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NEWSDIGEST ADSU tightens Minister Choonee files France teams up with complaint for slander airport arrival checks PORT LOUIS: Minister of Arts and Culture Mookhesswur Independent News Service Police also managed to nab his Choonee lodged a complaint Plaisance, September 1 other local accomplices. at the Independent Broadcast- Since the arrest of Ndrenato, ing Authority (IBA) against a Officers of the Anti Drug police has been on alert. After island on key issues Smuggling Unit (ADSU) based brown sugar and Subutex, the private radio station on Wednesday. He stated that his at the Sir Seewoosagur Ram- police are working hard to pre- comments have been wrongly TO JOIN FORCES WITH MAURITIUS ON TOURISM, CULTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE, EDUCATION goolam International Airport at vent heroin from hitting the reported and this has tar- Plaisance are under strict or- market too. FRANCK THIBAULT nished his image. The contro- ders to maintain a rigid control The ADSU has been work- versy is about the speech of over the movement of any sus- ing closely with the anti drug the minister at an event organ- picious passengers, especially unit of Madagascar, Tanzania ised by the Vaish Welfare Asso- those arriving from Madagas- and Uganda and the Sub Re- ciation lasst Sunday. RELATED car, Tanzania and Uganda. gional Bureau of Interpol as STORY ON PAGE 2 There are growing fears that well as the Mauritius Revenue the country is increasingly be- Authority and the customs. coming a hub for drug traffick- In line with this, police are Suicide blasts in Lahore ing in the Indian Ocean. scanning the luggage of all pas- kill 25, injure 180 Hence, the ADSU officers sengers arriving at the SSR air- are determined to be sterner port. They are not only looking LAHORE: Three suicide than ever and would no longer out for illegal drugs but also bombers targeted a Shiite focus their efforts only on the products such as alcohol, to- mourning procession in Pak- European network. They are bacco and trademark clothes. istan’s eastern city of Lahore now looking at Subutex and The aim of the monitoring is to on Wednesday, killing at least heroin drug traffickers from prevent smuggling. 25 people and wounding 180, other parts of the world too. Ac- In 2009, the government police and rescue officials said. cording to social services, hero- amended the Dangerous Drugs It was the first major attack in in is slowly making its way back Act as Subutex was previously Pakistan since devastating to the nation. defined as a psychotropic med- floods engulfed a fifth of the The arrest of Rakotoarisa icine and not as a drug. More- volatile country over the past Ndrenato, a Malagasy national, over, the sentences were less month in the nation’s worst- in August led to the disbanding severe for drug traffickers in- ever disaster. AFP of a drug network at Vallée des volved in the sale of other drugs INS Prêtres. The drug trafficker had such as heroin and brown sug- swallowed 37 pellets of heroin. ar. [email protected] 10 skeletons unearthed at Le Morne heritage site Independent News Service following excavation works and Le Morne, September 1 will help the Truth and Justice Commission (TJC) better un- Archaeologists have found derstand movements of slaves. 10 human skeletons at Le Historian Vijaya Teelock Morne archaeological site. Ex- said that the TJC had ordered Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam lighting the flame of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Champs-Elysées,Paris on August 31. perts want to trace their origin excavations at Le Morne ar- and it is assumed that they date chaeological site. Independent News Service tance and expertise to Mauritius for Council. The proposal was wel- back to the colonial period. “We have the right to carry Port Louis, September 1 the establishment of a centre for comed by the French President. Samples will have to be sent excavations here even though it disaster management. In a statement to the French abroad to find out more. is listed as a UNESCO World After his Tuesday’s meeting with Raising cultural cooperation I want my country to press later, the PM confirmed that It is believed that the re- Heritage site,” said Teelock. Zakumi,the 2010 FIFA World the French President Nicolas hopes, France expressed its inten- once again become the Herve Lassémillante is part of the mains belonged to Malagasy The remains were kept at Cup mascot (left),strolls with a Sarkozy in Paris, Prime Minister Dr tion to extend more help through team of mediators of SADC. slaves or settlers who had been the Museum Council as the Le Smurf as other cartoon charac- Navin Ramgoolam had a similar the Institut Français de Maurice, Star and Key of the Indian The PM, who took over the presi- buried in an abandoned ceme- Morne National Heritage Trust ters parade at the launch of the working session of 50 minutes with help in instituting a philharmonic dency of the Indian Ocean Com- tery. Fund does not possess facilities five-day comedy festival at the French Prime Minister François orchestra, a national painting Ocean, as it was in the mission (IOC) from France in Au- Security at the site has been to preserve them. Company Garden in Port Louis Fillon at Matignon, his official resi- gallery among other plans. 18th century. gust, said he will be visiting Reunion tightened following the discov- “We decided to preserve the on Wednesday. dence, on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon, the Island in the near future to ery and more research will be bones at the Museum Council During both meetings discus- PM met France’s former finance strengthen the economic and trade carried out in this zone. as it was raining during the ex- sions included several issues rang- minister Alain Madelin and profes- relations. The excavation was led by cavations,” said Teelock. Netanyahu calls Abbas ing from bilateral cooperation to sor Benhamou of the Interminister- Ocean. He reiterated the govern- From Elyséee, Ramgoolam went Mauritian-born Dr Kris Seetah, An anthropologist believes the political crisis in Madagascar. ial Delegation for Digital Education ment’s intention to create a tribunal to the Arc de Triomphe for a torch who was assisted by Dr Diego that forensic archaeologist and ‘my partner in peace’ Wednesday’s meeting also in Africa. to try pirates. A regional conference lighting ceremony attended, among Calaon, Dr Sasa Caval and Dr bio-anthropologist should WASHINGTON: Israel PM showed excellent promise for Mau- President Sarkozy on Tuesday on the issue will be held in October others, by war veterans. After the Aleks Pluskowski. analyse the links between the Benjamin Netanyahu on ritius. Now the two countries will described Mauritians living in in Mauritius. Jack Lang, the advisor wreath laying and lighting the In a statement in July, See- skeletons instead of excavating Wednesday called Palestinian join forces to implement a joint pro- France as exemplary citizens. to UN secretary general Ban Ki- torch, the national anthems of tah said excavations began in nine tombs. leader Mahmud Abbas “my motion for tourism. Regarding the thorny Tromelin Moon on piracy, is also expected to the two countries were played. December and explained that The TJC carries investiga- partner in peace” and said he In the field of health, higher issue, claimed by both Mauritius participate. Some 50 Mauritians who attend- his team was primarily looking tions to establish the truth was seeking a peace to end the education and sustainable develop- and France, Sarkozy was happy with France has promised help in ed the ceremony were invited by the for remains belonging to Mala- on slavery and indentured Middle East conflict “once and ment, further cooperation with the signing of a framework agree- prison services and on security Prime Minister to a reception gasy slaves. labourers. It also listens for all.” But the Israeli leader France is expected too. ment on economic, environmental matters. at Grand Salon du Musée de He said that the bones to grievances of people warned that “peace must also Also in the offing is increased and scientific co-management of On Madagascar, Ramgoolam L’armée, Hotel des Invalides after- would be analysed through who claim to be victims of be defended against its ene- collaboration on some huge infra- the Indian Ocean Island. spoke of the need to establish an wards. [email protected] DNA testing and Carbon-14 dispossession and land pre- mies.” Netanyahu met US structure projects. Ramgoolam also broached the ombudsman’s office within the dating to determine their age. scription during the colonial President Barack Obama as France will also provide assis- subject of piracy in the Indian Southern African Development More photos on page 2 A report will be submitted period. [email protected] Washington makes a bold bid to resume direct Israeli-Pales- tinian talks for the first time in ADDING A MORTAL TOUCH: MARKING JANMASHTAMI AFP Trapped miners AFP ‘Animal’ Blair opens up 20 months. AfrAsia Bank goes ‘fruity’ won’t get wages on Fridays for health on sex and politics London, September 1 PORT LOUIS: Showing con- London, September 1 British prime minister in 150 years cern for employee health, — adding: “There are times when I The 33 Chilean miners who are trapped AfrAsia Bank has introduced Tony Blair’s memoirs out on am in awe of that woman.” inside a gold and copper mine since August ‘Fruity Fridays’ when seasonal Wednesday concern more than just Later in the book Blair waxes 5 may not receive wages while they are un- fruits are distributed to all its affairs of state — Britain’s ex-pre- lyrical on his thoughts about the re- derground, a report said on Wednesday. employees. Maureen Treanor, mier also gives intimate details lationship between politics and sex, The San Esteban company that operates human resources and change about his wife and describes the saying that, while wrong, affairs the mine has said it has no money to pay management head, initiated sexual shenanigans of politicians. seem to represent a “desert island of their wages and absorb lawsuits, and is not the idea to boost employees’ In ‘A Journey’, Blair writes can- pleasure” for stressed lawmakers. even participating in the rescue, Daily Mail immunity to viral attacks. INS didly of his “animal” feelings for his “It’s a strange thing, politics and reported. wife Cherie one night when he was sex,” Blair writes in a section dealing Workers’ union leader Evelyn Olmos WEATHER on the brink of going for the leader- with an affair that then-deputy called on the government to pay the work- o o Maximum: 26 C Minimum: 14 C ship of the Labour party after the prime minister John Prescott had ers’ wages starting in September, and giving Sunrise: 06:18 Sunset: 18:01 death of the party leader John Smith with his diary secretary, a relation- help to roughly 100 other people at the The anticyclone almost south of the mascarenes is causing a in 1994. ship which emerged in 2006. mine who are now out of work and 170 moderate airstream to flow over our area. Except for few “That night she cradled me in “Politicians live with pressure. more who work elsewhere for the company. light showers over the high grounds, weather will remain fine over the whole island. her arms and soothed me; told me They have to be immensely con- Meanwhile, workers began drilling at what I needed to be told; strength- trolled to get anywhere, watch what the mine where 33 workers are trapped un- FOREX ened me; made me feel that what I they say and do, and behave. And derground. The machine made a prelimi- COUNTRY UNITS BUYING SELLING was about to do was right,” Blair your free-bird instincts want to nary test hole on Wednesday, the first step Australia Dollar 1 26.84 28.85 writes of Cherie, with whom he now spring you from that prison of self- Young Indians dressed as the Hindu god Lord Krishna and his consort Radha pose as in the week-long digging of a ‘pilot hole’ they take part in a procession on the eve of Janmashtami,which marks Krishna’s Canada Dollar 1 28.03 30.02 has four children. control,” he writes. AFP that will guide the rescue which could take EU Euro 1 37.89 40.28 He also pays tribute to his wife birth,in Amritsar on Wednesday.According to Indian mythology and the Hinduism up to four months. South Africa Rand 1 4.03 4.36 for her composure when she gave Memoir lifts lid on Iraq, holy book Puranas,Krishna is the incarnation of Lord Vishnu,who took birth to kill Chilean Health minister Jaime Manalich UK Pound 1 46.22 48.79 birth to their fourth child in 2001 — his maternal uncle the evil king Kansa and free the kingdom from his cruel rule. said the trapped miners’ condition had USA Dollar 1 30.07 32.05 the first to be born to a sitting alcohol, royals page 5 been stabilised. IANS THE FLACQ MARKET WILL THE HINDU COMMON FRONT “”SOON BECOME A REALITY IS UNITED AND SUPPORTS — BACHOO nation ALL MEMBERS — MANOHUR

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NEWSDIGEST RAMGOOLAM ATTENDS CEREMONY AT L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE Franck Thibault NGO organises Hindu Common Front competition for young PORT LOUIS: Junior Achieve- ment Worldwide is organising a competition which will be a supports Choonee one day event entitled “You can B-B Inspired Camp” on Saturday, September 18 from THE FRONT REGROUPS VOH, HINDU ARYA SABHA, KRANTI AMONGST OTHERS 8.30 am to 5.30 pm on the Independent News Service journalists did not understand Hindi not the media’s duty to explain them premises of Barclays Bank Port Louis, September 1 he was ready to translate it for them. their duties. Club at Osman Avenue in Qua- According to him the statement of “We are 100 per cent behind tre Bornes. The competition The Hindu Common Front which the minister was clear and at no time Choonee,” said the president and which is being sponsored by groups the Voice of Hindu, the Hindu did he use communal or sectarian added,”Journalists who deviate, should the Barclays Bank is open to House, the Arya Sabha, the Kranti and statements. He added that the minis- resign ,not Choonee. If the media at- students aged between 15 to other Hindu religious and cultural as- ter’s statements had been misinterpret- tacks the Hindu community we should 18 years. A total of hundred sociations organised a press confer- ed by the radio. defend our people,” said Ramdhun. students will participate in this ence on Wednesday at the Hindu It is true, while addressing the mem- He said they would distribute copies competition and they will have House, Cassis. The conference focused bers of the Vaish Welfare Association, of the speech made by the minister so team building exercises to en- on the statement made by the minister the minister had said that they had that the population can judge by them- able them to work as a team on of Arts and Culture, Mookhesswur elected the government but Ramdhun selves. It was revolting that the inaccu- a common project. Estab- Choonee at the fifth anniversary of the challenged anyone who qualifies the rate interpretations by some journalists lished in 1919, Junior Achieve- Vaish Welfare Association at d’Epinay minister as communal. Condemning can lead to disturbances in the country. ment Worldwide is the largest on Sunday. The minister had said in the radio in strong terms, he said that The president of the Vaish Welfare nongovernmental organisa- Hindi that Prime Minister Navin Ram- those commenting on the issue, should Association, Sanjeev Sookur, said al- tion dedicated to educating goolam was their Prime Minister first know what they are talking about.” He though the minister did not mention the young people. then for the nation. requested Choonee to sue the radio for any caste, the radio branded him as Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam attends the torch lighting ceremony at l’Arc de The common front expressed their defamation and to claim damages racist. The spokesperson of the VOH, Triomphe in Paris,France,on August 31. Cehl Meeah in court support to Choonee who has come un- worth Rs 100 million. Krit Manowar said that the Hindu com- der attack for his statement which has “He is playing with the future of a mon front was united and was support- for theft case been described as sectarian by a private minister and that of the government,” ing each other. radio. While on an official mission in said Ramdhun. According to him a section of the PORT LOUIS: Member of the France, Ramgoolam said that if the He also criticised a politician who, press was humiliating the Hindi lan- National Assembly Cehl statement as widely reported by the live on air, had asked for the resignation guage and the community in general. Meeah appeared before the press is true, then he dissociated him- of Choonee. According to him it is There is nothing wrong when Choonee magistrate Pranay Sewpaul self from the minister. the licence of the radio which has to be in what Choonee has said. He believes under a provisional charge of The president of the Hindu House, revoked. He also severely condemned a that the private radio does not like it ‘conspiracy and knowingly Virendra Ramdhun said he had heard daily which had written about different that Choonee gave his speech in Hindi. and wilfully receiving abstract the recording of the speech and if some Hindu associations and said it was [email protected] of a crime’ at the correctional court of Port Louis for plotting a theft at the Bijoulux jewellery shop.His lawyer Raouf Gulbul Kofi Annan to visit in November presented a motion for the charge to be removed, as the Independent News Service About 300 to 400 participants com- African leadership, outlines a practical case has taken a long time Port Louis, September 1 prising representatives of govern- way in which African leaders can build causing prejudice to his client. ments, civil societies, multilateral or- positive legacies on the continent when However the prosecution op- The Mo Ibrahim Foundation will ganisations, business leaders, the pri- they have left office and supports aspir- posed the motion and the case hold its next annual prize ceremony vate sector and the media will also par- ing leaders for the African continent. has been postponed to Sep- and discussion forum in Mauritius in ticipate in the event. Mo Ibrahim Foundation ranked tember 15. Meeah has present- November. It will be an opportunity for Mo Ibrahim Foundation is an Mauritius first for two consecutive ed a motion requesting to lift major players in the governance arena African initiative that has been estab- years, namely the 2008 and 2009 in- the variation order against him to discuss key challenges facing Africa. lished to stimulate debate on good gov- dices of African governance. so that he can travel on reli- Prominent dignitaries, including the ernance across sub-Saharan Africa and The Ibrahim Index measures the de- gious grounds. He also has an- former secretary general of the United the world. livery of public goods and services to other variation order in anoth- Nations, Kofi Annan, and the president It provides criteria by which citizens citizens by government and non-state er case which will be heard on of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, are can hold their governments to account. actors across 84 indicators of gover- Ramgoolam signs the visitor’s book at l’Arc de Triomphe in Paris,France. September 9. INS expected to attend the forum. It also recognises achievement in nance. [email protected] Committee to relocate casinos Reinstate Independent News Service Ameer, Port Louis, September 1 Police raid Ti-Vegas A committee is presently says union conducting a study to find a PORT LOUIS: Although the had come to collect their license of Ti Vegas casino at wages. The casino has solution to relocate casinos. It Quatre Bornes was terminat- caused much controversy Independent News Service is also responsible for studying ed by the Gambling Regula- since its opening. The first Port Louis, August 31 the consequences of the in- tory Authority (GRA), the po- murder this year was com- crease in the number of gam- lice believe that suspicious mitted by a bouncer working The Congress of Indepen- ing houses in the country. activities are taking place in at Ti Vegas. Even the police dent Trade Union (CITU), be- Several measures have the casino. commissioner objected to ing the second largest trade been put in place to monitor The activities of the bounc- the presence of the casino in union confederation in the is- their activities and to ensure ers guarding the entry of the the city of Quatre Bornes. land, condemns the discipli- that they are in consistency casino have added to the A total of 5000 signatures nary actions taken against Re- with the Gambling Regulatory doubts of the officers of the had been collected during a hana Ameer, secretary general Authority Act 2009. However, a CID of Quatre Bornes. petition for the non-renewal of the FPBOU. She was recently The officers raided the casi- of the casino’s operating date has not yet been fixed for no on Tuesday and they permit. Furthermore, a suspended from her post by the the relocation as legal, social found people inside the casi- committee presided by the Mauritius Broadcasting Corpo- and financial aspects must be no, upon verifying the identi- Prime Minister Dr Navin ration (MBC). taken into consideration be- ties of the people present, it Ramgoolam is examining In a letter dated August 27, fore taking any action. was found that they were the situation of gambling in 2010 addressed to the director In addition, authorities will only casino employees who the country. INS general of MBC, Dan Callikan, no longer issue operation per- the members of the CITU have mits. Permits that are going to requested for her immediate expire will be renewed on a cietal scourge. In some cases, bling Programme”. Its aims to reintegration. CITU considers case to case basis only. gamblers have even commit- inform the public on dangers her suspension as a violation of With the rapid proliferation ted suicide due to significant associated with games of the Convention 87 of the ‘Free- of casinos in the recent years, debts. chance. A sum of Rs 2 million dom of Association’ as well as gambling has become a source Several awareness pro- has already been allocated for the ‘Convention 98 of Collec- of problems for Mauritians grams have begun, namely the its implementation. tive Bargaining.’ and is now considered as a so- “National Responsible Gam- [email protected] [email protected] Flacq market to Natural fibre clothing be set up soon Independent News Service next best option Port Louis, September 1 Independent News Service Moreover, farmers will earn more by Construction works for the Flacq market Port Louis, August 30 selling organic garbage. “For me, the are accelerating so that it can be made opera- suitable theme for this project would be tional by early December. Wearing clothes made of woven fibres ‘From Waste to Wealth’,” he said. “This market will soon become a reality,” from banana trees or pineapple leaves The project will also promote eco- said minister of Public Infrastructure, Nation- may seem farfetched but it is not. In the tourism which is gathering momentum al Development Unit, Land Transport and next few years, people will be wearing around the world. Shipping Anil Bachoo. The minister was ‘green’ using natural fibres to make “Tourists will be able to buy a product speaking during a visit made at the construc- clothes. with the original trade mark of Mauri- tion site on Wednesday. Molecular biologist and researcher tius. In 2008, Mauritius produced some 6 This project, estimated at Rs 111 million, at the Mauritius Research Council 400 tonnes of pineapples and 10 000 tons will consist of 1,200 stalls and a food court. (MRC), Dr Vickram Bissonauth who has of bananas. Mauritius is a tropical coun- The market will span over an area of 7,500 conducted researches on the use of try, fabrics made of fibres from banana square metres and a parking space of approxi- natural fibres, confirms that the project and pineapple mixed with other fibres mately 3,500 square metres will be construct- is feasible. will give more elasticity and would adapt ed. Bachoo thanked Prime Minister Dr Navin “Fibres form part of our lives since the well here,” said the researcher. Ramgoolam for the implementation of this birth of civilization. At the MRC, we are Besides the manufacture of fabrics, fi- project and recalled that the PM has always ready to contribute to the Maurice Ile bre can also be used in the artisanal sec- said that “one must provide all the necessary Durable project of the government,” said tor, or to promote interior design. “If we equipment for everyone in the rural and ur- the researcher. start a small craft business, it will be prof- ban areas”. India and Philippines are already us- itable,” said Bissonauth. He explained that the market will be open ing the new technology to extract fibres “Very soon machines that thread fi- four times a week to accommodate the in- from the trunks of banana and pineap- bres from trunks of banana and pineap- creasing number of merchants. ple plants to mix them with cotton or ple leaves will be imported from India.” Bachoo said that this project is being car- wool to create new tissues. Bissonauth is Bissonauth said that the MRC has al- ried out in record time. He also added that the confident to revive the old technology ways been in quest for new technologies possibility of having a mini waterfront is be- which Mauritians used in the 1700s to to improve the lives of the local inhabi- ing considered. [email protected] produce bags from aloe fibres. tants. [email protected] theindependentdaily NATION>3 PORT LOUIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 NEWSDIGEST Slashed rates worry Five day humour Joint taskforce meeting fest kicks off small tour operators PORT LOUIS: The starting of Independent News Service concerns ground handling which the humour festival 'Festival Port Louis, September 1 is now offered at USD 25. du rire' was held on Wednes- Jhurry deplored the fact that day at Jardin de la Compagnie, on e-governance held The Association of Tourist Op- the minister of Tourism and Port Louis. The five-day festi- erators (ATO), led by Ajay Jhurry, is Leisure, Nando Bodha, did not val started with a carnival, the facing difficulties. specify if local operators will bene- 'Carnaval du rire' (laughter INDO-MAURITIAN SUMMIT TALKS OF ISSUES SUCH AS E-PARLIAMENT, E-HEALTH Jhurry wants the Mauritius fit from measures that will be carnival), led by Miselaine Du- Independent News Service The meeting was co-chaired by sions with the representatives of the sentatives of Prisons Department. Tourism Promotion Authority taken by the ministry. val. Several people dressed as Port Louis, September 1 NICSI managing director J