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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 MUHARRAM 4 , 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Assembly to Tunisia Islamists Rousseff Roethlisberger reopen with concede election vows dialogue, and Brady hope of defeat to reform after enjoy vintage cooperation2 secular 8party narrow9 win performances20 US calls on allies to Max 35º Min 19º High Tide combat IS ideology 01:16 & 15:22 Low Tide Coalition urged to fight Daesh in cyberspace 08:44 & 20:42 40 PAGES NO: 16325 150 FILS By Ben Garcia and Agencies

KUWAIT: The United States is press- ing Arab nations and other allies to do more to counter the Islamic State group’s slick propaganda campaign, with a top American envoy yesterday describing efforts to combat the extremist messages as a vital pillar in the fight to defeat the group. Washington also unveiled what it called an information coalition with Muslim and Western nations to com- bat efforts by IS to recruit online and stoke sectarian hatred through a “cult of violence”. Speaking at a gath- ering of anti-IS coalition partners in Kuwait at the Sheraton Hotel, retired US Gen John Allen said it is up to all members of the alliance to “clearly, KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah meets Gen KUWAIT: Gen John Allen, in charge of coordinating the US-led coalition’s fight against forcefully and consistently” reject the Allen yesterday. — KUNA Islamic State militants, Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah and group’s ideology and offer alterna- young people and expose ISIL for the ISIL’s propaganda in cyberspace and Qatari foreign minister’s assistant Mohamed bin Abdullah Al-Rumaihi attend a meet- tives to it. un-Islamic cult of violence it really is the press,” he said. “There is a continu- ing yesterday. (Inset) Richard Stengel, the US undersecretary of state for diplomacy Allen, who is tasked with coordi- ... that ISIL will truly be defeated,” he um between security and privacy, and public affairs, speaks during a press conference. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat nating the US-led coalition, charac- said, using an alternate acronym for between security and freedom and in terized the fight in the communica- the group. order to battle against ISIL, nobody tions sphere as a crucial element of Allen called on participating coun- wanted to restrict freedom of expres- MP demands cap on rents an overall strategy that also includes tries to intensify their public affairs sion and freedom of speech.” confronting the group militarily and engagement as the coalition moves Allen was joined in Kuwait by By B Izzak KD 400 and more. A three-bedroom flat should have a attempting to cut off its finances. “It forward, denying IS the support it Undersecretary of State for Public rent of KD 250, while current rent now exceeds KD 500. is only when we contest ISIL’s pres- seeks. “I strongly encourage partici- Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard KUWAIT: MP Abdullah Al-Tameemi proposed yesterday Meanwhile, HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- ence online, deny the legitimacy of pants to set forth tangible work plans Stengel, who told reporters that an that the government should impose a cap on rents, Sabah will open the new parliamentary term today with the message it sends to vulnerable that will directly and rapidly counter Continued on Page 13 which have seen a steep rise in the past few months. a speech expected to focus on calls for cooperation Tameemi proposed an amendment to the 1978 rents amid what appears to be political calm in the country. law in which rents are calculated on the basis of KD 5 But the term opens amid rumors that the government per square meter, provided that a room’s rent should plans to revoke the citizenship of a lawmaker for not exceed KD 50 and that of a studio not more than KD allegedly obtaining the nationality on the basis of false 100, while other utilities are free. Based on Tameemi’s documents. MP Faisal Al-Shemmari said that the rumors proposal, the monthly rent of a two-bedroom apart- were baseless and were made in the past and he had ment should not exceed KD 200 while its market rate is denied them, insisting that his citizenship is legitimate. Outrage after South Africa football captain shot dead

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s president yesterday led a shocked nation in voicing outrage at the murder Gulf capital of national football captain Senzo Meyiwa after the tal- ismanic goalkeeper was shot dead during a home rob- outflow low bery. Police said the 27-year-old was killed late Sunday after burglars broke in to the house of pop-star girl- DUBAI: Capital outflows from Gulf Arab states have friend Kelly Khumalo, totalled only about $780 million since the US Federal making off with a cell Reserve unveiled its plan to wind down asset pur- phone. More than 17,000 chases in May last year, a small fraction of the money people were killed in leaving other emerging markets, according to a South Africa last year, study by the International Monetary Fund. The IMF but the slaying of a pop- study, published yesterday, appears to confirm that ular sporting hero has because of their large current account and state stunned even this crime- budget surpluses, the Gulf oil exporters are seen by weary nation. international investors as better equipped to handle a period of rising interest rates than most areas of “Words cannot the world. express the nation’s Combined bond and equity outflows from the six- shock at this loss,” said nation Gulf Cooperation Council - Saudi Arabia, the President Jacob Zuma, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and amid a national outpour- Bahrain - were equivalent to only 0.05 percent of ing of grief and anger. gross domestic product or 3.5 percent of assets Zuma said police must under management between May 2013 and July Senzo Meyiwa “leave no stone 2014, the study found. That compares with cumula- unturned in finding his killers” and bringing them to jus- tive outflows from other emerging markets of $79 tice. Fighting back a flood of tears, national football billion, equivalent to 0.35 percent of GDP and 6.1 coach Shakes Mashaba described Meyiwa as a “very percent of assets under management. kind person” who was the first name on his teamsheet. Initially, outflows from the Gulf countries were Teammates at his local club Orlando Pirates team-mates broadly in line with those from other emerging mar- were sobbing and crying uncontrollably during a team kets, but they have been much smaller since early meeting yesterday, according to club officials. 2014, the IMF found. — Reuters (See Page 21) Continued on Page 13 Rise in Saudi MERS cases

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Health Ministry yesterday urged the country, Health Ministry figures show, with seven con- residents of the world’s top oil exporter to renew precau- firmed cases in Riyadh, six in Makkah, five in Taif and one tions against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) each in Madinah, al-Jouf, Najran, Hofuf and Jubail. Three of after a rise in new cases of the disease since early the new cases were health workers. Scientists are not sure of September. The Health Ministry has announced a total of the origin of the virus, but several studies have linked it to 23 confirmed new cases this month of the virus, which camels and some experts think it is being passed to humans causes coughing, fever and sometimes fatal pneumonia. In through close physical contact or through the consumption addition to the 12 cases detected in September, this brings of camel meat or camel milk. the total number in the kingdom to 777 since it was identi- The disease can then spread between people, and the fied in 2012, of which 331 died. largest previous outbreaks, including one in Jeddah in April Other cases have been found elsewhere in the Middle and May that infected hundreds, have been linked to poor East, in European countries, the Far East and in the infection control procedures in hospitals. International United States, but many of those were found in people health monitors had worried that the disease might be who had travelled in Saudi Arabia. “The Health Ministry... spread abroad through the hajj pilgrimage, which took urged adherence to preventative measures to curb the place early this month in Makkah. Saudi authorities said at spread of the disease, and to avoid contact with infected the end of hajj that they had not detected any new cases of camels, and an emphasis on measures to combat infec- MERS among pilgrims, but of the new cases confirmed in tion in health facilities,” said a statement carried by the October, seven were in the pilgrimage centres of Makkah official Saudi Press Agency. and Madinah and five in nearby Taif, which many pilgrims The increase in cases in October has been evident across also visit. — Reuters TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 LOCAL

Crude oil exports to China at 6-mth high BEIJING: Kuwait’s crude oil exports to supplier, but its shipments fell 2.7 percent China jumped 64.5 percent in September to 1.16 million bpd, followed by Angola from a year earlier to a six-month high of with 843,000 bpd, down 13.2 percent. 1.17 million tons, equivalent to around Russia emerged third place, with imports 285,000 barrels per day (bpd), latest gov- from the country surging 56.7 percent to ernment data showed. Volume of Kuwaiti 695,000 bpd. Oman ranked fourth and Iraq crude oil shipments to the world’s second- fifth, respectively. biggest energy consumer marked the high- According to estimates by the US est level since March, when it hit 1.25 mil- Energy Information Administration (EIA), lion tons (295,000 bpd), according to the China made up nearly a third of global oil General Administration of Customs. China’s demand growth in 2013. The EIA projects overall imports of crude oil last month that China is likely to surpass the US in net grew 7.4 percent on the year to 27.58 mil- oil imports on an annual basis in 2014 as lion tons (6.74 million bpd). US oil production and Chinese oil demand Saudi Arabia remained country’s top increase simultaneously. — KUNA Kuwait wins 4-year

KUWAIT: National Assembly Guards will wear new ceremonial uniforms with the beginning of the 14th parliamentary term. The guards will wear white jackets during the opening ceremony, which reminds of the guards of the founding parliament that marked commencing Kuwait’s democratic life. — KUNA member seat at ITU

Assembly to open with KUWAIT: Kuwait won a four-year member four years,” he noted. Kuwait has been an seat at the International Telecommunications active member of the Union since 1982, with Union (ITU) Council after securing 121 votes noticeable financial and administrative con- yesterday during ITU’s 19th Plenipotentiary tributions. hope of cooperation Conference, currently being held in Busan, The ITU is a specialized UN agency that is South Korea. Up to 18 Asian states competed responsible for issues that concern informa- for 13 seats, and Kuwait came fifth in the tion and communication technologies. It elections, head of the Kuwaiti delegation coordinates shared global use of the radio Amir to deliver communique and Ambassador to the Republic of South spectrum, promotes international coopera- Korea Jassim Al-Bidaiwi told KUNA. tion in assigning satellite orbits, works to KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s third ordi- and education affairs; foreign affairs; labor, 2013, Speaker Ghanem announced in a press “This win comes in assertion of Kuwait’s improve telecommunication infrastructure in nary session of the 14th legislative term will social and health affairs; public utilities affairs; conference results of a referendum on citizens’ respectful international status. This would the developing world, and assists in the kick off today with much hope for optimism final account and budget, protection of public main concerns and priorities, with housing top- enable Kuwait to contribute in the process of development and coordination of worldwide and positivity driven by a desire of achievement funds and complaints and petitions. ping the list, followed by developing healthcare decision-making at the Union for the next technical standards. — KUNA and cooperation by the legislative and execu- During the last session of the 14th legislative services and education. The results led to hold- tive authorities. The most recent indication of term, the Assembly passed 152 laws, while ing the first housing conference in Feb 2014, such political intention was voiced by Assembly inquiries by MPs mounted to 1,157, of which with visions and potential solutions for the Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem during a pro- 877 were addressed, according to a recent issue laid out for discussions, and with the par- tocol dinner he held on Sunday that gathered report by the Assembly’s General Secretariat. ticipation of specialized local and international members of both branches, as he described the Moreover, the second term saw a total of 12 entities as well as public campaigns. The confer- atmosphere of being “effective” and indicated a interpellations, with 10 proving constitutional, ence concluded with issuing a document with “true will for a productive session”. HH the Prime of which seven where discussed. The others all recommendations enclosed. Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- were not discussed due to the government’s The Assembly also issued the vital law of Sabah seconded Ghanem’s statement by saying resignation or unconstitutionality. The enabling a regular citizen or a public entity to “We will translate words into actions that would Assembly also discussed a number of contro- go directly to the constitutional court if “serious” satisfy citizens”. versial and significant issues such as housing, constitutional violations are suspected. Other According to the routine protocol, HH the the K-Dow deal, Capital Markets Authority law, major laws included the one on partnership Amir is to deliver the Amiri communique, fol- diversifying national income and preservation between government and private sectors, lowed by a speech by the speaker, then another of historic sites. establishing an authority for IT and communi- speech by the prime minister before the session The second term also saw the resignation of cations and another one for land transport and is adjourned to bid farewell to the Amir. The five MPs; Riyadh Al-Adasani, Abdulkarim Al- roads to affectively address the ongoing traffic Assembly will then resume the session to elect Kandari, Hussein Quwaiaan, Ali Al-Rashed and problem. The Assembly, during the last session, a general trustee, supervisor and members of Safaa Al-Hashem. All resignations were accept- launched its online service dubbed ‘contribute the permanent and ad hoc committees for the ed during a special session on May 15, 2014. By- in legislating’, which allows citizens the oppor- next session. The Assembly’s ten permanent elections were called for on June 26 to fill the tunity to participate and lend their opinions committees are those specialized in legislative empty seats. and proposals to parliamentary committees, and legal affairs; economic and financial affairs; Parliamentary elections for the 14th legisla- thus enhancing the scope of public involve- BUSAN, South Korea: The Kuwaiti delegation is seen at the International Telecommunications defense and interior affairs; guidance, culture tive term were held on July 27, 2013. On Sept 6, ment. — KUNA Union (ITU) Council’s 19th Plenipotentiary Conference yesterday. — KUNA

KUWAIT: Ambassador of Georgia Roland Beridzde hosted a reception on the occasion of Georgia’s Independence Day at Crowne Plaza Hotel at the weekend. Officials, diplomats and media persons attended the reception. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 LOCAL

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KUWAIT: National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters Secretary General Ali Al-Youha, his assistant for arts Mohammed Al-Assousi and Palestinian Ambassador to Kuwait Rami Tahboub opened the Palestine Cultural Week on Sunday. The ceremony that was attended by diplomats, members of the media and members of the Palestinian community in Kuwait included an exhibition of handicrafts and Palestinian traditional clothes in addition to other Palestinian art. Cooperation foundation of work: PM Meeting reflects solidarity: Ghanem • Oil fall won’t affect development: Omair

KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al- the financial surplus that the government seeks to Hamad Al-Sabah said late on Sunday that cooperation increase investment for future generations, said Omair, between the government and parliament was “the foun- but the drop in prices was not restricted to Kuwait but the dation of constitutional work”. He expressed optimism the entire world. He hoped oil prices would be stable at levels next legislative session, due to begin today, would be full benefitting producers and consumers. of achievements. “Our (constitutional) oath compels us to Asked about halt of oil production in the divided zone be optimistic,” Sheikh Jaber said in a brief statement to with Saudi Arabia, Omair cited Foreign Undersecretary reporters after a dinner banquet hosted by Speaker Khaled Al-Jarallah who attributed cessation of production Marzouq Al-Ghanem for members of the executive and to “purely technical and not political reasons”. Omair legislative authorities. “We will translate words into deeds hoped these issues are addressed through dialogue. that will please the citizens,” added the prime minister. Omair said the prime minister underlined during the din- Ghanem said meetings between members of the exec- ner banquet that the government would spare no effort utive and legislative authorities reflected solidarity of to bring about success of relations with the parliament Kuwait’s society. “Differences in views will not harm the within the constitutional framework. Sheikh Jaber said common causes,” Ghanem told reporters after hosting the criticism of ministers was useful to avoid mistakes, Omair dinner banquet. He said the atmosphere of the meeting said, who hoped the next legislative session would be full reflected a strong desire for a constructive legislative ses- of achievements. sion. Ghanem said the previous legislative term should be New Minister of Education and Minister of Higher analyzed in order to avoid mistakes in future. The speaker Education Dr Bader Hamad Al-Issa said instructions of HH expressed optimism of a “successful” legislative term. the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah fol- He underlined that questioning was a legitimate right lowing the constitutional oath set out the “roadmap we of every MP but must be within “sound constitutional will follow”. Issa, who was sworn in before the Amir on the frameworks”. Ghanem was asked about the interpellations occasion of his appointment, hoped these instructions in the previous legislative session, and said grillings did would contribute to the development of government not hamper achievements. “We witnessed 12 interpella- work. Senior managements and employees at the min- tions, and most of them were constitutional, and the istries of education and higher education need to join house dealt with them in a constitutional manner,” he said. hands to address issues of concern, Issa told KUNA on The parliament, said Ghanem, succeeded in aborting all sidelines of the dinner banquet. attempts to undermine constitutional methods. Meanwhile, Yaqoub Al-Sane, the new Minister of Meanwhile, Oil Minister Dr Ali Al-Omair said oil prices’ Justice, Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs said he was decline “has no impact on the development plan”, as cur- looking forward for achievement of justice and compre- rent prices are over $75 per barrel, the benchmark value hensive reforms. Sane said his priority would be address- set by the general budget. Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber ing the red tape concerning the execution of judicial sen- has affirmed that the government was “committed” to the tences and real estate registration. He also said that the plan presented to parliament, Omair, also Minister of State ministry of awqaf and Islamic affairs should work hard on KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (left) and National Assembly Speaker for National Assembly Affairs, told reporters following the strengthening moderation by fighting extremist ideas Marzouq Al-Ghanem are seen at a dinner banquet hosted by Ghanem for members of the executive and legislative dinner banquet. It is normal that oil prices’ decline affects aimed at tarnishing the merits of Islam. authorities late Sunday in Abdullah Al-Salem. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat FM inspects exams for new diplomats Guideline will lead to

KUWAIT: First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. free, objective media Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday inspected at the Saud Al-Nasser Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled was accompanied by the institute director Al-Sabah Kuwaiti Diplomatic Institute the new tests for applicants to Ambassador Abdulaziz Ali Al-Sharekh, administrative and financial man- KUWAIT: It is time for Arab countries to draw serve as diplomatic attaches and consuls at the Foreign Ministry. agement director Ambassador Jamal Abdullah Al-Ghanim, Director of up a media guideline to achieve a free and The minister wished the applicants to succeed in the tests in order to First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Ministerís bureau Ambassador objective outlook for the media, Kuwaiti serve their country and raise the name of Kuwait at international forums Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, Acting Director of Minister of Information and Minister of State under the wise leadership of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Office Saleh Salem Al- for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Salem Jaber Al-Sabah Al-Sabah and HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Loughani and a number of Foreign Ministry officials. — KUNA Al-Humoud Al-Sabah stressed yesterday. Speaking exclusively to “Asharq Alwsat” newspaper, Sheikh Salman added that the media industry in the Arab world is facing many challenges due to regional alliances and favoritism that hinder the establishment of a unified media. He added that Arab media should also have the ability to keep up with its peers in the West that have a free Sheikh Salman and current outlook to many political, social, economic, artistic and many other events. and believe in promoting constructive dis- Moreover, the minister pointed out that course to achieve peace among nations. For Kuwaiti media believes in delivering a mes- that reason, Sheikh Salman explained that sage of rejecting and combating terrorism Kuwaiti media has always strived to instill and calls for open dialogue to reach solu- Arab and Islamic heritage and values - this tions. The media in the rest of the GCC coun- can be seen through many literary and tries is following suit and has the same intellectual publications that has started objectives of spreading rational and humani- with the first issue of Al-Arabi Magazine in tarian discourse away from resorting to vio- 1958. The minister pointed out that since lence.”The intricate reality of the region Kuwait rejects and condemns terrorism in demands from not only Kuwaiti media but all of its forms, the country’s media adopts also Arab ones to have an honest and patri- the same address and tries to call for peace- otic stance that takes into account the Arab ful dialogue through its various media plat- countries’ interests,” he added. forms as well as by holding many intellectu- Hence, it is of outmost important that al and cultural conferences locally and inter- KUWAIT: Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah inspects the new tests for applicants at the Saud Al-Nasser Al-Sabah media outlets should be transparent, just nationally. — KUNA Kuwaiti Diplomatic Institute yesterday. — KUNA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 LOCAL ‘Journey of Hope’ pride of GCC, Arabs Sheikh Thamer welcomes expedition members Kuwait takes part in Horeca Kuwait healthy cities meet 2015 supports ATHENS: A Kuwaiti delegation has taken part in the 2014 International Healthy Cities Conference, exchang- Al-Zad’s plans ing information and expertise with counterparts from various countries during the gathering, hosted by KUWAIT: Leaders Group Company for Consulting Greece. Dr Khaled Al-Sehlawi, and Development announced that more and more Undersecretary of the Ministry hospitality, catering and hotel equipment compa- of Health, said in remarks to nies have so far announced their intention to take KUNA, following conclusion of part in the fourth Horeca the conference, that it constitut- Kuwait 2015 exhibition due ed an opportunity to exchange to be held at the Badriya experience among the partici- Ballroom, Messilah pating delegations. Jumierah Hotel on Jan 19- Kuwait’s participation in the 21, 2015. In this regard, Al- convention constitutes a signifi- cant move toward enforcing Zad Trading Group RIYADH: Sheikh Thamer meets Journey of Hope members at the Kuwaiti Embassy. —KUNA announced its intention to Dr Khaled Al-Sehlawi health standards in various Kuwaiti governorates, in addi- participate in sponsoring success achieved by the Journey that started seven months RIYADH: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sheikh tion to the swap of expertise with international experts the Horeca Kuwait 2015 Thamer Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has said that the before, aiming to convey the civilized and humanitarian and masterminds of healthy towns’ initiatives, said exhibition for the third “Journey of Hope” that covered 19 countries is a source of image of Kuwait under HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Abdullah Al-Nafaisi Sehlawi. MoH is keen on implementing “the healthy time in a row because of pride on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Arab lev- Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who has rendered the mission his person- the ideal environment it els, emphasizing care for mentally disabled people. Kuwait al support. cities’ initiative,” he said, adding that the ministry had provides in the field of hotel, hospitality industry offers the Journey, with its elevated humanitarian symbol- Mission Executive Director Youssef Al-Jassem addressed established a committee for implementing it, also indi- and catering equipment services. ism, to Kuwaitis suffering mental disabilities in a bid to help the gathering, thanking the Saudi authorities for facilitating cating at plans to coordinate with GCC cities at this level. Al-Zad’s CEO Abdullah Al-Nafaisi, stressed that assimilate them in the society, Sheikh Thamer told a party all procedures for the Journey of Hope in all the Saudi ports Dr Al-Sehlawi noted the approach to carry out “an Horeca had proved the significance of specialized held at the embassy for the Journey of Hope members they stopped at. He added that the Journey would then pro- integrated program encompassing seminars and work- exhibitions in promoting trade exchanges amongst Sunday night. ceed to Europe, then to the US where it would deliver its shops at the various governorates to promote the nec- companies as well as highlighting this vital field that He added that the Journey aims at conveying a message humanitarian “message of hope” at the Special Olympics essary concept of healthy cities.” For her part, Dr Huda is closely related to development and housing proj- that the mentally disabled are able to withstand difficulties, through the American media. It will stress that the disabled Al-Duweisan, the head of Abdullah Alabdul-Hadi ects as well as touristic plans Kuwait is currently traveling long distances by sea “hoping to realize achieve- are in need of more education, health and social care to Center, located in the Kuwaiti district Al-Yarmouk, called working on executing. He added that the exhibition ments for all to boast”. The Kuwaiti ambassador hailed the merge in the society. —KUNA for boosting voluntary activities to enable citizens play would be the largest gathering of specialized people a greater role in this realm. Conferees discussed diverse under one roof. relevant issues, such as boosting health of senior citi- Speaking about his group, Nafaisi said that it was zens in cities. The conference grouped 390 figures rep- established in 1994, and Al-Zad Group has become Humanitarian projects resenting 59 states. —KUNA one of Kuwait’s largest suppliers to hotels, restau- rants and catering companies. He added that it was established by a number of hotel owners including Crime Al-Sharqiya Hotels Company (Kuwait Sheraton), Al- launched in Cambodia Report Salhiya Real Estate Co (Marriott), Al-Huda for Touristic Hotels (Crowne Plaza), Wara Real Estate Co KUALA LUMPUR: Kuwaiti Ambassador to Cambodia Dhirar (Radisson SAS), Al-Aziziya United Company for Nasser Al-Tuwaijri laid the cornerstone of some humanitarian Police bust General Trading and Contracting (Messilah charitable projects in the capital Phnom Penh and the Jumeirah) and Kuwait Aviation Services Company provinces of Kandal and Takeo, at a total cost of about $1.7 (KASCO). “On this occasion, I remind that Al-Zad is million. Tuwaijri, in a telephone statement to KUNA, affirmed gambling den celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year,” he that Kuwait plays a leading role for the charitable work remarked. worldwide, lauding the national charities, humanitarian asso- By Hanan Al-Saadoun Speaking about the significance of Al-Zad’s partic- ciations and authorities, especially Kuwait Zakat House, for ipation at Horeca for the third time, Nafaisi said that their perseverance in improving the lives of others in need. KUWAIT: Vice police launched a dawn raid at a cafe in it is being held at a time when the group is witness- Kuwaiti charitable work has been since a long time one of Hawally and found 21 customers including citizens and ing a new phase of developing in the local market the pillars of diplomatic work. This policy prompted the expats gambling, said security sources, noting that detec- and said that communicating with those working in United Nations to designate HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- tives had been tipped off concerning the owner’s activity hospitality and tourism and various related sectors Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as a “Humanitarian Leader” and in organizing gambling events from 4 am to 9 am. The was of great importance for supporting Al-Zad’s Kuwait as a “Humanitarian Center”, Tuwaijri said. The corner- PHNOM PENH: The Kuwaiti envoy laid the corner- sources added that players were required to pay KD 10 plans and opening new markets for its products. stone laying ceremony was attended by a number of senior stone of $1.7 million charitable projects in per hour. officials from the Cambodian government. —KUNA Cambodia. —KUNA

Local, inter-Arab tourism key: Rifai

MADRID: Despite foreign market turbulences, it is key to promote internal and inter-Arab tourism to achieve better tourism in the Middle East, Secretary-General of World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Taleb Al-Rifai told KUNA yesterday. Rifai lauded measures that were taken at a recent meeting of the GCC ministers of tourism, where they discussed many tourism-related issues, most promi- nently the launch of a unified entry visa to the GCC coun- tries that would attract more tourists to the Gulf region. He pointed out that UNWTO is always working with Middle East countries to encourage intra-Arab Father smuggled phone to inmate son tourism that can be enhanced A citizen was arrested for attempting to smuggle a through setting up national and mobile phone to his son who is a prisoner at the economic strategies and improv- Central Prison, said security sources. Case papers indi- ing air transportation. As a result, cate that the prison force suspected the man, who was Arab countries would collectively visiting his son, and watched him and caught him in benefit from such an active flow the act of passing the phone to the inmate. of tourism traffic in and out of the region. Rifai stressed that full support Car chase in Jahra Taleb Al-Rifai from governments, private sec- tors and tourism companies is A citizen and a bedoon were arrested yesterday after a essential to achieve active tourism. He pointed out that long chase by policemen around Jahra Industrial Area data for the first half of 2014 showed a 4 percent decline in streets, said security sources, noting that on searching the the number of tourists in the Middle East, in comparison to suspects, policemen found drugs and KD 8,000. The men the same period in 2013. However, North African countries were also driving in a vehicle that had been reported such as Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Sudan have shown stolen. an increase of 6 percent of international tourists in the first six months of 2014. He dissected this data further by point- ing out the number of tourists who visited Palestine went Liquor dealer busted up by 26 percent, Oman 24 percent, Jordan 3 percent, UAE An Asian was arrested in Farwaniya with 24 large bot- 2 percent in the first half of 2014. tles and 11 small ones filled with homemade liquor. Egypt, nonetheless, showed a great decline of 25 per- The man has been detained and the liquor operation is cent, while no data was available for tourism in Saudi being investigated. In another case, a citizen was Arabia, he added. Despite these figures, Rifai assured arrested in Farwaniya with 16 liquor cartons, said secu- that tourism is a flexible market that can be turned into rity sources. profit easily. He added that a better flow of tourism would come anew once the region regains its security and stability. —KUNA Cause of death queried The body of a 36-year-old Egyptian was referred to forensic medicine upon instructions from the public prosecutor’s Sheikha Hessa office to determine the cause of death, especially with sus- picions of a homicide, said security sources. Case papers calls for creative indicate that the deceased’s brother had reported finding his brother motionless in Abu Fateera with head injuries anti-drug drives and bruises, added the sources noting that the man died immediately on arriving at Mubarak Hospital. KUWAIT: Honorary Chairwoman of the Arab Union for Combating Drugs Sheikha Hessa Saad Al-Abdullah Al- Salem Al-Sabah underscored yesterday the importance Natural death of creativity in campaigns and the efforts to build A Sri Lankan woman thought to have been murdered capacities of Arab cadres to achieve optimal results in was found to have died of natural causes. The woman’s countering addiction. The press remarks were made by corpse was found with a bloody nose but security Sheikha Hessa on the eve of a workshop on creativity in sources noted that medical tests showed that the media discourse to raise society’s awareness about drug woman had been taking blood thinning medications. addiction. She noted that the workshop would be held under the sponsorship of Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- Fights and broken bones Sabah on Oct 28-29. Sheikh Hessa stated that the A 27-year-old Indian man was rushed to Farwaniya workshop aims to train media and security people, Hospital’s ICU in critical condition after receiving several social workers, doctors, preachers and psychiatrists on stabs during a fight in Jleeb. Meanwhile a 25-year-old the application of the latest approaches and strategies Egyptian was taken to Mubarak Hospital ICU with a serious in raising awareness and educating the targeted seg- head injury he sustained during a fight in Jabriya, said ments of the society about the dangers of drug addic- security sources. tions. —KUNA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: Cabinet members pose for a group photo. — KUNA Cabinet strongly condemns Sinai attacks New appointments at several state bodies approved

KUWAIT: The Cabinet in its weekly meeting Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- The ministers endorsed appointing former members of the higher committee for public- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano. In his yesterday at Seif Palace, strongly condemned Sabah following the Cabinet meeting, head- minister of communications Salem Al- private sector partnership projects. The letter, Napolitano lauded the recent visit of Friday’s terrorist attacks that targeted securi- ed by HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Othiana as chairman of the board of the Cabinet endorsed the new line-up of the HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- ty sites in Sinai Peninsula, killing over 30 Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. The Cabinet telecommunication and information technol- manpower authority. It approved the Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. They were also Egyptian soldiers. As the Cabinet voices also sent condolences to Egyptian President ogy regulatory authority. They also endorsed appointment of 17 graduates as mid-lieu- informed about a letter to HH the Amir from Kuwait’s denunciation of this criminal act out Abdelfattah Al-Sisi, government, people and the authority’s new board. The Cabinet tenants in the navy and 17 others as second Guinean President Alpha Conde. The letter of its principled stance of rejecting all forms relatives of the victims. approved the appointment of Fadel Ali as lieutenants in the army. focused on bilateral relations and means to of terrorism, it also expresses Kuwaiti leader- Minister Sheikh Mohammad also unveiled assistant undersecretary at the Ministry of Earlier, the ministers were briefed about a boost them. The Cabinet also discussed the ship and people’s solidarity with Egyptian that the Cabinet has approved a number of Oil. It also gave the thumbs up to the letter addressed to HH the Amir Sheikh latest regional and international political people, said Minister of Cabinet Affairs appointments at several state institutions. appointment of the director general and Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah from developments. —KUNA Kuwait offers donation Shortage of nutritionists to Quds Open University due to lack of incentives

AMMAN: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Jordan Kuwaiti aid to the Palestinians. KUWAIT: Lack of a sufficient number of as well as lack of incentives for the special- Hamad Al-Duaij yesterday handed over a Chairperson of the Gulf Education nutritionists and food experts has led to ists to get jobs in the relevant State authori- KD 30,000 ($104,000) donation offered Organization Amena Al-Aaoor, expressed spread of many health problems in the ties. These specialists face hazard of con- by the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic gratitude to Kuwait for the humanitarian country, according to a leading specialist in tracting patients’ diseases, in addition to Affairs to the Gulf Education Organi- aid extended to the needy worldwide, the nutrition field. Dr Ahmad Al-Haifi, chair- various other risks, however their monthly zation in the Gaza Strip for financing especially to the Palestinians. She man of the Kuwaiti Food and Nutrition payment is much lower than salaries of oth- buildings of Al-Quds Open University. revealed that Kuwait’s contribution in the Society, said in a statement to KUNA that er civil servants of different tasks, thus many Kuwait, at the behest of HH the Amir projects and programs of the Gulf the specialists’ shortage has resulted in of them have abstained from enrollment in Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Education Organization hit 70 percent spread of a lot of health problems, such as the government health and health-related Sabah, is keen on providing aid and sup- and stressed the role played by the consumption of unfit food, obesity and sectors, Haifi explained. He expressed hope port to the Palestinian people, Duaij told Kuwaiti embassy in Amman and overweight among the consumers. Some the competent authorities re-examine the KUNA. He added that the embassy in Ambassador Duaij. The Gulf Education ministries have employed personnel as sub- status of the state-employed nutritionists Amman will not spare any effort to offer Organization was established in 2006 to stitutes to nutritionists, he added. He allud- for the sake of a healthier society, and facilities and remove any obstacles that support Palestinian students both at ed the nutrition specialists’ shortage to vowed to re-raise the matter with the senior AMMAN: Kuwait’s Ambassador to Jordan Hamad Al-Duaij “decisions of the Civil Service Commission,” officials.—KUNA might hinder the delivery of “imperative” home and abroad. —KUNA offers the donation to Al-Quds Open University. — KUNA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest kuwait digest Media war Against injustice against terror

By Waleed Al-Jassim By Dr Shamlan Y Al-Essa

uring my university days, I did not like my final result uwait is hosting an international conference to discuss in one of the subjects, for which we had a multiple means of halting campaigns of recruiting jihadists in Iraq Dchoice exam. I was shocked because I expected an A Conferences Kand Syria, particularly through the Internet and social grade, but it was a B-! I was sure about most of my answers media. Kuwait and the alliance countries did good by starting and that there must be a mistake, so I went to see the sub- the dialogue over fighting terrorism with all its dimensions, but ject’s teacher and I asked him to show me the answers to limited it to the military and security aspects. But terrorism make sure. He, at the beginning, threatened me in an today has intellectual and cultural dimensions, and they need attempt to scare me by saying: Do not you think that you an intellectual and intense media effort to fight it, because the can get a better result and be sure that you got more than enemy number one of terrorism is introducing peace and love you deserve and if the paper is re-graded, any extra marks among nations away from the spirit of religious or sectarian will be removed because you may not deserve them. zealousness. Let us be clear and frank, fighting Daesh through I did not care about what he said and told him: I am not the media is not an easy task that needs to convene an interna- interested in the grade as much as I am in knowing the tional conference for one or two days because the anti- Daesh secret behind not achieving what I believe should be media needs clear religious reform that cuts the way in front of achieved. I saw the model answers of the professor, and I the terrorists and those who support them - who use religion was shocked because the university professor was weak in for political purposes. Any media war against Daesh requires the Arabic language to a point that he did not know how to understanding motives of the terrorists and why did the Arab write the question, so the question comes in a form that the Al-Watan Muslim youth went extreme and how the good youth were person who knows Arabic can only understand it in two deceived and turned into terrorists that kill themselves and ways to select the answer. hundreds of innocent people. I attempted to explain to the professor his mistake, but If we were serious in uprooting terrorism and fighting it in he insisted on his opinion, so I told him: I am ready to join the media, we should concentrate on the terrorism phenomena you in a challenge and have the Arabic language depart- and religious zealousness and fighting religious edicts that ment as a judge. You are wrong and I am right because I allow violence and terror against individuals and groups in our know Arabic and you do not because of your foreign studies society. Fighting terror through the media requires speaking on one hand, and weak Arabic preparations on the other. If kuwait digest about the incubating environment that produced terrorists, you accept to be unfair to me then do not be unfair to the parties that taught them and others that used them and con- rest of the students in the coming terms, and use the help tributed to turning them from peaceful and naive youth into of an Arabic language teacher to correct exams you pre- The dedications book project bombs and exploding belts. pare. The question: What is the media message that the Daesh The teacher was very angry with me and I left his office media delivered and succeeded in reaching the deceived youth not expecting anything from him. Yet, I was surprised in the By Dr Sajed Al-Abdalai to join their movement? Daesh’s message is very simple - it final to find an A in the column. This professor, despite his promises the youth with heaven and the beautiful houris wait- initial obstinacy, asked and found out that he was not right, henever I get a new book, I quickly flip its pages, own a publishing house to volunteer to do this job provid- ing for them there. Does our government have moderate reli- and his writing of the questions compelled those who know going directly to the dedication page to read ed that all the profits the book makes go to an educational gious men who are ready to get in front of the pulpits to explain the Arabic language well to have some answers that are dif- Whow the author phrased his dedication phrases. I charity project through the Direct Aid Organization that Islam’s message that cares for love, good deeds and love of ferent from what is in the model answers, and for that he have always come across some astonishing ones that real- used to be run and supervised by the late Abdul Rahman humanity around the globe? did not hesitate in accepting what is right and corrected the ly touched me. In fact, some of those dedications were the Al-Sumait, may Allah rest his soul in peace! I do not know why the international and Arab media call the grade. best parts of the books. All interesting dedications will be attributed to their terrorists of Daesh “Islamic State”, as this name distorted the I still feel the gratitude for this university professor who I can even bet that many of you have already been senders in a list with the names of those who will partici- principle of the state that we study in political science both did not take advantage of his strong position against mine there in terms of coming across some beautiful dedication pate in preparing the book on the very first pages of it. politically and information wise. Why do we not call them the as a student - rather he reverted to what is right and gave phrases or even keeping them in a personal library or Contributors will also receive a free copy of the book to be Daesh terrorist organization? Why do we inject Islam and distort me what I deserved. I remembered this stand by the fair memorizing them. Hence came the idea of this book. For a sent to their addresses immediately on issue. So, those its image in front of the world? UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh professor while listening to a complaint over the phone by a long time, I have been thinking of collecting the most interested in taking part in the project are kindly request- Abdullah bin Zayed brought up this issue at the Security lady who was suffering from pain due to illness as well the interesting dedications I have come across in a book I ed to email me at: [email protected], provided that dedica- Council when he rejected naming the terrorist Daesh entity “the pain of need and poverty, as she was facing a verdict of intend to name ‘The Dedications Book’ with the aim of col- tions they send match their sources exactly and mention Islamic State”, and so did the French foreign minister, demand- compensating a doctor with whom she had a problem, and lecting around two hundred of them and thence declare the author’s name and book title. It would be better if the ing the use of Daesh instead of Islamic State. he complained against her and she was unable to follow the the second phase of the book production process. dedication is photocopied. We ask the Arab delegations at Kuwait’s conference to case and he won it, and she is now in a very bad situation. The idea kept haunting me and kept leading to further My aim is to collect around two hundred dedications change the name of IS to Daesh Terrorist Organization, especially The lady said that she faced attempts to keep her from ones. “Why not invite my followers on social media net- and thence declare the second phase of the book produc- since France calls Daesh ‘beheaders’. No one denies the effective going ahead with her case when she attempted to resort to works to take part in collecting the most interesting dedi- tion process. I will also need a volunteer to design the use of social media by Daesh and broadcasting messages and the health ministry to restore her right, but the ministry cations they have ever come across and email them to me book cover later on. One final note: While surfing the videos to recruit youth and urge them to join Daesh. We must use sided with the doctor against her and said that several par- so that I can compile, arrange and supervise issuing them,” Internet, I have already come across two books with in our war with Daesh innovative means that explains their ties cooperated against her in favor of the doctor. I do not I told myself. almost the same idea but have not found any printed nature by exposing what they do such as broadcasting the pic- know where is the truth in particular, because what hap- The new idea goes as follows: I will personally collect, copies of either. Nonetheless, I believe there is no harm in ture of the Daesh member committing abnormal acts with a pened is that I heard one side but I wish that Health Minister edit and print whatever I receive from you and will work having a third book because books and beautiful dedica- donkey, as pictured by American drones. We should show images Dr Ali Al-Obaidi hears her complaint, so he may be able to on publishing them in an integrated book through a cer- tions are humongous and each book will surely handle the of selling women in markets, as well as images of the displaced remove injustice from her if she was really treated unjustly. tain publishing house that will distribute and market it. I topic from a different angle! and those killed by Daesh terror. Media wars require different and — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan might even manage to convince a friend of those who —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida innovative thinking. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan

in my view Sinai attack reverberates around Mideast

By Abdullah H Erakat

he deadliest attack on Egyptian soldiers since the was to have the Palestinian Authority replace Hamas new government of Abdel Fatteh Al-Sisi took forces, an agreement which has yet to materialize. Toffice is affecting not only Egypt, but Israel and Israel, Egypt and the United States have all said that the Palestinians as well. After an attacker drove a car having PA troops running the Rafah border crossing is rigged with explosives into a military checkpoint in the a condition for allowing large amounts of reconstruc- Sinai desert, killing at least 33 soldiers, Sisi has vowed tion aid into Gaza. Israel worries the cement and iron to crack down on Jihadi groups to prevent further could be used for weapons or tunnels instead of attacks. The Sinai Peninsula, which borders both Israel rebuilding homes. and the Gaza Strip, has long been a center for weapons Palestinians say the Egyptian tendency to blame and drug smuggling. them for these attacks makes it harder for Egypt to be After the most recent attack, Sisi closed the Rafah an honest broker in talks between Hamas and Israel. border between Gaza and Egypt. Sisi blamed “Egypt is creating an atmosphere that is not conducive Palestinians in Gaza for helping the extremists behind for meetings, when something happens, they (Egypt) the attack and announced that Egyptian-brokered blame Gaza,” West Bank political science professor talks on a more permanent ceasefire between Israel Abdelsattar Qassem told The Media Line. He expects and Hamas, that were supposed to have started this the attacks to continue, citing the lack of strength week, have been postponed. A seven-week war among Egyptian security. “In failing to prevent what between the two ended with a temporary cease-fire in happened in Sinai, it shows a weakness in the Egyptian August, and talks on a more permanent deal have yet intelligence” the political analyst, who teaches at An to commence. Najah University in Nablus, said. Some in Egypt say the extremists are gaining While he could not elaborate on the security coor- ground, and there could be more attacks in Sinai or dination between Israel and Egypt, Israeli Foreign elsewhere in Egypt. “The barbarian actions against the Ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon said that state and the region being disguised under Islam mis- the two countries did see eye to eye on the same takenly produce more misunderstanding and raise the objective - fighting terrorism. Calling it a “dreadful ter- Islamophobia inside the Islamic countries itself,” rorist attack,” he said that Israel was concerned and Moataz Abd Elkarim, a professor at Egypt-Japan was behind Egypt in its fight against terror. “We are in University of Science and Technology told The Media constant dialogue,” he told The Media Line. The Line. He says that despite the mixture of anger and United States has condemned the attack with the frustration following the attack, he believes “the securi- State Department saying that “a prosperous and ty is getting better.” However, Egypt’s defense plan can dynamic Egypt requires an environment of security always do better to protect its citizens, he adds. and stability”.

Buffer Zone Dialogue The attack, viewed as a setback for Cairo’s efforts to In a surprising move, the Muslim Brotherhood has crack down on Muslim extremists, has prompted the also condemned the Sinai attack. “I think the state Egyptian National Defense Council (NDC) to discuss should open the dialogue with the youth more to setting up a wide buffer zone in the peninsula. reproduce their anger in a peaceful attitude instead of Speaking to a Turkish News Agency, a former senior using the ultimate power like what happened in military official Alaa Ezziddin said that the NDC met to Egypt’s universities in the last couple weeks,” Moataz accelerate the ratification of a terrorism law which Abd Elkarim said. Recently, university students, belong- “includes all the necessary measures on how to deal ing to the Muslim Brotherhood damaged buildings in with security issues, including sentence verdicts for an attempt to provoke a response, but Egypt’s security anyone who owns unlicensed weapons, as well as forces showed restraint. prosecuting anyone who carries weapons and explo- The Palestinian President’s top adviser on interna- sives before a military court.” tional affairs Majdi Al Khaldi says Mahmoud Abbas Abd Elkarim says the frustration only grows because spoke with his Egyptian counterpart Sisi on Sunday of “the repeated scenarios of the terroristic attacks in and gave him assurances that the Palestinian people Sinai within the same region and the lessons we didn’t “stand firm with Egypt in this war against terrorism.” As learn.” Palestinians in Gaza expressed frustration that for the buffer zone, Khaldi says “the President and the yet again, their interests are being pushed aside by leadership supports the measures that will be taken in extremist groups in Egypt. “Egyptian army failures can’t Sinai.” routinely be blamed on others, on outside forces and Khaldi says if Egypt is too busy tending to preven- on Hamas,” Daoud Kuttab, a Palestinian columnist for tion of attacks, it will be hard to play a key role in end- Al-Monitor told The Media Line from Jordan. ing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. “We want Egypt to Following the first visit to Gaza by the new stand with us on this issue so we have to support Palestinian National Consensus Government, the plan Egypt to fight terrorism,” he said. —Media Line TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

Cambodia-Thai kidney trafficking sparks fears India reveals 3 names in quest for hidden assets of new organ market Page 12 Page 12 Palestinians warn of ‘explosion’ of violence Israel plans to build new homes in east Jerusalem

RAMALLAH: An Israeli plan to build more than 1,000 new homes for settlers in annexed east Jerusalem is likely to cause an “explo- sion” of violence, a senior Palestinian official warned yesterday. “Such unilateral acts will lead to an explosion,” Jibril Rajoub told reporters at a news conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Rajoub, a senior figure in the Fatah movement of Palestinian presi- dent Mahmud Abbas, said such a move would further inflame tensions in east Jerusalem, a sector which has seen almost daily clashes for the past four months. An official at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bureau earlier confirmed plans for around 1,000 new homes in Har Homa and Ramat Shlomo, two Jewish settlement neighborhoods in mainly Arab east Jerusalem. Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina slammed the move as a “dangerous escalation” which had the potential to create an “earthquake” in the region. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the new construction would push the Palestinian lead- ership to “speed up” plans to approach the UN Security Council and to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). “Everything Netanyahu’s government is doing are war crimes which must be tried according to international law,” he told AFP, calling on Washington to “rethink its biased position” towards Israel. He also urged the US administration “not to oppose” Palestinians plans to submit a resolution to the Security Council calling for an end to the Israeli occupation within two years. Should the initiative be thwarted by a likely US veto, the Palestinians have pledged to join the ICC where they could sue Israeli officials for war crimes - a move which Rajoub said could come “within a matter of weeks.” “We will not give in to any pressure-neither American pressure nor to Mr Netanyahu’s threats. We will go to the ICC. We have already made our mind up,” Rajoub said. “If hope is diminishing of coming up with a (Security Council) resolution, then we have no other choice.” He said it would be a mistake to expect the Palestinians to simply ignore Israel’s actions in east Jerusalem. “Mr Netanyahu should not expect a white flag from the Palestinian people,” he said. Israel seized east Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community. The Jewish state, regarding Jerusalem as its undivided capital, does not view con- struction in the eastern sector as settlement building. But such moves infuriate the Palestinians who want east Jerusalem as capi- tal of their future state. — AFP JERUSALEM: Palestinians work at a construction site of a new housing project in the annexed Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal Abu Ghneim yesterday. — AFP TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Egypt’s army called in to guard key facilities Sisi expands ‘terror-linked’ military trials of civilians

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Mohammed Morsi 15 months ago. The Meanwhile, Egyptian President yester- city of some 18 million people. El-Sissi, A parallel crackdown has been under- El-Sissi yesterday ordered the military to decree follows a surge in attacks by Islamic day enacted a decree allowing military tri- who led the July 2013 military takeover way against secular pro-democracy join police forces in guarding vital state militants against troops and police and the als for civilians suspected of attacking state that removed Morsi after one year in office, activists who fueled the 2011 uprising that facilities against terror attacks, a move that weekend killing of 30 Egyptian soldiers by infrastructure, after a string of deadly has been seeking to rally the nation topped longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak. El- would expand the military’s already domi- suspected militants in the troubled north- strikes on soldiers. The decree came after behind him in the fight against the mili- Sissi has repeatedly warned against a for- nant public presence since it toppled the ern part of the Sinai Peninsula - the dead- Sisi promised a tough response to what he tants, calling it an “existential” battle. eign plot to “down” Egypt and declared his government of Islamist President liest attack against the army in decades. called an “existential threat” to Egypt posed He accused foreign powers he did not commitment to freedom and democracy by militants, following an attack Friday on name of involvement in Friday’s attack in as long as national interests are safeguard- an army checkpoint in the Sinai that killed Sinai. The attack and El-Sissi’s reaction have ed. On Sunday, a Cairo court convicted 23 at least 30 soldiers. whipped up jingoistic sentiments in Egypt, activists of violating a draconian law on El-Sissi also slapped a dusk-to-dawn prompting some media outlets to publicly street protests, sentencing them to three curfew on northern Sinai after the attack declare their unwavering support for the years in prison, a fine of 10,000 pounds while there has been a flurry of media state in the fight against terror or bar cer- (about $1,400) and placing them under reports saying authorities were preparing tain guests from their political programs police surveillance for three more years to evacuate civilians from Sinai’s hotspots. on charges of being “rumor mongers” - after their prison terms end. They included The president’s decree stipulated that parlance for critics, no matter how mild, of prominent rights activist Sanaa Seif, who army troops will join police in guarding the government. has been on hunger strike for nearly two state facilities for two years, during which In the past week, several talk show months, and Yara Sallam, a rights lawyer they will be treated as military installations. hosts have either been briefly taken off the with one of Egypt’s key human rights The perpetrators of any attacks against the air in the middle of their programs or pre- advocacy groups. facilities will be tried before military tri- vented altogether from hosting their “It’s back to business as usual in Egypt, bunals. shows. The clampdown on the freedom of with the Egyptian government brazenly Presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef expression in the name of the fight against trampling on the rights of its citizens and said facilities to receive military protection terror is the latest encroachment on liber- Western governments supporting it,” include railway lines, bridges, roads, oil and ties in Egypt since El-Sissi assumed office in Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights gas pipelines and oilfields. Suspected mili- June. In the 15 months since Morsi’s ouster, Watch was quoted as saying in a state- tants have repeatedly bombed gas authorities have killed hundreds of ment issued late Sunday by the New York- pipelines, power lines and telephone Islamists and jailed thousands, including based group. “The el-Sissi government exchanges. In Cairo, Morsi supporters are most of the leaders of the Muslim will clearly go to any length to crush RAFAH: An Egyptian soldier (background) gestures from the Egyptian blamed for blocking or throwing oil on key Brotherhood, the Islamic group from domestic opposition, whether secular or side of the Rafah border crossing. —AFP roads and bridges to disrupt traffic in the which Morsi hails. Islamist.” —Agencies Lebanon army retakes mosque from gunmen Guns fall silent in Lebanon’s Tripoli after clashes

