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Emsak: 03:11 Fajer: 03:22 Dohr: 11:53 Asr: 15:28 Maghreb: 18:51 Eshaa: 20:21 Kuwait, GCC celebrate Max 48º Min 35º holy month of Ramadan High Tide 02:05 & 12:18 Low Tide Saudi to expel foreigners disrespecting Ramadan 07:03& 20:01 40 PAGES NO: 15865 150 FILS RIYADH: The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan conspiracy theories begins in Saudi Arabia today, the royal cabinet Ramadan Kareem announced in a statement yesterday, citing the king- dom’s religious authorities. The holy month during Month of which Muslims fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be Ramadan steps more pious and charitable, begins with the sighting of By Umm Ruqayyah tolerance the new moon, which varies from country to country. Other Arab countries including Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar ouldn’t you love to enter the month of and Yemen, will also observe the start of Ramadan Ramadan on a real high and have the effects today. Wof this beautiful month be a permanent During Ramadan, Muslims are also required to impact on your life thereafter? How can this be done? abstain from drinking liquids, smoking and having sex Below are the 8 steps for a Legacy of a Ramadan. By Badrya Darwish from dawn until dusk. The fasting is one of the five main religious obligations under Islam. The month is Step 1 - Create a Ramadan Count Down sacred to Muslims because tradition says it is the Counting down for Ramadan (whether it is done month in which the Quran was revealed by Allah to mentally or by keeping physical signs around the home the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). or office) will help create hype and buzz in your mind [email protected] Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia yesterday threatened to and amongst the people around you. When you and expel non-Muslim expatriates who eat, drink, or smoke others are counting down to the same event, it in public during the Muslim fasting month of becomes part of regular conversation and excitement amadan is the month of peace and tranquility. Ramadan. “Non-Muslim residents in the kingdom must spreads. It is the month of mercy and forgiveness from not eat or drink in public during Ramadan, in respect Step 2 - Seek knowledge about Ramadan RGod. It is a month dedicated to worship, toler- to the holiness of Ramadan and the feelings of ance, self reflection and understanding. It is not a This will help you ensure you will do things correctly Muslims,” said an interior ministry statement published month in which we only refrain from food and water. and perfectly for Ramadan, it will create a hype as there by the official SPA news agency. It is not meant to just starve ourselves. It is about are many motivational aspects and events in the month training and purifying your soul. It is meant to teach Foreigners caught breaking the fast in public “will to look forward to and finally it is a reward reaper. The you more empathy and patience. Ramadan is about be subject to deterrent measures that include termi- more you know about Ramadan the more you can showing our human side which many of us might nating their employment contracts and expelling apply, hence multiplying your rewards. have ignored or have written off. them from the kingdom,” the ministry said. It added Once a year, we have this beautiful month com- that “companies, corporations and individuals are Step 3 - Make a Ramadan plan ing to give us a chance to repent and to try to cor- required to inform their employees” of the rules. Oil- Be it reading the entire Qur’an, ensuring you pray rect our mistakes. Also, Ramadan gives us a chance JAKARTA: Indonesian Muslim women hold prayers rich Saudi Arabia, which applies a strict version of taraweeh every night or inviting families over for iftaar; to reflect on these mistakes. on the first night of Ramadan at the Istiqlal mosque sharia (Islamic) law, is home to eight million foreigners, make a list of things you would like to achieve in the Continued on Page 13 in Jakarta yesterday. — AFP mostly Asians. — Agencies Continued on Page 13 WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 LOCAL Kuwait drop down on WEF rankings for friendliness Crackdown backlash

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s anti-foreigner backlash is in If successful it will be rolled out nationally. countries. As part of a widespread backlash making life hard for foreigners and trying to with children were among those exempted full force as expats are restricted from using Foreign patients will only have access to med- Kuwait will also scrap subsidies it offers for- push them out. Many will jump before they from the conditions, along with certain pro- public hospitals and driving. At the start of ical treatment in the mornings if it is an emer- eigners for public services such as electricity are pushed.” fessions like judges and doctors. June, the Kuwaiti government barred foreign- gency. and water, claiming they are “a burden on the Kuwait authorities have also tightened But Kuwait’s traffic department is now ers from attending a major public hospital in Currently, Kuwait provides free medical state”. their already strict controls on foreign drivers reviewing the list of exemptions, and has the morning, leaving it free for locals who services to locals, but expats must pay an Earlier this year the Kuwaiti government by withdrawing licences from students and been cancelling licences for students when have complained about overcrowding. annual fee along with charges for certain pro- said it relied too heavily on expats and wants housewives. they graduate and housewives who get a job. Banning foreigners in the morning at Jahra cedures like X-rays. to reduce their numbers. It plans to cut its 1.8 Under current laws, most foreigners can At the same time, more than 1,000 expats hospital, west of Kuwait City, is a six month tri- The anti-foreigner stance has seen Kuwait million expats by 100,000 annually over the only drive on public roads if they hold a uni- have been deported from the Gulf state with- al to try to ease congestion for Kuwaiti drop down the World Economic Forum’s rank- next decade. versity degree, earn KD 400 a month and in the past two months for minor traffic patients in a country where expats outnum- ings for friendliness to tourists and visitors. One British expat who wished to remain have lived in the country for at least two offences and have had their vehicles ber locals two to one. The Emirate now stands at 137th out of 140 anonymous said: “Already the government is years. However, students, and housewives impounded.

Arabi Group wins ‘Insurance Hospitals’ auction

KUWAIT: Arabi Group Holding was estimated at KD60 million of the total selected as a strategic investor in a proj- project’s capital of KD230 million. ect to build hospitals for treatment of Meanwhile, head of the founding expatriates covered by a governmental committee of the Health Insurance health insurance program after winning Hospitals Company, Mohammad Al- an auction carried out by the Kuwait Munaifi, announced in a press confer- Investment Authority on Monday. ence to announce the auction result that The group had forwarded a KD 66.6 preparations to sign the deal is expected million offer to invest in 26 percent of the to take place within a month or two, fol- shareholding company that will be lowed by the initial public offering for 50 founded to establish three hospitals with percent of the company’s share on a total capacity of 700 beds and offer September or October. integrated medical services to foreigners The government will own the remain- living in Kuwait. ing 24 percent share of the shareholding KUWAIT: Supporters of former Kuwaiti MP Yaqoub Al-Sanea, a candidate in Kuwait’s upcoming parliamentary elections, gather at his election Its bid was selected over offers for- company. Al-Munaifi added that the campaign tent in Kuwait City yesterday. Kuwait will hold a second parliamentary election in eight months on July 27 amid a political crisis that has stalled development in the country and a boycott by the opposition. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat warded by Kepco (KD53.8 million), Agility company which will handle works to (KD32.3 million) and Jebla Company implement the mega project should start Eight candidates quit elections race (KD32.3 million) for the share that was operation by early next year.

KUWAIT: Eight parliamentary candi- the second constituency Adel Al- Voters’ views differ on candidates dates have withdrawn candidancy Khorafi emphasized on the necessi- for the July 27 elections, decreasing ty to participate in the next elec- KUWAIT: Candidates have been launch- so far acceptable. number of candidates to 404, the tions, especially after the constitu- ing their campaigns for the July 27 par- Taiba Al-Khaled, another employee, interior ministry said yesterday. tional court put an end to differing liamentary elections by using all means welcomed the idea of sending emails to The ministry’s public authority views, and said all should respect at their disposal including sending the private accounts and that the receiv- for elections, said in a statement opposing points of views. emails to private accounts of voters. er could either open or delete them. Hussein Sardar Ali Faraydoon, Saud He said that the election shall Some voters do not mind getting Thawra Abdulkareem said she was Mathkar Nasser Al-Hajri, Salman witness large participation which these emails because they will save time annoyed from the emails getting to her Nasser Al-Rashidi and Awadh Khalaf could exceed 50 percent after some knowing the programs of the candidates, private inbox as they were distracting Al-Enezi quit the race in the 2nd have announced boycotting elec- while others were dismayed because it her from her work. constituency. tions, adding that boycotting is of was their professional email accounts She said that the large number of The third constituency witnessed no use and reform comes from the and was purely for work. emails were filling up her inbox and thus withdrawal of Ahmad Yusuf Al- inside of the house and not from the Mubarak Al-Banwan, an employee, hampered her work. Mulaifi and Adel Jassem Al-Barjas, street. He added it is possible that said emails were good mean to commu- Hayat Al-Abbasi was against the use while Hamed Jafran Al-Husseini quit there are some mistakes in the nicate with voters especially with the of private emails for elections purposes. the race in the 4th constituency and process which could lead to KUWAIT: Reham Al-Jlewe, a candidate in Kuwait’s upcoming parlia- Mishal Bader Al-Otaibi pulled out announcing the next Assembly as mentary elections, welcomes her guests at her election campaign tent large number of candidates. She said private emails should be spe- from the race from the 5th con- void, intentionally or otherwise. in Kuwait City yesterday. The fact the voting day was approach- cific for work not for campaigning. ing, Al-Banwan told KUNA, made it hard- Al-Abbasi further said that official stituency, said the department. He emphasized that “we need He added the government does projects, so the government’s duty er for candidates to reach out to their authorities should punish those who use The deadline for candidates to specialized persons in legislation not defend thieves but defends is to defend its procedures, other- withdraw their candidacy will be on and making laws and knowhow to projects. As an executive party, there wise it will not get the trust of the voters. He, however, said the number of personal emails or phone numbers for July 20. Meanwhile, candidate of deal with regulations and systems”. are some who benefit from these Assembly. candidates’ emails he was receiving was campaigning means. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 LOCAL ‘Vote buying’ alleged ahead of NA election ‘Multimillion-dinar fund’ set up

KUWAIT: Despite governmental promises to of the first, second and third constituencies. Meanwhile, Al-Qabas quoted observers in a tackle irregularities ahead of parliamentary These persons will work as ‘electoral keys’, each report yesterday who expressed suspicions over elections set for June 27, several dailies report- of whom can secure thirty votes through vote the motives of mass appointments the Cabinet ed yesterday that primaries as well as vote buy- buying, which they can move in favor of any announced during its weekly session Monday. A ing activities are taking place in all constituen- candidate who would find themselves in need Cabinet source who requested anonymity cies. Al-Jarida daily reported that a vote’s price of ‘support’ at any time during election day. As explained that the decisions came to fill voids this year ranges between KD 1,000 to KD 2,000 for the fourth and fifth constituencies, the created when many senior officials opted to “after the single-vote system cut the ‘supply’ sources who spoke on the condition of retire before a June 30 deadline to benefit from and increased demand”, according to sources anonymity said that people behind the fund are incentives put to encourage long-standing with knowledge of the issue. currently contacting winners of tribal primaries employees to move over. However, a Civil Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the “offering their services”. Service Commission source argued that many sources said that activity has been detected for Concern over vote buying emerged as a appointments did not go through the Civil buying votes through “blocks of 15 to 20 votes main topic of discussion in candidates’ state- Service Council, mentioning posts at the health for KD 30,000” in the second and third con- ments Monday, as former MP and minister and social affairs ministries in specific. stituencies. Ahmad Al-Mulaifi warned of the “spread of polit- In other news, the supreme judicial commit- The same daily had reported earlier this ical money in the third constituency” where he tee that was formed to supervise the election week that a group of politicians and people is running. “People are talking about third con- process held a meeting Monday in which with influence on the decision making process stituency candidates who brag about having judges and public prosecution members were in the state have set up a ‘multimillion-dinar millions of dinars to buy a parliament seat and briefed about the latest preparations regarding fund’ in order to support certain candidates people’s willpower,” he said in statements to Al- their work program. The committee’s president with hope of securing a loyalist majority in the Rai. He further criticized the government’s “sus- and president of the appeals court Ahmad Al- upcoming parliament. Yesterday, Al-Jarida picious silence” over the issue and urged the Ujail told Al-Qabas that “all judges on leave have added that ‘operators’ of the fund are working Interior Ministry to investigate the matter and cut their vacations short and will be here one or on employing an average of 35 persons in each hold vote buyers accountable. two days before elections”. Kuwait candidates’ Comparative figures of third speech skills key constituency electorate KUWAIT: The total number of women), Udailiyah 5, 933 (2,766 in campaigns Kuwaiti citizens with suffrage for the men and 3,167 women), Jabriyah July 2013 elections is 439,715, 9,756 (4,024 men and 5,732 KUWAIT: The art of speech is one of the key communications skills including 206,096 men and 233,619 women). exercised by parliamentary candidates who can persuade voters to women. Citizens with suffrage in Surra change their minds and vote for them. Many candidates spend In the third constituency, the amounted to 8,296 (3,346 men and great sums of money on their campaigns without paying attention number of franchised citizens stands 4,950 women), Khaldiyah 5,374 to the art of speech, which can have dramatic impact on voters. at 76,501, with 34,745 males and (2,613 men and 2,761 women), “The candidate can change the mind of voter through the art of 41,756 females. Qortoba 6,885 (2,243 men and 3,858 speech as one of the most sophisticated elements with regards to Number of the voters in this dis- women), Yarmouk 5,138 (2,219 men dealing between human beings,” Abdullah Al-Hajraf, an expert in trict rose 3,436, 4.70 percent of elec- and 2,919 women), Abraq Khaitan development and human communications, commented. torate of the elections that resulted 7,511 (3,389 men and 4,122 Al-Hajraf said art of speech was one of the important elements in the December 2012 dissolved women), New Khaitan 1,407 (1,304 of communication in Western countries. parliament — 1,743 males voter and men and 103 women), Al-Salam In the West, he said, a human being “does not live in isolation 1,693 female voters. 1,623 (763 men and 860 women), from others but in a constant state of interaction with others.” This Third constituency’s eligible vot- Hetteen 1,457 (654 men and 803 means, he added, conveying ideas, objectives, causes and informa- ers constitute 17.39 percent of women, Shuhadaa 1,045 (506 men tion to others by a good selection of words and phrases which Kuwait’s overall electorate of and 539 women). would be easily understood by the public. 439,715, with the gender break- In Zahraa, number of franchised These ideas and information should be blended with feelings down proportion standing at 7.90 nationals reached 1,477 (665 men “which will touch upon sufferings and emotions of others who will percent males and 9.49 females. and 812 women), but none was reg- feel the urge to listen to the speech of the candidate,” he said. Voters are distributed among 15 istered in Seddeek. Kuwait’s constitutional court last month annulled the parliament areas: Kaifan 7,843 (3,850 men and Number of franchised citizens in that was elected last December and upheld the one-person, one vote system. Parliamentary elections in the country’s five con- 3,993 women), Rowda 9,856 (4,546 the third constituency in the polls of stituencies will be held on July 27. Al-Hajraf, furthermore, said men and 5,310 women), Udailiyah the dissolved National Assembly of changing the belief of the voter was not easy. “The candidate 6,154 (2,881 men and 3,273 February 2012 reached 67,063 should analyze the real life of his voters because this will help him women), Jabriyah 10,223 (4,280 men (30,240 men and 36,823 women). choose his phrases and words that address their problems thus and 5,943 women), Surra 8,619 They were distributed as follow- winning their confidence in election day,” he said. A candidate can (3,531 men and 5,088 women), ing: Kaifan 7,395 (3,630 men and also shift between issues to avoid boredom, suggested Al-Hajraf. Khaldiyah 5,527 (2,687 men and 3,765 women), Rowda 9,036 (4,151 The candidate, he said, should prepare for this campaign and his 2,840 women), Qortoba 7,225 (2,798 men and 4,885 women, Udailiyah speeches, as well as making sure he moved from his introduction to men and 4,427 women), Yarmouk 5,570 (2,619 men and 2,951 the conclusion smoothly. The candidate, he added, should avoid 5,335 (2,316 men and 3,019 women), Jabriyah 9,103 (3,654 men long speech and vague words. “Words are keys to hearts and women), Abraq Khaitan 7,580 (3,413 and 5,449 women). minds,” he said. If the candidate realizes that his audience are pay- males and 4,167 females), New Number of the eligible voters in ing attention to his speech, he said, this would mean his words and Khaitan 1,441 (1,311 men and 130 Surra reached 7,606 (2,984 men and phrases were appropriate. women), Al-Salam 1,955 (935 men 4, 622 women), Khaldiyah 4,978 “The proper use of the body language is a very influential ele- and 1,020 women). (2,449 men and 2,529 women), ment,” he explained. Fatma Al-Enezi, a history teacher, said skills of In Seddeek 14 (10 men and four Qortoba 6,101 (2, 243 men and speech of candidates could influence her to vote for them. “The women), Hetteen 1,752 (782 men 3,858 women), Yarmouk 4,633 (1,987 candidate who has these skills is capable of highlighting problems and 970 women), Shuhadaa 1,234 men and 2,646 women). of voters,” She said. (597 men and 637 women), Zahraa In Abraq Khaitan, the figure “The most important thing for me is the candidate’s capabilities 1,743 (808 men and 935 women). reached 7,570 (3,418 men and 4,152 and speech skills and how he can interact with the public,” she said. Third constituency electorate for women), New Khaitan 1,383 (1,315 Mashaan Al-Mutairi, an oil engineer, said there were many high- elections of the dissolved 2012 par- men and 555 women), Hetteen-Al- ly-educated candidates but incapable of giving speeches. liament amounted to 73,065 (33,002 Shuhadaa 687 (351 males and 336 The successful candidate, he said, “is the one with great speech men and 40,063 women). females). skills because he will convey problems of citizens to the (govern- Eligible voters were distributed Number of the franchized citizens KUWAIT: French Ambassador Nada Yafi hosted a reception on the occasion of her ment) officials in a proper manner.” among 15 areas: Kaifan 7,645 (3,755 in Zahraa reached 981 (461 males country’s National Day at Salwa Sabah Al-Ahmed Hall on Monday. A number of Mohammad Al-Ajmi, a retiree, said he voted for candidates in men and 3,890 women), Rowda and 520 females) but none was diplomats , high-ranking officials and media personnel attended the function. the past because they had excellent speech skills. —KUNA 9,518 (4,374 men and 5,144 recorded in Seddeek. — KUNA — Photos by Joseph Shaqra Housing authority debuts on Twitter KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Housing Welfare announced its debut onto the Twitter social interaction network yesterday with the aim of improving communica- tion with the public and providing the latest news of its services and publishing its latest announcements. It is also to answer inquiries posted through its official twitter account. Deputy Chairman for Human Development Affairs Nabil Al-Kharafi said a team was set up to administer the account and to handle all inquiries and announcements. Issues would be raised with the concerned depart- ments, each according to its specialty, to provide the best response. This is hoped to spare citizens much effort and time while providing accurate information, he noted. “There is no other official account to receive input or responses from the authority”, he meanwhile stressed. The authority also responds to complaints and observa- tions put directly before Minister of State for Housing Affairs Salem Al-Utheina through the authority’s website, he noted. — KUNA Kuwait needs to create 1.7 million jobs by 2030 KUWAIT: Ministries and other state departments suffer an underemployment problem which needs to be tackled given its negative effect on the national economy, a senior official in the Civil Service Commission said in a statement Monday. CSC Undersecretary Mohammad Al-Roumi made his state- ments during a press conference held to announce plans to launch a national project to organize employment mecha- nism and job opportunities. “The main goal of the project is to address flaws in the job market and create more job opportu- nities,” he said. According to Roumi, Kuwait’s labor market suf- fers an imbalance “when most Kuwaitis opt to work in the public sector and shun away from the private sector”. “In accordance with the current pace, Kuwait will have to create 1.7 million job openings in the public sector by 2030 for job hopefuls who would be looking for jobs in the govern- ment by that year,” he added.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 LOCAL $50 million Kuwaiti grant for Palestinian fund PRDP Fund central in supporting reforms WASHINGTON: Kuwait and the World Bank remain engaged and committed” to ensure the reforms to strengthen its fiscal positions and signed yesterday a $50 million grant agree- social and economic well-being of the improve public financial management. These ment to support the ongoing Palestinian Palestinian people,” said Sheikh Salem. are critical building blocks for a future Reform and Development Program (PRDP). The contribution will help meet urgent Palestinian state,” said Merza Hasan. This amount is in addition to the $230 million budgetary needs that the Palestinian Authority The World Bank PRDP Trust Fund was estab- that Kuwait has provided to the PRDP World (PA) is facing, providing inter alia support for lished on April 10, 2008, when an agreement Bank-administered multi-donor trust fund education, health care, and other vital social was signed between the World Bank and the since 2008. The agreement was signed by services for the Palestinian people and support Palestinian Authority. Kuwaiti Ambassador in Washington D.C. Sheikh for the economic reforms currently underway. In addition to Kuwait, the governments of Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and World For her part, Andersen said “the PRDP Trust Australia, France, Norway, the UK, and Japan Bank Vice President for the Middle East and Fund is central in supporting Palestinian regularly contribute to this fund. With the new North Africa region Inger Andersen. World reforms and development plans. We are proud contribution from Kuwait, the trust fund will KUWAIT: Under the patronage of the Ministry of Interior Assistant Bank Executive Director and Dean of the of these joint donor efforts to ensure continu- have channeled close to $1.3 billion. Undersecretary Gen Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and in the Executive Board Merza Hasan witnessed the ity of Palestinian institution-building and bet- In addition, the World Bank has contributed presence of the general director of public administration Brig Khalid Abdul signing. ter public service delivery.” $200 million of its own resources (through five Aziz Al-Jinahi, and administration directors, a ceremony was held to hand over “The State of Kuwait is committed to sup- “This support from the State of Kuwait will Development Policy Grants) to support the certificates of military service medals, which His Highness the Amir has grant- port the Palestinian Authority ... and will help the Palestinian (Authority) to bolster budget of the Palestinian Authority.—KUNA ed to the officers. EU calls for cooperation with Gulf countries to resolve Egyptian crisis

BRUSSELS: The European Union yesterday and dialogue with all sides,” he added. warned of dangers of serious confrontation The EU has conveyed to the Egyptian and polarization in Egypt and urged for authorities that “arrests make no sense, international cooperation to promote a closing TV channels make no sense. The peaceful process to resolve the crisis. Muslim Brotherhood must be allowed to “Egypt is running out of time. We need work freely. Criminalisation of Muslim support and we need to work with regional Brotherhood is not acceptable,” he stated. players like Turkey and Gulf countries, The official explained that by labeling Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to find a what happened in Egypt as a military coup way forward,” a senior EU official told jour- or not will not help in finding a solution. nalists in Brussels this afternoon. “We are not in the business of support- “The situation on the ground is very dif- ing one side against the other. It will not ficult. We insist to use peaceful ways. We change the reality. it is a complex situation KUWAIT: (Left) Shaikha Al-Bahar, NBK Chief Executive Officer, Khalid Othman Al Othman, vice chairman CEO, Al Hamra Real will work on a political dialogue. Europe is and we are trying to find a solution,” he Estate Company, Mazin Al Nahedh, NBK’s General Manager, Consumer Banking Group and NBK officials cutting the ribbon. neutral. The international community said. The EU official who returned yesterday (Right) The new NBK branch at Al Hamra Tower. should not be seen as supporting one side from Cairo noted that “Salafis are playing a against the other,” said the official speaking positive and constructive role. NBK opens a premium lounge in Al Hamra Tower on condition of anonymity. They are trying to help Muslim He, however, underlined that “no mili- Brotherhood and Liberals to reach an for Private Banking and Thahabi customers tary roadmaps are acceptable and that agreement”. “If the Muslim Brotherhood there can be no political solution without are not part of the political process, it will KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait Manager, Consumer Banking Group, reflects NBK’s commitment to con- Premium Banking Teller services are the Muslim Brotherhood.” not work. This is the view of the EU,” con- (NBK) opened recently a new along with NBK officials. tinuously develop its services and to also available at this premium “The only way ahead is inclusiveness cluded the official. —KUNA branch in Al-Hamra Tower. The new “At NBK, we want to ensure that maintain its leading position as the lounge. NBK continues to enjoy the branch is a first-of-a-kind premium our customers always receive unsur- bank of choice for customers.” widest banking presence with more lounge specially designed for NBK’s passed level of service”, said Al- NBK’s first premium banking than 170 branches worldwide. NBK’s Scientific Center timings Private Banking and Thahabi cus- Bahar. “The Premium lounge is dedi- lounge is designed to provide per- international presence spans many tomers. cated to serve our Private Banking sonalized banking services through of the world’s leading financial cen- KUWAIT: The Scientific Center of the period from 10am till 1pm on Saturdays The ribbon cutting ceremony and Thahabi customers and provide relationship managers and personal ters including London, Paris, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of only. The center also announced that tick- was attended by Shaikha Al-Bahar, them with exclusive, top-notch serv- banking officers. It is equipped with Geneva, New York and Singapore, as Science (KFAS) announced that starting ets would be reduced to KD 1.750 for the NBK Chief Executive Officer- Kuwait, ices by dedicated personal bankers,” the latest communication gadgets well as China (Shanghai). from the second day of the holy month of aquarium and KD 1 for the exploration hall Khalid Othman Al-Othman, vice added Al-Bahar. Al-Bahar stressed: coupled with luxurious and com- Meanwhile, regional coverage Ramadan, it would receive visitors from while the I-Max cinema would be closed for chairman and CEO, Al-Hamra Real “For long, NBK has been renowned fortable seating area to carry out all extends to Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, 9pm till midnight in addition to a morning maintenance. Estate Company (Al Hamra) and for its unique and unrivaled banking the banking activities for premium Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Mazin Al-Nahedh, NBK’s General solutions. The new Hamra branch banking customers. Dedicated the UAE, and Turkey. Justice panel to monitor voting KUWAIT: Minister of Justice and Minister The committee also comprises of of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Shareeda Al- Justices Ishaq Al-Kandari, Salem Al- Strict steps against begging Muosherji yesterday formed the higher Khudhair, Mohammad Al-Zubei and Ali Al- judicial committee tasked with monitoring Mutairat, in addition to Justice Ministry’s the July 27 parliamentary elections. undersecretary Abdulaziz Al-Majed. KUWAIT: Ministry of Interior’s Assistant He pointed out that security campaigns governorates. The committee will be headed by chair- The committee will be nominating the Undersecretary Lt Gen Sheikh Faisal Nawaf Al- shall continue during the holy month to chase Sheikh Faisal warned that any expat caught man of the Court of Appeals Justice Ahmad judges and prosecutors who would be Ahmad said that there are strict steps to be tak- beggars and a security plan has been set up begging, shall be deported along with his Al-Ajeel. responsible for the voting process through- en by the ministry against begging, especially with other concerned authorities to minimize sponsor if the sponsor is an expat for violating Members are Justices Faisal Khuraibet, out the election day, in addition to organiz- during the month of Ramadan, as some expats begging and put an end to it completely the rules. He said some expats make use of visit Jawad Al-Abdullah, Khaled Al-Muzaini and ing entry of journalists, representatives of make use of the holy month and approach citi- through patrols and coordination with criminal visas to beg, adding that ministry of interior Mohammad Abu Slaib. NGOs into ballot centers. — KUNA zens and expats to get money from them. investigation and other organizations in all shall be very strict in this matter. Security plan for Ramadan Season MAKKAH: The Saudi Interior Ministry uncovered yesterday the main features of a security plan that would guarantee safety of visitors of the holy city of Makkah during the fasting- month of Ramadhan. In a press conference, Major General Saad Al-Khulaiwi pointed out that Minister of Interior Prince Mohammad bin Naif has endorsed this year’s security plan for visitors and pil- grims at the Grand Mosque in Makkah during the peak Umra season in Ramadan. The plan takes into consid- eration the ongoing construc- tion works within the giant prayer complex and its external yards which have minimized the amount of space available for worshipers, he said. It includes contingent measures in the event of a range of sce- narios to offer the maximum safety to worshipers and pil- grims, while ensuring smooth flow of traffic during circum- ambulation (tawaf) and other holy rites. Al-Khulaiwi noted as per the plan, the operation room of the Grand Mosque will be tasked to immediately respond to any threats. In the event of an emergency, crowds will be directed away from the area of threat and overcrowd- ing will be minimized. The plan stipulates that the masses would be prevented from ven- turing close to the critical site and directed elsewhere, he said. He added that the min- istry hopes Muslims from across the world would under- stand the current situation caused by the going on con- struction, and called on locals to limit their visits to the Grand Mosque during the peak Umra season.—KUNA WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 LOCAL

kuwait digest kuwait digest Political Leadership immaturity and future

By Dr Abdulmuhsin Al-Moqatei Dr Yaqoub Al-Sharrah

t appears that the Arab world is still politically immature he advancement of any nation depends on its ability with regards to ruling and state management affairs, to predict the positive and negative aspects of the Iwhich could explain why the desires of exclusivity, control Tfuture in order to be able to overcome expected crises of power, and inability to coexist with others as partners in which could otherwise hinder its progress. There are Third running state affairs have been and are still ongoing for World countries whose populations amount to more than decades. There are many signs and practices that point out to half of the earth’s population yet live in very poor living stan- these facts and are also being supported with empty justifi- dards due to terrible situations that prevent their govern- cations that have nothing to do with democracy or the cul- ments from planning for the future. ture of natural political coexistence. Under these circum- The importance of predicting the future inspired many stances, a wave of political changes swept through the Arab universities to start teaching this concept under the term of world in what the West for clear political reasons has called ‘future studies’. It is a science that studies ways of putting the ‘Arab Spring’. plans and systems by which a state not only can avoid risks, One of the most important changes was changing the rul- but can provide protection and sustainability to its develop- ing system in Egypt following the Jan 25, 2011 revolution. ment and living standards. After the end of the 30-year rule of former president Hosni State leadership today requires a great deal of skill, deter- Mubarak, Egypt moved to an exceptional state of revolution- mination and vision to achieve development. Leadership is ary thought that combined between a public revolution and the engine by which the development process goes forward military intervention to settle it. The result was some sort of a and cannot be ignored in a world competing for control. ‘semi-revolution’ in which a public rebellion movement was Countries like Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea became mixed with military intervention. As a result, the transitional examples in economic, political and social development movement was followed by the election of the first civil presi- after focusing on human development to improve people’s dent of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi. He was a member of the skills and create leaders. Muslim Brotherhood which entered the political scene Meanwhile, Dubai stands as an example in the Gulf through the Freedom and Justice Party. region as an emirate that achieved development by which it transformed into a strong economy and a hub for investors Winning the presidential elections which followed win- kuwait digest ning majority seats in the parliament led the Freedom and in the middle of the desert. Likewise, Qatar is taking steady Justice Party to experience a sudden state of political eupho- steps in the path of leadership after investing oil revenues in ria to the point they eventually became affected by arro- mega projects inside and outside the country. Qatar put an gance. As a result of that, the party started eliminating others Aftermath of the fall investment plan that does not focus on per capita income, from participating in running the state’s affairs through con- but depends on investing billions of dollars to buy proper- stitutional amendments the president adopted, and went on ties and build factories in countries like France and the By Dr Shamlan Al-Essa to rush a new constitution despite the objection of other United Kingdom. Owning foreign properties secures future political parties who were left out of the job of putting the incomes and is considered a national treasure. constitution together. These and other were errors commit- he fast moving events in Egypt after the fall of the Former MP Mohammad Hayef considered what hap- These examples did not influence our perspective ted by the Muslim Brotherhood or the Freedom and Justice Muslim Brotherhood regime were huge and loud, not pened in Egypt a military coup to get rid of the Egyptian regarding the importance of economy in our lives, despite Party - mismanagements that needed to be corrected in Tonly at the domestic level in Egypt, but expanded to president, and wondered why Morsi was ousted with Gulf- many history lessons for nations which had fallen after their order to ensure that all parts of the Egyptian societies take the rest of the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood is con- Western support within two hours, while Bashar Al-Assad economies collapsed. part in power, management and decision making. Despite all sidered the largest and oldest Islamic political organization has been spared to kill and destroy for more than two years, Despite being classified as a rich country because of oil these errors, the events on July 3, 2013 in which the military in the Arab world, founded in Egypt in 1927 by Sheikh and considered the military coup in Egypt as something revenues that one day are going to stop, Kuwait has so far took over power in Egypt is known in constitutional and Hassan Al-Banna, so it is natural that the fall of the organized and planned by foreign powers. failed to invest these revenues wisely and through an political context as a military coup against a civil authority Brotherhood one year after ruling is considered an event or Salaf MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei branded what happened a approach that reflects future planning. On the contrary, a whose legitimacy is derived from elections. What is more catastrophe for political Islam factions across the Arab world. coup and labeled the Egyptian opposition as the worst significant amount of oil revenues is being wasted through dangerous than this step is the fact that it was approved by We do not exaggerate when we confirm that the fall of opposition as they allied themselves with the remnants of corruption on one hand and ill-advised spending on the the other political parties under different but weak excuses the Brotherhood on June 30, 2013 will be the start of the fad- the former regime. He considered events in Egypt proof that other. This continues to happen despite many financial stud- which had the only goal of overthrowing president Morsi ing of political Islam groups in the Arab world. This reminds ballot boxes alone cannot achieve popular political partici- ies which predicted a budget deficit by as early as 2019. A and hand power over to a different party. This reflects how us of the Arab world in 1867, which ended the Arab national- pation unless they are built on strong foundations, and “this collapsed economy means destruction of social and political complicated the crisis is in the Arab world when it comes to ist faction forever. The fall of the Brotherhood in Egypt creat- strengthens our stand to boycott the elections in Kuwait”. components of the society if the situation continues as it is inability to practice true democracy and coexist. ed a major division in the Kuwaiti society, as the national, lib- How did Kuwait get into Egypt’s issue...do not ask me! now in which oil revenues make nearly 95 of the national Everyone had a way out of the table through keeping the eral, moderate and centrist powers all supported the move Former Salaf MP Khalid Al-Sultan blamed secularists because income. president in office while establishing a joint presidential of the Egyptian army at the people’s request to remove the they contributed to the fall of the legitimacy in Egypt, and These facts should motivate us to start working in order council that works with him in running the affairs of the state religious regime. considered them Westernized and tools of the Zionist entity. to avoid risks. Efforts in this regard should go in three main through a government of national accord with a set of goals Reactions of leaders of political Islam in Kuwait were Former MP and member of the Muslim Brotherhood directions - protecting financial incomes and investing them that include preparing for new presidential elections. Either strong against the new regime in Egypt, contrary to the offi- Mohammad Al-Dallal was more realistic and calm as he in vital and guaranteed projects while limiting financial give- way, no party should rejoice over the ouster of a president cial stand which was announced by HH the Amir in his cable asked all to stay away from violence and stick to peaceful aways on the domestic and foreign levels; creating public elected through democratic elections. Moreover, it is danger- in which he congratulated his brothers in the Egyptian lead- protests. There is no room to mention all stands of political awareness regarding people’s responsibility to preserve ous that the president of the constitutional court was ership. Salaf and Brotherhood former members of parlia- Islam, but what is sure is their feeling that what happened in state services through rationalization of consumption; and appointed as interim president and assigned to make consti- ment took clear stands rejecting the toppling of the legiti- Egypt will reflect negatively on them, so it is not strange to most importantly finding economic alternatives in which the tutional declarations. If these declarations were to be chal- macy as former MP Jamaan Al-Harbash, a member of the see them attack Gulf regimes and liberal forces. Because the private sector plays a major role. Without these factors, our lenged, in this case the interim president would be the liti- Brotherhood, blamed secularists in Egypt because they failed battle of distancing the Islamists has begun in the Gulf after conditions will continue to deteriorate and we could reach a gant and judge. — Al-Qabas to reach power through the ballot box. Egypt. — Al-Watan situation in which it would be too late for action. — Al-Rai

kuwait digest Outcome of Arab Spring

By Abdulateef Al-Muhlim

n the past, whenever an American secretary of state In other words, the Arab dictators have forgotten to arrived in any Middle Eastern country, it would be develop their countries and innocent people have paid Iprimetime news. He would meet the highest political for it with their own lives. This is the reality of the Arab figures and his/her visit would be given the maximum Spring. news coverage with everyone hoping for an end to the Everyone knows the truth, but we won’t admit it. Palestinian-Israeli conflict. John Kerry, the current US sec- During the Arab Spring, we saw our real faces in the mir- retary of state, came and went and no one knew about rors. It showed that the Arabs were never united and are his many visits. He wanted to restart the negotiation now divided beyond anybody’s imagination. We hate process, but the Arabs are busy with their never-ending each other more than we hate the outside enemy. This is Arab Spring and the Israeli military and political figures why no one in the Arab world showed any sympathy to are in no rush because they are watching Arabs kill each the Syrians when Israeli planes attacked Syrian targets a other. Whenever they have extra time, they watch an Arab few weeks ago. As a matter of fact, even hardcore anti- TV show called “Arab Idol”. Israelis wished the Israeli planes had continued eastward Ofir Gendelman, spokesman for the Israeli prime min- and attacked the Syrian presidential palace and killed an ister and Avichay Adraee, Israeli Defense Forces Arab leader named Bashar Al-Assad. spokesman, said it is part of their job to watch “Arab Idol”. In other words, many in the Arab world sided with I thought their job is to keep an eye on the threat that Israel against an Arab country. After the attack, we saw Arab Spring countries pose to Israel. However, why would many Syrians approach the Israeli-fortified checkpoints in the Syrians have killed hundreds and thousands of their the Golan Heights, not to attack Israeli soldiers, but to own people and displaced more than four million? The seek refuge and get medical attention. I am not talking Israelis couldn’t pull some- about simple medical care. I thing like this off, but the am talking about major sur- Arab Spring did it for them. It has turned out that the Arab geries like the four-year-old According to news media, Syrian girl who got a heart the Arab Spring caught the Spring is not about a search for transplant at Wolfson world by surprise on Dec 18, democracy, social justice and Hospital in Holon, Israel. 2010. I will, however, add that This is the real Arab the Arab Spring didn’t come better standards of living. The Spring. Syrians are hurting out of the blue. It is an accu- Arab Spring is all about hate and Syrians and the Israelis are mulation of years of political the ones who treat the Syrian corruption, human rights vio- sectarian violence. The world wounds. Yes, the Arab Spring lations, sectarianism, poor didn’t hear anything about is a joke and I mean a very education systems and bad joke. The Arab Spring is unemployment. To sum it all rebuilding the countries or eradi- not about seeking democra- up, the Arabs were not fight- cating poverty. The talk is all cy, it is about Arabs killing ing the enemy, they were Arabs. And this is why Israeli sleeping with it. This is why it about fighting among the same soldiers are busy on the is impossible to analyze and people from the same country. Golan Heights. They are not forecast the outcome of the busy with loading ammuni- Arab Spring. The Arab world tion - they are busy picking never looks at mirrors. We don’t like to say mirror, mirror cherries and other fruits. What is more, they are also busy on the wall because mirrors don’t lie and we don’t want to giving guided tours to show the world Syrian planes tar- know the truth. We can’t handle it. geting civilians, Scud missiles destroying villages and During the Arab Spring, I read a lot of analyses about tanks attacking schools and mosques. What goes inside the root of the Arab Spring - it is decades of hiding from Syria is more horrific. Syrian men humiliate Syrian women reality, chasing a mirage of enemies, conspiracies and in front of their relatives, rape and kill them. It is not only blaming the outside world. We never blamed our sys- the killing that is ugly. We saw a Syrian kill another Syrian tems for the many failures to develop the Arab mind. We and then open his chest with a knife and take a bite of his talk about Sykes-Picot, imperialism and Zionism, but we heart. It can’t get any uglier. 1) Who said these words, “Obey me as long as I obey never look at the mirrors on the wall. Some people, how- Now, mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the ugliest of Allah and His messenger. If I disobey Allah and ever, did. them all? Well, they are all ugly. It has turned out that the His Messenger, you are free to disobey me.” On June 15, 2013, a Saudi columnist whom I have nev- Arab Spring is not about a search for democracy, social er met wrote an article in the Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq justice and better standards of living. The Arab Spring is A) Abu Bakr (r.a.) titled “Israel, the everlasting Arab treasure”. all about hate and sectarian violence. The world didn’t The columnist, Abdusalam Alwael, is a very highly edu- hear anything about rebuilding the countries or eradicat- B) Ali (r.a.) cated Saudi who gained a bachelor’s degree from a Saudi ing poverty. The talk is all about fighting among the same university, his master’s degree from a university in people from the same country. C) Hamzah (r.a.) California and his doctorate degree from a university in Just look at the land of one of the oldest civilizations, Virginia. He basically said that Israel was a bounty for Arab Egypt. A country that failed to bring one, just one iconic dictators who use the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to rule figure like Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King - individ- their countries and make a lot of money by just issuing uals who talk about peace and harmony and are respect- hollow threats to Israel. Israel is a moneymaking machine ed the world over. Not someone who enjoys destroying for Arab dictators and many Palestinian corrupt officials. his own country and killing his own people. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 LOCAL Two Egyptians hurt in Jleeb armed robbery Man held with brother’s passport KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives are hunting a for the crimes. Investigations had been ongo- against him for money-related charges. The group of men who left a steel merchant seri- ing for weeks over thefts reported by multiple man was taken to authorities for further action. ously wounded and also shot a bystander in an shops in Ahmadi. After questioning several sus- armed robbery in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh. Police pects, detectives identified a Kuwaiti man and a Search for impersonator were called to Farwaniya Hospital where two stateless residents as prime suspects, and they Investigations are ongoing in search for a Egyptian men were admitted with gunshot were arrested. The two explained that they male suspect who stole money from a pedes- wounds. Preliminary investigations indicated used to split the loot after every theft. They trian after putting him under the impression that one of the victims had headed to a loca- were referred to authorities to face charges. that he was a police officer. In his statements tion where he agreed to meet some people to to police, the Iranian man said that he got finalize a KD 15,000 scrap metal purchase deal. Scam inside a vehicle whose driver stopped him in He soon found out that the sellers were thieves Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh police are looking to Qasr and told him that he was wanted for when they demanded the money at gunpoint. arrest a man accused of stealing KD 3,600 investigations after checking his ID. The man The man was shot in the back while he was through scams. A case was filed Monday at the reportedly drove to the police investigations escaping and the suspects also shot the sec- area’s police station where a Kuwaiti man building in Saad Al-Abdullah and led the ond man in the foot when he jumped to help explained that he agreed with an Indian pedestrian to believe that he went inside the the injured man. Investigations are ongoing. national to open an Indian restaurant in the building. He came back to the car where the area and handed him the money as per an man was waiting and told him that he needs to Car theft agreement. The suspect reportedly disap- hand over his passport. He then drove to the A search is on for a male suspect accused of peared and switched off his phone shortly man’s residence where the Iranian went to get stealing his employer’s vehicle according to a afterwards. A travel ban and an arrest warrant his passport, but found after returning that the case filed Monday at the Salhiya police station. were issued against the suspect. driver had disappeared along with KD 600 he Local police were approached by the manager had confiscated. The man filed a case at the of an export and import company who Border arrest Naeem police station. accused the company’s driver of disappearing A man was arrested at the Nuwaiseeb bor- with a car owned by the company. Police der checkpoint where he tried to use his broth- Suicide attempt obtained the Asian man’s information and er’s passport to exit the country. The Kuwaiti A domestic worker was hospitalized follow- investigations are underway. man was held for questioning when officers at ing a suicide attempt in Rawda. The woman the passport counter noticed that the person had deep cuts on her wrist. Her Kuwaiti Thieves caught pictured in the passport he forwarded was not employer said that she had used a knife to cut Ahmadi detectives closed thirteen theft cas- him. The man admitted that the passport herself for unknown reasons. The maid’s condi- es reported around the governorate by arrest- belonged to his brother and that he resorted tion was described as stable. A case was filed ing two suspects who admitted responsibility to this trick to bypass a travel ban order for investigations. ABK launches charity initiative KUWAIT: Like every year at this time, at who need it the most. Al-Ayoub is well the onset of the holy month of Ramadan, known for her exemplary work in charity, State needs coordinated Al-Ahli Bank of Kuwait under its corpo- and for reaching help to the most rate social responsibility banner does its deprived. It was an honor and privilege best to provide relief to the underprivi- to channel ABK’s help through Al-Ayoub, effort for welfare of society leged segment. Each year, ABK provides we are indeed grateful for her expert assistance to lesser privileged families in involvement.” Kuwait, especially during Ramadan, a Al-Therban added that this charitable KUWAIT: The state is in need of advisor on youth affairs Yousef Al- sector and civil society institu- “While we stress that Kuwait is month which symbolises the meaning innovation came about because, “At ABK collaboration of all efforts exerted Yetama at a ceremony marking tions to create a society that home to all Kuwaitis who are guar- and essence of goodness and giving. we work to support constructive interac- towards maintaining social wel- the end of Saad Summer Club matches ambition and keeps up anteed equal rights and opportu- Assistance is provided in the form of tion with the community, and the holy fare and improving social condi- activities, with Amiri Diwan advi- with the times. nities by the constitution, we must relief packages that contain basic food month of Ramadan is considered the tions, said Minister of Information sor Dr Abdullah Al-Maatouq also He stressed the state is betting also stress youth have responsibili- essentials to tide over any shortages that most auspicious for charitable work, due and Minister of State for Youth present. on the creativity of civil society ties to bear as part of this equation may occur during the month of fasting to its significance in promoting the con- Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al- Despite its resources, the min- institutions and the devotion of and we must educate them so and prayer. Sahar Al-Therban, Public cept of solidarity and social cooperation. Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah. ister said, the state cannot face young activists and volunteers to that they live up to their duties Relations Manager said, “ This year the ABK holds a strong belief in service to This sentiment was the focal the challenge of the day on its take leaps in human develop- towards both the homeland and activity took on an even more special society, and will continue providing point of the minister’s address, own, but needs the collaboration ment and in preparing Kuwaitis fellow countrymen,” the minister meaning as we worked with Bibi Al- humanitarian aid as a confirmation of the read on his behalf by the state and cooperation of the private for the future. stressed. —KUNA Ayoub for the distribution to reach those same.” Mexico to host cultural, arts events in Kuwait KUWAIT: Mexican Ambassador to ing of various global literature activities Kuwait Dr. Luis Alberto expressed in all fields and through festivals Monday his country’s wishes to establish which witness huge attendances, joint cooperation with Kuwait in all fields, expressing wishes to host similar activi- including Kuwait’s hosting of Mexican ties during the upcoming visit of the cultural activities for raising awareness of Mexican president to Kuwait in February Mexico cultural arts. 2014. The ambassador made his remarks in For his part, Al-Duweesh expressed a statement after meeting with Assistant pleasure and welcome to cultural coop- Secretary General of National Council for eration and bilateral relations, noting on Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) for his readiness to coordinate and organize Cultural Affairs Dr Bader Al-Duweesh, various Mexican cultural activities in the President of the diplomatic mission of country. Mexico Jorge Beltran, NCCAL Director of The Kuwaiti official asserted impor- Foreign Relations Hind Al-Qattan. tance of signing a cultural cooperation Alberto expressed admiration to activ- agreement between the two countries, ities organized by NCCAL in literature, which Al-Duweesh said would reflect culture, and arts. positively on boosting cultural coopera- The ambassador hailed NCCAL host- tion. —KUNA Palestinian to launch $10m Arabic online encyclopedia DUBAI: A 75-year-old Palestinian business- United States led the Internet’s growth, which man is on a $10 million mission to boost remains skewed towards languages with Arabic on the Internet, where it accounts for Latin alphabets, and English in particular. less than 1 percent of websites despite being Only 10 percent of Internet users in the spoken by one in 20 people worldwide. If Arab world can interact with English web- Talal Abu Ghazaleh, owner of the education sites, according to Fadi Chehade, chief execu- and professional services firm Talal Abu- tive of ICANN, a group that manages some of Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org), has his the Internet’s key infrastructure. way, the end of this year will see the launch of “What about the other 90 percent?” he Tagipedia, a free online Arabic encyclopedia said. “Some don’t even have English key- with a million entries. boards.” “I see it as a means of building an Arab This may have contributed to Arabic knowledge society, which is my mission in life speakers’ relatively small online presence; in ... to contribute to the economic and social 2011, 29.8 percent of people in Arab states development of the Arab world,” he told were using the Internet, according to the Reuters. About 350 million people, or 5 per- International Telecommunication Union. This cent of the world’s population, consider compares with 69 percent in Europe and 53 Arabic their first language, while hundreds of percent in the Americas. millions more are familiar with it through Yet cyberspace, particularly social media, Islam’s holy book, the Kuran. played a big role in nurturing and coordinat- Yet only 0.9 percent of websites use ing the Arab Spring uprisings that ultimately Arabic, placing it 13th overall behind the likes led to the exit of long-standing rulers in of Polish and Dutch, according to the analysts Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. W3techs. “For a language with a great her- Aware that other countries including itage and culture, that is very modest,” said Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have tried to nip the effervescent Ghazaleh, who says his com- such trends in the bud by controlling Internet pany has spent more than $10 million devel- use, sometimes prosecuting bloggers, oping Tagipedia over the past five years, and Ghazaleh is keen that Tagipedia should avoid will fund its running costs, keeping it free of political or religious controversy. advertising. “Tagipedia is a library, no one has the right TAG-Org, which has its headquarters in to post any information without verification. Jordan and 80 offices around the world, The content is vetted for data to be correct, began as an accounting firm and has diversi- useful and non-offensive to any person, fied into other sectors including education, authority, religion, culture or community,” he information technology, intellectual property said. “We have always refused donations or and legal services. Ghazaleh describes the funding because we want to keep our inde- website as an act of philanthropy. Unlike pendence.” From late 2013, ICANN will start to Wikipedia, whose content is created by users, release about 1,500 new generic top level Tagipedia will have a more traditional form, domain names (gTLDs) - existing examples with all entries vetted for accuracy and rele- include .com and .net - and the roughly 120 vance before publication. non-Latin script names will be given priority, Ghazaleh expects it to have 1 million including include some in Arabic. entries by launch, compared to Wikipedia’s Although a welcome development, these 235,000 or so articles in Arabic: will not necessarily lead to a sudden increase “Wikipedia is a great innovation and it in Arabic language websites. Some countries helped collect, store and disseminate knowl- including Egypt and the United Arab Emirates edge, but there has always been a call for already have Arabic country domain names enhancing the Arabic content on the that are little used. “What we’re missing in the Internet.” Middle East is not so much the domain University students have been researching names as the industry that enables these the entries, which are then vetted by academ- names to actually flourish,” said ICANN’s ics and Tagipedia’s in-house experts. The Chehade.— Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 Bin Laden’s life on run Corruption worsens in the Arab world since uprisings revealed by Pak inquiry

