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By staff reporter Ramadan Kareem KUWAIT: Shiite MP Faisal Al-Duwaisan yesterday said he Meaning of Ramadan will resign from the National Assembly after a sectarian insult by fellow Sunni MP Hamdan Al-Azemi which was & benefits of fasting followed by yet another clash between lawmakers. Duwaisan said he will submit his resignation from the By Hassan T Bwambale Assembly today unless Azemi makes a public apology he word Ramadan comes from the Arabic root for the insult he made during a heated debate over the word, “al-ramadh,” which means “excessive heat.” National Assembly satellite channel. TPeople in the past used to fast during summer The Shiite lawmaker said that Azemi insulted his when the heat was at its climax. Sometimes fasting is beliefs when he said “you should rectify your sect” dur- observed in winter because the Gregorian solar calen- ing the heated exchanges. That prompted other Shiite dar is eleven days longer than the Islamic lunar calen- MPs to react angrily against the remarks and with some dar. of them insulting him. After the end of the session, Shiite MP Abdullah Al-Tameemi clashed with Azemi - Fasting throughout history both using the Uqal (head robe). They were later sepa- Fasting is not a new practice, people used to fast rated by other lawmakers. This is the second time that before the advent of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), MPs clash physically in the National Assembly. Two including ancient Egyptians, Romans and Greeks. weeks ago, MP Abdulhameed Dashti exchanged fists Prophets such as Adam, David, Joseph, Moses and with MP Hamad Al-Harashani. The problem was sorted Jesus (peace be upon them all) used to fast, as is men- out by the Assembly Bureau. tioned in the Bible. The incident began when MP Azemi strongly criti- cized the satellite channel of the National Assembly and Reasons for fasting claimed it received KD7 million funding from the Historically, people fasted as a means to expiate Information Ministry and the Assembly. At this point, a their sins, as a means to purify their hearts, or when- number of MPs and Speaker Marzouk Al-Ghanem ever afflicted with any calamity. However, the Muslim rejected the accusations. One of those who strongly fasts as an act of worship and obedience. God says KUWAIT: Photo shows part of Kuwait Airways’ old building in Kuwait City. A loader fell from a high place lashed out at Azemi was Duwaisan who praised the what can be translated as, “O you who believe! Fasting while demolishing the old Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) building in Kuwait City yesterday, killing an channel and said Azemi was himself interviewed several was prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those operator. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (See Page 3) times on the channel. Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 Qatar’s pledge to abolish ‘kafala’ system in doubt DOHA: Qatar’s pledge to abolish its controversial that further consultations would take place on the “kafala” labor system by the end of 2015 is in doubt proposed changes to the system, which governs after Doha’s main consultative body expressed seri- Qatar’s vast army of foreign workers. ous concerns about proposed reforms. Despite expec- It means the timetable set in May by the country’s tations that Qatar was close to announcing the end of minister of labor and social affairs could now be in “kafala”, the country’s Shura Council said a draft law doubt. Abdullah bin Saleh Al-Khulaifi said then that could not yet be introduced and needed further he was “90 percent” certain the “kafala” system, which examination, according to the Arabic-language news- critics have likened to modern-day slavery, would be paper Al Sharq yesterday. replaced by new legislation by the end of this year. The council’s chairman Mohammed bin Mubarak “Kafala” has been widely blamed for enabling the Al-Khulaifi also said there was “no need to hurry” in abuse of foreign workers, especially laborers involved introducing the reforms, despite the government say- in the country’s vast infrastructure projects, at the ing earlier this year that “kafala” would almost certain- hands of unscrupulous bosses. The Shura Council said ly be scrapped by December. The council also it wants to keep a two-year ban on issuing new appeared to propose introducing other reforms, papers to expat workers who leave Qatar after the including punishing foreign workers who “deliberate- cancellation of their work visa. ly” create problems. Government officials confirmed Continued on Page 13 Iran ‘shipped nuclear equipment’ to Sudan

DUBAI: Saudi diplomats in Khartoum believed Iran commented on specific documents. If the cable is shipped advanced nuclear equipment including cen- authentic, it does not provide details on the source of trifuges to Sudan in 2012, according to a document the embassy’s information or any further evidence of leaked last week that WikiLeaks says is a cable from the the shipment. embassy. “The embassy’s sources advised that Iranian There have been no previous reports of Iran sending containers arrived this week at Khartoum airport con- nuclear equipment to Sudan, which has no known taining sensitive technical equipment in the form of fast nuclear program. A Sudanese munitions factory was centrifuges for enriching uranium, and a second ship- destroyed in a mysterious explosion in October 2012, ment is expected to arrive this week,” the document, eight months after the date on the cable, which the dated February 2012 and marked ‘very secret’, read. Sudanese government blamed on an Israeli air raid. WikiLeaks last week released more than 60,000 There were no indications that the factory had a nuclear cables and documents which it says are official Saudi dimension. An Iranian official declined to comment and communications, and plans to release half a million in Sudanese officials were not immediately available for total. Saudi Arabia said they might be faked and has not comment. — Reuters Heatwave kills 692 in Pakistan

KARACHI: More than 690 people Mangnejo, a senior provincial have died from a three-day heat- health official, adding that the toll wave in southern Pakistan, officials may rise further. The deaths came said yesterday, as medics battled to as the overwhelmingly Muslim treat victims after a state of emer- country of around 200 million peo- gency was declared in hospitals. ple observes the Islamic holy The majority of the deaths month of Ramadan, during which occurred in the port city of Karachi, eating and drinking is forbidden Pakistan’s economic hub of around from sunrise to sunset. Semi Jamali, 20 million people, where tempera- a doctor at Karachi’s largest hospi- tures reached 45 degrees Celsius tal said they had treated about KARACHI: A Pakistani resident helps (111 Fahrenheit) at the weekend. 3000 patients. “More than 200 of a heatstroke victim at a market area “The number of people who them were either received dead or during a heatwave in Karachi yester- have died in the heatwave has now died in hospital,” Jamali said. day. — AFP reached 692,” said Saeed Continued on Page 13 LOCAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets HH the Amir receives a memento from IEEE Office HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Sayyed Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Sayyed Ammar A-Hakim. Chairman Abdul-Rahman Al-Ghunaim. Ammar A-Hakim. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos Amir receives Iraqi leader, officials

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Country Constructive efforts solid relations between the two countries, Crown Prince’s Protocol Chief Sheikh Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received yester- Office Chairman Abdul-Rahman Khaled Al- HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- expressing his gratitude to the State of Mubarak Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al- day the visiting Sayyed Ammar A-Hakim, Ghunaim and heads of GCC institutes of elec- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah also met with Kuwait for its support for Iraq. He wished Sabah and Iraqi Ambassador to Kuwait Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of trical and electronics engineers. In addition, Hakim, as he lauded the Iraqi leader’s con- Kuwait further progress and prosperity. Mohammad Hussein Bahrul Uloum attend- Iraq, along with the accompanying delegation. HH the Amir met with HH Sheikh Nasser Al- structive efforts in bringing views of Iraqi Capital Governor retired Lt-General Thabit ed the meeting. HH the Crown Prince also Deputy Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and National political parties closer. HH Sheikh Nawaf also Mohammad Hassan Al-Muhanna, HH the met with HH Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah attended the meeting. HH Assembly Speaker Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem at wished Iraq constant security, stability and Crown Prince’s Diwan Chief Sheikh and Sheikh Jaber Al-Khaled Al-Jaber Al- the Amir also received Institute of Electrical Seif Palace. prosperity. Hakim meanwhile praised the Mubarak Al-Faisal Al-Saud Al-Sabah, HH the Sabah.— KUNA Kuwait condemns militants’ takeover of Syrian lands

GENEVA: The State of Kuwait has voiced deep concern at fall of large swaths of lands in Syria in the hands of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization. Kuwait stands alongside the international community in combating destructive thoughts “upon which this organization is based,” Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghuneim, the permanent envoy to the UN, said in a statement at the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council. He further stressed that Islam does not call for promoting hatred and breaching basic human rights. “At these blessed times of the fasting month of Ramadan, we recall plight of millions of Syrians who have taken up refuge in neighboring states, while many others have been displaced in their country, with no glimpse of hope for a political solution to this conflict,” he said. Hardship of the Syrian people has always been “in the heart of the State of Kuwait’s external humanitarian diplomacy,” Ambassador Ghuneim said, noting Kuwait’s hosting of three international conferences for raising donations for the Syrian refugees. While re-affirming Kuwait’s robust commitment to Syria’s sovereignty, territorial sanctity and unity, Ambassador Ghuneim called for ceasing the fighting immediately and urged all stakeholders to help in reach- ing a settlement in accordance with the Syrian people’s aspirations. KJA hosts Iraq’s Al-Hakim “Kuwait strongly condemns the systematic and dan- gerous breaches of the human rights of the Syrian peo- ple, revealed in the report of the independent fact-find- By Nawara Fattahova challenges in the region and the bilateral now the security situation in Iraq is much terror. “In fact the war against terror is not ing commission in front of the UNHCR,” he stated further. relations between Kuwait and Iraq. better and the government represented in an Iraqi issue only thus it affects the whole He called for halting attacks against civilians, random KUWAIT: Kuwait Journalist Association Al-Hakim regularly visits Kuwait - but police, army, Peshmerga, tribes, and the region, and we are fighting on behalf of employment of heavy arms against populated regions, hosted Sayyed Ammar Al-Hakim, chairman wasn’t able to last year. “Last year ISIS was Iraqi Popular Reaction Block has the main the other countries. The terrorists have lifting the siege on some areas and facilitating delivery of of the Islamic Supreme Council in Iraq yes- very close to Baghdad so I wasn’t able to word,” he said during the press conference. included other countries in their map. This humanitarian aid materials. He also stressed that the terday at its premises in Shuwaikh. Al- come. The situation in the region in general On the economic sphere he said that challenge opened more chances for Syrian authorities must respect their obligations as stipu- Hakim earlier met with HH the Amir, Crown is bad and Iraq is part of it. Also the situa- the drop of price of oil caused a gap in the investment in agriculture and business,” he lated by the international laws. — KUNA Prince, and other officials to discuss the tion in Syria affects Iraq. I ensure you that budget especially with the war against pointed out. Ramadan soap operas’ review

By Nawara Fattahova can lose her daughter. He gets mad ‘Thakira min Waraq’ and enters the flat, breaks the door Noora tells Shouq that Nawaf KUWAIT: Kuwait Times is publishing and takes his daughter, but from the cultural center in Germany a daily review of three Kuwaiti soap Fawziya’s brothers come and fight has a crush on her, and tells Noora operas aired on Al Rai TV. Here are with him, not letting him take her. that she saw him with Mashael. The the reviews of the fifth episodes: Fatma advises her daughter-in- second day he sees her at the uni- law to pretend travelling to make versity and asks her for her phone ‘Qabil lil Kaser’ her son Farouq take the responsibil- number, but she refuses to have any A relative of Ali’s father in Saudi ity of his children. Farouq, who was kind of relationship as she came to Arabia comes to Kuwait to deliver a hiding in the bedroom of his second study and is focusing on this. Ali, suitcase for Ali from his father who wife, comes out after her mother the cousin of Najd, is in love with passed away and can only hand it leaves the flat with the baby to let her for many years, but she consid- her talk with her ex-husband. She over to Ali or his uncle Rashid. ers him as her brother and left a let- Rashid’s wife tells him Rashid is out then kicks him out of the house. ter for him when she was leaving for of Kuwait although he is sleeping in Fayza refuses to talk to her married the house. When he asks about Ali, boyfriend after she finds out that Germany for studies. But his mother she tells him he is at home and goes his wife is pregnant, and tells him wants him to forget her and wants to call him, but brings her son Fahd she will end their relationship. He is to find a wife for him. to pretend he is Ali and take the then involved in an accident. Mashael’s mother abducts the suitcase. When they open it, they The wife of Faisal is bathing him second wife of her husband with find it’s full of money and gold. and leaves him for a while to check her son and takes her to their house Jinan gets out of the hospital and on her crying baby. Her son goes to after hitting her on her head. Police goes to her shop, which is super- his father to play with him and arrest the father as the car that his vised by her friend. She tells her opens the faucet. Faisal nearly son drives is registered in his name how she loaned her ex-husband drowns, but his wife comes and after the son hit a girl and fled. He Sulaiman KD 6 million when he was saves him. He then decides to calls his wife from the police station facing difficulties in his business, divorce her to let her live a better to return his second wife to her and that every year he promises to life with a normal person. Futouh house or else he will divorce her. return the money but doesn’t. Now tells Farouq about the fight, and he But she doesn’t, and even shaves she is worried he won’t return it, wants to take the daughter of the hair of the second wife. After he especially since it was the inheri- Fawziya to her father to avoid prob- sees what she did, he divorces her tance of her sister Wed and her lems. and leaves with his second wife. brother. Hadeel finds out that her brother Fahd is abusing her friend Zahra through calls and messages. She Kuwaiti women enjoy warns him to stop this behavior and forget her or she will tell his mother. job satisfaction: Survey Police arrest an Asian salesman who is selling the CDs and perfumes of Ali, and interrogate him to know the KUWAIT: Kuwaiti female employees factors affecting women’s job satis- owner as this is an illegal business. have a high level of job satisfaction, faction including age, moving to showed a recent survey by the another job, quitting the job, physi- cal and mental health, family sup- ‘Ummina Rwehit Al Jannah’ Kuwait University’s Center of the port and harassment by work col- Fatma arrives at the right time to Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies. leagues, the center said. save Fawziya from jumping of the The survey involved 1,944 of window after having delusions of Kuwaiti employees; among them The survey was conducted by Dr big spiders in the room. In order to were 1609 females and 335 males Haifa Al-Kandari from the sociology stop Fawziya from consuming the working in the social services sec- department at Kuwait University pills that cause hallucinations, tor, to learn about the level of their and Dr Tareq Dashti from the aca- Fatma locks the door of Fawziya’s job satisfaction, the center said in a demic guidance administration at daughter room when her father statement yesterday. the university, the statement comes to take her, to show her she The survey focused on different added. —KUNA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 LOCAL Human Rights Watch criticizes chapter closure

KUWAIT: Human Rights Watch (HRW) after members of Kuwait’s national “Kuwait has put in question both its recently criticized a Kuwaiti decree assembly accused the group of exag- willingness to tolerate criticism and its that effectively closed down the local gerating the level of corruption in commitment to combat corruption... chapter of Transparency International Kuwait and pursuing a political agen- This looks like a classic case of shoot- arguing that the decision “is the latest da, accusations that the group has ing the messenger as a substitute for evidence of a government clamp- roundly denied. tackling the real problem.” down on peaceful criticism and free In a statement HRW said the The international anti-corruption speech”. decree came weeks after members of group has existed in Kuwait since The Social Affairs and Labor Kuwait’s national assembly accused 2006 when it was accredited by minis- Ministry issued a decree on May 7, the group of exaggerating the level of terial decree with the stated purpose 2015, that dissolved the board of the corruption in the country and pursu- of opposing corruption by promoting independent Kuwaiti Transparency ing a political agenda, accusations transparency and reform. Its bylaws Society (KTS) and put its management that the group denies. prohibit it from “intervening in poli- under five government appointees. HRW called on the Kuwaiti govern- tics”. The statement said that Kuwait is The appointees then terminated staff ment to take “serious steps to pro- party to the International Covenant contracts and began disposing of the mote freedom of expression and on Civil and Political Rights and the organization’s assets, a source close to approve the right of peaceful assem- Arab Charter on Human Rights, both the group told Human Rights Watch. bly”. HRW deputy Middle East and of which require it to protect freedom The government’s action came weeks North Africa director, Joe Stork said: of association.

KUWAIT: A cloud of dust is seen moments after a loader fell during the demolition of Kuwait Airways’ old building in Kuwait City yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Club compensated Loader operator dies KD 2.8 million in KAC building mishap

By Hanan Al-Saadoun fied, but unconfirmed reports sug- building, which started on the sec- PAYS ordered to pay KD 500,000 annually gested he was bedoon (stateless). ond floor. The whole building had KUWAIT: A loader fell from a high An investigation was opened in the to be evacuated to control the fire By A Saleh Number 7/2007 that stipulates annu- and was brought to Kuwait where place while demolishing the old incident. said security sources adding that ally giving each sports club the sum the court finally made its verdict. Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) Separately, an expatriate was firemen rescued many building ten- KUWAIT: The administrative court of KD 500,000 effective 2006-2007. yesterday ordered the Public Preacher suspended building in Kuwait City yesterday, seriously injured when he lost con- ants, several of them suffered from Authority for Youth and Sports Court authorizes marriage The Ministry of Awqaf and killing an operator inside. Initial trol of his vehicle along Wafra high- smoke inhalation. Another fire (PAYS) to pay the Hunting and The court of appeals recently Islamic Affairs yesterday suspended reports suggested that the operator way. Security sources noted that a broke out in four shacks at Mina Equestrian Club the amount of KD ordered allowing a Jordanian man to a mosque preacher because he dis- was still alive when Kuwait Fire Kuwait Fire Service Directorate team Abdullah scrap yard. Firemen from 2.8 million, which is the total value marry a 27-year-old Kuwaiti woman cussed some sectarian issues in one Service Directorate rescue teams was dispatched to the scene and Umm Al-Haiman and Mina Abdullah of annual subsidies from 2006 until despite her father’s refusal. of his sermons. Meanwhile, the min- were dispatched to look for him, but managed to release the driver from were dispatched to the scene where 2015. A steady annual sum of KD According to case papers, the girl’s istry added that the Friday Prayer he was found dead according to the wreckage and send him to a they managed to control the fire 500,000 was likewise ordered for the lawyer said that the man used to live sermon on July 3 at all mosques will reports that came later. The victim hospital. Meanwhile, a fire broke without reporting any considerable period starting 2015-2016 and in Kuwait and worked as a manager be dedicated to fighting drugs. could not immediately be identi- out in a seven-floor Mahboula casualties. henceforth. at a famous hotel, and that he pro- Meanwhile, head of electricity and The ruling came as a result of a posed to the girl’s father several water conservation department at case filed by the club’s board chair- times but was rejected. The lawyer the ministry Fawzi Al-Shalahi said man, Sheikh Dhari Fahad Al-Ahmed said that the man no longer lives in that in collaboration with the Indonesia announces visa Al-Sabah, against PAYS chairman and Kuwait, but is still in contact with the Ministry of Electricity and Water, all the finance ministry’s undersecretary girl. Responding to the court’s order mosques have been provided with for not including the equestrian club for him to attend the hearing, the backup generators for use during exemption for Kuwaitis which was in violation of Law Jordanian man was issued a visit visa Ramadan. KUWAIT: The Embassy of the for the 30 foreign nationals, this visa check-points as follows: Soekarno Republic of Indonesia is pleased to exemption is valid only for the touris- Hatta airport in Jakarta, Ngurah Rai announce that 30 foreign national tic purpose for the period of stay of airport in Bali, Kuala Namu airport in including Kuwaiti passport holder is thirty (30) days and it is not extend- Medan, Juanda airport in Surabaya, Court finds media exempted from obtaining visa for able nor exchangeable to other type Hang Nadim airport in Batam, Sri entering Indonesia. According to of immigration stay permission status. Bintan seaport in Tanjung Pinang, Article 3 and 4 of the Presidential In order to get this facility, the Batam Center seaport in Batam, Decree No: 69 Year 2015 dated 9 June tourists must enter Indonesia through Sekupang seaport in Batam, and personality guilty 2015 concerning the visa exemption nine (9) designated immigration Tanjung Uban seaport in Riau.

By Meshaal Al-Enezi weapons’ over to authorities was over, memo to Minister Hind Al-Subaih lawyer Hussein Al-Abdullah stressed demanding forming a special inspection KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday that no vehicles could be searched with- committee to examine various nurseries sentenced media figure Aisha Al- out search warrants. for any violations, said well-informed Rushaid to three years in prison and a sources at the ministry. KD 1,000 bail to suspend the sentence Fake memo The sources noted that some nurs- for spreading false news about the entry A photoshopped ‘official’ letter stat- eries have been removing their signs of an Iranian official during a recent ing a decision to give an extra ‘excep- with the nurseries’ names on them, to blackout. Meanwhile, the court refused tional’ salary to both private and public make their buildings look more like ordi- releasing blogger Abdullah Salem Al- workers along with their July salary have nary houses so that it would not be Sabah, and postponed hearing his case been circulated on some local blogs searched nor fined by the inspection until July 14. online lately. However, no such decisions teams. The sources added that the were made, according to sources. memo asked for including representa- Weapons inspection tives from Kuwait Municipality, Kuwait Commenting on the Ministry of Nursery inspections fire Services Directorate, Ministry of Interior’s confirmation that it would The Women and Children Information, Ministry of Health and the search all vehicles for weapons now that Department at the Ministry of Social Manpower Public Authority in the com- the grace period for handing unlicensed Affairs and Labor recently submitted a mittee.

KUWAIT VOICES ‘I love this country so much I don’t want to retire’

By Ben Garcia they cannot finish their documents, and that is when I am called to help and I will go to help them out,” he elebrities, politicians, athletes, actors and criminals explained. “That is the only thing I do; I never tamper or typically dominate headlines. Meanwhile, billions deal with fake papers. I hate people calling me a fixer; I Cof people go about their lives away from the am not. I do not deal with any illegal papers. I only help media spotlight. All of them - regardless of their age, people, but we cannot really please everybody,” he said. gender, nationality or occupation - have a story to tell. This Ramadan, Kuwait Times wants to shift the conversa- 30 years tion to the ordinary folks that make up the majority of Celestino has been in Kuwait for more than 30 years this country. By listening to their stories and recognizing now. Before the Iraqi invasion, he worked in the biggest their humanity, we can remind ourselves and hopefully poultry farm in Kuwait. After the liberation, he was hired our readers of the ties that bind us all together as a back, and worked again as poultry delivery man. Later, species. he transferred to an auto company as an auto mechanic. Celestino from the Philippines has no regular job in “I have experience as a car mechanic even when I was in Kuwait. He is now in his late fifties but is still active and the Philippines, so when that job was offered to me with drives his own car almost every day. He is not transport- a higher salary, I knew I could be a valuable asset in that ing people, like a taxi, but he accepts jobs as an unofficial company. I worked and got several years of experience ‘mandoub.’ “I have been doing this job for quite some with them,” he shared. time now; four, maybe five years, I do not know, maybe Later Celestino confessed, “But you know, when you more than five years. I have gotten used to this job; now, are old, and you are told to transfer to a faraway place. I I do not call people, they call me. I do not know where refused, so I eventually resigned. I ended up not having a they got my number; maybe from people whom I have visa for at least two years. Thank God I have a friend who helped once,” he said. “I do not charge them with a fixed is very good to me and I was introduced to this very amount. Whatever amount they hand over, I accept; good Kuwaiti. He loved Filipinos, so he offered me a visa. whether it is KD 1, KD 5, KD 10 or KD 20, I do not really That visa is being renewed each year by his company. I mind,” he added. am really grateful to him, but he does not want to be Sometimes, Celestino gets called a ‘fixer’ by an named. From the bottom of my heart, I am thankful to embassy official. By definition, a fixer is a person who this Kuwaiti guy.” uses influence or makes arrangements for another, espe- Because of that visa, Celestino can still live and stay in cially by improper or unlawful means; but according to this country without fear of being caught by authorities. Celestino, he is never done that. “I get called, for exam- “I want to retire when I reach 60 years if age. I already ple, just to get the already processed papers at the have some savings tucked away, but I am still okay. I embassy or in a ministry here. I do not tamper with any- want to work and I love this country so much I do not lis- one’s papers, they are all provided to me with supporting ten to my grown-up children even if they tell me to legal documents, but maybe because of the lack of time, retire,” he admitted. Cabinet sets May 16 as Kuwaiti Women’s Day KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti cabinet has approved a com- support for promoting Kuwaiti women’s position in mittee suggestion setting May 16th as Kuwaiti all fields, and encouraging them to play a better Women’s Day. The step was taken during the cabi- societal role, leading up to a distinguished status net’s weekly meeting held under chairmanship of His locally, regionally and internationally, Minister of Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. The cabinet has even instructed Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah said in a statement all state bodies concerned to provide all means of following the meeting. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

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VIVA’s Corporate Communications team during the visit. VIVA puts smile on kids’ faces in Ramadan

KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and most and has been at the forefront of supporting Kuwait’s developed telecom operator, recently visited children at community through a range of innovative social pro- Al-Amiri Hospital in the spirit of Ramadan and to share grams as part of its CSR commitment, ever since the the joys of Girgai’an with the children. company’s establishment in 2008. VIVA’s Corporate VIVA arranged a special magic show for the children Social Responsibility (CSR) activities can be reviewed on and also handed them special gift bags. VIVA reiterates the company’s website at https://www.viva.com.kw/csr. through actions its commitment to being an active This offers a description of each CSR initiative that VIVA member of the local community. has supported, or taken on since its inception. Al-Amiri Hospital’s executives expressed their grati- To find out more information about VIVA’s promo- tude to VIVA for attending the event and bringing tions, products and packages, visit any of the company’s smiles to the children’s faces. 69 VIVA branches, or the website at www.viva.com.kw, VIVA is a committed key player in Kuwait’s society or simply call VIVA’s 24 hour call center at 102.

CBK launches healthy nutrition competition A photograph from the book ‘Faces of Kuwait’ by Jack Wozniak (researched by Mahmoud Zakariya) shows a souvenir corner. KUWAIT: In collaboration with the Diet Center, which is specialized in healthy diets, the Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) holds a weekly competition on healthy food throughout the holy month of Ramadan on Instagram. CBK’s Assistant Director for Public Relations and Publicity Amani Al-Wer’a said that bad health habits lead to so many digestion problems during Ramadan, especially when people fast for more than 15 hours. She added that From NBK’s Ramadan TV ad. the competition aims to encourage peo- ple to follow a healthy diet and find inte- grated and balanced health solutions. NBK releases Wer’a added that the competition was open for everybody through answering a weekly question posted on Ramadan TV ad CBK’s website throughout Ramadan. “The question will be posted KUWAIT: The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) released a special Ramadan Wednesdays and the winner’s name will TV ad that contains a song titled ‘longing for you,’ and sheds light on be announced the following Tuesdays,” social interaction in the holy month as reflected by the Kuwaiti tradi- she explained. tions. The ad is one of NBK’s Ramadan programs held annually as part of its social responsibility. It can be seen every day on Kuwait TV channels, and is also available on NBK’s accounts on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. NBK introduces through the television campaigns it releases on Ramadan every year an innovative idea that sheds light on social tradi- tions that depict the true identity of the Kuwaiti society, said Manal Al- Matar, NBK’s Public Relations Manager. This year’s ad includes scenes that showcase family and social interaction and activities associated with the beginning of the holy month, molded in a frame that reflects the social relations among Kuwaitis, Matar added. Amani Al-Wer’a

1436 - 2015 Ahli United Bank tent 07. In which city did our Prophet Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wa Sallam pass away? offers iftar meals Madinah Makkah KUWAIT: Ahli United Bank announced the resumption of and financial services to meet its clients’ ambitions. its annual tradition in Ramadan by offering daily iftar meals In its release, Ahli United Bank stated that “There are Taif to hundreds of fasting persons in its ‘Ramadan Tent’ near many of volunteers from the Bank personnel who are keen the Bank’s Head Office. to personally supervise receiving and serving the fasting In a press release, the bank stated that ‘Ahli United persons and distributing meals inside the Bank’s Ramadan Bank’s’ iftar Meals in the Holy month of Ramadan represent Tent”. an annual commitment stemming from the Bank’s social Ahli United Bank added it would continue during the responsibility and charitable initiatives. Holy month of Ramadan to provide its numerous social Such initiatives form one of Ahli United Bank’s most contributions through intensifying its various social and important characteristics distinguished by its ongoing human programs which offer an added value to the com- commitment to develop the human and social dimensions munity and bolster the social solidarity derived from the as well as its concern with providing distinguished banking Islamic sharia. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

Bitter Ramadan for displaced Iraqis

BAGHDAD: Forced to leave their homes to escape the fierce fight- ing between the government forces and the Islamic State (IS), dis- placed Iraqis are observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan with heartrending feelings of homesickness, nostalgia and bitter- ness. As they struggle to cope with the blazing heat at the camp tents, the lack of basics and the rise of prices of almost everything, the desperate Iraqi refugees are missing the joy of Ramadan. At Abu Ghraib refugee camp, west of Baghdad, displaced Iraqis are jammed in crowded tents under simmering heat of the summer. “We live in this tent under scorching heat of over 45 degrees Celsius,” Assem Fahdawi, father of five children who fled with his family after IS’s recent control of their city Al-Ramadi, told KUNA. “Six families, living in contiguous tents at the camp, are sharing only one butane gas canister to prepare their fast-breaking meal,” he said. “The situation in the camp is intolerable.” He added that the shortage of basic needs at the camp have forced him to fast A Ramadan iftar tent set up by volunteers in Anbar. Refugees at Babylon camp receive aid. even before the start of Ramadan to save what the small amount of food he gets for his children. difficult and painful situations,” Jaafar, a Turkmen from Mosul, told under blazing heat without protection, except for a simple tent ing the Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society humanitarian needs includ- “In fact I decided to fast 15 days ahead of Ramadan, to secure KUNA. “Dozens of displaced families, including mine, are living in that has been recently replaced by a small Caravan,” Yassen Al- ing food, cooking pots, blankets, soap and other urgent supplies what I get from food for my kids,” he said. He noted that his family the courtyard of a mosque in Babylon after IS’s control of our city.” Alyawi, a Saad camp resident, told KUNA. to thousands of displaced people who recently fled Ramadi. The and the other five neighboring families are sharing a poor fast- He added that he yearns for the past good days before the “Over year has gone since we came to this camp and what the local government of Baghdad and distributed food basket at the breaking meal of lentil soup. eruption of the fighting in the city. “We are longing to our past humanitarian organizations provide us is barely helping us to sur- advent of the holy month of Ramadan to 18,000 displaced fami- when we were welcoming the holy month with its special tradi- vive,” Alyawi, one of the displaced people of Salahuddin province, lies out of 20,000 in Baghdad, according to an Iraqi official. Bustling banquets tions.” said. He stated that 11 families are sharing bloc of ice to cool the The International Committee of the Red Cross announced it Fahdawi remembers the joy of previous months of Ramadan Umm Mohammed Al-Bayati, Jaafar’s sister, said that Ramdan water to drink after they break their fast. has offered relief aid to over 640,000 displaced Iraqis since the in his city where he used to hold bustling Ramadan banquets in fell this year in hard times for Iraqis, especially the displaced. “In A number of Diyala youth formed voluntarily team to hold start of the year. Last month, His Highness the Amir of Kuwait rotation with his neighbors and relatives. “We used to hold fast- the past, we were fasting and breaking the fast with our neigh- breakfast banquets for the displaced. Ali Al-Tamimi a member of Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah donated $200 million breaking banquets at the Diwan, traditional gathering building, of bors and family member. We were making desserts and distribut- this team, told KUNA that “We started to collect money to hold of humanitarian aid to Iraq. a different clan each day. We did not expect that one day some- ing it to neighbors and worshipers, but today we are waiting for Ramadan banquets for displaced people, Diyala residents donat- The number of people displaced by conflict in Iraq since the thing like that will happen in Ramadi,” he said referring to the IS what well-offs donate to us.” ed to us generously.” “We are trying to give them the feeling that start of 2014 has reached a new high of 2.8 million, the control of the city. “Now, we do not find cold water or enough Ahmad Tout, who distributes dates and bottles of milk to dis- they are at home,” he said International Organization for Migration said yesterday. The IOM food or even a protection from the high temperature,” he regrets. placed people in Babylon camp, stressed that he and other resi- Mohammed Sheet, who lives with his wife and four children in put the number at exactly 2,834,676 and said a wave of displace- His wife Um Zaher bitterly remembers when she and her fami- dents of the province are keen on offering a helpful hand to their a tent in Al-Hardanih camp, north of Baghdad, is equally suffering. ment caused by fighting in Ramadi, the capital of the western ly used to celebrate the joyful spirit of Ramadan in their home- conflict-traumatized compatriots. “We love to welcome and help “Our conditions are worse this Ramadan. We received the holy province of Anbar, was the cause of the latest rise. town. “Every day when I hear Magrib prayer calls, which signals people in need regardless of the tribulations of life,” he told KUNA. month this year with no electricity, no cool drinking water, not to The organization said that 133,000 people left their homes the end of the fasting time, a feel acute longing to my home, mention the health services,” he told KUNA. “The iftar meals come when the Islamic State group attacked parts of Ramadi a month everything seems to be bitter away from it where my parents and Harsh conditions from philanthropists who stand by their compatriots after the ago. More than 16,000 have since returned to the city centre. my brothers, my uncles, my husband, along with my kids gather Despite some improvement in the facilities in Saad refugee government and its relief agencies have let us down.” There were around 300,000 internally displaced persons in Iraq at for fast-breaking banquet and other Ramadan traditions,” tearful camp Diyala Province as many of its dwellers are living in caravans the beginning of 2014. Unrest broke out in Al-Anbar early last Um Zaher told KUNA. after a fire has burnt their tents two months ago, they still suffer Humanitarian needs year, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes. The In another camp in the central Babylon Province, Sabhan from the harsh conditions, high temperatures and the difficulty in The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided biggest wave of displacement occurred when IS launched a wide- Mohammad Jaafar has a similar story. “This Ramadan we undergo getting food, water and health care. “For months we are living along with the Arab and international relief organizations, includ- scale offensive on June 9. — KUNA Zain shares iftar with MOI Call Center

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications attended the iftar gathering as a gesture of pany is keen on reflecting the religious as well as company in Kuwait, announced the launch of its gratitude and appreciation to those staff traditional humanitarian values and principles to social visits program during the Holy of Month members who sacrifice their time to the safety enrich the art of giving and to increase bonding of Ramadan for the third year running. The com- and protection of Kuwait. Zain shares the between individuals. pany recently organized an iftar gathering for blessings of the holy month with several sec- The company further affirmed its Corporate the Ministry of Interior’s Operations Department tors of the community as it sees the impor- Social Responsibility Program during the Holy - Call Center (112) to share the blessings of the tance of recognizing their great efforts and Month of Ramadan, which includes an extensive holy month of Ramadan with their staff in recog- sacrifices. array of programs that cover different areas. The nition of the efforts they exert during the holy Zain stressed that it has always been keen to initiatives and programs include humanitarian, month. organize a number of social and humanitarian voluntary, cultural, religious, sports, and recre- The iftar was held with the presence of the initiatives during Ramadan to support the vari- ational activities to cater to the different seg- department’s officials and Zain’s team whom ous sectors of the Kuwaiti society, and the com- ments of society. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 From the Arabic press

Al-Anbaa Al-Qabas Lifetime A review is fasters wanted

By Saleh Al-Shayji By Abdellatif Al-Duaij CPRRUPTION asting is mainly about taming one’s hose who think that the battle is between the soul, disciplining and elevating it. The opposition group and the authority are under Fthing is, do most fasting people realize Tan illusion -be they those who worked hard in this fact and fast accordingly? Or have they analyzing the general situation, or those who lately been only physically fasting while leaving used every justification to break up the siege against their souls without fasting for a single hour, them and end their political suffering. I was and still day or night? Have they refrained from drink- consider the so called current ‘opposition’ part of the ing or eating during daytime and left their regime and one of its most important pillars in souls free to wander freely fantasizing about oppressing national powers, halting the develop- ment process and confronting social and political things that break their fast? Their fasting progress and development. bodies could not compel or control those Talking about reconciliation with this understand- souls. ing is not correct, because this sought-after reconcili- Fasting was considered a religious ritual ation may end the crises of the new opposition and before. Fasting used to be a philosophical may facilitate a comfortable atmosphere for the and spiritual practice that had its purposes, authority, but it will not help the general situation, indicators and reasons. For instance, because and will not achieve any of the sought-after national of man’s ignorance of the nature of the invisi- ambitions. The true dilemma is between the authori- ble soul, he used fasting to overcome such ty and the democratic system - that is between the an invisible soul and mandate it. authority and national democratic powers. So, has the purpose behind fasting been Al-Jarida Reconciliation or truce is available or has imposed achieved? Or have people only settled for itself on both sides, so there is no need for it to start physical fasting by abstaining from eating or with, because the authority is busy with disciplining drinking without having their souls fast by those who are no longer obedient among its major refraining from committing all sorts of evil allies. The national democratic powers had their deeds? Al-Anbaa claws trimmed and their limbs tied after being neu- For followers of so many religions and tralized by the authority and its religious-tribal beliefs, fasting has turned into a nominal Mujahid or sick-minded? alliance. practice concerning food and beverages Regardless of the shouting and noise, the real bat- while people forgot this was far from the real tle is between the authority and democratic powers, or between the authority and the democratic sys- aim and purpose of fasting. By Sami Al-Nisf tem. That is, the real political contradiction, as Dr Fasting is more like an invitation for virtue, Ahmad Al-Khateeb expressed in his recent column, love and avoid causing harm to others. So, he best drama is that which reflects real life and as ‘Abo Soraqa.’ The series reflects daily life under a rad- between the authority and the 1962 constitution. those who physically fast without fasting by can be watched decades later to know the situa- ical organization, such as IS, where lashing, mass exe- With this understanding, there will be a meaning soul are actually far away from achieving the Ttions and problems of the time it represents. cution and ‘jihadi marriage’ ceremonies are daily and true reasons for reconciliation because it is in purpose of fasting. They have not become Therefore, drama writers and authors should always scenes. There’s also the presence of some deceitful reality a wanted ‘review’ by the authority of its stand any closer to their gods by such nominal fast- consider time and place perspectives in their works criminals and outlaws who have been convicted in towards the 1962 constitution. Our basic problem is ing, which only weakened their bodies leav- because viewers, at this age of satellite TV, picture vari- their respective countries such as ‘Abo Scroob’ who that we are suffering, since approving the constitu- ing their souls untamed. ous real-life situations in different countries based on found a safe haven with such groups. The series did tion, between the contradiction created by strong Liars, thieves, swindlers, adulterers, the shows they watch. not criticize religion itself but strongly criticized those parties with the regime - between the democratic orphan oppressors, those who scold and The creative Saudi comedian Nasser Al-Qassabi extremists and continues to expose those twisted mentality and the mentality and principles of inherit- ignore beggars, murderers and those who really excelled in the series ‘The Devil’s Egg,’ which was leaders’ way of brainwashing those misled young peo- ed tribal ruling over the years. get illegal money and profits all fast and race shown a few days ago. The show tells the story of a ple. There is enmity, and we will not be wrong if we misled Saudi youth who was provoked and sent to Responding to the series, an imam utilized a to mosques, filling them only by bodies described it as inherent between the democratic sys- war, tumults, killings and destructions worldwide by mosque podium (when he should be promoting Islam already overburdened with sins. They would tem or directly between the 1962 constitution and some agitators who themselves stay safely at home and inviting people to it) in cursing Qassabi, slander- many influential parties be it within the family or in go from a diwaniya to another congratulat- along with their own kids. Followers of the show may ing him and describing the MBC channel as an infidel. ing each other for the advent of the holy the society. In order to end the confusion and stop be appalled by the total number of Saudi young men He later changed his tone and admitted that it was not deterioration that the country went and is still going month, but failed to discipline their souls sent to fight in various hot spots in Afghanistan, up to him to decide who believes and who does not. “I since for them, fasting is nothing more than through socially, politically and even economically, a Chechnya, Kosovo, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Manhattan do this only to clear my conscience, not out of fear of reconciliation between all those parties together and hypocrisy and nothing more than acts they though those numbers are relatively small compared somebody: I was wrong to describe Qassabi as an infi- perform to get closer to people rather than the 1962 constitution is required. In a more correct to the numbers sent in other Islamic countries like del, may Allah bless him,” said the imam. fashion, those powers are required to review their to the creator. Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, and so Replying to this, Qassabi argued that the imam stand towards the 1962 constitution. Meanwhile, those chaste ones who have on. changed his mind because he did fear the conse- There is no need to say that this review will take purified their souls from all worldly evils and Qassabi’s role dealt with the problems fathers have quences when someone told him that he would be place by itself, but it will remain a necessary result of sins are those who can be considered as ‘life- been facing because of their misled sons. He plays the sued for what he said. And thus, the series is still being the struggle and initiatives of the national democrat- time fasters,’ may Allah accept their fasting. role of a peaceful father who travels to Syria in search shown. ic powers that faded a long time ago. — Translated by Kuwait of his son and finds him working with a leader known — Translated by Kuwait Times —Translated by Kuwait Times

Crime R e p o r t Brothel cafes in Hawally raided KUWAIT: Several cafes in Hawally were recently placed under investigation after Director General of Residency Affairs’ detectives Brigadier Saud Al-Khader received infor- mation about illegal activities taking place there. A detec- tive went to the building and he found information con- firming the allegations of illicit activity. The detective was surprised by two girls moving seductively at the cafe door, then inside there were several girls sitting indecently, while men were looking around to chose a girl. Detectives raided the building and its cafes where 26 prostitutes were arrest- ed, most of whom were found to be reported absconding, in addition to five men of various nationalities. They were all sent to concerned authorities.

Citizen beaten by friend A citizen accused a man she knows of beating her in front of the building where she lives in Jabriya. The victim gave police the details of the man and they are looking for him.

School camera stolen Surveillance cameras and a recorder were stolen from an Ahmadi area school. A security source said that the guard who was checking the school belonging discovered the theft, so he informed police.