R D secretariat of the National Assem- The project specific teams with (MTPA) to help small operators He did not hide his apprehen- cartoon characters took part in Kailay and the permanent secretary bly. The e-parliament system from members identified from both obtain their share of the market. sion concerning the job done by the parade along with clowns The first India-Mauritius joint of the Ministry of Information and India was demonstrated to the countries may proceed with de- He wants MTPA to consult the MTPA. and artists who will perform task force meeting on e-governance Communication Technology, S K users of the National Assembly. fined activities in respective project small traders for decisions relating "The MTPA issues the list during the festival, namely was held in Mauritius from August Pather. The task force also visited the under the overall supervision of to the tourism industry. of tour operators participating in Mamie Kloune and Sanjeev 23 - 26. This followed the signature The objective of the meeting was Victoria Hospital at Candos. A pre- task force. An appropriate mecha- Jhurry expressed his satisfac- foreign events three days before Moheeputh. INS of a Memorandum of Understand- to seek areas of cooperation regard- sentation was made to the repre- nism will be worked out by the joint tion with MTPA's recent to India the departure. How is it possible ing on IT cooperation between the ing e-governance, in particular for sentatives of the Ministry of Health task force for moving the projects but is worried that several hotels for us to get organised in three IT equipment stolen local Ministry of Information and projects in e-parliament, e-health and Quality of Life. A demonstra- forward. will offer services at lower rates. days only? We cannot work in Communication Technology and and e-prison. The task force also re- tion of the NIC's e-hospital system Regarding other e-government "Four-star hotels are offering such conditions," said the ATO at St Esprit College the National Informatics Centre viewed progress achieved in the will be organised through internet systems, the task force agreed to their services between USD 50 and president. PORT LOUIS: A theft took Services Inc (NICSI), a government field of e-government in both Mau- based e-learning sessions so that consider other e-government sys- USD 70 in the Indian market. It is "The MTPA is aware of prob- place at St Esprit College, Qua- of India enterprise. ritius and India. While addressing feedback can be obtained and tems at its next meeting, particular- high time to categorise hotels and lems that exist in this sector tre Bornes during the week- A seven-member delegation the issues of e-governance coopera- queries answered interactively. ly in the field of smart card based regulate prices," he said. but keeps making the same mis- end. The thieves stole IT mate- headed by the NICSI managing di- tion, it has been agreed to move for- The task force also visited the systems, networking and capacity Jhurry believes that the pricing takes,” he said, adding, “Nobody rials which were recently re- rector visited the island. The joint ward with respect to the three iden- headquarters of Prisons Depart- building. NICSI managing director strategy adopted by big hotels will listens to our grievances and the newed. According to a source, task force meeting was inaugurated tified projects. ment at Beau Bassin. NIC's prison has invited the Mauritian delega- be harmful for small and medium MTPA is not using a transparent the police arrested them and by ICT minister Tassarajen Pillay Hence, the task force visited the system was demonstrated to the tion to India for the next meeting in operators approach," he said. recovered some of the stolen Chedumbrum on August 23. Parliament and had working ses- commissioner of prisons and repre- 2011. [email protected] Another issue raised by Jhurry [email protected] materials. According to Jacques Malié, rector of the college, such cases are com- mon in private schools of the Promotional campaign in Bappoo, Ritoo to meet youth leaders on Sat region. As the college has modern and expensive educa- Pravind Rughoo Youth Achievement Award, leadership officer Poubarlanaden Appavoo will also tional facilities, it is essential to Floréal, September 1 skills, the youth entrepreneurship pro- be present. 3 Indian cities a success gramme and the 'Special Vacances' pro- According to Appavoo, the programme have an effective surveillance system. The management of As part of its ongoing campaign to fight gramme. The idea is to encourage youth started in 2005 and hopes it will continue. the college intends to have ap- Independent News Service The mission also served as a platform to the scourges affecting young people, the leaders to become self-independent and to The Youth Leader Programme is a struc- propriate security arrange- Port Louis, September 1 interact with Indian nationals and media. minister of Youth and Sports, Devenand act as role models for other youngsters. ture set up for the future which will allow ments for the institution. INS With the recent spurt in the arrivals in Ritoo, and the minister of Gender Equality, The youth leaders have previously tak- authorities to monitor and evaluate the sit- The Mauritius Tourism Promotion Au- June and July, there was a renewed interest Child Development and Family Welfare, en part in similar activities and have uation and provide adequate solutions thority (MTPA) has doubled its efforts to tap in Mauritius as a destination to host impor- Sheila Bappoo, will meet youngsters from acquired the necessary skills to coach oth- where needed. 1,670 gastroentiritis a wider segment of the Indian tourist mar- tant celebrations to the Indian traveller. Vacoas and Floréal at Floréal Youth Centre ers about how to face challenges in life. Meanwhile the Ministry of Youth and cases registered ket through a promotional campaign tar- The concept of destination weddings is on Saturday. The participants can also benefit from Sports has planned 11 meetings with youth geting three Indian cities, namely Mumbai, something that has gained huge popularity The event, which is part of the Youth counselling on teenage pregnancy, suicide leaders in September, including the pre- PORT LOUIS : Since the begin- Bangalore and Delhi. The campaign was among Indians. Various Indian planners are Leader Programme, will serve as a platform and suicidal tendencies, substance abuse, sentation of certificates in leadership and ning of the year until August, held from August 23 to 25. already on the island to meet local opera- for the young participants to voice out communication, decision-making skills. life skill programmes which will cover vari- 1670 gastroenteritis cases have This initiative is part of the measures an- tors. They have met stakeholders such as their opinion about key issues affecting MP Stéphanie Anquetil, Youth Affairs ous regions such as Quatre Bornes, Rose been registered. This infec- nounced by the minister of Tourism and the customs and Air Mauritius to facilitate them such as HIV / AIDS, drugs, National director Vel Putchay and principal youth Hill and Flacq. [email protected] tious disease can be transmit- Leisure, Nando Bodha, as he attempts to all processes. Earlier Bodha pointed out ted through a virus or bacteria. move the island to a dollar market following that these tourists spend about Rs 30 mil- It is necessary to keep a clean the Euro crisis. During the first semester of lion per wedding. environment and to avoid 2010, a total of 24,764 Indian tourists visited Over 600 travel trade professionals at- MEXA to organise week-long logistics event touching the mouth without the island, representing a 26.4 per cent tended the workshops in the three Indian washing hands. It is advisable growth compared to 2009 which recorded cities. According to Haulder it generated all Independent News Service fis et opportunités', to increase awareness trend, aims at reducing envi- to wash fruits and vegetables 19,598 tourists from India. round enquiries for the participating Mau- Port Louis, September 1 (Sustainable Supply and add value to ronmental impact, waste, and before eating and to hydrate A delegation lead by MTPA deputy direc- ritian suppliers in large numbers and also Chain: Challenges and the Mauritian logistics CO2 emission resulting from regularly. Gastroenteritis is a tor Vijaye Haulder and comprising repre- explored opportunities for unique and Mauritius Export Associa- Opportunities). industry, making it transportation of goods. contagious disease. A person sentatives of local luxury resorts, boutique tailor-made itineraries and services. tion (MEXA) will hold a week "Logistics implies more competitive," she Exhibition and conference can pass on the disease to hotels, service providers and tour opera- The MTPA hopes that the campaign will long event dedicated to logis- the sea, earth and air aded. debates will be organised and others from the time the tors, participated in the campaign. be a stepping stone to future growth in tics at Freeport Operations and areas as diverse as Logistics now in- will regroup governmental symptoms begin to show and The aim of the mission was to highlight tourist arrivals from India. Mauritius, Mer Rouge, from retail, supply chain, manage- cludes domestic transporta- institutions and logistics oper- last for about 48 hours. Those the quality products and special service of- There has also been a tremendous inter- September 3 to 8. ment and information technol- tion, banking, insurance and ators of the public and private in a closed space are more at ferings to the Indian travel trade and reach est from the Indian Travel trade fraternity. The theme chosen is 'La ogy support,” said MEXA presi- even recycling activities. sector. risk. INS out to the discerning Indian consumers. [email protected] Classifiedschaîne logistique durable : dé- dent Danielle Wong. “We hope Green logistics, the new [email protected] WANT TO BUYFOR SALEFOR RENTHOUSESAPARTMENTSEDUCATIONCARSTRUCKSVANSBEAUTYCAREMEETINGS

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ARIES: You come from a solid place, with good intentions. Those around you sense your integrity. You discover alternatives in a discussion with a friend. Be SOUTH WEST happy that you are not the only person with good ideas. Two minds work better Minimum temperature: 19 Minimum temperature: 20 than one. Tonight: Return calls. Clear your desk. Catch up on a friend's news. (March 21 to Maximum temperature: 25 Maximum temperature: 26 April 19) ★★★★✩ HELP TAURUS: Realize what is going on behind the scenes. Dealing with a boss A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can can be challenging because he or she is vague or spacey. Right now, you GENERAL SITUATION: STARRING: BOBBY DEOL, see from her have a tendency to do a Vulcan mind meld with those you find on another nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack. plane. Tonight: Treat yourself and a special friend. The anticyclone almost south of the mascarenes is causing a moderate airstreams to flow over our area. MUGDHA GODSE, "Miss Whack, I'd like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holi- (April 20 to Except for few light showers over the high grounds, weather will remain fine over the whole island.Sea day." May 20) ★★★✩✩ SOPHIA HANDA, Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The moderate to rough beyond the reefs. frog says GEMINI: You are all smiles, and others respond to your energy. In fact, where SALIM FATEHI, JYOTI his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that you had difficulty before seems easy. Follow through on what up till now has it's okay, been a dream. Your mind works overtime, but you are right-on. DOGRA he knows the bank manager. Tonight: Get into weekend mode. Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some WORLD WEATHER (May 21to collateral. June 20) ★★★★★ CITY MIN MAX CITY MIN MAX CITY MIN MAX The frog says, "Sure. I have this," and produces a tiny CINEMA NOVELTY porcelain CANCER: A partner or associate relates on a one-on-one level. You are cen- Beijing 19 32 Melbourne 8 14 Zurich 17 26 elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly tered and direct in a conversation. Someone shares a confidential matter. 1000, 2015 formed. Honor this person's trust. Resist letting another person know that you see his Jakarta 23 32 Sydney 7 15 Atlanta 23 34 Very confused, Patty explains that she'll have to consult with or her true motives. Tonight: Get some extra R and R when you can. CINE KLASSIC the bank (June 21to Karachi 27 34 Amsterdam 17 22 Chicago 18 27 manager and disappears into a back office. July 22) ★★★★✩ 1015, 1330, 2030 She finds the manager and says, "There's a frog called Ker- Kuala Lumpur 24 33 Athens 23 33 Las Vegas 28 39 mit Jagger out LEO: Don't delay a decision. Once it's made, zero in on what you want. there who claims to know you and wants to borrow Mumbai 25 28 Berlin 18 25 Los Angeles 18 33 Someone close, perhaps an associate or neighbor, realizes where you are PEEPLI (LIVE) $30,000, and he wants coming from. Success comes from a meeting with a group of supporters. to use this as collateral." Tonight: Going for what you want. New Delhi 26 32 Copenhagen 12 21 Miami 25 33 She holds up the tiny pink elephant. "I mean, what in the CINE KINGS (July 23 to Seoul 25 28 Dublin 9 18 Montreal 15 24 world is Aug. 22) ★★★★✩ this?" Shanghai 28 35 Frankfurt 19 24 New York 20 25 1000, 1300 The bank manager looks back at her and says... VIRGO: You might be reticent to take a stand. Curb a tendency to make deci- "It's a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old sions or judgments without others' feedback and/or acknowledgment. Inspi- Singapore 24 32 London 12 21 Quebec City 15 24 CINEMA NOVELTY man's a ration comes from a new element in your daily life. Rolling Stone." Tonight: Burning the candle at both ends. Taipei 27 35 Madrid 22 34 San Francisco 15 29 2015 (Aug. 23 to ★★★✩✩ IMPORTANT NUMBERS Sept. 22) Tokyo 27 33 Nice 22 26 Seattle 10 22 Cairo 25 36 Paris 21 24 Toronto 18 22 LIBRA: To many people, you seem mentally impulsive and direct. Others LAFANGEY PARINDEY don't understand how well thought out your actions are. Sometimes sharing Cape Town 9 15 Roma 19 30 Vancouver 12 22 Police ...... 999 from fixed line more of the process eliminates some of the flak. You cannot expect others to go from 1 to 5. Tonight: The only answer is "yes." CINE KINGS 112 from mobile Johannesburg 4 19 Vienna 17 31 Washington 21 28 (Sept. 23 to Fire services ...... 995 from fixed line Oct. 22) ★★★★✩ 1000, 1300 115 from mobile SCORPIO: Your instincts will guide you with a partner. This person is lighter CINE KLASSIC SAMU ...... Ambulance 114 and more spontaneous. However, he or she also needs and wants your partici- pation. The timing might be such that a discussion finally brings agreement. MUST SEE MUST DO 1015, 1330, 2030 Airlines Enquiry ...... 603 3030 Tonight: Go with a quirky idea. ADSU ...... 203 1509, 203 1242 (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) ★★✩✩✩ ENTERTAINMENT: Council and the Minicipal Council of CINEMA NOVELTY Central Electricity Board ...... 130 Port Louis is launching a booklet and is Central Water Authority ...... 170 SAGITTARIUS: Obviously, you cannot control others, but you can let go of ■ Opera 2010 - Presented by 1000, 1315, 2015 Child Development Unit ...... 113 trying. Relationships will flourish in both the professional and personal realms opening an exhibition both on Liberated of your life if you do. Everyone feels better with this give-and-take. Honor your La Fondation Spectacles et Domestic Violence ...... 213 0001, 213 0002 feelings. Tonight: Be light and easy. Culture Africans. International Directory Assistance ...... 10090 (Nov. 22 to Date : September 4-14 Venue : Ehibition Hall of Mauritius Museum PREDATORS Dec. 21) ★★★★✩ National Directory Assistance ...... 150 Venue: Phoenix Council, La Chaussee, Port Louis CINEMA STAR (CAUDAN) SIDA / AIDS Secretariat ...... 212 3224 CAPRICORN: Emphasize completion rather than working on several different projects. A boss or superior lets you know how much he or she appreciates ■ UB40’s big concert in Date : August 30 to September 3 SOS Femmes ...... 433 3391 your efforts. You wonder if you have enough get-up-and-go to accomplish Mauritius Spectacles et Culture Time : 9 00 am to 4 00 pm 1130, 1330, 1530, 1800, Telephone fault reporting ...... 92 your goals. Tonight: Finally, relax. Venue : Swami Vivekananda 2100 Weather Information ...... 96 (During Cyclone) (Dec. 22 to Conference Centre, Pailles Jan. 19) ★★★✩✩ ■ The Université Populaire de l'Île Maurice Tourist Info / Yellowtel ...... 152 Date : September 12 (UPIM) is organising a debate on "Should we Befrienders ...... 800 9393, 467 0160 AQUARIUS: Your sense of direction comes from an inner knowing that is diffi- Time : 6 pm cult to explain. Creativity mixes with intellect, taking away the word "impossi- For more information please choose between security or Liberty" INCEPTION HOSPITALS ble." Don't delay acting on what is important. The time is now. Tonight: Get into the spirit of fun. contact on: www.otayo.com Venue : Bar Le Petit Journal, Forest Side Brown-Séquard, Beau-Bassin ...... 454 2071 CINEMA STAR (CAUDAN) (Jan. 20 to Date : September 5 Dr.A.G Jeetoo, Port-Louis ...... 212 3201 – 06 Feb. 18) ★★★★✩ ■ Magma4, musical group is ENT Vacoas ...... 686 2061 – 64 organising a musical night for its fans. Time : 1000 to 1200 1100, 1400, 1800, 2100 Flacq Hospital, Flacq ...... 413 2532 PISCES: You are coming from a secure place and know what your priorities Venue : Club Med, Albion are. Communicating them to someone is another issue. A partner might be For more information contact on: CINEMA STAR (CUREPIPE) J. Nehru Hospital, Rose- Belle ...... 603 7000 more receptive than in the past. Date : August 28 [email protected], http://www.upim.info, Tonight: Happy at home. 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PORT LOUIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 theindependentdaily >5 WORLDDIGEST Belgian AFP Time to turn page on Iraq: Obama cardinal AFP Washington, September 1 100,000 soldiers out, even as he es- calated the war in Afghanistan. defamed President Barack Obama has de- But with 50,000 American troops clared an end to US combat in Iraq, remaining in Iraq on a training and calling on its people to chart their counter-terrorism mission until the by abuse own destiny as Americans turn to end of the next year, Obama combating Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan warned that though US combat was and rebuilding their own battered ending, violence in Iraq would not. cover-up nation. “Extremists will continue to set In a major address on Tuesday, off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and Brussels, September 1 Obama called on his country to try to spark sectarian strife,” he said, steel itself for more bloodshed in but asserted that Iraqis would not The former head of the Bel- Afghanistan, billing the fight there allow “terrorists” to thwart their gian Catholic church was de- as “essential” to protecting the US destiny. famed by a newspaper report homeland from the festering threat In an email to supporters clearly accusing him of trying to cover from Al-Qaeda. aimed at his anti-war base, Obama up the sexual abuse of a minor Russian President Dmitry Obama’s 18-minute primetime pointed to the heavy US toll — by the former bishop of Bruges, Medvedev (right) holds a cam- address was meant to mark a sym- more than 4,400 troops killed and his lawyer said. era in a photo laboratory as bolic moment in US disengage- over 34,260 wounded — and “vast The Flemish daily De Stan- he visits the presidential cadet ment from Iraq, but avoided talk of resources” spent on the war amid a daard published on Saturday school in the city of Orenburg victory or defeat as political uncer- battering recession. the transcripts of a conversa- on Wednesday. tainty and violence cloud a nation “Ending this war is not only in tion taped on April 8 between the United States invaded in 2003. Iraq’s interest — it is in our own,” he Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Speaking from the Oval Office, a wrote. “We have met our responsi- the victim and Roger Arab League cynical man who anchored his presidential bility.” In his address, Obama called Vangheluwe, who was still campaign on opposing the war on Iraq’s factions to “move forward bishop at the time. about Mideast talks spoke of his “awe” at the sacrifices with a sense of urgency” to end the In the tape, Danneels, who of US troops, and used statesman- long deadlock over forming a gov- headed the church between CAIRO: Arab League chief Amr like appeal to heal domestic divides ernment after March’s inconclusive 1979-2009, asks the victim to Mussa said on Wednesday that opened by the conflict. US President Barack Obama reads his speech to photographers after delivering an address to the nation on elections. accept an apology from there was widespread pes- “Operation Iraqi Freedom is the end of combat operations in Iraq from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on August 31. Turning to Afghanistan, Obama Vangheluwe, or at least not simism in the region about over, and the Iraqi people now have admitted that many Americans make his allegations public new peace talks between Israel lead responsibility for the security aged US economy, as a slowing re- down the war in Iraq, we must tack- pledge of bringing US combat were asking “tough questions” until the bishop retired a year and the Palestinians, Egypt’s of their country,” Obama said, seat- covery sours his popularity and au- le those challenges at home with as troops home. about the Afghan war as it grinds later. state MENA news agency re- ed in the same spot where former gurs heavy losses for Democrats in much energy, and grit and sense of House Republican Minority into a 10th year with bloodshed ris- The cardinal’s attorney, Fer- ported. He said that an Arab president George W. Bush un- November’s congressional polls. He common purpose as our men and Leader John Boehner charged that ing and no end in sight. nand Keuleneer, said on Tues- League committee, which in leashed the US war machine more argued that Americans had met women in uniform who have Obama and other senior Democ- “As we speak, Al-Qaeda contin- day that De Standaard “volun- July gave its backing to Pales- than seven years ago. their “responsibility” in Iraq and served abroad,” he added. rats who opposed the 2007 military ues to plot against us, and its lead- tarily and deliberately de- tinian president Mahmud Ab- Amid political tumult at home, now needed to “turn the page” and Republican critics acidly noted escalation sought to “claim credit” ership remains anchored in the famed” Danneels by selecting bas’s decision to resume direct Obama attempted to refocus Amer- “rebuild our nation here at home.” Obama had opposed the “surge” for the results. border region of Afghanistan and certain extracts and underlin- negotiations with Israel, may icans on the need to repair the rav- “At this moment, as we wind strategy that helped him meet his Obama has pulled nearly Pakistan,” he warned. AFP ing passages of the transcript in soon have to meet to review red. the progress of the talks. “The Danneels had not been able role of the Arab Peace Initia- to prepare for the confronta- tive Committee is ongoing, Hungry flood-hit Pak tion and his reactions had been and there are many who are India, Afghanistan putting heads “instantaneous,” the attorney pessimistic about the outcome said in a statement published of these negotiations,” MENA protest lack of help on the website of the Catholic quoted Mussa as saying. “So together in bid to fight terrorism daily Tertio. we may soon have to convene Thatta, September 1 the civilian government, which “Like any person in that sit- a meeting to assess the situa- Nilova Roy Chaudhury cause of the sympathy they have ing by the Afghan National Constitu- has staggered from crisis to cri- uation, he then wanted to con- tion.” AFP (RELATED STORY ON P6) New Delhi, September 1 gained for providing flood relief where tion. India, which is not thrilled at the Hundreds of hungry fami- sis in the 30 months since its tinue to think more at length the Pakistan administration failed. prospect of inducting former mem- lies blocked a highway in Pak- election. about these issues in view of a Japan endures hottest India and Afghanistan are closely Spanta also met with his Indian bers of the Taliban into the Afghan istan’s flood-hit south on Gilani said an inflation tar- second meeting that never took summer on record conferring to fight terrorism together, counterpart Shivshankar Menon and government says it supports any Wednesday, demanding the get of 9.5 percent for 2011 place,” Keuleneer said. with Kabul seeking New Delhi's assis- External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, Afghan-led peace process. government provide more food would now likely be in the “This has nothing to do with TOKYO: Japan has endured its tance in helping to remove the menace and discussed ways to ensure en- India, the sixth largest donor in as the UN warned of a “triple range of 15-20 percent. a plot or a cover-up. Cardinal hottest summer since records of terror from the region. hanced security for over 3,000 Indians Afghanistan with over 1.3 billion dol- threat” to desperate survivors. “Inflation is likely to spike Danneels listened and thought began in 1898, the meteoro- Combating terror infrastructure currently working in Afghanistan. He lars in aid routed into development in- The protest came as under- significantly in the face of short about it, without a result,” he logical agency said on Wednes- with origins in Pakistan has been the urged India to further enhance its frastructure and capacity building, fire Prime Minister Yousuf Raza supply of food due to crops de- said. “Two weeks later, Mon- day, during a heatwave that focus of two visits in quick succession overall cooperation with Afghanistan, does not have a military presence in Gilani said the country faced struction,” he told his cabinet signor Vangheluwe resigned. saw thousands of people taken to New Delhi by top Afghan advisors to and assist Afghan efforts to combat that country and has steadfastly re- inflation of up to 20 percent in televised remarks. Cardinal Danneels had also to hospital suffering heat- President Hamid Karzai, sources said, terrorists and extremists groups tar- fused to have 'boots on the ground.' and slower economic growth He said that GDP growth come to the conclusion that stroke. The average tempera- after Afghanistan's National Security geting Afghanistan and other coun- It is not averse, however, to assist- because of the devastating would also lower to 2.5 percent that was the only