ly tocomearoundapositionclosertheSaudis.” Muslim Brotherhoodhasprobablybeendampened.They’relike- mer USambassadortoRiyadh.“Theirinfatuationwiththe the Qatariswilldrawbacksomewhat,”saidRobertJordan,afor- $7 billioninaidduringthemovement’syearpower.“Isuspect means toprojectitsinfluenceintheMiddleEast,andgaveEgypt a radical,Islamistagendaintheirownbackyard. Muslim BrotherhoodwoulduseitsdominationofEgypttopush uprisings ascatastrophicforregionalstabilityandfearedthe which, withthenotableexceptionofQatar,hadviewedArab also markedarecalibrationofpoweramongGulfArabstates reversal forIslamistsempoweredbytheArabfermentof2011.It delight atthearmy’soustingofPresidentMohamedMorsiina Emirates andKuwaitofferedEgyptthisweekshowedtheir RIYADH: Israel andthePalestinianGazaStrip. raised fearoversecurityinthelawless Sinaipeninsulabordering how deepthefissuresinEgyptian society are.Theunresthasalso have littlesympathyforthedemonstrators whodied,underlining many ofitsopponentsblameIslamists fortheviolence,andsome down, evokingmemoriesofitssuppression underMubarak.But said FatehAli,a54-year-oldcivilservantinCairo. month ofRamadan,andeveryoneIspeaktosaysthesamething,” for Egyptians,toseefootageofbloodandviolenceduringtheholy anti-Morsi demonstratorsacrossthecountry.“It’saveryhardtime three daysafter35peoplewerekilledinclashesbetweenpro-and private newschannelsandsocialmedia.Theincidentoccurredjust shootings, graphicimagesofwhichhaveappearedonstateand when troopsopenedfire. call itamassacreandsaythosewhodiedwereprayingpeacefully tion, whichthemilitaryblameson“terrorists”.Morsi’ssupporters members ofthesecurityforceswerealsokilledinthatconfronta- his alliesalreadyfeltatthemilitary’sdecisiontoousthim.Four Islamist protestersonMondayinviolencethatintensifiedanger Republican GuardcompoundinCairo,wheretroopskilled53 Hosni Mubarakin2011.OfficialssayMorsiisstillbeingheldatthe Tahrir Square,thecradleofuprisingthatoverthrewPresident demand Morsiresign,hascalledforaRamadancelebrationin Tamarud group,whichbroughtmillionsofpeopletothestreets day ofprayer,intheholymonthRamadan.Theyouth-led streets ofCairowereotherwisequietyesterday,theweeklyMuslim from theprovinces,whereBrotherhoodhasstrongholds.The more thantwoweeks,crowdsswelledaspeoplewerebussedin ment, whichfornowlookslikealostcause. Brotherhood istryingtomobilizepopularsupportforhisreinstate- leader afterawaveofdemonstrationsagainsthim,Morsi’sMuslim More thanaweekafterthearmytoppledEgypt’sfirstelected which morethan90peoplewerekilledinabitterlydividednation. Morsi, protestedinCairoyesterdayafteraweekofviolence CAIRO: Islamists protest BruisedEgyptian Qatar, however,sawsupportfortheMuslimBrotherhoodasa SUBSCRIPTION The Brotherhoodcontendsitisthe victimofamilitarycrack- Many ofEgypt’s84millionpeoplehavebeenshockedbythe At aCairomosquewhereMorsisupportershaveheldvigilfor Islamist supportersofEgypt’soustedpresident,Mohamed The $12billioninaidSaudiArabia,theUnitedArab

150 Fils AUDY UY1,21 RMDN4 44A No:15868 1434 AH SATURDAY, RAMADAN4, JULY 13,2013 Gulf fearsBrotherhoodwouldpushradicalagenda Qatar, comfortsSaudis Morsi’s falldisconcerts Continued onPage14 Continued onPage 14 during thefirstFridayprayersofMuslimholyfastingmonthRamadanyesterday.—AFP JERUSALEM: PalestinianworshipersprayoutsidetheDomeofRockatAl-AqsaMosquecompoundinJerusalem Bretigny-sur-Orge yesterdaynearParis.—AFP BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE: A wounded andsome ofthemareserious,”Vallssaid. “At thisstagethere aresevenpeopledead,several dozen a trainheadingfromParistothe west-centralcityofLimoges. lowing theaccidentatBretigny-sur-Orge stationinvolving seven deadandsaidtherealso were“dozensofinjured”fol- cials said.InteriorMinisterManuel Vallsgavetheinitialtollof and derailedatastationinthesouthern suburbsofParis,offi- dozens injuredyesterdayafter aspeedingtrainsplitintwo BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE: Many casualtiesinFrenchderailment At leastsevenpeopleweredead and picture showsaderailedwagononthesiteoftrainaccident intherailwaystationof on itssidethe platform,”apolicesourcesaid. son. Partofthetraincontinued to rollwhiletheotherwasleft at thestationhighspeed.Itsplit intwoforanunknownrea- activated at5:23pmfollowingthe accident.“Thetrainarrived train carriageswerelyingontheir sides. and woundedwas“constantly evolving”andthatseveral The Parisprefect’sofficesaida “redalert”planhadbeen The ministersaidthatinformation onthenumberofdead Eshaa: 20:20 Eshaa: 18:50 Maghreb: 15:28 Asr: 11:54 Dohr: 03:24 Fajer: 03:13 Emsak: Continued onPage 14 Min Max 32º 48º local SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

Fasting made simple for Ramadan Kareem Diabetics during Ramadan God’s Mercy Balanced diet, constant monitoring to Mankind

KUWAIT: Although strictly advised against fasting during Ramadan excess sugar level in the blood or hyperglycaemia, if not controlled By Hassan T. Bwambale by doctors, majority of Diabetic patients continue fasting during the can lead to organ damage. od is the Lord and the Cherisher of all the creatures. His mercy holy month, exposing themselves to high rate of acute complications Novartis is distributing patient education booklets and glucome- may imply pity, forbearance, (to purify or shape or forgive like hypoglycaemia and dehydration. To help these patients Novartis ters through health clinics to raise awareness on the safety measures. Gyou), and forgiveness, etc. But there is a Mercy that goes has issued safety measures which will create awareness on the pre- The education booklet has been developed in consultation with med- before even the need arises, the Grace which is ever watchful, and cautionary steps, balanced diet and constant monitoring of blood ical professionals. Here are some of Safety measures from the booklet: flows from God - the most Gracious - to His creatures, protecting sugar level. “Fasting has very high chances of adversely affecting dia- • Consult your doctor a few weeks before Ramadan to come up them from evil and calamities; preserving them, guiding them in the betic patients because long hours without food and drink can signifi- with an individualized management plan right path, and leading them to clearer light and higher life. cantly reduce the blood sugar levels leading to complications like • Monitor your blood glucose level frequently, multiple times a If our creator and cherisher is kind and merciful to us and guaran- unconsciousness, seizures, brain damage and very rarely death. day. If the glucose levels are noticed to be very low, break the fast tees forgiveness if we repent sincerely, why shouldn’t we be kind to Through a balanced diet plan and strict monitoring of blood suger immediately our kith and kin and brothers in humanity. If we put this concept into level these complications can be avoided,” says Dr. Rayaz A Malik, • It is very important to maintain constant body weight through- consideration, then we will be able to eliminate all the present woes, Professor of Medicine and Consultant Physician speaking at a recently out Ramadan and that can take place only through a balanced diet. wars, sufferings, hostilities, among others. Muslims tend to be kinder held seminar on Diabetes and the fasting population in Ramadan. Tips for a balanced diet: in Ramadan than other months. It is time they take the lessons from “The increased risk of hypoglycemia 1. Eat more vegetables and fruits; Ramadan and implement them even after the month of Ramadan. In Ramadan by depriving the body, we actually enrich the soul. That caused by fasting can be severe and even choose colored variety, non-starchy veg- makes us better human beings and improves the way we deal with life threatening for patients with type 2 More than 50 million Muslim etables such as spinach, carrots, broccoli others. It is because of God’s infinite mercy that He is a friend of the diabetes. Hence it is absolutely important patients with type 2 diabetes are or green kidney beans your meals. friendliness and the help of the helpless. He hears and responds to all for patients to follow individualized man- 2. Choose the whole grain foods sincere prayers, and grants to us whatever is best for us even when agement plan in consultation with their estimated to fast during the instead of processed grains; choose the we tend to be stubborn and obstinate; not as we see and fathom it doctors.” Says Dr Monira Al-Arouj, month of Ramadan, putting them wheat macaroni or the brown rice according to our limited knowledge. In this world He grants protec- Consultant Diabetologist and Assistant instead of white rice. tion and sustenance even to those who do not believe in Him. Director of the Dasman Diabetes Institute. at increased risk of hypoglycemia 3. Use the liquid oils in cooking Revenge in Islam: Since the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is our During fasting, the circulating glucose 1,2. Patients are advised to instead of solid fats. Solid fats are high role model, it is conducive to quote some of the incidents in which he levels in the blood tend to fall due to saturated. Remember that fats are high had the right to revenge but declined, seeking the infinite mercy of decreased insulin secretion. For diabetic undergo medical assessment calories. God Almighty. patients, insulin secretion is severely before they begin fasting. 4. Choose the beef slices; to reduce During the battle of Uhud, the second decisive battle in Islam, affected by the disease and prolonged the fat ratio you eat, remove the fat skin Hind, the wife of Abu Sufyan, then amongst the staunchest enemies of Islam, hired a slave called Wahshi, to kill Hamza, Prophet hours of fasting can lead to hypogly- of chicken or turkey. Muhammad’s paternal uncle. Wahshi was famous for his shooting caemia, and dehydration. More than 50 million Muslim patients with 5. Choose products of non-fat milk such as non-fat milk, non-fat skills with his bow and arrows. After killing Hamza ranks of pagan type 2 diabetes fast during Ramadan every year, abstaining from yogurt, non-fat cheese. warriors came and mutilated his corpse. Saddened and grieved by food, water and the use of oral medications between dawn and sun- 6. Drink water or diet drinks free from calories, have a little normal that barbaric act, Prophet Mohammed pledged to kill and mutilate 70 set. Fasting can have important health consequences for type 2 dia- soda and fruit juices, sweetened tea and other drinks sweetened with of the pagans in retaliation. God revealed the following verse: “... and betes patients, including up to a seven-fold increased risk of hypo- sugar. if you catch them out, revenge no worse that they caught you out; glycemia (low blood sugar levels) that can result in difficulty in con- 7. In your meals, eat the dried kidney beans and lentil. Kidney but if you show patience, that is indeed the best (course) for those centrating, coma, seizures and even death2, 3. During Ramadan, dia- beans and lentil contain high ratio of protein and low ratios of fats. who are patient.” (16: 126) betic patients are also exposed to different food options without 8. Stay away from snacks and high calorie sweets. Eat a little of Those who have reached the highest spiritual standard do not knowledge of level of calories or sugar content. Due to prolonged food containing high fats and sweets such as chips, biscuit, cake and take revenge, but rather seek common terms with those who hours of fasting there is a tendency to overeat which can lead to ice cream. wronged them. We must be careful of our own and other people’s lives. We must commit no violence. Our violence to our own brethren is particularly preposterous, seeing that God has loved and showered His mercies on all His creatures and us. 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Karam highlighted the northwestern wind activity, will increase the likelihood of a regions of the “northern desert, northwestern, and residen- sandstorm today and tomorrow, particularly across desert KUWAIT: Journalists and media men are exerting great efforts in preparation tial areas” as the most likely to be affected by these sizzling and open areas. — KUNA for the forthcoming parliamentary elections due on July 27, capitalizing on all available tools to cover the race. Since registration for candidacy began on June 27, the election watchdog has witnessed a remarkable media presence involving relevant arrangements, candidates and campaigns. Several journal- ists working with local newspapers stressed the significance of general elec- tions as a professional experiment that would enrich their field experience. Omar Al-Rashed, a journalist with Aljareeda daily, said all media representa- tives work actively in the election season, believing that social networking sites cannot wipe out the role of journalists, especially experienced ones. The election season always has a quiet beginning, but it becomes very competitive by the end of the electoral process, Al-Rashed said.Abdulnaser Al- Aslami, a journalist with Alsiyasa daily, opined that there is nothing new for the election atmosphere, but there could be something different this time due to the holy month of Ramadan. Boshra Shaban, an editor with Al-Anbaa, said mass media play a main role in the electoral process, especially following the recent adoption of the election law which bans street pictures and signs. Mass media act as a mediator between candidates and voters; being used by the former to promote their views and planks, she said. Mohamed Abdulhafeeth of Alnahar said mass media constitute a significant source of steering, guidance and education in societies. Journalists are required to do their jobs in line with international criteria and norms of professionalism, objectivity and neutrality, he added. Slogans of candidates running for the July 27 parliamentary polls differ from previous elections as they are of low-intensi- ty in terms of political atmosphere in Kuwait coupled with a legally-approved voting system and how voters were digesting these mottoes. Slogan is an “artistic” style used by every candidate to influence the largest amount of vot- ers as simple as possible, with emphasis on linking these slogans with every- day’s life. Some see the slogans used by candidates complimentary to cam- paigns while others consider them very important because they were linked to principles of democracy and competitiveness. Specialists in mass communica- tions, sociology and political sciences said variation of slogans used by candi- dates are closely linked with political and electoral system, and how the voters were politically aware of the social surroundings accompanying the campaign- ing. This variation is also linked to candidates and their kills - culturally, socially and even financially - to persuade the voters to vote for them. Mohammad Al-Baloushi, Mass Communications Professor at Kuwait University (KU), said slogans of candidates “are irrelevant to the demands and aspirations of voters because they are related to reality, and they are indeed different between past and present electoral campaigns. “There supposed to be a link between the slogans and aspirations of candi- dates, but in reality there are many mottoes that don’t reflect the belief of the candidate but mere inaccurate hypotheses,” Al-Baloushi told KUNA. He said candidates were experiencing what he described as “media weak- ness” because of high weather temperature, the fact that elections would be held in Muslims’ fasting month of Ramadhan and that voters were politically aware of the current circumstances. Al-Baloushi said some candidates were careless to the mottoes because they were confident they have solid amount of voters thus believe slogans would not be crucial in their campaigns. The constitutional court had last month annulled the parliament that was elected last December, and upheld the one-person, one-vote system. The government then called for legislative elections on July 27. Dr. Khudhor Al-Baroun, a teacher of Psychology at KU, said slogans during Ramadhan might be more objective, rational and calm. Voters have adjusted themselves to the new voting system, noted Al- Baroun, and Ramadhan would contribute to easing political tension and encourage candidates to call for national unity and the country’s stability. Voters lean towards candidates who criticize negative aspects in the coun- try, he said. However, some slogans “fail to influence voters because they depend on narrowly-minded individual interest.” The fact that elections would be held in Ramadhan, noted Al-Baroun, mean the campaigning would focus on “good manners, forgiveness and fair compe- tition. Political Sciences professor at KU Hamed Al-Abdullah said slogans in these elections would have low-intensity tone compared with previous elec- tions because many people accepted the one-person, one-vote system “which was reflected in the campaigning of candidates.” Speaking to KUNA, Al-Abdullah said candidates become aware now that voters “are in dire need of the voice of the mind in order to achieve their pro- gram on the ground.” Voters, he added, “need a method that speaks to their mind in order to end the state of desperation they are feeling and thus head to polling stations on election day.” Al-Abdullah said voters were eager to know programs and slo- gans of new candidates, who needed new and attractive mottoes. Some slogans are linked to reality while others are wrongly used to benefit from problems of voters, he said. Yusuf Ghuloom, a professor of Sociology at KU, said that mottoes mirrored the political conditions in the country and how to address them. Slogans of all candidates are “all excellent but the important thing is imple- menting them to benefit the society and the country ... thus the importance of electing the candidate who is capable of solving our problems and developing our society,” he said. — KUNA local SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 No intention to ban Duo in police custody for smart phone apps

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti government has no plans to ban or attempt to sell firearm block any smart phone social networking applications, Minister of Communications and State Minister for Housing Affairs Salem Al-Utheina said Thursday. In state- Cash, jewellery stolen ments on the sidelines of a meeting with senior ministry officials, Al-Utheina reiterated the ministry’s decisiveness KUWAIT: Taima detectives arrested a a thief who broke into a retired citizen’s man then beat her and escaped. Daeya of the issue. citizen and a bedoon for offering to sell car and stole a “basket of several cur- police are investigating. Meanwhile, Al-Utheina unveiled a plan to receive bids a firearm through the internet. A securi- rencies” worth KD 1,300. A security from companies for a tender involving the issuance of pri- ty source said that detectives learned source said the citizen discovered the Driver held vately-owned boat licenses. about a person offering to sell a firearm theft while his car was parked in front of Policemen arrested a man who was With regard to the problems facing the finances of the through the internet. The seller was his house, as the suspect stole KD 500, driving aimlessly, and found him want- Kuwait Airways deal to purchase a number of new aircraft, lured by detectives and was arrested $500, SR 6000 and UAE dirhams 2000. ed to serve a two-year jail sentence. The the minister said that the issue would be secured in a mat- with the firearm. He said that he volun- Detectives are investigating. policemen noticed the man changing ter of weeks.— KUNA teered to sell the weapon for his lanes without any reason, so he was bedoon friend. The bedoon was arrest- Woman harassed stopped and arrested. ed and he said he accidently found the A man who harassed a woman, was Money, guns weapon and does not know anything not satisfied by damaging her car, but Love duo held about it. also made obscene gestures towards Policemen arrested an Egyptian flowing to Syria’s her. The Kuwaiti woman who was driv- woman and her compatriot as they Abu Halifa theft ing in Surra area was harassed by the were in a compromising situation. The rebel factions A female citizen told Abu Halifa man, but she did not pay any attention two claimed they were engaged and police that an unknown person broke to him, so he hit her car on the back side about to get married. Meanwhile, a BEIRUT: Syrian rebels are getting weapons and cash from Gulf into her bedroom and stole KD 700 and and drove off while making an obsene security source said pedestrians noticed countries, including Kuwait, and their benefactors in the oil-rich jewellery worth KD 2500. Investigations gesture. The woman was able to note the man and his girlfriend heavily state are sending the aid to the most militant and anti-West fac- are under way. his car’s registration number and filed a engaged, so they called police who tions involved in the fight to topple Bashar Al-Assad. complaint at nearby police station. came and arrested the 31-year-old man The role of Saudi and Qatari governments and individuals in Cigarette theft Detectives are investigating. and his companion. Investigations are the funding and arming of Islamist fighters in Syria has been well A Jordanian expat was detained by under way. known since the civil war began more than two years ago. But Salwa police as he attempted to steal Physical assault now, guns and money are flowing from private sources and five boxes of cigarettes from a famous A man physically assaulted a woman Adan stabbing Salafist-controlled NGOs based in Kuwait, and they are going to store in the area. A security source said who refused to oblige to his sex Detectives in Mubarak Al-Kabeer rebel factions aligned with Al Qaeda. cameras detected the suspect hiding request. A case was filed against him for governorate arrested a young citizen for “We are collecting money to buy all these weapons, so that the boxes in his clothes, so security harassing a woman and another one for stabbing another in Adan area during a our brothers will be victorious,” hard-core Sunni Islamist Sheikh called police who found the cigarette physical assault. The woman was driv- fight. A security source said the fight Shafi’ Al-Ajami announced on Kuwaiti television last month, list- on him. The source said the man was ing her car in Daeya when she was sur- broke out between two young men and ing the black-market prices of weapons, including heat-seeking charged with attempted theft. prised by the man who was following one stabbed the other with a screw driv- missiles, anti-aircraft guns and rocket-propelled grenades. her. He then forced her to stop. The er before escaping on foot. Detectives Days later, Al-Ajami addressed a small throng outside the Currencies stolen woman shouted at him for his bad arrested the man after a short while, and Lebanese Embassy in Kuwait and gleefully described slitting the Detectives in Adan are searching for behavior, and she called police. The investigations are on going. throat of a Shiite Muslim in Syria. “We slaughtered him with knives,” Al-Ajami said to shouts of “God is Great.” “We are collecting money to buy all these weapons, so that our brothers will be victorious.” Argentina FM holds farewell US and Western officials want aid flowing into Syria to be tar- geted to less extreme rebel groups. One concern is that hundreds of European fighters who have joined the most militant groups, event for Kuwait envoy which have links to Al Qaeda and other jihadist factions, will one day return home from Syria and carry out terrorist acts against KUWAIT: The Argentinian Foreign the West. Among the groups receiving money from Kuwait is the Ministry held a farewell ceremony at San Syrian Islamic Front, an alliance of eight jihadist groups, which Martin Palace in Buenos Aires for Kuwait while ready to conduct joint operations with Western-backed Ambassador to Argentina Saud Abdulaziz rebels, has refused to join the Free Syrian Army. SIF leader Hassan Shamlan Al-Roumi, who completed six Aboud Abu Abdullah al-Hamawi has admitted publicly the years in office. alliance has received funding from the al-Ajami network of The event gathered dozens of donors. Argentinian senior officials including Al-Ajami, a member of the Kuwaiti parliament, isn’t alone in Deputy Foreign Minister Eduardo Zuain, the Gulf country banging the drum for jihad and raising money Assistant Foreign Minister for International for Syrian rebels and jihadists. The Muslim holy month of Affairs Maria del Carmen Squeff and Ramadan, which started this week, is high season for fundraising Director of the Ministry’s North Africa and and analysts expect that with Sunni-Shiite tensions now at their Middle East Department Hernan Bloret as height across the Middle East-a result of what has become a sec- well as heads of foreign diplomatic mis- tarian conflict in Syria-Kuwait’s Sunni Muslims will rally to anti- sions to the Latin American country, Shiite Islamist appeals for donations. according to an embassy statement Former members of the Kuwaiti parliament Falah Al Sawagh received here Thursday. and Waleed Al Tabtabie also are highly visible fundraisers and fre- Addressing the gathering, Zuain appre- quent travelers to rebel-held areas in Syria, Turkey and Jordan to ciated Al-Roumi’s dedication and hard hand over cash to their favored groups, say analysts. work for strengthening the friendly rela- Although neither has adopted the fiery rhetoric of Al-Ajami, tions between the State of Kuwait and the Al-Sawagh admitted recently that he places no constraints on Argentine Republic. how the recipients spend donations he gives and the funding can He granted Al-Roumi the Order of the go to jihad. “They have absolute freedom to spend this money. If Liberator General San Martin in recogni- they can recruit mujahedeen for defending themselves and their tion of his remarkable efforts to cementing sanctity with this money, then this is their choice,” he told the bilateral ties and cooperation between the wire agency. The fundraising is open and, according to Norman two countries in all fields in recent years. Benotman, the president of the Quillam Foundation, a London- The Argentinean official recalled that based think tank that monitors terrorism funding, Kuwait’s gov- the official visit to Argentina in 2010 by His ernment doesn’t dare intervene. Highness the then Kuwaiti Prime Minister agreements on cooperation in the politi- General San Martin, the highest decora- “If they tried to launch a police or security crackdown there’d Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohamed Al-Ahmad Al- cal, economic, commercial, technical, tech- tion in Argentina. be a backlash,” Benotman said. “The tribes themselves organize Sabah and a large business delegation nological, scientific, cultural, health, envi- He added that he had once had the the activity. Every day there’s fundraising; it is not an undercover gave a strong momentum to these bilater- ronment and investment fields, he added. honor of serving as dean of the Arab diplo- or secretive pursuit. It is part of the social life of Kuwait now. The al ties. On his part, Al-Roumi expressed grati- matic corps in Argentina, a position that government would have to go after mosques, tribes, elders and In return, Argentinean President tude to the Argentinean government and had given him the opportunity to cement Sheikhs. It would not be good for the Kuwaiti government. It is Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner visited the Foreign Ministry for facilitating his mis- ties between Argentina and the Arab the last thing they need.”— Reuters Kuwait in 2011 and signed a range of sion and the Order of the Liberator world at large.—KUNA

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Expats fish at Muttrah Corniche, Muscat, Oman, Friday. Asian expat laborers enjoy their Friday holiday at Ruwi Roundabout, Muscat on Friday, July 5, 2013. Oman has about 1,000,000 expats, mostly from India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Expat life in Oman more casual, happier Citizenship, own plots, temples

By Sunil Cherian recently Omanis, Indians and the whites drew the same salary business community are behind bars now after they were if their designations were the same. But now things are chang- caught changing the expiry dates of chocolates they sold. If KUWAIT: Indian expat stories share the same scent whether ing”, Saji Varghese, senior manager at Bahwan Properties told the sultan was in favor of them we would have still munched they happen in Kuwait or Oman. But in Oman one might see me last weekend. Many Omanis, Saji said, are also of the opin- the expired chocolates”, he said. more of an expat life brimming than in Kuwait - the whole of ion that better salaries and stable jobs should be reserved for Joy C Raphael, an author of 2 books in English said food Muscat is a transfigured form of Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh. Omani the citizens. poisoning from restaurants is a common story. “I cook my own expat life is more casual and should one say happier? Maryam Altaei, an Omani woman stands out. An architect food because I don’t have a high opinion of the restaurants in graduate on the lookout for a job, she is also a volunteer at the area where I’m staying”, Joy said. An investigative journal- These are the 10 unforgettable scenes in Muscat iCare, a charity organization which is now busy in distributing ist, Joy is critical of the Keralite diaspora, the largest in Oman. 1. An Omani woman saying no when asked to pose for a drinking water to the workforce. “I’m trying to spend my time “Expats are not a strong force in this country. Many expats get photograph by an unknown Indian who says he’s a jour- creatively”, said Maryam when I met her at Borders bookstore more than they deserve. If they apply for the same job in India, nalist. at Qurum City Center, Muscat. “No I’m not for skyscrapers”, she they’ll be shown the door. Keralites are at each other’s throats. 2. Omani citizens enjoying south Indian delicacies at ‘conti- said when asked about the ‘poetry she wants to make in For example, there are two Indian social clubs with a nental’ restaurants. stones’. “I’m for creative designs within the limits the govern- Malayalam wing and a Kerala wing. One owes allegiance to 3. Omani men washing their cars; walking on a downtown ment prescribes”, Maryam said. (The ministry of town plan- the Congress and the other to the Communists-Marxists”, Joy road under the July sun; fishing, farming and fruit-selling. ning instructs limited storied and light colored buildings). said. 4. Omani women in colorful abayas at Qurum City Center, a At least some expats feel that Omanis would turn against Xavier Jacob Kavalam, managing editor and publisher at shopping mall in Muscat. Indians after the tenure of the present sultan Sultan Qaboos Re-Discover Kerala, a magazine in Malayalam and who runs 5. Baloch people, Gujarati, Zanzibaris and even Keralites who bin Said. “The sultan had studied in India and he is favoring Skyline Travels is happy with what Oman has been giving him have Omani citizenship. Indians which many citizens do not appreciate”, an expat said. and his family. “I’m indebted to Oman where I spent my good 6. Pakistanis who make the best of the Omani halwa. The tall, He quoted an incident some time ago where a branch of an number of years and gained enormous experiences”, said shalwar kameez-clad men also wait under a tree for their Indian hypermarket chain was burned and looted in an upris- Xavier who has the credit of publishing the first biography of daily labor to be called by somebody. ing. “That’s not necessarily true”, another expat said when I HM Sultan Qaboos in Malayalam, in 2010 titled ‘Oman’s Own 7. Indian and Bangladeshi men who are seen fishing at clarified the favor story with him. “Some Indians from a strong Golden Star’. Muttrah Corniche on Fridays using bread crumbs as baits. 8. Omani men who speak good friendly English and are gen- tle to give directions (but politely refusing to pose for pho- tographs); shirtless boys near Shangri-La Barr Al-Jissah Resort & Spa asking for cigarettes or lighters or both. 9. Rocky mountains with amazing shapes on the scary road to Yiti; naturally decorated bus-waiting sheds on Madinat As Sultan Qaboos Road. 10. Gujaratis offering cow milk at Muttrah Shiv temple; devo- tees walking on bare feet on the temple premises. The latest among the expat news in Oman is of press free- dom. Oman public prosecution dismissed early this week a case of defamation against Keralite journalist Shinoj Shamsudheen who reported in Gulf Madhyamam daily 7 months ago about 4 Indian laborers deserted on the road after they were beaten up by their sponsor. A case of defama- tion was filed against the reporter but Oman public prosecu- tion discharged the allegations upholding media responsibili- ty and human rights. Expats bargaining with taxi drivers - a job reserved only for Omanis - is a common sight in Muscat and elsewhere. An Indian MBA holder sitting at the administrative manager’s chair and an Omani at a standing position because he is desig- nated as a helper was also common, people say. “Up until Maryam Altaei, an Omani woman SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Saudi princess freed Indonesia inmates flee Suicides hit all-time on $5 million bail 9 after jailbreak; 5 dead 9 high in Singapore 12

