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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 SHAWWAL 25, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Movenpick At least 39 Young Indian Real Madrid Hotel launches dead as Japan shakes up draws 1-1 ‘Indian Wedding landslides fashion with with Atletico Festival’5 engulf 7homes prints38 and pret in20 Super Cup Islamic State beheads US Max 45º Min 32º journalist, holds another High Tide 07:35 & 22:25 Outrage over killing Obama warns of ‘cancer’ Killer likely British Low Tide • • 01:53 & 16:03 40 PAGES NO: 16261 150 FILS WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama yesterday News demanded the world take action against the “cancer” of in brief jihadist extremism in Iraq, after an American reporter was murdered by militants. As US jets continued to strike jihadist targets despite a threat to kill a second Suspected Qaeda financier arrested reporter, Obama said: “When people harm Americans KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti, Hajjaj bin Fahd Al-Ajmi, considered a anywhere, we do what’s necessary to see that justice is financier of Al-Nusra Front, a Syrian rebel group linked to done.” Obama was speaking after the so-called “Islamic Al-Qaeda, was arrested yesterday on his return from a visit State”, which has seized much of eastern Syria and to Qatar, activists said. They northern Iraq, released a video showing a masked mili- said on Twitter that Ajmi, 26, tant beheading US reporter James Foley. was arrested at Kuwait airport. The black-clad man said the 40-year-old freelance The UN Security Council last journalist, who was kidnapped in northern Syria in Friday placed Ajmi and five oth- November 2012, had been killed to avenge American er Islamists on an Al-Qaeda air strikes against his movement. He paraded a second sanctions list, imposing a travel US reporter, Steven Sotloff, before the camera and said ban and assets freeze. They are he too would die unless Obama changes course. accused of providing money, Obama did not directly refer to Sotloff in his brief fighters and weapons to extremist groups. In early August, address - and the Pentagon confirmed that airstrikes the United States also imposed sanctions on Ajmi and two would continue - but he paid tribute to Foley and said other Kuwaitis for allegedly raising money for Al-Nusra the Islamic State must be defeated. Front. “Jim Foley’s life stands in stark contrast to his killers,” he said, branding the militants genocidal murderers $5m donation to fight Ebola who target civilians and subject women and children to GENEVA: Kuwait will donate $5 million to World Health “torture and rape and slavery”. “Their victims are over- Organization (WHO) and to the United Nations Office for whelmingly Muslim and no faith teaches people to mas- the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to com- sacre innocents,” he said, dismissing the IS claim to rep- bat the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa. Kuwait’s resent the aspirations of a global Muslim caliphate. “No Permanent Delegate to the United Nations Jamal Al- just God would stand for what they did yesterday and Ghunaim told KUNA yesterday that this donation was what they do every single day,” he declared. “We will be ordered by HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber vigilant and we will be relentless ... From governments Al-Sabah to aid in this humanitarian crisis, especially since and peoples across the Middle East, there has to be a Kuwait, the current president of the Africa-Arab summit, is common effort to extract this cancer so it does not concerned with supporting sustainable development pro- This undated image shows a frame from a video released by Islamic State militants on Tuesday that purports to show the killing of journalist James Foley by the militant group. — AP spread.” grams on the African continent. Continued on Page 13 UAE approves lengthy counter-terrorism law Emiratis told to avoid London areas DUBAI: The ruler of the United Arab Emirates approved a which identified potential death-penalty cases as attempts new counter-terrorism law that strengthens existing laws to attack any royal family members or members of the against money laundering, while also expanding penalties Cabinet’s Supreme Council, and acts that lead to the death to include the death penalty, life imprisonment and fines of a person such as recruiting people to join or joining a of up to $27 million, state media reported yesterday. The terrorist organization and attacking security forces. law, according to the state-backed The National newspa- The newspaper said the law defines a terrorist offense per, calls for establishing Saudi-style counseling and reha- as “any action or inaction made a crime by this law and bilitation centers for people found “to be terrorism prone.” every action or inaction made a crime by any other law if Impersonating a public figure could lead to life imprison- they are carried out for a terrorist cause”. The Emirates, a ment, the paper said. Western-allied federation of seven sheikdoms that The official Emirates News Agency reported that Abu includes Dubai, is concerned about the rise of extremist Dhabi ruler and UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al- groups like the Islamic State group that’s surging in Syria Nahyan endorsed the law, but provided no further details. and Iraq, as well as Al-Qaeda. A draft of the law was approved in July by the country’s More immediately, though, UAE rulers have been con- Federal National Council, which acts largely as an advisory cerned about the possible threat to their rule from the body. The draft law was not released to the wider public to Muslim Brotherhood-linked Al-Islah group in the wake of discuss, though parts of the law have been publicized in Arab Spring uprisings. local media. Dubai-based Gulf News also obtained a copy, Continued on Page 13 Gaza war rages on, truce dead Hamas military chief escapes attack GAZA CITY: The armed wing of days of calm exploded into blood- killed since Palestinian militants Hamas warned foreign airlines yes- shed. Mohammed Deif, who has launched a barrage of rockets on terday against flying into Tel Aviv, topped Israel’s most wanted list for southern Israel on Tuesday and F16 threatening to step up its six-week more than a decade, escaped the fighter jets carried out retaliatory air conflict with Israel and declaring assassination attempt, Hamas said. strikes, Palestinian medics say. “We truce talks in Cairo over. The warning Israel, which had carried out five are warning international airlines came after Israeli warplanes pound- previous attempts on Deif’s life, said and press them to stop flying into ed Gaza again yesterday as furious it would have no qualms about try- Ben Gurion airport from 6 am (0300 mourners buried the wife and infant ing again, describing him as an “arch GMT) Thursday,” the spokesman of son of Hamas’s top military com- murderer.” the Hamas armed wing, Abu mander, baying for revenge as nine So far, 20 Gazans have been Obeida, said in a televised speech. Last month, many international airlines briefly suspended flights into Tel Aviv after a Hamas rocket struck close to the airport. Dressed in military fatigues with his face wrapped in a red-and-white che- quered headscarf, Abu Obeida said Hamas was abandoning efforts to negotiate a durable ceasefire with Israel at Egyptian-brokered talks. “We are calling on the Palestinian delegation to withdraw immediately from Cairo and not to return,” he said in a speech broadcast on Hamas’s Al- Aqsa TV channel. “There will be no return to talks after today and any move in this direction will never achieve any result,” he added. “The GAZA: A Palestinian paramedic holds the body of seven-month-old Ali enemy lost a golden chance to reach Deif, the son of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, after he sus- a ceasefire with limited demands, for tained fatal injuries during an Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza City on which it will pay after today.” Tuesday. The Israeli strike also killed the boy’s 27-year-old mother. — AFP Continued on Page 13 THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 LOCAL EU lauds Kuwait’s humanitarian aid role

BRUSSELS: A European Union official responsible for humanitarian aid praised yesterday Kuwait’s humanitarian activi- ties around the globe and said that the EU’s executive body looks forward for further engagement with Kuwait. “The European Commission recog- nizes the increasingly prominent role, which Kuwait has been playing in global humanitarian assistance over recent years, especially in addressing the tremendous humanitarian needs caused by the Syria conflict,” said EU Commissioner for international coopera- tion humanitarian aid and crisis Kristalina Georgieva response, Kristalina Georgieva, in an exclusive statement to (KUNA). “As the “The Commission therefore looks for- world is facing an unprecedented num- ward to further engaging with Kuwait on ber of large humanitarian crises, the common endeavors aimed at addressing international community must mobilize humanitarian needs and promoting at full and coordinate efforts to effective- humanitarian principles,” Georgeiva ly assist those in need,” she indicated. added. — KUNA NBK celebrates World Humanitarian Day

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) cele- Mattar, NBK Public Relations Executive brated the “World Humanitarian Day” by Manager. “World Humanitarian Day is an launching a special initiative among its annual global initiative, that takes place on employees that comes in line with the United August 19th and we are proud to be the lead- Nation’s initiative titled “The World Needs ers in such worldwide initiatives”. More”. Al Mattar added: “NBK has been at the fore- The initiative aims at raising awareness front of supporting Kuwait’s community among employees to the various humanitari- through a range of social programs. This initia- an causes around the world. NBK documented tive reflects NBK’s commitment toward corpo- employees’ participation in a short film to rate social responsibility alongside many other spread awareness and encourage others to education and healthcare activities and events take part in humanitarian initiatives. The film that had been carried out to show support to was uploaded on NBK social media pages on the society and all its members.” YouTube, and clips of it as well on Instagram. World Humanitarian Day is a day dedicated The video was also on Twitter, Facebook and to recognize humanitarian personnel and Google+. those who have lost their lives working for “We are happy to be the first to support humanitarian causes. It was designated by the and celebrate this initiative” said Manal Al United Nations and set as 19 August. Manal Al Mattar Deadline announced for railway tender

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Communications has ize a conference for Gulf Cooperation Council’s set August 31 as a deadline for qualifying at communications ministers shortly to mull the least 12 companies for a railway project ten- latest developments related to the GCC rail- der, a senior ministry official said yesterday. way network. The national railway network will be over In the meantime, Al-Bader announced that 500 km-long and will be built in two phases to the Ministry will qualify the companies apply- be completed by 2018, Mansour Al-Bader, ing to partake in the Kuwait’s 200km-long Assistant Undersecretary for Transport Sector, national metro network project. The metro said in press statements. The Kuwaiti national network will run across the country through network is expected to be linked with and 90 stations, nine of them will be underground part of the GCC railway network. and the remaining 81 stations will be above Mansour Al-Bader He pointed out that the Ministry will organ- the ground, he said. — KUNA LOCAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

In Brief Case adjourned Traffic jams Vacationers return KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry denied yesterday KUWAIT: Major General Abdullah Al-Muhanna, the KUWAIT: Anwar Al-Yassine, the Assistant reports that police refused to transfer political Assistant Undersecretary for Traffic Affairs and the activist Saqr Al-Hashash from the Central Prison to Undersecretary for Border Security at the Interior Interior Ministry, met senior ministry officials to discuss Ministry, gave orders to mobilize border security forces the court for a trial Tuesday. The Full Court had a plan to prepare for traffic jams ahead of the school adjourned the case to September 30 after Hashash starting from this past Monday until September 7th, in year’s beginning next month. The meeting saw agree- anticipation of summer vacationers’ return to Kuwait. did not show up. Hashash faces charges for allegedly ment on a full strategy with a timetable to resolve the posting instructions on his Twitter account on how The senior officials’ orders also include establishing traffic jams’ problem in cooperation with other state coordination with the ministry’s financial department to to prepare Molotov cocktails, and instigating people departments. The discussions followed instructions of to use them to attack police during unlicensed spend allowances for officers included in the mobiliza- Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Sabah, the Deputy tion. — Al-Anba demonstrations. — Al-Anba Prime Minister and Interior Minister. — Al-Anba Photo of the day

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man inspects Boom ship models at a local fair. The ‘Boom’ was the largest, most popular dhow used in pre-oil Kuwait for commercial trade, water transport and pearl diving. The ships’ manufacturing industry vanished in the mid-20th century with the discovery of oil, and the movement of ship makers, sea captains and workers to the government sector. — Photo by Joseph Shagra Housing crisis continues Plans in place for 5 major projects By Sara Ahmed Qadsiya was KD 250,000. The criticism came after former State Minister for KUWAIT: The inability to buy a home in one of the rich- Housing Affairs Salem Al-Othaina revealed that there est countries in the world may sound like a bad joke but was a backlog of around 107,000 housing applications for many young Kuwaitis it’s a difficult reality. Despite awaiting their turn for a government house or a land repeated calls from lawmakers and growing societal plot, adding that the government plan also takes into need, the government has been seen to be dragging its account the addition of 8,000 applications on average feet on the release of land for the construction of new every year. Some citizens may wait up to 10 to 18 years residential areas. before receiving a plot of land or a government built In December of last year, MP Faisal Al-Duwaisan home. lashed out at the government and accused it of deliber- Recently the Housing Ministry has said that it would ately perpetuating the housing crisis under pressure stop taking monthly premiums on housing loans in the from real estate companies and influential people to case of homes not yet habitable (for instance, not having keep the price of land inflated. electricity connected or fire department certified or etc.) The government, meanwhile, is going forward with Decades’ long backlog plans that include five major housing projects currently “If the price of real estate and land in Kuwait was not placed for tender, and three others in the planning too expensive, we wouldn’t have had a housing prob- process to cover housing demands until 2020. The proj- lem. Accordingly, we should bring down the price of ects currently approved are the North Mutla’a City with real estate and the government should distribute land capacity to build 52,000 housing units, the North at a very low price,” Duwaisan said. “There are people Subbiya City with 52,000 units, the Khairan City with who want to keep the price of land in Kuwait more 35,000 units, the Mutla’a Area with 22,000 units, in addi- expensive than Tokyo. We have reached a point where tion to 12,000 units in each of Wafra and west of no one can afford to buy a house because most people Abdullah Al-Mubarak City. don’t have KD 300,000 or KD 400,000,” Duwaisan said. The Public Authority for Housing Welfare also Former MP Ali Al-Rashed said that five years ago during informed the Kuwait Municipality about plans to build a special debate on housing in the Assembly, “I said it 123,000 housing units, including 45,000 south the Sabah was strange that the price of 500 square meters in Al-Ahmad City.

KUWAIT: The Sabah Al-Ahmad Sea City project, located near the proposed Khairan City project. — KUNA THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 LOCAL Arms collection bill to grant carte blanche to security forces Weapon spread raise high security concerns

KUWAIT: The government has grown Easy access advert such an increase with the Crime increasingly concerned about the Despite strict regulations on gun change in the law. It’s unclear what Crime Report presence of unlicensed firearms and ownership, firearms including hand- efforts are being done to prevent Report their availability in Kuwait. Unnamed guns and hunting rifles can be easily the importation of firearms or security sources, quoted in local bought at local markets. The estimat- through which means - illicit or Arabic daily Al Qabas, warned that ed total number of guns (both licit legal - gun imports are controlled. ‘Sheikh’ sentenced the unlicensed arms raise the risk of and illicit) held by civilians in Kuwait is The Al-Qabas article suggests that Man threatens higher murder rates. They noted that 630,000 according to Gunpolicy.org, the vast majority of weapons are fil- for setting up murders by firearm are relatively rare, tering in from neighboring coun- suicide with with only 13 gun homicides in the tries and tighter land border con- fake checkpoint past four years, including four in trols are needed. toy gun 2013. But at the same time, the sources pointed out that in 2013, 155 Growing support By Hanan Al-Saadoun cases of weapon possession and Several lawmakers including MP KUWAIT: A soldier gave policemen a hard time when he ammunition without a license were Jamal Al-Omar met yesterday to sup- KUWAIT: The misdemeanors court sentenced a member threatened to commit suicide with a gun at dawn recorded, compared to 79 in 2012. port the enactment of the arms col- Tuesday. Police discovered later that the gun was a toy. The government is now planning lection bill and to also discuss the of the ruling family to one year in prison. The suspect is Police received a call about a person holding a pistol to to set before the National Assembly a question of revoking citizens’ nation- the son of a local daily editor-in-chief, charged with his head in front of a Sharq hotel. Police negotiated with law to authorize the collection of ality. Al-Omar said he met with His impersonating a policeman and manning a checkpoint him for nearly 90 minutes before he gave up. Another unlicensed arms. The law, if passed, Highness the Prime Minister within while drunk in Kuwait City. The incident took place on plastic weapon was found concealed under his clothes. would allow the Public Prosecutor to his individual meetings a group of March 30, and police arrested him in Nuzha. Police also found five knives in his car. He told police that issue warrants to police to inspect Parliament members to discuss a he is facing family problems and debts he cannot pay. individuals, residences, buildings and range of issues that “have been the An Indian woman was admitted to Jahra Hospital means of transport to search for unli- subject of our attention and our con- Bootleggers arrested after ingesting a cleaning liquid over differences with censed arms or ammunition, accord- versation and the issue of the unli- ing to Minister of State for Cabinet censed arms collection besides hold- her husband. Police are looking for her husband who Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmadi police arrested two Asian men who disappeared. Affairs and Acting Justice Minister ing accountable those responsible attempted to escape on foot after 112 liquor bottles Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al- Mohammad Al-Khalid Al-Sabah for the withdrawal of nationality on Mubarak Al-Sabah. faces a tough challenge as the the grounds of fraud.” were found in their car. They were sent to concerned Granting carte blanche to security government eyes gun control As early as 2010, the Ministry of authorities. Woman escapes rape attempt forces to enter homes and search other Interior began looking into means of residences and people could have an international firearm injury preven- controlling the growing phenomena A citizen in her 30s escaped a rape attempt by a implications for civil rights in Kuwait tion and policy group. This works out of private gun ownership in Kuwait. young man who asked to meet her to talk about though so far there has been little pub- to about 24.8 firearms per 100 people, But the issue has come to the fore Parents shape important things in Fintas. The woman told police licly stated opposition to the proposal. both locals and expatriates (2007 esti- after a growing security crackdown that while she was sitting with the man in his car, he Currently, police may not enter homes, mates). and a few high profile homicides touched her private parts and attempted to go fur- barns, farms or other private property The Ministry of Interior has involving firearms. In April, for children’s ther, before she was able to escape and scream for until after obtaining a warrant from the determined that growing judicial instance, two Indian security guards help, after which he fled. Detectives are working on prosecution and only once investiga- seizures of arms and ammunition were shot dead during an armed rob- behavior the case to arrest and send him to the prosecution. tion has confirmed information about indicates a potential rise in gun- bery of a security van at the Sulaibiya the existence of a weapon. related crime and is looking to vegetable market. By Nawara Fattahova

Armed robbery KUWAIT: Today, a great number of people, especially the An unidentified person robbed an Asian expat of KD youth, are reckless and do not respect rules and regula- 9,000 in Salhiya at knifepoint, before escaping in a car tions in schools, malls, streets and other places. Worse, that was waiting for him. The victim was not able to many of them don’t even respect the laws outside Kuwait record the license plate number of the car. The Asian was when travelling. It’s not just a matter of nationality, taking the money to deposit it for his company. although some nationals are more disciplined. Kuwait’s embassies across the world have issued aware- Detectives are investigating. ness statements to citizens emphasizing the need to respect the laws of the country they are visiting, especially since they are representing GF blackmailed for wanting breakup Kuwait. But public institu- tions are not responsible Criminal detectives are looking for a citizen in his for teaching people good thirties who blackmailed his girlfriend, in her twen- behavior. This is the duty ties, and asked her for KD 3,500 to return her private of family and parents. pictures to her when she decided to break up with Today’s modern him. A security source said the woman went to crim- lifestyle means that most inal detectives and told them she was in a relation- mothers are employed ship with a citizen in his 30s, but he beat and insult- and do not spend much ed her for no reason, prompting her to break up time with their children - with him. She asked him to return the images, but they depend on maids he asked her for KD 3,500 to do so. Police are work- and nannies. Even stay- ing on arresting him. at-home mothers depend on maids to raise their children. Thus they don’t teach them good manners and KUWAIT: A fire broke out in a dry fodder store in Kabad in the early hours of Tuesday, said security sources. They traditions. As a result, children grow up arrogant and do noted that firemen from Kabed, Ardhiya and Backup brigades rushed to the scene to find the fire had already Couple detained not respect the law. spread over a 50 square meters area out of the total store area of 2000 square meters. Firemen succeeded in isolat- A 52-year-old expat father said parents should be Jahra police sent a citizen and his Syrian underage girl- ing and controlling the fire. No casualties were reported. —Photo by Hanan Al-Saadoun responsible for raising their children and should teach friend to criminal detectives after arresting them on the them how to behave properly in daily life. “Schools can convoy road when their car broke down. The arrest was do this duty, but there is not enough control in schools,” made when a patrol spotted the car and checked their IDs. Eisa told Kuwait Times. According to him, parents serve Minister visits tertiary as a role model for their children. “Children usually devel- op their habits and behavior from their parents. So if par- ents are rude, or fight or insult people, the child will copy Parking dispute treatment plant these bad morals and practice them as he has got used to them from his childhood and doesn’t consider them A Jordanian man and an Iraqi woman exchanged wrong. The most important thing I taught my children is insults over the right to park in front of the building KUWAIT: Kuwait eyes the Kabad plant project as one of According to the minister, the project consists of a not to lie and to be humble. I never left them in the they live in. The Iraqi told police that she lives in a main projects in the state specialized in tertiary water pumping station, filtration station in addition to supply maid’s care, but Kuwaiti parents depend on maids to building where the Jordanian keeps taking her park- treatment, a senior government official said yesterday. lines with a capacity of 180,000 cubic meters and can be raise and teach their children, which has spoiled them,” ing spot, and when they met in the building’s yard, The KD57 million project is among the major achieve- raised to 270,000 cubic meters. The station serves Jahra added Eisa. he swore and insulted her. When the Jordanian was ments the government seeks to achieve, said Abdelaziz Al- governorate including Saad Al-Abdallah, Jaber Al-Ahmad Kuwaiti mother Fatma also blames the complete summoned, he said that she is the one taking his Ibrahim, said Minister of Public Works, Minister of cities in addition to Sulaibkhat, Andalus, Gharnata and dependency on maids. “When parents are busy all the space, and she was the one who swore. —Al-Rai Electricity and Water. He made his statements following a Qurain, Ibrahim said. He added that the ministry plans to time and neglect their children and their needs, children tour carried out with Public Works Ministry officials to the construct large stations that can take over small one at are completely depending on maids and become arro- plant yesterday. high depths in order to reduce odor. —KUNA gant. Maids will not teach them customs, traditions and family togetherness. This wrong way of raising kids is also behind the increased number of divorce cases in Kuwait,” she pointed out. Hosam is an expat teacher who has noticed that younger generations ignore rules and regulations more blatantly than older ones. He believes that schools are also responsible for raising the children - the whole com- munity is. “As a teacher I try to advise and correct the wrong behavior of my students, but only a small percent- age of them listen to me. It also depends on their back- ground and family environment. I spent my efforts to raise my kids in the best way, yet they still have some faults that I’m trying to correct,” he noted.

No injuries in Co-ops prices to be warehouse fire unified in a month, closure for violators By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: The government has finally decided end- KUWAIT: Firefighters tackled a blaze that burned a food ing the variance in prices at different cooperative warehouse in Industrial Shuwaikh Tuesday night. Firemen stores and accordingly gave all co-ops a one month from five stations arrived to the scene minutes after the fire grace to be effective from Sunday to unify prices to avoid penalties measures that includes closure. The was reported, and managed to put the blaze under control Minister Al-Ibrahim inspects the process of work at the project’s site. —Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh before it could spread. No injuries were reported in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry assistant under- incident. An investigation was opened. secretary for consumer affairs Abdullah Al-Enezi said that the national committee for consumer protec- Govt, MPs to discuss 15 priorities tion formed jointly by MOCI, MSAL and the Co-ops Union has full authorities to refer violating co-ops to KUWAIT: HH the PM Sheikh Jaber Al- Omair. The sources stressed that the ment law and regulating ads related to the public prosecution and close them down. Mubarak urged Cabinet members to meeting would be dedicated to dis- citizens’ health. The sources also said Speaking at a press conference also attended by prioritize bills related to their respec- cuss bills and draft laws to be priori- that 40 applications filed by sons of Ministry of Social Affair and Labour acting undersec- tive ministries in a way that matches tized during the next parliamentary Kuwaiti widows or divorced women to retary Muttar Al-Mutairi and the Co-ops Union man- the government’s development plan, term starting in October. get Kuwaiti citizenship have been dis- ager Ali Hassan, Enezi said that the committee said informed ministerial sources, not- The sources noted that 15 priorities cussed pending approval. supervision shifted from the Co-ops Union to the ing that Cabinet members promised have been set so far including weapon Separately, MP Abdullah Mayouf government and that this would help control unjus- to work on preparing bills that help collection, compulsory enlistment, the announced his intention to file a tified price increases and unify prices at all co-ops. meet the development plan’s legisla- National Diwan for Human Rights, the grilling motion against the Minister of He also noted that in addition to controlling tive requirements. 2014-2019 development plan, amend- Social Affairs and Labor Hind Al- prices, the committee would also follow up suppli- Meanwhile, both the parliament ing sports laws, amending the publica- Subaih by next week. Mayouf ers’ payments following a rule of paying within 15 and the Cabinet are scheduled to tion law, the Silk City Establishment explained that his motion would days of delivering national and local goods and 90 resume their joint work with a meet- authority, tenders and purchases, gov- inquire about three major issues days for others. Muttairi said that in a bid to reduce ing on Sunday to be headed by ernment universities, juveniles, including tenants in social care homes, prices, MOCI agreed to allow the Co-ops Union to Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and amending the penal law, commercial labor and human trafficking and co- directly import goods from abroad, with some attended by Oil Minister and Minister agencies, real estate mortgage, ops that seem to be far beyond her of State for Assembly Affairs Ali Al- amending the Audit Bureau establish- control. —Al-Anbaa, Al-Jarida restrictions. —Al-Jarida LOCAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

The stage. The buffet section. Movenpick Hotel launches ‘Indian Wedding Festival’

Hotel rooms grew 16%; guests recorded increase of 4% only By Ben Garcia Zain Al-Shuhoor KUWAIT: Movenpick Hotel offers the best wedding packages for new Indian couples in Kuwait. Movenpick Hotel Kuwait winners announced (Free Trade Zone) will next week launch its ‘Indian Wedding Festival’, a promotion to encourage Indian couples to use KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications their facilities. “A magical Indian wedding awaits couples if company in Kuwait, announced the winners of the they choose to celebrate the most unforgettable day of their Zain Al-Shuhoor Ramadan application competition, life here with us. Packages start from KD 6 per head up to KD which was received with great recognition from par- 15 per head,” said Hassan Hassanein, General Manager ticipants during the Holy Month of Ramadan. The Movenpick Hotel Kuwait, during a press conference to competition featured questions related to Ramadan announce the start of the new promotion. and fasting, and were communicated daily through “The Indian community is the most vibrant expat commu- Zain’s social media channels and the application nity in the Gulf and in Kuwait. They dominate the expat pop- throughout the Holy Month. ulation and have made this country their home. They also Zain announced that the winners of the competi- celebrate weddings here, so no doubt we want them to use tion are: Huda Abdulsaboor Abdulmaqsoud, Mariam our facilities,” Hassanein asserted. “Their total population in the Gulf is about 7 million - in Kuwait alone they are about Khaled Mohammd Al Basiri, and Huda Saleh 700,000, the largest expat population here, and obviously a MohsenAhmad Nassir, Shifa Al-Harbi, Ahmad Al- huge market of its own,” said Hassanein. Attar, Haneen Al-Amiri, Itidaal Al-Shatti, A five-star hotel in the middle of the Free Trade Zone in Abdulrahman Al-Ibrahim, and Mohammed Al- Shuwaikh, Movenpick promises memorable and hassle-free Mazidi. The company awarded the winners with val- wedding preparations. “Our wedding packages are very Hassan Hassanein ued prizes for winning the competition. attractive and at affordable prices. We will visit the embassy rooms in Kuwait have been growing rapidly - a growth of The Zain Al-Shuhoor application allowed cus- of India, churches and the meeting halls of the Indian com- approximately 16 percent in room supplies, but the growth tomers to check the daily prayer timings as well as munity here in Kuwait to encourage them to use our wed- of hotel guests was recorded only at four percent. “There is locate and browse all the mosques that hold Qeyam ding packages,” he added. The offers include authentic Indian really a slight concern when it comes to this because there and Taraweh prayers during the Holy Month. cuisines/recipes, a two-night stay in their ‘honeymoon suite” are more hotel openings in the coming months or so. Kuwait Additionally, customers were able to listen to Holy and another free stay and dinner on their first anniversary. has a lot of good infrastructure, we have good beaches here, Quran recitations, and watch the daily Islamic videos Their guests will also have some surprises which the hotel but they are not fully developed. Probably they need to cre- will prepare for them, including discount vouchers at their ate more attractions to entice visitors here, probably interna- and Ramadan-related videos presented by Shaikh restaurants. Wedding packages also include breakfast in bed tional conventions. If we have visitors, you are giving jobs Talal Fakher. for newlyweds, welcome cocktails for all their guests, wed- and businesses to people. It is a chain reaction that can affect The company assured its keenness on offering ding cakes and photography and video services. the country, from taxi drivers to hotels and restaurants, and value added services that further confirm its leading “At our hotel, couples don’t have to worry what needs to local and expat jobs too,” he reiterated. position in the telecommunication market. Zain will be done - we promise that it will be hassle-free. We just want Movenpick Hotel Kuwait is one of the finest hotels in the spare no efforts to providing the best services and them to come and enjoy their most memorable day in life,” city, combining exquisite hotel services and luxurious spas, promotions to its customers, Kuwait’s biggest family Hassanein added. Movenpick Hotel’s promotion was concep- where guests can relax amidst the elegant architecture and of subscribers. tualized after two months of market research. “We studied fine entertainment that expresses the passion of genuine the market carefully and we found out that the Indian com- Swiss hospitality that makes guests feel at home. The hotel is munity is the number one expat community in Kuwait that only 10 minutes away from Kuwait airport by car, 6 minutes holds and organizes wedding events. So we want to begin away from Kuwait City, 4 minutes from Shuwaikh Industrial with the Indian community and we’ll see for communities City, 10 minutes from the renowned Avenues Mall and it’s like the Egyptian and Filipino ones and others what promo- closely located to Kuwait University, the Ministry of Health tion is best suitable for them,” he added. and Sabah Hospital. Hassanein has been in the hospitality business for over 20 Eating at Movenpick Hotel Kuwait is a beautiful experi- years. 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kuwait digest kuwait digest On Arab tourists’ Palestinians attitude call Hamas plot report ‘doubtful’ By Dr Shamlan Y Al-Essa

n Aug 2013, the BBC published an article about global By Abdullah Erakat trends in the tourism industry. The study cited by the Iarticle showed the preferred touristic destinations alestinian officials reacting to Israeli media reports around the world. The report said that more than one bil- of a thwarted Hamas plot to ignite a third Intifada lion tourist trips were made. Europe was the top destination (Palestinian uprising) as cover for a take-over of the with 565 million tourists, while Asia was in second place P with 248 million. America was visited by 168 million West Bank and the overthrow of Palestinian Authority tourists. The country that welcomed the largest number of President Mahmoud Abbas say they are “doubtful” that tourists was France, visited by 83 million tourists in 2012. the story is accurate. Tourists spend approximately $129 billion annually and The Israeli account says the Shin Bet domestic security their preferred destinations, after France, are Thailand and agency made almost 100 arrests during the past several Britain. Global revenue from tourism is estimated at $1.4 months, 93 of whom were Hamas operatives creating StateBureau Audit trillion, a daily spending rate of $3.8 billion. But where do more than 40 of what they termed “terror cells” in towns Administrative and villages throughout the West Bank. The plot included the majority of tourists come from? Are they the Americans, Corruption the Japanese, the Europeans or the Arabs? And how much the staging of mass attacks on Jewish targets in order to do they spend while on holiday? How much of the tourism trigger an Intifada (like the period between 2000 and industry’s global revenue comes from Arabs? 2005 typified by bus bombings and unbridled violence) The report did not say anything about Arabs, but what during which Hamas would oust the Fatah-aligned interests us is that more than 3 billion people traveled Al-Rai Palestinian Authority (PA) and its president. around the world, and we did not hear or read about them Brigadier General Adnan Damiri, spokesman for the harassing others during their travels, except the Arabs. Did Palestinian security services, told The Media Line that, you hear about a Chinese, Japanese or American tourist “There are no other sources to back up these claims and walking in the streets of London or Paris or Frankfurt in a we are doubtful.” He asked, “If these arrests were made nightgown (striped dishdashas)? Did you see foreign back in May, why are we hearing about it only now?” tourists sitting in public parks, cooking and eating without Despite their skepticism, PA officials say they are tak- collecting their garbage and rubbish afterwards? Did you kuwait digest ing the matter “very seriously.” hear or see the children of Japanese, Chinese or American tourists running after domesticated animals and birds in “The President is following up very closely on this and public parks and trying to catch or kill them? We only hear Laws and secret expenses has asked the relevant security departments within the such tales about Arab tourists, especially those from the PA to check the accuracy of the details in the Shabak Gulf, and most of them from my home country - Kuwait. (Shin Bet) report,” he said. A Palestinian official close to By Thar Al-Rasheedi Tourism is no longer limited to eating, sitting in parks or President Abbas speaking on condition of anonymity shopping. Did any of you encounter a Gulf tourist visiting because he was not authorized to comment publicly con- museums, libraries, theaters or cinemas except for a few? ost of the problems Kuwait suffers from are not the plotting against the poor when it started removing viola- firmed to The Media Line that “For sure the President is Most male Arab tourists from the Gulf sit in cafes, treating result of lack of laws - they are rather the result of tions. taking this seriously. Leadership agreed last night that ‘it them as diwaniyas, talking and exchanging news from their Mnot imposing laws that already exist into proper We have hardly heard any news about the demolitions needs more investigation,’ including a fact check on the countries while drinking tea or coffee, and eating a sand- practice. The problem is that whenever the government committee in over a year and a half over violations at pri- numbers” quoted in the story. wich which should preferably be a falafel one. Meanwhile, softens a little in imposing such laws, it starts receiving a vate residences. Looking up information about it, I found The Shin Bet claims it confiscated at least $600,000 in women prefer frequenting shops and famous markets. great deal of well-deserved criticism because when it soft- out that its job was restricted to removing what everybody cash from the Hamas members who were alleged to be I rarely run across an Arab or Gulf tourist who is proud of ens, delays or turns a blind eye to law enforcement, it turns agreed on, such as the Amghara scrap market. It seems to planning operations against Israel. The agency also reading a book or two during his vacation, or seeing a play, into nothing more than a mere political form. The even have actually stopped doing the job it was initially formed claims it seized 24 weapons, among them M-16 automat- or getting tickets to enjoy classical music or going to the greater problem is that whenever the government activates to do - removing violations in residences, industrial and ic rifles, handguns, rocket launchers and large amount of opera. Most of our men talk at cafes, gamble at casinos or or puts into practice some of the laws that had been passed agricultural areas. ammunition. talk about sexual adventures. As for our women, all their “We are checking on the names (mentioned in the talk is about the latest fashion. And it is rarely that we hear by lawmakers in parliament, it receives a great deal of public The committee is headed today by Khaled Al-Mohsen criticism and accusations of being against simple citizens. who seems to have settled for announcing that the com- report) and the facts,” Damiri said, adding that “all appro- about a Gulf or Arab tourist who has a hobby of taking pic- priate personnel” from the PA had been called up to work tures of migratory birds in Europe and America or of filming For instance, the government was almost accused of mitted had managed to restore millions of meters of violat- on these accusations. He said he had not been informed African animals during a safari. conspiring with merchants when it imposed the closure of ed state property that had been unlawfully seized by indi- whether anyone from the Palestinian security echelon I have not heard about a Gulf adventurer who attempt- commercial stores in residential areas. The problem even viduals or companies. Well, we ought to thank them for ed to scale the Alps in Europe or enjoyed a hunting trip to went as far as threatening to grill the concerned minster. such efforts, but we need them back in action and continue had contacted their Israeli counterparts to coordinate investigations; and Damiri did not say whether the Israelis Alaska, or attempted to photograph migrating fish or birds, The violations demolition committee has completely disap- doing their job in residential areas, farms and industrial land had shared their findings with PA officials prior to releas- or followed and filmed whales in the cold seas of the North peared and stopped following up violations at private resi- plots without stopping. and South Poles. Most of our Arab tourists prefer visiting dences, and nobody knows why. When this committee first Finally, when a certain body declares that half its budget cities, and rarely we hear about them visiting villages, or started working, many voices criticized its chief Major is spent as ‘secret expenses’, one has to think a thousand beautiful remote areas, or Brazil’s jungles. General Mohammed Al-Bader and its direct answerability to times about it, especially since it is not a military body, it is Damiri says he thinks I hope that tourists heading out from our countries the Cabinet, in addition to the fact that it was operated in not operated abroad and all it owns are ‘two tractors and a begin to behave better as ambassadors of their countries collaboration with the finance ministry. Along with the truck’. Why on earth do they need secret expenses?! that this report is a way when they travel abroad, avoiding uncivilized behavior. entire government, the committee was even accused of — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan to influence the President to pressure Palestinian negotiators in Cairo to kuwait digest make concessions. Playing dead ing details to the media. Damiri did say that “It’s clear the By Khaled Al-Jerri Palestinian-Israeli security cooperation is going down- wards.” Spokesmen for the Israeli government and Israel n the past, when Kuwait was a pioneer compared to Defense Forces respectively declined to comment for this neighboring counties, it was easy for citizens to article. Ireach top officials and communicate with them. Wasef Uraiqat, a Palestinian military analyst and Their doors were wide open for everybody and they did retired major general told The Media Line that the inci- not fear confronting people because they were knowl- dent underscores the lack of security coordination and edgeable and experienced enough in their jobs, which casts the Palestinian security apparatus in a negative gave them enough reason to argue, convince and make light. Echoing Damiri, Uraiqat remarked that “Israel says decisions. there is security coordination. If this is the case, why What happens today is the exact opposite where didn’t they tell Abbas or the PA security back in May?” most officials follow ‘closed door’ policies - in other He charged that the report weakens the PA security words, ‘play dead’ to avoid people and shouldering infrastructure because it begs the question how the secu- responsibility with the concept of ‘things might go on rity forces missed something like this. “The PA does not well’ without confrontation. Such practices are not have an army and the security forces are working under strange because they did not make it to such posts with occupation,” defends Uraiqat. He goes on to suggest that their own efforts. They used twisted methods and their Israel has a hidden agenda, “to divert attention away from posts are too big for them. That’s why their weak deci- Gaza, a place where Israel does not want to have its sions are no surprise to us! troops on the ground.” He argued that, “The Israeli army It is known that there some scientific bases and con- lost the deterrent force in Gaza and they want to regain it ditions to be taken into consideration when selecting in the West Bank,” he said, adding that this, “changes the somebody for a certain post or job. So, if somebody rules of the game.” meets those conditions, he is a good choice. Such good Uraiqat predicts that the Israeli army will operate in choices must have the potentials and abilities to carry West Bank cities as it did in Hebron in June when it arrest- out their job duties successfully. They must be self-con- ed hundreds of men following the kidnapping of three fident and accurately and meticulously do their jobs. Israeli teens and the subsequent revenge killing of They must possess the qualities of good leaders who Palestinian teenager Mohammad Abu Khdeir by a Jewish are constantly willing to learn. They must separate their gang. At the time, the Palestinian leadership came under jobs from their personal life, and most importantly, heavy criticism from citizens calling for an end to the PA must be modest. — Israeli security cooperation because they viewed it as Unfortunately, by checking today’s officials, we find collaboration. Abbas-loyal security agencies were help- that many of them do not match any of those bases or ing Israel look for the three missing teenagers who ulti- conditions. This can be proved by the deterioration the mately turned up dead. Although never proven, Israel still country has been lately witnessing. Choosing the insists that Hamas was behind the kidnap/murders. wrong person results in many things, such as loss of Uraiqat also says this is not an easy matter for Abbas efficiency and abuse of workers’ potentials, which leads because the release of this report could be seen “as an to waste of time, money and decrease in productivity. attempt to divide the Palestinian negotiators represent- Studies show that 60 per cent of employees resign from ing various factions in Cairo. This can be a new scene. In their job not because they hate them or because they Israel’s 2002 invasion of the West Bank, it was Israel ver- found better ones, but rather because they hate their sus Palestine. What Israel is trying to do is create is bosses! ‘Palestine versus Palestine.’ ” In response, President Abbas All the aforementioned consequences are clearly told the official Palestinian news agency WAFA that the seen in real life today because of the wrong choices report poses a serious threat to the future of the made by the country’s higher authorities though sci- Palestinian unity government. Damiri agrees. “This report ence has developed in a way that enables us to explore is a hit on the national unity government, namely the the qualities of nominees to any job or post beforehand unity which exists between Fatah, Hamas and all through simple tests. Academic qualifications and Palestinian factions,” he said. The report was released as experience should be also taken into consideration. This negotiators are presumed to be in the final stages of combination makes the perfect nominee to fit in the negotiations for a long-term ceasefire between Israel right position without having to predict or guess, or and Hamas following a month of fierce fighting that left most dangerously, resort to wasta and favoritism. some 2,000 Palestinians dead and 10,000 wounded It is not fair to blame others for everything, however. some of them critically. We should take part of the blame because of not reject- Damiri says he thinks that this report is a way to influ- ing the use of wasta to get what is not rightfully ours at ence the President to pressure Palestinian negotiators in the expense of those who deserve what we get more. Cairo to make concessions. “This report could be an By this, we are doing ourselves and others injustice at attempt to throw a spoke in the wheels of the indirect the same time. We have to fear Almighty Allah and talks between Israelis and Palestinians,” he said, adding remember that we will be accountable for being unjust that this is “negative” for the attempts to secure a truce. to others in the hereafter. So, must we be unjust to “Israel is looking for excuses to engage in a battle with Kuwait that has given us so much...when will we ever us. They started in the West Bank, in cities like Hebron and repay it?! Ramallah, then they waged war on Gaza and have now —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida returned to the West Bank,” Damiri said. —The Media Line THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

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HIROSHIMA: Police officers search for missing people after a landslidehit a residential area in Hiroshima, western Japan yesterday. Huge landslides in western Japan killed at least 36 people and left another nine missing after waves of mud engulfed homes in a suffocating sludge. — AFP 36 dead as Japan landslides engulf homes

TOKYO: Huge landslides in western Japan killed at least Defense Force (military) personnel to several hundred in smaller landslides and several floods, some of which Hiroshima is no stranger to tragedy like this. In 1999 36 people and left rescuers scrambling to find another order to strengthen rescue operations,” he said. have proved fatal. more than 320 landslides hit the city, including the area seven still missing, authorities said yesterday, after a Japan’s weather agency warned more heavy rain was Despite widespread concreting to shore up hillsides, affected yesterday, killing more than 30 people. Around wall of mud smashed into their homes. on the way to the area, raising the risk of further land- mountainous and densely populated Japan is prone to 32,000 places in the locality are designated as at risk Dozens of houses were buried when hillsides col- slides in places where tonnes of mud have already been this kind of disaster. In October last year, dozens of peo- from landslides. lapsed after torrential downpours in Hiroshima, televi- displaced. ple were killed when the torrential rains of a passing Experts said many of the hills are composed of frag- sion pictures showed, leaving rescuers to pick through The archipelago has been battered in recent weeks typhoon triggered large landslides on the island of mented granite, which can become unstable when the devastation for any signs of life. by unusually heavy rain that has sparked a number of Oshima, south of Tokyo. waterlogged. — AFP A spokesman for Hiroshima Police told AFP the death toll was still climbing. “The figures may change as the rescue efforts continue,” he warned. The number of Postpaid dead had risen rapidly from an initial four, which includ- ed a two-year-old boy. Among the dead was a 53-year-old rescuer, who was killed by a secondary landslide after he had pulled five people to safety, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said. Live the summer Aerial footage showed several houses buried in thick slurry, their wooden frames splintered by the weight of with KD 10 Postpaid Package & a FREE the mud. Torrents of brown water raced off the mountains behind the homes and through the wrecked buildings, Exclusively with VIVA, get the brand new Huawei Ascend P7 for free when you subscribe hampering rescuers’ efforts as they searched for anyone to the KD 10 Postpaid Package. Featuring a 7 - layer construction, the water drop curve still trapped. unibody is not only incredibly strong but also beautifully elegant. Packed with a 13 MP rear Emergency workers were seen climbing up to the camera and an 8 MP front camera, you’ll get high quality photos wherever you’re standing. second floor and roofs of half-collapsed houses-some of Get this feature filled phone today and ascend your expectations with Huawei. which were floating-to try to reach any survivors. For more information, please visit our website at viva.com.kw or call our contact center at 102. Pictures showed there had been at least five different Terms and conditions apply. landslides. Some uprooted trees and carried rocks down Switch to VIVA. the hillside into the tightly-packed houses that sit on the edge of a commuter belt, in an area where town gives way to farmland. One man, gesturing to the mud-covered remains of a house, told NHK: “My house is over there, flattened.” Pointing elsewhere, he said: “A leg was seen (sticking out of the mud) and they are trying to confirm if the person is alive. The first thing we have to do is to help that person.” Another man told reporters he had seen everything he owned swept away. “We could hear the earth rum- bling and all of a sudden, things roared past us,” he said. A woman spoke of how she had escaped death because of where she had been at the time the disaster struck. “I was able to survive as I stayed in the middle of the house. Both sides were destroyed.”

