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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Father Emir, Sheikha Moza attend graduation Al Sisi heads Ministry nod for big win in early count CAIRO: Former Egyptian for three free army chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi was on course for a sweeping vic- tory in the country’s presidential election yesterday, according to early provisional results. Sisi’s trade zones campaign said their man had captured 93.4 percent with 2,000 polling stations counted, while Plan for new livestock market judicial sources said he had 89 percent with 3,000 polling sta- DOHA: The Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, tions counted. His only rival, Municipality and Urban Noora Al Suwaidi. veteran leftist Hamdeen Sabahi, Planning has eventually She told in a presenta- was on 2.9 percent according to approved plans to establish the tion at the Central Municipal the Sisi campaign, while the judi- three free trade zones (FTZs) Council (CMC) on Qatar’s urban cial sources put Sabahi on 5 per- that are being talked about for a Masterplan, that the FTZ plans cent, with the rest of the ballots long time. However, a new loca- had been approved by the minis- deemed void. tion is being discussed for one of try. Two massive industrial zones Turnout was 44.4 percent of the FTZs which was originally were being planned for setting up Egypt’s 54 million voters, accord- planned to be set up south of warehousing facilities. ing to the judicial sources. That Doha’s Industrial Area. There is One such area will have 125 H H the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser with Hamad Victor would be less than the 40 million now a proposal to build this FTZ plots to build warehousing facili- Nazim, the first Qatari to obtain bachelor degree from the US Military Academy (West Point ) in New York, votes, or 80 percent of the elector- near Al Karana Industrial Area. ties and each plot will have an yesterday. The ceremony was attended by President Barack Obama, Congressmen, senior military, civilian, ate, that Sisi had called for last Details suggest that the first area of 1,500 sq metres, while the diplomatic figures, as well as families of the graduates. week. The lower than expected FTZ will have an area of 5.1 sq km other area will be spread over a turnout figure raises questions and it will be located near Hamad million sq metres. This industrial about Sisi’s credibility as leader International Airport (HIA). area will have 900 plots for ware- of the Arab world’s most populous Being close to the airport, this housing, each measuring 1,000 nation. FTZ would house support indus- sq metres, she said. Al Suwaidi Varsity employee dies in lab mishap See also page 10 tries and supply services for also talked of three new central aviation, cargo services and food markets that are proposed. Each processing units, among others. market will have an area of 60,000 DOHA: A man died in an acci- and nationality of the victim. building. Updates will follow.” Sheikh Khalifa The second FTZ which is being sq metres, she told the CMC. dent that happened in a labora- The university said it was work- Classes for today at Texas suggested to be shifted close to Al Besides, plans are afoot to have tory at one of the international ing closely with Qatar Foundation A&M University at Qatar have re-elected QC chief Karana Industrial Area will have a massive livestock market and universities in the Education and government to determine the been cancelled and will resume an area of 11.9 sq km. The third several slaughter houses, said the City yesterday. cause of the incident. on Sunday, June 1, the university DOHA: Sheikh Khalifa bin and the last FTZ is proposed official. She said that the above The victim was an employee “This is an unspeakable trag- said in the statement. However, Jassim Al Thani was re-elected to be of 37 sq km and is to be projects were part of urban devel- of the Texas A&M University at edy, and words cannot convey my students will be allowed in the chairman of the Qatar Chamber located near the upcoming New opment plans for Qatar until the Qatar and he died “while working condolences and compassion for campus today, it added. by its newly installed board Doha Port in south of Al Wakra. year 2032. She also talked of how in a laboratory” at its Engineering his family, friends and colleagues. “The Texas A&M Engineering members yesterday. This is the This FTZ will support automo- Qatar was envisioning to attract Building, the university said in a All of us share their grief,” said Building will be open today and third time Sheikh Khalifa has bile assembly units in addition to only the highly skilled expatri- statement last evening. the statement. employees should report to work been re-elected to the post, while boasting petrochemical and sev- ate workforce in future and how, The statement issued on behalf A Twitter alert by the univer- as usual. As our community copes this was the fifth election to the eral downstream industries. through a modern development of Dr Mark H Weichold, Dean and sity at around 1pm said: “Texas with this loss, Texas A&M in Chamber’s board after the 1990 This was disclosed by a senior plan, Qatar would like to emerge CEO of Texas A&M University at A&M Engineering Building Qatar is coordinating counseling law was passed setting it up. official of the Urban Planning as a country to reckon with on the Qatar, did not give details about the is closed because of an emer- for employees and students,” said See also page 10 Department of the Ministry of global stage. THE PENINSULA accident nor disclosed the name gency. Please stay away from the the statement. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Cabinet approves changes in foreign capital law DOHA: The Prime Minister decision transferring the affiliation BeiN. It reviewed proposals by and Interior Minister H E of the Industrial Security Affairs the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Department of Qatar Petroleum Affairs for amending some legisla- bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday to the Ministry of Interior under tions related to the Ministry; pro- chaired the weekly Cabinet ses- the name ‘General Administration posals by the Ministry of Finance sion at the Emiri Diwan. of Industrial Security’. on cooperation with Organization Following the meeting, the The meeting also approved a of Economic Cooperation and Deputy Prime Minister and proposal by the Foreign Ministry Development; the annual report Minister of State for Cabinet for adding a representative of the on Qatar Financial Centre’s activ- Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah ministry to National Committee ities April 1, 2013 to March 31 this bin Zaid Al Mahmoud said the for Fighting Terrorism in the light year; and a letter by Financial Cabinet approved a draft law of the ministry’s participation in Information Unit on its annual amending some provisions of coordination meetings of Global report for 2013. Law No. 13 of 2000 regulating the Counter Terrorism Forum. The Cabinet approved a draft investment of non-Qatari capital The Cabinet then approved the cooperation agreement in the in economic activities and decided enforcement of rules of Law No. cultural field between Qatar and to refer it to the Advisory Council. 24 of 2002 on retirement of and Croatia. It also endorsed a draft Emiri pensions for Qatari employees at QNA THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with some of the students, their parents and officials at the event. PM honours students with special needs Ceremony recognises their excellence in education

DOHA: The Prime Minister Al Thani from Foundation for special needs,” said Rabia bin and Interior Minister H E Humanitarian Services were also Mohammad Al Kaabi, Deputy Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser present at the World Excellence Chairman of the society. bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday Day celebrations at Marriott It provides educational support honoured students with special Doha. students need like audiovisual needs who showed excellence in The event highlighted educa- aids and other devices. education. tion for people with special needs. “We provide equipment based The annual event was organ- “The event was held following on latest technology for people ised by Qatar Society for directives of Sheikh Thani bin with special needs like computers, Rehabilitation of Special Needs. Abdullah Al Thani, Chairman of educational games, iPads, which Parents of the students were Qatar Society for Rehabilitation are very helpful in solving their also honoured. of Special Needs. problems related to studies, lan- The Minister of Economy and “The organisation, in collabo- guage and pronunciation. Trade H E Sheikh Ahmed bin ration with civil organisations, is “There are special advanced Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani keen to improve the educational equipment for blind students,” and Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah environment for people with said Al Kaabi. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME ‘Better Connections Programme’ launched Ministry aims at providing ICT access within transient labour accommodation to improve basic skills DOHA: Within the framework of that helps improve employees’ basic and some of it in other lan- its digital inclusion programmes, ICT skills,” said Reem Al Mansoori, guages such as Hindi, Bengali the Ministry of Information and Executive Director, ICT and Society and Nepali,” she added. Communications Technology at the ministry. The programme will help yesterday launched ‘Better “To ensure that we provide a deliver a room or area to be Connections Programme’ at the holistic programme, we worked in dedicated to computer access QITCOM 2014. partnership with stakeholders so and ICT training at labour “The programme has been estab- that we could support workers at accommodation; source low- lished to create a framework towards their accommodation; ensure that cost computers through a realisation of digital inclusion across they have access to the Internet, recycling scheme to keep any our transient labour force. It is a computers and digital content. The outgoings to a minimum; fixed low-cost, sustainable programme programme provides content that is or wireless Internet connec- to implement ICT access within relevant to their needs and available tion; and appropriate content transient labour accommodation in their languages, English, Arabic and training to help deliver ICT-based training to meet the needs of the transient labour force. The ministry also announced the release and roll out of its Digital Inclusion Strategy. It identifies key areas that require improve- ment and details initiatives to Officials at the event. improve technology usage and accessibility to ensure that Despite being a global exclusion were due to old age, that have been and will be imple- everyone advances together leader in mobile and Internet special needs or disabilities, low- mented to enhance the adoption in the technology race. penetration, a gap in under- skilled migrant workers with lim- of technology in each sub-group. The strategy was developed standing and accessibility to ited Internet access, those who Among younger users who are in support of the Information technology among many seg- live in remote areas, non-working digitally savvy, the ministry has and Communication ments of Qatar’s population Qatari women and young people identified a need for further guid- Technology (ICT) Plan, and has been identified as a prior- who did not progress to higher ance to ensure they get the most the recently launched National ity to address. education. from ICT tools available to them. Broadband Plan. Those identified at risk of The strategy outlines initiatives THE PENINSULA Deal signed with Royal Mail to modernise Q-Post

DOHA: The Ministry for the benefit of people and busi- of Information and nesses,” said Al Naemi. Communications “It will help reinforce our coop- Technology and British eration in the field and modern- Royal Mail yesterday ise Q-Post to provide high-quality signed a memorandum services,” he added. of understanding to “With the help of Royal Mail, modernise Qatar Postal the MoU will work towards Services Company enhancing skills and capabili- (Q-Post). ties of Q-Post management and It was signed by Faleh provide training in functional Al Naemi from the min- and technical skills for staff,” Al istry and Stan Kozlowski, Naemi said. Head of BPCS & Regional “The MoU includes using Royal Director, Emerging Mail’s assistance in implementa- Countries, Royal Mail Officials at the MoU signing ceremony. tion of Q-Post’s transformation International, on the side- plan and achievement of aspired lines QITCOM 2014. obligations are arrived at to agreement. “The MoU aims at services.” It will formalise both achieve the objectives of the enhancing Qatar’s postal services THE PENINSULA parties’ intentions and lay down the basis of coopera- tion to achieve the inten- tions, in accordance with Safari Mango Festival laws and regulations of both countries, and based on equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit. Q-Post and Royal Mail will work together to bolster cooperation and exchanges until more definitive contractual

Safari Group Managing Director, Aboobacker Madappat, Director and General Manager, Zainul Abideen and other officials cutting a cake to inaugurate the Safari Mango Festival Promotion. The festival is open at Safari Mall, Abu Hamour, and Safari Hypermarket, Salwa Road, until June 1. THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 FM inaugurates educational Temporary ban on project in Japan’s Iwaki City IWAKI: The Foreign Minister Goodwill Ambassador Tetsuya the rest of the projects in the hiring Nepal maids H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Bessho, dignitaries, guests and coming months, he said. Al Attiyah yesterday inaugu- residents. Shimizu thanked the people of rated Qatar Friendship Fund’s In a speech, Dr Al Attiyah Qatar for the generous donation Panel to recommend rules to ensure workers’ safety new educational project in the praised strong ties between Qatar and said it comes at a time when Japanese city of Iwaki in the and Japan at official and popular the city needs to get out of the BY FAZEENA SALEEM “The panel will make recom- applications daily to recruit Tohoku region. levels, saying despite geographi- effects of the disaster. mendations as soon as possible; female domestic workers, how- It is third of the fund’s rehabil- cal distance, Qatari people and Two students delivered DOHA: Nepal has imposed a it would be within a few weeks. ever we don’t have a count of itation projects in areas affected the world had witnessed the dis- speeches in English and Japanese, temporary ban on the recruit- “Once they are made, new how many are here,” said Poudel. by earthquake and tsunami in aster (earthquake and tsunami) thanking Qatar for the dona- ment of its women as house- rules and regulations will be The Peninsula spoke to some 2011. which affected everyone. tion and said the current school maids in Gulf countries, introduced for recruitment of expatriates who have applied to Dr Al Attiyah gave the key of He expressed pride in Japan’s building is comparable to other according to a senior diplomat. female domestic workers,” he recruit Nepalese female domes- the project, which costs $6.9m, to swift recovery from the trag- buildings in major cities in Japan The ban was imposed two said. tic workers but their applica- students from Iwaki. edy and saluted the courage of and this motivates them to exert weeks ago and might be lifted Nepal lifted a decade-long tions have not been approved The ceremony was attended Tohoku’s residents who, he said, more efforts in study. soon, Harihar Kant Poudel, ban on sending female domes- by the Nepalese ministry due to by Qatari Ambassador Yusuf are a source of inspiration for A short film on Qatar high- Second Secretary at the tic workers to the Middle East, the temporary ban. Mohammed Bilal, Kuwait’s everyone around the world. lighted the lives of parents and Nepalese embassy, told this daily. including the GCC states, in The applicants have com- Ambassador Abdulrahman Al He said since the launch of the grandparents, the discovery of oil, He said the Nepalese Ministry June 2011. But it stopped women pleted all formalities in Qatar Otaibi, Mayor of Iwaki, Toshio fund in 2012, several projects had Qatar in the present and Qatari- of Labour has appointed a com- under 30 from going to the Gulf and sent job contacts to Nepal Shimizu, representative of been completed in Fukushima, Japanese relations. Students mittee to recommend on how in August 2012. The age bar for approval. Japanese Junior Achievement Miyagi and Iwate prefectures, from Music Education Centre to “regulate” sending female aimed at preventing abuse. “Some applicants are com- Organisation, students and teach- focusing on healthcare, fisheries presented traditional Japanese domestic workers to the Gulf. Around 4,000 to 5,000 ing to the embassy everyday, we ers of preparatory and second- and entrepreneurship. The fund songs, accompanied by musicians “The ban has been imposed Nepalese female workers are in can’t do anything about it, their ary schools in Iwaki, the fund’s is looking forward to completing from Japanese Heritage. QNA to stop exploitation of female Qatar but their embassy does applications are put on hold domestic workers by manpower not have an accurate count of by the ministry in Katmandu agents in Nepal and the Gulf domestic workers. because of the temporary ban,” and introduce new regulations “Before the ban was imposed, said Poudel. to ensure the workers are safe. we received four to five THE PENINSULA Plumbing Code on the cards DOHA: Plumbing works in practices,” Ali said on the side- “The National Programme Qatar will be standardised with lines of the Second Arab Water for Conservation and Energy implementation of the proposed Conference and Exhibition at Efficiency has taken the lead to Qatar Plumbing Code, an offi- Ritz-Carlton Doha. co-ordinate efforts of all sectors cial of Qatar General Electricity The study aims at assessing all and ensure everyone is account- and Water Corporation — aspects of plumbing works like able for water and electricity con- Kahramaa — has said. quality, efficiency and durability sumption,” said Ali. A feasibility study to imple- and prepare the code that will be Tarsheed was launched by ment the code matching global soon implemented, he said. Kahramaa under the patronage standards continues, Engineer “Once the code is implemented, of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim Ali Mohammed Al Ali, Manager, no plumbing work or gadget that bin Hamad Al Thani on April 22, Conservation and Energy does not confirm to it will be 2012 to consume water and elec- Efficiency Department, told the allowed,” Ali said. tricity efficiently. Qatar News Agency. He reiterated Qatar’s push Tarsheed also aims at cutting “The code will ensure stand- through Tarsheed to spread down per capita consumption ardisation of plumbing works, awareness on using energy of electricity by 20 percent and gadgets and fixtures matching responsibly and conserve national water by 35 percent in the next international standards and best resources. five years. QNA

The Ooredoo Data Centre team receiving the award. ISO certification for Ooredoo Data Centre DOHA: The Ooredoo Data continuity systems and processes communications industry. Centre yesterday received in place so that clients’ access to “These awards demonstrate the ISO 22301 Certification data will be uninterrupted even the diverse range of Ooredoo – Business Continuity in the most extreme situations. services that are making people’s Management Systems (BCMS) “Achieving this certification lives better in countries around certificate at QITCOM 2014, shows our customers and future the world. We are also focusing on following rigorous auditing by clients that the centre has taken delivering the best possible cus- global expert Bureau Veritas. necessary steps to prepare for the tomer experience using advanced Achieving the globally-recog- unexpected, and that our facility broadband technology – and I am nised compliance BCMS certi- sits at the cutting-edge of the pleased that the global communi- fication positions it as a leading industry,” said Sheikh Nasser cations industry has recognised data centre in the region, ready Hamad Nasser Al Thani, Chief our progress in the area,” said to store and manage data of the New Business Officer, Ooredoo. Dr Nasser Marafih, Group CEO, world’s top businesses. “We have invested significantly Ooredoo. Having the world class facility in systems to ensure superior Two Ooredoo companies — on their doorstep is also impor- standards across our operations, Ooredoo Tunisia and Indosat — tant for businesses in Qatar, as particularly in the field of security, received awards in the Consumer it means there is a data manage- which is an area of ever-growing Service Innovation category. ment facility capable of managing concern for our customers,” he The awards included prizes for and storing their data to inter- added. Indosat’s Ideabox start-up accel- national standards, and is able to Ooredoo also bagged four erator and Dompetku mobile grow and expand alongside their awards at the eighth annual money service and Ooredoo data management needs. Global Telecoms Business Tunisia’s MobiFlouss pre- The certification is awarded Innovation Awards in London paid mobile money service and to companies that can demon- this month, an international Customer Self-Care portal. strate they have a full business celebration of new ideas in the THE PENINSULA

Sana Fashions offers gift vouchers

Sana Fashions, the well-known value clothing brand since 1987, has launched a gift voucher promotion for its customers to enhance their shopping experience. Customers will receive vouchers worth QR50 or QR100 on purchases worth QR250 or QR400, respectively. The promotion ends on June 5. Sana prides itself at offering quality goods at unbelievable prices for the entire family. THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Over 30,000 people visit Al Zubarah Fort in Q1

DOHA: Over 30,000 people visited leading historical attraction. The town of Al Zubarah was Al Zubarah Fort and Archaeological Sheikh Faisal Al Thani, Deputy founded in the late 18th century Site in the first quarter this year, Managing Director, Maersk Oil by pearl merchants of Basra and up 170 percent compared to the Qatar, said, “We are delighted that Kuwait. entire 2013 season. the redevelopment of Al Zubarah has The fortified, walled settle- This was the largest number of been such a success and that so many ment is over 60 hectares in size visitors Al Zubarah has witnessed people are exploring Qatar’s rich her- with an intricate, planned net- following its restoration and redevel- itage. Through our social investment work of public and private build- opment which involved the opening of programme, Maersk Oil is proud to ings. Excavations being carried a new Visitors Centre, improvements support this site which is closely tied out by University of Copenhagen to facilities and site access, and out- to the history and culture of our and Qatar Museums have reach programmes for schools and nation. The Unesco World Heritage revealed palaces, a commercial communities. status also means that it is a region- centre, mosques and residential The site gained Unesco World ally and internationally recognised buildings. Heritage status last year. Its pris- site which is a great achievement.” “Our objective is to demon- tine archaeological remains offer a Faisal Al Naimi, Director of strate the use of Qatari assets unique window into the foundations Archaeology, Qatar Museums, said, to build new touristic assets of modern Qatar and the develop- “Visitors are encouraged to experi- and offer an authentic Qatari ment of the Gulf. ence and engage with the excavation experience to attract interna- Visitors at Al Zubarah Fort and Archaeological Site. The site and associated activities, and history of the site through pho- tional tourists,” said Hassan Al partially sponsored by Maersk Oil tos, displays and tours, which we hope Ibrahim, Director of Strategy tourism products. Arts and and as a tourist destination,” Al tents outside the fort offering Qatar, have attracted people from will raise awareness of the value of Development, Qatar Tourism cultural attractions such as Al Ibrahim added. traditional food, beverage, hand- all walks of life, making it Qatar’s the site in Qatar and the Gulf,” said. Authority. Zubarah are not only some of The Visitors Centre hosts icrafts and camel rides. “History and culture will Qatar’s most popular attrac- activities for adults and chil- The site is open to visitors continue to play a lead role as tions, but also reflect the deep dren. Every weekend in the from 9am to 5pm daily. Entry Qatar National Tourism Sector cultural roots we seek to high- last few months, visitors have is free. Strategy 2030 also focuses on light and preserve as a country enjoyed Qatar’s tradition with THE PENINSULA More aid for Balkan flood victims UDC to build two more mosques at Pearl-Qatar DOHA: United Development Company (UDC), master developer of The Pearl-Qatar, has completed studies and assessment for construc- tion of two additional mosques on the island. The mosques in the vicinity of the Qatar Cool plant and Isola Dana islets will accommodate up to 300 worshipers each, UDC said yesterday. Each mosque will have Following directives of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and out of its keenness to provide aid to a ground floor as praying flood-affected countries, Qatar yesterday sent a second consignment of aid for Balkan victims. A cargo plane area, an upper floor for for Serbia carried 47 tonnes of foodstuff, medical supplies, tents and blankets, sent by the search and rescue staff, including the Imam, team of Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya). On Tuesday, Qatar despatched 42 tonnes of aid in three planes. and support services in an overall area of 1,080sqm. Work covers electro- mechanical services and associated external schemes, including paved walkways and the main sanctuary, in conform- ity with standards and specifications set by the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs. Technical submissions related to the design and construction are being reviewed by the UDC Tenders Committee. The winning bidders will be announced by mid-June. UDC is also working on the expansion of the Grand Mosque at the island’s entrance, to allow more people to pray. Renovation will include raising the mosque’s capacity from 1,200 worshippers to 3,000. HMC centre accredited by academy

DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Ambulance Service Medical Communication Centre has been named Accredited Centre of Excellence by International Academy of Emergency Dispatch (IAED). The achieve- ment, a first in the Middle East, is the result of two- and-half years of work and commitment to meet IAED’s requirements. Many school teachers sacked DOHA: Several Independent Schools have given marching orders to many of their teachers just before annual examinations for various levels are due with the academic year almost coming to an end. Many aggrieved teachers called up Al Sharq and said they were shocked by the termination of their services. “We have been teaching for years and now don’t know what to do,” a teacher told the daily. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Qatar Airways begins Shahaniya, Umm Salal parks go Wi-Fi DOHA: The Ministry of Inform- “The iParks initiative was deliver more public spaces and ation and Communications launched in 2007. The success parks that meet international Technology yesterday said that witnessed has led us to expand standards and attract users from Shahaniya and Umm Salal the service in more public parks all sections of society, we dedi- services to Edinburgh parks are now part of iParks out of Doha, and here we are cate our children with the latest initiative which will allow visi- today witnessing an extension of in children play and educational tors of these parks to access this service to the Shahaniya and equipment. Teenagers can stay in free wireless Internet. Umm Salal parks with the support shape by visiting our sports field Traditional water salute for inaugural flight The iParks initiative, launched of the Public Parks Department provided in most of our parks. in 2007 in collaboration with the of the MMUP, bringing the total Parents and elders, as well, can Ministry of Municipality and number of iParks to 9,” said Reem enjoy jogging tracks and outdoor Urban Planning (MMUP), has Al Mansoori, Executive Director, fitness for their well-being,” said seen a steady increase in users ICT & Society, the Ministry of Mohammed El-Khoori, Director in the current seven iParks. The Information and Communications of the MMUP’s Public Parks number of users benefiting free Technology. Department. Wi-Fi access in public parks tri- “Residents of Al Rayan The bilateral work is to con- pled over the past three years. Municipality and Umm Salal tinue toward further expansion Now iParks have more than Municipality will now enjoy free, of the initiative to include new 14,000 unique users per month, high-speed Internet connection”, iParks in the coming years. Qatar exceeding 60,000 sessions, and 450 said Reem Al Mansoori. “The big aims to have majority of its pub- unique users each day. turnout on the service from peo- lic parks and public places con- The ICT Ministry has worked ple who strive to balance between nected to wireless Internet by in collaboration with the Public work and leisure time, as well as 2015. The current iParks in Doha Parks Department of the MMUP those who lack Internet connection are Rumaila, Sheraton and Dahl on the iParks project as part of its at home, encouraged us to expand Al-Haman parks, and there are commitment to connect the peo- the scope of the service to more also iParks in Dukhan, Simaisma, ple of Qatar to the technologies areas outside of Doha,” she noted. Al Wakrah and Corniche Al Khor. that can enrich their lives. “As part of our strategy to THE PENINSULA

Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Officer Marwan Koleilat greeted on arrival by Gordon Dewar, Chief Executive of Edinburgh Airport. Lulu Al Khor Branch draw winners