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BEIRUT: Smoke rises from burning cars at the site of an explosion in Beirut’s southern suburb neighborhood of Bir Al-Abed yesterday. —AFP Car bomb hits Hezbollah Beirut stronghold 53 injured; Tension escalates in Lebanon

BEIRUT: A car bomb rocked south Beirut yes- security of all Lebanese citizens.” terday, injuring at least 53 people in the most Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib serious incident in the stronghold of Mikati slammed the blast as “bringing to Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah movement since mind some of the blackest periods of the start of the Syrian conflict. The blast Lebanon’s history.” Former prime minister and comes amid spiraling tension in Lebanon opposition leader Saad Hariri, much of whose over the civil war raging in Syria, where Sunni constituency in Lebanon backs the Hezbollah fighters have joined President Syrian uprising and has been angered by Bashar Al-Assad’s forces in facing down a Hezbollah’s intervention, warned that the revolt by mainly Sunni rebels. country must “avoid sliding into wars that will The attack took place in a zone monitored only mean more division for Lebanon.” closely by Hezbollah. “A car bomb exploded Officially neutral in Syria’s conflict, near a commercial cooperative called the Lebanon is deeply divided into pro- and anti- Islamic Cooperation Centre in Bir Al-Abed,” Assad camps. Hezbollah and its allies back which lies in the heart of Hezbollah’s Beirut Assad, who adheres to the Alawite offshoot stronghold, the military source said. of Shiite Islam, while the Sunni-led opposition Lebanon’s Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil supports rebels seeking his ouster. In an indi- said that 53 people were wounded, adding cation of the extent of the political divisions, that 12 remained in hospital and two had Interior Minister Marwan Charbel was undergone surgery. attacked by Hezbollah supporters as he The densely populated Bir Al-Abed neigh- arrived at the scene, an AFP photographer borhood is home mainly to Shiite Muslims. said. Hezbollah officials then fired live rounds Several broadcasters, among them into the air to disperse the protesters, who Hezbollah’s Al-Manar, showed firefighters were apparently opposed to the visit by battling several blazes while large clouds of Charbel, a member of Lebanon’s anti-Assad black smoke billowed into the sky. A witness camp. Yesterday’s blast is not the first time told AFP the explosion was “huge”. “Everyone Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold has come started panicking. Everyone was running left under attack in apparent retaliation for its and right” after the blast, said Carole role in the Syrian conflict. In late May, two Mansour, who owns a shoe shop near the rockets fired from inside Lebanon landed in affected area. “The smoke was so (thick),” southern Beirut, wounding four people just Mansour said, adding that Hezbollah mem- hours after Hezbollah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah bers dressed in civilian clothing were quick to pledged to fight until victory for Syria’s deploy around the site of the blast. regime. “I started following the sounds of the In Sunni-majority Tripoli meanwhile, screams of people. My employees ran to the armed men celebrated the Beirut blast, firing site to try to see what was happening live rounds into the air, a security source said. because they have relatives there,” she added. Tripoli has seen frequent, deadly clashes pit- “I can’t believe someone would do this on the ting pro-uprising Lebanese Sunnis against first day of Ramadan,” said Mansour, referring pro-regime Lebanese Alawites. Elsewhere, to the Muslim holy fasting month. Some five children were injured when a bomblet Shiites started their fasting on Tuesday, exploded in Wadi Khaled, which lies in north- although other Shiites and Sunnis will begin ern Lebanon on the Syrian border, a security fasting either Wednesday or Thursday. source said. The source said the children were Lebanese politicians from across the spec- playing in their school playground when the trum quickly condemned the blast, including device exploded, adding that the bomblet President Michel Suleiman who called for an had likely been found by one of the children end “to such tactics... and respect for the and taken to the school grounds. —AFP French confusion over the start of Ramadan PARIS: French Muslims were thrown into until 1:00 am, the imams were in disarray,” confusion yesterday after the country’s top said Djelloul Seddiki, the head of the Islamic body and officials at Paris’s leading mosque’s theological council. Dalil mosque differed over the start date of the Boubakeur, who is both the president of holy month of Ramadan. While the French the CFCM and rector of the Paris mosque, Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) initially said the change in date followed an outcry insisted Ramadan began yesterday (9th), in the community that Ramadan was not the theological council at the Great starting in France on the same day as in Mosque of Paris argued it would not start many Muslim countries. “The calculation until today (10th). The later date is the day was not in theory wrong, but we did not many Arab countries are due to begin the take into account the community dimen- observance. However, the CFCM later sion-the community had decided it would reversed its decision. follow the Muslim countries,” Boubakeur It said in a statement that “in order to said. preserve the unity of French Muslims,” it He said the confusion had been “a les- had joined the mosque in declaring son” for French Muslim leaders and that it Wednesday the start of Ramadan. The holy would be legitimate to start observing month, during which Muslims fast from Ramadan on either day. The confusion mir- dawn to dusk, begins with the sighting of rored differences elsewhere across the the new moon, which varies from country Muslim world as Sunnis and Shiites began to country. The CFCM decided in May that the holy period at different times. During Tuesday would represent the start of Ramadan, Muslims are also required to Ramadan based on the expected arrival of abstain from drinking liquids, smoking and the new moon. Theologians, however, at having sex from dawn until dusk. Fasting is the Paris mosque decided on Monday one of the five main religious obligations night to put the start off by a day, saying under Islam. France is home to western the new moon had not been sighted. Europe’s largest Muslim minority, officially “Mosques were calling us yesterday estimated at more than four million. —AFP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 Syrians say they have given up on US arms Delay shows lack on intention; Violence rages

BEIRUT: Members of the Syrian opposition said yesterday further delay as tantamount to support for Assad, who has site in Homs province, was the scene of clashes yesterday. involvement in the civil war which has killed more than that they had given up hope that the United States would kept the Syrian-Israel border relatively quiet for decades. One hundred and forty km north of Damascus, Homs 100,000 people. Although the White House does not need deliver promised military aid to rebels as war planes and “Israel is very concerned about who will replace Assad and lies at a strategic crossing linking the capital with army specific congressional approval for the weapons plan, tacit artillery smashed the central city of Homs. US congression- whether or not they will be friendly to Israel’s interests ... I bases in coastal regions controlled by Assad’s Alawite sect, rules observed by the executive branch on intelligence al committees are holding up the plan to send weapons am sure you are fully aware of how Israel is able to put an offshoot of Shiite Islam that has dominated majority matters means President Barack Obama is unlikely to deliv- because of fears that such deliveries will not be decisive pressure on the USA to hold onto Assad.” Sunni Syria since the 1960s. The United Nations has er weapons without the consent of congressional intelli- and that arms might end up in the hands of Islamist mili- expressed alarm at conditions in Homs, Syria’s third largest gence committees. Committee members want to hear tants, US national security sources said. HOMS SMASHED city, saying last week that between 2,500 and 4,000 civil- more about the administration’s overall Syria policy, Both Democrats and Republicans on the committees Rebels have pleaded with their international backers for ians were trapped there amid shortages of food, water, national security sources say, and about how arms deliver- worry that weapons could reach factions like the Nusra weapons to battle Assad’s forces. They say they have medicine, electricity and fuel. ies will affect the battlefield. Funding that the administra- Front, which is one of the most effective rebel groups but received shipments from Gulf countries and individual tion advised the congressional committees it wanted to has also been labeled by the United States as a front for Al- donors, but not enough to tackle Assad’s national army TACIT RULES use to pay for arms deliveries to Assad’s opponents has Qaeda in Iraq. “The US will not supply the weapons,” said and fighters from the powerful Lebanese militant move- The White House announced in June that it would arm been temporarily frozen, the sources said. — Reuters Mohammed Fizo, a rebel fighter. “They come up with ment Hezbollah, who are supporting him. vetted groups of Syrian rebels, after two years of avoiding excuses for why they are not with the Syrian revolution; Many weapons used by the rebels appear to be made in because it’s not unified, or that there are terrorists. But China and Croatia. The opposition Syrian National Coalition what is important is that they are not helping us.” President, Ahmad Jarba, said he expected a weapons ship- Yasser, a 42-year-old nutritionist and opposition mem- ment from Saudi Arabia soon but that the rebels’ military ber who lives in Damascus, said indecision from position was still weak. Washington showed the United States’ true aim was to This month Syrian forces have been targeting the cen- keep both President Bashar Al-Assad and Islamist rebels tral city of Homs, seen as crucial to the government’s busy inside Syria. “It to the benefit of the US that both sides attempts to link the capital to Assad’s coastal strongholds here in Syria continue in a slow war of attrition,” he said. and divide rebel units in the north and south. “Both sides are preoccupied with each other and can’t The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad make mayhem elsewhere.” He said the United States was Britain-based monitoring group, said central areas of Homs especially worried by the prospect of an all-out victory for city were hit by air strikes, mortar bombs and tank rounds rebel groups, which might allow members of the Nusra yesterday. Al-Khalidiya, a northern district that links the Front, a hard-line Islamist group, to attack neighboring outskirts of the city with the centre, was the focus of the Israel once they toppled Assad. violence and the 13th-century Khalid ibn Al-Walid mosque, Omar Al-Hariri, an activist from Deraa where the upris- a prominent central landmark, had been hit. It also said the ing began during the Arab Spring two years ago, saw the Krak de Chevaliers crusader castle, once a popular tourist Corruption worsens in the Arab world since uprisings

DUBAI: Corruption has worsened in most Arab countries Mohamed Mursi last week sparking a wave of protests. since their 2011 revolutions, even though anger with cor- The survey also showed growing public disenchant- rupt officials was a major reason for the uprisings, accord- ment in many other Arab countries which did not experi- ing to a public opinion poll released yesterday. The sur- ence revolutions but where the Arab Spring has vey by Transparency International, a global non-govern- increased political tensions. In Lebanon, 84 percent said mental body which studies bribery around the world, corruption had worsened in the past two years, in appears to dash hopes that the Arab Spring would pro- Morocco 56 percent and in Iraq, 60 percent. The ratio in duce cleaner government and business in the region. Jordan was 39 percent, while 44 percent said the level of The Arab public’s continued frustration with corrup- bribery had stayed the same. Christoph Wilcke, Middle tion may undermine governments’ efforts to restore East and North Africa director for Transparency political stability, while hindering economic growth and International, said the police, judiciary and political par- foreign investment. Of four countries which experienced ties in Arab countries needed to be reformed in order to changes of government during the Arab Spring, a majori- gain the trust of the public. ty of respondents in three -Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen - In the social and economic turmoil that has followed feel the level of corruption has risen in the past two years, the Arab Spring, however, governments have had little the survey showed. time or energy to push such reforms. “There is a contra- In Egypt, 64 percent said corruption had worsened; in diction between policy and rhetoric,” said Wilcke. For Tunisia, the proportion was 80 percent. The exception example, in an attempt to attract foreign investment was Libya, where only 46 percent said the country had the Egyptian government reconciled itself with some become more corrupt. Within Egypt, 78 percent of members of the former regime of Hosni Mubarak who respondents said the police were corrupt or extremely had been convicted of corruption, he added. The sur- corrupt. The proportion was 65 percent for the judiciary vey was based on interviews with about 1,000 people and 45 percent for the military, one of the country’s most in each country between last September and March respected institutions which ousted Islamist President this year. — Reuters War restricts Damascus life to neighborhood confines

DAMASCUS: As war rages in Syria, Ruba insists on cele- Damascus’ lifestyle. Some sports clubs are still open, brating her wedding. But rather than hold a lavish and people flock to their neighborhood gym to exer- reception, she has invited her nearest and dearest to cise. lunch at a small restaurant near her home in central Cafes that once had few visitors are now packed, as Damascus. Wearing a white dress, she has mixed feel- people from the district have little choice but to meet ings of joy and pain, as the conflict unfolds just kilome- friends near their homes. Just a few hundred meters ters away. “Every girl dreams of her wedding day, and of away from the battle-scarred Jubar district, Ghassan’s celebrating with all her friends and relatives. I’ve had to cafe is doing better than ever.”Because of the difficulties make do with inviting just those closest to me for getting around, and because people are looking for a lunch,” Ruba said. place to relax... they choose the cafe closest to home,” The wedding guests make their way home early, he says, visibly pleased that his business is booming. among them the groom’s family, who live in an area “People used to be reluctant to visit neighborhood beset by security problems. Friends living in strife-torn cafes. They preferred the parks outside the city. But Damascus province, outside the capital, could not make now, all that is different.” No matter what is going on it at all because of checkpoints, nearby battles and “diffi- around them, Ghassan says, “the Syrian people have a culties getting around”, she says. Though the heart of real love of life”. — AFP the city is still relatively safe, Ruba feels the danger all around her. But she refuses to let the war ruin her future. “Life doesn’t wait,” she says. So, like thousands of oth- er Damascenes, she lives day to day by restricting her movements to her neighborhood. Traditionally, Syrian newlyweds honk their car horns as they tour city dis- tricts with friends and family, before arriving at the wed- ding hall.Wedding parties would last till dawn, but at Ruba’s brief celebration “there was no music. The time... is not right” for a full-blown ceremony, she says. War has also changed life for Talal, a 52-year-old engineer. He lives in the suburb of Dummar with his family, and makes sure he buys his groceries while on his way back from work “so I don’t have to leave the house in the evening”. Talal complains about the lack of mobility. Before the war, he would go out with friends most evenings, and “visit family every Friday”. His relatives live nearby, but their homes are separated by two check- points. Getting past them often means waiting for two hours. Damascus has been fragmented into distinct, self-sufficient security zones, “whose residents are now holed up”, Talal says. Housewife Munira agrees, reminiscing about the days when she would take her family for weekend excursions to the countryside near Damascus. “We can’t go out any more because of security problems,” she says. Munira describes the family’s trips to the Ghouta area of Damascus province, which has gone from being a destination for flower lovers to a scene of fierce, con- stant fighting between rebels and government forces. Today, Damascus residents “have enough with just going out within the confines of their own neighbor- hoods, whether for recreation or to buy what they need”, says Munira. Frequent shellfire has hit central Damascus and checkpoints at the entrances to the capi- tal as well as at major intersections create endless traffic jams.”It’s true that checkpoints have made traffic slow... but it’s all so that we ensure safety and security for citi- zens,” says Abu Ali, a soldier inspecting a car near the heart of Damascus. Already hours late for work, a driver says “check- points have sectioned off the city, while doing nothing to stop mortar or car bomb attacks”. Damascus has been hit by a string of car bomb blasts and shelling attacks, killing dozens of people and wounding many more. But some people have benefited from the change in WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Trial of cruise ship ‘Captain Coward’ begins

GROSSETO: Captain Francesco Schettino, Schettino, who is not being detained dur- after the crash. But his defense team has awaited by the families of the victims and Titanic”. Among those who died were an dubbed Italy’s “most hated man” by ing the trial, has asked for television cam- said that while he made mistakes he survivors who have complained about Italian honeymooner who could not tabloids over the spectacular crash of his eras not to be allowed in. “Otherwise it should not be the sole defendant, and the the long delays in Italy’s justice system, swim, a Frenchman who gave his wife his cruise ship in 2012 with the loss of 32 would be a film,” he said in an interview ship’s owner Costa Crociere, Europe’s top where criminal trials can last for months life jacket before they leapt into the sea lives, went on trial yesterday charged with with Italian daily Il Messaggero. “There cruise operator, should share at least or even years. Schettino has been and a Hungarian musician who went back manslaughter. The 52-year-old, also has been media havoc since the tragedy... some of the blame. charged with manslaughter, causing envi- to his cabin to get his violin. dubbed “Captain Coward” over accusa- This is not some village festival, this is a Lawyers for some survivors say he is a ronmental damage and abandoning ship Four other crew members and a Costa tions that he abandoned ship while terri- trial. There are people who died and a scapegoat. Locals in Grosseto also and faces up to 20 years in jail. The Costa manager have entered plea bargains with fied passengers were still trapped man who will try to explain. “I really think showed sympathy for Schettino. “We can- Concordia crashed into a group of rocks brief prison sentences, which will be onboard, looked tense as he arrived for the truth will out,” he said. not just crucify Schettino,” said 28-year- off Giglio on the night of January 13, heard at a separate hearing on July 20. the start of the trial in Grosseto. It is being The hearing was cut short after just a old Maria at a bar in the city centre. As he 2012, with 4,229 people from 70 coun- “This shows there were other responsibili- held in a theatre in the city, the closest to few minutes because of a national unloaded groceries outside a store, tries on board. ties,” Schettino’s lawyer, Domenico Pepe, the site of the wreck of the Costa lawyers’ strike and the trial was adjourned Giacomo Melluso said: “Maybe it wasn’t all The ship veered sharply and keeled told reporters. Costa earlier admitted lim- Concordia on the island of Giglio, due to to a hearing on July 17. With his slicked- Schettino’s fault.” The prosecution and over near the shore, sparking a panicky ited responsibility as Schettino’s employer the large numbers of survivors from the back hair and macho swagger, Schettino defense have called hundreds of witness- and delayed evacuation hampered by the and was ordered to pay one million euros tragedy expected to attend. has been portrayed as a villain who was es for the trial, although a judge will have failure of some lifeboats to deploy. ($1.3 million) in a controversial ruling that Schettino, wearing sunglasses and a showing off in front of a female guest by to rule on the exact number during future Hundreds of people who had been sitting has excluded it from criminal proceed- blue jacket, came in through the press performing a risky “salute” maneuver hearings. down to dinner were forced to jump into ings. A vast salvage operation is under entrance by mistake and was immediately which ended in tragedy. “Madonna, what There are also 250 parties that have the sea to escape, many of them still way to refloat the 290-metre vessel, which mobbed by dozens of reporters, fending have I done?” he was heard gasping on asked to be plaintiffs, including the island wearing their formal evening wear. is not expected to be completed until lat- them off and asking to be let through. audio recordings from the bridge just of Giglio itself. The trial has been long Survivors described scenes “like the er this year or in 2014. —AFP Army gets upper hand Royal baby biscuit? British retailers cash in in Egyptian media war LONDON: There’s nothing like a royal baby to lift a keting opportunity can use the royal name.And the nation’s spirits-and those of its retailers, who are new baby, like the queen’s jubilee last year and the hoping to cash in on Prince William and Catherine’s royal wedding in 2011, offers a welcome boost for new arrival this month. It wasn’t long after the an industry still suffering the fallout of the global Several Islamist channels have been shut down pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was admitted to economic crisis. “These kind of events lead to a CAIRO: When 55 people protesting against the military power, have been, if anything, more partisan. Daily Al- Ibram Rez, 22, a tourism management graduate, said. hospital with morning sickness in December that temporary feel-good lift. It will really help to boost overthrow of Egypt’s first freely elected president were Masry Al-Youm wrote the bloodletting was “the Abdallah Abdel Rayal, 58, a clothes and cleaning one enterprising designer starting selling royal sick particular brands and products,” said Mandy killed after the army opened fire on Monday, you might Brotherhood’s responsibility.” Al-Watan decried a “con- product company employee, said he condemned the bags. But that was just the beginning. With the new Murphy, a spokeswoman for the British Retail have expected the country to unite in condemnation. A spiracy by the ‘Armed Brotherhood’ against the army.” bloodshed but insisted “the people attacked the army, heir now expected within days, retailers have put a Consortium. surprisingly subdued public reaction, and the inde- The military says armed men attacked troops in the area not the other way around.” As he spoke, a woman walk- royal spin on everything from biscuits to books and The Centre for Retail Research (CRR) estimates pendent media’s outright vilification of protesters, around the Republican Guard compound early on ing past shouted: “The people attacked the Guard! May have stocked up on commemorative mugs, key that £199 million ($297 million, 231 million euros) reflects in part the depth of political opponents’ distrust Monday morning, and that one officer was killed in the God take them!” Heba Morayef, Egypt director at rings and plates. Even Kate’s parents appear to have were spent in Britain on souvenirs and merchan- of Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood. But it clashes and 42 were wounded, eight of them critically. Human Rights Watch, said the army had improved its got in on the act-the Middletons’ Party Pieces online dise produced for William and Kate’s wedding at also represents a triumph for the military’s public rela- public relations machine markedly since the tumul- business is showcasing as ‘new’ a range of “I’m a Westminster Abbey. Among the memorabilia was tions machine which, aware of its fumbled handling of DOUBT AND BLAME tuous 17 months the military spent running the country Princess” party cups, plates and napkins. There is no a tea-towel bearing the couple’s faces, which the turbulent aftermath of Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow With television stations sympathetic to the after Mubarak’s fall. shortage of baby products with a royal theme, from William’s Royal Air Force (RAF) colleagues bought in 2011, has moved decisively, and successfully, to gain Brotherhood shut down, senior leaders arrested and its At that time, many people blamed the army for vio- leading British firm Mothercare’s romper suits for a and made him use while he was washing up in the the upper hand. By contrast, the Muslim Brotherhood newspaper appearing only intermittently, Morsi’s sup- lent crackdowns on protests and activists, which led the “Prince in Training” to blankets and even dribble mess. The CRR predicts £80 million will be spent and its supporters, enraged by the killings, have strug- porters have struggled to convey their view of the military to make several ill-judged responses. This time, bibs adorned with crowns. If they aren’t to your this year on royal baby toys and products, and £76 gled to make their voice heard since the army over- killings - that security forces, unprovoked, fired on them a new army spokesman - the urbane, British-trained taste, one company has published a book of sewing million on books, DVDs and other media related to threw Morsi last Wednesday. while they conducted dawn prayers. “The military coup Colonel Ahmed Ali - called a press conference to make patterns for traditional bonnets, booties and chris- the royal family. Publishers have rushed out a slew The state-owned media have reprised their role as has showed its hideous face after just six days,” said a fly- the military’s case plainly and clearly, using videos taken tening gowns suitable for a future monarch. of children’s books about fictional pregnant faithful mouthpiece of military-backed authorities since er handed out by young men at the main pro-Morsi sit- during the clashes to try to prove his point. Journalists The upmarket London hotel, Grosvenor House, princesses, the newborn’s crying that might wake then. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they have given full- in at a mosque in northeastern Cairo. “Were these peo- applauded when he finished. “They weren’t under any has taken it further with a bespoke nursery suite up the queen, and even a history of the diapers throated support to the army version that the pro-Morsi ple firing bullets while they bowed upon their mats in public pressure, and they knew there wouldn’t be any designed “with a royal baby in mind” by the bou- used to cover royal babies’ bottoms. Mills & Boon, protesters attacked the Republican Guard compound prayer?” push back,” Morayef said. tique that furnished William’s childhood bedroom. the romance fiction series, has a special release and soldiers fired in self defense. “Terrorists try to break It is impossible to tell exactly where the weight of Costing £2,300 ($3,550, 2,700 euros) a night, the unimaginatively entitled “Royal Baby”, with the into the Republican Guard,” was the banner headline on opinion lies among Egyptians, but the army’s bid to THE SAME CRACKDOWN rooms contain handcrafted and painted furniture, tagline: “The prince demands an heir... and what he the front page of state-run Al-Gomhuria newspaper yes- marginalize and isolate the Brotherhood - its longtime While Morsi’s supporters call his overthrow a coup, including a crib equipped with a regal coronet and wants, he gets!” With an eye to those inevitable terday morning, referring to the barracks where Morsi is rival for influence in public life - resonates on the streets the military says it was merely enforcing the will of the canopy. The ivory color scheme may be impractical sleepless nights, several albums are on sale promis- believed to be held and where the killings occurred. of Cairo. “It’s horrible to spill blood. But, of course, the people after millions rallied on June 30 to call for his res- for babies, but for that kind of money, you would ing to soothe even the most fractious royal heir Al-Akhbar, another state-owned paper, splashed Brotherhood are terrorists, attacking the Republican ignation. At a heated press conference on Monday, sup- hope someone else would clean up. with classical music and traditional lullabies. Given front page pictures of soldiers carrying a wounded com- Guard,” one woman who works in a bank said, while porters of Morsi dumped plastic bags of bullet casings Unlike the Olympics, a highly lucrative brand that 31-year-old William normally listens to hip-hop rade and an image purportedly showing a protester fir- doing her morning shopping in downtown Cairo. “The and teargas canisters on a table in front of television that is fiercely protected by the International and dance music, Kate might consider one of those ing on soldiers. Independent newspapers, many of Brotherhood want to get Morsi back by all means, even cameras and brought a doctor from the protest field Olympic Committee, anyone with an eye for a mar- for herself. —AFP which were fiercely opposed to Morsi when he was in violence. The people want the opposite, not terrorism,” hospital to contest the army’s claims. —Reuters No cutoff in US aid to Egypt army - for now WASHINGTON: The Obama administration country is their military. And I think their mili- believe his ouster was a coup. has signaled that US national security inter- tary, on behalf of the citizens, did what they Some officials, speaking anonymously ests will trump its promotion of Egypt’s bud- had to do in terms of replacing the elected because they were not authorized to describe ding democracy, stressing the importance of president. But anything further, I think we’ll internal administration discussions in public, continued aid to the Egyptian military, which wait for consultations with the administration said that a “no-coup” finding may become overthrew the elected president last week. As on how we would move ahead.” But some increasingly difficult to justify given the rising violence blazed between security forces and others voiced caution. Democratic Sen Tim violence among Morsi supporters, his oppo- supporters of ousted Islamist President Kaine said he had accompanied five nents and security forces that has led to fears Mohammed Morsi, the White House and Republican senators on a trip to the Middle of a civil war. Meanwhile, Egyptian soldiers State Department both urged the military to East last week and that close US allies in the and police clashed with Islamists protesting exercise “maximum restraint.” They also said region strongly advised against halting fund- the military’s ouster last week of the presi- the military would not be punished with a ing for Egypt. Focusing on US spending, dent. The bloodshed left at least 51 protesters cutoff of its $1.3 billion in annual US aid for Republican Sen Rand Paul tweeted: “In Egypt, and three members of the security forces toppling Morsi. governments come and go. The only thing dead, officials and witnesses said, and the But if the American government makes a certain is that American taxpayers will contin- Muslim Brotherhood’s political party called for legal determination that the removal was ue to be stuck with the $1.5 billion bill.” all-out rebellion against the army. done through a coup d’etat, US law would At the State Department, spokeswoman The violence outside the Republican require ending all non-humanitarian aid to Egypt, the vast majority of which goes to the military. Administration officials said lawyers were still reviewing developments to make that ruling. However, the absence of a coup determination, coupled with the administra- tion’s refusal to condemn Morsi’s ouster, sent an implicit message of US approval to the mil- itary. And officials said the White House had made clear in US inter-agency discussions - as recently as a Monday morning conference call - that continued aid to Egypt’s military was a priority for America’s national security, Israel’s safety and broader stability in the tur- bulent Middle East that should not be jeop- ardized. “It would not be in the best interests of the United States to immediately change our assistance program to Egypt,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said. He stressed that more elements - notably what the United States deems best for itself, its Mideast allies and the larger region - than just ALEPPO: Opposition fighters carry one of their comrades, who died the physical removal from office of a demo- on the front-line in the Salaheddine neighborhood of Aleppo. —AFP cratically elected leader would be considered in the legal review. Jen Psaki used similar, if not identical, lan- Guard building in Cairo - where Morsi was first “We are going to take the time necessary guage to Carney’s to describe the current take held last week - marked the biggest death to review what has taken place and to moni- on developments, pointing out that the US count since the beginning of massive protests tor efforts by Egyptian authorities to forge an has long provided significant assistance to that led to the fall of Morsi’s government. The inclusive and democratic way forward,” Egypt even when it had serious concerns US has condemned the violence and is Carney told reporters. “And as we do, we will about the actions of its government. She appealing for restraint from all sides as well as review our requirements under the law, and appeared to refer to the tens of billions of dol- a speedy return to elected civilian gover- we will do so consistent with our policy objec- lars in US aid sent to the government and mil- nance. In the latest high-level contact tives. And we will also, of course, consult with itary of authoritarian former leader Hosni between Washington and Cairo, Defense Congress on that.” Some members of Mubarak who ruled Egypt for decades with- Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke again with Congress appeared divided on the question. out free and fair elections and under emer- Egypt’s defense minister, Gen Abdel-Fattah el- Republican Sen. John McCain criticized gency decrees that gave him vast powers. Sissi, on Sunday - the fourth conversation in Morsi’s performance as president but stressed “The reason we have provided this aid in three days, according to Pentagon press sec- that he had been elected by a majority of the past doesn’t mean we have supported, retary George Little. Little would not disclose Egyptians in 2012. “It is difficult for me to con- even prior to this, every action taken by the details of those conversations, but other offi- clude that what happened was anything oth- government of Egypt,” she said. “But there are cials said they had centered on US concerns er than a coup in which the military played a security interests in the region; there are secu- that the actions of the Egyptian military might decisive role,” he said. “I do not want to sus- rity interests for the United States.” Psaki force a suspension in American assistance, pend our critical assistance to Egypt, but I demurred when asked if deposing an elected something the army relies on. They say that believe that is the right thing to do at this leader, placing him under house arrest and Hagel, and other senior administration offi- time.” John Boehner, the Republican speaker appointing a new head of state - as the cials, have told the Egyptian army brass to of the House of Representatives, emphasized Egyptian military has done over the course of appoint a transitional civilian leadership and in comments Monday the important role of the past five days - was not a clear example of call for new elections and the drafting of a the Egyptian military. “Well I think the situa- a military coup. She pointed out that millions new constitution so as to give Washington tion in Egypt is a tenuous one,” he said. “One of Egyptians opposed Morsi, who had some leeway in its legal review of the situa- of the most respected institutions in the become increasingly autocratic, and did not tion. —AP INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 FBI nominee Comey faces questioning Civil liberties groups expressing concerns

WASHINGTON: From surveillance to sensitive criminal investigations, the Obama adminis- tration’s nominee to become the next FBI director, James Comey, would be stepping into the job at a critical time for the bureau and its 13,000 agents. Comey spent 15 years as a federal prosecutor before serving in the George W Bush administration, where he is SANFORD, Florida: George Zimmerman sits at the defense table at his trial in best known for facing down the White House Seminole Circuit Court on Monday. — AP over a warrantless surveillance program. The White House made changes in the program when Comey and current FBI Director Robert Friends testify it’s Mueller threatened to resign. The Senate Judiciary Committee was hold- ing Comey’s confirmation hearing yesterday. Zimmerman on 911 The FBI Agents Association has told commit- tee chairman Patrick Leahy that it supports SANFORD, Florida: The dispute over who he’s on drugs”. The prosecution argued the evi- Comey’s nomination. Civil liberties groups are screamed for help the night George dence was prejudicial, and the defense coun- expressing concerns that Comey signed off on Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin dominated tered that it was relevant given Zimmerman’s abusive CIA interrogation techniques for ter- Zimmerman’s trial on Monday, with five friends observation that Martin could be on drugs. rorist suspects during the Bush administra- saying the voice belonged to the neighborhood Medical Examiner Shiping Bao initially tion. “We urge the Senate to determine the watch coordinator and the victim’s father insist- reported the THC level was too slight to affect full extent of Mr Comey’s role in the approval ing it was his son’s dying plea. The testimony of Martin, but Bao testified outside the jury’s hear- and use of torture and abuse before voting on Zimmerman’s friends, at Florida’s Seminole ing last week that his further research in prepa- whether to confirm him,” seven civil liberties County Court, lent support to his claim he killed ration for the trial indicated the drug might the unarmed black teenager in self-defense. His have had a slight but unknown effect. Police in organizations wrote last week to Leahy and second-degree murder trial could turn on the Sanford, Florida, at first decided against arrest- the panel’s top Republican, Sen. Chuck identity of the voice heard in the background of ing Zimmerman, who is white and Hispanic, Grassley of Iowa. WASHINGTON: FBI Director nominee James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill yesterday before a 911 emergency call on the night of Feb 26, accepting his claim of self-defense. That ignited The Judiciary Committee will also question the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination. — AP 2012, to police in Sanford, Florida, where protests and cries of racial injustice in Sanford Comey about the latest surveillance contro- date, he has stayed out of the government’s Meanwhile, the FBI has been conducting Zimmerman, 29, shot Martin, 17, triggering a and major cities across the United States, as the versy: the National Security Agency’s mass reach. He is believed to have been holed up in investigations of the Boston Marathon bomb- national debate on race and guns in America. case came to reflect what many saw as unequal collection of phone and email records. In the the transit area of Moscow’s main airport ings and the attack at Benghazi, Libya, last Martin’s mother and brother previously told treatment of African Americans before the law. aftermath of the uproar over NSA spying, the jury of six women they recognized the voice It also drew attention to Florida’s “Stand since he suddenly appeared there on a plane year that killed four Americans. The Boston Leahy has introduced legislation that would from Hong Kong two weeks ago. bombings probe resulted in a 30-count indict- of Martin, when the prosecution concluded its Your Ground” self-defense law, which police cit- improve privacy protections and strengthen side of the case on Friday. They were followed ed in initially declining to arrest Zimmerman, Civil liberties groups on Monday called on ment against suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The by Zimmerman’s mother and uncle, who testi- who was licensed to carry a concealed weapon oversight and transparency provisions in US the government to release any reports by the Benghazi probe is ongoing. fied for the defense it was their relative plead- that was fully loaded with hollow-point rounds. surveillance programs. “I have long been trou- Justice Department’s inspector general on the After leaving the Justice Department, ing for help. That dispute continued in court on The screams were recorded in the background bled by the expansive nature and scope” of US collection of Americans’ telephone records. If where he served as the agency’s No. 2 official, Monday, when the five Zimmerman friends said of a 911 call placed by a neighbor who called surveillance, Leahy said in a Senate floor the inspector general has not previously Comey was senior vice president and general they recognized the screams as coming from to report two men fighting. The screams end speech two weeks ago. reviewed the program, “We ask that it do so counsel at defense contractor Lockheed him. when a shot rings out from Zimmerman’s Kel The FBI is investigating Edward Snowden, now,” the groups said. On a separate surveil- Martin. He later became general counsel at The defense team then called two police Tec 9mm pistol. An FBI voice recognition expert the former NSA systems analyst who has detectives who had played the audio for testified last week the screams were too short lance issue, Mueller told Congress last month hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. His finan- admitted leaking details of the surveillance that the FBI on rare occasions uses unmanned cial assets include $5.2 million in securities Martin’s father, Tracy Martin, in the days after and the audio of too poor quality to apply stan- programs to the news media. Snowden is the shooting. The detectives testified they dard scientific voice identification techniques, drones for domestic surveillance. The disclo- and a home in Westport, Connecticut, valued asked Tracy Martin if he could recognize the saying the next best method to identify the charged with two violations of the Espionage sure has prompted questions from members at $3 million, according to financial state- voice and that he said, “No.” But Tracy Martin voice was by a listener who knew the person Act and theft of government property. To of Congress in both parties. ments filed with the Senate. — AP contested that account on Monday, saying, “I his whole life. never said ‘No, that wasn’t my son’s voice.’” Defense lawyers followed up on Monday by When he had the chance to listen to the record- calling the five Zimmerman friends, who said it How a train ran away ing repeatedly, he said, he believed it was his was Zimmerman’s voice. Among them was John son. “I was listening to my son’s last cry for help; Donnelly, who said Zimmerman was “like a son” I was listening to his life being taken,” Martin and who donated $3,000 to Zimmerman’s said. defense and bought him $1,700 worth of and devastated a town Tracy Martin’s testimony also gave him the clothes for his trial. As a medic in the Vietnam opportunity to grieve about his son’s loss War in the 1960s, Donnelly said, he developed before the jury, saying he lost his “best friend,” an ability to recognize which of his fellow sol- CHICAGO/LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec: The short length of neer he would’ve known immediately what from North Dakota. Lac-Megantic residents and to ask the question, “Why did the defen- diers was screaming for help. “And I wish to God track, nestled in a dark pine and birch forest in Quebec, is a to do about that. I don’t know what they reported hearing a series of five or six dant get out of his vehicle and chase my son?” I didn’t have that ability to understand that,” regular overnight stop for freight trains hauling crude oil actually said to the dispatcher,” Burkhardt explosions. The crude caught on fire, spread As the defense case neared its end, it remained Donnelly said. and other raw materials across North America. Normally, said in an interview in his office, decked out through the storm drains and spilled into uncertain whether Zimmerman would choose The defense also called a gym owner, Adam before retiring for the night, the train operator sets the with model trains, rail posters and other rail- the deep blue lake that the town was to testify. Zimmerman faces up to life in prison Pollock, who told the jury Zimmerman was “soft” hand brakes and leaves one locomotive running to power road memorabilia, in a seven-storey build- named after. “This was a huge derailment. If if convicted of second-degree murder, although and lacked proficiency in fighting after taking the air brakes that help hold the train in place on the gently ing near Chicago O’Hare International you have a pile-up of cars like this, you are either side can request that the jury also consid- classes in grappling and boxing for a year. sloping track. The next morning, the operator or a relief Airport. going to have a multitude of sparks,” er the lesser offense of manslaughter, with a Although Zimmerman lost 22 to 36 kg, he engineer starts up the train and continues on their way. Shortly after the firefighters left the Burkhardt said. “The whole train was com- maximum penalty of 30 years. lacked the muscle or fighting skill to train Last weekend, the system failed. The locomotive caught Nantes siding, an eyewitness reports seeing pressed into a few hundred feet in some In a defeat for the prosecution, Judge Debra against an opponent in the ring, he said. The tes- fire, so firefighters shut off the engine to stop the flames the train - some four-fifths of a mile long - spots. And cars piled three high in certain Nelson ruled that defense lawyers can intro- timony could be helpful in explaining how from spreading. That slowly disengaged the air brakes, and start rolling down the gentle hill. “About five places. It’s awful, it’s absolutely awful,” said duce evidence that Martin had the active ingre- Zimmerman, at around 90 kg, could have lost a the driverless train carrying 72 cars of crude oil rolled down- minutes after the firemen left, I felt the Burkhardt, a slender, gray-haired rail indus- dient of marijuana in his system when he was fight to Martin, who weighed 71 kg at his autop- hill into the scenic lakeside town of Lac-Megantic, derailing, vibration of a train moving down the track. I try veteran who is also president of Rail killed. Toxicology tests showed a THC in Martin’s sy. Since his arrest, Zimmerman has ballooned exploding and leveling the town center. At least 13 people then saw the train move by without its World Inc, a privately held rail management system, and Zimmerman told a police operator to more than 136 kg due to what his lawyer were killed and some 37 are still missing, according to lights on,” said Andre Gendron, 38, whose and investment firm that is the parent com- just before the shooting that Martin “looks like called the stress of going on trial. — Reuters Canadian police. Few residents expect any of the missing to trailer and off-the-grid wooden cabin are pany of MMA. be found alive. The catastrophe could force policymakers the only buildings anywhere near the rail Pictures taken from the air on Monday across North America to rethink the practice of shipping siding. “I found it strange its lights weren’t show blackened tanker cars concertinaed on crude by rail - a century-old business that has boomed with on and thought it was an electrical problem top of the space where the popular Musi-Cafe the surge in shale oil production. on board. It wasn’t long after that I heard used to be, a night-time hangout that was Based on Reuters interviews with witnesses, fire services the explosion. I could see the light from the packed when the train roared into town. and the head of the train company, the Montreal, Maine & fires in Lac-Megantic.” Eyewitness Bernard Theberge, 44, said about Atlantic Railway (MMA), a tale emerges of how the brakes Burkhardt said the train picked up speed 50 people were inside the bar as the train on a train parked on a slope were released leading to quickly and was likely going “far, far faster” approached, and he was outside on the ter- tragedy. The accounts also frame the critical questions that than the speed limit of 16 km per hour as it race. “There was a big explosion, the heat investigators will be asking over the next few days and reached a curve in the track in the very cen- reached the cafe and then a big wall of fire weeks. In particular, whether there was clear communica- ter of Lac-Megantic at around 1:15 a.m. on enveloped the road.... It all happened so fast, in tion between the firefighters and the train operator, and Saturday and jumped the tracks. He said the the space of a minute,” he said. “There were whether anyone in authority saw the train start to roll down locomotives separated from the buffer car - people inside. I thought for maybe two sec- the hill before it picked up momentum and crashed into the a heavy railcar loaded with stones or rocks onds that I should go in, but the heat was too town. According to MMA Chairman Ed Burkhardt, the train or sand - and the tanker cars, which were strong to get to the door,” said Theberge, who operator was an experienced Canadian engineer who had laden with a free-flowing type of Bakken oil escaped with second-degree burns. — Reuters parked the train in the small town of Nantes at a siding, a short length of track where trains make overnight stops. The siding is about 7 miles (11 km) from Lac-Megantic. He secured the train at 11:25 pm on Friday, setting the air brakes and hand brakes, according to MMA. Burkhardt said the engineer set the brakes on all five locomotives at the front of the train, as well as brakes on a number of cars, in line with company policy. Four of the train’s engines were switched off, but the front locomotive was left on to power the airbrakes. The engineer, who Burkhardt declined to name, then retired to a hotel in Lac-Megantic. Soon after, things started to go wrong. Nantes Fire Chief Patrick Lambert said the fire department got a call about a blaze on one of the locomotives at 11:30 pm. He said the fire was likely caused by a broken fuel or oil line. Firefighters reached the scene within seven minutes. “It was a good sized fire, but it was contained in the motor of the train,” Lambert told Reuters. “By 12:12, the fire was completely out.” But as they extinguished the fire, the 12 volunteer fire- men also switched off the locomotive, in line with their own protocols, to prevent fuel from circulating into the flames. One of the many unknowns in the story is precisely what happened next. Lambert said the fire department contacted the railway’s regional office in Farnham, Quebec, and spoke to the dispatcher. “We told them what we did and how we did it,” Lambert said. “There was no discussion of the brakes at that time. We were there for the train fire. As for the inspection of the train after the fact, that was up to them.” It was not known what the dispatcher did after receiving the call. Burkhardt said he was not sure if the dispatcher was told that the engine had been shut down, or what the dispatcher did after receiving the call. The company is still investigating the incident, as are Canadian authorities. “This is all within the scope of our investigation,” said Benoit Richard, a spokesman for the Quebec provincial police. Burkhardt said the fire department should have tried to contact a local engineer who would have known how to secure the train. The hand brakes alone were not enough to keep the train in place after the pressure leaked out of the air brakes, he said. “If they had actually talked to an engi- INTERNATIONAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 Asiana crash point of national shame for Koreans

SEOUL: When a jet from a Seoul-based airline plans provided crucial early support for companies crash, which left two people dead and dozens more Asiana crash is “regrettable,” something an crashed this weekend in San Francisco, South that have since become globally recognized brands, injured among the 307 aboard. “It’s a bit embarrass- American politician would be unlikely to say, Kelly Koreans took it personally. The president issued a including Samsung, Hyundai and LG. ing,” said Son Eun-jung, a 25-year-old office worker said, in part because of fears of possible legal statement of regret. With a low bow, Asiana Airlines’ The dizzying economic rise from poverty - some- in Seoul. “I’m concerned about whether I should be action. The accident was the first by a South Korean chief apologized not just to passengers and their times dubbed the Miracle on the Han, after the river flying on Asiana. If I’m South Korean and thinking jetliner that led to passengers’ deaths since a 1997 families but to all of South Korea. Along with sad- that runs through Seoul - has made South Korea the this way, I worry what people from other countries Korean Air crash in Guam, according to the trans- ness over one of the highest-profile crashes by a fourth-largest economy in Asia. Asiana is a large might be thinking about Asiana.” port ministry. South Korean air carriers and the gov- Korean air carrier in recent years, average South corporation known by many foreigners and “easily While not in the same league as Samsung and ernment made efforts to improve safety systems Koreans expressed shame and embarrassment falls into the category of flag-carrying national Hyundai, Asiana Airlines Inc. is a flagship company and their reputations after a series of airliner acci- about how it would reflect on their country. It is a champion,” Kelly said. “No corporation captures of Kumho Asiana Group, South Korea’s 16th-largest dents in the 1990s and a downgrade by the US reaction that would be difficult to imagine coming Federal Aviation Administration in 2001 marred the from people in the US or many other countries. The industry. The efforts paid off. South Korea’s two successes and failures of big South Korean firms are largest air carriers made inroads into the global intimately linked to this small, proud, recently markets, emerging as renowned airlines in recent developed country’s psyche. years. Incheon International Airport, South Korea’s “I really think that foreigners see this accident as main international airport near Seoul, was the sec- a reflection on all of South Korea,” Cheon Min-jun, ond-largest airport in the world in cargo transporta- an office worker in his mid-30s, said Tuesday in tion volume in 2011 and has ranked tops in airport Seoul. South Koreans take great interest in the glob- service for eight straight years by Airports Council al profile of local companies and of ethnic Koreans International. on the world stage. Many feel pride, for instance, The link between the success or failure of South seeing Samsung billboards in New York’s Times Korean firms and a sense of national pride or shame Square. And when a company’s stumbles draw extends also to the actions of ethnic Koreans who international attention, there’s a collective sense of become famous - or infamous. This was true of the national shame, even for South Koreans who have 2007 Virginia Tech University shooting rampage in no connection to the company beyond nationality. which South Korea-born student Seung-Hui Cho “In the West, the separation between govern- killed 32 people and then himself. After the news ments and society and businesses is more distinct,” reached South Korea, many in America were sur- said Robert Kelly, a political science professor at prised by the outpouring of emotion, which includ- Pusan National University in South Korea. “The large SAN FRANCISCO: An Asiana Airlines flight enroute to South Korea takes off by the wreckage of Asiana ed candlelight vigils in the streets and widespread organizations in Korean life are not standing inde- Airlines flight 214 as it sits on runway 28L at San Francisco International Airport on Monday. — AFP expressions of shame. Even though Cho left South pendently of each other; they’re working together, Korea young and grew up in the US, some South in unity, pursuing a grand vision of Korea Inc.” The American imagination and political attention the private conglomerate. It has many international Koreans felt responsibility. attitude may stem from recent economic develop- way Korea’s largest firms do,” he said. “Local nation- routes as the country’s second-largest air carrier, Separately, when the French president appoint- ments and the cozy link between autocratic politi- alism is channeled through successful firms.” after Korean Air Lines Co., giving it exposure to ed Fleur Pellerin, who was adopted by French par- cal leaders and businesses in the 1960s and 1970s. The stories of Asiana crew members heroically global consumers and businesses. The two victims ents as an infant, as minister of digital economy, the After the devastation of the 1950-53 Korean War, working to save passengers have inspired feelings were Chinese, both teenage girls. South Korean South Korean media aggressively covered her life Seoul provided easy money to big companies and of pride. But even before investigators determine President Park Geun-hye sent a letter to Beijing, story, even though Pellerin doesn’t speak Korean controlled the imports of certain goods to protect what happened, there’s already a sense of shame expressing condolences to President Xi Jinping, and had not visited South Korea before being those firms. These government-driven economic that a South Korean company was involved in the Chinese citizens and the girls’ families. Park said the appointed minister. — AP

