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Emir meets Palestine Premier Blatter backs Money is a Qatar, says attacks unfair major cause KUALA LUMPUR: FIFA President Sepp Blatter played the popularity card yesterday by defending under-fire 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar over of divorces what he called unfair European media attacks. The issue of Qatar staging soc- A third of break-ups due to debt cer’s biggest showpiece has been a thorny issue for the 77-year-old DOHA: In an increasingly con- programme has had on marriages. Swiss who said last Wednesday sumerist Qatari community, He said the FCC is entrusted with that the labour rights situation in rifts over money matters among the task of helping bring down the the Gulf state was “unacceptable” married couples are a major divorce rate in the Qatari commu- amid a wave of negative headlines. cause of divorce. nity by 40 percent as per the goals International players’ union Excessive reliance by couples set by the National Development FIFPro have asked Blatter to act on bank loans and financial wor- Strategy (2011-16). for a French footballer, who says ries caused by repayment cycles The rate of divorce is also high he is being prevented from leav- are to blame for the break-up of among couples who enter into ing Qatar over a contract dispute over a third of marriages in the marital contract but their mar- with his club, while attempts to community, says a family coun- riage has not consummated. In the The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Palestinian Prime Minister Dr Rami Al Hamdallah at Al move the event from the tradi- selling centre. Statistics suggest Qatari community, this is called Bahr Palace yesterday. Talks focused on bilateral relations and latest developments in Palestine. tional European summer months some 30 to 40 percent divorces pre-marriage divorce. to winter have not been warmly among Qatari couples take place Hani El Shami, a psychologist received. solely due to arguments over bank with the FCC, said close relatives Blatter backed Qatar when he debt, says the Family Counselling of newly-married couples (brides gave a speech to Asian Football Center (FCC). and grooms) also play a major role Confederation members in Money has come to play a very in marriage break-ups as they SEC to act on school fee hikes Malaysia at the AFC awards yes- significant role in the lives of incite discord between the bride terday. “It is not fair when the Qatari individuals as well as fami- and groom instead of working to DOHA: The Supreme developing a proposal for speci- link the fees with the quality of international media, and espe- lies so it becomes a major cause of help resolve rifts.The FCC held Education Council (SEC) has fying tuition fees and other addi- education provided by the school cially European media, are taking marital discord. the press briefing to announce told the Central Municipal tional fees of private schools. concerned, it added. up the focus of an Arab country ... FCC officials told reporters the date of a fresh pre-marriage Council (CMC) that it is work- Requests from schools seeking The issue was first raised by by attacking, attacking, criticising yesterday that combating a high counselling session that is to be ing on a “satisfactory policy” to fee hike are handled by a special CMC member Ali bin Shaheen this country. We are defending it,” divorce rate in the community was held from December 1 to 5. curb the frequent hikes in pri- committee at the Private Schools Al Kuwari, who drew attention Blatter told delegates. REUTERS one of their key priorities. El Shami said more women (59 vate school fees. Office and requests from schools to the wide disparities in the Addressing a news conference, percent on average) than men (41 Responding to complaints that fail to give genuine rea- fees charged by different private Mohamed Abul Ala said the FCC’s percent) attend these sessions as raised by the CMC about the sons for the hike have not been schools. The civic body also raised main priority was to combat a the latter feel shy. The sessions prohibitory fees charged by many approved, said the SEC. concern over commercialisation of Worker, firm asked high divorce rate in the commu- are held separately for men and private schools here, the SEC said Since 2009, different private education in the country arguing nity. A pre-marriage counselling women. The Centre once held a the issue has been referred to a schools were allowed to raise their that many private schools have to pay blood money programme exclusively targeting joint session that lasted five days special committee to develop a fees by five to 20 percent, said degenerated into money-making Qataris lays much emphasis on but later decided against it. future strategy, according to Al the SEC, adding that the average institutions. The CMC expressed DOHA: A lower criminal court money management, aside from The Centre has 47 experts who Sharq. increase didn’t go beyond five per surprise over the fact that school has sentenced a sewer-clean- stressing the importance of family provide counselling at these ses- The daily said the CMC had cent during this period. fees in Qatar are higher than the ing worker to three months in as a basic unit of society. sions and of whom, 28 are men received a letter from the SEC in The SEC said there is a con- university fees. jail and fined the contracting Abul Ala said their pre-mar- while the remaining 19 are women. which it said that the regulatory sensus that school fees should be The CMC had also raised many company that employed him riage counselling programme The pre-marriage counselling ses- body is working “to develop a sat- controlled based on the princi- other issues related to education, QR20,000 after they were held began a decade ago and has so far sions are held twice a year and on isfactory policy to curb increases ple of transparency and in a way but the SEC response was limited responsible for the death of a covered 3,000 individuals. He, how- average attract 70 women and 50 in school fees in the coming years.” that responds to all needs of the to the fee issue, said the daily. girl child who had fallen in a ever, didn’t say what impact the men. THE PENINSULA The SEC said it is also students. There is a proposal to THE PENINSULA sewer manhole in Al Wakra early this year. The court has also asked the worker and his company to organise QR200,000 to be paid as Basel sink Chelsea; blood money to the family of the Cargo operations at new deceased. Ajax stun Barcelona The court ruled that the worker left the manhole open BASEL/AMSTERDAM: airport from December 1 carelessly and did not pay atten- Mohamed Salah scored a tion that anyone could fall into it, breakaway goal in the 87th and thus became the cause of the minute as Basel beat Chelsea DOHA: The new airport Minister of Transport H E Jassem child’s death. 1-0 to complete an unlikely (Hamad International) will open Saif Al Sulaiti said here yesterday. The public prosecution had said Champions League double over only partially in January 2014 Asked about the announcement of that there was enough evidence to the Londoners while Ajax gave while its cargo terminal is set to next opening date for the already prove that the girl died because their chances of qualifying for begin operating from December delayed Hamad International of the ignorance of the worker. the Champions League last 1, the transport minister said Airport (HIA), he did not give any He carried out the clean-up and 16 a huge boost as they beat yesterday. specific date. put the lid back on the manhole Barcelona 2-1, yesterday. More details about the ambi- He said: “The airport will par- without realising that a child had Goalkeeper Petr Cech produced tious project, including the formal tially open in January 2014 and fallen into it. The prosecution also a string of outstanding saves in opening date of the HIA's other some test flights will take place said that the contracting com- the first half to keep the domi- Chelsea’s Fernando Torres (right) and Basel’s Kay Voser in action during facilities, will be announced on during the same period.” pany had to also be held respon- nant Swiss team at bay. December 16 in a press meeting to THE PENINSULA sible according to Qatari law. their Champions League Group E soccer match in Basel yesterday. AGENCIES be held at the new building of HIA, Continued on page 6 THE PENINSULA

WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Doha International Book Fair a literature festival this year Guest of Honour UK to share its literature with writers, poets and artists

DOHA: The Doha the publishing industry. International Book Fair is set “The British Council and to be held as a literature fes- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation tival this year and will bring Publishing, in partnership with more books and publishers, the British Centre for Literary the Minister of Culture, Arts Translation will host the and Heritage, H E Dr Hamad Literary Translation Summit, bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari said bringing together 36 writers yesterday. and translators for an inten- The fair will feature 22,000 sive week workshops and panel books and 360 publishers discussions,” said Hope. from 29 Arab and non-Arab Two workshops will translate countries. from English to Arabic, and one “The fair will be held as a cul- from Arabic to English. tural event with many activi- The summit will include a ties. A large number of writers, panel discussion on life as a lit- poets, artists and actors will erary translator and resources take part,” Al Kuwari told a for translation, including press conference at the ministry. national translation organisa- T he Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz “This year poetry reading and tions and support bodies in the child literature will be given Al Kuwari addressing the press conference in the presence of Martin UK and Arab world. more importance,” he added. Hope, Director, British Council, yesterday. KAMMUTTY V P Marilyn Booth will lead the The UK has been invited as Arabic to English workshop, the Guest of Honour at the 24th the Arab publishing and literary Orion Books, Lynn Gaspard, with Hassan Daoud as author. Doha International Book Fair, scene to further their under- Publisher, Saqi Books, Emma Zeinab Mobarak will lead as part of Qatar UK 2013 Year standing of the market and House, Director of Publisher the first English to Arabic of Culture, build relationships. Relations, UK Publishers workshop, with Steven Hall The fair will be held between “Qatar UK 2013 Year of Association, Judy Pearsall, as author. Nariman Youssef December 4 and 14 at Doha Culture has been a wonder- Editorial Director, Oxford will lead the second English to International Exhibition Centre. ful opportunity. This fair is an University Press, Rona Selby, Arabic workshop, with David The ministry, Publishers opportunity for us to share our Editorial Director, Andersen Szalay as author. The British Association, UK Trade and literature,” said Martin Hope, Press (Random House imprint), Council will hold ‘Learn English Investment and British Council Director, British Council. Kelly Signorelli-Chaplin, Kids’ and ‘Maktaba Storytelling are supporting four UK editors The UK delegation will Head of Communications, UK Time’ in English and Arabic for to travel to Qatar as part of a be represented by Sophie Publishers Association, and children throughout the fair. delegation to meet members of Buchan, Commissioning Editor, Roger Tagholm, journalist for THE PENINSULA

Director appointed for National Museum of Qatar DOHA: Sheikha Amna bint Abdulaziz and conferences, and public programmes. No opening date has been set for the bin Jassim Al Thani has been appointed She had served as acting director of the under-construction museum, but the build- as Director of National Museum of Qatar, museum since last December, and before ing, designed by French architect Jean Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) said that served on the steering committee. Nouvel, is supposed to be completed by yesterday. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon 2014-end. In a statement, QMA said Sheikha Amna University with a business degree and When completed, the National Museum has been tasked with providing “curatorial obtained her Master’s in sociology from the of Qatar is slated to look like a desert rose and managerial leadership,” and supervising London School of Economics and Political that appears to grow out of the ground. educational initiatives, special exhibitions Science. QNA Qatar Airways hikes capacity to Colombo DOHA: Qatar Airways yesterday announced a significant increase in its capacity to Sri Lanka with one of its triple- daily-flights to capi- tal city Colombo. It has upgraded its aircraft from a narrow-bodied Airbus 320 to wide-bod- ied Boeing 777. From January 1, 2014, the larger Boeing 777, QR 658, will offer flat-bed seats in business class and passengers in every seat across the business and economy class cabins will experience a fully inter- active personal audio and video entertainment sys- tem. Qatar Airways will offer 356 seats in economy and 24 in business class. The other two daily flights will be served with the narrow-body A320 air- craft, which can accom- modate 132 passengers in the economy class and 12 in the business class. Qatar Airways, Country Manager, Sri Lanka, Ajay Jacob, said the increase in capacity will help strengthen the airline’s position in the Sri Lankan market. “Colombo remains a popular destination in the carrier’s rising Asia- Pacific network as we oper- ate triple-daily-services to the city,” he said. Connecting destina- tions for passengers to and from Colombo over the airline’s Doha hub include Chicago, Kilimanjaro, Nairobi, Moscow, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Rome, Milan, Venice, New York, Washington and Montreal. Jacob said: “There are a significant number of Sri Lankans working in Qatar, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. Additional seats will enable more pas- sengers to travel with us, for leisure or on business. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Filipino film show Ajyal Youth Film Festival begins to raise funds for The festival will have positive impact on children and cinema industry: Minister typhoon victims

DOHA: Ajyal Youth Film Festival, with the support of the Philippine Embassy and Philippine School Doha, will have a charity screening of A Shout from Within (Qatar/ Filipino 2013) at Katara tomorrow to raise funds for sur- vivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Directed by Doha-based Filipino director Jan Xavier Pacle, the film is about eight students from the Filipino commu- nity in Qatar — all from different family backgrounds, with personal struggles to overcome — and their unique ensemble story about acceptance and reconciliation. Shot in the school, the film was written by students of the school, which serves to make the issues of its characters more resonant. Fatma Al Remaihi, Festival Director, said: “We are deeply moved to hear about the recent tragedies in the Philippines and we at the Doha Film Institute send our thoughts and prayers out to the people affected. We are pleased to present this special charity screening, which highlights the personal stories of the Filipino community in Qatar, to raise funds to assist those in need.” The free screening will be held at the Sony Open Air cin- ema. Seating is limited and available on the first-come, first- served basis. All donations given will be matched by DFI/

OTAKU EXHIBITION The Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari (right) with Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Ali Jannati, and Meanwhile, the ‘Otaku Exhibition,’ dedicated to Japanese (RIGHT) the Director of Flying Paper, Nitin Sawhney, and Executive Producer, Uzma Hasan, at the opening of the festival. SALIM MATRAMKOT anime, will open to public at the festival from today until Saturday at Katara. BY RAYNALD C RIVERA Featuring works by artists, from galleries and social clubs, making children interested in cin- and how that can be a form of free- Moloiyan Saikong, Salome, Nasieku the expo brings to life the world of novels, comic books, and ematic language so we have a more dom of resilience, of breaking out of Saikong, Zahira Badi, Tareq Al the art of manga, in one dynamic celebration. DOHA: The inaugural Ajyal informed audience,” said Hasan, the occupation they dream about,” Ali, Haya Al Shuaibi, Sultan Al With works curated by Abdulla Al Mosallam, visitors Youth Film Festival, presented by whose movie is set to have its Mena added Sawhney. Ali, Abdulnasser Al Zayer, Huda to the exhibition can gain insights into works by local art- Doha Film Institute (DFI), struck premiere at the festival. Stefan Collier, lead actor of Regret, Hussain, Abdulrahman Alaqel, Ali ists, including Fatima Alnesf, Kholoud Al Ali and Abdulaziz positive note on its opening night “I’m so delighted to have our said he hoped people would like his Al Rayes, Shirin Neshat, Hadya Said, Yousif. The artists are working alongside cultural institutions as filmmakers, actors and guests Middle East premiere in this festi- movie as they could relate to its Ghazi Hussain, Noura Hassan, Salah and organisations, including AnimeQtr and Qatar Japan on the red carpet expressed opti- val in Doha. It really belongs to the theme which is bullying — a huge Al Mulla, Saad Burshaid, Abdulla Al Youth Association. mism about the impact of the Ajyal festival. It’s critical to have dilemma young people face around Mosallam, Abdulaziz Ahmed, Dana Fans of anime looking to embody their favourite charac- unique festival. the story disseminated very widely the world. An Natsheh and Amal Al Muftah. ters can participate in the ‘Otaku Cosplay Event’ on Friday, “This festival is an excellent idea and I’m hoping through this festival About the situation in Iran, People in costumes represent- where residents and visitors will have the opportunity to that will have positive impact on we will even get more exposure all Maziar Miri, director of The Painting ing characters from anime films scoop awards for Best Male, Best Female, Best Group, and children and the cinema industry around the Middle East and around Pool, said there had been good times participating in the festival also Open Category which is open to all other costumes styles. in the future,” said the Minister of the world. I think it’s great to start and tough times, “but it seems there walked the red carpet. It was fol- Visitors will also be able to participate in workshops, Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr showing it to kids because they can are new windows opening to the peo- lowed by the screening of critically including The Making of a Comic Book; Qatari Japanese Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari. relate to this film very well,” said ple of Iran and the Iranian cinema. acclaimed anime film The Wind Rises Traditional Games; Cosplay Costume Making; Cosplay The festival is very important as Flying Paper Director Nitin Sawhney. “We pray that it’s going to be by renowned Japanese filmmaker Hair & Makeup; Origami making; Introduction to Shogi; it screens films catered particularly The documentary on children better than the previous years. And Hayao Miyazaki, which marked its Anime History; Qartoon workshop; and Anime Stop Motion for children, keeping them away in Gaza, humanises the conflict by we hope that we can talk through Mena premiere. workshop. from films which could have negative looking at kite culture as a form of the cinema with a new language Sixty-five films from 30 countries, Over the three days, festival-goers can trade collectible effect on their behaviour, he added. creative resistance. which is peace and friendship to an extensive programme of industry cards; purchase anime merchandise and games; participate Uzma Hasan, Executive Producer “We wanted to tell the story about the whole world.” Among the guests and community events, and five days in the ‘Super Villain Hunt;’ Munny Painting and ‘Make- of the film Flying Paper, thought DFI their dreams and aspirations. We on the red carpet were Mahmoud of film, art and cultural activities are your-own-Manga,’ to understand various facets of anime. had initiated a ‘brilliant festival’. wanted to capture the story of the Asfa, Maria Peters, Dave Schram, among the highlights of the five-day THE PENINSULA “It’s really a great idea if you start simple act of making and flying kites Rick Lens, Pascal Plisson, Jackson festival. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Solar energy for Qatar’s annual cargo handling all FIFA stadiums capacity to reach 1.4m tonnes DOHA: The stadiums host- emergency purposes. ing the 2022 FIFA World Cup There is also a project to Continued from page 1 in Qatar will be powered by upgrade the Ras Abu Fantas The Minister of Transport H E solar energy, with the Qatar plant to produce 139 gallons of Jassim Seif Ahmed Al Sulaiti was General Electricity and Water water daily. It is expected to be speaking on the sidelines of the Corporation (Kahramaa) completed by 2016. opening of Qatar International working on a project to pro- Other projects include a plant Exhibition for Transport and duce 200MW of solar energy to produce water for industrial Logistics (Trans4) being held at by 2020, its president Engineer units, with a capacity of 45m gal- Doha International Exhibition Eisa Hilal Al Kuwari has said. lons per day, a desalination plant Centre under the patronage of In an interview with Al Sharq, with a capacity of 130 gallons of the Prime Minister and Interior Al Kuwari said Kahramaa has water daily and a power plant Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah completed studies on the solar that can produce 2,400MW of bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani. project and is preparing to issue electricity. On reasons for delays in open- tenders. Once completed, the He said there is a plan to ing the airport, he said: “It is a project will meet two per cent of build a mega reservoir to store huge project (the airport) with total energy requirements of the water for emergency for up to many facilities. There were some country, he added. three months. New desalination issues the steering committee and He said next year, Kahramaa plants will be set up in Wakra, other authorities are doing their will focus on solar energy, provid- Mesaieed and the eastern coast best to address.” ing electricity to infrastructure of the country. Asked about airlines which projects and installation of smart As part of the ongoing energy will be operating from the new meters. About 1,200 meters have conservation campaign in — cargo terminal, he said: “I do been installed on a trial basis. Tarsheed — Kahramaa is pre- not have specific details with me He said Qatar is producing paring to install energy saving now,” and advised this reporter to 8,700MW of electricity annu- devices in 1,000 mosques and 200 contact Qatar Airways. Manager, ally, of which 6,200MW are con- schools. By next month, 99 per Corporate Communication — sumed, and the surplus of more cent of Kahramaa service will go GCC and Middle East, Qatar than 2,000MW can be used for online. THE PENINSULA Airways, Khaled Aylouch, said: “I do not have any information with me in this regard now.” The Minister of Transport H E Jassim Seif Ahmed Al Sulaiti (third right) and the Minister of Economy and Trade H According to reports, with the E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani (second left) with Engineer Saad Ahmed Al Muhannadi, CEO, Qatar’s mobile subscriber opening of the new terminal, Qatar Rail, viewing the model of a railway station at the opening of Trans4 exhibition yesterday. ABDUL BASIT Qatar’s annual cargo handling capacity will nearly double from Chairman of Qatar Chamber will announce tenders for the integrated rail network linking the current 0.8m tonnes to 1.4m Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim bin construction of its rail project the six Gulf States was scheduled base hits 3.68m in Q3 tonnes. Mohammad Al Thani, CEO Qatar linking to the GCC network this to be completed by late 2013 or DOHA: Qatar’s cellular sub- market share has slowed down The Minister of Economy and Rail, Saad Ahmad Al Mohannadi, month. early 2014. The UAE and Saudi scriber base grew strongly by significantly. Trade H E Sheikh Ahmed bin and other dignitaries were also The engineering and design Arabia have begun construction. 3.3 percent Q-o-Q in Q3 in 2013 Ooredoo market share Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani, present. Al Sulaiti said Qatar work for construction of $15.5bn THE PENINSULA to 3.68m. Despite high penetra- declined slightly to 67.7 percent tion rate of around 170 percent, in Q3 compared to 67.8 percent the potential for growth still in 2Q13. remains in Qatar due to fore- The “GCC Telecom Sector casted economic and population Quarterly Review” by Global growth. Investment House (GIH) noted Novel desalination technology success celebrated Ooredoo extended the growth the mobile subscriber growth in momentum to Q3 by adding Bahrain slowed down to 51,400 75,6000 subscribers. The sub- in Q3 after increasing substan- DOHA: Qatar University’s scriber base of Vodafone also tially by 194,600 in Q2 this year. College of Engineering, kept its growth momentum due The strong subscriber growth in ConocoPhillips, Kahramaa and to increase in both post-paid and 2Q13 was apparently due to the Qatar Electricity and Water pre-paid segment on the back of launch of 4G services by Batelco Company yesterday celebrated 10 percent growth in population. in February 2013. the successful completion of the The erosion in Ooredoo’s THE PENINSULA second phase of a joint research project designed to demonstrate a novel technology for seawater desalination. QU President Prof Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad and repre- Ministry sets up panels sentatives from each organisa- tion attended the event at Qatar University. The Membrane Distillation to combat inflation Field Demonstration project started in October 2011 and DOHA: The Ministry of land prices, there are also new was hosted in the Chemical QU President Prof Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad (second right) with other officials at the event. Economy and Trade has estab- open lands, whether in Lusail Engineering Department. It has lished specialised committees to or other areas outside Doha,” he made important progress towards to produce distilled water. The opportunities whereby the energy Ahmad Fard, who successfully combat inflation, the Minister said. proving that quality freshwater technology uses less energy, has needed by MD could be obtained completed the Master Program of Economy and Trade H E The Minister expressed his can be produced from brines dis- a lower environmental impact from sources within two Qatari in Environmental Engineering Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin pleasure at the participation of charged from thermal desalina- and is less costly than conven- desalination facilities. in September 2013 with thesis on Mohamed Al Thani said, hoping various countries in the exhibi- tion plants using low grade waste tional methods for desalinating The joint project was man- membrane distillation desalina- for positive outcome soon. tion, highlighting that the par- heat from industry and/or renew- high salinity brines. aged by CENG faculty Prof Farid tion. A Qatari Master’s student Speaking on the sidelines of ticipation of countries such as able sources. Phase 1 of the collabora- Benyahia and GWSC Managing Mashael Al Obaidli has also joined the inauguration of the 7th Qatar Thailand and Philippines speaks Funded by ConocoPhillips tive efforts included pilot tests Director Dr Samer Adham to the team. Her project will inves- International Real Estate and to the development of the exhibi- through its Global Water conducted at QU to prove the develop expertise in this emerg- tigate the long-term stability of Investment Exhibition (Q-REX tion every year. Sustainability Center (GWSC) technical feasibility of the MD ing technology, resulting in membranes and contribute sig- 2013), he said it is normal for any Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim in Doha, the project focuses on process. In collaboration with two Masters’ theses at Qatar nificantly to the third and final economy with huge investments Al Thani, Chairman of Qatari evaluating membrane distil- QEWC, Phase 2 saw the units University and several confer- phase of the project, which will like Qatar to experience inflation. Businessmen Association, said he lation (MD), a novel desalina- operating at the Ras Abu Fontas ence and journal papers, which be carried out at QU until August The Minister pointed about the wished an increase in the number tion technology that evaporates power and desalination plant to have been published or are under 2014. This phase involves using significance of these investments of participating Qatari firms in water at low temperature and evaluate the process under indus- review for publication. laboratory data to improve the in developing domestic trade. the expo. pressure and passes it through a trial conditions. A waste heat QU’s team included research modelling of the MD desalination “Despite the noticeable rise in QNA membrane before condensing it audit was conducted to identify assistants Yehia Manawi and process. THE PENINSULA

Drug dealers held QRC builds homes for flood-hit Pakistanis DOHA: The Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) yesterday announced the delivery of hous- ing units for 1,746 people in Pakistan hit by recent floods. The houses in the villages of Fuladyon and Balochabad in Mirpur Khas in Sindh province were handed over to the benefi- ciaries in the presence of Nayef Al Mohannadi, QRC’s Chief of Administrative Service, mem- bers of QRC office in Pakistan and several NGOs and international organisations. The project worth more than $1m benefits around 252 families that lost their homes in the floods. Each house consists of a room, kitchen and balcony. The project was imple- mented by two local NGOs — the Tameer-Khaliq Foundation Some of the homes built by QRC in Pakistan. (TKF) that built 126 homes; and the Sustainable Development celebrate the completion of the rehabilitation and maintenance benefited 1,200 families or about Initiative (SDI) that built the rest project to improve the living con- of operations unit at the Central 8,400 people. The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested five Asians and seized of the homes. ditions of vulnerable families.” Hospital in Mingora. The project It also runs a mobile medi- 400 packs of Suwaika (a kind of drug) which were ready for sale to QRC’s Secretary General Saleh QRC is also implementing a will benefit more than 1m people cal clinic in Bozdar Wada local- youngsters. On a tip-off, officials obtained permission from Public bin Ali Al Mohannadi said: “This major water project involving in Malakand. ity in collaboration with Islamic Prosecution and raided a warehouse where Suwaika was being manu- project is one of the most impor- the establishment of many water QRC projects in Pakistan Medical Association of Pakistan, factured. The accused were referred to authorities to complete legal tant initiatives carried out by systems, hand pumps and bath- include food aid to people in the which has benefited nearly 10,000 procedures. The picture shows three of the suspects with the booty. QRC in Pakistan and today we rooms in the Swat province, and region of Mohammed Port, which patients. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Qatar cultural fest to be relaunched Qatar’s ‘renaissance an DOHA: The Ministry of Culture, It is a big event of its kind and Arts and Heritage is making plans showcases the cultural aspects of the to re-introduce the Qatar Cultural country and the region. Festival soon. It includes music, poetry, theatre “We hope to re-introduce the festi- and dance to promote Qatar’s herit- val and a committee will make sugges- age and culture. investment in Arab world’ tions on activities for it,” the Minister “We have seen cultural develop- of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr ment in the country and the region. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari told The festival will showcase Arab and a press conference yesterday. Qatari culture,” said Dr Al Kuwari. Palestine keen to bolster ties with academic institutions: Hamdallah The festival was last held in 2010. THE PENINSULA DOHA: Visiting Palestinian “We are eager to continue our Prime Minister Dr Rami medical research in all areas, Hamdallah has lauded Qatar’s and we look forward to gaining leadership for their wise knowledge from the advanced investment in science and medical expertise in Qatar,” said research and expressed inter- Hamdallah. est in strengthening collabo- The prime minister and ration with Qatar’s academic his delegation were shown a institutions. presentation that outlined the “We would like to congratu- vision and mission of Qatar late this country’s leadership… Foundation. They were also There is no doubt that Qatar’s introduced to QF’s educational advancement brings us back initiatives, community devel- to an era in which Arabs and opment plans and scientific Muslims were pioneers of sci- research programmes. ence and culture,” Hamdallah Hamdallah has served as said during a visit to Qatar president of An-Najah National Foundation yesterday. University since 1998. He holds “I think that this renais- a doctorate in applied linguis- sance is an investment in the tics from Lancaster University Arab world, and we need to Palestinian Prime Minister Dr Rami Hamdallah signing the visitors’ in the UK. He was also briefed invest in education and scien- on QF’s sustainability initiatives book at Qatar Foundation yesterday. tific research so we congratulate and climate action solutions. Qatar on this remarkable effort. After the presentation, he “The investment in human Qatar University. Corporation, since we have a was shown an impressive 3D capital will reap rewards for “We have worked with Qatar number of Palestinian doctors scale model of current build- many years to come and it also University in the past and I have working and undertaking resi- ings and construction projects sets a strong foundation for the visited it prior to assuming my dencies at HMC,” he said. underway at QF. rest of the region to follow. post as prime minister. He said nine Palestinian doc- The delegation is in Qatar to “We constantly strive to col- “We are also keen to work tors are working at HMC and promote collaboration in the laborate with educational insti- in the field of medical edu- another six would join in July fields of education, science and tutions across Qatar, including cation with Hamad Medical next year. research. THE PENINSULA