TOUCHENG: Massive waves from the winds of approaching Typhoon Soulik break on the harbor in Toucheng, Taiwan yesterday. Taiwan is closing schools and deploying soldiers to help with evacuations as Typhoon Soulik threatens to bring strong winds and heavy rains to the island. — AP (See Page 11) ‘Dead’ man wins election in Mexico Prosecutors investigate whether Morales faked own death

OAXACA: A man who was allegedly certified as the small town of San Agustin Amatengo by just 11 the mayor-elect committed a crime, “he will have to had gone to the prosecutor’s office “to ask for infor- dead almost three years ago has won a race for may- votes last Sunday as the candidate of a coalition of be replaced” by his substitute. Carbadillo Morales mation related to the incidents linked to me, which or in the southern state of Oaxaca. Leninguer conservative and leftist parties. But now prosecutors proved once again he’s alive and well on the eve of are totally false.” “The proof,” he added, “is that Raymundo Carballido Morales won the election in are investigating whether Carballido Morales faked the election, writing on his Facebook page that he there’s not even a formal complaint.” — AFP his own death in 2010 in order to escape arrest in connection with the gang rape of a woman in 2004. A living and breathing Carballido Morales actually campaigned in the election, appearing in public Death toll from wave of events and giving interviews to reporters. But two days before the vote, the local daily Iraq violence rises to 51 Tiempo de Oaxaca reported that the candidate’s lawyer had delivered a forged death certificate to BAGHDAD: The toll from a wave of attacks in Iraq three soldiers on the road between Haditha and authorities in 2010. The document, which was certi- mainly targeting security forces and Shiites rose Baiji, northwest of the Iraqi capital. fied by a doctor, declared that Carballido Morales yesterday to 51 killed, 26 of them police and sol- In another attack, a car bomb ripped through a had died of “natural causes” following a diabetic diers, security officials and doctors said. funeral tent where family members of a Shiite coma, the newspaper said. Iliana Araceli Hernandez, Thursday’s attacks came amid a surge in violence man were receiving condolences in Muqdadiyah, a state prosecutor for crimes against women, said that has killed more than 2,500 people already this northeast of Baghdad, and a suicide bomber deto- her office launched an investigation in the wake of year, including upwards of 250 so far this month. nated explosives when emergency personnel the report “to determine if a crime was committed.” Analysts point to widespread discontent arrived. The blasts killed a total of 10 people and Oaxaca’s civil registry director, Aide Reyes, acknowl- among Iraq’s minority Sunni community, and the wounded 22. And a car bomb near a Shiite reli- Shiite authorities’ failure to address their griev- gious hall close to Dujail, north of Baghdad, killed edged that a public servant signed the document ances, as the main factors driving the increase in nine people and wounded 21 more. Many people and that her office opened an investigation. violence. In Thursday’s single deadliest incident, gather at places of worship at night during the The state head of the leftist Democratic gunmen shot dead 11 police charged with pro- Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began Revolution Party (PRD), Rey Morales Sanchez, whose tecting the country’s vital oil infrastructure and earlier this week. —AFP Lenin Carballido party was part of the candidate’s coalition said that if INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Saudi princess freed on $5 million bail

SANTA ANA: A Saudi princess charged Tony Rackauckas said after court 7-year-old daughter’s medical bills. The prosecuted in Orange County since vot- with human trafficking was freed after Thursday that the woman was subjected 30-year-old woman, whose name has ers approved a law last year to stiffen posting $5 million bail, but authorities to “forced labor,” and likened Alayban to not been released, alleges she was the penalties for the crime. If convicted, imposed strict travel requirements and a slave owner. forced to work long hours and was paid Alayban faces a maximum sentence of GPS tracking to keep her in Southern “It’s been 150 years since the only a fraction of what she was prom- 12 years, which is double the sentence California. Meshael Alayban, 42, who Emancipation Proclamation, and slavery ised. Authorities said it wasn’t until she she could have received a year ago, prosecutors said is one of the six wives has been unlawful in the United States, traveled with the Saudi family on their Rackauckas said. of Saudi Prince Abdulrahman bin Nasser and certainly in California, all this time, vacation to the United States that she The Saudi royal family is extensive, bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, was released and it’s disappointing to see it in use was able to escape, flag down a bus, and with thousands of princes and princess- Thursday after posting the hefty bail here,” said Rackauckas, who had call police, authorities said. es, including some who have run into amount a day after her arrest. requested that Alayban’s bail be set at When police searched the condo, trouble with the law. In 2002, Saudi Earlier in the day she had appeared in $20 million. Defense attorney Paul they found four other workers, from the princess Buniah Al-Saud, who was court wearing a dark blue jail jumpsuit Meyer declined comment on the case Philippines. The women left voluntarily accused of pushing her maid down a to answer to one felony charge of but previously said it was just a dispute with officers and told them they were flight of stairs, entered a no-contest plea human trafficking. She did not enter a over domestic work hours. Alayban is interested in being free, police said. No in Florida and was fined $1,000. In 1995, plea. Her arraignment was postponed to forbidden to have contact with the charges have been filed related to those another Saudi princess, Maha Al-Sudairi, July 29. Alayban was arrested after a alleged victim, cannot leave Orange women and police said there were no allegedly beat a servant in front of sher- Kenyan woman who worked for her as a County without permission from the signs any of the workers had been phys- iff’s deputies providing off-duty security. maid alleged she was held against her court, and had to turn over her passport. ically abused. No charges were ever filed. “These peo- will and forced to work. The maid led The Kenyan woman said her passport The women’s passports had been ple have lots of money; they think police to a condominium where was taken from her when she left her held with the victim’s documents in a they’re above the law,” said Ali AlAhmed, Alayban’s family was staying, authorities country to work for Alayban, hoping to safe deposit box, Rackauckas said. The director of the Washington-based said. Orange County District Attorney make enough money to cover her ailing case is the first labor trafficking case Institute for Gulf Affairs. — AP

Hunt for Indonesia inmates News after mass jailbreak, 5 dead in brief World’s largest building 100 inmates, including militants flee opens in western China BEIJING: Move aside Dubai. China now has what is billed as MEDAN: Indonesian police yesterday hunted for around 100 the world’s largest building - a vast, wavy rectangular box of inmates, including militants, who escaped from an overcrowd- glass and steel that will house shops, offices and a faux ed jail after setting the prison ablaze in riots that left five dead. The inmates began rampaging through the jail in Medan city ocean beach with a huge LED screen for video sunsets. The on Sumatra island on Thursday afternoon, setting fires and mammoth New Century Global Center that opened last hurling bottles at guards in anger over power cuts and water month in the city of Chengdu has 1.7 million square meters shortages at the facility. The Tanjung Gusta jail was engulfed (19 million square feet) of floor space, edging out the previ- in towering flames and scores of firefighters battled through ous record-holder, the Dubai airport. The New Century proj- the night to douse them. Some 150 prisoners initially escaped ect is a sign that China’s growth has spread from the coun- and police and soldiers were on Friday still desperately hunt- try’s more prosperous eastern and southern regions to the ing for around 100 after recapturing several dozen overnight. west. Backed by local governments, the building will have Prisoners are often held in grim, overcrowded jails in offices, hotels, shops and the ocean park - all under one roof. Indonesia, and Tanjung Gusta is no exception as it currently holds well over double its official capacity of 1,054. The prison- Japan heatwave kills 12 ers were still in control of the jail early Friday, casually chatting TOKYO: A severe heatwave that hit Japan a week ago has outside their cells while heavily armed security forces formed claimed at least a dozen lives, reports said yesterday. The a cordon round the building, an AFP reporter at the scene mercury has topped 35 degrees Celsius in areas right across said. They allowed in about two dozen soldiers but did not let the country for several days, with no immediate end to the police enter, the reporter said. “We don’t like police, they are misery in sight, forecasters say. Thousands of people have inhumane, they frequently beat us,” one of the prisoners been taken to hospital suffering from heatstroke or exhaus- shouted, as another waved a charred gun and handcuffs at tion, with at least 12 of them dying, Jiji Press and other officers. media reported. Most of those affected are over 65, but Heru Prakoso, North Sumatra province police spokesman, there have also been groups of schoolchildren who were said that prisoners and a government official would hold talks participating in school activities outside. One recent death later in the day in a bid to break the standoff. “Seven inmates was that of a 90-year-old man whose body was discovered will represent the prisoners and will negotiate later today with by his son inside an apartment. The air conditioner was a senior official of the justice and human rights ministry,” he turned off, Jiji said. Yesterday, the day’s highest temperature said. Five people-three prisoners and two prison staff-had was 38.3 degrees Celsius in Kawanehon town in Shizuoka been killed in the riots, he added. The two prison staff died prefecture. More than 40 other spots recorded highs of 35 trapped in their burning office, said Denny Indrayana, coordi- degrees or more, Japan’s meteorological agency said. nating deputy minister for politics, legal and security. “They were collating prisoner data on remission, which was to be Italy police arrest 38 given on Independence Day, August 17,” he said. in mafia crackdown About 1,000 police and soldiers were deployed to guard ROME: A major police operation in Italy yesterday led to the the facility and undertake a massive hunt around the area on MEDAN: Inmates look from inside a burnt down cell at arrest of 38 people, including almost every member of a Friday to try and find prisoners still on the loose. They includ- Tanjung Gusta prison following a prison riot in Medan, southern town council, for alleged mafia connections. ed six people convicted of terrorism, said Prakoso. The prison North Sumatra, Indonesia yesterday. — AP Police swooped on addresses across southern Italy as part had been holding a total of 11 terror convicts, he said. Some of the latest crackdown on corruption in local authorities. were jailed for their involvement in militant training at a camp was overcrowded. “The prison capacity is only 1,054 but it Among those held by police were several council members in Aceh province where, police say, militants were planning now holds about 2,600 convicts and suspects on trials,” he in the town of Scalea, including the mayor. Pasquale Basile, Mumbai-style gun attacks on high-profile Indonesians. said. “Most prisons across the country have this problem.” The head of the town of 11,000 residents since 2010, is suspect- The others were connected with a bank robbery to fund coordinating minister for politics, legal and security Djoko ed of being an intermediary between two rival mafia clans terror activities and the killings of police officers, police said. Suyanto said the riots were a call to action on the nationwide and handing out contracts to mafia firms. Five out of six of Prakoso added that 55 escapees had so far been arrested after problem of overcrowded prisons. “We will (first) distribute the town’s councillors were also arrested, and the head of an all-night hunt in the area, including three convicted of ter- prisoners at Tanjung Gusta to other nearby prisons,” he said. In the local traffic police is being investigated for “criminal rorism. Ten civilian guards were briefly held hostage during February last year, dozens of inmates at the overcrowded association”. There were also arrests in the cities of Bari, the riots on Thursday but were released late in the evening, Kerobokan prison on the resort island of Bali rioted and set Matera, Salerno and Terni as part of the same inquiry, which Prakoso said. The prison had been guarded by civilians and parts of the facility on fire, sending outnumbered guards run- targeted the network of the Valente-Summo clan of the not police, he added. A spokesman for the justice and human ning. The riots ended days later when heavily armed police ‘Ndrangheta mafia based in the Calabria region. rights ministry, Goncang Raharjo, told AFP that Tanjung Gusta stormed the prison. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 UK kicks off controversial talks on outsourcing weapons buying Around 20 companies linked to the deal

LONDON: Britain has kicked off controver- PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte, three and in 2014 will compare the best proposal they’re alliancing with us,” said one senior sial talks to put its 159 billion pound ($238 sources said. US-listed Fluor, URS, KBR, and with an alternative option known as ‘DE&S defense industry source. “Now if we’re going billion) military equipment buying program SAIC are also vying for the deal, two of the plus’, which it has not provided details on to share information with a commercial enti- in the hands of a private company, as it bat- sources said. but has described as an “improvement of ty, we want to make sure that’s absolutely tles to clamp down on cost overruns and Some of the British companies in the run- the status quo.” Britain is aiming to complete firewalled and any unauthorized disclosure delays, industry sources said. About 20 firms ning include WS Atkins, Capita, PA a reform within the next 18 months, Bernard is remediated at law.” QinetiQ, for instance, have expressed an interest in a contract to Consulting, QinetiQ and Serco, the three Gray, the chief of defense materiel who provides services to the MoD as well as tech- run the Defense Equipment and Support sources added. The firms will now decide spearheaded the GOCO idea, told political nology and equipment to other defense (DE&S) unit, which accounted for almost half whether to form alliances, with some of the magazine Civil Service World this month. contractors such as Lockheed Martin. of the Ministry of Defense’s (MoD) 34.4 bil- US groups expected to team up with British While the defense industry has voiced Atkins, whose overall work with DE&S is lion pound budget last year. ones. In June, Defense Secretary Philip support for the government’s move to worth less than 1 percent of DE&S’ total The government will now choose firms Hammond laid out the so-called govern- reform the way it buys equipment, there are annual spend, holds numerous defense for formal discussions. Should it go ahead, ment-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) concerns over potential conflicts of interest equipment contracts with the MoD includ- Britain will be the first country to outsource plan. “It’s a huge step for MoD outsourcing as some bidders already hold contracts with ing for software testing for the Lynx Wildcat its negotiations with weapons supplies such and has the potential to significantly change both the DE&S and its top suppliers. There is helicopter. Lawmakers will debate the issues as BAE Systems and Finmeccanica, accord- the procurement market for defense also uncertainty over how the government at the second reading of the Defense Reform ing to defense consultancy IHS Jane’s. Britain materiel in the UK,” one source close to the and eventual winner will ensure commercial Bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday. expects to spend 159 billion pounds on mili- bid process said. The MoD declined to com- confidentiality. Alison Seabeck, who looks after defense tary equipment between 2012 and 2022. ment on the process. “There could be circumstances where, equipment and procurement policy for the Firms in the running for the contract include certainly with the UK entities and occasional- main opposition Labour Party, told Reuters defense and engineering companies CONCERNS ly some of the American ones, we might find she was “very open minded” about the pro- Bechtel, CH2M Hill and Balfour Beatty , as The government intends to cut the list of that elsewhere in the world we’re compet- posals, but echoed industry concerns well as business consultants bids down later this year, one source said, ing against, or they’re in our supply chain, or around intellectual property. — Reuters

S Sudan gunmen battle Portuguese president Silva throws rivals in war-torn Jonglei politics into disarray

JUBA: Columns of heavily armed South LISBON: Portugal’s president threw the bailed-out euro zone Sudanese gunmen in a tribal militia are country into disarray on Thursday after rejecting a plan to fighting their way towards a rival com- heal a government rift, igniting what critics called a “time munity in the eastern Jonglei state, a bomb” by calling for early elections next year. President local official said yesterday. Lou Nuer Anibal Cavaco Silva proposed a cross-party agreement and Dinka gunmen from northern between the ruling coalition and opposition Socialists to Jonglei are reported to be marching guarantee wide support for austerity measures needed for south towards Pibor, an area of their Portugal to exit its bailout next year, followed by elections. rivals, the Murle. “We are worried that a The surprise move came just when conservative Prime lot of people will die, especially women Minister Paolo Passos Coelho thought he had overcome a and children,” said Pibor County cabinet crisis by reaching a deal to keep his centre-right coali- Commissioner Joshua Konyi, speaking to tion together. The decision was a warning shot to all main- AFP via a crackling satellite phone from stream parties indicating the conservative president does not the town. think any of them is capable of ruling effectively until the EU- He said civilians further out in the IMF bailout is due to expire in June 2014. “We are in a situa- swampy bush were reporting that Murle tion which demands that the political parties leave their com- civilians were fleeing ahead of rampag- fort zone,” said Marina Costa Lobo, a political scientist at the ing gangs of Lou Nuer gunmen armed University of Lisbon. with semi-automatic rifles, machine guns It was hard to predict how political leaders would cope and rocket-propelled grenades. “I’m wor- with the president’s challenge until they held internal party ried because the Lou Nuer youth are PIBOR: Victims of ethnic violence in Jonglei, state, South Sudan, wait in line at meetings and consultations with the president, which started there in huge numbers,” he said, adding the World Food Program distribution center in Pibor to receive emergency on Thursday. Cavaco Silva was Portugal’s longest-serving that some reports estimated the militia food rations. — AP elected prime minister from 1985 to 1995 for the ruling cen- force to number several thousand. The tre-right Social Democrats and is seen by analysts as valuing latest round of fierce fighting broke out a South Sudan’s rebel-turned-official UNMISS admitted they were “not in an political stability above all else. He has often said he does not week ago in Pibor county in conflict- army has also been fighting in the region immediate position” to confirm details want to use “the atomic bomb,” referring to snap elections. wracked Jonglei, as government troops to crush a rebellion since April 2011 led about the clashes. Low level aerial Under Portugal’s constitution, the president has the power to try clamp down on a rebellion as well as by David Yau Yau, who comes from the patrols are limited after soldiers in dissolve parliament and call elections. warring ethnic militia. Murle people. Government officials in December shot down a UN helicopter, Cavaco Silva’s move drew sharp criticism in a country that The United Nations peacekeeping Lou Nuer areas in northern Jonglei claiming they thought it was from for- has descended into its worst economic slump since the 1970s mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is denied young men had set off to fight, mer civil war foes in Sudan, who Juba under the weight of austerity imposed by the bailout. “deeply concerned about reports of a but past clashes have followed a similar regularly accuse of arming rebels as a Portuguese markets fell in reaction to the president’s move. major mobilization of armed youth (and) pattern. In December 2011, some 8,000 proxy force. Stocks declined 1.7 percent and 10-year bond yields climbed reported clashes,” it said in a statement Lou Nuer marched south killing and loot- Ground patrols have also been scaled eight basis points to 6.97 percent. “The president of the late Thursday. The latest clashes follows ing in what they said were reprisals for back after five UN peacekeepers and sev- republic decided to overcome the political stalemate bitter fighting in May, when soldiers and earlier attacks and cattle raids by Murle en UN civilian workers were killed in an between the parties in the ruling coalition by adding another other gunmen looted UN and aid agency fighters. ambush in April near Pibor. Jonglei was problem to the one that already existed,” wrote daily Publico stores in Pibor, including a key hospital. The UN later estimated over 600 peo- one of the areas hardest hit in Sudan’s in an editorial. “He decided to take power.” US State Department officials said ple were massacred, although local offi- 1983-2005 north-south civil war, which Such accusations are not made lightly in the country that Thursday they were “deeply disturbed cials reported the figure to have been far ended in a peace deal that paved the had western Europe’s longest dictatorship under Antonio by mounting reports of abuse of civil- higher. Rights groups accuse all sides of way for the South’s full independence. Salazar. The centre-left opposition Socialists, who lead opin- ians, including targeted killings, rape, abusing and raping civilians. UN peace- But the new nation is awash with guns, ion polls, face the toughest dilemma as they were in power beatings, and the looting and destruc- keepers are based in Pibor and “are while communities that were once pit- when the country sought a bailout in 2011 and have tion of homes and humanitarian facili- patrolling in the town”, but are not ted against each other during demanded elections now. —Reuters ties.” deployed in frontline areas, Konyi said. Khartoum’s rule remain rivals. — AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 11 hostages in Hundreds evacuated as Philippine Muslim clan feud typhoon nears Taiwan ZAMBOANGA, Philippines: Armed Muslim clans in the ‘Extreme torrential rain’ strife-torn southern Philippines are holding 11 people, including several children captive, as part of a decades-long TAIPEI: Hundreds of villagers were evacu- niture were all were flooded when cent bookings for this weekend have been feud, the military said yesterday. ated and schools and businesses shut (Typhoon) Saola hit in August. It cost me cancelled.” The tit-for-tat kidnappings are part of a battle for land down in Taiwan yesterday as it prepared around Tw$200,000 ($6,670),” the 52-year- A coastal highway in Yilan where 20 between two clans that began 30 years ago on Basilan, a for the arrival of Typhoon Soulik, expected old said, adding that he started moving Chinese tourists were killed by landslides small, remote island dominated by Islamic militants and sepa- to pound the island with powerful winds valuables to higher parts of his house two caused by Typhoon Megi in 2010 was also ratist rebels, said Colonel Rodrigo Gregorio. and heavy rain over the weekend. Offices days ago. Saola left six dead, two missing closed. The feud has previously led to exchanges of gunfire and and schools closed in Taipei and eight oth- and 16 wounded in Taiwan after taking 23 More than 2,000 tourists had already claimed about 20 lives from both sides, according to er cities with residents advised to stay lives in the Philippines. been evacuated from the remote Green Gregorio, the regional military spokesman. indoors as the typhoon churns towards Others in the village were busy packing Island, south east of Taiwan, on Thursday. “Hopefully, there won’t be any violence. The two sides are the island. Packing winds of up to 209 km, up their personal belongings to take with In the capital Taipei, schools and busi- still talking,” he said. Soulik is expected to make landfall on the them and were reinforcing the roofs of the nesses closed and in Songshan district one The latest hostilities began on Tuesday when three north-east coast around 3am Saturday, the wooden homes they had to leave behind. neighbourhood politician toured the daughters of clan leader “Commander Hassan” were abduct- Central Weather Bureau said. In Wuchieh, a township in the northeast- streets in his car warning people over a ed by a rival family on Basilan, said Gregorio. The bureau downgraded Soulik from a ern Yilan county-which is forecast to bear loudspeaker to leave work and go home Hassan’s armed followers retaliated by abducting 12 super typhoon to a moderate typhoon but the brunt of Soulik-over 2,000 sandbags by 2pm local time. members of the rival clan, including seven children on warned residents across the island to pre- were snatched up by residents and two Local television reported traffic grid- Thursday. pare for “extreme torrential rain”-classified amphibious military vehicles deployed for lock in the capital as people left work ear- Gregorio said the local government and military were as 350mm (13 inches) within 24 hours-and rescue. ly, desperate to get home. negotiating with both sides and had successfully obtained rough seas. Waves as high as 1.5 metres were hit- The storm has disrupted travel to and the release of four children. More than 600 residents were evacuat- ting the shore in Yilan on Friday afternoon from Taiwan with 65 flights cancelled The ages of the kidnapped children ranged from five ed from six low-lying aboriginal riverside as coastguards patrolled the beach to according to the transport authorities. months to 15 years, the military said. But it was not clear villages outside the capital city on Friday warn visitors to stay away while hundreds President Ma Ying-jeou urged govern- which of them were released. morning. “I saw TV reporting that the of fishing boats sought shelter. ment units and the public “not to let their They are still trying to get the two rivals to release the rest typhoon may bring in up to one metre of “Many farmers have harvested rice, guards down” in a statement Friday, after of the captives while preventing any new outbreak of fight- rainfall. That would be terrible and fruits and vegetables early as the typhoon inspecting the central government’s disas- ing, Gregorio added. reminded me of the painful memories last is expected to impact our area,” said ter response centre. Commander Hassan is a member of the Moro National year,” Ginghong Izan, a male migrant from Huang Hai-tao, an official in Jiaosi, a popu- Measuring 280 kilometres across, Liberation Front, a former Muslim separatist rebel group, but the Amei aboriginal tribe said, speaking lar tourist destination in Yilan. Soulik was 360 kilometres east-southeast the feud does not involve his organisation, the military said. outside his home in Hsichou village. “The typhoon has also caused some of Yilan at 0600 GMT, according to the Muslim clans in the southern Philippines are well known “My TV, computer, refrigerator and fur- damage to tourism as more than 90 per- weather bureau.— AFP for waging prolonged feuds, typically over land, political power or influence. They often use armed followers to attack each other. Such feuds in the southern Philippines, which the coun- try’s Muslim minority regard as their homeland, claimed more than 5,500 lives and displaced thousands between the 1930s to 2005, according to a study by the Asia Foundation. During such feuds, the government including the military, typically tries to negotiate for peace between rival sides rather than move to apprehend the contending parties. —AFP Cambodian rebel leader pardoned ahead of vote

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s opposition leader in exile won a royal pardon yesterday, vowing to return to help his party fight strongman premier Hun Sen who is seeking to extend his nearly three decade grip on power. Sam Rainsy, who lives in France, had faced 11 years in jail after he was convicted in absentia for charges that he con- tends were politically motivated, including publishing a false map of the border with Vietnam. “All of his convictions are clear now. He is a free man, he is welcome back home and he can come back anytime,” cabinet spokesman Phay Siphan said. BINZHOU: This picture taken on July 11, 2013 shows residents walking on a flooded street in Binzhou, east China’s Rainsy, who wrote to King Sihamoni in June requesting a Shandong province. Torrential rain and landslide in China have left more than 200 people dead or missing, with pardon, told AFP on Friday that he would return “in the next the country raising flood emergency response level as it embraces for an approaching typhoon, state media and few days” to campaign for his party, the Cambodia National the government said. — AFP Rescue Party (CNRP). “It is a small victory for democracy that the leader of the opposition be allowed to be in the country during election 200 dead or missing in campaigning and on election day,” he said by telephone from France. But “much more remains to be done,” he added. The pardon was requested by Prime Minister Hun Sen “in China rain, landslides the spirit of reconciliation”, a government official said on con- dition of anonymity, adding that Rainsy had “no right” to run BEIJING: Torrential rain and landslides 166 more missing. More than two mil- country, from the central provinces of as a candidate in the July 28 polls. in China have left more than 200 people lion people had been affected in the Henan and Hubei to the northern In his letter to the king requesting the pardon, Hun Sen dead or missing in recent days, state region, it added. region of Ningxia. The government said a pardon would allow elections “to be conducted accord- media and the government said as the Another 13 people had died, with raised the flood alert status on the ing to democratic principles”. country braced yesterday for an four missing, since Sunday in Yan’an in Yangtze river, warning of potential Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for 28 years, is widely approaching typhoon. the northwest, where local authorities downpours and windstorms in the expected to win a majority in the polls. Landslides and floods in Sichuan warned of a high risk of flooding and waterway’s middle and lower reaches In May he said he would try to stay in power for another province in the southwest had killed 31 landslides, the state-run Xinhua news Saturday as Typhoon Soulik moves decade, until he is 74. He has previously vowed to hold office people by Thursday, according to data agency said. Official figures also showed towards the Chinese coast, reported until he reaches 90.—AFP from the ministry of civil affairs, with deaths in several other parts of the news portal people.com.cn. —AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Suicides hit all-time high in Singapore