News in brief Bin Laden’s life on run

British man jailed over US Facebook massacre threat revealed by Pak inquiry LONDON: A British online “troll” who sparked a security alert in the United States by threatening on Facebook to kill 200 schoolchildren was jailed yesterday for two years and four months. Reece Elliott, 24, used a false name to Govt, military ‘incompetent’ • US acted like ‘thug’ post offensive messages in February, including the mas- sacre threat, on memorial pages for two teenagers who ISLAMABAD: Osama bin Laden lived in plain sight for had been killed in road accidents in the state of almost a decade and was once even pulled over for Tennessee. On a page dedicated to Caitlin Talley, 17, who speeding but not apprehended, thanks to the incompe- died in October, he wrote: “My father has three guns. I’m tence of Pakistan’s intelligence and security services, an planning on killing him first and putting him in a dump- ster. “Then I’m taking the motor and I’m going in fast. I’m official report into his killing said on Monday. The gonna kill hopefully at least 200 before I kill myself. So report, leaked to Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera you want to tell the deputy, I’m on my way.” The father of which circulated it late on Monday, offers fascinating one added: “I’m killing 200 people minimum at school. I details about life on the run for the world’s most wanted will be on CNN.” Elliott, from South Shields in northeast man, who, it says, wore a cowboy hat to avoid being England, also posted obscene messages about the two spotted from above. teenagers who had died, which were likely seen by hun- Written by a judge-led commission that the Pakistani dreds of people, Newcastle Crown Court heard. When government set up shortly after US special forces killed challenged by other Facebook users, he sent private mes- bin Laden in 2011, the 336-page report is based on sages including one to a 15-year-old girl which read: “You interviews with 201 sources including members of his have been chosen tomorrow at school to receive one of family and various officials. In one testimony showing my bullets.” how close bin Laden came to being captured, “Maryam”, the wife of one of his most trusted aides, recounted Japan heatwave kills how his car was stopped by Pakistani police in the Swat 3, hospitalizes 2,500 region. “Once when they were all ... on a visit to the TOKYO: Sweltering temperatures and scorching sun- bazaar they were stopped for speeding by a policeman,” shine have killed three people and sent more than 2,500 the report says. “But her (Maryam’s) husband quickly to hospital across Japan in a week, the government said settled the matter with the policeman and they drove yesterday. The mercury hit 39.1 Celsius in Yamanashi in on.” To avoid detection from the sky, bin Laden took to the centre of the country yesterday, while dozens of oth- wearing a cowboy hat when moving about his com- er spots recorded temperatures of 35 Celsius or more. A total of 2,594 people were hospitalized in the first week pound in the city of Abbottabad, his wives told investi- of July due to the effects of heat, with three of them gators. The inquiry’s findings - which have not yet been dying, the fire and disaster management agency said in a officially published - include evidence of incompetence report. More than 42 percent of them were aged 65 or at almost every level of Pakistan’s security apparatus. older, the agency said. Incidents of children being hospi- The report is also fiercely critical of the “illegal manner” talized after outdoor school events were also recorded. in which the United States conducted the raid. It chas- News reports feature frequent reminders to drink plenty tises Pakistan’s leadership for failing to detect CIA activi- of fluids and avoid prolonged periods outdoors, in what ties on its soil, and does not rule out the involvement of ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan: In this photograph taken on Feb 26, 2012, young Pakistani children play near demolition has become a regular feature of the sticky summer rogue elements within the Pakistani intelligence service works on the compound where Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was slain in this northwestern town . — AFP months. The heat wave struck nationwide this week with - a sensitive issue even to touch on in a high-profile and a field in Pennsylvania on Sept11, 2001. Some US His wives, in their testimonies, said bin Laden was high-pressure systems sitting over the Japanese archipel- inquiry. officials have voiced suspicions that Pakistan’s intelli- not fond of personal possessions and had very few ago, bringing an earlier than usual end to the rainy sea- “The US acted like a criminal thug,” says the report by gence agencies sheltered bin Laden, but Pakistan has clothes. “Before coming to Abbottabad he had just son. the Abbottabad Commission. “But above all, the dismissed the idea. three pairs of shalwar kameez (traditional dress) for tragedy refers to the comprehensive failure of Pakistan The report offers insights into the dramatic night of summer, and three pairs for winter,” the report says. Breakaway Qaeda group to detect the presence of OBL (Osama bin Laden) on its his death and paints a picture of a restless and paranoid “Whenever OBL felt unwell (unofficial US accounts indi- behind Niger’s jail break territory for almost a decade or to discern the direction man who often hit the road to avoid being caught. Bin cate he suffered from Addison’s disease), he treated NOUAKCHOTT: An Al Qaeda splinter group founded by of US policy towards Pakistan that culminated in the Algerian jihadi mastermind Mokhtar Belmokhtar on Laden arrived in Pakistan in the spring or summer of himself with traditional Arab medicine ... and whenever avoidable humiliation of the people of Pakistan.” 2002, the report says, at one point spending two years he felt sluggish he would take some chocolate with an Monday claimed that it was behind a deadly prison break After a decade-long hunt, the CIA finally tracked in Niger last month, a statement published by online in Haripur before moving to the Abbottabad compound apple.” down the Al-Qaeda leader to a compound within sight news agency ANI said. Belmokhtar is a former leader of with his big family in Aug 2005. “All the places in He was nicknamed Miskeen Kaka, or “poor uncle” by the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which is of an elite Pakistani military academy in Abbottabad, Pakistan where OBL stayed are not fully known,” the other children in the house after they were told the rea- known for May suicide bombings in Niger that killed at close to the capital Islamabad. In a night-time mission report says. “But it included FATA (South Waziristan and son he never went to the market was because he was too least 20, as well as the dramatic January seizing of a by US Navy SEALs, bin Laden was killed on May 2 that Bajaur), Peshawar, Swat and Haripur.” poor to buy anything. All the bin Laden women observed desert gas plant in neighboring Algeria in a siege that left year in an episode that humiliated Pakistan’s military It found that he probably crossed into Pakistan from strict purdah, which started for his daughters at the age 38 hostages dead. He left AQIM in late 2012 and formed a and strained relations between the strategic allies Afghanistan’s Tora Bora area, where US forces were of three, and extended to not watching men on televi- splinter group, the Signatories of Blood, which claimed Washington and Islamabad. “As for (failing to detect) the hunting him, sometime in 2002. His family moved from sion. He oversaw the religious education and play of his responsibility for the June Niger prison break that left CIA network, there was culpable negligence and incom- Afghanistan’s Kandahar to Karachi shortly after the Sept children and grandchildren “which included cultivating three guards dead. “Combatants attacked prison guards petence,” the report says. “Although the possibility of 11, 2001 attacks. “They kept a very low profile and lived vegetable plots with simple prizes for best performanc- and took their weapons before seizing the armoury (...) to some degree of connivance inside or outside the gov- extremely frugally. They never exposed themselves to es”. But for nearly six years, abnormalities at his villa, such secure the prisoners’ exit,” said the statement, adding that ernment cannot be entirely discounted, no individual public view. They had minimum security,” the report as no television or telephone lines, no rubbish collection the raid was led by a “Abdallah As-Soudani.” The Niger can be identified as guilty of connivance.” says. “OBL successfully minimised any ‘signature’ of his and 5.5 m walls, failed to attract attention from Pakistani government said on June 2 that several “terrorists” were Pakistan’s government and security officials could presence. His minimal support group blended easily officialdom. “How the entire neighbourhood, local offi- among the 22 inmates who escaped the prison in the not immediately be reached for comment. Bin Laden’s with the surrounding community ... His wives, children cials, police and security and intelligence officials all Niger capital Niamey the previous day during unrest. network killed nearly 3,000 people when Al-Qaeda and grandchildren hardly ever emerged from the places missed the size, the strange shape, the barbed wire, the They included Cheibane Ould Hama of Mali, who was hijackers crashed commercial planes into New York’s where they stayed. No one ever visited them, not even lack of cars and visitors etc over a period of nearly six convicted of killing four Saudis and a US citizen. World Trade Center, the Pentagon outside Washington trusted Al-Qaeda members.” years beggars belief,” the report said.—Agencies Japan says faces increasing threats from China, N Korea India top court demands TOKYO: Japan faces increasingly serious annual defence white paper said. “China has action on acid attacks threats to its security from an assertive China attempted to change the status quo by force and an unpredictable North Korea, a defence based on its own assertion, which is incompat- ministry report said yesterday, as ruling politi- ible with the existing order of international NEW DELHI: India’s top court criticised the gov- According to the London-based charity Acid en laws to protect women including doubling cians call for the military to beef up its ability law,” the report said, echoing recent comments ernment yesterday for failing to formulate a Survivors Trust International, about 1,500 acid the minimum prison sentence for gang-rape to to respond to such threats. The report, the first by Abe and his cabinet. “China should accept policy to reduce the number of acid attacks on attacks are reported globally each year, while 20 years. But lawmakers voted against increas- since hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took and stick to the international norms.” women, which are often carried out by jilted groups in India say the problem is growing ing the punishment for acid attackers. They can office vowing to boost Japan’s defences, was A Sino-Japanese dispute over rival claims to boyfriends or their relatives. The Supreme Court locally. The judges demanded that the cabinet be jailed for eight to 12 years depending on the likely to prompt a sharp response from Beijing, tiny East China Sea islets flared up last rebuked the government of Prime Minister prepare a new scheme to curb attacks and pro- injuries inflicted, but the offence is bailable. In whose ties with Tokyo are strained by a territo- September after Japan nationalised the isles, Manmohan Singh for failing to consider regu- vide support to victims by July 16. Otherwise, one such incident, four sisters walking home in rial row. China is also upset by remarks from known as the Senkaku in Japan and the lating the sale of acid used in the assaults, they threatened to pass a legally binding order northern India in April suffered severe burns Abe suggesting he wants to cast Tokyo’s Diaoyu in China. Japan has been gradually which leave the victims permanently disfigured. compelling the government to take action. An after being attacked with acid by two men on a wartime history in a less apologetic tone. ratcheting up its expressions of concern about “Girls are dying every day and the central gov- acid called “tezaab”, which is designed to clean motorbike. In 2011 neighbouring Pakistan “There are various issues and destabilising Beijing’s military expansion. Last year’s defence ernment and state governments are not seri- rusted tools, is commonly used in assaults, local adopted legislation increasing the punishment factors in the security environment surround- white paper, issued before the islands flare-up, ous,” a two-judge bench comprising justices R campaign groups say. for acid attackers to between 14 years and life ing Japan, some of which are becoming flagged the risks of the army’s role in shaping M Lodha and S J Mukhopadhaya said in a state- In the wake of a horrifying gang-rape in New in jail and a minimum fine of one million increasingly tangible, acute and serious,” the Chinese foreign policy. —Reuters ment. Delhi in December, parliament voted to tough- Pakistan rupees ($10,000). — AFP NEWS WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013

UAE, Saudi give Egypt cash lifeline Interior refers tribal Interim rulers unveil quick timetable for elections cases to prosecution CAIRO: Egypt’s interim rulers unveiled a quick timetable for elections and Medical sources confirmed at least 55 people had been killed, raising the By B Izzak allegations that the Cabinet is illegitimate for not won a $3 billion cash lifeline from the United Arab Emirates yesterday, a death toll in the incident, the deadliest in the two-and-a-half years of consisting of at least one elected MP as the constitu- day after 55 people were killed when troops fired on a crowd supporting Egypt’s political turmoil apart from a riot at a soccer stadium in 2012. KUWAIT: The Interior Ministry announced yesterday tion stipulates. ousted President Mohamed Morsi. The worst day of violence in more than Thousands of pro-Morsi protesters are now camped out at a mosque that it has referred three tribal primary election cases Yesterday’s petition called for stopping the polls a year has left Egypt more divided than ever in its modern history, and in northeast Cairo, while elsewhere in the city residents are flying banners to the public prosecution for investigation and plans because the newly-built Al-Nahdha residential area added to pressure on the military-led authorities to explain how they will from their balconies with portraits of the military commander who top- to send the fourth today. The ministry said in a state- has not been added to any of the five constituencies restore democracy after the army toppled Morsi last week. pled him. Egyptian media, mainly controlled by the state and Morsi’s ment that two cases took place in the Fourth and accordingly, voters residing there will not be Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood rejected the proposed plan for constitu- opponents, praised the army and denounced Monday’s violence as the Constituency and the third in the Fifth District while able to vote. The defense lawyer Mubarak Al-Harbi tional changes and elections to be held in about six months, holding fast provocation of terrorists. Cairenes seemed to agree. “Of course I condemn the fourth one to be made today is in the Fifth said that the election must be stopped until the new to its demand for the reinstatement of Egypt’s first freely elected leader. this: Egyptian versus Egyptian. But the people attacked the army, not the Constituency. residential area is added to a constituency to allow Senior Brotherhood figure Essam El-Erian condemned “a constitutional other way around,” said Abdullah Abdel Rayal, 58, shopping in a street Almost all of the country’s major bedouin tribes its residents to exercise their franchise. decree issued after midnight by a person appointed by the putchists, market in downtown Cairo yesterday morning. hold the so-called primaries ahead of parliamentary In the first petition, lawyer Adel Al-Abdulhadi said usurping the legislative power from a council elected by the people, and Arab states, long suspicious of the Brotherhood, have signaled support and municipality elections in order to boost the that following the Constitutional Court’s ruling on bringing the country back to stage zero”. for Morsi’s overthrow. UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed became chances of their candidates in occupying seats in the June 16 which nullified the Assembly election in In an important signal for the transitional authorities, the ultra-ortho- the most senior foreign official to visit Egypt since the army toppled Morsi National Assembly. In previous elections, major December and dissolved the Assembly, the only dox Islamist Nour Party said it would accept ex-finance minister Samir last week. He brought a promise of a grant of $1 billion and a loan of $2 tribes used to nominate four candidates to represent elected MP in the cabinet, Minister of Social Affairs Radwan as prime minister, potentially paving the way for an interim cabi- billion, money that will help Egypt provide food and fuel for its 84 million them in elections because each voter was allowed to and Labor Thekra Al-Rasheedi lost her membership net. The Brotherhood says Monday’s violence was an unprovoked attack people. That replenishes funds which have been running desperately elect up to four candidates. But the selection system in the Assembly which resulted in rendering the cab- on worshippers holding peaceful prayers. But in a sign of the country’s short after two years of unrest drove away tourists and investors. Also, has been changed following the amendment of the inet unconstitutional. deep divisions, most Cairo residents seemed to accept the official account Saudi Arabia approved a $5 billion aid package to Egypt yesterday com- electoral law which reduced the voter’s choice to just Abdulhadi said that based on the consequences and blamed the Brotherhood for its members’ deaths. That has left the prising a $2 billion central bank deposit, $2 billion in energy products, and one candidate. of the ruling, decisions made by the Cabinet will be deposed president’s followers isolated and angrier than ever. $1 billion in cash, the Saudi Finance Minister Ibrahim Alassaf said. Both In last December elections, almost all tribes boy- illegal, including the approval of the election decree. The bloodshed in the Arab world’s most populous nation has raised Gulf countries had promised money after former autocrat Hosni Mubarak cotted the polls and no tribal primaries were held. Accordingly, this could lead to nullifying the next alarm among key donors such as the United States and the European was toppled in 2011 but never sent the aid while Morsi’s Brotherhood was Tribal voters normally comply with the choice of election and lead to scrapping the Assembly for the Union, as well as in Israel, with which Egypt has had a US-backed peace in power. Adli Mansour, the judge named head of state by the army when their tribes. The ministry is expected to refer more third time since June 20 last year. Eight candidates treaty since 1979. Millions of people took to the streets on June 30 to it brought down Morsi last week, decreed overnight that a parliamentary tribal primary cases to the public prosecution as withdrew their nominations yesterday leaving just demand Morsi’s resignation, fearing he was orchestrating a creeping vote would be held in about six months, faster than many expected. That most of the tribes have announced plans to hold 410 hopefuls in the fray. Withdrawal of candidates Islamist takeover of the state. would be followed by a presidential election. An amended constitution their primaries. Tribal primary elections are outlawed remains open until July 19. To the Brotherhood, his removal amounted to the reversal of democra- would be put to a referendum. under the election law but the overwhelming major- In the meantime, the Islamic Salaf Alliance cy a year after he became Egypt’s first freely elected leader. Islamists fear a The military-backed authorities seem to be resigned to restarting ity of such cases were rejected by courts for a lack of issued two contradictory statements yesterday return to the suppression they endured for decades under autocratic politics without the Brotherhood. Instead, they are courting the support evidence. regarding the election, reflecting serious divisions rulers. “The only road map is the restoration of the president elected by of the country’s other main Islamist group, the ultra-orthodox Nour In a related development, the Administrative within the group. A statement issued early in the the people,” said Hoda Ghaneya, 45, a Muslim Brotherhood women’s Party, Morsi’s occasional allies. In what appeared to be an olive branch to Court yesterday reviewed another petition calling on day said that the Salaf group has decided to boy- activist. “We will not accept less than that, even if they kill us all.” Islamists that irritated liberals, Mansour’s decree included language put the court to freeze the July 27 election and set next cott the election and criticized those who are tak- The streets of Cairo were quiet yesterday but the Brotherhood called into the constitution last year that defined the principles of Islamic Sunday as a date to issue its ruling. Two days ago, the ing part, while a second statement issued later for more protests later in the day, raising the risk of further violence. sharia law. — Agencies same court set Sunday to rule on a similar petition stressed the group will participate in the polls and which demanded halting the election process on the called on voters to take part.

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month and then how you plan on achieving these goals. It is important that goals are realistic and it is better that your life doesn’t need to entirely take a different road in this month (i.e. take the month off work or change work hours etc.) so that you may continue to do these deeds after Ramadan. Knowing what you want to achieve in the month will help you stay focused. Ensure you plan your day every night before you sleep when Ramadan starts (try to continue this even after Ramadan).

Step 4 - Know your life Be aware if Ramadan affects anything that is happening in the month or shortly after. Do you have exams during Ramadan? Or is there a major family wedding after Ramadan by a short time? Moving house? If so, plan for these events from now. Study now so that you are prepared for the exams before the month starts. Be packed and ready to go before Ramadan or plan that you do it after so that it doesn’t take time away from your worship. The last thing you want to do is spend Ramadan at the shopping centers. Buy any Eid presents and prepare for any wedding before the month starts.

Step 5 - Prepare spiritually We all know that Ramadan is about Fasting, Praying, Reading Quran and giving in charity. Start these worships ear- ly; don’t expect to just click into it as soon as the first day of Ramadan starts. Start doing extra prayers from now, start revising and regularly reading Quran now, get used to being generous and follow the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and fast during Sha’baan.

Step 6 - Prepare your mind Fasting is to refrain from more than just what we consume in our mouth. Start working on your patience; be extra vigilant with your conversations: ensure you are not backbiting, slan- dering or talking about useless things.

Step 7 - Say ‘good riddance’ to bad habits Know what bad habits you have and stop them from now, don’t wait until Ramadan begins. If you sleep late, start sleep- ing early, if you are a Facebook junky start cutting down, have a coffee craze, slow it down etc. It might sound much easier said than done, but once you’ve committed yourself, purified your intentions - make sincere dua for guidance. Insh’Allah, these bad habits will be easier done with than you ever expected.

Step 8 - Plan your life around your worship For instance; instead of working through your prayer or setting up meeting etc., at prayer times, plan that you have a break at prayer time. Don’t take your phone with you to the place you pray and forget the world as you stand between the hands of the Almighty Allah (glorified and exalted be He).

Question: Mention 3 of the 8 steps for a Legacy of a Ramadan!

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The holy month of Ramadan is a month dedicated to con- templation. It is the time to think: How do we spend our life? Do we waste it in pleasures only or do we pass the time with- out useful accomplishments? Look guys, I am not a religious scholar. I am just sharing my feelings as human being and a Muslim living on this planet. There is a lot of suffering around us. This suffering is caused by us humans. I know that sometimes we cannot correct the whole world but at least we can try to do our best to listen to the suffering of others and lend a helping hand wherever we can and in whichever way we can. If we cannot give a helping hand, at least we should not harm others. Ramadan is a blessed month that gives us a chance to do all that. It is the time to go back, look at the past and enhance our performance. It is the time to be more spiritual. So, grab this opportunity and do not waste this month. It is so sad to see so much suffering in the world today, especially in the Middle East. I pray to God that this month brings peace and tranquility to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Palestine and everywhere else in the universe. I wish I could see more justice prevailing this month. I pray that this month makes people more humble and sympathetic with the other people around them. I hope people will not only look at their interests and will not be short-sighted. I pray to see peace and tranquility around us. I pray to see more tol- erance in Kuwait and the world over. Have a blessed month! Ramadan Mubarak! WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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By Hamza Hendawi

ed by a savvy commander, Egypt’s powerful military returned to politics with a new look and a new Lapproach. It built a coalition behind the removal of the president and rode a stunning wave of popular sup- port. Now after its troops killed at least 51 supporters of Mohammed Morsi, the military faces the question of how it can thwart a determined Muslim Brotherhood campaign to restore the toppled president without more heavy-hand- Key issues in US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue edness that could damage its image and undermine its support. op US and Chinese officials will meet in Washington this but have flared up dramatically in the past several years. The ACCOUNTING After the opposition protests of June 30, when millions week for the annual US-China Strategic and Economic United States is neutral on sovereignty questions, rejects any role US regulators late last year charged the Chinese arms of the of Egyptians took to the streets to call for Morsi’s ouster, the TDialogue, a process launched five years ago to help the as a mediator between parties, and urges claimants to handle the world’s top five accounting firms with securities violations, which military ramped up its ongoing charm offensive, tapping world’s two largest economies manage an increasingly complex disputes peacefully and avoid actions that harm freedom of navi- experts say could kill off US stock exchange listings for Chinese into widespread discontent with the Islamist president and relationship. US Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury gation. China points to the fact that Japan and the Philippines are firms if not resolved. The Securities and Exchange Commission pro-military sentiment among the Egyptian public. To the Secretary Jack Lew will host Chinese co-chairs, State Councilor formal military allies of Washington and asserts that the Obama wants the firms to supply documents relating to the audits of US- wild cheers of demonstrators, jet fighters swooped low Yang Jiechi and Vice Premier Wang Yang. All four officials are new administration policy of rebalancing its forces to Asia emboldens listed companies, but the audit firms say they are blocked from over Cairo, helicopters flew overhead - trailing giant in their positions and leading their first S&ED talks, which include those countries to challenge China. doing that by Chinese state secrecy laws. The United States won a the heads of 14 US government agencies and 16 Chinese state partial victory in a related case in May, giving US regulators access Egyptian flags and drawing a heart in the sky with red bodies. The meetings, a month after an informal summit between BILATERAL MILITARY RELATIONS to Chinese companies’ audit documents and opening the way to smoke. The chants of “the army and the people are one President Barack Obama and new Chinese President Xi Jinping in Military-to-military dialogue has in the past advanced only in probes of bungled audits after a two-year stand-off. But the ruling hand,” rang out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. California, will give both sides a chance to turn agreements there fits and starts, subject to suspension by China in response to US applies only to enforcement cases against auditors, not against It was a far cry from the resentment pro-democracy into practical policies. Following are the main items in a large arms sales to Taiwan or other issues. But military relations China-based companies suspected of accounting fraud. groups felt toward the military soon after the fall of Hosni menu of issues to be discussed by the two countries: between the two powers have thawed considerably in the last Mubarak in 2011. The military was then accused of mis- two years, with a brisk pace of high-level visits and meeting at AGRICULTURE managing the transition and of human rights violations, CYBER SECURITY regional meetings. China has accepted a US invitation to China is the largest market for US agricultural products, but still including torturing detainees and hauling more than The United States has been complaining about hacking of US observe the 2014 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) naval exercise. has many barriers that frustrate US farmers. The United States 10,000 civilian before military tribunals. It is a different government and corporate networks originating from China - and wants China to allow more imports of US beef, pork and poultry. army now with a different leadership. The army officer who meeting Chinese denials - for nearly a decade. The dispute grew CLIMATE CHANGE China also has restrictions on imports of US apples, pears, potatoes became Egypt’s ruler in 2011 was Hussein Tantawi, a field more complicated with former National Security Agency contrac- Climate change has re-emerged as a priority for the two and strawberries that the United States says are not based on marshal in his 70s who was Mubarak’s defense minister for tor Edward Snowden’s revelation of US hacking into the backbone countries that are the leading producers of greenhouse gases as sound science. China’s slow approval process for new varieties of two decades. Tantawi often seemed out of touch with the server at Tsinghua University in Beijing and Hong Kong University. Beijing battles severe air pollution and Obama has recently genetically modified crops is another frustration, although China new dynamics on the streets and showed little of the politi- China is expected to demand an explanation for these activities. renewed a stalled climate change agenda, promising new rules last month approved another two strains of genetically-modified cal acumen needed to run a country shaking off 29 years of The United States wants the focus to be on theft of trade secrets to cut carbon emissions from US power plants and moves to corn for imports to keep up with rising demand from animal feed authoritarian rule. and other intellectual property, often through sophisticated cyber support renewable energy. In their first talks in June, Obama and producers as the world’s most populous nation consumes more Enter Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, a 58-year-old former chief of attacks, which analysts say cost the US economy as much as $320 Xi agreed to phase out production and consumption of green- meat. the military intelligence who was named army chief and billion a year. In a case last month indicating a tougher US house gases known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), working defense minister by Morsi in August 2012, replacing approach to IP theft, the Chinese wind turbine maker Sinovel under the UN’s 1987 Montreal Protocol. The new US-China CURRENCY Wind Group Co and two of its employees were charged with Climate Change Working Group, agreed in April, will make spe- The United States believes China’s yuan currency, also known as Tantawi, his longtime mentor. El-Sissi was widely expected allegedly stealing trade secrets from US-based AMSC by the cific recommendations for boosting bilateral cooperation on cli- the renminbi, is significantly undervalued, giving Chinese compa- to be beholden to Morsi, but that soon proved to be an Department of Justice. mate change and work to advance the HFC agreement, the State nies an unfair price advantage in international trade. US efforts to incorrect assumption: The career infantry officer began Department said. take a stronger stance on China’s currency moves have faded due delivering a series of subtle and not-so-subtle hints that NORTH KOREA to an increase in the value of the yuan, a big drop in China’s global the military was unhappy with the way Morsi and his The United States is seeking to solidify the recent tougher line INVESTMENT trade surplus and a rise in labor costs that has made Chinese prod- Muslim Brotherhood were running the country. on North Korea taken by China after a nuclear test in February US investors face barriers or ownership limits in about 90 ucts less competitive. The US Treasury Department in April declined What distinguishes El-Sissi from the usually dour army and other provocations by Pyongyang. China has joined the Chinese sectors, restricting their opportunities in the world’s to label China a currency manipulator and noted that the yuan had chiefs who preceded him is his energy and outreach. His United States in saying it won’t recognize the North as a nuclear second-largest economy. Chinese companies seeking to invest risen 16.2 percent against the dollar in inflation-adjusted terms carefully selected public appearances included a televised state, and the state-owned Bank of China cut its ties with North in the United States fear a political backlash in Congress or rejec- since June 2010, when China moved off its exchange rate peg. But party dedicated to orphans and a meeting with icons of Korea’s Foreign Trade Bank, sanctioned by Washington for its role tion on national security grounds by the secretive Committee on the persistently high US trade deficit with China set another record the local art and literary scene during a military function. in Pyongyang’s nuclear program. Some US analysts caution, how- Foreign Investment in the United States. US lawmakers have in 2012 at $315 billion, fueling complaints in the US Congress. And he was seen in combat fatigues jogging with his ever, that China’s shift has been tactical and does not reflect a fun- expressed concerns about the implications for food safety of a troops. All the while, El-Sissi seized every chance to pro- damental change in its commitment to keep an often trouble- proposed sale of Smithfield Foods Inc, the world’s largest pro- EXPORT CONTROLS claim that the army’s loyalty was primarily to the people, some neighbor afloat. ducer and processor of pork, to the Chinese meat company China has pressed the United States for years to ease restrictions not anyone else - including Morsi and his Muslim Shuanghui International for $4.7 billion. The proposed biggest on exports of high-technology goods that have potential military Brotherhood. ASIAN MARITIME DISPUTES takeover of a US company by a Chinese firm will be reviewed at applications. Washington is in the midst of reforming its overall El-Sissi’s social skills and well-oiled publicity machine China is embroiled in maritime sovereignty disputes with the a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on Wednesday, during export control regime, but concerns about intellectual property will need to move into an even higher gear if they want to Philippines and Vietnam over islets in the South China Sea and the S&ED meetings. Officials are expected to hold preliminary protection and fears of helping Beijing’s military increase its capa- maintain the army’s popularity and undermine the with Japan over small islands in the East China Sea. Both sets of discussions on a bilateral investment treaty during this week’s bilities could limit new opportunities for Chinese companies to buy disputes, in which Taiwan shares China’s claims, are decades old talks, but any such pact is likely to take years to finalize. US high-tech goods.—Reuters Brotherhood. The shootings Monday of Morsi supporters prompted questions about whether troops used excessive deadly force, an accusation the military dismissed as unfair. “What excessive force? We were dealing with people shoot- ing at us with live ammunition,” chief military spokesman Confident Assad sees Syria tide turning Co. Ahmed Mohammed Ali told The Associated Press. “It would have been excessive if we killed 300.” By Dominic Evans Dismissing suggestions of blame for the bloodshed, the resilience, Assad weathered that storm, betting that Syria was Confident in the army’s position, Ali asked those at a tel- man who trained as an eye doctor told parliament: “When a too important to be ostracized if the West wanted to make any evised news conference to stand in silence to mourn the he road to Bashar Al-Assad’s palace on the edge of surgeon cuts a wound, the wound bleeds. Do we say to him progress resolving decades of Arab-Israeli conflict or the tur- dead. Later he expressed regret for the loss of life, but did Damascus has four checkpoints manned by Republican ‘Your hands are covered in blood’? Or do we thank him for moil in post-Saddam Iraq. He was right. In the summer of 2008 not accept blame for the killings. Still, the military took seri- TGuards and plain-clothed police which guests must pass saving the patient?” Preparing for possible negotiations on a Assad was guest of honor at France’s annual Bastille Day mili- ously the accusations it used excessive force and moved before they reach the main gate. Inside the People’s Palace, in political settlement - which now look unlikely given intransi- tary parade capping his international rehabilitation. swiftly to debunk the version offered by the Brotherhood: the hills overlooking the Syrian capital, visitors who have seen gence on both sides - he dismissed his rebel foes as slaves of that the victims were killed while praying and the dead the Syrian president in the last month say security is surpris- foreign masters. RELIANT ON IRAN included women and children. The two sides spent most of ingly light for a man who has lost control of half his country to Neither the violence nor economic collapse has truly shaken the day fighting a “war of videos,” with each producing a rebel uprising. Assad’s air of confidence - a constant 30 YEARS AFTER HAMA a power base centered on a clan within the Alawite minority, footage intended to show the other started the violence. through more than two years of conflict - appeared almost Assad’s crackdown on the protests against him two years intelligence services and an army bolstered by local militias. But The independent and state media toed the military’s delusional when rebel mortars and bombs were tearing at the ago drew inevitable comparisons with his father, Hafez al- defections have stripped away some of his entourage, including line, blaming the Brotherhood for attacking troops and heart of Damascus and fighting closed its airport to foreign Assad, who seized power in a coup in 1970 and ruthlessly put Manaf Tlas, son of the former defense minister, who grew up police as they moved to clear a sit-in by Morsi supporters. airlines late last year. But after weeks of counter-offensives by down an armed Islamist uprising in the city of Hama a dozen with the young Bashar. “He was cheated by many of his friends,” After the shootings, the networks only aired army footage Assad’s army in the south of the country - against rebel supply years later. Three decades after Hama, in the said one person who visited Assad in May. “He lost a lot of the clashes - videos that purportedly showed armed routes east of Damascus and most recently in the border town era of the Internet, camera phones and of his friends and the one that upset him the most Morsi supporters targeting troops and police with live of Qusair - that optimism looks less irrational. global media, conventional wisdom said is Manaf.” But Assad has lost more than friends. ammunition, birdshot and rocks. The Brotherhood, mean- The fall last week of President Mohamed Morsi and the no leader could crush an uprising in the Despite his recent military gains, the north and while, using social networking sites and sympathetic TV Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt prompted a defiant Assad to way the elder Assad did in 1982, killing east of the country, including the eastern oil networks, distributed video showing tens of thousands of proclaim the defeat of political Islam. The Brotherhood’s more than 10,000 people, and hold on fields, remain out of his control. Morsi supporters rallying in Cairo, some weeping hysteri- Syrian branch, already under pressure from more radical to power. In Tunisia and Egypt, leaders Kurds in the north-east have enjoyed de facto cally, while speakers cried out about martyrdom and their opposition groups, was dealt a psychological blow that comes were toppled within weeks by peaceful autonomy for two years, much like their fight against a brutal military dictatorship. on top of delays to promised supplies of weapons from protests and when Libya’s Muammar brethren in northern Iraq, and it is hard “We’re still investigating how this started. I don’t think Washington. Congressional committees are holding up a plan Gaddafi used military force against to see Assad ever regaining full control of the killings were necessarily intentional, but we’ve seen to send US arms to the rebels because they doubt the deliver- rebels, NATO forces provided support a country whose Sunni majority is how the smallest spark can provoke an excessive lethal ies will be decisive in the war and they fear the weapons to help his opponents bring him implacably opposed to being ruled by response on the part of the military,” said Heba Morayef, might end up in the hands of Islamist militants, US national down. But Assad, aided by powerful Assad’s Alawite minority, an offshoot of the Egypt director of Human Rights Watch. “We know that security sources have told Reuters. security forces dominated by his Shiite Islam. Assad has increasingly turned there were some guns also on the Brotherhood side.”— AP In an interview in May with Al-Manar, the television station Alawite minority and shielded by inter- to Shiite Iran for support, evidenced by of his Lebanese militant ally Hezbollah, Assad said the tide national allies Russia and Iran, has meetings with senior Iranian officials in the had turned on the battlefield and repeated an assertion he proved far tougher. That stands in con- aftermath of a bomb attack last July that has made since protests against his rule first erupted in March trast to the mood in 2000 when Bashar killed four of his inner circle. All articles appearing on these 2011. “We are confident and sure about victory,” he said. The inherited the presidency aged 34. He Iranian money has propped up Syria’s econ- pages are the personal opinion of conflict has killed 100,000 of Assad’s own people, driven a mil- was seen then as a reformer. His mar- omy, while Iranian officers have helped train the lion and a half more abroad as refugees and left swathes of riage to a British-educated banker Syrian army and set its counter-insurgency strategy, the writers. Kuwait Times takes no urban Syria in ruins. The 47-year-old president looks little cemented the image of a 21st century regional security sources say. The Iranian-backed responsibility for views expressed changed since the conflict began apart from a greying of his couple who might lift Syria out of its Lebanese militant movement Hezbollah was also therein. Kuwait Times invites read- moustache and deepening frown lines. Soviet-style political stagnation. largely responsible for Assad’s forces regain- From teenage protest in the southern city of Deraa, Syria’s But after flirting with political liber- ing the town of Qusair in early June - their ers to voice their opinions. Please uprising against four decades of Assad family rule escalated alization Assad abruptly closed the most symbolic military victory in two send submissions via email to: opin- into nationwide demonstrations, armed insurrection and final- door on his ‘Damascus Spring’ experi- years of fighting. “This is really the world [email protected] or via snail ly an increasingly sectarian civil war drawing in regional pow- ment and within five years, relations upside down,” said Peter Harling of the ers. Throughout, Assad has blamed foreign terrorists for the with the West were in crisis over the International Crisis Group, referring to mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. violence, all the time ratcheting up his own use of force from assassination of Lebanese politician Assad’s reliance on Hezbollah. “It reflects The editor reserves the right to edit gunfire to tank shells, helicopters to fighter jets, and from Rafiq Al-Hariri, which a United Nations- such a change in the relationship between any submission as necessary. mortars to indiscriminate missile strikes. His Western and Arab backed inquiry initially blamed on the regime and what used to be its foes suspect Assad’s forces have also used chemical weapons. Damascus. In an early sign of his proxy.”—Reuters

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 SPORTS

Mkhitaryan joins UEFA best player shortlist Maradona thrilled in Dubai Dortmund DUBAI: Describing Dubai as his second home, Argentine icon Diego BERLIN: Champions league runners-up Borussia Dortmund have paid 27.5 LONDON: Four Bayern Munich players - Thomas Mueller, Franck Ribery, Maradona also said yesterday he was thrilled to be hired for another year in his role as global ambassador for the sports-mad, Gulf city. million euros ($35.38 million) to buy Armenian international attacking mid- Arjen Robben and Bastian Schweinsteiger - were named on a 10-man Maradona was hired last year as ambassador by the Dubai Sports fielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan from Shakhtar Donetsk, the Ukraine side said shortlist for the 2012/13 UEFA Best Player in Europe award yesterday. Council soon after he was sacked as the coach of Dubai-based club Al Wasl yesterday. “Shakhtar Donetsk and Borussia have settled all matters on Unlike last year, when the final three contenders came from Barcelona after only one season. The council said it will extend his contract for anoth- Henrikh Mkhitaryan transfer to the German club. Transfer fee is 27.5 million or Real Madrid, only two of the 10 were drawn from the Spanish clubs - Barca’s 2011 winner Lionel Messi and Real’s Cristiano Ronaldo. er year but offered no details on how much it will pay the football great. euros,” Shakhtar said in a statement on their website (www.shakhtar.com) Also, council secretary general Ahmed al-Sharif said Maradona will over- Mkhitaryan, capped 37 times by Armenia, had an Tottenham Hotspur’s Gareth Bale was the only British player nomi- nated, with the Premier League also represented by Manchester see football academies in the city aimed at raising the quality of football impressive season as he helped Shakhtar win the across the United Arab Emirates. United’s Robin van Persie. Robert Lewandowski, whose Borussia Ukraine league title and reach the Champions “Diego Maradona ... since the past one year, he has Dortmund side lost out to Bayern in the Champions League final at league last 16 where they were knocked out by brought in so much added value to Dubai on and off Dortmund. “We are delighted that we got a fantas- London’s Wembley Stadium, was named as was Paris Saint-Germain’s the sports field,” al-Sharif said. “Dubai has been the tic new signing for the attacking midfield role in Zlatan Ibrahimovic. best and busiest sporting destination in the Middle Henrikh Mkhitaryan,” BVB sporting director The award, voted for by a jury of journalists from each of UEFA’s East.” Maradona has talked of returning to coaching Michael Zorc told Dortmund’s website member associations, was established in 2011 and was won last year by and has been linked to clubs in China and the nation- (www.bvb.de). Mkhitaryan, who scored 46 goals in Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta. al side in Iraq during the past year. But with no offers 106 games after joining Shakhtar in 2010, is The top 10 players will be whittled down to three candidates in a forthcoming, the star of the 1986 World Cup-win- Dortmund’s third signing of the close season fol- second vote, with the ultimate winner decided in a live poll on Aug. 29 ning team will continue his low-key ambas- lowing the arrivals of Sokratis and Pierre- during the Champions League group stage draw in Monaco. UEFA said sadorial job. He said he was happy to help Emerick Aubameyang ($1 = 0.7773 in a statement that it had also launched a Best Women’s Player in raise the profile of football in the UAE and euros).—Reuters Europe award, with the first winner to be unveiled on Sept. 5.—Reuters produce the next generation.—AP Rangers thrash Orioles

BALTIMORE: Ian Kinsler capped a six-run sixth inning with a bases-loaded double as the Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-5 on Monday in a rematch of last year’s American League wild-card playoff game. The victory moved the Rangers 15 games over .500 (52-37) for the first time since May 25. It also improved their road record to 25-18, best in franchise history after 43 games. Kinsler had four RBIs, including three in the sixth against former teammate Scott Feldman (0-1) when the Rangers turned a 3-2 deficit into an 8-3 lead. Derek Holland (7-4) allowed five runs, three earned, and 10 hits in 6 2-3 innings for Texas. He struck out Matt Wieters and MLB home run leader Chris Davis three times apiece.

RAYS 7, TWINS 4 St. Petersburg, Yunel Escobar and Ben Zobrist homered during a three-run seventh inning as the surging Rays beat the Twins. Escobar had a leadoff tiebreaking homer in the seventh off Samuel Deduno (4-4), who departed after Desmond Jennings followed with a triple. Caleb Thielbar entered and got one out before Zobrist gave Tampa Bay a 6-3 lead with a two-run shot. Alex Torres (3-0) pitched a perfect seventh for the Rays, who have won nine of 10 and moved to a season-best 10-games (50-40) over .500. Escobar also had a sacrifice fly in the eighth. Fernando Rodney got the final two outs to pick up his 20th save after an RBI single by Pedro Florimon off Jamey Wright.

