the Counter-Terrorism first time. While its leaders have a poor record Marche” is the only pro-European force of trampling citizens’ rights and “breaking with Service (CTS), said in the city. Tens of thou- Combined with the destruction of all in English-President Francois Hollande in France’s presidential election this the constitutional order.” sands of troops launched a huge offensive bridges over the river, that has made it diffi- has little command of the language of April and May. A recent poll showed him to retake Mosul, IS’s last major bastion in cult for IS fighters in east Mosul to resupply Shakespeare-more and more young ahead of Le Pen in the first round of the More protests? Iraq, and areas around it on Oct 17. or escape to the west bank, which they still French people see it as vital. Hollande April-May election for the first time Under Venezuela’s constitution, the National The initial phase of the offensive saw a fully control. The western side of Mosul, was mocked in 2012 when he wrote to under certain scenarios. Analysts see Assembly can force the president’s replacement variety of forces retake significant swathes which is home to the old city and some of US President Barack Obama to congratu- France’s election as highly unpre- by declaring he has “abandoned his post.” of land in little time but the going has the jihadists’ traditional strongholds, was late him on his re-election and signed dictable, with the final list of candidates Elections are then meant to be held within 30 been tough inside the city itself. After a lull always tipped as likely to offer the most off with the words, “Friendly, Francois still unknown. —AFP days. But Maduro has easily swatted down the in operations, the CTS and other forces resistance. —AFP opposition’s other maneuvers against him so far. INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017

Thousands of ‘ghost soldiers’ likely still on Afghan payroll

WASHINGTON: The Afghan army likely still Afghanistan from NATO in 2015. Their first has tens of thousands of “ghost soldiers” on year was something of a disaster, when its payrolls and Taleban commanders are they sustained more than 5,000 fatalities apparently buying US-supplied weapons and saw the regional capital Kunduz briefly from local troops, a US government inspec- captured by the Taliban. Numbers of casu- tor said yesterday. US and NATO command- alties were significantly higher in 2016. ers in Afghanistan have long criticized Sopko, who frequently delivers scathing endemic corruption in the Afghan security reports detailing Afghan corruption and forces, but 15 years after the US-led inva- hapless US reconstruction efforts, delivered sion the problem remains persistent, said his latest assessment just weeks before John Sopko, the Special Inspector General President-elect Donald Trump takes office. for Afghanistan Reconstruction. Just as President Barack Obama did “Afghan commanders often pocket the eight years ago, Trump is inheriting an paychecks of ‘ghost soldiers’ for whom the Afghan conflict that seems impossible to US is paying salaries,” Sopko said in pre- resolve any time soon. Chairman of the pared remarks to a Washington think tank. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joe Dunford, “The number of ghost soldiers is signifi- has called the situation a “stalemate.” cant, likely reaching into the tens of thou- Obama has cut the US troop presence to sands.” He added there is evidence the about 8,400 but Sopko warned of the con- Taliban have instructed field commanders sequences of draw downs. “Withdraw, and to buy US-supplied weapons, fuel, and the democratic government may well fall. ammunition from Afghan soldiers. Stay, and continue what we have been “Because to do so is both easier and less doing and we may be faced with what expensive for the insurgents,” he said in a General Dunford has described as a stale- speech at the Center for Strategic and mate,” Sopko warned. Including war fight- International Studies. Afghan police and ing, US costs for Afghanistan now total near army units took over providing security for $1 trillion.—AFP US jury condemns Charleston church shooter to death BRAZIL: Relatives wait for information following a riot that ended with at least four prisoners killed inside Desembargador Raimundo Vidal Pessoa Public Jail, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.—AP CHARLESTON, United States: A US jury on gripping testimony. “He had sorrow for Tuesday condemned self-described white them. He had pity for himself. That he had supremacist Dylann Roof to death over the lost his freedom. His ability to watch Cocaine gang war drives massacre of nine black worshippers in a movies and drive a car,” he said. “But his South Carolina church in June 2015 — a sadness was reserved for the little white crime that shocked the nation. Roof, 22, children that have to live with African was convicted last month of 33 federal Americans.” Brazil prison bloodbaths charges-including hate crimes resulting in During the first phase of the trial, Roof death-in connection with the shooting exhibited no signs of remorse as survivors spree at the historic Emanuel African recounted the rampage in heart-rending ‘An orchestrated mass killing targeting biggest gang members’ Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown detail. A video of Roof’s chilling confession Charleston. A Bible study group at “Mother was shown to the jury. “Somebody had to SAO PAULO: When beheaded, disemboweled It thrived on a cocaine boom from the 1980s, borders with three of the biggest cocaine-pro- Emanuel,” which had welcomed Roof, was do something because black people are corpses stacked up in Brazilian jails, it looked like expanding from bank robberies and kidnapping ducing countries in the world: Colombia, just beginning its closing prayer when the killing white people every day,” Roof said bloody chaos caused by overcrowding. But to control the drug trade in Rio. But its power Bolivia and Peru. That makes Brazil a major self-avowed Nazi and Ku Klux Klan sympa- without emotion to the FBI special agent experts see method in last week’s madness. They has declined, said Alexander Araujo, a federal stepping stone for networks trafficking the thizer opened fire, killing nine people rang- questioning him. “They rape 100 white say it was part of a war between organized drug prosecutor in the city. He says CV is less organ- drug via Africa to Europe. Experts say Brazilian ing in age from 26 to 87. people a day.” In notes confiscated from gangs in one of the world’s most important ized and ambitious than its main rival. Araujo traffickers are aiming to forge ties with The slayings once again exposed the Roof in prison in August 2015, he wrote cocaine markets and trafficking routes. Last said he believes the root cause of the conflict is Colombian gangs to offer them access to one deep divides in America over race and that he was “not sorry.” “I have not shed a week’s series of massacres left 100 prisoners the PCC’s encroachment on CV’s turf in the Rio of the most important international drug access to guns. Roof showed little reaction tear for the innocent people I killed,” the dead-many of them active members of gangs, slums with the help of smaller local gangs. routes in the world. But first they have to win to the decision, delivered just hours after notes said. authorities said. Brazil shares thousands of miles of porous the turf war at home.—AFP the 12-member jury retired to deliberate, Roof’s lawyers had suggested their The government has deployed 200 emer- though he occasionally seemed to be client was not mentally fit, but Gergel gency personnel to secure the two prisons slightly smiling. Federal judge Richard found Roof competent to stand trial-twice. where the most blood was shed. The largest Gergel will formally deliver Roof’s sentence His family said in a statement posted in US bloodbath appeared to be an orchestrated mass yesterday morning at the Charleston court- media Tuesday that they would “continue killing targeting members of Brazil’s biggest house. The verdict unanimously reached by to pray for the Emanuel AME families and gang, the First Capital Command (PCC). It was the jury is binding. “I still feel like I had to the Charleston community.” “We will strug- thought to be a backlash by the PCC’s rivals for do it,” Roof told jurors earlier in a semi- gle as long as we live to understand why he its violent expansion. coherent closing argument. committed this horrible attack, which Roof represented himself in the sentenc- caused so much pain to so many good Seizing drug routes ing phase of the trial, against the advice of people,” the statement said. US Attorney Authorities say the Sao Paulo-based PCC his lawyers and the judge. He called no wit- General Loretta Lynch, who is herself black, seized control of the country’s southern supply nesses and offered no evidence for the jury said in a statement that “we hope that the routes last year by gunning down powerful drug to consider. After the jury offered its sen- completion of the prosecution provides the trafficker Jorge Rafaat. Its expansion has made it tencing verdict, Roof asked for new attor- people of Charleston-and the people of our an outright enemy of the second-biggest neys so he could move for a retrial, but nation-with a measure of closure.” Brazilian gang, the Red Command (CV), based in Gergel told him to provide specific reasons Tim Scott, one of South Carolina’s two Rio de Janeiro. After the Rafaat killing gave it for his request yesterday. Relatives of the senators, added that “nineteen months control of a key Paraguayan border route, the victims will be invited to speak at yester- ago, a heartless murderer attempted to PCC then turned its attention to securing control day’s hearing. start a race war.” “Today that man was right- of the north. “What it wants is to dominate the ly sentenced to death,” said Scott, who is whole of Brazil,” said Marcio Sergio Christino, a GENEVA: Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Cyprus Norway’s Espen Barth ‘Not one tear’ black. Capital punishment is only rarely public prosecutor of organized crime. “The Red Earlier, prosecutor Jay Richardson urged meted out in federal cases, in part because Eide, talks during a press conference on the third day of the UN-sponsored Cyprus peace Command used to use southern trafficking talks yesterday in Geneva.—AFP jurors to sentence Roof to death for “this violent crimes more typically are tried routes that are now controlled by the PCC,” said cold, calculated, malicious killing.” “Not one under state laws. Federal authorities have Christino. tear did he shed for those that he killed,” he executed only three inmates since 1976. After the killing, the Red Command “had to said. “Unrepentant. No remorse.” Roof is also facing state murder charges in look for alternative routes in the north,” he said. Cypriot leaders to swap Richardson noted Roof only expressed sor- South Carolina, and prosecutors were plan- There it joined forces with the third most-power- row that he put his parents through an ning to seek the death penalty, but those ful faction in Brazil, Family of the North (FDN), “to maps on unified island emotional trial during which his mother proceedings were indefinitely put on hold forge an alternative route to the one used by the suffered a heart attack after a survivor’s last week.—AFP PCC.” Authorities said FDN members were the GENEVA: Rival Cypriot delegations were to leaders have agreed in principle to return ones who beheaded and mutilated PCC mem- yesterday present maps detailing their visions some of the land controlled by Greek Cypriots bers in the biggest of last week’s massacres, in a for how internal boundaries should be drawn before the 1974 invasion by Turkish troops, jail in the northern state of Amazonas that left as they pursue talks aimed at ending the which came in response to an Athens-inspired 60 people dead. island’s 42-year division. UN envoy Espen Barth coup seeking union with Greece. Eide said the Eide told reporters in Geneva that the sides are very close to agreeing on what over- Highly organized gang exchange will take place behind closed doors all percentage of the island each will control. With an estimated 20,000 members, the PCC with cartographers from both sides present. “It The thorny issue lies in how the boundaries thrives even with its leader Marcos Willians is a very important moment... Historic,” Eide are redrawn, including around the iconic town Herbas Camacho, known as “Marcola,” behind said. It will mark the first time since the eastern of Morphou on the northern coast. Greek bars since 1999. Investigators say that apart from Mediterranean island was divided that Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades has its drug-trafficking activities it also owns bus Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders had pre- warned that there can be no deal without a companies, minor football clubs and an illicit sented maps describing the borders a reuni- full return of Morphou, while some in the petrol refinery. “The PCC is a very solid and hier- fied country, he added. Turkish Cypriot camp have declared its return archical organization,” said Sergio Adorno, an The step comes a day before foreign minis- a non-starter. After the maps are reviewed by expert on violent crime at Sao Paulo University. ters from Cyprus’s so-called guarantor powers- Anastasiades, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa “It has very clearly defined rules and a clear divi- Britain, Greece and Turkey-arrive at the UN in Akinci, Eide and cartographers, they will be sion of tasks and functions.” Its rival Red Geneva for talks on security, another bedrock locked in a UN vault pending further discus- Command is considered Brazil’s oldest gang, issue in the peace process. Turkish Cypriot sions on territory swaps, the envoy said.—AFP dating to the 1970s.

CHARLESTON: Jennifer Pinckney, widow of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, one of the Emanuel Church shooting victims, leaves the US District Court with family friend Kylon Middleton in Charleston, South Carolina.—AP Brexit deal worse than EU membership

VALLETTA: Britain’s deal for leaving the efits of membership of the single market European Union must be worse than the while being able to limit the bloc’s signa- terms of its membership, said Maltese ture freedom of movement for people. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, whose Muscat rejected suggestions that country has just taken on the six-month EU Britain may be able to play on divisions presidency. “We want a fair deal for the within the other 27 countries to extract United Kingdom but that fair deal has to be concessions, saying that the rest of the EU inferior to membership,” Muscat told a was unusually unified. “I have rarely been press conference in Valletta with European at a discussion on any other subject where Commission President Jean-Claude the 27 member states have basically the Juncker. “We can see no situation where same position,” said the premier, whose whatever is negotiated ends up being bet- country is a former British colony that also ter than the current situation that the holds the rotating presidency of the United Kingdom has.” Commonwealth. “So I can’t peek into the Britain voted to leave the EU in a refer- future and see whether one country or endum in June last year but has yet to start another will break that sort of unity, but I formal negotiations with the other 27 simply don’t see it happening now.” countries on the terms of its departure and The EU 27 are due to hold a special sum- its future relationship. British Prime mit in Valletta in February to discuss the Minister Theresa May has said she will trig- post-Brexit future followed by a major sum- ger the official two-year divorce process by mit in Rome in March to mark the 60th the end of March. EU nations have warned anniversary of the Treaty of Rome which Britain it cannot expect to keep all the ben- founded the EU’s forerunner. —AFP THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 INTERNATIONAL

Kenyans mock president’s passion for project launch

NAIROBI: Kenya’s notoriously caustic tweeters Project” was a step too far for Kenyans on the er tied with a ribbon, one Kenyan wrote: “I have the only thing you are not launched yet is a spirited have taken aim at President Uhuru Kenyatta’s love social networking site. commissioned the multi-million manually pro- fight against corruption,” one person wrote. for a good ribbon-cutting, mocking his endless They criticized him and his advisors for publiciz- pelled dental debris excavator project.” Others referred to the biting drought in the unveilings of often bizarrely named projects. ing such small projects highlighting that many Another posted a picture of a condom tied with country, and a strike by public health doctors that Kenyatta, who is seeking re-election in August, has had been previously launched or commissioned. a ribbon, declaring he was launching a “virginity has lasted over a month. Meanwhile data science an active Twitter account which has recently been “This fetish with ribbons must be investigated,” eradication program.” An even more inventive company Odipo Dev published graphs showing abuzz with him launching a series of infrastructure tweeted James W. The publicity stunt saw the tweeter came up with a “launching kit” of a pair of that a quarter of all projects launched by Kenyatta projects alongside tweets reminding the country country’s twittering class, widely known as scissors and a roll of ribbon, while another pictured were carried out in the past six months. The elec- of how much development he has brought. Kenyans of Twitter (KOT) launch the hashtag a pair of flip-flops to commission his “advanced tion race is heating up in the country, with some However his commissioning last week of a foot- #UhuruChallenge in which they came up with mobility apparatus project.” Others took a more 4,000 opposition members meeting in the capital bridge in the coastal region of Mombasa, dubbed their own projects to be launched or commis- serious tone, pointing to some of the problems Wednesday in a bid to come up with a common the “Buxton Footbridge Non-Motorized Transport sioned. Alongside a picture of a toothpick contain- plaguing the east African nation.”When you realize platform to unseat Kenyatta. —AFP Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 ‘He suffered and cried a lot in his final years’

PARIS: Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, who was Sheltered in Damascus, he became an advisor to responsible for the deaths of an estimated the Syria secret police, allegedly passing on tor- 130,000 Jews, died in 2001 at the age of 89, ture and interrogation methods developed by locked up in a squalid Damascus basement, a the Nazis. French magazine reported yesterday. Its investi- gation described as “highly credible” by veteran Survived parcel bombs Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld aims at resolving the But the Israeli intelligence services were fate of one of the most notorious figures of the quickly on his trail. He was said to have been Holocaust. Three ex-members of the Syrian killed by a parcel bomb on Sept 13, 1961. In fact, secret service interviewed by the magazine XXI he lost an eye in that attack and four fingers in said Adolf Eichmann’s former assistant spent his another parcel bomb in 1981, although the last years in miserable conditions underneath an Syrian authorities continued to deny his exis- apartment block in the Syrian capital. tence. He was convicted of war crimes by French BRAZIL: In this photo released by Agencia Brasil, a ceremony is held for Greece’s late The Austrian-born SS commander was in courts in his absence in 1954, when he was sen- Ambassador to Brazil Kyriakos Amiridis before his remains are flown home from the charge of the Drancy camp north of Paris from tenced to death. In 2001, another French trial, airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. —AP which Jews in occupied France were sent to the which for the first time included the specific gas chambers. He remained to the end an unre- charge of arresting and deporting hundreds of pentant Nazi and anti-Semite, the sources told orphans, sentenced him to life imprisonment. Gambia election ruling XXI. One of his guards said Brunner, who went The death sentence had been abolished in by the name of Abu Hussein, “suffered and cried France in 1981. delayed for several months a lot in his final years, everyone heard him.” The According to XXI, Brunner was practically man, identified only as Omar, said he “couldn’t under house arrest in his apartment in the diplo- BANJUL, Gambia: The Gambia’s chief until his complaint is heard.On Dec 20 he even wash.” All he had to eat were “army rations, matic quarter of Damascus from 1989. It said at Supreme Court justice dealt a blow to was broadcast on state television saying awful stuff and an egg or a potato. He had to the end of the 1990s he was moved for “security President Yahya Jammeh’s legal challenge “unless the Court decides the case, there will chose one or the other.” reasons” to the basement, and he was confined against the result of December’s election on be no inauguration on the 19 Jan. And let The circumstances of Brunner’s final years there until his death. “Once he was in the room, Tuesday, saying it would not be heard for me see what ECOWAS and those big powers have remained an enigma for decades. The the door was closed and never opened again,” several months. Jammeh’s political party behind them can do.” Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Vienna, which tracks Omar told the magazine. He claimed Brunner was lodged a legal case on his behalf last month down former Nazis, had declared that he had buried secretly in accordance with Muslim rites in aimed at annulling his Dec 1 election defeat West African leaders apply pressure died in Damascus in 2010. Klarsfeld, a prominent PARIS: This undated file photo shows the city’s Al-Affif cemetery in December 2001. to opponent Adama Barrow, and triggering The leaders from the ECOWAS regional lawyer and historian, flew to Syria with his wife Austrian-born Nazi war criminal Alois “In a dictatorship like Syria, he was untouch- new elections. “We can only hear this matter grouping led by Nigerian President and fellow investigator Beate in 1982 to urge the Brunner. — AFP able as long as the dictator didn’t want rid of when we have a full bench of the Supreme Muhammadu Buhari will return to The Assad regime to expel him. Klarsfeld’s father was him,” said Klarsfeld. “Until the end he kept his Court,” Chief Justice Emmanuel Fagbenle Gambia for the second time this week since arrested in Nice in September 1943 in an SS than well,” Klarsfeld said. “XXI’s investigation is hatred of Jews intact, as well as his faith in said, adding that the extra judges needed to the election to attempt to find a diplomatic roundup led by Brunner. He later died in highly credible. They have questioned someone National Socialism,” he added. “He was someone hear the case were not available and could solution to the crisis. They were due to arrive Auschwitz. who knew him at close quarters,” he added. who hated France as much as he hated Jews.” In arrive only in May or November. Wednesday but the trip was delayed until Brunner slipped through the Allies’ hands at the a short telephone interview in 1987 Brunner is The Gambia relies on foreign judges, Friday, Buhari’s spokesman said, because Eichmann’s ‘right-hand man’ end of the war. He left Germany for Egypt in alleged to have told the Chicago Sun-Times that notably from Nigeria, to staff its courts due Jammeh had asked for more time. “Delay Eichmann, one of the architects of the so- 1953 with a passport in the name of Georg he didn’t regret his part in the Holocaust. “All of to a lack of trained professionals in the tiny notwithstanding, the mandate of the ECOW- called Final Solution who was hanged in Israel in Fischer. He worked for a time running guns to them deserved to die because they were the west African state. Fagbenle is the panel’s AS will be accomplished,” Garba Shehu said. 1962, called Brunner his “right-hand man.” “We the Algerian independence movement, the FLN, devil’s agents and human garbage. I have no only sitting judge, as the Supreme Court has Nigeria’s foreign minister said Monday the are satisfied to learn that he lived badly rather before moving to Syria the following year. regrets and I would do it again.” — AFP lain dormant since May 2015. The chief jus- use of force remained an option if there was tice added that he would prefer the country no movement in the situation. “Violence to resolve its political deadlock through the should be avoided but nothing is ruled out,” mediation underway by a group of west Geoffrey Onyeama said. Meanwhile an ex- African leaders, who are attempting to per- minister and high-profile defector from suade Jammeh to respect the constitution Jammeh’s government declared his support and step aside. “This is why alternative dis- for Barrow, and said the Supreme Court case pute resolution is important,” he said. “We was an attempt to “subvert the express will are now only left with the ECOWAS media- of the Gambian electorate.” Former informa- tion initiative and the inter-party committee tion and communication minister Sheriff set up by government to resolve the dis- Bojang fled to neighboring Senegal on pute.” The inter-party committee is a UN- Monday after resigning. Bojang said his con- backed body aimed at resolving arguments science had overwhelmed him after Jammeh between different Gambian political parties. declared he would not step down at the end But Jammeh has made clear he will not go of his mandate. —AFP

Germany agrees to send more troops to Mali BERLIN: The German government decid- The Islamists were largely ousted by a ed yesterday to raise the number of troops French-led military operation launched in deployed to Mali as part of a UN mission January 2013, but large swathes of Mali that is known as the world’s most danger- remain lawless and prone to attacks. If ous. The UN’s Mali mission, also known as Berlin does end up sending 1,000 troops MINUSMA, regularly comes under attack to Mali, then the deployment would be from jihadists. Last year alone, more than Germany’s biggest abroad. 30 troops were killed, more than in any To date, its biggest deployment has other UN peacekeeping mission. MINUS- been to Afghanistan, where around 890 MA is tasked with monitoring a peace deal German soldiers are currently stationed. between the government and northern The cabinet also extended to January rebels in the west African country. The 2018 a mission in northern Iraq, where KOSOVO: Kosovo Albanians hold placards in support of Kosovo’s former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj arrested on suspicion of war crimes, German cabinet agreed Wednesday to 150 German soldiers are training Kurdish during a demonstration yesterday in Mitrovica. — AFP raise the limit for troop deployment to the fighters for combat against Islamic State country from 650 to 1,000. jihadists. The German army has already The additional soldiers are meant to trained around 12,000 Kurdish fighters, as Arrest of Kosovo’s ex-PM take over an emergency rescue mission in well as others from groups such as the northern Mali that is currently under the Yazidi minority. The new deployment command of the Netherlands. Four heli- plans would still require parliamentary threatens ties with Serbia copters for transporting injured as well as approval, but are unlikely to meet with four combat helicopters will also be any resistance as Chancellor Angela deployed. Northern Mali fell under the Merkel’s ruling right-left coalition has a PRISTINA: The arrest in France of Kosovo’s for- towns across Kosovo and in neighboring coun- the suspension of all negotiations with Serbia control of Al-Qaeda-linked groups in 2012. crushing majority. —AFP mer prime minister Ramush Haradinaj on suspi- tries with significant ethnic Albanian populations. “until all arrest warrants are waived against lead- cion of war crimes threatens to derail fragile ers or members” of the KLA. negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo and Slow progress ramp up tensions between the former foes. Haradinaj has twice before been acquitted of ‘Block imports’ Spain Govt accepts responsibility Serbia wants to try the former leader of the war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal “Serbia is working openly and on a daily basis insurgent Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) for for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. to destroy the state of Kosovo. The government for 2003 military plane crash alleged atrocities committed against civilians He was elected premier in 2004 but resigned should immediately block imports from Serbia,” during the 1998-1999 conflict against Belgrade after 100 days in power to surrender to the said Ismajl Kurteshi, an MP with the opposition MADRID: Spain’s defense ministry took terms in 2009 for having misidentified the forces. After the conflict, which killed 13,000 United Nations judges. Since his acquittal he has Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) party. The political responsibility for the first time bodies. The crash and subsequent people, the predominantly ethnic Albanian become a political opponent to powerful group’s methods to protest against the Serb yesterday for a 2003 air accident which misidentification scandal hurt the popu- province of Kosovo became a United Nations President Hashim Thaci and a resolute opponent association of municipalities-which they fear will killed 62 Spanish soldiers as they were larity of the then conservative govern- protectorate and declared independence a of a historic 2013 agreement, brokered by the increase the influence of Belgrade-have includ- returning from Afghanistan. “There are ment of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. decade later-a move that has never been recog- European Union, to normalize relations between ed repeatedly releasing tear gas in parliament. reparations that are not economic, which The top advisory body to the government nized by Belgrade. Pristina and Belgrade. The fragile talks have Kosovo’s Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said arrest have to do with recognition,” Defense ruled in an October report that the min- The Serbian justice ministry on Tuesday made progress in terms of the movement of warrants such as Haradinaj’s were “completely Minister Maria Dolores de Cospedal told istry had an “administrative” responsibility requested the extradition of the former guerrilla people and goods, but it has never had great illegal and unjust” with the consequence of “pro- radio Cadena Cope a day after she met in the affair. fighter Haradinaj following his arrest by French popular support, having been imposed by politi- voking tensions and conflicts, and damaging the family members of the victims. Sixty-two Cospedal said the defense ministry police on Jan 4 at the eastern Basel-Mulhouse- cal leaders under pressure from the EU, which European (integration) process in the region.” For Spanish soldiers and 13 Ukrainian and accepted the report’s conclusion that Freiburg airport, under an international arrest both sides aspire to join. its part, Serbia considers Kosovo the cradle of its Belarusian crew were killed on May 26, “there is a relationship between the work warrant. Today, a French court will consider a The dialogue advances laboriously, as illus- identity in religion and affirms its guardianship 2003 when a Russian-built Yak-42 bringing of the defense ministry and the tragedy.” request for the 48-year-old’s release on bail. For trated by Kosovo’s reluctance to set up an associ- its constitution. To think otherwise is politically them back from Afghanistan crashed in a But she stressed this acknowledgement his compatriots, Haradinaj is a hero for his efforts ation of municipalities for its ethnic Serb minori- taboo in Belgrade. mountainous area of northeast Turkey. was symbolic and did not have financial or to win independence from late Serbian strong- ty around 100,000 people out of a population of “Serbia will not give up on prosecuting The defense ministry had chartered the criminal consequences as the victims have man Slobodan Milosevic, and he is known as 1.8 million. In October, with the support of Haradinaj or anybody else who has committed plane from a Ukrainian firm despite warn- already been compensated by insurance “Rambo” at home for his stocky build and military Belgrade, ethnic Serb MPs boycotted both the crimes against Serbs. The Serb people like all ings from military authorities that it was in firms. Cospedal said the defense ministry prowess. “Haradinaj is Kosovo” read the placards government and parliament to protest against others deserve justice,” Foreign Minister Ivica poor shape. The accident was followed by also agreed to search for all documents of hundreds of war veterans who rallied against the nationalization of the Trepca mine, whose Dacic warned. He said he had information about a scandal over the misidentification of the related to the hiring of the Yak-42 plane his arrest in front of the French embassy in ownership is disputed, intense northern Kosovo. plotting among the Albanian diaspora to occupy bodies of 30 of the soldiers, which had that crashed. “We will do everything possi- Pristina last week. Protesters gathered again yes- In a parliamentary session over the Haradinaj Serbian diplomatic premises by force in Europe been delivered to the wrong families. ble to find all the documents...related to terday, despite subzero temperatures, in several affair on Tuesday, Kosovo’s opposition called for and the United States. —AFP Three Spanish military officers received jail the contracts,” she said. —AFP

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 INTERNATIONAL

India’s top court throws out case alleging Modi took cash payments

NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court yesterday threw income-tax raids on two corporate houses. Modi had been paid off. Modi has, however, cultivated a clean image as out a case brought by an anti-corruption lawyer Citing written records, the plaintiff alleged that an “Nobody in the country would be safe if such the son of a humble tea seller. He shook India in that accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of individual called “Gujarat CM” had received cash pay- documents are accepted as legal evidence. Anyone November by scrapping high-value banknotes in a accepting suspicious cash payments, dealing a blow ments from companies totaling at least 400 million can put the name of anybody on such papers,” bid to purge the economy of “black money” - the to an opposition leader who had latched on to the rupees ($5.9 million) in late 2013 and early 2014. Rohatgi told the court. Prashant Bhushan, the anti- proceeds of illicit business, corruption and tax eva- case. A panel of judges found that there was too lit- Modi was the chief minister of India’s western state corruption lawyer who brought the case on behalf of sion. The move has caused massive disruption to dai- tle evidence to go on, deflating Rahul Gandhi’s of Gujarat at the time and went on to win election by a non-governmental organization called Common ly life and business throughout the country of 1.3 bil- warnings late last year that he would cause an a landslide in May 2014. “There is not enough evi- Cause, had urged the court to order a probe into the lion people. Modi’s so-called demonetization drive “earthquake” by unveiling proof that Modi was cor- dence to order an inquiry into the case. We are dis- alleged payments made to public officials. “It is sad will face the verdict of voters when five of India’s fed- rupt. In the event, it transpired that the heir appar- missing it,” a Supreme Court bench headed by and unfortunate that the Supreme Court dismissed eral states hold elections in February and March - ent to the leadership of the opposition Congress Justice Arun Mishra ruled. Attorney General Mukul my plea,” Bhushan said. Indian politicians are often most importantly the battleground state of Uttar party was referring to a case already before India’s Rohatgi, the government’s top lawyer, told the court dogged by sleaze allegations and many of the coun- Pradesh - that will influence his chances of a second highest court that relied on evidence recovered in that there was no credible evidence to prove that try’s elected officials face criminal proceedings. term at the 2019 general election. —Reuters Japan plans to have new emperor in 2019

TOKYO: Japan is planning for Emperor tion. Under the constitution they play Akihito to retire and be replaced by his only a symbolic role. The panel plans to eldest son on Jan 1, 2019, reports said yes- compile a summary of its views on the terday, as the country works on a legal issue this month, a government official framework for its first abdication in 200 said. Its firm proposals, however, will come years. Akihito, 83, expressed a desire in no later than the end of March before the August to abdicate after nearly three government submits legislation to parlia- decades on the Chrysanthemum Throne, ment, reports said. As for the timing of the citing his advancing age and weakening abdication, the Yomiuri said the panel health. Major national newspapers-the considers that Jan 1, 2019 would be Yomiuri, Asahi, Mainichi and Nikkei-cited appropriate given he will have reigned for unnamed sources as saying Crown Prince 30 years-something the emperor himself Naruhito, 56, would succeed his father on mentioned as a milestone year in his New Year’s Day 2019. August speech. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga The Asahi said Akihito would step down declined to comment on the reports at his sometime on December 31, though the regular news conference yesterday. After Nikkei reported it could also happen on Akihito’s announcement last year, the gov- New Year’s Day when Naruhito is ernment established a panel of experts to enthroned. The reports also said that the help decide how best to proceed on an government plans to announce the official issue fraught with historical and legal chal- name of Naruhito’s reign era at least six lenges. Though abdications have occurred months beforehand to avoid confusion in in Japan’s long imperial history there has daily life. Years in Japan are numbered not been one for 200 years. Under current both in terms of the length of an emper- laws there is no legal mechanism for one. or’s reign, as well as in accordance with The six-member panel has discussed western calendar years. When Hirohito various legal options, with speculation died on Jan 7, 1989, the 64th year of his HONG KONG: This picture shows Hong Kong Legislative Council member Carrie Lam speaking at a press conference to start the rampant it will propose parliament pass a Showa era ended after just seven days. public consultation process for the Hong Kong Palace Museum in Hong Kong. —AFP special one-time law to allow Akihito to The government announced the first step down. The leading opposition year of Akihito’s Heisei era would start the Democratic Party, however, opposes a following day. “The government’s plan to one-time change, arguing that this would start a fresh imperial era on New Year’s Day Hong Kong anger over not ensure stable future successions. It has is in line with the emperor’s feelings” to advocated a revision to the permanent law ease burdens on the Japanese people, the that governs the imperial family. Yomiuri said. Previous emperors, including Abdication is a highly sensitive issue in Hirohito, were deemed semi-divine. But in China museum project light of Japan’s modern history of war the aftermath of Japan’s World War II waged in the name of Akihito’s father defeat and occupation they became con- Emperor Hirohito, who died in 1989. stitutionally limited to a role as “symbol of the state and of the unity of the people.” ‘People appreciate museums if done in a proper way’ ‘The emperor’s feelings’ Akihito has keenly embraced the symbolic Some scholars and politicians worry role. He is credited with making efforts to HONG KONG: Plans to boost Hong Kong’s cul- tory and culture that is perceived to be positive,” election bid without the nod from China. But that the abdication issue could open a can seek reconciliation both at home and tural credentials by building a new branch of said Avery Ng, chairman of the League of Social she has defended herself and the project. “I of worms and risk Japan’s monarchs abroad over the legacy of the war fought China’s most famous museum in the city have Democrats. Ng said the museum disregarded know that today’s society is full of mistrust, but becoming subject to political manipula- in his father’s name. —AFP sparked protests against what critics say is cul- Hong Kong’s identity “including its own history for this issue, we really do not have any selfish tural brainwashing and kowtowing to Beijing. and the dark side of Chinese history.” Others say motives and private interests,” she told reporters The backlash comes at a time of heightened the public may have appreciated the museum if Tuesday. “We should not let this cultural issue be sensitivity in the semi-autonomous city where it had been discussed transparently. “People politicized.” A six-week public consultation into there is increasing concern that Chinese authori- appreciate museums and art if you do it in a the design, operation and programming for the ties are tightening their hold. With its collection proper way,” said former legislator Lee Cheuk- museum kicked off yesterday, after criticism of ceramics, calligraphy, paintings, jades, time- yan, who organizes the city’s annual Tiananmen mounted, but it does not ask whether the proj- pieces and other items from multiple Chinese vigil. He called the lack of public consultation ect should go ahead. The board already dynasties, Beijing’s Palace Museum is the most over whether the museum should go ahead a approved plans for the museum in November. visited in the world, with more than 14 million “dictatorial approach”. City residents said they did not support the people coming through its doors each year. project. “By building something like this they Project organizers say a locally managed ‘Diluting culture’ just want to merge us together,” real estate Hong Kong branch, displaying artifacts on The Hong Kong Palace Museum will be built agent Kong Lung, 27, said, adding he felt it was long-term loan from Beijing, would be a stellar in the West Kowloon Cultural District, a sprawl- an example of the “mainlandization” of Hong attraction for the city. But opponents argue the ing arts project already mired in delay and accu- Kong that had taken place since the city was public should have been consulted before the sations of political interference. It replaces a per- handed back to China by Britain in 1997. “Every green light was given to a project they feel has formance venue originally slated for the area. day since the handover you can see that main- been developed to please Beijing. Recent Set to open in 2022, it will be funded by a HK3.5 land Chinese have been coming to Hong Kong demonstrations against the plans have includ- billion ($450 million) grant from the city’s Jockey and that’s already diluted the Hong Kong cul- ed protesters throwing paper tanks at officials, Club, which runs Hong Kong’s horse racing ture,” he said. Others said they felt the museum in a reference to China’s Tiananmen Square meets, lottery and betting shops. Hong Kong’s plan was a political move. “I don’t see why they crackdown. The Palace Museum is housed with- deputy leader Carrie Lam is chairman of the cul- have to build the Palace Museum here, I don’t in Beijing’s Forbidden City, just north of the tural district authority’s board and critics accuse see it to have any relationship with Hong Kong,” square where tanks rolled in to quash pro- her of pushing through the museum project to said education publisher Danny Chung, 28. “I democracy protests in 1989. impress Beijing. think those responsible for it are trying to ingra- “It’s not simply brainwashing-it is cultural Lam is widely expected to run for city leader tiate themselves with those in Beijing,” he TOKYO: This file photo shows Japan’s Emperor Akihito waving to well-wishers during whitewashing by introducing more Chinese his- in March, with little hope of succeeding in her added. —AFP his new year speech on the balcony of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. —AFP

N Korea has plutonium for 10 nuclear bombs China ship enters strait, Taiwan against panic

SEOUL: North Korea now has enough plutonium to TAIPEI: China’s only aircraft carrier has entered the Taiwan pass through an international waterway as part of drills. Beijing. “The national security council has a good grasp of make 10 nuclear bombs, South Korea said yesterday, a Strait in a highly symbolic show of strength, but Taiwan “Every year, in this season, China’s navy has a few exercises the situation. We are doing what is necessary,” Chang week after leader Kim Jong-Un said it was close to test- insisted yesterday there was no need for panic even as in the near seas and other maritime regions. These exer- Hsiao-yueh told reporters at an end-of-year briefing. “The launching an intercontinental ballistic missile. The iso- tensions boil over the island’s diplomatic status. Beijing cises are all for training,” said Liu Zhenmin, vice minister of government has sufficient capabilities to defend our lated communist state, which has carried out five has upped its military drills near the island in recent foreign affairs. Taiwanese media said that F-16 fighter jets country’s safety,” she added. nuclear tests and numerous missile launches, is thought weeks after being incensed by a congratulatory phone and other aircraft were dispatched Tuesday night to moni- to be planning a nuclear push in 2017 as it seeks to call from Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen to US president- tor the Chinese carrier group. The defense ministry would ‘Reactive measures’ develop a weapons system capable of hitting the US elect Donald Trump, and by a subsequent transit stop by not confirm those reports. Experts have said the maneuvers of the second-hand, mainland. Analysts are divided over how close Tsai in the US. China considers Taiwan a breakaway Tsai, who is currently on a visit to Central America, has Soviet-built Liaoning are “symbolic” rather than any real Pyongyang is to realizing its full nuclear ambitions, but province to be brought back into its fold. The US is the been regularly instructing the national security team and military threat. The Liaoning has been carrying out its first all agree it has made enormous strides since Kim took island’s most powerful ally and main arms supplier, the defense ministry by phone, presidential office exercise in the Pacific and already passed south of Taiwan over as leader from his father Kim Jong-Il who died in despite having no official diplomatic relations since rec- spokesman Alex Huang said. “The military is monitoring last month. It entered the southwest of Taiwan’s air December 2011. ognizing Beijing in 1979. the whole situation and will act as necessary. We urge defense identification zone (ADIZ) yesterday, the defense Seoul’s defense ministry said the North is believed to The Liaoning aircraft carrier has not entered Taiwanese Taiwan’s people to be at ease,” the defense ministry said in ministry said, along with escort vessels. By midday it was have some 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of weapons- waters but has gone into an area covered by the island’s a statement. “There is no need for us to overly panic,” said moving north along the mainland’s coast, the ministry grade plutonium as of the end of 2016, enough to make air defense zone, Taiwan’s defense ministry said. Beijing the chairwoman of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said. Local media said the carrier was expected to move about 10 weapons up from 40 kilograms eight years responded that it was “very normal” for the Liaoning to (MAC), which handles the island’s relationship with out of the strait later yesterday. “There is currently no earlier. The North also has a “considerable” ability to pro- navy or air force activity out of the ordinary,” it added. duce weapons based on highly-enriched uranium, it Tsai visited the US at the weekend on a transit to said in a two-yearly white paper, but did not estimate Central America, despite protests from Beijing. She weapons-grade uranium stocks, citing impenetrable stopped in Houston on Saturday and met with Republican secrecy in the state’s uranium program. US think tank Senator Ted Cruz during her stay, which was slammed by the Institute for Science and International Security esti- Beijing as an attempt to “undermine China-US relations.” mated in June that the North’s total nuclear arsenal was Tsai is this week visiting Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, more than 21 bombs, up from 10-16 weapons in 2014, and El Salvador among the dwindling number of states based on estimates of plutonium and uranium. that have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan instead The North has boosted plutonium supplies by reac- of with Beijing. While the focus of her visit is to bolster ties tivating its once-mothballed nuclear reactor in with allies, her US stopovers are being closely watched Yongbyon, the defense ministry said. North Korea with speculation she may make contact with Trump and deactivated the Yongbyon reactor in 2007 under an his team. aid-for-disarmament accord, but began renovating it Tsai has faced a mounting backlash from Beijing since after Pyongyang’s third nuclear test in 2013. The type of she took office in May because she has refused to recog- plutonium suitable for a nuclear bomb typically needs nize that Taiwan is part of “one China.” All official commu- to be extracted from spent nuclear reactor fuel. Kim nications with Taipei have been severed by Beijing and Jong-Un said in a New Year’s speech that Pyongyang tourist numbers have plummeted as Chinese visitors are was in the “final stages” of developing an interconti- discouraged from travelling to the island. MAC’s Chang nental ballistic missile of the kind that could threaten said yesterday that Taiwan was taking “relevant reactive US territory. The address drew a swift response from US measures” against military, diplomatic and economic president-elect Donald Trump, who took to Twitter actions by China since Tsai came to power. “We urge China vowing to halt Pyongyang in its tracks. —AFP (to understand) the hopes of people on both sides to TAIWAN: This file photo shows the Liaoning, China’s only aircraft carrier, sailing during military drills in the maintain peaceful and stable development in relations,” Pacific. — AFP she added. —AFP NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017

