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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 SHAWWAL 24, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Six strategic, Battle of the National Bank Suarez vows 105 short-term boycott plays of Kuwait elects not to bite goals for out in W Bank, Nasser Al-Sayer again with new plan2 Israel14 shops as21 chairman Barcelona20 Saudi mufti blasts Qaeda, Max 45º Min 32º Islamic State as ‘enemies’ High Tide 06:22 & 19:22 Death sentence handed to militant Kingdom opens family courts Low Tide • 00:42 & 14:46 40 PAGES NO: 16260 150 FILS RIYADH: Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh yesterday blasted Al-Qaeda and Islamic State jihadists as MP demands “enemy number one” of Islam, in a statement issued in Riyadh. “The ideas of extremism, radicalism and terror- ism... have nothing to do with Islam and (their propo- collection nents) are the enemy number one of Islam,” the king- dom’s top cleric said. He cited jihadists from the Islamic State, which has declared a of weapons “caliphate” straddling large parts of Iraq and Syria, and By A Saleh the global Al-Qaeda terror network. KUWAIT: MP Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran stressed the need “Muslims are the main to pass a law on weapon collection following the violent victims of this extremism, incidents Kuwait witnessed recently. “This law must be as shown by crimes com- passed in a way to prevent arbitrariness in implement- mitted by the so-called ing it as well as protecting citizens’ privacy,” he stressed, Islamic State, Al-Qaeda expressing hope that such a law would be passed by the and groups linked to beginning of the new parliamentary term. Jeeran them,” the mufti said, quot- explained that it would be better to start collecting ing a verse in the Holy weapons now than to wait until they spread further and Quran urging the “killing” it becomes harder to collect them the way some coun- of people who do deeds Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh tries are suffering. harmful to Islam. His Meanwhile, MP Abdulhameed Dashti said that many stance reflects the Saudi clerical community’s hostility employees in the Commerce Ministry were unlawfully towards IS jihadists, known for their brutality. The largely and unjustifiably transferred to other departments. He Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia favors an austere form of also criticized Minister Mudej’s refusal to meet them. “It Islam. The two holiest places of Islam, Makkah and seems that the minster has become accustomed to Madinah, are both in Saudi Arabia. injustice,” he said, noting that the minster appointed a IS jihadists, already well established in Syria, launched less competent director to the Industry Authority an offensive in Iraq on June 9 and rapidly seized control of because of pressure by an influential dual citizen. “Who vast swathes of Sunni territory there. “In the circum- controls and runs your ministry - influential VIPs or dual stances the Islamic nation is living through, several coun- citizens?” he asked, noting that the ministry was pushing KUWAIT: Sailors in a traditional dhow take in the catch of oysters brought up tries have been destabilized” by extremists, who “divide things towards a clash with the parliament. by divers during the 26th pearl diving expedition yesterday. (Inset) The haul Muslims” in the name of religion, the mufti said. of harvested pearls. — KUNA (See Page 5) Continued on Page 13 Israel hits Gaza, suspends talks Hamas shows defiance in tunnel tour

GAZA CITY: Israel and Palestinian mili- made. The Palestinian delegation pre- boys aged six and nine in the southern tants resumed fire across the Gaza sented their demands for a truce to city of Rafah, the Gaza emergency border yesterday, sparking panic Egyptian mediators and were awaiting services spokesman said. There was no across the war-torn enclave where res- Israel’s response, said the official, immediate claim of responsibility for idents fled for cover as Israeli aircraft Azzam Al-Ahmed. “There has been no firing the rockets, two of which hit struck. A military spokeswoman told progress,” he said of yesterday’s talks. near the city of Beersheva, which is AFP that two rockets hit southern “Matters have become more compli- home to around 200,000 Israelis. An Israel during the late afternoon and cated.” Israeli official said the negotiating early evening - several hours before a The renewal of Israeli strikes spread team had been ordered back from 24-hour truce was to expire - and two panic among Gaza residents. An AFP Cairo where Egypt has been pushing more were intercepted by missile reporter saw hundreds of Palestinians for a decisive end to the Gaza blood- defences. Israel ordered its negotiators streaming out of Shejaiya, an eastern shed, which has killed more than 2,000 back from ceasefire talks in Cairo and area of Gaza City which has been dev- Palestinians and 67 on the Israeli side. the military said warplanes hit Gaza. astated by more than a month of However, there was no immediate They hit at least 10 targets, according fighting between Israel and the mili- confirmation the team had left. “The to army radio. tant Islamist Hamas movement. More Cairo process was based on the prem- The fighting shattered nine days of poured out of the Zeitun and Shaaf ise of a total ceasefire,” another official relative quiet in the skies over Gaza areas, alarmed by a series of explo- told AFP. “If Hamas fires rockets, the and cast a dark shadow over Egyptian- sions and heading to shelter in UN Cairo process has no basis.” Israel has mediated efforts to hammer out a schools, local witnesses said. vowed not to negotiate under fire, and longer-term truce. The chief Five Palestinians were wounded, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Palestinian negotiator in Cairo said three in the northern area of Beit has warned there would be “a very yesterday that no progress had been Lahiya two of them children - and two Continued on Page 13 Unrest mounts in Missouri

FERGUSON, Missouri: US lawmakers yesterday called for calm and a change in police tactics in the St Louis ‘Lioness of Iran’ suburb of Ferguson, which has been rocked by racially charged clashes and riots after a white officer killed an unarmed black teenager 10 days ago. The violence has Behbahani dies captured headlines around the world, raising questions about the state of US race relations nearly six years after DUBAI: Poet Simin Behbahani, Americans elected their first black president. Law a champion of women’s rights enforcement has made various efforts to soothe angry and free speech whose lyrical demonstrators, but police said they had come under verse captured the hopes and heavy gunfire overnight and arrested 31 people despite disappointments of Iranians the deployment of Missouri National Guard troops and since the 1979 revolution, died the lifting of a curfew to allow protesters to have more yesterday at the age of 87, offi- freedom to demonstrate. cial media reported. Nominated for the Nobel Prize Continued on Page 13 in Literature, she earned the unofficial title of the “Lioness of Iran” for what admirers saw Simin Behbahani as her courage in the face of official censorship. After nearly two weeks in the Tehran Pars hospital, she died of heart and respiratory complications, according to state news agency IRNA. She was nearly blind towards the end of her life. “Until now, I’ve said what I’ve had to say, I’ve always said I’m against death, I’m against killing and I’m against impris- onment,” she told the BBC’s Persian service in 2012. She encapsulated the hopeful and later deflated moods of contemporary Iran after the revolution, using a 1,100-year lyrical form of poetry known as the ghazal. Despite the difficulties of living in Iran, she received her inspiration from her homeland and chose not to emi- grate. “She loved Iran and despite the many opportunities she had to go live abroad, she stayed,” said a friend and editor of a compilation of her poems, Ali Dehbashi, from Tehran. “She was tied to the land and her biggest fear was FERGUSON, Missouri: Police officers arrest a demon- that she would die while abroad.” — Reuters strator on Monday. —AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 LOCAL Six strategic, 105 short-term goals for 2015-2020 development plan KUWAIT: Acting Secretary General of the Supreme and imbalances, including the economic and develop- Council for Planning and Development Yahia Al-Oqaili ment challenges such as diversifying the economy, revealed yesterday that the state development plan for increasing private sector’s role in development, 2015-2020 envisions six strategic and 105 short-term addressing imbalances in state budget, encouraging goals. Oqaili made the unveiling during a meeting that foreign direct investments, developing the country’s brought together officials of the General Secretariat of infrastructure, adopting an integrated and comprehen- the Supreme Council for Planning and Development sive urban development strategy and tackling human and government agencies to discuss the main features resources and social challenges. of the state development plan for (2015-2020). It also includes improving the quality of public edu- The meeting also tackled the council’s mechanisms cation and healthcare services, empowering the youth, for preparing the annual development plans and fol- fighting corruption and the enhancing efficiency of the lowing up the government implementation of the state’s administrative apparatus. The second track aims plans. He stated that the new plan sets a number of to develop the northern region of the country to be a goals, policies and targets to be achieved during the commercial center for the state and create the appropri- next five years. ate conditions to turn it into a regional commercial hub. The development plan detailed the strategic projects Oqaili noted the Council started designing the five- that it aims to execute during the coming five years as year plan on 23 January, 2014 and took five months to well as the required legislative and institutional reforms complete. Then the plan was delivered to the cabinet to accomplish its goals and policies, Oqaili said. He which approved it on June 17 and referred it to the pointed that the development plan comprises two National Assembly for discussion and approval, he Kuwait Airways to tracks; the first aims to address the current challenges said. — KUNA buy 10 Boeing 777 jets

KUWAIT: Kuwait Airways plans to The purchase, which included 10 are to be delivered in 2019 and buy 10 Boeing 777 jetliners, report- A350-900 long-haul jets and 15 2020. ed local Arabic daily Al Qabas yes- A320 neo aircraft - along with 12 The purchases are part of KAC’s terday. The report, citing unnamed more leased aircraft, seven A320s fleet renewal program - the first sources, said that the KAC Board of and five A330s - triggered outcries since 1990. The troubled national Directors has issued a directive and from various segments of Kuwait’s carrier is also undergoing an organi- is in the initial stages of discussions business elite, a parliamentary zational restructuring and expendi- with Boeing. The purchase is said to investigation into the contract ture cuts - a program prepared in be proceeding at the ‘behest of the process and criticism from some conjunction with IATA, the world’s government’ and KAC officials are lawmakers. largest aviation watchdog - in expected to meet soon with Boeing Kuwait Airways chairwoman advance of preparation for privati- officials to discuss legal and techni- Rasha Al Roumi said at the time that zation. cal matters. the airline signed the deal without The Boeing 777 is the world’s In a highly controversial move, any middlemen and managed to largest twinjet, for long haul flights KAC inked a $4.4 billion deal to buy get a 10 percent discount during with a typical seating capacity of 25 aircraft from Airbus in February. final negotiations. The Airbus planes 314 to 451 passengers. Boubyan Bank launches ID cash withdrawal service

KUWAIT: Boubyan bank, in coopera- bank’s ATMs with having to use the services that rely on social media tion with the Public Authority for ATM card, Abdallah Al-Tuwaijri, communications such as the internet, Civil Information (PACI), launched a Deputy CEO, said in a press confer- smart phones, tablets and others. service that allows clients to with- ence yesterday. Tariq Al-Rashid, PACI’s Director of draw cash using their Smart Civil ID The new service is characterized Systems Development, said mean- Card; the first of its kind in the with the highest security standards while that this service is a live exam- Middle East. and maintain the secrecy of informa- ple for the developed use of smart The service allows bank cus- tion, Turaiji said. He added the bank is cards that are available with all citi- tomers to withdraw cash from the keen on providing electronic banking zens and most expats. — KUNA Envoy welcomes ‘Journey of Hope’ in Rome ROME: Kuwait’s ambassador in Rome Sheikh Ali Al-Khalid For his part, Sheikh Ali Al-Khalid expressed apprecia- Al-Jaber Al-Sabah welcomed the Kuwaiti “Journey of tion for the ‘Journey of Hope’ unique mission, which high- Hope” team visiting Italy this week as part of a noble lights Kuwait’s contribution to the international efforts, humanitarian mission seeking to highlight the issue of the especially that have human dimensions, and stressed sup- mentally disabled people. port by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Ambassador Al-Khalid held a banquette Monday for Jaber Al-Sabah in that respect. the team, led by mission executive director Youssef Al- The initiative of the ‘Joureny of Hope’ is an unprece- Jassem and head of the cruise team Jassem Al-Badr. dented mission and an achievement that deserves to The embassy organized a cultural tour for the team enter the Guinness World Records, ambassador Ali Al- members to the historical landmarks in the Italian capital. Khalid said, referring to his own voluntary work in the Al-Jassem and Al-Badr briefed the ambassador on the 1980s when he accompanied the Kuwaiti team for people aims of the mission, and thanked the embassy for the rich with special needs in the Special Olympics held in program prepared for them in Italy. The cruise stopped in England. He also delivered to the mission greetings by the Livorno port, north of Italy, on August 16, and will then head of the Italian National Olympic Committee Giovanni proceed to Palermo in the south to arrive there on August Malago for the achievements of the Kuwaiti athletes with 21. The mission is due to leave Palermo on August 25. special needs. — KUNA Kuwaiti tourists to Thailand urged to respect laws

KUALA LUMPUR: Kuwaiti tourists declared upon entry according to Bangkok issued a statement yes- to Thailand are required to mind local laws means they must cross terday indicating laws, regulations, the laws and norms of the host through the customs path marked and norms that visitors must be country to avoid any run-ins with in red, or risk being accused of aware of and adhere to during the law during their stay, Abdullah smuggling or tax evasion. their stay to avoid any legal com- Al-Sharhan, the ambassador of the The Kuwaiti Embassy in plications. — KUNA State of Kuwait to Thailand said yesterday. Most important among regulations to mind is the one which states the visa Kuwaiti tourists get at Thai ports allows them to stay in the country for 30 days and no more, without pos- sibility of extension, the diplomat told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). “Those wishing to stay longer must issue the appropriate visa at the Thai Embassy in Kuwait before they head here.” He added. “Violating this law would have legal conse- quences, and penalties are also imposed in propor- tion to the length of the violation.” Another thing to remember, according to the ambassador, is that Thailand’s Customs only allow entry of a maximum 10 packs of cigarettes per adult. “High sums are imposed in penalty if a traveler is found to be in possession of more than this set limit,” he said. Ambassador Sharhan also urged Kuwaiti visitors to remember that carrying any items that must be LOCAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014

In Brief Planets conjunction Overhead lines Boat licenses KUWAIT: Kuwaiti astronomer Adel Al-Saadoun said that the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter can be KUWAIT: Minister of Electricity and Water Abdulaziz KUWAIT: Nearly 9,000 boat licenses were issued since seen these days at dawn hours. The astronomical Al-Ibrahim signed the contract for a project to connect a recent government decision to require a permit to phenomenon creates a beautiful scene for the two between the Zoor and Khairan power transformers sail boats in territorial waters, the Ministry of planets which can be seen in the east until the break with 400 kilovolt overhead lines, and a similar project Communications announced. Applications to obtain of dawn, he said. The planets are visible to the naked to connect cables to the Subbiya power plant. The KD the license are submitted at the ministry’s transporta- eye - as Venus can be recognized by appearing as 31 million project has a 20 months time period to be tion sector, and the license is issued within days of the shiniest star in the sky, followed by Jupiter as the completed. — KUNA application, said Nabil Basha, the marine registration second shiniest. —KUNA supervisor at the transportation sector. People caught sailing a boat without a license are subject to pay a KD500 fine. — Al-Anba Photo of the day

KUWAIT: A house sparrow feeds a fledgling on top of an apartment building’s wall. — Photo by Joseph Shagra How to pay the electricity bill in Kuwait Zain revamps Mishref coop branch

KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecom- munications company in Kuwait, announced it recently revamped its Mishref Cooperative Society branch with the latest and most advanced solutions, reinforcing its leadership position in the country’s telecom sec- tor. The latest re-opening further affirms the total number of branches operated by Zain (over 80), the highest number in Kuwait, which is in line with the company’s strategy to serve the largest customers family in Kuwait. In a press statement, Zain men- tioned that it continues to revamp and update its various branches with the latest services and technology solu- tions to fill customers’ needs through the largest branches network in the country. The newly revamped branch in Mishref is set to maintain Zain’s high standards of customer service and convenience, while offering the latest devices, accessories, packages, and customer service. A Ministry of Electricity and Water meter. — Photo by Joseph Shagra Ahmad Al Kandari, Zain’s Sales Director said: “The latest reopening of Zain staff at the branch’s reopening. By Nawara Fattahova sumers’ complaints, paying bills, read- Zain’s Mishref Cooperative Society ing meters, and other services related branch is part of the company’s strate- Al Kandari added “Through our tomers.” KUWAIT: Many tenants are confused to this issue. Also there is a collection gy to be close to its customers wherev- wide branch network covering all of It is worth noting that Zain’s recent- about the procedures or process of office located at the Kuwait er they are through the biggest net- the country, our customers can benefit ly revamped branch in Mishref offers a paying electricity bills in Kuwait. International Airport,” said Hanan Al- work of branches in Kuwait. We con- from easy access to the variety of serv- modern notion of the retail experi- Oftentimes, a resident may be leav- Kanderi, Head of Media Department stantly look at ways to improve the ices and products we offer and our ence. The branch contains the latest ing Kuwait - on holiday or for good - at the MEW. retail experience for our customers, expansion strategy has focused on touch devices to showcase the compa- and arrive at the airport to find that Many consumers don’t pay their including providing them with the lat- locating our branches at the vital resi- ny’s products and services, in addition their travel is blocked due to unpaid bills even for many years. This lead est solutions to better serve their dential and commercial areas to assure to offering the latest accessories for power bills. Others may be charged the Ministry to take action to force needs.” utmost convenience for our cus- smart devices. for power used by previous tenants. them to pay, so they started the pol- There are myriad ways for the elec- icy of cutting the electricity, as the tricity to turn into a nightmare issue only way of collecting the debts. so we’ve got the lowdown on how to According to Abdullah Al-Hajiri, deal with this tricky situation. Assisting Undersecretary for First check your rental contract. their flat and should receive a clear- Consumers Sector at MEW said Older contracts do not include elec- ance certificate. If they do not, then people should pay their bills to tricity as part of the fee while most there can appear a debt in their new contracts do. If you have an old- avoid having the power cut. The bill name that may result in a travel ban is in fact a warning letter or docu- er control, then you’ll need to go to or court case. ment informing the consumer he the Ministry of Electricity and Water Consumers can check their bills, (MEW) and register yourself as the ask for the roaming collector, report has a debt for the Ministry. He also tenant. their claim, and ask for other inquiries mentioned that the Ministry is plan- “The consumer should go person- on the emergency hotline of the ning to install prepaid meters that ally to the branch in the area where MEW #152. Also they can visit the will soon be installed. the flat is located. He should take the official website of the Ministry: MEW also launched a new serv- rent contract, and his/her civil ID to www.mew.gov.kw and pay their bills ice called the ‘Roaming Collectors’. transfer the electricity contract on his online very easily. There 16 roaming collectors who name,” explained a local flat rental In each area around Kuwait there is will come to your home to read your agent, Husain Ofttada. a branch of the Ministry called the meter and collect the payment for Consumers should clear all Consumers Affairs Department. your bills. You should always receive charges when they decide to leave “These departments deal with con- a receipt for any payment. Women reject jobs for allowances KUWAIT: An official source at the Civil Service The CSC is suffering from reduced requests in some Commission said there is an increase in the number of fields such as education and Islamic affairs ministries, those who reject jobs, saying that their number varies and both are the most requested by women. between 10 to 20 percent of applicants. The source said He said despite the increase in continued rejection, the phenomenon of rejecting work in the government the number of those wanting work has reached nearly has started to grow notably, especially among women 16,000 of both genders, which the CSC wants to cut who receive unemployment benefits, and by the elderly. down to under 10,000. He said the commission faces The source said that selecting citizens for work two registration stages - one in September and the oth- KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) celebrated the graduation of the third batch of students who comes at the request of government bodies, as the CSC er in November - and it is expected to register at least attended the CBK’s annual summer training program. The program offers children and relatives of CBK staff the cannot select anyone directly without an actual need. 4,000 new citizens. —Al-Qabas opportunity to learn basics of banking sector works, and occupy their free time with useful activities. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 LOCAL Adailiya woman shot dead by mentally ill daughter Investigations ongoing to reveal motives

By A. Saleh murder weapon, which officers discovered to be an unli- Crime censed firearm that belonged to the victim. Further inves- Crime Report KUWAIT: A woman found dead inside her Adailiya home tigations revealed that the killer is mentally ill, while all Report Monday was fatally shot by her mentally unstable daugh- members of the family have files at the Psychological ter, according to investigations. The 50-year-old Kuwaiti Medicine Hospital. The exact motives and circumstances woman was pronounced dead of a fatal gunshot wound behind the crime remain unknown. Preliminary investiga- Ex-convicts rearrested to the head. The victim’s 17-year-old daughter admitted tions had suggested that armed robbery might have while police were questioning the woman’s family mem- been involved in the crime. Investigations are still ongo- for theft, kidnap bers that she shot her mother. The girl led police to the ing in the case.

KUWAIT: A citizen recently released from prison appar- ently could not stand staying out for long, as he stole valuable watches worth thousands and was arrested to be sent back to jail, said security sources. They noted that the stores from which the watches were stolen did not even notice the thefts until detectives informed them. Case papers indicate that detectives were tipped off concerning the suspect’s resumption of his criminal activities of stealing valuable watches. He was put under surveillance and caught red-handed while stealing from a famous watch vendor at a famous shopping mall. Another ex-convict who had just been released after doing eight years in prison for impersonating a police detective and robbing others, was also arrested for resuming his crimes shortly after being released, said security sources. They noted that the suspect abducted an Iraqi woman and raped her under threat. Case papers indicate that pretending to be a police detective, the suspect stopped the woman and ordered her to get into his vehicle, which she did before he immediately drove off to his house in Adan where he raped her before releasing her. The woman informed the police and the suspect was arrested. Collision kills man, injures another Man held for drug abuse, resisting arrest By: Hanan Al-Sa’doun A GCC national was arrested for drug abuse, shoot- ing at policemen during arrest and running over policemen at a checkpoint in Jahra, said security KUWAIT: An Asian man was instantly killed and another sources, noting that instead of showing his ID as was injured in a collision along the Sixth Ring Road, said requested at the checkpoint, the suspect flashed a security sources. They noted that the injured man was gun and dashed off, almost running over a police- rushed to hospital for treatment, whereas the victim’s man. He kept shooting during the chase until he body was taken by criminal investigators to the forensic was stopped and controlled. The man seemed high department. An investigation was opened to determine and turned out to have a criminal record. the circumstances behind the accident.

KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality inspectors conducted a campaign yesterday at the Industrial Area of Ardiya, targeting violations of laws that prevent using spaces in front of shops. The campaign cov- ered restaurants, cafés and car rental offices. A total of 21 citations were issued during the cam- paign. —By Hanan Al-Saadoun Worker in refinery fire dead

KUWAIT: One of five workers who mittee led by a vice president at a The KNPC has a moral duty to pay Man killed in Seventh Ring Road crash were injured in a fire reported at the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) compensation for victims’ families KUWAIT: The Hawally Security Department Ahmadi oil refinery Sunday suc- company began its work Monday, despite not being legally responsible A citizen was instantly killed when he lost control cumbed to his injuries the following according to sources quoted in the for accidents that happen to contracted over his sports-utility-vehicle along the Seventh announced carrying out 1,342 security cam- day, Al-Rai reported yesterday. report. The committee includes five workers, the sources said. Separately, paigns during the period between the 10th and Ring Road, said security sources. The man’s SUV The fire had left five workers with members from Kuwait National two workers sustained severe leg rammed into the flatbed of a semi-trailer truck. A 16th of August 2014. Officers managed to arrest severe burn injuries, estimated at 70 Petroleum Company (KNPC) and other injuries in an accident at a boats’ harbor 34 violators of residency regulations, 28 fugitives and 80 percent for four of them. firms to guarantee neutrality of the used by the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) case was opened for investigations. and people with no identifications, as well as 65 Meanwhile, an investigation com- investigation, they added. in the Ahmadi refinery. —Al-Rai people reported missing by their employers. Four drug offenders were arrested and 116 traffic tick- ets were issued during the campaign as well.

Missing girl’s mystery resolved Police detectives finally solved the mystery of the two GCC girls who had been reported missing on August 4 shortly after arriving in Kuwait to spend the Eid vacation, said security sources. They noted that detectives found that the two girls have been living in a Mahboula apartment and they were being financially taken care of by a central prison inmate serving a life sentence for drug-related charges. To the girls’ families’ surprise, the girls refused going back and demanded to be left alone as they were legally above age. Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi during her visit to Antonio Guterres during his visit to one of the refugee camps. one of the refugee camps. Restaurant worker mugged An Asian working in a restaurant in Salmiya reported Sharjah hosts UNHCR Conference to protect that three people with whom he had had some prob- lems attacked him at the restaurant and stole KD 540 refugee children and adolescents from the cashbox. A case was filed and further investiga- tions are in progress. Organized for the first time in the region

Fatal shock SHARJAH: Under the patronage of His awareness on Child/Youth displacement try and the world. Safe refuge Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al issues, a Youth Forum has been organized to Sheikha Jawaher added: “The Investing in The office of the United Nations High A citizen in his fifties was electrocuted and instantly Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and run parallel to the main event. The forum will the Future Conference seeks to make recom- Commissioner for Refugees was established in killed while attempting to fix an air conditioner at Ruler of Sharjah, and Her Highness Sheikha host a number of workshops and sessions, and mendations and adopt steps to protect the December 1950 by the United Nations General his house in Mubarak Al-Kabeer, said security Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of is expected to be attended by approximately rights of refugee children, and to put the nec- Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and sources. His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah and UNHCR 500 university students, faculty members and essary measures in place to protect them from coordinate international action to protect Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children, the academics. exploitation and violence, giving them confi- refugees and resolve refugee problems world- emirate of Sharjah will host the first Investing Speaking on the occasion, Her Highness dence and hope of a better future.” wide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the ‘Nightclub’ raided in the Future Conference on 15th and 16th Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to October 2014, which will discuss ways of pro- said: “Hosting this first of its kind conference in Lost futures ensure that everyone can exercise the right to Jahra detectives raided a house run by Asian as a ‘night- tecting refugee children and adolescents in Sharjah is in line with the directives of His On the occasion, Antonio Guterres, United seek asylum and find safe refuge in another club’ in Waha, where gambling, drinking and prostitution the Middle East and North Africa region. Highness Ruler of Sharjah to protect the rights Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said: state, with the option to return home voluntari- was practiced, said security sources, noting that the sus- The conference has been organized in of refugees - especially children - and to put “This conference comes at a crucial time. ly, integrate locally or to resettle in a third coun- pect used surveillance cameras outside the house to response to the increasing number of refugees the instruments in place that help protect Children currently constitute more than half of try. In more than five decades, the agency has warn patrons in case the police came. in war torn countries in the region by the these vulnerable children.” the refugees in the Middle East and North helped tens of millions of people restart their United Nations High Commissioner for Africa, and the impact of this displacement is lives. Refugees in collaboration with The Big Heart, Children rights serious as interrupted childhoods threaten to The Big Heart Campaign was launched in Offensive graffiti and with the participation of over 300 leaders, Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint become lost futures. As such, the aim of this June 2013 under the patronage of Her A citizen was arrested by state security forces for government officials and regional and interna- Mohammed Al Qasimi emphasized that every event is not only to determine how we can Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al spraying graffiti on a power station in Saad Al- tional experts involved in refugee affairs and child has the right to grow up in a safe and sta- work together to better protect refugee chil- Qasimi, wife of His Highness the Ruler of Abdullah insulting the Kuwaiti people and govern- child protection in war torn areas. It aims to ble environment and to live a decent life. She dren and adolescents today, but also how to Sharjah, UNHCR Eminent Advocate for Refugee ment. put measures in place to ensure children and stressed the necessity for organizations and take collective and concerted action to Children, to support Syrian refugee children. refugees in the Middle East and North Africa individuals around the world to take responsi- improve the future for these children.” The campaign has succeeded in raising $13 are protected from the danger of all forms of bility for children and insisted that the interna- He added: “Hosting the conference in million over the past year and contributed in exploitation and violence. It further endeavors tional community must ensure that children’s Sharjah is prudent - Her Highness Sheikha meeting the needs of hundreds of thousands Bad blood to provide comprehensive rights for refugee rights are upheld and sustained. Jawaher Al Qasimi advocates for refugees and of Syrian refugees through the provision of children, particularly the right to shelter, food, She stated that the UAE has a strong supports UNHCR’s work in providing protec- emergency healthcare, clothing, blankets, shel- A citizen in his fifties filed a complaint at Maidan Hawally healthcare, psychological treatment and edu- humanitarian legacy, established by the late tion to refugee children and has generously ter, and food. The campaign was turned from police station against a woman he used to know, accus- cation. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (May Allah offered to host the event. We are very grateful emergency relief to education, as part of the ing her of threatening to hurt him for breaking up with As one of the main objectives of the confer- Rest His Soul in Peace), who founded the prin- for the support and resources provided by Her efforts that aim to bring Syrian refugee children her. Investigations are underway. ence is to provide the youth in the MENA ciples of fulfilling humanitarian deeds for dis- Highness and the close cooperation with back to school to complete their education —Al-Rai, Al-Watan, Al-Anbaa region with a platform of engagement and advantaged and afflicted people in the coun- UNHCR.” after they fled their war-torn country. LOCAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 Diving trip ‘pride of every Kuwaiti’ Media reps document heritage-revival voyage

KSSC Chairman Fahad Al-Fahad shows the diving out- Divers prepare to dive for pearl oyster. — Photos by Joseph Shagra come.

An Omani group performs during the festival. KUWAIT: Deputy Director General of Public Authority loric troupe that sings heritage songs. for Youth and Sports Ahmad Abdelrazaq Al-Khazal Meanwhile, Sea Sports Club Chairman of described the 26th pearl diving heritage revival voy- the Board Fahd Al-Fahd thanked “the brothers age as the pride of every Kuwaiti citizen “in the pres- in Oman and Bahrain for participating in the ence of the youth who are participating in the trip, and 26th voyage which reflected the strong rela- revives the memories of their grandfathers”. Khazal, tions between brothers in the GCC”, and wel- who spoke during a trip for media representatives to comed them in Kuwait. Fahd thanked the fami- the diving area in Khairan, said Kuwaiti youth brought lies of participating divers and appreciated back history by this voyage, which shows the strength their support, which is one of the most impor- of the Kuwaiti and Gulf citizen and his determination tant reasons for its success. The voyage started to face hardship for the sake of ensuring a dignified on Aug 14 and will continue until Aug 21, life. 2014. — KUNA Divers open an oyster to search for pearl - a step that traditionally follows the long diving day. He said PAYS is keen on supporting this activity, and it receives direct interest from HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. He said the diving voyage, which will continue until Aug 21, will receive Postpaid more support than before as instructed by Chairman of the Board and Director General Sheikh Ahmad Al- Mansour Al-Sabah. Khazal said that moral and material support will be provided in order to revive popular heritage, “and this is what I told members of the Sea Sports Club, which is Live the summer participating in the voyage”. He thanked the Gulf youth who are participating in the voyage from Bahrain and Oman “who materialized the unity of Gulf with the KD 20 package & a FREE Samsung S5 youth and strong relations that link them together”. Khazal thanked the sea club’s board of directors, and VIVA is always innovating to bring you the best packages with the best devices, and that is why we the 200 participants in the pearl diving voyage, and are unveiling this incredible new summer package. Now you can get a brand new Samsung Galaxy S5 hoped the number increases in the coming years to for free. What are you waiting for? Live summer to the max. reflect the Kuwaiti citizen’s love of his heritage and For more information, please visit our website viva.com.kw or call our contact center at 102. wish to revive it. Terms and conditions apply. Meanwhile, Kuwaiti skipper Khalifa Al-Rashid laud- Switch to VIVA. ed the brotherly spirit that was among the participat- ing youth in the 26th pearl diving voyage. Rashid said the weather was suitable for the voyage and con- tributed to its success and achieving the sought after goals. He lauded the high spirit of the participating youth, which is a good omen for the future of the cur- rent generation and its wish to overcome all difficul- ties and take the country to stability and security. He spoke about the efforts Sea Sports Club exerted in order to revive the diving voyage and urged youth to practice this Kuwaiti heritage. Bahrain’s skipper Abdelrahman Al-Manae said the organization of the diving voyage since 26 years reflects the interest of Kuwait’s political leadership headed by HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah in Kuwait heritage, and reflects the genuine wish to revive the Kuwait and Gulf heritage through donating ten boats for the sea club which organizes the voyage, as support of the event. Manae said the hot weather the divers faced in the past few days taught them “patience in order to get pearls, as their forefathers faced before, and achieved one of the trip’s goals in instilling this trait in GCC youth and preparing them to face future difficulties”. He said the club’s continued organization of the voy- age for 26 consecutive years reflects the officials’ sin- cerity in their job to revive diving memories and immortalize what forefathers have done for the sake of building the country. He pointed to the strong deter- mination by participating youth to learn, as there are a large number of youth who are performing well and do not exhaust the skipper. Head of Oman’s delegation Suleiman Al-Salti said his country’s participation in the voyage is the second at the invitation of the sea club, and “out of our wish to strengthen relations between the two countries and revive the cultural heritage which is common to the GCC countries”. He lauded Kuwait’s hospitality and the brotherly reception the Omani delegation has enjoyed. He said Oman’s participation is in two parts - @vivatelecom @vivatelecom VIVA Kuwait the first with four divers and the second with a folk- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 LOCAL

kuwait digest kuwait digest Graduates of The world’s conscience educational shops does not work for us

By Khalid Al-Tarrah By Saad Bin Teflah

ducation is the only kind of investment that everyone n what increases our self isolation and defeat, defeatists in is keen on, especially the family that ensures that their the Arab world cry over the presumed absence of the Echildren receive excellent education either inside or Iworld’s conscience. Where is it from Israel’s crimes in Gaza? outside Kuwait. Therefore, many families, even those with For over a month, Israel’s warplanes bombarded the Gaza Strip limited income, sacrifice a lot in order to provide proper Chef mercilessly, killing thousands and leaving destruction every- education for their children, which is an investment in the where. The crimes were more gruesome to be ignored by the right space, and one that comes with a positive payoff. Wanted Western media that is often biased towards Israel, or the Something that caught my attention lately are the wide- United Nations whose schools-turned-shelters for women, spread photocopy and printing centers that transformed to children and unarmed civilians were not safe from the bom- become educational centers with absence of intervention bardment. from the education or commerce ministries. Are these cen- But we have to ask ourselves first and foremost, where is our ters, which can be found in co-op societies around Kuwait, Arab and Muslim conscience? The crimes we commit against licensed to prepare summaries, translations and slideshows each other make Israel look like the dove of peace in compari- for students, in addition to researches that include master’s son. It is true that matters are relative, and that crime is the and PhD theses? same, but the world does not look at all incidents the same. Bachelor’s If these centers are allowed to practice all these educa- degree in The regime in Syria has so far caused the death of more tional activities, while there are offices which help students Engineering than 160,000 people, and displacement of nearly half of its obtain authorization to enroll in universities outside Kuwait, people - or nine million people. Furthermore, it left hundreds

then the question is this: Is this the level of education that Al-Rai of thousands of people injured, and an unknown number of people either detained or missing. Meanwhile, groups loyal to the government and extremist militias committed crimes that are not less horrible than those of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. Is this the level of education that each kuwait digest The crimes we commit family seeks for their Where is the jungle? against each other make children? Israel look like the dove By Ghanim Al-Najjar of peace in comparison. each family seeks for their children? Has it become impossi- ble for teachers to discover that assignments and research- n a tour in South America, I spent a few days normal world that should be the exact opposite of es they receive are not prepared by the students them- in the Amazon jungle through the Puerto our stereotypes about the jungle, I was completely The crimes committed by Sunni and Shiite militias in Iraq selves? OMaldonado port in Peru as it shares the shocked with news about all the killing, destruction cannot be compared to what the criminal state of Israel has This unfortunate phenomenon is in fact a Kuwaiti trend. Amazon Basin with Brazil. Those few days were the and alienation taking place around the globe. committed. And that is only mentioning crimes in Syria and It can be noticed also that some graduates, including those most active, refreshing and tranquil ones of the Maybe we are the ones who are living in a jungle Iraq, committed in the past few years. In Libya, infighting who studied outside, have the same English language level whole tour. We went for long walks listening to after all with all means of the word. We are experi- between religious and tribal groups kills and destroys every- after graduation as they had before enrollment. bizarre bird sounds and continuous rustle of tree encing chaos, injustice, killing and assaulting peo- thing in its path. And in Yemen, massacres were committed by Nevertheless, they magically obtain jobs quickly while oth- leaves. We saw ants building whatever they wished ple and finding logical, religious and legal justifica- former president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime, Al-Qaeda mili- er outstanding students continue to wait in the unemploy- wherever they wished. And though the season was tions for all this aggression and violation of human tants and Houthi gangs. ment line. Another notable thing is the issue of certifying deemed as a dry one, rain was falling endlessly, and rights, especially the weak ones who are incapable These are only examples of bloodshed committed by our universities, a topic that remains subject to ministers’ opin- own hands. When we show respect for ourselves, stop the ions. The list of accredited universities often change soon I will talk about this later. of defending themselves. bloodshed of our people, hold accountable those responsible after a new education minister is appointed, or based on It was my first time in a real jungle - in fact in one I really wondered where the jungle is, ie in terms for the bloodsheds, stand against religious and political traders other factors such as MPs’ pressure. of Earth’s most famous ones. During the walks, I of ‘meaning of injustice’ rather than a shady place and protect minorities from those who are bloodthirsty among As long as these problems continue to happen in light of kept remembering our stereotype images of jun- where birds sing out loud! The jungle may be deep us, only then we would have the right to ask where is the world’s the lack of proper monitoring, maybe the state should gles, ones that have been saved in our minds for within in our souls and the way we think and allow conscience over Israel’s crimes? adopt a new academic classification for students who ‘buy’ ages. We usually use the term ‘law of the jungle’ to killing others and alienating them, calling for and In short, the world’s conscience is not a maid we recruit to their works from photocopy centers and graduates of refer to totalitarianism, the absence of laws, aggres- encouraging such violations merely because they clean our houses, nor are superpowers ‘workers’ who work for us uncertified universities. The Civil Service Commission can sion, assaulting others and domination of the are different in religion, color, race, language or any and obey our demands. They are moved by interests that rarely refer to those job hopefuls as ‘graduates of educational mightier over the weaker. other way! meet our own. All we have to do is take the initiative to stop the shops’! What kind of development can we dream of if our Well, I think it is high time we reconsidered these Yes, indeed. We are living in the jungle we have bloodshed of our people that is caused by our hands, before we conscience is absent, responsibility and accountability demand action from the international community to stop takes a backseat and corruption continues in education? I stereotype prejudiced images and corrected them. always visualized in our minds. It has always been a Israel’s crimes against us. As long as we fail to do that, the world know that there is no perfect human being in the world, As soon as we left the jungle - where I was totally reflection of us and it is becoming a must to make it a will not listen to us, nor will it consider our debates and con- but Kuwait has become a home of wonders! isolated from the outer world without TV, mobile place fit for everybody to coexist without any excep- demnation of Israel and its crimes. —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas phones, Internet or social media networks - to the tions! —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida — Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Aan

kuwait digest kuwait digest Can Iraq see stability? Our democracy and the West’s boots By Dr Shamlan Y Al-Essa

raq’s President Fuad Maasoum asked Dr Haider Al-Abadi By Thaar Al-Rasheedi from the Islamic Daawa party to form the new Iraqi gov- Iernment last Monday. Most neighboring Arab, regional he attempt to separate social values from policy and international countries, headed by Saudi Arabia, Iran in any country is doomed to failure, especially in and US, rushed to congratulate Abadi. This appointment Tterms of applying the full form of democracy and liberties in an Arab state. Western democracy does not comes within an optimistic atmosphere in the region and fit us in the form it ended up to. What we need to the world that Iraq is heading towards a period of political understand is that Western democracy has come a long stability and economic development if the new prime min- way and went through many experiences within its ister is able to present reforms and deep-rooted changes respective societies before it ended up the way we that guarantee the unity and stability of his country. know today where individual values are respected and What are the obstacles that Abadi will face in his each individual is valued regardless of his color, reli- attempt to reform? There are domestic and foreign obsta- gion, race or doctrine. cles he must overcome, and among the most important In the Arab world, we have completely different social domestic obstacles is to find a common ground on which values from those of the West. Our societies are com- parties and political movements agree on how to develop pletely different in form and ideology. Therefore, the attempt to adapt current Western democracy as it is is Iraq. The first step the new prime minister has taken was more like a child’s attempt to wear his father’s shoes or asking political groups, led by two important partners - boots and walk in them. In this case, he will be doing Sunni Arabs and Kurds - to present their views to agree over nothing more that imitating and he will never manage ministerial posts. to walk easily in those boots. The Sunnis on their part linked their participation in the For instance, in Kuwait, which is the only exception in government with the nature of programs and mechanisms, the Arab world where we have been having a democracy in addition to affirming the partnership in decision making, that fits our social values for over half a century with all and not be part of the government only. Only the Daawa its flaws and mishaps, democracy has created real demo- party may be a hurdle facing Abadi, as it issued a statement cratic thinking and real liberties that have become inte- explaining that it selected Obadi to become prime minister gral parts of our social thinking patterns today. We ought to reinforce this way of democratic thinking rather than out of fear that the post may get lost in the State of Law turn up against it. We need not amend our constitution alliance. This narrow partisan view that puts the party’s inter- as so many people have been calling for. What we really est ahead of Iraq’s must go, because Iraq has many sects and need is to fully enforce it. its administration is not that of just one party, especially Some politicians claim that our constitution is rigid since the Islamic Daawa party has a sectarian, exclusionary and stagnant. However, before we call for amending and extremist ideology. some of its articles, we rather need to impose it in full, As for foreign dangers, they are in the fact that Iraqi polit- not because it is better than its peers in the Arab region, ical groups and parties are linked ideologically and intellec- but because it is the only one that is closer to social tually to neighboring Islamic countries of Iraq. The Shiite thinking and matches it to a large extent. parties in Iraq, for example, including the Daawa party, are Yesterday, the Telegraph published a report quoting the former British ambassador to the Middle East linked to Iran, and there are Sunni parties and political Andrew Green where he states that applying Western movements who are directly or indirectly linked to Saudi democracy is impossible in Arab states. Green, who Arabia or Turkey. The fear is that the Iran-Saudi dispute could served as ambassador to Iraq and Syria, said that the real move into Iraq, as a foreign party claims that it will not allow power in the Arab region is not that of the law but rather anyone to take leadership from Iraqi Shiites, which is Iran’s that of bonds, be them family or tribal ones. According stand, while Saudi Arabia says it is impossible to remain to him, policy in the region is nothing more than silent towards marginalizing Sunnis and neglect their role. exchanged interests amongst citizens related by family There is apprehension in the Gulf towards the American- or tribal bonds in the absence of a social system that Iranian rapprochement in the region and coordination of ensures and guarantees individual rights. their policies in Iraq. Among the most important issues that Ambassador Green’s report almost matches the truth in most Arab countries. We, in Kuwait, still have a prob- will face Tehran and Washington in Iraq is that of Kurds and lem in the output of parliamentary elections that are Arab Sunnis - in other words Iran does not want an usually subject to doctrinal, familial and tribal considera- increased Arab Sunni influence in Iraq, while Saudi Arabia tions. Therefore, changes in successive parliaments were does not accept marginalization of Sunnis. only in faces and names. However, this is starting to What we are interested in confirming is that Iraq will not change in Kuwait and we need more time to reach a be stable in the absence of political partnership and national point where selection and election is done according to reconciliation away from the central government, and Iraqi efficiency rather than race. Such change does not take political powers must not allow the return of sectarianism to place in one or two years, however. It takes longer Iraq, and not allow the interference of foreign powers and because peoples’ ages are not measured in days. countries in their domestic policy, because as long as the Yes, indeed. Our democracy only matches that of the West in form but this does not mean that we are on the Iraqi people are ready to defend the unity of their country, right track or, at least, in its beginning. We in Kuwait are Iraq will certainly enjoy stability. closer to the essence of democracy than others. Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Watan — —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Anbaa WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 Protesters set to march Iraqi forces battle to drive jihadists from Saddam’s town on Pakistan’s parliament