Fowler to participate in Standard Chartered race

DOHA: Liverpool FC and one of England’s Haya Mashhood, Head of Corporate Affairs greatest living football legends, Robbie Fowler for Standard Chartered Bank added, “We are so (pictured), will run the Leaders’ Race hosted pleased to have Robbie Fowler make the time to by Standard Chartered Bank on December 14 attend this race. The days leading up to the event at Aspire Zone. will see Robbie conduct coaching clinics at local Robbie Fowler is one of the greatest footballers schools along with LFC Foundation coaches. to have played for Liverpool Football Club and is “We have garnered a fantastic response to previ- one of the most natural goal scorers ever to wear ous coaching sessions with schools in Doha and are the famous red shirt. The 1995-96 season saw him attempting to offer score 30-plus goals and retain his Young Player of coaching sessions to the Year award as he fired the Reds to an FA Cup as many children as final appearance at Wembley. possible as this is a Charles Carlson, CEO Standard Chartered once in a lifetime Bank, Qatar commented, “Standard Chartered’s opportunity and will partnership with Liverpool Football Club is more help develop healthy than a sponsorship. Since the time we signed up sporting habits in as shirt sponsors, we have worked closely with the community”. the Club to bring football to the community and There are two offi- engage with sports lovers through various out- cial race categories; reach programmes”. a 10km and a 3km Charles Carlson added, “Through coaching clinics and the race, fun run. The 10k race is an AIMS we want to bring the running and football community together and measured (accurate) 10K race for all encourage health and sport in the country in line with the vision abilities around the grounds of Aspire for Qatar.” on a fast and flat course. Fowler said, “I’m excited about taking part in the Leaders’ Registration for the Standard Race with Standard Chartered Bank. During my visit I will also Chartered race is available online be taking part in coaching sessions that will be delivered by the only at http://www.premiermara- Liverpool FC Foundation, giving children the chance to play foot- thons.com/event/The_Standard_ ball the Liverpool way and be a part of the continued sporting Chartered_Doha_10K_Race vision of the country”. THE PENINSULA WISE invites projects for 2014 awards DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) has called applications for the 2014 WISE Awards. The winning projects demonstrate both real- world solutions to current educational challenges and offer effective replicable strategies. They are an inspira- tion to the education community. Project holders are requested to submit their applications via the WISE Awards website: www. wise-qatar.org/awards by January 15, 2014 (13:00 GMT). Eligible applications will be reviewed by a Pre- jury and 15 Finalists will be announced in April. A Jury of recognized educa- tion specialists will then select the six winning projects to be announced in September 2014. The WISE Awards win- ning projects each receive $20,000 (US) and benefit from global visibility via the WISE community that brings together more than 9,000 international experts and specialists from 152 countries. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ITH unremitting pain, India every year observes the fifth anniversary of the November 26, 2008 attacks that saw militants laying siege on Wimportant landmarks in the commercial capital of Mumbai. 166 people died when Pakistani militants entered Why Iran is unlikely to go the city through the sea and dispersed to launch a blitzkrieg that kept the nation on tenterhooks for days. The security apparatus of the nation, which has been struggling to come to terms with a gargantuan bureaucratic structure since the North Korea way independence from British suzerainty in 1947, is notorious for BY JONATHAN POWER not heeding warning signs of imminent perils. So did it happen honoured. And the Republican majority in Mumbai. A recent book by British journalists on the attacks in Congress, as in Clinton’s time, torpe- says India ignored 26 prior warnings by US intelligence. HE agreement just signed by Iran doed commitments. Five years of introspection by the government has, however, and World Powers is more than a In September 2005, the US formally Tmilestone, it changes the world. offered a non-aggression pledge and an Israel remains the one not done much to address the lacunae in the system, which Perhaps. offer, in principle, to normalise rela- not only let the terrorists go berserk in the megalopolis but It is bitterly opposed by Israel. Prime tions. It also resurrected discussion of problem. But depending also brought forth inherent weaknesses in the police force. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems the Clinton decision to help finance and The derailment of a well thought out plan by New Delhi determined to be the spoiler. Apparently, build a “light water” reactor that would on the route they take earlier this year to set up the National Counter Terrorism Israel’s threat to bomb Iran’s nuclear help satisfy the North’s domestic power Israeli bombers would Centre with overriding powers points to a malaise in the facilities remains a serious option, even needs without giving it the possibility to though such an attack would only have extract nuclear bomb materials. (The have to illegally cross federal-provincial structure. Constitutionally immune from a limited effect and would provoke Iran reactor sits half finished.) In return, interference by the federal government except in certain to up the ante against Israel. the North agreed to denuclearise and Jordan, Iraq, Syria or exceptional circumstances, a number of states rejected the idea. But that is not the only worry. There to open itself to international inspec- Egypt to get to Iran. Leaders of Indian states, part of a complex federal-provincial are two other things. The first is that tion. But the two sides interpreted the system under the constitution, are Iran will fudge some of the agreements agreement differently. or that it will drag out the discussions After a break, the US decided to push notorious for stonewalling reforms scheduled for 6 months’ time when a forward. Fuel aid and food were offered doesn’t stand up. The Iranians have no India’s failure — especially those floated by the comprehensive as carrots. Surprisingly, the offer bore intention of threatening nuclear war. to set up a federal government. agreement should fruit. The North agreed to disable its Indeed, in my opinion, they never have The United States formed start to be negoti- nuclear weapons and other important had any intention of building nuclear powerful counter Department of Homeland Security in ated. The second, facilities. It also said it would allow weapons. I take at face value supreme response to the September 11 attacks. In December, more likely, is that back UN inspectors. That was as far as leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s declaration terrorism the US Congress Bush got. that it would go against Allah’s law to structure five However, India has been unable almost a year will refuse to Then Barack Obama became presi- do so. I also cannot see for one minute to set up an effective anti-terror ago, the North lift sanctions. It dent. Four months later, the negotia- why Iran would want to imitate North years after the organisation even after the Mumbai was this, more tions came to a shuddering halt when Korea’s tortuous circumlocutions and Mumbai attacks attacks brought home the need for launched a than anything, North Korea carried out a second somersaults. a strong counterterrorism strategy. missile that that sabotaged nuclear bomb test. He tried to pick As for the US Congressional threat is deplorable. The proposed anti-terror body would the deal almost up the pieces. In February last year in not to curtail sanctions, the Iranian sit- could possibly consummated return for 240,000 tonnes of food aid uation is different than that of North have helped deal with terrorism by President the new North Korean regime agreed Korea. Fortunately, many of the sanc- in the country scarred by low-intensity conflicts. It would have reach the US. Bill Clinton that to allow UN inspectors in to monitor its tions have been imposed by presiden- reduced the burden on the police that deals with a complex In February this would have led to suspension of uranium enrichment. The tial decree and Obama can cancel them system of law enforcement. year, it carried the dismantling North also agreed to a moratorium on himself. Moreover, the EU and Russia The lack of a workable strategy to fight terror in the country of North Korea’s nuclear and long-range missiles. don’t suffer the same constraints as the out its third nuclear bomb The agreement did not last long. In US and can lift theirs. of 1.2 billion has been underscored by the assassinations of programme. April, the North launched a rocket con- Israel remains the one problem. But two prime ministers. The lack of political will to fight unrest nuclear test. After seven taining a satellite, arguing this was a depending on the route they take Israeli and corruption is endemic to the system of governance that years of erratic scientific not a military endeavour. (It bombers would have to illegally cross the country follows. A commission report from the 1960s talks US policies under President George W broke up in mid air.) Obama, I think Jordan, Iraq, Syria or Egypt to get to deprecatingly about the police force. The Indian policeman is ill- Bush — met by equally erratic and bel- mistakenly, decided to cancel the agree- Iran. Wouldn’t these countries have no paid, ill treated by his superiors, ill-housed, disliked by the public licose North Korean ones — the Bush ment. Nevertheless, the US was backed compunction about trying to blow them Administration’s negotiations ended up up by all the principle members of the out of the sky? and despised by the politicians. His frustration is most manifest achieving almost the same as Clinton’s. UN Security Council. The pitfalls in this Geneva agree- when he wields the lathi or baton — an outdated instrument Well, not quite back to where the In December, almost a year ago, the ment are all too apparent. Still, with a to let out steam on the hapless common man. The Police Clinton Administration had to leave off. North launched a missile that could continuation of mutual willpower, the Commission set up in the 1970s recommended radical reforms On Bush’s watch Pyongyang tested its possibly reach the US. In February this accord should be a success and likewise that are yet to be implemented. India leaders need to rise nuclear bomb. year, it carried out its third nuclear test. the negotiations for a comprehensive, above political and selfish interests to help form a consolidated This must count as one of President Now it says it is prepared to threaten a final agreement. The new president of George W Bush’s worst foreign policy thermo-nuclear war. Iran, Hassan Rowhani, has done well. counterterrorism strategy. History will judge the nation because feats. Commitments made in tense Just to read my last sentence proves So has Barack Obama. of what it did and not because what it could not • but productive negotiations were not my comparison with North Korea THE PENINSULA The other side Quote of Ukraine’s dilemma the day HE UNREST in Ukraine has and warfare that Georgia experienced Union. The plan is part of Russian decision to suspend talks with the EU, geopolitical connotations. The with Moscow after breaking away from President Vladimir Putin’s doctrine of after a year of romance with the West, rallies out there on the streets the latter is a point in case. a greater Eurasia, which has put the obviously under Russian influence, has Tof Kiev have a push and pull The demonstrations in Ukraine in political dispensation in Kiev in a fix. put him in a tight corner. Kiev is now at I ask our friends factor. The majority in the republic, support of joining the European Union The Ukraine-EU-Russia triangle is the crossroads of a very difficult choice. which was part of the erstwhile Soviet are the biggest since the 2004 Orange thus all about political interests and The protests in Ukraine could have far- in Brussels to hold Union, believes that it’s now time to be Revolution. The people are up in arms there are strong pockets of resistance reaching consequences and usher in a part of the free Western civilisation, and against the government’s decision not to each of them. The pro-Europe con- ‘spring’ phenomenon. To what extent back on the sharp are looking at Brussels, which wants to sign a major trade and association stituents want Ukraine to embark on can Russia stake its claim on Ukraine to embrace their country as part of an deal with the EU. The economic amal- a rapid transformation process and at a time when its own understanding words. Do we have extended European Union. gamation with the West will provide modernise society and are wary of life with the West is in the doldrums is hard to choke entire However, the authoritarian govern- Ukraine with the leverage to become in the shadow of the Russian empire. to guess. But the best way out for Kiev ment maintains that Russia is the linch- part of the EU and, subsequently, a Drifting away from Moscow, how- is to study the geostrategic realities in a sectors of our pin and any effort to move away from it member of Nato. But this has led to ever, has a serious political cost, pluralistic manner and make a choice will cost Ukraine dearly in terms of eco- crossing of swords with Russia, which and nobody knows that better than free from encumbrances. economy for them nomics and geography. The upheavals wants Ukraine to join its own Customs President Viktor Yanukovych. Still, his Khaleej Times to like us? Vladimir Putin Russian President WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Saudi’s defence against Iran N-deal Prospect of a nuclear Iran setting off a Middle East arms race has been a concern for a while now, and Riyadh has actually gone beyond “vague asides.”

BY JOSHUA KEATING Faisal made the threat more publicly in hile Israeli Prime 2011. Minister Benjamin President Obama himself suggested Netanyahu wasted in a speech at AIPAC last year that no time in letting the “It is almost certain that others in the world know what he region would feel compelled to get their Wthinks of the Iran nuclear deal, the other own nuclear weapon, triggering an arms regional power most concerned about the race in one of the world’s most volatile deal, Saudi Arabia, has been conspicuous regions.” in its silence. The Saudi leadership had However, it’s worth keeping a few publicly urged the US “not to succumb to things in mind. First, as Steve Cook the president of Iran’s soft talk” in the wrote last year in Foreign Policy, Saudi run-up to the deal and is almost certainly Arabia “has no nuclear facilities and sceptical that the agreement reached will no scientific infrastructure to support keep Iran from developing nuclear weap- them,” so building a bomb from scratch ons. So the question becomes, what are could be a long and daunting process. they going to do about it? But what if Saudi Arabia simply bought David Sanger of The New York Times itself a nuke? notes that Saudi leaders have been “hint- A BBC Newsnight report earlier this ing in vague asides that if the United month suggested that “nuclear weap- States cannot roll back the Iranian pro- ons made in Pakistan on behalf of Saudi gramme, it may be time for Saudi Arabia Arabia are now sitting ready for delivery” to move to Plan B - nuclear weapons of its should the Saudis decide they want them. Iranians look at newspapers displayed outside a kiosk in Tehran on Monday. Most newspapers hailed the historic deal with major powers own, presumably obtained from Pakistan, In the midst of negotiations, the report over Iran’s disputed nuclear drive, attributing the relatively swift success to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. which entered the nuclear club on Saudi seemed awfully conveniently timed to subsidies.” US critics of the deal have provide ammunition to the deal’s critics. As an analysis from the Center for technological and bureaucratic where- the kind of leverage over US foreign pol- been discussing this scenario as if it’s now Moreover, as Zachary Keck pointed out a New American Security argued in withal to do so any time in the foresee- icy that it once enjoyed. a fait accompli. in the National Interest, Saudi interests February, “significant disincentives able future. This doesn’t mean there’s no cause for The prospect of a nuclear Iran setting aside, it’s not really clear what Pakistan - including the prospect of worsen- Saudi Arabia is more likely to respond concern. Even a slight chance of a nuclear off a Middle East arms race has been would get out of this other than enrag- ing Saudi Arabia’s security environ- to Iranian nuclearisation by continu- arms race in the Middle East should be a concern for a while now, and I’d say ing its major source of military aid — the ment, rupturing strategic ties with the ing to bolster its conventional defences taken seriously. Riyadh has actually gone beyond “vague United States — as well as what it hopes United States, damaging the country’s against Iranian aggression while engag- But without stronger evidence that asides.” According to cables released by will be a major energy supplier — Iran. international reputation and mak- ing in a long-term hedging strategy this is more than just a hardball nego- Wikileaks, King Abdullah himself warned And while the US-Saudi relationship is ing the Kingdom the target of sanc- designed to improve civilian nuclear tiating tactic from Saudi Arabia, I don’t in 2008 that if Iran went nuclear, “eve- currently rockier than it’s been in a long tions - would discourage a mad rush capabilities.” think it doesn’t seem like a good reason ryone in the region would do the same, time, Riyadh would likely think twice by Riyadh to develop nuclear weapons. Thanks to the changing global energy not to cautiously proceed with Iran nego- including Saudi Arabia.” Prince Turki Al about blowing it up entirely. And, in any case, Saudi Arabia lacks the picture, Saudi Arabia also no longer has tiations. WP-BLOOMBERG China’s Xi is no Gorbachev-style reformer Why Germany’s Some liberals in strength is an illusion China today doubt BY ALAN POSENER o, in democracies the people elect their government, right? Well, whether multiparty, not in Germany. Two months ago, the Germans gave Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats 41.5 percent of the vote. Her one-person-one-vote Snearest rivals, the Social Democrats, got 25.7 percent. However, Merkel hasn’t been able to get herself elected chancellor yet. She is still negotiating with the losers about forming a coalition. And the losers democracy is the are dictating the agenda. Welcome to proportional representation. This, together with the best way to govern a fractured nature of the electorate, ensures that the composition and the programme of governments are decided in backroom deals. Since Merkel couldn’t gain an absolute majority, and since she lost her pre- society as large and vious coalition partner – the liberal Free Democrats, who were voted out of parliament – she has to form a coalition with the Greens or the complex as China. Social Democrats, the very people she claimed in the election would ruin the country. It’s enough to make you a cynic about democracy. BY NICOLAS BERGGRUEN and The Greens declined; the Social Democrats agreed to negotiate. NATHAN GARDELS Second, welcome to Merkel’s modus operandi, which is to let things drift until the very last moment. The coalition talks are to be wrapped estern analysts have been Chinese President Xi Jinping holds the hand of a man injured in the oil pipeline blast, in a hospital in up on Friday, and still nobody knows who will get what, and how much scratching their heads trying Qingdao, Shandong province, on Sunday. of the wish list the negotiators from both sides have drawn up will to figure out if China’s new make its way into Merkel’s programme. Wleader, Xi Jinping, can properly China could escape the “middle-income trap” In the eyes of our hosts, the Communist And third, brinkmanship. Sigmar Gabriel, the SDP leader, has be labelled a “reformer.” and develop beyond a low-wage export econ- Party — afflicted as it may be with corrup- promised his party that the coalition agreement will be subjected to His new policies promise to end labour omy, Xi expressed confidence — perhaps telling tion and princeling privilege — is not a dic- a plebiscite of the party rank and file. It’s a bit like David Cameron camps, ease the one- child policy and migrant- us what we hoped to hear — that the new mar- tatorship. For them, it is a 78-million-strong promising a referendum on British EU membership in the hope that residency requirement in cities, grant prop- ket-oriented reforms and accelerated urbani- consensus- forming body that arrives at agree- this will force the other member states to give him what he wants. erty rights to farmers, and open up many new sation would keep China growing at 7 percent, ment on long-term policies and then grants Unlike Cameron, however, Gabriel seems to be getting away with it. areas to a “decisive” role for the market. At the at least for the foreseeable future. Noting that the collective leadership the power to deci- This means that a tiny fraction of the electorate – the Social same time, he has strengthened the grip of the all of China’s problems were related to one sively implement them. Democrats have been leaking members for years – will decide whether Communist Party, accumulated more power at another and could not be tackled piecemeal, They argue that to attain internal consen- we get a new government or have to go to the polls again. And since, as the centre, asserted ideological orthodoxy and Xi also emphasised that the “people-centred” sus through endless rounds of consultation with all parties everywhere, the party faithful are more radical than a clamped down on raucous bloggers. reforms he was introducing would represent and trade-offs among stakeholders instead party’s voters, Gabriel has been able to use the prospect of their reject- To understand where China is headed in the “comprehensive economic, political, social and of dividing the body politic against itself and ing the coalition agreement to put what he calls “social democratic next decade, it is best to take off the Western ecological reforms.” inviting polarisation and paralysis through handwriting” on it. lenses and see Xi’s strategy from the stand- Xi said raising gross domestic product did external competition, as in the West, is a It seems likely that the agreement will include a minimum wage of point of the present party leadership — some- not stand alone as a goal. He knows he has superior way to govern. As long as there is €8.50; higher pensions for non-working mothers and the poor; more thing we had the chance to do when members to close the inequality gap, and he expressly internal competition of ideas and personnel exemptions from the pension age of 67; rent controls in cities like of the 21st Century Council met President Xi, declared his intent to end poverty for the more based on merit and performance instead of Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich; and other entitlements and sops to Premier Li Keqiang and others in Beijing on than 170 million people who have been left special-interest pleading, the system should anti-capitalist feeling. the eve of the recent Third Plenum. behind during the decades of rapid growth. work well. This may seem like good news for Germany’s struggling “partners” The Chinese leaders see no contradiction Echoing Premier Li, he also said China’s devel- What everyone seems unsure about is how a in the eurozone, as it will reduce its competitiveness. And as it will between economic and social liberalisation on opment path must shift from “quantity” to one-party system that must maintain its rul- put more money in the hands of pensioners, a splurge on handouts the one hand and more political control on the “quality of life,” including on the ecological ing narrative can handle the robust eruption also goes some way to countering the charges made by the European other. In fact, in their minds, the latter is the front. of individual expression through social media commission that Germany is pursuing a mercantilist (trade) policy at condition for the former. Lightening up and All of this means China will be more, not and microblogging. the expense of the rest of the EU. tightening up are two sides of the same coin. less, engaged in the world. “The more devel- Fearing the fate of the Soviet Communist However, the emphasis on money for pensioners, rather than for Only a strong state party at the centre, oped China becomes,” he said, “the more open Party, which collapsed under Mikhail education; handouts for retirement-age mothers rather than help for in their view, can forestall conflicts abroad it will be. It is impossible for China to shut the Gorbachev, the Chinese Communist Party is young mothers; rent controls rather than innovative social housing – in and push reforms forward against the vested door that has already been opened.” trying to curb the “glasnost” — or transpar- a word on policies that either cater directly to the grey-haired majority interests of state-owned enterprises, local The leader of one of the most powerful ency — that Weibo has enabled. By doing so, or reflect its views – is symbolic. party bosses and the virtual “manufacturers committees of the National People’s Congress paradoxically, they risk inviting the very fate Germany may look like the strong man of Europe but its underlying of chaos” on the Internet. In this respect, lashed out on this point: “The West will never they seek to avoid. When the veil was lifted weaknesses are obvious. Xi is a true disciple of Deng Xiaoping. Deng believe that China is advancing until we pro- on the lies and false claims of the Soviet party, Germany is ageing and shrinking. France and Britain will overtake was a pragmatist who continuously calibrated duce a Gorbachev.” there was nothing left. China could not be it soon, in terms of population. Immigrants are still not welcome. opening up and cracking down to both move At the heart of this dispute, in their view, more different. Most of these problems could be fixed with quotas for women in senior forward and maintain stability. His loosened is the unwillingness of the West to accept the Everyone knows what is happening in their management and for immigrants in the civil service and the police; grip on the economy brought hundreds of one-party system as a legitimate model of gov- lives and shares that with others. Trying to allowing dual citizenship; and encouraging kids to stay at school. But millions out of poverty; his iron fist crushed ernance. Yet even many so-called liberals in censor reality will only further undermine these reforms are unlikely to happen. the Tiananmen Square protests. China today doubt whether multiparty, one- the governing narrative, not strengthen its No, it’s not good news. And it gets worse. As part of his pivot to the In his conversation with us, Xi was infor- person-one-vote democracy is the best way authority. Indeed, if the Communist Party left, Gabriel has promised that the Social Democrats will be open to coa- mal and relaxed. He hadn’t the least air of to govern a society as large and complex as openly allowed the public to air their con- litions with the Left party, the heirs of the East German Communists. the stolid technocrats we have become used China. While they want an end to corruption cerns and addressed them, this “glasnost Since the SPD, the Left and the Greens already hold a majority in to over the past decade, but rather that of and arbitrary abuse by authorities, few want with Chinese characteristics” could bolster parliament, the temptation for Gabriel to break with Merkel in, say, a fully formed leader prepared to take on to replicate the partisan paralysis, gridlock the system instead of weaken it. How deftly Xi two years to form a “red-red-green” coalition with himself as chancellor what everyone acknowledges are towering and general dysfunction they see today across handles this question will determine whether could become irresistible. And then Germany will be in real trouble. challenges. the three historic holds of Western democracy he can truly be considered a reformer. As I said, in other countries you get more or less the government you Responding to our question about whether — Athens, Rome and Washington. WP-BLOOMBERG voted for. Not here. THE GUARDIAN WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Egypt constitution panel Yemeni court allows Saudi halts work over arrests woman into UN custody

Activists protest against military trials for civilians SANA’A: A Yemeni court yes- terday released into UN cus- CAIRO: Ten members of taken because the demonstration Youssef, also criticised authori- tody a Saudi woman who had the panel drafting Egypt’s was unauthorised, officials said, ties for arresting the protesters crossed the border illegally to new constitution suspended referring to a disputed new pro- as he suspended his work on the elope with a Yemeni man defy- work yesterday after authori- test law enacted at the weekend committee. “What is happening ing tradition in both conserva- ties arrested several protest- which requires protest organisers is threatening the future of our tive countries. ers, including a few prominent to give three days’ written notice country because this commit- In a case reminiscent of activists, a committee member to authorities. tee of 50 faces risk of exploding. Shakespeare’s star-crossed lov- said. Hoda El Sadda, a sen- Yesterday, protesters were This committee is the corner- ers Romeo and Juliet, Huda ior member of the 50-member demonstrating in front of the stone of the road map,” Youssef Abdullah Ali Al Niran, 22, panel, said she and nine others Shura Council, where the consti- said on state television, referring defied her family and crossed had “suspended work after the tution panel sits, when police used to the transitional plan outlined the border illegally to be with arrest of protesters”. water cannon to disperse them by Egypt’s interim rulers after her Yemeni beloved Arafat As a result, the panel sus- and later made arrests. they came to power following the Mohammed Tahar, 25. pended its work for the day, Among those arrested were overthrow of Islamist president Niran was arrested in Yemen but adjourned its session to this Mona Seif, founder of a campaign Mohamed Mursi. for illegal entry and placed on morning, television reports said. against military trials of civilians, The road map envisages that trial, amid mounting pres- Egyptian police arrested about and Ahmad Harara, a dentist who a new constitution, a new parlia- sure from her family and Saudi 30 protesters among dozens dem- lost his eyes to birdshot during ment and a new president should authorities for her to return onstrating in Cairo against an protests against Hosni Mubarak be in place by the summer of 2014. home. But she stuck her ground, article in the revised basic law in 2011 and against the military Activists, meanwhile, vented pleading in court to be able to that allows the military to try junta that ruled Egypt immedi- their anger at yesterday’s protest stay and marry Tahar, and civilians in certain cases, a secu- ately after Mubarak’s fall. crackdown. “This won’t stop the applied for asylum through the Yemeni soldiers escort Saudi woman Huda Abdullah Ali Al Niran (centre), rity official said. The action was Another panel member, Khaled protest”, said Alaa Abdel Fattah, UN High Commissioner for and her lawyer Abdulraqeeb Al Qadi, outside a court in Sana’a yesterday. a prominent activist and brother Refugees (UNHCR). of Seif. “They used water cannon Yesterday, a Yemeni judge refused to accept a lawyer pro- December 1, but it was brought and then started beating and decided to release Niran into vided by the Saudi embassy, fear- forward following a request by arresting people,” he said. the custody of the UNHCR for ing pressure to return home. her lawyer who feared for her “The law must be repealed,” a period of three months dur- She accepted, however, a law- safety behind bars. said Ahmed Maher, founder of ing which she should be able to yer appointed by a Yemeni non- Huda’s case has also come to the April 6 movement that spear- obtain the refugee status. government organisation called the attention of the New York- headed the 2011 revolt that toppled A UNHCR representative Hood who had campaigned to based Human Rights Watch. Mubarak. “The interior minis- confirmed to AFP that Niran reunite the modern-day Romeo On November 19, HRW urged try does not want any protests,” had initiated proceedings to be and Juliet. The lovers’ plight has Yemen not to repatriate her and he said, adding that “even under granted refugee status in Yemen. gripped imaginations in both to take into consideration the Mubarak we could hold protests”. If she succeeds, she will be able Yemen and Saudi Arabia, where fact that returning to her family Police also used water cannon to marry Tahar and therefore the young woman’s courage is could put her life at risk. to disperse another protest in remain in Yemen. seen as astonishing “She fears physical harm from Cairo where demonstrators were Yesterday’s hearing had been She not only went against the her family members, whom she demanding the prosecution of scheduled for December 1, but it wishes of her family, who said said have beaten her in the those responsible for the deaths was brought forward following a she could not marry Tahar, but past, if she is returned to Saudi of demonstrators in November request by Niran’s lawyer who also dared to flee the country and Arabia,” HRW had said in a Egyptian security forces use water cannon to disperse protesters during 2011 when opponents of the then feared for her safety behind bars. follow him to Yemen. The hear- statement. a demonstration against the military trials, outside the Shura Council, in military junta clashed with police In court on Sunday, she ing in her trail was scheduled for AFP Cairo, yesterday. in the capital. AFP

Suicide attack at Iraq base kills 7 Obama defends Iran policy amid Israel anger

BAGHDAD: A coordinated SAN FRANCISCO: US President in a decade, we’ve halted the progress on Israel. In a radio interview, French Foreign Iran’s supreme leader described Israel as a attack on an army base north Barack Obama defended his admin- Iran’s nuclear program,” Obama said. “Key Minister Laurent Fabius said EU foreign “rabid dog” that was “doomed to collapse”. of Baghdad killed at least seven istration’s Iran policy but said “huge parts of the programme will be rolled back.” ministers were to meet next month to dis- Tehran has a long history of belligerent soldiers and wounded 22 others challenges” remained to successfully Obama said diplomacy would continue cuss lifting some sanctions as part of the statements towards the Jewish state, and yesterday, security and medical implement a landmark deal on Tehran’s over the coming months in a bit to set- deal, a move he said could take place “in Israel — the Middle East’s sole if unde- officials said. The 8:30pm attack nuclear ambitions. tle “once and for all” the “threat of Iran’s December.” clared nuclear power — has repeatedly hit the base in the town of Obama has come under fierce criticism nuclear program.” One senior Western diplomat, who warned that a nuclear Iran would pose an Tarmiyah, according to a police from Republican rivals at home and key “Huge challenges remain, but we can- refused to be named, said the focus existential threat. Speaking in Jerusalem, colonel and a medical official, allies abroad, such as Israel, for pursuing not close the door on diplomacy, and we in the coming weeks would be “swift the EU ambassador-designate to Israel, both of whom spoke on condi- a diplomatic solution to the Iran question. cannot rule out peaceful solutions to the implementation”. Lars Faaborg-Andersen, told a crowd of tion of anonymity. Israel decried the breakthrough agree- world’s problems,” Obama said. “We can- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin diplomats and the country’s intelligence A police officer in the town said ment reached in Geneva on Sunday — not commit ourselves to an endless cycle of Netanyahu on Monday decided to send his minister that the 28-member bloc had the attack began with mortar fire under which Tehran agreed to curb its violence, and tough talk and bluster may be national security adviser to Washington “Israel’s security at heart.” raining down on the base, spur- nuclear program in return for an easing the easy thing to do politically, but it’s not for talks on Iran after warning the deal The so-called P5+1 world powers that ring soldiers to leave the main of sanctions — as a “historic mistake.” the right thing for our security.” will convince Tehran it has a free hand to negotiated the accord with Iran — the gate to investigate. At that point Obama, however, insisted that the US Earlier on Monday, France said the achieve a breakout nuclear capability. United States, France, Britain, Russia, the suicide bomber blew himself policy of diplomacy twinned with sanctions European Union could begin lifting sanc- Obama has repeatedly tried to reassure China and Germany — say it is a key first up, and the explosion was followed had been more productive than rhetoric, tions on Iran next month as world pow- Netanyahu, calling him on Sunday to dis- step that wards off the threat of military by a firefight between militants stating that “tough talk” alone would not ers set about implementing the deal with cuss the issue. escalation in the volatile Middle East. and soldiers, the officer said. Iraqi guarantee US security. “For the first time Tehran while seeking to placate a furious The Geneva deal came just days after AFP troops based in Tarmiyah have been targeted by militants on multiple occasions. On November 7, two succes- Cementing ties sive car bombs set off by suicide attackers at another nearby mili- Russian military expert tary installation killed 16 people and wounded dozens more. The attack was the latest in a protracted nationwide surge in shot dead in Yemen violence that has left nearly 6,000 people dead so far this year. SANA’A: Two gunmen on a 10 minutes after the attack and motorbike yesterday shot dead took away the casualties and the a Russian military expert and two other advisers. Israel forces kill wounded another as they left Many Russian experts are a hotel in the Yemeni capital, a believed to serve as advisers to two Palestinians security official said. the Yemeni army, which uses The gunmen fled after opening Russian and Chinese weapons. JERUSALEM: Israeli security fire on the experts, who worked as The Russian embassy in Sana’a forces killed yesterday night advisers to the Yemeni army, the told Interfax agency that it had two Palestinians after attempt- official said. no information about the attack. ing to arrest them near the The Russian embassy said no “It is difficult to tell, because West Bank city of Hebron, the advisers were officially seconded despite the fact that military Shin Bet internal security serv- to the Yemeni army as military cooperation is suspended, peo- ice said. “In an operation by the cooperation between the two ple can come under private con- special forces... in the Hebron/ countries is suspended, but sug- tracts,” the agency cited a source Yatta area, two members of a gested the experts could be oper- at the embassy as saying. Salafist jihadist network that ating privately. Hit-and-run assassinations are was active in the area and The Russians were gunned frequent in Yemen and are mostly planned an attack were killed,” down as they walked out of a hotel blamed on Al Qaeda militants, or it said in a statement. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (centre), with his counterparts from Pakistan, Sartaj Aziz (left) in Baynouna street in southern stem from tribal and political A correspondent said the army and Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu, during the opening ceremony of the ministerial conference of the Economic Sana’a. Security forces immedi- conflicts. Last week, a Yemeni MP had sealed off the area and was Cooperation Organisation (ECO), in Tehran, yesterday. ately cordoned off the scene of the representing the Zaidi Shia rebels searching for a third suspect who attack. Witnesses said that the was shot dead in a similar attack. apparently had been in a car with two were felled by shots to their Abdel Karim Jadban died after the two when the shooting took chests. The two men were dressed two gunmen riding a motorbike place. in civilian clothes, hotel manager shot him as he walked out of a Shin Bet said they found “two Saudi Aramco denies cyber attack Mohammed Al Shami said, add- Sana’a mosque. A German guard pistols and a number of demoli- ing that they were waiting for two of Berlin’s mission in Sanaa was tion blocks (explosives)” in the AL KHOBAR: Saudi state oil possibly because of a cyber attack. of some electronic applications of other Russian colleagues to come killed last month as he resisted an car. Prior to Tuesday’s incident, company Saudi Aramco said “Saudi Aramco confirms its elec- the network,” the company said. In out to share a taxi. attempt to kidnap him. “a number of members of the yesterday it had shut some of its tronic network is completely safe August 2012, Aramco suffered an The four experts have been Yemen has been fighting its way network were recently arrested” computers for an upgrade and and speculations of an electronic attack on 30,000 computers, which staying at the hotel for some four through a tough political transi- and based on their interrogation denied it had suffered a cyber breach are completely untrue and Saudi Arabia said was aimed at months, he said. tion since the former veteran the Shin Bet established that attack similar to one it experi- we point out that the shutdown stopping oil and gas output of the “We heard the shooting. When president Ali Abdullah Saleh was “the members of the network enced last year. that took place is a temporary world’s biggest crude exporter. we rushed out, we found the two ousted from power in February planned a series of attacks against Posts earlier on the Twitter shutdown of a limited number of It did not say who organised the in a pool of blood,” Shami said. 2012, following a year of deadly Israeli targets and the Palestinian social network said some or all of personal computers at the company attack, which had no impact on Two vehicles from the nearby protests against his 33-year rule. Authority.” AFP Aramco’s computers were down, that was the result of an update production. REUTERS presidential palace arrived around AFP WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Air strike kills 12 Al Qaeda militants Syria talks face major hurdles in Yemen: Ministry ADEN: At least 12 suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in Opposition, regime reject compromise ahead of January 22 peace conference an air strike in southern Yemen this week, the Interior Ministry DAMASCUS: The Syrian gov- France’s foreign minister also said. The ministry’s security ernment and rebels held fast said yesterday that long-delayed media centre said the attack yesterday to their uncompro- Syria peace talks due in January targeted a vehicle carrying the mising stances towards each will take place without the pres- men in Abyan province, once other, a day after a date was ence of President Bashar Al Assad a stronghold for al Qaeda in announced for them to sit down or radical opposition groups, the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to peace talks in Geneva. “The purpose of Geneva-2 is not before it was driven out by a The opposition National to have an armchair discussion US-backed military campaign Coalition repeated its long-stand- about Syria, it’s to have mutual last year. ing rejection of President Bashar agreement between regime rep- The ministry did not say Al Assad having any role in the resentatives — without Assad — exactly when the attack took place country’s future, while the regime and the moderate opposition in or who carried it out, but Yemenis said it would press on with its war order to form a transitional gov- say most air strikes are the work of against “terrorism.” ernment,” Laurent Fabius told US drones, used as part of a cam- French radio. paign against the group regarded “It’s very difficult, but it’s the by Washington as the most active No terms for only solution that allows us at wing of the militant network. once not to have Bashar Al Assad Stabilizing Yemen, which is also and not to have the terrorists,” struggling with southern sepa- joining talks, he said, referring to the jihad- ratists and northern rebels, is an ist members of Syria’s fractured international priority due to fears says Iran opposition. of disorder in a state that flanks top Fabius spoke a day after the oil producer Saudi Arabia and major TEHRAN: Iran, the main United States and Russia threw shipping lanes. regional ally of the govern- their weight behind the long- ment in Damascus, said delayed Syria peace talks, dubbed yesterday it is ready to take Geneva-2, which the UN said Iraq executes 11 part in a peace conference on would finally be held on January Syria but will not accept any 22. ‘terror’ convicts preconditions. International Syria media- The conference, known as tor Lakhdar Brahimi said a list BAGHDAD: Iraq has exe- Geneva II and initiated by of participants has not yet been cuted 11 more people convicted Russia and the United States, drawn up for the negotiations, of crimes related to “terror- is scheduled to be held in the which will bring the Syrian gov- A scene of the suicide attack outside the main international bus station in Damascus, yesterday. ist attacks, a justice ministry Swiss city on January 22 after ernment and opposition to the official said yesterday. “Eleven a series of delays. Its partici- negotiating table for the first time Secretary of State John Kerry, Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov warned “The Syrian army has been terrorists, all Iraqi men, were pants are still undecided. since the uprising against Assad whose country helped broker the the UN Security Council on scoring new victories over the executed on Sunday. They were “Iran’s presence at the erupted in March 2011. meeting with the UN and Russia. Monday of the growing spillover rebels, and could intensify its executed after being convicted Geneva II conference will be Meanwhile, a car bomb killed But few observers see any of extremists groups from Syria efforts to strengthen its military by the courts of carrying out important for resolving the 15 people at a bus stop west of chance of dousing the wildfires into Iraq where thousands have position before the talks.” terrorist attacks,” the official Syrian crisis and we are ready Damascus, state television said. turning Syria into an inferno of been killed this year. UN-Arab League peace envoy said on condition of anonymity. to participate in the negotiations The January 22 start of land- conflict. Salman Shaikh, director of the Lakhdar Brahimi will meet The executions bring to at without any preconditions,” mark Syria peace talks in Geneva The conference guest list is not Brookings Doha Centre think with US and Russian officials on least 162 the number of people Foreign Minister Mohammad will be difficult to keep as the war agreed, the international powers tank, said the fact that the United December 20 to try to sort invita- put to death in Iraq so far this Javad Zarif said, quoted by the worsens and fallout spreads across are divided and cannot control the Nations has announced a date is tions to Geneva. year, according to an AFP tally official Irna news agency. the Middle East, analysts said. “At carnage and bitterness between already a positive sign. Who will represent the rebels? based on reports from the justice He was referring to a US long last and for the first time, the President Bashar al-Assad and But he put the chances of the Will the government delegation ministry and officials, compared demand that to win a place Syrian government and opposi- the fractured Syrian opposition Geneva meeting going ahead be empowered to take criti- to 129 for all of 2012. Executions at the negotiations, Iran must tion will meet at the negotiating runs deep. at only “50-50” and said it was cal decisions? Should Iran, an in Iraq, usually carried out by first sign up to an agreement table instead of the battlefield,” The UN says it can no longer “hostage to the situation on the Assad backer, and Saudi Arabia, hanging, have increased this year reached in Geneva last year said UN leader Ban Ki-moon as estimate a death toll which it puts ground.” supporter of the opposition, be despite persistent international that envisaged the creation of he announced the date. at well over 100,000. More than “January 22 is still a long way included? “The answers to these calls for a moratorium. Diplomats a transitional government in The conference would be three million people will have fled off,” said Richard Gowan, director questions will be critical,” com- have voiced worry that the pace Damascus. AFP the “best opportunity” to halt to neighboring countries by the of New York University’s Center mented one UN diplomat follow- of executions in Iraq may increase the bloodshed, according to US end of the year and UN envoy to for International Cooperation. ing negotiations. AFP ahead of elections due to be held on April 30, arguing that officials will be keen to show they are tough on security. Benghazi shuts Peres rejects Arafat down to protest Saudi to execute US consulate attacker poisoning theory RIYADH: A Saudi court has apparent reference to Al Qaeda. The authorities will publicly Riyadh crushed the Al Qaeda violence sentenced one man to death and A further 16 people were due to display the body of the man after campaign in 2006, detaining more MEXICO CITY: Israeli another 19 to jail for the deadly be sentenced on Tuesday. he is executed. All defendants than 11,000 people in its security President Shimon Peres BENGHAZI: Shops and storming of the US consulate in In the 2004 attack, five people were given 30 days to appeal. prisons, it has said. rejected theories that Yasser schools closed across Benghazi the Red Sea city of Jeddah in stormed the the US consulate The Jeddah attack followed Families of some of those Arafat was poisoned, telling a yesterday as residents of Libya’s 2004, one of a series of Al Qaeda with bombs and guns, killing four other deadly bombings and shoot- imprisoned have staged protests Mexican newspaper yesterday second city responded to calls attacks last decade. Saudi security personnel outside ings against expatriate com- accusing the government of jailing that any assassin would have for civil disobedience to protest Another 19 people were con- and five local staff within. Three pounds, Westerners working in them without fair trial, holding found it easier to shoot the deadly clashes between radical victed of plotting to hijack a of the attackers were killed in the the kingdom and other targets prisoners without charge, failing Palestinian leader. Swiss sci- Islamists and the army. Western airliner, scouting a assault and two were captured. that were part of an Al Qaeda to release them after their terms entists have found that lab test The call by the city council Westerners’ residence and plan- SPA said, among other charges, campaign aimed at ousting the were served, and torture. results “moderately” backed the came as a source said defence ning to attack a royal family “suspect number six”, as he was ruling Al Saud family. International human rights idea that Arafat died of polo- ministry officials were in talks member. They were given jail identified in the court statement, The assaults convinced the groups have also accused the nium poisoning in 2004. with jihadist group Ansar Al terms ranging from 12 months to was convicted of participating in Saudi authorities to take seriously authorities of locking up peaceful “I don’t believe it,” Peres told Sharia on an offer of safe pas- 25 years, the official Saudi Press killing five people at the consulate, the threat posed by Al Qaeda, activists who demanded political Excelsior newspaper in an inter- sage out of the city on condition Agency (SPA) said. including four Muslims, and in which some leading members of change, under the pretext of their view ahead of a visit to Mexico. “If its fighters leave their weapons The suspects were all being planning another attack against the ruling family had previously battle against Al Qaeda. Riyadh someone had wanted to get rid of behind. tried on charges of belonging to foreigners in Tabuk in northern disregarded, US embassy cables has repeatedly denied both sets Arafat, it would have been easier The army clashed with jihadists a “deviant group”, SPA said, an Saudi Arabia. released by WikiLeaks show. of accusations. REUTERS to do it with a bullet.” AGENCIES on Monday after one of its patrols was attacked near the headquar- ters of Ansar Al Sharia, a group blamed for the killing of the US Aerobatics exercise ambassador in 2012. The health ministry said seven people were killed in the fighting Fears of renewed war and around 50 wounded. Yesterday, the army deployed across the eastern city, taking control of key roads. in Sudan’s East: Report Troops were also in control of the Ansar Al Sharia headquar- KHARTOUM: Renewed war is been no substantive “peace dividend” to ters in the city of Ajdabiya, south increasingly likely in Eastern Sudan, most people in the East, ICG said. of Benghazi, which residents had seven years after a peace agreement It added that “social and economic attacked late Monday, forcing promised to address complaints of eco- conditions are gradually deteriorating, jihadists to flee, before handing it nomic and political neglect, a report communal relations are fraying, and the over to the army. warned yesterday. prospects of preserving the fragile peace Benghazi was the cradle of “Unless the East’s marginalisation is are fading fast.” the 2011 uprising during which adequately addressed, renewed war is a Calls for resumption of armed opposi- Nato-backed rebels toppled and growing possibility,” said the Brussels- tion have been growing, ICG said, calling then killed longtime dictator based International Crisis Group (ICG). for a “comprehensive national mechanism” Muammar Gaddafi. The 2006 Eastern Sudan Peace to address the root causes of Sudan’s con- Since the end of the uprising, Agreement ended years of low-level flicts between the centre and outlying Libya has been hit by waves of insurgency in Sudan’s East, which borders regions. A decade-long rebellion contin- deadly violence much of it blamed Eritrea and includes Red Sea, Kassala and ues in western Darfur, while insurgencies on heavily armed former rebels Gedaref states. began two years ago in South Kordofan who have banded into militias Members of the Muslim-non-Arab and Blue Nile states. each with its own ideology and Beja people, camel herders by tradition, The unrest is fuelled by complaints of allegiance. fought alongside Free Lions rebels of the economic and political neglect that simi- The government has been Rashaida tribe against what they said was larly drove the East Sudan fighters. struggling to integrate the former marginalisation by the Arab-dominated Leaders in the Eastern region say rebels into a regular army and Khartoum regime. the 2006 peace agreement has brought police, or make them surrender The peace deal is one of several agree- benefits. their weapons. ments Khartoum has signed during the Government figures show Red Sea’s Fed up by the government’s past eight years in an attempt to solve poverty rate is 75 percent, but officials say inability to rein in the gunmen, rebellions and conflicts across the country. that is an improvement from 90 percent the city council called on resi- It promised power-sharing, funds for poverty two years ago, thanks to increased dents to show their frustration development, and rebel reintegration into development spending. through three days of “civil diso- Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) aerobatic team, The Red Arrows, perform during a show in Sudan’s security forces or civilian life. Malnutrition rates in Red Sea are the bedience”, including strikes. Kuwait City yesterday. But many of the deal’s core provisions highest in Sudan, according to the United AFP have not been implemented and there has Nations. AFP WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL EU wants legal Yanukovych to attend EU summit