TIGERS 4, INDIANS 2 In Cleveland, Max Scherzer remained unbeat- en and Victor Martinez hit a two-run double in the 10th inning as the Detroit Tigers extended their lead in the AL Central division with a win over the second-place Indians. Martinez doubled off Matt Albers (2-1) as the SAN FRANCISCO: David Wright No. 5 of the New York Mets hits a single in the sixth Tigers won three of four in the series and moved inning of their game against the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park. —AFP 31/2 games ahead in the division. Drew Smyly (4-0) worked out of a jam in the ninth for the win, and Joaquin Benoit pitched the 10th for his Giants fall to Mets seventh save, striking out Mike Aviles with run- BALTIMORE: Manny Machado No. 13 of the Baltimore Orioles slides under third baseman Adrian ners at first and third to end the game. Beltre No. 29 of the Texas Rangers to advance on a hit a during the first inning. —AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Eric Young scored on 6) pitched into the seventh for his fourth con- three runs, hitting the tiebreaking two-run dou- shortstop Brandon Crawford’s fielding error secutive win. Francisco Rodriguez finished for ROYALS 5, YANKEES 1 with two outs in the 16th inning as the New his ninth save and No. 303 of his career, tying INTERLEAGUE ble and scoring during a five-run eighth. In New York, Jeremy Guthrie neatly handled a CUBS 8, WHITE SOX 2 Garza (5-1), meanwhile, came through with York Mets outlasted the San Francisco Giants Doug Jones for 22nd on the major league list. nemesis and a long rain delay to pitch into the 4-3 in a National League game that ended Chris Heisey homered for Cincinnati, which In Chicago, Matt Garza pitched seven strong another terrific outing. He’s 4-0 in his last five seventh inning and Billy Butler homered as the innings and Alfonso Soriano homered and starts after allowing two runs - one earned - and early Tuesday morning. has lost three of four. Royals beat the Yankees. Young singled with one out and stole sec- scored four runs as the Cubs pulled away late to five hits, striking out six without a walk. He’s low- All-Star Alex Gordon, David Lough and beat the White Sox. ered his ERA from 4.98 to 3.22 during this ond. After he advanced to third on Daniel BRAVES 7, MARLINS 1 Johnny Giavotella each had RBI doubles, and Murphy’s groundout, lefty Javier Lopez In Miami, Justin Upton broke a tie by driv- Dave Sappelt had a career-high four hits, stretch. The Cubs completed the four-game sea- Alcides Escobar added a run-scoring triple to while Soriano had three. Luis Valbuena drove in son sweep against their crosstown rivals.—AP entered and intentionally walked David ing in two runs when he doubled in a six-run help the Royals end a five-game losing streak Wright. Crawford couldn’t handle pinch-hitter 14th inning to lead Atlanta past Miami. against New York. Anthony Recker’s grounder, allowing Young Five Miami relievers combined to retire 24 Guthrie (8-6) held the Yankees to just three MLB results/standings to score and handing New York its first win in consecutive batters before Reed Johnson hits over six innings that included a 59-minute a game that went at least 15 innings after los- walked to start the 14th against Chris Hatcher delay for a hailstorm in the fourth. ing its first three this season. This one lasted 5 (0-1). Jason Heyward walked with one out, Philadelphia 3, Washington 2; Oakland 2, Pittsburgh 1; Texas 8, Baltimore 5; Detroit 4, Cleveland 2 (10 With the bases loaded in the ninth, closer innings); Kansas City 5, NY Yankees 1; Atlanta 7, Miami 1 (14 innings); Tampa Bay 7, Minnesota 4; Milwaukee 4, hours, 26 minutes. It was the longest game in and Upton’s double scored both runners. Greg Holland struck out Eduardo Nunez, Brett time and innings the Giants had played this Gerald Laird hit a two-out, two-run single. Cincinnati 3; Chicago Cubs 8, Chicago White Sox 2; LA Dodgers 6, Arizona 1; Seattle 11, Boston 4; Colorado 4, Gardner and Zoilo Almonte to end it for his 21st San Diego 2; NY Mets 4, San Francisco 3 (16 innings). season. Chris Johnson added an RBI single with the save. PHILLIES 3, NATIONALS 2 bases loaded, and another run scored when American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division In Philadelphia, John Lannan tossed four- the ball skipped past left fielder Justin MARINERS 11, RED SOX 4 hit ball over eight innings against his former Ruggiano for an error. Seven relievers for the W L PCT GB Atlanta 51 38 .573 - In Seattle, Felix Hernandez held the Red Sox Boston 54 37 .593 - Washington 46 43 .517 5 team and Ben Revere had three hits as two teams combined to retire 30 straight bat- to two runs and six hits over seven innings and Philadelphia beat Washington. ters from the eighth to the 13th. David Tampa Bay 50 40 .556 3.5 Philadelphia 44 46 .489 7.5 Raul Ibanez hit his 22nd home run in leading the Baltimore 49 41 .544 4.5 Lannan (2-3) had four strikeouts in his Carpenter (2-0) pitched two innings and NY Mets 38 48 .442 11.5 Mariners to a victory over Boston. NY Yankees 48 41 .539 5 Miami 32 56 .364 18.5 longest outing in four years. The lefty regis- escaped a jam in the 13th. Hernandez (9-4) walked two and struck out Toronto 43 45 .489 9.5 tered 12 groundouts to beat the team he Central Division six, maintaining his 2.69 ERA, second lowest in Central Division St. Louis 53 34 .609 - played for his first six seasons in the majors. ROCKIES 4, PADRES 2 Detroit 49 39 .557 - the American League behind teammate Hisashi Pittsburgh 53 35 .602 0.5 Jonathan Papelbon allowed two runs in a In San Diego, Tyler Chatwood took a Cleveland 46 43 .517 3.5 Iwakuma’s 2.60. Hernandez allowed two or fewer Kansas City 42 44 .488 6 Cincinnati 50 39 .562 4 shaky ninth to earn his 19th save in 23 tries. shutout into the seventh inning as Colorado runs for the 13th time in 19 starts. Chicago Cubs 39 48 .448 14 Dan Haren (4-10) came off the disabled list handed slumping San Diego its 10th consec- Minnesota 37 49 .430 11 Ibanez’s home run - on a 0-2 pitch from Chicago White Sox 34 52 .395 14 Milwaukee 36 52 .409 17.5 and took the loss after missing two weeks utive defeat. Boston starter Jon Lester (8-5) - broke a 2-2 tie in Western Division because of right shoulder inflammation. Wilin Rosario hit a two-run double to help Western Division the fifth. It was the 41-year-old’s seventh go- Oakland 53 37 .589 - Arizona 47 42 .528 - Haren allowed two runs and seven hits in five the Rockies end a three-game slide with their ahead home run and extended his hitting streak Texas 52 37 .584 0.5 LA Dodgers 43 45 .489 3.5 innings, striking out a season-high seven. second victory in eight games. They have to 13 games. LA Angels 43 45 .489 9 Colorado 43 47 .478 4.5 Revere and Jimmy Rollins, the 1-2 hitters in won nine of 11 against San Diego this season. Seattle pounded out 15 hits in winning for Seattle 40 49 .449 12.5 San Francisco 40 48 .455 6.5 Philadelphia’s lineup were 5 for 9 with three Chatwood (5-2) allowed two runs and five the fifth time in seven games. Boston has lost Houston 32 57 .360 20.5 San Diego 40 50 .444 7.5 runs and one RBI. hits in a season-high 6 2-3 innings. Rafael three straight, matching its season high. Betancourt worked the ninth for his 12th save DODGERS 6, DIAMONDBACKS 1 in 13 opportunities, retiring pinch-hitter Mark In Phoenix, Zack Greinke gave up two hits Kotsay with two on to end it. Edinson Volquez in seven scoreless innings as Los Angeles (6-7) gave up four runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 Puig might make All-Star game fun again ended the Diamondbacks’ five-game winning innings. The Padres have lost 16 of 20 since streak. Greinke (7-2) struck out seven and winning a season-high seven straight to NEW YORK: Bruce Bochy wasn’t will- rookie sensation do a little bit of an All-Star the whole season off the by the fact it has lost half its television walked two in his fourth straight win. He also move two games over .500 on June 17. ing to go with the small sampling size everything in helping the Dodgers to National League squad just to put audience in the last 20 years. had a career-high three hits. Hanley Ramirez and make Yasiel Puig an All-Star, a win Sunday in San Francisco. Puig on it, and that’s OK. But Puig is But fans are talking about Puig, singled three times to extend his career-best INTERLEAGUE though he might have been tempted The Giants’ manager wasn’t going one of the five finalists that fans can the Cuban who may well be the truest hitting streak to 19 games and was one of five ATHLETICS 2, PIRATES 1 to change his mind after watching the to leave someone who has played like still vote on, and that’s a vote Puig five-tool player to come into baseball Dodgers with an RBI. In Pittsburgh, Bartolo Colon allowed one should win in a landslide to get a spot in recent times. They will tune in just Los Angeles, winner of 13 of 16, tied its run over seven innings as the Athletics won on the team. Hopefully, that will make to watch him, and they may buy tick- season high with 17 hits - 16 of them singles. for the ninth time in their past 12 games, Tim McCarver happy, too. The Fox ets to see him in person the next time Randall Delgado (1-3) allowed three runs and beating the Pirates. announcer seemed even more insuf- the Dodgers are in town. 11 hits in six innings. Andre Ethier also had The 40-year-old Colon (12-3) shook off a ferable than usual over the weekend He’s not going to save the All-Star three hits as Los Angeles climbed within 31/2 tough-luck 3-1 defeat in his previous start to in San Francisco when he said an All- game because the game itself is such games of the first-place Diamondbacks in the win for the ninth time in his last 10 outings. Star can’t be minted in just five weeks, an anachronism. Players like making NL West division. He outdueled Jeff Locke, who had a personal but that if the fans really want the the team and earning the bonuses eight-game winning streak broken. Locke (8- Dodgers’ right fielder on the team he that often go with it, but even Bud BREWERS 4, REDS 3 2) lost for the first time since his first start of won’t avert his eyes when Puig is at Selig’s ill-suited attempt to make it rel- In Milwaukee, center fielder Carlos Gomez the season April 10. the plate. Make the All-Star game fun evant by giving the winning league robbed Joey Votto of a potential go-ahead Colon moved into a tie for second in the and interesting? Well, OK, but only if home field advantage in the World homer with a spectacular catch in the ninth majors in victories, and has the second-most the fans insist. Series didn’t move the engagement inning, saving Milwaukee’s victory over wins by a 40-year-old in A’s history. He That there has been an ongoing needle among fans. There was once a Cincinnati. allowed seven hits and one walk with five debate in recent days over Puig’s time when the All-Star game was real- Jonathan Lucroy homered for the third strikeouts. Coco Crisp made a diving catch in selection is probably a good thing for ly something special. Fans were eager consecutive game for the last-place Brewers. left-center to preserve Oakland’s lead in the a game that seems to have lost its to compare leagues and, aside from Jean Segura had three hits off Homer Bailey seventh off a hard-hit sinking liner from appeal to all but the hard-core base- spring training and the World Series, (5-7) in the right-hander’s first start since his Andrew McCutchen with two men on and ball fan. There’s little special about the the Midsummer Classic was the only second no-hitter in 10 months. Kyle Lohse (5- two outs.—AP Yasiel Puig All-Star game anymore, as evidenced place to do it. —AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 SPORTS Move over Wilt: Kastles can pass Lakers

WASHINGTON: Oh, the audacity. A when he had to leave the Kastles for a out on top 32 times in a row isn’t easy in World TeamTennis organization ever nights,” Ein said. “I really believe, deeply World TeamTennis club is challenging few games last year to represent India at anything. assembled. There are players knocking believe, that this streak is as hard as any the Los Angeles Lakers for all-time win- the Olympic Games. He was fearful that “It all depends on your perspective,” on the door that would only play for this of the other streaks. Eight of our match- ning streak supremacy. his absence might cause the team to Kastles coach Murphy Jensen said. “Bjorn organization.” es have been decided by one game. The Washington Kastles began the lose. “I hurt for it,” Paes said. “To me, play- Borg, Martina Navratilova, Billie Jean Jensen and three members of his ros- We’ve had 10 match points against us. WTT season riding a 32-game winning ing the Olympics last year was huge. But (King), Chris Evert, the best tennis play- ter - Paes, Anastasia Rodionova and It’s not like we’ve killed everyone every streak, following back-to-back unbeaten leaving the Kastles to go for the ers that have ever played tennis have Bobby Reynolds - were a picture of con- night. There have been a lot of close championship seasons. They liked to tell Olympics and give it a chance to break played World TeamTennis, and no team tentment and camaraderie as they matches, and they’ve managed to pull anyone who would listen that they were the streak, I walked off the court in tears had gone undefeated. So to think this is talked and joked while sitting courtside out the victory.” second only to the Lakers among the that day.” Still, it’s a tough sell - Jerry anything less than the NBA or the NHL? before a practice Monday morning at The streak - and the debate over “longest winning streaks in major U.S. West and Wilt Chamberlain taking a back Seriously? Five years ago, I would say the Kastles’ immaculate waterfront stadi- where it belongs in sports history - has pro sports history.” seat to a team that plays its entire regu- absolutely, but not with the Washington um, which almost always sells out its brought invaluable attention to the That changed Monday night when lar season in 17 days. Kastles. This organization is completely 3,000 or so seats. Ein stood near the cen- Kastles and the WTT overall. That, in they won their season opener against Most fans don’t consider WTT to be a different than any other team in the ter of the court, his 2009 and 2011 WTT turn, has helped WTT promote its spec- the New York Sportimes - in front of a “major” sports league. The matches have league.” championship rings on his left hand and tator-friendly brand of tennis, one that sellout crowd that included first lady more of an exhibition feel, with the Asked what makes it different, Jensen the 2012 ring on his right hand. emphasizes the game’s personalities. Michele Obama - to tie the Lakers’ mark sport’s top players making only featured and his players have a two-word answer: “Teams that are good, like the Patriots The team aspect adds to the atmos- of 33 from the 1971-72 season. Another appearances on certain nights. It would Mark Ein, the team owner and entrepre- - granted they’ve got Tom Brady, but phere. As does the streak. Opponents win Tuesday against the Boston Lobsters look more like the majors and less like neur who has created a winning culture people come and go - they just have the want to be the team that stops the would break the record. Triple-A if, say, Roger Federer and Andy that attends to every need of player and right culture,” Ein said. Ein doesn’t hedge Kastles’ winning run. And each of the Saying the Sportimes, Lobsters and Murray were playing every match. fan. “Mark Ein is the architect, and he’s when asked to defend the streak. Kastles players doesn’t want to be the Lakers are on a level playing field might Nonetheless, these are professionals put together a product that players want “I see what they have done to make one that has a bad night that cause it to make some chortle - but not the Kastles. who are trying to win. And, in the to perform and want to play for,” Jensen this happen and what it means to them, end. So far, at least, they’ve had each Leander Paes said he cried - yes, cried - Kastles’ case, they keep doing it. Coming said. “It is the most professional, elite and truly how hard it’s been some other’s backs.—AP Long jumper Watt out of world championships

MELBOURNE: Olympic long jump silver medallist Mitchell Watt is to miss this year’s world champi- onships in Russia after a season interrupted by injury, the Australian said yesterday. Former world number one Watt, who was runner-up to Briton Greg Rutherford at the London Games, said he would not be able Ethiopia’s long distance runner and marathon world record holder Haile to compete at his full potential in Gebrselassie. —AP Moscow in August and needed more time to get back to full fit- A new race: Gebrselassie ness. “I have been battling ankle and Achilles pain across my early season and this has caused con- to enter politics tinued trouble for me in practice ADDIS ABABA: Distance running great Haile “too soon,” but he said he was considering a and competition,” the 25-year-old Gebrselassie is entering politics and may now future run for that largely ceremonial post so said in a news release. run for president of Ethiopia - even if his wife is he could use it to unite and promote his East “I’m not someone that just not sure it’s a good idea. African country. wants to show up at an event and The two-time Olympic gold medalist and Gebrselassie is not completely new to this given these circumstances I will multiple world champion in the 10,000 meters game, either, having helped set up a group not be 100 percent competitive told The Associated Press Monday he wants to called the Elders Council, which brokered this season and need more time to “reach more people” through politics, a topic peace between the ruling party and oppo- overcome the issue,” added Watt, most Ethiopians avoid in their restrictive, nents following postelection violence in 2005 who also won silver and bronze closely-watched society. that left hundreds dead and led to opposition medals at the 2011 and 2009 world championships. The “big mistake” would be to stay out of leaders being jailed. Gebrselassie’s influence Mitchell Watt in action in this file photo. politics and miss the chance to do something helped free them. Gebrselassie said that while Watt will remain in Australia to to help, the famous runner said. his wife and other family members are wary of continue his recovery and had tar- of positive tests after the country England. The International in Turkey, the results of which “We are here in our country, Ethiopia. And Ethiopian politics, he thinks it’s an important geted 2014 for his return to major was targeted by anti-doping Association of Athletics remain on-going in accordance as long as we live here, we should play our next move to make. competition. investigators. Media reports yes- Federations (IAAF) conducted a with IAAF Rules.” Biological pass- part. We have to sort (out) any problems we “Some people are advising me against it. “I’m only 25 and I have already terday suggested that up to 30 large number of tests ahead of ports work by creating individual have,” Gebrselassie said. Others say it’s a wonderful idea,” he said. “I been fortunate enough to win Turkish athletes could face doping and during last month’s blood profiles for each athlete, The 40-year-old is used to breaking barriers, respect all opinions . I believe as long as my four major championship medals suspensions, although sugges- Mediterranean Games in the rather than testing for specific, having set over two dozen world records in intentions are positive, you have to support it.” but this was a very tough call,” he tions that the results could lead to Turkish city of Mersin and though performance-enhancing drugs. distances ranging from 5,000 meters to the Asked if he would accept a surprise election to said of missing the Aug. 10-18 a ban for the country from neither they or the Turkish If an athlete’s blood readings marathon. He said he will run for a seat in par- the presidency in September, an office which championships. August’s world championships in Federation have announced fur- then deviate markedly from pre- liament as an independent candidate in 2015, is voted on by the two elective houses, he “That said, we made the same Moscow look unfounded. ther positive tests, the governing vious measures they can face a a big deal in Ethiopia where there is just one replied swiftly and with an impish grin: “Do decision in 2010 when I didn’t In May Asli Cakir Alptekein, last body did confirm the country had doping charge. If the suggested opposition member in parliament. The next you have information I don’t?” Gebrselassie has compete at the World Indoors and year’s women’s 1,500 metres been targeted. numbers of around 30 new posi- presidential election in September is probably huge draw at home.—AP I went on to jump an Australian Olympic champion who had “The IAAF is aware of media tive tests are confirmed, Turkey and Oceania record later in that already served a two-year doping speculation surrounding recent would rocket onto the “podium of season. ban, was provisionally suspended anti-doping control tests, in and shame”, currently topped by India “I’m already looking forward to after abnormalities were detected out of competition, of a number and Russia, host of the world being pain free and ready for the in her “biological passport” while of Turkish athletes,” the organisa- championships, who both have World Indoors early next year and double European 100m hurdles tion said in a statement. more than 40 athletes serving sus- the Commonwealth Games as champion Nevin Yanit tested posi- “Following concerns highlight- pensions. Widespread doping reve- well.” Meanhwile, Turkish athletics, tive for a prohibited substance. ed by abnormal biological pass- lations would also not be wel- already reeling from a series of Another eight athletes report- port values the IAAF, with the comed by the Istanbul bid commit- high-profile doping cases, is edly failed tests at last month’s national anti-doping agency, tee hoping to secure the 2020 poised to reveal another tranche European Team Championships in intensified the testing programme Olympics.—Reuters

McKenzie charged with shaking up limp Wallabies

MELBOURNE: Ewen McKenzie’s role as head coach don’t want to be wasting any time. There are other powerbrokers by bringing big crowds to Brisbane’s of Australia does not involve carrying around a big people that are queuing up there to have a crack.” Lang Park to watch the Reds’ free-flowing rugby. stick to whip an ill-disciplined and demoralised McKenzie’s appointment will satisfy conservative Like Deans before him, McKenzie has been set Wallabies team into shape, the former test prop said voices in Australian rugby, who criticised the ARU for the ambitious task of bringing New Zealand’s long upon his appointment yesterday. hiring a foreigner in Deans in 2007 and whinged domination of the trans-Tasman rivalry to an end But with a clash against bitter rivals New Zealand throughout his tenure-an Australian record of 74 and restoring the Wallabies to their glory days of the just six weeks away, most rugby fans Down Under tests that yielded only one Tri-Nations title and a turn of the century. would care to disagree. McKenzie, who takes over semi-final exit at the 2011 World Cup. Other trophies are on the wish-list, with the 2015 from the ousted Robbie Deans, inherits a side with Like Deans, McKenzie brings a successful record World Cup the ultimate prize. McKenzie will not only Sheikh Talal Al-Mohammad with Bahrain’s Sheikh Essa bin Rashid. morale near rock-bottom following Saturday’s at provincial level, international experience as a dec- be charged with winning, but doing it in style to record loss in the series-deciding test against the orated test player with 51 caps and stints as assistant bring disaffected fans back to a game that has British and Irish Lions. coach for the Wallabies from 2000-03. increasingly struggled for relevance in Australia’s Teams geared up Local media have reported a rift between senior The similarities all but end there, however, and crowded sports market. players and the coddled backline duo of James the pair have rarely seen eye-to-eye. Deans’s cagey “Arguably the most important variable of all is O’Connor and Kurtley Beale, whose repeated disci- and often cryptic observations at media appear- that Ewen has the capability of coaching the way for Futsal challenge plinary lapses under Deans steeled the ARU’s resolve ances led some reporters to brand him ‘Yoda’ in a the Australian public wants to see the game played, to release the 53-year-old New Zealander. reference to the ‘Jedi Master’ in the Star Wars trilogy. which is smart, creative running rugby,” said Pulver, By Abdellatif Sharaa Essa for his gesture. The off-field problems, combined with a growing McKenzie has rarely been anything but direct, whose organisation has reported losses totalling Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s soccer legend disenchantment for foreign coaches in the and has not hid his disdain for Deans’s selections, nearly A$20 million in the past two years. Still coach- KUWAIT: Kuwait Mini World Futsal Club Majid Abdallah arrived in Kuwait yesterday, Australian sporting landscape, created a perfect most notably with his recent blast at the New ing Queensland in their tilt for a second Super Tournament matches will start today at and said he was highly impressed with the storm to sweep the 48-year-old McKenzie to power. Zealander for not welcoming Reds and former Rugby title this year, McKenzie has no time to settle Kazma Club with all teams having hopes of atmosphere and organization of the tour- McKenzie, who turned a moribund Queensland Wallabies flyhalf Quade Cooper back into the fold. before Australia take on New Zealand in Sydney on achieving their ambitions. The teams that nament and described things as “highly Reds franchise into a title-winning outfit, will be Where Deans has been blamed, sometimes Aug. 17. A popular choice now, McKenzie would feel will play the matches today want to win, accurate”. He said this reflects the profes- expected to work his magic at test level where his unfairly, for low-scoring and defensive efforts by the the honeymoon end abruptly with a big loss to the and have prepared well for the all-impor- sionalism of the organizing committee and predecessor Deans, a five-times championship win- Wallabies, McKenzie has endeared himself to rugby all-conquering All Blacks.—Reuters tant opening round. Egypt’s Al-Makasa and its keenness on having things go as ner at provincial level, proved unable. Colombia’s Atletico Huila teams will kick off planned under the guidance of Sheikh Australian Rugby Union boss Bill Pulver told at 3:50 pm, followed at 5 by Saudi Arabia’s Talal. reporters at McKenzie’s coronation on Tuesday that Al-Nasser and Ukraine’s Cardinal-Rivne. The manager of Romania’s City Morris discipline would be a “big area” on which he and the Each match has an Arab team that Club said his team is ready for France’s bull-necked coach would focus. enjoys a large presence of fans in Kuwait. Erder, despite missing some international The pair had already sat down to start drafting Saudi Arabia’s Al-Nasser team is deter- players who will be arriving later on. He new behavioral principles, he added, following a mined to be among the top teams, and it said “my players are young but outstand- string of off-field problems in recent months. has the tools to do so, besides the presence ing, but still I am worried as they lack inter- McKenzie offered wayward backs O’Connor and of Saudi crowds that will back its team national experience. He said that he saw Beale, who undermined the Wallabies preparations today. Egypt’s Al-Makasa presents a special several matches of the French team and with a number of discipline breaches during the case as it rose with a very high speed in understood they cannot be underestimat- Lions series, the hint of an olive branch. Egypt’s indoor soccer league and emerged ed. “My intention is not to run around with a big champion, and also turned into a mine Meanwhile, the manager of Bahrain’s Al- stick all the time, my intention is to invest up-front, where national team players are found. Muharraq Goga Gustavo said he is confi- spend time understanding the players, understand- Al-Makasa has the advantage of partici- dent about the capabilities of his players, ing their total environment,” McKenzie told reporters pating in the World Cup to gain experience despite a strong Argentinean team. He yesterday, his thick-set frame filling out a grey suit. and having its players close to world class said, “it is for sure that our competitor is However, the 48-year-old, a proud World Cup players. Al-Makasa is also counting on its very strong and a candidate to win the winner with the 1991 Wallabies, said the era of play- fans among Egyptians who live in Kuwait. tournament. He said the Argentinean team ers living off their reputations was over. Chairman of the Higher Organizing has one of the best goalkeeper in the “There is a role model aspect to it, there are Committee Sheikh Talal Al-Mohammad vis- world. Goga said, “We have a good group young kids that lie awake at night dreaming about ited an exhibition of Sheikh Essa bin Rashid of players and we brought some Brazilian the opportunity,” he said. at Hayat Regency Hotel, where he was players too”. The tournament will continue “We don’t want to be frivolous about the oppor- BRISBANE: Ewen McKenzie (left) during a press conference to announce his appointment as warmly welcomed and thanked by Sheikh until the 18th of Ramadan at Kazma Club. tunity ... Certainly if people don’t respect it then we the Wallaby coach by Australian Rugby Union CEO Bill Pulver (right) in Brisbane. —AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 SPORTS

Sri Lanka tops West Indies Photo of the day PORT-OF-SPAIN: Kumar Sangakkara struck lowed by Bravo, who took 63 deliveries to an unbeaten 90 and captain Angelo reach the mark. Mathews starred with bat and ball Monday The crowd was starting to believe again as Sri Lanka defeated West Indies by 39 when Eranga and Malinga doused the runs in the rain-affected fifth one-day inter- hopes with two wickets at the same score. national of the Celkon Mobile Cup. Simmons holed out to deep cover to Sangakkara lashed six fours and a six in provide Eranga with his third scalp, while 95 balls as the visitors reached 219-8 off 41 Malinga grabbed his first when captain overs during a rainy morning session at Kieron Pollard nibbled outside the off Queen’s Park Oval after resuming on 60-3 stump and edged to wicketkeeper Kumar off 19 overs from overnight. Mathews, in Sangakkara. Pollard fell for his third duck of his 100th match, contributed a vital 30 off the series. 26 balls with two fours and two sixes. Malinga also removed the power-hitter Fast bowler Kemar Roach, who had Darren Sammy to give Sri Lanka the upper undermined Sri Lanka on Sunday before hand again. Sammy skied to the leg side the rain, ended with 4-27 while fellow and Malinga held a well-judged running Barbadian Jason Holder grabbed 2-50. West catch. Indies, set a revised target of 230 off 41 Bravo, after hitting four fours and a six, overs, fell short at 190-9. holed out in the deep off Mathews. When Mathews returned to grab 4-29. Mathews removed Jason Holder first ball, Shaminda Eranga took 3-45, and Lasith the West Indies were 177-9 and needed Malinga claimed 2-42 to keep the hosts in seven more runs to stop Sri Lanka from check. gaining a bonus point which would have Darren Bravo top-scored with 70 off 84 assured their place in Thursday’s final. balls and shared a restorative fifth partner- Last pair Kemar Roach and Tino Best ship of 123 with Lendl Simmons, who ensured that in an unbroken stand of 12. scored 67 off 79 deliveries on his return to But West Indies’ hopes of qualifying now the team. rest with Sri Lanka and India, who meet at West Indies’ pursuit had been rattled by the same venue on Wednesday in the final Mathews and Eranga, who shared four ear- group match. ly wickets as the hosts slumped to 31-4 Sri Lanka leads the table with nine inside the first nine overs. points and a positive run rate while West Mathews took the important wicket of Indies also has nine points but an inferior Chris Gayle for 14. The dangerous left-han- run rate. India has five points and must win der skewed to backward point off the out- to have any chance of advancing. Earlier, Sri side edge. Lanka’s innings was built around Eranga struck twice in the next over to Sangakkara’s master class, which started on further derail West Indies. He pouched a Sunday’s first day. Sebastien Loeb, nine times WRC Champion prepares for Pikes Peak. —www.redbullcontentpool.com fine, low return catch to remove Johnson The left-hander stretched his fourth Charles for 14 and then induced Marlon wicket stand with Lahiru Thirimanne to 64 Samuels to edge to Mahela Jayawardene at once play got under way nearly two hours first slip. When Mathews trapped Devon late on the reserve day. Smith plumb leg before wicket, West Indies Thirimanne scored a valuable 23 off 73 Inverdale: ‘You’re never were in ruins. balls. Sangakkara and Mathews added a But the two Trinidadians, Bravo and further 46 for the fifth wicket either side of Simmons, in front of an enthusiastic home another rain interval. crowd, gradually brought the hosts back Roach returned to claim Mathews and going to be a looker’ into the contest. Jeevan Mendis and Sri Lanka was at the Simmons, after taking 16 balls to get off crossroads at 147-6 with six overs left. WIMBLEDON: A glance at the list selves the subjects of such remarks this whole mess. There actually is a and after some shopping around the mark, eventually started to find his But Sangakkara dominated and the visi- of men’s singles champions at rarely make it out of the ensuing long, very tender and very compli- Bartoli wound up settling on for- touch and the boundaries with more regu- tors added 72 off the final 36 deliveries to Wimbledon the last dozen years media circus gracefully, but the cated backstory behind the latest mer Wimbeldon champion and larity. He brought up his half-century with give them the momentum going into the reveals plenty of pleasant-enough Bartolis are proving themselves Wimbledon champion and her countrywoman Amelie Mauresmo. his fourth six, off 70 balls, and was soon fol- break.—AP looking chaps, though not a single rare exceptions. father that has nothing to do with And indeed, she got fitter and slam-dunk male model in the more mobile. bunch. No matter. Each one was Bartoli didn’t drop a set instantly fawned over the moment throughout the past fortnight, an he held the trophy aloft, celebrated impressive feat when you consider for toughness, smarts and the kind how all the top seeds stumbled, of devotion that knows no quit. including Maria Sharapova, who Marion Bartoli displayed all of actually works in her spare time as those qualities - and more - on the a model. way to winning Wimbledon in this Bartoli was beset by plenty of most tumultuous of years. But the same nerves that felled the because she’s a woman, at least rest. Watching her hop back and one man behind a microphone forth awaiting serves can make you couldn’t stop there. twitchy, but it’s one of those things His name is John Inverdale, and Bartoli relied on since she was even as Bartoli headed toward the young to help cope with the pres- spectator’s box where the father sure. who taught her to play tennis sat, Old habits are hard to break, Inverdale’s listeners on BBC Radio which also explains why she were treated to some musings Ladies 2013 Wimbledon champion, Marion Bartoli looked often in her father’s direc- about how she came to possess a tion during her win over Sabine champion’s ability. For her part, Bartoli showed up her “looks.” Lisicki in what was a mistake-filled “Do you think Bartoli’s dad told for the champion’s dinner looking Walther Bertoli was Marion’s final. Bartoli had been in Lisicki’s her when she was little, ‘You’re nev- like a model - “her dark hair down first coach, largely reponsible for sneakers in 2007, when she lost the er going to be a looker? You’ll nev- in a loose wave ... figure-hugging her jarring style. She plays aggres- title match to Venus Williams. No PORT-OF-SPAIN: West Indies cricketer Lendl Simmons raises his bat after scoring his er be a Sharapova, so you have to black dress ... sky-high ankle boots,” sively, but isn’t very fast. She hits one likely understood better the half century during the fifth match of the Tri-Nation series against Sri Lanka. —AFP be scrappy and fight.’” as one British newspaper breath- two-handed off both sides, a strat- distance she had traveled since Inverdale has apologized, of lessly reported - and then said, “I egy Walther Bartoli insisted she that day than Walther. course, though that hardly came invite this journalist to come and master after watching Monica No doubt he told her, from the SCOREBOARD off better than his original remark. see me this evening in ball gown Seles rise to the top of the heap time Bartoli was small, that she’d The BBC did, too, before reporting and heels, and in my opinion he nearly 20 years ago. His guidance have to “be scrappy and fight.” PORT OF SPAIN: Scoreboard in the fifth match of the Tri-Nation Series between the West Indies that nearly 700 viewers called in as could change his mind.” was important enough that only Inverdale got that part right. Plenty and Sri Lanka at Queen’s Park Oval which concluded yesterday: of Monday night to complain. It’s When her father, Dr. Walther last summer, Bartoli reportedly of athletes have heard the same The match was reduced to 41 overs-per-side. West Indies (target: 230 on D/L Method) kicked up a row in print, on the air- Bartoli, was asked about Inverdale’s turned down a chance to represent thing from one parent or another Sri Lanka C. Gayle c Eranga b Mathews 14 waves and across social media over comments, he simply said, “I am France at the London Olympics over and over throughout their U. Tharanga c D.M. Bravo b Holder 7 J. Charles c & b Eranga 14 in Britain similar to the one that not angry. She is my beautiful because of national federation careers. M. Jayawardene c Smith b Roach 7 D. Smith lbw Mathews 0 M. Samuels c Jayawardene b Eranga 0 buzzed briefly over here when daughter. The relationship rules about having private coach- But the other part, the part K. Sangakkara not out 90 Brent Musburger awkwardly ram- between Marion and me has ing at a previous event. about how she was “never going to D. Chandimal b Roach 2 D.M. Bravo c J. Mendis b Mathews 70 L. Simmons c Thirimanne b Eranga 67 bled on about Alabama quarter- always been unbelievable, so I But this past February, Bartoli be a looker” is not just cruel, it’s L. Thirimanne b Samuels 23 back A.J. McCarron’s girlfriend dur- don’t know what this reporter is arrived at the same crossroad that stupid. Because if it were true, we’d A. Mathews c Smith b Roach 30 K. Pollard c wkpr Sangakkara b Malinga 0 D. Sammy c & b Malinga 3 ing the broadcast of the college talking about.” a number of great athletes and have precious few champions to J. Mendis c Charles b Roach 8 K. Roach not out 8 football national championship. Neither did Inverdale at the their parents-as-coaches often do. fawn over - man or woman - in the N. Kulasekara c D.M. Bravo b Holder 14 J. Holder b Mathews 0 S. Senanayake c D.M. Bravo b Pollard 7 The principals who find them- time - and that’s the real shame in She and her father parted ways, first place.—AP T. Best not out 5 Extras (4lb, 24w, 3nb) 31 Extras: (9w) 9 Total (8 wickets, 41 overs) 219 Total (9 wickets, 41 overs) 190 Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Tharanga), 2-19 Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Gayle), 2-29 (Charles), 3- Cook and Clarke play straight (Jayawardene), 3-29 (Chandimal), 4-93 29 (Samuels), 4-31 (Smith), 5-154 (Simmons), (Thirimanne), 5-139 (Mathews), 6-147 (J. 6-154 (Pollard), 7-172 (Sammy), 176-8 (D. M. Mendis), 7-201 (Kulasekara), 8-219 Bravo), 177-9 (Holder). on eve of Ashes Test opener (Senanayake) Bowling: N. Kulasekara 1.5-0-8-0, S. Eranga 8-0- Did not bat: S. Eranga, L. Malinga 46-3, L. Thirimanne 4.1-0-16-0, Mathews 8-1- Bowling: Roach 8-2-27-4 (1w), Holder 8-0-50-2 29-4, S. Senanayake 9-0-41-0, L. Malinga 8-2- NOTTINGHAM: The final chapter of the Ashes ting with Cook in preference to the more experi- Cook said the England players had been (2nb, 4w), Sammy 9-2-24-0 (1w), Best 6-0-42-0 42-2, J. Mendis 2-0-8-0. build-up ended in predictable fashion yesterday enced Nick Compton. inspired by a weekend spent watching the (5w), Samuels 7-0-48-1 (1w), Pollard 3-0-24-1. Sri Lanka won by 39 runs on the D/L Method when opposing captains Alastair Cook and “Joe has handled himself in every situation British and Irish Lions win their rugby test series Michael Clarke played the straightest of bats fantastically well,” Cook said. “He has managed to in Australia and Andy Murray’s momentous vic- ahead of the first test at Trent Bridge. change his style to every situation and is a fan- tory at Wimbledon. Australia skipper Clarke was more than happy tastic young player.” “That was an incredible moment for British Two Sri Lanka umpires to accept his team were underdogs going into Both captains said they knew their starting sport,” Cook said. “A lot of our players are big ten- the start of the five-match series on Wednesday XIs but did not give any clues. The pitch is nis and rugby fans and it was fantastic watching banned over TV sting while England leader Cook was confident his expected to be dry and the weather conditions as genuine sports fans.” side would handle the pressure of being warm which might give the batsmen an advan- Clarke said with a wry smile that he was COLOMBO: Sri Lanka cricket bosses yester- three umpires who declared his innocence favorites. tage at a ground where swing bowlers usually aware of the recent British sporting success but day banned two umpires named by an Indian when the programme was aired in October, “We have been favorites in other series as perform well. was confident his inexperienced team were TV programme last year that claimed they has not been directly implicated in any well and I think it sits well,” Cook told a packed But Cook, leading England for the first time in capable of winning back the Ashes. “Every one of were willing to make favorable decisions dur- bribery allegations, the source said. news conference in the pavilion. “But cricket is an Ashes series, played down the significance of the boys has prepared to the best of their ability,” ing matches for cash. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) However, he was faulted for engaging in not played on paper and it is all about delivering winning the toss. “The toss is important but how he said. “I’ve told them to play with freedom, to said it banned Sagara Gallage for 10 years conversation with the Indian party who had on the pitch. you play is more important,” he said. “Our group back their ability and play their natural game. and Maurice de la Zilwa for three years from offered him money in exchange for informa- “Australia are a very, very good side. They of bowlers have the skills and experience to hold “Our preparation is done. Now it’s about what all forms of the game after a disciplinary hear- tion about teams and players. have some world-class players and I think there us in good stead in any conditions.” we do on the field.” —Reuters ing over allegations in the television sting. “From the tapes, it is clear that he did not is going to be a very good standard of cricket in SLC did not give details of the hearing nor the agree to provide information, but he should this series. “We’ve always known it’s going to be allegations against the pair, but official cricket have stopped the conversation with the one hell of a battle,” said Cook. sources said the disciplinary panel found suf- Indian party,” the source said. Australia’s preparations have been far from ficient evidence to punish them. Dissanayake officiated at two warm-up ideal, with Darren Lehmann brought in as coach A source close to the disciplinary enquiry matches during the World Twenty20 last year to replace the sacked Mickey Arthur just over said Gallage declined to participate in a hear- and has also been a reserve umpire for inter- two weeks ago. ing. “It is clear from the evidence that the two national games when India, Pakistan and oth- “We come here as underdogs but that won’t umpires had negotiations with the Indian er nations have toured Sri Lanka. There was affect our performances,” Clarke said. “Darren party (TV sting) and agreed to provide infor- no immediate comment from the three and Mickey are two completely different people. mation for monetary benefit,” the source said umpires. The undercover investigation by the “Personally I have enjoyed talking cricket with asking not to be named. India TV channel allegedly found six umpires, ‘Boof’ (Lehmann) who I was lucky enough to “But, neither of them were in a position to including one on the international circuit, play with. We are all embracing Darren’s style provide any information because they were were willing to give biased decisions or pro- now.” not involved in umpiring any of the first class vide inside information on teams in return for Cook said the England players could not wait matches at the time.” payments. to begin their defence of the Ashes. “Everyone is A third umpire, Gamini Dissanayake, was Three of the six named by the TV pro- desperately excited to be here today after such a demoted to umpiring in a lower domestic gramme were from Sri Lanka, while two were long build-up,” he said. “There are a lot of nerves league for a period of one year, the SLC said, from Pakistan. The sixth was Nadir Shah, a and excitement but it’s important not to blow it after the television network said it had Bangladeshi member of the International out of all proportion.” NOTTINGHAM: England’s James Anderson dives to catch a ball during a practice session at approached him to discuss matches. Cricket Council’s international panel which Clarke expressed surprise England had opted Trent Bridge on the eve of the first Ashes cricket Test match between England and Dissanayake, the most high-profile of the officiates in matches around the world.—AFP to promote youngster Joe Root to open the bat- Australia.—AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 SPORTS19 Rooney in focus as Moyes era starts in Asia

BANGKOK: Intense speculation over July-August transfer window, will put face questions about the possible has done before. I will definitely con- Jakarta and Hanoi before also head- Wayne Rooney’s future looks set to extra focus on this year’s Asian visits return of Real Madrid superstar tinue the traditions of Manchester ing to Japan, where their games dominate the headlines this week as with Barcelona, Liverpool, Cristiano Ronaldo. United, but I have to put my own include a fixture against Nagoya Manchester United begin their new Manchester City and Spurs also It is a sign of the times that Moyes stamp on the club.” Grampus, former club of their man- era under David Moyes at the start of among the clubs headed east. will make his United bow not at Old Mourinho is also hoping to build a ager Arsene Wenger. a bumper series of pre-season tours With Manchester City led by Trafford or even Oxford’s Manor legacy in his second stint at Chelsea, Manchester City, Spurs and to Asia. incoming manager Manuel Pellegrini, Ground-where Ferguson debuted in after forays to Inter Milan and Real Sunderland are due to play a mini- Moyes’s first outing as United the three biggest powers of English 1986 — but at Rajamangala Stadium Madrid, and is likely to parade new tournament in Hong Kong and boss, starting with Saturday’s friendly football will all be under new leader- in suburban Bangkok, against a Thai signings Andre Schurrle and Marco Spanish giants Barcelona will visit in Bangkok, will be forensically scruti- ship during the pre-season spree, All-Star XI. van Ginkel during the club’s tour to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, the nised for clues about the want-away spread over a giant arc from Kuala But the ex-Everton manager may Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Malaysian capital, in early August. star, who made a transfer request Lumpur to Sydney. be glad to run the rule over his The Portuguese, styling himself as Many of the players, household just before the departure of leg- Arsenal will break new ground by squad, and make inroads towards the “Happy One” after returning to names across much of Asia, can endary boss Alex Ferguson. becoming the first Premiership team retaining Rooney, away from the full London, is said to be on the look-out expect a rock-star welcome from fans Britain’s Daily Mail on Tuesday to play in Vietnam, indicating a glare of the English media as he faces for a new target man while he chews with packed houses for the friendly linked Rooney with a 60-million- widening reach for a competition the unenviable task of following over the future of erratic striker games, and even their training ses- pound ($90-million) bid from that is hugely popular in Asia and Ferguson’s 38-trophy reign. Fernando Torres, as well as veteran sions. United’s English Premier League earns a significant share of its income “Whoever was going to take over club captain John Terry. European football has an enor- rivals Chelsea-who also arrive in the from the region. this job knows what the manager did Manchester United head to mous following in the region with Thai capital this week, led by return- Liverpool’s tour of Indonesia, before,” Moyes said this week. “The Sydney after Bangkok and they will the Premier League set to reap a big ing manager Jose Mourinho. Australia and Thailand will be under manager before was incredible. His also visit Japan, home country of increase in overseas TV revenues The new starts by Moyes and the microscope for news about strik- achievements, there are no better. their forward Shinji Kagawa, as well after the latest round of negotia- Mourinho, and the opening of the er Luis Suarez, while Moyes will also “All I can do is what David Moyes as Hong Kong. Arsenal are playing in tions.—AFP Blanc’s PSG debut ends in 3-1 defeat

GRAZ: Laurent Blanc’s first match in charge of Paris Saint-Germain ended in defeat as the French champions were beaten 3-1 by Austria’s Sturm Graz in a pre-sea- son friendly yesterday. Robert Beric put the Austrians ahead on 26 minutes after capi- talising on an error from France under-19 defender Antoine BAGHDAD: Iraqis celebrate in the streets of Baghdad after the Iraq Under 20 Conte before Marco Djuricin dou- football team beat South Korea in the FIFA Under 20 World Cup quarter-final bled the hosts’ lead two minutes match at the Kadir Has Stadium in Kayseri, Turkey, on July 7, 2013.—AFP later. Sturm, who were far sharper having returned to training two Iraq football victory a weeks before their French coun- terparts, added a third on 76 min- utes through Nikola Vujadinovic, bright spot amid woes while Hervin Ongenda netted a BAGHDAD: Iraqis sung, danced and fired Iraqi Sunnis accuse the Shiite-led gov- consolation strike with a fine lob guns in the air, celebrating a victory over ernment of marginalising and targeting five minutes from time. PSG con- South Korea in the U-20 World Cup, a their minority community, and have held tinue their preparations for the small bright spot in the months-long protests for months. new season with a fixture against surge in violence plaguing the country. Political crises have deadlocked the Rapid Vienna on Friday. “People started singing and dancing government, which has passed almost Meanwhile, Monaco’s newly- at the time of victory,” said Ahmed no significant legislation in years, basic acquired Colombian striker Razzaq, the manager of Jungle Night services such as electricity and clean Radamel Falcao said yesterday cafe in Baghdad, which showed the water are lacking, and corruption is ram- that he wanted to steer the ambi- GRAZ: Paris Saint-Germain’s Italian midfielder Thiago Motta (left) vies for the ball with SK Sturm game on multiple TVs. pant. tious newly-promoted French Grazís football player Robert Beric during a friendly football game . —AFP Ligue 1 side “to the top of With their win in a tense match that The football team “gave pride to Iraq, sporting director Vadim Vasilyev from Porto. source. was decided by penalties, Iraq will now something that the politicians have been European football”. Falcao, 27, joined the princi- admitted the acquisition of one “I wanted to discover a differ- The Mediterranean outfit were face Uruguay on Wednesday in the U-20 incapable of doing for years,” said Yassin of the game’s top strikers was a ent league. Ligue 1 is evolving deducted two points, with a third World Cup semi-finals in Turkey. al-Abed, 46, who watched the match on pality outfit from Spanish side Atletico Madrid at the end of May real coup for the club. right now and has quite a few suspended, and ordered to play a More than 250 people, most of them television at home. “We had a lot of competition good teams such as Paris, game behind closed doors as young men, flooded the Jungle Night “I was very happy because we beat for a French record 60 million euros ($77.2 million), as Monaco for the signature of Radamel Marseille, Lyon and now punishment for their supporters’ cafe to watch the match on Sunday, South Korea even though our team total- Falcao. That’s normal and it’s fan- Monaco,” said the 26-year-old behavior during a Ligue 2 match braving the threat of attacks that have ly lacks resources,” said Ahmed signalled their intent following the club’s return to the top-flight. tastic that he chose to join Moutinho. at home to Le Mans on May 17. struck Baghdad nightspots. Mohammed, a 23-year-old who closed Monaco. “The medium-term project of Fans set off bangers and flares “In recent months, more and more his store on Sunday night to join in the “I’m delighted to be part of this project, we want to bring “We hope to build a team qualifying for the Champions and invaded the pitch, while one cafes like mine were the target of bomb victory celebrations, which lasted past around Falcao. He represents League from this season onwards such fan attacked the referee. attacks, sometimes up to two or three midnight. Monaco to the top of European football,” said Falcao as he was everything we like, he’s a great and the presence of great players, Monaco will appeal against cafes per day,” Razzaq said, acknowledg- On Monday, Iraqis exchanged con- person and a great player,” con- all that appealed to me. We want the Professional Football ing that he is “very worried” despite the gratulatory messages on Facebook, presented to the media yester- day. “We have great players, cluded Vasilyev. to show ourselves in Europe,” he League’s decision claiming the presence of police and guards who while newspapers celebrated the the vic- Falcao’s international team- added. punishment was “severe” and searched customers when they arrive. tory of the “Lions,” who, according to great desire and lots of ambition. We want to build a strong and mate James Rodriguez and Monaco also announced didn’t take into account “the “Of course I was worried” about one daily, “have eaten Samsung.” Portuguese midfielder Joao Tuesday that they would appeal work done by the club over sev- watching the match at a cafe, said Fahad, The win against South Korea was even close-knit team with the desire to excel and win lots of trophies,” Moutinho were also unveiled to their two-point deduction for eral years for the best organisa- 19, a cigarette seller who declined to sweeter given other difficulties the coun- the press following their arrivals next season, according to a club tion of home matches”.—AFP give his last name. try has faced when it comes to football. added the Colombian. Monaco “But it will not stop me from return- FIFA in March lifted a ban on Iraq ing” to watch the match against hosting international football friendlies, Uruguay, he said. On Sunday night, but barred it from doing so once again T&T hold El Salvador “everyone was in the street-they earlier this month due to the spike in vio- laughed, they sang, they danced, waving lence, which has included attacks on NEW JERSEY: Trinidad and pile forward and Zelaya the national flag,” he said. “We had to football pitches and cafes where Iraqis Tobago striker Kenwyne almost had a hat-trick and win for the Iraqis to be happy. God will- gather to watch matches. Jones struck a superb 73rd the winner with an acrobatic ing, we will win on Wednesday,” Fahad In June alone, more than 60 people minute equaliser to earn his effort that was tipped over said. Iraqis have had little to be happy were killed in at least 10 bombings tar- country a 2-2 draw with El the bar by Trinidad keeper about of late. The country has been hit geting pitches and cafes, according to Salvador while Honduras Jan Michael Williams. by a surge in violence since the begin- AFP figures. And the manager of Iraq’s defeated Haiti 2-0 in CONCA- In the later group game ning of the year that has killed more than top local football side quit last month CAF Gold Cup Group B Haiti, fresh from last month’s 2,400 people-over 190 of them in the after refusing to travel to Baghdad over games on Monday. friendly draw with Italy and first eight days of July alone. fears of violence.—AFP The outstanding Rodolfo narrow 2-1 loss to Spain, Zelaya scored twice for El paid the price for their lack Salvador and almost of sharpness in the final Sweden look to grabbed a spectacular win- third. ner in what was a pulsating, Honduras took the lead in coach Sundhage entertaining encounter at the fourth minute with Mario New Jersey’s Red Bull Arena. Martinez breaking from mid- GOTHENBURG: Hosts Sweden will be hop- Sundhage, who made her playing debut Trinidad and Tobago field and slipping the ball ing coach Pia Sundhage has brought her for Sweden as a 15-year-old in 1975, com- grabbed the lead in the 11th inside to Rony Martinez who Midas touch home from the US when they bines a combative, unsentimental minute when Keon Daniel fired home. kick off their women’s European approach to the game with a warm, burst through the middle of Haiti played plenty of pos- Championship campaign against Denmark endearing manner. the El Salvador defence and itive attacking football but in Gothenburg today. In her dealings with the fans and the confidently slotted home. too often their moves broke Governing body UEFA has called the media she is as likely to burst into song as El Salvador, playing at down near the penalty area tournament “by far the most important” of she is to offer sharp insights into football high-tempo and making or ended with hasty finish- the year and for Sundhage there is no dif- and is often critical of players - something ference between male and female soccer. she says increases interest in the team. good use of the flanks, drew ing. “There is no such thing as men’s football “It’s good that people understand we’re level 10 minutes later with a One of their best chances and women’s football - there is only foot- not just a grey mob but a bunch of differ- magnificent curling 25-yard came in the 20th minute ball,” she told Reuters earlier this year. ent players,” she told the Sportbladet free-kick from Zelaya. when Jeff Louis crossed to an Named FIFA’s female coach of the year in newspaper recently. Rafael Burgos hit the post unmarked Leonel Saint Preux January, Sundhage crowned a four-year Germany are the title favourites and for the Salvadorians four but the striker leaned back stint as US boss by winning the gold medal with good reason. They have won seven of minutes before the interval and blasted over the bar. at the 2012 London Olympics before taking the previous 10 championships with only but they went ahead in the The Hondurans rode their charge of her native country at the end of Norway (twice) and Sweden also having 69th minute when Zelaya luck a little in the second the year. claimed the crown. met a perfect cross from half but made sure of the For the Swedes it was a dream appoint- Sweden’s victory in 1984 was thanks in Darwin Ceren with a fine div- win with 12 minutes remain- ment because the 53-year-old is arguably no small part to four goals in the tourna- ing header. ing when Marvin Chavez fin- the most well-known and best-loved soc- ment from Sundhage who also scored in The lead lasted just four ished off a low cross from cer coach in the country. the penalty shootout victory over England minutes before striker Jones Bryan Beckeles. Late yester- After several years of meticulous off-the- in the final. took a long ball down on his day sees the start of Group C field preparation by the organisers for the Despite injury concerns over players 12-team tournament, Sundhage’s appoint- and internal strife among her coaching chest, broke goalwards and action with Costa Rica ment was the final piece of the footballing team, a recent 4-1 thrashing of England HARRISON: Midfielder Rony Martinez No. 11 of Honduras heads the fired in a powerful left foot against Cuba and hosts the puzzle on it and expectations are running ended Sundhage’s preparations for the ball past midfielder Jean-Marc Alexandre No. 16 of Haiti during the shot. United States against Belize high in the host nation. championship on a high note. —Reuters first half in a 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match. —AFP Both sides continued to in Portland.—Reuters A new race: Cook and Clarke Gebrselassie to play straight enter politics on eve of Ashes Test opener