SINGAPORE: Suicides in Singapore hit an all-time high of 487 in 2012 as more young people bogged down by stress and relation- ship woes took their own lives, a charity group dealing with the problem said yesterday. The tally, a 29 percent increase from the 2011 total, was boost- ed by an 80 percent rise in the 20-29 age bracket, the Samaritans of Singapore (SOS) said in a statement. “Common problems presented by this group of people involved stressful life events, and interpersonal relationship issues,” said SOS, which aims to prevent suicides by providing emotional support through private counselling and a 24-hour telephone hotline. “These include unemployment, stress with studies or work, financial worries, family life, and struggles with social interactions and feelings of loneliness.” Christine Wong, executive director of SOS, said young people under stress “tend to hide their pain behind a facade, not know- ing where, how or who they can approach for help”. “People around them may not be aware of their distress and are hence unable to provide the support needed,” she said in the SEOUL: South Korean vehicles carrying their finished goods and materials arrive from South Korea and North statement. Korea’s joint Kaesong Industrial Complex at the customs, immigration and quarantine office near the border vil- Wong added that the community should play an important lage of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, yesterday. role in “de-stigmatising” suicide by encouraging those under North Korea on Thursday withdrew offers for talks with South Korea on reunions of separated families and resum- stress to talk about their struggles and suicidal feelings. ing tours to a mountain resort, Seoul said. —AP SOS received 39,994 calls on its telephone hotline in 2012, down from 40,025 in 2011. Suicides cases have consistently hovered around two percent S Korea court orders US firms of total deaths in Singapore, an affluent city-state of 5.3 million residents known for its pressure-laden school system. to pay up over Agent Orange Despite a virtually full employment rate, Singapore also has a highly competitive work environment. SEOUL: South Korea’s highest court yes- The South Korean court also reversed South Korea sent some 300,000 troops Suicide is an offence in the compact island-state, and anyone terday upheld a ruling ordering two US an appeals court verdict that the two firms to fight alongside the United States and who survives an attempt faces a jail term of up to a year, a fine or Agent Orange makers to compensate 39 should compensate thousands of other southern Vietnamese forces during the both. Vietnam War veterans in one of the coun- veterans who claimed to have similarly war. US forces widely sprayed Agent The World Health Organisation last year said one million peo- try’s most prominent lawsuits. suffered from exposure to defoliants used Orange, which contained the lethal chemi- ple commit suicide every year worldwide, accounting for more The Supreme Court recognised the epi- during the Vietnam War. cal dioxin, in Vietnam during the conflict deaths than wars and murders put together. demiological correlation between the tox- More than 16,000 veterans filed sepa- to deprive enemy guerrillas of forest cover The number of suicide attempts is five times higher, it said, ic defoliant and skin diseases for the first rate lawsuits in 1999 against the US firms, and destroy food crops. with five percent of the people in the world having tried to kill time, saying the 39 victims should receive seeking about five trillion won ($4.4 bil- Veterans in South Korea estimate the themselves at least once during their lifetime. —- AFP a total of 466 million won ($415,000) from lion) in damages, but a district court ruled number of Korean victims of the chemicals Dow Chemical and Monsanto. against them. In 2006, an appeals court at about 150,000. Many insisted they were The veterans had complained that ordered the US firms to pay a total of 63 suffering from various ailments associated Accused of rape, Agent Orange was responsible for their billion won ($61 million) in compensation with exposure to the powerful herbicide. severe skin diseases. to 6,795 veterans and their families. Vietnam says millions of its people China general’s Payment is now up to the US firms, but But the Supreme Court, in its ruling on have died or suffered from direct or sec- Dow Chemical said in a statement quoted Friday, sent the case back to the appeals ond-generation disabilities as a result of by Yonhap news agency that it disagrees court for review. “There is no evidence the use of Agent Orange. son plays victim with the Supreme Court’s decision as the their diseases were caused by their expo- Washington has never accepted verdict was not backed by clear evidence, sure to the defoliant sprayed during the responsibility for the Vietnamese govern- BEIJING: Lawyers of a well-known Chinese general’s son accused of citing US court rulings. Vietnam War,” it said in a statement. ment’s claim. —AFP taking part in a gang rape are waging a rare, Western-style war of words against his critics in a reflection of the growing perception that public opinion counts. The airing of accusations surrounding the high-profile criminal Militants seek weeks-long case via the Chinese Internet has been all the more unusual because the teenage defendant is a member of one of China’s wealthy and privileged families, who usually prefer to bury salacious scandals - if halt to Thai violence they can. Li Tianyi, 17, the photogenic, baby-faced son of Li Shuangjiang, Biggest test for peace talks 72, a military singer who holds the rank of general, has become the KUALA LUMPUR: Muslim separatist involved in the talks can eliminate vio- geting security forces and teachers, who newest target of popular anger over abuses of power by the coun- negotiators will attempt to halt all vio- lence, despite concerns that the insur- are perceived as representatives of the try’s elite. “At the moment, public opinion is not on Li Tianyi and his lence in insurgency-plagued southern Thai gency appears to be highly decentralized, government of predominantly Buddhist family’s side,” said Zhan Jiang, a journalism professor at Beijing provinces throughout the Islamic fasting with local units free to choose targets and Thailand. Foreign Studies University. “China’s public mood is this way when month, a Malaysian official said yesterday. campaigns. Thai National Security Council some wealthy or powerful people are involved and the opposing The pledge by the National Revolution If violence abates in the weeks ahead, Secretary-General Paradorn side is a weaker victim,” he said. Front is the biggest test so far of whether “it is proof that we can say to the whole Pattanathabutr told reporters in Bangkok “It’s a protest against Chinese society’s lack of fairness,” Zhan peace talks that began this year with the world: There is light at the end of the tun- that if an attack occurs, both sides must added. Since news of his detention in the gang rape of a woman at a Thai government might yield substantive nel,” Ahmad Zamzamin told reporters in help to verify the origin of the problem Beijing hotel emerged in February, pictures of him and his family results. More than 5,000 people have been Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s main city. “It is a through a coordinating team. have been splashed across Chinese media and websites. The case killed in Buddhist-dominated Thailand’s steppingstone to whatever we want to “I believe the incidents will decrease surfaced after the alleged victim told police that some men she had southernmost, Muslim-majority provinces achieve in the future.” from last year because (the National been drinking with at a bar took her to a hotel and took turns raping since an Islamic insurgency erupted in Thai authorities, meanwhile, “will Revolution Front) has strongly confirmed her. 2004. refrain from any aggressive actions with that they can communicate to the opera- This week, just days after state media reported that Li and four Rebel officials will try to curb all armed regard to the security problems caused by tion-level members to tone down the others have been charged with rape, Li’s attorney Chen Shu said in attacks and bombings through Aug. 18 as the southern unrest,” said a statement attacks,” Paradorn said. an interview with the official Legal Daily newspaper that his client part of “a common understanding to work issued by Ahmad Zamzamin’s office. As a result of the peace talks, Thai would plead not guilty, a report that incited a storm of renewed criti- toward achieving a violence-free Even though the pledges were not part authorities have agreed to reduce their cism. Ramadan,” the Muslim holy month of fast- of a signed or legally binding document, raids in southern provinces, removed mili- The lawyers also circulated a statement online pointing blame at ing that began this week, said Ahmad “any party that breaches, disrupts or sabo- tary operations personnel in some villages the unnamed Beijing bar for allowing underage teenagers to con- Zamzamin Hashim, a Malaysian govern- tages this understanding will be consid- and replaced them with police officers and sume alcohol. “This case happened after a minor and others who ment representative facilitating the nego- ered a non-peace-loving side,” Ahmad security volunteers to lighten the mood in were in a bar late at night were persuaded by adult bartenders to tiations. Zamzamin said. the areas, Paradorn said. He insisted, how- drink large quantities of alcohol, and then checked into a hotel,” the Ahmad Zamzamin said he was “opti- Attacks have occurred almost daily in ever, that all safety measures remain tight- statement said.—- AP mistic” that the rebel representatives recent years, with the militants mainly tar- ened for civilians. —AP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Swat girls throng to school as Malala addresses UN Global icon of child rights MINGORA, Pakistan: When the Pakistani Malala, since nominated for the Nobel Saeeda Rahim, 13, is one of those girls. Taliban shot Malala Yousafzai in the head, Peace prize and now being privately edu- The Taliban stopped her and thou- their message to the world was simple: cated in Britain, accusing her of abandon- sands of other girls from going to school girls have no right to an education and ing Pakistan. between 2007 and 2009. When the army their dreams of a better future should be Sultana says more girls are going to offensive came in 2009, she and her family crushed. The attack portrayed the world’s school now not because of Malala, but were forced to flee for their safety. only Muslim nuclear power in an appalling because people feel increasingly liberated Displaced for three months, she spent light as Western leaders and celebrities fell as more time passes since the Pakistan much of the time in tears, her dreams of over themselves to turn Malala into a army quashed a 2007-9 Taliban insur- getting an education and becoming a AMRITSAR: Indian Muslim devotees pray during the global icon of child rights. gency in the valley. doctor in tatters. second day of Ramadan at the Kharudin Mosque in But as she gears up to address the UN “Whenever you suppress something, it “Those days were the most difficult of Amritsar yesterday. Islam’s holy month of Ramadan is General Assembly later yesterday — her 16th birthday-more girls than ever in calculated on the sighting of the new moon and Malala’s home, Pakistan’s northwestern Muslims all over the world are supposed to fast from Swat valley, are in school. dawn to dusk during the month.— AFP In the first six months of 2013, 102,374 girls registered at primary schools in Swat- compared to a total of 96,540 during all of India’s telegram last year, said Dilshad Bibi, Swat district education officer. service goes dark Educationalists say the influx has less to do with Malala’s fame and more to do with after 163 years a growing confidence that far from being resurgent, Taliban influence is declining in NEW DELHI: For 163 years, lives across the vast Indian nation Swat. “Many people think that Malala has have been upended by the knock of the khaki-clad postal nothing to do with the increase in girl stu- worker armed with a telegram. dents in schools,” said Erfaan Hussein Families used them to announce births and deaths, the Babak, head teacher of a private school in government used them to post job openings, young lovers the town of Saidu Sharif. sent them to tell their folks that they had eloped. No longer. “It is because of a general awareness On Monday, the state-run telecommunications company among the masses that girls should also will send its final telegram, closing down a service that fast be educated,” he told AFP. became a relic in an age of email, reliable landlines and ubiq- “There are many other girls who uitous cellphones. worked for education and continued their The fact that the telegram survived this long is a testa- studies under the Taliban. They think that ment to how deeply woven it is into the fabric of Indian soci- Malala was wrongly promoted by the media and was falsely hyped,” he said. ety. In much of the rest of the world, telegrams long ago were Malala Yousafzai relegated to novelty services used by people who wanted to Anwar Sultana, headmistress of indulge in a bit of nostalgia. Government Girls High School No. 1, the appears with more freedom,” Sultana told my life. I lost hope and courage. I had no Just 30 years ago the telegram was king in India. But the oldest in Mingora, the main town in Swat, AFP, sitting on a verandah as girls in long energy to read. I thought I’d never be able service has lost $250 million in just the last seven years as agrees. “Many students were actually white shirts and baggy trousers poured to study again,” she said. national cellphone subscriptions hit 867 million in April, more scared when the government named a out of congested classrooms. When her family returned home, her than double the number of just four years ago. college after Malala,” she said. “Now more and more girls are joining mother initially refused to let her go back Last December, around 150 girls at schools, which means the fear is over,” to school, fearing that she could be “Most people who come in now are those who want to another school protested against the Sultana said. At Sultana’s school, there are attacked. Now, she is back at Government send a telegram for an official reason,” said Lata Harit, a tele- renaming of their college after the injured no desks and chairs in the dark brown, High School No 1. She covers her face with graph officer at Delhi’s historic Kashmere Gate Telegraph schoolgirl, fearing it would make them a grey and orange coloured classrooms. a white veil, wears the pink strip of a pre- Office. “It’s no longer about a birth in the family or a death. target for militants. Instead the girls sit on the floor to pack a fect-and says she takes inspiration from For that people rely on their telephones or cellphones.” They tore up and stoned pictures of maximum number into each room. Malala.—AFP The nearly empty telegraph office was a far cry, she said, from the days when long lines of customers crowded in the British-colonial style building close to the teeming heart of old Delhi to send a telegram. From 10,000 telegrams a day, the office now sends about 100. Myanmar jails Buddhists The government still uses telegrams to inform recipients of top civilian awards and for court notices. India’s armed forces recognize telegrams from troops extending their vaca- over religious violence tion or from soldiers’ families demanding their presence at home for a funeral. Lawyers still send telegrams to create an YANGON: Myanmar has sentenced Some of the charges related to the two days of bloodshed in Meiktila, official record, for example, to prove to a judge that they had more than 20 Buddhists to prison for deaths of students at an Islamic school although some fear the toll was much complained their client was subjected to police abuse. their roles in religious riots in March, on the outskirts of Meiktila, according to higher. When Harit joined the service more than three decades including a deadly attack on a Muslim Ba San, a lawyer who was at the court. According to eyewitnesses inter- ago, she underwent six months of training at a school for boarding school, lawyers and police said “We have to say that both Buddhists viewed by the rights group Physicians telegraph operators. Telegrams were sent using the complex Friday. and Muslims have been sentenced if for Human Rights, a Buddhist mob hunt- dots and dashes of Morse code that had to be decoded at The convictions follow earlier con- found guilty,” he told AFP. ed down and killed some 20 students their destination. “It required enormous concentration to cerns among rights groups that Muslims More than a dozen Muslims have and four teachers at the Islamic school. decipher, but some of us were so good at our work, and so were bearing the brunt of the legal been convicted in relation to the vio- Witnesses recounted seeing one fast, that at the end of a day, we would feel exhilarated,” she crackdown on suspects involved in the lence, with a number receiving life pupil being decapitated and several said. “It made us feel proud.” unrest which shook the central town of imprisonment for murder. being burned alive, according to a May Other operators felt they were important messengers for Meiktila. In May seven Muslims were sen- report by the US-based group. crucial news. Baljit Singh, who became a telegraph operator The Buddhists were sentenced on tenced to between two and 28 years for Attacks against Muslims-who make in 1972 and will retire in a few months, recalled the frenetic Wednesday and Thursday on charges their parts in the killing of a Buddhist up an estimated four percent of rush following the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira including murder, assault, theft, arson monk during the unrest, which was Myanmar’s population-have exposed Gandhi and the days of political turmoil and street violence and inciting unrest, said a police official apparently triggered by a quarrel in a deep fractures in the Buddhist-majority that followed. who did not want to be named. Muslim-owned gold shop. nation and cast a shadow over its emer- “People came in droves to send telegrams. We worked According to state media, which did Before the latest convictions, only gence from army rule. round the clock. I don’t think we went home for days,” he not specify the suspects’ religion, the two Buddhists were known to have Buddhist-Muslim clashes in the west- recalled. Over the years, Morse code gave way to telex sentences ranged from two years for been sentenced for serious offences ern state of Rakhine last year left about machines and teleprinters, and finally electronic printers and minor offences such as theft to 10 years during the riots, which drove thousands 200 people dead, mostly Rohingya computers.—AP for murder, with some defendants hand- of Muslims from their homes. Muslims who are denied citizenship by ed several terms to be served separately. Officially 44 people were killed in the Myanmar.— AFP INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Bruised Egyptian... Continued from Page 1

Militant groups in North Sinai have promised more attacks and urged Islamists to take up arms, while the army has vowed to step up operations in the region, which is near the Suez Canal, the busy waterway linking Asia and Europe. One Egyptian policeman was killed and another wounded early yesterday when militants fired rocket-propelled grenades at checkpoints in the Sinai town of El Arish. Egyptian state media said police arrested three Palestinian militants for attempted attacks in Sinai. VIGIL, SONGS FOR THE DEAD Outside the Rabaa Adawiya mosque in northeastern Cairo, thousands of Brotherhood supporters gathered late on Thursday to mourn the dead in Monday’s violence, the dead- liest since Mubarak was toppled, apart from a 2012 soccer sta- dium riot. Women wailed and men cried as they watched a large screen showing grim footage of hospital scenes immedi- ately after the shooting, with corpses on the floor and medics struggling to cope with the number of bloodied casualties being carried in. Hundreds of Egyptian flags fluttered. Songs of defiance CAIRO: Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi offer their Friday prayer in Nasr City, Cairo yesterday. — AP were sung. Thousands of Islamists have camped out in sear- ing heat, fasting in the daytime since Ramadan began on Wednesday. “This is a bloody military coup,” said Saad Al- Morsi’s fall disconcerts Qatar, comforts... Husseini at the vigil. “This is the biggest crime I have wit- nessed in my country’s recent history. Never before has blood Continued from Page 1 nal affairs, but both rapidly broadcast con- televisionbut this is dangerous,” said the been so cheap.” The camp has become the de facto base of gratulatory messages to Egypt’s new interim Saudi Shoura Council’s Askar, saying he was the Brotherhood, whose leaders live under the threat of Saudi Arabia in particular was alarmed by leader, tacitly signaling their hostility to the speaking for himself and not for the king- detention after the public prosecutor ordered their arrests the popular unrest that toppled Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. “The problem with the dom. He said the Qataris “use the earlier in the week. Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia’s Zein Al-Abidine Brotherhood is their ideology has no bor- Brotherhood for political reasons”, without Judicial sources say Morsi is likely to be charged, possibly Ben Ali, and rippled through Bahrain, Yemen ders,” said Abdullah Al-Askar, chairman of belonging to the movement themselves. for corruption or links to violence. Prosecutors are also look- and other countries. the foreign affairs committee of Saudi There is no outward sign yet of Qatar chang- ing again at an old case from 2011 when Morsi and other But most Gulf rulers had fewer qualms Arabia’s Shoura Council, a body King ing its policy. Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, a Brotherhood leaders escaped from prison after being about rebellions against Libya’s leader Abdullah appointed to debate policy and prominent Doha-based Egyptian cleric and detained during anti-Mubarak protests. The detentions and Muammar Gaddafi and Syria’s Bashar Al- advise the government. “They don’t believe Brotherhood champion, has continued to threats of arrest have drawn concern from the United States, Assad, whose links with Shiite Iran and in national identity, but they believe in the lament last week’s army intervention in Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement had long identity of the Islamic nation. They have their Cairo that was backed by popular protests. which has walked a semantic tightrope to avoid calling antagonized US-backed Sunni Arab states. fingers in different states in the Gulf,” he And Al Jazeera’s coverage is still inter- Morsi’s ouster a military coup. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which has chal- said. preted as pro-Morsi, prompting Egypt’s mili- US law bars aid to countries where a democratic govern- lenged Riyadh’s traditional leadership in That concern was manifest in the trial in tary to close its Cairo bureau, where some ment is removed in a coup. Washington, which gives Egypt’s recent years, were broadly aligned on sup- Abu Dhabi of 94 Emiratis accused of plotting staff quit in protest at its perceived pro- military $1.3 billion in aid each year, has said it is too early to port for rebels in Syria and Libya, but they to overthrow the government on behalf of Brotherhood line. “The Qataris are hedging say whether Morsi’s removal by the army meets that descrip- bitterly disagreed over their attitude to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Their sen- their bets right now. They’re willing to tion. The army has said it was enforcing the nation’s will - Islamist groups. Now that argument appears tences were announced a day before the engage with anyone who will come to the meaning the huge crowds of people fed up with economic to be over - at least for now. tanks rolled in Cairo last week. While table. No one knows how this is going to stagnation and suspicious of a Brotherhood power grab who Doha insiders say it is too early to judge Kuwait’s ruling family shares Saudi and UAE play out. Right now, the best option for took to the streets in late June to demand Morsi’s departure. Qatar’s reaction to the crisis unfolding in concerns about the Brotherhood, its stance Qatar is to remain quiet,” said the Doha State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Egypt, but they say the new emir may con- is complicated by the presence of Islamists source. Wednesday Morsi’s government “wasn’t a democratic rule”. sider reducing his wealthy country’s support linked to the movement in its parliament. As It amounts to a weighty foreign policy Her words were warmly received by the interim government for the Muslim Brotherhood and playing a a result it has been less vocal than other Gulf challenge for the new emir, whose father and swiftly denounced by the Brotherhood. On Thursday, less prominent regional role. “They have states in criticizing the Brotherhood after the stepped down unexpectedly this month. Psaki expressed concern over the crackdown on Brotherhood admitted that there were some flaws in their Arab uprisings and has left fundraising for “The abdication was miraculously well- leaders. “If politicized arrests and detentions continue, it is Egypt strategy,” said a Doha-based source Syrian rebels largely to private citizens. timed. They changed the regime one week hard to see how Egypt will move beyond this crisis,” she said. who has advised the Qatari government and Like the Brotherhood, most Gulf states before Egypt hit the wall,” the Doha source German’s foreign ministry demanded that Morsi be freed. who asked not to be named. “Their interven- follow strict versions of Islam, but while the said. “Now they have the opportunity to ALARM OVERSEAS tion was seen as overly reflexive support of Islamist movement preaches political refashion the policy, and present the new Crucial to longer-term stability will be holding parliamen- the (Mursi) government without adequately activism, Gulf clerics mostly espouse a doc- emir as someone whose policies will be tary and presidential elections, which the transitional authori- taking into account the will of the people. trine of support for traditional rulers and more aligned with the will of the Egyptian ties are hoping to achieve in a matter of months. Adli The way it was handled has caused them oppose radical change. In Doha, the ques- people.” Mansour, the interim president named by the general who some problems, and they have acknowl- tion now is how far the new emir, Sheikh It is not clear how far the Brotherhood’s removed Morsi, has announced a temporary constitution, edged that,” he said. For Saudi Arabia, the Tamim bin Hamid al-Thani, might retreat defeat in Egypt will energize Saudi Arabia plans to amend it to satisfy parties’ demands and a faster- Brotherhood’s fall was sweetened by the from Qatar’s alliance of convenience with and its Gulf allies in the region, although the than-expected schedule for parliamentary elections in about decisive intervention of an Egyptian military the Middle East’s sturdiest Islamist move- election of a Saudi ally to head Syria’s oppo- six months. with ties to Gulf states that flourished under ment. Qatar’s support for the Brotherhood, sition last week was seen as evidence of the He has named liberal economist Hazem El-Beblawi as inter- Mubarak. Army chief General Abdel Fatteh including sheltering its sympathizers, arming shifting power balance. On Wednesday, UAE im prime minister, and Beblawi said he had named leftist al-Sisi was once a military attache in Riyadh. its brigades in Syria and, some say, guiding Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar lawyer Ziad Bahaa El-Din as his deputy. Beblawi also said he “He has long experience there and long ties the editorial policy of its Arabic-language Al Gargash wrote an opinion piece in would contact candidates for ministerial posts on Sunday and to not only the Saudi military, but also the Jazeera television station, has irritated Saudi Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine Monday, with a view to swearing in a cabinet next week. political leadership,” said Jordan. Arabia and the UAE. condemning political Islam and pledging Negotiations are difficult, with the authorities trying to attract Saudi Arabia and the UAE publicly insist “They (the Qataris) think soft power support for Middle Eastern countries he support from groups that range from secularists to ultra- they do not comment on other states’ inter- comes via the Brotherhood, via Al Jazeera described as moderate. — Reuters orthodox Muslims, nearly all of whom expressed deep dissat- isfaction with elements of the interim constitution. Underlining the level of concern overseas at Egypt’s crisis, Many casualties in French derailment two US Navy ships patrolling in the Middle East moved closer to Egypt’s Red Sea coast in recent days, in what appeared to Continued from Page 1 Bretigny Mayor Bernard Decaux told newspaper Le Parisien be a precautionary move following Morsi’s ouster on July 3. that there was chaos at the station. “Everyone is running in every The United States often sends Navy vessels close to countries The cause of the accident was not immediately known “It was direction, there is panic,” he said. “It is an apocalyptic scene. We in turmoil in case it needs to protect or evacuate US citizens or not a collision and it was not a problem with the speed,” a source are trying to organize things.” Dozens of emergency and police give humanitarian assistance. Rich Gulf states have thrown with the SNCF national rail service said. The SNCF national rail vehicles had arrived at the scene, an AFP reporter said. The acci- Egypt a $12 billion lifeline in financial aid, which should help it authority says the train was carrying some 385 passengers when dent occurred as many in France were departing for the start of stave off economic collapse. More than two years of turmoil it derailed yesterday at 5:15 pm crashed into the station at their summer holidays. A local lawmaker Michel Pouzol said: have scared away tourists and investors, shriveled hard cur- Bretigny-sur-Orge, some 20 kilometers south of Paris. Passengers “Most of the people who suffered minor injuries have been taken rency reserves and threatened Cairo’s ability to import food who spoke to French media from the scene said it was travelling care of. We are going to have to empty the carriages completely and fuel. — Reuters unusually fast as it approached the station. to see if there are victims or not,” said. — Agencies Japan buys Abu Dhabi crude S&P confirms Germany’s Olympus share sale Businessfrom Sumitomo for reserves16 top-notch credit rating 17 fails zoom-lens test 19 SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Brazil workers protest for better conditions 20

MUMBAI: An Indian man stands in a field as factory chimneys from an industrial area loom in the background in Mumbai. India’s industrial output shrank by a shock 1.6 percent in May from a year ago, official data showed yesterday, adding to mounting gloom for Asia’s third-largest economy.— AFP India industrial output shrinks 1.6% Car sales slide, industry seeks revival package

NEW DELHI: India’s industrial output shrank In another blow, April’s industrial output strong consumer inflation and weak domestic The merchandise trade deficit narrowed by a shock 1.6 percent in May from a year ago, growth was cut to 1.8 percent growth from and foreign investment, as well as a string of to $12.2 billion in June from $20.1 billion in official data showed yesterday, adding to 2.8 percent reported earlier, the Central corruption scandals. The scandals have stalled May, easing market worries about India’s mounting gloom about Asia’s third-largest Statistical Office said. But despite the weak the government’s reform agenda after a blitz gaping current account deficit-the broadest economy. The contraction by India’s factories, production, the central bank is ill-placed to of liberalization initiatives last year. While the measure of trade. Oil imports also fell to mines and utilities was well below market cut interest rates to kickstart the economy, central bank has cut rates three times since $12.7 billion from $15 billion in May. Oil and expectations of a 1.5-percent production rise. which is under the threat of a credit ratings the start of the year following an aggressive gold are the biggest contributors to the cur- Manufacturing, which accounts for three- downgrade, economists said. hiking spree, borrowing costs remain high. rent account deficit. But despite a sharply quarters of the Index of Industrial Production, The rupee is hovering near lifetime lows The government has forecast the economy weaker currency, June exports fell 4.6 per- slumped by 2.0 percent in May from a year against the dollar and separate data Friday will grow by at least six percent in the finan- cent to $23.79 billion. earlier. showed retail price inflation climbing to 10.13 cial year that began April 1, after expanding Underscoring weak consumer demand, car “These figures tell you very clearly industri- percent in June from 9.65 percent in May. “For by five percent last year-its slowest pace in a sales slid nine percent in June from a year ear- al recovery is not yet in sight-this is definitely any policymaker, it is a very challenging time. decade. But private economists have been lier, marking an unprecedented eighth a surprise on the downside,” D.K. Joshi, chief You have urgent situations over the rupee, reducing their forecasts in the past few straight month of decline, other figures economist of India’s leading credit rating inflation and now manufacturing,” Joshi said. months with most seeing growth in the five- showed, and prompting industry calls for a agency Crisil, told AFP. The figures marked “There is no magic wand except that the gov- to-six percent range. In one piece of positive government package to revive the once- more grim reading for Prime Minister ernment must start implementing some of news from yesterday’s string of downbeat booming sector. “This is certainly the worst Manmohan Singh’s Congress-led government the economic reforms it has been promising,” data, June’s trade deficit from the previous period I have seen in a long time,” RC which is desperately hoping for signs of a he said. month as gold imports slid in response to Bhargava, chairman of Japanese-controlled growth turnaround before fighting general India’s economy has been struggling government duty hikes to curb consumer Maruti Suzuki, the country’s largest carmaker, elections due in the first half of 2014. under the burden of high interest rates, appetite for the metal. said in an interview published yesterday. BUSINESS SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 China economic growth drop BEIJING: China’s economic growth and investment, and more on consumer nently in state media as saying officials can growth. The remarks prompted a stock dropped to 7.5 percent in the second quar- spending. “The new policymakers have no longer expect kudos just for achieving market rise on Thursday on hopes they ter of this year, analysts predicted in an AFP focused more on reforms rather than short- growth targets. “We should never judge a could signal the introduction of some stim- survey ahead of fresh data Monday, pro- term stimulus since taking office, so in the cadre simply by the growth of gross ulus measures. jecting a further slowdown in the world’s short run the downward risk is increasing,” domestic product,” Xi told a party meeting, The government has set a growth target second-largest economy. The median fig- said Ma Xiaoping, a Beijing-based econo- the official Xinhua news agency reported. for 2013 of 7.5 percent, the same as last ure from a poll of 10 economists is a further mist at British bank HSBC. “Reform meas- Premier Li Keqiang, whose brief is the econ- year’s. Such objectives are usually made deceleration from the already slower 7.7 ures are beneficial in the medium-to-long omy, emphasised Tuesday in comments conservatively and thus usually exceeded. percent recorded in the first three months, term, but they may not provide some stim- posted on the government’s website the Comments by Chinese Finance Minister as concerns mount over the Asian power- ulus in the short term,” she said. importance of pursuing reforms but also Lou Jiwei, however, raised questions about house. “One point for sure is that the sec- Late last month, Xi was quoted promi- spoke of the importance of stabilizing whether that figure can be achieved this ond-quarter growth will definitely be lower time. “Our expected GDP growth rate this than the first,” said Yao Wei, economist at year is seven percent,” Lou told reporters Societe Generale in Hong Kong, citing on the sidelines of an annual strategic and weakness in manufacturing as a result of economic dialogue between China and the poor domestic and foreign demand. United States in Washington on Thursday. “Generally if manufacturing growth “Of course, it won’t be a big problem for us declines, macro-economic growth will slow if we achieve growth of seven percent or down as well,” she said. China has also 6.5 percent.” been buffeted recently by worries over its China’s economy grew 7.7 percent in financial system, which suffered instability the first quarter, a result that disappointed last month when the interest rates banks economists who had expected a more vig- charge each other surged to record highs, orous 2013 after last year’s 7.8 percent per- reflecting Beijing’s reluctance to loosen formance, the worst annual result in 13 monetary policy. The country’s new lead- years. Nomura International economist ers so far seem to have taken a more lais- Zhang Zhiwei said Li’s comments “may sez-faire approach to the slowing econo- indicate that he is feeling under more pres- my, a development that in years past sure as the economic data continue to would have been met with monetary eas- weaken”. “Next week will be a testing time ing and large-scale pump-priming. for the government in revealing just how They have proclaimed a long-term goal much of a growth slowdown it is willing to of rebalancing the economy, and since tolerate,” Nomura economists said earlier. coming to power as Communist Party chief BEIJING: Pedestrians walk through an overpass in Beijing. China’s economic The securities firm said last month it sees a in November and then state president in growth dropped to 7.5 percent in the second quarter of this year, analysts “30 percent probability” China’s economic March, Xi Jinping has placed less emphasis predicted in an AFP survey ahead of fresh GDP figures Monday, projecting a growth will fall below 7.0 percent in the on the traditional growth drivers of exports further slowdown for the world’s second-largest economy. — AFP second half of the year. — AFP