adequate way ture nationwide between June Advisor Rangin Dadfar Spanta met In- tries in the region. ing in the training of Afghan security floods, warning of job losses from the predicted 4.5 percent. of proceeding.” and August was 1.64 degrees dian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh "They agreed that terrorism is the forces but will do so only if asked by and social unrest. “This economic loss will Tertio reported that De Stan- Celsius above average for the on Tuesday. main threat undermining peace and the Afghan authorities, officials said. Up to 500 people from a translate into massive job loss- daard refused to published the period, forecasters said. The Spanta, whose visit comes barely a stability in the region and reiterated India has resumed its medical mission government-run relief camp in es and loss of incomes for thou- attorney’s response. previous record margin was week after Afghan Foreign Minister their resolve to effectively combating in Kabul, suspended after an attack in Thatta city, in the worst-affect- sands of families. Consequent- Vangheluwe resigned on 1.36 degrees C set in 1994. The Zalmay Rassoul visited New Delhi, has and defeating it," a joint Indo-Afghan February targeted Indian medical per- ed province of Sindh, blocked ly, it may have serious social April 23, admitting he had sex- agency did not say what the informed the Indian leadership that statement issued after Rassoul's visit sonnel and teachers there. It is also the main road between Karachi implications,” he said. ually abused "a boy in my en- average temperature was, but Kabul has clear evidence of cross bor- last week said adding, "They also em- building the Afghan Parliament. city and Thatta for three hours World Food Programme tourage" about 20 years earlier. Tokyo's summertime temper- der (read Pakistani) involvement in the phasised the need to ensure that ter- "Our presence is entirely benign calling for the state to provide chief Josette Sheeran has According to De Standaard, he atures averaged 27.1 degrees attacks on the Indian Embassy both in rorist and extremist groups targeting and we will continue to remain en- food and shelter. warned that Pakistan faces a did this after a relative of the C. In August, the mercury of- July 2008 and October 2009. Afghanistan and other countries in the gaged with Afghanistan," a senior offi- “No food or water has been triple threat to food supplies — victim emailed all Belgian bish- ten soared above 35 degrees C According to official sources Span- region are denied safe havens and cial said. "Like other neighbouring provided to us for the past two with seeds, crops and incomes ops demanding he quit by late in many areas of the country, ta, who recently wrote a commentary sanctuaries." countries, we have a legitimate stake days,” Mohammad Qasim, a hit — fanning frustration May. the agency said. AFP in The Washington Post directly blam- With parliamentary elections (for in peace in Afghanistan," the official 60-year-old resident of the among the masses already Danneels has rejected accu- ing and denouncing the Pakistani es- 249 seats) due in Afghanistan on Sep- said, declining to take issue with Pak- flooded town of Sujawal, told struggling to make ends meet. sations that he had known Boy killed in Thai tablishment's linkages with groups fo- tember 18, the need to rein in militants istan's efforts to keep India out of AFP. The World Food Pro- The floods have engulfed a about the abuse for a long time menting terrorism, called for shutting opposed to restoring a modicum of Afghanistan. gramme issued a stark warning fifth of the volatile country of and denied trying to keep them school gang shooting down of terrorist sanctuaries in the democratic governance in that coun- Both India and Afghanistan have of the threat to food supplies 167 million, with 3.4 million quiet. BANGKOK: A nine-year-old neighbourhood. try is all the more urgent, sources said. troubled relations with Islamabad be- after a month of catastrophic hectares of rich farmland ru- Last month Danneels was boy was shot and killed in the He briefed Prime Minister Singh During Spanta's visit, he also cause of Pakistani funding and sup- flooding that has affected 18 ined, according to latest UN questioned by police for more Thai capital on his way to about Pakistan's complicity in aiding briefed the Indian leadership about port for terrorist acts within their bor- million people, as the deluge figures. than 10 hours as part of a probe school on Wednesday when a and abetting violence and instability his government's efforts to reach out ders. New Delhi has reiterated that it flows south on its way to the Meanwhile, floodwaters into sexual abuse by priests. teenage gang opened fire on in Afghanistan through its proxies and to "militant elements and elements in supports an Afghan-led process of Arabian Sea. flowing south in Sindh Belgium is one of the coun- his bus, police said. Jatupon warned that the recent flooding in the Taliban" in that country who ad- restoring peace in the war-ravaged While the international province entered the town of tries worst hit by a rising tide of Ponpaka was about to get off Pakistan is likely to further embolden here to and function within the "red country, and has pledged continued community has now donated Jati and threatened Choohar revelations of paedophilia by the bus with his elder brother terrorist groups in that country be- lines;" of abjuring violence and abid- support to Karzai's government. 700 million dollars, domestic Jamoli town on the east bank of Roman Catholic priests in Eu- at a stop in eastern Bangkok anger has been mounting at the swollen Indus. AFP rope and North America. AFP when about 10 students from a local high school started chas- ing the vehicle, opening fire as it sped away. “The boy was Tony Blair’s A Journey lifts lid on Iraq, alcohol and royals shot in the face and neck and died later in hospital,” said Po- AFP lice Lieutenant Pradit Tapra- London, September 1 folded, and that too is part of “prop” to relax and was “at who served as his finance sitjit, in charge of the investi- the responsibility.” the outer limit” of the regular minister, throughout his pre- gation. The same group of stu- Britain’s former prime He praised the “genuine intake limit advised by doc- miership. dents went on to throw beer minister Tony Blair published integrity” and “political tors. “Stiff whisky or G & T Brown had long craved the bottles at the next bus, which his memoirs on Wednesday, courage” of the then US pres- (gin and tonic) before dinner, top job and he and those had four students from a rival saying he had no regrets over ident George W. Bush, with couple of glasses of wine or close to him exerted increas- the 2003 Iraq war but stress- whom he stood shoulder-to- even half a bottle with it,” ing pressure on Blair to quit, school on board, he told. AFP ing he was “desperately sor- shoulder over Iraq. Blair wrote, detailing his particularly in his final years. ry” for those who died. And in a BBC interview drinking. Blair said Brown was a Building crumbles in Entitled A Journey, the being broadcast on Wednes- “So not excessively exces- “strange guy” with “zero” Russia, one injured book is Blair’s account of his day to publicise the book, sive. I had a limit. But I was emotional intelligence. He decade in Downing Street Blair adds that the interna- aware it had become a prop.” said he knew that Brown’s SAINT PETERSBURG: An from 1997 to 2007 and also tional community should be There is also a string of premiership would be “ter- eight-storey building under features an unprecedented prepared to consider taking revelations about high-pro- minal” for the government. renovation crumbled on attack on his “strange” suc- military action against Iran if file figures in Britain. Blair “It is easy to say now, in Wednesday in Russia's second cessor Gordon Brown, whose it develops a nuclear weapon. said he was a “sucker” for the light of his tenure as city of Saint Petersburg, leav- premiership he brands a dis- “I am saying that I think it princess Diana but there was prime minister, that I should ing a woman injured, officials aster. It details the personal is wholly unacceptable for an emotional “wildness” to have stopped it; at the time said. One of three women toll the job took on him — in- Iran to have a nuclear her which made him wary of that would have been well working in shops on the cluding his use of alcohol as a weapons capability and I her. nigh impossible,” Blair wrote. ground floor of the former po- “prop” — as well as his role in think we have got to be pre- He also tells of “trying” vis- The former premier will lice headquarters was taken to the aftermath of princess Di- pared to confront them, if its to the royal family’s Scot- donate all book proceeds to hospital, prosecution investi- ana’s death in a car crash in Copies of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s memoirs,A Journey are displayed as necessary militarily,” he said, tish retreat, Balmoral, and the Royal British Legion, a gators said, adding that the 1997. the book goes on sale for the first time in book stores in London,on Wednesday. according to pre-released ex- how Queen Elizabeth II charity which helps severely collapse could have been However, it is Iraq — ar- tracts. would don rubber gloves to injured war veterans. sparked by the removal of guably the defining event of nary Iraqis and other casual- “can’t regret the decision to ter the invasion was far worse Blair also gave a series of do the washing up after the According to reports, he safes inside the building. "The Blair’s decade in power — ties such as hostages. go to war” as he again out- than anticipated. candid insights on the “huge royals’ traditional barbecue has already received a 4.6- building was under renovation which is at the book’s heart. “I feel desperately sorry lined the case for the conflict. “The aftermath was more strain” life in Downing Street there. million-pound advance. since July 31," a statement Speaking of his feelings for for them, sorry for the lives “All I know is that I did bloody, more awful, more ter- put on him, his wife Cherie Elsewhere, he makes pub- Within hours of its release, said. "Two days go the work all those who died in Iraq, he cut short... to be indifferent to what I thought was right,” he rifying than anyone could and their four children, the lic as never before the private online seller Amazon said A was suspended because cracks suggested he had wept over that would be inhuman, added. have imagined,” he said. youngest of whom was born tensions which simmered be- Journey was already ranked had appeared while safes were the death toll of British and emotionally warped.” Blair did, though, ac- “I can say that never did I while he was in office. tween him and the “madden- first on its British bestseller being dismantled." AFP international soldiers, ordi- But he insisted that he knowledge that the period af- guess the nightmare that un- He used alcohol as a ing” but “brilliant” Brown, list. AFP 6shaft so the men can be pulled up efforts on Wednesday in a bid the desperate men. through it, one by one. to relaunch direct Palestinian- JERUSALEM: Israeli De- Meanwhile, the owners of the Chilean President Sebastian Pin- Israeli negotiations after four fence Minister Ehud Chilean mine begged for “forgiveness era said the operation was well un- Jewish settlers were gunned Barak suggested parts of for the anguish” caused by the col- derway and his government “has down in the West Bank. Jerusalem could be lapse of the San Jose gold and copper done and will continue to do every- The fresh violence blamed handed over to the Pale- mine August 5, which sealed in the thing humanly possible to rescue on the Islamist movement stinians, in an interview miners 700 meters under the earth. them alive.” Hamas and continued dead- published on Wednesday “This is a terrible situation, and He added that another bore was lock over Israeli settlements on the eve of new Middle we hope that it will soon come to a on its way to expand one of three fist- threatened to curtail the latest East peace talks. happy end,” Alejandro Bohn, co- sized holes already drilled to drop efforts by Obama, who made West Jerusalem and 12 Jewish "neighbour- chief of San Esteban mining group, supplies the men, in case the Strata Middle East peace a priority hoods" -- settlements in Edgar Valdez Villareal aka 'La told a parliamentary committee Chilean soldiers deployed to help the trapped miners,arrive at the San 950 encountered problems. early in his presidency. Arab east Jerusalem -- Barbie' of the Beltran Leyva looking into the 26-day-old drama. Jose mine in Copiapo,800 km north of Santiago,on August 31. Authorities have started vaccinat- Obama, who is hoping to would remain in Israel's drug cartel,is presented to the They denied any negligence on ing the miners against tetanus, diph- succeed where so many of his hands. "The Arab neigh- press at the Federal Police head- their part in implementing safety reg- their mental state. long time had to be taken into ac- theria, flu and pneumonia to prevent predecessors have failed, bourhoods in which quarters in Mexico City,on Au- ulations at the San Jose mine, near The NASA experts, experienced in count, he said, drawing parallels with outbreaks of disease. made his first presidential call close to a quarter million gust 31.Mexican authorities on Copiapo, and said all the mine’s in- getting astronauts through extended the training and professionalism of A medical report on Tuesday said to Palestinian president Mah- Palestinians live will be Monday announced the capture spection documents were in order periods of isolation, told Chilean astronauts. five miners were still having difficul- mud Abbas and appointed a theirs," he told Haaretz. of one of the country's most prior to the August 5 cave-in. Health Minister Jaime Manalich and The NASA team was to travel to ties digesting after the 17-day period Middle East envoy, peacemak- But the suggestion by sought after drug kingpins,US- Rescuers say it will take three to Mining Minister Laurence Golborne the scene of the mine drama on before rescuers made contact with er George Mitchell, two days the Labour party leader born Valdez Villarreal,known as four months for a 30-ton hydraulic and other officials to avoid conveying Wednesday. them, during which food supplies se- after his inauguration. does not reflect the 'the Barbie' for his fair complex- drill to chew through the rock to “false hopes” to the trapped men. One of the engineers overseeing verely rationed. In a clear and bloody mes- views of hawkish PM ion.Valdez was detained in a where the miners were holding out. Honesty was key, NASA’s deputy the rescue at the mine, Jorge San- The men have also moved to a dri- sage from Hamas, a staunch Netanyahu, who has in- sisted Jerusalem will re- police operation in central Mex- They have been told they are in for chief medical officer James Duncan, hueza, told AFP late Tuesday that the er spot about 300 meters deeper in- opponent of the talks, its mili- main Israel’s undivided ico,following intelligence work a long wait before they can be pulled explained to reporters in Santiago. drill had burrowed down just five me- side the mine because some were de- tants gunned down four Is- capital "forever." AFP which began in June 2009. out, but have not been given any date The miners’ experience and ex- ters so far, because the initial phase veloping fungal infections and body raelis near a Jewish settlement by Chilean officials concerned about pectation that rescue would take a required “high precision” to get the sores in the hot, dank area. AFP in the Palestinian West Bank on Tuesday in an attack tinians who themselves have Libya releases 37 strongly condemned by Abbas rejected a path of violence in and the White House. favor of a path of peace.” militant Islamists Air India bomber Gene driven obesity is a myth: Study But Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman Netanyahu pledged to keep Mark Regev said Israel was TRIPOLI: An ex-Guantanamo London, September 1 The researchers based family and could guide fu- the talks on track after a 20- “committed to peace” and the detainee and 36 other militant their conclusions after ture treatments to combat month hiatus while stressing attack would not prevent the Islamists were released from faces fresh trial Obesity researchers have analysing the genes of over the obesity crisis.” Israel’s security demands. talks from going ahead. prison in Libya, according to a rubbished the excuse that we 20,000 men and women Ruth Loos from the Med- “I will set clearly the securi- Obama is hosting separate charity organisation on Tues- Vancouver,September 1 ver airport in two unac- are “slaves” to our genes. aged 39 to 79 years, looking ical Research Council, who ty needs that are required pre- meetings not only with Abbas day. The release was an- companied suitcases They found that by exercis- for 12 genetic markers that led the study, said: “Our re- cisely to address these kind of and Netanyahu, but also with nounced in the capital by the Air India Kanishka which were transferred to ing people could slough off up body mass index. search proves that even terror,” Netanyahu said. “We key regional powerbrokers charity foundation of Seif al- bombing convict Inderjit the connecting Air India 40 percent of extra weight They then asked them to those who have the highest will not let the blood of Israeli King Abdullah II of Jordan and Islam al-Gaddafi, one of the Singh Reyat, who was re- flight and Tokyo-bound that “fat genes” laid on them. fill out questionnaires about risk of obesity from their civilians go unpunished.” Egyptian President Hosni sons of Libyan leader Muam- leased last year after flight at Toronto airport. Although some have a their physical activity levels genes can improve their And the host of the talks, Mubarak at the White House mer Gaddafi. The foundation spending 15 years in jail, After his arrest, Reyat, tendency to be overweight, at work and elsewhere, ac- health by taking some form US Secretary of State Hillary before dining with the five said the prisoners had correct- faces a fresh perjury trial an electrical mechanic, ad- scientists at a Medical Re- cording to the journal Public of daily physical activity.” Clinton, offered fresh security leaders and diplomatic Quar- ed their ways through dia- from September 9. If con- mitted to testing the bomb search Council unit in Cam- Library of Science-Medicine. She added: “People don’t assurances to the Israelis as tet representative Tony Blair. logue, and had all sworn off vi- victed, he faces another 14 that blew off at Tokyo air- bridge discovered that an ac- They concluded: “The have to run marathons to she met with Netanyahu late The meetings are designed olence. The ex-US detainee years in jail. port for which he got 10 tive lifestyle could counter a findings challenge the popu- make a difference either - Tuesday. “It is one of the rea- to help launch direct talks be- Abu Sufian bin Qumu, a Reyat was the only one years in jail in 1991. After person’s genetic inheritance, lar myth that obesity is un- walking the dog or working sons why the prime minister is tween the Israeli and Palestin- Libyan, was released from jailed in the 1985 Air India this, he was given another reports The Telegraph. avoidable if it runs in the in the garden all counts. IANS here today, to engage in direct ian leaders at the State Depart- Guantanamo in 2007 to Libya. bombing by Khalistani ex- five years in jail for his role negotiations with those Pales- ment on Thursday. AFP According to the US charges, tremists to avenge the Indi- in the Kanishka bombing. he was connected to a terrorist an Army operation at the While in jail that he had organisation in Afghanistan, Golden Temple against agreed to testify during the and then Pakistan, where he Sikh militants in 1984. trial of Air India suspects - Is Australian politics a man’s, man’s world? was captured in 2001. DPA The Kanishka flight 182 Ripudaman Singh Malik from Montreal to Delhi was and Ajaib Singh Bagri - in Sydney, September 1 bott galvanising enough sup- hairstyles and childlessness, we are not very good at deal- Rosewarne said Gillard had Russian general blown off mid-air near the 2003. But during his testi- port to form a government. the former lawyer played ing with the fact that we’ve got carefully managed her cam- found dead in Turkey Irish coast June 23, 1985. mony, Reyat is said to have Feminists rejoiced when Leading feminist Eva Cox down her sex, presenting her- powerful women around.” paign to soften her image, at All 329 passengers, mostly lied 27 times, leading to ac- Julia Gillard became Aus- believes that while some vot- self as a leader who just hap- Melbourne University’s times being seen kissing ba- ISTANBUL: The former deputy Indian Canadians, were quittal of Malik and Bagri. tralia’s first female leader, but ers have supported 48-year- pened to be a woman. Lauren Rosewarne said the bies, at others cutting a lone chief of a Russian military in- killed, making it the worst Wearing a dark suit, her failure to win national old Gillard simply because she “All the stuff around the country’s worst political crisis figure on a stage. telligence service was found aviation attack in history Reyat appeared the British polls has raised questions was a woman, others probably hair and the boyfriend... I just in decades could not be “I think she had a concert- dead on the shore of the till 9/11 happened. Anoth- Columbia Surpreme Court about whether the country is voted against her for the same think there was a level of dis- blamed on Gillard’s gender be- ed effort not to bring her part- Mediterranean by Turkish vil- er bomb, meant for anoth- here on Tuesday when a ready to have a woman in reason. comfort,” Cox said in refer- cause “voters had other things ner on stage because if she did lagers in Hatay province, the er Air India flight, also went new jury was selected for charge. “We are still not comfort- ence to Gillard’s ever-chang- to worry about”. that, that’s just setting the Turkish newspaper Vatan re- off at Tokyo airport the the case. Addressing the Australians delivered a able when we have a woman ing red hair and her live-in “Her whole coming-to- agenda to remind journalists ported Wednesday citing Russ- same day, killing two bag- jury, judge Mark McEwan hung parliament in August 21 in a top position — even if it’s partner, hairdresser Tim power was very much driven and to remind the public, ‘Oh, ian sources. Experts identified gage handlers. urged jurors to resist re- polls, with neither centre-left not a big issue,” she said. Mathieson. by a gendered narrative,” said she’s not married to him, and the body as that of Yuri Ivanov, Militants had planted searching this case on the Labor PM Gillard nor her con- During a campaign littered “The fact that it was dis- public policy expert Rose- he doesn’t have kids with the former deputy head of both the bombs at Vancou- internet. IANS servative opponent Tony Ab- with references to Gillard’s cussed so much suggests that warne. him’,” Rosewarne said. AFP Russian military intelligence service GRU, the report said. The general had last been de- ployed to review Russian mili- A ROMANTIC CARRIAGE RIDE AFP Landlocked Serbia plays tary installations in Syria. Moscow had confirmed the death of the general last week but only released further de- nature card to woo tourists tails this week, the report said. Ivanov’s body had been swept ashore on August 16 but was Cerevic, September 1 the summer heat in Serbia’s Salasi into restaurants and not identified immediately. DPA capital Belgrade. guest housing, making the A little over two years ago “The beauty of our country town and its surroundings a 8 people killed in Ljuba Simic packed in his job deserves to be highlighted, popular weekend outing from driving trucks for a local ce- and this kind of tourism is an Belgrade. bombing: Mexico ment factory for a new life — excellent way to do it,” he said. Serbia also has something CANCUN: Eight people in- as a pioneer of rural tourism in Jagoda Jovicevic, of the gov- of an image problem. Despite cluding six women died Tues- Serbia’s lush Fruska Gora re- ernment’s tourism organisa- the fact most of it was un- day after assailants hurled gion. tion TOS, says “the state is ac- touched by the 1990s wars, molotov cocktails at a bar here, “I told myself it would be tively supporting the develop- many foreigners still have im- an official said. Preliminary ac- good to profit from what we ment of rural tourism and has ages of the 1999 NATO bomb- counts indicate that at least six have: the Danube river, the been giving subsidies and ing campaign against Serbia in gunmen arrived at the Castillo Fruska Gora hills and their loans with favourable condi- mind when they think of the del Mar tavern and began the pristine nature,” the dynamic tions for four years now.” country. attack, Quintana Roo state at- 51-year old told AFP. She says the country is In addition, economic de- torney general Francisco Alor Together with a business managing to transform its lack velopment was stunted by Quezada said. Six people were partner he turned a traditional of industrial development into years of sanctions over Bel- killed on the spot and two oth- Vojvodina farmhouse into a an economic advantage. grade’s key role in backing ers died later at hospitals in rural inn in the picturesque “We are turning something Serb fighters in the bloody Cancun. Several powerful drug village of Cerevic, on the north around that used to be consid- wars in Bosnia and Croatia — cartels are battling for control side of Fruska Gora where the ered a failing.” sanctions that were only lifted of the illicit trade in Greater hills meet the banks. Simic is now one of around after the fall of strongman Slo- Cancun, a year-round tourist With tourism heavyweights 4,000 people working in the bodan Milosevic in 2000. destination that has higher Croatia and Montenegro and growing sector, which so far But Serbia is determined to median incomes than most of their sun-kissed Adriatic coast counts 5,000 tourist beds. market itself as a hub for Mexico’s metropolitan areas. just next door, landlocked Ser- The economic downturn southeastern Europe, boast- Since May 1, 15 bodies have bia is bidding to turn its vast, gave rural tourism an added ing untamed nature and been found in caves near Can- unspoilt countryside into an boost, since many young peo- famed Balkans hospitality. Its cun used by gangs as clandes- asset for green tourism. ple were forced to move back latest tourism slogan is “Life in The industry is still a fledg- from the big cities to their na- the rhythm of the heartbeat”. tine cemeteries. IANS/EFE Philippe Delon (left),owner of ‘Paris Carriages,Horse Walking