KIEV: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said yesterday he would attend an EU summit this week, but, criticising redress on the bloc for a ‘humiliating’ financial aid offer, declared he would sign a free trade pact only when it suited Ukraine’s interests. Shifting Ukraine’s economy onto European standards would require not less than $20bn data spying per year, he said in a television interview. Yanukovych’s government announced last week it had shelved plans to sign a landmark pact with the European Union at the summit Bloc calls for 13 changes by US in Lithuania’s capital, stunning EU leaders and igniting pro-Europe rallies in the former BRUSSELS: The European Brussels and Washington agreed Soviet republic. Union pressed US politicians a ‘Safe Harbour’ system to bring Ukraine’s decision to renew instead closer yesterday to give EU citizens both together and ensure US economic cooperation with Moscow revived the right to legal redress to pro- companies respect EU norms on Western fears of a swing back into Russia’s tect their personal data, after personal data use. sphere of influence. US spying revelations soured EU sources said that besides Yanukovych yesterday confirmed he would ties with major allies. the possibility of legal redress go to Vilnius all the same. Then, a short while EU Justice Commissioner pressed by Reding, Brussels also later, in a television interview, he sharply Viviane Reding told a delegation wanted to tighten up the Safe attacked the EU, accusing it of offering just led by US Senator Christopher Harbour arrangements. ¤610m ($827.19m) and making this condi- Murphy that their visit showed Among 13 proposed changes, tional on agreeing a new loan deal with the “we are talking and listening, not the EU wants US companies to International Monetary Fund. spying on each other.” make clear the extent to which “For three years in succession they have She said she had made it US authorities have the right to shown this candy in a pretty wrapping to us “very clear” that the European collect and process data they may ... We don’t have to be humiliated like this. We Commission expects Washington have gathered, the sources said. are a serious country, a European one,” he said. to follow through on promises to Crucially, the national security “When it corresponds to our interests, give EU citizens not resident in justification often cited for such when we have agreed (with the EU) on nor- the United States “enforceable government access must be used mal conditions, (only) then can we consider rights” over their personal data. only as strictly necessary and signing. “When will we sign? Soon or not soon? A girl holds a placard reading ‘Ukraine-EU’ yesterday during a pro-European movement rally in the This involves “notably the pos- in a proportionate matter, they I would like the time to be as soon as possible western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk . sibility to obtain judicial redress added. ... but the question is one of principle for us,” in the United States when their Data protection has always Yanukovych said. personal data is misused,” she said been a sensitive topic but recent The presidential website quoted him sepa- necessity. He said Ukraine would begin talks Russia to reach a deal for cheaper gas and in a statement. revelations of mass surveillance rately as saying that bringing Ukraine’s econ- with Moscow from next month to work out a loans from Moscow. Putin would like to draw “I have also made clear that by Washington on friend and foe omy up to European standards would cost “roadmap” for closer cooperation. Yanukovych, Ukraine into a Russian-backed customs union Europe expects to see the neces- alike, as disclosed by US intel- $20bn a year. Azarov said, would seek three-way talks on with eastern, former Soviet neighbours. sary legislative change... sooner ligence leaker Edward Snowden, The Vilnius agreement would have marked Ukraine’s economic future, including also Several thousand pro-Europe demonstra- rather than later, and in any case as well as pressure exerted on a definitive turn towards the West for Kiev Russia, in Vilnius. tors gathered again in central parts of the before summer 2014.” giant US companies to provide and away from Moscow, which sees Ukraine as Ukraine is heavily indebted and strongly capital Kiev last night after opposition leaders While both sides say they are personal data to the authori- a sphere of its economic and political influence. reliant on Russian gas, for which it says it is urged people to turn out after work. committed to protecting personal ties, have given the matter fresh His strong words after Ukraine’s U-turn paying unreasonably high prices. “We are different, but we are united data, the US takes into account urgency. following years of negotiations with the EU set Referring to the East-West tug-of-war because we are have only one aim — President more its commercial importance Murphy later met deputies in the scene for a possibly testy encounter — in which Ukraine often finds itself in the centre Yanukovych must sign the Association in the information age. the European Parliament which all likelihood at a dinner in Vilnius tomorrow of, Azarov said: “We absolutely do not want to Agreement at the Vilnius summit,” a state- For the EU, personal data has taken a hard line on the spy- night — between Yanukovych and the club of be a battleground between the EU and Russia, ment by the three main opposition leaders protection is a basic right which ing scandal, calling for talks on 28 EU leaders. a field of confrontation. We want to have good said. The three opposition leaders — boxer- should not be compromised and a massive free trade deal to be Earlier, his prime minister, Mykola Azarov, relations with both the EU and Russia.” turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko, former whose commercial use must be halted and the Safe Harbour sys- repeated that last Thursday’s decision to sus- The opposition accuses the government of economy minister Arseny Yatsenyuk and far- carefully controlled. tem to be scrapped. pend the signing and revive economic dialogue cynically using months of negotiations with right nationalist Oleh Tyahniboh — say they To reconcile the two approaches, AFP with Russia had been taken out of economic the EU as a bargaining chip in dealings with also intend to go to Vilnius. REUTERS

France will send German rival parties meet over govt formation more troops BERLIN: German Chancellor In September elections, Merkel conceded that the SPD’s deal- Angela Merkel’s conserva- won a resounding third term at breaker of a national minimum tives huddled with the Social the helm of Europe’s top economy wage is on the horizon despite her to Central Democrats yesterday ahead but fell just short of an outright fears it will cost jobs. of what was billed as the majority, forcing her to reach out Wrangling continues over how African Republic clincher in marathon talks to to centre-left rivals to form a the minimum wage would work, overcome still thorny differ- “grand coalition”. while agreement on another SPD PARIS/BANGUI: France said ences and agree on a left-right With an earlier loveless mar- red line issue on easing a ban on yesterday it would increase government. riage from 2005 to 2009 — when dual nationality — a key issue for its force in Central African A clutch of negotiators from the SPD governed in Merkel’s Germany’s large Turkish commu- Republic to at least 1,000 sol- her Christian Democratic Union shadow, only to be trounced at nity — remains elusive. diers once a UN resolution is (CDU), its Bavarian allies the the ballot box in two elections in A handful of compromises have passed next week to try to pre- CSU and the Social Democrats a row — SPD chief Sigmar Gabriel been teased out, such as on rent vent sectarian violence from (SPD) met in Berlin with pres- faces scepticism among members. control and a women’s boardroom destabilising the entire region. sure mounting before a full-table Upping the stakes, he has quota. Other sticking points in The landlocked nation of session, which was delayed and pledged in an unprecedented the horse-trading include pen- 4.6 million people at the heart expected to run well into the move to let the more than sions policy and childcare subsi- of Africa has descended into morning hours. 470,000-strong rank-and-file have dies as well as ministerial posts. chaos since the Seleka coalition “I’m preparing for a very long the final say on any coalition deal Many of the most contentious of rebels, many of them from night. I’ve packed a toothbrush,” in a postal ballot, the outcome of points have to do with money. neighbouring Chad and Sudan, Chairman of the German Christian Social Union (CSU) party, Horst Seehofer quipped CSU general secre- which would be known by around Media reports say the outlay ousted President Francois Bozize (left), and acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian tary Alexander Dobrindt, while December 14. for both parties’ wish list would in March. Democrtaic Union arrive at the ‘Willy-Brandt-Haus’, the headquarters of SPD whip Thomas Oppermann Merkel has dug her heels in amount to at least ¤50bn, more Seleka leader Michel Djotodia, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) for coalition talks, in Berlin, struck an upbeat note: “Today’s over SPD demands for tax hikes than three times what is appar- installed as an interim president, yesterday. the finale, I think we’ll manage it.” for the wealthiest but she has ently available. AFP has failed to control his mostly Muslim fighters, who have preyed upon the mainly Christian popu- lation, unleashing a wave of tit- Penguin parade for-tat killings. Belgium to decide on kid euthanasia France, which presides over the 15-member UN Security Council BRUSSELS: Belgian lawmak- parliament. Backers say the law Netherlands already lets termi- in December, hopes a resolution ers will today vote on whether would give a merciful way out nally ill children seek euthanasia. for international intervention in to support a proposed new bill for youngsters suffering from But the age limit is 12, and any- its mineral-rich former colony to give extremely sick chil- debilitating conditions, and one aged up to 16 has to get full can be adopted next week. dren the right to euthana- legalise a practice that they say parental consent. A French-drafted UN resolu- sia, a move certain to fan the is already going on in secret. Analysts said there was a good tion, obtained by Reuters, would divisive debate on the practice “Imagine a cancer or leukae- chance the bill would get back- give a six-month mandate for worldwide. mia patient, a child whom we ing from the senate’s joint justice French troops and the African- The new bill would make have already treated for eight and social affairs panel, as it had led International Support Mission Belgium the first country to years and in which we reach a already been proposed by mem- (MISCA) to restore order, pro- remove the age limit for the stage where we know there is bers of the Flemish and Walloon tect civilians, and rebuild state procedure — though it would nothing more that we can do to arms of the coalitions liberal and authority. insist parents have a role in their cure him,” said Marc Cosyns, lec- socialist parties. “We are going to reinforce child’s decision to die. turer of medical ethics at Ghent The third coalition partner, our presence,” Foreign Minister “We want to provide the free- University. the Christian Democrats, has Laurent Fabius told France dom of choice, also to minors Opponents say it would open acknowledged there is a broad Culture radio. “Until now, only who are able to make up their the door to infanticide and leave political consensus to extend Central Africans were threat- own mind,” said one of the bill’s the ultimate decision in the euthanasia to minors, but is ened, but if a power vacuum is backers, Jean-Jacques De Gucht, hands of someone too young to pushing for a minimum age limit created, it will threaten all coun- from the Flemish liberals, who make it. Euthanasia is outlawed of 15 and tighter rules on medi- tries in the region: Chad, Sudan, form part of the ruling coalition. altogether in most countries. cal panels reviewing euthanasia Congo and Cameroon.” Tomorrow’s senate panel “Once the possibility for requests. France now has 400 troops will vote whether to support euthanasia exists for children, “In matters of life and death in the riverside capital Bangui, the bill allowing the killing of a demand is likely to rise. It’s clear it is no mistake to think a bit securing the international airport young patient suffering from an among adults that it is difficult longer about the law we are and French interests. extreme condition, and pass the to keep euthanasia within lim- creating,” said senator Els Van Central African Republic legislation on to parliament. its once the taboo of killing has Hoof, of the Flemish Christian Prime Minister Nicolas Tiangaye The committee will not have fallen,” said oncologist Benoit Democrats. told Reuters on Monday after a the power to make the bill Beuselinck, founder of eutha- The proposed law already says meeting with Fabius in Paris that law. But the panel’s backing nasiestop.be. children choosing to die would France aimed to boost its force by would be an important move Some religious groups have have to be of “sound mind and Children look at king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) participat- 800 soldiers. in that direction as the com- also come out against the judgement”, effectively ruling out ing in an outdoor parade in the zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, yesterday. Asked about the figure of 800 mittee shares the same politi- legislation. infants. The parade takes place only in winter when temperatures fall below additional troops, Fabius said the cal makeup as the broader Belgium’s neighbour the REUTERS number “makes sense”. 10 degrees Celsius. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

UN committee Scotland unveils ‘independent’ future calls for end to Plans to keep pound and British monarchy, but will not host Britain’s nuclear deterrent excessive spying UNITED NATIONS: A UN GLASGOW: An independent on the practicalities of going it General Assembly committee Scotland would keep the pound alone. yesterday called for an end to and the British monarchy but The so-called “white paper” also excessive electronic surveil- establish its own defence force, sets out policies the SNP would lance and expressed concern at First Minister Alex Salmond introduce after independence in the harm such scrutiny, includ- said yesterday as he unveiled areas such as corporate taxation, ing spying in foreign states and detailed proposals ahead of next pensions, childcare, education, the mass collection of personal year’s referendum. defence and welfare. data, may have on human rights. Launching his regional govern- In a key commitment, the The UN General Assembly’s ment’s long-awaited blueprint blueprint says an independent Third Committee, which deals for leaving the United Kingdom, Scotland would no longer host with human rights issues, adopted the nationalist leader promised Britain’s Trident nuclear missile the German and Brazilian- a “wealthier and fairer nation” deterrent. drafted resolution by consen- if Scots vote to dissolve the Scotland would remain part of sus. It is expected to be put to a 300-year-old union with England the European Union and Nato, it vote in the 193-member General on September 18. says, although pro-unionists say Assembly next month. “We’d become independent in this is not as straightforward as “For the first time in the more promising circumstances Salmond makes out. framework of the United Nations than virtually any other nation A major source of income would this resolution unequivocally in history,” Salmond told a news come from North Sea oil and gas states that the same rights that conference in Glasgow. — the SNP says more than 90 per- people have offline must also be “Ultimately at the heart of this cent of revenues come from fields protected online,” German UN debate there is only one question that would lie within an independ- Ambassador Peter Wittig told and one choice. Do we, the people ent Scotland’s waters. the committee. who live and work in Scotland, The blueprint argues that The United States, Britain, believe that we are the best London-centric policies have Australia, Canada and New people to take decisions about left Scotland’s 5.3 million popu- Zealand — known as the Five Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond (left) and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon hold copies of the referendum Scotland’s future?” lation with a “legacy of debt, low Eyes surveillance alliance — sup- The leader of the political growth and social inequality”, but white paper on independence during its launch in Glasgow yesterday. ported the draft resolution after campaign to keep Scotland in proposes to “share” the British language that had initially sug- the union, Alistair Darling, con- national debt to start with. newspaper, while 47 would vote Together campaign comprising “As the government has con- gested foreign spying could be a demned the blueprint as “thick Scotland would keep the pound against. British Prime Minister David sistently said, in the event human rights violation was weak- with false promises and meaning- as its currency, assuming a share But Darling said it was “com- Cameron’s Conservatives, his of independence, a currency ened to appease them. less assertions”. in Britain’s central bank, the plete fantasy to believe that you Liberal Democrat coalition part- union is highly unlikely,” The draft text does not name “Instead of a credible and costed Bank of England, while Queen can leave the UK but keep all the ners and the opposition Labour Cameron’s spokesman said. specific countries but comes after plan, we have a wish-list of politi- Elizabeth II would remain head benefits”. party. The SNP proposes celebrat- former US National Security cal promises without any answers of state. “With so much uncertainty and Cameron’s spokesman said the ing independence day on March Agency contractor Edward on how Alex Salmond would pay Salmond hopes the blueprint unanswered questions about the white paper “doesn’t really answer 24, 2016 — the anniversary of Snowden released details this for them,” said the former British will swing undecided voters. cost of independence, leaving the the big questions around the cur- the signing of the 1707 Acts year of a global spying program by finance minister. Some 38 percent currently UK would be a huge leap in the rency, fiscal sustainability and of Union joining England and the NSA, sparking international The Scottish National Party’s favour independence, according dark,” he said. Europe, just to take three very Scotland. outrage. prospectus tackles 650 questions to a survey for the Sunday Times Darling leads the Better important major issues”. AFP “We firmly believe that privacy rights and the right to freedom of expression must be respected both online and offline,” US del- egate Elizabeth Cousens told the committee after the draft resolu- One in five New tion was adopted. Cuba suspends consular services in US Cousens said it was impera- York children tive that human rights and civil MIAMI: Cuba is shutting Havana’s diplomatic mission been impossible for the Cuban would immediately be interrupted society activists be able to use without enough down nearly all of its consular in Washington, said in a news Interests Section to find a US or “until further notice.” the Internet freely and without services in the United States release that it was informed in international bank with branches “Consular services will only be fear of reprisal to protect “dig- “until further notice” after it July by M&T Bank, which had in the US to operate the bank provided for humanitarian cases nity, fight against repression, and to eat: Report said it was unable to find a bank been providing banking services accounts of the Cuban diplomatic and other of specific nature,” it hold governments, including mine, willing to handle its business, to Cuba, that it would no longer missions,” the Cuban Interests said. accountable.” NEW YORK: More than 20 the government announced yes- be able to provide banking serv- Section in Washington said in Cuba said it “particularly The draft resolution notes percent of children in New terday, blaming the situation on ices to foreign missions. yesterday’s news release. regrets the effects this may have “that while concerns about public York City live in homes with the US economic embargo. “Due to the restrictions still in It added that the loss of bank- on Cuban and US citizens ... with security may justify the gathering not enough to eat, up 10 per- The decision threatens to force, derived from the US pol- ing services would “seriously the negative impact on family and protection of certain sensitive cent over the last four years, a disrupt a recent surge in travel icy of economic, commercial and affect the normal performance” visits, academic, cultural, educa- information, States must ensure report said yesterday. between the United States and financial blockade against Cuba, of the Cuban Interests Section in tional, scientific, sports and other full compliance with their obliga- The annual report by the New Cuba on the eve of the upcoming and despite the numerous efforts Washington, as well as its mission kind of exchange between Cuba tions under international human York City Coalition Against busy holiday season. made with the Department of to the United Nations. and the United States.” rights law.” Hunger is the latest evidence The Cuban Interests Section, State and several banks, it has As a result, consular services REUTERS REUTERS pointing to soaring levels of ine- quality between the city’s super rich billionaires and everyone else. The coalition blamed the UK, Spain in diplomatic bag row rise on last year’s devastating Hurricane Sandy, from which Canada border controls lax: Watchdog LONDON: Britain has made a formal protest to Madrid after many people are still homeless, Spanish officials opened British diplomatic bags on the border crippling budget cuts and the still OTTAWA: Lax controls by sneaking into Canada has been whether it is securing the bor- with Gibraltar in a “serious infringement” of diplomatic protocol, weak US economy. border agents and police mean a priority for successive gov- der by decreasing the number the Foreign Office said yesterday. Overall one in six New Yorkers Canada is allowing dangerous ernments since the September of people who enter the country The incident on Friday is the latest flare-up between Britain and or 1.3 to 1.4 million people lived people to enter the country, 11, 2001 suicide attacks in the illegally,” he said. Spain over the British-held territory in recent months. in homes without enough food posing a risk to security and United States. The agency failed to spot eight A Foreign office spokesman said: “As far as we are concerned there between 2010 and 2012, and nearly safety, a report from an official Canada and the United States percent of suspicious people based is no justification for this infringement of the UK’s rights under half a million children — up 10 watchdog said yesterday. have tightened border controls, on information from airlines and the Vienna Convention,” a 1961 protocol agreement that protects percent from 2006-2008. Canadian Auditor-General to the alarm of businesses wor- 15 percent of other people who diplomatic communications. Joel Berg, executive director of Michael Ferguson said systems to ried about impediments to the had been flagged as being risks, Britain responded with a formal diplomatic note of protest the Coalition, said that further collect, monitor and assess data huge trade flows between the two Ferguson found. yesterday. budget cuts meant that worse to prevent unlawful entry often countries. The Royal Canadian Mounted was to come. don’t work as intended. For exam- Ferguson said the Canada Police are responsible for catching Policeman charged in ‘plebgate’ “While the wealthy have bet- ple, airlines do not always provide Border Services Agency has people who try to sneak across ter gourmet food than ever, one in enough advance information about failed to keep an eye on all known the land and water border Canada LONDON: A British policeman was charged yesterday with lying six of our neighbors is struggling passengers, the report said. high-risk travellers — including shares with the United States. and seven others face disciplinary proceedings over the so-called against hunger,” he said. “As a result, some people who those connected to terrorism and Ferguson cited sources as saying “plebgate” scandal which brought down a government minister. “The recent federal food stamps pose a risk to Canadians’ safety organised crime — and did not try the police only detected about 50 Former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was involved in cuts will make all of this much and security have succeeded in to monitor people who managed percent of people trying to cross an altercation with police as he tried to push his bicycle through the worse. A city divided against entering the country illegally,” to slip through the system. the border by land and 80 percent gates at Prime Minister David Cameron’s Downing Street residence. itself cannot stand. We must rise the report said. “The agency does not have the trying to gain entry over water. Prosecutors said they had charged a police officer, Keith Wallis, together.” Preventing people from information it needs to know REUTERS with lying about witnessing the row in September 2012. Food pantries and soup kitch- The ex-international development minister hit back after the ens saw a 10 percent increase in decision, accusing the policeman with whom he had the argument demand in 2013 yet 57 percent of falsely claiming that the minister had called police “plebs”, a suffered from cuts in government Big bubble derogatory word used to describe commoners. and private spending, the report said. 30 Haitians dead as ship capsizes Nearly half said they lacked sufficient resources to meet WASHINGTON: About 30 Haitian migrants died after an over- growing demand and that they loaded freighter capsized in the Bahamas and 110 others were were forced to turn people away, rescued in rough seas, the US Coast Guard said yesterday. reduce handouts or limit hours of “The migrants were clinging to the hull of the grounded 40-foot operation. sail freighter when rescue crews arrived,” the Coast Guard said. The survey criticised the grow- All those on the hull were safely rescued but it was unclear how ing disparity in wealth between many passengers were still stranded in the water. New York’s super rich and eve- Rescuers faced stormy weather yesterday, with winds of about ryone else. 48 kilometres an hour. “Middle-class income, adjusted The vessel ran aground and then capsized off the coast of Staniel for inflation, is lower than a dec- Clay in the central Bahamas on Monday evening. ade ago. Poverty, hunger and homelessness have soared. Nearly Mexico frees former teen hitman half the population is poor or near poor,” the report said. MEXICO CITY: Mexican authorities yesterday released a For the 1.8 million New US-born teenager who was convicted at age 14 for working as a Yorkers who rely on federal food hitman in a case that highlighted the recruitment of children by assistance, cuts mean that as of drug cartels. November a family of three lost Now 17, the boy known as “El Ponchis” served three years in a $29 a month or the equivalent of juvenile detention centre in the central state of Morelos for slitting around 20 meals. the throats of four people and hanging them from a bridge. One in five or 1.7 million New Edgar was released before dawn and taken to Mexico City’s inter- Yorkers live below the federal national airport awaiting a flight to San Antonio, Texas, where his poverty line of just $19,090 a year mother lives, said the government secretary of Morelos. for a family of three. Tourists stop to watch artist Manny Ford create soap bubbles at Central Park in New York yesterday. AGENCIES AFP WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PHILIPPINES OFWs come to rescue of typhoon victims OFWs dig deep into pockets to send money home

TACLOBAN: The Philippines’ at home as “mga bagong bayani”, Philippines’ Security Bank, said. giant band of overseas workers, or “new heroes”, because of their A 14 percent increase over already regarded as national sacrifices in leaving their families three quarters would equate to heroes for toiling in foreign to work abroad. about $2.3bn, based on last year’s lands, are coming to the rescue The number overseas is roughly remittances. “But Typhoon again as they dig deep into their 10 percent of the population Haiyan was definitely an outlier, pockets to send more cash back -- with many of them working so the gains will probably be more to their typhoon-hit homeland. as domestic helpers, labourers, than usual because of the extent With relief workers over- sailors or in other low-paid pro- of the damage and the well-publi- whelmed by the magnitude of this fessions -- and they often send cised problems in the distribution month’s disaster and unable to much of their savings back home of relief supplies,” he said. provide adequate support to the to relatives. Haiyan was one of the strong- millions of survivors living in flat- They are forced overseas est typhoons ever recorded and tened towns, Filipinos abroad are because, despite impressive eco- generated freak storm surges that proving a crucial, direct lifeline. nomic growth rates in recent swallowed up entire towns. In the ruined city of Tacloban, years, the Philippines remains The confirmed number of farmer Teudolfo Barmisa queued in large part a desperately poor fatalities has made Haiyan one up at a money transfer outlet yes- country, and their remittances of the deadliest storms ever in terday and withdrew the equiva- has long been an important plank the Philippines, and it could turn lent of $600 sent by his daughter for the nation’s economy. out to be the most destructive on who works as a maid in Hong The overseas foreign workforce record if, as expected, the death Kong. last year sent home $21.39bn via toll continues to rise. “The money will go to buying bank transfers and other official Exacerbating the catastro- food first, then other supplies to channels, equivalent to nearly 10 phe is that the worst-hit areas, help us rebuild our home, like ply- percent of the Philippines’ gross the eastern islands of Leyte and wood and cement,” Barmisa said. domestic product. Even more Samar, are among the poorest in Barmisa was among hundreds money arrives unofficially. the Philippines, with most of the of people withdrawing cash from And when a major disaster four million people there endur- Overseas Filipino worker Rommel Garcia looks at furniture inside his house in Tanauan, Leyte, on Monday. financial outlets in Tacloban, strikes in the Philippines, the ing near subsistence farming or many of which had just re-opened amount of cash coming home fishing lifestyles. All of that was destroyed in the to return home directly with working in Kuwait as a maid, and more than a fortnight after Super spikes. Barmisa, the farmer, said his storm surges. “Hopefully, when money and emotional support. had hoped her $700-a-month sal- Typhoon killed at least 5,240 peo- Remittances jumped an aver- family had managed to buy a she returns home we will have a Among them is Lourdes ary would pay for her children’s ple and destroyed or damaged one age of 13-14 percent over the vehicle, a small home and little house again,” he said, as he left Distrajo, a 27-year-old single schooling, renovations to her million homes. nine months that followed the shop on the outskirts of Tacloban the money transfer outlet with mother of two, who lost a son and wooden home and sister’s medi- Barmisa’s daughter and the country’s previous 10 deadli- using the money sent home by his daughter’s money. 12 members of her extended fam- cal bills. She had to quickly return other 10 million Filipinos working est typhoons, Patrick Ella, a his daughter over the six years Some overseas foreign workers ily in the disaster. to help with the family tragedy. abroad are commonly referred to Manila-based economist at the she had worked in Hong Kong. have also left their jobs overseas She had only recently started AGENCIES