Japan buys Abu Dhabi Thrift trumps Abenomics as crude from Sumitomo for reserves shoppers stick to bargains TOKYO: State-owned Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp (JOGMEC) yesterday bought 1.89 mil- Retailers aim to bump up unit sales lion barrels of Abu Dhabi Upper Zakum crude from trading house Sumitomo Corp via tender for the gov- ernment’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves, industry TOKYO: Japanese apparel firm Fast Retailing fallen 3.3 percent from a year ago to 38,457 own-label items rose 30 percent for the quar- sources said yesterday. The purchase, confirmed later Co Ltd has a problem: sales are surging, full- yen ($390), or just half of its 1990 peak, the lat- ter. Spending per customer, however, by a Sumitomo spokesman, marked the govern- year net profits are expected to rise nearly 28 est survey by Shinsei Bank Ltd shows. dropped 0.6 percent for the month of May. To ment’s first crude purchase since 2010 and comes as percent but the customers thronging the “They keep saying the economy is getting avoid losing customers, Aeon said it would the government seeks to replace reserves of heavier stores of its popular Uniqlo brand are far too better but so far I haven’t seen it reflected at accept smaller profit margins on its house- crudes with lighter crudes to reflect the growing frugal for its liking. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe all in my day-to-day life,” said Ayano Sakuma, brands and absorb the higher costs a weaker share of light crudes in Japan’s recent imports. would also disapprove. Abe’s aggressive eco- 33, a housewife who was shopping in central yen is wreaking on imports such as bread and The purchase is partly to offset about 3.8 million nomic stimulus measures, aimed at lifting Tokyo with her son. “I’ve heard that things are ham. barrels of heavy sour Khafji crude that the govern- Japan out of two decades of deflation, hinge supposed to be getting more expensive but as “We’ll try to avoid passing higher costs on ment sold from strategic reserves stored at on a pick-up in consumer spending, but eight far as I can see goods are still cheap.” to retail prices,” Aeon’s Senior Executive Vice Shirashima in April. Khafji crude is produced from the months after its launch, “Abenomics” has yet President Yoshiki Mori told an earnings brief- shared Neutral Zone between Saudi Arabia and to convince many Japanese to part with their FALSE POSITIVES ing this week. The company’s 9.8 percent prof- Kuwait. The sales are not related to any emergency thrifty ways. Abenomics has boosted revenues for luxu- it increase was driven largely by its consumer release coordinated by the International Energy “Customers are clever - they want the more ry department store operators such as credit operations and not its supermarkets. To Agency. expensive items but they hang on to see if Takashimaya and Co Ltd and J Front Retailing boost the economy, the Bank of Japan has set JOGMEC had been seeking Middle Eastern medi- they get discounted,” Fast Retailing Chief Co Ltd, but even they admit there is little evi- a 2 percent inflation target to be reached um crude, with shipments to be delivered to the off- Financial Officer Ken Okazaki said. “Shoppers dence of a pick-up across the board. “Luxury within the next two years, but prices are still shore Shirashima oil storage base in Fukuoka prefec- are buying at the cheaper end of our product brands, watches and jewelry have seen dou- falling at a rate of 0.4 percent a year. Ironically, ture, southwestern Japan, between Oct 1 and Nov 20. lines, so spending per customer has fallen,” he ble-digit sales growth and have pulled up the prices of flat-screen TVs, long a symbol of Sumitomo likely sold the United Arab Emirates crude said after the company maintained its sales overall department store revenues,” Shigeru Japan’s deflation, are bucking the downtrend. at around $1.40-$1.50 a barrel premium to its official and operating profit forecasts for the year, Kimoto, managing director of corporate plan- Prices, however, are rising because manufac- selling price (OSP) on a cost, insurance and freight knocking its shares 6 percent lower yesterday. ning at Takashimaya told an earnings briefing turers are willing to sell less to maintain their (CIF) basis, traders said. Japan is set for more purchas- Abe’s policies have boosted Japan’s bench- last month. “But we can’t see any strength in margins. es for strategic stockpiles, in small increments, mark Nikkei average by two-thirds since mid- other parts of the consumer sector.” Like Fast Flat-screen TV prices fell more than 40 though no schedule has been set as buying large November, cheering stock market investors Retailing, the latest earnings reports by percent from late 2010 to 2012 after manu- quantities in one tender could risk an adverse impact who used their new-found wealth to splurge Japan’s biggest retailers have been riddled facturers such as Sony Corp and Panasonic to domestic crude refining, a government source said. on luxury goods such as handbags from with healthy figures that suggest stronger Corp offered huge discounts to staunch a The government has sold a total 8.2 million barrels LVMH-owned Louis Vuitton and jewelry from demand but which actually show weak con- slide in sales caused by the drying up of gov- (1.3 million kl) of crude from strategic reserves since Tiffany & Co. But wages have yet to show any sumer sentiment and entrenched deflation. ernment incentives. Demand remains weak, last year. The trade ministry in April sold 630,000 bar- real gains and overall consumer sentiment Supermarket operator Aeon Co Ltd and con- and with sales volumes now at less than one- rels of Indonesia’s light sweet Attaka crude, as a remains lacklustre. Consumer confidence venience store owner Seven and I Holdings Co tenth of their peak in November 2010, manu- direct-burning crude for power generation is difficult weakened in June for the first time in six Ltd reported record high net profits in the facturers have little to gain by cutting prices for domestic refiners to process. Last year the govern- months, government data shows, and total March-May quarter, but growth was largely further. “We haven’t seen any effects from ment also sold about 1.9 million barrels each of Khafji cash earnings for Japanese employees were due to strong sales of their own-label goods Abenomics yet,” said Hisashi Yamada, the crude and sour Iraqi Basra Light crude from its strate- flat in May and April from a year earlier. which are often cheaper than branded items executive in charge of corporate planning at gic reserves. — Reuters Even the monthly pocket money Japanese but carry larger margins. At 7-Eleven stores, Yamada Denki Co Ltd, Japan’s biggest elec- wives traditionally give their husbands has the flagship chain of Seven & I, sales of its tronics retailer. — Reuters business SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Ford sees turnaround in Europe

DETROIT: The steep contraction of man Carlos Ghosn, who said he was not in Europe by the end of 2015,” Odell said. even as it launched eight new vehicles in Europe’s auto industry-which has sure the European market had actually The Ford executive declined to offer recent months, concentrated on retail trimmed sales, forcing carmakers to bottomed out. Odell said, while unem- any guidance on the second quarter sales and is now getting higher prices absorb punishing losses and slash pro- ployment levels, at 12.2 percent, are “very financial results, due out July 24. But he vehicles such as the Kuga, Odell said. He duction-appears to be reaching bottom, a bad,” even “unprecedented,” neverthe- noted the company has now reached added that the company’s European key Ford executive said. Signs indicate less, “most of the indices are pointing agreements with unions on closing two operations have been able to expand the the market for new vehicles in the euro towards recovery.” plants in Britain and one in Belgium. The European product line by utilizing vehi- zone has stopped shrinking, said Stephen Vehicle sales in Europe are currently three plants, which represent about 18 cles developed in other parts of the Odell, executive vice president and presi- running at about 13.5 million units a year, percent of Ford’s capacity in the Euro- world. Meanwhile, Ford and its joint ven- dent of Europe, Middle East and Africa, at well below the 18 million unit sales rate in zone, are expected to shutter next year, ture partners are in the midst of opening a briefing at the automaker’s headquar- 2007. The US automaker has also had to he said. “We have no more capacity three new plants in Russia where the gov- ters, “It’s beginning to show signs of sta- grapple with fierce competition, includ- announcements to make,” Odell said, sig- ernment has just boosted incentives for bility,” Odell said, though he cautioned ing extensive discounting and from naling the company will not be closing consumers to buy new, low-price vehi- the turnaround was unlikely to be swift. German luxury makers crowding into additional plants. cles-segments where Ford is relatively “The European market should start grow- market segments, such as midsized vehi- As part of the restructuring, by the end strong. In addition, demand for sport util- ing next year,” but growth will be slow cles, in which it has traditionally done of 2014, Ford will build the next version of ity vehicles such as the Ford Explorer is and modest over the next several years, well. Ford’s European operations lost the Mondeo in Valencia, Spain, where it is robust in Russia. “These are segments Odell added. He acknowledged Ford’s $462 million in the first quarter, which also increasing production to meet the where we have a lot of experience,” Odell outlook is different than the one offered were offset by profits $2.4 billion in North demand for the new Ford Kuga. Ford has noted, adding overall vehicles sales in earlier this week by Nissan/Renault chair- America. “We still expect to be profitable reduced its inventories across Europe Russia are staging a recovery.— AFP

S&P upgrades S&P confirms Germany’s Ireland outlook top-notch credit rating DUBLIN: Standard & Poor’s upgraded its outlook on Ireland’s credit rating yesterday, saying its debt may fall ECB in danger of overload faster than expected, nurturing European Union hopes for at least one bailout success story. The upgrade to positive FRANKFURT: Credit rating agency the price for that,” he said.”We’re minutes of its meetings, as the US from stable on Ireland’s BBB-plus rating comes ahead of a Standard & Poor’s affirmed yesterday being entrusted with more and more Federal Reserve does.”The speculation planned year-end exit from its EU/IMF bailout, and backs the top-notch triple-A rating for tasks,” Praet, who is the ECB’s chief in this respect reinforces my belief its status as Europe’s strongest bailed out economy amid German sovereign debt, saying economist, told the business daily that, sooner or later, we should pub- political turmoil in Portugal and Greece. Europe’s top economy could with- Handelsblatt. “I wouldn’t call this a lish the minutes. We’re discussing this The upgrade will also fuel expectations that Moody’s, stand any shocks from the euro-zone the only major rating agency that rates Irish sovereign crisis. The ratings “reflect our view of debt as non-investment grade, could at least take the (Germany’s) modern, highly diversi- country off negative watch in the coming months. “The outlook revision reflects our view that Ireland’s general fied, competitive economy, and the government debt burden is likely to decline more rapidly, government’s track record of prudent as a percentage of GDP, than we had previously expect- fiscal policies and expenditure disci- ed,” S&P said in a statement. “Ireland’s economic recovery pline” S&P wrote in a statement. is under way,” it said S&P said it saw a more than one-in- “Furthermore, we believe the German three probability it would raise Ireland’s credit rating dur- economy has demonstrated its ability ing the next two years, citing expectations that national to absorb large economic and finan- debt will fall from 122 percent of GDP in 2013 to 112 per- cial shocks.” cent by 2016. Germany is therefore one of a very It also praised the “strong consensus” among the coun- select number of countries to enjoy try’s largest political parties for fiscal consolidation and the best possible credit ratings, along- reform. “When you look at some of the cliff-hangers we side Finland, Luxembourg and the have had in the rest of the periphery, Ireland has kept its Netherlands. S&P also affirmed its sta- head down and got on with it and I think that has been ble outlook for Germany’s rating, recognized,” said Philip O’Sullivan, chief economist at NCB meaning no downgrade was expect- Stockbrokers. “What S&P has done today illustrates the ed. Germany has held up better to widening gap between the Moody’s stance and how the crisis than all of its neighbors, many others on the market view the country. We see a thanks to deep restructuring and Moody’s upgrade as a question of when, not if.” painful reforms undertaken a number of years ago. GROWTH PROSPECTS But it has not escaped completely Portugal’s president threw the bailed-out euro zone unscathed and growth ground to a country into disarray on Thursday by rejecting plans to halt at the end of last year and the heal a government rift and calling for early elections next average annual growth rate this year year. Fellow aid recipient Greece is in its sixth straight year would be much slower than the 0.7 of recession with unemployment at record highs, while its THESSALONIKI: Employees of a shop install a poster yesterday announc- percent seen in 2012. Nevertheless, ing sales in Thessaloniki. — AFP lenders extend financing in installments to keep pressure S&P said it was penciling in growth of on the shaky coalition government for reforms. Data 0.4 percent in 2013 and “steady, albeit politicization” of the central bank, issue intensively,” Praet said. recently showed Ireland had unexpectedly tipped into very modest, growth over the medi- “but a possible overburdening,” Praet At the ECB’s policy-setting meeting recession for the first time in four years. But S&P said that um term, averaging close to 1.0 per- said. last week, president Mario Draghi while external demand remains weak, Ireland’s domestic cent in real gross domestic product Ever since the start of the euro- rang in what some observers saw as a economy is showing signs of stabilizing with unemploy- per capita terms in 2013-2016.” zone’s troubles, the ECB has been “mini-revolution” by issuing so-called ment declining and house prices showing signs of bot- seen as the only institution capable of “forward guidance” by saying the toming out. The country’s flexible, open economy and acting quickly enough to put out the bank’s interest rates were expected to favorable demographics means it has the potential to European Central Bank grow by 2 percent per year, it said. Standard & Poor’s had The European Central Bank risks crisis fires. From the second half of remain at their current record-low lev- the country on negative outlook until February, when being overloaded by its new and huge next year it will also take on the role of els of fall even further “for an extend- Dublin struck a long-awaited deal with the European task of watching over banks, execu- banking supervisor for the entire euro ed period of time.” But on Thursday, Central Bank allowing it to convert promissory notes into tive board member Peter Praet area. “It’s an immense challenge,” the head of the German central bank long-term bonds. That effectively gave Dublin far longer warned in a newspaper interview yes- Praet said. The economist also said he or Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, to repay debts it ran up as it rescued the Irish banking sys- terday. “The euro-zone was set up was also in favour of a more open insisted that Draghi’s comments were tem.— Reuters with too few institutions actually communication within the ECB, for “no historic turning point in monetary capable of acting. We’re now paying example with the publication of the policy communication.”—Agencies BUSINESS SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

India’s Infosys Q1 profit up, shares surge

NEW DELHI: Indian IT outsourcing The Nasdaq-listed firm’s earnings Murthy’s return comes at a time when holders after he was called back the giant Infosys reported yesterday a were driven by contract wins and for- the company has been struggling with task to rebuild a “desirable” Infosys nearly four percent rise in quarterly net eign exchange gains, a company state- weak earnings and falling market share could take at least 36 months and profit and kept its market forecast ment said. Shares climbed 15 percent to rivals such as Tata Consultancy tough decisions would have to be tak- intact, driving the firm’s shares up 15 to a high of 2,905.0 rupees in early Services and HCL. en which would result in “pain”. percent. Infosys, whose earnings are trade on the earnings and an The Bangalore-based Infosys is Murthy called his “second innings” seen as a sector bellwether, said net announcement that Infosys was stick- seeking to reinvent itself with a strate- at the helm of the company something profit rose 3.7 percent to 23.74 billion ing by its 6.0-10 percent revenue gic overhaul to focus on higher value that he had not imagined in his rupees ($396 million) for the first quar- growth projection for the fiscal year to software and consulting services “wildest dreams”. ter to June, from 22.89 billion rupees a March 2014. By 0600 GMT the firm was instead of labor-intensive outsourcing The firm added 66 clients and a net year earlier-in line with market fore- trading at 2,820.75 rupees, still up services. 575 employees in the three months to casts. 11.64 percent on the back of the The company has seen a major June. Revenues for the quarter rose Despite “an uncertain macro envi- results. “The earnings are positive as reshuffle of its top management over 17.2 percent to 112.67 billion rupees, ronment, changing regulatory regime was the stable revenue outlook,” said the past two years, including the exit said the company, whose results and a volatile currency environment, Ankita Somani, analyst with Mumbai’s of several of its founders. Three kicked off India’s quarterly earnings we have done well in the first quarter”, Angel Broking. decades ago, Murthy, who has an icon- season. Many of India’s IT outsourcing said Infosys chief executive S D Infosys last month recalled compa- ic stature in Indian business as a pio- firms have been going through a Shibulal. Infosys, the country’s second- ny founder Narayana Murthy, who had neer of the country’s flagship out- rough stretch and they say the outlook biggest software services exporter, is retired two years ago at the age of 65, sourcing industry, sat around a kitchen for the industry remains difficult due to “cautiously optimistic about (the) rest to serve as executive chairman in a bid table with six others and created uncertainty in its key US and European of the year,” Shibulal said. to revive the company’s fortunes. Infosys. Last month, Murthy told share- markets. — AFP

Malaysia Islamic Stocks head for best finance overhaul week in eight months boosts protection for depositors Selloff in dollar eases, currencies steadier after wild ride KUALA LUMPUR: New laws governing Malaysia’s Islamic finance sector will boost protection for depositors by making LONDON: European shares rose yester- religious advisers legally accountable for financial products, day and the dollar steadied in the wake and liable to steep fines and prison time for wrongdoing. The of reassuring comments from the US new rules also include a plan to require Islamic life insurers to Federal Reserve on its stimulus program, separate the life arm from other parts of their business. The leaving world stocks on track for their regulations also could spur takeovers in the Islamic insurance best week in almost eight months. sector through capital-base provisions that encourage larger Europe was drawing support from a participants. record high close on Wall Street on Malaysia’s new Islamic Financial Services Act (IFSA) gives Thursday, though investors in Asia regulators greater oversight as the country seeks to retain its turned cautious after China’s finance position as the world’s second-largest Islamic Banking market, minister doused hopes of fresh stimulus with 395 billion ringgit ($124 billion) in assets as of May. While after he said sub-7 percent growth was there have been no major problems arising from lax standards, acceptable for Beijing. the new law - which went into effect last week - is seen as a The broad FTSEurofirst 300 index was broad way of enforcing closer adherence to sharia laws, where up 0.3 by mid-morning as it eyed a fifth day of gains, while a steady close in Asia Malaysia is already a global leader. left MSCI’s world index, which tracks One of the most important changes is to make sharia advis- stocks in 45 countries, on track for its best ers legally liable for the financial products they approve, ana- week since November. This week’s rally in lysts and industry experts said. The Islamic scholars are hired by banks to assure that financial products abide by Islamic financial markets has spread across MANILA: Women work at a sweatshop sewing clothes under contract with local stocks and bonds to oil and metals and sharia standards. The rule-change would encourage advisers clothing manufacturers in Manila yesterday. Visiting World Bank vice presi- to conduct a closer inspection of the financial products they been driven by hints from the US Federal dent for East Asia and the Pacific Axel van Trotsenburg said the Philippine gov- Reserve that it may not be as eager to approve, holding them more accountable, said Mohamad ernment needs to convert its recent high economic growth into more jobs for Akram Laldin, executive director of the Malaysia-based phase out its support as markets had ordinary Filipinos so as to succeed in reducing widespread poverty. — AFP started to believe. “Markets have been International Sharia Research Academy for Islamic Finance. reassured by the mention (by the Fed) of advisory firm in Tokyo who requested review to the end of August, which is “This is a step forward, everyone who is involved will know financial conditions and the weakness of anonymity. The euro slipped to $1.3037 clearly fuelling fears that Portugal doesn’t their duties and what is expected of them,” he said. Previous inflation,” said Guy Foster, head of portfo- having jumped as far as $1.3208 on have the appetite for further fiscal con- rules governing sharia compliance were just guidelines. The lio strategy at Brewin Dolphin. Thursday though it was well off this solidation measures in place,” said Nick IFSA elevates them to statutory duties, a breach of which could “There remains little reason for the week’s trough of $1.2755. One of the Stamenkovic, a rate strategist at RIA expose licensed financial entities to punishment. Penalties will Fed to tighten policy although given ECB’s top policymakers, Peter Praet, Capital Markets. The rest of the bloc be more severe, a Malaysia-based lawyer told Reuters, with their comments to date we assume a dragged on the currency after he said made gains, however, as the updraft of many offences carrying a possibility of up to eight years impris- modest reduction in purchases in bank will keep interest rates at current the Fed’s soothing message this week onment and 25 million ringgit ($7.86 million) in fines. September,” he added. After a week of levels or cut them even further, as long as was helped by an upgrade to Ireland’s Investors’ protection should also be boosted by another swings in the world’s big currencies, for- inflation remains moderate. credit outlook by rating firm S&P. provision that requires banks to distinguish deposits made for eign exchange markets were trading in a Commodity markets have enjoyed a par- savings from those made for investments. Banks will also need calmer fashion, though positioning had PORTUGAL STRIFE ticularly strong run this week as the talk to guarantee the principal amount on savings deposits. The started ahead of key Chinese growth Portuguese government bonds fell of ongoing central bank support has bol- IFSA also gives Malaysia’s finance ministry more powers to fur- data due next week. The dollar index, again after Lisbon requested a delay to stered hopes of a pickup in global ther scrutinize financial holding companies and non-regulated which tracks the greenback’s perform- the next review of the country’s bailout growth. Gold along with other precious entities if they pose a risk to financial stability. “From my view, it ance against a basket of major currencies, program due to its political crisis. metals eased after four days of gains but is quite comprehensive. The challenge is to ensure the enforce- bounced off 2-1/2 week lows, having Tensions were reignited this week after was on track for its biggest weekly gain ment, and to make people understand it,” Akram added. The slumped more than 2 percent after Fed the country’s president threw out plans in nearly two years. Copper was cruising IFSA may also reshape the takaful (Islamic insurance) sector by Chairman Ben Bernanke assured it would that looked to have patched up a govern- to its best week in two months as it requiring the separation of life and general business lines, the remain in support mode. That was the ment rift and instead demanded some dipped back below $7,000 a ton. Brent latter covering property and automobiles. Under the new rules, steepest fall in four years, normally seen kind of grand coalition. That would oil was steady at just under $108 a barrel firms with composite licenses that cover both sectors will have only during financial crises. “This week include opposition Socialists, who are having hit a three-month high on five years to separate the two. Malaysia had 12 direct takaful was not pretty for some people. With dol- distinctly cool on the government’s aus- Thursday as the prospect of more supply operators with a combined 19 billion ringgit in assets as of lar-longs removed, no one wants to take terity and have been calling for snap from non-OPEC producers and concerns December 2012, central bank data showed. The majority of big new bets ahead of China,” said a for- elections. “Portugal is struggling as the about China’s demand growth capped those assets - 85 percent - were in family insurance, up 13.3 eign exchange market researcher at an government delays the next quarterly gains. —Reuters percent from a year earlier. —Reuters BUSINESS SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 G20 needs clear, predictable policies: Russia

MOSCOW: The Group of 20 backs clear monetary poli- to take the annual presidency of the G20, and other Fed is spending $85 billion a month to buy bonds as it cies, Russia said yesterday, reflecting the concerns of developing nations have grown anxious after Chairman seeks to ease the cost of credit. “It is too early to be talk- developing economies that a withdrawal of US monetary Ben Bernanke first said in May the US Federal Reserve ing now about the end of the quantitative easing when stimulus could cause market turmoil and capital flight. may scale back its massive asset purchases. the global economy is still in a recession trend,” said Moscow hosts finance ministers and central bankers from The rouble and Moscow stock indexes fell to one-year Siluanov, 50, who took over from Alexei Kudrin in 2011. the world’s top developed and developing markets next lows, while the Brazilian real and its stock market hit four- The meeting’s main task next week will be to prepare the week amid nervousness over when Washington will wind year lows. In more dovish comments on Wednesday that agenda for a G20 leaders’ summit in St Petersburg on down its program of so-called quantitative easing. “I are likely to ease those concerns going into the Moscow Sept 5-6. think everyone will be against any sudden changes in talks, Bernanke said a highly accommodative policy The BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa currency exchange rates and monetary policies,” Finance would be needed for the foreseeable future. “If the policy - will meet in Moscow to discuss preventive measures Minister Anton Siluanov told Reuters in an interview. of quantitative easing in the United States is terminated, needed to stabilize their balance of payments in the Any tightening of monetary policy, such as the with- this can lead to excessive nervousness on the markets, event that a “taper” of the Fed’s stimulus causes sharp drawal of quantitative easing, “should be done in a pre- especially in emerging markets; it can lead to an outflow capital flight. There has been increased talk in recent dictable and consistent matter,” he added. “We (the G20) of capital from these markets,” said Siluanov. weeks among the emerging markets caucus on devising should not create reasons for instability,” Siluanov said. Siluanov welcomed the latest comments by a coordinated policy to limit the negative effects that a “The policy of countries issuing reserve currencies should Bernanke, who will not attend the Moscow talks, and said stronger US dollar could have on their commodity-driven be predictable.” Russia, the first big emerging economy they had been well received by financial markets. The economies. —Reuters