Service’,next to a groom,drives a pump- ling: last year revenues from tive villages — where tourism While Serbia’s neighbours kin-shaped carriage drawn by Balthazar,an 11-year-old shire horse from Sweden,the world's biggest tourism made up barely 2.5 suddenly seemed a way out, across the Western Balkans Greece smoking ban workhorse,past the Eiffel tower on August 31 in Paris.The wrought iron made carriage,weighing 500 percent of Serbia’s gross do- Jovicevic said. share the same natural beauty, goes into effect kilos,and decorated with little hearts,offers rides to tourists and newlyweds. mestic product, according to “They used what they had few have yet tapped their po- the economy ministry. at their disposal. The houses tential for rural tourism, with ATHENS: Greek smokers came But spurred on by the suc- — which do often have to be the sector only just emerging under renewed pressure to cess of countries like Hungary, refurbished — and the un- in Bosnia or Macedonia. curb their habit on Wednesday WikiLeaks founder rape probe reopened: Sweden Bulgaria or Romania, Serbia touched natural beauty that In Croatia, despite the as a new law banning smoking has hopes for the sector, and surrounds them,” she said. highly developed tourism in- in enclosed public places went Stockholm, September 1 mitted. Considering infor- abruptly withdrew it the next concerning the rape claim, its trade and tourism ministry In Indjija, a town some 40 dustry on the Adriatic coast, into effect in Europe’s most mation available at present, day, saying new information and also said the investiga- aims to establish a viable mar- kilometres outside Belgrade, tourist nights spent in rural nicotine-addicted nation. Un- Sweden’s director of pub- my judgement is that the had come to light. tion into the molestation ket for nature tourism by 2015. the transformation kicked off hotels and bed and breakfasts der the slogan “Stub out your lic prosecutions said on classification of the crime is Then last week Finne said claim would be extended. Guests staying at Simic’s almost a decade ago, after make up only one percent of cigarettes, add to your life,” the Wednesday she would re- rape,” the prosecutions offi- there was no reason to be- Ny said she could give no inn, which opened in 2008 many people got laid off in the the total in the country. legislation bans smoking in all open a rape investigation cial Marianne Ny said in a lieve a crime had been com- further details concerning with 40 beds, can go hiking, big cities in the 1990s and re- Montenegro’s tourist in- enclosed public spaces except against WikiLeaks founder statement. mitted, adding however that the investigation. visit the area’s famous Ortho- turned home. dustry has also sprung up on casinos and large music halls, Julian Assange, overturning a A Swedish duty prosecu- she had enough evidence to Assange, a 39-year-old dox monasteries, take a boat A handful of the returnees its coast, with rural activities which have a nine-month ex- previous ruling to quash the tor issued an arrest warrant keep looking into a molesta- Australian, has called the al- trip on the river or relax with a saw the potential of the town, such as rafting, hiking or fish- tension to June. Those who probe. for Julian Assange on August tion allegation from another legations part of a smear drink in farmhouse’s gardens. close to the capital and the ing in the mountainous north persist in flouting the law face “There is reason to believe 20 over rape allegations. But woman against Assange. Ny campaign aimed at discredit- Octogenarian Ratko Tat- Fruska Gora park, and turned making up only three percent fines from 50 to 500 euros. AFP that a crime has been com- chief prosecutor Eva Finne overturned Finne’s decision ing his website WikiLeaks. AFP alovic came to Cerevic to beat a dozen of old farms known as of all tourism revenues. AFP theindependentdaily WORLD>7 PORT LOUIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 WORLDDIGEST Hebron sealed off after deadly attack AFP AFP China intensifies Hebron, September 1 Israeli forces on Wednes- day sealed off parts of the West Bank while Palestinian military build-up security officials said they ar- rested about 50 people after four settlers were gunned down just ahead of Middle East peace talks. against Taiwan And furious settlers vowed to flout a moratorium Taipei,September 1 the report said. on settlement construction The People’s Beijing still considers in protest against the attack China is ramping-up its Taiwan part of its territory as tensions rose ahead of a Elementary school children military presence facing Tai- Liberation Army awaiting reunification — by Washington summit hosted wear fire proof hoods before wan despite the easing of hos- force if necessary — even by US President Barack Oba- they being evacuate from their tilities across the Strait, a de- may attack the though the island has ruled it- ma to relaunch talks last sus- classroom as part of a nation- fence ministry report cited by island ‘should the self since 1949 at the end of a pended in 2008. wide earthquake drill at a Tokyo local media warned on civil war. Israeli soldiers carried out elementary school on Wednes- Wednesday. military tip the The relations between house-to-house searches in day.People across Japan took “Although the cross-Strait mainland China and Taiwan villages in the Hebron area, Jewish settlers stop at an Israeli army roadblock that leads to the West Bank village of part in the disaster drill to pre- ties have improved signifi- balance seriously have been characterised by near the Kiryat Arba settle- Bani Naim,near Hebron on August 31 after four Israelis were shot dead. pare for a major earthquake,on cantly in recent years, the Chi- towards Beijing.’ limited contact, tensions, and ment where the two couples, the anniversary of the massive nese communists’ military instability. In the early years, including a pregnant gence situation assess- the attack. Brigades, the armed wing of 1923 earthquake which killed have not slowed at all their military conflicts continued, woman, were killed on Tues- ments,” the military said. The victims of the shoot- Hamas which is vehemently 140,000 people in Tokyo. pace of build-up aimed at Tai- came to power. while diplomatically both gov- day. Access routes to the city Palestinian forces for ing were identified as Yizhak opposed to the talks that wan,” the United Daily News But despite the fast warm- ernments competed to be the of Hebron were closed by their part arrested about 50 and Talia Aimes, aged 45 and Prime Minister Benjamin said, citing the ministry ing ties, Beijing still refuses to legitimate government of all military roadblocks. people during the night, a 47 respectively, Avishai Netanyahu and Palestinian India: President visits report. renounce the use of force China. Military Chief of Staff Lt security official said. He Shindler, 24, and Kochba president Mahmud Abbas In a report to the United against the island, saying it More recently, the legal and General Gabi Ashkenazi and said the suspects were sup- Even-Chaim, 37, and were to are to relaunch in Washing- flood-affected Leh States Congress last month, was aimed at preventing the political status of Taiwan have other generals were at the porters of Hamas, the Is- be settlers from the area. ton on Thursday. the Pentagon also warned that independence movement become more controversial, scene where they conducted lamist movement that The attack was claimed Netanyahu expressed JAMMU: President Pratibha China’s military build-up gathering ground on the is- with the expression of Taiwan “operational and intelli- claimed responsibility for by the Ezzedine al-Qassam outrage at the attack. AFP Patil on Wednesday arrived in against the island has “contin- land. independence sentiments in the flood-ravaged Leh town of ued unabated” despite im- The People’s Liberation Taiwan which were formerly Jammu and Kashmir to review proving political relations Army may also attack the is- outlawed. and assess the rescue and re- Indian wins across the Taiwan Strait. land “should the military tip At the same time, there has US lays ground for N Korea talks lief operations there. Patil, who China’s military spending the balance seriously towards been increasing non-govern- was received at the Leh airport for 2010 rose 7.5 percent on Beijing,” the defence report mental and semi-governmen- Washington, September 1 intelligence bureau. But a growing number US science by Governor N.N. Vohra and last year, in spite of the global was quoted as saying. tal exchanges between the two of US officials and analysts, even hawks, say Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, economic downturn, said the It also cautioned of the like- sides. After months of rising tension, the US is talks have been moribund for too long. was briefed by the Indian Taiwan report which was sent lihood of Chinese military ac- From 2008, negotiations gingerly exploring how to launch talks with “If you’re whacking one end of the don- journalism Army and Air Force officers on to parliament last week. tion should Taipei push for a began to restore the "three North Korea without loosening the screws key with a stick, it’s good periodically to the operations under way. She Looking ahead, the defence referendum on independence, links" (transportation, com- on the isolated state, experts say. check on the other end to see if the donkey lauded the efforts of the secu- award report said Beijing may or if it amends the constitu- merce, and communications) President Barack Obama has made dia- has changed its behavior,” said Bruce rity forces and told the locals offer concessions to Taipei on tion in favour of indepen- between the two sides, cut off logue a hallmark of his foreign policy, ex- Klingner of the Heritage Foundation. Washington, September 1 that the whole nation was with minor issues but will not dence. since 1949. tending a hand to regimes no matter how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on them. PM Manmohan Singh budge on the decades-old dis- Last month’s Pentagon re- Party-to-party talks be- odious in US eyes. A major exception was Tuesday conferred with former president India’s Pallava Bagla has had earlier announced a grant pute over the island’s sover- port said China is investing in tween the CPC and the KMT North Korea, which since Obama took of- Carter, who visited North Korea last week to won the American Geophysical of Rs.125 crore during his visit eignty. nuclear weapons, long-range have resumed and semi-offi- fice has tested a nuclear bomb and alleged- secure the release of an American teacher. Union (AGU) David Perlman to Leh on August 17. He had Ties between Taiwan and missiles, submarines, aircraft cial negotiations through or- ly torpedoed a ship in the deadliest inter- Top negotiators from China and South Award for Excellence in Science also announced Rs.100,000 ex- the mainland have improved carriers and cyber warfare. ganizations representing the Korean incident in decades. Korea are also visiting Washington this Journalism for his articles on gratia relief for the next of kin markedly since 2008 when Ma “The balance of cross-Strait interests of their respective The United States has kept up the pres- week to meet with senior US officials. North the impact of climate change of those who died in the Ying-jeou of the Beijing- military forces continues to governments are being sched- sure, on Monday slapping sanctions against Korea’s Kim Jong-Il just paid a five-day visit on Himalayan glaciers. calamity and Rs.50,000 each to friendly Kuomintang party shift in the mainland’s favor,” uled. AFP North Korean entities including its military to China, his regime’s main supporter. AFP The Perlman Award of AGU, those injured. At least 183 peo- the largest organisation of ple, including 35 armymen, earth and space scientists with were killed and 200 people are more than 58,000 members still missing. IANS Bhopal victims ‘delighted’ over apex court sentence review worldwide, recognises work published with deadline pres- South Korea’s prez to New Delhi, September 1 jail for 10 years is much more real from the company that operated This ruling is now to be reviewed when gas escaped into a nearby res- sure of one week or less. visit Russia now,” said Satinath Sarangi from the pesticide plant at after a request from the central gov- idential area and tens of thousands Announcing the award for Campaign groups working for the Bhopal Group for Information the centre of the disaster, handing ernment to reopen the case follow- more died from the lingering effects Bagla, NDTV’s science editor, SEOUL: South Korean Presi- survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas and Action, an umbrella group for them modest, two-year jail terms ing anger that managers accused of over the following years. AGU’s Perlman Award selection dent Lee Myung-Bak will visit disaster on Wednesday welcomed a five organisations. that caused national outrage. ignoring safety warnings escaped Abdul Jabbar, from the cam- committee applauded “Bagla’s Russia next week to meet his decision by India’s Supreme Court “It’s a great step in righting many In 1996, the Supreme Court re- more serious punishment. paign group Bhopal Gas Peedit articles for addressing “a very counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to look into handing harsher sen- of the wrongs that have been com- duced the charges against the men The Bhopal accident, blamed on Mahila Udyog Sangathan (Organi- serious issue in the earth sci- and discuss economic and en- tences to seven men convicted for mitted by the Supreme Court,” he to negligence, rather than the more Union Carbide, a US chemical sation for the Uplift of Bhopal Gas ences”. ergy cooperation, the presi- the tragedy. told AFP. serious crime of culpable homicide group that ran the plant, was the Women Victims), said he feared that “His articles serve as a re- dential office said on Wednes- “We are delighted and the possi- In June a court in Bhopal, central which carries a maximum 10-year world’s worst industrial accident. the wheels of justice would still turn minder to journalists to ques- day. Lee will visit the country bility of the Indian accused going to India, convicted seven executives jail term. Thousands were killed instantly slowly. AFP tion sources, to think harder from September 9 to 10 to at- about the agendas and ideas of tend a policy forum in Yaro- those people about whom they slavl, 250 km northeast of Kan fails to stop Japan KEEPING AN EYE ON FUTURE ERUPTIONS are reporting, and to stop the Moscow, and hold a summit steamroller of opinions or with Medvedev, his office said AFP ideas when the facts just don’t in a statement. The summit in leadership battle back them up.” Yaroslavl on September 10 will “Although Bagla’s articles re- be the fourth meeting between Tokyo, September 1 parties. If Ozawa wins, he will veal embarrassing foibles of the two leaders, who will also become the nation’s sixth pre- scientists, ultimately they also mark the 20th anniversary of Japan’s Prime Minister mier in four years. illustrate science’s ability to diplomatic relations between Naoto Kan and his rival, Kan, 63, started his politi- self-correct,” it said. their countries. They will dis- powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, cal life as a left-wing grass- The first of his two articles cuss strengthening coopera- kicked off a leadership battle roots activist and shot to fame “No Sign of Himalayan Melt tion in areas including the de- on Wednesday that threatens when, during a brief stint as Down, Indian Report Finds”, velopment of Siberia and its to divide the ruling party only health minister, he uncovered published in the journal Sci- energy resources, Russia’s eco- a year after it took power. official culpability in a HIV- ence, explores dissent among nomic modernisation and the Their contest to run the tainted blood scandal. glaciologists regarding the G20 summit to be held in governing centre-left Democ- Both were key figures in claim by the United Nations In- Seoul in November. AFP ratic Party of Japan (DPJ) the DPJ when it took power in tergovernmental Panel on Cli- comes as its economic recov- a landmark election on Au- mate Change (IPCC) Hindus in B’desh ery is slowing, Japan’s debt is gust 30 last year, but they split that Himalayan glaciers growing and exports are following the resignation of would imminently disappear. observe Janmashtami threatened by the yen trading the DPJ’s first premier Yukio The second article, “Hi- DHAKA: Janmashtami, the near a 15-year high. Hatoyama in June, when Kan malayan Glacier Deadline birthday of Lord Krishna, is The rivals, who both for- took over the post. ‘Wrong’”, published by BBC being celebrated on Wednes- mally declared their candida- Kan, on assuming power, News, reports on an apparent day across Muslim-majority cy for the September 14 party snubbed and sidelined Oza- typographical error in the IPCC Bangladesh. The day’s pro- election, represent the two wa, who in turn attacked Kan claim which appears to explain grammes include worship of different wings of the party for presiding over a major de- the panel’s controversial, 300- Lord Krishna, puja, Gita Jagna, which a year ago ousted the feat in upper house elections year acceleration of when Hi- kirtan and peace processions, conservatives after more than in July, blaming him because malayan glaciers are expected Star Online, the website of The half as century in power. he had mentioned the to vanish. Daily Star reported on Wed- Ozawa, 68, is a veteran prospect of tax hikes. Bagla is also an author. His nesday. The day is a public powerbroker who years ago Although Ozawa is unpop- latest book is Destination holiday in the country. Presi- defected from the conserva- ular with voters because of Moon: India’s Quest for dent Zillur Rahman and Prime tive Liberal Democrats and funding scandals, in which he A geologist prepares his instruments to monitor the eruption of Mount Sinabung at their base in Moon, Mars and Beyond. He Minister Sheikh Hasina have has earned nicknames like denies any wrongdoing, he Surbakti village,Tanah Karo in North Sumatra on Wednesday.Thousands of Indonesians will spend also freelances stories to BBC greeted the minority Hindu “Shadow Shogun” and the controls the biggest faction their fourth day in evacuation centers as the volcano threatened a devastating eruption on Sumatra and other media outlets, and community on the occasion. “Destroyer” for his record of within the DPJ, with about island,officials said.The mountain erupted for the first time in 400 years on August 29. contributes photographs to Home Minister Sahera Khatun creating and splitting minor 150 out of 412 lawmakers. AFP Corbis images. IANS had earlier requested the Hin- dus to complete their festivi- ties peacefully by 5 p.m., in time for the breaking of fast by Myanmar’s cyber generation boots up for first-time vote the Muslims, a statement that had been criticised by the me- Yangon, September 1 by activists and the West as a sham web offers a way to tap the city’s facing lengthy prison terms. Myanmar Blogger Society. that have attempted it — the dia as “discriminatory”. IANS orchestrated by the ruling generals youth, despite slow connections, Tin San, who has about 2,000 Controls are expected to be Myanmar Democracy Congress One of Myanmar’s self-de- to shore up their rule. Some favour frequent power cuts and huge risks Facebook friends and thousands tightened again during the elec- party and the Peace and Diversity Indonesian police kill scribed “pioneer bloggers” proudly a boycott by voters, many of whom over online activity that the regime more blog followers, says he holds tion, but for now many are fear- Party — have had their websites five people in riot opens his popular website — offi- are disillusioned with the process. deems subversive. informal gatherings across Yangon lessly talking politics online while banned. Even if their sites were al- cially banned by the military rulers But Tin San, whose name AFP Google users look up South Ko- to discuss the Internet’s uses — they still can. lowed, the web’s reach outside the PALU: Indonesian police — and scrolls to his updates on the has changed for his protection, is rean celebrities — in line with cur- and how to dodge the junta’s re- “I receive 10 to 20 emails from major cities of Yangon and Man- opened fire and killed five peo- approaching election. among a group of optimists who rent Asia-wide craze — while other strictions. my friends each day about the dalay is severely limited. ple when an angry mob at- Tin San has been carefully re- advocate participation and online cafe-goers read world news stories During the “Saffron Revolution” things the government does in Just one in every 455 of Myan- tacked their station with fire- searching the candidates running debate of the polls, despite some of on the BBC website. Several are monk-led protests in 2007, Myan- Myanmar,” says 28-year-old Win mar’s inhabitants were Internet bombs in a protest over the in Myanmar’s first polls in two the world’s most repressive Inter- chattering on Google or Facebook. mar’s citizens used the web to leak Oo, who lives in Yangon and whose users in 2009, based on statistics death of a man in custody, po- decades, and for his next post he is net controls. “I have quite a lot of Staff are quick to help clients extensive accounts and video to name has also been changed. from the International Telecom- lice said on Wednesday. More busy reading up on the electoral influence on my readers so I want find proxy servers to bypass blocks the outside world, sparking a total He says a friend recently sent munication Union, a UN agency in than 20 including several po- regulations. them just to think about the infor- on certain websites, even though Internet ban by the regime. him a cartoon of the junta chief Geneva. About two thirds of the lice were injured during the vi- “Most people in Myanmar are mation,” he says. they are forbidden to do so on Connections have also been Than Shwe looking like a clown. population, estimated at about 50 olent clash late Tuesday in the not familiar with voting. We need “As far as I know, most young threat of closure, according to me- slowed down on politically signifi- Prominent blogger Nay Phone Latt million, live in the countryside and town of Buol, Central Sulawesi to have resources and information people are not interested in the dia watchdog Reporters Without cant dates such as August 8, the an- was jailed in 2008 for 20 years, later have limited access to information province, local deputy police to vote how we like,” says the 30- election, even though they want Borders. The rights group de- niversary of a mass political upris- reduced to 12, for allegedly storing about the election. chief Dewa Parsana said. “A big year-old. Like all those in the coun- change. But this is the beginning of scribes Myanmar’s legislation on ing in 1988. “I think the govern- such an image on email, among Web-savvy city dwellers still number of residents encircled try aged under 38, he has never change — it’s a stepping stone.” Internet use, the Electronic Act, as ment is quite afraid of blogs and other offences. hope their online activity, however the police station and threw voted before. The November 7 Judging by the busy cyber cafes “one of the most liberticidal laws in bloggers,” says Tin San, one of Yet few political parties have restricted, will help to spread polit- Molotov bombs,” he said. AFP election has been widely criticised across the main city Yangon, the the world”, with dissident netizens nearly 1,500 members of the online taken their campaign online. Two ical awareness in the country. AFP ALL COUNTRIES MAKE CLEAN ENERGY IS A CRUCIAL “ SACRIFICES TODAY FOR A BETTER ELEMENT IN THE FIGHT ” TOMORROW. — ZAPATERO business AGAINST POVERTY. — KURODA