TRIPOLI: Guns appeared to fall after a battle in which at least 11 the army is entering areas where men in Tripoli’s Bab Al-Tabbaneh silent in the northern Lebanese soldiers and eight civilians were the gunmen were entrenched in area. Civilians had earlier been city of Tripoli yesterday after two killed. The quieter morning fol- order to clear them,” Samir Jisr, a allowed to leave under a humani- days of battles between the army lowed battles overnight between Sunni politician from Tripoli said. tarian ceasefire requested by local and Islamist gunmen, some of the the army and gunmen in areas sur- A security source said the army Sunni leaders. A brief gunfight worst fighting to spill over into rounding Tripoli, a predominantly had yet to take one final position ensued as soldiers entered and Lebanon from Syria’s civil war next Sunni Muslim city where fighting being held by the gunmen. The started to comb the area. It was door. Security officials and politi- linked to Syria’s civil war has erupt- fighting marks the worst spillover not immediately clear where the cians said the army had retaken ed several times in the last three of Syria-related violence into gunmen had gone. Security ground from the Islamist fighters years. “The operation is over and Lebanon since early August, when sources said some may have left with the civilians. Fighting has also taken place in other parts of the north, near the towns of Al-Minya and Bahneen, where at least two soldiers were TUNIS: Civil servants sit near the results in a Tunis voting center yesterday. —AP killed in an ambush. The army used helicopter gunships to fire at militant positions for the first time Tunisian Islamists concede in recent years. Politicians across Lebanon’s deeply divided political defeat to secular party field have condemned the vio- lence in Tripoli, Lebanon’s second TUNIS: Tunisia’s Ennahda party, the first Islamist see the initial counts, allowing them to tally results largest city and a historic base for movement to secure power after the 2011 “Arab unofficially. Sunni Islamist groups. Prime Spring” revolts, conceded defeat yesterday in elec- Ennahda, which espouses a pragmatic form of Minister Tammam Salam met min- tions that are set to make its main secular rival the political Islam, won Tunisia’s first free election in isters and security officials yester- strongest force in parliament. Official results from 2011 after Ben Ali fled protests against corruption day and said “it was necessary to Sunday’s elections - the second parliamentary and repression, and went into exile in Saudi continue the confrontation”, his vote since Tunisians set off uprisings across much Arabia. The party formed a coalition government office said in a statement. of the Arab World by overthrowing autocrat Zine with two secular partners but had to stand aside in “The government stands united El-Abidine Ben Ali - were still to be announced. the crisis that erupted over the murder of two behind the legitimate military But a senior official at Ennahda, which ruled in opposition leaders by Islamist militants. During security forces in the battle they a coalition until it was forced to make way for a campaigning Ennahda cast itself as a party that are fighting to strike the terrorists caretaker government during a political crisis at learned from its mistakes, but Nidaa Tounes and restore security to Tripoli and the start of this year, acknowledged defeat by the appeared to have capitalized on criticism that it the north.” The precise affiliations secular Nidaa Tounes party. “We have accepted had mismanaged the economy and had been lax of all the fighters taking part in the this result, and congratulate the winner Nidaa in tackling hardline Islamists. clashes were not immediately Tounes,” the official, Lotfi Zitoun, told Reuters. clear. Security sources say they However, he repeated the party’s call for a new Ben Ali remnants include both Lebanese and Syrian coalition including Ennahda. “We are calling once A Nidaa Tounes victory will open the way for the supporters of the powerful Sunni again for the formation of a unity government in return of some Ben Ali-era figures who have recast RAYAK: Relatives mourn next to the coffin of Lebanese soldier Ibrahim Salheb, who was killed Islamist groups Islamic State and the interest of the country.” Earlier, a party source themselves as technocrats untainted by the corrup- during clashes between Lebanese military and armed Islamist militants in the northern the Nusra Front. The Nusra Front is said preliminary tallies showed the secular party tion of his regime, but possessing the administrative Lebanese port city of Tripoli. —AFP the Syrian affiliate of Al-Qaeda. had won 80 seats in the 217-member assembly, skills to run the country. Since its revolt, the small Islamic State is an Al-Qaeda off- ahead of 67 secured by Ennahda. North African state has fared better than its neigh- Islamist insurgents affiliated to the shoot that controls swathes of “According to the preliminary results, we are in bours which also ousted long-ruling leaders during Nusra Front and Islamic State both Syria and Iraq, targeted by a the lead and in a comfortable position,” one Nidaa 2011, avoiding the turmoil suffered by Egypt and staged an incursion into the bor- US-led campaign of air strikes in Tounes official said, without confirming figures the outright civil war of Syria and chaos of Libya. der town of Arsal and took around those two countries. given by the first source. One of the most secular Many Tunisians are proud of their history of lib- 20 soldiers captive. Three have Lebanese Interior Minister Arab countries, Tunisia has been hailed as an eral education and women’s rights dating back to been executed. The Syrian crisis Nohad Machnouk said in remarks example of political compromise after overcoming Habib Bourguiba, the first president after independ- has triggered Lebanon’s worst published yesterday that the a crisis between the secular and Islamist move- ence from France, and Essebsi portrayed his party as instability since the 1975-90 civil Tripoli gunmen numbered no ments and approving a new constitution this year the force of modernity. But the country also has an war. There have been several more than 200 and were from that allowed the elections. Electoral authorities undercurrent of hardline, ultra-conservative Islam, rounds of fighting in Tripoli since both Lebanon and Syria. Many were due to give preliminary results later, but larg- and security forces are engaged in a low intensity the Syria war erupted in 2011. Sunni Syrian rebels and hardline er parties had observers at polling stations to over- conflict with militants. —Reuters The Syria war has sharply divid- Lebanese Sunni Islamists accuse ed its smaller neighbor along sec- Lebanon’s army of working with tarian lines, with Sunnis support- the Lebanese Shiite movement ing Syrian rebels or Jihadi militants Hezbollah, which has sent fighters Insecurity, opium blight Afghan and Shiites backing President to aid Syrian President Bashar Al- Bashar Al-Assad. Political conflict Assad, a member of the Shiite- province as British troops leave has left Lebanon without a presi- derived Alawite minority. The KANDAHAR: Despite praise from politicians, year. Cultivation amounted to 207,000 hectares dent since February when the Nusra Front has threatened to exe- British troops are leaving behind a province still (511,508 acres) in 2013 - far outstripping the previ- term of President Michel Suleiman cute Lebanese soldiers taken cap- TRIPOLI: Lebanese firefighters extinguish burned shops that were blighted by insurgency and a huge opium harvest ous record of 193,000 hectares in 2007 and with expired. The area taken by the tive during the Arsal incursion in as they end their combat mission in Afghanistan’s Helmand accounting for 48 percent, according to attacked during clashes between the Lebanese army and Islamic army yesterday included a mosque response to the Lebanese army militants in the northern port city of Tripoli yesterday. —AP Helmand. The Union Jack was lowered at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime being used as a base by the gun- operation in Tripoli. —Reuters Helmand’s Camp Bastion on Sunday, ending a (UNODC). “Farmers may have driven up cultiva- British deployment that lasted longer than World tion... trying to shore up their assets as insurance War II and cost 453 lives. British troops moved into against an uncertain future,” a UNODC report said. US sees Syria rebels in political, not military solution Afghanistan after the 2001 US-led invasion which ousted the Taleban government in Kabul. Missed opportunities BEIRUT: The United States does not expect Syrian dozens of armed groups fighting to overthrow the intent is not to create a field force to liberate When they took over command in the south- Helmand, which shares a border to the east rebels it plans to train to fight Islamic State mili- Assad but with little or no central command. They Damascus - that is not the intent,” Allen, a retired ern province of Helmand in 2006, there were with the Taleban’s spiritual home of Kandahar, and tants, but sees them as a crucial part of a political have been widely outgunned by Islamist insur- US general, told the newspaper. “The intent is hopes they could employ a softer approach than with Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province to the solution to end the war, a senior US official said. gents such as Islamic State. Rebel fighters have that in the political outcome, they must be a their American counterparts to win hearts and south, has seen some of the fiercest fighting of The United States, which is leading an internation- voiced frustration with the US-led approach to prominent - perhaps the preeminent voice - at minds in the stronghold of Taleban insurgents the war. Despite a mixture of peace deals and al coalition bombing Islamic State in Syria, has said fighting Islamic State. They say Washington and its the table to ultimately contribute to the political battling to regain power. The mission was hailed major pushes undertaken with US allies, coalition it wants to train and equip “moderate” rebels to Arab allies are too focused on quashing the mili- outcome that we seek,” he said at the start of a Sunday by British Prime Minister David Cameron forces failed significantly to dent the insurgents, fight the militant group which has seized tracts of tant group at the expense of confronting Syrian Middle East tour. and senior local Afghan officials as a success that who this year have redoubled their efforts-killing land in Syria and neighboring Iraq. government forces, which many rebels still see as US President Barack Obama said last month lays solid foundations for NATO’s post-2014 train- 7,000-9,000 Afghan security forces nationwide. A Asked whether those rebel Free Syrian Army the ultimate enemy. The Syrian air force has he wanted to train and equip Free Syrian Army ing and support mission. But while the Afghan report by the respected Afghan Analysts Network (FSA) units would ultimately go on to fight Syrian ramped up its own bombing campaign on insur- rebels to “strengthen the opposition as the best National Army has been strengthened by bil- in July detailed how a series of mis-steps allowed government forces, John Allen, the US representa- gent-held areas since the US-led air strikes began counterweight to the extremists” and to prevent lions of dollars of aid and Western training, some one district of Helmand to sink further into the tive to the coalition, told the Asharq Al-Awsat dai- last month, increasing rebel fears that the govern- US troops from being dragged into another analysts warn that a lack of strategic foresight hands of the insurgents. ly: “No. What we would like to see is for the FSA ment is profiting from the distraction of the coali- ground war. “The outcome that we seek in Syria means the British have left with their mission It said the district’s “shadow governor”, Taleban and the forces that we will ultimately generate, tion campaign. is akin to the (anti-Islamic State) strategy that fits uncompleted. commander Mullah Abdul Qayum, was on the train and equip to become the credible force that into a much larger regional strategy and that Chief among the concerns is the growing verge of switching sides in 2010 because he was the Assad government ultimately has to acknowl- Political outcome outcome is a political outcome that does not menace of opium production, which helps sus- incensed by the insurgents’ brutality. But after edge and recognize.” “There is not going to be a Allen said there was a need to build up the include Assad,” Allen said. The United Nations tain the Taleban insurgency. Afghan poppy pro- months of secret communication with Afghan military solution here,” he added, in comments credibility of the moderate Syrian opposition at a says more than 191,000 people have been killed duction hit an all-time high last year as farmers and British officials, Qayum and his entourage published at the weekend on the newspaper’s political level, adding that it was normal for rebel since the start of the Syrian uprising against sought to “insure” themselves before the with- were bombed by US forces who hailed it as a tri- English language website. forces to clash with the Syrian military as they Assad’s rule in 2011. Rights groups say the actual drawal of NATO combat forces by the end of this umph. —AFP The Free Syrian Army is a term used to describe seek to defend their territory and families. “But figure is higher. —Reuters TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Rousseff re-elected by grateful working-class Newly re-elected Brazil leader faces divided house

SAO PAULO: Despite opposition from nearly half of after massive street protests swept Brazil because many long a problem in a country with a history of runaway Brazil’s voters, leftist President Dilma Rousseff won re- advances of the past decade had stalled. The slowing price increases, is now hovering above the government’s election on Sunday and will have another four years to try economy, rising prices and anger over a lack of invest- tolerance ceiling of 6.5 percent. And while unemploy- to revive growth in a once-booming economy gone stag- ment in public services prompted many to ask whether ment is near record lows, economists don’t expect it to nant. The 66-year-old Rousseff, who was a Marxist guerril- the Workers’ Party had exhausted its ability to improve remain so for long as plunging investment, slower la in her youth, overcame growing dissatisfaction with the lives of people in a country still plagued by vast gaps growth and further uncertainty prompt employers to cut the economy, poor public services and corruption to nar- between rich and poor. back. rowly clinch a second term for herself and the fourth in a To correct the course, economists say Rousseff must row for her Workers’ Party. Fear of the unknown pursue long-pending tax and labor reforms in order to After a bitter, unpredictable campaign that pitted But Neves, a senator and former state governor who increase productivity and engage further with the global poorer Brazilians grateful for government anti-poverty enjoys support among the upper-middle and wealthy marketplace. “Without improving efficiency and making MONTEVIDEO: Uruguayan presidential candidate for the National Party Luis programs against those exasperated with a stalled econ- classes, failed to convince a majority of Brazilians that he Brazil a more productive part of the global economy, the Lacalle Pou (left) and the presidential candidate for the Colorado party omy, Rousseff must now seek to continue flagship social had enough new ideas to pull Rousseff from power. It country will just keep muddling along,” said Marcio Pedro Bordaberry speak after general elections on October 26, 2014 in services even as she tweaks economic policies to restore didn’t help that many poor Brazilians associate his cen- Garcia, an economist at the Pontifical Catholic University Montevideo. —AFP growth. Most investors are skeptical that Rousseff can turn around the slumping economy after four years of ineffective industrial policies. Futures contracts for Brazil’s Uruguay election Bovespa stock index expiring in December fell more than 6 percent yesterday before the Sao Paulo stock exchange opened, while Brazil’s currency slipped 3 percent to a heads for runoff nearly six-year low. Still, Rousseff and aides consistently shrug off market pessimism as little more than tantrums by speculators. As MONTEVIDEO: Leftist former president Tabare way,” Mujica said on Uruguayan television her camp celebrated victory late on Sunday, longtime for- Vazquez and his center-right rival Luis Lacalle Sunday evening. Surrounded by supporters, eign policy advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia told reporters Pou will head into a November 30 runoff after Mujica-a former leftist guerrilla famous for liv- that investors should relax and “take tranquilizers.” a presidential vote failed to deliver an outright ing in a humble farmhouse while president Speaking to a relieved crowd of supporters in Brasilia, the winner, results showed yesterday. President and donating most of his salary to charity-was capital, Rousseff acknowledged the close race and the Jose Mujica will be succeeded either by his one of the first to vote in the Cerro neighbor- call for change expressed by many voters. “I know that I Broad Front ally Vazquez, who earned 45.5 per- hood west of the capital Montevideo. He am being sent back to the presidency to make the big cent of the vote, or the National Party’s Lacalle arrived in his old Volkswagen Beetle, accom- changes that Brazilian society demands,” she said after Pou, who garnered 32 percent, election offi- panied by his wife, Senator Lucia Topolansky, winning the runoff election with 51.6 percent support. cials said Monday, having completed a manual vowing: “The country will come out ahead.” Her slim, three-point margin over centrist candidate count of 78 percent of ballot boxes. Aecio Neves came largely thanks to gains against Some Vazquez supporters had hoped he ‘The hope is still there’ inequality and poverty since the Workers’ Party first came could squeeze out an absolute majority, but Vazquez, 74, is out to reprise his 2004 elec- to power in 2003. Using the fruits of a commodity-fueled he fell short. Compounding their disappoint- tion win, which ended 174 years of dominance economic boom in the last decade, Brazil’s government ment, his party was also seen as potentially by the South American country’s two tradition- expanded welfare programs that helped lift more than 40 losing its control over the legislature, projec- al parties, Pedro Bordaberry’s Colorados (Reds) million people from poverty despite the current econom- tions showed. After preliminary results were and Lacalle Pou’s Blancos (Whites, now official- ic woes. The “Brazilian model” has been adopted by cen- announced, thousands of Broad Front sup- ly called the National Party). Lacalle Pou will ter-left parties across Latin America and Rousseff’s victo- porters nonetheless filled July 18 Avenue, the need the votes that went to Bordaberry, who BRASILIA: Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, raises her arms to acknowledge the ry, however narrow, is a blow for conservatives in the crowd during her acceptance speech at a press conference in a hotel in Brasilia. —AP main street in downtown Montevideo, honk- came in third Sunday, if he hopes to succeed in region. ing horns and waving flags. The election was the second round. “The hope is still there... We It also means there will be no dramatic improvement trist Brazilian Social Democracy Party with a less inclusive in Rio de Janeiro. Rousseff will also face gridlock in a touted as possibly deciding the fate of are going to be talking with everyone,” Lacalle in ties with the United States, hit in recent years by trade past, a perception that the Rousseff camp deftly exploit- Congress increasingly weary of the ruling party, which Uruguay’s world-first marijuana law. It legal- Pou said Sunday evening at National Party disputes and US government spying programs that infu- ed. “Even if things are getting worse, many voters prefer lost seats in this election along with its most important ized the drug, and aimed to establish a regu- headquarters, shortly before receiving an riated Rousseff. About 40 percent of Brazil’s 200 million to stick with what they know than take a risk on the ally. Leading lawmakers promise to make hay over a lated market in which users could grow it at endorsement from the Colorados. people live in households earning less than $700 a unknown,” said Fernando Abrucio, a political science pro- snowballing corruption scandal at the state-run oil com- home, buy it from pharmacies or source it The son of a former president, Lacalle Pou, month, and it was their overwhelming support that gave fessor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a business pany known as Petrobras. from “cannabis clubs”. 41, shot up in the polls after unexpectedly win- Rousseff victory on Sunday. Now, she pledges to deepen school in Sao Paulo. A second Rousseff term will not be Brazilian media in recent weeks have been abuzz with The law, Mujica’s landmark legislative initia- ning the National Party primary in June, run- social benefits while working to revive an economy that easy, especially as a slowing economy strains a govern- leaked testimony by a former company executive relating tive, was passed last December. But imple- ning on a platform of “positivity” and “fresh air.” fell into recession in the first half of this year. She has ment model accustomed to high tax revenues to finance alleged kickbacks by contractors to Workers’ Party coffers. mentation is off to a rocky start, and it faces an Bordaberry, 54, the son of a president-turned- already promised to replace her finance minister, part of a social programs and subsidized credit for companies and One news magazine reported that another key suspect uncertain future because Lacalle Pou opposes dictator who did away with democratic rule in pledge to rethink economic policies that she has so far consumers. told prosecutors that Rousseff was aware of the scheme, the law. And even Vazquez, who made anti- 1973, said he would “work every hour of the been known to all but manage herself. “Such a tight result Brazil’s economy, after growing by as much as 7.5 per- an accusation that she has vehemently denied. “She will smoking legislation the centerpiece of his own next 34 days so that Lacalle Pou wins in the reduces her capacity to radicalize policies,” said Alberto cent the year before she took office, is on track to grow face resistance on a number of fronts,” said Carlos Melo, a presidency, has questioned it and said he runoff.” Lacalle Pou stressed that he will also Bernal, a Miami-based economist with Bulltick Capital less than 1 percent this year. Prior efforts to gun growth, political scientist at Insper, a Sao Paulo business school. would not hesitate to make changes. “I figured seek support from the fringe, centrist Markets. “Pretty much half of the country is against what largely through tax breaks and other subsidies for select “This is a victory in spite of all the problems - not an affir- the voting results would go more or less this Independent Party, among others. —AFP she has been doing.” Rousseff’s victory came just a year industries, have largely fallen flat. Meanwhile, inflation, mation of a job well done.” —Reuters Canada government pushes for new anti-terrorism laws

TORONTO: Canadian police need more threats and crack down on hate speech. fear could try to leave the country to join mili- resources and not extra powers to deal with Officials complain they are hampered by tant groups or mount attacks in Canada. the threat posed by extremists after two deadly laws they say impose too many restrictions and But experts note that law enforcement attacks, say legal and security experts, as the prevent them from taking action against peo- agencies already have wide ranging powers at government pledged to deliver tough new ple who are clearly a threat. “The challenges are their disposal and could use rarely tapped pro- anti-terror legislation. Canada’s Conservative the thresholds - the thresholds that will allow visions in Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act. “The government said it will soon introduce a bill to either preventive arrest, or charges that lead to thing the authorities need however more than enhance the Canadian Security Intelligence sentences,” Public Safety Minister Stephen anything else is far more resources,” said Service (CSIS) spy agency and is planning other Blaney said on Friday. Authorities are most con- University of Ottawa professor Errol Mendes, a legislation designed to allow police to preempt cerned about 93 high-risk travelers who they lawyer and constitutional law expert. —Reuters TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Botswana president News to be sworn in in brief for second term Karabakh tries two Azeris for murder and espionage GABORONE: The president of diamond-rich Botswana will YEREVAN: Two Azerbaijani citizens went on trial yesterday be sworn in for a second term today, after seeing off the for murder and espionage in the separatist Armenian- fiercest challenge yet to his party’s half century of unbro- backed Nagorny Karabakh region, as the latest internation- ken rule. The government said 61-year-old Ian Khama will al efforts to resolve the festering conflict kicked off in Paris. take the oath of office before the country’s Chief Justice, Shahbaz Guliyev and Dilhan Askerov are accused of infil- days after the ex-military man’s Botswana Democratic Party trating the disputed territory in late June as part of an won a comfortable parliamentary majority. The BDP has Azerbaijani reconnaissance group and killing a 17-year-old ruled Botswana since independence in 1966, taking the Karabakh civilian and a soldier, the separatist judicial country from abject poverty to one of the most prosperous authority said in a statement. A third member of the group, and stable countries on the continent. Gasan Gasanov, was killed in a shootout with Karabakh That economic record was enough to help Khama see troops, the separatist authorities said. Baku denies the off a stern challenge from opposition parties, who man- claims and said that the three men are not members of its aged to reduce his BDP’s tally by eight seats to 37. The military. The controversial trial comes as French President coalition Umbrella for Democratic Change won 17 seats to Francois Hollande hosts the presidents of arch-foes become the country’s main opposition party, after making Armenia and Azerbaijan in a fresh push by Europe to end inroads in urban areas. Fifty-seven of 61 seats in parlia- the decades-long dispute. Hopes for any major break- ment are elected with four more picked by the president. through are almost non-existent after a dramatic surge in “The UDC did well for a new party, but naturally we were violence across the countries’ border and along the hoping for more votes to topple the BDP. It was never to Karabakh frontline this summer saw more than 20 troops be,” said Seakamela Motsoaledi, a UDC party representa- die in the deadliest clashes in years. Armenian separatists tive. backed by Yerevan seized the mountainous region, which is mainly inhabited by ethnic Armenians, from Azerbaijan Falling diamond revenues in a war in the 1990s that left some 30,000 people dead. Although seen as one of Africa’s success stories, Botswana has recorded rising unemployment since 2009 as the global economic crisis sent diamond prices falling. A KIEV: Photo shows a general view of Khreshchatyk, main street of Kiev. Ukraine’s pro-Western and moderately Japan arrests Chinese drop in diamond revenues had forced Khama’s govern- nationalist parties were on course yesterday to score a crushing election win that boosted President Petro fishing boat captain ment to halt planned investments in recent years. During Poroshenko’s bid to lead his country closer to Europe and end a pro-Russian revolt. — AFP TOKYO: Japan’s coastguard said it arrested a Chinese the election campaign, Khama admitted the failure of his fishing boat captain yesterday on suspicion of coral government to stop unemployment rates from rising. poaching after a high seas chase in the country’s Among key challenges that he faces is the task of diversify- Ukraine leader wins pro-West exclusive economic zone. The boat, the Zheling ing the country’s economy. Yuyun 622, fled after ignoring an order by a Japanese International observers were satisfied that the polls had patrol ship to land off one of the Ogasawara islands, been free, although questions were raised over election mandate but wary of Russia some 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, according to funding and the poor representation of female candidates Japan’s coastguard. After a 12-kilometre, 85-minute in the party lists. Regional blocs, the Southern African “zigzag” chase, Japanese coastguard officials board- Development Community (SADC) and the African Union New shelling in east, Moscow still hold leverage ed the fishing boat and arrested its 31-year-old cap- (AU), said the election had been “credible and reflecting tain Zeng Yong, a coastguard statement said. The the will of the people. “Botswana remains unique in Africa KIEV: Pro-Western parties will domi- minister to handle sensitive talks with to Ukraine in a dispute over the price ship’s dozen-member crew was suspected of poach- in that it has enjoyed 48 years of sustained and uninter- nate Ukraine’s parliament after an the West on aid for the war-shattered and unpaid bills, causing alarm in the ing corals, after about 100 Chinese boats were seen rupted democracy,” said the SADC mission. election handed President Petro economy. A hawk in dealings with EU which gets a third of its gas needs the area on Sunday, it added. Zeng was held on However, the mission noted the inadequate voter edu- Poroshenko a mandate to end a sepa- Russia, Yatseniuk is liked in the West from Russia, half of it via Ukraine. charges of attempting to refuse an on-board inspec- cation ahead of the polls, due to a lack of funding. The ratist conflict and steer the country for his commitment to deep reforms Heavy shelling on the outskirts of tion by Japan’s coastguard. If convicted, he could be SADC also urged the authorities to encourage the partici- further out of Russia’s orbit into and astute stewardship of the econo- the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in the jailed for up to six months or fined up to 300,000 yen pation of women in a vote dominated by male candidates. Europe’s mainstream. Poroshenko my which has been wrecked by the east yesterday served as a reminder of ($2,770) under the country’s fishery law. Japanese The AU called on Botswana to provide public funding of planned to start coalition talks yester- separatist conflict in the eastern the fragility of a ceasefire agreed there media reports said there has been a swell in the political parties to “ensure fairness during the electoral day after exit polls and partial results regions. The Kiev government says it is on Sept 5, though there was no word number of Chinese fishing boats suspected of hunt- process and improve fairness.” “We are aware that not many showed most of the groups that were hoping for modest economic growth of any casualties. Some allies of ing red corals-highly prized in China as jewelry-since countries in Africa can afford to provide funding for politi- holding up democratic and legal next year after a 6 percent decline in Yanukovich will remain in parliament: last month in waters off the Ogasawaras, also known cal parties, but this is part of the AU statutes,” said Joyce reforms demanded by the European 2014, but the World Bank expects the the latest figures put the Opposition as the Bonin islands. Banda, the AU head of observer mission and former presi- Union had been swept out of parlia- economy to continue shrinking. Bloc of ex-Fuel Minister Yuriy Boiko on dent of Malawi. Khama, an army lieutenant general, is the ment on Sunday. In line with measures agreed with 9.76 percent, easily enough to put the son of the country’s first president, Seretse Khama.— AFP He still faces huge problems: the IMF, Yatseniuk’s government has party into parliament. But other tradi- Russia is resisting moves by Kiev to cut budget expenditure and let the tional allies of Russia, such as the com- one day join the European Union, a Ukrainian hryvnia float. The currency munists, flopped. The make-up of the ceasefire is barely holding in the east has lost about 40 percent of its value future pro-Europe assembly seemed 44 German police where government forces have been against the dollar since the start of the likely to spell future tensions with fighting pro-Russian separatists, and year. Timothy Ash, emerging market Moscow. injured in clashes the economy is in dire straits. Russia’s analyst at Standard Bank, described It will be the first time the commu- President Vladimir Putin can still influ- the result as a “big vote for the nists have been out of parliament with hooligans ence events, not least as the main Western reform agenda”. Yatseniuk since Ukraine gained independence backer of the rebels in the east and was well placed to remain prime min- from the Soviet Union in 1991. After BERLIN: Forty-four German riot police were injured in through Moscow’s role as natural gas ister, though his success would be months of beating back the sepa- clashes with far-right hooligans rallying against “Islamist supplier to Ukraine and the EU. “negatively received by Russia”, Ash ratists, Ukraine’s troops faced sharp extremism” in the western city of Cologne overnight, police But with his own bloc and a party wrote in a research note. “This is a big reversals in August, which Kiev and its said yesterday. Police used batons, pepper spray and water led by his ally, Prime Minister Arseny victory for pro-Ukrainian and state- Western backers say was caused by cannon against the protesters, who hurled rocks, bottles Yatseniuk, running neck and neck on hood (anti-Putin) parties, which will Moscow sending armored columns and firecrackers at them, a spokesman said. About 20 more than 21 percent support after be in the vast majority in the new par- with hundreds of troops to aid the demonstrators were detained, he added. more than a quarter of votes on party liament. A big vote for Ukrainian inde- rebels. Moscow denies intervening At least 4,000 hardline football fans and right-wing lists were counted, Poroshenko is pendence.” directly on the ground. Since then, extremists from across Germany had massed under the assured of dominating parliament. Poroshenko has said he will resolve banner “Hooligans against Salafists”, state interior minister ISTANBUL: Chemical and biological experts prepare to “The majority of voters were in favor Hopes of ending turmoil the conflict in the east only by politi- Ralf Jaeger told ZDF public television. He said the march intervene at the French Consulate in Istanbul. of the political forces that support the Poroshenko and his allies are trying cal negotiations. NATO says Russia is turned violent when participants refused to clear the area Suspicious envelopes containing a yellow powder were president’s peace plan and seek a to restore normalcy to the sprawling still supporting the rebels in the east when their event was over. Tensions escalated and right- sent to the Belgian, Canadian and German consulates political solution to the situation in country of 46 million after turmoil and with soldiers and equipment. wing protesters repeatedly yelled “Foreigners out!”, accord- in Istanbul, prompting a security alert.— AFP the Donbass,” Poroshenko said soon violence that began a year ago with In an early reaction to the vote, ing to national news agency DPA and witnesses on Twitter. after polls closed, referring to the street demonstrations against Russia’s foreign ministry said the elec- Hours after the demonstration, a handful of hooligans Suspicious powder sent region where fighting has been heavi- Poroshenko’s pro-Russian predecessor tion offered a chance for peace in its rampaged through the city centre, the police spokesman to consulates in Istanbul est in the industrialized east. Final Viktor Yanukovich. Yanukovich was east but that a high number of said. The march drew some 500 leftist and anti-fascist ISTANBUL: Turkey said the unidentified yellow powder results from voting on party lists and overthrown in February in what Russia “nationalists” in the chamber could counter-protesters, whose demonstration called “Shoulder- sent to a number of consulates in Istanbul showed no ini- single-seat constituencies will not be called a “fascist coup”. Moscow undermine the process, RIA news to-Shoulder Against Racism and Religious tial signs of biological threat agents such as anthrax or known for days. But with a third like- responded by swiftly seizing and agency reported. Voting did not take Fundamentalism” went off peacefully. The “Hooligans plague, but said further tests were being carried out for minded party, Selfhelp, on 11 percent annexing Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula place in areas held by the rebels or in Against Salafists” group developed on the Internet and other possible substances. The consulates of the United with 38 percent of votes counted, and backing separatist rebellions in Crimea. Separatists entrenched in the uses social media to draw far-right football fans and skin- States, Canada, France, Germany, Belgium and Hungary Poroshenko can forge a strong coali- eastern regions. More than 3,700 peo- big eastern cities of Donetsk and heads to often violent protests, purportedly against a rise have received suspicious packages containing powder, tion government. ple have died in fighting in the east, Luhansk said they were ignoring the of Muslim extremism in Europe. Earlier this month, Kurds in prompting security alerts. Twenty-five people from these The 49-year-old confectionery including nearly 300 passengers on a Ukrainian election and still planned to Germany clashed with radical Muslims in the northern city missions were hospitalized as a precaution. “According to magnate is likely to continue working Malaysian airliner shot out of the sky go ahead with a rival vote on Nov. 2 of Hamburg and elsewhere, in street protests fuelled by initial tests on the suspicious powder, there was no sign of in close tandem with Yatseniuk, with over pro-Russian rebel-held territory. to further their calls for independ- the conflict involving the jihadist group Islamic State in anthrax, plague, tularemia, ricin or botulinum toxin or any the latter possibly staying on as prime Moscow has also cut off gas supplies ence.— Reuters northern Iraq and Syria.— AFP other biological warfare substance,” Turkey’s health min- istry said in a statement. “However, results of advanced bio- logical tests into other possible biological warfare sub- stances and forms of anthrax will be completed later today Christian right will still turn out for Republicans and results will be made public,” the statement added. Most of the packages were discovered on Friday. SPRINGDALE: If Republicans win control of sized say in who runs Congress. Forty-nine ers in tight US Senate races. In one of the few “Evangelicals have in fact become one of the the Senate in the midterm elections they percent of evangelicals say they have a great Senate contests where social issues have tak- core constituencies in the Republican Party. should say a prayer of thanks for Christian deal of interest or quite a bit of interest in en center stage, Colorado Republican Cory Because they see themselves that way, we see Suicide bomber kills conservatives. Although they get little atten- news about the elections, compared to 38 Gardner distanced himself from his earlier their willingness to vote consistently 27 Shiite militiamen tion from candidates, white evangelical percent of non-evangelicals. “It strongly support for “personhood” bills backed by Republican, even though you could point to a BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber killed at least 27 Shiite Christian voters are likely to be fundamental shows that the evangelical population is very evangelicals. Such bills would define fetuses number of issues where the Republican-led militiamen on the outskirts of the Iraqi town of Jurf to any Republican victories in the key Senate engaged, very interested in what’s happening as people, and could lead to abortion and House (of Representatives)really hasn’t al-Sakhar yesterday after security forces pushed races, especially in the South. Reuters/Ipsos and much easier to turn out for an election some forms of birth control being declared as moved much on their agenda,” said Robert P. Islamic State militants out of the area over the week- polling data shows evangelicals are more than the population as a whole,” said Ipsos murder. Jones of the Public Religion Research Institute end, army and police sources said. The attacker, driv- enthusiastic than the general population pollster Chris Jackson. In Iowa, Republican Senate hopeful Joni polling group. ing a Humvee vehicle packed with explosives and about the midterms. Almost 40 percent of Republicans said Ernst seemingly softened her strong opposi- likely stolen from defeated government troops, also The religious right’s influence may be they were born-again or evangelical tion to abortion when she suggested in a More than gay marriage wounded 60 Shiite militiamen, who had helped gov- much reduced since the days of Moral Christians, according to the online survey. The debate this month that there could be excep- Chad Connelly, the Republican National ernment forces retake the town just south of the cap- Majority leader Jerry Falwell’s alliances with party loyalty is striking given that Republican tions if the mother’s life is at risk. The Committee’s pointman for faith voters, said ital. Holding Jurf Al-Sakhar is critical for Iraqi security Republican presidents. But Christian conser- candidates have largely avoided evangelicals’ Supreme Court’s decision earlier this month evangelical voters are motivated by worry forces who finally managed to drive out the Sunni vatives will probably vote in greater numbers pet topics like opposition to abortion and gay to allow gay marriages by rejecting appeals about the economy and mistrust of Obama, insurgents after months of fighting. It could allow on Nov. 4 than others, giving them an out- marriage for fear of alienating moderate vot- from five states seeking to ban them was a adding, “it’s too much of a cliche,” to think they Iraqi forces to prevent the Sunni insurgents from landmark in longrunning culture wars, but it care mostly about social policy. Conservative edging closer to the capital, sever connections to passed without much fuss on midterm cam- Christians at a Baptist church in Springdale, their strongholds in western Anbar province and paign trails. “The candidates, certainly the Arkansas, had a long list of issues that matter stop them infiltrating the mainly Shiite Muslim south. Democratic candidates, are not talking about to them. “Where a candidate stands on mar- these issues and in most cases the Republican riage, immigration, the economy: it’s all candidates aren’t talking about these issues, important. I don’t think Obama’s doing a good China considers abolishing so we are going to talk about them,” said vet- job with terrorism either,” said Mary Baker, a death penalty for 9 crimes eran conservative activist Ralph Reed. retiree. Nevertheless, the stress was on social BEIJING: China is considering trimming nine crimes from His Faith and Freedom Coalition has issues when she and some 20 others at the the list of offences punishable by death, state media said launched what Reed said is its “most muscu- church watched a national webcast by evan- yesterday, as the ruling Communist Party considers broad- lar” turnout operation yet. It includes making gelical leaders who urged the faithful to sup- er reforms to the country’s legal system. Rights groups say 10 million phone calls to potential voters and port “Biblical” values at polling booths. While China uses capital punishment more than any other coun- an aggressive ad campaign of online videos. the hosts did not specifically ask people to try, raising public concern of irreversible miscarriages of The idea is to ensure enough evangelical vote Republican, they told Christians to back justice. A draft amendment to China’s criminal law, which turnout to swing Senate races in states such candidates who hold conservative positions includes the use of the death penalty, was submitted for as Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Iowa, on abortion, freedom of religious expression, initial review to the country’s National People’s Congress, Colorado, North Carolina and Kentucky, and same-sex marriage. The congregation the official Xinhua news agency said. Crimes that would be where polls show the average gap between mostly agreed. Some voiced disappointment exempt from capital punishment under the amendment the top candidates is in the low single digits. that Republicans failed to choose a Christian include “smuggling weapons, ammunition, nuclear materi- Republicans need a net gain of six seats to conservative as presidential nominee at the als or counterfeit currencies; counterfeiting currencies; rais- win the Senate. last two elections. “We end up with a crippled ing funds by means of fraud; and arranging for or forcing In some ways, Reed is preaching to the duck every time,” said Charles Fast, 70, a for- another person to engage in prostitution”, Xinhua said. The choir. White evangelicals have long had a mer policeman. In the Arkansas Senate race, a crimes of “obstructing a commander or a person on duty high rate of midterm voting and more than Fox News poll this month gave Republican WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama walks through the Colonnade of the White three-quarters of them backed Republican Tom Cotton a 34-point lead over Democratic from performing his duties” and “fabricating rumors to mis- House in Washington, before boarding Marine One helicopter for a meeting at Mitt Romney against President Barack Obama Sen. Mark Pryor among white, born-again lead others during wartime”, are also under review, the Andrews Air Force Base, Md. — AP in the 2012 presidential election. Christian voters.—— Reuters news agency said.

INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 Japan delegation in N Korea over kidnapping probe

TOKYO: A Japanese delegation arrived in North Defense Commission, the top state organ headed by Korea yesterday for talks centered on Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong-Un, and vice minister of state securi- investigation into the Cold War kidnappings of ty, Japan’s Kyodo News said. Japanese citizens, which has marred relations for Tokyo believes dozens of people were snatched to years. The four-day visit-the first official Japanese del- train the North’s spies in Japanese language and cus- egation to the North in a decade-comes after Tokyo toms. In 2002, North Korea admitted that it had kid- eased sanctions against the secretive state in July napped 13 Japanese citizens to train its spies. Five of when it pledged to revisit the abductions in the the abductees returned home, but Pyongyang said- 1970s and 1980s by North Korean agents. without producing credible evidence-that the eight Junichi Ihara, who heads the foreign ministry’s others had died. That claim provoked uproar in Japan, Asian and Oceania Affairs Bureau, is leading a group where there are suspicions that the actual number of that will also include police and other experts. “We abductees could reach into the hundreds. Tokyo and plan to use this visit to Pyongyang to tell the person Pyongyang have no formal diplomatic ties, partially in charge that Japan regards the abduction issue as a because of what Japan says is the North’s unwilling- priority,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the ness to come clean over the issue. government’s top spokesman, told a regular press The kidnappings are an ever-present political briefing in Tokyo yesterday. “We want them to explain issue in Japan where families of the missing have the status of the investigation. At this meeting, we repeatedly called on the international community to will call on them to carry out the probe swiftly and be push Pyongyang to release their loved ones. A UN- sincere in their response to Japan,” Suga added. mandated investigation issued a searing report in In a brief dispatch, North Korea’s official KCNA February describing a litany of rights abuses in confirmed that the Japanese delegation had arrived. North Korea, including the abductions of an esti- Japanese officials had expected a report on details of mated 200,000 foreign nationals. Most of them were the probe around September, but North Korea South Koreans left stranded after the 1950-1953 recently said it would be unable to supply substantial Korean War, but hundreds of others from around the information in that timeline. Yesterday, Japanese world have since been taken or disappeared while media speculated about whether Ihara would meet visiting the country. Citizens of at least 12 countries with So Tae-Ha, the little-known chairman of the are believed to have been snatched along with North Korean committee in charge of leading the Japanese taken to train North Korean spies, the TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) reaches his arm towards South Korean National probe. So is also counselor for security at the National report said.— AFP Assembly speaker Chung Ui-hwa prior to their talks at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP Prosecutors seek death penalty for Korea ferry disaster captain Crew accused of abandoning passengers

GWANGJU: Prosecutors yesterday demanded the Publicly vilified gized and bowed to the victims’ families in the death penalty for the captain of the South Korean The disaster was blamed on a deadly combi- courtroom. ferry that sank in April, branding him an unrepen- nation of cargo overloading, illegal redesign and tant liar who abandoned the more than 300 people poor helmsmanship, but the most serious ‘I feel ashamed’ who died in the disaster. They also sought life sen- charges against Lee and his crew related to their “I feel ashamed I failed to do anything to rescue tences for three senior crew members and prison response once the ship ran into trouble. They passengers,” said one female crew member. Lee has terms of between 15 to 30 years for 11 others as the were among the first to climb into rescue boats insisted that the ferry owners are the real culprits trial of Captain Lee Joon-Seok and his crew wound and were publicly vilified for abandoning the because it was their decision to consistently over- up in the southern city of Gwangju in an emotional hundreds of passengers still trapped inside. Crew load the vessel and commission an illegal redesign. session that left many of the defendants in tears. members were further condemned when it The disaster stunned South Korea and unleashed The 69-year-old Lee “escaped the ship without emerged they had instructed the passengers to an enduring wave of public anger that led some to making any efforts to rescue passengers”, senior remain where they were as the vessel began to question whether the captain and crew could prosecutor Park Jae-Eok told the court. “He made list dangerously-a decision which the prosecu- receive a fair trial. South Korean media coverage of excuses and lied. He showed no repentance... and tion said contributed to the heavy loss of life. their arrest and arraignment was often colored by a so we ask for the death sentence,” Park said. Lee, Lee and the three senior crew all face the capi- presumption of guilt. who remained calm as the sentencing recommen- tal charge of “homicide through willful negli- Before the trial even began President Park dation was read out, said he had committed a gence”. But the prosecution said only the captain Geun-Hye publicly stated that the crew’s actions crime for which “I deserve to die” but insisted that should receive the death penalty since the bur- had been “tantamount to murder”. The defendants GWANGJU: Sewol ferry captain Lee Joon-Seok (left) is escorted upon his arrival for his tri- he never intended to sacrifice the lives of the pas- den of responsibility lay with him. Reading from a had difficulty in securing private legal representa- al at the Gwangju District Court in the southern city of Gwangju yesterday. — AFP sengers. prepared statement, Lee acknowledged that he tion, with few defense lawyers willing to take on The three-judge bench will deliver its verdict had been paralyzed by panic and failed to take such an emotive case. More than six months after and sentence on November 11. Although the “appropriate measures” that could have saved the disaster, divers are still searching the sunken India reveals 3 names in death penalty is still passed in South Korea, lives. “But I swear from my heart that there was vessel for 10 victims whose bodies have yet to be nobody has been executed since 1997. Currently, never any intention to murder,” he said. “I deeply recovered. As the prosecution called for the death there are some 60 people on death row. The 6,825- bow before the victims and their relatives and penalty, the relatives of those still unaccounted for quest for hidden assets ton Sewol ferry was carrying 476 people-most of apologize again. I will keep reflecting on my narrowly voted yesterday against bringing in heavy them high school students on an organized trip- wrongdoing and praying for the dead until I die,” cranes to raise the Sewol. The authorities have NEW DELHI: India’s government revealed yes- But opposition Congress general secretary when it sank off the southern coast on April 16. he added. The other defendants also made state- promised the ship will not be moved without the terday the names of three prominent busi- Digvijaya Singh accused the BJP of “selective Only 174 people were rescued. ments, and some of them wept as they apolo- families’ approval. — AFP nessmen accused of illegally stashing funds in revelation” of names and said the process foreign bank accounts as it seeks to recover smacked of “blackmail, not black money”. billions of dollars parked abroad. The ruling Several prominent figures of the Congress right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party, dogged by multi-billion-dollar graft Thais charged with pledged to crack down on “black money” after scandals while in power, are reportedly on the Senior Chinese winning power in May, accusing the previous list of people with untaxed funds abroad but Congress government of failing to get tough their names have not been disclosed. insulting monarchy diplomat in Hanoi on the issue that had become a political light- Subramanian Swamy said he did not under- ning rod. The government filed an affidavit in stand why the government had not disclosed BANGKOK: Thai prosecutors yesterday Wolf Bride”-was shown at Bangkok’s to ease tensions the Supreme Court yesterday naming Pradip all of the names of alleged offenders at once. charged two people already held for more than Thammasat University to mark the 40th Burman, a former executive director of the “I do not see any legal issues in releasing all 70 days with defaming the monarchy in a play, anniversary of a famous pro-democracy protest HANOI: China’s top foreign policy official yesterday Dabur food group, bullion trader Pankaj 700 names. I hope the government will their lawyer said, as lese majeste cases since a that was crushed by authorities in October made his second visit to Vietnam in four months, as the Chimanlal Lodhiya and mine operator Radha release all the names very soon,” he told India’s May coup continue to mount. Thailand’s 1973. Patiwat, a final year student at Khon Kaen communist neighbors work to repair ties strained to Timbola as among those under scrutiny. CNN-IBN television network. revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 86, is shield- University, acted in the piece which was about breaking point by a territorial dispute. In May, Beijing The government said in its affidavit it was Swiftly after taking office, Prime Minister ed by tough royal defamation rules under a fictional monarchy-while Porntip co-ordinat- moved a deep-water oil rig into waters claimed by “committed to disclose the names of persons Narendra Modi set up a team of regulators which anyone convicted of insulting the king, ed the production as well as also playing a Hanoi, prompting a months-long high-seas standoff and holding illegal money... following due process and ex-judges to repatriate illicit funds kept in queen, heir or regent faces up to 15 years in small role. triggering deadly anti-China riots in Vietnam. The rig was of law, and in all cases where tax evasion is Swiss and other foreign bank accounts to prison on each count. Student Patiwat Another man, Jaran Ditapichai-a prominent removed in July. State Councilor Yang Jiechi, who last established”. The government was under pres- avoid taxes. There is no firm estimate of the Saraiyaem, 23, and activist Porntip Mankong, supporter of the now toppled government- visited in Hanoi in June when he told Vietnam to stop sure to file the affidavit following petitions amount of black money at home and abroad, 25, were each charged by a Bangkok criminal told AFP he also faces an arrest warrant for lese “hyping-up” the dispute, met Foreign Minister Pham including from activist Subramanian Swamy, but it is believed to amount to hundreds of court with one count of lese majeste linked to majeste for overseeing the events program. “It Binh Minh yesterday for talks. who has waged an aggressive campaign to billions of dollars. The Dabur group said in a an October 2013 performance at a commemo- was a modern play that came from several Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was not prosecute wealthy people with undeclared statement that Burman opened his foreign ration of a pro-democracy students’ uprising. workshops, so there was no script for me to present as he left earlier for India, where he is due to funds offshore. Sambit Patra, a BJP account while a non-resident Indian and “was “After the charges were read, both suspects review,” Jaran told AFP from Paris, where he is meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlighting spokesman, called disclosure of the names “a legally allowed to open this account”. Lodhiya asked for time to study the charge before give seeking political asylum. Jaran fled Thailand Hanoi’s recent efforts to seek powerful allies elsewhere historic day in the black money case”. “The told reporters he was in compliance with all pleas,” their lawyer Pawinee Chumsri told AFP, after he was summoned by the military junta in after relations with Beijing soured. After the Hanoi talks, process of disclosure of names has started,” tax laws, adding, “I have no foreign bank adding they will issue a plea in late December. the days after May’s coup. “When you are Minh said Vietnam had “always attached importance to Patra told reporters, referring to a list that account”. The mine operator named was not The pair were arrested separately in mid- charged with lese majeste you can’t go back (to developing its cooperative partnership with China,” local media says contains hundreds of names. immediately available for comment.— AFP August, several months after the play-”The Thailand),” he added.—AFP according to a statement released by Vietnam’s foreign ministry. “Both sides recognize that handling maritime issues well is very important for bilateral relations,” the Cambodia-Thai kidney trafficking sparks fears of new organ market statement said, without elaborating. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua PHNOM PENH: The seven-inch scar runs diagonally across the Cambodian donors taken to Thailand who had not filed com- unable to rule out whether money changed hands. Chunying told a regular briefing in Beijing yesterday that left flank of his skinny torso, a glaring reminder of an operation plaints. The complicity of donors, whether compelled by poverty bilateral ties had been hit by “temporary difficulties” but he hoped would save his family from debt but instead plunged or coerced by unscrupulous brokers, makes it an under-reported ‘I regret it’ things were now back on track. The ministry added in a him into shame. Chhay, 18, sold his kidney for $3,000 in an illicit crime which is difficult to expose. In August media reports Chhay watches from the sidelines as boys his age play foot- statement that both sides had agreed to avoid “actions deal that saw him whisked from a rickety one-room house on the emerged about new alleged organ trafficking cases at a military ball, two years on from an operation that has left him feeling that complicate and broaden disputes”. Vietnam outskirts of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to a gleaming hospital in Phnom Penh. Prum, who investigated the case, said it weak, ashamed and still in debt. “I want to tell others not to have staunchly opposes China’s ongoing efforts to develop hospital in the medical tourism hub of neighboring Thailand. was a training exercise between Chinese and Cambodian doc- their kidney removed like me... I regret it. I cannot work hard any airstrips and military bases on the island chains it con- His shadowy journey, which went unnoticed by authorities tors, using voluntary Vietnamese donors and patients. But he was more, even walking I feel exhausted,” he said. In July he started trols in the South China Sea. Its commercial fishing fleet two years ago, has instigated Cambodia’s first-ever cases of organ work at a garment factory. Little research has been done on the routinely clashes with Chinese fisheries patrol vessels in trafficking and the arrests of two alleged brokers. It has also impact of transplants on paid donors like Chhay but the WHO contested waters from the northern Gulf of Tonkin to raised fears that other victims hide beneath the radar. At the cor- has reported an association with depression and perceived dete- fishing zones around the Spratly Islands hundreds of rugated iron shack he shares with nine relatives, Chhay says a rioration in health, highlighting the lack of follow-up care. miles further south. neighbor persuaded him and a pair of brothers-all from the mar- Chhay remembers few details of a transaction that still haunts It is unlikely there was any real breakthrough in ginalized Cham Muslim minority-to sell their kidneys to rich him, claiming no knowledge of the Thai city where he was taken resolving territorial rows during the talks, said Ian Storey, Cambodians on dialysis. “She said you are poor, you don’t have or the woman he sold his kidney to. In Thailand health authorities a senior fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies money, if you sell your kidney you will be able to pay off your are trying to shed more light on the murky trade, with several in Singapore. “Nevertheless, Yang’s trip to Hanoi is debts,” the teenager told AFP, requesting his real name be with- Bangkok hospitals under investigation. Focus has fallen on the important because it represents another step forward in held. documents traffickers forge to prove donors and recipients are efforts by the two countries to repair their relationship Identical stories have long been common in the slums of India related-a requirement in many countries where it is illegal to sell which was severely damaged by the oil rig incident,” he and Nepal, better-known hotspots for traffickers. Up to 10,000, or an organ. “We’ve asked hospitals to be more careful” when check- said. After rebuffing “scores of requests” for talks over the 10 percent, of the organs transplanted globally each year are traf- ing documents, Thai medical council president Somsak Lolekha summer, the second visit by Yang Jiechi shows a “tactical ficked, according to the latest World Health Organization esti- told AFP, adding his organization was reviewing its transplant shift” by Beijing, said Jonathan London of Hong Kong’s mate. But on discovering the broker earned $10,000 for each kid- regulations. City University. ney they sacrificed, the donors filed complaints, alerting police in The talks are evidence that China now “seeks stabili- June to a potential new organ trade route. “Kidney trafficking is Tip of iceberg? ty” in its relationship with Hanoi, possibly to prevent it not like other crimes... If the victims don’t speak up, we will never Driving the demand for a black market in organs is the global- drawing other countries such as the US into the South know,” said Phnom Penh’s deputy police chief Prum Sonthor. In ly soaring number of sick patients waiting for transplants, espe- China Sea dispute. Yang’s visit come “within a dynamic July his force charged Yem Azisah, 29 - believed to be a cousin of cially kidneys. In Thailand alone there were 4,321 people on the context that includes Hanoi’s warming ties with the sibling donors-and her step-father, known as Phalla, 40, with organ waiting list up until August with deceased donors’ organs Washington and Beijing’s continued efforts to change human trafficking. The pair are being detained and await trial. forming around half of the 581 kidneys transplanted last year, the status quo in the maritime area,” he said. Since the according to the Thai Red Cross Organ Donation Centre (ODC). rig incident, Vietnam has drawn closer to its former First case PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian victim displays a scar at World over this increasing reliance on living donors has left des- wartime foe America, with the US partially lifting a ban Trafficking is a widespread problem in impoverished his home in Phnom Penh. The seven-inch scar runs perate patients scouring for volunteers in their families, or, in on lethal weapons sales earlier this month. Vietnam last Cambodia and police routinely investigate cases linked to the sex diagonally across the left flank of his skinny torso, a some cases, recruiting underground. Prompted by concerns over week released a high-profile dissident whose case has trade, forced marriage or slavery but this was the first related to glaring reminder of an operation he hoped would save trafficking the ODC, which oversees organ donations, launched a been raised by US President Barack Obama and allowed organs. “This is easy money that earns a lot of income, so we are his family from debt but instead plunged him into pilot project in April making it compulsory for hospitals to pro- him to travel to the US. — AFP worried,” said Prum, adding there were at least two other shame. — AFP vide them with details of living donors.—AFP NEWS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