Yes we did: Obama bids farewell UAE mourns five diplomats killed ... Continued from Page 1 best friend. “You took on a role you didn’t ask for and Continued from Page 1 community to combat it and dry off its sources of made it your own with grace and grit and style and financing. The incoming Republican president has smashed good humor,” he said. “A new generation sets its sights Razeq said investigators believe someone hid the HH the Amir sent a similar cable of condolences to convention, vowed to efface Obama’s legacy and higher because it has you as a role model. You’ve made bomb inside a sofa at the guesthouse. He said an UAE’s Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai hurled personal insults left and right, while in a virtual- me proud. You’ve made the country proud.” ongoing construction project there may have allowed Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum. HH the ly unprecedented move US intelligence has accused Obama also acknowledged that his historic presi- militants to plant the bomb. “Right now we cannot say Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- the Kremlin of seeking to tip the election in Trump’s dency was not a panacea for the country’s racist past. anything about who is behind this attack,” he told AP, Sabah and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- favor. Democrats, cast into the political wilderness “After my election, there was talk of a post-racial while adding that several suspects had been arrested. Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables of with the loss of the White House, the Senate and the America,” he said. “Such a vision, however well-intend- Yesterday, broken glass from the powerful blast still lit- condolences. House of Representatives plus a majority of statehous- ed, was never realistic. Race remains a potent and tered the bloodstained ground outside of the guest- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum offered es, are struggling to regroup. often divisive force in our society.” With an approval house, with thick black soot still visible on the build- condolences for the families of the dead and con- Obama painted the task ahead as a generational rating hovering around 55 percent, according to a challenge. “A faith in reason and enterprise and the Quinnipiac University poll, Obama still carries consid- ing. Some furniture sat outside, apparently moved as demned the attack. “There is no human, moral or reli- primacy of right over might,” he said, had allowed the erable political weight. Some 51 percent of Americans part of the construction. gious justification for the bombing and killing of peo- United States to “resist the lure of fascism and tyranny polled believe that Trump is doing a bad job as presi- HH the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- ple trying to help” others, he wrote on Twitter. On the during the Great Depression, and build a post-World dent-elect. Jaber Al-Sabah yesterday sent a cable to UAE President Afghan side, authorities said the dead included two War II order with other democracies”. “That order is Trump’s unorthodox politics have thrown the 55- Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, expressing con- lawmakers, a deputy governor from Kandahar and an now being challenged,” said Obama in comments that year-old Obama’s transition and post-presidency plans dolences and sympathy over the deaths of the Emirati Afghan diplomat stationed at its embassy in resonate as Americans ponder whether Russia helped into flux. Having vowed a smooth handover of power, diplomats. The Amir wished speedy recovery for the Washington. to put Trump in the White House. Obama has found himself being increasingly critical of injured, voicing Kuwait’s strong condemnation of the The attack inside the heavily guarded compound “First by violent fanatics who claim to speak for Trump as he prepares to leave office on Jan 20. After heinous terrorist blast that targeted lives of innocent represents a major breach of security, even in Islam; more recently by autocrats in foreign capitals that there will still be a holiday and an autobiography, people, as against all faiths and human values. The Afghanistan, a country long torn by war. Afghan who see free markets, open democracies, and civil but Obama could find himself dragged backed into Amir voiced Kuwait’s support of all measures the UAE President Ashraf Ghani yesterday condemned the society itself as a threat to their power. The peril each the political fray if Trump were to enact a Muslim reg- would take to counter terrorism, reiterating the coun- attack and ordered an investigation. The Taleban is usu- poses to our democracy is more far-reaching than a istry or deport adults brought to the United States try’s unwavering stance rejecting all forms of terror- ally quick to take credit for attacks, particularly those car bomb or a missile.” Obama’s last trip on Air Force years ago by their parents. ism, as well as reaffirming backing of the international targeting the government or security forces. — AP One was a pilgrimage to Chicago, where he addressed Having vowed to take a backseat in politics, a sellout crowd of some 18,000 not far from where he Obama’s second act could yet be as politically delivered his victory speech eight years ago. engaged as Jimmy Carter - whose post-presidency Trump rejects ‘phony’ Russia dossier Diehard fans - many African Americans - braved remade his image as an elder statesman. Many Obama Continued from Page 1 consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a Chicago’s frigid winter to collect free tickets, which aides who had planned exotic holidays or coffer- horrible relationship with Russia,” Trump said. “I don’t were selling for upwards of $1,000 a piece on replenishing forays into the private sector are also Moscow hotel room. “It was a group of opponents know that I’m going to get along with Vladimir Putin. I Craigslist. They were joined by First Lady Michelle reassessing their future and mulling a return to the that got together, sick people, and they put that crap hope I do. But there’s a good chance I won’t.” Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill - who political trenches. Obama’s foundation is already gear- together,” Trump said. “I think it’s a disgrace that infor- Without corroborating its contents, BuzzFeed pub- the president described as “family” in an emotional ing up for a quasi-political role - funneling idealistic mation would be let out,” Trump said. It “was released by lished a 35-page dossier of memos on which the synop- finale to his speech. youngsters into public life. Many aides were in the maybe the intelligence agencies, who knows, but sis reportedly presented to Trump is based. The memos, Wiping a tear from his eye, Obama paid a poignant crowd, having flown into Chicago for celebratory par- maybe the intelligence agencies, which would be a which had been circulating in Washington for months, tribute to his own family, his daughter Malia who was ties. Supporters who had earlier shouted “Four more tremendous blot on their record,” Trump said, later say- describe sex videos involving prostitutes filmed during present and Sasha who stayed in Washington because years! Four more years!” - lingered in the hall until ing it was “disgraceful”. On Twitter, he earlier decried a a 2013 visit by Trump to a luxury Moscow hotel, suppos- of an exam, and the first lady who he addressed as his long after Obama had left. — AFP political “witch hunt” against him and asked: “Are we liv- edly as a potential means for blackmail. ing in Nazi Germany?” They also suggest Russian officials proposed lucra- Trump dodged specific questions about whether his tive deals in order to win influence over the real estate MPs call for fundamental changes... campaign had contacts with Russian intelligence, magnate. “The Kremlin does not have compromising instead tearing into reporters whose outlets reported information on Trump,” Russian President Vladimir Continued from Page 1 Humoud Al-Sabah “either late today or Sunday”. Kuwait the suggestions of compromising material. “I’m not Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling journalists. The had been given until yesterday to meet conditions set going to give you a question. You are fake news,” he said Kremlin spokesman called the dossier a “total fake” and develop the country’s political life. He called for meet- by the International Olympic Committee and world foot- to a CNN reporter, igniting a fresh raft of questions “an obvious attempt to harm our bilateral relations.” ing with HH the Amir over this issue and holding a ball controlling body FIFA to get the suspension lifted. about his respect for constitutional guarantees about Trump refused to comment on his classified briefing national conference. During their speeches, MPs warned IOC demanded that Kuwait amend its sport legisla- the free press. Trump warned BuzzFeed they would “suf- but said he had seen the information “outside of that the government against imposing any forms of charges tion to be compatible with the Olympic charter and fer the consequences”. meeting”. Without delineating the specific allegations in on citizens as a means to finance the budget deficit withdraw cases filed against it in Swiss courts demand- Trump began the press conference muted and disci- the memos, Trump denied engaging in any questionable resulting from low oil prices. MP Al-Humaidi Al-Subaei ing compensation for the suspension. IOC also demand- plined, but became increasingly agitated as questions behavior during visits to Russia. “In those rooms, you reiterated that imposing charges on citizens is a red line ed that all local sports federations that were dissolved by piled up. “I have no dealings with Russia. I have no deals have cameras in the strangest places - cameras that are and will not be accepted without a law in the Assembly the government should be reinstated. in Russia. I have no deals that could happen in Russia, so small, with modern technology. You can’t see them and only after the government manages to stop squan- Sheikh Salman said yesterday that he has sent flexible because we’ve stayed away. And I have no loans with and you won’t know,” he said. “You’d better be careful or dering in all departments. responses to the IOC’s demands and accepted in princi- Russia,” Trump said. The president-elect finally admitted you’ll be watching yourself on nightly television.” In a related development, MP Riyadh Al-Adasani said ple to withdraw court cases against it, provided the sus- for the first time that he believes Moscow likely med- Trump also vowed to forge ahead with plans for a wall that he and four other MPs submitted a draft law calling pension is lifted. He also said a new sports law has been dled in the US election. US intelligence agencies say on the southern US border after taking office, and said to scrap the recent rise in petrol prices, which should sent to the Assembly, and he also accepted to allow the Russia’s intent was to help Trump win the White House. Mexico would reimburse the United States for the cost. “I return to their July rates. He also recalled that he and general assemblies of the dissolved bodies to appoint “As far as hacking, I think it was Russia, but I also could wait about a year and a half until we finish our other MPs had submitted a law calling to abolish a caretaker committees to run the federations. But several think we’ve been hacked by other countries, other peo- negotiations with Mexico, which we’ll start immediately planned increase in the tariffs of electricity and water. MPs said the responses were far short of fulfilling IOC’s ple,” he said. Trump aides bristle at the suggestion that after we get to office, but I don’t want to wait,” Trump told Meanwhile, opposition lawmaker Waleed Al- demands and blamed the government and the minister Russia weighed in behind Trump, seeing it as an effort the news conference. “We’re going to start building,” he Tabtabaei said he has coordinated with MPs Subaei and of causing the suspension to continue, depriving nation- to delegitimize his election victory. Trump again refused said. “Mexico in some form - and there are many different Abdulwahab Al-Babtain to file the grilling against al football team from taking part in the qualifying to back away from his openness towards Russian forms - will reimburse us. That will happen. Whether it’s a Information and Youth Minister Sheikh Salman Al- rounds of the 2019 Asian Cup. President Vladimir Putin. “If Putin likes Donald Trump, I tax or whether it’s a payment.” — Agencies THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 ANALYSIS

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he $44 billion palm oil industry, under pressure in Europe after authorities listed the edible oil as a cancer risk, has found a vocal ally in the food sector: The maker of Nutella. TItalian confectionery firm Ferrero has taken a public stand in defense of an ingredient that some other food companies in the country are boycotting. It has launched an advertising cam- paign to assure the public about the safety of Nutella, its flag- ship product which makes up about a fifth of its sales. The hazelnut and chocolate spread, one of Italy’s best- known food brands and a popular breakfast treat for children, relies on palm oil for its smooth texture and shelf life. Other substitutes, such as sunflower oil, would change its character, according to Ferrero. “Making Nutella without palm oil would How lenders sidestep Canada mortgage rules produce an inferior substitute for the real product, it would be a step backward,” Ferrero’s purchasing manager Vincenzo Tapella told Reuters. He features in a TV commercial aired in anada’s subprime mortgage providers are ance as the market evolves. The government They also cannot lend more than 80 percent of a Capital’s co-founder Gerald Soloway - said that Italy over the past three months that has drawn criticism from increasingly teaming up with unregulated does not track bundling, and the practice is property’s value - even to borrowers with solid growth in bundled mortgages started a few years some politicians. rivals to sidestep rules designed to clamp sometimes carried out in a discreet fashion, with credit - without obtaining government-backed ago when regulated lenders were looking for Cdown on risky lending. The result of these part- lenders working directly with the MICs or refer- insurance. Under rules rolled out in October, that ways to share risk with unregulated entities. “Not Any move away from palm oil would also have economic implications as it is the cheapest vegetable oil, costing around nerships are so-called “bundled” loans, which pair ring mortgage brokers to them to work out a insurance requires the banks to run income stress every institution either acknowledges it or wants $800 a tonne, compared with $845 for sunflower oil and $920 a primary mortgage with a second loan from loan with a borrower. But Finance Ministry data tests on borrowers. to advertise it,” Soloway told Reuters, later adding for rapeseed oil, another possible substitute. Ferrero uses about unregulated groups called Mortgage Investment shows that the share of unregulated lenders has The MICs are financed mainly by wealthy indi- that Brookstreet “did it quietly, under the radar.” 185,000 tonnes of palm oil a year, so replacing it with those Corporations (MICs). The arrangements have pro- shot to 12.5 percent of Canada’s C$1.6 trillion viduals seeking higher yields. For borrowers with substitutes could cost the firm an extra $8-22 million annually, liferated, mortgage brokers told Reuters, as mortgage market in 2015, up from 6.6 percent in good credit, mortgage brokers say MICs typically Regulators’ Discomfort at those prices. The company declined to comment on these Canadian regulators have tightened lending 2007. “It’s becoming prevalent with everybody. offer rates that are comparable with what main- Equitable Group Chief Executive Andrew calculations. standards to shield borrowers in case a decade- This is how they sidestep the loan-to-value issue,” stream banks charge: five-year rates fixed at 3 Moor said that slightly less than one in ten mort- The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said in May that long housing boom goes bust. Guy Lew, a mortgage broker at CENTUM percent. For less credit-worthy borrowers, rates of gages provided by the lender involve bundled palm oil generated more of a potentially carcinogenic contami- The practice has grown fast because it allows Metrocap Wealth Solutions said in an interview, 7 to 10 percent are common, brokers said. Most arrangements. Equitable disclosed its bundled nant than other vegetable oils when refined at temperatures borrowers to make down payments of just 10 adding that he arranged such loans for his clients. borrowers would then look to refinance with a deals with other lenders for the first time in its lat- above 200 degrees Celsius. It did not, however, recommend percent, dodging federal rules that require either In a report published last month, the Bank of mainstream lender within the five-year period or est financial results, after Moor was interviewed consumers stop eating it and said further study was needed to 20 or 35 percent down on mortgages not backed Canada estimated that unregulated lenders have revert to a variable rate thereafter. by Reuters for this story. Sinclair Cockburn MIC assess the level of risk. The detailed research into the contami- by government insurance, according to industry about C$125 billion in assets, including auto loans “I would suspect that at least 10 percent of executive Chris Pridham also confirmed that his nant - known as GE - was commissioned by the European experts. Packaging two loans together allows the and other products as well as mortgages. The vast homeowners who are taking out this type of company bundles with Equitable. Commission in 2014 after an EFSA study the year before, into regulated lender to skirt those rules. The rise of majority of that total is held by companies not list- product may find themselves in hot water within Moor said Equitable, which had assets of substances generated during industrial refining, identified it as bundling reflects declining affordability after a ed on public exchanges - meaning little hard data the first couple of years of home ownership,” said C$17.6 billion at the end of 2015, uses the prod- being potentially harmful. long run-up in home prices, and it could present is available on their lending. The bank report Scott Hannah, the head of Canada’s Credit ucts when it is not comfortable lending the full EFSA does not have the power to make regulations, though a danger of defaults if prices fall. Such high loan- acknowledged that significant gaps remained in Counseling Society, a charity that advises con- amount a borrower requires. “We would use it in the issue is under review by the European Commission. The to-value mortgages are common when housing data about the shadow banking sector. sumers on debt. circumstances where we want to mitigate our risk spokesman for Health and Food Safety, Enrico Brivio, said guid- markets are about to implode, said David Canadian authorities have become increas- Canada’s biggest six banks, which provide by having some ‘first loss’ capital behind us,” he ance would be issued by the end of this year. Measures could Madani, an economist with Capital Economics ingly concerned by inflated home values in about 7 out of 10 mortgages, told Reuters that said. If a borrower with a bundle of home loans include regulations to limit the level of GE in food products, but who has long forecast a housing crash in Canada. Toronto and Vancouver, where prices have soared they do not offer bundled loans. But Home Trust, falls behind in their payments, the unregulated there will not be a ban on the use of palm oil, he added. The “This is what happens at the late stage of a because of low interest rates, foreign investment a unit of Home Capital Group and Equitable lender loses money first. The regulated lender has World Health Organization and the UN Food and Agriculture housing bubble - the quality of lending goes and tight supply. Prices in Toronto rose 12 per- Group - two of Canada’s biggest subprime the first claim on any future payments or sale Organization flagged the same potential risk that EFSA had down,” he said. Bundled loans, however, do not cent in 2016, according to the Toronto Real Estate lenders - said they participate in bundled lend- proceeds in a foreclosure. warned of regarding GE, but did not recommend consumers violate any laws, a spokeswoman for the Office of Board. But prices in Vancouver, after many years ing. Home Trust, which had assets of C$20.5 bil- When house prices remain steady, loan losses stop eating palm oil. The US Food and Drug Administration also the Superintendent of Financial Institutions said of increases, fell in the second half of 2016, in part lion at the end of last year, confirmed it provided are not a big problem. Less than 0.5 percent of has not banned the use of palm oil in food. in a statement. Primary lenders are expected to because of a tax on foreign buyers. The Canada bundled mortgages worth up to 90 percent of a residential mortgages written by Canada’s The issue became a hot consumer topic in Italy after the take the extra debt from a second loan into con- Mortgage and Housing Corporation has warned property’s value, with no mortgage insurance biggest lenders are now considered delinquent. largest supermarket chain, Coop, boycotted palm oil in all its sideration when evaluating the borrower’s ability that both the Toronto and Vancouver markets will requirement. But borrowers can be at risk if they load up on own-brand products following the EFSA study, describing the to afford the primary mortgage. cool in the next two years, leaving the most high- Home Trust said in a statement that bundling too much debt at high rates of interest. Nick ly-indebted borrowers exposed to losses. was a common practice, but declined to disclose Kyprianou, chief executive of the RiverRock MIC move as a “precaution”. Italy’s biggest baker, Barilla, also elimi- In a statement, Canada’s Finance Ministry said it was monitoring co-lending activity, which it how much of its business depends on it. “Private and a former president of Home Trust, said nated it and put “palm oil-free” labels on its wares. The retail- said represented a small portion of the mortgage lenders are satisfying market demand for unin- RiverRock has avoided bundling because of the ers’ decisions followed pressure from activists, including Italy’s Bundling ‘Under the Radar’ market. It declined to comment on whether the Bundling has provided a way around two fed- sured mortgage products” with greater than 80 risk. Three years ago, when he was CEO of Equity main farming association Coldiretti and online food magazine practice had increased as an unintended conse- eral rules meant to control such risks. Regulated percent loan-to-value ratios, the lender said. One Financial Trust, OSFI was scrutinizing the practice Il Fatto Alimentare, which called on all food firms to stop quence of tighter lending rules introduced last lenders in Canada are not allowed to lend more of the unregulated lenders that Home Trust across the industry. “They were expressing some using palm oil. year. OSFI said that bundled mortgages have than 65 percent of the value of a home to bor- worked with is an entity called Brookstreet. Its discomfort with those partnerships,” he said, “so High temperatures are used to remove palm oil’s natural existed for years and that it will revise its guid- rowers with bad or nonexistent credit records. President Diana Soloway - the daughter of Home that could come up again.” —Reuters red color and neutralize its smell, but Ferrero says it uses an industrial process that combines a temperature of just below 200C and extremely low pressure to minimize contaminants. The process takes longer and costs 20 percent more than high-temperature refining, Ferrero told Reuters. But it said In casino fight, a spotlight on FBI this had allowed it to bring GE levels so low that scientific instruments find it hard to trace the chemical. n April 2015, a sworn statement submitted in a Nevada lawsuit to FBI agents in Las Vegas around March 2012 that former Okada the United States in an overseas bribery investigation. Such “The palm oil used by Ferrero is safe because it comes between rival casino moguls Steve Wynn and Japan’s Kazuo employees had contacted him with allegations of wrongdoing reliance could suggest that the government probe might not from freshly squeezed fruits and is processed at controlled Okada contained an unusual assertion. Its author said Wynn’s more serious than those in the civil suit. have been pursued in the same way without the rival’s help, and temperatures,” Tapella says in the TV ad, which was filmed at headI of security had asked to meet him in Japan and then per- Stern, a former FBI agent himself who had postings in Tokyo that private interests were helping set the government’s agenda, the firm’s factory in the northern town of Alba and was suaded him to travel to the United States to talk to federal agents and speaks Japanese, said in his statement that he was later these experts said. A spokesman for the US Department of accompanied by full-page ads in newspapers carrying the pursuing a different matter: A criminal bribery probe into Okada. contacted about a current Okada employee willing to talk. Justice declined to comment. same message. EFSA declined to comment on the possible The person who provided the statement, Yoshitaka Fujihara, Stern said his first encounter with Fujihara was in late Jay Albanese, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth risks of refining palm oil at lower temperatures. then an executive at Okada’s Universal Entertainment Corp, said November 2012 in a hotel room at the ANA Intercontinental University, said the notion of introducing potential witnesses to he did not pay for his business-class flights, lodging and meals for Hotel in Tokyo. Stern said he “explained that Wynn Resorts and I the FBI and paying for their travel fell into a legal gray zone with Italian Sales Hit two meetings with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in were cooperating with the government’s criminal investigation, no known precedent in cases brought under the FCPA in federal Ferrero is by no means the only big European food firm to California. Wynn Resorts has since acknowledged covering those and inquired whether Mr Fujihara was willing to speak to and court. “There is clearly an ethical boundary in the methods by keep using palm oil in its products since the EFSA report. The costs and making other arrangements for Fujihara, as well as oth- meet with investigators from the FBI.” which witnesses and suspects who are foreign nationals are likes of Unilever and Nestle use it in products including er potential witnesses, to meet with the FBI. He said Fujihara agreed to his request. Stern said he then brought to the US when necessary for interviews,” Albanese said. chocolate, snacks and margarine. The two companies said Fujihara’s account helped prompt the judge in the Nevada “coordinated arrangements” for Fujihara and another former “The law is not yet clear in this area.” they were monitoring the contaminant issue and were work- case to allow questioning into Wynn Resorts’ role in facilitating Okada associate, Toshihiko Kosaka, to travel to San Francisco to In court papers, Wynn Resorts said Stern acted as a go- ing with their suppliers to keep GE at lowest possible levels. the separate criminal investigation into Okada. As a result, the meet with the FBI. Kosaka did not respond to a request for com- between and did not participate in any witness interviews with Ferrero is the only big European food company to mount case has opened a rare window into the workings of a US over- ment. It was a role well suited to Stern, an expert interrogator the FBI, and that the company followed federal guidelines for such a public defense of the use of the ingredient in its prod- seas bribery probe and the role played by a company in the who had contacts within the Japanese police and was head of paying for travel and accommodations when assisting in an ucts following the EFSA opinion. investigation of a rival, according to a Reuters review of court Asia organized crime at the FBI before joining Wynn in 2007. All investigation. It also cited a non-FCPA case in which a court The company told Reuters it carried out “hundreds of documents and interviews with people involved. told, he connected 11 current and former Okada employees with found a company’s cooperation with a US government investiga- thousands of tests” on contaminants in both the palm oil it As previously reported by Reuters, the Federal Bureau of the FBI by making introductions, organizing flights, scheduling tion of a rival with which the company was engaged in civil litiga- uses and finished products. Retail sales of Nutella in Italy fell Investigation has since 2012 been examining whether a $40 mil- meetings, and covering expenses for these potential witnesses tion to be legitimate. Philip Urofsky, a partner at law firm by about 3 percent in the 12 months to the end of August, lion payment from Okada-affiliated companies to a Manila mid- on trips from Japan to locations such as Los Angeles, Hawaii and Shearman & Sterling, said that while the nature of cooperation which Ferrero partly blamed on rivals promoting products as dleman was a bribe to secure tax breaks for his company’s new Guam, according to people familiar with the situation. between Wynn and the government in this case was “unusual,” it palm oil-free. To address consumer concern the company $2.4 billion casino in the Philippines. Under the Foreign Corrupt Wynn Resorts spent more than $100,000 on travel, meals and was not necessarily improper. “It doesn’t mean there is anything launched its advertising campaign in September and says it is Practices Act, it is a crime for companies with US operations to accommodations for the potential witnesses, according to an wrong with it,” said Urofsky, who as a former federal prosecutor now showing results. Nutella sales in Italy rose 4 percent in bribe foreign government officials. Okada has denied making Okada court filing that cited Wynn Resorts expense reports. The oversaw FCPA investigations. “It’s clearly strategic.” the last four months of 2016, said Alessandro D’Este, the head improper payments, and no charges have been brought. total number of witnesses Stern brought to the FBI has not been of Ferrero’s Italy business. —Reuters Fujihara, who has since left Universal, could not be reached. disclosed in the ongoing civil case. Fujihara is the only former ‘Corporate Espionage’ Universal did not respond to requests for comment or make Okada associate to submit a statement to the court. In court filings, Okada’s legal team has sought to portray Okada available for an interview. Stern’s work with the FBI as evidence of “corporate espionage” The civil case in which Fujihara submitted his statement, at Paying for Travel aimed at discrediting Okada in the civil lawsuit, which could go All articles appearing on these pages are the request of Okada’s lawyers, stems from a prior business rela- Overseas corruption probes are difficult for the United States before a jury as early as this year. “We learned earlier this year that the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait tionship between the two casino titans that soured when Wynn to conduct because of language differences, the challenges and Wynn Resorts had instigated and extensively facilitated a federal dismissed Okada from the board of Wynn Resorts in 2012. At the costs related to locating and interviewing witnesses, and other criminal investigation,” Okada lawyer Stephen Peek said at a Times takes no responsibility for views time, Wynn claimed that Okada had spent over $100,000 to wine issues, legal experts said. As a result, the government leans on December 2015 court hearing. expressed therein. Kuwait Times invites and dine and provide gifts to Philippine gaming officials, and companies that are subject to the FCPA to uncover and report Wynn Resorts’ lawyers in court filings denied the allegations readers to voice their opinions. Please send filed suit claiming the Japanese billionaire had breached his foreign bribes on their own, and corporations often assist investi- of espionage. They argued that as a regulated casino company, submissions via email to: opinion@kuwait- duties as a director. Okada said the payments were not illegal gations into wrongdoing by their own employees or when they Wynn Resorts had an obligation to self-report suspected criminal and that his ouster was unjustified. believe they are a victim of a crime, the experts said. activity by a director, even if the alleged actions by Okada were times.net or via snail mail to PO Box 1301 The criminal bribery investigation into Okada was initiated But in interviews with half a dozen law professors and former not directly related to his duties at Wynn Resorts. A company Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves the right after Wynn filed its civil suit, according to people familiar with the FCPA prosecutors, none said they had heard of a situation in spokesman, Michael Weaver, said it “acted according to the law to edit any submission as necessary. probe. In a statement responding to Fujihara’s assertions, the which federal agents had coordinated with a business rival of a and regulations that govern its business in reporting relevant Wynn Resorts head of security, James Stern, said that he reported target company to contact witnesses and pay for their travel to information” to law enforcement authorities. —Reuters THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 SPORTS

Burns to face unbeaten Euro 2016 generated 1.22bn Bramall has all the Namibian in world title euro boost for France: Study ingredients: Wenger

PARIS: Last year’s European Championship soccer tourna- LONDON: Former non league player Cohen Bramall has the all round quali- LONDON: Britain’s super-lightweight WBA title holder Ricky Burns is to fight ment generated a 1.22 billion euro ($1.3 billion) boost for ties to make it at Arsenal said Gunners manager Arsene Wenger yesterday. Namibia’s IBF and IBO world champion Julius Indongo in Glasgow host France, a study commissioned by the French govern- The 20-year-old defender-who a week ago was facing life on on April 15 it was announced yesterday. Burns-one of only three ment showed yesterday. It said that 2.5 million fans attend- the dole queue after being made redundant by luxury car- British boxers to win world titles at three different weights having ed the games even as France extended a state of emer- makers Bentley-will first be tried out in the Under-23 side. also at one point been super-featherweight and lightweight gency and intelligence agencies warned of the threat of However, Wenger-who was impressed by his trial period champion — said the unbeaten Indongo was just the type of militant attacks during the month-long tournament. The and persuaded Arsenal to pay Hednesford Town £40,000 fighter he needed to face at this stage of his career. Indongo, at report, unveiled by the Centre of Law and Economics of (46,000 euros, $48,500) — said he would have to prove he 33 the same age as Burns, won the IBF and the IBO belts with a Sport and the Keneo agency, said fans spent an average of could challenge for a first team place pretty quickly. “First first round knockout of then holder Russia’s Eduard Troyanovsky in 154 euros per day during their average 7.9 day stays - with he has to show at youth level that he can quickly make Moscow last December. Indongo has 21 wins in 21 bouts just over a third of that amount being spent on accommo- the first team,” Wenger told the club website. “Overall I — 10 inside the distance-whilst Burns has 41 victories in dation. According to the document, 75 millions euros, believe he has fantastic physical qualities, he has a good lev- 47 fights — 14 knockouts-with five losses and one including 70 million in VAT, went to the French state. el of motivation because he has gone down and come up draw. “When Julius Indongo knocked out Eduard Organisers UEFA were exempted from taxation in 2014 but again. “He has to prepare, to challenge the first-team Troyanovsky he was immediately an opponent I was French sports minister Patrick Kanner said that it remained players as quickly as he can. That could be in a very interested in,” said Burns. “Indongo can clearly a “good operation economically”. “They did not pay taxes short period of time. “He has the ingredients: the punch and that’s an impressive way to win a World but they paid 20 million euros to rent stadiums, 20 million timing of his runs is very good, he has decent tech- title, especially in Russia. It was some shot he hit euros to finance the cities and five million euros for the fan nique and exceptional pace. These are very impor- Troyanovsky with. —AFP zones,” he said. — Reuters tant ingredients today. —AFP McIlroy changes clubs for South African Open

JOHANNESBURG: World number two ber one Jason Day of Australia. “My Rory McIlroy tees off today in the South choice of equipment may change from African Open hoping a change of clubs week to week. We will see how I fare in will not trigger a loss of form. South Africa. The last time the 27-year-old from “You never know until you study a Northern Ireland made his seasonal card after a round. Besides, the golfer debut with new equipment was four swinging the club is more important years ago, and he initially struggled to than the club itself.” Having spent much adapt. It was the only time in the past of festive season practising, the Irishman eight years that the four-time major win- took time off from golf last weekend to ner finished outside the top five in his visit a private South African game first appearance of the year. The with- reserve. McIlroy tweeted footage of a drawal of Nike from club manufacturing male lion, who wandered slowly past the forced McIlroy to change and he has vehicle the wide-eyed golf star was in spent several weeks in Dubai experi- with two rangers. There are four other menting with various brands. For his first former major title-holders in the South African Open appearance since Glendower field-South Africans Ernie Els 2008, he will use woods and irons from and Retief Goosen, Nick Faldo of England one manufacturer, wedges and balls and Irishman Darren Clarke. from another and a putter from a third. But the greatest threat to McIlroy McIlroy has been paired with defend- could come from rising star Stone, ing champion Brandon Stone and anoth- impressive winner of the pre-Christmas er South African, three-time European Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Tour winner George Coetzee, in the first Africa. Only two shots ahead of title two rounds. favourite and compatriot Charl The trio tee off at 0710 local time Schwartzel with nine holes left, 23-year- (0510 GMT) Thursday and at 1210 Friday. old Stone pulled away to triumph by sev- A 7-4 favourite to win the second oldest en strokes. The defending South African TAMPA: Clemson’s Jalen Williams, right, and K’Von Wallace hold a sign after returning Tuesday, in Clemson, S.C., the day after the Tigers defeat- national golf championship after the Open champion fired a warning to rivals ed Alabama 35-31 in the College Football Playoff championship NCAA college football game in Tampa. — AP British Open, the Irishman quickly adapt- by carding an 11-under-par 61 in a prac- ed to his new clubs at Glendower Golf tice round at the 7,564-yard (6,916- Club near Johannesburg. metre) parkland course. Clemson fans turn out to “The first few holes of my practice “You never really know after a festive round were not great but once I got into break how it is going to pan out, A 61 the rhythm, everything was fine. “I am in certainly does not hurt the confidence,” South Africa to play well and get my con- said Stone. “I will be excited today when welcome national champions fidence up,” said the star who has won I step on to the first tee and the every major bar the US Masters. announcer says ‘please welcome the CLEMSON: About 6,000 Clemson fans turned defending champion, Brandon Stone’.” out Tuesday to welcome their national champi- CHOICE OF EQUIPMENT Created in 1937, Glendower Golf Club on Tigers, capping a giddy day of celebration McIlroy said it could take time before will be hosting a third consecutive South after their team toppled Alabama. settling on a new equipment combina- African Open, boasts 64 bunkers, and People screamed as the buses pulled up, call- tion as he seeks to overtake world num- water hazards on 11 holes. —AFP ing out “DE-SHAUN” over and over as Tigers’ star quarterback Deshaun Watson walked with his luggage and national championship hat into Clemson’s football building. “This means a lot,” said receiver Mike Williams, Renault part with F1 who like Watson will forego his final year in col- lege and enter the NFL draft. And what a way to leave. Watson accounted for 463 yards and four team principal Vasseur touchdowns in the 35-31 win over the top- ranked and seemingly unbeatable Crimson Tide. LONDON: Formula One’s winter of future,” the French manufacturer said in a Watson’s final college pass was a two-yard throw change continued yesterday with statement. to Hunter Renfrow for the game-winning score Renault and team principal Frederic It promised more information when with a second left. Vasseur parting company a day after the 2017 car was unveiled on Feb. 21. Watson walked to the crowd, which was kept champions Mercedes announced the The team, who have Germany’s Nico behind metal barriers, to sign a few autographs departure of technical head Paddy Lowe. Hulkenberg and Britain’s Jolyon Palmer and share a few hugs before waving and head- Although likely to be unconnected, as drivers, will be run in the meantime by ing off. Clemson fans will get one more chance with Lowe expected to show up at president Jerome Stoll and managing to see Watson and the rest of the Tigers on Saturday during a parade through town that will Williams after a period of ‘gardening director Cyril Abiteboul. end inside Clemson’s Death Valley. leave’, the two exits provided further evi- The season starts in Australia on After that, Watson, Williams and many of the TAMPA: Clemson fans cheer as the Clemson Tigers return Tuesday, in Clemson, S.C., the day dence of a major pre-season shake-up of March 26 with major changes designed Tigers who helped Clemson overcome a 14- after Clemson defeated Alabama 35-31 in the NCAA College Football Playoff championship the paddock landscape. to make cars faster, more aggressive- point deficit win its national title rematch with game in Tampa, Fla. — AP For the first time in 23 years, Formula looking and harder to handle. Alabama will scatter to train for their next show- One will start a season without a reign- Vasseur, who became principal mid- case: Clemson’s pro timing day in front of NFL in the middle of the blocked-off College Avenue Carlos Watkins and two members of the second- ing world champion on the starting grid way through last season, brought a executives and scouts in early March. But on on Monday night. After the dramatic win, the ary - cornerback Cordrea Tankersley and safety as a consequence of Nico Rosberg retir- strong reputation with him after steering Tuesday it was time for them to take another celebration lasted well into the morning. Jadar Johnson. The losses on offense are even ing five days after winning the title with his ART team to success in the GP2 sup- bow in front of a happy crowd. Clemson police said there were no serious inci- more daunting with Watson, Williams, Scott, Mercedes. port series. Fans waved all kinds of signs, some simply dents or vandalism, although six people were tight end Jordan Leggett, single-season rushing The German’s replacement has yet to Hulkenberg won the GP2 title with saying “Thank You, Tigers,” to more pointed ones arrested on alcohol-related charges. leader Wayne Gallman and Jay Guillermo all be announced. ART in 2009 and had been looking for- that read “We Want Bama” with the “Want” Fans spent much of Tuesday swarming sou- entering the NFL draft. McLaren had already parted company ward to linking up with Vasseur again crossed out and replaced by “Beat.” There was venir shops in town, snapping up whatever Defensive end Christian Wilkins, however, with their boss Ron Dennis, while engi- after switching from Force India at the even a sign asking if head coach Dabo Swinney’s “national champions” apparel they could find. believes Clemson’s run at the top is not over. neering head Pat Symonds left Williams end of last season. There had, however, son, high-school senior Will, would take the sigh- They filtered over to the stadium around mid- “We’ve always recruited well. People had ques- at the end of last year. The Manor team been reports of differences of opinion holder to prom. day, awaiting the buses to pull in front. Artavis tions about the defense the past couple of years are meanwhile facing an uncertain future among the management despite Scott, who became the Tigers’ all-time leader in and you can see what we’ve done,” said Wilkins, a after going into administration this Renault, who have restructured the team LEADING TACKLER pass catches this year, was first off and pumped sophomore. “We think the same thing can hap- his fist as fans shouted back. pen on offense.” month. Renault, who took over the fail- and recruited more staff, setting what “We couldn’t do this without these people,” “We have the best fans in college football,” Wilkins, who’s celebratory postgame split in ing Lotus team at the end of 2015 and looked like realistic targets for their said Ben Boulware, Clemson’s leading tackler who gave a stirring speech thanking the team’s Boulware said. “I know when Alabama won it last Tampa went viral, was glad to celebrate back finished ninth of 11 teams last year, said return as a manufacturer. “We knew... past players as the confetti fell in Tampa, Florida, year, they didn’t have fans show up like this. The home with fans who’ve supported him through- the split with Vasseur was by mutual con- when we took over the company that at Raymond James Stadium. “They’ve been here culture at Clemson is uncommon, so I’m super out his career. sent. “Both parties remain committed to 2016 would be very difficult in terms of for all of it.” happy for our community.” “We just dream of this moment forever and maintaining the good working relation- results. That’s life. We have to build up a There was a sizeable crowd of Clemson fans Boulware is among four senior defensive that’s why you come to Clemson,” he said. “We ship they have enjoyed and expect this strong team for the future,” Vasseur told in Tampa with a smaller, but just as thrilled, starters who will be leaving. Clemson is also los- showed the world what we’re made of last to take a new form sometime in the Reuters a year ago. —Reuters group that watched the game on large screens ing the team’s sacks leader in defensive tackle night.” —AP Loeb retakes Dakar Rally lead on eighth stage

