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DOHA: Not many low-income companies,” said a Nepalese workers, particularly from the worker, giving only his first name constructions sector, get three as Ramesh. days off for Eid Al Fitr, as pro- An Arab national said he had vided for by the country’s labour been working with transportation law. companies for the past several Several workers, especially years and changing jobs. from smaller contracting compa- “Now, I work in Ras Laffan,” nies, said their past experiences he said, declining to identify him- suggested they would be working self for fear of reprisal from his The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani performed Eid prayers at Al Wajbah on the second and third days of employers. prayer grounds yesterday. H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani and H H Sheikh Mohamed bin Khalifa Eid without being paid extra. About Eid holidays, he said Al Thani joined the prayers, along with several of their excellencies sheikhs, ministers and citizens. See also page 3 However, this year the second they depended from company to day of Eid being a Friday, many company. workers said they were lucky to Some companies gave just a day be enjoying two days off “ever” in off, while others two days. Some a row. paid extra for work, whereas oth- 200 children’s emergency cases on Eid day “Normally, we are not informed ers did not, he said. about work in advance. We would “But bigger companies pay DOHA: Except for a child who went into a deploying six to eight doctors in its sections in Slaughter houses didn’t witnesses large most probably be told tomorrow extra if they make you work on coma due to severe stomach problem on the the morning shift, while the number would be turnouts as they normally do during Eid Al morning (Saturday) that we have national holidays,” he added. first day of Eid Al Fitr yesterday, the day doubled to 16 in the evening due to a heavier Adha. Some 1,100 sheep were slaughtered at to report for work,” said an Arab “Extra payments are so low went off relatively peacefully. patient turnout. various abattoirs run by Widam, the Qatar expatriate employed with a small that workers don’t complain More than 200 children’s emergency cases “We didn’t receive serious injury cases in Meat and Livestock Company. contracting firm. to the Labour Department,” he were reported to Al Sadd and other centres accidents, or any other critical cases,” said a The Meteorology Department has in the “We have never been paid extra insisted. throughout the day. doctor on duty at the emergency unit at HMC. meantime forecast humid weather today but for work during Eid and we have “Which worker would take such Most of them were related to fever, minor He said stomach problems were caused due said there were chances of scattered clouds never bothered,” said the expatri- a risk and offend his employer by respiratory complaints and stomach problems. to overeating after a month of daytime fasting and drizzle in some places. ate, refusing to give his name as filing an official complaint?” No death or critical injury cases were during Ramadan. Temperatures could soar up to 40 degrees that could cost him his job. Lawyer Mohsin Thiyab Al reported to the emergency unit of Hamad People should gradually — not suddenly — Celsius, with Al Ruwais in the north expected Bigger construction firms pay Suwaidi said according to the Medical Corporation (HMC) either. get back to their eating routine after the end to be a bit cooler with the mercury levels rang- extra in compliance with the labour law all private companies More than 500 people turned up for emer- of the fasting month. ing between 31 and 37 degrees. labour law if they engage a worker must declare three days of holiday gency medical care during the day, with most Meanwhile, the hot and humid weather Northeasterly winds in the day could have a on national holidays, said workers. for Eid Al Fitr. complaining of upset stomach due to overeat- didn’t prevent people from venturing out for speed of up to 12 knots an hour, but the wind Also, not many low-income “And those that make you work ing and minor heart problems. revelry. Places like Corniche, City Center and direction changing to northwesterly could construction workers seem to be on either or two or all three days The emergency unit at HMC had deployed Souq Waqif witnessed large turnouts during bring in temporary respite since humidity aware of provisions of the labour must pay you at the rate of one- 52 ambulances, while the air ambulance the day yesterday. levels are expected to be quite high during at law. and-a-half times a day’s basic sal- received more than 100 urgent calls, aside Minor traffic accidents did take place on night as the wind changes direction again to “I always thought the three ary. That’s the law.” from calls for help in some 45 accidents, 19 of the Corniche Road, causing traffic jams but southeast with speed slowing down to seven days of Eid holidays you are talk- Continued on page 3 them at workplace. public security personnel managed to ensure knots an hour. ing of applied only to government THE PENINSULA Al Sadd paediatric emergency said it will be smooth traffic. THE PENINSULA

Eid fireworks at Katara No QA flights to Qatar jumps up Fifa world rankings ZURICH: Qatar has moved up one place to 111th in the latest Fifa world rankings list released yesterday. The US at 19th, up three Nairobi cancelled places, and Mauritania, up 21 rungs, were the biggest movers, while DOHA: Qatar Airways has not can- Spain was leading the way ahead of Germany, Colombia, Argentina celled any flight and instead put in place and the Netherlands. Among GCC countries, Oman was the big- plans to operate all scheduled flights to gest gainer, moving up four places to 95 with China. Bahrain moved Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International up one place to 117th, the UAE to 84th, one up, while Saudi Arabia Airport to and from Kilimanjaro and Kuwait dropped two places to 107th and 113th, respectively. International Airport in Tanzania. The top 12 remained unchanged. The next rankings will be pub- Ground transportation is being pro- lished on September 12. vided both ways between the two African nations’ airports, a notification by Qatar’s Printemps sale to Qataris cleared national carrier said yesterday. “No flights have been cancelled, however PARIS: A Paris court yesterday rejected demands by the works passengers may experience some delays in council at Printemps to suspend the sale process of the retail chain schedule,” a Qatar Airways advisory said. to Qatari investors for 1.75bn euros ($2.33bn). Unions had com- It urged travellers to check with local plained they were not sufficiently informed about the transaction or Qatar Airways office for further informa- its terms, as the law requires, and called for the deal to be halted. tion on changes or rescheduling tickets. But the court said it found no irregularities in the sale to Qatari A major fire on Wednesday forced the investors of Borletti Group’s 30 percent stake and the 70 percent shutdown of Nairobi’s airport and many owned by Deutsche Bank’s RREEF real estate investment unit. flights at east Africa’s busiest air transport hub were cancelled. Attack on Assad motorcade denied International flights have resumed from the airport, Kenya Airports Authority said. DAMASCUS: Syria denied reports of an attack on President A display of fireworks and a laser show held at Katara as part of Eid Al Fitr celebrations last night. QNA Bashar Al Assad’s motorcade as he drove to Anas bin Malik SHAIVAL DALAL mosque in central Damascus for Eid prayers yesterday. It was the first report of a direct attack on the leader since the March 2011 outbreak of the revolt. Many media outlets, including Saudi-based Al Arabiya TV, and opponents said a rocket and mortar attack tar- geted the motorcade. “Regarding the information reported by Al Russia rejects Saudi deal to dump Assad Arabiya, I can assure you that it is completely false,” Information Minister Omran Al Zohbi told state television. See also page 5 BEIRUT: Moscow has rejected a Saudi he wanted to meet the head of state,” said He also reassured Putin that “whatever proposal to abandon Syria’s president in a European diplomat who shuttles between regime comes after” Assad, it will be “com- return for a huge arms deal and a pledge to Beirut and Damascus. pletely” in the Saudis’ hands and will not 4$100m Saudi aid to UN anti-terror cell boost Russian influence in the Arab world, “During the meeting at the Kremlin, the sign any deal allowing any Gulf country to RIYADH: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah diplomats have said. Saudi official explained to his interlocutor that transport its gas across Syria to Europe and bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has announced a further donation of $100m On July 31, President Vladimir Putin, a Riyadh is ready to help Moscow play a big- compete with Russian gas exports, the dip- to set up a UN centre for fighting terrorism, Saudi media said yes- strong backer of Syrian leader Bashar Al ger role in the Middle East at a time when lomat said. terday. Riyadh signed a deal with the UN in 2011 to create the cen- Assad, met Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief the US is disengaging from the region,” the In 2009, Assad refused to sign a deal with tre and has already donated $10m towards it launch. The king called Prince Bandar bin Sultan, after which Moscow diplomat said. Qatar for an overland pipeline running from on the international community to support the centre “to get rid of and Riyadh kept a lid on the substance of Prince Bandar proposed that Saudi Arabia the Gulf to Europe via Syria to protect the the forces of hatred, extremism and criminality”. He floated the idea talks. “Every two years, Bandar bin Sultan buy $15bn of weapons from Russia and invest interests of its Russian ally, which is Europe’s for the centre in 2005. Saudi Arabia has made fighting terrorism a meets his Russian counterparts, but this time, “considerably in the country,” the source said. top supplier of natural gas. AFP top priority. AGENCIES FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

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Emir and Father Emir perform Eid Al Fitr prayers, meet well-wishers

The Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani performing Eid Al Fitr prayers with dignitaries at Al The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Wajbah prayer grounds yesterday. receiving heads of diplomatic missions at Al Wajbah Palace yesterday.

The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with children from Qatar Orphan Foundation (Dhreima) on the occasion of Eid Al Fitr at Al Wajbah Palace yesterday.

Eid Mubarak

The Vietnamese Ambassador and Chairman of Asean Committee in Doha (seventh left), along with heads of missions and representatives of Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand, at the 46th Asean Day at the Vietnamese Embassy yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP

The faithful exchanging Eid greetings after offering Eid prayers in Doha 46th Asean Day marked in Doha yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT Envoys vow to meet target of integrating 10 nations’ economies by 2015 Call for special ‘hardship

BY RAYNALD C RIVERA Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam disputes settlement mechanism, development in Southeast Asia,” and Singapore. has been working towards the said Ambassador Phan. allowance’ for workers DOHA: Ambassadors of He assured of Vietnam’s full implementation of the roadmap Asean now stands as one of the Association of Southeast Asian efforts to take part in the estab- for the Asean community, and most dynamic organisations in Continued from page 1 being deployed on duty during Nations (Asean) in Qatar were lishment of the Asean Community, taken big steps toward an inte- the world with a combined popu- He, though, agreed the legal Eid holidays. A senior official in accord, saying Asean will which according to him would grated and sustained economic lation of over 600m and a com- provisions are flouted by many from an Asian embassy said last meet its target to integrate the lead to a single market with free development. bined GDP of $2.3tn. It is also one companies in the absence of year there were no complaints 10 nations’ economies by end flow of investment to benefit all “Every year we conduct lots of of the fastest growing regions in extensive executive regulations from construction or any other of 2015, as they celebrated the member countries. meetings which try to harmonise the world with a high combined (by-laws) to help enforce those sector workers from their coun- 46th Asean Day yesterday at Philippine Ambassador and work out a lot of problems annual economic growth. provisions. try here regarding not being paid the Vietnam Embassy. Crescente R Relacion was of the that require collective action. This Pursuing its purposes to “The problem with the labour extra for work during Eid. “Asean countries will be suc- same view saying, “I believe we strengthens regional harmony strengthen solidarity among law is that the by-laws exist only “Last year, there were no com- cessful in establishing an Asean can meet the target. The basic and unity that provide the very Asean countries in Qatar and to for some specific provisions, and plaints. And this year we have community and this will be a very advantage of this Asean eco- strong basis for foreign inves- promote Asean-Qatar co-opera- not for the entire labour legisla- to wait and see if there are any high regional integration in vital nomic community to be fulfilled tors to come to Asean,” said the tion, the ACD has organised many tion,” Al Suwaidi told this news- since the embassy will reopen on areas including political, economic in 2015 is that we have a collective Singapore Ambassador. activities to contribute to the paper yesterday. Sunday,” said the official. and socio-cultural,” said Vietnam base of more than 600m people Established on August 8, 1967, enhancement of mutual under- “I urge the Labour Ministry Prominent businessman and Ambassador Le Hong Phan, who as consumers so this is an oppor- Asean aims to accelerate eco- standing and strengthening the not only to issue extensive by- member of Qatar Chamber, rep- is chairman of Asean Committee tunity for businessmen not only nomic growth, social progress friendly relations of cooperation laws but also amend the labour resentative body of the private in Doha (ACD). from Asean but outside Asean to and cultural development in the between the Asean countries and law to provide for special ‘hard- sector that the labour law covers, Ambassador Phan was speak- take advantage of this expanded region to strengthen the founda- Qatar in all fields, he added. ship allowance’ for workers for Ahmed Al Khalaf, said that while ing to local media after the flag market.” tion for a prosperous and peace- Ambassador Phan called on “all the summer months when tem- it was true that many companies hoisting ceremony to mark the Singapore Ambassador Wong ful community of Southeast Asian Asean people in Qatar to do their peratures are sweltering.” made employees work during Eid event, which was attended by Kwok Pun cited some areas that Nations. best to contribute to the develop- A Labour Ministry spokes- holidays all of them did pay extra. heads of missions and diplomats Asean has made progress on the “After 46 years of efforts from ment of friendship and coopera- man declined to comment when “Even the smaller eateries and of seven Asean-member coun- implementation of the Asean its establishment, Asean has tion between Asean countries and asked if the Labour Department neighbourhood stores pay for tries with embassies in Doha Charter. become an important political and the State of Qatar for the mutual received complaints from some extra work on a normal day as including Vietnam, Malaysia, In particular, he pointed out economic entity, playing a cen- interest of our people.” workers about not being paid well as holidays as far as I know.” the Philippines, Thailand, Asean has made headway on tral role for peace, security and THE PENINSULA extra by their employers despite THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM Keep Ramadan spirit alive

amadan was great for Sarah. regular and constant even if it is little She actually started praying (Bukhari). five times a day on time. But The wisdom in this Hadith is tremen- Ronce the blessed month is over dous and it is one way of keeping up good she fears the momentum, drive and moti- habits you have picked up in Ramadan. vation that kept her going will fade out. For example, let’s say you were moti- Sarah is worried that this good habit vated to read Quran for half-an-hour might not last. But it doesn’t have to be on a daily basis in Ramadan. But now that way. In fact, a number of psycholo- that it’s over, you feel sluggish, lazy and gists agree that a person needs about want to give it up. Yet, you had wanted three weeks to develop a good habit. If to maintain this habit after the blessed you’ve been praying regularly, fasting, month was over. controlling your temper, trying to be Instead of trying to read Quran for the more patient, or keeping any other good same amount of time, reduce the time habit during Ramadan, you’re almost period to as much as you are initially able sure, Insha Allah, to keep up with it to do, even if it’s just five minutes a day. afterwards. Nonetheless, we all slip up. If you keep up this ‘five minutes a As well, the drive that pushes us to do day’ habit, Insha Allah, you will see the good in Ramadan is usually not as strong amount of Quran you read will increase the rest of the year. Here are a few things slowly but gradually, perhaps even sur- you can do to maintain the good habits passing your Ramadan maximum in the you picked during Ramadan: long-term, Insha Allah!

1. MAKE DUA 10. DON’T GIVE YOURSELF THE It was Allah who gave you the abil- OPTION ity to keep the good habit in Ramadan, What makes you get up for work in and only He can help you maintain it the mornings, no matter how tired you afterwards. Make Dua that Allah helps are? What makes you drag yourself out you not only keep the habit, but that He of a warm bed on a cold morning to get accepts it and makes it a way for you to ready for school? It’s the fact that you grow in closeness to Him. have no option, and you know that there are negative consequences to not going 2. MAKE IT A HABIT to work (you’ll be fired) or school (you’ll If you want to keep good habits, you’ve fail). got to make sure they remain part of your Use the same kind of psychology on daily schedule. For instance, fasting. Did yourself when it comes to maintaining you know that the Prophet (peace and your good habit. blessings be upon him) encouraged fast- Tell yourself, for instance, that Allah ing on Mondays and Thursdays? He said: The Prophet (PBUH) said: Do good deeds properly, sincerely will be very angry with you if you do not A man’s deeds are reported (to Allah) pray Fajr, no matter how cold your room on Mondays and Thursdays and I prefer and moderately, and remember that you shall enter is on a frosty December morning. that I should be fasting when my deeds That in turn can lead to more bad are reported (Tirmidhi). This is a great Paradise only through Allah’s Mercy, and also remember deeds, which could lead to decreased way of maintaining the habit so you’re faith, and a downward spiral in your life. not rusty by next Ramadan. Or for that the most beloved deed to Allah is that which is regular And Allah can punish you in various example, were you extra generous dur- ways in this world as well as the next for ing Ramadan? Well, maybe you can por- and constant even if it is little (Bukhari). not praying. tion out a set amount of your weekly or You could lose your job; you could have monthly paycheck to a charitable cause a family crisis, etc. to maintain the habit of giving. Make your habit in practice. You can do the this opportunity to return back to Him 8. DON’T EXPECT THE SAME Righteous actions are for all times the habit part of your daily and weekly same thing on a monthly and yearly basis. after doing something wrong. We should RESULTS and all places, so strive, O my brother schedule. The point is to keep the action For those who are really into the tech- remember that we are humans and that If you were ready to spring out of bed and sister, and beware of laziness. And in practice, and of course gain rewards nical aspect of self-evaluation, maybe you we will err. Only Allah is Perfect. in anticipation for Fajr during many of remember that it is not allowed for us from Allah. can make a graph to help you chart how This is why, for instance, if we the days of Ramadan, but find yourself to leave the obligatory actions or delay well (or not so well) you’ve been keeping were able to pray on time all through barely waking up for the prayer after- them, such as the five daily prayers on 3. THINK ABOUT YOUR DAY EACH up with your good habit. Ramadan, but become slack afterwards, wards, don’t be surprised, but don’t time, in congregation etc. NIGHT we must realize it, seek Allah’s forgive- become slack either. And do not fall into forbidden actions, Evaluating ourselves, our intentions, 5. GET A FRIEND TO HELP ness sincerely, and try our best to get Good habits are often easy to main- such as forbidden sayings, food and words and actions, every night is a very What are friends for anyway? If you’ve back on track, asking Allah to help us. tain in Ramadan, the blessed month. The drinks, or by looking at or listening to good way to maintain good habits. Self- got a close friend you feel you can share We should not give up trying to pray hard part is doing so after the “high” of what is forbidden. evaluation doesn’t only help you see where your new habit with, let them join you on time just because we have missed Ramadan. This is where you’ll have to Be steadfast and upright upon the you are and where you’ve got to go. It’s in keeping up with it and keeping tabs doing so on a couple of occasions. work hard to force yourself to maintain Deen of Allah at all times, for you do also a great reminder of what you were on you while they’re at it. This will not your habit, whether it’s waking up for not know when you’ll meet the Angel of supposed to do and didn’t. Add a ques- only encourage you, but Insha Allah, it’ll 7. ASK YOURSELF WHY YOU KEPT Fajr, not smoking, eating less, being more Death. tion or two (or three or four) about your deepen your brother/sisterhood as well. THE HABIT patient, etc. Be thankful when you’re Beware of him taking you while you are specific habit into a daily self-evaluation Alternatively, look for groups where you Niyyah or intention is a key to Allah’s able to maintain your habit and think in a state of sin. “O Allah, Who turns the questionnaire. Ask yourself, for instance, can maintain the habit. If, for instance, acceptance of our good deeds. If we about practical things you can do to keep hearts, keep our hearts steadfast upon how often did I pray today? What was the you memorized Quran regularly in developed a habit to impress others, for it up on a regular basis. Your Deen.” quality of my prayer? Did I pray on time? Ramadan and want to keep the habit, instance, we may be able to keep the I ask Allah to accept from us and etc. These serve to remind you to keep up join an Islamic study circle focused on momentum for a while, but most prob- 9. WORK YOUR WAY UP SLOWLY you our fasting, our prayers and other the habit and do better next time. memorisation. ably it’ll wear out afterwards. Aisha reported that Rasulullah said: righteous actions, that our condition But if we maintained a habit sincerely Do good deeds properly, sincerely and after Ramadan be a better one, that the 4. EVALUATE YOURSELF WEEKLY 6. DON’T FALL APART ONCE YOU for the sake of Allah, Insha Allah, not moderately, and remember that you state of our Ummah improves, that we This helps you see the bigger picture. MAKE ONE MISTAKE only will we be rewarded for it, but our shall enter Paradise only through Allah’s are granted honour and that we truly You’ll be able to evaluate on a more long- The beauty of Tawbah (repentance) intention will help us maintain the neces- Mercy, and also remember that the most turn to our Lord. Ameen. term level how well you’ve been keeping in Islam, is that Allah blesses us with sary motivation to continue to do good. beloved deed to Allah is that which is Source: Sound Vision What the Prophet said

Character

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “One who covers up the failings of someone in this world will have his short- comings covered up by God on the Day of Judgment.” - Riyadh us-Saleheen, 240

“By his good character, a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.” - Abu Dawood, Hadith 2233

“Being rich does not mean having a great amount of property, but [it] is being content with what one has.” - Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 4, Hadith 453

“God has revealed to me that you should adopt humility so that no one oppresses another.” - Riyadh-us-Salaheen, Hadith 1589

“No one has swallowed anything more excellent in the sight of God...than the anger he restrains, seeking to please God most high.” -Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1324

A person once asked the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH): “What is faith?” The Prophet replied: “When a good deed becomes a source of pleasure for you and an evil deed becomes a source of disgust, then you are a believer.” He was then asked: “What is a sin?” The Prophet said: “When something pricks your conscience, give it up.” -Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 8

“Envy is not permitted except in two cases: (Envy) of a person who God has given wealth and he spends it in the right way, and (envy of) a person who God has given wisdom and he gives his decisions accordingly and teaches it to others.” - Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Hadith 490

“Wealth consists of various kinds of treasures, and those treas- ures (all) have keys. Blessed is the man whom God has made a key for good and a lock for evil.” -Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1366 Afghan children study the Holy Quran at a religious school in Heart. FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Iran has new Syria regime launch pad for ballistic denies attack missile tests LONDON: Iran has developed a second rocket-launching facil- ity which will likely be used to on Assad test ballistic missiles, a London- based defence analysis group said yesterday. Opposition chief Jarba visits Daraa IHS Jane’s said it had pin- pointed the site outside the city of DAMASCUS: Syria took the groups later claimed via Facebook Shahrud, around 350 kilometres rare step of denying reports of to have attacked Assad’s convoy. east of Tehran, near the Caspian an attack on President Bashar “Liwa Al Islam used rocket fire Sea and the Turkmenistan border. Al Assad’s motorcade as he to target the convoy, while other By analysing satellite imagery, drove to a Damascus mosque rebel groups used mortars,” Liwa Jane’s said that construction yesterday for prayers marking Al Islam spokesman Islam Allush began at the site between May Muslim holidays. said via the Internet. and September 2010 — around It was the first report of a direct State television showed Assad the same time as the expansion attack on the embattled leader sitting with other dignitaries, of Iran’s existing launch pad in since the March 2011 outbreak of appearing relaxed and smiling Semnan. the anti-regime revolt in Syria. during the morning prayer. “Imagery analysis of the Several media outlets, including He has rarely appeared in pub- Egyptian women and children shout slogans during a sit-in by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters Shahrud site suggests it will be Saudi-based Al Arabiya television, lic since the start of the conflict. of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi outside the Rabaa Al Adawiya mosque, on the first day of Eid Al a strategic facility used to test and opponents on the ground said Opposition chief Ahmad Jarba, Fitr, in Cairo yesterday. ballistic missiles, leaving the a rocket and mortar attack tar- meanwhile, visited Daraa in other two sites free to handle geted Assad’s motorcade. southern Syria near the Jordanian Iran’s ambitious programme They said the convoy had been border to mark Eid, a National of satellite launches,” said headed to Anas bin Malik mosque Coalition source said. Matthew Clements, editor at in central Damascus for Eid Al “This visit to the south shows Egypt Islamists stage protests IHS Jane’s Military and Security Fitr prayers marking the end of that large swathes of Syria, from Assessments Centre. the fasting month of Ramadan. the north to the south, are in CAIRO: Supporters of Egypt’s international effort to bridge the However, a person involved The site is around 40 kilome- “Regarding the information opposition control,” the source deposed Islamist president ral- gap between the two sides and in the diplomatic push said the tres southeast of Shahrud. reported by Al Arabiya, I can said on condition of anonymity. lied in their thousands in Cairo avert bloodshed. authorities and Mursi’s Muslim By August 2011, a major con- assure you that it is completely Jarba went to a village called Tal yesterday to celebrate the Eid But the four-day Eid holiday Brotherhood might yet step back struction project was under false,” Information Minister Shehab and visited schools housing Al Fitr holiday and demand his at the end of the Muslim fast- from confrontation and imple- way, covering approximately 100 Omran Al Zohbi told state refugees, the source added. restoration as the military held ing month of Ramadan started ment mutual confidence-building square kilometres, Jane’s said. television. The Syrian Observatory, back from breaking up their in a festive and largely peaceful steps that could lead to a negoti- The facility has “several pri- “The president arrived at the which compiles its information protests. atmosphere. By late afternoon, no ated settlement. mary functional areas: adminis- mosque driving his own car, he from activists and medics, said The rarely-seen wife of the violence had been reported. Government and military tration and support; horizontal attended the prayer and greeted yesterday that the conflict had ousted Mohammed Mursi, Naglaa Sheikh Gomaa Mohamed Ali sources said the talks had not processing where rockets are pre- everyone in the mosque as he does claimed at least 4,420 lives dur- Mahmoud, made a surprise led prayers at Tahrir Square and terminated but had been fro- pared for launch; launch pad; and every day when he meets people. ing Ramadan. appearance on stage at the main spoke out against further blood- zen, to assuage public anger over an underground facility connected “Everything is normal,” Zohbi While some two-thirds of the demonstration in Cairo to appeal shed. He called on Mursi sup- perceived foreign interference in to the site by a new road and an added. “They wanted to spoil the victims were combatants on both for her husband to be allowed porters to abandon their protest Egypt’s affairs and the authori- underground cable,” said Jane’s. celebrations for Syrians.” sides, this time last year most of back into power as crowds roared camps at the Rabaa Al Adawiya ties’ willingness to negotiate with The latest images from July 6 The Syrian Observatory for the dead were civilians, reflecting “Return! Return!” Mosque and Cairo’s Nasr City. the Brotherhood. this year show Iran has made sig- Human Rights could not con- a shift in the nature of Syria’s war. But crowds also filled Tahrir Interim President Adly A military source said the nificant progress, the group said. firm the reported rocket attack, New York-based Human Square in a show of support for Mansour had on Wednesday authorities were holding back from “Ground scarring and road net- but said mortar rounds hit the Rights Watch yesterday said the military and the interim gov- warned the protesters to leave using force to clear the protest work construction throughout the upmarket Malki area in central most Palestinians trying to go to ernment it installed after over- the camps or face action, saying camps partly due to fear that Vice facility strongly suggest that this Damascus, near where Assad was Lebanon from strife-torn Syria throwing Mursi five weeks ago. government patience was running President Mohamed ElBaradei, a is only the first phase of a signifi- attending Eid prayers and where had been denied entry over the The political crisis has reached out. He also declared that the source of political legitimacy for cantly more ambitious construc- his offices are. past two days. a dangerous new phase follow- mediation effort by US, European army rule, would quit. tion plan.” At least two Islamist rebel AFP ing the collapse this week of an and Arab envoys had failed. REUTERS AFP