DOHA/EDINBURGH: Qatar domestic transfers within the route are likely to be in Asia and Airways yesterday commenced UK. Australasia, with journey times to services between Edinburgh Qatar Airways Chief Melbourne reduced from approxi- and Doha. The inaugural flight, Commercial Officer Marwan mately 26 hours with two trans- which landed at Edinburgh Koleilat said: “The start of the fers, to just 20 hours with one International Airport at 13:15 service not only offers travellers quick international transfer. was welcomed with a traditional from the Scottish capital access The new Edinburgh route is not water cannon salute and the clas- to the Middle East in under only the first for the city to the sic sound of Scottish bagpipes. seven hours, but also a quicker Middle East region, but will also be With smooth and frequent total journey time to other popu- Edinburgh’s first scheduled service connection times in Doha’s lar destinations in Asia, India on one of the world’s newest air- brand new Hamad International and Australasia, through our craft, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Airport, passengers flying from brand new airline hub, Hamad Scottish Minister for External Edinburgh will now be able to International Airport.” Affairs and International arrive at their final destina- The most popular destina- Development Humza Yousaf said: tion, without the need for any tions for those using the new “Scotland and Qatar are both strong oil and gas producing coun- tries and the relationship between our two countries has continued Schedule for the new route to strengthen over recent years. DOHA to/from EDINBURGH This service will help build on Lulu Hypermarket Regional Director Shaijan M O; Regional Manager Shanavas P M; Al Khor Branch General Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays this important link and promote Manager Padmanabhan T (Pappan); D-Ring Branch General Manager M H Z Abideen; Al Gharaffa Branch QR 027 departs Doha (DOH) at 08:00; arrives in Edinburgh Scotland as a great place to do Manager Mohammed Basheer; and Lulu Centre Manager Naseer Ali, with Mohammed Al Naimi, an official from (EDI) at 13:15 business. By removing the need for the Ministry of Economy and Commerce, after the third mega draw of Lulu Mercedes Benz Car Promotion at Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays extra connecting flights, it will also QR 028 departs Edinburgh (EDI) at 14:45; arrives in Doha make Scotland a more attractive Al Khor Branch yesterday. Al Naimi supervised the draw. Winners Mahesh Naik (Coupon No. 0708581) and (DOH) at 23:40 destination for tourists.” Richard T Lasam (Coupon No. 1094160) each will get a 2014 Model E200 car. SALIM MATRAMKOT THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE Palestinian unity government is at last becoming a reality. There is a sense of optimism and euphoria as Hamas and Fatah, bitter rivals for seven long Tyears, choose to bury their differences and work Boko Haram too extreme for together for the realization of the Palestinian dream of forming a full-fledged state. There has been some skepticism in the past few weeks about the ability of the two sides to unite due to previous experiences. The two parties had vowed ‘Al Qaeda in W Africa’ brand to make amends on two previous occasions - in Cairo in 2011 and Doha in 2012 - and little practical progress had been BY TIM COCKS made. But the latest agreement has sounded credible as both In his numerous videos, Boko Haram “The sort of behaviour Boko Haram is leader Abubakar Shekau talks a lot carrying out doesn’t live up to the stand- sides moved with a certain determination. And the response HEN Nigerian President about local gripes and very little about ards Al Zawahiri has set,” said Lahoud. on the ground too has been very encouraging. Palestinians Goodluck Jonathan global jihad, although he has made a few “The attacks on civilians and particularly on either side of the divide hailed the move, and Fatah branded Boko Haram “Al appeals to Al Qaeda in what appears to these girls is not something he would newspapers have started appearing in Gaza for the first time WQaeda in West Africa”, it be no more than lip service. sanction. Boko Haram has crossed the in seven years and Hamas flags are flying in some West Bank was sure to turn up the alarm among “Shekau has several times said that line.” Al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb Western policy-makers, if its kidnapping BH (Boko Haram) is part of AQ - or (AQIM) did have firm links with Boko villages. of more than 200 schoolgirls was not aspires to be. So far, there has been no Haram but it is not clear how far this Hamas and Fatah leaders have realized that fighting enough. Yet while Jonathan’s remarks, public response from the AQ leader- carried on after French forces kicked and disunity will not take them anywhere and will only made at a meeting of regional leaders in ship,” said Richard Barrett, an expert them out of Malian cities last year. help Israel, which has benefited immensely from the rift. Paris this month, hold some truth, ana- on Al Qaeda and former coordinator of They are reported to have given Boko The Arab Spring and the huge internal problems in the lysts say Boko Haram is overall not an the United Nations Al Qaeda Taliban Haram $250,000 in 2012 and trained its Arab world have resulted in an erosion of interest in the Al Qaeda affiliate in West Africa - nor Monitoring Team. The Al Qaeda brand members in kidnapping as a way to raise is it likely to become one. has suffered damage in recent years further money, Barrett said. Though Palestinian cause at Arab capitals. The support base of both Boko Haram’s own aims remain thor- from increasingly extreme groups who riven by its own internal squabbles, Fatah and Hamas has depleted, and the geopolitical changes oughly local and its behaviour, especially assumed its name with a nod from AQIM has focused on strategy sanc- have brought new equations to the dispute. While the killing Muslim civilians and kidnapping founder Osama bin Laden or, since U.S. tioned by Zawahiri and Al Qaeda head- Palestinian cause languished due girls, runs against the Al Qaeda lead- forces killed him in Pakistan in 2011, his quarters - hitting high value strategic to the Fatah-Hamas rift, Israel ership’s current thinking. The insur- successor Ayman Al Zawahiri. targets like Algeria’s Amenas gas plant has been exploiting it to create gents’ fight for an Their later inability to control them in January 2013 and kidnapping Western Islamic caliphate proved embarrassing. hostages for money or prisoner swaps. The Hamas- new realities on the ground. The in Nigeria The first mistake was Al Qaeda in For years intelligence officials have Fatah unity continuing settlement expansion remains driven Iraq, also called Islamic State of Iraq tracked visits by a small groups of Boko and the outright rejection by the Boko Haram’s largely by domes- (ISI), whose brutality against civilians Haram fighters to Mali, when its desert government Netanyahu government of all own aims remain tic factors. It is turned an initially supportive Sunni pop- north was being overrun by AQIM, and international appeals to respect fast making what ulation against it from late 2007. Niger. In both they met Algerian bri- thoroughly local is now Africa’s Internal correspondence shows Bin gades of AQIM fighters for training and will give new rules have been made possible due and its behaviour, largest economy Laden - the inspiration behind the 2001 weapons. The deadly U.N. headquar- life to the to the lack of unity. look like a failing attacks on the United States - real- ters bombing in August 2011 was the only A unity government will open especially killing state. ised by 2010 that killings of civilians Boko Haram attack targeting a Western Palestinian up new possibilities and Fatah Muslim civilians and They could by jihadist groups had made them a institution. The suspected mastermind, cause. and Hamas must stick to their kidnapping girls, however become liability, said Nelly Lahoud, a professor Maman Nur, had trained with AQIM and plan against all odds. Once the a wider interna- at the Combating Terrorism Center at Al Shabaab, security officials said. runs against the Al tional problem West Point. Al Qaeda broke ties with But there are signs AQIM is not government is formed, the next Qaeda leadership’s down the line, ISI, which is also fighting in Syria, in totally comfortable with them. A Boko challenge will be an announcement analysts say. February. But Al Zawahiri’s acceptance Haram faction called Ansaru, blamed for on the date of elections in the current thinking. In Boko of Somalia’s Al Shabaab, who also kill the killing of several Western hostages, West Bank and Gaza, which are expected to be held within Haram’s early Muslim civilians on a large scale, shows is AQIM’s bona fide affiliate in Nigeria, the next six months. A democratically elected government days, when it was he was slow to learn from Bin Laden’s and called itself “al Qaeda in the Land should make the unity process irreversible. evolving from a clerical movement to a mistake, Lahoud said. Beyond the Sahara” in a video with a violent insurrection, the leader of one of Zawahiri is unlikely to repeat that British and Italian hostage in 2011. As expected, Israel is trying hard to scuttle the coming several rival factions, Adnan Ibrahim, error with Boko Haram, a group he has Ansaru broke off from Boko Haram in together of Palestinian leaders. A Palestinian publishing dubbed it “Al Qaeda in West Africa”. never once publicly mentioned. protest at its killing 186 mostly Muslim house said Israeli forces raided its headquarters in Ramallah The label never stuck. Western The Egyptian-born cleric last year civilians in the medieval Islamic city of yesterday and warned it not to publish papers close to the powers, weary of wars in Iraq and issued an edict urging Islamist groups Kano in early 2012. Hamas. The headquarters of the Al Ayyam newspaper has Afghanistan, therefore took little inter- not to target civilians, as he sought to When AQIM seized northern Mali est in the group. This probably gave Boko rein in jihadist elements. in early 2012, its leader Abdelmalek been publishing three pro-Hamas newspapers from early this Haram breathing space at the beginning, The last thing he needs is to be seen Droukdel exhorted its supporters to win month after the reconciliation. Such pressure tactics from said Jacob Zenn, a Boko Haram expert supporting a group that kills hundreds of the hearts and minds of the local popu- Israel will continue and are likely to intensify. at CTC. Muslim civilians. Boko Haram’s kidnap- lation - not provoking them or apply- The time has come for Palestinians to take charge of “If they had called themselves ‘al ping of more than 200 schoolgirls last ing Shariah too harshly or quickly. That their future and stop relying too much on Arab and Western Qaeda in Nigeria’, Boko Haram would month, although it garnered the sect seems a far cry from Boko Haram’s mur- countries. The seismic shifts happening in the world are have attracted the attention of the worldwide publicity, will only compound derous campaign in northern Nigeria. West,” he said. that unease. REUTERS rewriting diplomatic relations and rules of engagement. The other side Quote of Neighbourly meetings the day AKISTAN and India have gone as all top politicians well know, it is the While there is, as ever, no shortage Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, through more of these than can backroom conversations conducted by of critics who have labelled the regional Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, be counted by contemporaries, committed bureaucrats that keep the overtones given to a most significant Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Pand so have Nepal, idea of the South Asian region alive far swearing-in ceremony as unsuitable Abdul Gayoom and Mauritian Prime The United States is Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, more than flowery speeches and pomp- grandstanding by the Bharatiya Janata Minister Navin Ramgoolam to begin an the one indispensable Bhutan, the Maldives and Mauritius. filled summits. Heads of government, of Party, the party, with its convincing exchange, with Prime Minister Narendra nation. Since World War Some of these efforts at restoring geo- state and senior leaders of South Asian majority in the Lok Sabha, has perforce Modi as host, on terms that are genu- political neighbourliness have stemmed countries arrived in New Delhi this week to embark with boldness on a path that inely South Asian for the first time. II, some of our most from an international caucus, and none in what may turn out to be a genuine new has been rocky for the better part of In a world that has grown ill-advisedly costly mistakes came of these have been durable in any way. beginning, and the excuse for their get- three decades, indeed ever since the used to considering groups of countries not from our restraint, Perhaps more lasting and meaningful together was the swearing in of India’s demise of the non-aligned movement. treated as blocs (such as Brics) it is up have been the exchanges of vital infor- fifteenth Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Such boldness may enable Pakistan to these leaders to find common cause but from our willingness mation, the coordination on trade and For India, this is a first. Within the coun- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (and his del- (a plentiful substance) and a common to rush into military commerce, that has continued between try, some see it as hasty and symbolic egation), Sri Lankan President Mahinda grammar that is free of both colonial adventures — without the countries of the South Asian region only, whereas others see the invitations Rajapaksa, Speaker of the Bangladesh hangovers and post-colonial meddling regardless of their political relationships, to neighbouring country leaders as the Parliament Shirin Chaudhury (repre- by foreign powers. thinking through the Barack Obama whether these were friendly or frosty. For, mark of a new beginning for regional ties. senting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina), Khaleej Times consequences. US President THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 QATAR PERSPECTIVE www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Controversy over 2022 World Cup

MARIAM AL KHATER

atar has proved that the will emerge clearly when a trade heat of the summer can- war erupts between two Western not hinder its hosting powers with conflicting interests. Qof the 2022 World Cup. Confrontations are either eco- Sports facilities are being equipped nomic or political. with cooling systems to protect No doubt, Qatar made a huge players and spectators from heat. achievement by winning the right But some zealots are raking to host the 2022 World Cup. We up the issue of heat to show their hope that our country is not black- grudge against Qatar. mailed or exploited due to this It is a pre-planned war, direct as achievement. well as proxy. Our ideas about this Blackmail has already started, war are particularly true given regarding something that is reli- the fact that the claims made by giously banned here, namely some envious newspapers were same-sex relationships. Some not about violations committed international newspapers have by major international compa- described these relationships as nies in Europe — violations that being “legally banned in Qatar”. were partly covered by CNN last This is so controversial, given the year only within the context of a fact that we are talking here about raging war between two trading a sporting event, not a sexual one. rivals, namely the United States These relationships have not been and Europe. legally authorised even in the Reports in this regard focused world’s large secular countries. on the deplorable condition of As Qataris, if we do not under- workers in the factories of these stand the realities of this black- Workers at the site of the Al Wakrah Stadium, ground for which was broken recently. major companies in poor coun- mail we can open the door to grave tries in Latin America. They concessions at the expense of our these policies and amendments based on some conditions for both in this regard to the employer in that violate the rights of workers. said these workers were treated religious rights, not just at the or not. parties, otherwise recruitment in the light of well-known adminis- We call for naming and shaming in these factories like slaves. expense of our citizens. We have the right to call for a this country will became a lottery. trative procedures. But this does erring companies. These compa- These reports, however, did not We cannot offer any concessions reconsideration of the conditions Unconditional contracts can turn not mean that a system should be nies are mainly responsible for tell us anything about the con- in these two matters. After Qatar in which the constitution of our our country into a land for work- made to serve the interests of a tarnishing our image regarding dition of labourers working on recently announced that it will country and its laws are enforced, ers who keep changing jobs and specific group of people regardless human rights. They do not repre- American and European projects replace its sponsorship law with even as we pay attention to human employers with help from some of other parties. sent us as Qatari citizens. in poor countries such as Mexico, another system based on con- rights and the rights of others. beneficiaries. This is why it is This decision will be referred to The people of Qatar respect all other Latin American countries, tracts, Amnesty International cast While we make laws that regu- important for us to create specific the Advisory Council for debate transparent human rights reports. Vietnam, India, China, Sri Lanka doubt on the move. The interna- late work contracts for workers, mechanisms to regulate contracts and approval. As citizens, we have They also respect others and hold and Indonesia. tional organisation said the move we need to pay attention to the and employer-employee relations. the right to ask the Council to human rights in high esteem. Meanwhile, international was “not enough”. rights of people to whom services I want to repeat the fact that invite lawyers and representatives However, the respect the people organisations did not focus on As citizens, we are not sup- are offered. We must be keen that employers have the right to be of citizens, companies and institu- of Qatar give to reports makes it Qatar’s neighbouring countries posed to succumb to pressures no harm is done to these people informed by their employees about tions to give their opinion on it. necessary for these reports to be depending on a large number of put on our government with the as well. their desire to leave or resign. This The opinions of these people must the following: foreign workers. These organisa- aim of ushering in confusion in its Everyone is talking about some is part of the current system in be included in the report of the First, they have to be within the tions did not ask these countries laws and policies and create public sub-contracting companies vio- Qatar as well as the system in all discussions of the Council before context of their professional topic to improve the conditions of their dissatisfaction. We are aware of lating the rights of labourers, but other countries. This happens in this report is referred to the State and their timing. workers. the conspiracies hatched against what about rights of citizens, the all institutions. Cabinet for approval. We have the Second, they have to be honest I am sure that the facts we are us. This is why it is important for employers? When foreign workers The same applies to workers in right to be heard, even before and free of any suspicious intent. trying to clarify now will emerge us to discuss the latest policies run away, nobody compensates the all institutions. An employee can- international organisations. Finally, the reports have to more clearly in future. The ques- and amendments in an atmos- citizens. Citizens are not like com- not leave his/her work randomly. We admit that workers have be general and comprehensive, tion is: when will this happen? phere of freedom guaranteed by panies that can find alternatives. They have to submit a resigna- rights that must be respected. We talking about all issues and all The answer is that these facts our country, whether we accept The new contracts should be tion letter, leaving the decision also call for punishing companies countries.

ABDULAZIZ AL MAHMOUD Where are the sponsor’s rights? Not just a new airport he draft law regulating the work of sponsored people is out It seems that an airport like Atatürk Airport is located in the middle of the world. Talready and I do not have any AHMED AL MOHANNADI All races and nationalities are passing through here; it is strangely crowded,” a objection to that. The question arises “friend told me during his visit to the airport in Istanbul. now is that: why these laws are not Most of us who arrive at the Istanbul airport see it crowded despite the existence giving attention to the national spon- World Cup whatever you want. of another airport, located east of the capital, on its Asian side. Both the airports sors, the owners of the land whose a We pay 4,500 riyals for each house- can serve up to 60 million passengers annually. number of them are becoming victims maid including her salary, accommo- The airport is full, with no capacity to receive any more planes, so the Turkish of these laws issued by the by Ministry dation and food, not to mention the government has decided to build a third airport that can cater to 130 million pas- of Interior. money paid for her recruitment. As sengers a year — twice the capacity of Atatürk Airport and the other airport — at My hope is that the new draft law well as the money paid for residential a cost of $5.6bn. will exempt housemaids, given the fact Blatter said he backed permit renewal every year and the This new airport would be a tough competitor to European airports that have that the final version of the law has reforms initiated by medical checkup and treatments. dominated the European travel market for decades, and it is time for that to change. not been produced yet. The bill will be Not included things are the money However, as usual, developed countries do not give up easily and surrender with- made into law only when the Advisory the Qatar government spent on clothes, transportations, out a fight. Britain has announced plans to Council approves it. I am sure that regarding the situation entertainment, family travels, mobile expand London’s Heathrow Airport with the the council will approve it as goes its phone, shopping, and tips. Now, you addition of a runway. Western countries tradition. of workers, as if Fifa is can imagine how much a Qatari fam- Officials say this project will create around Why does the new draft law is not another Security Council ily spends on housemaid every year, 100,000 jobs and pump around £100bn are melting pots exempting sponsors and employers given the fact that each Qatari home (around QR608bn) into the British economy where immigrants from providing with ticket to their we should be afraid of has at least two to three housemaid annually. runaway employee? while totally disregarding and a drivers. This means that travel and tourism gen- Sponsors bear every possible pain to Nobody can reduce any amount of erate gold and the community should pay meld into one culture, train drivers, for example, and make Qatari citizens whose money from the salaries of housemaid. for that. Turkey has become the favourite as their populations them know roads and deferent places salaries are spent On the contrary, these salaries must be transit point for those fleeing misery in their in the country and streets after they increased every month. This is never countries and looking for better lives in the enable them to absorb arrive here from their countries, not on housemaids and the case with any citizen in this coun- European Union. knowing anything. accumulating debts. try. A large number of citizens are even Many laws have been issued lately to reg- migrants and change The same drivers escape their spon- in jail now because of their debts. ulate the residence of foreigners, on refu- sors and employers immediately after There can be some mistakes on peo- gees and issues related to the growing travel them in one generation. they get enough training and informa- ple who mess with the wealth of the market. tion. Then sponsors and employers are nation and who are given hundreds of The concept of the homeland has changed We do not have similar required to pay for their tickets when with the World Cup and the evidence visas to sell them however they want in many countries, and it is no longer the they escape to let them go back home, for that is the statements of Blatter at every year. These people leave the castle that needs to be defended against every numbers of people, and as if they should be rewarding them for the same day the draft law announced workers they bring in out in the open invader and looter. It has become more like running away. here in Qatar. Even before being dis- to commit crimes and illegal activities. an economic system that protects its citizens we resist even mixing Why there is no law that reduces cussed by the Advisory council. Other people do not pay the workers according to contracts signed between them the highest cost for recruitment of Blatter said he backed reforms initi- their salaries and even treat them and the country. with other cultures, housemaids to QR5,000, instead of ated by the Qatar government regard- badly. These people deserve to be pun- One who applies for a citizenship gets all QR15,000? ing the situation of workers, as if Fifa is ished. But average Qataris should not the duties and rights conferred by it after he but this won’t last as Supposing that these laws are only another Security Council we should be be allowed to pay for the mistakes of gets a passport. The most important duty of made so, to please the President of afraid of, while totally disregarding the these people. all is to respect the law, as whoever breaks change is coming. the International Football Association Qatari citizens whose salaries are spent Why should a citizen be fined 50,000 laws gets punished harshly, such as hav- (FIFA) Joseph Blatter, one again in on housemaids and accumulating debts. riyals only for keeping the passport of ing their passport cancelled, which is what the future we will discover that he will Now, we are giving housemaid his/her domestic worker? France does with naturalised citizens who violate its laws. never be happy whatever we do, and chance to get the better of us only for We do not want to keep the salaries Countries where citizenship is a contract between the citizen and the state have we can even discover new things in the the sake of the World Cup. Is this is of the domestic worker, but how else flexible and fast legislative systems supported by a number of research, scientific, future we have to fulfill. the surprising news that Minister of can we guarantee our rights, particu- economic and political institutions that contribute to decision-making and legislation. Why are we then threatened that Foreign Affairs promised? larly if these workers steal something I am waiting with bated breath for what might happen in some Gulf countries, Qatar may be deprived of hosting The cost of recruiting housemaid is from us or commit a crime and then especially those aiming to convert their airports into stations for millions of travel- the World Cup 2022 after Qatar’s even higher than the average of the escape with their passports? Should lers from all over the world, which lack the legislation to deal with such a situation. file was well-studied and the country salary of any Qatari, let alone other citizens spend their whole lives search- Opening an airport does not mean just building the required infrastructure; it was granted the right to organize the money spent on medical examinations ing for these workers again, par- means creating a reasonable and fast legislative structure to issue laws and to update championship? and residential permit. The same ticularly if the governments of their them whenever required. Do we have the legislative and legal infrastructure to solve Qatar was granted this right in the housemaid may decides to leave the countries do not recognize Interpol? the problems of tens of millions of people who will land in our country? presence of its labour laws as well as work came for after three months and I have hopes that the draft law will Western countries are melting pots where immigrants meld into one culture, as other things, including its weather, for helpless employers have to pay for her be reconsidered because it does not their populations enable them to absorb migrants and change them in one genera- which we have set solutions. What else ticket, or he will be blacklisted. If they serve citizens, but only serves the best tion. We do not have similar numbers of people, and we resist even mixing with do these people want from us then? are blacklisted, employers are not given interests of servants. other cultures, but this won’t last as change is coming. Some people may jump to the con- any more visas, this is if the punish- So, what culture will prevail at the end of the day? I do not know, and I have no clusion that what happens now has ment has not been doubled. The views expressed in the articles on this answer. nothing at all to do with the World Now, Blatter, you need to know page do not reflect the viewpoint of the Cup. To these people I say “no”, what this and defend our rights, or you can newspaper. is happening now is strongly connected threaten to deprive us from hosting the THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Saudi working Low turnout in Egypt election with WHO to fight MERS Turnout put at 38 to 44 percent; former army chief’s austerity remarks alienate many RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is working with international sci- CAIRO: Egyptian authorities politician Hamdeen Sabahi. entific organisations to improve scrambled to rescue the coun- The nearly empty polling sta- its response to a deadly new try’s presidential election from tions could be an early sign of virus that has killed 186 peo- the embarrassment of low voter trouble as the career military ple in the kingdom, its Acting turnout that has dented former man prepares to take the helm Health Minister Adel Fakieh army chief Abdel-Fattah Al of a nation where street protests said yesterday. Sisi’s hopes for an enthusias- have helped remove two presi- Fakieh’s comments, in a writ- tic show of public support. Few dents in three years. ten statement, were in response people trickled to the polls yes- Apathy is not the only rea- to a Reuters Special Report last terday even after the balloting son for the low participation. In week that quoted international was extended for a third day. addition to Islamists who reject scientists expressing frustra- Estimates reported by pro-Sisi Mursi’s ouster as a coup and have tion at Saudi Arabia’s handling media put turnout so far since called for a boycott, some liberal of Middle East Respiratory Monday at 38 to 44 percent, well youth activists are also staying Syndrome (MERS). below the nearly 52 percent turn- away. Under Sisi’s watch a crack- “We have been working with out in the 2012 election won by down against the Brotherhood respected international organ- the Islamist Mohamed Mursi, the was extended to secular-minded isations such as the World president whom Sisi ousted last Egyptians. Health Organisation (WHO) summer. In his last campaign TV Sisi seems to have alienated and Centre for Disease Control interview last week, Sisi set the some Egyptians during television (CDC) to develop policies and bar even higher, saying he wanted interviews in which he said it was put in place the necessary more than 45 million voters to up to ordinary citizens to step up arrangements, such as case def- cast ballots, a turnout of more to the plate and work hard. inition and guidelines specifi- than 80 percent — to “show the But trying to impose military cally for MERS, that are on par world.” discipline on a nation exhausted with international standards,” Tarek Shebli, a judge on the by three years of political upheaval he wrote. “Our commitment is election commission, told the may have backfired. to continue this international state-run Al Ahram newspaper Though many Egyptians inter- collaboration past this current yesterday that 21 million of the viewed by Reuters in working global challenge,” he added. 54 million registered voters had class districts during election said Officials wait for voters in a polling station near the Saladin Citadel on the third day of voting in Cairo yesterday. A total of 565 people have been cast ballots — a 38 percent turn- they wanted a strong president, infected in Saudi Arabia. The out. Two pro-military private others quietly explained how Sisi mainly because they seem to place more, okay. But how can I cut on YouTube poking fun at him. rate of infection has slowed since TV stations, CBC and Al Hayat, had lost their vote with his “tough the burden unduly on the poor. a loaf of bread into four? That’s The well-known Egyptian blog- mid-May. After two days with and Sisi’s campaign put out fig- love” message. In order to deal with a crippling not a solution,” complained Emad ger known by his social media han- no new confirmed cases, there ures they said they obtained from Billboards in rundown neigh- energy crisis, young people can Abdelaela. dle Big Pharaoh described Sisi’s were three yesterday, the Health commission officials, showing 24 bourhoods call for austerity: walk to work or school instead It’s not just the poor who seem approach as “completely absurd”. Ministry said. million voted, or 44 percent. “With work,” read the signs, next of driving or taking public trans- irritated by Sisi’s prescriptions for He said the man who commanded “The country has been Sisi, who enjoyed adulation to Sisi’s smiling face. Another port, Sisi suggested in a meeting Egypt’s social and economic ills. widespread respect in his mili- strengthening infection control from the media and support from sign shows Sisi and the words during his campaign with young In the upper middle class dis- tary uniform and was hailed as a measures and other measures the military, security services and “hard work is all I have, and all I Egyptians. trict of Sheikh Zayed, in the Cairo superhero is now being “scolded” related to MERS and this may businessmen, is expected to win will ask from you.” Instead of a person eating one desert suburbs, a Mursi supporter by Egyptians boycotting the vote. be an explanation to the recent the election. Millions of poor Egyptians loaf of bread, he can cut it in four said Sisi would find little help “The political apathy is lull in cases,” WHO spokesman But a low turnout has called already juggle several jobs, or so there is more to go around, he from Egyptians like him. “We extremely dangerous now,” said Glenn Thomas said. into question the level of sup- can’t follow Sisi’s message because said during a television inter- have an electricity crisis, and now Big Pharaoh. “What we are seeing Fakieh said all Saudi health- port for the man who gained they are unemployed. view where he urged Egyptians he’s telling us to conserve,” said now with the youth losing trust care facilities had been given new hero status after toppling Mursi Sisi’s proposals for tackling to understand the “true reality”. Mamdouh Ali, 30, an architect. and losing faith in the political guidelines this month to combat of the Muslim Brotherhood last some of the most pressing chal- “If money appears in my pocket Sisi’s ideas have become the process. This is not a good thing.” the spread of the disease. year. His only opponent is leftist lenges ring harsh, critics say, to pay my bills from working butt of jokes, with satirical videos AGENCIES REUTERS

Israel troops raid Palestinian Syrian refugees, expats abroad vote newspaper offices RAMALLAH: Israeli soldiers BEIRUT: Refugees waved flags many countries. Assad has been who did not vote will be banned wore pro-Assad T-shirts. Radwan embassies, which he said is in raided the offices of a Palestinian and held pictures of Bashar in power since 2000. The elec- from entering Syria again. Tens of Said, a 23-year-old man from the violation of the Vienna Protocol newspaper here yesterday, order- Al Assad as they crushed into tion is an illustration of how thousands of people were bottle- Syrian province of Raqqa, said on Diplomatic Relations. ing them to stop printing pub- Damascus’s embassy in Lebanon effectively the government has necked into the entrance, some he had voted for Assad. “He’s the The European Union has said lications by Hamas, managers yesterday to join Syrians world- weathered the revolt that has getting squashed by the hordes only choice. He will crush the ter- holding an election “in the midst of said. “Officers informed us that wide voting early in an elec- killed more than 160,000 peo- behind them. The Lebanese army rorists,” he said. conflict, only in regime-controlled Israel would not allow the print- tion that looks certain to give ple and how it exerts influence had brought armoured vehicles Syrian state television said areas and with millions of Syrians ing and distribution of Falastin, him a third seven-year term as beyond its borders. and firemen sprayed the crowd voting was taking place in 43 displaced from their homes would Al Resala, and Al Istiqlal,” president. In Lebanon, which holds a mil- with water to help cool them in embassies. It broadcast footage be a parody of democracy, have no three Hamas newspapers, the Expatriates and those who have lion Syrians — most of them refu- the midday heat. from Kuala Lumpur, Tehran and credibility whatsoever, and under- Al Ayyam’s managers said. Al fled the war were casting their bal- gees — citizens were driven to the Inside the embassy, men and Amman. Syria’s Deputy Foreign mine efforts to reach a political Ayyam has been printing the lots at dozens of Syrian embassies Syrian embassy in Beirut. Their women voted. None said they had Minister Faisal Mekdad told the solution”. papers since early this month. abroad ahead of next week’s vote buses blocked one of Beirut’s voted for the two candidates other channel that he “was surprised by UN Secretary-General Ban The soldiers threatened to take inside the country that opponents three main highways and men than Assad — Hassan Abdallah the undemocratic decisions taken Ki-moon has also said such elec- “concrete steps” towards stopping have dismissed as a farce as the and women waved Syria’s flag and Al Nouri and lawmaker Maher by countries which say they are tions are “incompatible” with Falastin, Al Resala and Al Istiqlal fighting rages in its fourth year. held up pictures of Assad. Abdel-Hafiz Hajjar. democratic — like the French, peace talks in Geneva that broke being printed at Al Ayyam offices, Several countries that oppose Refugees have told Reuters “Allah, Syria and Bashar only,” Belgian and Bulgarian govern- down in February but which both the statement said. . Assad, including France, have that they had been mobilised the crowd of men shouted inside ments — but which are not in line sides have agreed to continue. The blocked the voting but Syrian by pro-Assad Lebanese groups the ballot room. Many of the with international law”. peace talks are based on seeking a Iraq attacks kill 63; government media said people to vote and said the buses were staff and volunteers who were He said the countries had political transition in Syria. 2014 toll tops 4,000 were still able to participate in paid for. Some say that those helping to organise the election banned Syrians from going to REUTERS