Cars broken into A group photo of the graduates with NBK officials. A bedoon told police that his car was broken into and his wallet containing KD 720 was stolen. Criminal evidence men lifted the finger prints and detectives NBK celebrates Shabab Training are working on the case. In another case, a citizen told Adan police that his shotgun was stolen from his car which was parked in front of his house. He gave police the stolen weapon’s serial number. Detectives are Program eighth batch graduates searching for the thief. KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) celebrated the graduation of the eighth batch of newly hired young Kuwaitis from the new house Maid steals money, flees Shabab Training Program. The program is specially designed to A retired citizen told police that his Filipina maid stole develop the skills of newly recruited diploma holders as part of Diesel smuggling swapping KD 400 a month ago, and that he discovered the thefts two NBK’s strategy to attract and develop young Kuwaitis. days ago. He said the maid escaped around the time of the NBK organized a special ceremony for the graduation of the new- suspects acquitted banned theft a month ago. ly hired young Kuwaitis. The ceremony was attended by Emad KUWAIT: The Minister of Ahmed Al-Ablani, NBK General Manager, Human Resources Group KUWAIT: The criminal court recently acquitted six suspects who had State for Housing Affairs along with senior leaders from the bank. been detained over charges related to the largest foiled diesel smug- Yasser Abul is expected to Woman raped Shabab Program is the first initiative of its kind in the private sec- gling attempt, forgery and money laundering because of procedural issue a decision to ban the tor in Kuwait designed to develop the skills of diploma holders, and A Filipina told Nugra police that a man raped her mistake in filing the case. exchange or the surren- is part of NBK’s strategy to attract young Kuwaitis by offering them a inside his car, parked in a sandy area. Police are investi- dering of housing units range of career and professional development opportunities. According to the accusations memo, the suspects had committed gating. permanently between citi- NBK Shabab Training Program extends over a period of two and a the crimes of money laundering, smuggling state-subsidized diesel abroad despite the ban on exporting it and forged an official docu- zens, said sources at the half months and is specially tailored to provide trainees with theo- Public Authority for ment; the customs clearance statement of the exported merchandise Citizen arrested for assault retical and practical skills covering the different aspects of the bank- Housing Welfare. The min- ing industry. type. Speaking before the court, the suspects’ lawyer, Ali Al-Asfour ister aims to obligate each A citizen was detained in Salhiya police station for slight argued questioning the accusation description denying that his clients attack, threatening to kill and insulting an employee. The NBK`s training programs include NBK Academy which aims to citizen who applied for had evaded customs. He also refuted the forgery accusations noting attack was by the citizen on a bank employee in a hysteri- train and develop the professional skills of fresh graduates, the housing care to follow the cal state while shouting his threats. The officer who spoke Summer Internship Program for high school and college students, in that all the bills his clients provided were authentic. Asfour also ques- authority’s rules and regu- to him told investigators “I will cut you to pieces with a addition to professional training and development programs espe- tioned the validity of detectives investigations and stressed that the lations and wait for their sword,” adding that the bank made a mistake in his cially designed and provided by world renowned institutions to case lacks any substantial evidence against his clients. — Al-Rai turn, the sources noted. account. enhance the skills of the Bank’s young leadership members. —Al-Anbaa WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 South Carolina gov Tensions flare in Okinawa on 70th ’versary of battle calls for removal of Confederate flag Page 12 Page 9 Druze rioters lynch wounded Syrian Israel vows crackdown after brutal attack

MAJDAL SHAMS: Israeli Prime Minister Druze leadership “strongly condemned these Benjamin Netanyahu pledged yesterday to deeds”. “This is not our way; we are pained by track down Druze rioters in the occupied what happened,” he said of the attack, calling Golan Heights responsible for the “lynching” it “a deplorable act committed by outlaws”. of a wounded Syrian being transported to a “The Druze religion, values and tradition pro- hospital. The Monday attack, roundly con- hibit inflicting any harm on wounded peo- demned by local Druze religious and secular ple,” he said, stressing the leaders condemn- leadership, comes as Druze are increasingly ing the attack included the Druze of the concerned over the fate of their brethren in Golan Heights. Syria after attacks by rebels there. Two Syrian men were being taken to hos- ‘Civilians, not Nusra’ pital late Monday when dozens of Druze in Tensions have flared in Druze areas of the town of Majdal Shams stoned their northern Israel and the occupied Golan ambulance, forcing it to stop and dragging Heights after rebels surrounded a govern- the men from the vehicle. They beat both of ment-held Druze village on the Syria side last them, with one later pronounced dead and week. Syria’s official news agency SANA said the other seriously wounded. An Israeli sol- the two men being transported Monday dier and an officer in the ambulance were were “terrorists from Al-Nusra Front,” the roughed up. “This is very severe,” Netanyahu country’s Al-Qaeda franchise. Syrian authori- said of the attack. “We will find those who ties label all those fighting to oust Assad “ter- carried out the lynching and bring them to rorists” and make no distinction between justice. We are a country of law, not part of jihadist groups like Al-Nusra and other, inter- the anarchy spreading around us,” he contin- nationally backed forces. ued, calling on local Druze leadership to Israel denied the Syrian claim, saying the calm things down and tell all the Druze “not men were civilians. “The claim we’re helping to take the law into their hands.” Al-Nusra Front is incorrect,” military Israel has a policy of providing humanitar- spokesman Brigadier General Moti Almoz ian assistance to wounded Syrians who seek told army radio. Damascus has regularly help by crossing over to the Jewish state. accused Israel of backing forces fighting the Syrian Druze are traditional allies of President regime. The Jewish state says it is not Bashar Al-Assad, and the rioters on Monday involved in the internal Syrian fighting, but likely believed the men in the ambulance could not rule out the possibility that some were rebels fighting to unseat him. The of the wounded men who receive medical Druze are followers of a secretive offshoot of care are rebels. Shiite Islam. Officials say there are 110,000 of “We don’t (give medical care) according them in northern Israel and another 20,000 to race or colour or religion; rather we give in the Israeli-occupied Golan. Israel seized the humanitarian life-saving help to 1,200 sq km of the Golan Heights in the 1967 whomever reaches the border and asks for Six Day War. help,” army spokesman Major Arye Shalicar The spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze, told AFP. Shalicar noted that Israel has treat- GOLAN: Israeli security personnel check an Israeli military ambulance which was attacked by Israeli Druze in the Israeli settlement of Neve Ativ, Sheikh Muafak Tarif, told AFP an emergency ed more than 1,600 Syrians in the past three near Majdal Shams on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, as it was on its way to a hospital carrying two injured Syrians for treatment on meeting of Israel’s religious and secular years. — AFP Monday. — AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 Activists set sail for Gaza to break blockade

JERUSALEM: Activists aboard a flotilla of boats are to though the chief prosecutor decided that potential cases soon set sail for Gaza in a fresh bid to break Israel’s block- were not of “sufficient gravity” to justify further ICC action. ade of the territory, five years after a similar attempt end- “One has to be realistic,” Graner said. “We know that we’re ed in a deadly raid. The so-called Freedom Flotilla III - a sailing towards a blockade that is upheld essentially by convoy of ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists, at least two large military forces,” he said, referring also to Egypt’s one European lawmaker and an Arab-Israeli MP - will try navy. Activists have accused Egypt of helping to enforce to reach the shores of the Gaza Strip by the end of the the blockade, although Cairo denies involvement. “We month. Their campaign comes as Israel faces heavy inter- think Israel lost a lot by the violence that they used in national pressure over its actions in Gaza, with a UN report 2010. It would be extremely stupid of the Israelis... to use released Monday saying both the Jewish state and violence against us.” Palestinian militants may have committed war crimes dur- ing last year’s conflict in the besieged coastal enclave. ‘End the Siege’ Israel’s blockade of the territory dates to 2006, after Israel has in recent weeks been on the defensive over Hamas captured an Israeli soldier, and was tightened a actions during the July-August war, where the majority of year later when the Islamist movement consolidated con- the 2,200 Gazans killed were civilians. Seventy-two Israelis trol of Gaza. “We’re not alone in considering the blockade were killed, 67 of them soldiers. In anticipation of to be inhumane and illegal,” Staffan Graner, an activist Monday’s UN report, Israel cleared itself of wrongdoing in who is sailing aboard Swedish trawler the Marianne of a number of controversial incidents, including the bomb- Gothenburg, told AFP. “What we want to do... is to keep up ing of UN schools being used as shelters for the displaced. international pressure that the blockade should end,” he Israel says it was forced to target the schools’ vicinities said. because of actions by Hamas, which allegedly stored The Marianne of Gothenburg, which set sail from Sicily weaponry and fired rockets from UN institutions. on Friday, will join four other vessels carrying some 70 Some 100,000 Gazans remain homeless, with the people en route for Gaza, according to a statement from reconstruction of tens of thousands of homes yet to the Platform of French NGOs for Palestine, an advocacy GAZA: Palestinian women wait with their luggage to cross to Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in begin. Israel’s ongoing blockade, now in its ninth year, has group supporting the effort. Among those aboard will be the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. Egypt is due to reopen its Rafah border crossing with Gaza for been blamed as well as a lack of international donor sup- former Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki, Spanish MEP three days. — AFP port. Israel says more than 1.1 million tonnes of construc- Ana Maria Miranda Paza and Arab-Israeli lawmaker Basel tion material have been allowed in since Oct 2014, along Ghattas, organizers said. Ghattas’ decision to join the flotil- allow the flotilla to arrive at its destination”. “Any form of then, several ships manned by pro-Palestinian activists with food and other supplies. Critics of the blockade have la caused outrage in Israel. takeover to prevent this will only involve Israel in yet have tried to reach the shores of Gaza, but they have all called for it to be fully lifted to allow reconstruction, warn- On Sunday, deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely said another difficult international crisis or scandal,” he warned. been repelled by the Israeli navy. Activists in the Freedom ing that without it an ongoing humanitarian crisis could the flotilla was “the work of provocateurs whose aim is to Flotilla III are undeterred. They say the international pres- fuel further conflict. blacken Israel’s face,” adding that the ministry had been ‘Violence Would be Stupid’ sure Israel faces after the latest conflict Gaza, along with Some “1.8 million Palestinians (are) living in disgraceful, working “through diplomatic channels night and day” to Ghattas was referring to the killing of 10 Turkish the uproar the 2010 raid caused, make it unlikely it will use prison-like conditions as a result of Israel’s military siege of prevent it from reaching Israeli waters. In a letter to Prime activists aboard the Mavi Marmara after Israeli comman- violence this time. both sea and land,” Ghattas said in his letter to Netanyahu. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ghattas urged that he dos staged a botched pre-dawn raid on a six-ship flotilla The International Criminal Court said last year that war “The third freedom flotilla carries humanitarian aid for the “command the Israeli security forces to stay away and seeking to break the Gaza blockade in May 2010. Since crimes may have been committed in the 2010 raid - residents of the strip and aims to end the siege.” —AFP

Iran lawmakers pass bill to protect nuke program

TEHRAN: Iran’s parliament approved a contro- Bargaining Stepped Up versial bill yesterday that it said would protect Bargaining over a final deal, due by June the country’s nuclear program, but which could 30, intensified Monday when Britain and also hinder final negotiations on a deal with France reiterated that comprehensive inspec- world powers. The move re-exposed persistent tions of Iran’s nuclear facilities are essential. tension between President Hassan Rouhani’s The bill allows inspections of nuclear sites but government and lawmakers in Tehran, where not military or sensitive non-nuclear establish- hardliners routinely voice doubt about the mer- ments. Such limitations are likely to alarm it of talking to the West. One of Rouhani’s vice Western powers given their longstanding sus- presidents said the bill, which still has to be picion Iran is covertly developing an atomic signed into law by Iran’s Guardian Council, was bomb, an allegation it denies. Vice President unconstitutional and would not help its nego- Majid Ansari, who was prevented from tiators at “a sensitive point” in the talks. addressing parliament, later told state media The move, just one week before the dead- the terms of a nuclear deal were not a matter line for an international agreement on the for lawmakers. “The engagement of MPs on Islamic republic’s disputed nuclear program, this issue is of no help to the nuclear team and lays down terms for MPs’ accepting it. Rouhani, it could create problems in the negotiation a moderate who aims to end Iran’s diplomatic process,” he said, citing an infringement of isolation, wants an agreement that can lift sanc- Article 176 of the constitution. That, he said, tions that have hobbled the economy. However, reserves defence and strategic issues to Iran’s critics of his nuclear policy, including members Supreme National Security Council, a body of of the conservative-dominated legislature, say ministers, generals and appointees of supreme too many concessions have been made and, leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. using the bill, they demanded a bigger say. It is chaired by Rouhani. Foreign Minister The draft law says the government must Mohammad Javad Zarif, the government’s “preserve the country’s nuclear rights and chief representative in the nuclear talks, is also achievements”, a reference to retaining the abili- a member. Ansari’s remarks came despite the AIN ISSA, Syria: Kurdish fighters of the YPG sit on their pickup in this town north of Raqqa yesterday. — AP ty to enrich uranium and keeping all nuclear bill being watered down Sunday, with the task facilities open. Such demands have already of supervising a nuclear deal being given to been enshrined in an outline agreement struck the SNSC. Parliament had wanted formal over- Syria Kurds seize town on April 2 between Iran and the P5+1 powers - sight. Roadblocks in the nuclear talks include Britain, China, France, Russia and the United details on sanctions and inspections as well as States plus Germany. But the bill, whose backers Iran’s future nuclear research. said it would protect Iran’s negotiating team In a measure similar to that taken in Tehran, from IS near its ‘capital’ from further demands, goes further and says President Barack Obama has given US lawmak- sanctions must be lifted “on the day Iran starts ers 30 days to review any deal. Obama, a implementing its obligations”. Democrat, has faced persistent opposition to Regime forces advance west of Palmyra The timing of removal has become impor- his Iran policy from Congress, which is con- tant as members of the P5+1 have said it can trolled by Republicans, who by their right of BEIRUT: Kurdish-led forces in Syria seized a town Daesh, proclaimed their “caliphate” to rule over all YPG and the US-led alliance has deepened since they only happen upon international verification review may try to block an agreement. Other from Islamic State yesterday after capturing a military Muslims. The YPG fighters have emerged as the most first joined forces to defend the town of Kobane, also that Iran has met requirements laid down under critics of the nuclear diplomacy include Israel’s base overnight, aided by US-led air strikes in some of credible ally of the U.S.-led campaign on the ground on the Turkish border, defeating Islamic State fighters a deal. Some 214 lawmakers out of 244 present Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who the most dramatic gains yet against the militants. The in Syria, where Washington has fewer friends than in in January after four months of battle there. Asked supported the bill, with 10 against, six absten- warned Congress in March against ratifying “a Kurdish march deep into the heart of Islamic State Iraq. Xelil described the U.S.-led air support as “excel- whether the de facto Islamic State capital was now a tions and the remainder not voting. bad deal”. — AFP territory follows their capture of a town on the Turkish lent”. In a separate battle, the Syrian military and mili- target, Xelil said: “Raqqa is a Syrian city, like Tel Abyad border last week, reversing the momentum of mili- tias fighting alongside it have gained ground to the and Kobane, and all Syrians want it freed of Daesh ter- tants who had seized major towns in both Syria and northwest of the city of Palmyra, which Islamic State ror. But at the current time it is not included in our Iraq last month. captured from government control last month, agenda.” Thousands of people have fled the YPG-led The Kurdish YPG-led forces had taken full control according to the Observatory and a source in Syria advance into Raqqa city in recent days, the of Ain Issa, said YPG spokesman Redur Xelil. The briefed on the situation. The West and its Arab allies Observatory says. Some people escaping Tel Abyad Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which reports have shunned the idea of partnering President have accused the Kurds of expelling Arabs and on the war, said Islamic State fighters had completely Bashar Al-Assad in the fight against Islamic State. Turkmen, a claim dismissed as propaganda by the withdrawn from the town. Overnight, advancing YPG. More than 2,000 Syrians who had fled into forces including Syrian rebels fighting alongside the “Stranglehold” Turkey crossed back into Syria on Monday. The YPG took control of the nearby Liwa-93 military base, The group has shown little resistance to the latest Observatory says there have been no systematic YPG a strategic objective which Islamic State had captured YPG-led advance. A Pentagon spokesman said last abuses, though some have been carried out by indi- last year from government forces. week that Islamic State had appeared to “crack” at Tel viduals. The advance to Ain Issa brings the Kurdish forces Abyad on the Turkish border. However, a U.S. govern- Government forces had also advanced against and their allies to just 50 km from Raqqa, Islamic ment source, speaking on condition of anonymity, Islamic State to the west of Palmyra, home to Roman State’s de facto capital, from which it rules over a said the gains were not a sign of Islamic State falling ruins that are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, “caliphate” across much of Syria and Iraq. But Xelil said apart, but rather reflected how the Kurdish-led forces the Observatory said. Islamic State considers such an assault on the city was not currently on the agen- were making a concerted effort against specific tar- monuments to be idols that must be destroyed. Its da. The Observatory said the aim of the advance was gets. Xelil said Islamic State had been “shocked” by fighters have planted explosives in the ruins, the to seize control of an east-west highway running the assault. Observatory reported on Saturday, raising concern through Ain Issa which links the city of Aleppo with The YPG advance gathered pace last week when the site could meet the same fate as monuments the northeastern province of Hasaka. the Kurds, in partnership with smaller groups under plundered and razed by the group in Iraq. “We cannot The United States and its Arab and Western allies the banner of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army yet say that this is the battle of Palmyra. It is a battle to launched an air campaign against Islamic State last (FSA), captured Tel Abyad and cut an Islamic State fortify the regime’s defensive lines,” said the source in year after the fighters, also known as ISIS, ISIL or supply route from Turkey. Coordination between the Syria briefed on the situation. — Reuters TEHRAN: Iranian lawmakers attend a parliamentary session yesterday. — AFP Turkey’s new parliament opens amid coalition search

ANKARA: Turkey’s parliament yesterday opened The opening of the single-chamber parlia- ment, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) 132, for a new session after elections in which the rul- ment, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, is a and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and ing party lost its overall majority, with political largely ceremonial affair, with each of the 550 pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) 80 parties working to thrash out the first coalition deputies individually swearing oath in a marathon apiece. Turkish media reports have said that government in over a decade. Turkey has not seen event that will last to the early hours of the morn- Erdogan will this week give Prime Minister and a coalition since the ruling Islamic-rooted Justice ing. But the meeting fires a starting shot for the AKP leader Ahmet Davutoglu the mandate to and Development Party (AKP) came to power in parties’ formal efforts to agree a coalition after an form the new government. Should the parties fail 2002 and so far there has been no breakthrough election seen as one of the seismic events in to form a coalition within 45 days, Erdogan can in efforts to agree a deal. With President Recep Turkish politics in recent decades. It also starts the then call early elections, an option he has warned Tayyip Erdogan looking on, main opposition process to elect the new parliament speaker, with he will use should the talks fail. Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP Deniz Baykal, parties set to propose their candidates in the next But Turkish markets, which took a beating in who as parliament’s oldest member at 76 is acting five days. the wake of the polls on fears of instability, will be speaker, declared the session open. While the AKP emerged as the largest party, hoping for a swift resolution to the uncertainty. After a bruising election campaign, Baykal the results were a blow not only to its authority “Our thesis is that we will avoid another election urged for calm in Turkey, saying the “conditions but also to Erdogan, who had been hoping the and a credible coalition will be formed around no longer exist for continuing the polarisation of new parliament would agree on a new constitu- mid July,” said the chief Turkey equity strategist for society”. Wearing the traditional tailcoat and tion to cement his powers. The parliament is also Renaissance Capital, Michael Harris. By far the white bow tie of the Turkish speaker, he also more diverse than any other in Turkey’s history most likely coalition option is between the AKP called for respect of Turkey’s secular traditions as with 96 women MPs and three lawmakers from and the nationalist MHP, who both share a core set out by its modern founder Mustafa Kemal Turkey’s Armenian minority. voter base of conservatives in the centre of the Ataturk. But in a sign of the divisions, opposition ANKARA: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (second right), flanked by parliamentarian country. “Nothing is certain yet. Intentions have deputies refused to applaud Erdogan as he was Seyit Eyuboglu (second left) and the Presidency’s Secretary-General Fahri Kasirga (right) ges- ‘Avoid Another Election’ been announced by some but no official contact announced by Baykal. tures as he attends a swearing-in ceremony at the Turkish parliament yesterday. — AFP The AKP have 258 seats in the 550-seat parlia- has been made,” an MHP source told AFP. -— AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 Obama uses N-word to make point on racism

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on who preceded him in the White House used the Monday ignited a storm of social media debate term in private and in racially disparaging ways. In when he used a racial epithet in an interview post- his 2001 book “Nigger: The Strange Career of a ed online that discussed race relations following Troublesome Word,” author Randall Kennedy listed the recent killings of nine black churchgoers. “It’s Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman not just a matter of it not being polite to say ‘nig- as frequent offenders. ger’ in public. That’s not the measure of whether Nixon was caught on his own White House racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of tapes referring to blacks as “niggers” and “jiga- overt discrimination,” Obama, the first black US boos”, another racial epithet. Though Johnson president, told Mark Maron, host of the “WTF” pod- pushed through landmark civil rights laws, biogra- cast, in an hour-long chat. pher Robert Dallek wrote that Johnson said he The word has a long US history and is almost nominated well-known jurist Thurgood Marshall never used in public remarks, particularly by politi- to the Supreme Court, rather than a lesser-known cians, and Obama’s use of it comes amid a fresh black candidate, because “when I appoint a nigger round of soul-searching by many Americans over to the bench, I want everybody to know he’s a nig- the country’s long struggle with racism. White ger”. Truman called Congressman Adam Clayton House spokesman Josh Earnest, at a daily briefing Powell “that damned nigger preacher”, Kennedy with reporters on Monday, said Obama intended wrote. to be provocative by using the word and to illus- Obama used the word multiple times in his pre- trate a larger point. “I would acknowledge that the presidential autobiography “Dreams from My way the president designed his argument in this Father”. As president, Obama has been less scenario is more provocative,” Earnest said, making provocative on race. He said in the interview that clear that Obama did not regret his word choice. the United States has made progress on race in the He is by no means the first American president past 50 years but the legacy of slavery still casts a to use the word in modern times. But while shadow. “Societies don’t just overnight completely Obama did so in public, trying to make a point WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama talks to a guest during an iftar dinner celebrating erase everything that happened two to three hun- about enduring racism, several of the white men Ramadan in the State Dining Room at the White House on Monday. —AFP dred years prior,” Obama said.—Reuters Opposition hopeful as Venezuela sets vote

CARACAS: Venezuela will hold legislative elec- protest camps in Caracas. According to rights tions Dec 6, officials said Monday, setting a date group Prison Forum, a total of 31 opposition fig- after weeks of pressure from opposition groups ures are in jail over last year’s protests, which left hoping to deal President Nicolas Maduro’s 43 people dead. The setting of an election date socialist party a crippling defeat. With “is a first step, but the political prisoners must Venezuela’s economy in recession, oil revenues still be freed,” said Freddy Guevara, national plunging and consumers facing chronic short- coordinator of Popular Will, the radical opposi- ages of basic goods, Maduro’s approval rating tion party founded by Lopez. has sunk to 28 percent. That has turned into a crisis for the movement founded by his mentor, Populist Spending Spree? Hugo Chavez, which risks losing the National “At last we have a date for the elections! Now Assembly for the first time since the late leftist more than ever we need unity and change,” firebrand came to power in 1999. opposition leader Henrique Capriles wrote on An April survey by polling firm Datanalisis Twitter. “Every Venezuelan has the strength to found Maduro’s United Socialist Party of make it happen,” added Capriles, who narrowly Venezuela (PSUV) and its allies had 25 percent lost the 2013 presidential vote to Maduro after support against 45.8 percent for the opposition. Chavez’s death. Maduro for his part tweeted: The opposition’s fragile coalition, the “We now have a date for the battle for a new Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), had victory for the people.” 6Venezuela’ s one-cham- accused election officials of dragging their feet ber legislature has 165 seats. Currently, the on setting an election date because of Maduro PSUV and its allies hold 99 and the opposition and the PSUV’s poor poll numbers. The head of 66. the National Electoral Council, Tibisay Lucena, The PSUV has been able to use its three- denied the charge, accusing opposition groups fifths majority to grant Maduro the power to of seeking to “discredit” the organization. “The govern by decree. The legislature granted National Electoral Council does not act under Maduro decree powers for national defense and COLUMBIA: South Carolina Gov Nikki Haley speaks during a news conference in the South Carolina State pressure,” she said. security matters in March amid a confrontation House on Monday. (Inset) The Confederate flag flies on the Capitol grounds after Haley announced that Lucena announced the official campaign with the United States, which the president she will call for the flag to be removed. — AP/AFP period would run from Nov 13 to December 3, accused of backing a coup attempt against him. with candidate registration from Aug 3 to 7. Political analyst Luis Vicente Leon of polling firm Jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has Datanalisis said the movement founded by South Carolina governor calls been on hunger strike for 30 days to insist the Chavez “has never faced a more difficult elec- government set a date for the election and tion.” guarantee that international observers are on Venezuela, which has the world’s largest for Confederate flag’s removal hand. Lopez, who was arrested in Feb 2014 on proven oil reserves, has been hit hard by charges of inciting violence during massive plunging crude prices in recent months, exac- Obama to speak at victim’s funeral protests that shook Venezuela last year, has lost erbating an already painful economic crisis. 15 kg at the military prison where he is being Leon predicted Maduro’s government would CHARLESTON/COLUMBIA: South Carolina Governor Supporters, who fly the flag at their homes, wear it study group at the “Mother Emanuel” church. He is the held. ramp up “populist economic policy measures” Nikki Haley on Monday called on lawmakers to take on clothing and put it on bumper stickers, see it as a apparent author of an online racist manifesto. Another jailed opposition figure, Daniel to counter the crisis and win votes among the down the Confederate battle flag at the state capitol symbol of the South’s history and culture, as well a Ceballos, also went on hunger strike for 20 days, poor - something Chavez was often accused grounds, a week after a white gunman allegedly shot memorial to the roughly 480,000 Confederate casual- ‘Not Cured’ of Racism as have dozens of supporters who have set up of doing. —AFP dead nine black worshipers at a historic church. The ties during the 1861-65 Civil War. That figure includes President Barack Obama in a podcast posted flag that has flown at the State House grounds in the dead, wounded and prisoners. Wal-Mart Stores online on Monday, said the killings showed the United Columbia for a half century became a fresh focus of Inc, the biggest US retailer, said it is pulling all States still had a long way to go in addressing racism, criticism after the Charleston church massacre. Federal Confederate flag merchandise from its stores. “We using an epithet to make his point. “We’re not cured of authorities are investigating the attack as a hate crime never want to offend anyone with the products that it,” Obama told Marc Maron, host of the “WTF” podcast. and an act of terrorism by accused gunman Dylann we offer,” spokesman Brian Nick said in a statement. “And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say Roof, 21, who posed with the flag in photos posted Sears Holding Corp said it would remove Confederate ‘nigger’ in public. That’s not the measure of whether online. flags being sold by third parties on its website. racism still exists.” Obama will attend Friday’s funeral of “It’s time to move the flag from the capitol US senators Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham also Reverend Clementa Pinckney, a state senator and pas- grounds,” Haley, a Republican, told a news conference urged removal of the flag. Both are Republicans and tor of the historic church, who was one of the nine in the state capital, about 161 km from the shooting. Graham is seeking the party’s presidential nomination. people killed on Wednesday. “The flag, while an integral part of our past, does not Among other Republicans, senators Lamar Alexander The debate is not a new one for South Carolina, represent the future of our great state.” Haley called on and Bob Corker of Tennessee also called for the which raised the flag over the State House in the early lawmakers, whose normal legislative year wraps up removal of the flag. Mississippi House Speaker Philip 1960s. The flag was moved to its current location, on a this week, to address the issue over the summer and Gunn said on Twitter that the Confederate emblem in lower flagpole on the capitol grounds in 2000, a com- said she would order a special session if they did not. his state’s flag had to go. A group of both black and promise at a time when some were calling for it to be The shooting at Emanuel African Methodist white leaders called for a rally yesterday at the State retired. A spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Episcopal Church came in a year of intense debate House to bring their demand to lawmakers. “The only Veterans, a group that honors southern Civil War sol- over US race relations following the killings of flag we should be worried about is the US flag,” said diers, called the move premature. “This is the very unarmed black men by police officers, which has Carl Smith, a 29-year-old black man, standing outside worst possible time to be considering historic sparked a reinvigorated civil rights movement under the church that was the site of the shooting. “Why changes,” said Ben Jones, the group’s spokesman and the “Black Lives Matter” banner. Opponents of flying would you support a flag that represents division a former US Representative from Georgia. “Slavery, it the flag at the State House grounds consider it an instead of a flag that unites people?” Roof was arrest- ain’t like it was a Southern sin,” Jones said. “It was a CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaksng during a rally of the emblem of slavery that has become a rallying symbol ed on Thursday and charged with nine counts of mur- national American sin. It built Wall Street and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on Monday. — AFP for racism and xenophobia in the United States. der for allegedly gunning down members of a Bible American economy.”— Reuters Mexico steps up ‘hunt’ for migrants

PALENQUE, Mexico: The 35-year-old Honduran smartphones to film the agents who were kicking Migrant Movement, a non-governmental organiza- farmer shows the scar on his forehead where he says him and a complaint was made to the authorities. tion. The National Migration Institute denies that its a Mexican migration officer fired a stun gun when he “They almost asphyxiated me. They shot me a lot agents use stun guns. But several international NGOs tried to escape a major dragnet. While Wilmart avoid- with that (stun) gun. At the end, I couldn’t walk. They have voiced concern about rough tactics being ed deportation, a rising number of undocumented threw me to the ground and savagely beat me,” the employed in the Frontera Sur (Southern Frontier) Central American migrants are being rounded up in curly-haired migrant, who declined to give his last operation, which includes the deployment of 5,000 a crackdown launched a year ago following a surge name, said as he waited for a humanitarian visa fol- agents and checkpoints set up in the wake of last of unaccompanied children reaching the United lowing his ordeal. He is not the only migrant to claim year’s migrant crisis in the United States. States. Mexican authorities are chasing migrants in a Taser was used against him by migration agents. the middle of streets near the southern border with Jose Adan Martinez, a 20-year-old Honduran, said Detentions, deportations surge Guatemala or conducting raids in the dead of night a stun gun was used to get him off The Beast, though Mexican authorities have captured nearly 58,000 on “The Beast,” a freight train they use to travel across he did not file a complaint out of fear of reprisals. “We migrants - most from Central America - in the first the vast nation. have had several direct testimonies in recent months four months of this year, an 83 percent increase Wilmart only got away because residents of on the use of stun guns to detain migrants,” said from the same period last year, according to govern- Palenque, a town in Chiapas state, took out their Ruben Figueroa, an activist at the Mesoamerican ment figures. Deportations have also surged 79 per- cent from 28,736 between January and April 2014 to 51,565 in the same period this year. In addition to COAL CITY, Ilinois: People walk past wreckage near Elizabeth Drive and Coaler Drive yester- raids in hotels, buses and even hospitals, authorities day after a tornado struck the previous day. — AFP are trying to take away a major form of transport by preventing migrants from boarding cargo trains. Around midnight on Saturday, migration and Tornado hits Illinois police officers backed by men in civilian clothes stopped a train carrying some 30 migrants near CHICAGO: A tornado destroyed several homes with non-life threatening injuries, Coal City Fire Palenque. “Get down! Get down,” the officers shout- near Chicago late on Monday, weather and res- Protection District Lieutenant Nick Doerfler. “I ed as they grabbed people by the arm with force cue officials said, injuring some people and can tell you that we’ve had everything from fully and bundled them into vans dubbed “dogcatcher trapping others, closing a highway and cutting collapsed residences to minor damage as well,” vans,” without asking for their identifications. As power links to thousands of homes. Emergency Doerfler said, adding that power lines were AFP reporters videotaped the operation, the responders in the small town of Coal City, about down “everywhere” in the town. At least three agents put away their retractable truncheons, told 60 miles (100 km) south of Chicago, reported homes had been heavily damaged in Monday the migrants to “carefully” board the vehicles and that homes were destroyed by the storm, said night’s storm, Brittany Halliday, daughter of Coal did not chase those who escaped into the bushes. Joe Schroeder, director of the Grundy County City Mayor Terry Halliday, told a regional news- “It’s never like that. They chase them and take them Emergency Management Agency. He could not paper, the Herald-News. “There are some houses away violently,” said Alejandro Fernandez, who has give immediate details of the extent of damage that are no longer there,” she added. “There are CHIAPAS STATE, Mexico: A migrant runs to catch a train in the Chamcamax community on June witnessed several operations from his home near or injuries. (boat) trailers all over the place. It’s just a 21, 2015. — AFP the tracks.— AFP At least one person was taken to the hospital mess.”— Reuters INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 Fearless women lead Romania anti-graft crusade

BUCHAREST: Two Romanian women are Department granted Kovesi its International says she is “proud” of having reached the top spearheading an unprecedented anti-cor- Women of Courage Award for her “crucial of a justice system whose inner workings ruption drive that has made politicians role” in reforming Romania’s judiciary. she has come to know well. Since 2010, tremble and even challenged the prime Several corruption scandals in recent when she was chosen to head the Supreme minister. Laura Kosevi heads the anti-cor- years prompted the US embassy in Court, the number of high-profile convic- ruption directorate (DNA), while Livia Bucharest and other Western missions to tions over corruption has shot up, including Stanciu is the president of the Supreme watch out for judicial independence in one in cases that had been open for years. She Court. Thanks to them, dozens of corrupt of the EU’s poorest states. “I have a mission became the nemesis of Ponta’s Social former ministers, MPs, senators and judges to accomplish, and for me that is the most Democratic Party in 2012 after she sen- have been prosecuted and convicted. In ear- important thing,” Kovesi said. In 2014, the tenced ex-prime minister Adrian Nastase to ly June, news broke that the DNA had DNA sent more that 1,100 people to court two years in jail. He had seen himself as launched proceedings against Prime over graft allegations and had some 10,200 untouchable, and the verdict marked a turn- Minister Victor Ponta, accusing him of for- cases under investigation. Kovesi described ing point in Romania’s post-communist era. gery, complicity in tax evasion and money 2014 as a “record year,” with the highest Like Kovesi, Stanciu describes herself as “tire- laundering while he was a lawyer. number of new cases for the DNA since it less” in her struggle. “Everything I do, I do it Ponta is also suspected of alleged con- was set up in 2002, as well as the highest with devotion and passion,” Stanciu told AFP flict of interest during his term as prime min- number of people sent to court, the most in an interview last October, adding that she ister, plunging Romania into a major politi- convictions in DNA-probed cases, and the always worked in “good faith”. Before cal crisis. Denying any wrongdoing, the highest number of top officials under exami- President Iohannis won the election in leader has ruled out resigning. nation. November on an anti-corruption pledge, The agency had already made great Laura Kosevi Livia Stanciu Stanciu warned that promises would have ‘A Mission to Accomplish’ strides under Kovesi’s predecessor Daniel to be followed by concrete action. Advances Kovesi, 42, is a former basketball player, Morar and was praised by the European conservative Romanian President Klaus accused by Stanciu of blackmail, who was in the justice system could be “reversed in and her smile, big brown eyes and soft voice Union. It has gathered even more speed Iohannis to “use all the constitutional and then acquitted. “There is no reason why I two days” and more progress was needed, do little to conceal her determination to since she took over in 2013, becoming one legal means at his disposal” to have the two should resign,” Supreme Court chief Stanciu she said at the time. Several bids in recent clean up Romania’s corridors of power. “The of Romania’s most trusted institutions. But women sacked, branding them “unworthy” replied. months by the left-wing parliamentary prosecutors will stop at nothing: if they have politicians do not share the people’s enthu- for their roles. Turning Point majority to limit the DNA’s reach, and to to arrest 1,000 people who break the law, siasm. In recent weeks, calls for Kovesi and To back up his call, Popescu-Tariceanu Straight-talking Stanciu, 58, is one of offer politicians greater immunity, suggest then they will arrest 1,000 people,” she told a Stanciu to resign have multiplied. Senate invoked a regrettable though isolated inci- Romania’s most respected judges. A former the people in power may not make that local newspaper. In 2014, the US State chief Calin Popescu-Tariceanu called on the dent: the six-month detention of a woman prosecutor in the eastern city of Galati, she easy. —AFP Four killed in Ukraine Rwandan spy chief ahead of crunch talks KIEV: Ukrainian rebels yesterday accused gov- Donetsk - a coal mine-pitted city abandoned by ernment forces of killing three civilians in attacks half its estimated million residents that insur- arrested in London launched hours before the start of talks in Paris gents have turned into their de facto capital. on ways to halt the 15-month separatist war. Gennadiy Moskal - a respected former deputy Kiev’s Western-backed military command interior minister tasked by Kiev with reining in Kigali slams Karake’s arrest an ‘outrage’ reported the death of one soldier and accused the neighbouring separatist province of Lugansk the pro-Russian rebels of launching the heaviest - called counter-strikes launched by guerrillas in LONDON: British police have arrested the head of sacre of civilians between 1994 and 1997 in the towns wave of mortar and artillery fire since the start of his own region “unlike any we have seen since Rwanda’s intelligence service on a warrant issued by of Ruhengeri, Gisenyi and Cyangugu, including the the year in one relatively peaceful region. the start of the year”. Spain, officials said yesterday, sparking outrage from deaths of three Spanish charity workers. The daily bloodshed and destruction of The violence has pushed to more than 60 the Kigali. The police said Karenzi Karake was held on sus- But the 2008 warrants were issued under Spain’s housing underscores a repeated failure by diplo- number of soldiers and civilians killed this picion of war crimes, apparently in reference to a doctrine of universal jurisdiction, which gave national mats to find a way out of a crisis that has killed month. The rebels usually do not report casualty 2008 arrest warrant from a Spanish court for geno- courts the right to probe cases of grave human rights 6,500 people and plunged East-West relations to figures but Kiev thinks they are bigger than the cide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and terror- abuses committed abroad. Spain under the ruling a post-Cold War low. It has also pushed Russian ones suffered by its own troops. Ukrainian mili- ism. However, a Spanish judicial source said some of conservative government has since curbed this doc- President Vladimir Putin to seek a closer alliance tary spokesman Andriy Lysenko said Monday those allegations have since been dropped and trine, and the judicial source said Tuesday that allega- with China and build up Latin American military that “we do not know their losses but they are Karake was now wanted for terrorism offences relat- tions against Karake concerning genocide, crimes cooperation and trade two developments of serious”. The separatists have called the govern- ing to the deaths of several Spaniards in Rwanda in against humanity and war crimes had been closed. particular concern to Washington and its own ment forces’ attacks a “grave” violation of the the 1990s. The case remained open, however, for the murders of strategic plans. Minsk agreement that Russia and Ukraine The Rwandan government condemned the eight Spaniards in Rwanda. “The case is still open for Putin resolutely denies orchestrating the war signed during February negotiations spearhead- detention of the 54-year-old general, who has been crimes of terrorism,” the source added. “This official is to pay back Kiev for its February 2014 ouster of a ed by the leaders of Germany and France. President Paul Kagame’s spy chief since 2011, brand- wanted in connection with what happened to several Kremlin-backed leader who had ditched a land- The four countries’ foreign ministers are due ing it an “outrage”. “Western solidarity in demeaning Spanish victims.” mark alliance with the European Union to to meet in Paris later Tuesday with the hope of at Africans is unacceptable!!” Foreign Minister Louise instead maintain the ex-Soviet state’s more tradi- least easing the bloodshed in the weeks to Mushikiwabo said on Twitter, calling the arrest “luna- Controversial Figure tional Russian ties. Ukraine itself now threatens come. EU foreign ministers Monday extended cy”. Justice Minister Johnston Busingye has “sought Karake is part of an exclusive circle of top military to turn into a frozen conflict that grows more expiring economic restrictions on Russia explanation” from British authorities over the move, officers in the RPF, and his fortunes have risen and deadly in the summer - a season where forests through to the end of January - an expected which came after Karake had been on official busi- fallen under Kagame’s rule. In 2010 he was placed provide better cover and ground movements decision that immediately saw Moscow threaten ness in London for a week, according to Rwanda’s under house arrest for misconduct but was later are easier - and cuts off cash-strapped Kiev from to prolong its own sweeping Western food New Times newspaper. released. Karake is also a former deputy chief of the its main industrial base. import ban. Punitive steps by the West appear to Karake was arrested on Saturday morning at United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in have done little to alter Putin’s thinking and seen London’s Heathrow Airport and after an initial court Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region, although his appoint- Low Expectations public opinion rally even more firmly around the hearing, was remanded in custody pending another ment in 2007 was controversial. Human Rights Watch The insurgents reported one of the three veteran Kremlin chief - whose rule was built on hearing on Thursday, the Metropolitan Police said. Karenzi Karake has accused him of responsibility for the killings of civilian deaths in a village on the outskirts of patriotic fervour and nationalist rhetoric.—AFP Busingye had been due in Spain on Tuesday for a civilians in the town of Kisangani, Democratic meeting with his counterpart Rafael Catala, but criminal court in 2008 for 40 Rwandan army officers, Republic of Congo, in June 2000. Spanish officials said he had cancelled the visit. including Karake, alleging crimes against humanity Busingye said he would be “surprised” if the arrest before and after the 1994 Rwandan genocide. of Karake in London was based on the 2008 Spanish Spaniards Killed in Rwanda About 800,000 people, mostly from the Tutsi warrant. “I would be surprised if it is one the UK is act- A British police spokesman said Karake was “arrest- minority, were killed by Hutu militias and govern- ing on. We will contest in the courts,” the justice minis- ed on a European arrest warrant on behalf of the ment troops during the 100-day genocide, which was ter said. The Spanish indictments were criticised by authorities in Spain, where he is wanted in connec- brought to an end by Kagame’s then rebel Rwandan US officials at the time as “outrageous and inaccurate,” tion with war crimes against civilians”. The statement Patriotic Front (RPF). Karake, known as KK, was according to a diplomatic cables sent by the embassy appears to refer to warrants issued by Spain’s top alleged to have known about and approved the mas- in Kigali and released by WikiLeaks. — AFP Londoners dream of swimming in Thames