Israel gives initial nod to 800 settler homes Yemen drone attacks kill JERUSALEM: Israel has steps to thwart the Israeli plans, given preliminary approval for Israeli-Palestinian talks on August 14 also charging in a written state- the construction of more than ment that Israel was using peace eight suspected militants 800 new homes in Jewish settle- WASHINGTON: Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will talks as a “smoke screen” to con- SANAA: US drone strikes Al Sharia, a local militant group ments on occupied West Bank resume talks on ending their long-standing conflict on August tinue expanding its enclaves in killed at least eight suspected affiliated to Al Qaeda in the land where Palestinians seek 14 in Jerusalem, the US State Department said yesterday. occupied land. Al Qaeda militants in Yemen Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one statehood, an Israeli official said The talks restarted last month in Washington under US media- Settlement expansion has put yesterday, bringing the number of the most active branches of the yesterday. tion, and both sides agreed to try to resolve their differences within Israel’s right-leaning government of people killed by drones in less network founded by Osama bin The move could compli- nine months. at loggerheads with the European than two weeks to at least 25. Laden. cate US-sponsored Israeli- State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that Union, which issued guidelines The strikes follow Yemen’s More violence took place in Palestinian peace negotiations, US mediator Martin Indyk would attend the next round of talks, last month banning EU financial announcement on Wednesday northern Yemen yesterday when which resumed last month after which will be followed by a meeting in Jericho. assistance to Israeli organisations that it had foiled a plot by Al five Salafis, followers of puritani- an almost three-year freeze over AFP in occupied territory. Qaeda to seize two major oil and cal Sunni Islam, were killed in an the settlement dispute and whose In a sign of concern over the gas export terminals and a pro- ambush by Shias. second round is expected to take Peace Now, an Israeli anti- Palestinians. Most world pow- restrictions, Prime Minister vincial capital in the east of the The attack occurred in Saada, a place next week. settlement watchdog, put the ers regard all the settlements as Benjamin Netanyahu convened country. town near the border with Saudi Guy Inbar, spokesman for number of new homes discussed illegal and Palestinians say the senior cabinet ministers yester- Witnesses and local officials in Arabia about 130km north of the Israel’s military-run Civil by the Civil Administration on enclaves could deny them a viable day to discuss the EU edict. Maareb, a mostly desert region capital, Sanaa. Saada has been Administration in the West Bank, Wednesday at 1,096 and said and contiguous state. An Israeli official said it was in the southeast where militants under the control of Shia Houthi said initial plans to build 800 new they were earmarked for 11 set- Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestine generally understood in the have taken refuge, said a drone rebels for several years. settler homes were approved on tlements — some of them located Liberation Organisation executive meeting that Israel would not fired at two vehicles suspected of The five Salafis were driving Wednesday, though actual con- deep within the West Bank. member and former peace nego- sign deals with the EU based on carrying Al Qaeda militants at a vehicle when they came under struction would require a green Israel insists it would annex tiator, accused Israel of “delib- the new directives, and that the dawn, killing six people. fire in an ambush which injured light from the government. major West Bank settlement erately destroying the two-state ministers decided to seek more Residents saw the two vehicles a further two, Serour Al Wadei, a “This is a lengthy process,” said blocs, which are mainly situ- solution and killing any sort of clarification from the 28-nation rise in flames and the drone cir- spokesperson for the Salafi group Inbar, who did not immediately ated close to the Israeli border, hope”. bloc on their implications. cled the air for a while after the in Saada, said. provide details on the plans. under any peace accord with the She urged Washington to take REUTERS attack. Houthi Shia rebels led an Another two were killed in the uprising based in the northern eastern region of Hadramout, Saada province that Yemeni local officials said. forces struggled to crush. Saudi Eid breakfast At least 25 suspected mili- Arabia’s military intervened in tants have been killed since July 2009 before a ceasefire took hold Families beg 28, when a drone strike killed the next year. Somali pirates at least four members of Ansar REUTERS to free hostages

MOGADISHU: Families of some of the more than 50 sailors Amnesty to Hamas: Halt and fishermen held hostage by Somali pirates begged for their release yesterday, with some planned Gaza executions imprisoned now for more than two years. JERUSALEM: Amnesty “There is no evidence that “We are in desperate condition International yesterday urged (execution) deters crime more living with little hope to see our Gaza Strip rulers Hamas to halt effectively than other punish- beloved soon,” said the message prisoner executions planned for ments,” he added. from families of the crew of the after the Eid Al Fitr holiday, Those sentenced to death MV Albedo, a Malaysian-flagged which is celebrated until Sunday. include a 27-year-old known as container ship with 15 sailors still “The Hamas authorities in “HMA”, who Amnesty says con- held, from countries including Gaza must halt several execu- fessed under torture to the rape Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. tions they say they plan to carry and murder of a six-year-old boy “Please accept our sincere out after this week’s Muslim reli- when HMA himself was under 18. request as we have left with no gious festival of Eid Al Fitr,” the Another, 23-year-old, “FA”, was other option than to beg for the London-based rights watchdog sentenced in March for “collabo- life our family’s sole breadwin- said in a statement. ration” with Israel, Amnesty said. ners,” the families said in the let- “We acknowledge the right and Hamas prime minister Ismail ter released to mark the Muslim responsibility of governments to Haniya on August 3 said he holiday of Eid. bring to justice those suspected of respected rights groups that cam- “We have not celebrated any criminal offences, but the death paign against capital punishment, festival since the last three years,” Worshippers have breakfast together after Eid Al Fitr prayers to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of penalty is cruel and inhuman,” said but stressed: “We also respect our they added in English. Ramadan, at a mosque in Baghdad yesterday. Philip Luther, Amnesty’s Middle own blood, and our laws.” AFP East and North Africa director. AFP FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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NCE again, Ramadan came and went and Eid has arrived. The festival, like all others, brings a message of positivity. After a month of fasting, religious Oactivities and charity, Eid Al-Fitr is celebrated with fervour across the world as Muslims greet one another, engage Tunisia eyes “Egypt scenario” in festivities, have sweetmeats, and get dressed in their glad rags. The festival conveys the spirit of peace and brotherhood and is meant to send this message by the way it is marked. Be it a Somali buying sweets in the streets of Mogadishu with after assembly freeze his meagre income or a Gulf citizen lavishing the best gifts on his family in an upscale mall, Eid is celebrated in a spirit BY TAREK AMARA and ERIKA SOLOMON emboldened by Egypt’s army-backed rose to prominence in the 2011 revolt of happiness and gaiety everywhere. Political problems in the ouster of an Islamist president, has held that sent former President Zine Al Middle East notwithstanding, Muslims from Tunis to Tehran daily mass protests in a bid to topple the Abidine Ben Ali fleeing into exile in and Muscat to Madina find in the festival an opportunity to he suspension of Tunisia’s government and dissolve the Assembly. Saudi Arabia. engage in some joy with families and friends. transitional parliament could The move comes just weeks before “The opposition stepped up its pres- Unfortunately, the cacophony of blasts and gunfire often bring the birthplace of the the transitional body is due to finish a sure and Ben Jaafar responded.” Arab Spring uprisings closer draft constitution and electoral law that Tunisia was once held up as a model muzzle the chatter of festivities in the region. More so, this T to an “Egyptian scenario” in which the would allow Tunisia to hold fresh elec- for transition among fledgling Arab Ramadan and Eid. secular opposition topples an Islamist- tions by the end of the year. democracies. Now, it faces worsening As attacked continued and blasts kept killing scores, the led government, analysts and politicians “The Egypt scenario is not far off divisions at the same time that it faces more than two-year old Syrian conflict didn’t show any signs of say. and seems quite possible if the crisis a growing security crisis — Islamist abating. Rebels and the Syrian regime tried to gain an upper The biggest shock to the ruling continues,” said Tunisian political ana- militants have been stepped up attacks hand in the bloodletting. On top of it, there was talk of Assad’s Ennahda party, the Tunisian branch of lyst Sofian Ben Farhat, though he said across the country. the Muslim Brotherhood, may be that Tunisia’s army was unlikely to help. Tunisians are struggling with the motorcade being attacked in Damascus as the Syrian president the latest blow came from one of its own Historically it has not intervened in same issues that countries like Egypt drove to a mosque for Eid prayers yesterday. The government, secular allies — a sign of rising polarisa- politics, as Egypt’s army has on sev- face — how to respect the results of free however, denied the report. tion between Islamist and secular forces. eral occasions. The Egyptian military elections and respond to popular dis- Attackers in Afghanistan even “This is a win for the opposition. It deposed and detained freely elected content and impatience with economic didn’t spare women and children moved the crisis inside the coalition president Mohammed Mursi on July 3 stagnation, high unemployment and a The stepped government,” said after mass anti-Muslim Brotherhood steep fall in tourism. who had gone to a cemetery to pray up attacks by analyst Nourdine protests. Security forces launched Adding to tensions is the bitter com- at the grave of a relative. A hidden Mbarki. a crackdown and arrested several petition between secular opposition militant groups bomb at the graveyard killed seven Constituent Brotherhood leaders. groups and the Islamist parties that during Ramadan Afghan women and children. On the Tunisia was Assembly International diplomatic efforts to rose to power in popular elections. last day of Ramadan on Wednesday, once held up President resolve the standoff in Cairo collapsed Though Ennahda denies any interest and Eid point gunmen killed a woman senator’s Mustafa Ben on Wednesday, raising the prospect of in imposing Islamic law, the opposition as a model for Jaafar, a member bloodshed if the government dislodges is wary. It also says Ennahda has been to a worsening eight-year-old daughter and her transition among of junior coalition pro-Mursi protest sit-ins by force. soft on Islamist militants suspected of regard for driver in the province of Ghazni. partner Ettakatol, In contrast with Mursi’s decisions assassinating the two leftist opposition Afghanistan’s embattled neighbour fledgling Arab froze the legis- to ram through an Islamist-tinged figures. Ennahda leaders are playing humanity and Pakistan saw a suicide bomber democracies. Now, lature’s work on constitution and reject power-sharing down the seriousness of the parliament Tuesday until with the secular opposition, Ennahda suspension and say instead it will help lack of respect kill 30 people at the funeral of a it faces worsening policeman. talks are started has governed in coalition with secular them get the opposition to reach a com- for human life. divisions at the between the gov- partners and refrained from introduc- promise through talks. The Syrian Observatory for ernment and the ing Islamic law into the constitution. “This decision hasn’t weakened Human Rights declared yesterday same time that it opposition. “Freezing the assembly along with Ennahda but rather will force the oppo- that close to 4,500 people were killed in Syria during Ramadan. faces a growing Ben Jaafar said mass protests could reshuffle the politi- sition to start talks,” said Ennahda poli- In insurgency-prone areas like Iraq, Somalia and security crisis — he took the step cal playing cards and lead us into a new tician Lotfi Zeitoun. “I expect dialogue Afghanistan, militants step up attacks during Ramadan in to “guarantee and more dangerous turn in the crisis if will start soon after the Eid holiday (on the transition to the opposition and the government con- August 8) and the Assembly won’t stay the mistaken belief that by doing so they would be considered Islamist militants democracy.” But tinue their stubbornness,” Ben Farhat frozen long.” more loyal to their faith. A few days ago, the Iraqi capital saw a have stepped up fellow assem- said. That may be wishful thinking — if wave of attacks killing dozens. In Somalia and Sudan, militants attacks. bly member and Ennahda has said it is willing to anything, the opposition appears to kept up the tempo of their attacks. In the past, Israel and Ennahda leader hold talks but refuses to dissolve the think the suspension justifies its hard- Palestine have been known to declare a temporary truce during Najib Mrad called Assembly or remove the prime minister. line stance. “You saw the people in the Ramadan. However, no such overture was announced this year. it an “internal coup.” Major opposition leaders boycotted talks streets. Dissolving the Assembly is the Tunisia is facing the most severe last weekend and say they will not back people’s demand,” said Beji Caid Sebsi, As Ramadan progressed and Eid dawned, shootings and political and security crisis since a 2011 down from their demands. head of Nida Touns, an opposition party blasts continued to claim lives in the Middle East. This points uprising toppled autocratic leader Zine Opposition figures say their pressure with ties to the ousted Ben Ali. to a deepening disregard for human lives. Militant organisations El Abidine Ben Ali and sparked a wave tactics are working. “Ennahda’s proposal for a referendum and rebel groups have become so obsessed with their so-called of “Arab Spring” revolts across the “The mass mobilisation and Ben isn’t serious talk, its just an effort to buy missions that it is well nigh impossible for anything to Middle East. Jaafar’s decision will quickly bring us time but conditions will force the dis- punctuate their destructive streak • The secular opposition, angered by to what happened in Egypt,” said Sofian solution of the government too,” he said. two assassinations in its ranks and Chouarbi, an opposition activist who REUTERS The other side Quote of A summit to miss the day HE pomp and circumstance opposition at home, one dimension of policies seem driven most of all by a with Russia despite the crackdown. of summits between world which has been an ugly streak of anti- desire to show he is standing tall. His Given the retreat on human rights and leaders usually signals the Americanism. He has harassed and approach has thrown the relationship democracy, we think Obama is cor- Tend of a process. Before attempted to destroy nongovernmen- with Washington into a downward rect not to want to be standing shoul- We are ready for the handshakes, toasts and signing tal organisations that receive funding spiral. der to shoulder with Putin right now. ceremony, negotiators have often from abroad, many of them for worthy Obama had hoped for better. His And the relationship is strained by direct dialogue with spent months or years hammering civil-society goals. He pushed through goal of a “reset” with Russia enjoyed a other disputes as well, including over out agreements. But there aren’t any parliament a ban on the adoption of brief flowering under President Dmitry Syria, missile defense and Snowden’s our Abkhazian and agreements worth celebrating right Russian orphans by Americans in a fit Medvedev, leading to a new strategic fate. now with Russia. The relationship is of pique over a US law that curtailed arms treaty and cooperation in moving Skipping the summit is a tactic. A Ossetian brothers. clouded by disputes and conflict. So visas for Russians identified as human US war materiel out of Afghanistan. long-term strategy with Russia has to I am sure that we it makes sense that President Obama rights abusers. Putin also snubbed But the “reset” looks to be dead. include engagement, including at the has decided against a summit meeting the United States by offering tempo- When Mr. Putin unleashed his assault highest level, no matter how prickly will find a common with President Vladimir Putin. rary asylum to Edward Snowden, the on human rights and democracy, the and unpleasant that may be. But the Putin, who returned to office in May former National Security Agency con- administration’s reaction was all too engagement has to be faithful to the language for united Bidzina Ivanishvili for a third term, has been carrying tractor sought by the United States timid, based on wishful thinking that United States’ highest values. future relationship. out a determined campaign to crush for leaking secret documents. Putin’s the United States could do business The Washington Post Georgian Prime Minister FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Al Qaeda: The wrong approach to terror Cool perspective is more effective than all the drones, special operations and surveillance programmes we can muster.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF the alleged Zawahiri communication was with Al Qaeda’s new “No 2” — its leader ith each passing day, it in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser Al becomes even clearer Wuhayshi. Formerly Osama bin Laden’s that despite what personal secretary, Wuhayshi was impris- appears to be a very oned but escaped and moved to Yemen, serious current ter- one of the region’s weakest states. He Wrorist threat, the greatest risks facing has since taken the reins of a steadily America come from our own misplaced strengthening local operation with glo- priorities and mistaken assumptions. bal aspirations. (Ibrahim Al Asiri, the As recently as late last week, I spoke 31-year-old Saudi master bomb maker with a very senior administration offi- who was behind recent plots like the cial — one of the White House’s best underwear bombing and printer car- and brightest — who forcefully described tridge explosive device is reportedly also the significance of America’s successful in Yemen and part of AQAP.) destruction of “core” Al Qaeda. White Wuhayshi’s escape from prison also House spokesman Jay Carney reiterated happens to underscore yet another of this point this week. But two errors in our misplaced priorities. While America that assessment have now become abun- has engaged in an overly politicised and dantly apparent. overly loud debate over the tragedy of The first is obvious given that the cur- last September 11 in Benghazi, there rent alert is reportedly due in part to has been precious little discussion over communications between a still-active a much more worrisome set of failures: Iraqi firefighters dousing flames at the scene of a car bomb attack believed to be related to Al Qaeda bombings, at a used cars dealers core Al Qaeda led by Ayman Al Zawahiri the series of prison breaks at facilities parking lot in Habibiya neighbourhood in east Baghdad. and lieutenants in Al Qaeda in the housing dangerous extremists. Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The second This list most recently includes Abu information undoubtedly was made after over-reaction. Building up the NSA sur- wisely. Indeed, we can lose such a war and perhaps more important revelation Ghraib, a prison in Pakistan, and one out- careful consideration, it underscores the veillance programs was an over-reaction. if we let terrorists set our policies, drain is the enduring notion that Al Qaeda side of Benghazi. As a result of just these inherent nature of the cat-and-mouse And, it must be said, shutting down our resources, and mesmerise us with a could effectively be defeated (or the risks last three breaks, reports say nearly 2,000 game that we and these extremists play scores of US diplomatic facilities is an shadow game that never ends, one that associated with it could be contained) by extremists have been freed. — communications and intercept tech- over-reaction. We must protect our dip- offers only illusory victories and leaves targeting its so-called core. Where is the investigation into how niques constantly shift and evolve. lomats. But we also must avoid appearing us distracted from our real needs and A large part of the threat associated this pattern of prison breaks was allowed Of course, the greatest misplaced pri- to be cowed by terrorists (or those who priorities, and the many greater threats with Al Qaeda has to do with the fact to unfold, why it wasn’t flagged earlier ority associated with our intelligence would engage in political sniping back we face. that it is not a traditional hierarchic as a serious risk, and why there wasn’t program is the notion that stopping ter- at home). No, the only way to avoid losing such organisation, operating with a structure tighter security? Indeed, it could well rorists is worth undercutting the basic And, of course, there are other choices a war is to avoid framing it as such. We that allows it to recover from even heavy be that while we have understandably privacy rights of US citizens and our than the wholesale closing of a massive must protect ourselves — but against not blows, move to new locations, as well as focused on security errors at the US allies. Terror threats are limited, fleeting, cross-section of America’s diplomatic just the terrorists but ourselves and our reform and resume operations. Further, diplomatic facility in Benghazi, lapses and literally impossible to fully contain — capacity across the Islamic world. terror. Cool perspective is more effective of course, as we see the by-product of the of greater consequence subsequently all reasons that should have never been Other countries, other embassies, and than all the drones, special operations, upheaval throughout the Arab world (in occurred. allowed to undercut those other, enduring other facilities are at constant risk of and surveillance programmes we can particular in places like Syria), extrem- Another set of misplaced priorities principles. It is important we are able attack. Yet they choose to remain open. muster. That is not to say we shouldn’t ists come in many forms with many alle- has been associated with the intelligence to see and acknowledge this point, even They harden defences. They restructure be on guard or that we shouldn’t strike giances, so targeting any one organisation that led to the current alert. As noted when a current threat is looming. facilities. They take lower-key precau- hard against demonstrated threats and doesn’t necessarily reduce the threat. in a recent FP piece, it is clear that the However, many in Washington are tions. And they make these choices to those who have conducted past attacks. On top of which, the spread of weak Edward Snowden revelations that pro- already trying to use this asserted threat avoid producing panic and also because We must. But we also need to get a regimes and chaos in the region actually duced such a firestorm in Washington to justify the intelligence programs shutting down scores of facilities only grip — to understand what elements of accelerates the recruitment of new fight- did not eviscerate our ability to use intel- exposed by Snowden, as well as our other makes other facilities the target. this we need to be prepared to deal with, ers, the development of new organisa- ligence to intercept terror plots. But the over-reactions to terrorism. Were there This brings us to the ultimate mistaken to prepare accordingly, and to focus on tions (such as Al Nusra in Syria), and a administration’s decision to leak that to be another attack, they would surely assumption — that it is actually possible the real risks rather than simply those diffusion of risks that makes managing intercepts were behind the current do likewise. to win a war on terror. We can suffer that cause the biggest hue and cry among them even tougher. embassy shut-down alert also put US There is a pattern here that we defeats, to be sure. These come when we the hysterics on Capitol Hill and in the The confluence of these last two fac- sources and methods at risk. Though need to view dispassionately rather pursue the wrong targets, employ the American media. tors is well illustrated by the fact that the decision to reveal the nature of the than with fear. The Patriot Act was an wrong tactics, and fail to assess risks WP-BLOOMBERG Bo trial exposes China’s true system George Osborne’s The Bo Xilai affair has exploded Bank of England job several important myths about BY PAUL SEGAL yearly interest rate is higher for longer-term borrowing, and the reat things are expected long-term interest rate matters one-party rule in China. of Mark Carney, the to mortgage rates and the cost of new Governor of Bank investment. BY MINXIN PEI Gof England, and his lat- This forward guidance is a est announcement on forward complement to the Bank’s ongo- lmost 18 months after it roiled the Chinese political estab- guidance was supposed to tell ing asset purchases, or “quanti- lishment, the Bo Xilai scandal is drawing to a close. The us how he will achieve them. tative easing”. While the Bank’s trial of the former Chongqing Communist Party chief could His heroic efforts are certainly usual business is the trading of Astart as early as this week. needed. But the biggest problem short-term government bonds, If anything, the ignominious end of Bo — once viewed as a shoo-in facing him, and the economy, quantitative easing involves buy- for a spot on the party’s Politburo Standing Committee, China’s top is his boss, Chancellor George ing longer-term bonds. This has decision-making body — is an anticlimax. Even if the trial were pub- Osborne. helped to lower long-term inter- lic, we would witness no courtroom drama. Bo, who hasn’t appeared In the old days, central bank- est rates, and that 10-year rate in public since March 2012, will almost certainly be presented as a ers had one tool: the short-term would have been higher without broken and penitent man. A guilty verdict is a foregone conclusion. interest rate. What the crisis it. The only outcome worth guessing is Bo’s sentence. Judges will have has shown us is that sometimes Despite the new forward guid- no discretion over this matter. The seven-man Politburo Standing it just isn’t up to the job. The ance, the MPC’s mandate remains Committee will already have determined how much time Bo will Bank cut this interest rate close as it was: to keep inflation around serve. (Although the corruption charges against Bo could carry a to zero in its attempt to restart 2 percent. death sentence, the party has an unspoken policy of not executing the economy, yet per capita GDP So if Osborne really wanted to any purged Politburo-level leaders.) remains below its 2007 level. Even make monetary policy more effec- If Chinese leaders hope that the trial will put an end to the most with borrowing historically cheap, tive, he would raise the inflation sordid political scandal since the death of Mao Zedong, however, they firms still do not want to invest. target. This has been argued by are wrong. They will no longer speak of Bo after he is dispatched to So what’s a central banker economists from Paul Krugman the infamous Qincheng Prison outside Beijing, where the Communist Former Chongqing Municipality Communist Party secretary Bo Xilai. to do? The answer: look to the and the IMF’s Olivier Blanchard Party imprisons disgraced senior officials. The questions raised by future. More precisely, try to to US Republican Ken Rogoff. In Bo’s case, though, will continue to dog the party and undermine its move long-term interest rates as Krugman’s memorable phrase, credibility. As is the case with all political scandals, the Bo Xilai affair the senior Chinese leaders — except for Hu Jintao, then the general well as the short-term interest the Bank has to “credibly promise has exploded several important myths about one-party rule in China. secretary of the party — visited Chongqing to endorse Bo’s neo- rate, to make borrowing cheaper to be irresponsible”. Like so much Among these myths, the most alluring and widespread is the idea Maoist model of development. But once Bo’s political prospects were still. good economic advice in recent that the post-Mao leadership has perfected a system of managing doomed by his police chief’s attempted defection to the US consu- This is where forward guid- years, it has fallen on deaf ears. internal conflict and maintaining elite unity. Proponents of this idea, late in Chengdu, these supposed friends and allies instantly turned ance comes in. Carney has Yet the real irony is not sim- dubbed “authoritarian resilience,” argue that China’s leaders have against him. announced that the Monetary ply that Osborne has hamstrung bypassed the need for democracy. Instead, they employ devices such as The denouement of Bo’s saga will also help destroy yet another Policy Committee (MPC) will not the man he wants to rescue the term limits, a regular rotation of appointments, systematic screening widely accepted myth about the Communist Party — namely, that consider raising the short-term British economy. It is Osborne’s and mandatory retirement as effective means of divvying up power the regime is a meritocracy. This idea has a tight grip on Western interest rate until unemployment own policy of unforced auster- among competing groups and individuals. politicians and business executives who have interacted personally falls to 7 percent, from its current ity from which we need rescuing. On paper, these arrangements seem flawless. But in practice, they with top Chinese leaders. Adjectives like “smart,” “dynamic” and level of 7.8 percent. Two million people remain unem- can be gamed, and the competition for power inside an opaque regime “cosmopolitan” are generously applied to officials like Bo. Since they do not expect this ployed or underemployed. As gov- that resists binding, well-acknowledged rules can be especially fierce. It remains a puzzle to China-watchers how these Westerners, who to happen before 2016, this should ernment cuts continue, central As Bo’s case shows, in such a system, the greater the prize, the more speak no Mandarin and normally spend just an hour or two with help to reduce longer-term inter- banking cannot be more than a ruthless the fight. Winners prevail not because of their merits, but characters like Bo, could have reached such definitive assessments est rates: if the short-term inter- sideshow in today’s economy. because of their ability to cobble together a more powerful coalition. about their capabilities. Even a casual examination of the records — est rate that the MPC controls is The slowest recovery in 100 As for the losers, it is hard not to pity their spectacular fall. They not the resumes — of leaders similar to Bo would quickly reveal that expected to stay low, then it will years cannot be blamed on the not only get booted out of office but also must suffer the most humili- they all boast mediocre careers. What has lifted them above their reduce the cost of longer-term eurozone crisis: The economy is ating (though not necessarily undeserved) airing of their personal often more talented peers are powerful patrons. That brings us to borrowing. always a moving target and the failings. In fact, Bo is not the first member of the Politburo to fall the real reason for Bo’s fall from grace. “In the land of the blind,” the This matters because right now job of policy is to adjust its aim victim to such a purge since the Tiananmen Square crackdown in old saying goes, “the one- eyed man is king.” Although much praised it costs only 0.4 percent to bor- accordingly. 1989. Two former Politburo members were also sent to jail for cor- for cleaning up Chongqing, Bo hardly stood out as an administrator. row for one year, but 2.5 percent As Keynes explained, the boom, ruption and debauchery — the same crimes Bo has been charged with. Instead, he had outsize ambition, took big risks and used ruthless a year to borrow for 10 years. not the slump, is the right time for Despite the image of a consensus-driven leadership, there is simply tactics against his enemies. For a time, this brazenness catapulted Bo (This is what the government austerity. No amount of central no political loyalty at the top — just as in the bad old days of Mao’s to the front of the pack. Rivals knew better than to challenge him. pays — the private sector pays a bank wizardry will compensate. rule. When Bo was riding high between 2009 and 2011, practically all WP-BLOOMBERG premium on top of that.) So the THE GUARDIAN FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