BAGHDAD: Attacks across Iraq, including a spate of car Jerusalem Day clashes bombs in Baghdad, killed 63 people yesterday, the latest in a Iran’s Zarif sees Chaos deepens in Libya with months-long surge in violence that has left more than 4,000 progress in EU dead this year. A suicide car air raid on Benghazi jihadists bomb exploded in Kadhimiyah, nuclear talks north Baghdad, killing 16 peo- TRIPOLI: A rogue ex-Libyan ministry force in charge of pro- ple and wounding 50. Three ALGIERS: Iranian Foreign general resumed air strikes on tecting the government, in which other car bombs went off in the Minister Mohammad Javad jihadists in the city of Benghazi there were no casualties. Amin, Sadr City and Jihad dis- Zarif said yesterday that yesterday, while gunmen Amid the political and security tricts, killing eight more people. progress has been made in attacked an interior ministry turmoil in Libya three years after Elsewhere in and around the his talks with EU diplomatic team in Tripoli tasked with pro- the Nato-backed revolution, the capital, gun attacks and explo- chief Catherine Ashton over tecting the outgoing government. US State Department called on sions killed three people. In north his country’s disputed nuclear Forces loyal to former general Americans to leave the country Iraq, a series of 11 bombings in programme. Khalifa Haftar carried out an air immediately. Tuz Khurmatu killed five people. “We have made progress; we raid on a jihadist camp on the “Due to security concerns, the Three others died in a spate of exchanged views during lengthy outskirts of Benghazi ex-rebels Department of State has limited attacks in Kirkuk and Nineveh. discussions that we have had in said. “A warplane carried out staffing at Embassy Tripoli and the last two days in Istanbul with raids on a camp of the ‘February is only able to offer very limited 4 killed in Tunisia Catherine Ashton,” who repre- 17 Martyrs Brigades,’ hitting it emergency services to US citizens sents world powers, said Zarif. with two missiles,” said Ahmed in Libya,” a travel warning said. TUNIS: Suspected Islamist gun- “Iran is determined to find a Al Jazaoui, without reporting “US citizens currently in Libya men killed four policemen at the solution that respects the rights casualties. should exercise extreme caution family home of Tunisia’s interior of the Iranian people and also Haftar, who returned to Libya and depart immediately.” minister, officials said yester- clear up any misunderstandings from American exile to join The United States is deploy- day, describing it as a “revenge” about the sites of the Iranian the uprising against Muammar ing an amphibious assault ship attack for progress in the fight nuclear programme,” Zarif told Gaddafi, launched a deadly anti- with about 1,000 marines off the against jihadists. The overnight reporters in Algiers. jihadist campaign in Benghazi coast of Libya in case the embassy assault on Lotfi Ben Jeddou’s “It’s a matter of time, but also on May 16 when warplanes also needs to be evacuated. home at Kasserine, in the west- political will must be expressed to bombed February 17 positions. The precautions come amid ern border region, was reminis- reach an agreement. I can assure Subsequent fighting killed at least persistent controversy over a cent of violence in 2013, when two you the other party has the politi- 79 people. September 2012 attack on the politicians were assassinated and Israeli border guards detain a Palestinian man as ultra-nationalist cal will to reach an agreement,” The powerful brigade is made US consulate in Benghazi in jihadists killed 20 security force Israelis take part in the “flag march” through Damascus Gate in east he added. Iran has consistently up of Islamist ex-rebels, including which Ambassador Chris Stevens members. The assault by about Jerusalem yesterday celebrating the anniversary of its capture in the denied it is seeking nuclear weap- radicals, and is suspected of links and three other Americans were a dozen gunmen shortly before ons but wants an independent with Ansar Al Sharia, a group killed. 1967 Six-Day War. Fearing clashes, police closed the flashpoint Al midnight left dead four police- atomic energy programme. The classified as a terrorist group by Since Gaddafi’s death, Libya Aqsa Mosque compound to visitors and in Jerusalem Day’s speeches men and wounded two, interior next round of talks on resolving Washington has been dogged by power strug- ministry spokesman Mohamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to never allow the city Western concerns will take place On the political front, the cabi- gles among rival former rebel Ali Aroui said. to be divided. in Vienna on June 16-20. net office condemned an attack militias and is awash with arms. AGENCIES AFP late Tuesday on an interior AFP THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Military action Ukraine region calm after assault

DONETSK, UKRAINE: An uneasy calm returned to the streets of Donetsk yester- day after the biggest battle of the pro-Rus- not always sian separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine, a conflict transformed by the landslide elec- tion of a pro-European leader who vowed to crush the revolt. Government forces killed dozens of rebel right: Obama fighters on Monday and Tuesday in an assault to retake Donetsk International Airport, which the rebels had seized the morning after Ukrainians overwhelmingly elected Petro $5bn fund to help allies fight terror Poroshenko as president. Pro-Moscow gunmen have declared the city WEST POINT, UNITED else will. The military ... is, and of a million people capital of an independent STATES: President Barack always will be, the backbone of Donetsk People’s Republic. Yesterday, their Obama mounted a defiant that leadership.” leader appealed anew for Russia’s help. defence of his global leadership Obama was particularly exer- In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei yesterday, rebuking critics who cised by those who complain he Lavrov accused the West of pushing Ukraine see him as weak but warning should have deployed the US into “the abyss of fratricidal war”, and reit- that not every global threat jus- military in Syria or made a more erated his call for an end to Kiev’s military tifies a US military response. robust strategic response to offensive. In a major speech at the West Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Russia’s Foreign Ministry urged Kiev to let Point military academy, Obama or who complain that he has left it send humanitarian aid to civilians trapped denied US power had ebbed under Iraq or Afghanistan to fend for by the fighting in eastern Ukraine. his watch, after he withdrew themselves. “The residents of the Donetsk People’s troops from Iraq and as he does “Tough talk often draws head- Republic are on the verge of a humanitar- the same in Afghanistan. lines but war rarely conforms to ian catastrophe,” said separatist leader Denis He also pledged to ramp up slogans,” Obama said. Pushilin in his appeal. “We are Russians and support for Syrian rebels, vowed “But US military action can- this is precisely why they are killing us. We Armed pro-Russian militants guard Denis Pushilin (centre), the self-styled governor of the so-called to stand up to Russia over not be the only, or even primary, want to become part of Russia.” Ukraine and promised to make component of our leadership in The rebels’ plight puts pressure on President People’s Republic of Donetsk, during a demonstration by coal miners to protest against the actions drone strikes against terror sus- every instance. Vladimir Putin to act, even though he has of Ukrainian security forces in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk yesterday. pects more transparent. “Just because we have the best reduced the number of forces he has massed Obama also said that terror- hammer does not mean that every on Ukraine’s eastern border and has said he died, including a truckload of wounded fight- ism remained the biggest national problem is a nail,” Obama told a would recognise the outcome of Sunday’s elec- ers blasted apart as they were driven away security threat to the United graduation ceremony at the col- tion in Ukraine. from the battlefield. The government said it Poroshenko to hold States and unveiled a new $5bn lege. “And because the costs asso- Rebel fighters were strengthening their suffered no losses in the operation, which saw fund to equip and train allies on ciated with military action are barricades with sandbags on the road to the its aircraft strafe the airport and paratroops talks with Putin the front lines of the struggle so high, you should expect every airport near the hulk of a truck where many land to reclaim it. BERLIN: The president-elect of against terrorism, for instance civilian leader — and especially of them were killed by government fire on Poroshenko, 48, a billionaire confection- Ukraine told a German newspaper yes- in Africa. your commander in chief — to Monday. ery magnate who became the first Ukrainian terday that he planned to hold talks with He vowed to hold China be clear about how that awesome The government assault in Donetsk on since 1991 to win the presidency outright in a Russian President Vladimir Putin in a accountable to international power should be used.” Monday and Tuesday was the first time Kiev single round of voting, repeated his promise bid to “ease” the crisis in Ukraine. “rules of the road” in the South Obama said he was “haunted” has unleashed its full military force against to restore government control rapidly over “We will hold talks with Putin in order to China Sea and elsewhere. by the deaths of American serv- the fighters after weeks of restraint. Morgues secessionist-held areas. ease the situation and make peace. When “To say that we have an inter- icemen under his watch — includ- were filled on Tuesday with bodies of rebel “We are in a state of war in the east. Crimea and where these talks will take place, is not est in pursuing peace and freedom ing some who attended previous gunmen. Some were missing limbs in a sign is occupied by Russia and there is great insta- yet decided,” Petro Poroshenko told the Bild beyond our borders is not to say commencement ceremonies he of the massive firepower used against them. bility. We must react,” he told Germany’s Bild daily. AFP that every problem has a military had given at West Point. The separatist authorities say as many as 50 newspaper. REUTERS solution,” Obama said. Obama also made an implicit Since World War II, some of defence of his decision to call off our most costly mistakes came military strikes on Syria at the not from our restraint, but from last minute last year to punish our willingness to rush into mili- chemical weapons strikes. tary adventures — without think- Critics at home and abroad Africans storm through Spain border fence ing through the consequences,” warned that the decision left dan- Obama said, in an apparent ref- gerous questions about whether erence to the Iraq war, which he Washington would stand up to MADRID: About 500 African to Europe, they said. who made an emergency visit to yet to be strengthened. has branded a disaster. “red lines” elsewhere in the world. migrants leapt a towering, triple- Night-time video images Melilla following the intrusion. An extra 100 Spanish police The president’s speech came “I would betray my duty to you, layer border fence to cross from released by the Spanish Guardia “Once again, we see that the reinforcements would arrive with his foreign policy, which and to the country we love, if I Morocco to the tiny Spanish ter- Civil police showed scores of young assaults were violent on the later in the day to help secure was once seen as a political asset, sent you into harm’s way simply ritory of Melilla yesterday, one men leaping over the inner layer Moroccan side,” he said. the border while the installation under assault from critics who because I saw a problem some- of the biggest breaches in nearly of seven-metre high border fenc- Martinez called on the of anti-climb fencing would be believe he is being outmaneu- where in the world that needed a decade, officials said. ing, which had partly collapsed, European Union to play a “much accelerated, he said. vered by strongmen like Russian fixing, or because I was worried At least 1,000 sub-Saharan and then running into Melilla. more active role” in securing the Moreover, Moroccan authori- President Vladimir Putin and about critics who think military Africans had joined in the pre- “We calculate that about 500 bloc’s southern borders. ties said yesterday that a boat China’s President Xi Jinping. intervention is the only way for dawn attempt to enter Melilla, managed to enter by irregu- Criminal organisations carrying 11 people, mostly from “Here’s my bottom line: America to avoid looking weak,” one of two Spanish-held cities lar means into our territory,” appeared to have planned the Cameroon, had capsized off the America must always lead on the he told the graduates. on the northern coast of Africa said Spain’s state secretary for border breach, he said, targeting Moroccan coast while heading for world stage. If we don’t, no one AFP affording the only land crossings security, Francisco Martinez, weak areas of the fencing that had Spain. AFP

Crash claims five Cuban website Many in the race for interviews US vice-president EU presidency HAVANA: Fledgling Cuban BRUSSELS: Chancellor of state and government must independent online newspa- Angela Merkel’s diluted support agree on a candidate by a “quali- per 14ymedio yesterday pub- for Jean-Claude Juncker’s bid to fied majority”, which effectively lished an interview with US be European Commission presi- means all but a handful agreeing. Vice-President Joe Biden, who dent has thrown the field open But with British Prime Minister expressed hope that Havana’s to other candidates, although David Cameron openly opposed economic reforms will be it will be weeks before a single to Juncker, who he regards as accompanied by greater “rights nominee emerges. an old-style European federalist, and freedoms.” While Merkel did not rule and countries like Sweden, the Biden was interviewed by dis- Juncker out after talks with EU Netherlands, Finland and some sident blogger Yoani Sanchez, who leaders on Tuesday, she acknowl- in eastern Europe and the Baltics last week launched the commu- edged there was opposition to his sharing Britain’s concerns, it is nist-ruled island’s first news out- candidacy and said a range of top not clear there is majority sup- let not controlled by the state in EU jobs could only be decided in port for the Luxembourger. 50 years. negotiations running until late Luxembourg Foreign Minister The website has since been June. Jean Asselborn said EU lead- intermittently blocked in Cuba, The European People’s Party, ers had caved into Britain over where readers were redirected to the EU’s centre-right political Juncker’s candidacy and called a site ridiculing Sanchez, casting movement of which Merkel’s party Tuesday’s informal summit cold water on hopes the govern- is a core member, won the most “sobering, verging on pathetic”. ment would tolerate an independ- seats in European Parliament The treaty also says EU leaders ent news presence. elections and is firmly backing must nominate someone “taking Sanchez, who interviewed Biden Juncker to become Commission into account” the results of the in Washington several weeks ago, president. European elections. It does not asked whether a new Cuban law “I am a member of the EPP. We say they must nominate the can- loosening restrictions on foreign nominated Jean-Claude Juncker didate chosen by the party that direct investment would spur any Uruguay’s forensic and justice personnel work on an Argentine aircraft that crashed in the Rio de la Plata, ... The entire agenda can be imple- won the European elections. changes in US policy. AFP some 10km south of Carmelo, in Uruguay, yesterday. Five people died in the crash. mented by him, but also by many The only obligation on leaders others,” Merkel said, choosing her is to ensure that whoever they words carefully as reporters pep- pick comes from the centre-right pered her with questions. “But I EPP family. still have to respect the treaty.” The nominee must then be Her reference to the treaty is approved by parliament. Clegg under pressure to quit after poll debacle heavily laden. It says the 28 heads REUTERS

LONDON: Britain’s Deputy Lords, resigned from the party Democrat leadership. leader to give Liberal Democrat Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday calling for Clegg to But yesterday, Oakeshott said: MPs their best chance to win in Four girls escape Boko Haram custody came under heightened pres- stand down too. “The party is heading for disaster 2015.” MAIDUGURI: Four more The girls were taking exams sure yesterday to quit the If Clegg were to face a leader- if it keeps Nick Clegg.” According to the party’s consti- girls kidnapped by Boko at a secondary school in the leadership of his party after ship challenge, it could throw the In a statement posted on tution, a leadership election can Haram militants last month remote northeastern village his Liberal Democrats lost all future of the government led by Twitter, he added: “Nick Clegg’s be triggered by a vote of no con- have escaped their captors, of Chibok on April 14 when but one of their 11 seats in the Conservative David Cameron into dire approval ratings year after fidence in Clegg from a majority the education commissioner Islamist gunmen surrounded it, European Parliament. doubt less than a year before the year in all national polls, and of Liberal Democrat members of for Nigeria’s Borno state said loaded 276 of them onto trucks Influential Liberal Democrat 2015 national election. Thursday’s appalling council parliament. It could also be called yesterday, leaving 219 still and carted them off, according Matthew Oakeshott, who has Clegg has repeatedly said and European election results is if at least 75 local parties back missing. to official figures. REUTERS a seat in parliament’s House of he will not give up the Liberal crystal clear: we must change the such a contest. REUTERS THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Thai junta appoints anti-Thaksin advisers Deputy army spokesperson says military might soon release Jatuporn Prompan, other ‘red shirt’ activists

BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta was removed by a court on May will not organise rallies, he said. has appointed as advisers two 7 for abuse of power and the coup There have been daily, peace- retired generals with palace ousted remaining ministers two ful protests against the coup in connections, putting powerful weeks later. Bangkok with crowds calling for establishment figures hostile It is not clear what powers elections and confronting troops, towards former Prime Minister the advisers will have, but their although the number of protesters Thaksin Shinawatra firmly in appointment would suggest little dwindled to about 200 on Tuesday the ascendant in the country’s prospect of compromise with the from about 1,000 on Sunday. long-running power struggle. Shinawatras. A seven-hour curfew the army Hoping to show things are get- The military has sought to sti- imposed after the coup has been ting back to normal, the military fle opposition to its power grab, shortened to four hours, from also relaxed a night-time curfew detaining scores of politicians and midnight. brought in after it seized power in activists and imposing censorship The junta’s new advisers also a May 22 coup, and is expected to on the media. include Pridiyathorn Devakula, speed up efforts to get the econ- A military spokesman said overseeing the economy. A omy moving again after months 200 people summoned after the former central banker, he was of debilitating political protests. coup had been detained but 124 finance minister in an interim Data yesterday showed trade of them had since been released. government after the 2006 coup, shrank in April and factory out- Seventy-six were still being held, when strict capital controls were put fell for a 13th straight month, while another 53 people had not introduced to hold down the baht, underscoring the damage political responded to a summons. causing the stock market to tum- unrest has caused and the tough Yingluck and Suthep ble 15 percent in one day. job the military government faces Thaugsuban, a former deputy Highlighting the task ahead, reviving an economy on the brink prime minister in a rival govern- factory output fell 3.9 percent in of recession. ment who led six months of pro- April from a year earlier, the 13th The team of advisers announced tests against her, are among those monthly drop in a row. in a brief statement late on Tuesday who have been released. The Commerce Ministry included a former defence minis- Some pro-Thaksin activists reported another slump in Military policemen hold their weapons as they are surrounded by a mob during a confrontation between anti-coup ter, General Prawit Wongsuwan, have also been detained in the imports, down 14.5 percent in protesters and military at the Victory monument in Bangkok yesterday. and former army chief General provinces, such as Chiang Mai April from a year before as com- Anupong Paochinda. The two men in the north, the Shinawatras’ panies, unsure how the politics are towering figures in Thailand’s hometown and a hotbed of sup- would develop, stopped importing military establishment and have port, activists say. machinery and consumers reined close ties to coup leader General Deputy army spokesman in spending. Thailand blocks Facebook to stem protests Prayuth Chan-ocha. All three are Winthai Suvaree said the army The military has moved quickly staunch monarchists and helped might soon release leaders of to tackle economic problems, BANGKOK: Thailand’s will call a meeting with other against the army so we need to oust Thaksin, who remains at the pro-Thaksin “red-shirt” activists, notably preparing payments for Information Technology social media, like Twitter and ask for cooperation from social heart of the political crisis, in a such as Jatuporn Prompan. hundreds of thousands of rice Ministry blocked Facebook yes- Instagram, to ask for coop- media to help us stop the spread 2006 coup. “Those released must tell us farmers that the ousted govern- terday and planned to hold talks eration from them,” Surachai of critical messages about the A report in December revealed where they live and where they ment was unable to make. with other social networking Srisaracam, permanent sec- coup,” he said. that Prawit and Anupong had plan to travel,” Winthai said. “If Thaksin has not commented sites to stem protests against retary of the Information and Print and broadcast media secretly backed the anti-govern- they violate these rules they’ll be on the coup except to say he was the military government, a sen- Communications Technology have already been instructed to ment protests that undermined invited to meet us.” saddened and hoped the military ior official said. Ministry, said. refrain from critical reporting of the government of Thaksin’s sis- Those being released are asked would treat everyone fairly. “We have blocked Facebook “Right now there’s a campaign the military’s May 22 takeover. ter, Yingluck Shinawatra. She to sign a document saying they REUTERS temporarily and tomorrow we to ask for people to stage protests REUTERS

N Korea, Japan Fire at South Korea hospital for the elderly kills 21 talks wrap up SEOUL: A fire at a rural South the large number of casualties, most of them suffered smoke controls and safety standards and smoke did not function in the Korean hospital for chronically fire officials said. inhalation, a local fire department have not kept pace. relatively new building. in Sweden ill elderly patients yesterday An 81-year-old man is in police official said. The country is mourning the Later yesterday, there was a killed 21 people and injured custody and is being questioned The hospital held patients who deaths of more than 300 peo- fire on a subway train in Seoul STOCKHOLM: North Korea eight in the second major fire on suspicion of arson after he was required long-term care, many ple who drowned when a heav- after a man sprayed flammable and Japan wrapped up three this week as the country still seen on surveillance camera walk- with dementia or disability as ily overloaded ferry capsized and material and lit it, but it was put days of talks in Stockholm yes- mourns victims of a ferry disas- ing into an empty room where the a result of a stroke, local media sank on April 16, the country’s out within minutes, Yonhap news terday, agreeing to continue ter last month. fire is believed to have started, a reports said. worst maritime disaster in 20 agency reported quoting wit- their dialogue on Japanese The midnight blaze at the police official said by telephone. South Korea, Asia’s fourth- years. nesses. The police have the man nationals abducted decades ago hospital in the southwest region The man has been identified as largest economy and a leading A fire at a large shopping mall in custody, Yonhap said. by Pyongyang. of Jeolla was put out relatively a patient at the hospital and is manufacturing powerhouse, has complex killed eight people on There have been two subway The meeting at a hotel in the quickly, but most of the victims suffering from dementia. developed into a vibrant and tech- Monday when smoke and toxic accidents in the past month that Swedish capital, which saw the were elderly patients unable to All the victims were on the nically advanced democracy, but fumes spread rapidly. Fire screens left nearly 200 people injured. exchange of “tough words” at walk or move freely, leading to second floor of one building, and it faces criticism that regulatory designed to stop the spread of fire REUTERS times, came after the two coun- tries held their first official talks in 16 months in Beijing in March. Suitcase vehicle “Japan and North Korea agreed to continue consultation but there was no concrete agreement as to Suu Kyi defies warning, when and where the two sides will meet,” Japanese chief negotiator Junichi Ihara told reporters after yesterday’s one-hour meeting. to push charter change “The Japanese side brought up various issues concerning YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi’s believed to be targeted at the Japanese, including the abduction opposition party has launched Nobel laureate, whose two sons issue and had serious discussions a petition seeking changes to are British. with North Korea,” he said. Myanmar’s military-drafted It also ring-fences a quarter of “The North Korean side was constitution despite warnings the seats in parliament for une- not refusing to discuss the abduc- from electoral officials, a party lected military personnel, leav- tion issue. Its attitude was the spokesman said yesterday. ing the army with a significant same as in the Beijing meeting.” The former political prisoner- political role despite the end of He declined to say if there turned-politician, who has been outright junta rule. had been actual progress on the campaigning to amend the char- Earlier this month Suu Kyi abductees in his talks with North ter since she became a lawmaker addressed a crowd of thousands Korea’s chief negotiator Song Il two years ago, is barred by the and urged the military top brass Ho, the ambassador for talks to charter from becoming president. as well as rank-and-file soldiers normalise relations with Japan. “Our signature campaign has to support the petition. AFP made good progress since we “I would like you all to consider started. We have had some inter- whether getting more opportu- ference -- some police officers nities than ordinary citizens is Philippines tent came to us asking to give them really fair,” Suu Kyi said. the list (of signatures),” Nyan But the top election body has fire kills six He Liang rides his home-made suitcase vehicle along a street in Changsha in China’s Hunan province, yesterday. Win, spokesman for Suu Kyi’s warned her to modify her lan- He spent 10 years modifying the suitcase into a motor-driven vehicle. The suitcase has a top speed of up to National League for Democracy, guage towards the soldiers par- MANILA: A woman and five 20km/h and can travel up to 50-60km after one charge. said. ticipating in parliament. of her children died when a The party, supported by other “Words urging (and saying) ‘I fire razed a tent used as a tem- democracy activists, began col- challenge you’ and so on, is beyond porary shelter by survivors of lecting signatures at National the boundary allowed by the con- Typhoon Haiyan in Philippines, League for Democracy offices stitution,” it said in a letter. officials in a central Philippine China sentences 55 in Xinjiang mass trial around the country on Tuesday. Parliamentary elections due city devastated by the massive The 2008 constitution blocks to be held in 2015 are seen as a storm said yesterday. BEIJING: Local officials The mass trial follows a simi- with the People’s Daily, said on anyone whose spouse or children definitive test of whether the mili- The fire was caused by a kero- in China’s western Xinjiang lar event last week in the region Tuesday night. are overseas citizens from lead- tary is willing to loosen its grip sene lamp and quickly consumed region held a public rally for where 39 people were sentenced The public sentencing made ing the country -- a clause widely on power. AFP the canvass tent, Tacloban City the mass sentencing of crimi- to jail on terrorism charges. clear the determination of the disaster management officer nals on Tuesday, handing out China is waging a year-long ruling Communist Party to strike Derrick Anido said. judgements for 55 people and at anti-terrorism operation nation- hard at “violent terrorism, sepa- The shelter was one of 40 in least three death sentences for wide after a series of attacks, but ratism and religious extremism,” Park’s PM nominee withdraws a “tent city” in San Jose district, crimes such as “violent terror- has focused on Xinjiang, home to the prefecture’s deputy Party an area devastated by tsunami- ism,” state media said. a large Muslim Uighur minor- secretary Li Minghui said at the SEOUL: South Korean Dai-hee to replace the incum- like storm surges and fierce The public sentencing, reminis- ity, following a series of bloody rally. President Park Geun-hye suf- bent who resigned over the winds from Typhoon Haiyan in cent of China’s revolutionary era attacks that Beijing blames on “(We) must resolutely strike fered another political setback government’s slow and ineffec- November. rallies, attracted a crowd of 7,000 Islamists and separatists from criminals ... and boost the con- yesterday when her choice for tive response to last month’s The five children who died at a sports stadium in Yining city the region. fidence and will to fight for all prime minister withdrew his ferry disaster that killed more in the fire ranged in age from 4 in the northern prefecture of Yili. The latest prisoners were sen- ethnicities among the masses,” name amid questions about than 300 people. Park’s office months to 12 years old, Anido Photos showed packed stadium tenced for a range of crimes, Li said. The public spectacle was the ethics of earning a large said last week Ahn, a former said. bleachers and trucks parked on including intentional murder, originally reported by the official income after leaving public Supreme Court justice, was the The woman’s 7-year-old son, the sports field loaded with separatism, and leading or par- Xinhua news agency, but links to service. ideal person to lead reform of the lone survivor, was fight- prisoners in orange vests being ticipating in terrorism groups, the story appeared to have been Park had nominated Ahn government. REUTERS ing for his life in a government guarded by armed police. People.cn, the website associated taken down. REUTERS hospital. AGENCIES THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Taliban slam US exit plan from Kabul Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomes timetable for US troops’ complete withdrawal