Olympus $1.2 bn share sale fails zoom-lens test

HONG KONG: Without a zoom lens, it’s hard to see the logic in Olympus’ $1.2 billion share sale. Less than two years after a huge accounting fraud, the Japanese company is tapping capital markets. But the camera and medical equipment maker’s decision to sell shares only outside of Japan is a poor way to thank local shareholders who endured the dark days. Besides Olympus’ finances were already on the right track. Since ex-chief executive Michael Woodford first ques- tioned Olympus’ accounting, the company has made remark- able progress. After a management overhaul, asset disposals, and a capital infusion from Sony, Olympus registered positive earnings in the full year that ended in March; its shares are one quarter above their pre-scandal level. The new cash will SICHUAN: People walk in the main hall of the New Century Global Center, the world’s largest single building, in the suburbs of expand its fast-growing medical business and help pay down Chengdu, in southwest China’s Sichuan province. The world’s largest building, in terms of floor space, has opened to the public debt. Yet Olympus doesn’t have any urgent need for cash. in the booming Chinese city of Chengdu. — AP While its net debt is still high at around five times EBITDA for the year ending March 2013, according to Eikon, the amount due within a year was only equivalent to 60 percent of the US urges China to let company’s cash pile. That would leave almost $900 million that Olympus can draw on before it has to turn to sharehold- ers. The share offer will take Olympus’ equity from 16 percent of its total assets to over 28 percent. But at the current rate, currency rise further Olympus would have got there eventually anyway without selling new shares. Then there’s the potential dilution. Japanese investors can’t buy the new shares locally - perhaps because Olympus US, China agree to restart investment treaty talks senses foreign investors are keen to buy into Japan’s recov- WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew yesterday called CHINA DROPS PRECONDITIONS ery. That may dilute their holdings by 8 percent, though the on China to let its currency appreciate but credited the growing The United States and China agreed on Thursday to restart eventual effect will become clear when the price is set, some- Asian power with moving in the desired direction. Lew said he stalled negotiations on an investment treaty, with Beijing dropping time around July 18. Determined local institutions may be talked at length with Chinese officials about the rate of their yuan previous efforts to protect certain sectors of its economy from the able to participate through offshore entities but non-finan- currency during the two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue, the start. The agreement to resume negotiations was welcomed by the cial and retail investors will find it hard to do so. main annual meeting between the world’s two largest economies. US business community as a major advance during annual Strategic The people who will most welcome Olympus’ cash call are “We have acknowledged that there has been progress in closing and Economic Dialogue talks in Washington, which have often pro- likely to be its lending banks. They also rank amongst its top the gap, but we’ve also made it clear that there’s still more progress duced few agreements of substance. shareholders - and the former executive of one big lender is that needs to be made in order to reach the point where there’s tru- Top officials from both sides strived to project a friendly, busi- chairman of the board. But given the lack of urgency, it’s hard ly a market-determined interest rate,” Lew told reporters. Lew said nesslike tone as they tried to build what China calls a “new model of to see other investors being as snap happy. he saw an “overlap of interests” between the two nations in reform- major country relations” between the world’s two biggest Japan’s Olympus Corp said on July 8 that it will raise up to ing China’s exchange rate and opening up its billion-plus consumer economies in the first year of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s man- 118 billion yen ($1.17 billion) in an offering of new shares. market, as it would mean “more growth in China and more opportu- date. But talks struck a sour note over China’s handling of former Olympus will offer 32 million new shares and 4 million exist- nity for US exports.” spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, who hid out in the ing treasury shares. An additional 5 million shares may be “We are pushing hard for China to do things that China needs to Chinese territory of Hong Kong last month as he revealed a secret sold in an overallotment. The number of shares outstanding do for itself,” he said. US manufacturers charge that China has kept US surveillance program before fleeing to Russia. as of July 11 was 306 million, according to Eikon data. the yuan artificially low as part of a deliberate strategy to flood the Disputes over cyber security topped the agenda going into this The stock will be priced as early as July 18. The estimated world with cheap exports, which have been a key driver of the bil- year’s talks, which were launched in 2008 to manage a relationship amount to be raised was calculated based on the closing lion-plus nation’s years of breakneck growth. that was growing more complex and tense with China’s emergence price on July 4 of 3,120 yen a share, according to a filing to Four top US lawmakers across party lines, in a joint letter ahead as major economic and military power. US Treasury Secretary Jack the ministry of finance. The shares will be offered and sold in of the talks, urged Lew to press China to move “more rapidly” Lew hailed the investment treaty commitment as a sign of positive offshore transactions to institutional buyers, mainly in the towards what they considered an exchange rate set by market change in Beijing as China retools its economic growth model away United States and Europe. On July 3, the Tokyo District Court forces. But pressure has eased on China as the yuan has risen by from heavy investment and exports toward growth driven by con- found three former executives of Olympus guilty of covering more than 15 percent against the dollar in the past several years, sumption. up the firm’s massive investment losses and handed them largely in response to concerns in China over inflation. The Treasury “China announced its intention to negotiate a high standard suspended prison terms. Shares in Olympus are trading Department, led until January by Lew’s predecessor Timothy bilateral investment treaty with us that will include all stages of around one quarter above where they were in October 2011 Geithner, preferred quiet diplomacy on exchange rates and investment and all sectors - a significant breakthrough, and the first before the financial scandal came to light. — Reuters declined to declare China a currency manipulator, a designation time China has agreed to do so with another country,” he said as the that could trigger sanctions. talks concluded. —Agencies BUSINESS SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

Brazil workers protest for better conditions SAO PAULO: Striking workers blocked including General Motors, where a 24- highways and staged mainly peaceful hour strike was in effect, and Embraer, marches across Brazil Thursday in a day of Brazil’s top planemaker-as well as schools, industrial action called by unions to ports and public transport. In some hospi- demand better work conditions and tals around the country, only emergency tougher measures to contain rising infla- services were operating. Wednesday, tion. The “National Day of Struggle” was Santos port activity was also disrupted for called by the country’s top five labor fed- several hours when stevedores went on erations during last month’s nationwide strike, complaining that Embraport, the street protests for better public services largest Brazilian private multi-modal port and an end to endemic corruption. terminal, is not hiring through the state- Thursday’s protests drew only a frac- run labor management agency OGMO, tion of the numbers seen during the huge which places union members in jobs. rallies last month, which on one day alone The workers fear that bypassing drew more than a million people out onto OGMO will make it possible for private the streets across the vast South companies to recruit non-unionized American powerhouse. The unions are workers who will accept lower wages. Top demanding better wages, shorter work- unions meanwhile appeared divided on ing hours, job security, improved public whether to support President Dilma transport, steps to bring down inflation Rousseff, who last month vowed to hear and more investment in public health and “the voices of the street” and pledged to education. Demonstrators blocked RIO DE JANEIRO: A riot police officer fires tear gas at violent demonstrators after boost investments in public transport, around 40 highways in 18 of the country’s clashes erupted following a march by Brazilian workers in Rio de Janeiro. — AFP health and education. 26 states, as well as access to several The country’s biggest labor federa- ports, including Santos, Latin America’s called for calm and sang the national a normal day. Earlier in the day, marchers tion, the Unified Workers’ Central, com- biggest. anthem. hoisting flags and banners blocked traffic monly known by the acronym CUT and In Rio de Janeiro, demonstrators tried Because of the violence, the march on several thoroughfares, with an esti- founded in the 1980’s by ex-president to break into a government building but was dispersed before it reached its final mated 5,000 people thronging the central Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), were dispersed by elite military police destination, and at least 12 people, Avenida Paulista. “We want things to backs Rousseff’s proposal for a popular using stun grenades and teargas. including two minors, were arrested. In improve in the country. We are marching plebiscite to usher in broad political Although the protests were largely peace- the huge Sao Paulo metropolitan area, because health and education are in crisis reform. But the Forca Sindical union chid- ful during the day, after dark in Rio de home to 20 million people, less violent in Brazil. There must be a change,” said ed the government over rising inflation, Janeiro, black-clad, masked protesters clashes erupted when some 1,500 pro- Rosely Paschetti, a 49-year-old Sao Paulo which reached an annualized 6.7 percent threw Molotov cocktails and flares at testers burned tires to block a key high- municipal employee. “More taxes for the in June, above the 6.5 percent upper limit police, who pushed them back with tear way. Police used tear gas and sound can- rich, fewer taxes for the poor,” read a of the government target. “Workers’ gas. The masked group sparked the clash- nons to disperse them. Altogether some huge banner. salaries are being eroded by rising infla- es in a side street and then took refuge in 4,000 people rallied in Sao Paulo. But bus- Across the country, strikes and demon- tion,” said its president, Paulo Pereira da a peaceful march in which union leaders es, trains and the subway operated as on strations affected major companies- Silva, in a statement. — AFP

Oil flat below $108 Shanghai gold, silver

LONDON: Oil held steady below $108 a barrel yesterday, as con- cern about China’s demand outlook and the prospect of growing non-OPEC supply offset lower inventories in the United States volumes hit records and concern about possible disruption to flows due to strife in Egypt. Brent crude for August was 6 cents higher at $107.79 a barrel by 0857 GMT, after touching a low of $107.28. The contract Night trade booms on domestic investors’ demand was nearly flat for the week after pulling back from $108.93 on Thursday, the highest since April 3. SHANGHAI: Trading volumes for gold and sil- and sell transaction tallied. Before after-hours with the heaviest volume trading hours on the US crude was down 20 cents at $104.71, but still on track for a ver on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (ShFE) trading was launched, investors in China, the London Metal Exchange (LME), boosting the third weekly rise. It fell the most in nearly three weeks on have jumped to record highs a week after the world’s second-largest gold importer, were opportunity to trade price differentials, he said. Thursday after hitting a 16-month high at $107.45, as fears of a bourse launched after-hours trading, driven by often exposed to global price fluctuations in This could see ShFE volumes narrow the gap supply squeeze at the contract’s delivery point in Cushing, a surge in investment and hedging demand. the US and European markets. with the LME, he said. ShFE copper turnover in Oklahoma, eased. China’s finance minister signaled that Beijing The ShFE, China’s biggest commodity The exchange also plans to expand trading tons was just under a third of LME volumes last may be willing to tolerate economic growth in the second half of exchange by contract value, launched night hours for other contracts, chairman Yang year. Gold slipped on Friday, but remained on the year significantly below 7 percent, marking the most sober- trading on July 5 to give investors a tool to Maijun said in a statement on July 5. Yang did track for its biggest weekly gain since October ing comment to date from a senior policymaker on the country’s manage risk during trading hours in London not say what products were being considered, 2011, as fears of an early end to US monetary slowdown. and New York. but one Hong-Kong based trader said any stimulus subsided and bullion recovered some That came after warnings from China earlier this week of a The extended hours could give China a extension of trading hours could have a big of its appeal as a hedge against inflation. The “grim” outlook for trade after a surprise fall in June exports, rais- better hold in the global gold market and offer impact on base metals. ShFE’s extended hours run from 9:00 pm to ing concerns that the world’s second biggest oil consumer would a taste of what lies ahead for contracts such as “The silver and gold contracts have been 2:30 am local time. Each lot of gold is 1,000 no longer be the buoyant force for oil it has been for the last base metals, if the exchange sticks to plans to going gangbusters. You could reflect on ... grams and that of silver is 15 kilograms. In decade. However improved sentiment on the outlook for the extend trading hours for other products. “The what that could mean for their base metals addition to gold and silver, also trades copper, United States and lingering concern that violence in Egypt could pricing power for main commodities is still contracts, assuming they plan to start the aluminum, zinc, lead, natural rubber, fuel oil disrupt supply through the Suez canal underpinned prices. decided by trading in overseas market, and night sessions,” he said. Extending trading and steel. It is also preparing to launch crude Brent remains close to a three-month peak reached the ses- any large price movement will not be favor- hours into the European day would overlap oil futures. — Reuters sion before on political uncertainty in Egypt, falling US crude able for domestic investors to control risks,” inventories and a weaker US dollar. Investors also netted profits said Sun Yonggang, an analyst with Everbright Shell shuts Nigerian on Thursday after a three-week rally pushed Brent and WTI Futures in Shanghai. crude futures to multi-month highs. US data on Wednesday Weekly buy and sell trading volume for the pipeline due to leak most active gold contract more than doubled showed the biggest two-week drop on record in crude stock- LAGOS: Shell has shut a major pipeline in (TNP) as a result of a confirmed leak on this from a week ago, to 2.06 million lots by Friday, piles, while refinery production hit a five-year high. New York Nigeria for the second time in less than a line at the Bomu-Bonny section at exchange data showed. Daily transactions for Harbor gasoline futures have topped $3 per gallon for the first month after locating another leak on the Owokiri,” it said, naming an area of south- gold rose by nearly a quarter to a record of time since March with the onset of the summer driving season. line repeatedly hit by oil thieves, the com- ern Nigeria. “With the 28-inch TNP already 595,642 lots on Thursday, versus an average of “While overall fundamentals are still supportive, the market is pany said on Friday. The shutdown of the shut in for removal of illegal oil theft con- 483,529 lots in June, the data showed. Daily taking a breather following the sharp increases earlier in the Trans Niger Pipeline will result in a cut of nections, a total of about 150,000 barrels volume for the silver contract surged roughly week,” Amrita Sen at Energy Aspects said. “Moreover the sharp about 150,000 barrels of oil per day in per day of oil have been deferred.”The six-fold from a week ago to 2.23 million lots on rise in oil prices has started to dent refinery margins, both in Africa’s biggest oil producer. Nigeria’s total British-Dutch company said details were Thursday. “The night gold trade will help Europe and in the US, capping any upside currently.” Also pres- output has been at around two million unclear on the latest incident, “but the TNP investors to adjust their positions immediately suring prices, non-OPEC supply is set to grow at the fastest pace barrels per day. has been variously targeted by crude oil facing overseas market volatilities and the liq- in decades next year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said The joint venture Shell operates in thieves in recent months and shut down uidity for gold night trade looks promising,” on Thursday, and China’s weaker appetite for commodities con- Africa’s biggest oil producer on Thursday several times to enable the removal of Sun said. Unlike other exchanges, Shanghai tinues to drag on prices. — Reuters “shut in the 24-inch Trans Niger Pipeline theft points.” data is counted twice, with each side of a buy SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 www.kuwaittimes.net times amid hard spenders lures auction Tehran art Thailand mosque duringthemonth ofRamadanin Thai Muslimwomenoffer prayers atPattani with amealknown asIftar.—AFP dawn untilsunset, whentheybreakthefast must abstainfromfood,drink andsexfrom yesterday. Duringthemonth devoutMuslims ؛ s restivesouthernPattaniprovince Page 25 SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

ctress Leah Remini has severed ties with the and has attracted several Hollywood stars including Tom Church of Scientology, a source with knowledge of Cruise and John Travolta. The organization describes its Aher decision said on Thursday, making her one of practices as a religion and believes man is an immortal the most high-profile members to quit. Remini, best being whose experience extends beyond one lifetime. known for her role as Carrie Heffernan in the CBS sitcom But some observers - including media mogul Rupert “King of Queens,” issued a statement following press Murdoch - liken it to a cult. Critics think the group coerces reports that she had decided to leave the church. “I wish followers to think like they do, and they accuse to share my sincere and heartfelt appreciation for the Scientologists of harassing people who seek to quit. The overwhelming positive response I have received from the church came under fresh scrutiny last year when actress media, my colleagues, and fans from around the world. I Katie Holmes suddenly divorced Cruise, with whom she am truly grateful and thankful for all your support,” has one daughter. Although there was speculation that Remini said. Holmes had rejected Scientology, neither she nor Cruise She did not address Scientology directly, but the addressed a split over the faith. source told Reuters that Remini’s statement was her con- In an April 2001 interview with CNN, Remini said she firmation that she had left the church. The New York Post “finds solace in her steadfast practice of Scientology,” and broke the story early Thursday that Remini was leaving jumped to the defense of the religion. “If somebody is the Church of Scientology after “being subjected to years going to get turned off about something because of what of ‘interrogations’ and ‘thought modification’ for ques- they read or heard, then that person’s not smart enough tioning leader David Miscavige’s rule,” citing an unnamed to even enter a church,” Remini said to CNN. Other source. Remini’s representatives would not comment on notable former Scientology members include director the New York Post article. Representatives for the Church Paul Haggis, who spoke out in detail about his experi- of Scientology did not immediately respond to a request ences with the church in a New Yorker article in February for comment. 2011. — Reuters

Scientology and celebrities The actress, 43, has spoken publicly in the past about being a member of the Church of Scientology, which was Leah Remini founded in 1954 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard

acific Rim” has sudden momentum and reigning champ “Despicable Me 2” has the family crowd locked “Pup - but “Grown Ups 2” could just as easily beat both in a weekend that’s shaping up to be the closest box office race of summer. All are projected to wind up at $40 million or above for the three days, analysts say - though the volume of social buzz for “Pacific Rim” has been foretelling an opening that could creep up to $50 million, according to social media-based estimates. That Guillermo del Toro’s monster epic in even the No. 1 dis- cussion represents an impressive turnaround - just a week ago it was tracking at below $30 million. “Buzz has been good for the last four months, which is disappointing because they haven’t managed to translate that to the mainstream,” Kristen Longfield, a social-media analyst at Cimarron, told TheWrap. The problem is that much of that buzz is coming from fanboys and there are only so many of those to go around. “‘Pacific Rim’ has been strong in social, and it’s gotten stronger,” said Ben Carlson, of the social-media analytics firm Fizziology. “But it’s a very concentrated group of fanboys who are talking very loudly.” The lack of A-list stars and extremely high- concept had to present marketing challenges for Warner Bros, but it seems to be connecting now. Online ticket broker Fandango reported Thursday morning that it was accounting for 60 percent of presales. Some analysts believe that the early numbers were skewed This film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Charlie Hunnam as Raleigh Becket, left, and Rinko Kikuchi as because the film’s core demographic targets - young boys and Mako Mori in a scene from ‘Pacific Rim.’ — AP devoted Del Toro followers - are tough to track and will turn out in force. The studio is also hoping for a boost from the Mexican Contrino said he’s giving “Grown Ups 2” a slight edge in the opened to $40 million in June 2010 and went on to make $270 director’s Hispanic fans. But word-of-mouth could make or break domestic race. It will be in 3,491 theaters this weekend, with million globally. the PG-13-rated film this weekend, and the signs are positive. It “Pacific Rim” in more than 3,300. “But I wouldn’t be surprised by Director Dennis Dugan is back, as is Fred Wolf, who co-wrote had a 76 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes on any of the top three films taking the weekend,” he said. “Grown the screenplay with Sandler and Tim Herlihy. Salma Hayak and Thursday. Ups 2” looks like the perfect spot for Adam Sandler to get his box- Maya Rudolph co-star. Universal and Illumination “I think it’s going to pop,” said BoxOffice.com editor-in-chief office groove back. He voiced Dracula in Sony’s surprising animat- Entertainment’s “Despicable Me 2” has played strongly all Phil Contrino. “If it connects with the late Thursday-Friday night ed hit “Hotel Transylvania,” but his last two live-action efforts - week, and the animated family has now rung up more than crowds, and I think it will, then look for it to take off on Saturday.” “Jack and Jill” and “That’s My Boy” - have disappointed. The latter $175 million domestically and $326 million globally, after last Warner Bros is counting on a big international performance from film was R-rated and a bid by Sandler to broaden his youthful weekend’s $83 million debut. — Reuters “Pacific Rim,” which should get a boost from Del Toro’s significant base, but it came up short. international following. The studio is releasing it in 38 foreign Reteaming with Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Space (Rob markets this weekend, including the UK, Russia, Mexico, South Schneider is sitting this one out) in the PG-13-rated sequel should Korea and Australia. France and Germany will come next week, turn that around. “Grown Ups 2,” which has an $80 million pro- followed by China on July 31. duction budget, has been tracking in line with the original, which SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

File photo shows Tyler the Creator posing backstage with the File photo shows Rick Ross performing at the BET Hip-Hop File photo shows Lil Wayne performs at the iHeart Radio award for best new artist backstage at the MTV Video Music Honors at Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, in Atlanta. Music Festival at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. Awards in Los Angeles. —AP photos

ince it began, rap has found ways to such as Kendrick Lamar’s “(Expletive), Don’t Kill orated three times. “Now people will think twice offend. Whether for political content, sexu- My Vibe” and A$AP Rocky’s “(Expletive) about stepping in that territory and making light Sal imagery, misogyny, violence or coarse Problems.” The use of gay slurs has been toned of it ... and if that’s the effect of people protest- humor, rappers have found themselves having down, though rappers like Tyler, the Creator still ing then maybe that’s a good effect.” to defend their words on a regular basis, no mat- say them regularly. But even for a genre known Lyrics from rap icons like Tupac Shakur and ter how innocuous - or extreme. Those defenses for using outrageous words to convey a mes- the Notorious B.I.G. were sometimes raw and have typically been defiant. So it was a bit star- sage, some thought Lil Wayne went too far. On a vulgar, but they didn’t have contracts with tling when both Lil Wayne and Rick Ross - under remix of rapper-producer Future’s song, “Karate major companies like rappers do today. Hip-hop intense fire over rhymes deemed offensive - Chop,” Lil Wayne compared a sex act to the performers have become the faces for many top gave mea culpas for their words amid threats of beating that killed 14-year-old Emmett Till in brands: Nicki Minaj has a contract with PepsiCo; boycotts and a loss of major endorsements. Mississippi. PepsiCo cut ties with Lil Wayne in Snoop Dogg has had endorsements with Hot Their contrition, and the success of their detrac- May; it was the same week the company pulled Pockets and Monster Energy; and Jay-Z, rap’s tors in getting them dropped by major corpora- an online Mountain Dew ad - developed by ultimate businessman, has had a plethora of tions, raises the question: Could the close atten- Tyler, the Creator - that was criticized for por- partnerships, including Duracell, Reebok and tion paid to lyrics today - mainly because of the traying racial stereotypes and making light of recently Samsung to debut his album, “Magna digital age and social media - find some rappers violence toward women. Carta Holy Grail,” released this week. toning down their words, or compromising Steve Stoute, the former record label boss “When these companies go into business artistry, to satisfy others? and advertising executive who has worked with with artists, they know what they’re getting into. Ebro Darden, the program director of New Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige, believes Lil Wayne and It’s not a surprise what kind of record Lil Wayne York’s Hot 97 radio station, thinks rappers may Ross did no harm - and nothing they haven’t makes. He’s Lil Wayne,” said Rick Rubin, who has become more mindful, but isn’t convinced this is done before. “Lil Wayne’s fans know he wasn’t worked with the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, a tipping point in the genre. “I think they’ll be being disrespectful ... he was trying to make a Run D.M.C. and dozens of other rock and rap more cautious about the disrespect they show point, which in hip-hop you will sometimes go icons. “There’s a reason they want to be associ- toward a specific situation,” he said. “I think hip- as ridiculous as he went to make a point,” said File photo shows LL Cool J arrives at the 55th ated with him: because of the kind of records he hop is a culture of people speaking what they Stoute, who added that the rappers shouldn’t annual Grammy Awards, in Los Angeles. makes.” Stoute echoed that. “(Pepsi) went in feel and see. ... I think it does get out of balance alter their lyrics. “I think Lil Wayne and Rick Ross business and (Wayne) was already locked up in sometimes and I think that’s the main issue peo- and every other artist should do exactly what store in New York City. The sneaker brand said it jail for having a gun, but now they’re going to ple have with hip-hop.” Others see Lil Wayne they’ve always done to become the special was not happy with how 37-year-old Ross han- get rid of him because of the Emmett Till line?” and Ross’ situations as blips that won’t shake up thing that they are.” Ross rapped about giving a dled the situation (Ross apologized for his lyrics Stoute said. — AP how rap stars approach their music. woman the drug MDMA, known as Molly, and twice before he was dropped, but only acknowl- “Folks in hip-hop are going to use freedom of having his way with her in Rocko’s song edged the seriousness of his words after Reebok expression,” said Cori Murray, the entertainment “U.O.E.N.O.” let him go). “I bet you (Ross) wasn’t thinking that director at Essence. “I don’t see them self-editing Reebok ended its relationship with Ross in was going to happen when he was writing that themselves.” There are still plenty of examples of April after the women’s group UltraViolet held lyric,” John Legend said of the backlash the vulgarities dominating in rap, including pop hits several protests, including one outside a Reebok burly rapper received, with whom he has collab-

ustin Bieber apologized by phone to Bill Clinton, the former spokeswoman Jennifer Lipford confirmed Thursday that the 19- president’s office said Thursday, for cursing Clinton and year-old Bieber was listed as an underage guest on a citation of Jspraying his photo with cleaning fluid in a New York City Bodi nightclub. Police cited the club early Wednesday for admit- restaurant kitchen earlier this year. The pop star also had reper- ting and knowingly having an underage person in the establish- cussions from a tour stop in Chicago earlier this week when city ment, she said. officials said Bieber was listed as an underage guest on a citation Bieber performed in a concert at Chicago’s United Center on that police issued to a nightclub. Clinton’s office said Thursday Tuesday evening. The next step is for the citation to go to an the pop star called and “he apologized and offered to help the administrative hearing. The club faces a fine of up to $1,000. A Clinton Foundation.” Clinton’s office declined to provide any oth- date hasn’t been set. Bodi issued a statement saying Bieber made er details. a brief appearance to support a friend who is a DJ and was per- A video released Wednesday by TMZ.com shows the 19-year- forming at the nightclub. The club said Bieber was not served old Bieber urinating in a mop bucket as he and others race alcohol. “Neither Justin nor anyone affiliated with Bodi broke any through the restaurant kitchen. Before exiting, Bieber sprays the laws,” the statement said. “We believe this matter amounts to a Clinton photo and drops the F-bomb in reference to the former simple misunderstanding with local police officers.”—AP president. Bieber tweeted to his more than 41 million followers Wednesday night, thanking Clinton “for taking the time to talk.” File photo shows Justin Bieber performs at the MGM Grand Bieber tweeted: “Your words meant alot. #greatguy.” Separately, Garden Arena in Las Vegas. — AP Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

fter chasing festival-goers through the cobbled streets of one, said Julio Flames, the chef and owner of La Nuez, considered wash away any blood that oozes out from the wounds suffered by Pamplona, a huge black fighting bull now hangs from one one of the best restaurants in Pamplona. “I don’t believe in that the animal in the bullring. Aleg, blood gushing out of its throat. The half-tonne beast is kind of thing. But like all things in life, if you believe something When the bull arrives at the slaughterhouse, three young men being drained of blood in the patio of the bullring where it was gives you strength, maybe it does,” said the 33-year-old dressed in white immediately set to work with knives and electric slain by a matador following the morning chase. Like all the bulls Venezuelan, who keeps his skateboard in his kitchen. saws to skin it, chop off its legs and head and remove its innards. killed in the San Fermin festival in this northern Spanish city, it will “There is a lot of romanticism, people love to think they are The team took just under half an hour on Wednesday to skin and soon head to a slaughterhouse to be prepared and then sold in eating the bull that was killed by a matador,” added Flames, who dismember a 550-kilo bull called Jocundo that was killed in the butcher shops. likes to listen to heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath while he ring by top matador Julian Lopez Escobar, also known as “El Juli”. “It’s very common here in Pamplona for a housewife to buy 10 cooks. The bulls used to be dismembered at the bullring after The bull’s carcass will hang in a freezer at the slaughterhouse kilos, 15 kilos and freeze it to eat at Christmas or on special occa- they were killed in a bullfight and the animals’ testicles cooked on for a few days while health inspections are carried out, before it is sions,” says one local butcher, Patxi Jimenez Arellano, 44. A for- the spot. But health regulations introduced in 2002 due to the chopped into smaller bits and sold. The 48 bulls used in the eight mer sociologist, he now stands behind the counter in the butch- outbreak of mad cow disease put an end to the tradition. The bull runs of the annual San Fermin fiesta which wraps up on er’s shop founded by his father in the historic heart of Pamplona. bulls must now be taken to a slaughterhouse within an hour of Sunday will produce around 14,000 kilos of meat products. “That “People experience the bull during the whole process. They look being killed in the ring. is enough bull for all the butcher shops in Pamplona,” said at it in the holding pen, watch it in the bull run and in the ring, Before the animal is hauled away, a butcher drains it of its Arellano. He says the meat should be frozen to tenderize it. “It is and finally they eat it. It’s like closing a circle,” he says. blood. A team of three mules decorated with colored ribbons and like game meat, it is very strong. It is great with red wine-with The most popular dish is a stew made with the choicest bits of bells drag the dead bull by the horns from the arena to the patio, chocolate even,” he added. — AFP meat from the bull, but all parts of it are eaten. The feet are where a forklift hoists it in the air by one of its hind legs. A butcher cooked with peppers, the tail is chopped up and stewed with wearing dark blue pants and a red shirt to hide the blood stains tomatoes, onions and carrots-and the testicles are breaded and then repeatedly jabs a 20-centimetre (8-inch) knife into the bull’s fried to make a dish called “criadillas”. It is not just the taste that throat, causing several litres of blood to pour out into a plastic locals love-many believe eating bull will give them the strength of container. Another man hoses the cement floor of the patio to