Bolshoi dancer International denies planning acid attack

MOSCOW: A Bolshoi dancer flights resume detained on suspicion of organising a horrific acid attack against the Moscow ballet company’s artistic director yesterday denied after huge fire ever planning such an assault against his former boss. Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has been charged together with two Kenyan media slams slow response suspected accomplices, told a Moscow court that he deeply regretted the acid attack on NAIROBI: International But most of those delayed Sergei Filin and was happy flights resumed at Nairobi air- appeared resigned rather than he plans to return to work in port yesterday the day after a angry, even if some tweeted September. The dancer, who huge fire gutted the arrivals grumpy questions to Kenya was often cast in dark roles terminal, with the government Airways, asking why their desti- such as Ivan the Terrible, saying it expects normal opera- nation was not a priority. admitted he had artistic dif- tions from midnight. “From midnight today we are ferences with Filin but said he Wednesday’s blaze forced the opening up the airport to full had never wanted him to be so cancellation or diversion of scores operations,” Transport and In badly hurt. Dmitrichenko told of flights at east Africa’s biggest frastructure Minister Michael the court he had agreed to a transport hub. Kamau told journalists at the “proposal” by the suspected Using the domestic terminal airport. perpetrator, unemployed ex- for passengers instead of the fire- Pristine white tents have been Travellers queue as they wait to board their flights at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi yesterday after convict Yury Zarutsky, to “hit” damaged international hall, Kenya set up, complete with tables and limited flights resumed following an inferno that gutted the international arrivals area and international departure Filin but no more. Airways flights from London and yellow-frilled tablecloths, to serve units 1 and 2 at Kenya's main airport in Nairobi. Bangkok were the first to land as a makeshift immigration area. safely early yesterday, said Eric Kamau said a temporary ter- Mandela marks two Kiraithe, head of security at Jomo minal will be set up in the coming water for firefighters had to be tackle the blaze using a hose that The airport is a regional hub Kenyatta International Airport days to bridge the gap until termi- trucked in through rush hour had become detached from the for east Africa, with many long- months in hospital (JKIA). nal 4, currently under construc- traffic. source of water. distance international flights PRETORIA: Critically ill The Kenyan carrier also tion and scheduled for completion Kenya’s media were however Cargo and domestic flights landing there to connect to coun- former South African presi- announced flights coming in from in March 2014, is ready. united in criticising what they out of the Kenyan capital had tries across the region. dent Nelson Mandela marked or leaving for African, European Questioned as to why the said was a slow response, and resumed on Wednesday evening. There were no casualties in two months in hospital yes- and Asian destinations while the government and security forces warned the airport would need The fierce fire, which started the fire but two people — an air- terday, as his compatriots government said other interna- have said nothing about the pos- major building work until it could before dawn on Wednesday, took port worker and a passenger — extended their national vigil. tional airlines will be allowed to sible causes of the fire, Kamau be returned to normal. around four hours to bring under were taken to hospital for smoke The anti-apartheid hero operate from midnight yesterday. repeated “Let us not speculate”. The Standard newspaper control. inhalation. was rushed to the Pretoria Lines of travellers, muffled up He said the site of the blaze accused the emergency services The interior ministry was August is one of Kenya’s busiest Mediclinic Heart Hospital on in sweaters for Nairobi’s cold sea- has been completely roped off and of being caught unprepared, call- forced to issue public appeals for months for tourism, a key indus- June 8 with a recurring lung son, sat next to their luggage trol- that the authorities had not yet ing the delay in tackling the blaze Nairobi’s notoriously congested try for the country, as foreign infection. His condition is still leys piled high with bags. been able to assess the amount of “inexcusable”. traffic to give way to trucks fer- travellers fly in to see its wildlife said to be “critical but stable”. Some had arrived at the airport damage caused. The Star warned the fire may rying water to the airport after and enjoy the white sand beaches But the last two months have well before dawn and were start- Kamau rejected both criticism cause a “lack of trust and con- firefighters tackling the blaze ran on its Indian Ocean coast. seen a series of scares for the ing to show signs of frustration, that the response to the fire had fidence” in the future among “dangerously” low on water. The airport offers direct con- Nobel Peace Prize laureate and coming forward, tickets in hand, been painfully slow and claims passengers. Some 16,000 passengers usually nections to Europe, the Middle for the country where he is con- to ask officials about when they that fire hydrants had failed to A cartoon in the Daily Nation transit through JKIA every day, East, the Far East and other sidered a living saint. A steady might be likely to check in. function, meaning that extra showed a firefighter trying to according to official figures. African cities. AFP stream of pedestrians passed the hospital gates yesterday, which have been plastered with posters, hand-painted signs and Spain-Gibraltar row notes wishing the 95-year-old Italy adopts law Spanish railway safety well. to crack down Desmond Tutu’s under review after crash home burgled on violence MADRID: The boss of Spain’s we will continue to improve the CAPE TOWN: Burglars national train operator has told safety of the Spanish rail sys- have broken into the Cape a parliamentary commission tem,” he said. “The system car- Town home of South African against women that the company has begun a ries 4,700 trains and 1.6 million peace icon Desmond Tutu, a review of safety in the wake of passengers every day. We will not spokesman said yesterday. ROME: Italy adopted a draft the railway crash in Galicia last run the risk of falling into com- The break-in occurred over- law yesterday to crack down on month in which 79 people died. placency or inaction.” night Tuesday-Wednesday as violence against women in the Julio Gomez Pomar, president Ferre told the commission: the archbishop emeritus and wake of an escalating trend of of Renfe, was summoned to the “Ever since that day, all of us who his wife Leah were at home attacks by husbands and lovers. commission along with Gonzalo work in the railway sector have sleeping. The couple were “We promised we would do it, Ferre, president of Adif, the asked ourselves how the accident unharmed. “We can confirm we did it,” Prime Minister Enrico company in charge of Spain’s rail could have been avoided. The that there was a break-in at Letta said on Twitter after the infrastructure. Spanish rail system is consid- the house,” said Benny Gool, government adopted the draft Ferre revealed to the inquiry ered one of the best in the world a spokesman for the 81-year- bill which is expected to be that the stretch of track where and it’s up to us to ensure that it old Nobel Peace Prize winner. quickly validated by parliament. the accident occurred had origi- continues to be. Safety is under Police confirmed a burglary had In the first six months of this nally been planned as a high- constant review.” taken place at a house on Tutu’s year, 81 women were murdered speed line but was modified to Renfe has earmarked ¤2.7m street in the Milnerton area of in so-called femicide attacks in conventional specifications after in compensation for the victims the city, but refused to confirm Italy, in 75 percent of cases by the then minister of works, Jose of the tragedy, Spain’s worst rail the names of the victims. their partners or a member of Blanco, decided the high-speed accident in 40 years. their family, according to Italy’s line “didn’t offer any advantages”. Families of the bereaved are to biggest trade union, the CGIL. Ferre said a high-speed line receive ¤25,000 each, with ¤5,000 300,000 turned away In 2012, 124 women were would have been fitted with the going to the seriously injured and killed, and a third of all women in ERTMS system that would auto- ¤1,500 to those with light injuries. at Zimbabwe polls Italy are victims at some point of matically apply the train’s brakes So far the company has received HARARE: Nearly 305,000 domestic violence according to a if it was exceeding the speed 23 requests for compensation. Zimbabwean voters were UN report, which cites data from limit. Instead, the track was fit- Spain has more high-speed rail turned away and 206,000 the national statistics agency. ted with a system that stops the track than any country except received assistance from The bill is “a strong signal of a train only if it is travelling at China and is a world leader in election officials during last radical change” and the launch of over 200km/h. the technology. week’s disputed vote, organ- “a relentless fight against the sad Gomez-Pomar said that before It is currently building the isers said yesterday. phenomenon of femicide,” Letta the accident all the signals were high-speed link from Makkah to The Zimbabwe Electoral said at a press conference follow- green, indicating there was no Medina in Saudi Arabia, a con- Commission said nearly 3.5 ing its adoption. obstruction on the line, and tract worth ¤6.7bn. A Spanish million people cast their bal- Once a complaint has been there had been no reports of consortium is bidding for the lots in the July 31 polls, which lodged against a suspect, it can no any mechanical problems on the ¤13bn Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro extended President Robert longer be withdrawn and a police train. Data retrieved from the link and the ¤14bn line joining Mugabe’s 33-year rule. The investigation will be launched. General view of a queue of cars waiting to cross the border to the British black box showed that the train Moscow to St Petersburg. commission’s statistics show Violent husbands or partners colony of Gibraltar at La Linea de la Concepcion, Cadiz, Spain, yester- derailed at 179km/h on a sec- The rules of tendering for the the largest number of vot- will be evicted from the family day. The European Commission warned Spain to keep controls at the tion of track where the limit is Brazil contract bar any company ers, 64,483, were turned away home and victims will be kept 80km/h. that has had a fatal high-speed in the capital Harare. Urban Gibraltar border ‘proportionate’ and said it will send experts to check on constantly up to date on their “We are committed to finding rail accident in the past five areas have long been a strong- the situation in September. Two-hour queues of vehicles were forming attacker’s legal status — includ- out what caused the accident and years. THE GUARDIAN hold of Mugabe’s rival Morgan ing being informed if aggressors at the entrance to the British enclave following a row over an artificial Tsvangirai, who claimed the behind bars are released from reef at Gibraltar that has strained relations between Madrid and London. vote was rigged. AGENCIES jail. Italy’s speaker of the lower house of parliament Laura Boldrini in May called for a law to defend women from misogynist In wishing Bush well, Putin has message for Obama and violent acts after receiving hundreds of menacing messages MOSCOW: Russian President who once said he looked Putin in meeting with Putin during a when diplomats fail to reach a When Obama came to Russia on the Internet, including photos Vladimir Putin sent a telegram the eye and got a “sense of his G8 summit in Northern Ireland compromise, personal relation- in July 2009, Putin was prime altered to show her head on the yesterday to his old sparring soul” highlighted how different in June, the Russian president ships can be important, as a last minister but still the dominant bodies of women being raped. partner, former US President the relationship is between the scowled, lectured and fidgeted. resort ... There is a lack of per- figure in Russia under the presi- In June, Italy become the George W Bush, wishing him leaders in the Kremlin and the At times he glowered. sonal chemistry between Obama dency of his protege Dmitry fifth Council of Europe member a quick recovery from heart White House now. Would a better relationship and Putin,” said Maria Lipman, Medvedev, and the former KGB state to ratify the 2011 Istanbul surgery. Bush described Putin years with Putin have made Obama a Russian analyst at the Moscow spy invited Obama to his dacha, Convention, a treaty combating It may have been coincidence later as cold blooded, and ties take a different decision on Carnegie Center think tank. or country house. violence against women. that the Kremlin released details soured over the war between attending the September talks Bush’s good start with Putin “We may not end up agreeing The treaty has been signed by of the telegram a day after Russia and Georgia which began in Moscow? Perhaps not, but a at talks in the Slovenian capital, on everything, but I think that we 25 Council of Europe member Barack Obama pulled out of a five years ago this week, but there stronger rapport might have Ljubljana, followed four months can have a tone of mutual respect states but has so far only been planned summit with Putin, but was respect and camaraderie on helped them avoid a situation later by a meeting at Bush’s Texas and consultation that will serve ratified by Turkey, Albania, little is left to chance in Russian display when they first met as where such a decision was even ranch, stands in contrast to the both the American people and the Portugal, Montenegro and now politics. presidents in June 2001. considered. difficult beginning of the Obama- Russian people well,” Obama told Italy. AFP The warm words to the man At Obama’s most recent “Sometimes, at times of crisis, Putin relationship. Putin. REUTERS FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

Obama hails Marines UK warship Gunman kills to visit four in Texas Gibraltar LONDON: A British navy war- ship will sail to Britain’s over- seas territory of Gibraltar in the coming weeks, coinciding with a diplomatic row with neighbour- rampage ing Spain, although officials said yesterday that the trip was a routine and long-planned visit. Four others wounded in shooting A centuries-old conflict over the British outpost boiled over DALLAS: A former Texas spe- domestic-related incident,” a in late July when boats from cial education teacher, described police official said. All of the those Gibraltar dumped concrete blocks by a colleague as a “gentle giant”, killed were believed to have died into the sea to make a reef, and was suspected of shooting four from gunshot wounds, police Spain created long delays at the people dead and wounding four said, although some other type of border days later, with lengthy others after an apparent domes- weapon was involved, police said. car checks. tic dispute, police said. “I believe there was an explo- Three British navy ves- The shooting spree began inside sive device used,” Franks said, US President Barack Obama is greeted by US servicemen and women at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, sels, including the frigate HMS a home in Dallas and ended soon adding that the Federal Bureau California. Obama said he holds a special place in his heart for Marines, as he is constantly surrounded and Westminster, will visit the outpost afterward in another house in of Investigation and other agen- protected by them. as part of an annual deployment DeSoto, a suburb about 15 miles cies had been brought in to known as “Cougar”, Britain’s south, said Corporal Melissa investigate. Ministry of Defence (MOD) said. Franks of the DeSoto, Texas Army spokesman Troy A. “The forthcoming visit by ships Police Department. A suspect Rolan said a man named Erbie making up Cougar 13, including identified as Erbie Bowser was Bowser served in the US Army HMS Westminster and the Royal taken into custody, Franks said. from October 1991 to November Two Kazakh students charged with Fleet Auxiliary ships Lyme Bay Bowser was a well-liked special 2000, reaching the rank of ser- and Mounts Bay, are business as education teacher in Mesquite, geant and receiving several usual,” an MOD statement said. Texas, who resigned in 2010, said medals, including one for good An MOD spokesman stressed Laura Jobe, a spokeswoman for conduct, and received an “Expert obstruction in Boston bomb probe the visit was not related to the Mesquite Independent School Infantryman” badge. the border issues and said he District. Jobe said Bowser, a certified BOSTON: A US grand jury Both also face the possibility of They trace back to the evening was unable to confirm exactly A woman in her early 40s and special education teacher, worked yesterday indicted two students deportation. Tamerlan Tsarnaev of April 18, three days after the when the ships would arrive at a 17-year-old girl were found at two schools in the Mesquite from Kazakhstan on obstruc- died in a gun battle with police attack, when the FBI released Gibraltar. Spain’s foreign minis- dead at the first residence, police Independent School District from tion of justice charges, alleg- following the release of the images still images from videos taken try also called the visit “routine” said. No description was given December 2001 through March ing they helped hide evidence while Dzhokhar, 20, is in federal at the race’s crowded finish line and said the British government for the people who were killed at 2010. He also coached football at related to the April Boston custody awaiting trial on charges showing the two brothers, wear- had asked for permission to stop the second residence. Two of the the West Mesquite High School. marathon bombing that killed that could bring the death penalty. ing baseball caps and carrying over in Rota, southwestern Spain, people who were wounded were “He left on good terms. He did three and injured 264. An attorney for Tazhayakov, backpacks near the site where where the Mediterranean country described as a 17-year-old girl and resign, he was not terminated,” Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Arkady Bukh, said he had been two homemade pressure-cooker has a naval station. a 14-year-old boy. No details were she said. Tazhayakov, both 19, were college trying for the past three months bombs exploded. “They asked for permission for given of the other two people who “He had a good history here. He friends of surviving bombing sus- to persuade federal prosecutors After seeing the pictures and the operation and in our relation- were wounded. was well liked. He’s been described pect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. to drop charges against his client. realizing one was their friend, ship as allies, we granted it,” a Police said the first emergency as a gentle giant,” Jobe said. They are charged with “There was no motive and no the Kazakh students got in touch Spanish foreign ministry spokes- call came at about 10:30pm A spokesman for the Dallas removing a backpack contain- order from Tsarnaev to destroy with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who man said. British Prime Minister local time on Wednesday from a Mavericks professional basket- ing fireworks and a laptop from evidence,” Bukh said in a phone told them by text message they David Cameron and his Spanish woman who became concerned ball team confirmed that Bowser Tsarnaev’s dorm room after the interview. “Unfortunately, we “can go to my room and take counterpart Mariano Rajoy spoke after speaking by phone with had been a member of the group’s FBI released pictures of Dzhokhar couldn’t convince them. At this time what’s there.” on Wednesday and agreed to try one of the people at the first resi- male dance team, the Mavs and his older brother Tamerlan in there is little left but to go to trial.” Later that night, Dzhokhar and and calm tempers over the dis- dence. She drove to the house but ManiAACs. He left the squad an effort to learn the names of the Kadyrbayev’s attorneys could not be Tamerlan hastily planned to flee puted territory, though both sides no one answered the door, so she in 2009 and the basketball team bombers, the US Attorney’s office reached for immediate comment. Boston, first killing a university were reluctant to back down on called 911. Police found two people had not been in contact with him for Massachusetts said. The initial charges against police officer in an attempt to their positions. dead inside. since, the spokesman said, declin- The pair were first charged the two Kazakh students and steal his gun, then car jacking a Britain is focusing on the sov- Soon after the initial discov- ing to be named. on May 1 with conspiracy and another criminal count, mak- man and finally engaging in a gun ereignty of Gibraltar and its ery, another emergency call was Franks said no information remain in federal custody. They ing false statements in a terror- battle with police in Watertown, surrounding waters while Spain received from the second resi- about the suspect’s background could face up to 20 years in prison ism investigation filed against Massachusetts that ended when insists on its right to carry out dence, where police found two would be released, pending the on obstruction of justice charges, Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Dzhokhar ran over and killed his checks to crack down on smug- more bodies. filing of formal charges. in addition to five years if con- Massachusetts, came weeks after brother, escaping police. gling and avoid tax fraud. “We do believe this is a REUTERS victed on conspiracy charges. the April 15 bombing. REUTERS REUTERS

‘UK should consider Cameron calls for boycott of fingerprinting illegal immigrants’ ‘cyber bullying’ websites LONDON: British Prime messages without their identity LONDON: Britain should con- Minister David Cameron yes- being disclosed. sider fingerprinting the thou- terday urged Internet users to Hannah’s father has called for sands of immigrants caught boycott certain social network- the website to face murder or trying to enter the country ille- ing sites, after a teenage girl manslaughter charges. Cameron gally every year via France, an who was bullied online commit- urged website operators to do independent report on Britain’s ted suicide. more to stop them from being borders said yesterday. Cameron described the death of used as forums for bullying. Over 8,000 illegal immigrants 14-year-old Hannah Smith, who “The people that operate these were caught trying to enter hanged herself last week after websites have got to step up to the Britain in either vehicles or con- receiving abuse on the website plate and show some responsibil- tainers between September 2011 ask.fm, as “absolutely tragic”. He ity in the way that they run these and August 2012. blasted “vile” websites that allow websites,” he said. Independent Commissioner bullying to take place. “I’m very keen we look at all John Vine questioned why their “There’s something all of us can the action we can take to try and prints were not registered when do as parents and as users of the stop future tragedies like this.” the information could be used Internet and that is not to use Created in 2010 and based in for those who later re-entered some of these vile sites,” Cameron Latvia, ask.fm has some 13.2 mil- Britain applying for asylum. told Sky News television. lion daily users. It is the ninth “I find it surprising that people “Boycott them, don’t go there, most popular social network- One of the two British teenage victims of an acid attack is escorted by a woman at the airport in Zanzibar yesterday attempting to enter the UK con- don’t join them.” Ask.fm has ing site in the world, according in this still image taken from video. cealed in freight vehicles, who are described Hannah’s suicide as a to data released in June by the discovered by Border Force, are “true tragedy” and pledged to work Internet monitor comScore. no longer fingerprinted at Calais with police investigating her death. Charities have called for tighter Acid attack on two British women or Coquelles,” he said, referring to It stressed that it encour- regulation of social networks. two French coastal towns where ages users and their parents to Internet abuse has hit the head- the Border Force used to finger- report any bullying. The website, lines in Britain in recent weeks ZANZIBAR: Two young British Hospital workers have said the on until we apprehend the crimi- print until 2010. which is popular amongst teenag- after several women, including women were recovering after liquid thrown at the two 18-year- nals,” Khamis said. The Home Office said that fin- ers, has a question-and-answer two lawmakers, received rape and unknown attackers in the Indian olds, identified as Katie Gee and Britain’s Foreign Office said gerprinting was not always of use format and allows users to post death threats on Twitter. AFP Ocean island of Zanzibar threw Kirstie Trup, may have been they were “providing consular but would look again at its policy. acid into their faces, the first diluted acid. Tanzanian President assistance” to the women, but “Taking fingerprints didn’t actu- such assault against foreigners in Jakaya Kikwete visited the two gave no further details. ally help to remove people who got the popular tourist destination, young women at the Aga Khan Tourism is the main foreign to the United Kingdom,” immi- police said yesterday. hospital, where he called the attack currency earner for Zanzibar, gration minister Mark Harper On Wednesday evening two “shameful” and said it “tarnished famed for its white-sand beaches told the BBC’s Today Programme. Mafia boss arrested in London men on a moped threw the acid the image” of Tanzania. and historical buildings in Stone “But we’ve accepted ... that it at the 18-year-old women as they He ordered the security forces Town, listed as a world her- would be appropriate to review LONDON: An Italian mafia travel agency, described him as strolled through the streets of to step up their investigation and itage site by Unesco. “It may our approach.” boss has been arrested in London “one of the best neighbours you Stone Town, the historical centre find the culprits. threaten tourists,” said Abdul With immigration set to be after nearly two decades on the could have”. of the capital of the semi-auton- The two women, who had Samad, chairman of the Zanzibar a key issue at the 2015 general run, police said yesterday. He has an outstanding prison omous Tanzanian archipelago, just finished their school-leav- Association for Tourism Investors. election, the Conservative-led London’s Metropolitan Police sentence of seven years in Italy splashing their faces and chests. ing exams, were spending three Tensions between the majority government has been ratcheting said Domenico Rancadore, 64, for mafia-related activities, “Police in Zanzibar have weeks doing volunteer teaching Muslim population and Christians up efforts to catch illegal immi- was detained on Wednesday on a according to the arrest warrant. launched a manhunt, and we ask in a local school, a placement in the archipelago—some three grants, with spot checks by bor- European arrest warrant. “He was taken into police custody for public assistance in identifying organised through i-to-i Travel, percent of the 1.2 million people der staff last month in London Considered an important mem- and is scheduled to appear at the attackers,” deputy police com- a Kent, Britain-based company on the islands—have been on the and posters in the capital warn- ber of the Sicilian mafia group Westminster Magistrates’ Court missioner Mkadam Khamis said. that organises Gap year volun- increase in recent years, as well ing illegal immigrants to leave the Cosa Nostra, Rancadore has today (8 August),” police said. The women were flown to teer work. as on mainland Tanzania. country. been wanted by Italian police for Rancadore, who went by the Tanzania’s economic capital Dar The attack came at the end In Tanzania, where Muslims But illegal immigrants arriving 19 years and is on Rome’s list of nickname “u profissuri” (the es Salaam for treatment, where of the Muslim holy month of and Christians each make up via northern France are still able most dangerous criminals. teacher) in the mafia, had been liv- their wounds were said to be “not Ramadan, and as people began to around a third of the population, to by-pass migration checks on Shocked neighbours in the ing a “comfortable” life in London life threatening”, according to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday. the communities traditionally live some Eurostar train services, the west London suburb of Uxbridge, before his arrest, Italy’s interior Saleh Mohammed Jidawi, a health “The motive ... has not been peacefully side-by-side. independent report said. where Rancadore was living with ministry said in a statement. ministry official. established. Investigations are AFP REUTERS his British wife and running a AFP FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PHILIPPINES Manila sorry for Taiwanese’ death Taipei lifts sanctions to ease strained relations