KABUL: Taliban insurgents Those forces would be halved ruling out an end to fighting -- a presence of foreign soldiers, ends”. Afghanistan down the path of presence in the country after this yesterday denounced US plans by the end of 2015 before being grim indicator that Afghanistan’s “Finishing the US military Iraq, where violence is at its high- year. to keep troops in Afghanistan reduced to a normal embassy long, bloody war is far from over. presence, and assumption of est level since 2008. Karzai has refused to sign the up to the end of 2016, threat- presence with a security assist- “Afghanistan Islamic Emirate security affairs by the Afghan “Afghanistan is not ready,” said agreement, but both candidates ening to wage war against the ance component by the end of condemns it and considers it a forces, has been a main demand security analyst Mia Gul Wasiq. vying to be his successor in next “occupation” until the very last 2016. violation of sovereignty, religion of the president, the government “If they withdraw irresponsibly, month’s presidential election run- foreign soldier pulls out. But underscoring the instabil- and human rights,” said a Taliban and the people of Afghanistan,” Afghanistan will become like Iraq. off -- Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah But outgoing President Hamid ity still roiling Afghanistan, two statement. he said. Some observers in “We have not been able to Abdullah -- have said they will Karzai welcomed the timetable Americans were slightly wounded “The American leaders should Afghanistan fear the withdrawal establish a strong government... sign the deal. for the US’s complete withdrawal in an attack on a US consulate do now what they plan to do two of US-led international troops the US has not done its job, that “I’m hopeful we can get this and called on the insurgents to vehicle in Afghanistan’s western years later. Even if one American will send the nation spiralling was to root out terrorism from done,” Obama said, as he out- seize a “historic” opportunity to city of Herat yesterday. soldier is in Afghanistan, it is not into chaos. Afghanistan. lined the end of US involvement seek peace after more than a dec- An unidentified gunman on a acceptable to our nation and jihad Fawzia Koofi, a female mem- “The war and terrorism is still in a conflict which began when ade of war. motorcycle fired a rocket-pro- (holy war) will continue against ber of Afghanistan’s parliament, there, their job is not done. So American-led forces invaded Outlining the US strategy to end pelled grenade at the US vehicle them.” posted on Twitter: “We are proud their plan and timetable on paper Afghanistan to oust the Taliban America’s longest war, President in Herat, five days after insur- But Karzai greeted the US of the moral/self-esteem of our is not practical.” and hunt Al Qaeda leader Osama Barack Obama confirmed on gents attacked an Indian diplo- withdrawal schedule by urging security forces, however, I had The US draw down relies bin Laden after the 2001 attacks Tuesday that the 32,000-strong matic mission in the same city the insurgents to “use this his- expected more than ten thousand on Afghanistan signing a long- on New York and Washington. US deployment in Afghanistan near the border with Iran. toric opportunity...so that the troops to continue post 2014.” delayed Bilateral Security “We’re finishing the job we would be scaled back to around Taliban insurgents responded war, which was launched (by the Others warned that the lin- Agreement laying out the terms started,” he said. 9,800 by the start of 2015. to Obama’s announcement by Taliban) on the pretext of the gering militant threat could lead and conditions of the US military AFP Minorities Nuclear detonation anniversary should get Pakistan Taliban split over equal rights: peace talks with govt Archbishop PARACHINAR/DERA fight with each other. The latest LAHORE: The Archbishop ISMAIL KHAN: The Pakistan split diminishes hopes the govern- of Canterbury yesterday Taliban split into two groups ment can find a negotiated peace called for Pakistan to safe- yesterday, highlighting grow- deal with the insurgents deeply guard the rights of its religious ing divisions within the move- divided over whether to talk to minorities and afford them ment and diminishing the the government. equal treatment under the law. government’s chances of finding All Pakistani Taliban leaders Justin Welby, the leader of the a negotiated settlement with have been Mehsuds except for the world’s Anglicans, was on a the insurgency. current chief who took power in two-day visit to the eastern city The split is between two rival a bitterly contested struggle last of Lahore where he met with groups from the powerful Mehsud year. church leaders, government tribe which provides the Taliban On one side is a commander officials and members of the the bulk of their money and fight- called Khan “Sajna” Said, who minority Christian community. ers from its base in the South supports peace talks with the “Christians, historically, have Waziristan region. government of Prime Minister given tremendous services to The breakaway group is in Nawaz Sharif, Taliban command- this country and I hope they can favour of peace talks with the ers said. be given the scale of freedom government while the main insur- His rival, Shehryar Mehsud, and equal rights under the law,” gency has announced that it will is against the tentative talks he said. He added his message continue attacks against govern- that began in February, and one to the people and government ment and security targets. of his commanders said attacks of this country was to respect “The (Taliban’s) present lead- on the government would go on and safeguard the rights of all ership and fighters have become regardless. minorities. a band of paid killers involved in Both Afghan and Pakistani unIslamic activities like killings, insurgent leaders have issued a Kabul summons robberies, extortion and kidnap- series of urgent appeals for unity pings for ransom,” Azam Tariq, in recent weeks after clashes Pakistani envoy a spokesman for the breakaway between rival commanders killed faction said. scores of Taliban fighters. KABUL: The ministry of The Taliban leadership could Senior Taliban commanders in foreign affairs of Afghanistan not be reached for comment. Pakistan and Afghanistan said yesterday summoned The Pakistani Taliban — sepa- yesterday that they had called a Pakistan’s ambassador over rate to but allied with the Afghan meeting of the leadership council cross-border shelling. Ershad Taliban — is already fractured, a to discuss the latest split. Ahmadi, deputy foreign min- loose union of groups who often REUTERS Activists of Jamat-ud-Dawa take part in a rally in Islamabad yesterday during the anniversary of the country's istry for political affairs, nuclear detonation. The national day is celebrated to commemorate the detonation of six nuclear devices in lodged strong protest with Chagai in response to India's five detonations of Pokhran-II in 1998, 17 days after the incident. Abrar Hussain, the ambas- sador of Pakistan over the cross-border shelling in east- ern Kunar and Nuristan and 2 Americans injured in Herat attack Husband of woman beaten other parts of Afghanistan. Foreign ministry following a statement, relayed by Khaama HERAT: Two Americans suf- away,” provincial district chief embassy presence by the end of to death demands justice Press said Ahmadi also con- fered light injuries when a US Haji Bashir Ahmad said. 2016. veyed the government’s con- consulate vehicle came under The US embassy statement said Last Friday, Afghan security cerns regarding the building of attack in Afghanistan’s west- both of the injured were taken for forces in Herat killed at least LAHORE: The husband of a her but missed, then the women military installations along the ern province of Herat yesterday treatment at a Spanish-run hos- three gunmen and suicide bomb- pregnant Pakistani woman who in their group fell upon her and Durand Line. The statement morning, the US embassy said. pital in Herat. ers following an attack on the was beaten to death outside her brother and father finished further added that Ahmadi The embassy statement gave Hours earlier, US President Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s Lahore High Court for marry- her off,” said Iqbal. strongly condemned the shell- scant details of the attack but Barack Obama announced third largest city and main gate- ing against her family’s wishes “The most painful thing is that ing by Pakistani military and an Afghan official in Herat said plans to reduce the number of way to Iran. vowed yesterday to fight for nobody came forward to save my warned that such interven- a rocket-propelled grenade had American troops in Afghanistan Herat is the third largest city of justice. wife, the police were there and tions will harm the relations been fired at the vehicle. from 32,000 to 9,800 by the begin- Afghanistan, with a population of Farzana Parveen, 25, was hundreds of lawyers were there between the two nations. “Two men attacked a foreign ning of next year, and gradually about 436,300 as of 2012. attacked outside Lahore’s grand along with ordinary men, but they vehicle with a RPG and then ran reduce the force to a smaller REUTERS high court building by more than all just watched like spectators.” Nine Taliban two dozen brick-wielding attack- Police officer Mushtaq ers including her brother and Muhammad said Parveen’s father militants killed Open classroom father, who has been arrested, Muhammad Azeem had been police said. detained while five others — two KABUL: Nine Taliban Three-months pregnant brothers and three cousins — militants were killed in Parveen, whom police earlier remained at large. joint operations launched identified as ‘Farzana Iqbal’, had Another police officer, Rana by Afghan security forces gone to testify in defence of her Akhtar said that police were and the International husband Muhammad Iqbal — who launching raids in the Nankana Security Assistance Force in was accused by her relatives of Sahib district of Punjab province Afghanistan (ISAF) during kidnapping her and forcing her to arrest the accused. the past twenty-four hours in into the marriage. different regions of the coun- Iqbal said: “We demand justice. GROWING APATHY try. Afghanistan’s Interior We were being threatened since “I am deeply shocked by the Ministry said in a statement we got married.” death of Farzana Parveen, who, today that Afghan forces car- UN High Commissioner for as in the case of so many other ried out with ISAF several joint Human Rights Navi Pillay also women in Pakistan, was brutally operations killing nine Taliban strongly condemned the killing, murdered by members of her own militants, injuring two others, urging the Pakistani government family simply because she mar- and arresting nine others. to take “urgent and strong meas- ried a man of her own choice,” the ures” to put an end to so-called UN body’s Pillay said. honour killings in the country. “I do not even wish to use the Zardari acquitted Iqbal, 45, said he and his wife phrase ‘honour killing’: there is had survived a previous attack not the faintest vestige of honour in polo graft case during the first hearing of the in killing a woman in this way.” case on May 12. Despite the gruesome and ISLAMABAD: The account- “On Tuesday as we were going public nature of the killing in ability court yesterday to court from our lawyer’s office Pakistan’s most liberal city, acquitted former Pakistani almost 30 people attacked us, media reaction has been relatively president Asif Ali Zardari including her father, brothers and muted — indicating what activists in the polo ground corrup- cousins,” he said. said was a growing apathy within tion case, a media report said. The group of 10 or so people society amid rising extremism. The court said in its verdict accompanying him were over- Last year 869 women died in so- that the accused had not been whelmed by the suddenness of the called “honour killings” according proven guilty so far, Dawn Afghan schoolchildren sit outdoors at an open classroom in Ghazni yesterday. Afghanistan has had only rare attack and fled in all directions, to the independent Human Rights online reported. AGENCIES moments of peace over the past 30 years as its education system was undermined by the Soviet invasion of he said. Commission of Pakistan. 1979, a civil war in the 1990s and five years of Taliban rule. “One of her brothers shot at AFP

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Aakash missile Article 370: Parties slam revocation talks intercepts RSS hits out at Omar saying Kashmir would stay an integral part of India; Cong, PDP flay Jitendra moving

SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: Abdullah asked the central Sangh (RSS) hit back at Abdullah, ministers took charge. till it was a poll cry, but what is targets in test The row over article 370 esca- government to come clean on the saying the state would remain an “The first priority which the BJP- happening now is dangerous. Do lated yesterday with Jammu “stakeholders” it was talking to integral part of India irrespective led government could think of is you want to go for one more parti- BHUBANESWAR: India’s and Kashmir’s political parties on the contentious issue. of Article 370 being repealed or not. Article 370. This is not a flip-flop. It tion?” she asked, while interacting supersonic, medium-range sur- as well as Congress opposing “We will oppose the move tooth “J&K won’t be part of India? Is is a carefully orchestrated attempt with journalists in Srinagar. face-to-air Aakash missiles yes- any move to revoke the consti- and nail. Since it is the minister Omar thinking it’s his parental to politicise and polarise not only The only debate than can hap- terday successfully intercepted tutional provision guaranteeing of state in the PMO talking, it is a estate? (Article) 370 or no 370, in Kashmir but across the country. pen is about strengthening article fast moving targets in ripple special status to the state and policy matter. They (central gov- J&K has been and will always be It is intended to be inflammatory, 370, she added. Article 370 speci- mode in a test carried out from the RSS stressing that the state ernment) must come clean and an integral part of India,” RSS divisive, and provocative and most fies that except for defence, for- a defence base in Odisha, an would remain an integral part share who are the stakeholders spokesman Ram Madhav tweeted. important the BJP knows that they eign affairs, communications and official said. of India and attacking Chief they have talked to,” he told jour- In New Delhi, Congress spokes- cannot do it,” Singhvi said. ancillary matters (matters speci- The missiles were launched Minister Omar Abdullah for nalists in Srinagar. person Abhishek Manu Singhvi Attacking the move, PDP fied in the instrument of acces- from the Integrated Test Range suggesting otherwise. On Tuesday soon after Jitendra said Jitendra Singh’s remarks President Mehbooba Mufti said: sion), the Indian Parliament needs (ITR) of Chandipur in the coastal The state’s ruling National Singh’s statement, Abdullah said: were “deliberate, thought out “Experts believe article 370 is the the state government’s concur- Balasore district of Odisha, about Conference and its coalition part- “Jammu and Kashmir would not be orchestrated and intended to bridge of Jammu and Kashmir’s rence for applying all other laws. 230km from Bhubaneswar, on ner, the Congress, as well as the part of India if Article 370, which politicise and polarise”. accession to the country and if Congress state unit president towed body targets of Lakshya opposition Peoples Democratic grants special status to the state, “It is clear that all the rhetoric you break it, you go back to pre- Saifuddin Soz, saying those who (pilot-less target aircraft) mov- Party (PDP) reacted strongly to is revoked.” “Mark my words & and all the camouflage about so- 1947 position. You give people to seek a debate on article 370 are ing at “low altitude far boundary” Minister of State in the Prime save this tweet — long after Modi called development was just that. re-negotiate. Are you ready?” “making a basic mistake of not and ripple mode missions. Minister’s Office (PMO) Jitendra Govt is a distant memory either Something only as a camouflage She sought the intervention of appreciating the fact that this arti- “The missiles intercepted the Singh’s statement that talks had J&K won’t be part of India or Art till the elections were on,” he said, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cle is an integral part of the basic fast-moving and manoeuvring been started with stakeholders to 370 will still exist,” he had tweeted. adding “diverse, divisive agendas” to send out a signal that there is structure of the constitution.” small radar cross-section (RCS) begin the revocation process. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak were “nakedly out” the day some no such intention. “It was okay IANS targets within small interval of five seconds in ripple mode,” Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) spokesman Modi, Karzai hold meeting Ravi Kumar Gupta said. Indian Air Force teams operated the Cong, BJP trade barbs deliverable Akash missile system including targets, he said. The missiles were success- fully guided by multifunction over Irani qualification phased array radar developed by Electronics and Radar Development NEW DELHI: The row minister heads the boards of pre- Establishment (LRDE) of the over allotment of the human mier institutions such as the IITs DRDO and produced by Bharat resource development ministry and IIMs. Electronics Limited (BEL). to “non-graduate” Smriti Irani Party spokesman Ajay Maken The missiles, developed continued yesterday with the — whose tweet: “What a Cabinet by Defence Research and Congress alleging she had mis- of Modi? HRD minister (look- Development Laboratory (DRDL) represented facts in her election ing after education) Smriti Irani along with 13 other DRDO labo- affidavits and the BJP defend- is not even a graduate! Look at ratories, were produced by Bharat ing the actor-turned-politician. her affidavit at ECI site pg 11!” — Dynamics Limited. The launchers Congress Spokesman Abhishek sparked off the controversy, said were developed by R&DE (Engrs), Manu Singhvi also said that the that he agreed that no qualifica- a DRDO lab and produced by Tata party had not targeted Irani tion was mandatory to be in pub- Power and L&T, he added. personally over her educational lic life but the party was raising Avinash Chander, scientific qualification but had raised ques- the point about Irani’s “appropri- advisor to the defence minister, tions about appropriateness of her ateness” for the post. congratulated all the teams from being given the human resource Congress leader Rashid Alvi DRDO, production agencies and development portfolio which had said that it was a “fact” that Indian Air Force for successfully once been held by Maulana Abdul the 38-year-old Irani was not a organizing the event and fulfill- Kalam Azad and senior leaders graduate. He said there were only ing the mission objectives of the like Karan Singh, V P Singh and 10 ministers in the union cabinet evaluation tests on deliverable Murli Manohar Joshi. who were either graduates or equipment, said Gupta. The party asked the Bharatiya post-graduates. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, yes- IANS Janata Party to explain discrep- “According to my informa- terday. The two leaders discussed ways to strengthen bilateral ties. ancies in her affidavits. tion, there are only 10 graduates Singhvi said that in her affidavit or post-graduates among the 23 when she was contesting the 2004 cabinet ministers. It is unfortu- Lok Sabha election, Irani had men- nate that the country is going to tioned her qualification as bachelors be run by such a cabinet,” he said. Saarc welcomes Modi’s vision of ties: Sushma of arts (BA) which she passed in Bharatiya Janata Party spokes- 1996 from Delhi University’s school person Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, of correspondence, but in her affi- however, brushed off the contro- NEW DELHI: Prime Minister forward to working with our stra- told his Pakistani counterpart “The prime minister told leaders davit for this year’s Lok Sabha versy, saying it was borne out of Narendra Modi has a vision for tegic partners across the globe in Nawaz Sharif that if bomb blasts that we should leave the contentious elections, mentioned her educa- “frustration” within the Congress friendly cooperation with each tackling these international issues continue, then peace talks between bilateral issues to the concerned tional qualification as “Bachelor after its worst election perform- of the Saarc countries and the that plague all of us collectively,” the two countries will be lost in the parties and come together unitedly.” of Commerce Part I, School of ance with only 44 seats. invitation to leaders of all mem- she said. din, Sushma Swaraj said. Sushma Swaraj, who was Open Learning (Correspondence), “The Congress lost the Lok ber nations for the swearing-in Addressing newspersons, “Talks and good relations can be received by Foreign Secretary University of Delhi - 1994.” Sabha polls because of its arro- was a first step towards real- Sushma Swaraj said her main pri- successful and right only when ter- Sujatha Singh and other ministry “The first issue is misstate- gance, and yet the party is showing izing this vision, said External ority is to project the strengths rorism is stopped. But if bomb blasts officials, said that though she offi- ment. Was the affidavit wrong? no signs to remain humble,” Naqvi Affairs Minister Sushma of India abroad and to improve continue, then the talks will be lost cially took charge Wednesday, she Only BJP can explain it,” he said. said. Water Resources Minister Swaraj upon assuming charge India’s international relations. in the din. This is what Narendra has been working since Tuesday, Incidentally, Irani lost both the Uma Bharti too came out in of her ministry yesterday. She said the government has Modi told Pakistani Prime Minister referring to the talks with the Lok Sabha elections. She is at present defence of the BJP vice president. Sushma Swaraj said the visit- made a beginning in improving Nawaz Sharif,” she said. heads of different countries. a member of the Rajya Sabha. “What is Sonia Gandhi’s qualifi- ing leaders of the South Asian ties with the neighbourhood. The “We also raised the topic of She said Prime Minister Modi Answering queries, Singhvi cation?” she asked media persons, countries had expressed appre- government would next improve speedy trial of the 26/11 terror had raised the issue of deten- said the party was not targeting countering talk over Irani’s appar- ciation for Modi’s gesture. ties with strategic partners, and attack accused and even they said tion of Indian fishermen with Irani personally over her educa- ently “inadequate” educational “There are a number of chal- after that with India’s extended they will work on it,” she said. Sri Lankan President Mahinda tional qualification, but noted that qualification to head the ministry. lenges that all countries are col- neighbourhood. Terming the talks with Saarc Rajapaksa. the human resource development IANS lectively confronting and I look Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaders as “successful”, she said: IANS

Drinking water shortage Mukul Rohatgi Delhi court rejects plea named attorney general against Kejriwal letter NEW DELHI: The Narendra NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Endlaw asked petitioner advocate Modi government yesterday Court yesterday refused to Vivek Narayan Sharma to file a appointed senior Supreme entertain a plea seeking action criminal complaint as the court Court counsel Mukul Rohatgi, against former chief minister cannot decide this matter. who appeared for the Gujarat Arvind Kejriwal for writing an “It is not a matter to be taken government in several 2002 open letter to his supporters by this court. You (Sharma) file a post-Godhra riot-related cases, from the Tihar Jail. The plea criminal complaint if you want,” as attorney general of India. also sought ban on the circula- the bench said while disposing of He succeeds G E Vahanvati tion of the letter. the plea. Sharma moved the court who resigned following the rout The plea said Kejriwal’s letter requesting it to direct the central of the Congress-led UPA in the sought to incite people not to fol- government to block the website 2014 general election. low rule of law and made baseless of the AAP until the open letter A versatile lawyer who has and deemed allegations against of Kejriwal was withdrawn from appeared in a large number of judiciary. The court, however, told its website. cases representing various state the petitioner that it was not a The petition stated that after a governments, corporate houses matter it could take up and he trial court sent Kejriwal to judicial and individual litigants in the could file a criminal complaint custody, he instead of challenging Supreme Court, Rohatgi said against Kejriwal. that order, chose to instigate peo- shortly after his appointment Kejriwal, Aam Admi Party ple “to follow no rule of law and that his priority is to streamline chief, was lodged in the Tihar put baseless and deemed allega- the working of the central agency Central Jail in judicial custody tions against judiciary”. that files appeals in the Supreme for refusing to furnish a personal “Kejriwal showed gravely Court on behalf of the central bond for bail in a defamation case defamatory and contemptuous government. slapped against him by BJP leader conduct by issuing open letter He said he would endeavour to Nitin Gadkari. from Tihar Jail,” the plea said. reduce the time in the filing of However, he furnished a per- The letter was circulated by the appeals by the government. sonal bond of Rs10,000 on Tuesday AAP office bearers to public at large, Rohatgi said he would try after the high court suggested him various media and was also uploaded and reduce the filing of frivo- Children wait to collect drinking water from a public tap at a roadside on the outskirts of Jammu, yesterday. to do so. On May 24, he wrote the on AAP website, the petition said, lous appeals or appeals involving There is no direct supply of water at homes in most of the poor neighbourhoods and people have to depend letter explaining circumstances seeking direction to the centre to recovery of petty amounts by the on regulated supply of water from public taps erected on roadsides, with a single tap catering to hundreds behind him being in jail. take suitable steps to stop publica- government. of households. A division bench of Chief tion and circulation of the letter. IANS Justice G. Rohini and Justice R.S. IANS

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Moody’s affirms Qatar Chamber re-elects board International Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani re-elected as chairman for the third time Islamic ratings DOHA: Global credit rating BY MOHAMED OSMAN representing this committee, agency Moody’s has affirmed Ali Abdul Latif Al Missned, was ‘A3’ global long-term issuer rat- DOHA: Sheikh Khalifa bin re-elected. ings on International Islamic Jassim Al Thani was re- This year’s election to the and upgraded its outlook on elected chairman of the Qatar Chamber’s board, coming every the rating to “positive” from Chamber by its newly installed four years as it does, was devoid “stable”. board members yesterday. of any spectacle except that Moody’s affirmation reflects This is the third time Sheikh two candidates in the fray for International Islamic’s strong Khalifa has been re-elected to the services committee’s lone capitalisation, liquidity and fund- the post, while this was the fifth membership to challenge Ali Al ing profile, even as these strengths election to the Chamber’s board Missned, refused to withdraw are moderated by high borrower after the 1990 law was passed their nomination in his favour and sector concentrations and setting it up. and insisted that the poll be held. by risk management challenges There were no changes in the These nominees were Abdul stemming from rapid financing board this time as well as the Rahman Al Najjar and Suhaila growth. same people that were on it ear- Rabia Al Hareb. The poll could The change in outlook to “pos- lier made it to the coveted panel not be held as scheduled earlier itive” from “stable” reflects the again. due to a lack of quorum and was expansion of the lender’s Islamic Mohamed bin Ahmed Tawar rescheduled for yesterday. franchise, particularly in the Al Kawari was again picked up Voting for the services com- retail segment and the recent as vice-chairman of the Chamber mittee membership began at 3pm improvements in asset-quality after an uneventful election. and ended at around 7pm, with metrics. The Chamber’s board has 17 3,227 votes being polled. Some The rating affirmation factored members, and 16 of them were 129 of these votes were invalid. in International Islamic’s strong decided through consensus ear- The Chamber has a total of capitalisation position with a lier. The members are elected 29,219 members who were eli- reported Tier 1 ratio (under FROM LEFT: Suhaila Al Hareb, Abdul Rahman Al Najjar and Ali Al Missned casting their votes yesterday. from different business sectors. gible to vote. This time, as the Basel II) of around 18 percent as The sectors include trading, election was rescheduled, the of December 2013. industry, insurance, banking, quorum rule did not apply. One wondered what happened speak to reporters. The poll committee said those “Going forward, we expect the tourism, agriculture and services. Ali Al Missned polled 2,425 to her own vote and whether it Al Najjar gave a good fight to who were defeated in yesterday’s continued focus on retail deposits The only committee for votes, while Abdul Rahman Al was declared invalid. She left Ali Al Missned and congratu- poll have 10 days to file objec- will further support the liquidity which the poll was held yester- Najjar bagged 673 votes. Suhaila the venue of the election, the lated him on his win saying he tions, if any, to the Minister of and funding position of the bank,” day was the services panel. The drew a blank as she didn’t get a Chamber premises, soon after had won through a democratic Economy and Commerce. Moody’s said. sitting member of the board single vote. the results were out. She didn’t process, so he deserved praise. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