Troops deployed Troops were deployed to help in the rescue after a request from the local government. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who abandoned a golfing holiday to deal with the disaster, said considerable resources were pressed into action. “I have ordered (government officials) to carry out the rescue operation in an integrated manner, aware of the possibility of further rain,” he told reporters in Tokyo. “I also ordered them to raise the number of Self- INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 Erdogan allies touted to take on cabinet roles Davutoglu expected to be next PM

ANKARA: Turkish president-elect Tayyip Erdogan looks set to maintain his influence on daily politics after being sworn in next week, with close allies likely to take on cabinet posts in a new govern- ment and his economic team expected to remain largely intact. Outgoing president Abdullah Gul said on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was likely to take over as chairman of the party and become the next prime minister, rekindling specu- lation about the shape of the new cabinet. HAMDAN: A young member of the Shiite Huthi movement carries a tray of eggs as Davutoglu, an academic who has served as they gather yesterday, near tents erected close to the northern town of Hamdan, Erdogan’s foreign minister for the past five years, is some 10 kilometres (six miles) from Sanaa’s International Airport, as Yemenis rally expected to be confirmed as the ruling AK Party’s for a sit-in. Shiite Muslim rebel commander Abdulmalik al-Huthi called on his follow- nominee for chairman on Thursday before being ers to march on the Yemeni capital Sanaa and demand “the fall of the government, formally voted in at an AK general assembly on which he says has failed. He gave the government a deadline to meet the protesters’ Aug 27. Senior AK officials told Reuters that minis- demands. — AFP ters responsible for the economy would remain in place under Davutoglu, and that close Erdogan Yemen on alert over rebel allies including his top aide Yalcin Akdogan and intelligence chief Hakan Fidan might be given cabi- net positions. Investors have been particularly con- supporters’ protests cerned about the fate of Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan and Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek, SANAA: Tanks and armored vehicles security, describing the demonstrations as who have guided the Turkish economy towards deployed in Yemen’s capital Tuesday in the “unacceptable.” unprecedented stability in recent years. face of protests by tens of thousands of Ten of Yemen’s Western and internation- “The decision will be up to Erdogan and supporters of Shiite rebels who are al allies said in a joint statement that the Davutoglu, but in the new cabinet which is expect- ANKARA: Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (C) arrives for a meeting in Ankara yes- demanding the government step down. Hawthi moves were “antagonistic, militaris- ed to be formed at the beginning of September, no terday. Turkish President Abdullah Gul said that Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is set to Protesters were responding to a call by tic and disrespectful.” changes are expected with Babacan and Simsek or take over from Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the country’s next prime minister. — AFP Abdel-Malek al-Hawthi, the top leader of “Threats of the kind you have made other economic portfolios,” one senior AK official amenable prime minister that could be chosen,” risk research firm Teneo Intelligence’s Wolfango the heavily armed Hawthi group that over- against the government are not a way to said. Erdogan, who co-founded the AK Party and one European diplomat said. Piccoli said. “If Davutoglu performs badly, fears that ran northern cities. He has given the gov- demonstrate any validity of your claims,” has dominated Turkish politics for more than a the AKP could lose its majority at the next general ernment until Friday to meet their said the statement posted on the website decade as prime minister, won the country’s first High stakes election ... may lead to calls for Gul to return to lead demands of reinstating fuel subsidies and of the US Embassy in Sanaa. It called upon national presidential election on Aug. 10 with more Erdogan wants a strong and loyal party leader the party, raising the possibility of an intensifica- relinquishing power. Hawthis to withdraw from the capital and than 51 percent of the vote. to boost the AK’s majority in next June’s election, a tion of Gul’s long-running rivalry with Erdogan.” Military officials said that Yemen’s elite hand over their weapons. Senior officials had told Reuters before the vote result which would help him to change the consti- Davutoglu has overseen Turkish foreign policy “Presidential Forces” were on standby in “Any action aimed to incite or provoke that economic ministers would be retained at least tution and strengthen the powers of the presiden- at a turbulent time for the Middle East, with wars in case of any attack, taking positions near unrest and violence is unacceptable, and until a parliamentary election next June if Erdogan cy. While Davutoglu is likely to back him in this, he neighbouring Iraq and Syria and the Arab Spring government buildings, foreign missions will be strongly condemned by the interna- won. Erdogan will step down as leader of the AK lacks strong support among the AK’s core voters, uprisings, but his “zero problems with the neigh- and main intersections. They spoke on con- tional community,” said the statement, Party when he is inaugurated on Aug. 28, as meaning Erdogan is likely to try to continue to bours” policy has crumbled, with relations degrad- dition of anonymity because they were not signed by “The Group of Ten Ambassadors,” required by the constitution, but has made clear assert his influence over the party even after break- ed with Egypt, Syria, Israel, Iraq and Iran. authorized to speak to journalists. in reference to the countries which backed that he wants the party he co-founded with Gul ing formal ties. “Davutoglu lacks Erdogan’s caustic “In the Middle East he is basically persona non Yemen’s Supreme Security Committee, the power-transfer deal that saw former more than 10 years ago to remain loyal and unified. rhetorical skills and ability to inspire almost fanati- grata ... they’re isolated. Countries like Egypt are its most senior security body, warned President Ali Abdullah Saleh relinquish “Davutoglu is certainly someone that Erdogan cal personal devotion amongst the AKP’s grass- hardly going to be happy if he is prime minister Tuesday it will take “all measures to ensure power after a yearlong uprising in 2011. can control, because he doesn’t have his own con- roots. He is likely to struggle to impose himself and and Erdogan is president,” the European diplomat the safety and security of the country.” The Hawthi spokesman Mohammed Abdel- stituency. Erdogan made him. He’s about the most committee listed what it said were “worry- Salam criticized the envoys’ message, say- be dependent on Erdogan to maintain party unity,” said. —Reuters ing signs” of militiamen deploying on ing the group rejects the “foreign man- rooftops in some areas of the capital, date” and vowed to continue “our blessed Sanaa, as well as armed Hawthi convoys revolution peacefully.” The Hawthis waged entering the capital and setting up check- a six-year insurgency in the north against points, Saleh, which officially ended in 2010. After Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Saleh’s ouster, they have fought ultracon- Hadi said in televised remarks during a servative Islamists in several northern government emergency meeting that he cities and towns, accusing them of turning would take “decisive and legal action” their strongholds into incubators of against anyone disrupting the country’s extremism.— AP Four beheaded corpses found in Egypt’s Sinai CAIRO: Four beheaded corpses were found month that Islamist militants were ravaging by residents of a town in Egypt’s Sinai the Middle East and pose a threat to securi- Peninsula yesterday, security sources said, ty globally. The Sinai militants are not blaming Islamist militants waging an insur- believed to be officially linked to Islamic gency against Cairo. State insurgents who have swept through The security sources in Sinai and Cairo, parts of Iraq and Syria and have releaesd a said residents of Sheikh Zuwaid found the video purporting to show the beheading of bodies two days after the men were a US journalist. The attacks by the Egyptian abducted by gunmen while travelling in a militants initially targeted security forces in car in the town, a few kilometres from the Sinai - a remote but strategic part of Egypt Gaza Strip. located between Israel, the Gaza Strip and Though the men were civilians, they the Suez Canal - but they have since may have been targeted for their perceived extended their reach to the mainland with allegiance to the police and army, the bombings of security installations. sources said, speaking on condition of The government says nearly 500 people, anonymity. They gave no other indication mostly from the army and police, have of the identity of the men. The militants been killed in clashes and in attacks by have stepped up attacks on policemen and Islamist insurgents angered at Mursi’s soldiers since then-army chief Abdel Fattah removal. Rights groups have put the num- al-Sisi toppled President Mohamed Mursi of ber far higher, saying that many hundreds the Muslim Brotherhood in July 2013. of Brotherhood supporters, meanwhile, The government does not distinguish have been killed at the hands of security between the Sinai militants and the forces. A security crackdown since Mursi Brotherhood, which it has designated a ter- was ousted has also seen many thousands rorist group although the movement says it of Islamists arrested. More than 1,000 have is peaceful and denies any links to the wave been sentenced to death. Secular liberals of militant attacks. accusing the government of rights abuses Sisi, now elected president, said last have also been jailed. —Reuters Iraqis in besieged town appeal to army for help

BAGHDAD: Members of a minority Iraqi Shiite said, calling on US to consider airstrikes like community whose town has been besieged by other areas. Resident Jaafar Kadhim al-Bayati, a Sunni militants are appealing to Iraq’s military 41-year-old father of three, told The Associated and the international community to intervene Press over the phone that children in Amirli are to end the siege, a lawmaker said yesterday as getting sick and that the town needs more the UN prepared to launch a massive aid push help. “We are starving, we ran out of food and to help Iraqis uprooted by the extremists. the only clinic is not functioning now due to The siege of the northern town of Amrili, lack of medicines,” he said. He added that a populated by Shiite Turkmens, is part of a wide pregnant woman died while in labor this week, onslaught by militants from the Al-Qaeda- she was brought to the clinic but there was no breakaway Islamic State group and their Sunni one to help her there. allies who have seized large swaths of western Like other religious minorities in Iraq such and northern Iraq this summer. The group has as the Christians and the Yazidis, the Turkmen since declared a self-styled caliphate in territo- community has also been targeted by the ry it controls in Iraq and neighboring Syria, Islamic State, which considers them to be imposing its own harsh interpretation of apostates. Thousands of Turkmens have been Islamic law. uprooted from their homes since the Islamic In Iraq, however, the militants’ rampage suf- State took Mosul, the northern city of Tikrit fered a major setback this week when Iraqi and and a spate of towns and villages in the area. Kurdish troops backed by US airstrikes dis- The Islamic State blitz has forced some 1.5 lodged the Islamic fighters from a strategic million people to flee their homes since June dam near Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city while thousands more have died, prompting overrun by the Islamic State in June. the UN to declare its highest level of emer- Lawmaker Fawzi Akram al-Tarzi said that gency last week. Yesterday, the UN refugee nearly 15,000 Shiite Turkmens in Amirli, about agency was starting a massive air, road and sea 170 kilometers (105 miles) north of Baghdad, operation to help the displaced, including a have been besieged for the past two months four-day airlift with Boeing 747 planes that will by militants affiliated with the Islamic State. bring in aid from Aqaba, Jordan, to Iraq’s The siege has left the residents in a dire sit- northern Kurdish region. uation, although the army airdropped some “Conditions remain desperate for those weapons, food and medical supplies recently. without access to suitable shelter, people The town has no water or electricity, yet the struggling to find food and water to feed their residents are putting up a fierce resistance, al- families, and those without access to primary Tarzi added. “Amirli is besieged from all sides medical care,” said Adrian Edwards, a and calls for help are falling on deaf ears,” he spokesman for UNHCR. —AP INTERNATIONAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

Demonstrators protest the killing of teenager Michael Brown on Tuesday in Ferguson, Missouri. — AFP

Demonstrators protest the killing of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer on August 9. Despite the Brown family’s continued call for peace- ful demonstration violent protests have erupted nearly every night in Ferguson since his death. Ferguson residents get on with life after Community leaders join hands and form a barrier between Questions & answers police officers and protesters in attempt to diffuse the escalation between the two, during a peace- daysdays ofof protestsprotests Guard’s role ful protest in Ferguson, Missouri early yesterday. — AFP

FERGUSON: Banners flutter along the main street of downtown in Ferguson Ferguson but instead of the protest signs that read “Hands Up Don’t’ Shoot,” these are ads for everyday events like a local farmers MISSOURI: The National Guard is a regular presence in market and a church fish fry. With nightly protests and police lob- responding to natural disasters, but it also has a long bing tear gas along West Florissant Avenue, locals in the small history in helping curb civil disturbances. On Monday, Missouri town of just 6 square miles (16 square km) are trying to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon mobilized the Guard to the get on with their normal lives. town of Ferguson, where protests stemming from the It’s not easy. Traffic is disrupted by police street blockades, shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old resident are now in stores close early if they open at all and the start of the school year their second week. The governor said he acted to pro- has been delayed by the protests and violence that has ensued tect the people and property from a “violent criminal since the shooting death by a white police officer of an unarmed element intent upon terrorizing the community.” black teenager on Aug. 9. Here are some questions about the Guard, its activi- “We all want justice, but I think a lot of people now feel beyond ties and its role in Ferguson: justice. They want the whole thing to go away,” said Mike Blair, a 62-year-old retiree who lives in Jennings, the next town over. Q: What is the National Guard? “Things are so disruptive.” Protesters take part in a peaceful protest down a street A protester uses a bullhorn as he takes part in a peace- A: The National Guard is a reserve military force that “I’m wishing it would all go away, but then I have to catch in Ferguson. ful protest along a street in Ferguson, Missouri. can be mobilized under state or federal authority. myself because a young man is dead and another man is being nothing was different, but they could barely tear their eyes away tional activities at the library while the schools are closed, said About 470,000 people are currently members of the held up to all kinds of scrutiny.” from the coverage of Ferguson on a nearby television screen. Anderson, 65, who retired after teaching in Ferguson schools for Army or Air National Guard; most have civilian jobs and In the warren of residential streets lined with small single-story In front of the Ferguson Public Library, where flower beds of 27 years. serve part time in the Guard. There are Guard units in brick houses nearest to West Florissant, residents said they are growing exasperated by the violence and its fallout. black-eyed Susans blew in the hot breeze, Betsy Anderson waved “I’m a kid of the 60s,” she said. “There are positive ways to get every state as well as the District of Columbia and the They recount going through security checkpoints to get to a sign “Students Welcome Here” at passing motorists. through injustice and struggle. We’ve got to take this opportunity territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. their homes and facing long delays getting into the neighbor- Teachers were holding impromptu classes and other educa- as a teaching moment. We need to educate people.” — Reuters The Guard is in more than 3,200 communities. About hood once the now-daily demonstrations begin. 11,000 Guard members are in Missouri. “It’s a hassle. You have to have your ID, you have to come in the back way. It’s just sad that it’s come to this,” said Carter Sigh, 71. Q: Why is the Guard in Ferguson? “They are trying to rush to justice. You have to give the police time A: Nixon deployed the Guard early Monday to to do their job right.” “restore peace and order” to the St. Louis suburb follow- Waiting to get her car repaired in downtown Ferguson, 81- ing another night of violent clashes between police and year-old Helen Robinson fretted that she couldn’t make her regu- protesters that involved Molotov cocktails thrown at lar drive down West Florissant, a major thoroughfare. officers, looting, vandalism and gunfire. Police respond- But she said: “I’m glad for the opportunity to protest because ed with tear gas. The demonstrations have been to me, it was a tragedy.” Forced to miss work to care for her two sparked by the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of 18-year-old school-age children, nurse Afrika Bryant, 33, said she had trouble Michael Brown by a white police officer. Brown was getting through police lines to get to her home. black. The governor said in a statement that he “We were going to get hotel rooms but now we’re scared that deployed the Guard because of “coordinated attacks they might start looting houses,” she said. last night both on civilians and law enforcement offi- cers.” Nixon said the Guard’s involvement will be a “lim- Gun sales up ited mission.” President Barack Obama said he told Antonio Henley, a 43-year-old barbershop owner, fretted Nixon he’ll be watching to determine if the Guard’s about the hit his West Florissant business is taking. “It’s terrible,” he presence is beneficial or harmful. Nixon on Monday lift- said. “The police are keeping everybody away. We’re taxpayers, ed a midnight-5 am curfew that he had imposed two but how can we pay our workers and pay taxes if we can’t do any days earlier. business?” But gun shop owner Steven King had quite the opposite to Q: Who’s in charge? report. “Our sales are just through the roof,” King said. A: The Guard will be under the direction of Col. Ron Sales at his Metro Shooting Supplies are up tenfold and he’s Replogle of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Missouri sold out of pump shotguns, he said. National Guard Brig. Gen. Gregory Mason will oversee “People are afraid,” he said, “and it’s just not stopping.” Guard operations. It’s the standard way of operating Some locals insist the protests, accompanied by the violence, a when the Guard is called to help quell civil distur- huge media throng and the heavy police and military presence, bances. “We’re always in support, never in the lead are having no impact. But their actions belied their words. The domestically. We take orders from the lead law enforce- proprietor of a local auto repair shop said he hadn’t been affected ment agency on the scene,” said Rick Breitenfeldt, a but admitted to boarding up his shop windows and blocking the spokesman at the Guard’s national headquarters. doors with pieces of heavy machinery at night. A group of businessmen eating lunch at a small cafe also said Q: Who can deploy the Guard? A: Governors or the president can deploy the Guard. In at least 10 cases since World War II, the president has mobilized the Guard for wide-ranging missions, invok- ing the Insurrection Act. Among them: the 1957-58 desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; the 1965 Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, civil rights march; the 1967 riots in Detroit; the 1968 riots in numerous cities following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; the 1970 New York City postal strike; and the 1992 Los Angeles riots after four police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. In that last case, the Guard was originally mobi- lized by the state. After two days, then-President George HW Bush called the Guard into federal service.

Q: What other activities has the Guard been involved in? A: Guard members have been mobilized in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, peacekeeping duty in the Balkans and the Sinai and numerous natural disasters. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Guard dis- patched more than 50,000 troops to help the Gulf states. In Texas, Gov. Rick Perry recently announced the deployment of Guard troops to the Texas Mexico bor- der, where there has been a surge in illegal immigration this summer - most notably unaccompanied children from gang-ravaged Central American nations. In com- ing weeks, up to 1,000 additional Guard troops are expected to arrive at the border to beef up the Texas Department of Public Safety’s “Operation Strong Safety.” The soldiers will largely serve as surveillance in what officials have called a “deter and refer” mission. During fiscal year 2013, the Guard said, it responded to 28 wild- fires, 14 floods, 10 winter storms, three hurricanes, a tor- nado and a tropical storm. — AP Protesters scramble as they try to evade police who ran into the crowd to make an arrest. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Thuds from Libyan airport feud set rhythm of Tripoli life

TRIPOLI: Regular thuds from rival militias’ ing a strategic bridge and an old Libyan during the revolt against Moamer station struggle to separate them. small tankers docked at the port. battles near Tripoli airport set the rhythm army base. Their opponents, nationalist Kadhafi,” the long-time dictator over- The whole queue slams the govern- But it is clearly not enough. Many of daily life for the Libyan capital’s resi- militiamen from Zintan in western Libya, thrown in 2011, said the worker for a for- ment, powerless amid the chaos and Tripoli petrol stations are shut down and dents, busy coping with power cuts and say that they still hold the airport, closed eign company. which has decamped with parliament to the rest open only when a fresh delivery petrol shortages. since July 13, and have kept open their The power outages have disrupted life Tobruk, 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) arrives. The scarcity of petrol is affecting Noise from the clashes between the supply lines to the west of the capital. The in the capital, where many shops are shut, east of Tripoli, for security reasons. prices generally, like at the Tripoli fish nationalists and Islamists’ heavy weapon- direct collateral victims of the fighting are civil servants have abandoned their posts Eventually, each driver fills up with market, where customers are bargaining ry may swell or soften from one day to people living in Tripoli’s southern neigh- and public services are practically at a petrol and has the car logbook stamped more than usual and buying less, say stall- another but never stops. The only visible bourhoods, who have fled in large num- standstill. to prevent profiteering, though the black holders. sign is a column of black smoke rising bers. The national electricity company market is nevertheless flourishing. The situation is similar at the Bab from a fuel depot to the south of Tripoli A thousand families have sought warned on Monday of a “risk of a general “I filled up for 7 dinars ($6.6, 4.3 euros Tajura market, where seasonal fruits and ever since shooting set it alight at the end refuge in Tarhuna and 700 more in Bani power cut unless network maintenance is at the official rate) and that costs 55 to 70 vegetables are plentiful. However, the of July. Walid, officials in the two towns southeast carried out in the east of the country.” dinars ($44 to $56, 33.7 to 42.8 euros) on capital’s residents are carrying on with The battlefield is inaccessible to inde- of Tripoli say. For other people in the capi- the black market,” says taxi driver Ahmed their lives and still throng the waterfront pendent media, the toll is impossible to tal, the clashes just add to the difficulty of Queues for petrol al-Huni, who often uses petrol touts to cafes and roundabouts in the evening. verify and the outcome uncertain. getting through each day. “Four hours of waiting then he nips in avoid the long queues. Nor have all foreign workers fled. Gad, Fighters from Misrata, east of Tripoli, and “Power cuts last nine hours a day and front of me,” moans a driver outside a Millions of litres of petrol went up in an Egyptian who runs a laundry in their Islamist allies claim to be making we are never warned about them,” com- petrol station in the heart of the capital. smoke when the southern Tripoli fuel Tripoli’s Italianate centre, reckons he is progress towards the airport, 30 kilome- plains 60 year-old Ali Tajuri, a resident of The two young men quickly come to depot caught fire and the distribution “safer staying here than taking the road tres (20 miles) south of the city, after seiz- eastern Tripoli. “The cuts weren’t so bad blows and police monitoring the petrol company has been supplying Tripoli from to Egypt”. —AFP Ukrainian govt troops take over Luhansk 9 dead, 13 hurt in Donetsk shelling

DONETSK: After days of street battles reporters Wednesday in Kiev that gov- ning battles between the two sides. The Ukrainian-American known by the nom and weeks of shelling, Ukrainian troops ernment forces were now in control of death toll mounted quickly yesterday. de guerre of “Franko,” said Anton made significant gains yesterday into “significant parts” of Luhansk, an east- In Donetsk, the regional administration Herashchenko, an adviser to the interior rebel-held territory, capturing a large ern city just 20 kilometers (12 miles) said 34 local residents were killed and minister. He said Franko was an part of the city of Luhansk and nearly from the Russian border. 29 wounded in the last 24 hours as of American citizen with a military back- encircling Donetsk, the largest rebel- Hard-hit Luhansk has been without noon. Another 9 people were killed and ground who had been living in eastern held city, in fighting that left at least 52 electricity, running water or phone con- 13 wounded in afternoon shelling, the Ukraine for 10 years and obtained dead. nections for 18 days due to the fighting Donetsk mayor’s office said. Ukrainian citizenship before joining the Ukrainian troops have been trying between government forces and pro- Lysenko, the government government side. for weeks to drive the rebels out of Russia separatists. Russia has sent a spokesman, said nine troops were killed For several weeks running, Donetsk Luhansk and cut off Donetsk, a city of 1 massive aid convoy to help the resi- and 22 wounded in overnight fighting has come under daily shelling attacks from all sides. The imprecision of the shelling is creating much animosity while seemingly taking a limited toll on rebel forces. Yesterday morning, rockets LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron arrives back in Downing slammed into residential areas, includ- Street, central London yesterday. David Cameron broke off his holiday ing the suburb of Makiivka. “I was with yesterday for talks on the threat posed by Islamic State jihadists follow- my grandmother in the bathroom, ing the “shocking and depraved” apparent beheading of US journalist because there is a bearing wall in there,” James Foley. —AFP said Anna Zyukova, 22. “And then all of sudden, bam-bam.” Many Donetsk residents have been Cameron breaks holiday taking refuge in improvised bomb shel- ters in apartment building basements. after journalist execution Residents in Makiivka huddled in groups near one such shelter LONDON: British Prime Minister David European extremists fighting with IS if they Wednesday, chatting and listening as Cameron broke off his holiday yesterday for attempted to return home. The masked rockets flew in and out several miles talks on the threat posed by Islamic State executioner in the video speaks English away. At a rebel camp closer to the jihadists following the “shocking and with a British accent. “On the face of it, it fighting, a rebel commander who iden- depraved” apparent beheading of US jour- appears to have been a British person. tified himself only as “Chaika” - Russian nalist James Foley. We’ll have to do some more analysis to for seagull - said he was at a loss to Cameron was returning to his Downing make quite certain that that is the case,” explain why army shells were hitting Street office in London to discuss the situa- Hammond said. apartments. tion in Iraq and Syria as experts worked on Around 400 Britons are believed to have “We purposely don’t take up posi- trying to identify the executioner in the gone to Syria over the last two years. tions where people live,” he said - a beheading video, who spoke with a British Cameron on Sunday said Britain would claim that Ukrainian officials have accent. send military support to forces fighting IS, repeatedly dismissed. The fighting “If true, the murder of James Foley is warning that not acting could allow the began a month after Russia annexed shocking and depraved. I will today chair “terrorist movement” to “target us on the Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. meetings on the situation in Iraq/Syria,” streets of Britain”. DONETSK: A man leaves a building after shelling in Donetsk yesterday. Fierce fighting between The Kiev government also is pursu- Cameron said on Twitter. The video posted Hammond said there were already “sig- government forces and pro-Russian rebels has killed 34 civilians over the past 24 hours in east ing diplomatic efforts to resolve the Tuesday on the Internet showed a masked nificant” numbers of British nationals in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, local authorities said yesterday. —AFP conflict, which the United Nations militant beheading a man resembling Foley, Syria and an increasing number in Iraq, says has killed more than 2,000 peo- who has been missing since he was seized in which could pose a “direct threat to our own million that has shrunk by a third as dents there but it’s still stuck at the bor- in Ilovaysk, a town near Donetsk, as the ple and displaced over 340,000 since Syria in November 2012. national security” if they seek to return with frightened residents fled. In the last few der, not yet approved by Kiev because government sought to retake a major the fighting began in mid-April. Downing Street said in a statement that the “tradecraft” they have learnt in those days, several neighborhoods in its proposed route lies through rebel- railroad and a highway that leads to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Cameron would meet with Foreign conflicts. Donetsk have been hit with artillery fire held territory. Russia. He said fighting continued yes- will host German Chancellor Angela Secretary Philip Hammond and other senior British extremists are among the “most and fighting on the city’s outskirts has Ukraine has accused Russia of arm- terday in Ilovaysk even though govern- Merkel this weekend in Kiev before officials “to discuss the situation in Iraq and vicious and vociferous fighters” in the IS become more intense. ing and supporting the rebels, a charge ment forces had gained control of the meeting next week with Russian Syria and the threat posed by ISIL (Islamic ranks, said Shiraz Maher, an expert on Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for that Russia denies. Earlier in the day, town. President Vladimir Putin in Minsk, the State) terrorists”. jihadism. Maher, a senior research fellow at Ukraine’s National Security Council, told Luhansk city authorities reported run- Among those killed in Ilovaysk was a capital of Belarus. —AP Yesterday was to have been the second the International Centre for the Study of day of the prime minister’s break in Radicalisation at King’s College London, said Cornwall, southwest England. Hammond they had been operating as suicide voiced his “absolute horror” at the apparent bombers and executioners. Germany ready to send beheading, which he said is “just is one more “Foreign fighters going out to Syria are example in a catalogue of brutality by this not going out there to be backseat riders. organisation,” referring to IS. They are going out to be full participants in He said “atrocities” carried out by IS as it the war, to be at the forefront of the con- weapons to Iraqi Kurds has seized swathes of territory in Iraq and flict,” he told AFP. Syria were driving the international commu- He said he and his colleagues were “fairly nity’s efforts to support Iraqis and Kurds in satisfied that it’s a Brit” in the video “due to BERLIN: Germany is ready to send weapons to sup- pushing back against the “evil organisation”. the colloquialisms” used, as well the accent. port Iraqi Kurds in their battle against the “barbaric” “We have a database of several hundred jihadist militants of the Islamic State, Foreign Minister Brits ‘most vicious fighters’ fighters in Syria and myself and my col- Frank-Walter Steinmeier said yesterday. He also said the apparent attack leagues are frantically looking through it to After other European countries said they would showed the security threat posed by try to pin him down,” he added. —AFP send arms to help the embattled Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, “we are ready to do the same,” Steinmeier said at a joint press conference with Nigerian soldiers ‘mutiny’ Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen. He called the onslaught of the IS “barbaric”, the suffering of over lack of weapons refugees “unimaginable”, and warned that the sweep- ing advance of the radicals spells an “existential KANO: Dozens of Nigerian soldiers have anti-aircraft weapons mounted on trucks threat” to Iraq and threatens a regional “conflagra- refused to deploy for an offensive against and, in some cases, armoured personnel tion”. The ministers said Germany would first send Boko Haram Islamists until they receive bet- carriers. Soldiers by contrast often lack more humanitarian aid and non-lethal equipment ter weapons, several of the mutineers told ammunition for their AK-47 rifles and have such as helmets, night-vision goggles and explosives AFP yesterday. reportedly been sent out to the bushlands detectors while it checked what weapons shipments The troops said they had been ordered to fight without basic communication would make sense, in coordination with EU partners. to move out of their barracks in the north- equipment. Von der Leyen said “the breathtaking speed and eastern city of Maiduguri towards the Last month, military wives protested at incredible brutality” of the militant group had “trig- Gwoza area of Borno state, where the insur- the gate of a military base in Maiduguri try- gered a humanitarian catastrophe” and, using its for- gents have reportedly seized pockets of ter- ing to stop their husbands from deploying mer name, said that “ISIS must be stopped”. ritory. But one of the soldiers, who asked to Gwoza until they were properly equipped. Sending military hardware is unusual for Germany not to be named, said: “We have vowed not One of the mutineers said the group was which, burdened by its past aggression in two world to move one inch until our superiors pro- compelled to revolt following an operation wars, often shies away from foreign military engage- vide us with all necessary weapons to effec- to retake the town of Damboa, which Boko ments and as a rule does not export weapons into tive confront and dislodge Boko Haram who Haram seized last month. “We took over live conflict zones. BERLIN: German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen (L) and German Foreign have far better arms.” Damboa at a huge cost because the enemy Critics oppose the idea of sending weapons to a Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier give a press conference yesterday in Berlin. They The troops said they had set up a camp had better weapons,” said the soldier. war zone where fighters and arms can quickly change announced that Germany is ready to send arms to help Iraqi Kurds. —AFP in the Bulabulin area on the outskirts of President Goodluck Jonathan has asked sides. Maiduguri. “We are being killed like chick- lawmakers to approve a $1 billion (750 mil- “appalling” and the task of halting their advance was tain-would be devastating.” ens by Boko Haram because we are not giv- lion euro) foreign loan to upgrade the ‘Impacts our security’ up to “the entire international community”. Steinmeier said Germany was already sending en the required weapons to fight,” said capacity of the military. Parliament did not Alarming images of Iraqi minorities, including Her spokesman Steffen Seibert said Wednesday humanitarian aid worth 25 million euros ($33 mil- another soldier who also requested vote on the bill before breaking for recess Christians and Yazidis, under siege by jihadists have that “the IS advance has a different quality because lion) to Iraq, adding however that this was “impor- anonymity. “We say enough is enough.” but many saw Jonathan’s request as a tacit struck a chord in European capitals, and the radicals’ of the world region in which it is taking place, it tant but not enough”. A defence ministry Some officials and independent experts acknowledgement that his military is being apparent beheading of a US journalist has further impacts our own security”. spokesman said a decision on when arms might be have said that Boko Haram fighters are bet- out-matched by the Islamist rebels. stoked outrage. Steinmeier also warned: “A collapse of the shipped was possible next week. ter armed than Nigerian troops. Borno’s Boko Haram has been blamed for more Last Friday EU ministers agreed at an emergency Kurdish defence lines, or even a collapse of the Iraqi The government shift is politically difficult in Governor Kashim Shettima was fiercely criti- than 10,000 deaths since 2009 but the scale meeting to back the arming of Kurdish fighters. state system, a military conflagration throughout Germany, where recent opinion polls have shown cised by the military after he made such a of their attacks appears to have escalated in France has already begun to provide weapons, and the Middle East: all this is threatening if the interna- broad opposition to arms shipments to Iraq. A claim in February. recent months. Entire villages have been Britain said it was ready to do so. tional community does nothing. total of 63 percent of respondents were against Residents in towns raided by the razed across the northeast this year and the Chancellor Angela Merkel last week signalled she “Such a catastrophe, were it to happen, the idea, and only 30 percent in favour, in a Forsa Islamists have said the insurgents are often relentless violence has forced more than may shift her stance from a flat refusal when she told would affect us directly in Germany and in institute poll for Stern news weekly taken on armed with rocket-propelled grenades and 600,000 people to flee their homes. —AFP a local newspaper that the crimes of IS militants were Europe. The consequences-of this we are all cer- August 14 and 15. —AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Indian soldier’s body found in Kashmir after 18 years

SRINAGAR: The Indian army has found the told AFP by phone from Leh, 450 kilometres The body was identified using papers in the as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius. An esti- who each administer part of Kashmir but body of a soldier 18 years after he went (281 miles) from the region’s main city of soldier’s pocket. “It was a nightmare to bring mated 8,000 troops have died on the glacier claim it in full, fought over Siachen in 1987. missing on the Siachen glacier in disputed Srinagar. the body back and took five days,” he added. since 1984, almost all of them from ava- But guns on the glacier have largely fallen Indian Kashmir, police said yesterday. “The Gupta said the man, whose body has At more than 18,000 feet (5,700 meters) lanches, landslides, frostbite, altitude sick- silent since a peace process began in 2004. body was discovered in a frozen state last now been sent to his home in northern Siachen is known as the world’s highest bat- ness or heart failure rather than combat. There was no fighting on the glacier when week,” superintendent of police Sunil Gupta India, had likely been hit by an avalanche. tleground, and temperatures there can drop Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, the soldier went missing in 1996. — AFP Pakistan anti-government protesters block parliament SC orders Khan, Qadri to appear in court today ISLAMABAD: Protesters demanding the fall of the Pakistani government blockaded parliament and key ministries yesterday in the latest round of a week-long political drama that has shaken the restive nuclear-armed nation. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and pop- ulist cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri had Tuesday led followers in a late-night march on the parliament building, the culmination of a week-long standoff with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Khan and Qadri say last year’s general election that swept Sharif to power by a landslide was NEW DELHI: Pakistan High Commisioner Abdul Basit (2L) leaves after addressing a rigged, and they are demanding his resignation. press conference at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club in New Delhi yesterday. Qadri repeated his demand for Sharif to quit and Pakistan High Commisioner Abdul Basit, who met with Kashmiri separatist leaders install a “national government”, and ordered his fol- on Tuesday in defiance of India’s protest and calling off of secretary-level talks, lowers to stop lawmakers leaving a national assem- defended his meet, stating that Kashmiris are “legitimate stakeholders”, and that bly sitting called to debate the crisis. Kashmir is a “bilateral” issue. — AFP His activists occupied the main entrances to par- liament but MPs left the building by a back Pakistan hopeful of stronger entrance without incident. Elsewhere in Islamabad’s high-security government “red zone”, followers of India ties despite talks row Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek movement blocked the entrance to an office complex housing NEW DELHI: Pakistan remains hopeful of is no reason why we should lose hope of a numerous ministries. strengthening ties with India despite an strong bilateral relationship,” he said. Under the gaze of riot police, they said they angry New Delhi last week cancelling Last month, the two countries sched- would not allow any ministers or MPs to leave until scheduled talks between the nuclear- uled talks between their foreign secretaries Sharif quit. The showdown has added to the sense ISLAMABAD: Pakistan riot policemen arrive at the site where supporters of Canada-based armed rival neighbours, Pakistan’s high for August 25. Indian Prime Minister of instability in a country struggling with a home- preacher Tahir-ul-Qadri and opposition politician Imran Khan are gathered in protest, in commissioner said yesterday. Narendra Modi’s surprise move to invite his grown Taleban insurgency, a crippling power crisis Islamabad yesterday.— AFP Abdul Basit said Pakistan was confident Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, to his and a sluggish economy. vention-the country of 180 million people has seen Asim Bajwa said through a recognised Twitter of “overcoming this setback” after Delhi swearing-in ceremony in May spurred Neither protest leader has shown any signs of three coups since its creation in 1947. account. called off the diplomatic talks in Islamabad hopes that peace talks between the two backing down, despite repeated government offers Rumours have abounded that elements within Sharif has a history of testy relations with the in a blow to warmer ties between the new countries could resume. of talks. But yesterday the Supreme Court, which the influential military have been behind Khan and military-his second term as PM ended abruptly in Indian government and Islamabad. The warmer ties were dented last week has played an influential role in Pakistani politics in Qadri’s moves, though the cleric and the interior 1999 when then-army chief Pervez Musharraf Basit also defended his meetings with when Modi accused Islamabad of waging a recent years, ordered Khan and Qadri to appear minister have adamantly denied this. seized power in a coup. His government is thought Kashmiri separatist leaders earlier this “proxy war” by sending militants to attack today to explain themselves, a court official said. On Tuesday Khan had threatened to break into to have angered the military further by pursuing week, a move that prompted Delhi to Indian targets. There have also been sever- The ruling came after petitions urging the court the PM’s official residence unless Sharif resigned, criminal cases against Musharraf dating back to his accuse its arch-rival of interfering in its al ceasefire violations across the Kashmiri to restrain Khan and Qadri from “making illegal and though Qadri distanced himself from the call, say- 1999-2008 rule, including treason charges. domestic affairs and cancel the talks. border that have angered India. unconstitutional demands”, Kamran Murtaza, a sen- ing his supporters would maintain a peaceful sit-in Military analyst Ayesha Siddiqui warned that the “We believe Kashmiris are a stakeholder India and Pakistan have fought three ior lawyer, told AFP. There had been fears the pro- until Sharif stepped down. situation was very precarious. “From the military in this (diplomatic) process,” Basit told wars since independence, two of them over testers’ advance on parliament could trigger clash- perspective, they have tried and tested Nawaz reporters in the capital, explaining that the the disputed Kashmir region. Relations es, but riot police and other security forces looked Testy relations Sharif a third time and they feel disappointed. Why meetings with the separatists were a “long- between the two neighbours broke down on without intervening. standing” practice. after attacks by Pakistani gunmen on Early yesterday the army’s chief spokesman would they let him be?” she told AFP. called for dialogue. “Situation requires patience, But Hamid Gul, the former head of the powerful “We will not allow the process (of Mumbai in 2008 left 166 people dead. ‘Patience required’ wisdom and sagacity from all stakeholders to Inter-Services Intelligence agency, said that despite stronger ties) to be distracted in any way,” The United States earlier this week The crisis has raised fears that Pakistan’s fragile resolve prevailing impasse through meaningful dia- the military’s differences with Sharif, he thought Basit said, adding, “You will find Pakistan termed the cancellation of the talks disap- democracy could be under threat of military inter- seriously committed to the process.” “There pointing. — AFP logue in larger national and public interest,” General they were unwilling to get involved. — AFP Afghanistan gives reporter 24 hours to leave country AVAILABLE IN ALL BOOTS PHARMACIES IN KUWAIT

KABUL: Afghanistan has given a New York Times not understand how insisting on the right to a lawyer reporter 24 hours to leave the country, accusing him is not cooperating.” of not cooperating with an investigation into his Afghanistan is in the midst of a ballot that has reporting, the Attorney General’s office said yester- dragged on for months, with both candidates claim- day. ing victory after the June 14 run off and allegations Matthew Rosenberg, 40, was summoned for ques- of mass fraud threatening to derail the process. tioning on Tuesday after the newspaper ran a story “They had brought us there under the guise of a about officials discussing plans to form an interim kind of semi-informal chat,” Rosenberg said of the government and “seize power” if a deadlock over the talks. “It was kind of polite but insistent that we give presidential election failed to break soon. them the names of our sources.” “Due to the lack of proper accountability and non- Attorney General’s office spokesman Basir Azizi cooperation, the Attorney General’s office has decid- said Rosenberg was being investigated for publishing ed that Matthew Rosenberg should leave a story about government officials conspiring to Afghanistan within 24 hours,” the office said in a “seize power” without disclosing the identity of his statement. “He will not be permitted to enter the sources. country again.” “The report is against our national security Rosenberg said he and his newspaper had been because right now, the election problem is ongoing cooperating fully. “We simply requested a lawyer as is and talks are at a very intricate stage,” Azizi told our right under Afghan law,” he said. “We were also Reuters by phone. The United Nations is supervising never informed of a formal investigation and we do an audit of all eight million votes cast, but the process has proceeded slowly as rival camps scruti- nise each vote. At the same time, members of a joint-commission appointed by deadlocked candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani are meeting to hammer out an agreement on a unity government.

Expulsion violate laws The framework deal was brokered by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who has twice flown into Kabul since the run off, but little progress in fleshing out the structure of the government has been made since his departure two weeks ago. NAI, a group sup- porting a free press in Afghanistan, said the expul- sion violated laws protecting freedom of expression by the media. “We think rather than it being a legal matter, it’s a political game,” said Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar, the head of NAI. “There are people in the government of Afghanistan trying to somehow keep the internation- al community out of the picture of the elections in Afghanistan.” Washington criticised the Afghan government’s handling of the situation late on Tuesday, before the Attorney General’s statement. “We are deeply disturbed by the actions of the Afghan attorney general ... and urge the Afghan gov- ernment to respect fundamental freedoms of expres- sion and expression of the press,” Marie Harf, a deputy State Department spokeswoman, told a news briefing in Washington. While Afghanistan’s press has generally operated freely, the country has become more dangerous for both journalists and aid workers to operate. Earlier this week, consultancy group Humanitarian Outcomes reported a record number of attacks on KABUL: New York Times correspondent Matthew aid workers worldwide, with Afghanistan being the Rosenberg speaks during an interview with an AFP worst place for humanitarian staff to operate. reporter at the New York Times office in Kabul yesterday. A string of attacks on journalists in the run-up to Afghanistan ordered a New York Times correspondent to the April 5 vote reflected this trend, with a Swedish- leave the country after he wrote an article saying govern- British journalist, an AFP news agency reporter and a ment ministers and officials were threatening to seize veteran AP news agency photographer being killed power to end a stand-off over election results. — AFP in separate attacks. — Reuters THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Three more Tibetans die from shooting by Chinese police

BEIJING: Three protesters shot last Tsewang Gonpo, 60; Yeshe, 42; and last week after he disagreed with Calls to the police in Ganzi seeking and Chinese authorities despite tight week by police in a Tibetan region of Jinpa Tharchin, 18 died in detention in authorities over the harassment of comment went unanswered. Human security. China have died of their injuries, taking Ganzi after being denied medical treat- female community members by officials rights activists say China tramples on US-based group International to five the number of people killed in ment for their injuries, the U.K.-based and a measure outlawing local festivals, religious freedom and culture in Tibet, Campaign for Tibet (ICT) says two the incident, a rights group said yester- Free Tibet group said in a statement. the rights group said. which it has ruled with an iron fist since Tibetans were shot in the head and at day. “This shooting and the subsequent Wangdak’s detention sparked People’s Liberation Army troops “peace- least eight others seriously wounded The protest erupted over the deten- treatment of detainees exposes the real- protests by around 100 Tibetans and fully liberated” the region in 1950. after police opened fire on unarmed tion of a respected village leader in the ity of China’s so-called ‘rule of law’ in security forces opened fire, injuring at China rejects such criticism, saying Tibetans who had gathered to mark the Ganzi prefecture of southwestern Tibet,” said Free Tibet director Eleanor least 10 people, it added. Rights groups its rule ended serfdom and brought Dalai Lama’s birthday last year. The Dalai Sichuan province, rights groups say, a Byrne-Rosengren. said late on Monday that two people development to a backward, poverty- Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, fled to flashpoint for Tibetan protests against The three Tibetans were relatives of had died, including one who committed stricken region. Ganzi has been plagued India after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. Wangdak, the leader taken into custody suicide in protest while in jail. by violent clashes between Tibetans Chinese rule in 1959. —Reuters Thailand junta chief tipped to become PM Prayut is ‘suitable for the job’

BANGKOK: Thailand’s coup leader is said on condition of anonymity. Shinawatra was dismissed as prime Critics see the move as an attempt expected to be picked as prime min- “He staged a coup. He has to be minister in a controversial court rul- to purge Thailand of Thaksin’s political ister by the kingdom’s new army- responsible for solving all the prob- ing. influence, which has already been dominated national assembly, junta lems by himself. By becoming prime Thailand has been riven by politi- undermined by a purge of his allies in sources said yesterday, cementing the minister, he will have full power,” the cal divisions since Yingluck’s elder government, state industries and the military’s hold on power in the politi- official added. brother, the former billionaire tele- police. cally turbulent nation. Another member of the junta, for- coms tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra, was The junta has vowed to remain in Army Chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha is mally known as the National Council toppled as prime minister in a coup in place in parallel to the future govern- ment, which will be nominated by the new prime minister.