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FRANCE: The pack rides during the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 197 kilometers (123.1 miles) with start in Saint-Gildas-des-Bois and finish in Saint-Malo. — AP Kittel wins 10th Tour stage

SAINT-MALO: German rider Marcel Kittel won yesterday’s proud that I could show today how fast I am, how strong my After the stage, Cavendish was involved in an incident low jersey on Saturday with a devastating attack on the last 10th stage of the Tour de France in a nervy sprint finish that team is and how good we work together.” with a reporter at his Omega Pharma-QuickStep team bus, climb of the first Pyrenean stage and then successfully saw Mark Cavendish nudge another rider off his bike and Veelers was not seriously harmed and was later able to angrily grabbing the reporter’s recorder when asked if the defended it the following day in the face of attacks from his Chris Froome stay safe to keep the yellow jersey. answer questions outside the team bus. “I had the feeling crash was his fault. rivals. He stays 1 minute, 25 seconds ahead of Valverde, while Kittel held off countryman Andre Greipel and Cavendish Cavendish was boxed in my wheel,” Veelers said. “He touched Following a rest day, the 197-kilometer (122-mile) flat trek Contador is 1:51 behind in sixth. Froome finished last year’s in a dash to the line to win his second stage of the Tour. But my handlebars and knocked me over.” Peter Sagan, who won started from Saint-Gildas-Des-Bois in northwestern France Tour time trial in second place behind Wiggins. But this time Cavendish could be in trouble after appearing to veer into the green jersey for best sprinter on last year’s Tour, finished and finished in the walled port city of Saint-Malo, a popular none of his main rivals is as quick as him and they face seri- Dutchman Tom Veelers, sending him tumbling to the the stage in fourth. The Slovak holds a commanding 83-point tourist destination on the northern coast of Brittany and the ous time losses. ground, as they sprinted for home. lead over Greipel and is 103 clear of Cavendish, who won the pack set off at a gentle pace. “With other general classification riders, I don’t think they “I touched him. The road was bearing left,” Cavendish said. green jersey in 2011. Froome, who was the Tour runner-up to countryman really like these kind of time trials,” Froome said. “I should be “Yeah, it was my fault ... I hope he’s OK.” Froome was at a safe The finish looked tailor-made for Cavendish, who was Bradley Wiggins last year, has a healthy lead over second- able to hold on to my advantage and maybe get some more distance behind the incident, much to his relief. looking for his 25th career Tour stage win to move level with place Alejandro Valverde and two-time champion Alberto time. “ “That’s everyone’s worst nightmare. Fortunately I was to Frenchman Andre Leducq on the all-time list of Tour stage Contador. The British rider is looking to increase that in Following the time trial, there will be two flat stages the side of that crash and went around it no problem,” winners. today’s time trial - a 33-kilometer (20.5-mile) dash from before the Tour heads back to the mountains. There have Froome said. “I’m feeling really good, today was a great day “I think this team could’ve done something differently Avranches to Mont-Saint-Michel, a walled medieval master- been several crashes so far and there were a couple of minor for us, staying out of trouble, staying at the front. That was (today) ,” Cavendish said. As the British rider moved into posi- piece in Normandy. ones on Tuesday as the pack hurtled toward the finish line. one of the objectives today, save the legs as much as possi- tion to attack before the final corner, he appeared to lean “Definitely a day where I will try and extend my lead,” The first brought down two riders as the peloton split in ble.” into Veelers and send the Argos-Shimano rider flying off his Froome said. “It’s definitely a day that could help the general two going around a roundabout, and another two fell after The 25-year-old Kittel became the first rider to win two bike. Race stewards were examining the incident. classification. I definitely want to go for it.” locking bikes slightly further on. All of them hopped back on stages on this year’s race, after taking the first stage of what After seeing a replay of the incident, Kittel gave Cavendish A five-man breakaway attacked from the start, opening their bikes and continued. “Every day you get through with has been an incident-filled centenary Tour so far. the benefit of the doubt. “I cannot imagine that it was on up a lead of five minutes, but they were caught with a few the yellow jersey is a blessing,” Froome said. “So I’m happy “Things went very well with my team,” Kittel said. “I’m very purpose because it was a very hectic situation,” he said. kilometers remaining. The 28-year-old Froome took the yel- just to tick that one off.” — AP Friedel prepares for Nigeria to probe 79-0, another season at 42 67-0 scores

LONDON: Back from his summer break and ready for yet en by Chelsea after their London rivals finished outside of the LAGOS: Nigeria’s top football authority another season in his age-defying footballing career, Brad top four but qualified for the Champions League by winning has suspended four teams who reported Friedel is savoring every last second of his time on the pitch. the competition. “mind-boggling” results from their play- At the age of 42, the American goalkeeper retains the Last season, when Friedel featured in just 11 out of 38 offs matches, describing the scores of 79- hunger for the preseason routines and possesses the fight to Premier League games, Tottenham frustratingly finished fifth 0 and 67-0 as “scandalous” tallies that try and stay in the Tottenham team. after spending most of the season in the top four. But the player who holds the Premier League record for the Friedel, though, has been told that there will be investment must be probed. most consecutive appearances - 310 - knows he’ll have to hang in the squad to ensure it can try and reach Europe’s elite com- Plateau United Feeders and Police up his gloves one day. petition again. With a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at Machine FC both needed convincing wins Away from the pitch, Friedel is spending time back in the $4.2 billion, owner Joe Lewis is one of the most secretive own- to earn promotions to the Nigeria classroom, earning coaching qualifications and planning for ers in the Premier League - in public, at least. Nationwide League, but officials immedi- the future. “After meeting on numerous times with a few of the board ately rejected the eye-popping results. “Whether it’s coaching or management or technical director, members, they are ambitious and they will try to strengthen In a statement, the country’s Football I don’t know,” Friedel said in an interview with The Associated the squad,” Friedel said. “We went out to the Bahamas (for a Federation described the scores as “a Press on Monday. “We have to wait to see if someone wants me friendly in May) with Mr. Lewis, the owner, and he showed us mind-boggling show of shame never pre- to do it. But right now I still have my playing head on. exactly how ambitious he is for the club ... and how much he viously witnessed in Nigeria.” “But it’s while I’m still playing that it’s the best time to do wants us to win and be successful.” “Plateau United Feeders somehow your badges, so that’s what I’m doing. I’m not expecting some- Tottenham has started early on its transfer activity, signing LONDON: In this file photo dated March 11, 2007, Brad Friedel manufactured a 79-0 victory over Akurba thing around the corner.” 24-year-old Brazil midfielder Paulinho from Corinthians in the of Blackburn Rovers celebrates his sideís second goal against FC while Police Machine FC demolished The target is still challenging Hugo Lloris for the spot past week, while star forward Gareth Bale looks set to stay at Manchester City during their FA Cup quarter final soccer Babayaro FC 67-0.” between the posts when the new season begins in August. “My White Hart Lane. match. — AP Federation spokesman Ademola body feels great, it feels the same as it has done the last 10 “The season should be very exciting for us - we look to be leadership, the team appears to be back on track to qualify for Olajire told AFP a deal was certainly struck years or so, so we’ll see how it keeps going,” Friedel said after building and making our squad stronger and stronger,” Friedel Brazil. among the sides, but the details, includ- being fitted out in Tottenham’s new Under Armour jersey. said. “We are not a million miles away from reaching some of In its six-team CONCACAF qualifying group, the U.S. is two ing whether any money changed hands, “I still want to play until I can’t play anymore, but I don’t our goals. We also want to try to win some silverware in one of points ahead of Costa Rica and five in front of Mexico with four are not yet known. want to be a situation where I am done playing and I need to the cups.” games remaining. The top three teams qualify automatically. “We are setting up an investigation. spend two, three years on getting my badges.” After the 26-year-old Lloris forced his way into the league “I have seen a team that went from being a little bit with We don’t know exactly what happened. Friedel will have a vast knowledge base to take into dugout team in November, Friedel’s appearances were largely limited their backs to the wall to now being in pole position and look- We just feel scandalised,” he said. “The one day. His playing career includes the Columbus Crew in his to the FA Cup and Europa League. ing to qualify with ease,” Friedel said. “Whatever ideas and tac- four teams involved are suspended imme- homeland, Galatasaray in Turkey, Brondby in Denmark before “I knew that role was coming when I signed my contract (in tics (Klinsmann) is implementing are now working and they are diately and indefinitely,” federation chair- making the move to England in 1997. After three years at December),” said Friedel, who plays alongside compatriot Clint now working very well.” man Mike Emeh said in a statement. Liverpool came eight seasons at Blackburn and three at Aston Dempsey. One day it could be Friedel in charge of the national team. Everyone involved in the Monday Villa before being enticed by Tottenham in 2011. Having made the last of his 82 appearances for the U.S. in “My mind is open to anything in the future,” Friedel said. “But matches, including officials and staff at Both seasons he’s played at Tottenham has resulted in just 2005, Friedel has been watching from afar as the national team then my mind is strictly on playing still at this moment in time.” the pitch in northern Bauchi state, could missing out on qualifying for the Champions League. In 2011- chases a spot at the 2014 World Cup. For the next season at least. “I’ll see how my body feels in face sanctions, the federation said. — AFP 12, the crucial fourth place was secured but Spurs’ spot was tak- After criticism of Jurgen Klinsmann’s coaching methods and January and we’ll go from there,” the Ohio native said. — AP EU hits Russia with first WTO dispute Page 23

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DAMASCUS: A Syrian man pours a traditional drink in central Damascus yesterday as Syrians shop in preparation for the holy fasting month of Ramadan. — AFP IMF cuts global growth forecast Fund sees growth of 3.1% this year, 3.8% in 2014

WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund yesterday could trigger sustained capital outflows from emerging-mar- Crude oil prices were expected to fall 4.7 percent, while non- Growth in the world’s largest economy was trimmed by two- cut its global economic growth forecast, citing new downside kets, the IMF warned. “Monetary easing can be the first line of oil commodity prices were projected to decline 1.8 percent. tenths of a point to 1.7 percent. Japan’s growth outlook was risks in key emerging-market economies and a deeper reces- defense against downside risks” in emerging-market and Some of Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest economies, such as upgraded by a half-point to 2.0 percent, with the IMF citing sion in the eurozone. The IMF projected the world’s economy developing economies, where inflation was generally expect- Nigeria and South Africa, face weaker growth in part due to the impact of the Bank of Japan’s huge stimulus efforts. would grow 3.1 percent in 2013, down from its April estimate ed to moderate, it said. But fiscal policy options may be limit- weaker external demand, while in the Middle East and North But overall, the IMF was somewhat gloomy, saying threats of 3.3 percent. China and other emerging economic powers ed. “Real policy rates are low already, and capital outflows and Africa, growth remains weak “because of difficult political and to growth continue to cloud the future. It called on advanced now face new risks, it warned, “including the possibility of a price effects from exchange rate depreciation may also con- economic transitions,” the IMF said. economies to take additional measures to bolster their longer growth slowdown.” The global lender said that growth strain further easing,” the Fund said. Growth in the emerging- Meanwhile, combined growth in the advanced economies defenses, citing the need for the United States to not let poli- had been affected by increased financial market volatility and market and developing economies was expected to slow to was estimated at 1.2 percent, down a tenth point from the tics interfere with a timely, necessary increase in its official rising interest rates in advanced economies since its last 5.0 percent in 2013, instead of the 5.3 percent expansion seen prior estimate. The recession in the eurozone was deeper than borrowing ceiling to avoid a spending crunch. It also said World Economic Outlook report was published in April. a few months ago. China, the world’s second-biggest econo- expected, the IMF said, citing a toxic combination of low euro area governments need to “do what it takes” to bring “Emerging-market economies have generally been hit my and a main engine of global growth, would expand by 7.8 demand, depressed confidence, weak balance sheets and the back growth and reverse “financial fragmentation.” Generally, hardest, as recent increases in advanced economy interest percent, three-tenths a point slower than thought. impact of tight fiscal and financial conditions. The IMF pre- all major economies need to undergo structural reforms to rates and asset price volatility, combined with weaker domes- Growth in the rest of the top emerging-market economies dicted a 0.6 percent contraction in the 17-nation eurozone, spur growth and support global rebalancing, the Fund said. tic activity have led to some capital outflows, equity price - Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa - was also cut. The fore- down two-tenths a point from the April estimate. “This implies measures to sustainably raise consumption declines, rising local yields, and currency depreciation,” the cast for Russia was slashed by 0.9 points to 2.5 percent, and US growth was weakening under pressure from govern- (China) and investment (Germany) in surplus economies as Fund said in a WEO update. The expected US Federal South Africa was cut 0.8 point to 2.0 percent. Lower commod- ment spending cuts that offset improving demand in the pri- well as measures that improve competitiveness in deficit Reserve’s unwinding of its massive monetary policy stimulus ity prices were curbing growth in commodity exporters. vate sector, notably from a recovery in the housing market. economies,” it said. — AFP

Latvia to join eurozone UK switches running

BRUSSELS: The tiny Baltic state of Latvia received the Bikernieki suburb of Riga, an acupuncturist at a local macro-economic imbalances do succeed and benefit green light from its European partners yesterday to children’s hospital told AFP she was opposed to euro from the euro,” he said. of Libor after scandal become the 18th member of the eurozone from next adoption at the moment. “I spent seven years living in Finance Minister Vilks said Latvia also had some- year. In what Latvia’s prime minister Valdis Spain so I have a lot of experience with the euro and thing it could offer its eurozone partners - the experi- LONDON: Britain acted yesterday to switch reform of Libor,” the Treasury said. “With the Dombrovskis described as a “good day for Latvia and Europe, but look around you,” she said, pointing to an ence of overcoming its own economic crisis. Most management of the prized Libor exchange transfer of responsibility from the BBA Libor also for Europe,” the ECOFIN council - made up of the area of waste ground. “It doesn’t look like Europe and important for the single currency area are “bold deci- rate and restore confidence in it after revela- Ltd to the new administrator, one of the economy and finance ministers of the EU’s 28 mem- it certainly doesn’t feel like Europe. I think this is the sions, fast actions from politicians and very good tions of market rigging besmirched the rep- principal recommendations of the Wheatley ber states - gave formal approval to the country’s euro wrong time to do this.” social dialogue,” he said. And speed is of the essence, utation of the City of London financial cen- Review, which was set up last year in the membership. “Yes we are joining the euro as of Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said his the minister added. “If you are delaying this job, it is tre. The British Treasury said that the Libor wake of the findings of Libor manipulation, January 1 next year,” Dombrovskis told a news confer- government “still has to do a lot to convince the pub- more and more complicated later on to do some- rate, which plays a pivotal role in many will have been implemented.” ence. It had been a long journey for the former Soviet lic that it’s the right decision. “I’m not entirely happy thing. Europe should do something to get on the areas of international finance, would be Finbarr Hutcheson, chief executive offi- state since it joined the EU in 2004. that more than half of the population do not believe track otherwise it will be the loser in a global context,” supervised by stock exchange operator cer of NYSE Liffe, welcomed the decision. And despite the eurozone’s current troubles, in the euro,” he told AFP. The EU Commissioner for he said. The situation in the euro area is currently bet- NYSE Euronext. Supervision would still be “We look forward to working with BBA Libor membership would bring with it benefits, the prime Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn insisted, ter than before, Vilks added.”Governments are doing based in London, but the switch was Ltd in completing the smooth transition to minister said, pointing to lower interest rates, lower however, that the experience of another Baltic state, the right job in many of the countries, in fact in all of intended to restore the “credibility” of the NYSE Euronext Rate Administration Limited, currency conversion costs and increased foreign Estonia, which joined the euro in 2011, had proved the countries. But it’s very difficult to get good results global benchmark, the Treasury said yester- and continuing the process of restoring investment. But it also showed that the crisis-ridden the economic benefits of the single currency. if it’s going so slowly. The major issue is speed,” he day. “NYSE Euronext is to be the new Libor credibility, trust and integrity in Libor as a single currency area -which not long ago had been “Experience has shown that countries that avoid said. — AFP administrator,” the Treasury said. This came key global benchmark.” The Financial Times seen as on the verge of disintegrating - was by con- after the British Bankers’ Association was newspaper, citing unnamed sources, report- trast continuing to enlarge, Dombrovskis said. The forced to give up its role following the Libor ed that NYSE Euronext had beaten various official conversion rate of the Latvian lats to the euro scandal. The announcement followed a ten- groups to the Libor role, including was set at 0.702804 lats per euro. dering process that was launched in late Bloomberg, the London Stock Exchange Latvia’s finance minister Andris Vilks said it was a February to find a new administrator for the and research group Markit. “very symbolic day” for his country, marking the cul- London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) via The Libor scandal erupted last year mination of Latvia’s integration into Europe. “We trust an independent committee. Committe when Barclays was fined £290 million ($470 Europe and we trust the euro,” he said, adding that he chairwoman chair Baroness Hogg said: “This million) by British and US regulators for hoped Latvia would prove to be one of the “best per- change will play a vital role in restoring the attempted manipulation of Libor and formers” in the single currency zone. Latvia emerged international credibility of Libor.” Euribor interbank rates between 2005 and from a crisis in 2008-09 to become the EU’s fastest- Britain’s banking sector was rocked last 2009. Royal Bank of Scotland and Swiss growing economy, having posted GDP growth of year by revelations that Barclays bank tried lender UBS have since also received heavy more than five percent year-on-year in both 2011 and to manipulate the rate, which is used as a fines over alleged rigging of Libor - a flag- 2012. But on top of the manifold technical issues now benchmark for global financial contracts ship instrument used all over the world, facing Latvia before euro banknotes and coins are worth about $300 trillion. Libor is calculated affecting what banks, businesses and indi- finally introduced, Dombrovskis acknowledged that daily, using estimates from banks of their viduals pay to borrow money. Euribor is the his government still has to convince Latvians that own interbank rates. However, the system eurozone equivalent. “The government is eurozone membership is a good thing. According to a has been found to be open to abuse, with committed to developing a safer and poll released yesterday and carried out in June by the some traders lying about borrowing costs strong banking sector,” added Financial SKDS research firm, 53 percent of Latvians were to boost trading positions or make their Secretary to the Treasury Greg Clark yester- opposed to euro adoption while 22 percent were in bank seem more secure. In the wake of the day. “We want a financial sector that serves favour. The remaining 25 percent were either unde- scandal, the government launched the the interests of business and helps to drive cided or neutral on the matter. Wheatley Review, which called in economic growth. That is why since the Despite large-scale advertising by the Latvian cen- September for the BBA to lose its key role. Libor scandal last summer we have worked tral bank stressing the benefits of euro membership, “The appointment of a proposed new hard to reform this major international polls suggest Latvians remain wary of swapping their administrator is a major step forward in the benchmark.” — AFP currency while eurozone members such as Greece BRUSSELS: Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovski (right) and Finance minister Andris Vilks give a and Cyprus are in crisis. Irina Livchuk from the press conference on the adoption of the euro by Latvia yesterday at the EU Headquarters. — AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 BUSINESS Top Middle East lender QNB names acting CEO

DOHA: The Middle East’s top lender, Qatar National and international banking businesses, QNB said in a Generale’s Egyptian operations last year and also ter of this year, expanding its reach to Asia’s third- Bank (QNB), has appointed Ali Al-Kuwari as acting statement on Tuesday. buy banking stakes in Libya, Indonesia and Iraq. largest economy. In December, its chief financial chief executive after a government reshuffle saw its Ali Al-Emadi, QNB’s previous chief executive, That expansion saw QNB’s total assets surge to officer said the bank wants its international busi- previous head named as finance minister. The who became the Gulf state’s new finance minister around $104 billion as at end March 2013, making it ness to contribute around 40 percent of profit and announcement of a cabinet by Qatar’s new emir last following a cabinet reshuffle in June, was named the largest in the Middle East, North Africa region. 45 percent of total assets by 2017. QNB shares have month has sparked a string of appointments in the chairman of the bank’s board of directors earlier this The lender, which is 50-percent owned by sover- risen 21 percent year-to-date, according to Reuters Gulf state’s financial industry. Kuwari’s appointment week. Under Emadi, who was the chief executive eign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) data. They closed up 0.3 percent on the Doha may have implications for the bank’s strategy. from 2005, QNB embarked on an aggressive expan- and has a market value of around $26 billion, said in bourse prior to the announcement of the acting Kuwari previously led the bank’s corporate, retail sion plan that saw the lender acquire Societe May it will start operations in India in the third quar- CEO appointment. — Reuters Turkish lira firms after intervention

ANKARA: The Turkish currency, the lira, foreign exchange auctions on Monday, firmed in early trading yesterday, having selling a total of $2.25 billion, Finansbank rallied on Monday after the central bank said. The central bank said that it would intervened on the foreign exchange mar- pursue the new measures for as long as ket. The lira was being traded at 1.9354 the lira was under pressure. But market to the dollar in mid-morning trading yes- analysts were sceptical that this policy, terday. On Monday it had fallen to a which involves using up foreign currency record low level of 1.9740 to the dollar. reserves, would be enough to shore up On the government debt market, the lira for long and avert an increase in Turkey’s 10-year borrowing rate eased official short-term interest rates. They slightly but remained high at 8.80 per- said that the main factor putting the lira cent compared with 8.93 percent late on under pressure was the prospect that the Monday. The central bank sold dollars to US Federal Reserve bank would begin to shore up the Turkish currency, as it wind down its special injections of mon- announced urgent and “strong” action on ey to stimulate the US economy. This had Monday to defend the lira and clamp caused an outflow of some risk invest- down on overheated lending by the ment funds from emerging economies, financial sector. and the Turkish lira had been hit particu- The central bank had opened seven larly hard, they said. — AFP Citroen buoyed by SINGAPORE: A Singapore Airlines (SIA) stewardess stands next to a display of the new Singapore Airlines First Class seat during their next gen- eration cabin product launch yesterday. SIA unveiled new seats and other in-flight amenities as part of a sweeping upgrade of its cabins amid int’l development intensifying competition in the industry. — AFP

rederic Banzet, Chief Executive Officer Move Upmarket Confirmed of Citroen, said: “The brand’s results * DS line: The DS line has sold in Manufacturing slip shows up Fsince the start of the year have been 360,000 units in three years and now driven by our international offensive and accounts for 20 percent of passenger-car our product offensive. We will pursue this orders in Europe. The Brand has already momentum with the production launches taken over 7,000 orders for the DS3 UK’s uneven road to recovery of the C-Elysee and DS5 in China and by Cabrio launched in January. One in three building on the strong start of the New DS5s sold in Europe is fitted with Citroen C4 Picasso and the arrival of the Hybrid4 diesel hybrid technology (88 Economists say consumption, not exports, driving recovery Grand C4 Picasso. I am sure that all these g/km of CO2 and 3.4/100 km) launches will be successes and contribute * C line: The New Citroen C4 Picasso is LONDON: Britain’s recovery from recession is the euro zone and the government’s austerity are waiting for Carney to spell out what kind of to the resurgence of the Brand, that have off to an impressive start, with 8,000 turning out to be an uneven one and the gov- push have left Britain still largely reliant on long-term guidance he will use to show markets, been impacted by production difficulties orders so far. The “Technospace”, with its ernment is still waiting for the shift to an export- spending by its consumers, much of which is businesses and consumers how long interest for C3. And because creativity and boldness new EMP2 platform, powerful styling driven economy it promised after the financial financed by credit. A sharp fall in sterling over rates are likely to stay at their record low of 0.5 are written into Citroen DNA, we will pres- and innovative technologies, is a further crisis. Manufacturing shrank in May at its fastest the last few years has proved of little help to percent, something which could help underpin ent in the coming weeks the unveiling of a illustration of the Brand’s move upmar- pace since January and the country’s trade exporters. Manufacturing shrank by 0.8 percent domestic spending in the years ahead. concept car previewing the first model in ket, with the two highest trim levels deficit was its widest in six months, according to in May from April, the Office for National Economists have said Britain’s gross domestic our future C line. All will be revealed at the accounting for 80 percent of orders official data yesterday that tempered recent Statistics said, much weaker than forecasts for a product is set to grow by about 0.5 or 0.6 per- Frankfurt Motor Show in September!” The Momentum is Set to Continue signs that growth was starting to pick up speed. 0.3 percent rise in a Reuters poll. Output in the cent in the second quarter, picking up a bit of with But three surveys published a few hours earlier overall industrial sector - which makes up about speed from 0.3 percent in the first three months Highlights * The start-up of Citroen C-Elysee pro- showed rising house prices, improved business 15 percent of Britain’s economy - was also weak- of the year. Berenberg’s Wood said he was pre- * The Brand continues to develop inter- duction in China in Wuhan in July and confidence and steady growth in retail sales. er than expected as it came in unchanged from dicting growth of 0.4 percent in the April-June nationally. Sales outside Europe are up 23 the DS5 production launch in Shenzhen And the International Monetary Fund raised its April. It would have shrunk without the help of period. The weak manufacturing numbers were percent and now account for 39 percent of in September projection for growth in Britain to 0.9 percent completed maintenance work which boosted oil a surprise given that a survey of purchasing the worldwide total * The September launch of the New this year, up 0.3 percentage points. and gas production. “With the UK consumption managers found the sector had its best growth * China: Citroen grew sales 30.5 percent, Citroen Grand C4 Picasso, the first Brand The different pace of recovery in different outlook more positive as a result of the apparent in more than two years in June. However, that is outperforming the market’s 16 percent model to feature BlueHDi technology, parts of the economy may be a consequence of turn-around in the housing market, the risks in a month later than the period covered by yester- increase compliant with the Euro 6 standard and the emergency stimulus measures taken by the the UK seem somewhat tilted to an old-school day’s release. “Today’s figures feel a little out of * Latin America: Sales increased at twice the most effective solution for trapping Bank of England and the government, which recovery built on consumer spending sucking in kilter with other industry data and what our the market rate. In Argentina, Citroen post- NOx (-90 percent) and reducing CO2 have included support the housing market. “This imports,” said David Tinsley, UK economist at manufacturing clients are telling us,” said Mike ed the strongest growth of any full-line car- emissions is a monetary-policy, low-rate, rising-consump- BNP Paribas. Rigby, who manages Barclays’ banking relation- maker (+44.4 percent) * The extension of the PureTech tion, rising-house-prices-driven recovery, so I Sterling fell to a four-month low against a ships with manufacturers. * Algeria and Turkey: strong growth petrol engine range with turbo power- don’t expect the trade balance to improve very basket of currencies and British government The statistics office said Britain’s goods trade driven by the success of the Citroen C- plants much,” said Rob Wood, an economist at bond prices rallied after the data, which some deficit grew to £8.491 billion ($12.68 billion) Elysee * The Brand’s debut in the World Berenberg Bank in London. In 2011, finance min- investors said could bolster the case for more from £8.430 billion in April. Economists had fore- * Continued launches of the Citroen C- Touring Car Championship (FIA WTCC) ister George Osborne spoke of “a Britain carried stimulus by the Bank of England. The central cast £8.47 billion. Including Britain’s surplus in Elysee and C4 L: the Brand sold 29,000 C- with Sebastien Loeb in 2014 - a powerful aloft by the march of the makers” as he stressed bank announced no new bond-buying stimulus trade in services, the overall trade deficit Elysees worldwide and has already invoiced image-booster to underpin Citroen’s the need to rebalance the economy away from last week after the first policy meeting chaired widened to £2.435 billion. Monthly figures tend 20,000 C4 Ls in China. C4 L production sales offensive reliance on public and private debt and more by new governor Mark Carney, but it surprised to be volatile, but over the three months to May, recently started up in Russia and Latin * The opening of a DS World in Paris, towards manufacturing. markets by warning against premature expecta- total exports were up 1.9 percent and imports America. following Shanghai Nonetheless, a combination of the crisis in tions of an interest rate increase. Now investors grew 2.3 percent. — Reuters

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Ltd Jamaican Dollars 0.0028759 0.0038759 Euro .3680000 .3760000 Saudi Riyal 76.737 Japanese Yen 0.0027569 0.0029369 Swiss francs .3020000 .3170000 Qatari Riyal 79.068 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Kenyan Shilling 0.0032718 0.0035018 Omani Riyal 747.430 Canadian Dollar .2780000 .2920000 US Dollar 287.400 Malaysian Ringgit 0.0849530 0.0919530 Bahraini Dinar 764.320 Nepalese Rupee 0.0027922 0.0029922 Australian DLR .2940000 .3020000 Canadian Dollar 274.760 UAE Dirham 78.368 Pakistan Rupee 0.0028424 0.0028824 Indian rupees .0040000 .0069000 Sterling Pound 428.985 Philippine Peso 0.0061239 0.0065939 Sri Lanka Rupee .0020000 .0035000 Euro 370.385 UAE dirhams .0771240 .0778990 ARAB COUNTRIES Sierra Leone 0.0000734 0.0000764 Egyptian Pound - Cash 42.950 Swiss Frank 298.000 Singapore Dollar 0.2201797 0.2261797 Bahraini dinars .7513970 .7589480 Bahrain Dinar 760.910 Jordanian dinar .3930000 .4110000 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.332 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.0021589 0.0022009 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.342 UAE Dirhams 78.225 Saudi riyals .0720000 .0770000 Thai Baht 0.0087677 0.0093677 Tunisian Dinar 171.530 Qatari Riyals 78.890 Omani riyals .7366120 .7440150 Arab Jordanian Dinar 406.370 Saudi Riyals 77.505 Egyptian pounds .0370000 .0440000 Bahraini Dinar 0.7560397 0.7645397 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.931 Jordanian Dinar 405.140 Egyptian Pound 0.0383105 0.0403405 Syrian Lier 3.126 Egyptian Pound 40.249 Ethiopeanbirr 0.0128812 0.0193812 CUSTOMER TRANSFER RATES Morocco Dirham 33.841 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.198 Ghanaian Cedi 0.1461639 0.1479539 US Dollar/KD .2841000 .2862000 Indian Rupees 4.713 Iranian Riyal 0.0000800 0.0000805 GB Pound/KD .4338920 .4370990 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Pakistani Rupees 2.870 Iraqi Dinar 0.0001839 0.0002439 Euro .3707360 .3734770 US Dollar Transfer 287.650 Bangladesh Taka 3.690 Jordanian Dinar 0.3998699 0.4073699 Swiss francs .3043390 .3065880 Euro 370.490 Philippines Pesso 6.562 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Canadian dollars .2795430 .2816100 Sterling Pound 429.750 Cyprus pound 705.016 Lebanese Pound 0.0001764 0.0001964 Danish Kroner .0497330 .0501010 Canadian dollar 272.910 Japanese Yen 3.836 Moroccan Dirhams 0.0217453 0.0457453 Swedish Kroner .0443660 .0446940 Turkish lira 147.850 Thai Bhat 9.270 Nigerian Naira 0.0012267 0.0018617 Australian dlr .2963730 .2985640 Swiss Franc 298.700 Syrian Pound 4.105 Omani Riyal 0.7356152 0.7486152 Australian Dollar 261.470 Hong Kong dlr .0365940 .0368650 Nepalese Rupees 3.040 Qatar Riyal 0.0783000 0.0790830 US Dollar Buying 286.450 Singapore dlr .2291130 .2308060 Malaysian Ringgit 89.395 Saudi Riyal 0.0761200 0.0767600 Japanese yen .0029600 .0028810 Sudanese Pounds 0.0467410 0.0472910 Indian Rs/KD .0000000 .0052870 GOLD Syrian Pound 0.0019598 0.0021796 Sri Lanka rupee .0000000 .0022880 20 Gram 239.000 Bahrain Exchange Company Tunisian Dinar 0.1688615 0.1758615 Pakistan rupee .0000000 .0029190 10 Gram 121.000 UAE Dirhams 0.0764400 0.0778900 5 Gram 63.000 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Bangladesh taka .0000000 .0036810 Europe Yemeni Riyal 0.0012972 0.0013972 UAE dirhams .0773800 .0779520 British Pound 0.4206990 0.4296990 Bahraini dinars .7538810 .7594530 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Czech Korune 0.0067912 0.0187912 Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian dinar .0000000 .4048090 Danish Krone 0.0454741 0.0504741 Saudi Riyal/KD .0757800 .0763400 Euro 0.3637308 0.3712308 Omani riyals .7382100 .7436660 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Norwegian Krone 0.0422823 0.0474823 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Philippine Peso .0000000 .0069870 Australian Dollar 264.43 274.000 Scottish Pound 0.4182513 0.4257513 US Dollar 286.850 Canadian Dollar 275.97 282.000 Swedish Krona 0.0388748 0.0430748 Euro 372.550 Swiss Franc 306.62 312.000 Swiss Franc 0.2926660 0.2996660 Pound Sterling 431.550 Euro 375.10 380.000 Australasia Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. Canadian Dollar 273.850 US Dollar 286.10 284.500 Australian Dollar 0.2504071 0.2624071 Sterling Pound 441.06 448.500 New Zealand Dollar 0.2143883 0.2243863 Indian Rupee 4.765 ASIAN COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.94 3.300 Uganda Shilling 0.0001136 0.0001136 Egyptian Pound 40.270 Japanese Yen 2.842 Bangladesh Taka 3.694 3.670 America Sri Lankan Rupee 2.192 Indian Rupees 4.729 Indian Rupee 4.751 5.050 Canadian Dollar 0.2648617 0.2738617 Bangladesh Taka 3.685 Pakistani Rupees 2.872 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.190 2.550 Colombian Peso 0.0001463 0.0001643 Philippines Peso 6.577 Srilankan Rupees 2.199 Nepali Rupee 2.976 3.250 US Dollars 0.2853000 0.2874500 Pakistan Rupee 2.869 Nepali Rupees 2.951 Pakistani Rupee 2.866 2.900 Asia Bahraini Dinar 763.750 Singapore Dollar 224.380 UAE Dirhams 77.96 78.000 Bangladesh Taka 0.0036459 0.0037009 UAE Dirham 78.100 Hongkong Dollar 37.092 Bahraini Dinar 761.47 753.000 Cape Vrde Escudo 0.0031901 0.0034201 Saudi Riyal 76.550 Bangladesh Taka 3.687 Egyptian Pound 40.21 38.800 Chinese Yuan 0.0458190 0.0508490 Philippine Peso 6.582 Jordanian Dinar 407.18 410.000 Eritrea-Nakfa 0.0166300 0.0197300 *Rates are subject to change WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 BUSINESS EU hits Russia with first WTO dispute

GENEVA/BRUSSELS: The European ings from Brussels about what it sees ing it, in the EU’s eyes, in effect an had been warned to expect the EU from diplomacy to litigation at the Union launched the first formal trade as Russia’s non-compliance and loud import tax. Cutting import tariffs on trade action after the Russian parlia- WTO. Japan, the United States and the dispute with Russia at the World Trade dissent within Moscow about the mer- cars was a major sticking point in ment failed to pass amendments to EU are set to jointly air concerns about Organization yesterday, less than a its of being in the WTO at all. Joining Russia’s 18-year negotiation to join the the recycling levy before it went into Russia at a WTO meeting on Thursday. year after Moscow joined the trading the WTO is a compact, with the cost of WTO. Moscow agreed to do so, but the summer recess last week. Under WTO The souring of the mood in Geneva club. The EU has told the WTO it held signing up to tough standards offset EU says the recycling fee, collected up- rules, Russia has 60 days to satisfy EU contrasts with optimism at the time of that Russia was illegally protecting its by the benefits of gaining access to a front when a car is imported, effective- concerns about the recycling levy, by Russia’s WTO entry last August, when carmakers with a recycling fee levied globally regulated market with guar- ly cancels out the tariff cut. changing or explaining its policy. the potential benefits of bringing in on imported cars, and had given up antees against protectionism. But The EU says the fee has a severe After that the EU could ask the WTO to the biggest economy still outside the waiting for Moscow to change the Russia’s critics say it has never made impact on Ä10 billion ($12.9 billion) of adjudicate, which could force Moscow club attracted comparisons with law. “The European Commission has good on its obligations, and the car annual exports, and says Russia’s own to change the rules or face trade sanc- China’s entry in 2001. pursued every diplomatic channel for levy, introduced nine days after Russia estimates show it generates Ä1.3 bil- tions. Other members of the trading But China, which enjoyed a huge almost one year now to find a solu- became a member, is one of a slew of lion in Russian government revenues. club are also suspicious of Russia’s trade boom after it signed up to the tion with our Russian partners on this non-compliant policies on goods rang- “We would have hoped that things commitment to the WTO, where it has WTO rules, took more than two years matter but to no avail. The fee is ing from alcoholic drinks to combine could have been solved differently,” yet to appoint an ambassador. to attract its first trade dispute. Russia incompatible with the WTO’s most harvesters. said Frank Schauff, head of the Last month the US Congress told took less than 11 months. Russia has basic rule prohibiting discrimination Importing a car to Russia involves Association of European Businesses in the US Trade Representative to report warned the European Union in the against and among imports,” EU Trade paying a fee to cover the future cost of Russia. “We have no illusions about the back within six months on Moscow’s past that it has its own concerns with Commissioner Karel De Gucht said in recycling it, a form of green tax. WTO disputes procedure, which can WTO compliance and to keep report- EU policies, including restrictions on a statement. Russian-produced cars, however, are take years.” ing back annually. USTR said it would Gazprom’s control of its European gas The dispute follows repeated warn- not subject to the same charge, mak- Russia’s Economy Ministry said it “use all appropriate tools,” ranging pipeline assets. —Reuters New chief executive at energy giant Shell Van Beurden reinforces gas technology focus

LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell named refining very supportive. Most importantly his results executive level, investors and insiders did not ini- head Ben van Beurden as its new chief executive, delivery is always considered, structured and tially consider van Beurden a likely contender. picking a man with little board-level experience methodical. He will be a ‘steadying hand’ at Shell The early focus of attention was on Finance but broad company exposure and first-hand helm in the coming years.” Director Simon Henry and other divisional heads knowledge of the gas technology it has bet its Van Beurden joined Shell in 1983 and has held Marvin Odum, Matthias Bichsel, and Andrew future on. Van Beurden, who became head of engineering, plant management and operations Brown. More recently, though, insiders were say- ATHENS: Striking municipal workers march during a protest yesterday. —AFP refining, marketing and chemicals in January, has and commercial roles in the Netherlands, Africa, ing Henry and Brown lacked breadth of experi- been at the Anglo-Dutch group for 30 years and spent a decade in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) Greek outlook bleaker industry. At 55, the Dutchman is of similar age to Peter Voser, the Swiss national he is replacing, than lenders think: IOBE who announced his surprise retirement in May. Though not widely known outside Europe’s ATHENS: Greece’s economy could shrink by unemployment rate will rise to 27.8 percent top oil company, van Beurden is respected inside as much as 5 percent this year, the Athens- this year, raising its previous 27.3 percent it. He also represents a big part of Voser’s vision based IOBE think tank said yesterday, revis- projection. Unemployment was 26.8 percent of its future as a business in the forefront of oil ing down its previous projection and offer- at the last count. “As long as the recession and gas technology thanks to his experience in ing a more pessimistic forecast than the persists, the economy isn’t only burning fat LNG, where Shell has become the acknowledged country’s foreign lenders. Athens, which has but also productive tissue,” said Nikos Vettas, industry leader. Van Beurden, who a former Shell been limping along on bailout funds since the new head of IOBE. executive described as “‘The Quiet Man’ within 2010, secured its latest lifeline from its Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s coali- Shell - but enormously determined,” faces an European Union and International Monetary tion government is facing stiff resistance to industry-wide battle to replace reserves and con- Fund lenders on Monday but was told it the reforms meant to kickstart the economy, trol costs. Some shareholders want Shell to must keep its promises on cutting public and protests against public sector layoffs reduce investment and keep more for bigger div- sector jobs and on selling state assets to get have gathered steam in recent days. idends. Voser told Reuters after his retirement all the cash. Hundreds of municipal workers, including announcement that he was resisting that call. But the austerity prescribed by these uniformed municipal police furious at Like Voser, who will be 55 in August and is lenders to shore up Greek finances is expect- EU/IMF-mandated layoffs in the public sec- leaving in search of a lifestyle change, van ed to keep the economy in depression for a tor, took to the streets Athens for the second Beurden is from the downstream part of the sixth consecutive year and push already day in a row, sounding sirens and waving business which wrested control from the soaring, record unemployment to yet new “Say no to layoffs!” banners. Greece was upstream oil and gas division in the aftermath of highs. “The projection on growth must be granted three-month extension by the troi- Shell’s reserves accounting crisis of 2003/2004. A adjusted downwards - the recession this ka to put 12,500 public sector workers in a chemical engineering graduate, van Beurden year will be around 5.0 percent,” IOBE said in so-called mobility pool - meaning they have had a front seat for the crisis, in which the com- its quarterly report. It said it would range eight months to find work in a different pany was forced to downgrade its oil and gas This undated handout picture received from Royal Dutch Shell yesterday shows the com- between a decline of 4.8 and 5 percent, department or end up fired - after missing a reserves that top executives had over-estimated pany’s’ newly appointed chief executive Ben van Beurden posing for a photograph. —AFP compared with its previous forecast of a 4.6 June deadline. for years. percent slump. The EU and IMF expect the Some 4,200 public sector workers, He worked between 2002 and 2004 as man- Malaysia, UK and the United States. He has held ence. They said Odum was tarnished by Shell’s economy to shrink by 4.2 percent in 2013; among them teachers, school guards and agement assistant to Phil Watts, the head of com- the role of operations manager of Malaysia LNG, accidents in Alaska, and Bichsel was too old. the Bank of Greece projects a contraction of employees at the administrative reform min- pany who was sacked in the aftermath of the and is a former vice president, gas & power, in Some had also noted a push to find a Dutch CEO 4.6 percent. The economy shrank 6.4 per- istry, will be placed on the scheme by the debacle in 2004. “He (van Beurden) was clearly a Mexico. One of van Beurden’s first tasks will be to to reassure investors in the Netherlands. The dis- cent last year. end of July. Newly-appointed Administrative high-flyer then, and I am not surprised at all that oversee a plan to retreat further from Nigeria’s graced Watts, and his predecessor in the role, “Fiscal consolidation and improved com- Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, tasked he’s made it all the way to the top,” said a former eastern Niger Delta, a thorn in the company’s were British, like Henry and Brown. Shares in petitiveness have not been coupled with with shrinking and modernising the anti- colleague who no longer works for Shell. The for- side for decades through oil spills, theft, sabo- Shell gained 1 percent by midday yesterday. “Van successful implementation of the structural quated civil service, said he had offered to mer Shell executive said: “He (Ben) is recognised tage and civil unrest. Shell announced a strategic Beurden looks, on paper, an eminently suitable reforms program,” the locally influential start with cuts in his own ministry, by laying as an extremely capable and focused colleague review of the business in June. successor to Voser,” said one of the twenty think tank said. IOBE projected the country’s off 50 of 400 staff, mostly drivers. —Reuters who listens - offending few, rarely excitable and Given that he was relatively new to the top biggest investors in Shell. —Reuters Asiana chief defends ‘very M&S pins hopes on new experienced’ crash pilots ranges as sales plunge LONDON: British retailer Marks & Spencer compared with analyst forecasts for a fall of posted an eighth consecutive quarterly fall 0.2 percent to 3.0 percent, according to a SEOUL: South Korea’s Asiana Airlines a courtesy visit to the NTSB (National Chosun Ilbo daily. “I was so shocked Hersman said. “The crew is responsi- in underlying sales of clothing, piling pres- company poll of 10, and a decline of 3.8 per- yesterday defended the pilots of the Transportation Safety Board) to to realise that none of the people ble to make a safe approach to the sure on management to deliver a swift turn- cent in the fourth quarter of the group’s San Francisco crash jet as “very com- express regret and to meet with who were sitting behind me were airport.” On Monday, Yoon lashed out around when new ranges start hitting the 2012-13 financial year. petent” as attention focussed on those in hospital.” there,” she told the newspaper. at reports that pilot inexperience shops this month. Chief Executive Marc “Despite challenging trading conditions whether human error caused the Passenger Kim Ji-Eun was seated Yoon was speaking after NTSB may have been to blame for the fatal Bolland, who later yesterday was to face and further intensification of promotional Boeing 777 to slam into the runway. a few rows ahead of dozens of chief Deborah Hersman said the air- crash, saying the speculation was shareholders angered by two years of falling activity in the market we saw some The pilot at the controls was a novice Chinese passengers at the rear of the craft’s four-man flying crew were “intolerable”. Hersman also said it was profit at the firm’s annual meeting at improvements over the quarter,” said at flying the 777, and his supervising cabin, including the two girls, and being quizzed. Flight data showed too soon to blame the accident on London’s Wembley Stadium, is pinning his Bolland, though he noted market share did colleague had only just qualified as a described seeing passengers “being the plane had been travelling at human error. “We have to understand hopes on a new clothing strategy based on dip slightly. Shares in M&S, up 45 percent trainer, according to Asiana. US inves- thrown out everywhere”. “It was so approximately 106 knots on impact - what these pilots knew, we also need more stylish and higher-quality garments. over the last year, were down 1.8 percent at tigators say the plane was flying far scary. The (second) thud was so loud sharply lower than the target speed to look at how they were flying the Autumn/winter ranges were unveiled in 0835 GMT, valuing the firm at about £7.4 bil- too slowly when it clipped a seawall that people started screaming. I for landing. “137 knots is the speed aircraft - were they hand-flying the May by his new general merchandise team, lion ($11.1 billion). Sales data for the first short of the runway on Saturday. blinked once and looked back, only that they want to have when they airplane? Were they relying on auto- led by former M&S food boss John Dixon, quarter will be the last to fully reflect gar- Asiana chief executive Yoon to see no one there,” Kim, 22, told the cross the threshold of the runway,” pilot or some combination of the and received mostly positive reviews from ments purchased by the previous buying Young-Doo said he would travel to two?” she said. analysts and the fashion press. That sent team. Though the first quarter outcome rep- California to meet transport safety But attention on the crew’s expe- M&S shares, which have also been buoyed resented M&S’s best non-food performance officials and victims, after US investi- rience has intensified after Asiana by bouts of bid speculation, to a five-year since the same period in 2011, when like- gators said they had begun question- said the trainer pilot was on his first high. The new collections will start to arrive for-like sales were flat, the firm did benefit ing the cockpit crew. Two teenage day on the job, having received his in stores and online from July 25 with a full from easy comparative numbers, as in the Chinese girls were killed and more teaching licence for the Boeing 777 launch and main advertising push in first quarter of its last financial year like-for- than 180 people injured when the just a month before the crash. The September. like sales had slumped 6.8 percent. flight from Shanghai via Seoul went airline also said the trainee pilot had Investors have said there could be pres- “Even with what is admittedly a step skidding out of control on its belly, just 43 hours of experience in pilot- sure for Bolland to go if the new autumn change on the product and range front, we shredding the tail end of the plane ing the popular 777, although he had ranges do not set the tills ringing. They will still harbour concerns over the in-store exe- and starting a fire. accumulated more than 9,000 hours want to see signs of a pick-up when M&S cution,” said Neil Saunders, director of Yoon said the trainer who was of experience on other planes. Family updates on second-quarter sales on Nov. 5, research group Conlumino. M&S’s food acting as co-pilot at the time of the and friends in eastern China’s while a much improved Christmas trading business, which contributes over half of crash, Lee Jung-Min, had led 33 Zhejiang province are mourning the performance is imperative for the group sales, is performing much better. Its flights on 777s to San Francisco and two dead passengers - identified by Dutchman’s survival. “Investors will be look- sales on the same basis rose 1.8 percent ver- had more than 3,000 flight hours state media as high-school class- ing for an upturn in general merchandise sus analyst forecasts for a rise of 1.0 percent under his belt -far more than the 500 mates Ye Mengyuan, 16, and Wang sales by the end of the year. The new clothes to 2.0 percent and an increase of 4.0 per- required to become a trainer. The Linjia, 17. One of the girls may have collection was applauded by the fashion cent in the previous quarter. The slowdown pilot who was at the controls, Lee been run over by an airport fire magazines, but the key thing is if the collec- in growth there reflected Easter falling in Kang-Kuk, who was still undergoing engine rushing to the scene, San tion sells,” one of M&S’s top 10 investors told M&S’s first quarter in 2012 but in its fourth training on the 777, had also led 29 Francisco Fire chief Joanne Hayes- Reuters on condition of anonymity. quarter in 2013 making comparative num- flights to San Francisco on 747s in White told reporters on Monday. However, Bolland again cautioned the bers much tougher. The food business is the past, he said. “They are very According to aviation safety data- market not to expect too much, too soon. benefiting from new products, a focus on experienced and competent pilots,” bases, the two dead teens are the “We’ve always said that this will be a step- providing for special occasions and M&S he told reporters in Seoul, while Boeing 777’s first fatalities in 18 years by-step approach,” he told reporters. The avoiding any involvement in a scandal over adding that South Korea’s number of service. It was the first deadly 129-year-old group, which serves 21 million foods found to contain horsemeat when they two airline would improve its land- Asiana passenger plane crash since customers a week from 766 British stores, were labelled as containing other meats. ing simulation training. “I feel June 1993. Shares in the company said sales of non-food products, spanning Separately yesterday, an industry survey tremendous responsibility for those INCHEON: Asiana Airlines President and CEO Yoon Young- tumbled nearly six percent on clothing, footwear and homewares, at stores showed British retail sales rose an underlying affected by the crash,” Yoon added. “I doo answers reporters’ questions before heading to San Monday but clawed back some of open over a year fell 1.6 percent in the 13 1.4 percent in June as warmer weather am going to San Francisco today to Francisco at the flight gate of the Incheon International their losses yesterday to close up 1.14 weeks to June 29, its fiscal first quarter. That tempted shoppers into stores. —Reuters meet with relevant US officials, make Airport west of Seoul yesterday. —AFP percent. —AFP WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 BUSINESS EU lets Bank of Ireland keep insurance business BOI must sell other businesses BRUSSELS/LONDON: Bank of Ireland 9.9 percent of BOI, told Reuters. “This is deal to have a big impact on his finan- for a better than expected €1.3 billion already banned from paying dividends has won a battle to keep its life insur- a good day for Bank of Ireland.” In a rare cial forecasts for the group. At 1350 ($1.7 billion) to Canada’s Great West in to ordinary shareholders until the end ance arm after European regulators reversal of a decision to order divest- GMT, BOI shares were up 0.6 percent at February signalled strong demand for of 2015. The new dividend restrictions said it could instead sell other busi- ments in exchange for approving state €0.167, within a European bank index assets in the Irish insurance sector. cap dividends to ordinary shareholders nesses and accept further curbs on its aid, the European Commission said on up 0.5 percent. The only Irish bank to In 2012, BOI’s life business delivered at half the value of the preference dividend policy to meet the terms of Tuesday it would no longer require BOI escape majority state ownership after an underlying profit of €97 million, up shares the bank redeems from the gov- 2009 bailout deal. The European Union to sell the insurance unit. Instead, it the bursting of a property bubble and from €26 million a year earlier. The ernment that year. The restrictions are in 2010 ordered the bank to sell New must exit business banking and corpo- the global financial crisis, BOI is cur- overall BOI group suffered an operat- lifted when the €1.5 billion of prefer- Ireland Assurance as part of a series of rate banking in Britain and also the rently 15 percent owned by the Irish ing loss of €2.1 billion. Its financial ence shares are fully repaid. The divi- conditions for approving around €3.8 intermediary mortgage market. It will state. reports do not break out separate fig- dend curbs could affect a series of billion ($4.9 billion) of state aid in the also sell only part of its mortgage sub- “In the light of various changes in ures for the British business and corpo- investors including Canada’s Fairfax wake of Ireland’s property market sidiary ICS, compared with the entirety the market circumstances since the rate banking operations it will now Financial Holdings and Ross, part of a crash. However, Bank of Ireland (BOI) of that business in the original deal, 2011 decision, BOI is in particular no exit. Ross said the British businesses consortium of investors that bought a has long argued it should be allowed but will face additional restrictions on longer required to divest New Ireland being sold were a good portfolio but €1.1 billion stake in February last year. to keep the business, which has consis- its dividend policy when it is clear to Assurance Company,” the EU’s state aid did not fit particularly well with the While BOI will have to sell or retire ICS’s tently outperformed its banking opera- resume the payout in 2016. regulator said in a statement. “Such a bank’s overall business. distribution platform and up to 1 bil- tions and could help its recovery. “It’s good for Bank of Ireland divestment would negatively affect “From an EU point of view, this also lion of mortgages and matched “The bank’s preference all along has because it’s (the insurance unit) part of BOI’s capital and capacity to return to creates a good opportunity for a chal- deposits, it will retain ICS’s UK con- been not to sell the life insurance busi- their core business,” said Goodbody profitability and would slow down lenger bank to come into the UK,” he sumer banking business including a ness,” US investor Wilbur Ross, who stockbrokers analyst Colm Foley, progress towards long term viability,” it said, pointing to the €4.6 billion of valuable joint venture with Britain’s through his investment business owns although he did not expect the new said. The sale of rival insurer Irish Life assets that will be sold. BOI was Post Office. —Reuters