8< theindependentdaily PORT LOUIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 BIZDIGEST Russia Sub-Saharan Africa second in poverty partially Independent News Service surement, 1.7 billion people the extent of deprivations. poor but also the composi- Kathmandu, September 1 are living under multidimen- MPI is supposed to give a vivid multidimensional MPI can be used to identify tion of their poverty. Among sional poverty which is the most vulnerable people these indicators eight are re- lifts grain Among the 104 countries greater than World Bank’s picture of people living in poverty as this delves and they can be helped by lated to Millennium Devel- whose data has been measure of extreme income deep into other factors besides income and the national policies. opment Goals (MDGs), thus analysed, the five nations of poverty that states that 1.3 Thus, this will help policy MPI also demonstrates the export ban South Asia is the home of half billion people of the world consumption pattern to measure poverty makers to target resources direction the countries are the Multidimensional Pover- are living below the daily in- and design policies more ef- taking in the matter of attain- Moscow, September 1 ty Index (MPI) poor people at come of $1.25. fectively. The MPI measures ing MDGs. 51 per cent, followed by Sub- “MPI is supposed to give a “It measures the condi- ies acute poverty, this is more poverty using 10 key indica- MPI is a new international Russia has partially lifted the Saharan Africa. vivid multidimensional pic- tion of people with respect to applicable to find the nature tors based on three dimen- measure of poverty devel- temporary embargo on grain “Whereas Arab States and ture of people living in pover- a range of deprivations that of poverty of least developed sions – health, education and oped by Oxford Poverty and exports introduced last month, Central and Easten Europe ty as this delves deep into afflict a person’s life at the countries (LDCs). standard of living. Human Development Initia- allowing the resumption of ex- compose only two per cent other factors besides income same time,” she said adding MPI assesses the nature The ten indicators directly tive (OPHI) to mark United ports in special cases like hu- and one per cent of MPI poor and consumption pattern to that the measure assesses the and intensity of poverty at measures deprivations in Nations Development Pro- manitarian aid, the govern- population, respectively,” measure poverty,” said Dr nature and intensity of the individual level. Accord- health and educational out- gramme’s 20th Anniversary ment said on Wednesday. the new index to guage Sabina Alkire, director of Ox- poverty at the individual lev- ing to this measure, poor comes as well as key services edition of Human Develop- The ban will not affect ex- A private condominium under poverty developed by Oxford ford Poverty and Human el in education, health out- people are those who are such as water, sanitation, ment Report. The report’s full ports needed to fulfil a number construction near the bay in University shows. Development Initiative, Ox- comes, and standard of liv- multiply deprived and extent and electricity reveal not version will be released on of Russia's international agree- Singapore on Tuesday. According to MPI mea- ford University. ing. “Since this method stud- of their poverty depends on only how many people are November this year. ments, including grain prod- ucts for humanitarian aid, ac- cording to a government decree Burger King in talks KABUL BANK DENIES CHARGES published on Wednesday. ADB to issue first A record drought has de- for possible sale AFP stroyed a quarter of Russia's harvest this summer and Russ- NEW YORK: Burger King, the ian Prime Minister Vladimir second-largest US hamburger clean energy bond Putin signed a decree in early chain, is in talks with private- August introducing a ban on equity firms for a potential Independent News Service of Asia and the Pacific — or grain exports from August 15 to sale, The Wall Street Journal re- Port Louis, September 1 more than 800 million people December 31. Putin later indi- ported on Wednesday. Among — still have no access to basic cated the government may the interested firms is Britain’s The Asian Development electricity services, while some even extend the embargo be- 3i Group PLC, the Journal said, Bank (ADB) plans to issue its 1.8 billion people continue to yond that date. noting that the talks had al- inaugural Clean Energy Bond rely on traditional biomass fu- Last year, Russia exported ready lasted several weeks and to support its clean energy pro- els for cooking and heating. 21.4 million tonnes of grain and that their status was unclear. jects in Asia and the Pacific. The “Clean energy is a crucial el- observers had already warned Citing sources familiar with Clean Energy Bond is expected ement in the fight against that could be sharply lower this the matter, it noted that it was to have four tranches, one each poverty in Asia and the Pacific. year owing to the drought. uncertain that the discussions denominated in Australian dol- To put the region on a path to Putin had signed a decree would result in a sale. Al- lars and Turkish lira and two sustainable and inclusive eco- imposing the ban which also though it has been a public tranches in Brazilian real. It will nomic growth, we are commit- stated that Russia would ask company since 2006, Burger carry tenors of between four ted to supporting clean energy fellow members of a regional King has already been through and seven years and will be is- projects in the region that avoid customs union — Belarus and several buyout firms. Faring sued in September. harming people or the environ- Kazhakhstan — to make a simi- worse than its bigger rival Mc- ADB will provide assistance ment,” ADB President lar move. Kazakhstan is also a Donald’s in the wake of the fi- to clean ener- Haruhiko major world grain exporter. nancial crisis, Burger King last gy projects in Kuroda said. The severity of the drought week reported a drop of 2.3 per an amount at The use of coal and oil Between has seen states of emergency cent in its global sales for its least equal to and other carbon-based 2005 and declared in 27 regions and dealt 2010 fiscal year, compared to a the amount 2009, ADB’s a major blow to Russia's ambi- 1.2 per cent gain during the raised by the fossil resources to meet total clean en- tions of ramping up its global same period last year. It also Clean Energy ergy invest- market share over next years. It posted a 3.9 per cent decrease Bond. The is- the region’s growing ments ex- had been aiming to more than in US and Canada sales, com- suance, target- energy needs has ceeded $5 bil- double exports to 40-50 million pared to an 0.4 per cent in- ed at Japanese lion. Addi- Pedestrians walk past the Kabul Bank in Kabul on Wednesday.Afghanistan’s central bank governor tonnes a year by increasing crease in the same period last retail in- added to the release of tionally, the said that the country's biggest bank,Kabul Bank was in no danger of collapse. supplies to grain-hungry con- year. “In fiscal year 2010, we vestors, will be ADB is target- sumers like Egypt. AFP faced sustained levels of high arranged greenhouse gases ing $2 billion a unemployment and a fragile through HSBC year in clean global economy that com- Securities (Japan) Ltd and will energy investments by 2013 fo- bined made this one of the be distributed nationwide by cusing on renewable energy Chinese manufacturing strongly rebounds in August toughest operating environ- more than 20 securities firms. projects such as biomass, wind, ments in recent history. AFP The planned bond issue fol- solar, hydro, and geothermal Beijing, September 1 ing activity reached 51.7 last month facturing suggested there would not Analysts warned the manufactur- lows the successful sale in April aswell as on energy efficiency compared with 51.2 in July. be a “big correction in the Chinese ing sector would face weaker de- BP sells Malaysian of ADB’s inaugural WaterBond, projects in industrial, commer- Manufacturing in China re- A reading above 50 means the economy”. China’s economy slowed mand in major export markets in the which is supporting the ADB’s cial and residential sectors. bounded in August, surveys showed sector is expanding, while below 50 in the second quarter, growing by second half as the US struggles to re- assets to Petronas work in the water sector in Asia Through its clean energy on Wednesday, easing concerns the indicates a decline. 10.3 per cent compared with a blis- cover from the global recession and LONDON: British oil giant BP and the Pacific. Rapid econom- programme, ADB intends to economy was heading for a sharp “This (data) reconfirmed our tering 11.9 per cent in the first three Europe deals with its debt crisis. has agreed to sell some of its ic expansion in the region has help the region meet its energy- slowdown in the second half of 2010. long-held view that China is moder- months as efforts to rein in soaring “It is not time to open the cham- Malaysian assets to local state put immense pressure on re- security needs, facilitate a shift The turnaround was under- ating rather than melting down,” property prices started to bite. pagne just yet,” said Brian Jackson, a energy firm Petronas for $363 sources and the environment. to a low-carbon economy, and pinned by domestic orders, but ana- said Qu Hongbin, chief economist at Strong domestic orders saw the Hong Kong-based senior emerging million, the group announced The use of coal and oil and ensure everyone in the region lysts warned that demand in the HSBC in Hong Kong. level of new business taken on by markets strategist at Royal Bank of on Wednesday. “BP today an- other carbon-based fossil re- has access to energy. United States and Europe — major “Domestic demand will be re- Chinese manufacturers rise moder- Canada, referring to the rebound in nounced that it has agreed to sources to meet the region’s ADB is dedicated for reduc- buyers of Chinese-made shoes, elec- silient to uphold around nine per ately in August, following two suc- manufacturing activity. sell its interests in ethylene growing energy needs has ing poverty through inclusive tronic gadgets and clothes — would cent gross domestic product (GDP) cessive months of contraction, “We expect China will have a rela- and polyethylene production added to the release of green- economic growth, environ- weaken in the coming months. growth in the second half and 2011, Qu said. “The overall rise in new tively moderate slowdown over the in Malaysia to Petronas,” the house gases that contribute to mentally sustainable growth, The HSBC China Manufacturing while export demand is more likely work centred on the domestic second half, but weaker external de- London-listed company said the global climate change. and regional integration. PMI, or purchasing managers index, to turn worse in the coming market, with new export business mand from the US and Europe still in a statement. “The agree- At the same time, insuffi- In 2009, ADB approved rose to a three-month high of 51.9 months.” The Shanghai Composite falling slightly for a third month in represent a significant downside risk ment concerns BP’s 15 per cient energy investment is pre- $16.1 billion in financing oper- last month from 49.4 in July. Index, which covers A and B shares, succession,” Qu said. in coming months.” HSBC’s results cent interest in Ethylene venting many developing ations through loans, grants, A separate survey published by a rose 0.74 pct to 2,658.36 on the back “Those respondents that report- are based on interviews with pur- Malaysia and 60 per cent inter- countries and individuals from guarantees, equity invest- government agency — the China of the data, dealers said. ed a drop in foreign order levels gen- chasing managers at more than 400 est in Polyethylene Malaysia.” reaching their full potential. ments, and technical assis- Federation of Logistics and Purchas- Government analyst Zhang Liqun erally attributed this to softer de- companies, while the CFLP survey Both production facilities are A quarter of the population tance projects. ing (CFLP) — showed manufactur- said the moderate rebound in manu- mand from external markets.” covers more than 700 firms. AFP operated by Petronas, and are located at Kertih on the east- ern coast of Malaysia. The deal is expected to be completed by Zimbabwe firm for diamond cutting centre Online learning website to the end of the year, subject to certain conditions, and does Mount Hampden, September 1 ceeds, marketing rates, making life ished diamonds,” Matanhire told not affect BP’s other business- easy for the minister of finance delegates who attended the launch. es in the Asian nation. BP is A diamond firm operating from (Tendai Biti),” Chidarikire said. A Belgian, diamond expert, Filip Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond Early this month, Zimbabwe Van Laere said Marange fields could fly high on wings of ‘angels’ seeking to sell off up to $30 bil- lion of assets over the next 18 fields has begun constructing a mul- resumed trading of Marange dia- produce 40 million carats annually. months as it faces spiralling ti-million dollar cutting and polish- mond sales since international regu- Once fully completed, the $20 San Francisco, September 1 money being invested by ven- costs from the Gulf of Mexico ing centre in the country, officials lators partially lifted a ban imposed million centre will have among other The financing won by ture capital firms (VCs) has said on Wednesday. after the military seized control of things banks, a diamond college and A startup intent on making sunk while folks reaping re- oil spill disaster. AFP The Zimbabwe Diamond Tech- the mines. The sale generated about insurance firms. it simple for anyone to teach Udemy is an example of wards at hot companies such as nology Centre, which is being con- $30 million, according to govern- In January, diamond watchdog online has received a million Google, Facebook, or Zynga are Vivendi reports 6.6 structed by Canadile miners, one of ment figures. Kimberley Process halted the sale dollars in funding from “an- how angel investors in putting newfound wealth into per cent rise in profits the three firms operating in Upon completion, the centre is of stones from Zimbabwe’s eastern gels,” technology industry suc- the form of technology startups that they like. Marange, is set to become opera- expected to create 7,000 jobs. Marange diamond fields after docu- cesses backing peers with good “You have a decline in ven- PARIS: French media and tele- tional within six months. Cougan Matanhire, chairman of menting military abuses against ideas. Udemy.com will use the successes are stepping ture capital with a really aggres- com group Vivendi reported a Faber Chidarikire, governor for Canadile miners said the centre civilians. cash to hire workers and ramp- sive surge in angel investing,” 6.6 per cent rise in net profits Mashonaland West province said the would funnel all the rough diamond The Zimbabwean government re- up operations, co-founder in to back people with Ressi said. “These angels are es- to 1.26 billion euros for the diamond industry was set to revive streams of Zimbabwe into one pro- acted by imposing a blanket ban on Gagan Biyani said in making cool new ideas sentially coming to the rescue first half of the year. The firm, the country’s economic woes. fessional and high security area. the export of diamonds until the the announcement. of new startups.” which has interests in televi- “The ailing country’s economy “This is the centre where we will Kimberley Process gave its Marange “We want to essentially de- Venture capital dried up as sion, telecommunications and shall be revived through the pro- transform rough diamonds into pol- diamonds a clean bill of health. AFP mocratise education so that More than a thousand in- the global economy melted music, said its sales were up by anyone can teach over the In- structors have created courses down and the market made it 6.1 per cent to 13.9 billion eu- ternet,” Biyani said. “We make at Udemy, with a host of offer- daunting for young companies ros. It also raised its revenue it really easy for anyone to de- ings coming from prestigious to go public with stock offer- outlook for the year. “Vivendi velop an online course.” US universities including Stan- ings when early investors are is back to growth in the first Biyani and the two other co- ford, Yale, and MIT. Biyani said counting on big returns. “The half and improves its full year founders have been the entire that he and fellow founders VC industry is really hurting,” outlook,” Vivendi chief execu- workforce since Udemy was Eren Bali and Oktay Caglar be- said VentureBeat editor Matt tive Jean-Bernard Levy said. It launched in May in the north- gan working on Udemy about Marshall, executive producer saw its net earnings slide 68.1- ern California city of Palo Alto. two years ago after meeting at of a DEMO event considered a per cent last year. Ex-Vivendi Most courses listed at Ude- Founder Institute, a training premier showcase for technol- boss Jean-Marie Messier is my on Tuesday were free to stu- camp for entrepreneurs run by ogy startups. “Angels are big.” currently on trial in Paris for dents. Topics ranged from how thefunded.com. Ressi declared 2010 the year fraud. Messier is accused of to start a business or use com- The financing won by Ude- of the angel investor, saying he misleading the stock market, puter software tools to winning my is a prime example of how hasn’t seen this type of situa- manipulating share prices and at poker or picking up women. angel investors in the form of tion before in his more than 15 misusing corporate funds in The course list included an technology successes are step- years as an entrepreneur. “Pro- the 2000-2002 period when online class by high-level ping in to back people with fessionals who made money in Vivendi, previously a sleepy Google executive Marissa May- cool new ideas, according to technology are investing in French water utility, went on a er titled “Ideas come from Adeo Ressi of thefunded.com. new companies at an unprece- massive takeover spree. AFP everywhere.” He said that the amount of dented pace,” Ressi said. AFP theindependentdaily BUSINESS>9 PORT LOUIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 US economy Two-speed eurozone a new test for the ECB adds fewer

Frankfurt, September 1 surely be raised from an esti- funds rate at virtually zero. growth while the periphery Meanwhile, renewed ten- mate in June of one per cent, Fed chief Ben Bernanke said MANUFACTURING RECOVERY DROPS suffers from continued eco- sion on sovereign debt markets jobs than The European Central Bank however, while the outlook for on Friday it will take even more nomic weakness and from pe- is a reminder that a weaker (ECB), which has become used 2011 is more uncertain. aggressive steps to boost BRUSSELS: The recovery in provements were “still cen- riodic bouts of tensions in global economic climate could expected to handling crises, must now Countries like Germany growth if the economic outlook private sector manufacturing tred on Germany, the Nether- the financial sector and sover- raise pressure on the eurozone draft a monetary policy for have rebounded from a deep “deteriorated significantly,” but across the 16-nation euro- lands and Austria,” survey re- eign bond markets,” UniCredit countries with excessive Washington, September 1 what is becoming a two-speed recession last year but others added that prospects for a US zone hit a six-month low in sults showed on wednesday. chief economist Marco Annun- deficits. economic zone, economists countries on the 16-nation growth pick up in 2011 ap- August with a deepened The index was down from ziata said. Ireland, which many includ- The United States private say. “The good news is — the eurozone’s periphery will strug- peared to “remain in place.” downturn in Greece, accord- 56.7 in July, although above ECB governing council ing Trichet praised for tough sector employment dropped in ing to final data from research an earlier estimate of 55. The eurozone economy is still on a gle for months and possibly The eurozone economic group Markit on Wednesday. report added, however, that member Axel Weber, a leading austerity measures aimed at August for the first time in sev- growth path. The bad news is much longer to get growth back backdrop is pretty good in con- The manufacturing purchas- the “rate of expansion re- candidate to replace Trichet as getting to grips with shaky fi- en months, signalling a weak- — there is still a deep division on track. trast, with overall growth of 1.0 ing managers’ index (PMI) for mained robust and faster president next year, has said nances, had its sovereign debt ening US economic recovery, between eurozone countries,” Commercial bank reliance per cent in the second quarter the 16 countries that share than the survey average.” Re- that while it was crucial to nor- rating downgraded last month payrolls firm ADP said on Commerzbank analyst on central bank funds mean- and inflation at a tame 1.7 the single currency slowed to covery was “comparatively malise monetary policy, which by Standard and Poor’s. Wednesday. Christoph Weil said. while means the ECB’s interest per cent in July, although un- 55.1, with “moderated” modest” in Italy, Spain and would mean withdrawing Standard and Poor warned Some 10,000 private-sector After ECB governors make rate of one per cent will remain employment remains stuck at growth both in output and the Netherlands, and exceptional credit support it could cut the rating futher jobs were added last month fol- their decision on interest rates at its record low and that 10 per cent. new orders. Germany and “Greece remained firmly in measures, that discussion should the fiscal costs of sup- lowing a revised July increase of on Thursday, president Jean- Trichet could announce an ex- Business activity varies France again posted “strong the grips of a deep down- would probably take place only porting the debt-laden coun- 37,000 jobs, ADP said in a re- Claude Trichet is to unveil the tension of offering unlimited widely across the zone howev- growth,” but while job cre- turn,” said Rob Dobson, se- early next year. try’s banking sector rise further. port. The August figure was less latest forecasts by bank staff for loans for up to three-months. er, expanding by a quarterly ation also kept pace, the im- nior Markit economist. AFP Commercial banks in euro- “While inflation should not than the 13,000 expected by eurozone growth and inflation. The ECB’s headline rate record of 2.2 per cent in Ger- zone, especially those who now be a worry for the ECB at the most economists. “The ECB is universally ex- compares with just 0.1 per cent many but contracting by 1.5 rely on the European Central current juncture, the still fragile "The decline in private em- pected to leave rates on hold,” at the Bank of Japan, while the per cent in Greece, according to posted modest growth rates this year. Bank for access to wholesale state of the financial system ap- ployment in August confirms a Bank of America Merill Lynch Bank of England’s benchmark the EU statistics office Eurostat. that ranged from 0.6 to 0.2 “Calibrating the common funding, will face a crunch time parently is,” ING senior econo- pause in the recovery already analyst Silvia Ardagna noted. rate is 0.50 per cent and the US Major European economies per cent, and the region could monetary policy won’t be easy in late December when they mist Carsten Brzeski com- evident in other economic The 2010 growth rate will Federal Reserve has kept its Fed like France, Italy and Spain face stronger headwinds later if core eurozone enjoys robust close out their books for 2010. mented. AFP data," ADP said. "The deceleration in em- ployment was evident in the Iraq pullout major sectors and by size of Australia clocks fastest growth business." The August employ- N Korea forges trade documents to ment decline followed six unlikely to Sydney, September 1 serve Bank put an aggressive monthly increases from Febru- The fastest increase series of hikes on hold in June, ary through July. Australia’s economy surged with the official cash rate at dodge against imposed sanctions In addition, over those six push down by 1.2 per cent in the three came from construction 4.50 per cent. “On the back of months, the average monthly months to June, the biggest this gross domestic product Seoul, September 1 The tests prompted the clined to give details. gain in employment was 37,000 jump in three years, official fig- and scientific and (GDP) number, it certainly in- Security Council to impose “Intelligence authorities with no evidence of accelera- war spending ures showed on Wednesday, technical services, creases the likelihood” of a rise, North Korea is forging tougher sanctions targeting in South Korea and the Unit- tion, ADP said. sending share prices and the said BNP economist Dominic trade documents and chang- Pyongyang’s weapons ex- ed States are trying to crack Meanwhile, the US econo- Washington, September 1 local dollar sharply higher. as well as mining, Bryant, predicting an upward ing names of its trading firms ports and blacklisting com- down on the North’s forging my lost 131,000 jobs in July, Annual growth clocked 3.3 easing concerns over a move by November. to try to dodge international panies suspected of such of company names and ex- considerably more than most Battered by a savage eco- per cent, the Australian Bureau Consumer spending rose by sanctions, a Seoul intelli- dealings. port invoices, but it is be- economists had predicted. nomic recession, many Ameri- of Statistics said, smashing an- ‘two-speed’ economy 1.6 per cent, surprising analysts gence official and a media re- The sanctions also called coming increasingly difficult Companies added 71,000 posi- cans — not just supporters alyst forecasts of a 2.8 per cent who expected a smaller rise port said on Wednesday. on UN member states to in- since the North keeps com- tions, but the government laid of President Barack Obama — rise over the year and 0.9 per with households affected by Pyongyang changed the spect ships and planes sus- ing up with new schemes,” off 143,000 census workers, hope his decision to end com- cent from the March quarter. ure in just about all aspects. the interest rate rises, while ex- name of the Korea Mining pected of carrying banned the paper quoted one South contributing to the net loss. bat operations in Iraq will also “Without a doubt, Australia Economy is looking less two- ports were 5.6 per cent higher. and Development Corp to cargo to or from the North. Korean official as saying. Manufacturers added end the vast economic cost currently has one of the speedish by the day — more “These are an outstanding Kapmun Tosong Trade after Since then, the North has The impoverished North 36,000 jobs in July, but much of of the war. strongest economies in the ad- one speed, and that speed is set of figures that all Australians the UN Security Council mostly used China to trans- faces multiple sanctions im- the gain was due to fewer than The world’s superpower vanced world,” Common- fast,” said Stephen Roberts, can be proud of,” said Treasurer blacklisted the firm following port its arms exports, Dong-A posed by the UN and the normal seasonal layoffs in the could do with the respite: wealth Securities chief econo- chief economist at Nomura. Wayne Swan. “Prime ministers the North’s missile test in said. It had forged trade in- United States and targeting auto industry. thanks in part to Operation mist Craig James said. The benchmark S&P/ASX elsewhere would kill for a set of April 2009, Dong-A Ilbo voices on military products, its illegal trade in arms, drugs Professional and business Iraqi Freedom, US debt stands The fastest increase since 200 rose by 1.67 per cent to outcomes such as these,” he newspaper reported. for instance by labelling tor- and luxury goods. services lost 13,000 jobs; finan- at an all-time high of $13 tril- 2007 came mainly from con- 4,477.9 points on the news, af- added. Australia’s economy has The communist state also pedoes as fish processing The US Treasury Depart- cial services cut 17,000 employ- lion. But affixing a firm price struction and scientific and ter hitting a 10-day high of been dubbed the “wonder from renamed weapons trader equipment and anti-tank ment announced on Monday ees; and the number of jobs in tag has become notoriously technical services, as well as 4,479.9, while the Australian Down Under” after avoiding re- Tangun Trade as Chasong- rockets as oil boring machin- it was imposing sanctions on construction fell by 11,000 (on difficult and partisan. mining, easing concerns over a dollar was at 89.69 US cents, up cession during the financial dang Trade when the compa- ery, the paper added. four people and eight organi- top of a 21,000 job loss in June). For much of the last seven “two-speed” economy where three-quarters of a US cent. crisis and recovering strongly ny was put on the sanctions A spokesman for Seoul’s sations accused of aiding the The unemployment rate for years the actual cost of the Iraq the roaring resources industry Analysts said the figures also since, helped by booming re- list after the North’s second National Intelligence Service communist government black workers stood at 15.6 per conflict has been as fiercely leaves other sectors behind. raised the prospect of renewed sources exports to Asian coun- nuclear test in May 2009. confirmed the report but de- through illicit trade. AFP cent in July, and 12.1 per cent contested as the ethics of going “This was a very strong fig- interest rate rises after the Re- tries such as China. AFP for Latinos. AFP to war in the first place. At the outset of the war Donald Rumsfeld said the op- eration would cost in the region ASIAN MARKETS FEAR US-STYLE REAL ESTATE BUBBLE Spain needs pain for of $50 billion, with the then de- AFP fense secretary dismissing higher estimates as “baloney.” better future: Zapatero Nobel Prize winning econo- mist Joseph Stiglitz later esti- Tokyo, September 1 Fund (IMF) and the govern- mated the true cost would be ment argue the reform would more like $3 trillion, including Spain’s Prime Minister Jose help reduce Spain’s unemploy- the costs of everything from Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said ment rate, which sits at around caring for casualties to rising oil on Wednesday his nation need- 20 per cent. They also point out prices. The Congressional Re- ed to accept temporary pain for that it would reduce govern- search Service has identified a better economic future, but ment spending on jobless ben- $747.3 billion that have already said Spanish workers were un- efits. But unions object to see- been allocated to pay for the willing to be flexible. ing workers’ rights weakened. war. Whatever the actual num- “All countries make sacri- They are also unhappy with ber, Obama’s statement on fices today for a better tomor- government plans to raise the Tuesday is unlikely to herald an row,” he told a press conference retirement age to 67 from 65 end to US spending in Iraq. in Tokyo when asked how he and austerity measures that According to the Congres- will sell unpopular reform poli- will cut civil servants’ wages. sional Budget Office, rapidly re- cies to his country, which is Zapatero, who is in Japan ducing troop numbers in Iraq mired in soaring unemploy- until Thursday to promote eco- to 50,000 would save just $67 ment. A general strike has been nomic ties, said the Spanish billion in the next two years, called for September 29 after- economy was recovering from less than a third of the estimat- his government said it would a severe recession faster than ed cost of operations in Iraq press ahead with labour market other European Union (EU) and Afghanistan. After nearly a reforms that would make it eas- countries. decade, US military spending ier to hire and fire workers. “We do not need assistance to upgrade and replace “Even if a general strike from the EU or IMF and we “stressed” equipment, provide takes place on September 29, I have never thought it will be force protection and fund de- will continue dialogue with the necessary,” he said. Given con- fense health programmes, have labour union the following fidence in the Spanish banking all rapidly outpaced the cost of day,” Zapatero said through an system, he said there was no increased troop deployments. interpreter. The general strike need to inject more public And as war in Afghanistan will be Spain’s first since 2002. funds into banks. rages on, US treasure could Zapatero, who became All eight major Spanish well be redirected from one prime minister six years ago, banks, including Santander, theater to another. noted work hours had been the eurozone’s biggest bank by The Congressional Research slashed in both Germany and market capitalisation, passed Office (CRO) has estimated that Spain in the past but German recent eurozone stress tests, as war costs could reach any- unions had agreed to pay cuts. did 14 other regional savings where between $274 billion “Spain was unable to banks, known as “cajas”, that and $588 billion over the next achieve the flexible reform and were analysed. 