SALTA: Sebastien Loeb retook the ture forced him to stop and he won today, but I had a puncture on the last lead in the Dakar Rally when he domi- his third stage of the race by nearly part of the stage, so I lost a few min- nated the eighth stage crossing from four minutes from Peterhansel, to lead utes to change the wheel,” Loeb said. Bolivia into Argentina on Tuesday. the latter overall by 1 minute, 38 sec- “But it’s OK, it’s still the best time.” In Loeb began the day less than a onds. Cyril Despres, the five-time the motorbike category, Joan Barreda minute behind race leader Stephane motorbike champion, was more than of Spain won his second stage of the Peterhansel but where the route was five minutes back in third, giving race comfortably. changed and the stage split at the Peugeot a 1-2-3 finish for the second Barreda was no threat to overall border, because rain made swollen time in the rally. That’s also how they leader Sam Sunderland at more than rivers impassable, Loeb zoomed stood in the overall. an hour behind, and was free to ahead and made his fellow Only Nani Roma, the 2014 champi- attack. Sunderland tracked him Frenchman look like he was driving on, and Mikko Hirvonen, fourth on though to finish third, about four min- UYUNI: (L-R) Toyota’s Spanish driver Nani Roma, Peugeot’s French co-driver Jean Paul Cottret, driver Sebastien on three wheels. debut last year, were within an hour of utes back, and the Briton still Loeb and driver Stephane Peterhansel joke during Stage 8 of the 2017 Dakar Rally between Uyuni in Bolivia and In the second part, on the run to Loeb, the rally great trying to win his increased his overall lead to 21 min- Salta in Argentina, on Tuesday. Yesterday’s ninth stage of the rain-swamped Dakar Rally from Salta to Chilecito in Salta, Loeb was more than five min- first Dakar at his second attempt. utes over Pablo Quintanilla of Chile, Argentina has been cancelled following a huge mudslide, race organisers announced. — AFP utes ahead of Peterhansel, but a punc- “I wanted to try to make a gap who was seventh on the stage. —AP THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 , 2017 SPORTS

Manny Pacquiao set to return to ring on April 23

BRISBANE: Manny Pacquiao will add Australia, and we are working towards this Arum said. “It will be the biggest fight in Horn (16-0-1) is a 28-year-old former see those weaknesses.” another fight to his long career resume outcome,” said Duco director Dean Australian history but, until the money is schoolteacher who fought at the 2012 Rushton said it would be a “tragedy” if when he takes on Australian welterweight Lonergan, who met with Top Rank chief secured, we have to keep our options London Olympic Games. He is No. 2 in the the fight happened anywhere other than Jeff Horn on April 23 at a venue to be Bob Arum this week to set up the fight. open, including looking at the Middle East WBO’s welterweight rankings. Pacquiao is Brisbane. “We really hope the Queensland decided. Arum said he wants the fight to take and USA.” the WBO champion in that division while government and so forth will feel the Promoter Duco Events said Wednesday place at an outdoor stadium, and it would It is a nine-hour flight from Manila to also juggling a career as a senator in the same way,” he said. “It just makes sense, the location for the fight involving the 38- be beamed into 159 different countries, Brisbane. Pacquiao, 59-6-2, captured the Philippines. but also for the future. This can reinvigo- year-old Pacquiao could be in one of including the U.S., where it would be WBO welterweight title for the third time “I feel in his last few fights I’ve seen rate boxing in Australia.” Australia’s major cities, possibly Horn’s shown in a prime-time Saturday night against Jessie Vargas in November. He some weaknesses that he has and I just Horn’s last fight was a knockout of hometown of Brisbane, or the Middle East time slot on free-to-air TV. “I would expect earned a reported $100 million while los- think I can get those,” Horn said. “I can South African veteran Ali Funeka in or United States. “The preference for all 3 to 4,000 Filipinos to fly from the ing to Floyd Mayweather in the richest beat him because I can see those weak- Auckland, New Zealand in December, parties is for the fight to be held in Philippines for this fight down under,” fight ever in 2013. nesses, I know Glen (trainer Rushton) can with Arum at ringside. —AP

Team Sky boss Brailsford hits back at UKAD chairman

ALCUDIA: Team Sky unveiled the sleek lobby, Brailsford said Sky’s compliance black machine they hope will propel Chris structures were “second to none” and that Froome to a fourth Tour de France triumph he would continue focusing on “doing but the contents of a humble jiffy bag was things the right way”. the main talking point as their Mallorca However, he said his eyes could not be pre-season camp continued under a cloud everywhere. “They are out training today on Tuesday. and I don’t know everything they are After a handful of media got the low- doing,” he said. “What I do know is our val- down on the latest bicycle to roll out of the ues, what we are trying to achieve, our Pinarello factory - the Dogma F10 -team processes. “You put things in place and you boss Dave Brailsford was again weighed expect people then to take personal down by questions regarding the ongoing accountability. If someone steps outside of UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) investigation into a that they deserve everything coming at package delivered to Bradley Wiggins six them. I have no mercy for that.” Asked how years ago. he was dealing with the crisis, Brailsford Brailsford’s appearance in front of a added: “You look yourself in the mirror and British Parliamentary committee last try to make sure you’ve been professional, month, when he was cross-examined accountable, made the right decisions. “For about what exactly was in the package me, it’s a question of being calm.” which arrived at the 2011 Criterium du Three-times Tour de France champion Dauphine, as well as his team’s use of Chris Froome was not in Mallorca, having Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs), failed completed his training for the season- to dispel suspicions of wrongdoing. opening Tour Down Under at the team’s So much so that last week UKAD’s out- Monaco camp. going chairman David Kenworthy Asked about the ongoing controversy described the evidence given by Brailsford, last week, Froome offered guarded support together with Team Sky’s former head for Brailsford. He also said he had turned WBA champion Daniel Jacobs coach Shane Sutton, as “disappointing” and down the option of using a TUE on the way “extraordinary”. to winning the 2015 Tour because it felt Brailsford, who told the Culture Media morally wrong. and Sport committee on Dec. 19 that as far ‘Miracle Man’ Jacobs to as he was aware the delivery was a WADA- REAL CLARITY approved flu remedy called Fluimucil, hit Brailsford said he sympathised with back on Tuesday, accusing Kenworthy of Froome’s stance, saying the issue of TUEs challenge unbeaten Golovkin double standards. needed to be more transparent. “I was very surprised he (Kenworthy) “(Chris) is on to something there. What came out with those comments,” Brailsford, everyone needs is real clarity about the TUE NEW YORK: Undefeated middleweight slugger record with 29 stoppages. Said Golovkin trainer Abel Sanchez: “I would the brains behind Britain’s rise to cycling process,” Brailsford said. “The process has to Gennady Golovkin will put four world champi- In May 2011, Jacobs was diagnosed with a say he is probably the best fighter we’ve fought dominance and the Tour de France victo- be as robust as possible and the onus has onship belts on the line March 18 against WBA form of bone cancer and was left partially para- to date. Great right hand, good boxing knowl- ries of Wiggins and Chris Froome, told to be on the authorities to make sure that if champion Daniel Jacobs, who said on Tuesday lyzed. After radiation treatments, surgery to edge, good boxing IQ.” Reuters at the team hotel. they sign something off nothing reflects that he relished another chance to beat the remove a tumor wrapped around his spine and Andre Dozier, Jacobs’ trainer, said his fighter “I think most people would say let’s wait badly on the athlete.” odds. Golovkin of Kazakhstan is 36-0 with 33 arduous rehabilitation, he returned to boxing in would be up to the task. “He has fought the until the process has come to a conclusion. TUEs, which allow athletes to take a knockouts but Jacobs, known as “The Miracle late 2012. hardest fight he could ever have, in life. “We were asked to respect that process, banned substance on medical grounds, Man” after winning his battle with bone cancer, Two years later, Jacobs stopped Jarrod Everything after that has been a walk in the park which we have. For the chair of that organi- have been under scrutiny since the hacking is keen for the Madison Square Garden clash. Fletcher in five rounds to win the WBA mid- because he fears no man.” sation (UKAD) to make comments, very site Fancy Bears published athletes’ private “The creator has positioned my life to be an dleweight title, and has finished off his last Jacobs said fighting for Golovkin’s WBC, IBF, interesting comments let’s say, saying it’s medical records. inspiration to so many people throughout the dozen opponents within the distance. IBO and WBA super world middleweight belts extraordinary, then the only extraordinary The hack revealed that 2012 Tour cham- world. So many people are affected by cancer,” Jacobs, who combines power with elite box- represented the pinnacle of his career and that thing is that he made the comments in the pion and five-times Olympic gold medallist Brooklyn’s Jacobs told reporters. “The fact that I ing skills, may give 34-year-old Golovkin his his 8-year-old son Nathaniel would again be at first place,” Brailsford, who complained to Wiggins was given a TUE for the powerful can overcome ... winning this fight will take toughest test. ringside. UKAD, added. anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone everything to the next level.” “I believe Dan is ready for this fight. This is his “Not only to prove to the world, but to prove “If we are all being held to account in before the 2011 Tour, his 2012 triumph and While Golovkin, with knockout power in both dream. A dream for everybody,” said Golovkin, to my son that when you set your mind to any- terms of the highest standards and process, the 2013 Giro d’Italia to treat asthma. hands, has been invincible, Jacobs has earned who voiced respect for Jacobs. “For us, it will thing that you do, no matter who believes, who then we should see that process through. Asked if the legacy of the recently- respect for his courage and perseverance as well decide who is number one, who is the best. I thinks you can, as long as you believe in yourself It feels like it’s been a little confused by retired Wiggins had been tarnished, as for pugilistic skills that have led to a 32-1 promise an amazing show.” anything is possible,” he said. — Reuters people jumping in and talking about it Brailsford said: “I can’t judge that. I don’t halfway through.” know how others will judge him. “I wouldn’t forget he has had a very long RIGHT WAY career of performing at the highest level Doping agencies call Quizzed further by reporters in the hotel with no problems.” —Reuters for all out Russian ban

DUBLIN: The heads of 19 National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADOs) have called for 2018 World Cup ‘Silent Warrior’ Amla hosts Russia to be banned from all sporting activity until a proper anti-doping system is in place. set for century of tests Their statement, released after a meeting in Dublin, also called on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to take over the investigation presently under the aegis of the JOHANNESBURG: Hashim Amla is set to some of the players become a bit hot- join an elite group of South African crick- headed, Hashim will be the guy who’ll International Olympic Committee (IOC) into the 1,000 eters when he makes his 100th test bring balance back. “He contributes so Russian athletes said to have been part of a state-sponsored appearance in the third and final match of much, he starts with 30 runs before he doping system exposed by the damning report produced the series against Sri Lanka in even comes in to bat.” by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren. Johannesburg starting today. The elegant The 12 years since Amla made his test WADA they say should also have the power to investi- right-hander has been battling poor form debut have not been without challenges, gate sports federations that are “now facing extensive evi- in recent months but his influence on the his technique was questioned early on after dence of doping and cover-ups following the publication of side remains unquestioned as he becomes a faltering start to his test career, while 12 McLaren’s efforts”. the eighth player from South Africa to months ago he resigned as captain after a NADO-the United States, Japan, France and Germany were among the countries attending the meeting-conced- notch up a century of test caps. home series loss to England. A devout MELBOURNE: In this handout photograph from Tennis Australia recieved yesterday, One of the coolest customers in cricket Muslim, he has also had to endure racial ed that Russian athletes should be allowed to compete as neutrals if they had undergone intensive doping controls. tennis player Novak Djokovic of Serbia (R) is joined by former Australian cricket play- and a hugely popular figure in the dressing and religious slurs, and was infamously er Shane Warne during a charity event in Melbourne. — AFP room, Amla has established himself in the called “the terrorist” live on air by Australian “With the best interests of clean athletes at heart, it is our pantheon of modern South African greats, cricketer-turned-commentator Dean Jones hope that these proposals will help sport move past these equally as influential as the likes of Jacques during a test against Sri Lanka in 2006. It dark times and pave a path towards a brighter future-one Kallis, Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers. His was a slur repeated by a fan in Hobart dur- where the promise of clean competition is fulfilled,” said the Taylor eyes record against recent dip in form, leading him to score ing the Australia series last November, but leaders in a joint statement. just 195 runs in his last five tests, has none of these incidents have managed to “But in order to do so, steps must be taken, and it is Bangladesh after surgery dropped his average below 50, but with 25 ruffle the man dubbed the ‘Silent Warrior’ imperative that those responsible for Russia’s state-support- ed system are held accountable, that calls for a truly inde- tons, including 311 not out against by his South African team mates. WELLINGTON: Ross Taylor’s return to New the one-day and Twenty20 series. England in 2012, he has been a key part of “He’s a fantastic person. You can look up pendent anti-doping model are finally heeded and those Zealand’s test side following eye surgery There are also questions over their men- the team’s success in the last decade. “He the stats and read all the records but that athletes affected by this abhorrent behaviour are given has provided an interesting subtext for tal toughness. Several times during the has a wonderful sense of calm,” South only tells half of the tale,” Cook added. back at least some of what was taken from them. their two-match series against Bangladesh limited overs portions of the tour they had African opener Stephen Cook, who played “The person behind the batsman is “Lastly, with many international federations now facing that starts today as he seeks to surpass for- put themselves into positions to win for the with Amla in the national under-19 side, more important to me. I was taught you’re extensive evidence of doping and cover-ups following the mer mentor Martin Crowe. Taylor under- first time in New Zealand but wasted the told reporters. a human being first and then a cricketer. publication of McLaren’s efforts, the NADO leaders look to went an operation to remove a pterygium, opportunities when the pressure was put “When a situation becomes tricky or Hashim epitomises that.” —Reuters WADA, the global regulator, to monitor and act - as required or growth, on his left eye that had affected on by the home side. “Certainly throughout by the Code and UNESCO (United Nations Educational, his vision following New Zealand’s series- the white ball format, Bangladesh put us Scientific and Cultural Organization) Treaty Against Doping clinching 138-run victory over Pakistan in under pressure in every game,” captain in Sport-to ensure evidence is investigated and appropriate Hamilton last November. Kane Williamson told reporters on consequences are applied,” the statement added. The 32-year-old scored 102 not out in Wednesday. “We’re certainly expecting that Russian sports officials yesterday blasted NADO’s state- that match, a 16th test century that moved again. “They’re an experienced side, have ment, saying it represented a deliberate attempt to discred- him to within one of the New Zealand played all round the world, we know will it the country. record held by Crowe, who died last year provide a stiff challenge so it’s important “Don’t pay attention to these statements,” Deputy Prime from cancer. The right-handed batsman we are looking to hit our straps early.” Minister Vitaly Mutko told R-Sport news agency, RIA Novosti has scored 82 not out and 80 in New The visitors have virtually the same bat- reported. “This is a thought-out attack on Russian sport Zealand’s domestic Twenty20 competition ting line-up available for the test series, whose objective is to discredit it.” since his return and is relishing his return to though it has been strengthened by the Russia’s image in world sports has been severely tar- the international game. “When Hogan return of captain and wicketkeeper nished by evidence of state-sponsored doping that saw the (Crowe) gave me some of the records he Mushfiqur Rahim, who suffered a ham- country’s athletics team and entire Paralympics squad wanted me to break, it was more of a moti- string injury in the first one-day interna- excluded from the Rio Games last summer. vation in the background,” Taylor told tional. Their pace bowling, however, is Moscow has consistently denied the existence of any reporters. “Sometimes you play cricket and extremely inexperienced with Rubel government-run scheme to cheat its way to medal glory just meander along. That’s when the goals Hossain the senior bowler with just 23 and says it is doing all it can to reform its doping control sys- come into it. “At the moment, I’m pretty tests, and 32 wickets at 75.90, under his tem in a bid to crack down on drug use. happy with where my game’s at and if I can belt, though the attack is likely to be led by Travis Tygart, head of the US Anti-Doping Agency, told get myself in and play well, if the hundred the 21-year-old Taskin Ahmed on debut. insidethegames after the NADO meeting the ban on host- comes it comes and if not I’ll continue to Left armer Mustafizur Rahman has also ing events should include next year’s football World Cup. try and be as consistent as possible.” been rested for at least the first test after he “We continue to hear from athletes across the group (of Bangladesh enter the test series having made his return to international cricket NADO countries) whose concerns have not been had their confidence from a first ever test during the limited overs series after five addressed,” Tygart said. “So we are reigniting our urgency to victory over England at Mirpur in October months out as he recovered from shoulder hold Russia to account in order to give confidence.” — AFP Hashim Amla dented after they were swept 3-0 in both surgery. — Reuters THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 SPORTS Nadal praises new generation, old foe Federer

MELBOURNE: Rafael Nadal says the both of them keen to return to winning he said in The Australian newspaper yes- well. “The good thing is that Roger is week to big-serving Milos Raonic. Nadal emergence of a new generation is just ways at the big tournaments. terday. “It’s great to have a new genera- back on tour after probably his first admitted he may not hit his best form what tennis needs, while welcoming They will have their work cut out at tion of fantastic players there and that’s important injury,” Nadal said. until later in the year. back old foe Roger Federer to help him the opening Grand Slam of the year at good for tennis. Tennis needs it. “People “That’s tough but he looks great. He’s “I think that I had a great off-season keep them at bay. Melbourne Park next week with not just sometimes get bored to see the same played some good matches there in so I am excited about these next few The Spanish great, a 14-time Grand Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic to players all the time.” Perth (at the Hopman Cup) so I’m very months,” he said. “You cannot say some- Slam champion, is on the comeback trail contend with but an emerging new While excited by the young guns, happy for him.” thing about how Roger is, how I am, in after his 2016 season was ruined by a breed. Leading the pack are the likes of Nadal is not yet ready to hand over the After opening his season in Doha for just two weeks. “In Melbourne anything wrist problem which has seen him slip Austria’s Dominic Thiem, Germany’s Alex baton, believing he can still compete at seven of the past eight years, Nadal could happen, but I give myself a little to nine in the world. Zverev and Australia’s Nick Kyrgios. the top level despite the last of his major instead opted this year to begin at the bit more time, three months, and after Fellow warrior and Swiss great Nadal, 30, said it was good for the game titles coming at the French Open in Brisbane International in a bid to better Miami, let’s see how I am,” he added, Federer is also easing his way back after to see younger players starting to make 2014. And he is pleased to see Federer, adapt to Australian conditions. referring to the Miami Open in late six months out with a knee injury, with their mark. “These guys are doing well,” 35, also back in the fold and playing But he lost in the quarter-finals last March. — AFP Kerber has Serena in Aussie Open sights

MELBOURNE: World number one goals and obviously that involves winning Angelique Kerber spearheads a host of Grand Slams and that’s all,” said Williams. dangerous players looking to halt Serena Williams’ bid for an Open-era record 23rd ‘ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE’ Grand Slam title at the Australian Open Despite her recent lack of time on court, next week. nobody will be writing off a veteran who is The German left-hander stunned the renowned for her fighting qualities. American powerhouse at Melbourne Park Williams entered the Australian Open last year, upsetting her in the final and ulti- last year under an injury cloud having mately dethroning her as the top ranked played few matches, yet went on to make player in the world. the final. That win sparked a memorable season Melbourne Park has been a happy hunt- for Kerber, who followed it up by claiming ing ground for her. She claimed her first the US Open, where Williams crashed in the Australian Open title way back in 2003, semi-finals and has barely played since. beating elder sister Venus in the final, and But Kerber has not had a good start to has since won five more. 2017, falling to Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina in Aside from Kerber, Polish world number the Brisbane International quarter-finals three Agnieszka Radwanska, who lost to last week, then slumping out in round two Williams in last year’s semi-finals, Romanian of the Sydney International to Russian pocket-rocket Simona Halep and Spain’s teenager Darya Kasatkina. Garbine Muguruza can all pose a threat. Despite this, she remains upbeat as she Also keen to make her mark is Czech star prepares to mount her first Grand Slam title Karolina Pliskova, who stamped herself as a defence. “I think Grand Slams are always major contender by winning the Brisbane completely different,” Kerber said. “It International. doesn’t matter how you play before.” Pliskova had a breakthrough 2016, fin- She goes into the tournament as top ishing runner-up to Kerber at the US Open SYDNEY: Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark plays a shot to Barbora Strycova of Czech Republic during their women’s singles match at the Sydney seed with Williams second, meaning they and will start at Melbourne Park as world International tennis tournament in Sydney, Australia, yesterday. — AP are scheduled to meet in the final on number five after leapfrogging Dominika January 28. Cibulkova in the rankings this week. Williams, newly engaged to Reddit co- “The important thing is the draw. I need founder Alexis Ohanian, heads to to have some players which I like, which is Melbourne Park with little match practice also important in a Grand Slam, to just have Wozniacki’s Sydney ends after a four-month layoff. a little bit of luck with the draw,” Pliskova Having won Wimbledon last year to said. “But, I mean, anything is possible. So match Steffi Graf’s Open era-record 22 let’s see.” Several notable players will be Grand Slam singles titles, two shy of missing from Melbourne, including two- again at quarterfinals Margaret Court’s all-time mark, she didn’t time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova play again after Flushing Meadows in who was injured by a knife-wielding intrud- September. She opted for the Auckland er at her home in the Czech Republic last SYDNEY: Former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki’s streak Classic as her comeback tournament last month. Also out is pregnant two-time of not advancing past the quarterfinals in her past week but she was bundled out in just the Australian Open winner Victoria Azarenka, seven Sydney Internationals was extended in sti- second round, complaining loudly about along with five-time major champion Maria fling heat yesterday. the windy conditions. Sharapova, who is suspended until April In temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius Ahead of the defeat, the 35-year-old after failing a drugs test at last year’s tour- (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for much of the match, made clear that Grand Slams were what nament. World number eight Madison Keys Wozniacki lost 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-4 to Barbora Strycova mattered at this stage of her career. is another absentee after minor wrist sur- in a duel that stretched to 3 hours, 19 minutes. “Unfortunately I have the highest of gery.— AFP Both players were treated for foot injuries during a grueling second set at Ken Rosewall Arena. Wozniacki came back from 5-2 down in that set, and then 5-0 in the tiebreaker, to win it and force a third set. “It was brutal out there ... but you just try and think like you’re on a beach drinking pina coladas,” Wozniacki said. “That’s basically your train of thought. You know that it’s the same for both players, so I was just trying to mentally just try and keep cool.” In the semifinals, Strycova will play Agnieszka Radwanska. The second-seeded Pole beat Chinese qualifier Duan Yingying 6-3, 6-2. Former Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard continued her strong start to the year with a 6-2, 6-3 quarterfi- nal win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Bouchard had a breakout season in 2014, reach- ing the semifinals at the Australian Open and French Open before making the final at Wimbledon. But she has only gone past the fourth round at a major once since then and slipped to No. 46 at the end of last year. “I feel more and more confident every day,” MELBOURNE: Tennis player Serena William of the US hits a backhand return during a Bouchard said. “I feel like I’m getting back into the training session in Melbourne yesterday. Top players from around the world are arriv- rhythm of things a little bit, but it’s a long road.” The ing in Melbourne in the lead up to the Australian Open from January 16 to 29. — AFP Canadian’s semifinal opponent will be Sydney-born Johanna Konta of Britain, who beat Daria Kasatkina 6-3, 7-5. Konta broke Kasatkina’s service in the 11th Vonn to return to World game of the second set, helped by a double-fault to set up break point in that game. Last year at the Australian Open, Konta became Cup racing in Austria the first British women to make a Grand Slam semi- final since 1983 before losing to eventual champi- FLACHAU: With Lindsey Vonn’s return to ing her left knee in a super-G crash in on Angelique Kerber. SYDNEY: Eugenie Bouchard of Canada celebrates beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia the World Cup looming, Mikaela Shiffrin is Andorra last February. Two weeks before In men’s play in Sydney, two-time defending in their women’s quarter-final match at the Sydney International tennis tournament in Sydney looking forward to leaving the limelight to her planned comeback at speed races in champion Viktor Troicki beat Paolo Lorenzi 6-3, 6-4, yesterday. — AFP her American teammate. Nursing a knee Lake Louise, Alberta, in November, she and second-seeded Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay injury and a broken arm for the past 11 broke her right upper arm during a fall in defeated Nicolas Mahut of France 6-4, 2-6, 6-2. In months, Vonn was expected to take part in training. The 2010 Olympic downhill cham- Auckland, New Zealand, John Isner narrowly avoid- official downhill training in Altenmarkt- pion returned to skiing last week in Vail, ed the fate of two former champions when he beat Zauchensee, Austria, on Thursday and Colorado, and traveled to Europe after the Malek Jaziri 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (6) to make the quarterfi- Top seed Thiem battles Friday, and probably in two races over the weekend to join the US speed team. nals of the ASB Classic. weekend. Vonn earned two of her record Another American standout, Julia Isner won his last three points with volleys at 76 victories at the Austrian resort a year Mancuso, was also closing in on her come- the net. “The way I need to finish points is that if I past Elias into quarters ago. Shiffrin can’t wait for the four-time back to World Cup racing. A winner of nine can I have to try and finish them at the net,” Isner overall champion to return to the start medals at major championships, Mancuso said. “I did that three times in a row and I’m very SYDNEY: Austrian top seed Dominic Thiem year’s semi-final, will next face Uruguayan sec- gates. “For sure, when she is around, I feel sat out the entire last season to have sur- proud of that.” Four former champions were sched- had a three-set struggle with Portuguese qual- ond seed Pablo Cuevas, who overcame like I am less the one that people want to gery on a persistent hip problem. uled to play second-round matches Wednesday ifier Gastao Elias before clinching a quarter- Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-4, 2-6, 6-2. talk to, and that is definitely nice. I am gen- Like Vonn, Mancuso planned to start in but by the time the second-seeded Isner took the final spot at the Sydney International yester- “It was tough today. I think it was good that erally a quiet person,” Shiffrin told The this week’s training runs in Austria before court, two had bowed out. day. Thiem, the world number eight, had sev- we both have big serves, there were not many Associated Press after finishing third in a deciding about racing over the weekend. Defending champion and No. 1-seeded Roberto eral chances to put away the plucky 81st- rallies so that helped to get through it. I was night slalom on Tuesday. “They both have been amazing athletes Bautista Agut was forced to withdraw before play ranked Elias, only to be broken back before he happy when it was over,” Muller said. “She is really good at the spotlight, I in the sports. For ski racing in the U.S. they began because of a stomach virus, handing Ruben eventually won 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 7-5 in a match The 33-year-old added that he was still have to say that,” Shiffrin said. “She knows have been huge,” Shiffrin said. “I am cross- Statham a place in the second round as a lucky los- that finished at midnight. struggling with the lingering effects of illness how to put on a show. I don’t even think ing my fingers that they can get back in the er from the qualifying rounds. Jiri Vesely, the 2015 Thiem will now face Britain’s number three from last week’s Brisbane International, where she is trying to, she is just like skiing fast starting gate and ski fast because every- champion, was due to play Bautista Agut and Daniel Evans in today’s quarters. “That’s three he lost in the first round to American Jared and doing her thing and everybody wants body loves watching them.” thought he had caught a break when the Spaniard times I’ve played Gastao and each time it has Donaldson. “The result is actually not so bad, to see that.” Vonn hasn’t raced since fractur- The races in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee withdrew and the 434th-ranked Statham took his been very close matches,” Thiem said. “He was the quarter-finals, so I should be happy,” he consist of a downhill on Saturday followed place. But Vesely had a tussle on his hands before running unbelievable with long rallies and I’m said. “I like it here. The courts are quite fast, I a day later by a combined event, with a winning 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-3. very happy to be in the quarter-finals.” enjoy the city. I feel good here. I don’t know super-G and a slalom run. Four-time champion David Ferrer was first up Evans fought back from dropping the what it is, but it’s true my results have been A winner of 24 slaloms and three GS on center court and lost 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (4) to Robin opening set to down Spanish eighth seed great here over the last three years.” races, Shiffrin has been tiptoeing into Haase of the Netherlands. In a night match, fourth- Marcel Granollers 1-6, 6-3, 6-3. Gilles Muller German fifth seed Philipp Kohlschreiber speed races as well. The Olympic slalom seeded Jack Sock beat fellow American Ryan earlier beat the heat to be one match away knocked out Australian Jordan Thompson 7-5, champion was planning to start in Sunday’s Harrison 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-1. from a third straight semi-final appearance at 6-4 and will face the two-time defending combined event but was reluctant to put At the WTA’s Hobart International, former the Sydney International, following a big-serv- champion Viktor Troicki. too many super-G and downhill races on French Open finalist Lucie Safarova was beaten 2-6, ing victory over Australian Matt Barton. Third seed Troicki from Serbia won his 13th her schedule. Her head coach, Mike Day, 6-3, 7-5 by Japanese qualifier Risa Ozaki. Ozaki will The sixth seed from Luxembourg prevailed consecutive match at the Sydney international said Shiffrin “is a racer who puts in a lot of next meet Monica Niculescu. Top-seeded Kiki over Barton 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 as temperatures with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Italy’s Paolo Lorenzi. volume into the training and is looking for Bertens advanced with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Galina nudged 42 Celsius (108 Fahrenheit) to reach Kohlschreiber needed just 84 minutes to a specific feeling to be confident going into Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan and Shelby Rogers the quarter-finals. cruise past Thompson, who failed to save a Muller, who lost to Grigor Dimitrov in last single break point.—AFP Lindsey Vonn the races.”—AP defeated Lara Arruabarrena of Spain 6-2, 6-2. — AP THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 SPORTS

All-Star Game rules force tough omissions on rosters

LOS ANGELES: The NHL All-Star Game’s sweet, I think. I’ve just got to completely playoff contention after the Great White tatives from their three respective SLUMPING 3-on-3, four-team tournament format admit that there’s a handful of guys on North was shut out in 2016 and the teams. A four-game skid dropped Tampa put an intriguing spin on a staid exer- this team that are definitely more overall NHL standings are topped by the Edmonton goalie Cam Talbot has Bay into sixth place in the Atlantic cise when it was introduced last season. deserving, especially this year. ... Why I Columbus Blue Jackets - a franchise with already won 20 games for the surging Division. The Lightning allowed a whop- The format also essentially guaranteed a got picked ahead of those guys, based zero playoff series victories in its first 15 Oilers, but was beaten out by San Jose’s ping 22 goals during the losing streak. few glaring snubs when the All-Star on performance, I’m not sure.” NHL seasons.But the All-Star snubs are Martin Jones and Arizona’s Mike Smith. Goalie Ben Bishop has been sidelined teams are chosen. Panarin is a particularly baffling numerous, too. Buffalo’s Rasmus Ristolainen, Boston’s for three weeks with a lower-body All four teams must have six for- omission: The rising Russian star known How about Columbus’ Cam Atkinson, David Pastrnak, Minnesota’s Eric Staal, injury, but should return soon. wards, three defensemen and two as the Bread Man had a whopping 41 who began Tuesday in a tie for eighth in Winnipeg’s Mark Scheifele, Pittsburgh’s goalies apiece from each NHL division, points in 43 games, ranking sixth in the the NHL scoring race with 39 points? He Phil Kessel, Philadelphia’s Jakub Voracek GAME(S) OF THE WEEK and every franchise in the league must NHL scoring race. Even defenseman has scored plenty of big goals during and Columbus rookie Zach Werenski Pittsburgh vs. Washington. The be represented at least once. Those Brent Seabrook, who wasn’t among the Blue Jackets’ impressive rise, but also made strong cases in the first half defending Stanley Cup champion restrictions essentially guarantee an Chicago’s NHL-high four All-Stars, has wasn’t invited to join defenseman Seth of the season - and they’re still not Penguins and Ovechkin’s powerful elite forward or defenseman in each outscored Toews this year. Jones and goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. entirely out of the picture. Capitals meet twice in six days, playing division will be a victim of the numbers Perhaps Toews was invited because “With Jonesey and with Bob, it’s well- Injuries sometimes factor into the in Washington on Wednesday night and game. of an ulterior motive: The NHL will deserved,” Columbus coach John NHL’s initial All-Star decisions, with in Pittsburgh on Monday, Jan. 16. The Especially when veteran stars such as unveil its choice of the top 100 players Tortorella said. “There’s a few other guys teams quietly letting the league know rivals are both on lengthy winning Jonathan Toews can’t figure out why in league history on Jan. 27 in Los there that probably had a couple looks. when players have a nagging issue that streaks as they begin the week in a they’re going. Angeles, two days before the All-Star You look at Cam and some of the things could endanger their All-Star availabili- three-way tie with the Rangers for sec- In perhaps the most curious choice in Game at Staples Center. Toews, the he’s done. But to get a couple guys on ty. Additional injury dropouts in the ond place behind NHL-leading Tuesday’s selections, Toews was chosen three-time Stanley Cup champion and the team, it’s great.” ensuing two weeks could allow the NHL Columbus in the Metropolitan. over teammates Artemi Panarin, Marian the youngest player to make the Triple Or how about Montreal’s Max to make up some of the omissions. Hossa and Artem Anisimov, who have Gold Club, could be a part of those fes- Pacioretty (34 points) and Alexander LEADERS all outscored the Blackhawks’ captain tivities. Radulov (31 points), the Canadiens’ top STREAKING Points: Connor McDavid, Edmonton, 48; this season. Sure, Toews is one of the The rest of the All-Star rosters are an two scorers during their outstanding The Washington Capitals have won Goals: Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh, 26; Plus- NHL’s elite centers, but he scored only appropriate mix of talented veterans season? They were beaten out in the six straight, keeping pace in the brutal Minus: Justin Schultz, Pittsburgh, plus-24; 20 points in 34 games. and young stars from the first half of a Atlantic Division by Detroit’s Frans Metropolitan Division. Alex Ovechkin’s Ice Time: Dustin Byfuglien, Winnipeg, “Most of the time, I guess I’d say it’s surprising season in which 19-year-old Nielsen (22 points), Buffalo’s Kyle next point will be his 1,000th in the NHL 27:20; Goals-Against Average: Devan an honor,” Toews told reporters in Connor McDavid is the NHL scoring Okposo (27 points) and Florida’s Vincent after a three-point performance to beat Dubnyk, Minnesota, 1.80; Save Percentage: Chicago. “This time, it’s a little bitter- leader, several Canadian teams are in Trocheck (24 points), the only represen- Montreal on Monday. Devan Dubnyk, Minnesota, .939. —AP

We deserve more World Cup slots, says Asian chief KUALA LUMPUR: Asia’s football chief said the an impact at the World Cup, which is domi- region “deserves more slots” at the World Cup, nated by European and South American as FIFA’s decision to expand the tournament teams, although co-hosts South Korea to 48 teams from 2026 was cheered in coun- reached the semi-finals in 2002. tries from China to New Zealand. Sheikh In China, who are 82nd in the FIFA rank- Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa said Asia’s size ings but have set their sights on becoming a and economic might merited more than its global football power, the official Xinhua current allocation of four guaranteed spots, news agency said FIFA’s move represented a which is expected to rise to eight. big opportunity. Chinese state media said the move could “Even if the levels of skill and strategy in help realise the country’s “dream” of returning the Chinese men’s football do not grow in to the World Cup, while New Zealand, which leaps and bounds by 2026, the initial objec- looks set to be a key beneficiary, called the tives of (China’s) football reform will have move “fantastic news”. been realised,” a Xinhua commentary said. Many critics have rounded on the deci- “By then, with the added bonus of World sion, complaining it will dilute the quality of Cup expansion, it is highly possible that the World Cup and saying it was driven by China’s return to the World Cup will no longer hunger for profits and political gain. be just a dream.” Football Federation Australia But Sheikh Salman, president of the Asian chief executive David Gallop said FIFA’s move Football Confederation (AFC), said it would “recognised the growth of the game outside have a “positive impact on Asian football”. “We of Europe and South America”. “As the quality believe that Asia, as the biggest continent, of Asian football continues to improve, AFC deserves more slots compared with the cur- member associations will justifiably deserve rent quota, looking at the economic power it greater representation at the FIFA World Cup,” has, and the popularity for the game in Asia, he said in a statement. in addition to the huge development for foot- Japan coach Vahid Halilhodzic said the ball at all levels,” he said in a statement. expansion “makes sense”, while Japan Sheikh Salman is a vice-president of the Football Association chief Kozo Tashima told FIFA Council, which on Tuesday approved the local media: “We would like to see the extra move to increase the number of World Cup profits shared with many countries. competitors from 32 to 48 teams, the biggest “We will discuss the issue of Asian slots rise in its history. but we would hope they will be increased by The expansion was a key election promise one, two or three.” New Zealand look certain of FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who beat to qualify if Oceania, by far the weakest of the Sheikh Salman to the post in polls early last six FIFA confederations, get a guaranteed year. A confidential FIFA report seen by AFP World Cup spot. New Zealand Football chief forecasts a 48-team tournament would bring Andy Martin hailed the prospect of “giant- a cash boost of $640 million (605 million killing” opportunities and said any surprise euros) above projected revenues for next results in the World Cup will “add to the quali- year’s edition in Russia. ty of the competition, no doubt”. American Samoa’s football body jokingly tweeted: ‘NO LONGER JUST A DREAM’ “Congratulations @NZ_Football who have CHICAGO: Artem Anisimov #15 of the Chicago Blackhawks tries to get control of the puck in front of Danny DeKeyser #65 of the Detroit Red Asian countries have largely failed to make qualified for the 2026 World Cup!” —AFP Wings at the United Center on Tuesdayin Chicago, Illinois. The Blackhawks defeated the Red Wings 4-3 in overtime. — AFP