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UKRAINE: Ukrainian soldiers charge a Grad multiple rocket launcher system, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Shchastya, Lugansk region, on Monday. Ukraine accused pro-Russian rebels of killing dozens of civilians fleeing the war- torn east on August 18, 2014 as crisis talks between Kiev and Moscow failed to halt months of bloodshed. —AFP Poroshenko to attend talks with Putin, Ashton Ukraine battles raging in heart of rebel-held Lugansk KIEV: Russia and Ukraine said yesterday their presidents “I hope that this direct format of concrete discussion on would meet together with top European Union officials in many questions including ending aggression (will have Belarus’s capital of Minsk on August 26 to discuss their con- results) because no trade and economic questions can be frontation over Ukraine which has plunged relations to an considered without this key question (being addressed),” all-time low. Chaly said. The meeting will put Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko in the same room for the first Minsk meeting time since a passing encounter in France in June, though Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said only that the Ukrainian officials were at pains to say no face-to-face meet- leaders “will discuss relations between Ukraine and the ing there between the two men was planned as yet. Customs Union and there will be a number of bilateral Nonetheless, with a Ukrainian military offensive making meetings.” inroads against pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern The Minsk meeting will form part of a hectic round of Ukraine, Ukrainian officials were upbeat that the Minsk diplomatic meetings for Poroshenko in the next two weeks meeting could be a diplomatic opportunity for Kiev and pro- around Independence Day celebrations on Sunday when vide a forum for bringing fresh diplomatic pressure to bear he hopes to be able to celebrate battlefield successes on Putin to end Moscow’s support for the rebels. against the separatists. “Today a clear diplomatic roadmap is taking shape. We He will host a key visit to Kiev by German Chancellor can come up with new approaches that will allow us to talk Angela Merkel on Saturday when he will expect her to about a move from war to peace,” Valery Chaly, Poroshenko’s voice strong support for his policies to crush the separatist top foreign policy aide, said. rebellions. Putin will be accompanied at the talks by Belarussian Ukraine said yesterday that fighting had erupted in the leader Alexander Lukashenko and Kazkahstan’s Nursultan heart of the major rebel stronghold of Lugansk as govern- Nazarbayev, whose countries also belong to the Russia-led ment forces pressed on with a punishing offensive to win Customs Union which the pro-Western Kiev leadership back the war-torn east. spurned in favour of EU integration when it came to power in February. Kiev’s military claimed street battles with insurgents The EU team will be headed by EU foreign policy chief were raging in the city centre after one outlying district Catherine Ashton. A statement from Poroshenko’s adminis- was “liberated”. If confirmed, any advance by Ukraine’s tration said the meeting would discuss issues related to army into Lugansk, which has endured brutal shelling and implementing the landmark association agreement Kiev weeks without running water or electricity, would be a signed with the EU, energy security and “stabilising the situa- major breakthrough for Kiev after four months of fighting tion in Ukraine”. that has claimed over 2,100 lives. — Agencies But Chaly clearly suggested that Poroshenko would press Putin to end what he views as Moscow’s support for, and arming of, the rebels who now seem increasingly in disarray. Moscow denies Kiev’s charges that it is allowing supplies of heavy weaponry and sending Russian fighters there. Rebel losses in the past few days appear to have increas- ingly pushed Putin into a tight corner. If he remains silent and allows their defeat, he risks losing face before the “hawks” at home and the Russian people who largely applauded Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in March. But by trying to maintain pressure on Kiev’s pro-western leaders through further support for the rebels, he risks wider economic sanctions from the United States and European Union. INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 Saudi Arabia executes five men for drug possession, murder

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia executed four men for pos- also prevent defendants from having access to Jaber Zayed al-Yami, Ali bin Jaber Zayed al-Yami and executions in Saudi Arabia are beheadings but last session of hashish on Monday and another man for lawyers and can close their courtrooms to outside Awadh bin Saleh Abdullah al-Mutlaq. year a group of men were shot by firing squad. murder yesterday, local media reported, taking to 18 scrutiny. International human rights watchdog Amnesty Last year Saudi Arabia executed 79 people. the number of people it has put to death in two Wael bin Saad bin Ali al-Shehri was executed in International said those four men were two sets of Diplomats say a rise in the number of executions in weeks, prompting alarm from rights groups. the southern Asir Province yesterday for shooting brothers from the same extended family and that recent years might be a result of more judges being Saudi Arabia’s Sharia Islamic legal code gives and killing a man in an argument, Saudi Press their confessions may have been obtained through appointed, meaning a backlog of cases is being han- extensive powers to individual judges to base ver- Agency reported, citing an Interior Ministry state- torture. It said the offence had taken place in 2007 dled more quickly. dicts and sentences on their own interpretation of ment. The four men executed for hashish possession and members of the family had later been warned King Abdullah ordered a series of legal reforms in Muslim law. were from Najran on the kingdom’s southern border by the government not to contact Amnesty. Saudi 2007 that were partly aimed at making the justice Critics say that means very different sentences with Yemen, official media reported, naming them Arabia denies it practices torture. Media did not dis- system more transparent and predictable, but they can be handed out for similar crimes. Judges can as Hadi bin Saleh Abdullah al-Mutlaq, Mufreh bin close the means of execution in either case. Most have only been introduced slowly. — Reuters Iran imprisoning dozens unlawfully

NICOSIA: Human Rights Watch yester- judiciary, but President Hassan day urged authorities in Iran to release Rouhani and his cabinet should be immediately and unconditionally doing more to press for their release,” dozens of prisoners jailed in a northern he added in a statement. city “for exercising their basic rights”. HRW said several dozen members of In a lengthy report, the New York- the Baha’i community, Iran’s largest based body studied the cases of 189 non-Muslim minority, were serving people locked up in Karaj, 50 kilome- sentences for charges including tres (30 miles) west of the capital “spreading corruption on earth”. Tehran. The body also said two Christian HRW said that in 63 cases prisoners pastors and two Christian converts had been arrested, convicted and sen- were being held, as were nine journal- tenced “solely because they exercised ists and bloggers and seven human fundamental rights such as free speech rights lawyers including Mohammad and rights to peaceful assembly or Seifizadeh who is close to Nobel Peace association”. laureate Shirin Ebadi. In 35 other cases, in which prisoners United Nations human rights had been sentenced to death for ter- experts have expressed alarm at a rorism-related offences, the group said recent flurry of arrests and harsh sen- it suspected “egregious” due process tences inflicted on journalists in Iran. violations that may have tainted the Last month, three journalists-includ- judicial process. ing the Washington Post’s Tehran cor- “The election of a new, avowedly respondent-were arrested. On Monday, moderate president a year ago raised an official said they were being held for hopes that many of Iran’s political pris- security reasons. oners would soon walk free, but many Observers say they fear the journal- MOSUL: Peshmerga fighter guards a position on front line of fighting with Islamic State (IS) militants 20 kilometres east of Mosul, on Monday. remain behind bars,” said Joe Stork, ists’ arrests could undermine the Kurdish peshmerga fighters backed by federal forces and US warplanes pressed a counter-offensive Monday against jihadists afteretaking r deputy Middle East and North Africa thorny negotiations between Iran and Iraq’s largest dam, as the United States and Britain stepped up their military involvement. — AFP director at HRW. the West for a comprehensive nuclear “The lion’s share of responsibility for deal that world powers are seeking to releasing these prisoners rests with the reach by November 24. — AFP Iraqi forces battle to drive jihadists from Saddam’s town Assad steps up air strikes on Islamic State in Syria

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces launched an offensive the militants, he added. A police captain con- the uprising against him but are now increasing- yesterday to drive Islamic State fighters out of firmed the details of the fighting. ly concerned by the Islamic State threat. Tikrit, home town of executed dictator Saddam The Islamic State has concentrated on taking “The Syrians are meeting the Americans, or Hussein, while the militants warned they would territory for its self-proclaimed caliphate both in the West, halfway in the question of fighting ter- attack Americans “in any place”. Syria, where it is also fighting the forces of rorism, and are presenting themselves as a part- In Geneva, the United Nations refugee President Bashar al-Assad, and across the border ner in combating terrorism,” said Salem Zahran, a agency announced a major aid operation to get in Iraq. Unlike al Qaeda, the movement from Lebanese journalist with close ties to the Syrian supplies to more than half a million people dis- which it split, it has so far steered clear of attack- government. The Islamic State added new fight- placed by fighting in northern Iraq. Buoyed by ing Western targets in or outside the region. ers in Syria at a record rate in July, according to an operation to recapture a strategic dam from However, a video posted on the Internet the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which the jihadists after two months of setbacks, Iraqi warned Americans, in English, that “we will monitors the conflict. Some 6,300 men - 80 per- army units backed by Shi’ite militias fought their drown all of you in blood” if US air strikes hit cent of them Syrian and the rest foreign fighters way towards the centre of Tikrit, a city 130 km Islamic State fighters. The video also showed a - joined last month, Rami Abdelrahman, founder (80 miles) north of Baghdad which is a strong- photograph of an American who was beheaded of the Observatory, told Reuters. hold of the Sunni Muslim minority. during the US occupation of Iraq that followed “Our forces are advancing from two direc- Saddam’s overthrow in 2003. Trying to turn the tide tions with cover from army helicopters, mortar Iraqi government forces put up little serious and artillery shelling the positions of the Islamic Major aid push resistance when Islamic State staged their June State fighters in and around the city,” an army The UNHCR refugee agency said a four-day offensive, while Kurdish fighters also suffered DIYARBAKIR: A picture taken yesterday shows relatives of Mehdi Taskin, 24, crying major in the operations room told Reuters. Sunni airlift of tents and other goods would begin on setbacks until Obama ordered the U.S. air strikes during his funeral ceremony, one day after he died during clashes that erupted Muslim fighters led by the Islamic State swept Wednesday to Arbil, capital of the Kurdish earlier this month. between protesters and security forces during an operation to remove a statue of through much of northern and western Iraq in autonomous region, from the Jordanian port of Obama said he acted to protect Americans Mahsum Korkmazare, one of the founders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party June, capturing the Sunni cities of Tikrit and Aqaba. This would be followed by road convoys and prevent a genocide in a conflict that has (PKK). — AFP Mosul as well as the Mosul dam, a fragile struc- from Turkey and Jordan and sea shipments from forced hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to flee ture which controls water and power supplies to Dubai via Iran over the next 10 days, UNHCR their homes, including from the Yazidi and Kurdish protester killed millions of people down the Tigris river valley. spokesman Adrian Edwards said. Christian religious minorities. However, on Monday fighters from Iraq’s “This is a very, very significant aid push and Baghdad is now trying to turn the tide after Kurdish autonomous region said they had certainly one of the largest I can recall in quite a the Kurds said they had taken the dam, easing in clashes over PKK statue regained control of the hydro electric dam with while,” he told a news briefing in Geneva. “This is fears that the militants could cut off electricity the help of US air strikes. US President Barack a major humanitarian crisis and disaster. It con- and water supplies, or even breach the structure, DIYARBAKIR: A Kurdish demonstrator was were co-planned by Korkmaz who has Obama also announced that the dam had been tinues to affect many people.” Coinciding with causing huge loss of life and damage down the shot dead and at least two others wound- been feted as a martyr by Kurds since retaken. The Iraqi major said fierce fighting was the Iraqi and Kurdish advances, Damascus gov- Tigris. Efforts are underway in Baghdad to form a ed yesterday when Turkish security forces being shot dead in 1986. The statue’s underway near Tikrit’s main hospital 4 km (2.5 ernment forces have stepped up air strikes on new government that will unite the majority opened fire on Kurds protesting at the dis- unveiling sparked outrage among Turkish miles) from the city centre of the city. Islamic State positions in and around the city of Shi’ites with the Sunnis and Kurds in halting the mantling of a controversial new statue of a nationalists who denounced it as the “Helicopters are pounding the bases of the ter- Raqqa - its stronghold in eastern Syria. Islamic State insurgency that threatened to tear slain PKK commander. unwanted result of Prime Minister Recep rorists to prevent them from regrouping,” he Analysts believe Assad - who is firmly in con- the country apart. Sunnis long dominated Iraq The clashes erupted when protesters Tayyip Erdogan’s policy of granting greater said. As well as a push from the south, Iraqi trol in the capital more than three years into the until the US-led invasion forced Saddam to flee. gathered at a cemetery outside the town of rights to the Kurdish minority. forces were advancing slowly from the west due civil war - is seizing the moment to show his He was captured near Tikrit in late 2003 and exe- Lice in the Diyarbakir region of southeast- The head of Turkey’s ultra-right to land mines and roadside bombs planted by potential value to Western states that backed cuted in 2006. — Reuters ern Turkey to prevent soldiers from remov- Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet ing the statue of Mahsum Korkmaz, a Bahceli, called the statue a “very clear and founder of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ dirty challenge to our moral and historic New report warns of Party (PKK), witnesses said. The statue of rights”. Korkmaz, a top PKK commander who Two days after the unveiling, a court in planned the first attacks of its 30-year Lice ordered the statue’s demolition after anti-aircraft weapons in Syria insurgency seeking self-rule in Turkey, was complaints it was promoting terrorism. unveiled on Saturday but nationalists it as Turkey is seeking to restart stalled peace WASHINGTON: Armed groups in Syria have an estimat- global reach, even a few missiles pose a potentially cat- online propaganda video showing one fighter appear- glorifying “terrorism” and a court swiftly talks with the PKK to end a conflict that ed several hundred portable anti-aircraft missiles that astrophic threat to commercial aviation,” wrote ing to fire an older-model, Russian-made SA-7 missile ordered its demolition. claimed an estimated 40,000 lives. could easily be diverted to extremists and used to Matthew Schroeder, the report’s author. The analysis is system. Most American and other commercial airlines Security forces, backed by helicopters Erdogan, who was elected president this destroy low-flying commercial planes, according to a based on government and media reports and video already have halted flights over and into Syria during new report by a respected international research footage of anti-aircraft weapons posted online from the past three years of conflict between the Assad gov- and armoured vehicles, launched an early month, launched clandestine negotiations group. It cites the risk that the missiles could be smug- inside Syria. The extremist Islamic State group that has ernment and insurgents. Citing the threat of MANPADS morning operation to dismantle the statue. with jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in gled out of Syria by terrorists. overrun much of northern and western Iraq also oper- strikes, the FAA warned American carriers in May 2013 Tensions quickly turned violent, with 2012 but the talks stalled in September last The report was released just hours after the Federal ates inside Syria. The militants, who have drawn fire to avoid Syrian airspace, a move that was heightened Turkish soldiers firing live bullets and tear year when the rebels accused the govern- Aviation Administration issued a notice Monday to US from US drones and fighter jets, recently posted an Monday to a total ban. —AP gas and protesters-mainly children- ment of failing to deliver on reform. airlines banning all flights in Syrian airspace. The responding with stones, witnesses told AFP. However, hopes have been raised in recent agency said armed extremists in Syria are “known to be A demonstrator in his 20s died of gun- weeks of a new breakthrough. Turkish law- equipped with a variety of anti-aircraft weapons which shot wounds to the head, security sources makers last month adopted a bill aimed at have the capability to threaten civilian aircraft.” The and witnesses said. Those injured are in a advancing negotiations with the PKK, agency had previously warned against flights over which is blacklisted as a terrorist group by Syria, but had not prohibited them. serious condition. The statue was eventu- Small Arms Survey, a Switzerland-based research ally removed, leaving just the its triangular Turkey and its Western allies. During his organization that analyzes the global flow of weapons, plinth standing, but sporadic clashes con- victory speech, Erdogan said the peace published its findings Tuesday following last month’s tinued in and around the cemetery. The process would continue and that he would lethal missile attack on a passenger jet flying over protesters included members of the PKK push to enshrine key demands of the Kurds Ukraine. The report focuses on launchers and missiles youth branch, the private Cihan agency in the constitution. In a statement from his known as “man-portable air defense systems,” or MAN- reported. Authorities closed the highway cell on the prison island of Imrali, Ocalan PADS, which are dangerous to planes flying at lower linking Lice to neighbouring provinces and said Saturday that Turkey was on the verge altitudes or ones taking off or landing. established security checkpoints to pre- of “historic developments” after the elec- The new report estimated that several hundred vent more protesters from arriving in the tion and that the 30-year conflict was “com- anti-aircraft missile systems are already in rebel arse- nals. Mostly Russian and Chinese in origin, the weapons town, Cihan said. ing to an end”. Despite its blacklisting as have been seized by Syrian opposition militias from terror group, the PKK has joined forces with government forces and smuggled in from nations sym- ‘Challenge to our rights’ other Kurdish fighting units in the US- pathetic to the insurgents, the report said. The statue of Korkmaz, which shows backed operation to halt the advance of The most immediate danger is that anti-aircraft him dressed for battle and with a rifle by Islamic militants in Iraq. weapons, especially newer and sophisticated models, his side, was unveiled on Saturday to mark The Kurds, one of the world’s largest could easily be diverted to extremist groups operating This undated photo obtained by The Associated Press from the Small Arms Survey, shows a outside Syria, it said. Porous borders and the presence the 30th anniversary of the first PKK attacks stateless peoples, are spread over an area man-portable air defense system, or MANPADS. Armed groups in Syria have an estimated sev- against the Turkish authorities. including Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. There in Iraq and other neighboring countries of groups affili- ated with al-Qaeda and other extremists heighten the eral hundred portable anti-aircraft missiles that could easily be diverted to extremists and The attacks in the southeastern towns of are estimated to be 15-20 million Kurds in used to destroy low-flying commercial planes, according to a new report by a respected inter- Eruh and Semdinli on August 15, 1984 Turkey, its largest ethnic minority. — AFP danger that anti-aircraft weapons could spread to other trouble spots. “In the hands of trained terrorists with national research group. — AP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014

Marine’s wife found dead in California mine shaft

SAN BERNARDINO: Deep in a mine shaft in the Corwin’s friend told investigators that Corwin and Lee vehicle tracks that matched the tires on Lee’s Jeep. neighborhood in Anchorage. He said the arrest came California desert, the body of a pregnant wife of a US were having an affair and that the unborn child might They found 10 spent casings from a .40-caliber gun in as his son and daughter-in-law, Nichole Lee, were Marine was discovered after a search of nearly two be Lee’s, the papers show. Corwin told the friend, who the Jeep, the court papers say. Other evidence was returning home. months. Far off in Alaska, a man alleged to have been lives in Tennessee, that Lee was worried his wife might found in the shaft - one of more than 100 in the area - San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael her lover was arrested on suspicion of homicide. divorce him and prevent him from spending time with but sheriff’s officials declined to give details. Ramos said he expected to charge Lee with murder, Authorities on Monday outlined the discovery of 19- his child if she knew Corwin was pregnant, the affi- Authorities also declined to release the exact manner but charges have not yet been filed. Lee was arrested year-old Erin Corwin and the arrest of 24-year-old davit says. of death and said they could not confirm Corwin’s in July on suspicion of possessing a destructive device Christopher Brandon Lee, who until recently was also a pregnancy until an autopsy was completed. after a search warrant on a Yucca Valley home where Marine. Evidence found Corwin would have been 20 if alive, but authorities he was temporarily living. He was taken into custody The search for Corwin ended Saturday when her Corwin told her husband when she left that day say she likely died before her birthday. Lee told investi- after the July 4 search and released on bail two days body was spotted with a video camera 140 feet down that she was going to scout out hiking trails in Joshua gators he was not with Corwin that day and had been later. He was honorably discharged after seven years in a mine shaft on federal land near her home in Tree National Park that she and her mother could hunting in Joshua National Park. He told police that the Marine Corps and subsequently moved his family Twentynine Palms, where her husband was stationed, explore when her mother visited a few days later. But although the two had kissed, they had never had inter- to Alaska. Corwin and her husband are from Oak San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said. He the friend showed authorities text messages that said course. The investigation found that Lee and Corwin Ridge, Tennessee. Law enforcement agencies includ- said deputies searched many of the 100 mine shafts in Corwin was planning to go on a special hunting trip did have an “intimate relationship” dating back to at ing the FBI helped search for Corwin, whose body was- a 300 square mile area before zeroing in on right one. with Lee the day she disappeared. least February, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Sgt. n’t recovered until Sunday due to poor air quality con- The following day authorities arrested Lee, Corwin’s “It is highly likely that Erin could have been harmed Trevis Newport said. It wasn’t immediately clear if Lee, ditions in the shaft. One firefighter was injured in the former neighbor, in Anchorage. Corwin was in the ear- by an unknown firearm,” investigators wrote in the who has yet to make a court appearance or arrive in recovery effort, San Bernardino County Fire Chief Mark ly stages of pregnancy when she disappeared on June documents. “Sometime after Erin left with Lee, her California, had retained an attorney. Hartwig said. 28, according to court papers. Her husband, Marine phone was deactivated.” Two days after Corwin disap- “Let’s just wait until the facts come out before Corwin was found in a remote area some 130 miles Cpl. Jonathan Corwin, reported her missing the next peared, investigators found her car abandoned off a jumping to conclusions,” Bob Lee, Christopher’s father, east of Los Angeles, Newport said. “It is very rough ter- day. The investigation grew to focus on Lee, who was road near her home. A single set of footprints led from told an Associated Press reporter during a brief inter- rain out there. One would have a difficult time, even in the Corwins’ neighbor, according to court papers. Erin the driver’s side door and disappeared next to a set of view outside the family’s home in a working class a four-wheel drive vehicle,” he said. — AP A Castro breaks tradition with ‘no’ vote in Cuba ‘We still need to perfect democratic participation’

HAVANA: Yet another revolutionary tradition has been bro- the representatives within the Assembly.” Others are skeptical ken in Cuba: A lawmaker voted “no” in parliament. And it was- it will set a precedent. “I would say that this is more a sign of n’t just any lawmaker. Mariela Castro, the daughter of what Mariela can get away with than a sign of what your President Raul Castro and niece of Fidel Castro, gave the everyday parliamentarian can get away with,” said Ted thumbs-down to a workers’ rights bill that she felt didn’t go Henken, a professor of Latin American studies at Baruch far enough to prevent discrimination against people with HIV College in New York. In her crusade for gay rights, Castro has or with unconventional gender identities. None of the often taken stands that challenge the social status quo, while experts contacted by The Associated Press could recall firmly supporting the Communist government. another “no” vote in the 612-seat National Assembly, which meets briefly twice a year and approves laws by unanimous New labor code show of hands. The new labor code bans workplace discrimination based “This is the first time, without a doubt,” said Carlos on gender, race and sexual orientation. But it has no mention Alzugaray, a historian and former Cuban diplomat. He said of HIV status or gender identity. “I could not vote in favor even measures that were widely criticized in grass-roots pub- without the certainty that the labor rights of people with dif- lic meetings, such as a law raising the retirement age, had ferent gender identity would be explicitly recognized,” Castro passed unanimously in the Assembly. Few in Cuba were even said in the blog interview. Raul Castro himself has been slow- aware of the vote until after the measure was enacted into ly shaking up Cuba’s system by allowing some limited pri- law this summer, at which point gay activists publicized the vate-sector activity and scrapping a much-loathed exit visa HAVANA: This May 10, 2014, file photo, Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuba’s President Raul Castro, center, marches in a parade vote by Castro, who is the island’s most prominent advocate requirement. He’s made it clear, though, that the Communist marking the upcoming International Day Against Homophobia, in Havana, Cuba. Castro, the daughter of President Raul for gay rights. Party will continue to be the only one permitted. Castro and niece of Fidel Castro, broke with tradition and voted ‘no’ in parliament to a workers’ rights bill that she felt didn’t Arturo Lopez-Levy, a Cuban analyst who lectures at the The vast majority of Assembly members keep their regu- go far enough to prevent discrimination against people with HIV or with unconventional gender identities. — AP University of Denver, suggested it might “open doors for oth- lar jobs and are not professional lawmakers. Laws are gener- er important initiatives.” Mariela Castro herself seemed to hint ally drafted by a handful of legislators and discussed with there could be more debate in the assembly. Cubans before being presented to parliament. There was no Obama struggles to find “There have been advances in the way things are dis- response to requests for an interview with Mariela Castro, cussed, above all the way things are discussed at the grass- who heads Cuba’s National Center for Sex Education, an enti- roots level, in workplaces, unions and party groupings,” she ty under the umbrella of the Health Ministry. She has spoken said in an interview posted in late July on the blog of in the past about wanting to legalize same-sex unions, his role after Brown death Francisco Rodriguez, a pro-government gay rights activist. “I though concrete legislation to that effect has not material- think we still need to perfect the democratic participation of ized.—AP WASHINGTON: When racial tensions erupted midway the fault of overzealous cops. Police officers must be honored through his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama came and respected for the difficult job they perform, Obama said. to Philadelphia to decry the “racial stalemate we’ve been stuck “There are young black men that commit crime,” the president in for years.” Over time, he said, such wounds, rooted in said. “We can argue about why that happens - because of the America’s painful history on race, can be healed. poverty they were born into and the lack of opportunity or Six years later, the stalemate suddenly seems more school systems that fail them or what have you - but if they entrenched than ever. As Obama pleads for calm and under- commit a crime, then they need to be prosecuted, because standing in Ferguson, Missouri, he’s struggling to determine every community has an interest in public safety.” what role - if any the nation’s first black president can play in defusing a crisis that has laid bare the profound sense of injus- Military gear tice felt by African-Americans across the country. It’s a delicate balance that’s likely to leave no one fully sat- As Obama sought to strike the appropriate tone Monday, isfied. Aiming to reassure edgy Americans that the federal he appeared to be trapped between the need, as president government is fully engaged, Obama announced that and commander in chief, to stand up for the government’s Attorney General Eric Holder would travel Wednesday to right to ensure law and order, and the inclination, as an Ferguson to meet with FBI and other officials carrying out an African-American, to empathize with those whose say the independent federal investigation into Brown’s death. Obama killing of an unarmed black man just goes to show how blacks said he also spoke to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who has are treated differently by police. “In too many communities deployed National Guard units, and urged him to ensure the around the country, a gulf of mistrust exists between local res- use of those units is limited and constructive. “I’ll be watching idents and law enforcement. In too many communities, too over the next several days,” the president said. many young men of color are left behind and seen only as Obama also called for the US to reassess the militarization objects of fear,” Obama said at the White House, in his most of local police departments that have purchased military gear expansive comments to date about the fatal shooting of 18- from the Pentagon. Federal grants for such equipment have year-old Michael Brown just outside St. Louis. come under intense scrutiny amid the alarming images of But while Obama lamented the disproportional apprehen- armored vehicles and tear gas canisters filling the streets of an sion of young black men, he pointedly argued that’s not solely American suburb.—AP California teenagers planned shooting

SOUTH PASADENA: Two teenage boys have been arrested after making specific plans to kill three staffers then gun down as many students as possible at their Southern California high school, police said. The boys, who did not yet have weapons but were trying to get them, had been under constant surveillance since the school district informed police of their plans last Thursday, South Pasadena police Sgt. Brian Solinsky said Monday.He would not elaborate on the plans or what form they took, but Solinsky said they were “very specific” and included named targets. “This is a prime example of school officials recognizing suspicious behavior,” Solinsky said in a statement. “It was this information that helped pre- vent a horrific tragedy.” Police found evidence that the boys were researching rifles, submachine guns, bombs and other explosives, especially propane, police said. “They were researching weapons and how to fire and assemble them,” police Sgt. Robert Bartl told the Pasadena Star-News. Enough evidence was gathered to serve war- rants at the boys’ homes Monday, Solinsky said.—AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

British police arrest suspect over migrant container death

LONDON: British police arrested a man a shipping container at Tilbury Docks in arrested a man on suspicion of Banbridge in the southeast on the A1, forces and law enforcement agencies yesterday on suspicion of manslaughter Essex, east of London, on Saturday, after manslaughter and facilitating illegal the main road from Belfast towards from across the United Kingdom and over the death of an Afghan Sikh immi- staff heard banging and screaming. entry into the United Kingdom in con- Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. Europe,” said Essex Police’s acting grant, whose body was found in a ship- The man who did not survive the nection with an Essex Police investiga- The man is in police custody pend- detective chief inspector Martin ping container. North Sea crossing from Zeebrugge port tion into the death of a man found in a ing transfer to mainland Britain for Pasmore. The suspect from Northern Ireland in Belgium has been identified by police container at Tilbury Docks,” Essex Police questioning by Essex Police. Northern “We will continue to work closely was arrested in the province. Fleeing as 40-year-old Meet Singh Kapoor. His said. Irish officers are also conducting a with all of our policing colleagues as alleged religious persecution in Kabul, children, aged nine and 12, were in the The suspect, aged 34 and from search of his home address. “This is a we pursue our investigation to bring 34 Sikhs including children aged container with him. Limavady near Northern Ireland’s fast-moving investigation which has those responsible for this crime to jus- between one and 72 were found alive in “Police in Northern Ireland have northwest coast, was arrested at already involved a number of police tice.” —AFP Pope’s relatives killed in Argentina crash Pope wants China dialogue, freedom for church

BUENOS AIRES: Pope Francis was The driver of the grains truck, the Catholic Church to be able to which severed relations with the deeply grieved, the Vatican’s official Raul Pombo, told local television operate freely. The pope told Holy See in 1951 when the broadcasting service said yester- stations he felt the impact and reporters the church “only asks to Communists took over. Beijing day, after the deaths of three rela- found Bergoglio’s vehicle wedged have freedom to do its work. No refused to let St. John Paul II’s plane tives killed when their car slammed under the rear of his vehicle. “I other conditions.” fly overhead when he last visited the into the back of a truck on a high- began stopping passing cars to ask “The Holy See is open to all con- Far East, a 1989 trip to South Korea. way in central Argentina. for their fire extinguishers because tacts,” he said. “Because it has true The Aug. 14 flight, then, gave A nephew of the pope, Emanuel the car was on fire,” Pombo said. esteem for the Chinese people.” In Francis a rare opportunity to reach Bergoglio, who was driving the car The region’s highway patrol remarks to reporters returning to out to Chinese President Xi Jinping, albeit from 35,000 feet. Francis recalled he was in the cockpit chatting with the pilots when the plane was about 10 min- utes out of Chinese airspace and it BALI: Survivors from the boat that sank Saturday evening from Germany, was time to request permission Chatherine Ostojic, right, and Lisa Steinmetz, sitting in a wheelchair, arrive from the air traffic control tower to at Bali international airport, in Indonesia, yesterday. Rescuers on Monday continue on. safely recovered 13 more people from a tourist boat that sank after hitting a “I was a witness to this,” Francis reef in central Indonesia, but were searching for a Dutch man and an Italian marveled. “And then the pilot said, woman who were still missing, officials said. —AP ‘And now the telegram goes out.’” After witnessing that, the pope returned to his seat and prayed. “I Indonesia hunts Spaniards prayed so much for the beautiful and noble Chinese people,” he said. missing in boat sinking He said he would love to visit China: “Absolutely. Tomorrow!” BIMA: Indonesian rescuers yesterday Fishermen rescued a second group Francis sent Xi a similar telegram Monday heading back to Rome: “I expanded their search for two Spanish on Monday, made up of eight foreign- wish to renew to your excellency men still missing after a tourist boat ers and the Indonesians, who were the and your fellow citizens the assur- sank at the weekend, forcing survivors boat crew and a tour guide. They had ance of my best wishes, as I invoke to swim hours to dry land and drink floated at sea for 40 hours, with some divine blessings upon your land.” their own urine. huddled in a small lifeboat and others He also praised Koreans, espe- cially the South Korean women The boat, which was carrying 20 for- in life jackets. who were used as sexual slaves by eigners and five Indonesians, went Bertrand Homassel, a French survivor the Japanese military during World down Saturday after being hit by a among the first group, told AFP how War II. Francis spent a few minutes storm and running into a reef as it trav- they waited for hours perched on the Monday greeting seven “comfort elled from Lombok island to Komodo roof of the boat as it slowly sank. women” who attended his final CORDOBA: Handout picture released by Agencia Cordoba via Noticias Argentinas showing the Mass in Seoul’s cathedral. Francis island, a popular tourist destination. They were eventually left with no car in which the nephew of Pope Francis, Emanuel Horacio Bergoglio, and his family were travel- recalled that they were young girls Eighteen tourists and all the choice but to swim to Sangeang island ling when they crashed into a truck near James Craik, in a road in the Argentine central province when they were taken away, Indonesians onboard have so far been on the horizon, he said. When they final- of Cordoba, yesterday. —AFP “exploited and enslaved.” But he rescued. The missing Spaniards had ly reached the small island on Saturday said: “Today these women were been with a first group of foreigners evening after a six-hour swim, they was in serious condition following chief, Jorge Rainieri, called the Rome from South Korea Monday, there because despite all that they the accident just after midnight on impact “powerful” and television Francis recounted how he had a suffered, they have their dignity. who were saved on Sunday after swim- found it deserted. Monday. The nephew’s wife, 35, pictures showed the mangled front-row seat to history when his They showed their faces.” ming for miles to a volcanic island, said Dehydrated, exhausted and sun- and two children aged 2 years and wreckage of the compact car. The Alitalia charter flew through “The Korean people are a peo- Budiawan, search and rescue chief on burnt, they resorted to drinking their 8 months died. accident occurred in Argentina’s Chinese airspace en route to South ple who haven’t lost their dignity: Lombok. own urine and eating leaves until a “The pope has been informed central Cordoba province. Korea. They are a people who were invad- They had separated from the others passing boat picked them up the fol- and is deeply grieved by the tragic Traditionally, popes send ed, humiliated, underwent wars news. He asks all those who share Dialogue with China telegrams of greetings to heads of and now are divided,” he said. “The in a bid to reach dry land quicker, said lowing day, he said. his pain to join with him in prayer,” Meanwhile, Pope Francis says he state when they enter their airspace. suffering of division is great. I the official, who like many Indonesians The foreigners rescued were from said a statement on the website of wants dialogue with China and the This flight, however, marked the first understand this and I pray that it goes by one name. New Zealand, Britain, Spain, the Radio Vaticana. only thing he asks in return is for time a pope had flown over China, ends.” —Agencies He said rescuers were yesterday Netherlands, Germany, France and Italy. expanding their search to focus on the Komodo island is one of several eastern side of Sangeang, the island islands that make up the Komodo China questions lawyer over that the others in the group had man- National Park, a protected area. Its aged to reach. eponymous lizards can grow up to “This morning we deployed five three metres (10 feet) long and have a meetings with ex-US envoy boats from our search and rescue team, venomous bite. the weather is good today so we hope Indonesia relies heavily on boats to BEIJING: Chinese police have questioned a which the government has abolished, and rights groups call the worst suppression of we can find them,” said Budiawan. He connect its more than 17,000 islands, prominent human rights lawyer about meet- he was featured prominently in state media free expression in years. added local fishermen working at night but has a poor maritime safety record. ings with the former US ambassador to for that campaign - unusual for a govern- Beijing police have questioned Pu on his had also been asked to look for the However boat sinkings involving for- China, his alleged “insults” against senior ment critic. meetings with former U.S. Ambassador to missing tourists. eign tourists are rare. —AFP officials and his frequent trips to Japan, his Pu was detained in May after he attended China Gary Locke, who had asked Pu to lawyer said yesterday. a meeting in a private home to commemo- share his views on human rights, said Pu’s Pu Zhiqiang, one of China’s most outspo- rate the bloody suppression of pro-democ- lawyer, Zhang Sizhi. Locke left China in ken dissidents, was arrested in June on racy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. February. charges of causing a disturbance and illegal The new details of the police interroga- “They wanted to know what they talked S Africa repatriates access to personal information in a case that tion will add to evidence that the case about,” Zhang told Reuters in an interview. sparked an outcry among rights workers in against Pu is politically motivated. Many “Of course, the public security bureau knew journalist’s remains China and the West. human rights activists have said the charges about this a long time ago.” Pu, 49, a free-speech lawyer, has repre- against Pu were meant to silence a fierce Zhang said the authorities could use Pu’s sented many well-known dissidents, includ- critic of the ruling Communist Party. contacts with Locke to accuse him of “collu- JOHANNESBURG: South Africa is partly because of his uncertain legal ing artist Ai Weiwei and activists of the “New China has stepped up a crackdown on sion”. In the past, Chinese police have used repatriating the remains of a black situation as a South African unable to Citizens’ Movement”, a group that has urged dissent, detaining and jailing activists, muz- the charge of collusion with a “hostile for- anti-apartheid journalist who died in return to his country. She also wrote Chinese leaders to disclose their assets. zling internet critics and strengthening eign organisation” to arrest dissidents. the United States in 1965 and was that Nakasa was concerned for him- He also opposed forced labour camps, restrictions on journalists in what some Beijing police could not be reached for buried there until his recent exhuma- self because of a history of mental ill- comment. Zhang said Beijing police had also tion. ness in his family. questioned Pu in connection with his post- The remains of Nat Nakasa were The US and South African govern- ings on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, expected to arrive yesterday in the ments monitored Nakasa while he that allegedly “insulted” senior officials coastal city of Durban, where he will was in the United States, according including Mao Xinyu, a grandson of Mao be reburied, South Africa’s arts and to Brown. Supporters have described Zedong, who holds the rank of major-gener- al in the People’s Liberation Army. culture ministry said. Nakasa’s sister, Nakasa as a victim of apartheid Zhang said other people that Pu allegedly Gladys Maphumulo, and other mem- because of the circumstances that insulted were a Chinese legislator who said bers of his family are in the South effectively made him an exile, and publicly that she has never voted no in a African delegation accompanying his there are conspiracy theories about parliament session as well as officials from casket, which is draped in the nation- his death despite a lack of evidence the railways ministry, which has a reputation al colors, according to the ministry. of foul play. for corruption. Nakasa worked for DRUM maga- “He died under mysterious cir- Zhang said Pu has admitted to writing zine and other publications in cumstances,” South Africa’s arts and those posts, but said he did not mean to Johannesburg during white minority culture ministry said in a statement. insult. If convicted of insulting people, Pu rule half a century ago. He left South The South African National Editors faces a maximum imprisonment of 10 years. Africa in 1964 for a Nieman fellow- Forum said only that Nakasa died Beijing police also questioned Pu about his frequent trips to Japan, asking him “why ship at Harvard University. The South “tragically,” and has welcomed the he traveled to Japan four times every year”, African government had not issued return of his remains. Nakasa will be Zhang said. Pu’s son studies in Japan. him a passport, making it impossible reburied on Sept. 13, ending a long According to Zhang, Beijing police have for him to return home. repatriation effort that began in the told him they have completed their interro- At the age of 28, he plunged from late 1990s and eventually secured gation of Pu but state prosecutors have not the seventh floor of a building in necessary resources and state informed him yet whether they plan to pros- New York City. His death was ruled a involvement, it said. ecute. suicide, and he was buried at “This is a proud moment for South Zhang said the case against Pu is politi- Ferncliff cemetery in Hartsdale, north African journalism and the nation as cally motivated and said Pu himself said the of the city. a whole that we have been able to BONN: German chancellor Angela Merkel, left, serves stew in a field kitchen during chances of winning his case were “slim”. “He Ryan Brown, author of “A Native of give Nat his last wish, returning to is not optimistic and his pessimism is justi- her visit to the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance in Bonn, Nowhere: The Life of Nat Nakasa,” has the land of his birth and to rest eter- western Germany, yesterday. The German Chancellor visited the Federal Office of fied,” Zhang said. “I agree, there is no reason to be optimistic. It looks like someone really reported how Nakasa felt increasing- nally with his ancestors,” the forum Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance to learn about the work of the office and of ly alienated in the United States, said in a statement. —AP the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW). —AP wants to take him down.” — Reuters 10,000 top jobs daily

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SYDNEY: A number of asylum-seeker chil- for asylum-seeker children. Children under the age of 10 and their fami- Stopping the boats dreds of people dying en route. dren held in Australian mainland detention “We will transition as many of those as we lies will be given priority. Morrison defended the continued Labor immigration spokesman Richard centres are to be released, officials said yes- can onto this other arrangement that will not A total of 1,547 children are in community detention of children in offshore camps, Marles questioned why the decision came terday, although hundreds of others will only put them on a residence basis, at least detention, according to immigration depart- despite concerns raised during the nation- almost a year after the conservative gov- remain locked up in offshore camps. temporarily, while their cases are being ment figures. At least a further 150 in main- al inquiry that many of those on Christmas ernment was elected. “It is very interesting Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said assessed, but also result in a reduction of cost land detention centres will be considered for Island were struggling with mental health that-in a week where the minister is to “a large number” of the children and their to the taxpayer.” release. problems. appear before the Human Rights families would be given bridging visas allow- Rights groups welcomed the move but Children who arrived by boat in Australia “Offshore processing is part of the suite Commission’s inquiry into children in ing them to live in the community, attend said it should also include children held in after July 19, 2013 are excluded from the pro- of measures that are stopping the boats,” detention-we hear, for the first time, any school and have access to health and finan- offshore facilities. The Australian Human gramme under Canberra’s tough immigra- he said. “And I don’t think encouraging concern from him about the plight of kids cial support. Rights Commission, which is conducting a tion policy, which prevents them being reset- children to get on boats where they can in detention,” Marles said. The programme only applies to children national inquiry into the detention of chil- tled in the country regardless of whether die at sea is an acceptable humanitarian Morrison said a release programme was currently in community detention or in main- dren, added that the financial support for they are judged to be genuine refugees. outcome. And so this government won’t only possible now as previous bridging land detention centres and who arrived in bridging visa holders was “inadequate to The children, along with other boatpeo- be watering down its policies on border visa arrangements for children “just simply Australia before July 19, 2013. “We are confi- meet basic needs and children may be ple, are instead held in camps in the Pacific protection.” weren’t sufficient”. dent that we can move a large number of moved into difficult financial circumstances”. for processing or resettlement. Since December, only one boatload of He added that his government had them off community detention into the Under community detention, detainees Some 183 children are being kept on asylum-seekers has managed to reach the sought to reduce the number of children in bridging visa programme,” said Morrison, live under the supervision of charities until Nauru under this policy, while 148 others are Australian mainland. Prior to the govern- detention since coming to power, with who has come under fierce criticism from their status is resolved. Having a bridging visa detained on Christmas Island, an Australian ment’s tougher border security policies, those held falling by 516 since it was elect- rights groups for not doing enough to care will allow them to choose where they reside. territory in the Indian Ocean. boats were arriving almost daily, with hun- ed last September. —AFP Protesters set to march on Pakistan’s parliament Army chief meets Sharif