Geese fly past autumn foliage and above the Schuylkill River on Monday 2014 in Philadelphia.— AP US calls on allies to combat IS ideology Outrage after South Africa football... Continued from Page 1 Syria. Continued from Page 1 Meyiwa was gunned down at a house in Vosloorus, One of its top diplomats echoed the American offi- a township about 30 km south of Johannesburg at “information coalition” is needed to complement the cials’ message. “We will not be able win this war against Police have offered an increased reward of 250,000 around 8 pm (1800 GMT) on Sunday. “It is alleged that military campaign. “Let it be known to everyone that the IS and terrorism and lose the battle of public opinion,” rand ($23,000) for any information leading to his two suspects entered the house and confronted the battle against IS is being fought in different spheres - Anwar Gargash, the Emirati minister of state for foreign killer’s arrest. occupants, while a third suspect was outside,” said military, financial and information,” Stengel said. “In the affairs, told delegates. “We have to win on all fronts: on Tributes to Meyiwa flooded in from across the foot- Phiyega. After an altercation “a shot was fired, the military sphere, we have a coalition in the battlefield the ground and also by winning hearts and minds ball world. Spain’s World Cup winning goalkeeper and goalkeeper was hit in the upper body and was taken engaged with Daesh every day. Our effort to combat the against terrorism.” captain Iker Casillas posted on his Instagram account a to hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival”. flow of money and disrupt their profitable enterprises is A joint statement said the attendees agreed to picture of Meyiwa after the pair had swapped jerseys, One cell phone was taken and the three suspects fled now being addressed, but we all agree including “enhancing exchanges, training and other cooperative saying “Very sad for the dramatic loss of friend RIP on foot. Police have launched a manhunt for the sus- President Obama and coalition partners that there must programs for government leaders and spokespersons, Senzo.” FIFA president Sepp Blatter described Meyiwa’s pects, described as being in their late 20s and early be an information battlefield in this regard,” he said. actively opposing the recruitment of foreign fighters killing as a “senseless, tragic loss”. Meyiwa’s South 30s. “The victory against Daesh will come sooner if we and encouraging important religious and social leaders African teammate, Doncaster Rovers-based Dean After many years in the South African football shad- help each other. We have a common enemy, a common and the millions of young people who oppose violent Furman, said he was “beyond devastated at the loss of ows, Meyiwa had a meteoric climb to fame with the threat - we want to include the cyberspace or new extremism to raise their voices through traditional and our captain and friend”. Dennis Mumble, the chief Orlando Pirates. Meyiwa played for the “Buccaneers” in media in the battle against ISIL,” Stengel added. social media.” executive officer of the South African Football Soweto Saturday and has been in outstanding form for “Whatever we do collectively on the battlefield needs to The Islamic State group that has seized large parts of Association, said “the country is crying”. the national team during recent 2015 Africa Cup quali- be amplified on the information battlefield.” Stengel said Iraq and Syria and declared a self-styled caliphate, or This is just the latest tragedy to befall South Africa’s fiers. He displaced national squad goalkeeper the number of recruits joining IS has dropped, but pro- Islamic empire, in areas under its control embraces social sporting fraternity. South Africa is still reeling from the Moeneeb Josephs as first-choice at Pirates, the only vided no evidence or figures. “We think that the attrac- media platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. death of former world 800-m champion Mbulaeni South African side to be crowned African champions. tion of IS is decreasing,” Stengel said. Asked if the meet- Hollywood-style film clips and other elements of its Mulaudzi who died in a car crash on Friday and the And a recent injury to South Africa captain and goal- ing discussed ways to ensure governments in the Middle media campaign boost the group’s credibility among jailing of fallen Paralympic hero Oscar Pistorius for the keeper Itumeleng Khune gave Meyiwa a chance in the East would not use the coalition to crack down on free- disaffected but plugged-in young Muslims and helps it killing of his girlfriend last year. national team, popularly known as Bafana Bafana (The dom of expression, Stengel said: “All the coalition part- promote its conquests, inspire sympathizers and attract National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega said Boys). ners have pledged to respect freedom of expression.” new recruits. that with the eyes of the world again on South Africa’s New national coach Mashaba not only promoted Khaled Sulaiman Al-Jarallah, undersecretary at the The Islamic State group produces online magazines high crime rate, a task team of national and provincial Durban-born Meyiwa to replace Khune but also made Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said his country is and polished propaganda videos that make use of multi- officers was working to quickly to close the case. him captain of a team that have been in the doldrums fighting terrorist financing and has created a special task ple camera angles, computer graphics and sophisticated “This type of loss is undesirable for our country, this for some years. Meyiwa responded to his promotion force to combat the problem. US-allied Gulf nations editing techniques. One video released by its Al-Furqan type of loss does not augur well for our brand and by leading the team to victories over Sudan and including Qatar and Saudi Arabia also took part in the media arm earlier this year included aerial footage image out there.” But Phiyega rejected accusations Congo Brazzaville and draws with Congo Brazzaville Kuwait conference, as did representatives from Turkey, apparently shot from a drone over the Iraqi city of that Meyiwa’s killing was being treated differently and Nigeria, a country South Africa traditionally strug- Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, France, and Britain. So did Fallujah, which it now holds. In another twist, the group because of the victim’s high profile. “We believe that gle against. He did not concede a goal in the four the United Arab Emirates, which hosts air bases used by cast a British journalist it holds, John Cantlie, as a sort of someone, somewhere, somehow knows something matches and if South Africa defeat Sudan in eastern the coalition and is among the regional states that have talk-show host speaking in a series of videos about the about this crime,” she said appealing to the public to city Nelspruit next month they will qualify for the 2015 carried out airstrikes against Islamic State targets in group. — Agencies come forward. Africa Cup of Nations tournament. — AFP TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By Alan Baldwin

alk of financial crisis in Formula One is nothing new but the absence of back-markers Caterham and Marussia from this Tweek’s US Grand Prix after they went into administration has concentrated minds. For the first time since 2005, there will be only nine teams in the paddock and some of them are competing in straitened circumstances. It is a long-standing joke that the best way to make a small fortune in Formula One is to start with a large one, but securing even a basic budget is proving increasingly diffi- cult in a sport that burns through cash at eye-watering speed. Sauber have made no secret of their problems while Force India owner Vijay Mallya continues to make headlines after being Rousseff faces battle to rule divided Brazil declared a “wilful defaulter” last month by state-run lender United Bank of India. Speculation has also swirled around Lotus, who By Yana Marull in the first half of 2014, the business world has grown hos- cult for Rousseff to address frustrations that drew a million have had serious financial problems. The signs of trouble have tile to Rousseff. “The first challenge will be to announce Brazilians into the streets last year in protests that shook been there for years, with regular warnings and calls for cost caps razil’s newly re-elected President Dilma Rousseff what she’ll do as far as economic policy and the govern- the country. “Brazilians are demanding improvements in along the way. The plight of Caterham and Marussia, who are faces huge challenges to govern the sprawling ment’s books. The president has to try to recover lost confi- public services - health and education. But she will have to both hoping to find a buyer, comes as no surprise. BSouth American country after winning a deeply divi- dence,” said economist Jose Francisco Lima Goncalves of do it with a limited budget because of the economic situa- “It seems that the chickens have come home to roost,” Max sive race by a narrow margin, analysts said. The leftist Banco Fator. tion,” said Vinicius Botelho of the Brazilian Institute of Mosley, the former president of the governing International incumbent beat business favorite Aecio Neves 51.6 percent Rousseff’s critics accuse her of excessive interference in Economics at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. Automobile Federation, told the Times newspaper yesterday. to 48.4 percent in a hard-fought run-off Sunday, leaving the economy that chokes growth and competitiveness. Mosley helped three new teams into the sport at the start of the her with a fragile mandate to reboot the recession-hit She has promised to change her finance minister, and mar- Corruption, Distrust 2010 season, after a manufacturer exodus, with a promise of economy and answer voters’ frustrations over corruption kets are keenly awaiting the announcement. Though the Dressed in white, Rousseff used her victory speech budget caps and regulation tweaks to ensure they could compete and weak public services. country still attracts major foreign investment, “business Sunday to call for “unity” and “dialogue” after a virulent on a level playing field. The £40 million ($64.55 million) annual Political analyst Andre Cesar summed up the laundry list confidence is at its lowest level in five years, executives and campaign that split the country along class lines. She also budget cap never happened, with the big teams refusing to of problems facing Rousseff as she starts her next four investors are unhappy. It’s very urgent for the president to vowed to tackle corruption, an issue that has dogged the countenance such a measure, and by the end of the 2010 season years in power. “The economy, whose growth will be close build bridges,” said Richard Lapper, chief analyst at LatAm PT throughout its 12 years in power and threatened to Mosley spelled out the risks implicit in that rejection. “For 2011, to zero this year, is in bad shape. In Congress the president Confidential, a research unit of the Financial Times. derail her campaign after the multi-billion-dollar kickback you need $100 million, with 30 or 40 million from Bernie has a volatile majority and faces a fragmented legislature scandal broke at Petrobras, implicating dozens of politi- with 28 political parties. There are serious accusations of Jobs at Risk cians - mainly her allies. “The investigations into the scan- Ecclestone and perhaps 20 to 25 million from sponsors or the corruption at state oil firm Petrobras, and the country is Rousseff, an economist by training, has defended her dal will reach their conclusion after the elections. If they drivers,” he declared at the time. “I’d say six teams are wondering divided after an extremely polarizing election campaign,” management of the economy, insisting it increased wages confirm the allegations, it could unleash a crisis,” said where the rest is coming from. It’s quite possible we will lose two he told AFP. and brought unemployment to an all-time low of 4.9 per- Ricardo Ribeiro of consultancy MCM Consultores. or three teams.” The Briton’s words would have been just as valid The scenario has changed dramatically since 2010, cent. But some analysts warn the economy risks shedding Rousseff will also have to try to win back the confi- now. “The budget cap was absolutely the right thing to do,” he when Rousseff first won election, taking over from her jobs in 2015 - and that may add to her headaches. “Job dence of Brazilians who are fed up with their political said on Monday. “Clearly no sport can survive properly when Workers’ Party (PT) mentor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The security has been one of the main pillars holding up the system - the one issue on which the country seems able some teams are spending four and five times more than the world’s seventh-largest economy grew 7.5 percent that current government. Seventy percent of Brazilians feel to agree. “Ninety-two percent of voters said no candi- smallest. There cannot be proper competition that way.” year, the peak of a decade-long boom that fueled unprece- their jobs are safe,” said Mauro Paulino, director of polling date in these elections would bring the changes Brazil Caterham, which started life as Lotus Racing under Malaysian dented consumption and lifted millions from poverty. But firm Datafolha. needs,” said Renato Meirelles, head of polling firm Data entrepreneur Tony Fernandes, was supposedly sold in July and after four years of sluggish growth culminating in recession The economic funk will meanwhile make it more diffi- Popular. —AFP went into administration last week amid a paper storm of accusa- tions and counter-claims. Marussia, which made its debut in 2010 as Virgin Racing, followed on Monday for financial reasons. Rousseff will struggle to restore good times Spanish-based HRT folded at the end of 2012.

Vested Interests By Alonso Soto government does not have much wiggle plunged on Monday as most bet it would can already see a return of optimism in the The US Grand Prix will be the first race since 2009 without any room to significantly cut expenditures be more of the same in a second Rousseff Brazilian economy.” of those new teams and risks being remembered as the end of a resident Dilma Rousseff narrowly without reducing public investment or administration. The Bovespa index lost as Many observers remain skeptical. “She bold experiment that might have succeeded but ultimately was won re-election by spending heavily social programs. “Any fiscal action should much as 6.2 percent in early trade while the didn’t make any changes during her first doomed by vested interests and a lack of vision. Of the three, only Pand promising to extend the fight be accompanied by some medium- to real weakened more than 3 percent against term so I don’t think she will change her Marussia ever scored any points and that was in May when French against poverty but she will need to restore long-term framework to reinforce confi- the dollar. In a bid to calm markets, Finance ways in a second term,” said Raul Velloso, a driver Jules Bianchi finished an astonishing ninth for a team so order to public finances in her second term dence,” added Canuto, who declined to Minister Guido Mantega said the next Brasilia-based economic consultant. “She hard up it could not afford celebratory champagne. Bianchi now to get Brazil’s stalled economy back in gear. comment on the finance ministry specula- administration will redouble efforts to has heavy ideological baggage and that lies critically injured in a Japanese hospital after an horrific crash in Rousseff edged out opposition candidate tion. Brazil’s budget deficit has widened improve fiscal discipline and tackle high won’t change overnight.” Local businesses Japan three weeks ago, a personal tragedy that was also a disaster Aecio Neves in Sunday’s election runoff, sharply under Rousseff, who increased inflation. “Now that the election is over the have long lobbied for bold reforms to cut for the team. Even without the nightmare of Suzuka, Marussia helped by strong support from the poor public spending and granted dozens of tax economic scenario will calm down,” Brazil’s red tape, simplify its Byzantine tax were on borrowed time with the team desperately trying to stay despite her struggles to tame high infla- cuts to struggling industries to bolster the Mantega, who is set to step down at the code and overhaul a pension system that is afloat in a very deep ocean. Their budget of about £50 million tion, attract investment and revive an econ- economy. end of the year, told piling pressure on public finances. ($80.69 million) was generally regarded as the smallest of all the omy in its fourth year of lackluster growth. Despite those measures, industrial out- reporters in Rousseff agrees that many of those teams and compared to $200 million plus for the likes of With the bruising re-election campaign put failed to pick up and her government Brasilia. reforms are needed, but so far has shown Mercedes and Ferrari. Formula One has seen more than 120 behind her, Rousseff now faces the daunt- was harshly criticized for using fiscal “We little desire to engage in the political give- and-take required to push initiatives teams come and go, with Ferrari the only one to have stayed the ing task of returning the shine to an econo- maneuvers to artificially increase public my that was once a Wall Street darling but savings. The budget hole disguised by through Congress. Even with a clear course since the championship started in 1950. Some 51 never has been hit by policy missteps and global those “fiscal tricks,” which include delay- majority in Congress, Rousseff has scored a point. To some, that is the nature of a sport that carries economic headwinds that hurt demand for ing payments from social programs struggled to pass legislation to no passengers and in which only the fittest survive. Brazilian exports. and dipping into Brazil’s sovereign unify minor taxes and slightly Just as the graveyards of Europe are filled with indispensable To do so, she needs to move swiftly to wealth fund, could be as much as lower the pension burden. An men, so too the Formula One scrapheap is piled high with illustri- staunch the bleeding in Brazil’s fiscal 2 percent of gross domestic even more fragmented ous names once considered immortal. But there are many who accounts, which has added pressure to product, BNP Paribas estimated Congress in a second term will question whether teams should still be folding in a sport with an inflation and eroded investor confidence in in a recent research report. further complicate any efforts annual turnover of more than $1.5 billion and an annual prize Latin America’s largest economy. Failure to to lower the staggering cost fund of more than $750 million. Part of the problem lies in the clean up public finances could lead to a ‘Ideological Baggage’ of doing business in Brazil. distribution of that fund, with the big teams taking the lions’ credit rating downgrade next year. Rousseff Rousseff’s headaches won’t Brazilian companies on share and some, such as Ferrari, getting additional special bonus- struck a conciliatory tone in her victory be limited to the fiscal realm. average spend 2,600 hours a es. “In every industry, successful companies stay in the market, speech on Sunday night, pledging to work After keeping fuel and elec- year calculating what they and less successful ones disappear,” said Paola Aversa of London’s with political adversaries and business tricity rates artificially low in owe in taxes, according to Cass Business School. “However, if we consider that in F1 on aver- leaders alike to usher in a new era of eco- recent years to help keep con- the World Bank’s annual age one company goes under every year...and that even the suc- nomic growth. “We’re going to give new tain inflation, the president is Doing Business study, cessful firms struggle to break even, we must wonder whether impetus to all sectors of the economy, under pressure to finally let which compares business the business model of this industry is actually sustainable. We especially industry,” she said. “I want a part- those prices rise. An increase practices around the should ask whether the distribution of wealth is proportionate to nership with all sectors, both productive would be good news for state- world. That is almost 15 a point that allows all the players, both administrators and teams, and financial, to take on the challenges run oil company Petrobras and times the amount of time to get a fair share of the pie and thus achieve a reasonable ahead.” power distributors, but it would needed to do taxes in the turnover.” —Reuters She also extended an olive branch to also complicate Rousseff’s anti- United States. Mexico investors worried about Brazil’s deteriorat- inflation efforts and could end and Colombia, which ing finances, saying she was committed to up eroding her popularity with have embarked on more fiscal discipline and to keeping inflation in working-class Brazilians. ambitious reforms to check. But the jury is out on whether A slump in commodity prices open their economies, All articles appearing on these Rousseff, a leftist who believes in state-led due to a slow global economy are growing at a rate more pages are the personal opinion of economic growth, is committed enough to and higher US interest rates could than two times that of Brazil. the writers. Kuwait Times takes no fiscal discipline to take on politically diffi- also weigh on efforts to boost the The Brazilian economy is cult tax and pension reforms or cut spend- pace of economic growth. expected to barely grow at all this responsibility for views expressed ing on popular welfare programs. Investors are far from convinced year and expand just 1 percent in therein. Kuwait Times invites read- “Everything will hinge on fiscal policy, but that Rousseff will act decisively to 2015 - a far cry from the 7.5 percent ers to voice their opinions. Please there is not much scope to make a very tackle Brazil’s many economic growth rate in 2010, just before Rousseff send submissions via email to: opin- drastic adjustment in the short term given challenges head on in her second took office. “I don’t think Brazil can afford the rigidity of the budget,” said Otaviano term, which starts on New Year’s to stay far away from the global trend [email protected] or via snail Canuto, a World Bank official who some Day. Some hold out hope that the for reforms” said Jorge Mariscal, chief mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. government officials say is a contender to threat of a credit downgrade could investment officer for emerging mar- The editor reserves the right to edit be finance minister in Rousseff’s new term. force Rousseff to take a more market- kets at UBS Wealth Management, any submission as necessary. About 90 percent of Brazil’s budget friendly tack. which oversees about $1 trillion in spending is mandated by law, meaning the But Brazil’s stock market and currency investments. —Reuters p15_Layout 1 10/27/14 9:49 PM Page 1

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 SPORTS

India to appeal against Nigeria face yet another Disgraced Anelka set for Sarita Devi’s suspension suspension from FIFA comeback in Indian league NEW DELHI: The president of Boxing India wants AIBA to revoke a provi- CAPE TOWN: Nigeria face another suspension from FIFA that would not be NEW DELHI: Disgraced French striker Nicolas Anelka is set to return to sional suspension on female boxer L. Sarita Devi for protesting at the Asian lifted until May, putting the country out of the running for a place at 2015 Games. Devi protested against the decision in the 60-kilogram bout by action on Tuesday after serving a five-match ban for a gesture deemed to African Nations Cup finals. The Jos High Court ruled last Thursday that the be anti-semitic and known as a “quenelle”. refusing to bend down to let the medal be placed over her Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) elections on Sept. 30 that elected Amaju neck. She then took the medal and slipped it onto the neck The 35-year-old former Arsenal, Chelsea, Juventus and Real Madrid star Pinnick president be declared null and void, throwing the country’s foot- is expected to turn out for his Indian Super League team Mumbai FC of Park Ji-na, who had been declared the winner of the ball back into crisis. After Nigeria were twice suspended this year for gov- against Chennaiyin FC in the southern city of Chennai. semifinal bout. The South Korean boxer tried to give it ernment interference in the NFF, FIFA confirmed in a letter to the NFF in the Anelka missed the Peter Reid-coached team’s first three back, then left it on the podium. lead-up to their latest elections that more meddling would bring about an “It was purely an emotional reaction and not pre- automatic suspension to run at least until FIFA’s elective congress in May matches, in which they beat FC Pune City 5-0 but lost 2-0 planned,” Sandeep Jajodia said yesterday after a meeting 2015. Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou had a to Northeast United and 3-0 to Atletico de Kolkata. Reid with sports ministry and Indian Olympic Association offi- meeting with Nigerian officials in Windhoek, Namibia on Saturday ahead of will be relieved at Anelka’s return since Mumbai’s other cials to discuss the course of action. “We don’t deny that it the final of the African Women’s Championships that saw the Super Falcons top player, Freddie Ljungberg of Sweden, is almost cer- was disrespectful toward the code of conduct for defeat Cameroon. Nigerian media reported Hayatou told sports minister tain to miss the rest of the eight-team league due to a athletes but she tendered an unconditional Tammy Danagogo that unless the latest court order is reversed, FIFA will hamstring injury. apology.” The protest prompted AIBA technical act on Monday. As yet, there have been no signs of that. Justice Ambrose “We’ve got a few plus points for our next game, Nicolas delegate David Francis to say it “looked like a Allagoa ruled last week that the elective congress of the NFF on Sept. 30 Anelka will be in the side,” Reid, the former Manchester well-planned scenario by her and her should not be recognised as the Jos High Court had put in place 11 days City and Sunderland boss, tweeted after the last team.”—AP earlier an order that the elections could not be held.—Reuters match.—AFP Earnhardt wins clock at Martinsville Speedway

MARTINSVILLE: Dale Earnhardt Jr. roamed midway point. Although Kenseth felt terri- around Martinsville Speedway as a child, ble about the incident, Harvick didn’t care. soaking in the sights and the sounds and “He won’t win this championship,” the smells while his dad collected six of the Harvick said about Kenseth. “If we don’t, he treasured grandfather clocks awarded to won’t.” The accident caused Harvick to fin- the winner. ish 33rd, and dropped him to last in the Earnhardt desperately wanted to win at eight-driver Chase field. He’s 33 points the historic short track, to bring one of behind leader Gordon and 28 points those big ‘ol clocks home to his house. In behind Kenseth, who is fourth and the cur- his 30th try, he finally got his clock. rent transfer spot to the Nov. 16 champi- Earnhardt raced to his first Martinsville onship round at Homestead. victory Sunday, a week after he was elimi- “I don’t blame him for feeling like that,” nated from the Chase for the Sprint Cup Kenseth said. “It was a mistake. He was an championship. It was his fourth win of the innocent bystander. He was at the wrong season, but perhaps the one he treasured place at the wrong time.” most. “This place has a special meaning STEWART’S STRONG RUN: Stewart tied and a special place in the series and the his best finish of the season Sunday and sport,” he said. “I’ve been coming here since had his highest finish he was fifth at the early ‘80s, watching races here. Dad Fontana in March. But he’s still winless on won several races here, brought home sev- the season, and has just three races remain- eral clocks. I remember one in particular ing to avoid the first winless year of his 16- that set at the front door, in the hall by the year career. stairs. Had this little round rug right in that Still, running up front, even for one race, hallway that I’d run my Matchbox cars on, was an encouraging sign for Stewart-Haas listening to the race. That clock would ring Racing. “Tony did a good job,” said competi- on the hour. tion director Greg Zipadelli. “Let’s hope we “I always wanted one. The clock seems can build some momentum here. Him run- so hard to get. This is very personal and ning better will help everybody else in our very special to me to be able to win here.” organization, so that’s the main focus.” It was 10 years ago this weekend that a KESELOWSKI’S CRASH: Brad Hendrick Motorsports plane on its way to Keselowski pulled himself out of a huge the race crashed, killing all 10 on board. championship hole when he won at Lost on that day were team owner Rick Talladega to stave off elimination in the Hendrick’s son, brother, twin nieces, the Chase. A week later, he’s right back in trou- team general manger, head engine builder, ble. A mechanical problem caused him to a key sponsor representative, two Hendrick slow on the track late in the race and it trig- pilots and a pilot for Tony Stewart. gered a chain-reaction crash that collected LOS ANGELES: Adam Cracknell No. 32 of the Columbus Blue Jackets makes a play from the ice away from Jarret Stoll No. 28 of the Los Angeles So his four drivers try desperately to win several drivers - including title contender Kings during the third period of a 5-2 King’s win at Staples Center. —AFP at Martinsville for Hendrick, for the organi- Carl Edwards. zation, for those who died that October Keselowski, who has a series-best six day. It was Earnhardt who pulled it off, with wins, finished 31st. He’s now seventh in the teammate Jeff Gordon right behind him in eight-driver Chase field. “It’s been tough, Kings demolish Blue Jackets a 1-2 finish for Hendrick. but it builds character and makes us Hendrick, who often doesn’t decide stronger,” Keselowski said. “With this for- LOS ANGELES: Jeff Carter scored during a two- rebounded aggressively from an embarrassing Darling, a native of Lemont, Illinois, was until race day if he’s emotionally able to mat, we’re by no means out.” man advantage in Los Angeles’ three-goal sec- home loss to lowly Buffalo on Saturday, taking a steady as he faced a handful of tough chances. travel to Martinsville, was present for the NEWMAN’S FINISH: Ryan Newman ond period, and the Kings completed a sweep of 3-0 lead after two dominant periods. The third Ottawa’s Craig Anderson, from Park Ridge, win. “This is an extraordinary man that continued to quietly put up big finishes in a six-game homestand with a 5-2 victory over turned into a prolonged brawl featuring 127 Illinois, stopped 43 shots, including a second- when all that went down, two days later he the Chase with a third-place finish at the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday. penalty minutes and ending with Ryan Getzlaf period penalty shot by Andrew Shaw. Corey was at Hendrick Motorsports speaking to Martinsville. Columbus left wing Nick Foligno was serious- and Corey Perry in the Ducks’ dressing room. Crawford, Chicago’s No. 1 goalie, missed his all the employees,” Gordon said. “It’s just the He now has five consecutive top-10 fin- ly injured with 11:34 left. He was taken off on a Matt Beleskey scored for the Western fourth game because of an upper-body injury. kind of person that he is. I know it’s not ishes in the Chase, and goes into next stretcher while wearing a neck brace. Carter Conference-leading Ducks, who hadn’t lost since easy on him. I really do. I know that it puts week’s race at Texas ranked second in the checked him along the boards in front of the opening night on Oct. 9. CANUCKS 4, CAPITALS 2 extra pressure on us at Hendrick standings. Few expected Newman, in his Kings bench, and Foligno’s head rammed into Frederik Andersen stopped 33 shots, but his Nick Bonino and Radim Vrbata both had a Motorsports when he’s here to get that win first year with Richard Childress Racing, to the elbow of linesman Shane Heyer, who had 10-start winning streak ended as Anaheim goal and an assist as Vancouver topped because it’s a way to really pay tribute. It’s still be competing in the Chase in the third jumped on top of the boards in an attempt to wrapped up a five-game homestand with an Washington. Henrik Sedin and Luca Sbisa also the ultimate way you can do it.” round. Yet his numbers have been strong avoid both players. unimpressive effort against a Pacific Division scored for the Canucks (5-3), and Chris Higgins and consistency may get him into the final Tanner Pearson scored twice in the third for rival. Patrick Marleau and Logan Couture had had two assists. OTHER THINGS: round. “We were the 16th seed coming in the Kings, who swept a homestand of at least six two assists apiece for the Sharks. Ryan Miller made 20 saves to earn his fifth EARNHARDT’S CLOCK: Now that without a win. We’ve not won yet,” he said. games for the first time. The defending Stanley win of the season. Marcus Johansson and Liam Earnhardt has his clock, he’s got to figure “We were tied for the lead in the points Cup champions didn’t win more than five in a BLACKHAWKS 2, SENATORS 1 O’Brien had goals, and Mike Green added two out where to put it. He said placement will with four races to go. Mathematically it has row at home at any time last season. Tyler Toffoli Jonathan Toews and Brent Seabrook scored assists for Washington (4-2-2), which went 1-2 largely depend on where longtime girl- played to my advantage, as others, but and Dwight King also scored for the Kings. and Scott Darling made 32 saves in his NHL during a three-game swing through Western friend, Amy, wants the clock, but he was probably mine mostly. Jonathan Quick made 22 saves. Columbus’ debut as Chicago ended a two-game losing Canada. The Capitals won at Calgary on relieved in Victory Lane when he heard her EDWARDS NEARS THE END: Carl Sergei Bobrovsky, who was trying for his 100th streak with a victory over Ottawa. Saturday night. Justin Peters, starting in place say the timepiece was “beautiful.” Edwards felt he had as good a shot as any- NHL victory, stopped 22 shots. Defenseman Tim Patrick Kane assisted on Toews’ goal for his of No. 1 goalie Braden Holtby, finished with 30 Although he’s hopeful it ends up in the one to advance out of the third round of Erixon scored his first NHL goal, and Mark 500th NHL point. Milan Michalek scored a short- saves. After a scoreless first period, the teams living room, Earnhardt said he’d be willing the Chase. But his Roush Fenway Racing Letestu also scored for the Blue Jackets. handed goal for the Senators, who have broke out for five goals in the second. to make the clock a display for all to see. “I team was off all day Sunday as he ran near dropped two straight. The game featured a Vancouver scored three times in a span of 1:47 want to put it just inside the front door the back of the pack. Then he was caught JETS 2, AVALANCHE 1 matchup of goalies from the Chicago area. to grab a 3-1 lead. —AP where you got to walk around the damn in Keselowski’s incident and felt lucky to Bryan Little scored at 4:35 of overtime, lifting thing when you come in the house,” he leave Martinsville with a 20th-place finish. Winnipeg over Colorado. Little redirected said. “But she probably won’t let me set it He’s sixth in the Chase standings. Andrew Ladd’s backhander past Semyon NHL results/standings there.” “We planned on running a lot better Varlamov for his fifth goal of the season. Ladd HARVICK-KENSETH: Kevin Harvick’s than that, but at the end of the day, we still also had the game’s first goal. Ondrej Pavelec Winnipeg 2, Colorado 1 (OT); Los Angeles 5, Columbus 2; Chicago 2, Ottawa 1; San Jose 4, Anaheim 1. championship chances took a huge hit came home 20th and we could have lost made 22 saves. Jamie McGinn scored for Western Conference Eastern Conference when Matt Kenseth spun him just past the our minds there,” he said. —AP Colorado. Varlamov stopped 26 shots. Pacific Division Atlantic Division Winnipeg spent a lot of time in Colorado’s WLOTLGFGAPTS Montreal 7 1 0 25 22 14 Tampa Bay 5 3 1 27 23 11 Anaheim 7 2 0 30 19 14 end at the start of the game and it paid off when Detroit 4 2 2 18 17 10 Ladd stood in front of the net and redirected Los Angeles 6 1 1 22 12 13 Boston 5 5 0 26 24 10 Zach Bogosian’s shot from the point through Calgary 5 4 1 26 22 11 Ottawa 4 2 1 17 15 9 Varlamov’s legs at 6:25. It was Ladd’s 100th goal San Jose 5 4 1 32 28 11 Florida 2 2 3 10 16 7 with the Winnipeg franchise. Vancouver 5 3 0 27 26 10 Toronto 3 4 1 21 25 7 Arizona 3 3 1 18 25 7 Buffalo 2 7 0 11 29 4 Metropolitan Division Edmonton 3 4 1 23 32 7 SHARKS 4, DUCKS 1 NY Islanders 6 2 0 32 27 12 Joe Pavelski and Tommy Wingels scored pow- Central Division New Jersey 4 2 2 25 25 10 er-play goals as San Jose emphatically snapped Nashville 5 1 2 19 16 12 Washington 4 2 2 25 19 10 a four-game losing streak with a fight-filled vic- Chicago 5 2 1 22 14 11 Pittsburgh 4 2 1 25 19 9 Columbus 4 4 0 23 25 8 tory over Anaheim. Brent Burns and Marc- Dallas 4 2 2 29 29 10 Minnesota 4 2 0 19 6 8 Philadelphia 3 3 2 26 30 8 Edouard Vlasic also scored for the Sharks, who NY Rangers 4 4 0 22 26 8 St. Louis 3 3 1 16 15 7 ended Anaheim’s seven-game winning streak Carolina 0 5 2 14 29 2 with just their second victory in seven games. Colorado 2 4 3 20 29 7 Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth one point in the Antti Niemi made 33 saves as San Jose Winnipeg 3 5 0 15 21 6 standings and are not included in the loss column (L). Locals bemoan foreign raids on Australian prizes

MELBOURNE: Irish eyes were smiling after Cadeaux is also among the nine other interna- world,” Hayes told Fairfax Media. “And this could Aidan O’Brien’s Adelaide won the A$3 million tional runners expected to make up the 24 also be implemented here for the Melbourne ($2.64 million) Cox Plate in Melbourne on entrants, leaving barely half the field reserved Cup. I’m not talking silly figures, what I’m saying Saturday, but the result was less cheering to for local horses-“local” meaning Australian or is that people like (handicapper) Greg Carpenter local trainers worried about “foreign” raids on New Zealand-trained entrants in the domestic and the club could work out the balance so it’s Australia’s top silverware. industry’s neighbourly definition of the term. just right between internationals and locals. Adelaide’s win came a week after Japanese- With up to 11 foreign-prepared entrants, a “And what I mean by locals is that those sta- trained stayer Admire Rakti won the Caulfield record for a race dating back to 1861, the possi- bles that have gone around the world, pur- Cup, the first of the two key lead-up races to the bility of all three of Australia’s biggest Spring rac- chased horses and brought them home to $6.2 million Melbourne Cup, Australia’s richest ing trophies going overseas has sparked protec- Australian stables should rightfully be deemed and most famous race. Admire Rakti was quickly tionist calls. locals.” installed a 4/1 favourite to win the gruelling Local trainer David Hayes, a Melbourne Cup two-mile handicap at Flemington Racecourse on winner with Jeune in 1994, believes organisers GAMBLE WORTH TAKING Nov. 4, despite carrying the top weight of 58.5 should consider capping the number of “foreign The last two Melbourne Cups were won by kilogrammes. If the Tomoyuki Umeda-trained raiders” allowed in the Melbourne Cup field. locally trained Fiorente (2013) and Green Moon stallion fails to prosper- no entrant has won car- “It’s worked very successfully in Hong Kong (2012), but three of the previous six were won by MARTINSVILLE: Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the No. 88 National Guard rying more than 58 kg in nearly 40 years- where they allow positions to be left for locally a pair of French stayers in Dunaden (2011) and Chevrolet, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup German stayer Protectionist, currently second trained horses and the rest of the race is made Americain (2010), and Japanese runner Delta Series Goody’s Headache Relief Shot 500. —AFP favourite at 5/1, might well. Twice runner-up Red up of horses coming in from all parts of the Blues (2006).—Reuters p16_Layout 1 10/27/14 9:48 PM Page 1

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 SPORTS Streb seals maiden win

GEORGIA: Robert Streb held his nerve to short putts I was pretty shaky,” he added, win his first PGA Tour title in a playoff referring to his four-footer for par on the with fellow American Will MacKenzie and first extra hole and his birdie putt for vic- Zimbabwe’s Brendon de Jonge for the tory. Asked if he could put his emotions $5.6 million McGladrey Classic at Sea into words, Streb replied: “Not yet but I Island in Georgia on Sunday. am very thrilled.” As the afternoon shadows lengthened to end a day of unbroken sunshine on BIRDIE FLURRY the Seaside Course, Streb sealed victory De Jonge made the first significant by sinking a four-foot birdie putt at the move in a hotly contested final round, a second extra hole, the par-three 17th, flurry of three birdies in the opening where de Jonge narrowly missed his three holes lifting him into a tie for the attempt from 18 feet. lead with overnight pacesetters Andrew After retrieving his ball from the cup, Svoboda and MacKenzie. the 27-year-old Streb removed his cap to While Svoboda slipped back with acknowledge the cheers from the crowd bogeys on 11, 12 and 14, Streb, who before being congratulated by the burly began the final round five strokes off the de Jonge, who had also been bidding for pace, drained a 33-footer at the 17th for his maiden victory on the PGA Tour. his fourth consecutive birdie to move MacKenzie, seeking to end a six-year into a share of the lead. title drought on the U.S. circuit, was elim- Streb had to settle for a par at the last inated from the playoff at the first extra after his birdie attempt from 21 feet hole, the par-four 18th, where he pulled up a few inches short of the cup. bogeyed after failing to get up and down “It was a lot of fun,” Streb said after sign- from a greenside bunker. ing his card. “I made quite a few putts The trio had finished the 72 regulation and stuffed a couple of wedges (close). holes on 14-under-par 266, de Jonge Before you know it, you’ve got a whole closing with a five-under 65, MacKenzie pile of birdies.” SAN FRANCISCO: Hunter Pence No. 8 of the San Francisco Giants scores in the eighth inning off a hit by Juan Perez No. 2 against the Kansas carding a 68 and early starter Streb firing MacKenzie faltered with a three-putt City Royals during Game Five of the 2014 World Series. —AFP a best-of-the-day 63. bogey at the 16th but rebounded with a “The wait was a little nerve-wracking birdie at the 17th, where he very nearly because they (the final groups in regula- holed his tee shot. tion) had the par-five (15th to come),” He salvaged a par at the 18th after his Giants ace dazzles Streb, who finished his round an hour- tee shot ended up in the right rough and and-a-half before MacKenzie, told Golf failed to reach the green in two, two- Channel. putting from around 25 yards to join the “And then obviously those last two playoff. —Reuters Royals and crowd

SAN FRANCISCO: Madison Bumgarner was fully from clinching their third Major League Baseball Asked if he could continue to improve, first focused with the ball on Sunday, dazzling the title in five years-but it lowered his career earned baseman Brandon Belt said, “Yeah, he can get Kansas City Royals with his arsenal of pitches run average in the Fall Classic to a record 0.29. some postseason hits,” drawing laughs from and sublime command but the 25-year-old lefty Catcher Buster Posey said Bumgarner was reporters in the locker room. could not help but hear tributes from the roar- throwing just as hard at the end of the 117-pitch Bumgarner, who hit two grand slam home ing crowd. complete game shutout as he was in the early runs during the regular season, went 0-for-4 in As he kept mowing down the Royals on his innings. Sunday’s game. The big lefty became the first way to a masterful, four-hit shutout in Game Five “He was just as strong. That’s what’s so pitcher in World Series history to throw a of the World Series, the home crowd of 43,000 impressive. He’s able to maintain the velocity, shutout with no walks and at least eight strike- roared ever louder and by the ninth inning, they maintain the command. It’s October 26 and he’s outs in tossing the first complete game white- were chanting “M-V-P, M-V-P” to show their as strong as he was in May,” Posey said. wash since Josh Beckett against the Yankees in appreciation. Posey said Bumgarner’s confidence was con- 2003. “That was pretty cool, actually,” the laid back, tagious. “Any time a guy has been able to do His 47 and two-third innings pitched this laconic Bumgarner told reporters. “It was really what he accomplished, he’s going to be a leader. postseason is second most ever behind Arizona’s neat to hear.” Bumgarner not only impressed the He’s a very confident guy and I think that perme- Curt Schilling’s 48.1 in 2001. Bumgarner, howev- crowd and the overmatched Royals but his team ates the clubhouse, especially on the nights that er, might not be quite finished yet. He said if mates as well, as he once again demonstrated he’s pitching.” manager Bochy calls on him to help in relief in a his prowess on the World Series stage. Bumgarner has now given up one run in 31 Game Seven he would be more than happy to The dominant victory not only gave the World Series innings on 12 hits while striking out make a contribution. “He’s going to make him- Giants a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven-one win 27 and walking five, going back to 2010. self available,” Bochy said. “I know.”—Reuters Pace wins Blue Bay LPGA

HAINAN ISLAND: South Africa’s Lee-Anne Pace special.” in September after reinjuring her right hand. won the rain-shortened Blue Bay LPGA yester- Pace made a 6-foot birdie putt on the par-5 Korda, tied for the second-round lead with Pace, day for her first LPGA Tour title and second 18th to finish at 16-under 200 at Jian Lake Blue closed with a 72. worldwide victory in nine days. Bay. “I look back at last week and how I actually Rain delayed play for nearly four hours Four strokes ahead with five holes left when played better toward the end,” Pace said. “So, I Sunday with the leaders halfway through the play was suspended Sunday because of dark- thought, ‘Just do the same thing.’ I hit some really round, leading to the Monday finish in the tour- ness, Pace finished off a 5-under 67 for a three- nice iron shots coming in on the last few holes. nament cut from 72 to 54 holes after play was stroke victory over Germany’s Caroline Masson. To close out with a birdie is obviously a bonus. I washed out Friday. The start Monday also was The 33-year-old Pace won the South African saw Caroline making a move.” delayed by showers. Women’s Open last week for her ninth Ladies Masson birdied the final three holes for a 67. “I woke up and heard the weather outside,” European Tour victory. She’s the second South “I’m happy with that finish and that was all I Pace said. “So, I had a fairly good idea it was GEORGIA: Robert Streb poses with the winner’s trophy after winning The McGladrey African-born champion in LPGA Tour history, could do,” Masson said. “Obviously, I wanted to going to be delayed. I took my time, got coffee, Classic at Sea Island’s Seaside Course. —AFP joining 15-time winner Sally Little. The victory play. I was in a good position and wanted to went for a lengthy breakfast. I had a lot of coffee. was her third in China, following the LET’s Sanya play. I knew we were going to play and we prob- Felt tired this morning, but all in all, felt pretty Ladies Open in 2010 and 2013. “I can’t actually ably were going to play in any condition. ... I confident. I knew I was hitting well. I knew I believe it,” Pace said. “I’m still so in the moment fought hard.” could do it down the stretch. I’ve done it before.” Prosecution says it will of one shot at a time that I think it’s going to hit Michelle Wie and Jessica Korda tied for third The tournament was the fourth stop on the me. It’s like, literally, now I can relax. It’s amazing. at 11 under. Wie finished with a 70. She tied for six-event Asian Swing. The LPGA Taiwan appeal Pistorius verdict Obviously, one of my life goals, not only on the fifth last week in South Korea in her first start Championship is next week, followed by the golf course, but to do something like that very since withdrawing from the Evian Championship Mizuno Classic in Japan.—AP JOHANNESBURG: South African prosecu- ther court action means Pistorius could still tors will appeal the verdict and sentencing face a murder conviction and a much of Oscar Pistorius, who was handed a 5- longer prison term for killing Steenkamp. year prison term after being convicted of Chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel laid the Rose aims culpable homicide, the country’s National groundwork for the decision to appeal, Prosecuting Authority said yesterday. speaking with Prof. James Grant, a criminal “We are appealing it,” said Nathi Mncube law specialist at Johannesburg’s University to bloom in Mncube, a prosecution spokesman. “Both of the Witwatersrand, Mncube said. conviction and sentence.” Prosecutors will Judge Thokozile Masipa’s decision to Abu Dhabi file papers in court, and more details about acquit Pistorius of the culpable homicide their appeal arguments will be available at charge had been questioned by some legal ABU DHABI: Ryder Cup hero Justin Rose said it that time, Mncube said. analysts. would be “like a dream” if he wins the 2015 Abu Pistorius started serving his prison sen- Grant, a television analyst during Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship in its tenth tence on Oct. 21 after he was acquitted of Pistorius’ trial, was among them and wrote year. murder by a judge and found guilty of a on Twitter that he had advised prosecutor Rated as one of the best players in Europe’s lesser charge of culpable homicide, or Nel to appeal. He said he agreed to assist. Ryder Cup triumph at Gleneagles recently, manslaughter, for shooting girlfriend Reeva Experts say there are grounds for an Rose is now turning his attention to new goals Steenkamp through a toilet door in his appeal, partly because the judge may have and plotting his campaign for the 2015 season home last year. misapplied a part of South African law which will start at Abu Dhabi Golf Club on Under the current terms, the Olympic called “dolus eventualis” - which says some- January 15. runner is eligible for release after 10 one should be found guilty of murder if The Englishman came close to clutching his months and would then complete his sen- they foresaw the possibility of killing some- first ever Falcon Trophy in 2013, and with a tence under house arrest. one and went ahead anyway. two-stroke lead against another world-class At the time of the sentencing, Mncube The experts questioned how Masipa pack, he looked destined for victory. said prosecutors were disappointed with ruled that Pistorius did not predict that But on an enthralling final day, Jamie the culpable homicide conviction and that someone might die when he decided to Donaldson had five birdies and did not drop a prosecutors believed they had a strong shoot four times from close range into a shot until the final hole to finish 14 under. Rose murder case against the double-amputee small toilet cubicle in his home, hitting had a chance to force a play-off with athlete. The decision to go ahead with fur- Steenkamp in the hip, arm and head. —AP Donaldson, but his birdie putt lipped out of the cup, giving the honours to the Welshman. “That’s a putt I don’t think I’ll ever forget,” said Rose, who is returning to Abu Dhabi for the second time. “As a kid growing up, the big dream for me was to become one of the best golfers in the world and I’ve learnt along the Justin Rose looking forward to going one better than joint runner-up finish in 2013. way there are always going to be highs and lows in this sport. the tournament in the fourball to sink 10 love having him here. We are working hard to “I used to dream about winning big tourna- birdies in a row together, and he fought back make the tenth anniversary of the ments, playing in Ryder Cups, and of course superbly against Hunter Mahan to halve his Championship one of our most memorable you dream about sinking putts to win the singles match. ever events, and welcoming Justin back to Abu Open Championship. Success doesn’t come His stunning Ryder Cup form follows almost Dhabi adds to the overall anticipation.” easily and you have to put the hard work and 18 months after winning the U.S. Open at HSBC Global Head of Sponsorship & Events dedication in, but the most important thing for Merion Golf Club by two strokes over Phil Giles Morgan said: “We are thrilled to be wel- me is to start with a dream. Mickelson and Jason Day to become the first coming Justin Rose back to Abu Dhabi in Rose added, “Winning a Major champi- English player to secure a major since Nick January. The tournament has come a long way onship has always been my goal, and I have to Faldo in 1996. in the last ten years and Justin is part of a world say, winning in Abu Dhabi in its tenth year “Justin is a great competitor and we know class field taking part in a world class event. As would also be a dream.” he would love to win in Abu Dhabi after going the jewel in the crown of Middle Eastern golf, Rose, the current world number six, won the so close in 2013,” said Sultan Al Dhaheri, Acting the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship is one most points and was regarded by many pun- Executive Director Tourism, Abu Dhabi Tourism of the early highlights of the golfing calendar dits as the best player of this year’s Ryder Cup. & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi), which and an unmissable family event” Rose joins He forged an impressive partnership with owns and organises the Championship. world number 1 Rory McIlroy and three-time PRETORIA: A file picture taken on October 16, 2014 shows South African paralympic Swede Henrik Stenson, playing the match of “He’s an extremely popular player and we Abu Dhabi winner Martin Kaymer. athlete Oscar Pistorius. —AFP p17 2_Layout 1 10/27/14 10:23 PM Page 1

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 SPORTS Giant Irfan being kept Photo of the day fresh for World Cup