LONDON: Work to build an open-air pool on the door swimming”. Outdoor swimming has long been a organisation which has increased its membership River Thames in central London could start this year niche hobby for some in the capital, who frequent from 300 in 2006 to 25,000 today. It claims to be the as more Britons dip their toes into the waters of out- cold, spartan pools on Hampstead Heath in north biggest such group in the world. “When I founded the door swimming. “Thousands of people would love to London or the Serpentine in Hyde Park. But now the Outdoor Swimming Society in 2006, most people swim in central London,” said Caitlin Davies, author of pastime is taking off more widely across Britain. thought of swimming outdoors as cold, dirty and “Downstream”, a book on the history of swimming in dangerous,” said its founder Kate Rew. Now “the pub- the Thames. “What’s interesting today is that we’ve ‘Reaction to City Life’ lic image of wild swimming is that it’s a fantastic thing ROSTOV, Russia: A picture taken on June 9, 2015 shows a woman and her children, Ukrainian come back to the Thames - we’re actually doing the Artist Amy Sharrocks, who has spent a decade to do”, she told AFP. refugees, playing on swings at a refugee camp on the shore of the Azov Sea. — AFP same things the Victorians used to do.” studying the relationship between people and water, An online campaign to raise £125,000 ($200,000) wants to organise an annual swim in the Thames for No More ‘Great Stink’ to build a pool in the Thames fed by filtered river around 100 people. She is trying to secure an hour a The improving quality of water in the Thames is Ukraine refugees yearn to water, downriver from the Houses of Parliament and year when the commercial and tourist vessels which one reason why Londoners can now dream of the London Eye, has already exceeded its target on normally chug up and down the river make way for notching up lengths in one of the world’s iconic return, others settle funding platform Kickstarter. Chris Romer-Lee, one of humans. “People need to have a relationship with the rivers. Any danger these days comes more from the brains behind the campaign, hopes this will be river. Other cities around the world have solved this heavy maritime traffic and high tides than from the PRIMORKA, Russia: Marina Balatskaya watched - chose to stay put in the camp because she can’t enough to submit the planning application on the question of people’s desire to jump in,” she told AFP. quality of the water - although that was not always as her three children played in the Russian holi- bring herself to cut the threads with the life she heated pool, which will cost an estimated £11 million Sharrocks added that she believed this desire was a the case. The Thames was declared biologically dead day camp that has become their home since left behind. But - much to her disappointment - overall, by the end of the year. “Our generation was “reaction to the drier city life”. in 1957, while in 1858, the amount of raw sewage they fled the fighting in east Ukraine. For some the retired teacher’s younger daughter and her brought up thinking it was a poisonous waterway,” he Boosted by hundreds of emails of support, pouring directly into the river created what was seven months the single mother, 35, and her husband opted to head to a remote region in told AFP, referring to the river. “Our project is trying to Sharrocks now hopes to raise the funds needed to known as the “Great Stink”. A new natural swimming family have been living alongside refugees from Siberia, over 5,000 km away. “I told them not to change this perception.” draw up an evaluation of her proposal which she will pond complete with reeds and water lilies in the the conflict in the government-run settlement go but they went,” she told AFP, sitting on a bed Romer-Lee added that the scheme, which has then present to the Port of London Authority. It is not regenerating area of King’s Cross, near the Eurostar on the shore of the Azov Sea. And despite the in one of the rooms her family occupies. Now drawn support from over 1,200 people, “comes at the only in London where wild swimming has taken off. rail terminal, also highlights the popularity of the Ukraine border being just 50 km away, with her daughter’s family is living in a camp for right time because there’s been a resurgence in out- The Outdoor Swimming Society is a nationwide pursuit in the capital. — AFP deadly clashes rumbling on there and east refugees as her husband tries to eke out a living Ukraine in turmoil, she has no idea when they as a part-time plumber. “They had some distant will be going home. acquaintances who convinced them to go but it “We want to go home of course. I want to hasn’t worked out.” go home, my kids want to go home. Whatever problems there might have been, it is still our Applying for Citizenship home,” she told AFP. Her sister is still living in Some from Ukraine, however, have managed Ukraine and she hopes she can take her kids to set themselves up in Russia and say that they back but, despite Ukraine’s insistence she is free are not planning to return to their homeland. to return, she says she is scared to head to gov- Roman Bobrovnikov, 51, sits in his new office in a ernment-held territory. “I can’t go back because poultry plant some 60 kilometres from the bor- the Ukrainians are in control of my town,” she der where he managed to find himself work says. “As I decided to come to Russia to seek independently. Despite the fact that he’s gone refuge, that means that I would be considered from being a director of a similar factory in an enemy of the people.” Ukraine to a bookkeeper now, he says he feels “lucky” to have a job that provides a house for his Some Stay, More Move wife and 26-year-old daughter. “I have just hand- Since the fighting in east Ukraine - that Kiev ed in our documents to the migration services to accuses Moscow of instigating - erupted last start the process of getting Russian citizenship April, local officials in Russia’s border region of for us all, hopefully something will get done in a Rostov say some 260,000 people have crossed year or 18 months,” he said. “What is waiting for into the country and not gone back. In the dis- me back in Ukraine? A pension? My parents trict where Balatskaya’s camp is, of the 15,000 don’t receive their pensions there now.” refugees from Ukraine who passed through here But while Bobrovnikov has decided to make just 600 - mainly elderly couples or mothers with the shift definitively, others insist they will go young children - are now left. While a significant home one day. Ksenia Kanashina, 33, has made number have gone back and those who remain herself the unofficial head of the refugees left hope to follow them some day, thousands of behind in the holiday camp. Kanashina’s hus- others have signed up for a government pro- band is fighting with the pro-Russian rebels gram to settle them across Russia. against the government in east Ukraine and LONDON: In a file picture taken on Dec 13, 2014, participants take part in the Outdoor Swimming Society’s annual “December Dip” at Parliament Hill lido in north Pensioner Galina - along with her 90-year-old she says she wants to be ready to return when London. —AFP mother, husband, daughter and granddaughter she can. — AFP

INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

Crocodile safaris yet to be snapped up by Australia

SYDNEY: Australia’s top official on indigenous issues declared a protected species in 1971, and each year yesterday said crocodile safaris should be used to help more than 500 are culled to protect the public and live- fund impoverished Aboriginal communities, but the stock. Scullion said there would be healthy international prospect of big game hunters was downplayed by Prime demand for crocodile safaris, with big game hunters like- Minister Tony Abbott. Trophy hunts were knocked back ly prepared to pay as much as Aus$30,000 (US$23,175) by the government in early 2014, with Environment to bag one animal. “I just think it’s time to ensure that our Minister Greg Hunt saying they were inappropriate and first Australians can get a bite of the economic bullet,” he risked “cruel and inhumane” behaviour. But Indigenous said. Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said Aboriginal people Bess Price, who is the Northern Territory’s Minister for should be allowed to sell permits to shoot a small num- Parks and Wildlife, also backed making crocodile hunting ber of the hundreds of saltwater crocodiles which would legal, saying it could provide opportunities for otherwise be culled each year. Aboriginal people. “It’s a great opportunity because it “This is about science, there’s no difference from croc- brings about economic development and employment odiles and flathead (fish), obviously apart from size and opportunities for indigenous people,” she told the ABC. teeth,” Scullion told the Australian Broadcasting The Territory’s Minister for Primary Industry and Fisheries Corporation. “Why would you not have safari hunting as Willem Westra van Holthe also jumped on the proposal, a part of an existing management regime?” Prime which he told the national broadcaster would give Minister Tony Abbott backed away from any immediate Australia’s “Top End” tourism a boost. Conservationists change to policy, despite the minister’s comments. “All I have long opposed any plans to hunt saltwater croco- am going to indicate is that as far as the Commonwealth diles, which can grow up to seven metres long and government is concerned, there are no plans to change weigh more than a tonne. The Humane Society any relevant law in this area,” he told reporters in International Australia has previously said crocodile tro- Canberra. Saltwater crocodiles have become increasing- phy hunting would be out of step with the views of SYDNEY: This file picture taken on March 3, 2014 shows Rex, a 700-kg saltwater crocodile, jumping ly common in the Northern Territory since they were Australians.—AFP out of the pond to eat a rabbit at the Wildlife Sydney Zoo. —AFP News Tensions flare in Okinawa In Brief Suu Kyi turns up heat as charter debate starts on 70th ’versary of battle YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi made a fresh call yesterday for changes to Myanmar’s junta-era constitution as lawmakers began a debate that will test the army’s determination to preserve its Abe heckled by locals angered by US presence political power before landmark elections. The opposition leader has campaigned relentlessly for changes to a charter that bars her from the presidency, focusing on clause 436 that effectively hands ITOMAN, Japan: Japan’s premier Shinzo Abe was heckled the army a veto over any amendments. “If we want genuine yesterday at a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of change in this country we must amend 436,” she said in a state- the end of the Battle of Okinawa, the bloodiest episode in ment to AFP. The clause calls for a 75 percent majority in votes on the Pacific War, as anger flared over the US military’s con- major constitutional changes, ensuring that unelected soldiers - tinuing presence. In a highly charged ceremony on who are reserved a quarter of the parliamentary seats - have the Okinawa, Abe was shouted at by locals angry at the size of final say. Debate on the issue, as well as the provision barring Suu the United States’ presence on the subtropical islands. Kyi from the presidency, began yesterday and is scheduled to run Cries of “Go home!” could be heard as he took the podium. until tomorrow when a vote is expected. The discussions could be It is relatively unusual for a Japanese prime minister to be the last opportunity for a vote on major charter change before jeered by the public. elections later this year. Those polls, slated for October or Abe, who appeared rattled, told the audience Japan November, are seen as a test of the country’s emergence from had for decades enjoyed the dividend of peace after the almost half a century of brutal military rule. The army has so far horrors of World War II. “People in Okinawa have long been vociferously rejected any change in its voting privileges. asked to carry a big burden for our security,” he said. “We will continue to do our best to reduce (it).” Governor Takeshi Onaga was warmly applauded by the 5,000-strong Afghan forces recapture crowd after using his speech to denounce “the heavy bur- den” of American bases in Okinawa, host to more than half key district from Taleban of the 47,000 US service personnel in Japan. “Seventy- KABUL: Afghan government forces regained control of a key three-point-eight percent of US military facilities (in Japan) district near the northern city of Kunduz yesterday, after are still concentrated in our prefecture, which makes up Taleban fighters had threatened to capture a provincial capital only 0.6 percent of the country’s land area,” he said. for the first time since being driven from power in 2001. The ceremony took place in Itoman, at the southern tip Yesterday’s victory came despite signs that the Islamist militant of Okinawa, near the spot where terrified islanders had movement was stepping up its offensive in the broader war, six jumped from cliffs or were pushed to their deaths in June months after most foreign troops left the country. On the front- 1945 on the orders of Imperial Army soldiers taught never lines just outside Kunduz city in the north, Afghan army and to surrender. Thousands of visitors, many of them survivors police drove the Taleban back from Chardara district, which the of the war, filed past black marble monuments inscribed insurgents had captured two days before. The brief capture of with the names of the fallen, to pray and leave flowers. Chardara brought fighting to a bridge just 3 km away from the More than 100,000 Okinawans and 80,000 Japanese troops Kunduz governor’s compound, raising fears that the insurgents died in the 82-day battle for the strategically placed island could overrun the city centre. That would mark the first provin- chain. cial capital to fall to the Taleban since US-led military interven- “It was innocent civilians who suffered,” survivor Takeko tion toppled the hardline Islamist regime. President Ashraf Ghani met lawmakers from Kunduz at his Kabul palace to dis- Kakazu, 97, told AFP. “Seventy years have passed but the ITOMAN, Japan: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe greets attendees as he arrives for a memorial service for cruelty of the war stays with me. We fled south from Naha cuss the crisis, vowing “serious measures to retake lost territo- those who died in the battle of Okinawa during World War II at the Peace Memorial Park in Japan’s southern pre- ries and clear (the) northeastern zone of terrorists”. (the capital of Okinawa), but there were no caves left to fecture of Okinawa yesterday. — AFP hide in,” added Kakazu, who was pregnant at the time and gave birth on an American warship after being caught. those who committed suicide by plunging off cliffs rather base burden once again,” Governor Onaga said yesterday. Thailand police wrap up “The bombs kept dropping and we had to hide under than surrender, Americans found thousands more locals However, Tokyo and Washington have both insisted human trafficking probe trees. It was dreadful.” dead in caves where they had been hiding to escape the that the plan to move it conceived two decades ago - is the BANGKOK: Thailand’s crackdown on people smuggling and traf- furious US bombardment. only viable option for shutting down Futenma Air Station. ficking networks has successfully dismantled the grim trade, Entire Families Lost The war anniversary comes with feelings running high Renewed local opposition to the proposal and a series of police announced yesterday while admitting that dozens of sus- Over 12,000 American soldiers also perished in what on Okinawa - a onetime independent kingdom annexed angry protests have coincided with a push by Abe’s nation- pects have yet to be apprehended. “The case will be submitted to many had feared was a foretaste of the fight they would by Japan in the 19th century. A controversial plan to move alist government to give Japan’s well-resourced, but tightly the Office of Attorney General this afternoon for consideration of have to wage for the Japanese mainland. That invasion a US airbase from a crowded urban area to the rural spot of restricted, military more leeway to act internationally. indictment,” Deputy National Police Chief Aek Angsananont, the never came, partly because of the atomic bombings of Henoko on the coast is proving deeply unpopular, with Critics say the move runs counter to the country’s pacifist officer in charge of the probe, told reporters. Aek said a total of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a cowed Japan surrendering many wanting it to be put somewhere else altogether. “We constitution, which was imposed by US occupiers in the 120 arrest warrants had now been issued since a crackdown was in Aug 1945. Entire families were wiped out and almost strongly demand that the government cancel construction aftermath of WWII, but has since been adopted as an arti- launched in early May - 30 of which were approved by a court in everyone on the island lost at least one relative. As well as [at] Henoko and review its policies of reducing Okinawa’s cle of faith by many Japanese.— AFP the country’s south on Monday. So far 56 people have been detained, leaving 64 either on the run or unaccounted for. Among those arrested include Lieutenant General Manas Kongpan, a sen- ior military officer charged with being a major smuggling kingpin North Korea jails South Muslim VP in the lucrative trade. His detention raises awkward questions for junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha, who has repeatedly justified his coup last year as a much-needed antidote to graft that he says Korean ‘spies’ for life jibe disturbs had flourished under a series of elected civilian governments. Manas was promoted while Prayut was army chief. He remains the UN rights office opens only military officer charged with complicity in people smuggling, yoga calm something that has raised eyebrows among human rights groups and observers who say it is unlikely such an influential officer SEOUL: North Korea’s highest court yes- would have acted alone. terday sentenced two South Koreans NEW DELHI: The Indian government has apologized to the accused of spying to hard labour for life, country’s Muslim vice-president after comments by a senior its state media said, calling the punish- member of the Hindu nationalist ruling party triggered allega- Japan plane circles over ment a lesson for those who conspire tions that sectarianism had tainted a mass event to celebrate China-claimed sea area World Yoga Day. The row has taken some of the sheen off the with Washington and Seoul. The report PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Philippines: A Japanese military event led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who along with of the sentencing came as the United patrol plane circled over disputed parts of the South China Sea 36,000 people flexed his way into world records on a New Delhi Nations opened a field office in Seoul to yesterday at the start of an exercise with the Philippine military avenue on Sunday at the largest ever session of the ancient investigate rights abuses in North that has irked China. According to Japanese and Philippine offi- Hindu discipline. Korea, a plan that has drawn anger from cials, the Japanese P3-C Orion surveillance plane, with three In a post on Twitter, Ram Madhav, a general secretary in the Pyongyang, which denies wrongdoing. Filipino guest crew members, flew at 5,000 feet (1,524 m) ruling Bharatiya Janata Party who coordinates closely with North Korea has accused the two above the edge of Reed Bank, an energy-rich area that is Modi and top ministers, questioned why the vice president, men, Kim Kuk Gi and Choe Chun Gil, of claimed by both China and the Philippines. It was accompa- Hamid Ansari, did not attend the celebrations. It was later working as spies for the South’s National nied by a smaller Philippine patrol aircraft. The disputed waters revealed that Ansari had not been invited. In his post, Madhav Intelligence Service (NIS) from the are close to the Spratly Islands, which the Philippines also also, wrongly, stated that a TV public broadcaster that Ansari Chinese border city of Dandong. They claims, where China is building a series of man-made islands. heads had not covered the event. Madhav later deleted the were arrested in March. The North’s Japan’s presence in what it considers international waters may tweet and Modi’s yoga minister said sorry. “We apologize for KCNA news agency said the two were be seen by Beijing as tacit support for ownership claims made that,” yoga minister Shripad Naik told reporters. “It should have convicted of conspiracy to overturn the by the Philippines. Japan worries that China’s domination in a been avoided, it’s a mistake.” state, espionage and illegal entry and of region through which much of its sea-borne trade passes Ansari, a veteran diplomat who previously represented working under the control of the U.S. would isolate it. Tokyo is also locked in a dispute with Beijing India at the United Nations, has often been a target of hardline and South Korean governments. The over islands in the East China Sea. defence counsel requested leniency Hindu nationalists who accuse him of putting his religion after the prosecution sought the death before the nation. Hardliners in Modi’s party believe that India penalty, KCNA said. is a Hindu-first nation and mistrust the country’s religious Radar glitch grounds all “The crimes of the spies of the pup- SEOUL: A South Korean activist wearing a mask depicting North Korean minorities, especially Muslims, who make up about 18 percent aircraft in New Zealand pet intelligence agency prove that the leader Kim Jong-Un holds up a placard reading “I’m doomed because of the of the population. Since coming to power a year ago, Modi has WELLINGTON: All commercial and civilian aircraft in New Zealand United States and the puppet South are UN human rights office” during a rally to welcome the opening of the UN at times seen his reform agenda stymied by inflammatory were temporarily grounded yesterday when a fault crippled the the masterminds of political terror and human rights office at Seoul Global Center yesterday. — AFP attacks on religious minorities by ministers and members of his nation’s air traffic control system, causing long delays and some kingpins of trickery and show what mis- party. cancellations. Airways New Zealand, which manages air traffic con- erable plight awaits those who conspire The reclusive North, which regularly Seoul. A UN Commission of Inquiry “All too often, when it comes to assertions of crude majori- trol in the South Pacific country, said all flights, including interna- with them,” it said. The NIS has denied threatens to destroy the United States report last year detailed abuses that it tarianism, in the ruling establishment, there is no separating tional and domestic services, were affected. The government the accusations as “groundless”. Kim and in a sea of flames, has also been said were comparable to Nazi-era atroc- the mainstream from the fringe,” the Indian Express newspaper agency insisted no planes or passengers were in danger during the Choe said in interviews with CNN in May slapped with heavy Western sanctions ities. In addition to Kim and Choe, wrote in a leader yesterday. In a bid to make the yoga day outage, which lasted more than two hours and left air traffic con- that they had spied for the South. over its nuclear and missile pro- Pyongyang is holding a South Korean event inclusive, the government dropped the “sun salute” from trollers without any radar. As a result, all flights were banned from South Korea’s Unification Ministry, grammes. man with a US green card who was a the exercises, since some Muslims say it represents sun worship taking off and those already in the air were guided down using which handles ties with the North, “Less than 50 miles (80 km) from student at New York University and a and is against their faith. India’s education minister on Monday “visual manual separation” - using eyesight and radio contact - the expressed “strong regret” over sen- here lies another world marked by South Korean missionary. Last year, announced plans to introduce yoga in government schools. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said. Airways NZ blamed the prob- tences and demanded the two men be utmost repression and deprivation,” Pyongyang released three detained The All India Muslim Personal Law Board, a group representing lem on “an internal network failure”. “Airways immediately suspend- freed. North and South Korea are still Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, the UN High Americans including Kenneth Bae, a Muslims, is considering bring a case before the Supreme Court ed all flights while we investigated the issue and until we could be technically at war after their 1950-53 Commissioner for Human Rights, said Korean-American missionary who had to challenge any decision to make yoga compulsory at school, satisfied that we could operate safely,” it said. “We have now identi- conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty. at the opening of the UN office in been held for two years. — Reuters saying it is a breach of religious freedom. — Reuters fied the issue and thoroughly tested the integrity of the system.” NEWS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 Death threats for Qatar’s pledge to abolish ‘kafala’ system... Continued from Page 1 proposals which would further restrict the rights of migrant workers,” Amnesty’s Mustafa Qadri said. “We Any new law should not allow foreign workers to would think that this is the time for Qatar to show lead- Saudi satire star change jobs more than twice, it said. And it wants to ership and respect rights and the rule of law. This seems include a provision that any foreign worker who delib- to be going in a completely different direction.” Qadri erately creates problems for employers should not be added that the issue of reform “is not going away” and allowed to change jobs. The planned law would force said that “global attention” would remain on Qatar. TV star deploys new weapon against IS problematic employees to work with the same employ- Any delay in reform is likely to lead to yet more criti- er for double the length of the contract, which could cism of the decision to allow Qatar to host the 2022 DUBAI: A Saudi TV star has earned death threats for tants’ supporters since the premier. “God is my protector. mean up to 10 years, as compensation. There are an World Cup. The latest development comes as the coun- deploying a new weapon against Islamic State: laughter. I’m an artist, and the artist’s essential role is to reveal estimated 1.6 million migrant laborers working in Qatar, try is under the spotlight in the fallout from corruption “Selfie”, a sketch comedy show which debuted last week society’s challenges even if he pays a price,” he said in an but that number is set to top two million ahead of the allegations which have engulfed football’s governing on Saudi-owned pan-Arab satellite channel MBC, has interview with Saudi-owned al Arabiya TV on Sunday. football World Cup in 2022. The potential delay comes body, FIFA. Last week Swiss Attorney General Michael won praise from influential voices in the Middle East for “Warning the people about ISIS is the true jihad, because despite international criticism of Qatar’s labor laws and Lauber said prosecutors were investigating 53 cases of daring to mock the hardline militant group. In one we’re fighting them with art not war.” The militants are the slow pace of reform. possible money laundering as they look into FIFA’s han- scene, a group of buffoonish holy warriors at a “girl mar- known for their own skilful use of media, filming dling of bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Senior ket” picks concubines from a line of chained women beheadings and distributing well-produced war docu- ‘Regressive proposals’ FIFA official Domenico Scala has said there could be a abducted from the battlefield. mentaries that attract foot soldiers to the field and virtu- Amnesty International voiced its surprise yesterday revote for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups if there was “Come on guys!” interjects a naive character played al armies of backers in online social networks. over Qatar’s announcement. “These are very regressive evidence of wrongdoing in the bidding process. — AFP by the show’s Saudi star, Nasser Al Qasabi. “This is forbid- In a typical response from a supporter of the mili- den by Islam, these are just children!” “God forgives!” the tants, a Twitter user named Jalabeeb Al-Jizrawi wrote to ringleader snapped back. As one fighter picks a slave Al Qasabi: “I swear to god you will regret what you did, “wife” of a moustachioed man in a woman’s black robe, a you apostate.” “The holy warriors will not rest until they friend points out the apparent mistake. “No problem!” cut your head from your body, in just a few days hope- Heatwave kills 692 in Pakistan the first fighter says. “If he’s an infidel, he deserves this!” fully,” he wrote in a post that was retweeted over 3,000 Continued on Page 13 the largest wheat-bowl province of Pakistan, during the Saudi Arabia observes a strict form of Sunni Islam but is times. But other media figures in the Middle East have past 24 hours, officials said. fiercely opposed to Islamic State, the group also known declared themselves fans. “For many years, (news net- Pakistan’s largest charity, Edhi Welfare Organization, as ISIS or ISIL which has seized much of Syria and Iraq works) Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya have aired ISIS filth and said their two morgues in the city had received more Clerics react and declared a “caliphate” to rule over all Muslims. no one reacted against it,” Shams, a Kuwaiti singer, than 400 corpses.”More than 400 dead bodies have so Tahir Ashrafi, a prominent Islamic cleric, urged those Al Qasabi says his show’s message, though presented tweeted to her almost half a million followers. “But in far been received in our two mortuaries in the past who were at risk of heat stroke to abstain from fasting. in the form of satire, is deadly serious. He says he has twenty minutes, ‘Selfie’ gave the Islamic nation a wake three days,” Edhi spokesman Anwar Kazmi said. “The “We (religious scholars) have highlighted on various tel- been unfazed by threats he has received from the mili- up call,” she said. — Reuters mortuaries have reached capacity.” Electricity shortages evision channels that those who are at risk, especially in have crippled the water supply system in Karachi, ham- Karachi where there is a very serious situation, should pering the pumping of millions of gallons of water to abstain from fasting,” he said. “Islam has drawn condi- consumers, the state-run water utility said. Pakistan’s tions for fasting, it is even mentioned in the holy Quran Meteorological Office said temperatures remained at that patients and travelers who are not able to bear fast- around 44.5 Celsius in Karachi yesterday but forecast ing can delay it and people who are weak or old and are thunderstorms for the evening. at risk of falling sick or even dying because of fasting “Due to a low depression developing in the Arabian should abstain,” he added. sea, thunderstorms will likely begin this evening and An official from the National Disaster Management might continue for the next three days,” a Authority said heat stroke treatment centers would be Meteorological official said. The provincial government established at all hospitals across the province to pro- meanwhile announced a public holiday to encourage vide “emergency medicines for heat stroke victims”. The residents to stay inside, an official said. Many of the vic- deaths come a month after neighboring India suffered a tims have been laborers who toil outdoors. Some resi- deadly heatwave, with more than 2,000 deaths. dents also took to hosing each other down with water Hundreds of mainly poor people die at the height of yesterday to avoid collapsing from heat stroke. summer every year in India, but this year’s toll was the Meanwhile, seven more people were killed in Punjab, second highest in the country’s history. — Agencies

Meaning of Ramadan & benefits of fasting Continued from Page 1` manded them to do so. Once Allah (to Whom is ascribed all perfection and majesty) commands Muslims to do any before you so that you may learn God-consciousness act of worship, they don’t need to ask about the reason. (taqwa).” (Quran 2:183) They oblige first, and then as a result of implementing the command of Allah, they get abundant benefits. Benefits of fasting 1. God consciousness Points to consider 2. To train a fasting person in sincerity to God, for it is If the fast in the first position is without any spiritual very easy to break the fast when nobody is looking, significance then it is like an empty shell without a kernel. but one refrains from doing so because he wants to If we realize this, we shall then look at Ramadan not as a be sincere to himself and God who sees all things. burden but as a blessing and thus be duly grateful for the 3. Forgiveness of sins. blessing of fasting. KUWAIT: Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair (top) talks to Kuwaiti Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al- 4. To train a fasting person that it is easy to control his Many medical researchers amongst Muslims and non- Khaled Al-Sabah during a parliament session at the National Assembly in Kuwait City yesterday. — Photo by desires, passions and emotions. Muslims have confirmed that due to the fact that fasting Yasser Al-Zayyat 5. Patience: whenever it becomes difficult for someone helps in lowering fats in the body, it then cuts down the to eat his regular meals, he should be able to endure percentage of cholesterol. However, Muslims do not fast the hunger patiently. because of medical benefits in the first place, but MP threatens to quit amid clashes, ‘insult’ 6. To foster kindness and sympathy: when people expe- because it has been enjoined upon them in the Holy rience hunger they remember their brothers in Quran. The medical benefits of fasting are as a result of Continued from Page 1` MEED magazine that he was not meeting with the Chief humanity who do not necessarily get regular meals. fasting. Moreover, fasting during Ramadan is a command Executive Officer of KPC Nizar Al-Adansani as a result of 7. Equality between the rich and the poor, theprivileged from God and not a prescribed imposition by doctors or That angered Azemi and both exchanged strong the dispute, saying that he only met Adasani on and disadvantaged, since no one can claim exemp- physicians. words that led to the sectarian remark. Monday. MP Jamal Al-Omar said that 29 MPs have sub- tion because he is rich or privileged. One of the differences between fasting in Ramadan During the debate, Azemi and other Shiite MPs mitted a motion to debate the affairs in the oil sector 8. Abundant rewards from God Almighty. and total fasting often prescribed by doctors is the aim of almost clashed but were prevented by other lawmakers. and called on the speaker to set a time for the debate. 9. Gratitude, which increases when we realize the value fasting and the timings of food in-take. During Ramadan, The heated exchange came as the National Assembly Omar said the disputes were damaging the oil sector, of food and water. we basically take an early pre-dawn meal refrain from was holding its first session in the holy fasting month of the only source of income for the country and called for 10. It is a cure for some diseases such as rheumatism and eating, drinking, smoking and conjugal rites until sunset. Ramadan and was just a week from going into summer action. cardiac problems. It also helps in weight manage- Abstinence from drinking water during this period is not recess. The Assembly debated and approved the The minister said that expanding the board of direc- ment, giving a rest to the digestive tract, and lower- harmful at all because the body has its own water conser- 2015/2016 budgets of 11 establishments and agencies tors of KPC is not being done for the first time and he ing lipids (organic substances that include fats and vation. However, caution should be taken in high tem- including Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), Kuwait said that he came to the oil sector to work - and insisted waxes). Although fasting is beneficial to a person in peratures to replenish the body’s water in the evening Petroleum Corp (KPC), Kuwait Port Authority and others. that he did not bring the disputes to the oil sector many ways, there are exemptions or concessions for and to conserve water in the day. God says what can be As a result of the heated exchanges, the National which has witnessed many rifts in the past. In the mean- weak, elderly, ill or travelling people. translated as, “... and it is better for you that you fast, if ye Assembly could not debate and pass three key legisla- time, the new KPC board of directors held its first meet- 11. Since people often break fast together, it is a chance only knew.” (2: 184) tion on maids rights and the establishment of the ing yesterday and approved the financial statements for to strengthen relationships and foster mutual Courtesy of the TIES Center: The TIES Center aims National Commission for Human Rights. During the ses- the oil companies for the fiscal year which ended on respect. to empower Kuwait’s expats through social and edu- sion, MPs raised the issue of the reported disputes with- March 31, according to an official statement. The Oil 12. Developing good behavior since anger and belliger- cational services that promote a positive and produc- in the oil sector and said that the disputes endangered Minister appointed nine new members to the board’s ent behavior is not allowed when fasting. tive role in society, and to facilitate opportunities for the country’s resources. seven members with reports saying that he wanted to Although there are many obvious benefits to fasting, intra- and interfaith interactions that promote social Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair, however denied a report in consolidate his position in KPC and the oil sector. Muslims fast primarily because Allah (SWT) has com- solidarity. Website: www.tiescenter.net WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 ANALYSIS

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une 25 marks the 65th anniversary of outbreak of the JKorean War (1950 - 1953). How war started The Korean war was a continuation of the US policy for world supremacy. The US had long regarded Korea as a springboard in realizing its scheme to turn the Pacific into a “lake of the US.” Douglas MacArthur, the then commander of the US. Far East forces, said that by occupying all of Korea the US would be able to control the whole region between Vladivostok and Singapore, and that nothing would then be beyond the reach of the US power. The war virtually started in September 1945, the time when the US troops set foot in Changing tone on Confederate south Korea, a prelude to the Korean war, and since then it had stepped up war preparations for occupying Korea’s north- ern half. US proclaimed military rule in south Korea, cobbled flag follows years of refusal together puppet armed forces and expanded them stage by stage with a view to a 10 to 1 superiority over the DPRK. US By Seanna Adcox, Jeffrey Collins, Meg South Carolina start to mend,” she said. She to be removed from the state flag, becoming thirds supermajority in both chambers under dispatched a Military Advisory Group to give south Korean Kinnard stressed that, for many South Carolinians, the the first top-tier Republican to do so. In the terms of the 2000 deal that moved a square troops American-style military education and training, provid- flag still represents noble traditions of heritage Tennessee, both Democrats and Republicans version of the flag to a monument to ed military aid to the tune of one billion US dollars (value at or years, South Carolina lawmakers and duty, but for many others, it is a “deeply called for the removal of a bust of Confederate Confederate soldiers out front. Legislators that time), huge weaponry and munitions and, further, seized refused to revisit the Confederate flag on offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past.” general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan return to Columbia on Tuesday for what was the command over the south Korean army. On October 17, FStatehouse grounds, saying the law that “The hate-filled murderer who massacred Bedford Forrest from an alcove outside the supposed to be the end of a special session to 1949, Syngman Rhee, the then south Korean president, said took it off the dome was a bipartisan compro- our brothers and sisters in Charleston has a sick Senate’s chambers. And Wal-Mart announced approve a state budget. Just adding the flag to the south Korean army was registering success in military mise, and renewing the debate would unnec- and twisted view of the flag. In no way does he Monday that it is removing any items from its the agenda will take two-thirds approval by training and, therefore, it was able to occupy Pyongyang in essarily expose divisive wounds. But opinions reflect the people in our state who respect, and store shelves and website that feature the both chambers. While those standing behind three days. changed within five days of the massacre of in many ways, revere it,” she said. The gover- Confederate flag. Haley included state and federal Republican Alongside this, the US set up the Far East Command that nine people at a historic black church in nor’s declarations sparked action in other are- Removing the flag in South Carolina won’t officeholders, the top GOP leaders of the would play the leading role in the Korean war and stepped up Charleston, as a growing tide of Republicans nas as well Monday: Mississippi House Speaker be easy, despite the shifting sentiment. Making Legislature were absent. But state GOP the plan for igniting the war. It also instigated the south joined the call to remove the battle flag from a Philip Gunn called for the Confederate emblem any changes to the banner requires a two- Chairman Matt Moore said the Republican leg- Korean puppet army to commit armed provocations against Confederate monument in front of the islative leaders he’s talked with are committed the DPRK in the areas along the 38th parallel (demarcation Statehouse and put it in a museum. to the flag coming down. line between north and south of Korea). Just before the start On Monday, Gov Nikki Haley did what a pre- “I think both parties are united that it of the war the US presidential envoy Dulles inspected the area vious Republican governor found to be politi- should be done. The legislative process will south of the 38th parallel and told south Korean puppets: cal suicide. Herself a Republican, she not only obviously be a challenge given the rules of Attack north Korea along with the counter-propaganda that called for the flag’s removal but pledged to call both chambers, but with enough political will north Korea invaded south Korea first. If you hold out only for legislators back to Columbia if they don’t deal anything can be done,” he said. “There is a silent two weeks, the United States will complain that north Korea with it in a special session in the next few majority of South Carolinians who strongly attacked south Korea, and see to it that the United Nations weeks. Just hours before they return to work believe we can have a better future without the can mobilize ground, naval and air forces under its name. On Tuesday, a rally to bring the flag down will be flag being on Statehouse grounds.” The biggest June 25, 1950 the US instigated south Korea to launch a sur- held outside the Statehouse. Haley’s announce- questions remaining may be how and when prise invasion against the DPRK. ment came days after authorities charged legislators take up the issue. They could take up Dylann Storm Roof, 21, with murder. The white a resolution Tuesday allowing them to add the Involvement of UN man appeared in photos holding Confederate issue to their special session. But they are In a bid to legitimate the Korean War the United States flags and burning or desecrating US flags, and unlikely to begin debating a bill to take the flag employed the name of the United Nations in inveigling huge purportedly wrote of fomenting racial violence. down until July - after the funerals - when they forces of satellite states into the war along with its forces. After Haley has for years deflected questions return to decide whether to override Haley’s the end of World War II, the US. emerged the boss in the capi- about the flag. But she said Monday she was budget vetoes. talist world, which provided a favorable condition for it to moved by the outpouring of love and forgive- Senate Judiciary Chairman Larry Martin said have the UN on the string. Prior to the Korean War, the US ness that followed the “true hate” of the crime. he believes it’s both impractical and disrespect- State Department had already worked out a draft resolution She noted her entire family attended Emanuel ful to publicly debate the topic this week. “I pre- for discussion at the UN, in order to sue the DPRK for its African Methodist Episcopal on Sunday, when fer us to not do that out of respect for the serv- alleged “attack”. The department also granted the “UN the church reopened its doors. “My children ices that will be held,” said Martin, R-Pickens. He Commission on Korea” with additional right to oversee “possi- saw what true faith looks like. My children saw SOUTH CAROLINA: The Confederate flag flies on the Capitol grounds after South said there’s a feeling among legislators to recip- ble conflicts” along the 38th parallel of the Korean Peninsula. that true hate can never, never triumph over Carolina Gov Nikki Haley announced that she will call for the Confederate flag to be rocate the “gracious outpouring of folks from After making such preparations, the US submitted the true love. My children saw the heart and soul of removed. — AFP Charleston.” — AP draft resolution to the UN immediately after launching its invasion of the DPRK. Yielding to the US pressure, the UN Security Council convened a meeting at 02:00 (local time) on June 25, 1950 and illegally adopted a resolution branding Chinese firms do brisk business in northward invasion as “southward invasion”. The then US President Truman called senior officials of the State Department and military brasshats at 19:40 (local time) to give an order on shipping munitions and fielding naval and air Venezuela despite idle factories forces, while MacArthur set in motion the flying corps of Japan-based U.S. 5th Air Force. By Brian Ellsworth and Corina Pons sector, predicted the Haier factory an hour outside Caracas near refrigerator broke and there are no spare parts to fix it, so I came As the war situation went against its grain from the outset, the town of San Francisco de Yare would start up in 2012. “We’re to get one of these Chinese ones,” said retiree Ivonne Teran, 59, the US tried to adjust it by abusing the UN. It pressurized the ive years after Chinese home appliance maker Haier agreed going to build a factory with the support of China, the support standing in line outside a Caracas store filled with Haier fridges - UN Security Council to call a meeting at 15:00 (local time) on to build a $912 million factory in Venezuela, its washing of Haier, to make home appliances,” Chavez beamed in a 2011 the only brand available. The alliance began in 2007 as June 27, which led to the adoption of a resolution on render- Fmachines and refrigerators are almost the only ones avail- television broadcast featuring Yare’s traditional ‘dancing devils’. Venezuela sought new sources of financing and China wanted ing “assistance” to south Korea and suggesting dispatch of able in the country’s department stores. Those appliances, how- “Right now we’re bringing them in, but soon we will be making to secure steady crude supplies. Both wanted to reduce US armed forces of satellite states. On July 7, it made sure that the ever, are not made in Venezuela. They are instead imported from all of that here.” At the entrance to the Haier compound, the only influence in Latin America. UNSC adopted a resolution on organizing US-led “UN Forces” Haier factories in China and paid for through an oil-for-loans visible activity on a recent visit was of workers milling around They created the Joint Chinese Venezuelan Fund, which has to be dispatched to the Korean War. In actuality, the “UN reso- deal dating from 2007 under which China lends cash and is below a gate embossed with Chinese characters. received $30 billion, and the $20 billion Large Volume and Long lution” on the Korean War had no legality, for it was adopted in repaid in crude and fuel. The cost of leaving Haier’s facility idle is Term Fund. Venezuela in 2014 shipped 630,000 barrels per day the absence of the Soviet Union (Russia), a UNSC permanent primarily borne by Venezuela’s socialist government, because its Captive market of oil and fuel under agreements with China, part of which went member. construction was bankrolled with $800 million borrowed from Haier secured a supply agreement for 3 million home appli- toward servicing loans, according to PDVSA’s 2014 annual But, Truman appointed MacArthur, commander of the US China. While most foreign firms are being battered by ances, also financed by the oil-for-loans program, which had report. China has recovered more than half of what it has lent. In forces in the Far East, as commander of the “UN Forces” on July Venezuela’s currency controls and product shortages, Chinese generated $1 billion in revenue as of 2014, according to foreign contrast, outstanding foreign bonds issued by Venezuela and 8 and set up the “UN Command” on July 25, thus putting the companies like Haier are doing brisk business thanks to cooper- ministry documents seen by Reuters. It is not clear how much PDVSA total $69 billion. “The scale of China-Venezuela practical helmets of “UN Forces” on the troops of the US and its 15 satel- ation deals that give them privileged access to the OPEC nation’s cash, if any, Haier put into the facility. “While Haier’s cooperation cooperation is very large ... The sectors are broad and the results lite states involved in the war. economy but leave business risks in the government’s hands. in the country started through projects to sell household appli- are very good,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang The Chinese loans - some $50 billion since 2007 - have ances, this has developed into a deeper commitment to serve told reporters. shored up Venezuelan finances at a time when low oil prices our Venezuelan customers,” Haier said in an emailed statement, have prompted default concerns and effectively shut the coun- noting test operations began in 2012. “Production lines are now Build factories, import products All articles appearing on these try out of global capital markets. But Venezuela is struggling to readied ... once the related facilities are put in place, mass pro- Venezuelan ministries or state-run firms typically tap the make good on promises that Chinese financing would spur new duction in the industrial park will start.” Venezuelan officials say funds to build power plants, dredge waterways, or revamp sugar pages are the personal opinion of industries and reduce its century-old dependence on the oil opposition criticism of the China relationship is meant to under- mills, using Chinese equipment and advisors, according to docu- the writers. Kuwait Times takes no industry. China, on the other hand, has won a steady supply of mine President Nicolas Maduro, who was elected in 2013 after ments detailing some 200 projects being financed in 2014. oil for its economy and lucrative contracts for its companies to his mentor Chavez died from cancer. Reuters’ review found that, under the bilateral arrangement, responsibility for views expressed export goods to Venezuela, sometimes in the shadow of China- They note that joint ventures with device-makers Huawei nine Venezuelan ventures were formally created in which backed factories meant to produce those very goods locally, a and ZTE and cloud computing giant Inspur have assembled mil- Chinese firms own equity stakes. These include a food produc- therein. Kuwait Times invites Reuters review of dozens of official Venezuelan documents lions of cell phones and laptops in Venezuela. Though the opera- tion company, the Haier and Yutong plants, three device assem- readers to voice their opinions. found. tions benefited for years from a steady supply of dollars - a cru- bly plants, and three oil industry ventures. Venezuela does not Bus-maker Yutong sold $353 million worth of buses upon cial benefit at a time of strict currency controls - production publish comprehensive lists of Chinese-funded projects or their Please send submissions via email agreeing in 2013 to help build a factory, which today consists of dropped at all three in 2014 for lack of hard currency. XCMG completion status. An important benefit for some Chinese firms a patch of cleared land dotted with construction equipment. declined to comment. The other companies, along with is bypassing currency controls, which regulate access to dollars to: [email protected] or Heavy machinery firm XCMG closed an export order of $745 mil- Venezuela’s industries ministry, did not respond to questions. for imports or remittance of profits to foreign headquarters. via snail mail to PO Box 1301 lion after agreeing in 2011 to help build a local facility, the loca- Securities filings to China’s stock exchanges generally make little Venezuela has slashed dollar sales as oil revenue dried up tion of which has not been determined. Venezuelan state oil more than fleeting references, if any, to Venezuela. and steadily devalued the bolivar currency, creating billions of Safat, Kuwait. The editor reserves company PDVSA bought dozens of drilling rigs from China Still, the China deals ensure supplies of manufactured goods dollars in losses for multinationals and crimping auto assembly despite having built a rig production facility through a joint ven- that are otherwise scarce. Chinese cars are given away or sold as the likes of Ford Motor Co and General Motors struggle to the right to edit any submission ture with a subsidiary of Chinese oil giant CNPC. The facility is cheap by state agencies to soldiers and civil servants, helping import parts. But China’s Chery Automobile Co Ltd receives only not producing rigs, according to workers. satiate a starved market. Haier appliances have been widely dis- dollars for parts sold to an assembly facility that is majority as necessary. Late socialist leader Hugo Chavez, who negotiated the deals tributed through a government program called My Well- owned by Venezuela’s government, according to a Chinese with China saying they would foster a vibrant manufacturing Equipped House and now fill shelves of private retailers. “My national who worked at the Venezuela venture. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 SPORTS