ISLAMABAD: Thousands of protesters to keep up the sit-ins until Sharif that Imran Khan and Tahir-ul-Qadri Sharif met with the prime minister in demanding Pakistan’s prime minister resigns. Khan, who heads parliament’s agree to talks with the government,” Islamabad, state-run Pakistan step down prepared yesterday to third-largest political bloc, announced said Ahsan Iqbal, a senior Cabinet Television said. It did not elaborate. march on parliament in the capital, as Monday that he and his supporters minister. Khan’s Tehrik-e-Insaf party has authorities beefed up security to pre- would march into Islamabad’s so-called “Let us sit and find a political solu- been complaining that Sharif’s vent possible violence. “Red Zone,” which houses embassies, tion,” said Iqbal, who was appointed Pakistan Muslim League-N rigged The demonstrators, who have parliament, diplomatic posts, govern- by Sharif to lead the talks with the last year’s elections. Sharif has camped out in Islamabad in two rallies ment offices and the residence of the opposition. agreed to set up a judicial commis- sion to probe the allegation but refused to step down. Khan has said he won’t go home without Sharif’s resignation, setting NEW DELHI: In this photograph taken on March 3, 2013 social activist from up a possible violent confrontation. Manipur, Irom Sharmila, who has been on a fast for 12 years demanding the The standoff has raised fears of repeal of the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), arrives political instability in this nuclear- at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. An Indian court yes- armed country of 180 million, terday ordered her release who has been on a hunger strike for 14 years which has largely been ruled by over human rights abuses in the country’s remote northeast, her lawyer dictators since 1947. said. —AFP Sharif, himself overthrown in the 1999 coup that brought former army chief Pervez Musharraf to power, has been meeting with top India court orders release advisers ahead of the rally. The government also has invoked a of 14-year hunger striker rarely used article in the constitu- tion allowing the military to intro- NEW DELHI: An Indian court yesterday a few days later from her home in Manipur. duce martial law if needed. ordered the release of a woman who has Sharmila, looking frail and with a drip The Islamabad rallies come as staged a 14-year-long hunger strike to hanging from her nose, has also regularly Pakistan’s military is waging a protest human rights abuses in the coun- appeared in court where she has been major operation against local and try’s remote northeast, her lawyer said. asked whether she was ready to end her foreign militants in the North Irom Sharmila, known as the Iron Lady of fast. Waziristan tribal region bordering Manipur for her unwavering and non-vio- Sharmila, an activist and poet, has Afghanistan. The military said it lent protest, has spent years in judicial cus- always replied no, and, flanked by police carried our multiple airstrikes tody over her fast, intended to draw atten- officers, been returned to custody. Tuesday in the Khyber and North tion to abuses allegedly committed by the Babloo Loitangbam, a human rights Wazristan tribal region that killed military. 48 militants. activist in the northeast who is close to Pakistan’s tribal regions are off- “The court has set her free,” lawyer Mani Sharmila, said the court had now accepted limits to journalists, making verify- Khaidem said of Sharmila, who was arrested that the charge of attempting suicide was ISLAMABAD: Pakistani riot police stand on shipping containers blocking a road near the site of ing claims over airstrikes difficult. on charges of trying to commit suicide not sustainable. an anti-government protest in Islamabad yesterday. Pakistan’s capital braced for possible clash- Also yesterday, a roadside bomb shortly after beginning her protest. “The “Sharmila is not trying to take her life, court said that it is just an allegation that she is trying to make a political point which es after opposition politician Imran Khan pledged to lead his supporters in a march on the capi- struck a school van with children she wants to commit suicide, hence she is to repeal the Armed Forces Special tal’s heavily guarded government district, in a high-stakes bid to depose the goverment. —AFP and teachers in Khar, the main town in the northwestern tribal cannot be kept under arrest and should be Powers Act,” he told the NDTV network. since last week, are demanding that prime minister and the president. About 30,000 security troops region of Bajur, killing five people, released immediately,” Singh told AFP from But Loitangbam said he too feared that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif step down Yesterday, he said on Twitter that he have fanned out across the “Red a government administrator said. Imphal, capital of Manipur state. she would be rearrested once the state gov- over alleged vote rigging in the 2013 himself would lead the march and Zone” and Islamabad ahead of the No group immediately claimed Sharmila began her fast in November ernment appealed to the High Court parliamentary elections. urged Sharif to resign. Authorities have announced march, police said. responsibility for the attack. The 2000 after witnessing the killing of 10 peo- against the lower court’s decision. The rallies - with tens of thousands said they would not allow protesters to Bajur tribal region has seen several ple by the army at a bus stop near her home Sharmila, who has been described by taking part - are led by cricket-star- enter the “Red Zone” and asked the two Confrontation military offensives against the in northeastern Manipur, which is subject to Amnesty International as a prisoner of con- turned-politician Imran Khan and fiery opposition leaders to reconsider. Amid growing tension yesterday, Pakistani Taleban and foreign mili- the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers science, also faces similar charges in New cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, who have vowed Instead of the march, “we request Pakistan’s army chief Gen Raheel tants in recent years. —AP Act (AFSPA). Delhi, where she has staged a hunger-strike Sharmila was arrested a few days later in the past. and was then sent to a prison hospital, She told a court in Delhi in May that she Sri Lanka says will refuse where she has been force-fed via a nasal was pinning her hopes on new Prime drip several times a day. Minister Narendra Modi, whom she urged Her brother Irom Singhajit welcomed to repeal the controversial act. the court’s decision, but said he feared she “I love my life... I also want to live life as entry to UN investigators would be rearrested once released because others, but only after this draconian law is she would never abandon her protest. removed,” she told the packed court. “Until and unless the AFSPA is repealed, “I will never stop my struggle until this COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will not grant visas to UN inves- Lankans wanting to testify. Leaders urge cooperation she is going to continue her protest,” law is repealed completely. I have many tigators probing war crimes allegedly committed dur- “We will not allow them into the country,” said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and other lead- Singhajit told AFP. “That is what I fear. Even hopes from Mr Modi.” ing the island’s decades-long separatist conflict, Rajapakse, who is under international pressure to ers have urged Colombo to cooperate with the UNHRC if she is released, she will be arrested again The act, which covers large parts of President Mahinda Rajapakse said yesterday. cooperate with the UN-mandated investigation. after ending a prolonged separatist war that pitted within a day or two,” he said. northeastern India and the restive state of Sri Lanka has refused to accept the authority of the Rajapakse said however that his government was ethnic minority Tamil rebels and the largely Sinhalese Kashmir, gives Indian forces sweeping pow- UN Human Rights Council, which voted in March to cooperating with all other UN agencies. army in a drawn out ethnic conflict. Outgoing UN Fears of rearrest ers to search, enter property and shoot on investigate allegations that the military killed 40,000 “We are saying that we do not accept it (the rights chief Navi Pillay earlier this month suggested Over the years, Sharmila has been sight, and is seen by critics as cover for civilians in the final months of the separatist war, probe). We are against it,” he told Colombo-based for- that her investigators looking into allegations of mass released from custody, only to be rearrested human rights abuses. —AFP which ended in 2009. eign correspondents at his official residence. “But killings may not have to travel to Sri Lanka at all. She But it is the first time that Rajapakse has said UN when it comes to other UN agencies, we are always said there was a “wealth of information” outside the investigators will not be allowed into the country, ready to fully cooperate and fully engage with them,” country. Her remarks prompted allegations from Sri effectively barring them from face-to-face access to Sri he said. Lanka’s foreign ministry that her investigation was on a Remains of Malaysian MH17 “preconceived trajectory” and that her “prejudice and lack of objectivity” were unfortunate. victims to be flown home Colombo insists that its troops did not commit war crimes while crushing the Tamil Tiger rebel movement at the end of a conflict which stretched for more than KUALA LUMPUR: The remains of at least ference, adding that the exact number to three decades and claimed more than 100,000 lives. 15 Malaysians killed when a jetliner was arrive would be known later in the week. Pillay, who visited Sri Lanka last year, has previously shot down over Ukraine will be returned to The government has declared Friday a accused Rajapakse’s government of becoming authori- their home country this week, the first national day of mourning. Hishammuddin tarian, and warned that rights defenders and journal- Malaysian victims of the disaster to be said Malaysia would not be competing ists were at risk in the country even after the end of the flown home, the country’s defense minis- with the Netherlands in terms of how the war. The government conceded a degree of ground ter said yesterday. bodies are received. The Netherlands last month when it asked a panel already investigating All 298 people on board died when observed a minute’s silence and solemn missing persons to expand its work and investigate Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down ceremonies were held when the remains actions of both troops and Tamil rebels. on July 17. The plane was heading to Kuala of the victims arrived in the country last Rajapakse said Tuesday that he was naming two Lumpur from Amsterdam and was shot month. more foreign experts-an Indian and a Pakistani-to join out of the sky over an area of eastern Dutch authorities said last week that three other international legal experts already on a Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia sepa- they had identified 127 victims in all. The panel of advisors helping the presidential Commission ratists. The victims included 43 Malaysians separatists have been widely blamed for of Inquiry. and 195 Dutch nationals. firing a missile that brought the Boeing 777 Rajapakse said he was willing to give “even two With fighting between the rebels and down, but have publicly denied responsi- more years” to the commission to complete its work. Ukrainian forces ongoing near the crash bility. The Netherlands and other countries The commission said it was probing 19,471 cases of site, victims’ remains were gathered and have launched criminal investigations. missing persons as of Tuesday and completed hearings sent to the Netherlands for identifica- Malaysia Airlines has been hit by two only in respect of 939 cases. tion. Malaysian Defense Minister major disasters this year, adding to its The president on Tuesday added Indian rights Hishammuddin Hussein said Tuesday longstanding financial woes. In March, BANGKOK: This combination of file photos shows at left, National Council for Peace and activist Avdhash Kaushal and Pakistani lawyer Ahmer that 28 Malaysian victims had been Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing Order (NCPO) Chairman Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha arriving to attend the opening cere- Bilal Soofi to join British lawyers Desmond de Silva and identified so far, including 15 passen- disappeared with 239 people on board mony of the house, in Bangkok, and at right Prayuth talking to members of the Geoffrey Nice and US law professor David Crane, all for- gers and 13 crew members. after flying far of course. That jet still has National Legislative Assembly. When Thailand’s military ruler appears in public, he mer UN war crimes prosecutors. The president denied The remains of at least 15 Malaysians not been found despite an exhaustive and a Dutch national who was married to ongoing search in an area of the southern usually is seen in full military regalia. On Monday, addressing the nation’s junta- that the foreigners were named as part of a whitewash and insisted that the government was serious about a Malaysian will arrive in Kuala Lumpur on Indian Ocean where it is believed to have appointed legislature to propose the upcoming fiscal year’s budget, Prayuth showed Friday, Hishammuddin said at a news con- gone down. —AP up in markedly different attire - a business-like dark blue suit with a sky blue tie. — AP investigating rights abuses. —AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 Unrest mounts in Missouri Saudi mufti blasts Qaeda...

Continued from Page 1 plained of police harassment and under-representa- organization whose members include 57 countries Continued from Page 1 murder of US citizen Paul Marshall, local media tion in city leadership. including the United States and Canada, criticized the reported yesterday. The court specializing in ter- “We over-policed for a few days, and then we com- Tension boiled over 10 days ago after 18-year-old treatment of the journalists. He later compared them to the Kharijite ror cases also imposed jail terms of four to 30 pletely under-policed,” US Senator Claire McCaskill, a Michael Brown was shot dead while walking with a On Monday night, officials had hoped that the lift- movement in early Islam, which assassinated years on 13 co-defendants, including two Syrians Missouri Democrat who was traveling to Ferguson friend down a residential street on the afternoon of ing of a curfew imposed over the weekend would cool Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) son-in-law Ali for who were members of the same Al-Qaeda cell, in yesterday, told cable channel MSNBC. She said she Aug 9. The police refused to immediately release the tensions and end the looting and violence. Police also making compromises to a rival Muslim faction, a verdict announced on Monday evening. was working with local leaders on ways to quell the name of the officer who killed Brown. They later iden- closed a roadway to traffic to provide a path for and has been seen as heretical by most subse- Johnson was kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in Riyadh violence. Possible methods include screening for tified him as 28-year-old Darren Wilson but and still marchers. But police said some in the crowd hurled quent Muslim sects. He warned: “In Islam, after in 2004, held hostage and beaten to death, then weapons and moving protest areas away from the have not provided details about why he fired multiple bottles, rocks and petrol bombs at officers, who heresy, dividing Muslims is the greatest crime.” beheaded by his kidnappers who posted a video business district to open green spaces. Both she and rounds at Brown. Both the US Department of Justice responded by firing gas-filled canisters and a noise The mufti urged “tolerance, which was at the ori- of his execution on the Internet, Ashaq Al-Awsat US Representative Emanuel Cleaver, another Missouri and the St Louis County Police Department are inves- cannon to try to disperse the throng. State Highway gin of Islam’s growth and longevity.” reported, citing the indictment. Democrat, said calm was needed to allow federal tigating the shooting. The county prosecutor’s office Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who is overseeing securi- King Abdullah vowed on June 29: “We will The 14 defendants belonged to a 50-member investigators to evaluate the evidence. “What’s hap- said it could start presenting evidence to a grand jury ty in Ferguson, said officers had come under “heavy not allow a handful of terrorists, using Islam for Al-Qaeda cell that is alleged to have murdered pening now is damaging, or interfering, with what today to determine if Wilson will be indicted. gunfire” but did not return it. Riot police did confiscate personal aims, to terrify Muslims or undermine the American, been involved in an attack on needs to be done,” Cleaver told MSNBC. Since the killing, thousands of protesters have tak- two guns and what looked like a petrol bomb from our country and its inhabitants.” King Abdullah Riyadh police headquarters and to have planned On Monday, President Barack Obama said he told en over the site of the shooting and the nearby busi- protesters. Four officers were injured, he said. has been pressing clerics to publicly condemn strikes on the US and British embassies in the Missouri Governor Jay Nixon that use of the National ness district each night, chanting anti-police slogans Johnson separately told CNN that two people were Islamic extremist groups since the government Saudi capital, official SPA news agency reported. Guard should be limited, and he also called for concili- and carrying signs calling for Wilson’s arrest. Some shot within the crowd, but not by police, and were made it illegal for citizens to fight in conflicts They were also convicted of smuggling in heavy ation. Attorney General Eric Holder plans to visit journalists covering the confrontations have been hit taken to hospital. There was no immediate word on abroad. Clerics who do not condemn terrorism in weapons from Iraq, launching armed attacks on Ferguson today. Ferguson, a community of roughly by tear gas and arrested. Yesterday, the Vienna-based their condition. “This has to stop,” said Johnson, an traditional Friday sermons could face penalties, police, belonging to Al-Qaeda and showing dis- 21,000 mostly black residents just outside St Louis, has Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, African-American who grew up in the area. “I don’t such as having their licenses to preach revoked. respect to Saudi rulers, the news agency said. a long history of racial tension. Blacks have com- an intergovernmental security and human rights want anybody to get hurt. —Reuters Local media have reported that the Saudi The court is expected to give a verdict in the next Interior Ministry may require clerics to pass a few days on the other members of the cell. security screening before they can preach, and Also yesterday, Saudi Arabia opened new Israel hits Gaza, suspends talks that around 3,500 clerics in Saudi Arabia have courts focusing on family disputes, the first of a been dismissed since 2003 for their sermons. series of specialized tribunals aimed at making Continued from Page 1 normal operations on Sunday. The rocket strike had discovered at the frontier. Chatting in soft voices and Saudi Arabia follows the ultraconservative the kingdom’s legal system faster, more transpar- prompted major US and European airlines to halt laughing at times, Hamas men guided the Reuters Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam but sees Islamist ent and predictable. Changes to the legal system strong response” to any resumption of rocket flights to Israel for several days in July over safety fears. crew through corridors less than a metre wide that are militants, who staged attacks in the kingdom last are seen by analysts as an important step in attacks. Hamas dismissed his remarks as having “no Earlier, Hamas fighters, clad in black and armed reached by descending a thin metal ladder through a decade, as posing a threat to its own stability. wider social and economic reforms aimed at rec- weight”. In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri with assault rifles, navigated a dimly lit tunnel with tiny shaft. “It feels just like home,” their commander Although senior Wahhabi clerics endorse execu- onciling Saudi Arabia’s ultra-conservative tradi- denied the Islamist movement had fired rockets over ease, saying they felt at home in their network of said. “Fighters dug these tunnels with their own hands tion by beheading for offences that include tions with the demands of a young population the border yesterday, accusing Israel of trying to sabo- underground passages in the Gaza Strip. A rare tour just like they built their houses, so they live here at apostasy, adultery and sorcery, oppose women and modern economy. The introduction of spe- tage the truce talks. “We don’t have any information that Hamas granted to a Reuters reporter, photogra- comfort and assurance like they do at home.” driving or working and describe Shiites as cialized courts is one of the most radical changes about firing rockets from Gaza. The Israeli raids are pher and cameraman appeared to be an attempt to The ceiling in parts of the tunnel was high enough heretics, they differ from Al-Qaeda and Islamic to a legal system in which judges use their own intended to sabotage the negotiations in Cairo,” he dispute Israel’s claim that it had demolished all of the so we could walk through - alternately on dry, concrete State militants in opposing violent revolt. Riyadh interpretation of Islamic texts to rule on cases told AFP. The talks in Cairo centre on an Egyptian pro- Islamist group’s border infiltration tunnels in the Gaza floors and muddy ground - without having to bend has been a main supporter of rebels battling that range from complex commercial disputes to posal that meets some of the Palestinian demands, war. “We are speaking to you today from inside one of our heads. It was impossible to gauge the tunnel’s Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, but has fun- murder. The new specialized family courts in such as easing Israel’s eight-year blockade on Gaza, but those tunnels, which Israel said it had destroyed. Our length, but it had offshoots leading in different direc- nelled arms and money away from Islamic State Riyadh, Makkah, Jeddah, Madinah and Dammam puts off debate on other thorny issues until later. men are still operating in those tunnels prepared for all tions. Once inside, the sounds of traffic and Israeli and Al-Qaeda towards other opposition groups. will be staffed by judges who have received extra Although temporary truce agreements have options,” said a masked fighter from Hamas’ Izz el-Deen drones that routinely fly over the territory of 1.8 million Wahhabi clerics, who hold senior govern- training in cases involving divorce, alimony and brought relief to millions on both sides of the border, al-Qassam Brigades. people could not be heard. ment positions and lend the ruling Al-Saud child custody, local media reported yesterday. the drawn-out waiting and fear of an all-out resump- But driven, blindfolded, to the secret location in a On the battlefield, Hamas met Israeli forces with an Islamic legitimacy, oversee a massive religious Dedicated commercial courts will be opened tion of fighting has tested people’s patience. “No one Hamas vehicle that made a series of turns, it was array of tactics, including the use of tunnels to launch infrastructure paid for by the state and are some- within four months and courts to review labor here has any hope,” said Riyad Abul Sultan, a father of impossible for the Reuters crew to tell whether it was surprise attacks. Israel’s military lost 64 soldiers, more times dismissed by militants as being in the gov- and immigration disputes, and courts specialis- 10 with thick curly hair, smoking as he sat on a flimsy close to the frontier or further inside the Gaza Strip in than six times the number of troops killed in its previ- ernment’s pocket. Thousands of young Saudis ing in criminal cases will be opened after that. mattress at a UN school in Gaza. tunnels untouched by Israeli bombing. It was not clear ous invasion of Gaza in early 2009. In the tunnel, a are believed to have travelled to Syria and Iraq to The new courts are the centerpiece of sweep- Meanwhile, Jordan’s national carrier confirmed yes- where the tunnel led. By Israel’s own account, its Hamas fighter said the group would press on with join rebel and militant groups, spurring concern ing judicial reforms in Saudi Arabia that were terday it had resumed flights to Tel Aviv after suspend- ground forces focused only on destroying tunnels restocking its arsenal or rockets and other weaponry within the authorities that they may eventually announced by King Abdullah in 2007 but have ing them for a month due to rocket fire near the run- within 2 to 4.5 km of the border, while ignoring more and shoring up its underground network. “In peace we launch attacks on their own government. faced opposition from conservatives who want way of Israel’s main airport. Royal Jordanian, which distant connecting passages. During the Gaza offen- make preparations, and in war we use what we have Separately, a court in Riyadh sentenced an Al- legal matters to remain under the exclusive con- operates 20 flights a week to Tel Aviv, said it resumed sive, Israel’s military took reporters through tunnels it readied,” he said. — Agencies Qaeda member to death for the 2004 kidnap and trol of the clergy. — Agencies WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 ANALYSIS

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Issues Missouri unrest showcases mistrust of police

By Jesse J Holland

or one night, all was well in Ferguson, Missouri. After a change in police command, violent protests decrying the Fshooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of white police officer Darren Wilson suddenly gave way to peaceful demonstrations. A day later, Ferguson police, under pressure to disclose Wilson’s name, also revealed that Brown was suspected of stealing cigars from a local store before his deadly encounter with Wilson. That announcement was met with disbelief and anger by several residents, who said police were trying to smear Brown’s name to justify his shoot- ing. And the streets of Ferguson exploded anew. Brown’s death ECB in policy limbo, boxed in by own plans is the latest illustration of deep divisions between minorities and police that have simmered for generations. Concern about the wariness playing out in Ferguson has coursed all the way By Paul Carrel and Eva Taylor pening in geopolitics is tilting the balance toward buoy their economies, which they have been chases of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed up to the White House. President Barack Obama said Attorney having to implement further stimulus,” said unable - or unwilling - to shape up. “I am con- bonds had an impact across asset prices, holding General Eric Holder would go to Missouri this week to check on he European Central Bank is in a policy no Andrew Bosomworth, a senior portfolio manager vinced that more can be done and I’m also con- down borrowing costs. the independent federal investigation into Brown’s death. “In man’s land, bombarded by news of a stag- at Pimco, the world’s largest bond investor. “But I vinced that the ECB is getting ready to do more,” But in the euro zone, the economy is based too many communities around the country, a gulf of mistrust Tnating euro zone economy but hesitant to think there are a few things in the pipeline on the Italian Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan told on bank lending, so buying sovereign bonds exists between local residents and law enforcement,” the presi- move forward with new stimulus until measures it positive side that we can point to as well, so we’d the BBC at the weekend. Indeed, a Reuters poll of may not be as effective. ECB Executive Board dent said. loaded in June have ignited. After the ECB cut put a fifty-fifty chance on QE right now, which euro money market traders gives a 50 percent member Benoit Coeure said earlier this year any The depth of this distrust becomes obvious in polling. While interest rates in June and promised banks cheap brings me to the conclusion that the ECB is in chance that the ECB will resort to QE-style asset euro zone QE plan would have to be tailored to the unrest was occurring in Missouri, almost two-thirds of long-term loans starting in September, about all observe-and-analyse mode for now.” purchases to boost inflation in the coming year. the bank-based economy. Buying sovereign blacks - 65 percent - surveyed by the Pew Research Center said that is left is printing money to buy bonds - so- On the plus side, while the economy had no bonds according to the ECB’s capital key - the police went too far in their response to the Ferguson protests, called quantitative easing (QE). But there are growth in the second quarter, euro zone banks QE Quandary share each euro zone country’s central bank has while one-third of whites agreed and nearly another third said tricky practical and political barriers in the ECB’s in the same period did ease lending terms for But waiting for evidence that what it has in the ECB’s capital, based on the size of its econ- the police response has been about right. The Pew survey was way: it is boxed in by its own plans, and still faces firms for the first time since the start of the finan- done is working is only part of the ECB’s QE omy - would see large purchases of German conducted Aug 14-17. strong opposition from economic power cial crisis. And as well as TLTROs, the ECB is also dilemma. Some policymakers believe QE is inap- bonds, the merits of which are questionable as Gallup polling between 2012 and 2014 showed that a Germany to any such monetary leniency. intensifying preparations to buy asset-backed propriate; others are not sure it would work any- their yields are already near record lows. Padoan, majority of blacks, or 64 percent, had only some, very little or Already deployed by other major central securities (ABS), which are created by banks way. Hawkish ECB policymakers are still deeply the Italian economy minister, acknowledged no confidence in the police, while the majority of the whites banks, QE could be used to pump money into the pooling loans into an interest-bearing bond that resistant to the idea. For example, ECB Executive this: “Quantitative easing has worked well in the questioned, or 58 percent, had either a great deal or quite a lot euro zone economy with a view to stimulating is sold to raise funds. The ABS market has not Board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger, a former US... but of course the underlying economic of confidence in the police. Between 2009 and 2011, Gallup growth and staving off deflation, which has recovered following the global financial crisis, member of Germany’s Bundesbank, said last structure of the US economy is largely different found 61 percent of blacks only had partial or no confidence in already gripped some countries in the bloc’s but the ECB hopes that by supporting this seg- month it needed a “real emergency” for a broad from the still-fragmented euro area.” police, while 62 percent of whites had a lot of confidence in the south. At just 0.4 percent, euro zone inflation is in ment it can get credit to the smaller firms that asset-buying plan to be deployed. “Technically police. what the ECB considers a “danger zone”. Economic make up the backbone of the euro zone econo- there are quite a few people in Frankfurt who are Fed Factor A factor that breeds distrust is racial disparities between growth, meanwhile, ground to a halt in the sec- my. not absolutely sure QE would have a significantly Policy developments across the Atlantic police and the communities they serve. Ferguson is nearly 70 ond quarter even before the bloc has started to Any ABS plan is likely to be small, but the ECB positive impact on growth,” said Deutsche Bank could actually play into the ECB’s hands. While percent black, while the police department is more than 90 feel the impact of sanctions on and by Russia over expects take-up of 450-850 billion euros ($601 economist Gilles Moec. Some euro zone officials the ECB considers how to loosen policy, the Fed percent white. Distrust is also fueled by a perception of Ukraine. billion-$1.13 trillion) for the TLTROs, potentially argue the ECB would need to spend huge has started reining in its expansive tools and is unchecked police violence through the ages: The 1992 acquit- Yet the ECB may be in a wait-and-see mode for more than the total annual GDP of the amounts on a broad asset-buying plan to have preparing to raise interest rates, perhaps in mid- tal of four white Los Angeles police officers in the beating of some time, waiting until the measures it Netherlands. However, despite the queued-up any impact, and that this would probably only 2015. A recent Reuters poll of 74 analysts black motorist Rodney King; the 1967 beating in Newark, New announced in June kick in. The first tranche of stimulus, improving credit conditions and the be marginal as sovereign bond yields are already showed the Fed is not likely to raise rates until Jersey, of cab driver John Smith; Miami in 1980, after the long-term loans it is offering banks to stimulate prospect of a more robust banking sector thanks near historic lows. There is also the issue of what the second quarter next year, most likely in June. acquittal of six white police officers in the beating death of lending, called TLTROs, is not available until Sept to upcoming health checks, France and govern- to buy. In the United States, where the economy Interest rate futures are pricing the first rate hike black motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie; Cincinnati in 2001 after 19- 18, with a second shot in December. “What is hap- ments further south want the ECB to do more to is based on capital markets, Federal Reserve pur- in the third quarter of next year. —Reuters year-old Timothy Thomas was shot and killed by a police offi- cer. Rioting followed each of these cases. Battle of the boycott in W Bank, Israel shops Racial Biases “More African-Americans and Latinos believe police stop By Shatha Yaish and Majeda El-Batsh a Ramallah supermarket. Boycotting Israeli Avi Nudelman, former head of the Israeli- all of his Jewish customers. Next to his restau- people without due cause, use excessive force and engage in products is also a way of strengthening the Palestinian Chamber of Commerce, says the rant, someone has put up a sign requesting verbal abuse than white Americans,” said Ronald Weitzer, a n Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians are battling Palestinians economy which has been badly boycott is unlikely to have much of an effect donations for medicine for the children of George Washington University sociology professor who has it out with rockets and air strikes. But in stifled by restrictions imposed by the Jewish on Israel’s economy. “It’s a nice idea but it Gaza, which he says has sparked calls to boy- studied race and policing in the US and internationally. “So they Israel and the West Bank, the two sides have state, says campaigner Riyad Hamad. “We need won’t last long,” he said. “The Palestinian sector cott his restaurant and even extreme postings not only tend to see the police as having some racial biases, I found a new weapon: boycotting. Local prod- to make people aware of the damage they is only a tiny part of the overall market for calling for the air force to “blow up Mama Pita,” but also in their day-to-day activities behaving in ways that are ucts are flying off the shelves in the occupied cause to the Palestinian economy when they Israel.” Data from Israel’s Central Bureau of he told AFP. At a cafe nearby, Fawzi Hanadi said more obtrusive and maybe unjustified in dealing with citizens.” West Bank while Israeli goods are being left buy Israeli products: a high unemployment Statistics show that in the first quarter of 2014, he’d lost “50 percent” of his customers since the Brown was shot multiple times by Wilson on Aug 9. Police have untouched. And in Israel, Arab shops are rate and a ravaged economy,” he told AFP. the Jewish state exported $816 million worth beginning of the Israeli offensive which began said little about the encounter, except that it involved a scuffle deserted - even on Shabbat, the Jewish day of The boycott has already paid dividends for of goods to the Palestinian Authority. The on July 8. in which Wilson was injured and Brown was shot. Witnesses say rest, when Arab Israeli businesses have always some Palestinian businesses. Pinar, a Ramallah- overall volume of Israeli exports in the same Effects of the boycott can also be seen on Brown had his hands in the air as the officer fired multiple made their biggest takings. “These days I have based firm which manufactures dairy products, period was $12.9 billion, meaning trade with the roads where Jewish taxi drivers display rounds. Tensions boiled over after a candlelight vigil the next changed my habits. Because of the Israeli war has already had to increase its number of the PA accounted for around 6.3 percent of the Israeli flags in order to attract customers who night, as looters smashed and burned businesses, while police against Gaza, we stopped buying any Israeli employees, who are working round the clock total. don’t want to pay an Arab driver. For Arab fired tear gas and smoke bombs. Capt Ron Johnson of the products,” said Salah Mussa, a Ramallah resi- Missouri Highway Patrol, who is black, was placed in charge of dent. “Now we are only buying Palestinian security, a move that was cheered in Ferguson. He ordered his products. This is not only my decision, it’s a officers to abandon the body armor and gas masks and instead family decision.” ensure the public’s right to peaceably assemble. Overseas, a Palestinian-led boycott cam- But things escalated again Aug 15, after Ferguson police paign has seen growing success in recent released Wilson’s name along with video they said showed years. Known as the BDS movement - boycott, Brown robbing a store shortly before he was killed. Brown’s divestment and sanctions - it aims to put politi- family condemned the revelation, with lawyer Anthony Gray cal and economic pressure on Israel over its calling it a “sideshow”. Weitzer described several different forms occupation of the Palestinian territories in a bid of police behavior that breed distrust, particularly among black to repeat the success of the campaign which and Latino males. That included unwarranted stops of individu- ended apartheid in South Africa. Now, spurred als on the street by police, such as New York police’s highly-criti- on by the recent bloodshed in Gaza, the cam- cized “stop-and-frisk” tactic, he said. “They’re not only more like- paign is making its first inroads in the West ly to be stopped by police and subjected to some kind of Bank where locals have had little alternative to abuse, but it also happens repeatedly, and this is something we Israeli products due to import restrictions. don’t see in the white community,” Weitzer said. Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human Although the St Louis County medical examiner had con- rights activist and co-founder of the BDS ducted an autopsy, Brown’s family ordered their own. It found movement, believes the deaths of more than that Brown had been shot at least six times, twice in the head. 2,000 people in Gaza has changed the picture Family attorney Benjamin Crump said Monday that Brown’s and will lead to a sustained boycott campaign. parents “could not trust what was going to be put in the “The massacre committed by the Israeli regime reports about the tragic execution of their child”. The Justice ... in Gaza has triggered almost unprecedented Department planned to conduct its own autopsy. —AP popular campaigns of boycott against Israeli companies and institutions,” he told AFP. The movement, he says, is working to ensure the boycott lasts “well after the end of the current All articles appearing on these phase” of the Gaza war. pages are the personal opinion of the writers. Kuwait Times takes no Product Warnings A picture taken on Aug 12, 2014 shows a Palestinian man pointing at posters calling people to boycott Israeli prod- To boost the campaign, the boycott is being ucts in the mostly Arab East Jerusalem following the latest war between Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and responsibility for views expressed widely publicised through television ads as Israel’s army. —AFP therein. Kuwait Times invites read- well through social media. And in shops across ers to voice their opinions. Please the West Bank, Israeli products have been to meet the surge in demand. Managing direc- Arab Israeli Shops Struggle Israeli MP Bassel Ghattas, the boycott is reason slapped with labels reading: “Boycott Israel” tor Muntasser Bedarna says production had On the Israeli side, Foreign Minister Avigdor to reflect on the economic contribution of send submissions via email to: opin- and “For your information: in buying this prod- increased by “between 30 and 40 percent”. He Lieberman, known for his bellicose anti-Arab Israel’s Arab minority who represent about 20 [email protected] or via snail uct, 16 percent of the price goes to the Israeli believes that Palestinian dairy producers now statements, called on the public to boycott percent of a population of around 8 million mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. army.” Other shops have gone even further and hold “a 60 to 65 percent market share of the Arab businesses after the community staged a people. The descendants of the 160,000 taken Israeli products off the shelves. “We have milk market in the West Bank and Gaza. “Before one-day solidarity strike early on in the war Palestinians who remained on their land after The editor reserves the right to edit completely removed Israeli products from the the boycott, Israel controlled 60 percent while with Gaza. At the Arab market in the northern the creation of Israel in 1948, Arab Israelis any submission as necessary. supermarket and replaced them with local sub- the Palestinians shared the remaining 40 per- port city of Haifa, William Rahil who runs the account for around $14 million of consumer stitutes,” explained Nidal Hamerani, manager of cent,” he told AFP. Mama Pita eatery says he has lost “100 percent” spending every year, he said. —AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 SPORTS

Bayern without midfielder Hamburg book second French Europcar rider Schweinsteiger for weeks round in German Cup Voeckler hit by a car BERLIN: Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger will be out for at least BERLIN: Hamburg are through to the second round of the LIMOGES: French Europcar rider Thomas Voeckler was struck by a two weeks with a knee problem, chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said yesterday. German Cup, although they required penalties to progress car and appeared to injure his shoulder just before the start of the Schweinsteiger, who has been nursing a patella tendon injury in his left knee for Tour du Limousin in Limoges yesterday. Voeckler, 35, was preparing months and needed treatment during Germany’s victorious World Cup campaign against Energie Cottbus on Monday. Heiko Westermann and in June and July, has not yet played this season. “Our doctor is confident this will Rafael van der Vaart both found the net for Hamburg as the for the start of the first stage of the four-stage race when he was hit not be a long-term issue,” Rummenigge told reporters at a club event in game ended 2-2 after extra time, before they prevailed 4-1 on by the car at a roundabout, an AFP correspondent at Munich. “But obviously this is not an issue of one or two weeks. It may penalties against their third-tier hosts. Schalke, though, were the scene, who witnessed the incident, said. He last a little more than that and we just have to be a bit patient.” unable to join their Bundesliga rivals as they lost 2-1 to third-tier appeared to have hurt his left shoulder and was Schweinsteiger looks like missing Germany’s friendly against Dynamo Dresden even with stars such as Kevin-Prince Boateng taken to hospital in Limoges for tests, with the Argentina on Sept 3 as well as the Euro 2016 qualifier against and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar in their side. Their travails were in con- official Twitter feed of the race revealing he Scotland a few days later. He is not the only injury concern at Bayern trast to holders Bayern Munich, who eased through, while would not take part and had a suspected broken with fellow midfielder Javi Martinez sidelined for the rest of the year Hoffenheim recorded a 9-0 victory against fifth-tier amateurs collarbone. Voeckler, who has won four stages on with torn cruciate ligaments. Defender Rafinha and midfield- Paloma. Schalke’s fellow top-flight sides Mainz, VfB Stuttgart and the Tour de France and was King of the er Thiago Alcantara are also long-term injury victims while Augsburg-beaten by Dresden’s fellow former East German rivals Mountains in 2012, could now struggle to make Franck Ribery missed last week’s German Super Cup final Magdeburg - were also eliminated at the first hurdle. The new the road World Championships, which will be defeat by Borussia Dortmund and the 4-1 German Cup Bundesliga season begins on Friday, when Bayern Munich start held in Ponferrada, northern Spain, in late first-round win over Preussen Muenster. — Reuters their defence of the title against Wolfsburg. — AFP September. — AFP

PHILADELPHIA: Ben Revere #2 of the Philadelphia Phillies beats the tag from second baseman Robinson Cano #22 of the Seattle Mariners in the bottom of the eighth inning on August 18, 2014 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. — AFP Nationals edge Diamondbacks 5-4

WASHINGTON: Adam LaRoche hit a game-win- red, doubled and knocked in four runs for the Reds, ning solo home run with two outs in the 11th giving him nine RBIs in four games. Brandon Pakistan mourns inning to help the Washington Nationals beat the Phillips returned from left thumb surgery wearing Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4 Monday night for their a brace and was 0 for 4 with a walk. Logan seventh straight win. It was the third walk-off win Ondrusek (3-3) entered with one out in the 10th squash star Khan in as many days for NL-East leading Washington. and gave up consecutive singles to Matt Holliday, LaRoche sent a 3-1 pitch from Will Harris (0-3) off Matt Adams and Peralta. Ondrusek (strained right the wall in the back of the Nationals bullpen and shoulder) was activated from the disabled list earli- KARACHI: Pakistan yesterday mourned its Jahangir, whose father Roshan beat Khan in first-ever world champion in any sport, the 1957 British open final. was mobbed by his teammates at home plate. er in the day. Peralta’s RBI single in the first was just squash star Hashim Khan who died in the Khan won his last British title in 1958 and Winning pitcher Craig Stammen (3-4) pitched out his second in 32 at-bats against the Reds this sea- United States, as former players paid tribute also won three US and as many Canadian of a bases-loaded, no outs jam in the top of the son. He also doubled and scored the tying run on to an all-time great. Khan, who won the titles. His success inspired a generation of inning. Arizona tied it 4-4 when David Peralta led A.J. Pierzynski’s hit off Jumbo Diaz in the eighth. sport’s premier title the British Open seven players in his remote home village of Nawa-e- off the ninth with a solo homer off Tyler Clippard. times between 1951 and 1958, was aged 100 Kali, near the northwestern city of Peshawar, Washington trailed 3-2 when Denard Span dou- ROYALS 6, TWINS 4 at the time of his death in Denver on Monday. to emulate his feats. Jahangir and his contem- bled with one-out in the eighth against Brad Erik Kratz homered twice after replacing an ail- Another squash legend, Jahangir Khan, said porary Jansher Khan also hail from the same Ziegler and Anthony Rendon followed with a triple ing Salvador Perez, and Jason Vargas pitched seven Khan had put Pakistan on the sporting map. village. Jansher won the British title six times to tie it. strong innings to lead the first-place Royals to a “Khan was a great player and whatever and the world open a record eight times. “He victory over the Twins. Vargas (10-5) allowed one Pakistan have won in squash was initiated by (Khan) started the Khan family tradition in the BRAVES 7, PIRATES 3 run on four this and struck out three, but had his him,” Jahangir, himself a world record 10- sport and was always kind to guide the Jason Heyward and Andrelton Simmons home- scoreless innings streak snapped at 17 when times British Open champion said. “Barely youngsters,” said Jahangir, also a former presi- red to begin a six-run first inning as the Braves beat Oswaldo Arcia hit a solo homer in the seventh. three years after Pakistan’s independence in dent of World Squash Federation. the sliding Pirates for their fourth consecutive vic- Perez had two hits and two RBIs before leaving in 1947, he became our first-ever sporting hero Hashim, Jahangir and Jansher were all dis- tory. The early outburst was enough for Ervin the seventh because of discomfort in his right in 1951 and whatever tribute we can pay will tantly related. Another former British open Santana, who allowed three solo homers among knee, helping the Royals win for the 21st time in 26 not match his great contribution in inspiring a winner Qamar Zaman said Khan was a true nine hits in 5 1-3 innings. Santana (13-6) improved games. Kansas City extended its lead over the idle whole generation,” said Jahangir, who also champion. to 8-1 over his past 10 starts. Pittsburgh has lost six Detroit Tigers in the AL Central to two games. won six world open crowns. “Pakistan owes him a great deal as he was in a row. Starling Marte went deep twice, and Neil Trevor May (0-2) gave up three runs on seven hits Hashim Khan, born in what was then the father of squash in Pakistan,” said Zaman, British-ruled India in 1914, made his mark as a who won his only British title in 1975. “We Walker added a homer that became the first to and walked four in 4 2-3 innings for the Twins. ball boy for British air force officers when they spent a lot of time together and whatever I reach the Allegheny River beyond right field at PNC played squash. Khan surprised everyone by have achieved in the sport was through his Park this season. ORIOLES 8, WHITE SOX 2 winning the All-India Squash Championship guidance. He had great stamina and love for WASHINGTON: Washington Nationals’ Asdrubal Nick Markakis hit a two-run homer and prevent- in 1944, before partition, and went on to win the game.” After years of world domination CUBS 4, METS 1 Cabrera (3) is forced out at second base by ed one with a leaping catch in right field, and the first of his seven British titles in 1951. “To Pakistan lost its way in squash in recent years Kyle Hendricks and two relievers held New York Arizona Diamondbacks shortstop Didi Nelson Cruz and JJ Hardy each added a solo shot to win seven titles at that time with few facilities and now has no player in the top 10 global to four or fewer hits for the fifth straight game and Gregorius (left) during the third inning of a power the Orioles past the White Sox. Markakis was in the nascent nation was remarkable,” said rankings. — AFP Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez hit long homers as baseball game, on Monday, Aug 18, 2014. — AP 3 for 5 with two RBIs and two runs, helping the the Cubs rallied for a victory over the Mets. Orioles increase their AL East lead to 7 1/2 games Hendricks (5-1) gave up just three hits in seven Blanco connected for a three-run shot off reliever over the idle New York Yankees. Cruz hit his 32nd BADMINTON innings, allowing only Lucas Duda’s home run in Dominic Leone in the fifth to give the Phillies a 4-0 homer, passing White Sox rookie Jose Abreu for the the fourth. The rookie right-hander won his fourth lead. It was his first home run since July 1, 2011, for American League lead. Cruz is tied with Mike straight start - yielding four earned runs over 29 1-3 Texas against Florida. Stanton of the Miami Marlins for most in the World number 1 Lee innings. Neil Ramirez struck out two in a perfect majors. Bud Norris (11-7) allowed two runs and eighth and Hector Rondon allowed a leadoff dou- CARDINALS 6, REDS 5, 10 innings three hits in seven innings to win his third straight reunited with coach ble but finished the four-hitter for his 18th save. Jhonny Peralta’s 10th-inning single, his third hit start. Chicago ace Chris Sale (10-3) yielded three The Cubs came back once Carlos Torres, making a of the game, drove in the winning run to give the runs and eight hits in six innings. He has dropped spot start for Bartolo Colon, was done after five Cardinals a victory over the Reds. Jay Bruce home- two straight decisions. — AP KUALA LUMPUR: Lee Chong Wei’s hopes of hope his inclusion will alleviate the bad publici- innings. winning a first world title were handed a major ty. “I believe that everyone is innocent until boost after the Malaysian badminton associa- proven guilty. I called up Rashid and asked him tion settled a row with the world number one’s whether he wanted to follow the team. He said ANGELS 4, RED SOX 2 MLB results/standings coach and allowed the duo to work together ‘yes’ if the team wanted him. I then put forth the Mike Trout and Albert Pujols hit consecutive RBI again. Malaysia’s men’s singles coach Rashid request to the BAM management. doubles as the Angels extended their AL West lead Sidek had been sidelined by the BAM after a with a victory over the Red Sox. It was the fifth win Chicago Cubs 4, NY Mets 1; Washington 5, Arizona 4 (11 Innings); Philadelphia 4, Seattle 1; poor showing at the Commonwealth Games Thigh injury in six games for the Angels, who moved a half- Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh 3; LA Angels 4, Boston 2; Baltimore 8, Chicago White Sox 2; Kansas City 6, earlier this month when the Southeast Asians “The management then approved to send game ahead of idle Oakland. David Ortiz reached Minnesota 4; St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 5 (10 Innings). failed to bring home gold in the event for the Rashid together with two other singles coaches. base four times with a double, single and two first time since 1986. All is settled now and we hope the team will walks for the Red Sox, who have lost three of four American League National League The public row between Rashid and BAM enjoy a good outing in Copenhagen.” The row after winning four straight. Angels starter CJ Wilson Eastern Division Eastern Division president Tan Sri Tengku Mahaleel Tengku Ariff would have done little to help the preparations of (10-8) labored through 5 1-3 innings, giving up one W L PCT GB Washington 70 53 .569 - led to Malaysian Youth and Sports Minister Lee, who is still struggling with a thigh injury after run and five hits with five walks and five strikeouts. Baltimore 71 52 .577 - Atlanta 65 60 .520 6 Khairy Jamaluddin stepping in to resolve the missing the defense of his Commonwealth Kevin Jepsen worked the ninth for his first save NY Yankees 63 59 .516 7.5 Miami 62 62 .500 8.5 issue for the good of Lee, twice Olympic and Games title in Scotland. Despite the problems, since Sept 16, 2012. He struck out Ortiz with two Toronto 64 61 .512 8 NY Mets 59 67 .468 12.5 world championship runner-up. Friday’s inter- Lee is favored to lift his first world title in the on and none out before allowing a run. Brandon Tampa Bay 61 63 .492 10.5 Philadelphia 55 70 .440 16 vention appeared to work, with 1990 and 1994 absence of China’s Lin Dan, who beat the Workman (1-7) lost his sixth straight start, giving Boston 56 68 .452 15.5 Central Division Commonwealth Games champion Rashid per- Malaysian in the last two Olympic and World up two runs and six hits in seven innings. Central Division Milwaukee 70 55 .560 - mitted to travel with the squad to Copenhagen Championship finals. Tey Seu Bock, who along Kansas City 69 55 .556 - St. Louis 67 57 .540 2.5 for the world championships, which begin on with Hendrawan had taken over coaching the PHILLIES 4, MARINERS 1 Detroit 66 56 .541 2 Monday. team when Rashid was sidelined, was confident Pittsburgh 64 61 .512 6 Jerome Williams took a three-hitter into the Cleveland 62 61 .504 6.5 “I was told of my inclusion today. I am happy the thigh problem would not halt Lee’s chances Cincinnati 61 64 .488 9 eighth inning and Andres Blanco hit his first homer Chicago White Sox59 66 .472 10.5 that I get to help the players at the World of victory. “Chong Wei forgets about his injury Minnesota 55 68 .447 13.5 Chicago Cubs 54 70 .435 15.5 Championships,” the coach was quoted as say- during training and this is good. I want him to do in three years as the Phillies beat the Mariners. Western Division Making his second start since joining the Phillies, Western Division ing by Malaysian media late on Monday before the same in Copenhagen,” he said. “If he starts LA Angels 73 50 .593 - LA Dodgers 70 56 .556 - flying to Europe. BAM competitions chairman thinking about the injury, it may affect his strate- Williams (1-0) allowed one run and three hits in San Francisco 65 58 .528 3.5 seven-plus innings. Mariners rookie lefty Roenis Oakland 73 51 .589 0.5 Koay Ban Hing said he hoped all parties could gy in matches and also put fear into him. “Chong Seattle 67 57 .540 6.5 San Diego 58 65 .472 10.5 move on from the row. “Rashid is the chief Elias (9-10) gave up one run and three hits in four Wei is responding positively to rehab and I Houston 52 73 .416 22 Arizona 53 72 .424 16.5 coach. The world meet is important to us as believe he will be in near-perfect form at the innings. He constantly pitched out of jams because Texas 48 76 .387 25.5 Colorado 49 75 .395 20 Chong Wei has a chance of winning the title. I world meet.” — Reuters he walked six and hit one batter with a pitch. SPORTS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 Federer poised to step out of darkness in NY