Expanded World Cup has Boedker’s hat trick leads China daring to dream Sharks to win over Oilers SHANGHAI: China’s football chief and state realised,” said the commentary issued late media hailed FIFA’s decision to expand the Tuesday. “By then, with the added bonus of World Cup to 48 teams from 2026, saying it World Cup expansion, it is highly possible EDMONTON: Winger Mikkel Boedker, who SABRES 4, FLYERS 1 of overtime lifted the Nashville Predators to could help realise the country’s “dream” of that China’s return to the World Cup will no had three goals all season, scored three in the Sam Reinhart had a goal and two assists to victory over the Vancouver Canucks. With returning to the sport’s grandest stage. longer be just a dream.” first two periods to give San Jose a lead they lead the Buffalo Sabres to a win over the Mattias Ekholm off for holding, Nashville got Chinese Football Association President Cai FIFA voted on Tuesday to expand the would never relinquish in their victory over Philadelphia Flyers. William Carrier, Evander a 2-on-0 with Roman Josi carrying the puck Zhenhua called the expansion an opportuni- World Cup from 32 teams to 48, with its presi- Edmonton. Boedker had three goals on his Kane and Marcus Foligno also scored for the down the ice. Josi fed Jarnkrok at the right ty for China, who currently languish at 82nd dent Gianni Infantino saying more countries first three shots, scoring at 1:39 of the first Sabres. Anders Nilsson was solid between the post and he beat Ryan Miller for his sixth goal in the world rankings, sandwiched between needed a chance to shine in a tournament period and 2:24 and 8:55 of the second. It was pipes and made 39 saves. Brayden Schenn of the season. Pekka Rinne made 29 saves for St Kitts and Nevis (population 60,000) and the dominated by Europe and South America, his fourth career hat trick. Brent Burns also scored the lone goal for the Flyers. Steve the win, while Miller stopped 24 shots but Faroe Islands (population 49,000). while critics derided the move as driven by scored in the first period for the Sharks, who Mason made 23 saves. saw his five-game winning streak end. “The 2026 World Cup is still far off but you profit and politics. led 2-1 after one period and 4-1 after two. The could say that China will have more chances The decision is likely to mean Asia dou- Oilers launched a fierce rally in the third peri- BRUINS 5, BLUES 3 DUCKS 2, STARS 0 after the World Cup expansion,” Cai was quot- bling their guaranteed World Cup finals allo- od to turn a blowout into a nail biter. Frank Vatrano and Torey Krug each scored John Gibson posted his second shutout in ed as saying by the Beijing Youth Daily. Cai cation from four to eight countries, with the Defenseman Matt Benning put a wrist shot and set up a goal to lead the Boston Bruins four days and Jakob Silfverberg scored spoke as Team Dragon went down 2-0 at ninth-placed qualifier facing a playoff. to a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Blues. The Anaheim’s first power-play goal at home in home to Iceland in the invitational China Cup “Many more countries will have the past Martin Jones before defenseman Oscar Bruins carried a 4-1 lead into the third peri- nearly a month as the Ducks beat the Dallas tournament. State mouthpiece Xinhua said in chance to dream,” Infantino said. Klefbom cut the deficit to 4-3. San Jose’s a commentary Wednesday that the 48-team China has the world’s biggest population Logan Couture stopped the bleeding with a od before a power-play goal by Patrik Stars. Silfverberg also set up Andrew World Cup will complement official efforts to and a cash-rich domestic league that has in breakaway goal. Drake Caggiula scored Berglund at 10:15. Brad Marchand was cred- Cogliano’s third-period goal for the Ducks, improve the standards of football in China. the past month broken the Asian transfer Edmonton’s first period goal. ited with his second goal of the game when who stayed even with the San Jose Sharks “Even if the levels of skill and strategy in the record with Shanghai SIPG paying 60 million the puck deflected off Alex Pietrangelo into atop the Pacific Division. Gibson finished with Chinese men’s football do not grow in leaps euros for Oscar, while making Carlos Tevez BLACKHAWKS 4, RED WINGS 3 (OT) an empty net with 1:17 to play. St. Louis 34 saves in his third shutout of the season and bounds by 2026, the initial objectives of reportedly the world’s highest-salaried player Duncan Keith scored a power-play goal 38 responded with a goal by Kyle Brodziak with and ninth of his career. He stopped three (China’s) football reform will have been at Shanghai Shenhua.—AFP seconds into overtime and Corey Crawford 25 seconds to play. shots over the final 1:27 with Ducks defense- made 33 saves as the Chicago Blackhawks man Kevin Bieksa serving a high-sticking beat the Detroit Red Wings. Keith’s game-win- PREDATORS 2, CANUCKS 1 (OT) penalty and Dallas goalie Antti Niemi pulled ner came after the Blackhawks began over- Calle Jarnkrok’s shorthanded goal at 4:58 for a two-man advantage. —Reuters time with an extra-man advantage after Detroit’s Justin Abdelkader was sent off for NHL results/standings boarding after driving Niklas Hjalmarsson late in the third period. Crawford helped preserve Anaheim 2, Dallas 0; San Jose 5, Edmonton 3; Chicago 4, Detroit 3 (OT); Boston 5, St. Louis 3; Nashville 2, Vancouver 1 the 3-3 tie in the third period with several key (OT); Buffalo 4, Philadelphia 1; Carolina 5, Columbus 3. saves, including one after he turned the puck Western Conference Boston 22 17 5 110 108 49 over before sliding back into the crease to Central Division Ottawa 21 14 4 99 102 46 knock down a Frans Nielsen shot on goal. WLOTLGFGAPTS Toronto 18 13 8 120 116 44 Chicago 27 12 5 124 107 59 Florida 18 16 8 98 113 44 Minnesota 25 9 5 123 85 55 HURRICANES 5, BLUE JACKETS 3 Tampa Bay 19 19 4 118 127 42 Jordan Staal scored on a strange deflection St. Louis 21 15 5 117 123 47 Nashville 18 16 7 114 111 43 Buffalo 16 15 9 93 110 41 to break a third-period tie as the Carolina Winnipeg 20 20 3 118 126 43 Detroit 17 18 6 103 119 40 Hurricanes produced a 5-3 victory against the Dallas 17 17 8 109 127 42 Metropolitan Division Columbus Blue Jackets. Staal’s goal came from Colorado 13 25 1 79 130 27 Columbus 28 8 4 135 90 60 Elias Lindholm’s shot deflecting off Staal’s Pacific Division Pittsburgh 26 8 5 139 109 57 mid-section and the puck ending up in the San Jose 25 14 2 110 93 52 Washington 26 9 5 115 84 57 net. Jeff Skinner, Derek Ryan and Brock Anaheim 22 13 8 115 113 52 NY Rangers 28 13 1 146 107 57 McGinn scored in the second period for the Edmonton 21 15 7 123 118 49 Calgary 22 19 2 114 119 46 Philadelphia 21 16 6 124 133 48 Hurricanes, while Victor Rask added an emp- Los Angeles 20 17 4 102 105 44 Carolina 19 15 7 109 111 45 ty-net goal with 20 seconds to play. Cam Vancouver 20 19 4 106 123 44 New Jersey 16 18 8 95 124 40 NANNING: Leonardo Valencia (C) of Chile fights for the ball with Mario Situm (L) of Atkinson, Josh Anderson and Brandon Saad Arizona 12 22 6 86 128 30 Eastern Conference NY Islanders 15 15 8 106 117 38 Croatia during a 2017 Gree China Cup International Football Championship group scored for Columbus (28-8-4), who have the NHL’s best record but lost for the third time in Atlantic Division Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the match at Guangxi Sports Center Stadium in Nanning, south China’s Guangxi province Montreal 25 10 6 125 97 56 standings and are not included in the loss column (L) yesterday. — AFP the last four games after winning 16 in a row. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 SPORTS

Ronaldo, Modric rested for King’s Cup game at Sevilla

BARCELONA: Real Madrid have rest- claim their first title in five years. Zidane unveiled his squad list after thing,” he said. “What Sevilla are doing of the possibility of a comeback but the ed Cristiano Ronaldo and Luka Modric The Andalusian club are second in giving his pre-game news conference, at the moment is phenomenal. They are reality is that’s going to be very compli- for today’s King’s Cup last 16, second the standings, trailing Real by four where he said Real would not relax in a really strong team with quality play- cated,” said the Argentine coach. leg at Sevilla but captain Sergio points although they have played a the second leg despite their heavy ers. Both games are vital to us, it’s a big “For us Sunday’s game is like a final. Ramos is back after injury, the club game more. advantage. week for us.” Sevilla coach Jorge We want to cut the gap with them and said yesterday. Real midfielders Lucas Vazquez and “We know it’s another game and it’s Sampaoli said his side would attempt that game is where we will be able to With Real winning last week’s first Mateo Kovacic have also returned to going to be hard because Sevilla are to turn the tie around on Wednesday say: ‘Here we are and we’re going to leg 3-0, coach Zinedine Zidane’s priority the squad alongside Ramos although going to do everything they can to win but added that his priority was fight for this league title’. “Winning looks to have turned to Sunday’s La James Rodriguez, scorer of two of the the game and we’re expecting it to be Sunday’s league match. would take us to within a point of a Liga game back at Sevilla, which could three goals in the first leg, has been left difficult. We’re prepared for that and it “We’re going to try and put in a per- leader everyone thought was unreach- have a huge impact on their bid to out after sustaining a slight calf injury. (the first leg result) won’t change any- formance that would allow us to dream able.” —Reuters

Griezmann sees Atletico into Cup quarters despite defeat

MADRID: Antoine Griezmann struck for FIFA’s gala just 24 hours earlier and had the the third time in as many games in 2017 as first big chance when he fired straight at Atletico Madrid secured their place in the Raul Lizoain on 23 minutes. Las Palmas had quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey 4-3 on chances to get back into the tie as Miguel aggregate despite losing 3-2 at home to Angel Moya produced a great save to deny Las Palmas on Tuesday. Livaja’s header at the near post before Tana Griezmann shrugged off the disappoint- blasted over when well-placed inside the ment of finishing third behind Cristiano area. Griezmann scored for the first time in Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for world’s best La Liga for three months in a 2-0 win at player at the inaugural Best FIFA Football Eibar on Saturday, but the Frenchman is Awards on Monday to force home the now on his best scoring run of the season opener four minutes into the second half. as he tapped home Nicolas Gaitan’s cross at A fine individual effort from Marko the start of the second half to give Atletico Livaja gave Las Palmas a brief lifeline, but extra breathing space. Livaja took advan- Angel Correa looked to have killed the tie tage of some uncharacteristically lax off just after the hour mark. defending from Diego Godin and Jose However, the hosts were made to sweat Maria Gimenez to drive through the heart in the final seconds of stoppage time as of the Atletico defence and smash the ball two goals in three minutes from Livaja and into the far corner. Mateo Garcia gave Las Palmas victory on However, just four minutes later Correa the night. “These type of things always controlled a long ball from Koke and happen in the Copa del Rey,” Atletico boss shrugged off his marker before finishing Diego Simeone told BeIN Sports Spain. from a narrow angle to put Atletico back in “They finished the few chances they had front. The game appeared to be petering well which meant, despite us having the out when a great touch and cross from game under control, they take away the Garcia teed up Livaja for a second equaliser victory.” Despite holding a commanding 2- a minute from time. 0 first leg lead, Atletico boss Diego And Garcia then volleyed home himself Simeone took no chances by naming a from Jonathan Viera’s free-kick deep into strong side. Griezmann was included stoppage time, but Atletico held out to despite making the trip to Zurich to attend progress. — AFP

MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s French striker Anthony Martial (2R) shoots but fails to score during the EFL (English Football League) Cup semi-final football match between Manchester United and Hull City at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England on Tuesday. — AFP Mata and Fellaini give Man Utd League Cup edge

MANCHESTER: Juan Mata and Marouane Fellaini struck to give Manchester United a 2-0 victory over injury-ravaged Hull City in Tuesday’s Egypt look to rekindle glory days League Cup semi-final first leg at Old Trafford. All eyes were on United captain Wayne CAIRO: Egypt return to the African Cup of channels which are more occupied with the Rooney, who is chasing a record 250th goal for Nations after a seven-year absence with a new country’s political and economic crises. the club, but it was Mata who broke the dead- generation looking to rekindle the glory days With the retirement of golden era stars lock in the 56th minute before substitute Fellaini of three consecutive titles before the 2011 Mohamed Abou Treika, Ahmed Hassan, Wael added a late second. It puts Jose Mourinho’s uprising exhausted Egyptian football. Gomaa, and Mohamed Zidan, more room was men in the driving seat ahead of the return leg Watching football has for decades been a made for younger players. In addition to on January 26, although it was not until Fellaini favourite past-time for millions of Egyptians, Salah, the lineup includes other prominent headed home in the 87th minute that they final- especially with the national team who won the players such as Mohamed Elneny, Ramadan ly put the game beyond Hull. title in 2006, 2008, and 2010, making them Sobhi, and Ahmed Elmohamady who play for Nevertheless, they have now won nine games one of the strongest teams in Africa and the the English clubs of Arsenal, Stoke City, and in succession and look in fine fettle ahead of Middle East. Hull City, and Kahraba who plays for the Saudi arch rivals Liverpool’s visit in the Premier League But after 2011 this passion was rolled back club Al-Ittihad. The Egyptian team’s lineup on Sunday. Hull’s new manager Marco Silva, tak- among many fans due to memories of vio- includes 10 professional players based abroad, ing charge of his second game, was able to lence and was dimmed in a faltering economy. the biggest number in tournament history. name only six substitutes and lost both Markus “Egypt returns to the tournament under totally Henriksen and Josh Tymon to injury. different circumstances,” Karim Ramzy, the A CHANCE TO REUNITE Liverpool, last season’s beaten finalists, visit managing editor of the independent Yallakora Still, the fans fear the lack of experience of Southampton in the first leg of the second semi- website, told AFP. “Egypt’s national team has the newer players, although the participation final on Wednesday. drastically changed in comparison to the team of legendary goalkeeper Essam Al Hadari and MADRID: Atletico Madrid’s Argentinian midfielder Angel Correa (L) vies with Las Despite Mourinho making seven changes to Palmas’ Uruguayan defender Lemos during the Spanish Copa del Rey (King’s Cup) which last participated in the tournament,” defender Ahmed Fathy, who won three tour- the team that had outclassed Reading 4-0 in the said Ramzy. The tournament kicks off on naments, could boost the newcomers. round of 16 second leg football match Club Atletico de Madrid vs UD Las Palmas at FA Cup on Saturday, United picked up where the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on Tuesday. — AFP January 14 in Gabon with Egypt drawn in “Egypt’s return carries big gains for this gener- they had left off, peppering the Hull goal with Group D alongside Ghana, Uganda and Mali. ation of players,” Ahmed Hassan, the captain of shots. Hull goalkeeper Eldin Jakupovic had to Out of the 23 players called up by the team that won three consecutive titles,” produce a one-handed save to thwart Mata Argentinian coach Hector Cuper, 19 are play- told AFP. “There is a lack in experience and no Giaccherini helps fire inside two minutes and moments later Andy ing for the first time in the tournament, includ- interaction with African teams for many of the Robertson stopped Rooney applying the finish- ing Roma star Mohamed Salah. Conditions players, and it is possible that Egypt’s perform- Napoli into Cup quarters ing touch to Marcus Rashford’s shot. The pres- drastically changed in Egypt amid the political ance does not rise up to the audience’s aspira- ence of David Meyler and Tom Huddlestone in and security turmoil that has engulfed the tions,” said Hassan. defence and the fact there were only six players country since the January 2011 uprising that Still, “Egypt always does well in tourna- MILAN: A superb second-half volley from Albiol and bounced into the net. on the Hull bench told the story of the visitors’ toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak. ments,” says Hassan. In Egypt winning this Emanuele Giaccherini set Napoli up for an Piccolo, a native Neapolitan, refused to injury problems and there was more to come. These disturbances impacted football, tournament was an outlet for the fans frustrat- impressive 3-1 win over La Spezia that celebrate-perhaps also due to the way he reflected in the team’s absence from the tour- ed at not qualifying for the World Cup since secured a place in the Italian Cup quarter- scored. Rafael then parried Alessandro Piu’s ROONEY GOES CLOSE nament in 2012, 2013, and 2015, despite win- 1990. Watching the games has been a chance finals on Tuesday. Napoli coach Maurizio drive at the near post and was happy to see Henriksen was left clutching his right shoul- ning seven tournaments before, a continental for family and friends to unit behind the Sarri and makeshift striker Dries Mertens Piccolo’s curling shot charged down. der in agony after being knocked over by Paul record. The national team does not receive the national team despite turmoil. were notable absences at the San Paolo Spezia looked determined after the Pogba and had to go off in the 16th minute, with same level of support as it did under Mubarak, Football matches in Egypt have held due to both serving one-match suspen- restart, until Giaccherini timed a run to per- Abel Hernandez taking his place. whose sons Gamal and Alaa used to visit train- behind closed doors in empty stadiums void sions and watched from the comfort of the fection and met Insigne’s weighted delivery United, missing the ill Zlatan Ibrahimovic, ing sessions and attend matches. of fans since 19 Zamalek fans were killed in executive boxes. By the end of a dominant with a sweet right-footed volley that sailed continued to swarm forward, Mkhitaryan twice “Political and economic challenges” led to a February 2015 and 72 Al-Ahli fans perished first half for the Serie A title challengers, past Chichizola and into the far top corner shooting wide, Rashford lashing over and reduced interest in football, said Ramzy. three years earlier. “I hope it becomes a big Sarri had his head in his hands in frustra- of the net. Spezia heads went down and Jakupovic shovelling a long-range Pogba effort “Under Mubarak, there was nothing in the opportunity for Egyptians to come together tion after Antonio Piccolo’s deflected 35th- two minutes later Marko Rog coolly drib- over the crossbar. country more important than football. It was behind one team that is playing under Egypt’s minute strike levelled Piotr Zielinski’s well- bled his way into the area to deliver a cross But Hull, the Premier League’s bottom club, more important than presidential and parlia- name, especially after the country went taken third-minute opener for the hosts. that Gabbiadini chested into the net from began to offer an attacking threat of their own mentary elections,” he said. through a terrible phase of polarisation,” Spezia had eliminated Serie A strugglers close range. as half-time approached in the club’s first ever Very little airtime is dedicated to the team’s added Hany Hathout, a presenter with private Palermo in the previous round, but any Leonardo Pavoletti, recently signed from League Cup semi-final match. participation in the tournament on satellite eXtra News channel. —AFP hopes of causing an upset were quickly Genoa, made his Napoli debut when he Adama Diomande gave United a scare when extinguished. Zielinski exposed the visitors replaced Gabbiadini 10 minutes from the he headed against the post, only for an offside barely three minutes in after collecting pos- end and spurned a great chance in the flag to then go up, and both Snodgrass and session on the left, cutting in unchallenged dying minutes when he bundled over the Hernandez tested David de Gea before the inter- and beating Leandro Chichizola in the bar from a yard out. — AFP val. Rooney’s moment of history looked to have Spezia net with a superb curling strike at arrived in the 51st minute when Pogba’s fine, the keeper’s far post. Napoli should have flighted pass set him racing in on goal from the doubled their lead, but were wasteful every right, but he drilled his shot inches wide of the time. Manolo Gabbiadini had stepped in to Matches on TV far post. Instead it was Mata who provided the replace Mertens and tested Chichizola with (Local Timings) breakthrough, stabbing in on the volley at the a fierce long-range strike on 24 minutes. back post after Antonio Valencia’s cross from the Lorenzo Insigne then hit the post with right was headed back across goal by the softest of touches from Giaccherini’s SPAIN COPA DEL REY Mkhitaryan. cut-back, and from the corner Zielinski Celta v Valencia 21:00 After Diomande had volleyed over acrobati- forced Chichizola into a desperate one- beIN SPORTS cally for Hull, Pogba came within a whisker of handed tip over the crossbar. SD Eibar v Osasuna 21:00 doubling United’s lead, his curling free-kick Gabbiadini turned on the style, control- beIN SPORTS clanging against the left-hand post and bounc- ling well to drop a backheel into the path Sevilla v Real Madrid 23:15 ing away. It seemed Hull would escape with only of Insigne only for his curling strike to inch a one-goal deficit, but with three minutes beIN SPORTS agonisingly wide. A Giulio Maggiore snap- remaining Fellaini met Matteo Darmian’s cross CAIRO: Egypt’s replacement players stand during the international friendly football match shot on a rare Spezia foray fired a warning ITALIAN CUP with a looping header that Huddlestone could between Egypt and Tunisia at the Cairo International Stadium in the capital Cairo. Egypt to Napoli keeper Rafael, who after punch- only help over the line. return to the African Cup of Nations after a seven-year absence with a new generation ing a dangerous cross into the path of AC Milan v Torino FC 23:00 Silva’s injury woes mounted yet further in looking to rekindle the glory days of three consecutive titles before the 2011 uprising Piccolo on the edge of the area was left AD SPORTS 3 HD stoppage time when 17-year-old left-back exhausted Egyptian football. — AFP rooted when his shot deflected off Raul Tymon had to limp off. — AFP Clemson fans turn ‘Miracle Man’ out to welcome Jacobs to challenge national unbeaten champions15 Golovkin16 THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017

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TORONTO: Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (7) drives past Boston Celtics center Al Horford (42) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday in Toronto. — AP DeRozan scores 41 as Raptors top Celtics

TORONTO: DeMar DeRozan scored a season- Jazz hold on. Rudy Gobert had 11 points and BUCKS 109, SPURS 107 Kenny Atkinson was a Hawks assistant for quarter, outscoring Los Angeles 23-12. high 41 points, Kyle Lowry had 24 and the 14 rebounds for Utah. James finished with 29 Michael Beasley scored a season-high 28 four years, the last three (2013-16) under Damian Lillard overcame an 0-for-8 start Toronto Raptors rallied to end the Boston points and Kyrie Irving added 20 for the points in place of an ill Giannis Antetokounmpo, current Atlanta coach Mike Budenholzer. to finish with 20 points, eight rebounds Celtics’ four-game winning streak with a 114- defending champs. Kyle Korver had two points and Milwaukee rallied to beat San Antonio. and six assists for Portland. Al-Farouq 106 victory Tuesday night. DeRozan added 13 and three rebounds in 17 minutes during his Kawhi Leonard had 30 points for the Spurs, who WARRIORS 107, HEAT 95 Aminu had 15 rebounds, and Maurice rebounds for his second double-double of the Cleveland debut. had their nine-game home winning streak Stephen Curry had 24 points, nine Harkless scored 14 points. The Lakers shot season, and Jonas Valanciunas had 18 points snapped. Jabari Parker’s layup with 2:56 remain- assists and eight rebounds, Kevin Durant 38.6 percent for the game. Luol Deng led and a career-high 23 rebounds. The Raptors WIZARDS 101, BULLS 99 ing gave Milwaukee a 103-101 lead, its first since added 28 points and Golden State picked them with 14 points but did not make a bounced back after losing to Chicago and John Wall scored 26 points, including a the 3:24 mark of the first quarter. Moments later, it up late to beat Miami. Durant also had field goal after the first half. Houston last weekend. Toronto also kept itself game-winning baseline jumper with 5.9 sec- rookie Malcolm Brogdon hit a 3-pointer to give eight rebounds and Draymond Green above Boston in the Eastern Conference stand- onds left, and added 14 assists as Washington the Bucks a 108-107 edge. Brogdon sank one of had 13 points, nine rebounds and five KINGS 100, PISTONS 94 ings. A win would have pulled the Celtics even moved above .500 by defeating Chicago. two free throws with 6.7 seconds to go, and assists in the Warriors’ fifth straight win DeMarcus Cousins had 24 points, 13 with the Raptors for second place behind Marcin Gortat had 10 points and 12 rebounds Manu Ginobili’s 3-pointer hit the side of the against the Heat and eighth in 10, includ- rebounds and six assists to help Cleveland. Isaiah Thomas had 27 points and for Washington (19-18). He also set the screen backboard at the buzzer. Antetokounmpo, who ing three in a row at home. Klay Sacramento stage a fourth-quarter come- Marcus Smart scored 16 for the Celtics. Boston that freed up Wall for his tiebreaking jumper to missed Milwaukee’s previous game, started Thompson had the night off for rest after back in defeating Detroit. The Pistons led pulled in front with 3:54 left in the second seal a 10th straight home win. Markieff Morris despite having a fever at morning shootaround. he played through illness the past two by nine entering the fourth, when they quarter and led until Lowry’s 3-pointer with and Bradley Beal each scored 19 points for the He was scoreless for the first time this season, games. Hassan Whiteside had 28 points were outscored 32-17. The victory 2:41 remaining in the game. With 5:05 to play, Wizards, who completed their biggest come- missing his only three attempts in nine minutes. and 20 rebounds for the Heat, outscored snapped a three-game losing streak for Boston was ahead 102-95, but the Raptors back victory of the season after trailing by 18 in Beasley responded with 22 points in the second 26-14 in the third quarter after leading the Kings, who had lost five of six since closed on a 19-4 run to clinch the victory, their the second quarter. Washington is above .500 half. Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge was side- 54-53 at halftime. Miami lost its third winning a season-high four straight. second of the season over Boston. for the first time since it was 6-5 last season on lined with a stomach virus. straight game and dropped to 1-4 on a Anthony Tolliver added 17 points for Nov. 24, 2015. Denzel Valentine set career six-game road trip. Sacramento, and Kosta Koufos scored ROCKETS 121, HORNETS 114 highs by scoring 19 points and making five 3- HAWKS 117, NETS 97 eight of his 12 in the final period. The James Harden had 40 points, 15 rebounds pointers for the short-handed Bulls, who led by Dennis Schroder had 19 points and 10 TRAIL BLAZERS 108, LAKERS 87 Kings closed the game with an 11-2 run, and 10 assists for his second consecutive triple- seven in the fourth quarter. Rajon Rondo assists, Dwight Howard added 14 points and C.J. McCollum scored 25 points and and Detroit went scoreless over the final double, and Houston outlasted Charlotte for its added 12 points in his first game since Dec. 30. 16 rebounds, and Atlanta beat skidding Portland used a dominant third quarter 1:15. Sacramento made four 3-pointers in ninth straight win. The Rockets missed 10 shots Chicago was without leading scorers Jimmy Brooklyn to win its season-high seventh to defeat Los Angeles for the 10th con- the fourth and was 13 of 24 overall from in a row and let an 18-point lead evaporate Butler (ill) and Dwyane Wade (resting). Bulls straight. Paul Millsap added 14 points for the secutive time. The Trail Blazers were down beyond the arc, including 4 of 5 for before coach Mike D’Antoni called a timeout forward Nikola Mirotic also sat out with an ill- Hawks, who led the entire way and have won by two to start the second half, but held Cousins. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope made with 2:26 left. Ryan Anderson made Houston’s ness. Wall hit a pull-up that tied it at 99 with eight of their last nine road games. Brook the Lakers to 21.7 percent shooting (5 of six 3s and had 21 points for the Pistons, first shot in more than four minutes with a 3- 47.4 seconds to play. Lopez scored 20 points for the Nets, who have 23) and blocked four shots in the third who had won three of four. — AP pointer out of the timeout, and after a block on lost seven in a row and 12 of 13. Nets coach the other end, Harden’s layup put Houston up 115-111 with just over a minute to play. Kemba Walker cut the deficit to one with a 3-pointer, NBA results/standings but another layup by Harden made it 117-114 Portland 108, LA Lakers 87; Golden State 107, Miami 95; Sacramento 100, Detroit 94; Utah 100, Cleveland 92; Man City charged over with 28.6 seconds left. Charlotte missed three Milwaukee 109, San Antonio 107; Houston 121, Charlotte 114; Toronto 114, Boston 106; Atlanta 117, Brooklyn 97; 3-point tries in the final seconds. Harden got Washington 101, Chicago 99. his 11th triple-double this season and the 20th anti-doping procedures of his career. He had 40 points, 11 assists and Eastern Conference Western Conference Atlantic Division Northwest Division LONDON: Manchester City have been have been charged in relation to the 10 rebounds Sunday against Toronto, making W L PCT GB Utah 24 16 .600 - him the fourth player in NBA history with at Toronto 25 13 .658 - Oklahoma City 23 16 .590 0.5 charged by the Football Association FA’s rules on anti-doping,” an FA state- least 40 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in Boston 23 15 .605 2 Portland 17 23 .425 7 with breaching its anti-doping proce- ment read. consecutive games. Walker had 25 points for NY Knicks 17 21 .447 8 Denver 14 23 .378 8.5 dures, the governing body said yester- “It is alleged the club failed to the Hornets, who dropped their third straight. Philadelphia 10 25 .286 13.5 Minnesota 12 26 .316 11 day. The FA said the issue referred to ensure that their ‘Club Whereabouts’ Brooklyn 8 29 .216 16.5 Pacific Division rules concerning “club whereabouts”, information was accurate. Central Division Golden State 33 6 .846 - JAZZ 100, CAVS 92 Cleveland 28 9 .757 - but no other information was given. “City have until 19 January 2017 to LA Clippers 26 14 .650 7.5 Gordon Hayward went toe-to-toe with Indiana 20 18 .526 8.5 Under FA rules, English clubs are respond to the charge.” City are cur- LeBron James in the second half to help Utah Milwaukee 19 18 .514 9 Sacramento 16 22 .421 16.5 required to provide the correct details rently fourth in the Premier League, beat Cleveland. Hayward had 28 points and Chicago 19 20 .487 10 LA Lakers 15 27 .357 19.5 of training sessions, as well as player seven points behind leaders Chelsea, Detroit 18 22 .450 11.5 Phoenix 12 26 .316 20.5 addresses, so that they are available and take on Everton at Goodison Park went back and forth with James during a deci- Southwest Division sive third quarter. James brought the Cavaliers Southeast Division for drug testing at all times. on Sunday. Atlanta 22 16 .579 - San Antonio 30 8 .789 - back from a 15-point halftime deficit before Washington 19 18 .514 2.5 Houston 31 9 .775 - The BBC reported that information Pep Guardiola’s side won 5-0 at Hayward drove the lead back to 14. Trey Lyles Charlotte 20 19 .513 2.5 Memphis 24 16 .600 7 was not updated following a change West Ham in the FA Cup third round scored eight straight points, including a pair of Orlando 16 23 .410 6.5 New Orleans 15 24 .385 15.5 to training routines. “Manchester City on Friday.— AFP 3-pointers, in the fourth quarter to help the Miami 11 29 .275 12 Dallas 11 27 .289 19 London stocks scale to new record peak Page 23

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TURKEY: A man sits at the entrance of his shop in Diyarbakir’s historic Sur district yesterday. — AFP Turkish lira: How bad can it get? The worst performing of emerging-market economies

ISTANBUL: Political instability and security elect Donald Trump. Standard and Poor’s and can only have limited effect: it tweaked prompt capital flight. The political uncertainty hike would probably be the only thing that fears in Turkey following a bloody 2016 have Moody’s both downgraded the country’s cred- required reserve ratios four times last year, is likely to drag on for months. If parliament would boost the currency. “But even then, it driven the lira to record lows. Parliament’s it rating to junk status in 2016. And this week but on three occasions the lira continued to passes the new draft constitution, it will be may only have a limited effect.” Analysts at debate over a controversial new constitution Moody’s warned the security situation was weaken. put to a referendum in late March or early Renaissance Capital believe everything to give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan likely to weigh on the economy and cause a April. Ratings agency Fitch is expected to depends on whether greater powers has fuelled economic worries “general worsening of the investment climate”, How long could the decline continue? review its assessment of Turkey soon and may Turkey’s situation stabilizes after the refer- to make lira the worst performing of the putting Turkey’s banks under pressure. “Nobody really knows,” admits senior mar- also downgrade its credit rating to junk. endum on the constitution. In a best case sce- emerging-market economies. The central Analysts say investors are also increasingly ket analyst Ipek Ozkardeskaya at LCG, warn- nario, growth could rise to 4-5 percent in bank has tried to step in but analysts warn its worried about interference in monetary policy ing the lira could go “way lower” without Can the slide be stopped? 2018, but if there is no stability, the exchange firepower may be limited and the lira may fur- under Erdogan who has repeatedly pressured “immediate action from policy makers”. As it Erdogan has described himself as an “ene- rate could hit “4-5 Turkish lira to the dollar”. ther plummet. the central bank to lower interest rates. stands, the lira is “racing to the bottom”. NFS my” of interest rates, but analysts say the cen- Nomura International said it expects to see a Macro analyst Nick Stamenkovic says there is tral bank will have to hike them again, and hike of 25-50 basis points from the central What is causing the slump? What has been done to recover losses? “increasing pressure from Mr Erdogan and soon. William Jackson of Capital Economics bank in January-far lower than what it says is Deadly attacks, an economic slowdown The central bank tried to break the lira’s fall his cohorts to cut rates, compounding the says it is “increasingly likely” the bank will a needed increase of 350-400 basis points. and political uncertainty have spooked the in November by raising interest rates for the problems for the lira amid mounting external have to raise official interest rates when it Should the bank choose not to raise interest markets. On top of that, higher inflation has first time since 2014. On Tuesday it relaxed constraints”. next meets on January 24. rates at all, the lira risks dropping in real terms sparked selling and the currency has been foreign exchange rules to inject $1.5 billion Analysts say the massive crackdown in According to City Index research director to lows “last seen in the aftermath of the 2001 dragged down by the prospect of more pro- into the market, but the move fell flat. Experts Turkey following last July’s failed coup is Kathleen Brooks, “a bold move from the crisis” when Turkey flirted with financial melt- tectionist economic policy by US President- said the bank will be aware such measures affecting the business sector, which could Turkish central bank, like a large, one-off rate down, it said. — AFP Saudi declines on oil, In Detroit, foreign auto makers wave US flag DETROIT: Pledges of loyalty to the United States, Dubai stalls near high touting local investments and cars draped in red, white and blue. At the annual Detroit auto show, for- eign manufacturers have put their American patriot- MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS ism on ostentatious display. The trend by itself is nothing new, and the brand message of global man- DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s stock market declined listed banks were weak, with Al Rajhi falling 1.2 ufacturers often is tailored for local markets. for a fourth straight day yesterday after oil percent. But this year, with the imminent inauguration prices fell further, but other Gulf bourses large- Meanwhile, Dubai’s main index pulled back of President-elect Donald Trump, this professed ly moved sideways and Dubai held near a 15- 0.1 percent to 3,722 points. Union Properties devotion takes on greater significance, especially month high. The Saudi index pulled back 1.6 dropped 1.7 percent and Dubai Financial at the key showcase for the auto industry, which percent to 6,895 points, falling below technical Market, the only listed exchange in the Gulf, has come under frequent attack. The president- support at the mid-December low of 7,002 closed 1.4 percent lower. But some shares in elect has singled out US and foreign auto manu- points. Another straight close below support the insurance sector outperformed with facturers, threatening them with steep import would confirm a break, triggering a double top Islamic Arab Insurance surged 6.5 percent in tariffs if they sell cars on the US market that were formed by the December and January peaks heavy trade to its highest close since August made in Mexico. and pointing down to around 6,770 points. 2015. There is speculation that the finance and The auto industry has invested heavily in The market had rebounded more than 30 per- insurance industries may witness further tie- Mexico to take advantage of cheaper labor and cent from its October lows so analysts said ups after the impending merger of National access to duty-free trade within the North profit-taking pressure was inevitable. Bank of Abu Dhabi and First Gulf Bank. American Free-Trade Agreement, a pact Trump “Beyond fourth-quarter earnings, which Insurers were also volatile in neighboring Abu also has attacked. Some auto makers have made may show moderate improvement in earnings Dhabi. Methaq Takaful Insurance jumped 5 goodwill overtures toward Trump, including Toyota, which on Tuesday fortuitously announced DETROIT: The Mercedes-Benz EQ Concept is shown at the 2017 North American for some sectors like banks, investors will be percent but Al Khazna Insurance slumped 8.5 International Auto Show (NAIAS). — AFP focusing on economic reforms in 2017,” said percent. The main index fell 0.1 percent. $10 billion in US investment over the next five gram to provide jobs for American military veter- Atlas. VW’s US boss Hinrich Woebcken described Santhosh Balakrishnan, senior analyst at Riyad Cairo’s blue chip index added 0.6 percent to years, and calling attention to the fact that it employs 40,000 people in the United States. ans. The company “wants to be genuinely the Atlas as “designed for the American lifestyle Capital. In that environment, he added, stocks 13,089 points, another record peak, but trading involved in American culture,” Detroit-based auto and built here in the US in our state-of-the-art are only likely to rise if earnings come in much volume declined, shrinking by roughly half industry analyst Bertrand Rakoto said. “Toyota is factory in Chattanooga,” Tennessee. higher than analysts’ expectations. from last week’s high. Foreign funds, which Foreign NASCAR enthusiasts The newest Toyota Camry draped in the stars the only foreign manufacturer to get involved in He pointedly did not say that the other new Yanbu National Petrochemical Co jumped were marginal sellers of shares on Tuesday, NASCAR,” the popular US stock car racing series, SUV unveiled this week, the Tiguan, rolls off a as much as 4 percent in the first hour of trade were net buyers by a narrow margin, bourse and stripes and emblazoned with the words “Made in America” was a prominent feature in he said. Nearby, a Hyundai SUV was decorated Mexican assembly line. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn yesterday but closed flat after it reported a 53.4 data showed. Arabian Cement jumped a fur- the Japanese auto maker’s area of the conven- with the logo of US National Football League, took advantage of the Detroit auto show to brag percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit to ther 9.9 percent to 8.33 Egyptian pounds, tak- tion center in Detroit. Behind it were two Toyota which it sponsors, though American football has that his company has “a 33-year history of invest- 602.85 million riyals ($161 million), in line with ing its gains over the last two days to 16.9 per- Tacoma and Tundra pickups, the latter bearing a only limited appeal in South Korea. Images of the ing in the United States” and currently employs analysts’ forecasts. cent after Beltone Financial placed a “buy” rec- map of Texas, where it is assembled. US flag also are displayed across the screens 22,000 people there. The company’s plant in Twelve of the 13 other listed petrochemical ommendation on the stock with a fair value of The red, white and blue Tacoma also let visi- above the display by Volkswagen-which is still Smyrna, Tennessee is “the largest industry plant producers declined with heavyweight Saudi 12.60 pounds, citing higher cement prices and tors know that Toyota participates in the US righting its ship after its emissions cheating scan- in North America,” working at full capacity to pro- Basic Industries dropping 0.5 percent. All 12 a healthy pricing environment. — Reuters Chamber of Commerce’s “hiring our heroes” pro- dal-where it is showcasing its large new SUV, the duce 642,000 cars last year. — AFP THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 BUSINESS