E.ON, RasGas Qatargas, Kuwait LNG supply to face competition in future Petroleum sign deal sign contract DOHA: Long-term volumes encourage discussions and debates of LNG will have to compete on natural gas related topics in DOHA: Qatar Liquefied Gas with domestic and piped gas, the energy sector involving all Company Ltd (2) (Qatargas for LNG supply said Qatargas Chief Executive stakeholders. 2) and Kuwait Petroleum Officer, Khalid bin Khalifa Al The LNG demand in Europe Corporation (KPC) have exe- DOHA: E.ON and RasGas Thani, expressing views on the has been reduced by the Great cuted an agreement to supply Company Ltd signed a medium- global LNG market fundamen- Recession, Asia’s strong pull on KPC with liquefied natural term flexible contract, with tals at the Monthly Gas Lecture flexible cargoes, cheap US coal gas in 2014. Under the agree- immediate effect, for the sup- organised last week by the Gas imports and government subsi- ment, eight LNG cargoes will ply of liquefied natural gas from Exporting Countries Forum dised renewable energy sources. be delivered to Kuwait by the Qatar to the Isle of Grain in the (GECF) in Doha. However, he expressed his opti- end of the year. United Kingdom. The three- “Even though the gas demand mism regarding the resurgence of The LNG is sourced from year contract has the potential forecast in Latin America is Europe’s LNG demand as its econ- Qatargas 2 — Train 4, a to supply up to around two bil- relatively high, long term vol- omy strengthens. “Europe’s long- joint venture between Qatar lion cubic meters over its term. umes of LNG will have to com- term LNG demand will rebound Petroleum and ExxonMobil “In a rapidly changing LNG pete with domestic and piped gas. as its economy improves; indig- which started production in marketplace, we are very pleased Additionally, these markets will enous gas declines; supply source 2009, and delivered onboard to have been able to reach an most likely be supplied by North diversity becomes critical and gas Q-Flex LNG Vessels to KPC’s agreement that supports the American LNG volumes from is required to support intermit- Mina Al-Ahmadi LNG receiv- ambitions of both our companies. upcoming new regional projects” tent renewable energy needed to ing terminal in Kuwait. Further, the deal enables us to he said. Qatar delivers LNG to 26 meet environmental targets. We The Minister of Energy and take advantage of our existing UK out of a total of 29 LNG import- believe deliveries will approach Industry, H E Dr Mohamed bin regas position,” said Christopher ing countries, accounting for 33 100 million tonnes per annum Saleh Al Sada, said: “This is Delbrück, CEO of E.ON Global percent of the world’s LNG supply. (MTPA) by 2025” he said. a very important milestone in Commodities SE. The bulk of these supplies are to The LNG demand in the Asia Qatargas CEO Khalid bin Khalifa Al Thani (left) at the Monthly Gas Lecture Qatar’s standing as a reliable “RasGas has four long-term Asia, which holds 75 percent of Pacific region, the world’s biggest organised last week by the Gas Exporting Countries Forum. energy supplier as it marks the LNG contracts in Europe, and the total LNG demand. LNG market, has almost dou- first direct agreement between UK is a very important market The number of LNG importing bled since 2005 and is expected LNG until just three years ago. or cancelled due to the various the two companies and the to the State of Qatar. As a global countries in Latin America has to reach 320 MTPA by 2025. Global LNG demand is expected challenges involved in bringing first ever deliveries of LNG to energy supplier, RasGas remains doubled, from only three in 2007 Although China and India will to double in ten years’ time, with new supply on-stream. The LNG Kuwait onboard Q-Flex ves- focused on executing its short and to six in 2013and is expected to experience strong LNG demand, 400 MTPA of proposed additional market will continue to be tight sels and it marks a significant long-term sales commitments in reach nine by 2016. the major area of LNG growth volumes to come online by 2025. in the short and medium term as development in LNG trade in a safe and reliable manner. Over The Gas Lecture Series is will come from South East Asia, However, a significant portion of demand growth outpaces supply. the region.” THE PENINSULA the past 20 years, we have dem- a GECF initiative designed to a region which had not imported these new projects will be delayed THE PENINSULA onstrated that our key strengths — reliability, deliverability and flexibility — are what set us apart, making RasGas extremely com- petitive on the global stage,” said Hamad Rashid Al Mohannadi, Qatar’s exports in April down 7pc Bahrain clarifies Basel III CEO of RasGas. E.ON regards Qatar as a prior- ity country in the expansion of the DOHA: The value of Qatar’s In April 2014, the trade balance minerals (crude) to reach company’s LNG business model, total exports of goods (including of goods, which represents the QR6.3bn (15 percent); on the rules, eyes 2015 rollout including short and long-term exports of domestic origin and difference between total exports other hand, petroleum oils and supply agreements. Qatar pos- re-exports) in April 2014 stood and imports, showed a surplus of oils from bituminous minerals DUBAI: Bahrain has become Banks across the Gulf have sesses the world’s third-largest at QR40.1bn (about $11bn), QR31.2bn, a decrease of QR3.5bn (not crude) showed an increase the first country in the Gulf been waiting for regulatory guid- gas reserves and has, by develop- witnessing a 7 percent decline (10 percent) compared to the of QR2.5bn (32 percent). outside Saudi Arabia to clarify ance on how subordinated debt ing an impressive infrastructure year-on-year compared to the trade balance of goods the same In April 2014, the major its treatment of capital-boost- instruments will be treated under for exporting LNG, established corresponding month in 2013, month last year. countries of destination for ing instruments under Basel III Basel III, a set of stricter banking itself as leader on the global LNG preliminary figures released by The year-on-year decrease on Qatar’s exports were Japan with rules, saying the instruments rules which are being phased in market. In 2009, E.ON opened an the Ministry of Development the exports value was due to the QR10.8bn, a share of 27 percent must include loss absorption around the world over the next office in Doha, Qatar, in addition Planning and Statistics showed lower exports of petroleum gases of total exports, South Korea with features. several years. to its Middle East office in Dubai, yesterday. and other gaseous hydrocarbons QR6.2bn (15 percent), and India Its decision, which is in line It is up to each national regula- United Arab Emirates. On the other hand, the value (LNG, condensates, propane, with QR5.4bn (13 percent). with Saudi Arabia, a member tor to decide how to interpret the RasGas exports to countries of imports of goods in April 2014 butane, etc.) reaching QR26bn in The year-on-year increase in of the committee which drafted rules; Bahrain’s central bank has across Asia, Europe and the amounted to QR8.8bn (about April 2014, a decrease of 8 percent imports reflected increases in Basel III, could influence regula- drafted separate rule books for Americas with a total LNG pro- $2.42bn), registering an increase compared to April 2013 (mainly motor cars and other passenger tors in other Gulf states that have conventional and Islamic banks, duction capacity of approximately of 10 percent over the value due to maintenance work in the vehicles reaching at QR900m, not yet clarified their stance, such proposing they both come into 37 million tonnes per annum. recorded in the same month last LNG facilities), and petroleum increased by 3 percent. as the United Arab Emirates and effect in January 2015. THE PENINSULA year. oils and oils from bituminous THE PENINSULA Qatar. REUTERS THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS April passenger Microsoft shows off real-time Skype translator CALIFORNIA: Microsoft Conference technology gath- a real product rather than just form 18 months ago in China, Corp showed off a test version of ering in Rancho Palos Verdes, a research project, promising it could represent a significant a real-time, spoken-word trans- California. would launch by the end of the feature for its Skype online chat demand growth lation service for Skype calls, “It is going to make sure you year. He did not say if it would be service, which boasts hundreds of the first time the world’s largest can communicate with any- a free add-on for Skype users or millions of users. It is an advance software company has demon- body without language barriers,” a paid extra. on Microsoft’s current transla- strated the breakthrough tech- said Nadella, who took over as Immediate reaction to the tion features that only work with nology publicly in the United Microsoft CEO in February and demo, featuring an English- written words on its Bing search soars, says IATA States. is keen to re-establish the com- speaking Microsoft executive engine and Internet Explorer Skype Translator, as it is cur- pany as a technology leader after chatting with a German coun- browser. Microsoft has been rently called, allows speakers in a decade of slipping behind Apple terpart, was mixed. One German- working hard on speech recogni- Aviation leaders to assemble in Doha different languages to hear the Inc and Google Inc in mobile speaking audience member said tion technology for years. Earlier other’s words spoken in their own computing. the translation was good enough this year it showed off Cortana, its DOHA: The passenger demand said that nearly 1,000 people are language, according to a demo Nadella described the underly- for vacation, but not for business. voice-activated “personal assist- growth of Middle East airlines’ expected to attend the 70th AGM introduced by Chief Executive ing technology as “magical,” but The new technology, which ant” designed to rival Apple’s Siri. soared 18.6 percent in April and World Air Transport Summit Officer Satya Nadella at the Code said the task now was turn it into Microsoft demoed in a rougher REUTERS 2014, compared to the same Hosted by Qatar Airways, month last year, which is eas- the event will take place under ily the strongest growth for any the patronage of the Emir, H H region. Capacity climbed 13.1 Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al percent and load factor jumped Thani. 3.8 percentage points to 80.8 “Doha will be the centre of the EMRA’A holds percent, according to the lat- air transport industry next week est passenger traffic results as its leaders discuss the most released by International Air important commercial aviation- workshop Transport Association (IATA). related issues of our times: safety, The airlines in the Middle security, environment, distribu- East continue to benefit from the tion and financial sustainability for women strength of regional economies among others,” said Tyler. and solid growth in business- IATA is the global associa- DOHA: ExxonMobil Qatar’s related premium travel. tion of the world’s airlines. The Professional Women’s Network, The IATA, which is set to open IATA AGM draws together the EMRA’A, held a workshop for its 70th Annual General Meeting CEOs and senior management over 100 female employees from (AGM) here, from June 1 to of its 240 member airlines that ExxonMobil, RasGas Company June 3, announced global pas- carry 84 percent of global traf- Ltd (RasGas), and Qatargas in senger traffic results for April fic. They will be joined by lead- Doha last week. showing a healthy increase in ers from across the spectrum of Entitled EMRA’A, The Power demand. Total revenue passenger industry stakeholders including Within, the workshop, which was kilometres (RPKs) rose 7.5 per- governments, partners in the led by David Burton — the Founder cent compared to April 2013, an value chain and other interna- and Managing Director of Burton improvement over March growth tional organisations. Consultancy — a company that of 2.9 percent. The high-profile agenda of specialises in training, facilitating, “April’s demand growth was a the AGM features two panel consulting and business coaching; pleasant surprise in the face of discussions on the first day. provided participants with the the moderating trend of recent The CEO forum will include skills, knowledge and insights to Participants at the workshop. months but it is not clear whether Akbar Al Baker, CEO, Qatar effectively succeed in a globally the acceleration in demand is sus- Airways; David Barger, CEO, diverse environment and team. bias and stereotyping, embracing this workshop, which was hosted diverse workforce we have at cor- tainable in view of global economic JetBlue Airways; Ivan Chu, The workshop was specifically change and valuing diversity, and by EMRA’A,” said Hasnaa Al porations in Qatar today. I thor- trends including slower growth in CEO, Cathay Pacific Airways; tailored for female professionals understanding the elements of suc- Qahtani from RasGas. “The con- oughly enjoyed this experience, China,” said Tony Tyler, IATA’s Andres Conesa Labastida, CEO, working in the oil and gas indus- cessful diverse teams. tent was specific to Qatar and and will definitely refer to what Director General and CEO. Aeromexico; Willie Walsh, CEO try in Qatar, and focused on topics “As a female working in a mul- highlighted many aspects of our I learned today in my own work- Tyler, who is here as part of the and International Airlines Group. such as: developing cultural intel- tinational company in Qatar, I work environment and helped place when the need arises.” preparations of the coveted event, THE PENINSULA ligence, understanding unconscious really benefitted from attending explain the characteristics of the THE PENINSULA

Mall of Qatar Nod for 49pc foreign ownership ECB hails progress made gears up for Cityscape Qatar positive for stocks: Deutsche Bank by eurozone banks DOHA: The new direc- Stojanowski, Research Analyst respective ownership limits and FRANKFURT: The eurozone implementation of fiscal consoli- DOHA: Mall of Qatar, the tive issued by the Emir, H H at Deutsche Bank. MSCI increases their respective is making progress in strength- dation and structural reforms, largest shopping Mall in the Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Historically Qatar has classified adjustment factor from 0.5 to 1. ening its banking sector fol- although progress has been une- country when it opens by the Thani, to raise foreign owner- investors into two categories — Overall, should the adjustment lowing the long years of crisis, ven.” This meant that “investor fourth quarter of 2015, is gear- ship in Qatari stocks by inves- Qatar and non-Qatar. But with factor be removed, the weight of but new risks are emerging, the concerns regarding the global ing up for a major presence at tors outside the GCC nations the latest announcement, Qatar Qatar in MSCI EM index could European Central Bank said financial crisis have continued to this year’s Cityscape Qatar — to 49 percent from the current may move towards a three-tier go up from 0.47 percent to 0.62 yesterday. diminish.” an event that will take place 25 percent will be positive for system where investors are clas- percent. “Euro area banks have acceler- At the same time, the ECB from June 2 to June 4, where the Qatari stock market, said sified as Qatari, GCC and foreign QNBK and IQCD will be the ated the clean-up and strength- warned that “new risks are the Mall management will be Deutsche Bank’s research team. investors. This three-tier sys- second and third heaviest Qatari ening of their balance sheets emerging, particularly a growing making a number of major The Ministry of Economy tem is prevalent in the UAE and stock in the index after Al Rayan since the third quarter of 2013,” search for yield across regions announcements. and Commerce and the Qatar Kuwait exchanges already. Bank. At the country level, Qatar the ECB wrote in its half-yearly and market segments.” The three-day real estate event Financial Markets Authority is MSCI applied an adjustment can out-weight UAE, which cur- Financial Stability Review. And as the search for yield will give Mall management an to take the necessary steps to factor of 0.5 on four Qatari rently has a weight of 0.58 per- Since the publication of its intensified, “so do concerns opportunity to showcase the enforce this directive, which could stocks, from the ten that were cent in the EM index. previous report, the single cur- regarding the build-up of imbal- potential for retailers to become be carried out shortly. included in the MSCI EM index, The incremental fund inflows rency area’s banks had beefed up ances and the possibility of a part of one of the most exciting, “Under the new directive, the to address for accessibility issues from both active and passive EM their capital to the tune of around sharp and disorderly unwinding of innovative and dynamic projects proportion of non-Qatari owner- faced by international investors funds could improve as the weight €95bn ($129bn) via a wide range recent investment flows,” it said. of its kind that is currently being ship would be computed based on due to potential reduction in for- of Qatari stocks increases in the of instruments, the report found. Another risk factor was banks’ developed in the Gulf. each company’s total capital and eign room. But with the foreign EM index. The inflows can be The progress made is vital as weak profitability and balance Mall of Qatar will be a “A not on its tradable shares. This ownership limit now being raised spread out in time and depends the ECB — which is scheduled to sheet stress in a low inflation Super Regional Mall” offering announcement has come just to 49 percent, the necessity to on when the individual compa- take over as the region’s bank- and low growth environment,” over 400 shops, 3 major anchors, three days ahead of MSCI offi- include the adjustment factor nies raise their ownership limits ing supervisor in November — which fuelled scepticism regard- a luxury 5 star hotel, a unique cially including ten Qatari stocks should go away, as to the Deutsche and subsequently MSCI increases undertakes an in-depth review of ing the solidity of Europe’s bank- Family Entertainment Centre, in their EM index. The news Bank research team. the respective adjustment factor. the quality of banks’ assets and ing system. world class daily live entertain- should not have an immediate The four stocks — Qatar In aggregate, between active and prepares to implement so-called The ECB also pointed to a pos- ment concept and an array of impact on Qatar’s weight in the National Bank, Industries Qatar, passive funds Deutsche Bank stress tests in collaboration with sible re-emergence of concerns 82 international restaurants, EM index, but the representation Commercial Bank of Qatar and research estimate an additional the European Banking Authority. about the sustainability of sover- cafes and specialty food shops, of Qatar could improve post the Doha Bank — could get higher $440m could come into the Qatar The Financial Stability eign debt as a result of stalling the company said in a statement. next Semi-Annual Review on 6 weighting in the MSCI EM index, equity market. Review also noted sovereign policy reforms and a prolonged THE PENINSULA November”, said Aleksandar provided they increase their THE PENINSULA risk has also improved “with the period of low growth. AFP

Materia, Qapco sign MoU to study development of new materials

DOHA: As Qatar continues to Materia’s expertise and break- Mulla, Vice-Chairman and CEO grow its energy and industrial through catalyst technology com- of Qapco said: “Joint industry- sectors, and attempts to fur- bined with Qapco resources could academia R&D, such as our col- ther optimise its hydrocarbon potentially lead to the develop- laboration with Materia and Texas resources utilisation, research ment of new products. A&M at Qatar, is very promising and innovation are set to propel Indeed, Materia specialises and paves the way to infinite pos- the future success of these sec- in efficient feedstock utilisa- sibilities while supporting the tors. Research might allow the tion and the extraction of spe- growth of Qatar’s knowledge-based development of new products cific petrochemical and chemical economy.” using Qatar’s existing feedstock compounds. Together, they will Dr Michael A Giardello, and natural resources and opens explore the possibilities to further Materia’s President, CEO & CTO the door to new uses for energy optimise the use of Qatar’s natu- said: “This envisioned collabo- products and derivatives such as ral resources, by studying how to ration should enable Qapco to petrochemicals. extract new products from Qapco’s extract greater value from some To further this goal, Materia Inc current feedstock, with the aim of its by-product streams, there- and Qatar Petrochemical Company to maximize the value related to fore unlocking greater value from (Qapco) have forged a partnership, Qapco’s existing processes. Qatar’s natural resources thanks through a memorandum of under- Through collaboration with to Materia’s unique and advanced standing (MoU), to further rein- local and international part- technologies.” force their collaborative research nerships, Qapco’s R&D team is Qapco uses partnerships with and development efforts, and to digging deep into the potential universities such as Texas A&M study the development of the next applications for its petrochemical University at Qatar, as the launch- generation of materials produced products now and into the future. ing point for its research activities. Officials at the signing ceremony. from Qatar’s existing feedstocks. Dr Mohammed Yousef Al THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 UK initiates criminal probe into GSK Company faces charges of foreign bribery

LONDON: Britain’s fraud any further details about the it to charges under the UK office has launched a formal case, and a company spokesman Bribery Act. criminal investigation into declined to elaborate. However, The new act, like the long- GlaxoSmithKline, posing a new one person familiar with the mat- established US Foreign Corrupt challenge to the drugmaker, ter said the SFO was investigating Practices Act (FCPA), prohibits which already faces claims of GSK’s practices in “numerous” payments to government officials, bribery in China and four other jurisdictions. including state-employed doc- countries. The SFO action comes less than tors, to obtain business overseas. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) two weeks after Chinese police However, GSK can claim mitiga- said late on Tuesday that its announced on May 14 that they tion against prosecution if it can A security guard walking past the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) company sign outside the GSK factory in Shanghai, China. director had “opened a criminal had charged the former British demonstrate that it had robust investigation into the commercial boss of GSK’s China business and policies and procedures in place drugmaker for possible violations Since then, allegations have headache for Chief Executive practices of GlaxoSmithKline and other colleagues with corruption, that were circumvented by rogue of US anti-bribery laws in China, surfaced in other countries and Andrew Witty, who has tried to its subsidiaries”, confirming an after an investigation there found employees. sources said last September. GSK is now investigating claims make ethical behaviour a high earlier brief statement from the evidence of an elaborate scheme “Given GSK is UK headquar- Societe Generale analyst that bribes were also paid to doc- priority since taking charge in company. to bribe doctors and hospitals. tered it perhaps isn’t very sur- Stephen McGarry said the ability tors in Poland, Iraq, Jordan and 2008. Despite the barrage of brib- Shares in the company — The case is the biggest corrup- prising to hear that the SFO is to claim mitigating circumstances Lebanon. ery reports, GSK insists it does Britain’s biggest drugmaker and tion scandal to hit a foreign com- looking at the issue too and that meant GSK might not face major The allegations that bribes not have a “systemic” problem the sixth-largest pharmaceuticals pany in China since the Rio Tinto they may be interested in activi- fines, but the bad publicity “may were paid in Poland could be par- with improper behaviour and says group in the world by sales — fell affair in 2009, which resulted in ties since 1 July 2011, when the restrain GSK’s share price per- ticularly damaging, according to it has a clear system for dealing 1.5 percent by 1315 GMT yester- four executives, including an Bribery Act came into force, as formance in the near-term”. some lawyers, since the country with violations, which resulted day on the news. Australian, being jailed. from that date the corporate Authorities in China first belongs to the European Union in 48 dismissals and 113 written “GSK is committed to oper- The decision by the British offence of failing to prevent brib- accused GSK last July of funnel- and GSK would be expected to warnings last year. ating its business to the highest fraud office does not come as a ery began to apply,” said Omar ling up to 3bn yuan ($480m) in uphold the same standards there In a bid to try and put the ethical standards and will con- complete surprise, since lawyers Qureshi, a partner at law firm bribes to encourage doctors to as in any other EU state. problems behind it, GSK is rolling tinue to cooperate fully with the and industry analysts had pointed CMS Cameron McKenna. use its medicines in a case that The persistent controver- out a new sales model designed SFO,” the company said. out that allegations against GSK US authorities are already the company described in 2013 as sies about its sales practices in to eliminate sharp marketing Neither the SFO nor GSK gave in overseas markets could expose investigating the British “shameful”. emerging markets are a major practices. REUTERS

Ukraine to owe EU lays out energy plan, to reduce Russia dependence

$5.2bn by June BRUSSELS: The European and nuclear energy, and to make half of that transiting through official have suggested there could “complete the internal energy Commission laid out plans yes- progress on a single energy mar- pipelines in Ukraine, according be a ‘European Energy Union,’ market, improve our infrastruc- 7: Gazprom terday to cut the EU’s costly ket. “Improving the internal mar- to Commission figures. a single market complete with ture, become more energy effi- reliance on energy imports, ket will mean that energy prices As the Ukraine crisis has deep- assured supplies and infrastruc- cient and better exploit our own MOSCOW: Ukraine will owe especially from Russia which will be roughly the same every- ened, Moscow has threatened to ture to ensure the EU does not energy resources. “Moreover, we Russia about $5.2bn for natu- has threatened to halt gas sup- where,” EU Energy Commissioner cut supplies — as it did in 2006 rely overly on any one country need to accelerate the diversifica- ral gas as of June 7 if it makes plies to Ukraine, a key transit Guenther Oettinger said. and 2009 — unless Kiev pays for and so leave itself open to energy tion of external energy suppliers, no payments by that date, the point for Europe. As for supply of gas, “we must deliveries up front. blackmail. “We want strong and especially for gas,” he said. CEO of state-controlled Russian A report prepared for move away from a monopoly sup- The fear is that this would stable partnerships with impor- The Commission said that in gas exporter Gazprom, Alexei European Union leaders recom- plier, Russia in this instance,” once again badly expose onward tant suppliers but must avoid 2013, Russia accounted for 39 per- Miller, said yesterday. mended a broad series of meas- Oettinger told a press conference. European countries, some of falling victim to political and com- cent of EU gas imports by volume, Gazprom says Ukraine now ures to promote indigenous Russia accounts for nearly 40 them totally dependent on Russia mercial blackmail,” Oettinger said. with Norway on 33 percent and owes more than $3.5bn, and has sources, including renewables percent of EU gas imports, with for natural gas. EU leaders and Accordingly, the EU must North Africa 22 percent. AFP threatened to stop supplying the neighbouring former Soviet republic with gas if it fails to make a pre-payment for June supplies Ukraine starts gas by June 2. Miller told President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine would con- sume a total of 3.5 billion cubic stockpiling for winter metres of Russian gas in May worth around $1.7bn, increasing MILAN/LONDON: Ukraine’s a rate of eight percent per week, Kiev’s gas debt. “Thus, by June 7, stored gas reserves are suf- mostly using Russian supply. Ukraine’s obligations for gas pay- ficient to help meet needs well Ukraine’s annual gas consump- ments will top $5.2bn,” Miller told into the winter should Russia tion is around 55 Bcm, which Putin, repeating Gazprom’s posi- cut supplies as authorities step means currently stored gas would tion that it will supply as much up efforts to rebuild inventories. meet about a fifth of that. Despite gas as Ukraine pays for. Putin To prepare for any potential rapid buildup, Ukrainian stock lev- responded by saying he hoped disruption, Ukraine’s gas transit els of 34 percent full still lag the “we will not reach a situation monopoly Ukrtransgas is packing European average of 58.7 percent when we will have to switch to 850 million cubic metres of gas per full. A mild winter, ample supplies prepayment”. week into underground storage and low demand across Europe have Russia and Ukraine are fighting sites. Ukraine meets around half its boosted stockpiles and forced down over gas prices, with Kiev want- gas demand through imports from gas prices to multi-year lows, in a ing to change a 2009 contract that Russia — the rest from domestic sign that markets have discounted locked it into buying a set volume production — and it is an important the risk of a Russian supply cutoff. of gas, whether it needs it or not, transit route for Russian gas to the European gas traders said con- at $485 per 1,000 cubic metres — European Union. cerns about Ukraine have faded the highest price paid by any cli- Moscow cut supplies to Ukraine over the past couple of weeks and ent in Europe. in the winters of 2006 and 2009 due any potential supply cut would be Moscow dropped the price to to the unauthorised siphoning off shortlived. “With headlines regard- $268.50 after Ukraine’s then-Pres- of supplies intended for Europe, ing the willingness of the Ukrainian ident Viktor Yanukovich turned causing knock-on shortages across President-elect Poroshenko to talk his back on a trade and associa- the continent. Data from Gas with Russia, UK gas prices started tion agreement with the European Infrastructure Europe (GIE) shows Monday morning with a drop to Union last year, but reinstated the Ukraine now has close to 11 billion their lowest levels this year,” ana- original price after he was ousted cubic metres (Bcm) of gas in stor- lyst Trevor Sikorski at consultancy in February. REUTERS age and is building inventories at Energy Aspects said. REUTERS

LG unveils new G3

Models with LG’s flagship G3 high-end smartphones at its unveiling ceremony in Seoul yesterday. South Korea’s LG Electronics launched a revamped version of G3 at a discount to its predecessor model and said it would ship more than 10 million units to improve its ailing handset business. THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Bulgaria defence expo Jet Airways Most regional to restructure after posting markets retreat worst loss