NEW YORK: Twelve months after crashing to his worst Swiss never doubted his ability to remain a force in the said Djokovic. “I’m not feeling very comfortable on believe that the Scot’s work is done. Now down at defeat in New York in a decade, Roger Federer heads to sport and he goes into his 15th US Open with his unwa- the court. Obviously I want to peak in New York. I nine in the world, the 27-year-old has not got the 2014 US Open poised to become the oldest Grand vering confidence justified. expect more from myself, but I have to keep on beyond the quarter-finals of any tournament since Slam champion in more than 40 years. In an astonishing There were hints of a revival at Wimbledon in July going. A Grand Slam is coming up, and that’s where his morale-sapping semi-final loss to Nadal at the reversal of fortunes, the 33-year-old, written off as a relic where he was defeated in five sets by world number I want to do well.” French Open where the Spaniard allowed him just of the game when he slipped to a fourth round loss to one Novak Djokovic. Since then, he has been runner-up Despite his recent troubles, Djokovic, whose six games. Tommy Robredo in 2013, is perfectly positioned to win at Toronto and champion in Cincinnati. “I come in with second Wimbledon title took his majors haul to With 2009 champion Juan Martin del Potro still a staggering 18th major at the season’s concluding great confidence,” said Federer, chasing a record sixth seven, will still be the big favourite in New York sidelined by injury, the much-vaunted next genera- Grand Slam event which starts Monday. Buoyed by title in New York and where he will be playing in a 64th having reached the final in the last four years. tion will get another opportunity to shine. Canada’s claiming a sixth Cincinnati title and his 80th career consecutive Grand Slam. “I know my game is where I Furthermore, his record at all the majors is impres- Milos Raonic, the world number six, was a semi- crown, the Swiss is revelling in the twilight of his career want it to be. It’s about just keeping that level up right sive-the last time he failed to make at least the finalist at Wimbledon and Cincinnati where he was just a year after it was being consumed by darkness. now.” Meanwhile, his fellow members of the “Big Four” quarter-finals of a Grand Slam was at the 2009 swept aside in straight sets on both occasions by That last-16 loss to Robredo meant it was the first are slipping and sliding. Djokovic, the 2011 champion, French Open. Federer who made him look the one-dimensional year since 2002 that he had failed to make a Grand Slam heads into the tournament with two dispiriting third The odds on Djokovic and Federer meeting in big-server many in the game believe him to be. final. The defeat also marked the first time in 10 years round losses in Toronto and Cincinnati with the 27-year- the September 8 final were shortened on Monday Fellow 23-year-old Grigor Dimitrov, the world num- that he hadn’t made at least the last-eight at Flushing old Serb, recently married, having to bat back accusa- when defending champion Rafael Nadal was ber eight, has three titles to his name in 2014 but Meadows. Suddenly, his five consecutive US Open titles tions that he is distracted by impending fatherhood. forced to withdraw with a right wrist injury. lost out to Djokovic in the Wimbledon semi-finals. from 2004-2008 appeared a detail in history and his Andy Murray, the 2012 champion, has not More frustratingly, the Bulgarian boyfriend of Maria 17th and most recent major success-the 2012 ‘Not clicking’ reached a final of any description since his historic Sharapova, has yet to win a match in three visits to Wimbledon title-looked certain to be his last. But the “Just many, many, many things are not clicking,” 2013 Wimbledon triumph, prompting many to the US Open. — AFP Supreme Serena targets 18th major at US Open

NEW YORK: World number one Serena show your legacy through the sport,” she said. Williams is firing on all cylinders as she seeks Just who else might emerge to challenge to stretch her tally of Grand Slam singles titles Williams is unclear. Australian Open champi- to 18 at the US Open. The familiar hardcourts on Li Na of China is an injury absentee, while of Flushing Meadows, where Williams has lift- Czech Petra Kvitova has been an early casual- ed the trophy the past two years and a total ty in the two tournaments she has played of five times, is just the place to end her 2014 since winning Wimbledon. Eugenie Bouchard, Grand Slam drought. The American superstar who reached the semi-finals at the Australian hasn’t made it past the fourth round of a and French Opens before becoming the first major this year. But she has won two of her Canadian woman to reach a Grand Slam final five 2014 titles in the buildup to the Open, at Wimbledon, has failed to impress since her signalling she won’t surrender her crown crushing loss to Kvitova at the All England without a fight. Club. Her straight-sets win over Ana Ivanovic in the final at Cincinnati showed Williams at her Azarenka injury cloud dominant best. “At some point of the match, I Victoria Azarenka, beaten by Williams in actually felt quite embarrassed walking from each of the past two US Open finals, goes into one side to the other for returns,” Ivanovic the fortnight under an injury cloud. The said of the near-hopelessness of returning Belarusian, owner of two Australian Open Williams’ serve. It was a long way from titles, has been limited to just six events in Ivanovic’s fourth-round victory over Williams 2014. She battled a foot injury for much of at the Australian Open, where the American the year and withdrew from her title defense was hindered by back pain. Back trouble, and at Cincinnati with a right knee injury. the virus that left her weak and woozy in dou- Russian veteran Svetlana Kuznetsova, who bles after her shock third-round singles exit at won the US Open in 2004, arrives in New York Wimbledon, are all in the past, Williams said. having snapped a four-year WTA title drought “I’m in some of the best shape I’ve been at Washington in August. Australian in,” she said. “I can play long points and be Samantha Stosur-whose 2011 US Open tri- ready to go again. I feel really fit - 32 is the umph makes her the last woman to beat WINSTON SALEM: Sam Querrey of the USA returns a shot to Pere Riba of Spain during the Winston-Salem Open at Wake Forest University on new 22, right?” An actual 22-year-old, Simona Williams in a final at Flushing Meadows-has August 18, 2014 in North Carolina. — AFP Halep, will be among those trying to topple had a largely forgettable season. Williams in New York. The Romanian has been Also among the former champions in the knocking at the door of a first Grand Slam field, Venus Williams has failed to shine in Querrey beats Riba in 1st title this year, finishing runner-up to Maria Grand Slams this year, but won her 45th Sharapova at Roland Garros. Halep also career title at Dubai and reached the final at reached the quarter-finals of the Australian the US Open tune-up in Montreal-where she Open and the semi-finals at Wimbledon as fell to Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska. round of Winston-Salem she climbed to number two in the world. That Canadian run included a her first vic- Williams will also be challenged by more tory over younger sister Serena since 2009, familiar foes, including Sharapova. adding intrigue to the possibility of a clash WINSTON-SALEM: Sam Querrey didn’t play his California natives, in a second-round match yes- humidity made for a really difficult match,” said Sharapova’s appetite is only greater after she between the sisters in New York. Ivanovic, the best tennis Monday - except when it counted. terday at the Wake Forest Tennis Center. Earlier, Goffin, who lost to Melzer in four sets in the missed last year’s US Open with a shoulder 2008 French Open champion, has never been Querrey got two key services breaks to beat Belgian qualifier David Goffin defeated defend- opening round of the French Open last May. injury that brought her season to a premature past the US Open quarter-finals. But the for- Spain’s Pere Riba 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 in the first round of ing champion Jurgen Melzer of Austria 6-3, 6-4 “After the first set, I think he was really frustrated. close. She sealed yet another return from mer world number one is enjoying a resur- the Winston-Salem Open, the final tuneup before Monday to extend his winning streak to 23 con- He started making some mistakes. I took my injury by capturing her fifth career Grand gence this season and will be back in the top next week’s US Open. “My year’s been pretty secutive matches. Goffin won his first ATP Tour chances, and it turned out really well.” Also, fifth- Slam in Paris, but she has never won two 10 in the world rankings for the year’s last average - a lot of two steps forward, one step title last month in Kitzbuhel, Austria. He lost in seeded Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain over- majors in the same year. Slam. “Definitely exciting times,” said Ivanovic, back,” Querrey said. “I had that same problem last the first round to Andy Murray at Wimbledon and came a tiebreaker loss in the first set to beat “I only have one more chance to do that who nevertheless knows that the spotlight year, but I was able to get it going in this tourna- then won ATP Challenger Tour events in the Dustin Brown of Germany 6-7 (5-7), 6-2, 6-2. this year,” she said, and admitted that such will be firmly on Williams unless someone can ment. I’ve played well here in the past, so I’m Netherlands, Poland and Finland. In other matches, France’s Paul-Henri Mathieu milestones matter. “At this position, that’s wrest it away. In her opinion, that’s as it going to do my best to keep it up.” “At the beginning of the summer, I didn’t overcame a brief rain delay to beat Robby where you showcase how strong you are and should be. “We are lucky to have someone The 26-year-old American, who had advanced expect these results,” said Goffin, who will face Ginepri of the US 6-3, 7-5; Adrian Mannarino of how much you really love it and (want) to like her in our game,” Ivanovic said. —AFP to the semifinals at Winston-Salem the last two Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer in the second round. France downed Bosnia’s Damir Dzumhur 6-2, 6-2; years, got a mini-break to win the first-set “Now, I’m still continuing to win. I’m pretty happy Aleksandr Nedovyesov of Kazakhstan beat tiebreaker. Querrey, ranked 56th, then closed out with the way I’m playing at the moment. What Marcos Giron of the US 6-4, 6-4; Canada’s Frank the match with another service break to advance. can I say?” After ending the month by winning in Dancevic battled to a 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 win over “I didn’t think I played great,” said Querrey, who Austria, Goffin - whose world ranking has Brazil’s Thomaz Bellucci; Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz was ranked as high as 17th in the world in 2011. climbed from 106th to 62nd during the run - won downed Argentina’s Carlos Berlocq 6-1, 6-4; “I served pretty well, and hit the big forehand. I back-to-back qualifying matches in straight sets Argentina’s Federico Delbonis beat Slovakia’s did the right things on the big points, but I still to make the main draw for the Winston-Salem Martin Klizan 7-6 (5), 6-4; and Igor Sijsling of the need to clean everything up a little bit.” Querrey Open. Netherlands defeated Kazakhstan’s Andrey faced childhood friend Steve Johnson, both “The conditions were tough today - the Golubev 7-6 (5), 6-3. — AP Wozniacki comes back for win at New Haven Bouchard cruises into 2nd round in Open tune-up

NEW HAVEN: Caroline Wozniacki came back to ZANDVOORT, Netherlands: Dutch racing driver Max Verstappen (left), son of former defeat Timea Bacsinszky 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 Monday in the F1 driver Jos Verstappen (unseen) prepares prior to the Zandvoort Masters of first round at the Connecticut Open. A four-time Formula 3 in this file photo. Sixteen-year-old Max Verstappen will become the champion of the New Haven tournament, the youngest driver in Formula One history next season after being unveiled as Toro fourth-seeded Wozniacki lost the first three games Rosso’s new signing. — AFP of the match against Bacsinszky, a qualifier. Wozniacki battled back to even the set at 4-4. But Bacsinszky got a break of serve in the next Dutch teenager to game, and then closed out the set by scoring on a drop shot. “I have to give her credit, she started out well,” Wozniacki said. “She got some matches under race for Toro Rosso her belt playing qualifiers, and that helped her. I felt pretty good out there. It just took a while to get MILAN: Sixteen-year-old Max Verstappen will give my absolute best to be successful in the started.” become the youngest driver in Formula One pinnacle of motorsport,” Verstappen said, There were several long rallies in the final two history next season after being unveiled as thanking his father for his support. sets before Wozniacki prevailed. It was 2-2 in the Toro Rosso’s new signing. The Dutch teenag- “With the return of the Verstappen name third set before Wozniacki won the final four er, son of ex-F1 driver Jos Verstappen, cur- to Formula One, I hope we can relive old games. “It took me a few games to get used to new rently races in Formula Three with the Van memories and I’m hoping to see many fans at balls and a faster court,” Wozniacki said. “But I felt Amersfoort Racing team having cut his racing all the Grand Prix circuits.”Verstappen played like I was getting stronger as the match went on. teeth on the karting circuit. He will partner down the step up to Formula One, saying that My confidence was high. I was in a great place Russian Daniil Kvyat in the Red Bull feeder he thought he had already made the hardest mentally.” Eugenie Bouchard of Canada needed NEW HAVEN: Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark returns a shot to Timea Bacsinszky of team with 24-year-old Frenchman Jean-Eric transition. “I think the biggest step I had was Switzerland in the first set during the Connecticut Open at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Vergne deemed surplus to requirements.”Ever karting to F3. I think F3 to F1 will be a smaller Yale. — AFP since I was seven years old, Formula One has step,” the teenager told BBC Radio 5 live. “I’m only 52 minutes to beat Serbia’s Bojana Jovanovski match point get away before winning on her fifth been my career goal, so this opportunity is not that worried about it. The cars are really 6-1, 6-1. The third-seeded Bouchard led 5-0 in each chance. Stosur was given a wild card into the truly a dream come true,” Verstappen said on safe. I think it’s more dangerous to bike set against the unseeded Jovanovski. In a late night Connecticut Open. the team’s website. through a big city than race in an F1 car.” match, No 5 seed Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia Qualifier Shuai Pen of China beat Elina Svitolina Verstappen, who turns 17 next month, will Verstappen is following the path of four-time lost 7-6 (2), 6-3 to Andrea Petkovic of Germany. of the Ukraine 6-4, 6-3, and Barbora Strycova beat by almost two years the age record cur- world champion Sebastian Vettel and Red Seventh-seeded Sara Errani of Italy was elimi- Zahlavova of the Czech Republic defeated qualifier rently held by Spain’s Jaime Alguersuari, who Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, who were nated by Garbine Muguruza of Spain 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. It Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 6-4, 5-7, 6 -3. was 19 years and 125 days when he made his also members of the Red Bull Junior Team. was the third loss in the last four matches for Unseeded Carla Suarez-Navarro of Spain withdrew debut at the Hungarian GP in 2009, also for Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost said Errani, who has been knocked out in the first round from the tournament because of a gastrointestinal Toro Rosso. that despite his youth, Verstappen’s skill levels in two of her last three tournaments. illness. She was replaced by lucky loser Caroline He won the world go-karting champi- and maturity indicated he could cut it in Muguruza lost in straight sets to Errani at the Garcia of France, who beat qualifier Irina Carmelia onship last year and has topped the podium Formula One. “We consider Max to be one of 2012 U.S. Open in their only other meeting. Begu of Romania 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4). Wild card entrant in eight out of 27 races since graduating to the most skilled young drivers of the new Samantha Stosur of Australia earned a 7-6 (8), 6-7 Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium beat qualifier Misaki the highly competitive Formula Three generation and we believe he has the neces- NEW HAVEN: Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland (10), 6-2 victory over Kurumi Nara of Japan. Stosur, Doi of Japan 6-3, 4-6, 6-2. Unseeded Magdalena Championship. “We’ve all worked tremen- sary maturity and mental strength to take on reacts to a lost point to Caroline Wozniacki of who won the US Open in 2011, blew three match Rybarikova of Slovakia defeated qualifier Silvia dously hard to reach Formula One and I will this challenge successfully,” he said. —AFP Denmark during the Connecticut Open. — AFP points in the second set tiebreaker and let another Soler-Espinosa of Spain 6-4, 6-3. — AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 SPORTS Shastri appointment ups pressure on Dhoni, Fletcher

LONDON: Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and coach Times, who recalled that former greats Kapil Dev, Sachin Duncan Fletcher remain in place, but only time will tell if Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly had lost the captaincy the appointment of Ravi Shastri as director of cricket is a during their careers. “And they never led teams that temporary measure or a sign of deeper changes ahead have played as poorly as those MS Dhoni has cap- in the Indian game. Former captain Shastri was installed tained,” he wrote. “The humiliation at Old Trafford and “overall in-charge of cricket affairs” for India’s upcoming The Oval is unacceptable. He has long since outlived his five-match one-day series against England, following utility as test captain.” their embarrassing 3-1 test series to defeat to the same Fletcher, a former England coach, has arguably been opposition. placed under supervision following Shastri’s appoint- India claimed their first overseas win since 2011 ment. He was not spared criticism either, apportioned when they won the second test at Lord’s, but surren- blame for the way the likes of Virat Kohli and Shikhar dered the final three matches meekly, the final indignity Dhawan, tipped as potential stars of the series, strug- being their downfall at The Oval when they lost by an gled on foreign pitches. “Fletcher is aware of the condi- innings and 244 runs within three days. Dhoni was one tions and should have developed ways to see that the of the only players to show some fight as India’s batting boys improve and come out of lean patch,” former India line-up failed to pass 200 in their last five innings of the captain GR Viswanath said in The New India Express. “I series, but has come under severe criticism from media think Fletcher has not been able to do the job.” Bowling back home for overseeing some desperate performanc- coach Joe Dawes and fielding mentor Trevor Penney es. “He has well and truly outlived his usefulness as a have been given a “break” for the ODI series, with Sanjay captain in the long form of the game,” Nalin Mehta said Bangar and Bharat Arun made assistant coaches and R in The Times of India yesterday. Sridhar named as fielding coach. The Board of Control “It is not so much the defeat, but the manner of the for Cricket in India said the changes were for the next capitulation that rankles. India’s cricketers have not just five matches, but given India begin the defence of their been routed in a series they began well, under Dhoni LONDON: India’s captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (left) and India’s Varun Aaron World Cup title in Australia and New Zealand in they looked bereft of ideas and direction.” The senti- watch the presentation of the trophy to England after they win the test match and series, on the February, more big decisions may be needed if India are ment was shared by Sanjeev K Samyal in the Hindustan third day of the fifth cricket Test match between England and India at The Oval in London. — AFP to add a third 50-over trophy to their name. — Reuters Windies look to prolong Bangladesh’s woeful run

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: West Indies and handful, even on batting-friendly surfaces. Bangladesh commence a three-match One- Compounding the tourists’ challenge is Day International series at the Queen’s Park the absence of Shakib, who is serving a six- Stadium in Grenada today with the home month suspension from all cricket imposed side heavily favored to extend the tourists’ by the Bangladesh Cricket Board last month miserable record in 2014. Despite several over a disciplinary matter. In their last 21 encouraging performances in a 95-run win competitive international matches spread in their lone warm-up fixture against a across the game’s three formats, Grenada XI on Sunday, Bangladesh will be Bangladesh’s only successes have come hard-pressed to challenge a Caribbean side against Afghanistan and Nepal during the brimming with big-name international play- qualifying phase of the World T20 in ers, all of whom will be match fit given their Chittagong last March. participation in the just-concluded second Their only meeting with the West Indies season of the Caribbean Premier League in 2014 before this series was at the same T20 franchise tournament. tournament with the side skippered by This campaign, Bangladesh’s third tour Darren Sammy romping to a 73-run win. of the region outside of involvement in the Sammy will again lead the team for the lone 2007 World Cup and 2010 World T20, is their T20 fixture in St Kitts next week, but the first trip away from home this year and cap- responsibility of captaincy in the ODI cam- tain Mushfiqur Rahim will be hoping a paign, which includes two matches in return to the scene of the side’s greatest tri- Grenada and a day/night encounter at the umphs can somehow inspire a transforma- Warner Park venue in St Kitts, falls on the tion from the atrocious form displayed over shoulders of Dwayne Bravo, the flamboyant the past eight months. Facing a home team all-rounder who has so far struggled to stripped of all its top players in the midst of achieve consistent success since replacing a bitter dispute between the West Indies Sammy at the helm of the team in the 50- Cricket Board and the West Indies Players over format a year ago. Association in 2009, Bangladesh swept the West Indies have won just eight of 20 Test series 2-0 and the ODI’s 3-0 with all- completed ODI’s in the 14 months since rounder Shakib Al Hasan outstanding as Bravo succeeded Sammy as captain follow- both player and captain. ing the 2013 Champions Trophy in England. Now though, the West Indies are at full Bangladesh will look to opener Tamim Iqbal strength with the likes of devastating open- and off-spinning all-rounder Mahmudullah, er Chris Gayle and power-hitting middle- who had scores of 91 and 78 respectively in order player Kieron Pollard keen to help the match against Grenada to provide some their team develop a winning momentum batting solidity, while Mushfiqur will also be SYDNEY: New Zealand All Black Ben Smith tries to pull Australian Wallabies Scott Fardy out of play during their Bledisloe Cup rugby test match in the countdown to the World Cup in expected to contribute significantly in a against the in Sydney, Australia. The match was a draw at 12-12. — AP Australia and New Zealand in six months’ side that has batting talent but often lacks time. Mystery spinner Sunil Narine appears the determination and application to build RUGBY to carry the greatest threat to Bangladesh in formidable totals. In the bowling depart- the limited-over formats but they may also ment, the experience of Mashrafa Mortaza’s find the pace of Kemar Roach and Ravi medium pace and left-arm spinner Abdur Rampaul, together with the awkward Razzak will be essential to curbing the Wallabies unchanged bounce extracted by gangling fast-medium Caribbean batsmen’s pursuit of big bowler Jason Holder to be more than a scores.— AFP for Eden Park assault

SYDNEY: Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie named weather conditions,” McKenzie said. sum of those hard choices has put us in a better an unchanged line-up yesterday for this week’s “I imagine both teams are excited by the position today. “While we didn’t quite get there return clash with the All Blacks after ending the prospect of a dry evening in Auckland on on Saturday night, I do know that we’ve made world champions’ 17-match winning streak last Saturday night, which will have an influence on good progress since our first Test against New weekend. McKenzie kept faith with his players the way the game is played. “For us, we know we Zealand a year ago. “That gives us some confi- after Saturday’s 12-12 in Sydney-the opening need to be more clinical in certain areas, but dence heading into what will be an extremely game of both the Rugby Championship and the overall we feel the same group of guys deserve tough challenge in Auckland on Saturday night.” trans-Tasman Bledisloe Cup-which denied New the opportunity to have another crack.” Despite the odds being stacked against them Zealand a record 18th straight Test win. McKenzie resisted calls to reinstate Bernard at the Eden Park fortress, McKenzie said his play- Australia’s task is huge, having not won at Foley at fly-half to retain Kurtley Beale as ers would not be daunted by the venue’s history. Auckland’s Eden Park for 28 years. New Zealand Australia’s chief playmaker, and also kept faith in Under McKenzie, the Wallabies have had some have won 32 straight games against all opposi- the new wing partnership of Rob Horne and Pat close defeats to the All Blacks leading up to the tion at their spiritual home dating back to 1994. McCabe. latest draw, and he believes the gap between Australia, after 12 years in the Bledisloe Cup Beale kicked all of Australia’s points in the first the two southern hemisphere rivals is closing. wilderness, will now look to break their Test and McKenzie is backing the mercurial “Recent results would suggest Eden Park hasn’t Auckland jinx and avoid defeat in the third match-winner to continue sparking the been a happy place for Australia and already this LOS ANGELES: Steve Ballmer, the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, greets fans match of the series in Brisbane on October 18. Wallabies’ attack. “Selection is never easy, week we’ve seen that not many people are giv- as he enters a fan festival at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Monday. — AP “We were impressed with the pressure we were although we’ve made a lot of tough decisions in ing us a chance in Auckland,” he said. “Sporting able to apply in the opening Test and, despite this space over the past 12 months with the ulti- records are there to be broken and we’ll look for- some errors, were pleased with the intent of the mate goal of winning games,” he said. “You’re ward to the opportunity of playing the All Blacks Boisterous Ballmer rallies group to continue attacking despite the poor always looking to improve and I’m confident the in their own backyard on Saturday night.” — AFP

Clipper fans into frenzy SWIMMING LOS ANGELES: A fist-pumping, high-fiving He said Monday that he loves Los Angeles Steve Ballmer enthusiastically vowed to run and he loves basketball. “We are going to be Phelps back on big stage at Pan Pacific a “hard core” NBA franchise that will win bold,” Ballmer said. “Bold means we are championships during a rally to introduce going to be willing to take risks. If you are GOLD COAST: Record-breaking Olympian Michael to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Lochte, who long swam in the the new owner to Los Angeles Clipper fans. not being bold, you are going to be timid. Phelps will swim his first international meet since com- shadow of Phelps but who counts an impressive five Wearing a blue Clippers’ cap and clapping “We are going to be hard core. Hard core. ing out of retirement at this week’s Pan Pacific golds among his 11 Olympic medals, has endured a dif- constantly, the former Microsoft chief execu- Hard core. Hard core. Championships as he seeks a return to winning ways. ficult year of his own, missing training time after tearing tive shouted until he almost went hoarse Phelps, 29, the 18-time Olympic gold medalist, will take a ligament in his knee. “My confidence wasn’t there Monday as he moved quickly through Fan ‘Hard-core Clippers’ his quest for form to Australia’s Gold Coast after he end- because I always relied on my training, but this year I Festival crowd before taking the stage at the “Nothing gets in our way. Boom. Keep ed this month’s US Championships with a couple of haven’t done that training,” he said. rally celebrating his new ownership of the coming. Hard core. The hard-core Clippers near-misses but no wins. Despite this, Phelps made the club. “Do we have any Clipper fans here? I that is us.” Ballmer lives in Seattle but said he powerful 60-strong American team for the Gold Coast ‘The Missile’ can’t hear you,” he screamed in a raucous has no plans to move the team to the Pacific meet, just four months after ending a 20-month retire- Meanwhile there will be big local interest in world style he was known for at Microsoft. “I could- Northwest. “I think Seattle is a town that ment which began after the London Olympics. and Commonwealth champion Magnussen’s show- n’t be more honored or excited or fired up to deserves an NBA team and yet I wanted to Australia’s James Magnussen will resume his sprint down with his London Olympics conqueror Adrian in be here.” move on and get going, and this was a phe- rivalry with Nathan Adrian, part of a heavyweight US the 100m freestyle. ‘The Missile’ went down to Adrian by The US tech tycoon Ballmer paid a record nomenal opportunity,” he said. “I love Los team also including Ryan Lochte, Missy Franklin and a mere one-hundredth of a second in the 2012 London $2 billion for the Clippers in a sale that was Angeles also and that’s where the Clippers Katie Ledecky. But attention will inevitably focus on the final, following his win in the event at the world champi- continuing comeback of Phelps, the greatest Olympian onships the previous year. Magnussen has been trou- confirmed by an American judge last week. play.” Sterling, who made his fortune in real of all time who will contest up to five individual events. bled by a degenerative back condition, but scans and estate rentals, has been under pressure to Clippers head coach Doc Rivers and players At the US titles Phelps botched a turn in the 100m free treatment have cleared him to compete on the Gold Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan sell the team since the release of a tape to finish seventh, was out-touched by a fingertip in one Coast. “It (back) was pretty dodgy when I got back from joined Ballmer on the stage. The name of between him and his girlfriend V Stiviano. In of his signature events, the 100m butterfly, and finished the Commonwealth Games,” Magnussen told reporters disgraced owner Donald Sterling, who the recording, Sterling criticizes the much sixth in the 100m backstroke. on Tuesday of the Glasgow event. “But we have been bought the team in 1981 for $12.5 million, younger Stiviano for having her picture tak- But he staged an exciting battle with Lochte in the working really stringently on it and I am doing the best I wasn’t mentioned once during the rally. “It en with black people and tells her not to 200m individual medley and finished just 0.05sec can to be as close to 100 percent that I can.” Magnussen may be frustrating but it always takes time bring them to Clippers games. behind the world record-holder in the event where he will lead an Australian team which topped the Glasgow to do something complicated,” Ballmer said. Soon after the comments became public, has won three Olympic golds. “I am taking it a lot slower Games pool tally with 57 medals (19 gold, 21 silver, 17 “This had its own set of issues but I am glad the NBA slapped the 80-year-old owner with now than what I did before, because I do understand bronze) last month. Ledecky, one of 17 Olympic gold we’re here, we’re driving, we’re moving for- a lifetime ban from the league and began that I need to give my body time to get back and build medallists in the American team, comes to Australia fol- ward.” Some of the fans had been waiting the process of stripping Sterling of owner- up to where I want to be,” Phelps said this week. “I can’t lowing her third world record of the year, in the 400m outside Staples Center arena for four hours ship of the club. Forward Griffin said just expect to do everything I want from the get-go. freestyle at the US Championships. She also holds the before the start of the rally. Ballmer told the Monday that now that the Sterling saga is “Being able to have a year-and-a-half off, I’ve been able 800m and 1500m freestyle world marks. Australia’s crowd that years ago he had planned to over they can begin with a clean slate. “We to learn a lot about myself and I still have that competi- world champion sprinter Cate Campbell, fresh from her IRVINE: In this file photo, Michael Phelps move to Los Angeles after he graduated. But genuinely, genuinely want to thank you for tive side.” The four-day meet at the new Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 100m freestyle gold over her starts the men’s 200-meter individual medley those plans changed when his college bud- your support throughout the season,” Griffin Aquatic Centre in Southport is key preparation for next sister Bronte, will be up against American four-time final at the US nationals of swimming in dy, Bill Gates, offered him a job at Microsoft. said. —AFP year’s world championships in Kazan, Russia leading up Olympic gold medalist Franklin. —AFP Irvine, Calif. — AP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 SPORTS

Armstrong ‘living positive’ Photo of the day life but problems not over

LONDON: Lance Armstrong is living an lawyers prepare to face several civil law- ‘unbothered and positive life’ 18 months suits that could drain the fortune he accu- after confessing to using performance- mulated as one of the world’s most popular enhancing drugs, the disgraced cyclist told and successful athletes. CNN. A cancer survivor and hero to mil- In June a federal judge rejected lions, Armstrong was stripped of his seven Armstrong’s bid to dismiss a whistleblower Tour de France victories and banned for life lawsuit claiming that he and his former from racing in 2012 by the US Anti-Doping cycling team, which the US Postal Service Agency after it accused him in a report of had sponsored, defrauded the government engineering one of the most sophisticated in a scheme to use banned, performance- doping schemes in sports. enhancing drugs. A still defiant Armstrong, The investigation and later admission to however, claims the US Postal Service ben- doping destroyed Armstrong’s reputation efitted hugely from the exposure it got and career but the 42-year-old American from its sponsorship and that the lawsuit says he has been able to go about his daily had been brought too late. “I’m very confi- life without being taunted or heckled for dent that that’s a winner for us,” said what he did. “I never get crap, not once, Armstrong. “I don’t think anyone can truly and I’m surprised by that,” Armstrong told argue the US Postal Service was damaged. CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/SPORT/.com) “They made a lot of money in the deal and yesterday. “Sure, I sometimes get the vibe got what they bargained for. “I worked my that someone wants to say something but ass off for them and I’m proud of it. it’s never happened.” While day-to-day life Furthermore there wasn’t a technical rela- is good for Armstrong, the cyclist’s prob- tionship between myself and the US Postal lems are far from over as he and his team of Service.”— Reuters

Miles Daisher and Jak Kamh perform in Kemaliye, Turkey. —www.redbull.com Meilutyte gears up for gold, China top table PM receives Kuwaiti NANJING: London Games gold medalist Ruta shooting champion Meilutyte cruised through to women’s 100 meters breaststroke final at the Youth Olympic Games yesterday, while China surged to the top of the medals table on the third day of competition in Nanjing. Lithuanian Meilutyte, the world record holder over 50m in the discipline, will swim for her second gold of the Games today before hop- ping on a plane to Berlin bound for the European Championships. Also making waves was Swiss sharp shooter Sarah Hornung, who took gold in the women’s 10m air rifle competition after a tense duel with Singapore’s Martina Lindsay Veloso. “I knew that a medal was there but I didn’t know which one,” said Hornung. “I just knew if I could fight again, I would reach it.” Canadian Tony Gil was also on tar- get when he notched a hole-in-one at the Games’ golfing competition. The 16-year-old holed out with a seven iron at the par three third. Gil’s com- patriots on the women’s rugby team showed they KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Al-Daihani presented a highly modified had the stomach for a fight by overcoming home Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- firearm to the Prime Minister. The favorites China 26-19 to set up a gold medal NANJING: Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte competes to win the women’s 50m breaststroke final Hamad Al-Sabah received Kuwaiti shoot- Premier lauded the champion for his game against powerhouse Australia, who swimming competition at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing. — AFP ing champion Fahad Al-Daihani at Seif outstanding achievements in interna- thrashed the United States 33-0 in the other semi- Palace yesterday. tional arena. —KUNA final. Argentina will meet France in the men’s final. The 13-day multi-sport event, which debuted in Singapore four years ago, kicked-off on something of a sour note at the weekend when Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria withdrew due to the Ebola outbreak in Africa. Despite the rough start, Han Dong, assistant director of the marketing department for Nanjing’s Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee, said at a media briefing yesterday the Games were proving a big hit. “For 80 percent of the competition, the tickets have been sold,” said Han. “Now the events are in full swing we expect more ticket sales. “About half of the tickets have been sold to young people or families. About 70 percent have been sold locally in Nanjing.”