Goldfish swim in a cross over fish tanks as part of art exhibition ‘Art Aquarium’ during a press preview in Tokyo yesterday. The exhibition, designed by aquarist Hidetomo Kimura, will begin from July 13 through September 23. — AFP SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

Iranian art collector Ali Bakhtiari speaks about an artwork at his house in Tehran. Two Iranian women look at paintings in an art gallery in Tehran, Iran.

ome arrived in Porsches or BMWs, which were whisked Panahi appeared via Skype at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, was sold for about away by valet parking attendants. The hotel lobby was the Czech Republic after the screening of his film, “Closed $6,000.Bayrami’s works have been sold previously at Sawash with the celebrated and powerful including A-list Curtain,” which he made in defiance of censors while under Sotheby’s auctions in London and Qatar. “Many know that actors, well-known artists and captains of commerce. For one house arrest. Authorities imposed a 20-year filmmaking ban investment cannot be limited to real estate, gold and carpets,” glimmering moment late last month, the Iranian capital was on Panahi in 2010 after his conviction on charges of “making the photographer said. “It also shows the strength of Iranian the talk of the world’s art market after 80 works sold for $2 mil- propaganda” against Iran’s ruling system. The works on the art lovers and artists.”The manager of the auction, Ali Reza lion, astonishing a country whose economy is battered by auction block at Tehran’s high-end Azadi Hotel - the former Samei Azar, said he had hoped to top last year’s auction that Western sanctions but still has pockets of wealth looking for Hyatt near the infamous Evin Prison - played it safe, however. brought in $1.3 million, but the sinking economy initially investment havens for their money. This is the other side to The collection, such as the 1970 painting “The Body of Trees,” made him think they “were dreaming.” “We rarely see the sale Tehran - hidden by walls surrounding elite enclaves or in high- avoided any political overtones. of 100 percent of artworks in international auctions,” Samei rise towers with doormen - that has more in common with That piece, by the late painter and poet Sohrab Sepeheri, Azar gushed after the 3 1/2-hour event on June 28. “Iranian well-heeled spots in Manhattan or London. brought the highest price of the auction, about $220,000. The society has shown that art can be an investment.” He Many in the gilded set of Tehran come from old merchant buyer, the private Pasargad Bank, already has bought more described many of the buyers as “young and Western educat- families. Others made it big in newer ventures: the export than 140 artworks in recent years as part of plans for a muse- ed.” “It was exciting,” Samei Azar said. “One-third of buyers trade with the Gulf or the city’s still-hot real estate market, um. A photo entitled “Weeping Cow,” by the internationally were new buyers. It shows the growth potential for Iran’s art where prime residential property prices in the overcrowded renowned film director Abbas Kiarostami, fetched $22,000 market.”— AP capital can reach Tokyo-level rates of $10,000 per square when the gavel came down. It was wielded by celebrity auc- meter, or $929 per square foot. Signs of wealth still appear in tioneer Reza Kianian, a veteran film and television actor who Tehran even as sanctions bite deeper over the country’s has won the Iranian equivalent of an Academy Award. nuclear program. Car dealers get orders - even at inflated price “I did not expect that all works could be sold,” Kianian said. tags because of import complications - for a $300,000 “The excitement was very high, and that pushed me to raise Mercedes Benz or BMWs at $200,000 each. Ice cream flaked the offers.” A photo by Jamshid Bayrami on the hajj, or Islamic with edible gold dust was a signature dish at the rotating restaurant atop Tehran’s 435-meter (1,427-foot) Milad Tower. Officials chagrined by the extravagance banned the dessert in 2011, as tightening sanctions have led to shortages of med- icine and protests over the soaring price of chicken. Iran’s stumbling economy has become such a political issue that it dominated debates before June’s presidential election. The winner, Hasan Rouhani, has pledged to try to reverse painful inflation now running at about 30 percent and work to ease sanctions. The art auction - Tehran’s second such event in the past year - offered a rare window into the investment strate- gies of the city’s rich, whose route to acquire assets overseas has been complicated by sanctions that bumped Iran from main international banking networks. Now some of Iran’s wealth increasingly appears drawn to the rising profile and prices of Iranian art in galleries from Dubai to Los Angeles. In April, the painting “The Secret Garden” by Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri brought the highest price at a Christie’s auc- tion in Dubai at $987,750. “They have learned that artworks have business and investment aspects while also having a high cultural and social prestige,” said Saeed Leilaz, a promi- nent economic analyst in Tehran. Iran’s ruling clerics - who once even banned music in the years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution - now encourage Iran’s vast artistic community that includes such luminaries as Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi. But there are limits. Strict bans are in place on anything that hints too strongly of political dissent or criticism of the theocracy. Other artists have faced prosecution for alleged support of opposition movements. This month Iranian director Jafar In this picture taken on Monday, July 1, 2013, Iranians visit an art gallery with paintings in Tehran, Iran. — AP SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

Couples dress up to perform a danzon, a slow-moving dance from Cuba, in Ciudadela Couples perform a danzon. Park in Mexico City, Mexico. — MCT photos

very Saturday of the year, hundreds of couples converge on a six decades ago. A basic staple is the fedora with the lone feather. “I shady park in this capital to embrace one another in the slow- have been doing danzon for 45 years,” said Carranza, 63, who wore a Emoving, genteel dance known as the danzon. Many of the men blue guayabera, the loose-fitting square-tailed shirt commonly worn appear transported from the 1930s and 1940s in zoot suits with in the Caribbean and along Mexico’s Gulf Coast. loose-fitting jackets and high-waist tapered pants. Fedoras, graced The park was filled with people in their 60s and 70s or older but a with a lone feather, top off the retro look. The women balance on smattering of young people, and even children, mixed in.”My mom high heels, waving fans to shoo away the heat. would come here and bring me along, so I started to learn,” said A Mexican couple dances to the danzon. Danzon lives on in corners of Mexico even though it has virtually Carla Bocanegra, a 23-year-old whose partner wore an elegant white died out in Cuba, where it evolved in the 19th century from dances striped suit and a panama hat. “I come all Saturdays, every last one.” and rhythms originating in Europe and Africa centuries earlier. It is a Danzon developed in Cuba in the mid-1800s with roots in the precise, elegant dance, with the men leading in a three-step move- English line dance known as contradance and the French square ment, dipping and swirling their partners in delicate but restrained dancelike quadrille, two styles that arrived in Cuba from British style. “It is a dance in which the partners touch each other in a dis- invaders and French colonists fleeing the Haitian Revolution. The creet way,” said Jose Luis Ceron Mireles, a sociologist and expert on dance forms blended with African rhythms to make a fusion of danzon (pronounced dahn-SONE). “They don’t look at each other African and European movement. directly. They glance at each other out of the corners of their eyes. With its far-flung rhythms merged into a quintessentially Creole That’s where the sensuality lies.” To this day in public parks in form, the danzon allowed people of all races and social strata to Veracruz, Merida and Mexico City, as well as ballrooms in other cities, intermingle. Itinerant Cuban theater and music companies arriving in fans of the dance turn out by the hundreds while bands known as the Mexican port of Veracruz and the Yucatan city of Merida brought danzoneras, replete with marimbas, trumpets, drums and percussive danzon with them. instruments made from gourds and known as guiros, coax the music “They’d play in the parks and on the wharves,” Ceron said. forth. “See that guy with the hat with the feather in it? They are called “People danced in the open air.” As the decades passed, other dance pachucos. They dress like they are from the 1940s,” said Vicente forms evolved in Cuba, like the mambo, cha-cha-cha and salsa. Carranza Navarro as he took a break in Mexico City’s Balderas Avenue Danzon took root and grew in Mexico. Park, where danzon is played every Saturday. “The triumph of danzon has come outside its country of origin. It’s Pachuco is an old school Mexican slang term referring to a style of only in Mexico where the danzon carries on,” Ceron said. “I went to A Mexican couple dances to the danzon. dress developed in northern Mexico and in El Paso, Texas, more than Cuba two years ago, and it is no longer there. Danzon is dying out. They only dance salsa,” Carranza said. In an essay on the musical form, Ceron wrote that the elegant swing dance “has the particular characteristic that ... after each refrain, the woman fans her face and the man wipes the sweat from his brow, wooing each other as they do so.” In the early years, the dance had a whiff of iniquity, made stronger by a historical incident on Nov 18, 1901, during the rule of dictator Porfirio Diaz. That night, police raided a house in which they found 41 men, 19 of them dressed as women. The raid is said to have occurred just as a danzon was being played. A rumor at the time said Diaz’s son-in-law was among the upper- class men present at the dance. To this day, “41” remains a symbol in Mexico of taboo. Some high-rises don’t have a floor 41, and it’s rare to find a house along a street numbered 41. By the 1920s, after Mexico’s revolution, times had changed, and ballroom salons opened in the capital, bringing a true explosion of danzon, especially in the city’s premier venue, Salon Mexico, where throngs lined up to enter its multiple ballrooms. Cuban and Mexican musicians filled the dance halls. Benjamin Muratalla, deputy director of the Fonoteca, a national archive of popular music and street sounds in Mexico, said the danzon incorporates many elements of African culture along with its European roots. “Danzon has a big dose of black cultures its sensuality, its elegance, that snappy tropical rhythm all come from there,” Muratalla said.—MCT

A Mexican couple dances to the danzon. SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

A Little Free The Little Free Library Library box is box instructs passers shown outside of by to take a book, Grass Valley. — leave a book in Nevada MCT photos City, California.

he docents of the diminutive Golden Drift Museum in honor his mother. Brooks said he was surprised at how fast it steady rise in electronic book usage. About 23 percent of the Placer County, Calif, hamlet of Dutch Flat are proud has caught on. He said the boxes create a sense of communi- Americans age 16 and over used an e-book in 2012, up from Tof their collection of historical artifacts and photos. So ty in the neighborhoods where they’re located and in the 16 percent in 2011, according to Pew Research data. imagine their surprise when an out-of-town couple arrived broader community, with people traveling miles to visit Meanwhile the percentage of people who read printed to get a photograph of themselves next to the book-lending locations. books dropped from 72 percent to 67 percent during the kiosk out front. A lot of people have taken notice of Little Little Free Library, through its website same time period. Free Libraries. Since 2009, the movement has grown from a (littlefreelibrary.org), enrolls new stewards, sells various-style “I think people are feeling nostalgic for books because of one-box memorial that a Wisconsin man built for his book- boxes and maintains a worldwide map of each site, includ- all the digital stuff,” said Molly Fisk, a Nevada City resident loving mother to an international movement with more ing GPS coordinates. The movement runs counter to the who placed a Little Free Library outside her home. She said than 8,000 locations. people like to pass along good books, event if it’s indirectly. There are no memberships, identification cards or late “There is a long history of people saying, ‘Here is a good fees. A small structure is set up, usually looking like a doll- book, read it,’” Fish said. Joaquin Feliciano is the steward of size house on a post. A sign on the house asked visitors to two Little Free Libraries in Davis, one outside his home and “take a book, leave a book.” Little Free Library sites have one at the Davis Food Co-op. been set up in various Sacramento region communities. Feliciano figured he’d kill three birds with one stone: Statewide there are more than 150. build community, use up some extra lumber and expose The Dutch Flat Little Free Library was set up about a year himself to new books. “Part of my motivation also came from ago, but it wasn’t until recently that Placer County officials a simmering frustration over the Davis branch of the Yolo and literacy advocates celebrated the installation the coun- County public library having to cut back on its open hours ty’s first. Supported by volunteers and Placer County’s due to budget cuts,” Feliciano said. Literacy Support Council, the county now has five locations. Within the first 24 hours he had his first donation of books “We just saw this Little Free Library as a way to get out into and it hasn’t let up. “During the warm months, I enjoy sitting the community,” said Miriam Chipp, president of the council. quietly on my front porch in the evenings and seeing who all She said the project, spearheaded by former board member comes up to check out the offerings,” Feliciano said. “It’s a lit- David McAfee, is in keeping with their mission to expand tle like Christmas whenever you stop by. You just don’t know adult literacy. what’s going to be there. And once you’ve donated, it can be “It makes reading available. It makes books available,” kind of fun to see if your own book is still there.” — MCT Chipp said. Alta resident Heidi Johnson serves as the steward for the Little Free Library. The other Placer County Little Free Library boxes are within buildings chosen to reach audi- ences that might need reading help. In many ways, the Dutch Flat location is the most in tune with the Little Free Library movement. Most are installed and artfully decorated by residents hoping to make a small difference in their com- munities. Each site has a steward to occasionally check in on the box. “These aren’t just about books; they are about communi- ty,” said Rick Brooks, who founded the project along with fel- low Wisconsin resident Todd Bol, who built the first library to

This box in Dutch Flat, California, is one of sev- eral supported by Placer County’s Literary Support Council. SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

Perfumed oil created by Jennifer Nicholson are displayed. Jewelry displayed on the pages of an open book at Jennifer Nicholson’s new boutique, Pearl Drop, in Venice, California. — MCT photos

esigner, retailer and Hollywood royalty Jennifer Nicholson, who and plans to offer libations from Moon Juice and workshops with her once headlined Los Angeles Fashion Week and showed her col- yoga teacher in the store’s outdoor courtyard space. “So you never Dlections in New York, has returned to fashion after a nearly five- want to leave,” she says. She even created a leather turban for her col- year hiatus. Her new venture is Pearl Drop, a Venice, Calif, boutique lection inspired by the traditional clothing she wears during her prac- with a “boho goddess festival vibe,” opened just in time to dress cus- tice. tomers for this month’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, one of On the racks and shelves are Gregory Parkinson caftans made of Nicholson’s favorite springtime excursions. Located on Lincoln over-dyed Indian fabric GoldDust one-of-a-kind floaty print dresses Clu tops and Goddis knits and necklace by Alex & Lee are dis- Boulevard in the up-and-coming retail area known as the Linc that’s ,Goddis fringed cardigans and ponchos; Alex & Lee artisanal crystal col- played. become an alternative to crowded Abbot Kinney, Pearl Drop showcas- lage necklaces , Heyoka fringed leather bags and neck pieces and es mostly California-based labels, plus pieces that Nicholson has Calleen Cordero sandals. Mixed in are vintage pieces, including a designed herself under the Pearl Drop label. “The LA fashion scene has fringed suede wrap skirt, embroidered denim jacket and beaded moc- changed so much in the past 10 years,” says Nicholson, 49. “There are casins. Carried over from Nicholson’s old store, a wood and glass dis- so many more designers making things here. And fashion in LA is really play with a sign overhead that says “Beauty Bar” showcases an expan- respected. Designers like Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy have really sive selection of jewelry, including shell rings, clear bracelets with dried upped the ante. When I was starting out, I did sales through flowers encased inside, serpent rings by Jessica Seaton, and vintage sil- Showroom Seven in New York. Now, they have an office in LA ver and turquoise Native American pieces. There are also beauty prod- Downtown is revived. It’s really happening, which is why it’s possible ucts, including body oils, bath salts and lip balms, from Rodin, Sweet now to open a store featuring designers who are primarily from here.” Sisters and Persephone. Pearl Drop is a play on Pearl, which was the name of Nicholson’s Nicholson’s own designs are also featured, including brightly col- Santa Monica, Calif, store that closed in 2005. Her old store was very ored leather biker jackets with zipper pulls molded into the shape of “girly debutante on acid,” she says, as was her collection back then. “I shark’s teeth, and high-waist leather pants with lacing at the ankles. “I loved that, but I didn’t really dress that way. This is the way I dress,” she love vintage leather pants from the 1970s, but when you put them on, says of the haute hippie Pearl Drop, which is located near several of her you’re so stiff, you can’t walk. Now there are all these amazing stretch favorite Venice haunts, including General Store and Moon Juice. leathers to work with,” she says. Nicholson has made caftans and kimonos in prints created with LA artist Alia Penner. One print is a collage of jewels, along with the Pearl Drop logo. Another, which is used as a lining in the leather jackets, mix- es naked 1970s pinups with images of seashells. “I’m just doing pieces I want to do, not whole categories, so I can go at my own pace,” says Nicholson, who made her first foray into fashion Kimonos designed by Jennifer Nicholson. in 2002, launching her line after a short-lived acting career. Back then, she took inspiration from the 1950s, with short, ruffle-back skirts and waitress shirts with the names of her dogs embroidered on the fronts. Saks Fifth Avenue and Henri Bendel picked up a few pieces from the line, and there was an editorial in Italian Vogue. Her campy, fun fashion shows were a mainstay at Los Angeles Fashion Week for a few years, but when she started showing in New York, she wasn’t able to break through to the next level. The grind of the fashion system was getting to her, too, she says, especially the con- stant travel for runway shows and sales. So she took a break to raise her kids Sean is 17 and Duke is 13. About two years ago, Nicholson started Antique silver Native American jewelry is displayed. designing again, working on leather pieces and selling them at Roseark. She missed the creative process, but also “interacting with The interior is eclectic and light-filled, with baroque-looking customers and making people happy,” she says. “And I felt like there antiques culled from Nicholson’s Malibu beach house. She describes was a niche to fill in this area higher-end beach vibe.”—MCT the look as one part “underwater beachy, mermaid grotto” (a glass side table with pink seahorses for a base; a sea foam green velvet, scallop shell-shaped couch with carved wood mermaids for legs; and a glass pirate ship chandelier) and one part “glorified yoga shop,” with mystic crystals, feathers and framed butterfly displays. Nicholson, who is the daughter of Jack Nicholson and his first wife, Vintage clothing mixes with new designs at Jennifer Sandra Knight, recently took up Kundalini yoga after a bad breakup Nicholson’s new boutique. SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

Mimi Fery poses for a photograph Tuesday, This undated photo provided by her family on July 9, 2013 shows Sidonie Fery in New York. A bottle containing a message by Sidonie Fery July 9, 2013, in New York.— AP photos is shown Tuesday, July 9, 2013, in New York.

dozen years ago, a 10-year-old girl wrote a message on a Fery described her only child as a creative youngster, who was deal with a lot of things,” Fery said. “But she stood her ground.” The scrap of paper, placed it in a ginger-ale bottle and launched it always writing poetry. She knew instantly when told what the mes- bottle only travelled a mile or two westward from where it was likely Ainto the waters off Long Island. Now, that bottle has been dis- sage contained that it had been written by Sidonie because it was a deposited to the location where parks workers found it just before covered amid a beach strewn with debris from Superstorm Sandy. quote from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the girl’s favourite Thanksgiving last year. It was intermingled with broken docks, boat- The girl who cast that bottle into the bay is dead, but her message film. Fery also takes a second meaning from the message, one not to ing gear and a spectrum of sea trash. Because the note included has been passed along to her grieving mother. worry about Sidonie, who died after falling off a cliff with another Fery’s New York City phone number, the worthless piece of trash is “I was just sobbing when I heard they had found it,” Mimi Fery student while attending boarding school. now a priceless memento.—AP said of the workers in the Long Island village of Patchogue, who not “Be excellent to yourself, dude,” Fery said, quoting the message. only found the message in the bottle, but called the woman and “It makes so much sense.” Described as a “very artistic and vivacious arranged for its ultimate return. “These are very, very kind people.” young woman,” Fery said Sidonie always had an independent This weekend, Fery will return to the seaside village about 95 kilo- streak; she travelled by herself to visit relatives in Iran every summer metres east of Manhattan where she will again thank the workers beginning when she was about seven years old, her mother said. and attend a ceremony where a small plaque will be dedicated as a Born on Sept 11, 1991, the little girl was often teased and remembrance to Sidonie Fery, village officials said. The 18-year-old harassed after the terror attacks on her 10th birthday by people who died in a 2010 fall from a cliff in Switzerland. didn’t understand her Persian heritage, her mother said. “She had to

arlo Miyashiro starts with a sheet of sterling silver. She then uses wires, pliers, a jeweler saw and small torch to Mtransform the sheet into sterling-silver charms and etch comic-book phrases like “Kapow!” or “Zing!” on them. Or she engraves on silver promise rings “I love you.” The Seattle jewelry maker started selling her art 20 years ago at craft fairs and eventu- ally in more than 200 stores. Now she displays photos of each of her creations with a catchy description like “Do you have a special saying between the two of you?” and “Maybe you just want to make them laugh?” on Etsy.com, an online site where people sell handmade crafts and jewelry. “Technology moves so fast that having a place like Etsy was a welcome find,” said Miyashiro, who has shipped 431 orders from her Etsy store I Make Cute Stuff since 2007. Etsy started eight years ago in Brooklyn, NY It now has more than 900,000 active shops and more than 25 million members. Last year those sellers generated $895 million, a 70 percent increase from $525.6 million Marlo Miyashiro has helped some 1,400 craftspeople find a Marlo Miyashiro, who makes sterling-silver jewelry, has used in sales in 2011. market via the website Etsy Rain. — MCT photos the online platform of Etsy to expand her business and unite Traditional retailers have caught on. Seattle retailer Nordstrom other artists. launched in June its second collaboration with the e-commerce site called “Etsy and Nordstrom Present: Weddings.” The 80-piece would wear for my own wedding,” Brooks said. The Nordstrom- audience, have decreased dramatically,” Isom said. collection, available in select stores and online, features hand- Etsy deal is part of a national trend, says Paco Underhill, author of With lower barriers comes a new set of challenges. Miyashiro is crafted work of five Etsy artists, including one from Seattle. “What Women Want: The Global Marketplace Turns Female one of the founding members and current organizer of Etsy Rain, Andrea Wasserman, national bridal director for Nordstrom, said Friendly.” He said there’s a “sea of sameness” in the items national a community of more than 1,400 artists in Washington state’s the Seattle retailer was attracted to Etsy because that’s where chains stock. He said with Etsy, consumers are finding unique Puget Sound region who own independent shops on Etsy. “people go to find art accessories that really come with a story.” products. The group started with just 11 people in 2007 but slowly “We want those pieces to be part of what we have to offer in The receiver of any gift from the site will look at their gift and developed into “this great excuse to get out of their studios and the Nordstrom wedding suites,” Wasserman said. Seattle artist connect with it more simply because they know someone made meet,” said Miyashiro. Its goal is to bring Etsy sellers together and Erin Brooks said she read Nordstrom’s message 10 times because that item by hand, Underhill said. For artists like Miyashiro and to support people looking to start their own shop. “You have to she was in such disbelief that they selected her items. Her Brooks, the online platform propels them beyond a crafts fair and know what your personal brand is,” she said. “The more authentic “Marguerite” Bridal Sash comes with a price tag of $398. helps them navigate the e-commerce-sales channel. Etsy charges that brand is, the more likely you are going to find people who Brooks said she started her store Serephine three years ago to sellers 20 cents to list an item for up to for four months and col- will resonate with that message. It’s not an easy thing to do.”— sell vintage-inspired bridal sashes and hair pieces. She said she lects a 3.5 percent transaction fee on each sale. MCT remembers buying a headpiece for her own wedding from a ven- Dayna Isom, a public relations specialist for Etsy, said in an dor in Australia but was disappointed she could see dried hot email the decline in availability of full-time jobs means the econo- glue on it. After making her cousin a headpiece and a few more, my is moving in the direction of independent and nontraditional she decided to launch her site full time. work. She said 77 percent of Etsy shop owners are women. “The “I try to make things that will stand the test of time and that I barriers to turn an idea into a product, and market it to a global TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Norway mulls broadband coverage in the Arctic

TAVANGER: Norway may provide high-speed Internet in one of the few places on Earth where it’s not available: The Arctic. The Norwegian Space Center has teamed up with Telenor Satellite Broadcasting to assess the feasibility of a new satellite sys- tem covering northern areas outside the reach of current geostation- ary communications satellites. Space center director Bo Andersen on Thursday told The Associated Press the system could be in place in the early 2020s if it gets the necessary funding from private and public sources. The esti- mated cost is 2 billion-4 billion kroner ($330 million-$650 million). Demand for high-speed Internet in the Arctic is expected to grow as shipping, fishing and oil companies move north amid warming temperatures and melting ice. Last year, summer sea ice cover in the Arctic fell to the lowest extent on record. Geostationary satellites, which are in orbit over the equator, provide coverage up to 75 degrees north, Andersen said. But above that latitude, the signals become too weak, and the only option is another satellite network that can only handle voice and limited data service. “We see very clearly that there is an increasing need for broad- band in the high Arctic,” Andersen said. Ola Anders Skauby, a spokesman for Norwegian energy company Statoil, said “new satel- lite solutions would be beneficial” as the offshore industry moves north in search of oil and gas. “Our plans for the Arctic depend on a SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft store employee Judy Thao gives a search demonstration on a Fujitsu tablet at a Microsoft event in number of issues: safe operations, logistics, weather conditions and San Francisco. — AP more,” he said. “Broadband coverage is part of this picture and for operations in some regions further north than where current opera- Microsoft reboots with tions are taking place development of new solutions for high-capaci- ty broadband ... will be needed.” Canada’s space agency has been studying a similar system. Spokeswoman Melanie Beauchesne said the agency has completed feasibility studies but is still talking with sweeping reorganization potential public and private partners in Canada and abroad “to determine their level of interest and potential collaboration scenario SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft Corp. has decided its entire business various factions formed to protect their turf. “We have to make the to bring about the future realization of this mission.”— AP needs a new operating system. CEO Steve Ballmer is restructuring the right decisions more quickly,” Ballmer said. The company’s motto company to cope with a quickening pace of technological change now: “One Microsoft all the time.” Ballmer appears to have the right that has left the world’s largest software maker a step behind its two idea, although it would have looked even smarter had he done it biggest rivals, Apple and Google. shortly after it became clear that Apple’s 2010 release of the iPad was In an effort to catch up, Microsoft is dismantling a management reshaping the tech market, said Gartner Inc. analyst David Cearley. structure that separated the company into sometimes disjointed divi- “They are really reorganizing for the market reality that has been in sions and hatching a more cohesive product line-up. The new set up place for the last three years,” Cearley said. “It would have been nice if revolves around software, devices and services connecting those it was done earlier, but it’s not too little too late yet. The real key is exe- devices to applications stored in remote data centers - a concept that cution. All these changes make sense and I can see a path forward, has become known as “cloud computing.” but that path forward is a really rocky one.” The move comes amid a lukewarm response to the latest version Most of Microsoft’s key executives will remain in positions of pow- of Microsoft’s flagship Windows operating system and a steady er at the Redmond, Wash., company although with new roles and decline in demand for personal computers as people increasingly rely more defined responsibilities. The company’s new divisions include on more convenient smartphones and tablets. engineering, marketing and business development. If things pan out the way Ballmer envisions, the shake-up Ballmer said no layoffs are planned, although analysts believe the announced Thursday will foster more rapid innovation and sharpen overhaul will open the door for cost-cutting opportunities as the company’s focus on countering the threat posed by mobile Microsoft pulls together its disparate parts. devices running on software made by Apple and Google while laptop Terry Myerson, who had been overseeing Windows Phone, will and desktop computers powered by Windows lose their luster. He is lead Microsoft’s operating systems and engineering group, namely hoping a more closely-knit organization making the software and Windows. Qi Lu, who had been overseeing Bing, will head applica- services that run smartphones, tablets, the Xbox video game console tions and services. Microsoft named veteran executive Julie Larson- GREENLAND: In this file photo, an iceberg floats in the sea and, yes, PCs will re-establish Microsoft’s reputation as “a company Green head of its devices and studios engineering group, which will near Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island. Norway is looking into pro- that helps people get stuff done.” “We are ready to take Microsoft in be in charge of hardware development, games, music and entertain- viding high-speed Internet in one of the few places on Earth bold new directions,” Ballmer told analysts and reporters during a ment. She had been promoted in November to lead all Windows soft- where itís not available. — AP conference call. Ballmer, 57, can’t afford to lose his way now. If he ware and hardware engineering after Steven Sinofsky, the president does, Microsoft could be even further eclipsed by its rivals. That, in of its Windows and Windows Live operations, left the company short- turn, could disillusion investors already exasperated with the lacklus- ly after the launch of Windows 8. ter performance of Microsoft’s stock since Ballmer succeeded his close Tony Bates, who joined Microsoft in 2011 when the company EU raids friend, company co-founder Bill Gates, as CEO 13 years ago. bought video calling service Skype for $8.5 billion, will take on a key During Ballmer’s reign, Microsoft’s stock has slipped by nearly 40 networking role as he works with the company’s key business part- percent even as the company’s annual revenue has roughly quadru- ners and preaches about the virtues of Microsoft’s products and serv- telecoms firms pled from $20 billion to nearly $80 billion. The bellwether Standard & ices. Poor’s 500 has climbed by 14 percent during the same time while Some of what Microsoft is doing mirrors changes that Apple and BRUSSELS: The European Union said Thursday that its inspectors Apple’s stock price is nearly 17 times higher. By the time Google went Google already have executed. For instance, Apple put its iOS soft- raided the offices of several telecommunications companies this public, Ballmer had already been Microsoft’s CEO for four years. Since ware for iPhones and iPads along with its operating system for its Mac week to see if they had abused their dominant position in the then, Google’s stock has risen tenfold. Both Apple and Google now computer under one executive, Craig Federighi, in a shake-up last global market for Internet traffic. boast higher total market values than Microsoft. year. And Google’s Android software for mobile devices and Chrome The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said the Microsoft’s stock gained 99 cents Thursday to close at $35.69. The software for laptops were aligned under the management of the probe is centered on Internet connectivity - how providers use shares have surged 24 percent in the past three months, partly same executive, Sundar Pichai, for the first time during the spring. wholesale services to connect their customers with websites. because the company’s revenue is holding up better than many ana- Now, Microsoft hopes to mimic the success of its rivals in a world Germany’s Deutsche Telekom and France’s Orange were among lysts expected, despite five consecutive quarters of declining PC sales. that increasingly revolves around mobile devices and Internet servic- the targeted companies and both said that earlier investigations Some recent buyers of Microsoft’s stock had been betting the compa- es. Gartner estimates nearly 867 million devices running on Android by national authorities had already come up emptyhanded. ny would do something even more dramatic, such as spinning off a software will be shipped worldwide this year, up from 505 million last Such raids are an initial step in investigations to see if abuse division or shedding its unprofitable Internet search engine, Bing, said year. Worldwide shipments of Windows-powered devices are expect- effectively takes place and the Commission insisted it did not BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis. Neither of those appears likely, now ed to total nearly 340 million this year, down from 346 million last mean any of the companies raided were guilty of anti-competi- that Ballmer has reshuffled the business. year, Gartner forecasts. But those Windows machines are primarily tive behavior. The European Commission has wide ranging Gillis views the changes as Ballmer’s tacit acknowledgement that PCs, not smartphones or tablets. Apple will ship about 296 million iOS authority in such probes and its fines can sometimes reach in the Microsoft had become bogged down in bureaucracy and second- and Mac devices this year, up from 213 million last year, Gartner pre- hundreds of millions of euros (dollars).—AP guessing - and an admission that there was too much internal strife as dicted.—AP TECHNOLOGY SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Nokia phone’s camera in bid to regain share