Chao: Private investors can help boost transportation

WASHINGTON: The Trump administra- some nominees. She is also the wife of tion is looking to “unleash the potential” Senate Majority Leader Mitch of private investors to boost the national McConnell, and many senators have a transportation networks that underpin personal relationship with her. But she the US economy, transportation secre- hasn’t been immune from criticism. tary-designate Elaine Chao plans to tell Unions say that as labor secretary she lawmakers at her confirmation hearing mostly sided with industry when enforc- yesterday. ing labor and safety rules. Economic gains are being jeopard- ized by infrastructure “in need of repair, ‘Innovative financing tools’ the specter of rising highway fatalities, In her testimony, Chao advocates growing congestion, and by a failure to using “innovative financing tools” that keep pace with emerging technologies,” can “take full advantage of the estimated according to prepared testimony Chao trillions in capital that equity firms, pen- plans to deliver to the Senate sion funds, and endowments can invest.” Commerce, Science and Transportation She says private investment should be Saudi Arabia: Capital outflows Committee. “incentivized with a bold, new vision.” She Chao is expected to be easily con- doesn’t detail those incentives, but firmed by the Senate. She was labor sec- President-elect Donald Trump has pro- overshadow fiscal reforms retary during George W. Bush’s adminis- posed providing $137 billion in tax cred- tration, and deputy transportation sec- its to infrastructure investors. His advisers retary under President George H.W. predict that will generate about $1 tril- BANK OF AMERICA EMERGING INSIGHT Bush, making her better known than lion in investment over 10 years. — AP alance of Payments (BoP) data suggests was in recession over 9m16 as real non-hydrocar- outflows from net errors and omissions have financial outflows are continuing, likely bon GDP growth contracted by 0.3%yoy, from picked up instead over the past year. Outflows Breflecting private sector hedging and official 3.2%yoy in 2015. This was largely driven by con- through net errors and omissions stood at outward flows. Methodological compilation issues traction in the non-oil government sector, as the US$59.5bn between 4Q14 and 3Q16, with an aver- mean the size of such outflows may be difficult to non-oil private sector maintained a marginally pos- age outflow of US$14.7bn over the last four quar- ascertain accurately. Within the official sector, the itive real growth rate. ters. Acquisition of foreign currency and deposits outward investment mandate of the Public also totaled US$26bn over 4Q14-3Q16 or roughly Investment Fund (PIF) needs to be carefully man- Oil prices approaching external US$3bn per quarter over the same period. aged in order not to pressure reserves. breakeven levels Liquidation of US$16.7bn in foreign securities of Ongoing fiscal reforms and higher oil prices With the external breakeven oil price around independent government agencies over 11m16 could bring the current account deficit nearer to US$60/bbl, higher oil prices and ongoing fiscal helped support Fx reserves. balance over the coming years as the external reforms are likely to drive the current account near- breakeven oil price hovers around US$60/bbl. The er to balance over the mediumterm. Stabilization A word of caution drop in SAR Fx forward points reflects this but capi- in real terms of government spending suggests Methodological compilation issues mean the tal outflows and fiscal slippage remain risks. If out- that imports are likely to rebound. Even if crude oil size of such capital outflows may be difficult to flows persist, authorities may consider resorting to production cuts are fully reflected into exports, the ascertain accurately. Large errors and omissions administrative measures as the commitment to an higher oil price compared to September levels have been persistent over the period 2005-2013, open capital account is central to attracting foreign more than fully compensates for this. Capital out- averaging 6.5% of GDP. This could reflect an NEW YORK: In this Nov 21, 2016 file photo, Transportation Secretary-desig- investment under the economic reform program, flows accentuate Fx reserve loss, unlike historical under-recording of imports or lack of comprehen- nate Elaine Chao arrives at Trump Tower. — AP in our view. precedents While the market is focused on the fis- sive coverage of private sector financial flows. cal outlook, this should not obscure the other chal- There appears to be inconsistencies between BoP Fiscal consolidation drives current account lenge facing authorities, which is to tame the capi- and IIP data. Private sector deposit dollarization adjustment tal outflows. This situation is relatively peculiar for appears benign and government entities have Tesla taps Apple engineer Fiscal discipline over 9m16 has helped narrow the Saudi authorities. Historically, Saudi current de-dollarized. the current account deficit. The current account account surpluses were associated with financial for Autopilot software deficit stood at 5.2% of GDP over 9m16, compared account deficits as sterilization of oil export PIF mandate needs close coordination with to 8.7% of GDP in 2015. Furthermore, the current receipts translated into acquisition of foreign monetary authorities SAN FRANCISCO: Electric carmaker Tesla of software development for a position account balance recorded a small surplus of assets. Our breakdown of the net International The restructuring of the Public Investment Fund Motors Inc has hired a key Apple Inc soft- that previously did not have a full-time US$2.1bn in 3Q16, while the trailing current Investment Position (IIP) shows large holdings of (PIF) into a SWF with a mandate to increase over- ware engineer to oversee its Autopilot self- leader. Tesla’s Autopilot was overseen on account deficit stood at US$46.7bn (7.6% of GDP). foreign assets by the semi-government and private seas assets is likely to contribute to investment out- driving software efforts, Tesla said in a blog an interim basis by the software chief Government fiscal consolidation has been the sector. The repatriation of Fx assets by government flows, pressuring Fx reserves. A US$3.5bn foreign post Tuesday. Chris Lattner, who served at Jinnah Hosein of SpaceX, which is also main driver of external balances, alongside oil entities, part of which is managed by SAMA off-bal- investment deal concluded in June. SAR100bn Apple for more than a decade, said in a headed by Tesla Chief Executive Officer prices. The quarterly trade surplus improved in ance sheet, minimized Fx reserves loss. (US$26.7bn) was transferred to the PIF from gov- online message to Apple developers on Elon Musk. 3Q16, standing at US$19.5bn (oil prices of ernment accounts late last year. Alongside repay- Tuesday morning that he would “leave Autopilot is the hardware and software US$45.8/bbl), compared to a low of US$3.3bn in Capital outflows pick up ment of arrears, this helps explain the large Apple later this month to pursue an oppor- system on Tesla vehicles that allows self- 1Q16 (oil prices of US$34.5bbl). Quarterly imports Financial flows were the largest driver of Fx SAR192bn (US$52bn) drop in central government tunity in another space” without saying driving in some situations but still requires compressed materially, plunging by 32%yoy to reserve loss in 9m16. Adjusting for the issuance of deposits at SAMA over October-November despite which company he planned to join. drivers to keep their hands on the steering US$25bn, down from a quarterly peak of a US$10bn sovereign syndicated loan, the pace of issuance of a US$17.5bn external bond. While gov- Later in the day, Tesla posted a message wheel. Federal safety regulators in the cUS$40bn. The invisibles balance has also financial outflows in 9m16 would have picked up ernment entities - in this case, likely PIF - increased on the company’s website saying that United States are examining whether improved, largely on the back of lower govern- over the same period of 2015. While the financial their deposits at SAMA in October by US$22bn, Lattner had been hired as vice president of Autopilot played a role in a fatal crash in ment payments for goods and services and stabi- account gap augmented by net errors and omis- these have dropped by US$9.2bn in November. Autopilot software but did not say when he Florida last year. Lattner most recently lization in outward remittances. sions stood at US$36bn in 9m16, the current This suggests that PIF has re-deployed part of its would start work there. Tesla declined to served as a senior director in the developer account deficit stood at US$25bn over the same new capital. While domestic investments are also comment beyond the announcement. tools department at Apple and was best Non-oil sector recession drives period. This compares unfavorably to 2015, where part of PIF’s mandate, announced partnerships Apple confirmed the departure but would known for introducing Swift, a program- down import demand the drain from both sources was roughly matched (US$10bn co-investment mandate with RIDF and not comment beyond Lattner’s posted ming language that made it easier for soft- Narrowing of the current account deficit mirrors at cUS$57bn. up to US$45bn in seed capital for a technological message. ware developers to write apps for iOS, the the sharp slowdown in nonhydrocarbon sector While accumulation of currency and deposits investment fund over 5 years) suggest future out- The move is a significant win for Tesla, operating system that powers iPhones and activity over recent quarters. The non-oil economy appears to have slowed down versus 2015 levels, ward investment flows. bringing a high-profile figure in the world iPads. — Reuters World Economic Forum: Capitalism needs change

LONDON: Reforming the very nature of capitalism stage where this alone would remedy fractures in It added that a failure to address the underlying will be needed to combat the growing appeal of society: reforming market capitalism must also be causes of the populist tide poses a threat to main- populist political movements around the world, added to the agenda,” it said in its latest Global stream politicians and raises the risk that the glob- the World Economic Forum said yesterday. Getting Risks Report. “The combination of economic alization trend will go into reverse. “Some people higher economic growth, it added, is necessary but inequality and political polarization threatens to question whether the West has reached a tipping insufficient to heal the fractures in society that amplify global risks, fraying the social solidarity on point and might now embark on a period of de- were evident in the election of Donald Trump as which the legitimacy of our economic and political globalization,” it said. US president and Britain’s vote to leave the systems rests,” it added. Although anti-establishment politics have tend- European Union. ed to blame globalization for the loss of traditional In a wide-ranging report from the organizer of Global cooperation jobs, the WEF said rapidly changing technologies the annual gathering of political and business lead- That’s some conclusion from an organization have had more of an impact on labor markets. “It is ers in the Swiss resort of Davos, the WEF identified that’s sought to play a central role in the globaliza- no coincidence that challenges to social cohesion “rising income and wealth disparity” as potentially tion process of the past couple of decades and that and policymakers’ legitimacy are coinciding with a the biggest driver in global affairs over the next ten is closely identified with some of the world’s richest highly disruptive phase of technological change,” years. As an example of this growing inequality, the people. As well as getting growth higher, the WEF the WEF said. WEF highlighted the massive increases in CEO pay identified four areas that need to be addressed Other key drivers identified in the survey of glob- at a time when many people in advanced urgently: the need for long-term thinking in capital- al risks related to climate change, rising cyber economies have struggled to make ends meet fol- ism; a recognition of the importance of identity and dependency and an aging population. The 2017 lowing the global financial crisis. inclusiveness in political communities; mitigating report, the 12th annual report, is based on an “This points to the need for reviving economic the risks and exploiting the opportunities of new assessment of 30 global risks by 750 experts from a GENEVA: German Klaus Schwab, founder and president of the World growth, but the growing mood of anti-establish- technologies such as driverless cars; and strength- variety of backgrounds, including business, acade- Economic Forum, WEF, gestures during a press conference. — AP ment populism suggests we may have passed the ening global cooperation. mia and non-governmental organizations. — AP

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LONDON: European stocks rose yester- ness is providing yet more support for enough to drive substantial gains for China on Tuesday said factory-gate losses, hit by doubts about the effective- day, with London striking another record equities and we are seeing the FTSE 100 (mining) names such as Anglo American prices surged last month at their fastest ness of OPEC’s planned output cuts. pinnacle on the sliding pound and punch fresh record highs and it is now and Antofagasta”, said Joshua Mahony, pace in more than five years, leading to Investors were meanwhile awaiting rebounding commodity prices. Sterling just a whisker away from 7,300 points,” analyst at traders IG. Elsewhere yester- hopes the country could export much- Donald Trump’s first press conference fell as weak official trade data offset noted ETX Capital analyst Neil Wilson. day, eurozone stocks pushed higher needed inflation around the world and since he won the US presidential elec- bright industrial output figures-and the “The question now is when this will amid hopes of more stimulative US help kickstart global growth. The news tion, with initial excitement about his currency’s slide gave a fresh impetus to end-can we call the top of the market?” monetary policy. helped ramp up prices in key commodi- plans turning to skepticism about London share prices. London’s FTSE 100 The weak pound-which has struck mul- ties such as iron ore, copper and alumini- whether he can deliver. was catapulted to 7,293.26 points, ti-year lows and languished since Bullish sentiment um, which in turn provided support to “Markets are on tenterhooks ahead of extending a record-breaking run for the Britain’s EU exit vote on June 23 — “The incredible bullish sentiment producers. a 4pm (1600 GMT) Trump press confer- benchmark index that began just ahead boosts share prices of FTSE-listed multi- seems to be borne out of a concoction In London, Anglo American won 1.7 ence, especially after overnight claims of the New Year. nationals as they profit from favorable of a weak pound, loose monetary poli- percent and Antofagasta gained 0.9 per- about his links to Russia,” noted Accendo The pound took another pummeling exchange rates. London profited from cy, rising commodity prices and cent in value. The British capital’s top Markets analyst Mike van Dulken. The on news that Britain’s trade in goods gains to shares of heavyweight miners. expectations of increased US fiscal gainer was supermarket chain president-elect faced explosive claims deficit with the rest of the world wors- Chinese data “points towards strength stimulus,” added Mahony. Asian mar- Sainsbury’s. Shares jumped 4.0 percent that Russian intelligence gathered com- ened in November. Industrial production in commodity prices, which has been kets rose yesterday, with commodities- after it posted rising sales over the key promising information on him. Trump however rose more by more than market followed up in style, with the likes of linked firms boosted by China’s strong Christmas period. Oil prices were only has denounced the report as a “political expectations. “Continued sterling weak- copper, gold and iron ore proving inflation reading. marginally higher after two days of sharp witch hunt”. — AFP Uncertainty over Trump policy clouds outlook: World Bank ‘A healthy US economy is good for the world’

WASHINGTON: The World Bank on Tuesday pared back its global growth estimate for 2017, but uncertainty about the economic policies of US President-elect Donald Trump is clouding the outlook. “We need to pay attention. All eyes are on US policymakers and how they will formulate their policies,” Ayhan Kose, main author of the World Bank’s global forecast, told AFP in an DETROIT: Mark Reuss, GM Executive Vice President Global Product Development interview. “What happens in the United States talks through the window of a GM vehicle with Vice President Joe Biden as Biden does not stay in the United States.” toured the General Motors exhibit at the 2017 North American International Auto In the semi-annual Global Economic Show (NAIAS). — AFP Prospects report, the World Bank lowered the estimate for global growth this year a tenth from GM signals no change of plans the June forecast, to 2.7 percent compared to the 2.3 percent growth seen last year. The World despite criticism from Trump Bank maintained its US forecast at 2.2 percent following a sluggish 1.6 percent in 2016. But DETROIT: Leaders of the big three US auto applauded the other two American auto mak- those estimates could go much higher. makers have all spoken at the Detroit auto ers when they touted plans for US invest- Even the table in the report displaying the show about how President-elect Trump might ments in recent days. forecasts for the major regions and economies impact the industry, but the third, from GM, Ford scrapped plans to open a new $1.6 comes with a footnote warning about the uncer- offered the most business-as-usual message. billion factory in Mexico, to instead invest in a tainty: “The US forecasts do not incorporate the Trump has slammed American car makers Ford, US plant, and Fiat Chrysler said it was creating effect of policy proposals by the new US adminis- Fiat Chrysler and GM’s Chevrolet brand for 2,000 US jobs by investing in factories in Ohio tration, as their overall scope and ultimate form manufacturing cars in Mexico to export to the and Michigan. are still uncertain.” Kose said it is simply too soon US market, threatening them with import tar- “Thank you Ford & Fiat C!,” Trump tweeted to draw any conclusions, however a simulation iffs. He also has blasted free trade agreements. Monday as the auto show officially opened to showed the individual and corporate tax cuts that Ford boss Bill Ford and Fiat Chrysler chief industry insiders and the press. “We owe a lot Trump discussed during the campaign could on Sergio Marchionne offered their views to this country,” Marchionne said to a room full their own add three-tenths to the US growth rate Monday, at the start of the important auto of reporters, and it would be “foolish” for his this year, and more than double that in 2018. WASHINGTON: In this Oct 26, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald industry showcase. Ford said Trump has been company to make any additional investments And infrastructure spending could have an Trump, accompanied by, from left, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Melania Trump, Tiffany Trump receptive to industry concerns, while in Mexico, pending more information from even larger impact. “These are significant and Ivanka Trump, speaks during the grand opening of the Trump International Hotel- Old Marchionne was taking a wait-and-see the incoming administration about its trade increases,” he said. “A healthy US economy is Post Office. — AP approach but planning no additional Mexico plans. “I need clarity. I think we all need clarity,” good for the rest of the world,” since an increase also remains a concern, and that uncertainty “is a 0.8 percent for 2017 and 2018, which is a half- investments for the time being. GM chief Mary he said. Ford said he had “frequent” conversa- in US growth of one full percentage point could challenge to businesses in the US and abroad.” point better than the June estimate. The China Barra was the last to be heard on Tuesday and tions with Trump about topics ranging from boost advanced economies by eight-tenths after But again he said, it is too early to tell what forecasts are unchanged, with growth expected she held firm to her plans for the biggest of trade policy to corporate taxes. “He’s very a year, and emerging markets by six-tenths. So the impact on global growth will be until the to slow to 6.5 percent this year and 6.3 percent the US auto makers. She refused to speculate accessible, very easy to talk to,” Ford said. “I global growth potentially could rise another specifics are known-for example, whether US next, which Kose called “a healthy slowdown.” on whether a new White House may require found him to be very informed and very tenth this year to 2.8 percent, and get a three- tariff increases Trump has threatened are limited “They have done a real competent job so far slow- the company to alter course-particularly with respectful of our position.” tenths boost in 2018, he said. to one product, like automobiles, or extend to ing down the economy” from double-digit rates. regard to investments in Mexico. an entire country. “One thing we know well, “We think there’s many things that we can GM voice ‘will be heard’ Waiting for specifics open trade policies help promote economic Investment crisis do in working with the administration that are Barra said she, too, expected to have the However, he was quick to stress the caveats growth,” Kose said, in the closest he came in the Kose said the most worrisome thing about going to make American great again, that are administration’s ear as it takes power and to this estimated impact: It will depend on the interview to a word of caution to the new the global outlook is the continued drop off in going to strengthen business, which will begins work on its to-do list. “When I think you timing of the tax cuts, how they impact inflation, administration. investment. “The single most important issue strengthen growth, which will strengthen look at our industry, and General Motors and how the Federal Reserve reacts. The same is we are focusing on in this report is the persist- jobs,” she said, evoking Trump’s campaign slo- specifically, of how much we already con- true for other proposals like big spending on Modest recovery ent investment weakness in emerging and gan. GM’s Chevrolet Cruze was the target of tribute to jobs, we think that voice will be infrastructure, which would have a more direct After a pretty bad year in 2016, Kose said the developing economies,” he said. “The issue is Trump’s Twitter attack a week ago, but Barra heard as any policy is set,” Barra said. GM had impact on growth, but could exacerbate an world economy is poised for a recovery, espe- critical.” Investment expanded 10 percent in said only that she looked forward to convers- good news Tuesday, as it raised its 2017 earn- already tight labor market, which also could fuel cially with major commodity exporters returning 2010, but has slowed steadily growing just 3.5 ing with the Republican president once he ings outlook, thanks to expected solid final inflation. The US central bank has cautioned that to growth after recessions, including Russia, percent in 2016. takes office on January 20. “We’re going to sales figures for 2016. Its expected earnings spending that fuels inflation could require more Brazil and Argentina. The euro area is expect to There is no smoking gun for the cause of the have an active voice as trade policy changes per share was bumped up to $6.00 to $6.50 and faster increases in the benchmark lending grow 1.5 percent this year-the same as in the decline, but some factors include the collapse of or evolves, but the foundation of our strategy for 2017, from $5.50 to $6.00 in 2016. rate. Higher interest rates in turn would tend to June forecast-and 1.4 percent in 2018, after 1.6 commodity prices, which reduced investment in is to build where we sell,” she told reporters. “We had a great year in 2016 in every slow economic growth. Kose said the rising percent GDP last year. those industries, debt problems in some coun- GM, which includes four American brands- respect,” Barra said. GM also said it would threat of protectionism in advanced economies Japan’s growth is forecast at 0.9 percent and tries, and political uncertainty in others. — AFP Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac and GMC-has pro- ramp up its global volume of crossovers, duction plants in Mexico and even announced trucks and sports utility vehicles, models Tuesday that the new version of the GMC which accounted for approximately 60 per- VW emissions-cheating deal Terrain, an SUV currently produced in Canada, cent of all US auto sales last year. The category will be made in Mexico. “These decisions were will account for 52 percent of the car giant’s made two and three years ago” and involve global volume of vehicles by 2020, GM “big investments,” Barra said. Trump’s announced. — AFP could put staff in hot seat

DETROIT: The imminent criminal plea deal Brown, legislature differ sharply between Volkswagen and US prosecutors in an on California budget deficit, cuts emissions-cheating scandal could be bad news for one group of people: VW employees who SACRAMENTO: Gov Jerry Brown sees a time to eliminate important programs that had a role in the deceit or subsequent cover-up. budget deficit and an urgent need for lift up the middle class,” Assemblyman Kevin VW on Tuesday disclosed that it is in advanced spending cuts. Legislative leaders see a sur- McCarty, D-Sacramento, said in a statement. talks to settle the criminal case by pleading plus with room to comfortably increase Brown said months of lower-than- guilty to unspecified charges and paying $4.3 expenditures. Always at odds when it expected revenue, combined with the likeli- billion in criminal and civil fines, a sum far larger comes to the budget, the Democratic gov- hood of a recession and the potential for than any recent case involving the auto industry. ernor and the Democratic Legislature are drastic cuts in federal spending, demand It’s likely that VW will agree to cooperate in the particularly far apart this year as they restraint. His projection for a deficit was a probe, turning over documents and other infor- embark on six months of spending negotia- stark contrast with the forecast released in mation, said David M. Uhlmann, a former chief of tions amid uncertainty about federal fund- November by the Legislature’s nonpartisan the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes ing under the incoming administration of budget expert, Legislative Analyst Mac Section who is now a University of Michigan law President-elect Donald Trump. Taylor, who projected a surplus as high as professor. “Companies often face the dilemma of Brown staked out a conservative open- $2.8 billion. whether to protect their employees or cooperate ing position Tuesday, warning of a potential Drawing on that forecast, Assembly with government investigations, but almost $1.6 billion budget deficit and proposing a Democrats in December called for $1 billion always end up deciding in the company’s best spending plan that keeps general fund in new spending for things such as expand- interest to share what information they have,” expenditures flat at $122.5 billion. Since ing the state earned-income tax credit, Uhlmann said. Although VW’s communications costs rise every year, his plan would require mandatory full-day kindergarten and with lawyers may be exempt, emails between cuts to keep pace, and he suggested elimi- reducing college costs. To maintain current employees and company executives should help nating billions of dollars allocated to educa- spending, Brown proposes cutting $3.2 bil- prosecutors reach as far up VW’s organizational tion, state building construction, subsidized lion from future commitments, about half chart as the scandal went, he said. housing, college scholarships and child care by giving schools and community colleges Prosecutors now have three witnesses giving providers. He seeks to boost the state’s less than expected. He wants to stop them information and have arrested Oliver reserve fund to $7.9 billion - up from $6.7 enrolling new college students in the Schmidt, VW’s former head of US environmental GENEVA: This file photo taken on March 2, 2015 shows then chairman of the board of German car- billion in the current budget year - to help Middle Class Scholarships program, saving compliance who dealt with the EPA and maker Volkswagen Group, Martin Winterkorn, posing with the Car of the Year 2015, a Volkswagen soften what he warned is an inevitable more than $30 million, cancel $300 million California Air Resources Board after the scandal Passat, during a preview of Volkwagen Group ahead of the Geneva Car Show. — AFP recession after 10 years of economic recov- in upgrades to state buildings and drop a was uncovered. The cooperation of witnesses ery. “You’ve got to save your money or you’re $400 million proposal for affordable hous- and the company should help investigators settlement with environmental authorities and ferent.” A draft of the VW settlement with the going to lose the farm,” Brown said, acknowl- ing that the Legislature rejected last year. determine if the scandal went beyond VW’s car owners in the US under which it agreed to government calls for the appointment of an edging that he expected “some shoving Brown also proposed canceling higher engineers, Uhlmann said. But extraditing any buy back up to 500,000 vehicles. The company independent monitor to oversee compliance back and forth” with lawmakers as a final payments for state-funded child care executives from Germany would be a problem. also faces an investor lawsuit and criminal probe and control measures for three years. The draft budget compromise is negotiated by June. providers. The governor’s budget includes in Germany. In all, some 11 million vehicles still must be approved by Volkswagen’s boards $800 million more to cover people who ‘Defeat device’ worldwide were equipped with the software. and US courts. Repid reception joined Medi-Cal under Obamacare. Volkswagen has admitted equipping diesel The criminal investigation likely will continue The scandal was revealed in September 2015, Democratic legislative leaders gave He also revisited his previous proposal, cars with sophisticated software that turned on into the administration of President-elect when West Virginia University tested on-road Brown’s budget a tepid reception. which has stalled in the Legislature, to emissions controls when engines were being Donald Trump and attorney general nominee diesel emissions. The EPA issued a notice of vio- Acknowledging the need for caution in the increase gas and vehicle taxes to raise $4.2 tested by the Environmental Protection Agency, Sen. Jeff Sessions. Uhlmann, who served under lation, and VW apologized and brought in US face of federal uncertainty, they nonethe- billion per year for road construction and then turned them off during normal driving. The Republican and Democratic attorneys general, law firm Jones Day to investigate. If finalized, a less rejected Brown’s proposed cuts to col- maintenance. In all, California’s spending software, called a “defeat device” because it doesn’t think the new administration will back $4.3 billion settlement would eclipse Toyota’s lege scholarships and child care while insist- plan would reach $179.5 billion when defeated the emissions controls, improved off from the VW prosecution. $1.2 billion penalty over unintended accelera- ing they will still push to increase spending restricted “special funds” and bonds are engine performance but spewed out harmful “All administrations want to be tough on tion problems as well as General Motors’ $900 on social welfare programs. “This is not a included. — AP nitrogen oxide at up to 40 times above the legal crime, including corporate crime,” he said. “I million payment to resolve a deadly ignition- limit. Volkswagen has reached a $15 billion civil doubt the Trump administration will be any dif- switch scandal. — AP THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 BUSINESS Nasdaq sets another record high on mixed day

NEW YORK: The Nasdaq composite index most. Energy stocks also fell following a drop er the past six days in a row. The S&P 500 NovaSeq. The stock led the gainers in Kospi in South Korea slipped 0.2 per- notched its fourth record-high close in a row in crude oil prices. Encouraging reports on ended unchanged at 2,268.90. The Dow the S&P 500, adding $23.50 to $165.04. cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng added 0.8 Tuesday, eking out a modest gain on a day small business confidence and job openings slipped 31.85 points, or 0.2 percent, to Alaska Air Group rose 5.2 percent percent. when the other major US stock indexes bare- helped keep stocks in the green early in the 19,855.53. after the airline, which bought Virgin ly budged. After wavering between small day. But by midafternoon the indexes began America in December, reported strong Energy trading gains and losses for much of the day, the to waver. Pleased investors monthly results. The stock gained $4.53 US benchmark crude oil lost $1.14, or Standard & Poor’s 500 index closed “I do think the market stays kind of quiet While the busiest stretch of the next cor- to $92. Zimmer Biomet added 6.2 per- 2.2 percent, to close at $50.82 a barrel in unchanged, while the Dow Jones industrial until it really hits earnings season,” said David porate earnings season doesn’t begin until cent after the medical device maker New York. Brent crude, which is used to average posted a slight loss. More stocks Chalupnik, head of equities for Nuveen Asset Friday, several companies reported outlooks projected better-than-expected fourth- price oil sold internationally, fell $1.30, rose than fell on the New York Stock Management. “The market will really start to or preliminary results Tuesday that pleased quarter sales. The stock rose $6.67 to or 2.4 percent, to close at $53.64 a bar- Exchange. take its direction when earnings season investors. Illumina jumped 16.6 percent after $113.67. Other companies’ outlooks put rel in London. In other energy trading, Consumer-focused companies, banks and starts in full, and that’s Friday.” The Nasdaq it reported better-than-anticipated fourth traders in a selling mood. wholesale gasoline slid 2 cents to $1.55 health care stocks were among the biggest composite increased 20 points, or 0.4 per- quarter sales. The company also launched a Ascena Retail Group slumped 10 per- a gallon and heating oil fell 3 cents to gainers. Real estate companies lagged the cent, to 5,551.82. The index has closed high- new genetic sequencing system called cent after the company slashed its profit $1.61 a gallon. Natural gas futures rose forecast, citing holiday season sales, 18 cents, or 5.6 percent, to $3.28 per which fell for most of its store chains, 1,000 cubic feet. including Ann Taylor, Lane Bryant and Even so, several natural gas compa- Dressbarn. The stock lost 60 cents to nies closed lower. Williams Cos. was $5.41. Investors boosted shares in down the most among stocks in the Pacific Continental on news the holding S&P 500 index, sliding $3.43, or 10.7 company for Pacific Continental Bank percent, to $28.50. Oneok lost $1.41, or will be bought by Columbia Banking 2.5 percent, to $56.07. Bond prices fell. System for $644 million. Pacific The yield on the 10-year Treasury note Continental shares added $5.35, or 25.7 rose to 2.38 percent from 2.37 percent percent, to $26.15. Columbia shares slid late Monday. $1.26, or 2.9 percent, to $42.05. The pound held steady at $1.2163. Major stock indexes in Europe The dollar fell to 115.73 yen from notched gains, led by Britain’s FTSE 100, 116.06 in late trading Monday. The which rose 0.5 percent, closing at a new euro fell to $1.0560 from $1.0577. In all-time high for the ninth day in a row. metals trading, the price of gold edged Germany’s DAX added 0.2 percent, up 60 cents to $1,185.50 an ounce. while the CAC40 of France inched up Silver added 17 cents, or 1 percent, to 0.1 percent. In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei 225 $16.85 an ounce. Copper rose 7 cents index dropped 0.8 percent, while the to $2.61 a pound. — AP THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 BUSINESS Camaro ZL1 makes 1st appearance in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Chevrolet Middle East and damping and isolation for optimal per- Chevrolet Alghanim Automotive held formance and driver confidence in virtual- the Kuwait debut of the 2017 Camaro ly any situation - from the Pacific Coast ZL1 at Auto Moto Kuwait. The Camaro Highway to Willow Springs to Pomona.” ZL1 is the most powerful Camaro in the Additional chassis features include: model’s fifty year history and will go on • Unique 20-inch forged aluminum sale in the first half of 2017. wheels with 285/30ZR20 front and “We’re excited that people in Kuwait 305/30ZR20 rear tires are some of the first in the region to see • Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar tires this amazing piece of machinery up with a compound and construction close. The ZL1 is the track capable ver- developed exclusively for the Camaro to sion of the award-winning sixth genera- offer exceptional grip on the track tion of the Camaro and can challenge • Brembo brakes with six-piston the most advanced sports coupes in the monobloc front calipers - featuring the world, on any measure,” said Abdallah ZL1 logo - and massive, 15.35-inch (390 Madhoun, Regional Sales and Marketing mm) two-piece front rotors. Manager for Chevrolet, GM Middle East. “The Camaro’s technology, refinement, Supercharged performance and new track capability and straight-line acceler- 10-speed automatic ation are on a whole new level,” he said. Underhood, the ZL1 features a super- Visitors to the Chevrolet stand will charged LT4 6.2L V-8 Small Block engine, also have the opportunity to experience with intake and exhaust systems tailored the Chevrolet vehicle line-up, including for Camaro. It is rated at an estimated 650 the all-new 2017 Chevrolet Malibu, new horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque (881 2017 Chevrolet Trax, new 2017 Chevrolet Nm). The LT4 is backed by a standard six- Trailblazer Z71, and 2017 Chevrolet speed manual transmission or all-new, Tahoe and Silverado Midnight editions. available paddle-shift 10-speed automat- In addition, visitors will have the oppor- Handling capability starts with the so with compelling style,” said John shift knob. Chevrolet’s Performance Data ic. The 10-speed automatic has 7.39 over- tunity to stop by the Chevrolet stand to lightweight, stiff structure of the all-new Mack, Camaro exterior design manager. Recorder is available. all ratio for smaller steps between gears. It experience a Trailblazer virtual reality sixth- Generation Camaro, married with “From every angle, the elements coa- enables the LT4 engine to remain at opti- experience and to be able to go face-to- Magnetic Ride suspension and an elec- lesce to give the car a purposeful, super Fast with finesse mal rpm levels during acceleration, par- face with Q8Stig for a free gift. tronic limited-slip differential. Standard aggressive attitude.” A cohesive suite of performance tech- ticularly when exiting corners, for quicker technologies include Driver Mode The lower grille opening, for example, nologies tailors ZL1’s performance for laps and lightning-quick responses on The 2017 Chevrolet Camaro in detail Selector, dual-mode exhaust and offers greater airflow compared to the street and track. Features include an both up- and down-shifts. Acceleration is delivered via a new advanced connectivity features. Camaro SS, and the upper grille incorpo- updated Magnetic Ride suspension, This is the first Chevrolet application supercharged 6.2L V-8 engine, with esti- rates a new version of the “flow-tie” open Performance Traction Management, elec- of the new quick-shift 10-speed, with mated 650hp. Its 0-100kph time is a Designed for performance bowtie insignia. There’s also a new hood, tronic limited-slip differential, Custom unique calibrations and hardware mere 3.6 seconds, and it can complete Functionality defines the Camaro with a carbon fiber insert and heat Launch Control and Driver Mode Selector. developed exclusively for the ZL1. By the quarter mile in 11.4 seconds at a ZL1’s form, with the exterior shaped dur- extractor that pulls hot air from the It also has a stronger power-to-weight the end of 2018, GM will introduce the speed of 204 kph. It builds on the sixth ing more than 100 hours of wind-tunnel engine compartment. Additional ratio than its predecessor, weighing 200 new 10-speed automatic in eight vehi- generation Camaro’s segment leadership testing and on-track validation to changes include a larger front splitter, pounds less, while offering approximately cle models. Finally - and unlike some as the fittest in the segment. The Camaro improve aerodynamics and cooling for unique rockers, a wing-style rear spoiler 60 more horsepower and 80 more pound- competitors - there’s no need to pur- ZL1 is the first production car to use a track use. Accordingly, its exterior ele- and wider front fenders - all tuned to feet of torque. The result is a one-of-a-kind chase an optional package to make the new, advanced 10-speed automatic ments all play a part in managing airflow improve aerodynamics for greater high- driving experience. ZL1 track ready. Track capability comes gearbox, which offers strong economy over, under and through the ZL1. speed stability. Inside, there are stan- “Driving the Camaro ZL1 is best standard, with features including an and performance benefits. It is also avail- “The design supports the Camaro dard Recaro front seats, along with a described as ‘fast with finesse,’” said Reuss. impressive 11 heat exchangers for opti- able as a six-speed manual. ZL1’s exceptional performance and does sueded flat-bottom steering wheel and “It is beautifully balanced, with perfect mal powertrain cooling. Samsung heir named suspect in S Korean political scandal Favors include govt backing on controversial merger

SEOUL: South Korean authorities said yesterday that a Samsung scion will be questioned as a suspect in a bribery case in the massive influ- ence-peddling scandal that led to the impeach- ment of the country’s president. Lee Jae-yong, Samsung Electronics’ vice chairman, will be summoned to face questions by investigators probing whether South Korea’s largest business group bribed a jailed confidante of President Park Geun-hye to win favors, said Hong Jong-seok, a spokesman for the special MORAGHAKANDA: Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena (5L) attends the inaugu- prosecutor team investigating the scandal. ration of the filling of the Moraghakanda reservoir in Moragahakanda yesterday. The Those possible favors include getting the gov- 220 million dollar irrigation project is expected to help tens of thousands of farmers ernment’s backing on a controversial Samsung in the north-western, northern and eastern parts of the island. — AFP merger in 2015 that was opposed by minority shareholders, Hong said by phone. Lee and members of his family were the S Lanka to raise $1.5 bn biggest beneficiaries of the merger of Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries, which helped Lee through bonds in 2017 increase his control over Samsung Electronics without having to spend his money to buy its COLOMBO: Sri Lanka announced yesterday balance of payments crisis. The IMF, in a shares. The former health minister overseeing the it would raise $1.5 billion through a domes- November review before releasing the sec- government-controlled national pension fund tic bond sale this year as it moves to rebuild ond tranche of the funds, said Sri Lanka’s was arrested last year. The pension fund, the its foreign exchange reserves. The cabinet performance was “broadly satisfactory” but biggest shareholder in Samsung C&T, voted for approved the borrowing through dollar- that it needed to build its dwindling for- the merger even though its advisers recommend- denominated bonds to be offered to banks eign reserves. ed voting against it, giving the crucial vote and investors in the country, said govern- Foreign reserves at the end of Samsung needed to secure shareholder approval. ment spokesman Gayantha Karunatileka. December were $6.06 billion, up from Prosecutors are expected to grill Lee starting The move to borrow locally came weeks $5.64 billion a month earlier, according to today regarding why Samsung Group sent corpo- after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) government data. Sri Lanka also secured in rate funds to Choi Soon-sil, the jailed confidante, warned that the country’s foreign reserves December a three year $1.34 billion loan including buying costly horses for her daughter, SEOUL: In this Tuesday, Dec, 6, 2016, file photo, Lee Jae-yong, a vice chairman of Samsung were “below comfortable levels”. from the World Bank to fund a range of who was on the national dressage team. Electronics Co., arrives for a hearing at the National Assembly. — AFP Last June the government, which came projects. It is also selling part of a loss-mak- did not elaborate further. whose funds were allegedly for Choi’s personal use. to power in January 2015, received a $1.5 ing $1.4 billion harbour to a Chinese com- Winning favors Prosecutors asked lawmakers to file a com- Hong, the spokesman, said that prosecutors billion bailout from the IMF after facing a pany to help repay crippling debts. — AFP Samsung Group did not immediately plaint against Lee for alleged perjury at the hear- have examined a tablet PC that Choi had owned respond to an email yesterday seeking com- ing. Cho Myung-sik, a parliamentary official, said and found details about what type of benefits ment. Two Samsung executives, including a man yesterday that lawmakers had received the Samsung provided to her, including the Ma’s million jobs pledge known as Lee’s mentor, were questioned in the request and would review it. Authorities Samsung funds used in Germany. Once prosecu- case earlier this week. When Lee appeared at a declined yesterday to confirm how much money tors finish questioning Lee, they will determine public hearing last month, he told lawmakers Samsung spent on Choi’s companies or founda- whether to add more Samsung officials on a list more PR than promise that he was not aware of the decision to fund tions. Samsung Group declined to comment of suspects, Hong said. President Park’s powers Choi’s daughter. He also denied that Samsung when asked about the matter last week. have been suspended since Dec. 9, when South BEIJING: Alibaba founder Jack Ma and selling fake Swarovski watches on Taobao, tried to win favors through the funds. Lee, the According to local media and legislators, Korea’s opposition-controlled parliament voted Donald Trump made headlines with the portraying the move as the first time an e- only son of Samsung’s ailing chairman and a Samsung signed a contract worth over $18 million to impeach her over the scandal. Her trial is cur- Chinese entrepreneur’s attention-grabbing commerce site had taken a counterfeiter to grandson of the company’s founder, acknowl- with Choi’s company to bankroll her daughter’s rently being held at the Constitutional Court to pledge to create one million US jobs, but court in the world’s second-largest econo- edged that it was “inappropriate” but “inevitable” equestrian training in Germany and donated decide whether she will be permanently analysts say the move is more about good my. “Jack Ma is a smart guy and if there is to send money to Choi (pronounced Chwey). He another $17 million to two nonprofit foundations removed from power. — AP PR than substance. The splashy promise at anything being a major businessman in Trump Tower was a strategic decision by China teaches you it is the importance of Ma to win goodwill from the next US presi- having good relationships with the leaders,” dent and hedge against political risks to Balding added. India’s gasoline thirst shows Alibaba’s vast online shopping business Alibaba and Taobao have long been over counterfeits, independent e-com- accused of providing a platform for the sale merce analyst Li Chengdong told AFP. of knockoff brand-name goods. Items for no sign of being slaked: KEMP “We don’t have to take the one million sale include a variety of Trump-related job promise too seriously,” Li said. In the short products, including “Make America Great term, economists are sceptical. Such a figure Again” hats that sell for $25 on Trump’s LONDON: India’s gasoline consumption contin- (285), Brazil (290) and Malaysia (396). And own- as Odisha (124), Assam (78), Bihar (46) and would represent almost one percent of all website-available for 3.5 yuan (50 cents) ues to grow rapidly as an increasing number of ership was very low compared with developed Himachal Pradesh (153). jobs in the United States, making the firm yesterday. Analysts say Alibaba wants to individuals purchase their first motorized vehi- economies such as the United Kingdom (517), There is enormous potential for India’s fuel one of the country’s largest private employ- enhance its imports of US merchandise for cle, helping drive the fastest growth in fuel Japan (598) and the United States (783). Three- consumption to increase as vehicle penetration ers, said Christopher Balding, professor at Chinese consumers. demand in the world. India’s gasoline consump- quarters of registered vehicles were two- rates converge with other developing countries Peking University’s HSBC Business School. “It is not necessarily to create more jobs tion rose more than 12 percent in 2016 com- wheeled motor cycles (154 million) rather than and spread from urban centers to more rural China’s largest online shopping portal in the US, it is simply providing one more pared with 2015, according to preliminary fuel cars (29 million), goods vehicles (9 million) or areas. Fuel use will also increase as families has been on the defensive since the office sales channel for them,” Nell Lu, analyst sales figures compiled by the Ministry of buses (2 million). upgrade from their initial two-wheeled vehicles of the US Trade Representative last month with Shanghai’s Business Connect China Petroleum and Natural Gas. to larger and more comfortable cars. put its massive electronic sales platform consulting firm, told AFP. Scandals over Motor spirit consumption averaged 574,000 Vehicle ownership India is therefore one of the most important Taobao on its annual blacklist, saying it was food safety and milk powder have eroded barrels per day in 2016, up from 513,000 bpd in Motorcycles use much less fuel than a car, but and natural markets for Saudi Arabia, Iran and not doing enough to curb sales of fake and Chinese shoppers’ confidence in domestic 2015 and 447,000 bpd in 2014. Consumption is run entirely on gasoline, not diesel, and the cor- other crude producers in the Middle East given pirated goods. Although inclusion on the goods, fuelling lively informal grey markets being driven by an enormous increase in the rect comparison is with the non-motorised the short sea routes. The country is also critical blacklist carries no penalties in itself, it in food, vitamins, and medicines from all number of drivers on the country’s roads for the transport and buses they are replacing. Vehicle for the major international oil companies as an dealt a blow to Alibaba’s efforts to improve over the world. first time. The number of registered motor vehi- ownership including motorcycles has become outlet for their downstream fuel divisions. BP has its image and boost international sales. While dominant in its home market, and cles hit 210 million by March 2015 up from just an important status symbol for India’s rapidly obtained permission to set up 3,500 fuel stations “This (pledge) is more made to relieve its making forays into Russia and Southeast 105 million in March 2008 (“Road Transport growing urban middle class. Nearly one-third of in India because it sees a strong future for trans- PR pressure, so Alibaba won’t become a tar- Asia, Alibaba’s efforts in the US have so far Yearbook”, Ministry of Road Transport and all motor vehicles are registered to individuals in portation demand in India. get of attack after Trump takes office,” Li failed to find the same success. Highways, 2016). the country’s million-plus cities according to Other major private and state-owned oil added. “As Alibaba’s counterfeits problem is Its business model as a platform offers The number of registered motor vehicles is government data. companies are also reported to be interested in indeed quite serious, it is an easy target.” US consumers no extra benefits, Li said, doubling every seven years and shows no sign The most heavily urbanised states and territo- establishing retail distribution networks given and it faces dominant local competitors of being saturated. Vehicle ownership stood at ries in the union also have the highest rates of the strong outlook for fuel consumption. In ‘Good relationships’ such as Amazon and eBay. Even so, Ma an average of 167 per 1,000 people in 2015, up vehicle registration per 1,000 population. absolute terms, India’s gasoline consumption is This month Alibaba filed a lawsuit in wants half of Alibaba’s revenue to be inter- from 86 in 2007, according to government data. Registration rates in heavily urbanised Goa (551), still dwarfed by China. But India is set to be one China against two vendors for allegedly national within 10 years. —AFP But penetration rates were still low compared Puducherry (488), Delhi (424) and Tamil Nadu of the fastest growing markets for road fuel in with other developing countries such as Mexico (326) are much higher than in rural states such the next decade. — Reuters THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 BUSINESS

Burgan Bank announces sponsorship of ‘SPARK Marathon 2017’

KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yester- will continue running over two days, from Marathon falls under the umbrella of day its sponsorship of ‘SPARK Marathon January 13th till the 14th. The race will be nationalism and corporate citizenship 2017’, the largest and most anticipated followed by a full-fledged program of spirit which Burgan Bank believes in. The charity race events in Kuwait, for the sec- entertaining activities for all ages. bank trusts that the outcome of this ond consecutive year. Organized by Burgan Bank is a firm believer of the local event with international standards Spark Athletic Centre and scheduled for great importance of such sporting will showcase Kuwait as a host for world Saturday January 14th, 2017 at the events and its positive outcome on the class sporting events. Marina Crescent, the marathon aims at society and on Kuwait in general. Such Burgan Bank’s sponsorship of this integrating sports and fitness into the events position Kuwait as a hub for unique event stems from its overall very fabric of the Kuwaiti society as well world-class sports initiatives in all fronts, social responsibility and firm belief in as at supporting local charities and non- while it encourages individuals in the supporting initiatives that raise aware- profit organizations by highlighting the community to integrate sports and fit- ness about the benefits of maintaining a positive role they play in our community ness into their very own lives, which is all healthier lifestyle. As part of this commit- The race is open to individuals and under the bank’s philosophy in order to ment, Burgan Bank will continue to sup- families from all age groups and will fea- support such local initiatives that raise port similar initiatives in the future as to ture four categories; 5 km run, 10 km run, the level of awareness on the communi- create a positive impact on the society 21 km run, and 42 km run, while the event ty as a whole. The sponsorship of SPARK as a whole. The Kuwait Motor Show Automoto 17 begins

Over 30 brands, Over 100 cars on display for 10 days in 360 Mall

KUWAIT: EPR Company announced that the Kuwait Motor Show Automoto17 opens its doors for the public under the patronage of His Excellency Minister of Information and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Al- Homoud Al-Sabah yesterday at 10 am at 360 MALL and will continue through the 21st of January. The Kuwait Motor Show Automoto 17 is Kuwait’s only motor show displaying more than 30brands by authorized dealerships in Kuwait. The show is bringing the newest releases of 2017 to the public under one roof.