PARIS: A picture taken yesterday shows clothes and items in a shop of Italian exclusive ready-to-wear fashion group Loro Piana. — AFP LVMH buys majority stake in Loro Piana

PARIS: French luxury conglomerate LVMH family for six generations. will assume control of Italian exclusive The Italian fashion house is famed for its ready-to-wear fashion group Loro Piana by high quality clothing by using rare and pre- buying an 80 percent stake for about €2 bil- cious materials such as cashmere. The aver- lion ($2.5 billion), the company said in a age price for a Lorna Piana piece of cloth- statement Monday. LVMH said that the ing is estimated at around €4,500. LVMH Loro Piana family will keep the remaining said the change in ownership will have a 20 percent share, and that the Italian com- positive earnings effect as of the first year. pany’s current directors, Sergio and Pier Loro Piana’s turnover for 2013 is expected Luigi Loro Piana, will keep their posts. For to reach around €700 million while its pre- LVMH, the stake opens up access to a par- tax profit is forecast to come in at around ticularly high-end and symbolic Italian €150 million. The deal needs approval from fashion brand that has been in the same regulatory authorities. — AFP Gulf Bank rewards VISA cardholders

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LONDON: The new Chinese owner of the fundamental problem with this building. landmark Lloyd’s Building in London Everything is exposed to the elements could face the financial burden of an and that makes it very costly.” But Ward, empty building as the insurance market speaking to Reuters before announcing considers a move out of its high-mainte- his departure after eight years in the job, nance home. Insurer Ping An paid £260 said there was an “emotional attachment” million ($388 million) for the Richard to the site. Rogers-designed office tower on Monday, Lloyd’s 16.7 million pound-a-year lease but Lloyd’s of London Chief Executive expires in 2031 but it has a break option Richard Ward told Reuters the structure’s in 2021 and is investigating the merits of striking design came at a cost and Lloyd’s a new purpose-built home as one option, wasn’t tied to the purpose-built site that a move that could take seven or eight bears its name. Ping An, which has not years of planning, a source close to the officially confirmed the purchase, said it situation said. Lloyd’s did not comment did not comment on specific invest- on the building’s running costs, which ments. include the service charge and electricity Commercial property investors run the bills, but they are several times higher risk of vacancy as all tenants keep prop- than a normal office block and the total is erty costs under review. But finding a broadly similar to the rent bill, the source new occupant for the 14-storey structure said. “I think this was a poor deal,” said would be uniquely difficult. Completed in the source, who added that other poten- 1986, the building’s interior is an open- tial buyers had been put off by the risks. plan atrium designed as an underwriting Any move would not take Lloyd’s far as it marketplace and its protected status is the epicentre of the insurance industry means there are tight restrictions on con- located in the EC3 postcode area of the version or modernisation work. capital’s financial district and companies The structure, often referred to as the vie to be a short walk from the building, “inside-out building”, has its ducts and where deals are still done face-to-face. lifts on the outside, in similar fashion to The area has been one of the few bright the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, spots in Europe’s property market since which Rogers designed with Renzo Piano, the financial crash, benefiting from the the man more recently behind London’s relatively counter-cyclical nature of the Shard skyscraper. “Of course we’d move. insurance industry versus more muted To say never to anything would be demand for new offices among banks. absolutely daft,” Ward said. “We have Lettings at the so-called Walkie-Talkie breaks in the lease and any sensible per- and Cheesegrater skyscrapers, which are son would look at what their options are. under construction and transforming I can’t guarantee you’ll get to the ground London’s skyline, have received a boost floor in the lifts because they break down from their proximity to the Lloyd’s with some frequency,” he said. “That’s the Building. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 BUSINESS Gabon challenges China over oil practices

LIBREVILLE: Gabon has taken the excep- Petroleum,” Oil Minister Etienne Ngoubou dispute to the International Chamber of become more hostile for a country where to production, even to marketing”. “Via the tional step of withdrawing the right of recently told AFP. The incident is the first Commerce in Paris. No date has been set production has declined by 30 percent GOC, the state means to become more Addax Petroleum, a subsidiary of Chinese of its kind in Gabon and such measures for the court ruling. “We challenge the req- since a peak in 1997 and now oscillates involved in the oil sector,” one oil company oil giant Sinopec, to exploit an oilfield, against well-established firms such as uisition and reject all the accusations lev- between 220,000 and 240,000 barrels a executive said. “And it is certain that it raising concerns over possible repercus- Addax, which has operated in the central elled against us,” said Hugues-Gastien day. “We should never have reached this plans to issue a certain number of mes- sions on the business climate. Production African country since 1996 and is the Matsahanga, communications director of point, above all with an operator like sages that break with the past,” he added, at the southwestern Obangue oilfield, fourth oil producer there, are rare world- Addax Gabon. “Addax Petroleum has nev- China, which invests so much here, which referring to the days when the authorities totalling 9,000 barrels per day, has been wide. er been the object of a conviction for the builds roads,” an oil industry analyst told turned a blind eye to unorthodox fiscal transferred since the end of last year from Since it was bought by Sinopec in slightest failing in its fiscal, technical and AFP. “What message does this send to and environmental measures. Addax to the new state-run Gabon Oil 2009, Addax has been exploiting five oil environmental obligations.” investors?” “We’re not saying that contracts are too Company (GOC), set up in 2011. Officially, deposits on a basis of shared production Addax states that it wants to go on The dispute over the Obangue oilfield favourable to oil companies, but that the Chinese firm is being sanctioned for with the Gabonese state, amounting to working in Gabon, which accounts for coincides with a reform of the petroleum unfortunately the benefit to the Gabonese failing to meet “contractual obligations”. 23,000 barrels per day. Ngoubou also between 15 and 20 percent of its global sector aimed particularly at giving the economy is too slim and that (the rules) The state’s complaints against Addax accused Addax of “unilaterally shutting production, although the oil minister has new national company more direct con- have rarely been applied,” minister include “bad management”, “instances of down” the Obangue field after its rights threatened to withdraw a second permit trol of resources and reinforcing the role Ngoubou said. With no major oil discover- corruption,” “shortfalls in the respect of the were withdrawn, forcing the state to get for the Tsiengui oilfield, also in the south- played by Gabonese sub-contractors. ies in recent years, the Gabonese state environment” and dodging taxes on oil facilities working again. The GOC has been west, “if they (the firm) don’t make any President Ali Bongo Ondimba has himself plans to issue this month a series of exports. “After several months of fruitless pumping oil since Jan 1. The Sinopec sub- efforts” within 15 months. Gabon’s inflexi- announced that the GOC should enable licences for deep and very deep offshore negotiations ... we decided definitively to sidiary has responded by accusing Gabon ble position has raised concerns among the state “to have mastery over the whole exploration, counting on major finds in withdraw the Obangue field from Addax of undue harassment and has taken the oil sector experts that the climate may chain in the oil industry, from prospection the Atlantic Ocean. —AFP Late to China market, Ford aims to catch up US automaker wants to double market share CHONGQING, China: Dave Schoch has one of closed at the outbreak of World War II, and its car scooped up dirt with red-ribboned shovels. the toughest jobs at Ford Motor Co: catching the industry was cut off to foreigners for several When the ceremony ended, rainbow smoke competition in the world’s biggest car market. decades after that. once again shot into the sky, accompanied by When Schoch arrived in China 13 years ago, the Ford re-entered China in 1997, around the booming golden cannons. government was building eight-lane freeways in same time as GM. But Ford focused on the com- On the wall of his office in Dearborn, Mulally major cities, but bicyclists and pedestrians still mercial van market, which was limited. GM and has a copy of an ad that Henry Ford published in filled the streets. The Chinese were buying fewer its Chinese partners - SAIC and Wuling - grew the Saturday Evening Post in 1925. The ad was than 2 million cars and trucks each year, a frac- quickly by selling Wuling minivans and Buicks to titled “Opening the Highways to All Mankind,” tion of the 14.4 million sold in 2000 in the US. the mass market. Ford’s attention was elsewhere. and reflected Ford’s wish to make vehicles avail- When he returned to China last year, Schoch was SUV sales were booming at home. The company able to everyone. Schoch says he’s living Henry’s stunned. The freeways were choked with cars, was buying up luxury brands like Jaguar and dream. Schoch, 61, joined Ford in 1977 as a JIANGSHAN, China: A farmer checks his cart full of vegetables in this city in from inexpensive, Chinese-made Wuling mini- Volvo with the profits. No one at headquarters financial analyst. His career includes stints as China’s eastern Zhejiang province yesterday. China’s annual inflation accel- vans to Mercedes-Benz sedans. The red-hot anticipated that the Chinese market was about chief financial officer for Europe and operations erated to 2.7 percent in June, official data showed. —AFP Chinese economy had more than doubled annu- to take off. “If I had gone to management in manager for Canada, Mexico and South America. al wages, giving millions of people the money to Dearborn and tried to convince them that China Despite his long international career, the China annual inflation buy a first vehicle or move up to a luxury brand. would be 20 million units in 2013, they would thoughtful, down-to-earth Schoch doesn’t seem “Things turned upside-down,” says Schoch, who have really started to worry about me,” Schoch jaded. He spends many weekends dropping in was named head of Ford’s Asia Pacific operations says with a laugh. on dealerships near the home he shares with his picks up to 2.7%: Govt in the fall. “You have to be here and experience it The company soon realized its error. It wife in Shanghai. He’s giddy when he sees first- BEIJING: Chinese inflation accelerated to 2.7 percent in A purchasing managers’ index for China by British to believe what has happened in the last formed a partnership with Chinese automaker time Chinese buyers, surrounded by family June, official data showed yesterday, but analysts cau- bank HSBC, which tracks manufacturing activity in fac- decade.” Changan Automotive in 2001 and began build- members, getting their first set of keys. tioned demand remained weak and growth in the tories and is a closely watched gauge of the health of Last year, Chinese consumers bought 19 mil- ing the Fiesta in China two years later. But with “Take yourself back to when you were a world’s second-largest economy may have slowed fur- the economy, hit a nine-month low of 48.2 in June, lion cars and trucks - 5 million more than con- its new luxury brands, high labor costs and teenager and you got your first vehicle, and ther. The year-on-year figure for the consumer price indicating further contraction. “The recently released sumers in the US Ford’s share of those sales was bloated bureaucracy, it had a limited amount to what it felt like, and you can see what it means index (CPI) - a main gauge of inflation - was up from 2.1 data showed that (growth in) the second quarter was just 3 percent. Years of corporate chaos and invest. In 2006, Ford named a new CEO, Alan for the Chinese customer,” Schoch says. Ford percent in May, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) no better than the first quarter and a slowing trend has financial trouble slowed Ford’s entry into China Mulally, to help stem its billion-dollar losses and hopes its manufacturing base in Chongqing, far said in a statement. It was higher than market expecta- apparently continued,” Sun said. China’s producer price as its rivals gained a foothold. Together, General end executive infighting. A few months after from China’s crowded eastern coast, will help it tions of 2.5 percent in a poll of 18 economists by Dow index (PPI), which measures the costs of goods as they Motors and Volkswagen control a third of China’s Mulally’s arrival, Ford borrowed $23.6 billion attract rural buyers in the still largely untapped Jones Newswires. leave factories, fell 2.7 percent year-on-year in June, its market. But the race is far from over. China is still and used it to close plants, cut its workforce, markets in western China. For those buyers, Ford Food price increases hit an annual 4.9 percent in 16th straight month in negative territory, NBS data a country where just 58 out of every 1,000 peo- improve key products and meld global opera- is developing a low-cost car to compete with the June and remained the main driving force of inflation, showed. “Of raw material purchasing prices, metals and ple own cars. In the US, that number is closer to tions. Mulally sold or discontinued every brand $9,500 Chevrolet Sail. according to the NBS. China has set its inflation target power dropped sharply, showing that domestic 800. but Ford and Lincoln. By 2009, Ford was prof- Ford will use Lincoln to make a play for for 2013 at 3.5 percent, much higher than last year’s demand remains weak and heavy industry still faces Every year, tens of millions of Chinese are itable again, and turned its sights on China. China’s booming luxury market, which is domi- actual rate of 2.6 percent. “Inflation is not a concern pressure to destock,” said economists with China reaching the income threshold they need to buy yet... and inflationary pressure is mild and under con- International Capital Corporation in a research note. a car, Schoch says. Many analysts predict annual trol,” Sun Junwei, a Beijing-based economist with HSBC, In the first half of the year CPI came in at 2.4 per- sales in China of 30 million by 2020, almost dou- told AFP. The Chinese economy grew only 7.8 percent cent from the same period in 2012, the NBS said. Bank ble the US forecast of 17 million. It’s up to Schoch in 2012, its slowest annual pace in 13 years while it of America Merrill Lynch economists Lu Ting and Zhi to ensure Ford gets a big chunk of that phenom- expanded 7.7 percent in the first three months of this Xiaojia expected authorities to keep monetary policy enal growth. “I go home each night thinking, year. Analysts expect growth in the second quarter to neutral with “neither easing nor tightening”. “There ‘Have I really tried to move the needle? Are we slow further on weak domestic and foreign demand, as will be no easing due to recognition of a slowdown in moving the organization fast enough to take well as Beijing’s determination to carry out reforms to potential growth, the need for controlling debt advantage of this? Because I really think we have reduce the country’s reliance on investment and growth and the task for taming rapidly (rising) home a golden opportunity here,” he says. exports. Threats to economic growth have increased, prices,” they said. Authorities have kept their growth Ford wants to double its Chinese market share they say, after a credit squeeze last month, when the target for this year at a conservative 7.5 percent, the to 6 percent by 2015. To make that happen, the interest rates banks charge each other surged to record same aim as 2012. The government is due to release company is launching six new vehicles in China highs, reflecting the government’s reluctance to data on gross domestic products for the second quar- this year, including two small SUVs called the loosen monetary policy. ter on Monday. —AFP Kuga and the EcoSport, the Mondeo midsize sedan and the Explorer SUV, which is exported from Chicago. The Lincoln luxury brand will arrive next year. To meet its goals, the company has undertaken its most ambitious growth since Ford went on a post-war building spree in Michigan 60 years ago. Ford is spending $5 bil- lion to build five plants - including three assem- bly plants, an engine plant and a transmission plant - that will more than double its Chinese production capacity to 1.7 million vehicles by 2015. “They used to be laggard, cautious. But now they’re all in,” says Michael Dunne, president of the automotive consulting group Dunne and Co. in Hong Kong. “They are saying, ‘We have confidence in the China market. We have confi- SHANGHAI: In this photo taken April 20, 2013, David Schoch, chairman and CEO of dence in our products. We can win here.’” Ford sold a company record 407,721 vehicles Ford’s China operations, poses for photos by Ford’s new Mondeo car at the Shanghai in China in the first six months of this year. But Auto Show. —AP that was only a quarter of the vehicles GM sold. Schoch says Mulally asked him in 2011 if he nated by German brands like Audi and BMW. Volkswagen has six brands aimed at every type would return to China. Schoch’s only question Lincoln used to be the best-selling luxury brand of buyer in the vast Chinese market, from the was whether Ford was committed to the coun- in the US but fell behind when Ford started cheap Skoda to the ultra-luxury Bentley. Until try. Mulally didn’t hesitate. “Yes, from the board focusing on other luxury brands. Ford’s effort to The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oyu Tolgoi mine, Galsan Batsukh Lincoln arrives, Ford has just one. There are other of directors on down,” he said, according to revive the brand began this year with the launch (right), hands in the first sample from the Oyu Tolgoi copper concentrate to obstacles. Ford cars are expensive. In a market Schoch. It was a defining moment for Schoch. of the Lincoln MKZ sedan in the US. “Chinese the Mongolian Prime Minister Norov Altankhuyag yesterday in the Gobi where 70 percent of vehicles sold cost less than Last month, Mulally visited China for the third consumers buy on image and prestige and the desert in southern Mongolia. —AFP $14,500, Ford’s cheapest car is the Fiesta, which time in less than a year. He was there to open a message that they project to their family and co- starts at $13,300. The Explorer starts around $500 million engine plant in Chongqing, an workers and friends,” Dunne said. “With a luxury $80,000 thanks to a 25 percent import duty and industrial city of 30 million in southwestern brand like Lincoln, it gives them a chance to say, Huge Mongolia copper other taxes. China, where suburban industrial parks are rap- ‘Hey, see my American luxury car that I drive? Do Ford’s development costs are also steep com- idly filling with carmakers and auto suppliers. you have one of these?’” mine begins shipments pared with competitors’ because it still does Chongqing is now Ford’s largest manufacturing Chinese buyers also appreciate a brand’s his- much of the research and design for Chinese base outside Michigan. tory. That’s why Ford introduced Chinese ULAN BATOR: A huge $6.2 billion copper mine in Sebastien Jacques, Rio Tinto’s chief executive for vehicles at its headquarters in Dearborn, Mulally was also in Chongqing last August, to reporters to the MKZ at a historic temple in Mongolia that could transform the sprawling nation’s copper, said it had taken “the vision and hard work Michigan, where costs are relatively high. Ford break ground on Ford’s third assembly plant Beijing last summer, surrounded by vintage fortunes has started exports, resources giant Rio Tinto of thousands of people to get to this point”. “We are hopes to double its technical workforce in there, a $600 million facility that will be complet- Lincoln posters. GM’s Buick brand - which used said yesterday. The Oyu Tolgoi project in the Gobi starting to convert the rich resources beneath the Nanjing to 1,500 people by 2015; GM already ed in 2014. During that trip, hundreds of uni- to ferry Chinese royalty - is a huge seller with desert, at one of the richest copper deposits in the desert into real wealth and opportunity for all stake- employs more than 2,000 people at its technical formed workers - many of whom are former sol- cachet in China even though it struggles in the world, has been years in development and was hit by holders, including the Mongolian people,” he said. center in Shanghai. Another complication is the diers - stood in precise rows as Mulally warmly US. GM sold 401,327 Buicks in China in the first a series of last-minute delays due to political wran- The outlook for copper was strong, he added, and unpredictable Chinese government, which could praised local leaders for their “pro-business” poli- quarter of this year, four times more than it sold gling. It is expected to produce an average of 430,000 “with continued development, Oyu Tolgoi will gen- scramble expansion plans at any time. The gov- cies. Chongqing’s government was the first in in the US. Ford, GM and others also have been tonnes of copper and 425,000 ounces of gold annual- erate wealth for many decades to come”. Exports ernment requires foreign automakers to partner China to offer subsidies to residents who buy helped by a backlash against Japanese automak- ly for 20 years, said Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto, which from the mine were initially planned for last month with local companies and decides where they locally made vehicles, which has boosted Ford’s ers in China because of disputes between Japan has majority control of the mine. The open pit section but were held up by a series of disputes, including can build their plants. sales in the region. At the end of the ceremony, and China over ownership of islands in the East will be deep enough to stack the Great Pyramid of an alleged demand by the government that Rio But Ford can’t keep relying on Europe and confetti rained down and rainbow-colored China Sea. Toyota’s sales fell 6 percent in the first Giza on top of itself four times, it said in a statement. Tinto keep all export revenue in Mongolia, prompt- North America, where it sells 73 percent of its smoke shot into the air, adding another layer of six months of this year. The deepest underground shaft is eight times deeper ing claims of “resource nationalism”. Mongolian offi- vehicles. The company lost $1.75 billion in haze to the city’s thick, yellowish sky. Su Xiaoling, a sales manager in a Beijing real than the English Channel and the copper concentra- cials have denied the accusations, blaming the Europe last year as sales plummeted in a reces- A few days later, the executives touched estate company, said he expects Ford’s share of tor contains enough steel to build three Eiffel Towers. delays on the mine operator’s unwillingness to dis- sionary economy, and it expects to lose $2 bil- down amid the rice fields and large, neo- the Chinese market to climb because it offers Mongolia is one of the world’s most sparsely populat- close its sales agreements. “The stakeholders will lion there this year. Profits in Asia would have Victorian houses of the wealthy southern city of newer styles and updates them often. “I think ed countries but is undergoing a resources boom, sort out in the nearest future every question that cushioned those losses, but Ford’s Asian opera- Hangzhou. Ford is building one of its assembly Ford cars are safe. The material they use is good and the mine is vital to its economy. might lead to misunderstanding and arguments in tions lost $77 million because of the big invest- plants there, in an immaculate new office park and thick, not like the Japanese cars,” he said. At the opening ceremony yesterday, mining the future,” Gankhuyag said at the ceremony, adding ments in new plants and vehicles. on the outskirts of the city. The $760 million “But the price is pretty expensive.” Schoch’s minister Davaajav Gankhuyag said it was a “pleasure” that “shared determination and trust” was needed to One hundred years ago, Ford was the compa- plant is expected to produce 250,000 vehicles goal, he says, is to build Ford’s reputation and to note it would increase the country’s total exports reach a “better tomorrow”. The mine has also faced ny with a head start in China. It started selling per year when it’s completed in 2015. In convince buyers like Su that Ford’s offerings are by 30 to 40 percent. The mine will generate up to objections on environmental grounds, with herders the Model T there in 1913, and founder Henry Hangzhou, Mulally and the others were greeted worth the price. “Share and profits are impor- one-third of government revenue by 2019, accord- citing its potential impact on livestock due to dust. Ford explored opening a plant in China in the by Chinese women in traditional silk gowns - tant, but they’re a fallout to how our customers ing to previous estimates, potentially allowing Ulan The Mongolian government has a 34 percent stake 1920s. But Ford quickly cooled on the idea blue and white, like Ford’s logo - and quickly perceive Ford,” he says. “This is not a sprint in Bator to spend heavily on infrastructure and educa- in Oyu Tolgoi while a Rio Tinto-controlled firm has because of China’s poor roads and low wages. ducked into an air-conditioned tent to meet my mind. This is part of a very, very long jour- tion if corruption can be kept in check. Jean- the remaining 66 percent. —AFP The country’s only Ford dealership, in Shanghai, with local politicians. Later, the executives ney.” —AP MANSOORI

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 BUSINESS Ali Alghanim & Sons Automotive launches exclusive Ramadan offer

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Wataniya launches 4G on routers Etihad and South African Airways across limited areas in Kuwait codeshare flights now on sale KUWAIT: Wataniya Telecom has announced the launch of its 4G net- Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, ing markets in the Middle East, Asia, the Indian subcontinent and work. Now, customers can enjoy has commenced codeshare services with South African Airways Australia. “The partnership agreement with South African access to high speed 4G/LTE network (SAA) following regulatory approval, which enables both carriers Airways reflects our strategy of forming alliances with airlines across the most affluent areas of to offer codeshare and interline services to key destinations on around the world to enhance the global reach of our network,” he Kuwait. Wataniya 4G service employs each others’ route networks. Effective immediately, and under said. the latest and the best technology the first phase of the codeshare agreement, Etihad Airways pas- Manoj Papa, SAA’s acting General Manager - Commercial, available in the telecommunications sengers can now travel on Etihad Airways’ marketed flights from added: “We are confident that the new codeshare partnership world. By the end of the year, the Johannesburg to four major destinations on the SAA network will prove extremely popular with business and leisure travellers extensive 4G service will be covering including: Cape Town, Durban, East London and Port Elizabeth. who can now take advantage of the greater choice and seamless most of Kuwait. Codesharing on scheduled services to other key destinations, connectivity across our combined networks and markets.” Wataniya has revealed that it has including Livingston, Lusaka, Ndola, Harare, and Victoria Falls is Phase two of a wide ranging Memorandum of Understanding invested more than $350 million to currently pending subject to local government approval. (MoU) signed in May 2013 makes provision for the two airlines to modernize its network and provide In return, passengers travelling from Africa can now access explore areas of further commercial cooperation that provide (LTE) technology of the fourth-genera- SAA marketed flights on Etihad Airways scheduled service from costs saving and operational efficiencies, which can be achieved tion (4G). 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In will experience brilliant 4G/LTE available to our customers has been a order to provide this enhanced expe- speeds, however if customers’ expec- priority to us and will continue to be.” rience, Wataniya has upgraded its tations are not met in anyway, they and he further added,” We are keen to towers and built new ones which are can simply call 6699 6666, and provide telecommunication services DSG and DED sign agreement in line with the highest quality of Wataniya shall collect the router and to our customers that keep pace with international telecommunication refund their down payment in full. the global developments in this mar- DUBAI: Dubai Smart Government (DSG) and standards. 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Four Seasons brings together The agreement is aimed at upgrading Dubai government services and ensuring optimal use of DSG’s government resources the best of summer in Beirut for the electronic services used by the DED. According to the agreement, DSG is commit- KUWAIT: There are few things that ted upon the provision of support services to attain the basic performance indicators and can beat a summer break in Beirut. achieve the operating objectives as agreed From great cuisine, to lounging by a on by both parties. This will be done through all government departments and authorities channels provided by DSG are regarded as a pool in perfect weather, experience the supervision of the Customer Service can benefit from, we hereby confirm our positive step that adds to the high trust of the city like never before with a spe- Section at the Communication and Business commitment to harness all our potentials to the emirate’s business community to select cial Pool Package at Four Seasons Development Department and its follow-up support the government corporate develop- Dubai as a regional hub for doing their busi- Hotel Beirut that brings together the of DSG’s commitment to the agreement. It is ment strategies.” nesses. Add to this, DED plays a vital role in best of Beiruti summer indulgences. also aimed at identifying the levels of such Bin Humaidan added: “We underscore innovating the latest strategies, systems and The special package introduces guests support and the time of response as per the DSG’s keenness on continuing to provide its policies that keep pace with the world’s best to the Hotel’s favourite spots, with a degree of priority through DSG, which pro- various electronic shared services to Dubai practices, support commerce, retail and daily full breakfast buffet at The Grill vides shared electronic services (ESS) for gov- government entities including the govern- export and enhance economic prosperity Room, with views out to the sparkling ernment and semi-government entities, ment resources planning (GRP) systems, gov- and sustainability of the emirate’s economic Mediterranean. Guests can enjoy long including training, maintaining data, adding ernment information network (GIN), govern- projects.” days lounging by the highest rooftop new requirements, improving existing ones ment service bus (GSB) and many other serv- The agreement stipulates that regular pool in the city - a quintessential and many other support services. ices as per the world’s best practices. We also meetings be held to discuss the commit- Beirut experience, offering a birds-eye Commenting on the signing of the underline DSG’s commitment to provide ment to the provision of support for DSG’s view across the entire city. To make agreement, bin Humaidan said: “This agree- advanced channels for supporting these services, which include the following shared the most of their stay, guests can also ment is an additional step in our strategies services with the aim of consolidating our services: GRP systems, GIN, ePay, GSB, SMS avail of an early check-in at 10:00 am aimed at ensuring the sustainability of the transformation to an integrated and knowl- Dubai, AskDubai, eComplain, eSuggest, and a late check-out at 6.00 pm. high performance of the shared services pro- edge-based digital community where DED eSurvey and GeSS. DSG has recently There are other perks in store such vided to Dubai government entities and plays a key role in ensuring continuous provi- launched the technical support system, sion of eServices to the business community which allows Dubai government entities to as an upgraded room amenity, a 15 some of the services provided specifically by the government entity to allow its work to in Dubai.” submit requests for technical support for the percent discount on all spa treats and Meanwhile, Al Qamzi stressed the impor- afore-mentioned shared services and a complimentary room upgrade on continue as per the best practices in line with the directives of Sheikh Mohammed bin tance of government excellence as far as enables the DSG’s technical support team to availability. The Pool Package at Four Rashid Al-Maktoum, Vice President and services are concerned in implementation of monitor and handle such requests, starting Seasons Hotel Beirut is valid till Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, the vision of His Highness Sheikh with registration through to classification, September 30. Bookings can be done which call for the services of Dubai govern- Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, which determining the priority for support, tracking directly through the hotel’s reserva- ment entities to be available round the clock. call for creatively providing government requests and issuing related reports with the tion team or online. Complimentary While Dubai Smart Government has a services. Al Qamzi said: “We are pleased to aim of enhancing users’ satisfaction with sup- overnight parking included. sophisticated infrastructure and systems that sign this agreement as the support and port services. Nokia, Microsoft welcome Ramadan

DUBAI: Followed by the strong interest among and keep them connected to Ramadan. Quran calculator, to determine the number of b. Quran Mojawed face, following the philosophy of Windows the regional app developer community to Developers from the region have added vari- pages to be read to achieve one’s reading goal Quran Mojawed offers the complete Quran Phone design language, and granting the user develop Islamic and Ramadan apps on the ous Islamic apps that would let users celebrate at the end of the Holy month. What is unique in Arabic calligraphy with the possibility to lis- a simple, yet elegant way to recite supplica- Windows Phone 8 platform, Nokia and this Ramadan with renewed religious fervour about Ramadan Kareem, is the free TV and ten to each surah from a different reciter. In tions on-the-go. Essential Duas also includes Microsoft have jointly announced the availabil- and offer Ramadan-specific activities with Radio streams the user can access, a selection of addition, the Quran Mojawed offers complete transliterations, as well as translations for each ity of a variety of new Ramadan apps this sea- greater ease and conviction. We are committed Fatwa and holy reading and not to mention the Tajweed guidelines, as well as bookmarks. supplication, to help users who are not well son. The new range of Ramadan relevant appli- to providing Windows phone users with access special Ramadan recipes and non-Muslim sec- Quran Mojawed is developed by veterans acquainted with the Arabic language under- cations can now be downloaded directly from to innovative applications for seamless experi- tion, explaining to do’s and don’ts of Ramadan. ASGATech, who have established themselves stand and learn the Duas better. Lastly, the app the Windows Phone Store. “Developers in the ences on the Windows 8 platform.” as one of the leaders of Islamic apps. makes it possible to share Duas with friends region are very enthusiastic with the opportu- This year’s top new Nokia Windows Phone 8 and family, via SMS, email, and social media. nities Ramadan apps offer on the Nokia Lumia Ramadan applications are feature packed, and c. Muslim Prayers smartphones with Windows Phone 8 as they include Ramadan Kareem, Quran Mojawed, Muslim Prayers stands out of the crowd e. Zomato constitute a unique ‘economy’ within the Muslim Prayers, Essential Duas, and also with its highly customizable options. Every fea- Zomato is one of the most sought after Middle East app ecosystem. There has been a Zomato which features a special Iftar and ture, such as prayer times, Qibla or Mosque restaurant finder app from zomato.com. It significant increase in this category and we are Suhoor section on their website. Locator can be “pinned to the start” and offers one of the biggest selections of restau- pleased to announce the availability of some of accessed straight from the home screen. Its rant across the UAE, Qatar, India and many the most innovative applications relevant for a. Ramadan Kareem Mosque Locator is directly integrated with more. The app lets the user see menus, pic- this Ramadan season,” said Ahmed Arab, App This app is the perfect companion for all Nokia HERE Drive and allows users to make use tures and maps for over 95,000 restaurants as Marketing Manager, Nokia Middle East and Muslims observing the fast. The app gives the of the voice guided navigation with one click. well as check ratings and reviews. Zomato and North Africa. time and countdown for both the next prayer In addition, the app makes beautiful use of live Nokia have introduced a special Iftar and Commenting on the availability of new and for Iftar. It also covers the prayer times for tiles, allowing the user to see the prayer times Suhoor section enabling users to easily find Ramadan apps, Michael Mansour, Developer the entire day, selecting the location manually flickering on the tiles on his/her home screen. out the best eating options available this holy Platform and Technology Lead at Microsoft Gulf or through GPS and using one of the multiple season. said, “This Ramadan, Nokia Lumia users will calculation methods one can choose under set- d. Essential Duas Nokia Lumia users can download these now have easy access to many of the cherished tings. It also offers very useful tools such as Essential Duas compiles a plethora of apps directly from the Windows Phone store experiences that Muslims like to be close to, Mosque locator, a Qibla Finder as well as a Islamic Duas for Muslims in a neat, clear inter- on their Nokia Lumia device. technology WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 Telcos abandon copper phone lines

MANTOLOKING: Robert Post misses his phone line. economic sense. When they were originally laid Post, 85, has a pacemaker that needs to be checked down, the phone was the only two-way telecommu- once a month by phone. But the copper wiring that nications service available in the home, and the once connected his home to the rest of the world is company could look forward to decades of use out gone, and the phone company refuses to restore it. of each line. Now, it would cost Verizon hundreds of In October 2012, Superstorm Sandy pushed the dollars per home to rewire a neighborhood, but less sea over Post’s neighborhood in Mantoloking, NJ, than a quarter of customers are likely to sign up for leaving hundreds of homes wrecked, and one float- phone service and many of those drop it after a year ing in the bay. The homes on this sandy spit of land or two. along the Jersey Shore are being rebuilt, but Verizon “If we fixed the copper, there’s a good likelihood doesn’t want to replace washed-away lines and people wouldn’t even use it,” says Tom Maguire, waterlogged underground cables. Phone lines are Verizon’s senior vice president of operations sup- outdated, the company says. port. Mantoloking is one of the first places in the coun- Verizon also wants to get out of rebuilding phone try where the traditional phone line is going dead. lines on the western end of New York’s Fire Island, For now, Verizon, the country’s second-largest land- another sliver of sand that was flooded by Sandy. line phone company, is taking the lead by replacing The island lacks paved roads. It can only be reached phone lines with wireless alternatives. But competi- by ferry, and its residents are overwhelmingly sea- tors including AT&T have made it clear they want to sonal. Some of the copper lines still work, but follow. It’s the beginning of a technological turning Verizon is no longer maintaining them, to the frus- point, representing the receding tide of copper-wire tration of restaurant owner Jon Randazzo. “Really, landlines that have been used since commercial what they’re doing is abandoning us,” says service began in 1877. Randazzo, 30. The number of US phone lines peaked at 186 mil- There’s no cable service on Fire Island, making it lion in 2000. Since then, more than 100 million cop- more dependent on Verizon than Mantoloking, per lines have already been disconnected, according where residents can get phone and Internet service to trade group US Telecom. The lines have been sup- from Comcast by cable. The surviving copper phone NEW JERSEY: In this Friday, May 31, 2013 photo, Robert Post (left) and his wife, Jane Post (center) talk planted by cellphones and Internet-based phone lines on Fire Island often double as DSL, or digital to neighbor Gail Kender inside their home, which was flooded during Superstorm Sandy last year. service offered by way of cable television and fiber subscriber line, Internet connections. As a result, Robert Post, 85, has a pacemaker that needs to be checked once a month by phone, but the phone Randazzo’s restaurant, The Landing at Ocean Beach, company refuses to restore the area’s landlines after they were damaged by the storm. lost Verizon Internet service for a weekend last TV,” Sayia says. “The other thing is - who needs leisure of taking a longer view. It wants to explore month, leaving it without a way to process credit wires?” he adds, holding up his cellphone. what a future without phone lines will look like by cards. The line started working again after four days, Verizon says just 855 of the 3,000 homes it wants starting trials in yet-to-be-decided areas. but he’s afraid it will go out again for good. to abandon in Mantoloking had traditional phone “We need kind of a process where we can figure “I had to have my waiters write down the credit- service before the storm hit. out what we don’t know,” says Bob Quinn, one of card number, the expiration number and the CVV In other areas, Verizon is replacing copper phone AT&T’s top lobbyists in Washington. “The trouble is (security) code. It took me over three and a half lines with optical fiber, which allows the company to not going to be identifying the issues everybody can hours to process all my credit cards on Saturday. offer cable-like TV services and ultrafast broadband. see. It’s going to be finding the unexpected issues That’s pretty ridiculous,” Randazzo says. Water can short out and corrode copper wire, but that you have to conquer.” Verizon provided service to about 2,700 lines on optical fiber is made of glass and transmits light At Public Knowledge, Feld agrees with AT&T’s western Fire Island before the storm. But even then, rather than electricity, so it’s far more resistant to deliberative approach. Among the issues that need 80 percent of calls to and from the island were wire- flooding. But the cost of wiring a neighborhood with to be looked at, he says, is whether consumer pro- less. Now, few of the lines work, but the cellular serv- fiber optic lines can run more than $1,000 a home. tections that apply to landline phone service should ice is fine.New York state regulators have given “Everybody would love for us to put in fiber, but apply to whatever replaces it. For instance, if a con- Verizon provisional permission to consider its wire- that’s just not practical,” Maguire says. sumer misses a monthly payment, phone compa- NEW JERSEY: In this Friday, May 31, 2013 photo, less Voice Link boxes as stand-ins for regular phone If New York and New Jersey refuse to give perma- nies are prohibited from cutting landline phone a wireless device that can be connected to a service. Verizon technicians install the 4-inch square nent permission for the switch from landline to wire- service right away. home phone for service is seen inside Robert boxes with protruding antennas in homes and con- less phone service, Verizon could be forced to “There are all kinds of state and federal rights Post’s home, which was flooded during nect them to the home phone wiring. The home is rebuild the phone network on Fire Island and in around your phone bill ... which don’t apply to these Superstorm Sandy last year. — AP photos then linked to Verizon’s wireless network. Mantoloking. Unlike cable and wireless companies, competitive alternatives,” Feld says. When subscribers lift their phone handsets, they landline phone companies have regulatory obliga- The FCC put together a formal task force on the optic wiring. Just 1 in 4 US households will have a hear a dial tone. But the box doesn’t work with tions in most states to supply lines at a reasonable issue in December, after AT&T put in its request, and copper phone line at the end of this year, according remote medical monitoring devices, home alarm cost to anyone who wants one. They also need fed- has asked the company for more details. to estimates from industry trade group US Telecom. systems or faxes. It can’t accept collect calls or con- eral approval to end service. Sean Lev, the FCC’s general counsel, said in a blog AT&T would like to turn off its network of copper nect callers with an operator when they dial 0. It also In late June, New York State Attorney General Eric post that “we should do everything we can to speed land lines by the end of the decade. can’t be used with dial-up modems, credit-card Schneiderman filed an emergency petition with the way while protecting consumers, competition, For most people, the phone line’s demise will machines or international calling cards. state regulators to stop Verizon from replacing cop- and public safety.” But he also points out that most have little impact. But there are pockets of the coun- Post’s house in Mantoloking was built 83 years per lines with alternatives in the Catskill Mountains phone companies aren’t set to retire their landline try where copper lines are still critical for residents. ago. His wife estimates it has been connected to a of upstate New York. equipment immediately. As a result, state regulators and consumer advocates phone line for 80 years. Now, to get his pacemaker He says seasonal residents who find their phone The equipment has been bought and paid for, are increasingly concerned about how the transition checked, he heads once a month to a friend’s home lines don’t work at their summer homes are steered and there’s no real incentive to shut down a working will unfold. in Bay Head, the next town over, which still has a by Verizon to its Voice Link wireless product. Only if network. He thinks phone companies will continue “The real question is not: Are we going to keep copper phone line. Most of his neighbors in the customer forcefully refuses will Verizon restore to use landlines for five to 10 years, suggesting that copper forever? The real question is: How are we Mantoloking have cable phone service from the copper phone line, he says. Verizon says Voice regulators have some time to figure out how to tack- going to handle this transition?” says Harold Feld, Comcast Corp. that can do most of the things Voice Link is just an option available to customers. le the issue. senior vice president of Public Knowledge, a Link can’t. The service, for instance, could relay Post’s In New Jersey, state regulators are talking to AT&T would like to have all its landline phone Washington-based group that advocates for public pacemaker information. But Post just isn’t eager to Verizon about Mantoloking but haven’t approved equipment turned off by 2020. Verizon’s Maguire access to the Internet and other communications switch to the cable company. He says he doesn’t the landline-to-wireless switch that Verizon has envisions a gradual phase-out, starting right now. If technologies. The elderly and people in rural areas, trust them. And he’s not alone. Customer perception already started. It could, at least in theory, deny a major telecommunications line fails and there are where cell coverage may be poor or nonexistent, will of cable TV providers has historically been poor, due Verizon’s application and force it to rewire copper hundreds of people connected to it, Verizon would be most affected by disappearing phone lines, Feld to service outages and annual price increases, phone lines back into the town. repair it, he says. But the company wants the option says. “Are we going to handle this transition in a way according to surveys for the American Customer In Washington, the Federal Communications to abandon the failed line and move the remaining that recognizes that we have vulnerable populations Satisfaction Index. Post’s neighbor, Garret Sayia, is Commission is looking at an application from the households to Voice Link. “If you’re one of the few here?” fine with cable. country’s largest landline phone company, AT&T Inc. people on there, and Voice Link seems to fit you, Verizon says replacing the lines just doesn’t make “Everybody here wants the cable for Internet and AT&T isn’t dealing with storm damage, so it has the why not?” Maguire asks. — AP Britain battles to build tech giant