Shedding his uniform Prayut, who is due to retire as SEOUL: South Korean army soldiers sit in a truck during a civil defense drill army chief in September, is seen as a against possible attacks by North Korea as part of the annual Ulchi Freedom staunch opponent of Thaksin and a Guardian exercise in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday. The US-South Korean fervent royalist known for bluntly military exercises which started Monday and involve tens of thousands of stating his opinions. troops are described by the allies as routine and defensive, but Pyongyang He gave a hint of his apparent sees them as invasion preparation. —AP political ambitions when he swapped his uniform for a suit and tie to appear in parliament on Monday to oversee DPRK FM spokesman blasts the approval of the national budget, which was waved through with no US, S Korean puppet forces opposition. Thaksin fled Thailand in 2008 to PYONGYANG: A spokesman for the DPRK of right and wrong. avoid prison for a corruption convic- Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Monday The US has staged a total of more than 18 tion that he insists was politically assailing the US and the South Korean puppet 000 war maneuvers of various forms for motivated. forces for kicking off Ulji Freedom Guardian aggression in south Korea for more than six Yingluck, who was indicted for joint military exercises against the DPRK. decades since the 1950s, but it claims they dereliction of duty a day after she was have never posed any threat to the north. But removed from office, could also face The statement said: it contends that even a single test-fire and drill criminal charges linked to a loss-mak- The US is becoming all the more undis- of tactical guided-missiles for self-defence con- ing rice subsidy scheme. guised in its criminal moves to disturb peace ducted by the Korean People’s Army to cope Thaksin, who clashed with the roy- and ignite a nuclear war through a vicious with them should be called into question. This alist establishment before his over- cycle of tensions on the Korean peninsula and is the American-style standard and brigandish throw, lives in Dubai but remains a in the region. logic. hugely divisive figure in his home- The US kicked off together with the South Joint military exercises staged in south land. Prayut is often described as the Korean puppet forces the Ulji Freedom Korea after the US announced its new defense BANGKOK: This file picture taken on August 7, 2014 shows Head of the National Council for Peace architect of an army crackdown on a Guardian against the DPRK despite its repeat- strategy are assuming more aggressive nature and Order and army chief General Prayut Chan-O-Cha (C) upon his arrival prior to the opening of pro-Thaksin “Red Shirt” rally in ed warnings and serious concern of the inter- and their scale and frequency are steadily the National Legislative Assembly in Bangkok. Thailand’s coup leader is expected to be picked as Bangkok in 2010 that left dozens national community. increasing, ranging from the largest-ever joint prime minister by the kingdom’s new army-dominated national assembly, junta sources said yes- dead. The US is staging ceaseless ever-larger scale landing drill aimed to “occupy Pyongyang” to a terday, cementing the military’s hold on power in the politically turbulent nation. —AFP The army chief is not expected to joint military exercises on the Korean peninsula drill for “breaking through the Military attend Thursday’s vote in the National and in its vicinity several times in a year. They Demarcation Line” all of a sudden, a drill for Legislative Assembly (NLA) because are grave military provocations against the “restoring administrative units after occupying likely to be the sole candidate for the for Peace and Order (NCPO), said 2006. Thailand’s army rulers say they he will be at a military anniversary DPRK and unpardonable criminal acts of dis- the north” and a special operation drill for premiership when the 197-strong Prayut was set to be chosen because want to introduce political reforms event outside Bangkok, the junta turbing peace and security. destroying the headquarters of the DPRK. appointed assembly convenes on he is “suitable for the job”. before holding a general election late sources said. In order to prevent world public from focus- The US announced that it would apply for Thursday to select a new leader for “According to polls, he enjoys pub- next year. Nomination as a candidate for the ing its criticism on the aggressive nature and the first time during the exercises “tailored the Southeast Asian country, the lic popularity and people also admire They say their power grab was premiership requires the backing of danger of the joint military exercises, the US is deterrence strategy” which calls for mounting sources told AFP. the NCPO’s work,” said the source, necessary to end a months-long about 40 people in the assembly, NLA letting loose such sophism as describing them a preemptive strike by mobilizing all forms of “It was difficult to find people to who also asked not to be named. political crisis and related street vio- member Somchai Sawaengkarn said. as “annual” and “defensive” ones. They are, at armed forces including nuclear weapons if a become prime minister other than Prayut seized power from an elect- lence that left nearly 30 people dead To be selected for the post, Prayut the same time, terming countermeasures of sign of “the use of nuclear weapons and mis- General Prayut. If it’s not him, who ed government in a bloodless coup and paralysed the former civilian gov- would need the support of more than the DPRK “threat” and “provocation” like a thief siles” of someone is detected. This is another else should it be?” one junta official on May 22, shortly after Yingluck ernment. half of the NLA, he added. —AFP crying “Stop the thief!” undisguised nuclear threat and blackmail. When the DPRK’s principled stand and efforts to defuse tensions on the Korean penin- Disturbing global peace sula and create a peaceful environment drew The danger of the tensions on the Korean support and sympathy from those countries in peninsula at present, together with the US Taiwan’s official the region at the recent ministerial meeting of threat to mount a preemptive nuclear strike the ASEAN Regional Forum held in Myanmar, being rapidly put into practice, lies in that it is accused of US Secretary of State John Kerry at the talks disturbing global peace and security going between the diplomatic and defense chiefs of beyond the regional scale. leaking secrets the US and Australia held two days later impu- The joint military exercises being staged dently blustered that the just self-defensive under the pretext of the “threat” from the DPRK TAIPEI: One of Taiwan’s top negotiators on China steps of the DPRK are “wrecking stability in the are strictly pursuant to the US strategy for policy is being investigated on suspicion of leak- whole region” and sparking off “serious con- world domination to bring down the social ing secrets after resigning, his superior said yes- cern”. system in the DPRK and eye the Asian conti- nent with the Korean peninsula as a bridge- terday, in the latest political scandal to rock the Aggression head. This is a stark reality which no one can island. On Friday a deputy spokesperson of the US deny. The US armed buildup in Northeast Asia Wang Yu-chi, minister in charge of Taiwan’s State Department and a spokesperson of the including the Korean peninsula and the world’s Mainland Affairs Council, said his former deputy US Defense Department vied with each other largest war maneuvers will spark off a new Chang Hsien-yao is being investigated following to make such belligerent remarks that it would arms race and Cold War. The threat of one par- a tip-off he received in late July accusing the continue joint military exercises while terming ty is bound to trigger off retaliation from the latter of leaking confidential work-related infor- the tactical rocket test-fire of the DPRK a other party and a war is bound to break out in “threat”. this course. This is a lesson taught by history. mation. WELLINGTON: Leader of the opposition Labour Party, David Cunliffe (C), Despicable, indeed, is the attitude of the US If one is weak though one is very honest- speaks to the media outside a retirement home in Lower Hutt in the suburbs of “I can’t disclose the content of the tip-off ... We authorities resorting to foolish deceptive arti- minded and just, one is bound to fall victim to Wellington during an election campaign visit yesterday. One poll puts the rul- have provided relevant information to the fice and intrigues to justify their acts to perpe- the strong and a genuine peace is protected ing conservative National Party on 50 percent support ahead of the September Investigation Bureau so they can utilise that in trate aggression and disturb peace. It is an only when one is strong. This is the immutable 20 general election, with the opposition Labour Party on 26 percent. —AFP their further investigation,” Wang told reporters. inveterate method of aggression of the US to logic reflected in the DPRK’s line of simultane- The Investigation Bureau is tasked with coun- ignite a war while making profound confusing ously developing the two fronts. tering Chinese espionage against Taiwan as well US suspects in Bali suitcase as criminal activity. The mainland affairs council said Tuesday murder on suicide watch Chang has been under investigation since step- ping down over suspicions related to “national DENPASAR: A pregnant US teenager and her suicide,” Wiyanto said. Police last week provided security”. It did not elaborate. boyfriend were on suicide watch on the CCTV footage showing the couple speaking to a Wang’s comments came after Chang went on Indonesian resort island of Bali yesterday, police taxi driver after dropping the bloodied suitcase local television late Tuesday to defend himself, said, after being held as suspects in the murder along with other luggage outside the hotel. claiming that he was persecuted over “concocted” of the woman’s mother whose battered body Police said the two left, apparently to check was found in a suitcase. out of the hotel, and never returned. The case allegations and was “sold out” by his superiors. No charges have been brought in connec- was lifted into the back of a taxi. The two were Local media suggested that Chang might have tion with the death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, arrested at a nearby budget hotel. leaked classified information during previous 62, whose body was found in the bloodied case An official at the hospital that conducted the talks with China, including the island’s bottom in a taxi outside the luxury St. Regis hotel in autopsy said von Wiese-Mack had been repeat- line in negotiations. Nusa Dua, Bali, last week. Her daughter, Heather edly hit on the face and head with a blunt The scandal came after China’s top official in Mack, 19, and Mack’s boyfriend, Tommy object. The body was flown back to the United charge of Taiwan affairs, Zhang Zhijun-the most Schaefer, 21, were arrested and detained as sus- States on Tuesday accompanied by an officer pects. with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, senior Chinese official ever to visit the island-paid Bali police spokesman Hery Wiyanto said the which is assisting in the investigation. a landmark four-day visit in June. couple were depressed and were on suicide Wiyanto said ultrasound and urine tests had Ties between Taiwan and China have improved watch. “Their mental state is checked every day,” confirmed that Mack was pregnant, as she had markedly since 2008 when President Ma Ying- Wiyanto said. “Tommy seems better, but as they said, which he earlier suggested might have jeou, of the China-friendly Kuomintang party, both continue to refuse to speak it is difficult,” been a ruse to ensure she was sent home. came to power. he said. “... In Indonesia there are a lot of cases of JAKARTA: Indonesian police sit outside the Constitutional Court in Jakarta Observers said Chang’s removal could compli- The couple have refused to talk to their pregnant prisoners, if they are already yesterday, as authorities increase security ahead of the announcement Indonesian lawyer and a U.S. lawyer was expect- processed through the courts and they are cate Ma’s pro-Beijing push, which has already today of its decision about the presidential election dispute. Indonesian ex- ed to arrive in Indonesia yesterday. jailed,” he said. “So if found guilty, the baby will been hampered by major student-led protests in general Prabowo Subianto angrily claimed widespread cheating cost him “Tommy is under close observation and has be born in prison. The baby could grow up in Taipei against a trade pact earlier this year. —AFP victory in the country’s presidential election at the start of legal challenge no access to materials he could use to (commit) prison with its mother.” —Reuters to the results on August 6. —AFP NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

Islamic State beheads US... UAE approves lengthy counter-terrorism law Continued from Page 1 Continued from Page 1 about the independence of the judiciary. A United Road, the area between Marble Arch and Tottenham Nations special rapporteur said earlier this year that Court Road, and the Oxford Circus and Bond Street US intelligence believes the video is genuine, and the British government Rights groups say the UAE has locked up more the UAE’s judiciary is under the “de facto control” of the area. It also identified Shepherd’s Bush and held a crisis meeting to launch an investigation because Foley’s executioner than 130 people for charges related to their political executive branch and that there are credible claims of Queensway as areas that were “less safe”. spoke English with a London accent. Foley’s parents, John and Diane, appeared activism. Political parties are banned in the UAE. The detainees being abused in prison - often before When asked about the UAE foreign ministry’s on the lawn of their home in New Hampshire to pay tribute to their son - the UAE supports Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s decisions to extracting confessions. advice, the Metropolitan Police said London was one oldest of five adult children - and call for other hostages to be released. “Jim label the Brotherhood a terrorist organization. The Separately, the UAE advised its citizens to stay away of the safest major cities in the world and that crime would never want us to hate or be bitter. We cannot do that and we are just so group’s candidate became Egypt’s first democratically from several shopping and nightlife districts in central was falling. “There is absolutely nowhere in London very proud of Jimmy and we are praying for the strength to love like he did,” elected president in 2012, but was ousted a year later London because of the danger of crime, a warning which should be avoided,” Metropolitan Police Service Diane said. US Central Command said 14 air strikes had been carried out on IS by the military amid mass protests. As Cairo’s new that comes after two violent attacks on Emirati tourists Commander Makhdum Chishty said in a statement. targets in Iraq in the 24 hours since the video was released. leaders moved to crush the Brotherhood, the UAE and in the capital this year. London is one of the most pop- “We understand the incident involving Emirati nation- The United Nations and Europe’s top powers condemned the killing, and other Gulf countries rushed to boost Egypt with bil- ular destinations for Gulf Arab tourists looking to als earlier this year was shocking, but it was also very, France warned the world faces the “most serious international situation” since lions of dollars in aid. escape brutal summer heat. Many flock to the capital’s very rare.” Amnesty International’s Gulf researcher Nicholas most expensive areas such as Mayfair and Emiratis interviewed by Reuters were not con- 2001, the year of the Sept 11 attacks. In a significant shift from its usual policy, McGeehan said he is concerned about the climate in Knightsbridge. However, reports of an attack on three cerned by the warning. Basma Al-Mazmi, a 20-year-old Germany said it was ready to send weapons to support Iraqi Kurds against IS, which the counter-terrorism law was approved. “It Emirati women and their children at a London hotel in Emirati, said she was not deterred. “If I didn’t go to while France vowed to hold a conference on the security of the region. Foley would be better if people could see these provisions April and a masked robbery of an Emirati couple in these places then where would I go? London is all was an experienced correspondent who had covered wars in Afghanistan and before jumping straight to a law that could affect peo- their London apartment shocked the public in the about these places, you know?” she said. Amna Libya before heading to Syria, contributing reports to GlobalPost, Agence ple aversely,” he told The Associated Press. “We have to UAE, where crime rates are low. Mohamed, a university student, said that some Emirati France-Presse (AFP) and other outlets. AFP chairman Emmanuel Hoog study the law very carefully and hope that none of its A statement on the UAE’s foreign ministry website tourists drew unnecessary attention to themselves by described Foley “as a brave, independent and impartial journalist” whose work provisions are vaguely worded in such a way that told citizens to avoid areas “where pickpocketing, wearing extravagant clothes and accessories. “I would in Syria and other war zones was widely admired. According to witnesses, Foley would criminalize peaceful dissent. We’ve seen that fraud and theft are frequent and where it is not still go because I know those places and I know what was seized in the northern Syrian province of Idlib on Nov 22, 2012. elsewhere in the region.” There are also concerns advised to live”. An attached map singled out Edgware to wear when going to them,” she said. — Agencies Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in the parts of Iraq and Syria it controls, opened the video with a clip of Obama saying he had authorized strikes in Iraq. The words “Obama authorizes military operations against the Gaza war rages on, truce dead Islamic State effectively placing America upon a slippery slope towards a new war front against Muslims” appeared in English and Arabic on the screen. It Continued from Page 1 in retaliation for the killings. central Israel while 27 were shot down. There showed black and white aerial footage of air strikes with text saying: “American The mourners, firing Kalashnikovs, buried have been no reports of any casualties. The army aggression against the Islamic State.” The bloodshed pushed to 2,047 the number Widad and her son Ali, who died alongside had hit 92 targets across Gaza, she added. A man identified as Foley, his head shaven and dressed in an orange outfit of Gazans killed in six weeks of the most violent another woman and a teenager when a missile The violence left Egyptian truce efforts in tat- similar to uniforms worn by prisoners at the US military detention camp in confrontation between Israel and Hamas mili- slammed into a six-storey building in Gaza City ters, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Guantanamo Bay, is seen kneeling in the desert next to a man standing, hold- tants since the second Palestinian intifada, or late on Tuesday. It was the first deadly air strike Netanyahu immediately ordering his delegation ing a knife and clad head to toe in black. “I call on my friends, family and loved uprising (2000-2005). Another 67 people have since Aug 10. Grief-stricken, Widad’s father back from Cairo. Israel has repeatedly refused to ones to rise up against my real killers, the US government, for what will happen died on the Israeli side. The UN says around Mustafa Harb Asfura carried his tiny grandson negotiate under fire. “The rocket fire which to me is only a result of their complacency and criminality,” the kneeling man three-quarters of the victims in Gaza are civilians. into the mosque then to the cemetery, his body broke the ceasefire also destroyed the founda- says. Sixty-four of the Israeli dead were soldiers. wrapped in a white sheet exposing his white face tion on which the talks in Cairo were based,” The man next to him, in a black mask, speaks in a British accent and says, Egyptian mediators scrambled for weeks to push with an injury to the eye. “My daughter knew she Netanyahu’s spokesman Mark Regev told AFP. “This is James Wright Foley, an American citizen, of your country. As a govern- the warring sides to agree a decisive end to the would die a martyr when she decided to marry Most of the Palestinian negotiators, including ment, you have been at the forefront of the aggression towards the Islamic bloodshed, but their latest attempts collapsed on Mohammed Deif,” he told AFP. delegation head Azzam Al-Ahmed, also left Cairo. State. Today your military air force is attacking us daily in Iraq. Your strikes have Tuesday when the fighting resumed. In Israel, Interior Minister Gideon Saar justified The Egyptian foreign ministry expressed “pro- caused casualties amongst Muslims. You are no longer fighting an insurgency. Several thousand angry mourners joined the the attack, calling Deif a legitimate target. found regret at the breach of the ceasefire” and We are an Islamic army, and a state that has been accepted by a large number funeral procession for Deif’s 27-year-old wife and “Mohammed Deif deserves to die just like (the said it was working to bring both sides back to of Muslims worldwide.” Following his statement, he beheads the kneeling man. seven-month-old son in the Jabaliya refugee late Al-Qaeda leader Osama) bin Laden. He is an the negotiating table. Palestinian president At the end of the video, words on the side of the screen say, “Steven Joel camp, shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) arch murderer and as long as we have an oppor- Mahmoud Abbas meanwhile landed in Qatar Sotloff”, as another prisoner in an orange jumpsuit is shown on screen. “The life and demanding revenge. Deif heads Hamas’s tunity we will try to kill him,” Saar told army radio. ahead of talks today with Hamas chief Khaled of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision,” the masked armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, An army spokeswoman said Gaza militants had Meshaal that were scheduled before the cease- man says. — Agencies which vowed to open the “gates of hell” on Israel fired 159 rockets, of which 119 hit southern and fire collapsed. — AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By John Kemp

or those trained in law, social sciences and the arts, I have some bad news: The best days may be over Fbecause the future belongs to scientists, engineers and mathematicians. In high school and university class- rooms across the United States, a quiet revolution is under- way as students adapt to a difficult job market by choosing more quantitative disciplines. Nearly all the highest-paid jobs in the United States require training in science, technol- ogy, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. More than 30 of the 50 best-paid occupations in the Syria, US fight common enemy, but not as one United States require graduate or postgraduate training in STEM subjects, including medical sciences, according to pay By Sammy Ketz could lead to broader US action against both est in rapprochement with Damascus, even if would struggle to convince the West to partner data collected by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics as part of jihadists and regime forces in Syria. “In striking IS, they find themselves with a common enemy in with it against IS. “Western countries do not want its annual survey of Occupational Employment and Wages. yria and the United States find themselves Damascus is telling the Americans that it doesn’t the Islamic State. “I would strongly disagree with to be seen as collaborating with Assad, even if In response, annual enrolments in undergraduate STEM on the same side of the battle against need its air force against the IS,” said Waddah the notion that we are on the same page here in this would practically be better from a wider programs have jumped by almost 700,000 (23 percent) SIslamic State jihadists, but a common ene- Abed Rabbo, director of Syria’s pro-government terms of what we’re doing,” said US State strategic point of view,” he said. In a rare moment between 2003 and 2011, the latest year for which figures are my is unlikely to mean direct cooperation. Al-Watan newspaper. Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf. of unity last Friday, the UN Security Council vot- available, according to the US Department of Education. Washington began carrying out air strikes against “We have treated America as an adversary for She repeated the US government’s line that the ed unanimously on a resolution aimed at weak- More than 3.7 million students enrolled in undergradu- the extremist group in Iraq earlier this month, three years and six months,” said Bassam Abu Syrian regime helped strengthen IS by failing to ening jihadists in Iraq and Syria. ate courses that can be loosely classed as STEM programs in and the Syrian government has also stepped up Abdullah, director of the Centre for Strategic attack it until recently. Nevertheless, Britain’s envoy, Mark Lyall Grant 2011, up from 3 million in 2003, according to the 2013 edi- raids against the jihadists on its own territory. But Studies in Damascus. “It is possible that the And she said US involvement in Iraq didn’t ambassador shot down Syrian ambassador tion of the Department’s “Digest of Educational Statistics”. there is little love lost, with Syria angered by US Americans will be convinced now of the necessi- mean US strikes in Syria. “In Iraq, we have a gov- Bashar Jaafari’s insistence that Damascus was a Enrolments in STEM disciplines have been growing much support for anti-government rebels. For its part ty of cooperating with Syria, but Syria refuses ernment that has asked for our help and asked “necessary partner in the fight against terrorism”. faster than for undergraduate programs as a whole, which Washington accuses Damascus of having allowed any military or security collaboration without a for our support and welcomed us in. That obvi- “It is Assad who is in large part the cause of ter- rose by just 5 percent over the same period. In fact, Islamic State to flourish so as to paint its oppo- deal on the political level.” Earlier this year, ously is not the case in Syria.” Experts, too, see lit- rorism; he is certainly not the solution to it,” he nents as extremists. European intelligence services began reaching tle room for reconciliation between Damascus said. In the absence of Western support, increased enrolments in STEM accounted for more than IS posted a video Tuesday showing the out to Damascus, worried about the influx of and Washington on the basis of their shared Damascus is likely to play the victim and contin- more than half of the total increase in university enrolments apparent execution of American journalist James Europeans coming to Syria to join the ranks of fight. “The most that will happen is that there ue to hit IS, according to Lina Khatib, director of over the eight years between 2003 and 2011. Pay incentives Foley who has been missing since he was seized jihadist groups battling the regime. will be a tacit recognition that the US, Syria and the Carnegie Middle East Centre think-tank. “If as well as the associated professional prestige are steering in Syria in Nov 2012. The Islamist group threat- Iraq are all co-belligerents in an armed conflict the regime does not get positive signs from the students towards the highly numerate training needed to ened to kill a second reporter unless the United ‘Tacit Recognition’ against IS,” said Jens David Ohlin, a professor at West, it is likely to... multiply its raids against IS to be financially successful in an economy dominated by com- States halts its air strikes in Iraq. Damascus has But Syrian officials said they had no interest Cornell University. present itself as an empowered victim that is puters, data analysis, engineering and complex technology. looked with suspicion at the American air strikes in cooperation on security issues without a polit- Nikolaos van Dam, a former ambassador to denied international support but that is capable that began in Iraq on Aug 8, concerned they ical deal. And the United States denies any inter- Syria and expert on the country, said Damascus of taking on its enemies.” —AFP Maths is the Key North America’s oil and gas boom is just one example of how financial incentives are shaping the educational choic- es of a new generation. Average earnings for qualified petroleum engineers shot up from $87,000 in 2003 to Peace true threat to Hamas, Israel leaders $149,000 in 2011, a 70 percent increase, at a time when earnings across the whole economy have been struggling to keep pace with inflation. Enrolments in graduate petrole- By Amy Wilentz times seems that hating Israel is just a tool in even as they are firing off rockets that kill entire even to mention the Oslo peace process, but it um engineering programs have soared from 561 in 1997 internal Palestinian politics, and despising families, or are intended to kill entire families. bears considering. What was the idea behind and 849 in 2003 to 1,301 in 2011. t’s time to wonder whether Israel and Hamas simply an expected element in Israeli Any psychoanalyst could tell you that these two peace, as far as Israel was concerned? The reason But the shift is not confined to oil and gas. Enrolments in Palestine will ever be able to move out of the elections, a key plank in the political platform. have to change their behaviors. to pursue peace was that normalization of the all engineering sciences reached 146,000 in 2011, up from Imoral abyss into which they’ve plunged But the leaders on both sides don’t see it that Palestinians would bring them into the fold of 120,000 in 2003 and 100,000 in 1997. Earnings have escalat- themselves, and address the threat of peace. Israeli Creation Myth way. Like sick siblings, each side needs the other respectable nations, with responsibilities other ed across a wide range of STEM-related occupations in the “Threat” is the right term. Because peace is dan- War is a basic component of the Israeli cre- to establish its own identity. Israel is now close to than resistance and militancy. last decade. Average pay for mathematicians rose 34 per- gerous for leaders in the Middle East. It always ation myth. In the same fashion, intifadas are meaningless without the Palestinian threat. As Palestinians inspect the rubble of destroyed cent between 2003 and 2013. Pay for operations research has been. But back in the early 1990s, Palestine part of the Palestinian identity. Wage a war, stage for the Palestinians - without Israeli oppression houses in the Shejaia neighbourhood, which wit- analysts was up 32 percent. Statisticians saw their average Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat an intifada and all the people on your side will to resist, who are they at this point? Still, the enti- nesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and follow. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ty most undermined by the recent conflict is air strikes during an Israeli offensive, in Gaza earnings rise 34 percent. There were also better-than-aver- and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who hated everything the other stood for, knew that Netanyahu, for example, is far more popular now Israel. It’s like an angry older brother. It just con- CityBut that peace fell apart, dramatically, when age increases for materials engineers (39 percent), aero- each had his reasons for working for peace. Just than he was before this latest round of killing tinues to bash and bash, not realizing that little extremists on both sides destroyed their own space engineers (39 percent) and naval architects (31 per- possibly, they imagined, peace would be better began. And almost everyone in Gaza knows that bro has become more agile, cleverer, more moderates. The second intifada began; Hamas cent). than war for future generations. Certainly it Israel’s long blockade of the strip, plus its spo- resourceful - and has new friends. took over Gaza; Fatah, Arafat’s organization that By contrast, average earnings for all occupations rose would not be as wasteful. radic intensive bombings, have pushed Gazans While the Israelis again use the macho-satis- had sought peace, was marginalized, and Israelis just 25 percent. To keep pace with inflation, workers needed Not that those days were bliss - but at least further into the arms of Hamas. At least three fying cliche of aerial overkill to deal with the ene- sealed off the strip and bombed its airport. A to earn about 27 percent more in 2013 than in 2003. So on peace was plausible. The tragic truth is that posi- generations of Palestinians have now been my, the Palestinians now have better hardware militant Israel de-normalized the Gazans and average pay fell in real terms. Any occupation that achieved tions have hardened now. Today’s rulers, singu- raised on the romance of resistance. Protective and infrastructure for resistance, and they’ve also ensured that they would remain extreme in their average pay rises of less than 27 percent actually saw its real larly unimaginative and reactive, are not vessels earning power fall. Lawyers, a literate discipline, experi- aching to be filled with the potion of peace. Both enced a smaller-than-average and below-inflation increase Rabin and Arafat learned in brutal fashion that in average earnings of 22 percent, while economists, anoth- working toward peace is a perilous, risky busi- er high status but more quantitative discipline, saw their ness. After this past decade, can the two sides average earnings increase just over 30 percent. The broad ever be courageous enough to move beyond category of “arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media” their twisted mutual history toward shaky and occupations, which includes journalists, received an average precarious chairs at the peace table? raise of about 26 percent. But reporters did worse than aver- This is not to suggest that there is equal age, with pay rising just 21 percent, behind inflation, while blame to be assigned for the turmoil and blood- public relations specialists did better on 31 percent. shed of the past 10 years. Hamas’ behavior may be wretched and irresponsible, but Israel has Renewed Competitiveness occupied Gaza even while walking away from it, For years, US politicians and educators have worried and its indiscriminate bombing of civilian popu- about the declining competitiveness of the US economy lations in a place it holds prisoner is inexcusable. and the rise of rivals especially in Asia. Much of that concern Yet eventually warring sides must progress from was based on the increasing number of engineers and sci- mutual murder to a lasting peace in which entists being produced by universities in China and across “lawns” don’t get “mown” (the cynical Israeli the developing world (before that the same concerns were metaphor for their repeated shelling of Gaza), expressed about Japan in the 1970s and 1980s). In 2007, the nor soldiers kidnapped, nor teens executed, nor prestigious National Research Council, an umbrella group neighborhoods razed, nor playing boys bombed. for the US National Academy of Sciences, National Academy It’s hard to get there because with peace in of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, published an Israel, the population is likely to become more alarming report entitled “Rising above the gathering storm: restive, more concerned with tough domestic energizing and employing America for a brighter economic problems that the government needs to face. future”. —Reuters Peace means individualism and hard-fought political battles. War means groupthink - which is Five Palestinian men sit yesterday next to a destroyed bus in front of a house that was completely demolished after to say reflexive support for the military and the it was targeted by Israeli airstrikes late on Tuesday. —AFP prime minister who goes to war. In Palestine (call All articles appearing on these it Gaza for the moment), peace would mean the Edge, the name of this latest Israeli operation in become better at hiding their moves from Israeli hatred of Israel. What else is there to do for a pages are the personal opinion of challenge of figuring out how to run a nation, Gaza, has thus enhanced the militants’ standing. intelligence. Hamas can now hold out longer, population that is 70 percent to 80 percent how to create an economy, how to lead a normal If an election were held tomorrow, Hamas could pushing the game into overtime. While Hamas unemployed? the writers. Kuwait Times takes no family life. Peace diverts the public mind from win it by universal acclaim. continues the fight, more Palestinians die in MJ Rosenberg, a Middle East watcher who responsibility for views expressed hatred of Israel and from groupthink. War, on the The point of view of each side is pretty well Israeli bombings, and more members of the has been writing about the Israeli-Palestinian therein. Kuwait Times invites read- other hand, stops people from focusing on understood. Israel, as always, feels it’s in an exis- international community move into the conflict for decades, focusing mostly on Israel, whether their leaders have served them well or tential war and points to Hamas’ new tunnels Palestinian camp. It’s a brilliant strategy: to fight, decided during this last battle to stop. “To put ers to voice their opinions. Please poorly. and longer-range missiles as good reasons for and die, and in losing, win. it simply, I’d rather not write about Israel any- send submissions via email to: opin- But most of all, peace is for moderates - and bad Israeli behavior. Hamas, understandably, Hamas must bear some responsibility for the more,” he wrote. “I’d rather not even think [email protected] or via snail the leadership in both Israel and Gaza despise points to the slow starvation and imprisonment civilian casualties on its side during this round of about it. Especially because I have given up any moderation. They despise compromise, they fear of the Palestinian people in Gaza as a reason for conflict - but there is no better place to hide your hope about its future.” It may be wrong to go mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. the handshake. They loathe everything that continued, if impotent, shelling of Israel. The moral shame than behind the bodies of your that far. Yet the extremism of Israel’s leadership The editor reserves the right to edit leads to peace, including negotiation. They can whole Gaza affair is a pathological repetition of own people. International disgust at the killing offers precious little reason to expect a mean- any submission as necessary. only be led to the ceasefire table by outsiders. the dysfunctional relationship of these two pop- of innocent civilians can sometimes stop superi- ingful change in the ugly status quo any time War is simpler for them, easier. Indeed, it some- ulations, who both consider themselves victims or firepower in its tracks. It’s now old-fashioned soon. —Reuters THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 SPORTS

Di Maria Madrid’s best NHL’s Bertuzzi settles Missy Franklin hit by back player, claims Simeone suit with Steve Moore spasms ahead of Pan Pacs MADRID: Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone claimed compatriot Angel di Maria is Real LOS ANGELES: Steve Moore, whose career ended when he suffered a GOLD COAST: Multiple Olympic and world champion Missy Franklin’s prepara- Madrid’s best player after the Argentine midfielder started on the bench as the Champions serious concussion in a hockey altercation, has reached a settlement in tions for this week’s Pan Pacific Championships on Australia’s Gold Coast have League finalists drew 1-1 in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup on Tuesday. There are been hit by back trouble, US team officials said yesterday. The 19-year-old rumors that Di Maria will move away from the Spanish capital, given the wealth of attacking a lawsuit against his attacker, media reports said. The lawsuit against American star suffered back spasms in training and was undergoing treatment options after the arrival of World Cup star James Rodriguez, with Manchester United and NHL player Todd Bertuzzi has been settled but isn’t yet official because Paris Saint-Germain reportedly interested. However, Simeone claimed he is even more vital there are still papers to be signed, Canadian sports broadcaster TSN.ca ahead of her opening scheduled swims at the meet today. The quadruple to Real than World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale. “In the first-half reported Tuesday. Moore suffered a concussion and three fractured ver- London Olympic gold medallist and nine-time world champion had to despite defending close to our area we had three or four chances to score a goal,” he tebrae during a March 8, 2004, game in Vancouver. Bertuzzi, who was be assisted from the training pool late Tuesday and was a no-show said. “The second half was more or less the same, with a little bit better play from playing for the Vancouver Canucks at the time, skated after and at a team media conference yesterday. A US official said medical Madrid with the introduction of Di Maria. “That was logical because he is the grabbed the Colorado Avalanche forward, punching him from behind staff would reassess Franklin’s condition today, when the four-day best player they have. It is an important draw and allows us to play a for the and then driving him head-first to the ice. Moore’s teammate Andrei Pan Pacs meet begins. “It’s a fluid situation,” he said of Franklin, trophy at home with a 50-50 chance. “It is my opinion that Di Maria is Nikolishin then jumped on top of the two and Moore’s head hit the ice who was spending the day resting. Franklin is scheduled to con- Madrid’s best player for sure. His ability to change games in the a second time. Others followed and jumped on the pile. Bertuzzi was test the 200 meters freestyle and 100m backstroke on the meet’s middle of the park helps everyone else to play well.” Real boss alleged to have been seeking retribution for a hit made by Moore on opening day. She also qualified for the 200m backstroke and 100m Carlo Ancelotti rebuked Simeone for failing to mention Canucks captain Markus Naslund in an earlier meeting. Moore never freestyle and looked set to contest the three relays. Ronaldo and Bale, who both scored as Real beat Atletico 4- played again. Bertuzzi, now 39 and a free agent, pleaded guilty to crim- Franklin, whose back was strapped with medical 1 after extra time in the Champions League final in inal assault causing bodily harm and was sentenced in 2006 to one year tape at the Tuesday training session, said she was Lisbon back in May. — AFP of probation and 80 hours of community service. —AFP feeling better yesterday. — AFP Lanka ponder life after the golden generation

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka are banking on young tal- after the World Cup, after speaking to the ent to see them through a transitional phase in national selectors.” Sri Lanka have just one Test Test cricket despite the departure of one batting series-in New Zealand early next year-before the great, another approaching retirement and an World Cup in February and March 2015. ageing spinner in the ranks. Former captain Mahela Jayawardene, who ended his 17-year World Cup swansongs Test career on Monday following the 2-0 series The World Cup could also mark the end of win over Pakistan, said there was no cause for the road for swashbuckling opener Tillakaratne panic over the side’s immediate future. The ele- Dilshan who quit Tests last year as well as sling- gant 37-year-old insisted Sri Lanka had a good arm fast bowler Lasith Malinga who retired from pool of young players who were ready to take five-day cricket in 2011. Sangakkara though is over. likely to leave the biggest hole. The left-hander “When Murali (Muttiah Muralitharan) retired, is the country’s number one Test batsman with people said we won’t win without him,” 11,988 runs in 128 matches at an average of Jayawardene said. “But we are still doing well. 58.76 with 37 centuries. Since January, he has There are others who will do even better than made three Test hundreds, including a 319 and us.” Jayawardene, who will quit all forms of crick- 221, besides eight half-centuries. Former Test et after next year’s 50-over World Cup in batsman and television commentator Russel Australia and New Zealand, is one only five bats- Arnold warned selectors against expecting men to score more than 11,000 runs in both Test younger players to match the record-breaking and one-day cricket, the others being Sachin feats of Jayawardene, Sangakkara and Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis and Muralitharan. “Sri Lankan cricket can fall into a team-mate Kumar Sangakkara. massive trap if it tries to match the numbers and Sangakkara, who turns 37 in October, could qualities of these players,” Arnold said. “We need FLORIDA: Tampa Bay Rays right fielder Kevin Kiermaier dives but can’t come up with a triple by Detroit Tigers’ Ian Kinsler during the 11th inning also hang up his bat after the World Cup even to find players who can compete, and have a of a baseball game on Tuesday, Aug 19, 2014. — AP though his excellent recent form suggests retire- game plan for what we have, rather than look ment is not his immediate concern. Both bats- for immediate replacements.” men have already retired from Twenty20 cricket, In Angelo Mathews, Sri Lanka already have a MLB ROUNDUP bowing out after Sri Lanka’s victory in April in captain who has made rapid strides both as the T20 World Cup final. Left-arm spinner leader and frontline batsman as was evident Rangana Herath has been Sri Lanka’s leading from his 102 and 160 during the two-Test series Test bowler since record holder Muralitharan in England in June, which the tourists won. Fiers steers Brewers retired with 800 wickets in 2010, but at 36 he Under Mathews this year, Sri Lanka drew 1-1 cannot be expected to go on much longer. against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, Herath’s 23 wickets against Pakistan were the won away series in Bangladesh and England, most by any bowler in the two-Test series and lost at home to South Africa before beating took his tally to 260 in 57 matches. Sangakkara Pakistan on Monday. to win over Blue Jays was forced to clarify his own plans after an exag- Sri Lanka are now fourth in the official Test gerated raising of the bat following his dismissal rankings behind South Africa, Australia and for 59 in the second Test against Pakistan. England, and Mathews hoped his side will con- “Waving the bat was just... I didn’t have anything tinue to climb the ladder. “You can’t replace the MILWAUKEE: Milwaukee pitcher Mike Fiers continued win for the AL West leaders. St Louis’ Jon Jay was hit by Hunter then scored on Jeff Beliveau’s wild pitch, and in mind,” he told reporters. “We won’t be playing seniors, but the important thing is to be as con- his superb form since being recalled to the major a JJ Hoover pitch with the bases loaded in the ninth Bryan Holaday added a sacrifice fly that gave Detroit Test cricket in Sri Lanka for a long time, so I sistent as possible,” he said. “We have a good leagues, steering the Brewers to a fifth-straight win inning, handing the Cardinals a 5-4 win against an 8-5 lead. Washington scored six runs in the third thought...”I will take a decision about my future group who are learning all the time.” — AFP with a 6-1 win over Toronto on Tuesday and dealing Cincinnati. Matt Holliday drew a leadoff walk to start inning and ran its winning streak to eight games with another blow to the Blue Jays’ evaporating playoff the winning rally. He advanced to third on Matt Adams’ an 8-1 rout of Arizona. Seattle’s Hisashi Iwakuma hopes. The Brewers stayed 2-1/2 games clear atop the single. Jhonny Peralta walked to load the bases. struck out a season-high 11 batters in eight scoreless National League Central division. Meanwhile, the Hoover (1-10) then plunked Jay to force in pinch-run- innings, guiding the Mariners past Philadelphia 5-2. American League West is the tightest divisional race, ner Pete Bourjos with the winning run. The Cardinals Chicago’s Anthony Rizzo slammed a two-run homer to with Oakland beating the New York Mets to stay half a won for the fifth time in six games and remained 2 1/2 account for the only runs of a rain-shortened game, game behind the leading Los Angeles Angels, who games behind Milwaukee in the NL Central. giving the Cubs a 2-0 win over San Francisco in their edged Boston. Los Angeles’ Justin Turner drove in two runs and five-inning contest. Baltimore’s playoff place seems certain after a win scored another pair, helping rally the Dodgers past Kansas City’s Omar Infante had three doubles and against the Chicago White Sox, going 8-1/2 games San Diego 8-6, snapping a three-game skid. Carl drove in four runs to help the streaking Royals knock clear in the AL East. Milwaukee pitcher Fiers (3-1) was Crawford hit a two-run homer with two outs in the off Colorado 7-4. Cleveland’s Yan Gomes had three hits recalled to the majors at the start of this month, and seventh for the Dodgers, who have won six of seven including a home run and rookie Tyler Holt hit a go- has given up only two runs over three starts. He held against the Padres. ahead, two-run double in the sixth inning as the the Blue Jays to two hits in seven innings and retired Former Padres pitcher Kevin Correia (2-0) took the Indians rallied to win 7-5 at Minnesota. Houston’s the last 18 batters he faced. He had six strikeouts; win, allowing eight hits over five innings in his Dodger Chris Carter snapped a ninth-inning tie with a colossal down on the 14 he recorded in his previous start. Stadium debut. Detroit’s Victor Martinez drew a bases- three-run homer, extending his power surge in the Jonathan Lucroy and Aramis Ramirez each had a pair loaded walk in the 11th inning and the Tigers tacked second half of the season and sending the Astros to a of doubles for Milwaukee which had three extra-base on two more to win 8-6 at Tampa Bay. Ian Kinsler 7-4 victory over the New York Yankees. Miami’s hits in the first inning alone off J.A. Happ (8-8). Toronto opened the 11th with a triple off Grant Balfour (1-5). Giancarlo Stanton hit an RBI single with two outs in has lost six of its past seven are is now 4-1/2 games off Torii Hunter walked and Miguel Cabrera was inten- the 10th inning to lift the Marlins to a 4-3 win over the last wild-card berth. Oakland ended a five-game tionally walked before Martinez got his free pass. Texas. — AP losing skid by beating the Mets 6-2, with Coco Crisp hitting a tiebreaking three-run triple in the fourth inning. Coming off a miserable road trip when he MLB results/standings went 2-for-23, Crisp had an early single, then the key hit in the fourth when he lined a pitch from Dillon Gee down the right field line with the bases loaded. Houston 7, NY Yankees 4; Washington 8, Arizona 1; Seattle 5, Philadelphia 2; Atlanta 11, Athletics starter Scott Kazmir (14-5) earned his Pittsburgh 3; La Angels 4, Boston 3; Miami 4, Texas 3 (10 Innings); Detroit 8, Tampa Bay 6 (11 Sri Lankan cricketer Mahela Jayawardene career-best 14th win in a season, allowing one run in Innings); Chicago Cubs 2, San Francisco 0 (5 Innings); Baltimore 5, Chicago White Sox 1; six innings. He retired nine of his final 10 batters. Milwaukee 6, Toronto 1; Cleveland 7, Minnesota 5; St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 4; Kansas City 7, Baltimore’s Chris Tillman pitched eight strong innings Colorado 4; Oakland 6, NY Mets 2; LA Dodgers 8, San Diego 6. to steer the Orioles to a 5-1 win over the White Sox. American League National League West Indies, coach Tillman (10-5) matched a career high with nine strike- Eastern Division Eastern Division outs, giving up one run. Nick Hundley homered, Chris W L PCT GB Washington 71 53 .573 - Davis had a two-run double, and Adam Jones and Baltimore 72 52 .581 - Atlanta 66 60 .524 6 Gibson part ways Delmon Young also drove in runs for the Orioles. NY Yankees 63 60 .512 8.5 Atlanta’s Justin Upton smashed his 24th home run of Miami 63 62 .504 8.5 Toronto 64 62 .508 9 NY Mets 59 68 .465 13.5 ST JOHN’S: The West Indies parted ways Gibson’s time in charge was the team’s tri- the season as the Braves beat Pittsburgh 11-3, notch- Tampa Bay 61 64 .488 11.5 Philadelphia 55 71 .437 17 with coach Ottis Gibson on Tuesday, just a umph at the World T20 in Sri Lanka in 2012. ing their fifth-straight win. Boston 56 69 .448 16.5 Central Division day ahead of a home one-day series against Their defence of the title last March in Upton’s three-run homer in the third inning broke Central Division Milwaukee 71 55 .563 - Bangladesh. The West Indies Cricket Board Bangladesh ended in defeat to eventual things open. He added a two-run single in the fifth as Kansas City 70 55 .560 - St. Louis 68 57 .544 2.5 (WICB) said the two sides “mutually agreed champions Sri Lanka at the semi-final stage. the Braves extended Pittsburgh’s losing streak to a sea- Detroit 67 56 .545 2 Pittsburgh 64 62 .508 7 to terminate their association” with team Team manager Richardson, the former son-worst seven games. Pirates’ slugger Andrew Cleveland 63 61 .508 6.5 Cincinnati 61 65 .484 10 manager Richie Richardson stepping in as West Indies captain and middle-order bats- McCutchen went 0 for 4 in his first game back after Chicago White Sox 59 67 .468 11.5 missing two weeks with fractured cartilage in his ribs. Chicago Cubs 55 70 .440 15.5 interim coach. man, will take over the coaching responsi- Minnesota 55 69 .444 14.5 Los Angeles’ Chris Iannetta hit his second double of the Western Division No reason was given for the departure of bilities for the Bangladesh series while a full- Western Division game with a tiebreaking drive in the ninth inning off LA Dodgers 71 56 .559 - Gibson, who had been in charge since 2010 time replacement is confirmed. It is LA Angels 74 50 .597 - that sent the Angels to a 4-3 victory over Boston. With San Francisco 65 59 .524 4.5 and led the West Indies to the World believed that Mickey Arthur, the former Oakland 74 51 .592 0.5 two outs in the ninth, Brennan Boesch had a ground- San Diego 58 66 .468 11.5 Twenty20 title in 2012. However, West South Africa and Australia head coach, is Seattle 68 57 .544 6.5 rule double off Koji Uehara (5-3) for the Angels’ first hit Arizona 53 73 .421 17.5 Indies are currently eighth in the Test rank- favorite for the job. Houston 53 73 .421 22 since the fourth. Iannetta then lined a double off the Texas 48 77 .384 26.5 Colorado 49 76 .392 21 ings, the lowest among the established Arthur, a South African, coached the left-field wall for the winner. Joe Smith (5-1) got the nations, eighth in the one-day rankings and Jamaica Tallawahs during the second sea- seventh in the Twenty20 rankings. son of the Caribbean Premier League T20 The Bangladesh series comes as the franchise tournament which ended last West Indies build up to the one-day World Saturday in St Kitts. Speculation over India struggles with Dhoni dilemma Cup early next year. Ex-captain Clive Lloyd Gibson’s status ignited on Monday when he was named head of a new-look selection was absent from the West Indies team’s MUMBAI: Beleaguered India skipper Mahendra Singh slump to a 3-1 series defeat. While coach Duncan of Indian cricket, probably second only in popularity panel earlier this month. “On behalf of the training session, and again on Tuesday. Dhoni appears set to retain his test captaincy role - if Fletcher saw his role reduced after the disastrous test to batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, due to his no- Board and West Indies cricket as a whole we Despite having the WICB’s support in the he has the desire to continue - due to a sheer lack of segment of the tour with the Indian board moving nonsense attitude and possession of an uncanny express our gratitude to Ottis for his work,” midst of disputes with prominent players alternative options to take on the job after yet anoth- quickly to appoint Ravi Shastri as director of cricket, Midas touch. WICB chief executive officer Michael like Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderpaul er calamitous overseas tour. India’s propensity for for- there was barely a murmur on Dhoni’s fate. As captain, the 33-year-old took India to the num- Muirhead said in a statement. The WICB and Ramnaresh Sarwan early in his tenure eign failures was exposed in 2011 when the side lost In the 20 test matches Dhoni has led India outside ber one test ranking, added the 50-over title to his thanked Gibson for his “unwavering com- as head coach, the Barbadian seems to have eight consecutive tests with back-to-back 4-0 thrash- the country since their 2011 50-over World Cup tri- resume in 2011, after a gap of 28 years, and also won ings in England and Australia. umph on home soil, the team has emerged victorious the Champions Trophy in England to forge a perma- mitment and professionalism” in his role as fallen out of favor in the aftermath of series If fans in the world’s second-most populous on just two occasions while the defeats column has nent place in Indian cricket folklore. head coach, a position he occupied for four losses to India and New Zealand (home and nation, where cricket is treated like a religion, moved rapidly on to an embarrassing 13. It was not His records probably never allowed administra- years and for which he had signed a con- away). thought that period was the lowest point possible, always doom and gloom for the hard-hitting wicket- tors to look beyond him as the team’s figurehead or tract extension only last year that would With the World Cup in Australia and New they were in for a rude awakening when India landed keeper-batsman from the eastern Indian state of put in place a succession plan as Dhoni continues to have taken him to 2016. Zealand now less than six months away, the in England for a recent five-test series. Dhoni’s garden Jharkhand, who enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity lead India in tests, ODIs and the shortest Twenty20 Confirmation that the former fast-medi- WICB faces the challenge of filling the void appeared very rosy indeed when his unfancied side after his one-day international debut in 2004 and first format. When a much-criticised Dhoni was able to um bowler will not be involved in the series full-time in the hope that the squad can claimed their first overseas win in three years with a test cap a year later. As a rookie captain of India’s keep his job after the 2011 humblings in England against Bangladesh came less than 12 hours come together in time to be a force to reck- comprehensive second test victory at Lord’s but the Twenty20 side in 2007, he guided his men to victory and Australia, the general consensus is that it will be before the opening one-day international on with at that tournament while also seek- joy and relief proved to be nothing more than a deco- in the inaugural World Cup in South Africa and was up to the player himself to decide when he steps of the three-match contest at the Queen’s ing to be competitive in what are expected rative flower. handed the reins of the test team later that year after down or hand the reins over to someone else. Park Stadium in Grenada yesterday. The to be difficult assignments in India and They capitulated meekly against a resurgent Rahul Dravid stepped down. Making matters even worse is the fact that following teams will also play a lone T20 International South Africa following the matches against England in the next three matches, the final nail ham- the retirement of several senior cricketers in the past followed by two Tests. The highlight of Bangladesh. — AFP mered into their coffin at The Oval when they lost by Midas touch few years, India do not have a single viable option an innings and 244 runs and in less than three days to His dashing performances made him a poster boy able to step in and replace Dhoni. —Reuters THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 SPORTS Mickelson, Kuchar take aim at The Barclays