Car launches and new models of 2017 Gulf Bank welcomes Red The Kuwait Motor Show Automoto 17 will showcase the latest in the automotive market offering vehicles of the year 2017, an array of account’s draw winner new product launches, never seen before vehi- cles and much more. The world most renowned KUWAIT: Gulf Bank’s Al Danah Millionaire of my friends was so surprised to win the brands plan to do their major launches in the Rawiah Alateeqi Osama Bastaki Draw, recognized as the ‘Largest prize linked draw. I had to reconfirm twice before believ- country throughout the show. Visitors will enjoy January the 21st at the mall regular hours 10 am Bastaki added: “The Kuwait Motor Show brings to a bank account’ by Guinness World Records ing that I have won” Cash prizes up to KD a one of a kind experience with vehicles ranging to 10 pm. 360 MALL showed its keenness to sup- together automotive brands from around the world TM, resulted in the announcement of many 1,000 each with Gulf Bank’s Salary and red from economy passenger cars, luxury sedans, port new ideas which fall in line with its policy displaying them to their customers in Kuwait in a winners. The red account winner visited Gulf accounts were won on the spot during Al super cars, and a mix of motorcycles and ATV’s. and serves the community. The Chief Executive drive to support the local dealers in showcasing Bank’s headquarters yesterday to officially Danah Millionaire Draw event. New red The show offers visitors over 100 vehicles on dis- Officer of EPR, Osama Bastaki expressed his con- their newest models. The show is designed to gen- receive her prize. Gulf Bank welcomed Ms. Account or Salary Account customers who play ranging from passenger cars, SUV’s, and fidence in the company’s successful experience erate traffic translating into sales which in turn Huda Hussein Mohammad Mohammad, the have opened an account and transferred their Motorcycles and more. in organizing the most prestigious and largest reflects on the economy of the country.” last winner of the monthly cash draw for the student allowance or salary always have a Red Account 2016, at the head office at Gulf chance to enter cash draws and win prizes Sponsors bank. Manal Barakat, Manager, Consumer with Gulf Bank. The Kuwait Motor Show is in partnership with Banking at Gulf Bank congratulated her on For further information about the Al The Kuwait Finance House as a Strategic Partner winning a prize of KD 1,000 during Al Danah Danah, Salary, red accounts, or any of the for the Third year in a row.KFH offers exclusive Millionaire Draw event that took place on products or services, visit one of Gulf Bank’s promotions and a comprehensive range of January 5 at the Avenues. 56 branches, or call Gulf Bank’s Customer financial services for those visitors who are plan- Throughout her visit to Gulf Bank’s head- Contact Center on 1805805. General informa- ning to purchase new cars. KFH’s active role and quarters to officially receive her prize, com- tion about Gulf Bank’s products and services contributions in the automotive market reiterate menting on her win, Ms. Mohammad stated can also be found at the Bank’s website at its flagship status and leading position in financ- that “at first I thought it was a prank from one www.e-gulfbank.com. ing automobiles. The show is also backed by var- ious sponsors that will add value to the show car show in Kuwait. He said: “We aim to further General Manager of EPR, Rawiah Alateeqi stated: experience ranging from car cleaning services expand on our success and progress in all our “We have organized the Kuwait Motor Show for five offered by Pronto Wash, Fuel products and serv- events, with emphasis on the Kuwait Motor consecutive years at 360 MALL and we have been ices offered by Oula, and innovative cleaning Show being the largest motor show in Kuwait. investing in it since inception. We have become the services by Smart Polish Pro. Last year, over 260,000 visitors entered the mall only and largest motor show in the country. Our Automoto17 commences its activities today during the 7 days show and over 100 cars were statistics proved that last year’s event was a success, January the12th and will continue through sold as a result of the show.” and we aim to accomplishing more this year.” ABK announces winners of ‘Double Your Salary’ weekly draws

KUWAIT: Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK) held its 2) Abdullah Zayed Abdullah Al Sader, Hawally Branch 37th ‘Double Your Salary’ weekly draw on 9th New customers who transfer their salary to January, 2017 at the Bank’s Head Office in the ABK receive KD 100 and will automatically be presence of a representative from the Ministry of entered into the weekly draws to double their Commerce, announcing the names of the win- salaries. Existing customers who are already ners for this week. The promotion includes transferring their salary to ABK are entered into a weekly draws, with two winners per draw. The separate draw. The next ‘Double Your Salary’ campaign will run until 27th June, 2017. draw will be held on 16th January, 2017 where two new lucky winners will be announced. All The winners this week were: winners will be contacted personally and a 1) Abdulrazzaq Abdullah Al Marzouq, Shuwaikh weekly announcement will be made through Branch the media with the winners’ names. Dhofar Global pursues expansion to establish presence in the GCC

DUBAI: In line with its strategic expansion plans, green environment. The UAE Government’s initia- Dhofar Global, a leading supplier of hygiene prod- tives such as the promotion of the best hygiene ucts in the Middle East, is looking to enter at least practices and a clean community have contributed one GCC country in 2017 and two more by 2020. to the growth as well. The move complements the robustness of the Chandan Singh, CEO, Dhofar Global, said: “Dhofar region’s cleaning and hygiene sector and its strong Global has witnessed a remarkable growth of 40 per organic growth in the UAE, where it recorded a cent over 2015. As the region prepares to host two NBK introduces new surge of 40 per cent in 2016. The new expansionary major events - Expo 2020 and the 2022 FIFA World policy will be supported by the launch of advanced Cup - we are bullish about growing by more than 50 fingerprint feature to cleaning solutions and innovative fragrance dif- per cent in 2017 as they will positively impact the fusers in the UAE. volume of our business. The massive projects being The outlook for the UAE’s cleaning and hygiene launched and executed in the UAE will create more Mobile Banking App sector is optimistic following significant growth reg- opportunities in the cleaning and hygiene sector istered in the last nine years along with the launch and therefore support our expansion plans.” KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait is commit- NBK Mobile Banking with one step and of specialized products and services. The domestic “The growth will be accompanied with chal- ted to providing its customers with the best benefit from the various new innovative market has received a major boost with the intro- lenges such as educating clients about new prod- and most up-to-date banking e-services that services and features, such as: choosing the duction of advanced technology and application ucts and services; however, as the market leader in tomers about the importance of hygiene and enable them to conveniently and securely favored language, viewing NBK Rewards software, enabling it to adopt a more scientific and the away-from-home (afh) segment, we take it as inform them about new cleaning solutions,” con- access their accounts on their smartphones Program participating outlets, using aug- sustainable approach towards a safe, clean and our responsibility to raise awareness among cus- cluded Singh. and meet their banking demands at anytime mented reality to locate the new CDMs, in and anywhere in the world. addition to ATM and branches locater and Driven by this commitment, NBK added official working hours. Customers can also Renault Al Babtain re-affirms the new Touch ID login feature to its complete their banking transactions con- enhanced Mobile Banking App for iOS and veniently and securely, including: Checking commitment to road safety Android devices, which enables customers account and credit card balance, transfer- to login to the App safely and quickly with ring funds locally and internationally, KUWAIT: Abdulmohsen Abdulaziz Al its customers, thus enhancing their owner- one touch by selecting the fingerprint requesting checkbooks and printed Babtain Co, the authorized agent of Renault ship experience and provide them with option from the settings menu instead of account statement, credit card and phone in the State of Kuwait has once again reaf- maximum benefits and services”. using the username or password; given bill payments in addition to the “Travel firmed its ongoing commitment to improv- Renault Al Babtain urges all Renault that the smartphone supports the finger- Tips” for customer to view and benefit for ing road safety by launching an Aftersales owners to take advantage of this offer, and print feature. their safety while travelling. campaign for all Renault owners. to accentuate their unique Renault experi- This pioneering step plays an integral The NBK Mobile Banking APP is available The Aftersales campaign, a token of ges- ence. The service center available in is fully role in saving customers’ time and effort, as for Android, and Apple devices. NBK cus- ture of customer loyalty, offers special dis- equipped with state-of-the-art technology well as enabling them to bank more quick- tomers can download the NBK Mobile counts including a 30% discount on parts that ensures continued value, safety and ly and easily. It also translates NBK’s leader- Banking free from nbk.com or by logging and 15% discount on labor and is aimed to driving pleasure. The service center offers ship in providing efficient e-services in the into NBK Online Banking. For more informa- raise awareness on the importance of services that include but are not limited to market that satisfy the growing financial tion, customers can visit any of NBK’s replacing timing belts every 80,000 KMs. oil change, brake change, seatbelt warm- needs of its customers conveniently and branches or call NBK Call Center at 1801801 Renault Al Babtain is strongly committed to ing, tire pressure monitoring, checking fluid securely. NBK customers can login into the or 0096522248361 from outside Kuwait. giving preventive maintenance services to levels and transmission replacements. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 TECHNOLOGY Time for your New Year Cyber Detox?

By Alastair Paterson new, but it is equally important that we address meet the challenges the future holds. We know they materialize. After all you can’t defend them for the data security and integrity of our that ransomware and extortion will continue to what you don’t understand or know about. We he Festive period is over, the mince pies, businesses. be a huge problem in 2017 particularly making also know we cannot do everything, so cyber- turkey and other excesses are finished for If I had been writing this blog even three advantage of insecure Internet of Things security in 2017 and beyond is about prioritiz- Tanother year and we start the New Year years ago, it is probable I would have talked devices with the Mirai Distributed Denial of ing the threats and managing those that will with hope and optimism and often New Years about needing to recognize the cyber risk and Service technique. Also Data Breaches remain a have the most damaging impact on your busi- resolutions. Equally in the corporate world we not bury our heads in the sand to the industri- huge challenge for businesses and govern- ness. need to start the New Year with fresh plans and alized threat caused by professional cyber- ments whether deliberate or accidental. So is it time for you to have a New Year schemes, but at the same time ensure we focus crime. Today in 2017, I don’t think anyone But while these are likely to be the most Business Detox, and ensure you have the cyber on the key challenges that can help our business- could be in any doubt about the challenge and common threats faced in 2017, we also know intelligence to measure this risk and prioritize es move forward to ensure 2017 is our most suc- threat cybercrime is to all businesses, of what- that it is probable new, unforeseen challenges the potential impact to your business? I think it cessful ever, while addressing the challenges ever size and industry. will arise in 2017 and to be ready for them, we probably is. Happy New Year. which could derail that success. So the start of a new calendar year is a great need to ensure our security teams have the But while the year might be new, many of the time to take stock of our cybersecurity posture cyber intelligence and awareness at hand to — Alastair Paterson is the CEO Cybersecurity challenges we face are far from and risk profile and ensure we are ready to quantify and manage those new threats as and Co-Founder of Digital Shadows Backpage.com execs refuse to testify at court hearing

WASHINGTON: Executives at the advertis- traffickers and pimps in how to make their ing website Backpage.com refused to testi- ads appear legitimate while continuing to fy before Congress Tuesday following a sell girls and boys into prostitution and Senate report that accuses the site of sys- modern-day slavery, McCaskill said. “That, tematically editing its “adult” ads to remove ladies and gentlemen, is the definition of words that indicate sex trafficking. Four top evil - simply evil,” she said. executives and the company’s lawyer told a The Senate hearing comes a day after Senate subcommittee they were invoking the Supreme Court said it won’t hear an their Fifth Amendment rights against self- appeal from three sex trafficking victims incrimination. who accuse Backpage of helping to pro- The Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee mote the exploitation of children. The jus- on Investigations released a report Monday tices left in place a lower court ruling that charging that Backpage has created a lucra- said federal law shields Backpage from lia- tive marketplace that makes child sex traf- bility because the site is just hosting con- ficking easier. The report cites internal docu- tent created by people who use it. ments showing that up to 80 percent of the The women say they were sold as prosti- site’s ads are edited to conceal the true tutes in Massachusetts and Rhode Island nature of the underlying transaction. through advertisements for escort services Backpage has denied the allegations, and on the site when they were as young as 15. the site shuttered its “adult” section in the US A federal judge threw out the lawsuit, and Monday night to protest what it calls govern- the federal appeals court in Boston upheld ment censorship. Sen Rob Portman, R-Ohio, that ruling. In a separate case last month, a the subcommittee’s chairman, said California judge rejected pimping charges Backpage’s actions validated the panel’s against Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer and for- report, adding that Backpage has “put profits mer owners Michael Lacey and James ahead of vulnerable women and children.” Larkin, citing federal free speech laws. Backpage has shown it is “intent on prof- California officials have said they intend to iting from human trafficking - and human pursue new charges against the company misery - and profit they have, at the based on new evidence. Prosecutors have expense of countless innocent victims,” alleged that more than 90 percent of Portman said as the Backpage executives Backpage’s revenue - millions of dollars sat stone-faced in front of him. Missouri each month - comes from adult escort ads Sen Claire McCaskill, the panel’s top that use coded language and nearly nude Honor President George Zhao during Honor 6X launch. Democrat, called Backpage “a $600 million photos to offer sex for money. company built on selling sex - and impor- The Senate report says that despite public tantly, built on selling sex with children.” claims to the contrary, Ferrer, Larkin and Lacey are the “true beneficial owners of the Honor 6X launches in Mideast ‘Simply evil’ company.” The report says Larkin and Lacey Rather than turn away ads that sell girls loaned Ferrer $600 million to buy the compa- By Islam Al-Sharaa as young as 12 for sex, Backpage executives ny from them, and the men concealed their “just tried to make it less obvious,” ownership interest through “a complex chain LAS VEGAS: Built for the cost-conscious yet McCaskill said. The committee’s report said of domestic and international shell compa- uncompromising Internet-minded millennial, the company used a computer program to nies.” Ferrer, Lacey, Larkin and chief operating the Honor 6X is the perfect technological find and delete words such as “Lolita,” officer Andrew Padilla all refused to testify budget beast. It features an innovative dual- ‘’cheerleader,” ‘’teenager” and “young.” The Tuesday, as did Elizabeth McDougall, the lens rear camera offering a wide aperture range editing practices amounted to “coaching” company’s general counsel. —- AP (F/0.95-F/16) that gives all the latitude to unleash your creative potential. Embodying the “Double the Experience” motto that millennials live and breathe, the Honor 6X breaks new ground at CES 2017 with its premium dual-lens rear camera, extended battery life and rock-sol- id performance. The main 12 MP camera of the Honor 6X dual lens rear camera is responsible for the composi- tion of the image while the 2 MP camera helps to get depth of field information, resulting in beautiful shots that are sharp and crisp. Combined with the camera’s wide aperture (F/0.95), the Honor 6X produces professional- looking background blur to make your subjects stand out. This, coupled with a 1.25um pixel size, enables the Honor 6X to capture quality shots even in low-light settings. The Honor 6X’s cam- era uses Phase Detection Auto Focus technolo- gy, which allows for an ultra-fast camera focus speed of 0.3 seconds. and closely focus on users’ needs and in develop- sales records to become the fastest selling Fueled by Kirin 655 boasting an octa-core ing superior products and services. Honor incor- device sold on Souq.com ever. WASHINGTON: From left, Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer, former owner James Larkin, architecture, the Honor 6X is built to provide a porates the ultimate tech innovations, with The Honor 7, which was launched in October COO Andrew Padilla, and former owner Michael Lacey, are sworn-in on Capitol Hill. — AP glitch-free user experience. Kirin 655 packs four strong research and development capabilities last year, is the number one smartphone in its cores clocked at 2.1GHz and another four at 1.7 that allow creation of the best products. Huawei price category online in the Middle East. Our lat- Yahoo to change name, trim GHz. Supported by 3GB RAM and a powerful i5 Honor has access to 16 global R&D centers, est flagship beauty also exceeded target sales at co-processer, the Honor 6X allows you to seam- 79,000 R&D staff and 50,377 total granted Gitex Shopper 2016, with Honor 8 being among lessly game, browse and listen to music or run patents. The brand offers innovative high-quality, the most sold out phones within its price cate- board if new deal gets done multiple apps at the same time, it is also boasts high-performance products and services at a gory. This confirms our belief in working with an internal storage memory of 32GB. more accessible price point than other brands. our users to create technology that caters to SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo will adopt a new personal information from more than 1 billion Running on a powerful 3340 mAh battery, their specific needs and have the perfect bun- corporate identity and slash the size of its user accounts during two different intrusions Honor 6X offers an exceptional battery life. With KT: What is Honor’s strategy to sell more prod- dles to ensure happier and more satisfied users. board if the proposed $4.8 billion sale of its that occurred in 2013 and 2014. its 16nm CPU and power saving technology fur- ucts in the Middle East and Kuwait? Also, at CES 2017 in Vegas there was an excit- digital services to Verizon Communications Verizon is reassessing whether it should ther reducing power consumption, the Honor 6X Zhao: Over the past two years since Honor ing announcement from the Huawei Honor fam- goes through. The company plans to change renegotiate the sales price or perhaps cancel provides 2.15 days of usage and 1.54 days of was first launched, globally the brand has been ily where yet another technological budget its name to Altaba Inc. after it turns over its the deal light of hacking revelations that heavy usage on a single full charge. On A single growing at 100 percent year on year; a figure we beast was launched, but this time it was about email, websites, mobile apps and advertising could trigger a backlash among Yahoo users full charge, the Honor 6X allows you to enjoy up are replicating in the Middle East market. We setting the standards even higher for the com- tools to Verizon. The new name is meant to upset about sensitive personal details being to 11.5 hours of video, 70 hours of music, or up petition where the first mid-range dual camera reflect Yahoo’s transformation into a holding stolen. Yahoo is fighting to keep the deal to 8 hours of gaming. smartphone was launched, the Honor 6X. Featuring a generous 5.5-inch full HD (1920 x company for investments in China’s e-com- intact. In the only change that took effect Millennial smartphone users in the Middle 1080p) display, the ergonomically designed merce leader, Alibaba Group, and Yahoo Monday, Yahoo director Eric Brandt became East region have integrated the technology Japan that are worth about more than $40 the company’s chairman. He replaces Honor 6X boasts a full metal slim body (8.2 mm seamlessly in to every aspect of their life and are billion combined. Maynard Webb, who becomes chairman thick) with 2.5-D glass on the front and curved looking for a device that can match both their Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, co-founder emeritus until the Verizon deal closes. panel on the back. The Honor 6X comes in three Honor President lifestyle and their pocket. With the Honor 6X, we David Filo and four other directors currently Brandt, the former chief financial officer of colors - gold, silver and grey. It has been avail- are bringing our consumers a device that is per- on the company’s 11-member board will chipmaker Broadcom, joined Yahoo’s board able for purchase since January 5 in the Middle George Zhao: fectly tailored to the desired experience for a resign after the planned sale to Verizon clos- 10 months ago. Webb had been Yahoo’s chair- East including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi es. Verizon is expected to retain Yahoo’s brand man for nearly four years. If the Verizon deal Arabia, Kuwait, etc at a selling price of KD 75. Kuwait is one of our digital native. Geared towards those unwilling to under its ownership. But the Verizon deal has closes, Webb will leave the board along with “Millennial smartphone users in the Middle cut back on performance, Honor 6X is a device been jeopardized by Yahoo’s recent discovery Mayer, Filo and Eddy Hartenstein, Richard Hill East region have integrated the technology main markets and engineered with uncompromising excellence. of two computer hacking attacks that stole and Jane Shaw. — AP seamlessly in to every aspect of their life and are Understanding the ‘double or nothing’ lifestyle looking for a device that can match both their we value our target of millennials, we designed Honor 6X with lifestyle and their pocket. With the honor 6x, we enough muscle power to allow them to share, are bringing our consumers a device that is per- audience there explore, and enjoy life to the fullest fectly tailored to the desired experience for a digital native,” said Chris Sun Baigong, Vice KT: People need to see and touch products. President Huawei honor Middle East CBG. What is Honor’s retail presence? “Geared towards those unwilling to cut back Zhao: Honor is available online on on performance, Honor 6X is a device engi- www.hihonor.com and also through all major retailers in the region neered with uncompromising excellence,” said consider the Kuwait market to be one of our George Zhao, president of Honor. main markets and we value our target audience “Understanding the ‘double or nothing’ lifestyle KT: Is there any plan to launch a new device in there, which is why we are always looking for future? of millennials, we designed Honor 6X with ways to tailor our brand to cater to their needs. enough muscle power to allow them to share, Zhao: 2017 is going to be an exciting year for Since the launch of Honor in this market in Honor. We are looking at breaking norms and explore, and enjoy life to the fullest.” May 2015 with Honor 6 plus and subsequent Zhao spoke to Kuwait Times as part of a showing our users that premium quality is now Honor 4X, Honor 7, Honor 5x and the successful group interview at CES. Some excerpts: within their reach. In the Middle East we see Honor 8 that is a reflection of beauty, sales in great potential for our brand; this is particularly Kuwait Times: How is Honor doing in the this region have grown exponentially. Honor 6 smartphone market? so due to the predominance of digital natives plus sold out in the first week on Souq.com, George Zhao: We are the leading smartphone and high incidence of early adopters that impact prompting Honor to ship more units to meet e-brand in the region and we pride ourselves in the way in which we approach this highly local demand. Our second device, the Honor 4X following an online and offline business model sophisticated market. Honor 6X is the only mid- was launched on August 25 and broke sales that caters to digital natives. Honor products are range phone with a dual camera in the ME records every day before selling out within a NORTH ANDOVER: This Monday, July 25, 2016, file photo shows the Yahoo and available through multiple sales channels region that is built for the cost-conscious yet week. The Honor 4X actually smashed online Verizon logos on a laptop. — AP enabling us to connect directly to our consumers uncompromising Internet-minded millennial. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 HEALTH & SCIENCE Trump appears to dial back from vaccine skeptic nod

WASHINGTON: US President-elect scientific community. After that meeting, “I said I would.” Kennedy said the job describing the dangers of the mercury- Medicine report on eight vaccines given Donald Trump’s transition team on Kennedy told reporters Trump had asked would be to “make sure we have scientif- containing preservative thimerosal in to children and adults “found that with Tuesday appeared to dial back from him to head a commission on vaccine ic integrity in the vaccine process for effi- vaccines. At a film screening in rare exceptions, these vaccines are very naming noted vaccine skeptic Robert F safety and scientific integrity, and the 62- cacy and safety.” But Tuesday evening, California in 2015 he expressed mistrust safe.” Furthermore, nine CDC studies Kennedy Jr to lead a committee on vac- year-old son of slain senator Bobby Trump’s transition team issued a state- of public health officials who say vac- since 2003 have found “no link between cines safety, officials said. Earlier in the Kennedy and nephew of late president ment saying that no such decision had cines are safe for children. “They get the thimerosal-containing vaccines and ASD, day, Trump met with Kennedy, a promi- John F. Kennedy said he had agreed. been made. The statement also referred shot, that night they have a fever of a as well as no link between the measles, nent environmentalist who has authored “He asked me to chair a commission to the committee in question as one on hundred and three, they go to sleep, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and a book about his concerns that ingredi- on vaccine safety and scientific integrity,” autism, not vaccine safety. and three months later their brain is autism spectrum disorder in children,” ents in childhood vaccines may cause Kennedy said after the meeting, which “The President-elect enjoyed his dis- gone,” Kennedy said, according to a the federal agency said. autism-a notion long debunked by the he said Trump had called and requested. cussion with Robert Kennedy Jr on a report at the time in the Sacramento Since the late 1990s and early 2000s, range of issues and appreciates his Bee. “This is a holocaust, what this is thimerosal has been removed or thoughts and ideas,” the statement said. doing to our country.” reduced to trace amounts in all child- “The President-elect is exploring the hood vaccines except for some flu vac- possibility of forming a commission on Long ago debunked cines, the CDC has said, describing the autism, which affects so many families; Such fears have spread online in move as a “precaution.” Georgetown however no decisions have been made recent years, fueled in part by celebrity University professor of family medicine at this time.” attention, and by the fact that doctors Ranit Mishori told AFP the news of don’t fully understand what causes Kennedy’s role was seen as a “nightmare” Doubts expressed autism, leading some parents to connect for doctors who have fought a surge of Both Kennedy and Trump have the sudden onset of the brain disorder vaccine skepticism among parents in expressed concerns that childhood vac- with the series of visits to the doctor for recent years, amid resurgent outbreaks cinations could lead to autism. “Trump vaccinations in childhood. Trump has of vaccine-preventable diseases like per- has some doubts about the current vac- repeatedly suggested a link between tussis and measles with sometimes fatal cine policies and he has questions about vaccines and autism spectrum disorder, consequences. it,” Kennedy told reporters. “His opinion or ASD. He tweeted in 2014: “Healthy “This helps stoke a lot of unnecessary doesn’t matter but the science does young child goes to doctor, gets fear and it is anti-science. We have been matter and we ought to be reading the pumped with massive shot of many vac- there, we have looked at it. The science is science and we ought to be debating cines, doesn’t feel good and changes - extremely solid on this,” she said. the science,” he added. “Everybody AUTISM. Many such cases!” Kennedy “is known to be a person who ought to be able to be assured that the The US Centers for Disease Control believes that vaccines cause harm and it vaccines that we have-he’s very pro-vac- and Prevention says that multiple stud- sounds like he won’t be satisfied until cine, as am I-but they’re as safe as they ies in recent years have shown no link this is proven in one way or another,” she NEW YORK: (FILES) This file photo shows President-elect Donald Trump possibly can be.” between receiving vaccines and devel- added. “Unfortunately, that is not how speaks to the media at Trump Tower in New York.—AFP Kennedy authored a 2014 book oping autism. A 2011 Institute of science works.” —AFP Bangladesh falls short in tackling childhood stunting ‘We know eggs and milk are good for babies but how can we buy them?’

DHAKA: Scampering up the wall of his tin shack in United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Development priority Bangladesh’s capital, three-year-old Rozzob Ali has Bangladesh, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Last October, the World Bank announced it the same combination of mischief, charm and “At present, Bangladesh is still one of 20 countries in would increase funding to tackle stunting in boisterous energy as many other boys. But the the world with the largest burden of stunting Bangladesh to $1 billion over the next three fourth of five children, all born in a Dhaka slum, Ali among children.” years from about $330 million it has invested in shows one danger sign - at 80 centimeters tall, he two programs. Part of the money would be is a good 10 cms shorter than the ideal height for a Disease, infections spent giving 600,000 families cash to buy nutri- boy his age. Poverty and a diet of mostly boiled A 2016 survey by UNICEF and the Bangladeshi tious food for their children in return for regular rice or mashed potato are partly to blame for his government shows the poorest children are dispro- monitoring of their development, including stunting, which is caused by a lack of nutrients, portionately affected with 40 percent of children in height and weight. “Investing in reducing child protein, vitamins and minerals found in meat, fruit slums who are stunted, compared with the overall stunting should be a priority in Bangladesh,” QUIBERON, France: This file photo shows French fisherman Daniel Kerdavid and vegetables. Research shows that insufficient urban average of 26 percent. “Children in urban Qimiao Fan, the World Bank’s Bangladesh coun- getting ready to kill a ray according to the Japanese technique Ikeijime nutrition in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life can slums tend to be from families that are among the try director, told the Thomson Reuters lead to irreversible damage to health, growth and most vulnerable,” Narayan said. “Families in urban Foundation. onboard his boat Miyabi in Quiberon, western France. —AFP photos development. slums might be more food insecure, but also live in If Bangladesh is to achieve its target of Nutritious food has become even harder to environments which increase the risk of disease and becoming a middle-income country by 2021, afford since Ali’s father was forced to work in a brick infections.” Of Bangladesh’s 160 million people, “investing in child nutrition and their cognitive factory to pay off a debt. It will take him at least six around 2.2 million live in 14,000 slums, according to development is among the most cost-effective months to pay back what he owes, depriving the a 2014 slum census. development actions,” Fan said. Health experts family of the little income he would earn pulling In Balurmath slum where Ali grew up, the putrid say this is critical because under-nourished girls rickshaws around Dhaka’s teeming streets. “How smell of sewerage seeps through the air as children tend to grow up and give birth to under-nour- can I feed the children? How can I pay the rent?” play barefoot in the narrow alleys lined by corrugat- ished babies - unless action is taken. said Ali’s mother, Taslima Begum, who spends her ed iron houses. They say more awareness needs to be raised days picking up discarded plastic bottles in an Residents bathe in the open, close to women fil- about the link between early marriage and upmarket neighborhood to sell for recycling in the leting fish and girls cooking on mud stoves. Poor stunting, and the importance of allowing more hope of making a dollar or two. sanitation and diseases linked to dirty water such as time between pregnancies to give mothers a The rate of stunting in under-fives in Bangladesh diarrhoea, which causes vital nutrients to be lost chance to regain their health. By the age of 27, has fallen to 36 percent from 45 percent in 2000, from the body, are a common scourge. UNICEF’s Ali’s mother had already given birth to five chil- official figures show, partly due to a growing econo- Narayan said progress was hampered by the gov- dren. The oldest, a girl, is 12. For many strug- my which has helped lift some 20 million people ernment’s focus on development through infra- gling to survive in the slums, nutritious food out of poverty over the last two decades. But more structure. “Investments in nutrition don’t get atten- remains a luxury they cannot afford. than 5.5 million Bangladeshi children under the age tion that a bridge or road or infrastructure project Manik Mia, a father of six, worries about his of five are still affected by the condition. might get,” she said. daughter Jannatul who turned five this month. Health experts say a major challenge for the Ministry of health officials agree more needs to Measuring 82 centimeters, she is severely stunt- government is to reduce stunting especially in ever- be done to improve nutrition among slum resi- ed. He spends the $38 monthly income that one expanding slums, where it is worse than in other dents. “We’re trying to address this in a different of his daughters earns as a maid on paying the areas. “There has been a reduction in the level of way,” Roxana Quader, a senior ministry official, rent. Anything else goes on food. “We know stunting in Bangladesh but it remains unacceptably told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, without eggs and milk are good for babies but how can high,” Anuradha Narayan, nutrition chief at the giving details. we buy them?” he said with a shrug. —Reuters French chefs hooked on fish killed the Japanese way

QUIBERON, France: At first glance, apart named Miyabi after the hook that is the from a telltale little hole between its eyes, main tool of his trade-meets a sharp, swift the inert fish looks like any other dead fate. With disconcerting self-assurance, whiting. But its flesh is much tastier thanks Kerdavid sinks a miyabi between the fish’s to the ancient Japanese method by which eyes, then pushes a steel spike through the it was slaughtered: ikejime, also known as hole into the brain, slicing through arteries spiking. Practiced for centuries in Japan, as it goes. the technique has been adopted only The blood drains from the fish’s body recently in France, and 30-year-old Brittany into a bin filled with ice water. The tech- fisherman Daniel Kerdavid is one of only a nique destroys the fish’s nervous system handful of French purveyors of ikejime- including the spinal cord in a few seconds slaughtered fish. Receiving a delivery of while the heart continues to beat. “The fish Kerdavid’s catch of the day, Michelin- is still alive. Its internal organs continue to starred chef Herve Bourdon exclaims: function, especially the heart, which will “Wow, aren’t they beautiful!” empty out all the blood,” says Kerdavid, The use of ikejime “completely changes who has never set foot in Japan but the taste and texture of the fish,” says learned the technique by watching video Bourdon, who serves up pearly white pol- clips online. “The blood is the main cause lock with caramelized carrots at the Petit of the fish’s deterioration,” he says. Not only Hotel du Grand Large restaurant in the sea- is the flesh tastier with all the blood side Brittany town of Saint-Pierre- drained from it, but the fish has a longer Quiberon. “You can feel the muscle,” he storage life. told AFP. “I don’t know if you can imagine the result, something both firm and ten- Not left to thrash about der, and it also preserves the original col- The technique may seem cruel, but its ors of the fish. It’s pretty extraordinary.” proponents say it is more humane than Adopting the technique has enabled allowing a fish to thrash about until it dies. Kerdavid to double his prices-he now “I kill the fish, I don’t leave them to die,” MARSEILLE: Medical personnel work in the emergency room of Hopital de la Timone hospital in Marseille yesterday. —AFP photos charges an average of eight euros (dollars) Kerdavid says. “From the moment I pull my a kilo for his whiting. hook from the fish it feels no more pain.” Migraine sufferers at higher surgery stroke risk But Bourdon says he is not bothered by Death by ikejime causes far less stress to the expense: “What I’m interested in is qual- the fish, assuring better quality flesh. ity.” And Kerdavid is not looking back: “All Kerdavid’s haul for the day weighs 91 kilo- PARIS: People who suffer States, Denmark and Germany ana- for migraine patients. The risk was ized by a severe headache often my fish have already been sold,” he says. grams (200 pounds). The more fragile fish, migraines are at a higher risk of lyzed the records of nearly 125,000 highest for those whose migraines associated with disturbed vision, Another Michelin-starred chef Kerdavid has such as whiting and pollock, are killed stroke after surgery, researchers surgical patients at Massachusetts had an “aura”-described as flashing sensitivity to sounds, smells and reeled in is Christopher Hache of the onboard. said yesterday. This means that a General Hospital and two satellite lights or other warning signals light, and nausea. restaurant Les Ambassadeurs at the storied Others such as conger eels, sea bream, history of migraines, which affect campuses between January 2007 experienced before an attack. Migraine has long been consid- Hotel de Crillon in Paris. As the majestic rays or smooth-hound sharks are brought about one in five people, should and August 2014. According to the World Health ered to increase the risk for stroke, hotel undergoes extensive renovations, ashore to be killed after being kept alive in be taken into account when Of the group, 771 (0.6 percent) Organization, about 6.7 million the study authors said, but is still Hache is on a global mission scouting for tanks. As interest in ikejime-slaughtered weighing the pros and cons of suffered a stroke within 30 days of people died of stroke in 2012. widely perceived as a benign con- techniques and ingredients used by other fish grows among French chefs, Kerdavid undergoing an operation, said a surgery. Just over eight percent Survivors often suffer long-term dition. This study was the first to top chefs-which turned him into a fan of wants to branch out, and is now looking study in The BMJ medical journal. (10,179) of the surgery group had a disability. Stroke occurs when assess whether migraines boost the ikejime method, Kerdavid says. into using the technique to kill lobsters as “Given the high prevalence of history of migraine, compared to blood flow to an area of the brain is stroke risk after surgery. “Physicians Donning rubber boots and waterproof an alternative to boiling the animals alive. migraine in the general popula- 11.5 percent (89) of the 771 who cut off due to a clot blocking the should be aware of this increased... overalls, Kerdavid sets sail before dawn Kerdavid has only two competitors in tion, the... association (with stroke) suffered a stroke. The team calcu- path or due to a leak in a blood risk,” said the team. And further from the port of Quiberon on a quest for France, fish wholesaler France Ikejime and carries public health importance,” lated the risk of stroke at 2.4 vessel. Brain cells are starved of research was needed into prevent- whiting, pollock and other fish around the Damien Muller, a Corsican fisherman who the authors wrote. attacks for every 1,000 surgeries-a oxygen, and die. Migraine, more ing post-operative stroke in island of Belle-Ile. Each fish he hauls uses ikejime to slaughter his bluefin tuna A research team from the United number which rose to 4.3 in 1,000 common in women, is character- migraine sufferers. —AFP aboard his nine-metre (30-foot) boat- and swordfish. —AFP THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 HEALTH & SCIENCE China to boost beds, staff to handle healthcare strains