KARACHI:Pakistan’s tall left arm pacer ances since last October. Muhammad Irfan has had to reject lucrative Irfan, who has 45 wickets in 33 ODIs and offers to play in England and South Africa another 10 in four tests, has been told to after his cricket board told him to stay fresh focus only on limited overs cricket because of for the World Cup. fears he might face fitness issues in the longer He will not feature in Pakistan’s second form because of his height. “The specialists Test against Australia starting on Thursday or say because of my height I need to be selec- the three tests against New Zealand in the tive in playing matches and they want me to UAE next month. be 100 percent fit for the World Cup in “I got offers to play in England this year Australia and New Zealand,” he said. and more recently in the T20 event in South Irfan made his Pakistan debut in England Africa in November but I couldn’t accept in 2010 but was shunted out of the team after them on advice of the board,” Irfan told just one game before making a comeback in Reuters. Irfan, whose official height is record- a one-day series in India in late 2012. ed at 7 feet 1 inch, has been told by the PCB “I miss playing test matches but I guess and national team management to also the selectors and coaches know what is best restrict his appearances in first class cricket in for me,” he added, looking forward to getting order to prepare himself for the World Cup some game time in December’s limited overs Down Under in February and March. contests against New Zealand. “I have been “I have been told not to play more than told to prepare myself for the ODIs and T20 two first class games on a trot and bowl a matches. I am happy doing that because I maximum of 15 overs in a day and continue know how important the World Cup is,” he to focus on my training to keep myself fit for stated. “People think I am very docile in the World Cup,” he said. nature because of my personality but believe The 32-year-old has made a telling impact me when I am bowling there is only hostility in the depleted Pakistan pace attack since a for the batsmen. I know some of them don’t comeback to the team in 2012 but a hip like facing me at my height and that spurs me injury has restricted his international appear- on.” —Reuters Sergio Layos performs during the Red Bull Local Hero Tour in Kanagawa, Japan.— www.redbull.com New-look NBA: TV money changing league landscape Taijul fashions B’desh’s NEW YORK: For the longest time the cash would be those who happen to be free agents infusion that the NBA was expected to gain that summer. from a renegotiated television contract was LeBron James, set to earn about $20.6 mil- nothing more than a whisper, a mythical fig- lion this year before league revenue nearly dramatic Test victory ure that would generate wild guesses about triples, is one of several players who struc- the total. tured his contract with the Cavaliers to This month, the numbers finally were iden- account exactly for that possibility. DHAKA: Taijul Islam shone with bat and ball as tified - $24 billion, nearly tripling the league’s But not everyone is looking forward to Bangladesh scored a tense three-wicket win over revenues on an annual basis. No one is quite one-time pay raises for select players, some Zimbabwe in the first Test yesterday to grab the sure exactly how the stunning total is going to want to spread it around. Commissioner lead in the three-match series. impact how the NBA and its players conduct Adam Silver, the owners and NBA Players’ The 22-year-old left-arm spinner became the business. Association executive director Michele first Bangladesh bowler to claim eight wickets in an Sure, everyone involved in the league has Roberts are currently examining ways to innings, his figures of 8-39 helping to skittle long grown accustomed to the turnover that phase in the fiscal surge so that players under Zimbabwe for 114 in the second innings. comes every summer. Players change teams. contract for the summer of ‘16 can also bene- Set a modest target of 101, Bangladesh slipped Coaches are hired and fired. General man- fit, and so teams can prepare for the changes to 0-3 before Taijul, coming in at 82-7, guided his agers overhaul rosters or make a big splash in that are coming. One of the ideas being dis- team home with an unbeaten 15 amid mounting free agency. But with the NBA regular season cussed is to not raise the cap, which is directly tension on the third day at the Sher-e-Bangla stadi- opening tonight, owners, general managers, tied to basketball-related income, on the um in Dhaka. Taijul, who put on an unbroken stand players and agents are all grappling with the same scale as the revenues dictate in 2016. of 19 with skipper Mushfiqur Rahim (23 not out), unprecedented change to the fundamental Because the players are entitled to 51 per- was named the man of the match in only his third economic picture. cent of that revenue, the league would cut the Test appearance. It was Bangladesh’s fifth Test win “There will be a lot of decisions that will union a check to make up the difference. The in 86 matches and only the second at home after need to be made strategically, from how to extra money could be distributed evenly to all the 226-run win against the same opponents in design a contract to decisions you’re going to players and not just those who cash in on the Chittagong in 2005. make on when to put yourself into the mar- free agent market. As complicated as it all may The two lowest-ranked teams in Test cricket- ketplace based upon how you project the cap be, it’s becoming simple for the players. The Zimbabwe at number nine and Bangladesh at 10 is going to be affected by the revenue,” veter- $24 billion price tag is crystallizing a new nego- — will resume battle when the second Test opens an agent Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports tiating position in 2017, when either side can in Khulna on November 3. Taijul eclipsed team- told The Associated Press. “Those are all things opt out of the CBA. mate Shakib Al Hasan’s Bangladeshi record of 7-36 I’ll be watching very closely and having a lot “Last year, the fans didn’t really get to against New Zealand at Chittagong in 2008 as he of conversations about during the course of know exactly what was going on as far as rev- spun out the Zimbabwe batsmen after the tourists the next few months as we head into the next enue,” said Oklahoma City star Kevin Durant, resumed at 5-0. Skipper Brendan Taylor was the DHAKA: Bangladeshi cricket captain Mushfiqur Rahim plays a shot during the third day of the spring.” who can become a free agent in 2016. “But only Zimbabwean to resist Taijul and the other first cricket Test match between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. —AFP One thing that is certain: The NBA will nev- now that (the TV deal is done), it feels like we bowlers, making an unbeaten 45, as six batsmen er be the same after the contracts with ESPN have a little bit of leverage, I guess, as players.” failed to reach double figures. and Turner fully kick in for the 2016-17 season. In the last lockout, players had their share A relieved Rahim said his team needed an all- “It’s a game-changer for the league,” said Flip of the pie cut from 57 percent, thanks in large round improvement despite the win. “We are not SCOREBOARD Saunders, president of basketball operations part to a disjointed union. But the tide where we want to be but a win is a win,” he said. “There are a lot of areas we need to improve on. We DHAKA: Scoreboard at close of play on the third day in the first Test between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe yester- and coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, appears to be changing with the mega televi- day in Mirpur, Bangladesh who also is a minority owner. “It’s one of those sion deal and the record $2 billion price tag of need to get better in both batting and bowling. Zimbabwe 1st innings 240 (S. Raza 51; S. Al Hasan 6-59) Bowling: S. Hossain 8-2-25-1, S. Al Hasan 10-2-44-1, T. things that helps everybody. If you’re in the the Los Angeles Clippers. “Taijul has been wonderful, but the others also Bangladesh 1st innings 254 (M. Rahim 64, M. Islam 16.5-7-39-8, J. Hossain 1-0-6-0. league, or you’re a coach or a player or an “Now I think the players have said, ‘Whoa contributed. It was a team effort, but we need to Mahmudullah 63, M. Haque 53; T. Panyangara 5-59) Bangladesh 2nd innings (Target: 101 runs) owner and have more money coming in, look at the revenue that’s coming in here,’” play a big innings and make it count.” Zimbabwe 2nd innings (Overnight: 5-0) T. Iqbal c Taylor b Chigumbura 0 that’s a benefit.” It also brings with it complica- Bartelstein said. “‘We made a deal last time Elton Chigumbura claimed four for 21 as V. Sibanda c Rahim b T. Islam 14 Sh. Rahman b Panyangara 0 tions. that was no question a bad deal for us. And Bangladesh almost messed up what should have R. Chakabva c Sh. Rahman b T. Islam 10 M. Haque c&b Chigumbura 0 Right now, the TV deals are set to kick in for because we made a bad deal, franchise values been a simple chase even on the deteriorating H. Masakadza b S. Hossain 5 M. Mahmudullah b Chigumbura 28 2016. The one-time revenue spike would drive have skyrocketed. So the owners have reaped pitch. Having lost the top three batsmen without a S. Raza c Al Hasan b T. Islam 25 S. Al Hasan c Nyumbu b Chatara 15 the salary cap, the amount of money a team the benefits of that past deal and it’s hap- run on the board, the hosts buckled under pressure B. Taylor not out 45 M. Rahim not out 23 can spend on player salaries, up by tens of mil- pened because we weren’t prepared and we before Rahim and Taijul bailed them out. Taylor E. Chigumbura c Hom b T. Islam 0 S. Hom c Chakabva b Chigumbura 0 C. Ervine lbw b T. Islam 10 S. Hossain c Taylor b Panyangara 11 lions of dollars and flood the free-agent mar- were sleeping at the wheel and we didn’t go attributed the defeat to bad batting. “All credit to J. Nyumbu c Rahim b Al Hasan 1 T. Islam not out 15 ket with available cash. The players who into it properly. And we’re not going to let that Bangladesh but we were mentally weak with the T. Panyangara c Sh. Rahman b T. Islam 0 Extras (b-4 w-5) 9 would most benefit from the new money happen again.’” —AP bat,” the Zimbabwean captain said. “We can’t win T. Chatara lbw b T. Islam 4 Total (for 7 wickets, 33.3 overs) 101 Tests if we bat like this. T. Kamungozi c Rahim b T. Islam 0 Fall of wickets: 1-0 T. Iqbal, 2-0 Sh. Rahman, 3-0 M. Haque, “At least the bowlers showed a lot of character. Extras 0 4-46 S. Al Hasan, 5-62 M. Mahmudullah, 6-62 S. Hom, 7- You have to have the mindset that you can win Total (all out, 35.5 overs) 114 82 S. Hossain. from any situation. We started well and had them Fall of wickets: 1-19 V. Sibanda, 2-24 H. Masakadza, 3-53 Did not bat: J. Hossain, A. Hossain three down but put down a few chances. S. Raza, 4-58 R. Chakabva, 5-58 E. Chigumbura, 6-92 C. Bowling: E. Chigumbura 10.3-2-21-4, T. Panyangara 8-2- “We need to make big scores because these 20s Ervine, 7-93 J. Nyumbu, 8-104 T. 30-2, T. Chatara 8-1-34-1 (w-1), T. Kamungozi 5-0-7-0, S. Panyangara, 9-114 T. Chatara, 10-114 T. Kamungozi. Raza 1-0-1-0, J. Nyumbu 1-0-4-0. and 30s don’t help. But I am sure we will come back stronger in the next Test.” —AFP Pakistan big defeat puts fire in Australian bellies

DUBAI: Australia captain Michael Clarke said his ment was required if Australia were to get back doesn’t matter how much information you have, team would be fired up by defeat in the first Test to winning ways in the second test, which starts if you don’t execute, you are not going to get the against Pakistan but clearly needed to improve in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. rewards.” Although the result continued in all facets of the game to square the series later “We were outplayed in all three facets of the Australia’s struggles on the slow wickets of the MIAMI: In this Jan. 29, 2014, file photo, Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin this week. The defeat by 221 runs in Dubai on game, our fielding wasn’t as good as it needs to subcontinent, Clarke was confident the team Durant (35) is pressured by Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) during the fourth Sunday was Australia’s second in five tests this be,” he said. “When you lose the toss on a flat sur- was a long way from the shambles of the 4-0 period of an NBA basketball game. —AP year, a run which included the last victory in face, you can’t afford to drop catches. humiliation in India last year. their 5-0 home Ashes triumph and their 2-1 “I think we’ve got to keep trying to find a way “Unfortunately, the result was the same as series win in South Africa. to take wickets, keep looking at footage of India,” he said. “But, as a team in general, I think “Any time we lose a game it breeds fire in Pakistan players. “I think we can know their play- we’ve improved out of sight since that series for Spurs seek repeat while your belly, you don’t like losing,” Clarke told ers a little bit better. But it’s about execution, it a number of reasons.” —Reuters reporters in Dubai. “Australians in general don’t LeBron revives Cavaliers like losing so we’ve got a couple of days to pre- pare as well as we can and we’ll look forward to WASHINGTON: As the San Antonio Spurs face guard Manu Ginobili, who missed this year’s that second Test match. the possible end of an era, they attempt to World Cup with a leg stress fracture. But the repeat as NBA champions after a turbulent off- Spurs are largely unchanged from last year, “Pakistan deserve a lot of credit for the way season topped by LeBron James returning to with French star guard and scoring leader Tony they played over the full five days. But we know Cleveland. Parker signing a contract extension in the off- we can play a lot better and we look forward to Racism issues forced two team ownership season, countryman Boris Diaw back in a set- showing that in the second test match.” changes, injuries hit stars Kevin Durant and up role and 2014 NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Clarke said he had been proud of the defi- Paul George and the league signed a nine-year Leonard returning with higher expectations. ance Steve Smith (55) and Mitchell Johnson (61) television deal worth $24 billion that begins in Australian reserve playmaker Patty Mills has showed on the final day, which Australia started 2016 in the four months since the Spurs won a shoulder injury but also will return this sea- on 59 for four chasing 438 for an improbable vic- their fifth crown by beating Miami in the NBA son. The Spurs dethroned “King” James and the tory. Finals. For all the Spurs have done over the two-time reigning champion Miami Heat last “I’m obviously very disappointed with the past 16 seasons under coach Gregg Popovich, June, only weeks before the four-time NBA result but really impressed by the way Steve defending a crown has not been achieved, San MVP left Miami for the Cavaliers, the home- Smith and Mitchell Johnson in particular Antonio’s championships coming in 1999, region team he had spurned in 2010 to join showed a lot of grit today,” he added. 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014. Spurs star big man the Heat. “They fought their backsides off and that’s Tim Duncan, who played on all five title teams, James signed a two-year deal with the part of the Australian way, I guess, we weren’t is in the final year of his contract and will turn team where he began his NBA career-setting going to turn up here and throw our wickets 39 during the next NBA playoffs. up greater riches when new television money away. “We were going to fight really hard and I The three-time NBA Finals Most Valuable kicks in-and vowed to bring Cleveland a cham- think those two played really well in tough con- Player (MVP) and two-time NBA MVP could be pionship team, something it has not had in ditions.” in his final season, as might Argentine star any major sport in half a century.—AFP That said, Clarke was clear that a big improve- DUBAI: Australian batsman Michael Clarke (left) .—AFP TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 SPORTS

Preview Nervy Inter face Sampdoria

MILAN: Inter coach Walter Mazzarri ously we will find the best coach for is not yet off the hook, despite Inter.” Inter’s three previous league Sunday’s win over Cesena, and faces games were a 4-1 home defeat to one of the men touted to replace Cagliari, a 3-0 loss to goal-shy when his side host unbeaten Fiorentina and a 2-2 draw with Sampdoria tomorrow. Napoli, and Mazzarri said the players There is widespread speculation clearly felt the pressure on Sunday. over Mazzarri’s future and the names “We really needed this win,” said the of Sampdoria coach Sinisa irascible former midfielder, adding Mihajlovic, Udinese’s Andrea that he would rather have played the Stramaccioni and former Everton whole match against eleven men. and Manchester United boss David “I know they were desperate to Moyes have all been churned up by win and prove themselves, but at the rumour mill as possible replace- times you have to be calmer and ments. take your time and make the right Sunday’s controversial 1-0 win at decision. Cesena, where Inter were helped by “We could have had tried more a first-half penalty and the sending long-range shots but they some- off of rival goalkeeper Nicola Leali, times seemed determined to walk it lifted some of the pressure but into the net.” “If Thohir wants me to Mazzarri’s respite did not last long. stay, that’s fine, if not, I’ll be on my Shortly after the win, Inter president way,” he added. “That’s how it’s Erick Thohir told media in his native always been in football.” Indonesia that he was still mulling Inter are joint eighth alongside the coach’s situation. Genoa with 12 points from eight “We have to be fair to the coach. games while Sampdoria are joint We’ll see in the next two games, third with 16. Genoa host leaders and although changing the coach is not defending champions Juventus, who ITALY: Inter Milan’s forward from Argentina Rodrigo Palacio (left) fights for the ball in this file photo. —AFP a good solution,” he was quoted as have dropped only two points, while saying. AS Roma, who are three points “We’d like to give him the oppor- behind in second, entertain promot- tunity first. There have been lots of ed Cesena in two of tomorrow’s oth- Hat-trick for Higuain, rumours about coaches, and obvi- er games. —Reuters stormy win for Inter Benfica lose first MILAN: Gonzalo Higuain burst into life by scor- Milan’s 1-1 draw at home to Fiorentina. from Cesena goalkeeper Nicola Leali, although ing a hat-trick in the final half hour, his first Seventh-placed Napoli, who have 14 points replays suggested the Argentine began his fall league match league goals of the season, to help Rafael from eight games, went into their game under before any contact was made. Benitez’s erratic Napoli thrash Verona 6-2 in Serie more pressure following a 2-0 Europa League Amid furious protests, Leali was sent off, Inter LISBON: Portuguese championship troversial Champions League loss to A on Sunday. defeat at Young Boys on Thursday when fans awarded a penalty and Mauro Icardi beat leaders Benfica lost their first match of Schalke 04 to beat Maritimo 4-2, hav- Troubled Inter Milan scrambled a 1-0 win at waited outside the stadium to protest as the replacement goalkeeper Federico Agliardi from the season in the league in a 2-1 defeat ing stormed to a 3-0 halftime lead. Cesena thanks to a controversial first-half penal- team bus left the ground. the spot. ty and sending-off and leaders Juventus put The hosts could not have made a worse start The gallant Sea Horses nearly levelled before at Braga on Sunday. Patrick Bauer diverted Andre their European problems behind them with a when Emil Hallfredsson volleyed Verona ahead halftime but were repeatedly caught on the Brazilian Anderson Talisca, 20, put Carillo’s cross into his own goal after comfortable 2-0 win at home to a tame Palermo. in the first minute but Napoli responded well, break in the second half. The win was a huge Benfica ahead after two minutes with eight minutes, Joao Mario turned in Elsewhere, thirty-seven-year old Antonio Di took control and were rewarded when Marek relief for Inter coach Walter Mazzarri, under his seventh goal this term but Braga Nani’s low cross after 15 minutes and Natale scored his fifth goal of the season, an Hamsik equalised just before halftime. intense pressure after three-goal defeats to levelled when Eder finished off a Paulo Oliveira headed home a Nani exquisite curled effort, and Cyril Thereau was Cagliari and Fiorentina and a draw with Napoli, counter-attack before the half-hour. corner just before halftime. Maritimo’s also on target in Udinese’s 2-0 home win over FURIOUS PROTESTS and left his side in eighth place on 12 points. Salvador Agra got Braga’s winner in Niger forward Moussa Maazou scored Atalanta which left them joint third with The Slovakian pounced again to give Napoli a Midfielder Arturo Vidal and forward Fernando the 81st minute and they held on twice in five minutes early in the sec- Sampdoria on 16 points. 57th-minute lead and, although Nicolas Lopez Llorente, with his first goal of the season, scored despite having Danilo sent off in stop- ond half, taking his league tally to sev- Chile forward Mauricio Pinilla missed a sec- levelled, it was the cue for Higuain to spring into in each half to give titleholders Juventus their page time. Benfica, with 19 points from en, to pull the Madeira side back into ond-half penalty but then scored an 84th- action. 23rd successive home win in the league. minute winner as Genoa beat Chievo 2-1, hand- The Argentine intercepted a back pass by Juventus, who lost their last two Champions eight games, saw their lead cut to one the game. ing the home team’s new coach Rolando Maran Panagiotis Tachtsidis to open his account, League games to Atletico Madrid and point after rivals Porto won 5-0 at But Colombia forward Fredy a losing start. tapped in Raul Albiol’s pass for his second and Olympiakos, faced no such problems against the Arouca on Saturday. Monteiro gave Sporting some breath- Ex-Germany forward Miroslav Klose gave then converted a penalty, with Jose Callejon harmless Sicilians as they enjoyed 65 percent of Porto’s Colombia forward Jackson ing space when he controlled Adrien’s Lazio a 2-1 win over Torino in Rome, his first goal scoring the fourth in between. Inter’s win hinged the possession. They lead with 22 points, three Martinez scored twice, while his com- pass on his chest and scored with a of the season, and Fernando Torres started on on the 30th-minute incident when Inter forward ahead of AS Roma who drew 0-0 at Sampdoria patriot Juan Quintero, Casemiro and shot on the turn. the bench, coming on in the 80th minute, in AC Rodrigo Palacio went down under a challenge on Saturday. —Reuters Vincent Aboubakar shared the other “We had losses of concentration goals. which we cannot afford to have and Vitoria Guimaraes are third with 17 which allowed Maritimo to score two points after Joao Afonso gave them a goals,” said Sporting coach Marco Silva. Lyon defeat Marseille 1-0 win at Vitoria Setubal on Friday. “It’s a lesson for us, we can’t go to sleep Fourth-placed Sporting Lisbon, on 16 when we have a comfortable advan- points, bounced back from their con- tage.—Reuters PARIS: Midfielder Yoann Gourcuff The win moves Lyon above Saint- technique to go to do great things. up Eduardo for his fourth in the scored his third goal in two games Etienne on goal difference. He’s 25 years old and he’s still 51st, and he got his fifth of a mem- as third-place Lyon beat Marseille Earlier, winger Max-Alain Gradel young, so he still has a lot of room orable match in the 65th when he 1-0 on Sunday, ending the French scored late in the second half as for improvement.” fired emphatically past Lossl from league leader’s bid to win a club Saint-Etienne beat resilient Metz 1- Last-place Guingamp took the just inside the penalty area, after record ninth straight league game. 0, while Brazilian midfielder Carlos lead against seventh-place Nice being set up by Belgian midfielder Gourcuff, once hailed as the Eduardo scored five goals in an through midfielder Claudio Julien Vercauteren. Eduardo, who natural successor to famed France astonishing individual perform- Beauvue’s diving header in the is on loan from Portuguese side midfielder Zinedine Zidane, has ance as Nice won 7-2 away to eighth minute. Porto, almost completed a double been beset by loss of form and Guingamp. Gradel pounced in the Eduardo replied four minute hat trick with a late header that injuries since joining Lyon four 74th minute with an acrobatic fin- later with a powerful free kick into went just wide. Ntep also distin- years ago. ish after Ricky Van Wolfswinkel the top left corner, and side-footed guished himself. But he followed up his brace headed the ball into his path. home from midfielder Didier First, he received the ball against Montpellier last weekend Earlier, striker Habib Habibou Digard’s pass to make it 2-1 in the behind the halfway line on the with an accomplished finish in the and midfielder Abdoulaye 26th. “We’re not used to such right and burst past the Rennes 65th minute to break Marseille’s Doucoure scored second-half goals scores. That’s for sure,” Puel said. defense before delivering a perfect resistance. as Rennes beat Lille 2-0 to move “Things went well for us, and cross for Habibou to head home in Striker Alexandre Lacazette into ninth place. thanks to Carlos we got back in the the 47th minute. picked him out on the right of the Winger Paul-Georges Ntep set game quickly.” Six minutes later, he collected penalty area, and Gourcuff up both goals after making fine After Danish goalkeeper Jonas the ball about 60 meters out on skipped past midfielder Giannelli runs down each flank. But that was Lossl made a superb save to deny the left, dribbled past Danish Imbula with a lovely turn before little in comparison to Eduardo, him, Eduardo completed his hat defender Simon Kjaer and crossed firing a powerful shot under the who tormented Guingamp all trick in the 43rd with a fine run to the ball for Doucoure to pounce. crossbar. afternoon. the back post to turn in midfielder Nice has 17 points, while “It’s always annoying to lose. It’s “Of course I’m going to congrat- Eric Bautheac’s cross. Rennes has 15 points and leads a bit of a paradox because we con- ulate Carlos, who took his chances Forward Alassane Plea made it Metz and Lille on goal difference. ceded this goal when we were well,” Nice coach Claude Puel said. 4-1 in first-half injury time after PSG beat Bordeaux 3-0 on playing at our best,” Marseille goal- “He’s got the physique and the Lossl botched a clearance. Plea set Saturday. —AP keeper Steve Mandanda said. “We were up against a good team but we didn’t control the ball as well as we usually do. We didn’t close them down enough. Our run has come to an end, but we still have a few points in hand.” Marseille’s loss leaves it four points ahead of Paris Saint-Germain. Lyon is five points PORTUGAL: Benfica’s Brazilian midfielder Anderson Talisca (right) is kicked in the behind. face by Braga’s Brazilian defender Aderlan Santos during the Portuguese League “We studied the way they play football match. —AFP and we tried to cause them prob- lems. They had won eight games in a row,” Lyon midfielder Maxime Gonalons said. “They’re a great Chivas earns vital draw team and they came here with a lot of ambition. So we put in a MEXICO CITY: Relegation-threatened Bravo equalized in the 35th and scored great performance. We didn’t give Chivas secured a vital point with a 3-3 again nine minutes later. Moreno struck up.” draw against Tijuana on Sunday in the from close range to level in the 54th and Forward Clinton N’Jie almost Mexican first division. Dario Benedetto headed a goal from a made it 2-0 late on but goalkeeper America remains top of the league corner ten minutes later. A stoppage Steve Mandanda saved his effort. despite losing 3-2 to Queretaro, while time header from Jair Pereira snatched a Marseille forward Andre-Pierre Atlas defeated Puebla 2-1 to move within draw for the home team. Gignac, the league’s top scorer with 10 league goals, was kept two points of the lead after the four- Queretaro’s Camilo Sanvezzo opened largely quiet. Shortly after defend- teenth round. the scoring in the 25th and William da er Brice Djadjedje went off injured In other weekend games, Santos Silva netted another a minute before half following a clash of heads, winger Laguna drew 1-1 with Pumas, Cruz Azul time. America took advantage of Ricardo Florian Thauvin missed a good beat Morelia 3-1, Chiapas overcame Osorio’s expulsion with goals from Oribe chance for the home side in the Veracruz 2-1, Tigres drew 2-2 with Peralta in the 66th and Luis Mendoza 38th when he just failed to get on Monterrey, Pachuca against Leones eight minutes later. Sanvezzo’s subtle the end of a promising cross from Negros ended 0-0, and Leon defeated flick handed Queretaro the victory in the Ghana forward Andre Ayew. Toluca 3-2. last minute of the game, and made him Ayew had earlier gone close Tijuana’s Alfedo Moreno opened the the league’s current leading scorer, with when his curling shot was palmed FRANCE: Marseille’s forward Andre Ayew (center top) tries to score despite Lyon’s defender Milan Bisevac scoring in the 24th minute, but Omar ten goals. —AP away by goalie Anthony Lopes. (center bottom) during the French L1 football match. —AFP TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 SPORTS

Preview Lowly Cornella in path of Real juggernaut

MADRID: When third-tier Cornella “They (Cornella) are in mid-table in were drawn to play holders Real their division but playing Real Madrid is Madrid in the last 32 of the King’s Cup, always a great challenge and a huge players and officials from the motivation,” added the former Spain Barcelona-based club celebrated wildly and Real forward. what they called “winning the lottery”. “They will be a dangerous opponent Tomorrow’s first leg match will be and we will very much have to be on played at the nearby stadium of top- our guard.” If Real get through to the flight Espanyol and will provide some last 16 as expected, they are likely to welcome extra revenue for tiny meet 2013 winners Atletico Madrid, Cornella, whose annual budget of with Barcelona, who Real beat 2-1 in around 1 million euros (1.3 million US last season’s final, the probable oppo- dollars) is dwarfed by Real’s income of nents in the last eight. more than half a billion. All but two of the last-32, first legs Real are likely to rest some of their take place at the beginning of big guns but with the team on a high December but Real’s has been brought after Saturday’s 3-1 win at home to forward because of the European Barcelona in the La Liga ‘Clasico’, champions’ participation in the Club Cornella will probably become the lat- World Cup in mid-December. Due to est team crushed by the Real jugger- the disruption to the La Liga calendar naut. caused by the tournament in Morocco, Speaking after this month’s draw, Sevilla have also had their King’s Cup Real director Emilio Butragueno first leg brought forward and meet sec- warned against underestimating sides ond-division Sabadell tomorrow. The like Cornella, perhaps with a famous return legs are at the beginning of Cup defeat to third-tier Alcorcon at the December. same stage in 2009 in mind. “There Sevilla, level on points with Barca at have been a lot of surprises in the Cup the top of La Liga after nine matches over the years and we will have to be following Sunday’s 2-1 win at home to SPAIN: Villarreal’s goalkeeper Sergio Asenjo (top) catches the ball during Spanish League football match against Sevilla. —AFP very focused,” Butragueno told Villarreal, last won Spain’s domestic reporters. Cup in 2010. —Reuters Sevilla climb to La Liga summit

MADRID: Sevilla drew level on points with campaign, although it remains to be seen have 22 points, with Real in third on 21. Chelsea faces mismatch Barcelona at the top of La Liga when they whether they can sustain their form long Atletico have 20 points in fifth after a close- snatched a 2-1 comeback victory at home to enough to mount a genuine title challenge. range effort from striker Mario Mandzukic five in last 16 of League Cup Villarreal, while champions Atletico Madrid won Last season, Atletico were the first team apart minutes before halftime secured victory at 1-0 in a bad-tempered clash at Getafe on from Real Madrid or Barca to win the league Getafe. MANCHESTER: Two days after playing at RODGERS SEEKS RESPITE Sunday. Villarreal thought they had secured the since Valencia in 2004 and Real, the European The club based in the Madrid suburbs lost Old Trafford, Chelsea will experience the It’s been a tough week for Liverpool points at the Sanchez Pizjuan when Luciano champions, look in especially ominous form. defender Alexis to a straight red card after a other side of English football when the manager Brendan Rodgers after a big Vietto clipped the ball superbly over home goal- “We didn’t play our best football but the team clash with Mandzukic in the 58th minute, one of Premier League leaders visit fourth-tier home loss to Real Madrid in the Champions keeper Beto in the 79th minute. put in the maximum effort,” Bacca told reporters. several unsavoury incidents during the game. club Shrewsbury for the biggest mismatch League and a 0-0 home draw against Hull However, with the home fans roaring encour- “They scored a goal, a good goal, but we never Valencia also have 20 points in fourth, above of the last 16 of the League Cup. in the Premier League. agement Sevilla stormed back to equalise gave up,” added the Colombian. Atletico on goal difference, after they celebrated The 9,875-capacity Greenhous Meadow His old club arrives at Anfield on through Denis Suarez in the 88th and Carlos “Sevilla were very good even if perhaps we their imminent takeover by Singapore billionaire Stadium will have a slightly different Tuesday looking to increase the misery. Bacca sealed the win with a penalty in added lacked a bit of efficiency with the final pass. We Peter Lim with a 3-1 win at home to Elche on atmosphere to Manchester United’s Rodgers spent two years in charge of time, awarded when Giovani Dos Santos tripped are second (on goal difference) but with our feet Saturday. In Sunday’s other games, Malaga “Theatre of Dreams” for the superstars of Swansea from 2010-12, guiding the Welsh Benoit Tremoulinas. on the ground.” thrashed visiting Rayo Vallecano 4-0 and Chelsea, who will be looking to avoid one club into the Premier League in his first sea- Sevilla won the Europa League last season With nine matches played, Barcelona, beaten Espanyol were held to a 0-0 draw at home to of the biggest upsets in the competition’s son and moving to Liverpool 12 months and have made their best-ever start to a La Liga 3-1 at Real in Saturday’s ‘Clasico’, and Sevilla each promoted Deportivo La Coruna. —Reuters history. later. Shrewsbury, which is 72nd in the Swansea beat Liverpool at this stage of English football pyramid, has already elimi- the League Cup in Rodgers’ first season at nated Premier League opposition in Anfield. On that occasion, Rodgers played a Hearts seal Leicester and is looking to repeat the string of fringe players. exploits of Bradford, which beat three top- dramatic draw flight teams to reach the final in 2013 while PELLEGRINI DILEMMA playing in the fourth tier. Chelsea, which is With a Manchester derby looming next GLASGOW: Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson praised unbeaten in all competitions this season, weekend, Man City manager Manuel his side’s fighting spirit as they came from behind to will be a different proposition entirely. Pellegrini has some selection dilemmas for seal a dramatic 1-1 draw with fierce rivals Hibernian in “It’s all about a fantastic evening on the visit of Newcastle on Wednesday as the Tuesday night, an evening in isolation Sunday’s Edinburgh derby at Easter Road. Dominique defending champions look to stay on Malonga looked to have brought the Jambos 10-match where we can go and absolutely enjoy it,” course to defend their title. Shrewsbury manager Micky Mellon said. In unbeaten start to life in the Scottish Championship to Pellegrini will likely utilize the strength an end when he scrambled home a 44th minute opener other last 16 matches, Manchester City of his squad, with established internation- hosts Newcastle and Liverpool is at home for Hibs. als Fernandinho, Martin Demichelis, Stevan The Tynecastle club’s task became even harder 10 to Swansea. Jovetic, Bacary Sagna and James Milner set Here are some things to know about minutes from time when Callum Paterson was shown a for starts after being on the bench for the straight red for a nasty challenge from behind on this week’s games in England’s second-tier 2-1 loss at West Ham on Saturday. knockout competition: goalscorer Malonga. Newcastle beat Tottenham 2-1 away in However, Alim Ozturk’s 40-yard thunderbolt two the Premier League on Sunday. “Hopefully, DROGBA RETAINED? minutes into stoppage time extended Hearts’ lead at we can take that to Manchester City,” said Didier Drogba rolled back the years by the top of the table to seven points over Glasgow giants Sammy Ameobi, one of the Newcastle scor- scoring a towering header for Chelsea in Rangers as they chase the one automatic promotion ers. “Anything is possible if we go out with the 1-1 draw at United on Sunday, his first spot back to Scotland’s top flight. league goal in his second spell at the club. the right attitude.” And Neilson, who is in his first season of manage- Marouane Fellaini —www.101 greatgoals.com The 36-year-old Drogba played the ment, was delighted to see his side rescue a point at the whole game at Old Trafford and may be CHANCE FOR UNDERDOGS home of their greatest rivals. called upon again at Shrewsbury. Chelsea There will be at least two non-Premier “We showed some fantastic spirit to keep the run manager Jose Mourinho is unlikely to risk League teams in the quarterfinals, with going of being undefeated,” the former Hearts defender The real Fellaini is bringing back Diego Costa, who has had third-tier rivals MK Dons and Sheffield said. “I didn’t think there were a lot of chances really cre- hamstring problems and also spent a night United playing each other and Derby trav- ated in the first half. If we had gone in at 0-0 at half-time in the hospital last week with a stomach eling to Fulham in a meeting of two sec- I would have thought it was a fair reflection of the first finally standing up virus. The other striker in Chelsea’s squad, ond-tier teams. In other matches, half. Tottenham and West Bromwich Albion play Loic Remy, was also not in the squad “But there is a great spirit here. We spoke at half-time LONDON: Written off last season as a pressed for an equaliser. against United. second-tier side Brighton and about it being a fantastic opportunity - being 1-0 down sub-standard misfit with a comical hair- That came in stoppage time when he Drogba has only had one week of full Bournemouth, respectively. at Easter Road - to go and show people we can come cut, there are signs that Marouane thumped a header that was parried by training after injury problems. Mourinho is Stoke hosts Southampton in an all- back from this. Fellaini is finally beginning to feel com- Thibaut Courtois with the rebound being likely to rotate his lineup given the quick Premier League matchup, having played “We had hoped to get the win and kept going right fortable in a red Manchester United shirt. hammered home by Robin van Persie. turnaround, so expect starts for the likes of each other on Saturday. Southampton won to the end even when we lost a man to go down to ten The Belgian powerhouse, signed at the Late goals in “Fergie time” were Andre Schuerrle, John Obi Mikel, Mohamed that game 1-0 at home to move into sec- men. A lot of teams would have crumbled and lost start of the ill-fated David Moyes era for United’s stock in trade during the glory Salah and Petr Cech. ond place in the standings. —AP more goals but we kept going and kept passing the ball 27.5 million pounds, was a convenient years under Alex Ferguson, but this one and getting into good areas and eventually we got the scapegoat last season as United endured was greeted with as much fervour as any. goal. “We changed the formation and put two up front their worst season in the Premier League, After some of the humble surrenders and really went for it. We continued to pass it, which finishing a distant seventh. of last season when Old Trafford was not was pleasing, and we got our reward at the end.” There seemed no way back for the so much a fortress but a house of horrors, Hearts seemed to be heading for defeat but with rugged midfielder who most United a 1-1 draw with Jose Mourinho’s table- time ticking away centre-half Ozturk picked up the ball diehards-spoilt by years watching the toppers represented a big step in the 40 yards out and unleashed an unstoppable dipping likes of Paul Scholes, Eric Cantona, David right direction. While the balance may strike that smacked the underside of the bar before Beckham and Roy Keane-thought not fit not be right and there are still plenty of crossing the line. “It was a fantastic strike. To be fair to to sweep the changing room, let alone be question marks in defence, the old never- Alim he practices long-range shots and free-kicks in put in charge of United’s creative depart- say-die spirit at least seems to have training all the time,” Neilson said. ment. returned. Yet, with Louis van Gaal appearing to Van Gaal will know that United are a GOAL OF THE SEASON understand exactly what a fired-up and work in progress, but with so much “Hibs were sitting in at that time and we needed confident Fellaini can offer his team, the ground to make up he can hardly over- someone to have a shot from distance to try and get Afro-haired battering ram is beginning to look any of the club’s supposed assets them out and he’s smashed it. flourish. and Fellaini could yet prove to be the “It was one of those shots that as soon as it’s left his Not that the season started particular- signing United thought they had made boot he knows it’s going in. It would definitely be a con- ly well. He was a substitute for Van Gaal’s last season. tender for goal of the season anyway.” opening Premier League match, a home Colombian Radamel Falcao and Angel The draw moves Hibs up to fourth place in the table defeat by Swansea City that would have di Maria may be more in the traditional but still their city rivals by 14 points. Hibs manager Alan revived bitter memories of last season United thoroughbred mould, but Fellaini Stubbs praised his players for rising to the challenge as when a large proportion of the home is the man to do the dirty work needed if they show signs of recovery following a poor start to jeers were directed his way. the Reds are to reclaim their place in the the season. An ankle injury then sidelined him for Champions League. “It would be very easy for me to be downbeat a month and when he returned he again According to official Premier League because of what’s happened but I thought my players found himself benched by Belgium. statistics Fellaini covered 12.17 kilome- were absolutely outstanding today,” Stubbs said. Something clicked, however, against tres against Chelsea-more than any team “We’ve played the so-called champions, which every- West Bromwich Albion last week when mate-and made 70 ‘high-intensity’ runs. one seems to be calling them at this moment in time, Fellaini came on for Herrera at halftime It was more like the player who once and we have more than matched them. “I am disap- and promptly scored a wonderful goal ripped up the midfield at Everton and pointed because of the effort that we put in. I thought from outside the area - his first goal for Van Persie certainly benefited from the we were by far the better team and deserved to win the United - and added some much-needed physical presence supporting him in game but how can you be too down on yourself when bit to his side’s display in a 2-2 draw. United’s route-one attacks. we performed that well in the game.” The Hibernian Van Gaal was suitably impressed, so “@fellainiM was fantastic,” the striker manager refused to attribute any blame for the goal to much so that Fellaini started against said on Twitter. “He did a great job on ‘keeper Mark Oxley. “I think when you look at the strike Chelsea on Sunday and arguably had his Fabregas. He is strong on the ball and in I don’t think he will ever score a goal like that again. I best game for United against the best the air.” think you could’ve put the best ‘keeper in the world in team in the country. High praise indeed, although it will that goal and the way the ball moved and dipped at the Helping shore up United often-creaky take a few more such performances of last minute I don’t think anyone would’ve saved it. “It’s backline at one end, he also displayed his similar stature from the Everton man to just one of those freak strikes that has gone in unfortu- trademark strength at the other end to completely win over the Old Trafford LONDON: Chelsea’s Ivorian striker Didier Drogba celebrates in this file photo. —AFP nately.” —AFP ruffle Chelsea’s back four as United sceptics. —Reuters Streb seals Taijul fashions maiden win B’desh’s dramatic 16 17Test victory TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

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NEW JERSEY: Buffalo Bills quarterback Kyle Orton (center) is sacked by New York Jets’ Calvin Pace (97) and Quinton Coples (98) uringd the first half of an NFL football game. —AP Steelers pound Colts, Bengals win

NEW ORLEANS: Ben Roethlisberger set franchise records with ing this week. down to decide first place in the NFC South on Thursday Glennon’s pass to Seferian-Jenkins gained 10 yards before 522 yards passing and six touchdowns as the Pittsburgh The Cardinals (6-1) had a goal-line stand that forced the night. Barr stripped the ball from the rookie tight end and took it up Steelers raced by the Indianapolis Colts 51-34 on Sunday. Eagles (5-2) to settle for a 20-yard field goal that put Aaron Rodgers, intercepted only once in Green Bay’s first the left sideline to score. Roethlisberger’s yardage total was the fourth highest in Philadelphia up 20-17 with 1:56 left. seven games, was picked off twice on deflected and sacked NFL history. He became the first player to go over 500 yards Then on third-and-5, Palmer - who also had an 80-yard TD three times. He still passed for 418 yards, including a 70-yard CHIEFS 34, RAMS 7 passing twice as the Steelers (5-3) won consecutive games for pass to Larry Fitzgerald - heaved the ball deep, where the touchdown pass to Randall Cobb, but it was not nearly Jamaal Charles ran for two touchdowns and Knile Davis the first time this season. speedy Brown gathered it in and crossed the goal line just as enough to prevent the Packers (5-3) from falling a game returned a kick 99 yards for another score as the Chiefs Antonio Brown caught 10 passes for 133 yards and two he was being tackled. behind NFC North leader Detroit. trounced their cross-state rival. scores. Heath Miller caught seven passes for 112 yards and the The Eagles drove to the Arizona 16. On the last play, Jordan Cairo Santos added a pair of field goals for Kansas City (4- clinching TD with 5:14 remaining. Matthews caught a pass from Nick Foles in the end zone but PATRIOTS 51, BEARS 23 3), including a career-best 53-yarder. Alex Smith was 24 of 28 Andrew Luck passed for 400 yards and three touchdowns, landed out of bounds. Tom Brady threw five scoring passes as the streaking for 226 yards, while Davis capped a run of 34 unanswered but also threw two interceptions. He handed the Steelers a Patriots crammed three touchdowns into the last two minutes points with a short touchdown run late in the fourth quarter. safety when he was called for intentional grounding in the SEAHAWKS 13, PANTHERS 9 of the first half. Justin Houston had three of the Chiefs’ seven sacks. The end zone midway through the fourth quarter as the Colts saw Russell Wilson threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Luke New England (6-2) scored on all five of its possessions in banged-up Rams (2-5) lost their sixth straight to Kansas City their five-game winning streak end spectacularly. Willson with 47 seconds left. It’s the third straight year Wilson the half - and one of Chicago’s - on its way to its fourth dating to Sept. 25, 1994, when they were still in Los Angeles. has brought the Seahawks (4-3) back from a second-half straight win. The Bears (3-5) fell behind 45-7 early in the sec- Austin Davis threw for 160 yards with a touchdown and a pick. BENGALS 27, RAVENS 24 deficit to beat the Panthers on the road. In the previous two ond half and lost for the fourth time in five games. Andy Dalton made up for his two second-half turnovers by seasons, Wilson threw second-half TD passes to Jermaine In one of the best statistical games of his brilliant career, DOLPHINS 27, JAGUARS 13 scoring on a 1-yard sneak with 57 seconds left, rallying Kearse and Golden Tate in tight defensive games. Brady completed 30 of 35 passes for 354 yards. He threw three Rookie Blake Bortles had two interceptions returned for Cincinnati past Baltimore to tighten the AFC North race. Carolina’s defense, which had allowed at least 37 points in scoring passes to Rob Gronkowski and one each to Tim Wright touchdowns, costly mistakes that helped the Dolphins win. The Bengals (4-2-1) wasted an 11-point lead as Dalton’s four of its previous five games, held the Seahawks in check and Brandon LaFell. Defensive end Rob Ninkovich scored with Louis Delmas (81 yards) and Brent Grimes (22 yards) scored on fumble and interception helped the Ravens (5-3) pull ahead before Wilson led a nine-play, 80-yard drive for the only touch- 55 seconds left in the first half on a 15-yard return of Jay the turnovers for the Dolphins (4-3), who won consecutive 24-20 with 3:59 left. down. Cutler’s fumble. games for the first time this season. That’s when Dalton pulled it out against the NFL’s stingi- Wilson finished 20 of 32 for 199 yards with one intercep- Ryan Tannehill’s 3-yard pass to Rishard Matthews made it est defense. He threw a 53-yard pass to Mohamed Sanu on tion and one touchdown. Cam Newton was 12 of 27 for 121 VIKINGS 19, BUCCANEERS 13 24-6 late in the third quarter and gave the Dolphins a comfort- third-and-10 - safety Terrence Brooks got turned around - yards with an interception and a fumble for the Panthers (3-4- Anthony Barr forced a fumble on the first play of overtime able cushion in a game they could have easily trailed by dou- and took it the final yard on fourth down, completing a 10- 1). and returned it 27 yards to score. The stunning end came just ble digits. play, 80-yard drive. 17 seconds after the Vikings (3-5) extended the game on Blair The Jaguars (1-7) dominated the first half, but trailed 10-3 The Ravens appeared to regain the lead when Steve Smith SAINTS 44, PACKERS 23 Walsh’s 38-yard field goal on the final play of regulation. at the break because of miscues. Bortles was the culprit, con- Sr. caught a pass and went 80 yards to the end zone with 32 Drew Brees completed 27 of 32 passes for 311 yards and Teddy Bridgewater threw for 241 yards, one TD and no tinuing a trend that started when he took over the starting job seconds left, but the receiver was called for pushing off to get three touchdowns as the Saints ended the Packers’ four-game interceptions to help Minnesota stop a three-game skid. Mike last month. open. winning streak. Glennon threw a 7-yard scoring pass to Austin Seferian- Bortles had three turnovers Sunday, giving him six in the Rookie receiver Brandin Cooks had a 50-yard touchdown Jenkins to give Tampa Bay (1-6) a 13-10 lead with 2:02 remain- last two weeks and 13 in six games. Four of those have been BILLS 43, JETS 23 catch and a 4-yard scoring run, and tight end Jimmy Graham ing. But the Bucs’ porous defense couldn’t stop Bridgewater interceptions returned for touchdowns. Kyle Orton threw four touchdown passes as the Bills forced also caught a touchdown pass to help the Saints (3-4) pull from putting together a nine-play, 61-yard march to get the six turnovers, three each by Geno Smith and Michael Vick. even in victories with Carolina (3-4-1). That sets up a show- game into OT. BROWNS 23, RAIDERS 13 Orton won for the third time in four games since replacing EJ Brian Hoyer threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Andrew Manuel as the starting quarterback for the Bills (5-3), tossing Hawkins early in the fourth quarter as the Browns avoided a TD passes to Robert Woods, Lee Smith, Scott Chandler and NFL results/standings second straight embarrassing loss. Sammy Watkins against the listless Jets (1-7). Hoyer’s TD to Hawkins put the Browns (4-3) ahead 16-6, Stephon Gilmore, Preston Brown, Aaron Williams and Detroit 22, Atlanta 21; Seattle 13, Carolina 9; Cincinnati 27, Baltimore 24; Miami 27, Jacksonville 13; Kansas City 34, St. Louis 7; New England 51, shortly after Cleveland’s defense came to the rescue. Safety Da’Norris Searcy had interceptions for the Bills. The Jets have Chicago 23; Buffalo 43, NY Jets 23; Minnesota 19, Tampa Bay 13 (OT); Houston 30, Tennessee 16; Arizona 24, Philadelphia 20; Cleveland 23, Donte Whitner forced a fumble late in the third quarter with a lost seven straight for the first time since 2005, in Herm Oakland 13; Pittsburgh 51, Indianapolis 34; New Orleans 44, Green Bay 23. huge hit on Oakland running back Darren McFadden as the Edwards’ final season as coach. American Football Conference National Football Conference Raiders (0-7) were driving deep into Cleveland territory. Geno Smith interceptions on three consecutive posses- AFC East NFC East Cleveland lost at Jacksonville last week, giving the Jaguars sions in the first quarter and was pulled in favor of Vick, who W L T OTL PF PA PCT Dallas 6 1 0 0 196 147 0.857 their first win. According to STATS, no team in NFL history has was picked off once and lost two fumbles. New England 6 2 0 0 238 177 0.75 Philadelphia 5 2 0 0 203 156 0.714 lost consecutive games to winless teams in Week 7 or later. It was hardly a perfect performance, but the Browns, who Buffalo 5 3 0 0 178 165 0.625 NY Giants 3 4 0 0 154 169 0.429 LIONS 22, FALCONS 21 were held to 39 yards rushing and converted only 2 of 12 third Miami 4 3 0 0 174 151 0.571 Washington 2 5 0 0 151 183 0.286 Matt Prater kicked a 48-yard field goal on the last play of NY Jets 1 7 0 0 144 228 0.125 downs, will take it. the game Sunday, lifting the Lions after trailing by 21 points. NFC North AFC North Detroit 6 2 0 0 162 126 0.75 Prater capped a second straight late winning drive for the Cincinnati 4 2 1 0 161 164 0.643 TEXANS 30, TITANS 16 Green Bay 5 3 0 0 222 191 0.625 Lions (6-2), who also rallied to beat the Saints last week. Baltimore 5 3 0 0 217 131 0.625 Arian Foster ran for 151 yards and two touchdowns and Chicago 3 5 0 1 180 222 0.375 It was the first field goal the Lions made from 40-49 yards Pittsburgh 5 3 0 0 205 196 0.625 also caught a pass for a score in the franchise’s 200th game. all season. Matthew Stafford threw for 325 yards and two Cleveland 4 3 0 0 163 152 0.571 Minnesota 3 5 0 0 139 173 0.375 The Texans (4-4) also snapped a three-game skid as Foster touchdowns, giving him 120 TDs, breaking the Lions record of AFC South NFC South topped 100 yards rushing in his fourth straight game. J.J. Watt 118 held by Bobby Layne. Indianapolis 5 3 0 0 250 187 0.625 Carolina 3 4 1 0 167 208 0.438 had two sacks and forced a fumble as the Texans beat the Matt Ryan led the Falcons (2-6) with 228 yards passing and Houston 4 4 0 1 185 166 0.5 New Orleans 3 4 0 1 199 188 0.429 team they replaced in Houston for the fourth time in five two touchdowns, but clock management problems, a penalty Tennessee 2 6 0 0 137 202 0.25 Atlanta 2 6 0 0 192 221 0.25 games. and a dropped pass doomed the Falcons at the end. The Jacksonville 1 7 0 0 118 218 0.125 Tampa Bay 1 6 0 2 133 223 0.143 Texans linebacker Jadeveon Clowney played for the first blown halftime lead tied the biggest in Atlanta history. AFC West NFC West time since hurting his knee in the season opener. Clowney fin- Denver 6 1 0 1 224 142 0.857 Arizona 6 1 0 0 164 139 0.857 ished with one tackle. CARDINALS 24, EAGLES 20 San Diego 5 3 0 0 205 149 0.625 San Francisco 4 3 0 0 158 165 0.571 Rookie Zach Mettenberger turned over the ball twice in his Carson Palmer lofted a 75-yard touchdown pass to rookie Kansas City 4 3 0 0 176 128 0.571 Seattle 4 3 0 0 172 150 0.571 first start, and he also threw for 299 yards and two touch- John Brown with 1:21 to play to give Arizona a stunning victo- Oakland 0 7 0 0 105 181 0 St. Louis 2 5 0 0 136 210 0.286 downs. The Titans (2-6) go into their bye having lost two ry in a matchup of two of the NFL’s four one-loss teams enter- straight. — AP Fed to end QE finally; GCC non-oil sector to grow at 5%

Page 22 Business Egypt vows fiscal reforms, but what about politics? TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 Page 23 Yusuffali tops Indian Power List for fifth US exports, China slowdown add to oil market gloom year in row Page 25 Page 26

KLAIPEDA: People take photographs as “Independence”, a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) storage vessel is maneuvered by tugboats through the sea gate port of Klaipeda, Lithuania, yesterday. The floating natural gas terminal arrived in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda, in a move by the Baltic country to further reduce its reliance on energy supplies from Russia. —AP (See Page25) Goldman slashes 2015 oil price forecast