Aquino to face S Korean mafia head held after two years in hiding impeachment MANILA: One of South arrested by immigration agents, Immigration Bureau spokes- spearheaded many fraudulent north of Manila, the immigration Korea’s most wanted fugitives, saying he was the leader of a woman Angelica Pedro told cases in Korea and the Korean bureau said. charges the alleged head of a major South Korean crime syndicate. reporters that Cho had allegedly government continuously He entered the country as a crime syndicate, was arrested She said in a statement that founded the Yangeuni Family, requested his deportation.” Cho, tourist in 2011, but never renewed MANILA: President Benigno in the Philippines yesterday Cho was “head of the Korean one of the biggest gangs in South who is facing charges for allegedly his visa. South Korea revoked his Aquino III is prepared to face after hiding out in the country mafia, responsible for extorting Korea, in 1978. embezzling $2.5m from a South passport in March 2012, making impeachment charges if the for two years, officials said. and threatening fellow Koreans A South Korean embassy rep- Korean bank, was arrested while him an undocumented alien and Supreme Court declares the Justice Secretary Leila de as per info (from the) embassy”. resentative said “he is indeed leaving a casino in Angeles City, paving the way for his deportation. controversial Disbursement Lima said Cho Yang-Eun, 63, was She did not elaborate. the Korean mafia head and he about 75 kilometres (46 miles) AFP Acceleration Programme (DAP) of his administration as unconstitutional, Malacañang said yesterday. According to Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma, the Anti-smoke belching president already answered the following questions the other day the president said he will face the impeachment if it happens. drive suspended Coloma made the statement after another newspaper reported MANILA: The Makati City Twitter accounts, @MakatiTraffic yesterday that Budget Secretary government suspended its anti- and @MakatiInfo, as well as on Butch Abad admitted that the smoke belching operations yes- Facebook and on blogs. President could face impeach- terday following allegations of Among the issues frequently ment proceedings if the Supreme extortion involving the anti- raised by complainants was the Court rules against the DAP. smoke belching unit (ASBU) improper conduct of roadside But Malacañang maintained enforcers. emission testing, particularly that the fund scheme, which was In ordering the suspension of ASBU enforcers allegedly step- introduced in late 2011 to stimu- anti-smoke belching operations by ping too hard and long on the late the economy, has a legal basis. the Makati Pollution and Control accelerator. In a rare televised speech last Office (MPCO), Mayor Jejomar Cases of extortion and harass- month, Aquino himself defended Binay Jr also ordered city admin- ment were also aired by netizens, the DAP and categorically denied istrator Eleno Mendoza to inves- as well as traffic jams arising from that he stole public funds through tigate the complaints. the conduct of ASBU operations the programme. Aside from allegations of extor- in the city. Another complaint “The DAP is not theft. Theft tion by some MPCO personnel, was their seeming indifference is illegal. Spending through there are also reports that the to smoke-belching public utility DAP is clearly allowed by the enforcers failed to comply with jeepneys and buses. Constitution and by other laws. the implementing guidelines of “The city government does not DAP is only a name for a process the local vehicle emission code tolerate abusive law enforcers. We in which government can spend and the Clean Air Act or Republic have suspended ASBU operations both savings and new and addi- Act 8749. Binay called on the pub- to make way for a thorough inves- tional revenues,” Aquino said. lic to file their complaints against tigation on the complaints we The President said those MPCO personnel with the office have been receiving from a grow- embroiled into the alleged multi- of the city administrator. ing number of motorists vent- billion peso congressional fund Binay issued the suspension ing their frustrations on social scam were the ones behind the order after learning of several com- media,” Binay said. attacks against the DAP. plaints posted on the city’s official THE PHILIPPINE STAR THE PHILIPPINE STAR

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A pile of blue crabs in a shop in Bicol yesterday. Catch of blue swimming crabs in Bicol and other fishing grounds in the country has been steadily declining, prompting the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources to formulate measures to reverse the situation. WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 ASIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Japan’s lower Thai protests house passes secrecy bill paralyse more TOKYO: Japan’s lower house of parliament passed a contro- versial new state secrets bill yesterday, which critics say is draconian and will impinge on ministries press freedom and the public’s right to know. After a morning of debate, the Premier warns against ‘mob rule’ ruling bloc with support from one opposition party voted for the BANGKOK: Thai opposition out searches. A Thai court yes- bill, which would give Tokyo far protesters besieged several terday approved an arrest war- broader powers in deciding what more ministries here yesterday rant for protest leader Suthep constitutes a state secret, and to try to topple the government, Thaugsuban — who resigned from severely punish those who leak as Prime Minister Yingluck the opposition Democrat Party to the information. Shinawatra faced a no-confi- head the rallies — in connection The legislation was sent to the dence motion in parliament and with the occupation of govern- upper house for more debate. warned against “mob rule”. ment buildings. That chamber is also controlled by Tens of thousands of dem- “I ask him to surrender, oth- the ruling bloc, which is trying to onstrators have rallied against erwise police can arrest him on Police use a water cannon to disperse the supporters of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party as enact it by the end of the current Yingluck and her brother, ousted sight,” said Colonel Sunthorn they demonstrate in Dhaka yesterday. Diet session on December 6 with premier Thaksin Shinawatra, Kongklam of Bang Sue police approvals from both chambers. in the biggest street protests station in the capital. Yingluck “This is a law that would ensure since 2010, when more than 90 reiterated that authorities would safety of the Japanese people,” people were killed in a military “absolutely not use violence” as Seven dead in Bangla vote protest Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told crackdown. she arrived at parliament, which reporters after the bill’s passage Demonstrators surrounded the was guarded by dozens of police. DHAKA: Bangladesh opposition the demand and the Chief officers in Shahjahanpur. A pro- through the lower house. “Through interior, agriculture, transport, “Everybody must obey the law supporters blocked roads and Elections Commissioner pushed tester drowned in Sirajganj after debates at the upper house, I will and sports and tourism minis- and not use mob rule to upstage ripped up railway tracks yester- ahead with setting the date, urg- he jumped into a pond to escape do my utmost to ease concerns that tries, ordering officials inside to the rule of law,” she told reporters. day in protests against elections ing parties to join the contest for tear gas. Two ruling party officials the public may have,” he said. leave, a day after occupying the The no-confidence motion was announced for January, leaving the 300-seat parliament. were beaten to death in Satkhira The premier insisted that the finance and foreign ministries. introduced by the Democrats, seven people dead and plunging Hundreds of opposition pro- by supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami. bill would neither restrict free- The turmoil has caused inter- who have not won an elected the nation into fresh turmoil. testers took to the streets around Train services have been “para- dom of the press nor encourage national concern and raised fears majority in parliament in about The Bangladesh Nationalist the country after the announce- lysed” with hundreds of demon- authorities to “arbitrarily” des- of fresh street violence in a coun- two decades, as part of a barrage Party and its Islamist allies called ment, and clashes resumed yes- strators uprooting tracks and ignate information as restricted. try that has been rocked by sev- of challenges to Yingluck’s embat- a 48-hour nationwide transport terday with police, who responded sleepers, setting fire to coaches “Frankly speaking, there is mis- eral episodes of political unrest tled government. blockade to press their demand with tear gas, rubber bullets and and blocking lines. understanding,” Abe said. “I want since royalist generals overthrew Debate began yesterday and the for a suspension of the January 5 in some cases live rounds. “There are at least 60 inci- to firmly say that it is obvious that Thaksin in a 2006 coup. ruling Puea Thai party, which holds poll date announced on Monday. “We fired rifles after about dents of train obstructions normal reporting activity of jour- The billionaire telecoms a comfortable majority, is expected The BNP has urged Prime 500 protesters attacked us with including attacking trains with nalists must not be a subject for tycoon-turned-politician draws to win the censure vote expected Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign home-made guns and small stones and blockades of rail punishment under the bill.” strong support from many of the later in the week. Adding to ten- and make way for a neutral care- bombs,” Abul Khaer, a police offi- lines,” Bangladesh Railway’s Abe’s ruling coalition has country’s rural and urban work- sions in the capital, an unexploded taker government to oversee the cial in Comilla, said. Three people traffic director Syed Zahur argued that the legislation is ing class. But he is loathed among hand grenade was discovered out- elections, and has been staging vio- were killed in separate clashes in Hossain said and added that crucial for Japan to enhance its the elite and the middle classes, side a Democrat Party office in lent protests and strikes around Comilla including a border patrol major services between Dhaka national defence, despite growing who accuse him of being corrupt Bangkok, police said. the country to back its demand. trooper shot dead by protesters. and the cities of Chittagong and concerns among major opposition and a threat to the monarchy. Recent protests were sparked Hasina’s government rejected A BNP official was shot dead by Sylhet were halted. AFP parties and the public. AFP Several thousand protesters, by Puea Thai plans to intro- waving Thai flags and blowing duce an amnesty that could have whistles, marched to the interior allowed the return from self- ministry, which was guarded by imposed exile of Thaksin. Outrage hundreds of security personnel. over that plan failed to ebb after “We don’t dislike Thaksin — the amnesty was quashed by the US flies B-52 bombers in China’s air defence zone we loathe him. This is the end Senate on November 11. for him,” said Dhiranut Bunna, Protest spokesman Akanat WASHINGTON: Two US flying from Guam and return- air defence zone amid a growing Chinese authorities. Japan, the a 43-year-old housewife from Promphan said the protest- B-52 bombers flew over a dis- ing to Guam,” Pentagon spokes- territorial dispute with Japan United States and several other Bangkok who was among the ers would wait until Wednesday puted area of the East China man Colonel Steven Warren told over an island chain in the East governments have criticised the protesters still at the finance before making a “big move”. Sea without notifying Beijing, reporters. China Sea. The area also includes move. ministry. Apart from the inte- Authorities said demonstrators despite China’s bid to create an No flight plan was submitted waters claimed by Taiwan and Japanese airlines said they rior ministry, most government had ended their occupation of the expanded “air defence zone,” US beforehand to the Chinese and South Korea, which also have would obey Beijing’s rules. buildings taken over had only a foreign ministry as they focused officials said yesterday. the mission went ahead “without both expressed their displeasure The Australian government light security presence outside. on other targets. The unarmed aircraft took off incident,” with the two aircraft at Beijing’s move. said it had summoned the Chinese But security has been tight- Former Thai diplomat Pavin from Guam on Monday and the spending “less than an hour” in Under the rules declared by ambassador to convey its opinion ened on Bangkok’s streets since Chachavalpongpun, an associ- flight was previously scheduled the unilaterally-declared Air China, aircraft are expected that “the timing and the man- the expansion on Monday of the ate professor at the Centre for as part of a routine exercise in Defence Identification Zone, to provide a flight plan, clearly ner of China’s announcement Internal Security Act, which Southeast Asian Studies at Japan’s the area, the defence officials Warren said. A US defence offi- mark their nationality and main- are unhelpful in light of current gives authorities additional pow- Kyoto University, said there was a said. “Last night we conducted a cial confirmed that the two planes tain two-way radio communica- regional tensions, and will not ers to block routes, impose a possibility of “violent clashes”. training exercise that was long- were B-52 bombers. tion to allow them to respond contribute to regional stability.” curfew, ban gatherings and carry AFP planned. It involved two aircraft China announced the expanded to identification inquiries from AFP

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KATHMANDU: A senior Nepalese Maoist said yesterday that the party would “accept the people’s mandate,” in an apparent retreat from its earlier rejection of last week’s general election results. Many had hoped the vote would revive the peace process. But the former rebels alleged fraud and called for a halt to vote-counting after early results showed them trailing. However Narayan Kaji Shrestha said the party would “accept the people’s mandate. We will be part of the process.” Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal was not available for comment yesterday. But Shrestha said the A man walks through burning charcoal as he participates in a ritual called “Lianhuo”, or “fire party would still push for an independent walking”, in Pan’an county, Zhejiang province, yesterday. Lianhuo usually requires dozens investigation into its charges of poll-rigging of men to walk past burning charcoal, as a way to ward off evil and pray for good fortune. during the elections for a constituent assem- bly, tasked with writing a constitution and ending years of political instability. AFP Indonesia, Australia take steps to calm spy row JAKARTA: Indonesian President Indonesia was further infuriated by minister or a special envoy to work with Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said yester- Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s the Australians. day Australia’s leader had made “impor- failure to apologise or offer what it saw as After the details were hammered out, a tant” commitments aimed at ending a a clear explanation. formal ceremony would have to take place row over spying but warned much more But yesterday Yudhoyono struck a con- to bring the new agreements into place, work was needed before ties returned to ciliatory tone after receiving a letter from attended by both Abbott and Yudhoyono, normal. Abbott aimed at calming the row with a said the president. But even as tensions calmed with key ally and trading partner. Only after the two countries have Canberra, they threatened to escalate else- The letter contained a “commitment “regained trust” in this fashion could nor- where, with Yudhoyono saying his govern- from the Australian PM that Australia mal relations and cooperation be restored, ment would summon the South Korean and will not do anything in the future that said the president. Singaporean envoys over new espionage will disadvantage or disturb Indonesia”, However Yudhoyono reacted angrily claims. the president said. to new reports that South Korea and Allegations that Australian spies tried “That is a very important point,” Singapore helped with US-Australian sur- to listen to the phones of Yudhoyono, his Yudhoyono added. veillance in the region. wife and his ministers in 2009 surfaced last He said Abbott supported his proposal to The Sydney Morning Herald reported week and sparked a diplomatic crisis. come up with a “protocols” and a code of Monday that both countries played key Jakarta reacted furiously, ending coop- ethics to govern relations between the neigh- roles in a “Five Eyes” intelligence net- eration on military exercises and in the key bours that were “clear, fair and abided to.” work grouping the United States, Britain, area of people-smuggling and recalling its Yudhoyono described a long process Australia, Canada and New Zealand. ambassador from Australia. that would involve assigning the foreign AFP WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Karzai tries to stall US security talks Analysts say tactics driven by belief of having upper hand

KABUL: President Hamid independent nationalist despite to have military bases here -- Karzai’s shifting stance dur- his reliance on US aid and mili- one of the red lines of Afghan ing security talks with the US tary power. Now, in the final nationalism. has infuriated Washington months of his presidency, he “Karzai doesn’t want to be and mystified many Afghans, appears to have gambled that the judged before history as someone but analysts say his tactics are US will never enact its threatened who just put his signature on an driven by a belief that he is in a “zero option” of a complete troop agreement that sold Afghan soil position of strength. pull-out. to foreigners. This is a big deal for Negotiations on a security pact “The negotiations provide Karzai Afghanistan.” allowing some US troops to stay with the opportunity to play hard, The high-stakes game over in Afghanistan after 2014 have given the timing and the despera- the future US presence in seen the Afghan president at his tion of the Americans to get this Afghanistan, where Taliban most unpredictable. agreement signed as soon as pos- Islamists remain determined to Karzai’s leadership of sible,” Daud Muradian, former regain power, intensified a notch Afghanistan since the fall of the Afghan foreign official, said. on Monday when Washington Taliban regime in 2001 has been “The bilateral security agree- repeated that a full military pull- marked by attempts to dem- ment (BSA) will be the first major out was on the table. Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) with US National Security Adviser Susan Rice in Kabul on Monday. onstrate his credentials as an agreement to allow a superpower AFP Saudi beheads Pakistani man Sharif to appoint new army chief to replace Kayani RIYADH: Saudi authori- ties beheaded yesterday a ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Afghanistan, will be watching Pakistan and anxiety rests on who Aslam is the most senior mili- “He also knows full well that Pakistani man convicted of prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, closely, hoping for continuity will replace the taciturn, chain- tary officer after Kayani, and thus most senior army officers are smuggling drugs to the ultra- will this week name a new army before most foreign troops pull smoking General Ashfaq Kayani, his natural heir. Kayani has won not supporters of Kayani’s softer conservative Muslim king- chief who, if all goes well, could out of Afghanistan next year. who steps down on Friday after credit for reducing the military’s approach.” The army has ruled dom, the interior ministry help the nuclear-armed nation “What is best for the coun- six years at the helm. public role in politics although Pakistan for more than half its said. shake off a legacy of coups and try may not be the best political Three senior generals, the army retains huge influence 66-year history and generals jeal- The man was found guilty instability. option,” said Mahmud Durrani, Lieutenant-General Haroon behind the scenes, especially over ously guard their right to dictate of attempting to smuggle an The stakes could not be higher. a former general who served Aslam, Lieutenant-General Tariq security and foreign policy. policies. undisclosed amount of heroin The last time Sharif chose an as Pakistan’s national security Khan and Lieutenant-General Like every civilian leader, On the broader, decades-old that he had swallowed, the army chief, he was toppled by the adviser until 2008. Rashad Mahmood, are seen as Sharif will be keen to limit that issue of Pakistan’s army using ministry said in a statement same general, Pervez Musharraf, “Nawaz will try to appoint main contenders. sway under a new commander. militant groups to further objec- carried by SPA state news a year later. Musharraf held someone who will do his bidding, Mahmood is the third most “Nawaz may trust in Kayani’s tives in Afghanistan and in con- agency. power for nearly a decade from not someone who is good for the senior commander and, army democratic credentials, but he fronting India, Western officials His beheading in the eastern 1999 until the restoration of civil- army. And similarly, the new chief insiders say, a Kayani favourite. knows that is no guarantee that believe that under Kayani the city of Dammam brings to 72 ian rule. will be driven by the institution Khan commands a Pakistani the next guy will also stay in the army’s attitudes have been chang- the number of executions car- The United States, which views and not necessarily by any civil- army corps and is considered an barracks,” said a senior official ing, largely because of the rise of ried out in Saudi Arabia this Pakistani cooperation as vital ian leader.” The post of army chief important interlocutor with the in Sharif’s administration who the Pakistani Taliban. year. to its strategy in neighbouring is arguably the most powerful in United States. declined to be named. AFP $34m US aid for power sector ISLAMABAD: In a bid to Islamist militants free curtail Pakistan’s energy sec- Pakistan to build biggest N-plant tor woes, the United States has committed $20m for KARACHI: Pakistani Prime corruption and an over-reliance nuclear power generation capac- the much-awaited Diamer- Minister Nawaz Sharif yester- on expensive imported fuels have ity to 40,000MW in the long term 11 kidnapped teachers Bhasha dam and an addi- day launched the construction left the energy sector in dire as part of his energy plan. tional $14m for the rolling of the country’s biggest atomic straits, with hours-long black- A few kilometres further west PESHAWAR: Militants Khan said a group of tribal out of smart meters to detect power plant and vowed to pur- outs a daily reality in the sum- of the new nuclear power project, released yesterday 11 teach- elders, known as a jirga, was sent theft worth billions of rupees. sue further projects to make mer months. an energy park is being built at ers who had been kidnapped in to secure the teachers’ release. In a written reply regarding nuclear the largest energy “This is one of the first steps of Gaddani beach in Baluchistan Pakistan’s lawless northwest The militants cooperated with the Washington’s financial com- source. our goal of racing towards a load- province, with plans for 6,600MW during a polio vaccination cam- jirga members and freed all the mitment to the Diamer-Bhasha The 2,200-megawatt plant is shedding-free Pakistan,” Sharif coal-fired power projects. paign last week, local officials abducted...teachers,” said Khan. dam project, the spokesperson to be built with Chinese techni- told the audience at the site of As of 2012, nuclear power in said. The teachers were seized by A tribal elder, speaking on of US Embassy said yesterday cal assistance on the Arabian the plant. The World Nuclear Pakistan is provided by three Islamist militants on November condition of anonymity, said the that the US government has Sea coast at Paradise Beach, 40 Association has estimated the licensed-commercial nuclear 21 from a school in the Khyber militants freed the teachers on thus far committed $20.5m for kilometres (25 miles) west of cost of the new project at nearly power plants. Pakistan is the tribal agency, one of the semi condition the government stop the Diamer-Bhasha dam. Karachi. Pakistan has three oper- $10bn. first Muslim country in the world autonomous tribal areas along sending polio teams to the area. ational nuclear plants generating Pakistan Atomic Energy to construct and operate civil border with Afghanistan. Gunmen frequently attack polio Less dollars for a total of around 740MW of power Commission engineers will work nuclear power plants. They were abducted just after vaccination workers, accusing and has begun work on a fourth, on the project with help from the The Pakistan Atomic Energy a team giving polio vaccinations them of being Western spies and foreign travel in addition to the one launched China Atomic Energy Authority. Commission (PAEC), the scien- had left the school and the mili- part of a plot to sterilise Muslims. yesterday. As Pakistan is not party to the tific and nuclear governmental tants may have mistaken them A global eradication campaign KARACHI: While millions The government hopes nuclear Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty agency, is solely responsible for for the polio team, Khyber offi- has reduced polio cases by 99.9 of dollars are taken away by will ultimately provide a relatively it is excluded from the interna- operating these power plants. cial Niaz Ahmad Khan said. They percent in the last three decades, the big guns, there is a seri- low-cost solution to the power tional trade in nuclear materials As of 2012, electricity gener- were moved to an area controlled but it remains endemic in Nigeria, ous move to stop ordinary cuts -- known euphemistically and technology, and can rely only ated by commercial nuclear power by militant leader Mangal Bagh Afghanistan and Pakistan. The citizens from taking more as “loadshedding” -- that blight on its neighbour China for help. plants constitutes 3.6 percent of and his Taliban-affiliated group, disease is infectious and can cause than $3,000 per person while life in Pakistan. Mismanagement, Sharif pledged to increase total power produced. AFP Lashkar-e-Islam. irreversible paralysis. AFP proceeding abroad and not more than $25,000 in a year. There is also a proposal not Roadside lunch to allow any foreign currency amount for children under 15 years of age. The Pakistan Customs has PML-N to join anti-drone protest suggested to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to amend ISLAMABAD: The federal feelings. But a majority of those machinery to stop Nato supplies the regulations on taking out government of Pakistan is who mattered in the govern- had come under discussion, a fed- foreign currency abroad by keenly following the demonstra- ment advised against offering eral minister said: “In a given situ- a person and has advised to tions launched by the Pakistan even symbolic support to Khan ation, the federal government has reduce it to $3,000 or cap an Tehreek-i-Insaf against Nato in his efforts to pressure the the right and can act accordingly.” amount of $25,000 per annum supplies through Khyber US government against drone The minister confirmed that to a person. Pakhtunkhwa, hoping they attacks, saying it would endanger a minority in the ruling party would die down. Pakistan-US ties. wanted to join the PTI’s demon- Scientist listed According to sources, several Since the PML-N’s decision stration against the American meetings have been held over the to maintain a distance from the drone attacks, but the majority on US journal past week against the backdrop PTI’s stance on the issue, there had opposed the suggestion. of PTI chief Imran Khan’s call has been a decrease in statements He said the government was ISLAMABAD: A leading for the protests, which began on from the likes of Interior Minister very much relieved because no American science magazine Saturday. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan who of major party had supported the has listed a technology by “The focus of the discussions late had vehemently criticised the PTI’s call and the provincial gov- a Pakistani scientist in its has been how to react in case the US drone attacks. ernment had decided to stay away ‘World Changing Idea’ list- PTI-led government of Khyber During the last session of the from the demonstrations. the magazine’s annual fea- Pakhtunkhwa offers a helping hand National Assembly, the PTI chair- The PPP and MQM, the other ture for the recognition of the to party workers in blocking the man and the interior minister two major parties in parliament, world’s top ten technologies supply routes. Much to the relief of had endorsed each other’s stand have opposed the call to halt the that have potential to change the centre, the provincial govern- on the attacks and holding talks supplies. The size of the protest the world. ment has so far stayed away from with the Taliban. held on Saturday by the PTI and On November 19, Scientific the protest,” an official said. Instead, the government, its coalition partners, mainly the American - a reputable science During the meetings, a sug- through Information Minister Jamaat-i-Islami, also does not journal based in the United gestion was made that PML-N Pervez Rashid, who is also spokes- appear to have been worrisome States (US) - recognised workers be asked to join the PTI man for Prime Minister Nawaz for the centre. Muhammad Hamid Zaman, a demonstrations just for one day, Sharif, has sharpened its criticism In reply to a question, the offi- Pakistani biomedical engineer, but the proposal was forcefully of the PTI, accusing it of isolat- cial said it would be the Afghan for his innovative product shot down by the party’s leaders, ing the country by stopping Nato Transit Trade, and not Nato sup- Pharmacheck, which was cho- he said. containers. plies, which would suffer the most sen by the magazine as one of Supporters of the PTI’s call Asked whether possibility if the PTI continued to block the the world’s top 10 technologies argued that the federal govern- of imposition of governor rule routes passing through Khyber for its December, 2013 issue. Afghan men eat their lunch at a roadside restaurant in Kabul yesterday. ment shouldn’t keep itself aloof in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa if the Pakhtunkhwa. AGENCIES from the increasing anti-America provincial government used its INTERNEWS WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

Repairing net CBI opposes Talwars get life amicus curiae for killing in coal scam NEW DELHI: The CBI yes- terday opposed a Supreme Court move to appoint an ami- cus curiae to assist it in giving daughter, help an objective view of the status report filed by the agency in alleged irregularities in coal block allocations scam. Couple to approach higher court The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told a bench of GHAZIABAD: Dentist couple Delhi and Noida, were in the court Justice R M Lodha, Justice Madan Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were when the verdict was given. They B Lokur and Justice Kurian Joseph yesterday sentenced to rigorous were quickly taken back to the that such a move would blur the life imprisonment by a Special Dasna Jail in Ghaziabad district. thin line between the monitoring CBI court for killing their Talwars’ lawyer Tanvir Ahmed and the supervision of the investi- daughter Aarushi and domestic Mir described the couple as gation, and would compromise the help in a keenly watched mur- “brave” and said they would “fight independence of its probe. der case that will now play on in for the honour of their daughter Meanwhile, the court has the higher judiciary. till the last drop of their blood”. issued notice to the Enforcement A day after holding them They would approach the higher A man repairing his fishing net in Odisha yesterday. Directorate (ED) on a petition guilty, Special CBI Judge Shyam court. The Talwars were con- by NGO Common Cause seeking Lal said he was convinced that victed on Monday of killing their investigation into the proceeds of the gory murders of May 2008 at 14-year-old daughter and 45-year- the crime that was generated in the Talwars’ plush residence in old domestic help Hemraj on the the coal scam. Noida adjoining Delhi were com- night of May 15-16, 2008. The court notice was issued mitted “by the accused only”. The court said that from the Andhra gears Meet on Telangana today after counsel Prashant Bhushan, “This court reaches the irresist- evidence produced by the CBI, it appearing for the NGO, said ible and impeccable conclusion was proved that the couple had the NEW DELHI: The Group of Home Minister Sushilkumar that after the CBI comes to the that only the accused persons knowledge of the double murder. up to face Ministers (GoM) looking into Shinde, who is heading the GoM, conclusion that prima facie an are responsible for committing But to screen themselves from issues related to bifurcation of hinted that today’s meeting of the offence under the Prevention of this ghastly crime,” he said in law, Rajesh Talwar gave false Andhra Pradesh, will hold a GoM may not be the final one. “We Corruption Act has taken place, his 210-page judgement. information to police that Hemraj Lehar threat crucial meeting in the national are trying to find a solution which then it is incumbent upon ED to “The manner in which the mur- had murdered Aarushi. capital today as the hectic par- doesn’t hurt anybody,” he said. investigate as to what has hap- ders were committed is not the “An outsider killer after com- HYDERABAD: Andhra Pra- leys were on to find an amicable Some GoM members met pened to the proceeds of the handiwork of single accused and mitting the crime will not waste desh is preparing to face any solution. Congress president Sonia Gandhi crime and attach them. rather the murders were com- his time in dressing-up the bed- eventuality as cyclonic storm The GoM, which held consul- on Monday. Shinde and Jairam The application by Common mitted and evidence destroyed sheet, arranging toys and pillow Lehar in the Bay of Bengal is tations with central ministers Ramesh met her yesterday Cause said that the reliable infor- by both the accused in further- in proper order (on) the bedsheet, heading to hit its coast tomorrow. from the state, various political and they believed to have dis- mation available with it says that ance of their common intention covering the dead body of Aarushi The “very severe” cyclonic parties and government depart- cussed the draft report. Jairam ED has registered only five to which is apparent from the facts with a flannel blanket and clean- storm is centred 920km east- ments, will meet at 2.30pm. The Ramesh later met Science and seven cases under the Prevention and circumstances,” he said. ing private parts of Aarushi as southeast of Machillipatnam, meeting may finalise the report to Technology Minister S Jaipal of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) The judge said he did not give his top priority will be to escape and 850km from Kakinada in be presented to the union cabinet. Reddy, who hails from Telangana. in the coal scam case, much less the couple death penalty as sought immediately after commission of the state. “The system would The cabinet meet scheduled Jairam Ramesh is also scheduled then what the CBI has registered. by the prosecution “in view the the murder... thus dressing-up of intensify further and move tomorrow is likely to take note of to meet central ministers from Seeking the court monitoring entire facts and circumstances the bedsheet and placing toys and west-northwestwards and the GoM’s recommendations for Seemandhra (Rayalaseema and of the investigation by the ED, ... (as) the accused are not (a) pillow is possible to be done by the cross Andhra Pradesh coast incorporating them in the draft coastal Andhra) today morning. the NGO said: “As per the scheme menace to the orderly society”. accused persons (Talwars) only,” between Machillipatnam and bill being prepared for carving Jaipal Reddy said people and all of the PMLA, which deals with “Therefore, it appears just and the judge said. Kalingapatnam near Kakinada out Telangana state. The draft political parties of Telangana were the proceeds of a crime, the coal proper to sentence the accused The judge also sentenced the around November 28 noon,” bill is likely to sent to President opposed to the demand for union blocks/mining leases in question to rigorous imprisonment for life Talwars to five years in jail for said the Indian Meteorological Pranab Mukherjee later this week territory status to Hyderabad. are liable to be attached under under section 302 with section 34 destruction of evidence and Rajesh Department (IMD). for referring the same to Andhra He said he conveyed to the GoM Section 5 of the PMLA in view of the IPC. The rarest of the rare to an additional year in prison for The IMD has warned that Pradesh assembly for its opinion. the suggestions to ensure that of the fact that the allocation of case comes when a convict would giving false information to inves- a storm surge of two to three The central government intends Hyderabad serve as common capi- the blocks allegedly involved the be a menace and threat to the tigators. The Talwars were fined metres would inundate low-lying to table the bill during winter ses- tal of the two states for 10 years. commission of offences scheduled harmonious and peaceful exist- Rs10,000 each for murder and areas of west and east Godavari, sion of parliament next month. IANS under the PMLA.” IANS ence of the society.” Rs5,000 each for destruction of Vishakhapatnam and Krishna The distraught couple, who evidence. Rajesh Talwar was fined districts of Andhra Pradesh and were until recently among the Rs2,000 for misleading police. Yanam district of Puducherry most sought-after dentists in IANS at the time of landfall. Yanam is under the administrative control of Puducherry but geographically a part of East Godavari district. The government has alerted all nine coastal districts and directed district officials to take precaution- ary measures including evacuation of people from low-lying areas. The government has sought four heli- copters and 15 additional teams of National Disaster Response Force from the central government to meet any contingency. The army, the navy and the Coast Guard have been alerted. Authorities have told fishermen not to venture into the sea. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy reviewed preparedness to tackle the cyclone threat. Lehar will be the second cyclone to hit Andhra coast. Helen hit the Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar inside a car on their arrival at the district coast near Machilipatnam last court in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. week killing six people. IANS