NEW YORK: One-time cellphone powerhouse Other markets are planned later. Nokia Corp. is hoping to lure people back from Nokia reigned as the leading phone maker iPhones and Android phones with a powerful for 14 years, until early last year when Samsung smartphone camera that tops many point-and- Electronics Co. took the top spot. Among smart- shoot imaging devices. The new Nokia Lumia phones, the lucrative business for phone makers, 1020 phone is packed with innovations Nokia doesn’t even rank in research firm IDC’s designed to provide sharp images, even in low top 5. In recent years, the Finnish company has light. With the phone’s 41-megapixel sensor and been losing share to high-end devices such as image-stabilizing technology, both rare in smart- the iPhone and various Android phones as well phones, you’re less likely to get blurry shots at as cheaper devices from Asian manufacturers night or indoors. You can also zoom in to an such as ZTE. image and pick up details that even the naked Nokia has partnered with Microsoft and its eye will miss. Windows system in hopes of recapturing market Although more expensive cameras with share, but none of the new Windows phones superior lenses can take better images, those have been hits. Weber said he believes the new cameras aren’t always with you. Nokia said the camera will get people looking at Nokia and Lumia 1020 gives people the ability to take good Windows phones again. The camera’s 41- pictures with a device they always carry. megapixel resolution is far higher than the Nokia said its new flagship phone will change iPhone 5’s 8 megapixels and the Galaxy S4’s 13 how people take pictures, and marketing execu- megapixels. Even point-and-shoot cameras and tive Chris Weber boasted that it will make point- more expensive ones with interchangeable lens- and-shoot cameras obsolete. es often don’t go as high as the Lumia 1020. More pixels mean more sensors for capturing the light that forms an image. But the number of megapixels is just part of the story. Camera sensors have a certain amount CALIFORNIA: In this Friday, June 7, 2013 file photo, a sign displays the Apple logo out- of sensitivity known as ISO. The higher the num- side of the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. A federal judge ruled ber, the better the shot in low light. The Lumia Wednesday, July 10, 2013 that Apple Inc. broke antitrust laws and conspired with pub- 1020 can be set as high as ISO 3200, which is lishers to raise electronic book prices, citing ‘compelling evidence’ from the words of the higher than the typical camera phone. The cam- late Steve Jobs. — AP era also comes with image-stabilization technol- ogy to compensate for shaky hands. Most Apple case cracks open e-books phones don’t have that, meaning shutters can’t be open as long without images starting to blur. A longer open shutter means more light can and all digital goods pricing come in, allowing for decent shots in low light. The Lumia 1020 won’t replace digital cam- WASHINGTON: A ruling by an American judge Cote’s ruling. Apple has said it will eras with interchangeable lenses, known as judge that Apple illegally conspired to fix e- appeal and “continue to fight against these DSLRs, even if its megapixel resolution is higher. book prices could boost competition in the false accusations.” Some analysts noted that For one thing, the Lumia 1020 lacks a real zoom market for all kinds of digital goods, including the court decision could help Amazon assert music and movies, analysts say. its dominance in electronic books, and that lens; the zoom it offers is essentially blowing up Wednesday’s decision by a federal judge the online retailer has moved to the “agency” the image. By contrast, DSLRs with a telephoto also may allow online retail giant Amazon to model which Apple helped impose. lens can let you take close-up shots from afar. cement its dominance, though pricing mod- “Everybody is on agency now,” said Roger The Lumia 1020 also lacks a setting for aperture, els are still evolving. Kay, analyst at Endpoint Technology or how wide the lens is opened to let in light. NEW YORK: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop “The consumer is the huge winner,” said Associates. Before Apple came on the scene, Changing the aperture can affect how much of shows his company’s Nokia Lumia 1020. David Balto, a Washington antitrust lawyer Amazon used a “wholesale” model and sold your image is in focus. The Nokia Lumia 1020, with a 41-megapix- and former policy director for the Federal e-books at the cut-rate price of $9.99 for most To make photos on the Lumia 1020 easier to el camera, records more detail than other Trade Commission. titles. “Amazon was taking profit out for share, the camera actually records two versions camera phones and even tops point-and- “Apple’s policies clearly increased prices, everyone else is well,” Kay said. “Now it’s shoot cameras. — AP of each image. The first is in full resolution, which and if permitted Apple would have used this busted open. But Amazon also benefits from you can use to zoom in or crop, or download to formula to raise prices in numerous markets. higher prices.” a computer to make large prints. A smaller ver- This is a landmark decision that demonstrates Amazon is believed to control around two- But whether a good camera is enough to lure sion, equivalent to 5 megapixels, is also pro- the value of strong antitrust enforcement.” thirds of US e-book sales-down from 90 per- customers remains to be seen. AT&T will offer duced. That’s the one you can use to post on US District Judge Denise Cote’s ruling fol- cent a few years ago-while Apple’s share is the Lumia 1020 in the U.S. for $300 with a two- Facebook or Instagram without eating too much lowed a three-week trial in New York in June. said to be around 20 percent. year service agreement. That’s $100 or $200 of your cellular data plan. The US version syncs She concluded that Apple was liable for “facil- E-book sales have been cooling after a few higher than what phones typically sell for. Nokia with Microsoft’s SkyDrive and AT&T’s Locker itating and encouraging” a collective effort by years of sizzling growth. A survey by the is counting on customers willing to pay more for storage services. Otherwise, the 32 gigabytes of five publishers to end price competition for e- Association of American Publishers said 2012 a phone that does more. The phone runs storage on the device will fill up in no time. books. She has ordered a new hearing to growth in such sales was 41 percent-an Microsoft’s Windows Phone system, which is far The Lumia 1020 isn’t Nokia’s first 41- determine damages. David Crane, a impressive figure but below the red-hot pace behind the iPhone and Android devices in megapixel phone. Its 808 PureView phone last University of Michigan specialist in antitrust of recent years including 2011, when e-book usage. Although Nokia, AT&T Inc. and Microsoft year had the feature, too. But that phone lacks law, said Apple would now be heavily imped- sales doubled. Corp. are planning a large marketing push in the the image-stabilization technology introduced ed from influencing the pricing of content. Michael Weinberg, vice president at the U.S., no amount of marketing can overcome the later in the year with the Lumia 920. The new “Whether it’s music or movies or newspa- digital advocacy group Public Knowledge, fact that the Windows system still doesn’t have phone combines the two in a shell that is made pers or whatever it is, basically Apple wants said the marketplace is still sorting out the as many apps from outside parties as the iPhone to resemble a camera. It comes in yellow, white to be heavily involved in reformulating the model for e-books and other content. and Android devices. or black. Nokia is also selling a Camera Grip business model of how pricing is set and who He hopes the case will raise awareness Tony Cripps, principal device analyst at the attachment for $79, offering extended battery decides on release dates and so forth,” Crane that the e-book market is being constrained research firm Ovum, said Nokia “may still have life and a case that makes you feel as if you’re said. “This kind of precedent says ‘Apple: be by digital “locks,” sometimes called digital work to do to convince prospective buyers to holding a regular point-and-shoot camera. With very careful with anything other than having rights management, which keep electronic sacrifice favorite apps for superior imaging.” He the Grip, you’ll also be able to attach the phone one-on-one negotiations with content content tied to one device. “If you have all said that leading rival devices such as Apple’s to a tripod. providers.’” these files on your Kindle, and can move iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S4 “effectively The phone’s display measures 4.5 inches The Justice Department has said it will them to other devices, that would help the sell themselves, (but) the case for selecting the diagonally, which is larger than the iPhone’s, but seek interim relief and a court-ordered inde- market grow,” he said. Lumia 1020 is less clear cut.” The Lumia 1020 will smaller than those on leading Android phones. pendent monitoring trustee. A group of 33 “While no one would argue that major be available in the U.S. on July 26, with advance At 332 pixels per inch, the display resolution is states are seeking unspecified damages publishers have fully come to terms with this orders to begin July 16. Nokia said the phone comparable to the iPhone 5, but lags those of against Apple. A class-action suit against the lesson it is encouraging that they are at least will expand to China and Europe by September. several Android phones. — AP technology giant could also be bolstered by aware enough of it to discuss it.”— AFP TV listings SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 10:40 Good Luck Charlie 17:30 Married To Jonas 22:25 Food Wars Leno 11:05 Monsters Inc. 18:00 E! News 22:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 05:30 Friends 12:35 Good Luck Charlie 19:00 THS 23:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 06:00 Hope & Faith 13:00 Shake It Up 20:00 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 23:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 14:10 James May’s Man Lab 06:30 Arrested Development 13:00 Coach Trip 13:25 Jessie 20:30 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 00:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 15:05 James May’s Man Lab 07:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 13:30 Come Dine With Me Ireland 13:45 A.N.T Farm 21:00 Chasing The Saturdays 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 16:00 James May’s Man Lab 08:00 Brothers 14:00 The Hungry Sailors 14:10 A.N.T. Farm 21:30 Fashion Police 00:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 16:55 You Have Been Warned 08:30 Friends 15:00 The Jonathan Ross Show 14:35 A.N.T. Farm 22:30 E! 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Cera, hippies, hallucinogenic cactus make for a groovy trip

ovies don’t get more alternative Crystal Fairy, make. He finally becomes a than this. “Crystal Fairy” is drug- better person, and she is able to speak Mfueled road movie that, like out loud a long held secret. both kinds of trips, has its highs, lows “Crystal Fairy” is a small movie - but and mundane moments. That one ends beautifully shot, much of it with a hand- up enjoying the journey is both a credit held camera - that conveys a sense of to terrific performances by stars Michael place and intimacy. Most of the dialogue Cera and Gabby Hoffman and Chilean was improvised, based upon an outline director-screenwriter Sebastian Silva’s that Silva provided - the film is loosely careful and yet freehanded guidance. based on a trip he himself took a dozen (Silva’s previous movies include “The years ago - but it rarely feels excessive or Maid” and “Old Cats.) self-indulgent. Cera plays Jamie, a self-involved, Cera is amusing and, in the end, mov- inconsiderate, twentysomething ing as a dislikable guy who eventually American spending time in Chile hang- begins to understand that other people ing out and sampling local narcotics. At a possess feelings, too. As for Hoffman, party one night, he meets a fellow Yank, who back in 1989 played Kevin Costner’s a hippie chick, to use dated parlance, young daughter in “Field of Dreams” and who calls herself Crystal Fairy (Hoffman). worked steadily as a child star for the He spontaneously invites her to come next 10 years before taking a partial along on a road trip that he and three break from acting, she’s a wonder. Chilean friends, who are brothers, are Portraying Crystal Fairy, she gives a embarking upon the next morning. (The deeply committed performance as a free brothers are played by Juan AndrÈs Silva, spirit who, whether clothed or nude - JosÈ Miguel Silva and Augustin Silva, Hoffman spends a big chunk of the who are the real-life brothers of the movie wearing naught but sneakers - is director.) When Crystal Fairy actually always emotionally naked. — AP shows up the next day for the trip, Jamie is horrified. The quintet begin their journey, the purpose of which is to find a San Pedro cactus, boil it down and drink its hallu- cinogenic-causing juice while camping on a beach. There are really three trips going on in this film: the road trip, the drug trip and the transformative journey that the characters, primarily Jamie and THE WAY ON OSN CINEMA WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

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Indian Embassy sets up helpline he Indian Embassy in Kuwait has set up helpline in order to assist Indian expatriates in registering Tany complaint regarding the government’s ongoing campaign to stamp out illegal residents from the country. The embassy said in press release yester- day that it amended its previous statement and stated if there is any complaint, the same could be conveyed at the following (as amended): Operations Department, Ministry of Interior, Kuwait. Fax: 22435580, Tel: 24768146/25200334. It said the embassy has been in regular contact with local author- ities regarding the ongoing checking of expatriates. The embassy has also conveyed to them the concerns, fears and apprehensions of the community in this regard. The authorities in Kuwait have conveyed that strict instructions have been issued to ensure that there is no harassment or improper treatment of expa- triates by those undertaking checking. “The embassy would like to request Indian expatriates to ensure that they abide by all local laws, rules and regulations regarding residency, traffic and other matters,” the release read. It would be prudent to always carry the Civil ID and other relevant documents such as driving license, etc. In case an Indian expatriate encounters any improper treatment during checking, it may be conveyed immediately with full details and contact particulars to the embassy at the following phone number 67623639. These contact details are exclusive- ly for the above-mentioned purpose only. NBK Summer Internship Program Issue of online visa by Indian embassy oreigners requiring visas for India need to apply students visit Al-Othman Museum it online from 16th June 2013. Applicants may Flog on to the Public portal at www.indianvisaon- line.gov.in. After successful online submission, the ational Bank of Kuwait (NBK) organized a field trip to jects such as team work, creative thinking, means of self hard copy, so generated, has to be signed by the the students of the Summer Internship Program to Al- expression and modern banking work procedure, in addition applicant and submitted with supporting documents NOthman Museum, after concluding their training ses- to helping interns to have greater exposure to daily banking in accordance with the type of visa along with the sion. Students were taken on a tour of the Museum and work procedures. applicable fee in cash at any of the two outsource cen- learned more about the history of Kuwait and how things The program demonstrates NBK’s long-standing social tres at Sharq or Fahaheel. It is essential that applicants were decades ago. The tour was both interesting and educa- involvement as well as its national commitment towards pro- fill in their personal details as exactly available in their tional at the same time. viding the young generations with the appropriate opportuni- The NBK Summer Internship Program is designed for stu- ties to experience firsthand how the actual professional bank- passports. Mismatch of any of the personal details dents as an extension of NBK’s education outreach efforts. The ing issues and transaction are handled and processed. would lead to non-acceptance of the application. Fees 5-hour daily sessions of two-week internship featured a mix- NBK regularly organizes and designs events and packages once paid are non-refundable. All children would have ture of theoretical and practical training dedicated to provid- for the youth of the country to familiarize them with the world to obtain separate visa on their respective passports. ing the interns with invaluable knowledge on a variety of sub- of banking and make them responsible citizens. A message from the Kuwait University College of Architecture

Department of Communication Design & ment. We equip our students with the right industries, and real-estate companies. In addi- a. 70% from high school GPA Interiors intermingle of knowledge and skills needed for tion, Interior Architects can also be entrepre- b. 15% from math placement test About the Department a successful career in professional design prac- neurs and freelancers. c. 15% from English placement test The Communication Design and Interiors tices. We aspire to advance local and interna- 4. 6% of the number of admissions in the col- Department is part of the newly founded tional design cultures. College Requirements lege is set for non-Kuwaitis. College of Architecture. We offer two distinct 1. Admission limited to high school graduates 5. The number of seats admitted to the degrees, Bachelor of Science in Visual Visual Communication Design with scientific majors or the equivalent. Department of Communication Design & Communication and Bachelor of Science in Program - Life After Graduation 2. Minimum grade point average of 80% Interiors will be no more than 50 seats for Interior Architecture. Our Visual Visual Communication designers produce 3. Total admission score is calculated based on the year 2013/2014. Communication program focuses on critical cul- through industrial resources and, she/he will the following: 6. Admissions are limited to females until further tural analysis leading to creative design synthe- find career opportunities in both the govern- notice on the departmentís new location. ses. The Interior Architecture program centers ment and the private sectors in Kuwait. Kuwait 7. Admissions are permitted annually in the Fall on ethical, social and visual tools in the Ministries hire Visual Communication designers Semester. enhancement of the intact environment. The for jobs involving designs for information, edu- faculty at the Communication Design and cation, persuasion, administration, design pro- Department Requirements Interiors department are all affiliated with world duction, and design consultancy. Jobs in the pri- 1. Minimum of 80% in the English placement renowned institutions and involved in advanced vate sector are offered through in-house test. research and practices. designs for businesses, organizations, agencies, 2. Minimum of 75% in the Math placement test. hospitals, banks, and, service productions. Just 3. Pass the following course in the foundation Departmentís Vision as important, Visual Communication designers year with at least a B-: The Communication Design and Interiors fac- can also be entrepreneurs and freelancers. * Introduction to Design Studio ulty aspire to educate students to become lead- (1600/100) ers, independent thinkers, and creative design- Interior Architecture Program - * Introduction to Design Theory & ers. Our goal is to provide design students an Life After Graduation Criticism (1600/101) approach to innovation that is powerful, effec- Interior Architects will find career opportuni- * Representation Studio I (1600/102) tive, and accessible, that can be integrated into ties in both governmental and private sectors. 4. Pass physics course (101) all aspects of business and culture. Kuwait Ministries hire interior architects for jobs 5. Major sheet applies on transfer students. involving design consultancy, contracting, con- 6. A minimum of a 3.33 grade point average. Departmentís Mission struction, and maintenance. Jobs in the private The Communication Design and Interiors sector are offered by architectural and interior For more information visit: department aims to offer intellectually challeng- design consulting firms, design agencies, con- http://www.coa.ku.edu.kw/vci ing programs in a friendly educational environ- struction companies, hospitality and service Tel: +965 24983103 | Fax: +965 24983163 WHAT’S ON SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 What to do in Kuwait this summer?

Visit the Sadu House charity activities worldwide. The gallery offers varieties of art includ- Al-Sadu Society is dedicated to preserving, documenting and pro- ing paintings, frames, handcrafts, art materials and antiques. moting the rich and diverse textile heritage of the Kuwaiti Bedouin, Address: Block 6, Street 5, Villa 40, Mishref, Kuwait from the nomadic weaving of the desert to the urban weaving of Contact: 22435101, 22426240 the town. Sadu is a traditional Bedouin art that involves weaving E-mail: [email protected] geometric designs on dyed and colored wool that is spun by hand Website: www.ghadirgallerykuwait.com to create magnificent carpets, rugs, and Bedouin tent screens. Inside the Sadu House, visitors have the opportunity to see Bedouin Take the kids to Al-Shaab Leisure Park women weaving. Sadu House is located near the National Museum. Al-Sha’ab Leisure Park is located on the southern coast of Kuwait It is considered to be the center of Bedouin art aiming at presenting City. It combines more than 70 special rides on the level of the Kuwait’s roots and protecting Bedouin crafts from eradication. Middle East. It also provides integrated services, including restau- Address: Arabian Gulf Street, Next to the National Museum of rants, a mall, and rides and games that meet the interests of all age Kuwait, Kuwait City groups. The park also offers indoor games as well as outdoor sports Opening Hours: Saturdays to Thursdays: Mornings from 08 am to like bungee jumping, pony rides and ice-skating. Families can also 1 pm. Evenings from 4 pm to 8 pm. access facilities such as the movies and the delicious meals at the Contact: 22432395 restaurants. At Al-Sha’ab Leisure Park, all these facilities are main- E-mail: [email protected] through educational games. Highly specialized trainers are assigned tained according to international standards. Website: www.alsadu.org.kw to guide visitors through hand-on playful training. On entering the Address: Baghdad Street, Block 11, Salmiya IMAX Cinema, one can watch 3D movies played on the giant screen. Opening Hours: All days from 5 pm to 1 am (Summer) and 10 am View Boushahri Gallery Visitors can enjoy watching educational and documentary presenta- - 12 Midnight on weekends. The Boushahri Art Gallery was established in 1982 by Jawad tions and get engaged into a highly imaginative experience. Contact: 25613777 Boushahri, the Chairman of the Boushahri group who is also an Address: The Scientific Center, Gulf Road E-mail: [email protected] acclaimed Kuwaiti sculptor. It is one of the oldest private art galleries Contact: 1848888 Website: www.shaabpark.com in the Middle East. This long established gallery showcases contem- E-mail: [email protected] Kuwait National Museum porary regional work. In order to create an awareness toward art in Website: www.tsck.org.kw The Kuwait National Museum hosts a range of items such as fos- Kuwait as a community service, the Boushahri Art Gallery educates, sils, bones, Islamic artifacts, and pottery tools that reflect the culture, supports and sponsors local and international artists, displaying Visit Dar Al-Funoon gallery history and heritage of the Kuwaiti society and the Islamic world. their paintings, potteries, ceramic portraitures, designs, photogra- Dar Al-Funoon, which was established in 1993, focuses on con- The relics on display presents Kuwait’s ancient past, the develop- phers, sculptures and much more. To encourage the Art lovers and temporary Arab art as well as Arabic calligraphy. Exhibitions are held ment of the Islamic nations and the impact of the discovery of oil. educate society, Boushahri Art Gallery offers many courses, seminars monthly from October to May, and a special silk exhibition of arts Part of the Dar-Al-Athar-Al-Islamiyah collection is also on display, and lectures about Art. and crafts is held in December. Between temporary exhibitions, and a replica of the Muhallab II that graces the entrance has also Address: Salmiya, Baghdad St., Building Number: 36, in front of items from the private collection are on display, which can be recently been restored as a reminder of Kuwait’s seafaring past. Al- Laheeb Mosque bought. The gallery is located between the Sheraton Hotel and the There is also a modern Planetarium, built by Carl Zeiss which is a Opening Hours: 10 am to 1 pm and 5 pm to 9 pm. The museum Arabian Gulf Street. The area itself is interesting thanks to its old pleasant educational experience for both adults and children. The is closed on Friday and Thursday afternoons. Kuwaiti-style houses and a large courtyard which includes a number three major attractions in the museum are the heritage museum, Contact: 25621119/99770607 of excellent restaurants. the planetarium and the wooden ship. Website: www.boushahrigroup.com/client/PhotoandArt.aspx Address: Behbehani compound, Salhiya, House No. 28, Al- Address: Behind Sadu House, Arabian Gulf Street Watiah, Kuwait City Contact No.: 22451195 Take a break at Al-Khiran Resort Opening Hours: Sundays to Thursdays: 10 am to 1 pm Evenings: Opening Hours: 8:30am to 12:30pm and 4:30pm to 8:30pm The Al-Khiran resort is a relaxing “get-away” from the mayhem of 4 pm to 8 pm (Summers); and 8 am to 4 pm (Winters). The Museum is closed on stressful city life. The resort provides a soothing tranquil environ- Contact: 22433138 Sundays, Friday mornings and Saturday afternoons. ment that includes beautiful green lawns, wide, well-defined roads, E-mail: [email protected] ample parking spaces, and clean well-maintained beaches. It has Website: www.daralfunoon-kw.com Stop to view AL M. Gallery many chalets that are beautifully furnished and air-conditioned. The AL M. Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located in the resort also offers a variety of other facilities such as football and bas- Bayt - Lothan heart of Kuwait City in Salhia Complex. Gallery organizes exhibitions ketball courts, luxurious restaurants, yacht clubs, an amusement Bayt Lothan is dedicated to the promotion of arts and crafts and of Kuwaiti, Middle Eastern and International artists. park for children, electronic computer arcade and the ‘Duza’ ball- is host to various exhibitions and displays throughout the year. It Address: Salhia Complex, Gate 4, Mezzanine 2, Place 16. room. The resort also provides variety in food as it includes a fast- covers an area of 4,000 square meters on the Arabian Gulf Street and Opening Hours: Sundays to Thursdays 10 am to 3 pm and food counter, and a counter that offers seafood, Italian and oriental caters to all tastes and themes, including sculpture, ceramic arts, Evenings: 5 pm to 9 pm food. jewelry and photography, as well as contemporary art and calligra- Contact No.: 22996447 Address: Gulf Street, Al-Khiran district phy. Watch out in the local press for details of current and forthcom- E-mail: [email protected] Contact: 23951122 ing exhibitions or seminars. There is also a small coffee shop for Website: www.al-m-gallery.com E-mail: [email protected] basic refreshments and for theatre lovers they also hold drama class- Website: www.khiranresort.com es throughout the year. Go to Kuwait Zoo Address: Gulf Street, beside Marina Mall, in front of Corniche Since its establishment years ago, the Kuwait Zoo is an entertain- Stop at the Tareq Rajab Museum Hotel ing place to visit and a ‘fun’ place to be with family. It includes many The Tareq Rajab Museum houses an anthology of over thirty Contact: 25755866 / 25727388 species of animals and a train that goes around the entire zoo. The thousand items collected over the last fifty years, of which approxi- E-Mail: [email protected] zoo also offers camel and horse rides. The zoo suffered extensive mately ten thousand are on permanent display. Tareq Sayed Rajab Opening Hours: Sundays to Thursdays: 9 am to 1 pm; Evenings: 5 damages during the 1990 Iraqi Invasion. Nevertheless, most of the was the first Kuwaiti to be sent abroad to study art and archaeology pm to 9 pm maintenance work has been finished, and the zoo reopened after and his collection includes Islamic arts, ceramic, gold and silver jew- Website: http://www.baytlothan.org the modification and renovation work was completed. Part of these elry, English manuscripts, metal and glass works, old English cos- renovations in early 1993 included the addition of new animals. tumes, and musical instruments. His personal collection includes Address: Airport Road, Omariya, off the fifth ring road, (Route 55), over thirty thousand Islamic treasures that were gathered over the Farwaniya years. The Museum is divided into two parts: in Area A, calligraphy, Opening Hours: Mondays to Saturdays: 8 am to 12pm and manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, glass, jade, wood and stone carv- Evenings: 4pm to 8pm ings are exhibited. Area B contains objects such as costumes, tex- E-mail: [email protected] tiles, jewellery and musical instruments produced in the Islamic Website: www.raisaquaculture.net/drupal-5.7 world. Address: Jabriya, near the intersection of the Fifth Ring Motorway Skate at the Ice Skating Rink and the Abdulaziz Bin Abdilrahman al-Saud Expressway (Fahaheel The Ice Skating Rink in Kuwait is a major landmark and a great Expressway); Street 5; Block12; House 16 sport facility and is the first of its kind in the Gulf region and the mid- Opening Hours: Weekdays from 9 am to 12 pm; Evenings: From dle East. The rink consists of two main rinks - the first is an Olympic 4 pm to 7 pm; Fridays: From 9 am to 12 pm. rink that is bigger and can accommodate around 1600 viewers and Contact: 25317358/25354916 also provides shoe-changing rooms, a skating equipment store and Website: www.trmkt.com a first-aid facility. The second is a smaller rink accommodating nearly 600 visitors. Both arenas have a cafeteria serving light snacks and The Scientific Center, Kuwait drinks. The rink occasionally organizes different music festivals, kids’ The Scientific Center is designed to reflect the Islamic arts and shows and award ceremonies. The rink offers viewers a great chance culture. It has three main fascinating attractions: Aquarium, Visit Ghadir Gallery, Kuwait to get a glimpse of an Olympic-sized rink. Discovery Place and IMAX Cinema. The Aquarium presents an The Al-Ghadir Gallery Kuwait is dedicated to promote the Kuwaiti Address: Al - Soor Street, First Ring Road, Shamiya, near ecosystem of desert, sea, and coastal edge. Visitors of the Aquarium formative artist and writer Thuraya Al-Baqsami and successfully Discovery Mall explore the lives of beings and animals in their environments. When accomplished 120 national and international solo art exhibitions, lit- Opening Hours: 8:30 am to 10 pm entering the Discovery Place, visitors gain scientific experience erary and poetry readings and musical events. It also participates in Contact No.: 22411151 / 22411152 HEALTH SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Study: Brainpower in the very old may be improving