Schalke sign talented Geis Seven held for match fixing Moores: Reputation data wrong BERLIN: Schalke 04 yesterday succeeded in luring German youth international ROME: Catania soccer club president Antonino Pulvirenti LONDON: Peter Moores, sacked twice as coach of the England cricket team, believes Johannes Geis from Mainz 05 on a four-year contract despite the interest of and six others were arrested yesterday on suspicion of fixing his reputation as being obsessed with data analysis is all wrong and based on a mis- several German and European clubs. matches this year to keep the club from being relegated quote. Breaking his silence since being dismissed last month, he told the The 21-year-old holding midfielder was reportedly a transfer target for from Serie B, Italy’s second division, investigators said. ESPNcricinfo website (www.espncricinfo.com) that he had been wrongly portrayed both Borussia Dortmund and Borussia Moenchengladbach while also having Those arrested including Pulvirenti, who also owns in the media as a result of an interview given after England’s dismal performance at been linked with a possible move to Real Madrid. dozens of supermarkets and an airline, are accused of sport- the World Cup. Moores said he told a BBC interviewer he would have to look at it “We are very happy that the most sought after player in the Bundesliga ing fraud and match-fixing, Catania police said in a state- “later” which was reported at having to look at “data”. He admits using the word decided to join us,” said Schalke sports director Horst Heldt in a statement. ment. Pulvirenti, through his lawyer Giovanni Grasso, said he “data” in an interview with Sky television but says the public were given the “Johannes possesses enormous qualities. His ability at set was “certain that he can prove he was not involved”, accord- wrong impression of him. pieces, his precise passing game and his vision of where ing to Corriere della Sera Web site. “I have to accept my time as England coach has gone,” Moores said. his teammates are make him already one of the best Twelve others, including five players and the owner of a “But I am frustrated. The portrayal of me as a coach in the media is just pros in the league in the defensive midfield position.” rival club in Messina, are under investigation for manipulat- wrong. I don’t know how to change that. “I have an official letter from Geis, who is currently competing with the Under-21 ing at least five games played in 2015, police and prosecu- the BBC. It’s a tough one. I didn’t say it. We moved away from stats and national team at the European championship, joined tors told reporters. The typical payoff to rival players to throw data. Coaching doesn’t work like that at all. Mainz in 2013. He has played 75 Bundesliga matches, a match was 10,000 euros ($11,226), police official Antonella “It’s not a numbers game. We kept it simple. We tried to give the scoring six goals. “Schalke fascinated me, the stadium, the Paglialunga said. Police used wiretaps and video surveillance players responsibility to lead themselves.” Moores, 52, was first fans,” Geis said. “Something new is being created at Schalke in the investigation, she said. The latest Italian match-fixing in charge from 2007 until January 2009. He returned in April and I want to play my part.” Schalke, who replaced coach scandal follows just a month after some 50 people, including 2014 after leading Lancashire to their first County Roberto Di Matteo with Andre Breitenreiter after fin- a suspected Calabrian mobster, were detained on accusa- Championship for 77 years but was sacked again 13 months ishing sixth in the Bundesliga, will play in the tions of fixing dozens of matches in the country’s third divi- later after Andrew Strauss took over as the new national Europa League next season.—Reuters sion and its top semi-pro league.—Reuters director of cricket.—Reuters Cubs beat Dodgers, Royals march

CHICAGO: Kris Bryant connected twice for his as Aybar crossed the plate. first career multihomer game, helping the Chicago Cubs beat Clayton Kershaw and the BLUE JAYS 8, RAYS 5 Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 on Monday night. Jose Bautista hit his 15th homer during a Bryant hit a two-run drive in the third four-run sixth inning as Toronto beat Tampa inning and a solo shot in the eighth. Matt Bay. Jose Reyes and Dioner Navarro also Szczur had a solo homer against Kershaw after homered for the Blue Jays, who are 2-6 against being promoted from Triple-A Iowa before the Tampa Bay this season. game for his fourth stint of the season with Bautista’s leadoff shot against Matt Chicago. Andriese (2-2) broke a 3-all tie. Reliever The two homers off Kershaw (5-5) ran his Ronald Belisario gave up the other three runs total for the year to 11, two more than he in the inning that included an RBI double by allowed all of last season while becoming the Chris Colabello. NL MVP. Drew Hutchison (7-1) allowed three runs The Cubs got terrific work from five reliev- and nine hits over five taxing innings. He ers after Tsuyoshi Wada departed in the third struck out six, walked two and hit a batter dur- due to cramping in his left shoulder. Center ing a 109-pitch outing. fielder Dexter Fowler was replaced in the fifth Down 8-5, the Rays loaded the bases with after he sprained his left ankle. Travis Wood (4- one out in the eighth. Roberto Osuna struck 3) pitched 3 1/3 innings for the win. Jason out Steven Souza Jr. and Nick Franklin and Motte allowed Joc Pederson’s 19th homer in pitched the ninth for his first save. the ninth before finishing for his second save on his 33rd birthday. PHILLIES 11, YANKEES 8 Maikel Franco homered twice, had career ROYALS 4, MARINERS 1 highs of four hits and five RBIs and made a Joe Blanton pitched six-plus innings of fabulous diving play at third base, helping two-hit ball and Alcides Escobar had three hits Philadelphia end a 12-game road skid with a as the Kansas City Royals beat the Seattle victory over New York. Mariners. Cesar Hernandez doubled and had two Blanton (2-0) struck out seven and worked RBIs and Ryan Howard had a two-run single into the seventh inning before being lifted for Philadelphia in a second straight offensive after allowing a leadoff double. Kelvin Herrera, outburst against a top starter for the lowest Wade Davis and Greg Holland all pitched one scoring team in the major leagues. They inning of relief. Holland earned his 14th save chased Michael Pineda in the fourth inning in 15 opportunities. this time and beat Michael Wacha and St. Felix Hernandez (10-4) took the loss after Louis 9-2 Sunday. allowing four runs, nine hits and a walk in 6 Ben Revere and Freddy Galvis each had 2/3 innings. He struck out five. Escobar had three hits and everyone in the Phillies’ starting three singles, drove in a run and scored a run. lineup had at least one hit except for the Mike Moustakas had two hits including an RBI struggling Chase Utley, who has lost playing double. time to Hernandez at second base. Philadelphia, losers of 23 of 30, had season ANGELS 4, ASTROS 3 highs for runs and hits (18). Albert Pujols homered twice and Erick Winners of 11 of 13 at Yankee Stadium Aybar scored the go-ahead run on a safety coming in, New York was roughed up for 10 or CHICAGO: Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago squeeze by Daniel Robertson in the eighth more runs in consecutive home games for the Cubs . —AP inning, leading Los Angeles to a victory over second time this year. .649 (24 of 37) with five homers and 16 RBIs Houston. against the Indians this year. The Angels (36-35) moved within 4 1/2 TIGERS 8, INDIANS 5 Victor Martinez followed the fourth-inning MLB results/standings games of first-place Houston in the AL West. Yoenis Cespedes drove in three runs, walk to Cabrera with a two-run single to make Texas is three games behind the Astros, who Miguel Cabrera reached base four times and it 6-3. Blaine Hardy (3-1) replaced starter Kyle Philadelphia 11, NY Yankees 8; Toronto 8, Tampa Bay 5; Detroit 8, Cleveland 5; Chicago Cubs 4, LA Dodgers 2; have dropped three of four after winning five Detroit continued to push Cleveland around. Ryan in the fourth and pitched 2 1-3 hitless Minnesota 13, Chicago White Sox 2; LA Angels 4, Houston 3; Kansas City 4, Seattle 1. straight. Cespedes hit an RBI double off Trevor Bauer innings. American League National League Aybar began the winning rally with a lead- (6-4) in the first inning, homered in the third Eastern Division Eastern Division off single against Chad Qualls (1-4) and and added a sacrifice fly in Detroit’s four-run TWINS 13, WHITE SOX 2 W L PCT GB Washington 37 33 .529 - advanced on a wild pitch. One out later, Joe fourth as the Tigers improved to 8-2 against Kennys Vargas went 4 for 4 with a three-run Tampa Bay 40 32 .556 - NY Mets 36 35 .507 1.5 Thatcher walked pinch-hitter Matt Joyce while the Indians this season and 34-14 since the homer and four RBIs and rookie Byron Buxton NY Yankees 38 32 .543 1 Atlanta 35 35 .500 2 Aybar stole third. start of 2013. had three hits in his first time batting leadoff Toronto 38 34 .528 2 Miami 30 41 .423 7.5 Baltimore 36 33 .522 2.5 Philadelphia 25 47 .347 13 In came Will Harris, and Robertson Detroit has won 15 of the last 18 against in the majors to help Minnesota trounced Boston 31 40 .437 8.5 Central Division bunted up the first base line. Chris Carter Cleveland. Cabrera walked twice, once with Chicago. Central Division St. Louis 45 24 .652 - charged the ball and made an errant, the bases loaded, singled twice and remained Joe Mauer homered to start a five-run Kansas City 40 27 .597 - Pittsburgh 39 30 .565 6 backhand flip past catcher Jason Castro a mystery to Cleveland pitchers. He’s batting fourth against starter John Danks (3-8), and Minnesota 38 32 .543 3.5 Chicago Cubs 38 30 .559 6.5 Eduardo Nunez punctuated the inning with a Detroit 36 34 .514 5.5 Cincinnati 32 36 .471 12.5 two-out, two-run shot. The rally was fueled by Cleveland 32 37 .464 9 Milwaukee 25 46 .352 21 a throwing error on shortstop Alexei Ramirez, Chicago White Sox 30 39 .435 11 Western Division whose attempt to start a double play sailed Western Division LA Dodgers 39 32 .549 - into right field. Houston 41 31 .569 - San Francisco 38 33 .535 1 Texas 37 33 .529 3 Arizona 34 35 .493 4 Brian Dozier added a two-run homer in the LA Angels 36 35 .507 4.5 San Diego 34 38 .472 5.5 eighth for the Twins, who are 8-3 against the Seattle 32 39 .451 8.5 Colorado 30 39 .435 8 White Sox this season while outscoring them Oakland 31 41 .431 10 70-28.—AP

Tour de France winner Riis knew his team was doping

COPENHAGEN: Former Tour de France to intervene. It is completely unaccept- raising the user’s red blood cell count, for winner Bjarne Riis failed to act after learn- able,” Danish Anti-Doping Authority direc- German Team Telekom rider Jorg Jaksche. ing that riders on the professional cycling tor Michael Ash said in a statement on Jaksche confirmed the story to investi- team he managed were using perform- Tuesday. gators, but Riis rejected the allegation. ance-enhancing drugs, a damning report Armstrong’s dramatic fall from grace in With many revelations contained in the from Danish sporting authorities said. 2012 lifted the lid on a hitherto largely report dating back more than eight years, a The report into claims of doping in hidden culture of drug use within the statue of limitations for doping cases Danish cycling was released on Tuesday by sport from which Danish racing was not applies and no disciplinary charges can be the country’s Anti-Doping Authority and immune. brought. Riis and Team Tinkoff-Saxo’s main National Olympic Committee after a two- Morten Molholm Hansen, director of sponsors, Tinkoff Bank and Saxo Bank, and-a-half year investigation that collated the Sports Federation of Denmark, on were not immediately available for com- material from more than 50 interviews. Tuesday criticised the “tradition of per- ment. —Reuters It followed a similar U.S. probe that formance-enhancing drugs in cycling, ended with Lance Armstrong, hitherto the which leads to a mentality that (such sport’s global icon, being stripped of his behaviour) is acceptable.” “Danish leaders seven Tour De France titles for doping in the sport failed to respond to specific offences and banned from professional knowledge about their own riders’ use of cycling for life. Riis, 51, won the Tour in doping,” the Authority added in a state- 1996 and was feted during his heyday as ment. the greatest Danish cyclist of the modern Tuesday’s report recommended that era, but he subsequently admitted having night-time testing of athletes should be doped during his career. introduced, that blood values from tests He later managed Team Saxo, which should either be delayed or not revealed competes on the main pro circuit, before to them and that a licensing system for being sacked by the rebranded Team team managers and doctors be intro- Tinkoff-Saxo in March following a dispute duced. with new owner Oleg Tinkov. It also contained an allegation by “Management, with Bjarne Riis in over- Danish rider Bo Hamburger that Riis asked all charge, has at a minimum had knowl- him in 2000 to acquire EPO, which ANAHEIM: Los Angeles Angels’ Daniel Robertson hits a sacrifice bunt during the eighth edge of doping within the team, but failed improves aerobic capacity by artificially Bjarne Riis inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros. —AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 SPORTS Paris joins race for 2024 Games

PARIS: Paris declared its candidacy for billion euros ($4.8 billion). The cost of bid- the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday, becoming ding is projected at 60 million euros ($63 the fourth city to enter the race and set- million). According to Lapasset, 60 to 80 ting out its vision for bringing the games percent of venues have already been built, back to the French capital for the first meaning existing infrastructure would be time in 100 years. The Paris bid, which has at the heart of the project. The Stade de been in the works for months, was formal- France, a new cycling track on the outskirts ly launched in a ceremony at the head- of Paris, the Roland Garros tennis stadium quarters of the French Olympic and many Parisian landmarks including the Committee that was attended by dozens Grand Palais and Champ de Mars are likely of leading French athletes. to be used. The main construction require- “We believe that this bid and our goal to ments include an aquatics center, Olympic host the 2024 Games will excite, unite and village and media center. enthuse the people of Paris, our entire Denis Masseglia, president of the nation and lovers of Olympic and national Olympic committee, said Paris Paralympic sport all over the world,” bid “promises a feasible and flexible games chairman Bernard Lapasset said. concept.” Another key figure in the bid is Paris joins Rome, Boston and Hamburg IOC member and former Olympic canoeing as declared bidders, with Budapest also champion Tony Estanguet. expected to join the contest. Paris has Both Hollande and Prime Minister scheduled a second bid ceremony on Manuel Valls have kept a low profile over Bastille Day on July 14, with French the past six months but made clear they President Francois Hollande and other top supported the bid. Paris Mayor Anne political figures expected to take part. Hidalgo was initially skeptical about the “The state will do everything to see this costs and environmental impact of the sports movement through and to support Olympics and questioned whether France this bid, which will serve as a model in should bid for both the 2024 Olympics and terms of the environment, economy and 2025 World Expo. social protections,” Hollande said in a state- Hidalgo is now one of the bid’s most fer- ment. Paris hosted the Olympics in 1900 vent supporters as a political consensus and 1924 and bid unsuccessfully for the sweeps the major parties, with only some BAKU: Tigran Kirakosyan of Armenia (right) and Uladzislau Burduz of Belarus compete in the Sambo men -57kg bronze medal fight at the 2015 1992, 2008 and 2012 Games. After being members of the Green Party remaining European Games. —AFP criticized for their perceived arrogance in opposed, mainly for financial reasons. their defeats to Beijing and London for the “Paris is looking forward to an exciting 2008 and 2012 Games, French officials have and bold future whilst remaining true to its opted for a more cautious and humble rich sporting and cultural traditions,” Golden-hearted Belarus approach this time, leaving government Hidalgo said Tuesday. “We will be designing officials in a supporting role and making an integrated project with all the talents of sure all the political hurdles were cleared the City of Paris and its suburbs and with before announcing a bid. young people playing a key role.” sambista steal the show “We are off to a very good start. It’s a far The Paris strategy has been praised by better start than we ever had,” French IOC IOC President Thomas Bach, who said in member Guy Drut said. “The main reason April after a meeting with Hollande that “if BAKU: Sportsmanship and camaraderie shone from the early years of the Russian Revolution in “It is sport, so I think it is normal that he tried for that is the massive support of the sports this candidature continues in this spirit, you through in the sport sambo competition on order to toughen up the Red Army and the to help me to stand and carried me to the hall,” movement.” have everything in hand to enter the candi- Monday at the European Games as Belarus’ feared Soviet Police the NKVD-as he lifted added the 29-year-old. Gasimov denied he had The bid announcement coincided with dature phase in full confidence.” Stsiapan Papou carried his injured Azerbaijan Gasimov onto his shoulder and carried him off been foolhardy to take part in the final despite the annual Olympic Day, which celebrates France decided not to bid for the 2020 opponent Amil Gasimov off the mat in Baku to the mat. suffering the injury, as he had not wanted to let the inception of the International Olympic Olympics after Annecy was humiliated in loud applause after having beaten the world The fallen Azerbaijani sambista was then tak- the home support down. Committee on June, 23, 1894 in Paris. Paris the race for the 2018 Winter Games, receiv- champion in the final. en out of the arena in a wheelchair and Papou “I prepared very well, very strongly for com- has until Sept. 15 to submit its candidacy to ing only seven votes in an election won by It was the sort of gesture and dramatic was on hand to help him on and off the podium petition. But in the semi-final bout I suffered an the IOC, which will choose the host city in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The last suc- moment that the sambo enthusiasts would have for the medal ceremony to boot. injury in my leg, but tried to hide it, not to 2017. The infrastructure budget of the Paris cessful French Olympic bid came from been hoping for as the sport-a mix of of various “In Azerbaijan, sambo is more than a sport. demonstrate it,” he said. “The doctors helped me, bid has been estimated at 3 billion euros Albertville, which was awarded the 1992 martial arts including jujitsu, greco-roman Everybody was supporting him and he just and in final I tried not to show my feelings and ($4.5 billion), with operational costs of 3.2 Winter Games.—AP wrestling and judo-made its debut on a wider didn’t want to give up,” said 31-year-old Papou, injury. international stage than it has been previously an avid book reader in his spare time when he is “But he made a painful hold on my injured accustomed to. not pinioning opponents to the mat. “We went leg. I try to bear it and not to give up to the Papou-who was one of two sambistas from on the ground and I was in control all the time. painful technique, but unfortunately I could not. his country to win gold on an electric night of He tried to get me, but I was sitting on his It was hurting me too much.” sambo action watched by a noisy and knowl- Achilles heel. Whilst Gasimov’s misfortune summed up edgeable crowd of 5,000 — was well in control “I did that (carrying him off), because I know Azerbaijan’s night it was all gold for Russia as the of his -74 kilogrammes final and all but sealed how much it hurts. I’ve lost that way before and I team-which is well funded at the orders of victory with an agonising looking leg clamp of know the pain.” Gasimov for his part said that President Vladimir Putin-swept the board win- Gasimov’s Achilles. Papou’s sportsmanship was typical of the atmos- ning all five of the finals they were involved in. Gasimov, who was one of a sad succession of phere that reigned in the sport. France’s Sarah Loko may not have won gold four sambistas from the host country who failed “We met before in the World Cup in Russia, but she certainly reacted as if she had as she was to deliver gold in their finals in front of the and then I beat him in the semi-final match,” said one of the few sambistas from western Europe watchful gaze of Azerbaijan President Ilham Gasimov. “But today I couldn’t wrestle as I would to challenge the eastern supremacy after win- Aliyev, had been carrying a leg injury into the like. ning bronze in the -64kg category. final and had to give into the inevitable. “But we know each other well because we “I am going to drink champagne, meet up Then came the extraordinary gesture by have met a lot of times, on the mat we are rivals, with my boyfriend (a coach on the German judo Papou-who showed a softer side that hardly but after the bout, outside the mat we have team) and get up to something with him in the reflects the origins of a sport which stemmed good relations. centre of town.” —AFP Azerbaijan hoping to build soccer reputation on sand BAKU: It’s safe to say Azerbaijan isn’t on the radar of most soc- cer fans. The oil-rich former Soviet outpost knows, which is why it’s trying to spend its way to prominence. Despite never coming close to qualifying for a World Cup or European Championship, Azerbaijan will be a co-host of Euro 2020. The big draw for UEFA is the new 68,000-seat Olympic Stadium in the capital Baku, which opened this month at a time when tight budgets have made many BAKU: Emma Cain of Great Britain competes during swimming women’s 50m breast- stroke event at the 2015 European Games. —AP European countries wary of funding grandiose new national stadiums. In preparation for Euro 2020, Azerbaijan is keen to develop soccer by any means possible. It has poured oil funds into its Marinuk not one for previously crumbling domestic league, with some success. Neftci Baku, sponsored by state oil company SOCAR, reached the Europa League group stage for the first time in 2012-13, sitting on the fence earning a creditable 2-2 draw with Inter Milan. SOCAR has also become a major UEFA sponsor for Euro BAKU: Avital Marinuk’s dream of compet- onships in Moscow in mid-July. “For me it 2016, while Azerbaijan has hired charismatic former Croatia ing at the Olympics in Rio next year may was a lot better than football or basketball. winger Robert Prosinecki as national coach, and is hosting BAKU: Georgia’s Maiko Gogoladze competes in the women’s long jump at the ath- have taken a knock with defeat in the epee “However, when I went home and told my beach soccer at this month’s inaugural European Games in letics event of the 2015 European Games. —AFP event at the European Games but one parents that I was interested by it and Baku. The home team is hoping to build Azerbaijan’s soccer shouldn’t bet against it given her refusal to would they take me to see a tournament reputation not on grass, but on sand. “In Azerbaijan, some bow to pressure throughout her young they refused. people say soccer is in poor condition and so on. Of course, career. “They thought it was a strange thing for Trevejo takes tough no, not at all,” Emin Kurdov, goalkeeper and captain of the The erudite 22-year-old former top jun- me to be interested in and preferred me to Azeri beach soccer team, says through a translator. ior, who had a gruelling morning at the focus on school and go on and train to be road to Baku “Soccer is developing. It’s a gradual development, as with Crystal Hall winning three of her pool duels an engineer or something like that. beach soccer’s development, and we will try to prove it with before being eliminated in the first round “However, eventually they gave in and I our performance.” The thought of helping the country become BAKU: The road to Baku has been harder I wanted. “It was almost at the end of the of the knockout stage by Romanian was free to develop my interest and skills in well known in time for Euro 2020 will drive Azerbaijan’s beach than most and come at a huge personal competition when I escaped. It all hap- Simona Gherman, showed her strength of the sport,” added Marinuk, who does at cost for naturalised Frenchman Ivan Trevejo pened like in a movie,” he recalled. He spent character in a cadet World Cup tournament least share a common interest with her boys onwards, Kurdov says. “It’s a happy fact that Azerbaijan is going to host such honorable matches,” he says. “At the same who ranks among a number of Cuban-born two years in Spain before settling in France in Sweden in 2008. Aged just 15 she mother in a love of dance, Mrs Marinuk athletes at the European Games in the but, without a passport and official papers, climbed proudly onto the top step of the having been a ballet dancer. time, it’s a stimulus for all of us.” However, two big obstacles stand in Azerbaijan’s way to soccer prominence. Firstly, with Azeri capital. his days as a competitor appeared over. podium only to be informed they could not Marinuk, who has been able to mix her At 43, Trevejo is the oldest competitor in For 10 years he could only practise and 13 co-hosts for Euro 2020, none will qualify automatically, so it play the national anthem because the studies and competing as she has special the fencing competition and his belief that coach before marrying a French woman is far from guaranteed that the host nation will play at its record had been broken. dispensation from her college to take her “I feel like I’m only 30 years old” can be and gaining citizenship in 2010, meaning Olympic Stadium in 2020. In qualifying for European 2016, “I was on the podium with a friend and I business management exams on different traced to his lost time in the sport after he could finally represent France. Azerbaijan is already six points off the playoff places with only decided if the record is broken, ok, but I still days to her fellow students if she is in com- defecting from Cuba in 2002. If Trevejo’s hopes of standing on a podi- one win, against Malta. have a voice,” she told AFP. “So I started petition, says her parents, who arrived in “When I made the decision, I knew that I um are probably distant, light-welter- The arrival of UEFA’s new Nations League in 2018, with singing the Israeli national anthem, my Israel from Moldova in the 1990s, are now would leave my family behind. But I had weight boxer Collazo Sotomayor is hoping, friend followed me and then the 40 or so complete converts to her cause. teams split into divisions by world ranking, could make mat- the hope that I could come back and see at the age of 30, he is still reaching his peak other Israeli athletes sitting in the stands “They come and watch me in tourna- ters easier for Azerbaijan as it aims for 2020, however. them again shortly, maybe in five years’ and can strike gold for the Games hosts. joined in. It was an emotional moment. ments in Israel, abroad is not possible as it The second obstacle is publicity. Beach soccer is a marginal time. It turned out to be impossible. I The Cuban-born fighter, who moved to “This has happened three times to us, is too expensive. But they are proud,” she event, and the world’s spotlight on the European Games has haven’t seen them ever since,” he said. Azerbaijan two years ago, is taking inspira- twice in Finland and once in Sweden when said. “My teacher, the man responsible for been dim. The Women’s World Cup in Canada has overshad- Trevejo, who will compete in the men’s tion from his famous uncle, high jump they told us the record with the anthem is starting me on it, is immensely proud and owed the games in several major markets. individual Epee on Wednesday, enjoyed world record holder and 1992 Olympic broken. he is never far away as he is our club coach.” Baku’s beach soccer is being keenly watched by top offi- success for his country of birth, winning champion Javier Sotomayor. “There is nothing you can say, if they tell While she admits there is not much of a tra- cials in beach soccer, which suffered a setback when its Olympic silver in Atlanta in 1996, followed a “It’s like he’s my star, he follows me every- you the record is broken then it is broken.” dition of fencing in Israel-as she explained attempts to make the program for next year’s Olympics in Rio year later with world championship gold in where,” said Collazo, who like Trevejo left his The passion for fencing inside Marinuk, the art of epee fencing largely began in the de Janeiro were rebuffed. The European Games is beach soc- the team epee and a bronze at the Sydney family behind in Cuba. “He’s my idol.” The who took bronze at the European junior 1990s with an influx of Russian emigres cer’s debut at a major multi-sport event, at a 1,500-seat tem- Olympics in 2000. highly-fancied Collazo continues his gold bid championships last year, surfaced when expert in it-she believes it is growing porary venue under the baking Azerbaijani sun, which is But two years later he defected during with a quarter-final fight later on Tuesday she was just nine and was completely thanks to her generation. expected to drive temperatures as high as 38 degrees (101 F). the 2002 world championships in Lisbon but one Cuban-born athlete already has a against the wishes of her parents. “In terms of junior level it is just after Since bringing beach soccer under FIFA’s auspices a decade and so began an uncertain existence. “It medal in the bag. Wrestler Frank Chamizo “I had a teacher at school who was also judo in popularity,” she said. “However, we ago, “joining the Baku Europeans is the best news that we was a difficult time, where it was hard just Marquez, who represented Cuba until 2011 a fencing coach and he showed me how want to achieve something at senior level have been able to bring to the sport,” says Joan Cusco, FIFA to get all the daily necessities (in Cuba). and won the Pan American Championship, amazing and special it was,” said Marinuk, and I know that I can. I hope I can make it official and vice president of promoter Beach Soccer There were a lot of difficulties and I could took a silver for his adopted country Italy in who next heads to the world champi- to Rio.” —AFP Worldwide.—AP hardly continue fencing and that was what the men’s 65kg freestyle.—Reuters WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 SPORTS NBA pipeline from Europe getting bigger

INDIANAPOLIS: When Pacers forward could come during Thursday night’s expand the talent pool. Since the inau- Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett, notice that, and the NBA game is getting Damjan Rudez returned to the draft. A record 101 foreign-born players gural 2001 camp in Treviso, Italy, more grew up in Canada. The NBA’s European to a point where you can’t just run over Basketball Without Borders camp earlier began this season on NBA rosters, and than 2,300 players from more than 120 contingent includes Luol Deng, Marc guys. this month, there were some noticeable three more - Emmanuel Mudiay of countries have participated and the suc- and Pau Gasol, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony “I think the states are getting back to changes. China, Kristaps Porzingis of Latvia and cess stories have steadily increased. Parker and Ricky Rubio. Manu Ginobili, teaching fundamentals, but I don’t see The long, gangly European kids he Mario Hezonja of Croatia - are potential Thirty-three grads have been drafted Nene and Anderson Varejao all honed those building blocks like you do here.” competed with and against in 2003 had top 10 picks. including Andrea Bargnani, the No. 1 their basketball skills in South America, In fact, the European style has even giv- been replaced by bigger, stronger, more “Honestly, the camp hasn’t changed a overall pick in 2006, and Joel Embiid, the while Andrew Bogut and Kyrie Irving en American coaches new tools. polished teenagers. lot. The principles are the same,” said No. 3 overall pick last year. Two more were born in Australia. At a recent high school coaching clin- Perhaps it’s just a natural progression Rudez, who just completed his first NBA players, Rudez and Boston’s Luigi Their once-subtle impact on the NBA ic, Kentucky’s John Calipari demonstrat- for the program designed to turn inter- season with the Pacers. “The NBA has Datome, have made rosters as undrafted is also growing. “There’s a lot of pride in ed how he used the Euro step with his national prospects such as Rudez into done a terrific job of organizing the free agents. Europe in teaching the fundamentals,” own team last season. He explained it NBA contributors and then bring back whole thing - great gear, great condi- The Europeans “are pretty good,” Pacers assistant coach Dan Burke said improved his players’ efficiency ratings those graduates as teachers to work tions for working. But it seems like these Charlotte center and former Indiana after working the camp. “From what I’ve because they could either get to the with the next generation of international days, the kids are growing like crazy. University star Cody Zeller said after seen, we don’t get as much opportunity basket cleanly, allowing them to play at stars. Or perhaps, the players are matur- They’re huge. I don’t remember us being working his second international camp to see the 17-year-olds (in the US), but a faster pace, or draw fouls, which ing much quicker - much like American that tall or that powerful or that big in two years. “I can see where there’s a what we see coming in is a lack of funda- allowed them to score with the clock players seem to be. when we were here.” couple that have that (NBA) potential, mentals. There are a lot of different rea- stopped. Either way, one thing is clear: BWB is The initial goals of BWB were simple - and even the ones that don’t make the sons for it. Some people say AAU just And now it’s time for the 20-some- helping to turn Europe into a fertile find the best players in the world, teach NBA, I think, will have productive careers rolls the ball out and they play. They get thing contingent of players like Wiggins training ground for NBA hopefuls. An them skills that would make them pro- overseas.” This global trend isn’t subsid- by on athleticism and God-given talent. and Rudez to reach out to the next wave indication of the program’s success ductive pro players and continue to ing. The last two No. 1 overall draft picks, But the ones who really work, you do of European prospects. —AP Horner shocked by rumors about future

LONDON: Red Bull principal Christian with Dietrich on Saturday evening and we Horner has shrugged off speculation about still get along very well. his future and said he is determined to stay “We know we have problems but we on to help the troubled Formula One team just have to work through them and I am resolve their problems. here to do that job.” Red Bull, winners of The Times newspaper reported on four successive driver and constructor Tuesday that one of Horner’s rival princi- championships between 2010 and 2013, pals had called him on Sunday morning, have yet to feature on the podium this sea- before the Austrian Grand Prix, to commis- son. The relationship with under-perform- erate about his supposed departure. ing engine partners Renault has been The unidentified boss had been given stretched to breaking point while the impression that Austrian Gerhard Mateschitz has talked of falling out of love Berger, a former McLaren and Ferrari driver with the sport. who is close to Red Bull’s billionaire owner At the Austrian Grand Prix, a home race Dietrich Mateschitz, was set to replace the for Red Bull, the team scored just one point Briton. “I was shocked,” Horner said. after Australian Daniel Ricciardo and “I had no idea people were talking Russian Daniil Kvyat collected 10-place grid about me that way. I have a long contract penalties for engine changes. Red Bull are with the team. It is difficult but I had dinner fourth overall. Horner said changes needed to be made to enable Renault and Honda to close the gap on champions Mercedes and Ferrari while the rules should be simplified. However, he added that Mateschitz remained supportive of the sport despite the situation. “He’s telling what he thinks. He ultimate- ly is a fan, that’s why he’s committed so GALLE: Pakistan’s Yasir Shah (center) celebrates in this file photo. —AP much of Red Bull’s marketing activities to Formula One. The risk for Formula One is when someone like Dietrich starts to fall out of love with it,” said Horner. “That’s a big worry because we need Buoyant Pakistan target people like Dietrich to be engaged. “He runs a multinational company and Red Bull does not exist because of Formula One...if Formula One isn’t generating the return series win in Sri Lanka and the coverage for him then of course he’s going to raise questions about that.” Red Bull run two of the 10 teams in COLOMBO: A confident Pakistan will aim to The tourists bowled out Sri Lanka for 300 spinner in Galle. “Playing Herath confidently was Formula One, with Toro Rosso used to clinch a first Test series win in Sri Lanka for nine after electing to field first, but were themselves the key for us,” Misbah said. “It’s a good sign for develop junior talent such as 17-year-old years when the second match starts at the P. reduced to 96-5 before Sarfraz Ahmed and Asad us because he is a very good bowler and could Dutch driver Max Verstappen.—Reuters Sara Oval in Colombo tomorrow. Shafiq launched a gritty fight back. have done a lot more. Christian Horner Misbah-ul Haq’s tourists are riding high after The pair put on 139 runs for the sixth wicket “We need to keep this going to win the series a 10-wicket triumph in the opening Test in Galle in quicktime to turn the tables on Sri Lanka, with because he is a tough competitor capable of on Sunday despite the first four sessions of the Shafiq making 131 and Sarfraz 96, as Pakistan doing anything.” Pakistan’s spinners claimed 13 match being washed out. gained a 117-run lead. wickets between them in Galle, compared to five Olympic surfing Pakistan have lost their last three series in Sri Yasir Shah then ripped through the second for Sri Lanka’s, and the home captain Angelo Lanka following a 1-0 success in 2006 but innings with figures of 7-76 — the best by a leg- Mathews conceded that cost his team dearly. Misbah’s men could not have asked for a better spinner on Sri Lankan soil-to bowl out the rivals “I admit that our spinners were not as effec- just not Wright venue to seal the series than the historic Oval for 206 and set up the memorable win. tive as their spinners, even though the pitch was ground where Sri Lanka played their first Test turning from day one,” said Mathews. “Hopefully, match, against England, in 1982. TAMING HERATH Rangana (Herath) will bounce back quickly.” SYDNEY: Australian world championship for the Tokyo Games and welcomed the The sporting Oval pitch, regarded as the However, the key to Pakistan’s success lay in Pakistan may play all-rounder Mohammad contender Owen Wright believes surfing is sport’s inclusion in the shortlist. The body, finest on the island, has produced a winner in their batsmen dominating Sri Lanka’s spin spear- Hafeez as a batsman after his bowling action closer to an art form than a sport and would which is recognised by the International eight successive Tests since 2005, and another head Rangana Herath, a constant thorn for the was reported by umpires for a second time in not be a good fit at the Olympics. Olympic Committee, is putting great faith in decisive result is on the cards. tourists in the past. When the two sides last met seven months. Surfing was one of eight sports shortlisted the rapid growth of surf parks, which guaran- Sri Lanka have lost their last three matches at in Sri Lanka in 2014, the seasoned left-arm spin- Hafeez will be tested in a fortnight, but regu- for possible inclusion in the 2020 Tokyo tee artificial waves at competition time. the ground, going down to India in 2010 and ner grabbed 23 Pakistani wickets in two Tests to lations allow him to bowl till the test results are Summer Games on Monday as the Olympic “We are energised and excited to present being beaten by both England and New Zealand engineer a 2-0 win for the hosts. declared. If his action is found illegal after test- movement looks to engage a younger audi- our case,” ISA said in a statement. “With the in 2012. Pakistan, who lost by seven wickets Misbah had indicated before the current ing, Hafeez will not be allowed to bowl for a year. ence. Wright competes on the elite World Surf new, cost-effective surf parks that are revolu- when they played at the Oval in 2009, will bank series that it was important to tackle Herath if The third and final Test starts in Pallekele on League Championship Tour and thinks the tionising our sport, we are confident that this on their impressive showing in the first Test to Pakistan were to win matches. And the batsmen July 3. It will be followed by five one-day interna- 11-stop circuit is a much better way to decide is the perfect time for surfing to step up to deal another blow to the hosts. responded by conceding just one wicket to the tionals and two Twenty20 matches. —AFP the best surfer in the world. the greatest sporting stage.” “I think surfing in itself is more of an art Wright fired his challenge for a maiden form and an expression so I think the Olympic world title last week in the very real three- banner doesn’t really suit the sport of surfing,” metre waves off the coast of Fiji when he Ashes series set for bumpy ‘sledging’ ride he told Reuters. became the first surfer to record perfect “It suits a lot of other sports but I think scores in two heats in the same event. That MANCHESTER: According to the Lord’s-based they can suspend me for as long as they like,” added As for Australia’s sledging in the World Cup final, surfing is more like judging an art work. It’s gave him victory in the fifth leg of the tour Marylebone Cricket Club, still the guardian of crick- Haddin, still Australia’s first-choice Test gloveman. Guptill said: “It’s just the way they are. We can’t do a kind of hard to put it under that one banner. and put him into third place in the title race et’s rules, it is against the ‘spirit of the game’ to “direct England and New Zealand have just finished lot about them, can we?” Part of the problem is that “If you had one event and named the ahead of former world champions such as abusive language towards an opponent”. thrilling Test and one-day series where both sides there is little humour in modern-day sledging, unlike Olympic champion? I think in the world surf compatriot Mick Fanning and Kelly Slater. Ask many a cricket fan for a definition of ‘sledging’ have been lauded for demonstrating it is possible to the time when England great Ian Botham responded league we have a bunch of different canvass- American Slater, who has won 11 world and the chances are they would settle for the MCC play aggressive cricket without sledging. to Australia wicket-keeper Rodney Marsh’s barb of es, they’re all totally different waves, and by titles, has previously questioned the purpose version. But, in a sign of how tricky it is to agree on New Zealand opener Martin Guptill, who played “how’s your wife and my kids?” by answering: “Wife’s the end of it you get the winner. “I think it has of putting surfing in the Olympics and Wright what is or isn’t acceptable, Australia’s Shaun Marsh, in the World Cup final and has been a mainstay of the fine, kids are retarded.” to be like that, to have a bunch of different said he thought most top surfers would speaking ahead of the first Ashes Test against side in England, said he expected the cordial atmos- What Marsh, now Australia’s national selector and inclusions to get the one champion.” agree. “There’s a lot of people that want to England in Cardiff on July 8, said Monday: “It is an phere to remain when the Black Caps completed no relation to Shaun, thinks of modern-day sledging The International Surfing Association (ISA), see it go that way but I think if you ask the Ashes series and I am sure there will be sledging their tour with a lone Twenty20 international at Old is likely to be a topic for discussion when he gives which runs its own world championships surfer, I think you’ll get a similar answer,” he from both teams, but I am also sure it will be in the Trafford yesterday. “The respect between both sides this year’s MCC Spirit of Cricket Lecture at Lord’s on without the top professionals, made the bid added.—Reuters spirit of the game.” has been right up there and that shouldn’t change September 1. By then the Ashes will be over, The opener also said: “I think it is really important tomorrow (Tuesday),” Guptill told reporters at the although Australia will still have five one-dayers to to get out there and show your aggression and put Manchester ground on Monday. play against England before their tour ends. —AFP your stamp on the game-that is the Australian way.” But there was a recognition that things had got out of hand during the last Ashes campaign, which saw Australia whitewash England 5-0 on home soil in 2013/14. During the first Test in Brisbane, Australia captain Michael Clarke told England tailender James Anderson to “get ready for a broken...arm”. Clarke later apologised for the tone of his com- ments and on Sunday promised the upcoming Ashes would be played in the “right spirit”. Prior to this year’s World Cup, the International Cricket Council promised a crackdown on sledging.