Parents banned Crowds poured in to the Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre for yesterday’s swimming action and saw Meilutyte qualify fastest for the 100m breaststroke final in 1:07.83. Meilutyte, who won NANJING: Russia’s Ivan Ilin (right) and South Korea’s Kim Dong-ju compete during the event at the London Olympics as a 15-year- the final of men’s sabre individual event at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games. — AFP old, told the Youth Games official website she was NANJING: Turkey’s Ylmaz Tutya competes on the balance beam during the qualification round over the shoulder issue that had prompted her to of the artistic gymnastics competition at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing. — AFP No hiding Scottish roots pull out of the 100m freestyle and 200m individ- ual medley in Nanjing. mers got their first gold of the Games in the so I would worry.” Nerves did get the better of for Iceland striker Hilmar “It doesn’t hurt me on the breaststroke, which men’s 4x100m freestyle relay, while Shen Duo, in Russian weightlifter Anastasia Petrova, who lost is the most important thing,” said Meilutyte, who the women’s 100m freestyle, and Li Zhuhao, in out to Taiwan’s Chang Nien-Tsin in the women’s NANJING: At first glance it is difficult to tell Youth Olympic Games. With no coach to won gold in the 50m breaststroke on Monday. the men’s 100m butterfly, won gold for hosts 58kg competition after a botched final attempt. “I what sets Iceland striker Hilmar McShane talk tactics with, or fencing team mates to “It’s calmed down a lot now and it’s great to just China. Li’s parents may never be allowed to watch made a mistake in the last snatch attempt. I was apart from his team mates at the Youth lift his spirits, Shaheen lost all of his epee be able to race and not feel any pain.” Meilutyte their son swim again after he clocked 52.49 sec- overwhelmed, I freaked out,” said Petrova. “I was Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. That is bouts and made an early exit from Nanjing. plans to leave for the European Championships in onds to win gold. “I banned my mum and my dad so angry that the barbell dropped. I just could not until he opens his mouth. Hilmar’s accent, Medals were never his target, though. Germany straight after today’s 100m final. “I hope from the stadium, they had to watch in front of hold my nerve.” China lead the medals table with thanks to his father Paul, makes him sound Shaheen said his team’s goal in China was to get some quality rest and fight off any jetlag the TV,” he said. “Having them here wouldn’t make six gold medals, ahead of Russia on five and like he was born and bred in Scotland. “Aye, to fly the flag for Syria, which is mired in a and do well in Berlin,” she added. British swim- me nervous, but my mum would be too excited, Hungary on four.—Reuters right it does,” he says. “My dad’s a civil war that has killed 170,000 people Glaswegian.” After being released by since 2011. “If I just come from here with- Glasgow side Rangers when he was 20, out any result, I think Syria is still good,” he Paul McShane went to Iceland in a bid to said. “Our athletes wanted to show the regain his fitness following an injury and world that Syria is here.” The 17-year-old signed with local club Fram Reykjavik. said the war had made it extremely difficult “He got an Icelandic girlfriend and then I for him to develop his fencing skills. The came along,” says Hilmar. “So I was raised to fighting had robbed him of a coach and speak English with this accent by my dad, bombs had wrecked his training facilities. “I and people often think I’m Scottish. “I feel had a coach from Tunisia. He made me a very connected to both Iceland and good fencer, but he left because of the war,” Scotland.” Iceland are one of six teams com- said Shaheen. peting in the men’s football competition in “Because of the war, it’s not safe for him. China. They got off to a great start with a 5- But I am Syrian. I think I should be there 0 win over Honduras but lost 2-1 to Peru in because that is my country.” Shaheen says their second game. “My dad is extremely he has got used to going it alone. “For two proud of my progress as a player and I years I am like this, alone, no coach coming hope to become a pro. We have got a very, with me,” he added. “Nanjing, no coach. very good under 15 side and Nanjing is the Kuwait championships, no coach. World perfect experience for us. “It’s an excellent championships, also no coach.” Shaheen tournament and we think we can win it.” lost all six of his epee pool bouts, and then McShane said he hoped to follow in his was beaten by eventual silver medalist father’s footsteps and play for Rangers one Linus Islas Flygare of Sweden in the last 16. day. “Although I’d also like to play for “The medals don’t matter to me, but I want Barcelona, so that would be fine, too,” he to be a champion. It’s not easy for good adds. fencers to beat me,” he said. “Right now I’m losing, but I think that maybe, I hope, I will Syrian fencer enjoys cut be better after a few years.” Patrik Meanwhile, Syrian fencer Mohammad Esztergalyos of Hungary won the gold Shaheen has cut a lonely figure at the medal. — Agencies NANJING: Volunteers (dressed as the official mascot) perform a dance during the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing. — AFP WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 SPORTS Italy coach Conte shrugs off wages controversy

ROME: New Italy coach Antonio Conte brushed aside controversy over his wages, which will be part funded by the national federation’s spon- sors, when he was officially presented yesterday. “Nobody imposes anything on me. My eyes and those of my assistants will be the judge, not sponsors nor newspapers,” he told reporters after succeeding Cesare Prandelli. Conte, who was appointed last week and takes charge of his first match against Netherlands in a friendly in Bari on Sept. 4, previously led Juventus to three successive Serie A titles in as many seasons. The media pointed out a possible conflict of interest after the Italian federation (FIGC) said it had reached an agreement with sponsors, including sportswear manufacturers Puma, to help fund Conte’s wages. “Everyone who knows me knows that this is not a problem,” said the new coach after signing his contract. “My con- tract falls within Italian federation parameters. There is a winning mentality and it’s right for the FIGC to reach an agreement with the sponsors. “Unlike my predecessors I have given up all my image rights,” added Conte. “For me the contro- versy over this contract is secondary, I want to work and there is a long and tortuous road in front of us. “I will prove myself with facts, not with words, ROME: New Italian Football Federation (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio (right) poses with as I have always done.” FIGC president Carlo Italy’s national football team new coach Antonio Conte, prior to a press conference in Rome Tavecchio said the agreement with the sponsors yesterday. — AFP was a way of getting the federation out of a cor- ond time in a row the four-times champions had dropped if they committed serious acts of indis- ner. “This was borne out of sporting necessity fallen at the first hurdle. “I live for victories...and cipline in club games. “I prefer the word behav- and the economic reality. We couldn’t get a I’m here to bring that mentality,” said Conte, iour. Code is a word used by lawyers and I like to leader like Conte at a low cost,” he explained. adding that “only real men can get over difficul- be more practical,” he added. “I will make all the “We wanted the best, while bearing in mind the ties. “I know the challenge I face and I’m not selections according to my moral standards.” reality of the federation, and we managed to afraid of it. If I had to choose between someone Conte promised to work closely with the Serie A come up with something in three or four days.” who is a good player and a great man, and teams. “My aim is to have a good rapport with all someone who is a great player and an ordinary the clubs and players, a constant and intense World Cup man, I will always choose the first one. “Any rapport,” he said. “If we want to improve it’s only Prandelli quit after his team were knocked Italian player can be picked but you have to right the national coach is in touch with the out in the group stages of the World Cup follow- deserve the blue shirt.” clubs, to know how they play, their injuries and ing 1-0 defeats to Costa Rica and Uruguay, leav- Conte said he would drop Prandelli’s code of specific work. That’s how we can improve and ing Italian football at a low ebb. It was the sec- ethics, under which players were automatically build something.” - Reuters Super League foreigners will boost India football: Djordjic MADRID: Argentinean football player Cristian Ansaldi poses with the ball during his official presentation at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid following his signing with Spanish club Atletico de Madrid on August 18, 2014. — AFP STOCKHOLM: Foreign players who join India’s organization to work as a team and win games. right direction,” he said, noting the positive influ- Super League are not just mercenaries chasing “People love football. You can see how many ence that foreigners have had in the US and China one final big payday but they will help to establish Indians watch the World Cup, how many watch in inspiring young players. “I think India has to Atletico struggle to keep up soccer in the cricket-mad country, former the Premier League. They have football in their concentrate on the youth first of all if they are Manchester United midifelder Bojan Djordjic said. blood, not just cricket. These big players will help going to have a team that is going to qualify at in arms race with Real, Barca The well-travelled 32-year-old is one of 49 interna- to raise the profile,” Djordjic added. Winner of the some time in the near future for a World Cup. They tional players who will be up for grabs in the draft young player of the year at Manchester United in are so low in rankings that something needs to MADRID: Just three months after remarkably Rodriguez, whilst Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor tomorrow ahead of the inaugural Super League 2000, Djordjic only made two appearances for the happen.” Though the deals offered to Djordjic and breaking Barcelona and Real Madrid’s grip on the Navas will rival Iker Casillas to be number one. “I season, which starts in October. The eight-team Premier League club but still went on to enjoy a his foreign compatriots are lucrative, he rejects the La Liga title, Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone think we have a better team than last season Super League will feature teams from cities such successful career, winning league titles with Red suggestion that players who are past their best are has denied any repeat of their miracle champi- because we have signed three players that add as Mumbai, Delhi, Goa and Bangalore, and run Star Belgrade in Serbia, Videoton in Hungary, and going to India simply to cash in. “When a young onship triumph is possible. “We have to try to quality to the team,” Real coach Carlo Ancelotti over three months until December. AIK in Sweden. player sees David Trezeguet in front of the goal - compete with Sevilla, Valencia and Athletic said on Monday. Of the three title contenders, The top four sides will qualify for the semi- you don’t lose that instinct, you don’t lose that Bilbao for the Champions League places,” he though, it is Barcelona who have undergone the finals, which will be played over two legs, with the Make it in Bollywood touch. Even Alan Shearer now would probably claimed on Monday ahead of his side’s Spanish most significant change as they look to bounce winners advancing to a one-off final. Strict rules He spoke to Reuters at an Indian restaurant in score more goals than some of the Premier Super Cup first-leg against Real yesterday. “With back from a first trophyless season in six years. apply to player rosters, with each team required to Stockholm, a stone’s throw from the former League strikers, you know?” he said laughing. 95 million euros we have signed nine players, The first change at the Camp Nou over the have one “marquee player”, seven foreigners and Rasunda stadium where he dominated the mid- “You can teach them the right movement, how Real Madrid have signed two players for 95 mil- summer was the coach as they turned to former 14 Indians, four of whom must be from the city in field for AIK in their double-winning 2009 season. you receive the ball, where you should be, and lion. That is the difference.” captain Luis Enrique to replace Gerardo Martino which the team is based. Djordjic will join mar- Well-known for his forthright opinions, the fiery that’s what India needs. To be fair, they’ve never The other major difference is that success has in the hope he can have the same impact as his quee names such as former Juventus striker David midfielder made an acrimonious departure from really had a big, big player, well-known around the also brought Atletico the struggle of holding former teammate Pep Guardiola did in charge. Trezeguet and former Arsenal winger Fredrik the club shortly afterwards, but returned to AIK world that’s made an echo.” Djordjic admitted that onto their best players. Top scorer Diego Costa With a two transfer window ban only temporarily and Filipe Luis have joined Thibaut Courtois in suspended, Barca have also been very active in Ljungberg in the first season of the fledgling foot- earlier this year as a youth team coach and as a he never expected to be leaving Sweden for returning to his parent club Chelsea after a the market with the capture of controversial ball league. player with feeder club Vasalund. But when he another foreign adventure at this stage in his three-year loan spell in the Spanish capital. That Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez leading their 150 Serbian-born Djordjic believes that educating was offered the chance to go to India, Djordjic career but he will be keeping an open mind about money has been reinvested in a promising million euro outlay. Suarez won’t even be able to the domestic players is key to long-term Super jumped at the chance to take part in what he sees extending his stay abroad. “You never know with attacking trio of Antoine Griezmann, Mario play until late October after his appeal against a League success. “They (the foreigners) will teach as a hugely exciting project. me,” he said. “There’s a few more continents I Mandzukic and Raul Jimenez, but the major four-month ban for biting Giorgio Chiellini at the these players how a midfielder, how a defender, “I’m hoping to bring something else there - haven’t been to. It’s going to be a great experi- coup of the close season for Atletico has been World Cup was rejected by the Court of how a striker works,” he said. “Indian players have there’s one billion people, they love the sport, and ence, and you never know - I might even make it holding onto the likes of Koke, Diego Godin and Arbitration for Sport last week. However, he the talent but they haven’t had the structure and I’m hoping we can move football forward in the in Bollywood.”— Reuters Miranda despite interest from Barca and Bayern could return for a mouth-watering first El Clasico Munich. By contrast, Real have splashed over clash between Real and Barca at the Santiago 100 million euros on the squad that won both Bernabeu should the game be scheduled for the Champions League and Copa del Rey last Sunday, October 26. Top six La Liga signings season without having to sanction any signifi- Enrique’s main task will be finding a blend for cant sales, although Angel di Maria could exit all of Suarez, Lionel Messi and Neymar to func- before the end of the transfer window. tion together as all three look to shake off a dis- An already oversubscribed midfield has been appointing end to their respective World Cups. bolstered by World Cup winner Toni Kroos and For all their attacking talent, questions also of the transfer window the competition’s top goalscorer James remain over Barca’s defense despite the expen- sive recruitment of Jeremy Mathieu from Valencia and Arsenal captain Thomas Vermaelen. MADRID: Despite Spain’s failure to shine at the World Cup in Brazil, La Liga has again lured a host MATCHES ON TV Goalkeepers Claudio Bravo and Marc-Andre Ter Stegen will also battle to succeed the departed of world stars to Spanish shores in recent months Victor Valdes as number one after being signed with Real Madrid and Barcelona predictably lead- for 12 million euros apiece. ing the way. With the new La Liga season due to UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Outside of the big three, Europa League win- get underway on Saturday, AFP sports looks at six Aalborg BK v Apoel Nicosia 21:45 ners Sevilla have made the most significant moves of the best signings of the close season. beIN SPORTS 3 HD in a bid to get back into the Champions League as Bratislava v BATE Borisov 21:45 they have brought in Barca loanee Gerard Luis Suarez beIN SPORTS 2 HD Deulofeu, Argentine international Ever Banega and (Liverpool to Barcelona) Sde Liege v Zenit St Petersburg 21:45 Liverpool reject Iago Aspas. Valencia should also Suarez’s latest indiscretion at the World Cup beIN SPORTS 7 HD be back in contention for the top four after earned him a four-month playing ban for biting beIN SPORTS 14 HD Singaporean businessman Peter Lim finally com- Giorgio Chiellini, but that didn’t dissuade Barca NK Maribor v Celtic 21:45 pleted his takeover of the club with Spanish under- from spending a reported 95 million euros (£75 beIN SPORTS 5 HD 21 international striker Rodrigo their big name million, $127 million) on the Premier League Player signing of the summer. Meanwhile, Basque duo beIN SPORTS 11 HD of the Year last season. The Uruguayan won’t be Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad retain ambitions Lille v Porto 21:45 able to make his competitive debut until October, of Champions League football despite losing but could prove a decisive figure in the title race beIN SPORTS 1 HD Ander Herrera and Griezmann to Manchester alongside Lionel Messi and Neymar in a sensational beIN SPORTS 13 HD United and Atletico respectively. — AFP looking front three. Guangzhou ‘getting better’ James Rodriguez (Monaco to Real Madrid) SYDNEY: Coach Marcello Lippi has warned yesterday. “At the beginning of the season after If Barca opted for the World Cup’s bad boy, Real Guangzhou Evergrande’s rivals that the Asian we won the Asian Champions League and the splashed out on the golden boy from Brazil by seal- champions are peaking as the climax of the sea- Chinese league last year, psychologically per- ing the signature of the tournament’s top scorer in son approaches and said winning a fourth haps the players had some problems. “But now Colombian James Rodriguez. Given Real’s abun- Chinese Super League title would be a “spectac- we are getting better and better each week and dance of creative talent, Rodriguez may struggle to ular achievement”. After the loss of a couple of this year we are again a very strong team.” The hold down a place in the playmaking role where he key players, the big-spending Guangdong club departure of prolific Brazilian striker Muriqui excelled in Brazil. However, coach Carlo Ancelotti BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Croatian midfielder Ivan Rakitic (center) takes part in a training ses- have been in less imperious form this season came after Argentine attacking midfielder Dario has already hailed his willingness to adapt to a role sion at the Sports Center. — AFP than they were last, when they won their third Conca returned to South America with on the left side of midfield to help feed the likes of successive Chinese title and maiden Asian Fluminense before the start of the year. They Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema. keeping up with the Jameses is a bit tricky for demands on the Croatian will be high as he is Champions League crown. have been replaced in the Guangzhou attack by Atletico given the financial gulf between them and expected to oust Barca’s most decorated player of They still lead the Chinese league by seven former Italy internationals Alessandro Diamanti Toni Kroos Spain’s traditional top two. Indeed they have lost all time in Xavi Hernandez for a place Luis Enrique’s points with eight matches to go, however, and and his former Bologna team mate Alberto (Bayern Munich to Real Madrid) many of their title-winning side to Chelsea as Thibaut starting line-up and he should add some athleti- on Wednesday take on Australian club Western Gilardino. Another star from the World Cup, Kroos Courtois, Filipe Luis and Diego Costa moved to cism to a midfield that has been worn down by Sydney Wanderers in the first leg of the Asian patrolled the midfield as Germany were crowned London. However, they will be hopeful that their success over the past six seasons. Champion League quarter-finals. Lippi, the only Tougher challenge coach to have led teams to the premier club “Gilardino arrived in our team just a month world champions for a fourth time. Supreme in Frenchman Griezmann can better the 16 La Liga title in both Asia and Europe after his success ago after a two-month holiday, so he’s getting possession, Kroos also offers a goal threat as he goals he struck for Real Sociedad last season after Rodrigo (Benfica to Valencia) with Juventus in 1996, said there had been better and better, particularly in his physical showed in scoring twice in the 7-1 World Cup semi- sealing a 30 million euro move to the Spanish capital. The pick of the business done by those outside some problems at the start of the season but he conditioning,” the World Cup-winning former final thrashing of Brazil and is seen as the long- the top three has been Valencia’s signing of prolific was confident they were now hitting their Italy coach said. “He’s a very strong player and term successor to Xabi Alonso in the Real midfield. Ivan Rakitic Spanish under-21 striker Rodrigo on loan from stride. he’s brought all his experience and quality to (Sevilla to Barcelona) Benfica. ‘Los Che’ have endured a couple of years in “The squad is a bit different from last year, the team. We were looking forward to bringing Antoine Griezmann Rakitic was arguably the outstanding midfielder the doldrums due to financial troubles, but backed particularly since Muriqui left and Gilardino him over. “And, of course, Gilardino and (Real Sociedad to Atletico Madrid) in La Liga last season and Barcelona beat off by new owner Peter Lim could be back in the race arrived, they are two completely different strik- Diamante are good together because they Despite breaking the Barca and Real hegemony reported interest from Real and Atletico to seal his for Champions League football come the end of ers,” he told reporters at Parramatta Stadium played together before.” —Reuters to win La Liga for the first time in 18 years last season, signature as a replacement for Cesc Fabregas. The the season. — AFP Verstappen, 16, Meilutyte gears to become the up for gold as youngest F1 driver China top table

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BURNLEY: Chelsea’s Ivorian striker Didier Drogba (2nd left) vies with Burnley’s English defender Jason Shackell (right) during the English Premier League football match between Burnley and Chelsea at Turf Moor on August 18, 2014. Chelsea wonRevamped the game 3-1. — AFP Chelsea down Burnley

ther goals before half-time to ease Jose Mourinho’s class,” Mourinho told Sky Sports. “I agree completely ley beyond Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, to side-foot into the net. Burnley’s back four, the side to an impressive victory in their Premier with Cesc as man of the match. He controlled the selected ahead of Petr Cech, and into the roof of same one which had the best defensive record in League opener at Turf Moor. tempo of the game and was responsible for the the net. the Championship last season, couldn’t cope with Burnley 1 Having failed to bring a trophy to Stamford best phase of our play. “Diego was very important Burnley couldn’t have dreamt of a better start, Chelsea’s movement and the vision of Eden Hazard Bridge last season for the first time in his two spells as he made our first goal and that was very impor- but the goal served only to wake up Chelsea and in particular. in charge, Blues boss Mourinho - and possibly club tant.” after Costa’s equalizer four minutes later there was And even the basics of defending a corner owner Roman Abramovich - will not tolerate such going to be only one winner. With none of deserted them when Ivanovic volleyed in Chelsea’s Chelsea 3 relative failure again. Wake up call Chelsea’s strikers reaching double figures in the third goal from inside the six-yard box following The arrival of Costa therefore came as a serious Burnley briefly looked like upsetting the odds Premier League last season, the Spain international Fabregas’s corner 11 minutes before half time. It show of intent and Chelsea’s determination to when they took the lead in the 13th minute. Five was recruited by Mourinho to give his side more of could have been worse had Costa been awarded a dethrone reigning champions Manchester City was years ago it had been Robbie Blake who had been a cutting edge and he delivered straight away, driv- penalty rather than a booking when he went to BURNLEY: Diego Costa began to pay back his hefty further underlined as they went top of the table Burnley’s hero with a thumping volley and Arfield’s ing home a loose ball after Burnley captain Jason ground under slight contact from goalkeeper Tom transfer fee with a debut goal for Chelsea as they after a dominant performance inspired by a mas- strike didn’t suffer much by comparison. The open- Shackell had deflected a cross from Ivanovic Heaton before the third goal went in. But rather recovered from the shock of going behind to seal terful debut from Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas. ing began with a corner which was only cleared as against a post. than capitulate, Burnley started the second half an emphatic 3-1 win over Burnley on Monday. “When you come to a place like this and you are a far as Burnley defender Michael Duff and he head- And four minutes later Chelsea were in front positively and almost found a route back into the Spain striker Costa, bought from La Liga champions goal down against a difficult team then players can ed the ball back to Matty Taylor. thanks to a flash of inspiration from former game through Arfield whose curling shot was Atletico Madrid for £32 million ($53 million), can- get down heartened and lose faith. Taylor’s cross eluded the bodies waiting in the Barcelona star Fabregas. His first-time pass which superbly saved by Courtois. That was the only scare celled out Scott Arfield’s opener for Burnley before Burnley are a direct and physical side but overall penalty area but not midfielder Arfield, who con- split Burnley’s defense was sublime and Schurrle for Chelsea, though, as they cruised home, saving Andre Schurrle and Branislav Ivanovic scored fur- we had good control and we showed moments of trolled the ball 20 yards out and sent a dipping vol- took full advantage of the service as he ran through their energy for tougher battles ahead. — AFP Barca hammer Suarez pledges not to bite again BARCELONA: Luis Suarez is ready to put his erase it,” he said. “The lesson I take from it is biting days behind him. The Barcelona striker personal. I try to forget it.” was officially presented to fans yesterday at an At 27, Suarez has accumulated three multi- Club Leon 6-0 event delayed for more than five weeks match suspensions for sinking his teeth into an because of his suspension for biting an oppo- opponent. He has also been suspended for nent at the World Cup. Suarez said he was making racist remarks. Unfazed by Suarez’s lat- BARCELONA: Luis Suarez made his ing to life alongside Messi and Neymar ready to “erase” his history of bad behavior and est act of aggression and focused on rebuild- first appearance for Barcelona after his in attack. “It is never easy when you start fresh with the Catalan ing its team after a disappoint- move from Liverpool for a reported 95 come from another club, but, as I have club. “I say to all the fans, don’t ing season, Barcelona spent million euros (£75 million, $127 mil- said before, I think he will find a very worry, because I won’t do that big to acquire the Premier lion) as the Catalans hammered healthy dressing room and I think he anymore,” the former Liverpool League’s leading scorer from Mexican side Club Leon 6-0 in a friend- will adapt fine, because his talent is striker said. last season. Suarez will now ly on Monday. The Uruguayan striker, above everything else,” he said. Suarez sunk his teeth into form one of the most potent who won’t be able to play in a compet- Despite his controversial past, the shoulder of Italy defender attacks in the world with itive game for Barca until October after which includes two previous bans for Giorgio Chiellini at the World Lionel Messi and Neymar. his appeal against a fourth-month ban biting as well as a suspension by the Cup in June, earning him a Barcelona vice president for biting Italian defender Giorgio English Football Association for racially Chiellini during the World Cup was abusing Manchester United defender four-month ban and further Jordi Mestre said Suarez cost rejected last week, replaced Rafinha Patrice Evra, Suarez was warmly damaging his already tarnished the club 81 million euros ($108 Alcantara 14 minutes from time. received by the home fans as he made reputation. The Court of million). Media reports had Barca were already leading 4-0 his entrance. Earlier, Neymar and Messi Arbitration for Sport lessened said the deal was for about 97 thanks to goals from Lionel Messi, made a telling impact in their first out- his penalty last week, allowing million euros ($129 million). Munir El Haddadi and a double from ings since their World Cup ended in a him to start practice with Mestre added that Suarez’s Neymar before Munir and Sandro devastating back injury and defeat in Barcelona on Friday and play buyout clause has been set at the final minutes of a friendly 200 million euros ($267 mil- rounded off the scoring. “Today was an the final respectively. Messi headed FC Barcelona’s Luis Suarez unforgettable day,” tweeted the 27- the hosts in front inside three minutes on Monday. The Uruguay for- lion). Suarez won’t complete year-old Uruguayan international. from Neymar’s deflected cross. ward won’t play a competitive his ban from playing competi- “Thank you all for your affection.” The Brazilian striker then doubled match until October. “The suspension is what it tive matches for Barcelona until Oct. 25. That Barcelona sporting director Andoni Barca’s lead with a delightful chip from is, and I have to accept it,” Suarez said. “After will rule him out of the first eight Spanish Zubizaretta said that they would give Andres Iniesta’s through ball before what happened I didn’t want to do anything. I league matches and three of Barcelona’s six him time to get used to his new sur- grabbing his second of the night when was depressed. But while I was with my wife Champions League group matches. His first roundings. “We will give him (Suarez) he backheeled into an empty net two and children I had to accept reality. I asked for game could be a big one. On either Oct 25 or the time so that he can see he is inte- minutes before half-time. Munir forgiveness as I had to do, and now I have to 26, Barcelona will play Real Madrid in the first grating into the team and he will replaced Neymar at half-time and he think about the present.” “clasico” of the season. adapt to the team in training,” he told tapped home the fourth goal when Suarez refused to go into details about Suarez also remains banned for Uruguay’s Barca TV. Dani Alves knocked Ivan Rakitic’s ball what he considered was at the root of his vio- next eight competitive matches and will miss “He will get to know our style of over the top into the 19-year-old’s lent behavior. He called it a “private” issue that next year’s Copa America and some World Cup play and with his quality he will help path. And moments after Suarez had he was treating with the “appropriate profes- qualifying matches. us. His teammates will get to know made his entrance, Munir smashed sionals.” But the volatile former Ajax forward “It hurts not playing for Barcelona but it him and the idea is that when he home his second goal of the game did say that after his latest bite he was worried hurts even more not playing for my country,” returns, he does so at 100 percent.” with a powerful low finish before BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Argentinean forward Lionel Messi holds a about his career. “Of course I was worried, but Suarez said. “I love my country. The fact that I Midfielder Andres Iniesta believes last Sandro put the seal on a fine Barca trophy during the 49th Joan Gamper Trophy football match FC not only about the transfer (to Barcelona), but will miss the next Copa America hurts very season’s Premier League Player of the performance in similar fashion a Barcelona vs Leon Club at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on also about myself, for what I had done. I try to much. But I have to try and forget it.” — AP Year will not have any difficulty adapt- minute from time. — AFP August 18, 2014. — AFP European stock markets rebound Page 23

Business France to boost housing, cut taxes for low-paid WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 Page 25 BMW X4 Sports Activity Coupé expands range Saudis to impose 20% foreign ownership limit on stocks in Kuwait Page 22 Page 26

TOKYO: Models display the new smartphone of Taiwanese electronics maker HTC “HTC J butterfly HTL23” at the launch event yesterday. — AFP NBK’s Board elects Nasser Al-Sayer as Chairman Ghassan Al-Khalid is elected Vice Chairman KUWAIT: In its meeting held yesterday, Sayer had been the Vice Chairman of NBK the Board of Directors of National Bank of since 1993 and a Board member since Kuwait (NBK) elected Nasser Musaed Al- 1980. He has also been a distinguished Sayer as the Chairman of NBK Group fol- member in various governmental councils lowing the demise of the long-serving and economic committees. He is a Board Chairman Mohammad Abdul Rahman Al- member of the Kuwait Banking Bahar. The Board also elected Ghassan Association since 1999, and had chaired it Ahmed Saoud Al-Khalid as the Vice between 1999 and 2006. Previously, he Chairman. The Reserve Member Emad was a member of the Supreme Advisory Mohammad Abdul Rahman Al-Bahar Council chaired by the Crown Prince and a joined the Board of Directors. member of the Supreme Council for “NBK will continue with its current strat- Economic Development and Reform egy that was developed under the leader- chaired by the Prime Minister. Al-Sayer was ship of the late Mohammad Al-Bahar,” said also a member of the Board of Directors of Al-Sayer. “Al-Bahar was one of the founders the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic of NBK in 1952. Since he joined the Board Development. of Directors in 1959 and was appointed as Ghassan Al-Khalid is a member of the a Chairman in 1993, he had played a major Board of Directors of NBK since 1987. He is role in transforming the bank into one of a member of several Board Committees the leading institutions in the Arab world.” and enjoys extensive experience in bank- Ghassan Ahmed Saoud Al-Khalid, Vice Chairman Emad Mohammad Abdul Rahman Al-Bahar, Prior to his election as Chairman, Al- ing industry. Nasser Musaed Al-Sayer, Chairman of NBK of NBK Member of Board of Directors of NBK

OPEC unruffled by oil price slide Egypt’s property stocks lead Cairo LONDON/DUBAI: OPEC is not worried Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi in June, when about a slide in oil prices towards $100 a OPEC last met to review its output poli- barrel, delegates from the producer cy. Oil at “$100, $110, $95 is a good MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS group said, with current levels seen as price,” he said. acceptable for producers while higher An oil official from an African OPEC DUBAI: Egyptian property developer SODIC percent, while Palm Hills Development Co Arabtec and Union Properties accounted for seasonal demand in the coming weeks member took a similar view of the price helped Cairo’s bourse rebound yesterday as for- climbed 1.6 percent. nearly half of all shares changing hands, rising was expected to support the market. drop to the Gulf delegate. “It’s just a sea- eign institutions bought into the country’s “Foreign flows are returning to real estate 0.5 and 1.4 percent respectively. Brent crude fell to a 14-month low of sonal phenomenon,” the official said. buoyant real estate sector. Gulf markets were stocks, having been absent since the revolution “Volumes are up slightly today, but i don’t $101.11 a barrel on Monday as investor “The price will probably go back up in also mostly upbeat as buying demand - foreign institutional buying was the trigger for see any major short-term catalysts until the run- concerns over conflict in Ukraine and Iraq the autumn when demand picks up. increased slightly, but trading remained in a today’s rally, with local investors then following up to Q3 results,” said Ali Adou, portfolio man- eased and Libyan output rose. The drop There is no reason for panic. Anyway, the summer lull. SODIC’s shares surged 8.7 percent suit,” said Oza. Demographic factors such as ager at The National Investor in Abu Dhabi. brought prices below the level some in price will not go below $100.” to a six-year peak of 47.30 Egyptian pounds. urbanisation, population growth and most “UAE markets are based on retail traders, who OPEC need for their budget needs. OPEC has a nominal target to pro- Last week, the firm - also called Sixth of October importantly a trend of families moving to the mostly follow technical analysis so you tend to But delegates from three members of duce 30 million barrels per day and in Development and Investment Co - posted a 14 outskirts of Cairo, where most new develop- see activity in stocks based purely on technical the Organization of the Petroleum July, pumped around that level, accord- percent rise in second-quarter profit. ments are located, are driving real estate trends.” Exporting Countries told Reuters yester- ing to a Reuters survey. The organization The stock rose above resistance at 45.0-46.8 demand and prices, he added. Property is also Abu Dhabi was near-flat, edging up 0.04 per- day the decline in prices was not an is not scheduled to meet to review its pounds and does not face any major hurdles seen as a hedge against currency devaluation cent to be within a few points of a new 10-week immediate concern. “There’s no reason output policy until November. But Saudi until 63 pounds, according to a note from and inflation. Egypt’s main index rose 0.9 per- high. “UAE markets are trading at a premium to to worry,” said a delegate from one of Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Pharos Securities. It peaked in December 2010, cent to 9,396 points, clawing back some of other emerging markets but the country has a OPEC’s Gulf members. “We see the dip as Emirates could trim supply informally if shortly before the revolution that ousted Hosni Monday’s 1.4 percent decline, which was its low debt-to-GDP ratio, it’s a dollar-pegged (cur- a correction. Action will only be taken needed, such as to make room for a fur- Mubarak, at 46.80 pounds. “Egypt’s real estate largest drop in eight weeks. rency) and there’s large-scale government infra- based on fundamentals and for the time ther recovery in Libya or to support companies have reported good quarterly num- structure spending so I believe that premium is being the price is still fair for producers.” prices, said an OPEC source. In the last bers, especially in terms of booking new sales Dubai gains justified,” said Adou. He did not comment on what price few years, OPEC has left its target and improving their balance sheets,” said Dubai’s index rose 0.6 percent to a two-week Saudi Arabia’s index rose 0.1 percent to would prompt concern in OPEC. Brent is unchanged and left market manage- Harshjit Oza, a property and banking analyst at high and volumes reached a similar milestone, reach a new six-and-a-half year peak, though still above the $100-mark favored by top ment to informal supply tweaks by the Naeem Brokerage in Cairo. topping 200 million shares for only the fourth the benchmark is now essentially moving side- exporter Saudi Arabia, which many oth- three Gulf producers. “The Gulf countries “This has come from strong off-plan sales time this month. Trading was concentrated in a ways in much reduced volatility. It soared 8.5 ers in the 12-member group also sup- could cut back if they see a need,” the and an improvement in their collection of handful of mid-cap stocks that are usually the percent from July 21 to Aug. 10 after plans were port. Prices need to fall further to be out- source said. “Other than that, I’ve not receivables.” Other property stocks also gained. prime targets for retail day traders chasing a announced to allow direct foreign ownership of side an acceptable zone cited by Saudi heard of any concern.” — Reuters Talaat Moustafa , which posted a double-digit quick profit, so yesterday’s gains may not indi- Saudi stocks. Since then it has traded in a 135- increase in half-year profit last week, rose 5.5 cate the start of a sustained rally. Builder point, or 1.3 percent, range. — Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014

Saudis to impose 20% foreign ownership limit on stocks

DUBAI: Overseas investors in the Saudi regulations for the reform in August, percent of the overall Saudi market, Arabia would need to have minimum newspaper said. Arabian stock market will face restrictions before a 90-day public consultation peri- which has a capitalization of about $580 assets of $1 billion, and individual or The foreign ownership limits could including a 20 percent ceiling on com- od. The Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper billion, that could disappoint investors; retail investors would not be allowed to reduce Saudi Arabia’s weighting in bined foreign ownership of any listed quoted unnamed sources yesterday as foreign ownership of some other major own shares in Saudi companies except major international equity indexes com- stock, a major Saudi newspaper reported saying the decision to open the market emerging markets around the world is through these funds, the newspaper said. piled by companies such as MSCI, if the yesterday. The Capital Market Authority was based on the principle that foreign- considerably higher. Also, foreign funds would not be index compilers choose to include the announced in late July that the market, ers would not be allowed to own more A CMA spokesman, contacted by tele- allowed to own shares in certain real country after foreign investors are the Arab world’s biggest bourse, would than 20 percent in total of the paid-up phone, said the rules were still in the final estate developers with operations in allowed in. When Qatar and the United open to direct investment by foreign capital of any firm. consultation stage in the CMA’s legal the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, to Arab Emirates were added to MSCI’s institutions in the first half of next year. Also, “foreign funds will not be permit- department, and would be published in a ensure that non-Muslim investors did emerging market index in May this year, Currently, foreigners are limited to indi- ted to hold more than 10 percent of the few days for public consultation. He said not own assets there. Such companies their ceilings on combined foreign own- rect investment through swaps and market value of Saudi stocks,” the news- he could not comment on the accuracy include Makkah Construction and ership - in many cases, around 20 per- exchange-traded funds. paper said without elaborating. If for- or otherwise of the Asharq Al-Awsat sto- Development Co, Taiba Holding and cent or higher - caused MSCI to restrict The CMA said it would publish draft eigners are limited to owning only 10 ry. Foreign funds investing in Saudi Jabal Omar Development Co, the their weightings. —Reuters Skymark Airlines surges on AirAsia takeover report

TOKYO: Skymark Airlines shares soared yes- Keynote speech terday after a report said Malaysia’s AirAsia Meanwhile, Asian shares rose yesterday was eyeing the struggling Japanese carrier, following a bounce on Wall Street as fears but both firms dismissed the story, with ebbed of a direct military clash between AirAsia’s chief executive saying he had “nev- Russia and Ukraine and the focus turned to a er seen such rubbish”. The Tokyo-listed stock keynote speech this week by the US Federal jumped 27.77 percent to finish at 230 yen, Reserve chief. Tokyo gained 0.83 percent, or its maximum allowable single-day gain, on 127.19 points, to 15,449.79 and Seoul added the report in Japan’s leading Nikkei busi- 0.88 percent, or 18.01 points, to 2,071.14. ness daily. Sydney rose 0.66 percent, or 36.7 points, to The report, which cited unnamed sources, 5,623.8. said AirAsia was in talks with its lenders over a Global mining giant BHP posted a 23.2 possible takeover bid for money-losing percent jump in annual net profit and said it Skymark. In a statement, AirAsia dismissed would create a new independent company by the story as “speculation” and “just another spinning off non-core assets to reduce costs industry rumor”. “Never seen such rubbish. and boost productivity. Shares in BHP closed AirAsia has no interest in Skymark in Japan,” 1.35 percent higher ahead of the announce- AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes wrote ment. Hong Kong climbed 0.67 percent, or on Twitter. “There have been no discussions 167.49 points, to 25,122.95 and Shanghai end- with Skymark,” he added. ed up 0.26 percent, or 5.86 points, at 2,245.33 The putative takeover target also ques- The gains came after US stocks rebound- tioned the report. “We’re not aware that there ed Monday from last week’s Ukraine-linked is any truth in what has been reported,” setback, with the Dow surging and the Skymark said in a statement. In the wake of Nasdaq reaching a 14-year high. The Dow its bitter split last year with All Nippon Jones Industrial Average finished up 1.06 per- Airways (ANA) over a budget carrier joint ven- cent at 16,838.74 while the broad-based S&P ture, AirAsia has announced it would jump 500 added 0.85 percent to 1,971.74. The Dow back into the Japanese market in a tie-up had led a sell-off Friday as news that with e-commerce giant Rakuten. The Nikkei Ukrainian artillery had destroyed part of a had said the low-cost carrier might create a Russian military column spooked investors. TOKYO: An airliner of Japan’s Skymark Airlines takes off from Tokyo’s Haneda airport yesterday. —AFP new local subsidiary, backed by Rakuten, to But Russia on Monday said that “certain launch the bid for Skymark to get around progress” had been made during a marathon restrictions on foreign ownership in Japanese meeting in Berlin between the two countries’ airlines. foreign ministers and their counterparts from Skymark was born out of deregulation Germany and France. Investors resilient measures in the 1990s which were aimed at challenging ANA and rival Japan Airlines’ con- Greenback holds steady trol of the market. But the carrier has been The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite gained reporting ballooning losses as new entrants 0.97 percent to 4,508.31 — its highest level into the budget sector hurt its business. The since March 31, 2000, when the market to Ukraine conflict airline was sideswiped when Airbus last was on the cusp of a nearly 4,000-point month said it had cancelled a $2.2-billion jet crash as the tech bubble burst. In forex order with the carrier, apparently over con- markets, the dollar was at 102.62 yen in cerns about getting paid. afternoon Asian trade, up from 102.57 yen Declining oil prices pressure Russian assets Skymark shares had lost more than 40 in New York late Monday and 102.32 yen in percent at one stage following the collapsed Tokyo earlier Monday. The greenback is LONDON: Emerging market investors were in a ery in central Europe. about currencies with exposure to oil producers. deal. The company said the European avia- expected to bounce in volatile forex trad- buoyant mood yesterday, brushing off reports of But investors took heart when a feared esca- It’s one more negative factor for the rouble but tion giant had threatened it with “overpriced” ing this week, ahead of a speech on Friday more violence in Ukraine to buoy equities in lation in the fighting failed to materialize over it’s definitely not one of the major problems for penalties and called on it to merge with a by US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen at Russia and central Europe. The MSCI Emerging the weekend and Russia, Germany, France, Russia,” he said. Russian bond yield spreads over bigger airline, a proposal which Skymark’s the central bank’s annual economic policy equities index crept back towards the multi-year Ukraine held talks in Berlin. Shares in Warsaw US Treasuries narrowed by three basis points to top executive flatly rejected. The Nikkei symposium. Investors will be looking for high reached at the end of July, adding more rose 0.5 percent while Budapest equities firmed 311 bps on the JPMorgan emerging bond index, report also said AirAsia, a major Airbus cus- any hint of a change to the Fed’s interest than 0.5 percent. Russian shares extended gains 0.9 percent. Investors are waiting for Polish wage the lowest in three weeks. Spreads have con- tomer, had approached the plane maker rate plans. Last month Yellen told Congress made over the past week, advancing nearly one and unemployment data due at 1200 GMT as tracted around 50 bps from highs hit in the first about reducing the cancellation penalties. the Fed would hold its near-zero interest percent, with investors cheered by diplomatic they search for clues about the country’s eco- week of August. Skymark has said it was mulling the cutting of rate policy until the US economy strength- efforts to try and ease tension. nomic health and outlook for inflation. Russia’s five-year credit default swaps fell 5 unprofitable routes and borrowing more ens, but may raise rates if the jobs market “The market is reacting the right way - it’s the Analysts are warning, meanwhile, that declin- basis points to 230 bps, according to Markit. money from its banks to stay afloat. keeps improving. —Agencies first time stakeholders - Russian, Ukrainian and ing oil prices are likely to start putting pressure Elsewhere, Turkish stocks also benefited from EU leaders - have sat down and talked since the on Russian assets and the rouble. Russian Urals easing worries about geopolitical troubles, as Britain’s gas trading crown at risk Geneva talks over three months ago,” said Luis crude fell below $100 a barrel for the first time in Israel and the Palestinians extended truce talks Costa, a senior emerging markets strategist at a year on Monday, an ominous sign for state over the latest Gaza conflict. Istanbul’s main LONDON: Britain’s dominance in European challenges to the ones Britain faces in Citi. “We have to take this positively. But there is finances which are largely dependent on energy share index was up 0.9 percent while the lira was natural gas trading is under threat from a finance: London is at odds with the still shelling going on, you still have Russian related taxes. trading more cautiously, dipping 0.13 percent. Dutch trading hub where volumes are soar- European Union over banking and financial troops by the border,” he added. Russia has balanced its budget for this year Since Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan won a ing, buoyed in part by Europe’s utility com- markets regulation and some foreign banks Ukrainian government forces have been based on a $114 a barrel oil price, with President presidential election on Aug. 10, Turkish assets panies who prefer to hedge their deals in are concerned about the UK leaving the fighting pro-Russian separatists in the east of the Vladimir Putin ramping up social and military have drifted while investors look for news on euros. Britain has been the region’s leading union. country - and Kiev accused rebels of launching spending against the backdrop of the Ukraine who will become prime minister and the make- gas trading hub since North Sea oil and gas While the City of London looks to retain rockets at a refugee convoy on Monday, an crisis. Citi’s Costa played down the possibility of up of the economic policymaking team. The discoveries in the 1970s made it Europe’s its role as Europe’s leading banking hub, account they dismissed. Sanctions on Russia, an immediate fiscal crisis, however, pointing to a shekel fell 0.5 percent, however, to six-month main producer. This position was cemented Britain’s role in the region’s utility sector is which NATO accuses of backing the rebels, and a fiscal surplus though acknowledging this would lows, following recent weak data and some when it liberalized its energy markets in the small. Traders have started to look beyond retaliatory Russian ban on food imports from the probably weaken over time. speculation the central bank might introduce a 1990s, meaning much of its gas was sold and the National Balancing Point (NBP) virtual EU have threatened to hobble economic recov- “Short-term investors might be a little careful floor for the currency. —Reuters exported in pounds. trading hub to alternatives such as the However, gas trading now faces similar Dutch Title Transfer Facility (TTF). —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

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

LONDON: Wearing ear plugs to muffle the process but the hands on the face being chimes of Big Ben, a team is busy this week washed are set at 12 to make it easier for cleaning the clock faces at the Houses of the technicians to clamber around. Parliament in London. Wearing hard hats Five days have been set aside for the and armed with buckets and cloths, the job-one for each of the four clock faces, four specialist technicians are descending with a contingency day in case the weather the London landmark by rope to clean and makes it too risky to work. Big Ben is the inspect the four clock faces. The clock faces name of the huge bell at the top of the 96- on the Elizabeth Tower were last cleaned in metre (316-foot) high tower, but is often 2010 and besides getting rid of any dirt used to refer to the tower itself, which that has accumulated since then, the looms over the 19th century Gothic Revival experts are conducting a photographic sur- parliament. The tower was constructed as vey to check the dials for damage. “Big Ben part of the reconstruction of the Houses of is one of the UK’s greatest icons, and clean- Parliament by architects Charles Barry and ing the Great Clock is a vital part of its Augustus Pugin following a major fire in maintenance,” said Steve Jaggs, deputy 1843. There are two theories of how the keeper of the clock. “The process is com- bell came to be known as Big Ben. The plex and requires a real head for heights. most likely explanation is that it was We have an expert team who will ensure named after Benjamin Hall, the engineer that the clock is thoroughly cleaned and whose name is inscribed on the bell, but that this piece of our national heritage is some believe it is named after Ben Caunt, a safeguarded for future generations.” Each champion heavyweight boxer of the 1850s. clock face is made up of 312 pieces of The bell, with its distinctive “bongs”, sounds white opaque glass, held together by a cast out the hours over central London with dif- iron framework. The clock inside the tower ferent chimes to mark every quarter of the continues to keep time during the cleaning hour. —AFP

LONDON: Technicians carry out cleaning and maintenance work on one of the faces of the Great Clock atop the landmark Elizabeth Tower that houses Big Ben yesterday. —AFP European stock markets rebound Improved sentiment as geopolitical risk subsides