Non-OPEC production growth outside US to top demand growth

NEW YORK: Goldman Sachs has slashed its 2015 oil price fore- cent yesterday to less than $86 a barrel, extending their decline 325,000 bpd next year. Gulf of Mexico production is expected Development Bank, cited falling US oil imports as the primary casts, making it the most bearish among major financial institu- despite a continued easing of worries over the global economic to increase by 155,000 bpd in 2015. reason for lower global oil prices. The United States is “produc- tions, following a near 25 percent fall in crude prices over the recovery, said Tomomichi Akuta, senior economist at Mitsubishi Among OPEC countries, Iraqi production is seen increasing ing an additional 3 million barrels per day because of shale oil”, past five months. The US investment bank said rising output UFJ Research & Consulting. by 200,000 bpd and Libya’s output stabilizing at about 700,000 he said yesterday on the sidelines of Singapore International will outstrip demand - and its new numbers weighed further on “I personally think prices have room for declines though not bpd, compared with recent production of about 900,000 bpd. Energy Week. benchmark Brent crude prices - as forecasters generally pare as steep as Goldman,” Akuta said. NYMEX crude for December Iranian production and exports are unlikely to see further US crude oil imports have fallen to 7.0 million-7.6 million back estimates for oil due to slowing global growth, a strength- delivery was up 4 cents at $81.05 a barrel by 0848 GMT, after growth because Goldman analysts do not expect a resolution bpd from peaks above 10 million bpd in 2005 and 2006 since ening dollar and ample supplies. settling down $1.08 on Friday following a spike up on Thursday. to the country’s nuclear dispute with the West by the Nov. 24 the advent of the shale oil and gas boom, according to data Goldman analysts said in a report released late on Sunday If WTI fell to $70 a barrel next year, as Goldman Sachs is fore- deadline, meaning sanctions on Tehran will not be lifted. posted on the website of the US Energy Information that they expect US benchmark West Texas Intermediate casting, it would be the US benchmark’s lowest level since mid- On the demand side, growth has only averaged 630,000 Administration. (WTI)crude to fall to $75 a barrel and Brent to $85 a barrel in the 2010. barrels per day year-on-year so far, less than half Goldman’s ini- “US shale is the marginal swing barrel in the new order,” first quarter of 2015, both down $15 a barrel from their previous tial forecast for 2014, the report said. Global economic growth Goldman said, adding that a slowdown in production will hap- forecast. WTI could fall as low as $70 in the second quarter and Rising output is forecast by Goldman analysts to increase to 3.5 percent next pen when WTI falls to $75 per barrel. “US shale oil production Brent as low as $80, when oversupply would be the most pro- Goldman said production outside OPEC countries was year but there is a “risk that the historical relationship between has continued to surprise to the upside with US domestic oil nounced, before returning to first-quarter levels, Goldman said. expected to accelerate, led by Brazil and drilling in the Gulf of global GDP growth and oil demand has weakened,” the report prices incentivizing strong investment,” the report said. Goldman’s projections contrast with those of Standard Mexico with the end of extensive deep-water maintenance fol- said. Once prices fall and US production slows, Goldman Chartered Bank’s oil analyst Paul Horsnell, known for having lowing the 2010 Macondo disaster. Non OPEC-production out- expects cutbacks among OPEC producers including Saudi called the market’s long rally a decade ago. He is sticking with a side the US lower 48 states is forecast to increase by 412,000 Shale impact Arabia, which has been content to let prices fall in the hope of more bullish bias. barrels per day this year, 573,000 bpd in 2015 and 505,000 bpd In the United States, rising shale production is increasingly forcing US shale producers out of the market. “Any near-term Last week, Horsnell and his team cut their first quarter Brent in 2016. affecting global energy flows and eroding OPEC’s pricing pow- OPEC production cut will be modest until there is sufficient forecast to $98 but pared back their forecast for calendar 2015 Output from Brazil’s Santos basin is forecast to start to pick er, Goldman said. Anthony Jude, a senior adviser on energy evidence of a slowdown in US shale oil production growth,” by just $5, to $105 a barrel. Brent crude futures dipped 0.3 per- up, increasing Brazilian output by 206,000 bpd in 2014 and and sustainable development matters for the Asian the report said. — Reuters IMF less ‘concerned’ about Dubai property prices DUBAI: Increases in Dubai’s property prices have moderat- that because of their large current account and state budg- ed quite a lot and the International Monetary Fund is now et surpluses, the Gulf oil exporters are seen by internation- less concerned about them than it was in May, a senior IMF al investors as better equipped to handle a period of rising official said yesterday. interest rates than most areas of the world. Combined The IMF has previously warned that rapid rises in Dubai bond and equity outflows from the six-nation Gulf real estate prices, which earlier this year were in some cases Cooperation Council - Saudi Arabia, the United Arab a third higher than they were 12 months previously, could Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain - were equiva- lead to another bubble and then a crash in the emirate. lent to only 0.05 percent of gross domestic product or 3.5 But Masood Ahmed, head of the IMF’s Middle East and percent of assets under management between May 2013 Central Asia Department, told a news conference yesterday and July 2014, the study found. That compares with cumu- that risks seemed to have decreased, partly because Dubai lative outflows from other emerging markets of $79 billion, authorities had taken steps to limit speculative buying. equivalent to 0.35 percent of GDP and 6.1 percent of assets However, he said there were still areas that needed to be under management. watched, and that real estate projects needed to be Initially, outflows from the Gulf countries were broadly in sequenced and carefully managed to avoid encouraging line with those from other emerging markets, but they have excessive risk-taking by government-related enterprises. A been much smaller since early 2014, the IMF found. “The report by property consultants JLL last month found resi- strength in GCC countries’ external sectors...appears to have dential rents and sales prices rose 2 percent and 1 percent been an important factor explaining the limited capital out- respectively in the third quarter compared to the previous flows during the second period of volatility,” it said. Fed offi- quarter, slower than 3 percent and 6 percent increases in cials will meet on Oct 28-29 to decide whether to shelve the second quarter. their stimulative bond-buying program as planned. This is expected to lead eventually to higher US interest rates, Capital outflows which could draw more funds out of emerging markets. Capital outflows from Gulf Arab states have totalled GCC countries, which mostly peg their currencies to the only about $780 million since the US Federal Reserve US dollar, are expected to follow the Fed closely in raising unveiled its plan to wind down asset purchases in May last interest rates. The IMF study ended before a bout of curren- year, a small fraction of the money leaving other emerging cy market volatility in Saudi Arabia last week. The Saudi riyal markets, according to a study by the International fell sharply against the US dollar in the forwards market PARIS: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde (right) arrives for Total’s CEO Monetary Fund. after coming under pressure in the spot market because, Christophe de Margerie memorial service at the Saint Sulpice church in Paris yesterday. Christophe de Margerie The IMF study, published yesterday, appears to confirm traders said, of a large outflow of capital. — Reuters died in a plane accident in Russia on October 20, 2014. —AFP BUSINESS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 Fed to end QE finally; GCC News in brief

non-oil sector to grow at 5% Dubai Financial Market Q3 profit rises 85% DUBAI: Dubai Financial Market (DFM), the emirate’s main stock exchange, reported an 85 percent rise in NBK ECONOMIC REPORT third-quarter net profit yesterday as bourse turnover increased. DFM made a net profit of 153.5 million KUWAIT: As we enter the last quarter of the year, the world from China is leading major houses to revise down their divergence has finally caught up with the USD-EUR dirhams ($42 million) in the three months to Sept. economy appears poised for moderate 3.3 percent growth outlook for China. exchange rate, and the USD finally moved up, by some 7 for the year, and a better 3.8 percent for 2015 according to percent (ytd September). 30, up from 82.8 million dirhams in the same period the IMF. The US continues to be the best performer Smooth sailing of 2013, it said in a statement. Global Investment amongst advanced economies, expected to grow 3 percent In the US, the data have come in exquisitely balanced, Geopolitical threats House had forecast DFM’s quarterly profit would be for 2H2014 (real GDP). Japan and the euro-zone will strug- enough to keep things “nice” and smooth for the Fed and Of course, geopolitical threats are on the agenda. They 160 million dirhams. The traded value of DFM stocks gle to approach 1 percent this year, and next, and even that the bond market: inflation (CPI or PCE-deflator) below but have receded slightly in recent weeks, but are by no means rose 60 percent to 78.4 billion dirhams in the third is predicated on further aggressive action by their central not too distant from a 2.0 percent target, employment resolved. Scottish independence and its referendum after- quarter, up from 49 billion dirhams a year earlier. banks, the ECB and the BOJ. The risks to growth according improving somewhat but still leaving enough slack to keep math are the least worrisome, especially after the “NO” vote to many, IMF included, are to the down side. We would con- the Fed at bay. The curve has flattened considerably since in September. However, Ukraine/Russia and the Middle cur, and in our view some of these projections are on the the beginning of the year. The 10-year note is still near 2.25 East/ISIS situations still have disruptive potential. Dubai Investments optimistic side. The pattern of downward revisions to percent in yield, while rates on shorter maturities have Interestingly the latter has failed to push oil prices higher, growth is alive and well (IMF, IBRD, OECD...). crept up in anticipation of the so-called “lift-off”: the first as softer world demand, a stronger dollar, and ample sup- Q3 profit rises 17.4% In general, and until recently, the equity markets have hike in the federal funds rate since 2008. The latter is wide- plies have kept Brent oil prices under $100 pb. Even DUBAI: Dubai Investments said yesterday that its net responded positively to the above conditions, posting his- ly anticipated for mid-2015 with hopes that the Fed will be though prices have recently broken $100 pb, they are still profit for the third quarter rose 17.4 percent on the back toric or post-crisis highs, with the US market currently up managing the move and it’s attending market communica- close to (fiscal) break-even prices for the primary oil pro- about 7 percent ytd (S&P500 basis), notwithstanding the tion seamlessly. ducer in the GCC, however any further significant down- of lower costs and administrative expenses. The con- recent October correction. Decent or modest growth, cou- At its September meeting the Fed announced that QE3 side would push some into deficit. glomerate, in which sovereign fund Investment Corp of pled with very low interest rates and the promise of vigor- (quantitative easing) would end in October but that higher The GCC and KSA in particular have been satisfied with Dubai owns an 11.5 percent stake, said its net profit ous central bank action in case of “problems”, all continue official rates would have to wait until next year (Q3 in our prices near or above $100 pb in recent years, and are likely attributable to owners of the company was 189.1 mil- to support equities. The two 800-pound gorillas here are view). As the Fed ends QE this week, the ECB is just now to reduce production if prices soften further after the lion dirhams ($51.5 million) in the three months to Sept. the economies of the euro-zone and of China. Markets embarking on a QE-like program. Since 2008, the Fed start- recent 25 percent drop from highs. Questions abound 30, compared with 161.1 million dirhams in the same expect and hope that the first one will avoid further weak- ed its 3 different QE programs each time when US inflation around oil and OPEC will have a crucial meeting on period of 2013. The firm’s nine-month profit nearly dou- ness and deflation with the help of the ECB and its new QE was threatening the 1 percent level. EU inflation has been November 27. While this may impact the oil side of their program. For the second, China, markets expect it to avoid under 1 percent for over a year now (0.4 percent in the economies, the non-oil sectors remain very well supported bled to 994.6 million dirhams. Dubai Investments sold a a financial “accident” in its shadow banking sector and to August CPI reading), and the ECB is only now beginning to by steady employment, strong government spending, and 66 percent equity stake in its wholly owned pharma- maintain economic growth near its targeted 7.0-7.5 per- move more aggressively, with 83 billion euros in TLTROs large projects execution. The GCC’s ample reserves (FX, ceutical unit Globalpharma to an investor group led by cent. The risks in both cases are perhaps contained but ris- (Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations) started in SWFs) will help them adjust on their timetable. We still French drugmaker Sanofi ; the deal contributed a profit ing. The EU is scrambling with new action by the ECB, actu- September and upcoming ABS (Asset Backed Securities) anticipate the region will post healthy real non-oil GDP of 472 million dirhams for the second quarter. al and promised, but is still slow moving. And recent data purchases (a form of QE). Suffice it to say that this policy growth of about 5 percent in the next 2 years.

First Gulf Bank beats Mashreq profits Iraqi economy to shrink profit estimates boosted by higher ABU DHABI: First Gulf Bank, the United Arab 2.7% in 2014, says IMF Emirates’ third-largest lender by assets, beat esti- interest income mates as it reported a 20 percent increase in third- quarter net profit yesterday thanks to higher fee DUBAI: Mashreq, Dubai’s third-biggest lender by DUBAI: Iraq’s economy is likely to duction and exports appears for the However, the IMF expects higher assets, yesterday posted a 26.1 percent rise in third- shrink 2.7 percent this year, the first moment contained,” the Fund said. oil output of 3.0 million bpd in 2015 income and lower provisions for bad loans. The quarter net profit, driven by a jump in income from its contraction since the US-led invasion “However, the deterioration of securi- versus 2.9 million in 2014, and fore- results reflect the healthy third-quarter earnings core business. Mashreq is the latest United Arab in 2003, after Islamic State militants ty will harm the technical and admin- casts a fiscal gap of just 0.6 percent of growth reported across the sector as UAE banks they Emirates bank to report a healthy set of third quarter occupied swathes of the major oil istrative ability to expand oil produc- GDP in 2015. If the fighting was to benefit from a strong domestic economic backdrop earnings, as lenders benefit from an economy forecast exporter, the International Monetary tion and exports over the medium engulf Baghdad and the south, Iraq’s and improving asset quality since a downturn at the by the IMF to grow at 4.3 percent this year. Fund said yesterday. term,” it said. The IMF said the govern- oil exports could fall by half, roughly start of the decade. Mashreq and Union National Earlier yesterday, Union National Bank posted a The current economic downturn ment’s budget was coming under 1.5 percent of global consumption, Bank posted year-on-year net profit gains of 26 per- 21.9 percent increase in net profit. First Gulf Bank, the comes after a 4.2 percent gross pressure from rising security spending from current levels, with only half of UAE’s third-largest bank by assets, reports later in the domestic product growth in 2013, and relieving the humanitarian crisis. that offset by higher production from cent and 22 percent respectively yesterday. FGB, day. The lender made a net profit of 596.8 million which was the weakest rate since The Fund estimates a budget break- global spare capacity, the IMF warned. majority owned by the Abu Dhabi government, dirhams ($162.5 million) for the three months to 2007, the IMF’s regional economic even oil price of $111.2 per barrel in Iraqi security forces backed by Shiite made 1.43 billion dirhams ($388 million) in the three September 30, it said in a statement, a increase on the outlook shows. 2014, up from $106.1 last year. Brent militias gained some momentum at months to Sept. 30, up from 1.19 billion dirhams in 473.2 million dirhams recorded for the corresponding It still pales, however, in compari- crude oil fell towards $85 a barrel yes- the weekend in their bid to loosen the the same period last year, it said in a statement. The period of last year. son with a 41.4 percent output plunge terday amid abundant supply and grip of Islamic State on the north and average forecast from six analysts polled by Reuters Mashreq’s performance was bolstered by a rise in in 2003 when the US-led coalition global economic growth concerns. west of the OPEC member. —Reuters was a quarterly profit of 1.35 billion dirhams. “FGB’s net interest income, with profits from the segment invaded the country to topple the swelling to 785.6 million dirhams, up by 25.6 percent government of its former strongman improving asset quality metrics are a mere reflection from the year earlier period. This was aided by strong Saddam Hussein. of the underlying strength of the UAE operating loan growth, with total loans up 14 percent since the Islamic State swept through north- environment,” Chief Executive Andre Sayegh said in start of 2014 to 57.3 billion dirhams. Net fee and com- ern Iraq in the summer, facing little the statement. “Although global markets are volatile, mission income rose to 425.4 million dirhams, up 5.8 resistance from government troops. domestic fundamentals are strong and confidence in percent year on year, the statement said. The al Qaeda offshoot then declared a our economy is undeterred.” The bank is one of an increasing number of local caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq and lenders looking to snap up banking stakes in other threatened to take Baghdad, deepen- countries to diversify in the face of intense competition ing sectarian bloodshed. The conflict at home, where 51 lenders battle for market share. has halted the expansion of Iraq’s oil Dubai courier Aramex Mashreq is targeting Egypt and Turkey for acquisitions, production, which is expected to Q3 net profit rises 16% Chief Executive Abdul Aziz al-Ghurair said on Sept. 17. decline slightly to 2.9 million barrels a DUBAI: Dubai courier Aramex reported a 16 percent “While the banking industry in the UAE remains a day, while exports of 2.4 mbd should crowded and competitive arena, there are huge oppor- remain close to last year’s level, the rise in third-quarter net profit yesterday, missing analyst tunities too,” the CEO said in yesterday’s statement. IMF said. “Non-oil GDP growth will forecasts. Aramex made a quarterly net profit of 69.5 Profit for the first nine months of 2014 reached 1.76 bil- also likely move to negative territory, million dirhams ($18.95 million) in the three months to lion dirhams, compared to 1.3 billion dirhams in the compared to growth of over 7 percent Sept 30, up from 59.9 million dirhams in the correspon- same period of 2013. in 2013, as fighting undermines confi- ding period of 2013, it said in a statement. Analysts The bank’s allowances for impairments rose during dence, disrupts the supply of fuel and polled by Reuters on average forecast Aramex’s third- the third-quarter to 304.2 million to the end of electricity, increases trade and distri- quarter profit would be 74.8 million dirhams and up 25 September, up from 242.3 million in the corresponding bution costs, and depresses invest- percent year on year. Third-quarter revenue rose to 922 period of last year. ment,” it said. Most local banks have in recent years had to raise However, growth should pick up million dirhams, up 12 percent year-on-year. “Revenues buffers against soured loans after a spate of debt again to a modest 1.5 percent in 2015 TOKYO: Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yoichi were once again particularly strong in international restructurings linked to a property and financial down- mainly driven by a rise in oil output, Miyazawa speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo yesterday. The express and e-commerce,” Aramex chief executive turn, although reviving asset quality has helped the IMF expects, although it cut its government defended its under-fire industry minister as he faced Hussein Hachem said in the statement. Aramex founder lenders earnings performance in the last two years as longer-term crude output projection fresh questions over political funding, which followed a bondage- Fadi Ghandour said last week the company is targeting they set aside less cash and reclassify some bad loans to 4.4 million barrels per day in 2019 at least two acquisitions in 2015 as part of its growth as performing. —Reuters from 5.6 mbd seen in May. “The near- bar scandal and criticism over his investment in the operator of the strategy. term impact of the conflict on oil pro- crippled Fukushima atomic plant. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.765 Sierra Leone 0.000063 0.000069 Nepalese Rupees 3.955 Singapore Dollar 0.224048 0.230048 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 89.225 South African Rand 0.020434 0.028934 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.795 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001901 0.002481 Japanese Yen 2.686 Australian Dollar 232.68 229.68 Indian Rupees 4.748 Thai Bhat 9.930 Taiwan 0.009415 0.009595 Canadian Dollar 262.37 263.37 Turkish Lira 129.925 Thai Baht 0.008628 0.009178 Pakistani Rupees 2.815 Swiss Franc 309.88 307.88 Srilankan Rupees 2.216 Euro 371.39 372.39 Arab Nepali Rupees 2.965 US Dollar 290.25 293.25 Bahraini Dinar 0.762905 0.770905 Singapore Dollar 228.210 Sterling Pound 469.73 472.73 Bahrain Exchange Company Hongkong Dollar 37.392 Japanese Yen 2.73 2.75 Egyptian Pound 0.038882 0.041982 Bangladesh Taka 3.742 Bangladesh Taka 3.743 4.013 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Iranian Riyal 0.000080 0.000081 Philippine Peso 6.484 Indian Rupee 4.731 5.031 Belgian Franc 0.007549 0.008549 Iraqi Dinar 0.000187 0.000247 Thai Baht 8.968 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.216 2.651 British Pound 0.459969 0.468969 Jordanian Dinar 0.405009 0.412509 Irani Riyal transfer 1167.970 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Irani Riyal cash 141.525 Nepali Rupee 2.960 3.495 Czech Korune 0.005286 0.017286 Pakistani Rupee 2.815 2.790 Danish Krone 0.045384 0.050384 Lebanese Pound 0.000141 0.000241 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023634 0.047634 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 78.87 79.34 Euro 0.362706 0.370796 Saudi Riyal 77.419 Bahraini Dinar 770.38 772.45 Norwegian Krone 0.040024 0.045224 Nigerian Naira 0.001171 0.001806 Qatari Riyal 79.772 Egyptian Pound 40.48 41.08 Romanian Leu 0.083039 0.083039 Omani Riyal 0.747351 0.753031 Omani Riyal 754.060 Jordanian Dinar 411.94 417.59 Slovakia 0.008433 0.018433 Qatar Riyal 0.078959 0.080072 Bahraini Dinar 770.900 Omani Riyal 752.74 760.04 Swedish Krona 0.036038 0.041038 Saudi Riyal 0.076710 0.077410 UAE Dirham 79.054 Qatari Riyal 79.93 80.48 Swiss Franc 0.298707 0.308907 Syrian Pound 0.001718 0.001938 Saudi Riyal 77.32 77.72 Turkish Lira 0.127545 0.134545 Tunisian Dinar 0.157556 0.165556 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.127545 0.134545 Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.053 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Australasia UAE Dirhams 0.077988 0.079137 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.481 Australian Dollar 0.247091 0.258591 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.354 New Zealand Dollar 0.221747 0.231247 Tunisian Dinar 162.450 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate America Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 409.560 US Dollar 290.100 Canadian Dollar 0.252888 0.261388 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.947 Canadian Dollar 260.860 US Dollars 0.285950 0.290650 Syrian Lira 2.068 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Sterling Pound 467.065 US Dollars Mint 0.286450 0.290650 Morocco Dirham 33.805 Euro 368.770 US Dollar 289.500 Euro 369.150 Swiss Frank 304.875 Asia EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 771.365 Pound Sterlng 469.000 Bangladesh Taka 0.003334 0.003934 US Dollar Transfer 290.050 UAE Dirhams 78.880 Canadian Dollar 259.700 Chinese Yuan 0.045818 0.049318 Euro 369.810 Qatari Riyals 80.480 Indian Rupee 4.730 Hong Kong Dollar 0.035301 0.038051 Sterling Pound 468.510 Saudi Riyals 77.435 Indian Rupee 0.004489 0.004890 Egyptian Pound 40.463 Canadian dollar 259.550 Jordanian Dinar 409.330 Turkish lira 129.980 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.211 Egyptian Pound 40.477 Bangladesh Taka 3.737 Swiss Franc 306.610 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.216 Japanese Yen 0.002601 0.002781 Australian Dollar 256.980 Philippines Peso 6.468 Indian Rupees 4.738 Kenyan Shilling 0.003237 0.003237 US Dollar Buying 288.850 Korean Won 0.000265 0.000280 Pakistan Rupee 2.813 Pakistani Rupees 2.817 Bahraini Dinar 770.750 Bangladesh Taka 3.743 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085306 0.091306 GOLD UAE Dirham 78.850 Philippines Pesso 6.470 Nepalese Rupee 0.002964 0.003134 Tola 1 141.530 Saudi Riyal 77.300 Cyprus pound 711.815 Pakistan Rupee 0.002794 0.003074 Tola 2 278.310 Philippine Peso 0.006354 0.006634 *Rates are subject to change Tola 5 689.800 Japanese Yen 3.675 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 BUSINESS Hong Kong, Shanghai cross trading scheme postponed

HONG KONG: A watershed scheme to allow impact the future of the scheme. the statement said. Li said the Hong Kong bourse Securities Industry and Financial Markets particularly Shanghai, but it is subject to strict lim- cross trading between Hong Kong and “If(the protest) drags on, it’s impossible for it does not have a say on when it can start-with reg- Association (ASIFMA), representing some of its in order to preserve capital controls in China, Shanghai’s stock markets has been delayed, a not to be affected. This is important for Hong ulators from both sides needing to give the go- the world’s biggest banks and asset managers, where Communist authorities keep a tight grip Hong Kong official said yesterday, warning that Kong,” he told reporters. But investors have also ahead-although the technical infrastructure is in had written to Hong Kong regulators asking for on the yuan currency. Plans for a similar tie-up in pro-democracy protests gripping the city could reportedly expressed concern about a lack of place. Shen Jun, a Shanghai-based analyst with a delay because of uncertainty over the 2007 sparked a surge in share prices in both impact the project’s progress. The announce- clarity on taxation and other issues. China’s pre- BOC International, said the project was likely to be scheme’s rules. bourses but they were eventually scrapped as the ment hit stocks in both cities, with Hong Kong mier Li Keqiang announced plans for the project delayed rather than scrapped altogether, as China A spokeswoman for ASIFMA declined to com- global financial crisis unfolded. down 0.68 percent and Shanghai shedding 0.51 in April and Chinese and Hong Kong authorities is pushing hard to open its “A-market” of shares ment on the reports. Shen said there was confu- Li also told reporters at a press conference on percent by the close. The Shanghai-Hong Kong issued a statement that month saying it would that are largely closed to foreign investors. “An sion about whether Chinese or Hong Kong Sunday that he felt pro-democracy activists Stock Connect platform-which would enable take “approximately six months” to launch. indefinite postponement is unlikely, as an indefi- authorities would collect capital gains tax on should now retreat as prolonged protest could international investors to trade selected stocks in But in a statement issued late Sunday, the nite delay means dashed hopes for the A-share transactions from the new scheme, among other harm the city’s overall financial stability. “I think Shanghai’s tightly-restricted exchange and allow stock exchange said no start date had been set for market,” Shen said. “Only opening up can bring in issues. “In such circumstances the competent tax- retreating with pride is glamorous. I think our kids mainland investors to buy stocks in Hong Kong- the scheme, and it had yet to receive regulatory the fresh foreign capital needed to invigorate the ation departments need to clarify the situation,” can consider that,” he added. was widely expected to launch this week. approval. “There have been market expectations A-share market.” He added: “It might be one or Shen said. “It’s possible that the competent Thousands of protesters have taken to the But Hong Kong stock exchange chief Charles that Stock Connect will commence its operation two months late-likely it will be launched in the departments are still debating over whether or streets in fury at Beijing’s insistence that candi- Li said yesterday that the tie-up had been post- in October 2014... However, at the date of this second half of December.” not to collect capital gains tax, and this needs to dates running in Hong Kong’s 2017 leadership poned, adding that the ongoing mass demon- announcement, HKEx has not received the rele- be made clear.” election are screened by a loyalist committee strations demanding Beijing allow the semi- vant approval for the launch of Stock Connect, Confusion over tax If it goes ahead, the scheme is expected to an arrangement critics have branded “fake autonomous city free leadership elections could and there is no firm date for its implementation,” Media reports last week said that the Asia see volumes on both exchanges rise significantly, democracy”. —AFP Egypt vows fiscal reforms, but what about politics? Country’s economic outlook improves to stable

CAIRO: From mega-projects to tax drawn criticism from Western govern- idential vote in May. not dominate or control it. reforms, Egyptian ministers presented ments and rights groups. During a visit to Cairo yesterday, US Housing Minister Mustafa Madbouly, detailed initiatives last week to revive an Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew welcomed whose ministry is working to meet bal- economy battered by three years of Stabilization what he described as Egypt’s “strong ini- looning demand and find a solution to upheaval and decades of neglect. Despite the recent turbulence, multi- tial steps” toward economic reform but the country’s informal settlements, said Quizzed about Egypt’s political chal- nationals have largely remained in urged more political openness. the army could also run parallel devel- lenges, however, they had less to say. Egypt, which continues to offer relative “We discussed the rule of law and opment programs. When Arabtec With cameras rolling, eight Egyptian calm in a region consumed by conflict in how creating an open political environ- Holding, Dubai’s largest listed construc- ministers opened their doors to journal- Libya, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. ment in which individual rights are fully tion firm, agreed to build one million ists for the Reuters Middle East Many Egyptians have tolerated what respected would further bolster Egypt’s houses in Egypt in a $40 billion project, Investment Summit last week; that critics describe as widespread human ability to attract international invest- it partnered directly with the army SYDNEY: US Trade Representative Mike Froman (center) speaks at a press accessibility was itself a change from rights abuses, hoping that Sisi would ment,” Lew told reporters in Cairo. rather than the government. conference for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a pan-Pacific trade agree- past decades when contact was limited stabilize Egypt after the turmoil that fol- “The military has its own economic ment by trade ministers from 12 nations in Sydney yesterday. The TPP, which and officials were aloof. Previous admin- lowed Mubarak’s fall. But how long their Military’s role and financial arms which also have the would encompass 40 percent of the global economy and include 12 nations, istrations made big promises on the patience will last is an open question. On the economy, Egyptians are right to do this,” said Helmy. The military, has been the subject of negotiations for years. —AFP economy but rarely delivered, critics say. “While investor confidence has closely watching Prime Minister Ibrahim whose budget is shielded from public Discontent with their apparent detach- improved thanks to the relative stability Mehleb’s performance on employment scrutiny, has a business empire ranging ment helped trigger a revolt in 2011 that brought about by the Sisi presidency, and housing, issues that helped foment from automobiles to computers. Pacific trade talks progress toppled officer-turned-president Hosni ongoing political polarization, insecurity the anger behind the 2011 uprising. Estimates of the size of its profit-making Mubarak after 30 years in power. but US-Japan gap lingers Marking themselves out from prede- cessors, the ministers spoke with candor about the enormity of the challenges SYDNEY: Negotiations for an ambitious trade an “ambitious, comprehensive, high stan- facing Egypt and in detail about solu- pact among Pacific countries made signifi- dard and balanced deal” was forming. “There tions. They have already implemented cant progress over the weekend, but a gap is a real sense that we are within reach of the subsidy cuts and tax reforms that previ- between Japan and the United States over finish line and the prize does look very ous governments shied away from for market access and other hurdles remains, attractive,” Robb said, describing the negoti- fear of fuelling discontent. trade representatives said yesterday. ations as at the “compromise stage”. Those moves helped persuade The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership “We are seeing a preparedness to make Moody’s to change Egypt’s outlook from (TPP) is central to President Barack Obama’s some of the difficult decisions. This includes negative to stable this month, but policy of expanding the US presence in Asia some of the key issues that we’ve been cir- beyond vows to hold long-awaited par- and the president has expressed hopes of cling for a long time in the whole IP (intellec- liamentary polls and restore stability, talk concluding a deal by the end of the year. tual property) area and market access and of political reforms was general at best. “There is no prospect for an agreement on state-owned enterprises and other areas.” Asked how Egypt could hope to lure market access (between Japan and the U.S.) The United States insists that Japan lower back investors without implementing at the moment,” Japanese Economics barriers to agricultural imports, but Japan political reforms, Telecoms Minister Atef Minister Akira Amari told a news conference wants to protect sensitive products, includ- Helmy said: “Trust us as Egyptians; we in Sydney. ing pork, beef, dairy and sugar. really look for peace. We look for stability. “I expect we will reach results that satisfy “We made substantial progress but there We look for the welfare of our citizens... both (countries),” he said, adding that they certainly are issues that remain,” US Trade but we need people to know their would hold further talks. An agreement Representative Michael Froman said. “We’ve boundaries... There is a big difference between Tokyo and Washington is crucial to not yet reached a final agreement on a mar- between freedom and terrorism.” CAIRO: US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew (left) and Egyptian Finance Minister Hany Dimian address securing the broader pact as other partners ket access package and therefore there is The stakes are high in Egypt, where reporters during a joint press conference at the Egyptian Ministry of Finance in Cairo yesterday. —AP are reluctant to commit until they see how more work to be done before we can say militants have stepped up attacks on the two resolve their differences, particularly that we are satisfied with market access.” police and soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula and structural economic challenges Mehleb was realistic about how quickly operations range from a few percent up over access to each other’s markets for Other outstanding issues include intellectu- since former army chief Abdel Fattah Al- complicate investor decision-making,” problems that had built up over decades to nearly half of the economy. industries such as agriculture and automo- al property rights, particularly on products Sisi ousted elected president political risk analysts Maplecorfit said in could be resolved, urging patience. Some see the army as more efficient biles. such as pharmaceuticals, environmental Mohammad Morsi of the Muslim a recent report on Egypt. “In economics, we began to open all than the government, and ministers Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb, protections and country-specific issues Brotherhood more than a year ago. A Asked about a new draft law regulat- the files that were not opened. We don’t point out that it sub-contracts much of who hosted the meeting, said the shape of around state-owned enterprises. —Reuters day after Finance Minister Hany Kadry ing non-governmental organizations hide anything from the people,” he told its work to private firms, but critics say it Dimian told Reuters about his plans for (NGOs) that human rights groups fear Reuters. “This is not a cosmetic opera- crowds out the private sector and ham- tax reforms and debt reduction, at least will restrict their activities and funding, tion or making something just look pers growth. Asked what had really Demand for loans in euro-zone 33 security personnel were killed in Social Solidarity Minister Ghada Wali beautiful. We are fixing from the roots.” changed in Egypt, with the Brotherhood some of the worst anti-state violence gave no details on its contents. She But even among major infrastructure back underground after a brief taste of slowly stabilizing: ECB data since Morsi’s removal. promised the draft would be circulated projects, some of which are set to be power and a former general back in the Egypt moved swiftly to declare a before going to parliament but in the showcased to investors at an economic presidency, Investment Minister Ashraf temporary state of emergency in meantime has insisted groups register summit in February, the changes are not Salman had a simple answer: FRANKFURT: A day after the European ture of a gradual pick-up in monetary northern Sinai and extended military under an unpopular Mubarak-era law, as deep-rooted as they appear. “Egyptians”. Central Bank gave most euro-zone momentum in the euro area,” said trials to civilians who attack state facili- raising fears that those working on Egypt’s military, which has long “The big change that’s coming this banks a clean bill of health, new data BayernLB economist Johannes Mayr. ties or block roads, raising fears of a advocacy or human rights would face played a key role in the economy, is tak- time is coming from Egyptians,” he said. were published suggesting that But loans to companies “are stabilizing return to authoritarianism. Sisi, who persecution. Parliamentary elections are ing a leading role in a multi-billion dollar “They will not accept anymore some- depressed demand for loans in the sin- only slowly and we still won’t see any won a presidential election in May, has the final step in the roadmap set out by project to expand the Suez Canal. A new body to be like Mubarak to stay in pow- gle currency area could be stabilizing. substantial loan momentum for the already cracked down on the Sisi after Morsi’s ouster, but without a company being created to upgrade er for 30 years. They will not accept any- The ECB compiles monthly statistics foreseeable future,” Mayr said. Brotherhood. Thousands of its mem- date set they could miss the plan’s self- Egypt’s telecoms and internet infrastruc- more a minister like myself to stay on on loans to the private sector, which Archer at IHS Global Insight said the bers have been detained many sen- imposed deadline. They were due to ture will also involve military-owned this seat for 20 years. They will never are a key gauge of economic health new data “may be a sign that the stim- tenced to death in mass trials that have take place within six months of the pres- firms, though Helmy said they would accept that.” —Reuters and particularly closely watched at the ulative measures announced by the moment since chronic weakness in ECB in June and September are start- credit is seen as the main hurdle to a ing to have some positive impact, Test hits Italian and some German banks more sustained recovery in the single although it will clearly take time for all currency area. the measures to be enacted and take The ECB’s latest data showed that in full effect.” FRANKFURT: Italian bank shares were hit hard yes- strong enough finances to weather a sharp eco- tries that use the euro. Here are the key takeaways September, loans to the private sector The ECB has cut it key interest rates terday as investors got their first chance to react to nomic downturn scenario. The test, conducted by from the banking review and the market reaction. in the euro area, fell by 1.2 percent to new all-time lows and unveiled mul- the results of Europe’s far-reaching review of banks, the European Central Bank and the European year-on-year in September, but that tiple programs to pump cash into the which mainly flunked a few smaller financial groups Banking Authority, first checked the value of bank Italian banks flunked was a slower rate than the 1.5-percent euro-zone economy. Nevertheless, the in economically weaker countries. But as traders loans and holdings. Then their finances were sub- Shares in Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena decline seen in August. At the same loan data were “still hardly a robust set sifted through the masses of data, the test also jected to a stress test to simulate how their finances sagged 18 percent before they were suspended raised questions about several banks in Germany. would hold up in a downturn. from trading. It had the biggest capital shortfall, time, the ECB calculated that growth of of data and the ECB certainly cannot Though they passed the main test whose results Many banks increased their financial buffers 2.11 billion euros ($2.67 billion). The bank’s board the overall euro-zone money supply-a start to relax yet on the bank lending were published Sunday, they fell short on a tougher ahead of the test, knowing it was coming. As a met Sunday and said it had hired advisers to and money supply front,” Archer barometer for future inflation-picked measure of financial strength that will apply in result, 12 of the 25 had already covered their finan- “explore all strategic alternatives.” That could up. warned. coming years. A key index of banking stocks, the cial gaps found by the ECB, and several of the include a share issue, which tends to hurt the share The two sets of data provided some “The ECB will now be fervently hop- Stoxx Europe 600 Banks, fell 1.47 percent in early remaining 12 had only small amounts to raise. price because it dilutes its value. room for encouragement, analysts ing that the results of its European afternoon trading amid generally falling shares. The test is a prelude to the ECB formally taking Others that needed much smaller amounts of said. “The ECB may take a little heart bank stress tests lift confidence in the Overall, the test found Europe’s big banks had over as the main banking supervisor for the coun- capital were Banca Carige, Banca Popolare di from a further limited pick-up in euro- euro-zone banking system and that Milano, and Banca Popolare di Vicenza. The results zone money supply growth in this encourages banks to lend more, in raised questions about how tough Italy’s central September, signs that bank lending to tandem with the ECB’s stimulus meas- bank has been as an overseer. “This puts a cloud businesses is now falling at a reduced ures,” Archer said. above the Bank of Italy’s reputation as a supervisor,” rate and another moderate rise in Berenberg Bank economist analyst Nicolas Veron of the Bruegel think tank in lending to households,” said IHS Global Christian Schulz said that “even ahead Brussels wrote in an analysis. Insight economist Howard Archer. of the completion of the ECB’s asset On Sunday, the results of the ECB’s quality review, the euro-zone’s long Trouble in Germany latest stress tests cleared all but 25 of a absent credit cycle was beginning to Germany’s biggest banks, Deutsche Bank and total 130 banks as having adequate show signs of life.” With the ECB stress Commerzbank, passed the tests. But several smaller capital and being soundly based. The tests now completed and passed by ones - Germany’s HSH Nordbank, DZ Bank and assessment was broadly well received most banks, that “could inhale new life WGZ Bank - passed the basic test, but fell short on a on financial markets yesterday, into the credit cycle in coming tougher measure of capital adequacy that will be because it could raise confidence in months,” Schulz said. phased in in coming years under an international the banking sector and allow banks, “After spending great resources on agreement called Basel III. HSH Nordbank, which is which have been strengthening their the assessment in most of 2014, banks jointly majority owned by the city of Hamburg and financial base to pass the tests, some can now focus on their business again the region of Schleswig Holstein, has specialized in extra margin for manoeuvre to lend if and take on new risks. Even if it will still ship finance, a business hard hit by losses and bad and when loan demands picks up. take time to restore confidence loans. The bank remains in compliance with current between banks that should help fur- PARIS: (From left), AXA CEO Henri de Castries, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin capital rules. No all-clear yet ther gradual progress in credit avail- and the CEO of French real estate company Nexity, Alain Dinin arrive for the memorial CEO Constantin von Oesterreich said in a state- “Overall, today’s data depicts a pic- ability,” Schulz concluded. —AFP service for Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie at the Saint-Sulpice church in Paris yes- ment that the test “confirmed that HSH Nordbank terday. Christophe de Margerie died in a plane accident in Russia on October 20. —AFP has a solid capital base in the present setting.” —AP BUSINESS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

Oil drops towards $85 as Goldman cuts forecasts Investors return to LONDON: Brent crude oil fell towards $85 a barrel yesterday down 40 cents at $80.61 a barrel. “Goldman Sachs’ down- wholeheartedly believing it’s a bargain now.” after Goldman Sachs slashed its price forecasts, citing abun- grade reinforces the dismal outlook,” said Eugen Weinberg, Oversupply has helped build up oil inventories world- risk after ECB tests dant supply and lackluster demand despite a pick-up in head of commodities research at Commerzbank in wide. In the United States, for the first time since January, global economic growth. Frankfurt. “Bearishness prevails and the market is still in the crude futures look poised to flip into contango, a structure LONDON: Low-rated government bond yields dropped and the euro The US investment bank said in a research note on process of trying to find a new floor.” in which prompt prices are below longer-dated contracts, edged tentatively higher yesterday as the results of euro-zone bank health Sunday that it had cut its forecast for Brent to $85 a barrel Deutsche Bank also cut its oil-price forecasts sharply yes- typically signalling a weaker market. checks spared investors immediate pain. Early exuberance in European from $100 for the first quarter of 2015 and reduced its pro- terday, reducing its projection for Brent in 2015 to $88.75 a The 12-member Organization of the Petroleum stock markets was subdued, however, by a survey showing weakening jection for US crude to $75 from $90. The bank said Brent barrel from $103.25 and cutting its US crude oil forecast for Exporting Countries meets on Nov. 27 to consider adjusting German business morale. could fall to $80 a barrel in the second quarter of 2015, with 2015 to $80.50 from $96.25. its output target of 30 million barrels per day for the first half Fewer than one in five of the bloc’s top lenders failed the tests at the US crude dipping as low as $70 while rising production in of 2015. So far only a minority of members have called for end of last year and many have since repaired their finances, results non-OPEC countries outside North America outstripped Oversupply an output cut. Saudi Arabia has previously sent signals it is released on Sunday showed. “The success of the exercise has been that it demand. Goldman Sachs’ move makes it the most bearish of “The market is worried about further weakness. Doubts comfortable with lower oil prices and willing to maintain has forced banks to raise capital ahead of it, and we can now be more con- major financial institutions that have been cutting estimates beget doubts as there are no indications of a clear sign of high supply levels to compete for market share. Kuwait’s oil fident of their resilience to future crises,” said Aberdeen Asset in recent weeks. Brent for December fell to a low of $85.11, recovery in demand, while supplies are no doubt in excess,” minister has said there is no negative effect on its develop- Management’s co-head of credit research Neil Williamson. down $1.02 a barrel, before recovering a little to trade said Ken Hasegawa, commodity sales manager at Newedge. ment plan from lower oil prices, state news agency KUNA But while the stress tests beat market expectations, the long-term around $85.25 by 1050 GMT. US crude for December was “It’s not at the stage where participants could buy oil reported on Sunday. —Reuters attractiveness of the sector has been damaged by revelations of extra non-performing loans and hidden losses that will dent future profits. The bloc’s banking index initially rose 1 pct before reversing gains as shares in Italy’s Monte dei Paschi-one of the big losers from the tests-plunged 17 percent. The index of top European shares dipped 0.5 pct, reversing early gains, after the Ifo business climate index slipped to its lowest level in nearly two years pointing to a bumpy fourth quarter for Europe’s largest economy. The euro proved fairly resilient to the poor data and was a touch stronger on the day at around $1.27. Yields on Italian 10-year government bonds-the largest market in the euro-zone’s southern periphery-were 2 basis points lower even though nine Italian banks fell short in the tests, with Monte dei Paschi and Banca Carige still needing to raise funds. Euro-zone “banks face a significant challenge as the sector remains chronically unprofitable and must address their 879 billion euro ($1.1 tril- lion) exposure to non-performing loans as this will tie up significant amounts of capital,” accountancy firm KPMG noted. Spanish yields-another peripheral bellwether-were 4 bps lower, as were Portuguese and Irish equivalents. “There’s some relief this morning that there were no Spanish banks in the test that failed. As for Italy-that was already priced in,” said Emile Cardon, market economist at Rabobank. Earlier, Asian equities closed slightly higher buoyed by the ECB’s test results and US and British data on Friday which helped allay fears that the global economy was heading towards another recession. The MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan closed up 0.1 percent. Data on Friday showed new US home sales rose to a six-year high, while Britain’s economy expanded 0.7 percent in the third quarter, still on track to outpace other advanced economies. Brazilian markets looked set to open with big losses after incumbent President Dilma Rousseff won the election, beating her pro-market oppo- nent by a narrow percent majority. Next Funds’ Tokyo-listed Ibovespa exchange traded fund , which tracks Brazil’s equity index, dropped almost 7 percent to seven month lows. The London-listed Brazil MSCI i-shares ETF fell 9.7 percent to seven month lows, albeit in thin turnover. Russian stocks were up around 1 pct after Standard & Poor’s kept the sovereign credit rating steady at one notch above junk, despite fears of a downgrade. The ruble fell to record lows against the dollar after a 35 kopeck widen- ing in the ruble’s trading band and central bank interventions on Friday. Among commodities, Brent crude extended losses, falling 56 cents to $85.56 a barrel, after Goldman Sachs cut its price forecasts. Crude contin- ued on a months-long rout as signs of rising global supply threatened deeper price losses. Iraq increased its oil supply in October and Libya’s out- put remains high, despite instability in both countries. Gold was a touch higher at $1,231.06 an ounce. — Reuters TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 BUSINESS

Reinventing Socialism: A risky business for French left Stand-off already straining government austerity plans PARIS: As a young aide to then-French region’s second largest economy. but is now increasingly targeted by the other policy goals to austerity is danger- “We are pushing ahead; I believe the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in the late For some in the party, Valls has far-right National Front. With a small ous, pointless and absurd,” said former budget will pass.” There will be plenty of 1990s, Manuel Valls sat in on meetings declared war. If that is the case, the out- majority of French consistently identify- economy minister Arnaud Montebourg, similar stand-offs in coming weeks on as Britain’s Tony Blair and Germany’s come could shape French economic ing themselves with the Right, it has whom Valls fired along with two other next year’s welfare budget and planned Gerhard Schroeder tried to persuade his policy over the next three years and always been tough for the PS to win rebel ministers in September. “We have changes to labour representation rules boss to help them reinvent Europe’s determine whether the Socialists are power and keep it. Sometimes derided to realize that ordinary people cannot aimed at reducing charges for business. Left. Jospin, who at the time was ready- real contenders at the next presidential as the “teachers’ party”, it faces competi- pay the bill for the crisis; they’re the But the most explosive clashes could ing the 35-hour work week long election in 2017. “Manuel Valls is going tion for the left-wing vote from a mixed ones who make the economy work.” come next year as the party gears up to dreamed of by French Socialists, was for a confrontation,” said Christian Paul, bag of anti-globalization campaigners, determine who will get its ticket to run impressed neither by Blair’s “Third Way” one of the leaders of a group of rebel ecologists and others. Risk of schism as president in 2017, and on what set of nor Schroeder’s “New Centre”. But the Socialist lawmakers seeking to resist Before Hollande, Francois Mitterrand The comment points to the main policies. Whether the 52-year-old Valls talks made a deep mark on Valls, who 16 what they see as Valls’ lurch to the right. was France’s only modern-day Socialist fault-line in the dispute between the decides to throw in his hat or bide his years later has become premier himself. “It is very Darwinian-I’m not sure who is president, and he spent much of his time Hollande-Valls duo and party critics who time depends largely on the fortunes of “Valls got it,” said Denis MacShane, a going to survive in the end,” he said in in power from 1981 to 1995 in awkward reject the president’s conversion this Hollande, who will need to produce a former British Europe minister and Blair one of a series of interviews conducted power-sharing pacts with rivals, and year to supply-side policies aimed at rapid turnaround in his record-low poll ally who during that period struck up a by Reuters with senior Socialist officials. uneasy alliances with Communists and restoring corporate margins while limit- ratings of around 13 percent to bid seri- lasting acquaintance with Valls. “But he other hard-left groups. After a decade of ing public spending. While acknowledg- ously for a second term. Possible rivals also knew that if you stuck your neck Teachers’ party conservative prime ministers from 2002, ing the need to rein in borrowing at include Montebourg, a loose cannon out as a reformer, the French Socialist One by one, Europe’s main leftist par- the return to government has again been some point, they argue that, with unem- who nonetheless came third in PS pri- Party had a very well-oiled guillotine at ties have moved away from their tough for the Socialists. Alongside routs ployment rooted at 10 percent and eco- maries for the 2012 election; and the ready.” Valls, who makes no secret of Marxist roots: Germany’s Social in mid-term city hall and European nomic growth below 1.0 percent, to pur- Martine Aubry, a former minister under his presidential ambitions, has now put Democrats in 1959, Spain’s Socialist Parliament elections this year, thousands sue deficit cuts now is to betray the left- Jospin who deflects talk of presidential his neck firmly on the line. He told the Workers’ Party in 1979 and Britain’s of members have quit the party amid dis- wing principle of helping the needy. ambitions but last week made a pitch change-resistant Socialist Party last Labour Party in 1995. Italy’s post-com- illusionment among left-wingers. “In 10 Moreover, the repeated hints Valls is for what she called a programme of week that it must reform or die, and munist left changed both name and years of opposition, the PS did not do the dropping about the need to free up “new social democracy”. even toyed in public with the idea of ideology to become a centre-left party homework needed to prepare itself for France’s heavily regulated labor market From his office at Socialist headquar- changing its name. of government. The French Socialists government,” Valls complained to a small take aim at some of the proudest ters on the Left Bank of the River Seine, Moreover he took aim at hallowed followed suit in 2008 with a little- briefing of foreign journalists in his office achievements of the French Left. “This is party chief Jean-Christophe Cambadelis articles of Socialist faith, suggesting remembered tract recognizing the mar- last month. “We need a Left that is reli- a question of social justice,” said Paul, argues that the real divisions between France’s lengthy unemployment bene- ket economy. But in a country where the able.” the legislator. “Let’s not underestimate the main protagonists are narrower fits and protective labour contracts seating arrangements of the post-revo- Outside observers might ask how the points of discord.” than they would have their audiences could be revamped-echoing the type of lution 1789 national assembly gave serious Valls is, given that his govern- For now, Valls’ line is holding-just. A believe. But he concedes that the party reforms already long accepted by world politics the terms “left” and “right”, ment has just reneged on its latest first component of the 2015 budget can ill afford a damaging public row, German and British leftists. It all comes Socialists have yet to fully reconcile with promises to bring France’s public deficit passed through parliament last week, and risk seeing once again its candidate at a watershed moment, both for the capitalism. within EU limits and is under pressure but only narrowly, as 39 Socialists chose knocked out of the run-off for president party and for France. The Socialists are While its German and British counter- from European partners to do more to to abstain. With EU authorities yet to by the anti-immigrant National Front, as in power for the first time in a decade, parts have histories dating back over a revamp the French economy. But that pronounce on the draft, the govern- Jospin was in 2002. “A shock like that and the rest of Europe is increasingly century, France’s Parti socialiste (PS) was ignores the fact that it is precisely these ment line is that it can make no more could trigger deep disputes in the PS, alarmed that, after two years in the only founded in 1971. It has no firm two issues that are now threatening to savings, but will push through those it right up to a schism,” he warned. “I don’t Elysee Palace, Francois Hollande and his claim to a working class vote that was blow the party apart. “The fact that the has pinpointed. “We won’t back down want to have to be one who turns out allies have done little to revive the once the preserve of the Communists Left has gone all out to subjugate all because of 30 or so deputies,” Valls said. the lights here.”— Reuters