TAIPEI: A Philippine special he told Hung’s widow, before giv- a “constructive response” and the envoy visited Taiwan yester- ing her the letter and shaking her Foreign Ministry said the govern- day to offer an “official apol- hands. ment lifted its sanctions. ogy” for the fatal shooting of a Tensions rose sharply after the “The government of the Taiwanese fisherman, a move 65-year-old old was shot dead by Republic of China (Taiwan’s offi- likely to ease strained ties. Filipino coastguards on May 9 cial title) announces that the Amadeo R Perez, Chairman in waters near an island in the sanction against the Philippines of the Manila Economic and Philippines’ north, which Taiwan is removed immediately after the Cultural Office which handles claims as part of its economic Filipino side has displayed apol- relations in the absence of dip- zone. ogy and goodwill in written state- lomatic ties, travelled to the Taiwan rejected earlier apolo- ments and action.” small southern port town of gies as inadequate and imposed Perez had visited Taiwan in Hsiaoliuchiu to meet the family sanctions, including a ban on May as a “personal representa- of fisherman Hung Shih-cheng. hiring new Filipino workers, an tive” of President Benigno Aquino, Perez, in TV comments, said he advisory urging Taiwanese not to but his apology was rejected wished to convey “the Philippine visit the Philippines and the sus- because he had described Hung’s people’s deep regret and apology pension of trade and academic death as “unintended.” to the family of Mr Hung Shih- exchanges. The killing caused outrage cheng over this unfortunate loss But tensions eased after and protests in Taiwan, with of life of their beloved one”. Philippine authorities said they President Ma Ying-jeou describ- “May I respectfully present had recommended homicide ing it as “cold-blooded murder” as our official letter of apology to charges against eight Filipino Taipei responded with sanctions MECO Chairman Amadeo R Perez (right) with Hung Chen A-lun (centre), widow of Taiwanese fisherman Hung the family of Mr Hung on behalf coastguards. and navy drills. Shih-cheng, during a news conference in Liuqiu, Pingtung County, southern Taiwan yesterday. of our president and our people,” Taiwan welcomed the move as AFP Eight killed, Philippines bans Dutchman Aquino links rebels to blasts 21 hurt in deemed ‘undesirable alien’ rains, floods DAVAO: President Benigno conference. He did not say out- he leaves office in 2016 that would MANILA: A Dutch activist blamed for making a Philippine police- Aquino linked for the first time right if Abu Sayyaf and BIFF are create an autonomous Muslim MANILA: Eight people man cry was deported and permanently banned from the country, Islamic militants and breaka- directly behind the bombings. area in the south of the mainly were confirmed killed and 21 the immigration bureau said yesterday. way Muslim rebels yester- But he said security forces are Catholic nation, and end dec- injured to continuous rains in The bureau said Thomas van Beersum was deported on Wednesday day to deadly bombings in the looking into growing links among ades of conflict that has claimed several parts of the country, after the authorities had picked him out from a photograph that went Philippines and vowed tough three “threat groups” he did not 150,000 lives. the National Disaster Risk viral showing him allegedly haranguing a uniformed police officer at action against “enemies of identify. Three members of the BIFF, Reduction and Management an anti-government protest in Manila last month. peace”. “Previously they were in some which opposes the Milf peace Council reported. The coun- Van Beersum is an “undesirable alien” who violated the terms of his Fourteen people were killed sort of a loose alliance, but now talks, were killed in a skirmish cil said that continuous tourist visa by joining a protest, immigration bureau spokeswoman in two blasts on the southern they are working together to halt with the military in Mindanao rains that have been hit- Antonette Mangrobang said. island of Mindanao on July 26 the peace process in Mindanao,” last week. ting at least eight regions in “The activities he engaged in do not fall under those of a regular and August 5, and 76 wounded. Aquino said. Aquino said there are also on- Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao tourist, which are health, business or pleasure”, she added. Seven soldiers were also wounded “To those who want to chal- going operations against the Abu have caused landslides and The activist was photographed yelling at a weeping Filipino riot in a roadside bomb attack in lenge the authority of the state, Sayyaf, blamed for the deadliest flashfloods. Siblings Ayen, policeman at an anti-government protest during President Benigno Mindanao on Wednesday. you will feel the full brunt, depth, bombings and kidnappings of for- 6 and Agustin Kaluuyan, Aquino’s annual policy address to parliament on July 22. Authorities believe the attacks and might of the state’s response,” eign tourists and missionaries. 13 were killed in a land- Photographs of the incident, showing policeman Joselito Sevilla cry- were linked to security opera- he said. “You will not get in the On the neighbouring south- slide in Barangay Limpapa, ing as he held back van Beersum and other activists, spread around tions against the Abu Sayyaf way of the peace and the stability ern island of Basilan yesterday, a Zamboanga City, while the world on the Internet, and provoked heated debates on social Islamic militant group and the that will help fulfil the potential soldier was killed and eight were Tasvia Salatan, 38, drowned media sites. Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom of Mindanao”. wounded in an assault of an Abu in Gutalac, Zamboanga The policeman later said he was crying from exhaustion and hunger Fighters (BIFF), Aquino said in The leader of the BIFF had Sayyaf hideout, the military said. del Norte. Three-year- after a long stint securing the area for Aquino’s speech. the Mindanao city of Davao. been expelled from the Moro The dawn raid turned up mor- old Marianne Kate Galaez Van Beersum was detained at Manila airport on Tuesday as he “There is a theory that all of Islamic Liberation Front, which tar shells, improvised explosive drowned in Calinog, Iloilo, prepared to leave the country. these bombings are related to later signed a preliminary peace devices and other bomb-making while Monita Pabilona, 84, The Dutchman, who said he is 21, alleged in a posting on his Facebook that, to lessen the pressure of agreement with the government materials, said Colonel Carlito also passed away in a drown- account late Wednesday that his 30-hour detention was a government ongoing follow-up operations last year. Galvez, the island’s military ing incident in Calinog, Iloilo. ploy to distract attention from its shortcomings. against these BIFF elements,” he Aquino hopes to sign a final commander. Siblings Alain Jan, 7 and Aime AFP said on the sidelines of a business peace treaty with the Milf before REUTERS Gomez, 9, residents of Lezo, Aklan were also reported killed. Flooding in Sarangani Province and South Cotabato also left 11 people injured and nine more were hurt in a landslide incident in Laguna. Govt to start talks on greater US military presence Ambush on MANILA: The Philippines said Speaking to the press yester- “If and when there is agree- presence in the Philippines. still host and service US military councillor kills 3 yesterday it would soon start day, Foreign Secretary Albert del ment on the access, then there The United States had tens of aircraft and warships on short- talks on expanding US access Rosario said: “We’re trying to do will be equipment coming in from thousands of troops stationed in term exercises. LAGUNA: A councillor of to its bases, a move that would it as soon as we can, as early as the (United) States,” Defence the Philippines, at the Clark Air China claims most of the South Alaminos town of Laguna result in a greater presence of we can. Secretary Voltaire Gazmin said Base and Subic Naval Base north China Sea including waters close province was wounded American troops in the coun- “I think if we’re talking about on June 27. of Manila, until the early 1990s. to the shores of its neighbours while his three male com- try amid rising tensions with access we need to discuss the “Modalities for the increased The United States, a former including the Philippines. panions were killed in an China. modalities and parameters,” he rotational presence are right now colonial ruler of the Philippines, Last year China seized con- ambush after they had come The plan, first announced by the added. being examined. One modality is was forced to abandon the bases trol of Scarborough Shoal, about from a cockfight on Monday country’s defence department in Several hundred US Special the conduct of high-value, high- amid anti-US sentiment and a 230 kilometres (140 miles) off night, authorities said. The June, would give the US soldiers Forces troops have been on short impact exercises,” Gazmin said, row over rent. The constitution the coast of the main Philippine dead were James Briz, 46, a greater “rotational presence” in term deployments in the south- without elaborating. now bans any permanent foreign island of Luzon, after the Filipino his brother Emerson, 41, the country and comes as China ern Philippines since 2002 to help Gazmin, however, empha- bases in the Philippines. navy backed down from a lengthy and cousin Nelson, 57, while has increased its assertiveness over train local troops fighting Islamic sised the plan would not see any However Clark and Subic, now stand-off. Alaminos councillor Lino its claims in the South China Sea. militants. new bases or a permanent US partly converted to business use, AFP Zuniga was wounded and rushed to the San Pablo City Medical Hospital but was later Low inflation forecast transferred to the Philippine General Hospital, police said. OFW accuses labour chief’s Five soldiers driver of attempted rape wounded MANILA: Five members of MANILA: The Senate probe on the alleged sex-for-flight scam security forces were injured started yesterday with a distressed overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in an attack staged by com- in Saudi Arabia accusing a labour official’s driver of attempted rape. munist insurgents yesterday During the joint hearing of the Senate blue ribbon and labour com- in Loreto, Agusan del Sur. Lt mittees, Grace Sales complained that the driver of Riyadh labour Col Leo Bongosia, spokesman attaché Adam Musa tried to sexually abuse her in August 2012. of the Army’s 4th division, Sales was a janitress at Musa’s office, where the driver, known as said troops from the 26th Jojo, allegedly tried to harass her for about 20 minutes. battalion were waylaid by Sales said she tried to seek help from the Philippine Embassy, but about 15 rebels along Purok Musa’s staff had encouraged her to keep mum in exchange for 10,000 2 in Barangay Kauswagan riyal and an authorisation — as she was an undocumented OFW. at about 7.15am. He said a Musa’s staff also assured her that Jojo will be removed as soon as 10-minute firefight ensued, possible, but according to Josie, his contract was renewed instead. leaving four soldiers and The labour official said the driver was suspended and resigned even- one militia man wounded. tually. He acknowledged that there was a misunderstanding between The five sustained shrapnel Sales and Jojo. He said an internal investigation was conducted but wounds after they were hit he was unable to contact Sales. The probe was also no longer pursued by landmine blasts. Injured after the settlement between the OFW and his driver. during the rebel attack were Senator Juan Ponce Enrile criticised Musa for his alleged inaction Pfcs Julbair Dassad, Raphy on the issue. John Teola, Remar Edpalina “You are deployed as an employee of government to protect these and Rene Lazaga, and militia A vendor selling bags at a mall in Manila yesterday. The central bank forecast that inflation would remain people. Why did you not find out what’s this problem settled by three man Emmanuel Batolina. months salary of your driver? Why did the driver settle anything?” AGENCIES low even amid expectations of economic growth. Enrile asked Musa. THE PHILIPPINE STAR FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 ASIA / PAKISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Suicide attack kills 38 at Pakistan funeral 50 injured as bomb explodes outside Quetta mosque

QUETTA: A suicide bomber most of the injured is critical,” he Mohammad Hafiz said. “I have no yesterday killed 38 people and told a news conference. words to explain what I’ve seen. wounded more than 50, mostly Asked if the attacker might It was horrible.” policemen attending a funeral have been helped by an insider in Another witness said he saw ahead of Eid Al Fitr. the police force, he said: “Yes, we bodies scattered everywhere. The bomber struck as officers will investigate the involvement “Most bodies were beyond rec- gathered to pay their respects to of any insider.” ognition. We collected body parts a colleague shot dead hours before “Our brave officers embraced and flesh. Those who are killing in Quetta, capital of the troubled martyrdom but we will continue people, even inside mosques, are province of Baluchistan. sacrificing our lives for the secu- not human beings, they are beasts. Fayaz Sumbal, a Deputy rity of our motherland.” They are not Muslims, they have Inspector General of Police and There was no immediate claim nothing to do with Islam. Allah one of the most senior officers in of responsibility. Quetta sits on will never pardon them.” Quetta, and a son of the imam of the frontline of militant violence, The blast capped a bloody the mosque at the police head- a Baluch separatist insurgency Ramadan in Pakistan, where at quarters were among the dead, and violence targeting the Shia least 11 attacks have killed more Dr Syed Sarwar Shah said at a minority. than 120 people. On Wednesday hospital. “I was inside the mosque and a bomb killed eight people at the Mushtaq Sukhera, police chief we were lining up for the funeral end of a football tournament in of Baluchistan, said 21 of the dead prayers when a big blast took Karachi, many of them young were policemen. “The death toll place. I came out and saw injured fans watching the game from the Police officers inspecting the site of the suicide bomb attack in Quetta yesterday. may rise because the condition of and dead bodies,” policeman stands. AGENCIES

Japan calls N Korea may have doubled Suu Kyi urges reforms progress China envoy over ships uranium enrichment capacity YANGON: Myanmar’s Aung end of outright military dictator- student-led demonstrations San Suu Kyi urged further ship two years ago. against Myanmar’s military rul- TOKYO: Tokyo summoned SEOUL: Satellite images suggest North Korea may have doubled progress on democratic reforms “Time doesn’t wait for us. We ers were brutally suppressed in an Beijing’s envoy yesterday uranium enrichment capacity at its main Yongbyon nuclear com- in a speech to thousands yes- have to move forward,” oppo- army assault in Yangon. But they after Chinese government plex, a US think-tank that tracks the North’s nuclear weapons pro- terday marking the anniver- sition leader Suu Kyi told the marked the start of a huge popu- ships entered Japanese ter- gramme said yesterday. sary of a huge popular uprising crowd, listing the tasks still to be lar uprising against the junta. ritorial waters near islands The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) said in 1988, the largest ever such completed in the fast-changing Hundreds of thousands took at the centre of a bitter row the images showed the building housing the gas centrifuge plant at commemoration. nation, including country-wide to the streets across the country between the Asian giants. Yongbyon had been expanded to twice its original size over the past Some 5,000 people crammed peace, constitutional reform and calling for democracy, in pro- The Chinese vessels entered four months. into a convention centre and rule of law. tests that came to a brutal end the area early Wednesday When the North revealed the existence of the facility to visiting thousands more watched large “On this 8888 (as the anniver- the following month with an army and left around noon yester- scientists in 2010, it contained 2,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium. television screens outside to wit- sary is known) revolution silver crackdown that killed more than day, the Japanese coastguard Assuming that the recent expansion would allow the doubling of ness a landmark ceremony recall- jubilee day, I would like to urge 3,000. said, the longest incursion that number to 4,000 centrifuges, the facility could produce as much ing the mass student protests everyone to continue working Suu Kyi, who had been living in since the dispute erupted as 68kg of weapons-grade uranium a year, enough for three nuclear 25 years ago that were brutally bravely and in unity for what we London but returned to Yangon again last year. Tokyo issued bombs with a little left over, ISIS said in a report. crushed by the then-junta. have to do for the future of our in 1988 to nurse her sick mother, a protest to acting ambas- Given the highly covert nature of Pyongyang’s nuclear programme, The event, attended by mem- country,” she said, adding that it was quick to take a leading role sador Han Zhiqiang over the the ISIS acknowledged that its analysis relied on a large number of bers of the opposition and ruling was a “good sign” that so many in the pro-democracy movement, latest incident, a Japanese hypotheticals. parties, diplomats and Buddhist people had gathered together to delivering speeches to the masses foreign ministry spokesman “It is not even known if North Korea intends to produce weapon- monks, comes amid sweeping mark the event. at Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda. said. grade uranium in this facility,” it said. AGENCIES changes in Myanmar since the On August 8, 1988 widespread AGENCIES 230kg heroin Eid prayers seized, 4 held BANGKOK: Thai police yesterday arrested four men Bomb kills 14 at Afghan graveyard — a Thai, two Chinese and a Taiwanese national — for pos- KABUL: A bomb killed 14 are wounded.” Abdulzai added rescue a politician being threat- session of more than 230kg of women and children at a grave- that the bomb appeared to have ened by the Taliban. heroin in Bangkok. Acting yard in eastern Afghanistan been hidden near the grave, and Earlier yesterday, President on a tip-off, drugs police yesterday as the country cel- suggested the motive may have Hamid Karzai delivered an Eid arrested the 39-year-old Thai ebrated the Eid Al Fitr holiday a personal enmity. There was no address that again urged the in a hotel in a Bangkok sub- marking the end of Ramadan, immediate claim of responsibility. Taliban to halt 12 years of fight- urb. A subsequent search of officials said. Nangarhar, which straddles a ing as the country seeks stabil- his car uncovered the huge Many Muslims visit the graves main route from Pakistan’s tribal ity before next year’s elections haul of heroin sealed in nearly of deceased relatives during Eid belt, a hub for Taliban and Al and the withdrawal of Nato-led 700 packets, police said. The as part of traditional celebrations Qaeda-linked militants, to Kabul, troops. United Nations Office on after the holy month of fasting. has seen a series of attacks and In a thinly-veiled reference to Drugs and Crime in Bangkok Haji Ghalib, a pro-government battles in recent weeks. neighbouring Pakistan, Karzai has said the production of tribal leader and former district On Saturday, suicide bombers appealed to the Taliban to resist opium was at “alarming lev- police chief, said that the explo- targeted the Indian consulate in being controlled by foreigners els” in the Golden Triangle sion had targeted his family at an the provincial capital Jalalabad, and said the militants should area — where the remote all-female event to commemorate detonating a car bomb and kill- support their own country. edges of Thailand, Myanmar his late wife in the Ghani Khel ing nine civilians, including seven Reclusive Taliban leader and Laos meet. district of Nangarhar province. children in a nearby mosque. Mullah Omar on Tuesday issued He said the mourning group The Taliban, who were ousted his own Eid message, dismissing ‘Electric road’ was gathered over his wife’s grave from power in a 2001 US-led the presidential elections due in to recite the Koran when the invasion, denied any responsibil- April as “a waste of time” but for buses blast erupted, killing 14 people. ity for the consulate attack. insisting the militants had no “I’m shocked, I can’t talk,” he said. More than 20 Afghan police- desire to grab power after Nato GUMI, SOUTH KOREA: Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the men and dozens of insurgents troops leave. The US and other A South Korean city has Nangarhar governor’s spokesman, were also killed in Nangarhar a foreign donors say a credible poll begun testing an “electri- said: “Seven women and seven week ago when hundreds of fight- is crucial for the country’s future fied road” that allows elec- children were killed and four ers ambushed a security convoy after the majority of Nato-led tric public buses to recharge others, three women and a child returning from an operation to troops withdraw by 2014. AFP their batteries from buried People offer Eid prayers along Tanah Abang street in Jakarta, Indonesia, cables as they travel. The yesterday. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, which developed the system, said it would be tested over Fukushima is leaking 300 the next four months on a Vietnam anti-graft scribe held 24km route in the southern city of Gumi. Pick-up equip- HANOI: Vietnam has arrested and bus drivers won a prize at the sent a chill through the country’s tonnes of toxic water a day ment underneath the bus, or a prize-winning investigative Ho Chi Minh City press awards ranks of journalists and prompted Online Electric Vehicle, sucks journalist who made his name in June. condemnation from international TOKYO: Highly radioac- it was not immediately clear how up power through non-con- exposing corruption in the com- The Ho Chi Minh City’s Law media watchdogs. tive water from Japan’s crip- much of a threat it poses. tact magnetic charging from munist country on suspicion newspaper confirmed its reporter Vietnam, branded an “enemy pled Fukushima nuclear plant As early as January this year, strips buried under the road of taking bribes, state media had been held in a brief news of the Internet” by Reporters is pouring out at a rate of 300 Tepco found fish contaminated surface. It then distributes reported yesterday. item, but did not give further Without Borders, ranks among tonnes a day, officials said, as with high levels of radiation inside the power to drive the vehi- Vo Thanh Tung, 31, who works details. the worst countries in the world Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a port at the plant. Local fisher- cle or for battery storage. As for Ho Chi Minh City’s Law news- Communist Vietnam bans on press freedom. ordered the government to step men and independent research- a result it requires a battery paper, was detained Wednesday private media and all newspa- Watchdogs say dozens of jour- in and help in the clean-up. ers had already suspected a leak only one-fifth the size of con- after allegedly being caught pers and television channels are nalists and bloggers are currently The revelation amounted to of radioactive water, but Tepco ventional electric vehicles. receiving cash from a bar owner state-run. being held in Vietnamese jails. an acknowledgement that plant denied the claims. in southern Bien Hoa city, the Some journalists working at So far this year, 46 activists operator Tokyo Electric Power Tetsu Nozaki, the chairman Rohingyas on Tuoi Tre newspaper said. state-run media have become have been convicted of anti-state Co (Tepco) has yet to come to of the Fukushima fisheries fed- Police detained Tung — who increasingly tenacious in their activity and sentenced to often grips with the scale of the catas- eration said he had only heard of the rampage is well-known for his investiga- reporting in recent years, but face lengthy jail terms under what trophe, two-and-a-half years the latest estimates of the mag- tive work, most recently on the constant pressure from authori- rights groups say are vaguely after the plant was hit by a huge nitude of the seepage from media BANGKOK: Thai police entertainment industry — and ties and often risk prosecution if defined articles of the penal code. earthquake and tsunami. Tepco reports. used water cannon to pre- searched his house, confiscating they push too hard. At least three bloggers were only recently admitted water had Environmental group vent scores of Rohingya boat “a baton, a taser, handcuffs, com- In September last year, a cru- also taken into custody in June leaked at all. Greenpeace said Tepco had “anx- people from Myanmar break- puters, cameras and documents,” sading anti-corruption journal- alone, all accused of anti-state Calling water containment at iously hid the leaks” and urged ing out of a detention centre the report said. ist with the Tuoi Tre newspaper activity. the Fukushima Daiichi station an Japan to seek international to celebrate Eid, officials said Two of Tung’s stringers, who was jailed for four years for brib- The country has recently “urgent issue,” Abe ordered the expertise. “Greenpeace calls for yesterday. About 260 asylum had worked on his investigative ing police during an undercover revealed a sweeping new Internet government for the first time to the Japanese authorities to do all seekers broke the locks on reports, were also arrested, it investigation into graft in a case law which will ban bloggers and get involved to help struggling in their power to solve this situa- two rooms and tried to storm added. that prompted a public outcry. social media users from sharing Tepco handle the crisis. tion, and that includes increased the centre’s secure front door Tung, who goes by the pen In 2008, a reporter was jailed news stories online, in a move The leak from the plant 220 km transparancy...and getting inter- in southern Phang Nga prov- name Duy Dong, had written for two years after exposing cor- seen as a further crackdown on (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo is national expertise in to help find ince, where many have been many acclaimed investigative ruption in the country’s transport online freedom in the authoritar- enough to fill an Olympic swim- solutions,” Dr Rianne Teule of held for months. pieces and his series uncovering ministry. ian country. ming pool in a week. The water is Greenpeace International said. AGENCIES bribery of traffic police by truck The high-profile prosecution AFP spilling into the Pacific Ocean, but AGENCIES FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Man who killed Pakistan army accused of killing soldiers five daughters Antony talks tough, says specialist troops of Pakistan army were involved in Kashmir attack escapes gallows