HADDIN BLAST But that did not stop wicket-keeper Brad Haddin from giving send-offs to several departing New Zealand batsmen during Australia’s seven-wicket World Cup final win in Melbourne on March 29. Haddin subsequently gave a radio interview in which he defended his actions by saying: “They were that nice to us in New Zealand (when Australia lost a pool match) and we were that uncomfortable. “I said: I’m not playing cricket like this. If we get another crack at LONDON: The 2015 Australian Cricket team pose with the Australian High Commissioner these guys in the final I’m letting everything (out). Alexander Downer (front center) next to the captain Michael Clarke, during a welcome party at Owen Wright in action in this file photo. “And I’m not going to play another one-day game so the Australian High Commission in London. —AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 2015 SPORTS

WASHINGTON: Dustin Johnson hits out of the bunker on the 14th hole during the second round of the US Open golf tournament at Chambers Bay in this file photo. —AP Johnson adds another chapter to major missed putts

WASHINGTON: The unexpected ecstasy of Sunday came on a challenging Chambers Bay missed left. “They do bounce and when they greatest golfers of all time, missed a par putt par-four 10th at Augusta National when he Jordan Spieth’s one-shot win at the US Open layout where short putts had been missed by are fast and bumpy, it’s tough to get it in the from three feet on the final hole of the 1946 missed a two-foot putt there to lose out to resulted from the agony of Dustin Johnson’s the game’s greatest players all week on fast, hole. I might have pulled it a little bit, but still Masters to hand Herman Keiser a surprise one- Britain’s Nick Faldo in a playoff for the 1989 missed putt from four feet, yet another exam- heavily contoured greens made bumpy by to me it looked like it bounced left. It’s tough.” stroke victory. Masters. ple of a bitter major finish. From the three- uneven grass cover. While Spieth was euphoric as he savoured Sanders missed a heavily-breaking three- South African Retief Goosen all but threw footer Doug Sanders missed at the 1970 The big-hitting American had just struck a his second consecutive major victory, he could footer on the final hole of the 1970 Open away the chance to win the 2001 U.S. Open at British Open to Kim In-kyung’s horseshoe out brilliant second shot into the par-five last, feel Johnson’s pain. “I don’t really know what Championship at St. Andrews, ending up level Southern Hills when he missed a two-foot putt of the cup from a foot at the 2012 Kraft needing an eagle three to win in regulation his to say,” said the 21-year-old Spieth. “He very with Jack Nicklaus who won an 18-hole playoff on the final hole, though he went on to beat Nabisco, golf’s elite events are littered with first major victory or a birdie to force a playoff well could have hit a good putt and it could for the title the following day. Hale Irwin was American Mark Brooks the next day in an 18- squandered putts from short distances on the on Monday with his compatriot Spieth. With have bounced or it just took a break ... I very in contention for the 1983 British Open at hole playoff. final hole. the packed grandstand hushed, Johnson’s 12- much feel for him. Royal Birkdale when he came agonisingly South Korean Kim was not as fortunate at The pressure cooker situation of a major footer for eagle slid past the cup and he then “He’s a great champion. He’s certainly close to sinking a 20-footer on the 14th hole. the 2012 Kraft Nabisco Championship, the championship coming down to the wire is cer- missed the short putt coming back, his ball proven that he closes tournaments out. This Stunningly, he then missed the tap-in with his opening women’s major of the year, after she tainly not for the faint of heart and nerves of rolling by the left edge of the hole, to hand the was just an odd deal, very odd. He deserves to ball inches from the hole as he played an air missed a one-foot par putt on the final hole steel are required to make the right shot at the title to Masters champion Spieth. be holding the trophy just as much as I do this shot. Irwin, who went on to lose that year’s when her ball caught the right edge, spun right time, especially when facing a putt with “I had it just inside right,” said a dumb- week.” Johnson is the latest in a growing list of Open championship to Tom Watson by one around and headed back to her. Kim went on the title on the line. founded Johnson, a nine-times PGA Tour win- players who have suffered major losses after stroke, described his whiff as “a mental lapse”. to lose to her compatriot Yoo Sun-young on Johnson’s moment of personal agony on ner. “I hit it, thought I hit it pretty decent, just missing short putts. Ben Hogan, one of the American Scott Hoch made a mess of the the first sudden-death playoff hole.—Reuters Murray vows to solve Djokovic riddle

LONDON: Andy Murray set his sights on Novak, but I’ve been close in a lot of the ending his barren run against Novak matches,” Murray said. “He’s had a great Djokovic after the world number three year and there’s no disgrace in losing to wrapped up his Wimbledon preparations him. But if I want to win the major competi- with a sublime demolition of Kevin tions I have to beat him. Anderson in the Queen’s Club final. “I’ve done it before when I won US Open Murray clinched a record-equalling and Wimbledon and the Olympics, and I fourth Queen’s title in just 64 minutes as he need to continue to improve and learn delivered a grass-court masterclass that left from those matches. “There’s only one play- world number 17 Anderson utterly bewil- er in the world that’s played better than me dered. this year. “I would like to be that player and It has been a memorable year for hopefully in the future I can be.” Murray, with an Australian Open final Stan Wawrinka exposed a few chinks in appearance followed by his wedding to Djokovic’s armour when he unexpectedly Kim Sears in April. won their French Open final and Murray Murray also won his first clay-court titles believes the reigning Wimbledon champi- in Munich and Madrid, and reached the on will still be coming to terms with a loss French Open semi-finals. The usually taci- that denied him a career Grand Slam. turn 28-year-old was so enthused by his “He was very close to achieving some- fine week’s work in west London that he thing that very few players have done that claimed he is playing even better than he probably needed some time away to when he secured his historic Wimbledon rest and relax and get his head right before triumph in 2013. getting prepared for another Slam,” Murray “You have to improve. If you don’t peo- said. The last time Murray won Queen’s in ple will take your spot,” Murray said. 2013 he went on to become the first British “Physically I’m definitely in a better place man to win the Wimbledon singles’ title for than I was then and I’m using my variety 77 years. much better just now. That’s been good for But, despite his blistering form of late, me.” But there is still one big issue looming he has no intention of taking success at the for Murray as he heads to Wimbledon’s All England Club for granted. “It’s great practice courts before the tournament gets preparation, but there are no guarantees underway on June 29. that winning here gives you a Wimbledon For all his success over the last six title,” he said. “It gives me that little bit of EASTBOURNE: Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard returns a ball to Alison Riske of the US during day four of the women’s International tennis at months, he has failed to solve the problems confidence going in there, but all sorts of Devonshire Park. —AP posed by world number one Djokovic. things can happen during slams. “I need to Murray has lost only six of his 41 matches in go out there and earn it.” Murray’s chal- 2015 and four of those defeats have come lenge will be bolstered by the return on Bouchard finally finds rhythm against Djokovic, in the Australian Open Monday of his heavily pregnant coach and Miami finals and the last four in Indian Amelie Mauresmo, who handed over the Wells and Roland Garros. Yet Murray draws reigns to Jonas Bjorkman while she took a EASTBOURNE: Eugenie Bouchard won only her my next opportunity to be able to do that again.” favorite Heather Watson. strength from his performances in several break during Queen’s. “It’s been a good second match since mid-March after struggling American Sloane Stephens eliminated Spanish Meanwhile, Kvitova will start her preparation of those matches, as well as his Wimbledon start with Jonas, but I also have to give a lot to find form, earning a 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 defeat of clay ace Carla Suarez Navarro, seeded fifth, 6-1, for a possible third Wimbledon title. The world and US Open final wins over the Serb, and of credit to Amelie,” he said. “The work I’ve Alison Riske yesterday at the Eastbourne 7-5. Czech eighth seed Karolina Pliskova beat number two, who was runner-up at Devonshire insists he can close the gap if they meet done with her is paying off. Hopefully a cul- International. Australian Casey Dellacqua 6-4, 7-5 and German Park in 2011 before going on to capture her first again at the All England Club. mination of the two of them will give me The former top 10 player, now ranked 12th, at tenth seed Andrea Petkovic beat Caroline Garcia Wimbledon trophy. “It’s obviously a shame I’ve lost to more success.” —AFP 2-10 over her last dozen matches as the form 6-2, 6-4 to level her summer grass record at 1-1. Former number one Caroline Wozniacki steps which took the 21-year-old to the Wimbledon Meanwhile, former Grand Slam finalists onto grass for the first time this summer as she title match, as well as Australian Open and Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dominika Cibulkova plays as second seed after spending time at Roland Garros semi-finals in 2014, disappeared advanced to the second round of the home in Monaco resting after the French Open. in 2015. Bouchard’s second-round victory in one Eastbourne grass-court tournament on Monday, The Dane won the Eastbourne title in 2009 ‘Golden’ oldie De La Hoya hour 40 minutes was her first on grass this sea- while top-seeded Petra Kvitova withdrew and has reached the final four in her last two son and could not have come at a better time, through illness a week before starting her title appearances at the Wimbledon tune-up event. considers comeback at 42 with Wimbledon starting in six days. defense at Wimbledon. French Open finalist Lucie Safarova, the third “It’s good to finally get a win,” said Bouchard, Kuznetsova, who has won the French Open seed, will also wait for an opponent from the who was helped by two aces in the final game as and U.S. Open, converted all four of her break first round. LOS ANGELES: Boxing Hall of Famer and for- weight Floyd Mayweather Jr or a bout against she closed out the 42nd-ranked Riske, to take a points in beating Magdalena Rybarikova 7-6 (5), That will be either British card Harriet Dart or mer Olympic champion Oscar De La Hoya is dangerous Kazakh middleweight champion 3-0 lead in that series at the WTA level. 6-4 to set up a match against Flavia Pennetta. Slovakia’s 2014 Australian Open finalist considering a return to the ring at the age of Gennady Golovkin, known as GGG. “I had to try and stay with her, she was play- Cibulkova, a runner-up at the Australian Dominika Cibulkova, who will be playing for the 42 after overcoming substance abuse, the Mayweather, 38, has said he would only ing well. “I tried to stay calm at the end, enjoy Open last year, beat Harriet Dart 6-1, 6-3 and will first time since February foot surgery. fighter told ESPN.com on Monday. De La fight once more before retiring making that the moment. I’ve really had some ups and next play 2014 Wimbledon semifinalist Lucie Her last tournament was in Antwerp where Hoya, who quit boxing soon after retiring on bout an unlikely prospect but unbeaten downs this season. Safarova. Kvitova pulled out before she had where lost to Andrea Petkovic in the quarter- his stool at the end of the eighth round of a knockout specialist Golovkin has struggled to “I’ve learned a lot about tennis, myself and played a match at Eastbourne in a disruption to finals. Cibulkova, now ranked at 50, has only lopsided 2008 defeat against Manny find big name opponents and offers a more life as a result.” The seventh seed will wait for a her preparations for Wimbledon. She said she been back on court for little more than a week Pacquiao, said he was “50-50” about fighting viable opportunity. third-round opponent from Swiss teen Belinda started feeling ill when she arrived in Britain on and did not touch grass until arriving in Britain. again following two spells in rehab. “I just feel good and when I walk the Bencic and 2014 titleholder Madison Keys, seed- Thursday and didn’t recover. The 26-year-old will be making her career “I feel amazing,” De La Hoya said. “In my life streets, everyone tells me, ‘You have to fight ed 12th. Bouchard is making her Eastbourne “I have to still think positively, and I hope I’m debut at Eastbourne. Russian Ekaterina right now, I have so much motivation. I am so Floyd again, you have to fight GGG. You can main draw debut after falling out of qualifying going to be ready for Wimbledon,” the second- Makarova takes the fourth seeding, heading hungry and so determined. I am young, I am do it, you can do it’,” De La Hoya said. two years ago. Two other seeds met upset fates ranked Kvitova said. “I’m playing Tuesday (at number five Carla Suarez Navarro, number six healthy and I feel great... 42 is the new 32.” “I just feel great physically. I’ve been taking in the second round, with Briton Johanna Konta Wimbledon next week), so it’s still time for it.” and last year’s losing finalist Angelique Kerber Nicknamed “Golden Boy”, the 1992 care of myself. I’ve been doing the Bernard extending her hometown win streak with a Kvitova hasn’t played since losing in the and crisis-ridden Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, Olympic champion was once considered box- Hopkins lifestyle. You can turn the clock back knockout of Russian fourth seed Ekaterina fourth round at the French Open on June 1. Rain the 2014 Wimbledon finalist who has lost 10 of ing’s top-rated pound-for-pound fighter and to a certain time.” Makarova 6-2, 6-4. pushed 2014 Wimbledon runner-up Eugenie her last 11 matches. its most marketable asset, winning world Hopkins, 50, is the oldest winner of a “It’s important for me not to treat it different- Bouchard’s second-round match against Alison Czech Karolina Pliskova is seeded eighth, titles at six different weights and participating world championship and unified the WBA ly, I do believe very much so that I do need to Riske back late yesterday. There were wins for ahead of Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska, who in a string of megafights. and IBF light heavyweight titles until he approach every match exactly the same with my unseeded players Polona Hercog of Slovenia, opens against a qualifier. Defending champion The Californian, who founded Golden Boy was beaten late last year, a decade after same intentions and personal goals,” said the Irina Falconi of the United States, Barbora Madison Keys of the United States takes the 12th Promotions in 2002, said he only had eyes for knocking out De La Hoya in a middleweight number 146 wild card. “I’m just happy that I was Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic, seeding and starts against either Swiss teenager either a rematch against undefeated welter- bout.—Reuters able to do that today and I’m looking forward to Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria and home Belinda Bencic or Mona Barthel. —AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 SPORTS Qatar group to push sports integrity in US

NEW YORK/LONDON: FIFA’s granting of rights to Russia for 2018 and Qatar four designed to enhance its public image. country won its bid to host the 2022 According to a book by journalists rights to Qatar to host the World Cup in years later, according to a US law Whatever its other goals, I am sure the competition. from the UK’s Sunday Times called “The 2022 is a focus of U.S. and Swiss probes enforcement official. The Swiss authori- ICSS was established in part for this rea- Soon after, Qatar’s 2022 World Cup Ugly Game,” Eaton surprised his bosses into alleged corruption at soccer’s gov- ties have their own criminal probe into son,” said Wrage, who resigned in frus- Supreme Committee - in charge of at FIFA when he announced his move to erning body, but that isn’t stopping a those decisions. tration from FIFA’s Independent delivering infrastructure and planning ICSS in 2012 and brought along the bulk group financed by the tiny nation from “The ICSS encourages and supports Governance Committee in 2013, saying for the contest - announced an agree- of his investigative team. coming to Washington this week to talk any proactive action that targets corrup- calls for change went unheeded. And ment with ICSS to assist with security for Eaton, who is due to speak at about cleaning up sports. The Doha- tion in sport governing bodies by law Jens Sejer Andersen, the director of the games. Wednesday’s event, could not immedi- based International Centre for Sport enforcement agencies,” the organization Danish government-funded sports Hodge said the establishment of the ately be reached for comment. Last year, Security (ICSS), which is largely funded said in a statement on its website. integrity group Play the Game, said the ICSS was in no way connected with the the ICSS published a joint research proj- by the Qatari government, will talk Its budget is 70 percent financed by ICSS clearly had a credibility problem vote to award Qatar the World Cup ect with the Sorbonne in Paris, one of about its efforts to boost transparency the government of Qatar and the rest is “when serious suspicions are floating in rights and plans to create the center France’s best-known universities, that in bidding processes for major sporting income from projects, said ICSS the air surrounding Qatar’s 2022 bid due were well underway beforehand. found an estimated $140 billion is laun- events and combat financial malpractice spokesman Stuart Hodge. ICSS couldn’t to the corrupt culture in FIFA at the ICSS’ advisory board includes dered every year through sports bet- in professional sport at an event it is immediately say how large that budget time.” Singapore’s Khoo Boon Hui, who was ting. ICSS also partnered with the holding at the National Press Club on is. ICSS, though, says it is independent. Interpol’s president from 2008 to 2012. United Nation’s Office on Drugs and Wednesday. Critics say the organization has a “There is no external influence or input Qatar’s 2022 Supreme Committee was Crime to help train law enforcement The group, which is headed by two public perception problem because of put on the ICSS from the government of among the top ten sources of external officers so that they could crack down former officials from Qatar’s military, the investigations into the allegations Qatar in terms of how we are run and funding for the international crime on game-rigging. includes FIFA’s former head of security about how it’s main patron won enough our activities,” said Hodge. fighting group in 2014. One ICSS advisory board member as an executive director and Interpol’s support from FIFA’s 24-member execu- Both Russia and Qatar have vehe- Interpol earlier this month suspend- Juliette Kayyem, who worked as an former president as a member of its tive committee in 2010 to get the 2022 mently denied there was any wrongdo- ed a 20-million-euro ($22 million) sports assistant secretary at the Department of advisory board. The event comes on the hosting rights. It had faced competing ing in the way they won the World Cup “integrity” agreement with FIFA in the Homeland Security in President Barack heels of the indictment by US authori- bids from the U.S., South Korea, Japan hosting rights. They were not the sub- wake of the investigations. Obama’s first term, said she didn’t see ties of nine current or former FIFA offi- and Australia. ject of the indictments announced by ICSS’s connections to FIFA include any reasons for concern, noting that the cials and five executives in sports mar- “There is no question that a Qatari U.S. prosecutors last month. Chris Eaton, the group’s executive direc- ICSS was doing good work in examining keting or broadcasting on May 27. They entity faces some reputational chal- tor for sport integrity. A former how to keep massive sporting events face charges of bribery, money launder- lenges as it sets out to clean up sports,” QATAR, FIFA, INTERPOL LINKS Australian cop and Interpol official, safe. The faculty member at Harvard’s ing and wire fraud involving more than said Alexandra Wrage, an anti-corrup- ICSS President Mohammed Hanzab, a Eaton became FIFA’s head of security in Kennedy School of Government $150 million. tion expert and founder of the former lieutenant colonel in the Qatar 2010 where he looked into allegations declined to comment on Qatar’s World That investigation is also examining Annapolis, Maryland-based TRACE Armed Forces, announced the formation of vote swapping between Qatar and Cup award, but said: “I think every per- allegations that there was corruption in International. of the organization in March 2011, only Spain-Portugal, who had put in a joint son on that board is asking all the right the awarding of World Cup hosting “Qatar is investing heavily in projects about three months after the desert bid for the 2018 World Cup. questions.”—Reuters Five Africans in Tour de France

PARIS: Having received a wild card invita- the ninth man and much is expected of the tion to the Tour de France, South African two in Africa. There are also three South outfit MTN-Qhubeka have named an Africans in the team, namesakes Jacques unprecedented five African riders in their and Reinardt Janse van Rensburg and nine-man team to race the July 4-26 event. national champion Louis Meintjes. All five They are also the first ever African team are debutantes in the world’s most famous to take part in the Tour de France. Four of bike race. American rider Tyler Farrar has the five took part in the Tour de France won stages in all three Grand Tours, while warm up race the Criterium de Dauphine former Sky man, Norway’s Edvald Boasson from June 7-14, where Eritrea’s Daniel Hagen won two Tour de France stages in Teklehaimanot won the polka dotted 2011. “Our objective is a stage win and to climbers’ jersey. wear one of the jerseys,” team manager Another Eritrean climber, 21-year-old Brian Smith said, admitting they had no Merhawi Kudus, who did not race the sprint hopes and no chance of placing a Daupine, joins the Tour de France line up as rider on the overall podium. —AFP Walker — from also-ran to offshore sailing king

GOTHENBURG: Ian Walker secured the first es in Alicante nine months ago. “If we can be ‘British’ victory in the Volvo Ocean Race, on the podium for every leg, we will not be which was launched 41 years ago from far away from winning this thing.” It was a Portsmouth, and woke yesterday with the strategy that worked to perfection. challenge of ‘what next?’. The 45-year-old has devoted the last sev- BROKEN MAST en years of his life to climbing a personal His boat, Azzam, had accrued two victo- Everest. No British skipper had won offshore ries - achieved in the testing leg one from sailing’s toughest and most prestigious event, Alicante to Cape Town and then the epic leg formerly the Whitbread Round the World five through the South Ocean - by the time Race, but Walker put that to rest on Monday they had finished the sixth stage of nine. Just SANTIAGO: Brazil’s Thiago Silva (center) is congratulated by his teammates in this file photo. —AP in Gothenburg with a resounding, five-point as importantly, they were solidly on the podi- win after nine, gruelling months at the helm um in all the others, with three of them in of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing. runners-up spot. The race has covered some 38,739 nautical Until leg five, however, Dongfeng Race Neymar-less Brazil face miles since the seven-strong fleet set out Team (China) looked capable of scuppering from Alicante, Spain in October last year, visit- Walker’s well-laid plans, especially after win- ing 11 ports and every continent. ning their ‘home’ stage into Sanya, China, on Walker made his first attempt to win this leg three. tough route to trophy ultimate test of guts and stamina as well as But a broken mast forced the Chinese seamanship in the 2008-09 edition on a joint- team out of leg five and with it they picked funded Chinese/Irish boat called ‘Green up eight points for a non-finish in a contest in SANTIAGO: If Brazil are to win their fifth Copa have reached the final four years ago, just a year best ever chance to win this tournament-in Dragon’. Its design, however, had flaws, which which the lowest score wins. America in seven editions, they are going to after making it to the World Cup quarter-finals, which they have four times been beaten final- gave Walker little chance of challenging Suddenly, the race was Walker’s to lose. have to do it the hard way. The South American but they have been in freefall since, failing to ists, most recently in 1987 — not only playing at Brazilian Torben Grael for the overall title. Walker and his vastly experienced crew never super-power decided Monday not to appeal a reach last year’s World Cup and dropping to 85th home but also blessed with a golden generation Three years later, he was back for the looked likely to drop their golden opportuni- four-game ban handed to star striker and cap- in the world. that beat Spain at the World Cup last year. 2011-12 race, but again an uncompetitive ty, despite fifth places in legs seven and nine. tain Neymar for violent conduct, meaning they Ranked 15th after their World Cup 2010 Boasting Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez and boat, backed by Abu Dhabi, let him down and “It’s an amazing feeling, so much hard will have to do without him for the knock-out exploits, Paraguay won only four out of 19 inter- Juventus midfield lynchpin Arturo Vidal he finished fifth. work goes into it,” he recalled for the press stages. national matches from the beginning of 2013 amongst a talented outfit, Chile play with pace A particular lowlight of that campaign was conference on Monday. “My whole relation- What’s more, they are in a loaded draw that until this tournament started. and verve and thrashed Bolivia 5-0 in their final on the very first night at sea when Walker’s ship with the Whitbread started as a kid with conspiracy theorists might be tempted to sug- Even without Neymar, Brazil will expect to group game. boat had its mast snapped in a savage pictures of the boats on the wall. “I did my gest had been fixed to help hosts Chile reach the progress and the team themselves are eager to They certainly won’t be overawed by a side Mediterranean storm and was forced to limp first Volvo Ocean Race two editions ago and I final. exact revenge having lost to Paraguay on penal- missing star striker Luis Sanchez, still serving a back into port in Alicante, Spain, for repairs. really wasn’t sure if I’d be up to it. I wondered Argentina, Colombia and Brazil, the teams ties at this very stage four years ago. ban for biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at the Walker refused to give up on his dream what the Southern Ocean would be like, lots ranked third to fifth in the FIFA World rankings “It’s going to be a tough match,” said centre- World Cup. and neither, to their credit, did his backers of self-doubt, and it’s been a long, old road. are all in the same side of the draw, while on the back Thiago Silva after Sunday’s final group Edinson Cavani has yet to get off the mark for from Abu Dhabi. He arrived in Alicante pre- “We’ve made a lot of mistakes and we’ve other side you find the likes of 61st ranked Peru game. “Any team here is hard. Paraguay got to the shot-shy Uruguayans who mustered just two race for the 12th edition in October 2014, learned a lot of lessons and this time round up against 89th placed Bolivia. In fairness, Chile the last Copa America final and got there on goals in three pool games. Tomorrow, the two relaxed and confident, after the perfect build- we threw all that experience in place, sur- (19th) are actually drawn in their quarter-final merit, beating us along the way. “Beating them outsiders Bolivia and Peru, both former winners up in a one-design Volvo Ocean 65, which he rounded myself with good guys and it against the highest ranked team in their half, on Saturday will have a special meaning.” of the competition, meet in Temuco while on could be sure, was the equal of any of his worked.” His hope now is that the achieve- Uruguay, the defending champions ranked Paraguay are liable to provide stubborn Friday, Vina del Mar will be the setting for the rivals. He also assembled an eight-strong ment will further popularise a sport that is eighth by FIFA. resistance having already held both Argentina heavyweight Argentina-Colombia clash. crew of tried and tested professionals such as continuing to gain traction in Abu Dhabi and And it is Argentina and Colombia who have and Uruguay to draws in the pool phase, while Argentina have not exactly shone so far but navigator, Simon Fisher (Britain), and Justin elsewhere in the Gulf region. been hardest hit, as the two highest ranked beating Jamaica, albeit thanks to a comedy error with an attacking arsenal comprised of Lionel Slattery (Ireland). “It’s a big deal. A big part of what we’re try- sides face each other in the last eight. by the Caribbeans’ goalkeeper Duwayne Kerr. Messi, Sergio Aguero, Angel Di Maria, Javier “Our game plan is simple,” he told ing to do is try to popularise the sport there Whichever negotiates that clash of the titans, The quarter-finals begin on Wednesday with Pastore, Carlos Tevez and Gonzalo Higuain, they reporters on the eve of the opening skirmish- and get young Emiratis sailing. —AFP they will expect to find Brazil in the semis as the hosts Chile tackling Uruguay, whose form has will surely be expecting to end their 22-year wait Selecao are up against Paraguay. Paraguay may been a bit patchy here. Chile face perhaps their to lift the Cop America.—AFP Sheens set for Salford role

LONDON: Australia coach Tim Sheens is to a mid-season clash against New Zealand in 2016. “Iestyn Harris is still the head coach. He has become director of rugby at Super League strug- Sheens presided over Australia’s 2013 World worked with Tim Sheens before and Tim’s glers Salford, owner Marwan Koukash said yes- Cup triumph and won 26 of his 31 Tests in appointment has no bearing on Harris’ position.” terday. Sheens, 64, had a month with Salford in charge. Only Bob Fulford, with 40 Tests, has had Sheens began his coaching career at Penrith an advisory capacity earlier this year and will more games as Australia coach. However, in 1984 and was appointed coach of the New now return to the north-west side in a full-time Australia have lost their last three Tests against South Wales’ State of Origin team in 1991. He post, with Koukash saying he could be at the the Kiwis. succeeded Ricky Stuart as Kangaroos coach fol- club within a week. Koukash added Sheens will be at Salford, cur- lowing Australia’s 2008 World Cup final defeat by The 64-year-old Sheens spent a month with rently second bottom in Super League, until the New Zealand. the Red Devils working in an advisory role earlier end of the season but that he could remain with Meanwhile Koukash, a successful business- this year and will now return in a formal capaci- the club for some time afterwards. man and noted racehorse owner who rescued ty. “The club have agreed to appoint Tim Sheens The Salford owner stressed Sheens’s arrival Salford from the brink of financial collapse two- as director of rugby,” Koukash told a press con- would not affect Iestyn Harris’s position as head and-a-half years ago, refuted claims by overseas ference yesterday. coach. “Obviously to start with Tim is on a short- players Kevin Locke and Tony Puletua that they “I hope he will be with us in a week or so. I term contract until the end of were owed wages. need Tim’s help to ensure we recruit the right the season but it wouldn’t surprise me if he “I would like to make it clear to everyone, that people to this club.” Should Sheens take up the stayed on for two more years after that,” Koukash since I took over the club that players have Salford position, it could well signal the end of said. “He will help the club in many ways. I want always been paid on time and in full,” he said. GOTHENBURG: Overall winner Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing team skippered by Britain’s his seven years in charge of Australia. to invest in youth and I need Tim’s help to ensure “Don’t go out there and say you haven’t been Ian Walker (in the harbor in Gothenburg, Sweden) after crossing the finish line of the His 12-month contract expires at the end of we recruit the players who will be proud to play paid. People who do that are liars and money- 9th leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. —AP this year and the Kangaroos’ next Test isn’t until for the club. grabbers.”—AFP Cubs beat Bouchard finally Dodgers, Royals finds rhythm march

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 201515 18 US down Colombia

EDMONTON: Alex Morgan and Carli Lloyd both 174th cap for the United States, surpassing Briana The breakthrough came eight minutes after the scored to put the United States into the World Cup Scurry’s 173 between 1994-2008. break when Morgan received a pass in the penalty quarter-finals with a hard-fought 2-0 win over 10- The real action came immediately after the area and fired through Castano’s hands. Lloyd’s woman Colombia on Monday. break with Perez sent off for fouling Morgan, who penalty doubled their advantage. The 28th-ranked South Americans were a player was through on goal. Stefany Castano stepped into “It was a huge match for us, a confidence down for most of the second half after new goal- goal with forward Ingrid Vidal coming off, but the booster as they’re not an easy team to play keeper Catalina Perez was sent off for a diving tack- Colombians-in the Women’s World Cup for the firw- against,” said Lloyd. “We were confident the le on US forward Morgan two minutes after the st time-could not reproduce the heroics that saw chances would come. We just have to put them break. them shock third-ranked France 2-0 in their group away. We haven’t peaked yet. We still have a few Abby Wambach stepped up to take the penalty match. more games to go for that.”—AFP but the superstar striker dramatically sent the ball left of goal, denying her a record-equalling 15th Women’s World Cup goal to match Brazil star Marta. Morgan finally broke through after 53 minutes with Bronze lifts England Lloyd getting a second 13 minutes later from a penalty after Megan Rapinoe was fouled inside the box by defender Angela Clavijo. The USA, ranked to World Cup q-finals second in the world and winners in 1991 and 1999, next meet China in Ottawa on Friday for a place in OTTAWA: English women’s soccer finally has a few the football history of England forever,” Sampson the semi-finals. The Americans have never failed to World Cup moments that deserve remembering. In said. “But I reiterate, we want this journey to keep reach the Women’s World Cup semi-finals. 15 stunning minutes, the Three Lionesses over- going.” came a 1-0 deficit, the blistering heat on a sun- It was another disappointing World Cup exit for ‘DECISIONS TO MAKE’ baked artificial turf field, and their own disappoint- the 11th-ranked Norwegians, who won the 1995 It was, however, a costly game for the Olympic ing and brief tournament history. They beat championship under coach Even Pellerud. Norway champions with key midfielders Rapinoe and Norway 2-1 on Monday, delivering England its first finished fourth in 2007, then was eliminated in the Lauren Holiday set to miss the China game after col- tournament knockout-stage victory. group stage four years ago. Not even Pellerud’s lecting yellow cards. “The first emotion I’m feeling is a real sense of return as coach in 2012 could make a difference. “We’ve obviously got decisions to make, but pride for team,” coach Mark Sampson said. “To “To lose a game is something you always have we’ve invested significantly in players over the last show that character and resilience to come back to accept in football, but this was a hard way to six months,” said US coach Jill Ellis. “We’ve dealt with from a goal down in this tournament is an incredi- lose it,” Pellerud said. “It was really disappointing for injuries so I feel very confident in the players we ble achievement.” The win began with stellar goal- all of us. It feels not good.” have to able to come on and contribute and I know keeping from Karen Bardsley, who helped England The difference was Norway’s inability to capital- they will be confident to be able to step up and weather Norway’s first-half push and keep the ize on its chances in the first half. The help us advance.” game goalless. And then, after falling behind on Scandinavians had three shots on goal off seven It was the first World Cup match for Perez, who Solveig Gulbrandsen’s goal off a corner kick in the directed at the net. was replacing first-choice goalkeeper Sandra 54th minute, England’s offense finally found its Isabell Herlovsen was in alone in the 11th Sepulveda, sitting out the game after a second yel- range. Steph Houghton tied it by heading in Fara minute, only to be stopped by a left foot save from low card in their 2-1 loss to England. “If we had not Williams’ corner kick in the 61st minute. And Bardsley. Bronze misplayed the ball in the 39th had our goalkeeper sent off, the outcome would defender Lucy Bronze, from just outside the penal- minute, and the turnover allowed Ada Hegeberg to have been different,” said Colombia coach Fabian ty area, won it in the 76th minute with a hard, line- have a wide-open shot to the left of the net, only to Taborda. “She’s a great goalkeeper. I think she drive shot that glanced in off the hand of goal- be stopped by Bardsley. “Without counting or played well. Unfortunately she was shown a red keeper Ingrid Hjelmseth. being very precise, I think we had six or fantastic card. It’s the first time she has gotten one.” “We showed an amazing amount of character opportunities before England had one,” Pellerud The 20-year-old, who plays college soccer for the today,” said Bardsley, who stopped four shots and said. “If you don’t capitalize on them, that is going University of Miami, pulled off three impressive was votes player of the match. “We went very, very to be a problem.” saves in the first half. Wambach thought she had deep to make it happen.” Houghton tied the game when she outjumped the opening goal minutes into the game at the And they have an opportunity to go even deep- two defenders and from about 6 yards headed in Commonwealth Stadium but her rebound off a er. After failing to win a knockout match in three the ball off the far post. Jill Scott, a 54th-minute Perez stop was ruled offside. previous World Cup appearances, sixth-ranked substitute, then fed a perfect pass to Bronze, who Perez also kept out a Wambach volley, and England advanced to a quarterfinal Saturday was alone just atop the penalty area. Bronze tipped Morgan’s downward header over the cross- against host Canada at Vancouver, British punched a hard shot that glanced off a hand of CANADA: Colombia’s Yoreli Rincon wipes away a tear following their 2-0 loss to the United bar. At the other end of the pitch, Hope Solo was Columbia. “The individual players are now inked in Hjelmseth and into the net.—AP States in their FIFA Women’s World Cup Group of 16 match. —AFP rarely tested in the US goal as she earned a record China factory activity shows signs of stabilization Page 23

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WASHINGTON: Secretary of State John Kerry (right) looks over his notes as second from left, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, China’s Vice Premier Wang Yang, and Treasury Secretary Jack Lewmeet on stage at the 7th US China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) and 6th Consultation on People-to-People (CPE) at the US State Department in Washington yesterday. — AP Qatar building boom a challenge for foreign firms Doha plans $200 billion in infrastructure spending DUBAI: Construction of the Sharq Crossing, Qatar’s $12 billion tainty about the tournament is adding to a testing environ- apply for projects worth more than about 200 million riyals “However, it is a massive undertaking and the first for the bridge and underwater tunnel link across Doha bay, was due ment for foreign contractors in the Gulf state. ($54.93 million), said Salhi. Middle East, so the scale should not be underestimated and to start this year to be ready for the 2022 World Cup, but that While Qatar’s vast wealth from natural gas production has Many opt for joint ventures to ease cash-flow strains - a maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised at the time taken.” deadline has slipped as the government shifts priorities. enabled it to splash out on new infrastructure, it is doing so local partner employs around 90 percent of workers and gets The World Cup has thrown the spotlight on labor condi- The Gulf state’s plans to splurge $200 billion on infrastruc- on strict terms. “Qatar ... fears being taken for a ride by interna- about 60 percent of the money, with an international firm pro- tions in Qatar. Human rights groups and trades unions say ture as part of its 2030 development plan has lured foreign tional consultants - that this is a gold rush, a boom town, and viding the more expensive employees. “Contracts in the construction workers have died due to poor conditions on contractors to what promised to be big profits, but project companies are going to fleece them for as much money as Middle East generally favour the client more than they would sites. Qatar denies the claims. It has promised broad labor delays and problems with contracts and bureaucracy have left they can,” said the source. in the West, for example. There are a myriad of clauses that reforms, but has not set a timetable. Foreign companies com- many in difficulties and their returns uncertain. The govern- Clauses in some contracts can make consultants financially make the contractor liable,” said Nick Smith, Partner at engi- plain that for each project the Ministry of Labor allocates each ment, too, appears to be reassessing its plans, although offi- liable for several years after the project has been delivered. neering consultants Arcadis in Qatar. Clients unwilling to pay company a set number of visas for workers from a particular cials allude to a temporary but indefinite halt to projects “Construction companies and consultants are bank-rolling the for design alterations is one obstacle, said a second construc- country, often regardless of whether there are people from rather than cancellations. projects for their clients,” said the source. tion industry source who spoke on condition of anonymity. those countries willing to take the job. Other schemes that have been put on hold include a multi- Getting their money back can be a lengthy process. “Most contractors suffer major cash-flow shortages, in part “The quota system is extremely challenging and ultimately billion dollar chemicals plant north of the capital Doha and “Project exposure is tens of millions of dollars, which becomes because clients don’t accept paying extra for essential this affects our ability to perform and deliver,” said ALEC’s Doha Grand Park, modelled on New York’s Central Park. “Qatar untenable - they tie us up in their approvals process ad infini- changes due to the original design plans being late or inade- Bergesen. Ashghal has only issued four consultancy tenders has mothballed a lot of vanity projects,” said a source at a con- tum,” said the source. “The money trickles out eventually, but quate and unworkable unless amended,” he said. for projects this year, compared to 25 issued between mid-Feb struction company operating in Qatar who spoke on condi- you want a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. They (Qatar) try and end-December last year, its website shows. tion of anonymity. “It’s indicative of how the country’s grand to shave it off at various stages.” Middle East companies and VISA PROBLEMS Ashghal’s Salhi said some foreign companies turn away aspirations have been toned down a little bit.” local joint ventures seem to fare better in Qatar because they For the World Cup, Qatar has appointed project managers after realizing how much competition they face. “Some of the Corruption allegations that have rocked soccer’s governing are seen as long-term investors in the country. “We prefer to build five stadiums to host games, but must use 8-12 stadi- contractors, they came, we pre-qualified them but they did body FIFA, have put renewed media focus on Qatar and its somebody who comes to work with us, not only for one job ums as per the bid terms. “Rolling out the master plans for the not tender,” said Salhi. hosting of the 2022 football World Cup, although Qatari offi- and then leaves,” said Jalal Salhi, infrastructure affairs director 2022 World Cup has taken longer than anybody had thought,” “They said that was because of a very competitive market, cials say they are confident the event will go ahead as at Qatar’s Public Works Authority (Ashghal), which is in charge said Darrell Bergesen, General Manager of Abu Dhabi contrac- because we have Asian, Turkish contractors or whatever, but planned. The World Cup directly accounts for only about $10 of the Sharq Crossing and other projects. tor Al Jaber LEGT Engineering & Contracting’s (ALEC) Qatar we’re in a global market: we can’t say we’ll only open a tender billion of the $200 billion development program, but uncer- International construction firms or consultants can only office. to European companies.”—Reuters Greece: We had no choice but Etisalat boosts Abu to propose ‘harsh’ reforms Dhabi as Saudi firms

ATHENS: Greece’s economic reforms plan ment. That is the time frame that seems Syriza party won January elections on prom- includes “harsh” measures the government most reasonable and that we can achieve.” ises of repealing the harsh austerity meas- MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS would not have proposed had it had a The IMF sounded less optimistic, with its ures successive governments have imposed choice, a spokesman said yesterday. head, Christine Lagarde, saying Monday in return for bailouts worth 240 billion euros DUBAI: A leap by the shares of United Arab Emirates Qatar’s index edged down 0.3 percent as Ezdan The country this week offered a series of night that the suggestions were “still short of since May 2010. telecommunications operator Etisalat boosted Abu Holding , which was the most heavily traded stock measures, including multiple tax increases, everything that we expected.” But with creditors withholding the final Dhabi’s stock market sharply yesterday, while Saudi and had risen sharply in the past two days after its for- to persuade its creditors to release bailout Hopes that a deal was at hand boosted 7.2 billion in rescue loans and state coffers Arabia stabilised after six straight trading days of eign ownership ceiling was raised, fell back 1.7 per- funds and keep the country from defaulting markets for a second day. The Stoxx 50 index running dry in Greece, Tsipras has been declines. Etisalat said local and foreign institutions cent. In Oman, Al Madina Insurance rose 2.3 percent on its debts as soon as next week. The credi- of European shares was up 1.4 percent, forced to backtrack on many pledges in the and expatriate individuals would be allowed to buy in thin trade after saying it plans to acquire domestic tors, which include other euro-zone states adding to the previous day’s big gains of 4.1 hope of securing a deal that will prevent a up to 20 percent of its shares, though it did not say rival Vision Insurance. Financial details were not given. and the International Monetary Fund, have percent. In Athens, the stock exchange was default on Greece’s debts and a messy exit when the change would take effect. Currently, only demanded reforms that aim to make up 4.5 percent in early afternoon trading, from Europe’s joint currency. Greece faces a UAE individual investors can buy from the market. SAUDI, EGYPT Greece’s public finances sustainable and after closing up 9 percent on Monday. 1.6 billion euro repayment to the IMF on This sent the stock rocketing its 15 percent daily Saudi Arabia’s stock index edged up 0.1 percent to keep the country from slipping back into the Helping sentiment was the news that the June 30, which it cannot afford. limit to 13.80 dirhams, its highest level since July 9,280 points, stabilising after falling for the past six bad habits of overspending that led it into European Central Bank had increased the Sakellaridis noted that the proposed 2008. The rise left the stock with a forward price/earn- trading days on disappointment at the slow pace of its financial crisis. amount of emergency liquidity it allows measures seek to increase taxes on those ings ratio of about 12.5 times, more expensive than foreign fund inflows into the market. But Athens has argued they are needless- Greek lenders to draw on. It is the fourth with higher incomes rather than on low- Saudi Telecom at around 11 but still cheaper than It had dropped on Sunday below its 200-day aver- ly harsh for the broader economy, which has time in a week it does so, in an effort to help income families, salaried employees and Qatar’s Ooredoo at nearly 16. age, now at 9,414 points, a bearish technical signal. shrunk by a quarter in the last five years and the banks withstand a rise in cash with- pensioners. Etisalat pulled Abu Dhabi’s stock index up 2.9 per- The average now acts as immediate resistance. The seen unemployment rocket to 25 percent. drawals from worried Greeks. But Tsipras might face problems getting cent to 4,756 points; it broke above its March and market opened to direct foreign investment on June After a series of meetings in Brussels on all of the government’s lawmakers, which April peaks and also exceeded its 200-day average for 15 but inflows since then have been minimal, and the Monday, European creditors said the new Run on banks include members of a smaller nationalist the first time since last November, which was techni- latest exchange data showed there was no change to proposals offer a good basis to break a four- Depositors pulled an estimated 4 billion party, to sign off on the deal when it is cally very bullish. Shares in rival UAE operator du, list- this pattern on Monday. month deadlock and reach an agreement euros ($4.5 billion) out of banks last week brought to parliament. ed in Dubai, climbed 4.6 percent in sympathy. But However, blue chips that bore the brunt of the dis- this week. Ministers needed to make “one ahead of the Brussels meetings. Greece’s Despite possible losses from the govern- after a strong rise in early trade, the Dubai market appointment attracted bargain-hunting on Tuesday. last push” to finalize the deal, French Finance proposal includes up to 8 billion euros worth ing coalition, the deal is likely to pass with pulled back with its main index closing up just 0.2 Petrochemical giant Saudi Basic Industries climbed Minister Michel Sapin said yesterday. Euro- of measures, including increases to con- votes in favor from opposition parties. Still, percent. Dubai was influenced by another wild swing 0.5 percent and property developer Dar Al Arkan zone finance ministers are due to meet sumer taxes, extra taxes on individual significant dissent from within government in the shares of Amlak Finance, which surged as much added 1.7 percent. Egypt’s bourse remained soft. The again today evening ahead of a European incomes of more than 50,000 euros per year ranks would be a blow to Tsipras and is likely as 12.8 percent in early trade to a new multi-year index slid 0.5 percent, with real estate firm Talaat leaders’ summit that starts tomorrow. and more taxes on companies. to lead to early elections. high. A company executive told the Al Khaleej news- Mostafa remaining one of the main targets of selling; Sapin said Greece had made new pro- “There is full comprehension that there “Each person will assume their own paper this week that the company had been dis- it fell 2.3 percent. posals. “These are tangible elements we can are measures in the proposal that are harsh, responsibilities” during a vote, Sakellaridis cussing a tie-up with minority shareholder Emaar The market’s failure to stage a sustained rise after work with in an efficient way to reach an and they are measures that under different said. “Clearly a government that doesn’t Properties to develop land. the government suspended a capital gains tax in mid- agreement,” he said. circumstances, if it was up to us there was no have the confidence of its deputies can’t But Amlak, again Dubai’s most heavily traded May has disappointed investors. Major brokerage “Now we have to finish the work, verify way we would have taken,” government stand up. But I don’t think we’ll get to this stock, gave up its gains in late trade and closed 3.1 Pharos Securities issued a report on Monday saying the figures, verify the measures. We need spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis told private point,” the spokesman said, adding that “the percent lower at 2.50 dirhams. Many institutional the market appeared to have been forming a peak one last push (Wednesday) night so that the Greek television station Antenna. only choice in this case would be a recourse investors believe retail investors may have pushed the since September and October 2014, and that there heads of state can sign off on the agree- Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ radical left to the polls and to the Greek people.” — AP stock up too fast; some analysts see fair value for the was a sizeable risk of a “significant market decline in stock below 1.0 dirham. the near future”. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 Chinese retail spreads in News in brief Kuwait oil price falls Uganda amid local envy to $59.22 pb KUWAIT: Kuwait oil price lost 87 cents falling to $58.22 per barrel in Monday’s trades, as compared to $59.09 pb on Friday, according to Kuwait Petroleum Beijing’s direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa jumps Corporation. In the international markets, the crude prices dropped amid jitters resulting from repercus- KAMPALA: The last time men posing as immigration petes with a Chinese-owned store across from his own. Chinese be in that business?” he said. “The Ugandans sions of the Greek debts’ crisis and prospected US officials showed up at Wei Kun’s shoe store in the “They should not be here trading. They should have who are grumbling are lazy types. They don’t want com- decline for benzene despite data showing drastic Ugandan capital of Kampala, the Chinese trader forked factories. Otherwise they should be sent back home,” he petition ... bitterness and envy will always be there.” decrease of the crude reserves. Meanwhile, the Brent out $1,000 in bribes to prevent his business from being said. Most of the Chinese merchants, like Kun and his shoe crudes fell 20 cents, 0.3 percent, to $62.82 pb. The shuttered. “I have many, many problems. It’s very diffi- Many other local merchants would like to see them store, keep a low profile. They avoid involving police in American crude also fell, losing 30 cents, 0.5 percent, cult to make money here,” Kun said as he waited for cus- deported or restricted to just large business ventures. In any disputes with employees or rivals. Kun said that in reaching $59.31 pb. tomers inside his shoe store. Zimbabwe, there was even a law in 2013 to reserve the last four months since he set up his shoe store in Yet Kun’s perseverance in the face of such obstacles, retail outlets for locals but it hasn’t stopped the spread one Kampala’s many noisy, poorly-ventilated shopping including the rising hostility toward local merchants, is of Chinese merchants there either. centers, he has paid some $8,000 in fees and bribes to ANB proposes a measure of how profitable it is for Chinese merchants dividend for H1 2015 to run small businesses in Uganda - and the rest of DUBAI: Arab National Bank, Saudi Arabia’s sev- enth-largest lender by assets, has proposed dis- Africa. Over the past 10 years, Chinese industrial giants tributing a cash dividend of 0.45 riyals ($0.12) have invested billions across Africa, and there has been per share for the first half of 2015, it said in a an accompanying explosion of petty retailers opening bourse statement yesterday. The dividend would small shops from Senegal in the west to Algeria in the be the same as the corresponding period of last north, Zimbabwe in the south and Uganda in the east. year, according to Thomson Reuters data. The China’s direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa total distribution would be worth 450 million jumped from practically nothing in 2002 to $18.2 billion riyals, it said in the filing. in 2012. According to the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in Africa, there are about a million Chinese living in Africa, mostly engaged in commercial work. Inexpensive Chinese goods have long been popular Oman CB okays Ominvest, in Africa, and in the last decade Chinese merchants ONIC Holding merger have started eliminating the middle man and setting up MUSCAT: The central bank of Oman has approved the retail outlets of their own - much to local merchants’ proposed merger of Oman International Development chagrin. and Investment Co (Ominvest) and Oman National “The price undercutting will chase us out of the mar- Investment Corporation Holding, a statement from ket,” said Issa Sekitto, spokesman for the Kampala City the regulator said yesterday. The assent was granted at a board of governors’ meeting on Monday, the Traders Association, which counts 400,000 formal mem- statement said without elaborating. Shareholders and bers. boards of both companies had already approved the “Because the Chinese are importing directly from merger, which will see ONIC Holding shareholders home, they can also afford to bring in junk,” he said, receive 1.052 Ominvest shares for every share held. accusing them of importing inferior goods - which the Chinese deny. Local officials estimate there are thousands of these NBF expects market so-called briefcase investors in Uganda a pejorative leading loan growth term playing off the government’s desire to bring in DUBAI: National Bank of Fujairah (NBF) expects major international money. The Chinese merchants’ to outperform its rivals with double-digit loan inexpensive products - such as $1 plastic, slip-on shoes - growth in 2015 as buoyant demand in sectors are finding a ready market in a city where most put such as trade finance, services, manufacturing affordability first. Trader Leo Jian says he and his fellow and education offset slight softness in the infra- merchants sell what the market wants. “China has the structure market, its CEO said yesterday. NBF is best shoes but it also has the fake ones. But Uganda KAMPALA: Chinese national Wei Kun (center) and his sales executive Allen Tushabe, right, sell a pair of shoes made one of the smaller players in a crowded United needs cheap, cheap things, and cheap things can also in China to a customer at their shop in Kampala, Uganda. — AP Arab Emirates (UAE) banking sector, which Chief be seen as fake.” Executive Vince Cook said allows it to be more The traders are increasingly everywhere, in super- In 2011, riots broke out in Kampala that largely tar- keep his place open. Ugandan immigration officials rou- selective on business sectors than some of its markets, furniture shops, photo studios, and massage geted the city’s foreign merchants - echoing the 1972 tinely deport groups of Chinese citizens found operat- larger rivals. “General expectation for the market parlors, but mostly in run-down shopping centers in expulsion of the country’s Indian middle class by dicta- ing without valid work permits - which are often diffi- is generally sort of high single digits, maybe low which Ugandans and Chinese operate side by side. They tor Idi Amin. cult to obtain. Perspective traders must provide evi- double digits [in loan growth]. We will do better are also starting to bring in their own people for the Frank Ssebowa of the Uganda Investment Authority dence of $100,000 in planned investment, language than that,” he told reporters. There are 51 banks manual labor that used to employ Ugandans, Sekitto maintains that there is room for both Chinese and skills and obtain the necessary trade licenses - or pay off in the UAE, which has a population of roughly 8 million. said. Ugandan merchants. He dismisses complaints by some the right people. “To get anything done you need mon- Ugandan trader Arafat Jalai buys much of the stock locals. ey,” said Maya Fang, a Chinese woman who sells furni- for his suitcase shop from the Chinese - even as he com- “If they didn’t have what clients want, would the ture in Kampala. — AP