Number of poll candidates with criminal cases goes up in Delhi NEW DELHI: There has been charges against them, includ- For BJP, the corresponding fig- an increase in the number of ing murder, dacoity and crimes ure has gone up from 35 percent candidates with criminal cases against women. Among the vari- to 46 percent. “Rise in number of in the 2013 assembly polls in ous political parties whose can- candidates with criminal record Delhi. The BJP has the maxi- didates have declared criminal is a cause of worry. Political par- mum number of such candi- cases against them, the Bharatiya ties should think about this,” said dates and the Congress tops Janata Party (BJP) topped the Jagdeep Chhokar, founder mem- the list of crorepati nominees, a chart with 31 out of 68 candidates ber of DEW and ADR. study revealed yesterday. (46 percent), according to data The study said that 265 of 796 The Association for Democratic released by the ADR and DEW. candidates (33 percent) were crore- Reforms (ADR) and Delhi The Congress has 15 such can- patis. In 2008, this number was 180 Election Watch (DEW) analysed didates out of 70 (21 percent), out of 790 (23 percent). The aver- affidavits of 796 of 810 candidates Bahujan Samaj Party has 12 out of age assets per candidate in 2008 contesting the Delhi assembly 67 (18 percent) and Aam Aadmi was Rs1.77 crore in 2008 and have polls. Polling for the 70-member Party has five out of 70 candidates gone up to Rs3.43 crore in 2013. Delhi assembly will be held on (7 percent), the NGOs said. “Among major parties, the December 4. The other 64 candidates who average asset per candidate for They found that the average have declared criminal charges Congress is Rs14.25 crore, BJP assets of 66 MLAs, who are re- against them are from smaller candidates have average assets of contesting the polls, has gone up parties or are Independents. Rs8.16 crore and for AAP, the fig- substantially from Rs2.9 crore It also said eight Congress ure is Rs2.51 crore,” Chhokar said. in 2008 to Rs10.43 crore in 2013, candidates (11 percent) had seri- The study said Manjinder marking a whopping average asset ous criminal cases against them, Singh Sirsa, Shiromani Akali growth of 259 percent. while the figure was 22 (32 per- Dal candidate from Rajouri The study said the number of cent) for BJP, 12 (18 percent) for Garden constituency, has declared candidates with criminal cases in BSP and five (7 percent) for AAP. the highest assets at Rs235.51 Delhi has gone up from 111 out of For Congress, the number of crore, followed by Sushil Gupta, 790 (14 percent) in 2008 to 129 candidates with criminal cases Congress candidate from Moti out of 796 (16 percent) in 2013. has come down from 30 percent Nagar, with declared assets of Out of these 129 candidates, 93 in the 2008 assembly elections to Rs164.44 crore. (72 percent) have declared serious 21 percent in the 2013 polls. IANS

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Mumbai salutes SC notice to states on 26/11 victims

MUMBAI: On the fifth anni- versary of 26/11, Mumbai yester- day held commemorative events PIL against Aadhaar across the city to remember the 166 Indians and foreigners killed by Pakistani terrorists. Court urged to scrap the scheme altogether Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, his cabinet col- NEW DELHI: The Supreme biometric data of the finger that the impact of Aadhar card on leagues and police officials along Court yesterday issued notice to prints, facial photograph and that the invasion of privacy of citizens with a large number of families all the states on a PIL contend- of iris on a server could not be was “variable”. of the victims paid homage at a ing that the entire Aadhaar done, he told a bench of Justice B It may be an issue with white memorial at Police Gymkhana in scheme was unconstitutional S Chauhan and Justice S A Bobde. collar people but certainly not Chowpatty. Floral tributes were as the biometric data collected Divan, who had appeared for who are struggling for food and offered by Home Minister R R Patil under it was an incursion and the main petitioner Justice (Retd) water, the court said as Divan and Union Minister of State for transgression of individual K S Puttaswamy, said that even if sought to persuade the court Human Resource Shashi Tharoor. privacy. the Aadhaar scheme was volun- that Aadhaar must be abandoned The Taj Mahal Palace and Notice was issued after court tary even then the government altogether. Tower and Oberoi Trident hotels, was told that a large number of could not keep such personal Conceding the point raised by the Leopold Cafe and Nariman States have linked the entitle- data of the citizens as it vio- the court, Divan said: “It might House were targeted by the ter- ment of socially and economi- lated Article 14 and 21 of the not impact all similarly. To some rorists during three days of may- cally beneficial schemes with the Constitution and would remain a it might. To some it might not at hem November 26-29, 2008. Aadhaar scheme. coercive instrument in the hands all and to some in distant future. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Referring to the provisions of the government. There will be variable impact.” Terminus decided against mak- in various states, senior counsel Asking the senior counsel to “There is a harsh reality. They ing any arrangement to enable Shyam Divan told the court that make his submissions taking into have issue with sustenance. For commuters to offer tributes at possessing an Aadhaar card has account “harsh ground realities”, them this point(of privacy) will the railway station. “Life has become necessary for the regis- Justice Chauhan said: “Even in not impact”, the court reiterated moved on... We don’t want to keep tration of marriages under Hindu India we have 30 percent slaves. pointing to harsh reality of a pov- reminding people of those horri- Marriage Act, Special Marriage People don’t have potable water. erty-ridden society. ble days,” a railway official said. Act, solemnization of marriages, For them food and water is more Pointing to the possible com- “They can remember their near admission to schools, drawing sal- important than right to privacy. mercial use of this digitized and dear ones in their hearts.” aries, and for securing essential We are giving rice to people for biometric data, Divan said that One of the survivors of the services, cooking gas, rural jobs Rs1 per kg. Even today 60 percent besides being unconstitutional, attack at Leopold Cafe, Bharat scheme, food subsidy and other of girls are married below the age the entire project was being exe- Gujjar, says memories of that welfare schemes. of 18 years.” cuted by private enterprises with chilling night have virtually Though there is no statutory “What is the percentage and no statutory rules and guidelines gone. “For how long can you live backing for the Aadhaar scheme, whose rights are being argued (for to safeguard the data from being People light candles near the Taj Mahal Hotel to pay tribute to the victims on memories and thinking about but even if there was one even the violation of privacy)?” Justice misused. of the Mumbai terror attacks on the fifth anniversary, in Mumbai, yesterday. that tragic incident?” Gujjar said. then storing the digitalised Chauhan asked Divan telling him IANS IANS

Let Gujarat woman in snooping row Individuals can apply for Kannur airport shares: Minister speak: Khurshid THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: decided the value of one share at by way of dividends that has been up in an area of around 2,000 acres people. Hence we have decided to Larsen & Toubro yesterday Rs200,100, but we have reduced paid out till now,” Babu said. and is expected to cost Rs1,800 drop that proposals and instead NEW DELHI: Casting asper- signed a contract with Kannur that to Rs50,000,” Babu said. “Even the state government has crore. “By September 2015, we will open heliports — a facility for sions on an inquiry ordered International Airport (KIAL) to “More than 6,000 people had recovered its investment.” expect to have the trial run of the the smooth landing and takeoff of by the Gujarat government, construct runway and airside at then applied, of which 4,000 peo- The equity of the airport airport and latest by December 31, helicopters,” Babu sasd. External Affairs Minister the Kannur airport, scheduled ple showed interest. Now that the includes 26 percent for the state 2015, the airport would be opened He said each heliport will come Salman Khurshid yesterday said to open on December 31, 2015. work has begun, we expect that government, 23 percent has been for service,” said Babu. up on 10-acre plots. “Today air that the woman in the snooping The contract for engineering, more people will now apply for given to state and central pub- Kerala has three international travel has become the order of row must give her version. procurement and construction shares,” Babu told reporters after lic sector units, two percent to airports at Kozhikode, Kochi and the day and tourism here is doing “Why is everybody speaking on work was awarded to L&T on the signing ceremony. INKEL (Infrastructures Kerala Thiruvananthapuram. well... we feel helicopter taxi serv- behalf of the girl? She would have November 5. Babu said investing in airports Limited, a Kerala government ices would be good and hence we to come and say ‘Well, I wanted to Ports Minister K Babu, who also in the state has proved to be company) and the remaining 49 HELIPORTS IN DISTRICTS decided to go forward,” said Babu. stay under surveillance as I don’t handles the aviation portfolio, told successful, as in the case of the percent would be for individuals. The government also said it has With the work agreement hav- trust myself’. Would she be able reporters here that 49 percent of country’s first airport under the Airport managing director G decided to open heliports in all 14 ing been inked for a fourth air- to say that?” Khurshid asked. the Rs1,000 crore authorised share public-private partnership model, Chandramouli said those indi- districts of the state to facilitate port at Kannur and a fifth one “The girl should come forward, capital of KIAL has been kept aside Cochin International Airport. viduals who wished to subscribe tourism. proposed at Aranmula having got not her father,” he told a televi- for individuals, who can now apply “All those who have purchased to the shares can log on to the “We had earlier decided to open the environment clearance, there sion news channel here. Khurshid for buying shares. shares at the time when it was www.kannurairport.in and inform feeder airports in districts like isn’t much land left for more air- also suggested that the Gujarat “During the regime of the opened in the mid-90s, by now their interest. Wayanad and Idukki, but faced ports in a land-deficient state. government’s decision to set up previous Left government, they have recovered their investment The Kannur airport is coming opposition to it from the local IANS a commission of inquiry to probe allegations that the woman was kept under watch could be aimed at foiling any other investigation. Warming up “So many inquiries have been going on in Gujarat since (the) 2002 (communal violence), but we Court’s no to interim haven’t got much satisfaction from that,” the Congress leader said. “It will be premature to say relief for Tejpal that just because they (Gujarat government) have ordered an inquiry, all is well. Sometimes an NEW DELHI/PANAJI: The a “long standing grudge” against inquiry is also ordered to forestall Delhi High Court yesterday him for the investigative journal- another and to prevent any other declined to give interim relief to ism he did when the party ruled inquiry being held. I don’t want Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun the country. to prematurely comment. Let us Tejpal after the Goa Police In 2001, Tejpal was behind a see what comes of that (inquiry)”. opposed his plea for anticipa- sting operation on leaders of the The Gujarat government on tory bail in a case of alleged sex- BJP-led National Democratic Monday announced an inquiry, ual assault on a junior woman Alliance government that exposed headed by a retired woman judge, colleague. corruption in defence deals. It to probe allegations that the Goa Police said they had resulted in the resignations of woman, said to be an architect, was recorded the statement of the then BJP president Bangaru stalked by the state police in 2009. woman journalist, who has Laxman and defence minister The issue has escalated into a accused Tejpal of sexually assault- George Fernandes. political row, with critics asking ing her twice at a five star resort Tejpal said the woman stayed Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Panaji this month. out late into the night during to answer charges if he ordered The woman has resigned her the ThinkFest conference in Goa police to keep the woman under job in Tehelka after accusing the where the alleged assault took surveillance. Khurshid said the management of sheltering Tejpal. place. He said the encounter with fact was that nobody was deny- In her statement to Goa Police, her was “light hearted bantering”. ing that the snooping took place. the victim reiterated the points “The colleague referred above IANS People warm themselves around a fire at a vegetable market on a cold winter morning in Jammu yesterday. she made to Tehelka’s managing continued to party and was com- editor Shoma Chaudhury, a police pletely normal and friendly all source said. throughout in Goa,” Tejpal said “The statement is consistent in his bail plea. “She was at every with the complaint to Shoma and party and social events through with the versions told to us by the the conference and stayed out late three journalists (former employ- into the night.” He asked police to Speak Asia scam accused arrested ees of Tehelka) who the victim study the CCTV footage of Hotel had confided in,” the official said. Hyatt in Goa. NEW DELHI: The prime The Speak Asia online survey part of the top management of “Speak Asia had remitted Goa Police said they had alerted “On November 8, a further accused in the Rs2,276 crore marketing company, registered multi-level marketing companies over Rs900 crore to Singapore. all immigration points as a pre- meeting took place between the “Speak Asia” scam — in which in Singapore, was introduced registered in foreign countries The money was sent from India caution to prevent Tejpal from two individuals but the same almost 24 lakh people across in India in 2010 by Pal with the like Singapore, Italy and Brazil, to banks in Singapore and from leaving India. Police have still lasted for a few seconds and con- India were duped — has been help of his brother Ram Niwas which by its international profile, there to Dubai, Italy and Britain. not decided how and where to tained no incident which could arrested, police said yesterday. Pal and Manoj Sharma. Speak attracted more investors and also Interestingly, the money came back question Tejpal. Tejpal, who had constitute the commission of a Ram Sumiran Pal, 37, one of the Asia sold web subscriptions for helped them in money laundering from Britain again to the UAE moved the Delhi High Court, did cognisable offence,” Tejpal said. masterminds of the Speak Asia Rs11,000 and in return investors at a later stage,” said Yadav. (Dubai) and back to India,” he said. not get interim relief on his plea There was not a single whis- scam, was arrested on Monday had to fill survey forms for certain The officer said the Mumbai Pal, a resident of Shahjahanpur for anticipatory bail. per from any corner including the from Delhi’s Connaught Place multi-national firms for promised police’s Economic Offences Wing in Uttar Pradesh, holds a master’s Justice Sunita Gupta asked the complainant that any untoward area where he had come to meet annual payment of Rs52,000. is investigating several cases degree in marketing management police to file a reply by today. Goa incident had taken place, he said. a businessman over a land deal. After paying a few initial inves- related to the Speak Asia fraud from Mumbai. His brother was Police opposed the bail plea, say- Tejpal called the allegation an “Pal, who is wanted in at least tors, Speak Asia wrapped up its for the last two years. “It has been also working at a multinational ing the matter was a serious one. afterthought that was reported eight cases in Mumbai, Andhra operations in India around mid- reported that more than 210 bank bank in Mumbai. After 2008, he Tejpal’s counsel K T S Tulsi and after 10 days. Tehelka suffered a Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya 2011. “During this period, the accounts containing over Rs.142 started working with his brother Geeta Luthra asked the court to setback as Urvashi Butalia, the Pradesh, is the first senior company duped over 24 lakh crore have been frozen. Another and formed companies in asso- pass an order granting him pro- director of Zubaan Books whom office bearer of Speak Asia to investors. The amount of the 150 bank accounts are reportedly ciation with other partners. They tection from arrest till police filed it had named to head a panel to be arrested,” said Additional scam has gone up to Rs2,276 under investigation over suspicion used to buy companies registered a reply. Tejpal alleged that the look into the allegations against Commissioner of Police (Crime crore,” the officer said. of funds being transferred in the in other countries. Goa government was giving him Tejpal, made it known that she Branch) Ravindra Yadav. “Both the brothers used to be scam,” the officer said. IANS a bad time because the BJP had was not on the panel. IANS WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

PRAYER TIME China destroys News in Numbers PRODUCER PRICE INDEX 500 outdoor Q2, 2013CHART: 1 3 1 Fajr (Dawn) 4:39 Shorook (Sunrise) 5:59 barbecues to Zuhr (Noon) 11:21 Asr (Afternoon) 2:23 tame pollution Maghrib (Sunset) 4:44 BEIJING: More than 500 ille- Isha (Night) 6:14 gal outdoor barbecues, which Chinese state media say cause “serious air pollution”, have been destroyed in Beijing as part of WEATHER an emergency programme to alleviate the city’s often hazard- ous pollution. Today Thursday Weather Friday Conditions: The raids were part of a three- Partly cloudy Clear Clear month operation to supervise The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics Fine to partly the barbecues, many of which cloudy. are operated by ethnic Uighur (MDPS) has released the monthly Producer Price Muslims from the restive Xinjiang High: 29° High: 27° High: 26° province in China’s west. Low: 18° Low: 19° Low: 19° Indices (PPIs) of the industrial sector for April, May “Over 500 illegal barbecue grills in Beijing were destroyed and June of the second quarter (Q2) of 2013, along on Tuesday amid the city’s efforts to fight air pollution and linger- with the PPI for Q2, 2013. The industrial sector DOHA - SUN & SEA ing foggy weather,” state media Xinhua has reported. covers mining, electricity & water and manufacturing. SUN TIDE SEA Pollution often reaches hazard- SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND ous levels and can cause long- term health issues. Chinese health 05:59 16:44 01:15 & 11:15 03:15 & 19:00 06/ 5-15 KT officials say that lung cancer rates PPI and Rate of Change are rising among the city’s more THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW than 20 million residents. 178 6.0pc HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER China has adopted an emer- gency response programme to try 176 4.0pc MUSCAT 27/19 Partly cloudy 27/19 Partly cloudy to reduce the pollution, including alternating days for cars with odd KUWAIT 24/16 Partly cloudy 26/17 Partly cloudy 174 and even licence plates to be on BAHRAIN 25/21 Clear 25/20 Partly cloudy the road and closing schools when 2.0pc SANAA 23/06 Clear 21/06 Clear the smog is particularly heavy. 172 RIYADH 30/15 Clear 30/14 Clear Smoke from factories and heat- DUBAI 26/20 Clear 27/20 Partly cloudy 0.0pc ing plants that encircle Beijing, 170 BAGHDAD 21/13 Partly cloudy 21/13 Mostly cloudy winds blowing in from the Gobi Desert and fumes from millions of 168 -2.0pc THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW vehicles all contribute to the smog HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER that often forms a thick blanket 166 over the city. -4.0pc Last winter the capital’s smog ATHENS 15/09 Clear 14/09 Partly cloudy 164 WASHINGTON 08/-2 Rain 04/-4 Clear was so bad it was dubbed the SYDNEY 29/18 Partly cloudy 21/15 Chance of rain “airpocalypse”, and there are -6.0pc concerns this winter will see 162 LONDON 10/05 Chance of rain 10/05 Partly cloudy a repeat after huge swathes of PARIS 07/02 Partly cloudy 11/05 Cloudy northeastern China ground to a 160 -8.0pc ISTANBUL 16/08 Rain 11/06 Chance of rain halt in October when they were Q2- 2012 Q3- 2012 Q4- 2012 Q1- 2013 Q2- 2013 MANILA 32/25 Partly cloudy 30/24 Partly cloudy smothered by pollution. DHAKA 27/18 Partly cloudy 27/17 Partly cloudy REUTERS General Index 169.9 165.7 170.2 177.0 166.2 DELHI 28/13 Clear 27/11 Clear ISLAMABAD 24/09 Partly cloudy 25/07 Clear Rate of Change -4.3pc -2.5pc 2.7pc 4.0pc -6.1pc

Exercising after retirement triples rate of Things get a twist in new Sound of Music healthy ageing NEW YORK: Producers of a Underwood, 30, who made her The stage show has more substance new version of the Oscar-winning name by winning the TV singing regarding the encroaching Nazis,” LONDON: It’s never musical The Sound of Music, set show American Idol in 2005 and he added. too late to start exer- for US television next week, knew is now one of the biggest stars in Underwood, who has little act- cising to improve it would be a sacrilege to try and country music with hits like Jesus, ing experience, has been rehearsing your health, even if re-make the beloved 1965 movie Take the Wheel. She plays Maria since late September. you’re about to retire, classic starring Julie Andrews. von Trapp, the lead role played by She arrived with her lines already according to a study. And American country singer Andrews in the popular film. memorised but has been working People who took up Carrie Underwood, who will star as True Blood TV actor Stephen with a dialect coach — not to sound exercise over a four- the aspiring nun who brings song Moyer plays the captain with seven more Austrian but to even out what year period were more into the home of a strict Austrian children who leaves Austria rather she calls her US southern twang. than three times as widower, says she cringes when she than take a job with Hitler’s Navy “I am from Oklahoma. I live in likely to be healthy hears the word “re-make.” on the eve of World War Two. The Tennessee. I sing country music, agers as those who So when the lights go up on the cast also features award-winning sometimes words really slip out did nothing, according live, televised version of The Sound Broadway stars Audra McDonald sounding like where I am from,” to the study of 3,454 of Music on NBC on December 5, (Mother Abbess), Laura Benanti she said. “I am trying to sound as people in England audiences will see a few twists to (Elsa Schrader) and Christian Borle un-twangy as I can sound.” whose average age was some of their favourite things, and (Max Dettweiler). Underwood admits to some 64. Active adults who a lonely goatherd or two in an unu- The Sound of Music won 5 Oscars. nerves about being compared to continued to exercise sual place. Though Andrews was nominated for Andrews, but hopes that audiences during that time were That’s because producers Craig best actress but did not win, she did will see the new show as a different seven times as likely Zadan and Neil Meron have gone win the Golden Globe award. The way to fall in love with The Sound to be healthy agers as back to the stage show first seen in movie is one of the top 5 highest- of Music. those who were consist- 1959 for their unique version that grossing films worldwide of all time. “I hope people realise that we are ently inactive. will be seen in a format, live televi- Zadan and Meron say that fans not re-creating the movie. I hear The study, pub- sion, not used for about 50 years. familiar with the musical could be that word and it makes me cringe. lished yesterday in “You would never, ever contem- in for a few surprises. The movie does not need to be re- the British Journal of plate doing a re-make of the movie Not only is The Lonely Goatherd made,” Underwood said. Sports Medicine, is one of The Sound of Music because it’s sung during a thunderstorm rather Zadan and Meron, who also pro- of the first to focus on a classic. It’s perfect. It would be than My Favourite Things, as in the duced the 2013 Oscar ceremony how exercise affects sacrilege. It would be huge mistake movie, but the stage show has a show as well as movie musicals health in the elderly. to even contemplate it,” Zadan said. slightly darker tone, with more of Chicago and Hairspray, said Physical inactivity is “We thought if we did the stage emphasis on the looming Nazi Underwood was their first choice the fourth leading risk show, not on a Broadway stage but threat. to play Maria because of her age, factor for premature on movie sets, it would be some- “This version does have all the crossover appeal and vocal ability. death — after smoking, thing unique, a hybrid ... It is an things that audiences love about For TV audiences, the show will excessive drinking and extraordinary experiment. The TV the film, but they are presented in be like watching a live movie with obesity — causing an audience is going to see something a new way for most people,” said no lip synching and without an estimated 3.2m deaths live that has never been done in this Meron. audience on the set, they said. Music superstar Carrie Underwood in NBC’s The Sound of Music. globally, according to generation,” he added. “It brings out different values. REUTERS the WHO. “This study supports public health initia- tives designed to engage older adults in physi- cal activity, even those who are of advanced Germ-killing nanosurface opens up new front in hygiene age,” the researchers, led by Mark Hamer PARIS: Imagine a hospital room, in the 1990s and now viewed as a stunned to find cicada wings were name Diplacodes bipunctata). It has Staphylococcus aureus and the at University College door handle or kitchen countertop promising semiconductor material potent killers of Pseudomonas aeru- spikes that are somewhat smaller ultra-tough spore of Bacillus subti- London, said in the that is free from bacteria — and for solar panels. ginsoa — an opportunist germ that than those on the black silicon — lis, a wide-ranging soil germ that is published paper. not one drop of disinfectant or Under an electron microscope, also infects humans and is becoming they are 240 nanometres high. The a cousin of anthrax. WP-BLOOMBERG boiling water or dose of micro- its surface is a forest of spikes just resistant to antibiotics. dragonfly's wings and black sili- The killing rate was 450,000 bac- waves has been needed to zap the 500 nanometres (500 billionths of a Looking closely, they found that con were put through their paces terial cells per square centimetre per germs. metre) high that rip open the cell the answer lay not in any biochemi- in a lab, and both were ruthlessly minute over the first three hours of That is the idea behind a star- walls of any bacterium which comes cal on the wing, but in regularly- bactericidal. exposure. This is 810 times the mini- tling discovery made by scientists into contact, the scientists found. spaced “nanopillars” on which Smooth to the human touch, the mum dose needed to infect a per- in Australia. In a study published It is the first time that any water- bacteria were sliced to shreds as surfaces destroyed two categories of son with S. aureus, and a whopping yesterday in the journal Nature repellent surface has been found they settled on the surface. bacteria, called Gram-negative and 77,400 times that of P. aeruginosa. Communications, they described how to have this physical quality as They took the discovery further Gram-positive, as well as spores, the If the cost of making black silicon a dragonfly led them to a nano-tech bactericide. by examining nanostructures stud- protective shell that coats certain is an obstacle, many other options surface that physically slays bacteria. Last year, the team, led by Elena ding the translucent forewings of times of dormant germs. are around for making nano-scale The germ-killer is black silicon, Ivanova at Swinburne University a red-bodied Australian dragonfly The three targeted bugs com- germ-killing surfaces, said the sci- a substance discovered accidentally of Technology in Melbourne, were called the wandering percher (Latin prised P. aeruginosa, the notorious entists. AFP Wednesday 27 November 2013 23 Moharram 1435 Volume 18 Number 5896 Price: QR2

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Hospitality firm Al All-New Genesis debuts Easing Iran curbs Hokair plans to list on Riyadh bourse DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Al won’t affect Qatar Hokair Group, one of the larg- est entertainment and hospital- ity firms in the Middle East, is LNG to offset possible dip in oil prices planning to list on the Riyadh bourse early next year, two DOHA: The deal to lift sanc- no much gap between the demand banking sources said. tions against Iran will not and supply in long-term... As Iran Based on a potential valuation have any significant impact on will not be pumping out huge vol- of about 13 times to its net profit, Qatari economy, despite expec- ume of oil immediately, the world family-owned Al Hokair could tations of lower energy prices energy prices are unlikely to be be valued at about $680m, the as a result of Tehran pumping influenced at least in short-term”, sources said, speaking on condi- extra quantities of oil into glo- he added. tion of anonymity as the matter bal energy market. Abdul Sattar Al Rasheed, an is not public. Qatar has huge reserves of energy expert noted that Iran’s Companies in Saudi Arabia typi- liquefied natural gas (LNG) return to the global energy mar- cally offer 30 percent of their share and most of its contracts are ket will make the market compet- capital in an IPO which means the long-term. The deal will have itive enabling Tehran to recapture company, whose hotel operations only limited impact on Qatari its lost ground. Iran’s extra pump- include Hilton and Holiday Inn economy, that too in long-term, ing of oil into the global market hotels in the Middle East, could Al Arab quoted local experts as will have significant impact on raise about $200m in the offering. saying. the revenues of most of the Gulf Saudi Arabia, home to the The Western agreement with States. Qatar may be an exception largest stock market in the Gulf Iran will have a positive impact as its economy is mainly depend- Arab region, is encouraging fam- on Iran. But its brunt on the GCC ing on LNG. The fact that most ily-owned groups and diversified economies will be minimal. In of its gas contracts are long-term businesses in the kingdom to list contrast to the general perception will help the country immune on its stock market in a bid to that the deal would influence neg- from the Iran impact. reduce the bourse’s reliance on atively the regional economy, the Asian economies, including construction, petrochemicals and agreement will help ease tensions China, India and Japan are going banking companies. in the region triggering inflow of to really benefit from Iran’s revisit Set up in 1965, Al Hokair is foreign investments, economist to the global energy market. The backed by Saudi private equity and Qasim Mohammad Qasim noted. new development is also expected investment firm Jadwa Investment “The impact of the deal will be to stablise the global energy mar- South Korean models pose with Hyundai Motors’ new luxury sedan, the All-New Genesis, during a photo Co. It is not related to Saudi Arabian negligible for Qatar. For, Qatar ket, said another expert. opportunity before its unveiling in Seoul yesterday. The car, equipped with 3,342cc or 3,778cc engines, is retailer Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair. has huge gas reserves, and there is THEH PENINSULA priced at between $43,987 and $57,862. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

German steel production to pick up Ooredoo prices Deal failure $1.25bn sukuk issuance DOHA: Ooredoo yesterday announced the successful pric- overshadows ing of the inaugural $1.25bn issuance (sukuk) under its recently established $2bn Trust Certificate Programme which was four times over-subscribed. WTO summit The sukuk is to be issued by Ooredoo Tamweel Limited, a special purpose vehicle wholly owned by Ooredoo. Last chance to revive Doha Round Ooredoo is rated A2 by Moody’s, A by S&P and A+ by Fitch. GENEVA: Negotiators have noted, it could provide a $1 trillion The sukuk will mature on failed to fix a deal for a crunch boost to global commerce. December 3, 2018 and will have summit next week, casting a The Doha Round has stalled a profit rate of 3.039 percent. It shadow over efforts to revive repeatedly as rich countries, will be listed on the official list stalled talks on slashing bar- emerging powers and the world’s of the Irish Stock Exchange and riers to global commerce, the poorest nations spar over the give admitted to trading on its Main head of the WTO said yesterday. and take needed to craft a deal. Securities Market. “The reality is that we have Azevedo, Brazil’s former trade Net proceeds from the sale of proved that we can’t cross the envoy who took the WTO helm in the Sukuk will be used by Ooredoo final yard here in Geneva. The September, was set to spend com- for general corporate purposes process here is over,” World ing days telephoning ministers to including re-financing existing Trade Organisation chief Roberto try to close gaps. “There are quite A worker controlling a tapping of a blast furnace at Europe’s largest steel factory of Germany’s industrial indebtedness. Azevedo told reporters after a a few benefits that we are all going conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG in Duisburg. The German steel sector expects production to return to Ooredoo mandated DBS Bank marathon session ended without to let go if we don’t conclude the growth next year. Ltd, Deutsche Bank AG London a final accord. deal, (including) the opportunity Branch, HSBC Bank plc, QInvest Underlining that trade diplo- for further deals,” he warned. LLC and QNB Capital LLC to act mats got achingly close before Earlier Tuesday, he briefed dip- as Joint Lead Managers and Joint positions hardened over recent lomats from the WTO’s 159 mem- Bookrunners for the Reg S bench- days, Azevedo threw the ball into ber economies on the state of play. mark offering. the court of trade ministers who They pored over a 53-page Annual Middle East Cooling Dr Nasser Marafih, Chief will meet from December 3-6 at a draft accord which still contained Executive Officer, Ooredoo Group, WTO summit on the Indonesian an array of bracketed options— said: “The strong demand we island of Bali. standard diplomatic practice— Summit kicks off in Doha saw for Ooredoo’s first Sukuk “If we are to get this deal over which over recent weeks were cut from investors demonstrates the line, we will need political from a thousand to 65. the strength of Ooredoo’s busi- engagement and political will. “We should not give up now. DOHA: Under the patronage of which ends tomorrow. the Kingdom such as at the Holy ness and the growing maturity Ministers will have to decide what We should not say here in Geneva H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Soon after and serving as a pre- Mosque in Makkah and Madinah, of Sukuk certificates as a debt kind of future they want to see that it’s a failure,” said Morocco’s Al Sada, the Minister of Energy view to the high level of reports, as well as at the King Abdullah instrument in the global finan- both for the issues that are on the trade envoy Omar Hilale. & Industry and Chairman & dialogues and abundant exchanges Financial district information cial markets. The Sukuk further table today and for the WTO,” he “We’re not going to declare the Managing Director of Qatar of vital information on the latest technology and communication diversifies our investor base and added. Bali conference over before we’ve Petroleum, the 5th Annual design, technologies and applications complex project. enhances our financial flexibility The Bali summit is seen as even started it,” he told reporters. Middle East District Cooling of district cooling that are expected A panel session under the to execute our business strategy.” perhaps the last chance to revive “Bali provides an opportu- Summit, a gathering of regional to dominate the conference, top offi- theme ‘Smart Leaders - What’s The settlement of the offering the WTO’s “Doha Round” talks, nity for ministers to discuss the and global experts and stake- cials from key endorsers of the event the strategy? discussed subsidis- is expected to occur on December launched in 2001 at a summit in complex issues and find a way holders of district cooling, delivered keynote speeches on the ing energy for efficient District 3, 2013 and is subject to custom- Qatar, and on-off from the outset. forward,” agreed South Africa’s opened at the Grand Hyatt first day of the event. Cooling, the feasibility of Combined ary settlement conditions. US trade ambassador Michael Faizel Ismail. Hotel in Doha. They included Dr Mishan Al Power, Fresh Water, and Cool Tri- THE PENINSULA Punke gave a bleak assessment Negotiators had long ruled out The summit which is being Otaibi, Assistant Undersecretary Generation in the GCC, the cur- yesterday. “A once-in-a-generation the chances of major progress supported by Qatar General of Planning and Training, rent status of district cooling in Oil rises above opportunity may have slipped our in the Doha Round in Bali and Electricity & Water Corporation Ministry of Electricity and Qatar and how it is viewed from grasp,” he told fellow negotiators. instead worked on lower-level (Kahramaa) was inaugurated by Water, Kuwait, who spoke about developers, utilities and end user $111 as Iran relief Mexican trade envoy Fernando thematic accords to be fed into a Kahramaa’s President Eng Essa Kuwait’s future plans for apply- perspective, and the development de Mateo struck a different tone, wider package later. One covers bin Hilal Al Kuwari. ing cogeneration and district cool- of a sustainable action plan. prospects fade telling reporters: “Hope is the last “trade facilitation”, which involves The annual event is being ing; Ahmad M bin Shafar, Chief Another session on ‘District thing that you lose. We’re so near simplifying customs procedures to organised by Fleming Gulf, one Executive Officer, Empower, Cooling regulations, practice LONDON: Oil edged above $111 that it’s not impossible.” ease commerce. of the leading providers of busi- UAE, and Engineer Montazar Al codes & technology focus’ shed a barrel yesterday as investors And in a statement, European Divisions there centre on the ness intelligence through indus- Muhalhal, Executive Director for light on code of practice for dis- judged that a deal between Iran Union trade chief Karel De Gucht time-lag developing countries try specific conferences, webinars Strategy and Planning, National trict cooling in GCC. and world powers would bring said: “As we are so close to the would get to fall into line, plus and skills enhancement training Water Company, Saudi, who made The day seen a case study no immediate increase in crude shared objective, we should not the support they would get from courses. Characterised by three a presentation about ‘Treated presentation given by Khalil Issa, supplies from the Opec member. give up.” donors to do so. heavily packed days of presenta- Sewage Effluent’s (TSE) added Managing Director of ADC Energy Front-month Brent crude rose The Doha Round aims to pro- Another division is over “food tions, panel discussions, work- value in district cooling’. Systems, UAE, and Christophe five cents to $111.05 a barrel by duce a wide-ranging accord to security”, pushed by India, under shops and a site visit, Engineer Al Muhalhal also Maquet, Chief Executive Officer 1255 GMT. It had plunged as open markets and remove trade which developing countries want Over 400 participants and del- discussed about the Saudi gov- of Dalkia Utilities (Middle East) much as $3 in the previous ses- barriers, with a key goal being to the right to subsidise grain stock- egates comprising high ranking ernment’s support for Initiatives on ‘The successful execution of sion but recouped most of those harness international commerce piles to help low-income farmers company officials and technology that preserve water, as well as the District Cooling Projects : Saadiyat losses to end five cents down. US to develop poorer economies. and consumers. experts from across 20 countries country’s success stories in using Island case study’. oil rose 38 cents to $94.47. By some estimates, Azevedo AFP are participating in the summits TSE in district cooling around THE PENINSULA REUTERS

UDC appoints acting CEO HSBC begins Mideast roadshow

DOHA: United Development engineering from the University Company (UDC), one of Qatar’s of Colorado. He was serving as major publicly traded sharehold- the vice-president, engineering ing companies, has appointed and construction, at UDC before Badr Al Meer (pictured) as its his new role. He has worked in his Acting Chief Executive Officer most recent role as senior vice- (CEO). He succeeded Ebrahim president at Hamad International M Al Sulaiti, whose duties ended Airport as well as senior vice-pres- on November 24. ident at Qatar Airways. Al Meer has a degree in electrical THE PENINSULA

HSBC officials during the roadshow.