LONDON: Europe’s main stock Nasdaq 100 hit its highest level in rates if the jobs market continues Billiton, which posted a 23.2-per- markets rose yesterday, extending 14 years. to improve. Traders said tame US cent jump in annual net profit and the previous day’s surge as easing The continued move higher inflation, which rose a bare 0.1 per- said it would spin off non-core tensions in Ukraine fuelled opti- “reflects investors’ improved senti- cent in July despite strong gains in assets to cut costs and boost out- SYDNEY: In this file photo, Australian mining billionaire and leader of the mism ahead of a speech by the ment as geopolitical risk subsides food costs according to official put. Shares slumped 4.62 percent head of the US central bank this and the prospect of premature data, left the door open for the Fed to 1,971.50 pence in London as it Palmer United Party (PUP) Clive Palmer speaks during a press conference in week. London’s benchmark FTSE central bank tightening fades”, said to keep rates low. unveiled plans to demerge parts Sydney. —AFP 100 index climbed 0.51 percent to Craig Erlam, market analyst at US stocks opened higher yester- of its business to focus exclusively stand at 6,775.62 points in mid- Alpari traders. World oil prices also day following strong housing con- on its core operations: iron ore, afternoon deals. Frankfurt’s DAX 30 rebounded, supported by investors struction data and a solid earnings copper, petroleum, coal and Australia tycoon blasts jumped 0.98 percent to 9,335.53 seeking bargains after prices tum- report from retailer Home Depot. potash. Traders said rumors of the points and in Paris the CAC 40 bled the previous day amid the Five minutes into trade, the Dow separation had previously sup- Chinese govt ‘mongrels’ index won 0.35 percent to 4,245.25 easing conflicts in Ukraine and Jones Industrial Average 0.27 per- ported the share price and that compared with Monday’s close. Iraq. Traders were looking ahead to cent to 16,883.63. The broad-based yesterday’s drop was down to SYDNEY: Outspoken Australian tycoon Clive workers here to destroy our wage system... On the foreign exchange mar- a speech on Friday by Federal S&P 500 gained 0.23 percent to profit-taking. Palmer has labeled the Chinese government they want to take over our ports and get our ket, the euro fell against the dollar Reserve chief Janet Yellen for any 1,976.29, while the tech-rich Shares in Maersk jumped 5.19 “mongrels” who “shoot their own people” in a resources for free. “So far they’ve shifted but rose versus the British pound. hint of a change to the US central Nasdaq Composite Index 0.17 per- percent after the world’s largest televised tirade that was criticized by Aus$200 million worth of iron ore out of this European stock markets had bank’s interest rate plans. cent to 4,515.82. container-shipping line raised its Canberra yesterday as “hugely damaging”. country without paying for it. I don’t mind rebounded sharply on Monday on Last month, Yellen said that the full-year profit forecast. Imperial The billionaire politician, who was elected to standing up against the Chinese.” Earlier this easing investor concerns over the Fed would hold its near-zero inter- BHP Billiton splits Tobacco, which makes Davidoff parliament last year as head of the Palmer year, Citic Pacific president Zhang Jijing unrest in east Ukraine and Iraq est rate policy until the US econo- The top corporate story was and Gauloises cigarettes, gained United Party and is known for his efforts to warned that legal issues with Palmer could while across the Atlantic, the my strengthened, but may raise the world’s biggest miner BHP 2.14 percent after reporting a rebuild a replica of the Titanic. have broader implications for Chinese busi- smaller fall in sales than expected The flamboyant mining baron is locked in ness in Australia. by analysts. On foreign exchange a long-running dispute over royalties and markets, the euro fell to $1.3324 port operations with Hong Kong-based Citic ‘Offensive, unnecessary, from $1.3363 late on Monday in Pacific relating to its Sino Iron magnetite and unacceptable’ New York. The European single project, a partnership with China’s state- Meanwhile, Palmer’s comments provoked currency increased to 80.13 pence owned Metallurgical Group Corporation. outrage on Chinese social media. One user of from 79.88 pence on Monday, State-owned Citic is mining for magnetite Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, while the pound slid to $1.6618 iron ore on Palmer’s sprawling Australian said he was “using nationalism and chauvin- from $1.6728. Mardie Station cattle farm under a 25-year ism to stir up Australian hostility to China, The pound came under pres- lease. But the two sides have clashed over which could help cover up the truth that he sure on news of a dip in inflation what share of the proceeds are owed to the stole money from Chinese companies to win in Britain, which eased the pres- Australian businessman and whether his the vote”. sure on the Bank of England to company, Mineralogy, is the legal operator of As he faced a storm of criticism, Palmer raise its main interest rate more the project’s export terminal at Port Preston. attempted to backtrack in a tweet yesterday than five years after it was cut to Citic has also accused Mineralogy of that said: “My Q&A comments not intended to the current record-low of 0.50 per- siphoning off millions of dollars from a busi- refer to Chinese people but to Chinese com- ness bank account to fund Palmer’s election pany which is taking Australian resources & cent. Markets still expect the BoE campaign. The mogul denies the allegations not paying.” Foreign Minister Jule Bishop to raise borrowing costs in the and told the Australian Broadcasting called his outburst “offensive, unnecessary first half of 2015, if not before, as Corporation’s live Q&A current affairs panel and unacceptable for a member of parlia- Britain’s economy is achieving sol- discussion late Monday that he was “owed ment” while Treasurer Joe Hockey said the id growth in comparison to many about Aus$500 million ($465 million) by the comments were “hugely damaging” to the of its euro-zone neighbors. Communist Chinese government”. “We’ll be country’s largest trading partner. “Ultimately Asian stocks rose sharply yes- suing them and they’ll be answering the he is a big beneficiary of a Chinese investment terday, with Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 questions,” he said. partner, someone who has paid to help him index to closing up 0.83 percent. “We’ve had three judgments in the develop his resources,” Hockey said.”He is in a The Japanese benchmark index Federal Court and the Supreme Court of very obvious legal dispute with his Chinese benefited also from a weaker yen, Western Australia and an arbitration against partners, but I’d say this to Mr Palmer-please which helps to boost Japanese these Chinese mongrels-I’m saying that do not bring down the rest of Australia companies’ exports. Elsewhere because they’re Communist, they shoot their because of your bias.” One of the tycoon’s LIAONING: A man walks past a wall decorated with curved mirrors in Shenyang, northeast China’s yesterday, the price of gold rose to own people, they haven’t got a justice sys- Palmer United Party senators came to his Liaoning province yesterday. Foreign direct investment (FDI) into China dropped by more than a $1,300.25 an ounce from $1,296.75 tem and they want to take over this country. defense, with Jacqui Lambie telling reporters sixth year-on-year to a two-year low in July, the government said, but denied any link to Beijing’s on Monday on the London Bullion “And we’re not going to let them,” he added. China was led by “an aggressive, anti-democ- multiple probes into foreign companies. —AFP Market. —AFP “The Chinese government wants to bring ratic, totalitarian government”. —AFP Iraq Kurdistan oil export capacity ready to double

DUHOK: The capacity of Iraqi Kurdistan’s independ- finished, but the 200,000 bpd to 220,0000 bpd of Exports finding customers Kurdish region has alarmed Baghdad, drawn the ent oil pipeline will almost double to at least 200,000 crude flow will be dependent on the rising oil pro- The tricky part for Iraqi Kurdistan has so far first US air strikes since the end of American occu- barrels per day by the end of this month, helping the duction in northern Iraq,” one official said. been to find buyers to export the oil. Baghdad’s pation in 2001 and sent tens of thousands of semi-autonomous region increase exports and rev- A joint venture of Anglo-Turkish company Genel persistent efforts to block sales initially deterred Yazidis and Christians fleeing for their lives. “We enue, industry sources and officials said. Oil rev- Energy and Sinopec’s Addax Petroleum is working to some customers. Iraqi Kurdistan delivered its provide a lifeline to this region; we boost the enues are a lifeline for the Kurdish Regional ramp up production in the Taq Taq oilfield, Iraqi third major cargo of crude oil out of Ceyhan and a economy. Our machines have not stopped; all Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, whose pesh- Kurdistan’s largest, to 140,000 bpd by the end of this fourth was sailing to Croatia on Friday. our staff both expats and locals are at work. Our merga forces are being supported by US air strikes in month. After months of fruitless talks with Iraq’s cen- Around $350 million in oil sales have been target is to improve production,” Onder Tekeli, their battle against the radical Sunni militants of tral government, the KRG in May started to export completed or are under way from shipments sent general manager of Taq Taq Operating Company Islamic State. crude on its own independent pipeline to the via the KRG pipeline, a Reuters analysis of satellite (TTOPCO), told Reuters during a short ride inside “Work to increase the capacity will probably be Turkish Mediterranean export terminal of Ceyhan. tracking data shows. One cargo of Kurdish crude the facility. Yesterday, Iraqi forces launched an completed by the end of this month. Once it is com- The KRG pipeline is located at a distance from the aboard the United Kalavrvta tanker has been sit- offensive to drive Islamic State fighters out of pleted, pumping can increase to up to 220,000 bar- areas controlled by Islamic militants. The move has ting off the Texas coast since late July after Tikrit, but they halted their advance after facing rels per day (bpd),” one Turkish official told Reuters. infuriated Baghdad, which claims the sole authority Baghdad asked a court to seize the vessel. The fierce resistance, officers in the operations room Industry sources also said the capacity of the to manage Iraqi oil. It has cut allocations to the KRG in ship remains in international waters, unable to told Reuters. pipeline to Turkey, which began operating at the the budget and has tried to block KRG’s oil sales by unload, while the KRG has appealed the case. The Sunni militants’ advance towards Arbil, start of this year, was set to rise to around 200,000- taking legal action. So far, 7.8 million barrels of The KRG has said it plans to increase oil sales which followed a shockingly fast seizure of Iraq’s 220,000 bpd from 100,000-120,000 bpd before the Kurdish oil have flowed through the independent to around 1 million bpd by the end of 2015, third-biggest city Mosul in June, have stunned the flow stopped for upgrade work. pipeline, of which 6.5 million have been loaded onto which could give it enough economic clout to international community and prompted Western One of the sources said capacity could climb to tankers for export. The Kurds have managed to load speed a move to independence. Meanwhile, a oil companies including ExxonMobil and Chevron 250,000 bpd in two to three months’ time. “The seven export cargoes from Ceyhan, according to drive earlier this month by Islamic State militants to evacuate staff. The fall in oil output from the crude flow is set to restart when the upgrade work is Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz. through northern Iraq to the border with the region has been negligible, however. —Reuters BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 Natural gas can keep those motors running Gas-fuel vendors pin hopes on new-gen engines

LONDON: Cheap natural gas is starting to rev- suggests that gas-fuelled vehicles are making The concept has powerful strategic and (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG) to lent gallons in 2014, it will still amount to olutionize traffic on US roads, cutting bills for progress. Gas as a transport fuel is sometimes financial backing from engine manufacturer the public remain rare. Set against these less than 0.1 percent of all US fuel sales. some of the country’s heaviest fuel users portrayed as a cottage industry, but the truth Cummins, gas producer Chesapeake Energy disadvantages, however, is the substan- But Clean Energy has big ambitions and while reducing carbon emissions and other is rather different. Gas-fuelled vehicles have and equipment maker and financing compa- tially lower price of natural gas. believes it is well positioned to capture pollution. The revolution is still in its very early strong support from some of the biggest and ny General Electric. Leading truck manufactur- Between 2011 and 2013 compressed expected future growth in demand for stages. Gas remains a niche vehicle fuel, with most powerful names in truck manufacturing ers including Freightliner, International, CNG and LNG delivered cost savings of alternative-fuelled vehicles. last year’s nationwide consumption less than and petroleum. Kenworth, Peterbilt, Mack and Volvo all offer more than $1 per gallon on an energy the amount of gasoline and diesel dispensed Royal Dutch Shell is constructing a network natural gas trucks using Cummins’ ISX 12G equivalent basis compared with gasoline Clean energy in the tiny state of Vermont. But gas consump- of natural gas fuelling stations at truck stops engine, which one major fuel supplier hopes and diesel to California customers. For The company owns, operates and tion by motorists, taxis, refuse trucks, transit along the interstate highway system in associ- will be a “game changer” for the industry. individual vehicles and fleet operators supplies 516 refueling stations dispens- operators and logistics companies is growing- ation with TravelCenters of America, an exist- that use a lot of fuel each year, the sav- ing CNG, LNG or biogas, up from 224 at ly rapidly at a time when overall gasoline and ing truck refueling operator. Love’s Travel Trade-offs ings on fuel can more than offset the the start of 2011. Some of these stations diesel sales are flat. Stops, Blu LNG, Kwik Trip, Questar Fueling and Gas-fuelled vehicles typically cost signifi- increased equipment costs and incon- are open to the public, but the majority Like other bold gambles on new technolo- TruStar Energy are also adding gas-refueling cantly more than conventional gasoline and venience arising from restricted refueling are private stations operated on behalf of gy, there is no guarantee that this one will pay systems at locations across the United States diesel-powered equivalents, while fuelling infrastructure. transit and refuse companies or other off. But the steady rise in natural gas sales as well as parts of Canada. stations dispensing compressed natural gas Switching to gas makes most sense fleet operators. for high-mileage vehicles and those with In 2013 Clean Energy served 779 fleet very large engines, which explains why customers operating approximately taxi fleets, transit operators, refuse col- 35,000 natural gas vehicles and had lectors, airport shuttles and trucking fuelling stations in 39 states across the companies have shown the most interest United States, plus the provinces of in gas-fuelled engines. Ontario and British Columbia in Canada. In the first six months of this year the Slow start company added another 43 CNG fleet Gas conversion, however, has been customers, accounting for an extra 9.8 plagued with the teething problems typ- million gallons of sales, and 11 new LNG ical in any new technology and there is customers, adding an extra 6.5 million still competition between companies gallons. promoting either CNG or LNG as the best Clean Energy has been building a net- fuel. The transition has not been helped work of refueling stations along major by early gas-fuelled engines not always transportation corridors, which it calls being suitable for certain customer “America’s Natural Gas Highway” (ANGH). groups. Cummins, the leading engine The idea is to guarantee refueling facili- manufacturer, supplied 8.9 lire and 15 ties for coast-to-coast trucking compa- liter engines suitable for LNG, but the for- nies. More than 80 ANGH stations have mer did not deliver enough horsepower been built, though only a minority are and the latter was too large for efficient open to the public, with the company operation by most potential users. waiting for customer demand to Gas-fuel vendors are pinning their increase. hopes on a new generation of 12 liter Building so much infrastructure has Cummins engines, led by the ISX 12G, to pushed Clean Energy deep into debt. The speed the spread of gas-fuelled vehicles. company posted a pre-tax loss of $60 Notwithstanding the problems, sales of million in the first half of this year, bring- gas as a road transport fuel are rising ing total pre-tax losses since the start of rapidly. Clean Energy Fuels, the leading 2011 to $271 million. “We have a history provider of natural gas as an alternative of losses and may incur additional losses fuel for vehicles in the United States and in future,” the company admits, adding in Canada based on sales volumes and the regulatory filings that it might never number of refueling stations, has report- achieve or maintain profitability and that ed rapid and sustained growth in the investment in the business “involves a amount of CNG and LNG sold since 2009. high degree of risk”. Clean Energy Fuels sold almost 65 mil- The company had consolidated debt lion gasoline gallons equivalent (GGE) of of more than $600 million on June 30, natural gas fuels in the second quarter of according to its quarterly filing with the this year, up from 50 million in the same Securities and Exchange Commission. period of 2012 and 25 million in 2009. Clean Energy is essentially a concept CNG accounts for two thirds of the com- company dedicated to the idea that pany’s sales, but deliveries of both CNG cheap gas could grab a significant share and LNG have been rising steadily over of North America’s giant fuel market. the past five years. Roughly half of all The main risks are that the company natural gas sales for transport fuel are in will run out of cash before natural gas California, according to the Energy vehicles go mainstream or oil prices fall Information Administration, and gas enough to spoil the economics of switch- sales remain tiny compared with other ing. But otherwise the concept is a good fuels. one. Gas is cheap and abundant in North US drivers purchased 174 billion gal- America and the engine technology is lons of gasoline and diesel last year, mature. Gas will not be suitable for all according to the Federal Highway motorists, but for a group of the heaviest Administration. So if Clean Energy man- users there is a compelling argument for ages to sell 170 million gasoline equiva- making the switch. — Reuters

BUCHAREST: Picture shows former President of Rompetrol Dinu Patriciu addressing the media at the entrance of the court house in Bucharest. — AFP Ex-Romanian politician, oil tycoon dies at 64

BUCHAREST: Dinu Patriciu, an emblem- and admired, he quit parliament in 2003 atic politician from Romania’s early post- to focus on business and soon became a communist years whose later career as bitter rival of President Traian Basescu. an oil tycoon was marred by legal trou- “He wanted to bring back idealism to bles, died yesterday after a series of ill- our country; he had libertarian ideas nesses. He was 64. Patriciu died yester- which weren’t always accepted,” said day in a London hospital, said former Dinu Zamfirescu, a former dissident and Prime Minister Petre Roman, a family party colleague. Basescu successfully friend. Roman said he had been ill with sued for libel in 2011 after accusing cancer and liver disease. His family said Patriciu of circulating a video that that he died from a lung infection and appeared to show the president hitting a was surrounded by family members. boy during a 2004 campaign. Basescu Patriciu was a founder of the center-right accused Patriciu of tampering with the Liberal Party, which emerged in 1990 film. Separately, Patriciu was accused - after communism ended to embrace and ultimately acquitted - of defrauding democracy and the free market. Patriciu, the state, money laundering and illegally a suave former architect, was one of the manipulating markets to benefit first Romanian entrepreneurs, though his Rompetrol SA, the oil firm he led until real estate investments suffered during 2007. He is survived by two children and the economic downturn. Both envied his estranged wife. — AP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 BHP to spin off assets as annual net profit soars

SYDNEY: Global mining giant BHP Billiton results showed the company had “delivered posted a 23.2 percent jump in annual net on its commitments”. profit yesterday and said it would create a “Our operational performance continued new independent company by spinning off to improve, enabling us to exceed produc- non-core assets to cut costs and boost pro- tion guidance for a number of our core ductivity. The $13.83 billion result in the commodities including iron ore, metallurgi- year to June 30 — the first time BHP has cal coal and petroleum liquids,” he added. posted a year-on-year increase in net profit BHP said a balanced global economic out- since 2011 — came as spending cuts and look would provide support for its com- strong production numbers offset weaker modities, although “with more moderate commodity prices. “With robust volume rates of demand growth”. growth and further productivity gains “In the longer term, wealth creation and expected, we remain confident in the out- urbanization will remain the primary drivers look for the group,” said chief executive of commodities demand, although the tran- Andrew Mackenzie. BHP had reported a sition to consumption-led growth in emerg- record net profit of $23.65 billion in 2011. ing economies should provide particular The world’s biggest miner said that to support for industrial metals, energy and maintain its dominant position it planned fertilizers.” to demerge parts of its business to focus exclusively on its core long-life operations- Demerger by H1 2015 iron ore, copper, petroleum, coal and BHP said the new entity, NewCo, would potash. The new entity, to be named have assets in five countries, with its head- NewCo, will include some of its aluminum, quarters in Perth, the capital of Western coal, manganese, nickel and silver assets, Australia. It will be listed in Australia, with a with the demerger expected to be complet- secondary listing on the Johannesburg ed in the first half of the 2015 calendar year. Stock Exchange. Long-serving David “For over a century, BHP Billiton has pro- Crawford, a current BHP board member, will gressively reshaped its business to maintain be the new chairman with current BHP its industry leadership,” chairman Jac Nasser head of finance Graham Kerr the chief exec- said. “We believe the proposed demerger, if utive. BHP first signaled in April it may sell implemented, will accelerate the simplifica- some assets but did not say how this would tion of the Group’s portfolio, provide be achieved, with reports at the time saying SYDNEY: In this file photo, smoke billows out of a chimney stack of BHP steelwork factories at Port Kembla, south of Sydney, Australia. — AP investors with choice and unlock value in the new company could be worth about both companies. “Our shareholders will Aus$20 billion ($18.5 billion). have the opportunity to vote on this pro- “The assets that would form the new posal once the necessary approvals are in company are not of the same size as those France to boost housing, place.” in our major basins but many are among the largest and highest-quality in their sec- Productivity gains tors,” Mackenzie said. “We believe they will This year’s annual profit was slightly be more valuable in a purpose-built, inde- cut taxes for low-paid higher than the $13.6 billion forecast by pendent company than they would be in analysts. The productivity boost saw under- BHP Billiton.” lying profit rise by 10 percent to $13.4 bil- NewCo will employ about 24,000 staff Hollande trying to pull economy out of stagnation lion as the miner booked $2.9 billion in cost and contractors. Its operations will include savings. BHP’s balance sheet strengthened the silver and lead Cannington mine in during the period, with net debt falling by Australia, and manganese, aluminum and PARIS: The French government will announce deficit and sniping from within his own party ranks; Dimanche showed that more than eight in 10 $1.7 billion to $25.8 billion. coal mines in Australia and South Africa. It measures soon to boost construction and give tax President Francois Hollande faces a mountain of French people had no confidence in the govern- The miner declared a final dividend of will also take in the Cerro Matoso nickel relief to low income households, a minister said yes- problems when French political life restarts after ment when it came to economic growth, reducing $1.21, a four percent year-on-year increase. mine in Colombia but not Nickel West in terday as President Francois Hollande tries to pull the long summer holidays. The government today the deficit or fighting unemployment. Shares in BHP closed 1.35 percent higher at Australia, which BHP said it hoped to sell the economy out of stagnation. Real estate has will hold its first cabinet meeting of what is known Hollande’s personal poll ratings are still close to Aus$39.68 ($37.06) on the Australian separately. The spin-off mostly reverses the become a major headache for the government, as the political “rentree,” or return from holidays, just historic lows, despite a small uptick in recent Securities Exchange ahead of the profit merger between Australia’s BHP and British- with housing starts in France down to a 16-year low a week after the finance minister admitted the months. “There is an extremely strong sense of mis- announcement, with Mackenzie saying the based Billiton in 2001. — AFP - a serious drag on the economy which property economy had “broken down,” with zero growth over trust, of worry, of defeatism in the face of the crisis,” developers blame partly on regulations that took the past six months. Prime Minister Manuel Valls IFOP analyst Frederic Dabi told AFP. “The presidency effect this year to set rent limits in cities with more had already warned the autumn months would be has broken down and we’re only in the middle of than 50,000 people. Tax relief has been expected “difficult,” with France’s unemployment at a record the five-year term.” since the government said it would find a replace- high and the European Union increasingly worried ment solution for payroll tax cuts struck down by about the country’s budget deficit. ‘Augustus horribilis’ France’s top court this month. The government was forced to slash this year’s Capping what left-leaning daily Liberation called “Urgent measures will be announced soon,” growth forecast in half to 0.5 percent after figures an “Augustus horribilis” for Hollande, a top member Junior European Affairs Minister Harlem Desir told showed the economy failed to grow in the second of his own socialist party, Martine Aubry, launched a BFM TV. “We will, in the coming days, propose a new quarter after stagnating in the first three months. vicious broadside at the French leader over plans to tax relief measure for low-income households.” “We have growth that is far too weak, in France and change the country’s regional boundaries. “For the Desir declined to say if any of these measures in Europe,” complained Valls after a meeting with past two years, in all areas, if we had had some would be announced today at the government’s Hollande to prepare the ground for September. vision and a method, we would have had fewer first cabinet meeting after the summer break. He Adding to Hollande’s economic problems, France problems,” Aubry said. said discussions were ongoing on options including appears to be spiraling down into a deflationary The plan to redraw the map of France, cutting increasing welfare benefits. cycle due to a lack of activity, with prices actually the number of regions from 22 to 13, is likely to be “We cannot accept that housing remains strand- slipping backwards last month. one of the most controversial political issues of the ed,” he said, adding that the sector was a priority to “What the French are desperately waiting for are autumn. The radical left party, a small coalition part- kick-start the economy and create jobs. France solutions or, if possible, results. But they can’t see ner with one minister and two junior ministers in slashed its growth forecasts for both 2014 and 2015 either of those things,” fumed an editorial in the Hollande’s cabinet, has threatened to resign from last week and said it would miss its public deficit centre-left Le Monde daily. “For the head of state, the government if it is “not heard” on the issue of target this year after data showed the economy the challenge is considerable... he has to come up regional reform. And lurking in the wings is political delivered no growth for the second quarter in a with answers. No matter what the political risk.” rival Nicolas Sarkozy, who has vowed to decide in row.Desir also reiterated French calls for European Hollande’s main response to France’s economic the coming months whether he will re-enter French SAN ANTONIO: In this file photo, customers exit a Dollar General store, in San Union peers to give France some more leeway on plight also suffered a major setback during the holi- politics. Beset with legal difficulties, the centre-right Antonio. — AP meeting its deficit targets and for the EU and its day months, as the Constitutional Court slapped former president has been weighing up whether to central bank to do more to boost growth. “The ECB down part of his “Responsibility Pact,” which he stand for the leadership of his embattled UMP par- must have a bolder policy,” he said, also repeating hoped would create jobs and kick-start the econo- ty. However, some analysts suggest a Sarkozy return Dollar General enters calls for a “major” European investment plan. He my. The court rejected a key plank of the reform could even prove to be a boon for Hollande as the asked for more details on a pledge by incoming that would reduce social charges for low-income president might benefit from going up against such bidding for Family Dollar European Commission President Jean-Claude employees, dashing hopes of sparking consump- a divisive figure. “Nicolas Sarkozy is the best oppo- Juncker for a 300-billion-euro public-private invest- tion by putting more money in workers’ pockets. nent Francois Hollande could dream of for the next NEW YORK: The nation’s top dollar store tan areas, while Dollar General’s strength ment program over the next three years. But Valls insisted: “Yes, the policies that the presi- presidential election” due in 2017, political analyst chains are betting big that their once- lies in rural markets. “Maybe we’ll be able dent has put in place will take time to produce Stephane Rozes, told AFP. Sarkozy is “embroiled in thriving business will make a comeback if to learn something from each other,” he French political life restarts results, but there is no question of changing course.” legal difficulties and every time he comments on an they band together. Dollar General, the said. The two businesses also have similar nation’s largest dollar-store chain, started pricing strategies, offering shoppers Meanwhile, a stagnant economy, ballooning A survey by polling institute IFOP in the Journal du issue, he splits his own camp”. — Agencies a bidding war on Monday when it most products at $10 or less. offered approximately $8.95 billion for At Dollar Tree, everything in its stores rival Family Dollar. It was an attempt to costs just a buck. While Dollar General trump Dollar Tree, which agreed to Home Depot Q2 profit climbs 14% acquire Family Dollar for $8.5 billion last and Family Dollar have several compli- month. mentary aspects of their businesses, a The bidding war comes as the chains combination would also help eliminate ATLANTA: Home Depot’s fiscal second-quarter net look for ways to grow sales and market some competition in the sector. income increased 14 percent thanks to a rebound share at a time when their core low- Dreiling said that even though retail- in its spring selling season. Spring is the biggest income customers remain financially ers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have been season for home-improvement retailers, as home- stretched during the economic recovery. stepping up the pace to open smaller- owners and others work on their yards and gar- The companies have hit a particularly format stores to try to lure lower-income dens. While the season started off a bit cold and rough patch after years of expanding customers, Dollar General’s business has rainy, weather improved and shoppers headed out rapidly during the recession when peo- actually been hurt worse when a Family to stores to pick up supplies. ple shopped more at dollar stores to save Dollar store opens near one of its loca- The No. 1 home improvement retailer’s quarter- money. Now, the companies are hoping tions. But that doesn’t mean that Wal- ly performance beat analysts’ estimates, and the they’ll be more profitable and efficient if Mart and other retailers like Kroger Co. Atlanta company raised its full-year earnings fore- they consolidate. aren’t a competitive threat still. By bring- cast again. Shares of Home Depot rose yesterday Ken Perkins, president of RetailMetrics ing Family Dollar into the fold, Dollar premarket trading. For the three months ended LLC, a retail research firm, said any merg- General can not only eliminate the rivalry Aug 3, Home Depot Inc earned $2.05 billion, or er will wind up being good for cus- - it can also bolster its muscle to help $1.52 per share. A year earlier it earned $1.8 billion, tomers. At a time when shoppers are ward offer bigger players. or $1.24 per share. Analysts surveyed by Zacks “extremely deal oriented,” a merger will A Dollar General and Family Dollar Investment Research predicted earnings of $1.44 enable the companies to use their scale combination would create a chain with per share. Home Depot’s stock gained $2.53, or 3 to lower the overall costs of purchasing almost 20,000 stores in 46 states and percent, to $86.12 before the market open. goods, which will help bring prices lower. sales of more than $28 billion. Family Revenue climbed nearly 6 percent to $23.81 billion “It feels like a race to the bottom with Dollar has also come into play because of from $22.52 billion. This beat Wall Street’s forecast some of the pricing,” he said. For Dollar its business struggles. The Charlotte, of $23.57 billion. Sales at stores open at least a North Carolina company has been shut- year, a key gauge of a retailer’s health, rose 5.8 per- General, the decision to enter the fray BOSTON: In this photo, a shopper checks out with her lumber at a Home Depot in Boston. — AP was clear because Family Dollar had tering stores and cutting prices in hopes cent. In the US, the metric increased 6.4 percent. been on its radar for a while. Dollar of boosting its financial performance. In Sales at stores open at least a year excludes General Chairman and CEO Rick Dreiling June investor Carl Icahn urged the com- results from stores recently opened or closed. Venture firm tells others how said during a conference call Monday pany to put itself up for sale. Aside from the better weather, Home Depot has that the company had expressed interest Dollar General Corp. said it would pay been helped of late by an improving US housing in combining with Family Dollar multiple $78.50 per share in cash. That’s 3 percent market. Home prices have started to rise, and to invest in private companies times over the last few years. higher than FamilyDollar Stores Inc’s there’s been steady job growth and fewer troubled While Dreiling didn’t disclose if there’d Friday closing price of $76.06. Dollar loans dating back to the housing-bubble days. SAN FRANCISCO: A Washington, DC-area compa- ing up the companies’ and the funds’ values, the been any sticking points in working out General put the deal’s value at $9.7 bil- While the housing market has recently had a bit of ny that invests in startup companies is moving lawyers say. But Paul Singh, who founded an agreement in the past, he said Dollar lion. Last month Dollar Tree Inc. offered trouble maintaining that momentum, many home into a new line of business: advising others on Disruption Corp last year, said he felt compelled General was very surprised when Family to pay $59.60 in cash and the equivalent owners are spending more to renovate their how they too can invest in startups. Disruption to embrace the advisory business to give ordinary Dollar announced its deal with of $14.90 in shares of Dollar Tree for each homes. Yetserday the Commerce Department Corp, which runs the Crystal Tech Fund in Crystal investors a chance at private companies, an DollarTree. Despite the shock, Dollar share held. The companies valued the reports on US home construction in July. The City, Virginia, said yesterday that regulators had investment category normally reserved for big General remains undeterred in trying to transaction at $74.50 per share at the expectation is that construction increased 8.1 per- licensed it to provide investment guidance. It is investors like endowments. “Private companies work out a transaction. time. Including debt and other costs, the cent. Looking ahead, Home Depot now foresees licensed by the state of Virginia and appears on represent the last true wealth generation for the “It’s all water under the bridge. We’re companies estimated the transaction to fiscal 2014 earnings of $4.52 per share. Its prior the Securities and Exchange Commission’s list of average person,” he said in an interview. “What ready to move forward,” Dreiling said. be worth approximately $9.2 billion. It outlook was for $4.42 per share. Before that, the registered advisors. other avenue has the possibility of big returns, While Dreiling was planning to retire remains to be seen if Dollar Tree will retailer anticipated earnings of $4.38 per share. The move is an unusual one, say securities maybe returning 10 or 100 times on that money?” lawyers, as most venture funds like the relative Disruption plans to offer services such as indi- from the CEO post in May 2015, he’s boost its offer for Family Dollar, and Wal- Analysts polled by FactSet expect earnings of $4.41 lack of regulation they are entitled to under secu- vidual reports on private companies or sectors; agreed to postpone his retirement until Mart recently said it’s not interested in per share. The chain maintained its guidance for rities law. Registering as an investment advisor custom research; portfolio reviews; and access to May 2016 in order to help with the inte- acquiring a dollar chain. Dreiling would full-year sales to be up about 4.8 percent from the brings a new layer of complex reporting require- an online research tool. Fees will start at $300. The gration of the two companies. One rea- not comment on whether Dollar General previous year. Based on 2013’s revenue of $78.81 ments. Also, the venture funds could open them- company will have to make sure the advice it dis- son Dollar General is angling for Family would be willing to increase its bid. “We billion, this implies approximately $82.6 billion. selves up to charges of conflict of interest if they penses is suitable for each client with the result Dollar is its customer base. Dreiling said have a great deal on the table. Let’s let it Wall Street predicts $82.5 billion. Home Depot’s end up recommending some of the same compa- that most will be wealthy given the high risks that FamilyDollar is strong in metropoli- all play out,” he said. — AP smaller rival Lowe’s Cos. reports its financial results nies the funds already invest in, potentially driv- involved. —Reuters yesterday. — AP BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014

New BMW X4 Sports Activity Coupe expands range in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Fifteen years ago the automotive land- in Kuwait,” he added. Occupants in the new model enjoy an elevated scape changed when BMW introduced the Sports seating position, with the front and rear seats. Activity Vehicle with the launch of the X5 in 1999. Muscular and agile appearance Equally impressive is the load capacity available What started as a single model has spawned an Visually, the new BMW X4 combines impressive (500-1,400 liters), which can be used in a wide vari- entire X range comprising the BMW X1, X3, X5, X5 sports car performance and Sports Activity Vehicle ety of ways thanks to the standard 40:20:40 split M, X6 and X6 M variants; and now these successful versatility with the elegance of a coupe. From the rear seat bench. Everyday usability is further models will be joined by the all new BMW X4. front, the car is immediately recognizable as a enhanced by the standard-fitted automatically During its launch at the Ali Alghanim & Sons member of the BMW X family: The large air intakes opening tailgate. This can be further specified with Automotive’s BMW showroom, the first-ever BMW positioned on the outer edges of the front end and the Comfort Access Option for extra convenience, X4’s character was unleashed at the BMW X display the precise character lines in the front apron lend which allows it to be opened with a movement of area in the presence of distinguished members of the X4 a more muscular and agile appearance. And the foot.

Safety and convenience The BMW X4 is equipped with BMW ConnectedDrive features that comprise a plethora of Driver Assistance systems that provide the driver with safety, convenience and infotainment at an unmatched level. Some of these include high-reso- lution, full-color Head-Up Display, which projects all important driving information and the assis- tance systems displays into the driver’s field of view. What’s more, the latest-generation Navigation System Professional with ECO PRO route guidance now teams up with the iDrive Touch Controller whose touchpad allows texts eg: a navigation destination - to be easily inputted by using a finger. Safety and convenience can be further enhanced by optional premium features like the anti-dazzle High Beam Assistant, Driving Assistant Plus including Pedestrian and Collision Warning, the media who were invited to the event. “We are the car’s wide track, visually low centre of gravity, Active Cruise Control with Stop & Go function and extremely proud to present another pioneering long wheelbase and pronounced wheel arches Lane Departure Warning. Available as options are concept and design from the BMW X family,” said emphasize its good road holding. Lane Change Warning, Surround View and the Yousuf Al-Qatami, General Manager of Ali Alghanim The coupe-like roofline of the BMW X4 reaches Parking Assistant, which steers the car & Sons Automotive. “The new BMW X4 stands out its highest point over the front seats, reflecting the autonomously into parking spaces parallel to the from the crowd with its striking design that makes a traditional driver focus of BMW cars, before drop- road. statement. We are indeed thrilled to be able to ping gently down towards the trailing edge of the The BMW X4 will be available with two powerful bring to the Kuwaiti market the all new BMW X4 tailgate. These stretched lines underline the sport- engines, all with BMW TwinPower Turbo technolo- which will add to our X model success story.” ing coupe character of the X4 particularly effective- gy. Topping the range is the BMW X4 xDrive35i “As the new BMW X4 fuses the quintessential ly. The standalone design of the BMW X4 is further with a 3.0-litre straight-six petrol engine delivering power of an X model with the aesthetics of a classic reinforced by the fresh interpretation of the signa- a maximum output of 225 kW/306 hp and pro- coupe, and its dynamic contours and coupe-style ture swage line running along the sides of models. pelling the vehicle from 0 to 100 km/h in just 5.5 silhouette transforming every road into a stage on The generously sized interior of the new BMW seconds. In addition, the xDrive28i has a 2.0-litre which it is the undisputed star of the show, we are X4 combines sportiness and exclusivity with high- four-cylinder engine delivering 180 kW/245 hp and extremely confident that it won’t be for long before level functionality. Every control element is angled goes from 0-100 km/h in 6.4 seconds. Booking is the X4 becomes another undisputed market leader towards the driver, for optimal ergonomics. now open for the new BMW X4.

Etihad Airways appoints Al-Tijari announces Najma senior manager of account Daily Draw winners public affairs for US Etihad Airways announced the introduction of services between KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait held the Al- biggest daily draw in Kuwait with the launch of the the money is in the account one week prior to appointment of Matthew Jennings, Los Angeles International Airport Najma Account Daily draw on August 17, 2014. The new Najma account. Customers of the bank can the daily draw or 2 months prior to the mega draw was held under the supervision of the Ministry now enjoy a KD 7,000 daily prize which is the high- draw. In addition, for each KD 25 a customer can a seasoned federal and internation- (LAX) and Abu Dhabi (AUH), and of Commerce & Industry represented by Saquer Al- est in the country and another 4 mega prizes dur- get one chance for winning instead of KD 50. al government affairs leader with new service launches to San Manaie. ing the year worth KD 100,000 each on different Commercial Bank of Kuwait takes this opportuni- more than a decade of experience, Francisco International Airport The winners of the Najma Daily Draw who get occasions: The National Day, Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha ty to congratulate all lucky winners and also to the newly-created Senior (SFO) and Dallas-Fort Worth KD 7,000 are: Montaz Bageem Sayid, Rana Abed Ali and on June 19 which is the date of the bank’s extends appreciation to the Ministry of Manager of Public Affairs post, International Airport (DFW) sched- Abdullah, Ramah Naeem Hamada, Adel Fahad establishment. Commerce and Industry for their effective super- based in Washington, DC. uled to start on November 18 and Khalaf and Latifah Eid Al-Azmi. With a minimum balance of KD 500, customers vision of the draws which were conducted in an Jennings will be responsible for December 3 respectively. In addi- The Commercial Bank of Kuwait announces the will be eligible for the daily draw provided that orderly and organized manner. engaging with key stakeholders, tion to serving Washington, DC’s including US policymakers, about Dulles International Airport (IAD), Etihad Airways and the benefits the Kuwait's FM sector set carrier’s growing presence brings to the US economy and American for huge growth consumers. He reports to Vice President of International and Public Affairs, Vijay Poonoosamy. KUWAIT: The raft of new building projects in from where it is today and stakeholders will Kuwait will drive the expansion of the facilities appreciate when FM is performed well." Dalton Jennings joined Etihad having management (FM) sector in the country as believes that the new building projects will recently held the position of Head owners demand higher service levels to match have an influence on the understanding of FM of Legislative Affairs for the their investment, according to observers. as the systems and technology involved require International Air Transport FM allows building owners to allocate all of integrated management and its investors seek Association (IATA), the trade associ- their maintenance, cleaning and security servic- reassurance over the protection of their asset. ation representing the world’s lead- es to one management company. Kuwait is Dalton says: "In recent years, a heightened ing airlines. While at IATA, he creat- behind the United Arab Emirates, the USA and awareness of the FM sector has been evident, Western Europe where the sector is well devel- like the growth in large iconic buildings and the ed and led legislative advocacy oped and building owners recognise the eco- need to keep them well maintained. "Other fac- efforts on behalf of the organiza- nomic benefits. tors include the increasing attention being paid tion’s 230 member carriers on key, A new event next month looks set to help to the sector by the financial community and global aviation issues, including a Kuwait move forward when the county hosts its outsourcing as a 'hot' management topic." campaign opposing the European Matthew Jennings first Facility Management Congress on Bassam N Hamady is the Resident Engineer Union’s emissions trading scheme September 22 at the International Fair in Kuwait at Sabah Al-Salem University City, the mega- (EU ETS). Etihad Airways currently operates City during the first day of The Big 5 Kuwait con- project 15km south of Kuwait city. Hamady will struction show. appear at FM Congress to talk about integrated Poonoosamy said: “Matthew is a non-stop daily flights between Abu "Operations and maintenance and cleaning FM at the US$6bn university project that covers well-respected and proven govern- Dhabi and Chicago’s O’Hare are known but in Kuwait the wide term of FM is 6km2, which will be home to 39,000 students. ment affairs leader with more than International Airport (ORD) and not," says Mick Dalton, who is Chairman of the He says: "FM is badly needed in Kuwait for a decade of combined experience New York’s John F Kennedy British Institute of Facilities Management, who many reasons, there is a lack of awareness on in the aviation industry and on the International Airport (JFK). will chair the event. FM Congress will cover the the subject, not in practice and poorly used in Hill. As we continue to build aware- “Aviation is a key driver of eco- sector, from initial involvement in construction many facilities or where there are adverse ness and understanding within the nomic and job growth throughout projects and its role in retaining a building's val- weather conditions." Hamady says the public ue, through to increasing the lifecycle of the sector is beginning to take a lead in FM as part US about Etihad Airways’ many the US and as a contributor to that asset, sustainability and energy saving. of the government drive to employ more native contributions to US economic growth with a strong desire to do It will include case studies as some of the Kuwatis. "The public sector is moving forward growth and the support of even more, I look forward to shin- country's most prestigious projects including with the Kuwaitization process especially in the American businesses, he will play a ing a light on the many benefits FM at Sabah Al-Salem University, sustainable administrative sections, which means that more critical role in strengthening Etihad Airways’ presence within the initiatives at Sief Palace, value engineering at Kuwaitis will be in charge to manage FM Etihad’s presence and partnerships US provides for the country, the Council of Minister's Building and facilities Contracts," he says. And he is optimistic for the within the aviation and business Americans traveling worldwide management implementation in Kuwait's hos- successful growth of FM in the country: "The FM pitals. Dalton says: "Facilities management is a Sector in Kuwait has not reached a full maturity sectors - all with an eye toward cre- and the aviation industry, including vital discipline because it 'translates' the high- level. In general it is lacking behind other GCC ating more jobs for Americans and a world-class hospitality experi- level, strategic change required by senior deci- countries. We would grade it six points on a ten- further encouraging travel, trade ence that is reinventing air travel sion makers into day-to-day reality for people in point scale for prestigious Government projects and tourism to and from the US.” expectations,” said Jennings. “I am their work or living space. such as the State Audit Bureau and MPW Jennings’ appointment coin- pleased to join Etihad Airways at "Like most of GCC, Kuwait will embrace FM Headquarters." FM Congress will be held on cides with the airline’s rapid US such an exciting time in the com- and companies will come to market both home September 22, 2014, at the Kuwait International expansion, including the June pany’s history.” grown and international. The market will evolve Fair. technology WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 Green power blooms Japan unveils ‘hydrangea solar cell’