NEW DELHI: Jet Airways Ltd on profit taking laid out a three-year restruc- turing plan yesterday vowing to take tough measures to return India’s No. 2 airline by market Qatar Exchange down by 0.6 percent share to profit after posting its worst ever loss. DUBAI: Most share markets But the historical experience of All but one of India’s big air- in the Gulf declined yesterday other markets shows that newly lines loses money, with high costs, as stocks that will enter MSCI’s included stocks often under- low fares and heavy competition emerging market index were hit perform the index because they which is likely to increase with by profit-taking, while investors have become richly valued in the two new carriers set to enter the in Egypt were disappointed by run-up. market this year. unexpectedly low turnout in the Ali Adou, portfolio manager at Kingfisher Airlines, once the presidential election. The National Investor, said that No.2 player, grounded its fleet in With most MSCI picks declin- on Wednesday, active investors 2012 for want of cash. ing, Qatar Exchange index was exiting the market appeared to Jet Airways, which has not dragged down by 0.6 percent from outnumber passive index-track- reported an annual profit since Tuesday’s all-time closing high. ing funds which started entering 2007, reported its biggest-ever con- Vodafone Qatar, down 1.8 per- the market this week. solidated annual loss of Rs41.3bn cent, was one of the biggest los- “It seems like investors have A visitor looks at an armoured combat vehicle at “Hemus 2014 Defence, Anti-terrorism and Security” exhibi- ($700m) for the year to March. ers after the company published been ‘selling the fact’ after the tion in the city of Plovdiv in Bulgaria yesterday. Some 62 companies from 10 countries are taking part in the For the quarter, its standalone its quarterly and annual financial MSCI upgrade was finalised,” he international exhibition. net loss was Rs21.54bn, its worst- reports on Tuesday. The firm, said. ever, and its fifth straight quarter whose stock is up 76 percent this Abu Dhabi’s bourse retreated in the red. “These numbers should year, posted a narrowing loss that 2.4 percent, also dragged down by serve as a wake-up call,” said Kapil was largely in line with analysts’ stocks to be included in the MSCI Kaul, Chief Executive for South expectations. emerging market index such as Emaar secures $1.5bn Islamic loan Asia at aviation consultancy Dubai’s index edged up initially Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. but failed to hold ground and First Gulf Bank, which fell 4.1 and “The turnaround is going to closed down 3.3 percent. Builder 3.1 percent respectively. DUBAI/ABU DHABI: Emaar lenders — Dubai Islamic Bank, of the world’s largest shopping take longer than expected and my Arabtec dominated turnover Trading volume, however, Properties has secured a $1.5bn Mashreq and Noor Bank — and two malls — to help secure a lower assessment is it will be painful.” and was the biggest loser, falling concentrated heavily in Aldar Shariah-compliant loan from from Abu Dhabi — First Gulf Bank borrowing rate. Shares in Jet closed 8.7 percent 5.4 percent after brokerage CI Properties, another soon-to-be- five local lenders, two bank- and National Bank of Abu Dhabi. The new transaction has no col- lower in their biggest single-day Capital cut the stock to under- upgraded stock which bucked the ing sources aware of the mat- The lenders plan to market the lateral to support it, the sources drop in a year. weight from overweight. trend and rose 1.2 percent. ter said yesterday, the latest transaction to other banks in a said, emphasising how far the Jet expects its operations to Shares in Arabtec had jumped Egypt’s bourse posted its big- Dubai-based borrower to take syndication phase, which could market has shifted in terms of stabilise and return to profit by 9.2 percent on Tuesday after the gest drop in nearly two months advantage of buoyant markets begin in the next two weeks, one banks willing to lend to Dubai around the middle of the fiscal firm said it was interested in after the government extended to reprice debt. of the source said. names. Emaar’s fortunes have been year which ends in March 2017, building a new airport in Egypt. voting in the presidential election A number of state-linked enti- “In the context of the proposed helped by a rebound in the local said Ravichandran Narayan, vice- They have more than tripled by one day because of low turnout. ties in the emirate have sought to public offering of Emaar Malls property sector, which has seen president of finance. this year, making them Dubai’s The Cairo index fell 2.3 percent refinance existing debts, even if the Group, the company is in the residential prices rise on average The airline plans to bolster rev- top performer but also prompt- as all but two of the constituent loans have years until maturity, as process of assessing and optimis- by 33 percent in the year to March enue through code-share arrange- ing concerns that the stock is stocks declined. market sentiment towards Dubai ing its capital structure taking 31, according to consultants JLL. ments and ancillary services such overbought. The low turnout could under- improves after its debt crisis at the into consideration the best inter- Emaar is not the first Dubai as fees charged for seat selection Most other Dubai stocks mine the perceived legitimacy of start of the decade and local banks ests of all stakeholders,” Emaar, name to take advantage of the and upgrades. also retreated yesterday, former army chief Abdel Fatah el- look to focus excess cash on the 29-percent owned by sovereign improved borrowing conditions It is looking to cut costs and including heavyweights Emaar Sisi, who appears certain to win emirate’s best-quality borrowers. fund Investment Corp of Dubai, for state-linked firms. boost efficiency in every operating Properties, down 3.9 percent, the election. Emaar, developer of the world’s said in a statement. DP World is in talks with banks unit, Raj Sivakumar, senior vice Dubai Islamic Bank, down 3.8 Chamel Fahmy of Cairo-based tallest building, has raised the seven- “The outcome of such proc- to triple the size of an existing president of alliances and plan- percent, and bourse operator HC Securities and Investment year facility which will pay 175 basis ess and relevant details will be $1bn loan, as well as extend the ning, said on the call. Dubai Financial Market, which said the turnout was one of the points over the London interbank included in the IPO prospectus lifespan and cut the interest rate, Jet will reconfigure its Boeing fell 3.4 percent. factors affecting the market, offered rate (Libor), the sources and made available to the public.” sources said last month. 737 fleet and will add seats in All four stocks will become part along with regular profit-taking. said on condition of anonymity as The developer announced plans Dubai Duty Free and a secured wide-body Boeing 777 planes, it of the MSCI emerging market The index is up 26 percent year- the information isn’t public. to list up to 25 percent of its loan for the emirate’s Roads and said. It is also looking to sell three index after trading closes today, to-date, partly because of investor This is half the rate of the malls business in March, which Transport Authority backed by Airbus A330 planes that are cur- as the index compiler upgrades optimism that Sisi would receive existing loan, which was due to is expected to raise Dh8 to 9bn. revenue from the Salik toll network rently leased out. the UAE and Qatar from frontier a strong mandate allowing him run until 2016 and had an interest The new loan replaces an were also renegotiated down in the The carrier is cleaning up its market category. All four have to impose political stability and rate of 350 bps over Libor. existing facility worth $980m last 12 months, in some cases by balance sheet and writing down posted big gains in the run-up to revive the economy. The funds have been provided which was raised in 2011 and was more than half their original cost. some “overvalued” assets, it said. inclusion. REUTERS on an equal basis by three Dubai secured against Dubai Mall — one REUTERS REUTERS QATARI MARKET Tesla shares Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P London house prices falling: Nationwide Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.44 1.03 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 121.25 1.95 % Aa2 AA decline after LONDON: The price of homes Nationwide’s Chief Executive UK’s third-largest mortgage Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 115.13 2.37 % Aa2 AA in Britain’s capital may start Graham Beale said officials should lender, which has a 10 percent Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 110.50 2.95 % Aa2 AA S&P’s ‘junk’ to fall this summer, UK lender wait until the end of the summer share of the London market, said Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 163.25 4.27 % Aa2 AA Nationwide said yesterday, before deciding on any action. it more than doubled its underly- Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 125.50 4.68 % Aa2 AA bond rating potentially reducing the need for “My view is that in London ing profit last year and hit a capi- Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 116.38 4.69 % Aa2 AA new measures to cool London’s we will see a natural correction tal target set by Britain’s financial Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 103.44 0.49 % Aa2 AA WASHINGTON: Shares in red-hot property market. through the summer months. regulator a year early. upstart electric car maker House prices have soared in That intense heat does seem to Mike Amey, a Managing Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 112.75 2.73 % Aa2 AA Tesla fell 2.5 percent yesterday London as the economic recov- be dissipating a bit. We could be Director at Pimco, which runs Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 101.88 1.00 % A1 A- after Standard & Poor’s gave ery, record-low interest rates and seeing the early signs of a natural the world’s biggest bond fund, Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 1.76 % A1 A- the company’s bonds a “junk” government schemes help home correction,” Beale said. supported Beale’s view. “House rating. buyers tempt purchasers into If house prices were to fall in the prices look like they are peaking QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.00 0.89 % NR NR Despite the rave reviews and one of the world’s most expensive capital, it would be seen as posi- out at about 10 percent annual- QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.13 0.97 % Aa3 A+ strong sales of its lithium-ion bat- property markets. tive for Cameron, because it would ised which is not great but at least QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.63 1.64 % Aa3 A+ tery-driven luxury vehicles, S&P A housing bubble poses the make it less likely that the central they are not going up further. gave Tesla debt a “B-“ grade with biggest risk to the stability of bank would raise interest rates I think it is going to ease back Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.50 1.84 % A2 A- a stable outlook in a first-time Britain’s $2.5 trillion economy, before the next election in 2015. down,” he said. Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.25 1.13 % A2 A- rating, published on Tuesday. Bank of England Governor Mark The BoE has so far kept interest The BoE’s Financial Policy Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 125.13 2.53 % A2 A- The agency cited the still-lim- Carney warned on May 18, a view rates at a record low. Carney said Committee, whose main task is Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 109.25 3.21 % A2 A- ited market for its $70,000 cars backed by UK Prime Minister last week that the bank was only to identify and remove risks to Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 107.13 4.21 % A2 A- and the likelihood the company’s David Cameron. Carney said edging towards an increase in bor- Britain’s financial system, meets Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 101.75 0.33 % Aa3 A now-exclusive niche will be chal- the bank was looking at ways to rowing costs and most economists on June 17 and could apply further Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.63 2.88 % Aa3 A lenged by competitors. control mortgage lending amid a in a Reuters poll shared that view. mortgage controls. Even though Tesla has a huge shortage of home building. Beale’s forecast comes as the REUTERS Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 109.63 3.59 % Aa3 A waiting list for its Model S and for SOVEREIGNS the coming Model X, S&P called Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P the company “vulnerable” for its Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.50 1.88 % Aa2 AA “narrow product focus”, small scale Greek bank records profit Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 107.75 0.92 % NR NR compared with major automakers, and questions about the long-term Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 109.63 1.52 % NR NR demand for its high-end cars. Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 126.13 3.17 % NR NR S&P also said the company Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 120.75 3.44 % NR NR needs to prove it can handle the Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 102.13 0.68 % Aa2 AA challenges of ramping up produc- Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.63 2.34 % NR BBB tion as it rapidly expands output. Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 110.00 3.59 % NR BBB “We expect global competition for alternative fuel vehicles to Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 104.38 4.89 % Caa1 B- intensify over the next few years Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 107.75 3.14 % NR BBB- as competitors penetrate this market through improved prod-

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If the UK payday lenders That ‘car war’ with China? quit, what comes next? BY JENNIFER TANKARD America has already lost

T APPEARS that half of all payday lenders have pulled out of BY EDWARD NIEDERMEYER so far, but the actual results have been fairly all Cadillac-brand luxury vehicles other than the UK market in the last 18 months, according to news reports. insignificant: tariffs brought higher prices the Escalade SUV will be built there. GM The increased focus by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) RITICs of China are fired up over to US consumers and shifted imports from has taken the lead in technology transfers to Ion the business practices of payday lenders and the prospect of the World Trade Organisation’s China to other sources, but didn’t materially Chinese partners, incorporating the Baojun greater regulation is clearly having an effect. The UK’s high-cost ruling on Friday that Chinese affect US jobs or stop China from exporting and Wuling brands into its portfolio, and has short-term credit market has been coming under relentless pres- tariffs on American-made SUVs more than 50 million tires to the US last year. been rebadging partner-developed vehicles sure from the media and campaigners to change its ways. and luxury cars violate inter- Meanwhile, it’s not clear how badly the with the Chevy “bow tie” logo for export. There was a story this month about loan sharks using dangerous Cnational rules, coming as it does amid US latest WTO ruling will even hurt China. For Equally important: Below the car- dogs to intimidate parents to pay back loans when they collected allegations of Chinese hacking of US busi- one thing, the tariffs didn’t actually slow US maker level, the US auto-supplier system children from the school gates. It emerged that the Illegal Money nesses. Echoing the rhetoric that helped auto exports to China or hamper the growth has already been largely hollowed out by Lending Team in England is offering schools ready-made lessons President Barack Obama win crucial Ohio of Chinese imports, and China claimed it Chinese competition. As the overall US to warn pupils about the dangers of loan sharks. votes in 2012, Democrats from the industrial had stopped enforcing them in December. vehicle trade deficit has grown from $100m The FCA is only part of the way through its thematic review Midwest trumpeted the ruling as a “signifi- For another, demand for high-end imported in 2004 to $5.3bn in 2013, the gap in auto- of payday lenders and will consult on a cap on the total cost of cant victory” for American manufacturing cars are being filled outside of official chan- parts gap has also ballooned: from $3.2bn credit for all high-cost short-term lenders in the summer, to be jobs. “It is time for China to start playing nels: From BMW SUVs and Ford pickups to in 2004 to $10.5bn last year. The flow of implemented early next year. But even if they are leaving the by the rules,” said United Steelworkers Teslas and anything else offering arbitrage Chinese parts to the US has grown by 700 market, not all are going quietly. Quick Loans Dot UK Ltd, which president Leo Gerard, who urged the White opportunities capable of getting around percent in the last decade. Truth be told, the trades as QuickLoans.co.uk, has recently stopped lending, citing House to “aggressively enforce our trade Chinese restrictions, the trade has boosted vehicles we are shipping to China are likely regulator and political interference as the cause. laws to make sure American workers get US auto sales by as much as 35,000 luxury made with so many Chinese-sourced parts, Its director, Graeme Wingate, has launched a blistering attack a fair shake.” vehicles per year. we shouldn’t call them exports so much as on MPs, calling them hypocrites with no understanding of the Sorry, but contrary to those who would And it’s not like our bailed-out carmakers returns. Again, GM is a key player in this lending market and a mistaken belief that less competition will designate General Motors and Chrysler as were really taking the battle to the enemy. dynamic, with its long-standing pressure benefit consumers. Quickloans claims that 16 jobs will now be lost. champions of some American manufactur- Chrysler has nearly no presence in China, on suppliers to match the “China cost” kill- The Consumer Finance Association, the trade body for payday ing offensive, there is no “car war” raging and the new Fiat Chrysler five-year plan ing some makers and possibly lowering the lenders, has repeatedly expressed concern about the impact of across the Pacific Ocean. calls for keeping US exports basically flat quality (and safety) of some parts. regulation on the industry, arguing that a regulated and innova- To begin with, remember that the cur- while vastly increasing imports. The debate In short, the much-ballyhooed conflict tive financial services industry will be replaced by unregulated rent trade brouhaha was actually started by over Jeep jobs going to China that roiled the with China for automotive supremacy is a and illegal lenders. the United States in 2009, when the Obama 2012 presidential campaign was a red her- phony war, waged rhetorically for domestic While the number of payday loan providers may be declining, administration placed a 35 percent tariff on ring, but there is no flood of Jeep exports to political consumption. The WTO finding credit unions and community development finance institutions Chinese tires at the urging of the American China on the horizon that would create US may have been justified on the facts, but (CDFIs) are slowly scaling up and offering a wider range of serv- steelworkers. That levy was upheld by the jobs or fix the trade imbalance. it’s not going to change the dynamics of ices, such as short-term loans, at affordable prices. WTO in 2011, despite China’s reasonable pro- It is GM, however, that truly embodies the auto imports to the world’s most important Barclays has announced a £1m fund for credit unions, along tests, and the duty on US vehicles headed to falseness of the alleged car war. It is opening growing market. That’s a game US compa- with a range of other measures, including helping with access to China began the same year. The WTO has four new vehicle assembly plants and a new nies will have to win on their own. premises. Lloyds Banking Group has revealed that it will invest ruled in favour of the US in all the disputes engine factory in China, and within two years, WP-BLOOMBERG £1m a year in credit unions and has piloted a project in Leeds signposting appropriate customers to the Leeds City Credit Union and local money management charities. The UK has a partially regulated market economy. Based on market exchange rates the UK is today the sixth-largest economy in the world and the third-largest in Europe after Germany and France, having fallen behind France for the first time in over a decade in 2008. HM Treasury, led by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is respon- sible for developing and executing the British government’s public finance policy and economic policy. London is one of the three “command centres” of the global economy (alongside New York City and Tokyo), is the world’s largest financial centre alongside New York, and has the largest city GDP in Europe. The government is also investing £38m to support credit unions to modernise and grow. The Community Development Finance Association, the trade body for CDFIs, estimates that in 2013, almost 10,000 small and social businesses were able to launch and grow with a CDFI loan. These businesses created and saved more than 17,000 jobs, many in the UK’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. But the geographic reach of credit unions and CDFIs is still patchy, and many of their potential customers are not aware of their existence. Community projects such as Big Local and Community First are helping to tackle this, but it is an uphill battle. The £38m invested in credit unions is almost the same amount as the top five payday lenders spent on advertising in 2013 (an estimated £36.3m). The financial services market is still distorted, with poorer com- munities offered a wealth of choice of high-cost credit providers but no choice of other types of financial services. The Guardian has previously reported on the scarcity of free- to-use ATMs in poorer areas. Nottingham University has pro- duced research that shows similar areas bear the brunt of bank branch closures. Of course we need tighter regulation of payday lenders. Some have cynically exploited vulnerable consumers, taken advantage of the main high street banks’ withdrawal from poorer communi- ties and made millions of pounds worth of profits in the process. But we need to see a massive scaling up of credit unions and CDFIs as well as encourage the main high street and new chal- lenger banks to serve poorer communities if we are going to keep the dogs from the school gates. THE GUARDIAN Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

If we can’t change our economic system, our number’s up

BY GEORGE MONBIOT Before large amounts of coal ice sheet is now inevitable, the In Britain, where a possible 4.4 has risen 180 percent in 10 years. miraculously reduced the con- were extracted, every upswing in Ecuadorean government decided billion barrels of shale oil has just The trade body Forest Industries sumption of raw materials by 90 ET us imagine that in industrial production would be to allow oil drilling in the heart of been identified in the south-east, tells us that “global paper con- percent, we delay the inevitable 3030BC the total pos- met with a downswing in agricul- the Yasuni national park. the government fantasises about sumption is at a record high level by just 75 years. Efficiency solves sessions of the people of tural production, as the charcoal It had made an offer to other turning the leafy suburbs into a and it will continue to grow”. If, nothing while growth continues. LEgypt filled one cubic or horse power required by indus- governments: if they gave it half new Niger delta. in the digital age, we won’t reduce The inescapable failure of a metre. Let us propose that these try reduced the land available for the value of the oil in that part of To this end it’s changing the even our consumption of paper, society built upon growth and its possessions grew by 4.5 percent growing food. the park, it would leave the stuff trespass laws to enable drill- what hope is there for other destruction of the Earth’s living a year. How big would that stash Every prior industrial revolu- in the ground. You could see this ing without consent and offer- commodities? systems are the overwhelming have been by the Battle of Actium tion collapsed, as growth could as either blackmail or fair trade. ing lavish bribes to local people. Look at the lives of the super- facts of our existence. in 30BC? This is the calculation not be sustained. But coal broke Ecuador is poor, its oil deposits These new reserves solve nothing. rich, who set the pace for global As a result, they are mentioned performed by the investment this cycle and enabled – for a few are rich. They do not end our hunger for consumption. Are their yachts almost nowhere. They are the banker Jeremy Grantham. hundred years – the phenomenon Why, the government argued, resources; they exacerbate it. getting smaller? Their houses? 21st century’s great taboo, the Go on, take a guess. Ten times we now call sustained growth. should it leave them untouched The trajectory of compound Their artworks? Their purchase subjects guaranteed to alienate the size of the pyramids? All the Coal production played a key without compensation when eve- growth shows that the scouring of rare woods, rare fish, rare your friends and neighbours. sand in the Sahara? The Atlantic role in the rising of UK economy. ryone else is drilling down to the of the planet has only just begun. stone? Those with the means buy We live as if trapped inside a ocean? The volume of the planet? It was neither capitalism nor inner circle of hell? It asked for As the volume of the global ever bigger houses to store the Sunday supplement: obsessed A little more? It’s 2.5 billion bil- communism that made possi- $3.6bn and received $13m. economy expands, everywhere growing stash of stuff they will with fame, fashion and the three lion solar systems. It does not take ble the progress and pathologies The result is that that contains something con- not live long enough to use. dreary staples of middle-class you long, pondering this outcome, (total war, the unprecedented Petroamazonas, a company with centrated, unusual, precious, By unremarked accretions, ever conversation: recipes, renovations to reach the paradoxical position concentration of global wealth, a colourful record of destruction will be sought out and exploited, more of the surface of the planet and resorts. Anything but the that salvation lies in collapse. planetary destruction) of the and spills, will now enter one of its resources extracted and dis- is used to extract, manufacture topic that demands our attention. To succeed is to destroy our- modern age. It was coal, followed the most biodiverse places on persed, the world’s diverse and and store things we don’t need. Statements of the bleeding selves. To fail is to destroy our- by oil and gas. The meta-trend, the planet, in which a hectare of differentiated marvels reduced Perhaps it’s unsurprising that obvious, the outcomes of basic selves. That is the bind we have the mother narrative, is carbon- rainforest is said to contain more to the same grey stubble. fantasies about colonising space arithmetic, are treated as exotic created. Ignore if you must cli- fuelled expansion. species than exist in the entire Some people try to solve the – which tell us we can export our and unpardonable distractions, mate change, biodiversity col- Our ideologies are mere sub- continent of North America. impossible equation with the problems instead of solving them while the impossible proposition lapse, the depletion of water, soil, plots. Now, with the accessible The UK oil firm Soco is now myth of dematerialisation: the – have resurfaced. by which we live is regarded as so minerals, oil; even if all these reserves exhausted, we must hoping to penetrate Africa’s old- claim that as processes become As the philosopher Michael sane and normal and unremarka- issues miraculously vanished, the ransack the hidden corners of the est national park, Virunga, in the more efficient and gadgets are Rowan points out, the inevi- ble that it isn’t worthy of mention. mathematics of compound growth planet to sustain our impossible Democratic Republic of Congo; miniaturised, we use, in aggre- tabilities of compound growth That’s how you measure the make continuity impossible. proposition. On Friday, a few days one of the last strongholds of the gate, fewer materials. mean that if last year’s predicted depth of this problem: by our Economic growth is an arte- after scientists announced that mountain gorilla and the okapi, of There is no sign that this is global growth rate for 2014 (3.1 inability even to discuss it. fact of the use of fossil fuels. the collapse of the west Antarctic chimpanzees and forest elephants. happening. Iron ore production percent) is sustained, even if we THE GUARDIAN THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Sterling terms NBA ban, sale NBA: Thunder rumble past illegal: Report

NEW YORK: Donald Sterling, banned from owning a pro bas- ketball team for inflammatory remarks he made about African Spurs to level series 2-2 Americans, called the National Basketball Association’s action illegal because it was based on a Westbrook, Durant key performers in emphatic 105-92 victory “lover’s quarrel” that was “ille- gally recorded.” “This was an argument between NEW YORK: The Oklahoma disappointed in our physicality.” a jealous man and the woman he City Thunder, superbly led by NBA Play-offs San Antonio made a fast start, loved that should never have left inspirational All-Stars Russell Kawhi Leonard pouring in two the privacy of the living room,” Westbrook and Kevin Durant Semi-final Result three-pointers to help his team Sterling said in a letter to the on their home court, outplayed race ahead 8-0 but Westbrook NBA obtained by the Los Angeles 1 2 3 4 T the San Antonio Spurs 105-92 sparked an Oklahoma City fight- Times. in Game Four of the Western Oklahoma City 26 32 25 22 105 back and they ended the first Reuters was unable to confirm Conference Finals yesterday. San Antonio 20 23 24 25 92 quarter on a 13-2 run to lead the authenticity of the letter. Dynamic guard Westbrook con- (The best-of-seven series is level at 2-2) 26-20. Sterling, controlling owner of tributed a game-high 40 points Durant then put on a spec- the LA Clippers came under fire and 10 assists while league MVP interview after a stellar display tacular show for his fans with after TMZ.com posted an audio Durant weighed in with 31 points that also included five steals. a dazzling array of shots from recording of him criticizing a on 11-of-22 shooting as the sec- “Coming out with a win is most all around the court, totaling female friend for publicly associ- ond-seeded Thunder evened up important. 15 points in the second quarter ating with black people, including the best-of-seven series at 2-2. “I just try to come out and give as the faster-paced Thunder NBA great “Magic” Johnson. The top-seeded Spurs, aiming maximum effort. My team mates stretched their advantage to The NBA said in a statement for a return to the NBA Finals ask that of me and that’s what I 58-43 at halftime. yesterday that it had received a after losing to the Miami Heat in was trying to do at both ends of San Antonio’s second unit went response from Donald and Shelly five games last year, were outshot the floor.” on a rousing 18-5 run late in the Sterling regarding his termina- by 49 percent to 40 from the field. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich third quarter but Oklahoma City tion, and added that the league’s Point guard Tony Parker and applauded the performances pro- maintained overall control and Board of Governors will hold a Boris Diaw, off the bench, led duced by Westbrook and Durant, led 83-67 heading into the fourth. vote on eliminating Sterling’s the way for San Antonio with 14 but felt his team had paid the There was no way back from stake at a hearing set for June 3, points each but veteran All-Star price for not being aggressive there for the Spurs, despite when he can address the charges forward Tim Duncan was held to enough. continued good play from their before his fellow owners. just nine points on three-of-eight “I thought they (Westbrook reserves, and they ended the If at least 23 of the other shooting. and Durant) did a great job,” he night by slipping to their ninth 29 owners vote to terminate “I think I did all right,” a said and added: straight loss to the Thunder at Thunder’s players Serge Ibaka (right) and Steven Adams try to stop a Sterling’s ownership of the fran- smiling Westbrook told Turner “They are great players, Chesapeake Energy Arena. drive against Spurs’ Tony Parker during their game yesterday. chise, the Clippers would have to Network Television in a courtside and that’s what they do. I was REUTERS be sold, the NBA said. REUTERS NFL: Bourque’s hat-trick helps Canadiens overcome Rangers

NEW YORK: Rene Bourque eventual winner to play either the That goal set the tone for a scored a hat-trick as the NHL Play-offs Los Angeles Kings or the Chicago chaotic slugfest between the Montreal Canadiens beat the Blackhawks for the NHL champi- two Original Six rivals with the New York Rangers 7-4 in a Conference Final onship. “Sometimes it seems that Rangers levelling the game mid- high-scoring thriller yesterday wherever you’re going the puck way through the opening period to stay alive in the National Result seems to be following you,” said when Derek Stepan, who was Hockey League’s Eastern 1 2 3 T Bourque. recalled despite suffering a bro- Conference finals. Montreal got off to a flying ken jaw in Game Three, scoring NY Rangers 1 3 0 4 Needing to win to avoid elimi- start on home ice when Canadiens from a wrist shot. nation in the best-of-seven series, Montreal 2 3 2 7 forward Alex Galchenyuk tipped The Habs regained the lead the Canadiens won a wild and ill- (NY Rangers lead the best-of-seven series in a slap shot from PK Subban when Tomas Plekanec snapped a Rangers’ head coach Alain Vigneault behind Benoit Pouliot (67) and Carl tempered Game Five to reduce by 3-2) to score inside the first two min- shot past New York’s unsighted Hagelin (62) and Brad Richards (19) during the third period in game five the deficit to 3-2 and retain some utes from a power-play after New goaltender Henrik Lundqvist to of the Eastern Conference Final against Canadiens yesterday. hope of reaching the Stanley 21 years. The next game will be York’s Chris Kreider was sent to end the first period 2-1 in front. Cup finals for the first time in in New York tomorrow with the the penalty box for tripping. REUTERS