Turkey’s CB leaves main Oil steady as Europe interest rate unchanged optimism offsets glut ISTANBUL: Turkey’s central bank kept interest rates the overnight borrowing rate at 7.25 percent. The unchanged yesterday, resisting government pressure for overnight lending rate remained at 10.75 percent and the LONDON: Oil prices was flat yesterday as stronger prices,” said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at cuts after a June 7 election left the ruling AK Party without primary dealers’ overnight borrowing rate at 10.25 percent. European economic data and optimism a deal will be CMC Markets. A stronger dollar pressured the oil price. a majority for the first time in more than a decade. The lira, one of the weakest emerging market performers struck between Greece and its creditors offset the impact The dollar index was up 0.9 percent, while the euro shed Investors have been hoping the AKP’s election setback with a double-digit percentage fall against the dollar this of a supply glut and a stronger dollar. more than 1 percent against the greenback. Oil, denomi- this month - the party now needs to find a junior partner to year, was little changed after the announcement, at 2.6768. Prices recovered after falling earlier in the session, nated in the US currency, becomes less affordable to form a coalition government - could give the central bank Four days ahead of the election, data showed annual con- moving into positive territory as European shares holders of other currencies when the dollar strengthens. some much-needed breathing space to fight inflation. sumer prices (CPI) rose above 8 percent for the first time climbed to a three-week high on expectations of a Greek Expectations for a weekly drawdown in US crude But the economy minister renewed his call for lower this year in May, underlining the need to counter inflation- deal. stocks also helped support prices. rates on Monday, suggesting that pressure may resume. ary pressures. Brent crude was 2 cents lower at $63.32 a barrel at Analysts expect US commercial crude oil stocks to President Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly called for rate A central bank survey last week showed annual CPI was 1204 GMT, after closing the previous session up 32 cents. have dropped by an average of 1.8 million barrels to cuts, labeling those who defend high rates “traitors” and seen at 7.77 percent at the end of the year, up from a fore- US crude for August delivery fell 35 cents to $60.03 a around 466 million barrels last week. The American raising investor concern about the bank’s independence. cast of 7.50 percent a month earlier. barrel. The July contract, which expired on Monday, Petroleum Institute, an industry group, will release its “Inflation is expected to decline in the short term owing If the AKP fails to find a junior partner, Turkey could face closed up 7 cents at $59.68 a barrel. Strong European data on US stocks yesterday at 2030 GMT, while the US to a partial correction in food prices. Yet, recent move- the fresh uncertainty of a snap election. economic data supported prices despite a heavy global government’s Energy Information Administration will ments in the exchange rates have delayed the improve- However, Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci told ment in the core indicators,” the bank said in a statement reporters in parliament on Monday he maintained his view surplus of oil that has led to millions of barrels being publish its own inventories data today at 1430 GMT. accompanying its rate decision. “This, combined with the that lowering rates would be beneficial for the economy afloat at sea as sellers struggle to find buyers for cargoes. Investors are also watching to see the speed with uncertainty in global markets and volatility in energy and and the formation of a government would strengthen the France’s manufacturing sector expanded in June for the which Iran could increase oil exports if there is a deal food prices, makes it necessary to maintain the cautious bank’s hand. The AKP, which was founded by Erdogan, this first time since April 2014, while Germany’s private sec- between Tehran and six world powers over Iran’s nuclear stance in monetary policy,” it said. month failed to win a parliamentary majority for the first tor grew at a faster rate in June than in the previous program, which would likely lead to the lifting of All 18 economists polled by Reuters had expected the time since coming to power more than a decade ago. It month. Western sanctions. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad bank to leave rates on hold. now has to find a junior partner to form a coalition govern- “The data from France and Germany show there are Javad Zarif said he saw a good chance of reaching a final The bank left its one-week repo rate at 7.50 percent and ment. — Reuters flickers of life in the European economy, but strong sup- agreement by a June 30 deadline or a few days later, ply is likely for some time to come, meaning subdued oil provided there was political will. — Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

GOLD Saudi Riyals 81.390 US Dollars Mint 0.298650 0.302650 Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. 20 gram 241.650 Jordanian Dinar 426.550 10 gram 123.520 Asia ASIAN COUNTRIES Egyptian Pound 39.530 5 gram 62.440 Bangladesh Taka 0.003541 0.004141 Japanese Yen 2.463 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.253 Chinese Yuan 0.047295 0.050795 Indian Rupees 4.762 Indian Rupees 4.757 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Hong Kong Dollar 0.036902 0.039652 Pakistani Rupees 2.969 Pakistani Rupees 2.968 Indian Rupee 0.004495 0.004885 Srilankan Rupees 2.252 Bangladesh Taka 3.880 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Nepali Rupees 2.968 CURRENCIES TELEX TRANSFER PER 1000 Philippines Pesso 6.708 Japanese Yen 0.002373 0.002553 Singapore Dollar 227.600 Australian Dollar 213.44 Cyprus pound 741.790 Kenyan Shilling 0.003058 0.003058 Hongkong Dollar 38.992 Canadian Dollar 250.26 Japanese Yen 3.460 Bangladesh Taka 3.884 Swiss Franc 334.26 Syrian Pound 2.600 Korean Won 0.000264 0.000279 Philippine Peso 6.717 Euro 346.50 Nepalese Rupees 3.030 Malaysian Ringgit 0.077721 0.083721 Thai Baht 8.995 US Dollar 302.55 Malaysian Ringgit 81.820 Nepalese Rupee 0.003031 0.003201 Sterling Pound 483.02 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 49.190 Pakistan Rupee 0.002770 0.003050 GCC COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.50 Thai Bhat 9.965 Philippine Peso 0.006645 0.006925 Saudi Riyal 80.643 Bangladesh Taka 3.884 Turkish Lira 112.410 Sierra Leone 0.000070 0.000076 Qatari Riyal 83.070 Indian Rupee 4.763 Singapore Dollar 0.223423 0.229423 Omani Riyal 785.470 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.253 Bahrain Exchange Company South African Rand 0.018825 0.027325 Bahraini Dinar 803.110 Nepali Rupee 2.976 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001820 0.002400 UAE Dirham 82.335 Pakistani Rupee 2.972 CURRENCY BUY SELL Taiwan 0.009694 0.009874 UAE Dirhams 82.25 Europe Thai Baht 0.008677 0.0009227 ARAB COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 803.04 Belgian Franc 0.007884 0.008884 Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.225 Egyptian Pound 39.54 British Pound 0.473344 0.482344 Arab Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.533 Jordanian Dinar 429.81 Czech Korune 0.004603 0.016603 Bahraini Dinar 0.795261 0.803261 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.411 Omani Riyal 784.65 Danish Krone 0.042003 0.047003 Egyptian Pound 0.038962 0.041792 Tunisian Dinar 158.250 Qatari Riyal 83.32 Euro 0.338285 0.346285 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Jordanian Dinar 426.790 Saudi Riyal 80.60 Norwegian Krone 0.035118 0.040318 Iraqi Dinar 0.000185 0.000245 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.029 Romanian Leu 0.076539 0.076539 Jordanian Dinar 0.421995 0.429495 Slovakia 0.009000 0.019000 Syrian Lira 2.155 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Morocco Dirham 31.883 Swedish Krona 0.033243 0.038243 Lebanese Pound 0.000150 0.000250 Swiss Franc 0.322486 0.332686 Moroccan Dirhams 0.021693 0.045693 Turkish Lira 0.110440 0.117440 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Nigerian Naira 0.000916 0.001551 US Dollar Transfer 302.250 US Dollar 302.200 Omani Riyal 0.779052 0.784732 Australasia Euro 345.770 Canadian Dollar 249.185 Qatar Riyal 0.082309 0.083522 Australian Dollar 0.226907 0.238407 Sterling Pound 481.790 Sterling Pound 481.265 Saudi Riyal 0.079963 0.080663 Canadian dollar 247.440 Euro 345.260 New Zealand Dollar 0.202793 0.212293 Syrian Pound 0.001281 0.001501 Turkish lira 112.360 Swiss Frank 278.695 Tunisian Dinar 0.153294 0.161294 Swiss Franc 330.690 Bahrain Dinar 800.525 America Turkish Lira 0.110440 0.117440 Australian Dollar 236.510 UAE Dirhams 82.655 Canadian Dollar 0.241163 0.249663 UAE Dirhams 0.081310 0.082459 US Dollar Buying 301.150 Qatari Riyals 83.825 US Dollars 0.298150 0.302650 Yemeni Riyal 0.001366 0.001446 BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

Asia dividend-paying equity funds take top spot

SINGAPORE: Asia dividend-paying equity funds four-fold from a year earlier to around $2.1 bil- driver of the increased flows into equity divi- seeking investors. The Value Partners High- are drawing billions of dollars that could have lion, compared with outflows from the region’s dend funds and the higher flows will continue Dividend Stocks Fund, No 4 on the top-five list, gone into other equity funds in the region, as biggest equity funds such as the Templeton at least for the next two, three years,” said Chuck saw an inflow of $704 million in the first five investors seek out assets that yield more than Asian Growth Fund and the Aberdeen Global Ng, CEO of Value Partners Asset Management months versus an outflow of $105 million a bonds but are less risky than direct stock pur- Asia Pacific Equity Fund. Singapore. year earlier. Of its $4.06 billion portfolio, 16 chases. China, India, South Korea and Australia have Other factors contributing to the growing percent was invested in Korean stocks, with In January-to-May, dividend funds accounted all cut interest rates in recent months, spurring appetite for Asian dividend funds are new Amorepacific and Samsung Electronics among for three of the top five Asia equity funds ex- capital flows into higher-yielding investments investment opportunities in markets such as its top holdings. The portfolio’s dividend yield Japan with the most fund inflows, according to including dividend equity funds. Similarly in South Korea. A new law in South Korea taxing was at 3.8 percent at the end of May. In con- data from Lipper, a Thomson Reuters unit. The the United States and Europe, dividend-themed excess corporate cash is compelling tradition- trast, the average dividend yield for large- and OkasanAM Asia Oceania Good Dividend Growth funds have seen strong inflows due to low inter- ally tight-fisted companies to pay more divi- mid-cap stocks in the Asia-Pacific region is 2.4 fund pulled in the most capital. Inflows jumped est rates. “Clearly, low interest rates have been a dends, making them attractive to income- percent. — Reuters

Britain finalizes ‘toughest’ banker bonus rules in world

LONDON: Top bankers in Britain could have their bonuses clawed back a decade after they were awarded under pro- posals from regulators yesterday that would make industry pay curbs the toughest in the world. Critics said the plans meant that British banks would have to pay a premium to attract top bankers from overseas, while lawyers questioned whether they could be enforced. For chief executives and chairmen, a bonus could be clawed back for up to 10 years if misconduct is uncovered, the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority and Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority said. Senior managers face a seven-year clawback period, dropping to five years for more junior staff. “This is a crucial step to rebuild public trust in financial services, and allows firms and regulators to build long term decision making and effective risk management into peo- ple’s pay packets,” FCA Chief Executive Martin Wheatley said. Public anger at big bonuses awarded to bankers who were bailed out by taxpayers or found to have tried rigging Libor interest rates or currency markets sparked new curbs across the world but Britain has gone much further than other countries. Nicholas Stretch of lawfirm CMS said it would be very difficult to make the lengthy clawback rules work in practice. Bankers may have moved to another part of the world by the time a clawback is ordered. Most of a bonus is now deferred over several years to make it easier to halt payments if misconduct is uncovered. The new rules require the non-cash part of a bonus to be YICHANG: A truck transporting brand new cars in Yichang, central China’s Hubei province. China’s manufacturing activity contracted for the fourth straight month paid out over seven years for top managers. in June as demand remained sluggish in the world’s second-largest economy, a survey by British banking giant HSBC showed yesterday. NO BAN ON BUYOUTS Bonuses for non-executive directors and for manage- ment of a bank being shored up by taxpayers are banned China factory activity shows from July. The clawback and deferral rules come into force next January. After the government had to rescue several lenders in the 2007-09 financial crisis, policymakers want to make it harder for bankers to escape financially if miscon- signs of stabilization in June duct is uncovered years later. “As promised by the government, the UK now has the toughest bank pay rules in the world,” said Jon Terry, a pay expert at consultancy PwC. “The biggest concern for banks Surveys: Economy may be regaining some momentum headquartered in the UK is the uneven playing field that now exists between the UK and the rest of the European SHANGHAI: China’s factory activity showed signs of stabi- companies have relatively muted growth expectations,” desired effect on investment, given weak demand. Union, adding to the existing differences between the EU lizing in June, with two private surveys suggesting the said Annabel Fiddes, an economist at Markit, adding that Indeed, much of the easing measures appear to have and the rest of the world,” Terry said. economy may be regaining some momentum even as she expects Beijing to “step up their efforts to stimulate been absorbed by a stock market rally, and now the bond British banks will likely have to pay a premium to attract many analysts expect further policy support to ensure the growth and job creation.” market - which is being force-fed a massive plate of senior executives from outside the country with more in the recovery becomes more sure-footed. municipal bonds to help relieve heavily indebted local form of fixed pay, Terry added. The HSBC/Markit Flash China Manufacturing Purchasing ROSY BEIGE BOOK governments. The FCA’s Wheatley said the rules are part of a wider Managers’ Index (PMI) edged up to 49.6 in June, a three- However, the China Beige Book quarterly survey China cut interest rates for the third time in six package being announced over the summer to include requirements for banks to specify who is responsible for month high, from 49.2, but remained below the 50 mark painted a much rosier picture, describing a “broad- months in May, in a bid to lower companies’ borrowing what and make it easier for regulators to pin blame. which separates contraction from expansion. New orders based recovery” in the second quarter, led primarily by costs and stoke a sputtering economy that is headed for The regulators also spelled out yesterday what must hap- returned to positive territory at 50.3 and new export orders provinces in China’s interior. “Among major sectors, two its worst year in a quarter of a century. Markets expects pen when a rival bank offers to honor a new hire’s bonus fell at a much slower pace. “The pick-up in new orders was developments stand out: a welcome resurgence in Beijing to step up policy support. A major headache is awarded by their former employer, a key element in recruit- driven by a strong rise in the new export orders subcom- retail - which saw rising revenue growth despite a slip the reluctance of Chinese executives to invest in expan- ing staff. Buyouts must be structured so that they vest no ponent, suggesting that foreign demand may finally be in prices - and a broad-based rebound in property,” sion or productivity due to low returns and higher long- earlier than the awards they replace, meaning the deferred turning a corner,” wrote Capital Economics analysts in a report authors Leland Miller and Craig Charney wrote, term borrowing costs, “Real interest rates are double portion of the bonus cannot be cashed in any quicker. research note. adding that manufacturing, services, real estate, agri- digits, 11 or 12 percent. This is the real issue for the A simple ban on buyouts had been among the options “Today’s PMI reading reinforces our view that the econ- culture and mining all saw both year-on-year and quar- economy. You can cut nominal rates to zero and you are proposed last year but this has now been rejected. The regu- omy has started to find its footing.” However, companies terly gains. still seeing real rates around 5 percent. The profit mar- lators will now look at how the transferred bonus could be stepped up layoffs, shedding jobs at the fastest pace in “Overall, firms continue to do better than official data gin is only around 3-4 percent,” said Zhou Hao, econo- clawed back by the bank that originally awarded it if miscon- over six years, and Capital Economics’ analysts said they and its legions of sell-side users - might suggest.” Miller mist at ANZ Bank in Shanghai. “We are still seeking new duct emerges. — Reuters expect further easing measures in the pipeline. has recently argued that stimulus cannot solve China’s engines for the economy. Basically we need to delever- “Manufacturers continued to cut staff. This suggests economic challenges and will be unlikely to have the age first,” he said. — Reuters Greek debt countdown to June 30

BRUSSELS: Greece along with its euro-zone peers and cred- discuss seriously. EU president Donald Tusk said Monday He was elected in January on a promise to end five dev- itors have just one week from yesterday to nail down the that the Greek proposals submitted at the weekend were astating years of bailout austerity and his radical left sup- detailed debt deal needed to keep the country afloat and finally a real starting point for proper talks. porters are on the lookout for any backsliding. safely in the single currency bloc. Following are the sched- The latest Greek proposals involve a significant fiscal hit uled meetings up to June 30 when Greece’s current massive Thursday-Friday, June 25-26: EU summit and Tsipras may find it hard to sell them even if they do bailout program ends and it must repay around 1.5 billion Leaders from all 28 EU member states hold a scheduled include new taxes on the wealthy to ease the burden on the euros to the International Monetary Fund to avoid default. summit to review the first half of the year. If the Eurogroup poor. Merkel of Europe’s paymaster Germany also must get meeting today produces an agreement with Greece and its the agreement passed in the German parliament, but she is Today: Eurogroup creditors as anticipated, leaders will then formally give it unlikely to risk a vote until the Greek assembly has passed its The 19 eurozone finance ministers reconvene in the their blessing. A new accord is meant to support Greece verdict. That means the Bundestag may only take up the Eurogroup to thrash out the details of the next three Greek through the next few months so it can cover its debt pay- issue on June 30. budgets to make sure Athens can hit the tough surplus and ments while putting the public finances on a more sustain- savings targets demanded by its peers. able basis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other EU Tuesday, June 30: Deadlines The key sticking points are pension system reforms, leaders are opposed now to any reduction in Greece’s Greece must repay around 1.5 billion euros to the IMF increases in sales tax (VAT) and privatization, all meant to mountain of debt-the heart of the problem-but it is accept- and its bailout program ends. At this stage, even if there is a boost government coffers. Without agreement, the credi- ed that something must be done if the economy is ever to new deal, it is unlikely that it could be put in place quickly tors-the European Union, the European Central Bank and grow again. Leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says and Greece would need some stop-gap solution to tide it the IMF-will not release the last bailout tranche worth 7.2 the debt-some 320 billion euros or nearly 180 percent of over. Germany opposes another extension to the current billion euros Athens needs to cover the June 30 IMF pay- annual economic output-must be radically restructured if bailout program so one EU source said the ECB might step ment. After winning a four-month reprieve in February to Greece is to have any chance of recovery. in, allowing the Greek government to issue more short-term negotiate new bailout terms, Greece was supposed to come bonds to raise fresh cash in the meantime. up with a list of reforms to meet creditor demands that it Saturday-Tuesday, June 27-30: Parliaments Greece could also perhaps draw on the 10 billion euros ATHENS: A man waves a European flag in front of giant Greek one, strengthen its public finances. The creditors have said If Tsipras gets a deal, he still has to win Greek parliamen- set aside in the current bailout to recapitalise its banks but during a pro-European demonstration in front of the Greek parlia- Athens repeatedly failed to produce any scheme they could tary approval and that could prove difficult. only if these funds were rolled over. — AFP ment in Athens on Monday. — AFP Watchdog probes KPMG over BNY Mellon compliance

LONDON: Britain’s accounting watchdog has BNY’s rule breaches spanned nearly six years opened an investigation into how accounting firm from November 2007 to August 2013. This period KPMG made sure that Bank of New York Mellon included the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, complied with rules on keeping customer money which prompted British regulators to check that safe. custody banks were complying with safe-keeping The Financial Reporting Council said yesterday rules. the investigation would cover the conduct of KPMG KPMG, one of the world’s “Big Four” accounting auditors regarding BNY Mellon’s London branch. firms, was responsible for reporting to the financial “We are committed to setting the highest standards regulator that BNY Mellon was complying with in our work and will cooperate fully with the FRC in rules on the safe-keeping of customer assets. its enquiries,” a KPMG spokesman said. The FRC’s investigation will cover the years’ Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority fined BNY that ended on 31 December 2007 to 31 December Mellon, the world’s biggest custody bank, 126 mil- 2011. The watchdog has powers to impose unlim- lion pounds ($199 million) in April for failing to keep ited fines and ban an accountant from the indus- A field of flax is pictured on Monday in Raffetot, northwestern France. — AFP customer money safe during the financial crisis. try. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 Greece optimism lifts stocks in Europe, Asia

LONDON: Optimism that a deal could be at hand to solution to the problem,” said Andreas Clenow, panies in Shanghai and Shenzhen closed up 3.2 per- May. That kept the Federal Reserve on track to raise Manufacturing Co gained 1.76 percent to stave off a Greek default lifted global shares yester- hedge fund trader and principal at ACIES Asset cent. Chinese factory activity showed signs of stabil- interest rates later this year, which lifted the dollar Tw$144.5 while Fubon Financial Holding day and cut borrowing costs for the euro zone Management. ising in June. The HSBC/Markit flash manufacturing 0.5 percent against a basket of currencies. closed 1.89 percent higher at Tw$64.8. countries considered most vulnerable to the pro- But some euro zone leaders cautioned that PMI edged up to a three-month high of 49.6 from The euro last traded at $1.1220, having hit Wellington was flat, edging up 0.08 points to tracted crisis. European shares gained more than 1 much work still needed to be done, and some Greek 49.2, still below the 50 mark that separates expan- $1.1440 on Thursday. The yen was down 0.2 percent 5,772.13. Air New Zealand was up 1.00 percent percent to reach three-week highs and the risk pre- lawmakers reacted angrily to concessions offered sion from contraction. at 123.58 per dollar. The US housing data and the at NZ$2.525 and Contact Energy slipped 1.35 mium that investors demand to hold Italian 10-year by Athens. Low-risk German 10-year government bond progress on Greece pushed US Treasury yields high- percent to NZ$5.12. government bonds over German Bunds fell to its The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index rose yields fell 1 basis point to 0.88 percent. Yields on 10- er. Ten-year yields were at 2.38 percent, up from 2.36 • Manila closed 0.76 percent lower, giving up lowest for more than a month. 1.2 percent. France’s CAC 40 index rose a similar year bonds from Italy and Spain , two countries percent in New York on Monday. 57.58 points to 7,551.56. Wall Street was also expected to open higher, amount and Germany’s DAX 1.0 percent. Greek whose debt markets have felt some contagion from Sydney advanced 1.32 percent, or 74.10 points, • Mumbai inched marginally higher by 0.27 per- according to stock index futures. The euro missed stocks soared 4.5 percent. Greece in recent weeks, were down 7 and 6 bps at to 5,684.3 and Seoul closed up 1.27 percent, or cent, or 74.16 points, to end 27,804.37 points. the party, though. It fell more than 1 percent against Also fuelling the rally were better-than-expected respectively. The spread of Italian 10-year yields over 26.04 points, at 2,081.20. Shanghai, which plunged Coal India gained 3.85 percent to 415.15 a dollar boosted by further evidence of US econom- data on factory and service sector activity in France, German equivalents tightened to its narrowest more than 13 percent last week before a long week- rupees, while Infosys fell 2.27 percent to ic strength and against the yen and sterling. Greece Germany and the euro-zone overall, according to since mid-May. end, ended 2.19 percent higher, adding 98.13 points 1,001.15 rupees. presented new proposals on Monday that euro Markit’s preliminary June purchasing manager to 4,576.49. Hong Kong rose 0.93 percent, or 252.61 • Malaysia’s key index lost 0.34 percent, or 5.90 zone leaders welcomed as a basis for a possible indexes. Earlier, MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific EURO DOWN points, to 27,333.46. points to 1,726.86. Maybank dropped 0.64 per- agreement to unlock aid and avert default and a shares outside Japan was up 0.7 percent. Japan’s The euro weakened 1.0 percent against a cent to 9.28 ringgit, Tenaga Nasional fell 0.31 potential exit from the euro. Nikkei jumped 1.9 percent to a fresh 15-year high. stronger dollar after data on Monday showed sales China data boost percent to 13.06 ringgit while Genting Malaysia “It now appears that we will have a short-term China’s CSI 300 index of the biggest listed com- of existing US homes rose to a 5 1/2-year high in On Wall Street Monday the Nasdaq rose 0.72 gained 0.24 percent to 4.22 ringgit. percent to a new record, the Dow added 0.58 per- • Bangkok slipped 0.06 percent, or 0.83 percent, cent and the S&P 500 advanced 0.61 percent. to close at 1,503.23 Coal producer Banpu lost Athens rocketed 9.0 percent, while there were also 0.97 percent, or 0.25 baht, to 25.50, while big gains across Europe’s other major markets, Bangkok Bank edged down 0.28 percent, or which were extended in early trade yesterday. 0.50 baht, to close at 178.00. “Hopes are likely to heighten for a positive out- • Singapore closed up 0.74 percent, or 24.65 come over the Greek issue before a European points, to 3,339.78. United Overseas Bank Union summit later this week after Greece signalled gained 1.04 percent to Sg$23.27 while oil rig readiness to compromise,” Yujiro Goto, currency maker Keppel Corp fell 0.12 percent to Sg$8.40. strategist at Nomura Holdings, told Bloomberg • Jakarta ended down 0.44 percent, or 21.60 News. points, at 4,937.65. Private hospital group Siloam International Hospitals gained 1.87 per- In other markets cent to 13,600 rupiah, while auto company • Taipei rose 0.53 percent, or 49.37 points, to Astra International slipped 2.50 percent to 9,391.14. Taiwan Semiconductor 6,825 rupiah. — Agencies BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 Pacific trade pact returns to US Senate for second test

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama’s sig- withdraw support. fully demanded the measure be bundled with “If we simply vote the same way we did a cou- nature Pacific trade pact faces another test in the Fast-track legislation gives lawmakers the three other trade bills. Opposition in the House ple of weeks ago, we won’t miss this opportuni- Senate yesterday as legislation needed to close right to set negotiating objectives for trade deals of Representatives, where Democrats refused to ty,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the deal returns for a second run through the such as the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, renew a previously uncontroversial program pro- on Monday. chamber. The legislation has already endured six or TPP, but restricts them to a yes-or-no vote on viding aid to workers hurt by trade, has forced The top Democrat on the Senate Finance weeks of congressional wrangling and two close the final agreement. Trading partners say they the measures apart again. Committee, Ron Wyden, backed the plan but brushes with failure after revolts by Obama’s own want fast-track legislation enacted before finaliz- Senators will vote on limiting debate on fast- several others would not reveal their stances to Democrats, many of whom believe trade deals ing the TPP, which would be the biggest trade track and - if that vote succeeds - on the actual reporters as unions intensified their opposition will threaten US jobs. deal since the North American Free Trade bill today, before tackling a second bill extend- campaign. The bill, which would establish a fast track Agreement liberalized commerce between the ing trade benefits to African nations. That bill The TPP, a potential legacy-defining agree- through Congress for trade deals, needs sup- United States, Canada and Mexico two decades now also contains the worker aid program. ment for Obama, would open markets for US port from 60 senators to clear a procedural ago. Republicans want both measures to pass this exporters like Intel Corp and Caterpillar Inc, hurdle. Although the measure passed the It took two attempts to pass this same proce- week before Congress goes on a week-long extend monopoly periods for Pfizer Inc and Senate a month ago on a vote of 62-37, includ- dural hurdle on the legislation’s first run through break so that Obama can promptly sign them rivals’ medicines and cut import costs for compa- ing backing from 14 Democrats, some may the Senate last month, after Democrats success- into law. nies like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. — Reuters Wal-Mart, Sears to stop selling Confederate flag merchandise

CHARLESTON: Wal-Mart Stores Inc and them decide the merchandise they sell. Sears Holdings Corp said they would stop Still, at times, items make their way into selling products bearing the Confederate their assortment improperly. “This is one flag, a week after a white gunman shot of those instances.” nine dead at a historically black South Sears, which operates Sears and Kmart Carolina church. stores, does not sell confederate flags at The move by the major retailers came its stores and has decided to remove the same day South Carolina Governor sales of such merchandise by third par- Nikki Haley called on lawmakers to take ties on its online marketplace, said down the flag, considered by opponents spokesman Chris Brathwaite. to be a symbol of slavery and racism, at “We are in the process of scrubbing the state capitol grounds. The accused our marketplace to pull those items white gunman posed with the flag in down,” Brathwaite said. A check on Target photos online. Supporters, who fly the Corp’s website did not show any flags flag or wear it on clothing, see it as a being sold. A spokeswoman said she is symbol of the South’s history and culture, checking with the company’s merchan- as well a memorial to the Confederate dising team. A search on Amazon.com casualties during the 1861-65 Civil War. found Confederate flags and merchan- A Wal-Mart spokesman said the com- dise featuring flag designs sold by third pany does not want to offend anyone parties on Amazon’s website and some with the products it offers. “We have tak- shipped by Amazon on their merchants’ en steps to remove all items promoting behalf. Amazon itself did not appear to the confederate flag from our assortment be selling the flags or related items. - whether in our stores or on our website,” The company did not immediately spokesman Brian Nick said in a state- respond to requests for comment. Rival ment. Ebay Inc listed over 1,000 Confederate Wal-Mart’s website still showed the flags and related items offered by third- WASHINGTON: A Boeing 737 aircraft is seen during the manufacturing process at Boeing’s 737 airplane factory in Renton, Washington. New flag and other merchandise carrying the party sellers on its web site. The company orders for US manufactured durable goods fell in May, pulled lower by slumping aircraft orders, the Commerce Department reported yester- flag available for purchase. Nick said Wal- could not be immediately reached for day.—AFP Mart has a process in place which helps comment. —Reuters US durable goods orders retreat again in May New-home sales climb to best levels since 2008

WASHINGTON: Orders to US factories for long-last- Economics, noted that factories reduced inventories er oil prices and a stronger dollar that has hurt ing manufactured goods fell in May, pulled down by a in May, a sign that manufacturers expect less demand exports. Last month’s sales gains were concentrated sharp drop in demand for aircraft. But a category that from customers. Reduced inventories are a drag on in the Northeast, where sales jumped 87.5 percent. reflects business investment rose last month, a hope- economic growth. Last week, the Federal Reserve said New-home sales increased 13.1 percent in the West, ful sign for manufacturing. manufacturing output dropped 0.2 percent in May. but slipped in the Midwest and South. The Commerce Department said yesterday that The Federal Reserve Bank of New York also reported The median sales price has fallen slightly, dipping total orders for durable goods dropped 1.8 percent in that factory activity in New York state contracted in 1 percent over the past 12 months to $282,800. May after falling 1.5 percent in April. Last month’s June. But factories around Philadelphia expanded this The increases have caused the supply of new drop was caused in part by a 35.3 percent plunge in month at the fastest pace since December, the homes to dwindle to 4.5 months, compared to the six orders for aircraft, which is often a volatile category. Philadelphia Fed reported last week. months’ supply generally associated with a healthy Excluding transportation, orders rose 0.5 percent. Despite their troubles, factories keep hiring, market. Still, homebuilders are preparing to meet this Durable goods are items meant to last at least three though at modest levels. The Labor Department demand, having broken ground on more houses this years, such as cars, home appliances and furniture. reported that manufacturers have added jobs 22 year and plan to continue construction. Approved American factories have struggled this year in part straight months through May, longest streak since building permits rose increased 11.8 percent to an because a strong dollar has made US goods more the late 1970s. annual rate of 1.28 million, the highest level since expensive overseas. Cheaper oil prices also mean August 2007, the Commerce Department reported energy firms are buying less equipment. So far this Home sales last week. the economy continues to muscle up. year, durable goods orders are down 2.2 percent from Purchases of new US homes surged in the Sales of existing homes climbed 5.1 percent in May to NEW YORK: Wal-Mart President & CEO Doug McMillon is interviewed by Maria January-May 2014. Northeast and West in May, as steady job growth over a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.35 million, the Bartiromo during her “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo” program on the Fox Business A key category that tracks business investment the past year has lifted the real estate sector. The National Association of Realtors said Monday. Tight Network, in New York, yesterday.—AP plans - orders for non-military capital goods exclud- Commerce Department said yesterday that new- supplies have lifted prices, which have climbed 7.9 ing aircraft - rose 0.4 percent in May, reversing a 0.3 home sales rose 2.2 percent last month to a seasonal- percent over the past 12 months to an average of percent drop in April. Some economists view the ly adjusted annual rate of 546,000, the strongest pace $228,700, about $1,700 below the July 2006 peak. Sterling’s rapid rise could increase as a sign that the damage from lower oil in more than seven years. Much of the increased buying activity flows from a prices is starting to fade. Sales of new homes have soared 24 percent year- stronger job market and relatively affordable mort- see BoE hold rates for longer “The underlying trend in US core orders and ship- to-date, helped by the additional incomes from the gage rates. Borrowing costs are low by historical stan- ments point to stronger activity ahead,” Jennifer Lee, employers hiring 3.1 million workers in the past 12 dards, but they have been rising in recent weeks at a LONDON: A surge in sterling on robust Many speculators are yet to buy into senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, wrote in a months and relatively low mortgage rates. The sharp speed that might prompt more people to buy homes. British economic data and safe-haven the view that sterling is in for a lengthy research note. “It helps that the greenback, though increase in purchases could help drive more employ- Average 30-year fixed rates were 4 percent last demand due to Greece has raised ques- period of gains. Data from the strengthening again recently, is off its highs, and oil ment in the construction sector and broader eco- week, according to the mortgage giant Freddie Mac. tions over whether the Bank of England Commodity Futures Trading Commission prices are steadying.” nomic growth, potentially offsetting the setbacks to That average has increased from a 52-week low of will begin lifting interest rates as quickly showed speculators still held large bets But Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital growth in the manufacturing sector caused by cheap- 3.59 percent.—AP as some anticipate. Market expectations against the pound, although they have as indicated by the sterling overnight been trimming those positions. indexed swaps curve, suggest the BoE RBS says it will return surplus will follow the US Federal Reserve to Fiiscal tightening, brexit risks become the second major central bank to The BoE’s sensitivity to a rising curren- lift interest rates from their crisis-era cy and its impact is not unique. Earlier lows. Economists and some in the market this year, as the dollar hit decade highs capital to shareholders are pencilling in the initial hike in the first on expectations that the Federal Reserve quarter of 2016. But a stronger currency could start raising rates in June, several EDINBURGH: Royal Bank of Scotland expects a sub- years, told reporters before the meeting. pay out billions of dollars later this year to settle tends to lower inflation, and this plus the policymakers warned about its impact on stantial increase in its capital as a result of disposals “It’s a lot of stock to shift and I think it will take sev- claims it misled investors in mortgage-backed securi- prospect of further growth-sapping fiscal US. growth and inflation. over the coming years and intends to return some of eral years,” he said. Hampton oversaw a huge restruc- ties. It has already been fined for the attempted tightening by the Conservative govern- The dollar has pulled back and it to shareholders, Chief Executive Ross McEwan said. turing of RBS, which shed more than 1 trillion pounds manipulation of foreign exchange and benchmark ment-has persuaded some analysts to say investors are still unclear whether the Fed The bank, 78 percent owned by the government, said of assets as it re-focused on lending to British house- interest rates. “There is still work to do across the that the BoE could hold rates lower for will raise rates in September or in February it would shrink its investment banking holds and businesses. However, RBS remains ham- industry to improve culture,” said Hampton. “There is longer. That would disappoint sterling December. Back in Britain, investors also operations drastically, pulling out of 25 countries pered by past misconduct and is expected to have to no place for that behavior in this bank.” — Reuters bulls. have to reckon with a bout of fiscal tight- across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, to help it The pound touched a seven-year high ening. Finance minister George Osborne refocus on lending in Britain. It is also selling its US on a trade-weighted basis yesterday, bol- is due to announce new plans to tackle bank Citizens. “As we reduce risk, and make expected stered by expectations the BoE will raise the budget deficit on July 8, including divestments over the coming years, we anticipate a rates for the first time since July 2007 spending cuts, after his Conservative substantial increase in our capital as a result. Subject towards the end of the first quarter of Party won a general election in May. to approval, we intend to return any surplus capital to 2016. The market had been predicting a Morgan Stanley analysts say fiscal our shareholders,” McEwan told the bank’s annual hike from 0.5 percent in the second quar- tightening could amount to just over 1.5 meeting yesterday. ter but shifted its view last week after percent of gross domestic product in the RBS is targeting a core Tier 1 capital ratio of 13 per- data showing wages grew at their fastest next couple of years and see growth cent and plans to return any capital about that level. rate in nearly four years in April and signs slowing in 2016 to 1.9 percent- below the The bank’s core Tier 1 ratio, a key measure of its finan- of further improvement in the labour BoE’s forecast of 2.6 percent. cial strength, stood at 11.5 percent at the end of the market. “In the short term, fiscal drag could first quarter and the sale of Citizens is expected to “A rising pound which will eat into any produce a slower growth trend and delay result in a improvement of about 300 basis points. gains in inflation, will have implications a tightening cycle,” said Josh O’Byrne, Paying a dividend or buying back shares would for monetary policy,” said Geoff Yu, strate- currency strategist at Citi. make the bank more attractive to shareholders and gist at UBS. He added that persistent dis- Additionally, political risks in the form help the government dispose of its stake. British inflationary conditions and uncertainty in of a referendum on Britain’s membership finance minister George Osborne has said the gov- the euro-zone-the UK’s biggest trading of the European Union could pose a risk. ernment will start selling its shares in the coming partner-could see rates remain lower for “Investment flows could be adversely months. The bank was bailed out at a cost of 45.8 bil- longer. British consumer prices rose a affected by uncertainty in the run up to lion pounds ($72 billion) to taxpayers during the measly 0.1 percent in the 12 months to the UK’s EU membership referendum,” 2007-09 financial crisis. May, recovering from a fall of 0.1 percent said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist Prior to the meeting, Chairman Philip Hampton in April. Earlier this year, BoE Governor at Rabobank. said it would take the government several years to Mark Carney said the impact of rising “As it stands we are comfortable with sell its entire shareholding in the bank. “I’ve long FRANKFURT: The curve of the German stock index DAX is displayed on a board at the stock market in sterling on inflation could last for some our forecast for steady rates from the BoE thought the process should have started,” Hampton, Frankfurt yesterday. Optimism over the prospects of a deal to avoid a Greek debt default and the coun- time. until May 2016.” — Reuters who is to leave the bank this year after six and a half try’s potential exit from the euro shored up global stock markets once again yesterday. —AP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