PARAMUS: Phil Mickelson and Matt Kuchar are ment and energy heading into the FedExCup and when his back seized up on him after his practice with unheralded Justin Hicks and Will MacKenzie in primed for a chance to win this week’s Barclays, the Barclays here that my game is back and I’m ready to round on Tuesday. “The muscles kind of locked up,” Thursday’s opening round, said maintaining that first installment of the four-event FedExCup play- compete and get back into contention. “It was so he explained, while asserting that he now felt fully brilliance was McIlroy’s next big challenge. offs, and derail the magical run of Northern fun being up there again, and the nerves and the recovered. “With the help of a chiropractor, mas- “From what I’ve seen over the years with Tiger Irishman Rory McIlroy. McIlroy, ranked first in the excitement of it all, it got me excited.” sage therapist, physical therapist, I got it straight (Woods), from 2000, if you want to compare it to world and first in the FedExCup standings after win- Kuchar was enthused about a return to again and feel good. that, he’s got a ways to go,” said the left-hander, ning the British Open, WGC-Bridgestone and PGA Ridgewood, where in 2010 he won The Barclays “They have given me a handful of little exercises recalling the three majors in a row won by Woods Championship in succession, begins a quest for a with a birdie on the first playoff hole to defeat to try to help strengthen the area.” With all 10 of followed by a 2001 Masters title that gave him fourth victory in a row when the elite 125-man field Scotsman Martin Laird. the world’s top-ranked players on hand and 23 of what was dubbed the “Tiger Slam”. tees it up on Thursday for the first round at “This is a place I’ve got fantastic memories from the top 30, the competition should be fierce in the “But to win the British and the PGA and throw a Ridgewood Country Club. and a place that I knew when I played it the first opener of a series that pays a $10 million bonus to World Golf Championships in the middle, under Mickelson bounced back from a sub-par season time, it fit my eye and fit my game,” American world the points leader following the culminating Tour anybody’s circumstances, that is just a remarkable with a second-place finish earlier this month behind number seven Kuchar said. “I knew this was going Championship. month of golf and some of the best that I’ve seen. the 25-year-old McIlroy in the PGA Championship at to be a good track for me in 2010. I had a great Mickelson and Kuchar both said McIlroy was a “You can probably go back and compare it to some Valhalla for his ninth runner-up showing at a major. result and I’m really excited to be back.” daunting target. “It’s an incredible run,” Mickelson of the Tiger stuff, (but) he’s done that over decades.” “The PGA was a big week for me because it was the said about McIlroy’s exploits in his last three starts. This week’s field at The Barclays includes 88 win- first time this year my game was back,” Mickelson Frustrating withdrawal “His level of play this last month has been excep- ners on the PGA Tour who have piled up a com- told reporters on Tuesday at the tree-lined course Kuchar is eager following the frustration of with- tional.” World number 10 Mickelson, who is 45th on bined 389 victories on the US circuit, including 21 designed by AW Tillinghast. “It gave me an excite- drawing from the PGA Championship in Louisville the points list from a winless season and will tee off major titles. — Reuters

MOTOR RACING Hamilton hopes to play his cards right F1 returns after summer break

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS: Lewis Hamilton says view for sponsor Puma, that the battle felt more his Formula One title duel with Mercedes team intense than his title tilts of 2007 and 2008. mate and championship leader Nico Rosberg is “When I was racing against Kimi Raikkonen and like a game of poker but the dominant duo may Massa (then both at Ferrari), they were in a dif- not hold all the aces in Belgium this weekend. ferent team and their cars had different Resurgent Williams have the same engine as the strengths and weaknesses to my car and, in my Mercedes works team and both Valtteri Bottas team, it was just me that was really competing and Felipe Massa have been looking forward to with them,” recalled the Briton. “Now I’m racing Spa - and Monza in Italy after that - as their best against a guy who has the same car as me - we chances of winning this season. Spa is the both have access to exactly the same data and longest circuit on the calendar and 70 percent of feedback so it is really hard to try and be ahead. the 7.004 km lap is at full throttle - putting “It’s a little bit like playing poker - you have a set engine reliability and power at a premium. of cards and the other guy is not supposed to The Mercedes power unit is the pick of the know what you got, but Nico and I can see each field and the four teams using it should be other’s cards so then it’s more difficult to beat strong in Spa. Williams have already shown their each other.” car has both straight line speed and aerodynam- In Hungary, he started from the pit lane and ic efficiency. “I think in theory Spa and Monza almost hit the wall on lap one but still finished should be the next really good ones for us, third and ahead of Rosberg, who had been on maybe the best opportunities of the season,” pole. The Briton saw that as a possible omen. Bottas said before Formula One embarked on its “Hopefully that was a sign that my fortunes are summer break after Hungary at the end of July. changing at just the right time,” he said. Spa, the 12th of 19 races, marks the start of the Hamilton was on pole in Spa a year ago, and decisive phase of the season with teams and won in 2010, whereas Rosberg has yet to finish drivers refreshed and raring to go. Last year it higher than fourth at a classic circuit that has proved the springboard for a remarkable run of long ranked as a favorite for drivers and specta- nine wins in a row by Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel tors. “It’s good to be back after the break and to that culminated in the German’s fourth succes- see everyone looking really refreshed and up for sive championship. the fight in the remaining months of the season,” There is no chance of that happening this the German, who finished fourth in Hungary, time, even if Red Bull went into the break on the said this week. back of Daniel Ricciardo’s victory at the “The (Spa) circuit is just unreal and it’s one I Hungaroring. Vettel has been eclipsed by the think every driver looks forward to. My record Australian and is yet to get back on top of the there hasn’t been as good as at some other cir- NEW HAVEN: Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia returns a shot to Simona Halep of Romania during the Connecticut Open at the Connecticut podium. “It will be damage limitation in the next cuits in the past, but I’m determined to change Tennis Center. — AFP two races, because Force India will suddenly that and get the season kicked off again in style.” reappear, Williams will be quick, McLaren will be Ferrari, with Raikkonen and Alonso, will also be quick and obviously Mercedes will be quick,” looking forward to returning to the Ardennes said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. forests and the ever-capricious Spa weather. Even if Ricciardo intends to play as big a part as Raikkonen, who has yet to beat Alonso this sea- Halep crashes out possible, the championship is a straightforward son, won at Spa four times in five visits between battle between Hamilton - the 2008 world 2004 and 2009 and the ‘Iceman’ loves the chal- champion - and his old friend and foe Rosberg. lenge. “Last time I drove here in a Ferrari, I won,” the Finn recalled on the team website. “And that Riske upsets Pennetta at New Haven Poker face was in a year (2009) when we had been strug- The pair are just 11 points apart and gling since the start. “It would be good if the Hamilton recognized over the break, in an inter- same thing could happen this year.”— Reuters NEW HAVEN: Slovakia’s Magdalena Tuesday, Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova two aces, went four-for-five on break points Rybarikova sent top-seeded Simona Halep eased past France’s Caroline Garcia in straight and saved 12 of 13 on her own serve in the crashing out of the WTA Tour’s Connecticut sets win of 7-5, 6-2. Zahlavova Strycova had one-hour, four- minute match. — AFP Open in one of two second round upsets on Tuesday at the final US Open tune-up. Halep, the reigning champ, had her serve broken six times and Rybarikova saved 10 of 14 break opportunities en route to a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 victo- ry at the Connecticut Tennis Center facility. Second-seeded Petra Kvitova, last year’s run- ner-up to Halep, cruised past Ekaterina Makarova 6-2, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals in a match that lasted just 48 minutes on the hardcourts. Unseeded Alison Riske became the first player to reach the quarters by upsetting sixth-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta, 6-1, 7-6 (7/3). American Riske, who never trailed in the second set tie-breaker, blasted eight aces and was a perfect five for five on break points in the 94-minute match. “There are a lot of top players here. I’m definitely proud to be the NANJING: Mathys Goosen of the Netherlands competes in the men’s 100m butterfly lone American left, and hopefully I can keep it competition at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing. — AFP rolling,” she said. “I knew that I had to attack her second serve because she places her first serve so well. I felt like I was going to get looks Meilutyte grabs 2nd at it at any moment, so I just kind of stuck with it, and I ended up returning well today. I gold in Youth Games just played solid.” Riske jumped out to a 3-1 second set lead, but Pennetta was able to tie it at 3-3. The players held serve the rest of the NANJING: London Olympic champion Ruta end when Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria Meilutyte finished more than two seconds withdrew due to the Ebola outbreak in Africa. way, setting the stage for the tie-breaker. ahead of her nearest rival in the women’s 100 However, organizers are pleased with the Riske snapped a four-match losing streak with metres breaststroke final yesterday to claim interest being shown by locals, and crowds a straight set victory over Casey Dellacqua in her second gold medal of the Youth Olympic having been pouring into the venues to see her tournament opener. Riske next faces NEW HAVEN: Alison Riske of the USA returns a shot to Flavia Pennetta of Italy during the Games. Meilutyte will now leave Nanjing and the 14 to 18-year-old athletes compete. Rybarikova. In other second round action Connecticut Open at the Connecticut Tennis Center. — AFP travel to Berlin for the European The closing ceremony is on Aug 28. At the Championships, where she will compete in Xuanwu Lake Rowing-Canoeing venue, the 50m breaststroke. The Lithuanian, who Krystsina Staraselets of Belarus was delighted won in a time of 1:05.39, was not the only to take the gold medal in the women’s junior Lotterer to make his Olympic champion at the Nanjing Olympic singles sculls but dismissed comparisons with Sports Centre yesterday. compatriot and double Olympic champion South African Chad le Clos, who won gold Ekaterina Karsten. “She has been a hero of in the 200m butterfly in London, watched the mine all my life,” she said. “She was winning Formula One debut action in his role as Youth Olympic Games championships before I was born but I don’t ambassador and had some words of advice want to compare myself to her so early in my for the young swimmers. “I was told as a kid career.” There were no surprises in the table LONDON: Three times Le Mans winner Andre experienced drivers racing under mixed condi- for this challenge and I cannot wait to jump in that I wasn’t a good butterfly swimmer, and tennis competition, where Fan Zhendong and Lotterer will make his Formula One debut in tions.” Caterham said Kobayashi, who has driv- the car and make the most out of the weekend that I was never going to make it as a pro,” he Liu Gaoyang took the men’s and women’s sin- Belgium this weekend after Caterham en for three Formula One teams and finished ahead. “I will need to get settled and used to was quoted as saying by the Games official gles titles for China. announced yesterday the German driver third in his home Japanese Grand Prix for the car quickly, as the team has worked on a website. “I never listened to those people.” Le The Australian women’s rugby sevens would be replacing experienced Japanese Sauber in 2012, remained part of the team. number of updates and we will need to have Clos won a gold, three silver and a bronze team finished the Games unbeaten after Kamui Kobayashi. The cash-strapped team, However, the popular Japanese brings little as much time as possible out on track to opti- medal at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games thumping Canada 38-10 in yesterday’s final, who changed ownership in July and are fight- in the way of funding to the team and knew mise the car’s performance.” Caterham’s other (YOG) in Singapore in 2010. “If it wasn’t for while France avenged a group loss to ing for their future, said the 32-year-old had his place was insecure after previous owner driver is Swedish rookie Marcus Ericsson. The competing in the 2010 Singapore YOG, I Argentina to win the men’s final 45-22. “After been brought in to provide more feedback to Tony Fernandes, the Malaysian aviation entre- British-based team have never scored a point wouldn’t have achieved my success at the the semi-final against Fiji we knew we had a improve the car’s performance. preneur, sold the team in July. Lotterer is also a in four and a half years of trying. Commonwealth Games in 2010, the World huge final ahead of us. We had to give our- “The team will benefit from having another world endurance co-champion with plenty of They are currently 11th and last in the Championship in 2011 and at London 2012 - selves, our body, our lives - everything,” said experienced driver at the wheel of the car experience of the Spa circuit. While he has nev- standings. The new management, with former no doubt about it,” he added. France’s Arthur Retiere. “It was sort of a throughout the weekend,” Caterham said in a er raced in Formula One, the German - who F1 team boss Colin Kolles as an advisor and revenge because we lost the first game, but statement. “The German’s feedback will con- grew up in Belgium - was Jaguar’s Formula key figure, has made scoring a point and fin- No surprises we knew we could do it. And now we have tribute to improve the performance of the car. One test driver in 2002. “I am delighted to be ishing 10th overall the key target for the rest of The 13-day multi-sport event, which done it, it is time for fun.” Rugby sevens makes The weather also plays a big role at Spa- given the opportunity to take part in a the season. Lotterer has previously raced for debuted in Singapore four years ago, kicked- its debut at the regular Olympics at the 2016 Francorchamps and Lotterer is one of the most Formula One race weekend,” he said. “I’m ready Kolles at Le Mans. — Reuters off on something of a sour note at the week- Rio Games. — Reuters THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 SPORTS

Running out of time in Photo of the day Grand Slam fame game

NEW YORK: When Rafael Nadal pulled out of added the Bulgarian. “It’s definitely slower. All the US Open, his agony was sweet music to the top guys that are out there now have Milos Raonic, Grigor Dimitrov and Kei been winning majors at 22, 23, 24.” Nishikori, tennis’s widely-hyped but under- performing next generation. More than any- Age no barrier one else, Nadal, the 14-time Grand Slam win- Federer believes the likes of Raonic need ner, has proved to be their nemesis, leaving to be on the offensive more and not defend many in the sport wondering if the men try- constantly from behind the baseline in the ing to follow in the footsteps of the Big Four hope of picking up scraps. “I’ve seen it come will ever achieve similar dominance. and go a little bit, but I do believe for him in Raonic, the big-serving Canadian, and the future, if he wants to do well, he has to Dimitrov, the high-profile Bulgarian, are both stay up on the baseline. Can’t move far back,” 23 while Japan’s Nishikori will be 25 in offered the Swiss star in an off the cuff tactical December. In stark contrast, Nadal was a talk. Raonic has made the fourth round at the major winner at just 19, lifting the first of nine US Open on his last two visits. He was buoyed French Opens. Nishikori has lost all seven by a title march in Washington where he fired times he has played Nadal while Raonic and 83 aces as well as a semi-final run in Dimitrov have identical, depressing 0-5 Cincinnati. records. The three pretenders have been If he is to make a deep impression at treated with equal contempt by Novak Flushing Meadows, he knows the serve will Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray. again be crucial. “It has improved. I have put World number one Djokovic has a 3-0 win- more focus on it, I would say, just getting out ning record over Raonic, enjoys a 4-1 stran- there and hitting more serves....it’s just been glehold against Dimitrov and is 1-1 against more difficult for my opponents,” said Raonic. Nishikori. “I think my holding numbers are higher and Federer, looking for an 18th major in New winning on second serve points and saving York, is 6-0 against Raonic with two recent breakpoints. I have a better understanding wins at Wimbledon and Cincinnati achieved what I need to do.” Nishikori, meanwhile, was without dropping a set, 1-0 against Dimitrov a first round casualty at the 2013 US Open and 2-2 with Nishikori. The only record and it’s six years since he had his best run-a against the Big Four which is in positive terri- fourth round place in 2008. Like Raonic and tory is Raonic’s 3-1 edge over Murray. The Dimitrov-and unlike Nadal, Djokovic and Scot, however, is 3-2 when facing Dimitrov Federer-the quietly-spoken Florida-based and 3-0 against Nishikori. “It’s a long road. Japanese player is erratic on the Grand Slam Tennis has changed so much in a way that it’s stage. very hard for the younger generation to get His last-16 runs at the Australian Open and Ken Roczen competes in the AMA Pro Motocross Championships at Unadilla Valley Sports Center in New Berlin, New York, USA. — www.redbull.com out there and win majors and consecutive big Wimbledon this year sandwiched a first round tour titles. I think it is not as easy as it was exit at the French Open. But despite the trio before,” admitted Dimitrov. of hopefuls all being in their mid-20s, there is The world number eight, dubbed “Baby always hope. Stan Wawrinka was 28 when he Lippi sees red as Guangzhou Fed” for his playing similarities to the great won the Australian Open this year while Swiss and a picture-perfect one-handed Murray was 25 when he captured his maiden backhand, was a semi-finalist at Wimbledon Grand Slam title at the 2012 US Open. The go down in Western Sydney this year and made the last eight at the days of a teenager winning the US Open-Pete Australian Open. But his three visits to the US Sampras was just past his 19th birthday when Open have resulted in three first round he won in 1990 - may be gone, but age seems SYDNEY: Guangzhou Evergrande coach defeats. “I think we, in a way, we are all aware to be little of a barrier to dreams. Just ask the Marcello Lippi exploded in rage after the Asian of that. I give ourselves a bit of credit that at Dominican Republic’s Victor Estrella Burgos champions had two players sent off in the dying least we’re trying really hard for all those who will make his New York debut next week minutes of their 1-0 first leg loss to Western things, but I believe our time will come,” at the age of 34. — AFP Sydney Wanderers in the Asian Champions League quarter-finals yesterday. The World Cup- winning former Italy coach charged on to the pitch to remonstrate with Emirati referee Mohammed Abdulla Hassan Mohamed after midfielder Gao Lin had followed defender Zhang Linpeng in being shown a straight red card. Tomi Juric was credited with the winner on the hour mark but the scenes just before the final whistle, with players and coaches pushing and shoving in a crowd around the officials, might have more far-reaching repercussions. Zhang was dismissed for an elbow on Mark Bridge after 88 minutes and Gao followed in stoppage time after being adjudged to have fouled Brazilian Saba. Lippi was still fuming in his post-match press conference, accusing the Wanderers players of theatrics to get his players sent off and the referee of chiding the home side like naughty children rather than reaching for SYDNEY: Western Sydney Wanderers player Tomi Juric (left) and Guangzhou Evergrande player his cards. “The first one I didn’t see very well but Zhang Linpeng (right) vie for the ball during their AFC Champions League quarter-final foot- the second one was right in front of me and was ball match in Sydney yesterday. — AFP not a red card,” he said through a translator. “You edge of box which eluded Guangzhou goal- strikeforce and ultimately the frustration clearly know me from the World Cup and the keeper Zeng and rolled into the net with the got the better of him. Champions League, I am not like this, I am an Spain’s Rafael Nadal lurking Juric claiming the final touch. The return leg takes place in Guangzhou next educated man. I know I shouldn’t go on the Guangzhou continued to create half chances at Wednesday with the winners facing FC Seoul or pitch but I just wanted to ask him to explain his the other end but Lippi looked on in vain for a Pohang Steelers, who meet an all-South Korean Singaporean takeover could decision.” moment of class from his expensively assembled last eight tie, in the semi-finals. — Reuters Lippi was further enraged when he was revive Valencia glory days stopped from seeing the referee after the match and finished addressing the media standing up and emitting a stream of Italian that neither his VALENCIA: Valencia coach Nuno Espirito president Amadeo Salvo was treated like a English or Mandarin translator could keep up Santo believes an expected takeover by hero by fans on his return to Valencia airport with. “I didn’t want to talk about winning the Singaporean billionaire Peter Lim can bring last Saturday after meeting Lim in Singapore World Cup or anything, I just wanted to ask him the glory days back to the club after years of such is the excitement over what a new era for an explanation,” he said. Wanderers manager financial problems. could bring. “It is a step further in a long Tony Popovic said it had been a “fantastic” win The protracted deal, which has been process but the end will arrive in a few weeks,” for his team given they were still in pre-season under negotiation since before January, has Salva told reporters at the airport. “Lim will and had no sympathy for Lippi. “I don’t know still not been signed and sealed but this come when the agreement is effective.” what he’s so upset about,” he said. “We all dis- should now take place in the coming weeks agree with decisions but we do it from the and Lim has already been active behind the First moves touchline. “But you can’t have coaches going on scenes over transfer dealings. One of the club’s first moves in the close the pitch and manhandling players.” His aim is to return the La Liga club to the season was to appoint as coach after top of the European game - they kick off the Argentina-born coach Juan Antonio Pizzi was No quarter new campaign at Sevilla on Saturday - and sacked following a disappointing campaign The A-League side certainly gave no quarter media reports say he is ready to invest 50 mil- in which they finished out of the European in defense and got sharper the longer the match lion euros ($66.61 million) on his arrival. “The places in eighth. Lim gave his backing to for- went on to run out worthy winners in front of a takeover has been going on for some time mer Deportivo La Coruna and Porto goal- noisy crowd of 17,093 at Parramatta Stadium. and we know that when it is finished we will keeper Nuno, who is represented by powerful They had to ride their luck at times but be a lot stronger,” Nuno told reporters in Portuguese agent Jorge Mendes - a business Guangzhou’s attack of former Italian internation- Valencia. “I told him (Lim) that his dreams for partner of Lim’s in the firm Quality Sports als Alessandro Diamante and Alberto Gilardino the club can become a reality. He is going to Investments. Valencia have reinforced their and prolific Brazilian Elkeson failed to click. The SYDNEY: Guangzhou Evergrande coach Marcello Lippi (second right) is restrained as he con- come because the fans want him and squad well with promising striker Rodrigo Wanderers came out strongly in the second half fronts referee Mohammad Abdulla Hassan Mohamed (left) after having a second player sent because he wants to come to the Mestalla, a Moreno from Benfica the pick of the newcom- and got their reward when Antony Golec cut in off against the Western Sydney Wanderers during their AFC Champions League quarter-final club that for those now here it is well pre- ers. The 23-year-old played for Real Madrid from the left wing and hit a cross-shot from the football match yesterday. — AFP pared and organised. and Spain at youth level and arrives at the “The players coming in must bring expec- Mestalla on a one-year loan, although the tation, desire to work and look to improve move will become permanent if Lim takes because they are going to find a group which charge. Valencia have seen Jeremy Mathieu American men braced for is very motivated. “While there are spaces for leave for Barcelona but the club’s new out- new players, there will always be names men- look was shown by the fact that they refused tioned, the most important thing is that those to sell the French defender for less than his who come are the players we want.” Club buy-out clause of 20 million euros. —Reuters more Grand Slam misery

NEW YORK: The 2014 US Open begins Monday against the likes of world number one Novak world. Steve Johnson has also squeezed into Armstrong: The big lie with American men seeking to end a Grand Djokovic, 17-time Grand Slam champion Roger the top 50 as the US Open approaches, at num- Slam drought now more than a decade long. Federer and former Wimbledon winner Andy ber 49, while 21-year-old Jack Sock has pro- would have continued The signs, however, are not promising. Andy Murray.While Isner lays claim to a Grand Slam gressed from 100th to start the year to his cur- Roddick’s 2003 US Open triumph marks the last historic footnote-having played the longest rent 55th. Sock teamed with Vasek Pospisil to LOS ANGELES: Lance Armstrong says he Winfrey. The Texan admitted to using sub- time an American man hoisted a Grand Slam match in major history with his marathon first- win the Wimbledon men’s doubles title, but has would still be issuing strident denials if he stances like EPO, human-growth hormone trophy. For a nation that has produced 51 men’s round win over Nicolas Mahut at Wimbledon in yet to reach an ATP level final. Assessing the hadn’t been caught and then forced to admit and testosterone and other drugs during the major winners in the Open era-more than twice 2010 — his best Grand Slam performance was a bleak landscape prior to the French Open, to using performance-enhancing drugs to many years he dominated international as many as any other country-it’s a baffling lack quarter-final run at the 2011 US Open. Courier told the New York Times that lack of tal- win the Tour de France. “If this stuff hadn’t tak- cycling. “No one forced me or bullied me, so I of success. For America’s current number one, He insists that his status as the top-ranked ent was not the problem. en place with the federal investigation, I’d am not going to say ‘It’s not my fault’ I blame 15th-ranked John Isner, it’s not something to American doesn’t press him to try to match the “There are plenty of talented players who are probably still be saying ‘no’ with the same myself, that’s the bottom line,” he said. The 42- dwell on as the final Grand Slam of the year feats of an earlier generation of stars-Pete not getting the most out of their talent,” the US conviction and tone as before. But that gig is year-old Armstrong told CNN that his “day-to- approaches. Sampras, Andre Agassi, Jim Courier and Michael Davis Cup captain said, declining to name up,” Armstrong said in an interview with US day life is positive”. “I never get crap, not once, “American tennis right now isn’t the best it Chang. “I don’t think it puts too much pressure names. A lackluster French Open showing, with news broadcaster CNN. For more than a and I’m surprised by that. Sure, I sometimes has been,” Isner said in July. “I’m just worried on me,” he says. “I was never pegged to be the no American men in the quarter-finals, was fol- decade, the disgraced American cyclist get the vibe that someone wants to say some- about myself right now and trying to get back next number one guy.” lowed by a dismal Wimbledon campaign that Armstrong repeatedly denied he ever used thing, but it’s never happened,” he said. into the top 10.” Unfortunately, Isner’s build-up If he’s not, however, then who is? That dubi- saw ninth-seeded Isner, the last US man stand- banned drugs and bullied others who Armstrong has granted several interviews to the Open hasn’t gone as planned. The former ous honor once belonged to Donald Young, ing, knocked out in the third round. accused him of being a cheater. Armstrong of late but he denied it is part of a carefully world number nine won the title in Atlanta, but who in 2007 was the youngest player to finish A similarly uninspiring performance would was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles orchestrated public relations campaign to try won only one match match in Washington, the year ranked in the top 100 at 18 years and be more keenly felt at Flushing Meadows, in 2013 for doping and handed a life ban from and rebuild his tattered image. “I know at Toronto and Cincinnati combined before head- five months. Young was ranked as high as 38th where native sons like Jimmy Connors and John the sport, eventually admitting that all seven times it looks like it, but there’s no PR cam- ing to Winston-Salem for a last tune-up. Even in the world in 2012, but had fallen to 202nd McEnroe once set the New York nights alight. triumphs were fuelled by banned drugs. paign,” he says. “There’s not a big study room Armstrong admitted to doping during a where we’re bouncing off ideas saying, ‘Let’s with a top-10 ranking, and with defending last year and worked his way back into the top Even so, Isner, for one, relishes the challenge on television interview broadcast in January do Esquire, let’s talk to (CNN).’ I’m just flying by champion Rafael Nadal sidelined by injury, Isner 100 via a detour to the Challenger circuit and is the hardcourts of his homeland. “This is my 2013 with American talk show host Oprah the seat of my pants.” —AFP would hardly be a pre-Open favorite lining up now the second-ranked American at 46th in the favorite time of year,” he says. — AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 SPORTS Bayern race to get fit as Dortmund prepare title tilt

BERLIN: Bundesliga powerhouse Bayern Munich under pressure to start delivering just like he did in the German Cup, Dortmund look set to take the and winger Sidney Sam will add more depth and and arch-rivals Borussia Dortmund look set to slug it his first season in charge. fight to Bayern this season. Winger Marco Reus, who creativity to their attack. out once again for the German league title when Newcomer Robert Lewandowski, last season’s is another Bayern target, and central defender Nevertheless, mercurial Schalke are outsiders for the season starts tomorrow. Both have strength- Bundesliga top scorer, has yet to hit the target in a Neven Subotic are back from injuries and playmaker their first Bundesliga title. Bayer Leverkusen, who ened their squads with key transfers and the pair competitive game for Bayern but the fans are hope- Ilkay Guendogan, who missed the whole of last sea- finished fourth last season, have brought in hugely lead the betting by a big margin over the other ful the Poland striker will give them lots to cheer son with a back problem, also looks to be on track talented attacking midfielder Hakan Calhanoglou clubs. For the Bavarians, however, it does not look this season with goals and assists. Dortmund lost for his Dortmund comeback. and Swiss striker Josip Drmic, who will add to their like it is going to be as easy as last season when Lewandowski to Bayern on a free transfer but coach firepower alongside the established Stefan they clinched the Bundesliga crown by March and Juergen Klopp hopes Italy forward Ciro Immobile Mercurial Schalke Kiessling. Whether Leverkusen, nicknamed in record time. and Adrian Ramos will be efficient replacements. Fellow Champions League competitors Schalke ‘Neverkusen’ for their failure to win trophies, have “This season we will need some time,” coach Pep With winger Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in fine 04 did not splash out in the transfer market but enough about them to make a serious run for their Guardiola said last week. “At the moment I have form already, having scored in the Super Cup and Cameroon international Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting maiden Bundesliga title remains to be seen. only eight or nine players who are fully fit.” A string “The players can go ahead and dream and then of injuries, including key midfielder Javi Martinez’s they can articulate those dreams,” Leverkusen’s new cruciate ligament tear last week, have forced Bayern coach Roger Schmidt said, confirming his team to reconsider their transfer options. Apart from were targeting the title. Martinez, who was set to play the central role in a “When they say that (they want to win the title) new-look three-man defense, Guardiola, in his sec- then everyone knows exactly what they need to do ond season in charge, will also have to do without if they have such a target.” Wolfsburg and Borussia fellow holding midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger for Moenchengladbach are eager to break into the top several weeks or even months. four with the former bringing in Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner to help them score goals. Injury concerns Attacking midfielder Aaron Hunt has also come in A nagging knee injury that Schweinsteiger car- from Werder Bremen as the Volkswagen-owned ried through Germany’s World Cup-winning cam- club, champions in 2009, look to improve on last paign last month has come back to haunt him, rul- season’s fifth place finish. ing him out of the Bundesliga start. “Now it seems At the other end of the table, Bundesliga new- his knee is signalling for a break. That is something comers Paderborn, with the smallest budget in the that is hurting Bayern,” Guardiola said. Winger division, will be battling for survival from the first Franck Ribery, midfielder Thiago Alcantara and game while returning FC Cologne will be looking defender Rafinha are also out injured. With Bayern’s to stay up longer this time. Hamburg SV, who six World Cup winners still to hit top form after a needed a relegation playoff to survive in the top long campaign for club and country and their flight and remain the only team to have played all recent return to training, last term’s domestic dou- 51 seasons in the Bundesliga, are hoping to avoid ble winners lost their season-opening German any such dangerous adventures this season. Super Cup to Dortmund 2-0. Having eased through Forward Pierre-Michel Lasogga made a permanent their German Cup first round tie against third-tier move to Hamburg after his loan spell from Hertha Preussen Muenster, Guardiola is well aware that Berlin last season and the former European cham- time is not on his side. With Vfl Wolfsburg awaiting MUNICH: The new Bayern Munich team bus is presented during a delivery show outside the stadium pions are counting on his goals to lift them higher on Friday in the season opener, the Spaniard is in Munich, southern Germany. — AFP up the table. — Reuters Barca’s appeal against transfer ban ‘rejected’ Club guilty of breaking rules on signing minors

ZURICH: Barcelona have lost an appeal against a temporarily lifted, Barca have signed Uruguay FIFA, which did not give any further details of decision to ban them from the transfer market forward Luis Suarez, Belgium centre back which rules had been broken or which players for two consecutive windows, soccer’s world Thomas Vermaelen, France defender Jeremy were involved, allows the international transfer governing body FIFA said in a statement yester- Mathieu, Croatia midfielder Ivan Rakitic, Chile of under-18 players in only rare circumstances. day. As a result, Barca, who were found guilty of goalkeeper Claudio Bravo and Germany stopper They are permitted if the player’s parents move breaching rules on the international transfer of Marc-Andre ter Stegen. to the club’s country for reasons not linked to under-18 players, will be banned from register- The first four players alone cost about $200 football or if the transfer takes place within the ing players during the next transfer window in million. “The FIFA Appeal Committee has decid- territory of the European Union or European January as well as the 2015 summer window, ed to... confirm in their entirety the decisions Economic Area, and the player is between 16 FIFA said. FIFA also rejected Barcelona’s appeal rendered by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee in and 18. The former rule has led to concerns that against a 450,000 Swiss francs (493,637 dollars) the respective cases relating to the protection of rich clubs could arrange for the player’s parents Carlo Tavecchio fine and have been given 90 days to regularize minors,” said FIFA in a statement. “FC Barcelona is to move to their country, and get jobs, behind the situation of all the minor players concerned, to serve a transfer ban which will see the club the scenes. Italy federation president the governing body said. The ban was originally prevented from registering any players at both In the latter case, clubs must ensure that the imposed in April and would have covered the national and international level for two com- player is given a full education or training that current transfer window, followed by the next plete and consecutive transfer periods, starting would allow him to pursue a career outside foot- faces UEFA racism probe one in January. with the next registration period (January ball, as well as football training “in line with the However, Barcelona appealed later the same 2015).” highest national standards.” In addition, the play- ZURICH: Italian soccer federation (FIGC) dential election campaign.” month and the ban was lifted pending the out- er must not be younger than 16. Clubs who run president Carlo Tavecchio is to face a disci- UEFA said a report would be handed to come of the disciplinary process. The Catalan Federation fined academies must report all minors who attend to plinary investigation by European soccer’s its ethics and disciplinary panel “to render a club, hugely proud of its Masia academy, said it The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) also their own national association, who in turn must governing body over allegedly racist decision about this matter. “Further details would take the case to the Court of Arbitration lost its appeal against a 500,000 Swiss francs keep a register including names and dates of remarks made during his election cam- concerning these proceedings will be for Sport (CAS). “Barcelona cannot accept in any fine, FIFA said. “The RFEF has been ordered to birth. The rules also state that “through the act of paign, UEFA said yesterday. Tavecchio, who announced in due course.” Although way a decision which attacks the spirit of our pay a fine of CHF 500,000 and granted a period reporting, academies and players undertake to was elected FIGC president last week, Tavecchio’s comments caused anger in Masia, an example in human, sporting and aca- of one year in which to regularize their regulato- practice football in accordance with the FIFA made a speech in the run-up to the elec- Italy, he was still swept home with 63 per- demic development, recognized around the ry framework and existing system concerning Statutes, and to respect and promote the ethical tion in which he referred to a fictitious play- cent of the vote in last week’s election after world,” it said in a statement. Since the ban was the international transfer of minors in football.” principles of organized football.”— Reuters er he called Opti Poba who, he said, “previ- receiving the backing of Lega Pro, which ously ate bananas and then suddenly represents third and fourth division clubs, becomes a first team player with Lazio.” and the LND, representing the amateur UEFA said in a statement: “Carlo Tavecchio... leagues. Some Serie A and Serie B clubs Guardiola braced for tricky has today been personally informed by also voted for him. Italy has struggled to UEFA about the decision of its Chief Ethics control racism in the last few seasons and and Disciplinary Inspector to open a disci- AC Milan’s players walked off the pitch dur- second season at Bayern plinary investigation on alleged racist com- ing a friendly match in 2013 after abuse ments made by him during his FIGC presi- from fans on the terraces. — Reuters BERLIN: Bayern chairman Karl- Borussia Dortmund represents an “extraordinary” by sporting director tems and could be tempted to Heinz Rummenigge stated confi- upgrade in attack, but it is unclear Matthias Sammer-will play in a deploy both Philipp Lahm and Booming Bundesliga to ride dently during the close season that what the other new signings will Bayern side that could line up with David Alaba in midfield in front of Pep Guardiola, after winning the offer. Defensive midfielder a three-man defense. three central defenders. However, WCup wave into new season domestic double in his debut cam- Sebastian Rode, signed from The other new recruit is Pepe he has lost one defender, Javi paign as coach, would never be Eintracht Frankfurt, is likely only to Reina, who arrives from Liverpool Martinez, until the end of the year BERLIN: The booming Bundesliga can that makes the Bundesliga the envy of the pushed out. “Bayern will never sack be a squad player, while it remains to provide back-up in goal for after the Spaniard suffered a knee expect another bumper season in 2014/15 footballing world. Every year more German Pep Guardiola. I can put that in to be seen where young Spanish Manuel Neuer. Guardiola continues injury in the SuperCup defeat to with the world’s attention focused firmly on players are lured away to the bigger writing today,” said Rummenigge of left-back Juan Bernat-described as to experiment with different sys- Borussia Dortmund last week. Now, Germany following their World Cup victory leagues in Spain and England, with Toni the former Barcelona coach, whose the coach is hoping to bring in a in Brazil. The German top division has been Kroos (Real Madrid) and Emre Can contract at the Allianz Arena runs new face in defence, although he growing in terms of spectators and (Liverpool) among the most recent exits, through to 2016. admitted that: “If it’s not possible, finances for years with the trend set to con- but the Bundesliga’s seemingly endless However, Guardiola, despite his so be it. We will just keep working tinue into the new season that starts production line continues to feed the almost impeccable track record, is with the players we already have.” tomorrow. domestic clubs. Bundesliga teams can aware that there is little margin for One of those is Holger The national team’s World Cup victory expect increased interest in their players error at Germany’s biggest club. He Badstuber, who played his first has added to German football’s growing from European heavyweights while more won the Bundesliga, the German competitive game after more than allure. “For everyone involved in the and more foreign talents see the Cup, the UEFA Super Cup and the 20 months out injured in last week- Bundesliga, the World Cup victory is a huge Bundesliga as an attractive alternative to Club World Cup in his first season in end’s German Cup first-round win motivation to become even better on all the Premier League and Spain’s La Liga. Bavaria but his team’s defence of at Preussen Munster. “I’m ready and levels,” said VfL Wolfsburg sports director With broadcast revenues increasing by the Champions League ended in a I’m feeling great. Every training ses- Klaus Allofs. With minnows Paderborn pro- around 60 million euros ($79.91 million) semi-final humbling at the hands of sion and match does me the world moted and Nuremberg, with a bigger stadi- this year to 700 million euros, the German Real Madrid. “There are no secrets. of good,” said the 25-year-old. In um, relegated, the Bundesliga may not set league is gradually closing the gap to their If I don’t win, then probably anoth- midfield, Thiago Alcantara is not a new attendance record, as it has done in bigger European counterparts. er coach comes here next year,” he expected to return from a knee recent seasons. Yet it still looks set to main- The Bundesliga still trails England in stated. injury until October while Bastian tain its status as the highest-attended that respect, but DFL officials expect for- Bayern are expected to win the Schweinsteiger will miss the open- league in the world with an average of eign TV deals to increase sharply in the domestic double for a third year ing weeks of the season. What more than 40,000 spectators attending future. Around 150 million euros is expect- running, but even then Guardiola Guardiola would love is for Mario each game. ed to be raised through rights deals with knows that his team will probably Goetze, the scorer of Germany’s “The Bundesliga is seen by fans as excit- foreign broadcasters for the 2015/16 sea- have to win the Champions League winning goal in the World Cup final, ing and we have the highest average atten- son, but DFL CEO Christian Seifert said this for 2014-15 to be deemed a suc- to produce his top form regularly dance in the world,” said German football figure would inflate to 250 million “in the cessful season, especially with the after flattering to deceive last sea- league (DFL) president Reinhard Rauball. medium term”. final being played in Berlin. But his son. But Goetze and the other sev- “The rivalry between Bayern Munich and “Football today is part of the global team’s preparations for the defence en Bayern first-team regulars who Borussia Dortmund is healthy for the entertainment industry and so our think- of their Bundesliga crown, starting were involved until the final week- league.” The country’s top two teams, who ing should not stop at country borders,” he at home to Wolfsburg on Friday, end of the World Cup will need have shared the title between them since said recently. German clubs have gone on have hardly been ideal.The summer time to build up their fitness, and 2010, reflect the health of the league. Flush a charm offensive in the close-season with has seen Bayern sell Toni Kroos to the opening weeks will be vital.”I with cash from ticket sales and growing Bayern touring the United States, Bayer Real Madrid after negotiations over can see Bayern having a few diffi- broadcasting revenues, the pair have domi- Leverkusen in South Korea and Hamburg a new deal stalled, with the club culties to start with until they get nated not only domestically but on the SV visiting China. unwilling to bow to the midfielder’s all of their World Cup winners prop- European stage as well with the highlight Seifert can already point to record cov- wage demands. Croatian striker erly fit and integrated back into the being the 2013 Champions League final erage this season with 207 territories Mario Mandzukic has gone to side,” former Bayern and Dortmund where Bayern beat the Ruhr valley club in broadcasting last week’s German Super Atletico Madrid while veteran coach Ottmar Hitzfeld told bun- an all-German affair. Cup final between Bayern and Dortmund Belgian defender Daniel Van desliga.com. Bayern, who have live. When the Bavarians take on Wolfsburg Buyten has retired. always been heavily represented in Financial health in the season opener tomorrow, the world the Germany squad, have failed to It is, however, the financial health of the will again be watching as the Bundesliga Uncertainties win the title in either of the last two vast majority of the 18 clubs, who churn begins what officials believe will be yet The signing of last season’s seasons following a World Cup and out players from their youth academies, another booming season. — Reuters Bundesliga top scorer Robert their rivals will now be hoping for Lewandowski from biggest rivals Bayern Munich’s Spanish head coach Pep Guardiola another slip-up. — AFP THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 SPORTS Atletico aim to upstage big spenders again