TOKYO: A solar cell that resembles a flower is wind power generation has problems with bird offering a new take on green energy in Japan, strikes and noise, but (Annabelle) doesn’t harm where one scientist is searching for renewables the environment.” While Segawa is not expecting that look good. In a country badly scarred by the to topple the dominant silicon-based solar pan- tsunami-sparked nuclear disaster at Fukushima els, he is hoping the fast-growing sector has three years ago, the hydrangea-inspired solar room for “enjoyable energy” that adds a splash offering is small beer alongside one of the of color to an otherwise drab industry. world’s biggest offshore wind power farms now Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, floating off the country’s east coast. Japan has been pushing to boost the use of But Hiroshi Segawa, a professor at University alternative energy. The country’s solar power of Tokyo’s Research Centre for Advanced Science generation is rapidly growing, but it still only Why CIOs should and Technology, is hoping his dye-sensitized represents a small share of the overall power solar cell, which meshes floral beauty with cut- mix. In Japan, the share of power generated leverage Hybrid ting-edge technology, will brighten the scene. from renewable sources, excluding hydropower, Segawa’s Annabelle, named after a type of white lags other developed economies at 4.7 percent Clouds for IT hydrangea, is made up of flowery stained glass- of the total, far less than 10.4 percent in Britain like solar cells built into a latticed wood box or 20.1 percent in Germany, according to data environments modeled on traditional Japanese doors. While from the International Energy Agency. the 20 centimeter (8 inch) wide box might make All of Japan’s nuclear plants were shuttered a pretty addition to a sunroom, it can also store after the 2011 atomic accident yanking away a enough energy to charge your smartphone power source that once supplied more than one By Mohammed twice. The leaves generate electricity, which is quarter of the nation’s energy. Despite Tokyo’s KUWAIT: “If CIOs and their IT organizations want to stored in the flower. As the device charges up efforts to develop the solar sector, the weather - maintain their business relevance - and be in a posi- the petals turn increasingly blue. But as particularly a lack of reliable sunlight-is among tion to expand their business contribution - they Annabelle discharges, those blue petals turn the factors holding back wider use. But Segawa must leverage mobile and social, as well as new white, just like the real-life hydrangea. says Annabelle works even in weak indoor light. It technologies and services for business innovation. also has a myriad of design possibilities. Segawa They need to complete the shift to a services-based ‘Enjoyable energy’ has already experimented with a cell that looks TOKYO: Hiroshi Segawa, a professor at University of Tokyo’s Research provisioning and consumption model. It’s also criti- “People do not have a very good image like French President Francois Hollande and one Centre for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) displays a proto- cal that they enable business to put Big Data and about things related to energy, such as nuclear of the computer-generated Japanese pop star type model of an organic solar power cell that looks like French president analytics to work, all while maintaining security and power,” Segawa said. “Thermal power generation Hatsune Miku. “You can make solar cells out of Francois Hollande at his laboratory in Tokyo. A solar cell that resembles a business continuity in an extended-platform world,” animated characters, portraits of real people and conjures up images of blistering hot dirty coal flower is offering a new take on green energy in Japan, where one scien- says Mohammed Amin, Senior Vice President and while solar panels take up a lot of space. “Even lots of other stuff,” he said. — AFP tist is searching for renewables that look good. - AFP Regional Manager Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Middle East, EMC Corporation All these roads, he believes, lead to Hybrid Cloud that doesn’t just act as a bridge between private Tech investor gets 5 and public clouds but actually incorporates the advantages of both. Here are some of the advan- towns to join social, tages: - A hybrid cloud models offers access to a wide array of applications and services like public health experiment clouds, with the reliable performance and security for critical business applications of private clouds. - This model enables IT organizations to choose SAN FRANCISCO: Technology investor Esther Dyson thinks she where they host their workloads based on various has found the answer to America’s growing health concerns, and considerations like security, sharing, reliability, etc. has enlisted five smaller cities across the country to try and prove This isn’t just for the business users but also for the it. Dyson, an early investor in Square and board member for IT teams who now have more flexibility to deter- Yandex, Russia’s answer to Google Inc, has drafted five towns to mine where to run individual workloads including participate in a five-year long test, or what she calls a “healthy liv- applications and services-in-house, with service ing challenge.” By introducing programs and urban planning ini- providers, or in the public cloud. tiatives, such as wholesome school lunches, corporate wellness • A hybrid cloud is the best platform for provi- programs and more bike paths, Dyson hopes to reduce overall sioning an ever-changing mix of internal and rates of obesity and chronic disease in these towns. external services. With hybrid cloud, organiza- Dyson calls this the “Way to Wellville,” where such programs tions have the flexibility in sourcing services, reinforce each other, promote awareness, and hopefully avert scalability to adjust to changing business expensive healthcare costs over the long term. Its sponsor is a demand, the customer experience of a browser- nonprofit organization called the Health Initiative Coordinating type interface, and the transparency into usage Council, or HICCup, which Dyson founded. HICCup will help local that’s essential for managing consumption and officials find funding from social investors, local businesses and automated billing. - Hybrid Cloud also provides philanthropic organizations. Each of the towns expects to spend IT with a richer set of automated monitoring between $20 million and $80 million over the next five years. and management tools for a better integrated HICCup, run by former insurance executive Rick Brush, has set computing environment. With mundane tasks aside some $5 million for administrative costs. automated and management simplified, IT is The five towns are: Muskegon, Michigan; Lake County, California; Spartanburg, South Carolina; Clatsop County, Oregon; better able to control and optimize the plat- SPARKS: This file photo shows pieces of a chimney that toppled and went through the roof after an earthquake in and Niagara falls, New York. These communities all have popula- form while improving infrastructure perform- Sparks, Okla. Man-made earthquakes, a side effect of some high-tech energy drilling, cause less shaking and in general tions of less than 100,000 people, and their local officials are fully ance and cost. are about 16 times weaker than natural earthquakes with the same magnitude, a new federal study found. — AP • Hybrid Cloud can provide companies with a on board with the initiative, Dyson said. Dyson hopes to establish more capable and expandable platform for Big a model for other communities and provide direct feedback to Data: accessing more external data sources, Less shake from man-made policymakers in government. Her experiment is timely, given the gathering more data together for analysis, Obama Administration’s support for “population health” initiatives doing high-volume and compute-intensive as a means to cut spiraling costs. Population health advocates analytics processing, and incorporating any Big push for increased funding for preventative measures for groups Data and analytics appliances in use. earthquakes, US study says of patients to reduce rates of chronic illness.— Reuters • The ability to better harness the power of Big Data also then creates immediate opportunities WASHINGTON: Man-made earthquakes, a side effect of er, based on the thousands of responses in the “Did You for improved security where the real-time some high-tech energy drilling, cause less shaking and in Feel It” survey system. The study, published Monday in the Google considering analysis of what’s happening across all of an general are about 16 times weaker than natural earth- Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, looked at enterprise’s networks is no longer just an added quakes with the same magnitude, a new federal study quakes in Oklahoma, Colorado, Arkansas, Texas and Ohio. Gmail, YouTube advantage but an absolute necessity consider- found. People feeling the ground move from induced It included a 5.7 quake in Prague, Oklahoma, in November ing it is virtually impossible to build a hard shell quakes - those that are not natural, but triggered by injec- 2011 that injured two people and damaged 14 houses, around the enterprise when employees and tions of wastewater deep underground- report significant- which Hough said felt like 5.1 magnitude natural quake. accounts for kids customers can be anywhere anytime. Data ana- ly less shaking than those who experience more normal “The hazard of these earthquakes is lower than what lytics help spot anomalies quickly, isolate prob- earthquakes of the same magnitude, according to a study you’d expect,” Hough said. “It’s not that there’s no hazard, CALIFORNIA: Google Inc is considering allowing online lems, and take action. This is like the non-stop, by U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist Susan Hough. it’s just that it’s a little better than you might think.” Man- accounts for children under the age of 13 and give their high-volume fraud detection applications used Distance matters in this shaking gap, however. For people made earthquakes have become a big concern recently as parents control over how the service is used, according to by credit card companies. It requires assem- within 6 miles of the fault, artificial and natural quakes feel hydraulic fracturing and other drilling injects wastewater media reports. Google has been working on a version of YouTube, its video-sharing site, for youngsters and is con- bling, scanning and analyzing vast quantities of pretty much the same, she said. deep underground. Scientists say that sometimes triggers sidering other child-friendly accounts such as its Gmail sys- granular and diverse data. Hybrid clouds pro- Hough studied similar-sized man-made and natural shifts along existing and previously unknown faults. vide a scalable, efficient and manageable plat- tem, the Financial Times reported, citing a person familiar quakes in the central and eastern United States from 2011 Oklahoma has had more than 300 earthquakes of magni- with the matter. (http://on.ft.com/1pXMWYF) Internet com- form for these new “data lakes” needed for secu- to 2013, comparing the reported magnitude to what peo- tude 3 or more - strong enough to feel locally but too weak rity analysis. panies such as Google and Facebook Inc do not offer their ple said they felt in the USGS electronic “Did You Feel It” to cause damage - since Jan. 1. Before 2007, Oklahoma • Securing sensitive business assets in the public services to children under 13, but it is tough to catch users cloud has turned out to be a serious pain point. survey. She found that while two different types of tem- averaged only one quake a year of that size. who sign up by providing false information. Organizations have to negotiate how to map blors may have had the same magnitude as measured by The artificial quakes may have less energy - only after 6 A US law called Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and recreate the security apparatus to fit into seismographs, they had distinct differences in what people miles away - because the fault is lubricated by the injected or COPPA, imposes strict controls on the collection and use an external service level agreement, add to that said they felt. The way artificial quakes felt was equivalent wastewater, making it easier to slip and do so more of information about children under 13. Google’s effort is the risk that companies stand to lose data and on average to a natural quake that had a magnitude 0.8 smoothly in less of a herky-jerky motion, Hough theorized. partly driven by the fact that some parents are already try- transactions in public cloud failures. Given smaller. So a 4.8 induced quake felt like a 4.0 quake, Hough Also these faults can be slipping with less pent-up energy ing to create accounts for their children and the company those realities, enterprises need more attentive said. The magnitude scale used by USGS and others is than they would have if they slipped naturally years later. wants to make the process easier and compliant with the and adaptive approaches to security. We see mathematically complex, but a drop in 0.8 magnitude But induced quakes are shallow, which means the shaking rules, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person famil- hybrid cloud as an important part of the solu- translates to about 16 times less strength or energy has to travel less distance to buildings nearby, said seis- iar with the effort. (http://on.wsj.com/VAUdml) Google’s tion. Hybrid cloud enables enterprises to lever- released. mologist Steve Horton of the University of Memphis, who move was first reported by technology news website The age public cloud services while maintaining the Sometimes the difference is even bigger. Hough said a wasn’t part of the study. He and others said Hough’s study Information. (http://bit.ly/1leEgOZ) Google spokesman trust of their customers and ensuring consistent 5.3 August 2011 man-made quake in Trinidad, Colorado, made sense and could change how researchers look at Peter Barron declined to comment on what he called enforcement of security policies and compli- actually felt like a 4.0 quake, which is about 90 times weak- quake intensity.— AP “rumors and speculation”. — Reuters ance with regulations. • It’s simple and to prove that at EMC World this year, we configured a hybrid cloud from scratch. We started with converged infrastruc- Activists urge EU to scrap ture-three Vblocks from VCE that integrate com- puting, storage and networking. We used the science advisor post VMware vCloud Automation Center to enable self-provisioning of on-premise or off-premise BRUSSELS: Nine major charities urged the agri-business lobby that defends the technolo- resources, including cloud service providers. We European Commission yesterday to scrap a sci- gy as a way to boost crop yields and create deployed a variety of workloads, as well as ence advisor position it says puts too much rural jobs. Signatories to the letter included essential data services like backup and recov- power over sensitive policy into the hands of Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Health & ery. It took two days. A realistic estimate for a one person. The position of Chief Scientific Environment Alliance and the Alliance for business with a strong foundation (high level of Advisor was created in 2011 by Commission Cancer Prevention. Some of these groups have virtualization, strong connectivity standards, head Jose Manuel Barroso and given to also been critical of the Commission’s stance on and experience with private cloud) and up- Professor Anne Glover, a British biologist who biofuels and shale gas extraction. In the letter, front planning would be more like a week. activists accuse of backing the cultivation of the groups warned that re-appointing a sci- Given all these considerations Amin and EMC genetically modified food crops, a hugely con- ence advisor “is not the way for the believe that converged infrastructure and hybrid troversial practice in key EU member states. In Commission to ensure that scientific evidence cloud architecture is the way to go. “Organization’s an open letter to Jean-Claude Juncker, who informs its policymaking; rather it creates addi- no longer want their CIOs to solely focus on provi- replaces Barroso in November, the groups criti- tional problems”. sioning and running the computing environment, cized the post as “fundamentally problematic “Vested interests have long realized that the they want to them to encourage and enable their as it concentrates too much influence in one more you concentrate scientific advice into the business to use technology strategically. This person, and undermines in-depth scientific hands of one person, the easier it is to control,” includes both implementing business strategy and research and assessments carried out by or for it added. In May, European business lobbyists formulating it in the first place. Hybrid cloud should the Commission directorates in the course of came out strongly in favour of Professor Glover NAIROBI: A man sends money through a pioneering mobile phone service called M-Pesa, be part of the business discussion today and the policy elaboration”. and maintaining the position. “We see the CSA in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Africans have long used technology developed abroad, but business capability tomorrow with the CIO leading The fight over the development of GM is as a key proponent in science-based decision- now a Kenyan cash transfer network which bypasses banks is being adopted in Europe. the charge,” he concludes. one of the fiercest debates in the European making to make the important role of science The M-Pesa mobile money transfer system which allows clients to send cash with their Union, pitting environmentalists and backers of more visible in the EU institution,” Business telephones has transformed how business is done in east Africa, and is now spreading to small-scale farming against the international Europe said in a letter to Barroso. —AFP Romania. — AFP HEALTH & SCIENCE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 Cancer screenings common among older, sick Americans

NEW YORK: Despite potential risks and limited ben- receive colonoscopies within seven years of their efits, many Americans are still screened for cancers previous screening. Current recommendations sug- toward the end of their lives, according to a new gest 10 years between colonoscopies with normal study. Up to half of older people in the US received results. cancer screenings even though there was a high likelihood that they would die within nine years Age of skepticism without cancer, researchers report in JAMA Internal Another study published in the same journal says Medicine. that based on a computer model, screening older “There is general agreement that routine cancer adults with colonoscopies more than once every 10 screening has little likelihood to result in a net bene- years produced small benefits. Researchers led by fit for individuals with limited life expectancy,” write Frank van Hees of Erasmus University Medical Dr Trevor Royce and his fellow researchers from the Center in the Netherlands found that compared University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. with screening older Americans with colonoscopies Several professional societies have updated their every 10 years, screening them every five years cancer screening guidelines to suggest that people saved less than one additional life per 1,000 people. who aren’t expected to live another 10 years should Screening older Americans with colonoscopies not be screened for certain cancers. For example, every five years also resulted in less than one quality the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the year of life gained per 1,000 people at a cost of American Cancer Society and the American about $711,000. “This new age of skepticism is pro- Urological Association recommend stopping viding us with critical tools to better target screen- prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening among ing efforts,” Gross wrote. “In situations in which we men not expected to live another decade. are uncertain about whether benefits outweigh the PSA screening involves a blood test that looks for risks, we need to bolster our efforts to generate evi- a protein produced by the prostate gland. High lev- screening test,” he wrote in an email to Reuters Despite those guidelines, the researchers found dence that can inform cancer screening decisions.” els of the protein may suggest the presence of Health. For the new study, the researchers analyzed 55 percent of men who had a 75 percent risk of While helpful, he added, additional research is prostate cancer. “Each screening test carries different data from a US survey collected between 2000 and death over the next nine years had recently received inefficient and doctors and regulators need to take risks and benefits,” said Keith Bellizzi of the 2010 that included responses from 27,404 people 65 a PSA screening. About a third of women with the steps to address the use of cancer screenings University of Connecticut’s Center for Public Health years old and older. same life expectancy received breast and cervical among people with limited life expectancies. “These and Health Policy in Storrs. “Individuals should be cancer screenings. Screening for cervical cancer was findings support other studies that suggest certain counseled about these risks in order to make an living another decade also common among women who had already had segments of the older population may be inappro- informed decision (sometimes involving caregivers They used the participants’ responses to estimate a hysterectomy. priately screened for cancers,” said Bellizzi. “However, or family members).” their risk of death within the next nine years. Then, The researchers also found that 41 percent of the health care response should clearly not be a one Bellizzi was not involved with the new study but they looked to see who had recently been screened people who were not likely to live another decade size fits all solution.” He said older adults and their has done similar research. “Having said that, the for prostate, colon, breast and cervical cancers. In were recently screened for colon cancer. In an edi- health statues differ from one another. “Age, in and challenge for clinicians is to balance the values and one way or another, medical organizations support torial accompanying the new study, Dr Cary Gross of itself, should not be a proxy for health status or be wishes of their patients with the available evidence stopping screening for those four cancers among of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, writes solely used as a decision tool regarding screening regarding the benefit or lack of benefit for a specific people with limited life expectancy. that some research found that older Americans for a particular cancer,” he added. — AP

Thai baby scandal: Police test Japanese man’s DNA

BANGKOK: Thai authorities said yesterday added. Kong said he had also submitted a that they were testing the DNA of a written explanation from the Japanese Japanese man at the centre of a “baby fac- man to the police, without divulging the tory” scandal to determine if he is the bio- content. Police Colonel Witawat Chinkham logical father of the nine infants. Thai told AFP that the Japanese man claimed to police are seeking to question the man- be the father of all the babies. The case is who has since left the country but volun- the latest twist in a widening surrogacy tarily sent the DNA sample-about the mys- scandal initially triggered by accusations terious discovery earlier this month of the that an Australian couple abandoned a nine babies in a Bangkok apartment. Five baby born with Down’s syndrome with his other babies previously cared for at the Thai surrogate mother-but took his healthy same property are thought to have already twin sister. been taken out of the country. David Farnell, 56, and his wife have Police Major General Naiyawat denied deliberately leaving the boy, called Phadermchit said officials were awaiting Gammy, with the surrogate mother, who the result of the DNA test. “The police was paid around $15,000 to carry the twins. investigators sent it to the forensic experts Paid surrogacy is illegal in Thailand and the of the national police to check and com- kingdom’s army rulers have vowed to intro- pare,” he told reporters. “We will inform you duce a new law that could result in 10 when we have any more information,” he years’ imprisonment for anyone found added. According to the Japanese weekly guilty of involvement in the trade. Australia magazine Shukan Post, the man is the son has asked Thailand to make “transitional of a Japanese IT millionaire. His lawyer arrangements” to help any of its citizens KENEMA: Locals stand at a market in Sierra Leone, on August 16, 2014. Kong Suriyamontol submitted the DNA who have already entered into surrogacy sample on his behalf to Thai police on arrangements. Last week a gay Australian Monday. couple were stopped from leaving Thailand Survivors enlisted in The sample was collected in Japan “by a with a baby because they had incomplete respected relevant organization”, Kong documents. — AFP Sierra Leone’s Ebola battle

Does vitamin D help with KAILAHUN: Hawa Idrisa was visiting her father- people in the two districts are in effective lock- virus and try to reassure them that Hawa poses in-law on an Ebola ward in eastern Sierra Leone down, and locals say soaring food prices are no danger. “This is very exciting for us. It’s also asthma? More study needed when his drip snapped out and his atrophying pushing the region towards a crisis. really beneficial to the overall response to the veins spurted thin, uncoagulated blood into her Local doctors and nurses are fighting not just outbreak because when survivors go home, they NEW YORK: Asthma sufferers who units orally once a week. eyes and mouth. Hawa had been carrying her the disease, but also the distrust of locals who can explain about their stay at the centre. received vitamin D supplements for six After eight weeks, when the infant daughter Helen but luckily she had laid fear modern medical practices. Relatives have “They give people hope that it is possible to months, in addition to their regular researchers measured the amount of air the child down, otherwise the baby would been known to snatch infected loved-ones from survive and it really builds trust between the inhalers, could breathe a little easier than patients could exhale in one second, both almost certainly be dead by now. A single clinics to die in their own villages, exacerbating community and MSF,” she says. Watson-Stryker those who relied only on the inhalers, in a groups had improved to roughly the same droplet of blood smaller than a full stop can car- the spread of the virus. They have even attacked also says that when survivors go back to their recent study in Iran. The researchers say extent. But after 28 weeks, that amount ry up to 100 million particles of the deadly Ebola treatment centres-as armed men did in neigh- communities, people begin to understand that the results - if confirmed by larger studies - had improved by about 20 percent in the virus, yet one is enough to end a human life. bouring Liberia at the weekend —- convinced treatment centers are not just “a place where might help the many people who some- patients who received vitamin D supple- “The blood got all over me, and people were that Ebola is a Western conspiracy against tradi- people go to die”. They are surprised to learn times have troublesome asthma symp- ments, versus about 7 percent among running away. So I took a bucket of chlorine and tional African communities and that foreign that patients are fed, given unlimited soft drinks, toms even though they use medication. those who only used the inhaler. The poured it over myself,” Hawa said. healthworkers are in on the secret. access to toilets, showers and medicine, and that “It does build some on the growing authors did not respond to questions She returned home to forget her ordeal, but a amount of data that shows vitamin D about the study, which was published in week later she began experiencing fever and might help those affected by asthma,” Dr Annals of Allergy, Asthma and headaches, the early symptoms of the Ebola. Her Mario Castro, who was not involved in the Immunology. 12-month-old mercifully tested negative, but study, told Reuters Health. But Castro, a her husband Nallo was infected and he and professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Treating asthma Hawa checked into the Doctors Without Borders’ Medicine at Washington University School Castro thinks the patients in the study (MSF) treatment facility in the eastern district of of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, pointed weren’t particularly deficient in vitamin D. Kailahun. Hawa spent four weeks drifting out that the researchers only measured “This is another weakness as they enrolled between life and death at the centre, in the dis- patients’ lung function, and not whether patients with normal vitamin D levels, so trict capital Kailahan city, a trading post of or not their symptoms improved. (they’re) unlikely to see a treatment effect,” 30,000 in the Kissi triangle linking to Liberia and “Given that vitamin D is a relatively Castro said. He would not recommend Sierra Leone. benign supplement,” the small improve- that patients with asthma take vitamin D “I didn’t know what was happening to me. I ment in lung function “would be worth- supplements based on this study and one didn’t even know where I was. I don’t remember while if it was confirmed with other of his own studies, though his research anything from that time,” she told AFP of the improvements in asthma control,” he said, found some people with deficient levels ordeal she survived. Ebola kills more than half of such as fewer symptoms or a reduced improved after supplementation. the people it infects, putrifying their insides in need for medication. About one in 12 indi- Dr Doug Brugge, a professor of public the worst cases until their vital organs seep from viduals, or 25 million people, have asthma health and community medicine at Tufts their bodies. It is highly infectious but not partic- in the US alone. In the last decade, the School of Medicine in Boston, said he ularly contagious, meaning that once you are number of people with asthma has grown thought the study added to the field of exposed, your chances of escaping the fever are by about 15 percent. asthma and vitamin D research. “I think it extremely low, although it can only be passed adds some evidence that vitamin D may on through bodily fluids. Dry powder inhaler be beneficial in terms of treating asthma, Higher rates of asthma in northern cli- which in turn contributes some evidence Survival and suspicion mates have led some researchers to sus- that vitamin D is a factor in asthma,” The good news is that when patients are pect that less sunlight - and therefore less Brugge, who wasn’t involved in the study, caught early enough, given paracetamol for KENEMA: A girl suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus has her temperature checked vitamin D - could be playing a role. Several told Reuters Health. their fevers, kept rehydrated and nourished, at the government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone. — AFP photos studies have shown a link between low their chances of survival increase dramatically. vitamin D levels and asthma. The new Environmental triggers Hawa proudly shows off a certificate saying she Some 1,500 police and soldiers have been their families are encouraged to visit. study, by Dr Saba Arshi at the Medical He noted that most asthma research has recovered fully, and she is preparing to deployed to prevent raids, but they are power- “We try to assuage the fears of the communi- University of Tehran and colleagues, has focused on children, but this one return home. “I know there is nothing wrong less faced with the suspicion and fear of poorly ty, because there are a lot of rumors out there, involved 130 children and adults with included adults. “There really is a need with my daughter, but my mind and heart will educated traditional communities. Many tribes- that as soon as you come to the treatment cen- mild-to-moderate asthma. Everyone for more research on asthma in adults,” be at the centre with my husband,” she says. people at the epicentre of the outbreak either tre you will just be left to die.” Back at the MSF received asthma medication in a dry pow- he said. But Brugge, who has studied the Already more than 2,100 people have been don’t know how to prevent and treat Ebola or do centre, Nallo enthuses about his future with der inhaler (budesonide, sold in the US as possible environmental causes of child- infected across four west African countries, and not believe it exists at all. This, says MSF, is where Hawa and their baby girl, despite remaining in Pulmicort, or budesonide plus formoterol, hood asthma, said the study would have 1,145 people have died, dwarfing previous the survivors come in. grave danger in the high risk area. sold in the US as Symbicort). been more convincing if researchers had Ebola outbreaks. “At first people thought that when they got In addition, half the group was ran- checked whether patients took their The epidemic is perhaps worst of all in Sierra Building trust here, they were going to have all their blood domly chosen to receive high doses of medication as prescribed (other than Leone, which has registered 810 cases, more Ella Watson-Stryker, 34, a health promoter removed and they would die,” he says. “They vitamin D for six months. The first dose, asking by phone) and included any than any other country. The hardest-hit districts, with the aid agency, is part of a team taking have been giving me drugs and I am much bet- 100,000 units, was given by injection; then exposure to environmental triggers of Kailahun and the diamond trading hub of Hawa and other survivors home to their villages. ter, so when I get back to my community I will patients were instructed to take 50,000 asthma.—Reuters Kenema next door, have been sealed off to ordi- She will gather their neighbors and family mem- tell people that if it ever happens that they get nary members of the public. Around a million bers around, answer their questions about the Ebola we advise them to come here.” — AFP HEALTH & SCIENCE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014

GABON: Dead pangolins are sold with other animals at the Owendo market in Libreville on August 8, 2014. — AFP photos Pangolins under threat in Gabon as demand surges in Asia

LIBREVILLE: Hunted for generations for its tasty yesterday and they were quickly sold this morning,” of which there are eight species found in tropical forests, the number being killed “is increasing”, meat, the scaly-skinned pangolin is under threat in said a trader in the Mont-Bouet market, surrounded areas in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia. according to the WCS. Gabon as demand for the small mammal surges in by gutted animals. For some time now, “it’s clear that demand has This is especially true in the north of the country, Asia, where it is used in traditional medicine. A timid been getting stronger due to international trafficking,” including in the Minkebe National Park, the largest of and strange-looking creature, the pangolin is rarely Expensive but tasty said Rostan Nteme Mba, of the National Agency for Gabon 13 national parks which borders Cameroon seen in the wild, emerging only at night. But in the At a local restaurant in Libreville, the pangolin is National Parks. “And it’s the scales that most interest and Congo, according to officials. “There are probably markets of Libreville, the capital of this west African one of the stars on the menu. “It’s expensive, but it’s the traffickers.” African channels” to facilitate the transit of goods to equatorial state, one will see plenty among the croco- one of the best meats,” said Didine, the owner. “We ports and airports and on to Asia, said parks official diles, porcupines, gazelles and other bushmeat cook it in a broth and you have to let it simmer for a Aphrodisiac Nteme Mba. The proliferation of Chinese firms in favored by the Gabonese. long time otherwise it’s too tough,” she said, stirring In traditional Chinese medicine, the scales are used Gabon, where Beijing is one of the country’s main The odd-looking animal is easy to identify, with its the contents of a big steaming pot. In Gabon, environ- as an aphrodisiac, to restore youthful energy or to economic partners, is speeding up the transfer of pan- elongated body, conical snout and lengthy tongue mental groups are trying to convince villagers of the treat skin conditions such as psoriasis. golins outside the country, according to Abitsi. which it uses for eating insects. Its large reptilian need to protect the pangolin. In that spirit, the Crystal With such reputed virtues, demand has exploded “With so much logging and the construction of scales give it the appearance of a prehistoric creature Mountains National Park in north Gabon recently in Asia and made the pangolin one of the world’s new roads, they have access to the resource. When or, some say, an artichoke. “People hunt the pangolin changed its emblem to a giant pangolin. mammals most affected by illegal trade, according to the containers leave for Asia, it is unclear whether like any other meat because the forest is often the Weighing up to 35 kilos (77 pounds), the giant pan- the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) which special- there is more than wood in it,” he said. Authorities only resource” for people in Gabon, more than 80 per- golin is a protected species yet still hunted, with spec- izes in the species. It said more than a million have have taken steps to limit pangolin trafficking. A team cent of which is covered by woodland, said Gaspard imens selling for 100,000 to 130,000 Central African been captured in the last 10 years. It is difficult to of sniffer dogs specially trained to detect protected Abitsi, managing director of the Wildlife Conservation Francs (150 to 200 euros, $200 to 260). In comparison, know the full extent of poaching in a country like species such as the giant pangolin was set up earlier Society (WCS). Not only that, the Gabonese have the smaller pangolins go for around 15,000 Central Gabon, which has no official statistics on the pan- this year. The unit has made several minor seizures at developed a taste for it. “We have a big demand. African Francs, with some hunting allowed. But the golin. But based on seizures of bush meat made by the airport in Libreville. “It’s an important first step to People love pangolins. My neighbour bought four Gabonese are not the only ones fond of the pangolin, customs officials and the ministry of water and protect pangolins,” said Nteme Mba. — AFP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014

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elated birthday wishes to Alsan BZablan who cel- ebrated his birthday on Aug 17. Greetings come from DINALITS and friends.

Movie Night: The Ottomans

he Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world, a multina- Ttional, multilingual empire controlling much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. With Constantinople as its capital, the Ottoman Empire controlled vast lands around the Mediterranean basin and was the pivot of inter- actions between the East and West for over six centuries. Learn more about the greatest empire the world has ever seen with this 50 minute doc- umentary to be shown free of charge at Ties Center on Thursday, August 28 at 7 pm. Children group of Cuba enthrall audience Final Student Visa he world famous “La Colmenita” children group of Cuba enthralled the audience at a packed Dasman theater. The group of 11 children won the hearts Day at US Embassy of people during their one hour super performance. National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters organized this evening with the cooperation of the is August 21 TAmbassador of Cuba Andres Gonzalez Garrido. Top officials, diplomats, Kuwaitis & expatriates enjoy the evening. —Photos by Joseph Shagra

he US Embassy Consular Section calls on students to register for the final student visa Tday for this year, Thursday, August 21. The Consular Section has dedicated all appointments on this day to students cur- rently studying or planning on studying in the United States. Students are welcome to apply for their visas on any days available, however on August 21, student applicants will be given priori- ty. Earlier in August, the US Embassy’s Consular Section held two student visa days, on August 7 and August 12, supporting students to apply for their visas and get to their classes on time. Encouraging Kuwaiti students to pursue higher educational opportunities in the US is one of the top priorities of the US Mission in Kuwait. Students are advised to log on to www.ustraveldocs.com to apply for their visa, schedule their appointment, and to obtain information on what they should bring to their interview. Brazil Embassy

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

Pravasi Bhartiya Divas he Government of India has decided to hold the next Pravasi Bhartiya TDivas (PBD-2015) at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat in January 2015. The effort would be to have more mean- ingful and interactive sessions that would address the issues and concerns of the over- seas Indian community effectively. Since 2015 marks the hundredth anniversary of the return of the greatest “Pravasi”of all, Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa, it is desired that PBD-2015 would be celebrated in a grand way. The detailed programe of PBD-2015 is being prepared and will be uploaded on the Embassy’s Website in due course. More detailed information on Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD-2015) can be accessed at the Ministry of Overseas India Affairs’ website (http://www.moia.gov.in).

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Chevrolet Alghanim concludes Ramadan campaign Announces winner of 2014 Chevrolet Impala

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Kuwait India Fraternity Forum celebrates Independence Day

uwait India fraternity forum conducted “Freedom All the speakers honored the freedom fighters those Rheemi, Nawab Hussain & Naushad who represented KIFF tary, Tamilnadu Muslim Culture Association, Ashraf Meet” on August 15 to mark Indian Independence struggled lot to free India from the British and they regional chapters. Kalathod, Chairman, Mapila Kala Academy Kuwait, Khaleel KDay. The event commenced by unity song along reminded it’s the duty of every citizen not to surrender the Mohammad Haneef, president, Kadapa Islamic Welfare Baqawi, Gen secretary, Kuwait Tamil Islamic Committee with hoisting 68 Indian flags to commemorate 68th freedom that we gained in front of neo corporate slavery Society, Shamshudin, Council member, Islamic Guidance also spoke on the occasion. Independence Day. Hundreds of people including ladies system. They appealed everyone to be the sentinel of free- centre, Tanjai Farooq Maharaj, Vice president, TMMK, Shakeel Ahmed, KIFF executive council member wel- and kids witnessed the program held in Jamiyatul Islah dom. Islamuddin, Dayee, Punjab Section, Islamic Presentation comed the gathering while Mohamad Sameer anchored auditorium, Rawda. The plurality of regional languages and Hafiz Saifuddeen Nalakat, President, Kuwait India Committee, Kuwait, Mansoor Manbai Assistant Secretary, the program and Shamsheer Aman, President; KIFF presence of people from various states of India made the Fraternity Forum presided over the program. Tamilnadu Ulama Welfare Association, Hameed Mulki, Karnataka Chapter delivered the vote of thanks. The event event more colorful. Independence day message delivered by Zakir Hussain President, KKMA Karanatka Wing, Dr Zafar Ali, Gen secre- concluded with National Anthem. TV PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014

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

Your career always seems to get the support you need and this is one area of There is a yearning to broaden your horizons now. You have a wish that life that runs smoothly. You seem to understand what the public wants and could be granted soon! Everything may be pouring in at once-and it’s all good news. Your mass marketing is a natural for you. You have a flair for description-the artistic in all its many career direction gets some encouragement and life’s problems should find easy solutions. forms-and there is an inner sense of warmth and goodness with the ability to express this. Someone in authority thinks you will fit in nicely in a new job identity-which means more Patience on some personal project is very important just now. There is a lot going on money! Your life takes on a kind of mystical quality at the emotional and instinctive levels behind the scene to make this project work. You have a very clear vision into what you now. Dreams and illusions, forgiveness and understanding human frailties arouse deep want. Now it is time to consider the timing. With your problem-solving abilities, you are feelings. The feeling for today is that anything is possible. One of your most creative times able to help dissolve any barriers between friends today. This may happen through some ever begins now. Write, paint or dance and enjoy the release of stress. Why not plan a can- psychic insight you feel. Keep notes on your dreams. dlelit dinner with your loved one this evening?

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

You may feel restricted in some way today-never fear, this is short term. You have a clear-minded insight into your own plans and methods. This is a Perhaps this is not the time to try to solve any serious problems or make important deci- very good time to communicate your goals and put them into words. Presentations are sions. It could be hard to think. This certainly makes solving problems somewhat complex. positive and working partners want to help follow through with any business plans. It could be important for you to get the guidance of a trusted friend-someone who can Anything unusual is valued and you may considering a new sport or take on a new hobby advise you as to the right choices. Whether you happen to like them or not, once you have soon. This is a great time to work in teams. You may be the one chosen for a particular job. determined the right route, you should take it. A social occasion this evening will find you at Your management and directional abilities are in high focus. Lovely words and a flair for your most elegant. Everything works together and you may find yourself expressive and description help you to express yourself in original, but excellent ways. You display an inner holding the attention of others. You may feel more personal and direct and find that you sense of warmth and goodness and you have the ability to express this as well. Others find are more confident than before. you kind, easy to be with and harmonious.

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

You are driven when it comes to fulfilling your ambitions and carving out a This may be a challenging day, but only to the extent that you do not career. No lack of energy or drive here-nothing can stand in your way. express or assert yourself. You will prosper by pursuing your ideals and most Everything is poured into making the right moves, the correct decisions. You are outgoing, deep-seated dreams of how life could be. Don’t be afraid to project that image-make those enthusiastic and always diplomatic-everybody’s favorite. You have a natural instinct for dreams real. Ideas of group cooperation and gatherings could further your career. Your life ACROSS vena cava. making the correct move at the right time. Some public career seems inevitable. The good takes on a kind of mystical quality at the emotional and instinctive levels now. Dreams and 1. The federal agency that insures residential 80. Sometimes considered a subfamily of life and all that is fine and luxurious may be what you value just now. You could enjoy mak- illusions, forgiveness and understanding human frailties are the things that arouse deep mortgages. Troglodytidae. ing your own way and finding solutions to whatever problems you have. Team sports or fit- feelings. The past and the future blend together and the barriers between people dissolve- 4. A woman's shoe with a very high thick 81. An official language of the Republic of ness classes will add a bit of vitality to your energies. Now is the time to join an exercise there is the key to the greater spiritual sensitivity you feel now. You can really get your sole. South Africa. group or team sports activity. Tonight is a good time to visit a friend. thoughts and ideas across to others. 12. Government agency created in 1974 to license and regulate nuclear power plants. DOWN 15. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that 1. A card game in which players bet against Capricorn (December 22-January 19) was responsible for research into atomic the dealer on the cards he will draw from a Cancer (June 21-July 22) energy and its peacetime uses in the United dealing box. You love to communicate and discuss ideas with other people. Your ideas are States. 2. A collection of objects laid on top of each This tuesday may become quite busy and you are amazed at how much fair and impartial, especially when it comes to other people-the social scene. 16. Primitive multicellular marine animal other. work can move through the workplace without the usual double-check for accuracy. One You are at your mental best when you are communicating with others this tuesday. Your whose porous body is supported by a fibrous 3. The highest level or degree attainable. proofing will have to be enough in today’s circumstances. This kind of intensity points to an professional life gets a boost at this time. Luck is with you all day long; reach for the stars. skeletal framework. 4. The unit of frequency. ability to perform successfully in the workplace. You will have opportunities to add your During the noon break a co-worker comes to your attention and between the two of you a 17. The sense organ for hearing and equilibri- 5. A small cone-shaped pile of hay that has own personal touch to the work you do today. You would love a career that is more cre- newsletter creation can began. You both have a lot to say and can entertain or help or share um. been left in the field until it is dry enough to ative. Always dramatic, you are a born entertainer and salesperson-warm, sometimes gre- helpful information with other co-workers. Consider this or some other way to help 18. The most common computer memory carry to the hayrick. garious. Proud, you have an inner need to be expressive with others. You are driven to lead- improve working conditions . . . You have the good ideas. This evening at home you talk which can be used by programs to perform 6. A suburb of Paris. ership positions by a sense of your own inner worth. Let yourself dream this afternoon. about this creative idea. A great trip is in the forecast. necessary tasks while the computer is on. 7. Music composed for dancing the pavane. Enjoy a social gathering tonight. 19. Relating to or characteristic of wooded 8. The god who fathered the islands and regions. gods of Japan with his sister Izanami. 20. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan 9. (prefix) Reverse of or absence of. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) River. 10. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. This is a very lucky day for making plans or decisions and finding your way 22. An organization of countries formed in 11. A vicious angry growl. Your love of music and a variety of art choices for entertainment tonight through just about any problem you may discover. You feel successful and able to solve may find your attitude is in concentrating on completing any unfinished tasks before quit- 1961 to agree on a common policy for the 12. Clean or orderly. problems. Good advice from a guide or older person may be expected. Insights into your ting time comes around. You will want to get away from the workplace a little early if possi- sale of petroleum. 13. Type genus of the Ranidae. deeper, more spiritual nature are available to you during this time. You may be able to dis- ble and meet up with your friends. There may be a surprise activity from friends or some 24. A bluish shade of green. 14. A capacity unit used for measuring fresh cover whole new areas of your psyche or mind that have been closed before now. You will previously agreed upon activities; whatever the case, you will enjoy some form of art or 25. A switch made from the stems of the rat- herring. have good fortune on all you do to create a happier atmosphere around you at this time. If musical performance. It is easy to fit the role as you may have brought a classier jacket or tan palms. 21. Fallow deer. you like to expand or extend your home and family in some way, this might just be the time skirt for changing into after the workday is over. This is one of the ways you are most organ- 26. A dark-skinned member of a race of peo- 23. The head of a branch of an organized to do it. Look for the home of your dreams on the outskirts of town. If you do not find a ized and prepared and even if you find you have to work through to the end of the day, you ple living in Australia when Europeans crime syndicate. home, you might find some land to build upon. arrived. 27. German organist and contrapuntist will be ready to celebrate in style. 28. Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps. (1685-1750). 31. A high-crowned black cap (usually made 29. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny. of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey 30. The sixth month of the civil year. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) and Iran and the Caucasus. 32. Type genus of the Anguidae. 34. An anxiety disorder characterized by 33. Wild or domesticated South American You may find yourself wanting to stop and review the numbers or facts of You will find new ways to serve others this tuesday. You have brilliant insights chronic free-floating anxiety and such symp- cud-chewing animal related to camels but some subject today in order to have a correct report or some research back- into diet, health, ecology and conservation. You are interested in new and toms as tension or sweating or trembling of smaller and lacking a hump. ing up a particular report; timing is everything. Some disagreements are to be expected different lifestyles and ways to make a living. You are economy personified, always able to light-headedness or irritability etc that has 36. Tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with when you are in a debate or a round-table discussion but you will be ready to back up your salvage and redeem anything. You may try to persuade others to join you in ways that will lasted for more than six months. dark green leaves. ideas or summations with quotes, research, etc. Take your time in making any final deci- help to save money. Being able to go without new toys or extra accessories may not be 35. Type genus of the family Arcidae. 37. A native or inhabitant of Crete. sions today-work with the truth, not the emotions. Yours is a passionate life. Intense feel- something that is agreeable to all. Stand strong in your own good habits and have patience 39. Open the lock of. 38. Wear away. ings and strong attachments make for interesting times. You are fiercely loyal, if not some- with others. You have an enchanting way of working and communicating with music-music 42. Someone who engages in arbitrage (who 40. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann. times possessive; careful. You have a sense for power, wealth and passion. You are steadfast, and the arts inspire you. This evening may bring opportunities to enjoy some form of purchases securities in one market for imme- 41. The capital and largest city of Venezuela. practical and loyal in the workplace as well as in the home place. expression of music or art. Romance is possible. diate resale in another in the hope of profit- 44. Living quarters reserved for wives and ing from the price differential). concubines and female relatives in a Muslim 43. One of the most common of the five household. Word Search major classes of immunoglobulins. 46. A member of the Siouan people formerly Yesterday Solution 45. A student who crams. living in the Missouri river valley in NE 47. An oil reservoir in an internal combustion Nebraska. engine. 48. Colorless watery fluid of blood and lymph 51. An Indian side dish of yogurt and containing no cells and in which erythro- chopped cucumbers and spices. cytes and leukocytes and platelets are sus- 52. The granite-like rocks that form the outer- pended. most layer of the earth's crust. 49. Sacred writings of Islam revealed by God 53. Talk pompously. to the prophet Mohammed during his life at 54. Having the leading position or higher Mecca and Medina. score in a contest. 50. Having a short growth of beard. 55. A radioactive transuranic element pro- 57. Wild ginger. duced by bombarding plutonium with neu- 58. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to trons. 0.7958 ampere-turns. 56. A river in north central Switzerland that 60. The ninth month of the Hindu calendar. runs northeast into the Rhine. 62. Scale-like structure between the base of 59. A colorless odorless gaseous element the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly. that give a red glow in a vacuum tube. 63. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind 61. A small cake leavened with yeast. and raisins and almonds. 64. A salesman who travels to call on cus- 65. An association of people to promote the tomers. welfare of senior citizens. 67. A large number or amount. 66. An island in Indonesia east of Java. 71. An avalanche volcanic water and mud 68. An outer garment that has sleeves and down the slopes of a volcano. covers the body from shoulder down. 74. A slender double-reed instrument. 69. The capital and chief port of Qatar. 75. A constellation in the southern hemi- 70. Fastener consisting of a resinous compo- sphere near Telescopium and Norma. sition that is plastic when warm. 76. (Hawaiian) A small guitar having four 72. Failing to speak or communicate etc strings. when expected to. 78. A Loloish language. 73. The seat within a bishop's diocese where 79. Administration of a nutritionally ade- his cathedral is located adv. quate solution through a catheter into the 77. (Sumerian) Goddess personifying earth. Yesterday’s Solution