US crude exports, China slowdown add to oil market gloom: Yergin

SINGAPORE: The current glut in global oil largest oil producer. markets is likely to persist next year due to More than a dozen oil producers have slack demand and may even worsen as US joined to lobby the federal government to lawmakers look set to approve exports of reverse the 40-year-old ban on US crude the country’s booming crude production, exports, a move that supporters say would said Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of IHS create jobs and keep the energy boom CERA. alive, a spokesman for one of the compa- The dramatic fall in global oil prices - nies and a lobbyist for another one said on down around 25 percent since June - is a Friday. result of global oil markets adjusting to The export restriction was passed by surging production in the United States. Congress in the 1970s after the Arab oil “There’s definitely a surplus of geopolitical embargo caused fears of domestic oil risks today, but there’s an even larger sur- shortages. As the US oil boom of the last six plus of oil,” Yergin told Reuters yesterday years builds an excess of crude, calls have during the Singapore International Energy risen for Congress and the Obama adminis- Week. tration to relax the ban. “Unless there’s a pick-up in the world This year the US government issued economy, we’re going to continue to be in export permits for some cargoes of a light a surplus market and that’s going to weigh crude grade known as condensate, and on the price, particularly looking towards many think that full exports cannot be far spring time,” said Yergin, a well-known oil behind. The intellectual case has become historian and consultant. Concerns about so strong that there’s no rationale for (the China’s economy have also cooled oil mar- export ban),” Yergin said. Yergin says that oil kets, ending a supercycle which has kept prices in the United States at $75-$80 a bar- Brent around $100 a barrel for much of the rel will be sufficient to maintain “a pretty past four years. high momentum” of shale oil and gas pro- “The ‘China chill’ is blowing across the oil duction. industry just as it has across commodities US investment bank Goldman Sachs on CENTERVILLE: A real estate sign is seen in a community of townhomes in Centreville, Virginia. US pending home sales edged higher in markets,” Yergin said. The surplus in oil Sunday cut its price forecast for Brent and September after a decline in August.—AFP comes mainly from booming production in West Texas Intermediate by $15 each to the United States, where a ban on crude $85 a barrel and $75 a barrel, respectively. exports may be lifted next year, Yergin said, At 0728 GMT, Brent was trading up 3 US services sector growth potentially sparking further output increas- cents at $86.16 a barrel, while US oil was up es and turning the country into the world’s 16 cents at $81.17. — Reuters slows to six-month low Lithuania’s floating LNG terminal breaks Russian monopoly Pending home sales miss forecast KLAIPEDA, Lithuania: The 0.54 billion cubic metres of gas from Statoil WASHINGTON: US services sector activity looks set to moderate in the fourth quarter, Street’s consensus forecast of a 0.5 percent rise. “Independence”, a huge floating liquefied next year, about one-fifth of annual dipped to a six-month low in October, pointing down to perhaps 2.5 percent,” said Chris Contracts were up 1.0 percent compared to natural gas (LNG) terminal docked in the demand, the first alternative to Russian to some moderation in economic growth early Williamson, chief economist at Markit in September last year. “It’s hard to tell whether Lithuanian port of Klaipeda yesterday, energy giant Gazprom. in the fourth quarter. London. sales are genuinely improving at a slow pace, or becoming the first such facility to sever The EU’s energy chief described the Another report yesterday showed contracts The US government is expected to report on whether they are just moving sideways,” said Moscow’s energy grip on the Baltic states. arrival, broadcast live on the national TV, as to buy previously owned homes rebounded less Thursday that the economy expanded at a 3.0 Guy Berger, an economist at RBS in Stamford, Several hundred onlookers waving “an important milestone by Lithuania to than expected in September, an indication that percent annual pace in the third quarter, Connecticut. Lithuanian flags and an honor guard wel- diversify its gas supply sources, ensure the housing recovery remains gradual. Financial according to a Reuters survey of economists. “Still, the fall in mortgage rates over the past comed the massive white-and-blue vessel competitive gas prices and security of gas data firm Markit said its preliminary or “flash” “We should not lose sight of the fact that the month and ongoing labor market improvement measuring three football fields in length, supply” in the region. services sector Purchasing Managers Index pace of growth nevertheless remains robust, should provide a tailwind going forward.” The an AFP photographer said. “The challenges that Europe faces today slipped to 57.3 last month, the lowest reading having merely eased from very strong rates in 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell last week to its Lithuania, despite joining the EU and in terms of security of gas supply require a since April, from 58.9 in September. A reading prior months,” Williamson said. lowest level since June of last year. Mortgage NATO in 2004, has been completely quick response, and Lithuania has shown above 50 signals expansion in the vast services In a separate report, the National Association rates have declined in tandem with a sharp fall dependent upon Russia for natural gas, a how this can be delivered,” Guenther sector. of Realtors said its Pending Home Sales Index, in US Treasury debt yields as slowing global legacy of five decades of Soviet domination Oettinger, the EU’s energy commissioner, The index, was dragged down by a decline in based on contracts signed in September, rose growth and a sharp sell-off in international which wound down in 1990. The terminal said in a statement. Lithuania, which the new business sub-index, which touched its 0.3 percent after falling 1.0 percent in August. stock markets prompted traders to push back gives Lithuania, with a population of three declared independence in 1990 after five lowest level in three months. “The October read- These contracts become sales after a month expectations for an interest rate increase by the million, the capability to import up to four decades of Kremlin rule, has repeatedly ings indicate that the pace of economic growth or two. The gain last month was below Wall Federal Reserve.— Reuters billion cubic metres of gas per year after locked horns with Gazprom, accusing it of 2015 from sources such as Norway’s Statoil. abusing its market clout to impose unfair This is well above the 2.7 billion cubic pricing. Gazprom has denied the claims. metres it bought from Russia last year, and Baltic neighbors Latvia and Estonia, which German business confidence falls to 2-year low leaves plenty of extra capacity for its Baltic are totally dependent on Russian gas, said neighbors Latvia or Estonia, analysts note. they were also considering to use the ter- FRANKFURT: Business confidence in Germany, Following an unexpected increase in the Lithuania will use the terminal to import minal for LNG imports in the future. — AFP Europe’s biggest economy, fell to the lowest lev- German purchasing managers’ index last week, el for nearly two years in October, a key survey and falling energy prices and a softening euro, showed yesterday, placing a question mark over the renewed decline in the Ifo survey-the sixth recovery in the euro-zone as a whole. monthly drop running-came as a blow, said The Ifo economic institute’s closely watched Capital Economics economist Jennifer business climate index fell to 103.2 points in McKeown. October, its lowest level since December 2012, It “suggests that the recovery is unlikely to the think-tank said in a statement. The Ifo sur- regain moment at the end of the year,” she said. vey is based on assessments by companies of “We continue to expect German GDP to rise by their current business, and the outlook for the 1.3 percent this year and 1.5 percent next. But next six months and both showed noticeable even this will not be enough to ensure a strong deterioration last month. recovery or eradicate the threat of deflation in “Assessments of the current business situa- the euro-zone as a whole and the risks are to the tion were once again less favorable than last downside,” McKeown said. ING DiBa economist CEO of Deutsche Boerse AG Reto Francioni month,” said Ifo president Hans-Werner Sinn. Carsten Brzeski felt the Ifo drop suggests that “Expectations with regard to the six-month busi- “the euro-zone’s biggest economy has reached a whether the results of the ECB’s “comprehensive ness outlook continued to cloud over. The out- dangerous stage between soft spell and longer- assessment” will be enough to turn sentiment look for the German economy deteriorated once lasting almost-stagnation.” around was open to question, said Berenberg again,” Sinn said. On Sunday, the European Central Bank gave Bank economist Christian Schulz. “We expect a The sub-index measuring current business hit the large majority if euro-zone banks a clean bill stabilization before the end of the year. LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron (right) leaves 10 Downing Street, its lowest level since April and the outlook sub- of health in a crunch new audit, aimed at elimi- Unfortunately, the October Ifo data suggest that in London, yesterday as he prepares to address the House of Commons on Britain’s index fell to the lowest level since December nating one of the key factors of uncertainty the risks to our near-term calls remains to the relations with the European Union. — AFP 2012. hanging over the single currency area. But downside,” he said. — AFP TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 BUSINESS Yusuffali tops Indian Power List for fifth year in row Arabian Business List

DUBAI: The charismatic boss of Lulu retail push into the Far East, with new Group Yusuffali MA has maintained his hypermarkets in Malaysia and top position for the fifth time in a row at Indonesia, and entailing planned the Indian Power List which has been investments of $500 million. All of the published by Arabian Business yester- initial processes such as acquiring the day. The Kerala born businessman runs land and regulatory approvals have the Lulu Group, one of the largest com- already been gone through, according pany having strong presence in the to Youssufali M A, Managing Director. middle east’s retail sector. Lulu Group has recently a 10 per cent One of the key reasons for being stake in UK-based legendary trading considered as the most powerful firm The East India Company and a 40 Indian in the Gulf is his close proximity percent stake in its fine foods sub- sidiary for around $82 million in total. “The new investment will enable the fine foods unit to expand its store Burgan Bank announces network in Europe, the Far East and prepare for a launch in the United winner in Thuraya States, MA Yussufali, managing director of Lulu Group said. Lulu Group has quarterly draw operations in 32 countries, with staff strength of 31,000 and reported rev- enues of $5.2 billion (Rs. 33,500 crores) KUWAIT: Burgan Bank recently announced sectors, as well as having a growing retail, during calendar year 2013. The group is its Thuraya Account winner of the Audi R8 and private bank customer base. Burgan sports car. The winner KHALEDA JASSIM Bank has five majority owned subsidiaries, Yusuffali MA all set to open its regional office in the South American country of Brazil by expressed her excitement for being the which include Jordan Kuwait Bank, Gulf with the various rulers and ruling family December and also in Turkey by early new winner of the Audi R8 with Al-Thuraya Bank Algeria, Burgan Bank - Turkey, Bank of members of the GCC countries which next year. Salary Account from Burgan Bank. Baghdad, Tunis International Bank, in which he has used many a times to benefit Al- Thuraya Account is the only salary Burgan Bank owns a majority stake. Burgan the interests of India and Indians viz., Recent news account in Kuwait that provides its cus- Bank Group has one of the largest regional Investments, bilateral relationships, set- l Listed by Forbes in their Top tomers with the chance to win Audi R8 Car branch networks with more than 231 ting up of Hindu crematorium or Global Billionaire 2014. on a quarterly basis. The account aims at branches across Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Christian churches. He has recently l Abu Dhabi Chamber - Winning raising the frequency of customers winning Algeria, Iraq, Tunis, Lebanon and Palestine. been elected as Director Board the Director board election 3rd time in one of the world’s most admired sports The Bank has continuously improved its Member of Abu Dhabi Chamber third a row. (first & only Indian till date) cars. performance over the years through an time in a row and is the first & only l Fastest growing retail chain in the Al- Thuraya Account’s features range expanded revenue structure, diversified Indian till date to occupy such position world according to Audit major Deloite. from the option to hold money in Kuwaiti funding sources, and a strong capital base. in a foreign country. l Donated Rs. 1 crore for the dinar and any other major currency, access The adoption of state-of-the-art services The Lulu Group is making its first Kashmir flood relief fund. to account-related services such as stand- and technology has positioned it as a ing orders, loans and credit cards and much trendsetter in the domestic market and more. The account has been further devel- within the MENA region. Burgan Bank’s Oman Ministry of Tourism and oped in response to offering more benefits brand has been created on a foundation of and increasing customers’ chances to win. real values - of trust, commitment, excel- Oman Air to reveal new tie-ups Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the lence and progression, to remind us of the youngest commercial Bank and third largest high standards to which we aspire. ‘People by assets in Kuwait, with a significant focus come first’ is the foundation on which its MUSCAT: The Oman Ministry of of road, rail and maritime sectors. on the corporate and financial institutions products and services are developed. Tourism organized a road show and Salim Al-Mamari, Director general of workshops in the UAE, in cooperation tourism promotion, Oman Ministry of with its trade partners from Oman. The Tourism, said: “Because of its diverse move aimed at reinforcing the joint geographical features, Oman is an all- venture between the Ministry and year-round tourism destination, making Oman Air and promoting the Sultanate it perfect for GCC tourists to take short- as the region’s leading tourist destina- break vacations. Aside from excellent tion. Aside from presentations by both tourism infrastructure and exceptional parties that were designed to give a hospitality sector, the country boasts of deeper insight about tourism infra- world-class airports offering swift con- structure and facilities along with nectivity to several cities in the region. attractive offers, several agreements We organized the road show and work- with UAE-based hotels and travel agen- shops in the UAE aiming to reach out to cies were signed during the event. The the maximum number of people to fur- event complimented Oman’s tourism ther promote Oman as a popular tourist sector which is aiming to record one of destination for Emiratis. Aside from the strongest global growth rate in the offering attractive travel package with KIB announces full coming year. our partner Oman Air, we also signed The road show and workshops came agreements with local travel agents to ATM compatibility in line with the recent industry reports provide cost-effective yet wholesome with all banknotes indicating a growth in regional tourism tourist packages to potential visitors.” in Oman. According to the figures Oman Air, the national airlines of KUWAIT: Kuwait International Bank announced that its released by the National Centre for Oman, were present as the official airline entire network of ATMs is now fully compatible with both Statistics and Information, over for the Sultanate of Oman. Underlining editions of Kuwaiti bank notes as part of its commitment to China’s economic rebalancing 1,004,837 international tourists visited the airline’s commitment to service maximize customer convenience. the country until June 2014 of which excellence, Oman Air’s Business Class “We at KIB are proud to be the first Kuwaiti bank to is not an overnight project 387,103 were from the GCC-the highest seat on board its A330 fleet has been accept the 6th edition of Kuwaiti bank notes at our ATM’s number of tourists from the region to voted by Skytrax as the Best Business accepting cash deposits,” explained Khaled Falah Al-Ali, GM date, registering a growth of 10.8 per Class Seat in the world for two years in a of KIB’s Retail Banking Department. KCICI ASIA ECONOMIC ANALYSIS cent in comparison to the same period row, in 2011 and 2012. Oman Air passen- Al-Ali added that KIB will spare no effort in adopting the latest technology to ensure the highest standards in quali- for 2013. The government of Oman has gers can now experience a whole new By Camille Accad, 8.0 percent YoY in the third quarter, most- ty and security, emphasizing on the bank’s motto: “Trust & undertaken proactive measures to level of on-ground service with Oman Ease”. ly due to domestic-related components ensure growth of travel and tourism Air’s premium front-end check-in facility The public can stay updated on KIB news by contacting KUWAIT: In line with market expecta- of the indicator. The pick-up in export- sector with plans to increase number of exclusively for First Class and Business “Al-DawliWeyak” at 1866-866, visiting their website at tions, the Chinese economy resumed its linked manufacturing output was not international airports along with region- Class guests, besides Oman Air’s www.kib.com.kw, or visiting their social media channels: deceleration in the third quarter. Growth enough to maintain overall production al and international chains of hotels and Premium Lounges located at Muscat Facebook.com/alDawliBank, Instagram & Twitter: has been trending down since 2010 when growth. Investments also weakened: resorts in addition to the development International Airport. @alDawliBank. the government’s large-scale stimulus fixed asset investment growth fell from package in response to the global finan- more than 20 percent YoY in early 2013 to cial crisis began to wear out. The govern- 17.2 percent YoY in the second quarter EMC reports record Q3 2014 financial results ment has been spending swiftly year after and as little as 13.4 percent YoY in the last year, mostly in the form of large infrastruc- three months. EMC Corporation yesterday reported third- fine their businesses with a whole generation VMAX high-end storage system became gen- ture projects. All types of investment are being quarter 2014 financial results, including record of new applications.” erally available towards the end of the third However, as it became obvious that affected, including in infrastructure, man- third-quarter consolidated revenue of $6bil- David Goulden, CEO of EMC Information quarter; shipments of the new systems in the new investments were becoming less ufacturing and property. The slump in the lion, an increase of 9 percent year over year. Infrastructure, said, “EMC’s solid third-quarter third quarter were in line with expectations. profitable and beneficial to the economy, property market is significant: real estate GAAP net income attributable to EMC was performance was in line with our expecta- Unified and Backup and Recovery portfolios authorities started to reconsider their prices in each of China’s ten largest cities $587 million. tions, as customers continue to seek strong continued solid revenue growth of 6 percent approach. Since then, China has been posted month-on-month declines. With Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and Chief and well-equipped partners to help them year over year.Emerging Storage3 revenue supporting the economy in a more meas- the property market losing pace, invest- Executive Officer, said, “EMC’s continued achieve their new IT goals. EMC is growing grew 47 percent year over year, with notably ured and cautious manner. This year, the ment and consumption slowing and the momentum is evidence that our strategy and faster than many of our peers because we strong growth for EMC XtremIO, EMC ViPRand government introduced a mini fiscal stim- industrial sector failing, China’s domestic execution are working. Our strategically continue to make the right strategic invest- EMC ScaleIO. EMC Isilon revenue growth aligned businesses - EMC Information ments - assembling a leading portfolio of accelerated in the third quarter, benefiting ulus program that included spending on economy is getting in worse shape. Infrastructure, VMware, Pivotal and RSA - are technology assets over several years - that from newer growth vectors where Hadoop railway in less developed areas, housing Increasing net exports were the only well positioned to capitalize on the massive IT enable customers to use cloud, mobile, Big capabilities allow efficient analysis of Big investments for low-income groups, tax upside for China in the third quarter, market opportunity in front of us. From my Data and security technologies to create com- Data. RSA grew revenue 4 percent year over incentives and the speeding up of many posting the first surplus in over a year. conversations with customers, it’s clear that petitive advantage.” year as security remains a priority for organi- projects. Liquidity has also been injected Reforms, such as the liberalization of we have the right best-of-breed technologies zations building hybrid clouds. in the country’s largest banks. deposit rates, need to be implemented to in cloud, mobile, Big Data and security, and Third-Quarter Highlights VMwarecontinued its rapid growth trajec- Additionally, and unlike in previous peri- balance the economy. As time passes, the offer a level of choice and flexibility second- * Information Infrastructure business rev- tory with revenue within EMC up 17 percent ods, the government has been undertak- more urgent it becomes. Short-term solu- to-none. We are extremely well positioned to enue was up 6 percent year over year. year over year as customers continue invest- ing structural reforms even at the cost of tions such as undertaking more infra- help customers maximize their existing IT Information Storage revenue growth acceler- ing in software-defined data center, hybrid platforms and build a 3rd IT platform to rede- ated to 6 percent year over year. The new cloud solutions and end-user computing. hampering growth. If the government structure projects will merely delay what continues with its current mix of reforms only serious reforms can solve. China’s and targeted stimulus, short-term growth previous model was focused on invest- will probably decelerate, but with a ments and exports, its next model on Markets pull back as global equities dip decreasing likelihood of a systemic failure. domestic consumption and services. The The combination of structural reforms recovery in exports and the slowdown in and more targeted stimulus has helped domestic consumption means that the MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS China soften its economic slowdown. Real economy is turning to its old model for GDP growth is gradually approaching 7 temporary relief. DUBAI: Most stock markets in the Middle East fell yes- (FGB), the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest lender by 1.4 percent after the company posted a 6.5 percent percent coming down from more than 12 This is an easy solution to today’s prob- terday after several companies reported poor third- assets, which jumped 3.5 percent before a scheduled drop in third-quarter net profit on Sunday. The Gulf’s quarter earnings and European equities edged down earnings announcement. largest utility firm made 2.67 billion riyals ($712 million) percent YoY in the first quarter of 2010. In lems, but the economy is diverting from along with oil prices. After trading closed, the bank reported a 20 percent during the three months to Sept. 30, while HSBC had the third quarter of 2014, real GDP decel- its optimal growth path. Reforms should The index of top European shares dipped as the Ifo increase in third-quarter net profit, beating analysts’ forecast SEC would earn 3.11 billion riyals. erated from 7.5 percent YoY to 7.3 per- continue. Their impact would take time to business climate index slipped to its lowest level in estimates. FGB made 1.43 billion dirhams ($388 million) Petrochemicals giant Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC) cent. be noticed, but markets should be able to nearly two years, while Brent crude dropped towards in the quarter, while analysts polled by Reuters had fore- fell 1.3 percent, having slid 0.6 percent in the previous Low growth is affecting both invest- recognize the effort that is being made, $85 per barrel after Goldman Sachs slashed its price cast a profit of 1.35 billion dirhams. Qatar’s benchmark session after posting a 4.5 percent decrease in third- ment and consumption, which was also and the fact that Chinese stocks had a forecasts, citing abundant supply and lacklustre edged down 0.4 percent. Shares in property firm United quarter profit and missing analysts’ estimates. Egypt’s affected by the crackdown on corruption. great performance in 2014 could be a sign demand. Dubai’s bourse, which rose as much as 0.8 per- Development Co were the main drag as they tumbled bourse fell 1.4 percent in a broad sell-off. In addition to Retail sales growth continued its down- of that. The health of the global economy, cent early in the session, gave up all its gains when 7.0 percent after the company’s third-quarter profit a negative global environment, local investors’ mood ward trend in the third quarter, falling to and that of the GCC countries, depends European markets moved into negative territory. The dropped by two-thirds to 60.2 million riyals. was dampened by attacks on security personnel in the benchmark fell 1.4 percent to 4,625 points, but Sinai Peninsula last Friday, which killed 33 people and 11.9 percent YoY from 12.3 percent YoY in on China’s capacity to handle this situa- remained above the 200-day average at 4,599 points, an Saudi, Egypt were one of the worst episodes of anti-state violence the prior three months. Manufacturing tion. Today’s low prices would collapse if important technical level. Abu Dhabi was more resilient, Saudi Arabia’s main index fell 1.2 percent as most since Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was over- also started to decelerate. Industrial out- the country was unable to navigate its adding 0.5 percent largely on the back of First Gulf Bank sectors were in the red. Shares in Saudi Electricity Co fell thrown last year. put growth fell from 8.9 percent YoY to deceleration. technology TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 Xerox adds MICR and coating options to Inkjet Systems

DUBAI: Xerox continues to add more flexibility while adding the benefit of MICR on demand. and functionality to its CiPress Production Inkjet Systems with three new features- Magnetic Ink MEGTEC in-line Aqueous Character Recognition (MICR), an in-line coating coating system system and an ink measurement and proofing l Enhances applications with a high-gloss over- tool. lay for artistic value and added endurance to cre- These enhancements can open a new set of ate attention-grabbing direct-mail pieces. applications - such as checks, rebate coupons and l Leverages widely available commercial coat- financial forms - as well as more aesthetic, durable ing fluids and offset coated and uncoated media direct-mail pieces, while saving time and money. to deliver economical high-impact pieces. l Delivers simplex or duplex coating in-line at CiPress’ MICR print module full printer speeds, maximizing productivity and l Prints MICR up to 500 feet-per-minute on efficiency without the labor and movement of standard untreated stocks allowing white paper in materials associated with offline coating. full color check production. l Enables field upgrades, which protect the CiPress ink measurement and proofing tool investment of current users while expanding l Pre-determines the cost of ink usage on a job application opportunities for new customers. or page basisfor more precise job estimation. l Prints mixed applications in the same run l Produces soft proofs of the printed output so with MICR and non-MICR jobs; eliminates need for jobs don’t have to run andbe inspected on the a dedicated MICR printer. press, saving time and improving workflow pro- l Allows migration to digital color applications ductivity. Zuckerberg speaks Chinese, Beijing students cheer Facebook co-founder in chat with varsity students

BEIJING: China may ban Facebook, but not its University School of Economics and surprised,” Zuckerberg said. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. The young billion- Management and met with the university’s presi- WHAT ELSE DID HE SAY? Zuckerberg said sev- aire delighted an audience of students at a pres- dent on Tuesday. eral things apparently aimed at endearing him- tigious Beijing university last week with a 30- Both he and the university posted clips of his self to the Chinese audience. He said China is a minute chat in his recently learned Mandarin Wednesday session, which was open to ques- great country and hopes that learning the lan- Chinese. tions from students for the last 8 minutes. guage will help him learn its culture. “The DID HE COMPLAIN ABOUT THE BAN? He made Facebook has been banned in China since 2009. Chinese language is difficult, and I speak English, no explicit mention of China’s ban on the social Beijing promotes Internet use for business and but I like challenges,” Zuckerberg said. media giant, but an indirect reference to it drew education but bans material deemed subversive When asked about his favorite food, he cited laughter during the question-and-answer session and blocks access to foreign news and social “Beijing hutong snacks” sold by street-side ven- Wednesday at Tsinghua University. Zuckerberg, media websites that authorities believe could dors in the capital, and Peking duck, Beijing’s sig- whose company has long sought to enter China, stoke social unrest. nature dish of duck meat served with sauce and noted Facebook already helps some Chinese SO, HOW’S HIS CHINESE? Zuckerberg’s rolled up in a crepe. companies in foreign markets, citing computer Chinese pronunciation was far from fluent, and HOW WAS HE RECEIVED? Tsinghua students BUDAPEST: Hungarian protestors demonstrate outside the headquarters of maker Lenovo’s ads on Facebook in India. some native speakers called it a “challenge” to gave Zuckerberg a warm reception. On social “Speaking of China, I have a more difficult understand. He sometimes struggled with cer- media, many microbloggers noted the irony that the governor of the FIDESZ party against the government’s new internet tax question for Mark, which I hope will not get me tain words and tones, and needed help in under- Zuckerberg’s famous creation is blocked in China. plan in Budapest on Sunday. More than 10,000 people marched in Budapest fired. What are Facebook’s plans in China?” asked standing questions in Chinese. But he was able to Designer David Wang, in an interview in on Sunday to demand the scrapping of a proposed tax on Internet usage the forum facilitator and Facebook employee Wei express himself well and maintain an intelligible downtown Beijing, said he would be happy if that critics of Prime Minister Viktor Orban call his latest anti-democratic Xiaoliang, to the laughter and applause from the conversation for a half hour. The students Facebook was allowed across the so-called Great measure. — AFP audience. responded with warm cheers for his effort and Firewall of China. “Because now we have to use “We are already in China,” Zuckerberg said in laughter at his humor. software to jump the wall if we want to access Chinese, to more laughter. “We help Chinese Zuckerberg married Chinese-American Facebook,” he said. FireEye launches ‘Adaptive companies gain customers abroad,” he said. Priscilla Chan in 2012, and set himself the goal of Li Qin, a computer programmer from the east- “We want to help the rest of the world con- learning Mandarin in 2010. He said Wednesday ern city of Hangzhou, said on a microblog that nect to China.” that he wanted to learn the language partly she could barely understand Zuckerberg’s Defense Security’ model WHY WAS ZUCKERBERG IN CHINA? because his wife’s grandmother only speaks Chinese. “It was a challenge for Chinese listening Zuckerberg may be hoping to lay the ground- Chinese. He recalled informing the grandmother comprehension. But even though Facebook can- DUBAI: FireEye, Inc, the leader in stopping To complement the solution, the compa- work for an eventual entry into China, but he vis- of the marriage plans. not enter the Chinese market, Mark is still making today’s advanced cyber-attacks, yesterday ny also introduced the FireEye Advanced ited Beijing this week as a newly appointed “Priscilla and I decided to get married, so I told a fighting effort to learn,” she said. “It was quite a announced two new solutions designed Threat Intelligence, a new solution designed member of the advisory board for Tsinghua her grandmother in Chinese, and she was very funny scenario.” —AP to help enterprises implement an to enable access to threat data and analyti- Adaptive Defense security model in line cal tools that help identify attacks and pro- with their ambitious investments in tech- vide context about the tactics and motives nology innovation. of specific threat actors. Mobile app helps track The Adaptive Defense security model is “The ongoing acceleration of technology an approach for defending against innovation continues to outpace today’s Ebola epidemic advanced threat actors that scales up or security capabilities, leading more and more down based on the unique needs of each organizations to align with a strategic NAIROBI: A new mobile telephone based mapping service has been creat- security organization at any point in time. defense partner that can protect them over ed in a bid to track Ebola and better help communities hit by the virus in With this new approach, organizations can the long haul,” said David DeWalt, chairman west Africa, developers said yesterday. The system, a collaboration significantly reduce the risks of cyber- of the board and CEO, FireEye. “To meet this between technology giant IBM, mobile telephone companies and academ- attacks with on-demand access to FireEye’s need, FireEye is taking a new approach with ics, allows people in affected areas to send free text messages about Ebola expert team of analysts, forensics specialists the introduction of FireEyeasa Service and to track problems and trends, with the program mapping the exact loca- and malware reverse engineers. FireEye Advanced Threat Intelligence. We are tion from where it is sent. In line with this objective, FireEye yester- now able to serve as an extension of our “It has already brought to light specific regions with growing numbers day announced the industry’s first ever customers’ security teams so they can more of suspected Ebola cases which require urgent supplies like soap and elec- Security as a Service Solution, an on- quickly implement an Adaptive Defense tricity, as well as faster response times for body collection and burials,” IBM demand security management offering that security model.” said. The company claims it can create a range of maps to track needs and allows organizations to apply FireEye’s tech- “The tools attackers use to invade net- problems, to better allow health workers and governments tackle them. nology, intelligence and expertise to find works and steal digital assets are changing “We saw the need to quickly develop a system to enable communities and stop cyber-attacks. every day and security teams are tired of directly affected by Ebola to provide valuable insight about how to fight it,” The announcement comes as enterprises knitting together a complex patchwork of IBM Research Africa’s chief scientist Uyi Stewart said in a statement. “Using across the region continue to invest in pay technology and services to defend them- mobile technology, we have given them a voice and a channel to commu- as you go IT services to drive performance selves,” said Jon Oltsik, principal analyst with nicate their experiences directly,” Stewart said. More than 10,000 people efficiencies and allow maximum scalability the Enterprise Strategy Group. “With have contracted the deadly virus in west Africa, according to the latest for future growth while driving down costs. FireEyeas aService, customers get on- World Health Organization figures. —AFP With FireEye as a Service, organizations demand access to the FireEye’s technology, can choose to manage their own security intelligence and expertise so they can have operations, offload security operations a single point of contact to address their Seagate profit, revenue entirely, or co-manage operations with needs before, during or after a security inci- FireEye or a partner. dent.” beat Street on PC, cloud demand Google exec sets records Hard-disk drive maker Seagate cent growth in the United States. Technology Plc’s quarterly profit More businesses in the United with leap from near-space and revenue beat the average ana- States and Europe upgraded com- lyst estimate as demand increased puters or bought new machines in ROSWELL: Google executive Alan 135,890 feet, from which he separated for its personal computer and cloud the quarter. Eustace broke the sound barrier and set himself from the balloon and started storage products. Seagate shares Net income attributable to several skydiving records over the south- plummeting back to Earth. were up 1.8 percent in premarket Seagate fell to $381 million, or ern New Mexico desert early Friday after Wearing his specially designed space- trading. The company gets about $1.13 per share, for the first quarter taking a big leap from the edge of space. suit, Eustace hit a top velocity of 822 mph two-thirds of its revenue from origi- ended Oct. 3, from $427 million, or Eustace’s supersonic jump was part of during a freefall that lasted 4 1/2 minutes. This NASA handout image shows the Orbital Sciences nal equipment manufacturer cus- $1.16 per share, a year earlier. a project by Paragon Space Development Jim Hayhurst, director of competition at Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft tomers, including PC makers. Excluding items, the company Corp. and its Stratospheric Explorer team, the United States Parachute Association, onboard, is seen on launch Pad-0A, on Sunday at NASA’s Research firm IDC estimated earned $1.34 per share. Revenue which has been working secretly for years was the jump’s official observer. He said Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Antares will launch earlier this month that worldwide jumped 8.5 percent to $3.79 billion. to develop a self-contained commercial Eustace deployed a drogue parachute with the Cygnus spacecraft filled with over 5,000 pounds of PC shipments had fallen 1.7 per- Analysts on average had expected spacesuit that would allow people to that gave him incredible stability and cent in the quarter ended earnings of $1.24 per share on rev- supplies for the International Space Station, including sci- September - less than what ana- enue of $3.63 billion, according to explore some 20 miles above the Earth’s control despite the massive Mach 1.23 ence experiments, experiment hardware, spare parts, and surface. speed reached during the freefall. lysts had feared, offset by a 4.3 per- Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. —Reuters Friday’s success marked a major step Eustace didn’t feel it when he broke crew provisions. —AFP forward in that effort, company officials the sound barrier, but the ground crew said. “This has opened up endless possi- certainly heard the resulting sonic boom, bilities for humans to explore previously Hayhurst said. China tycoon reveals foray into space: Report seldom visited parts of our stratosphere,” “He just said it was a fabulous view. He Grant Anderson, Paragon president and was thrilled,” Hayhurst said of his conver- BEIJING: A mysterious Chinese tycoon who plates, broadcasts army songs twice a day in one investment in the business, but said that “no CEO, said in a statement. The technology sation with Eustace after he landed. The plans to dig a $40 billion canal linking the of his companies, where the lobby is decorated financial rewards” were expected in the short that has gone into developing the bal- supersonic skydive happened with little Caribbean and the Pacific is spreading his reach with pictures of Chinese leaders visiting the firm. term, the paper added. Wang owns more than loon, the spacesuit and the other systems fanfare, out of the media spotlight, unlike into space with ambitions for a network of satel- The satellite, jointly developed with the elite 30 percent of Beijing-based Xinwei, which was that were used in Friday’s launch will be the 2012 attempt by daredevil Felix lites, reports said yesterday. Wang Jing, who won Tsinghua University, was expected to provide a formally controlled by state-owned Datang used to advance commercial spaceflight, Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos a 50-year concession to build and operate the cheaper alternative to foreign satellite communi- Telecom Technology & Industry Group, accord- namely efforts by Arizona-based World team. Baumgartner, who was taken aloft canal from Nicaragua last year, announced that cation providers in China’s sea and desert areas, ing to the Beijing News. View Enterprises to take paying tourists in a capsule with the help of millions of up in a high-altitude balloon and luxury dollars in sponsorships, had set the previ- one of his companies launched a test orbiter last the Beijing News said, citing Tsinghua professor In December, another company of his-Beijing capsule starting in late 2016. ous altitude record by jumping from month. Lu Jianhua. Interoceanic Canal Investment Management Co.- As more people head into the strato- 128,100 feet. Watching Eustace and his The move made Xinwei Telecom Enterprise Wang said Xinwei planned to develop four announced that with a Ukrainian partner it sphere, the spacesuits could be adapted team prepare was historic, said Hayhurst, Group first private firm to invest in China’s tightly more satellites with the university and build a would pour a total of $10 billion into building a for emergency rescues or other scientific likening the scene to what it must have controlled and mostly military-run space indus- telecommunication “constellation” over the next port, oil reserves and an economic development endeavors, officials said. After nearly been like to watch Ryan Airlines Corp try, the Beijing News said. 10 years, the report said. zone in Crimea. three years of intense planning, develop- build the Spirit of St. Louis in the late Wang, in his early 40s, ranked 224th on the “The cost of building the satellites with The peninsula has since been annexed by ment and training, Eustace began his 1920s. “This was a bunch of quiet engi- Forbes’ world’s billionaires list this year with home-grown technology is very low and so we Russia, and Wang’s firm said in May that the proj- ascent via a high-altitude, helium-filled neers doing the job,” he said. “This is a sci- wealth estimated at $6.1 billion. He has denied have high expectations on the return on invest- ect had been suspended indefinitely “for reasons balloon just as the sun was rising. It took entific endeavor. This is a stepping stone more than two hours to hit an altitude of to space.” —AP any connections with the Chinese government, ment in the future,” Wang was quoted as saying. publicly known”, according to a report by the but reportedly owns a car with military license He did not disclose the value of the company’s China Business News. —AFP HEALTH & SCIENCE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

Australia suspends immigration from Ebola-hit nations

SYDNEY: Australia said yesterday it was suspending humanitarian grounds would be able to travel to Brisbane and Women’s Hospital on Sunday. tored by health officials, Young added. migration from Ebola-hit West African nations to try Australia, but would be subject to three separate Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette “They’ve all come from sites in West Africa that to prevent the virus from crossing its borders, as a health checks before departure as well as screening Young announced the negative results yesterday have had, you know, significant numbers of trans- teenager who arrived from Guinea tested negative on arrival. and told reporters “she now has no fever, which is a mission of Ebola virus disease,” Young said. “So for the disease. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison But officials would cancel and refuse non-perma- really good sign”. “She of course was very relieved to they’re at an increased risk so that’s why we’ve asked told parliament the government had stopped issu- nent or temporary visas for people who had not yet be given the information,” Young said, adding that each of them to go into home quarantine.” The girl, ing visas to people from those countries hit by the departed for Australia, Morrison said. The restrictions the teenage girl would remain in hospital and whose name and nationality were not released, was disease, which has claimed close to 5,000 lives in its came as an 18-year-old girl who arrived in Australia undergo a second test for the deadly virus tomor- the 12th person tested for Ebola in Australia, Health worst outbreak. from Guinea 12 days ago with eight relatives row. “She understands that a second test needs to Minister Peter Dutton said. All have tested negative. “These measures include temporarily suspending remained in isolation in a Queensland hospital after be done. But given that her fever has resolved at this Morrison called on Australians and other travelers to our immigration program, including our humanitari- testing negative for Ebola, authorities said. The time, and she’s got no other symptoms, she’s feeling inform immigration officials about their travel histo- an program, from EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) affected teenager-who was moving to Australia permanently well.” Three other families who arrived recently in ry when they enter the country “if you have been in countries,” he said. “This means we are not process- on a humanitarian visa-had been under home quar- Queensland from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, West Africa up to 21 days prior to your arrival”. “This ing any application from these affected countries.” antine in Brisbane before she developed a raised where the vast majority of Ebola cases have is especially important if you have had a broken People who had already been granted visas on temperature and was placed in isolation at the Royal occurred, are in home quarantine and being moni- journey en route to Australia,” he said.— AFP Fujifilm’s Ebola drug underscores new face of Japan Inc

TOKYO: Fujifilm’s potential as a major ‘New fields’ player in the fight against the Ebola virus Sony has leveraged its expertise to underscores a move by some of Japan’s meet demand in medical science, incorpo- best-known firms to reinvent their busi- rating technology usually found in Blu-Ray nesses as demand for traditional prod- disc readers into the design of a new cell ucts falls away. Last week, the company analysis device used in cancer and stem once synonymous with cameras and cell research. Panasonic has also tried its photo booths said it was increasing sup- hand at medical machinery, while Toshiba ply of its drug Avigan, which has been has gone one step further by opening its given to several patients who were evac- own hospital in central Tokyo that is kitted uated from Ebola-hit West Africa to out almost entirely with its own-brand Europe. machinery and equipment. The firm said it has enough Avigan “As the market environment changed, it tablets-approved as an influenza drug in was natural for Japanese companies to Japan-to treat 20,000 people and move into new fields in place of their core enough of its active ingredient for businesses,” Yasuhiro Nakazawa, senior 300,000 more treatments. Some research analyst at SMBC Nikko Securities, told AFP papers report that Avigan has been yesterday. “And the health care and med- BUCHANAN: A local radio announcer, provides information on the Ebola virus, as a poster bearing information on the deadly disease is seen on effective in testing with mice, the com- ical sector is promising, especially in Japan a wall, in Buchanan, Liberia. Various radio programs provide information to villagers on the Ebola deadly virus as Liberia, Sierra Leone and pany said, while the governments of where the ageing population is boosting Guinea account for the vast majority of the 4,922 deaths from the virus. — AFP France and Guinea are planning to con- demand.” It is not only electronics compa- duct clinical trials in mid-November. If nies which have decided to dabble in the the drug proves effective against a virus medical market. The sector has also Sierra Leoneans in Britain that has killed nearly 5,000 people, it attracted companies more usually associ- would burnish Fujifilm’s credentials in ated with products that are frowned upon the pharmaceutical field. by doctors. It would also lend support to its Beer maker Kirin produces a range of answer Ebola ‘call of duty’ broader move into a range of sectors- medicine used to treat cancer, kidney dis- including cosmetics, dietary supple- ease and high blood pressure through its ments and medical equipment-after affiliate, while Japan Tobacco runs a med- Sierra Leoneans in UK fighting deadly virus back home demand for camera film plummeted a ical research laboratory, marketing its own decade ago. “Fujifilm has been reborn as anti-HIV compounds and treatments for LONDON: Watching with horror as the Ebola with locals. “I think the urge within me to per- hospitals, all of those more complicated things a company that will change the future melanoma skin cancer. And as Fujifilm crisis ravages their country, Sierra Leoneans in form what I call a national duty overrides my that the government is battling to deal with,” across six fields of business,” chief execu- grabs headlines for its Ebola drug, even a London are mobilizing to help their compatri- fear,” he told AFP. “Most importantly, I have all she told AFP. tive Shigetaka Komori said in a message little-known Japanese firm is trying to ots fight the deadly virus back home. Health the Sierra Leoneans back home who have no “But we can certainly as ordinary people to mark the firm’s 80th anniversary this increase its presence by joining the fight workers are taking leave from their jobs in the medical knowledge and who are sacrificing come together to do food. It was really that sim- year. But the shift from pictures to pills is against the virus with high-tech face state-run National Health Service (NHS) to vol- themselves, who are doing more than I think I ple for me.” The British-based Sierra Leone War not unique among Japan’s manufactur- masks. Clever, a maker of air filters, says it is unteer in Sierra Leone, where at least 1,200 am doing here.” Trust for Children (SLWT) has also raised money ing giants as fierce competition from donating thousands of its $75 masks for people have died so far. Others are raising to provide protective clothing and non-contact lower-cost rivals, a shrinking domestic use by doctors and other health profes- funds for medical supplies, protective clothing ‘Only topic of conversation’ infrared thermometers for health workers and market and out-of-date products push sionals in Ebola-hit Guinea, Liberia and the and even hot meals for those affected-anything It is not only doctors and nurses who are to deliver handwashing stations to rural areas. them into new businesses. Democratic Republic of Congo.— AFP that makes a difference. desperate to help. The British government is In another innovative project, it sent 1,000 plas- “I see it as a call of duty-I need to go down leading the international aid effort in its former tic raincoats to provide basic protection from and help my people,” said Ajan Fofanah, a 46- colony, but members of the 23,000-strong Ebola for drivers of the “okada” motorcycles year-old trained paediatric nurse who has Sierra Leonean diaspora here want to go fur- commonly used for transport. applied to spend eight weeks working in Sierra ther. Ebola “is the only topic of conversation” Leone. He was born in the west African country among many, said Ade Daramy, chairman of Ebola is ‘like a ghost’ and moved to Britain aged 27 to further his the Sierra Leone Diaspora Ebola Task Force, For some, the urge to help is fuelled by a education. Now he wants to use his skills to which is working to help coordinate the desire to save Sierra Leone from another trau- help battle the virus that has killed four mem- response. ma as serious as the country’s 1990s civil war. bers of his extended family. “I’m far away from “When you live overseas and you’ve got fam- Mayene Sesay, 32, saw her mother shot dead in them and this is what is heart-rending. I need to ily there-that just breaks you,” added Memuna 1999 and lost a foot when a house she was in get closer,” he added. Janneh, a 46-year-old British business consult- was set on fire. She now runs an NGO for young Fofanah was one of around 80 Sierra ant who grew up in Sierra Leone. She started a disabled people in Sierra Leone. Although not Leonean medics who attended an event in charity in London to help feed people working a medic, she attended the recruitment event in London last week to find out more about how on the frontline in Freetown, helped by her hus- London to find out what she could do to fight they could help. All were successful profession- band and relatives who are still living over Ebola. “Whatever happens to me, I’m going to als keen to put their careers in Britain on hold there. “LunchBoxGift” provided 2,600 meals to stay strong and help my country because I and even risk being infected with Ebola to help people living rough during the three-day lock- don’t want (it) to go through something else their country. Mohamed Koker, a 50-year-old down in September, and now hopes to provide again,” she said. “At least I can remember the TOKYO: Anti-influenza Avigan Tablets produced by Japan’s Fujifilm are displayed in emergency doctor who has worked in Britain 50,000 more to hospital workers and person who shot my mum but I cannot see Tokyo. Fujifilm said late it would increase its stock of Avigan, which has been given for 12 years, hoped his knowledge of languages patients.”We may not have the cure, we may Ebola, where it comes from, how it affects my to several patients who were evacuated from Ebola-hit West Africa to Europe. — AFP and traditions would help break down barriers not have the logistics, we may not have the family. It’s like a ghost-you’re gone.”—AFP Angry US envoy hits out at global response to Ebola

CONAKRY: The US ambassador to the United Nations has ed negative, was the first person to be placed under a criticized the level of international support for nations hit mandatory 21-day quarantine for medical staff returning by Ebola as she begins a tour of west African nations at the to parts of the US who may have had contact with Ebola epicenter of the deadly outbreak. Samantha Power said patients in west Africa. The new rules took effect in the before arriving in Guinea on Sunday that too many leaders states of New York, New Jersey and Illinois on Friday, the were praising the efforts of countries like the United States same day Hickox returned. “This is not a situation I would and Britain to accelerate aid to the worst-affected nations, wish on anyone,” Hickox wrote in The Dallas Morning News. while doing little themselves. “The international response “I am scared about how healthcare workers will be treated to Ebola needs to be taken to a wholly different scale than at airports when they declare that they have been fighting it is right now,” Power told NBC News. Ebola in west Africa. I am scared that, like me, they will She said many countries “are signing on to resolutions arrive and see a frenzy of disorganization, fear and, most and praising the good work that the United States and the frightening, quarantine.” United Kingdom and others are doing, but they them- She said she was being kept outside the main hospital selves haven’t taken the responsibility yet to send docs, to building, with only a hospital bed, a non-flush chemical send beds, to send the reasonable amount of money.” toilet, and no shower. “To put me in prison is just inhu- Besides Guinea, Power will travel to Sierra Leone and mane,” she told CNN on Sunday. New York Mayor Bill de Liberia-the three nations that account for the vast majority Blasio attempted to quell the firestorm over Hickox’s out- Alghanim Industries holds breast of the 4,922 deaths from the Ebola epidemic. More than spoken remarks, saying “this hero was treated with disre- 10,000 people have contracted the virus in west Africa, spect, was treated with a sense that she had done some- cancer Awareness Workshops according to the latest World Health Organization figures. thing wrong, when she hadn’t.” Another country in the region, Mali, is scrambling to Late Sunday New York state eased its rules for how KUWAIT: In recognition of October as International shops, participants each visited three interactive sta- prevent a wider outbreak after a two-year-old girl died those arriving from Ebola-stricken west Africa must be Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and as part of the com- tions staffed by Dr Aziz, Dr\Cura andHead Nurse Paula from her Ebola infection following a 1,000-kilometre (600- treated, under pressure from the White House, where offi- pany’s commitment to provide employees with quality Valdez, from Alghanim Industries’ Medical Services mile) bus ride from Guinea. She was Mali’s first recorded cials believe these rules could deter health workers from healthcare support, Alghanim Industries’ Medical team. At the stations, the employees were able to case of the disease. Ebola can fell its victims within days, going to fight the epidemic. New York Governor Andrew Services team conducted free breast cancer awareness apply the knowledge they had learned during the pre- causing severe fever and muscle pain, weakness, vomiting Cuomo said there would no longer be a blanket quaran- workshops for employees at the company’s headquar- sentations. The workshops concluded with a personal and diarrhoea-in some cases shutting down organs and tine procedure from all people entering the state from ters on October 14 and 15, 2014. story of breast cancer treatment and recovery by Jane causing unstoppable bleeding. The tropical virus is spread affected countries in west Africa. Instead, if someone During the two 90-minute workshops, which were Chacko, a manager in Alghanim Industries’ employee though close contact with the sweat, vomit, blood or other arrives from an affected area with no symptoms, and attended by over 70 employees, presentations were communications department. bodily fluids of an infected person. No widely-available without having had direct contact with people infected given by Dr Sameh Aziz, Director of Alghanim At the end of the sessions, participants completed a medicine or vaccine exists. with the virus, no home confinement will be required. Industries’ Medical Services and Dr. Cristina Cura, a short quiz, were awarded a certificate of participation Health officials will monitor these travelers twice daily local obstetrics/gynecology specialist. The doctors and received a complimentary breast cancer awareness ‘Feel like a criminal’ until the 21-day incubation period has expired. President shared practical advice about breast cancer, its risk fac- coffee mug. The workshops were well-received and the In the United States, an American nurse who was placed Barack Obama told Americans on Saturday they must be tors, early-detection measures such as self-examina- organizers hope that the participants will now take the in quarantine after caring for Ebola sufferers in Sierra “guided by the facts, not fear” after a 33-year-old US doc- tions, and information about tests, treatments and out- valuable information they have learned and share it with Leone has complained she was made to feel “like a crimi- tor returning from Africa became the first Ebola case in comes. As part of the practical element of the work- family, friends and colleagues. nal” upon arrival in New Jersey. Kaci Hickox, who later test- New York City. —AFP HEALTH & SCIENCE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

Medical pot dilemma: Where to get the first seeds?