MADRID: While Real Madrid and Barcelona and in the first leg of the Spanish Super Revamped Barcelona have once more spent vast sums to win Cup against Real Madrid they gave away Real are brimming with confidence back the La Liga crown, they are set to face little space to earn a 1-1 draw ahead of the after comfortably winning the European dogged competition again from champi- decisive leg back at the Calderon on Friday. Super Cup against Sevilla and have set ons Atletico Madrid who have a side built their sights on all six trophies available on a fraction of the cost. Atletico became Relaxed, confident during the season. Real have made adjust- the first team since Valencia in 2004 to “We are looking forward to the season ments to the side that won the Champions knock Real and Barca from top spot, and we know that there will be a lot of League against Atletico, with midfielder breathing new life into the Spanish cham- expectation placed on us,” Atletico mid- Toni Kroos and keeper Keylor Navas com- pionship that had become a two-horse fielder Gabi Fernandez told Spanish paper ing in after shining at the World Cup. race. Diego Simeone found success by As. “It is difficult to say whether the team is Barcelona, however, have made major building a side based on a strong team better or worse with the changes. changes. Following the Catalan side’s first ethic and the belief that through hard Important players for the team have gone season without a major trophy in six years, work they could come out on top. but at the same time others have arrived, Barca have brought in Luis Enrique as Unsurprisingly, with Atletico winning the who are strong on a national and coach and strengthened the squad in league and reaching the Champions European scale, from top clubs. “Atletico’s many areas of the pitch. League final, their playing stocks have base is solid, we are very sure about our While the signing of Suarez has cap- been raided by richer clubs and talisman style of play and what our jobs are. The tured the attention of fans, the addition of Diego Costa has left for Chelsea. team is relaxed, with a lot of confidence defenders Jeremy Mathieu and Thomas But Atletico have also made some and we will have to see if we are better or MADRID: Real Madrid’s Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti (right) greets Atletico Vermaelen was badly needed and they shrewd buys ahead of the new season and worse than last year.” Madrid’s Argentinean coach Diego Simeone before the Spanish Supercup first- could make the difference in Barcelona’s replaced Costa with the accomplished Gabi said it did not concern him that leg football match on August 19, 2014. — AFP title hopes. Mario Mandzukic from Bayern Munich. The few backed Atletico last season but con- and it only happens when we are champi- want to be the best.” As Atletico lost key The defense has been Barca’s main last time Atletico won the championship in ceded the team faced a tougher task than ons. Everyone expects us to drop off and players, Real and Barcelona once again weak point in recent seasons and they are 1995-96, they quickly went downhill and their better-resourced rivals. “Personally go downhill but we have shown we are a reinforced with the cream of the market in the first centre-halves to be signed by the ended up relegated four years later but what people say doesn’t bother me team capable of everything. the close season. Last year, the marquee club since Dmytro Chygrynskiy in 2009. this time the club is better managed. The although it is true that is nice if your work “The team still has the same dreams. signings were Gareth Bale and Neymar for Coach Enrique is also set to reintroduce key to the side’s prospects, though, is is valued,” he said. “We are not better or We are all very ambitious and just because Real and Barca respectively. This year, Barca’s trademark short passing game fol- again set to be their compactness and worse and yet it is more difficult for us than we are not shouting it from the roof tops James Rodriguez and Luis Suarez have lowing the unsuccessful experiment under defensive frugality. They have conceded Real Madrid or Barcelona to win titles. It is doesn’t mean we don’t feel that way. We been brought in, both for a figure close to Tata Martino who tried a more direct just one goal in seven pre-season friendlies harder for our good work to be recognized are working with the same drive and we 65 million pounds ($108 million). approach. — Reuters

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PLAYOFFS News Ba strikes the bar, in brief Kuwait defeat Persipura Besiktas held 0-0 Jayapura 3-2 in AFC Cup KUWAIT: Kuwait Club soccer team on Tuesday beat Persipura Jayapura of Indonesia 3-2 in the quarter-finals of the Asian Football Confederation’s AFC Cup at the Higuain rescues Napoli; Kuwait SC Stadium. Al-Qadisiya held a 1-1 draw with Al- Hadd of Bahrain in the same competition. Kuwaiti player Salzburg beat Malmo Shadi Al-Hammami scored the opener in the fourth minute, while Persipura Jayapura’s Lim Joon-sik scored BERNE: Besiktas hit the bar straight the Italian side’s Argentina forward the equalizer in the 13th minute and his teammate from kickoff as they were held 0-0 Higuain leveled in the 68th minute Gerald Pangkali scored the second goal in the 23rd at home by Arsenal in Tuesday’s when he brilliantly pulled down a minute of the first half. In the second half, Kuwaiti play- Champions League playoffs while a pass and, despite being surround- ers created many attacks on the goalkeeper of their rival. Their teammate Ali Al-Kandari scored the second and superb Gonzalo Higuain goal res- ed by three defenders, managed to third goals in the 83rd and 87th minute respectively. In cued Napoli in a 1-1 draw with visi- make space and score with a low the second game, Al-Qadisiya made an excellent per- tors Athletic Bilbao. Jonatan shot into the far corner. Jose formance in the first half, scoring the opener by Badr Al- Soriano struck the woodwork three Callejon and Higuain missed sitters Motawaa in the fifth minute, yet some opportunities times and scored in Salzburg’s 2-1 and the latter also saw a close- were wasted. In the second half, Bahraini team dominat- win over visiting Malmo, Bayer range effort brilliantly stopped by ed the game and managed to score the equalizer by Leverkusen won 3-2 at FC Gorka Iraizoz as Napoli pressed in a Nawaf Al-Khaldi in the 47th minute. Copenhagen and a late goal gave frenetic ending. “Considering the Steaua Bucharest a 1-0 home win way the game went, we can consid- over Ludogorets Razgrad in the er our reaction positive and must Ramsey says ‘sorry’ for other first leg ties. Arsenal, aiming begin again from that,” said Napoli Champions League red to reach the group stage for the coach Rafael Benitez. LONDON: Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey apolo- 17th season in a row, will be happy Austrian champions Salzburg, gized to the club’s supporters yesterday after being to have survived their tricky trip to who have been eliminated in the sent off in his side’s 0-0 Champions League play-off Istanbul, especially after Welsh mid- qualifiers six times since Red Bull’s draw away to Turkish side Besiktas.”Thank you to all the fielder Aaron Ramsey was sent off takeover in 2005, once again made fans that made the trip,” Ramsey wrote on his official in the 80th minute for a second life difficult for themselves against Twitter page. “Sorry for the red card. I’m sure the lads bookable offence. Malmo. will do the job in the second leg.” The Welsh midfielder, Beskitas’s Senegal forward Franz Schiemer and Soriano put 23, was sent off in the 80th minute of Tuesday’s game Demba Ba, who scored a hat-trick them 2-0 up in less than an hour in Istanbul after picking up two yellow cards. Arsenal in the previous round against and the Spaniard also hit the wood- manager Arsene Wenger was critical of Serbian referee Feyenoord, took a pot-shot at goal work three times as Salzburg domi- Milorad Mazic’s decision to dismiss Ramsey, describing straight from kickoff and his effort, nated the game. But the game end- it as “unbelievable”. “I think not the first and not the aided by the swirling wind, forced ed farcically for the hosts when a second yellow card was deserved for Ramsey,” Wenger Wojciech Szczesny to push the ball mix-up between Schiemer and told reporters. “When you see some of the fouls com- on to the bar. The Polish keeper keeper Peter Gulacsi in the 90th left mitted and you go home with a red card for Ramsey, it also turned away Ba’s fierce left- Emil Forsberg to tap into an empty is somewhat unbelievable.” Ramsey, who scored the footed volley after 10 minutes as net for the 1979 European Cup run- winning goal in last season’s FA Cup final and was vot- Arsenal survived a difficult open- ners-up, who have never played in ed Arsenal’s player of the year, will now be suspended ing. Despite losing Ramsey, Arsenal the group stage. for next week’s return leg at the Emirates Stadium. nearly grabbed the winner when Denmark’s chances of having Tolga Zengin tipped Alex Oxlade- two sides in the group stage for the Chamberlain’s curling effort on to first time look remote after Dortmund suffer injury the post. “It was a very good game Copenhagen’s home defeat against blows as season begins played with a good pace, a frenetic seasoned campaigners Leverkusen. BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund suffered a double injury blow pace from the first to the last Stefan Kiessling gave the days before the start of the Bundesliga with midfielder Oliver minute,” Arsenal manager Arsene Bundesliga side a fifth minute lead, Kirch ruled out for two months and Ji Dong-won set to miss Wenger told ITV. “In the end we only for the Danes to hit back with at least four weeks, the club said yesterday. Last season’s didn’t lose the game and hopefully headed goals by Mathias Bundesliga runners-up, who open their campaign against we can make it at home.” Joergensen and Daniel Amartey Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday, will be without Kirch for at before 15 minutes was up. Karim least eight weeks with a thigh muscle injury, it said in a state- Higuain strikes Bellarabi and Son Heung-Min ment. His South Korean team mate, who joined from Serie A was left in danger of hav- replied before halftime for Augsburg this season, will be out for an estimated four ing only two teams in the group Leverkusen who should wrap up weeks with a thigh muscle tear. Both players were injured in stage after Napoli, playing their first the tie at home on Aug 27. Former training on Tuesday afternoon and underwent checks in a competitive match of the season, European champions Steaua Dortmund hospital yesterday that confirmed their injuries. failed to beat Bilbao. Iker Muniain Bucharest gave themselves a slen- Dortmund are also competing in the group stage of the Champions League, starting in September. side-footed the visitors ahead four der lead to take to Bulgaria when NAPLES: Napoli’s Italian midfielder Christian Maggio (right) vies with Bilbao’s Spanish defender minutes before halftime as Napoli Alexandru Chipciu scored the only Mikel San Jose during the first leg of the UEFA Champions League play off football match between struggled to find their rhythm. But goal in the 88th minute. — Reuters SSC Napoli and Bilbao Athletic Club in San Paolo Stadium. — AFP Argentina’s Fernandez and Swansea seal deal Nigeria FA suffers fresh blow; LONDON: Swansea City have signed Argentina defender Spurs, Inter poised for Federico Fernandez from Napoli for an undisclosed fee, the Premier League club announced yesterday. The 25- headquarters ravaged by fire year-old centre back, who has 26 caps for his country and made four appearances at the World Cup where Argentina ABUJA: Nigeria’s football association, riven by in-fighting and sanctioned by ‘killer’ Europa League reached the final, signed a four-year deal with the Welsh the world game’s governing body, suffered a fresh blow yesterday after fire club after passing his medical on Monday. Fernandez, part gutted its headquarters. The blaze at the two-storey building in an upmarket PARIS: Several former winners enter the Europa ready.” Three-time former champions Inter Milan of Napoli’s Coppa Italia winning team last season, revealed area of the capital Abuja, known locally as the Glass House, broke out as staff he sought advice from former Swans striker Michu, who League picture this week as the likes of Tottenham return to European competition after a year out arrived for work, an AFP reporter at the scene said. Flames took hold from an moved to Napoli on loan earlier in the transfer window, office on the upper floor of the premises and spread quickly before firefighters Hotspur and Inter Milan begin the long road to glo- and have been drawn against Icelandic minnows and Spanish defender Jordi Amat, who signed for Swansea arrived to extinguish the blaze. ry in the play-off round. Tottenham, champions of Stjarnan. Inter strengthened their squad in the from Espanynol last year. “I asked Michu and Jordi Amat Senior federal fire service chief Imo Eyo described the damage as “huge” the predecessor UEFA Cup in 1971 and 1984, travel close season with the arrivals of former Manchester about the club. I obviously trained with Michu at Napoli and said there was no immediate indication of foul play. “We suspect a circuit to Cyprus where they’ll face AEL Limassol in the United defender Nemanja Vidic, on-loan striker and while I was on loan at Getafe (in 2013) I played with fault to have led to the fire but a proper enquiry would be carried out by the first leg today. Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino, Pablo Osvaldo and combative midfielders Yann Alvaro Vazquez. He is very good friends with Jordi, so I’ve authorities,” he added. Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) technical director plucked from Southampton in the summer, will M’Vila and Gary Medel. spoken to them too,” he explained. “Michu told me it is a Emmanuel Ikpeme said the blaze appeared to have started in the office of a make his European bow in a competition that he The start of the Italian domestic season is still family club and the city is very relaxed. He said I was join- senior accounts manager. “We thought it was something that could be con- last season denounced as uninteresting, unattrac- almost a fortnight away but Inter legend, turned ing a very good club. All I’ve heard are good things about tained by the fire extinguisher,” he told reporters. “But before we knew it, the tive and one that “kills you”. vice-president Javier Zanetti, who retired in May Swansea.” fire spread to the general-secretary’s office and from there, there couldn’t be However, since arriving at White Hart Lane the after 19 years at the club, said the Nerazzurri any control.” Argentine appears to have changed his tune, insist- wouldn’t be caught cold in their quest for more The NFF has been in crisis for several months and FIFA suspended the ing that Spurs plan to take the competition seri- continental success. “We care a lot about this com- Netherlands midfielder organization in July over what it said was “government interference” in its ously. “Tottenham, in every competition that we petition and we want to go all the way. We won’t De Guzman joins Napoli affairs. That followed a Nigerian court ruling that sacked the NFF high com- enter, we need to think, ‘We win the competition’. underestimate anybody because all teams are dan- ROME: Netherlands World Cup midfielder Jonathan mand and the government appointed a sole administrator to run the game. We need this mentality,” said Pochettino. “And if we gerous in Europe,” stressed Zanetti, who scored in de Guzman has joined Napoli from Villarreal after The ban, which threatened Nigeria’s participation in the FIFA under-20 play the Europa League, we need to play to win.” Inter’s 3-0 victory over Lazio in the 1998 final. spending the past two seasons on loan at Swansea women’s World Cup this month, was later lifted. But the NFF executive board Today’s opponents AEL, pipped to the Cypriot title “Our opponents have already played three City, the Serie A club said yesterday. De Guzman, born then gave a vote of no confidence in President Aminu Maigari and sacked him by APOEL Nicosia on the final day of last season, rounds in the competition so they are obviously in in Canada to a Filipino father and Jamaican mother, over allegations of financial misappropriation, misapplication and maladminis- played in three matches as the Netherlands finished tration. Maigari was however reinstated because FIFA said that correct proce- are under no illusions as to the task that awaits better shape than us,” he added. Defender Juan third in the World Cup in June and July. The 26-year- dure had not been followed. them. “(Spurs) are a massive club and it is crucial Jesus is hoping Inter take the pressure off them- He returned to work this week. NFF secretary-general Musa Amadu cau- we minimize our mistakes against them because selves with a commanding display in Wednesday’s old, whose brother Julian plays for Canada, will team tioned against attributing blame for the fire but added: “Thank God no lives they know how to punish every little error,” AEL first leg in Reykjavik. “We need to produce a big up with Spanish forward Michu, who moved from were lost but this is sad and unfortunate.” Ikpeme added: “It’s very sad, more so coach Ivaylo Petev told UEFA.com. performance up there and score as many as we can Swansea to Napoli earlier in the transfer window. Third that Nigerians know that we have been having some challenges in the Captain Marios Nikolaou chimed in, acknowl- so that we’re more relaxed going back to the San in Serie A last season, Napoli have been relatively qui- Nigerian Football Federation. “When we thought it was all over only for us to edging the odds are stacked against him and his Siro,” he told the club’s in-house TV station, Inter et in the transfer market with defender Kalidou come this morning and experience this kind of thing. It’s a very, very serious teammates, but remained confident of an upset. Channel. Hull City scraped past Slovakians Trencin Koulibaly their only other new signing. Rafael Benitez’s matter. “You can imagine, most of the NFF’s sensitive and important docu- “We know they are a great side but we certainly in their European debut but Tigers manager Steve team were held 1-1 at home by Athletic Bilbao in their ments of the NFF are in the secretary-general’s office and for the fire to destroy don’t fear them - we will look them in the eye. We Bruce expects a step up in class against Belgian Champions League playoff first leg tie on Tuesday, the accountants’ office is very sad. “It’s a set-back for the NFF.” — AFP will need to be at our best. We were handed a Cup winners Lokeren. “It will be a different game,” their first competitive match of the season. tough draw, but that is football and we need to be Bruce said of today’s tie in Belgium. —AFP Lippi sees red as Higuain rescues Guangzhou go Napoli; Salzburg down in Sydney beat Malmo 2-1

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MADRID: Real Madrid’s Real Madrid Daniel Carvajal (center) and Pepe (right) jumps for the ball with Atletico Madrid’s Diego Godin and Raul Garcia (left) during a Spanish Super Cup soccer match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. — AP Real, Atletico draw 1-1 in Super Cup Ronaldo injured as Atletico deny James dream start MADRID: A Raul Garcia equaliser two minutes from have the potential to score goals at the Calderon in front of goal and it was Atletico who had the time denied James Rodriguez a dream home debut and we will try. If we repeat the way we played better chances in the first-half as both Mario for Real Madrid as Atletico Madrid salvaged a 1-1 today we will win the Super Cup.” Atletico coach Mandzukic and Saul Niguez forced Iker Casillas draw in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup on Diego Simeone hailed his side’s work rate and into smart saves down to his left. With Rodriguez Tuesday. Rodriguez had surprisingly started on the expressed his surprise that compatriot Angel di on for the stricken Ronaldo, Real instantly made a bench, but replaced Cristiano Ronaldo at half-time Maria didn’t start the game as he only featured as a greater impression on the Atletico goal as Bale’s when the World Player of the Year was substituted late substitute. powerful right-footed effort was beaten away by due to a muscle injury. Colombian World Cup star Di Maria has been rumored with a move away Moya. Rodriguez opened the scoring with his first goal for from the Spanish capital given their wealth of There was an escape for the Atletico ‘keeper on Real 10 minutes from time. However, Atletico got a attacking options with the arrival of Rodriguez, but his debut 20 minutes from time, though, as he precious away goal to take into the return leg at the Simeone claimed he is even more vital to Real than could only parry Bale’s fierce free-kick back into the Vicente Calderon on Friday when Garcia flicked Ronaldo or Gareth Bale. “In the first-half despite danger area and Toni Kroos blazed over with the home a late corner from close range. Real boss Carlo defending close to our area we had three or four goal at his mercy. Real continued to push in search Ancelotti did though allay fears that Ronaldo’s injury chances to score a goal,” he said. “The second half of the winner and thought they had it on 80 min- could rule him out for a prolonged period of time. was more or less the same, with a little bit better utes when Rodriguez fired home with the aid of a “He had a strain after the first-half and he wasn’t play from Madrid with the introduction of Di Maria. deflection off Cristian Ansaldi. Yet Atletico comfortable. We will evaluate him tomorrow and “That was logical because he is the best player they responded with the kind of spirit that willed them do all the proper checks, but it doesn’t appear any- have. It is a important draw and allows us to play a to the La Liga title last season as the unmarked thing too serious,” said the Italian.And despite once for the trophy at home with a 50-50 chance.” Garcia flicked home Koke’s corner. Real will now again finding it difficult to break down Atletico’s Despite leaving Rodriguez and Angel di Maria have to score at least once when they visit the dogged defense, Ancelotti is confident that a on the bench from the off, Real boss Carlo Calderon later in the week if they are to continue repeat performance will see his side emerge victori- Ancelotti saw his side dominate possession in the their quest for six trophies this season having MADRID: Atletico’s Antoine Griezmann (top) competes for the ball with Real’s Xabi Alonso ous tomorrow. “Atletico have a small advantage opening 45 minutes against a typically physical already collected the UEFA Super Cup with a 2-0 during a Spanish Supercup first leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at because we have to score in the Calderon. “We Atletico side. However, Real created precious little win over Sevilla last week. — AFP the Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Tuesday, Aug 19, 2014. — AP Real Madrid target 6 Barca’s trophyless season in six years sparks an overhaul trophies this season BARCELONA: Barcelona have added Luis Suarez to their star- the Nou Camp with a poor injury record, having fallen down the studded forward line but it could be their defensive reinforce- pecking order at former club Arsenal. Goalkeepers Claudio Bravo MADRID: Real Madrid’s lavishly assembled squad, including league last season and contributing to Spain’s early World ments that make the difference as they look to win back the La and Marc-Andre ter Stegen, signed to replace Victor Valdes, World Cup sensation James Rodriguez in attack, aim to be the Cup exit with some erratic performances, Casillas remains at Liga title. The club’s first trophyless season in six years has would appear to be sound investments. first team to win all six trophies available this season with the the Bernabeu. sparked an overhaul with new coach Luis Enrique bringing in European Super Cup already under their belt. Now that the fresh faces for many positions ahead of the La Liga campaign Barcelona basics weight has been removed from their shoulders after winning Struggling rodriguez that kicks off on Saturday. All eyes will be on Suarez, signed from Barca struggled to adapt last season to the new tactical ideas ‘La Decima’, their tenth European Cup after a 12-year gap, Instead it is Lopez who has moved on, signing for AC Milan, Liverpool for a fee reported to be 81 million euros ($107.90 mil- introduced by coach Gerardo Martino, who resigned after one they are looking forward confidently to more silverware. but Casillas will now find it hard to keep Navas at bay. Kroos lion), when he finally makes his competitive bow for Barca at the campaign in charge. They have gone back to basics with Luis Lifting all six trophies on offer which also includes the has fitted in well with his neat passing game in midfield and end of October, after he was handed a four-month ban for biting Enrique whose teams play the club’s typical short passing foot- World Club Championship, the King’s Cup, the La Liga cham- could now well take over the set-play duties from Xabi Alonso at the World Cup. ball. “We will play the attacking style that has caught the imagina- pionship and the Champions League would equal bitter rivals but there are more question marks over the role of Rodriguez The prospect of him lining up with Neymar and Lionel Messi tion of millions of people around the world but we also need to Barcelona’s feat in 2009, but that was in a calendar year. So far ahead of the league kick off. He has been quiet and struggled in attack is mouthwatering, yet the club’s title hopes are likely to defend,” Luis Enrique told a news conference in Barcelona. “We Real have won the European Super Cup against Sevilla and to impose himself in matches, having been tried out in differ- depend on them shoring up a rearguard that looked vulnerable have an incredibly talented squad. My work and that of my staff is aim to win the domestic version on Friday against Atletico ent attacking roles. He did, however, hit the target against at key times last season. The backline has been neglected in to find a system that fits. We will look at all possibilities and con- Madrid following a 1-1 draw in the first leg at the Bernabeu. Atletico in the Super Cup, having come off the bench. “He is recent years with close-season recruits Jeremy Mathieu and sider the qualities of the players. “Basically, the three forwards will Rather than major alterations to the squad, they have made not lacking anything it is just that he has changed club and Thomas Vermaelen the first centre backs to be signed since play centrally but at times they will vary this and a lot will depend astute reinforcements with the customary marquee signing team mates. We are happy with what he is doing, we are not Dmytro Chygrynskiy in 2009. The club had previously attempted on the approach of the opponent. We will do different things. under president Florentino Perez of Colombian forward going to ask for more as he just needs time to adapt,” Ancelotti to paper over the cracks by converting midfielders into centre “The team is prepared physically but as regards the football I Rodriguez for a reported 80 million euros ($107.9 million). told a news conference. backs, with the idea being that they would be comfortable in would have liked two months more as we have a new coach, seven The Golden Boot winner at the World Cup is joined by There is a mood of optimism at the Bernabeu as they have possession and bring the ball out of defense. or eight new signings and youth players coming in.” Luis Enrique midfielder Toni Kroos and keeper Keylor Navas who also only had to tweak their side during the close season while The combative Argentine Javier Mascherano has done rela- coached the Barca B (youth) team for three seasons until 2011 and shone for Germany and Costa Rica in Brazil. The negative note rivals Barcelona and Atletico Madrid have undergone an over- tively well in this role, despite his lack of height, but Sergio is keen to give the young players a chance. Eighteen-year-old for- for Carlo Ancelotti’s side ahead of the big La Liga kick-off this haul with players coming and going. “Kroos will give us more Busquets and Alex Song have also been tried out in the position ward Munir El Haddadi has shone during pre-season and is push- weekend has been their performances in friendly matches quality in the team and more experience on the pitch. We have with little success. Barca have now added strength and depth to ing for a chance in attack. “It will depend on his performances if he including the International Champions Cup held in the a better side than last year but hard work is now important,” their defense but there are still question marks over the signings is in the first team. I think he has done well and it is clear he has a United States. In total they have lost three and drawn one said Ancelotti. “We will continue with the same style as last sea- of Mathieu and Vermaelen ahead of the Catalans’ curtain-raiser lot of quality,” said Luis Enrique. “It is the same with the other youth friendly. Most doubts are over defence and in particular keep- son. There may be times during matches where we will alter against Elche on Sunday. The club paid 20 million euros ($26.64 players. I am always saying it is great to have young players like we er Iker Casillas. Despite losing his place to Diego Lopez in the the formation but generally it will be the same.” — Reuters million) for the 30-year old Mathieu while Vermaelen arrives at have that have plenty of drive and ambition.” — Reuters Singer resigns as CEO of Dubai financial zone authority Page 22

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HONG KONG: A general view shows the Standard Chartered bank headquarters building (center) yesterday. — AFP StanChart fined $300m over laundering Sanctions will hit bank’s reputation: Analysts

NEW YORK: New York state’s banking regulator Tuesday hit vital to helping prevent terrorism and vile human rights penalty (in 2012) and still they installed a system that is to settle charges that for years it knowingly violated US Standard Chartered Bank with a $300 million fine and abuses,” said DFS head Benjamin Lawsky. The department useless,” Hong Kong-based independent financial analyst sanctions on Iran and Sudan. restrictions on its dollar-clearing business for failing to gave no information on the nature of the transactions, or Francis Lun told AFP. BNP Paribas and other banks fined for similar reasons detect possible money-laundering. The New York whether or not they proved to involve laundering. “It will create tremendous problems with (some of) their were ordered to implement stringent compliance regimes Department of Financial Services (DFS) said the British In a settlement agreed with the bank, DFS ordered international clients who cannot settle their accounts in US to ensure they do not break US rules in their dollar-clearing bank’s internal compliance systems had failed to detect or Standard Chartered to halt dollar-clearing operations for dollars. It will be a serious blow to Standard Chartered businesses. Standard Chartered is based in London but has act on a large number of “potentially high-risk transactions” unnamed “high-risk retail business clients” of its Hong group’s international business,” Lun said. Hong Kong-based traditionally done most of its business in Asia and the mostly originating from Hong Kong and the United Arab Kong unit. The bank is already cutting business with high- corporate governance expert David Webb, said: “The Middle East. Emirates. risk clients in the UAE, but will also not be able to process impact on Standard Chartered is not just the $300 million It said it accepted responsibility and “regrets the defi- The new punishment came two years after the bank dollar funds through the United States for them. Its New fine, but the deterrent effect to its clients who are doing ciencies in the anti-money laundering transaction surveil- paid US regulators $667 million to settle charges it violated York branch also is forbidden to take on any clearing or business with the bank.” lance system at its New York branch.” It added that it would US sanctions by handling thousands of money transactions deposit accounts from new customers without the “They will face an excessive amount of bureaucracy in work with clients in Hong Kong and the UAE affected by involving Iran, Myanmar, Libya and Sudan. A DFS monitor approval of Lawsky’s office. trying to operate or open accounts,” he said. The action tak- the DFS requirements, to minimize disruption. appointed in 2012 to keep an eye on the bank discovered en against Standard Chartered is part of an ongoing crack- “The group remains fully committed to Hong Kong and that it had not detected the allegedly high-risk transac- ‘Serious blow’ down by New York state and federal authorities on banks, the United Arab Emirates as key markets,” the bank said. tions from Hong Kong and the UAE or reported them as it Analysts said the sanctions would have a negative particularly foreign banks with New York branches, for han- Hong Kong-listed shares in the bank closed yesterday at should have, the department said. impact on the bank’s reputation and international busi- dling money transfers from countries and individuals HK$158.1 ($20.40), down 0.25 percent, while the Hang “If a bank fails to live up to its commitments, there ness, even though the fine was smaller than those imposed blacklisted by Washington for political reasons or for their Seng Index ended up 0.15 percent. “$300 million isn’t a big should be consequences. That is particularly true in an area on other banks previously. “It’s really an oversight on the involvement in criminal activities. In the largest case number... investors will be fine with this penalty,” said as serious as anti-money-laundering compliance, which is part of Standard Chartered. They’d already paid a huge French bank BNP Paribas agreed to pay $8.9 billion in July Tanrich Securities vice president Jackson Wong. — AFP

Ballmer steps down China fines 12 Japanese from Microsoft board firms $202m in auto probe LOS ANGELES: Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is stepping down BEIJING: China announced yesterday it 403 million yuan ($66 million) but it gave from the company’s board, closing a chapter on 34 years with the software will fine 12 Japanese auto parts suppliers no breakdown by company. Business giant. Ballmer says he plans to devote more time to his ownership of the a total of $202 million for colluding to groups welcomed the enactment of Los Angeles Clippers, civic contributions, study and teaching a business raise prices in an unfolding anti-monop- China’s anti-monopoly law in 2008 as a class at Stanford in the fall. Microsoft Corp. published Ballmer’s resignation oly probe of the country’s auto industry. step toward clarifying operating condi- letter on its website Tuesday along with a response from current CEO Satya Beijing has launched a series of investiga- tions. Since then, they have said it is Nadella thanking him and wishing him well. The 58-year-old says he plans tions of global automakers and technolo- enforced more actively against foreign to hold on to his Microsoft stock and will continue to offer feedback on gy suppliers under its 6-year-old anti- companies than against local rivals. products and strategy. With 333.3 million shares worth $15 billion, monopoly law in an apparent effort to The European Union Chamber of Ballmer’s 4 percent stake in the company makes him the largest individual force down prices. The Japanese suppli- Commerce in China, in a statement last shareholder. A few institutional investors hold slightly more. ers were found to have colluded improp- week, said competition law should not be “I bleed Microsoft - have for 34 years and I always will,” Ballmer wrote. “I erly, some for up to 10 years, to raise used to achieve other goals such as forc- will be proud, and I will benefit through my share ownership. I promise to prices of ball bearings and other parts, ing price reductions. The group said it support and encourage boldness by management in my role as a share- according to China’s main planning received reports regulators pressure com- holder in any way I can.” Ballmer stepped down as chief executive in agency, the National Development and panies to accept penalties without a full February, and since then Microsoft shares have risen about 24 percent. The Reform Commission. hearing and to avoid involving their gov- stock closed Tuesday up 0.5 percent at $45.33. He noted his resignation “This harmed the legitimate rights and ernments. A Ministry of Commerce from the board comes as the company prepares for its next shareholder interests of consumers,” the agency said spokesman denied this week that foreign meeting set for sometime this fall. LOS ANGELES: Steven Ballmer, (right) former CEO of Microsoft, new on its website. Regulators have given few companies were treated unfairly. Nadella thanked Ballmer for his support during the transition period owner of Los Angeles Clippers, and coach Doc Rivers attend the base- details of their probe but industry ana- Regulators also have announced and used the opportunity to reiterate the company’s new focus on mobile ball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres at lysts say they might have been motivated investigations of Qualcomm Inc, a San devices and cloud computing. “Under your leadership, we created an Dodger Stadium. — AP by complaints about the high price of Diego, California-based maker of chips incredible foundation that we continue to build on - and Microsoft will will still be relevant for the next two years if someone asks him a question,” imported luxury vehicles and replace- used in mobile phones, and software thrive in the mobile-first, cloud-first world,” Nadella said. Ballmer’s depar- Breza said. “It gives them the chance to remake the board. At the end of ment parts. Two of the Japanese compa- giant Microsoft Corp. Last year, Chinese ture leaves Microsoft’s board with 10 members. It has no immediate plans the day it’s a good thing.” In February, co-founder Bill Gates increased the nies, ball bearing makers NSK Ltd. and regulators fined five foreign dairies and to replace him. The company, which is based in Redmond, Washington, amount of time he spent at Microsoft as a technology adviser at Nadella’s NTN Corp, announced Tuesday they were one from Hong Kong a total of $108 mil- adds a new board member about once every year or so. The most recent request, but other than his board seat, Ballmer hadn’t had a formal role among those being fined. lion on charges they violated the anti- addition was John Stanton, chairman of wireless technology investment after stepping down as CEO. Ballmer’s resignation from the board came a The NDRC said the components mak- monopoly law by setting minimum prices fund Trilogy Equity Partners, in July. day after he high-fived and chest-bumped his way through a crowd of ers were fined a total of 832 million yuan their distributors were required to Robert Breza, an analyst with Sterne Agee & Leach, said Ballmer still 4,500 Clippers fans at a rally at the Staples Center. He bought the team for ($136 million) and the bearings suppliers charge. — AP lives in the Seattle area and will no doubt be accessible if needed. “Steve $2 billion in a sale that a judge confirmed last week. — AP BUSINESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 Singer resigns as CEO of Dubai financial zone authority Nakheel repays $2.15bn bank debt

DUBAI: Jeffrey Singer said yesterday that 14 percent to 1,039 last year. Two financial handling that company’s international to banks ahead of the timetable man- will make an interest payment of 129 he had resigned as chief executive of the industry sources aware of the matter said development. dated by its restructuring plan. The million dirhams for the six months to DIFC Authority, which oversees Dubai’s the resignation was for personal reasons Meanwhile, Dubai property develop- state-controlled developer will repay 31 Aug. 28. In February this year, Nakheel financial free zone, the Dubai International and that DIFC Governor Essa Kazim would er Nakheel is repaying all of its 7.9 bil- banks 5.54 billion dirhams today, it said repaid 2.35 billion dirhams of bank debt Financial Centre. The resignation is with continue to oversee the zone’s operations lion dirhams ($2.15 billion) of bank debt in yesterday’s statement. Of that that was due to mature in September immediate effect, Singer told Reuters by while a replacement for Singer was found. as much as four years ahead of schedule, amount, 3.45 billion dirhams would go 2015. Nakheel was pushed close to telephone. He declined to comment fur- Singer was appointed CEO in July 2012, the company said in a statement yester- to United Arab Emirates banks, with default and forced to restructure its debt ther. Founded in 2004, the DIFC has grown after four years as CEO of the Nasdaq day. The final installment of the debt Emirates NBD and Dubai Islamic Bank after Dubai’s debt crisis in 2008, but its rapidly to become the Middle East’s top Dubai bourse, the smaller of the emirate’s was to have come due in March 2018. the biggest recipients; the remaining finances have improved over the past banking centre. The number of active reg- two stock markets. Before that, he was a Nakheel originally announced in June 2.09 billion dirhams would be paid to couple of years as the emirate’s property istered companies operating within it rose senior executive at NASDAQ OMX Group, that it would repay its outstanding debt foreign banks. In addition, the company market has rebounded. —Agencies

Blackstone Market Commentary Challenges to positive outlook

By Byron Wien had a meaningful correction: about 700 days since a decline of 10 percent and almost twice as long since ince the beginning of the year, I have believed a drop of 20 percent. that the second half of 2014 would be positive Sfor both the economies and the equity mar- Worried investors kets of the developed world. The market cannot go up forever. The question Like many, I was surprised by is, when will the pullback take place? Expansive the weak first quarter in the Federal Reserve policy has helped the recovery, but United States - real Gross now the Fed is tapering and investors are worried Domestic Product (GDP) was - about an increase in short-term interest rates some- 2.9 percent - but I viewed that time next year. Many investors are worried about a as a kind of mini-recession shift in Federal Reserve policy triggering a serious within an ongoing recovery correction in the market. My own view is that we and attributed it to severe won’t see a rise in rates until mid-2015. Ned Davis weather conditions, accounting issues related to the Research has done a study of market responses to Affordable Care Act and other factors. I expected the first increase in interest rates by the Fed. It that the following quarters would exhibit renewed shows that the S&P 500 does, indeed, have a sharp momentum based on the economic data being negative reaction, usually about 5 percent, but then reported. continues to move higher afterwards. The danger of Almost every indicator I am now looking at is, in a change in the inflation outlook could be one rea- fact, showing a better tone to the economy. Vehicle son the Fed would consider raising rates, but that production is running at 17 million units; consumer doesn’t seem about to happen. Not only are wages confidence and retail sales are improving; bank increasing modestly, but commodity prices have loans, which indicate a willingness by business peo- also softened. I think inflation will remain reasonably ple to borrow for inventories or new projects, are tame, and we won’t need to worry about it until strong; capital spending is picking up; new plants sometime in 2015 are being planned or built; the unemployment rate Finally, the International Monetary Fund has is down to 6.1 percent; and the number of jobs cre- reduced its estimate for World GDP real growth to a ated in June was impressive. In addition, initial little more than 2 percent. It was 4 percent in 2010 unemployment claims are down, small business hir- and comfortably above 2 percent until recently. LONDON: Shoppers sit with their bags outside a shop yesterday. —AFP ing plans are positive and there are signs of wage There is a general perception that growth around increases in the service sector. Based on historical the world is slowing. Over the past month, however, trends, we will not have to worry about wage accel- better economic news has come out of China, indi- eration until the unemployment rate hits 5.5 per- cating that the growth target of 7.5 percent will be cent, which probably will not happen before some- reached. It appears, however, that an expansion of time next year. credit for spending on infrastructure and state- European stock owned enterprises rather than consumer purchases Building permits decline is responsible for this. There also has to be an On the other hand, the indicators are not univer- impact on the markets from geopolitical turmoil. sally positive. Housing starts, which had been run- The situation in Ukraine attracted world-wide atten- ning above one million units, dropped to 893,000 in tion when a Malaysian airliner carrying more than markets drop June. Building permits also declined. For the econo- 300 people was shot down. And I think Iran will my to move toward 3 percent real growth in the sec- agree to reduce its nuclear weapons development ond half and for unemployment to continue head- program. ing to lower levels, housing has to be strong. There were certain other negative signs, however, and Neither recession nor bear market Bank of England divided on need for rate rise these might explain why the market seems reluc- There is too much pressure from the younger tant to move higher. The first is sentiment. Most people there to have the sanctions lifted so they can LONDON: European stock markets retreated “The US dollar is continuing to derive support to British interest rates before the end of this year, investors are optimistic or complacent. The Ned begin to take advantage of the opportunities they yesterday after two days of strong gains, while from the ongoing outperformance of the US traders said. This comes as the Bank of England Davis Research Crowd Sentiment Poll, which I have see open to their counterparts in other parts of the the euro briefly hit a one-year low against the economy in the near-term which appears to be stands divided on whether to maintain record- found helpful in the past, is extremely positive, and world. Finally, In Asia, China will attempt to settle dollar as markets focused on central bank action. strengthening while growth in most other major low interest rates. Minutes of the BoE’s last meet- we all know that the best time to buy stocks is when disputes in the South China Sea peacefully. Each of By mid-afternoon, London’s benchmark FTSE economies is losing momentum,” said Lee ing revealed yesterday a first split among policy- most investors are negative. these trouble spots could erupt into something 100 index was down 0.49 percent to 6,746.24 Hardman, currency analyst at Bank of Tokyo- makers for more than three years. This doesn’t mean that the market cannot rise more serious at any time, resulting in a possible points. Frankfurt’s DAX 30 dropped 0.75 percent Mitsubishi UFJ. Slow growth, low interest rates The 7-2 vote in favor of keeping the BoE’s main further, but it is a warning sign that a correction increase in oil prices or a challenge to the present to 9,264.11 points and in Paris the CAC 40 index and tepid inflation on both sides of the Atlantic lending rate at 0.50 percent at its August policy could occur before the next meaningful advance. In world order that would be unsettling to the financial lost 0.72 percent to 4,223.88 compared with will be in focus when heads of the US and meeting was the first non-unanimous decision on contrast, a Bloomberg Global Poll found 47 percent markets. To close, taking a broad look at the Tuesday’s close, as traders banked recent profits. European central banks meet in Jackson Hole, borrowing costs since July 2011. The split was sig- of the respondents thinking the market is close to a economies around the world is probably useful. The Five minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Wyoming. nificant because two members of the policy com- bubble, with 14 percent saying we are already in United States is growing at 2 percent-3 percent real, Industrial Average dropped 14.70 points (0.09 All eyes will focus on Janet Yellen, the Federal mittee voted for the key rate to be increased. one. This level of caution among the investment Europe at 1 percent and Japan at 1.5 percent. The percent) to 16,904.89. The broad-based S&P 500 Reserve chair, and Mario Draghi, her counterpart Markets are watching to see when the Bank of professionals who are Bloomberg subscribers is emerging nations are growing faster, but their mar- lost 2.46 (0.12 percent) at 1,979.14 while the at the European Central Bank, with observers England will embark on a round of interest rate encouraging as a contrary indicator. The seasonals kets are generally not responding although there tech-rich Nasdaq Composite declined 6.40 (0.14 looking and listening for signs of what they plan rises as Britain’s economic recovery outpaces the are also against the market. The summer is usually a are some good values to be found there. percent) to 4,521.12. for interest rates. Yellen is facing calls to begin neighboring euro-zone. The split “opens the door difficult period, and in mid-term election years the The US market is large, liquid, transparent and, in Europe’s main indices had finished higher on raising interest rates soon after US measures to the possibility of an interest rate increase Standard & Poor’s 500 has suffered an average my opinion, not overvalued. Stocks are attractive on a Tuesday, extending the previous day’s surge as aimed at stimulating the world’s biggest econo- being squeezed in before the end of the year, but decline of 3.1 percent versus a gain of .7 percent for multiple basis compared to housing and bonds. I think easing fears about the Ukraine crisis fuelled my are wound up in October. with the weaker-than-expected all years since 1950. Another problem is the age of interest rates are likely to remain low for longer than investor optimism ahead of a speech by the head (British) inflation figures posted yesterday this the market cycle. The average bull market usually most people believe and equities may perform well for of the US Federal Reserve. Yesterday, the euro British rate to rise? is far from a foregone conclusion,” said Alastair lasts 57 months, according to Strategas Research, longer as well. At this point, I see neither a recession nor dropped to $1.3285 in early London trading On foreign exchange markets, the euro fell to McCaig, market analyst at IG trading group. The and appreciates 160 percent. The S&P 500 has risen a bear market in sight even though we are five years hours-the lowest point since September last year, 79.84 pence from 80.15 pence on Tuesday, while price of gold dropped to $1,294.50 an ounce 186 percent in the 61 months since the March 9, into the economic and market recovery. Let’s hope and then recovered slightly to $1.3289. This com- the pound rose to $1.6642 from $1.6617. The from $1,296.50 Tuesday on the London Bullion 2009 low. It has also been a long time since we have geopolitical turbulence doesn’t upset that outlook. pared with $1.3321 late on Tuesday in New York. pound advanced on increased prospects of a rise Market. —AFP EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.875 Sierra Leone 0.000070 0.000076 Nepalese Rupees 3.895 Singapore Dollar 0.224956 0.230956 South African Rand 0.020709 0.029209 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 90.920 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.700 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001893 0.002473 Japanese Yen 2.781 Australian Dollar 245.13 242.13 Indian Rupees 4.647 Thai Bhat 9.805 Taiwan 0.009359 0.009539 Canadian Dollar 264.89 265.89 Turkish Lira 131.460 Thai Baht 0.008597 0.009147 Pakistani Rupees 2.872 Swiss Franc 318.34 316.34 Srilankan Rupees 2.179 Euro 382.90 383.90 Nepali Rupees 2.892 Arab US Dollar 283.70 286.70 Singapore Dollar 228.050 Bahrain Exchange Company Bahraini Dinar 0.747655 0.755655 Hongkong Dollar 36.660 Sterling Pound 477.27 480.27 Egyptian Pound 0.037921 0.041021 Bangladesh Taka 3.659 Japanese Yen 2.81 2.83 Iranian Riyal 0.000079 0.000080 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Philippine Peso 6.465 Bangladesh Taka 3.661 3.931 Iraqi Dinar 0.000180 0.000240 Thai Baht 8.873 Indian Rupee 4.687 4.987 Europe Jordanian Dinar 0.396861 0.404361 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.180 2.615 Belgian Franc 0.007391 0.008391 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Nepali Rupee 2.927 3.462 British Pound 0.468208 0.477208 Lebanese Pound 0.000139 0.000239 Pakistani Rupee 2.862 2.790 Czech Korune 0.005572 0.017572 Moroccan Dirhams 0.022798 0.046798 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 77.31 77.77 Danish Krone 0.046811 0.051811 Nigerian Naira 0.001152 .001787 Saudi Riyal 75.804 Bahraini Dinar 755.09 757.16 Euro 0.373833 0.381833 Omani Riyal 0.732410 0.738090 Qatari Riyal 78.106 Egyptian Pound 39.66 40.26 Norwegian Krone 0.042035 0.047235 Qatar Riyal 0.077380 0.078593 Omani Riyal 738.440 Jordanian Dinar 403.77 409.42 Romanian Leu 0.085393 0.085393 Saudi Riyal 0.075177 0.075877 Bahraini Dinar 755.020 Omani Riyal 737.80 745.10 Slovakia 0.008166 0.018166 Syrian Pound 0.001764 0.001984 UAE Dirham 77.415 Qatari Riyal 78.34 78.89 Swedish Krona 0.037350 0.042350 Tunisian Dinar 0.162316 0.170316 Saudi Riyal 75.78 76.18 Swiss Franc 0.306679 0.316879 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.132548 0.139548 Turkish Lira 0.132548 0.139548 Egyptian Pound - Cash 43.400 UAE Dirhams 0.076423 0.077572 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.656 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Yemeni Riyal 0.001282 0.001362 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.327 Australasia Australian Dollar 0.256882 0.268382 Tunisian Dinar 166.560 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Jordanian Dinar 401.430 New Zealand Dollar 0.233529 0.243029 Al Mulla Exchange US Dollar 284.050 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.907 Canadian Dollar 0.255255 0.263755 Canadian Dollar 263.790 US Dollars 0.280200 0.284900 Syrian Lira 2.026 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 34.359 Sterling Pound 475.665 US Dollars Mint 0.280700 0.284900 Euro 384.155 US Dollar 283.700 Euro 381.000 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Swiss Frank 313.620 Asia Pound Sterlng 474.000 US Dollar Transfer 284.150 Bahrain Dinar 756.035 Bangladesh Taka 0.003307 0.003907 Canadian Dollar 261.850 Euro 381.900 UAE Dirhams 77.316 Chinese Yuan 0.044783 0.048283 Indian Rupee 4.669 Sterling Pound 478.220 Qatari Riyals 78.901 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034592 0.037342 Saudi Riyals 76.014 Egyptian Pound 39.663 Canadian dollar 259.970 Indian Rupee 0.004507 0.004908 Jordanian Dinar 401.212 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.178 Turkish lira 133.090 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Egyptian Pound 39.672 Bangladesh Taka 3.657 Swiss Franc 315.020 Japanese Yen 0.002684 0.002864 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.183 Philippines Peso 6.450 Australian Dollar 264.830 Kenyan Shilling 0.003214 0.003214 US Dollar Buying 282.950 Indian Rupees 4.681 Pakistan Rupee 2.835 Korean Won 0.000269 0.000284 Pakistani Rupees 2.841 Bahraini Dinar 755.400 Malaysian Ringgit 0.086118 0.092318 GOLD Bangladesh Taka 3.661 UAE Dirham 77.300 Nepalese Rupee 0.002946 0.003116 20 Gram 245.000 Philippines Pesso 6.505 Saudi Riyal 75.800 10 Gram 124.000 Cyprus pound 697.685 Pakistan Rupee 0.002776 0.003056 *Rates are subject to change 5 Gram 64.000 Japanese Yen 3.765 Philippine Peso 0.006408 0.006688 THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 BUSINESS