SHANGHAI: China will add 89,000 new hospital two children and now needs to meet fresh The new plan, published late on Tuesday, said of 2020, while its population was forecast to rise to beds and train 140,000 new obstetricians and nurs- demand for public services such as child healthcare demographic problems were likely to become around 1.42 billion, up from 1.37 billion at the end es in order to deal with the strains on its healthcare and primary education, the official Xinhua news more pronounced in the coming five years as a of 2015. China also aims to cut infant mortality system brought about in part by the relaxation of agency said. As part of its 2016-2020 health “five- result of China’s ageing population, rising urbaniza- rates to less than 18 per 100,000 births, down from its “one-child policy”, state media said yesterday. year plan”, China aims to raise its total number of tion rates and healthcare coverage gaps in some 20.1 in 2015, and death rates from diseases such as Worried about its ageing population, China issued nurses to 4.45 million by the end of the decade, regions. It said China’s average life expectancy was cancer and diabetes were also expected to fall 10 guidelines in late 2015 allowing all parents to have Xinhua said. expected to rise one year to 77.3 years by the end percent over the 2016-2020 period. —Reuters

Breastfed babies still need extra vitamin D NEW YORK: Many breastfed infants may not get enough vitamin D because their mothers prefer not to give babies supplement drops, a study suggests. Pediatricians recom- mend that mothers exclusively breastfeed infants until at least six months of age because it can reduce babies’ risk of ear and respiratory infections, sudden infant death syn- drome, allergies, childhood obesity and diabetes. Because breast milk typically doesn’t contain enough vitamin D to help infants develop healthy bones, the American Academy of Pediatrics advises nursing mothers SUNGAI LIAT, Indonesia: This photo shows dredging crews on repurposed fish- SUNGAI LIAT, Indonesia: This photo shows illegal miner Paci (center) diving to give their babies daily supplements of 400 IU (interna- tional units) of vitamin D. As an alternative, women can ing boats trawling for tin off Sungai Liat in northeast Bangka. —AFP photos into the waters to dredge for tin off Sungai Liat in northeast Bangka. take vitamin D supplements themselves - typically 4,000 to 6,000 IU daily - to give babies enough in breast milk so that drops aren’t needed. The research team surveyed 184 breastfeeding mothers, including 44 mothers who also gave their babies formula in addition to breast milk. Altogether, just 55 percent of the women said they gave their babies vitamin D drops and only 42 percent supplemented with the recommended 400 IU. “Many mothers were not aware of the need for vitamin D supplementation or their physician had not recommend- ed supplementation,” said senior study author Dr. Tom Thacher, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. “Others believed that breast milk had all the needed nutrition, and some mentioned the inconvenience of giv- ing a supplement or their poor experience of giving a sup- plement to previous children,” Thacher added by email. Severe vitamin D deficiency can lead to rickets, or soft SUNGAI LIAT, Indonesia: This photo shows a pump dredging sediment from a This photo shows a member of an illegal mining crew preparing to pan sediment bones, seizures due to low calcium or heart failure in pit mine located inland from Sungai Liat. for tin raked from the seabed off Sungai Liat in northeast Bangka. infants. While adults may get some vitamin D from sun- light, direct sun exposure isn’t recommended for babies. About 76 percent of mothers said they took vitamin D themselves, and most of them preferred daily supplements Indonesian islands pay price to longer-acting versions taken less often. Overall, nearly nine in 10 women said they would prefer to take supple- ments themselves rather than give drops to their babies. Women who didn’t give babies vitamin D most often cited for global smartphone rush safety concerns, the survey found. One limitation of the study is that it included mostly white mothers, and the findings might not apply to women of other racial or eth- nic groups or with a high risk of vitamin D deficiency, the ‘It is very dangerous work, and the risks are huge’ authors note in the Annals of Family Medicine. SUNGAI LIAT, Indonesia: Deep beneath the murky Death metal with our standards will be removed from our supply Breast milk ocean, Paci breathes through a thin plastic tube as he A four-man operation can fetch 30 kilograms of tin ore chain.” A spokesman for Samsung said the firm was “com- Still, the findings highlight the need to educate new dredges the seabed for tin, a vital component inside on a good day, another sea miner told AFP. It passes mitted to continuously evolving our efforts on responsi- parents about vitamin D and make sure breastfeeding smartphones and tablets that’s brought riches and ruin to through many hands before arriving at smelters, which ble mineral sourcing”. mothers take supplements themselves or give babies his island home. One-third of the world’s tin comes from export the refined product used in the solder binding the drops, said Dr Lydia Furman, a researcher at Case Western the Indonesian islands of Bangka and Belitung, where components of tech gadgets. Half of all mined tin is trans- ‘It’s all about tin’ Reserve University and Rainbow Babies and Children’s thousands risk serious injury and death in the mines. formed into solder for the electronics industry, data from A representative for the tin working group said it had Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. “Infants can only receive ade- Demand for the metal ore has soared in recent years, driv- industry group ITRI shows, making the brands behind best- two pilot projects aimed at improving worker safety and quate vitamin D if their mothers receive adequate vitamin en by a voracious consumer appetite for the latest elec- selling laptops and flat-screen televisions a powerful force restoring land degraded by mining in development. Jabin D and thus there is adequate vitamin D in their breast milk, tronics gadgets. In Bangka, the result has been a free-for- in the global market. While there is obvious damage to the Sufianto, president of the Association of Indonesian Tin or if they are supplemented,” Furman, who wasn’t involved all-both inland and now offshore. Many miners are unli- environment, and miners have lost their lives, tin from Exporters, acknowledged some tin firms were apprehen- in the study, said by email. censed, sailing out in repurposed fishing boats in the Indonesia is considered “conflict free” and so there are no sive about committing further but believes things will Some infant formulas may contain enough vitamin D to hope of finding new deposits with little experience, and trade restrictions on its use. change over time. “What’s important now is doing the make drops unnecessary. But babies who consume both no protection. But as the negative impacts on the land, and to local pilots, so we can show there is progress and it’s not just all breast milk and formula may not get enough vitamin D Paci, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, communities are revealed, electronics firms have come talk,” he told AFP. But Retno Budi from Walhi, a conserva- and still need drops or mothers who take supplements. earns USD$15 for a day’s work beneath the seas. Clad in under pressure to properly account for the provenance of tion group that has mobilized huge rallies against tin min- Many women who breastfeed incorrectly believe that this goggles and a swimming cap he rakes a powerful hose the minerals they use. Evert Hassink from Friends of the ing, is skeptical. gives babies all the nutrients they need, said Dr Carol across the sea floor, sending violent torrents of mineral- Earth Netherlands says companies have done little to Inland from Sungai Liat, a giant pit mine stretches as far Wagner of the Medical University of South Carolina in rich sand shooting to the surface. “It is very dangerous ensure the tin they used in their gadgets was not harming as the eye can see, one of the treeless, pockmarked scars Charleston. work, and the risks are huge,” he told AFP after surfacing, Bangka. “Companies don’t even know what they are sourc- visible from a flight over the island. “They say they’re “There is an inherent belief that breast milk is the perfect as the mining crew panned the dark sediment to separate ing,” he said. “They refuse to really stick out their necks and restoring the land-I’m yet to see it,” he told AFP, surveying food for their baby,” Wagner, who wasn’t involved in the fragments of tin. “But what are you going to do? It’s my dive into the supply chain.” the ruined landscape. “To this day there’s been almost no study, said by email. It’s no surprise women prefer taking life, and this is my job,” he added. He’s not alone. Dozens of Ten major tech manufacturers-including Apple, effort to fix anything whatsoever.” Just weeks earlier two supplements themselves, because infant drops can be hard dredging crews trawl off north-east Bangka, the same Samsung, Microsoft and Sony-are members of the tin miners died in a landslide at the mine, he said. Nazaruddin to remember and hard to get babies to swallow, Wagner stretch of coastline where a 23-year-old miner drowned in working group, which has pledged to support less harm- earns less panning for tin, a backbreaking job under the added. “We have found that mothers are more apt to take October. At least one miner dies every week in Bangka ful mining practices on Bangka. Apple said in a statement blistering sun, but avoids the dangers of pit mining. “Over medications and vitamin supplements themselves than to and Belitung according to estimates from the Indonesian it had spent “thousands of hours” in Indonesia in a bid to there, they don’t think about safety,” he told AFP, gesturing give anything to their infants,” Wagner said. “It is much easi- Tin Working Group, an organisation comprised of elec- improve the situation for workers and the environment. It to a crew blasting sand and rock below a steep cliff. “It’s all er to give a vitamin to an adult than to an infant.” —Reuters tronics companies, tin firms, industry bodies, and activists. added: “Suppliers who are unwilling or unable to comply about the tin, tin, tin.” —AFP WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017

SACGC fetes six Kuwaitis for patented inventions he Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for ored six Kuwaitis for obtaining exclusive day, the inventors were named as Naji Al- Sabti, who created a device to adjust con- automation system, Faisal Al-Asfour, who cre- Giftedness and Creativity (SACGC), an rights to global inventions, the result of a Failakawi, who built a steel concrete house, tact lenses. ated a water collection system and Sheikh Taffiliate of Kuwait Foundation for the spike in scientific projects. Adel Al-Wusais, who designed a hammer to Moreover, the center also honored Nasser Al-Sabah, who put together an Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), has hon- In a statement issued by SACGC yester- penetrate bulletproof glass and Khaled Mohammad Al-Refai for his work on a home unmanned aircraft. —KUNA

Kindergarten students at India International School Mangaf (IISM) celebrated Christmas and New Year during a ceremony held recently in the presence of school officials and teaching staff. WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017

Sheraton Kuwait and Four Points by Sheraton hold blood donation drive

t the start of the New Year 2017, lives every year, in addition to supporting com- Emerald Ballroom at Sheraton Kuwait was On this occasion, Fahed Abushaar, General of Four Points by Sheraton Kuwait added that Sheraton Kuwait, a Luxury Collection plex medical and surgical procedures and helps designated to hold this drive, where donation Manager of Sheraton Kuwait expressed his sin- these charitable initiatives are part of the hotels’ AHotel and Four Points by Sheraton patients suffering from life threatening condi- stations and all required equipment were set up cere gratitude and pride to all of the employees moral and ethical values noting that Sheraton Kuwait recently conducted a blood donation tions to live longer with a higher quality of life. for the event. Many employees waited for their who donated; he also extended his regards and Kuwait and Four Points by Sheraton Kuwait drive in coordination with the Central Blood This also contributes to CBBK’s national blood turn to roll up their sleeves to donate blood paid tribute to The Central Blood Bank of have been always supportive and playing Bank of Kuwait (CBBK). The hotels took the ini- supply to be ready for all who might need it in where the General Manager and the directors of Kuwait who works continuously to secure remarkable roles in charitable and humanitari- tiative to donate blood out of the fact that the beloved state of Kuwait whether citizens or different departments joined given the hotels’ blood supply to the beloved State of Kuwait an activities that aim to solve different prob- transfusion of blood helps saving millions of residents. important role in encouraging volunteerism. and its people. Mounir Amer, General Manager lems, whether health, environmental or social.

Al-Mulla Exchange opens 71st branch in Kuwait, 3rd in Abu Halifa

l-Mulla Exchange, the leading Money Exchange branch in Abu Halifa aims to cater to the growing demand enable easy access for their customers. The branch will be leading position in the market despite stiff competition.” Company in Kuwait, continues its expansion drive for Al-Mulla Exchange’s services in the location. “We are equipped to provide all the services and products of Al- The customers at the new branch expressed their satis- Aby opening the 71st branch in the country. The lat- grateful to our valuable customers for their trust and con- Mulla Exchange and is manned by well trained staff capa- faction at the having a branch closer to them. “We will now est branch was inaugurated on Jan 8, 2017, in Abu Halifa, tinued support, and we look forward to serving them with ble of providing the right solutions to customers. Joshi fur- be able to conduct our transactions much easier.” The Block 1, Street 9, Al Razi Street, which makes it the third the highest quality services, using technology that enables ther added that Al-Mulla Exchange lays great emphasis on branch, however, targets not just the residents of the area, branch in the area. Speaking to the media, Rakesh Joshi, speedy and safe transactions. continuous improvement in terms of manpower and tech- but also the large floating population in the commercial General Manager of Al-Mulla Exchange, said the third This is part of Al-Mulla Exchange’s commitment to nology. “This is the reason we have been able to hold our areas of Abu Halifa as well.

ASSE hosts ‘IOSH Managing Safely’ training program

dding on to its illustrious pathways of edu- gram to help the people get certification in the Petrochemical, Chemical and Construction indus- cating and empowering its members, field of Health, Safety and Environment. Sanjay tries. He is currently Vice-President of American Global Exhibition of Services AAmerican Society of Safety Engineers, Jaiswal thanked the trainer and the participants Society of Safety Engineers Kuwait Chapter (Term (ASSE) Kuwait Chapter organized IOSH Managing for their interest shown towards HSE. Sony 2016/17). (GES) from 17-20 April 2017 Safely” Training Program from 27th to 29th Thomas CSP, Head of Training Committee, in his The training seminar was meticulously carried December 2016, at Best Western Hotel, brief address, appreciated the participants for on by the trainer and effectively communicated he Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, Services Export Mahboula. The trainer for the program was their interest to learn and enhance their profes- citing relevant industrial scenarios and case stud- Promotion Council and the Confederation of Indian Industry are organizing Muhammad Alamgir, CSP, CRSP, CMIOSH. 16 ASSE sional development. Subsequently, he introduced ies. The course helped the attendees to compre- the 3rd edition of the Global Exhibition of Services (GES) from 17 - 20 April KC members from different sectors, participated the trainer Muhammad Alamgir. hend and adopt high standard occupational T 2017, at India Expo Centre and Mart, Greater Noida, India. The focus sectors for in this training and got benefited. Muhammad Alamgir is a Canadian Registered health and safety principles and practices in their ASSE- Kuwait Chapter lead by Chairman Safety Professional (CRSP) by BCRSP Canada, particular work culture. The course enabled per- GES-2017 will be information technology and telecom, tourism and hospitality, Fadhel-Al Ali, is a non- profit organization which Certified Safety Professional (CSP) by BCSP USA, sonnel to understand the company’s safety policy media and entertainment, healthcare, logistics, environmental services, facility always strives to excel in providing quality train- Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner health and safety legislation. This training also management, exhibition and event services, professional services, retail, education, ings and consultation in the field of Health Safety (CMIOSH) by IOSH UK, Professional Member of provides the perfect base to take up the banking and financial services, R&D skills, railways services, next generation cities, and Environment all across different public and American Society of Safety Engineers-USA, Full advanced NEBOSH courses. wellness and startups/SMEs, sports, infrastructure and services in manufacturing. private sectors in Kuwait. Member of IIRSM UK, Lead Auditor of OHSAS CH. Rama Krushna Chary thanked the trainer More details about GES-2017, are available on Website: http://www.gesdelhi.in. All Rama Krushna Chary, President of ASSE Kuwait 18001, ISO 14001 and obtained many other for this initiative. The participants who will suc- Kuwaiti companies with businesses in the above mentioned sectors are encour- chapter welcomed the participants. He briefed International HSE certifications. Alamgir is cessfully complete the assessment and project aged to participate in GES-2017 which will give them a chance to promote their about the significance of the training seminar and Chemical Engineer and has served more than a will receive certificate from Institution of business to Indian and global companies. the importance of conducting the training pro- decade in the field of HSE including Oil and Gas, Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 TV PROGRAMS

17:55 Tosh.0 12:10 Counterfeit Cat 03:30 Alphabetical 18:25 Workaholics 12:35 Pair Of Kings 04:25 Jericho 18:50 Urban Tarzan 13:00 Pair Of Kings 05:15 Shetland 19:15 Urban Tarzan 13:30 Future-Worm! 06:15 Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime 19:39 The It Crowd 13:55 Lab Rats: Bionic Island 07:10 Masterpiece With Alan Titchmarsh 00:00 Miles From Tomorrow 00:00 Green Street 3: Never Back Down 20:03 Lip Sync Battle 14:20 Lab Rats Elite Force 08:05 Alphabetical 00:30 Miles From Tomorrow 01:45 The Purge 20:27 Lip Sync Battle 14:45 Atomic Puppet 09:00 Jericho 00:55 PJ Masks 03:15 The Purge: Anarchy 20:50 I Live With Models 15:10 Disney Mickey Mouse 10:00 Shetland 01:20 Henry Hugglemonster 05:00 Metro 21:13 Impractical Jokers 15:15 Supa Strikas 11:00 Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime 01:35 The Hive 07:00 War Of The Worlds 21:37 Ridiculousness 15:40 Gamer's Guide To Pretty Much 11:55 Masterpiece With Alan Titchmarsh 01:45 Loopdidoo 09:00 Robot Overlords 22:00 The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Everything 12:50 Alphabetical 02:00 Henry Hugglemonster 11:00 Dracula Untold 22:30 Inside Amy Schumer 16:05 Lab Rats Elite Force 13:45 Emmerdale 02:15 Calimero 13:00 Sword Of Vengeance 22:54 The Half Hour 16:30 Disney Cookabout 14:15 Coronation Street 02:30 Art Attack 15:00 War Of The Worlds 23:18 Tosh.0 16:55 Danger Mouse 14:45 Coronation Street 02:50 Zou 17:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 23:42 Tosh.0 17:25 K.C. Undercover 15:10 Don't Tell The Bride 19:00 Dracula Untold 03:05 Loopdidoo 17:50 Future-Worm! 16:10 Alphabetical 21:00 The Taking Of Pelham 123 03:20 Henry Hugglemonster 18:15 Gravity Falls 17:00 Big Star's Little Star 23:00 Bullet 03:35 Calimero 18:40 K.C. Undercover 17:55 The Jonathan Ross Show 03:50 Zou 19:05 Disney Mickey Mouse 18:50 Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime 04:05 Art Attack 19:10 Lab Rats: Bionic Island 19:45 Emmerdale 04:30 The Hive 00:15 What Happened Next? 19:35 Supa Strikas 20:15 Coronation Street 04:40 Loopdidoo 00:40 Ultimate Survival 20:00 Atomic Puppet 20:45 Coronation Street 04:55 Henry Hugglemonster 01:30 Invent It Rich 20:25 Gamer's Guide To Pretty Much 21:10 Alphabetical 05:10 Art Attack 00:00 The Pool Master 02:20 Dogs: The Untold Story Everything 22:00 Big Star's Little Star 05:35 Loopdidoo 00:55 Gator Boys 03:10 Finding Bigfoot 20:55 K.C. Undercover 22:55 The Jonathan Ross Show 05:50 Calimero 01:50 River Monsters 04:00 What Happened Next? 21:20 Counterfeit Cat 23:50 Emmerdale 06:05 Art Attack 02:45 Gorilla School 04:50 Ultimate Survival 21:45 Mighty Med 06:30 Henry Hugglemonster 03:10 Gorilla School 05:40 How It's Made 22:10 Pickle And Peanut 06:45 Zou 03:40 Wild Animal Rescue 06:30 Storm Chasers 22:40 Disney Mickey Mouse 07:00 Art Attack 04:35 Tanked 07:20 Mythbusters 22:45 Guardians Of The Galaxy 07:30 Henry Hugglemonster 05:25 Weird Creatures With Nick Baker 08:00 Do You Know? 23:10 Ultimate Spider-Man 07:45 Loopdidoo 06:15 Gator Boys 08:15 Doki 23:35 Boyster 00:00 Blood And Glory: The Civil War In 08:00 Zou 07:02 River Monsters 08:35 Adventure 8: Zoo Games Color 08:15 Calimero 07:49 The Pool Master 09:00 K9 Cops 01:00 Hangar 1: The UFO Files 08:30 Loopdidoo 08:36 Night 09:45 How It's Made 02:00 How The States Got Their Shape 08:45 Henry Hugglemonster 09:00 Night 10:30 Invent It Rich 03:00 Ancient Impossible 09:00 Minnie's Bow-Toons 09:25 America's Cutest Pets 11:20 Mythbusters 04:00 America's Book Of Secrets 09:05 PJ Masks 10:15 Wild Animal Rescue 12:10 Storm Chasers 00:00 E! 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News 13:00 Hangar 1: The UFO Files 11:35 Sofia The First SUPERFAST ON OSN MOVIES COMEDY HD 19:25 The Lion Queen 19:40 Invent It Rich 08:10 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 14:00 How The States Got Their Shape 12:00 Sofia The First 12:00 Memories 20:20 Wildest Islands Of Indonesia 20:30 How It's Made 09:10 E! News 15:00 Ancient Impossible 05:45 Grandma's Boy 12:30 Doc McStuffins 14:00 Experimenter 21:15 Tanked 20:55 How It's Made 10:10 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 16:00 America's Book Of Secrets 06:10 Grandma's Boy 12:55 Doc McStuffins 16:00 Trust Me 22:10 Weird Creatures With Nick Baker 21:20 Mythbusters 11:10 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 17:00 Ancient Aliens 06:35 Miguel's Tropical Kitchen 13:20 Sheriff Callie's Wild West 18:00 First Response 23:05 The Lion Queen 22:10 Space Voyages 12:05 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 18:00 How The States Got Their Shape 07:00 Billionaire's Paradise 13:50 Sheriff Callie's Wild West 20:00 Somewhere Slow 23:00 NASA's Unexplained Files 13:00 E! News 19:00 Hangar 1: The UFO Files 07:50 Ariana's Persian Kitchen 14:15 Gummi Bears 22:00 Landmine Goes Click 23:50 What Happened Next? 13:15 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 20:00 How The States Got Their Shape 08:15 A Is For Apple 14:40 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 14:10 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 21:00 Ancient Impossible 08:40 Lee Chan's World Food Tour 15:10 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 15:05 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 22:00 America's Book Of Secrets 09:05 Food School 15:35 Jake And The Never Land Pirates 16:00 E! News 23:00 Ancient Aliens 09:30 What's For Sale? 00:40 Doctors 16:00 Jake And The Never Land Pirates 16:15 Rob & Chyna 09:55 What's For Sale? 01:15 Eastenders 16:30 Little Mermaid 17:15 Rob & Chyna 10:20 John Torode's Malaysian 01:50 Doctor Foster 16:55 Unbungalievable 18:10 Rob & Chyna Adventure 00:00 Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 17:00 Miles From Tomorrow 00:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 02:45 The Musketeers 00:00 Binny And The Ghost 19:05 Celebrity Style Story 10:45 John Torode's Malaysian 17:30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates 01:30 Happy Endings 03:40 Orphan Black 00:25 Sabrina Secrets Of A Teenage 19:30 Celebrity Style Story Adventure 20:00 E! 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And The Beach 20:05 Death In Paradise 07:00 Violetta 02:00 Emmerdale 04:55 John Torode's Malaysian 16:00 Beyond Magic With DMC 02:10 Blowing Up History Beastie 21:00 Holby City 07:45 The Hive 02:30 Coronation Street Adventure 17:00 The War Generals 03:00 Mega Shippers 16:00 Max 22:00 Benidorm 07:50 Mouk 03:00 Coronation Street 05:20 My Restaurant In India 18:00 WW2 Hell Under The Sea 03:50 Impossible Engineering 18:00 The Education Of Little Tree 23:00 Stag 08:00 Jessie 19:00 Locked Up Abroad 04:40 Fast N' Loud 20:00 Goosebumps 23:55 Big School 08:25 Jessie 20:00 Taboo USA 05:30 The Liquidator 22:00 Marvel's Iron Man & Captain 08:50 Tsum Tsum Shorts 21:00 The War Generals 06:00 How Do They Do It? America: Heroes United 08:55 Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug And 21:50 WW2 Hell Under The Sea 06:30 How Do They Do It? 23:45 Max Cat Noir 22:40 Locked Up Abroad 07:00 Deadliest Catch 09:20 Elena Of Avalor 23:30 Taboo USA 07:50 Wheeler Dealers: Trading Up 09:45 Bunk'd 08:40 Fast N' Loud 00:05 Tosh.0 10:10 Gravity Falls 09:30 Big Giant Swords 00:30 The Daily Show With Trevor Noah 10:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 10:20 The Liquidator 00:15 Inherent Vice 01:00 The Meltdown With Jonah And 11:00 Wizards Of Waverly Place 10:45 How Do They Do It? 02:45 The Lazarus Effect Kumail 11:25 A.N.T. Farm 11:10 How Do They Do It? 04:15 Big Stone Gap 01:25 South Park 11:50 A.N.T. 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

A challenge can be fun when you have a positive mindset. This new chal- You understand yourself better now than in the past. Smile! Take a little trip, lenge could come to you today in the form of organizing a group, person or or get outside today. You may want to break that routine and try something new or differ- event. Confirmations and feedback are necessary ingredients to the success of this ent. You may discover insights into day-to-day problems that will be of vast significance. endeavor in order to achieve the desired result. This could mean that you will be asked to Professional achievement is important at this time and some good changes are in the decorate a restaurant or paint a room-you will do well. The energies are in your favor for a making. You may want to plot your path in order to make these changes work. Some physical checkup with positive results. Extra attention to any physical symptom may soon friends look to you for your advice regarding very personal and emotional issues. You are bring relief to a chronic problem. If you have just finished school, you will find a wonderful able to lend sane advice; just don't expect others to follow word for word. Questions and job soon! Career opportunities lead you into a new location of your city-if that is what you discussions about plans with your loved one go well this evening. Romance is possible if want. Seize the day! controversial subjects are left for another time.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21) You feel a love of order and law-an appreciation for responsibilities and duty. Problems are lessons rather than obstacles and you might be teaching this to other Sports competitions are the topic on your mind these days. If you are not people today. You may be helping an elderly person this evening and you might get this involved in professional sports, you may be talking to co-worker friends about the next person talking about little pieces of world history the person might remember. This will triathlon, or competition or team with which you want to become involved. The energies promote a feeling that this senior person can be encouraged to be expressive. You make of the universe are in your favor to complete whatever tasks you have before you. If you plans to pull in some of your friends to help with a volunteer project. They will follow are trying to convince someone to back you, there will be little difficulty at this time. Keep through with their help when they see the results of their efforts. An easy manner will home repairs up-to-date. Soon you will be making plans to involve yourself in successful make conversations and interactions go well. You have a knack for knowing how to make new endeavors. A sense of humor added to some communication with difficult people things work and encouraging people. A positive attitude is admirable. this evening is a joyful change and clears the air very well. This may be neighbors that have loud dogs, boisterous children or loud music.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Weather problems make outdoor exercise a bit difficult, but not impossible, This is a great day! There is an open door to create some extra money for especially if you are willing to do a bit of aerobics to some good music. Perhaps you will you. This could mean that you agree to help a brother or sister at an indoor invite a friend or family member to join with you-just wear warm, snug shoes. In the work- flea market or auction this afternoon. This may be work and it is also fun; if you are not place you are glad you have worked at taking care of your mind and body. You have the careful, most of your income will be spent on those pretty things that catch your eye ACROSS DOWN ability to work hard and become very productive. After the workday is over a friend will before you realize it; careful. Fun times are ahead, whether you are married or committed 1. A defensive missile designed to shoot down 1. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in show loyalty and have you beaming from ear to ear. Catch up on your phone calls later to a special loved one. If you do not have a loved one but want one, you will meet this incoming intercontinental ballistic mis- Turkey). today. You will receive some information that you have been expecting. There is a dreamy new person soon. Make any changes you feel are necessary to your personal appearance siles. 2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature manner about you tonight and people gather around to listen to you weave an so that you will feel more presentable to the world. Balance your social, personal and busi- 4. The animal order including amoebas. deities worshipped by ancient Semitic enthralling story. The least expected pleasantly occurs. ness affairs so that you do not deplete your energies or your focus becomes too intense. 12. Of southern Europe. peoples. 15. An anxiety disorder characterized by 3. Designer drug designed to have the effects chronic free-floating anxiety and such of amphetamines (it floods the brain with symptoms as tension or sweating or trem- serotonin) but to avoid the drug laws. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) bling of light-headedness or irritability etc 4. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from Initiate projects where you work. You will put your creative mind to work. that has lasted for more than six months. aba cloth. There is a big lesson to learn today, as you may have a sense of power loss 16. Surrounded by hostile forces. There are many benefits in the financial sector. Be careful of your expectations of loved 5. One of the three Furies. ones. Although you have good communication action between loved ones, this may when interacting with co-workers this morning. Wait. Bide your time; you will be victorious 17. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which over whatever test the universe decides to create for you at this time. An ego boost will 6. A mouth or mouthlike opening. not be the day to push a particular issue. You may be dealing with them based on what the pilot is talked down by ground control come but not if you rush to prove a point. A chair massage is due during the noon break, 7. A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties you think is real, rather than what is reality. You will prefer not to deal with actuality using precision approach radar. perhaps at a nearby health store. The remainder of the afternoon is quite enjoyable and by comprising the island of Ireland. today, but should make a special effort to avoid incorporating fantasy into your view of 18. Thigh of a hog (usually smoked). 8. A small ball with a hole through the middle. the time quitting time rolls around, you may be surprised at all the progress you have the world-or others. Artistic work will be inspired and perhaps a safer activity than work- made with your work. You are considerate and cooperative and people want to return that 19. A soft white precious univalent metallic 9. One of the five major classes of ing on relationships for now. This very special time can enhance your artistic sensibilities element having the highest electrical and immunoglobulins. kindness to you this evening so resign yourself to the fact that other people want to wait in a remarkable way. on you for a change. thermal conductivity of any metal. 10. (meaning literally `born') Used to indicate 20. A feeling of intense anger. the maiden or family name of a married 22. By bad luck. woman. 24. In bed. 11. A public promotion of some product or Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 27. A particular geographical region of indefi- service. nite boundary (usually serving some spe- 12. Being of the same opinion. Something you see, read about or hear today can be used in your profes- sional work. This may mean that you have discovered some new business techniques that When a subject catches your attention, you could become most involved. If cial purpose or distinguished by its people 13. Any of a number of fishes of the family you find yourself answering questions and popping in to help with useful information, you will double the production of work results. You may also discover some new techniques to or culture or geography). Carangidae. could find this a habit you will want to adjust. There is a powerful feeling when we are save or invest your money that have become very successful for a friend or family mem- 31. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat 14. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver often asked how to do things and solve problems. However, when we allow other people ber. It may also mean doing a little researching in the new technology of how we pay for trimmed off. cells. to involve us in their histrionics, everyone loses something in the process. A good confer- 34. Fitting or appropriate and deserved. products. You may find yourself deciphering the choices of credit cards, debit cards or ence with your co-workers opens doors of possibilities for you. A networking type of inter- 21. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann. using your phone as a payment tool. You and a friend talk about ways that you could 37. An esoteric or occult matter that is tradi- 23. Any of various thermoplastic resins used to action later today is much more fun than you thought. Tonight you may be fascinated to tionally secret. encourage a slowdown of global warming. Perhaps a garden is not such a bad idea, partic- see simple little changes around your neighborhood that you may not have noticed make things. ularly if you can keep a garden protected from predators. 39. Small buffalo of the Celebes having small 25. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the before, like a new paint job, a bus stop and a few other discoveries. straight horns. Dali region of Yunnan. 40. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan 26. A decree that prohibits something. River. 28. Affording or marked by rest or repose. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 41. Deficient in amount or quality or extent. 29. A radioactive element of the actinide 44. A user interface based on graphics (icons series. Customers seem to be in a better listening mood today. Professionally and pictures and menus) instead of text. Today you may decide to go ahead and make plans for an indoor garden 30. A knob used to release the catch when speaking, you know just what to say to make sales or solve frustrations. Your money prob- near a window area of your home. You could stop on the way home from 45. A member of a Mayan people of south- opening a door (often called `doorhandle' lems could be clearing up or at least you see that some relief is in the forecast. Meeting work to shop for a few items you might need. With the cold weather outside, you may feel your financial obligations is important to you and leaves you feeling good about you. You western Guatemala. in Great Britain). herbs and some other plants would be nice indoors and the good smells lift everyone's become more interested in travel and in helping others and in working to make the mon- 46. A colorless odorless inert gaseous element 32. Tree native to southeastern Asia having spirit. Lemon herbs and violets do have a magical way about them. You work to plan on occurring in the earth's atmosphere in ey that will match those desires. Your generosity and care of other people's lives is placement as well as timing and equipment that is necessary to carry out this plan. reddish wood with a mottled or striped admirable. The more you enjoy your creative side the more you will come to know your trace amounts. black grain. Through your free, independent thinking, attractive personality, kindliness and ability to 48. A secret look. spiritual side. Tonight is all about art and communicating through the talents you have 33. A unit of current equal to 10 amperes. be all things to all people, you make others happy. You are in a class by yourself and you 50. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic ele- developed. You have an optimistic and enthusiastic attitude. set an example that others follow. Beauty, cheerfulness and good humor surround you. 35. An impression in a surface (as made by a ment. blow). 51. A stern-shaped constellation in the south- 36. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow ern hemisphere between Vela and Canis leaves and small flowers. Word Search Yesterday Solution Major. 38. A Gaelic-speaking Celt in Ireland or 53. A feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause). Scotland or the Isle of Man. 54. Made agreeably cold (especially by ice). 42. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a 55. (informal) Being satisfactory or in satisfac- heavier blade. tory condition. 43. A toothed wheel that engages another 56. A gliding joint between the distal ends of toothed mechanism in order to change the tibia and fibula and the proximal end the speed or direction of transmitted of the talus. motion. 58. A training program to prepare college stu- 47. A white powder (LiCO3) used in manufac- dents to be commissioned officers. turing glass and ceramics and as a drug. 61. Cut the head of. 49. Evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of 65. A very young child (birth to 1 year) who Australia and Tasmania. has not yet begun to walk or talk. 52. Very light colored. 67. (Light Amplification by Stimulated 57. (horseshoes) The throw of a horseshoe so Emission of Radiation) Optical device that as to lean against (but not encircle) the produces an intense monochromatic stake. beam of coherent light. 59. Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of 71. Not ever. Madagascar. 72. Title for a civil or military leader (especially 60. Lower in esteem. in Turkey). 62. Expel from one's property. 74. The amount a salary is increased. 63. (Norse mythology) The chief race of gods 75. An affirmative. living at Asgard. 76. Make famous for ever. 64. A series of mental images and emotions 78. An independent agency of the United occurring during sleep. States government responsible for collect- 66. Advanced in years. ing and coordinating intelligence and 68. A title of address formerly used for a man counterintelligence activities abroad in of rank and authority. the national interest. 69. An inactive volcano in Sicily. 79. A sweetened beverage of diluted fruit 70. An investment trust that owns and man- juice. ages a pool of commercial properties and 80. Of or relating to ground water. mortgages and other real estate asssets. 81. The universal time coordinated time when 73. Liveliness and energy. a transmission is sent from Earth to a 77. 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FEATURES Bowie tributes around world year after death

earing flowers, lipstick and glitter fans around the world Tuesday paid tribute to rock icon BDavid Bowie a year after his shocking death. Bouquets of flowers appeared once again outside the New York apartment where Bowie spent his final years, recreating the festive and communal scene that emerged after he passed away on January 10, 2016. Sabrina Rosneck, a student from Detroit who came to New York for a Bowie anniversary concert, slipped a letter into the makeshift memorial outside The Starman's Soho home. "I leave him a card whenever I come to New York. I feel like he sort of understands people and he kind of understood me even though he didn't know me, so I just want to update him on my life and how it's going," she said. Like many fans, Rosneck credited Bowie-who constantly reinvented himself in a half-century career that spanned from glam rock to electronica to disco-with helping people accept themselves. Aurelio Ayala III, who flew to New York from Seattle, said that discovering Bowie transformed Tributes to British pop icon David Bowie are seen at the mural of the pop icon in Brixton, David Bowie fans pose for a "selfie" photograph in-front of the mural of late British pop icon his youth in Texas, where he dyed his hair orange south London. — AFP photos David Bowie, created by Australian street artist James Cochran, also known as Jimmy C, as in the rocker's honor and didn't look back. "He fans payed their respects in Brixton, south London the first anniversary of Bowie's death. allowed me to express myself the way I wanted," the 56-year-old said on the sidewalk outside the few people to whom the rocker had confided his to mark the anniversary, with proceeds to go to chari- blonde girl wept as her friend drew a heart with lip- Bowie's apartment, between the building's dump- illness, said he has "been through every stage of grief ties. The New York show on Tuesday evening will fea- stick on a Bowie mural in Brixton. ster and slushy snow. "Living in Texas you are in the past 365 days." ture Kate Pierson of The B-52s and rockers Living "Gone but never forgotten," "All the days of my life looked upon if you're a little different. I never really Visconti, writing on Facebook, recalled that Bowie Colour with veterans of Bowie's band. I owe you" and "RIP David my hero my idol," read cared-and to this day, I don't care." had been "so much stronger, more positive and burst- some of the inscriptions scrawled on the wall. "He ing with creativity" when making "Blackstar." "Our 'Eternal' Bowie changed the face of music," said Roger Rowley, an Tribute concerts around world team, the band, the technicians and everyone who A similar show on Sunday at London's Brixton actor and musician who traveled down from Leeds in Bowie died from an undisclosed battle with cancer visited us in the studio kept shooting glances at each Academy brought out actor Gary Oldman, who was a northern England to attend a vigil by the mural along two days after releasing his last album, "Blackstar," a other-is this really happening?" he recalled of the final close friend of Bowie, and artists as diverse as Def with dozens of other fans. "I've learnt more from work of hard-driving jazz that won glowing reviews. recording sessions. "He was a legend in his lifetime Leppard frontman Joe Elliot and Duran Duran's Simon Bowie as an artist as from anyone else. He's eternal," Columbia Records on Sunday released three addition- and he will be a legend until the end of time. But he Le Bon. Bowie was born in the south London district, he said. — AFP al tracks from the "Blackstar" sessions in a digital EP to was my friend, too. I miss him dearly." where thousands had gathered after his death to sing, celebrate what would have been Bowie's 70th birth- Bowie fans organized concerts around the world dance and cry for their hero. On the anniversary, a day. Bowie's veteran producer Tony Visconti, one of Chef brings attention to cuisine of Melania Trump's homeland

he tiny European nation of Slovenia is getting an outsize share of attention lately. Not only has TMelania Trump given her native country a boost of recognition, but Slovenia's also undergoing a tourism boom. Nearly 3 million foreign tourists visit a year now - in a country of 2 million. On a recent evening in New York, tourism officials tout- ed the attractions of this ex-communist land that broke off from Yugoslavia in 1991. Among the draws was the food of chef Ana Ros (pronounced ROSH), who starred in an episode of the Netflix series "Chef's Table." Her restaurant in a remote village inn is considered by some to be Slovenia's best, wowing foodies with dishes like fried Photo provided by Hisa Franko shows a dish by chef white asparagus on celery cream, and pork with lobster, Ana Ros at her restaurant, Hisa Franko, in the remote ginger and pickled garlic. — AP village of Kobarid, in the western part of Slovenia.