CHICAGO: As more states legalize medical marijuana, coffee mugs. In Illinois, where medical marijuana to 12 plants, to sell plants to a cultivation center - just seeds? That’s not what I do,” Ittel said. He believes there’s one stage in the process nobody wants to talk growing permits will be granted later this year, suit- once. “We’ve learned from what a lot of other states some business owners will get plants in Illinois on the about: the part where people still have to break the and-tie capitalists are connecting with black-market have done. We’ve tried to avoid a lot of the pitfalls,” said black market. Another source will be out-of-state law. After growers obtain licenses, plan for security growers for seeds or cuttings. Online, seed banks in Pam Graber, spokeswoman for the Nevada Medical growers in legal markets. Ittel believes starter plants and build facilities, they then must obtain their first the Netherlands and Canada promise discreet ship- Marijuana Program. But the Nevada law says nothing will be brought into Illinois covertly. With its thriving seeds or cuttings - while regulators turn a blind eye. “It ping in unmarked packages. about where patients are supposed to get seeds or recreational market, Colorado would seem a likely has to be hush-hush,” said Bradley Vallerius, an attor- Most state laws are silent on the issue, forcing offi- plants. “We cannot offer suggestions,” Graber said. source. But it’s risky for growers to divert plants out of ney focused on the emerging industry in Illinois. “I’ve cials into a “don’t ask, don’t tell” stance. In Washington Illinois officials danced around the question at a state, cautioned Colorado Director of Marijuana seen the moment where the client realizes this is a state, growers have a 15-day, no-questions-asked peri- meeting for aspiring businesses. “We’re expecting that Enforcement Lewis Koski. “I’m not aware of a lawful problem” - and wonders how they’re supposed to get od during which they can bring non flowering plants any applicant that is proposing an operations plan is way for that to occur,” Koski said. “A business could started. The situation is known as the “immaculate into their operation, which must then be bar-coded going to have a plan for getting the operations start- have their license revoked. The members of the com- conception” or the “first seed” problem. Those involved and registered. In one Seattle case, a medical grower ed,” program director Bob Morgan said when pressed pany could face criminal charges.” see it as an absurd consequence of the nation’s patch- trying to break into the recreational market accumu- for details on acquiring startup seeds or plants. State Ultimately, there will need to be a federal solution, work of laws, with 23 states allowing medical marijua- lated more than 2,000 plants. Police, responding to Rep Lou Lang, who sponsored Illinois’ medical mari- said Chris Lindsey, legislative analyst for the Marijuana na sales, Colorado and Washington state allowing complaints about the smell, seized all but 45 plants. juana law, concedes lawmakers knew there was an Policy Project, a national group that supports regulat- recreational use and a federal prohibition in place. The grower, Matthew Segal, faces no charges but esti- issue. “We did not address it in the bill on purpose,” he ed marijuana. Otherwise, he said, “there isn’t much of While marijuana may not be hard to find, getting mates the raid cost him about $1 million. He has since said. “We can’t sanction in a law doing an illegal act.” an option for states except to look the other way and the first seeds for medical operations often involves sold one of his marijuana dispensaries and put his David Ittel has sold indoor gardening supplies for understand that there has to be a way for regulated either descending into the underground market or house up for sale to help cover the losses. “When decades at shops in Illinois and Wisconsin. Ittel won’t businesses to operate.” Sara Gullickson, of Newton, crossing state lines - a violation of state and federal (state governments) look the other way, it turns the say that the light timers and water pumps he sells Massachusetts-based consulting company laws. One Colorado grower, Toni Fox, says she ordered regulations into Swiss cheese,” Segal said. have been used in illegal operations, but is meeting DispensaryPermits.com, doesn’t advise clients on the her first seeds for a medical crop five years ago from In Nevada, where the first medical marijuana busi- with aspiring medical marijuana business owners in question. But she knows the score. “They have to get advertisers in High Times magazine. If they showed up ness certifications will be awarded next month, state Illinois. (seeds or plants) from another state,” she said, “and it’s at all, they came hidden in packages with T-shirts and law allows registered patients, who can legally grow up “I’ve had people ask me: Can I help them get not legal, but that’s what they do.”— AP ‘Disastrous’ health campaign feeds worrying polio spike Polio cases spike in Pakistan, spread abroad

KARACHI: Taleban militants have long been streets, police deployed to protect them down to provincial, not central government. areas they controlled. Their targets are the scourge of Pakistan’s polio vaccination showed up late. Most new cases were in areas where secu- women like 19-year-old medical student campaign, attacking aid workers and the Vaccinators must wait, meaning they miss rity was poor so children had not been vacci- Asma Nizam, who received a death threat for police who protect them as they distribute children. Sometimes only a third of children nated, she said, and denied that Sharif was taking part in the program. “A man came on a doses to children. But experts say there is in an area are vaccinated, the WHO said, and not taking the issue seriously. “We have got to motorbike and said, ‘if you want to save your another reason for the sharp spike in cases of low coverage fuels new outbreaks. take responsibility for our weaknesses,” life, you should go from here’,” she said. the crippling disease in Pakistan this year - Farooq told Reuters. “The quality of cam- The next day, militants killed five of her government mismanagement. “Pakistan’s TAKING RESPONSIBILITY paigns is something we will be paying close colleagues. As she prepared to visit Karachi polio program is a disaster. It continues to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took attention to.” Emergency Operations Centers, slums on a vaccination mission last Monday, flounder hopelessly, as its virus flourishes,” the six months to appoint an official responsible which were meant to be operational by July, police sent to protect Nizam were three hours Independent Monitoring Board, which advis- for polio, and the government approved a will not be ready until the end of November, late. Pakistan’s police are thinly spread, espe- es agencies fighting polio, will say in a report funding plan only last month. she said. The IMB report said the delay cially in crime-ridden Karachi where only to be released this week. That meant provinces did not pay workers “speaks volumes about the inertia of the pro- 26,000 police watch over the huge city. Some The prime minister’s polio cell was dis- their stipends of $2.50 a day on time, said gram in Pakistan”. are seconded as bodyguards for politicians. “I PESHAWAR: Pakistani resident Gul Khubana poses for a banded during 2013 elections, the new gov- Shahnaz Wazir Ali, a polio adviser to Sindh have seen six police taking a VIP’s teenager to photograph with images of her daughter Shirafat Bibi, ernment delayed reconstituting it, and in province in the south where Karachi is locat- Police protection the salon but they cannot spare any officers a polio health worker who was killed in an attack dur- recent months the prime minister has been ed. “We had a loss of about nine to 10 For frontline polio workers, late pay is less to protect the poor children of Pakistan,” one ing a polio vaccination campaign in the Badaber area consumed with protests in the capital that months, which is a very big setback,” Ali said. worrying than lack of protection. Sixty-four health official burst out in exasperation. of Peshawar. — AFP have only just ended. “It’s frustrating. Ayesha Farooq, the prime minister’s people have been killed in attacks on polio Karachi police spokesman Atiq Shaikh said Eradicating polio is not rocket science,” said appointee on polio, admitted there were teams and their security escorts since 2012, the force was severely understaffed. “Polio Elias Durry, head of the World Health problems, but said that payment arrears were when the Taleban banned vaccinations in campaigns take 2,000 officers. But we always PETA praises Taiwan Organization (WHO) polio campaign in provide them with security even though we Pakistan. “If we could have three to five have some time constraints,” he said. months to have really good campaigns, then A further hurdle is caution among families for raid on pigeon we could get rid of this disease,” he said. “We offered the treatment. Some believe Taleban have been doing half-baked campaigns in propaganda that says vaccinations are a race gambling club high risk areas.” Western plot to sterilize children. Aiding Polio was meant be a thing of the past. A polio’s spread has been this year’s military TAIPEI: Animal rights group PETA yesterday praised global campaign came tantalizingly close to offensive in the tribal region of North Taiwanese police for raiding a club which organized gam- wiping out the disease altogether. Now polio, Waziristan, which drove nearly a million peo- bling on pigeon races, claiming that such races kill 1.5 mil- which can kill or paralyze a child in hours, is ple out of the conflict zone. The mass move- lion birds a year on the island. Agents from The Criminal endemic only in Pakistan, Afghanistan and ment allowed workers to vaccinate children Investigation Bureau last week searched the office of the Nigeria. So far this year, Pakistan has had 217 previously unreachable. But families also club in the southern city of Kaohsiung and froze about polio cases, a 14-year high accounting for 85 moved to areas where vaccination coverage Tw$120 million ($3.95 million) in assets. Police also detained percent of instances around the world. The was patchy, allowing polio to reestablish itself three employees on charges of violating the animal protec- disease spreads easily from person to person, in cities where it had been eradicated, experts tion law and illegal gambling. The move came in response and Pakistan has already exported the virus say. to complaints from People for the Ethical Treatment of to Syria, China, Israel and Egypt. Experts say Children may need the oral vaccine up to Animals (PETA) about the pigeon race gambling industry. complacency is not an option and the gov- 10 times for it to be effective. Many Pakistani “Taiwan authorities have shown the world that they take ernment has called the situation an “emer- children are malnourished or have diarrhoea the accusation that pigeon racing is a cruel front for illegal gency”. so the vaccine is not absorbed. The unlucky Yet as the latest vaccination campaign ones may end up like Rafia, a chubby two- gambling very seriously,” Jason Baker, vice president of inter- kicked off this week in the broiling, garbage- year-old with kohl-rimmed eyes. Her legs national operations for PETA Asia, said in a statement. strewn alleys of Pakistan’s biggest city, were partially paralyzed after contracting “Taiwan’s pigeon-racing industry is the most extreme, most Karachi, vaccination workers said they had polio this summer. “She was vaccinated deadly, and most crime-ridden in the world.” PETA said earli- not received stipends from the provincial whenever they came,” said her father Ghulam er this year that a five-month investigation it carried out in government for months. Isaq, a shopkeeper. He massaged her tiny toes Taiwan found that races often proved fatal for pigeons Some have dropped out of the campaign as a group of black-robed polio vaccinators released hundreds of kilometers offshore and forced to fly in Karachi, a teeming city of 18 million people looked on, only their eyes visible above black home. More than 30,000 Taiwanese pigeon breeders race where the disease is entrenched. As teams niqabs covering their faces. “We need help about two million pigeons each year, of which an estimated prepared to venture out on vaccination mis- ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani paramedic administers the polio vaccine to a child at a even if we are poor,” Isaq said. “We are 1.5 million die, according to the group.— AFP sions into some of Karachi’s most dangerous hospital in Islamabad. — AFP Pakistanis too.”— Reuters WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 ACK and partners shed light on merging of vocational, theoretical education

n collaboration with the Kuwait nessed a major transformation in how tered” to “student-centered” modes of ment of international qualification agreed competencies.” cept of a “Culture of Care” to place stu- Banking Association (KBA) and the educational systems are structured; learning, an increased focus on frameworks where qualifications are He added: “ACK has responded to dents at the very core of our educa- IKuwait Foundation for the such as moving from “teacher-cen- applied skills, as well as, the establish- described by a set of well-defined and these changes by applying our con- tional programs. The College has also Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), the introduced vocational diplomas fol- Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) lowed by Business and Engineering took part in organizing a workshop Degree programs focused on applied entitled “Making Universities More learning, while establishing partner- Practical - Merging Vocational ships with international academic insti- Education with Higher Education for tutions to ensure that our education Better Employment and Career programs are consistent with the inter- Outcomes”. Led by key representatives national qualification frameworks.” from Central Queensland University - Professor Scott Bowman and Nick Australia (CQU), an ACK auspice part- Bofic, Director and Consultant at CQU, ner, the workshop hosted a number of respectively, held introductory presen- attendees ranging from the education, tations about CQU and its partnership banking, research, government sectors with ACK. They highlighted the and more. changes adopted by the university to The workshop was aimed at high- improve the quality of its programs, lighting the nature of comprehensive while discussing the concept of merg- universities, institutions like ACK and ing higher education with professional CQU which specialize in providing an education and how it is being applied educational curriculum that combines by ACK locally. both theoretical and practical As pioneers and leaders in bringing approaches to best prepare their grad- private vocational education to uates to meet the needs of the labor Kuwait, ACK continues in its promise market. to deliver quality vocational and theo- In his speech, Chairman of ACK - retical education preparing its gradu- Abdullah Al-Sharhan - stated: “At the ates for the challenges of today’s job turn of this century, the world wit- market.

Kuwait Times Calendar of Events

October 29 - Saveco’s Food Academy cooking with Chef Sarah Al Busairi from 5-7pm. Learn to cook chicken machbous with dakous, momawash (shrimps) with eggplant dakous, tamarind dakous and agaili with rahashand caramel. KD 25. For more info call 5508-1809 or WhatsApp 5586-1990. 30 - The members’ convention of the OICC Kozhikode District Committee is scheduled to be conducted on Thursday, October 30, at 6 pm at Muhammad Abdurahman Sahib Nagar (Indian Community School, Khaitan). 31-7 Market - Outdoor market at Kipco Tower, Kuwait City. October 31. For inquiries, email [email protected] 31 - Halloween party at Cozmo Bowling in Discovery Mall. Bring kids for a spooktacular time from 4-6pm for only 5KD per child! Kids will get 1 game of bowling, a 1KD arcade card, 1 Cozmo bag, a coloring book, a McDonalds kids meal and trick or treat goodies. Participating kids in Chill N Grill barbecue nights launched costume will be in a parade and have a chance to win prizes! at Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa 31 - Al Corniche Club Market Day. KD 5 for members, KD 10 for non members. umeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa, Wednesday on the beachfront resort by The outdoor barbecue grill will offer enjoy breathtaking views of the Arabian November Kuwait’s idyllic resort,has launched the pool, overlooking the Arabian Gulf. live cooking stations and in addition, Gulf. Live background music will be pro- 1 - Halloween Bash organized by Partake Kids Club at J‘Chill N Grill nights’ for guests to take It includes one shisha, the evening guests can sample desserts from a buffet vided by an Oud player while shisha, tea the Movenpick Hotel Bida’a. Timing from 4pm to 7pm. To advantage of the cooler winter weather. offers the perfect ambience for friends and try thirst-quenching mocktails. and coffee will be offered to conclude the register please call 6650-2513. Starting from Wednesday, 22 October, and families to chill out, relax, unwind After dinner, guests can lounge on evening. 1 - Qout Market - First Saturday over every month from the evenings will take place every and get ready for the weekend. sofas and beanbags by the beach and November to April at Arraya Center - Parking Rooftop. 1 - Annual Beat Diabetes Walkathon by Landmark. Visit the website: http://www.beatdiabetes.me/ to register. CRYchess 2014 4 - Pink Tuesday Fair at the British School of Kuwait. Kala painting competition on November 14 riends of CRY Club (FOCC), announces plans for 2014 Chess Games, food, zumba, nail bar and more. From 4pm to ala (Art) Kuwait has sched- 4th Standard, Group ‘C” from 5th General Convener and Jaison 6pm. Email [email protected] Tournament for children of all ages upto high-school. “CRYchess uled to conduct its presti- to 8th Standard and Group ‘D” Joseph as Registration Convener. 8 - Fun Fair - Charitable fun fair and carnival to raise F2014” will be held at the Salmiya Indian Model School (SIMS), funds for children with diabetes. Held in the parking lot of Kgious program “NIRAM- from 9th to 12th Standard. Besides the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Salmiya, Kuwait,on Friday, 28th November 2014, from 0930 - 1630 hrs. Discovery Mall in Kuwait City, Saturday November 8 from 2014” painting Competition The media for Group ‘A” and Merit Prizes, Ten percent of the The players will be allocated groups by their age, to play in the Swiss Noon to 9pm. Telephone: 9664-7490 or email fun- under the patronage of Sunil ‘B” will be Crayons while participants will be awarded pairing format. For more details, registration forms, Rules of CRYChess [email protected] Jain, the Ambassador of India, on Group”C” and ‘D” are Water with consolation prizes. The win- 2014, please visit www.focckwt.org or contact FOCC members. Sponsors are also welcome to encourage the participating young 8 - Bark in the Park - Organized by K’s Path at the Al the occasion of Children’s Day Colors. Crayons and water colors ners are liable to prove their age chess players. The last date for registration is Saturday, the 22nd Ahmadi South Public Park. Fun day for families and pets. celebration by marking the birth shall be brought by the partici- group with relevant documents From 11am to 3pm. Email [email protected] or November 2014. Children of all ages and various nationalities com- day of the First Prime Minister of pants. Stamped Drawing papers in case the Organizers requested peted in the annual event which had some of those participating over Telephone: 6700-1622. India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, will be supplied by the so. Parents also have the oppor- and over every year. “With CRY everyone wins” is the slogan FOCC 8-9 - UK Education Exhibiton at the Regency Hotel. Al carries. The players are paired in the Swiss Pairing System, which is Futouh Ballroom. On Saturday from 5-9pm and on Sunday on Friday, 14th November 2014 Organizers. Clay Modeling tunity to win prizes for Open used in many international chess tournaments. All the children play from 8am to 12:30pm and 4pm to 9pm. at Indian Community School, Competition also will be con- Canvas Painting. all the 5 rounds. 14 - The English School Winter Wonderland Bazaar. Khaitan, at 2.00pm. ducted for 7th to 11th Standard Students can register their After each round, the computer software pairs players based on The program consists of paint- Students. Clay will be provided names through websites Held at the school premises in Salmiya. the automatically calculated player rankings. After the fifth round the 15 - Day Out Fiesta to be held at Wahran Park in ing competition for Indian by the Organizers. The Marathon www.kalakuwait.net, For further final ranking is determined by the software according to the number Shamiya. Interested in participating pls call 6000-01186 school students and a “Marathon Open Canvas Painting is con- details can contact by e-mail of games won and on the rating of the opponents defeated. Each from 4-9pm or email [email protected]. Open Canvas Painting” for the ducting in a view to display [email protected] and the group is supervised by an arbiter. The arbiters are volunteers who 22 - Kuwait Textile Association Bazaar - Held at Sadu other attendees including par- everyone’s views and talents following telephone numbers have a sound chess playing background and offer their services for House on November 22. ents, visitors and guests. The through their vivid creations. 99489078, 97959072, 97982935, the cause of promoting this game. Visit 22 - Kuwait English School Annual Bazaar - At KES in http://focckwt.org/contact.html. CRY, the link between Child Rights & Salwa, block 11 on November 22. Tables are KD 20. Painting Competition will be For the successful conduct of 97219439 according to Hassan conducted in four different age the program, a Reception Koya, President Kala(Art) Kuwait You. Friends of CRY Club was established in November 2003 in Telephone: 9787-9305 Kuwait with the objective of having sustainable, result oriented, well 28 - British Ladies Society Bazaar - At BSK on groups. Group ‘A” from LKG to 1st Committee has been formed and Mukesh VP, General founded organization to continue to be in service of the deprived November 28. Standard, Group ‘B” from 2nd to headed by Samkutty Thomas as Secretary, Kala (Art) Kuwait. children with synergic participation of a cross section of people in 28-29 - Street Fest 2014 will be held at a parking lot in Kuwait. AlShaab AlKhaled area on Friday and Saturday from 3pm to 10pm. Instagram @streetfestkuwait Website: http://www.streetfestkuwait.com/ 29 - 10K Charity Run organized by FSRI at the Marina Winter I Arabic Courses Schedule (2014) Crescent. Register at www.runq8.org Email: [email protected] Telephone: 2572-0338 he AWARE Management is glad to inform you that Introduction to Arabic Calligraphy Evening: Monday & Wednesday 7:30 pm - 9 pm. (Nov. Winter I Arabic language courses will begin on (Evening: Thursday 7 p.m. - 8 pm. Nov. 6, 2014 - Dec. 24, 2014 - Jan. 21, 2015 (6-week course, 18 hours). TNovember 23, 2014 until January 24, 2015. AWARE 4, 2014. 11. Level 2 Primer Arabic language courses are designed with the expat in (5-week course, 5 hours - 1 hour class). Evening: Monday & Wednesday 7:30 pm - 9 pm. (Nov. mind. The environment is relaxed & courses are 2. Level 1 Primer 24, 2014 - Jan. 21, 2015 (6-week course, 18 hours). designed for those wanting to learn Arabic for travel, Morning Tuesday: 10 am - 12 pm. (Nov. 25, 2014 - Jan 12. Level 2 Basic cultural understanding, & conducting business or sim- 20, 2015 (6-week course, 12 hours - 2hour class). Evening: Monday & Wednesday 7:30 pm - 9 pm. (Nov. What’s On - Submission Guidelines ply to become more involved in the community. We 3. Level 1 Primer 24, 2014 - Jan. 21, 2015 (6-week course, 18 hours). cater to teachers, travelers & those working in the pri- Evening: Tuesday 7 pm - 9 pm. (Nov. 25, 2014 - Jan. Note: vate business sector. Arabic classes at the AWARE 20, 2015 (6-week course, 12 hours - 2 hour class). l Each textbook & CD will be sold separately. Center are unique because students are provided with 4. Level 1 Primer l Minimum enrollment of 5 students is required for all All photos submitted for What’s On the chance to practice their Arabic through various Evening: Thursday 7 pm - 9 pm. (Nov 27, 2014 - Jan. classes. social activities that aim at bringing Arabs & Westerners 22, 2015 (6-week course, 12 hours - 2 hour class). l Your seat in the class will be secured upon payment should be minimum 200dpi. together. 5. Level 1 Primer of the fee (cash) in person at the AWARE Center. Articles must be in plain text and Morning: Saturday 10 am - 12 pm. (Nov. 29, 2014 - l AWARE Members are eligible for a 20% discount off AWARE Arabic Courses Highlight: Jan. 24, 2015 (6-week course, 12 hours - 2hour class). each course. should include name and phone 1. Advanced Arabic language basics. 6. 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(Nov. 29, 2014 - Level 1 Intermediate Level 2 Intermediate Level 3 Please send them to ter, kindly visit: www.aware.com.kw/class.aspx or email: Jan. 24, 2015 (6-week course, 12 hours - 2hour class). Intermediate [email protected] 9. Level 1 Intermediate Level 1 Advanced Level 2 Advanced Level 3 [email protected] ** There will be no classes from December 14, 2014 Evening: Monday & Wednesday 7:30 pm - 9 pm (Nov. Advanced where minds meet to January 3, 2015 since most of the students travel for 24, 2014 - Jan. 21, 2015 (6-week course, 18 hours). For more information, call 2533 5280 or log onto Holidays. 10. Level 1 Advanced www.aware.com.kw or email: [email protected] WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

Al Sayer Group supports World Heart Day 2014

orld Heart Day, is an initiative by World Heart of the Group. Al Sayer Group Chairman Naser Al Sayer, Senior World Heart Day 2014 encourages us all to reduce our car- Heart Society emphasized on adopting healthy lifestyle to Federation to focus on creating heart-healthy envi- Management and employees from different business units dio-vascular risk, and promotes a heart-healthy planet for have a healthy heart through: Wronments by ensuring that people are able to make participated in the event. The checkup covered free blood those around us. World Heart Day takes place on 29th l Controlling cholesterol and unhealthy fats heart-healthy choices wherever they live, work and play. cholesterol test, blood sugar test and blood pressure test. September each year to inform people around the globe that l Regulating blood pressure and diabetes On this occasion Al Sayer Corporate Sustainability & Nehad Mohammad Al Haj Ali, Manager, Al Sayer Group heart diseases and strokes are the world’s leading cause of l Stop smoking and limiting alcohol Responsibility team invited members from the Kuwait Heart Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility thanked Kuwait death, claiming 17.3 million lives each year and the numbers l Managing weight and exercising daily Society on World Heart Day to conduct health check up and Heart Society for their co-operation in successfully conduct- are rising. l Consuming fruits and vegetable regularly spread awareness about healthy living for all the employees ing this campaign. The health awareness session administered by Kuwait l Getting 7 to 8 hours of sleep daily.

Lu&Lu Hypermarket gifts grand prizes for spectacular Diwali Dhamaka

u&Lu Hypermarket, the recognized retail chain for and lights, Diwali, a fun and memorable experience for their teams were selected for their colourful and exemplary received consolation prizes for their efforts. affordable shopping, showed its dedication to con- loyal customers. The overall attendance of participants and Rangoli designs. The winning teams were ecstatic, the first Lu&Lu Hypermarket has been building a strong, loyal and Lsumer satisfaction by organizing a festive competition well-wishers was outstanding. Enthusiastic teams arrived at prize - a KD 100 gift voucher was handed over to Archana fast growing customer base for many years now, and has titled ‘Diwali Dhamaka’ at its Al Rai outlet on 25 October. The 9:30 am and set to work creating beautiful, vibrant Rangoli Subodh Puranik, the second prize - a KD 75 gift voucher was demonstrated a swift responsiveness to seasonal shopping Hypermarket’s ‘Rangoli’ competition was part of the many fun designs that emphasized the spirit of Diwali. given to D. Mahalakshmi and Dipali Bandale received the third trends and bringing all cultures together under one roof, and exciting initiatives to make the Indian festival of colour At the award ceremony, three out of the ten participating prize - a KD 50 gift voucher. All the participating teams thereby earning it a preferred place to shop.

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ou are more beautiful and sweeter each year. And you know how I Ycan’t resist sweet things! Wish you a very happy and sweet birthday! Assad, Aanish, Alizey and Afroz.

Thanima organizes tug of war competition hanima organized a tug of war competition on Friday, October 24, 2014 at Indian Central School, Jleeb. Team Way for India TChallengers won the war bagging KD 351, the prize money. AMMA Kuwait to present ‘Utsav 2014’

MMA Kuwait will pres- Jitesh Sundaram, the disciple of Bhajan Samrat Anup lades for her presentations ent ‘Utsrav 2014’, a musi- Jalota is one on of India’s most gifted Ghazal singers whose which are a treat to the eyes Acal and dance event in voice has that special magic that does not merely entertain and mind alike. She runs the Kuwait on November 7, 2014 you but also uplifts you. His renditions perhaps will give you Kairali Kalakendra based in at the Marina Auditorium, an opportunity to resonate your emotion through his art. Dubai which is dedicated to Touristic Park, Jleeb Al- Drawn towards singing and percussion from a young age, he teaching dance, music, drawing Shuyoukh from 6pm to 9pm. trained in Carnatic and Hindustani music while mastering and painting to students of all An Indian socio-cultural organ- instruments like Mridangam and Tabla. ages. But the daughter of dis- ization registered with the Jitesh who performed in the ‘Friendship’ concerts along tinguished dancer Indian Embassy in Kuwait, with his master Anup Jalota and celebrated Ghazal maestro Kalamandalam Sumathy is a AMMA Kuwait’s cultural and from Pakistan Ghulam Ali has also performed widely across person who also straddles social activities have long the globe. He has shared stage with prominent Ghazal many other meaty roles with received the patronage of the people of Kuwait and expatri- singers like Pankaj Udhas, Talat Aziz and Chandan Dass. He is panache. Asha with her powerful portrayal of Prof Jayanthi in ates alike. Dwelling on the noble thought of empowering an auditioned and graded artist of All India Radio, Mangalore the Malayalam serial titled ‘Kumkumapoovu’ and stoic depic- disadvantaged and disabled women all over the world and and has recorded programs for a number of Indian TV chan- tion of a top police officer in the movie ‘Drishyam’, has carved to create an awareness on its immediacy using art as a medi- nels. a unique place in the hearts of Malayali viewers. She has also um, AMMA Kuwait brings together, two amazing artistic per- Asha Sharath is a brilliant Indian classical dancer whose acted in Tamil and Telugu movies apart from Malayalam. So sonalities, exponents of unique forms of music and dance, grace, talent and commitment to the dance form have get ready to tune into some magical strains of music and renowned Ghazal singer Jitesh Sundaram and noted clinched her a place among India’s legendary dancers. Asha, captivating classical dance moments that will surely invigor- danseuse, dance Guru and film personality, Asha Sharath. who has performed all over the world has won several acco- ate your mind and body. TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

02:00 Antiques Roadshow 03:20 Art Attack 12:00 Champions League T20 02:50 Bargain Hunt 03:45 Art Attack 03:35 Homes Under The Hammer 04:10 Jungle Junction Highlights 04:25 Food & Drink 04:20 Jungle Junction 13:00 Champions League T20 00:45 After The Attack 04:55 Come Dine With Me 04:35 Jungle Junction Highlights 14:00 ICC Cricket 360 01:35 Animal Cops Houston 05:40 The Hairy Bikers Ride Again 04:45 Jungle Junction 00:00 Down The Shore-PG15 14:30 Champions League T20 02:25 Shamwari: A Wild Life 06:05 Antiques Roadshow 05:00 Art Attack 02:00 The Hot Flashes-PG15 Highlights 02:50 Shamwari: A Wild Life 07:00 Antiques Roadshow 05:25 Art Attack 04:00 The Arrangement-PG15 15:30 Champions League T20 03:15 Too Cute! 07:50 Bargain Hunt 05:50 Mouk 06:00 Despicable Me 2-PG Highlights 04:05 My Cat From Hell 08:35 Homes Under The Hammer 06:00 Jessie 08:00 Peeples-PG15 16:30 Champions League T20 04:55 Jaws Strikes Back 09:30 Food & Drink 06:25 Liv And Maddie 10:00 Good Day For It-PG15 Highlights 05:45 After The Attack 09:55 Come Dine With Me 06:45 Dog With A Blog 12:00 The Hot Flashes-PG15 17:30 Live Champions League T20 06:35 Animal Airport 10:45 Antiques Roadshow 07:10 I Didn’t Do It 14:00 The Great Ghost Rescue-PG 21:00 ICC Cricket 360 07:00 Meerkat Manor 11:35 Antiques Roadshow 07:35 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 16:00 Peeples-PG15 21:30 Champions League T20 07:25 Dogs 101 12:30 Bargain Hunt Teenage Witch 18:00 Jack The Giant Slayer-PG15 Highlights 08:15 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 13:15 Homes Under The Hammer 07:55 Win, Lose Or Draw 20:00 Grown Ups 2-PG15 22:30 Champions League T20 08:45 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 14:05 Food & Drink 08:20 Suite Life On Deck 22:00 Kick-Ass 2-18 09:10 Project Puppy 14:30 Come Dine With Me 08:45 A.N.T. Farm Highlights 09:40 Project Puppy 15:20 Antiques Roadshow 09:05 A.N.T. Farm 23:30 Champions League T20 10:05 Call Of The Wildman 16:15 Antiques Roadshow 09:30 Sonny With A Chance Highlights 10:30 Call Of The Wildman 17:05 Simply Italian 09:55 Sonny With A Chance 11:00 Jaws Comes Home 17:30 Bargain Hunt 10:15 Suite Life On Deck 00:00 AFL Premiership highlights 11:55 Meerkat Manor 18:15 Homes Under The Hammer 10:40 Suite Life On Deck 01:00 PGA European Tour high- 12:20 Animal Airport 19:10 Food & Drink 11:05 That’s So Raven lights 12:50 Too Cute! 19:35 Simply Italian 11:25 That’s So Raven 02:00 AFL Premiership highlights 03:00 Trans World Sport 13:45 My Cat From Hell 20:00 Nordic Cookery With Tareq 11:50 A.N.T. Farm 00:10 Hoarding: Buried Alive 04:00 World Match Racing tour 14:40 Shamwari: A Wild Life Taylor 12:15 A.N.T. Farm 01:00 Alaskan Women Looking For 15:05 Shamwari: A Wild Life 05:00 World Match Racing tour 20:25 The Hairy Bikers Ride Again 12:35 Good Luck Charlie Love 15:30 Dogs 101 06:00 World Match Racing tour 20:50 Bargain Hunt 13:00 Good Luck Charlie 01:50 Breaking Amish: Los Angeles 16:30 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 21:35 Bargain Hunt 13:25 Jessie 07:00 Golfing World 02:40 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant 17:00 Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild 22:20 Bargain Hunt 13:45 Jessie 08:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 03:05 Secretly Pregnant 17:25 Weird Creatures With Nick 23:00 Homes Under The Hammer 14:10 Austin & Ally 09:00 Web.com Tour 03:55 Long Island Medium Baker 23:55 Food & Drink 14:35 Win, Lose Or Draw 12:00 WWE Night Of Champion 18:20 Call Of The Wildman 15:00 Mako Mermaids 12:30 Top 14 Highlights 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress 18:45 Call Of The Wildman 15:25 I Didn’t Do It 13:00 Golfing World 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress 19:15 Bondi Vet 15:50 Liv And Maddie 14:00 Champion Tour 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras 20:10 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 16:10 Violetta 17:00 AFL Premiership highlights 06:00 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 20:40 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 17:00 Dog With A Blog 18:00 Golfing World 07:00 Craft Wars 21:05 Shark Girl 00:20 Outback Truckers 17:20 Jessie 19:00 NRL Full time 07:50 The Next Great Baker 22:00 Bondi Vet 01:10 Alaska: The Last Frontier 17:45 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 19:30 Futbol Mundial 08:40 Ballroom Blitz 22:55 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 02:00 Fast N’ Loud Teenage Witch 20:00 European senior tour high- 09:30 Toddlers & Tiaras 02:50 Storage Hunters lights 23:25 Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors 18:10 I Didn’t Do It 10:20 Say Yes To The Dress 03:15 American Diggers 18:30 Win, Lose Or Draw 21:00 Challenge Series Golf 23:50 Into The Shark Bite 10:45 Say Yes To The Dress 03:40 The Liquidator 18:55 Liv And Maddie 21:30 Champion tour highlights 11:10 Cake Boss 04:05 How It’s Made 19:20 Violetta 22:30 WEB.COM tour Highlights 11:35 17 Kids And Counting 04:30 How Do They Do It? 20:05 Liv And Maddie 23:30 Golfing World 05:00 Gold Divers 20:30 Liv And Maddie 12:00 Little People, Big World 00:35 DCI Banks 06:00 Classic Car Rescue 20:50 Liv And Maddie 12:25 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 01:20 Eastenders 06:50 Deadliest Catch 21:15 Liv And Maddie 13:15 Oprah’s Master Class 01:50 Doctors 07:40 Fast N’ Loud 21:40 Liv And Maddie 14:05 Oprah’s Next Chapter 02:20 Great Ormond Street 00:30 WWE Afterburn 08:30 Storage Hunters 22:00 Good Luck Charlie 14:55 Brides Of Beverly Hills 03:10 Lead Balloon 01:30 WWE This Week 08:55 American Diggers 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 15:20 Cake Boss 03:40 Silent Witness 02:00 WWE Superstars 09:20 The Liquidator 22:50 Shake It Up 15:45 Driving Me Crazy 04:30 My Hero 03:00 Live WWE RAW 09:45 How It’s Made 23:10 Wolfblood VEHICLE 19 ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 05:00 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 06:30 TOP 14 16:35 Toddlers & Tiaras 10:10 How Do They Do It? 23:35 Wolfblood 05:20 Boogie Beebies 07:00 Indycar Highlights 17:25 Say Yes To The Dress 10:35 Siberian Cut Stewart 05:35 The Green Balloon Club 08:00 WWE Experience 17:50 Say Yes To The Dress 11:25 Outback Truckers 21:30 The Colbert Report 06:00 Nina And The Neurons 09:00 WWE Afterburn 18:15 17 Kids And Counting 12:15 Alaska: The Last Frontier 22:00 Legit 06:15 Nuzzle & Scratch: Frock n Roll 10:00 WWE This Week 18:40 Little People, Big World 13:05 Storage Hunters 23:00 South Park 00:00 Fatal Instinct-PG15 06:35 Boogie Beebies 10:30 Top 14 Highlights 19:10 Oprah: Behind The Scenes 13:30 American Diggers 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 02:00 Father Of The Bride Part II- 06:50 The Green Balloon Club 11:00 Golfing World 13:55 The Liquidator 00:00 Giuliana & Bill PG15 20:05 Brides Of Beverly Hills 07:15 The Weakest Link 00:40 The Hungry Sailors 12:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 14:20 Deadliest Catch 00:55 E! News Special 04:00 Over The Hedge-FAM 20:30 Cake Boss 08:00 My Hero 01:30 Coach Trip 13:00 ITM Cup 15:10 Classic Car Rescue 01:25 Keeping Up With The 06:00 Pitch Perfect-PG15 21:00 Hoarding: Buried Alive 08:30 Lead Balloon 02:00 Emmerdale 15:00 WWE RAW 16:00 Fast N’ Loud Kardashians 08:00 The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The 21:55 My Naked Secret 09:00 Eastenders 02:55 Coronation Street 00:00 Royal Pains 18:00 WWE Smackdown 16:50 How It’s Made 02:20 E! News Galaxy-PG15 22:20 My Naked Secret 09:30 Doctors 03:25 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 01:00 Resurrection 20:00 WWE RAW 17:15 How Do They Do It? 03:15 Escape Club 10:00 Father Of The Bride Part II- 22:50 Long Island Medium 10:00 Great Ormond Street 04:20 Paul O’grady: For The Love Of 02:00 Boardwalk Empire 23:00 Indycar Highlights 17:40 Gold Divers 04:10 THS PG15 23:15 Secretly Pregnant 10:50 Call The Midwife Dogs 03:00 The Leftovers 18:30 River Monsters: Amazon 05:05 E!ES 12:00 3 Times A Charm-PG15 11:45 My Hero 05:15 The Chase 04:00 Revenge Titanic 06:00 The E! True Hollywood Story 14:00 Dr Seuss’ Cat In The Hat-PG 12:15 Lead Balloon 06:10 Please Marry My Boy 05:00 Perception 20:10 American Diggers 06:55 THS 16:00 The Runway-PG15 12:45 Big Bear Diary 07:05 Coach Trip 06:00 Royal Pains 20:35 The Liquidator 07:50 Style Star 18:00 Shrek The Third-FAM 13:10 Eastenders 07:30 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 08:00 Criminal Minds 21:00 River Monsters 08:20 E! News 20:00 The New Guy-PG15 00:30 Champions League T20 13:40 Doctors 08:25 Paul O’grady: For The Love Of 10:00 Perception 21:50 When Fish Attack 09:15 Giuliana & Bill 22:00 Big Trouble-PG15 Highlights 14:10 Great Ormond Street Dogs 11:00 Revenge 22:40 Fish Legends Of Jakub 10:15 Giuliana & Bill 01:30 ICC Cricket 360 00:35 The Hungry Sailors 15:00 Call The Midwife 09:20 Prince George At One 12:00 Emmerdale Vagner 11:10 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 02:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 01:30 Coach Trip 15:55 My Hero 10:15 The Chase 12:30 Coronation Street 23:05 Fish Legends Of Jakub 11:35 E! News Special Highlights 05:15 Take On The Twisters 16:25 The Weakest Link 11:10 Emmerdale 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Vagner 12:05 E! News 03:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 06:10 Big Star’s Little Star 17:10 Eastenders 12:00 Coronation Street 14:00 Criminal Minds 23:30 River Monsters 13:05 Extreme Close-Up Highlights 07:05 Coach Trip 17:40 Doctors 12:30 The Hungry Sailors 15:00 Royal Pains 01:00 The Entitled-PG15 13:35 E!ES 04:00 Caribbean Premier Leaue 12:30 The Hungry Sailors 18:10 Great Ormond Street 13:25 Please Marry My Boy 16:00 Emmerdale 03:00 Blue Like Jazz-PG15 14:30 Style Star Highlights 13:25 Big Star’s Little Star 19:00 One Foot In The Grave 14:20 Coach Trip 16:30 Coronation Street 05:00 The Glass Man-PG15 15:00 Kourtney And Kim Take 05:00 England Women v South 14:20 Coach Trip 19:30 As Time Goes By 14:45 The Chase 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 07:00 The Woman In The Fifth-PG15 Miami African Women T20I Highlights 14:45 Take On The Twisters 20:00 Call The Midwife 15:35 Lightfields 18:00 Criminal Minds 09:00 Scents And Sensibility-PG15 16:00 Kourtney And Kim Take 06:00 Champions League T20 15:35 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 20:55 Stella 16:30 Murdoch Mysteries 19:00 The Voice 11:00 The Glass Man-PG15 00:00 Violetta Miami Highlights 16:30 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 21:40 Big School 18:20 Please Marry My Boy 21:00 Devious Maids 13:00 The Philly Kid-PG15 00:45 The Hive 17:00 Eric And Jessie: Game On 07:00 ICC Cricket 360 17:25 Paul O’grady: For The Love Of 22:10 Last Tango In Halifax 19:10 Coronation Street 22:00 Burn Notice 15:00 The Intouchables-PG15 00:50 Art Attack 17:30 Eric And Jessie: Game On 07:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue Dogs 23:00 The Weakest Link 19:35 Lightfields 23:00 American Horror Story: 17:00 Scents And Sensibility-PG15 01:15 Art Attack 18:00 The Drama Queen Highlights 18:20 Big Star’s Little Star 20:30 Murdoch Mysteries Coven 19:00 50/50-PG15 01:40 Jungle Junction 19:00 E!ES 08:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue roes 22:20 Coronation Street 21:00 The Iceman-18 01:50 Jungle Junction 20:00 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills Highlights 20:30 Harry’s South Pole Heroes 23:00 The Frozen Ground-18 02:05 Jungle Junction 20:30 Giuliana & Bill 09:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue 21:25 Paul O’grady: For The Love Of 02:15 Jungle Junction 21:30 Giuliana & Bill Highlights Dogs 00:15 Come Dine With Me 02:30 Violetta 22:30 Fashion Police 10:30 ICC Cricket 360 22:20 Coronation Street 03:15 The Hive 01:05 Antiques Roadshow 23:30 Escape Club 11:00 Champions League T20 22:50 Emmerdale 00:30 Shark City-18 23:45 Take On The Twisters 00:00 Aftermath 00:00 Bones Highlights 02:30 The Forgotten-PG15 01:00 Mega Factories 01:00 Good Morning America 04:30 Seven Pounds-PG15 02:00 Shark Men 03:00 Banshee 07:00 Crazy / Beautiful-PG15 03:00 World’s Deadliest Animals 04:00 True Detective 09:00 Girl In Progress-PG15 04:00 Wild Case Files 05:00 Good Morning America 11:00 Seven Pounds-PG15 05:00 Apocalypse World War I 07:00 Emmerdale ‘Super Mario’ creator 13:15 Bobby Fischer Against The 06:00 Ultimate Survival Alaska 07:30 Coronation Street World-PG15 07:00 Zambezi 09:00 Unforgettable 15:00 Hoosiers-PG flirts with film, 08:00 Aftermath 10:00 Emmerdale 17:00 Girl In Progress-PG15 09:00 Mega Factories 10:30 Coronation Street 19:00 The Perks Of Being A 10:00 Shark Men 12:00 Chicago Fire Wallflower-PG15 games still true love 11:00 Inside 13:00 Bones 21:00 Midnight In Paris-PG15 12:00 Is It Real? 14:00 Live Good Morning America 16:00 Unforgettable 23:00 2 Days In New York-18 uper Mario Bros” creator Shigeru Miyamoto 13:00 Untamed Americas has produced some of the world’s biggest 14:00 Nat Geo Amazing! 17:00 Chicago Fire 18:00 Bones “Svideo game hits over the past three 15:00 Divine Delinquents decades, and now he has added film producer to his 16:00 Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler 19:00 Unforgettable 20:00 Chicago Fire 01:30 Friends With Kids-PG15 long list of credits. 17:00 Breakout Miyamoto unveiled his latest project, “PIKMIN 18:00 Inside Combat Rescue 21:00 Bones 03:30 Red Tails-PG15 22:00 Banshee 05:45 Chimpanzee-PG Short Movies”, at the Tokyo International Film Festival 19:00 Divine Delinquents over the weekend - a 3D short-animation film based 23:00 True Detective 07:15 The Smurfs 2-PG 20:00 Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler on Nintendo game characters of the same name. 21:00 Breakout 09:00 Quartet-PG15 He said he had balked for years at requests to make 22:00 Inside Combat Rescue 11:00 A Good Day To Die Hard-PG15 films with Nintendo characters but warmed to the 23:00 Inside 13:00 The Way Way Back-PG15 possibilities of filmmaking given technological 00:00 Red 2 15:00 Sky Force-FAM advances, though he has no intention to shift from 02:00 The Last Stand 17:00 Quartet-PG15 games to the movie business. 04:00 Orcs! 19:00 Peace, Love & “I haven’t moved over. But as computer graphics 06:00 Thief Misunderstanding-PG15 have gotten better, I started to feel that it’s something 08:00 Vehicle 19 21:00 R.I.P.D.-PG15 that I could get involved with,” he told Reuters in an 00:00 Wilfred 10:00 The Scorpion King 23:00 Empire State-PG15 interview. 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 12:00 The Tuxedo “Making films in the past was something that was Stewart 14:00 The Last Stand made with a completely different skill set but now I 01:00 Last Week Tonight With John 16:00 Red 2 feel that it’s rather similar,” said Miyamoto, a senior managing director at Nintendo. Oliver 18:00 Special Ops 01:15 Barbie And The Magic Of 20:00 The Scorpion King Nintendo’s “Pikmin” game series, which was 01:30 Eastbound & Down Pegasus 02:00 Hello Ladies 22:00 Chain Reaction launched in 2001, follows the astronaut Captain 02:45 Emilie Jolie 02:30 South Park Olimar and multicoloured plant-like Pikmin creatures 04:15 Cinderella 03:00 Hot In Cleveland as they collect items while dodging obstacles and bat- 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 06:00 Marc Logan tling monsters. It is now in its third edition on the Jimmy Fallon 08:00 Hammer Boy Nintendo Wii U gaming console. 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 10:00 Barbie In The 12 Dancing “PIKMIN Short Movies” is a 23-minute omnibus 09:00 Hot In Cleveland 00:00 The Last Stand-PG15 Princesses comprising the stories “The Night Juicer”, “Treasures in 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 02:00 Orcs!-PG15 11:30 Niko 2: Little Brother, Big a Bottle”, and “Occupational Hazards”. Miyamoto described the film as a project aimed at Jimmy Fallon 04:00 Thief-PG15 Trouble 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon 06:00 Vehicle 19-PG15 expanding the world of video games and giving more 13:15 Emilie Jolie life to the Pikmin characters. Theatrical distribution Stewart 08:00 The Scorpion King-PG15 14:30 Dragon Hunters 16:00 The Colbert Report 10:00 The Tuxedo-PG15 plans remain undecided. 16:00 Jelly T 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 12:00 The Last Stand-PG15 “More than making it as a film to put in theatres, I 18:00 Barbie In The 12 Dancing 18:00 Hot In Cleveland 14:00 Red 2-PG15 made it as a film to present the footage that was nec- 18:30 Baby Daddy 16:00 Special Ops-PG15 Princesses essary in the game. So that’s why it’s this length,” he 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 18:00 The Scorpion King-PG15 20:00 The Great Bear said. “I was thinking of how to announce it and there Jimmy Fallon 20:00 Chain Reaction-PG15 22:00 Dragon Hunters was this film festival, so I was lucky.”—Reuters RED 2 ON OSN MOVIES ACTION 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 22:00 D-Tox-PG15 23:30 Jelly T Classifieds

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

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12:45 PM JZR 176 Dubai 13:45 ANNABELLE (DIG) 8:45 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 3:45 PM UAE 871 Dubai 12:50 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 10:45 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 5:45 PM MSR 611 Cairo 14:00 MSR 610 Cairo 13:00 ANNABELLE (DIG) 12:45 AM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 8:15 PM KAC 514 Tehran 13:10 UAE 872 Dubai 14:15 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 10:30 PM JZR 561 Sohag 13:45 KAC 673 Dubai 15:00 SHARQIA-2 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 12:30 AM KAC 672 Dubai 13:55 QTR 1079 Doha 15:05 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG-3D) 12:30 PM FDB 058 Dubai 15:10 FURY (DIG) 2:30 PM MARINA-1 QTR 1078 Doha 14:05 FURY (DIG) 5:00 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 12:30 PM KNE 472 Jeddah 14:25 KAC 617 Doha 15:15 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 7:30 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 2:30 PM SVA 500 Jeddah 14:30 KNE 473 Jeddah 15:40 FURY (DIG) 10:00 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 3:45 PM FDB 057 Dubai 14:30 SVA 501 Jeddah 15:45 FURY (DIG) 12:30 AM ANNABELLE (DIG) 5:45 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 8:00 PM GFA 221 Bahrain 15:00 GFA 222 Bahrain 15:45 KAC 773 Riyadh 15:50 SHARQIA-3 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 10:30 PM ABY 127 Sharjah 15:45 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 2:00 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 12:45 AM UAE 857 Dubai 15:45 ABY 128 Sharjah 16:25 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 4:00 PM KAC 741 Dammam 17:00 FDB 051 Dubai 16:00 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 6:00 PM MARINA-2 JZR 266 Beirut 17:05 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:15 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 2:00 PM KAC 562 Amman 16:20 FDB 052 Dubai 17:25 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 12:15 AM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 4:00 PM QTR 1072 Doha 16:40 QTR 1073 Doha 17:40 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 6:00 PM RJA 640 Amman 16:55 MUHALAB-1 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:00 PM UAE 858 Dubai 17:45 ETD 303 Abu Dhabi 16:55 ANNABELLE (DIG) 1:30 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 12:05 AM JZR 538 Cairo 17:45 UAL 982 IAD 17:05 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 3:30 PM ETD 304 Abu Dhabi 17:50 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 6:00 PM MARINA-3 SVA 510 Riyadh 17:15 RJA 641 Amman 17:55 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 9:00 PM FURY (DIG) 1:00 PM GFA 215 Bahrain 17:30 SVA 511 Riyadh 18:15 THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 12:05 AM THE BOXTROLLS(DIG-3D) 3:30 PM FDB 075 Dubai 17:45 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 5:30 PM UAL 982 Bahrain 18:20 UAE 875 Dubai 18:00 MUHALAB-2 FURY (DIG) 7:30 PM GFA 216 Bahrain 18:20 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 12:45 PM FURY (DIG) 10:00 PM TAR 328 Tunis/Dubai 18:05 FDB 076 Dubai 18:25 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 2:45 PM FURY (DIG) 12:30 AM JZR 177 Dubai 18:20 JZR 238 Amman 18:50 AL HARB AL ALMIAH AL THALITHA (DIG) (Arabic) 4:45 PM FDB 063 Dubai 18:40 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 7:00 PM AVENUES-1 TAR 328 Tunis 18:55 ABY 121 Sharjah 18:40 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 10:15 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 2:15 PM ABY 121 Sharjah 19:20 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 12:15 AM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 4:30 PM KAC 786 Jeddah 18:45 UAE 876 Dubai 19:40 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 6:45 PM QTR 1080 Doha 18:50 QTR 1081 Doha 19:50 MUHALAB-3 TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 9:00 PM KAC 618 Doha 19:15 FDB 064 Dubai 19:55 FURY (DIG) 1:00 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 11:15 PM THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 3:45 PM TOM SAWYER & HUCKLEBERRY FINN (DIG) 1:15 AM KAC 774 Riyadh 19:15 AXB 393 Kozhikode 20:15 AXB 393 Kozhikode 19:15 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG-3D) 5:45 PM GFA 218 Bahrain 20:15 FURY (DIG) 7:45 PM AVENUES-2 KAC 674 Dubai 19:25 KAC 283 Dhaka 20:30 FURY (DIG) 10:15 PM BELLE AND SEBASTIAN(DIG) 1:45 PM KAC 678 Muscat/Abu Dhabi 19:25 KAC 361 Colombo 20:50 FURY (DIG) 12:45 AM BELLE AND SEBASTIAN(DIG) 4:00 PM KAC 542 Cairo 19:25 KAC 343 Chennai 20:55 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN(DIG) 6:15 PM FANAR-1 GFA 217 Bahrain 19:30 MSR 607 Luxor 21:05 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN(DIG) 8:30 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 1:00 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 10:45 PM KAC 166 Paris/Rome 19:40 JAI 571 Mumbai 21:05 ANNABELLE (DIG) 3:00 PM ANNABELLE (DIG) 1:00 AM KAC 104 London 19:55 SYR 342 Damascus 21:10 NO SUN+TUE+WED KAC 742 Dammam 20:00 KAC 351 Kochi 21:15 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 5:00 PM AVENUES-3 JAI 572 Mumbai 20:05 FDB 062 Dubai 21:20 THE JUDGE (DIG) 7:00 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 12:45 PM MSR 618 Alexandria 20:05 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 9:45 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 4:00 PM OMA 648 Muscat 21:20 ANNABELLE (DIG) 11:45 PM SYR 341 Damascus 20:10 DLH 636 Dammam 21:35 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 7:15 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 10:30 PM OMA 647 Muscat 20:20 DHX 171 Bahrain 21:50 FANAR-2 JAZEERA 2 2«·Ã“Ì—… (DIG) (Arabic) 10:30 PM FDB 061 Dubai 20:20 KAC 381 Delhi 22:00 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 12:30 PM JAZEERA 2 2«·Ã“Ì—… (DIG) (Arabic) 2:30 PM DLH 636 Frankfurt 20:50 ALK 230 Colombo 22:10 AVENUES-4 NO SUN+TUE+WED ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 ETD 308 Abu Dhabi 22:15 OPEN WINDOWS (DIG) 3:30 PM JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 1:15 PM MEA 402 Beirut 21:20 KAC 301 Mumbai 22:15 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 5:30 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 1:30 PM ETD 307 Abu Dhabi 21:30 MEA 403 Beirut 22:20 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 8:30 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 4:15 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 7:30 PM KAC 203 Lahore 22:20 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 11:30 PM FDB 073 Dubai 21:35 JAZEERA 2 (DIG) (Arabic) 10:45 PM GFA 219 Bahrain 21:45 FDB 074 Dubai 22:30 FANAR-3 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 11:15 PM QTR 1074 Doha 21:55 GFA 220 Bahrain 22:30 THE GUEST (DIG) 1:00 PM THE EQUALIZER (DIG) 10:45 PM KLM 415 Amsterdam 22:15 ETD 310 Abu Dhabi 23:00 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 3:00 PM SUN+TUE+WED ETD 309 Abu Dhabi 22:15 KAC 205 Islamabad 23:00 THE GUEST (DIG) 4:00 PM AVENUES-5 UAL 981 Bahrain 22:25 QTR 1075 Doha 23:05 HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 6:15 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR (DIG)(HINDI) 9:30 PM FURY (DIG) 12:30 PM KLM 415 Dammam/Amsterdam 23:15 FDB 059 Dubai 22:30 THE GUEST (DIG) 12:45 AM FURY (DIG) 3:00 PM AIC 981 Chennai/Hyderabad/Ahmedabad 22:30 KAC 411 Bangkok/Manila 23:30 FANAR-4 FURY (DIG) 5:30 PM PIA 239 Sialkot 22:35 PIA 240 Sialkot 23:35 THE BOXTROLLS(DIG-3D) 12:30 PM FURY (DIG) 8:00 PM FDB 071 Dubai 23:45 FDB 060 Dubai 23:55 FURY (DIG) 2:45 PM FURY (DIG) 10:30 PM FURY (DIG) 5:15 PM FURY (DIG) 1:00 AM DIAL161 FOR AIRPORT INFORMATION THE BOXTROLLS(DIG) 7:45 PM NO SUN+TUE+WED stars34 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

CROSSWORD 707 STAR TRACK

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

Look for creative avenues to resolve work-related problems and realize Your thoughts may undergo some change. There is a natural sense of that you may have a chance to rectify a situation that was previously out growth and development, but there is also the strong foundation for of control. Be tolerant if someone’s appearance or manners are a little rough. Humor is leadership. Concentrating and getting down to the essential ideas are easy. Deep and the best defense against vulgarity. This day brings with it opportunities to uncover penetrating conversations, particularly with a group or in relation to your situation, and find the truth in a confusing issue. An active attention to your nutritional needs is may be in order. Others could seek you out for your psychological insight and under- important. When you are under stress, it is important to increase your level of certain standing. You will find an unexpected boost in the way you think, speak or write. vitamins. Pay attention to this need and if you find it necessary, learn about the sup- Communications are uncomplicated and connections of all kinds, news and so on, are plements that could be helpful for better health, especially if you are experiencing furthered-often at the expense of established order. The energies are good for any any stress. Your home environment and friends get attention this evening. changes you may want to make in your environment: digging a well, planting a gar- den, etc.