Sweden election favorites Banks lift Saudi eye more taxes on rich

STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s main centre-left record asylum seekers that pressured opposition party, leading in opinion government finances. The budget deficit polls, will reverse eight years of tax cuts is already at 1.2 percent of GDP, the high- to 6-year high by raising the burden by 1 percentage est in more than a decade, while a sput- point of GDP if it wins next month’s elec- tering euro-zone may weaken Sweden’s tion, the likely new finance minister said. growth. Magdalena Andersson, the party’s eco- Andersson, a former director at the Oman’s Renaissance surges on investment in unit nomics spokeswoman and widely tipped tax agency who has never held an elect- for the finance post after the Sept. 14 ed position, dismissed Reinfeldt’s argu- DUBAI: Banks led Saudi Arabia’s to open the market I expect the top Renaissance Services was the main suggests institutions are mostly vote, said taxes - including a new levy on ment and argued the euro-zone - a major stock index to a new six-year peak as to be around 11,000.” support, surging 7.2 percent to an absent. Kuwait’s Al-Madina for banks and the top rate of income tax trading partner for Sweden, which is out- trading volumes increased yester- 11-week high after the company said Finance and Investment Co rose 2.3 reaching around 60 percent - would be side the single currency - would recover. day, while Egypt also extended Egypt its unit Topaz Energy and Marine had percent. The company said it had raised over two years to pay for more Andersson said she would be a voice for gains. But other Gulf markets were Meanwhile, Egypt’s index rose 0.5 secured a $75 million investment agreed on settling $10 million debt welfare spending. more investment and taxes on the subdued as a summer lull deep- percent to 9,437 points. That put it from Standard Chartered Private to Global Investment House, with The plan is a clear signal of a U-turn wealthy in Europe, in contrast to Finance ened. The Saudi measure rose 0.5 within a few points of Sunday’s six- Equity. the impact to be reflected in its after eight years of centre-right Prime Minister Anders Borg who gained promi- percent to 10,716 points, its highest year closing high, but also 60 points Renaissance was the most active fourth-quarter financial statement. Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who has cut nence in Brussels for pushing austerity finish since January 2008. Nearly 270 below the session peak as some stock, accounting for nearly a third Al-Madina had said in April that it taxes and trimmed the welfare state as and reform to boost the region’s lan- million shares changed hands, a traders booked profits. “Egypt’s mar- of all shares traded. Most other hoped to sign an agreement with the Nordic region’s largest economy out- guishing economies. two-week high: Saudi Arabia has not ket offers good upside and good activity was in small-cap stocks. creditors that could have a positive shone many of its European competitors. “I’m very critical of lots of conservative suffered the summer trading slump valuations for institutional investors,” These are usually the preserve of impact on its financial statements in But Sweden also has the fastest growing governments across Europe,” Andersson of neighboring bourses. said Ali Adou, portfolio manager at retail investors, so their dominance 2014. —Reuters economic inequality of any OECD nation added. “There has been too much focus Eight of the 10 largest stocks The National Investor in Abu Dhabi. and voters have been shocked by media on cutting benefits for ordinary people advanced. Riyad Bank , which last “Political stability is supporting the reports that staff at elderly care homes when it comes to reducing deficits. There month reported a 17 percent recovery story. There will be correc- locked up patients in closets or neglected has not been enough focus on increasing increase in second-quarter profit, tions on the way, but those should to feed them, raising fears people have taxes, taxes of rich people, on compa- rose 4.5 percent. Lenders SABB and be seen as a good opportunity to slipped through a thinning welfare net. nies.” “The problem in Europe is not too Al-Rajhi Bank climbed 3.2 and 0.3 accumulate shares.” In early July, “We will increase taxes in Sweden, high taxes,” she said. percent respectively. “One of the Egypt slashed subsidies for car fuel definitely, and also on the highest Andersson said a new banking tax most important drivers for a re-rat- and natural gas, increasing their incomes,” said Andersson, who said the would raise around 4 billion Swedish ing of the sector is the coming prices by more than 70 percent, a top rate would rise on incomes above crowns ($582 million) a year. Critics say increase in US interest rates,” said move that prompted scattered 60,000 Swedish crowns ($8,731) a she is taxing a sector just because it is Fahd Iqbal, head of Middle East protests but which was welcomed month. The current top rate is about 57 profitable. “Banks are not quite as research at Credit Suisse. “That will by investors - the index has gained percent, one of the world’s highest. A exposed to international competition as boost Saudi banks’ net interest mar- 15.6 percent since the start of last poll published last weekend showed a some of our other companies and they’re gins.” month. possible coalition of opposition Social also incredibly profitable and I see poten- Saudi Arabia’s currency is pegged “Investors saw it as a positive Democrats, Left Party and Green party tial of taxing there without negative to the dollar, which means its mone- step because it will help reduce the would get just under 50 percent togeth- effects for the economy,” Andersson said. tary policy is expected to broadly budget deficit,” said Adou. “In addi- er if an election were held now, while Social Democrats supporters say the follow US policy. US rates may start tion, it is a very serious step from the support for the government coalition party, in power for most of the last centu- rising next year as the American government towards reforms.” Some stood at 39 percent. ry, has been business friendly and prag- economy recovers from the global stocks are still being propelled by Reinfeldt cut income, wealth and cor- matic in balancing welfare spending with financial crisis. “A substantial propor- the government’s announcement porate taxes, seeing the tax burden fall helping industry. Andersson said no tion of Saudi banks’ deposits are earlier this month that it would by 4 percentage points of GDP. Sweden is spending would go unfinanced and no interest-free Islamic deposits, so net build a new Suez Canal alongside one of the few economies in Europe with new taxes would fall on “ordinary “ peo- interest margins are strongly geared the existing waterway. ASCOM the top AAA credit rating. But polls show ple. “I’m a firm believer in sound public to a rising interest rate environ- Geology and Mining Co jumped 9.6 many voters have tired of reforms while finances so in that sense I will be a very ment,” said Iqbal. The Saudi banking percent yesterday after its parent pressure is growing for more spending austere voice,” she added. “A much index rose 1.0 percent, taking its Qalaa Holdings, formerly known as on education and health. “Given that our smarter austerity that would harm ordi- 2014 gains to 27.5 percent, while Citadel Capital, said ASCOM had school results are falling quicker than in nary people much less.” the main market index is up 25.5 been chosen to work on the project. any other OECD-country we need to Few see a return to the Sweden of the percent. The main index has gained Qalaa’s shares rose 0.5 percent. spend more money on schools, that’s 1970s, when marginal tax rates of the 9.9 percent since plans were definitely our main priority,” Andersson wealthy were more than 80 percent. But announced late last month for the UAE subdued said. Andersson wants to tighten up rules there are concerns among businesses market to allow direct foreign share Dubai’s and Abu Dhabi’s bench- on the private equity firms currently run- that competitiveness could be jeopar- ownership next year. marks rose just 0.1 and 0.03 percent ning many tax-funded hospitals and dised by a lurch to the left. If they win, “Saudi’s market has already respectively. Only three stocks - schools. the Social Democrats would likely need enjoyed a good run-up, and since Union Properties and Arabtec in support of the Left Party and Green the announcement was made we Dubai, and Aldar Properties in Abu New voice in Europe? Party to pass bills. The Left Party, with haven’t changed our forecasts for Dhabi saw more than 10 million LIMA: A Corum gold watch with 400 embedded diamond offered Critics say Andersson’s plans of roots in the communist movement, the market,” said Iqbal. “Our initial shares change hands. The Dubai pair at a base bid price of $58,500 is the most expensive item among increasing spending and taxes could wants to end private profits in welfare expectation was for the market to ended flat, while Aldar fell 1.0 per- the gems auctioned at a governmental sale of 152 diverse jewels jeopardize the economy. Reinfeldt said at sector and raise taxes further for the rich. be constrained by the psychologi- cent. In Oman, the index rose 0.3 —most of them acquired with Peruvian State money by presi- the weekend there was no fiscal room for The Greens want to end nuclear power cally important 10,000 level, but percent despite losers outnumber- dential advisor Vladimiro Montesinos— in Lima. —AFP more spending, citing higher costs of plants in Sweden. —Reuters since the announcement was made ing gainers nine to seven. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 BUSINESS Tyre makers race to turn dandelions into rubber Companies seek to reduce rubber-price volatility MUENSTER: Dutch biologist Ingrid van der Meer Her research team is competing with others per-hectare rubber yields on a par with the best height, dwarfing many of their backyard The rediscovery began around 2007, when often meets with disbelief when she talks about across the world to breed a type of dandelion rubber-tree plantations in tropical Asia. So within a cousins. They are also developing the dande- a team of researchers at Ohio State University her work on dandelions and how it could secure native to Kazakhstan whose taproot yields a milky decade, rather than being a backyard bane like lions with upright rather than flat-growing started exploring dandelion and guayule, a the future of road transport. The reaction is under- fluid with tire-grade rubber particles in it. Global their wild cousins, the new flowers might be seen leaves - just so harvesting machines have desert shrub native to the southwest United standable, given most people regard the yellow tire makers such as industry leader Bridgestone in neat rows in hundreds of thousands of acres something to grab on to. States and Mexico. They were joined by flowers as pesky intruders in their gardens rather Corp and No. 4 player Continental AG believe they across Europe and the United States, where they The tire industry, which consumes about Bridgestone and Cooper Tire in a project called than a promising source of rubber for tires. are in for rich pickings and are backing such can grow even in poor soil. two-thirds of the world’s natural rubber, has PENRA. An EU-backed rubber initiative based “People just think of it as a horrible weed and ask research to the tune of millions of dollars. And they could have some interesting modifi- long felt uneasy about its complete reliance in the Netherlands followed suit in 2008 and how can you get enough material for tires from Early signs are good. A small-scale trial by a US cations. For instance, German researchers have on rubber-tree tapping in a handful of van der Meer’s follow-up project has India’s just a small root,” she said. research team found the dandelions delivered bred the plants to grow to up to a foot (30 cm) in Southeast Asian nations which account for Apollo Tires Ltd and Czech tractor tire maker most of the $25 billion in annual natural-rub- Mitas a.s. as commercial partners. There is also ber output. More than 100 years since the a German group supported by Continental AG. invention of synthetic rubber from petro- The US researchers are pursuing both chemicals, global road and air traffic still genetic modification and conventional breed- depends on the unique properties of plant- ing to domesticate the wild flower, while their based rubber - which to date cannot be European counterparts are focusing on the replicated by the man-made material. latter, claiming that modern precision breed- Passenger car tires need to have 10-40 ing can do the job. “The sugar beet gives you percent natural rubber content to allow a good idea of what is possible. The taproot is them to stay flexible at low temperatures enormous but if you look at the wild ancestor, and to keep tiny cracks from growing. Truck the beetroot is only as thick as your finger,” and aircraft tires need an even higher per- van der Meer said. Working at the centage. Wageningen university and research centre, she coordinates the EU project, known as Fungus fears DRIVE4EU. All contenders in the dandelion Tire makers’ worst fear is that an uncon- quest say that getting the farming right is as trollable fungus that has choked all attempts important as mastering the genetics. The to run plantations in Brazil - where the rub- challenges start with putting the seeds into ber tree originates - might one day wreak the ground and they don’t stop there. havoc in Southeast Asia. The volatility of the “We had to find out that lots of things eat rubber market has added urgency to the dandelions seeds in the field - ants, earth- search for alternative crops. Rubber prices worms, mice,” said Katrina Cornish, the Ohio surged to a record high of more than $6 per team’s research director. One way to try to kg in early 2011 - when weather-related sup- prevent this is to put a protective cover of clay ply shortages in Southeast Asia coincided around the seeds. Another option is to scatter with strong demand growth and speculative sterilized Kentucky bluegrass seeds along rubber traders betting on further gains. with the dandelion seeds to tempt predators But prices slumped to multi-year lows of into eating them instead. $2 this year on expectations of slowing eco- nomic growth in China, the world’s largest Grind to pulp rubber market. The volatility has been com- At the end of the seven-year US program pounded by the fact that it takes about sev- in 2020, Cornish’s team aims to have drawn en years to develop a new plantation and, up a detailed business plan and beginners’ during this development process, farmers guide for future dandelion farmers, complete tend to react to price changes by increasing with instructions on how to fertilize, irrigate or cutting their acreage. and harvest. In a small plot trial, her team says Chuck Yurkovich, head of research and it has achieved what would be annual per- development at Cooper Tire & Rubber Co, hectare yields of more than 1,500 kg of rubber which collaborates with Bridgestone in an with just the second generation of dande- Ohio-based dandelion project, said: “We lions, on a level with the best Asian tree plan- would hopefully have a steady supply of a tations. But that was under ideal conditions good natural rubber substitute at consistent and has yet to be replicated on a farm-size prices to take us out of the wild swing in scale. Her team is now in the process of har- cost.” Any impact on prices would have huge vesting eight acres of new dandelions planted implications for tire firms. Natural rubber last year. accounted for about a third of raw material In Germany, lead researcher Dirk Pruefer costs at the world’s second-largest tire maker with the university of Muenster and state- Michelin last year, for example, and almost a backed research institute Fraunhofer, said the quarter at smaller peer Pirelli, say analysts at breeders with his project had achieved yields Credit Suisse. Another concern about the of up to 500 kg per hectare in the open field current market is that rubber-supplying and are pushing for 1,000 kg. Pruefer says cal- countries, led by Thailand and Indonesia, will culations have shown that with the targeted not have the acreage to keep up with long- yield of about 1,000 kg, land the size of Austria term growth in tire demand. Credit Suisse would be required to meet the entire global analysts put demand growth rates at close to demand for natural rubber just from dande- 4 percent annually over the next four years. lions. But far from hoping that the rubber tree History lesson can be replaced, tire makers would be happy Tire makers took a lesson from history in with even a complementary source. The dan- the search for a home-grown feedstock. When delion researchers are tight-lipped when it trade with Asia collapsed during the Second comes to disclosing how they process the har- World War, the Kazakh dandelion, also called vest into a usable feedstock. One approach is Russian dandelion, was cultivated in the to cut off the taproots and grind them into a United States, Europe and Soviet Union for an pulp with the addition of some water. Further emergency supply of rubber despite meager processing steps yield solid blocks of natural yields. rubber. After the war, however, trade links were The experimental rubber was shown on restored and companies returned to the more the test track to be on par with conventional cost-efficient Asian plantations. It has only natural rubber but it will take some more been in recent years that dandelions have years of development even after the ongoing been re-examined, given the fungus fears and projects end before the first dandelion tires price volatility and also advances in bioengi- come to market. The University of Ohio’s neering that many believe have made the Cornish said she sees no shortage of farmers flowers an economically viable source of rub- ready to seize the opportunity in the US state. ber. The typical reaction to her work is - “When can

MANILA: A family rides on a motorized tricycle as they traverse traffic grid- lock along a road yesterday. The Philippines in April announced plans to spend more on infrastructure and introduce other reforms to try to lift mil- lions out of poverty. —AFP BUSINESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 Hungary’s debt-relief plan could hurt economy

BUDAPEST: Controversial new plans to make vive,” said Andras Vertes of the Budapest- Hungary’s banks bear the burden of surging based research institute GKI Gazdasagkutato. mortgage repayments could drag down eco- Orban has often railed against foreign nomic growth and may prompt some belea- investors and Hungary’s mostly foreign- guered lenders to leave the country, analysts owned banks, including UniCredit, Erste say. Around a million Hungarians have been Group and Intesa SanPaolo, which control left with skyrocketing repayments on foreign- much of the industry. The firebrand politi- currency loans taken out before the onset of cian’s populist economic policies-including the financial crisis as the national currency “special taxes” on energy and retail and the has slumped. nationalization of private pension funds-have Those loans were originally cheaper than also strained relations with the EU. forint-denominated debt, but as the currency EU institutions, including the European has weakened it has made repaying them Central Bank, have often accused Orban’s more expensive. Prime Minister Viktor Orban, government of eroding the independence of re-elected in April on a populist platform, has Hungary’s central bank, judiciary and other repeatedly tried to shift the loan burden onto institutions. the banking sector, which he accuses of entic- The ECB earlier this month warned of “sig- ing consumers with overly attractive loans. nificant adverse financial impact on the bank- Under a new law, lenders will have to refund ing system (and) the possibility of negative past fee and interest rate hikes on the loans. effects on the Hungarian economy” because Another proposal calls for the debt to be con- of the new banking law. verted into forints to make it easier to pay Hungary’s central bank estimates that back. repaying the fee and interest rate hikes will Laszlo Geza Tilk, head of the Currency cost banks around 700-900 billion forints (2.2- Debtors Advocacy Association, a group help- 2.9 billion euros, $3.0-4.0 billion). Moody’s rat- ing borrowers to sue the banks, argues the ings agency puts the figure at around 2.6. bil- government’s plans do not go far enough. lion euros. “This will be another drag on the “Social justice requires banks to suffer,” he banking sector. It increases the cost of doing told AFP, arguing that loans should be banking business in Hungary again,” Timothy annulled and turned into forint-based agree- Ash, an economist at London’s Standard Bank, ments. But commentators warn the plans told AFP. could hold back growth in Hungary, which has twice fallen into recession in the past five Drag on growth GANGI: A panoramic view of the village of Gangi, Sicily, 120 km from Palermo. — AFP photos years as households have struggled to meet Converting the debt to forints could add soaring loan repayments. another 2.4 billion euros in losses, which The forint, already one of the worst-per- would have a “hugely detrimental impact on Sicilian hilltop houses forming emerging market currencies this the banking sector,” Phoenix Kalen, a London- year, has slumped since the plan was based strategist at Societe Generale, told AFP. announced and earlier this month hit a 30- She predicts the losses could prompt some month-low against the euro. The draconian foreign banks-most likely the Austrian or measures will also take a heavy toll on Italian ones-to leave the country, while “the on sale for one euro Hungary’s already battered banking sector, draconian environment” will also deter future which has suffered under previous govern- foreign investors. Austria’s Erste Bank fore- ment policies and lost millions of dollars in casts it will lose 93 billion forints due to the 2011, and could even prompt some banks to new legislation. Last month it posted its heav- ‘You couldn’t buy parking space in Australia for this price’ pull out, analysts warn. iest quarterly loss since 2011, dragged down in part by Hungary’s stiffer banking rules. GANGI: It’s an offer you can’t refuse: rustic abodes or the United States-driven away by poverty, law- in a nationwide competition for most beautiful his- ‘Zombie banking sector’ Austria’s Raiffeisen and Belgium’s KBC have in a picturesque hilltop village on the island of lessness and sickness. In 1926, renowned mafia- toric hamlet. The debt relief plan will “created a zombie- also said they are bracing themselves for Sicily, once home to Italian peasants and their don- hunter Cesare Mori and his men famously held the He admits foreign buyers may bring unwanted like banking sector that is just trying to sur- heavy losses. —AFP keys, are up for sale for just one euro. Hewn into the village under siege to flush out the notorious change, with souvenir shops pushing out tradition- Madonie mountains and dotted throughout the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. The crackdown spooked al markets or the small trattorias tucked away town of Gangi, the houses were left empty after other bosses, sparking an exodus of wanted fugi- between the cream stone churches, but says the their owners emigrated in the 1920s. They boast tives to other lands. locals “understand this could be our turning point period features such as 18th-century tiles, original The locals left behind struggled to keep the economically.” “The important thing for our elderly wood-burning ovens and wooden beams, along economy going, with many artisans or builders citizens, our parents, is that young people stop leav- with spectacular views. forced to seek work in the city of Palermo, about an ing. We’re showing we can create tourism even in Around 20 houses are on sale for one euro hour away by car. “The one-euro initiative is great the middle of Sicily during an economic crisis. I ($1.30), with another 300 or so going for up to because it will help repopulate the village, bring it hope we can be a model for the whole island,” he 15,000 euros in an initiative the village hopes will back to life, and hopefully not just for the summer,” said. reverse decades of population decline and boost Piazza said. Many of the houses need extensive Australian IT manager Tavia Macnaughtan said the local economy even as Italy falls back into reces- repairs, including new roofs, staircases or floors-jobs she “hopped straight on a plane” when she heard sion. Australian film director Dominic Allen is one of eagerly snapped up by local contractors. about the one-euro offer, and fell in love with a crowd of potential buyers from the United States, Mayor Giuseppe Ferrarello says the village, Gangi. “I thought I’d found my perfect house, but it Britain, Dubai and Sweden who have rushed to founded in the 12th century, may not be close to really was too rundown for me,” she said, but insist- Gangi to snap up a bargain and transform the the sea, but it prides itself instead on its mountain ed: “I’m still ready to invest in something.” “The sparse living spaces and animal stalls into summer air, hospitality and food, with local specialties houses might need quite a bit of renovation but homes. “You couldn’t buy a parking space in including peppered goats cheese and homemade buying one here could provide the perfect escape Australia for the price of this house,” Allen said, gaz- pasta with broad beans. This year it won first prize from the Melbourne winter,” she said. — AFP ing around a narrow three-story building with a rudimentary kitchen cut out of the rocks and views of wheat fields and woods in the valley below. “In many ways if you like the Italian lifestyle and you’re into a bit of adventure, it seems like a fun thing to do,” said the 33-year-old, who was looking for a GLASGOW: An arrangement of Scottish pound sterling banknotes and coins place he could use with friends or rent out to showing the thistle of Scotland are spread on a table top yesterday. — AFP tourists. Buyers must put down a guarantee of 5,000 English oppose shared euros for the council to ensure they renovate the properties within three years, with the cost estimat- ed at 20,000 euros to make the homes habitable- currency with Scotland more for those that need re-roofing. Sheltering from the harsh midday sun under the arches of a LONDON: A majority of English people tre-left Labour party member of the medieval tower in the town centre, Cataldo Piazza, oppose Scotland continuing to use the Scottish parliament. 83, said he was delighted to see families of Italian pound if it votes to become independent “It wouldn’t work for Scotland or the and foreign tourists filling the streets, drawn by the in a September referendum, a survey rest of the UK. For us in Scotland it would one-euro offer. “There were times you’d go for a showed yesterday. The question of mean handing over control of our econo- walk in the centre in the evening and not meet any- whether Scotland could keep the pound my to what would then be a foreign body. It was sad,” he said, fanning himself with his if it leaves the United Kingdom has country.” A spokesman for the Scottish straw hat. emerged as a defining issue in the debate Finance Secretary John Swinney on ahead of the referendum in under a Tuesday insisted keeping the pound ‘Ready to invest’ month’s time. Scottish First Minister Alex would not be a problem. “An independ- Mass emigration from Sicily at the start of the Salmond and his Scottish National Party ent Scotland will keep the pound, which last century and following World War II saw around insist belongs as much to 9,000 locals leave Gangi for new lives in Argentina Scotland should have a formal, euro- Scotland’s as it does to the rest of the GANGI: A narrow street is pictured. style monetary union with what would UK - and a formal currency union will also remain of the United Kingdom: England, be in the overwhelming economic inter- Wales and Northern Ireland. But the three ests of the rest of the UK,” the spokesman Russia economic funk ripples main parties in Westminster reject this said. Salmond came under criticism for plan. According to the Future of England not explaining what his alternative would Survey of more than 3,600 voters in be if Scotland were unable to keep the out through ex-Soviet states England, 53 percent of respondents dis- currency, in a TV debate earlier this agreed with the idea of Scotland keeping month. the pound if it became independent. Alternative options that have been dis- LONDON/ALMATY: Farangees Islomova is wor- describes Russia’s economy as being in a state of Customs union Only 23 percent agreed that Scotland cussed are a new Scottish currency, con- ried. Her husband, who labors on a construction “slow strangulation”. “Russia’s recession in 2009 Russia’s economy will barely grow in 2014, its should continue to use the pound if it tinuing to use the pound without the site in Moscow’s Schelkovo suburb, usually was a major blow to the CIS... all in all, it’s a bleak worst performance since 2009. Interest rates, up votes to go it alone on September 18. The backing of the Bank of England as some sends 15,000 roubles home to Tajikistan every outlook for the whole region.” 250 basis points this year, may rise further as poll found 15 percent neither agreed or countries use the US dollar, or eventually month. But in July he sent her just two-thirds of In many ways, the economic weakness in food import bans push up inflation. disagreed and 9 percent said they did not joining the euro. Polls suggest the pro- that. “My husband says they haven’t started a most of these countries, run by unpopular Unsurprisingly, consumer demand, which has know. “It is not surprising that the majori- independence campaign has gained sup- new building yet. He had wanted his younger authoritarian governments, is structural, due to underpinned Russia’s economy, is cooling as real ty of people in England do not support a port in recent weeks, though the ‘No’ brother to join him in Moscow...but recently he lack of reform, reliance on commodity exports wages grow at the slowest pace in years. The currency union,” said Jackie Baillie, a cen- campaign retains a strong lead. — AFP called and said: ‘The master says he won’t take and weak institutions. Some countries, including rouble is down 8 percent against the dollar so far any new workers and there will be lay-offs’”, said Armenia and Azerbaijan, also have their own this year. Islomova, a 36 year-old mother of three, whose geopolitical disputes. In desperately poor Rouble depreciation creates its own BHP shares slump in Australia family relies on the money her husband sends Tajikistan, remittances from Russia fell more than headaches for regional governments, especially from Russia. 13 percent in the first three months of 2014 from for Kazakhstan and Belarus which earlier this SYDNEY: BHP Billiton’s shares closed unchanged, reflecting their expectations She says another brother-in-law, a supermar- year-ago levels, the country’s central bank says. year entered a free trade zone with Russia. To almost four percent lower in Australia yes- the split would have only a “minimal ket worker in Moscow, recently had his salary Given that remittances make up 40 percent of protect its trade in the face of the rouble’s sharp terday, as investors fled over the lack of a impact” on the company. “The rating affir- cut, as Russia’s deepening economic gloom bites Tajik gross domestic product (GDP), falling slide, Kazakhstan devalued the tenge by 19 per- stock buyback and the global mining mation reflects the minimal impact that the into consumer and housing demand. Islomova is receipts from Russia are likely to hit growth as cent in February , replicating steps it took after giant’s demerger plans. The slump came as proposed spin-off will have on BHP not the only one worried. To paraphrase the well as the somoni currency, which has already the 2008 crisis. But the benefits are already erod- global credit agencies affirmed their rat- Billiton’s business and financial profiles,” adage: when Russia sneezes, the rest of the ex- weakened 5 percent versus the dollar this year. ing - since end-June the tenge has strengthened ings for the world’s biggest miner and said Moody’s senior analyst Matthew Soviet Union catches a cold. Storm clouds were Such fears are spreading across the CIS, whose 9 percent against the fast-weakening rouble. maintained a stable outlook. The stock Moore. Standard & Poor’s credit analyst also gathering over the Russian economy well citizens sent home $25 billion from Russia last Kazakhstan’s trade turnover with the bloc has closed 3.91 percent lower at Aus$38.13 May Zhong said the “new, leaner” firm was before the Ukraine crisis took hold late last year, year. Just over $4 billion was sent in the first already fallen by a quarter in the first half of ($35.43), with the sell-off following a similar not expected to experience “materially dif- with long-range official projections weakening quarter of 2014. Then there is trade. Armenia for 2014 from year-ago levels, a consequence of the scenario in London where the firm is also ferent” cash flow volatility despite the mod- alarmingly. instance, sends a fifth of its exports to Russia. Russian slowdown, said Alikhan Smailov, the listed. erate reduction in asset and commodity But Western sanctions over its role in This revenue is crucial for its balance of pay- head of the country’s state statistics agency. The company on Tuesday reported diversity. Ukraine’s conflict have undermined it further. ments deficit, a huge 10 percent of GDP. Its other “Kazakhstan is feeling the consequences of weaker-than-expected underlying earnings Russia now faces recession this year and coun- mainstay is remittances, of which 80 percent Russia’s slowdown,” Smailov said, noting that the of $13.4 billion and a net profit of $13.8 bil- Investors disappointed tries with post-Soviet economic ties face the fall- flow from Russia. Of the other CIS states, a quar- Kazakh economy had grown 4 percent in the lion. BHP also outlined a proposal to create CLSA resources analyst David Radclyffe out as Kiev breaks away to the West. Across the ter of Uzbek exports go to Russia, the Asian first seven months of 2014, compared with 6 a new independent company by demerg- said the stock decline could reflect disquiet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Development Bank says. Russia also takes 15 percent full-year levels last year. ing non-core assets, including some of its from BHP’s British shareholders, some of bloc, memories linger of 2008, when Russia’s percent of Kyrgyz and almost a tenth of Kazakh While Russia has not asked Kazakhstan and aluminum, coal, manganese, nickel and sil- whom would not be able to hold stock in economic slump played out across the region of exports. “Russia’s economy hasn’t gone from 4 Belarus to comply with the food bans, Granville ver operations. But the Anglo-Australian the new company due to overseas invest- 300 million people, causing recession, triggering percent growth to 0.8 percent because of the says Moscow’s plans to expand the customs resource major failed to announce the esti- ment restrictions. “We’re in favour of the housing crashes and bank debt defaults. Ukraine crisis, the deceleration began a while union into a big single market have suffered a mated $3.0 billion share buyback that deal, but I can understand why the Plc “There is a very strong transmission channel ago,” said Commerzbank analyst Tatha Ghose. setback. some analysts had been expecting. shareholders feel a little bit left out,” from Russian economic weakness to surround- “But if the crisis doesn’t de-escalate soon, we will “Not only is Ukraine now lost, the resulting Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s said Radclyffe told AFP, referring to BHP’s British ing areas,” said Christopher Granville, managing see the multiplier effects becoming more evi- economic blow has weakened the attractions of their credit ratings for BHP remained listed shareholders. —AFP director at consultancy Trusted Sources, who dent across the region.” the union to members,” he added. —Reuters BUSINESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

Kuwait: June credit growth jumps to 8.3% y/y

NBK ECONOMIC BRIEF

Credit was strong in June, with year-on-year (y/y) growth accelerating to its fastest pace since 2009 and putting two months of weakness behind it. The month’s strong credit figure, which reflected a pick-up in the non-financial busi- ness sector, will help ensure credit growth tops 8 percent in 2014. Meanwhile, currency in circulation saw a notable increase with the new notes introduced in June, boosting the money supply in what is likely to be a temporary development. Interest rates remained mostly stable. Total credit rose by KD 480 million during the month Lexus reports 20 percent with y/y growth accelerating to 8.3 percent. Household credit remained healthy but continued to ease as expect- ed, in part thanks to the settlement of Family Fund loans. Meanwhile, growth in non-financial business credit growth in ME during H1 strengthened noticeably in June, though much of the strength was in real estate and for purchase of securities. Household debt (personal facilities ex-securities) was DUBAI: Lexus announced robust growth in the Middle East 2014 - a whopping 478 percent increase over the same peri- smooth performance. The vehicle is powered by a 4.6 liter V8 up KD 90 million, with y/y growth easing to 13.2 percent, (GCC, Yemen, Lebanon and Jordan), with 21,598 units sold od last year. The Lexus IS is a truly responsive vehicle that with Dual VVT-I technology, and offers the option of Multi- its slowest pace in two years. Some of this easing is due to across the region during the first six months of 2014 - mark- delivers real pleasure at the wheel in all driving scenarios. The terrain Select - a system that automatically adjusts braking the settlement of Family Fund loans, which may be taking ing an increase of 20 percent over the corresponding period car’s sporty design makes it look fast and powerful, even and optimal drive torque for superior traction - with 4 terrain around two percentage points off y/y growth. However, last year. With a strong emphasis on innovation, design and a standing still. From the front, the unique trademark spindle modes to choose from, as well as Multi-terrain Monitor which the moderating trend in household debt growth preced- refreshed model line-up that enhances the brand’s appeal to grille is elegant but aggressive and powerful, while from the displays images from cameras in the front, flanks and rear, to ed the settlement of Family Fund loans and is expected to younger and more adventurous buyers, Lexus has been mak- side, the lines of the car flow smoothly from the door sill up give the driver a near 360∞ view. It is a premium luxury family continue as the strong growth in household income that ing significant inroads into the region’s fiercely competitive to the tail-lights in the rear which are angled down and out, commuter during the week but then easily transforms to a helped fuel strong borrowing moderates. Indeed, the luxury car market. with the rear spoiler integrated into the trunk lid’s trailing trail-driving 4x4 on the weekend, with room for up to seven. CBK’s point-of-sale (POS) transaction data for 2Q14 further Takayuki Yoshitsugu, Chief Representative of Middle East edge. In terms of driving pleasure, Lexus has ensured the fun Lexus continued to make inroads into the SUV market, with confirm the moderating trend in consumer activity, & North Africa Representative Office, Toyota Motor to drive element thanks to new laser welding and adhesive its LX model range proving to be one of the top-selling luxury though the pace remains healthy. The value of POS trans- Corporation, said, “Lexus is constantly pushing the bound- bonding techniques which has increased body rigidity. New utility vehicles through the first six months of 2014. The pre- actions was up 13.6 percent y/y in the quarter, down from aries of automotive technology and design to develop vehi- sub frame and cowl side braces improve handling and steer- mium SUV saw a 12 percent increase in sales with 9,178 units 17.4 percent growth a year ago. cles that exhibit a seamless blend of luxury and performance. ing. The revised front suspension has a 20 percent increase in which includes the Supercharged LX 570 which Lexus rolled Non-bank financials saw another albeit smaller This has been a key driving force behind our sustained sway rigidity while the multilink suspension provides better out exclusively to mark its 25th anniversary milestone. With increase (+KD 3 million) in credit, following months of growth throughout the region. Our focus is on providing our grip and control. Engine variants offered include: a 2.5 liter V6 its sophisticated blend of exceptional performance, phenom- customers with an ownership experience that is emotionally providing 204HP, and a 3.5 liter V6 delivering an emphatic enal go-anywhere capability and unmatched luxury, the LX deleveraging. Credit to the sector remains down by 13.9 engaging and deeply satisfying to their senses, and it gives us 312HP. 570 offers a combination of superb off-road capabilities and percent against a year ago and stands at 5 percent of total great satisfaction to see that our new design direction has dynamic on-road performance. The agile and remarkably credit compared to 13 percent at its height in 2008. met with overwhelming customer acceptance all across the Smooth performance comfortable on-road handling and performance is a result of Deleveraging by financial companies is likely to continue Middle East.” Not to be outdone, the Lexus GX SUV model posted sales the advanced electronic traction control technologies, in the months ahead, though the pace will ease further. Leading the charge for the sedan range, the Lexus IS has of 1,332 units for a 364 percent growth during the first six sophisticated Adaptive Variable Suspension System and full- All remaining credit gained KD 387 million, with become the luxury sedan of choice for customers across the months of 2014. Combining contemporary design cues with time 4WD featured in the LX 570. The LX is offered in 3 vari- growth accelerating to 8.2 percent y/y. A large part of the Middle East with sales of 1,873 units during the first half of formidable off-road strength, the GX offers extraordinarily ants, with a Supercharged, Sport and Luxury edition. gain came from the real estate sector (up KD 138 million) and loans for the purchase of securities (up KD 147 mil- lion), with growth (y/y) in both accelerating to their high- est levels in over four years (9.3 percent and 7.2 percent respectively). The trade and “others” sectors accounted for most of the rest of the June gain. Money supply (M2) growth rose to 7.4 percent y/y as the CBK’s new currency notes resulted in a jump in curren- cy in circulation (+KD 362 million). Private deposits actual- ly declined by KD 69 million on a drop in time deposits of KD 168 million, though some of this was offset by increas- es in sight and savings accounts. M1 growth accelerated to 18.1 percent. Average customer deposit rates on dinar time deposits remained unchanged in June. Rates on the 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month time deposits stood at 0.59 percent, 0.78 percent, 0.98 percent, and 1.18 percent. KD interbank rates edged higher, the 1-month KIBOR was up 3basis points to reach 0.97 percent.