Greek offer to creditors stirs angry backlash at home

ATHENS: Greek lawmakers reacted angrily yesterday to Brussels to see whether the numbers add up to make concessions Athens offered in debt talks and parliament’s Greek public finances sustainable. deputy speaker warned the proposals might be rejected, The creditors may well come back and demand fur- puncturing optimism that a deal to pull Greece back from ther savings or reform measures in the drive to clinch a the abyss might be sealed quickly. deal today evening, people familiar with the talks said. Euro zone leaders welcomed new budget proposals If parliament fails to back a deal, Tsipras might be from Athens on Monday as a basis for further negotiations forced to call a snap election or a referendum that would to unlock billions of euros in frozen aid and avert a default prolong the uncertainty. Athens urgently needs money to that could trigger a Greek exit from the single currency avoid defaulting on a 1.6 billion euro loan repayment due area. Stock markets also cheered, with European shares to the IMF next Tuesday. extending the previous session’s sharp rally and climbing Jitters over the risk of a default leading to capital con- to a three-week high on hopes of a deal. But the euro fell trols have prompted savers to pull billions of euros out of on fears the plan would struggle to win approval in Greek Greek banks, forcing the European Central Bank to parliament. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who was voted increase emergency lending to keep them afloat. With into office in January on a pledge to roll back years of aus- Greece perilously close to bankruptcy, it is unclear terity in a country battered by recession, must keep his whether lawmakers, for all their bluster, would ultimately leftist Syriza party as well as his creditors onside for a deal pull the rug from under Tsipras if he secures a deal. to stick. “I believe the deal will pass parliament and will recon- Outspoken Syriza lawmakers voiced outrage at firm the government’s majority,” Dimitris Papadimoulis, a Tsipras’s offer to raise a range of taxes as well as pension Syriza lawmaker at the European Parliament, told Reuters. and healthcare contributions, which threaten to further “I do not believe that top Syriza lawmakers will want to increase hardship on Greeks reeling from previous rounds be responsible for bringing down a five-month-old gov- of austerity. “I believe that this program as we see it ... is ernment and a prime minister who enjoys popular sup- difficult to pass by us,” deputy parliament speaker and port of about 70 percent.” ATHENS: A butcher waits for customers in a market in Athens yesterday. Greece this week offered a Syriza lawmaker Alexis Mitropoulos told Greek Mega TV. Opinion polls suggest most Greeks want to stay in the series of measures, including multiple tax increases, to persuade its creditors to release bailout “The prime minister first has to inform our people on euro. Tsipras can also likely count on support from oppo- funds and keep the country from defaulting on its debts as soon as next week. —AP why we failed in the negotiation and ended up with this sition lawmakers, who want to secure Greece’s place in result,” he said. “I believe (the measures) are not in line with the euro, even though the government says it cannot the principles of the left. This social carnage ... they cannot continue unless its own lawmakers back any deal it brings from the country’s central bank for the fourth time in a broadly positive, there have been several false dawns in accept it.” Officials of the three institutions representing to parliament. “If (the government) does not have the par- week on Tuesday, a banking source told Reuters, declining the talks. Tsipras appeared to have reached an under- Athens’ creditors - the European Commission, the liamentary majority, it cannot remain (in power),” govern- to say by how much. standing with the creditors at the start of June, only to European Central Bank and the International Monetary ment spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis said. 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SHARJAH: Air Arabia has been named er,” said Adel A. Ali, Group Chief the Best Low-cost Airline in the Middle Executive Officer of Air Crisis? What crisis? Russia stalls on reform East at the annual Skytrax World Arabia.”Winning the Skytrax award is Airline Awards, which took place at the particularly pleasing as it is based on MOSCOW: Russia’s interest rates are rising and infla- Russia has sagged since the EU imposed visa bans Central bank data show foreign direct investment tion is racing, but all the while his country slides into and asset freezes on Russian officials last year and lat- (FDI) was $21.0 billion in 2014, less than a third of the Paris Air Show this year. This is the sec- levels of customer satisfaction, which recession President Vladimir Putin denies any eco- er tightened the sanctions by targeting the defence, $69.2 billion in 2013 and even less than in 2009, the ond time in three years that Air Arabia is the criteria Air Arabia values above nomic crisis. finance and energy sectors. last year when Russia was in recession. That year, FDI has won the coveted award, following all others. We thank survey partici- It may be bravado linked to Moscow’s standoff “Clearly for Russia, it is important to rebuild that was $43.2 billion. its previous victory in 2013. pants for their positive feedback and with the West over Ukraine. But with the European confidence,” Ian Colebourne, chief executive officer of Looming debt repayments are also a problem for The world’s largest airline passenger hope to make their next experience of Union extending sanctions on Russia and the price of Deloitte in the CIS grouping of former Soviet Russian companies and an economy starved of for- satisfaction survey is conducted every flying with Air Arabia even more enjoy- oil still low, Putin’s refusal to make economic reforms republics, told Reuters Television. eign funds because of sanctions. year to decide the winners of the able.” The Skytrack award continues a worries Russian and foreign business leaders. “We are hearing about the need for reform to con- Jacek Pastuszka, president of Baltika Skytrax World Airline Awards. The string of accolades won by Air Arabia Russian officials from Putin down acknowledge tinue ... but from a business point of view we see sup- Breweries/senior vice president Eastern Europe for Award for the Best Low-Cost Airline is over the past year, including “Low Cost the economy must be diversified to reduce depend- porting those reforms as necessary to get investors Carlsberg Group, said: “It will require a much more based upon an assessment of cus- Carrier of the Year” from Aviation ence on energy exports, the government’s main back into the country.” structured effort to improve the foundation of the tomer satisfaction of the product and Business, “Middle East’s Leading Low- source of revenue. The president duly included a call Any brickbats from inside Russia about the state of economy to bring in new capital, to improve the com- staff service standards provided by the Cost Airline 2014” at the 21st World for reforms in his speech at the conference. But for- the economy are aimed almost exclusively at the gov- petitiveness of the local market.” airline in both the cabin and airport Travel Awards, the “Airline Business eign investors say Putin has for years done little more ernment - Putin’s popularity ratings soared after the environments. Award” at the Airline Strategy Awards than pay lip service to the need for reforms and a sen- annexation of the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine last Signs of improvement? “We are delighted to be once again 2014, and “Best Low-Cost Carrier” at ior Kremlin official acknowledged privately: “We’ve year - which has responded to the downturn by cut- There are some positive signs. Russia’s central done nothing to diversify the economy.” ting most spending plans by about 10 percent. bank reduced its main interest rate by a percentage the 2015 World Tourism Forum Awards. named the region’s top low-cost carri- At Russia’s biggest annual business conference last It has also loaned money to firms and banks to point to 11.5 percent last week, inflation has eased week in St Petersburg a straw poll during one of the help them through, banned some Western food from 16.9 percent in April to 15.8 percent in May, and main debates showed that 48.2 percent of the audi- imports and urged Russian companies to use domes- the rouble has risen to around 54 to the dollar after ence - comprising foreign and domestic business tic parts where possible, with the aim of boosting briefly hitting 80 in December. But the rouble is down leaders - thought there would be no reforms because industry at home. by more than a third against the US dollar compared of a lack of political will. Few Russians criticise Putin openly, especially at a to before the crisis in Ukraine, capital flight was more “Today we - half of us present here - do not believe time of confrontation with the West over Ukraine than $151 billion in 2014 and the central bank that there will be any reforms or that there will be the when they might risk seeming anti-patriotic. As a expects the economy to decline 3.2 percent this year. political will (to carry them out),” Alexei Kudrin, a for- result there are no signs that Putin will face any street Some expect a deeper contraction and point out mer finance minister and long-time Putin ally, said. He protests over the economy, though some economists that it will be even harder for the government to carry warned: “A year from now we will see there are not 50 and opposition politicians warn of trouble ahead. out possibly painful reforms than when the economy percent of us (who think this way) but 70 percent. You By suggesting last week that the 2018 presidential was in better shape. cannot put off solving this problem for another year election should be held early to give Putin a mandate “In our base-case scenario we believe that struc- or two.” for reform, Kudrin tacitly acknowledged that the tural reforms are unlikely,” said Karen Vartapetov, asso- In addition to encouraging growth in economic downturn and lack of reforms could eventually be a ciate director at S&P ratings agency in Russia, detail- sectors beyond energy and natural resources, Kudrin problem for the president. Kudrin remains a Putin ing projects shelved since Putin returned to the presi- said Russia must reform corrupt bureaucracy, make supporter and is convinced the president can win dency in 2012 after four years as prime minister. the judicial system more independent, develop infra- another six-year term. It is unlikely he spoke without He said federal relations with the regions outside structure and improve the education system. the Kremlin’s knowledge or agreement. Moscow gave them no incentives to reform and In a separate audience poll on how Russia could attract investments: “There are no triggers for regional overcome its economic problems, 36.8 percent of “Bad management” growth.” Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said conference attendees said it would not be able to and Sberbank’s German Gref, head of Russia’s biggest Russia was now in a “new reality” where economic that a long stagnation lay ahead. bank by assets, said the government was guilty of growth, which averaged 7 percent during an oil- bad management. “We always talk about the situa- fuelled boom under Putin from 2000-08, would now Investor confidence shaken tion as it was ‘yesterday,’ about our problems in the be below the global average. Kudrin said that even 2 Many Western companies have stayed in Russia past, but no one even tries to discuss our future situa- or 3 percent annual growth could be out of reach for despite the sanctions, but investors’ confidence in tion,” he said in St Petersburg. Russia in the years ahead. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 TECHNOLOGY US, China hold ‘frank’ talks on hacking row

WASHINGTON: Top US and Chinese officials joined “can- of State Tony Blinken led initial closed-door talks Monday through stovepipes in the government... and deliver mes- revelations of devastating breaches of US government did” talks yesterday on the “complicated but consequen- on the toughest dossier-security-with China’s Executive sages to people outside of our normal channels of com- computer networks-an issue US officials said they would tial” ties between the world’s two leading economies, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui. munication,” the official added. Chinese state news raise directly with their Chinese guests. The US adminis- with maritime disputes and cyber hacking high on the So far, the discussions have been “candid and to the agency Xinhua reported that the sides agreed to work tration has not openly accused Beijing of hacking into agenda. About 400 Chinese officials have converged on point” in dealing with the “most sensitive issues in the particularly on building a “stable” security relationship. some 14 million employee records of the Office of Washington for the high-level annual talks being hosted relationship,” a senior State Department official said. The Personnel Management, but the massive data breach is by Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry security talks serve as the highest-level platform for mili- Differences under investigation by the FBI. and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. “The United States is tary and civilian discussions seeking to manage their The world’s two leading economies remain at odds On the economic track, the two countries will discuss firmly committed to improving its relationship with complex ties. “The relationship between the United over China’s claims to much of the South China Sea and trade issues, as the US pushes a huge Asia trade pact, China,” said State Department spokesman John Kirby, States and China is extremely broad. It’s also extremely Washington has repeatedly urged Beijing to stop build- which would not include China. China in turn is trying to about the seventh round of dialogue. complicated. But it’s very consequential,” the official said. ing artificial islands in the area. But China said last month drum up support for its Asian Infrastructure Investment “While our countries disagree on many points, we rec- While there are important areas of cooperation such as it will project its military power further beyond its bor- Bank-spurned so far by the US. China’s yuan currency, a ognize that there are many areas for mutually beneficial the Iran nuclear talks, the situation in Afghanistan and ders at sea and more assertively in the air. source of tension for years, will also be discussed as cooperation,” he told reporters, adding there was “no the need to tackle climate change, there are also major Ties have also strained over US accusations of cyber Beijing pushes for it to have a greater global role such as problem (that) can’t be better addressed with US-China differences. espionage and the two countries have continuing differ- being part of the IMF’s international basket of reference cooperative efforts.” The two-day Strategic and Economic “The talks are all the more important for the need to ences about human rights. A bilateral cyber working currencies. Washington has long claimed the yuan was Dialogue kicked off properly yesterday with Kerry and address these issues head-on, not try to paper them over, group was suspended by Beijing last year after manipulated, but the IMF said late last month it was “no China’s State Councilor Yang Jiechi. It will be Kerry’s first not try to agree to disagree, but to try to actually talk Washington indicted five Chinese military officers for longer undervalued.” Kerry and Lew also hosted a dinner public appearance back at work since he broke his right about them and see if we can... try to narrow the differ- hacking into US computers to pilfer US government at Mount Vernon late Monday for Yang and Vice Premier leg in a cycling accident on May 31. But Deputy Secretary ences,” the official said. The talks allowed the US to “break secrets. This week’s talks come hot on the heels of the Wang Yang.—AFP

Ride-hailing apps get the kids around town

NEW YORK: A ride-hailing service that accompanied by an adult. Shuddle caters to youngsters is allowing them to charges a $9 monthly membership fee book their own rides when mom and dad and its fares are about 15 percent higher are too busy to drive. Shuddle is one of a than Uber’s for comparable trips. The number of new companies that provide membership fee and surcharge help pay rides to eight- to 16-year-old kids who for background checks of Shuddle’s driv- need to get to school, a sporting event or ers. a social activity. Yesterday it’s introducing The company is trying to avoid the ShuddleMe, an app that lets the kids book complaints that have bedeviled Uber the ride themselves within an hour of about inadequately screened drivers. In when the service is needed. Before this, the most extreme cases, Uber drivers parents had to arrange for the car, and do have faced allegations of sexual assault so at least a day in advance. ShuddleMe and other unseemly conduct. Shuddle still requires parental approval. says its drivers undergo extensive back- Besides Shuddle, kid-friendly ride-hail- ground checks and must either be par- ing options include HopSkipDrive and ents or have previous experience work- Boost, an experimental service backed by ing with kids as nannies, baby sitters, car maker Mercedes-Benz. They’re seizing coaches or nurses. Parents can also track an opportunity created by well-known the progress of their kids’ rides on ride-hailing services such as Uber, Lyft Shuddle and the service says its own and Sidecar, which all have policies staff also monitors what is happening in against giving rides to minors who aren’t the cars on each trip.—AP

This file picture released by the European Space Agency of an artist’s impression of Rosetta’s lander Philae (back view) on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.—AFP Rosetta comet-chasing mission extended to September 2016 ‘The adventure continues’ PARIS: The European Space Agency announced before its stored battery power gave out. comet moves far away from the Sun again, there yesterday that its historic comet-chasing mission But the plucky 100-kilo (220-pound) lander will no longer be enough solar power to run Rosetta had been extended until the end of has now revived, thanks to sunlight bathing its Rosetta’s set of scientific instrumentation effi- September 2016. “The adventure continues,” the solar panels as the comet hurtles towards the ciently,” ESA said. ESA declared. “ESA’s Science Program Sun. Both Rosetta and Philae will have a grand- “At (this) point, the spacecraft will most likely Committee has given formal approval to contin- stand view when 67P reaches perihelion, its be landed on the surface of Comet ue the mission for an additional nine months.” In closest point to the Sun, on August 13, scientists 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.” The idea would a final flourish, the spacecraft Rosetta may be hope. The comet will then loop back into deep be to have Rosetta-which is not designed for a “landed” on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the space, beginning another six-and-a-half-year landing-spiral down to the comet over three comet it has been shadowing, the agency said. trek around our star. months, using up its last drops of propellant to In doing so, the mothership would rejoin the get unique closeups of the surface. “But there is NEW YORK: This product image provided by Shuddle shows screens from tiny lab it has nurtured in an odyssey spanning ‘Fantastic news’ still a lot to do to confirm that this end-of-mis- ShuddleMe.—AP billions of kilometers (miles). Rosetta project scientist Matt Taylor said the sion scenario is possible,” cautioned mission Launched in 2004, the mission has been extension was “fantastic news.” “We’ll be able to manager Patrick Martin. “We’ll first have to see applauded as a milestone in space exploration. monitor the decline in the comet’s activity as we what the status of the spacecraft is after perihe- It comprises an orbiter, Rosetta, carrying a robot move away from the Sun again, and we’ll have lion and how well it is performing close to the Middle East and Africa lab, Philae, which seek to unveil the secrets of the opportunity to fly closer to the comet to comet, and later we will have to try and deter- comets-primordial clusters of ice and dust that continue collecting more unique data. “By com- mine where on the surface we can have a touch- tablet market suffers first may shed light on the formation of the Solar paring detailed ‘before and after’ data, well have down.” As of yesterday, Rosetta was 294,739,926 System and on how life developed on Earth. a much better understanding of how comets kilometers (183,136,684 miles) from Earth, and ever year-on-year decline After a 10-year chase, the pair caught up with evolve during their lifetimes.” The mission had 207,880,198 kilometers from the Sun, ESA said 67P last August. In November, Philae was landed been nominally funded until the end of on its website .Since the launch from ESA’s base DUBAI: After years of posting succes- year on year after shipping 520,000 on the comet surface, and in a dramatic 60-hour December 2015, and its extension was not a sur- in Kourou, French Guiana, the mission has trav- sive gains, the Middle East and Africa units. episode carried out a range of experiments prise. By the end of September 2016, “as the elled 7.015 billion kilometers.—AFP (MEA) tablet market recorded its first ever year-on-year decline in Q1 2015, Continue growing with shipments to the region declining Third-placed Apple continued to 5.8%to 3.83 million units. That’s suffer, posting a sharp decline of 43.0% Europe launches 2nd phase according to the latest market in sights to total 430,000 units. In fourth place, announced yesterday by International Huawei was the fastest growing major Data Corporation (IDC), which blamed vendor in MEA, shipping 240,000 units the poor performance on a sharp for a 280.3% year-on-year growth rate. of hi-tech Earth satellites decline in the region’s biggest tablet Turkish vendor Casper posted substan- market, Turkey, where shipments tial growth of 131.2% to rank fifth almost halved when compared to the overall with 150,000 units. The year KOUROU: The European Space Agency (ESA) corresponding quarter of 2014. “The 2015 as a whole will see positive has launched the second phase of a 4.3-billion- major reason behind the decline of the growth, with shipments increasing euro ($4.91-billion) program to deploy new-gen- Turkish market was the discontinua- 5.8% year on year to total 17.66 million eration satellites to monitor environmental dam- tion of deliveries for the massive FATIH units. However, this represents a stark age and aid disaster relief operations, officials education project, which had a huge slowdown from the overall growth of said early Monday. Sentinel-2A was hoisted by a impact on commercial demand for 41.6% seen in 2014. “The reduction in lightweight Vega rocket from ESAís base in tablets in the country during Q1,”says global oil prices has caused a slow- Kourou, French Guiana, overnight Monday-yes- Fouad Charakla, research manager for down in government-driven initiatives terday, launch operator Arianespace said. The personal computing, systems, and in some of the region’s oil-producing 1.1-tonne polar-orbiting satellite is designed to infrastructure solutions at IDC.” countries, negatively impacting loop the world every 100 minutes, providing Currency fluctuations in Turkey, demand for tablet devices,” says high-definition optical imaging of vegetation, high inventory levels carried over from Charakla. “The decline in government soil and freshwater to a resolution of 10 meters Q4 2014, and some saturation in the spending has also had a ripple effect (32.5 feet), helping monitoring of forest cover, tablet market also had a negative on other sectors across the region, and water stress and crop health. It will also provide impact on shipments targeted at the has also impacted demand from the information for emergency services, consumer segment.” consumer segment.” It and a partner are the second of six sched- It should be noted that these latter In the longer run, the tablet market uled pairs of Earth-monitoring satellites under three factors were responsible for is expected to continue growing at a the Copernicus program, an initiative headed by slowing the market’s performance in healthy pace over the coming years, the European Unionís executive Commission in other key parts of the region as well. cannibalizing some of the demand conjunction with ESA. Sentinel-1A, designed to Meanwhile, the devaluation of certain that currently exists for personal com- scan the Earthís surface with cloud-penetrating major international currencies, such as puters. However, with IDC expecting radar, was launched in April 2014. Sentinels 1B the euro and ruble, has also negatively shipments to increase 7.0% and 7.9%, and 2B are due for deployment in 2016, accord- impacted tablet demand in MEA as a respectively, in 2016 and 2017, the ing to the ESA website. Copernicus succeeds result of reduced international trade market’s growth will be greatly Envisat, one of the most successful environmen- and tourism from the affected regions. reduced from the stellar rates experi- tal satellites in space history, whose mission end- Samsung continued to lead the MEA enced in the recent past. It should also ed in 2012. The program was initially called tablet market in terms of shipments, be noted that the decline that has Global Monitoring for Environment and Security despite suffering a decline of 5.5% year been seen in the tablet market’s aver- (GMES), but was renamed in 2013 to honor the on year to total 920,000 units. Lenovo age selling price in recent times will 16th-century Polish astronomer Nicolaus overtook Apple into second place for slow down significantly over the com- Copernicus, who determined the Earth orbited the first time, growing almost 96.4% ing years. the Sun, and not the other way around, as con- KOUROU: A handout picture shows a European Vega rocket blasting off, carrying the Sentinel- vention had it at the time.—AFP 2A satellite for Europe’s Copernicus Earth observation program.—AFP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Insecticides lindane and DDT linked to cancer: WHO agency

LONDON: The insecticide lindane, once widely 1 category, DDT as “probably carcinogenic to agriculture. An exemption to the ban allows it to be down products are “highly persistent and can be used in agriculture and to treat human lice and sca- humans” in its Group 2A class, and the herbicide used as a second-line treatment for lice and sca- found in the environment and in animal and bies, causes cancer and has been specifically linked 2,4-D as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” in its bies. IARC said high exposures to lindane have pre- human tissues throughout the world”. “Exposure to to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the World Health Group 2B. It said epidemiological studies did not viously been reported among agricultural workers DDT still occurs, mainly through diet,” it said, Organization said yesterday. find strong or consistent increases in risk of NHL or and pesticide applicators. “Large epidemiological adding that DDT is still used, mainly for malaria The WHO’s International Agency for Research on other cancers from 2,4-D exposure, but there was studies of agricultural exposures in the United control in parts of Africa, although under very strict Cancer (IARC) also said that DDT, or strong evidence it induces oxidative stress, a States and Canada showed a 60 percent increased conditions. Since it was introduced in 1945, 2,4-D dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, probably causes process that can damage cells in the body, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in those exposed to has been widely used to control weeds in agricul- cancer, with scientific evidence linking it to non- moderate evidence it can suppress the immune lindane,” it said. ture, forestry and urban and residential settings. Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), testicular cancer and liv- system. DDT was introduced for the control of insect- IARC said occupational exposure to 2,4-D can er cancer. Lindane, which since 2009 has been banned or borne diseases during World War Two and was later occur during manufacturing and application, and In a review of various agricultural chemicals, restricted in most countries under the Stockholm applied widely to eradicate malaria and in agricul- people in the general population can be exposed IARC’s specialist panel said it had decided to classi- Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, was ture. Although most uses of it were banned from through food, water, dust, or residential applica- fy lindane as “carcinogenic to humans” in its Group previously used extensively for insect control in the 1970s, IARC cautioned that DDT and its break- tion, and during spraying. —Reuters Cholera outbreak kills 18 in South Sudan JUBA: At least 18 people have died of outbreak than last year. cholera in war-torn South Sudan, the “The government is in a better position health ministry said yesterday, as it to prevent a potential large scale outbreak declared an outbreak of the highly conta- this year, largely because of pre-emptive gious infection. Minister of Health Riek Gai measures undertaken with support from Kok told reporters that 171 cholera cases WHO and partners,” he said. have been confirmed in the outbreak, More than two million people been which began in crowded United Nations forced to flee during the war, with over bases in the capital Juba and spread else- 137,000 civilians sheltering in UN peace- where in the city. keeping bases, including over 34,000 civil- Tens of thousands of people have ians crammed into camps in the capital sought shelter in the UN camps during 18 alone. months of civil war. Two-thirds of the country’s 12 million At least 167 people died with over people need aid, with 4.5 million people 6,400 cases reported in an outbreak last facing severe food insecurity, according to year, which was later contained. “After the UN. Civil war began in December 2013 subjecting cases to laboratory tests it was when President Salva Kiir accused his for- confirmed that there is a cholera out- mer deputy Riek Machar of planning a break,” Kok said, adding that the first case coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory recorded was on June 1. killings that has split the poverty-stricken, “The confirmation of the cases auto- landlocked country along ethnic lines. matically triggers the activation of a full- The conflict has been characterized by scale response,” he added. Stamping out ethnic massacres, rape and the use of cholera-transmitted through drinking child soldiers. After a short incubation water or eating food contaminated with period of two to five days, cholera disease faeces or dirty hands-poses an additional causes severe diarrhoea, draining the major challenge for the government and body of its water. The dramatic loss of fluid aid workers. is often fatal. “Anyone with severe watery The World Health Organization (WHO) diarrhoea should report to the designated and aid workers are carrying out cholera treatment centre or nearest health facility,” vaccination campaigns targeting over the ministry said in a warning. 100,000 people “to prevent a potential “Wash hands with soap or ash after SEOUL: A couple wearing masks as a precaution against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome walk through a shopping alley in Seoul, South large scale outbreak and prevent deaths,” using toilets and latrines, before preparing Korea yesterday.—AP the ministry added. Kok insisted health food and after eating food, boil or disin- workers were better placed to tackle the fect drinking water with chlorine.” — AFP Samsung heir apologizes over New insulin ‘smart patch’ South Korea MERS outbreak could help diabetes patients

MIAMI: An experimental patch that could Sciences. Each microneedle contains Three more new case reported in Seoul automatically deliver doses of insulin to “microscopic storage units for insulin and patients with diabetes has been success- glucose-sensing enzymes that rapidly SEOUL: The heir to South Korean business Electronics. Samsung Medical Centre, pledged to actively fully tested in lab animals, researchers release their cargo when blood sugar lev- giant Samsung yesterday publicly bowed his “I apologize, with my head bowed,” he said support the development of a vaccine against said Monday. If trials in people are shown els get too high,” said the study. In mice head in apology for one of its flagship hospi- before bowing deeply in front of TV cameras the MERS virus. Lee’s father and the chairman to work, the patch could offer a less with diabetes, those treated with the tals becoming an epicentre of the MERS virus, in a live public apology. He promised to thor- of Samsung Electronics, Lee Kun-Hee, has painful alternative for people who must microneedle patch saw their blood glu- as health officials reported three new cases. oughly overhaul the medical centre. Its posi- been bedridden in the hospital for more than otherwise use needles to inject them- cose levels brought under control within Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul has tion as one of the country’s most prestigious a year since suffering a heart attack. selves with insulin. 30 minutes, and stayed that way for sev- accounted for about half of all 175 confirmed hospitals has been seriously undermined by Song Jae-Hoon, the head of Samsung Researchers at the University of North eral hours. Mice that were injected with cases of MERS in South Korea, the largest out- the outbreak. Medical Center, admitted the hospital had Carolina and North Carolina State insulin saw blood sugar levels return to break of the disease outside Saudi Arabia. “The hospital will take full responsibility for failed to tackle the disease at the early stages described the product as “the first sma.rt normal, but they required another shot “Samsung Medical Centre has failed to con- the treatment of the patients and we will of its transmission. “We had shortcomings in insulin patch that can detect increases in sooner than the patch-wearing lab ani- trol the infection and spread of the virus, caus- make best efforts to prevent any recurrence”, initial responses. We are deeply sorry,” he said blood sugar levels and secrete doses of mals. ing great pain and concern to the people”, said he said in a rare public address. Lee, who also after taking over the podium from Lee. insulin into the bloodstream whenever “If we can get these patches to work in Jay Y. Lee, heir and vice chairman of Samsung heads the Samsung foundation that operates needed.” The patch itself is about the size people, it will be a game-changer,” said New Cases of a penny and contains more than 100 John Buse, co-senior author and director According to South Korea’s health ministry, tiny needles, each about as big as an eye- of the UNC Diabetes Care Center. two of the three new carriers announced yes- lash, according to the study in the Diabetes affects more than 387 million terday came into contact with the virus at two Proceedings of the National Academy of people worldwide. — AFP different hospitals in Seoul, one of which was the Samsung Medical Centre. The third case was a family member of another patient. The ministry said no addition- al deaths had been caused by the virus. Of the 175 confirmed cases, 27 have died, 54 have recovered and been released from hospital and 94 are still being treated, of whom 16 are on life support machines. Some 2,805 people are still under quaran- tine, down around a quarter from Monday. The first case was diagnosed in South Korea on May 20. Separately, a 39-old woman who had been infected with the virus and recov- ered gave birth to a baby at Samsung Medical Centre on Tuesday, Yonhap news agency reported. The family-oriented Samsung Group has merged, broken out or newly listed some of its key units in recent years as patriarch Lee Kun-Hee prepares to hand over the reins to his son, Jay Y. Lee. Samsung Electronics, which accounts for the lion’s share of the group’s sales and prof- its, is the world’s largest mobile phone manu- facturer. The founding family controls the empire through complicated webs of cross shareholdings among more than 60 sub- sidiaries. The group has sprawled into various busi- nesses ranging from electronics to construc- SEOUL: Jay Y Lee, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, bows to make an apology during a tion, shipbuilding fashion and hotels. It earns public address on the MERS outbreak in Seoul yesterday. Samsung’s heir apparent on June 23 a collective revenue equal to around 20 per- PHNOM PENH: Passengers (top) walk past a thermal scanner to check body tempera- bowed in apology for one of the group’s flagship hospitals becoming an epicenter of the MERS cent of South Korea’s annual economic out- ture as Cambodian health officials (bottom) monitor arrivals at Phnom Penh outbreak as South Korea reported three new cases, but no additional deaths. —AFP put. — AFP International Airport yesterday. — AFP NATO working with South Dakota telemedicine hub

SIOUX FALLS, SD: NATO leaders are working with a would send our teams and they may need to consult telemedicine into those teams? Those teams can then year. It will simulate an area with multiple victims and telemedicine hub in southeast South Dakota to devel- experienced physicians at the distant from where they use that technology to reach back to not only experts several nations will intervene. Another drill is sched- op a multinational system that could deliver medical are,” said Romanian interior ministry official Dr Raed in their own country but experts around the globe.” uled for late 2016 and officials hope to be able to services remotely during natural or manmade disas- Arafat, who is the NATO director for the project. Project leaders also hope to reduce the resources deliver care in real life situations in 2017, provided that ters. Representatives from NATO nations, including The team working on the project has been gather- needed for volunteers deployed to emergencies as a several legal and political requirements are met. Romania, the United Kingdom and the US, are visiting ing for more than a year, and their visit to South result of the use of telemedicine. “When you send a Arafat said the group is working with Avera because Avera Health’s telemedicine center in Sioux Falls this Dakota marks their first meeting in the US Those gath- team to let’s say a hurricane or a tsunami in Japan, of the health system’s wide experience with remotely week to look at the technology and equipment ered in Sioux Falls on Monday saw equipment demon- you have to be able to feed them, and water them, delivered health care services. Avera’s 24-hour options available to provide health care services from strations from various health care technology compa- and clothe them, and take care of all their needs on telemedicine hub provides medical services to more distant locations. The goal of the NATO-funded nies. top of allowing them to do medical care,” Koziak said. than 200 locations in several states in the West and research project is to increase survival rates in emer- “Right now when there’s a disaster most countries “(With telemedicine) you still send people, but Midwest. gency situations, when immediate access to medical will send some sort of aid; United States sends teams, instead of needing to send 30 people maybe you The program is being funded by NATO’s Science for specialists is not always possible. Romania sends teams,” said Dr. Donald Kosiak, medical send 12.” Peace and Security Program. Aside from Avera, repre- “This project is aiming at the creation of the multi- director for Avera’s telemedicine services and who is The team will be hosting drills before the multina- sentatives from the University of Pittsburgh and the national capacity in responding to major situations, involved with the NATO project. “What we are trying to tional system can be launched during an actual emer- University of Cincinnati are also participating in the disasters, civil emergencies, in countries where we say is when you send those teams could we embed gency. The next drill will take place in Ukraine later this effort in the US. — AP WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Solar Impulse to leave Japan early today

NAGOYA, Japan: A solar plane that has been weather en route from Nanjing, China, to Hawaii “The batteries are full so the plane can fly any around the world without a single drop of fuel. trapped in Japan for three weeks is set to take off forced a diversion at the start of June. time,” she said. “Since the sun comes up very early The trip to Hawaii will be the eighth and most for Hawaii early today, on the most challenging Ever since, the crew has been scouring long- in Japan, we are flying early... we fly much earlier, daunting leg of the circumnavigation. The plane leg of an attempt to circumnavigate the world range forecasts for an opportunity to restart its so we have much more time in the air.” has 17,000 solar cells and on-board rechargeable without using fuel. Solar Impulse 2 is scheduled to record-breaking journey. A chance to do so pre- Borschberg, a 62-year-old Swiss, will keep in batteries. Its top speed is 140 kilometres (90 miles) taxi out along the runway in Nagoya, central sented itself on Tuesday. shape during his long solo flight by doing yoga. “I an hour. Its wingspan is longer than that of a jum- Japan, in the small hours of the morning, to begin “We finally feel like we have a window to train special postures, which I do every day in the bo jet, but it weighs only 2.3 tons-about the same its hazardous trip across the Pacific Ocean, a dis- Hawaii in front of us. It will be confirmed at cockpit... to keep the right mental attitude,” he as a car. The plane is the successor to Solar tance expected to take at least five days and five 12.00PM UTC! (GMT)” tweeted pilot Andre told AFP earlier this month. Impulse, which managed a 26-hour flight in 2010, nights of continuous flying. Borschberg. Borschberg, who flew for 44 hours to “Breathing can help... yoga is much about proving its ability to store enough power in lithi- “Solar Impulse will attempt to fly to Hawaii on get to Nagoya, will be back at the controls for breathing.” But he admitted that being cooped up um batteries during the day to keep flying at Wednesday, June 24th at 2:30am local time (1730 tonight’s flight. Winds and turbulence tend to be in the 3.8 cubic metre (130 cubic foot) cockpit for night. Ridiculed by the aviation industry when it GMT, Tuesday)” the team said. The featherweight calmer in the very early hours of the morning, long stretches of time was a challenge. was first unveiled, the venture has since been flying machine was not supposed to land in Japan Solar Impulse team spokeswoman Elke Neumann Solar Impulse 2 set off from Abu Dhabi earlier hailed around the world, including by UN chief on its multi-leg trip around the globe, but bad told AFP, making this time ideal for takeoffs. this year in a multi-leg attempt to get all the way Ban Ki-moon. — AFP

Top doctors’ prescription for feverish planet: Cut out coal

WASHINGTON: Some top international doctors and public health experts have issued an urgent prescription for a fever- ish planet Earth: Get off coal as soon as possible. Substituting cleaner energy worldwide for coal will reduce air pollution and give Earth a better chance at avoiding dan- gerous climate change, recommended a global health com- mission organized by the prestigious British medical journal Lancet. The panel said hundreds of thousands of lives each year are at stake and global warming “threatens to undermine the last half century of gains in development and global health.” It’s like a cigarette smoker with lung problems: Doctors can treat the disease, but the first thing that has to be done is to get the patient to stop smoking, or in this case get off coal in the next five years, commission officials said in interviews. “The prescription for patient Earth is that we’ve got a limit- ed amount of time to fix things,” said commission co-chairman Dr. Anthony Costello, a pediatrician and director of the Global Health Institute at the University College of London. “We’ve got a real challenge particularly with carbon pollution.” He called it a “medical emergency” that could eventually dwarf the deadly toll of HIV in the 1980s. He and others said burning coal does more than warm the Earth, but causes even more deaths from other types of air pollution that hurt peo- ple’s breathing and hearts. Unlike its earlier report in 2009, which laid out the health problems of climate change, this report was more about what can be done to improve the planet’s health. It calls for cutting air pollution, more walking and cycling and less driving, better urban design, putting a price on the cost of each ton of carbon being used, improved health care planning for extreme weather and NEW HAMPSHIRE: A plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, NH. A global health commission organized yb the prestigious British medical journal Lancet recom- every two year check-ups on how the world is doing to get mended in a report published on Monday, substituting cleaner energy worldwide for coal will reduce air pollution and give Earth a better chance at avoiding dangerous climate change. —AP healthier. “Virtually everything that you want to do to tackle climate change has health benefits,” Costello said. “We’re going to cut heart attacks, strokes, diabetes.” The Lancet commission report came out days after an Climate change threatens 50 impassioned plea to fight global warming by Pope Francis and hours after the President Barack Obama’s administration issued a report emphasizing the costs of inaction on climate change and the benefits of doing something now. The years of health gains: Experts Obama administration said if nothing is done, at the turn of the next century about 57,000 Americans will die each year from polluted air and at least another 12,000 yearly from Global warming brings risks of disease and disability extreme temperatures. “Obama is not a doctor; people trust doctors more,” LONDON: The threat to human health temperatures, risking droughts, floods, It said that because responses to miti- response using technologies available Costello said. In a companion posting in Lancet, World Health from climate change is so great that it storms and rising sea levels. gate climate change have direct and indi- right now.” Organization director general Margaret Chan also compares could undermine the last 50 years of gains “That has very serious and potentially rect health benefits - from reducing air The panel said there were already fighting climate change to fighting smoking and saving lives. in development and global health, experts catastrophic effects for human health and pollution to improving diet - a concerted numerous ways to bring about immediate Both Chan and the Lancet commission quote WHO studies warned yesterday. human survival,” said Anthony Costello, effort would also provide a great oppor- health gains with action on climate that say by 2030 climate change would “be likely to cause Extreme weather events such as floods director of University College London’s tunity to improve global health. change. Burning fewer fossil fuels reduces about 250,000 additional deaths per year” around the world. and heat waves bring rising risks of infec- (UCL) Institute for Global Health, who co- The report said direct health impacts of respiratory diseases, for example, and get- Poverty is the main problem and burning coal to produce tious diseases, poor nutrition and stress, led the report. climate change come from more frequent ting people walking and cycling more cuts electricity helps fight that, said National Mining Association the specialists said, while polluted cities “We see climate change as a major and intense extreme weather events, pollution, road accidents and rates of obe- spokesman Luke Popovich. He said, “it makes far more sense where people work long hours and have health issue, and that’s often neglected in while indirect impacts come from changes sity, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. to support the technologies that make coal cleaner to use no time or space to walk, cycle or relax are policy debates,” he told reporters at a brief- in infectious disease patterns, air pollu- Cardiovascular disease is the world’s than to support policies that would deny its use to those bad for the heart as well as respiratory and ing in London. The report, commissioned tion, food insecurity and malnutrition, dis- number one killer, leading to some 17 mil- who rightfully want the comforts of civilization.” But mental health. Almost 200 countries have and published by The Lancet medical jour- placement and conflicts. lion deaths a year, according to World Harvard School of Public Health epidemiologist Joel Schwartz set a 2 degrees C global average tempera- nal, was compiled by a panel of specialists “Climate Change is a medical emer- Health Organization data. called the Lancet study’s coal phase-out “a reasonable pre- ture rise above pre-industrial times as a including European and Chinese climate gency,” said Hugh Montgomery, director “There’s a big (energy) saving in people scription for planet Earth. Burning coal has terrible health ceiling to limit climate change, but scien- scientists and geographers, social, environ- of UCL’s institute for human health and using calories to get around, and there are effects, is bad for global warming and it is destructive of the tists say the current trajectory could lead mental and energy scientists, biodiversity performance and a co-author on the some immediate gains from more active ecosystem.” —AP to around a 4 degrees C rise in average experts and health professionals. report. “It demands an emergency lifestyles,” Montgomery said. — Reuters WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

Al-Ahliyya Amman University awards top students

Al-Ahliyya Amman University hosted an award ceremony for outstanding students under the patronage and presence of Jordanian Ambassador Mohammad Al-Kayed at Marina Hotel recently. — Photos by Joseph Shagra

Kuwait National English School SEN Achievement Awards 2015

he SEN Department from Kuwait National English School recently cele- Tbrated the Achievement Awards for its students. The concert was based on the theme ‘I can live, I can love, I can cope and I can progress’ as mentioned by Madame Chantal Al-Gharabally, School Director. The ceremony took place in the school theatre in a friendly atmosphere with very supportive parents. Music, song and acting were based on the musical theme based on the school’s mission statement to which everyone in the department, staff, parents and students adhere to. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

Saudi Ambassador to Kuwait hosts iftar banquet

Saudi Ambassador to Kuwait Dr Abdulaziz Al-Fayez hosted an iftar banquet for the embassy staff recently. Distinguished staff were also honored by the envoy. — Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh Enjoy delicious iftar, sohoor with Swimming pool Ramadan Meal from McDonald’s complex repairs

cDonald’s Kuwait has announced the launch of a new ents and highest quality food, but also the greatest value for value meal crafted especially for the holy month of customers,” said Sherif Coutry, Marketing Director at he head of the PR department of the Ramadan, offering customers a complete and fulfilling McDonald’s Kuwait. This Ramadan, McDonald’s is also launch- Touristic Enterprises Co (TEC) Saqer Al- M Badr said TEC officials are exerting extreme meal for a satisfying Ramadan dining experience. ing a campaign to inspire people to spread kindness through T The Ramadan Meal will be available for both iftar and simple but thoughtful deeds, that could have significant posi- efforts to complete maintenance works at the sohoor throughout the holy month. The meal features a starter tive impact on other people’s lives and communities at large. Swimming Pool Complex. In this regard, the cov- of five pieces of dates, a small garden salad and a laban drink, Using the #SpreadKindness hashtag, McDonald’s is sharing ered pool will be closed from June 23, 2015 for followed by your choice of any McDonald’s meal, and finally a inspirations of good deeds and encouraging the public to do 21 days. TEC apologizes for any inconvenience perfect finish for the meal with a choice of a McDonald’s ice the same. Under the same theme, McDonald’s has also pro- and asks visitors to have a good time at the open cream sundae or an apple pie or a strawberry custard pie. duced 30 animated stories that will run daily on MBC1 through- swimming pool at the facility from 10 am to 3:30 Offered at all McDonald’s restaurants across Kuwait, the out the Holy month “We are privileged to be in a community pm and from 8 pm to 12:30 am. The complex is Ramadan Meal will be available starting at KD 2.150. where doing good is an integral part of people’s daily lives. This closed on Sunday. Meanwhile, the timings of the “At McDonald’s we are always looking to cater to our cus- Ramadan, we are encouraging this spirit with our Entertainment City in Ramadan are from 8:30 tomers, and we strive to deliver new and creative menu options #SpreadKindness campaign and we wanted to highlight that pm to 1:30 am throughout the week (Mondays that continue to offer them the unique McDonald’s experience making a little effort to help others can make a huge difference are for women only). they love. Our menu always delivers not just the best ingredi- in the community,” added Coutry. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

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Sharjah 09:05 AGY 684 Sohag 19:50 NIA 262 Luxor 10:10 FDB 062 Dubai 20:35 ETD 301 Abu Dhabi 09:10 FDB 061 Dubai 19:50 KAC 511 Mashhad 10:20 AGY 681 Alexandria 20:50 NIA 261 Alexandria 09:10 KAC 102 New York/London 19:55 IRM 1181 Mashhad 10:25 KAC 1543 Cairo 20:55 IRM 1186 Tehran 09:15 OMA 647 Muscat 20:00 IRA 664 Shiraz 10:25 OMA 648 Muscat 21:00 IRA 665 Shiraz 09:25 KAC 674 Dubai 20:00 FDB 056 Dubai 10:40 DLH 636 Dammam 21:00 KAC 350 Kochi 09:40 KNE 480 Taif 20:10 QTR 1071 Doha 11:00 KAC 331 Trivandrum 21:00 FDB 055 Dubai 09:40 MEA 402 Beirut 20:15 KAC 501 Beirut 11:00 KAC 283 Dhaka 21:05 QTR 1070 Doha 10:00 DLH 636 Frankfurt 20:20 KNE 468 Taif 11:05 KAC 351 Kochi 21:05 KNE 464 Riyadh 10:05 ETD 919 Abu Dhabi 20:35 KAC 175 Frankfurt/Geneva 11:15 KNE 461 Riyadh 21:10 GFA 213 Bahrain 10:40 JZR 1771 Jeddah 20:40 KAC 1701 Jeddah 11:30 MEA 403 Beirut 21:15 UAE 873 Dubai 10:40 ALK 229 Colombo 21:10 GFA 214 Bahrain 11:35 JZR 554 Alexandria 21:15 MEA 404 Beirut 10:55 UAE 859 Dubai 21:15 JZR 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

Conflicting cosmic instructions make it nearly impossible to please It seems as if everyone has his or her particular idea of what you others today. One voice tells you to go while another commands you to stop. should be doing now, but no one is bothering to ask you what you want to do. Macho Mars runs into Saturn’s obstacles and there doesn’t seem to be a way to This apparent disconnect is tricky territory to navigate, especially if you already get past the resistance. If you push too hard, you may wish you didn’t. But if you feel alienated from those you love. Although people appreciate you trying to don’t try at all, you will wish you did. The only logical strategy now is to steer meet their demands, it may be more important to acknowledge your own needs clear of extremes as you actively work the accelerator and the brake to stay first. There might not be a simple solution in sight, but you can minimize your within the speed limit. frustration by shifting your attention away from your long-term goals and just live for the day.