(From right) Elbphilharmonie architects Ascan Mergenth, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, musical director Christoph Lieben-Seutter, Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz, Joachim Knuth, Radio Director at the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) public broadcasting company, managing director of Ensemble Resonanz Tobias Rempe, attend a press conference in the concert hall on the day of the opening of the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, northern Germany, yesterday. — AFP photos Dazzling German concert hall takes its bow

ermany premiered a spectacular new concert house views of the harbor, the spires of the charming old trade yesterday in the northern city of Hamburg, billed as centre and Hamburg's temperamental skies. Scholz insist- Ga future national landmark and global attraction, ed that the Elphie, as the two-hall concert house has been albeit after a cost explosion. Chancellor Angela Merkel and nicknamed, would be a building for the people, with President Joachim Gauck were among 2,100 guests invited diverse events appealing to visitors beyond the well- to the inaugural evening concert under tight security at heeled classical music set. "It is my aim that every pupil in a Photo provided by Hisa Franko shows a dish by chef Ana Ros Photo provided by Hisa Franko shows a dish by the grand hall of the Elbphilharmonie, which has electrified Hamburg school will see a concert here," he said. at her restaurant, Hisa Franko, in the remote village of chef Ana Ros at her restaurant, Hisa Franko, in critics with its audacious design and world-class acoustics. The completion marks a rare urban development suc- Kobarid, in the western part of Slovenia. the remote village of Kobarid, in the western Billed as a cultural monument ready to rival the Sydney cess story in Germany, which has been plagued by plan- part of Slovenia. Opera House, the building came in more than six years ning disasters such as Berlin's international airport, now overdue and at 10 times the initial budget, with a cost to five years behind schedule and counting. To claw back the city-state of 789 million euros ($829 million). some of the investment, Swiss architects Jacques Herzog At a pre-opening news conference, Hamburg Mayor and Pierre de Meuron, who also designed Beijing's "bird's Olaf Scholz defended the project, saying that its sold-out nest" Olympic stadium and the Tate Modern gallery in concert schedule through July and the more than 500,000 London, added posh apartments, restaurants and a luxury visitors who have already flocked to the building proved hotel complete with an on-site meditation consultant. The the Elbphilharmonie was winning hearts. "It was a difficult program for the opening has been kept secret but is meant birth but they have adopted the child," he said of the 1.7 to span 400 years of music history, including Beethoven, million residents of Germany's second city who have foot- Wagner and contemporary composer Wolfgang Rihm. For ed the bill. Jutting out from the city at the end of a pier on those not lucky enough to snag tickets, a music-and-light the Elbe River, the Elbphilharmonie has a boxy brick former show will be staged in the evening, projected on to the cocoa warehouse as its base, with a breathtaking glass Elbphilharmonie facade. — AFP structure recalling frozen waves perched on top. Sandwiched between the two levels, a public plaza pro- tected by giant curved glass windows offers stunning

Photo provided by the Slovenia Tourist Board shows chef Ana Ros, standing center, greeting guests at Hisa Franko, in the remote village of Kobarid, in the western part of Slovenia.

In this file photo, tourists and residents walk across Tromostovje bridge in downtown Ljubljana, Slovenia. — AP photos The building of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, northern Germany, reflects in a window just hours before the gala opening of the new concert hall. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017 lifestyle

MUSIC & MOVIES Contest will pick opening acts for Bon Jovi tour

ho says you can't open for Bon Jovi? The New to pay it forward. If you're ready for the arena stage, submit on entertainment value, creativity and originality. No-nos Jersey-based platinum-selling rockers are holding your audition tapes and join us in playing for the best audi- include profanity, nudity, violence, drug or alcohol use, Wa contest to choose bands or singers to open for ences in rock music." commercial endorsements of products, and disparage- their upcoming tour. Artists will upload videos of them- Formed in Sayreville, New Jersey, the fledgling Bon Jovi ment of any group of people. In addition to performing selves performing original music, and concert promoters landed opening act gigs with some of the biggest names live, the winners will be featured on the Bon Jovi and Live Live Nation will select 10 finalists. Bon Jovi management in music at the time, including ZZ Top in 1983, and the Nation Facebook pages. — AP will then pick winners from the finalists to perform 20- Scorpions, Kiss and Ted Nugent in 1984, exposing them to minute sets. "Every great band starts small and builds their millions of new fans. The band will begin its "This House Is rep one show at a time," Jon Bon Jovi said Tuesday in a Not For Sale" tour Feb. 8 in Greenville, South Carolina. The This file photo shows Jon statement on the band's website announcing the contest. last listed tour date is April 11 in Toronto, but additional Bon Jovi performing with "That's the opportunity we were given, and now we want dates are expected to be announced. Entries will be judged his band during Art Basel in Miami Beach, Fla. — AP

Review Damien Chazelle: Shy musician Khan's 'Dangal' turned Hollywood darling becomes

or a man whose movies burst with obsessed and practicing up to eight hours highest-grossing bravado and swagger, Damien a day. It wasn't until he started reading FChazelle is disarmingly shy, but the visual studies at Harvard that he realized Bollywood movie filmmaker is finding himself increasingly in his true calling was filmmaking. the spotlight as the awards pile up. The 31- Chazelle wrote, produced, co-shot and ndian movie star Aamir Khan's latest blockbuster year-old director's latest movie "La La directed the lion's share of his first feature, "Dangal" has become the highest-grossing Land," a sumptuous musical throwback to jazz musical "Guy and Madeline on a Park IBollywood film of all time, smashing his own the halcyon days of Old Hollywood, came Bench," while he was still an undergradu- record, trade analysts and producers said on away with seven statuettes at Sunday's ate. He continued playing the drums at Monday. The wrestling drama, which is based on Golden Globes, more than any other film in Harvard, where he was in a band with the true story of an Indian coach who trained his the show's history. Veteran film critic Anne Justin Hurwitz, who would eventually join two daughters to become champion grapplers, has Thompson, awards editor for movie blog the crew of "La La Land," winning the best made 3.45 billion rupees ($50.59 million) in just IndieWire, describes the youngest ever original song Golden Globe for penning three weeks, according to bollywoodhungama.com. recipient of the best director award as the the infectious "City of Stars." But Chazelle That is more than the previous top grosser-Khan's kind of filmmaker who is respected not just had always suffered from crippling stage science fiction film This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Ben Affeck, left, and Sienna by reviewers but also by his peers in the fright before performances and came to "PK", which amassed 3.40 billion rupees during its Miller in a scene from ‘Live By Night.’ — AP industry. accept that his nerves would continue to entire run in 2014. "This is our ninth film with Aamir "Damien Chazelle is a young version of be an obstacle to a career in music. Khan and with 'Dangal' we've broken our own record Quentin Tarantino or Martin Scorsese a gift- "I couldn't handle the particular kind of of 'PK'," Amrita Pandey, vice-president of studios at ed film nerd, super smart, who knows the terror that came from performing on a Disney India, told AFP via email. "Dangal", directed by Affleck's stylish 'Live by classics well enough to deconstruct them stage, or performing in front of people, or Nitesh Tiwari, is based on the true story of wrestling and put them back together again in fresh performing period," he said at a recent coach Mahavir Singh Phogat who raised his daugh- new ways," Thompson told AFP. "He's not roundtable discussion for directors the ters Geeta and Babita Phogat to become champion Night' is by the numbers pretentious. He's had to struggle to get Hollywood Reporter. Chazelle said he still wrestlers. where he is." It is likely to be a memorable gets nervous directing, or even watching Geeta won a gold medal for India at the 2010 en Affleck is no doubt an ambitious cinematographer Robert Richardson, in year for Chazelle, as every Golden Globes screenings, and is "in awe of actors" who Commonwealth Games while her sister topped the and tasteful filmmaker, but he's gotten Florida at least the plot gets somewhat inter- best director over the last decade-with the are "better at handling it than I am." podium at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Bhimself in a bit of hot water with the esting as Joe pairs up with a nearly unrecog- lone exception of Ben Affleck in 2013 -- has "Dangal" is a Hindi word used to describe a wrestling bloated period gangster epic "Live by Night ." nizable Chris Messina as Dion Bartolo to get gone on to win the Oscar. "It took six years Nostalgia competition. Khan, 51, gained a lot of weight to play It looks and sounds right and all the elements in the Prohibition-era rum business while to get the movie going. All of this is just so Nevertheless, his experiences as an the role of Mahavir before quickly losing 25 kilo- are there: A conflicted anti-hero with a gran- butting heads with the local KKK thugs, a surreal. The dream come true was literally aspiring drummer were the inspiration for grams to appear as a younger version of the coach ite jaw, a fast-talkin', two-timin' moll, crooked complicated cop (Chris Cooper) and his trou- the first day of shooting. All of this is even his darkly comic second feature "Whiplash" elsewhere in the film. The movie was released on cops, and a sweaty loyal partner. There's the blesome evangelist daughter Loretta (Elle more surreal," he told journalists backstage (2014) -- the intense story of the stormy December 23 and was India's second hit wrestling one-last-job-gone-awry, some rum-running, a Fanning). Oh, and Joe also falls in love with a at the Globes. relationship between a bullying teacher film of 2016. "Sultan", starring Salman Khan, came few epic shootouts and the big questions Cuban expat Graciela (Zoe Saldana). and his jazz drumming student. The movie out in July, made 3.15 billion rupees and sits third on about whether or not our man has become Stage fright swept up trophies on the film festival cir- the all-time grossing list. — AFP everything he swore he wouldn't. It seems Good and moral A native of Rhode Island, Chazelle was cuit and won three Oscars, including for like enough to hold audience interest for a By the time Loretta becomes the main born to Celia Martin, a writer, and French- best supporting actor for J.K. Simmons, and few hours, but somehow even with all that focus, and foe, of Joe and Dion the film has American Bernard Chazelle, a pioneering nominations for best picture and for going for it (not to mention a parade of rec- already lost most of its steam. "Live by Night" computer scientist and a huge jazz and Chazelle's screenplay. All the while ognizable faces), "Live by Night" is dull as sin. wants to be about everything - capitalism, blues fan. Inspired at a very young age by Chazelle, who has writing credits for "The The story is adapted by Affleck from a racism, the American dream, the hypocrisy of Edward Zwick's epic civil war film "Glory" Last Exorcism Part II," "Grand Piano" (both Dennis Lehane novel of the same name. the good and moral - while also providing (1989), Chazelle had always planned to 2013) and last year's hit sci-fi thriller "10 Lehane is the author of the source material shoot 'em up thrills. It's hard to do that when become a filmmaker but took up jazz Cloverfield Lane," harbored the ambition to for some good to great films like "Mystic you don't even care for or about any of the drumming in high school, becoming make a musical. River," "Shutter Island" and Affleck's first stab characters, though. In fact, there are so many He told AFP in an interview in 2014 of at directing, "Gone Baby Gone." It was a characters and so much story (not to mention his nostalgia for the golden age of cinema decent gamble that "Live by Night" would be at least four false endings) that it wouldn't be and musical comedies, performed by the pretty good, too. Affleck has put himself front surprising if there exists a better three-hour likes of Jacques Demy, Ginger Rogers, Fred and center here as the lead, Joe Coughlin, a version of this. Astaire, and Gene Kelly. "It was the last gen- once good man who became jaded after Affleck may have done his film a disserv- eration who danced to jazz, just before serving in World War I. He came back to his ice by making himself the star. On screen the rock. The 1930s to the 1960s is an era which hometown of Boston, where his father generally effortlessly charismatic Affleck means a lot to me, not only cinematically (Brendan Gleeson) is the Police Chief, with the seems to be sleepwalking through the movie but musically," he said. Next up for Chazelle intention of never answering to anyone. We - with the exception of his moments with is "First Man," a biopic on Neil Armstrong, don't ever see Joe as a standup citizen, only Miller's Emma Gould. He looks out of place with shooting expected to begin early this robbing banks and sleeping with Emma and uncomfortable most of the time, and the year and "La La Land" star Ryan Gosling Gould (Sienna Miller), the mistress of the distractingly ill-fitting jackets don't help. due to play the iconic astronaut. — AFP town's most notorious mob boss Albert White It was always going to be a tricky thing to (Robert Glenister). follow up a smash like "Argo," so taut and Naturally as soon as Emma and Joe decide smart and thrilling. Affleck went maximalist to skip town and find a new life somewhere with "Live by Night," and it was, indeed, too warm (where they come so close to saying much. "Live by Night" a Warner Bros. release, that they'll "live by night" it's almost annoying is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of that they don't), things take a turn and Joe is America for "strong violence, language left beaten to a pulp, imprisoned and alone. throughout, and some sexuality/nudity." This image released by NBC When he gets out, revenge against Albert Running time: 128 minutes. Two stars out of shows Damien Chazelle with the White is the only thing on his mind, so he four. — AP award for best screenplay for ‘La heads to Florida to work for a rival. While the La Land,’ at the 74th Annual Boston scenes are paint-by-numbers gang- Golden Globe Awards at the ster pic, with a few gorgeous shots thanks to Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif, on Sunday.— AP U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weeknd to headline Bonnaroo Madonna blasts criticism

, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The include its 1987 album, ‘The Joshua Tree.’ Other at Great Stage Park in Manchester, Tennessee, over younger lovers Weeknd are set to headline the artists set to perform during the four-day event about 60 miles south of Nashville. — AP op icon Madonna has described her- Impossible Lives of Greta Wells" about a U2annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts include Chance the Rapper, Major Lazer, The xx, self as "oppressed," saying she was woman who is transported to different Festival in June. Festival organizers announced Tove Lo, Lorde and Cage the Elephant. The 16th Ptired of a gender double-standard eras as part of psychiatric treatment for the 2017 festival lineup yesterday. U2’s set will annual Bonnaroo festival will be held June 8-11 over her relationships with younger men. depression. — AFP The 58-year-old singer said in an interview published Tuesday that she has endured criticism throughout her entire career despite her professional success. "I've always felt oppressed," she told Harper's Bazaar magazine. "A large part of that is because I'm female and also because I refuse to live a conventional life. I've creat- ed a very unconventional family. "I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable. I feel like everything I do makes people feel really uncomfortable," she said. Madonna has been linked roman- tically to a number of men in their 20s at the time, most recently Ivorian model Aboubakar Soumahoro and earlier French choreographer Brahim Zaibat and Dutch dancer Timor Steffens. The Material Girl- who has four children and has been mar- ried twice-also said she faced sexism in that she is often asked why she remains active as an artist. "Did somebody go to Pablo Picasso and say, 'Okay, you're 80 years old. Haven't you painted enough paintings?' No. I'm so tired of that question." Madonna, who last year completed a global tour for her latest album "Rebel Heart," will soon be directing a movie, "Loved." Madonna wrote the In this file photo, Madonna attends the screenplay for the film, an adaptation of 11th annual Billboard Women in Music Andrew Sean Greer's novel "The honors in New York. — AP lifestyle THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017

FEATURES Fans mourn death of California's Philippine minister says Dora famous 'drive-thru' sequoia can't explore pristine Palawan

oyce Brown was 12 when her parents first took and relived those memories. "I feel like it's part of root systems that make them vulnerable to top- merican children's television net- is home to two UNESCO World Heritage- her to visit the "drive-thru tree," a giant sequoia my personal history. So it's a bummer to see it go," pling. The drive-thru tree had a diameter of 22 feet work Nickelodeon will not be listed sites, a subterranean river and the Jin California famous for a car-sized hole carved he said. The tunnel that made the tree famous and and was about 2,000 years old, said Tony Tealdi, a Aallowed to build an underwater Tubbataha coral reefs. Monday's state- into the base of its trunk. Brown thought she had ultimately weakened it was carved into its trunk in supervising ranger at California State Parks. When theme park on one of the nation's most ment by Nickelodeon's parent firm, entered a land of giants as she walked underneath the 1880s to allow tourists to pass through, first the already mostly dead tree hit the ground on pristine islands, the Philippine environ- Viacom International Media Networks, and around the ancient 100-foot-tall tree, which with horses and buggies and later with cars. The Sunday, it shattered and is now completely unrec- ment minister said yesterday. said its resort would open in 2020 and was toppled by a massive storm on Sunday. "It's tunnel was limited to pedestrians in recent ognizable, said Jim Allday, a volunteer at Calaveras Nickelodeon's parent firm announced feature restaurants and lounges six kind of like someone in the family has died," said decades. Big Trees State Park. "It was majestic," he said. "Now Monday it would build a "themed attrac- meters (20 feet) below sea level. Brown, a 65-year-old retired middle school teacher The largest tree species in the world, sequoias it's basically a pile of rubble." — AP tion" inspired by its cartoon characters It also said the Palawan project would in the San Francisco Bay Area who spends about a can reach diameters up to 27 feet and have shallow such as Dora the Explorer and "take its place alongside" other third of the year at her family's cabin in Arnold, SpongeBob SquarePants as part of a 400- Nickelodeon-branded attractions such as about 4 miles from where the now-fallen tree lies hectare (1,000-acre) development on Wet'n'Wild in Australia, Teenage Mutant dead in Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Four generations of Brown's family have spent Palawan, generating alarm from environ- Ninja Turtles Land in Russia and IMG countless hours at the tree and often took out-of- mentalists. Worlds of Legends theme park in Dubai. town visitors there, some from as far away as Environment Secretary Gina Lopez An online petition organized by local Turkey. In May 2015, she and her husband showed said yesterday she would reject the proj- environmentalists calling for the project off the tree to John and Lesley Ripper, a Michigan ect. "Lopez says she won't allow the to be stopped attracted more than couple the Browns befriended on an African safari. underwater theme park in Palawan. 125,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. "I was blown away," said John Ripper, a 55-year-old #environment2017," the environment Viacom's Philippine partner, Coral printer in Northville, Michigan. "I've traveled to 70 department posted on its Twitter World Park, issued a statement yesterday countries. But that particular tree and being able to account. In an interview with ABS-CBN insisting the development was not a walk underneath it and touch it was quite a memo- television, Lopez said she would not "theme park" and emphasized that it rable moment and something I won't soon forget." allow any project that would damage the would not all be underwater. The state- Ripper said he can't believe that a storm felled environment and the welfare of local ment also highlighted the project's such a massive, sturdy-looking tree. "In the blink of communities. "That's our wealth. It's not "ocean conservation focus" and said it an eye, it's gone," he said. "There's this giant tree allowed. You can't kill the corals. For a would help fund environmental protec- everyone remembers, and it's going to be laying theme park? No. No way, man," said tion in the area. It referred to plans for a there in plain sight. The dead giant." Sumner Lopez, who has been a vocal opponent marine sanctuary and said the Coral Crawford of Charleston, South Carolina, remembers of mining projects in Palawan. World Park would "be the largest coral every detail of his first visit to the tree as a kid in "The commitment of the government reef conservation program in Asia". the early 1990s. "I remember I was walking through is first and foremost and always, always "There has never been any form of com- the tree and thinking, 'I'm inside of the tree right to the benefit of our people." munication from our side mentioning a now!'" he said. "It was madness." Crawford, 36, was stunned by the sequoia's size: Conservation groups call Palawan the theme park," said Coral World Park mar- When his family of four tried to join hands around nation's "last ecological frontier" because keting and communications director the tree they discovered they couldn't even come In this photo provided by Michael Brown, John and Lesley Ripper pose in the Pioneer Cabin tunnel of its relatively untouched coastlines and Susan Lee. — AFP close. "It was so different and so odd," Crawford tree, a giant, centuries-old sequoia that had a tunnel carved into it in the 1880s, during a visit to forests, which are among the oldest and said, adding that he recently visited the tree again Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold, Calif, in the Sierra Nevada. — AP most diverse in Southeast Asia. Palawan

These concept designs provided by the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art show a rendering of their proposed museum in Exposition Park in Los Angeles. — AP photos George Lucas chooses Los Angeles for $1 billion museum

eorge Lucas has chosen Los Angeles as the future the museum would come to L.A. from Lucas's wife, home of his Museum of Narrative Art, a decision Mellody Hobson. Construction is set to begin this year Gthat Mayor Eric Garcetti touted as a turning point near the corner of Vermont and Exposition avenues and for the city and the area around Exposition Park, where the to be completed in 2020. The collection includes about new $1 billion project will make its home. The museum for 10,000 paintings, illustrations and other items, with works Lucas' extensive collection of art and film memorabilia will from Norman Rockwell, NC Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton make its home in the park adjacent to USC. The "Star Wars" and many others, along with mementos from many films, filmmaker chose the site over a competing location on including "Star Wars." Treasure Island, in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Lucas has been looking for a home for his collection for Garcetti's office trumpeted the arrival of "a new jewel," more than a decade. He faced community opposition in saying that the museum will "soon bring unrivaled oppor- first San Francisco and then Chicago, his wife's hometown. tunities to be immersed in stories told on canvas and cellu- Garcetti said that LA's quick acceptance of the proposal, loid." The museum will be adjacent to the Los Angeles and cooperation between the city, county and state gov- Memorial Coliseum, the Natural History Museum, and a ernments, helped secure the project for the city. He said it museum of African-American history and art. "I believed in would create thousands of jobs during construction and the vision for the Lucas Museum, and we went after it with more than 1,000 permanent positions. Chinese architect everything we have-because I know that LA is the ideal Ma Yansong designed museums for both the Treasure place for making sure that it touches the widest possible Island and Exposition Park locations. The LA project will audience," Garcetti said in a statement. "I am deeply grate- cover seven acres and be within walking distance of seven ful to Mellody and George, and to our educational, govern- high schools. The site's immediate connection to a vast mental, and cultural leaders for their extraordinary support audience appealed to Lucas and Hobson, in contrast to the in helping us bring the museum home. Now it's time to more isolated San Francisco location, which sat in the mid- build the vision." dle of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The LA site is also The cost of the project has been pegged at about $1 across Exposition Boulevard from Lucas's alma mater, USC. In this Jan 16, 2014, photo billion, with the costs borne almost entirely by Lucas. The Garcetti said he wanted to conclude the announcement by George Lucas speaks in gift to the city comes along with Lucas's extensive art col- quoting "Star Wars" seer Yoda. "Do or do not. There is no Singapore. lection and an endowment of at least $400 million. At a try," the mayor said, adding: "Today, we did it." — Reuters press conference Tuesday afternoon, Garcetti said the museum amount to the largest gift in American history from one family to a city. The mayor said he got the news

Sculptures from the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition face a proposed site of the George Lucas Museum on Treasure Island in San Francisco. lifestyle THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2017

FEATURE 'Shop Qatar' festival kicks off

By Nawara Fattahova enjoy exclusive brands, exceptional restaurants and immersive events all under one roof and DOHA: It is really impressive to witness the we look forward to sharing it with you," he great change and development boom in Qatar, added. compared to a few years back. The country is A magnificent venue of grand proportions systematically changing as it gets ready to host and noble design, Alhazm is an architectural the FIFA World Cup 2022, and many new proj- gem in the heart of modern Qatar. With classic ects are coming up. With the rapidly increasing continental style in the spirit of grand Italian number of shopping malls in Doha, the Qatar shopping arcades of years gone by, Alhazm is a Tourism Authority (QTA) added a new event to testament to timeless traditional style, already existing ones - the Shop Qatar festival. designed to renew the wonder and sprit of The first edition of Shop Qatar kicked off on amazement in everybody that walks among its Jan 7 under the slogan 'A Brand New Tradition' splendid pillars, dome and arches. Crafted from at the recently launched Mall of Qatar, with dis- the finest materials, including original Tuscan counts on popular brands, cash prizes worth marble, Alhazm will leave visitors in awe of the up to QAR 4 million, special offers on flights stunning scale and striking beauty of its open and hotel bookings and a colorful schedule of spaces and inspiring panoramic terrace for entertainment featuring "Cats", the Broadway shows and special events. musical, live music concerts and 15 stand-up It's also a space for relaxation and renewal. comedy acts. A marvel of modern landscaping, the gardens The ceremony started with a show present- feature a state-of-the-art outdoor ventilation ed by professional acrobats with music and system and heat absorbing white marble floor- lights. Then popular young Qatari singer Fahd ing, making it a great venue for a lively chat, a Al-Kbeisi performed on a special stage built in moment of peace, or an al fresco bite to eat the middle of Mall of Qatar, and hundreds of anytime of the year. spectators enjoyed his songs. For those who truly love shopping as a jour- The festival will continue till Feb 7, 2017, ney, Alhazm is a distinctive destination with a and is organized by QTA in cooperation with hand-picked mix of the world's most exclusive festival partners including Mall of Qatar, Qatar fashion, beauty and luxury brands, displayed in Airways and Ezdan World. Retail outlets will be stylish boutiques that exude authentic ele- providing discounts of up to 50 percent on a Megastores outlets, starting at QAR 150 per years gone by. world's most exclusive brands and contempo- gance. Inspired by the latest global trends, range of consumer goods including clothes, ticket. Two concerts which will feature Arab A gleaming set of pearls encircling the his- rary luxuries in a fashionably refined setting. A Alhazm brings high fashion at its finest from electronics, cosmetics and accessories for men, and Khaliji singers will take place on Jan 20, torical heart of Doha, Souq Waqif Boutique center of gravity for those in the know, Alhazm the streets of Milan, Paris, New York. women and children. In addition to the Mall of and 27, 2017 at Doha Exhibition and Hotels is a collection of six luxurious hotels and provides the ideal blend of high-end fashion Alhazm is a passion for culinary excellence. Qatar, which opened last month to become Convention Center. Tickets will go on sale at all full-service residences steeped in timeless boutiques, trendy restaurants and cafes and A global gastronomic journey awaits at the largest shopping and entertainment hub Virgin Megastores outlets and will range in Qatari hospitality. Each of the unique five-star memorable events. Alhazm, with a wide range of delicious and in the nation, participating malls include Ezdan price from QAR 120 to QAR 1,250. properties, linked by the lively Souq Waqif, The media delegation met Mohamed A K decadent dining options to satisfy any taste Mall, Hyatt Plaza, AlKhor Mall, Lagoona Mall, The Doha Comedy Festival will be returning invites one to experience the collection's full Al-Emadi, CEO of Al-Emadi Holding that owns and every occasion. Home to well-known inter- Gulf Mall, Landmark, Dar Al Salam Mall, The with an extensive line up of Khaliji, Arab, and national restaurants and coffee shops, as well Gate and The Pearl-Qatar. international comedians, who will entertain as a number of unique, home-grown dining In a move by QTA to support local entre- audiences over a three-day fiesta of stand-up outlets, Alhazm serves up everything from sig- preneurs, Shop Qatar will also feature local and humorous storytelling from 2nd to 4th nature fine dining and gourmet lounges to products designed by students of Virginia February 2017 at Qatar National Convention casual dining and a fantastic fresh food market, Commonwealth University in Qatar and other Centre. Tickets will be on sale at all Virgin all with a focus on quality and service excel- local designers, which will be displayed in a Megastores outlets with ticket prices ranging lence. variety of pop-up stores throughout the par- from QAR 120- QAR 1000. Furthermore Alhazm Cultural Center is a ticipating malls. In addition, visitors can bene- Participating retail partners will also host haven of silent serenity where visitors can fit from experts on the latest fashion and exclusive in-mall entertainment and roaming browse the countless books and magazines make-up trends through make-up tutorials mall shows, with fun for the whole family. And, and escape all the stresses of life. Packed with which will be offered throughout the period to capitalize on Qatar's splendid winter weath- many rare and valuable volumes and all the of the festival and a fashion show during the er, Shop Qatar has partnered with Ezdan World classics in English and Arabic, the center is an final week. to offer a fun fair to visitors at the Magical ideal spot to spend a lazy morning or long To offer tourists the chance to conveniently Festival Village, which will be held beside afternoon in a comfortable corner, taking joy in travel, stay and shop in Qatar, QTA has part- Katara Cultural Village this winter. The Village a good read and some well-earned peace and nered with Qatar Airways and popular hotel houses over 400 shopping outlets, dozens of quietude. booking platforms to offer discounted air trav- cafes and restaurants, bordered by public seat- el and tourist accommodation packages. Any ing areas where visitors can relax and enjoy the Chances to win cash prizes flights to Qatar from within the GCC region ambience and lovely climate. worth up to QAR 4,000,000 booked on Qatar Airways for the period During this trip the media delegation Shoppers who spend QAR 200 at any of the between 7 January and 7 February will be stayed at Al Mirqab - part of Souq Waqif participating retailers can enter a weekly raffle available with a 25 percent discount. In addi- Boutique Hotels, which made our stay pleas- draw at Mall of Qatar for a chance to win cash tion, members of Qatar Airways' Privilege Club ant. These hotels remind us of our Arab Khaliji prizes worth up to QAR 4 million. Draws will be will receive double Q-miles on their booking heritage, as they preserve the style and are held on the first three Fridays of the Festival during Shop Qatar. Visitors to Shop Qatar can located in the same old place. Al Mirqab is per- range of culinary and leisure offerings. During the Alhazm, who spoke about this stunning (13th, 20th, 27th of January), with 15 cash also take advantage of a range of accommoda- fectly positioned at the gateway into Souq your stay, you will have access to the collec- piece of art. It took him eight years to finish prizes ranging from QAR 10,000 to QAR tion's full range of facilities, and enjoy the per- this luxury building, which is not an ordinary 300,000 to be won each week. The draws will sonalized service and attention to detail that mall, and cost him over three billion Qatari culminate in a mega-draw on the final day of will make each moment of your stay with us riyals. "In our rapidly changing world, cus- Shop Qatar (7th February 2017) where a jack- unforgettable. tomers are looking for truly world-class shop- pot prize of QAR 1,000,000 will be up for grabs, ping, dining and entertainment destinations. in addition to 14 other cash prizes ranging Dhow Cruise And why shouldn't they? Citizens, residents from QAR 20,000 to QAR 120,000. The media team had a chance to enjoy a 45- and visitors of Qatar deserve nothing less," Details of more events and activations will minutes cruise onboard a traditional dhow said Emadi. be announced during the course of the com- with Doha's spectacular skyline as the back- "By launching this unique concept, we rein- ing few weeks. To find out more, visit drop, while drinking the popular Qatari karak force our commitment to the future of Qatar www.shopqatar.qa and follow the dedicated tea. Besides the new modern buildings, we and extend our reach into this exciting new Shop Qatar social media accounts on were also able to see the Pearl-Qatar, a man- destination. We're creating the perfect place to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. made island, from a distance.

Msheireb Museums During the trip, we also visited two of the four historic heritage buildings of the Msheireb Museums that are located in the heart of Msheireb Downtown Doha. Located within the oldest part of the capital, they form an important part of Qatar's national history. Msheireb Museums are an integral aspect of the inner city's regeneration of the old com- mercial center with its traditional community- based lifestyle. The restoration of four her- tion offers at Qatar's globally-recognized hos- Waqif, and captivates leisure and business trav- itage houses, Bin Jelmood House, Company pitality sector, when booking through elers alike with its warm traditional colors and House, Mohammed Bin Jassim House and Expedia.com and Booking.com. eye-catching Arabic design. Radwani House, into world-class museums, Organizers also confirmed that Shop Qatar Doha's vibrant cultural and commercial cen- forms a vital part of the Msheireb Downtown will offer a rich array of live cultural shows, per- ter since the times of Qatar's Bedouin tribes, Doha development. formances by singing sensations and unlimit- Souq Waqif continues to bring together locals ed family-friendly entertainment in a festive, and visitors from around the world. Only steps Alhazm safe environment that reflects local culture and from Doha's spectacular Corniche, the Souq Much more than just a shopping destina- heritage. Cats, the longest-running show on draws you into its winding, narrow alleyways tion. Alhazm embodies a new luxurious Broadway, will show from the Feb 1-4, 2017 at to reveal merchants trading fine silks, carpets, lifestyle. It's an environment of classical Qatar National Convention Centre. Tickets for spices, textiles, antiques, musical instruments European style in the heart of modern Arabia. the musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Arabian oud perfumes, entrancing your Designed for connoisseurs, those who appreci- will be available for purchase at Virgin senses with the sights, scents and sounds of ate the finer things in life, Alhazm offers the ‘Shop Qatar’ festival first edition kicked off on January 7

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A David Bowie fan poses in front of the mural of late British pop icon David Bowie created by Australian street artist James Cochran, also known as Jimmy C, as fans payed their respects in Brixton, south London on January 10, 2017, on the first anniversary of Bowie’s death. Fans arrived to pay tribute and mark the one-year anniversary of David Bowie’s deathat the mural in Brixton, where the British pop icon was born, which became a focal point for emotional outpouring since Bowie’s death one year ago today. — AP 'A designer's designer': NY exhibit showcases Chareau

ore than a decade before Philip Johnson "Chareau has almost no surviving interiors, since designed his iconic Glass House, French design- most of them were destroyed. And the furniture feels a Mer and architect Pierre Chareau designed the bit orphaned in and of itself," explains Liz Diller, founding Maison de Verre in 1932 in Paris. It featured one of the partner of Diller Scofidio and Renfro, the firm that world's first glass-brick exterior walls - three stories high. designed the exhibit. "So we brought back the domestic Chareau's work straddles industrial aesthetics and life and the feel of the furniture in situ .." traditional fine craftsmanship, clean spare lines and play- When the Maison de Verre was built, she says, "it was ful 1920s whimsy. He made futuristic gadgets like fold- very radical. ... The exposed steel columns could be a ing staircases, a pivoting bidet and sliding walls. His fur- beautiful contemporary loft." Chareau rose to promi- niture, with elegant woods and hand-wrought iron, was nence in early 1920s Paris with interior designs that were made for the few and the wealthy. Many pieces fold or both elegant and functional. The pieces featured rare have multiple uses, designed for small but chic Paris woods, alabaster (for lamps), and exotic elements like apartments. touches of ivory or sharkskin. Many of his designs fea- It was a gem-like world soon to be violently disman- tured leopard-skin rugs, with expanses of silk or velvet tled with the start of World War II, and Chareau, despite curtains as wall coverings. moving to New York to flee the war, has remained little Chareau's works were custom-made, not mass-pro- This undated photo provided by the Jewish Museum shows an installa- known in the United States. duced, and made use of France's artisanal traditions of tion view of the exhibition "Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and An exhibit, "Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and metal, woodwork and tapestry-making. He designed for Design," in New York. — AP photos Design," billed as the first in the US to focus on him, is on a cultured urban elite, and many of his clients, including view at The Jewish Museum in Manhattan through March painters, sculptors and composers, were Jewish. 26. It was organized by guest curator Esther da Costa Although Chareau was raised Catholic, his mother came Meyer, professor of the history of modern architecture at from a Sephardic Jewish family and his wife Dollie, also a Princeton University, in collaboration with the Centre designer, was Jewish. With the German occupation of Pompidou in Paris. It will not travel beyond New York. Paris in 1940, the couple, like many of their clients, fled The show is accompanied by a hefty and richly illus- Pierre Chareau's folding chair, metal and paint. to the United States. trated book with essays by a half-dozen leading scholars. The show explores the enduring consequences of "Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design," was plays are enhanced by an enormous white screen that flight from persecution, including the dispersal of published in 2016 by The Jewish Museum and Yale behind them on which shadow-like silhouettes of imag- many of his works during the war; his own collection University Press. ined residents come and go, complete with shadow cig- of art, including works by Mondrian and Modigliani; "Chareau is the most invisible of the great designers, arette smoke and the enthusiastic tail wags of a passing and his attempts to rebuild his career in New York in because outside of France, there are less than a dozen shadow dog. the 1940s. pieces by him on view in museums anywhere in the In another gallery, rustling leaves and glinting sun- By then, the world of European luxe to which he world. It's all in private collections," said da Costa Meyer. light, visible through virtual reality goggles, bring visi- catered had vanished. In New York, he lacked the pool of "And the most famous masterpiece he did, the Maison tors into Chareau's Paris study, an apartment he skilled French artisans with whom he was used to work- de Verre, has always been in private hands and is not vis- designed, and a salon and courtyard of the elegant ing. And aside from an East Hampton, Long Island, house This undated photo shows two Peirre Chareau designed high-backed chauf- ible from the street. He is really known by designers." Maison de Verre, designed with Dutch architect Bernard that he designed for artist Robert Motherwell in 1947 - feuses (fireside armchairs), wood and velours, with tapestry upholstery by Chareau worked in "the golden age of French Bijvoet. Those elements add context and movement to and which was later destroyed - he obtained few com- Jean Lurcat, and reupholstered in 1968, in an installation view of the exhibi- design before the Depression, and he was trained in the furniture. missions here. "He basically did odd jobs, and he and his tion "Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design," in New York. that grand tradition," she said. "He was one of the lead- The exhibit employs a large-scale digital installation wife had no children, so once they had died, everything ers of the early trend to modernize. He was also known that lets you experience different sections of the Maison was gone. We have tried to put some of it together again in his day as a patron of the arts, so we reunited here de Verre as if moving through it. Film footage of actors here," da Costa Meyer said. "He was truly a designer's some of his (collection)." strolling through the house using Chareau-designed designer." — AP Through over 180 rarely seen works from public and gadgets adds to the experience. Floor plans are project- private collections in the U.S. and Europe, the exhibit ed onto walls, making the space appear continually brings Chareau's world of Paris luxe to life. Furniture dis- spliced, deconstructed, revealed and then reconstructed.

An installation view of the exhibition "Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design," in New York.

Pierre Chareau's (French, 1883-1950) and Bernard Bijvoet's (Dutch, 1889-1979), glass Pierre Chareau's (French, 1883-1950) and Bernard Bijvoet's (Dutch, 1889-1979), glass The Pierre Chareau designed house for Robert Motherwell in 1947. house Maison de Verre. house Maison de Verre.