NEW DELHI: India for the a paralysed parliament, the gov- NEW DELHI: The Supreme first time directly accused the ernment indicated it could revise Court yesterday stayed the hang- Pakistan army of involvement in its statement after the chief of ing of a Madhya Pradesh man an ambush that killed five Indian the army visited the area of the who was convicted for killing his soldiers, and hinted yesterday at attack yesterday. five minor daughters in 2010. retaliation for possibly the worst “We all know that nothing hap- The death sentence of Magan such attack since the neighbours pens from (the) Pakistan side Lal, scheduled to be executed signed a ceasefire in 2003. of the Pakistan Line of Control in the morning in a jail in his Pakistani Prime Minister without support, assistance, facil- state, was stayed for a day at a Nawaz Sharif sought later to cool itation and often, direct involve- Wednesday midnight hearing at tensions between the nuclear- ment of the Pakistan army,” the residence of Chief Justice P armed rivals, calling for the truce Antony said in his statement to Sathasivam on a petition by civil to be restored in the disputed ter- parliament. rights group Peoples Union for ritory of Kashmir and holding out Indian army officials have said Democratic Rights (PUDR). the prospect of a meeting with his the attack was carried out by At the midnight hearing, the Indian counterpart next month. Pakistan’s Border Action Team. chief justice also directed that Defence analysts said they did The unit includes members of the matter be brought before the not expect the incident to trigger a Pakistan’s commando Special court yesterday. When the plea major retaliation by India, and saw Services Group and irregular forces came up for hearing, the bench New Delhi’s sharper rhetoric largely including members of Lashkar-e- of Chief Justice Sathasivam and as an attempt to assuage critics at Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai home who accuse the government of group, the army officers said. stayed Magan Lal’s execution till being too soft on Pakistan. “Our restraint should not be further orders. Six Indian soldiers on patrol taken for granted, nor should PUDR told the court that it near their base about 450 metres the capacity of armed forces and had on April 6 stayed the execu- from the Line of Control (LoC), resolve of the government to tion of six death row convicts the de facto border dividing the uphold the sanctity of the Line of after their mercy petitions were Himalayan region, were ambushed Control ever be doubted,” Antony rejected. Magan Lal on June 11, early on Tuesday. Five were shot said. 2010 murdered his five daughters dead and one was wounded, army Indian Border Security Force soldiers patrol over a footbridge built over a stream near the Line of Control, a ceasefire C Raja Mohan, head of stra- — Jamuna, 1, Leela, 3, Aarta, 4, officials said. line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan, at Sabjiyan sector of Poonch district, yesterday. tegic studes at the Observer Savita, 5, and Phool Kunwar, 6, — “This incident will have con- Research Foundation, said there and attempted suicide, police said. sequences on our behaviour on to militants accompanied by “per- “It is incumbent upon the lead- of trying to play down the attack was more bark than bite in He was sentenced to death on the Line of Control and for our sons dressed in Pakistan army ership of both sides not to allow and of being too soft on Pakistan, Antony’s statement. February 3, 2011 by the trial court relations with Pakistan,” Defence uniforms”. the situation to drift and to take a damaging accusation ahead of In New Delhi, External Affairs and it was upheld by the Madhya Minister A K Antony told parlia- Prime Minister Manmohan steps to improve the atmosphere what is expected to be a closely Minister Salman Khurshid said Pradesh High court on September ment. “It is now clear that spe- Singh’s government has been by engaging constructively with fought election, due by next May. this was not the right time to talk 12, 2011. His plea against the high cialist troops of Pakistan army quietly working with Islamabad a view to building trust and con- “They wanted to preserve their about a meeting between Singh court order was rejected by the were involved in this attack,” he to relaunch stalled peace talks, fidence,” Sharif’s office said in a relations with Pakistan but they and Sharif. “There will be lot of Apex Court on January 9, 2012. said, offering the government’s possibly as early as this month. statement. ended up with egg on their faces,” work necessary if we are to talk ... IANS strongest statement to date on Islamabad has also been push- It said Sharif was looking for- said Brahma Chellaney, professor but will it be conducive, we need the attack. While tit-for-tat shell- ing for a meeting between Singh ward to meeting Singh on the of strategic studies at the Centre to look at it,” he said. ing and machine gun fire are com- and his new Pakistani counter- sidelines of the UN General for Policy Research, a think-tank In London, British Prime Rains hit rescue mon along the LoC, cross-border part, Nawaz Sharif, in New York Assembly in New York to “build in New Delhi. Minister David Cameron called attacks by troops are rare. in September, a proposal New trust and consolidate this rela- The BJP caused a ruckus in for India-Pakistan talks to resolve of boy stuck Pakistan has strongly denied Delhi has said it is considering. tionship”. Indian government parliament this week, blocking their issues, including the killing any involvement in the killing of Moving to ease strains, Sharif officials said no decision had been efforts by the ruling party to of Indian soldiers in Jammu and in borewell the Indian soldiers. said it was “imperative” for both taken on resuming the peace talks discuss long-pending economic Kashmir. “Talks can resolve any Antony’s accusation was signifi- sides to take steps to ensure and at a senior bureaucrat level or on reforms or the government’s sig- issues in a democratic system,” JAIPUR: Incessant rains have cant as, in his first comments on restore the ceasefire and the Line the proposed meeting between the nature initiative to hugely expand Cameron was quoted as say- hampered the rescue operation of the incident, he had been care- of Control, and their commanders two prime ministers. a vote-winning scheme to give ing by Manchester’s Asian Lite a nine-year-old boy who fell into a ful not to directly implicate the there should not allow the situa- The Bharatiya Janata Party cheap food to the poor. newspaper. 200-feet borewell on Wednesday Pakistani army, referring instead tion to escalate. (BJP) had accused the government Facing rising political heat and REUTERS/IANS afternoon while flying a kite near his house in Rajasthan. Police said the boy, named Chhotu, was flying a kite in Medical students protest Charda Kala village near Hindon city in Karauli district, some Call to address all issues 200km from here, when he fell into the borewell around 3pm on Wednesday. before dividing Andhra “The boy is believed to be stuck around 100 feet down in HYDERABAD: Breaking his had taken the decision and now the borewell which has a width of silence over Telangana issue, the central government would only one feet. The borewell which Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister consult the state and the issue is used to draw ground water had N Kiran Kumar Reddy yes- would be debated in the assembly. been left open,” said Hindon City terday asked the central gov- He wanted the two commit- Station House Officer Anoop ernment to address all issues tees to give clarity on issues like Singh. He said senior administra- before taking any step to form a sharing of river water, electric- tion and police officers reached separate Telangana state. ity among two states, status of the spot and ordered a rescue Addressing a news conference Hyderabad and the future of operation. here, he came out openly against Seemandhra employees living in “We had been digging a hole formation of Telangana state, Hyderabad. parallel to the borewell since saying bifurcation would lead to “There are genuine concerns. Wednesday night. However, it is many complications. There are concerns connected with heavily raining in the area. The His remarks evoked sharp reac- common people of all regions. A work of digging had to be stopped tion from Congress party lead- problem can’t be solved by creat- from time to time. We have been ers from Telangana, Telangana ing a bigger problem. We have to able to dig up over 50 feet so far,” Rashtra Samiti (TRS), Bharatiya see solution for all regions for all the officer said. Janata Party (BJP) and other pro- people from both regions,” he said. However, the boy’s family mem- Telangana groups, who demanded Kiran Reddy revealed that dur- bers and villagers have accused his resignation. ing the meeting with Congress the authorities of delaying the Nine days after the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he rescue operation due to lack of Working Committee (CWC) opposed state’s division. He Police use a water cannon to disperse medical students during a protest in New Delhi yesterday. The resources. They blocked a road in resolved to carve out Telangana said he also signed a note pre- students were protesting against the compulsory year-long rural posting required by the government, protest and demanded that the state, the chief minister said the pared by Congress leaders from demanding it be made voluntary, local media said. child be rescued soon. IANS central government should address Seemandhra opposing bifurcation. all issues including status of He said if the state is bifur- Hyderabad before taking any step. cated, Telangana would face Even while stating that he is nei- severe electricity shortage. He ther against the CWC decision nor said the shortage would be more welcoming it, Kiran Kumar Reddy than 50 percent. CBSE to train voiced apprehensions of people of Appealing to Seemandhra House okays new Companies Bill Seemandhra (Rayalaseema and employees to reconsider the deci- private agencies Andhra regions). sion to go on strike from August NEW DELHI: Parliament yes- Pilot said the bill was progres- management of businesses in the The chief minister, who hails 12, he promised to arrange a meet- for accreditation terday gave its nod to the new sive and the main focus was on times to come,” said Naina Lal from Rayalaseema, demanded ing with the Congress committee Companies Bill that seeks to enhancing transparency and com- Kidwai, president, Federation of that four-member constituted headed by Defence Minister A.K. NEW DELHI: The Central enhance compliance and trans- pliance and it would help growth Indian Chambers of Commerce by Congress and the ministerial Antony in Hyderabad. Board of Secondary Education parency, make corporate social of the economy. and Industry (Ficci). group to be formed by the union He said employees, students, (CBSE) would train personnel responsibility mandatory and “For the next two to three dec- Kidwai said the Bill had cabinet should address all issues NGOs and other sections of peo- of private agencies which will protects the interest of employ- ades, this (new legislation) will introduced several changes and and give clarity to people before ple can express their views before grant accreditation to schools, ees and small investors. bring positivity in the economy,” concepts which would simplify taking any step. the panel. an official said yesterday. The provisions of the bill would said Pilot adding that the views regulations and bring greater He claimed that only Congress IANS “The board will train persons ensure prevention of a Satyam- of all the stakeholders, including clarity and transparency in man- from the 12 private agencies as like fraud, the biggest in India’s industry chambers, have been aging businesses. “The global envi- peer assessors,” Rama Sharma, corporate history running into taken into consideration. ronment calls for economic laws CBSE chief public relations man- $1.5bn detected in 2009. “The focus of the bill is to and regulations that are effective ager, said. The Rajya Sabha passed the enhance transparency and ensure and efficient, have a reasonable The accreditation would be bill yesterday. The Lok Sabha had fewer regulations, self-reporting compliance cost and keep Indian Cabinet approves 12 mega food parks awarded once the schools meet done so on December 18, 2012. and disclosure,” Pilot said. businesses competitive.” NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) the domains of infrastruc- The bill will now go to President The bill was first introduced “Now that the law is ready, yesterday approved the setting up of 12 new mega food processing ture, innovation and academics, Pranab Mukherjee for his assent. in the Lok Sabha in August 2009. it is time to focus and work on parks at a cost of Rs1,714 crore, a statement said. The projects have to Sharma said. The new legislation will come into It was referred to the standing the practical aspects of com- be completed in 30 months from the date of final approval. “The schools will have to pay a effect with notification by the cor- committee on finance a month plying with its provisions,” said The move would help in development of adequate infrastructure in fee of Rs50,000 for accreditation porate affairs ministry after the later. It was brought back to the Chandrajit Banerjee, director the supply chain for the food processing sector which would result in which will be renewed every three presidential assent. The new law Lok Sabha as Companies Bill general, Confederation of Indian reduction of wastage of agri produce and give remunerative price to years,” added Sharma. will replace the nearly six-decade- 2011, but again referred to the Industry (CII). the farmers. Each mega food park will have 30-40 industries and will The initiative is being taken by old Companies Act of 1956. standing committee. The bill was Banerjee said the new generate about 40,000 direct and indirect jobs, said the statement. the board to enhance the quality Replying to the debate on the cleared by the Lok Sabha after Companies Bill is commensu- The CCEA also approved implementation of a scheme of integrated cold of school education. bill in the Rajya Sabha, Corporate the standing committee submit- rate with “global standards vis- chain, value addition and preservation infrastructure during 12th Plan The CBSE is the board of Affairs Minister Sachin Pilot said ted its report in June 2012. à-vis disclosure requirements, with an allocation of Rs786 crore. Under the scheme, an entrepreneur is education for public and private it sought to bring India’s corpo- “This legislation is indeed increased democratic rights for eligible for grant-in-aid up to 50 percent of cost of plant and machinery schools and conducts final exami- rate governance in sync with the a milestone in the history of shareholders, self-regulation and and technical civil works in general areas and 75 percent in North East nations for Class 10 and 12. changing business environment of company law and will revolu- accountability”. and hilly areas subjected to a maximum of Rs10 crore. IANS IANS the 21st century. tionise the administration and IANS FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 President, PM In rape trial, greet people even fast-track on Eid Al Fitr NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday greeted people on the occasion of justice plods Eid and said the festival infuses a sense of brotherhood and joy. “I extend my greetings and best wishes to my fellow citizens on the Call to overhaul legal system auspicious occasion of Eid Al Fitr,” Mukherjee said. “Eid Al Fitr marks NEW DELHI: The govern- against women, and the rape was the culmination of the period of ment promised swift justice its first case. Optimists say clos- fasting and prayer during the holy after the gang rape of a young ing arguments could be made by month of Ramadan, and infuses university student on a moving the end of August and a verdict in us a sense of brotherhood and bus in the capital late last year reached in September. spirit of joy,” he said. sparked nationwide outrage. “The judge has a busy case Manmohan Singh said Eid, But speed is relative in a legal load and all of us lawyers also which marks the culmination of system so overburdened that even have other clients. We cannot the holy month of Ramadan, was a normal criminal trial can stretch drop all of them and just work a celebration of the spirit of shar- well over a decade. Seven months on this case,” said A P Singh, one ing and brotherhood. later, the trial in a special “fast of the defence lawyers. While it’s Vice President Hamid Ansari track” court is still plodding along. not unusual in other countries said: “The festival celebrated with Take a recent day in the case. for high-profile cases to drag on, gaiety and piety all across the The court was in session just the court hearing this trial was country reinforces the timeless two hours, as it is every day of formed specifically for speed, a message of universal brotherhood, the trial. Only one witness — out standard it hardly begins to meet. love and compassion.” of nearly 100 called in the case Still, if the case does wrap up A woman displays her hands styled with henna during ‘Chand Raat’ in Hyderabad yesterday. IANS — had time to testify. The judge soon, it would be remarkably fast himself translated the testimony by Indian standards. One reason sentence-by-sentence from Hindi for the delays in justice system into English, and carefully cor- is a shortage of judges. India rected the court stenographer’s has approximately 11 judges for errors. “That’s not how you spell every million people, compared ‘sign,’” the judge admonished, as with roughly 110 per million in Flying eye hospital to land in Kolkata assembled reporters and police the United States, according nodded off in boredom. That was to a 2009 report by India’s Law KOLKATA: The world’s only since 2000. To support that ini- Orbis flying eye hospital had flown “It takes longer to perform the one of the more efficient days in Commission. flying eye hospital — an interna- tiative, the flying hospital will into this city in 2005. surgeries as the experts answer the trial. Meanwhile, the rape case keeps tional team of doctors aboard a arrive in Kolkata Sep 9,” Rahul Scheduled for a fortnight stint the questions posed by trainees. In On the bad days, the three throwing up new twists. News modified aircraft — will land in Ali, Orbis country director, said. in the city, the training and sur- two weeks, we will perform about mercurial defence lawyers delay reports say defence lawyers have the city Sep 9 to impart train- Besides India, Orbis operates gery programme will be spaced 60-odd surgeries. Additional 20 proceedings with their infighting, shouted at one another in court. ing to ophthalmologists here in Bangladesh, China, Vietnam, out in two weeks in liaison with have been selected for laser pro- accusing each other of colluding The four accused sit at the back and perform advanced surger- Ethiopia, South Africa, Zambia four host institutes - Regional cedures. Different components of with the police or the prosecu- of the courtroom listening blankly ies onboard. and Latin America and Caribbean. Institute of Ophthalmology, the training will take place at dif- tion. Or witnesses listed for cross- to the ongoing testimony. The The mobile hospital would stay Experts from the US, Britain Susrut Eye foundation, Disha Eye ferent host institutes,” said Ali. examination don’t show up — so defence blames the prosecutors, in the city for a fortnight. and India comprise the team Hospital and Sankara Nethralaya. In order to zero-in on the can- the court adjourns early. who have called a whopping 82 A venture of US-based NGO that will train not only ophthal- The two-way audio-visual didates, host institutes had pre- The attack on the 23-year-old witnesses compared to their 15. Orbis, the hospital has serviced mologists, but also offer valu- training module ensures that selected patients and uploaded woman in the heart of New Delhi Rebecca John, a criminal lawyer 90 countries since its inception able insights to support staff trainees can observe and enquire details on the web telemedicine on December 16 shook a country who practices in India’s top court, in 1982 and continues to bring in such as nurses, biomedical engi- about the procedures being done portal Cyber-Sight. long inured to brutality against said: “The entire legal system dedicated global volunteer train- neers, anaesthesiologists and onboard from classrooms while “We are one of the facilita- its women. Hundreds of thou- needs to be overhauled and made ing faculties in its fight against paramedics. the experts can tackle their ques- tors. For two weeks. trainees sands of protesters poured into fast-track,” she said. “When you preventable blindness. “We need to train the support- tions as they are wired up. Some will get a good opportunity to the streets demanding justice. fast-track one case out of 100 you “In India, Orbis has focused on ing staff as well besides the core operations will be done onboard watch and learn,” said Debasish The pressure led to the creation actually slow-track all the others.” childhood blindness. We have had group, as it’s a comprehensive while some in two of the local Bhattacharya, chairman, Disha of a fast-track court for violence AP a full time presence on ground work,” said Ali. Previously, the institutes. Eye Hospitals. IANS Apex Court declines to review verdict quashing FIR against Mayawati

NEW DELHI: In a breather for invoking the same. “As long corridor case passed on September for former Uttar Pradesh as the point is already dealt 18, 2003. chief minister Mayawati, the with and answered, the parties “We have not said or expressed Supreme Court yesterday dis- are not entitled to challenge the anything beyond the subject mat- posed of a petition seeking a impugned judgment in the guise ter of the dispute”, the court said review of its judgement quash- that an alternative view is possi- In pursuance to the apex court’s ing the CBI’s October 2003 FIR ble under the review jurisdiction,” September 18, 2003 and two earlier into the alleged disproportion- the court said. orders, direction to inquiry into the ate assets of the BSP supremo. Terming the review petition allegation regularities in the exe- A bench of Chief Justice P by Kamlesh Verma as not satis- cution of Taj Heritage Corridor Sathasivam and Justice Dipak fying the parameters under which Project under Taj Trapezium Zone Misra said that the review of its such a petition could be moved, (TTZ) Area, CBI registered an FIR July 6, 2012 order could be raised the court said: “In such circum- on October 5, 2003. only if there is an error apparent stances and in the light of enor- On the same day it registered on the face of the records. mous decisions, we find that there another FIR against Mayawati Referring to earlier judgments is no material within the param- at Lucknow on the basis of its of the apex court on review juris- eters of review jurisdiction to go inquiry into the alleged acqui- diction, Chief Justice Sathasivam into the earlier order” of July 6. sition of disproportionate mov- said: “Review of the earlier order Dealing with its substan- able and immovable assets of by cannot be done unless the court tive order which was sought to Mayawati and her close relatives. is satisfied that a material error, reviewed, the court reiterated The CBI said that it had car- manifest on the face of the order, that by its July 6 judgement, it had ried out its inquiry into alleged undermines its soundness or only said that the investigation into disproportionate assets of the results in miscarriage of justice.” Mayawati’s alleged disproportion- BSP leader in pursuance to Sept “In review jurisdiction, mere ate assets by the Central Bureau of 18, 2003 and two earlier orders of disagreement with the view of the Investigation (CBI) could not arise the apex court. judgment cannot be the ground from its order of probe into Taj IANS

Protest against BRAI bill

A farmer holds an umbrella as it rains during a day-long protest in New Delhi yesterday. Thousands of farmers from different states protested against the introduction of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) bill in parliament by the union government, that would make a foray for the genetically modified crops and their proponents like Monsanto, into India’s food and farming, a media release said. FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Investors undeterred by Mena crises Investors seeking opportunities; firms seen able to carry on despite instability

LONDON: Looking beyond indices - because of its large, liq- the problems of a region beset uid stock market and strong con- by regime change in Egypt, a sumer firms. Saudi Arabia may China’s July exports security crisis in Yemen and open up further to foreign inves- civil war in Syria, interna- tors, particularly after the king- tional investors are seeking out dom recently moved its weekend well-run businesses in Middle to the regional standard of Friday and imports jump Eastern and even some North and Saturday, from Thursday and African stock markets. Friday. Stock market reform has BEIJING: China’s imports and trend”, according to Customs. The The Middle East and North been in preparation for years but exports showed an unexpected figures surprised analysts. A sur- Africa (Mena) region is a diverse officials have still not given any jump in July, government data vey of 14 economists by Dow Jones investment universe which includes clear sign of timing. showed yesterday in a positive Newswires had forecast exports both energy importers and export- Adding to their attractions, sign for the world’s second-biggest to gain a median 2.8 percent and ers, and surplus and deficit econo- Gulf stocks tend to pay large economy after persistent weak- imports to rise 1.3 percent. The mies, but enjoys cross-border trade, dividends, and can offer a risk ness raised concerns over growth. median prediction for the trade investment and even aid links. premium to US dollar-based Bigger-than-expected gains in surplus was $27.2bn. Investors have focused on young investors without currency risk, imports outpaced those of exports, Alaistair Chan, an economist populations across the region, due to their dollar pegs. Valuations causing the overall trade surplus at Moody’s Analytics, called the which they believe will provide are starting to get toppy, however. to fall 29.6 percent year-on-year results surprisingly good, though future workers and therefore Price/earnings ratios are above to $17.8bn, Customs announced. cautioned against overoptimism. opportunities for business growth. emerging market norms, at 12.7 Analysts saw the trade data as “We had expected imports to per- They say businesses are often able for Qatar and 13.7 for the UAE, largely positive after mixed mes- form better than exports and hence to carry on, regardless of political but investors are calm. sages last week when private and for the trade surplus to fall, but the instability. “There has been a re-rating but official surveys of the country’s jump in imports was higher than “Mankind is an animal of UAE does not seem to be overval- important manufacturing sector expected,” he wrote in a report. habit. After two-and-half years ued,” said James Bannan, senior showed contradictory results. But he added: “July seems to we have got used to living with The first Mena fund opened in at asset management group portfolio manager for frontier China’s economy — seen as a reflect a return to a ‘normal’, unrest in certain countries such 1997 and after a flurry before the Charlemagne Capital, adding that markets at asset management potential driver of global recovery relatively uninspiring trend as Egypt,” said Nina de Martinis, 2008 financial crisis, around three increased government spending to firm Bankinvest. — recorded its worst performance after a weak June, rather than fund manager at asset manage- Mena funds a year have opened prevent political unrest in many Egypt, while benefiting from in 13 years in 2012, with gross the beginning of an accelera- ment company Amundi, adding on a net basis since 2009, accord- Gulf countries had led to a con- Gulf aid and described by some domestic product expanding 7.8 tion in growth. While the worst that increased government spend- ing to Lipper, a Thomson Reuters sumer boom. commentators as “too big to fail”, percent. Analysts had expected seems to be over, the upturn will ing and economic growth meant: service. Investors say the 2009 debt is causing more anguish. a rebound this year, but growth be relatively flat.” “Mena is one of the future Four net new funds have standstill of Dubai World, which Ghadir Leil-Cooper, head of dipped to 7.7 percent in the Yao Wei, a Hong Kong-based development areas of global already launched in 2013. Assets sent Dubai’s markets into a tail- emerging equities at Baring January-March period and slowed economist with Societe Generale emerging markets.” under management in dedicated spin, is largely a distant memory. Asset Management, holds only further to 7.5 percent in the sec- said that while the export growth Stocks in the Gulf economies of Mena funds rose to $1.9bn at the The property sector has returned one Egyptian stock: Commercial ond quarter. Several other statis- was “reasonable” and reflected Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar have end of July, from $1.1bn in July to life and banks are also benefiting International Bank. She went tics have also indicated weakness. a stabilising yet weak foreign shown some of the most spectacu- 2012. According to Lipper, Mena from that revival. Dubai and Abu underweight long before the oust- Beijing is attempting to rebal- demand, the rebound in imports lar performances in the world this equity funds have seen net inflows Dhabi’s stock markets are trading ing of Mursi. ance the Asian giant away from was “confusing”. “Even though year. That may not be a surprise, during the first and second quar- at four-and-a-half year highs. “We are still underweight. reliance on investment and the government had announced given these economies’ safe haven ters of 2013, the first two straight Egypt could go either way. There exports and towards consumer some supportive measures, they value in a region of conflict. quarters of positive flows since WORLD CUP is still violence on the streets.” spending as the main driver for should not show effects so soon— “Dubai has been a beneficiary the beginning of 2008. Net inflows In Qatar, spending ahead of the But for many investors in growth. The trade figures marked the fundamentals in the economy of everything that has gone wrong in the first seven months of 2013 soccer World Cup in 2022 is also emerging and frontier stocks, a rebound after exports and did not support such a strong - Syria, Libya, Egypt,” said Oliver were at almost $150m, equivalent giving the non-energy economy the trick is to look away from imports both declined in June, rebound,” she said. Bell, fund manager at investment to more than 8 percent of current a boost. The UAE and Qatar got the headline political noise and with the gain in imports being Last week, British banking management firm T Rowe Price. assets under management. a slightly unexpected upgrade to concentrate on the companies the first since April. giant HSBC’s purchasing manag- More of a surprise may be the Many investors are also buying emerging market status from index which are effectively managed Exports increased 5.1 percent ers’ index indicated contraction performance of Egypt. Egyptian into to the region via funds invest- compiler MSCI in June, potentially and enjoying strong revenues, year-on-year to $186bn, while in China’s manufacturing sector, stocks are up 3 percent in 2013, ing in frontier markets, a growing opening their markets to a larger often from overseas businesses. imports rose 10.9 percent to while the government’s showed a outperforming the MSCI emerging asset class which has outperformed group of investors. The upgrade “Our view on Egypt has always $168.2bn, the data showed. surprise expansion. markets index of which they are emerging markets this year. takes effect in May 2014 and many been that the company fundamen- Two-way trade rose 7.8 percent Yao warned that uncertainties a part; that index is down 11 per- “In the UAE, the whole mar- investors have not yet positioned tals can be divorced from the politi- year-on-year, slightly lower than would remain in the fourth quar- cent. Some investors are nervous, ket is a recovery play, whether in themselves for it, analysts say. cal dance,” said Daniel Broby, chief the government’s eight percent ter as authorities turned cautious particularly as stocks have fallen real estate or banking, in Qatar Many funds also invest in Saudi investment officer at investment target for this year but “show- about credit expansion. in dollar terms, but others focus on there are quality businesses,” said Arabia — which does not feature management firm Silk Invest. ing a stabilising and recovering AFP companies that continue to do well. Akhilesh Baveja, fund manager in the MSCI frontiers or Arabia REUTERS