DOHA: More than 170 people its golden age, the Middle East with the highest GDP per capita, gathered in Doha for the start possessed enormous economic some of the largest surpluses and of HSBC’s 16th Middle East power, with commerce, commu- the fastest growing non-oil sec- Economics Roadshow. Over the nications and transport reaching tor. Looking forward, the recent next month, the event will travel across Europe, Africa, and Asia. upgrade to ‘Emerging Market’ to Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Once again, the region — which status will capture the atten- Dubai, Kuwait and Oman. The consists of more than 20 coun- tion of institutional investors in event, held at the Four Seasons, tries with a population of more 2014 and, longer-term, the World Doha, saw Stephen King, than 400 million people — has the Cup will trigger $70bn of infra- Group Chief Economist, David potential to become an emerging structure spend. Transforming Bloom, Global Head of Foreign market leader and engine of world the country from a hydrocarbon Exchange Strategy, and Simon growth.” economy to a knowledge economy Williams, Chief Middle East Simon Williams said: “Qatar in time for the post-oil afterlife Economist, discuss the most is the fastest growing and rich- is the longer-term challenge, but important global and regional est country in the Middle East. there is strong evidence good trends to watch in 2014. It remains one of the strongest progress is being made.” Stephen King said: “During growth stories in the region, THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

Lukoil to launch Protest against energy power West Qurna-2 field by April International production set to double

MOSCOW: Lukoil, Russia’s stop work at the Rumaila field. second largest oil producer, will “We definitely will start com- launch its West Qurna-2 field mercial production at the West in Iraq by the end of March Qurna field by the end of first or April next year, helping the quarter,” Lukoil’s Gaidamaka company to more than double said. “In March-April we will oil output abroad as it struggles have commercial production with falling production at home. at the West Qurna-2 field on Iraq, Opec’s second-biggest stream.” oil producer, expects a robust He reiterated the company return to growth next year as plans to reach its initial pro- foreign companies at work in duction target next year. Lukoil its giant southern oil fields push regained the right to develop output towards the highest level West Qurna-2 in 2009 after its ever. initial concession was cancelled Security remains a concern, following the fall of Saddam however, highlighted this month Hussein’s regime. when dozens of Shia work- Gazprom Neft, an oil arm of gas ers and tribesmen stormed a giant Gazprom , said this month Schlumberger Ltd camp at the that a number of issues includ- Rumaila North oilfield after ing safety had led it to postpone accusing a foreign security adviser initial production at its Badra oil of insulting their religion. Lukoil field in Iraq until 2014. is not involved at that field. As a private sector company, “We do have once in a while Lukoil is banned from securing Demonstrators march to the headquarters of energy company Npower during a protest against energy prices in London yesterday. German utility different, clearly minor, disrup- new offshore fields in Russian RWE has scrapped plans to build one of the world’s largest offshore wind parks in Britain. tions to construction work,” waters by recent laws, which Andrey Gaidamaka, Lukoil’s reserve such prospects for state- Vice-President, told a conference controlled enterprises. Lukoil’s call yesterday when asked about largest shareholders are Chief recent unrest. “We are well pro- Executive Vagit Alekperov and tected by the oil police, but we try his deputy Leonid Fedun. Dubai to issue new sukuk standards soon to make sure, to the maximum This leaves the company with no (that) we use negotiating tactics,” options but to develop resources DUBAI: Dubai expects to pub- launched a drive to develop its Dubai hopes that by intro- Islamic bonds in currencies other he said, saying that disruptions that are hard to recover — so lish in one or two weeks new Islamic business sector and said ducing clear, detailed standards than US dollars and United Arab sometimes take time to resolve. called tight oil, which recently standards for issuing and trad- becoming a centre for sukuk issu- for sukuk and convincing glo- Emirates dirhams, which are Lukoil had planned to launch received tax breaks to encour- ing Islamic bonds, which it hopes ance and trading was a key part bal investors that they obey the already permitted. West Qurna-2, the world’s sec- age investment, acquire smaller will become adopted globally, a of the plan. letter and the spirit of Islamic He did not give details of the ond-largest undeveloped field Russian peers or grow abroad. senior financial executive in the New global issuance of sukuk rules, it can attract more inter- new standards, but in February with recoverable oil reserves of Lukoil’s daily oil output emirate said yesterday. has grown rapidly for most of the national business to its market, Mabid Ali Al Jarhi, a member around 14 billion barrels, around fell 1.5 percent in 2012 year- “The standard is there, up past several years and is projected which competes with other cen- of the board overseeing Islamic the turn of the year. on-year to 1.8 million bpd, of and running, if anybody wants to hit $237bn in 2018, up from tres such as London and Kuala business at DFM, said they would It aimed to reach production of which some 110,000bpd were to have it adopted,” Essa Kazim, an estimated $100bn this year, Lumpur. be more explicit than standards 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) in extracted abroad, mainly from Chairman of bourse operator according to a Thomson Reuters Last year, only several bil- used elsewhere on whether sukuk the first quarter of 2014, with out- Kazakhstan. Dubai Financial Market (DFM), study released this month. lion dollars worth of sukuk were structures — including controver- put of 1.2 million bpd at its peak, “Our international production said. But the expansion of the mar- listed on Dubai’s exchanges, but sial ones such as tawarruq - were but plans have yet to be finalised is set to more than double next Kazim, who on January 1 will ket has sometimes been slowed by this year the emirate has encour- permissible. with the Iraq government. year with the introduction of also become governor of the disputes between scholars, issuers aged state-run companies to list Kazim also said Dubai had Iraq has moved to restore calm West Qurna-2,” Gaidamaka told Dubai International Financial and investors around the world domestically. finalised a new set of standards at its southern oil fields. Baker the call, after Lukoil posted a 12 Centre, the emirate’s tax-free over what types of debt structures Kazim said he expected a that fund managers could use to Hughes Inc said this week it was percent drop in third-quarter net financial zone, said the standards are religiously permissible. Sukuk total of $16bn worth of sukuk to determine whether equities com- preparing to resume work after profit, blaming higher taxes and would be published “in a week or do not pay interest and are struc- be listed in Dubai by the end of plied with Islamic principles. He protests in Basra prompted the expenses. two”. tured to offer investors returns in this year, and that new regula- did not elaborate. US oil field services company to REUTERS In January this year, Dubai other ways. tions would support the listing of REUTERS

Gulf investors QATARI MARKET UBL expands reach, supports Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P plan Islamic Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 101.63 0.53 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.00 1.49 % Aa2 AA local business: Group executive bank in Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 119.88 2.56 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 112.75 2.97 % Aa2 AA Luxembourg Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 107.00 3.50 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 154.00 4.94 % Aa2 AA DUBAI: Private investors from Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 115.00 5.33 % Aa2 AA Gulf Arab countries, includ- Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 106.25 5.32 % Aa2 AA ing a royal family from the Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.25 0.88 % Aa2 AA United Arab Emirates, plan to establish the first full-fledged Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 110.38 3.25 % Aa2 AA Islamic bank headquartered in Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 103.88 0.94 % A1 A- the eurozone, an executive said Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.75 2.22 % A1 A- yesterday. QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.25 1.51 % NR NR The investors aim to launch QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.63 1.26 % Aa3 A+ the venture, named Eurisbank, in QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.00 2.09 % Aa3 A+ Luxembourg during the last quar- Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.88 2.27 % A2 A- ter of 2014, said Ammar Dabbour, Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.25 1.51 % A2 A Managing Partner at Excellencia Investment Management. Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 124.25 3.08 % A2 A With initial capital of ¤60m Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 106.00 3.79 % A2 A ($80m), the bank would offer Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 101.25 4.86 % A2 A retail, corporate and private Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 103.88 0.79 % Aa3 A banking services, and would open Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 107.00 3.23 % Aa3 A branches in Paris, Brussels, the Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 107.75 3.99 % Aa3 A Netherlands and Frankfurt. In addition to the royal family SOVEREIGNS from the UAE, Eurisbank will be Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P owned by a bank from a country Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 101.88 0.14 % Aa2 AA Wajahat Husain giving a speech during the annual dinner at Sharq Village and Spa. (SHAIVAL DALAL) in the Gulf Cooperation Council Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 123.63 2.07 % Aa2 AA and other private investors, said Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.63 1.92 % NR NR DOHA: United Bank Limited Husain said that after the pri- 700 and a client base of over five Dabbour, who declined to name (UBL) has taken significant vatization of UBL in 2002, there million people. them. Excellencia, an Islamic fund Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.00 2.75 % NR NR steps to expand its reach and was a renewed focus on the opera- “UBL Qatar feels privileged and manager based in Luxembourg, Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 120.00 4.35 % NR NR support to local businesses in tions of the bank in Qatar. honoured to be serving a number has been contracted with consult- Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 111.50 4.78 % NR NR Qatar in recent years, according In 2008, the UBL Msheireb of top names in Qatar, and offer- ants Deloitte to handle proce- Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 103.63 0.78 % Aa2 AA to the bank’s Group Executive. branch was relocated to the Doha ing them a complete array of com- dures for establishing Eurisbank, Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 113.38 3.34 % NR BBB Wajahat Husain, who is also Corniche and the same year, the mercial banking products under he said. Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 103.00 4.94 % NR BBB the Head of International UBL, bank opened its second branch in wholesale and retail banking. The founders of the bank plan Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 92.75 7.18 % Caa1 B- said that the bank is focused to Salwa. Finally, in 2012, the bank Its main forte has been interna- to apply for a licence in January support local businesses in the opened its third branch in the tional trade, contract, and project and expect to obtain regulatory Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 102.25 4.12 % NR BBB- *Periodic Distribution Amount county. West Bay area. financing, strong correspondent approvals by April, Dabbour told IMPORTANT NOTE: “Our activation over the past “Put together, it has increased banking relationships and prod- reporters at the Global Islamic Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which eight to nine years has been quite the visibility and reach of the uct expertise.” Economy Summit in Dubai. is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services significant compared to what we bank. Especially after privatiza- Husain noted that whichever Islamic finance, which bans Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary had been doing here since the 70s,” tion, we have been supporting the country the bank operates in, it interest payments and pure data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not Husain said, adding that the bank economy in terms of providing owes it to the citizens to offer monetary speculation, has been take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds has the privilege of being one of contractor finance, infrastruc- them careers. “UBL Qatar has slow to develop in Europe, but can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant the pioneers of international bank- ture projects and trade finance always focused on inducting local Luxembourg has successfully liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not ing in the Middle East and started activities.” talent, and provide them with the marketed itself as a centre for a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and its operations in Qatar in 1970. The bank has more than 1,300 relevant training and exposure issuing and trading Islamic bonds. consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. He was speaking at UBL’s branches and offices across 11 to groom for a career in banking. Since the global financial crisis, annual corporate dinner hosted countries and four continents. We would like to be much more some European governments have at Sharq Village. The event was Husain added that the bank has embracing in terms of inducting shown more interest in Islamic attended by senior bank officials, an asset base of approximately young promising talent of Qataris.” finance. clients and other dignitaries. $10bn, a global workforce of 17, THE PENINSULA REUTERS WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Turkish lira slips Independent Qatari bourse Scotland would create oil, gas index loses wealth fund LONDON: An independent Scottish government would create a sovereign wealth fund using revenue from exploit- 72.38 points ing oil and gas reserves worth around £1.5 trillion ($2.4 tril- lion), the Sottish government Dubai rises before Expo decision said in an independence blue- print yesterday. DOHA: Qatar Exchange index services sector. Scotland will vote on September lost 72.38 points, or 0.70 per- Investors in London, however, 18, 2014 on whether to split from cent, yesterday to hit 10,268.69 showed caution over Dubai real England after 306 years to create from the previous closing of estate exposure; the emirate’s an independent nation. 10,341.07 points on Monday. Damac Real Estate revised the “This government will make The volume of traded shares pricing of its $500m initial public the creation of a Scottish Energy was down to 15,680,769 from offer of shares in London to the Fund an early priority,” the Monday’s 21,654,473 and the bottom of the initial $12.25-17.25 devolved government, which value of shares decreased range. favours independence, said in its to QR395,232,592.77 from Abu Dhabi’s index edged up report, adding that it would also QR527,785,172.95 on Monday. 0.05 percent. Sudanese telecom- put in place a more stable tax Among the top losers were Qatar munications operator Sudatel regime for oil and gas exploration. National Bank whose share down slipped 4.6 percent after say- People withdraw money from ATMs in Istanbul yesterday. The Turkish lira slipped yesterday as oil prices Britain has long opposed the 1.62 percent to QR170, Industries ing in a bourse statement it had made up some of the ground lost the previous day after world powers reached a deal with Iran to curb its creation of a sovereign wealth Qatar whose share lost 1.19 percent no explanation for a 41 percent nuclear programme. fund using oil and gas money, to QR166.00, United Development share price jump over the previ- making it one of the only oil- Company fell 0.53 percent to ous three sessions. producing nations not to channel QR23.53 and Aamal decreased by Profit-taking was most aggres- energy revenue into a separate one percent to QR14.85. sive in Egypt. The country’s main fund. The Banking and Financial sec- index dropped 1.8 percent, led by UAE firms, Guinea sign bauxite deal Norway, for example, has one of tor index lost 0.75 percent while stocks which had previously been the world’s richest wealth funds Consumer Goods and Services favourites of retail investors. thanks to revenue from oil and sector index gained 0.13 percent. “This is a normal sell-off after ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi A multi-user port in the West The agreement was signed gas fields. The industrial sector was down a decent rally. It is a bit aggres- investment fund Mubadala and African nation will also be devel- during the Guinean Partners Oil and gas production contrib- 1.03 percent while insurance sec- sive as it is dominated by retail Dubai Aluminium (Dubal) have oped in Kamsar by 2017, while an and Investors Conference in Abu uted around £22bn to Scotland’s tor fell 0.07 percent points. investors,” said Ashraf Akhnoukh, signed a five-billion-dollar deal alumina refinery with an initial Dhabi. GDP last year and nearly all Meanwhile, most Gulf bourses co-head of sales trading at CIBC with Guinea that should secure capacity of two million tonnes per Dubal’s chief executive officer Britain’s offshore oil production declined yesterday in a wave of Brokerage in Cairo. resources for UAE aluminium annum would be constructed and Abdulla Kalban, who is also the is expected to come from Scottish profit-taking triggered partly by Commercial International Bank makers, a statement said. ready to operate in 2018. chairman of GAC, said the agree- waters over the coming 30 years, oil’s temporary weakness in the declined 4.8 percent, even though The accord will see Guinea “This agreement will deliver ment delivers on the “strategy to the Scottish government said. aftermath of the world powers’ it announced on Monday a 3bn Alumina Corp, a joint venture an estimated $5bn of foreign secure upstream resources within An independent Scotland nuclear deal with Iran. Egyptian pound ($436m) share owned by Mubadala and Dubal, investment into Guinea over the the aluminium value chain.” would also remain integrated Oil prices have since recovered dividend. In the last five months, investing in the construction of a next eight years,” said Guinea’s Mubadala and Dubal took full into Britain’s electricity market, as it became clear that Iranian the stock has gained 52 percent. bauxite export mine in Sangaredi, Minister of Mines and Geology control of Guinea’s GAC in May allowing Britain to continue add- oil exports would not rise signifi- “Commercial International in western Guinea, the govern- Mohamed Lamine Fofana. after they jointly acquired 66.6 ing Scottish renewable energy cantly in coming months, if at all. Bank has outperformed the mar- ment of Guinea said in a state- “The development plan will percent stake owned by BHP production to its targets to cut But Gulf stock markets have nev- ket in the recent rally,” Akhnoukh ment late Monday. create at peak 14,000 direct Billiton and Global Alumina. carbon emissions. ertheless taken the Iranian deal noted. The main index is up 39 Guinea sits on almost half of and indirect jobs and contrib- Previously, Mubadala and Dubal Scotland houses the bulk of as a cue for profit-taking. percent from this year’s low of the world’s bauxite reserves and ute substantially to Guinea’s held eight percent and 25 percent Britain’s wind farms and is a net The main stock index in Saudi 4,480 points which it hit in late the Sangaredi mine is due to be GDP,” gross domestic product, of GAC’s shares respectively. exporter of electricity to England. Arabia, the world’s biggest oil June, just before the ouster of operational by 2017. he said. AFP REUTERS exporter, shed 0.6 percent on former president Mohammed Tuesday and Qatar was down Mursi. 0.7 percent. Dubai, however, rose 0.6 per- Yesterday’s highlights cent as investors made last- SAUDI ARABIA minute bets on its bid to host the The index fell 0.6 percent to Weatherford to pay $253m in US sanctions Expo 2020 world fair. The winning 8,298 points. bid is to be announced after the EGYPT close on Wednesday. The index fell 1.8 percent to WASHINGTON: Oil field exporting oil and gas equipment Iraq oil-for-food program. company had estimated the set- Emar Properties, which inves- 6,245 points. services firm Weatherford to Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba The charges stem from probes tlement fine, based on U.S. inves- tors see as a major beneficiary DUBAI International reached a $253m in violation of sanctions, and by the Department of Justice tigations that go back six years, of the Expo, gained 1.3 percent. The index rose 0.6 percent to settlement with several US gov- exporting prohibited items tied and Securities and Exchange earlier this month. Builder Arabtec rose 2.0 percent 2,885 points. ernment agencies on charges to nuclear non-proliferation to Commission going back to 2007, The settlement includes $100m after announcing it would boost ABU DHABI that include sanction violations Venezuela and Mexico. including one involving the embez- for the sanctioned countries pen- its stake in energy-focused con- The index edged up 0.05 per- and bribery, the company said The charges also include zlement of $175,000 in payments alty and $153m for the second two tractor Target Engineering as cent to 3,817 points. yesterday. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to government officials in Europe, issues. part of a push into the oil and gas AGENCIES Weatherford was charged with breaches and violations in the according to company filings. The REUTERS EU parliament Bank of Ireland to raise over €500m chief in favour DUBLIN: Bank of Ireland will raise between Thanksgiving holiday this week due to a large ¤500 and ¤600m of equity as early as next amount of US investor interest and until Irish of more aid week as part of a key refinancing of ¤1.8bn of banks get the results of a balance sheet assess- state preference shares, a source familiar with ment carried out by the country’s central bank. the deal said yesterday. The banks will get the results of the assessment to Greece The 15 percent state-owned bank faces a March this weekend and Bank of Ireland will likely give 2014 deadline to refinance the shares before a clause the market an update on the outcome when it ATHENS: European under its state bailout kicks in, increasing the cost announces the transaction. Parliament President Martin of buying them back by 25 percent, or ¤450m. A successful refinancing of the preference Schulz said yesterday he was It will raise the equity through a placement, shares would be a big milestone for the bank, the in favour of providing addi- rather than a rights issue, to retire around a third sector and for the government ahead of its exit tional aid to Greece if the debt- of the preference shares with the balance made from an ¤85bn EU/IMF state bailout next month. wracked country achieves a up from the sale of a debt instrument to private Bank of Ireland became the only domestically primary surplus. investors at a profit to the state, the source said. owned lender to escape full state control after a “If there is surplus we should A spokeswoman for Bank of Ireland declined to group of North American investors led by Wilbur discuss immediately... to stabilise comment on the placement and said the lender Ross and Prem Watsa bought a 35 percent stake recovery” of the economy, Schulz was considering a range of options for dealing just months after Ireland signed up to an EU/ said during a press conference in with the preference shares. IMF bailout three years ago. Athens after his meeting with The deal is unlikely to happen before the REUTERS Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. Schulz estimated that such a discussion could take place in the spring, after Eurostat has pub- Zurich railway tunnel lished its macro-economic results for 2013. Greece has predicted a slight primary surplus — not includ- ing debt servicing costs — of 0.4 percent of GDP or ¤812m ($1.1m) this year. “After six years of recession, Greece will achieve primary sur- plus, something the country has not experienced for decades,” said Samaras. In November last year, the eurozone states agreed that a new write-down of Greece’s huge debt would be possible if the heavily indebted country fulfils the terms of its bailout deal and achieves a primary surplus. “We have to stick to our prom- ises,” said Schulz. In 2012, Greece erased nearly a third of its immediate debt, nearly ¤106bn, thanks to an unprec- edented write-down agreed with Workers at the construction site of the new Weinbergtunnel railway tunnel in Zurich yesterday. Swiss private creditors including banks rail operator SBB will start to use the five kilometres-long tunnel connecting the suburb of Oerlikon and pension funds. with Zurich central station in June 2014. AFP WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

China’s cities see Volkswagen in a delicate clean air, water as dance with German union