10 years, pushing the total cost A woman holding an umbrella walks past a new building in Shanghai on Wednesday.Key Asian economies fearing a US-style housing market change that were possible in However, five regional of both wars to $1.56 trillion bubble are taking fresh measures to curb runaway property prices as the region leads the global rebound from recession. Germany,” he said banks failed the tests on weak to $1.88 trillion. AFP The International Monetary core capital levels. AFP German cabinet approves controversial 80 billion euro spending cuts Berlin, September 1 in demonstrations. with gross domestic product deficits,” he told mediapersons. Much of Merkel’s plans are GERMAN RETAIL SALES SLIP FURTHER IN JULY: DESTATIS (GDP) expanding a record 2.2 He warned that the high Chancellor Angela Merkel’s also reliant on measures that per cent in the second quarter, growth rate of the second quar- cabinet signed off Wednesday are still in the works, slowed FRANKFURT: German retail But analysts polled by Dow German shoppers were thus easy one,” ING senior econo- the fastest expansion since re- ter would not be repeated in on a hefty austerity package down by squabbling among sales slipped again in July on a Jones Newswires had forecast still reticent to spend as the mist Carsten Brzeski said. In unification in 1990. the coming year, but that Ger- that critics say will hit the poor- ministers in her fractious cen- monthly basis, official data a July increase of 0.5 per cent. economy pursues its econom- the first seven months howev- Schaeuble said on Wednes- many was “on the right path” est hardest and could endanger tre-right coalition, in office showed on Wednesday, sug- Barclays Capital economist ic rebound thanks to strong er, retail sales did gain 0.9 per day that this has proved the and was the “growth engine of Germany and therefore Eu- since October. Most controver- gesting that consumers in Eu- Thorsten Polleit called the July performances by exporters cent from their level in the government right. Europe.” “In the view of the rope’s economic recovery. sially, finance minister Wolf- rope’s biggest economy have data “disappointing - given the and business investment. same period of 2009. The “Internationally, there was a German government a growth- not given up their thrifty ways. latest improvements in the GfK Consumer sentiment has also medium-term measure is con- The 80 billion euros ($102 gang Schaeuble’s sums foresee strong debate about our reduc- friendly deficit reduction is an Retail sales edged 0.3 per cent consumer sentiment index improved and unemployment sidered more reliable further- billion) package of spending tapping German energy firms lower, according to provisional and, perhaps more important- is now close to a two-year low more than monthly data, which tions to our public deficit sup- essential and the most impor- cuts over the period 2011 to for billions of euros in return figures released by the national ly, the overall labour market sit- point, but the stores have not are often revised later on. In posedly being too early, too big tant to ensure a sustainable 2014 include big cuts in unem- for extending the lifetime of statistics office, the same as a uation.” On an annual basis seen many major benefits so the second quarter of the year, and too quick, and that we were and favourable economic de- ployment and parental leave nuclear plants beyond a revised loss in June. The meanwhile, retail sales in the far. “Today’s numbers are a domestic consumption gained not doing enough for growth in velopment.” he said. benefits, while ministers were planned shutdown in 2020. Destatis office had initially esti- biggest European economy painful reminder that the Ger- a healthy 0.6 per cent as the Europe and in the globalised “I remind you that in 2009, told to tighten their belts across The utility companies are mated the June decrease as a gained by 0.8 per cent, the man route towards a self-sus- economy posted record quar- world. “This debate has since GDP contracted by 4.7 per cent, the board. In a poll by the tele- putting all their considerable larger 0.9 per cent however. Destatis data showed. tained recovery will not be an terly growth of 2.2 per cent. AFP quietened down and I have re- a drop that in the history of the vision channel ARD when the lobbying powers into resisting peatedly told my colleagues Federal Republic had seemed plans were first unveiled in such a levy, while postponing from other countries that one unimagineable, we have to im- June, 79 per cent of Germans the date on which Germany clear tax was not part of what Guttenberg’s proposals for do- Also on the income side, flights, earning her the ire of of the biggest barriers to growth plement an internationally co- said the austerity plan was not goes nuclear-free is likely to go the cabinet approved. ing away with conscription are Berlin wants to raise funds banks and airlines. Since June, and to domestic demand is ordinated exit strategy step by socially balanced, while tens of down very badly with many In military spending, De- provoking strong resistance from new taxes on financial however, Germany has posted growing insecurity among the step in order to reduce exces- thousands of people took part voters, surveys show. The nu- fence Minister Karl-Theodor zu even within government ranks. transactions and a levy on a surprisingly strong recovery, population about high sive deficits. AFP 10

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AFP SPORTSDIGEST CRICKET: FIXING SCANDAL AFP Pak stars depart for scam probe Taunton,September 1 ing while the probe into the al- enormous value to the spot- legations is ongoing. betting industry, where money Three Pakistan players em- Following the Somerset is wagered on specific inci- broiled in betting scam allega- warm-up, Pakistan play two dents in matches. tions headed to London on Twenty20 matches against Majeed was arrested on sus- Wednesday to face questioning England in Cardiff on Sunday picion of conspiracy to defraud which is almost certain to side- and Tuesday, then five one-day bookmakers in the wake of the line them from the team’s tour internationals. allegations, but was released on of England. The International Cricket bail without charge on Sunday, Test captain Salman Butt Council (ICC) has promised to return at a later date. Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar takes plus bowlers Mohammad “prompt and decisive action” if Detectives interviewed Butt, part in a training session at Aamer and Mohammad Asif the “spot-fixing” allegations Asif and 18-year-old prodigy Somerset County Cricket look set to miss Pakistan’s linked to betting rings made by Aamer, who delivered the no- Ground on Wednesday. match with county side Somer- Britain’s biggest-selling news- balls — normally an accidental set in Taunton on Thursday, a paper are proven. and unpredictable occurrence warm-up match before their Its chief executive Haroon — and police seized their mo- Puyol pulls out limited overs internationals Lorgat hopes there will be bile phones. against England. The trio, all “some sort of conclusion” to The world of cricket has re- MADRID: Barcelona’s talis- casually dressed, left the team the probe within the next few acted with shock and dismay to manic defender Carles Puyol hotel in Taunton accompanied days. England’s players mean- claims that huge sums of mon- has pulled out of the Spain by team security officer Major while are reportedly reluctant ey had changed hands in al- squad which will open its de- Khawaja Najam, flanked by pri- to line up against a Pakistan leged fixing schemes at inter- fence of its European title vate security guards and police team containing the tainted national level, linked to shad- against Liechtenstein later this officers. Butt shook his head trio, according to Professional owy betting rings. Investigators Pakistan cricketers Mohammad Aamer (left),Mohammad Asif and captain Salman Butt (right) leave the team week due to a calf muscle in- when asked by a reporter if he Cricketers’ Association chief from the ICC’s anti-corruption hotel in Taunton,in south-west England,on Wednesday. jury, the Spanish football fed- was “guilty”. executive Angus Porter. and security unit are in Britain eration said on Tuesday. He The trio were due to face “The England players un- looking into the allegations. CRICKET: MATCH FIXING will be replaced by Osasuna questions from Pakistan Crick- derstand it is important the Meanwhile in Australia, it defender Nacho Monreal, it et Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz games go ahead and they will has emerged that four cricket said in a statement posted on Butt and Wajid Shamsul Hasan, be professional but they would stars were targeted by a sus- its web site. Monreal has just Pakistan’s high commissioner or will find it really difficult to pected illegal bookmaker. Brett Cricketers on target of fixers: Reports two international caps. “The (ambassador) to Britain, in play against the guys directly Lee and Mitchell Johnson were player felt discomfort in his London on Thursday. implicated,” Porter told the targeted by the unnamed figure Sydney, September 1 ted their names to the International the International Cricket Council’s left leg during a warm-up be- “The boys are leaving today Daily Telegraph. who approached two team- Cricket Council’s anti-corruption unit. anti-corruption unit, in line with pro- fore the first training session of (Wednesday). They will have a The furore erupted on Sun- mates in England last year, re- Australian cricketers Brett Lee and “The trouble in this case was that cedures. The BCB is now organising an the national team at Las Rozas. meeting at the High Commis- day when The News of the ports said on Wednesday. Mitchell Johnson were targeted by the the gentleman was staying in the same “orientation course” for national play- He immediately reported it to sion (Embassy) tomorrow World alleged Mazhar Majeed, The Sydney Morning Herald same suspected illegal bookmaker hotel,” Bernard told the paper. “The ers to educate them about the dangers doctors and left from the prac- (Thursday),” Pakistan team a 35-year-old agent for several and Daily Telegraph said Lee who approached two team-mates in guys weren’t approached about spot- of match-fixing and how to avoid tice field,” the statement said, manager Yawar Saeed had ear- Pakistan players, took $150,000 and Johnson were confronted England last year, reports said on fixing or anything like that, he was ask- bookmakers and shady agents, Yunus adding tests showed he had lier told reporters. It appears pounds to arrange for deliber- in the team hotel’s bar during Wednesday. ing if he could buy them drinks. The said. damaged a calf muscle. Spain increasingly likely the trio will ate no-balls to be bowled at the tour of England, fuelling The Sydney Morning Herald and players used their judgement and de- The move came after global cricket play Liechtenstein on Friday in play no further part in the tour precise points in last week’s fears over illegal betting after a Daily Telegraph said Lee and Johnson cided to report it to me.” was plunged into a crisis at the week- Vaduz in their first Euro 2012 amid mounting calls for the Test match against England. newspaper sting snared an al- were confronted in the team hotel’s Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s cricket end as British detectives said they were qualifier. They will travel to trio to be barred from appear- The information would be of leged match-fixer. AFP bar during the tour of England, fu- board also said on Wednesday that investigating seven Pakistani players face Argentina in a friendly elling fears over illegal betting after a several senior players had been ap- on charges of spot-fixing. four days later. AFP newspaper sting snared an alleged proached by bookmakers ahead of a Apart from the orientation course, match-fixer. Test series with India earlier this year. the BCB will impose more curbs on Vuvuzela banned On Tuesday, batsman Shane Wat- Vice-captain Shakib Al Hasan and cricketers in all future tours, Yunus I’m not Harry Potter: Mourinho son and wicketkeeper Brad Haddin re- opening batsman Tamim Iqbal were said, adding the players would be told GENEVA:Vuvuzelas have been AFP vealed how they were approached by approached ahead of the two to avoid strangers and report every banned from UEFA matches, Madrid, September 1 league and cup in Italy as the same man, who is believed to be Test series against India in January, phone call they receive from unknown European football’s governing well as the Champions Indian and is suspected of links to illic- which the home side lost 2-0, an offi- persons. body said on Wednesday. Jose Mourinho shrugged League. That was after suc- it bookmakers in his home country. cial said. Former Bangladesh captain Mo- UEFA told its 53 member asso- off the club’s draw in his cessful terms in charge of The Herald said all four players report- Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) hammad Ashraful told a local daily ciations that it had adopted opening game in charge of Porto, in his native Portugal, ed the encounters to Australian team spokesman Jalal Yunus said the inci- that he had also been approached by the ban “for reasons related to Real Madrid and warned and at Chelsea. manager Steve Bernard, who submit- dents were immediately reported to bookmakers during a foreign tour. AFP Europe’s football culture and fans they need to be patient, But his Real Madrid ca- tradition”, adding that “the at- saying he is no Harry Potter. reer began on a low note FOOTBALL: EURO 2012 CRICKET mosphere at matches would But the Spanish giants’ with a 0-0 draw at Real Mal- be changed by the sound of new star coach said he still lorca at the weekend, while the vuvuzela”. It said: “UEFA believes he’s the “ideal per- Barca beat Santander 3-0. has decided that vuvuzelas — Kieswetter son” to give Real the “stabili- Mourinho appealed for pa- Zidane boosts Blanc’s squad the trumpet that came to ty” it badly needs. “I’m not tience from fans, saying the prominence at games during Harry Potter,” he told the team was still in a “construc- Paris, September 1 pear again in the national shirt while skip- to play only this FIFA World Cup in South Spanish sports newspaper tion phase.” per Patrice Evra, Jeremy Toulalan and Africa — may not be brought AS published on Wednes- “Do you know how many World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane Franck Ribery are suspended owing to into stadiums at matches in day. “He is a magician, but in training sessions we have joined in with 1998 teammate Laurent their role as strike ringleaders. in T20s UEFA competitions.” Europe’s fact there is no magic... had together, including with Blanc’s new look France side on Wednes- But the mood lightened with Zidane’s footballing chiefs took excep- Magic is fiction and I live in new signings? Not even 10,” day ahead of Friday’s opening Euro 2012 appearance as he, Blanc and assistants Taunton, September 1 tion to the introduction of “a football which is real life.” he told AS. But he said that, qualifier at home to Belarus. Alain Boghossian and Fabien Barthez at- continuous loud background Real signed Mourinho to unlike previous Real coach- On paper, the French should be tempted to infuse training with a flavour England World Twenty20 noise,” while acknowledging a lucrative four-year con- es, his past success means favoured in their group — though they will of France’s glorious past, when they com- winning wicketkeeper Craig that in South Africa, “the vu- tract this summer to try to he is not afraid of taking have to look out for Romania and Bosnia- bined to humble Brazil at Stade de France Kieswetter is set to play as a vuzela adds a touch of local stop Barcelona from win- risks. “My profile as a coach Herzegovina, their main Group D rivals. 12 years ago. batsman only in the upcoming flavour and folklore”. AFP ning a third successive is different from those However, such was the humiliation French fans were generally appalled at two T20s against Pakistan, it league crown and help the Madrid have had in recent heaped upon the French during a night- the events of the summer — but they were was announced on Tuesday. Ferdinand set to club improve in Europe, years. If things go badly here mare World Cup this summer that new cheering loudly when a shorts-clad Zi- Kieswetter was one of the with Madrid having failed to and I have to go, I will have coach Blanc must start by erasing some of dane made his appearance to cries of “Zi- stars in England’s World Twen- return in reserves get past the quarter-final (another) club the next day... the lingering psychological scars after a zou!” while some called out “a kiss for Fa- ty20 winning campaign in the LONDON: Manchester United stage of the Champions That personal stability that I first-round exit compounded by a training bien!” — during the 1998 finals in France Caribbean earlier this year defender Rio Ferdinand is set League since 2004. have allows me to say I’m strike to protest the sending home of Blanc would kiss his bald pate for luck. where he both opened the in- to return from the knee injury Real Madrid coach Jose The 47-year-old arrived the ideal person to be in Nicolas Anelka. “It’s great to get into the swing of things nings and kept wicket. But the that wrecked his World Cup in Mourinho gestures during a in a blaze of glory after lead- Madrid, because I don’t fear Banned for 18 matches after his foul- once again,” said Zidane as he left the South Africa born Kieswetter a reserve team game against team training session in ing Inter Milan last season anything. Real needs stabili- mouthed outburst aimed at former coach field, pausing to sign autographs and struggled for runs when asked Oldham. Ferdinand has been Madrid on Tuesday. to the treble of domestic ty and I’m here to give it.” AFP Raymond Domenech at half-time during shake hands with Aldo Platini, father of to open the innings during out of action since damaging the loss to Mexico, Anelka is unlikely to ap- UEFA president Michel Platini. AFP England’s ODIs against Aus- knee ligaments in a collision tralia and Bangladesh. with Emile Heskey while train- CRICKET: ENGLAND-PAKISTAN SERIES Now, Surrey’s Steven Davies ing with England in the build- is set to keep wicket in both the up to the World Cup in June. two Twenty20s in Cardiff on The 31-year-old was due to Sunday and Tuesday and the captain England at the finals in subsequent five one-dayers South Africa, but instead had Miller turns on Pietersen after Twitter tirade while Kieswetter has been to fly home to start his rehabil- dropped from the one-day itation. United manager Sir Taunton,September 1 squad entirely. Kieswetter had Alex Ferguson recently sug- GOUGH BLASTS KP’S AXING replaced Test gloveman Matt gested Ferdinand would be England national selector Geoff Prior in both limited overs for- sidelined until the end of Sep- Miller was decidedly unimpressed LONDON: Darren Gough has gation into his angry reaction on mats this season. tember, but the former West by Kevin Pietersen’s foul-mouthed blasted the decision to axe out- micro-blogging site Twitter. “He’s But England national selec- Ham and Leeds star has made Twitter rant following his omission of-sorts Kevin Pietersen from England’s best one-day player tor Geoff Miller said: “Steven a quicker than expected recov- from the limited overs squads to England’s squad for their upcom- and what better way for him to get Davies has had an excellent play Pakistan. ing limited overs matches as “ab- back into form than to go out year for Surrey this season and ery and should feature in a solutely pathetic”. The 39-year- against Pakistan and belt it,” Pietersen pre-empted Tuesday’s has earned his chance to take Manchester Senior Cup at old former international told Talk- Gough said. “It’s absolutely pa- Stalybridge. AFP official announcement by the Eng- Sport that Pietersen — the star of thetic that you can drop the man on the role as wicketkeeper in land and Wales Cricket (ECB) that England’s World Twenty20 win- who was player of the tournament England’s limited-overs set-up. Russian star jailed he’d been left out of the squads for ning team earlier this year — de- at the World Twenty20 earlier this “As ever, the wicketkeeper’s the upcoming limited overs match- served a chance to rediscover his year.” Gough insisted Pietersen role is a fiercely-contested posi- SCOTTSDALE: Russian goal- es against Pakistan by several hours, form against Pakistan. Gough ral- should continue to be a part of tion in the England team, and tender Nikolai Khabibulin has with a post on Twitter. lied to the defence of Pietersen, England’s plans for their defence we’ve no doubt Craig Kieswet- been sentenced to 30 days in That would not have endeared who now faces an official investi- of the Ashes in Australia. AFP ter will continue to press for the jail in connection with an Ari- the South Africa born batsman to Pietersen chance to reclaim his place in zona drink-driving conviction. the England management in any the England ODI squad.” The four-time all-star, who event. But Pietersen, man of the don’t use that language at all. I don’t innings without a hundred, could Pietersen, never before dropped Pietersen was in more restrained Kieswetter will get an early now plays for the Edmonton tournament during England’s victo- think it is necessary,” the former now face disciplinary action with by England when fit, is now set to mood when quoted in an ECB chance to show his worth in the Oilers of the National Hockey rious World Twenty20 campaign, England off-spinner added. an ECB spokesman telling AFP: “We spend the rest of the season on- statement announcing the one-day 50-over format after being se- League, received the sentence told his followers: “Done for rest of “I’m still the national selector are considering the circumstances loan at Surrey from Hampshire in a parties, saying: “I have no issue with lected for county side Somerset on Tuesday. He also was fined summer!! Man of the World Cup T20 and what I do is select sides with my surrounding it (the Twitter post).” bid to get some morale-boosting the selectors omitting me from the in their one-day tour match $5,100 and must take part in and dropped from the T20 side too. co-selectors that we think is right Meanwhile Miller added: “I’ll talk to match practice. Hampshire made it limited overs squads.” England’s against Pakistan at Taunton on an alcohol-treatment pro- It’s a fxxx up.” for England. My priority is the Eng- KP. Whether there is an apology or clear they would not select limited overs matches against Pak- Thursday. However, the match gramme. He was pulled over in Miller, speaking after Tuesday’s land side and it is not about individ- not I’m sure Andy Flower (the Eng- Pietersen this season after he an- istan will take place under the cloud itself has been overshadowed his Ferrari six months ago for squad announcement, said: “I don’t uals.” land coach) will have a word with nounced he’d be leaving at the end of ‘the spot-fixing’ row engulfing by ‘spot-fixing’ allegations lev- speeding. AFP like that kind of language and I Pietersen, who has gone 26 Test him.” of the current campaign. the tourists. AFP elled against Pakistan. AFP 12Robinho ends City purgatory, Gyan sees light