Kuwait petrochemicals Qalaa Holdings’ mining unit poised for growth selected to partake in initial phase of new Suez Canal MARKAZ REPORT Qalaa Holdings (CCAP.CA on the Egyptian Exchange, tract to our company lies not in its economic impor- formerly Citadel Capital), an African leader in infra- tance, but in the opportunity to help expand a pillar KUWAIT: Kuwait Financial Centre “Markaz” It is expected to be operational from 2017 and for 75.2 percent of the total revenue of the structure and industry, announced that its key port- of the national economy. It is an honor to have one recently published its report on Kuwait will help PIC to capitalize on the huge market Petrochemicals sector in the 2012. Saudi Basic folio company in the regional mining industry is one of our companies selected to provide services to a Petrochemicals. In this report, Markaz examines for petrochemicals available in China. Petrochemicals (SABIC) being the major player of 42 companies that have been tapped to work project that is so critical to our nation’s future eco- the status of Kuwait Petrochemicals sector and Petrochemical projects worth $7,565 million are from the region dominates the GCC under supervision of the Egyptian Armed Forces on nomic development.” highlights the growth drivers, opportunities expected to be executed in Kuwait between Petrochemicals sector. It is largest petrochemi- an initial phase of the New Suez Canal. ASCOM The New Suez Canal is a c. EGP 60 billion project and key challenges for the sector. The report 2011 and 2017. cal company in the region. Geology and Mining (ASCM.CA on the Egyptian that will include a 72-kilometer long parallel water- also presents an overview of the key players in The Kuwait Petrochemicals sector faced Exchange) has been assigned to complete dry sand way and a 76,000 square kilometer industrial zone the industry and a comparison of the problems in the past due to decreased global Revenue share from petrochemicals excavation on a 1-kilometer-long, 0.4-kilometer wide and logistics hub. The channel parallel to the current Petrochemicals sector in other GCC countries. demand in 2008-2009 due to the global finan- in 2012 among GCC Countries section of the New Suez Canal. ASCOM has complet- canal will also include tunnels for motor vehicles and Driven by government investment and a cial crisis. The demand recovered after 2010 The major impeding challenge is the ed initial survey work on its assigned segment and trains. ASCOM is not the only unit of Qalaa Holdings thriving hydrocarbon sector, Kuwait when the economic growth rates increased, reduced availability of feedstock on one hand has committed to the excavation of 25,000 cubic working to help develop the Suez area. Mashreq, a Petrochemicals sector has grown from its mod- especially in the emerging Asian markets like and increased cost of feedstock on the other. meters per day until such a time as they strike wet Qalaa Holdings unit in the energy sector, holds a est beginning in 1963. Petrochemicals India and China. The availability of gas feed stock, which is the soil. lease for a 210,000 square-meter plot of land in East Industries Company (PIC) was established as the Increased demand for products such as main raw material in Ethylene based Port Said near the Mediterranean terminus of the sole player in the petrochemicals sector under paints, fertilizers and plastics from India and Petrochemical plants, is estimated to decrease Suez Canal. The company is building the first tank ter- the supervision of Kuwait Petroleum China during 2013 to 2017 will drive the continuously over the years in the GCC region. minal and logistics hub of its kind in the region to Corporation (KPC). PIC is the only player in demand for Petrochemicals as it is the raw The petrochemicals production in the Gulf is facilitate global trade and help Egypt make maximum Kuwait’s Petrochemical sector with all the oth- material used in the manufacture of these based on comparatively cheap ethane supply. use of the Suez Canal. The facility will primarily serve ers being its subsidiaries or Joint ventures. materials. The economic growth of the Asian There is a clear preference for ethane owing to the liquid bulk market in the Middle East and the PIC follows “Strategy 2002-2020” for the counties, especially India and China are positive the region’s significant cost advantage in pro- broader Mediterranean region. Mashreq will also pro- development of Petrochemicals sector in the signs for the increased demand of these prod- curement. GCC supplies ethane at $0.75/mmb- vide fuel bunkering services for ships transiting the country. It envisions the development of mega ucts. tu, compared with a minimum $3.20/mmbtu in Suez Canal as well as an integrated logistics facility. integrated petrochemical and refining plants in China and India are in the process of rapid Europe and the US. The shift towards Naphtha Nile Logistics, a Qalaa Holdings company in the Kuwait as well as in major markets like India and urbanization. Urban population in these coun- based plants in GCC will make the producers river transport industry, is meanwhile providing fast, China through its Joint Ventures. Kuwait has tries is expected to increase by 50 percent by lose on the cost advantage as Naphtha has to efficient container transport services using river implemented the 100 percent FDI law in 2010, the year 2020 compared to the levels in 2010. be obtained at market price and its prices are barges between the Port Said Container Terminal which is expected to bring in foreign investors This will rapidly increase the demand for prod- highly volatile. and the Suez Canal Container Terminal (Sharq Al- and encourage private players in the ucts like plastics and polymers. Anticipating the Building on the strong cash reserves and uti- Tafrea), including a naval service bay at the Suez Petrochemicals sector, which, till now, has been increased demand Kuwait has planned to lizing the low feed stock advantage to tap the Canal. The container transshipment service, which mainly funded by the Government of Kuwait. expand its petrochemical capacity from 3.4 huge downstream petrochemicals market avail- Ahmed Heikal uses inland barges to transship containers between Major Petrochemical projects under con- MTPA in 2012 to 7.9 MTPA by 2015 at a CAGR of able will help Kuwait Petrochemicals sector to port terminals in less than one hour, compared the a struction by the PIC are the Olefins - III plant at 32 percent. achieve greater heights. Streamlining invest- “ASCOM brings to this project clear experience as minimum of 4-6 hours for truck convoys, was the the Shauiba Complex of Kuwait worth $7,000 Though the Kuwait petrochemicals sector is ments into refining and petrochemical integra- the leading provider of quarrying services to Egypt’s result of close cooperation between the Suez Canal million which is expected to be operational poised to see growth, it faces a few challenges tion, entering into more number of Joint cement industry,” said Qalaa Holdings Chairman and Authority, Qalaa Holdings and agencies at the from 2017 or 2018. China Integrated refinery is and impediments on its growth path. There is Ventures and diversifying the product portfolio Founder Ahmed Heikal. “The importance of this con- Ministry of Transport. the overseas plant constructed by PIC and stiff competition from players within the region, will help PIC to handle the challenges and SINOPEC at the Guangdong province in China. especially from Saudi Arabia, which accounted achieve its goals. Dubai 2014 to highlight ‘Big Data’ on integrated ‘Smart City’ development DUBAI: The role of advanced ‘smart’ concepts such become a Smart City. Many aspiring Smart Cities significant role in enhancing essential services in Things, Cisco Systems. The session will be moderat- as ‘Big Data’ and ‘Cloud Computing’ in the develop- are leveraging these innovative technologies to Dubai by improving its infrastructure, planning and ed by Marwan Bin Haidar, Executive Director, Dubai ment of genuinely ‘smart cities’ will be extensively provide essential public services to their citizens management. Smart Living City - Dubai 2014 will SMART Government, and will feature a Smart covered through discussions and exhibitions at the such as security, transportation, water and energy offer a platform to brainstorm about SMART tech- Presentation on Dubai by Microsoft CityNext. Smart Living City - Dubai 2014 expo taking place management, healthcare, utilities, and emergency nologies that can offer many new windows of Smart Living City - Dubai 2014 is organized by on September 15 and 16, 2014 at Jumeirah response. For Dubai, the challenge will be to set up opportunities for informed decision-making and TASWEEK, a provider of comprehensive real estate Emirates Tower, Dubai. To be held under the cost-effective and sustainable data centers that can better citizen engagement in a Smart City.” development solutions for the UAE and the broad- patronage of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al- collect, process, share, store and analyze data to During the first day of the event, Smart Living er Middle East that leverages over 20 years of Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, the event will transform Big Data into useful information using City - Dubai 2014 will hold a keynote on ‘Big Data extensive experience in valuations, design, and real feature successful local and international ‘smart’ cloud computing. and SMART Government Solutions’ which will dis- estate marketing across the UAE, and Inside technology startups and explore the ‘smart city’ Masood Al-Awar, CEO, TASWEEK Real Estate cuss real opportunities to be gained from a SMART Investor, a Hong Kong-based technology invest- vision through various master classes, discussion Development and Marketing, said: “Many cities City as well as key developments and challenges. ment firm with offices in Dubai, Manila, and San panels and exhibitions. It will highlight how going across the world are now making the shift to being The speaker lineup includes Ali Nimer, Director, e- Francisco. The two-day event will be a platform for ‘smart’ is integral to Dubai’s vision of becoming a a Smart City with an aim to make their urban envi- Government Solutions, Microsoft CityNext; Charbel startup owners, technology investors, business ‘City of the Future.’ Big Data, machine-to-machine ronment more desirable, secured, sustainable and Aoun, Senior Vice President, Schneider Electric; accelerators, and representatives from public and (M2M) and Cloud Computing technologies have eco-friendly for their citizens, residents and tourists. Ashish Cowlagi, Smart Cities - Business Leader, IBM; private organizations to share their perspectives on been identified as essential elements for Dubai to There is no denying that Big Data will play a highly and Amr Salem, MD - Smart Cities & Internet of current urban issues and potential solutions. Tasweek Masood Al-Awar technology THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

KUNSHAN: (Left) This photo shows a robot carrying food to customers in a restaurant in Kunshan. It’s more teatime than Terminator — a restaurant in China is amusing customers by using more than a dozen robots to cook and deliver food. (Right) A robot is seen cooking vegetables in the kitchen. — AFP photos Silicon Valley venture Political strategist jumps capital a man’s world aboard divisive Uber app SAN FRANCISCO: When she started her Paul Madera said he hoped to one day hire child-support tracking business a female partner. SupportPay, Sheri Atwood expected all kinds of suggestions - but not the tip she Bad press Uber upsets taxi drivers in several countries got from a female investor who suggested The paucity of senior women VCs exists she dye her blonde hair darker to be taken at a time when difficulties facing women in more seriously by venture capitalists. To technology have hit the headlines. SAN FRANCISCO: A political strategist who ran US phone car-hailing services such as Uber, which they Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association presi- Atwood, who eventually won her funding Examples include statistics showing low President Barack Obama’s winning campaign in say are cutting into their business. Several hundred dent Robert Werth said in an email statement to AFP. from other backers, the recommendation numbers of women at companies such as 2008 has hopped on board at controversial smart- cabbies took part in the demonstration on wheels “But look who just bought themselves one of the underscored an attitude in Silicon Valley Facebook and Google; a lawsuit by a female phone car-hailing service Uber. The move signals spearheaded by the Washington DC Taxi Operators best spin doctors in the country... they are going to that women make second-class entrepre- founder of dating app Tinder alleging she that Uber has no intention of backing down in the Association, affiliated with the powerful Teamsters need him.” The US nonprofit industry association neurs. If more women held the purse was pushed aside; and three suits brought face of growing pressure from regulators and tradi- union. Taxi drivers in London, Paris, Berlin and Rome uses a whosdrivingyou.org website as part of a cam- strings at venture capital firms, the atti- by female employees at venture firms alleg- tional taxi operators intent on putting the brakes on staged similar protests that same month, saying paign against “ridesharing” services. While Uber is tude would change, she said. ing harassment or discrimination, or some- Internet-age car services. David Plouffe will become unlicensed drivers and chauffeur services using the main target of the taxi industry’s ire, it’s only one Despite the lip service Silicon Valley has times both. senior vice president of policy and strategy at the Uber have been chipping away at their client base. of many new smartphone-dependent car services given over the past couple of years to the Despite the lawsuits, female venture San Francisco-based firm beginning late September, South Korea’s capital Seoul in July revealed plans to seen as bypassing strict regulations faced by need to recruit more women venture capi- capitalists say, the troubles in venture gen- Uber said Tuesday. Plouffe will manage Uber’s global ban Uber, saying it raised passenger safety issues licensed cab drivers. talists, at senior levels the industry’s gen- erally lean to the subtle, such as leaving policy and political activities, communications, and and threatened the livelihood of licensed taxi driv- Uber is present in more than 170 cities spread der balance hasn’t budged, even as other women out of key meetings or social gath- branding efforts, Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick ers. The Uber app, which allows clients to connect about dozens of countries. “Uber has the chance to industries with poor gender diversity show erings. Even if they lack women in invest- said in a blog post, describing Plouffe as “a proven directly with “black car” services, was launched in be a once-in-a-decade-if not a once-in-a-genera- improvements. The issue matters because ment roles, which carry the most prestige, field general and strategist.” “I couldn’t be more Seoul in August last year. tion-company,” Plouffe said in the blog post. “Of women venture capitalists have a direct many firms have senior partners in opera- excited about Uber’s new leader, who will be bring- course, that poses a threat to some, and I’ve effect on the success of companies other tional roles such as marketing and finance, ing the expertise, wisdom, and strategic mindset to ‘Taxi industry cartel’ watched as the taxi industry cartel has tried to stand women launch, say female entrepreneurs, and many back female-founded compa- the next phase of the Uber movement, shepherding Uber is the most prominent of the apps that are in the way of technology and big change. including serving as role models and nies. us well beyond the challenges of the Big Taxi cartel shaking up the traditional taxi landscape in cities Ultimately, that approach is unwinnable.” Plouffe being more likely to spy potential in busi- “I am quite optimistic about women in and into the brave new world of software-powered around the world. It has already faced significant said he was looking forward to doing what he can to nesses that target other women. venture,” said Benchmark’s Gurley, who transportation.” resistance from regulators in several countries, who make sure Uber remains an option for people About 4 percent of senior investing while he has no female investing colleagues Uber has upset the established taxi set in several accuse it of unfair competition and lack of standards. despite opposition by “those who want to maintain partners in US venture capital are women, himself named Ruby Lu at DCM, Jenny Lee countries. In June, taxi drivers snarled traffic in “Uber loves to portray itself as a plucky little tech a monopoly and play the inside game” to stymy new according to data from Pitchbook, a con- at GGV, and Rebecca Lynn at Canvas as “fan- downtown Washington in protest against smart- startup fighting against an imaginary Goliath,” services. — AFP sulting firm. That is down slightly from 5 tastic” investors. Other accomplished percent in 2010, and about even with female investors include Mary Meeker and 2008. The numbers compare to 15 percent Beth Seidenberg of Kleiner Perkins; and of executive officers at Fortune 500 com- Theresia Gouw, formerly of Accel Partners panies, 24 percent of tenured faculty at US and now head of her own firm, Aspect business schools, and 20 percent of the US Ventures. Senate - all areas that have shown gains for gender parity in recent years while venture Fitting in capital has stagnated. A leading ranking of Many venture capitalists, both women venture capitalists, the Forbes Midas List, and men, say that a big part of the problem noted just four women on its latest list of lies in the educational and career paths top 100 venture investors. A few years ago, many women have opted to pursue at a five women typically made the list each time when many firms seek VCs with tech- year. And despite much discussion over nical backgrounds. The percentages of the need to improve gender balance over women majoring in engineering, computer the past few years, many of the top firms science and math have declined over the still have no senior women partners at all. last decade, to 19 percent, 18 percent, and 43 percent of all students majoring in each Keeping quiet of those fields respectively, according to the Some Silicon Valley women shy away National Science Foundation. from openly discussing the shortage and The percentage of female entrepreneurs the climate for women, believing their has stagnated since the early 1980s at comments would peg them as whiners around 27 percent, says Ross Levine, a pro- and cut them out of deals in the case of fessor at the Haas School of Business at the venture capitalists, or funding in the case University of California, Berkeley. “You have This photo provided by of entrepreneurs. Among firms that Forbes to say, ‘Where are the women in computer General Motors shows ranked as top because they provided mul- science?’” said Ann Winblad, a founding Valet Mode on the touch tiple partners to its Midas List, only one, partner at Hummer Winblad, who added screen panel of the 2015 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, appears that her firm hires partners largely from the Corvette. — AP photos This photo provided by General Motors shows the 2015 Corvette. to have more senior female investing part- group of company founders it has backed. ners in the United States compared with Top firms especially tend to lack senior five years ago. women, leading to comparisons with “Mad New Corvette feature keeps an eye on valets Kleiner has two women listed as lead Men,” the TV show about 1960s-era adver- partners in its most recent funds. It is bat- tising where men dominate. Benchmark tling a lawsuit brought by former partner and Sequoia, for example, employ no DETROIT: Face it. If you own a luxury or sports car, the first. The automotive website Edmunds.com says racetrack. GM engineers quickly figured out that it Ellen Pao, who alleges harassment and dis- women in any investing capacity in the whenever you hand the keys to a valet, you imagine Hyundai and Mercedes offer “geofencing,” a feature had more uses. “Think of it as a baby monitor for crimination. Kleiner denies the accusations. United States. Most firms do the bulk of the car going on a high-speed joyride like the Ferrari that sets a perimeter and then notifies the owner’s your car,” Corvette Product Manager Harlan Charles Kleiner declined to comment, but in a blog their investing in the United States, but in the 1980s cult movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” smart phone if a car goes beyond it. Chrysler has a said in a statement. “Anyone who has felt apprehen- post two years ago partner John Doerr said some of them say their numbers would be Now, General Motors has an option on the 2015 valet mode that caps engine speed and horsepower, sion about handing over their keys will appreciate his firm was one of the most diverse in better if overseas offices were included. Chevrolet Corvette that takes those worries away. while Audi lets owners limit engine speed for valets. the peace of mind of knowing exactly what hap- terms of gender, age and ethnicity. Sequoia employs female managing direc- The latest version of the sports car, due out in With the Corvette, once the owner activates the pened while their baby was out of sight.” Data and Another venture capital firm, DFJ, has tors in China, for example. September, has a feature that records where the car feature with a four-digit code, the touch screen tells video from the valet mode can be viewed instantly one senior woman in the United States, Another issue is that top firms enjoy goes with a camera mounted in the windshield trim. the driver it’s in Valet Mode. But it doesn’t warn the by the owner on the car’s 8-inch color screen when the same as five years ago. DFJ said it spectacular investing results, leading to lit- It also captures audio in the cabin as well as speed, valet that he’s being recorded. The feature also locks the car is parked, or it can be downloaded to a com- believed “a diverse group of people makes tle pressure from their own investors - engine revolutions per minute, gear position and G- the glove box and a storage compartment in the puter. The system could go into more mainstream better decisions, both within our industry known as limited partners - to change force. That all helps the car tattle on any valet who dashboard and shuts down the infotainment sys- models if feedback is good on the Corvette, GM and the companies we fund.” Accel, which things, the LPs say. “At the end of the day, it doesn’t take a slow, direct route to a parking space. tem. spokesman Monte Doran said. The feature is paired declined to comment, has no senior does come down to returns, and their net- GM says it’s the most extensive attempt by an Valet Mode started off as a performance data with a navigation system and costs $1,795. A 2015 women investors in the United States, work,” said Atul Rustgi, a principal at automaker to thwart valet joyriders, although it’s not recorder for those who take their Corvettes on the Corvette starts at just under $54,000.— AP although it had one previously. Others, Accolade Partners, a limited partner whose including Sequoia Capital, Greylock portfolio includes leading venture firms Partners, Benchmark, Meritech Capital such as Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. Partners, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, and Accolade raises the gender issue with its Bessemer Ventures, had no senior women portfolio firms, but “how much pressure HTC’s Windows version partners five years ago. They still don’t you can exert is a whole different matter,” he today. said. “No excuses,” said a Sequoia Judy O’Brien, a five-time Midas List ven- of flagship One phone spokesman. “We need to do better and ture capitalist who is now a partner at law we’re pursuing a number of initiatives to firm King & Spalding, says, learning the help.” Sequoia funds groups such as Girls ropes without a female mentor can be NEW YORK: HTC will start making a version of its year to give away its Windows Phone software for said 7.4 million phones were shipped worldwide, Who Code, which teaches young women tough. “You don’t quite know how to con- flagship HTC One phone with Microsoft’s use in phones, as Google does with Android. The for a 2.5 percent share, compared with 8.2 million computer programming. Many venture duct yourself in a senior position,” for exam- Windows software inside. HTC said it developed strategy reduces manufacturing costs for phone- and 3.4 percent a year earlier. Android’s share capitalists say a lack of women in technol- ple, establishing stature in a meeting. Many the new model at the request of Microsoft, which makers. increased to 85 percent in that period. IDC said ogy exacerbates the shortfall in venture. women say they did not initially aspire to has been trying to boost its Windows Phone sys- Yet the move comes as sales of Microsoft’s HTC had a worldwide market share of less than 2 Bessemer partner Ed Colloton said the firm become a venture capitalist and needed tem. The company will continue to make an phones are declining. In the second quarter, IDC percent, the bulk for Android. believed in developing talent internally someone to nudge them into the business. Android version of the One, as well as other The Android version of HTC One is called M8, and had “a strong pipeline of future female Aileen Lee, a onetime engineering major Android phones. “By no means does this indicate while the Windows version will be called M8 for partners” on the current team. A Greylock who stepped back from Kleiner Perkins two we’re moving away from Android,” HTC Windows. The two look identical on the outside, spokeswoman said the firm has discussed years ago to start her own firm, Cowboy spokesman Jeff Gordon said. except for a Windows Phone logo. Both sport met- how to improve the situation, including Ventures, spoke in April about her career in HTC Corp was the first company to release a al exteriors and have screens measuring 5 inches backing startups with diverse executives in a speech at Upward, a women’s organiza- phone using Google’s Android operating system diagonally. The Windows phone will be available hope of cultivating a more diverse next- tion founded by Lisa Lambert of Intel back in 2008, but it now lags behind Samsung, starting Tuesday through Verizon Wireless for $100 generation group of venture capitalists. Capital. It took Kleiner Perkins reaching out Huawei, Lenovo and other makers of Android with a two-year contract and $600 without one. A spokeswoman for NEA said it was to her while she was an executive at Gap, phones despite critical acclaim for the HTC One. HTC said Microsoft had to tweak its software to “focused on having a strong bench that the retailer, before she even considered the HTC was also the first to release a Windows phone, support the HTC One’s features. For instance, the will result in a more diverse GP (general industry. The men she had known at in 2002, but it hasn’t had a new one since 2012. phone has a second rear camera to capture depth partner) group over time.” Andreessen Harvard Business School who aspired to Gordon said HTC has been waiting until it had information so that users can later change which Horowitz’s Peter Levine and Benchmark’s venture capital seemed worlds away. something strong enough to compete with parts of images are in focus. Windows typically Bill Gurley, both general partners, said Drawing laughs, she pegged them as prep- Lumiaphones from Nokia, a business Microsoft deals with a single rear camera. HTC will also bring their firms were eager to hire a senior pie squash players and overly ambitious now owns. A mid-range device, he said, “would to the Windows phone its BlinkFeed hub for per- female investing partner but hadn’t found briefcase toters. “I just figured I’d never fit in,” completely be overshadowed by the competition.” sonalized content. But less-used camera features the right fit. Meritech founding partner she said at Upward. “I don’t still.” — Reuters HTC also benefits from Microsoft’s decision this will disappear in the transition. — AP HEALTH & SCIENCE THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 France fights back Asian hornet invasion

SAINT-PAUL-LES-DAX: They slipped into southwest papers claimed that six people in France stung by France 10 years ago in a pottery shipment from the “killer” hornets died from anaphylactic shock, China and have since invaded more than half the but the French Anti-Poison Centre contends that country, which is fighting back with drones, poi- they are no more dangerous than other bees or soned rods and even chickens. The Asian hornet, or wasps. Deaths from all sorts of bee stings have vespa velutina nigrithorax, is considered a “public remained stable in France despite the invasion, at enemy” in parts of France where it devours native about 15 per year, it said. bees and, experts say, threatens biodiversity. “It’s exploding (in numbers) and causing trouble,” said Panic - real danger Eric Darrouzet, a biologist at the Research Institute “We’ve spoken mainly about its impact on for the Biology of Insects (IRBI) at the University of domestic bees and forgotten to address its impact Tours. on biodiversity,” said Franck Muller, who researches But some kind of solution may be in sight. Pest Asian hornets at the Museum of Natural History in controller Etienne Roumailhac is exhausted, called Paris. The species is highly adaptable and “can sur- to destroy at least six nests a day in the Landes vive nearly anywhere,” feeding off wasps, flies, bee- region on the Atlantic coast. Each nest can house tles and other insects that act as natural pollinators, thousands of hornets. “I find them everywhere: gar- he said. And “a certain generalized panic” has led to den sheds, mail boxes, car radiators, watering cans,” “absurd” measures, he said, like homemade traps of he said. “Eighty percent of my calls are now in cities sugary concoctions that have little effect on the or towns or right nearby. It’s going wild.” As the hor- Asian queen bee but are lethal for native species. net population peaks in mid-summer, business Some of these poisons were killing 100 to 1,000 booms as he dislodges nests up to 70 centimeters domestic bees, wasps or other pollinators for every long (28 inches), sometimes 20 meters (65 feet) up one egg-laying hornet, he said. in a tree. In the search for a solution, biologist Darrouzet SAINT-MICHEL-EN-GREVE: People play on the beach of Saint-Michel-en-Greve on the Pink granite said the IRBI last year discovered an aggressive little Blacklist coast, Brittany, western France. For the first time in several years, the beach of Saint-Michel-en-Greve fly larvae “like something out of the film ‘Alien’ “, Roumailhac has tried drones but they get caught is not plagued by green algaes which are usually found in the area in the summer time. — AFP where extraterrestrial creatures destroyed their vic- in branches, are awkward in urban areas and require tims from inside. Called Conops Vesicularis, the para- official permits that are not easy to get. He relies hornets’ diet, he and other beekeepers have In 2012, France branded the insect a “tropical, site is deposited on the hornet queen’s belly and mainly on a telescopic rod that shoots out insecti- declared war on the pests. “It’s a fascinating species,” invasive species harmful for apiculture”, and last year once hatched, devours her. Studies are still under- cide. Amateur beekeeper Francis Ithurburu swears said biologist Darrouzet. “The way they build their temporarily allowed their destruction with sulphur way on this and other parasites but Darrouzet is cau- by another weapon: young chickens that feast on nests is marvellous,” but he concedes “they’ve dioxide, a controversial and restricted chemical tious about banking on such “biological warfare”. He hornets bothering his bees in the town of become a problem”. Indigenous to Southeast Asia, linked to respiratory problems. Yet the hornets have has more confidence in another deterrent he is test- Biscarrosse. The hornets hover like helicopters by the hornet, with its distinctive yellow legs and dark crossed into Spain, Portugal and Italy with a few ing that he said-without elaborating-would be 100 the hives, which gives them an advantage in attack- thorax, can fan out rapidly. New colonies have sightings in Belgium. In April, Britain put them on a percent selective in killing only Asian hornets. This ing bees but makes them an easy target for hungry cropped up 70 kilometres (44 miles) farther in “blacklist”, as a Parliamentary report warned the trap could be ready by 2015, according to the biolo- chickens. France each year. Other hornets “hitchhike” into new “deadly” invader could soon cross the Channel and gist. “Nature is taking its course ... natural predators With native bees providing more than half the territory, inadvertently carried by man. land on British shores. Amid the alarm, British will emerge,” said exterminator Roumailhac. — AFP

Novartis hands over its experimental TB drugs

ZURICH: Novartis has signed a licensing deal and be responsible for seeking approval and to hand over its experimental tuberculosis commercializing the TB treatments discovered (TB) drugs to the Global Alliance for TB Drug at the Novartis Institute for Tropical Disease. Development, joining a growing Big Pharma retreat from antibiotics. The TB Alliance deal No upfront payment reflects renewed scrutiny of the Novartis port- “The goal of this agreement is to enable folio under new chairman Joerg Reinhardt, the program to be successful and bring who is focusing the Swiss company’s research needed medicines to patients,” Novartis said on core areas such as cancer, respiratory in an emailed statement, adding that it had drugs, heart failure and dermatology. not asked for any upfront or milestone pay- While scientists are exploring novel ments. Among the drugs Novartis is licensing avenues in the hunt for urgently needed new is a class of medicines known as indolcarbox- bacteria-fighting medicines, many companies amides, which target drug resistant and mul- now have little appetite for the chase, prefer- ti-resistant strains of TB. One of the com- KATHMANDU: A Nepalese health worker inspects an arriving passen- QINGDAO: A quarantine officer (right) takes the temperature of the ring to concentrate on more lucrative areas pounds, NITD304, works by blocking a pro- ger with an infrared thermometer for signs of fever, one of the symp- crew from the Alpha Friendship, a bulk carrier registered in Greece such as cancer and diabetes. “Novartis is not tein that is essential for the TB bacterium’s toms of Ebola, at a health desk at Nepal’s only international airport in that carries ores from the Pepel port in Sierra Leone, one of the Ebola- really focused on anti-infectives, so I think it survival. “TB Alliance is well placed to take makes sense,” Kepler Cheuvreux analyst Fabian our discoveries and compounds through Kathmandu yesterday. The Nepalese government established a quar- hit area in Western Africa, as the ship berths in the quarantine anchor- Wenner said of the licensing deal. Under the development for the benefit of patients with antine health desk at the airport to detect suspected patients arriving age waiting for its entry in the port at Qingdao, in eastern China’s terms of yesterday’s agreement, TB Alliance TB,” said Mark Fishman, head of research at from Ebola-affected countries. Shandong province. — AFP photos will fund further research and development Novartis.—Reuters Liberia fights Ebola as death toll tops 1,200 Medics treated with ZMapp show improvement

MONROVIA: Liberia is battling to halt the spread of Ebola specialist treatment centre,” Liberia’s Ebola-like symptoms including high fever to hospital, the Ebola disease in its crowded, run-down ocean- Information Minister Lewis Brown told Reuters on which later said she did not seem to have the virus. side capital Monrovia, recording the most new Tuesday. He added that after meetings with religious The UN health agency this month gave the green deaths as fatalities from the world’s worst outbreak and community leaders, a task force was being set light to use untested pharmaceuticals to treat Ebola of the deadly virus rose above 1,200. The epidemic of up to go door to door through West Point, a labyrinth patients. In Monrovia, three African healthcare work- the hemorrhagic disease, which can kill up to 90 per- of muddy alleys, to explain the risks of the disease ers were given the rare experimental ZMapp drug, cent of those it infects, is ravaging the three small and the need to isolate infected patients. “I know that which has already been used on two American aid West African states of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Monrovia is really of concern to WHO,” WHO spokes- workers being treated in the United States after Guinea, and also has a toehold in Nigeria, Africa’s woman Fadela Chaib said in Geneva. Lewis said the being evacuated from Liberia with Ebola. Lewis said biggest economy. Liberian authorities were considering imposing even the three Africans treated with ZMapp were showing As the Geneva-based World Health Organization tougher restrictions on movements. “remarkable signs of improvement”. rushed to ramp up the global response to the out- However, the manufacturer of the drug, break, including emergency food deliveries to quar- ‘No body bags’ California-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical, has antined zones, it announced that deaths had risen to Liberia and Sierra Leone’s weak health systems already said its scarce supplies have been exhausted. 1,229 as of Aug 16, out of 2,240 cases. Between Aug have been overwhelmed by the multiplying num- Officials have cautioned the public not to place too 14 and 16, Liberia recorded the most new deaths, 53, bers of cases and deaths. WHO has said it is coordi- much hope in untested and scarce treatments. As followed by Sierra Leone with 17 and Guinea with 14. nating a “massive scaling up” of international assis- part of the increased international response, WFP is This combination of file images shows clockwise from top left: NBA player Lebron On a more hopeful note, the WHO expressed “cau- tance to the worst affected countries. But a Liberian stepping up emergency food deliveries to the quar- James, Singer Justin Bieber, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, media proprietor tious optimism” that the spread of the outbreak in health ministry report for Aug. 17 said its Ebola-hit antined areas, which include severely affected cities Oprah Winfrey, singer Jennifer Lopez and singer Lady Gaga. These are just a handful Nigeria could be stopped. Four deaths were recorded Lofa County had stopped burials due to a lack of such as Gueckedou in Guinea, Kenema and Kailahun of celebrities who have taken the ‘ALS Ice Bucket Challenge’. — AFP in Africa’s most populous nation out of 12 confirmed body bags. “Absolutely no body bags,” the report in Sierra Leone and Foya in Liberia. Fears of the dis- cases between July and Aug 16. said. It said the ministry warehouse had only three ease and quarantine measures such as military and pairs of rubber boots remaining and no more bottles police roadblocks have stopped farmers from reach- Celebrities in ‘Ice Bucket US citizen Sawyer of hand sanitizers. “I am sorry to say the government ing their fields and food output has dropped, raising It also described the situation in Guinea, where has lost the fight against Ebola. It is out of control fears that a famine could set in on top of the deadly Challenge’ to fight disease the virus made its first appearance in West Africa in now,” said student Samuel Zorh. On Friday, the illness. December, as currently “less alarming” than in Liberia Liberian and Sierra Leonean governments and a “We think that even beyond the control of the WASHINGTON: Steven Spielberg, Justin self taking icewater to the head, responding and Sierra Leone. The virus was transferred to Nigeria medical charity chided the WHO for its slow outbreak there will be severe food shortage,” said Bieber and Bill Gates are among many to a challenge by Facebook’s Mark by a US citizen, Patrick Sawyer, who arrived by plane response, saying more action was needed to save Gon Myers, WFP country director for Sierra Leone. celebrities pouring buckets of ice water over Zuckerberg. from Liberia. Nigerian Health Minister Onyebuchi victims threatened by the disease and hunger. The extra food deliveries would be trying to reach their heads and donating to fight Lou Chukwu reported late on Tuesday a fifth Ebola death 400,000 people in Sierra Leone alone. Gehrig’s disease, in a fundraising effort that ‘Incredible’ support in that country. The victim was a female consultant ‘Improvement’ after rare drug The WHO has told countries affected by the out- has gone viral. Since June, several thousand Ethel Kennedy, the 86-year-old widow of doctor who had treated Sawyer. WHO said the situa- The WHO declared the West African Ebola out- break to screen people departing at airports, sea- people worldwide have recorded themselves senator Robert Kennedy, doused herself and tion in Lagos looked “reassuring”. However, break a “public health emergency of international ports and major land border points and stop any getting drenched, then posted the stunt challenged President Barack Obama to do Cameroon closed its borders with Nigeria on Tuesday concern” on Aug 8, triggering global alarm as coun- with signs of the virus. It has argued against further online and challenged others to do the same, the same. The world’s most powerful man as a precaution. tries stepped up precautions and testing. Reflecting travel restrictions, but several international and or pledge $100 to ALS research. declined but promised a donation, according The WHO said it was working with the UN’s World this, emergency services in Berlin on Tuesday briefly regional airlines have cancelled services to Liberia, Many have done both, in an effort has to the White House. The charitable chal- Food Program to ensure food delivery to one million cordoned off a job centre and took a woman with Sierra Leone and Guinea. — Reuters raise millions of dollars for the ALS lenge’s popularity has spread around the people living in Ebola quarantine zones cordoned off Association, which combats amyotrophic lat- globe in recent days, particularly to Britain, by local security forces in a border zone of Guinea, eral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s dis- Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Liberia and Sierra Leone. “Providing regular food sup- ease. Some 30,000 Americans have ALS, Germany. Facebook said that between June 1 plies is a potent means of limiting unnecessary which attacks the nervous system and even- and August 17 more than 28 million people movement,” it said in a statement. Besides infection SA doctors give wrong tually leaves victims paralyzed. In just weeks mentioned the challenge on the social net- in border zones, Liberia is fighting to stop the spread the “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” has swelled work, and 2.4 million videos were posted. of the virus in the poorest neighborhoods of its capi- patient heart surgery into a global phenomenon, with dozens of The phenomenon can largely be attrib- tal, such as the West Point slum where at the week- stars getting wet: Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, uted to Pete Frates, a one-time athlete in end a rock-throwing crowd attacked and looted a JOHANNESBURG: A private hospital in South cian realized his mistake when the patient was Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, James Franco, Boston whose struggle with ALS turned the temporary holding centre for suspected Ebola cases, Africa (SA) admitted yesterday that it had carried already in theatre undergoing the surgery. Du Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lopez and Jon Bon Ice Bucket Challenge into a viral fundraising 17 of whom fled. out heart surgery on the wrong patient after a Plessis was in the same ward as the patient Jovi are among them. sensation. A flood of funds —$22.9 million The government imposed a nationwide curfew name mix-up. Local media said 83-year-old Rita who was supposed to be operated on. And Politicians and sports figures went at it from July 29 to August 19, compared with between 9 pm and 6 am in an effort to curb the dis- du Plessis was being treated for a respiratory both were under the care of the same physi- too, including New Jersey Governor Chris $1.9 million for the same period in 2013 - ease, which is spread by contact with the bodily flu- infection, but ended up in theatre for a proce- cian. The doctor and the hospital have apolo- Christie and basketball superstar LeBron has poured into the ALS Association, which ids of infected persons, it said in a statement on state dure to remove excess moisture around her gized for the mix-up. “After being made aware James. Bare-chested English footballer David welcomed “the incredible influx of support.” radio. “The communities of West Point in Monrovia heart. Her doctor at Mediclinic in the central city of the incident by the treating doctor, the hos- Beckham got in on the act, as did World Cup “We need to be strategic in our decision- and Dolo Town in Margibi are quarantined under full of Kimberley had mixed up patients’ names in a pital and doctors engaged in constructive dis- stars Neymar of Brazil and Argentina’s Lionel making as to how the funds will be spent so security watch. This means that there will be no phone discussion with the surgeon. “A misun- cussions with the patient and her family,” hos- Messi. Normally reserved former US Federal that when people look back on this event in movements in and out of those areas,” the statement derstanding between two specialists led to the pital spokeswoman Denise Coetzee said. Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan can be 10 and 20 years, the Ice Bucket Challenge said. Earlier, the government sent police to track wrong patient being operated on,” the hospital Mediclinic said Du Plessis had “handled the seen gleefully dumping ice water over his will be seen as a real game-changer for ALS,” down the fugitive suspected cases. “We are glad to said in a statement. operation well” and will not be asked to pay for wife, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell. said association president Barbara confirm that all of the 17 individuals have been Beeld newspaper reported that the physi- the procedure.— AFP Microsoft founder Bill Gates, recorded him- Newhouse.—AFP accounted for and have now been transferred to JFK HEALTH & SCIENCE THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

GUANGZHOU: A waitress serves shark fin soup in a restaurant in Guangzhou, in southern China’s Guangdong GUANGDONG: Photo shows a sack of dried shark fins at a shop in Shantou. — AFP photos province. Tide turns for shark fin in China

GUANGZHOU: A sprawling market floor in Guangzhou have a saying that if you eat shark’s fin, it’s good for your Communist Party announced a government ban on Several major hotel chains and airlines in the region was once a prime location for shark fin, one of China’s health,” one woman working at a dried seafood whole- serving shark fin, bird’s nest soup and other wild animal have banned it and WildAid’s executive director Peter most expensive delicacies. But now it lies deserted, saler said of the delicacy, which has a bland taste and a products at official functions, saying that it would set a Knight said: “Demand reduction can be very effective. thanks to a ban from official banquet tables and a chewy consistency. There is no orthodox scientific evi- precedent that would help protect endangered species. The more people learn about the consequences of eat- celebrity-driven ad campaign. One shopkeeper at the dence for such claims. But the appetites of many Around the same time new leader Xi Jinping launched a ing shark fin soup, the less they want to participate in Shanhaicheng centre quietly ate his lunch at a desk, Chinese diners appear to have been spoiled by authori- much-publicized austerity drive for the ruling classes, in the trade.” Government bans on the dish, he added, flanked by four glum-looking colleagues and giant ties banning the dish from official banquets, and a tandem with an anti-corruption push that has claimed “helped send the right message and this could be a white sacks overflowing with thousands of dollars’ national anti-shark-fin advertising drive backed by for- notable scalps despite a lack of systemic reforms. model to address issues such as ivory”. worth of unsold grey stock. mer NBA basketball player Yao Ming and other celebri- WildAid also began its high-profile, celebrity-backed A woman at the next stall over fiddled with her ties. ad campaign on the issue, targeting consumers with ‘Not necessary to kill’ mobile phone, plastic bags of dried yellow fins the tagline: “When the buying stops, the killing can too.” At Guangzhou’s upscale Taikoo Hui shopping mall, a untouched on the shelves behind her. Outside, the Austerity drive Demand has since decreased dramatically, the group 36-year-old businesswoman surnamed Liu said she bustling, narrow streets in the southern Chinese city Environmental and animal rights groups have cam- says, with the biggest impact in Guangzhou, the capital stopped eating shark fin “two or three years ago”. “It were packed. “I don’t eat shark fin,” said a 23-year-old paigned for decades against consumption of shark fin, of Guangdong province and the heart of China’s shark doesn’t taste all that different from eating a vegetable,” shopper surnamed Ling, pausing between a stash of arguing that demand for the delicacy has decimated fin industry. A WildAid survey released this month said she said. “So it’s not necessary to kill an animal in order multicolored dried starfish and an assortment of wood the world’s shark population and that the methods shark fin sales had slumped in the city, with retail prices to eat it.” The elegant dining room of the city’s Ah Yat ear mushrooms. “It’s dirty. It’s cruel. And I think it’s quite used to obtain it are inhumane. Fins are often sliced off slumping an average 57 percent and wholesale costs Abalone Restaurant was full of customers, but manager expensive. “Some people eat it because they think it while the sharks are still alive, before the fish are thrown dropping by 47 percent. In neighboring Hong Kong, a Ye Chaoping said most were there for the abalone-a gives them status. But it doesn’t. And I hear it doesn’t back into the ocean to die, despite finning being major transit point for the trade, import-export volumes slow-growing shellfish that is itself the object of con- even taste that good.” banned in roughly one-third of countries, according to have plunged. cerns about overfishing rather than the wide assort- Fetching as much as 1,600 yuan ($260) a bowl, shark the Pew Environment Group. The largest category, undried fins with cartilage, ment of shark fin dishes. “There’s been a lot of TV ads fin soup has long been among China’s most prized dish- China consumes more shark fin than any other coun- went from almost 6,800 tons in 2011 to less than two about it, so more and more people are refusing to eat it,” es, renowned as much for its supposed medicinal quali- try in the world, according to the campaign group tons last year, government statistics showed although she said. “These days, a lot of government officials are ties as for its associations with wealth and power. “We WildAid. The tide began to turn in 2012, when the ruling dried fins with cartilage still stood at around 3,800 tons. afraid to eat it, too.”— AFP WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 KIB announces Instagram winners uwait International Bank has announced the results of its Ramadan Instagram contest on its Instagram Kaccount, @alDawliBank, which took place as part of its efforts to interact with the youth segment. “The KIB Instagram competition is an annual tradition aiming to enhance engagement between KIB and its customers during the holy month,” explained KIB’s Marketing Manager, Jasser Al-Najdi. The Instagram competition consist- ed of 19 questions which were posted throughout Ramadan and gained Jasser Al-Najdi widespread participation, exceeding all expectations. Najdi pointed out that winners were awarded with valu- able prizes following a series of draws under the supervi- sion of a committee. He urged the public to follow KIB on its social media accounts in order to learn about future contests, pointing out that KIB will continue to conduct exciting and reward- ing activities which reflect the values of the bank.

Movie Night: The Ottomans

he Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world, a multina- ‘I Love my India’ concert Ttional, multilingual empire controlling much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. With Constantinople as its capital, the Ottoman Suganda Mishra steals the show Empire controlled vast lands around the Mediterranean basin and was the pivot of inter- fter the success of 2 seasons of “Dhoom Machale” Indian Ambassador to Kuwait Sunil Jain delivered voices, mimicry of musical instruments and actors and actions between the East and West for over six dance competition, “Singing Superstar” a multilin- Independent Day message. After short message from IYS standup comedy. Her interaction with the audience with centuries. Learn more about the greatest empire Agual singing competition, “Jhoom Barabar Jhoom” president Shabbir Qamar, Kuwaiti national Khalil Ali the song” jiski Biwi....” from Laawaris was simply superb the world has ever seen with this 50 minute doc- a ghazal and qawwali show and Kapil Comedy Show Ibrahim Al Khalil wished the Indians on the occasion of and tickled the ribs of audience to maximum. Local artists umentary to be shown free of charge at Ties Indian Youth Society (IYS)-Kuwait presented ‘I Love my Independence Day and expressed his gratitude towards Subhasish Bhattacharya and Julia Anil entertained the Center on Thursday, August 28 at 7 pm. India’ on Indian Independence day, Friday August 15 at Indians. audience with Hindi songs. Indian Embassy Auditorium- Kuwait from 7 pm onwards. Sponsors of the event Sharif Mohammed Rangrej of Indian Youth Society of Kuwait or IYS is a non-profitable Standup comedian, mimicry artist and talented singer Eternity International Travels & Tourism and IYS member organization registered with Indian Embassy of Kuwait by Sugandha Mishra performed live for the first time ever in Mustafa Hussein were honored with memento. the initiative of a like-minded young Indians with the Kuwait during the event. Musicians Satish (Key board), Akash (Guitar), Roshan vision of honoring, encouraging, supporting and celebrat- Final Student Visa The program started with video presentation about (Dolak) and Brijesh (Octapad) were introduced to the audi- ing the Indian social & cultural values amongst the people IYS followed by formal welcome by compere of the ence. With the cheer of audience, Sugandha Mishra made of Kuwait. The show was a feast of entertainment with Day at US Embassy evening Shakier Sheikh. After the rendition of the nation- a grand entry with patriotic song “I love my India” from humor and music single handedly handled by talented al anthem India, Heart Beat dance group and Friends movie Pardes. She entertained the audience with old & Sugandha Mishra who was the finalist in the reality show is August 21 Bangra Punjabi group entertained the audience with foot new songs, mimicry and jokes. She proved herself as a Hero Honda - Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar and also tapping dances. best entertainer with songs of different singers in their was a contestant on The Great Indian Laughter Challenge. he US Embassy Consular Section calls on students to register for the final student visa Tday for this year, Thursday, August 21. The Consular Section has dedicated all appointments on this day to students cur- rently studying or planning on studying in the United States. Students are welcome to apply for their visas on any days available, however on August 21, student applicants will be given priori- ty. Earlier in August, the US Embassy’s Consular Section held two student visa days, on August 7 and August 12, supporting students to apply for their visas and get to their classes on time. Encouraging Kuwaiti students to pursue higher educational opportunities in the US is one of the top priorities of the US Mission in Kuwait. Students are advised to log on to www.ustraveldocs.com to apply for their visa, schedule their appointment, and to obtain information on what they should bring to their interview. Brazil Embassy

rom August 1, 2014, all process- Fing fees of the Consular Section should be paid through NBK Bank - AC no. 1003720037, receipts should be presented to the Consular Section.

Pravasi Bhartiya Divas he Government of India has decided to hold the next Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD-2015) at TMahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat in January 2015. The effort would be to have more meaningful and interactive sessions that would address the issues and concerns of the overseas Indian commu- nity effectively. Since 2015 marks the hundredth anniversary of the return of the greatest “Pravasi”of all, Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa, it is desired that PBD-2015 would be celebrated in a grand way. The detailed programe of PBD-2015 is being pre- pared and will be uploaded on the Embassy’s Website in due course. More detailed information on Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD-2015) can be accessed at the Ministry of Overseas India Affairs’ website (http://www.moia.gov.in). VIVA announces two winners in its #VIVAVespa draw campaign

What’s On - Submission Guidelines IVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and most developed tele- branches, one of the VIVA authorized distributors, the compa- com operator, announced Naser Safag Abud Althafiri ny’s website at www.viva.com.kw or contact its 24 hour call Vand Ibrahim Jalal Hamdi as the two lucky customers to center at 102. All photos submitted for What’s On win Vespa scooters with World Cup designs. Ayman Salem Al should be minimum 200dpi. Mutairi, Senior Manager Corporate Communications said: “On behalf of VIVA, I would like to congratulate the lucky winners Articles must be in plain text and Naser Safag Abud Althafiri and Ibrahim Jalal Hamdi and thank should include name and phone each and every customer who made the effort to enter the draw. We are pleased with the outcome of this draw campaign numbers. Articles and photos that which proved very successful and look forward to enticing cus- fail to meet these requirements will tomers with more exciting campaigns in the future.” VIVA will continue to demonstrate its commitment towards not be published. its customers by delivering unique products and services and designing exciting offers that will allow VIVA to further engage Please send them to with them. [email protected] To find out more about VIVA’s numerous competitions, pro- motions, products and packages visit any of the 55 VIVA WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

Sabah Al-Ahmad Center holds open day kills and innovation administration at Sabah Al-Ahmad Skills and Innovation Center, which is a part of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, organized open day meetings with students’ Sparents for two days in the presence of the administration’s director Barak Al-Barak.

Commercial Bank of Kuwait organizes blood donation campaign ommercial Bank of Kuwait, in cooperation with the Blood Bank organized a blood donation campaign for five days by its employees. The campaign was part of CBK’s efforts to strengthen humanitarian Cvalues, and fulfillment of its duties towards the society. KFH launches training program for employees’ female children

uwait Finance House (KFH) has areas that are tailored to meet their aspira- conventional banks, teamwork, branches launched a summer training pro- tion and contribute to develop their skills mechanism, presentations skills, Kgram for employees’ female children and abilities. PowerPoint, customer service, not to men- and a group of distinguished students Moreover, the training program tion marketing and its tools; social media nominated by the Public Authority of includes various subjects, competitions, in channels. Minors Affairs aged 15-17. addition to outside activities. Students will It’s worth noting that the training pro- The training program aims at raising the be introduced to a brief about banking gram that lasts for 10 days comes as part children’s educational level in different and the difference between Islamic and of the bank’s social responsibility.

Prof Pierre Moreau visits OVPR

rof Pierre Moreau, the newly and innovative research that is scien- appointed Dean of the tific challenging, addresses priorities PPharmacy faculty, visited the and serves mankind. office of the Vice President for Prof Pierre expressed his apprecia- Research, on Sunday, and was wel- tion and interest at the opportunities comed by Prof Hasan Al-Sanad and facilities available for scientific amidst a warm exchange of greetings research at KU, and the meeting con- and wishes, prior to settling for an cluded with Prof Hasan extending introductory phase on outlook of sci- full support of the Research Sector to entific research at Kuwait University, a the visiting dean in developing phar- phase which was also attended by Dr macy research, and wished him a cor- Hussain Al-Mahmood, Vice President dial and fruitful stay in Kuwait. Prof for Academic Support Services. Prof Hasan also took this opportunity to Hasan gave a general outline of acknowledge the contribution and research at Kuwait University, famil- efforts of Prof Novotny, the former iarizing the visiting dean with policy, Dean of the Pharmacy College, for programs and support services avail- advancing and overseeing the devel- able to all faculties and academic opment of academic and research community in pursuing advanced processes at the college. A group photo of students with KFH staff TV PROGRAMS THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

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CROSSWORD 643 STAR TRACK

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

The workplace is full of new things to learn. You may find yourself putting on This is a high-cycle day when you may find yourself signing contracts, mak- the speed to complete projects. You will want to take some time, however, to ing arrangements and scurrying around on time schedules. You may find yourself serving learn new software or some other available package. This afternoon you may enjoy your to guide someone younger than you in matters of importance. You may perceive how to friends and some social involvement. Careful-you may find yourself more than a little proceed with plans and decisions with regard to your life situation. You may find that you acquisitive and your current appreciation for just about everything may lead you to over- are appreciated for your feelings or your ability to act and get things done. Patience on your spend. You are a creature of habit and the encircling network of friends, relationships, etc., part at this time is very important. Put your mind to work and take care of any details that are crucial to your success. You are nourished in great measure by the atmosphere and con- you may have, for mental discipline should come easily. Romance is possible this evening. ditions you are able to set up now. Clarify your budget tonight, so you will know your finan- Now is a time when love, creativity and self-expression are satisfied. A phone call brings cial status and plan accordingly. positive news this evening.