BY BERNIE WOODALL institute just a works council in Tennessee of the work force in 2012, the lowest per- magnet for assets because US labour law does not allow for centage in 76 years. olkswagen AG officials in company-sponsored unions. In order to set The plant opened a little more than two BY VALERIE VOLCOVICI Germany and the United States up a works council for the 1,570 hourly paid years ago in the heart of the largely anti- are performing a delicate dance manufacturing workers at Chattanooga, a union US South. Since then, the UAW has anchang is one of China’s “second-tier” cities. With with VW’s influential German US union needs to be involved, because a worked to organise workers there as part of 5.04 million people, its population is nearly twice the union as they wrestle with the foreign-based union cannot represent US a long-running — and largely unsuccessful size of Chicago’s. There are few places here where you Vpossible representation of workers at the workers. — effort to bring foreign-owned auto plants Ncan get some fresh air, but in the middle of the high- company’s plant in Tennessee. A works council at Chattanooga would into its fold. tech national industrial zone on the fringes of this sprawling city, Volkswagen is trying to introduce its act largely as it would in Germany and not While VW officials have officially denied the provincial government has carved out 4.5 square kilometres model of a German-style works council, negotiate wages and benefits. it, there is a widely held belief by IG Metall of wetlands around Aixi Lake for preservation. which would help set work rules for white- While Jonathan Browning, VW’s top US leaders and the UAW that Volkswagen The park, which was set up in 2007, features young trees planted and blue-collar workers, at its only US executive, said last week that the company placed the plant in Tennessee in order to in rows, parallel to the new high-rise apartment buildings that plant, in Chattanooga. While Volkswagen is in favour of establishing a German-style keep the UAW out. sprout up along long blocks in Nanchang. The paved road running has works councils at all of its plants outside works council at the plant, he stopped well The new IG Metall leader, Detlef Wetzel, though the park is smooth, and divided into one lane for bicyclists of China and Tennessee, it faces challenges short of showing any support for the UAW. earlier this month warned VW about try- and a second for electric golf carts. in forming one in Chattanooga for various “Our strong desire is to have a works ing to avoid unions in anti-union Tennessee. Wooden signs encourage passersby to “enhance environmental reasons, including a split within the com- council present in Chattanooga,” Browning, Insiders say that VW prides itself on awareness” while construction cranes and new towers rise in the pany over whether to support the United Volkswagen Group of America’s president knowing how to manage labour relations distance. It feels more like a nature theme park than a conserva- Auto Workers union. and CEO, said in an interview at the Los and needs no help from outsiders, including tion site. IG Metall, the German union with seats Angeles Auto Show. “The challenge in a US Tennessee politicians. Like Beijing and some of China’s larger cities, Nanchang suffers and influence in VW’s boardroom, is press- context is how to bring that into being.” The UAW says it has collected the from severe air pollution as a consequence of economic develop- ing the company to establish a works council Ultimately, VW’s management board will required signatures on union endorsement ment. During a recent visit to Nanchang, the banks of the Don at Chattanooga. IG Metall also supports the decide whether to allow a works council at cards from Chattanooga workers and has River, which snakes through the city centre, were dried up because UAW’s bid to organise the US plant. Chattanooga working with the UAW or asked VW to install the union without a of a lack of rain and heavy construction activity. The level of It is IG Metall’s influence and the com- another US labour union. Browning last vote. But VW has declined. particulate matter in the air registered at hazardous levels. The pany’s need to keep labor peace in Germany week said it was up to the Chattanooga By deliberately locating the plant in city’s skyline was barely visible amid heavy smog. that has Volkswagen’s US officials careful workers to vote on union representation. Tennessee, Volkswagen itself choreographed Despite this, local and provincial officials want people to not to misstep. At the same time, they also By saying he supports the concept of a its current dilemma, said Gary Chaison, know that the city and the province aspire to be known as are trying to maintain good relations with works council, Browning can toe the official industrial relations professor at Clark much for protecting the environment as for achieving strong Tennessee’s politicians, led by anti-UAW company line. University in Massachusetts. economic growth. Governor Bill Haslam and US Senator Bob By noting that union representation is “They felt putting the plant in the US Nanchang set a target to cut its carbon emissions per unit of Corker, both Republicans. up to the workers, he sidesteps the issue of South would isolate them, and have it so Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 48 percent below 2005 levels In China, VW plants are jointly owned public support or opposition to the UAW. they would not have to deal with a union,” by 2020, more than the national target of 40 to 45 percent. with Chinese partners, making the A successful push by the UAW at the he said. “They forgot that they cannot sepa- Lan Wensheng, director of the information for the foreign Chattanooga plant, opened in 2011, the plant would be significant for the union and rate what happens in Tennessee with what affairs office of Jiangxi province, said a cleaner environment would company’s only wholly owned plant with- for organised labour in the United States, happens in Germany.” make the region more attractive to foreign and domestic busi- out a works council. Volkswagen cannot where union membership fell to 11.3 percent REUTERS nesses. On my visit to the city’s 231-square kilometre high-tech industrial zone, officials said the centre has air quality monitoring systems and that Aixi Lake will become a sanctuary for migrat- ing birds. A representative of the zone’s investment promotion bureau hopes that the area will become a new Silicon Valley. He said Nanchang’s environmental focus would be a draw for green energy, software, LED and automobile machinery companies. China’s national aerospace company Comac also has facilities at the park working on narrow-body aircraft meant to rival Boeing and Airbus, as does Microsoft, faucet maker Kohler and China’s Best Solar. Low-carbon industries make up 30 percent of all industrial sectors in Nanchang, officials say. But provinces like Nanchang and Jiangxi have a long way to go. The energy-intensive region will continue to rely on coal and contentious large hydroelectric projects to ensure stable electricity to power its industries. The Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric facility, is one of the major electricity sources for the region. The dam has caused Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, which once absorbed the Yangtze river overflow, to shrink dramatically, according to Charlton Lewis, a Chinese history professor at Brooklyn College in New York. The dam has resulted in interruptions to fish migration, raised risks for landslides and displaced thousands of people, according to NGO International Rivers. Coal accounts for about 70 percent of Jiangxi’s energy mix, according to the province’s five-year plan released in 2012. And with nearly two-thirds of coal consumed by the province coming from other parts of China, energy costs are high. Most provincial and central party officials say that China is paying the price for ignoring the environmental consequences of many years of double-digit economic growth. With air pollution rising to record levels around many Chinese cities, the issue has become a source of public unrest that Beijing and the provinces can no longer ignore. In economic and political reforms announced this month, the Communist Party said it would put more emphasis on environ- mental protection during annual assessments of its officials, and would also hold local authorities directly responsible for pollution. These changes may include new measures to punish those who violate environmental laws and improve monitoring of air and water quality. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate The GoldieBlox, fair use and the cult of disruption BY FELIX SALMON “GoldieBlox Breaks into Toys R is surely helping to sell a huge Beasties, in turn, are trying very jurisprudential analysis comes without gratuitously antagonising Us” was based on Queen’s “We number of toys. Instead, there’s hard not to do. In their letter to out, defending GoldieBlox and the Beastie Boys, or putting the f you google “disrupt the Are The Champions”, and got just sneering antagonism: GoldieBlox, the Beasties make its right to use the Beasties’ song Beasties in their current impos- pink aisle”, you’ll get 36,800 over a million views. But that was In the lyrics of the Beastie three simple points. They support as parody. After all, fair use is a sible situation. results, all of which concern nothing compared to their latest Boys’ song entitled Girls, girls the creativity of the video, and its protection under the law, which Instead, however, GoldieBlox Ia San Francisco-based toy video, uploaded only a week ago, are limited (at best) to house- message; they’re the defendants means that if it applies, then it did exactly what you’d expect an company named GoldieBlox. The and already well on its way to get- hold chores, and are presented in this suit, rather than the people doesn’t matter what the Beasties entitled and well-lawyered Silicon company first came to public ting ten times that figure. This as useful only to the extent they suing anybody; and, most impor- think, or want: GoldieBlox can Valley startup to do, which is pick attention in September of last one was based on an early Beastie fulfill the wishes of the male tantly, they have a long-standing do anything it likes. On the other a fight. It’s the way of the Valley — year, when it launched a highly- Boys song, “Girls”, and deliciously subjects. policy that no Beastie Boys songs hand, in the key precedent for you can’t be winning unless some successful Kickstarter cam- subverted it to turn it into an The GoldieBlox Girls Parody shall ever be used in commercial such issues, Campbell vs Acuff- household-name dinosaur is los- paign which ultimately raised empowering anthem. Video takes direct aim at the advertisements. (They don’t men- Rose Music, Justice Souter ing. (The Beasties are actually the $285,881. Like all successful Under what Paul Carr has diag- song both visually and with a tion, although they could, that explicitly said that “the use of a second big name to find them- Kickstarter campaigns, there nosed as the rules of the Cult of revised set of lyrics celebrating this last was actually an explicit copyrighted work to advertise a selves in the GoldieBlox cross- was a viral video; this one fea- Disruption, GoldieBlox neither the many capabilities of girls. Set dying wish of Adam Yauch, a/k/a product, even in a parody, will be hairs; the first was Toys R Us.) tured a highly-photogenic CEO sought nor received permission to the tune of Girls but with a MCA, and an integral part of his entitled to less indulgence” under The real target of the GoldieBlox called Debbie, a recent gradu- to create these videos: it never new recording of the music and will.) the law than “the sale of a parody lawsuit, I’m quite sure, is not the ate of — you probably don’t need licensed the music it used from new lyrics, girls are heard sing- Given the speed with which the for its own sake”. Beastie Boys. Instead, it’s the set me to tell you this — Stanford the artists who wrote it. That ing an anthem celebrating their GoldieBlox complaint appeared, This is a distinction the of investors who are currently University. And yes, before the wouldn’t be the Silicon Valley way. broad set of capabilities—exactly indeed, it’s reasonable to assume Beasties intuitively understand. being pitched to put money into a Kickstarter campaign, there was First you make your own rules — the opposite of the message of that they had it in their back After all, this version of Girls has fast-growing, Stanford-incubated, “a seed round from friends, fam- and then, if anybody tries to slap the original. They are also shown pocket all along, ready to whip been viewed more than 3 million web-native, viral, aggressive, dis- ily and angel investors”. When you down, you don’t apologise, you engaging in activities far beyond out the minute anybody from the times on YouTube, without so ruptive company with massive the viral video kept on gener- fight. For your right. To parody. what the Beastie Boys song would Beastie Boys, or their record label, much as a peep from the Beasties. room for future growth — a com- ating pre-orders even after the In a complete inversion of permit. so much as inquired about what And if you simply lop off the last pany which isn’t afraid to pick Kickstarter campaign ended, what you might expect to hap- This is faux-naïveté at its was going on. The strategy here few seconds of the GoldieBlox ver- fights with any big name you care GoldieBlox looked like a classic pen in this case, it is GoldieBlox worst, deliberately ignoring the is to maximise ill-will: don’t ask sion — the bit where they shoe- to mention. Silicon Valley startup: young, which is suing the Beastie Boys. fact that Girls, the original song, permission, make no attempt to horn in the GoldieBlox branding Because in Silicon Valley, people exciting, fast-growing, and — of And they’re doing so in the most is itself a parody of machismo negotiate in good faith, antago- — then that, too, would surely will always prefer to invest in that course — disruptive. aggressive way possible. There’s rap. The complaint is also look- nise the other party as much as have been fine. If all GoldieBlox kind of company, rather than in a Not wanting to mess with a no respect, here, for the merits of at-me move, positively daring possible. wanted to do was get out a viral toy company whose toys, in truth, proven formula, GoldieBlox kept the song which has helped their the Beasties to rise to the bait This way, at least, the battle message about empowering girls, aren’t actually very good. on producing those viral videos: video go massively viral and which and enjoin the fight. Which the lines get drawn pretty clearly. The they could easily have done that REUTERS WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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-0.74 2440 Rallis India-B/D 173.15 9.55 142482 Imperial Tobac/D 2360 -9 199135 Cipla-A/D 385.95 -1.35 117465 Hind.Petrol-A/D 204.7 -9.85 139136 Kopran-B/D 22.55 -0.05 68655 Rallis India-B/D 173.15 9.55 142482 Kingfisher/D 395.6 4.7 1538249 WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 A’s to remain James, Wade power Heat at O.co Coliseum until 2015 to seventh straight victory OAKLAND: The Oakland A’s will remain at O.co Coliseum for at least two more years under NBA: Ginobili, Belinelli combine as Spurs earn 11th consecutive win a proposed lease extension that was expected to be approved yesterday, according to the San MIAMI: LeBron James scored for the Knicks (3-10), who lost for Francisco Chronicle. 35 points and Dwyane Wade NBA Results the sixth straight. That would eliminate the possi- added 21 points and 12 assists Dallas 96 Denver 110 Chandler Parsons scored bility of the A’s playing their 2014 yesterday to spark the reigning San Antonio 112 New Orleans 93 17 points and reserve forward home games at AT&T Park in San NBA champions Miami Heat Omri Casspi added 16 to lead the Francisco. over Phoenix 107-92 for their Detroit 113 Milwaukee 94 Houston Rockets to a 93-86 vic- The A’s current lease expires seventh win in a row. Miami 107 Phoenix 92 tory over Memphis Grizzlies. December 31. They want to move James connected on 11-of-14 Portland 102 New York Knicks 91 The Rockets opened the fourth to San Jose and build a new ball- shots from the field while Wade quarter with a 14-2 run that gave park, but the Giants are fighting enjoyed his most assists in a game Utah 89 Chicago 83 them the lead for the first time the move, claiming territorial in more than three years as Miami Memphis 86 Houston 93 since the opening minutes and rights. improved to 11-3 and moved three Charlotte 86 Boston 96 positioned them for the win. Major League Baseball threat- games ahead of Atlanta atop the The Grizzlies played without ened to use its anti-trust exemp- Southeast division. Indiana 98 Minnesota 84 Defensive Player of the Year Marc tion powers to force the Giants to Ray Allen scored nine of his 17 Gasol, who injured his knee and is share AT&T Park with the A’s in points in the fourth quarter as but he made just 6 of 20 field goals out for an indefinite period. the event an agreement with the Miami pulled away late to inflict for the Timberwolves (8-8), who The Rockets were minus guard Coliseum board is not reached. the most lopsided loss of the sea- got off to a fast start this season James Harden, who leads the Meanwhile, the A’s acquired son on the Suns, who fell to 7-7. but now have lost four of five. team with a 24.2-point average left-handed relief pitcher Channing Frye led six Phoenix Elsewhere, Guards Manu and is nursing a foot injury. Fernando Abad from the double-digit scorers with 16 points Ginobili and Marco Belinelli com- In another match, Ty Lawson Washington Nationals in exchange and grabbed eight rebounds while bined for 30 points off the bench scored 19 points and Nate for minor league outfielder John Slovenian guard Goran Dragic to push the San Antonio Spurs to Robinson added 17 as the Denver Wooten. contributed 14 points, nine assists their 11th straight victory win- Nuggets blew past Dallas 110-96. The Cleveland Indians signed and eight rebounds for the Suns. ning 112-93 against Pelicans. Denver (7-6) beat the free agent outfielder David The Heat won for the 10th time The Spurs (13-1) had seven Mavericks for the second time in Murphy to a two-year contract, in 11 games overall and defeated players in double figures. Ginobili the last three days while Dallas the team announced. The deal Phoenix for the seventh time in a led the way with 16 points. (9-6) lost for the first time at also includes a club option for row over multiple seasons. Belinelli and point guard Tony home this season, falling to 7-1. 2016. Guard George Hill scored a Parker each scored 14. Guard Jordan Crawford scored Meanwhile, the Seattle season-high 26 points to help Nicolas Batum totalled 23 21 points, hitting four 3-pointers Mariners announced their coach- the Indiana Pacers beat the points, seven rebounds and six in the first three quarters and ing staff under new manager Minnesota Timberwolves 98-84. assists as Portland jumped out to then six free throws in the final Lloyd McClendon. Forward Paul George also a 17-point halftime lead and did minute, as the Boston Celtics beat Former New York Mets scored 26 points for the Pacers not look back. the Charlotte Bobcats. infielder Howard Johnson was (13-1), who won their fourth The Blazers (13-2) led wire The Celtics (6-10) pulled away named hitting coach and former straight and improved on their to wire in pulling out their 11th thanks to a 9-0 run to open the Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder LeBron James (in red) of the Miami Heat dunks the ball during against franchise-best start. straight win for 102-91 scoreline. fourth quarter and went on to Andy Van Slyke is the first-base the Phoenix Suns at American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, yesterday. Minnesota forward Kevin Love Carmelo Anthony bombed in 34 lead by as many as 12 down the coach. had 20 points and 17 rebounds, points and grabbed 15 rebounds stretch.. AGENCIES AGENCIES Yachting: Kaepernick shines as New York Strong field Rangers’ centre 49ers beat Redskins Brad Richards (19) for Sydney to skates with the puck as Tampa to end losing streak Bay Lightning’s Hobart race centre Alex Killorn WASHINGTON: Colin Kaepernick threw three touchdowns to (17) defends SYDNEY: Australia’s most snap San Francisco’s slump as the 49ers beat Washington 27-6 yes- during the third famous yacht race, the Sydney terday to heap more misery on the struggling Redskins. period of their to Hobart, will boast one of Both teams entered the night with a two-game losing streak and NHL match at its strongest fields in dec- San Francisco (7-4) found their form to move back into NFC wild-card Tampa Bay Times ades this year due to the position three games behind division-leading Seattle (10-1). nation’s renewed competitive- “We were better in the passing game tonight,” Kaepernick told Forum. New York ness in sailing, organisers said reporters after passing for 235 yards. Rangers defeated yesterday. “We made plays tonight. I think we can surpass (last season’s level) the Tampa Bay The race, which begins on if we keep working and getting our receivers healthy.” Lightning 5-0. Sydney Harbour on Boxing Day, Last season’s level included a trip to the Super Bowl, something San runs 628 nautical miles down Francisco is hoping to duplicate. the east coast of Australia to the Kaepernick, who has endured an up-and-down season, tossed a island of Tasmania, a punishing 19-yard touchdown to Anquan Boldin in the first quarter to get the course known for its spectacu- visitors on the right track. lar scenery and unpredictable After Washington moved to within 10-6 at halftime, he struck twice weather. more in the third on scoring throws to Boldin and Vernon Davis. This year five 100-foot super San Francisco has relied heavily on their running game lately but NHL: Canadian teams top maxis, three 80-footers, fifteen they only needed 31 rushing yards from lead back Frank Gore in the 70-footers and 22 overseas boats win. will line up for the Cruising Yacht Washington quarterback Robert Griffin passed for only 127 yards Club of Australia-run race, and and an interception and could not get his team into the end zone. commodore Howard Piggott said The Redskins signal-caller spent the off-season recovering from a Forbes’ most valuable list it showed Australia’s strong inter- knee surgery and has failed to recapture the success of his magical national sailing reputation. rookie season. TORONTO: Canadian teams NHL Results Washington’s Alex Ovechkin for “The calibre of this year’s fleet Making matters worse, he has recently had his leadership called dominated the top end of Forbes’ the league lead. shows that Australian sailing is into question and dealt with team issues as the spiraling Redskins annual list of the National Edmonton 1 Chicago 5 St. Louis (17-3-3) goalie back and back with a vengeance,” have now fallen to 3-8. Hockey League’s (NHL) most Tampa Bay 5 NY Rangers 0 Jaroslav Halak recorded his sec- he said. “I think we’re all frustrated,” Griffin said. “We’re all tired of losing. valuable franchises yesterday Florida 3 Philadelphia 1 ond shutout of the season while “Australian yachtsmen and (But) we’re not quitters.” with the Toronto Maple Leafs Vancouver 2 Los Angeles 3 stopping all 22 Minnesota (15-6- women enjoyed huge suc- The Redskins managed 100 yards rushing, led by Alfred Morris’ leading the pack for an eighth St. Louis 3 Minnesota 0 4) shots. cess at the 2012 Olympics and 52 yards. consecutive year. In another match, goaltender Nashville 4 Phoenix 2 Australians figured prominently Washington got two field goals from Kai Forbath in the second quar- For the first time since Forbes Ben Bishop made 37 saves for a in the dramatic climax of the ter but in the second half the home team failed to reach the red zone. began tracking NHL team valua- Boston 4 Pittsburgh 3 shutout while Martin St. Louis America’s Cup. “We haven’t gotten dominated like that since I’ve been here,” said tions in 1998, three of the league’s Torontov 0 Columbus 6 and Teddy Purcell scored two “The fantastic response to com- Redskins fourth-year coach Mike Shanahan, whose team managed five most valuable franchises are New Jersey 1 Winnipeg 3 goals apiece to lead Tampa pete in the Rolex Sydney Hobart just one first down and 30 yards in the second half. REUTERS Canadian. Bay. Yacht Race is symptomatic of The Toronto Maple Leafs Meanwhile, in NHL matches, Nikita Kucherov, a 20-year-old renewed competitiveness in sail- San Francisco were deemed the most valu- yesterday, after Pittsburgh’s Russian right winger making his ing here.” 49ers’ wide receiver able at $1.15bn, a 15 percent Sidney Crosby forced overtime NHL debut, scored on his first Past CYCA commodore Matt Anquan Boldin (81) jump from last year, while the with a goal in the final second shift as the Lightning (15-8-1) Allen, whose 60-footer Ichi Ban receives the ball Montreal Canadiens ($775m) of regulation, Boston’s rookie cruised past the Rangers (12-12- is in the field, said it was the best and Vancouver Canucks ($700m) defenseman Torey Krug blasted 0) winning 5-0. as Washington fleet he had seen since the early were third and fourth, respec- one past Marc-Andre Fleury 34 Elsewhere, right winger Ryan Redskins’ corner- 1980s. tively, in the survey. seconds into OT to give the Bruins Johansen scored two goals and “This is a Grand Prix racing back Josh Wilson The New York Rangers a 4-3 victory over Penguins added an assist and goalkeeper fleet,” he said. (26) defends during ($850m) were second on the Loui Eriksson, who had a goal Sergei Bobrovsky picked up Among the 100-foot super- the second half of list while the defending Stanley and an assist, assisted on Krug’s the shutout as the Columbus maxis is six-time winner Wild their NFL match Cup champions Chicago seventh goal of the season to give Blue Jackets defeated the Oats XI which last year completed at FedEx Field Blackhawks ($625m) rounded out the Bruins (16-6-2) their second Toronto Maple Leafs 6-0. a historic Sydney to Hobart tri- in Washington, the top five. straight overtime win. Columbus registered two goals ple crown, winning the overall yesterday. The NHL’s 30 teams are worth James Neal had two goals for in each period to chase Toronto handicap as well as line honours an average $413m, a 46 percent Pittsburgh (15-9-1), and Crosby (14-9-1) goalkeeper James Reimer and breaking the race record rise over last year but still below netted his 13th of the season on in the third. with its time of one day, 18 the average values of franchises in a final-second shot that had to be Scoring all of their goals in the hours, 23 minutes and 12 the other major North American reviewed. first period, Nashville held off the seconds. sports leagues. Alexander Steen scored two Phoenix Coyotes over the final 40 International entries come Forbes has previously said goals to end his mini slump and minutes to pick up a 4-2 win. from New Zealand, Britain, Hong teams in the National Football lead St. Louis to a 3-0 victory over Martin Mazanec made 12 Kong, Singapore, New Caledonia, League are worth an average Minnesota Wild. of his 29 saves in the third Germany and Cyprus -- with 12 of $1.17bn, followed by teams in Steen, who had not scored period for the Predators who of them part of the Clipper Round Major League Baseball ($744m) in his last four games, has 18 won for the fourth time in five the World Race fleet. AFP and the NBA ($509m). goals and is now one goal behind matches. AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Boxing: New engines open fresh Pacquiao floored in challenges for F1 teams tax fight MANILA: Philippine box- ing hero Manny Pacquiao Cars to be installed with new systems for the 2014 season said yesterday authorities had frozen all his domestic bank accounts over allega- LONDON: Sebastian Vettel tomorrow,” said Red Bull princi- tions of unpaid taxes from urged his Red Bull team to pal Christian Horner on Sunday lucrative fights in the United “enjoy this moment” as they cel- night. States, leaving him financially ebrated his record ninth win in As of Monday, Vettel has a new paralysed. a row and the quadruple world team-mate in Australian Daniel “This is harassment,” the champion knew what he was Ricciardo moving up from Toro former eight-division world talking about. Rosso to replace departed compa- champion said in an interview Formula One will look and triot Mark Webber but the same on ABS-CBN television, as he sound very different when the old urge to succeed remains as disclosed for the first time 26-year-old German returns strong as ever. a freeze order issued by the from his well-earned winter “It’s almost like a drug,” said Philippines’ Bureau of Internal break in search of a 10th suc- Horner. “It becomes addictive Revenue in recent months. cessive win and fifth consecutive and you always want to do better, The shock announcement championship. you’re always looking inwardly, came just two days after The glamour sport has seen you’re always trying to push Pacquiao, 34, resurrected his many eras declared over and harder. boxing career with a unani- Sunday’s season-ending Brazilian “(Designer) Adrian (Newey) mous points decision win over Grand Prix was another such hasn’t attended this race, he’s American Brandon Rios in moment, even if Vettel is at the been back with the factory, with the Chinese gambling enclave peak of his powers and with many all the guys and is pushing so hard of Macau. years of racing ahead of him. for next year.” The victory, which Pacquiao The 2.4 litre normally aspirated One of the reasons Vettel has devoted to the victims of V8 engine has departed the scene, enjoyed his most dominant sea- typhoon Haiyan, only added Red Bull’s joyfully revved into son so much, with tyre-smoking to his luster among millions of oblivion by Renault in the garage ‘donuts’ for the crowd after his ordinary Filipinos who idolise after the race, to be replaced by last few wins, is the knowledge the fighter. a 1.6 litre turbocharged V6 with that one day, sooner or later, it Pacquiao is now eyeing energy recovery systems. must stop. German Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing prepares for the third training session at the more lucrative fights in the So radical is the change that Mercedes, second overall and Interlagos racetrack in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 23, 2013. United States. He is also pur- the engine itself has become an with huge resources on the engine suing a political career in the outdated concept. In 2014, cars side, Ferrari and Lotus all won Philippines, where he is a sec- will be equipped with a ‘power races this year and the first two at fight a lot to maintain our posi- released so far being of engines of sounds and noises coming out ond-term congressman with unit’ with fuel economy and least will be throwing everything tion but there’s no guarantee that in factory environments rather of these cars next year, but in a ambitions of eventually becom- hybrid systems much more to at 2014. next year will be like this year. than out on the racetrack. way that increasingly we are see- ing president. the fore. The only driver ever to win “With the new regulations “We’re used to this linear rise ing on road cars.” Pacquiao said the tax office Who of the three remain- nine races in a row in a single coming in, I think nobody really of noise with rpm, whereas, next Damon Hill, who won his 1996 took the action because it ing manufacturers - Renault, season, the man who has equalled knows where he will stand. You year you’re going to have one championship at Williams with a believed he had evaded paying Mercedes and Ferrari follow- Michael Schumacher’s 2004 will have the big teams in front motor doing 125,000 rpm, another 3.0 litre Renault V10 in the back, 2.2bn pesos ($50.2m) in taxes ing the departure of Cosworth record of 13 victories in a year, but the question is who...” electric motor doing 9,000 rpm, looked forward to it. on his fights in the United and pending the arrival in 2015 Vettel takes nothing for granted. Early reports have indicated you’ve got the engine itself doing “It’s all about change, F1 mov- States in 2008 and 2009 when of Honda - will have the best is “You never know what’s that the cars will look differ- 10-15,000 rpm, turbos that are ing forward,” said the Sky televi- he was at the peak of his career anyone’s guess at present. going to happen, next year is an ent, with ‘droopy’ noses, and also doing 100,000 rpm,” McLaren sion commentator. and earning tens of millions of “It’s a massive regulation unknown,” he had said after win- sound quite unlike the screaming boss Martin Whitmarsh told “I’m looking forward to hearing dollars. change for next year and of course ning the penultimate race of the V8s introduced in 2006 when the reporters last month. what the turbos will sound like. I He said he had broken no it’s the end of an era with the season in Texas. V10 era ended. “So you’ve got all sorts of noises think with the turbos we’re going laws because he had already current car and beginning of a “I’m sure we will push very, Just how different remains coming and going and changing.... to get a much deeper, satisfying paid taxes on those earnings in new era that pretty much starts very hard and I’m sure we will to be seen, with the only audio it’ll be quite a strange cacophony growl.” REUTERS the United States, which has a treaty with the Philippines that allows citizens of both coun- tries avoid double taxation. However, he said the tax bureau had rejected the docu- Upbeat Day has eye ments he provided as proof McIlroy eager to win that he had already paid to the US Internal Revenue Service. “I am not a criminal or a on world number one thief. I am not hiding anything. I will face my problems as they Australian Open trophy SYDNEY: Australian Jason Day is so confident after winning the come,” Pacquiao said. World Cup that he has his sights set on becoming world number “I have already paid my SYDNEY: Rory McIlroy one. taxes in America. Had I not says he admires most things Day’s two-shot victory in the individual event at Royal Melbourne paid the correct taxes they (US Australian, particularly Russell on Sunday, which helped Australia win the World Cup team title for authorities) would have come Crowe and Greg Norman, and the first time in 24 years, saw him jump to 11 in the world rankings. after me and I would not have would like nothing more than to It was his first title in three years and with his next tournament been able to travel there.” get his hands on the Australian the Australian Open this week in Sydney, the Ohio-based player said The Philippine tax bureau Open trophy this week. the sky was the limit. confirmed the local bank The Northern Irishman is play- “It was surprising to jump from 18 to 11 and if I have a good week accounts of Pacquiao and his ing the event at Royal Sydney this week I can move inside the top 10, but being number one in the wife, Jinkee, had been frozen. from tomorrow and revealed world has always been a goal of mine since back to when I first picked “According to the collection Australians figure highly in people up a golf club,” he said yesterday. division we have issued a gar- he reveres, but admitted another Irish golfer “I’ve always wanted to get to that number one spot and my caddy nishment of his bank accounts,” Australian icon, Vegemite, was Rory McIlroy and I always had a goal to get to number one when we first met when Dino Somera, litigation division not to his taste. I was about 12 or 13 to get there was I was 22. official of the tax bureau, said. takes a fairway “Russell Crowe’s always been “I ended up getting to number seven when I was aged 23 so we fell Somera said he did not know shot during my favourite Australian actor and short, but it’s still on my mind to get to that number one spot.” how much money was in the my favourite all-time Australian a practice It is a tough task for Day, who will not only have to pass the likes of bank accounts of the couple, golfer is Greg Norman,” he said round at the Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott, but also Tiger Woods. and Pacquiao did not disclose yesterday. Royal Sydney “There is a lot of tough competitors I still have to get past, including the amount in the television “I don’t mind the meat pies but Golf Club Tiger Woods, but if I keep working hard and putting the dedication interview. just can’t get used to Vegemite, in Sydney, into my game I think the sky is the limit, as long as I stay hungry to The Pacquiaos have asked it’s definitely an Australian-born Australia, want to get that number one spot,” he said. the Court of Tax Appeals to lift acquired taste,” he said of the yesterday. “The biggest thing is to actually want it because you can say it as the bank freeze, but the court thick black spread made from The Australian much as you like but until you say you want it then that’s it.” has yet to rule on the couple’s yeast extract. Open Golf While Day has been a regular contender in the Majors in recent petition, according to court The former world number one Championship years, Sunday’s victory was his first professional win in Australia and papers released to the media. will tee-up this week looking for begins only his second success since breaking through in 2010 to capture the Philippine President Benigno his first win over 12 months, with tomorrow. PGA Tour’s Byron Nelson Colonial. Aquino’s spokesman Herminio locals Adam Scott and Jason Day Despite a break of more than three years between victories, Day Coloma brushed off suggestions his main challengers. is confident the experience he gleaned at Royal Melbourne can prove Pacquiao was being singled out While the likes of Norman, pivotal in future success. for political harassment. Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player “It’s been a long time since my first to my second professional win “We are a government of have won the event in the past, and while I have been a very consistent player over the last couple of laws not of men,” Coloma told McIlroy is gunning to be only the years, but I just have not over the line,” he said. reporters, adding Philippine second European after England’s “So it’s been more of a learning curve as that first win can be more law authorises the tax bureau Lee Westwood to claim victory. like a fluke, and even though I played well at the Byron Nelson, I felt to seize the assets of delinquent He said Norman was an idol like I learnt so much more last week winning in Melbourne.” AFP taxpayers. and winning in Australia would The government has been be a huge moment for him. FROM LEFT: running an active campaign “Being a multiple Major winner Thailand’s against high-profile tax evad- and a former world number one, ers, targetting movie stars as Thongchai the Great White Shark will for- alongside people like Greg, Jack DP World Tour Championship, he well as businessmen who flaunt Jaidee, South ever be remembered in the game,” Nicklaus, Gary Player and so is quietly confident of winning his their wealth through flashy he said of Norman. many other great players. first tournament of the season. Africa’s Retief sports cars. “Aside from his great golfing “And following in their foot- “I came away from both tour- Goosen, Pacquiao said most of his achievements, Greg is a hugely steps would never be a bad thing.” naments a bit disappointed but Indonesia’s cash was kept in the Philippine successful businessman off the It is the first time McIlroy has when you’re getting to push Rory Hie and bank accounts. course. Not many golfers have competed in an Australian Open to that level, or that stage, and Spain’s Pablo He said the freeze order had successfully made that transition. since 2006 when he played as an you’re disappointed walking away Larrazabal left him without money to pay “I know Greg also has won the amateur -- averaging 76 over the with pretty decent finishes, you pose with the his staff, and forced him to bor- Australian Open many times and four rounds to finish in a distant know that you’re on the right trophy ahead of row “not less than one million that is my goal this week. share of 51st place. track,” he said. the Indonesia pesos” to fulfil pledges to help “So to win the Australian Open After some recent good results, “I’ve got this week’s Australian Open in Jakarta victims of a devastating super would be huge for me. It would including sixth at the BMW Open and then Tiger’s event next which begins typhoon in the Philippines. stamp my place in the history Masters in Shanghai and fifth in week in LA, so it would be great tomorrow. AFP books of the Australian Open the European Tour season-ending to finish the year with a win.”AFP WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 29

Results: Race 1: Muraikh Cup - L/B P/A Maiden 1,400M Al Nakhsh unstoppable as Surface: Turf Running Time: 1:37:81 Nahla, Jassim Ghazali, Stephan Ladjadj Hector, A. de Mieulle, David Bouland Rabha, J. Smart, R. Mullen Race 2: Thoroughbred Conditions (F & M) Ladjadj claims treble glory 1,400M Surface: Turf Running Time: 1:25:84 Trainer Jassim Ghazali celebrates ‘big day’ with four winners at QREC My Sharona, Jassim Ghazali, Stephan Ladjadj Ladyanne, Jassim Ghazali, Gerald Avranche DOHA: Three-year-old Al Nakhsh yesterday galloped to a Abeer, Jassim Ghazali, Marvin Suerland Race 3: hard-fought Sumayaimah Cup Scargill, ridden victory, finishing the feature by jockey Yanis Al Nakhsh Cup - Thoroughbred 2 Year Olds race in top spot on a day when Aouabed and 1,400M trainer Jassim Ghazali walked trainer Jassim Surface: Turf off with four winners at Qatar Ghazali (third Scargill, Jassim Ghazali, Yanis Aouabed Racing and Equestrian Club right) are seen cel- (QREC). Peter Mac, Z. Mohsen, S. Golam ebrating their Al Ridden by Marco Monteriso, Al Nakhsh Cup win at Roman Legend, Jassim Ghazali, Gerald Nakhsh was unstoppable after the Avranche Qatar Racing and final bend in the 1,600m race, seal- Race 4: Equestrian Club ing his win three lengths ahead of Zain Alesim Cup - Thoroughbred 2 Year AJS Qahir and Kaydoum. (QREC) in Doha Old Fillies yesterday. It was Earlier, French jockey Stephane 1,400M one of four wins for Ladjadj stormed to three impres- Surface: Turf Ghazali, which saw sive wins helping trainer Ghazali Running Time: 1:28:23 grab the attention with four win- Nahla, My Sharona Captain Cleo, Jassim Ghazali, Stephan ners in first four starts at QREC. and Captain Cleo Ladjadj Besides clinching race two, triumph. BELOW: Cloaked, Debbie Mountain, Marvin Suerland Ladjadj also powered to wins in Jockey Marco Charlie’s Wish, I. Al Malki Gary Carter Muraikh and Zain Alesim Cups Monteriso rides Al Race 5: while jockey Yanis Aouabed raced Nakhsh to glory in to victory in Al Nakhsh Cup to Al Kharrarah Cup - Local the Sumayiamah Thoroughbreds - 3 Year Olds Only complete a memorable day for Cup. trainer Ghazali. 1,400M “Big day for us. First four runs Surface: Turf PICTURES BY: JUHAIM and four winners. Not easy for any Aseer, M. Al Yaqout Marvin Suerland trainer. I am very happy today. Aspire, M. Al Yaqout Stephan Ladjadj In other races, I had second and Venus, Majid Safedeen Darren Williams third places also,” Ghazali said. Race 6: “I am particularly happy with Umm Sawayyah Cup - 3 Year Old P/A Scargill and Captain Cleo. I think 1,400M they are the ones for the future,” Earlier, Majd Al Uraiq stormed powered to an impressive win in Surface: Turf Ghazali said after finishing the to Umm Sawayyah Cup, leaving the Zain Alesim Cup - the fourth Majd Al Uraiq, H. Al Matwi, Gerald Avranche day with four winners. behind TM Thunder Struck and race of the day. TM Thunder Struck, A. de Mieulle, David “I am holding back two more Al Majh’Hoor to settle for second Ladjadj picked up his third win Bouland good horses. I will see how these and third places after a feisty run. of the day as he guided Captain Al Majh’Hoor, J. Smart, R. Mullen fare in the coming weeks,” he said. Ridden by Gerald Avranche, Cleo to the top prize of QR57,000. “We have big races in the sea- Majd Al Uraqi won by four In second place was Cloaked, Race 7: son. We would like to do well in lengths to pocket the top prize ridden by Suerland, while Ghasham Cup - 3 Year Old P/A Fillies the Emir Cup race. I purchased of QR57,000. Bouland - who was Charlie’s Wish ended in third spot 1,400M some 20 horses in the July sales. astride TM Thunder Struck won with Gary Carter in the saddle. Surface: Turf I am just glad we did so well. I am QR22,000. In race three held under lights, Running Time: 1:38:27 glad I got good horses in the sales. Aseer - ridden by Marvin Scargill brought delight to trainer Karamah, A. de Mieulle, David Bouland I am thrilled with these perform- Suerland - picked up pace at the Ghazali for the third time in as AJS Amjad, M. Al Yaqout, Marvin Suerland ances today,” Ghazali said. end to win the Al Kharrarah Cup many races as the two-year-old Wejdan, J. Smart R. Mullen Earlier in the Ghasham Cup with Aspire and Venus shadowing galloped to Al Nakhsh Cup win. Race 8: for three-year-olds, jockey David the winner. With jockey Aouabed in the Sumayiamah Cup - L/B P/A 3 Year Olds Bouland powered Karamah to an Suerland picked up the top saddle, Scargill outpaced Peter Only emphatic win and clinch the top prize in the QR100,000 race. Mac, ridden by S Golam, and Ladyanne in a photo-finish to win - in second place. French jockey 1,600M prize of QR57,000. Aspire ridden by Ladjadj was sec- Roman Legend who was favoured the QR80,000 race that had only Suerland ended the turf race in Surface: Turf Karamah finished ahead of ond while Darren Williams guided to win the 1,400m race. Avranche six runners. third place Running Time: 1:50:26 AJS Amjad - ridden by Marvin Venus to third place. was astride on Roman Legend. Ridden by Ladjadj, My Sharona In the opening race, Ladjadj Suerland - and Wejdan - who had All eyes were on trainer Ghazali In race two, the top three spots produced a late burst to seal the kicked-off the day’s proceedings Al Nakhsh, H. Al Matwi Marco Monteriso R Mullen in the saddle - in the and there was more good news were sealed by Ghazali-trained win in the 1,400m race with with a comfortable win in the AJS Qahir, M. Al Yaqout, Marvin Suerland 1,400m turf race. for the Qatari as Captain Cleo horses. My Sharona edged past Ladyanne - ridden by Avranche Muraikh Cup. THE PENINSULA Kaydoum, Majid Safedeen Darren Williams Veteran Giggs Injured Ronaldo China’s Zheng claims confident of Manchester to miss United’s Welsh mid- Galatasaray top AFC award United New fielder Ryan Giggs (right) KUALA LUMPUR: China’s match today Zheng Zhi (pictured) beat and English Year revival Iranian star Javad Nekounam midfielder MADRID: Real Madrid’s to the Asian Player of the Year LONDON: Ryan Giggs expects Ashley Young Cristiano Ronaldo is out of award yesterday after leading Manchester United to hit top take part in today’s Champions League Guangzhou Evergrande to a form in the New Year. a training Group B match at home to breakthrough regional title. The Premier League champions session in Galatasaray due to a leg mus- The 33-year-old, captain for may be on a 10-match unbeaten Manchester, cle strain, coach Carlo Ancelotti his club and country, said it was a run since their shock home loss northwest said yesterday. “special feeling” to win the Asian to West Bromwich Albion in England, The Portugal forward limped Football Confederation (AFC) September but that includes yesterday, off at the start of the second half prize after a distinguished career draws with Southampton and ahead of the of Saturday’s La Liga victory at at home and in Europe. Cardiff where points have been team’s UEFA Almeria and a scan on Monday Earlier this month the ex- squandered in the closing stages. Champions confirmed he had damaged a Charlton Athletic and Celtic In Europe, United have still to League match hamstring. midfielder skippered Marcello make sure of their place in the against Bayer The injury was not serious and Lippi-coached Guangzhou to the knockout stages of the Champions Leverkusen Ronaldo might recover in time AFC Champions League title, League, and should they lose at today. to feature in Saturday’s La Liga China’s first Asian trophy in 23 Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday match at home to Real Valladolid, years. the English giants could face a Ancelotti told a news conference. “There is a special feeling of unique treble after winning the tough task to qualify come their “Cristiano cannot play tomor- winning this award at the age ACL (Champions League) and the final group game. row,” the Italian said. of 33. It’s a big occasion for me (domestic) league, so it’s been a But United great Giggs, who “He has picked up a very small to win this award,” he said, after memorable one.” turns 40 this Friday, has seen game against Cardiff is one we there while we are not playing at problem. I think tomorrow he will being showered with tickertape at Zheng has been a driving force it all before even in the days should be winning. our brilliant best, and hopefully start to work on his own on the a gala awards show. behind Guangzhou’s transforma- when the club were lifting the “It’s a crazy season, everyone the form will come at the turn of pitch and we’ll see if he can be “This season has been fantas- tion into the team after winning European Cup under retired seems to be beating each other. the year,” added Giggs, whose side available for Saturday. tic not only for me but the whole three straight Chinese Super former manager Alex Only Arsenal (the Premier are currently seven points adrift “It’s a muscle strain but the team... we are looking for the League titles. AFP Ferguson. League leaders) have showed con- of the Gunners. player is very confident he can “We’ve got off to a disappoint- sistent form. They are up there “As long as we’re thereabouts play on Saturday. ing start,” Giggs told talkSPORT and deservedly so. in January and get a run together, “If there is a risk he could radio yesterday. “But we’ve been in so many title history shows we will have a injure himself we will not use him. Your TV guide for “The last 10 or so games we chases, and from our experience great chance of winning the If he is fine then he’ll play,” he haven’t been too bad, but the we know we’ve just got to hang in league.” AFP added. REUTERS live matches today Aston Villa rally to draw 2-2 at West Brom Event Competition Time Channel CSKA vs Bayern UEFA Champions League 20:00 +3 Leverkusen vs Man United UEFA Champions League 22:00 HD6 WEST BROMWICH: Aston Villa fought to fire past keeper Brad Guzan. Eight min- close range and Ashley Westwood produced back after conceding two goals in the utes later Long seized on a misplaced midfield a fierce long-range drive - his first goal for Anderlecht vs Benfica UEFA Champions League 22:45 .TV opening 11 minutes to grab a 2-2 draw at pass from Villa’s Leandro Bacuna to charge Villa - to level in the 76th minute. Shakhtar Donetsk vs Real Sociedad UEFA Champions League 22:45 .TV Midlands derby rivals West Bromwich through the defence and chip the ball home The 2-2 draw means that both teams have Juventus vs Copenhagen UEFA Champions League 22:45 .TV Albion in the Premier League on Monday. for his second goal. 15 points from 12 games, Albion in 11th place Ireland international Shane Long put Stephane Sessegnon then missed from four and Villa in 12th. PSG vs Olympiakos UEFA Champions League 22:45 .TV Albion in front after three minutes, con- metres for West Brom before Villa turned League leaders Arsenal are four points clear Real Madrid v Galatasaray UEFA Champions League 22:45 .TV trolling Chris Brunt’s long ball superbly as round a different side after the break. on 28, having won 2-0 against Southampton it dropped over his shoulder before turning Karim El Ahmadi reduced the deficit from on Saturday. AFP Man City vs Plzen UEFA Champions League 22:45 +3 WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 30 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Anderson India eye ODI series victory threatened Hosts look for win in third and final ODI against West Indies in Kanpur to punch