AFP AFP Paris, September 1 signings, including persuading vet- eran Senegalese midfielder Salif Brazilian star Robinho’s night- Diao to re-sign after he had origi- mare two year stay at Manchester nally left the club at the end of last City came to an agreeable conclu- season. Birmingham manager Alex sion for both parties on Tuesday as McLeish signed three players for- he signed for Serie A giants AC Mi- mer Arsenal star Alexander Hleb, lan on a frenetic final day of trading on a year’s loan from Barcelona, as the transfer deadline comes into Spartak Moscow defender Martin force on Wednesday. Jiranek and Chilean winger Jean Robinho may have gone for a Beausejour, who was outstanding relative song — 18million euros as at the World Cup. opposed to the club record 42mil- German giants such as Bayern lion City paid out two years ago — Munich and Bayer Leverkusen but his recruitment only added to kept their powder dry but Schalke the sense of urgency at the Milan 04 reacted to their haul of no club as they seek to end bitter city points from their first two matches rivals Inter’s dominance. by signing three players. They Robinho — who signed a four signed Dutch striker Klaas-Jan year contract — joins Swede Zlatan Gyan Robinho Huntelaar, Spanish attacking mid- Ibrahimovic as a recent signing by fielder Jose Manuel Jurado and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Milan where they will join Brazilian to Robinho’s signing as ‘the best Madrid win two league titles and in Stadium of Light a record signing said the 24-year-old. French defender Nicolas Plestan. Lula da Silva is awarded with a duo Ronaldinho and Pato as they strikeforce in the world’. several impressive performances in the form of Ghanaian star striker “I follow English football and I Jurado, who will play alongside idol trophy during a ceremony to bid to end Inter’s resurgence which One player who won’t be part of for Brazil at the World Cup finals. Asamoah Gyan, who earned a know Sunderland have incredible and former Real Madrid legend celebrate the 100th anniversary climaxed with the domestic double the dream team will be Italy inter- “I am delighted to have been 16million euros move from French fans. I especially know about the Raul, for one was not in the least of Corinthians football club in — taking their fifth successive national striker Marco Borriello as given this opportunity and I want side Rennes on the back of out- derby when they play against New- put off at the recent accusation by Sao Paulo,Brazil,on Tuesday. league crown — and the Champi- the 28-year-old already unhappy at to prove my worth,” Robinho said. standing performances for his castle. That is something incredi- a former Schalke player Rafinha ons League title last season. Ibrahimovic’s arrival agreed to “My ambition is to play well and to country at the World Cup finals. ble. I have witnessed that myself.” that playing under coach Felix Ma- The two signings will have the move to AS Roma. Robinho, help Milan regain the scudetto (the “The Sunderland coach (Steve Stoke finished a highly cred- gath was like being in a boot camp. Malesani named red and black striped half of Milan though, said he was really looking title),” added Robinho, who was a Bruce) has faith in me because he itable 11th on their maiden season “It’s a train that passes once in a salivating in a strikeforce that forward to being able to show his much sought after target of Milan has been following me for two in the Premier League last term but lifetime and I couldn’t let it pass,” Bologna’s new coach Ibrahimovic, never one for under- full range of skills once again as he president Silvio Berlusconi. years now. I am pleased I have the manager Tony Pulis showed he said Jurado. “It will be an honour to statement, had commented prior had done when he helped Real Sunderland welcome to their opportunity to come to England,” means to reach higher with four play with Raul.” AFP ROME: Bologna on Wednes- day named Alberto Malesani GERMANY EURO 2012 as their new coach having fired Franco Colomba before their first match of the season. Just a day before tackling reigning Walcott plans to come of age for England champions Inter in their Serie Ballack to stay captain, A opener, Bologna president London, September 1 goals, including his first ever Sergio Porcedda announced Premier League hat-trick. But, he had dismissed Colomba confirms coach Loew Four years after Theo Wal- such is the nature of Walcott’s and youth team coach Paolo cott was thrust into the lime- profile, even that has not been Magnani took charge of the Berlin, September 1 Ballack, which lasted two hours, and I light as the shock name in Eng- enough for some people. impressive 0-0 draw with the have decided that he will remain captain,” land’s 2006 World Cup squad, BBC pundit Alan Hansen nerazzurri on Monday. Male- Germany coach Joachim Loew con- said Loew in a press conference in Frank- Arsenal’s boy-wonder believes was highly critical of Walcott re- sani made his name from firmed on Wednesday that veteran furt. “He has had a long injury break, but I he is finally ready to become a cently, suggesting although he 1998-2001 when he coached Michael Ballack will remain his first- feel he still as plenty to offer this team. man on the international stage. scored a hat-trick against Parma to Italian Cup and choice captain despite being left out of When he is not available, Philipp Lahm, Walcott was barely 17 when Blackpool he was still under- UEFA Cup titles. The 56-year- their opening Euro 2012 qualifying games. who did very well at the World Cup, will be Sven-Goran Eriksson baffled achieving and lacked the ‘foot- old also coached Fiorentina, Ballack, 33, has been dropped for the captain with Bastian Schweinsteiger as his the English public by including ball brain’ needed to become a and Panathinaikos in Greece. first two games against Belgium in Brus- deputy.” him in his squad for the World top player. “Everyone is entitled Most recently he coached sels on Friday and Azerbaijan at home Ballack, who is now back in Germany Cup, even though the former to their own opinion,” said Wal- Siena for a large part of last four days later as he continues his recov- playing for Leverkusen after his contract Southampton winger had yet cott, “It’s one of the things I season but was released after ery from the ankle injury that kept him out at Chelsea expired at the end of last sea- to make his debut in the Pre- have to live with. But the peo- they suffered relegation to Se- of the World Cup. With Germany now bid- son, has something of a history of clashing mier League. That selection ple I listen to are Arsene rie B. AFP ding for a place at Euro 2012, to be held in with other players, as well as with Loew. story has hung like a cloud over Wenger, Capello, players and the Ukraine and Poland, Philipp Lahm will Things have not got off to a flying start him ever since, raising expecta- my family. As long as I can con- Wolfsburg sell be the temporary national captain until for Ballack’s return to the Bundesliga as tion to a level that was only sur- tinue to listen to them, hope- Misimovic to Turkey Ballack returns from injury. Leverkusen were beaten 6-3 by passed when, three years later, fully, it will be fine and I can do In Ballack’s absence, Bayern Munich Moenchengladbach on Sunday — and he scored a hat-trick during a the talking on the pitch.” BERLIN: Wolfsburg have sold defender Lahm, 26, captained Germany to Ballack was booed off when he was re- World Cup qualifier in Croatia. England’s Euro 2012 campaign, ond-nature.” “Don’t forget I’m still 21 and playmaker Zvjezdan Misi- third in South Africa at the World Cup, placed in the second-half. The fact that Walcott has which begins with a home “This year I wanted to go but at 21, playing for Arsenal and movic to Turkish side sweeping aside England 4-1 and Argenti- Meanwhile, Loew also confirmed struggled at times to deal with match against Bulgaria on Fri- the form wasn’t there. I didn’t England is not a bad achieve- Galatasaray Istanbul, the Bun- na 4-0 before losing to eventual winners Schalke 04 goalkeeper Manuel Neuer will such huge expectation is hardly day, as the right time to under- have the best season last sea- ment so far,” he said. “But I do desliga club have announced. Spain in the semi-finals. Ballack is expect- remain between the posts for the national surprising when you consider line his credentials. son. Obviously having so many feel that I’m maturing. When I The 28-year-old attacking ed to return for Euro 2012 qualifiers side with Rene Adler and Tim Wiese bat- he has also been beset by in- “It’s an important time for injuries stuttered the whole scored my hat-trick against midfielder has been sold for against Turkey and Kazakhstan in Octo- tling to be the reserve goalkeeper. “Manuel juries and seen his first team me,” he admitted. “Back in season and I think now I’m a bit Croatia, I wasn’t really involved around 8.5 million euros and ber, but needs to prove his fitness with will remain in goal, but we are in a luxury chances at Arsenal limited by 2006 I didn’t deserve to go to more mature. I’m looking after that much. I just scored a hat- has signed a four-year con- Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. position with three goalkeepers who all strong competition in Arsene the World Cup — I hadn’t even myself a bit better.” trick. A lot of people don’t re- tract, it was reported on the “In the last few days, I have had an have international experience and in this Wenger’s star-studded squad. played in the Premier League That maturity has been re- member that. I am a lot more German league side’s website, open and honest discussion with Michael area, we are very strong,” said Loew. AFP But, having been left out of and I hadn’t justified being flected in his performances for involved in every game now; I and he will be coached by AFP Fabio Capello’s 23 for this year’s there at all. But it was a great ex- Arsenal this season, being am not just scoring goals, my Dutchman Frank Rijkaard in World Cup finals in South perience for me, no doubt, and named regularly in Wenger’s involvement in general play is Turkey. After Wolfsburg signed Africa, Walcott sees the start of being with the team now is sec- starting eleven and scoring four getting much better.” AFP Brazilian midfielder Diego from Juventus last week, Misi- PLAYER TRANSFER SPANISH LA LIGA movic is now surplus to re- quirements and Wolves team manager Dieter Hoeness had Too soon to said they would not sell him to Spurs seal Van der Vaart deal another Bundesliga club. “We would like to thank London, September 1 plan a team that includes van played in two European Cham- compare, ‘Zwetschge’ for his achieve- der Vaart after the Premier pionships and two World Cups, ments and wish him every suc- English Premier League club League rubber-stamped the including this year's tourna- cess,” said Hoeness. AFP Tottenham were allowed to most impressive deadline day ment in South Africa. says Ramos sign Rafael van der Vaart from coup by an English club. "We Redknapp believes he has Lille sign Czech Real Madrid today after their are delighted to announce that landed a bargain and, speaking Madrid, September 1 last-ditch move for the Dutch we have reached agreement before the move was complet- Rozenhal on loan playmaker on deadline day. with Real Madrid for the trans- ed, he said: "He is available Real Madrid’s World Cup LILLE: French Ligue1 club Spurs boss Harry Redknapp fer of Rafael van der Vaart," a now for about eight million. He winning right back Sergio Lille signed experienced Czech moved for van der Vaart just statement on Tottenham's is a quality player. He is a great Ramos said on Tuesday it was international defender David two hours before the transfer website confirmed. footballer. For that sort of mon- too soon to compare his side to Rozenhal on a one season loan window closed late on Tuesday, Real confirmed the deal. ey, he is a top player and he will their arch-rivals Barcelona with from Bundesliga side Ham- causing a frantic scramble to "Real Madrid and Tottenham improve us for sure. It's a last the Catalan team holding a burg on Tuesday. The 30-year- file the paperwork in time, and Hotspurs have reached a deal minute job." two-point advantage after just old — capped 63 times and a the north London outfit were to transfer the player Rafael Van Real signed van der Vaart one match. member of the Czech Republic left to wait overnight to discov- der Vaart to the English club," from Bundesliga side Hamburg Real were held to a goalless side that won the European er if the Premier League would said a club statement. Van der on a five-year contract in 2008 draw at Real Mallorca on Sun- Under-21 championship in Joachim Loew,head coach of the German national football team,gestures ratify the deal. Vaart has won 83 caps for Hol- in a deal reportedly worth 13 day in their first La Liga match 2002 — replaces Nicolas during a press meet in Frankfurt on Wednesday. Redknapp was finally able to land, scoring 16 goals, and has million euros. AFP with Jose Mourinho as coach Plestan, who moved to Ham- while defending Spanish burg’s rivals Schalke 04 on EURO 2012 QUALIFIERS champions Barcelona beat Tuesday. Lille said in a state- Racing Santander 3-0. “Of ment that they had signed course we would have liked to Rozenhal — who has previous have started the season collect- experience in France with ing three points,” Ramos told All change for Italy as coach Prandelli focuses on class reporters as the Spain squad Paris Saint Germain from 2005-07 — by his physical AFP gathered in Madrid to begin qualities and especially his Rome, September 1 team and the result was yesterday’s delli has been fearless in bringing in doria playmaker to a prominent preparing for their Euro 2012 vast experience across the Eu- dramatic effect,” he said the day af- new faces, particularly in defence. role within the squad. The young, qualifier on Friday against When Italy were humiliatingly ter the Slovakia defeat. While the most notable newcomer talented but controversial Balotelli Liechtenstein. ropean leagues. AFP bundled out of the World Cup in “It’s not about being pessimistic against Ivory Coast was Manchester was also brought straight in, with “We must continue improv- South Africa in the group stage, the for the future, but being realistic City striker Mario Balotelli, in his Prandelli promising to treat the for- ing. It is too soon to compare us Juventus snap up Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and reactionary. We have legitimate latest squad four of Prandelli’s eight ward of Ghanaian origin like an to anyone and to debate who is 10th new signing immediately recognised the need to worries, which is not pessimism. We defenders were uncapped. adult. ahead and who is behind,” the react. have a problem that many players Of the eight, only Giorgio Chielli- While from the outside Prandel- 24-year-old added. The arrival ROME: Serie A giants Juventus Italy had been resting on their are not getting international experi- ni has more than three caps and li’s revolution may seem risky, the of Mourinho, one of the world’s made their 10th signing since laurels since their 2006 World Cup ence.” one of those capped, Cristian Moli- former Fiorentina coached has most successful and expensive the end of a disappointing victory in Germany, hoping to turn Prandelli was not at that press naro, made his debut against Ivory been blessed with one crucial ad- coaches, at the Spanish giants campaign last term on Tues- back the clock by reinstating Mar- conference in Irene, near Pretoria, Coast. It is all part of the new-look vantage: time. Italy’s first three in May has fueled the already day taking central defender cello Lippi two years after he quit but he will surely have had a similar Italy under Prandelli, who wants his qualifying matches are against Es- intense interest in the annual Leandro Rinaudo on loan the job and sticking obdurately to speech direct from the horse’s players to grow into their roles as tonia, the Faroe Islands and North- La Liga horse race between from Napoli for 600,000 euros. their Berlin heroes. mouth. And his initial squad selec- regular internationals. ern Ireland — three sides they Real and Barcelona. The 27-year-old — who signed Three games without a win in tions as the new coach showed he’d “We have new players who I would ordinarily be expected to The Portuguese coach ad- for Napoli from Palermo in South Africa, including a 3-2 defeat got the message, loud and clear. hope will have a long future (with beat without too much difficulty. mitted he was disappointed to 2008 for 4.5million euros — to unheralded Slovakia, was the fi- His first squad, for a friendly Italy),” he said earlier this week. His Prandelli has said he won’t use begin his Real career with a 0-0 will cost Juventus five million nal straw. It was time for change. against Ivory Coast in London last other move has been to bring some those matches to experiment but draw and blamed poor finish- euros if they take up the opion The first of those was bringing in month that Italy lost 1-0, featured genuine quality into his team, and his whole policy is in itself an exper- ing as the reason for his team’s at the end of the loan to buy Cesare Prandelli as the new coach just nine of Lippi’s 23-man World sacrifice the old work-horses his iment. Change is afoot in Italy and failure. “It is important to de- him. Juventus finished seventh and in announcing that choice, Cup squad. Now that they are get- predecessor preferred. they’ve been given a kind reprieve fend well and score when you in Serie A last season only FIGC president Giancarlo Abete ting down to the real business, he though he lost Claudio Marchisio Lippi steadfastly refused to pick by the fixture list, but tougher tasks are not at your best and we are just making the Europa League spoke of the need for a new ap- called up 11 for the qualifiers before the training camp had even Antonio Cassano during his second lie ahead and it may take a couple of far from our best. We didn’t play but have made wholsesale re- proach. “There’s a deficiency in the against Estonia on Friday and the begun. stint at the helm, but Prandelli has months before Prandelli’s revolu- well but we did enough to win,” cruits since then. AFP competitiveneness of the Italian Faroe Islands next Tuesday, al- Instead of the old guard, Pran- already promoted the errant Samp- tion can really take shape. AFP he said after the match. AFP theindependentdaily SPORTS>13 PORT LOUIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 SPORTSDIGEST US OPEN AFP Nadal, Wozniacki capture openers AFP New York, September 1 Stadium matches. “I didn’t feel too nervous. I was just happy to get out US Open top seeds Rafael Nadal there and play. We had waited for a and Caroline Wozniacki moved into long time,” Wozniacki said. the second round on the Flushing Third seed Djokovic ousted Meadows hardcourts while Serbian friend and countryman Viktor Troic- stars Novak Djokovic and Jelena ki 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 aftr three Jankovic struggled to advance on hours and 40 minutes in the heat to Tuesday. book a place against Germany’s Reigning Wimbledon and French Philipp Petzschner. “Give credit to Open champion Nadal, trying to be- Viktor. He was playing well and serv- come the seventh man to complete ing incredibly well,” he said. “Even if a career Grand Slam, beat Russian I would lose today it would have Teymuraz Gabashvili 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 been deserved on his side. A couple (7/4), 6-3, his only service breaks of points changed the match and I coming in the last set. was just fortunate to get through.” Spain's Igor Anton of the “My serve worked well and I hope Fourth-seeded Jankovic, seeking Eskaltel-Euskadi team to continue like this,” Nadal said. her first Grand Slam title, edged celebrates after winning the “It’s not my best shot, but I always 96th-rated Romanian teen Simona Tour of Spain fourth stage in work hard at improving it. If I am to Halep 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. The 2008 US Valdepenas de Jaen on Tuesday. have chances to win here one day, I Open runner-up nearly suffered her need to serve well.” first opening-match Slam exit since The 24-year-old Spaniard, who the 2005 French Open. Boxing promoter’s would be the youngest career Slam “I had to work for every point,” holder and only the fourth man to Jankovic said. “I wasn’t playing my son goes missing win three Slams in a row if he wins best tennis. I was able to find a way this year’s US Open, will next face to get through.” LOS ANGELES: The son of Bob Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan. Jankovic, who will next play Arum has been reported miss- Denmark’s Wozniacki, seeking 150th-ranked Croatian qualifier ing in the mountains near her first Grand Slam title after losing Mirjana Lucic, has faith she has Seattle forcing the internation- to Kim Clijsters in last year’s US what it takes to win a Grand Slam al boxing promoter to aban- Open final, romped in her first crown. Eighth seed Li Na, the high- don a three-city promotional Grand Slam match as a top seed, est Chinese seed in Grand Slam his- tour to help in the search. Bob eliminating US wild card Chelsey tory, lost 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 to Ukraine’s Arum was in Los Angeles on Gullickson 6-1, 6-1 in 61 minutes. Kateryna Bondarenko. The Aus- Tuesday for the first of three “I’m really happy,” Wozniacki tralian Open semi-finalist had not stops on the tour to promote said. “The first match is always lost a Grand Slam opener since the the November 13 Manny Pac- tough. I’m happy to be through and 2006 Australian Open. quiao and Antonio Margarito into the second round.” Wozniacki On the men’s side, Cypriot 16th junior middleweight title fight. will face Taiwan’s Chang Kai-Chen seed Marcos Baghdatis went down But Arum left the news confer- after winning the matchup of 20- 6-3, 2-6, 1-6, 6-4, 7-5 to French veter- ence at the Beverly Hills Hotel year-olds, which did not start until an Arnaud Clement and France’s Je- early when he learned his son 10 minutes before midnight due to remy Chardy beat Latvian 24th seed Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark returns a shot against Chelsey Gullickson of the United States during their first round match of the was missing, the Los Angeles the length of previous Arthur Ashe Ernests Gulbis 6-2, 7-6 (7/1), 6-4. AFP US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre in New York on Tuesday. Times reported Tuesday night. John Arum, 49, was apparently ATHLETICS FIELD HOCKEY: WORLD CUP BASKETBALL: WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS hiking in the mountains near Seattle when he went missing. Arum told the Los Angeles Times before leaving for Wash- England, South Africa Never say die Lithuanians topple Spain ington State, “They’ve got search parties looking for him Izmir,September 1 grabbing just 29 compared to Puerto Group D could not have been a bigger right now.” AFP produce upsets to win Rico’s 44, would again prove costly as contrast to the first as the French While most eyes were on Greece’s the Puerto Ricans pulled out to a 84-76 struggled against a determined Cana- Asian Tour adds Rosario, September 1 ond half and Sulette Damons match with bitter historical rivals victory. Jianlian Yi again carried China da, only claiming the lead late to win Thailand event put the game away for South Turkey on Tuesday, the real excitement with 24 points, while Vassallo top- 68-63. Nicolas Batum was the only England upset China 1-0 Africa, deflecting Kelly Mad- was taking place in Group D with scored with 22 for Puerto Rico. Frenchman to break double figures, BANGKOK: The Asian Tour and South Africa pulled off a sen’s high backstick pass into Lithuania rallying from an 18 point Earlier in the day New Zealand finishing with 24 points. added another event to its shock 2-1 victory over Spain in goal. Spain appealed to the deficit to beat Spain 76-73. started group D action, needing to It is the second close game to go 2010 schedule Wednesday the women’s field hockey World video umpire that Damons’ Down 64-55 at the beginning of the beat Lebanon to have any realistic against the Canadians and they need with the Black Mountain Mas- Cup on Tuesday while host Ar- stick was above her shoulder final quarter, Jonas Maciulis (13 chance of moving through to the to find something special in their re- ters returning as its season fi- gentina edged South Korea 1-0. but the appeal was disallowed. points) turned the tempo with two round of 16. The game held extra sig- maining two games to avoid going nale. Big-hitting Swedish star Hannah MacLeod’s goal in South Korea held Argentina steals leading to two massive dunks. nificance with former New Zealand home early. One shining light for the Johan Edfors has confirmed the second minute, pushing in scoreless in the first half de- The momentum continued to build coach Tab Baldwin coming up against Canadians was the performance of 19- his title defence at the Black a rebound of Crista Cullen’s spite four penalty corner with Lithuania tying the score twice his former side for the first time. year-old Kelly Olynyk who claimed 13 Mountain Golf Club in Hua penalty corner flick, was all chances for the hosts. Luciana (66-66, 71-71) before Linas Kleiza (17 It was not to be a happy night for points, after playing for just 8 seconds Hin, south of Bangkok, from England’s women needed to Aymar created Argentina’s only points 8 rebounds) finally claimed the Baldwin with New Zealand running in Canada’s opening two games. December 16-19. “I’m certain- take full points from their first goal by beating two defenders, lead for the Lithuanians with 21.2 sec- riot over his Lebanese side 108-76. The Olynyk’s team mate Levon Kendall ly excited about coming back two matches in Pool B. shooting into the pads of Moon onds remaining, leading to scenes of tournament’s top point scorer to date, was full of praise for the youngster af- to Black Mountain to defend China starved England of Youngh Hui and Carla Rebec- jubilation in Halkapinar Arena. Kirk Penney again led all point scoring ter the game. “He (Olynyk) was great. my title from last year,” said possession in the second half chi batting the rebound into They would not let the lead slip, with 26. Baldwin was gracious in de- He shows a lot of courage for his guy Edfors, a two-time winner on by controlling the midfield and goal. Korea pressed Argentina’s pulling off the unlikeliest of victories. feat, complimenting the opposition. his age. Hopefully he can now do it on the Asian Tour. Asian Tour Ex- had more than 15 shots on defence high in the last five “I am really proud to win this game. It The second game of the day in a consistent basis,” said Kendall. AFP ecutive Chairman Kyi Hla Han Semenya goal, but England’s hero goal- minutes but could not force a was a heck of a game and I am so hap- AFP said the tournament’s prize keeper Beth Storry made 10 penalty corner. AFP py for our boys to be able to come fund would also increase by saves, three in a single flurry, to AFP back,” said an exhausted Martynas $100,000 to $600,000. “The flops in keep China scoreless. Pocious (13 points). The game against Asian Tour continues to re- South Africa won their first Greece was the game all Turkish fans ceive strong support from cor- World Cup match in eight had been waiting for, with their team porate Asia, especially in Thai- years, having last won in 2002 able to deliver upsetting the Greeks 76- land, and I’m confident the Italy at Perth against Ukraine. South 65 on the back of an inspired perfor- Black Mountain Masters will Africa scored first through mance from Ersan Ilyasova who top- bring an exciting climax to our Rovereto, September 1 Pietie Coetzee, who drew a scored for the Turks with 26 points. 