Nestle profits rise in H1 Greek jobless Novo caught up in rate in May hits 27.6pc China drug probe COPENHAGEN/LONDON: international pharmaceutical ATHENS: Greece’s jobless rate Chinese authorities have visited companies. hit a new record high of 27.6 per- a site operated by Danish drug- AstraZeneca Plc, meanwhile, cent in May, official national data maker Novo Nordisk A/S, the has had a sales executive detained showed yesterday as the country world’s biggest maker of insu- in Shanghai, while Eli Lilly & staggers under austerity linked lin, in the latest sign of a widen- Co and Belgium’s UCB SA have to its international bailout. ing investigation into Western also had visits to premises in Record joblessness is a night- drugmakers. China. Industry analysts at Wells mare for Greece’s two-party coali- H. Lundbeck A/S, a smaller Fargo Securities, citing the views tion government as it scrambles to Danish drugs firm, also said its unit of a China expert with law firm hit fiscal targets and show there is in Beijing had been visited by the Ropes & Gray, said the light at the end of the tunnel after authorities, while a Chinese news- knock-on effect would be to crimp years of unpopular tax rises and paper reported an allegation from growth for multinational pharma cuts to wages and pensions. an unnamed person that French companies in China, where the Unemployment rose to 27.6 per- firm Sanofi SA had paid around authorities are expected to push cent from an upwardly revised 27 1.7m yuan ($276,200) in bribes to for harsher price controls. percent reading in April, accord- hundreds of doctors in China in As a result, the rate of growth ing to data from statistics service 2007. Paris-based Sanofi said it for drug sales in the country could ELSTAT and was more than twice took the claim “very seriously”. fall to around 10 percent a year The Nestle logo on Nestle headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland. Food giant Nestle posted a half-year profit of the average rate in the euro zone Chinese investigations into from an historical 20 percent, 5.1bn Swiss francs ($5.5bn) yesterday, despite slowing growth in Europe and emerging markets. It said its which stood at 12.1 percent in June. bribery and over-pricing have they wrote in a research note. net profit grew 3.7 percent. Global sales increased 5.3 percent to 45.2bn francs. The latest reading was the so far centred on Britain’s highest since ELSTAT began GlaxoSmithKline Plc but the latest NOVO RAISES OUTLOOK publishing monthly jobless data developments suggest they could For Novo investors, the poten- in 2006. Greece and Spain have have a wider impact across the tial problems in China were offset been hit with similar levels of sky- pharmaceuticals industry. by the company’s decision yester- high unemployment, with latest Novo said yesterday that local day to raise its full-year results Eurostat data showing seasonally Administration for Industry and forecast for a third time in six World oil prices drop sharply adjusted unemployment in June Commerce (AIC) officials visited months, after double-digit sales at 26.9 percent for Greece and a production facility in Tianjin on growth in diabetes drug Victoza NEW YORK: Crude oil prices on 10:47am EDT (1447 GMT), having financial crisis. Oil market par- 26.3 percent in Spain. Aug. 1, adding there had been no and modern insulin helped lift both sides of the Atlantic dropped reached an earlier high of $107.86. ticipants are also concerned that if Spain itself does not publish visit at the company’s head office second-quarter operating profit sharply yesterday, falling for the U.S. crude was down $2.04 at the US Federal Reserve rolls back monthly jobless figures directly in the country. “We were asked above forecasts. fifth straight session as trad- $102.32. its monetary stimulus, liquidity on comparable to Greece’s own data, to provide information regard- It now expects 2013 sales growth ers liquidated long positions in The market brushed off news global markets will be reduced. but Madrid’s quarterly data shows ing our operations in China,” in local currencies of between 11 the face of rising North Sea sup- that imports of crude oil into Tightening supplies in major its rate peaked at 27.2 percent in Chief Financial Officer Jesper and 13 percent, compared with 9 plies and the potential for the US China, the world’s second-largest producers Iraq and Libya kept the first three months of this year. Brandgaard told reporters as he to 11 percent previously. Its fore- Federal Reserve to roll back its oil consumer, hit a record high. losses in check. In Libya, work- “Increased employment in presented second-quarter results. cast for operating profit growth monetary stimulus programme. Exports from the North Sea are ers’ protests remain a key con- tourism cannot offset the restruc- “Whether this was a routine was increased to between 12 and US RBOB petrol futures tum- scheduled to rise in September fol- cern. Output of its main crude turing in many sectors of the check or triggered by the (GSK) 15 percent from around 10 percent. bled to a one-month low, at $2.81 lowing maintenance. The higher oil grade, Es Sider, has been economy and continuing weak case reported recently in the “Given the tendency of manage- per gallon, also pressuring the expected supply of oil from the UK shut since Tuesday, along with demand,” said economist Nikos media is not completely clear to ment to beat and raise through- rest of the oil complex lower. countered bullish news from China. the fields producing Amna and Magginas at National Bank. us. However, the local AIC hasn’t out the year, we expect consensus “If you are looking for a reason “The North Sea is one of the Sirtica, following strikes at the Es However, he said improving accused Novo Nordisk of any to move 1 to 2 percent upwards to that the complex is under pres- main drivers today ... the increas- Sider and Ras Lanuf terminals. exports and a strong tourism sea- wrongdoing.” the higher end of the new guid- sure, the biggest culprit is the ing supplies are having an effect,” Libya’s production is expected son would help to contain the fur- Chinese police have detained ance range,” said Deutsche Bank RBOB contract and if you project said Bjarne Schieldrop, an ana- to fall further as workers at its ther rise in joblessness expected this four Chinese executives of GSK analyst Tim Race. that into the crack (spread) you lyst at SEB. Further decreases in Arabian Gulf Oil Company plan year. Tourism accounts for about 17 and questioned at least 18 other Profit growth was driven by can see that it is falling faster that crude stockpiles in top consumer to progressively reduce output in percent of Greece’s economic output staff amid allegations that the a 12 percent increase in sales of crude,” said Bob Yawger, direc- the United States also had lit- protest over management changes and one in five jobs. Revenues are drugmaker funnelled up to 3bn modern insulins compared with tor of energy futures at Mizuho tle positive effect. Inventories and the company’s structure. Also seen rising 10 percent in 2013, to yuan ($489m) to travel agencies the same quarter a year ago and Securities USA, in New York City. declined by 1.32 million barrels contributing to lower supply is ¤11bn, on the back of an expected to facilitate bribes to doctors and a 25 percent rise in sales of dia- The crack spread is the price last week, according to the Energy Iraq, where exports are set to fall record 17 million visitors. Data officials. betes drug Victoza. Group sales differential between oil and the Information Administration. sharply in September as major showed that those aged 15 to 24 At the same time, the power- rose 10 percent to 21.38bn crowns, products it yields. Front-month While US jobless claims rose work is carried out at its vital remained the hardest-hit as the ful National Development and against an average market fore- Brent crude oil was trading $1.57 slightly last week, they were near southern export terminals. jobless rate for this age group reg- Reform Commission is exam- cast of 21.26bn given in a Reuters per barrel lower to $105.87 by their lowest level since before the REUTERS istered 64.9 percent. REUTERS ining pricing by 60 local and poll of analysts. REUTERS FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 GSK plugs into bio-electronics with $50m venture fund India announces LONDON: GlaxoSmithKline raised its bet on using electrical signals in the body to target dis- new steps to eases yesterday with the launch of a $50m strategic venture cap- ital fund. Britain’s biggest drug maker support rupee hopes to have the first medicine that effectively speaks the electri- cal “language” of the body ready for MUMBAI: India’s central currency and decade-low approval by the end of this decade. bank announced fresh meas- growth of 5 percent. GSK said the new fund’s first ures yesterday to reduce The RBI last month investment would be a $5m stake volatility in the forex mar- announced steps to bolster in SetPoint Medical, a California ket and aid the ailing rupee the rupee, including raising company working on implantable which hit a new record low short-term interest rates and devices to treat inflammatory dis- against the dollar this week. lowering the amount a bank eases. In all, SetPoint has secured The Reserve Bank of India can borrow or lend under its $27m in fresh financing. Aside Traders work in front of the German share price index DAX board at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange yesterday. (RBI) said it would auction daily liquidity limit. from GSK, it has also received Rs220bn ($3.6bn) worth of The depreciating rupee cash from Boston Scientific, the government cash manage- causes inflation by raising venture capital arm of Covidien ment bills once a week every the cost of everything India and existing investors. European stocks rebound; Monday, in a move to suck imports from crude oil to GSK is also offering a $1m prize out cash from the financial chemicals and pulses. to stimulate innovation in the new system. The rupee has been battered field, known variously as “bio- The RBI said in a state- in recent months, shedding as electronics” or “electroceuticals”. ment that the sale of the bills, much as 12.83 percent in 2013, These initiatives represent a long- sterling firm against euro which typically mature in 91 amid slackening domestic term gamble on the promise of a days, would help in “effective growth, rising overseas fund novel kind of medicine that uses liquidity management”, but it outflows, weak exports and a electrical impulses rather than the LONDON: European stock mar- that imports and exports in the were mostly higher, boosted in part did not specify for how many high current account deficit. chemicals or biological molecules kets rebounded to close sharply world’s second-biggest economy by US weekly jobless claims data. weeks the sales would go on. India last Thursday relaxed found in today’s drugs. higher yesterday on encouraging China’s imports made an unex- Although new claims edged higher The measures are the lat- foreign investment rules in the By tapping into electrical sig- Chinese trade data after Fed stim- pected jump in July. last week from the previous period, est by the RBI to bolster the massive retail and other sectors nals that form the language of ulus fears had led to exaggerated The mining sector profited from reaching 333,000 from 328,000, the rupee, which hit a new lifetime in new reforms aimed at draw- the body’s nervous system, sci- sell-offs a day earlier, traders said. the news, with Anglo American ris- four-week moving average contin- low of 61.80 to the greenback ing funds from overseas. Similar entists hope to address a range London’s FTSE 100 index finished ing 4.3 percent to 1,454.5 pence and ued to push lower. In midday deals, on Tuesday. The rupee yes- reforms were announced in of diseases from high blood pres- the session 0.28 percent higher at Antofagasta adding 3.8 percent to the broad-based S&P 500 rose 0.08 terday closed at 60.88 to the September last year. sure to breathing problems and, 6,529.68 points and Frankfurt’s 876,5 pence. France’s Eramet won percent, while the tech-rich Nasdaq dollar. The rupee has been battered eventually, brain disorders. In the DAX 30 added 0.70 percent after a 2.14 percent to ¤66.91. Composite Index gained 0.37 percent. Economists welcomed the in recent months, shedding as case of SetPoint, the research and string of positive company earnings Rio Tinto gained 2.13 percent to The Dow Jones Industrial Average, measures but said the govern- much as 12.83 percent in 2013, development work is focused on announcements to end at 8,318.32 close at 3,016.5 pence despite report- meanwhile, fell by 0.11 percent. ment needed to introduce new amid slackening domestic new therapies for immune system points. In Paris, the CAC 40 advanced ing a 71-percent slump in first-half On the London Bullion Market, pro-market reforms to boost growth, rising overseas fund disorders like rheumatoid arthri- 0.64 percent to 4,064.32 points — its net profit, but which proved to be the price of gold climbed to the sluggish economy. outflows, weak exports and a tis and Crohn’s disease. highest level this year. better than what the market had $1,298.25 an ounce from $1,282.50 “The measures are an effort high current account deficit. These diseases are typically “After yesterday’s slide Europe’s expected. Steel giant ArcelorMittal on Wednesday. to siphon off excess liquidity The rupee, one of Asia’s treated with immunosuppres- markets have regained an element increased 4.08 percent to ¤9.63. Germany’s second-biggest bank, from the system and will help worst-performing currencies sant drugs, while SetPoint uses an of equilibrium today, helped by some The euro rose to $1.3391 from Commerzbank, surprised the mar- the rupee,” said Shubhada this year, hit a lifetime low of implantable pulse generator to stim- better than expected Chinese trade $1.3334 late in New York on ket with better-than-expected Rao, chief economist with pri- 61.80 to the dollar on Tuesday, ulate the vagus nerve, which runs data which showed that both imports Wednesday. The dollar slipped to results and shares climbed 15.7 vate Yes Bank. “But liquidity over concerns that foreign from the head to the abdomen, pro- and exports experienced a recovery 95.95 yen from 96.39 yen. percent to ¤7.65. Deutsche Telekom tightening measures are not capital could flow back to the ducing a systemic anti-inflammatory in July,” CMC Markets UK analyst Sterling, meanwhile, steadied rose 7.71 percent to ¤9.75 on its push enough. Growth will have to United States as the American effect. The company presented posi- Michael Hewson said. Trade on against the European single cur- into the US market. In London, become a priority,” she said. economy picks up. tive results from a clinical trial in Wednesday was driven by comments rency yesterday, a day the British Aviva surged 7.6 percent to 399.00 India this week named Demand for the dollar has rheumatoid arthritis last November, from Federal Reserve officials indi- currency hit a one-month high pence after the British insurer former International been stoked by speculation of and believes its system could provide cating a likely quick pullback of the point. Sterling was at 86.10 pence to announced a return to profits in the Monetary Fund chief econo- a scaling back of US stimulus a more convenient and potentially US stimulus, which sparked sell-offs. the euro from 86.78 on Wednesday, first half as it continues with sign- mist Raghuram Rajan as its as the world’s largest economy safer alternative to drugs. Yesterday’s rebound came after and was at $1.5553 from $1.5531. ficant restructuring of the group. next central bank governor as recovers, analysts said. REUTERS Chinese government data showed In the US, stocks on Wall Street AFP it grapples with the plunging AFP

Rio Tinto profits fall QATARI MARKET $58m quarterly Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 103.13 0.46 % Aa2 AA net loss for Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 104.50 1.77 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 119.75 2.76 % Aa2 AA Jet Airways Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 112.63 3.08 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 106.50 3.60 % Aa2 AA MUMBAI: Indian carrier Jet Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 157.50 4.75 % Aa2 AA Airways, which is set to sell a minority stake to Abu Dhabi- Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 115.50 5.30 % Aa2 AA based Etihad, yesterday posted Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 107.00 5.27 % Aa2 AA its second straight quarterly Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.13 1.35 % Aa2 AA loss, hit by lower income and Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 110.13 3.35 % Aa2 AA high fuel prices. Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.75 1.24 % A1 A- The carrier reported a consoli- dated net loss of Rs3.55bn ($58m) Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.25 2.44 % A1 A- in the three months to June, QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.75 1.61 % NR NR against a profit of Rs247m in the QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.50 1.55 % Aa3 A+ same period last year. Revenues fell QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.75 2.27 % Aa3 A+ 12.3 percent to Rs40.64bn, from a Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.25 2.55 % A2 A- year earlier, the airline said. “The sharp devaluation of the Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.75 1.83 % A2 A rupee versus the dollar, the steep Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 123.13 3.46 % A2 A The Rio Tinto alumina refinery in Gove, also known as Nhulunbuy, located 650km east of Darwin in Australia’s rise in airport charges and high Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 105.13 3.95 % A2 A Northern Territory. The firm has scrapped efforts to sell its loss-making Pacific Aluminium business, blaming fuel prices have impacted the Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 102.00 4.78 % A2 A earnings,” Jet’s acting chief execu- poor market conditions as weaker iron ore, copper and coal prices dragged first-half profit down 18 percent. Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 105.75 0.46 % Aa3 A tive Captain Hameed Ali said. India’s airline industry con- Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.75 3.54 % Aa3 A tinues to go through “turbulent Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.50 3.92 % Aa3 A times” due to a slow down in the SOVEREIGNS Indian economy, resulting in slug- gish demand, the statement said. Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P Japan pledges huge budget cuts Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 103.38 0.42 % Aa2 AA Jet also reported a net loss of Rs4.95bn in the January-March Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.00 2.55 % Aa2 AA TOKYO: Japan yesterday which has created a debt pile that bank wrapped up a two-day policy quarter. Last month India’s for- Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.63 2.56 % NR NR pledged to cut a whopping $83bn is more than twice as big as the meeting, leaving its monetary eas- eign investment panel approved Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 105.88 3.21 % NR NR out of its budget over two years as nation’s economy — the worst ing scheme unchanged. a plan for Jet to sell a 24 percent it works to bring down the indus- among industrialised nations. A key part of the premier’s eco- stake to Etihad Airways in a deal Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 117.50 4.83 % NR NR trialised world’s biggest debt The country has not faced a nomic policy, dubbed “Abenomics”, worth $349m. Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 108.88 5.17 % NR NR mountain. The move — amount- public debt crisis like the kind has been big government spending The Etihad deal is expected to Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.38 0.95 % Aa2 AA ing to an average reduction of seen across the eurozone, however, and a huge monetary easing plan help Jet reduce its debt and boost Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 113.75 3.41 % NR BBB more than 4 percent of current largely because most of its low unveiled by the central bank in revenues due to improved connec- Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 102.00 5.14 % NR BBB annual spending — comes days interest rate debt is held domesti- April, as Tokyo looks to conquer tivity, the Indian carrier has said. after the International Monetary cally rather than by international years of growth-sapping deflation. The deal, announced in April, still Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 87.50 8.20 % Caa1 CCC+ Fund (IMF) warned again over creditors. But the IMF and others But balancing the books while needs to be approved by the Cabinet Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 103.75 3.89 % NR BBB-

Tokyo’s borrowings. have warned over Tokyo’s ever- shaking up Japan’s protected Committee on Economic Affairs. *Periodic Distribution Amount The budget pledge was outlined increasing debt levels, saying it economy, a key plank of Abe’s The deal is regarded as a key test IMPORTANT NOTE: in the government’s mid-term fis- must follow through on key fis- plan, is a difficult sell to many of of India’s ability to attract foreign Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which cal plan, which called for 8 tril- cal and structural reforms to the the country’s cosseted industries. investors to its ailing airline sec- is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services lion yen ($83bn) to be lopped off economy. On Monday, the IMF called on tor, after the government eased Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary Tokyo’s deficit between April 2014 Abe’s hand-picked governor at Tokyo to adopt a “credible” strat- restrictions on foreign investment data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising and March 2016. There were few the Bank of Japan (BoJ) also joined egy that includes raising sales last September in a range of sectors. out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds details about where the reduc- the chorus of voices over the debt taxes to boost government rev- India is one of the biggest avia- can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant tions would be made. problem, saying the central bank’s enue and deregulating the farm- tion markets in the world. But the liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not The projections come as Prime huge stimulus drive could “dimin- ing sector among others. sector, once vaunted as a symbol a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and Minister Shinzo Abe’s adminis- ish without fiscal reforms”. Tokyo’s latest spending plan is of India’s economic vibrancy, has consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. tration works to boost the world’s “It is extremely important for based on what some analysts say seen its fortunes fade in the face third-largest economy after years the government to clarify the is an optimistic scenario in which of aggressive fare rivalry, a slow- of tepid growth. Japan’s annual path of fiscal rehabilitation and the economy would grow an aver- ing economy, rundown infrastruc- budget is about 93 trillion yen, to move ahead with fiscal and age of two percent annually over ture, high airport charges and with some 40 percent of that structural reforms,” BoJ chief the next decade, while cutting expensive fuel. spending coming from borrowing Haruhiko Kuroda said after the back on new borrowing. AFP AFP FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

Living standards Smith’s universal credit crisis hitting UK’s is in serious trouble

BY PENNY ANDERSON refused extra cash for chronic dyspepsia – with their lack of online access and IT skills, money makers that is, indigestion. Nice try). which is causing further difficulties. niversal credit, the alleged sim- By nature, disability requires different But let’s not pretend. Universal credit BY CHUKA UMUNNA plification and supposed unifi- approaches. is intended to reduce the social security cation of all benefits, the pet Some people will be able to work — where budget, not simplify the system, and its avid Cameron said last year that the “good news is going project of Iain Duncan Smith, is employers will hire them — while others numerous flaws are already apparent. to keep coming”, while his enterprise adviser Lord Young in serious trouble. The national won’t. Awards to self-employed claimants has claimed that most people in Britain have “never Urollout, originally intended for this October, The idea that claims for sickness benefits assume a uniform amount of income, which Dhad it so good”. But these words will ring hollow for has been delayed until next spring and will needed frequent assessments, then several is unrealistic. small businesses and self-employed people across Britain who are reach fewer towns. costly appeals, was unheard of. Also problematic are free school meals struggling with the daily reality of the living standards crisis of Many observers, myself included, believe The notion of simplifying, then unify- and prescriptions, because eligibility is set the Tory-led government’s making. The squeezed middle that Ed this disaster to be inevitable. Why? Because ing tax and benefits is not new. Talk in the at lower levels than at present, and many Miliband has been so focused on over the past three years isn’t to work efficiently, benefits must, by neces- olden days was of “positive and negative working claimants could see their income just employees — it’s also people who might not have a boss, but sity, be complicated. taxation”, or a citizen’s income, with per- cut. are certainly feeling the squeeze. I was a welfare rights adviser in the 80s, sonal tax allowances issued as payments, The reforms are doomed. The current This isn’t just a matter of fairness for “One Nation” Labour. when an admittedly rickety system usu- and any excess income being taxed. Seems system is more concerned with sanctions It’s about how Britain competes in the 21st century. We need a ally worked. Unemployment benefit was simple, doesn’t it? and workfare than the efficient adminis- recovery — and an economy — built on the talents of all, where the basic payment, either income or con- But computers were new, and the “tapers” tration of payments, with staff numbers rewards reflect the fact that wealth isn’t just created by a few at tribution based, and until 1981, housing required to calculate payments were com- declining. the very top, but by the many. That’s why the economic effects of costs were paid along with money covering plex and unworkable. So if you stubbornly introduce a new, the living standards crisis we are seeing are so worrying. general living costs. Benefits were complex This idealistic solution was usually single benefit trying to cover the needs of As Chris Leslie has set out in great detail, soaring prices and but specific, with all claimants “visited” at rejected because of people located on the a low-income family, including a disabled stagnating incomes have left working people £1,350 worse off than home at least once. middle income band — an exquisitely child, with the main earner in intermittent in 2010 in real terms. By 2015 they will on average have lost a stag- Even so, I believe that the previous sys- detailed red line, nationally amounting to part-time work, another allergic to wheat gering £6,660 in real terms since the Tory-led government took tem was better for both claimants and thousands of people with insufficient money so food costs more, I will show you chaos. office. While ministers stand up for the few earning millions of hard- advisers. to live on — who would earn slightly too What’s needed isn’t a one-size-fits-all working people on middle and lower incomes are struggling because Basic payments were further boosted by much for benefits and this wouldn’t “make benefit, but one tailored to fit individual of the government’s failed economic plan and refusal to stand up for premiums, such as the additional payment work pay” for everyone. needs, not to cut everyone down to the same the interests of hard-working families across Britain. For example, for central heating, intended to encourage Combining the distribution of benefits size. this week we learned that a far greater number of people than recipients to find adequate accommodation. and collection of tax requires a gargantuan There is a lesson here for IDS, but also previously thought are employed on zero-hours contracts for whom If claimants were ill, they could submit IT system, a system which is reportedly the for Labour, which supports the philosophy the weekly uncertainty of whether they will get work and whether sick notes to obtain “additional” payments, problem here, just as it was with the ambi- of these so-called reforms. money is coming in make it impossible to plan ahead and put even such as financial assistance to pay for spe- tious, disastrous and ultimately — aban- While the notion of one, simple, univer- more pressure on family budgets. cial dietary requirements. doned, NHS IT system, which cost £12.7bn. sal benefit is appealing, remember this – As well as the impact on employees, the living standards crisis If the need was genuine, GPs would issue Universal credit also rolls out in a complex effective, systematic simplicity is, in reality is hitting small businesses and the self-employed equally hard. We a note, and the DHSS (as was) would accept world. extremely complicated. need to see many more people starting businesses and becoming or decline payments (one client of mine was People could ruin a perfectly fine idea THE GUARDIAN their own boss, but the squeezed middle exists as much within this group as in the population at large as rising costs are hitting small businesses — who after all are consumers too. On energy, while prices continue to soar small firms are not afforded the same protections as individual consumers — we have pledged to change this. At the Federation of Small Businesses annual conference in March I told the members that under a Labour government energy companies will be banned from rolling small businesses over on to more expensive tariffs without consent while we would act to limit back-billing to one year instead of six and require energy companies to offer realistic repayment plans for small firms who fall behind. Getting from A to B can be crucial for small-business owners, self-employed people and freelancers too, who often rely on trains and buses to get around, conduct business and meet clients. While Cameron promised to rein in fares, it has emerged this week that hikes of up to 9 percent are set to hit passengers in January on top of the huge price rises we’ve already seen. In contrast, Labour would act by banning train companies hiking fares beyond a strict cap, put a stop to soaring station car parking charges and introduce a legal right to the cheapest fare. And Royal Mail is a service which many of our small busi- nesses and those who work in them rely on day to day, but the government is pushing ahead in the face of huge opposition with its plans for a fire sale of the treasured service to generate a quick buck for the chancellor. There have already been hikes in the cost of stamps under this government, but there are fears that privatisation will lead to further price rises, coupled with a poorer service for customers. For example, there is nothing to stop a private buyer of Royal Mail cashing in by closing delivery offices, selling them off and re-siting in less convenient locations. With Tory privatisations in the past we’ve seen how service users can end up losing out and getting a raw deal. So, in a recovery made by the many, businesses and those who work in them all have a crucially important role to play – unleash- ing new ideas, creating new jobs, driving growth and helping people realise their full potential. But the living standards crisis is hitting the business owners of today and the potential entre- preneurs of tomorrow, making it less likely that people set up on their own. It is hitting their employees too. At a time when we need to be doing all we can to support Britain’s wealth creators, we cannot afford for this to happen and for this talent to be lost. THE GUARDIAN Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Oil majors to stay onshore Nigeria despite grumbles

BY JOE BROCK changes to the fiscal regime by insecurity with local communities. Total declined to comment on PM Consulting. Yet Shell recently it means they will have a large passing the Petroleum Industry Tycoons Tony Elumelu and Wale its plans. Shell, which has already announced it would spend $3.9bn degree of control of onshore wave of planned sales Bill (PIB) are genuine, but they Tinubu, the Oando CEO, both of sold eight blocks in the Niger on a gas project and a reconstruc- assets and derive revenue from of onshore Nigerian won’t drive the firms away from them negotiating to buy oil blocks Delta for around $1.8bn since 2010, tion of a better protected Trans transportation,” said Kayode assets by oil majors has the country. off majors, said in recent interviews announced it will sell more fields Niger pipeline, one of the country’s Akindele, partner at Lagos-based Aprompted speculation “Nigeria’s ‘difficult’ operating they thought it would be easier for amounting to 80,000-100,000 bpd, most important crude oil routes investment firm 46 Parallels. that they are finally leaving the environment, security concerns Nigerian companies with a better although it is not clear if this level and often hit by outages caused by There is no guarantee that deals Niger Delta because of oil theft, and the non-passage of the PIB understanding of local issues to of output is yet being produced. theft or sabotage. That suggests it on assets that majors do want to gangsterism and political uncer- all provide useful cover for what manage often fraught community Chevron is also selling five shal- still sees value working onshore in sell can be easily or quickly com- tainty. In reality, though, foreign may essentially be a portfolio relations. But ending oil theft is a low water blocks, but would not Nigeria. pleted. Some of Shell’s previous firms such as Royal Dutch Shell , optimisation process,” said Razia massive undertaking. It is often comment further on its plans Shell may even buy one of divestments took years to negoti- Chevron, Eni and Total are here Khan, Head of Africa Research at associated with criminal gangs who for Nigeria, while fellow US Chevron’s blocks, two sources said, ate. Buyers will also be wary of the to stay, industry sources say. Standard Chartered. tap crude from pipelines for local firm ConocoPhillips is selling its which would provide the perfect state oil company’s production arm The majors are likely to sell The global shale oil and gas refining, but most stolen crude Nigerian businesses to Oando for route from one of Nigeria’s larg- NPDC taking over the operating only small blocks that are not boom means there are more leaves the country in large tankers, about $1.79bn. Theft may not be est gas fields to its LNG export rights. Yet for the all the pitfalls, worth their while — those assets exploration opportunities, so it which could not happen without the only reason for selling down. terminal. Nigeria will be keen to close the worst affected by theft and sabo- makes financial sense to keep only the complicity of top officials. The PIB, although still in a Nigeria holds the world’s deals, which please the political tage or fields that risk expro- the most profitable businesses in Shell, the largest producer in political deadlock that has lasted ninth largest gas reserves, most elite and public alike. priation in a government push to Nigeria, like gas for LNG export, Nigeria, said last week it took a five years, could change the terms of which are untapped. Energy “The divestment is a positive promote local ownership. and expand deep offshore where $700m hit from theft and other for foreign companies in Nigeria majors are increasingly moving step for all the major players Meanwhile, the large oil pro- there is no oil theft. If anything, issues in Nigeria with its share and will promote local ownership towards gas production instead involved... (it) will have a positive ducing blocks, huge gas deposits, they will use their grievances as of output falling to 158,000 bpd of onshore blocks. Shell, Chevron, of oil in the Niger Delta. knock-on impact on production key pipelines and the export ter- leverage in negotiations with gov- in the second quarter, down from Eni and Total have been in failed Majors such as Shell will likely longer-term,” said Martin Kelly, minals that control the passage of ernment over licences and taxes. 260,000 bpd in 2012. negotiations with the Nigerian keep large pipelines and export Wood Mackenzie’s Lead Analyst onshore oil to international mar- Nigeria’s oil production, which Shell CEO Peter Voser neverthe- government for several years to terminals, so even if local firms for Sub-Saharan Africa Upstream kets will most likely stay in their fluctuates between 2-2.5m bar- less said this month the company renew expired licences on many are getting the oil out of the Research. hands — enabling them to retain rels per day (bpd), is unlikely to was not seeking to leave Nigeria. onshore and shallow water blocks. ground, where the risks of inse- “But... in order to make a infrastructure for which they can be hugely affected by any oil block Eni said it had lost 30,000 bpd of “Perhaps they would rather curity are highest, the majors noticeable difference other chal- charge rent to other users. sales in the short-term and could output in the first half of the year sell licences while they still can can make a cut from taking oil lenges need to be addressed — Complaints by oil majors that get an uplift in the future if smaller due to theft and CEO Paolo Scaroni rather than having to relinquish to international markets. like the PIB and security.” ($1 = Nigeria has done little to combat local companies work harder to said the company was “reviewing them for nothing,” said Antony “Oil majors want to keep con- 160.1000 Nigerian naira) oil theft or end uncertainty over exploit reserves or can better stem its position” in Nigeria. 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MOSCOW: Athletics will end 18 years of frustration in 2015 by returning to four-year bans for first-time dopers, ending the situ- eyes sub-13 world title ation of Olympic athletes suspended for doping turning up to com- pete in the following Games. Having been forced to cut its ban from four to two years in 1997 to The American says he is fully fit for the Moscow event bring it in line with other leading sports and get worldwide govern- ments on board, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has been under increasing pressure to restore the stiffer pen- MOSCOW: Olympic champion with Oliver, world champion alty in the wake of a slew of high-profile doping cases. and world record holder Aries Jason Richardson and surprise Yesterday, two days before the start of the world championships Merritt says he finds it a “little US trials winner Ryan Wilson, in Moscow, it announced there would be a return to four-year bans. strange” that no one has dipped offering a real chance of a first “The new WADA (world anti-doping agency) Code, which will come below 13 seconds in the 110 global clean sweep in the event into force on Jan 1, 2015, will reflect our firm commitment to have metres hurdles this season and since the 1960 Olympics. tougher penalties and the IAAF will return to four year sanctions for plans to remedy the situation in The United States won 15 of serious doping offences,” the IAAF said in a statement following the the world championships. the first 17 Olympic high hurdles second day of its Congress. Merritt missed much of the races and an incredible 40 of the “The IAAF has an ethical obligation to the overwhelming majority early part of the outdoor cam- first 50 medals awarded. of athletes and officials who believe in clean sport. paign with a hamstring injury but They also took seven of the first “As a leader in this fight the IAAF has built and delivers a pro- in his absence the best any of his nine world championship golds gramme that is well resourced, far reaching, sophisticated and increas- rivals could muster was the 13.03 beginning in 1983 with the first ingly able to detect and remove from the sport those who breach our by his fellow American David of Greg Foster’s hat-trick. anti-doping rules.” Oliver in Lausanne a month ago. In recent years, however, as Athletics has recently been again hard-hit by a string of doping cases, Now declaring himself fully fit other nations have embraced ranging from high-profile athletes such as American Tyson Gay and for an assault on the world title in the discipline, they have not had Jamaican trio Asafa Powell, Veronica Campbell-Brown and Sherone Moscow, Merritt has perhaps for- things quite so easy and have Simpson to multiple positive tests in Turkey. gotten that his remarkable 2012 taken only one world and one Some of the Turkish athletes were as young as 17 and the contro- somewhat distorted the statbook. Olympic title from the last four versies have led to calls for federations to be punished for failing to Last year the 13-second bar- editions of each competition. control the situation. rier was broken 12 times but eight The tradition is not so deep Rocked by the latest developments, IAAF officials have continued to of those marks were by Merritt. in the women’s 100m hurdles - stress that they lead the way in the fight against doping and that the It was an astonishingly consistent which was introduced into the mass of positive tests are merely evidence of its efficiency. run of form in the most techni- Olympics only in 1972 - but the “The IAAF’s collection of the blood samples of nearly 2000 athletes in cal of events and climaxed with Americans are making a serious Daegu (in the 2011 world championships), as part of our commitment Olympic gold (12.92) and his assault there this year too. to the Athlete Biological Passport, was an historic achievement across stunning world record of 12.80 in Dawn Harper, Queen Harrison, all sports, and continues in Moscow,” said officials, who added that the September. Nia Ali and Brianna Rollins, testing programme in Moscow would be the most comprehensive in His best 2013 time of 13.09 in whose 12.26 in the US trials made the event’s 30-year history. Paris a month ago leaves Merritt her the joint third-fastest woman Earlier the Turkish National Olympic Committee issued a statement fifth in the year’s rankings but he of al time over the distance, are saying the country was committed to the fight against doping, despite will go into next week’s event as all contenders but face the stiff- more than 40 athletes being suspended in recent weeks. the firm favourite. est of opposition in the shape of “On the eve of the world championships it is important to reiter- “It’s really strange, I was think- Australian Olympic and world ate that Turkey’s aggressive fight against doping in sport, which we ing some of the guys who weren’t champion Sally Pearson. have intensified significantly since the start of 2013, will continue and injured would get under 13 so it’s That dual assault on Moscow accelerate regardless of the International Olympic Committee’s deci- weird that they’re not,” Merritt highlights the remarkable sion on the host city of the 2020 Games on 7 September 2013,” Turkish told reporters in Moscow. strength of American hurdling Olympic Committee president Ugur Erdener said in a statement on “Everyone knows I hurt the and the team’s coaches say that Istanbul’s bid. hamstring ... but I’m ready for the the quality needed to succeed “But if Turkey is granted the honour of hosting the 2020 Games it race of my life. My fitness is great attracts high-achievers. will put our anti-doping programme under the full glare of the global now and training has been great “When you choose to become media spotlight for the next decade. We welcome that. and I finally feel ready to give the a hurdler in the US you under- US athletes Allyson Felix (centre), Ashton Eaton (right) and Aries Merritt “We abhor the fact that some of the recent cases have involved young fans what they want - that magic stand right away what it’s going pose during a photo session in Moscow’s Red Square in central Moscow, people, although there is no evidence to suggest this was a widespread barrier of under 13 seconds. to take to make the team,” said Russia, yesterday. The IAAF World Athletics Championships 2013 will practice.” “The practice track is men’s head coach Mike Holloway. start in Moscow tomorrow. On Wednesday Paula Radcliffe, Britain’s marathon world record extremely fast and I’ve been told “You really have to step up your holder and member of the IAAF athletes’ council, said some Turkish the stadium track is very similar game and it starts at high school coaches were guilty of effective child abuse for giving teenage athletes to London, apart from the fact when you have to make a real and be very diligent in your work.” the more inspirational they are. illegal substances. that it’s blue, so we should see commitment. Women’s head coach Beth We’ve just had a great line of his- “Some of those athletes are 16 or 17,” she said. “This is steroids and I some fast times.” “It’s a coaching issue too. If Alford-Sullivan was similarly tory in the event and I think that think there needs to be some sort of sanction imposed on that country Merritt is one of four you are going to coach hurdles enthused. perpetuates itself,” she said yes- and something done about protecting the young athletes in that country Americans in the event along you have to find the right athlete “The more our athletes achieve terday. REUTERS because I don’t believe there’s a whole lot of choice. REUTERS Radcliffe calls for doping country bans