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

Don’t be surprised if you are not in top mental gear; these days occur occa- You appear perhaps more charming and refined than usual. Now is the best sionally. You could find yourself struggling to communicate or to be better understood. time this month for you to put in for a raise or a new position, to find a job or otherwise Hard words are possible with an authority figure or an older person-you are wise to listen. make yourself known. If you are looking for a job, you might consider a manager, teacher or Timing is of the essence when making a point. You could keep notes of your thoughts and an athletic trainer position. You will do well to be persistent. You have great psychological observations in order to think them through and present them at a more appropriate time. insight into life problems. Perhaps you counsel and help people understand difficulties. You Easy does it today. Concentration on the work at hand and involving yourself with produc- can be fiercely tenacious. You always manage to come across as intense and personal when tive goals will help ward off the urge to say what you feel. You could be an excellent teacher communicating and presenting yourself to others. People are fascinated by the way you in areas requiring discipline and organization. You value order and place a high premium present yourself. It is easy for you to work with those more experienced than you. You enter- on hard work and effort. tain friends this evening.

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

You are called out to do a special job this today. You eventually see an advan- You may find yourself very appreciative of your career and practical skills. You tage to this singular request. Issues of pride, mastery and appreciation might enjoy solving puzzles and problems and finding solutions. There is a become more and more central to your life’s path. There is a very important lesson now; it is renewed appreciation for your work that may be evident to your superiors-in fact, to every- not what you do so much as how you do it and not who you are so much as how you make body. You may be asked to take someone aside and teach him or her about matters of a ACROSS 4. A sudden loss of consciousness resulting others feel about themselves. If your work does not come from the heart, it should not mat- personal nature. Your understanding of people and the ability to put touchy or emotional 1. Humorously sarcastic or mocking. when the rupture or occlusion of a blood ter now. You seem to shine when it comes to practical matters or those involving work and situations into perspective are unique and valuable gifts. There is a chance to understand 4. An esoteric or occult matter that is tradi- vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain. career. You have an easy way with superiors or those in authority and can always manage those around you and to have a special time with someone you love. There is certainly sup- tionally secret. 5. A resource. to get the most out of any skill or ability you have. You like work and career. This is an inspir- port for whatever projects need completion. It is the perfect evening for dinner out or a good movie with a loved one this evening. 12. A tube in which a body fluid circulates. 6. Date used in reckoning dates before the ing period, be it creative, personal or in the business world. 15. 10 hao equal 1 dong. supposed year Christ was born. 16. An official residence provided by a church 7. Someone who operates a barge. for its parson or vicar or rector. 8. The biblical name for ancient Syria. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. Electrical conduction through a gas in an 9. A spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle. Cancer (June 21-July 22) applied electric field. 10. Title for a civil or military leader (especial- This is a great time to work with others. You may be just the person for a par- 18. A block of absorbent material saturated ly in Turkey). You could find that you are appreciated or valued for your feelings or your ticular job. Your administrative abilities are in high focus. This could be a fren- with ink. ability to act and get things done. Because of this, someone may seek you out for your zied day when you may wish time would slow down as you may want to converse with co- 11. Low-growing Old World herbs with guidance regarding business matters. You are able to wade through the masquerade and 20. Measuring instrument in which the echo minute bright green leaves. workers but there is no time. There is growth in management at this time. This is a perfect of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to find whatever slows the business down. You possess an architect’s vision for what needs to time to be assertive and to move forward in your career decisions. You have all the drive 12. Well grounded in logic or truth or having be done-a true builder. Others sense that you know just what tool to use and how and and energy you could want today-it should be easy to channel this energy. You feel a love of detect and locate distant objects. legal force. when to use it when it comes to solving problems on the job-there is a sense of the right 21. A unit of length of thread or yarn. order and law-an appreciation for responsibilities and duty. Problems are valued for the les- 13. A particular geographical region of indef- path or dharma. You may even wonder why you do not exert this energy in your personal sons they represent, rather than perceived as obstacles. Good conversations with young 22. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth inite boundary (usually serving some special life from time to time. There may be some insights into this quandary now. Take some time people are in today’s forecast. and mother of Cronus and the Titans in purpose or distinguished by its people or cul- this evening to make a list of things you want to change. ancient mythology. ture or geography). 24. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow 14. Any of a number of fishes of the family leaves and small flowers. Carangidae. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 26. A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel. 19. Analyze syntactically by assigning a con- 29. Either of two large African antelopes of You value hard work and effort and will go about completing your designat- stituent structure to (a sentence). This workday goes by very fast as you stay very busy. You are successful the genus Taurotragus having short spirally ed tasks as quickly as possible. You like to get down to the bare bones-to what is essential. 23. Of surpassing excellence. and forward moving; co-workers enjoy working with you and customers do not forget your You may find yourself being put to good use by your friends this afternoon. You make every twisted horns in both sexes. 25. A blue dye obtained from plants or made name. The forecast is for little difficulties and easy transactions so dive in and get started. moment and every opportunity count. All of this, however, should go rather smoothly. 31. A South African movie theater. synthetically. Some of your plans for the noon break may have to be adjusted. The friends you see Close ties with home, friends and family, plus your career interests, keep you quite busy. 34. The sixth day of the week. 27. South American wood sorrel cultivated around you are the ones you have picked very carefully and they know what you like and Some may find you somewhat preoccupied and lacking in the social graces at this time. You 37. An area of ground used for some particu- how you like to be treated. You and they seem to have known each other from the begin- for its edible tubers. may feel some tension from your busy schedule, but there are opportunities to get back to lar purpose (such as building or farming). ning of time. This afternoon your job is to relax and enjoy these friends and take in the 28. Dutch postimpressionist painter noted a more quiet time later this week. A sense of harmony turns this day into a most gratifying 38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alka- laughter and positive feedback that multiplies all those good feelings. There are great for his use of color (1853-1890). and happy one. li earth group. 30. 30 to 300 kilohertz. memories created throughout today’s celebrations. 40. Tropical American tree grown in southern 32. Someone who cuts and delivers ice. United States having a whitish pink-tinged 33. Imaginative British writer concerned with fruit. social justice (1903-1950). Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 42. Water that has condensed on a cool sur- 35. Not functioning properly. face overnight from water vapor in the air. 36. Wasting of the body during a chronic dis- You are convincing in speech and communication. You put your practical Your inner resources and emotions are stimulated. This could not only mean 43. Hormones (estrogen and progestin) are ease. and managerial abilities to work; others are impressed, and sometimes a bit you have control over yourself in touchy situations but you can expect good- given to postmenopausal women. 39. The fourth month of the Hindu calendar. enthralled. A leadership role is a compelling force in your job and now is the time to begin will and respect from those around you. This is a good day to get things done. You are able 45. A health resort near a spring or at the sea- 41. (usually followed by `to') Having the nec- to ask questions about how one might achieve this position. You can make a career out of to concentrate well and you also can maintain a sustained effort that makes almost any task side. essary means or skill or know-how or author- your keen organizational skills and clear insight into how things work. You might also con- run well. You may feel like exercising or getting outside for a time later this afternoon. A little 47. Top part of an apron. sider a profession as a consultant. It is something you could do in little steps until you exercise would certainly break the tension. Lovers, children and other people or things dear ity to do something. decide you might or might not like the idea. Supervising and taking charge are your trade- 48. Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic 44. A soft gray malleable metallic element to your heart are emphasized this evening. Perhaps a picnic dinner in a nearby park would protozoa that form temporary pseudopods marks. You tend to think along lines that are conservative, always coming up with sound, bring family members together in a positive atmosphere. New insights or breakthroughs that resembles tin but discolors on exposure productive ideas. Love is fulfilling this evening. are possible with someone older. for feeding and locomotion. to air. 51. Tired to the point of exhaustion. 46. A clergyman in many Christian churches 54. A town in northwestern New Mexico near who has the authority to perform or adminis- the Arizona border. ter various religious rites. Word Search 56. Excessive or affected modesty. Yesterday Solution 49. Very sophisticated especially because of 58. An organ in its earliest stage of develop- ment. surfeit. 60. Gracefully slender. 50. Roman statesman who became emperor 62. The wife of a sheik. of Rome after defeating Mark Antony at 66. A public place in ancient Greece or Rome Actium (63 BC - AD 14). devoted to the training of wrestlers and oth- 52. A fencing sword similar to a foil but with a er athletes. heavier blade. 69. A member of a nomadic Berber people of 53. Make attractive or lovable. the Sahara. 55. Any of various water-soluble compounds 70. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike that form by hydrolysis in the digestion of part of an organism. proteins to amino acids. 71. Used by Maoris for thatching. 57. Chinese ephedra yielding ephedrine. 74. A popular island resort in the Netherlands 59. Type genus of the Blattidae. Antilles. 61. A polyhedron with two congruent and 75. 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I happened to be in the right The 30-year-old Scot scooped the title for place at the right time.” Calvin - who has the second consecutive year after top- recently split from singer Rita Ora - beat ArianaGrande off competition from the likes of David Guetta, who was second on the list with $30 million earnings in the past 12 defends months. Tiesto was narrowly behind in third with $28 million after recently sexier image ditching his Ibiza residency. Explaining his decision, he said: “I’ve been going there for the last 10 years, it felt there was nothing special. And then I got the offer to play in Las Vegas ... They made me a great proposal, not just the money but also what they’re going to do there, the biggest club in the world.” Avicii tied with Tiesto in joint third place, while the top five was completed by Steve Aoki, son of Benihana founder Rocky Aoki, thanks to his $23 million earnings. Forbes’ Electronic Cash Kings list of top five high- est paid DJs: ping Forbes’ Electronic Cash Kings list with his huge $66 million (£39.8 million) 1. Calvin Harris ($66 million) earnings in the past 12 months, $20 mil- 2. David Guetta ($30 million) riana Grande has defended showing showing more and more skin.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, insists she won’t alienate her younger fan lion more than he earned to reach the 3. Tiesto ($28 million) “more and more skin”. The pint-sized because I want to.’ “Believe me, if I don’t want base. The 21-year-old star explained: “I’ve summit last year. Putting his success 4. Avicii ($28 million) Apop star has hit back at criticism she’s to do something I will not do it, and I say that wanted to do this forever and I’m not going to partly down to luck, the modest music 5. Steve Aoki ($23 million) giving into music industry pressure to strip with every ounce of passion in my body.”I’m a jeopardize it by allowing someone else to take down on stage and in her latest videos, and very flexible person but if I feel like you want control. When I’m ready to progress naturally, I insists it is solely her decision to dress more me to compromise my views or myself as an will. That’s something I’ve been careful about provocatively. She told Attitude magazine: artist, I will not do that.” While the Break Free my whole career because I don’t want to do “I’ve seen people online saying, ‘It’s so sad singer is happy to evolve her style, Ariana - something that will shock or upset my she’s becoming a product of this industry - who first found fame on Nickelodeon chil- younger fans. They’re the ones who’ve been she’s wearing shorter and shorter skirts and dren’s shows ‘Victorious’ and ‘Sam and Cat’ - with me since the beginning.” Aniston does squats Alba injured herself filming ‘Sin City: before romantic getaways A Dame to Kill For’ ennifer Aniston prepares for romantic into the yoga routine.”For me, there’s no getaways with squats. According to better thing to lift your butt than squats. Jthe former ‘Friends’ star’s yoga instruc- Pretty much, that’s gonna do it... Most of us tor, Mandy Ingber, Jennifer likes to “tighten want that area a little higher.” Unlike yo-yo up” before going on short breaks with her dieters, Jennifer, 45, is said to be very “con- actor fiance Justin Theroux and focuses on sistent” when it comes to getting into the butt-shaping exercises to lift her poste- shape and knows which fatty foods to rior. Mandy told ABC News: “She focuses on avoid to stay trim. Mandy explained: “Jen’s butt exercises for sure; I’ll add some squats a very consistent exerciser and eater. “But when she has something she needs to focus a little more on, she just tightens it up a little bit. She won’t have the extra chips.” Meanwhile, the ‘We Are The Millers’ star recently revealed she was banned from undergoing plastic surgery or botox by her 43-year-old husband-to-be, saying he “will put a gun to my head if I touch my face in any way.” She told Yahoo! Beauty: “I think, what I have been witness to, is seeing women trying to stay ageless with what they are doing to themselves.”I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting this into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, ‘Oh god if you only know how much older you look.’ They are trying to stop the clock and all you can see is an insecure person who won’t let

highest paid model themselves just age. I also have a fiancÈ who will put a gun to my head if I touch my face in any way.” Bundchen is the world’s

isele Bundchen is the world’s high- been extended to include the earnings of est-paid model for the eighth year in 21 supermodels - also includes Brits Sigourney Weaver Ga row. The Brazilian beauty, 34, is Jourdan Dunn and Cara Delevingne. While reported to have earned $47 million last model of the moment Cara earned a cast in A Monster Calls year to top Forbes magazine’s annual list, reported $3.5 million through working with thanks to her contracts with Chanel, H&M, luxury labels including Mulberry, Burberry, Carolina Herrera and her deal with shoe- Yves Saint Laurent beauty and DKNY, she maker Grendene, for whom she designed a was beaten to the 5th spot by her close pal range of jelly shoes. Adriana Lima and and mother of one Jourdan who took Doutzen Kroes took joint second place, rak- home $4million to match Karlie Kloss, ing in around $8 million each, while the Carolyn Murphy and Natalia Vodianova. oldest model on the list, Kate Moss, 40, Polish model Anja Rubik also earned $3.5 essica Alba accidentally whipped herself in the came in third place, along with Miranda million to land the 6th spot with Cara, 22. face filming ‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’. The 33- Kerr, curvy Kate Upton and Liu Wen, who all Finishing off the list is Joan Smalls, Candice Jyear-old actress - who reprises her role as stripper took home around $7 million. Hilary Rhoda Swanepoel, Erin Wasson, Erin Hetherton, Nancy Callahan in the sequel to 2005’s ‘Sin City’ - came and Alessandra Ambrosio came in in fourth Lindsey Wixson and Daria Werbowy with $3 away with various injuries after attempting to master place with $5 million. The list - which has million each. wielding a bullwhip for the movie. She said: “I whipped myself a couple of times in the face. I didn’t mean to ... you have to whip it really fast and I had to look cool, and there was wind, and I was trying to Ed Sheeran: channel Beyonce.” Alba also performs some risqué pole-dancing moves in the sequel which left her knees and back incredibly sore. Appearing on ‘Conan’ last night, she said: “I was really sore when I came No bitterness over ‘Don’t’ home, I was usually icing my knees and my back, and asking my husband to massage me. I would record igourney Weaver has been added to put his everyday troubles to one side. The the dances and be like, ‘See babe, this is why I need the cast of ‘A Monster Calls’. The actress Hollywood Reporter says Weaver, 64, will you to rub my knees tonight.’ And he’d say, ‘My hands Swill appear alongside the likes of play the role of the boy’s grandmother, while are tired.’ “The stunning actress’ likeness has been Felicity Jones and Liam Neeson in the film, Jones is to play the mother and Neeson will used for a new movie tie-in action figure but she which is a feature adaptation of the award- star as the tree monster who helps guide the admits it’s a “little weird” to be turned into a plastic toy winning fantasy novel by Patrick Ness. The boy in the fantastical world he comes to - especially as the toys aren’t for children due to the movie is to be directed by Spaniard Juan inhabit. The film is set to be released in the film’s violent content. She added: “It’s a little inappro- Antonio Bayona, who performed the same US on October 14, 2016. Meanwhile, Weaver priate. I think this is an adult action figure. I’ve had a role for the 2012 drama ‘The Impossible’. The recently passed up the opportunity to few action figures for ‘Dark Angel’, ‘Fantastic Four’, the film centres on a young boy who tries to appear in the much-anticipated first ‘Sin City’ and now this. I have them in storage, it’s cope with bullying at the hands of his class- ‘Expendabelles’ film, which is a spin-off of the weird to have them around the house. It might be a mates, as well as his mother’s terminal illness, popular ‘Expendables’ franchise starring little weird.” by escaping into a world that allows him to Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham. Bush asks fans not to take

d Sheeran insists he doesn’t have have any bitterness towards that situation photos or film live shows “any bitterness” towards the subject at all. I literally got over it within the week Eof his song ‘Don’t’. The 23-year-old and the song just stuck around. “I know crooner sings of a cheating partner on the people hear the song and it might be fresh ate Bush has asked fans not to take pho- would please refrain from taking photos or film- scathing track, which appears on his hit because it’s the first time they’ve heard it but tos of her upcoming live shows. The ing during the shows. “I very much want to have album ‘x’, but he doesn’t hold on to resent- I think all parties involved have just moved K‘Wuthering Heights’ singer will perform a contact with you as an audience, not with ment or ill will as he’s moved on since writ- on. It’s a year on from writing the song and it residency Hammersmith Apollo later this year - iPhones, iPads or cameras. I know it’s a lot to ask, ing the song a year ago. Quizzed about the was a long time ago.” Ed previously con- her first set of live shows since 1979 - and she has but it would allow us to all share in the experi- song’s subject, Ed told Capital FM: “They firmed ‘Don’t’ is about a high-profile celebrity urged punters to refrain from snapping a picture ence together.” Meanwhile, the legendary star don’t really [know] though, people have ex and he even warned his former lover or filming any of the concert because of the also commented on the rehearsals for the con- assumptions. With that track, I only felt that about the song’s imminent release. He said: “I nature of the venue. She wrote on her official certs and insisted preparations are “going very way for a week and then I made my peace just said, ‘Just so you know, there is a song.’ website: “We have purposefully chosen an inti- well indeed”. She added: “We’re all very excited with it and got on with it. “But it just hap- And they said, ‘Expected that.’ Cause of the mate theatre setting rather than a large venue or about the upcoming shows and are working very pened that that song was alright and I situation, you know, I didn’t lie at all. It’s 100 stadium.”It would mean a great deal to me if you hard in preparation. It’s going very well indeed.” wanted to put it on the album. But I don’t per cent true.” lifestyle THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES Arctic Monkeys ready to chill after global success ward-winning British rockers Arctic nitely. “We were never looking for more in been scrutinised more. It is a bit mad in Monkeys, whose cheeky garage America. You’re still thousands of miles terms of how long ago we started the band Apunk origins have evolved seamless- away from home so just not playing to an and how much has happened. ly into stadium-filling success across empty room in America was success for us.” “Maybe at this point in time we’re the America, are ready for a break. Shrugging The four-piece shot to fame in 2006 with biggest band in the world but I’ve never off the label of World’s Biggest Band in the explosive teenage energy of “Whatever taken that seriously. I don’t wake up think- some sections of the music press, the indie- People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”- ing I’m on top of the world. But I can’t com- rock stars told AFP in an interview at Tokyo’s Britain’s fastest-selling debut album ever, plain.” Guitarist Jamie Cook agreed their lat- Summer Sonic festival that they were look- bristling with lyrics about lairy nights out in est cut was a major departure from their ing forward to some down-time after taking their home city of Sheffield in the north of early work, where tongue-in-cheek refer- the United States by storm. “There isn’t any England. ences to 1980s bands such as Duran Duran rush to do something else yet,” said drum- The band topped the American charts were mischievously dropped into hits like “I mer Matt Helders. “For now this album with the sultry “AM” and sold out arenas Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” and seems like a place to leave it for a bit. We’ve across the country, frontman Alex Turner “Teddy Picker.” never really had an indefinite chunk of time becoming a sex symbol in his rockabilly “There’s a lot of R&B influence in this off. I don’t think we can tour (this record) quiff and leather jackets. “Every time we’ve record,” he said of “AM”, which has drawn anymore.” made a record we have tried to move for- comparisons with everything from the G- The release of their fifth album “AM” last ward a bit,” added Helders. “We might have funk of Dr Dre to David Bowie’s backing September triggered a flood of critical made a bigger leap this time. When we did band Spiders from Mars, or The Strokes with acclaim and accolades but their transforma- our third album ‘Humbug’ that was a big its fuzzy guitar riffs. “There’s a lot more tion from brash teenagers to biker chic pin- step, but one that gave us confidence to do Arctic Monkeys groove and probably less traditional rock ups means they can barely get through a something a bit different.” Headlining and “Arabella” at the seaside baseball stadi- Wanna Know?” Helders said: “Some of the guitar. It’s a fun album to play.” Helders show now without being pelted with Japan’s Summer Sonic, which takes place um as a lightning storm flashed overhead. old stuff just doesn’t make as much sense agreed. “There’s definitely interesting parts women’s underwear. “More bras this year,” over two days in Tokyo and Osaka and also Richer texture anymore to play. Or it doesn’t fit into the set in this album,” he said. “We’ve got the oppor- said Helders. “Like nearly every gig. People featured Kasabian, Queen, Avril Lavigne, The band’s latest release shows a darker, as well. There’s nothing we’re ashamed of. tunity to play a lot of new songs that people write their e-mail addresses on them. It’s Kraftwerk and the Pixies, the Arctic deeper side to their music, richer in texture “Anybody who was 18 and is now 28 looks want to hear. I didn’t expect to play eight the first time we’ve had a lot of radio play Monkeys rocked a crowd of 40,000 with and with the theme of heartbreak at the back and is like ‘Why did I have that hair- out of ten of the new songs every night-usu- and played bigger shows in America, defi- tunes such as “Fake Tales of San Francisco” album’s core, as in the achingly tender “Do I style, or why did I wear that?’ It’s just we’ve ally they want the old hits.”—AFP Saxophonist Dickson plays classics, pop and saves lives too

fter winning a Classic BRIT award in with orchestras around the world led her to difficult,” she said. “It’s really just you 2013, proving the saxophone can be win the Breakthrough Artist of the Year breathe in through your nose and you store Aan important classical instrument; award at the Classic BRITs - an award whose air in your cheeks and you’re using your Amy Dickson is taking it to more familiar previous winners include violinists Nicola lung air to push air out through your mouth pop territory on her new album. “A Summer Benedetti and Alina Ibragimova. at the same time.” Place”, released later this month, is a Dickson started learning the saxophone Dickson’s talents are not limited to crossover that includes vintage pop songs when she was so young that she had to music. In her youth she acted as a lifeguard ranging from Simon & Garfunkel’s “The work out a quirky way of holding such a at a beach near where she grew up in Sound of Silence” to Andy Williams’s “Moon large instrument. Ten years later she made Australia. “When I was at school I was a surf River”. The Sydney-born saxophonist told her concerto debut. “I started playing the lifesaver because that’s what we do for Reuters she wanted to evoke a time and saxophone when I was six and it was enor- sport in Australia. And, yeah, I was in the mood one might associate with Audrey mous ... I sat on a chair and I had a pillow rubber dinghy out the back one day, in the Hepburn’s 1967 film “Two for the Road”. underneath my foot and I had my saxo- boat, with my best friend and one of the “I just thought that the most amazing, phone on my heel and kind of propped it other guys in the patrol, we saved three summery setting would be in the south of up. I loved the sound of it from a very early men,” she said. France in the 1960s by a pool - hair down age and I guess that’s why I stuck with it.” As for the future, Dickson believes the properly and in a gown,” she said in an saxophone - a relative newcomer and rarity interview. “And so we were really inspired ‘Circular breathing’ in the world of classical music - offers end- by that setting and tried to find a sound Dickson’s playing has been helped by less options. “I don’t have any limit to what I world that would capture that.” Trained at use of “circular breathing”. It took her six want to do musically. I keep discovering the Royal College of Music in London, months to master inhaling through the there’s such an enormous range of options Dickson proved her classical music prowess nose and exhaling through the mouth at for a musician out there and for somebody on an earlier album that featured her own the same time while playing. “I taught who plays the saxophone which is just an arrangements of a violin concerto by Philip myself to circular breathe really and it’s not instrument which can dabble in so many Glass and piece by John Tavener. actually that difficult. It’s hard to master it genres it’s just an infinite world of possibili- Amy Dickson That and her work on other albums and on an instrument, but the concept isn’t so ties.” — Reuters Bob Marley Depp, daughter Lily-Rose Dutch DJ Tiesto musical to make starring in Smith’s ‘Yoga Hosers’ traffics in hits on ‘Paradise’ premiere in Baltimore ohnny Depp and his daugh- Michael Parks, Justin Long, Haley musical about Bob Marley that uses the Jamaican ter Lily-Rose Depp are star- Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, consistent presence near the top of Forbes’ val in Germany or something-people still want me reggae icon’s music is in the works for next year. Jring in Kevin Smith’s horror- Ralph Garman, Jennifer rankings of the most fiscally successful DJs, to play my own style. So you’re kind of stuck in that ACenter Stage in Baltimore said Tuesday it would comedy “Yoga Hosers,” which Schwalbach and Harley Aand a tireless performer at fests and residen- world. On mentorship: I’ve worked with a lot of present the world premiere of “Marley,” written and direct- begins shooting this week. Morenstein. New cast members cies, Dutch veteran Tiesto released “A Town Called people over the past few years; the biggest would ed by company artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah. It will Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn include Tony Hale, Natasha Paradise” this summer, his first proper album since be Avicii, who used to open for me in Ibiza. The run from May 6 to June 14. Smith is also starring in the sec- Lyonne, Austin Butler, Adam 2009’s “Kaleidoscope.” On the importance of problem with a lot of the other guys is that they The show focuses on the years 1975 to 1978, when ond installment of Smith’s True Brody, Tyler Posey and Jason albums: An artist album five or 10 years ago had a have their own agenda. Marley survived an attempted assassination in Jamaica and North Trilogy. The trio also Mewes. lot more impact than nowadays. Nowadays I feel went into exile in London. It will feature mid-’70s Marley appeared in the first film “Tusk,” The daughters will play 15- most people just do one-off singles all the time. No albums as “Exodus,” “Kaya,” and “Rastaman Vibration,” which which will see its world premiere year-old yoga enthusiasts who one really seems to be making real albums any- include the songs “Jamming,” “Three Little Birds” and “Roots, at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival. hate their after-school jobs at a more, and people don’t take the time to listen to Rock, Reggae.” It’s a collaboration between Center Stage The entire “Tusk” cast is returning Manitoban convenience store and them either. That’s hard to fight against, when you and New York’s Public Theater, where Kwei-Armah directed for “Yoga Hosers,” including team with Depp’s manhunter have people who are surrounded with music all the two productions last year. Oskar Eustis, artistic director of character to battle an ancient time now. I just try to make the album as interest- the Public Theater, will be the “Marley” dramaturg. — AP evil.”People always ask me ‘Are you ing as possible, to make every song the best song I ever going to make a comicbook can. When I think of this album, there’s 14 hits on movie?’” said Smith. “This is it - but there. It’s not a journey like the old albums used to instead of yet another dude sav- be, it’s more like every song can be, or should be a ing the day, our antiheroes are the hit. most feared and formidable crea- On audience expectations: Some people are Bjork to present tures man has ever encountered: surprised when I don’t play “Adagio for Strings” in two fifteen year old girls.” my set, and some other people are surprised when UK premiere of ‘Biophilia Live’ StarStream Entertainment is I do, like, “what the hell is this hard, fast techno financing and producing the film sound” that they had no idea I did. That song is 11 at BFI London Film Festival in association with Invincible years old; if you’re 20 years old and going to a festi- Pictures, Abbolita Productions and val now, you’ve probably never heard it. It’s a tricky Smith’s SModcast Pictures. Liz one. I think that’s the beauty of being in that posi- Destro, Jordan Monsanto and tion as a DJ. I change my style, change my sound, Jennifer Schwalbach are produc- and if I play things nowadays, it has the same sur- ing. XYZ Films will be selling for- prise reaction as 10 years ago when I first made it. eign rights at Toronto with WME It’s a great position to be in. It all depends on what A lot of DJs are not in the situation I’m in. For Global handling North America. kind of gig it is. When I play Las Vegas, people just me, it doesn’t really matter if someone (I mentor) XYZ Films is also handling foreign want to party, they just want to hear great happy gets big or not. But there are a lot of DJs out there sales on “Tusk.”StarStream’s “Life music. that want themselves to be the biggest, and the After Beth” opened last weekend And I’m fine with that, of course. And then a lot younger guy has to be the warm-up act and that’s and Lionsgate and Roadside of festivals like Outside Lands ... it’s a very indie- it. That’s what I see sometimes, and that’s the prob- Attractions will release based audience, and I feel like there I can go a lot lem with DJs fighting other DJs. I don’t really have StarStream’s “Life of Crime” on Aug deeper and play some really weird stuff. But I’m not any ego in that sort of way, so I just like to help 29. News was first reported by The sure where I can go super deep anymore, because these guys and if I might see one of them turn even Johnny Depp Hollywood Reporter. — Reuters people expect Tiesto to play the sound of Tiesto. So bigger than me, I wouldn’t really care about that, I even when I play a deep festival-a deep house festi- would only be proud.— Reuters

Toby Kebbell in talks to celandic singer Bjork will attend the UK premiere of concert movie “Bjork: Biophilia Live” at the BFI ILondon Film Festival, alongside directors Peter Strickland and Nick Fenton. The film will play on Oct. 9 join ‘A Monster Calls’ at London’s Odeon West End as the Sonic Gala, the lead event for the fest’s music-inspired Sonic program antastic Four” and “Dawn of the Planet Picture Group co-chairman Patrick Wachsberger. of screenings and events. of the Apes” actor Toby Kebbell is in The story follows a boy who seeks the help of a “Biophilia Live” was recorded live at London’s negotiations to join Felicity Jones and tree monster to cope with his single mom’s termi- Alexandra Palace last September, and features Bjork “F and her band performing every song from her eighth Liam Neeson in the adaptation of Patrick Ness’ nal illness. The pic will bow on Oct 14, 2016. fantasy novel “A Monster Calls.” The Focus After showing strong supporting roles in studio album, “Biophilia,” and reworked versions of Features, River Road Entertainment, Participant films like “The East,” “War Horse” and “The some of her past tracks. The songs are accompanied by Media and Lionsgate International production Counselor,” Kebbell is looked at as someone who animation sequences and science and nature archive also stars Sigourney Weaver with Juan Antonio should pop in the coming months. He recently footage inspired by the album’s theme-the relation- Bayona directing. wrapped production on Legendary’s “Warcraft” ship between musical structures, the natural world on Focus will distribute domestically while as well as Fox’s “Fantastic Four” where he plays Earth, and the universe. Images include volcanoes, Lionsgate International handles overseas sales. super-villain Doctor Doom. Though unrecogniz- viruses, lightning, plankton, planets and jellyfish. Clare The pic will be shopped at the upcoming Toronto able, Kebbell also gave his talents as the rebel- Stewart, the festival’s director, said: “Bjork is a true Film Festival. Executive producers are River Road’s lious Koba in Fox’s “Dawn of the Planet of the innovator, collaborating with exceptional filmmakers Bill Pohlad and Mitch Horwits, Participant’s Jeff Apes.” He is repped by CAA and Independent and artists to produce intoxicating work at the inter- section of music and film.” — Reuters Skoll and Jonathan King and Lionsgate Motion Talent Group. — Reuters Toby Kebbell lifestyle THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 , 2014

Fashion

Indian Bollywood models showcase creations by designer Masaba during Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Winter/Festival Indian Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty with designer Masaba (right). 2014 in Mumbai. — AP/AFP photo YOUNG INDIAN SHAKES UP FASHION WITH PRINTS AND PRET

he’s already a leading name in Indian fashion, with cus- something that you heard of,” said Gupta, who officially opened tomers ranging from top Bollywood stars to teenage girls the winter edition of Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai on Fair skin obsession Son pocket money. Yet 25-year-old Masaba Gupta-best- Tuesday by displaying one of her collections. Being of mixed Indian and Afro-Caribbean heritage, Gupta’s known for her quirky cow and camera prints that adorn saris, “A designer needs to sell either bridal or mass (fashion) to be rapid ascent is all the more unusual in an industry and a country dresses and even smartphone covers-puts much of her whirl- able to make money, and at the end of the day it is about mak- where fair skin is equated with beauty and prosperity. But she wind success down to intuition. “My gut just somehow ... tells ing money. I can’t do bridal, it’s not my aesthetic, so I thought said she has found success to be the best deterrent to preju- me that this is going to be the next big thing. Luckily I know it that I’ll go the mass way.” Selling clothes and accessories in the dice. “You have to surpass what people may think of you to be before anyone else does,” she told AFP at her flagship “Masaba” range of 900-6,000 rupees ($15-98) in her new Masaba Lite line, able to reach that store in Mumbai’s trendy suburb of Juhu. The daughter of West Gupta is hoping it will become “like an Indian H&M”, referring to level where no one comments on you. But India will always Indies cricket legend Viv Richards and Bollywood actress Neena the hugely popular Swedish high street chain. “Why buy a fake be a fair-skin obsessed country, it’s never going to change.”Both Gupta-who shared a relationship in the 1980s-the young when you can get the original at the same price?” says the web- her parents have influenced her style, especially her mother, designer said many people “write me off as a product of my par- site for the brand, which she has launched with Western wear whom she watched in her childhood “cutting up her saris, ents and social media”, but her clothes appear to be challenging but intends to expand into Indian clothing. patching stuff on to them, making her own blouses”. the critics. Gupta said she wants young girls “to own a sari each”, recall- Gupta has also enjoyed the backing of modern Bollywood Alongside the rise of her eponymous brand, Gupta was in ing an occasion when three teenagers walked into her shop stars such as Sonam Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra-endorse- 2012 appointed the youngest creative director for prestigious and pulled their pocket money together to buy a single drape. ments she believes are key in the movie-mad country. But she ethnic wear label Satya Paul-a rare move in the world of Indian When designing for the Masaba brand, her original higher-end criticizes Indian designers who rely on celebrity dressing fashion houses, which tend not to hire big outside names. From label aimed at women in their twenties, Gupta naturally veered instead of fresh ideas and business sense. “Even I have to con- lipstick patterns to the Tamil script, her unconventional trade- towards a fusion of styles-be it Westernized prints on Indian sil- stantly keep re-inventing myself,” she said. “Prints are something mark prints have proved so popular that counterfeits have houettes or vice versa. that can run out of fashion very quickly.” — AFP flowed into the market, spurring her recently to set up the more Fashion writer Shefalee Vasudev, author of “Powder Room: affordable “Masaba Lite” line for teenagers. The Untold Story of Indian Fashion”, hailed Gupta’s “refreshing” It is an impressive CV for someone who stumbled into fash- approach to prints, saying her idea of India “doesn’t derive from ion because no other college courses were still open-”I had self-conscious patriotism for the crafts legacies of our country”. nothing else to do,” admitted Gupta over tea in her store, “Instead she has been able to think, define and express her dressed in high-street culottes and gold sandals. sense of contemporary Indianness through unusual modern prints (and) play of color, even when she makes saris or tunics Too much bridal which are common silhouettes in Indian fashion.” Not all critics Attending catwalk shows as a student, she found Indian have been so impressed, but Gupta said she is most interested Shilpa Shetty fashion “was running at this really slow, stale pace” with an evi- in the feedback of those who buy her clothes, so she keeps a showcases a dent gap in the market. “I felt like everybody was doing bridal, close eye on her Instagram and Twitter accounts. “If one girl says creation by there was no such thing as ‘prÍt’ ready-to-wear was just not it, I know that five girls have probably discussed it,” she said. designer Masaba.

Masaba Gupta poses at her store in Mumbai. Masaba Gupta looks into a mirror at her store in Mumbai. Masaba Gupta poses at her store.

Victoria Beckhams’ ‘cathartic’ closet ictoria Beckham says cleaning out her closet for charity felt “cathartic”. The 40-year-old fashion Vdesigner is auctioning off 600 items from her personal wardrobe in order to raise money for charity mothers2mothers and she enjoyed the process of going through her various outfits and picking out ones to sell. She explained to the Daily Telegraph newspaper: “We went through 20 years of clothes and shoes, hun- dreds of boxes and rails, and it feels cathartic to have had such a big clear out for such a great cause. “There was a lot of hilarity, some bad dressing up ‘selfies’ and a few emotional moments, too.” The mother-of-four admits it was difficult to part with some of her favorite outfits because they hold such a personal meaning to her, but she doesn’t think there’s any point hanging on to her clothes when they could benefit a great cause. Victoria said: “I’m very blessed that I’ve got a beauti- ful daughter to hand lots of things down to. But out there in a world where mothers are trying to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS to their own unborn babies, and where mothers are struggling to get the medication for their own daughters, these clothes have more value being sold online than sitting in a closet for another 20 years waiting for Harper to take an interest.” Victoria’s sale began yesterday on TheOutnet.com. —Bangshowbiz

An employee of Japan’s Mitsukoshi department store holds a 410 million yen (4.1 million USD) jewelry wrist watch, pro- duced by London’s jeweller Backes & Strauss for the annual world watch fair at Mitsukoshi’s main store, in Tokyo yester- Victoria Beckham day. The watch decorated with 225 pieces, a total of 38.69 carats colorful diamonds is produced to celebrate the 225 years anniversary of the jeweller’s establishment. — AFP lifestyle THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 , 2014

Fashion Lady Gaga buys fashion student’s entire collection ady Gaga has bought a fashion student’s by Wilson PK stunning young recent graduate ferent and is showing a new aspect of beautiful.” entire collection. The ‘Pokerface’ hitmaker from St Martins Fashion School in London. (sic)” The designer also revealed that the inspiration Lhas requested every piece created by Central Wilson - who was born in Hong Kong and now behind his collection was born out of the difficulty Saint Martins graduate Wilson PK after the singer’s lives in London - admitted seeing the pop super- he faced in coming out to an unsupportive family. stylists noticed his designs on display at a New star in his designs feels “incredible”. He said: “They took it really hard - they almost York exhibition. The 28-year-old star - who sport- He told MailOnline: “It’s a huge honor. This was wanted to disown me. For me this collection was ed an embellished, knitted orange jumpsuit by the best thing that could have happened. “It was very therapeutic.”—Bangshowbiz Wilson on a recent trip to South Korea - also really incredible because she mentioned my uploaded a photo of the youngster’s work on pic- name, which she doesn’t usually do, and she ture-sharing site Instagram, calling him a “stun- called me a stunning student. I feel very lucky. “I ning young recent graduate.” She wrote: “Knit suit think she is amazing. She is doing something dif-

FASHION WEEK FASHION Indian models showcase creations by designer Gen Next Show during the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Winter/Festival 2014 in Mumbai yesterday. — AP/AFP photos LAKME Young Indian shakes up fashion with prints and pret

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Members of the ‘dream walker’ group jumps from atop the rugged rocks overlooking the azure waters of Navagio beach, one of the Greece’s most renowned leisure spots on the popular tourist island of Zakynthos. This is rope jumping-part diving, part rock climbing, with a touch of engineer- ing. The aim of the project is to dream jump in 80 places with most ravishing nature and architec- ture all over the world .They plan to stage their next leaps at a cave complex in Croatia, a French viaduct, skyscrapers in Las Vegas and Johannesburg, and the Grand Canyon. — AFP photos

Guru who sparked global yoga craze dies aged 95

KS Iyengar, the Indian yoga guru credited with helping covers, decades before power yoga was a multimillion-dollar heart attack at 80, he had continued to practice yoga into his to fuel a global explosion in the popularity of the business, Iyengar was teaching Americans, among others, nineties. He suffered from ill health as a child, but found that Bancient spiritual practice, died yesterday aged 95, his the virtues of asanas and breath control.” US model he could improved his strength by practicing yoga, which he website said. Iyengar started his yoga school in 1973 in the Turlington famously graced the front cover of Time magazine took up as a teenager. western city of Pune, developing a unique form of the prac- in a cross-legged pose for a 2001 report on the explosion in When he was 18, his guru sent him to teach in Pune tice that he said anyone could follow. He trained hundreds of yoga’s popularity. because he spoke some English. There, he developed his teachers to disseminate his approach, which uses props such Critics say the global expansion of yoga into Western own form of yoga, eventually opening his own institute. as belts and ropes to help novice practitioners achieve the gyms and fitness centres has taken the practice too far from There are now over 100 Iyengar yoga institutes around the poses. He wrote many books on yoga, which has been prac- its spiritual origins. But Iyengar said it was unfair to blame world. Indian Information Minister Prakash Javadekar said tised in Asia for more than 2,000 years, and has in recent yogis. “It all depends on what state of mind the practitioner is Iyengar had “made Pune the capital of yoga and spread it decades become hugely popular around the world. in when he is doing yoga,” he said last year in an interview all over the world”. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a yoga His insistence on perfecting the poses-or asanas-won him with the Indian newspaper Mint. “For the aberration, don’t lover, tweeted that he was “deeply saddened” by the guru’s a huge following, among them celebrity fans ranging from blame yoga or the whole community of yogis.” death. “Generations will remember Shri BKS Iyengar as a the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to the writer Aldous Huxley. It fine guru, scholar & a stalwart who brought yoga into the was an encounter with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, who ‘Live happily, die majestically’ lives of many across the world,” he said. Iyengar is survived came across Iyengar during a trip to Mumbai in the 1950s, Iyengar died early yesterday in hospital after suffering kid- by a son and a daughter. He will be cremated today after- that prompted his move to take his practice global. “Perhaps ney failure, the Press Trust of India news agency said. His noon. — AFP no one has done more than Iyengar to bring yoga to the website carried a picture of Iyengar’s smiling face beside a West,” said the New York Times in a 2002 profile of the guru. message that read: “I always tell people, ‘live happily and die “Long before Christy Turlington was gracing magazine majestically’ 14-Dec 1918-20 Aug 2014.” Despite suffering a

At 91, Marvel creator Stan Lee continues to expand his Universe arvel Entertainment’s chief emeritus Stan Lee may be in people know me, so if I do books like these, they’re willing to give his ninth decade, but it hasn’t stopped him from adding them a try,” Lee said. Moutposts to his creative empire as he hopes to interest a Many of the Marvel films are male dominated, and both critics new generation of children in super heroes of all shapes and and fans have been pushing for more female characters to be sizes. Lee, 91, the creator of comic book franchises and box-office included from the Marvel Universe. While Lee’s books for children behemoths such as Spider-Man, Avengers and X-Men, is focusing often use animals, he said, “We will of course have representatives on Stan Lee’s Kids Universe and publishing new content across of every different type” of person. books, television and digital platforms for young children. In October, Marvel will introduce a female Thor to its stable of The latest character to join the Kids Universe roster is Dex T- characters in an effort to bring new readers and appeal to Rex, a cheeky little blue dinosaur who likes to wreak havoc but women and girls. Lee’s company POW (Purveyors of Wonder) learns a serious lesson when his actions become harmful to oth- Entertainment partnered with newcomer artists and illustrators ers. He appears in a book titled “Dex T-Rex: The Mischievous Little for his Kids Universe, producing books such as “Monsters vs. Dinosaur” written and illustrated by first-time illustrator Katya Kittens,” “Hero Petz” and “Rockstar Super Diva,” aimed at girls. Bowser and aimed at children under 10. Lee believes the characters can be transitioned to film and TV, “Children that age enjoy any story with interesting things and he has a live-action project in the works for next year. “The happening, but if you can insert morals into the stories, how stories that I’ve always tried to do have been interesting, provoca- much better that is,” said Lee at a signing for the book in Los tive and exciting enough to hold someone’s interest,” he said. As Angeles over the weekend. “You try to do it in an amusing way for the upcoming Marvel movies, slated by Disney through 2019, and not in a lecturing way.” Lee said he is excited to see more characters from the Marvel More than a hundred people, both old and young, lined up Universe appear on the big screen, such as Doctor Strange, Black among narrow bookshelves to see Lee. New fans have been won Panther and Ant-Man. — Reuters over by Disney-owned Marvel’s films such as “Captain America,” “Thor” and most recently, “Guardians of the Galaxy,” in which he has cameo roles. “Because of the success of those movies, a lot of