2010 season,” he said. AFP penalty corner when she was Earlier in the day Russia were made South Africa’s controversial stick-checked in the circle, then to fight hard for their victory over the PGA C’ship heading to women’s 800 metres world converted with a rocket flick Ivory Coast, winning by just 6 points, champion Caster Semenya low to the left, deflected into 72-66. Evgeny Voronov was top scorer Quail Hollow flopped here on Tuesday as she goal off the stick of goalie Maria for the Russians with 19. CHARLOTTE: The PGA of could only finish seventh in a Lopez de Eguilaz. After the game Russian coach, America announced on Tues- below par field. Spain survived three more David Blatt who yesterday announced day it would stage the 2017 The 19-year-old only recent- penalty corners to South Africa this will be his last tournament in PGA Championship at the ly returned to action after being as Coetzee sent her rockets charge admitted his team is under Quail Hollow golf course in cleared following a controver- wide twice and one high flick strength here in Turkey. “We don’t have North Carolina. It will mark sial enquiry into her gender saved by Lopez de Equilaz. the kind of team that can win a medal the third time the PGA will be that saw her side-lined for al- Nuria Camon scored Spain’s Spain's Silvia Munoz falls on but we have the kind of team that can in North Carolina, and the first most 11 months. Semenya, equaliser just before the break, top of Lisa-Marie Deetlefs of fight hard and make the people at for the largest city in the state. who handled the furore sur- converting Spain’s second South Africa during their home proud,” he said. Organisers expect the tourna- rounding her gender tests with penalty corner chance. South World Cup field hockey In the only other Group C match, a Turkey's Omer Asik slams a dunk against Greece during their Basketball ment to draw about 50,000 a great dignity, won her first three Africa shaded Spain in the sec- match in Rosario on Tuesday. poor rebounding effort from China World Championship preliminary round match in Ankara on Tuesday. people per day and tens of mil- races back but failed to sparkle lions of dollars in economic at the Diamond meet last Fri- BOXING revenue to the city and sur- day in Brussels and was signifi- rounding areas. Quail Hollow cantly off the pace here. has hosted a PGA Tour event Italian athlete Elisa Cusma Piccione won the race in a time for the past seven years. AFP of 2min 00.37sec, with Se- Margarito intentionally used illegal wraps: Pacquiao menya — who is hoping to add Mickelson signs on Commonwealth gold in Delhi Los Angeles, September 1 geles Mosley incident after his li- conference but the Filipino did just for Singapore in October to her world title — cense — along with that of former that Tuesday. Pacquiao was all over seven seconds adrift, a Manny Pacquiao says he be- trainer Javier Capetillo — was re- smiles and joking with Margarito SINGAPORE: US Masters long way off her targetted time lieves Antonio Margarito tried to voked by the California State Athlet- during a photo-op on the podium champion Phil Mickelson will this season of 1min 57sec. use illegal hand wraps in his last US ic Commission. The ban was up- at the Beverly Hills Hotel but then headline the Singapore Open America’s disgraced 2004 fight which resulted in the Mexican held by other state boxing commis- told reporters afterwards that he this year which has boosted its Olympic 100 metres champion boxer being banned from the sport sions. doesn’t believe Margarito’s version prize money by one million US Justin Gatlin came in to the for one year. The two fighters held a joint of the events at Staples Center are- dollars. The American World meeting with three successive Pacquiao scoffed on Tuesday at news conference on Tuesday at The na 19 months ago. No 2 joins Australian Adam wins behind him on his come- Margarito’s explanation that he did- Beverly Hills Hotel. Margarito, who His comments also contradicted Scott, Ireland’s Padraig Har- back after serving a four year n’t know his trainer was putting a upset Miguel Cotto six months be- Arum who spent a good portion of rington and Yang Yong-Eun suspension for doping. plaster-like substance in his gloves fore the Mosley fight, has always in- his time at the podium Tuesday de- from Korea as marquee play- However, the 28-year-old prior to a 2009 fight against Shane sisted he had no knowledge of what fending his decision to put the Fil- ers confirmed so far. The tour- just failed to win, finishing sec- Mosley. “He is just making some ali- his trainer was doing. “Everything ipino in the ring with the disgraced nament will be played for the ond in 10.09sec behind up bi,” Pacquiao said. that happened is now in the past,” boxer. Margarito still does not have sixth successive time at Sen- and coming 20-year-old Ja- The 31-year-old Filipino super- said Margarito, who has 38 wins, six a license to fight in California or tosa Golf Club from November maican Yohan Blake who won star Pacquiao is expected to face losses and 27 KOs. Nevada. His most recent California 11-14 with a total purse of six in a time of 10.06sec, though he Margarito for the vacant World Box- He refused to comment on Pac- application was denied. million dollars, coming a week would probably have gone un- ing Council super welterweight title quiao’s latest claims. But his new “Antonio Margarito did not after the equally lucrative der 10sec had he not struggled on November 13 in Dallas, Texas. trainer Robert Garcia and fight pro- know that those hand wraps were HSBC Champions in Shang- with a right thigh problem in “He is the one who wraps his hands moter Bob Arum both defended be allowed to watch them bandage self if he needs to,” Garcia said. “I do illegal, and there was something hai. For the second year in a the last 10 metres. and he doesn’t know what is in Margarito. Pacquiao (51-3-2, his hands,” Pacquiao said. Garcia not have a problem with that. I bad in those wraps,” Arum said. row it will be joint-sanctioned South African Oscar Pisto- there?” Pacquiao asked. “Of course 38KOs) has asked officials to allow said he has nothing to hide. He said could have Freddie Roach do the “(There’s) not one shred of proof. by the Asian Tour and Euro- rius, known as “Blade Runner” he knows. What do you think? My them to send an extra person from Pacquiao can visit Margarito’s wrapping. I don’t do anything ille- He served his time, and thank God, pean Tour. European Ryder because of the artificial legs he belief is he knows that.” his camp into Margarito’s dressing dressing room before the fight. He gal. I know very few people give us a the people in the Texas boxing com- Cup star Ian Poulter won the runs on, finished third in the Margarito was granted a license room prior to the Dallas fight to ob- would also let Pacquiao’s trainer chance.” mission, who reviewed all the testi- event last year by a shot from 400 metres B race in a time of last week to fight in Texas. He hasn’t serve the taping. Freddie Roach do the wrapping. It is unlike Pacquiao to fire the mony, agreed with that conclu- China’s Liang Wenchong. AFP 47.14 seconds. AFP fought in America since the Los An- “I am requesting that two people “Manny can come watch him- first verbal salvo in a pre-fight news sion.” AFP 14

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PRIZED PETS pet’s status in Aa family may be he home is a influenced by where giant adventure the owners live, new playground for research suggests. children, especially People who regard theT bathroom and kitchen. pets as children tend to And in these rooms more dan- have a city background, gers lurk than may be readily CAR’S FRONT SEATS SAFER for example, while those apparent. in rural areas have a Sizzling, bubbling and ront seats are safer than rear seats in a car, thanks to more practical attitude, gurgling on the stove exert a the addition of new safety features over the years. said study author David magical attraction on children. F Blouin, of Indiana “Mom and Dad should never “We could save more lives and prevent more injuries if we University. leave their little ones alone in paid the same attention to the rear seat of cars as we have to “To think of pets as the kitchen,” said Susanne the front seat,” says University of New South Wales associate just another animal is Woelk, managing director of professor Lynne Bilston, who led the study. not uncommon in rural the non-profit initiative Das Previous studies in older cars have shown that occupants areas, which makes Sichere Haus (“Home Safe”) sitting in the back seat were at lower risk of serious injury and sense given the utilitari- in Hamburg. death in crashes, says Bilston. an relationships people Some simple precautions “However, since the mid-1990s, front seats have improved in rural areas are more help prevent accidents. “A stove enormously with airbags and better seatbelt designs in the likely to have with a guard in front of the burners front driver and passenger positions,” she says, according to a range of different ani- keeps children from pulling New South Wales release. mals - from farm to wild pots down onto themselves,” These safety features are often overlooked in case of the animals,”Blouin, an Woelk pointed out. And stove- rear seat, even in newer cars, meaning the front seat is now assistant professor in knob covers block them from relatively safer than the rear seat for adult passengers. the sociology and an- turning on the burners. While all adults in newer cars are relatively safer in the front thropology department To prevent children from seat, the effect is greater for older adults. at Indiana University opening the oven door, Woelk Bilston and colleagues compared the risk of injury to front South Bend, said in an recommended an oven lock. and rear seat occupants in cars made between 1990 and 1996 American Sociological “There are also safety latches with those travelling in newer cars. Association news and locks for drawers that They found that while newer cars are safer than older cars, release. make it impossible for children significant reductions in head, thoracic and abdominal injuries He also found that to take out knives and other were only seen in front seat occupants. pets often lose their dangerous objects,” she said. There are currently no regulations on how cars should be status as “children” Kitchen appliances, such as designed to protect rear seat occupants, Bilston says. IANS when owners start hav- water boilers and toasters, ing children. should not stand too close to “If you have kids, you the edge of the counter. “Chil- have less time to spend dren in the crawling stage are with your pets.That’s especially fond of pulling on part of it, but not the dangling cords,” Woelk warned. whole story.People who think of their pets as their children often re-evaluate this thought THERE ARE DANGERS LURKING EVEN AT HOME FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. when they have human children of their own,” HERE ARE SOME PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES TO ENSURE THEIR SAFETY. Blouin said. Among the other findings: Many people have END OF THE COUCH POTATO very intense attach- ments to their pets, who ore and more viewers are now watching TV shows are often an integral online, heralding the death of the couch potato, part of the owner’s daily M reveals a new UK research. routine. Actually more than a third of users (34 per cent) now watch Ninety-three per cent preferred programmes online compared to only 29 per cent of dog owners and 77 per CHILD SAFE who watch them mostly on TV. cent of cat owners take And more than half the students said they watched TV their pets to the veteri- Which brings us to another (RCCB) be installed in the Dangers also lurk outside and should never be left programmes on the net. narian at least once a hazard: electricity. “You’re home’s power distributor. the bathtub. “Children be- around open,” Glassl warned. Viewers want to see more drama and documentaries rather year. playing it safe if you always The device “can be a lifesaver,” tween the ages of one and four Although containers with than reality and celebrity shows, researchers found, according Eighty-one per cent unplug the water boiler, etc,” Becker said. “When electric years are at risk of poisoning child safety caps are fairly to the Daily Mail. of dog owners and 67.5 noted Anja Becker, from the current leaks, such as by pass- by household chemicals,” said reliable, he said, “elderly peo- The survey shows viewers want to avoid programmes like per cent of cat owners Berlin-based initiative Elec- ing through a person’s body, Bernd Glassl, a director at the ple, in particular, tend to leave the ‘Big Brother.’ spend two or more tro+. Clipping electrical cords RCCB immediately cuts it off.” German Cosmetic, Toiletry, containers with child safety The figures from a joint survey by SeeSaw.com and Radio hours daily with their to the wall keeps them out of If a hair dryer falls into the Perfumery and Detergent caps open so that they don’t Times show that the viewership patterns are changing fast. pets. children’s hands. Cables within bath water, for instance, an Association (IKW). have to struggle with the lock John Keeling, a representative of online TV service SeeSaw, Many owners said the reach of children should be RCCB can safeguard against Hazardous substances such cap again. This can end badly said, “The nation’s hunger for great TV is insatiable.” their pet’s health was a checked regularly and replaced electrocution, she said. as decalcifiers and all-purpose when their grandchildren “Viewing across the board is in robust health, but scratch major concern and if the insulation is worn. But children’s baths remain cleaners are particularly com- come to visit.” the surface and a quiet revolution is taking place,” he said. some admitted spend- Electrical outlets arouse risky even with an RCCB pre- mon in the bathroom, and in “If a child has swallowed a “Whilst the nation continues to watch fantastic shows like ing substantial amounts children’s curiosity, too. “Can sent. “Safe bathing is ensured the kitchen as well. poisonous substance, rinse Doctor Who and Top Gear, a whole new generation of TV fans of money on their pet’s I stick my finger in the holes?” by non-slip bath mats and a “The best place to keep such out the child’s oesophagus and are enjoying these shows online.” health for routine care they wonder. “What happens temperature regulator for the items is in a high cabinet or mouth with tap water or tea Ben Preston, Radio Times editor, said, “The couch potato is (including vaccinations) if I stuff toys into them?” hot water so that children shelf out of children’s reach,” and notify a poison control dead, the age of the hunter-gatherer is nigh. Technology means and more serious “To make potentially life- do not scald themselves by said Glassl. centre,” advises Glassl. television isn’t a passive activity any more. We hunt down what conditions such as skin threatening experiments like turning the tap,” Woelk said. He said that chemical prod- Under no circumstances we want to watch...” allergies, diabetes and these impossible, I recommend She added that parents ucts should never be decanted should you induce vomiting The survey of 2,000 adults finds nearly a third of viewers (31 Crohn’s disease. child safety sockets whose especially needed to be alert or transferred into food pack- or give the child milk or saline per Cent) want more drama, while 30 per cent would prefer to The study was pre- holes are covered when no when bathing children under aging familiar to children, such solution to drink, he said. Rinse see more documentaries. sented Sunday at the appliance is plugged in,” Beck- three years of age. “Small chil- as empty juice bottles. chemically burned skin or eyes Just two per cent of those polled said they wanted more American Sociological er said. dren can drown in just a little “Strongly corrosive liquids with running water and then celebrity content, and three percent wanted further reality TV. Association annual It is also essential that a water,” so they should never be like drain cleaners and decalci- immediately take the child to a A total of 44 per cent said Big Brother was the show they meeting in Atlanta. IANS residual-current circuit breaker left unsupervised. fiers are especially dangerous doctor. DPA were most likely to avoid. IANS

WHY MOTHERS BOND SO WELL WITH THEIR KIDS

Children share a special lifelong Using Magnetic Resonance “lit up” key areas, associated with as babies. bond with their mothers which may Imaging (MRI) machines, researchers recognition and emotion, according Marie Arsalidou from the Universi- be rooted in how the brain reacts measured the brain activity of volun- to the journal Brain and Cognition. ty of Toronto in Canada, who led GreenNote when we see our mothers’ face. teers, with an average age of 35 years, The findings suggest that mothers the study with academics from the When adults look upon their as they were shown pictures of their produce a complex and lasting emo- University of Winchester, Britain, said, A cup of vinegar will clean mothers’ face, it triggers a stronger parents, strangers and celebrities, tional and cognitive response in “Differential activity to mothers’ faces a washing machine. Run it response in the brain than when they reports the Telegraph. their children’s brain, as a result of the may be attributable to greater expo- through a regular cycle — look at pictures of strangers and that When they viewed images of their bonding experience that takes plac sure to one’s mother’s face during but not with clothes. of their father, according to scientists. mother, the scientists found that it e between them and their children, critical childhood years.” IANS 16 < theindependentdaily mmagazineagazine PORT LOUIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

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THE SOCIAL NETWORK WALL STREET: October 1 Michael Douglas has his money on his mind MONEY NEVER n the jargon of Facebook, the again,this time with Imore this film updates its Shia LaBeouf,in Wall SLEEPS status, the more it also pokes Street: Money Never September 24 Facebook founder Mark Sleeps. Zuckerberg. Directed by David Fincher (The Curious Case of reed is still good, though Benjamin Button) and scripted Gdirector Oliver Stone’s by The West Wing’s Aaron follow-up to his iconic 1987 Sorkin, this drama chronicles drama surprisingly aims for the early days of the now om- the heart instead of the pocket- nipresent digital hangout site, book. Michael Douglas returns going way back to the historic as the disgraced financial wiz- era of 2003, when it was created ard, Gordon Gekko, which won in a Harvard dormitory. The ex- him a best-actor Oscar last plosive popularity of Facebook time around. Shia LaBeouf united old pals from across the co-stars as an idealistic young country but tore the founding broker engaged to Gekko’s group apart, resulting in the estranged daughter (Carey film’s sublime tagline “You Mulligan) in a love story tan- don’t get to 500 million friends gled up in corporate intrigue, without making a few ene- fatherly redemption, and, of mies.” Jesse Eisenberg (Adven- course, quite a few betrayals.“I tureland) stars as Zuckerberg, said (to Stone), ‘Who would’ve who hasn’t been involved in the known you were such a roman- film, according to the actor. tic?’” says Frank Langella, “The character doesn’t care as who plays LaBeouf’s mentor, much about pleasing other brought low by a fictional ver- people,” Eisenberg says. “And sion of the current financial he isn’t concerned with his own calamity. “The film has about it happiness. He feels much more a genuine, old-fashioned, yet directed, and concerned with modern romance. It’s going to creating this website and main- surprise people who expect it taining it than striving for his to be fast, slick and heartless. It own personal success, to the is those things when it needs to point where he had so much be, but it’s full of great heart.” money, but still slept on a mattress on the floor, and still wore the same flip-flops every day.”

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October 8 here’s something off about Tthose nuns rushing into the married couple try and fail bank — and it’s not just their Ato set up their two very dif- ghastly rubber faces. Oh, yeah ferent best friends (Katherine — it’s the machine guns. Ben Heigl and Josh Duhamel) in a Affleck stars in his own directo- romantic relationship but still rial follow-up to 2007’sGone choose them to be godparents Baby Gone, playing a Boston to their new baby. When armed robber who is just man- tragedy strikes the parents, the aging to get by while a deter- friends find themselves bound mined lawman (Mad Men’s together as shared guardians of Jon Hamm) closes in on him. the little one. The problem is, “These are sort of brown-bag they hate each other. Or maybe robbers and there’s a real they just have a lot of growing lunch-pail quality to what NEVER LET ME GO LEGEND OF THE HEREAFTER up to do, too. “The child in their they’re doing. It’s not slicked lives forces them to not be up,” Affleck says. “How does September 15 GUARDIANS: October 22 about themselves and not be somebody become this? And selfish,” says director Greg what do they go home to? And melancholy tale of THE OWLS OF lint Eastwood has dis- Berlanti, creator of the TV do they have a checking ac- A doomed young souls, Cpatched a lot of people to shows Everwood and Eli Stone. count?” Probably not at the starring Carey Mulligan, Keira GA’HOOLE the afterlife in his other films. “Romantic comedy is the cate- same places they’re robbing, Knightley and Andrew Garfield September 24 With this one, the 80-year-old gory most people want to put he jokes. Affleck’s character is (cast as the next Spider-Man). director takes a more soulful it in, but hopefully it’s a little sympathetic — but so is It’s based on the novel by Kazuo approach. “It’s about searching more than that. I want you Hamm’s investigator. Affleck Ishiguro (The Remains of the ack Snyder is known for for the answer to the question: to laugh and cry in equal hopes the audience roots for Day), and takes place in an Zcreating savage, other- Is their life after death?” says measure.” both. “When you have a crimi- alternate reality, where many worldly realms in 2006’s 300 Robert Lorenz, Eastwood’s nal as a protagonist, there’s this diseases have been cured, but and last year’s Watchmen, but longtime producer. “I think it tendency to make the law en- at a sorrowful price — at least here he takes an abrupt turn has universal appeal, because forcement characters really un- for some. The three main into not just a family-friendly everybody thinks about that likeable, or artificially position characters are raised as organ adventure but one in which the question. Matt Damon plays a the audience against them. I donors, taught to feel privi- characters all have feathers. psychic haunted by what may wanted to make Jon leged about their lifesaving SECRETARIAT It’s still a fantasy-adventure be his genuine connection to seem like the hero of role, and groomed to welcome picture, but the young hero is the other side, just one of a trio the movie,” he says. their inevitable (and early) October 8 an owl who dreams of finding of stories that intertwine. “The A still from “There’s basic demise as a noble sacrifice. the legendary armored others are about people who Life As We Know It. righteousness What they don’t count on, and t’s a horse-racing story about the legendary Triple brethren who can help him lost someone and another who to what he’s no one else seems to care ICrown-winning stallion, but this heartwarmer set in the fight the predatory rivals ter- had a near-death experience,” doing. He’s trying to about, is their own passions — early 1970s is also a drama about a woman venturing into rorizing his home. “I wanted to Lorenz says. The script is by arrest people who are for freedom, adventure and one of the oldest of the old boys’ clubs. Diane Lane plays do something that transcended Peter Morgan (The Queen, doing illegal things, each other. “It’s a cautionary Penny Chenery, a Denver housewife and mother who animation, that was not a car- Frost/Nixon) and Eastwood’s and dangerous tale about how we’re here for a inherits the horse from her late father and recognizes a toon, but more like Avatar with decision to direct was a sur- things.” very limited time, and we don’t champion in him when the more experienced men in the owls,” Snyder says. He cautions prise even to his collaborators, always make the best use of it, racing business initially overlook it. “What a ground-shak- against doubting the fearsome- since he has seldom dealt with and push that knowledge into ing thing it was to see a woman venturing forth out of ness of owls. “They’re pretty such ethereal ideas. “It’s very the background,” says director the kitchen, out of the hearth of home and into what has awesome soldiers. Owls are unexpected for him,” Lorenz Mark Romanek (One Hour always been the male role of bread-winning and getting hunters anyway, with natural says. USA TODAY Photo). “The film is about: How things done,” Lane says. Instead of being a hindrance, Ch- gifts of talons, and the ability to do we not come to the end of enery’s experience as a nurturer and homemaker became fly silently and acrobatically, our lives and regret how we an advantage, says the actress. “You call forth the spirit of and really rule the night,” he lived it?” greatness in your offspring as best you can. There’s finesse says. “You can see the potential to knowing how to do that with each different person — or once you put these metal battle in this case a horse.” claws and helmets on them.”

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