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

There are favorable changes happening. Any improvements or changes A good friend or family member helps you start your day with the you want to make in the workplace will be successful. Charitable endeavors can also announcement of some great plans for after work. Speaking of work, be quite successful now. Today through the end of this week is a great time to take you take power into your own hands today and use your words to make a difference some vacation time. If you are working, others value your ability to make practical in the outcome of some project. Positive things are happening as you will possibly decisions. You have a natural sense of what the public wants. Clear decisions affect- uncover faulty workmanship of the competitor or locate a fixable situation with the ing others could be made now. Emotional security and a sense of belonging and nur- development of your own company’s product or merchandise. You have no intention turing are issues felt instinctively. You may enjoy engaging views by observing a new of tearing a company down but you have every intention of building up the company bird or watching a sunset over the water . . . They kick-start the spirit and make you for which you are working. Your scrutiny wins you points and you can expect a reward fall in love with life all over again. Get your photography equipment in order-be pre- for your efforts. You tend to improve conditions no matter where you are or what you pared. do.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) There is good fortune coming to you as things open up in a very natural This is a very good day for job-related events. Others value you for your way. Tremendous success in creative ventures can provide great satisfac- ability to make practical decisions concerning group issues. You have a tion and may even bring financial rewards. It is easy to see which path is the one to natural sense of what would please the most difficult client. Clear decisions affecting take. Opportunities flourish and you may find yourself wanting and able to do almost others could be made now. Challenging authority and striving for success are on your agenda but you are smart and careful to phrase your words carefully-higher-ups want ACROSS alkali metal group. anything. Your work or career is in real harmony with the rest of your life. You could gain from young people during this time. Emotional security and a sense of belonging to please you. Properly directed, ambition is a powerful motivation and results in great 1. Light informal conversation for social occa- 6. The highest level or degree attainable. and nurturing are felt instinctively. Your popularity soars this whole week. Your home achievement with recognition. You could be most persuasive with others and elo- sions. 7. Dignified and somber in manner or character environment, friends and surroundings in general become uncomplicated and quent in speech and communication. The situation is a natural for self-expression and 4. Moth whose larvae are flour moths. and committed to keeping promises. receive encouragement. Love relationships can be rather fiery, but enjoyable. lends itself to your particular ideas. A good conversation with those you love is possi- 12. Situated at the top or highest position. 8. Yellow-fever mosquitos. ble tonight. 15. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the 9. The act of rising upward into the air. public. 10. (trademark) An antacid. 16. Consisting of or resembling mother-of- 11. A very poisonous metallic element that has Capricorn (December 22-January 19) pearl. three allotropic forms. Cancer (June 21-July 22) 17. A hospital unit staffed and equipped to pro- 12. A crown-like jewelled headdress worn by Although you shy away from challenges, you cannot escape facing a few Business travel has positive aspects this winter. Allow the momentum to car- vide intensive care. women on formal occasions. of them. Challenges help us grow and learning about ourselves improves ry you into broader career horizons and make yourself available to growth 18. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind and 13. English scholastic philosopher and assumed our problem-solving skills-today may be challenging. You have the mind of a lawyer, options. The key spot in your personality and circumstances is your mind-the world of always able to size up a problem and come up with a solution. Using your mind to ideas and communication. Others may challenge your ideas but this either sends you back raisins and almonds. author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349). to the beginning of your project or gives you new opportunities. You could easily become 20. A woman of refinement. 14. (India) Absolutely first class and genuine. negotiate obstacles and handle dilemmas, yours or those of others, is a great talent. You have a natural ability to guide and lead others through the hurdles and hassles of carried away with your view or explanation of things. In order to stay within the confines of 22. Date used in reckoning dates before the 19. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a life. You could be very much in demand as a counselor. It is rewarding for you to solve being tasteful or sophisticated, pay attention to the response of others when you commu- supposed year Christ was born. skewer usually with vegetables. problems. Any professional advice you might need is available for you today. You could nicate. Make every effort to interact with family members tonight as you could be away 23. Half the width of an em. 21. A motley assortment of things. discover yourself through creativity and self-expression during this time. from home for a few days. Loved ones enjoy your company this evening. 24. American civil rights worker in Mississippi. 27. Jordan's port. 25. Any of various strong liquors distilled from 28. 1,000,000,000 periods per second. the fermented sap of toddy palms or from 30. A white linen liturgical vestment with Aquarius (January 20- February 18) fermented molasses. sleeves. Leo (July 23-August 22) 26. A cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors 32. Absent without permission. Resist the temptation to exaggerate-you could damage your credibility. This is a good day, with lots of energy and ambition. This is the day to to hold their clothing and other gear. 33. Any of a group of heavenly spirits under the This may be most important when giving lectures or when teaching young start new projects or push forward with those already in motion. You 29. A radioactive transuranic element produced god Anu. people. Exercise authority in moderation-there are energies available now that make it may enjoy a sense of creating your own opportunities. A senior advisor or someone in possible to get your message over to others in a new style of presentation. This could be authority is motivating. You are at your most practical when it comes to dealing and by bombarding plutonium with neutrons. 36. A summary that repeats the substance of a working with others. You know just what to do and can act without haste and emo- 31. Boiled or baked buckwheat. longer discussion. books, a reward system or some other way you have discovered lately. You can win every- one over to your viewpoint with your exceptional persuasive skill. This afternoon you tion. You are called on to make use of your natural abilities and common sense today. 34. 16 ounces. 38. Angular distance above the horizon (espe- might enjoy shopping for new clothes or some necessary items and meeting family Your inner resources and emotions are accented. Expect a sense of support and good 35. An Arabic speaking person who lives in cially of a celestial object). members at a restaurant in the evening. There are makings in the works for a relaxed, will from those around you. Material things and the whole concept of value take on Arabia or North Africa. 39. In an idle manner. enjoyable evening. Experiment with astral projection before nodding off to sleep. more importance for you now. Financial security and enjoying the finer things in life assume a high priority. 37. Austrian writer (1881-1942). 41. Marked by excessive enthusiasm for and 40. Having the head uncovered. intense devotion to a cause or idea. 44. A young woman making her debut into 42. Either of two large African antelopes of the society. genus Taurotragus having short spirally Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 46. A song that was formerly popular. twisted horns in both sexes. 48. Offering fun and gaiety. 43. Relatively nontoxic South African herb You may realize that there is a need for balance in your life. You could be Communicating and getting your message across to others is impor- 49. (zoology) Lacking a tail or taillike smoked like tobacco. working too hard or someone’s joke may cause you to realize that it has been a long tant. No worries . . . Your timing should be perfect and others should time since you experienced some real belly laughter. You may find it difficult to be find you most spontaneous. Making peace with the past, coming to terms with karmic appendage. 45. At or constituting a border or edge. spontaneous or to get away from routine and do something different. You may also debts-these are some of the issues that you deal with as a new phase begins in your 52. Infectious disease caused by a species of 47. Divisible by two. find it necessary to make some changes in order to create more of a balance in your life. Failure to face these things can cause setbacks and put obstacles in your path. chlamydia bacterium. 50. Lacking in reality or substance or genuine- life. When you do enact a change, it is always at the deepest level and affects every- Learn to look beyond the narrowly personal and selfish or you will get in over your 53. A flexible container with a single opening. ness. thing else in your life as well. This is good time for change, especially if you are aiming head. A little exercise this evening can work off some of the frustrations you may have 54. Informal terms for a mother. 51. Emperor of Rome. for any type of education or job change. Eliminate some of the things that do not serve built up lately. Notice nature’s new colors in and around your neighborhood. Tonight a purpose for you anymore. Note-a charity would appreciate your discarded clothes. you may decide to bring some of your plants inside so as to care for them better-the 55. Sexually transmitted urethritis (usually 57. Permitting little if any light to pass through herbs perhaps. caused by chlamydia). because of denseness of matter. 56. Inclined to yield to argument or influence or 59. Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son control. of Trajan. Word Search Yesterday’s Solution 58. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat 60. A state in midwestern United States. trimmed off. 64. A rotating power drill powered by an elec- 61. Tropical starchy tuberous root. tric motor. 62. A Mid-Atlantic state. 65. A genus of temperate and arctic evergreen 63. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. trees (see spruce). 67. Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at 66. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth eastern end of Mediterranean. group. 70. Organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell 68. Footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the that is composed of ribonucleic acid. ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or 75. Very hot and finely tapering pepper of spe- plastic and a sole and heel of heavier materi- cial pungency. al. 77. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls. 69. A river in central Europe that arises in north- 78. A long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur. western Czechoslovakia and flows north- 79. Any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8. ward through Germany to empty into the 82. Being one more than two. North Sea. 83. The force of workers available. 71. An unofficial association of people or 84. An act of scaling by the use of ladders (espe- groups. cially the walls of a fortification). 72. (Norse mythology) Ruler of the Aesir. 85. Resonance of protons to radiation in a mag- 73. Injure or wound seriously and leave perma- netic field. nent disfiguration or mutilation. 74. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially DOWN in Africa or Arabia). 1. United States chemist (1839-1903). 76. Type genus of the family Myacidae. 2. With rapid movements. 80. A crystalline metallic element not found in 3. A former monetary unit in Great Britain. nature. 4. A genus of tropical American plants have 81. The branch of engineering science that sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy com- studies the uses of electricity and the equip- pound fruits composed of the fruits of sev- ment for power generation and distribution eral flowers (such as pineapples). and the control of machines and communi- 5. A silvery soft waxy metallic element of the cation. Yesterday’s Solution

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he 30-year-old singer, who recently married the ‘Hunger Games’ actor Evan Ross, is eager to give her five-year-old son, Bronx, whose father is her ex-husband Pete TWentz, another sibling. A source close to the blonde beauty told Us Weekly maga- zine: “They can’t wait [to have a child together].” Evan, 26, admits he feels surrounded by love since marrying the ‘Pieces of Me’ hitmaker and the happy couple would love to have a massive family. He said: “Now we have two huge families.” The couple tied the knot in a romantic ceremony held at his mother Diana Ross’ lavish home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on August 30. Bronx already has some experience of being a big brother, as Pete also has two-month-old son, Saint Lazslo Wentz, with girlfriend Meagan Camper. The Fall Out Boy rocker, who split from Ashlee in 2011 after three years of marriage, pre- viously insisted his eldest son is showing no signs of jealousy. He said: “Not at all. Bronx is already planning everyone’s Halloween costume!” He added: “Meagan is a natural mom. It’s amazing to watch her with him.” Last month, Ashlee’s sister Jessica Simpson and her husband Eric Johnson - who have two kids together, Maxwell, two, and Ace, 15- months - were said to be “working feverishly on having another child”. An insider said: “Eric always wanted more kids and he’s finally convinced her. “She realised that the best

planning to have planning to have moments of her life have been with Eric and the kids. She’d be thrilled to announce that another baby soon another baby another baby is on the way.” Ashlee Simpson

dog Oprah Winfrey’s

driver runs over woman’s foot

he chat show host was left horrified when the driver of her SUV allegedly almost broke Lori Geller Bender’s Tankle after accidentally reversing onto her toes out- side a restaurant in Miami. The woman told the New York misses Post newspaper: “We were crossing the street to arrive at the restaurant, and there were a lot of cameras. “I could see a big crowd of security guards, and as soon as Oprah got into the car, it pulled out from the curb, and a wheel went over my foot. I was wearing heels, my toe was trapped under the Russell Brand wheel and I fell to the ground, hitting my coccyx and my head. “My husband was banging on the window, shouting Jemima Khan’s for the driver to pull back. I am lucky because if the SUV had gone slightly further forward it would have crushed my whole ankle.” Oprah leaped out of the vehicle and was “real- he 39-year-old comedian - who reportedly responding to his question, the 28-year-old actress ly shocked” when she realised what had happened, and told split from Jemima, 40, last month after a year replied: “I have no idea. I’ve blocked that part out. the supporter it was definitely “worth a picture”. Lori added: Tof dating - confessed “life is hard” now he no That’s in the past. OK. You are not putting this on “The driver reversed off my foot and Oprah jumped out. She longer gets to spend time with her white Alsatian the show.” Jonathan later reflected: “Well, it’s been couldn’t have been nicer and more gracious. She looked named Brian. Speaking on ‘The Jonathan Ross lovely, occasionally tense, having you here. But really shocked and asked me if I was OK, and took a good Show’, which aired last night, he said: “I loved that that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I was just going look at my foot. “I wasn’t hurt, and I told her I was fine. dog. But what can you do? “Life is hard isn’t it. You on about the same subject, which is why you, Oprah said, ‘Well, that’s worth a picture,’ and she put her arm just jog on. You focus and think, ‘Well I have lost understandably, got a little defensive.” However, around me and we took some photos.” “It has always been that dog, we just have to overthrow the govern- show insiders have since dismissed the suggestion on my bucket list to meet Oprah, but I could never have ment.’ “ Russell - who had taken Brian onto the talk that Lindsay was left feeling uncomfortable by imagined it would be because her driver ran over my toe. It’s show a year earlier - added: “I just walk around with Jonathan’s questions. A source told the Daily Mirror a crazy story.” a limp lead now. You should see what I do when I newspaper: “She seemed totally happy through- get home, with the same lead.” Jemima and the out. In fact, she seemed more than willing to talk notorious lothario - who also split from wife Katy about her time in prison as a whole and actually Perry in December 2011 after 14 months of mar- volunteered this information. “Jonathan got some riage - first fuelled rumours they had ended their brilliant answers and actually professionally relationship after it became apparent that they’d throughout. He did a great job. “So we are totally unfollowed each other on Twitter A source said at bemused as to where this upset has suddenly the time: “The relationship has simply run its come from days later.” Since 2010, Lindsay has course.” Lindsay Lohan felt “upset and uncomfort- been imprisoned for a number of offences, includ- able” after chat show host Jonathan Ross quizzed ing the theft of a necklace, but was released pre- the actress about her time in jail. The ‘Mean Girls’ maturely due to prison overcrowding and was star’s team have reportedly asked ITV bosses to cut instead put under house arrest. the section of their interview in which Jonathan, 53, asked Lindsay how long she spent behind bars.

Taylor Swift ‘stressed’ out by the idea of being in relationship

he ‘Shake It Off’ hitmaker finds it difficult to deal with the constant scrutiny she comes under when she’s dating, so is Ttaking some time off from men to focus on herself. She explained: “I get stressed when I think about getting into a rela- tionship because I get beat up in the press whenever I go near a boy. “So you can understand why I am taking a bit of a break. “A relationship is not in my brain right now. So that’s why ‘Shake It Off’ is a cheeky play of the character of me that has been written in the press. “It’s this complex mess of a girl who can get all of these guys but scares them because she is just very clingy and needy and mercurial and unpredictable.” However, the 24-year- old beauty - who has previously been dated One Direction hunk Harry Styles, musician John Mayer and ‘Prisoners’ actor Jake Gyllenhaal - insists that character is nothing like the real her. She added to The Sun newspaper: “But this girl is not fictitious as Victoria Beckham that girl is not me.” Taylor went on to claim that while many of named Britain’s her friends begin a relationship as soon as their previous one most successful entrepreneur comes to an end, she’s enjoying being on her own for the time being. She said: “I have a lot of friends who date one person he 40-year-old singer-turned-fashion designer has after another after another. “But staying single has been the topped a list of over 100 business people after best thing I have done.” Tseeing her fashion empire’s turnover rise from £1 million to a staggering £30 million in just five years, with her staff growing from three employees to 100. Andrew Saunders of Management Today magazine, Seth MacFarlane who compiled the list based on the last five years, told The Daily Telegraph newspaper: “She’s got a real busi- throws two star-studded birthday parties ness, some design talent and some business nous. She gets a lot of stick for being a celeb fashionista but I don’t think that’s fair. “She has built something real out he ‘Ted’ creator celebrated his 41st birthday with an elaborate bash in Los Angeles of her own celebrity which is quite a contemporary sto- on Saturday (25.10.14) which was attended by celebrity mates including socialite ry. She deserves to be celebrated.” Victoria - who has TParis Hilton and ‘Pretty Little Liars’ actress Ashley Benson. Paris led the way with children Brooklyn, 15, Romeo, 12, Cruz, nine, and the congratulatory messages, tweeting: “Happy Birthday @SethMacFarlane! Such a fun Harper, three, with husband David Beckham - launched birthday party last night. Wishing you the best on your special day.” The ‘Family Guy’ her eponymous label in 2008 and opened her first creator opted for a casual shirt but other party-goers chose more extravagant looks, stand-alone boutique in London last month. According with Paris dressing up in a corset scattered with diamonds and blue bunny ears, posing to Management Today, she now has a personal fortune for an Instagram snap with another guest who had decided to mimic fashion designer of a staggering £210 million, which also helped push Karl Lagerfeld. It wasn’t the first event which the actor threw over the weekend, with her towards the top spot. the birthday boy also hosting a fancy orchestral performance at UCLA’s Royce Hall on The magazine considered factors such as number of Friday night (24.10.14), with Charlize Theron and Olivia Wilde in attendance. The John jobs created, overall estimated wealth and sales figures Wilson Orchestra performed 17 songs, with the ‘American Dad!’ creator singing two over a five-year period in compiling the list. Amit & tracks with the team of musicians, including a version of ‘Singing in the Rain’. Seth - who Meeta Patel, founders of pharmaceutical group Auden is currently filming the sequel to his acclaimed 2012 comedy ‘Ted’ - thanked fans on Mckenzie, and Mahmud Kamani of Boohoo.com took Twitter following the weekend of events, writing: “Thank you everyone for all the happy second and third place in the list. birthdays!” lifestyle TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

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he ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ star filed for divorce from the for- mer NBA star in December after months of rumours he was addicted to Tcocaine and cheated on her with multiple women, and is upset he hasn’t signed their divorce papers yet. A source told Us Weekly magazine: “Without an official divorce, there’s no closure for her.” The 30-year-old beauty has been throwing herself into her work following her recent split from rap- per French Montana after eight months of dating, but still worries about her estranged husband. The family insider said: “She still loves Lamar. It’s a sad sit- uation. “Khloe worries he’s doing drugs again. He’s a mess. “She gets very emotional when he’s doing bad things. There’s a part of her that can’t let go and wishes he could change, but she realises he won’t.” The source added: “They started having problems the second year of marriage and the third was Lamar Odom just awful. She looks back at the marriage and the damage he caused.” Even though she is still upset about their split, KhloÈ is eager to move on. The

wants ‘closure’ from ‘closure’ wants source said: “She’s taking her time, but she wants to fall in love again.” Khloe Kardashian Khloe

Kristen Bell

doesn’t think having a baby is stressful he ‘House of Lies’ actress, who is expecting her second child and already has daughter Lincoln, 19-months, Twith her husband, Dax Shepard, admits they are way more relaxed this time round and haven’t started decorating a nursery for their unborn baby yet. The 34-year-old star, who is in her third trimester, told Us Weekly magazine: “There’s been zero nursery prep... we’re just going to push it around in a bassinet. Caring for a newborn is pretty stressful, but no overly so - just feed it and keep it clean.” ‘Parenthood’ star Dax, 39, has been trying to help the ‘Veronica Mars’ actress as much as possible as she enters the final stages of has a tattoo of a bumble bee has a tattoo Kelly Osbourne Kelly her pregnancy. She said: “He’s the best. I need help getting my shoes on and off. I can’t touch my toes anymore!” Kristen previously admitted she was too busy taking care of Lincoln to think about names for the next child. She said: “It’s hard to take focus off her [Lincoln] and think about the second baby, even though the second baby is here and growing.”

he ‘Fashion Police’ presenter took to her was the signature design in the late comedi- Instagram account to post a picture of enne’s jewellery line. Joan often talked about Therself being inked with the design by her fascination with the insects, including the tattooist Mark Mahoney at the Shamrock Social quote Kelly posted on her social networking Club in Hollywood - a tattoo parlour favoured site. The 29-year-old star was left devastated by celebrities - and posted a heartfelt message following Joan’s passing and recently admitted in tribute to her late co-host, who died last she was keen to adopt her dogs, a Havanese, a month aged 81. She wrote: “In honor of you Japanese Chin, a Jack Russell terrier and a bor- @joanrivers...”If you looked at aerodynamics, at der collie. Kelly’s inking comes just one day science, the bumble bee should not be able to after actress Zelda Williams headed to the fly. Physically, it was just not anatomically Shamrock Social Club to get a tattoo of a hum- equipped to soar. Yet it did, defying gravity, ming bird on her right hand in tribute to her defying logic. The bee was a creature that late father Robin Williams, who took his own defied and beat the odds, a miracle.” Thank you life in August. for being my Miracle@joanrivers.” Kelly’s idea to get a bumble bee tattooed on her right shoul- der is a direct reference to Joan as a bee pin

Sam Smith loves the idea of getting married

he ‘Stay With Me’ hitmaker, who is currently single, admits he is looking forward to settling down in the Tfuture and would love to open a coffee shop in Italy. The 22-year-old singer told Teen Vogue: “The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog...I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.” The British star, who has been openly gay for many years, wrote much of his debut album, ‘In The Lonely Hour,’ about unrequited love, but he will always “treasure” the experience. He said: “I fell in love with someone last year, and he didn’t love me back. I deleted him off of WhatsApp, and it felt like I’d just broken up with him. On the record you can hear heart- break, and there’s a beauty in that I will always treasure.” He added: “With the whole gay thing, I’ve had zero reaction, which says something beautiful about our generation and Paris Hilton how things are getting a little bit better.” But Sam still gets very branded DJ Deadmau5 emotional while performing tracks from the record. He said: “I stand onstage and I wanna cry for the entire thing because to seek attention people know my business. You all know me. You can read as he 33-year-old socialite hit back at the DJ Deadmau5 many interviews as you want, but if you put on my record, I’m on Twitter after he called her a “straight up a**” for telling you, that is me.” Ttrying to carve out a career in the music industry and earning $1 million for “playing a CD at a club.” In a post on his blog, the ‘Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff’ hitmaker wrote: “I remember back when, at the cosmo in Vegas, she attended, and i guess i was accommodating (as far as that usually goes for Robin Williams me) I could see she was having a fun time, liked the music, and just wanted to be a part of it all... so of course, why honoured by San Francisco Giants not... even i couldn’t hate on that. “But, let’s get real here for a second... There’s being invovled / enthusiastic about something... and then theres just being a straight up a**.” he late ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ star was a huge fan of the baseball team so ahead of their The 33-year-old musician - real name Joel Zimmerman - World Series game against Kansas City Royals yesterday, his children Zak, Zelda and said Paris was insulting him and his colleagues by TCody - who all wore team jerseys with their surnames on the back - and close friend encroaching on their scene and calling herself a profes- Billy Crystal were invited out onto the AT&T Park playing area. Zak threw the first pitch to sional, as they have “invested their entire lives to their Billy, who stood at the home plate, and a visual montage of Robin’s movies interspersed careers.” He added: “so Paris, thank you... were actually not with pictures of him and Giants stars was shown on the big screens in the stadium. His kids even mad youre enthusiatic about electronic music... we said in a statement: “We are honoured to be here in tribute to our father, someone who love that youre a part of our party. But please, get the hell loved his hometown and especially the Giants. “For all of us, it is a tremendous delight and back in your go kart. No need to prove that you found a little surreal to throw out the ceremonial first pitch of a World Series game for our team to someone stupid enough to consider paying you a million our dad’s best friend. We could not think of a better way to celebrate his memory. Let’s go dollars for something the world knows you arent... because here’s what you actually are to everyone who knows bet- Giants!” And Billy later told fans he had a “great night” at the game. He tweeted: “Great nite ter.. ticket sales. nothing more.” He also suggested the for- at WS in SF. Caught first pitch strike thrown by Zak Williams Robins son.Fans showered him mer reality TV star only became a DJ because she once dat- with love.” The Giants went on to win the game 11-4. Robin was found dead in an apparent ed DJ AfroJack. But the blonde beauty quickly laughed off suicide in August, aged 63. his rant, tweeting: “I find it hilarious when others try to badmouth me in order to get attention. Sorry that I’m #Killingit while doing what I love & live for.” lifestyle TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck, who plays young Marie van Performers seen at the media preview of musical production “Little Dancer” in New Goethem, and Rebecca Luker, who plays adult Marie Van Goethem, speak to Performers dance during the media preview of musical production “Little York, ahead of its world premiere to be held at the Kennedy Center in Washington. journalists after the media preview of musical production “Little Dancer” in Dancer” in New York. — AFP photos Part fact, part fiction and set in the backstage of the Paris Opera Ballet, the musical New York. production is inspired by a young ballerina who posed for Edgar Degas — who was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings — and became, inadvertently, the most famous dancer in the world. Mystery of Degas dancer takes to stage n Edgar Degas’ celebrated sculpture “The Little 14-Year-Old story to be told here that hasn’t been done on the musical theater discovered Marie and made her his muse. In the musical, he catch- Dancer,” the precocious ballet student holds her head high but stage,” said Ahrens, who won a Tony Award for the musical es her trying to steal from him and instead of turning her in to go Iwith a look of unease as she clasps her arms uncomfortably “Ragtime.” The musical opens Saturday at the Kennedy Center in to prison makes her pose for him. behind her back. When musical lyricist Lynn Ahrens took a closer Washington, where the original wax sculpture of “The Little 14- The musical shows Degas gradually developing a fatherly rela- look at the sculpture, she sensed that there must have been a Year-Old Dancer” is part of the collection of the National Gallery of tionship with Marie but also flashing his short temper with her. deeper tale between Degas and his model, Paris Opera Ballet stu- Art. The 1881 statue made Marie for a time a literal face of ballet Degas was a notorious curmudgeon and, according to historical dent Marie van Goethem. but little is known about her other than that she hailed from accounts, was asexual. “He was known to be quite cranky and The result is “Little Dancer,” a musical that probes deeper into Belgium and lived in poverty. extremely opinionated,” said Boyd Gaines, the Tony Award-win- what is known-and unknown-about the relationship between the Ballet students led precarious lives in late 19th-century Paris, ning actor who plays the singing Degas. French impressionist great and a girl seen only for posterity in scrounging for food and money and often surviving on the “One of the things I kept noticing all around in his diaries and wax. “For the first time I was looking at a person and I started to largesse of wealthy male patrons. in his letters was how lonely he was. But of course he pushed peo- wonder about her-who is this little cocky, stubborn girl?” Ahrens ple away,” he said. Ahrens said that she believed that Degas, who told AFP after a recent rehearsal at a Broadway studio. Imagining the relationship was known primarily for his paintings, must have felt differently as “The more I got into the research I realized there’s an incredible “Little Dancer” starts with a fictional telling of how the artist he cast Marie into a three-dimensional object. “I would like to believe that he also saw Marie as three-dimen- sional and not just as a subject to be painted and then to move on to the next subject. I think he became emotionally involved with her as a human being,” she said.

Merging ballet and musicals “Little Dancer” presented an paradoxical challenge for its cre- ators. It is a musical, a quintessentially American genre, but the work itself depicts another of the arts, ballet. The solution was a slight merging of the genres, with Tiler Peck, the principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, playing the role of the young Marie. The so-called 11-o’clock number-the cli- max of most musicals in which much of the cast sings together-is instead a ballet performance. “This is probably the first time that actual classical ballet has been used so extensively in the musical theater form,” Ahrens said. In real life, Marie was fired from the ballet and her later activities were unclear. The musical portrays an older Marie, played by Broadway star Rebecca Luker, but ends on a question mark about what happened to her. “I tried to honor the mystery of her fate,” Ahrens said. — AFP

A dancer takes off her shoes after taking part during the media preview of musical production “Little Dancer”. — AFP Tiler Peck performs YouTube comic puts Binoche explores passion, on a good ‘show’ fter graduating from the U. of Texas at Austin, Fahad Albutairi risk of war photography in 2010 launched his “La Yekthar Show,” which loosely trans- lates as “Zip it,” on YouTube. It has since evolved from ad- A ctress Juliette Binoche has long been fascinated by Wracked with guilt Stewart, playing an older actress reviving a play that libbed monologues to scripted episodes that now score an average made her famous 20 years earlier. of between two and three million hits each. Last year hits reached a war photography, she says, and often wonders Poppe notes that the film tries not to judge Rebecca. Binoche is known for working outside the studio sys- peak of 12 million for “No Woman, No Drive,” a Bob Marley song cov- Aabout the people who risk their lives to capture “It’s not black and white,” he says. “She’s trying to tell a tem - both the Hollywood system and in her own coun- er satirizing Saudi Arabia’s ban on female driving. Albutairi more such photos. Who are they, and what are they like? story. The fact is they were going out to kill people, try, she points out. “Very quickly I felt the need to be an recently landed a lead role in pan-Arab road movie “From A to B,” by She got a crash course when preparing for her new maybe many more. But a situation like this can break you outsider of ANY system,” she says. “I knew that speaking Emirati director Ali Mostafa, which opened the Abu Dhabi film fest. movie, “1,000 Times Good Night,” in which she plays a apart. “ English was the medium I had to travel with - I got that Albutairi spoke with Variety’s Nick Vivarelli about being an actor in photojournalist and mother whose personal risks wreak Indeed, when Rebecca arrives home to recuperate, very early on.” Saudi Arabia, a country with no movie theaters but with the world’s havoc on her family. she is broken and wracked with guilt. She promises that “To do a few commercial films so that then I can then highest density of YouTube users. Known for her intensive preparation for films - for “The she’ll stop. But when an opportunity arises again, this Lovers on the Bridge,” for example, she slept in the streets time in Africa, her photographer’s instincts kick in yet do this many independent films - for me it doesn’t work that way,” she adds. “I only go for what I really love. I’m not Q: How did your career in comedy get started? of Paris to experience life as a homeless person, angering again, with still more harrowing results for her family. A: While I was getting a degree in geophysics from the University of her own mother - Binoche interviewed war photojournal- Texas at Austin,I started doing open mic nights, and I also went ists to get a sense of what drives them. “The passion they to see lots of movies. Even though I didn’t major in film or act- have for their work can become an obsession,” she says. ing, I soaked up a lot in Austin. I saw movies in proper movie “You want to have a family, and yet you can’t live without theatres, which is something I couldn’t do in Saudi. That’s a huge your passion. How is it possible to live with both?” deterrent for us. Then I went to work for Saudi Aramco. But dur- Norwegian director Erik Poppe says he based the film ing that time I also started a YouTube show, and it grew from on his own experiences as a photojournalist. But he there. decided to make the central character a woman, he says, because he felt it would intensify the sense of conflict Q: Aside from “No Woman, No Drive” which has, of course, been between one’s profession and one’s family. Binoche’s massive, are there any other episodes of the show that you character, Rebecca, has a husband and two daughters, all consider real standouts? of whom suffer in various ways from what she puts them A: There is one that’s really interesting called “Stereotype.” It’s about through. a group of Saudi students in Boston after the Boston marathon It’s not lost on either the director or his leading lady bombings, and how they act like they’re not Saudis, pretending that this is a particularly apt time to focus on the dangers to be Latinos, because the main suspect was thought to be of being a war journalist, with the recent beheadings of Saudi. journalists in Syria at the hands of Islamic State militants - and other deaths in the past few years. “It’s going to be Q: How important has YouTube been for your career? harder and harder for people to do this work,” Poppe A: I work with what you might call a YouTube troupe called Telfaz11. notes. We are a bunch of writers, cinematographers, directors and The film begins in Afghanistan, where Rebecca is doc- actors who got together and started doing different things. The umenting the last hours of a Taleban suicide bomber - in reason we started on YouTube is because the TV industry in this this case, a woman. No male photographer would be region is a bit of a monopoly. So it’s really difficult to break allowed to see such intimate preparations as the dressing through. You have to knock on a lot of doors. We kind of wanted of the bomber, ending with the fitting of her suicide vest. to be independent of all of that, to not be influenced by produc- But Rebecca wants even better photos, so she asks to tion companies who are already working with TV here. On ride in the bomber’s car into Kabul. Exiting the car, she Oscar winner Juliette Binoche in “1000 Times Good Night.” YouTube we have complete freedom. And the numbers for snaps yet a few more, and in doing so, inadvertently YouTube users in Saudi Arabia are massive. attracts the attention of the police. The ensuing struggle The ending, which brings her back to Afghanistan against commercial if it interests me. But the choice has results in the premature detonation of the bomb. where she began, isn’t totally clear. “It’s not really about to come not from fear. That’s the key. Choosing from fear, Q: How did you make the transition to acting? Rebecca is seriously wounded, but is luckier than the the answer, it’s about the questioning,” Binoche says. you are not connected to your root. Who doesn’t want to A: In 2012 I got approached by a casting agent. I auditioned for the civilians nearby who are killed. “Definitely she cannot carry on the have success? But the real success at the end of the day is bellboy part in “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” That was an eye- “We talked about that scene a lot,” Binoche says. way she did, because it went really too far. But what I (doing something) I care for, and learning something opener, even though I did not get the part. A couple of months “Rebecca tries to warn people nearby - but yet, she push- love about art is that it’s not for answering, it’s for raising while doing it.” — AP later, I got the email from Ali Mostafa regarding “From A to B.” es it. It’s always this question of how far can you go as a questions.” — Reuters human being. Why didn’t she say to the police, ‘It’s a sui- It’s a busy time for Binoche, a 1996 Oscar winner for cide bomber.’ It’s hard. You’re working with your instinct, “The English Patient,” who at 50 is still one of France’s trying to cause as little harm as possible and yet getting most glamorous actresses. She’s also getting attention for information to the world.” “Clouds of Sils Maria,” in which she appears with Kristen lifestyle TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

Disney pens love letter to Japan with robot film

isney executives call their next film “a love letter to “Big Hero 6” opened the Tokyo Film Festival on Thursday not only of Tadashi’s charming and loving persona but also of But can the new film duplicate the success of “Frozen”? It Japanese culture.” No wonder: This nation can’t get night - the first Disney animation film to have its global pre- his message of peace, even after Tadashi dies in an explosion. might take a super-Hiro. “Big Hero 6” features fantastic music Denough of animation, especially Disney’s. miere in Japan. It opens at theaters around the world in Despite Tadashi’s intentions to devote Baymax to healing by Henry Jackman but not a potential smash single like “Let It Walt Disney Animation Studios is practically bending back- November and December. and cuddling, Hiro adds some of his own more conventional Go.” It also lacks fairy-tale princesses, which were a big part of ward to woo Japanese moviegoers after the stupendous suc- Its directors, Don Hall of “Winnie the Pooh” and Chris robotic-design touches, such as a powerful fist, metallic ware the “Frozen” merchandising frenzy. cess of “Frozen.” The fifth-highest-grossing movie of all time Williams of “Bolt,” did a lot of research and tapped Japanese and sky-soaring rockets, as Hiro embarks on his mission of The new film is about brotherly love and a little boy’s made more than $250 million of its total in Japan alone, nearly sources to help make San Fransokyo authentic, down to sign- solving the mystery of Tadashi’s death. perennial fantasy, a loyal robot friend. But even in robot-inno- a third of its overseas numbers and more than five times what posts, manhole covers and faces of passersby. It’s a safe bet that Japanese are enamored of all things vator Japan, Disney half-heartedly showed a fluffy stuffed doll it made in France, according to Box Office Mojo. Williams said the world they created was inspired by Hayao Disney - and that they are willing to spend. in Baymax’s likeness. It wasn’t even inflatable. “Frozen” is third of all time in Japan, behind “Titanic” and Miyazaki, the animation legend who won an Oscar for Disneyland and DisneySea parks, outside Tokyo, had 31 Roy Conli, who also produced “Frozen,” was unfazed, Japanese animation classic “Spirited Away,” delivering success “Spirited Away.” million visitors last year, up 14 percent from the previous year, emphasizing “Big Hero 6” was “a love letter to Japanese cul- that even Disney executives acknowledge was surprising. Hall said the mouth-less face of Baymax, the inflatable nearly all Japanese. Each spent an average of about $100, or ture.” “We hope that Japan loves it,” he said. — AP Following “Frozen” into theaters in the country that is the marshmallow-like robot, was inspired by a bell he saw at a 10,000 yen, on admission tickets, eating out and goods pur- birthplace of manga and Hello Kitty is “Big Hero 6,” which stars Japanese temple. “I saw a smile,” Hall told reporters recently chases. a Japanese whiz kid as its hero, aptly named Hiro. Disney while in town for the Tokyo Film Festival. “I thought it would Mickey Mouse is so popular here the rodent’s image is sold shows its love for Japan by setting the story in a picturesque be the perfect face for Baymax.” The rubbery Baymax, as traditional festival dolls, is a mascot wearing the blue uni- town that’s a cross between Tokyo and San Francisco, San designed to be a health care robot by Hiro’s older brother form of the World Cup soccer team and is a familiar pattern on Fransokyo, complete with cable cars and futuristic trains. Tadashi, becomes a companion for Hiro, and an embodiment fashionable clothing in collaboration with design brands. Zellweger ‘new face’ highlights Hollywood ageing taboo

he storm over Renee Zellweger’s new- Eternal youth look face has thrown the spotlight on The ideal they are striving for is embodied Tone of Hollywood’s eternal questions: for example by Jennifer Lawrence, the how do you grow old in Tinseltown? The “Hunger Games” star who won an Oscar at “Bridget Jones” star, who won a best sup- the tender age of 22 last year for “Silver porting actress Oscar in 2004 for “Cold Linings Playbook.” Mountain,” appeared unrecognizable at a The obsession with youth is less strong women in Hollywood awards show earlier for men, who continue to win leading roles this week. into their older years, including romantic and Gone were the sulky pout and rounded action parts. Mickey Rourke’s and John cheeks from her turn as the eternal singleton Travolta’s cosmetic surgery is more the Jones in the 2000 and 2004 movies, replaced exception than the norm. by the 45-year-old’s impressively wrinkle-free In 2013, there were about seven million and slimline face. She became an instant cosmetic surgery operations on women in water-cooler and Twitter trending topic, with the US aged 40-54. Botox injections and eye- endless comments about what plastic sur- lid reconstruction were the most popular. gery or botox she has had done, while others Plastic surgeon Ashkan Ghavami, whose worried about her health. Beverly Hills office sees many celebrities, said Some denounced Hollywood itself for the modern technology only adds to the pres- pressure it imposes on actresses to meet tra- sure on actors and actresses. ditional ideals of beauty. “In Hollywood it’s “Right now we have high definition strange not to (have plastic surgery) if you movies and TV shows where they show you are a woman. You can’t get work. Movie cast- the make-up and the wrinkles. So there’s a ing directors won’t hire you if you look old,” lot more pressure on people to look good in said Sasha Stone, founder of www.awards- real life,” he said. daily.com. In his view, Zellweger’s surgery wasn’t a It is a Tinseltown taboo, not to be allowed success because her eyelids are too to age naturally, in contrast to places like stretched and she has too much botox. The Britain and France, Stone told AFP. “It’s an actress-who has not confirmed she had work American phenomenon, an American obses- done on her face-called the storm triggered sion,” she said. There is a long list of actresses by her latest look “silly.” who have gone under the knife to maintain “I’m glad folks think I look different! I’m their youthful appearance: Demi Moore, living a different, happy, more fulfilling life, Nicole Kidman, Meg Ryan, Jane Fonda, and I’m thrilled that perhaps it shows,” Melanie Griffith... to name but a few. Zellweger told People magazine. Some have gone a little too far in this Tom Nunan, a professor at the UCLA pact with the devil, finding themselves with School of Theatre, Film and Television, said it slightly over-rounded cheeks or “trout lips,” was “sad” that a star as big as Zellweger can’t with a little too much padding around the admit to her personal choices publicly. mouth. “Everybody understands a little botox here “When they do their face, they hope to and there, a little eye lift,” he said. — AFP keep getting the A-list parts. They don’t want to play grandmothers. They want the leading Actress Renee Zellweger arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of “Appaloosa” on September 17, 2008 in Beverly Hills, California. Renee Zellweger hit roles,” said Stone. back at the online furor triggered by her new-look face, saying she was simply older and happier. — AFP Marcia Strassman, ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ actress, dies at 66 ctress Marcia Strassman, known for her roles in such hits as “Welcome Back, Kotter” and “MASH,” died Friday after a long fight with breast cancer, her sister Julie AStrassman confirmed. She was 66. Along with her many TV credits, Strassman co-starred opposite Rick Moranis in the 1989 Disney live action hit “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” and 1992 sequel “Honey I Blew Up the Kid.” She was also a longstanding member on the national board of the Screen Actors Guild. The news of her death broke online when her friend, director Bob Weide, tweeted about her. https://twitter.com/BobWeide/status/526241543489724416 Strassman’s first major TV role came in 1964, when she appeared in “The Patty Duke Show.” She would go on to play Nurse Margie Culter in several episodes of “MASH.” She’s best known, however, as Julie Kotter, wife to the titular school teacher on “Welcome Back, Kotter.” The series ran on ABC from 1975-1979 and featured a young John Travolta in the cast. Most recently, Strassman had a stint on “Third Watch” in 2004, appeared in the 2003 TV adaptation of the “Tremors” films and NBC’s “Providence.” Also included in her TV cred- its are “Booker” and “Noah Knows Best,” and she did voice work for animated series including “Aaaahh!!! Real Monsters.” Along with her the “Honey I Shrunk the Kids” films, she was also in 1985 film “The Aviator” with Christopher Reeve and Rosanna Arquette. Julie Strassman said her sister performed in an annual event to benefit breast cancer research called Duets for years, and was active in raising money and awareness for the disease, even before she was diagnosed. Ron “Horshack” Palillo and Robert “Epstein” Hegyes of the original “Welcome Back, Kotter” cast died in 2012. John Sylvester White, who played Mr. Woodman on the show, died in 1988. In this Aug. 1, 2014 file photo, British singer Johnny Marr performs at Camp Bestival at Lulworth Castle in Dorset, England. The former guitarist Strassman is survived by her daughter, costume designer Elizabeth “Lizzie” Collector, for The Smiths has just released his second solo album, “Playland,” a follow-up to well-received 2013 effort “The Messenger.” — AP along with her sister Julie and brother Steven Strassman. Julie Strassman added that she was a beloved aunt to her son, Jesse, and daughter, Halley. Funeral services are pending. Julie Strassman requests that in lieu of flowers, dona- tions be made to cancer organizations such as the Susan B. Komen Foundation and the Johnny Marr returns to rock roots on ‘Playland’ American Cancer Society, in Marcia Strassman’s name. — Reuters ittingly for the man who co-wrote “How Soon things like wanting to have the best live band So the role from a musical point (of view) is not Is Now,” Johnny Marr doesn’t believe in living around.” entirely new to me.” Fin the past. The former guitarist for The To that end he’s keeping up a brisk pace of per- He is, he says, an optimist. “I’ve always felt like a Smiths has just released his second solo album, formances, including almost 30 dates in the U.S. really great song is around the corner.” And he has “Playland,” a follow-up his well-received “The and Canada starting Nov 9. Marr, 50, knows he will no truck with aging rockers who lament the Messenger” in 2013. Both offer robust, richly tex- never escape the shadow of The Smiths, the 1980s decline of popular music. He rattles off a list of tured guitar rock - the latest of Marr’s many musical Manchester band that melded his jagged guitar young bands that impress him, including Palma modes. and the sardonic-poetic lyrics of singer Morrissey Violets, Childhood, Menace Beach and Mimicking Since The Smiths split in 1987 - leaving Marr, into the defining sound for indie-loving introverts Birds. “I think it’s corny and somewhat arrogant to then 23, already a guitar hero - he has worked with around the world. Short-lived but long-admired, think that your time was better,” Marr said. “I know electronic outfit The The, joined post-punk super- the band is among 15 nominees this year for the people who grew up in the ‘60s and they are very group Electronic, fronted Johnny Marr and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - though Marr dismisses keen to remind me that it wasn’t all the Small Faces This photo provided Healers, collaborated with indie rockers Modest the idea of induction as about as likely as a Smiths and the Kinks and the Beatles. There has always by Julie Strassman, Mouse and contributed to the soundtracks for reunion. In other words, don’t hold your breath. been mainstream corporate crap everywhere. shows her sister “Inception” and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.” “I don’t really see it as a serious situation,” Marr “There is this idea that that’s all there is now, but actress Marcia He rarely seems to rest, much less rest on his said of the Hall of Fame nod. Though best known there’s always going to be young people who are Strassman. The laurels. “The idea of a musician sitting around with as a collaborator, Marr says becoming a frontman making good music.” — AP actress who played a bottle of wine listening to his old recordings wasn’t a huge leap. “It doesn’t feel like alien territo- Gabe Kaplan’s wife, seems really a somewhat tragic waste of time to ry for me,” he said. “I didn’t have to jump through Julie, on the 1970’s me,” Marr said over the phone from a stop on his any psychological hoops. sitcom ‘Welcome British tour. “I’ve been doing this now since I was 14, 15 in Back, Kotter,’ has died With his two solo records, “I kind of feel like I’ve various permutations. ... I used to front bands occa- at age 66. — AP settled into the thing I wanted to do.” He says his sionally, and other times I would join bands, and goals “are surprisingly simple and obvious. They’re sometimes I would have a singer working with me. Marcia Strassman, ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ actress, 39dead at 66 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014

The Irish Band “September Girls” perform at the Knitting Factory in New York. More than 1,300 musicians descended on New York for the annual CMJ Music Marathon, which provides a stage to emerging artists vying for greater recognition in the industry. — AP Irish gloom girls among highlights at taste-making CMJ

ore than 1,300 musicians descended on New York for to Icelandic post-rock icons Sigur Ros, except Pompeii crafts to be released for the song “Blueprint,” in which the band went on stage, with the Belfast-bred Blair prancing around the the annual CMJ Music Marathon, which provides a its sound into concise rock tunes with vocals. “I was 19 when to a ranch and blew up an old Honda Accord. stage as the Brazilian-French Collet keeps cool, Slash-style in a Mstage to emerging artists vying for greater recogni- the band started in ‘04 and now I’m 30, so basically we’ve black overcoat and top-hat. tion in the industry. While the number of music festivals has reached the point where the band went through this neces- Ballet School The band played first but enjoyed the warmest reception soared in recent years, 33-year-old CMJ-originally named for sary puberty,” Stafford told AFP after a CMJ show. Ballet School’s rhythm section could have come straight at a CMJ showcase by the Bella Union label, run by Simon the College Music Journal-is credited with helping discover “We had to take this time to figure out-how do we want to from the 1980s, with a synth bass line that Whitney Houston Raymonde of Cocteau Twins fame. As the band spoke to AFP, artists who quickly became big including Lady Gaga, Arcade change the sound? Because we felt we were a little melodra- would have danced to, but the Berlin-based band is defined one stranger even approached Blair and said that Ballet Fire and, much earlier, R.E.M. No selection can be exhaustive, matic in the early days,” he said. For “Loom,” the band’s third by the soaring voice and presence of singer Rosie Blair. School made him enjoy music again. but here are some highlights from CMJ which ran over five album, Pompeii tapped the Tosca String Quartet, which had Blair, who has had no formal vocal instruction, empowers Blair, a self-described “provincial kid from Ireland,” said she days through Saturday at clubs across New York. its start as a popular tango orchestra in Austin; guitarist/key- each song with her vast-ranged voice in a delivery that bears came of age “when authenticity was at a certain apex” with boardist Erik Johnson brought in analog synthesizers. similarities to Siouxie Sioux, even though Blair prefers to wear artists such as Kurt Cobain, who killed himself in 1994 when September Girls Stafford voiced hope that Pompeii would work on sound- white instead of black. she was 10. “What I found was this huge conflict between With a hazy guitar reverb, dominating bass-lines and a tracks, saying: “We’re a very cinematic band by nature.” But the synth sound is deceptive, with guitarist Michel Jun wanting to be successful and also wanting to maintain some touch of psychedelia in the keyboards, the Dublin-based Pompeii had a taste of cinematic drama as it filmed a video Collet giving a rock kick. The dichotomy is all the more striking integrity,” she said. “On stage, the tension is tangible between September Girls conjure up a landscape of overcast skies but those two things,” she said. “But that conflict, I think, is what framed through pop melodies. makes great artists really great.” All but one member of the five-woman band takes turns on vocals, with songs on the debut album, “Cursing the Sea,” Stars from Taiwan revolving as often as not around relationship dysfunction. Numerous countries-including Australia, Britain, Canada, “How long must I be lost at sea? Take these pills and swal- France, Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand-seized on low me,” runs the pop-catchy chorus of “Ships,” set to a CMJ to send emerging artists to New York. shoegazing guitar that could have come from The Jesus and In contrast, Taiwan sent stars with already established cre- Mary Chain. “We all kind of have pop sensibilities but are more dentials for a packed show at the Highline Ballroom on Friday interested in the darker side of it,” guitarist Caoimhe Derwin headlined by A-Lin, who has been nominated three times for told AFP after one of September Girls’ seven shows at CMJ. best female singer in Mandarin at the island’s Golden Melody Fellow guitarist Jessie Ward, who unlike her Irish band- Awards. The show also featured the US debut of Dwagie, a Guitar player mates is a transplant from California, said the sound had a Taiwanese rapper known for his social consciousness. He part- and vocals, “dirtiness and the darkness (that) is part of the Irishness.” “We ed the stage with a shoutout to the Dalai Lama, showing a Jessie Ward of write pop songs, but we think a straightforward pop song is a snippet from the spiritual leader on the screen. the Irish Band bit boring,” Ward said. Ed Yen, the executive producer of the Taiwan showcase, “September Pompeii said the push was looking not necessarily at winning US fans Girls,” per- “Loom,” the first album from Austin, Texas-based Pompeii but at persuading Western artists to look to Taiwan when forms at the in six years, starts gently with melancholic piano chords seeking collaboration in Asia. — AFP Knitting before sweeping strings foreshadow a bigger sound to come. Factory in The title song gradually climaxes into the ferocity of frontman New York. Dean Stafford’s guitar. The band bears a strong resemblance

Dean Stafford (R), lead guitarist and vocalist for the band Pompeii, performs at the club The Delancey in New York. Taiwanese singer A-Lin performs at the Highline Ballroom Taiwanese rapper Dwagie performs at the Highline in New York as she headlines the Taiwanese showcase at Ballroom in New York as part of the annual CMJ Music the annual CMJ Music Marathon. Marathon. — AFP photos