NFL: Cowboys’ Lee suffers Jays prevail over Rays NEW YORK: Mark Buehrle Alex Presley had his second knee injury pitched into the seventh Baseball Results consecutive three-hit game to inning to earn his Major Colorado 6 Philadelphia 2 help the Houston Astros beat DALLAS: On the first day League-leading ninth win Toronto 9 Tampa Bay 6 the Kansas City Royals. of organised team activities, as the Toronto Blue Jays It was the Astros’ fourth suc- Boston 6 Atlanta 3 Dallas Cowboys linebacker Sean defeated the Tampa Bay Rays cessive win, while the Royals Lee was helped off the practice and extended their winning NY Mets 4 Pittsburgh 2 lost for the sixth time in eight field by trainers after suffering streak to eight games. Chicago White Sox 2 Cleveland 1 games. a knee injury. Buehrle (9-1) allowed eight Houston 3 Kansas City 0 C.J. Cron went 2-for-4 with The extent of the damage was hits and four runs (three Milwaukee 7 Baltimore 6 two RBIs to help lead the Los unknown, coach Jason Garrett earned) in 6-2/3 innings. Minnesota 4 Texas 3 Angeles Angels past Seattle. told reporters. First baseman Adam Lind, St Louis 6 NY Yankees 0 Los Angeles (29-22) had six While Lee left yesterday’s prac- designated hitter Edwin extra-base hits, including five San Diego 4 Arizona 3 tice, quarterback Tony Romo was Encarnacion and third baseman doubles. Four of those came in back on the field throwing passes Juan Francisco all homered for Detroit 6 Oakland 5 a three-run second inning that and working on handoffs just six the Blue Jays. LA Angels 6 Seattle 4 helped the Angels jump out to a months after undergoing back Sean Rodriguez drove in LA Dodgers 6 Cincinnati 3 3-0 lead and they never trailed. surgery. three runs for the Rays but San Francisco 4 Chicago Cubs 0 Gordon Beckham’s fifth- Johnny Manziel did not starter Alex Cobb (1-2) allowed inning solo home run gave the spend his Memorial weekend in six runs in his second start after a 10-game losing streak. Chicago White Sox the winning Cleveland with his head buried in since returning from the disa- Colorado’s Wilin Rosario hit margin in a victory over the the playbook. bled list. a three-run homer to snap a Cleveland Indians that did not Instead, Johnny Football hit St Louis’ Lance Lynn threw tie in the seventh inning that end until early on Wednesday the road to Las Vegas for a busy the first complete game shutout helped the Rockies beat the morning. few days that was documented on of his career as he walked three Philadelphia Phillies. The threat of rain forced a social media sites. and struck out two while giving Jorge De La Rosa (6-3) 41-minute delay at the start Manziel, the No. 22 overall up five hits to beat the Yankees. pitched six strong innings to and a downpour prompted a pick in the NFL Draft earlier Matt Holliday led a 10-hit earn his sixth successive vic- one-hour, 58-minute stoppage this month, returned from the attack for the Cardinals (29-23) tory for Colorado. after three innings. The game extended weekend and reported by going 3-for-4 with two runs. Juan Lagares’ second run- finally ended shortly before 1 Tuesday for the start of organized Yovani Gallardo’s pinch- scoring hit, a one-out single a.m. team activities after the rookie hit double in the 10th inning in the sixth, snapped a tie and The win was the second in a took advantage of a break in the gave the Milwaukee Brewers lifted the New York Mets to a row for the White Sox, while schedule for a brief vacation. a victory over the Baltimore win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. the Indians dropped their third Kansas City Chiefs began OTA Orioles, who had erased a 5-0 The Mets, playing their first straight game. sessions, thoughts in the Chiefs deficit and went ahead on Steve game under new hitting coach Miguel Cabrera and Torii Nation were not of the 84 players Pearce’s pinch-hit home run in Lamar Johnson, recorded just Hunter hit solo home runs, on the field for the first practice. the seventh off right-hander their fourth win in 13 games. and the Detroit Tigers snapped Instead, the focus was on two Matt Garza. The Minnesota Twins scored their three-game losing streak absent defensive starters and a The Boston Red Sox, sparked two runs in the bottom of the with a come-from-behind vic- quarterback that was present but by a two-out single from Jackie ninth inning, erasing a one- tory over the Oakland A’s. still does not have a new contract. Bradley Jr., scored four runs in run deficit, to beat the Texas Catcher John Jaso hit a two- Missing were outside Justin the seventh inning to record a Rangers. run homer for the A’s, who beat Houston and cornerback Brandon come-from-behind win over the Eduardo Nunez had the the Tigers 10-0 in the opener Flowers. Atlanta Braves. game-tying RBI in the ninth of the four-game series. Centre No explanations were available Jon Lester allowed three before and Minnesota scoring fielder Andre Ethier homered for their no-show status at the runs over six innings to get the winning run on an error. and drove in four runs, sparking beginning of the voluntary prac- the win and Boston won a sec- Collin McHugh pitched the LA Dodgers to a win over tices. AGENCIES ond straight against Atlanta seven scoreless innings and Cincinnati Reds. REUTERS THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Julia Goerges in action during her second round match Serena vows to work yesterday. ‘five times harder’ After upset, star player says ‘it’s not the end of world’ Goerges’s innovation

PARIS: Serena Williams was “I will have to work five times heralds data-based left furious following her bomb- as hard to make sure it doesn’t shell second round exit from the happen again,” added the 32-year- French Open but vowed to work old American who suffered her future in Paris “five times harder” to repair her only Grand Slam first round loss bruised status as the world’s in Paris in 2012. PARIS: Ten minutes after and backhand. Each shot is best player. It was the earliest exit for a Julia Goerges finishes a match, measured via a triangle of endur- To cap off a miserable day for defending champion at Roland she can analyse how many ance, power and position in the the Williams’ family, sister Venus Garros since 2005 when Anastasia forehands she played and why search for optimal performance. was also knocked out as the two Myskina of Russia went out in the her second serve may have Goerges says the data from American superstars lost at a first round. been giving her problems. matches is more useful than that major on the same day for only With the defeat the women’s At this week’s French Open, from practice. She is beginning the fourth time. draw has been blown wide open as the German has been the first to talk through what the data The top seed and 17-time Williams joins second seed Li Na player at a major tournament reveals with her coach. Grand Slam winner lost 6-2, of China on the list of top casual- to use a so-called “connected “You can see how aggressive 6-2 to Spanish world number 35 ties to crash out. racquet”, which stores data on you were, how many forehands Garbine Muguruza while Venus It was the first time in the performance in an app in the you did,” she remarked. went out 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 to Slovak Open Era that the top two seeds USA’s Serena Williams (right) shakes hands with Spain’s Garbine Muguruza racquet’s handle. Goerges’s serve did not func- teenager Anna Schmiedlova. had failed to get past the second at the end of their French tennis Open second round match at the Roland “It (the racquet) feels exactly tion well in the second half of “Obviously I’m super disap- round at a Grand Slam event. Garros Stadium in Paris yesterday. the same, it’s just it has the data her defeat yesteday to Canada’s pointed and, you know, it’s hard. “It was one of those days. You inside and you can do all these 18th seed Eugenie Bouchard and I worked really hard. But hey, know, you can’t be on every day, cool things with it,” said Goerges. she is hoping the app will tell her maybe I can do better. I know for and, gosh, I hate to be off during The World No. 35 explained Slam champion who came clos- “It’s about putting the pieces why. a fact I can work harder,” said a Grand Slam,” added Williams about her pre-match feeling : “I est to winning the French Open of the puzzle together.” “You can see how the power defending champion Serena. before hoping to come back played her I think two years ago in 2002 when she lost in the final The player presses a button on was and how many kick serves “I know for a fact I can play so stronger in the future events. and was horrible, because I was so against Serena, came into the the handle to turn on the app you did,” she said with a small much better than I did today, so “It happens. It’s not the end of nervous so I said, ‘okay, this time tournament as the second oldest and every shot is measured dur- laugh. “You can see the sweet it’s a double-edged sword. the world. It is what it is,” said I’m not going to think I’m playing player in the draw. ing the match. The data can then spot, you can see exactly where “If I couldn’t play better I Serena who won 11 titles last year against Serena, I’m going to do The five-time Wimbledon be downloaded via Bluetooth on you hit it on the racquet. would be, I think, even more dis- including the French Open and what I have to do’. That’s what I champion can now look ahead to to a mobile phone or computer. “It’s just the beginning right appointed. But I know I can, so US Open. was thinking all the match.” the grass court season, a surface The data from Goerges’s first- now, I’ve not got a lot of data yet. I know I have something to look For Muguruza, it was the high- Defeat for Venus, the 29th seed, more suited to her game. round win over Michelle Larcher If you have the records longer forward to,” added Williams who light of her career. meant she has now failed to get “Wimbledon is the next focus. de Brito of Portugal show which and more data you can compare failed to reach the second week of Im very happy, very excited. It’s beyond the second round in Paris I’ve just got to get on the court part of the strings were used for it better, that’s a good thing to a Grand Slam for the first time my biggest win so far, so amazing,” on her last three visits. and start grinding.” said Venus. each shot - services, forehand have.” REUTERS as top seed. said the Spaniard,” she said. At 33, the seven-time Grand AFP Rudisha seeks Top golfers minus Woods to Quintana takes Giro confidence on lead amid confusion comeback take part in Memorial event VAL MARTELLO: Movistar today’s stage, the Directors of DUBLIN: Very few of the “Winning any golf tournament rider Nairo Quintana won a the Giro d’Italia would like to NAIROBI: Kenya’s Olympic game’s top players are absent is very difficult out here, they dramatic and confused 16th clarify that Race Radio provided and world 800 metre record- from this week’s Memorial tour- don’t come easy,” said Scott, who stage of the Giro d’Italia yes- an inaccurate interpretation of holder David Rudisha will be nament in Dublin, Ohio where beat American Jason Dufner on terday to snatch the overall the indications stipulated by the seeking a confidence boost in the leafy Muirfield Village lay- the third extra hole at Colonial leader’s pink jersey from fellow Directors,” they said. his comeback race on Saturday out is always in immaculate Country Club. Colombian Rigoberto Uran. “As previously stated, the after a year out with injury. condition and the PGA Tour Scott added: “I played hard and Quintana, last year’s Tour de intention was to guarantee rider Rudisha, who is also the reign- event has the feeling of a major. I was really happy with where France runner-up, pulled away in safety during the first section of ing Olympic and 2011 world cham- Hosted annually by golfing my game was at. “As always, a a controversial descent from the the descent (the first six hairpins, pion, is scheduled to compete in great Jack Nicklaus and benefit- bit of luck involved but to come Stelvio pass and increased the gap approximately 1500 metres) of the the Prefontaine Classic 800m race ing from a prime spot in the tour out on top is a really satisfying in the final climb of the 139km Passo dello Stelvio, where visibil- in Eugene, Oregon. schedule just two weeks before the feeling. I’m trying not to put too trek from Ponte Di Legno. ity was restricted due to low cloud Competitors include the 2013 U.S. Open, the Memorial repeat- much pressure on myself to have There was confusion as organ- and fog.” world champion Mohammed edly attracts one of the best fields to go and win every week to stay isers appeared to neutralise the Riding his first Giro, Quintana Aman of Ethiopia, Olympic silver on the U.S. circuit. my way round a bit better, that number one.” race during that descent, made finished the stage eight seconds medallist Nijel Amos of Botswana Seven of the world’s top 10 play- will show on Sunday afternoon. Scott will tee off in high-profile dangerous by the terrible weather ahead of Canada’s Ryder Hesjedal and America’s Duane Solomon, ers will be competing this week Hopefully I’m here Sunday after- company in opening round where conditions, but then told teams to and Frenchman Pierre Rolland. who has run this year’s world best where second-ranked Henrik noon,” Watson smiled, referring to he is grouped with compatriot ignore the instruction. Quintana now leads Uran, of 1:43.27. Stenson, third-ranked Tiger his prospects of making the cut Jason Day, the world number “Wrong communication: no who finished the stage in ninth “It is like being thrown into the Woods (pictured) and Sergio after the second round. seven, and Northern Ireland’s neutralisation for the descent place and 4:11 down, by 1:41 with deep end,” Rudisha’s coach, Colm Garcia (eighth) are the notable Though the American left- Rory McIlroy, the former world from the Passo dello Stelvio. Sorry Australian Cadel Evans in third O’Connell, told AFP. absentees. hander does not boast an impres- number one. for the wrong information,” the place overall 3:21 behind. “People will be anxious and “I love this place,” American sive track record at Muirfield McIlroy returns to PGA Tour Giro’s official Twitter feed said. “I don’t understand why there are waiting to see how Rudisha world number five and Masters Village, he has produced excel- action with his game in excellent Not everyone was clear about is a polemic (dispute). I made up will fare having been out for champion Bubba Watson, told lent form so far this season with shape, having won the European it, however. “Neutralisation of the more time on the climb, we didn’t too long. There’s always a chal- reporters yesterday while prepar- six top-10s in 10 starts, including Tour’s flagship BMW PGA Stelvio-descent wasn’t brought make so much on the descent,” lenge to come back from injury ing for opening round. his second victory at the Masters Championship at Wentworth to all team cars. Big confusion,” said Quintana. straight into a big race,” she said. “It’s one of those places where last month. Heading the field this on Sunday, just four days after Team Saxo Tinkoff wrote on It was a day to remember as Like Rudisha, Botswana’s Amos, you always see a great field and week will be Australian Adam breaking up with his tennis-play- their Twitter feed. Later yes- riders suffered gruelling moments who took the silver medal behind it’s a good golf course. I love the Scott, who clinched the Crowne ing fiancee Caroline Wozniacki. terday, organisers said that they in the Dolomites. the Kenyan at the 2012 London look of it. I’ve ever played very Plaza Invitational in a playoff on Fourth-ranked American Matt never intended to neutralise the Rain froze on the TV cam- Olympics, also missed much of well here but I love coming back Sunday and will be making his Kuchar, who triumphed by two descent. eras as the riders went through 2013 due to a nagging quad injury and challenging myself. second consecutive appearance shots at last year’s tournament, “In consideration of audio a snowy Gavia pass before taking and will look to launch his season “Hopefully now that I am play- on the PGA Tour since replac- is back to defend his title. recordings of instructions relayed on the feared Stelvio climb. at the Prefontaine Classic. AFP ing a lot better, and thinking ing Woods as world number one. REUTERS to Directeurs sportifs during REUTERS Mercedes offer Formula One rivals feud for thought

LONDON: If Formula One finished first and second. “We are to outperform one man,” wrote of team mates on the starting grid were to produce a good feud living in the same building and I David Coulthard, who sometimes and it is usually because the peck- guide, the rivalry being cooked am sure when we turn up in the faced a stony silence from double ing order is clearly established - up between title-chasing next place we will be as profes- champion Mika Hakkinen during think Michael Schumacher and Mercedes’ team-mates Lewis sional as ever,” a calmer Hamilton their time together at McLaren, Felipe Massa during their time Hamilton and Nico Rosberg explained later. in a Daily Telegraph column at Ferrari - or the car is not good would merit several stars. “People say that we are best yesterday. enough to allow either to do much While their team bosses will friends but we are not. We have As four-times world champion more than take part. do what they can to keep the not been since we were 13 years Alain Prost warned last week, few It is no coincidence that drivers in check, they will also old. I say hi to him and he says friendships survive in Formula Hamilton got on well with Heikki let them race - which means the hi to me. We don’t have lunch One when such a prize is at stake Kovalainen, who posed no threat increasingly fractious duo will together; we don’t have dinners. Lewis Hamilton Nico Rosberg and those fighting for it are in the as a McLaren team mate, but was have plenty of fuel in the coming We are cool.” same team. barely on speaking terms with months. Rosberg, visiting the German The Frenchman should double world champion Fernando “We are not friends, we are col- soccer team on Tuesday, told that until this season, in which together and got a glimpse of the know, having partnered the late Alonso during their year together leagues,” Hamilton declared in reporters he was sure relations Mercedes are so dominant that good life enjoyed by Rosberg’s Brazilian triple champion Ayrton in 2007. Monaco on Sunday after Rosberg would improve - even if Hamilton they could end up winning every 1982 world-champion father, Senna at McLaren in one of the Alonso felt Hamilton was won the season’s glamour race will be hoping the next dish served race, they were as close as any F1 Keke. Until recently Hamilton most combustible pairings of all favoured by Dennis and seethed. and seized back the championship up in Canada is cold and labelled pairing despite being very differ- even kept his safe in Rosberg’s time - and one whose echoes are In Monaco, it was Hamilton who lead with a four-point advantage. “revenge”. ent characters. apartment. being detected again. felt Rosberg had deliberately The 2008 world champion “We’ve always been friends, we Hamilton and Rosberg, one That they should now fall out “Show me a good loser and stymied him and was similarly hardly needed to spell that out, always will be friends,” Rosberg growing up in social housing and is par for the course in Formula I’ll show you a loser,” Hamilton’s aggrieved. the body language doing it for had told Sky TV on Sunday. the other among Monaco’s mil- One. former boss and mentor Ron “I wish you could have seen the him in a podium “celebration” “But friends is a big word. What lionaires, have known each other “You can talk as much as Dennis likes to say, and he is cer- data,” he told reporters refer- that ended without handshakes or exactly is friends? Much of the since they were teenage team you want about them grow- tainly not alone in thinking that. ring to the Monaco controversy. backslaps between the pair who spice in the unfolding story is mates in go-karts. They travelled ing up as friends, but you have Point out a happy, friendly pair REUTERS THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 England trounce Sri Lanka Five-star Jordan shines in 10-wicket win; visitors bowled out for 67

MANCHESTER, UNITED Scoreboard alone could not explain how KINGDOM: Chris Jordan led Sri Lanka were bowled out on England’s attack as they bowled SRI LANKS Wednesday with a mammoth 26 out Sri Lanka for just 67 on L Thirimanne c Buttler b Anderson ...... 7 overs remaining. the way to completing a crush- T Dilshan c Buttler b Anderson ...... 2 James Anderson, on his ing 10-wicket win in the third K Sangakkara c Buttler b Jordan ...... 13 Lancashire home ground, got one-day international at Old M Jayawardene lbw Tredwell ...... 12 England going with an opening Trafford yesterday. L Chandimal c Bell b Jordan ...... 6 burst of two wickets for no runs in The Sussex paceman took a A Mathews c Buttler b Jordan ...... 11 five balls, with both Tillakaratne career-best five wickets for 29 A Priyanjan (run out-Bopara) ...... 2 Dilshan and Lahiru Thirimanne runs as England, after fit-again N Kulasekara c Tredwell b Jordan ...... 5 caught behind by his county col- captain Alastair Cook won the M Senanayake c (sub-Woakes) b Tredwell ..0 league Jos Buttler. toss in overcast conditions, dis- H Herath (not out) ...... 0 Dilshan was undone by an espe- missed Sri Lanka in just 24 overs. L Malinga lbw Jordan ...... 2 cially good delivery which cut Cook (30 not out) and Ian Bell Extras (LB-3, W-4) ...... 7 back into him, Buttler taking a (41 not out), then made easy work Total (all out in 24 overs) ...... 67 well-judged catch. of their meagre target, although Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-13, 3-32, 4-45, Sangakkara was caught behind left-hander Cook was dropped 5-58, 6-60, 7-65, 8-65, 9-65, 10-67. off Jordan and the Sussex star on 12 at square leg by Sachitra Bowling: J M Anderson 7-2-10-2 (1w); H F then had Dinesh Chandimal Senanayake. Gurney 6-1-23-0; C J Jordan 8-0-29-5 (3w); taken at short extra-cover by Bell. Lara to play Bell finished the day/night J C Tredwell 3-1-2-2. But it was off-spinner James match with a straight six off left- ENGLAND Tredwell who, with his first in Lord’s arm spinner Rangana Herath as A Cook (not out) ...... 30 ball, took the prize wicket of England, now 2-1 up in this five- I R Bell (not out) ...... 41 Jayawardene when the right- match series, hit back just three Extras (W-2) ...... 2 hander was plumb lbw on the Bicentenary days after being bowled out for 99 Total (for no loss in 12.1 overs) ...... 73 back foot. during Sri Lanka’s 157-run win at Bowling: K M D N Kulasekara 3-0-14-0 Mathews was then caught Chester-le-Street. (2w); S L Malinga 3-0-13-0; H M R KB Herath behind off Jordan, who in his 12th MANCHESTER, United Yesterday’s match took just 36.1 3.1-0-29-0; S M S M Senanayake 1-0-8-0; S match at this level was well on Kingdom: West Indies great overs in total. M A Priyanjan 2-0-9-0. the way to surpassing his previous Brian Lara (pictured) has been Kumar Sangakkara top- best of three for 25 in England’s added to the star-studded list of scored for Sri Lanka with 13 in and 55 against the West Indies series-opening 81-run win against players who will take part in the an innings where the only other at Sharjah in 1986. Sri Lanka at The Oval last week. MCC vs Rest of the World Lord’s batsmen to make it into double It was also their lowest in The exit of Mathews was the Bicentenary match on July 5 it figures were Mahela Jayawardene England, with their previous cue for a flurry of wickets, that was announced yesterday. (12) and skipper Angelo Mathews worst in the country also coming included a direct hit run out Lara will play alongside fel- (11). at Old Trafford when, as a non- by Ravi Bopara. Barbados-born low all-time batting great The tourists lost their last six Test nation, they made 86 against Jordan, 25, appropriately wrapped Sachin Tendulkar for MCC, wickets for nine runs in six overs. eventual champions the West up proceedings when he had last with Australia’s Aaron Finch, England’s Chris Jordan celebrates after taking the wicket of Sri Lanka’s Sri Lanka’s total was their Indies at the inaugural World man Lasith Malinga lbw for two. currently the world’s leading Kumar Sangakkara during the third One Day International (ODI) cricket third lowest at this level, fol- Cup in 1975. The series continues at Lord’s Twenty20 batsman, also in the match against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford, northwest England, yesterday. lowing the 43 they made against Heavy cloud cover favoured on Saturday before concluding at hosts line-up. South Africa at Paarl in 2012 England’s attack but conditions Edgbaston on June 3. AFP Australia paceman Peter Siddle, a thorn in England’s side during the Ashes, will join Nottinghamshire team-mate and former Test wicket-keeper Chris India recall Gambhir for Tests Read in the MCC side. Fast bowlers Umar Gul NEW DELHI: India yesterday tour of New Zealand this January. Pandey and Stuart Binny, who matches and a lone Twenty20 (Pakistan) and Tino Best are the brought back opening batsman Gambhir, with 4,021 runs and have no Test match experience. international. final names to be added to the Gautam Gambhir and axed frag- nine centuries from 54 Tests, is India last played five Tests on The teams for the limited-overs MCC and Rest of the World sides ile pace spearhead Zaheer Khan one of the three openers in the an England tour in 1959 which the matches to be played between respectively. for their first five-Test tour of squad alongside Shikhar Dhawan hosts swept 5-0. August 25 and September 7, will Tendulkar will captain an MCC England in 55 years starting in and Murali Vijay. They have not played a five- be named later. XI that also includes another July. Khan, India’s most experienced Test series since losing 1-0 in the India’s Test squad: Mahendra retired India batting star in The selectors, who picked a new ball bowler with 311 wickets Caribbean in 1997. Singh Dhoni (capt), Murali Rahul Dravid, Pakistan off-spin- 18-man squad for the back-to- in 92 Tests, was not considered The Indians, who arrive in Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Gautam ner Saeed Ajmal -- whose action back Tests, included seven seam- after missing a major part of the England in the third week of Gambhir, Cheteshwar Pujara, was recently called into question ers and Wriddhiman Saha as ongoing Indian Premier League June, will play two warm-up Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, by England’s Stuart Broad -- reserve wicket-keeper for skipper due to a hamstring injury. matches against Leicestershire Rohit Sharma, Ravindra and former Australia fast bowler Mahendra Singh Dhoni. He broke down with a leg and Derbyshire before the Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Brett Lee. Left-handed Gambhir returns injury on the opening day of the first Test in Nottingham from Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammad Meanwhile Shane Warne, argu- to the Test arena for the first Test series in England in 2011, in July 9. Shami, Ishwar Pandey, Ishant ably cricket’s greatest leg-spinner, time since December 2012, hav- which Dhoni’s men suffered a 4-0 The remaining Tests in Sharma, Stuart Binny, Varun will captain a Rest of the World ing been ignored for the home whitewash. London (Lord’s and The Oval), Aaron, Wriddhiman Saha, Pankaj XI that includes his former series against Australia and the The squad includes three play- Southampton and Manchester, Singh. Hampshire team-mate Kevin West Indies last year and the ers, seamers Pankaj Singh, Ishwar will be followed by five one-day Coach: Duncan Fletcher. AFP Pietersen, now in England ‘exile’, as well as Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan and Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi. Raina to lead “Lord’s always holds a very IPL: Kolkata reach final, Chennai special place in any cricketer’s new-look India heart, and I am very much look- ing forward to helping celebrate in Bangladesh its Bicentenary with MCC,” said down Mumbai Indians in eliminator Lara in a statement. “It was an honour to be asked NEW DELHI: Left-handed to be involved and it will be fan- KOLKATA: Kolkata Knight batting performance Chennai Scoreboard batsman Suresh Raina (pic- tastic to play at such an iconic Riders came up with an all- Super Kings booked a berth in tured) was yesterday picked to place on such a special occasion.” round show to romp into the the Qualifier 2 beating defending KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS KINGS XI PUNJAB lead an under-strength Indian Umar Gul added: “Playing at final with a clinical 28-run deci- champions Mumbai Indians by R V Uthappa c Miller b Patel ...... 42 V Sehwag c S Al Hasan b U T Yadav ...... 2 team for a three-match one- Lord’s is different to playing at mation of Kings XI Punjab in seven wickets in the eliminator G Gambhir c Bailey b Johnson ...... 1 M Vohra c U T Yadav b Morkel ...... 26 day series in Bangladesh next any other ground in the world. qualifier 1 of the Indian Premier of IPL here yesterday. M K Pandey b Patel ...... 21 W P Saha c U T Yadav b Morkel ...... 35 month. “There is something magical League (IPL) here yesterday. Super Kings will now face Shakib Al Hasan c Miller b Karanveer Singh 18 G J Maxwell lbw U T Yadav ...... 6 Seven senior players -- skip- about it and it will be a pleasure In Mumbai, riding on a strong Kings XI Punjab in tomorrow’s Y K Pathan c Miller b Karanveer Singh ...... 20 D A Miller b Chawla ...... 8 per Mahendra Singh Dhoni, to come back and help MCC mark qualifier 2 for a place in Sunday’s R N ten Doeschate c Vohra b Johnson ...... 17 A R Patel (run out-Chawla/Uthappa) ...... 2 Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, the current ground’s 200th year Scoreboard final against Kolkata Knight S A Yadav b Karanveer Singh ...... 20 G J Bailey c Pandey b U T Yadav ...... 26 Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra in this match.” Riders. P P Chawla (not out) ...... 17 R Dhawan st Uthappa b S Al Hasan ...... 14 Jadeja, Mohammad Shami and Marylebone Cricket Club MUMBAI INDIANS Put in to bat, the Knights S P Narine (run out-Johnson) ...... 0 M G Johnson (not out) ...... 10 Shikhar Dhawan -- do not figure (MCC), founded in 1787, moved L M P Simmons c Raina b Jadeja ...... 67 posted a challenging 163 for 8, M Morkel (not out) ...... 0 Karanveer Singh (not out) ...... 1 in the new-look 15-man squad. to its present site in the north- M E K Hussey b Jadeja ...... 39 and then restricted the Kings to Extras (LB-4, W-3) ...... 7 Extras (LB-3, W-2) ...... 5 Varun Aaron, Stuart Binny, west London suburb of St John’s C J Anderson c Pandey b Ashwin ...... 20 135 for 8 before a packed Eden Total (for 8 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 163 Total (for 8 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 135 Amit Mishra, Cheteshwar Pujara, Wood in 1814, with the ground R G Sharma c McCullum b Sharma ...... 20 Gardens here to record their Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-67, 3-67, 4-108, Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-45, 3-55, 4-80, 5-82, Ajinkya Rahane and Ambati then owned by Thomas Lord -- K A Pollard c Sharma b Nehra ...... 14 eighth win on the trot in the 5-108, 6-145, 7-147, 8-159. 6-87, 7-117, 8-134. Rayudu are the only players to hence its name -- before the club A T Rayudu c Hussey b Sharma ...... 2 tourney. Bowling: P Awana 4-0-33-0; M G Johnson Bowling: M Morkel 4-0-23-2 (1w); U T Yadav be retained from the squad that bought him out. A P Tare c du Plessis b Nehra ...... 0 At the Brabourne Stadium it 4-0-31-2 (2w); A R Patel 4-1-11-2; R Dhawan 4-0-13-3 (1w); S P Narine 4-0-30-0; Shakib Al took part in the Asia Cup in Although it is more than 40 Harbhajan Singh (not out) ...... 7 was a clinical show by Chennai 4-0-44-0; Karanveer Singh 4-0-40-3 (1w). Hasan 4-0-43-1; P P Chawla 4-0-23-1. Bangladesh in February-March. years since MCC ceased to run P Kumar b Sharma ...... 1 Super Kings after their skipper The three one-dayers will be English cricket, it retains world- P P Ojha (not out) ...... 1 Mahendra Singh Dhoni opted to played in Dhaka on June 15, 17 wide responsibility for the game’s Extras (LB-2) ...... 2 field. A fine 44-ball 67 by Lendl and 19. The short tour, agreed in ‘Laws’, as cricket’s rules are Total (for 8 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 173 Simmons set-up Mumbai Indians February as part of a bilateral known. Fall of wickets: 1-76, 2-99, 3-143, 4-150, well for a big total as they were deal between the two countries, Lord’s Bicentenary Match 5-163, 6-164, 7-164, 8-166 cruising well at 143/2 in the 17th has been squeezed in between teams over. But then they suffered a bat- the end of India’s domestic sea- MCC: Sachin Tendulkar Bowling: A Nehra 4-0-34-2, I C Pandey 3-0- Chennai Super ting collapse losing six wickets for son on June 1 and the start of the (IND, capt), Saeed Ajmal (PAK), 25-0, M M Sharma 4-0-42-3, R Ashwin Kings’ Suresh 4-0-26-1, R Jadeja 4-0-31-2, S K Raina 1-0- 30 runs and managed to put up England tour on June 26. Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WIS), a decent score of 173 for eight in Raina (left) India are due to play five Rahul Dravid (IND), Aaron Finch 13-0. and David CHENNAI SUPER KINGS 20 overs. Tests, five one-dayers and a lone (AUS), Umar Gul (PAK), Brian Hussey cele- D R Smith c Pollard b H Singh ...... 24 Super Kings achieved the tar- Twenty20 international on the Lara (WIS), Brett Lee (AUS), brate their win F du Plessis c (sub-B R Dunk) b H Singh ...35 get easily, scoring 176 for three 10-week tour of England. Chris Read (ENG, wkt), Shaun S Raina (not out) ...... 54 with eight balls to spare after over Mumbai India’s ODI team for Tait (AUS), Daniel Vettori (NZL) B B McCullum st Tare b Ojha ...... 14 Suresh Raina remained unbeaten Indians in Bangladesh: Rest of the World: Shane D J Hussey (not out) ...... 40 on 54 and David Hussey on 40. the IPL 2014 Suresh Raina (capt), Robin Warne (AUS, capt), Shahid Extras (LB-3, W-6) ...... 9 It were the openers Dwayne eliminator, Uthappa, Ajinkya Rahane, Afridi (PAK), Tino Best(WIS), Total (for 3 wkts in 18 4 overs) ...... 176 Smith (24) and Faf du Plesis in Mumbai, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ambati Paul Collingwood (ENG), Adam Fall of wickets: 1-60, 2-64, 3-87 (35), who set the foundation of yesterday. Rayudu, Manoj Tiwary, Kedar Gilchrist (AUS, wkt), Tamim Iqbal Bowling: P Kumar 4-0-27-0, C J Anderson the chase with their quickfire Jadhav, Wriddhiman Saha, Parvez (BAN), Muttiah Muralitharan 3-0-35-0 A(1w), J J Bumrah 3 4-0-40-0 (1w), 60-run stand. Du Plesis was the Rasool, Akshar Patel, Vinay (SRI), Kevin Pietersen (ENG), Harbhajan Singh 4-0-27-2 (2w), P P Ojha most aggressive of the two and Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Stuart Virender Sehwag (IND), Peter 3-0-34-1, K A Pollard 1-0-10-0 (2w). slammed five fours and a six in Binny, Mohit Sharma, Amit Siddle (AUS), Yuvraj Singh his 20-ball knock. IANS Mishra. AFP (IND). AFP THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