KANPUR: Unfavourable bowl- the left-hander as vital cog in Bailey, ing conditions had pegged them India’s middle-order. back in the last match but India All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, will look to assert their suprem- who has been doing a decent job says Warne acy and clinch the series against with his slow left-armers, too the West Indies when the two would be desperate to return SYDNEY: Spin great Shane teams clash in the decisive third among runs. Warne says a threat by Jimmy one-day international today. Barring the last match where Anderson to punch debutant India have been a dominant dew played a major factor, the George Bailey sparked the furi- force in this contest since West Indian bowlers have been pretty ous reaction by Australian skip- Indies’ arrival to the country but consistent in the series so far. per Michael Clarke in the first the hosts suffered a surprise two- Pace trio of Bhuvneshwar Test against England. wicket defeat in Visakhapatnam, Kumar, Mohammed Shami and Clarke was fined 20 percent of failing to defend a competitive Mohit Sharma leaked runs in his match fee on Monday after total under difficult conditions. Visakhapatnam. Dew did not being caught by a stump micro- That victory must have boosted help their cause as they strug- phone telling the fast bowler to confidence of the West Indies who gled to grip the ball and handed expect a broken arm in the final would now aim to leave the coun- out loose deliveries to the West stages of Australia’s 381-run vic- try by pocketing at least the ODI Indies batsmen. tory in Brisbane Sunday. series, following their debacle in And come Wednesday, the trio The usually mild-mannered the Tests. would be hoping to make up in Clarke also wagged his finger in They, for the first time on this better conditions. a close-up confrontation with tour, will approach a match with The spin duo of Ravichandran the England quick, a renowned self-belief and confidence. Ashwin and Jadeja, as usual, has sledger, with the umpires needing For India, it is last interna- been miser with the ball and the to step in to cool tempers. tional match at home before they two bowlers would like to carry As a member of the Nine embark on a challenging tour on their good show to help India Network’s commentary team, against South Africa and they clinch the series. Warne had access to all the would like to finish this series on Dhoni would also be hoping for stump microphone recordings a high. an improved showing from field- and tweeted that Anderson had The Indian batting line-up ers as they dropped as many as threatened Bailey, who was field- sports a solid look. Barring a few four catches in the last match. ing in close, with a punch to the individuals, the batting depart- West Indies, on the other hand, face. ment is in great form in the did just enough to secure the win “I think it’s a disgrace that @ recent past. in the second match. Indian batsman Virat Kohli (right) is seen with team-mate Yuvraj Singh in this file picture. India take on West MClarke23 has been fined. What The top three -- Rohit Sharma, Kieran Powell, who has replaced Indies in the third and final One-day International match of the three-match series today in Kanpur. The series about what Jimmy Anderson said Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli injured Chris Gayle in the play- is tied at one all. to Bailey, which wasn’t heard,” and skipper Mahendra Singh ing eleven, Darren Bravo, Lendl Warne posted on Twitter late Dhoni -- have been the real force Simmons and Darren Sammy Monday. behind India’s batting. scored crucial half-centuries to last match to restrict India to 288, a day match, toss would play a India: MS Dhoni (Capt.), “@MClarke23 stuck up for his With scores of 86 and 99 in the help the Caribbean side in secur- who at one stage were on 194 for crucial role and the team winning Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, debutant Bailey as he should have two matches played so far, Kohli, ing their maiden win on the tour. 3 in the 36th over, with Kohli on the toss would definitely like to Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh too as capt after Anderson said in particular, has been in scintil- However, one thing which course for an 18th ODI century. exploit the early morning condi- Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, he wanted to punch Bailey in the lating form. But it is the form of would be worrying skipper Ravi Rampaul, Jason Holder tions of the Green Park stadium. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammad face. Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina in Dwayne Bravo is his batsmen’s and Sunil Narine pulled the The two captains, however, Shami, Jaydev Unadkat, R Vinay “Unfortunately only Clarke’s the middle order which will be a inability to convert the starts into visitors back. Narine bowled his would be cautious as they don’t Kumar, Ambati Rayudu, Mohit reaction to Anderson’s was heard cause of concern for Dhoni ahead big scores and come Wednesday last five overs in the last match know what to expect from the Sharma and Amit Mishra. live, we all heard Anderson’s of the series decider. he would be hoping for a substan- for just eight runs, bowling two pitch at the stadium, which is West Indies: Dwayne Bravo sledge that led to Clarke reacting.” Both Dhawan and Yuvraj have tial contribution from one of his maidens while Rampaul took the hosting an international match (Capt.), Johnson Charles, Marlon He added: “Lastly as an inter- some work to do as they have top-order batsmen. wickets. after nearly four years. Samuels, Darren Bravo, Lendl national sportsman, if you decide been throwing their wickets away Even though bowling still Despite Dhoni’s assault towards The last time Green Park Simmons, Narsingh Deonarine, to dish it out ie sledging you have after getting starts. But Dhoni, remains a concern for West the end, a total of 95 in the last 15 hosted an international affair Darren Sammy, Jason Holder, to be prepared to cop it back too who struck a quick-fire 51 in Indies, the visiting bowling attack overs meant a manageable chase, was a Test match between India Sunil Narine, Ravi Rampaul, & not complain.” the last to propel India to 288, played a key role in keeping the which became easier as the dew and Sri Lanka in November 2009 Tino Best, Veerasammy Permaul, Bailey has remained tight- backed Yuvraj to strike form in series alive with an improved got heavier. which the hosts comfortably won. Kieran Powell and Denesh lipped on the Anderson incident, the upcoming matches, terming showing towards the end of the With the series-decider being Teams (from): Ramdin. AGENCIES saying only that “he must have been just a bit upset about the way the game was going I guess”. Jayawardene to skip Channel Nine yesterday apolo- gised that the Clarke comment was broadcast. Under an agree- ment between Cricket Australia series against Pakistan and the television network, the stump mike is not supposed to COLOMBO: Former captain Kithuruwan Vithanage, 22, who be on between balls so his threat Mahela Jayawardene has opted has played two Tests but is yet to should not have been recorded. out of Sri Lanka’s limited-overs make his one-day debut, replaced “He is an outstanding series against Pakistan in the Jayawardene in the limited-overs Australian cricket captain who’s United Arab Emirates next squad. Sri Lanka named their just led his team to a marvel- month due to personal reasons, one-day and Twenty20 squads for lous and historic win,” Nine’s an official said yesterday. the tour, but will announce their Head of Sport Steve Crawley told Jayawardene, 36, will miss two Test team later. reporters. Twenty20 games and five one- Sri Lanka’s one-day squad: “He doesn’t need or deserve Vettori out of dayers to be played from December Angelo Mathews (capt), that to be tarnished by our error 11-27, but was expected to be avail- Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kusal and we of course apologise.” NZ series with able for the three Test matches Perera, Dimuth Karunaratne, The explosive incident capped that start on December 31. Kumar Sangakkara, Dinesh a torrid first Ashes Test with West Indies “Mahela was not considered Chandimal, Lahiru Thirimanne, England skipper Alastair Cook for the limited-overs part of the Ashan Priyanjan, Kithuruwan also fuming at David Warner call- WELLINGTON: Former New tour as he had requested leave Vithanage, Thisara Perera, ing his team frightened, while sin- Zealand captain Daniel Vettori on personal grounds,” Sri Lanka Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith gling out batsman Jonathan Trott (pictured) has ruled himself out Cricket’s media manager Rajith Malinga, Suranga Lakmal, as “weak”. of the West Indies Test series Fernando said. Sachithra Senanayake, Rangana Matters took a dramatic turn starting next week due to fit- The Cricinfo website reported Herath, Seekkuge Prasanna. late Monday when Trott, a stal- ness worries as he comes back that Jayawardene’s wife was Sri Lanka’s Twenty20 squad: wart of the team, pulled out of from a serious injury. expecting their first child in Dinesh Chandimal (capt), the Ashes series and returned to The 34-year-old all-rounder December. Jayawardene is one of Lasith Malinga, Tillakaratne England due to a “stress-related had surgery on his left Achilles 10 batsmen and only the third Sri Dilshan, Kusal Perera, Kumar illness”, widely reported to be in June and, despite returning to Lankan after Sanath Jayasuriya Sangakkara, Angelo Mathews, depression. the domestic arena this month, is and Kumar Sangakkara to score Lahiru Thirimanne, Kithuruwan Prior to the news of Trott’s unsure if he can cope with five- more than 10,000 runs in one-day Vithanage, Thisara Perera, departure, Warner admitted that day matches. internationals. The stylish right- Nuwan Kulasekara, Seekkuge he “probably went a little bit too “International cricket, and in hander has made 11,401 runs in Prasanna, Suranga Lakmal, Members of the England cricket team arrive at Alice Springs Airport, far”, although England coach particular test cricket, places 407 one-dayers with 16 centuries Sachithra Senanayake, Ajantha Australia, yesterday. England will play the Chairman’s XI in a two-day Andy Flower said the batsman’s enormous demands on the body and 1,135 runs in 49 Twenty20 Mendis, Ramith Rambukwella. tour match starting on Friday. departure was not directly related and I simply haven’t played internationals. Left-hander AFP to the comments. AFP enough recently to be confident of meeting those demands,” Vettori said in a statement yesterday. The left-arm spinner said his short-term plan would be to Root most likely replacement for Trott at No.3 concentrate on his domestic side Northern Districts and Brisbane SYDNEY: Mike Atherton yes- Cook in the previous Ashes series from cricket and would not be returned to the UK for atten- for such a gruelling tour if his condi- Heat in Australia’s Twenty20 terday said Joe Root was the earlier this year. “He played returning to the five-Test tour, tion for a broken arm, he would tion was already known. Australian competition before re-evaluating obvious replacement at number Mitchell Johnson well, he looked which has been tarnished by not have been treated so disre- players have not commented. While his fitness in the New Year. three for troubled Jonathan compact, he got a nice stride into constant sledging as frustrations spectfully by some of our media,” Atherton favours Root at three, “What I can’t afford to do is Trott as Australian newspa- the ball. boiled over. charged the head of charity another former England skipper throw myself back into the inter- pers came under fire for being “He also dealt with all of the While Trott received wide- “beyondblue”, Jeff Kennett. Nasser Hussain threw his sup- national arena prematurely and insensitive in their treatment verbals. It was a very intense spread sympathy and support “That he is suffering a stress- port behind Ian Bell, who has re-injure myself,” added Vettori. of the player. The former passage of play and his angelic from England players past and related illness that cannot be seen long batted at five. “It wouldn’t be any good for me, England captain said the baby- smile seemed to disarm Mitchell present, several Australian news- is no excuse for a lack of under- “Bell is a high-class, experi- it wouldn’t be any good for the faced Root had proved he could Johnson as well.” paper headlines were taken to standing by some of our media. enced player with lots of touch. team.” handle fiery paceman Mitchell Atherton said this made Root task by a leading mental health Today’s coverage just shows we He’s got runs against Australia Vettori, who boasts 4,516 runs Johnson in the tense climax of the obvious choice to move up the charity, which said they were have a long way to go with some of late and he is the obvious man and 360 wickets in Test cricket, the first Ashes Test on Sunday order from six to replace Trott, insensitive and inappropriate. in educating them how to report to move up to number three,” he played the last of his 112 tests to survive on 26 not out. who dramatically left the Ashes None was cited but the Sydney on mental illness.” told reporters. against West Indies in July 2012. “I thought Root played really tour of Australia on Monday with Daily Telegraph said on its front Trott’s illness sparked wide- Jonny Bairstow is seen as a The three-Test series starts well at the dying end of the Test a “stress-related illness”, widely page “Trott takes his bat and spread commentary on cricket logical number six for whoever in Dunedin on December 3, at the Gabba; I thought he looked reported to be depression. ball and heads home”, while The forums and newspaper websites, moves up the order, although with matches in Wellington and really solid,” he told Sky News of The England and Wales Australian referred to “Shaky with most remarks understanding the Adelaide Oval wicket may be Hamilton to follow. New Zealand Root, who is an opener by trade Cricket Board said Trott, 32, Trott quits tour due to stress”. of his plight, although others sug- better suited to all-rounder Ben then host India in February. and played that role with Alastair would take an indefinite break “If Jonathan Trott had gested he should never been selected Stokes. AFP REUTERS WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 31 Qatar maintain winning streak GCC Volleyball: Hosts defeat Saudi Arabia to register second successive victory

DOHA: Hosts Qatar defeated Saudi Arabia in straight sets to register their second succes- sive win at the 9th GCC Men’s Volleyball championship. Yesterday, at Al Arabi Stadium, Qatar won 25-20, 25-21, 25-12. On Sunday, the hosts had opened their campaign with an emphatic 3-0 win over Oman in the five-team tournament which will end on November 29. In the other match yesterday, Bahrain maintained their win- ning streak coasting to an easy win over Kuwait. Although all the sets were a keenly contested affair, Bahrain scored points at crucial stages to pocket the three sets with a scoreline of 25-22, 25-23, 25-23. For Bahrain it was their third successive and now lead the points tally with an all-win record Qatar are in second place with two wins from two matches. On Sunday, Bahrain defeated Saudi Arabia and had began their campaign on Saturday with a win against Oman. There are two matches today, Saudi Arabia take on Oman at 5.30pm, while Qatar meet Kuwait at 7.30pm. The last round matches of the round-robin league will take place on November 29. All eyes will be focussed on the Action from the match between Qatar and Saudi Arabia at the GCC Men’s Bahrain and Qatar match, if the Volleyball championship at Al Arabi Stadium in Doha, yesterday. Qatar won host managed to win their third 25-20, 25-21, 25-12 to notch their second successive win in the championship. match today against Kuwait. Five teams are taking part in the championship which will end on November The match between two top 29. TOP: Qatari players Milos (left) and Saeed celebrate a point against Saudi placed teams is likely to decide Arabia. In today’s matches, Saudi Arabia take on Oman at 5.30pm, while Qatar the championship. meet Kuwait at 7.30pm. The last round matches will take place on November 29. THE PENINSULA

University of Cuthbert returns for Wales Calgary, Qatar University (1) finale against Wallabies to clash in final

LONDON: British and Irish backline,” said victorious Lions of Universities Lions wing Alex Cuthbert (pic- boss Gatland after announcing tured) was back in the Wales his latest Wales side. League football team to play Australia at “Alex and the medical teams Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium have worked really hard to ensure on Saturday, just over a month he is ready for this weekend and DOHA: The University of after injury put him on the it’s great to be able to bring him Calgary (UCQ) and Qatar sidelines. back into the side. University (1) (QU1) quali- Cuthbert suffered an ankle “We thought Owen (Williams) fied for the final of the Qatar injury during Cardiff Blues’ performed well in the centre Universities League after 19-15 European Cup win at home against Tonga and he gets another The players of KAS Eupen celebrate their win over Westerlo in the defeating Qatar Aeronautical to holders Toulon on October 19 opportunity on Saturday. Belgian second division on Friday night. College and Qatar University (3) and missed Wales’ opening three “There is a lot of experience in respectively in the semi-finals. November internationals against the pack for what is going to be UCQ and QU1 will clash in the South Africa, Argentina and a very physical game,” the New title clash on November 30 at the Tonga. Zealander added. KAS Eupen top table in Qatar Foundation, Recreation But a record of 10 tries -- have chosen not to release the Under Gatland, Wales have Centre Pitch 1 at 8:00pm. including one in his lone Test talented playmaker. lost 21 out of 22 Tests against The third and fourth place for the Lions against Australia But there will be plenty of southern giants New Zealand, decider will take place ahead of in June -- in 19 internationals, attacking threat from a Lions South Africa and Australia, the Belgian second division the final match at 7:00pm, where saw the 23-year-old recalled on back three of goalkicking full- exception a 21-18 win over the Qatar Aeronautical College (QAC) Tuesday for the final match of the back Leigh Halfpenny, man of the Wallabies in 2008. DOHA: KAS Eupen, owned atmosphere of the Belgian league. will take on Qatar University 3 November Test campaign. series in the combined side’s 2-1 Indeed, Wales have lost their by Aspire Zone Foundation, The latest victory saw another (QU3). Wales will be looking to claim series win over Australia, George last eight Tests against Australia, returned to the summit of the mature performance from a team An award ceremony will be a first win over a major southern North -- who has got clearance albeit the three most recent Belgian second division on featuring no fewer than seven held immediately after the final hemisphere nation since defeating from English Premiership side reverses were by a combined mar- Friday night after a hard fought Aspire Academy graduates on match at the Recreation Centre the Wallabies five years ago and, Northampton for this match -- gin of just five points. victory over promotion rivals the night, all of whom are just 19 in Qatar Foundation (QF) to hon- as expected, there were several and Cuthbert. “We are looking to finish the Westerlo. years of age. our the first four placed teams. changes to the team that beat Meanwhile Scott Williams series off well,” said Gatland. With the season now halfway “At Aspire Academy, we always At the same ceremony awards Tonga 17-7 in lacklustre fashion has recovered from a toe injury “The last three games against through, the Black and Whites stress the importance of hard for the Best Player, Top Scorer last Friday. and will line-up in the centres Australia have gone right down to are ‘winter champions’, having work and discipline to make the and Best Goalkeeper will also be Regular captain Sam alongside Cardiff Blues’ Owen the wire and I don’t expect any- displaced their opponents from most of one’s talent,” said Ivan announced. Warburton returns to the start- Williams, who scored a try on thing different this weekend.” the top spot by virtue of a nar- Bravo, Director General of Aspire Khalid Al Kuwari, Director of ing side with fellow flanker Justin debut against Tonga. Wales will face a rejuvenated row 1-0 win. Academy. Marketing and Communications Tipuric now on the bench, while In the front row Gethin Jekins, Australia who, in seeing off Italy, In a closely contested game, “Eupen’s most recent victory at Qatar Football Association Dan Biggar was chosen at fly-half who brought up his 100 caps Ireland and Scotland in succes- Eupen withstood sustained pres- saw these principles brought to (QFA) said: “Excitement levels by coach Warren Gatland instead against Argentina a fortnight ago, sive weeks are now on their best sure after taking a 13th minute the fore, with the team having are rising as we get closer to the of Rhys Priestland, who is among returns alongside hooker Richard winning run of the year. Australia lead through French striker to defend their lead with deter- end of the Qatar Universities the replacements. Hibbard, while Lions locks Ian coach Ewen McKenzie, who found Florian Taulemesse, holding on mination for much of the game. Football League. We are thrilled James Hook, who started at Evans and Alun Wyn Jones, who himself under renewed pres- to their slender advantage to To be league leaders at this stage to find out who will be this year’s fly-half against Tonga, is una- started all five of champions sure following a tour-opening prompt jubilant scenes in the of the season is a tremendous champion and congratulate the vailable because the match Wales’ 2013 Six Nations matches, 20-13 defeat by England earlier Kehrweg stadium at the final achievement, and further evi- four teams who made it to the against Australia falls outside provide the second row pairing. this month that ended hopes of whistle. dence that Aspire is producing a final stages of the tournament as the International Rugby Board’s “It’s great to have Alex and equalling the Wallaby Grand Slam Eupen features an array of steady stream of sportsmen who well as all the other participating ‘window’ for end-of-year Tests Scott available and they bring of 1984, is due to name his side talented youngsters who are can compete at the very highest teams, they all played so well and and Perpignan, his French club, a lot of experience into the tomorrow. AFP clearly reveling in the competitive level.” THE PENINSULA displayed good sportsmanship.” “Organising this tournament with QF showcases QFA’s com- mitment in nurturing the foot- ball culture in Qatar, especially amongst the youth. It also high- Montoya turns first open-wheel laps since F1 lights QFA’s efforts in encourag- ing the youth to adopt a healthy SEBRING, United States: Penske teammates Will Power of fast,” said Montoya. “It’s OK, but “You don’t win races in Formula That should be good as far as our lifestyle through playing football,” Juan Pablo Montoya climbed Australia and Helio Castroneves as it happens so fast you end up One and poles in Formula One setups.” he added. into an open-wheel race car of Brazil. making mistakes. With more time and races in the CART Series Castroneves, a three-time Indy Sponsored by Qatar 2022 for the first time since leav- Montoya, the 2000 Indianapolis in the car, everything will slow on your first try if you’re slow,” 500 winner, said Montoya will be Supreme Committee, the Qatar ing Formula One for the US 500 champion, turned 20 laps in down and it will be easier. Power said. a great asset to the team. Universities Football League is stock car scene in 2006, turning a morning session at speeds com- “It has happened to me before “I actually expected to learn “I’m excited to see him here,” organised by Qatar Foundation, IndyCar practice laps yesterday. parable to Power, who was used a few times, so I know that with from him. he said. “I’m sure a lot of people in collaboration with QFA. The The 38-year-old Colombian to set up the car for the South time everything will be easier.” “He has already brought some are going to be excited to have action-packed tournament sampled his Team Penske car at American, who has spent the past Power said he and Montoya, good ideas to the team even him back and see him as well.” kicked-off on October 24. Sebring International Raceway seven seasons in the closed-cock- who won an IndyCar season before he got in the car. Just from Montoya graded himself at The competition involved a to begin finding a comfort zone pit NASCAR series. crown in the now-defunct CART what I see from the data he has eight out of 10 but said he has total of 17 teams from 12 colleges for the vehicle he will drive in the “The biggest thing is that eve- series in 1999, have similar set- a very similar style to me. 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English giants take on Leverkusen; PSG aim to extend unbeaten run PARIS: Roger Federer should play until he is 60 if he wants to, according to Romanian PARIS: The latest instalment former world number one Ilie of the Bundesliga/Premier Nastase. League rivalry takes place on the The Swiss 17-time Grand- banks of the Rhine today when Slam champion has slipped down Bayer Leverkusen attempt to to sixth in the world rankings block Manchester United’s path and won only one title this year, through to the last 16 of the prompting many to suggest he is Champions League. a spent force at 32. Victory for United in the Group Nastase the former bad boy of A clash would seal a spot in the tennis, believes Federer should knockout rounds with a match not listen to the naysayers, to spare and leave Leverkusen however. scrapping with Shakhtar Donetsk “I wish people wouldn’t say that for second place. Roger Federer has to retire,” the While the clash of the national 67-year-old former French Open teams at Wembley last week and US Open champion was showed Germany were a cut above quoted as saying in Romanian England internationally, Premier media. League clubs have done better in “I think he should play for as this season’s duels in Europe. long as he wants. United beat Leverkusen 4-2 at “I don’t agree with those peo- Old Trafford, Chelsea crushed ple who say that you should retire Schalke home and away, Arsenal when you’re past your absolute and Borussia Dortmund shared a best or prime. win apiece while Bayern Munich “No, Federer doesn’t have to beat Manchester City. Manchester United’s English striker Wayne Rooney takes part in a training session in Manchester, northwest England, yesterday, ahead of the UEFA prove anything, he can play to 60 Leverkusen have turned the Champions League football match against Bayer Leverkusen, today. RIGHT: Paris Saint-Germain’s Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic heads the if he wants to.” Bayer Arena into a fortress, win- ball during a training session ,yesterday, at the Camp-des-Loges in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, western Paris, on the eve of the UEFA Champions Federer, who has spent a record ning their last eight Champions League match against Olympiakos. 302 weeks as world number one League group games there, and during his illustrious career, is will seek to redress the balance still one of the biggest draws in for the Bundesliga against a Meanwhile,like all good things, force. “Yes, some day, PSG will be Ezequiel Lavezzi and Edinson tennis, according to Nastase, even United side not firing on all cyl- Paris St Germain’s long unbeaten beaten. The later the better,” he Cavani were all benched while full Champions League if he has fallen behind players inders despite a marked improve- streak will eventually come to an added. “We can’t say that nothing back Gregory Van der Wiel sat in such as Rafa Nadal and Novak ment in results since a poor start end but the French champions will happen to us. But our players the stands. They are all expected to Fixtures Djokovic. to the season. do not expect that to happen are at their best both individually start today in a full-strength PSG Playing Today “If Federer wants to carry on They are one point behind when Olympiakos visit in today’s and collectively. This team have team that will count on leading- playing, no-one is going to say: United in Group A and victory Champions League match. shown its strength.” scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Group A ‘No, we don’t want Federer to would put them in the driving PSG top Group C on 10 points Forward Jeremy Menez, who The in-form Swede, who have Shakhtar Donetsk vs Real Sociedad play’. seat although a draw would actu- from four games, three ahead of scored the second goal at Reims, netted seven in four Champions “He is going to retire when he ally send both clubs through to their Greek opponents whom they said PSG were strong enough League games, set up the opener Bayer Leverkusen vs Manchester United feels like it. I don’t think that he the last 16 should Shakhtar suffer beat 4-1 in the opening game, and to control the outcome of their and closed the scoring on Group B has to retire just because he is a surprise loss at home to Real need a draw to reach the knock- games. Saturday, proving he had moved no longer the world number one. Sociedad. out stage. “Are we beatable? If we loosen forward after failing to help his Juventus vs FC Copenhagen That happens to everybody, as you That is unlikely to be the game A victory would secure a top our grip, maybe. But if we keep country qualify for the World Real Madrid vs Galatasaray can’t stay as the world number plan of either Leverkusen coach spot finish for PSG, who extended putting all the ingredients, we’re Cup. Olympiakos, however, are one forever. He retires whenever.” Sami Hyypia or United’s David their unbeaten run in all competi- really tough to play against,” he not expected to be an easy prey Group C Nastase himself retired from Moyes. tions to 34 games with their 3-0 said. as Michel’s team bubble with con- Paris St Germain vs Olympiakos Piraeus the Tour at the age of 39 but con- Leverkusen are unbeaten in 13 win at Stade Reims in Ligue 1 At Reims, the last team in fidence after their superb run of tinued playing invitational seniors home matches while United are over the weekend. Europe to have beaten PSG in recent form. Anderlecht vs Benfica events into his 60s. enjoying a 10-match unbeaten “It was the best possible way to March, former France coach Since losing to PSG, the Reds Group D REUTERS streak in all competitions, even prepare our Champions League Blanc rested some of the players have been unbeaten in Group C though their mood was soured by match,” coach Laurent Blanc told coming back from international and took a firm grip on second Manchester City vs Viktoria Plzen conceding a late equaliser in a 2-2 reporters after his side’s latest duties. Defender Maxwell, mid- place with a 1-0 win over Benfica Japan shrinks CSKA Moscow vs Bayern Munich (1700) draw at Cardiff City on Sunday. demonstration of their collective fielder Blaise Matuidi and forwards last time out. AGENCIES Games stadium

TOKYO: Japanese sports offi- Courtois error ends Qatar to get two automatic cials yesterday bowed to growing criticism that a massive stadium planned for the 2020 Olympics Atletico’s perfect record was too big and costly, saying they berths in next season’s ACL would shrink the building’s area. SAINT PETERSBURG: A David Villa and Diego Godin back The proposed stadium, designed huge error from Atletico Madrid in the Spanish capital. KUALA LUMPUR: Qatar by London-based Iraqi architect goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois However, Zenit still strug- will get two automatic berths Zaha Hadid, is intended to occupy allowed Zenit St Petersburg gled to breakdown Atleti’s solid in the 2014 edition of the AFC a spot in west Tokyo currently to snatch a vital Champions defence with Hulk’s piledriver Champions League, it was occupied by the national stadium, League point against the high- from the edge of the area that announced by the Asian body an area with numerous parks and flying Spaniards as they drew was beaten away by Courtois yesterday. a large Shinto shrine. 1-1 in Russia yesterday. their most dangerous effort of Qatar were fielding four teams The new 70-metre (230-foot) An under-strength Atletico, the first-half. up until this season but from next architectural centrepiece -- a already assured of a pass to Atletico had failed to take year, Qatari clubs will get two futuristic, bike-helmet-shaped the knockout stages as Group advantage of the space Zenit were automatic berths while two more stadium -- has drawn criticism G leaders, had taken the lead allowing them to counter-attack spots could be earned through that it would tower over other eight minutes into the second- into during the first period, but qualification, AFC said. structures in the area, which half when Adrian Lopez broke they finally got it right just after For the next edition, 2011 are limited to a 15-metre height clear of the Zenit defence and the break as Raul Garcia released Asian champions Al Sadd and Al restriction, and would be visible finished confidently low past Juri Adrian and he kept his composure Rayyan will qualify for 2014 ACL all over the Japanese capital. Lodigin. to slot home his second goal in as automatically. Yesterday the Japan Sport However, the Russians were many games. In an AFC Executive Meeting Council (JSC), which is in charge saved 17 minutes from time when Garcia then nearly doubled the held in the Malaysian capital of running the current and future Courtois allowed teammate Toby visitors’ advantage as he rattled and attended by AFC President stadium, announced it would scale Alderweireld’s looping header the crossbar, whilst at the other Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al back the floor space by one-quar- to drop into his own net to end end Alexander Kerzhakov headed Khalifa, it was decided that Japan, ter to 220,000 square metres. Atletico’s 100 percent record in a great chance over from close Korea Republic, Iran and Saudi That would cut construction the Champions League so far this range. Arabia will receive four direct costs to about 180bn yen ($1.8 season. Zenit’s equaliser was to slots in the group phase of the Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, President of the Asian Football bn), Japanese media reported, The result does still dent arrive in comic fashion though competition. Confederation (AFC) delivers his keynote address at the AFC Player of well down from 300bn yen for the Zenit’s chances of progressing to as Courtois let Alderweireld’s The committee also gave its go- the Year ceremony at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. bigger building. Officials did not the last 16 as they now need to header go, believing it was going head to play the AFC Champions release a revised cost estimate. beat Austria Vienna on match- out for a corner, only to be left League on a zonal basis until the “While we are still using Zaha day six and hope that Porto drop embarrassed when the ball dipped semi-finals for the next three on his visits to Iran, China, by the Iraq Football Association, Hadid’s design, we now plan to points against the Austrians later underneath his crossbar. years. Brunei Darussalam, the he said AFC has zero tolerance downsize it,” a JSC official told on Tuesday or when they visit Garcia had another chance to The other recommendations of Philippines and Indonesia and policy on government interfer- an expert panel which approved Madrid in two weeks time. win the game eight minutes from the AFC Competitions Committee praised the respective Member ence and AFC will actively get the new blueprint. The reportedly With Atletico already assured the end, but this time was denied and other standing committees Associations for the efforts they involved in the process of restor- slimmed-down cost is still nearly of top spot coach Diego Simeone by a smart low stop from Lodygin were also approved. have put in for the development ing the Iraq FA administration 40 percent above the government’s left a number of his first-team as the spoils were shared. AFC President Shaikh of the game. along side FIFA. initial estimates for a new stadium. regulars, including Diego Costa, AFP Salman informed the members With regards to the issues faced THE PENINSULA AFP