LONDON: East London’s technology hub is established succeed, a business must solve a problem. success, continue to steer clear. It’s a situation most well beyond start-up status: Thousands of new web “The thing that really validates your business is ambitious British start-ups go along with because of firms now work in the offices around Old Street and on users paying for what you are selling, not some mentor the prestige associated with US involvement and men- any given day the area’s coffee shops buzz with young telling you that your business plan looks great,” he said. toring. And while US investment holds sway, US list- hopefuls meeting advisers and investors. East London-based Unruly Media, which works with ings dominate. Britain’s government has christened the area “Tech brands like Coca-Cola to get their ads viewed, shared Right now payday lender Wonga and software firm City” and makes no secret of its hope that the entre- and talked about on social networks, secured $25 mil- Mimecast, both backed by venture capital firm Dawn preneurial ventures being dreamed up there can lion last year from investors Amadeus, Van den Ende & Capital, are gearing up for stock listings in New York spearhead an economic boost to lift the country out of Deitmers and Business Growth Fund. Co-founder rather than in London. Social gaming company a long recession. But its plan faces a major hurdle: the Sarah Wood gave three reasons why investors wanted King.com, which has main offices in London and area touted as London’s answer to Silicon Valley has in: global reach, high revenue growth and proprietary Stockholm, is also eying a US IPO, according to a FT not produced a single big-name UK-listed company. technology. But Wood’s story is rare. The list of her report. In an attempt to break the cycle and keep tal- Many firms are failing to secure second-round funding promising British peers to have been bought out by ent at home, the London Stock Exchange set up a High NEW YORK: In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 photo, customers browse through the while the cream of the crop are being snapped up by established US companies makes depressing reading Growth Segment this year, copying New York’s Nasdaq Look Boutique store in the Empire State Building. Americans stepped up their bor- US venture capitalists and top names like Yahoo , tak- for Cameron’s team. Internet radio station last.fm sold and letting entrepreneurs list 10 percent of their firms rowing by $19.6 billion in May compared with April, the Federal Reserve said, in its ing jobs and potential tax revenues with them. to CSB in 2007, while games firm Playfish was bought rather than the 25 percent normally required, so they monthly report on consumer credit. That was the biggest jump since a $19.9 billion Worried, the government has launched a string of by Electronic Arts for about $300 million in 2009. can keep more control of their fast-growing businesses rise in May 2012. — AP policies to try to ensure that the best of British tech TweetDeck, a desktop for managing social media, was while they raise cash. secures the funding and expertise it needs to grow snapped up by Twitter in 2011 and Summly, an app The scale of the challenge is significant. According inside the United Kingdom. founded by 17-year old Nick D’Aloisio, sold out to to the London Stock Exchange, the 246 tech compa- US consumer borrowing “We’ve lost a lot of our best and brightest business- Yahoo for a rumoured $30 million in March, only nies listed on Britain’s stock markets total $200 billion es to the US,” says Joanna Shields, who held manage- months after it launched. in capitalisation, compared with $3.2 trillion in the US up as credit card use rises ment positions at Facebook, Google and Bebo and Persuading firms to stay and grow at home needs Meanwhile, investment in London-based tech groups now runs the government’s Tech City Investment more than policies offering advice and hand-holding. is falling, due possibly to a loss of appetite for the kind WASHINGTON: Americans increased their bor- cent of economic activity. But some consumers Organisation to encourage inward investment. A dearth of British venture capital is a notable issue. of consumer internet companies the city tends to pro- rowing in May at the fastest pace in a year. have been hesitant to run up high-interest debt As part of the same push, Finance Minister George Technology investment is dominated by American duce. Some 24 London-based companies pulled in 62 Borrowing in the category that includes credit since the recession ended. Some economists say Osborne launched the “Future Fifty” project to share venture capital firms, which are comfortable with the million pounds in the first quarter of 2013, less than cards reached its highest point since the fall of many Americans remain cautious because high- contacts and advice with companies looking to risks as well as the potential rewards of the sector, and half the 151 million pounds raised by 29 companies in 2010. Increased borrowing typically means that er Social Security taxes this year have reduced expand internationally. He has also cut capital gains thus reap returns to invest again. British investors are the final quarter of last year, research from market consumers are feeling more confident. paychecks for most. tax for young businesses. more cautious and because few have a track record of tracker Ascendant shows. —Reuters Americans stepped up their borrowing by Despite the jump in credit card debt in May, Prime Minister David Cameron is disappointed that $19.6 billion in May compared with April, the consumers aren’t likely to increase their card use Britain has not yet created a Google or an Amazon. “I Federal Reserve said Monday in its monthly to pre-recession levels, said Cooper Howes, an want to try and make sure that the next wave, and report on consumer credit. That was the biggest economist at Barclays Research. Credit card debt there will be a next wave, some of those are born and jump since a $19.9 billion rise in May 2012. Total is known as revolving credit. bred right here in Britain,” he said last month. borrowing reached a record $2.84 trillion. “We expect the trends of student loan-driven Securing seed money is relatively straightforward. The category that includes credit card use expansion ... and only small changes in revolv- Getting subsequent funding is where the real prob- rose $6.6 billion, also the largest gain in a year. ing credit to continue in coming months,” Howes lems arise, says Simon Cook, chief executive of DFJ Credit card debt reached $847.1 billion, the said. Esprit, an affiliate of California-based investor Draper most since September 2010. Credit card debt The measure of card debt in the Fed’s report Fisher Jurvetson. remains about 16 percent below its high of has risen $15.8 billion this year. That compares “In America, if you start a company and show some $1.02 trillion in July 2008 - just before the finan- with annual increases of $25 billion to $50 bil- progress, you are probably going to get another cial crisis erupted. lion in credit card debt before the Great round,” said Cook. “In Europe, only one in five (compa- Borrowing for autos and student loans rose Recession, which officially began in December nies) can raise any more money.” $13 billion in May. That was the sharpest 2007 and ended in June 2009. The reason? Too many young British tech firms lack increase since February. This category of bor- Rising home prices and steady job growth the skills to sell themselves as the big global names of rowing has been rising especially fast, driven by have helped offset any damage to the U.S. econ- the future. loans to pay for college. omy from the higher Social Security tax. “We see a lot of good companies which have a The Federal Reserve’s consumer credit report Employers added 195,000 jobs in June and profitable business model... but either they are in a does not separate student loans from auto many more in April and May than previously smaller niche or do not have the ambition to be glob- loans. But data from the Federal Reserve Bank of thought, the government said Friday. Pay was al,” said Martin Mignot of European venture capital firm New York show that student loan debt has been also up sharply. Over the past 12 months, pay Index Ventures. the biggest driver of borrowing since the Great has risen 2.2 percent while consumer prices For Tom Blomfield it was his experience in the U.S. Recession officially ended. In part, that’s because have increased 1.4 percent. that helped him to secure backing for GoCardless, a some unemployed Americans have returned to Consumers boosted their spending from company that enables more than 10,000 small busi- school for training in hopes of landing a job. January through March but reduced the pace of nesses to accept direct debits. He spent four months at More credit card borrowing could help boost their savings to finance it. After-tax income San Francisco’s prestigious Y Combinator, in effect a Britain hope that “Tech City’ can spearhead an economic boost to lift the country out of a long consumer spending, which accounts for 70 per- dropped in the first quarter. —AP boot-camp for start-ups, and says it taught him that to recession. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Brazil lures foreigners Thousands march in Dublin to public health posts against Irish abortion bill BRASILIA: Brazil launched a program countries where there are more than 1.8 Monday to lure thousands of foreign doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, such as doctors to fill vacancies in its public Spain, Portugal, Argentina or Cuba. But ‘Kill the bill! Not the child’ health system, a move criticized by many the daily Folha de Sao Paulo reported domestic health care professionals. Monday that the government dropped DUBLIN: Bearing rosary beads and therefore life-saving abortions bureaucratic delays meant some outlaws the practice. Improving public health services was one plans to import thousands of Cuban doc- placards declaring “Kill the bill! Not were legal. women’s medical conditions wors- Before the march, Catholic of the key demands made by hundreds tors and instead decided to turn to those the child,” more than 35,000 anti- Crucially, Ireland’s highest ened unnecessarily.The govern- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin led a of thousands of Brazilians who staged from Spain and Portugal. There was no abortion activists marched court said this meant a woman ment bill would permit an abor- central Dublin church in prayers three weeks of nationwide street protests explanation as to why. “It is an emer- Saturday through Dublin to should receive an abortion even if tion for a suicidal woman if a pan- for Ireland to keep abortion ille- last month. President Dilma Rousseff said gency measure to resolve a serious and demand that the Irish government the only threat to her life was el of three doctors one obstetri- gal. But in a nuanced sermon the initiative , which will be implemented urgent problem,” Rousseff said. “Nobody scrap plans to legalize termina- caused by her own suicide threats. cian and two psychiatrists - unani- Martin told the crowd, among by presidential decree, will involve should be afraid, I will never take away tions for women in life-threatening Six governments since have mously agree that the woman’s them families sitting on the floor 10,000 posts and an investment of jobs from our professionals or put the pregnancies. Demonstrators from refused to pass legislation backing threats are real. Abortion rights beside packed pews, that pro-life around $1.27 billion. health of the population at risk.” across Ireland, a predominantly that 1992 judgment, leaving advocates say this rule means campaigners must be careful not The government said the three-year The health ministry said there was a Catholic island of 6.5 million, obstetricians divided and con- women in such circumstances still to come across as heartless to posts, with a monthly pay of $4,500, shortage of 54,000 doctors across the marched for two hours through fused over whether certain life- will travel to England, where abor- those on the other side of the would be filled mainly by Brazilian doc- country. But Brazilian doctors’ associa- the capital to Leinster House, the saving abortions can be per- tion was legalized in 1967. debate. Martin said those seeking tors, but foreign counterparts would also tions last month slammed the plan to parliament building, where law- formed legally. In 2011, the But those marching Saturday to keep abortion out of Ireland be used to fill the gap. Those selected lure foreign doctors, insisting that the makers next week are expected European Court of Human Rights warned that women would con- must make their case “not through will begin working in mid-September, problem was not a shortage of doctors pass the Protection of Life During ruled that Ireland’s failure to legis- spire with sympathetic doctors to slogans but through the witness mainly in the country’s hinterland and but rather poor management and a lack Pregnancy Bill. Speakers demand- late meant pregnant women in fake suicide threats, putting of life that we give.” If not, he said, poor suburbs of major cities. “Every of resources in the public health sector. ed that the government put its bill dangerous medical conditions Ireland on a slippery slope to “what we say will appear, to quote Brazilian must have access to a doctor,” Doctors, nurses and other health care to a national referendum. “Let us were forced to travel overseas, wider abortion access. Ireland is Pope Francis, as being cold, imper- Rousseff said. “Brazil is short of doctors. If professionals last month joined the vote!” the crowd chanted. chiefly to neighboring England, just one of two European Union sonal and oppressive for people’s we don’t have enough in Brazil, we will nationwide street protests to express The two-year-old coalition gov- for abortions. It said travel and members, alongside Malta, that day-to-day lives.”—AP look for good doctors wherever they are.” their displeasure over the government ernment of Prime Minister Enda Foreign applicants must come from program.—AFP Kenny drafted the bill following last year’s death of a miscarrying woman in an Irish hospital. Three investigations since have deter- Church begins Philippine mined that Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian dentist, died birth control battle from blood poisoning one week after admission for a miscarriage. MANILA: A relentless Catholic Church cam- 15 formal petitions from a range of Church- Doctors denied her pleas for an paign to derail a birth control law in the backed groups arguing that it was uncon- abortion, even though her uterus Philippines entered its final phase at the stitutional. The opponents argue it violates had ruptured, because the 17- Supreme Court yesterday, with the verdict various elements of the constitution, week-old fetus still had a heart- to have a monumental impact on millions including those on protecting the sanctity beat. By the time it stopped, inves- of poor Filipinos. The court began hearing of the family and guaranteeing freedom of tigations concluded, Halappanavar arguments against a family planning law religion. “It is a population control measure already had contracted a lethal that President Benigno Aquino, defying that denies the God-given right to reject dose of septicemia. intense church pressure, helped steer contraception,” Franciso Tatad, a former Justice Minister Alan Shatter through parliament late last year. senator representing the petitioners, told said Saturday that, had the bill It is the last legal recourse for the the Supreme Court judges in opening been law last year, Halappanavar Church, which for more than a decade led remarks. might have received a prompt resistance to birth control legislation in the The Church wields strong influence in abortion and survived. He mainly Catholic nation. The Church, which the Philippines, a former Spanish colony appealed to anti-abortion rebels in had threatened Aquino and other support- where roughly 80 percent of the popula- the main government Fine Gael ers of the law with excommunication, held tion remain Catholic. Church leaders have party to accept the bill or abstain prayer vigils, protests and masses near the helped lead two revolutions that toppled from the final vote expected Supreme Court yesterday. unpopular presidents in recent Philippine Wednesday night. The bill received “We ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten and history, and continue to insist they have a overwhelming backing in an initial inspire the lawyers who would be arguing right to influence the parliamentary and vote this week. Ireland outlaws for our position... and enlighten the justices legal branches of government. abortion, a position underscored of the Supreme Court,” Bishop Gabriel “When the rights of mother and child by a 1986 referendum amending Reyes told a mass at a nearby church. The are endangered, when the family is being the constitution to declare that the law requires government health centres to attacked, you can expect the Church to unborn have a right to life. But the hand out free condoms and birth control speak up,” Catholic Bishops Conference of Supreme Court in 1992 ruled that pills, benefiting tens of millions of the the Philippines head Bishop Socrates the constitution equally defends DUBLIN: Stephen and Pauline O’Brien foreground, hold Catholic rosary beads as they march in country’s poor who would not otherwise Villegas said on Monday. A crowd of about the pregnant woman’s right to live, an anti-abortion protest Saturday.—AP have access to them. More than a quarter 400 opponents of the Reproductive Health of the Philippines’ nearly 100 million peo- law gathered outside the Supreme Court as ple live on the equivalent of 62 cents a day, the judges began hearing the case, holding according to government data. banners such as: “Obey God’s will, no to RH Air pollution reduces The law also mandates that sex educa- bill”. Another read: “RH Bill is abortion”. tion be taught in schools and that public They stood on the other side of the road health workers receive family planning from a smaller crowd of supporters of the training, while post-abortion medical care law, some of whom carried a banner that north China lifespans was legalized. Proponents say the read: “Rights and welfare, not the beliefs of Reproductive Health law will slow the a few”. Opinion surveys over many years country’s population growth, which is one have shown strong public support for birth of the fastest in the world, and reduce the control legislation. China ‘free coal’ policy shaves years off life number of mothers dying in childbirth. “To And despite criticism from church lead- deny RH services from our people would be ers, Aquino enjoys near record-high popu- BEIJING: A new study links heavy air pollu- to heat homes and offices to cities north of eters. PM2.5 is of especially great health a denial of human rights and a grave social larity ratings half way through his six-year tion from coal burning to shorter lives in the Huai River, which divides China into concern because it can penetrate deep into injustice, especially against women and the term. It was unclear yesterday how long the northern China. Researchers estimate that north and south. It was in effect for much of the lungs, but the researchers lacked the poor,” said Senator Pia Cayetano, one of the legal proceedings will take or when the the half-billion people alive there in the the 1950-1980 period of central planning, data to analyze those tiny particles separate- architects of the law. Supreme Court will make a decision. 1990s will live an average of 51/2 years less and, though discontinued after 1980, it has ly. The authors said their research can be The Supreme Court suspended the law Lawyers involved said a verdict could be than their southern counterparts because left a legacy in the north of heavy coal burn- used to estimate the effect of total suspend- in March so that the judges could hear the months away.—AFP they breathed dirtier air. China itself made ing, which releases particulate pollutants ed particulates on other countries and time the comparison possible: for decades, a into the air that can harm human health. periods. Their analysis suggests that every now-discontinued government policy pro- Researchers found no other government additional 100 micrograms of particulate vided free coal for heating, but only in the policies that treated China’s north differently matter per cubic meter in the atmosphere colder north. Researchers found significant from the south. lowers life expectancy at birth by about differences in both particle pollution of the The researchers collected data for 90 three years. air and life expectancy in the two regions, cities, from 1981 to 2000, on the annual dai- The study also noted that there was a and said the results could be used to extrap- ly average concentration of total suspended large difference in particulate matter olate the effects of such pollution on lifes- particulates. In China, those are considered between the north and south, but not in pans elsewhere in the world. to be particles that are 100 micrometers or other forms of air pollution such as sulfur The study by researchers from China, less in diameter, emitted from sources dioxide and nitrous oxide. Francesca Israel and the United States was published including power stations, construction sites Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at yesterday in the Proceedings of the National and vehicles. Harvard School of Public Health who has Academy of Sciences. While previous studies The researchers estimated the impact on researched the health effects of fine particu- have found that pollution affects human life expectancies using mortality data from late matter in the US, said the study was “fas- health, “the deeper and ultimately more 1991-2000. They found that in the north, the cinating.” important question is the impact on life concentration of particulates was 184 micro- China’s different treatment of north and expectancy,” said one of the authors, grams per cubic meter - or 55 percent - south allowed researchers to get pollution Michael Greenstone, a professor of environ- higher than in the south, and life expectan- data that would be impossible in a scientific mental economics at Massachusetts cies were 5.5 years lower on average across setting. Dominici said the quasi-experimen- Institute of Technology. all age ranges. tal approach was a good approximation of a “This study provides a unique setting to The researchers said the difference in life randomized experiment, “especially in this answer the life expectancy question expectancies was almost entirely due to an situation where a randomized experiment is because the (heating) policy dramatically increased incidence of deaths classified as not possible.” She said she wasn’t surprised alters pollution concentrations for people cardiorespiratory - those from causes that by the findings, given China’s high levels of PHILIPPINES: Protesters, mostly students and those affiliated with some who appear to be of otherwise identical have previously been linked to air quality, pollution. “In the US. I think it’s pretty much type of religion, hold a demonstration outside the Philippine Supreme health,” Greenstone said in an email. including heart disease, stroke, lung cancer been accepted that even small changes in Court in Manila yesterday, to coincide with the oral arguments by the high- “Further, due to the low rates of migration in and respiratory illnesses. PM2.5, much, much, much smaller than est court on the merits and demerits of the RH (Reproductive Health) Law China in this period, we can know people’s Total suspended particulates include fine what they are observing in China, are affect- which was signed into law by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III late exposure over long time periods,” he said. particulate matter called PM2.5 - particles ing life expectancy,” said Dominici, who was last year.—AP The policy gave free coal for fuel boilers with diameters of no more than 2.5 microm- not involved in the study.— AP ‘Scent’ test can detect bladder cancer Unusual pattern of spine WASHINGTON: British researchers ever, we have developed a device tains a sensor that responds to injuries from plane crash said Monday they have devised a that can give us a profile of the odor chemicals in gas emitted from urine, test that can detect bladder cancer in urine. It reads the gases that said the study in the US scientific SAN FRANCISCO: Many survivors of improvements in airline safety in recent transfer that force to the neck, he cau- from certain odors in the urine. The chemicals in the urine can give off journal PLoS ONE. Saturday’s plane crash in San Francisco years. More than 180 people went to hos- tioned. “If you put in the shoulder belt, it technique was inspired by reports when the sample is heated.” About It analyzes the gas and reports have a surprising pattern of spine injuries pitals with injuries, but only a small num- might just move the injuries up further. about how dogs may be able to 72,000 new cases of bladder cancer on the chemicals contained in urine, that a doctor says shows how violently ber were critically injured. Still, Manley Your head weighs a tremendous amount,” sniff out certain cancers, said are diagnosed each year in the which scientists can then read on a they were shaken despite wearing seat said even among those who suffered agreed San Francisco’s Manley. He hopes researchers from the University of United States, and about 10,000 computer screen in order to diag- belts. So far, two people are unable to mild spine trauma, he is struck by a pat- to study the issue, comparing survivors’ Liverpool and University of the West new cases are seen annually in nose cancer of the bladder. “We move their legs - doctors don’t yet know tern that shows how their upper bodies injuries to where they sat. The airline of England. If wider studies can con- Britain. Smoking is considered the looked at 98 samples of urine to if the damage is permanent - and several were flung forward and then backward industry says adding three-point seat- firm the test’s effectiveness, the leading risk factor. “It is a disease develop the device, and tested it on others have needed surgery to stabilize over the lap belts that kept them in their belts to airplanes would require major technique could offer a new way to that, if caught early, can be treated 24 patient samples known to have their spines so they can move, said Dr seats and undoubtedly saved their lives. changes to seat design that would mean test early for a cancer that is often effectively, but unfortunately we do cancer and 74 samples that have Geoffrey Manley, neurosurgery chief at The injuries are somewhat reminis- higher airfares and less comfort. Some costly to detect and treat. not have any early screening meth- urological symptoms, but no can- San Francisco General Hospital who is cent of the days before shoulder belts in business class seats have added a type of “It is thought that dogs can smell ods other than diagnosis through cer,” said Probert. “The device cor- overseeing their care. Among the worst cars, although much more severe, said Dr shoulder restraint, but those seats are cancer, but this is obviously not a urine tests at the stage when it rectly assigned 100 percent of can- injuries are crushed vertebrae that com- David Okonkwo of the University of more like beds and often don’t face for- press the spinal cord, and ligaments so Pittsburgh Medical Center, who isn’t ward. Meanwhile, Okonkwo said assum- practical way for hospitals to diag- starts to become a problem,” said cer patients.” The next step is to stretched and torn that they can’t hold involved with the survivors’ care. Does ing the “crash position” - leaning forward nose the disease,” said Norman Chris Probert, a professor at the expand trials to a wider sample of neck and back joints in place, Manley said that mean shoulder belts in airplanes with the head as far down as possible and Ratcliffe, from the Institute of University of Liverpool’s Institute of patients to determine whether it is in an interview Monday. would prevent such injuries? Okonkwo arms over it - can limit the spine jolting Biosensor Technology at UWE Translational Medicine. The new effective or not for hospital use, the That 305 of the 307 passengers and said that’s simplistic considering how back and forth and offer some protection. Bristol. “Taking this principle, how- device, called ODOREADER, con- study said.—AFP crew of the Asiana jet survived the crash much more speed and force are involved It’s not clear if any survivors of Saturday’s is remarkable, and a testimony to in a plane crash. Shoulder belts might just crash had time to do so._AP WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE A break for smokers? Antibody clue to autism in children Glitch may limit penalties PARIS: Researchers delving into the enigmatic disorder called autism said yesterday they had found a group of maternal antibodies that target pro- WASHINGTON: Some smokers trying to get coverage next to accept all applicants regardless of pre-existing medical they charge the youngest adults in the pool. The govern- teins in the foetus’ developing brain. A study that compared 246 mothers year under President Barack Obama’s health care law may problems. But it also allows them to charge smokers up to ment’s computer system has been unable to accommo- of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to 149 women with get a break from tobacco-use penalties that could have 50 percent higher premiums - a way for insurers to ward date the two. So younger smokers and older smokers must healthy children found that nearly a quarter in the first group had differ- made their premiums unaffordable. The Obama adminis- off bad risks. For an older smoker, the cost of the full penal- be charged the same penalty, or the system will kick it out. ent combinations of these antibodies. Antibodies are the foot soldiers of tration - in yet another health care overhaul delay - has qui- ty could be prohibitive. Premiums for a standard “silver” That’s not what insurers had expected. Before the glitch the immune system, latching onto viral or microbial intruders and tagging etly notified insurers that a computer system glitch will insurance plan would be about $9,000 a year for a 64-year popped up, experts said the companies would probably them for destruction by specialized “killer” cells. limit penalties that the law says the companies may charge old non-smoker, according to the online Kaiser Health charge lower penalties for younger smokers, and higher But sometimes, for some unknown reason, these antibodies target our smokers. A fix will take at least a year to put in place. Reform Subsidy Calculator. That’s before any tax credits, penalties for older ones. “Generally a 20-year-old who own, healthy proteins, becoming “auto-antibodies.” They play an impor- tant role in autoimmune diseases like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and mul- Older smokers are more likely to benefit from the available on a sliding scale based on income. smokes probably doesn’t have much higher health costs tiple sclerosis. Just as pregnant women pass good antibodies on to their glitch, experts say. But depending on how insurers For a smoker of the same age, the full 50 percent penal- than someone who doesn’t smoke in any given year,” said unborn children through the placenta, so too can they pass on malfunc- respond to it, it’s also possible that younger smokers could ty would add more than $4,500 to the cost of the policy, Larry Levitt, an insurance market expert with the nonparti- tioning ones which can target proteins the baby needs to develop, said wind up facing higher penalties than they otherwise bringing it to nearly $13,600. And tax credits can’t be used san Kaiser Family Foundation. “A 60-year-old is another sto- study author Judy Van De Water, a professor of medicine at the University would have. Some see an emerging pattern of last-minute to offset the penalty. The underlying reason for the glitch is ry.” The administration is suggesting that insurers limit the of California, Davis. “We discovered that 23 percent of mothers whose chil- switches and delays as the administration scrambles to another provision in the health care law that says insurers penalties across all age groups. The HHS guidance docu- dren have autism have autoantibodies to certain proteins that are neces- prepare the Oct 1 launch of new health insurance markets. can’t charge older customers more than three times what ment used the example of a 20 percent penalty. sary for healthy neuron development,” she said by email of the study pub- People who don’t have coverage on the job will be able to In that case the premium for a 64-year-old would be lished in the journal Translational Psychiatry. “These antibodies are not shop for private insurance, with tax credits to help pay pre- about $10,900, a significant cut from the $13,600 if insurers found in the blood of mothers (whose) children are typically developing.” miums. Small businesses will have their own insurance charged the full penalty. It’s unclear what insurance com- ASD describes a broad range of impairments in which a person is unable markets. Last week, the White House unexpectedly panies will do. A spokesman for America’s Health Insurance or unwilling to communicate or interact with others, often cripplingly so. announced a one-year postponement of a major provision Plans, the main industry trade group, said insurers were Some patients have delays in cognitive development, whereas others in the law that requires larger employers to offer coverage aware of the issue and expected the administration would can have dazzling gifts in specific fields such as maths or music. But the or face fines. Officials cited the complexity of the require- fix it eventually. Another workaround for the companies causes of the disease remain unclear. ASD affects about one in 88 children ment as well as a desire to address complaints from would be to charge the full penalty to both younger and in the United States. Van De Water said the study revealed which seven employers. “This was an administration that was telling us older smokers. In that case, there wouldn’t be any savings proteins the autoantibodies latch on to, providing critical clues to the everything was under control,” health care industry con- for older smokers, and younger ones would see a big price development of some forms of ASD, and possibly boosting the quest for sultant Robert Laszewski said. “Everything was going to be shock. an early, predictive test and treatment. The researchers found 11 different fine. Suddenly this kind of stuff is cropping up every few Levitt said he suspects insurers would keep the penal- combinations of seven proteins, each posing a different level of ASD risk. days.” A June 28 Health and Human Services Department ties low to sign up more young people. Laszweski said he “Very early behavioural intervention is effective in helping children document couched the smokers’ glitch in technical lan- thought they would do the opposite. “It’s going to throw with ASD improve their behaviours and abilities, so knowing this very ear- guage: “Because of a system limitation ... the system cur- cold water on efforts to get younger people to sign up,” he ly will be beneficial,” Van De Water said. “Because this test could be used rently cannot process a premium for a 65-year-old smoker said. Workers covered through job-based health plans prior to conception, the women could make a decision to use a surrogate that is ... more than three times the premium of a 21-year- would be able to avoid tobacco penalties by joining smok- or to prepare for having a child with ASD and undergoing early interven- old smoker,” the industry guidance said. If an insurer tries CALIFORNIA: In this June 11, 2007 file photo, ing cessation programs because employer plans operate tion.” One shortcoming of the study was that the samples from mothers to charge more, “the submission of the (insurer) will be under different rules. But experts say that option is not Helen Heinlo smokes outside of a coffee shop were taken when their children were diagnosed, rather than during preg- rejected by the system,” it added. guaranteed to smokers trying to purchase coverage indi- nancy, said the authors.— AFP Starting in 2014, the law requires insurance companies in Belmont.—AP vidually.—AP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 IKEA launches recipe book KEA Kuwait recently launched its third Ramadan recipe book by renowned SEND US YOUR IManal Al Alem, introducing exciting new recipes to prepare for family and INSTAGRAM PICS friends this season. With a purchase of minimum KD 25 that is spent at the hat’s more fun than clicking a beauti- store, customers can receive a free copy ful picture? Sharing it with others! Let of the book to conjure up these delicious Wother people see the way you see dishes within the comfort of their homes. Kuwait - through your lens. Friday Times will The new cookbook is a culmination of popular main course meals, sweets and feature snapshots of Kuwait through Instagram pastries replete with appetizing visuals feeds. If you want to share your Instagram pho- for a picture perfect vision of the delight- tos, email us at ful dishes. With the use of essential tools [email protected] and utensils, mastering the art of cook- ing the recipes with complete conven- ience can be achieved by purchasing the tee a memorable experience this IKEA kitchenware that not only offers Ramadan .Products at the IKEA Kuwait hief of the Ajman tribe Sultan Bin Hethleen cookware for cooking but also tasteful store represent the local market needs announced welcoming Ramadan greeters on supplements to prepare and further which are innovative, appealing and Cthe sixth day of the holy month, which falls serve and store the dishes safely. functional, to stand by its concept of ‘cre- next Monday at his dewaniya in Al-Agailah after the An accomplished culinary expert both ating a better everyday life for the many Taraweeh prayer. On this occasion, Bin Hethleen locally and regionally, Manal Al Alem has people’. extends best wishes to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah received many accolades for her skills in For more information on the new Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH the Crown Prince Sheikh various forms of cooking and food products and services, IKEA customers Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and to citizens and resi- preparations. can visit the IKEA Kuwait store or log on dents in Kuwait. IKEA Kuwait urges everyone to make to www.ikea.com.kw or call 18 40 408 to use of this edible opportunity to guaran- stay updated.

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Indian Embassy Qur’an competition sets up helpline he Indian Embassy in Kuwait has set thman bin Affan ñ Prophet Western new Muslims including men, up helpline in order to assist Indian Muhammadís companion ñ narrat- women and children. Competitors should Texpatriates in registering any com- Ued that Prophet Muhammad memorize the following surahs (chapters): plaint regarding the government’s ongoing (peace be upon him) said, ‘The best Al-Fatihah (The Opening, 1), Al-Ikhlaas campaign to stamp out illegal residents among you are those who learn the (The purity or sincerity, 112), Al-Falaq from the country. The embassy said in Qurían then teach it.’ (As-Silsila Al- (The Daybreak, 113) and An-Naas Enjoy the taste of true espresso at Saheeha 3/168) According to Abdullah (Mankind, 114). press release yesterday that it amended its Vergnano Cafe at Olympia Complex bin Amr, Prophet Muhammad said: ‘It will The first prize will be K.D. 60, second previous statement and stated if there is be said to the companion of the Qur’an: prize is K.D. 50 and third prize is K.D. 40. any complaint, the same could be con- he superior quality of the blends espresso to everyday life at home. Recite and ascend as you recited in the All those interested in participating are veyed at the following (as amended): comes from the meticulous selec- Espresso is now available in Kuwait, world, for verily, your rank is determined required to register before the 15th of Operations Department, Ministry of by the last verse you recite.’ (Sunan At- Ramadan. The competition will be held tion of the best raw materials avail- through Al-Sanabel Al-Thahabiya Est. Tel: Interior, Kuwait. Fax: 22435580, Tel: T Tirmidhi 2914). on the 20th of Ramadan and the prizes 24768146/25200334. It said the embassy able, and from an extraordinary produc- 22413795/98. Espresso Vergnano can be Inspired by these sayings of Prophet will be awarded on the 27th of Ramadan. has been in regular contact with local tion process. Cafe Vergnano is the first to ordered through www.taw9eel.com Muhammad (PBUH), TIES Center is glad to For more information, please call authorities regarding the ongoing check- introduce an innovation that brings all the Espresso Vergnano capsules are compati- inform all those interested that it will host 25231015/6 or e-mail: [email protected] ing of expatriates. The embassy has also passion and pleasure of the perfect ble with other espresso machines. a Qur’an memorization competition for or log onto: www.tiescenter.net conveyed to them the concerns, fears and apprehensions of the community in this regard. The authorities in Kuwait have con- veyed that strict instructions have been issued to ensure that there is no harass- ment or improper treatment of expatriates by those undertaking checking. “The embassy would like to request Indian expa- triates to ensure that they abide by all local laws, rules and regulations regarding residency, traffic and other matters,” the release read. It would be prudent to always carry the Civil ID and other relevant docu- ments such as driving license, etc. In case an Indian expatriate encounters any improper treatment during checking, it may be conveyed immediately with full details and contact particulars to the embassy at the following phone number 67623639. These contact details are exclu- sively for the above-mentioned purpose only.

Issue of online visa by Indian embassy oreigners requiring visas for India need to apply it online from 16th June 2013. FApplicants may log on to the Public ACCESS students celebrate 4th of July portal at www.indianvisaonline.gov.in. After successful online submission, the hard n July 2, 2013, US Embassy in organize sports activities and support the copy, so generated, has to be signed by the Kuwait coordinated a US community. Kuwait Sports Club is the first applicant and submitted with supporting OIndependence Day event with over to engage the sporting talents of the youth documents in accordance with the type of 50 students in the English Language in order to build a healthy community. Al- visa along with the applicable fee in cash at Access Microscholarship Program’s Ansari praised the sports and community any of the two outsource centres at Sharq Summer Intensive program coordinated by activities organized by the US Embassy in or Fahaheel. It is essential that applicants AMIDEAST. US Embassy’s Charge d’Affairs, Kuwait, pointing out that this activity is fill in their personal details as exactly avail- a.i Michael Adler welcomed students, par- only the beginning of a series of coopera- able in their passports. Mismatch of any of ents, and guests. “Today we commemorate tion between the club and the embassy. the personal details would lead to non- the 237h anniversary of the independence Shake Shack(r) is a modern day “road- acceptance of the application. Fees once of the United States. On the fourth of July, side” burger stand known for its all-natural paid are non-refundable. All children would Americans express gratitude for our coun- burgers, flat-top dogs, frozen custard and try and its independence. We also tradi- more. With its fresh and simple, high-quali- have to obtain separate visa on their tionally spend time with family and friends, ty food at a great value, Shake Shack is a respective passports. often engaging or watching sports. fun and lively community gathering place Americans and Kuwaitis share an apprecia- with widespread appeal. From its ingredi- 8th Expo Pakistan tion of sports and its importance to both ents and employment practices to its envi- to commence in September physical health and fun.” Sports Club. These organizations are invest- to play sports. Abdulrahman Al-Ansari, ronmental responsibility, design and com- he 8th Expo Pakistan will be held This event was a wonderful opportuni- ing in their local community through their head of the media center club Kuwait munity investment, Shake Shack’s mission from September 26 to 29 in Karachi. ty to partner with local organizations: care and generosity by providing hot dogs Sports Club, states that the club is keen on is to continually “Stand for Something THeld annually, Expo Pakistan is the Shake Shack, Garrett Popcorn, and Kuwait and ice cream, popcorn, and a great facility cooperating with other organizations to Good(r)”. biggest trade fair in the country showcas- ing the largest collection of Pakistan’s export merchandise and services. Foreign Exhibitors also use the event to launch their products. Expo Pakistan 2012 was visited by delegates from 52 countries and generated a business of over $ 518 million. A 16 member delegation from Kuwait including reputable companies like Al-Yasra Foods also took part in the last exhibition. Expo Pakistan 2013 is being held under the auspices of the Trade Development Authority Pakistan. Details about the event can be viewed www.expopakisan.gov.pk. Further information and details of sponsor- ship can be obtained from the office of Commercial Secretary, Pakistan Embassy, Pavendar Khazhagam - Kuwait Jabriya (25356594) during office hours. uwait Pavendar Khazhagam Manjula and Selvi. Jeya Parvathi & was performed by under the Leadership of Saravanan, Natarajan and Mrs. Devi Ravi. Celebrated its l0th kalam on05thJuly Murugesan. Subramani and other participants in Tamiz Quiz was conducted by Mrs.Geetha K‘13 at Mangaf. The Program was The event under title “Kalaththu Medu” kaviarangam were Ravanan, Abu Thakir & & Muthukrishnan. The winner was Write to us started at 09.45 hrs. with prayer song by was performed by Selvan. Sanjeev, Sivamani. Phzha.Krishnamoorthy and who gave the Selvi. Jeya Parvathi & Selvi.Nalinaa & Selvi. Selvi.SubhaSree, Selvan. Kittu, Selvan In the kaviarangam, special characters same award to Selvi Jeyaparvathi who was Send to What’s On Subhashree. Naveen Kumar Selvi.Preetha. were performed (acted) as Kannaki by performed (acted) as Kannaki. The The Program was anchored by B. Sekar. Munu.Sivasankaran and Viswanathan gave Selvi.Jeya Parvathi,as Madhavi by Selvi. Program was organized by Devi Ravi, Ravi upcoming events, birthdays or One Thirkkural was described by Sooraj remarkable kavithal (Poems) Ravi applaud- Subashree and as Kovalan by Selvan. & Siva Mani. Kumar. PVKK Kalapaadal was sang by ed the families and members for their wed- Sanjeev. The children characters and dia- The Lunch was sponsored by celebrations by email: Murugesan. The event under the title ding day & birth day which falls in month logues were well appreciated by audience. Subramani. Pavendar Khazhagam thanked [email protected] “Kathai Kelu Kaniyaku” was performed by of July. The Special Speech was given by The debate programme was conducted to Subramani & family members for provid- Fax: 24835619 / 20 Thandayathapaani. The event under the Pazha. Krishna Moorhy under the title under the headship of Rajasegaran and ing lunch. The Program was concluded title ‘Mann Isai “was performed by Mrs. “Thiraavida Geetham”. The Kaviarangam other participants were Murugesan, with national anthem by PVKK Members. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013 Embassy Information

EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not have a visa or immigration department. All processing of visas and immigration matters in conducted by The Australian Consulate-General in Dubai. Email: [email protected] (VFS) [email protected] (Visa Office); Tel: +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 (Visa Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). In Kuwait applications can be lodged at the Australian Visa Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, Al-Banwan Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem Street, opposite the Central Bank of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait. Working hours and days: 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - Thursday. Or visit their website www.vfs-au-gcc- com for more information. Kuwait citizens can apply for tourist visas on-line at www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm.

n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF CANADA he Embassy of Canada in Kuwait does not have a visa or immigra- Ttion department. All processing of visa and immigration matters including enquiries is conducted by the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. Individuals who are interested in working, studying, visiting or GUST’s Al-Abdulajleel completes immigrating to Canada should contact the Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or www.goingtocanada.gc.ca, scholarship with Yale Program E-mail: [email protected]. The Embassy of Canada is located at Villa 24, Al-Mutawakei St, Block 4 in Da’aiyah.Please vis- it our website at www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The embassy will be closed on Monday July 1st 2013, for Canada Day, and will resume its duties on Tuesday 2 July 2013. The Embassy of Canada is open from 07:30 to 15:30 Sunday through Thursday. The reception is open from 07:30 to 12:30. Consular services for Canadian citizens are provided from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday through Wednesday.

n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF GREECE The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the pleasure to announce that visa applica- tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa Application Centre (VFS office) located at 12th floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al- Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collec- tion from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications please visit the following website www.mfa.gr/kuwait. n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF INDIA During the holy month of Ramadan, the office timings of the Indian Passport and Visa Service Centres of BLS International Visa Services Co., Kuwait, situated at (i) Emad Commercial Centre, Basement Floor, Ahmed Al Jaber Street, Sharq, Kuwait, and (ii) Mujamma Unood, 4th floor, Office No. 25-26 Makka Street, Fahaheel, Kuwait, will be from 8am to 3pm from Saturday to Thursday (i.e. six days a week). Tokens for submission of applications will be issued till 2pm only. Delivery of Passports and Visas will be from 11am onwards till 3pm. Embassy of India, Kuwait, will maintain its usual working hours.

n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA During the holy month of Ramadan, the South African Embassy will be open to the public, Sunday through Thursday from 09:00 am to 14:00 pm. Please note that the Consular Section operation hours will be from 09:30 am to 12:00 pm, Sunday through Thursday. n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF US Parents of Kuwaiti citizen children may drop off their sons’ and daughters’ visa applications - completely free of an inter- view or a trip inside the Embassy. The chil- ulf University for Science and foundation and hard work will get you dren must be under 14 years of age, and addition- Technology (GUST) Alum and cur- everywhere,” Al-Abduljaleel said of her win al requirements do apply, but the service means Grent Public Relations employee, with her team. In light of the same, Al- parents will no longer have to schedule individual Joanne Al-Abduljaleel, completed a two- Abduljaleelsaid: “I learned a lot from my appointments for their children, nor come inside week scholarship program with the presti- participation in this unique program as it the Embassy (unless they are applying for them- gious Yale University in the US for a PRE- made me more aware and knowledge- selves). The service is only available for children MBA Global Leadership course in which able in various business topics and theo- holding Kuwaiti passports. To take advantage, par- she and her team won first place in the pro- ries. This experience has provided me with ents must drop off the following documents: Child gram business project. As the only repre- a lot of positive influences in the way I Visa Drop-off cover sheet, available on the sentative from Kuwait among only 60 par- think and do things when it comes to my Embassy website ticipants from all around the world, GUST work and education. Also, my interaction (http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.htm) - was extremely proud of Al-Abduljaleel’s with people from different backgrounds Child’s passport; The Child’s previous passport, if it contains a valid US visa; 5x5cm photo of child with achievements. boosted my ability to deal with and eyes open (if uploaded into DS-160, photos must The program revolved around a world understand with others in a more effec- be a .jpg between 600x600 and 1200x1200 pixels, perspective of business administration tive way. less than 240kb, and cannot be digitally altered); and included many intensive courses Al-Abduljaleel noted that it is important A completed DS-160 form; Visa Fee Receipt from throughout the two weeks such as: for a student in today’s world should keep Burgan Bank; A copy of the valid visa of at least accounting, finance, marketing, manage- up to date with the developments in the one parent. If one parent will not travel, provide a ment and leadership. With what they educational field, not only a specific one, visa copy for the traveling parent, and a passport learned throughout the course, the 60 stu- but all of them as a whole. Today’s ever- copy from the non-traveling parent with a letter dents were divided into teams and changing world requires people to be stating no objection to the child’s travel. - For chil- expected to submit a comprehensive knowledgeable in all different fields, “and dren of students (F2): a copy of the child’s I-20. business proposal of an innovative idea that is why students should try and Children born in the US (with very few excep- using a designated space. Al-Abduljaleel explore different fields of study to eventu- tions) are US citizens and would not be eligible for and her team won first place for Best ally be able to effectively solve problems in a visa. Parents may drop off the application packet Project. “Team work, a good knowledge their life no matter how diverse they are.” at Window 2 at the Embassy from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Monday to Wednesday, excluding holidays. More information is available on the U.S. Embassy web- he TIES Center is glad to announce that its and welcoming environment. You can still register. insights. site: kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.html Ramadan Arabic language courses began TIES Arabic program highlights: * Lessons are specially tailored for expats living in n n n n n n n “Ton Sunday July 7 and will continue till * Lessons are step by step -ranging from basic to Kuwait. August 15, 2013. We offer classes for all levels, from advanced level. * It is an opportunity to interact with other EMBASSY OF VENEZUELA beginner to advanced. * Lessons build confidence for speaking, reading, Westerners, who are taking the courses. Working hours of the Embassy of Throughout the course, the students will learn how and writing Arabic. For more information and registration, please call Venezuela during the holy month of to read, write and speak Arabic in a friendly, relaxed * Lessons combine language learning with cultural 25231015/6 or e-mail: [email protected] Ramadan 09.00 till 13.30. TV PROGRAMS WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013

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

You do not like making speeches, but when elected as a scheduled speaker, You may feel left out or passed over just now. Your own requirements you can plan each word perfectly. You can communicate with great enthusiasm. Words just may appear to limit and separate you from where the rest of the gang is headed. This is a flow out and are usually followed by an emotional impact that brings them home to your lis- short-term situation but it needs your attention. All work and no play can be very draining teners. You have no trouble putting your feelings into words; in fact, you may have to exercise of your energy. Relax this afternoon, take a friend under your wing and invite them to some control over your tongue, for you are quick to say things and everything you communi- come along and play in some group sports. You could just enjoy a sports event this cate packs a wallop. You have a great mental drive and lavish great energy on mental pursuits evening. This may just be the time to break the mold and try what is unconventional, but of all kinds. Ideas, words, books, etc., are pursued with great enthusiasm. This is a time when with real passion or persistence. You put on a more adventurous nature now. Close rela- support and recognition comes from the public, family and friends. Teaching and politics could tionships will take on depth that is more emotional and this may be the time to put your be the main ideas today. heads together and plan the next vacation.

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

A surge of feeling independent, freedom and an interest in trying new ideas, This is a great time to be with others and to work together. You may be may take hold of you now. You have plenty of enthusiasm and warm up to things and people the one chosen for a particular job. You are very motivated, with a strong quickly. You have an inner self-confidence that burns with its own light. You will find yourself drive and urge to do and accomplish. Careful—others could find you a bit pushy if you are very communicative, flexible, mental and other-oriented. If you are in sales, or you teach, peo- left in charge today. You are responsible to the extreme and take on obligations as though ple will not be able to resist your proposal. You are a smooth talker with a quick wit and ready you just cannot get enough. You enjoy discipline and limitations are seen as opportunities tongue. There is a chance to understand those around you and to have a special time with rather than handicaps. With an eye to progress and the future, you may feel compelled to someone you love this evening. You will deal with your feelings for a romantic partner. He or try for what is just out of your reach. You support authority in all forms. A born coach or she may push you for a commitment. Consider moving slowly unless you have been together teacher, you are at home in the physical and action areas of life. You are able to manage a for over a year. very active and strong emotional life.