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Neeson reluctant to radley Cooper is set to play the role of Mack Bolan, the fictional character of Don Pendleton, in a new film. The character was a terrorism fighter in the origi- Bnal Pendleton novels and the role will see Cooper, 39, reunite with ‘The Hangover’ director Todd Phillips, Deadline reports. Linda Pendleton, the wife of Don, appear in ‘phone call films’ said that her husband wrote the first novel in the series, ‘War Against the Mafia,’ “out of his desire to express his discomfort with the reaction of many Americans to our sol- diers who were dying for our country in the jungles of Vietnam and those coming iam Neeson is wary of accepting roles in He explained to Empire magazine: “When I first their roles - he finds it easy to tap into the film’s home to outrageous verbal and physical abuse”. She added: “Mack Bolan became films similar to ‘Taken’. Neeson, 62, has read Scott’s [Frank, director-and-writer] script, I dark mentality. He added: “I knew what was Don’s symbolic statement. He also became every soldier’s voice. Don created a heroic Lenjoyed huge success with the ‘Taken’ hesitated. Because I thought, ‘Here we go, required and I can easily access that kind of character in Bolan, a true hero who was dedicated to justice. “Don created a heroic franchise, which sees him play the role of a here’s another [expletive] telephone call, talk- darkness, you know.” ‘A Walk Among the character in Bolan, a true hero who was dedicated to justice. The enemy that Bolan retired CIA operative, but the Irish-born star ing to the bad guys.’ So there was this huge Tombstones’ also features ‘Very Good Girls’ star had to fight was no longer on the battlefields of Vietnam but right here on American admits he was initially reluctant to accept a role question mark before taking it on.” Neeson said Boyd Holbrook and Dan Stevens, who soil, and that enemy was the Mafia.” Depending on the success of the first film, there in new film ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ that unlike some of his co-stars - who took to appeared in ‘Dowton Abbey’ until 2012, and is every chance that more movies inspired by the Pendleton novels will follow. because he thought it was too similar to ‘Taken’. listening to strange music in preparation for will open in cinemas on September 19. Lennox announces Union J are much more than a boyband

nion J’s JJ Hamblett says they are “good new album for the future of pop” music. The ‘Carry UYou’ singer has insisted the group - who nnie Lennox has announced her appeared on ‘The X Factor’ in 2012 - are much new album will be released this more than a typical boyband, and suggested Ayear. The 59-year-old singer will they will stand out over time as something dif- unveil her seventh solo LP entitled ferent. He told the Daily Star newspaper: “You ‘Nostalgia’ in October this year. The can call us a boyband but we have a lot more record will feature a collection of Annie’s about us and that’s gotta be good for the future takes on songs from the 1930s and of pop.”[Jaymi Hensley] came out as gay very 1940s, including songs originally made early on and I’ve become a dad recently.” popular by the likes of Billie Holiday, Meanwhile, the group have been in the US Nina Simone, Jo Stafford and Louis working on their new album - the follow-up to Armstrong. Speaking about the album, last year’s self-titled debut - and they have Annie said: “I was just curious. I thought, already noticed their popularity rising in Los ‘I wonder what my voice would be like. Angeles. JJ added: “We’ve been walking through Would these songs suit my voice?’ It was Hollywood and people have asked for auto- like a little challenge. “I just sort of got to graphs - it’s been nuts.” For Jaymi though, their know them, became friends with them fame an be difficult as he tries to plan a big wed- really and had a great deal of joy in the ding with partner Olly. He explained: “Mags process.” Annie got her inspiration for the offered us all sorts to have our pictures taken new album from watching vintage audio and then we realized it shouldn’t be about that.” recordings and video performances of music from the ‘Great American Songbook’. She also featured as a musi- cian on many of the tracks alongside her Deyn long-time collaborator and co-producer has launched Mike Stevens. ‘Nostalgia’ will be released Smith wants on October 27, 2014. her first clothing line Brown collaboration gyness Deyn has launched her first clothing line. The former model am Smith Aturned designer has released her Labrinth took a break, would love to ‘Title-A’ collection on Net-A-Porter.com work with under the ‘New Designers’ section of the S luxury label site. The line - which was first Chris Brown. The 22-year-old singer announced in February this year - chan- thanks to Simon Cowell really enjoyed the nels the 31 year old’s love of menswear ‘Yeah 3X’ hitmaker’s and was inspired by androgynous style version of his track icons Patti Smith, Katharine Hepburn and abrinth says Simon Cowell told him to ‘Stay With Me’, Diane Keaton as Annie Hall. The collection take a break between albums. The rap- which Chris posted - which features, amongst other cross-sea- per has returned two years since the L on his Instagram sonal pieces, a she has collaborated with release of his debut album ‘Electronic Earth’, account last week. the past on lines for shoemaker Doc and he insisted part of the reason behind Martins. The 2009 British Model of the Year the long wait for new single ‘Let It Be’ was Talking about Chris’ video to radio show told The Cut: ‘While we were designing the advice of the media mogul. He told The this is slightly different. It has sexy dress- In:Demand at the these clothes for Doc Martens, we started Sun newspaper: “I was like I don’t have any ing. It has very feminine silks, which flow. Virgin Media V craving things that we wanted to wear so follow-ups!’ Then I saw Simon in St Tropez Silk dresses and silk nightshirts that are Festival, Sam said: much, which were menswear clothes with- and he said, ‘I just want you to have fun and very feminine. There’s lots of silk-velvet “It was amazing I out the feminine touch that people give do what you love. Even if it takes three draped shirts that hang.’ Agyness also love it. It’s really them sometimes, like with the darts and years, make an amazing album.’ “ The plans to extend her collection - which is weird because I’m a things like that. We wanted to do some- ‘Beneath Your Beautiful’ hitmaker is signed available online from this week - by releas- massive fan of his thing very boxy with suits and suit sepa- to the ‘X Factor’ boss’ Syco Records label, ing four lines a year and eventually adding music. “I love Chris rates for the relaxed woman. She added: and he was pushed to the limit when he did leather goods, footwear and eyewear to Brown’s music so much yeah. I’d love to meet him so ‘I’ve always worn boys’ clothes growing up start working on the follow-up to his 2012 and menswear all the time, but I feel like the brand. debut. He revealed the effort he has been possibly who knows it would be cool to collaborate.” putting in for the record, which is said to Sam’s debut album, ‘In The Lonely Hour’, earned him a combine 70s soul music and space-age top five album in over 11 countries worldwide. The sound effects. He added: “I was in the studio singer even broke sale records in the United States but three days with no sleep!” Meanwhile, debuted at number two on the Billboard charts, after Rockboi recently ruled out a sibling rivalry failing to top Lana Del Rey’s ‘Ultraviolence’. The ‘Money with the ‘Earthquake’ star and ‘Britain’s Got on My Mind’ hitmaker’ sold 166,000 copies of his Talent’ drummer MckNasty. He previously album in the US in its initial week - the most copies told BANG Showbiz: “Not unless we’re hav- sold in the first week of a debut album by a UK male ing a pillow fight or something like that, you artist. Speaking about his Stateside success, Sam said: know what I mean. “We’ve all worked “I can’t put America into words. It’s something that I together since we were really young and thought would come later on. “Even when I talk about stuff so one day you never know, you might it now I just can’t quite believe what’s going on. I’m see the whole Mac’ pack getting poppin’ overwhelmed for my first record to do that.” together.” David Guetta regrets not getting Jackson collaboration Writers of Star Trek 3 avid Guetta wishes he had them. Guetta insists the reason he is got the chance to work with so successful is because he works complete initial draft DMichael Jackson. The super-DJ hard in the studio and tours constant- has worked with many of the biggest ly. When asked what the secret of his names in pop, including Rihanna, success is, the ‘Titanium’ hitmaker he script for ‘Star Trek 3’ is nearing and [Patrick] McKay. “They are true Star Trek Nicki Minaj, Kelly Rowland, Snoop said: “To be honest I think the whole completion. Roberto Orci, who is writ- fans, as well. So, I can’t even think anything Dogg and Usher, but he admits his work ethic is the secret of my success. Ting the script for the new flick along- about the future until I give them a script dream collaboration would have If you ask me what is the secret side John D Payne and Patrick McKay, con- and they greenlight it. Until that happens, been with the late King of Pop, who behind my hits (songs), I have to say I firmed an initial draft of the script has been everything else is just a rumor.” Orci thinks died in June 2009. Guetta said: “It have no idea. At the moment I work completed and is set to be sent to bosses at he is a unique position to assume the role, would have been awesome to work on my new album and tear my hair Paramount, the studio behind the franchise. saying: “Having seen one of the best guys in with Michael Jackson, but therefore out, because I can’t reckon, If a song is The 41-year-old recently expressed an inter- the business [J.J. Abrams] direct two of it’s too late now.” The 46-year-old pro- going to be a hit or not. It’s crazy that est in directing the film, telling Collider: “I them already, and to have seen it from the ducer is one of the most successful people think I would have a recipe, don’t want to count my chickens before vantage point of producer too, I know DJs in the world and is wanted by the but I haven’t. Live would be so much they hatch. The studio has yet to even read where a lot of the challenges are and where globe’s top pop stars to create hits for easier with a recipe like that.” the script. I’m in the middle of writing it, a lot of the fun is.” ‘Star Trek 3’ is expected to with the talented team of [John D.] Payne hit cinema screens in 2016. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014 GOSSIP David Letterman honors Robin Williams avid Letterman paid a nothing we had ever seen before, lengthy tribute to Robin nothing we had ever imagined DWilliams on his talk show before. “And then he finishes and I last night. The ‘Late Show’ host - thought, “Oh that’s it, they’re making his first appearance since gonna have to put an end to the actor’s suicide last Monday - showbusiness because what could showed a collection of moments happen after this?’ Honest to God from the ‘Hook’ star’s “almost 50” you thought, ‘Holy crap, there appearances on the program and goes my chance in showbusiness.’ apologized for the fact he had “no “ David then spoke of how he got idea” how depressed his friend his break as his friend invited him had been. He said: “What I will add to be a guest on his sitcom ‘Mork here is beyond being a very tal- and Mindy’, and went on to recall ented man, and a good friend and how he was always “so gracious” a gentleman, I’m sorry, like every- as a talk show guest. He said: “And body else, I had no idea that the we would talk about the old times man was in pain, that the man was met at The Comedy Store in Los for his career as the newcomer and never did he act like, “Oh I suffering. But what a guy, Robin Angeles over 38 years ago and he was so good. He said: “All of a sud- knew you guys were so scared Williams.” The 67-year-old presen- had been ready to “make fun of den he comes up on the stage and because I was so good’. It was just ter recalled how he and Robin had the new guy” - but was left fearing - you know what it is - it’s like a pleasure to know the guy.”

Radcliffe never wants to be ‘separated’ from Harry Potter

Clooney and Alamuddin aniel Radcliffe never wants to be “separated” from Harry Potter. The 25-year-old actor shot Dto fame aged 11 playing the boy wizard in the hit film series and though he has taken on a number writes own vows of different roles since, he knows he will always be associated with his breakthrough part. Speaking at a Q and A for his new film ‘What If’ at a London Apple eorge Clooney and Amal actor and the 36-year-old lawyer have cho- Store, he said: “I don’t think there’s ever going to be Alamuddin have written their own sen to marry at their Italian villa because one film in people’s minds that finally separates me Gwedding vows. The couple - who they adore Lake Como and felt they would from Harry and I don’t think I ever will be separated got engaged in April - are expected to mar- have more control over their big day if they from Harry and I don’t want to be. “It was an incredi- ry at the ‘Monuments Men’ actor’s home in stayed somewhere familiar. A source bly important part of my life and something I still love Lake Como, Italy, next month and are plan- explained to E! News: “George has always and I’m very proud of, but I think this film, like ‘Kill ning a “small and intimate” celebration but loved Como, he finds it very peaceful and Your Darlings’ was and like ‘The Woman in Black’ was, the guest list is unlikely to include too relaxing and now Amal has fallen in love is just another step in showing people that I am inter- many Hollywood pals as they don’t want to with the area as well. “They want to start ested in doing other things and that I’m just going to attract attention. A source said: “This is not their married life there with the beautiful be sort of popping up as an actor now, doing jobs going to be a huge Hollywood wedding lake as a backdrop. George’s home on the Iggy Azalea away from the world you might have seen me in the with Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock fly- lake is like a very well oiled machine. He past.” Daniel also admitted he enjoyed working on his ing in to Italy for a week... “They want the has the local mayor fully on his side and the new movie because it was so much lighter than his wedding to be intimate with quiet but hap- locals too and he can ensure that press and recent material. He explained: “I’d never done comedy py and fun dinners and lunches after paparazzi are kept away. “Doing the wed- blasted over moodiness really on screen before, he explained. ‘To be able to they’ve said short but meaningful, hand- ding in another area of Italy would involve do a whole film where your job every day was to turn ggy Azalea has been blasted for her minute they stopped, it was back to scowl- written vows in front of their loved ones. too many people that he doesn’t know or up and make the person in the scene with you laugh moody behavior on the set of her new ing.” According to the source, even when They want their guests to enjoy it as much trust and George wants to make sure that rather than to have some sort of emotional break- TV show. The ‘Fancy’ hitmaker is the new the shoot moved outside the store to as they do and they know that if the guest Amal and both their families enjoy the big I down or save a dying child from a train, or whatever it host of MTV’s ‘House of Style’ and reported- where fans had gathered, the 24-year-old list reads like the Oscars invite list with lots day. “They want it to be about them cele- is I’ve done in other films. “It was nice to be able to ly spent much of filming at the Versace rapper still refused to smile. In contract, of big Hollywood names there it will be brating their love and respect for each oth- turn up and be myself every day. I mean, it is the most store in Beverly Hills on August 9 with a Iggy’s guest for the episode, ‘American Idol’ intimidating for their families. They can do er with their loved ones watching. And they like myself of any character I’ve ever played I think.” “complete scowl” on her face. A source told judge Jennifer Lopez, was a delight to work a party for movie industry friends in Los can do that in Como while keeping every- The ‘Horns’ star naturally gravitiates towards “very the Hollywood Reporter: “Iggy walked in with. The production crew member Angeles at a later date.” The 53-year-old thing fully under their control.” dark” material. He added: “I’ve made a lot of very dark with her entourage and wouldn’t take her revealed: “J.Lo was all smiles, saying hello to films since Potter and it’s not necessarily that that’s a sunglasses off the whole time we were in everyone on the crew, shaking everyone’s choice it’s just that’s the kind of stuff I gravitate the store shooting her. “She had a complete hand and doing everything we needed her towards so it was nice to find something that was scowl the whole time and never cracked a to do.” A spokesperson for the Australian Williams’ hat to be light and you felt would make people happy.” smile-unless the cameras were on. And the star hasn’t commented on the claims. displayed in a museum

harrell Williams’ Grammy Awards Hough returns to Kevin Hart has got engaged hat will be displayed in a museum. PThe infamous headwear - a bold he ‘Death at a Funeral’ star took to Vivienne Westwood Buffalo hat - sported ‘Dancing with the Stars’ his Instagram account to post a pic- by the ‘Happy’ hitmaker at this year’s cer- Tture of himself standing in front of emony was later sold to fast food restau- his longtime girlfriend Eniko Parrish, who rant chain Arby’s at a charity auction for was proudly displaying an engagement over $40,000 and will now go on loan to ring with a huge smile on her face. He Washington DC’s Newseum on August captioned the photograph: “She said 22. The hat made headlines following the YEEEEESSSSS...... #Happy #MyRib #i star-studded evening when Arby’s LoveHer (sic)” The 35-year-old comedian entered into a Twitter exchange with the popped the question to the raven-haired singer after paying $44,100 for the gar- beauty last night on her 30th birthday. ment on eBay to benefit his teen charity Shortly before announcing their engage- One Hand to Another. Pharrell wrote on ment, Kevin - who has been dating Eniko Twitter: “Thank you to whoever bought for five years - posted a throwback pic- my Grammy hat on @eBay for $44,100. ture of the pair alongside a heartfelt hap- Your donation benefits From One Hand py birthday message in which he to Another.(sic)” Arby’s - whose corporate declared his love for her and joked she is logo is a 10-gallon hat, bearing a strong ‘old’ nowHe wrote: “Happy Birthday to resemblance to the one worn by the the most amazing woman in the world. singer - jokingly tweeted back: “You’re Today is your day babe & we are going to welcome. We’re HAPPY to support a of brand and corporate communications party like it’s 1999....I love you so much. pregnancy rumours but appeared to hint great cause & get our hat back. Good at Arby’s, told The Washington Post: “The I’m a better man because of you. PS your that the pair will try for a baby in the luck at the #Oscars tonight! (sic)” The post-Grammy’s Twitter exchange old now lmao #Dirty30 #HappyBday future. She wrote: “LOL! Working on it accessory has been accepted by the between Arby’s and Pharrell about his #ThrowBackPic (sic)” The couple’s does NOT mean right now. “Working on museum as part of a short-term exhibit hat was completely unexpected and has ulianne Hough is set to return to ‘Dancing with engagement comes just one week after it” means when the timing is right. We to reflect the impact of social media on just become this remarkable moment in the Stars’ as a judge. The two-time dancing cham- model Eniko took to Twitter to deny will begin to plan! (sic)”. the news. Chris Fuller, the vice president pop-culture this year.” Jpion of the ABC show quit the program after 2009’s eighth series to pursue a music and film career, but she is reportedly in line to take up a new role as a permanent panellist on the upcoming 19th season. Sources have told TMZ that the 26-year-old star - who Richie spends $20,000 returned to ‘DWTS’ as a guest on series 13 and 14 - has been offered the chance to take up the fourth judging position alongside current panellists Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman and Bruno Tonioli. TMZ also claims that professional dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy, who won a year on underwear the 18th season of the show earlier this year with his partner Meryl Davis, is annoyed at missing out on the icole Richie spends $20,000 on underwear every ents that divorced when they were young - work hard to be judging role. Julianne is no stranger to sitting on the year. The ‘Candidly Nicole’ star - who has children a “team” to provide their kids with a “healthy family life”. She ‘Dancing with the Stars’ panel as she filled in for Len as NHarlow, six, and Sparrow, four, with husband Joel said: “We met and we were partners from day one. “And a guest judge in October last year. Since departing the Madden - works hard to keep a “spark” in her marriage, even from the second we found out we were going to parents show after series eight - in which Julianne danced with when the Good Charlotte rocker is working on ‘The Voice’ in together, we looked at each other and we said, ‘OK, both of her then-boyfriend, country singer Chuck Wicks - the Australia. A source told America’s OK! magazine: “Intimacy is our parents are divorced. We both have had ups and downs star has gone on to appear in several movies including a priority for them. Nicole likes to buy lingerie to spice with our parents and we don’t really have a strong example ‘Burlesque’, ‘Footloose’ and ‘Rock of Ages’. She is things up. She spends a good $20,000 a year [on lingerie]. of what a healthy family life is. But, we’re recognizing that expected to continue pursuing her acting career as her “Even with Joel shooting ‘The Voice’ in Australia for months now, so let’s work at it and let’s go through this together as ‘DWTS’ role will only take up a few hours a week. at a time, they Skype and text daily to keep the spark alive.” a team.’ “It’s been great. And I would say that’s the easiest Nicole recently admitted she and Joel - who both had par- and hardest part.” —Bang Showbiz lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 , 2014

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In this picture taken on June 8, 2014, a 68 year-old fish listener Harun Harun Muhammad clings onto his fishing boat. Muhammad mans his fishing boat at sea near Setiu lagoons, as his son Zuraini looks on. — AFP photos Disquieting times for Malaysia’s ‘fish listener’

ne hand clinging to his boat’s gunwale, Harun dropped into water. “They have a voice. This sound is run. The fish cry or shout and then their friends swim Muhammad submerges himself, eyes and ears this fish, that sound is another. When someone is new, away,” he said. Owide open underwater as he “listens” for fish they can’t tell one fish song from another.” Harun and sounds emanating from the blue depths. Harun is one his crew of a dozen can go nearly a week without hear- Listening in vain of Malaysia’s last “fish listeners,” and he and his appren- ing gelama which invites skepticism about the claimed Landing a rich catch was easy when stocks were tice son Zuraini are believed to be the only active prac- fish-listening ability. But experts in sonifery (fish abundant, Harun said. But after decades of overfishing, titioners of this mysterious and dying local art. “When sounds) say sailors have long heard sounds of whales he now “listens” up to several dozen times under the you listen, it is like through a looking glass-you can see and fish through boat hulls. scorching equatorial sun before catching a snippet of mackerel, sardine,” said Harun, 68, who has fished the “Scuba divers often do not hear anything because gelama song. Modernization, including sand dredging, Setiu lagoons on Malaysia’s rural east coast his whole their breathing and bubble exhaust makes so much aquaculture, factories and fishing trawlers have trans- life. noise. However free divers, or divers using quiet re- formed the Setiu wetlands, a rich but threatened “For us, we only look for gelama (a type of croaker). breathers, can hear much better,” said US-based marine coastal ecosystem centering on a 14-kilometre (9 mile) But in the schools of gelama, there will be other fish. ecologist Rodney Rountree. Former fish listeners long lagoon along the South China Sea. The gelama is the king of fish.” Other fish listeners have describe a range of techniques. Some claim they can The state of Terengganu is seeking to make it a pro- passed away, retired or turned to modern fish-detec- feel changes in water temperature. tected park. But Harun’s catch is increasingly unpre- tion technology as the traditional practice has retreat- For Harun, it is a multi-sensory experience requiring dictable, averaging about $2,000 per week gross, leav- ed in the face of dwindling catches and proliferating eyes wide open. “After a while, it is as if you can see. ing little left over after all crew are paid, and fuel, main- undersea noise. Studies show Malaysian waters lost 92 Even though the fish is very far, you can sense it in that tenance, and other costs are deducted.”Each year, the percent of fishery resources between 1971 to 2007 due direction and you go there. Only when you get close, catch has reduced. But I’m not good at anything else, to overfishing. “You can’t copy our technique. You must you can hear the fish clearly,” he said. Though he sports so I still have to do this,” said his son and apprentice gain the skill and learn the lay of the waters,” said a slight paunch on his sun-darkened frame under a Zuraini. Malaysia ranks among the top consumers of Harun. “The wholesalers tell me, ‘if you’re gone, there spiky white head of hair, Harun remains sprightly seafood in the world. Intergovernmental industry will be no more gelama’,” which fetches up to ten times despite his years, deftly clambering in and out of his researchers Infofish say Malaysians eat an average of 2048. Despite the long odds, Zuraini, 44, said someday Harun Muhammad poses at the price of similarly sized fish. boat in search of fish sounds. Once he pinpoints a 56.5 kilograms of seafood per person annually, more he will train one of his own sons. “I don’t want to see his home after returning school of gelama, his crew-who have hung back with even than Japanese. this practice die off,” he said. — AFP from fishing in Setiu Sounds fishy engines off-motor forward, drop their nets and strike The global average is 20 kilos. WWF-Malaysia chief lagoons. “Pak Harun”, as he is known locally-”Pak” is a Malay the sides of their boats to spook the fish into the mesh Dionysius Sharma said overfishing threatens to leave honorific similar to “Uncle”-finds it hard to describe trap. “You think it’s just stupid fish but they can see you Malaysian waters “vast and barren”. The organization exactly how fish sound, but likens it to pebbles being coming. When they hear the sound of the boat, they warns Malaysia’s waters could run out of seafood by

Love thy neighbor, it’s good for the heart PARIS: Ever felt like your neighbor’s neighbors, and found their neighbors antics could drive you to an early to be friendly. When they crunched grave? Well, there may be reason for the numbers at the end of the study, concern, said researchers who report- the team found that for every point ed a link Tuesday between having they had awarded out of seven, an good neighbors and a healthier heart. individual had a reduced heart attack “Having good neighbors and feeling risk over the four-year study period. connected to others in the local com- People who gave a full score of munity may help to curb an individ- seven out of seven had a 67 percent ual’s heart attack risk,” said a state- reduced heart attack risk compared to ment that accompanied a study pub- people who gave a score of one, study lished in the Journal of Epidemiology co-author Eric Kim told AFP, and and Community Health. described the difference as “signifi- Heart and blood vessel diseases cant”. 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The sug- attack. health approaches that target neigh- life and consumables in beauty products, but Westlake Village, California, and the Go Green gested retail price is on the low end at $9.99 At the start of the project, the borhood social cohesion may be war- where else would the new darling in greens Organic Spa in lower Manhattan. “They loved each, available at Target, Walmart, Whole Foods respondents were asked to award ranted,” the team wrote. — AFP land if not beauty aisles, spas and websites? the idea of a superfood,” Baresh said. “Kale is the Markets and drug stores. points out of seven to reflect the A look at kale on the beauty side: new go-to for the plate and in a smoothie, so “History has shown that it’s very common for extent to which they felt part of their why not beauty products? But I don’t think food trends to trickle into beauty care products,” neighborhood, could rely on their Nailkale you’re going to see kale products popping up all said Sarah Galusha, director of marketing for neighbors in a pinch, could trust their Sprawled in ads on a bed of kale, British fash- over Sephora.” Hain. “As consumers learn about the amazing ion darling Alexa Chung is the face of Nailkale, a benefits of eating certain superfoods, they start new line of 12 nail shades from London-based to look for them in their personal care products Nails Inc. They just launched in the UK and will as well. And the truth is that many superfoods hit US shelves in late August. are loaded with phytonutrients, antioxidant vita- Nails Inc founder Thea Green was inspired by mins and minerals that happen to be great for a couple of trips to New York City last year. “On replenishing skin.” Model Ataui one trip we saw a group of very lovely girls walk- ing down the street all drinking their green The kale that wasn’t juices, and no one in London was drinking Dana Kale in Dallas is co-owner of the small Deng disappears green juice then,” she said in a recent interview. Kale Naturals. Kale and her business partner, Tia “Then I heard a woman in a restaurant, a very Pettijohn, incorporated in 2008. They launched in New York proper Upper East Side New Yorker, reject her botanical grooming products for men in 2010, salad because it was rocket (arugula) and not ahead of kale mania. There’s no actual kale in taui Deng, a Sudanese model who kale. I thought the whole thing was fascinating,” Kale Naturals, but the packaging is a nice kale has worked with some of the world’s Green said. Green took kale for nails and its vita- green. The two, with just eight products, hope Atop designers, has gone missing in mins A, C and K to a laboratory and Nailkale was to add some kale going forward, possibly by New York, police said Monday. Deng, 22, born. “I think they thought I was a bit nutty.” next year. measures 6 feet, one inch (1.85 meters) and Nutty like a fox. She’s the first to offer kale for “It’s kind of in the last year where kale has weighs 110 pounds (50 kilograms), and nails. gotten all this attention and become this super- was last seen August 6 near Times Square. food and all of that,” Kale said. The company is Police said Deng, also known as Ataui Deng-Hopkins, was missing. Spa sales still benefiting from the buzz due to its name, “We put out a description and we’re Eminence Organic Skin Care sells luxury which pops up in Internet searches for the kale- looking for her at this time,” a statement products to more than 3,000 spas worldwide. inclined. said. Known for her cropped hair and dark With roots in Hungary, that’s where the compa- “When we started formulating our products, complexion, Deng has been on the catwalk ny headed when it decided to work with kale the naturals market was still a little bit new and for designers such as Proenza Schouler, Zac farmers for two new products. so we didn’t even think to put it in there,” Kale Posen, Catherine Malandrino, Sophie Stephanie Baresh, the brand and product said. “I wish that we had. I always tell people, Theallet as well as Desigual and Bibhu creative director in Vancouver, Canada, said a ‘Well my blood, sweat and tears are in there, if Mohapatra. She came to the United States cold processing method is used on raw kale for that helps.’”—AP with family in 2004 and has lived in New the Citrus & Kale Potent C+E Masque. The This product image released by Alba Botanica York City since 2008. — AP chunky green product offers a slight whiff of shows corrector lotion, containing kale. lifestyle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 , 2014

Music & Movies

Taylor Swift to release new album on Oct 27

aylor Swift is saying goodbye to country “rebirth.” “We made the most sonically cohesive the livestream. The song was produced by Max music, for now: The singer says she’s releas- album I’ve ever made,” she said of “1989,” which Martin and Shellbeck, who helmed the Swift hits Ting her first full-length pop album on Oct 27. was available for pre-order on Monday. Swift’s last “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and “I The 24-year-old revealed in a livestream via Yahoo! effort was 2012’s “Red,” which sold 1.2 million Knew You Were Trouble.” — AP on Monday that “1989,” named for her birth year, is copies in its first week. Swift said she was mainly her “first documented official pop album.” The first inspired by late ‘80s pop music when recording single is the upbeat jam “Shake It Off,” which she “1989” over the past two years. This Aug 10, 2014 file photo shows debuted during the livestream and was released “I woke up every day ... not wanting, but need- Taylor Swift at the Teen Choice Monday. She danced happily in a cropped white ing to make a new style of music than I made Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in top and skirt with the audience as the song before,” she told the audience. The singer also pre- Los Angeles. — AP played. Swift called her upcoming fifth album a miered the music video for “Shake It Off” during

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson set for DC Comics film

wayne “The Rock” Johnson says he will play a role in an Appearing in Mexico City to promote “Hercules,” Johnson upcoming DC Comics movie adaption but has yet to said he will make sure comic fans are not disappointed. “I am Ddecide between superhero Shazam and his arch-neme- putting my heart and soul and my bones into this role,” he said. sis Black Adam. He may not have a hard time making a deci- Johnson didn’t say whether his character will appear in the film sion. He told The Associated Press on Monday that he has “Superman v Batman: Dawn of Justice,” which is scheduled to Dwayne Johnson poses for photos as he arrives for an always been a fan of anti-heroes and said one of his favorite DC be released in 2016. — AP event to promote his film ‘Hercules,’ in Mexico City, Comics characters is Black Adam. Monday. — AP Country Crue: Nashville embraces heavy metal

Judge rejects ince Neil and Nikki Sixx have spent so drew them to the project. much time hanging out with country “More than anything this song is country, Vartists for a Motley Crue tribute album but it’s Southern rock,” Moore said of his ver- rapper Meek Mill’s that they know how to write the classic coun- sion of “Home Sweet Home,” the album’s lead try song. First, the subject of a country ballad single. “It’s something you don’t hear very isn’t that far from the life of a rock ‘n’ roller, the often anymore, so I am very proud of it.” For appeal of term blond lead singer said as he sat in a Nashville, Neil, whose father was from Texas, this isn’t Tennessee, hotel next to guitarist Sixx. “You’re the country music he rebelled against as a he Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill pleaded to be released young and you go out drinking, drugging and teenager who loved rock ‘n’ roll. “I saw Florida from jail Monday to resume his music career and sup- writing songs,” Neil said. “Bad stuff happens: Tport his son and 30-person entourage, but the judge you lose your wife, your house, your car.” who jailed him on a parole violation last month was unmoved. “And you write a song about it,” Sixx She ordered the 27-year-old to take anger management class- chimed in. Instead of a clash of cultures on the es for what prosecutors called a parole office “tantrum” over 15-song album, “Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute travel restrictions, and a Twitter rant aimed at a parole officer to Motley Crue,” released Tuesday, Nashville’s and prosecutor. country crooners welcomed the teased-hair, “I wanted him to be able to grow and get to the next level leather-clad metal band whose rock anthems (of his career),” Common Pleas Judge Genese Brinkley said. Commuters move past posters and hoardings of Indian films in Mumbai, India yes- helped define the ‘80s. Backed by Big Machine “But I can’t do that with him thumbing his nose at me.” Mill, terday. — AP Label Group CEO Scott Borchetta, who born Robert Williams, has been on probation for about five brought to the album his wide roster of artists years following a 2009 drug and gun case conviction, for including Rascal Flatts, Florida Georgia Line which he served about a year of house arrest. He has since India’s film censor arrested and Brantley Gilbert, the multi-genre emerged as a gifted rapper who has been tapped to perform approach fits right in with younger fans of with Jay-Z. But his career has been interrupted the past two country music whose tastes fall all over the years by what he considers an increasingly fraught relation- for alleged bribery radio dial. ship with a new parole officer. Motley Crue, in the middle of their final “We never clicked 100 percent,” Mill said Monday, his voice ndia’s chief film censor was arrested yester- conservative attitude. Kumar told the Mumbai tour in the United States and Canada, had no sounding ready to crack. He has not committed any new day on accusations he solicited bribes to Mirror newspaper that month that local media input on the artists or how the songs were This CD cover image released by Big crimes while on probation, but was flagged this year after fail- Ispeed a film through the strict, laborious directors were “pushing the envelope too far.” performed. The standout performances sound Machine Records shows ‘A Tribute to ing a drug test and appearing to use a gun in a music video. process of keeping profanity, violence and Formerly a senior state railway official, Kumar very little like the electric guitar heavy origi- Motley Crue,’ by Nashville Outlaws. — AP Defense lawyer Dennis Cogan said Mill had a prescription for hints of sexuality from Indian cinemas. The had no previous experience with cinema, and nals, such as when LeAnn Rimes sings the OxyContin after spraining his ankle, and said the video norms of Bollywood film content are prudish in some on the board of directors opposed “Smokin’ in the Boys Room” with a horn sec- Georgia Line, and one of the guys has a prop was a water pistol. He also said his client’s tweets, how- comparison to Hollywood. The Central Board of Kumar’s appointment. tion or when The Mavericks bring their Cuban Mohawk and tattoos,” Neil said. “I mean, you ever unwise, were protected free speech. “You never said, ‘As a Film Certification is legally empowered to pro- “I said from the beginning he was not country beat to “Dr Feelgood.” Big & Rich, can’t get any more rock ‘n’ roll than that.” — AP condition of probation, you can’t speak outside the courtroom tect audiences from content deemed overly appropriate for the job,” board chairman Leela Darius Rucker, Gretchen Wilson and Justin about the district attorney or the probation officer,’” Cogan stimulating, so open-mouthed kissing is mostly Samson said. “Why should (the film industry) Moore also appear on the album. For some of argued to the judge. taboo, and films with graphic content can be put up with a man who has no empathy for the the artists, it was the lyrics and emotions that He has asked the state Supreme Court to intervene and barred completely. The approval process can industry?” Samson said she wouldn’t be sur- grant bail. A prison official, a music promoter and a professor be slow, with multiple rounds of cuts some- prised if others paid to speed their film’s certifi- of race relations spoke on Mill’s behalf Monday, and spoke of times demanded. cation, but said she doubted many would to the difficulty of growing up fatherless - Mill’s father was killed Police said certification board CEO Rakesh get more adventurous material approved. when he was young - and staying out of the crosshairs of the Kumar was charged by a Mumbai court with “There’s no need to bribe anybody,” Samson parole system. “It’s not set up for a man to win in society - a soliciting payments in return for speeding up said. “If they want out-of-turn special treat- black man,” said local music promoter and mentor Charles the approval for a regional film from the central ment, that’s where the corruption comes in.” Alstin, known as Charlie Mack. India state of Chhattisgarh. Investigators arrest- The board recently launched an online applica- Mill, lean, lanky and baby-faced, has been kept in protec- ed two other men last week in a sting opera- tion system in an attempt to eliminate oppor- tive custody at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, but tion in which the suspects allegedly sought tunities for bribery. Many in India’s vibrant complained Tuesday that his neighbors on the high-security 70,000 rupees, or about $1050, on Kumar’s movie industry see the censorship board as an block are rapists and murderers. He also questioned whether behalf. outdated, restrictive and bureaucratic irritation he would be able to take the required anger management The Bollywood film industry is worth more and regularly push for censors to allow more. class there. Brinkley said she had called the warden last week than $3 billion a year, and with some certifica- Patwardhan, the documentary filmmaker, com- about the plan. She agreed to rescind her protective custody tion cases lasting more than a year, it’s widely plained that the board charges a fee even to order, but warned Cogan “if something happens ... it’s going to assumed that bribes occasionally speed things consider a film. “We shouldn’t have to pay our be on you.” along. “Some films get passed very quickly own hangmen,” he said. — AP Mill released his debut album, “Dreams & Nightmares,” in because they oil the wheels, but some get late 2012. The album’s launch party was delayed when Mill stuck,” said Anand Patwardhan, a documentary and three others - including an Atlantic Records executive and filmmaker who has fought repeated court cas- a police officer friend - were stopped in a Range Rover and es with the censors. detained by Philadelphia police for several hours. No drugs Filmmakers and critics said the board had were found and no charges filed. Meek sued the city over the become more liberal and efficient in recent arrest, but a mostly-white federal jury in Philadelphia this years, and that Kumar’s appointment in This Jan 28, 2014 file photo shows, from left, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, and Mick spring rejected the civil rights lawsuit. — AP January ushered in a return to the board’s more Mars of Motley Crue at a press conference in Los Angeles. — AP photos Film review: ‘Weaving the Past: Journey of Discovery’ painstaking, somewhat plodding labor of love, “Weaving doubt-nonetheless becomes rather laborious in its recounting of the Past: Journey of Discovery” finds filmmaker Walter every virtuous particular. The dark and painful secrets hinted at in ADominguez paying affectionate and exhaustive tribute to Hernandez’s past turn out to be the trappings of an abusive child- the life and work of his late grandfather, the Mexican Methodist hood, which spurred him to flee his Mexican mining town in the pastor Emilio N. Hernandez. Tracing Hernandez’s long legacy of 1890s (when he was only 5), after which he was taken in by the activism back to his early revolutionary days in Mexico, where he wealthy Guerrero family. participated in a resistance movement aimed at overthrowing the Mexican Revolution cruel regime of president Porfirio Diaz, this assiduously detailed At its core the film is about how Tata’s devotion to others was documentary emerges as a detective story, a history lesson, an ode born not out of a simple do-gooder impulse, but rather out of a to workers’ rights and a chronicle of the immigrant experience. harrowing firsthand experience of human suffering. It was also Pursuing these ends with a level of patience that will likely tax the deeply influenced by his friendship with Praxedis Guerrero (the viewer’s own, the film is playing a one-week Los Angeles run and film’s stealth subject and most compelling figure), a journalist and will thereafter be most in demand as an educational tool. political activist who made it his life’s work to help end the Diaz Dominguez, who wrote and delivered the film’s continual nar- regime and its brutal campaign of worker exploitation. To that end, ration, begins with a lengthy reflection on how 9/11 and its gruel- he became active within the anarchist Mexican Liberal Party and ing aftermath left him in a state of deep despair, hungry for a sense published newspapers to drum up attention for their cause. of meaning and purpose. He found both in the example set by his In 1904, Guerrero and Hernandez crossed over into Texas and beloved grandfather, or “Tata,” who died decades earlier in 1973, got jobs, laying down railroad track and digging in mines, to help and whom numerous relatives here recall as a loving, selfless indi- fund the resistance. But their hard work and dogged heroism met vidual who spent more than half a century ministering to the with no shortage of persecution on both sides of the border, and Mexican immigrant communities in Arizona and California. by the time the Mexican Revolution began in 1910, Hernandez “Everybody loved him,” notes one interviewee. “There was not a faced severe personal losses and an uncertain future. —Reuters person who said anything negative about him.” The film largely fol- Bollywood actress Rani Mukharjee poses for a photograph during a promotional event for her forthcoming Hindi film lows suit, offering up a portrait that, while not exactly hagiograph- ‘Mardaani’ in Mumbai. — AFP ic-that Hernandez led an exceptional life of service is beyond Disquieting times for Malaysia’s ‘fish listener’ Pae

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Tahani Al-Eteiby: Abaya designer makes a splash

ulf fashion designer Tahani Al-Eteiby revealed some of dresses of new styles that will signal a new development her latest cloaks (abayas) for the modern Arab women. stage in the field of women fashion. GHer designs have been distinguished with many luxuri- Tahani has become one of the renowned names in the ous details that enabled her to win exceptional international field of modern fashion designing today. Her exclusive fame. These tangible effects were evidently created by attrac- designs and updated styles have attracted thousands of mod- tive colorful broidery, original knitting work and compact ern women everywhere. Most of her clients are waiting for her unique texture. This is in addition to magnificent fabric such upcoming collection of new dresses for brides and night par- as raw silk, satin, chiffon and lace. ties. Tahani has participated in many fashion design shows both in Gulf and foreign countries. Her dream to be an inter- national designer drove her to widen her scope of activities. She lately took part in the London fashion show and her designs of Gulf styles impressed people there and were described in the British media as impressive, distinguished and totally successful. Many European women expressed their admiration of her Gulf exclusive styles and impeccable design- ing methods and wore her new models in wedding and spe- cial private parties. She paid special attention to new and exclusive designs because she knew that a modern woman is more interested in new models with bold and exceptional colors such as beige, brown, orange, deep purple and other unusual colors. She has a tendency to make use of Western styles in traditional Arab cloaks (abayas) even in some un-classical designs. Tahani says that she always revives her love for traditional designs in new styles. She is eager to make her designs carry the meanings she wants to convey to other people. “Nearly in every collection there is an exceptional touch of modernity that usually goes with the feminine natural beauty of women that doesn’t fade with time. The true original female designer is the one who is able to reveal her life experience in her cre- ative classical designs that suit different times and occasions while preserving the original type of a cloak,” she said. Ramadan and Eid collection was her latest collection this year. It was a summer sedate and serene collection that suited the true Ramadan spirit. Eteiby usually sticks to her original design features in the field of Arab women abayas, exploiting her unique technicalities and not-used before colors like dif- ferent shades of brown and maroon colors. She says that she’s going to present her upcoming collection of garments and

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