LONDON, England: World marathon She added: “I also either until they release the Operation Puerto record-holder Paula Radcliffe (pictured) think there should be (doping scandal) bags. Jamaica’s sprinter yesterday said that countries found to jail terms for suppliers. “They should be cleaning the house before Usain Bolt leaves a have sanctioned doping practices should There are jail terms for they can think about hosting the Olympics training session at be banned from taking part at the World the suppliers of recrea- because it’s a huge honour. There should be Luzhniki stadium Championships. tional drugs, so why not some way of sanctioning federations.” in central Moscow The British runner also said that forcing a for sports doping?” Radcliffe said that national federations yesterday. The young athlete to cheat was similar to “physi- The Turkish Athletics who forced athletes to dope were “essentially Jamaican is a five-time cal or sexual abuse”, and called for those who Federation has abusing those athletes”. world champion and supply drugs in the sport to be sent to jail. announced the suspen- She added: “In the case of young athletes, Everything we can do to increase the sion of 31 athletes for sometimes they are being abused, in the same will be aiming to win deterrent is good and where it is blatant or two years over doping way as physical abuse or sexual abuse, if they his third straight 200m there is evidence that it may be institutional- offences, and Radcliffe are being forced to engage in drug abuse. title in Moscow. ised, or at the very least countries are turning said she would not vote for Istanbul to host “I think the fact the testing is coming in a blind eye to it, you could ban that team from the 2020 Olympics on those grounds. Istanbul at a high level means there will be greater the World Championships for a year or two,” is competing for the right to organise the positive tests. Radcliffe wrote in The Times newspaper. 2020 Games with Tokyo and Madrid. “I “It is making sure we concentrate on “There needs to be something so mem- don’t have a vote but I wouldn’t be voting for those federations who are producing more ber federations are not aiding and abetting Turkey,” the 39-year-old told the Daily Mail. positive tests, and at junior level as well.” doping.” “I’m not sure I would (vote) for Madrid AFP

Eid Tennis Cup championship Lee, Lin through to world quarter-finals GUANGZHOU: China’s badminton superstar called on to court to mop up perspiration. A more to begin today Lin Dan made it through to the quarter-finals relaxed Lin went on to dominate the second game, of the world championships yesterday, with arch taking it 21-10 as the Malaysian lost his confidence DOHA: Asics Team Tennis rival Lee Chong Wei also booking a place. and made more errors. will hold their two days Eid “Super Dan” made a shaky start against Malaysian Fans are hoping for another classic showdown Tennis Cup 2013 champion- Chong Wei Feng, who surged to a 7-2 lead in the first between 29-year-old Lin and world number one Lee ship at the Aspire Community game of their third-round match. Chong Wei of Malaysia, who sealed a convincing tennis court which will be Defending champion Lin, who had not been 21-12, 21-7 win against 14th seed Wang Zhengming held today and tomorrow. stretched in his first two matches, came under of China. Three groups (yellow, blue pressure from 15th seed Chong and was forced to Lee put in a powerful performance against a tena- and red) have been selected dive around the court as his opponent found all the cious opponent, in contrast to his nervy second- among the tennis fans here in angles. round struggle. Doha. Lin vented his frustration, talking to himself and He unleashed smashes which Wang was unable The yellow, red and blue hitting his head with his racket in the first game to reach, placed precision shots and defended with teams, in which the players after he sent a shot wide. lightning reflexes. were chosen from different “I didn’t have a good start today because we had “This match was much better than the previous tennis clubs, will compete in only played two matches before and I wasn’t used two -- my pace was faster and there were fewer the Singles, Doubles and Mixed to his style and tactics,” Lin told reporters after errors,” Malaysia’s Lee, told reporters after his categories. the match. match yesterday. Prasad, an Indian player “For the first 11 points he had a lot of confidence Lee, 30, comes into the championships off wins in from Kerala said: “This com- and that created problems for me, but I found a way South Korea, Indonesia, India and Malaysia. He is petition is very tough because to adjust and got back into the match.” hoping to break a run of losses against Lin, who beat a lot of talented and veteran The Olympic champion, who has been on the side- him in the last two Olympic finals and the previous players are included on this two lines for the past year to spend time with his family world championships final. days championship tourney.” Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei hits a return during his men’s singles and entered the tournament on a wildcard, eventu- Lin will take on team-mate Chen Long in the pick All matches for the two-day match against China’s Wang Zhengming in the third round of the 2013 ally took the first game 22-20 after Chong saved two of the quarter-finals -- Chen, 24, is the current All- event are free to attend. Badminton World Championships in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, match points. England champion and world number two -- while THE PENINSULA yesterday. Lin pumped his fist as the crowd roared his name, Lee will meet Indonesia’s Tommy Sugiarto, ranked and the hard-fought game saw line judges repeatedly eighth. AFP FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Goal-line technology unveiled The EPL to use the technology when the new football season starts on August 17

LONDON: A text message say- group Sony, is familiar to British ing “goal” sent to the referee’s sports fans through its use in ten- watch will end disputes over nis and cricket. Lisandro whether the ball has crossed This summer’s cricket series the line in the English Premier between England and Australia leaves League (EPL) this season. has been overshadowed by a series The Premier League will of arguments relating to the use become the first domestic compe- of technology in the Decision Lyon for Al tition to adopt the camera-based Review System to help umpires technology when it kicks off on make the correct calls. August 17. Hawk-Eye’s ball-tracker is used Gharafa Dubbed Goal Decision System to decide LBW appeals and has LYON, France: Argentine (GDS) and developed by British proved the least contentious part striker Lisandro Lopez company Hawk-Eye, the system of the cricketing system. is joining Qatari club Al promises to give referees a rul- Premier League chief executive Gharafa from Olympique ing within a second, their watch Richard Scudamore was cautious Lyon, the buzzing to tell them when a ball over whether soccer should go Ligue 1 club has gone in. further in using gadgetry to help said yesterday. Arsenal manager Arsene referees. “OL inform Wenger, intrigued by a demon- “This is a factual decision that they have stration of the new technology we think lends itself to the use accepted the on his home pitch, supported its of technology,” Scudamore told demand made introduction and said speed was reporters. to club presi- essential to prevent disputes. “It’s a much more difficult dent Jean- “Is it quick enough?,” Wenger debate when we start to deal Michel Aulas asked, setting out a scenario with elements of subjectivity and at the end of May, then again where there could be controversy. there is subjectivity about offside in July, by Lisandro Lopez to “The ball goes in, comes out, in terms of active and passive.” leave the club for personal rea- there is a foul on the defender, The Hawk-Eye technology uses sons during the current trans- he (the referee) gives a foul on the seven cameras behind each goal at fer period,” read a statement defender and suddenly the watch the 20 Premier League grounds to posted on Lyon’s website. vibrates. This kind of incident monitor the ball. “Lisandro was therefore could maybe happen,” he said. It will also be in operation Members of the media watch referee Anthony Taylor during the Goal Decision System (GDS) presentation at allowed to go to Qatar last “It’s still better than to have at Wembley on Sunday when the Emirates Stadium in London, yesterday. A text message saying ‘goal’ sent to the referee’s watch will end night (Wednesday) where he balls that go in and goals not Manchester United play Wigan disputes over whether the ball has crossed the line in the English Premier League this season. The Premier will finalise the terms over given.” Athletic in the Community Shield, League will become the first domestic competition to adopt the camera-based technology when it kicks off a potential contract with There were 31 disputed goal- the annual prelude to the Premier on August 17. Al Gharafa,” it added. The line calls in the 380 Premier League season. 30-year-old has scored 82 goals League matches last season and FIFA tested a rival system in 167 games for Lyon since his referees got them right in all but developed by German company A disputed goal is part of the underside of the bar and was final victory over West Germany arrival from Porto in 2009. three cases, officials said. GoalControl at the Confederations English soccer folklore after Geoff ruled to have crossed the line in 1966. REUTERS Hawk-Eye, owned by Japanese Cup in Brazil in June. Hurst’s shot crashed down from during England’s 4-2 World Cup REUTERS Barnes Champions League Results Lambert, Zaha in slams Suarez PARIS, France: Champions League third qualifying round, second leg results yesterday: England squad ‘superstar’ Zenit Saint-Petersburg (RUS) 5 Nordsjaelland (DEN) 0 LONDON: Manchester United’s new winger Wilfried Zaha has mentality Zenit win 6-0 on aggregate been recalled to the England squad for Wednesday’s friendly FH Hafnarfjordur (ISL) 0 against Scotland at Wembley, while Southampton’s Rickie Lambert LONDON, England: Former Austria Vienna (AUT) 0 has been given a first call-up at 31. Liverpool and England Austria Vienna win 1-0 on aggregate Zaha’s one previous appearance for England was a seven-minute winger John Barnes hit out cameo against Sweden in Stockholm in November, but the 20-year-old at wantaway striker Luis Sheriff (MDA) 0 Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) 3 has impressed during United’s pre-season campaign. Suarez in a radio interview Dinamo win 4-0 on aggregate Zaha joined United after helping Crystal Palace earn promotion to broadcast yesterday, criticis- Metalist Kharkiv (UKR) 1 PAOK Salonika the Premier League last season and was a member of England’s Under- ing the “superstar” culture in (GRE) 1 21 team that failed to win a match at June’s European Championship the modern game. Metalist win 3-1 on aggregate in Israel. Uruguay international Southampton striker Lambert scored 15 goals in the club’s first term Elfsborg (SWE) 0 Celtic (SCO) 0 Suarez is trying to force his back in the Premier League last season, having played in all four of Celtic win 1-0 on aggregate departure from Anfield, claim- Real Madrid’s Ronaldo (left) and Iker Casillas hold their trophy after England’s professional divisions. ing on Tuesday that he had a winning the 2013 International Champions Cup match against Chelsea at Viktoria Plzen (CZE) 6 Nomme Kalju (EST) 2 “I think if a man has really worked as hard over the years to prove gentleman’s agreement with Sun Life stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, yesterday. Ronaldo scored Plzen win 10-2 on aggregate his worth as Rickie Lambert, I think he really deserves this call-up, the club allowing him to leave at a time of course when a couple of players who might have got a nod a goal in each half to power Real Madrid to a 3-1 victory. Zulte Waregem (BEL) 0 PSV Eindhoven (NED) 3 in the close season if they had in front of him - Daniel Sturridge and Andy Carroll - are unavailable,” not qualified for the Champions PSV win 5-0 on aggregate manager Roy Hodgson told Sky Sports. League. Legia Warsaw (POL) 0 Molde (NOR) 0 United forward Wayne Rooney was named in the squad despite But Barnes believes Suarez 1-1 on aggregate, Legia win on away missing his club’s draw with AIK in Stockholm on Tuesday with a should share the responsibil- Real give little away goals shoulder injury as Chelsea continue their pursuit of him. ity for Liverpool’s European Played Tuesday Hodgson said he had spoken to his club manager David Moyes about qualification failures and work selecting him and was hopeful he could play up to an hour against old Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR) 3 FC Basel (SUI) 3 harder to help the club to a enemies Scotland. top-four league finish. over Bale progress FC Basel win 4-3 on aggregate “He not fully match fit that’s pretty obvious, but the important thing The former England winger, Steaua Bucharest (ROM) 1 D Tbilisi (GEO) 1 for me was to have him with us in the squad and to assess how many says fans are fundamentally MADRID: Real Madrid presi- Another pressing issue for Steaua win 3-1 on aggregate minutes he can play in the game,” Hodgson said. to blame for players getting dent Florentino Perez gave lit- Perez are the negotiations with Squad: Maribor (SLO) 0 APOEL (CYP) 0 big-headed. tle away on his club’s progress Portugal forward Ronaldo over Goalkeepers: Ben Foster (West Bromwich Albion), Joe Hart “This is the future of mod- in trying to sign Tottenham a possible contract extension 1-1 on aggregate, Maribor win on away (Manchester City), John Ruddy (Norwich City) ern football we have created,” Hotspur’s Gareth Bale during beyond 2015. goals Defenders: Leighton Baines (Everton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Ashley he told talkSPORT. “The media an interview yesterday. “Both parties have said we are Skenderbeu (ALB) 3 Cole (Chelsea), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Phil and especially the fans have The nine-times European convinced he will end his sport- Shakhter Karagandy (KAZ) 2 Jones (Manchester United), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), Kyle empowered players too much champions have made the Welsh ing career at Real Madrid,” Perez Shakhter win 5-3 on aggregate Walker (Tottenham Hotspur) to make them feel that a) they winger their priority and the said. P Belgrade (SRB) 0 Ludogorets (BUL) 1 Midfielders: Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Tom Cleverley are better than their team- 24-year-old is reportedly keen “At the end of the summer we (Manchester United), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Frank Lampard mates and b) they’re better to move to the Bernabeu, but will try and made sure it is all Ludogorets win 3-1 on aggregate (Chelsea), Jack Wilshere (Arsenal), James Milner (Manchester City), than their clubs. Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy resolved. At the end of this month Fenerbahce (TUR) 3 Salzburg (AUT) 1 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Ashley “We’ve seen it at Arsenal is renowned as a tough negotiator. or the beginning of the next. Fenerbahce win 4-2 on aggregate Young (Manchester United), Wilfried Zaha (Manchester United) where so many players have Perez was asked if he had There is no rush. It is my wish Grasshoppers (SUI) 0 Lyon (FRA) 1 Forwards: Jermain Defoe (Tottenham Hotspur), Rickie Lambert left because Arsenal cannot met with representatives from and I think it his too.” (Southampton), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Danny Welbeck Lyon win 2-0 on aggregate match their ambitions, and Tottenham in the United States, Earlier, Ronaldo scored a goal (Manchester United). REUTERS the fans are the ones who have where the club are on a pre-sea- in each half to power Real Madrid created this superstar culture son promotional tour. to a 3-1 victory over Chelsea in whereby you’ve separated the “We talk to lots of people and a football friendly at Sun Life Fabregas rules out United move team and the superstars to feel we’ll see what happens in our var- Stadium yesterday. more important than the club. ious negotiations. I refer to this Ronaldo scored off a free kick “What has empowered player (Bale) and others,” Perez in the 31st minute and helped seal KUALA LUMPUR: Barcelona Barcelona sporting director him (Suarez) and the likes of told ESPN. the victory with a header in the midfielder Cesc Fabregas (pic- Andoni Zubizarreta, who both Rooney training (Fernando) Torres is they feel “We don’t speak about other 57th minute. tured) slammed the door yes- insisted earlier this week the the team is losing not because players out of respect for the “The team played fantastic,” terday on a potential move to 26-year-old will stay at the Nou with reserves of them but because of their player, their club and their presi- Ronaldo said. “This is what we Manchester United, insisting Camp. team-mates. Suarez is saying dent (Levy), who is a friend of are looking for. We are getting the Catalan giants remain his Fabregas has failed to nail MANCHESTER: Wayne he needs to go because they’ve mine. better.” dream club. down a spot in Barca’s star-stud- Rooney continued his quest not qualified for the Champions “We struck up a good friend- Marcelo Vieira also scored The English Premier League ded midfield, with international for fitness by training with League, but he was part of the ship last year during the sign- in the 14th minute for Real champions have so far failed with team-mates Xavi, Andres Iniesta the Manchester United team that failed to do that. ing of (Croatia midfielder) Luka Madrid in the game which cul- two bids for Fabregas, who has and Sergio Busquets ahead of him reserves yesterday. “He has to take responsibil- Modric.” minated the eight-team, 12-game emerged as their main summer in the pecking order. But while some may assume ity for that. He’s saying, ‘I’ve Perez ducked the question International Champions Cup transfer target as new manager But Barca are reluctant to sell that to be evidence of a wors- done my job, I’m good enough, when he was pressed about Bale tournament. David Moyes seeks to inject crea- the pint-sized playmaker, espe- ening relationship between but the players I’m playing and talk of a world record trans- Ramires scored the lone goal tivity into his midfield. cially since the loss of Thiago the England striker and his with aren’t’. fer fee that would surpass the for Chelsea in the 16th minute. The Spanish international told Alcantara to Bayern Munich. club, apparently it was at the He added: “Our superstar £80m ($124.14m) Real paid for “We are trying to find our fit- a press conference in Malaysia Barca enticed Fabregas back 27-year-old’s own request. players feel they are untouchable. Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009. ness and get the team playing the that “since I was a kid my dream from Arsenal with a long- The England international We’ve gone too far and there’s no “If I don’t speak about names, right way,” said midfielder Frank was to play for Barcelona”. term view to him replacing the striker -- who has been the way back.” I don’t speak about money,” Lampard. “This dream hasn’t changed,” 33-year-old Xavi, who is expected subject of two bids from London Liverpool manager Brendan Perez added. “If you say €100m It was a disappointing loss for he said ahead of tomorrow’s to play fewer games in the com- club Chelsea, both rejected by Rogers has told Suarez to train ($133.19m), I would say that Jose Mourinho who was facing his friendly against the Malaysian ing season. United -- is on the comeback on his own while his future is seems a lot....for anything. old club just three months after national side. Barcelona return to Asia three trail after a shoulder injury in sorted out. AFP “I am not going to speak about his acrimonious departure from His comments echo those of years after their last visit to the pre-season. AFP it because I shouldn’t and I can’t.” Real. AGENCIES teammate Gerard Pique and football-mad continent. AFP FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Coach Flower wants more ICC stick with Hot Spot for from hosts England