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

Communication, particularly with superiors or authority figures, could prove Your relentless pursuit of anything hidden or secret makes you a researcher troublesome if you do not keep notes. Instructions or demands may come or investigator bar none. Emotionally, you are also hot stuff, rushing into areas quickly. You may be expected to keep up and repeat instructions to others. The lessons you and handling subject matters that others would never come near. You have the mind of a have learned regarding stress relief will prove beneficial. Others value you for your ability to lawyer, always able to size up a problem and come up with a solution. Using your mind to ACROSS DOWN make practical decisions. You have a natural sense of what others need for some project. Clear negotiate obstacles and handle dilemmas of your own or those of others, is a great talent. You 1. Take in solid food. 1. An inactive volcano in Sicily. decisions affecting others could be made now. A social event, perhaps a cultural attraction have an innate ability to guide and lead others through the hurdles and hassles of life. You could be very much in demand as a therapist. You enjoy solving problems. After uncovering 4. First woman aviator to fly solo nonstop 2. According to the Old Testament he was a such as a museum or even a movie, appeals to you. You feel inspired. You enjoy all forms of cre- ativity. Your desires are strong and you will want to enjoy yourself. Romance is very possible. secrets or protecting the community you may decide to become involved in a child’s summer pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel across the Atlantic (1928). There is a basic drive to appreciate and taste life. project. It is easy for you to lend a helping hand. 11. A telephone connection. (9th century BC). 15. Psychoactive substance present in mari- 3. A protocol developed for the internet to get juana. data from one network device to another. 16. United States feminist (born in 1934). 4. A parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. On or toward the lee. Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. CAPRICORN 18. A period of time spent sleeping. 5. Essential oil or perfume obtained from flow- Your most essential quality has to do with the very real love and compassion you Ideas are flowing today and if you have been elected to convince the boss or 19. Softened by the addition of cushions or ers. emit. Your sense of value and sheer appreciation for life are communicated to all who the planning committee of some changes, you are successful. Your outward seri- ousness and no-nonsense approach to things are obvious to all. This deliberate sense of padding. 6. Succulent carpet-forming plant having small come to know you. Everything points to you taking the initiative today in some efforts to calm, soothe and make others feel secure. You feel a good deal of support from those around you, or circumstances responsibility comes across and is central to your personality and the way you relate to other 21. The blood group whose red cells carry brilliant reddish-pink flowers. may dictate that you take action. You feel healthy and natural. You love to express yourself and have people. Everything moves through your checkpoint to see if it can pass the test. Although you both the A and B antigens. 7. A member of the Sioux people formerly great stamina—a born entertainer. Your urges for the social life may find you out and about this are very creative, you can be a stickler with details. You may be able to enjoy and value the rela- 23. A Turkish unit of weight equal to about inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in evening. This is a good time for surrounding yourself with friends and young people and for having tionships you have with your friends and loved ones this evening. A sense of support makes 2.75 pounds. western North Dakota. fun. General good feelings and a sense of support make this a happy time. this a good time for you. Better communication skills are needed while playing games this 24. Airtight sealed metal container for food or 8. Used of a single unit or thing. evening—dominoes anyone? drink or paint etc.. 9. Someone who has red hair. 25. An abnormal condition in which a normal 10. A soft silvery metallic element of the rare opening or tube in the body (as the urethra) is earth group. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) closed or absent. 11. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle You have plenty of good practical ideas for solving problems in the Clear communication is ever important in order to get your needs met. It is 29. Informal terms for a mother. where driver sits. workplace. You have the ability to communicate with superiors or describe what you see. time to start thinking about opportunities that will show off your own special talents. You may 31. A state in northwestern United States on 12. In addition. Being appreciated for your gifts and talents is a powerful need. You may be asked to help enjoy your job and be able to express that business side of you, but it is time to show how well in a particular project. Your management capabilities are in high focus. Rewards await the Pacific. 13. Plant having a large slender white bulb and you can create. This may be music, crafts or techniques, styles or expressions. You have held your efforts. You work with real imagination and understanding in areas of the mind that 32. (Old Testament) The second patriarch. flat overlapping dark green leaves. yourself back for much too long. You can wait, delay, paralyze yourself or reduce your creativity are most personal or private. There are opportunities to help others in a volunteer situa- 33. The act of scanning. 14. A Russian river. almost to nothing—but, you cannot abolish it. Everything points to your best qualities this tion after the workday is over. Children or animals may not know how to tell you they evening, particularly in a social situation. You will have a grasp for unusual as well as spiritual 37. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale 20. Being one more than two. appreciate your efforts but you are pleased at the results of your hard work. Now, set your ideas and the ability to present or communicate these to others. You could visit or chat with with large dorsal fin. 22. New Zealand timber tree resembling the feet up, lean back and relax. anyone—network. 39. (Irish) Chief god of the Tuatha De Danann. cypress. 40. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger 26. A motley assortment of things. than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and 27. Someone who works (or provides workers) long hind legs. during a strike. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 41. The major mountain range of Bulgaria and 28. A rectangular block of hewn stone used for the Balkan Peninsula. building purposes. You have strong, stable emotions and tend to draw around you the perfect Ideas and communications are topics of interest and concern for you now. Getting the facts and making sure that people get your message straight can make all the dif- 44. Valuable source of caviar and isinglass. 30. Any of various plants of the genus Aralia. environment. The thing you need is at hand. In addition, you receive good fortune and much support from friends and relatives. You are sometimes faced with a desire to progress and be ference in the world—and any shortcomings in these areas can cause problems. Travel could 45. A waste pipe that carries away sewage or 34. Any taillike structure. all that you can be, versus a tendency to dwell in the past or be a couch potato. Your inner, be more trouble than it’s worth just now. You have a lot of energy to pour into practical and surface water. 35. Of or relating to the ancient Greek city of more domestic side struggles at this time. Consider teaching or taking a class in becoming career decisions. Take a step back and reassess what motivates you. You are original and 48. A nearly horizontal passage from the sur- Argos or its people. organized—perhaps a book. This may be the right time to think about changing or enhancing insightful when it comes to practical matters—job, career and such. Independent, you may face into a mine. 36. Put (things or places) in order. your career. Perhaps something home-based that is creative or teaches others creatively and have an unconventional approach to work, especially regarding how you organize or manage. A relationship grows closer because you share the same viewpoint. Building a good relation- 49. An anticipated outcome that is intended 38. Walk clumsily. relieves stress for all. The path or career that you have now may be changed at any time you feel it necessary. Rest early. ship takes time and trust. or that guides your planned actions. 42. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or 50. A metric unit of length equal to one hun- characters. dredth of a meter. 43. A river in southeastern Australia that flows 51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially generally northwest to join the Darling River. Word Search Yesterday’s Solution in Turkey). 46. (Greek mythology) An Athenian inventor 53. An extravagantly enthusiastic review. who built the Labyrinth of Minos. 54. An American Indian infant. 47. Of or relating to or characteristic of Ghana 57. Title for a civil or military leader (especially or its people or language. in Turkey). 52. Any culture medium that uses agar as the 59. Half the width of an em. gelling agent. 60. Tested and proved useful or correct. 55. Large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics 61. Submerged aquatic plant having narrow and subtropics. leaves and small flowers. 56. East Indian annual erect herb. 64. Treated or impregnated with a foreign 58. The branch of computer science that deal substance. with writing computer programs that can solve 67. The second month of the Moslem calen- problems creatively. dar. 62. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan 69. Fallow deer. River. 72. South American armadillo with three 63. Indigo bush. bands of bony plates. 65. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrat- 74. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medi- ed silica of variable color. cinally and burned as incense. 66. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver 75. A sock with a separation for the big toe. cells. 76. An immunosuppressive drug (trade name 68. A form of magnetic resonance imaging of Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a trans- the brain that registers blood flow to function- planted organ. ing areas of the brain. 78. Not far distant in time or space or degree 70. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was or circumstances. formed by an explosion. 79. By bad luck. 71. A river in northern England that flows 80. Having the characteristics of pitch or tar. southeast through West Yorkshire. 81. A river in north central Switzerland that 73. Term of address for a man. runs northeast into the Rhine. 77. A Mid-Atlantic state. Yesterday’s Solution

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ariah Carey is in the hospital for a shoulder injury. The pop still perform Saturday with the New York Philharmonic on Central star’s representative says the singer went to the hospital in Park’s Great Lawn for the 2013 MLB All-Star Charity Concert. It will MNew York late Sunday after injuring her shoulder while benefit Superstorm Sandy victims. Carey will release a new album filming a music video. Her rep adds Monday that “doctors reset her this year. “#Beautiful” features Grammy-winning R&B singer Miguel shoulder” and that “she is fine.” Carey was filming a video for a remix and has peaked at No. 15 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. version of her song “#Beautiful” with rapper Young Jeezy. The video was being directed by her husband Nick Cannon. The singer will

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on’t worry about Paula Abdul; she’s find- ing work. At least for one night. Abdul, Dwho exited Fox’s “American Idol” and “The X Factor” amid shakeups to those show’s judges’ panels, has picked up a little tempo- rary work via a one-night stand on yet another Fox competition series, “So You Think You Can Dance.” Abdul will guest- judge the series on Tuesday night, Fox said on Monday. Abdul will help critique the Top 18 finalists, a croup that includes ountry music star Randy Travis was in critical condi- tenced to two years of probation, fined $2000 and given a Jasmine Mason, Alan Bersten and tion Monday in a Texas hospital, a day after he was 180-day suspended jail sentence. He was required to Mariah Spears.(The latter, by the way, Chospitalized with viral cardiomyopathy. A news spend at least 30 days at an alcohol treatment facility and is not a human mash-up of for- release from the singer’s publicist says Travis was admitted complete 100 hours of community service. The Mayo Clinic mer “American Idol” judge to the hospital Sunday in Dallas and is in critical condition. website describes cardiomyopathy (kahr-dee-oh-my-OP- Mariah Carey and former “The X Kirt Webster, Travis’ publicist, said no other details about uh-thee) as a disease that weakens and enlarges the heart Factor” judge Britney Spears.) Fox Travis’ condition were available Monday. Viral cardiomy- muscle, making it harder for the heart to pump blood and Sports personality Erin Andrews will opathy is a heart condition caused by a virus. The illness is carry it to the rest of the body. It can lead to heart failure. also guest-judge the episode. a continuation of a tough run for the 54-year-old “Three Treatments range from medications and surgically Wooden Crosses” singer after a handful of recent high-pro- implanted devices to heart transplants. file appearances, including a performance during the Country Music Association Festival’s nightly concert series. Travis pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in January following his arrest last year when he was found naked after crashing his Pontiac Trans Am. Travis was sen-

cruise with Goldie Hawn and her total, and at one during the dinner Goldie daughter Kate Hudson fetched and Kate played former Wimbledon winner A£140,000 at an auction for the Novak Boris Becker at tennis. Goldie’s own Hawn Djokovic Foundation on Monday night .The Foundation has partnered with The Novak four-day vacation aboard super yacht Silver Djokovic Foundation to continue the work Angel - which has a staff of 22 - with the her MindUpProgramme has started in Serbia iggest Loser” alum Tara Costa could have a weighty legal ‘Overboard’ star and her actress daughter to help kids and she is very proud of their situation on her hands. Costa, who appeared on NBC’s was snapped up jointly by three couples, association. Speaking before the event start- “B“The Biggest Loser: Couples 2” - and lost 155 pounds in the including TV presenter Jonathan Ross and his ed, the 67-year-old actress told BANG process - is being sued by a fitness company, which claims that Costa wife Jane Goldman, for the huge sum. The Showbiz: “I’m very excited to partnering violated a business agreement with them. Among the gripes in the item was part of an auction at the inaugural Novak’s foundation. Our programs’ aim is to lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Florida: That Costa “had gained far tennis-themed dinner held at The help children to gain confidence, to experi- too much weight” to make personal appearances on behalf of the Roundhouse venue in London to raise mon- ence happiness, provide them with optimism company. FC Online Marketing, Inc. - which owns the website I Love ey for the tennis player’s new charity - which and get them ready for the world. There are Kickboxing - claims that the alleged weight gain ran contrary to a aims to help disadvantaged children across many ways to help children, and that’s what passage in the agreement that Costa “agrees to maintain her current the world but especially in Djokovic’s native our program does. It’s a great feeling to be level of fitness and conditioning” during the length of the agreement. Serbia. A number of items were sold for high able to do it and that’s why I’m here.” Other The suit, which also names The Champion Funds, Inc., d/b/athe prices during the evening, including a week- guests included Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess Inspire Change Foundation, levels other charges. The complaint also long vacation at the luxurious Gili of York - who was recently announced as the claims that FC Online Marketing agreed to pay the Foundation Lankanfushi resort in the Maldives in an over- charity’s Global Ambassador - her daughters $45,000 for “likeness rights” to Costa - rights that, the suit alleges, water villa which was snapped up by Gerard Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, were not the Foundation’s to grant. On top of everything else, the suit Butler for £25,000. A Roland Iten ‘mechanical Ronnie Wood and Sir Richard Branson. claims, Costa entered into an agreement with one of FC Online calibre’ solid gold belt buckle “test driven” by Marketing’s competitors, in violation of the original agreement. The Sylvester Stallone was bought by Djokovic for Inspire Change Foundation has not yet responded to TheWrap’s £42,000. Over £1.14 million was raised in request for comment. The suit is seek- ing unspeci- fied dam- ages.

avid Schwimmer is coming back to the New York stage - by way of “Detroit.” The former “Friends” star will make his Playwrights DHorizons debut this summer in Lisa D’Amour’s play about the ten- sions lurking under the surface of American life. He will star opposite Tony Award nominee Amy Ryan. “Detroit” is set in a suburb of that city and centers on a couple who invite their new neighbors over for a barbe- cue only to slowly find their friendship veering out of control. Previews begin Aug 24. The play represents Schwimmer’s first return to the New York stage since his Broadway debut in “The Caine Mutiny Court Martial” in 2006. He also directed “Fault Lines” at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2008.

ctor Jim Carrey, who spoke out against gun violence a different tack on the issue. “Asslt rifle fans,I do not agree after a series of deadly shootings in the United wth u,nor do I fear u but I do love u and I’m sorry tht in my AStates in 2012, apologized to assault weapon rights outrage I called you names. That was wrong,” the Carrey defenders on Monday. Carrey had tweeted a series of Canadian-born US actor said in a Twitter posting. Minutes apologizes to insults at gun owners and gun rights supporters, mainly later, Carrey added “Btw I don’t need a crisis mgr, just a after a gun massacre at a Newtown Connecticut school conscience. Calling ppl names is inappropriate but my assault weapon owners that killed 26 people including 20 children last December. position on assault weapons hasn’t changed.” Last month, “Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the the actor, 51, said he would not take part in promoting his Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul new film “Kick-Ass 2” saying that after the Newtown shoot- worth protecting,” Carrey tweeted in February. And in ing, in hindsight, it appeared too violent to him. March, he tweeted: “154 BULLETS FIRED AT SANDY HOOK! 2 handguns n a bushmaster rifle on Lanza. 1600 rnds of amo at his house. WE MUST STOP THIS!!” Despite an out- pouring of anguish across America over the school shoot- ing, the US Congress voted against passing new gun con- trol measures earlier this year. And on Monday, Carrey took lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013

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A Cambodian vendor preparing traditional medicines for sale at a shop in Phnom Penh.— AFP photos A professor of Cambodian traditional healers, showing a plant as he teaches students during a trip in Kep province.

lizard dipped in wine may not seem like an obvious asth- ma remedy, but as Cambodian traditional healers strive Ato turn their ancient wisdom into a professional industry such treatments are finding their way into the classroom. For generations, the secrets of “Kru Khmer” traditional remedies have been passed down by word of mouth-often from father to son-with each expert tweaking the methods along the way. But in an attempt to freshen up the ancient art and better regulate the industry, Cambodia’s Ministry of Health has opened a tradi- tional medicine school, with funds from a Japanese foundation. Cambodia is home to thousands of Kru Khmer practitioners- medicinal plant experts whose mysterious concoctions of roots, barks and leaves are used to heal common ailments. The school, which opened in 2009, has trained some 345 Kru Khmer so far, with a particular focus on hygiene and anatomy. “It’s good to have training like this because it teaches us correct, safe meth- ods,” said Kraing Dhein, a student at the school. A certain kind of tree bark is said to help breast-feeding women produce enough milk, while the pungent durian fruit is well-known as a treat- ment for rheumatism. Other remedies are potentially dangerous-in the worst case, powerful homemade rice wine is known to have been recom- mended to pregnant women. “This training is more professional than what students learn from their ancestors,” said Kong Thai Savy trainer of Cambodian traditional healers, teaching students in a class- Cambodian workers filling traditional medicines in plastic bags as they produce Sokdina, project manager for CatMO, a traditional medicine room at the National Center of Traditional Medicine (NCTM) in Phnom Penh. medicine at a shop in Phnom Penh. organization that manages the courses. “They are taught many subjects, such as the ethical code of treatment... they wouldn’t know otherwise.” During the five months of training, students ‘I believe in traditional medicine’ Kimsath, still a Kru Khmer student. But some adherents claim Western medicines, with no proper advice or prescription. are taken on regular field trips to study local varieties of plants On the outskirts of Phnom Penh’s Orussey Market, many Kru the discipline is so powerful that it can replace modern medi- The most obscure power of the healers pertains to the spir- and learn about their natural healing properties-such as those Khmer man tables heaped high with dried plants and animal cine entirely. its. Many Cambodians believe Kru Khmer have the capacity to that can act as antibiotics or have antiseptic qualities. parts, roots, barks and other traditional treatments. Tauch Pov Rany has regularly consulted traditional healers ever literally blow bad spirits out of the body. “I cured a woman who The final trip on the course is to southern Kampot province, Sreythoeun opened her stall at Orussey soon after she finished since she discovered she had a cyst in her chest. “I believe in tra- had shingles with my magic breath,” said Ky Bouhang. “Today, home to many unique plant species. “We can find roots that no training. “Some (customers) want plants to help reduce fever, ditional medicine, I think it is effective and good for my health,” she can work again in her farm while no other treatment had longer exist elsewhere,” said professor Ky Bouhang, chair of the for example, so I mix them a treatment from several roots,” she she said. “I don’t use modern medicine because drugs contain been a success.”— AFP Cambodian Traditional Healers Association. Some 80 percent of told AFP. Patients usually seek out a Kru Khmer for help with chemical substances and counterfeit products.” Some doctors Cambodia’s population live in rural areas, often in villages with minor gripes, such as stomach aches and exhaustion, which do warn about the dangers of relying solely on traditional healers- no doctors, let alone a hospital. Even where local healthcare is not demand the attention-and expense of a proper doctor. especially for serious illnesses. But in Cambodia, the pull of tra- available, many villagers cannot afford professional medical “Traditional medicine can help treat the poorest people ditional medicine is strong. Many see it as tried and trusted care. Traditional healers offer a cheaper alternative-and busi- because people (living) in the country do not have enough ancient wisdom in contrast to the country’s myriad local phar- ness is prosperous. money to go to the hospital or see a doctor,” said Soung macies, which dole out expensive and often counterfeit

fter killing off Batman’s Robin and re- that he is the son of Batman and trying to live inventing the X-Men, Scottish comic up to that legacy,” he said. “The story for that Abook writer Grant Morrison is looking for character was always that he would die in the other superhuman legends to transform with end.” Morrison likened his efforts to reinvent the his pen. Morrison - who has also taken on pantheon of superheroes to the evolution of Spiderman and Superman in a 25-year career - the King Arthur and Robin Hood legends has decided to leave the caped crusader in the passed down through oral tradition. “I think it’s hands of other writers after the final issue of his important to basically find what was the core of “BATMAN, INCORPORATED” DC Comics series the character and then to see how that applies comes out this month. to the way we think in the real world and see if it “The seven years has exhausted everything I can be updated and matched to interests and ever had to say about the character,” Morrison ideas that people have in a contemporary set- told Reuters in a telephone interview. Morrison, ting,” he said. A bakery employee stackts fresh bread at the bakery Plentz in A master baker Steffen Haensch prepares the potato bread at the bak- 53, said his final iteration of Batman had used His next projects include a re-working of Schwante. — AFP photos ery Plentz. ideas from the character’s entire journey from Wonder Woman, and a series called “MULTI- the crimefighter created by writer Bill Finger VERSE”, where superheroes exist in parallel uni- and artist Bob Kane in 1939 through his slap- verses. In one alternative scenario, Hitler won stick portrayal in the 1960s US TV series to direc- the war and Superman is a Nazi. In another, tor Christopher Nolan’s brooding 2008 “Dark superheroes have vanquished evil and their Knight” film. gifted children have nothing to do. “Batman seems to be endlessly pliable and Morrison, whose popularity is so vast he had malleable in that he can assume all kinds of his own comic book convention last year in Las t’s a sense of home,” German master baker Karl- German bread ‘second to none’ come through here, the French for instance. Napoleon guises from the comedy pop-up Batman of the Vegas, said his interest in American comics Dietmar Plentz muses, dipping his hands into a Germany is due to become the 153rd state party to stopped over in Hamburg and we have here a 60s to the very militaristic, realistic, trending came out of a childhood spent near a naval “Itray of flour and letting it run through his fin- UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the ‘Franzbroetchen’ (French bread roll) which certainly Batman of Christopher Nolan,” Morrison said. In base, which once had a huge American pres- gers as 26 types of bread bake in the ovens of his 136- Intangible Cultural Heritage this week, with its 16 originates from the French period. “I believe it has all his latest guise, the writer created a Robin char- ence. “We were getting comics and records and year-old family business. Behind him a worker deftly regions now collecting proposals for possible inclusion left its mark,” Becker said. The baker’s trade now uses acter who was the son of Batman by the daugh- a very strong American influence for a long kneads two pieces of dough into identical loaves, one on a national inventory a prerequisite for later UNESCO social media to attract fresh blood after an almost 30- ter of a master criminal. time, for the entire postwar period right into the in each hand, as they roll off a cutting machine. They listing. Germany’s history initially muddied plans to join percent drop since 2007 in apprentices amid a shrink- Raised by a criminal gang to rule the world, 80s,” he said. “Once you consider that, it’s not belong to a batch of ‘potato bread’, one of Plentz’s spe- the convention by raising fears that traditions distorted ing and ageing German population and an image Robin discovered his true father was Batman, much of a surprise that I grew up with American cialties that is still partly made the way his grandfather by the Nazis or the East German regime could be pro- problem over the early start to the workday. decided to become a superhero but died saving culture and American superheroes looming did it. posed, Benjamin Hanke of the German Commission for “We found each other via Facebook. He wanted to the planet at the tender age of 10. “The story very large in my life.”—Reuters German bakers are calling for their breadmaking to UNESCO said. become a baker and we were looking for an appren- was always going to be about this little kid’s be recognized by the United Nations’ cultural organiza- But other reasons also caused Germany to original- tice,” Plentz said of Spanish trainee Guellem Xanxo, 24, journey from being trained by assassins and tion, UNESCO, as “intangible cultural heritage”, along- ly hang back, he said, including a general failure to who begins a two-year apprenticeship in August. With raised by an evil cabal of people finding out side Argentina’s tango, carpet weaving from southwest grasp and clearly define the concept of heritage based a son and four daughters, Plentz does not know yet to Iran and France’s four-course gastronomic meal. on know-how rather than something concrete. The whom he will hand over the reigns of the business he Pondering why Germany’s rich assortment of bread baker’s federation threw its first “Day of German Bread” joined from school. It now employs about 100 people should be considered a global cultural asset, Plentz, a gala last month, appointing two “Brotschafter”, a neat and counts five branches in the region around the 46-year-old fourth generation baker from northeastern blend of the German words for ambassador and bread, town of Oranienburg, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) Germany who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, says and trumpeted its ‘Bread Register’. Around 3,000 spe- from Berlin. He used to help out as a boy and went into “individuality” is important. That’s not necessarily easy ciality breads have so far been logged. German bread the business after leaving school when the East with supermarkets and petrol stations jostling to sell has enjoyed high-profile endorsements recently. German regime clipped his ambitions to study due to bread, cakes and pastries, and a changing on-the-go Outgoing US ambassador to Berlin Philip Murphy’s his Christian beliefs and failure to join communist lifestyle meaning that Germany’s traditional wife Tammy told reporters it was one of the things youth groups. ‘Abendbrot’-supper of bread with cold meats-is on the she’d recommend to visiting First Lady Michelle But he says he has no regrets. He proudly mentions wane. About 500 bakeries closed over the past year, Obama. “passion” and “creativity” when describing his work, according to the German Federation of the Bakery “It’s second to none,” she enthused, while the front- adorning his bakery with bygone tools of the trade for Trade. Peter Becker, federation president, said “diversi- man of US rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, Jared Leto, myriad breads, some of whose intriguing names even ty” was key to the UNESCO bid and would recognize told fans at a concert “I love the German bread”. The he is at a loss to explain. “Kaviarbrot”, it seems, has the “pride in our products”, which are often crafted vast array of bread is partly down to Germany’s varied nothing to do with fish. For Plentz, UNESCO recogni- from recipes passed down from one generation to the climate which allows all types of crops to thrive, Becker tion would be a stamp of approval and a celebration of next and may also reflect a regional identity. “In France said. But history and geography too have played a role, age-old methods such as the wood-burning oven there are excellent baguettes, in Italy outstanding cia- he added, explaining that bread had been one way for where he bakes on market days on the village square batta, but worldwide, I think, only Germany has this the small princedoms that formerly dotted across opposite his bakery. —AFP variety, from wholemeal bread to good wheat bread,” Germany to carve out their own identity. “Germany is he told AFP. located on the way to the sea. 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he lead single from Ciara’s self-titled Still, the album doesn’t feel special. While Ciara, the person, is still searching for fifth album, “Body Party,” is an oozing, it’s much better than her last two releases - Ciara, the singer. Ciara kicked-off her new Tseductive R&B track that deserves rous- the weak “Fantasy Ride” and the subpar “Basic album with three different singles - “Sweat,” ing applause - especially when the 27-year- Instinct” - the album is made up of fillers that “Sorry” and “Got Me Good” - that now don’t old matches the song with daring and sensu- have you still wondering what kind of singer appear on “Ciara,” a sign of her creative strug- al dance moves that scream Janet Jackson, Ciara is. Like her past records, “Ciara” isn’t gles. The album features producers and Aaliyah and others that have come before cohesive, and instead, sporadic - some hits songwriters like Rodney Jerkins, Mike WiLL her, as she did at the recent BET Awards. The here, satisfactory work there, but overall, Made-It, Livvi Franc and Future, her rapper bedroom groove is easily the best of the 11 mediocrity reigns. The album, out on Epic boyfriend who co-wrote and co-produced tracks that make up “Ciara.” There are others Records, is her first album since leaving “Body Party.” Hopefully, he can be the Jimmy that shine, too: The bouncy “Livin’ It Up,” one LaFace Records, her home since she released Jam & Terry Lewis to her Janet - or she can of two songs to feature Nicki Minaj, has an her multi-platinum 2004 debut, the explosive find someone else to fill that slot. — AP empowering feel; the mid-tempo “Read My “Goodies.” She had hits from that album and Lips” is appealing and Ciara’s sweet tone its follow-up, “Ciara: The Evolution,” but she rides nicely over the semi-electronic beat of hasn’t established her own style or sound in “Overdose.” the near-decade she’s been on the scene.

he courageous story of the “Flying Sikh” — India’s most suc- words spoken to Singh by his father. As he was dying, he told cessful ever track athlete, who overcame childhood tragedy Singh to flee or he too would be killed in the post-partition riots Tto seek Olympic glory-is the latest Bollywood biopic to hit sweeping the subcontinent-Singh ran for his life and boarded a cinemas. “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” (Run, Milkha, Run) charts the jour- train with other refugees. ney of young Milkha Singh who lost his family during India’s Mehra was drawn to Singh’s story not just for his sporting tumultuous partition in 1947 and went on to compete at the 1960 achievements but for the impact the athlete had on a newborn and 1964 Olympic Games. His rise to elite athlete made Singh a nation struggling to assert itself. “At that time, we were looking for national hero and the film, which opens in theatres worldwide on heroes outside politics. Outside (Mahatma) Gandhi or (prime min- Friday, joins the Bollywood trend of movies based on or inspired ister Jawaharlal) Nehru, there were none that the world knew. So by real stories. he went out there and in a way conquered the world for us,” he “We all grew up with the folklore of Milkha, he’s a larger-than- explained. “This man never ran away from his fears, he ran along life figure for us,” said the film’s director Rakeysh Mehra. “He’s like with them.” Singh finished fourth in the 400 metres at the 1960 what Pele meant to football, or what Jesse Owens meant for track Olympics in Rome after a spectacular final that was so close it and field for the West.” The movie title refers to the poignant last needed a photo finish to determine fourth place. This film image released by Warner Bros Pictures shows Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket, A devastated Singh, who won gold at both the Asian and left, and Rinko Kikuchi as Mako Mori in a scene from ‘Pacific Rim.’ — AP Commonwealth Games, never fulfilled his dream of winning an Olympic medal. The director says his film is decidedly “un- Bollywood”, deviating from the typical plotline that aims to “serve a complete meal” by combining elements of dance, drama, emo- tion and action into one blockbuster. “Here, drama is the key,” Mehra said. He is the latest Bollywood director to experiment with a biographical story, following a string of true-life movies in recent years that have proven popular with wide audiences. Among the most successful was “The Dirty Picture” (2011), starring Vidya Balan uillermo del Toro’s monsters-vs-giant-robots most like-minded viewers at an uninvolving and inspired by the life of a South Indian erotic actress in the opus “Pacific Rim” hits theaters Friday, and remove.” 1980s. Last year’s critically-acclaimed sports biopic “Paan Singh Gthe early buzz is that it’s a visually sumptuous Those attributes that were considered deficits by Tomar”, starring Irrfan Khan, told the story of athlete Tomar who fantasy from the Mexican moviemaker. Critics have Chang and Duralde were roundly praised by became a notorious bandit. Currently in the pipeline are movies largely praised the film as an indulgent but Film.com’s Jordan Hoffman, who lauded “Pacific Rim” about playback singer Kishore Kumar and boxing star Mary Kom, nonetheless tasty piece of popcorn entertainment - for tickling all his adolescent pleasure zones. “They a farmer’s daughter who became a five-time world champion and although a few have groused that it is a soulless don’t let 14-year-old boys direct multi-million-dollar won a bronze medal at the London Olympics. Farhan Akhtar, who enterprise unworthy of the director behind such feature films, but somehow, perhaps through years plays Milkha Singh in the new movie, said portraying a living per- visionary and dark spectacles as “Pan’s Labyrinth.” of Ramtha-like training, Guillermo del Toro has chan- son was a huge responsibility that required months of both physi- Many top reviewers have yet to weigh in, so it’s neled the interests, attitudes and fears from that cal and mental preparation. possible that the critical consensus could shift in the mindset with a clarity that far surpasses contempo- “I wanted them to believe that they’ve cast an athlete and direction of either turkey or triumph over the next raries like Michael Bay ... This is playtime and imagi- taught him how to act, as opposed to the other way around. And few days. However, thus far “Pacific Rim” commands nation drawn from a number of different sources that comes from the kind of energy you exude when you walk a solid 72 percent “fresh” rating on critics-aggregator and it is, when compared to its peer group, of onto a track and it feels like you belong to this space,” he said. The Rotten Tomatoes. The film stars Charlie Hunnam, extremely high caliber,” Hoffman wrote. former sprinter, now 77, told Akhtar he hoped the film would Idris Elba and Charlie Day and centers on a collec- Empire’s Ian Nathan acknowledged that movie- encourage future Indian athletes by showing just how close he tion of menacing sea creatures called kaiju that ter- goers hoping for character development should came to Olympic glory, and perhaps inspiring them “to fulfill that rorize the earth. To combat the toothsome threat, look elsewhere but praised the film for ably han- dream for him”, the actor said. — AFP mankind creates massive machines dubbed jaegers dling the on-screen battles and its director for pro- to fight the monsters and reclaim the planet. As viding a few flourishes. “Del Toro is giving scope to a expected, phrases like “life-like” and “gritty” did not boyhood lust for mayhem, the multi-million-dollar Indian Bollywood film director Rakeysh Omprakash grace many reviews. equivalent of kicking over sandcastles and torturing Mehra, of the upcoming Hindi film ‘Bhaag Milka Bhagg’ In TheWrap, Alonso Duralde carped that the film insects,” Nathan wrote. “There is something infec- speaks during an interview. is overly reliant on computer-generated wonders tiously juvenile in that. Catch his Drift and you’ll and faulted del Toro for staging too many set pieces have a brawl.” in the rain-streaked night. “One guy in one rubber That’s precisely the experience that Drew Godzilla suit stepping on a balsa-wood scale model McWeeny chronicled in his rapturous review of the of Tokyo provides lots more thrills than del Toro’s film on HitFix. McWeeny’s prose practically pranced, Monster Armies of the Night,” Duralde wrote. be-bopped and ricocheted off the page as he He added: “Part of the film’s problem is the whole described his bliss over del Toro’s tribute to monster ‘of the Night’ thing: Whenever the jaegers and the movies. kaiju throw down in ‘Pacific Rim,’ it’s at night in the “You can practically hear Guillermo Del Toro sit- pouring rain-unless they’re both at the bottom of ting just out of camera range and cackling at this the ocean. What’s the point, exactly, of cutting-edge big, beautiful, weird-as-hell thrill ride,” McWeeny CG monsters filmed in a way where we can barely wrote. “Whatever happens with the film when it see them? Would ‘Jurassic Park’ have worked if our opens, this is what Del Toro’s heart looks like if you glimpses of the dinosaurs had been fleeting at were to cut it open and lay it out for inspection.” best?” IndieWire’s Eric Kohn gave a tortured appraisal. It’s Justin Chang of Variety also was enervated rather better than the standard blockbuster fare, he wrote, than energized by the epic battles, branding the film but it still suffers from a certain soullessness. the “clunkiest” of del Toro’s career. He questioned if “Compared to some of the more leaden specta- the $200 million production will arrive in theaters cles this summer, ‘White House Down’ and the final with a strong-enough brand to compete with the hour of ‘Man of Steel’ chief among them, ‘Pacific Rim’ superhero films and sequels currently jockeying for has the inventive, colorful textures of a fully realized space at the local multiplex. world,” Kohn wrote. “But that’s only enough to make “With this gargantuan passion project, del Toro it a slightly different kind of dumb from the usual means to fashion a giddy throwback to the monster messy blockbuster routine.”— Reuters movies of yore and restore a sense of pure escapism to the summer movie landscape, an eminently wor- thy goal for a genre master of such inexhaustible imagination and knowledge of the B-movie canon,” Chang wrote. “Yet while the director’s love for his material is at once sincere and self-evident, it’s the Indian Bollywood film actor Farhan Akhtar, co-star of the upcoming Hindi film ‘Bhaag Milka Bhagg’, based on the sort of devotion that winds up holding all but the life of Indian Olympian Milkha Singh, speaks during an interview with AFP in New Delhi. — AFP photos

Chinese journalist said yesterday that he has military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in interactions with other detainees. He said, however, been conditionally released from detention Beijing and a film he made about torture at a that police had seized his work computer, mobile Aafter five weeks in which he was asked about Chinese labor camp, he said. The authorities were phone and other and have not returned them to his book on the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown and a questioning him to learn if the work he did amount- him. Du’s detention had come amid a broader film he made about labor camp abuses. Beijing- ed to the crime of “causing a disturbance,” Du said. crackdown on China’s small, beleaguered commu- based video and photojournalist Du Bin said by He was not formally charged, however. “From the nity of rights activists and dissidents launched phone that state security officials released him time I was taken in until I was released, I never felt under new Communist Party chief Xi Jinping. The Monday evening from the Fengtai District deten- like I had committed any crime,” Du said. campaign has dashed hopes that the new leader- tion center and told him that for the next 12 “What I want to do is to reflect the era that we ship might ease controls on civil society. — AP months, he is restricted from leaving the city with- live in, tell the stories of China’s ordinary people, of out informing the authorities ahead of time, even when they die abnormal deaths and their joys and for domestic travel. sorrows. I’m concerned with humanity.” Du said he Officials questioned him about a 600-page book was treated with respect by detention center offi- In this photo released by activist Hu Jia, Beijing-based video and photojournalist Du he recently published in Hong Kong about the 1989 cials and was never beaten and that he enjoyed his Bin talks on his mobile phone in Beijing yesterday. — AP lifestyle WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013

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(From left) Nastaran Ghaffari, Kamyar Shahdoust, Farbod Shirmohammad, Danial Izadi and Hamed Babaei, members of an Iranian band called Photo shows female Iranian back vocalist Azadeh Ettehad and violinist Nastaran Ghaffari, ‘Accolade,’ practice at the house of one of the members in Tehran. both members of a band called ‘Accolade,’ perform in an unauthorized stage performance in Tehran, Iran. — AP photos

eavy metal guitarists jamming in ernment minders have allowed some pop basements. Headphone-wearing disc concerts to go on, musicians say all the has- Hjockeys mixing beats. It’s an under- sles and restrictions make playing under- ground music scene that is flourishing in ground easier. Iran, despite government restrictions. It isn’t “Are we underground because we want to necessarily a sign of rebellion against Iran’s oppose the system? No,” musician Danial theocratic government, though. Musicians, Izadi said. “We wanted to do what we loved including a woman violinist who performs to do.” — AP underground, say they enjoy the freedom their off-the-record existence provides. Iranian guitarist Hamed Babaei practices for his band called ‘Accolade’ in a Many musicians fled in the 1980s after Female Iranian violinist Nastaran Ghaffari practices for her band called basement of a house. Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Today, though gov- ‘Accolade’ in a basement of a house in Tehran.

Kamyar Shahdoust with base guitar, from left, Danial Izadi with harmonica, Nastaran Iranian musician Ardeshir Jofreh, a member of a band called ‘Accolade,’ Iranian musician Danial Izadi performs with his harmonica in an unau- Ghaffari with violin and Hamed Babaei with electric guitar practice in a basement of a house. performs in an unauthorized stage performance. thorized stage performance for his band called ‘Accolade’ in Tehran, Iran.

etallica will perform during Comic-Con San relaunched with Bob Berney and his wife Jeanne in location. Those fans at the panel will learn the location as film, television and comic books. While most of the zeal- Diego to help promote a new 3D movie the charge. The four members of the band (James Hetfield, and have a chance to win tickets. ous fans in attendance are usually on the lookout for invites Miconic metal band wrote and stars in, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo), along with Advance tickets for the movie will go on sale after the to parties, pictures with celebrities and unique memorabilia, Picturehouse announced on Monday. The film, “Metallica DeHaan, director Nimrod Antal and producer Charlotte panel. The film will open on large-format IMAX screens Sept a ticket to that show could become the hottest ticket in Through the Never,” splices footage of a Metallica con- Huggins, will appear on a panel at 6:30 pm July 19, 27 before moving to additional theaters the following week. town. — Reuters cert in Canada with a fictional narrative about a roadie debuting a trailer, poster and footage from the film for As the New York Times pointed out in a Monday piece on (played by Dane DeHaan). Picturehouse is distributing fans in attendance. The band, making its first appearance Metallica’s Comic-Con plans, music has never been a focal the movie - its first project since the company at Comic-Con, also will play a private concert at a secret point of an event dedicated to other cultural industries such

hen tornadoes devastated parts of Oklahoma earlier this year, members of Kings of Leon decided to help Wout the people of the state that’s been a huge part of their lives over the years. They just weren’t sure how, and opening up the bank account didn’t seem the right way to go. “It just felt like something we could lend a hand to,” Jared am Trammell, who plays bar owner Sam Merlotte on HBO’s Followill said. “We talked about just donating some money. “True Blood,” has booked the lead role as a junkie in the But you know we just all started talking and we realized we’d Sgritty indie movie “The Aftermath,” TheWrap has learned. probably raise more money by doing a show and it would An individual familiar with the project tells TheWrap the film’s probably be more fun for us than just writing a check. We can tone is a cross between “Winter’s Bone” and “Trainspotting.” go there and be with the people, be with our family. It was Trammell plays a struggling addict who becomes obsessed one of those things that we didn’t realize that it could happen. The people that we work with just made it happen really with a pendant that he believes will save his marriage. When the quickly.” pendant is stolen, he plunges into the seedy underworld of his The Kings of Leon’s Rock for Oklahoma: A Benefit Concert small town in search of it. SSS Entertainment is producing and for Oklahoma Tornado Victims will happen July 23. It’s the financing. Tim McCann is directing from a script he co-wrote third big fundraiser in the wake of the storms that killed with Shaun Sanghani, who is also producing. In addition to star- dozens and uprooted thousands, preceded by efforts that ring, Trammell will also serve as an executive producer. A July 29 included fellow Oklahomans Blake Shelton, Toby Keith, Garth start is scheduled in Alexandria, Louisiana. Brooks, Ronnie Dunn and Carrie Underwood. The Followills “The Aftermath” reunites Trammell with director McCann and invited Oklahoma City residents The Flaming Lips and Jackson producer Sanghani, who recently collaborated on the indie dra- Browne and Built to Spill to participate in the concert at ma “White Rabbit,” which also stars Nick Krause and Britt Chesapeake Energy Arena. Grace Potter and Ben Kweller will Robertson. Trammell, who plays bar owner Sam Merlotte on make guest appearances, and there will be a silent auction to HBO’s “True Blood,” will soon be seen opposite Virginia Madsen win a meet-and-greet with Victoria’s Secret Angels Lily in the indie “Crazy Kind of Love.” He has also wrapped “Things Aldridge and Erin Heatherton. People Do” with Wes Bentley and Jason Isaacs, and the comedy The concert comes as the Kings wrap up a European tour “Me” with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Gina Gershon. He’s repped and prepare to release their sixth album, “Mechanical Bull,” lat- by Innovative Artists, Untitled Entertainment and Parseghian er this year. Known as a Nashville band, the Kings have strong File photo shows Caleb “Oklahoma’s been a really huge part of our lives,” Followill said. Planco. — Reuters and deep ties to Oklahoma. Half the Followill family band, “We just have so many roots there and so many friends. A lot Followill from the band Kings which consists of brothers Jared, Nathan and Caleb and ... of people that are close to us were affected in one way or of Leon performs at the 3rd cousin Matthew, was born in the state. They cheer for another, so I think it’s just really important for us to do this and annual Governors Ball Music Oklahoma sports teams and return every year for a family give pretty much all we can.”— AP Festival in New York. — AP reunion in Talihina. And their fathers and many family mem- bers still live there. Proceeds from the concert will benefit the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund. Underground music flourishes39 in Iran WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013

A Palestinian vendor waits for customers seeking prayer beads and clothes used by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan at his market in the West Bank city of Jenin ahead of Ramadan yesterday. Muslims throughout the world are cele- brating the holy month of Ramadan, where observants fast from dawn till dusk. — AP

iant portraits of the world’s tensest borders went on problem-in November I hung a portrait of the US wall in display yesterday on the longest remaining stretch of Mexico here and an American came by and shouted at me, Gthe Berlin Wall, in what organizers called a protest ‘You can’t compare this.’ But for me, it doesn’t matter if it’s a underlining the futility of barriers to resolve conflict. The religious, national or economic conflict-the idea that you “Wall on Wall” project by German photographer Kai have a problem and you can solve it by building a wall has Wiedenhoefer features 36 panoramas taken in Northern simply been obsolete since 1989.” A picture taken on July 1, Ireland, Iraq, Cyprus, the West Bank, Morocco, North and Wiedenhoefer said the bleak, often heavily militarized 2013, shows Palestinian South Korea and the border zone between the United States ramparts against illegal immigration, like the US fence on the winner of “Arab Idol” and Mexico. The color prints have been glued along 364 Mexican border and around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta Mohammed Assaf per- meters (yards) of the Berlin Wall, which divided the German and Melilla in Morocco, or along religious lines such as in forming in the West Bank city for 28 years until it was toppled in a bloodless revolution Baghdad and Belfast, were tragic testaments. “The fall of the city of Ramallah. — AFP in 1989. Berlin Wall was the best political event in my lifetime and we “Walls are no solution for today’s major political problems thought at the time, ‘That is over, we have a free world with- and I think the Berlin Wall is the best proof of that,” he told out walls’, but what you see here are walls that went up after reporters. Wiedenhoefer, 47, captured the images on more 1989,” he said. “There was a real renaissance of walls in that than 20 trips between 2003 and 2012 and said he fought time, which I find very frustrating. It would be wonderful if with Berlin authorities for five years until winning permission the fall of the Berlin Wall, which was peaceful, could serve as for the open-air display. The venue is the flip side of the so- a model for the other walls.” called East Side Gallery, a mural-covered expanse of the Wall Curator Adrienne Goehler said the barrier built by the US ens of thousands of people packed the that Assaf should sing at the opening of the that draws hordes of tourists eager to get a sense of what the military in Baghdad to keep Shiite and Sunni factions apart streets of the West Bank’s main cities last World Cup next year in Brazil,” he told reporters. divided city looked like. It recently drew conflict between was “probably the least-known of these walls”, pointing to an Tweek to watch a young Gazan singer per- “It is absolutely normal for Palestinians to cling property developers and protesters. image of an abaya-clad woman peeking through a fallen slab form songs that helped him win the prestigious to Assaf,” political analyst Abdel Majid Sweilam Wiedenhoefer, who crowd funded the project in part in Sadr City. Organizers say they expect more than 200,000 Arab Idol talent show. It was an unexpected and told AFP. “People are frustrated and depressed online, has won several international prizes for his work in the people to see the exhibition before it is dismantled on welcome break from the bleak political news from the (political) division, and when they Middle East and closely followed the construction of Israel’s September 13. — AFP that normally dominates the Palestinian agenda, found this symbol that stands for their unity, West Bank security fence. However his comparisons to the with the mood on the street transformed by a they seem to cling to it.” He was referring to the Berlin Wall, which made East Germans prisoners of their own rare sprinkling of home-grown stardust. bitter divide between the Islamist Hamas move- country, has drawn criticism in Israel, which views the con- Mohammed Assaf, the 23-year-old wedding ment which rules Gaza and its Fatah rival which crete barrier as crucial to stop militant attacks. “It’s always a singer from Gaza who became a national hero dominates the West Bank-based Palestinian when he won the pan-Arab contest in June, ws Authority. feted in the West Bank on a victory tour of all the Born to Palestinian parents in Misrata, Libya, main towns and cities. Assaf grew up in the teeming Khan Yunis Accompanied by presidential bodyguards, refugee camp in southern Gaza. There, his the fresh-faced young singer made his debut singing talent eventually paved the way for a appearance in Ramallah on July 1, playing to a place in the finals of the pan-Arab contest which crowd of 40,000 fans, although the gig was cut has captivated millions of viewers across the short over fears the enthused crowd might Middle East. “Mohammed Assaf’s national sym- storm the stage. “I couldn’t believe the amount bolism is much more important than his singing. of people,” the smiling singer told AFP. “I was very He is a poor refugee who comes from a camp in happy with what I saw.” Outside Ramallah’s five- Gaza,” Sweilam said. “Assaf represents each and star Grand Park Hotel where he stayed, thou- every Palestinian.” His June 22 victory sparked sands of fans packed the streets in hopes of unprecedented jubilation across the Palestinian being photographed with him or getting an territories, the celebrations continuing in the autograph. West Bank last week. “The staggering amount of people who went A ticket to the World Cup? to see him perform confirm that the Palestinian Most of Assaf’s concerts were free, but some people need to be happy,” said culture minister were ticket only, costing fans up to 450 shekels Anwar Abu Aisha. Assaf’s win completely ($123/96 euros) a seat — around a third of the eclipsed news of another internal Palestinian average monthly wage. “The tickets were com- drama playing out in Ramallah, which would pletely sold out within 48 hours of being put on normally have stolen the headlines-the resigna- sale,” said Munir al-Tarifi, head of Design tion of prime minister Rami Hamdallah, who Solutions PR which organized the tour. “We were quit after barely two weeks in the job. As Assaf in shock. We thought there would be some kind made his final bid for the title on stage in Beirut, of demand for his concerts, but not to this Abbas was locked in talks to try and resolve the extent,” he told AFP. The contest in Beirut trans- dispute with Hamdallah, which ultimately failed. fixed the viewing public with Assaf’s story which It was the second time in 10 weeks that a saw him sneaking out of Gaza, nearly missing his Palestinian premier had tendered his resigna- initial audition in Cairo, and then only making it tion, but the crisis hardly seemed to register. through after a fellow Gazan pulled out. News of “The people left the politics to the politicians, his stardom even reached Washington, with US while Mohammed Assaf dominated the news Secretary of State John Kerry remarking on his which showed the Palestinians need to be hap- success in talks with Palestinian president py,” deputy information minister Mahmud Mahmud Abbas. Khalifa told AFP. — AFP And FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who met Assaf on a visit to the West Bank on Sunday, Workers put up panorama pictures of German photographer Kai Wiedenhoefer that are part of his “Wall on Wall” even suggested he could take part in the open- exhibition on a remaining section of the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Germany yesterday. — AFP ing ceremony of upcoming World Cup. “I think