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

You can grow very obstinate if you’re manipulated in ways you Instead of trying to convince anyone that your strategy is practical, don’t like. It might feel as if everything is changing too fast today for your examine your weaknesses so you can better understand how they lead you to tastes, but clinging to the present is futile nonetheless. The more you attempt overcompensate in your work. Rather than focusing on your own progress today, to hold your ground, the harder it is to get your footing in the midst of the see what you can learn from others without trying to compete with them. When storm. Don’t try to fix everything; instead, find pleasure in the little things you you’re ready to jump back into the fray, remember that winning is less important can actually control. Luckily, the stress continues to lighten over the days than turning every moment into another chapter in your journey of self-discovery. ahead, so there’s no point in fighting the inevitable when you can embrace the unknown.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Although you’re doing your best to demonstrate your good inten- You’re reluctant to reveal your fantasies today because you worry tions, people still may not be satisfied with your efforts. You’re feeling that people will misunderstand you. Unfortunately, carrying around too many ACROSS DOWN performance pressure now and it’s disconcerting if you sincerely believe that oth- secrets could inadvertently invite a minor emotional meltdown. In the same ers are working against you. However, there’s absolutely no need to fight back; just 1. The compass point that is one point east of 1. Any of a number of fishes of the family way you can create walls by hiding your feelings, you can also remove the bar- due south. Carangidae. continue gathering the facts and be ready to tell your side of the story when asked. riers by talking about your concerns with someone you trust. Relationship In the meantime, rest assured that the only one you truly have to please is yourself. 4. Raspberry native to eastern North America 2. A Chadic language spoken in northern dynamics might not improve right away; in fact, things could get worse before having black thimble-shaped fruit. Nigeria. they start to improve. Being honest sets the right tone while practicing 12. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which 3. Tropical starchy tuberous root. patience leads to success. the pilot is talked down by ground control 4. The rate at which heat is produced by an using precision approach radar. individual in a resting state. 15. Someone who is morally reprehensible. 5. Supplied with louvers for ventilation. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 16. Befitting a mother. Cancer (June 21-July 22) 6. The territory of Athens in ancient Greece. 17. (Norse mythology) One of the Aesir 7. A human female who does housework. Although you may be talking a mile a minute today, you still might You’re willing to endure hardship and austerity as long as you know known for his beauty and skill with bow and 8. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a not say exactly what you mean. People can tell that your chattiness is just one of that a big payoff might be yours in the near future. Your patience usually works in skis. your ways to cover up your insecurities. Fortunately, you’re already on the edge of your favor, but now impulsive Mars is pushing for immediate results. Unfortunately, 18. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized skewer usually with vegetables. making an important breakthrough now, so don’t waste time burying your emo- nothing is going to change overnight that will enable you to claim your reward any by behavioral and learning disorders. 9. A steep rugged rock or cliff. 10. Second brightest star in Perseus. tions. The key to your current satisfaction is staying conscious of your process and faster. Lessen your anxiety by temporarily suspending your need to speed up the 19. The large yellow root of a rutabaga plant process. You will arrive at your destination exactly on time if you confidently perse- 11. 100 pyas equal 1 kyat. allowing it to progress at its own natural rate. Don’t worry about what to say next; used as food. when in doubt, simply bring your awareness back to your heart. vere in your efforts. 20. A boy or man. 12. A Russian prison camp for political prison- 21. Lacking or deprive of the sense of hearing ers. wholly or in part. 13. A group of biological taxa or species that 23. A noisy or scolding or domineering share features inherited from a common Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) woman. ancestor. 25. An organization of countries formed in 14. Wood of any of various alder trees. You might think you’re taking the most rational path today, but you You know exactly what you want but you have no idea how to get it. 1961 to agree on a common policy for the 22. Having or localized centrally at a focus. could be under a false illusion that everything is fine. Unfortunately, something that Don’t worry if you’re without a coherent strategy today; too much advanced plan- ning only reduces your spontaneity. Unfortunately, some people may see you as sale of petroleum. 24. A sheet or band of fibrous connective tis- was recently bothering you could suddenly erupt again unless you stay in close uncooperative now, but that’s not your intent; you just want to make your point as 27. (South African) A camp defended by a cir- sue separating or binding together muscles touch with your feelings now. However, your growing sense of urgency may not actually be a true reflection of the current circumstances. Don’t wait for something succinctly as possible. Once you make your case, you really don’t have to try so hard cular formation of wagons. and organs etc. 29. A card game played in casinos in which crazy to happen; express your emotions before they get blown out of proportion. to prove your loyalty or your competence. Ultimately, your actions will speak louder 26. Large African antelope with long straight Being honest from the start prevents unnecessary drama from hijacking your day. than your words. two or more punters gamble against the nearly upright horns. banker. 28. Hormone secreted by the posterior pitu- 33. The district occupied entirely by the city of itary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by Washington. nerve endings in the hypothalamus. Virgo (August 23-September 22) 34. Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or Pisces (February 19-March 20) 30. Squash bugs. depression). 31. A member of a European people who 40. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain. You might be so sure of your current actions that you miss the You may be feeling your oats today, but possessing self-confidence doesn’t necessarily mean your dreams will automatically come true. Part of your 41. A Hindu prince or king in India. occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul in pre- nuances of the political dynamics at work today. Unfortunately, you could set off an emotional landmine now that the moody Moon is traveling through your sign. It problem is that asking for the wrong thing now sets you up for failure before you 43. Type genus of the Aceraceae. Roman times. may feel as if someone is working at cross-purposes now, but it’s more likely that even start. Thankfully, your sense of timing improves as the day wears on. What 44. Standard time in the 5th time zone west of 32. A three-tone Chadic language. your goals seem so different because you have such divergent approaches. Seek begins as a blunder could turn into a strong conviction to do the right thing. Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian. 35. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the common ground in the present moment instead of trying to integrate your plans Following your moral compass enhances your chances for success. 45. (medieval) A large heavy oblong shield earth and influence mankind by appearing in for the future into another person’s dreams. protecting the whole body. the form of humans or animals. 47. American prizefighter who won the world 36. (of pain or sorrow) Made easier to bear. heavyweight championship three times (born 37. Someone who works (or provides work- in 1942). ers) during a strike. WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution 48. An intensely radioactive metallic element 38. Any small compartment. that occurs in minute amounts in uranium 39. A member of an Iroquoian people former- ores. ly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in 51. Not suitable for food. northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania 54. A state in southeastern United States. and western New York. 55. A mountain range in South America run- 42. (zoology) Pertaining to or characteristic of ning 5000 miles along the Pacific coast. birds. 56. A percussion instrument consisting of a 46. Swelling from excessive accumulation of pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually serous fluid in tissue. held between the thumb and fingers) that are 49. (Babylonian) God of storms and wind. made to click together (as by Spanish 50. A word or phrase spelled by rearranging dancers) in rhythm with the dance. 60. Soft suede glove leather from goatskin. the letters of another word or phrase. 64. The blood group whose red cells carry 52. Place or set apart. both the A and B antigens. 53. A colorless and odorless inert gas. 65. (Mesopotamia) God of agriculture and 57. Lower in esteem. earth. 58. (law) A comprehensive term for any pro- 68. 10 grams. ceeding in a court of law whereby an individ- 70. Mediterranean liliaceous plants. ual seeks a legal remedy. 73. (usually followed by `to') Having the nec- 59. A hard copal derived from an African tree. essary means or skill or know-how or authori- 61. Of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba ty to do something. or the people of Cuba. 74. The residue that remains when something 62. An expression of greeting. is burned. 63. Of or relating to or involving an area. 75. Squirrel monkeys. 66. A fee charged for exchanging currencies. 76. The basic unit of money in Western 67. Characteristic of false pride. Samoa. 69. Military headquarters from which a mili- 77. One-thousandth of an equivalent. tary commander controls and organizes the 78. Pertaining to or resembling amoebae. forces. 79. An organic compound that contains a 71. Horny projecting mouth of a bird. hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom 72. A period marked by distinctive character which in turn is doubly bonded to another or reckoned from a fixed point or event. carbon atom. 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ale fashion followers will be sporting distinctly ognizing his influence,” Women’s Wear Daily noted, androgynous, even outright feminine, looks before adding the killer question: “But what will cus- Mnext year if some of the Spring/Summer 2016 tomers say?” catwalk shows in Milan are a guide. Spearheading a trend reflected across many of the collections unveiled Featherweight fabrics in Italy’s home of fashion was Gucci. The Florence-based Italian label Etro also borrowed from a range of col- house has been taken in a radical new direction by ors - electric blue, golden yellow and dirty pink among Alessandro Michele, the former handbag designer who them - that traditionally have been the preserve of took over as creative director following the sacking of womenswear for a collection that designer Keane Etro Frida Giannini at the end of last year. To a soundtrack of said had been inspired by the egg, “the symbol of male Gregorian chanting, Michele sent out a stream of mod- and female union.” At venerable Italian house, Canali tra- els in pastel-colored silk blouses and lace shirts that dition was updated rather than thrown out under would not have looked out of place at a 1970s music designer Andrea Pompilio’s vision of “a never-ending festival. Mediterranean summer” in a collection that relied heav- Floral-patterned suits, low-waisted, ground-scraping ily on featherweight fabrics including organza, Egyptian flares, geeky big glasses, handbags, embroidered dress- cotton and a linen-silk-wool mix, and featured models ing gowns, 70s-cut trenchcoats and tie-dye denim carrying vintage mini-suitcases as handbags. shorts also featured in a collection presented in a for- The trend towards a de facto merger of men and mer customs warehouse. It was a collection Michele women’s clothing was underlined at the weekend by a pointedly depicted as a break with the brand’s reputa- Prada collection in which soft silk shirts worn open to tion for playing it safe. “DÈtournement is the opposite of the belly button or lower and partially tucked-in fea- quotation,” said the typically cryptic press notes, bor- tured repeatedly. As if to drive home the point, designer rowing a phrase from theorist Guy Debord and the Miuccia Prada also used her menswear show as an French word for a diversion. opportunity to show off a string of items from her wom- It was certainly that: traditional male dressing codes enswear collection. have been diverted to the point that they are borrowing In the words of Stefano Pilati, head of design at women’s clothes, fabrics and favorite accessories. Only Ermenegildo Zegna, the key to the feminized look is time will tell if Gucci’s gamble on a younger, more dar- restrained application. Today’s fashion conscious man is ing vision of one of the world’s most valuable luxury “romantic but sure of himself, strong and with an almost brands will pay off. But the initial reaction in the special- feminine attitude,” he says with a marked emphasis on ist fashion press and in the increasingly important blo- the “almost”. Giorgio Armani and Ermanno Scervino gosphere to Monday’s show appears to have been quite were among the designers showing collections yester- positive. “The press has been gentle on the unassuming day, the final day of the menswear shows.—AFP Michele, embracing his daring neo-dandyism and rec-

Models present creations for fash- ion house Gucci at the Men Spring- Summer 2016 Milanís Fashion Week yester- day.—AFP photos

Models present creations for fash- ion house Ermanno Scervino. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

FASHION

Skinny jeans could make you a fashion victim

quatting in super-tight “skinny” jeans may pose a health risk, Australian doctors warned yester- Sday, reporting the case of a woman who tem- porarily lost feeling in her legs from an hours-long squeeze. The 35-year-old collapsed and had to be hospitalized the day after helping a relative move home, spending hours on her haunches to unpack cupboards. The unusual case was reported in a British specialist publication, the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. “She had been wearing tight ‘skinny’ jeans and recalled that these had felt increasingly tight and uncomfortable as the day wore on,” the journal said. “Later that evening, she experienced numbness in her feet and found it difficult to walk, which caused her to trip and fall. “Unable to get up, she spent several hours lying on the ground before she was found.” The woman’s legs were so swollen that the jeans could only be removed by cutting them Models present creations for fashion house Giorgio Armani. off, said the statement. She couldn’t move her ankles or toes properly, and had lost feeling in her lower legs and feet. She was put on a drip, and was able to walk normally again four days later. Doctors at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia, said the jeans, combined with the squatting, had reduced blood supply to the leg muscles. At the same time, nerve fibres connecting to the lower legs had been damaged by prolonged compression, which explained the numbness and loss of control. “The present case represents a new neurological compli- cation of wearing tight jeans,” they wrote.—AFP lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

Music & Movies Diddy arrested on campus of UCLA, where son plays football ip-hop music mogul Diddy was arrested Monday on campus. He has played in just a handful of games in his afternoon on the campus of the University of three years with the team. Football coach Jim Mora thanked HCalifornia, Los Angeles, where his son is on the foot- his staff in the statement for their professionalism in handling ball team, police said. Diddy, 45, whose real name is Sean the situation. “This is an unfortunate incident for all parties Combs, was arrested at UCLA’s Acosta Athletic Training involved,” Mora said. “While UCPD continues to review this Complex on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon short- matter, we will let the legal process run its course and refrain ly after 12:30 pm, according to a statement from campus from further comment at this time.” Combs’ representatives police. The deadly weapon was a kettlebell, which is used by did not immediately respond to requests for details or com- athletes in weight training. No one was seriously injured and ment. The arrest was first reported by TMZ. — AP campus police are investigating. Officials did not identify the victim of the assault, or say what led to it. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs posing on the red carpet as he arrives for the premiere of Justin Combs attends The Levi’s Pre- Combs’ son Justin Combs is a redshirt junior defensive the comedy movie ‘Get Him to the Greek’ from Universal Pictures at the Grammy Party with Snoop Dogg at The back on the UCLA football team, which has been working out Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. — AFP photos Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. At 25, Taylor Swift proves extraordinary force aylor Swift may be best known for bubble- pensation,” she wrote. Within the day, senior Apple the closest she comes to scandal. Swift frequently gum pop anthems loved by teenage girls, but executive Eddy Cue telephoned Swift on her tour describes herself as a feminist, saying that she Tat 25 she has shown herself to be a formidable stop in Amsterdam and announced that Apple hopes to show a strong yet honest image to her force in the business world, as Apple found out. would compensate artists during the trial period legions of girl fans. “I still don’t feel like it’s a priority Apple, a $750 billion tech leader that is rarely and eat the cost. for me to be cool, edgy or sexy,” Swift-who nonethe- described as laid-back in its commercial strategies, It was not the first time that Swift has taken issue less appears frequently in glossy magazines-told quickly did an about-face Sunday after Swift threat- with streaming. Last year, she removed her entire National Public Radio last year. “When girls feel like ened a partial boycott of its new streaming service catalog from streaming leader Spotify as she they don’t fit into those three themes, which are so unless the company improved compensation for accused the Swedish company-which offers a free obnoxiously thrust upon them through the media, I artists. The episode underscored how Swift has tier-of insufficiently compensating artists. The move think the best thing I can do for those girls is let emerged as a premier power broker from the mil- put Spotify on the defensive, with chief Daniel Ek them know that this is what my life looks like. I love lennial generation, able not only to pack arenas insisting that the company has paid back what now my life,” she said. around the world but also to turn her massive fan amounts to $3 billion in royalties. At the same time, base into valuable leverage. her campaign hardly dented Spotify, which has Coy on politics Key to Swift’s success has been a precocious tal- grown rapidly in the past year and counts Swift In a sales campaign of the sort that is increasing- ent for controlling her image, allowing her to pro- among the few prominent contemporary artists- ly rare in the digital age, Swift promoted “1989” mote her music aggressively while keeping a sugar- Bjork, Radiohead and Garth Brooks are among oth- through a tie-in with a fast-food chain and Polaroid sweet public persona. And her vital tool is social ers-to refuse to stream at least some of their works. pictures in the CDs to encourage collectors. In one media, through which she interacts with pointed move that could belie her image as a marketing regularity with fans. With more than 59 million In charge of sound genius, Swift performed in 2008 for the Republican Twitter followers, she is topped only by fellow pop Born in Pennsylvania, Swift started writing coun- presidential convention that nominated the losing stars Katy Perry and Justin Bieber, and President try songs on guitar in her early teens. Her father ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin. Swift has Barack Obama. shifted his job in financial services to the country since been discreet about politics and has spoken music capital of Nashville to allow her a chance in warmly about Obama. She has asked her online In this May 13, 1999, file photo, actor Jake Lloyd; who portrays young Anakin Skywalker Streaming’s number one foe the industry. After winning a growing mainstream fans to steer clear of politics for fear of raising divi- in the film ‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace;’ plays a game during the Electronic Swift took to social media to air her grievances audience for her introspective country songs, Swift sions. Nonetheless, one prominent supporter of her Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. — AP with Apple, which next week is launching a stream- last year switched to a thoroughly pop direction for Apple campaign suggested that Swift had skills that ing service as the iTunes company seeks to expand her fifth studio album-”1989,” named after her year could come in handy in politics. The singer Elvis in the growing area of on-demand, unlimited music of birth. While Swift said she had been warned Costello wrote on Twitter that Swift could be a Former ‘Star Wars’ child actor services. Saying she was speaking up for artists against straying too far from her country roots, the “future president.”— AFP afraid of incurring Apple’s wrath, Swift complained results were phenomenal, with “1989” enjoying the about the company’s initial plan not to pay royalties biggest debut in the United States since 2002. arrested after high-speed chase for streams during customers’ free three-month tri- The songs, and the intricately choreographed al. “We don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t accompanying videos, are cheeky with playful refer- ask us to provide you with our music for no com- ences to rumors about her dating life-an area that is he former child actor who played a young car’s blue flashing light, the Colleton County Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s “Star Wars: Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Monday. TEpisode I:The Phantom Menace,” was The sheriff’s office spokesman, Sgt Kyle arrested in South Carolina after leading police Strickland, said the former actor had legally on a high-speed chase. Jake Lloyd, now known changed his last name to Broadbent from as Jake Broadbent, was charged last week with Lloyd. Broadbent, 26, is being held on a resisting arrest and failing to stop for a police $10,700 bail at the Colleton County Detention Center, about an hour away from Charleston. The chase occurred after officers attempted to pull over Broadbent but he instead sped up and started passing cars and “driving in a reck- less manner ... and endangering the safety of the motoring public,” according to the state- ment. He drove his car off the road, through a fence and into a wooded area where he came to a stop after crashing into some small trees, police said. In addition to “The Phantom Menace,” the actor starred in 1996’s “Jingle All the Way,” opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. His last role, according to movie database IMDB.com, was in 2005’s “Madison.”— Reuters In a May 17, 2015 file photo, Taylor Swift poses in the press room with the awards for top Billboard 200 album for ì1989î, top female artist, chart achievement, top artist, Photo provided by the Colleton County, top Billboard 200 artist, top hot 100 artist, top digital SC, Sheriffís Office shows former ‘Star Wars’ song artist, and top streaming song (video) for ‘Shake It Taylor Swift performs at Rock in Rio USA at the MGM Resorts Festival Grounds in Las actor Jake Lloyd, who was booked as Jake Off’ at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Vegas. — AP Broadbent. — AP Garden Arena, in Las Vegas. — AP

Country singer Kacey TV’s ‘Smash’ musical may be Musgraves wows on made into a real stage show 2nd album he glitzy, fictional Broadway musical “There is still a lot of love for ‘Smash’ and featured in the TV show “Smash” a rabid fan base out there, and we’re acey Musgraves strives for a classic ‘60s country sound Tmight actually find its way to a stage. thrilled to be able to keep the dream alive on her second album, “Pageant Material.” Ditching the Universal Stage Productions said Monday as we work towards bringing ‘Bombshell’ to Kloops and other contemporary flourishes of her ground- it will develop “Bombshell,” a musical theatre audiences,” Robert Greenblatt, breaking, Grammy-winning 2013 debut, “Same Trailer, about the life of Marilyn Monroe, into a chairman of NBC Entertainment, said in a Different Park,” the native Texan presents carefully arranged live show. No casting was announced, and statement. In the show - created by play- tracks focused on steel guitar, orchestrated strings and a book writer will be announced shortly. wright Theresa Rebeck, who left after the brushed rhythms. Lyrically, she shifts from her first album’s The original songs on the TV show by first season - viewers watched the long social statements - same-sex relationships, pot smoking - Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, whose process of casting, composing, mounting without dialing down her outspoken nature. This time she credits include the Tony-winning score for and rehearsing a Broadway-bound musical. uses her lyrical cleverness to delve into the personal observa- the 2007 musical “Hairspray,” will continue In the second season, a gritty, low-tech off- tions of a small town southern woman establishing her indi- on the stage adaptation, as will original Broadway show called “Hit List” competed viduality as she emerges into a faster-moving modern world. choreographer Joshua Bergasse, who has with “Bombshell” for the Tony Award. Craig From the romantic scenario of “Late to the Party” to the gone on to choreograph “On The Town” Zadan and Neil Meron, who produced melodic richness of “High Time,” and from the good-time man- and “Gigi.” “Smash” was a production of “Smash,” will lead the producing team of ifesto of “Die Fun” to the refusal to compromise on “Good Ol’ Universal Television. The series on NBC “Bombshell” and Steven Spielberg, the Boys Club,” Musgraves confirms her emergence as one of Joss Whedon, Iron Man, Captain America US film director Joss Whedon, center, hugs Iron lasted two seasons and starred Megan executive producer of the TV show, will Nashville’s boldest, most effective artists. —AP Man, left, as Captain America stands by during the Japan premiere of Avengers: Age of Hilty, Jeremy Jordan, Katharine McPhee, also be involved in the stage version. — AP Ultron in Tokyo yesterday. — AP Christian Borle and Debra Messing. The songs included “Let Me Be Your Star” and ‘Independence Day’ sequel “Hang the Moon.” gets title, first photos ox has locked in “Independence Day Emmerich is the executive producer. The Resurgence” as the title for Roland screenplay was written by Roland Emmerich FEmmerich’s sequel to the 1996 block- and Dean Devlin and James Vanderbilt, James buster. Vivica A Fox, Jeff Goldblum, Liam A.Woods & Nicolas Wright. Hemsworth, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Fox has also released the first photos from Judd Hirsch, Sela Ward and Charlotte the set-one of the Moon Tug spacecraft and Gainsbourg have also been cast in the sequel, another of director Emmerich posing with it. which 20th Century Fox has dated for June The story revolves around the nations of 24, 2016 — nearly 20 years after the original Earth having collaborated on an immense was released. Bill Pullman, who played defense program to protect the planet-which President Thomas J Whitmore in the original, comes under attack by the aliens’ advanced is returning for the sequel. Dean Devlin, who and unprecedented force. — Reuters produced the original film, is producing with Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser. Ute lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2015

Music & Movies Italian Actress Laura Antonelli dies at 73 ctress Laura Antonelli who became an Italian sex symbol in the 1970’s and worked with masters Luchino Visconti, ADino Risi, and Ettore Scola, proving her true thesping tal- ent over a career spanning 45 movies during almost four decades, died Monday at her home in Ladispoli near Rome. She was 73. Antonelli died of a heart attack in modest housing provided by Ladispoli social services in 2009. Her career had taken a tragic turn in the 1990’s after cocaine-related charges were pressed against her in 1991. She was cleared of the charges in 2006. Born Laura Antonaz in 1941, in Pola, which is now in Croatia but was then part of Italy, Laura Antonelli grew up in Italian post World War II refugee camps before her family subsequent- ly relocated to Naples. After starting out making TV commer- cials for soft drinks and bedsheets she landed minor roles in Italian erotic genre movies and comedies, including Mario Bava’s “Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs,” and Riccardo Ghione’s 1968 “La Rivoluzione Sessuale” (“The Sexual Revolution”) with a screenplay co-written by Dario Argento. Antonelli’s big breakthrough came with the 1973 release of Salvatore Samperi’s “Malizia” (“Malicious”) in which she played a housekeeper named Angela, a comely maid who seduces a 14- year-old boy in order to marry his rich, widowed father. “Malizia” created a local scandal, became an Italo pop culture sensation, did boffo biz at the Italo box office and made Antonelli an Italian erotic icon. It also won her several prizes including a best actress Silver Ribbon nod awarded by Italy’s Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, one of France’s biggest screen stars and a symbol of 1960s new wave cinema, and Italian film journalists’ union. In 1973 she also starred in Dini Risi’s actress Laura Antonelli participate 26 June 1976 at the Monzon vs Valdes boxing match in Monaco. — AP /AFP photos eposodic sex comedy “Sessomatto” (“Crazy Sex”) in which she plays an unchaste nun clad in white vestments and stockings. Giannini; in 1981 in Ettore Scola’s “Passion of Love” she played aged her career to the point that Antonelli died destitute Meanwhile in 1972 Antonelli had worked with French direc- Clara a rich young woman who betrays her husband. In 1986 after refusing special Italian government aid for artists. tor Claude Chabrol on love triangle pic “Dr Popaul” alongside she starred in Mauro Bologini’s erotic costumer “La Venexiana,” Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini paid tribute to Mia Farrow and Jean-Paul Belmondo with whom she had a tur- after which she worked mostly on Italian TV series until 1991 Antonelli as an “an actress of rare beauty and a great talent bulent headline-grabbing nine-year affair. She had previously when she starred in Samperi’s “Malizia” sequel “Malizia 2000,” of Italian cinema.” Antonelli will be buried in Ladispoli after divorced from Italian publisher Enrico Piacentini, “Laura was for which flopped, and marked her last onscreen appearance. the arrival from Canada of her brother Claudio, who is her me above all an adorable companion, of exceptional charm,” On the night of April 27 1991 police broke into her villa in only survivor. — Reuters Belmondo, 82, told Italian news agency ANSA. Antonelli in Cervetri, outside Rome, charged Antonelli with possessing 1976 starred in Luchino Visconti’s last film, “The Innocent,” as and dealing cocaine, and sentenced her to house arrest. That the wife of a male chauvinist aristocrat played by Giancarlo conviction was overturned in 2006 but permanently dam-

‘Titanic’ music composer Downey Jr to produce, possibly Horner dies in plane crash star in conman movie adaptation ames Horner, the celebrated composer of nomination came in 1986 for the sci-fi horror the scores of several Hollywood smash- film “Aliens.” Horner’s most recent Oscar nomi- obert Downey Jr’s production company Team Warner Bros has also acquired the life rights for Jhit films including “Titanic” and “Avatar,” nation was for another sci-fi epic, James Downey is developing a movie based on the FBI agents Jim Wedick and Jack Brennan. Downey, died Monday in a plane crash at the age of 61, Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster “Avatar”. Rbook “Chasing Phil: The World’s Greatest Con wife Susan Downey and David Gambino are produc- US media reported. Hollywood trade maga- With expansive and emotive soundscapes, Man, Two Undercover FBI Agents, and Their Amazing ing. Rob Hackett is overseeing the project with zine Variety reported the composer died Horner’s scores carried films to their climax Around the World Adventure.” The project is being Gambino for Team Downey, while Courtenay Valenti when his private aircraft crashed in Santa and accompanied top actors as they deliv- developed as a potential acting vehicle for Downey and Julia Spiro are supervising for Warner Bros. Barbara, California. “Brilliant Composer James ered some of their most moving performanc- in the role of conman Phillip Kitzer Jr Warner Bros, Downey is currently filming Marvel’s “Captain Horner, friend & collaborator on 7 movies has es. Tender kisses in “The Amazing Spider- which has a first-look deal with Team Downey, America: Civil War.” He’s repped by CAA. ICM Partners tragically died in a plane crash. My heart Man,” grand battles in “Troy” and moments of picked up the movie rights to David Howard’s non- repped the book proposal, along with the life rights aches for his loved ones,” wrote director and stirring drama in “A Beautiful Mind” were all fiction book, which centers on the FBI agents who of the two FBI agents. — Reuters colleague Ron Howard on Twitter. set up by Horner’s hand. American film touch- infiltrated the world of Kitzer, a Minnesota swindler stones of the 1990s such as “Patriot Games”, who masterminded dozens of multimillion-dollar Robert Downey Jr “Searching for Bobby Fischer” and “Jumanji” schemes, such as selling worthless securities from were also composed by Horner. Top actors bogus offshore enterprises during the 1970s. and directors in the film and television world paid tribute to Horner online. “Incredibly saddened to hear about the loss of James Horner. I grew up loving his work. He leaves behind a spectacular musical Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ set box legacy,” television series creator Seth MacFarlane tweeted. “There is nothing that shaped my movie-going experience more office record in debut than the musical genius of James Horner. He will live on through the ages,” tweeted actor ixar’s critically acclaimed “Inside Out”-an website GoldDerby.com. Some are even looking Rob Lowe. Actor Ron Perlman, who starred in animated look at the mind of a pre-teen beyond the obvious Academy Award for Best “Enemy at the Gates”, said he was “lucky to be Pgirl-could not defeat the dinosaurs of Animated Feature, and sizing up the chances for able to say I was in a movie that was scored “Jurassic World” at the North American weekend “Inside Out” to be nominated for Best Picture. by James Horner.” “Flights of angels dear box office. But Pixar, now part of the Disney Docter has experience on that front-he also sweet beautiful mind...,” he wrote on Twitter. empire, nevertheless set an impressive record- directed “Up,” the first Pixar film to be nominated Other composers also spoke of Horner’s last- for the biggest opening of an original movie, for the top Oscar. ing influence on their careers. animated or live-action, not based on sourced “Inside Out”-which features the voices of “James Horner, thank you for inspiring a material, with $90.4 million in ticket sales. It’s a “Parks and Recreation” star Amy Poehler, “Twin This March 23, 1998 file photo shows com- young me to pursue a career in film music. huge win for Pixar in a summer of superhero Peaks” actor Kyle MacLachlan and the ever- poser James Horner as he holds his two Thank you for your music. Rest in peace.” sequels and the ferocious Indominus Rex. “That’s adaptable Hollywood actress Diane Lane-never- Oscars for Best Original Song for ‘My Heart wrote Steve Jablonsky who composed music a big deal considering the top-grossing movies theless could not dethrone “Jurassic World.” The Will Go On’ and Best Dramatic Score for for the “Transformers” film series. Horner also these days usually have Roman numerals trailing fourth film in the popular “Jurassic Park” series Titanic at the 70th Annual Academy scored popular animated films “The Land them,” said Jeff Bock of industry tracker Exhibitor co-produced by Steven Spielberg raked in Honoree Quentin Tarantino arrives at the LACMA Awards in Los Angeles, CA. — AFP Before Time” (1988) and “An American Tail: Relations, referring to the seemingly endless $106.6 million this weekend, and has pulled in a Fievel Goes West” (1991). He was nominated Art + Film Gala at LACMA in Los Angeles. — AP stream of sequels. total of more than $400 million in North America Horner won two Oscars for his work on for an Oscar for the song “Somewhere Out “Disney is, bar none, the best at marketing in just two weeks. It is quickly closing in on the “Titanic” - one for its theme song “My Heart There” in “An American Tail.” — AFP their films in the industry. They make every ani- $1 billion mark worldwide, according to Will Go On”, performed by Celine Dion, and mated film an event, but unlike other compa- Exhibitor Relations and Box Office Mojo. But another for the film’s score. He also won Oscar nies, they almost always back it up with quality.” experts say the success of “Jurassic World” takes nominations for the music of numerous other Cooper, Tarantino “Inside Out”-which has received nearly universal nothing away from “Inside Out.” “This sets up a box-office hits, including “Apollo 13,” rave reviews-portrays human emotions of Joy, very nice box office momentum that will hope- “Braveheart” and “Field of Dreams.” His first Anger, Fear, Disgust and Sadness as distinct fully continue to boost the fortunes of what among Hollywood characters who sit at the control panel in the everyone has been counting on as a record- mind “Headquarters” of young Riley. Until now, breaking summer movie season,” said Rentrak’s Mirren, Kimmel to be feted at Italy’s the record for the opening of an original movie Paul Dergarabedian. As for the rest of the week- Walk of Fame 2016 was held by James Cameron’s landmark sci-fi end box office, the comedy “Spy” starring Ischia Global Film and Music Fest blockbuster “Avatar,” which opened in 2009 at Melissa McCarthy took third place with $11.2 honorees $77 million-and went on to become the highest- million in ticket sales. Natural disaster thriller elen Mirren and husband Taylor Antonio Banderas will be on hand to be grossing box office hit of all time. “San Andreas”-featuring Dwayne “the Rock” Hackford, star tenor Andrea Bocelli, receive an Ischia nod on July 12, and on the radley Cooper, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Hart “Inside Out” has grossed about $132 million Johnson-took home $8.7 million for fourth Hand Jimmy Kimmel are the latest same evening Italian director Matteo Garrone and Michael Keaton are among the inductees worldwide, according to another box office place, and coming-of-age film “Dope” debuted showbiz personalities set to be feted by Italy’s will receive an Ischia Fantasy Award for his Bthat will receive stars on the Hollywood Walk tracker, Rentrak. It had the second-biggest open- in the fifth spot with $6.1 million. “Insidious: upcoming Ischia Global Film and Music Fest. English-language Salma Hayek-starrer “The of Fame next year. The Hollywood Walk of Fame Class ing of a Pixar film, behind $110.3 million for “Toy Chapter 3,” the latest installment in the supernat- Mirren (pictured) will receive Ischia’s Luchino Tale of Tales,” which world-preemed in of 2016 also includes Steve Carell and Kurt Russell in Story 3” in 2010. Many critics have called it one ural horror series, earned $4.1 million in ticket Visconti Award during a gala ceremony on Cannes. Nicolas Winding Refn (“Only God the motion pictures category, while Kathy Bates, of Pixar’s best ever, comparing it to other sales for the sixth spot. Team singing sequel July 17 at Villa La Colombaia, the palatial digs Forgives”) will be honored as European Tracy Morgan and Rob Lowe will be honored for beloved masterpieces like “Toy Story” and “Pitch Perfect 2” took in $3.5 million for the sev- once owned by legendary Italo filmmaker Director of the Year. The Ischia fest is a sister their accomplishments in TV. Although mostly seen “Finding Nemo.” It has earned a stellar 98 percent enth spot. Dystopian action flick “Mad Max: Fury Luchino Visconti on the Italian island off the event to Capri Hollywood. Both are conceived on TV these days, LL Cool J and Adam Levine will be approval rating on go-to movie review site Road” starring Charlize Theron got $3 million in coast of Naples. Hackford will also be hon- as bridge-building meets between feted in the recording category along with fellow RottenTomatoes.com. ticket sales for eighth place. The ninth and tenth ored the same evening with an Ischia Legend Hollywood and the Italian and European film musicians Cyndi Lauper and Bruno Mars. Comic- spots were rounded out by the Marvel jugger- Award. As previously announced, Ischia this industries where attendees can network turned-movie star Hart will also be lauded in the live Oscar time? naut “Avengers: Age of Ultron” at $2.8 million year will also pay tribute to Netflix chief con- informally while enjoying splendid locations performance group. Some are already saying that director Pete and “Tomorrowland” at $2.2 million. — AFP tent officer Ted Sarandos and Academy of and luxurious accommodations. — Reuters Musician and Walk of Famer Dave Koz announced Docter and his team should get their Oscar Motion Picture Arts& Sciences president the new honorees alongside Leron Gubler, president acceptance speeches ready. “Though the year is Cheryl Boone Isaacs. and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, not even half over, we have our first clear fron- and Maureen Schultz, chair of the Walk of Fame trunner at the Oscars,” said showbiz predictions selection committee for 2014-2015, at a press confer- ence on Monday. Here’s the full list of upcoming honorees: Motion pictures: Bradley Cooper, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Keaton, Steve Carell, Kurt Russell, Ashley Judd and Toshiro Mifune (posthumous) Television: Kathy Bates, Tracy Morgan, Allison Janney, David Duchovny, Rob Lowe, Debra Messing, Roma Downey, Barbara Bain, Gary Sinise and William S. Paley (posthumous) Recording: Adam Levine, Bruno Mars, LL Cool J, Cyndi Lauper, Shirley Caesar, Joseph B “Joe” Smith, Itzhak Perlman and “Mama” Cass Elliot (posthumous) Radio: Ralph Lawler Live Theatre/Live Performance: Kevin Hart, Angelica Maria and Harvey Fierstein. — Reuters This photo provided by Universal Pictures shows, Bryce Dallas Howard, from left, as Claire, Chris Pratt as Owen, Nick Robinson as Zach, and Ty Simpkins as Gray, in a scene Actress Meryl Streep arrives for a photocall for her film ‘Into the Woods’ in Tokyo. — AP from the film, “Jurassic World”. Italian Actress Laura Antonelli dies at 73

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Egyptians walk at the Khan El-Khalili market in Cairo during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan yesterday. — AFP Modern etiquette: ‘Who borrowed my stapler?’

ccording to “Happiness at Work” by author Jessica Pryce- week’s half eaten lunch in the fridge to stinking up the kitchen Given this diversity, be sure and watch your language by editing fumes. For that segment of your work family that is truly both- Jones, American workers spend an average of 90,000 with reheated kimchi, employees need to show respect and out swear words, demeaning phrases and other offensive ered by such smells (including pop-up air fresheners), be a team Ahours at work over their lifetime. With so much time mind their manners when it comes to culinary concerns. If there remarks. Showing respect in all forms of communication will player and save the sprays for the off hours. spent in cubicles and under the glare of fluorescent lights (and is a sink, do your own dishes instead of leaving them for later. speak volumes about you. Groom with a view: We’ve all heard horror stories about co- constant deadlines), maintaining civility and respect is not only Happy returns: Nothing can raise the ire of your fellow Idle gossip: No matter where you work, most of us have workers who clip their nails and even floss their teeth in a cubi- important for personal success but also for the psychological employee quicker than “borrowing” a stapler, a pair of scissors or encountered office gossip, been a party to it, or been the victim cle or open office. But please show some professional and per- well-being of your entire office. Whether you are a recent hire or a pen without asking. What’s worse is when you forget to return of it. Constantly engaging in such behavior can lead to long- sonal decorum by arriving at your office pre-groomed and ready just need a refresher course on interoffice relationships, here are the item. Remember what your parents taught you as a child - term unhappiness with co-workers. If you indulge in office gos- for work. some practical reminders on maintaining professional decorum never borrow something without asking and if you do, be sure sip, think about what it’s doing to your own reputation - not to Private screenings: How many times have you been com- and respect in a shared workplace. and return it as soon as possible. mention the hurt feelings of your office mates. posing a private email and a co-worker stops to talk and glances Volume Control: With open workspaces becoming more The late show: With our deadline-driven workday, time is Credit score: No one likes someone who takes all the credit- at your work, giving your monitor more than a few seconds of commonplace, a closed door can’t shut out a loud co-worker or more valuable than ever. If you have a meeting with a co-worker especially for a team project. Remember that the most happy screen time? Always remember to respect your co-workers’ pri- someone on a speakerphone. If you have to make phone calls in or team, show respect by being on time. The same goes for work environments are collaborative places where people share vacy-especially with their online work. — Reuters an open setting, make sure to control your own volume and meeting deadlines on a collaborative project. Nothing leaves a ideas and concepts. Even if you are the lead on a project, don’t respect your neighbors. Or if your office has privacy rooms, uti- worse impression than someone having to pay the price for your forget to recognize the efforts of your co-workers. lize them. tardiness. Bittersweet smells: More and more companies are adopting Food for thought: The shared office kitchen is often the Language barrier: In an office setting, you are surrounded a fragrance-free policy due to allergies, headaches and other most contentious room in any office setting. From leaving last by people of all faiths, backgrounds and moral codes of conduct. reactions to body sprays, aftershave and even designer per-

Japan’s ‘Jailhouse Rockers’ play to a captive audience

laying to a captive audience is all in night’s work Japan have fallen over the last decade-the country hardened criminals and the jails they call home for Japan’s jailhouse rockers. Armed with already has a very low crime rate and just 60,000 pris- through the media’s interest in them. “I think the pub- Pacoustic instruments and prison-worthy lyrics- oners from a population of about 127 million, far low- lic’s understanding of prisoners will change if they ”cheer up, don’t give up” and “it’s okay to make mis- er than some other advanced nations. learn about life there,” Kitao said. takes”-the female duo Paix2 has been rocking cell Japan had 51 prisoners per 100,000 people, while But they’re not getting rich doing it. The mostly blocks for 15 years, and show no signs of stopping. the figure was 710 in the US, 147 in the UK, and 98 in weekend prison gigs rake in about 30,000 yen ($250) “The pair-Manami Kitao, 37, and Megumi Ikatsu, 39 — France, according to latest Organization for Economic to 40,000 yen per show, and that modest fee must also recently played at Kurobane Prison near Tokyo to an Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics. But cover their accommodation and transportation costs audience of convicts decked out in identical yellow the rate of recidivism among people arrested has to prisons across the country. “Performing at prisons prison uniforms and with close-cropped hair. Guards been on the rise, jumping to nearly 47 percent in 2013 meant that we wouldn’t be like other famous singers at the show dispensed with a few of Japan’s notorious- from 28 percent in 1997. The government is hoping to on television-the concerts are nothing glamorous,” ly strict prison rules by letting the 500 concert-goers sing along and pump their firsts for two numbers. “But the officers will take you out in the hall if you get too excited!” Kitao warned, sparking a roar of laughter from the crowd. The gig marked the duo’s 362nd prison concert, and their unlikely niche could put them into the Guinness Book of World Records as the most toured prison band. The two women were discovered by their current manager at a singing competition years ago in rural western Tottori prefecture where they grew up. While at a local event, a police officer suggested they perform to inmates and it wasn’t long before singing to thieves, killers and drug offenders turned into a pro- fession. But Ikatsu remembers the first time she stood in front of an audience filled with menacing male pris- oners. Her hands shook as she held the microphone. “It was intimidating because they had this intense gaze and no one smiled,” she said. Kitao has similarly grim memories: “I was terrified because there was no reaction. My mind went blank and I hardly remember anything about the first con- cert.” Despite their jittery start, word quickly spread about this pair of young female singers who still have next to no competition in their field. Japanese female duo Paix2, Manami Kitao and Megumi Ikatsu pose at the Kurobane prison, some 160 kilometer north of Tokyo. — AFP photos ‘Nothing glamorous’ The duo’s folksy range of originals and covers, run- tackle the problem by boosting employment pro- Ikatsu said. But the duo, who have played at every ning to pop rock and interspersed with talking, had grams for ex-inmates, as Tokyo gets ready to host the prison hall in the country, knew they made the right the seated Kurobane prisoners clapping along and 2020 Summer Olympics. decision when former inmates started showing up at cheering in restrained enjoyment for 90 minutes. Toru Matsumura, in charge of the prison’s educa- their less frequent shows on the outside. “Former pris- “Their concert made me really think about the mean- tion program, says that holding live events for prison- oners who come to see our shows tell us they will nev- ing of life,” a prisoner in his 40s, who was jailed for drug ers might help reverse the trend. It’s a way to “give pris- er commit crime again-that is the most meaningful use, told AFP after the show. “I thought I should do my oners a chance to change themselves for the better”, moment for us,” Kitao said. — AFP Japanese female duo Paix2, Manami Kitao and Megumi Ikatsu perform at the best here until the day I leave,” added the man who he adds. The singing duo also hope prison shows have Kurobane prison. said one song brought him close to tears. Arrests in an impact-and maybe soften the public’s image of