CHESTER-LE-STREET, the final two Ashes Tests ENGLAND: England will bid to complete the second half of their Ashes mission when they An ICC official says they are looking to improve the technology system face arch-rivals Australia in the fourth Test at Chester-le-Street starting today. CHESTER-LE-STREET, “The feedback from this trial The drawn third Test at Old United Kingdom: Cricket’s Hot has been very positive, and we Trafford left England an unassail- Spot system will be used in the now need to consider how this able 2-0 up in the series with two final two Tests of the ongoing technology could be most effec- to play and meant they’d retained Ashes series, the International tively used as part of the DRS the Ashes. Cricket Council (ICC) said yes- system.” But it left open the possibility terday, despite controversy over The move to retain Hot Spot of a shared series, something that its use and cheating claims. was backed by England captain hasn’t happened in an Ashes cam- Australia’s Channel Nine alleged Alastair Cook, who said aban- paign since 1972. on Wednesday that players in the doning the technology mid- It took England just 14 days current series between England series would be a “very dangerous to hold on to the urn this time and Australia were using the tape precedent”. around -- the quickest they’ve on their bats to avoid nicks being Claims that players had settled an Ashes series in their detected by the thermal imaging attempted to cheat Hot Spot were favour since the end of the Second system. aired by Australia’s Channel Nine World War. The allegations prompted swift television on Wednesday. However, England coach Andy denials from both teams while the England batsman Kevin Flower was far from satisfied. ICC said the claims were incor- Pietersen, whose dismissal in “I suppose it is (a great achieve- rect and it was not investigating the third Test at Old Trafford in ment). But for me it’s all about any alleged attempts by players to Manchester, northwest England, winning this series, so it is still cheat the technology, as reported. was said to be under scrutiny, alive with two Tests to go,” he Yesterday, it said in a state- describing it as “horrible journal- said. ment that its general manager of ism” and “hurtful lies”. In Manchester, Australia pro- cricket Geoff Allardice had met Cook also called them a “com- duced a much-improved perform- both sides but only to talk about plete fabrication”, adding: “Both ance with England collapsing to the Decision Review System, sides have laughed at it to be 27 for three on Monday’s final day which has similarly provoked dis- honest with you, at how strange before rain ensured a draw. cussion over contested dismissals. a story it is and absurd, it’s just The result meant Australia had Allardice described the talks so blatantly not true. ended a run of six successive Test as “very constructive”, with the “It’s not great when you’re defeats -- their worst for 29 years teams and umpires reiterating called a cheat.” -- and avoided equalling their all- their support for the DRS, and Meanwhile Australia captain time record losing streak of seven the continued use of Hot Spot Michael Clarke, whose side cannot straight Tests set by the 19th cen- in the final two Tests that will now regain the Ashes this series tury teams of 1885-88. be played at Chester-le-Street, after a draw at Old Trafford left Former Australia captain northeast England, from today them 2-0 down with two to play, Australia’s captain Michael Clarke looks on during a training session before the fourth Ashes cricket Test match Allan Border said it looked like and at The Oval in south London urged the focus be switched to against England at the Riverside cricket ground in Chester-le-Street near Durham, yesterday. RIGHT: England’s the tourists had “drawn their from August 21. cricket matters. Kevin Pietersen attends a training session. own line in the sand”, in much “We acknowledge the DRS has “I made it pretty clear yes- the same way his side did during not performed as effectively dur- terday (Wednesday) what I felt the 1986/87 series, where, having ing the past three Tests as it has about it,” he said. “I found it quite lost the Ashes, they won the final in other series,” Allardice said. amusing to be honest and I prefer Test in Sydney before starting 16 He also stressed Hot Spot was not to talk about it anymore. Australian spirits are high after years of unbroken series domi- just one tool at the disposal of the “There’s a huge Test match nance against England in 1989. third umpire. for the Australian team starting “England are worried,” Border “We know that the majority of tomorrow (today) so I would like said. “The way this side is going edges are detected by Hot Spot the focus to be on the match in Old Trafford draw, says Clarke over the next few months, but there are occasions when a front of us,” said the Australian look out. Australia has the fine edge isn’t picked up. captain. CHESTER LE STREET, ENGLAND: Spirits but Clarke refused to write off the home team’s momentum.” “If there is no mark on Hot Clarke did not attend the are high in Australia’s camp after they stopped strong batting line-up. Then again, Australia had even Spot, the TV umpire can use meeting with Allardice, where the rot in the Ashes series by dominating England “It’s nice to be getting a few of their top order more “momentum” during the replays from different angles to Australia were represented by in the rain-ruined third Test at Manchester, cap- out cheaply, obviously they are very good players,” 2010/11 Ashes after winning the see whether the ball has deflected team manager Gavin Dovey and tain Michael Clarke said yesterday. he said. third Test by 267 runs in Perth to off the bat, and he can listen to coach Darren Lehmann. “The boys took a lot of confidence from that “It will continue to take a lot of hard work and level at 1-1. the sound from the stump-micro- Channel Nine persisted yes- match,” Clarke told reporters on the eve of the some very good execution from our bowlers to con- Yet, England won the fourth phone to determine whether the terday, saying Hot Spot inventor fourth and penultimate Test in County Durham. tinue that. I am not silly enough to put the mockers Test in Melbourne by the huge batsman has edged the ball. Warren Brennan had raised “seri- “We certainly believed that but for the rain we would on any of their batters. margin of an innings and 157 runs “Either deflection or sound ous concerns” with the ICC about have won that Test. “One area that, as a team, we continue to talk to retain the Ashes. can be used by the TV umpire to flaws with the system. “We are taking a lot of positives, guys have scored about is consistency, especially when we are out of Australia coach Darren make his final judgment.” The ICC’s Allardice said it a lot of runs which is really encouraging and bowlers Australia and in different conditions,” added Clarke. Lehmann put the Old Trafford The ICC were looking at ways would address use of technology continue to do a fantastic job for us. The boys are full “I was really pleased with the way we played in draw in context by saying: “We’re to improve the system, he said, to determine contested appeals in of confidence now and our goal is to continue playing Manchester but good teams back that up day after not going to lose five nil, so that’s adding: “During the Old Trafford the light of criticisms about how that brand of cricket from tomorrow.” day. That’s our job from tomorrow.” a start. I think it (the momen- Test, we conducted a trial where a the third umpire has interpreted Clarke led from the front at Old Trafford by scor- Ryan Harris excelled at Lord’s and Old Trafford tum) has shifted but only time TV umpire accessed replays using information. ing the first Australian century of the series as his after missing the first Test and Clarke is hoping the will tell that won’t it?” a multi-channel monitor system “An ongoing area of focus for team piled up 527 for seven declared in the first injury-prone fast bowler is going to be fit to play at At Old Trafford, Australia with its own operator and record- the ICC is the training of our TV innings. Chester-le-Street, which is hosting an Ashes test captain Michael Clarke’s 187 was ing device. umpires,” he added. “Our priority is to try to level the series, that’s for the first time. the cornerstone of a commanding “The aim was to get more “All these activities are aimed what we are focused on right now,” he said. “Ryan is always important to the Australian first innings total of 527 for seven replay angles to the umpire, at ensuring the DRS continues to “We are pretty clear with our views. We want to team,” said the captain. declared. faster, so he will be able to make deliver an increase in the number leave here with a 2-2 draw ... if the rain stays away.” “He’s a wonderful bowler and a great asset to our But throughout his side’s lean more accurate decisions and min- of correct umpiring decisions,” he England were bowled out for 368 at Old Trafford team,” Clarke told reporters before the fourth Test spell Clarke has been making imise delays to the game. added yesterday. AFP before slumping to 37 for three in the second innings today. REUTERS hundreds -- one of the challenges for Australia will be to see if any of their other specialist batsmen can follow suit. Both sides, with just a three- England want apology for day turnaround between the end of the third Test and the inau- gural Ashes match to be staged at the headquarters of north-east county Durham, have bolstered blatant fabrication, says Cook their pace bowling stocks. England have added Surrey fast bowler Chris Tremlett and CHESTER LE STREET: England cap- was involved in one such incident during the “I found it all quite amusing to be honest,” Durham’s in-form Graham tain Alastair Cook has described as “bla- third Test in Manchester when he was given said Clarke. “I prefer not to talk about it any Onions to their Old Trafford XI. tant fabrication” the claims that Ashes out caught behind, even though nothing more - you guys have had a couple of days to “We are quite willing to be flex- players have used silicone tape on their appeared on the Hotspot review. write and talk about it. ible on that front,” said Flower. bats to confuse Hotspot technology and he Holders England, who are 2-0 up in the “For me the focus has to be on cricket. I “It’s not a change of plan.” wants an apology. series and have already clinched the Ashes, think there has been enough good cricket Australia named a 12 on Australia’s Channel Nine TV reported on are determined to put the furore over the been played this series and there is a huge Wednesday where Jackson Bird Wednesday that the International Cricket Channel Nine report to one side for the penul- test match starting for the Australia team was added to their Manchester XI Council (ICC) was investigating the use of timate game of the series. tomorrow.” amid concerns over the ability of silicone, amid increasing controversy during “We’re an experienced bunch of cricketers Pietersen responded to the Channel Nine injury-prone seamer Ryan Harris the five-test Ashes series over the inconsist- who have been through a lot as a side,” said allegations by sending out a series of angry to play back-to-back Tests. ency of the Decision Review System (DRS). Cook. “There are a lot of players who have tweets. “Horrible journalism yet again! My As for England regularly losing The ICC, cricket’s governing body, issued been through similar circumstances with a name brought up in Hotspot crisis suggesting top order wickets with few runs an immediate denial and said the report was bit of controversy. I use silicon(e) infuriates me,” he wrote on on the board this Ashes, Flower “totally incorrect”. “We’ve dealt with it well in the past and I his Twitter feed. said: “There are good new-ball “I think an apology is due for such a bla- see no reason why we can’t deal with it here. “I am never afraid of getting out! If I nick bowlers on both sides. tant fabrication,” Cook told reporters on the We’ve stuck together well and that’s a sign it, I’ll walk .... to suggest I cheat by covering “Of course, we’d like to be none eve of the fourth Test against Australia in of a strong team.” my bat with silicon(e) infuriates me. down in that early period of play. County Durham. Cook called the Channel Nine report “How stupid would I be to try & hide But we’ve recovered well, and I “There has been a bit of a media storm “absurd” and “blatantly untrue”. a nick when it could save me on an LBW think good sides do that.” behind it and we knew it would happen at “Both sides have kind of laughed at it,” he appeal, like in 1st innings where hotspot Meanwhile the Decision Review some stage of the Ashes. said. “Certainly we’ve been laughing at it in showed I nicked it.” System generated more contro- “It’s kind of taken a little bit of the gloss off our dressing room because of how strange Cook said he was fully behind Pietersen’s England’s wicket-keeper Matt versy this series after Australia’s winning the Ashes ... but as players all that the story is. angry response. “I think he wanted to be Prior attends a training ses- Channel Nine television alleged on stuff is out of our control.” “The mileage it’s been given has been a bit sure he cleared his name pretty quickly,” the sion ahead of the fourth Ashes Wednesday that England’s Kevin The series has been dogged by controver- strange and it’s not great when you’ve been England captain added. “He gave the story cricket Test match between Pietersen was among players on sial umpiring decisions and there have been called a cheat as a side and have been accused no legs and personally I think he was entitled England and Australia at the both sides suspected of using sili- several occasions when Hotspot has failed to of something you haven’t done.” to do that for something as stupid as that.” Riverside Stadium in Chester- cone tape on their bats to avoid pick up edges. Australia skipper Michael Clarke con- Channel Nine have refused to comment so le-Street, north-east England, nicks being detected by “Hot England’s leading batsman Kevin Pietersen curred with his opposite number. far. REUTERS Spot” technology. yesterday. AFP FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Montreal Masters MONTREAL, Quebec: Results on the third day of the Montreal Masters on Wednesday (x denotes seed): Nadal holds off Janowicz Third Round (yesterday) Rafael Nadal (ESP x4) bt Jerzy Janowicz Montreal Masters: The Spaniard reaches quarters; Murray advances (POL x15) 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 Second Round Denis Istomin (UZB) bt Filip Peliwo (CAN) MONTREAL: Rafael Nadal the first British Wimbledon men’s 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 denied Jerzy Janowicz’s upset singles title since 1936. bid with a 7-6(6), 6-4 vic- Murray’s victory puts him in Rafael Nadal (ESP x4) bt Jesse Levine (CAN) tory at the Montreal Masters a match against Latvian Ernests 6-2, 6-0 yesterday. Gulbis, a 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 winner over Marinko Matosevic (AUS) bt Tommy Haas Nadal survived a stern test Italian 13th seed Fabio Fognini. (GER x10) 5-0 - retired from the big-serving Pole, who “I was nervous beforehand, that had the first set on his racquet was a good sign. I’m pretty ready Benoit Paire (FRA) bt Stanislas Wawrinka at 6-5 and led by an early break to move forward and not think (SUI x8) 6-2, 7-6 (7/2) in the second. too much about Wimbledon and Tomas Berdych (CZE x5) bt Alexandr In the first set, Nadal had three concentrate on the US Open,” Dolgopolov (UKR) 6-3, 6-4 set points to break at 5-4, but Murray said. Janowicz held and would go on “If I’d lost today, it would have Vasek Pospisil (CAN) bt Radek Stepanek to surprise the Spaniard with an just broken the momentum a lit- (CZE) 6-2, 6-4 immediate break of serve. tle bit. The more matches I can Ernests Gulbis (LAT) bt Fabio Fognini (ITA The World No. 4 broke at 30/40 get in the next few weeks, the x13) 6-3, 1-6, 6-1 in the next game to send the set better.” into a tie-break. At 5-6 in the Murray, the reigning US Open Andy Murray (GBR x2) bt Marcel Granollers tie-break, Janowicz fought off a champion, had his teething trou- (ESP) 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) fourth set point with a dead net bles early against Granollers, who Jerzy Janowicz (POL x15) bt Frank Dancevic cord backhand winner but was won the Kitzbuhel clay court title (CAN) 7-6 (7/5), 3-6, 6-4 unable to stave off the fifth, with last weekend. Milos Raonic (CAN x11) bt Mikhail Youzhny Nadal capturing the set in one Murray won the opening set hour and nine minutes. in just under an hour, despite (RUS) 6-4, 6-4 Janowicz then grabbed an early 19 unforced errors to 18 for his Nikolay Davydenko (RUS) bt Pablo Andujar 3-0 lead in the second set and was opponent. (ESP) 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 threatening to secure a double Murray then fought back from Alex Bogomolov (RUS) bt David Ferrer (ESP break but Nadal fought back, lev- 2-5 down in the second set, sav- x3) 6-2, 6-4 eling at 4-4 before breaking again ing a set point in the 10th game and serving out the match. before finally guaranteeing a Juan Martin del Potro (ARG x6) bt Ivan Nadal improved his hard court tiebreaker. Dodig (CRO) 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 winning streak to 8-0 this year Trailing 0-2 in the decider, the after winning the BNP Paribas world number two clicked into WTA Toronto Open, in Indian Wells, in March. gear to run out the winner on Rafael Nadal of Spain serves to Jerzy Janowicz of Poland during the Montreal Masters at Uniprix Stadium in He is also into his 57th ATP World the first of four match points as Montreal, Quebec, Canada, yesterday. Second Round Tour Masters 1000 quarter-final. Granollers committed his final Earlier, French Open cham- unforced error. Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) bt Varvara pion Nadal, seeded fourth, showed Murray, the champion in Lepchenko (USA) 6-4, 6-2 no mercy to Canada’s Jesse Levine Canada in 2009 and 2010, now Marion Bartoli (FRA x7) bt Lauren Davis in a 6-2, 6-0 win as the Spaniard stands 35-5 for the season. Serena cruises in Toronto (USA) 6-0, 6-3 returned to action for the first In a rain-interrupted match, time since his shock Wimbledon third seed David Ferrer lost TORONTO, Canada: Serena also won their Toronto openers in Sloane Stephens (USA x14) bt Mona Barthel opening round loss to Steve to Alex Bogomolov 6-2, 6-4 Williams, who captured the straight sets. (GER) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 Darcis six weeks ago. while sixth seed and weekend Rogers Cup in 2001 and 2011, Serena Williams blasted five Alize Cornet (FRA) bt Maria Kirilenko (RUS Nadal saved three break points Washington champion Juan easily won her opening match aces and won 68 percent of her while breaking Levine five times Martin del Potro struggled before this year by beating former first-serve points against the x11) 7-5, 7-5 in 71 minutes on court. finally overcoming Croatian Ivan French Open champ Francesca Italian veteran. Roberta Vinci (ITA x10) bt Ekaterina “The knee is not bothering me Dodig 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. Schiavone in straight sets The error-prone Schiavone hit Makarova (RUS) 6-0, 6-4 much,” said Nadal. “In the last The Argentine winner came yesterday. nine double faults and won just couple of days, I was able to prac- from two breaks down in the final The top seeded Williams elimi- 25 percent of her second-serve Li Na (CHN x4) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova tice with no limitation, that is the set to rescue the match and reach nated Italy’s Schiavone 6-3, 6-2 in points. (RUS) 6-1, 6-4 most important thing. the third round. the WTA Tour’s $2.4m hardcourt Williams said she is confident Jelena Jankovic (SRB x15) bt Sharon “After seven weeks without Canadian Vasek Pospisil, who is tournament. going forward in the tournament. Fichman (CAN) 6-4, 7-6 (8/6) playing tennis, you start a tour- ranked 71st in the world, followed “She’s a grand slam champion “It took me a few games to nament on hard court, that is up his defeat of John Isner in so I had to really focus,” said adjust to her game. Now I feel like Sara Errani (ITA x5) bt Klara Zakopalova tougher for the body. the first round by routing Czech Williams, who was the runner- I’m completely adjusted, and I feel (CZE) 6-2, 7-6 (7/2) “You always feel a few things at Radek Stepanek 6-2, 6-4 in the up in Toronto in 2000. “I made a good going into the next round,” the beginning. But hopefully those second round. few errors but it’s my first match Williams said. Ana Ivanovic (SRB x16) bt Flavia Pennetta things will not limit my chances He was joined in the third on hard (courts) in a really long Fourth-seeded Li stormed to (ITA) 6-4, 6-4 to play well.” round by compatriot and world time.” a 6-1, 6-4 win against Russia’s Kirsten Flipkens (BEL x13) bt Kiki Bertens Wimbledon champion Andy number 11 Milos Raonic, who Williams next faces No.13 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova while (NED) 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 Murray competed on hard courts produced a smooth victory over Kirsten Flipkens, who beat Dutch seventh seed Bartoli, who won for the first time in five months Mikhail Youzhny 6-4, 6-4. qualifier Kiki Bertens 7-5, 3-6, her first Grand Slam title at Serena Williams (USA x1) bt Francesca by reaching the third round of the Fifth seed Tomas Berdych 6-2. Wimbledon last month, took the Schiavone (ITA) 6-3, 6-2 Serena Williams of the US Montreal Masters. beat Alexandr Dolgopolov of Flipkens ousted Venus Williams first seven games of her match Sorana Cirstea (ROM) bt Caroline Wozniacki Second seed Murray shook off the Ukraine 6-3, 6-4, but Swiss screams after a point during in the first round earlier this with America’s Lauren Davis in (DEN x9) 5-7, 7-6 (7/0), 6-4 his post-Wimbledon cobwebs with eighth seed Stanislas Wawrinka her match against Francesca week, but this will be the first a 6-0, 6-3 victory. a fighting 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) victory fell to his French practice partner Schiavone of France of the career match between her and Romania’s Sorana Cirstea Petra Kvitova (CZE x6) bt Eugenie Bouchard over Marcel Granollers. Benoit Paire 6-2, 7-6 (7/2). Rogers Cup Toronto at Rexall Serena Williams. pulled off one of the biggest 6-3, 6-2 The win -- his 13th in succes- Wawrinka was the only Swiss Centre at York University in Last year’s runner-up Li Na, upsets of the event so far by beat- sion -- came just over a month in the field after Roger Federer Toronto, Canada, yesterday. of China, Wimbledon champion ing world number 10 Caroline Samantha Stosur (AUS x12) bt Carla Suarez after the Scot made history with pulled out. AGENCIES Marion Bartoli and Petra Kvitova Wozniacki in three sets. AFP Navarro (ESP) 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 Furyk takes charge at Oak Hill

ROCHESTER, UNITED STATES/NEW first major title since the 2008 US Open, closed US Open winner Graeme McDowell. “A bit of YORK: Jim Furyk fired a five under par with a double bogey at the par-4 ninth to finish rain overnight softened the greens and guys 65, his lowest first-round score in 73 career on one-over 71. were able to take it on a little bit. The pins majors, to seize the early clubhouse lead Woods, also looking for a record-tying fifth weren’t brutal.” yesterday at the PGA Championship while PGA Championship crown, began on the back Late starters included Masters champion top-ranked Tiger Woods struggled. nine and birdied the par-5 13th and sank an Adam Scott of Australia, US Open champion Furyk, the 2003 US Open champion, has not eight-foot birdie putt at the par-3 15th and Justin Rose of England, British Open win- won since the 2010 Tour Championship but the saved pars at 17 and 18 after missing the green. ner Phil Mickelson of the United States and 43-year-old American fired six birdies at Oak But Woods found trouble on the front side, defending champion Rory McIlroy. Hill to launch his quest for a 17th career title. missing a four-footer for birdie at the second Fraser opened with back-to-back bogeys, “I had a good ball-striking day,” Furyk said and finding rough and a bunker on his way to birided the fourth and had back-to-back bird- yesterday. a bogey at the par-5 fourth. ies at the sixth and seventh as well as the 13th The American added: “I felt like the course He made a motion after his second shot as and 14th holes. would set up well for me. It’s set up like a US if to throw his club before holding onto it and Casey opened with a bogey at the 10th, bird- Open course. his temper. ied the first two holes on the front nine and “I missed one drive in the heavy stuff but At 18, Woods found the greenside rough answered a bogey at the third with back-to- overall a good day. It was good to get my feet with his second shot and plopped his third back birdies on the next two holes and another under me. I got relaxed and settled into my into a bunker. birdie at the par-4 seventh. game. I got on a roll and got a lot of confidence The world number one, blasted out with his Kuchar’s bogey-free day saw birdies at the out there.” fourth but lipped out on a 12-foot bogey putt 18th, second and fifth holes while Garrigus, Furyk opened with a birdie at the 10th, and sat well back with more than half the field also a back-nine starter, birdied the 11th, 12th added a birdie at the 16th and followed with still on the course. and par-5 13th holes. back-to-back birdies at the 18th and first. Hearn, who grew up five blocks from ice After a bogey at 18, he birdied the second He made another at the par-4 fifth and yet hockey legend Wayne Gretzky’s home, had and fourth then ended with two bogeys and another at the seventh to grab a two-stroke bookend bogeys to open and close his round two birdies over his final four holes. edge on the field before closing with a bogey but was solid in between. Meanwhile, American Bo Van Pelt with- at the ninth. He birdied the second, the par-5 fourth drew from the PGA Championship yesterday That left Furyk one stroke in front of and the par-3 sixth holes, began the back with a hip injury after battling his way to a Canada’s David Hearn with England’s nine birdie-birdie and added another at the 10-over-par 80 in the opening round at Oak Paul Casey, Australian Marcus Fraser and par-4 16th. Hill Country Club. Americans Matt Kuchar and Robert Garrigus “It feels good for me to be in contention,” Van Pelt, whose only PGA Tour victory another stroke adrift on 67. Hearn said. “I’ve really been playing somne came at the 2009 Milwaukee Championship, “To be in this position is going to be a great good golf the last few months.” was making his eighth appearance in the sea- learning experience for me,” Hearn said. Clear skies made for perfect playing condi- son’s final major. Jim Furyk of the United States smiles on the ninth green after his five- He added: “I’m excited about the next three tions after an overnight storm did eased the The 38-year-old’s best PGA Championship under par 65 during the first round of the 95th PGA Championship in days.” formidable 7,163-yard, par-70 layout. finish was a tie for 17th in the 2005 edition at Rochester, New York, yesterday. Woods, a 14-time major winner seeking his “Benign conditions this morning,” said 2010 Baltusrol. AFP FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2013 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

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Hot chocolate Johannesburg tops can improve African millionaires list JOHANNESBURG: The “city of gold” topped the continent’s memory: Study rich list with 23,400 millionaires at the end of 2012, according to New World Wealth, a consultancy based in Oxford in the UK. It WASHINGTON: Hot choco- is followed by Cairo in Egypt with 12,300 millionaires and Lagos late can help older people keep in Nigeria with 9,800. their brains healthy, a research Johannesburg became the economic engine of Africa after the has shown. discovery of gold in 1886, rapidly transforming from a settlement of Two cups of cocoa a day boosted tents and wood and iron shacks to a modern metropolis. It claims to blood flow to the brain and be the world’s biggest city not built on or near a major water source, improved the memories of vol- and to host the world’s biggest urban artificial forest. unteers with narrowed arteries. Despite one of the slowest economic growth rates in Africa, The study involved 60 people South Africa has four cities in the dollar millionaires top 10. Cape with an average age of 73 who Town, a darling of tourists, is in fourth place with 9,000, Durban is were not suffering from demen- sixth with 2,700 and Pretoria eighth with 2,500. tia. Only the 18 members of the The highest-ranking city in east Africa is Nairobi, the Kenyan group who had impaired blood capital, in fifth place with 5,000. Casablanca in Morocco is seventh flow benefited from drinking with 2,700. Luanda, the capital of Angola, often said to be most hot chocolate. After a month, expensive city in the world in which to live, is ninth with 2,400. The they experienced an 8.3 percent top 10 is completed by Algiers in Algeria with 2,300. improvement in flow to working Wealthy South Africans include Johann Rupert, the luxury areas of the brain. Test scores The ‘Picasso’s attic’ at Hotel de Savoie on the Rue des Grands Augustins in Paris. goods tycoon, Nicky Oppenheimer, of the diamond mining dynasty, of their working memory also and Patrice Motsepe, the country’s sole black billionaire, who this improved, with recall times fall- year donated half his fortune to charity. Africa’s richest man is ing from an average of 167 seconds the Nigerian cement entrepreneur Aliko Dangote, with a personal to 116 seconds. fortune estimated at $11.2bn. Dr Farzaneh Sorond, from In the top 10 country rankings, South Africa comes out on top Harvard Medical School in Picasso’s studio at with 48,800 millionaires, followed by Egypt with 23,000 and Nigeria Boston, who led the study with 15,900. reported online in the journal New World Wealth’s report said Accra in Ghana was expected to Neurology, said: “We’re learning be the fastest-growing major city for African millionaires, with the more about blood flow in the brain number rising from 800 in 2012 to 1,500 in 2020. and its effect on thinking skills. centre of bitter tussle Ethiopia and the Ivory Coast are expected to be the fastest- “As different areas of the brain growing African markets for millionaires, with growth of 7.4 per- need more energy to complete PARIS: The 17th-century Artistique (CNEA), which has Socialist culture minister Jack cent a year to 2020. Zambia, Ghana and Angola are also expected their tasks, they also need greater Hotel de Savoie on the Rue des maintained it as a venue for exhi- Lang. to grow strongly. blood flow.” Grands Augustins in the chic bitions and children’s workshops. Picasso moved into the stu- Half the participants were 6th arrondissement of Paris Now the building’s owners want dio after separating from his given hot chocolate rich in anti- is one of the grand mansions it back and have issued an evic- wife Olga; 7 Rue des Grands oxidant flavanol plant compounds for which the French capital is tion order, sparking a bitter legal Augustins was already familiar to Vengeful groom burns while the other half received low- famous. row over the future of the stu- him as it featured in the opening flavanol cocoa. Flavanol content A greying plaque next to the dio. The Chambre des Huissiers scene of Balzac’s The Unknown made no difference to the results, building’s wrought iron gates, de Justice (Chamber of Legal Masterpiece, a literary work he down wedding venue the researchers found. however, reveals added historic Bailiffs), which acquired the admired. Dr Paul Rosenberg, from Johns value. “Pablo Picasso lived in this building in 1925, says it plans a It was here that Picasso sat JOHANNESBURG: An angry South African groom set fire to Hopkins School of Medicine building between 1936 and 1955. much-needed ¤5m renovation of out the Nazi occupation of Paris, a wedding venue after the facility cancelled his reception party in Baltimore, US, who wrote It is in this studio he painted the Hotel de Savoie. a time of alternating harassment over unpaid fees, a news website reported yesterday. an editorial accompanying the Guernica in 1937”, it proclaims. It says the agreement with and wooing of left-leaning intel- Jean Greyling, 28, admitted to starting the fire which burnt down study, said: “More work is needed Today, the Hotel de Savoie has the committee expired in 2010, lectuals by the Germans. When the reception hall near the central town of Bloemfontein, causing to prove a link between cocoa, seen better days. However, the since when the organisation has one German officer tried to bribe damage worth over 3.5 million rand ($356,000), according to the blood flow problems and cognitive studio, which Honore de Balzac “squatted” the premises, ignor- the artist with extra coal to heat Afrikaans news website Beeld. decline. But this is an important described as “so large that the ing requests to leave. Its eviction his studio, Picasso reportedly The July 27 reception was cancelled a day before because he still first step that could guide future skylight fails to illuminate the order, upheld by a Paris court, refused, retorting: “A Spaniard is hadn’t paid the fees. studies.” corners” and which is reached gave the CNEA until Wednesday never cold!”. The fire started shortly after midnight on July 28 and Greyling Dr Doug Brown, director of via an impressive entrance hall this week to get out. In his book Conversations had been spotted in the area a short while earlier, the news site research and development at the and spiral staircase, is recognis- The CNEA has called on the with Picasso, Gyula Halasz, the reported. Greyling was charged with arson and released on bail. No Alzheimer’s Society, said: “From able from photos showing Picasso French president, Francois Hungarian photographer, sculp- one was hurt in the blaze. this small but interesting study, at work here. Hollande, to list the studio as a tor and filmmaker known as Other creditors — including the cake baker and florist — said they it seems that cocoa helps improve For more than a decade, le special “landmark” site, and has Brassai, wrote that Picasso loved also hadn’t been paid by Greyling for their services. blood supply to the brain, there- grenier de Picasso (Picasso’s attic) garnered support from the great the spacious studio that made him Meanwhile, his bride, Lianne, appeared in court last week on fore having a knock-on effect of has been occupied rent-free by a and good, including the actor feel “he was inside a ship with its unrelated charges for fraud worth over 5.2 million rand ($530,000). improving people’s cognition. private cultural organisation, the Charlotte Rampling, philosopher bridge, its stores, its hold”. AGENCIES AGENCIES Comite National Pour l’Education Bernard-Henri Levy and former THE GUARDIAN