QSL increases basic salary of Qatar’s Al Sadd to face Al Qatari players

DOHA: The Qatar Stars League (QSL)has decided to increase the basic salary of Qatari and naturalised citizen players. Hilal in ACL quarter-finals The increase will see the basic salary go from QR5, 000 to QR10, 000 ($2, 750) per month. Holders Guangzhou face Australian debutants Sydney Wanderers This was announced yesterday by Ahmed Al Harami the Chief of Competition and Football KUALA LUMPUR: Qatar Motors with a 3-1 aggregate win Development for the QSL. giants and 2011 champions Al to be amongst the elites of Asian “This decision was taken to Sadd will take on Saudi Arabia football for this year. ensure that all the players in the Pro League runners-up and Meanwhile, captain Zheng Zhi QSL have a decent standard of Asian Champions League (ACL) has said Guangzhou Evergrande living and also encourage Qatari regulars Al Hilal in the two- will not be laid back in their players to keep playing football leg quarter-finals as the much preparations to face debutants and not to other jobs where the anticipated AFC Champions Western Sydney Wanderers in wages might have been higher,” League 2014 knockout stage their quarter-final match this Harami said. draw was held at the AFC House August. The new pay increase decision here yesterday The reigning AFC Player of was taken after a study showing The Qatari side progressed the Year assisted AFC Deputy the average salaries of Qatari peo- through to the quarter-finals General Secretary Dato’ Windsor ple across a range of professions. after a dramatic away goal win John conduct the 2014 ACL The study found that in com- over Iran’s Foolad Khouzeshtan Knock-out Stage draw at AFC parison to other sectors the basic in the Round of 16. House yesterday. salaries of QSL players was low In contrast, Al Hilal, who “This year’s competition is and so the necessary increase was appointed experienced Romanian much more competitive than that made, in order to keep hold of the coach Laurentiu Reghecampf of last year and I think all the players and ensure that they have early this week, were the comfort- eight quarterfinalists are quite a good quality if life. -- able winners over Uzbek giants close to each other,” the 33-year- The annual basic salary as of Bunyodkor in the previous round. old told The-AFC.com. next season will therefore be In the other West Zone match, “And Western Sydney QR32, 0000 ($88, 000) and the free scoring Al Ain of the United Wanderers are also a very com- maximum per month for the basic Arab Emirates will renew their petitive side. Although they are a salary will be QR26, 000 ($7, 150). rivalry against two-time ACL younger team in the ACL, we will Apart from the QSL salary winners Al Ittihad who had not relax and we will still make which all the players are eligible defeated the Emiratis in the full preparations for our quarter- for, the players are also allowed final of the 2005 edition of the final tie.” to sign separate contracts with competition. Japan’s playmaker Shinji Ono their club. The club contract can The AFC Champions League quarter-final draw is seen on an electronic board at the AFC House in Kuala The 2003 winners Al Ain, who returned home after his final be double the value of the QSL also recently won UAE President’s Lampur, Malaysia, yesterday. Qatar’s Al Sadd is the lone team which will feature in the last eight stage of the game with Sydney Wanderers basic salary or up to 20 times Cup, had qualified for the quar- championship. where he helped scramble the more in some cases. ter-finals after outwitting Walter Australian club into the ACL Meanwhile, Lekhwiya will hold Zenga’s fellow Emirate side Al East Zone will host the first leg and only the second Australian Round of 16 ties. Billed as one quarterfinals on away goals their summer training camp in Jazira as they recorded wins in of the two-leg finals and in the club managing to reach the last of the exciting fixtures, current against Japanese club Sanfrecce Belize, Austria both the legs of the Round of 16 second leg they will have to travel eight stage of the competition. K League Classic leaders Pohang Hiroshima. But again, this does The QSL champions will leave matches against the Abu Dhabi- to the West Zone on November 1. The Chinese treble winners will Steelers are braced for another not mean the Chinese treble for Europe at the end of July for based club. Meanwhile, defending champi- be making their third consecutive all-Korean clash as they lock horn winners can rest on their laurel, their pre-season training as they The first-leg of the quarter- ons Guangzhou Evergrande will appearances in the quarter-finals against 2013 finalists FC Seoul in according to Zheng Zhi. look to retain the QSL tile. finals will be held on August 19 face Western Sydney Wanderers. after making their debut in 2012. the other quarter-finals from the “Yes, Shinji Ono has returned The training camp will be held and 20 and a week later the sec- The Chinese giants will travel Both Guangzhou Evergrande East Zone. to Japan but it does not mean from the July 29 to August 11, the ond legs will take place. to Australia for the first leg to and Western Sydney Wanders Pohang put aside the challenges our match will be easy,” he said. club officials informed. The qualified side from the face the competition debutants saw off Japanese sides in the of fellow Korean Jeonbuk Hyundai AGENCIES THE PENINSULA South Korea slump to Tunisia defeat in warm-up

SEOUL: South Korea’s coach the middle and the back, and that themselves frustrated by Tunisia, Mathieu Valbuena pulled the apologised to fans yesterday allowed Tunisian forwards to play who put bodies behind the ball to strings for France by setting up after a 1-0 defeat to Tunisia freely. make sure of holding on to their three goals - including two for tempered World Cup hopes in “Unless we can fix that, we will slim lead. Second-half substitute Olivier Giroud. their final home friendly before continue to have a difficult time.” Ha Dae-Sung nearly equalised at “It was nice, the stadium was the tournament in Brazil. Goal-shy South Korea, who will the death, but his shot moments full, we had been working very Hong Myung-Bo, a hero of face Belgium, Algeria and Russia before the whistle skidded wide of well all week,” Deschamps told South Korea’s run to the 2002 in Group H, travel to Miami the left post. reporters. semi-finals, said his team would on Friday where they will play However Leekens, Tunisia’s “We were determined and we struggle in Brazil if they cannot another friendly against Ghana Belgian coach, said defeat could put intensity into the game but fix their problems. on June 9. act as a spur to South Korea ahead it was not so simple. After a good Midfielder Zouhaier Dhaouadi After a cautious start, South of their World Cup campaign. start, we had less possession after netted the game’s only goal late in Korean captain Koo Ja-Cheol “We were the good-spirited 20 minutes. After the break, we the first half at Seoul World Cup had the first dangerous attempt team and we forced you to commit resumed our domination.” Stadium, as the visitors handed from outside the box in the 14th mistakes,” he said. “One defeat in France face Honduras, Ecuador Georges Leekens a victory on his minute, but fired just wide of the preparation sometimes is good. and Switzerland in Group E at the debut as coach. right post. I wish you can go to the second World Cup finals. While Tunisia celebrated, this The hosts were shading pos- round (in Brazil).” Meanwhile, an “We are not ready yet but there was clearly not the send-off the session but were not able to understrength France may have is a collective desire. We cannot Taeguk Warriors wanted as they threaten. Bayer Leverkusen’s Son eased to a 4-0 win over Norway in be at 100 percent now. The most set off for their eighth consecutive Heung-Min got a sight of goal on South Korea’s Kim Bo-kyung fights for the ball against Tunisia’s Bilel a friendly at the Stade de France important thing is to give eve- World Cup. the half-hour but his shot went Mohsni (left) during their friendly match at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on Tuesday, yet coach Didier rything the day of the match,” “I’m sorry we didn’t get a good straight at goalkeeper Farouk Ben in Seoul on Tuesday. Deschamps insists that Les Bleus Deschamps added. result in our last home match,” Mustapha. are not ready for the World Cup “We still have two weeks to pre- Hong told the crowd after the Tunisia came into the game deadlock two minutes later, when more life after the break. On-loan finals. pare. Let’s not forget that our goal game. late in the first half, with Wissem Dhaouadi took the ball in mid- Arsenal striker Park Chu-Young With winger Franck Ribery is June 15 (against Honduras).” He added at the post-match Yahya forcing South Korean field and sprinted virtually uncon- struck a low shot from the edge rested and Real Madrid striker France continue their prepa- press conference: “I think this ‘keeper Jung Sung-Ryong into a tested into the area before putting of the box, but Ben Mustapha Karim Benzema yet to join up rations against Paraguay in Nice match will teach us a big lesson. sharp save in the 42nd minute. it past the diving Jung. parried. with the squad after winning the on Sunday and Jamaica in Lille a We gave away too much space in And the visitors broke the South Korea came out with And the home team found Champions League on Saturday, week later. AGENCIES InterContinetal Doha Juniors team wins Qatar Al-Anabi Racing look for a repeat in final round ENGLISHTOWN, NEW final round of eliminations. On Toyota final round there last JERSEY: One year ago at the silver side of the Al-Anabi pit year so our goal this weekend is the Toyota NHRA Summer area, Shawn Langdon was eighth to do that again,” Langdon said. Nationals, things worked out quickest. But when eliminations “It would be nice to get our first just about as well as they could began on Sunday, Langdon was in win of the season this weekend have for the Qatar Al-Anabi top form winning his first round for a lot of reasons. Englishtown Racing Top Fuel team, the match-up and then dispatching has always been a great track; three-time and defending World the No. 1 qualifier in the second. we’ve always enjoyed going there, Championship team owned by Like his teammate, he moved to and there’s a lot of NHRA his- His Excellency Sheikh Khalid the final round with ease. tory there. Winning the Toyota bin Hamad Al Thani. The final round was sim- Summer Nationals last year, com- The event concluded with a ply brilliant with both Qatar ing back as the defending cham- rare “all Al-Anabi” final round, Al-Anabi Racing Top Fuel cars pion this year and coming off a and a repeat performance is making dazzling runs. Langdon great race at Topeka, we are defi- the goal at this weekend’s 45h reached the finish line just .019 nitely feeling good vibes heading annual Toyota NHRA Summer seconds before alBalooshi and into Englishtown this weekend.” Nationals, the ninth of 24 races squeaked out his third win of Dubai native Khalid alBalooshi making up the United States’ the 2013 season. This weekend, has one victory, a final-round 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Langdon returns to historic Old appearance and a semifinal effort Racing Series. Qualifying is set Bridge Township Raceway Park to show for his season so far. InterContinental Doha Juniors team, winners of the Qatar Nations Cup 2014 pose for a picture at Khalifa for tomorrow and Saturday. in Englishtown, New Jersey as the Like his teammate, alBalooshi International Tennis Complex, yesterday. Five teams, Qatar A, Qatar B, Australia, Smash, InterContinental Last year at this event, third- reigning NHRA World Champion remembers the “All Al-Anabi” Doha took part in the tournament. Qatar A finished second while Qatar B came third. InterContinental Doha year Top Fuel driver Khalid and the defending champion of final round last year, and he hopes tennis team (from left) Taym Alazmeh, Marvin Calvaire, Bilal Malik, Cliff Acaso (team coach), Miguel Velasquez alBalooshi was the No. 2 quali- the event, yet he is still looking for the same in 2014….but with and Siddharth Ramesh. fier – his career best. He mowed for his maiden win of the season. a slightly different outcome of down his competition to reach the “We had the all Al-Anabi, all course. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 29 MAY 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Classy Huzam lands gold medal; Alouafi outshines Alghanem Boxing: Exciting battles witnessed on last day of 2014 Doha Open Championships

DOHA: Qatar’s boxing hero Huzam Nabah yesterday out- punched inexperienced Fahad Al Thani to win the welterweight gold on the concluding day at Doha Open Championships and then quickly turned his atten- tion to this year’s Asian Games in Incheon. Huzam, the 2006 bronze med- allist at the Doha Asian Games, forced Fahad into a corner before unleashing well-timed hooks to seal his 3-0 win at Qatar Sports Club Indoor Hall where the two- day event came to an end. Qatar’s Huzam “He is a good fighter,” Huzam Nabah attacks said modestly after his one-side with a left hook fight in the 69kg class. “But he gave me good preparation ahead against Fahad of my next assignment,” the Al Thani during Qatari added. their welterweight “I shall be competing in a far class bout on more tougher event in Belarus day two of the at the beginning of June. I am keen to do well there because Doha Open that would be my final big event Championships before this year’s Asian Games at Qatar Sports in September,” the 33-year-old Club Indoor Hall added. “I want to win the gold at in Doha. Huzam the Asian Games. I am prepar- won the fight. ing for that. I shall be going away on a 20-day training came after Ramadan,” he said. “Fahad is a talented boxer but he needs more fights. He will LEFT: ABOVE: Hakan become better,” Huzab said. Azedine Nornureyeddin (in When asked about his friend- Alouafi (in blue) and Sunday ship with Fahad, Huzam said: red) lands Clement at the prize “Yes, we are very good friends. a punch distribution ceremony But when we go inside the ring, on Karem following their light we are not friends. But I am want Alghanem heavyweight class him to go for more fights because during fight. Nornureyeddin he loves boxing.” their Super beat Clement for the Fahad said: “I want to learn Heavyweight gold. LEFT: Huzam more. This was a tough fight. I Nabah (in blue) and will continue to work hard and bout in Doha get more experience.” yesterday. Fahad Al Thani pose In another bout yesterday, Alouafi won with their medals. Azedine Alouafi played the wait- on points. ing game to score a points win BELOW over Karem Alghanem in the (right): Qatar super heavy class reserved for Boxing boxers above 91kgs. Federation In the heavy class (91kgs), (QBF) Elsaey Amir Ashraf won a techni- President cal knockout (TKO) over Ahmed Yousuf Ali Hassan Ali to pick up the gold. Al Kazim is In a rather surprise result, seen with Hakan Nornureyddin emerged other QBF winner over the well-built Sunday officials Clement in the light heavy class and boxers (81kgs). at a medal In the 75kgs class, Hadi Al Tom exhibited brutal punching power ceremony. to outshine Hazem Nabah, man- aging a 3-0 card. Minutes earlier, Mohammed Mohamed. The day’s proceedings The QBF president added: Al Tom showed experience mat- started with Yahya Saleh scoring “We are already planning to ters in boxing when he produced a 2-1 card win over Gebresselasy host another event of this kind, a points win over Aderogba Asefa. maybe outdoors. But that event Adebayo Tunde in the light wel- Yousuf Ali Al Kazim, President, will be staged in winter when the terweight class (64kgs). Qatar Boxing Federation (QBF), weather is pleasant.” In the 60kgs class, Abdelfateh gave away the medals to the He also appreciated the enthu- Nafil beat Abdullatef Mohamed winners. siasm of boxers. Sadiq while in the bantam class, Al Kazim said:”We want to “This has been a successful Molla Getachew produced his thank Qatar Sports Club manage- event. We are delighted with the second successive win in as many ment for allowing us to host this response from the participants,” days by hammering Nabiyyou Ali event. It was a fantastic event.” he said. THE PENINSULA Toure impressed by Qatar’s 2022 World Cup plans

DOHA: Less than two weeks “I have played in the World visited in 2010 before Qatar won after winning the English Cup before. I am about to play the right to host the tournament. Premier League, however, the in another one. I know what you Toure, who just two weeks ago Manchester City superstar need for this sort of tournament celebrated his title triumph win was amazed by the stadiums to be successful. Qatar looks like with Manchester City, admits and other infrastructure being it has the plans to succeed.” he and his teammates often talk developed by the Supreme Throughout a glittering career, about 2022 whenever it is men- Committee for Delivery & Toure has experienced triumphs tioned in the media. Legacy (SC) ahead of the 2022 in the UEFA Champions League, “I don’t know how many play- FIFA World Cup Qatar. La Liga and the FA Cup. ers understand what the plans Yaya Toure, who will rejoin The powerful midfielder has are,” Toure admitted. “For sure the Ivory Coast national team in been in Doha for the last few days I will be telling my teammates Dallas, Texas today for the team’s receiving treatment for a ‘minor about these plans because Qatar 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil prep- injury’ at the highly-respected is planning to have everything. It’s arations, said: “If I’m honest, I had Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports fantastic. “In 2022 I will be 40 and questions before I came to Qatar, Medicine Hospital. maybe that’s too old to play at a Machester City especially about the weather. It He took the opportunity to World Cup. I’m trying to work out star Yaya Toure is very hot and you ask yourself meet with SC representatives how I can be involved because this is seen with Bora how it will be possible for players to hear about our exciting plans is the future. It looks amazing.” Milutinovic, a to play in this heat? for the 2022 tournament. From Toure will undoubtedly add to “Now that I have seen the plans environmentally-friendly cooled the 82 caps he has already won for Mexican-Serbian and watched this amazing pres- stadiums to the legacy of modular his country during this summer’s football coach entation, I have the answers. It stadiums that will benefit devel- football extravaganza in Brazil. and former player, is amazing. oping countries, Toure could not He may be too old to play in in Doha yesterday. “I didn’t understand the plans hide his excitement. Qatar by the time 2022 comes Qatar has. I didn’t know about the The SC was proud to welcome around, but Toure has promised cooling technology or anything the world-famous midfielder to make the most of Ivory Coast’s like this. I am so surprised. It has to the Legacy Pavilion – one of adventure in this year’s tourna- everything. the venues that FIFA inspectors ment. THE PENINSULA Thursday 29 May 2014 30 Rajab 1435 Volume 19 Number 6080 Sport Price: QR2

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DOHA: Former England cap- on a guided tour of the West End tain and batsman Kevin Pietersen Park Stadium and briefed about yesterday visited West End Park the facilities at the 13,000-capac- Stadium, Doha’s brand new ity venue. cricket stadium. Present on the tour were Pietersen, who lost his cricket Chairman of West End Park contract with England Cricket Mana Ibrahim Al Mana and other Board (ECB) earlier this year fol- officials. lowing a disastrous Ashes tour “Pietersen came to Doha at the to Australia, has planned cricket invitation of Chairman of West End academies in the UAE and India. Park Mana Ibrahim Al Mana and Qatar may well turn up to be the he was impressed by what he saw next stop for the Delhi Daredevils in Qatar,” Michael Scallon, Head captain if his short visit to Doha yes- of Sport at Al Mana group of com- terday is any indication. panies, said. Pietersen, who played 104 Test The stadium official said talks Matches, 136 One-day Internationals between Al Mana and Pietersen and 37 Twenty20 Internationals focused on how the two could work for England in an almost 10-year together in promoting the game in career, visited the cricket stadium Qatar. in Industrial Area during his brief Pietersen’s Dubai academy visit to the country. will start from October this year, “Completely done after a busy according to the website http:// day...a flying visit into Doha. Back www.kpcricketacademy.com/. in #mydubai!,” he tweeted. Qatar hosted its first interna- Chairman of West End Park Mana Ibrahim Yet another post on the miocro tional match in January this year Al Mana (right) briefs former England bats- blogginig site read: “Brilliant and with West End Park Stadium the man and Delhi Daredevils captain Kevin incredibly exciting afternoon spent venue for the triangular One-day and in #Doha with all the @kpca24 Twenty-20 tournaments involving Pietersen about the West End Park Stadium crew! Deserves a #BOOM!” Pakistan, Ireland and South Africa in Industrial Area in Doha yesterday. TOP: A The star cricketer was taken women teams. THE PENINSULA picture which Pietersen twitteed yesterday. Major upsets at Roland Garros French Open: Serena, Venus crash out; Djokovic, Sharapova cruise into third round

PARIS: It was the day when Serena and Venus Williams Order of play were supposed to re-ignite their PARIS: Order of play on show courts on grand slam rivalry by setting the fifth day of the French Open today (all up a third round date but two matches second round, prefix numbers young upstarts gatecrashed the denote seedings): family reunion at Roland Garros Court Philippe Chatrier yesterday. (play starts at 0900 GMT/5 AM ET): Instead of facing each other across the net at one of the four 6-Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) vs majors for the first time since Kurumi Nara (Japan) 2009, tennis’ most famous sisters 1-Rafa Nadal (Spain) vs were left to console each other Dominic Thiem (Austria) after their French Open title 12-Richard Gasquet (France) vs aspirations lay in tatters. Carlos Berlocq (Argentina) Holder and world No.1 Serena Williams did not know what hit Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) vs her as she was shocked 6-2, 6-2 by 11-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) Spain’s Garbine Muguruza, that Court Suzanne Lenglen defeat coming barely an hour (0900 GMT/5 AM ET) after her elder sister Venus fell Simone Bolelli (Italy) v 5-David Ferrer (Spain) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 to Slovakian teenager Anna Schmiedlova. Alison Riske (United States) vs Kristina On a chilly day in Paris, Mladenovic (France) Serena never looked the force 5-Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) vs Marina who has won 17 major titles. Her Erakovic (New Zealand) 20-year-old opponent broke the 23-Gael Monfils (France) vs American’s serve twice early in Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany) the first set and made the most of a series of unforced errors by Court One (0900 GMT/5 AM ET): a leaden-footed Williams. 15-Sloane Stephens (United States) vs The Spaniard, ranked 35 in the Polona Hercog (Slovenia) world, did not release the pres- Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spain) vs Adrian sure and the match became a Anna Schmiedlova of Slovakia hits a shot during her French Open women’s second round match against American Venus Williams at Roland Garros Mannamarino (France) repeat of the nightmare of 2012, in Paris, yesterday. Schmiedlova defeated Williams 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 to advance to the third round. RIGHT: Garbine Muguruza of Spain reacts during her Marinko Matosevic (Australia) vs 7-Andy when Williams lost in the first women’s singles match against Serena Williams of the US. round, not the glory of 2013 when Murray (Britain) she beat Maria Sharapova in the final here. it’s amazing,” Muguruza said. “I failed to reach the third round at seed, despatched Jeremy Chardy 7-6(4), 6-4, 6-1. The Williams sis- was growing up. Flavia Pennetta A netted return from Williams had to be really aggressive and a grand slam. of France 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 while Roger ters third round showdown was of Italy, seeded 12th, joined the sent the Spaniard into ecstasy focused. It is also the third time, after Federer, seeded fourth, won 6-3, knocked off the agenda when Williams sisters in heading for and even Williams’s mother, “Today is a great day. I’m so 2004 and 2008, that both Williams 6-4, 6-4 against Diego Sebastian Venus was jettisoned out of the the exit after going down 5-7, 6-4, Oracene, smiled as Muguruza happy,” the Spaniard shouted. sisters have lost on the same day Schwartzman of Argentina, a tournament. 6-2 to Sweden’s Johanna Larsson. leapt about the court. “Of course, Later Muguruza told a news at the French Open. player he had never seen before. The 29th seed, wearing long Sharapova looked frustrated conference: “She (Serena) said Seventh seed Sharapova, in Chardy, who beat Federer at the sleeves in temperatures of 14 with her own performance on a that if I continue playing like this, Serena’s quarter of the draw, Rome Masters earlier this month, Celsius, has never won the clay- windy Philippe Chatrier court I can win the tournament. I said: also had an off day against spelled out why Djokovic is fan- court grand slam in 16 visits and, and she needed a heavy net cord ‘I will try, I will try’. Tsvetana Pironkova but eventu- cied to end eight-times champion now 33, she may have to accept in her favour on set point to take Serena was philosophical, ally prevailed 7-5, 6-2 against the Rafa Nadal’s reign here. she never will. the first set. saying: “I don’t think anything Bulgarian. “He was simply stronger than Schmiedlova, aged 19 and Pironkova, who had a lengthy worked for me today. It was just Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska, me, bigger than me in all com- ranked 56 in the world, wasted massage between the sets, stayed one of those days, you can’t be on at three the highest seed left in partments. You’re always under two match points on Venus’s serve with the Russian until she was (your game) every day. the women’s draw, beat Karolina pressure. He knows everything. before the American hit wide to broken in the sixth game of the “It’s not the end of the world, Pliskova of the Czech Republic He can do everything.” set up a third, and the Slovak second, and Sharapova ended it there’s always next year.” 6-3, 6-4 as the rain and night fell Czech Tomas Berdych, the clinched the match with a fine in style by breaking her opponent After the defeat of China’s Li on Roland Garros. sixth seed, started slowly before backhand cross court shot. in the final game. Na in the first round on Tuesday, The big names on the men’s beating Aleksandr Nedovyesov of “This is the biggest win of my Russian Mikhail Youzhny, the A hairstyle of Venus Williams of it is the first time since tennis side of the draw suffered no prob- Kazakhstan 6-7(4), 6-4, 7-5, 6-3. life,” said Schmiedlova, who broke 15th men’s seed, lost 6-0, 6-3, 3-6, the US. turned professional in 1968 that lems in reaching the third round. Eighth seed Milos Raonic got past down when expressing how much 6-4 to Czech Radek Stepanek. the top two women’s seeds have Novak Djokovic, the second Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic Venus had meant to her when she REUTERS