NEW YORK: If you’re lucky enough to live into ing better overall, the study concluded. your 90s, how well will your brain hold up? You Lead author Dr. Kaare Christensen, head of the may have an edge over people who got there Danish Aging Research Center at the University of ahead of you, a new study hints. Researchers Southern Denmark in Odense, said he imagines found that on tests of mental abilities, a group of that in the future, Danes who live into their 90s 95-year-old Danes scored better than a group of will continue to be better off than their predeces- Danes born 10 years earlier, who had been tested sors. He was cautious about applying the results when they were about the same age. In a stan- to the United States, although he said the avail- dard simple test, for example, 23 percent of them ability of education in the U.S. after World War II scored in the highest category, compared to 13 would be a plus. percent of the earlier-born group. Out of the 30 Dr James Pacala, associate head of the depart- questions and tasks, members of the later-born ment of family medicine and community health at group averaged two more correct responses than the University of Minnesota Medical School, who the earlier-born group did. The results were didn’t participate in the study, said he suspects released Wednesday by the journal Lancet. Why the same trends are present in the United States. the better mental performance? It wasn’t just bet- He also said the findings fit with previous work ter education, but beyond that the researchers that shows people are functioning better at given could only guess at things like more intellectual ages than they used to. stimulation and better diets earlier in life. But Pacala, who heads the board of the More people are living to such old ages. The American Geriatrics Society, noted that even in US census counted 425,000 Americans age 95 and the better-functioning group of Danes, at least 40 older in 2010, a 26 percent increase over the total percent and probably more had dementia. Denise in 2000. The mental testing compared 1,814 eld- Park, an expert in mental function and aging at erly Danes examined in 1998 to the later-born the University of Texas in Dallas, called the mental group of 1,247 Danes tested in 2010. The test results provocative but said it’s not clear why researchers also found that later-born Danes were the differences appeared. She said she would better able to carry out basic living tasks like get- want to know if the effect holds up for 80-year- PENNSYLVANIA: Tina Reese leads a word game for residents at a nursing home in ting out of bed or a chair. So they were function- olds as well. “If it’s real, it should,” she said. — AP Lancaster. —AP

FDA sets new limits on Ireland approves ‘life-saving’ abortions arsenic in apple juice for first time

WASHINGTON: Parents who have been fretting over the low levels be toxic and may pose a cancer risk if consumed at high levels or DUBLIN: Irish lawmakers yesterday overwhelmingly approved of arsenic found in apple juice can feel better about buying one of over a long period. Organic arsenic occurs naturally in dirt and soil abortion for the first time in limited cases where the mother’s their kids’ favorite drinks. The Food and Drug Administration is set- and passes through the body quickly without causing harm, accord- life is at risk, in a vote that revealed deep divisions in the pre- ting a new limit on the level of arsenic allowed in apple juice, after ing to the FDA. In 2008 FDA regulators set a “level of concern” for dominantly Catholic nation. The change was prompted by the more than a year of public pressure from consumer groups worried arsenic at 23 parts per billion in apple juice. The agency has the death last year of an Indian woman due to complications from about the contaminant’s effects on children. Nationwide, apple authority to seize juice that exceeds that level. But agency officials her pregnancy, but more broadly ends years of uncertainty juice is second only to orange juice in popularity, according to played down the significance of the older figure this week, calling it over the legal status of terminations in Ireland. Legislators vot- industry groups. Studies have shown that the juice contains very a “back of the envelope” calculation that was used to assess one ed through the bill by 127 to 31 against in the early hours after low levels of arsenic, a cancer-causing agent found in everything juice shipment detained at the border. two days of marathon debate in parliament. It will now go to a from water to soil to pesticides. The FDA has monitored arsenic in “It was not a full blown, science-based number,” said Michael vote in the upper house, where the government has a majority. apple juice for decades and has long said the levels are not danger- Taylor, FDA’s deputy commissioner for foods. The FDA’s new num- But in a sign of the rifts that remain on the issue, a junior ous to consumers, in particular small children who favor fruit juice. ber is based on lifetime exposure to arsenic and the potential for minister quit her post after voting against the bill and faces long-term cancer risk. Taylor says the number reflects a very cau- exclusion from Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s ruling Fine Gael tious approach, since it’s unclear how much arsenic exposure can party. Kenny revealed recently he had received abusive letters trigger the disease. “There isn’t a known threshold for the carcino- written in blood and opponents of the bill have branded him a genic effect, so we assume the possibility of effects all the way down murderer, while 35,000 abortion opponents marched in Dublin to the lowest dose,” Taylor said. The agency will take comments on on Saturday. “I am deeply disappointed to have to vote against the draft regulation for 60 days before making it binding. the government’s abortion bill today,” said Lucinda Creighton, Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, last year junior minister with responsibility for European Affairs in called for a limit as low as 3 parts per billion. While the FDA didn’t go Kenny’s cabinet. that far, the group still praised the agency for taking action. “While The Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill allows for abor- we had proposed a lower limit, we think this is a perfectly good first tion in circumstances where doctors certify there is a real and step to bring apple juice in line with the current drinking water lim- substantial risk to the life of the mother, as opposed to a risk to its,” said Urvashi Rangan, the group’s director for consumer safety. her health. It also permits a termination when one obstetrician While the Environmental Protection Agency sets arsenic limits and two psychiatrists unanimously agree that an expectant for drinking water, there have never been similar standards for most mother is a suicide risk. The “suicide clause” in particular has foods and beverages. The FDA is also considering new limits on divided society, with some anti-termination lawmakers warning arsenic in rice, which is thought to have higher levels than most that it will lead to a more liberal abortion regime in Ireland. foods because it is grown in water on the ground, optimal condi- The bill follows a 2010 European Court of Human Rights rul- OHIO: In this Sept 15, 2011 photo, an apple and a pitcher of tions for absorbing the contaminant. ing that found Ireland failed to properly implement the consti- apple juice are posed together in Moreland Hills. — AP “We don’t have standards like this in most foods, so it’s an impor- tutional right to abortion where a woman’s life is at risk. Under a tant precedent,” Rangan said. Environmental groups like Food and 1992 Supreme Court ruling, women in Ireland are legally enti- But now the agency is putting in place a strict standard on how Water Watch have also lobbied the FDA on the issue. And televi- tled to an abortion if it is needed to save a mother’s life-but six much arsenic is acceptable in apple juice, limiting the amount to the sion’s Dr Mehmet Oz made arsenic a national issue in 2011 when he successive governments have failed to introduce legislation to same level currently permitted in drinking water. Under the new raised an alarm - some say a false alarm - over apple juice, based on reflect this. The global attention following the death of 31-year- regulation, apple juice containing more than 10 parts per billion tests his show commissioned by a private lab. All of the experts - old Indian woman Savita Halappanavar in a Galway hospital last could be removed from the market and companies could face legal including the government and the consumer advocates - agree that October prompted Kenny’s government to act. action. Agency officials stressed that the vast majority of juices on drinking small amounts of apple juice isn’t harmful. Halappanavar had sought a termination when told she was the market are already below the threshold. “Overall the supply of The concern involves the effects of drinking large amounts of miscarrying, but the request was refused as her life was not at apple juice is very safe and does not represent a threat to public juice over long periods of time. Another point of agreement is that risk at the time. She died of blood poisoning days after miscar- health,” said FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg, in an inter- children under 6 shouldn’t be drinking much juice anyway, because rying. Human Rights Watch, the US-based rights group, said the view with The Associated Press. “We decided to put forward this it’s high in calories. Health experts say children under 6 shouldn’t new Irish legislation still “fails” women. “The new law leaves proposed action level to give guidance to industry and to assure drink any more than 6 ounces of juice a day - about the size of a intact the broad criminal ban on abortion. A woman pregnant ongoing safety and quality.” juice box. Infants under 6 months shouldn’t drink any juice at all. as a result of rape, for example, or whose pregnancy is not An FDA analysis of dozens of apple juice samples last year found The American Academy of Pediatrics said Friday children should be viable, still can’t get a legal abortion in Ireland,” HRW said in a that 95 percent were below the new level. The standard specifically encouraged to eat whole fruit adding, “it is not necessary to offer statement. —AFP targets inorganic arsenic - the type found in pesticides - which can children any juice to have a well-balanced, healthy diet.”— AP health & science SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (11/07/2013 TO 17/07/2013)

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Daily Sudoku Yesterday’s Solution SPORTS SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Yankees crush Kansas City

NEW YORK: Derek Jeter got a hit in his season debut, but made an early exit because of a tight right quadriceps Thursday as the New York Yankees beat Kansas City 8-4. Sidelined since breaking his left ankle in last year’s play- offs, Jeter returned to the Yankees and got an infield single on the first pitch he saw. The Yankees captain finished 1 for 4, scored a run and drove in one. Jeter was the designated hitter and was pulled for a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning. Jeter was set to take a test on his quad. He said it tight- ened up during his third at-bat. “I hope it’s not a big deal,” he said. Andy Pettitte (7-6) settled down after another shaky first inning. Ervin Santana (5-6) took the loss.

ORIOLES 3, RANGERS 1 In Baltimore, Chris Davis hit his major league-leading 34th homer to back Miguel Gonzalez, and the Baltimore Orioles beat Texas to earn a split of the four-game series. Davis snapped an 0-for-17 skid and reached career highs ATLANTA: Justin Upton No. 8 of the Atlanta Braves slides safely into second base against Zack Cozart No. 2 of the in homers and RBIs (86) with a second-inning solo shot off Cincinnati Reds after hitting a double in the fourth inning. —AFP Ross Wolf (1-2). His 34 home runs are the most in the majors before the All-Star break since 2001, when Barry Bonds had 39 and Luis Gonzalez hit 35. Brian Roberts also connected for the Orioles. Gonzalez (7- Braves roll over Reds 3) allowed one run, four hits and two walks in 6 2-3 innings. Baltimore has won each of the last 12 games he’s started at ATLANTA: Freddie Freeman celebrated his scored two runs for the Cubs, who won for the season-high 10 games under .500. Camden Yards. Jim Johnson worked the ninth for his 31st newly won All-Star berth by driving in four fifth time in six games. Bumgarner (10-5) allowed two runs on save in 37 chances. runs with three hits, and the Atlanta Braves three hits in the first inning and then retired beat Mat Latos and the Cincinnati Reds 6-5 on DIAMONDBACKS 5, BREWERS 3 14 in a row before Carlos Quentin singled with WHITE SOX 6, TIGERS 3 Thursday night. In Phoenix, Martin Prado lined a two-run two outs in the sixth. The lefty struck out six In Detroit, Joshua Phegley’s sixth-inning grand slam gave Freeman held off Dodgers rookie Yasiel single in the eighth inning, Wade Miley and walked one. The Giants are 2-8 in July, Chris Sale some long-awaited run support, and the Chicago Puig to win the fan voting for the final spot on pitched eight effective innings, and Arizona with Bumgarner getting both wins. Sergio White Sox defeated Detroit in a game that included a bench- NL All-Star roster. The first baseman drove in topped Milwaukee to snap a three-game los- Romo pitched the ninth for his 21st save in 24 clearing incident. Chicago trailed 3-1 when Phegley connect- two runs with a first-inning double and added ing streak. Miley (6-7) gave up a pair of chances. The Padres have lost 16 of 19. run-scoring singles in the second and fourth homers in the first three innings before set- San Francisco broke through in the eighth ed off Anibal Sanchez (7-6). Luke Putkonen came on and got innings. tling down. Adam Eaton helped Arizona close with two runs and three hits off Luke one out before throwing a pitch behind Alexei Ramirez, who Justin Upton also had three hits to help to 3-2 with a two-run triple in the fifth inning, Gregerson (4-5). San Diego starter Jason started toward the mound before being restrained. The Tim Hudson (6-7) earn his second straight win. Jason Kubel tied it with a sacrifice fly the next Marquis failed for the fifth time to get his 10th benches and bullpens emptied, but the situation didn’t really Craig Kimbrel pitched the ninth for his 25th inning and Prado capped the comeback with victory. He allowed two runs and seven hits in escalate. Sale (6-8) allowed three runs in 6 2-3 innings. save. Latos (8-3) lasted only four innings in his the bases loaded against Jim Henderson (3-3) 5 1-3 innings, struck out three and walked Addison Reed pitched the ninth for his 23rd save in 27 shortest start of the season. He allowed six in the eighth. Brad Ziegler worked around two two. chances. Miguel Cabrera hit his 30th homer of the year, a solo runs on nine hits and two walks. The six runners in the ninth to earn his second save, a shot in the fifth that gave the Tigers a 3-1 lead. Prince Fielder earned runs allowed matched his season high. night after Heath Bell blew a save with two DODGERS 6, ROCKIES 1 was up next, and Sale threw a pitch high and inside to the Braves right fielder Jason Heyward left the outs in the ninth in a loss to the Dodgers. In Los Angeles, Chris Capuano pitched game in the second inning with a strained Jonathan Lucroy hit a two-run homer, and shutout ball for 6 1/3 innings, Mark Ellis drove Detroit slugger. right hamstring. Carlos Gomez had a solo shot for the Brewers. in four runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers Milwaukee starter Yovani Gallardo allowed beat Colorado for their fifth win in a row. RAYS 4, TWINS 3 PHILLIES 3, NATIONALS 1 three runs and four hits in six innings. The Dodgers moved above .500 for the In St. Petersburg, Matt Moore won his 13th game this sea- In Philadelphia, Kyle Kendrick outpitched first time since April 15. Capuano (3-6) allowed son, Luke Scott and Evan Longoria consecutive homers and All-Star Jordan Zimmermann, pinch-hitter GIANTS 4, PADRES 2 six hits, struck out a season-high eight and the surging Tampa Bay Rays beat Minnesota for their eighth Kevin Frandsen hit a tiebreaking double in the In san Diego, Pablo Sandoval hit his first walked none to earn just his second win at straight win. seventh and Philadelphia beat Washington. home run since May 21, and All-Star Madison home and first since beating Miami 5-3 on Moore (13-3), who was added to the AL All-Star team after Frandsen is hitting .355 (11 for 31) with 10 Bumgarner settled down to allow four hits in May 12. Drew Pomeranz (0-3) gave up three initially being left off, gave up three runs and three hits while RBIs as a pinch-hitter this season. Kendrick (8- seven innings as San Francisco beat San Diego runs and seven hits in four innings, struck out 6) allowed one run and five hits in seven in a matchup of the worst teams in the weak four and walked five in his third start of the striking out 10 over 7 1-3 innings. He won his fifth straight innings to help Philadelphia take three of four NL West. The defending World Series champi- season. Ellis went 3 for 4 with a walk, the start and setting a team record for victories before the All- from the defending NL East champions. The on Giants, who snapped a four-game losing fourth time he has had three or more hits in a Star break. Phillies (46-47) are 7-3 since July 2 and are streak, had lost 19 of 24 coming in and were a game this season. — AP Jake McGee got his first save pitching a scoreless ninth. within 11/2 games of the second-place Scott and Longoria hit solo shots in a span of three pitches off Nationals. Zimmermann (12-4) gave up two Mike Pelfrey (4-7) as the Rays took a 3-1 lead in the sixth. runs and eight hits, striking out six in 6 1-3 MLB results/standings innings. Antonio Bastardo pitched a perfect RED SOX 4, MARINERS 3 eighth and Jonathan Papelbon finished for his Cleveland 4, Toronto 2; Tampa Bay 4, Minnesota 3; NY Yankees 8, Kansas City 4; In Seattle, Daniel Nava hit a two-out single in the top of 20th save in 24 tries. Kendrick overcame a sea- Chicago White Sox 6, Detroit 3; Boston 8, Seattle 7 (10 innings); Baltimore 3, Texas 1; son-high four errors by the Phillies. Chase Philadelphia 3, Washington 1; Atlanta 6, Cincinnati 5; Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis 0; the 10th inning to score pinch-runner Jackie Bradley Jr., and Utley had a career-worst three errors. the Boston Red Sox rallied from a four-run deficit for the sec- Arizona 5, Milwaukee 3; LA Dodgers 6, Colorado 1; San Francisco 4, San Diego 2. ond time in a four-game series against Seattle. CUBS 3, CARDINALS 0 American League National League Ryan Lavarnway walked to open the 10th against Tom In Chicago, Edwin Jackson earned his third Eastern Division Eastern Division Wilhelmsen (0-3) and was replaced by Bradley. Brock Holt laid straight win, combining with four relievers on W L PCT GB Atlanta 53 39 .576 - down a sacrifice bunt and Nava later singled. a four-hitter, and Anthony Rizzo drove in all Boston 57 37 .606 - Washington 47 45 .511 6 the runs to lead the Chicago Cubs over St. Tampa Bay 53 40 .570 3.5 Philadelphia 46 47 .495 7.5 Koji Uehara pitched the 10th for his seventh save as the Baltimore 51 42 .548 5.5 Red Sox took three of four in the series. Reliever Steven Louis. St. Louis had the tying run at the plate NY Mets 40 48 .455 11 in the ninth inning after Kevin Gregg dropped NY Yankees 50 42 .543 6 Miami 33 57 .367 19 Wright (1-0) allowed three hits in 5 2-3 innings. Toronto 44 47 .484 11.5 a throw covering first on Allen Craig’s Central Division Central Division St. Louis 55 35 .611 - grounder, and David Freese walked. Detroit 50 41 .549 - INDIANS 4, BLUE JAYS 2 Alfonso Soriano made a shoestring catch Pittsburgh 54 36 .600 1 In Cleveland, rookie Danny Salazar pitched six superb Cleveland 48 44 .522 2.5 on Jon Jay’s liner to end the game. Cardinals Kansas City 43 46 .483 6 Cincinnati 51 41 .554 5 innings to win his major league debut, leading the Cleveland manager Mike Matheny was then seen argu- Minnesota 37 52 .416 12 Chicago Cubs 41 49 .456 14 Indians past Toronto. ing vehemently with plate umpire Dan Bellino Chicago White Sox36 53 .404 13 Milwaukee 37 54 .407 18.5 Salazar, who began the season in Double-A, allowed just and appeared to make contact with him. Western Division Western Division one run and two hits. The 23-year-old righty didn’t give up a The Cubs escaped with the win, and Gregg Oakland 54 38 .587 - Arizona 48 44 .522 - hit until the sixth and struck out seven. Chris Perez gave up a got his 16th save in 18 chances. St. Louis’ five- Texas 53 39 .576 1 LA Dodgers 46 45 .505 1.5 run in a shaky ninth but got his 11th save. Asdrubal Cabrera game winning streak ended. Jackson (6-10) LA Angels 44 46 .489 9 Colorado 44 49 .473 4.5 struck out five without a walk in seven homered in the first off RA Dickey (8-10). — AP Seattle 40 52 .435 14 San Francisco 41 50 .451 6.5 innings. Starlin Castro added three singles and Houston 32 59 .352 21.5 San Diego 41 52 .441 7.5 SPORTS SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Osunaarashi brings African flavor to sumo in Japan

NAGOYA: In a sport steeped in ancient rituals division must master the Japanese language and Japanese tradition, one young foreigner and that’s something Osunaarashi is also faces the weighty issue of how to keep faith- grappling with. ful to his religious observances and be com- Despite the hardships of the sumo world, petitive in one of the biggest sumo arenas. not to mention homesickness, Osunaarashi Wrestling under the name Osunaarashi, has persevered. Now that he’s a sekitori, his which translates as ‘Great Sandstorm,’ the 21- life has changed considerably. He has his own year-old Abdelrahman Ahmed Shalan is the room and gets an assistant to perform the first professional sumo wrestler from the mundane tasks he once had to do for others. African continent. “Everyone has to go through the difficult Being an outsider has had its challenges. tasks, “Osunaarashi said. “Sumo is all about But while he’s slowly been adjusting to life in persevering. You have to be willing to sacri- the elite sumo ranks, the young Egyptian fice many things to achieve success.” does have a unique problem at the 15-day Japan remains the only country where Nagoya tournament where his rivals rely on sumo is practiced professionally, yet the sport every part of their preparation being in sync has had trouble attracting new local recruits - — the event coincides with the Muslim holy and that has opened up opportunities for the month of Ramadan. And for Shalan, that likes of Osunaarashi. means strict fasting — not something usually Mongolians have dominated in recent associated with the larger-than-life image of years - producing the sport’s two current sumo wrestling. grand champions, Hakuho and Harumafuji. “I love sumo. Sumo means everything to There are 24 foreign wrestlers in the top two me,” he told The Associated Press in an inter- divisions of sumo out of a total of 70. It is part view as the Nagoya tournament was com- of a gradual shift in the sport. There hasn’t mencing. “I’ve sacrificed being with my been a Japanese grand champion since friends, being with my family, being in univer- Takanohana retired in 2003 and a Japanese sity. I’ve put all my cards on the table and wrestler hasn’t won a major tournament since now we’ll see what happens. I believe in ozeki Tochiazuma in 2006. myself and believe in my dream.” JAPAN: In this photo taken Saturday, July 6, 2013, Egyptian sumo wrestler Osunaarashi For now, Japan is home for Osunaarashi, Shalan arrived in Japan less than two years (second from left) trains with his stablemates in Inazawa, near Nagoya, central Japan. who studied accounting and management in ago and has quickly risen up the ranks after The 21-year-old Abdelrahman Ahmed Shalan is the first professional sumo wrestler from university. He has kept up with political devel- only eight tournaments. He made his debut in the African continent under the name Osunaarashi, which translates as ‘Great opments in Egypt but says he’s too focused on the elite juryo division last Sunday with a win Sandstorm.’ —AP sumo to get too caught up in it. “I follow over Mongolian Oniarashi. He weighs in at bout is at 3 p.m. Just how well Osunaarashi there is a broad distinction between wrestlers what’s going on, but I don’t like the political 315 pounds and stands 6-foot-2 tall. While his will be able to cope in the full 15-day tourna- in the top two divisions, which are called stuff,” Osunaarashi said. “I’m just trying to do size is a great advantage, his win over ment remains to be seen. Until now, his tour- makuuchi and juryo. Wrestlers in the maku- my best for my country and forget about poli- Oniarashi proves he relies on more than just naments have been only seven days. uchi and juryo divisions are known as sekitori tics. I don’t like to mix politics with what I am brute force as he calmly got a grip of his Now that he is in the elite division, and receive a regular monthly salary as well as doing here. To make something good for my opponent’s belt after the faceoff and deftly Osunaarashi knows things will be a lot other perks, while those in the lower four divi- country, I have to do well in sumo.” Buckton forced him out of the ring. tougher. Through the first four days of the sions are considered to be trainees and also points out that many foreign wrestlers can Since arriving in Japan, the wrestler now tournament, he had three wins against one receive a small allowance instead of a salary. be led astray by the temptations of nightlife in known as Osunaarashi has done remarkably loss and will be hoping for at least a winning All the top foreign wrestlers in sumo’s elite cities such as Osaka and Tokyo. —AP well, compiling a 45-7 record and winning record of 8-7 at the end of the tournament. If two titles in the junior divisions. Only two oth- he puts together two solid tournaments, er non-Japanese wrestlers have reached the Osunaarashi could be promoted to the top juryo division from eight tournaments - division for the season-ending tournament in Crusaders quell Hurricanes Hawaiian Konishiki and Estonian Baruto. November. “He will get to the top division, I have no “People have told me to be careful now CHRISTCHURCH: Tom Marshall scored a Dan Carter but may hope captain Richie doubt about that,” sumo columnist Mark that I’m in juryo,” Osunaarashi said. “People brilliant try to seal a 25-17 victory for the McCaw can slot back into the team for the Buckton said. “He has a very strong upper say the wrestlers are tougher and the Crusaders over a dogged Hurricanes in playoffs after a long sabbatical. body, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to wrestlers are great, but I feel I am tough and Christchurch yesterday but it was not Carter kicked two penalties and two success in sumo. Hopefully, he will be able to great, too.” Osunaarashi was introduced to enough to knock the rival Chiefs off the top conversions to add 10 points. Victor Vito develop his lower body and learn to fight on sumo at the age of 14. A sumo coach in Egypt of the New Zealand conference. and Brad Shields scored early tries to keep the belt.” As much as he likes the attention, suggested he give it a shot because of his The Crusaders had needed a four-try the Hurricanes in touch. —Reuters Osunaarashi said there are pressures that go size. He weighed 265 pounds at the time, but win to take a bonus point and put pressure with being the first African and Arab wrestler. lost seven out of seven bouts to a wrestler on the Chiefs, but managed only three as It “has many good points and some bad half his weight and realized there was some- the Hurricanes fought to the finish. points,” he said. “I feel a lot of stress because I thing more to the sport than he’d first Defending champions Chiefs can head am the first African sumo wrestler, so the assumed. into their final regular-season match whole world is watching to see what the first So he studied videos of former grand against the Blues on Saturday assured they African in sumo will do.” champion Takanohana to get a better under- have a week off before a home semi-final Due to timing of the July 7-21 Nagoya standing of the sport. That helped, obviously. regardless of the outcome. tournament during Ramadan, Osunaarashi He won a bronze medal at the 2008 world The Crusaders cemented a home playoff can’t eat or drink during daylight and must junior sumo championships and moved to in the first week of the postseason but will find time for prayer. It’s something he learned Japan in 2011 to pursue his career full time. have plenty to ponder after a disjointed to cope with at last year’s Nagoya tournament Many in sumo were impressed that he came display in front of home fans. but he said the toughest part is not being to Japan just after the earthquake, tsunami The Hurricanes were already out of the able to drink water in the stifling summer and nuclear crises that devastated the coun- playoffs but took it to the hosts and pulled heat. Even some spectators are struggling in try’s northeastern coast. within a point in the last 15 minutes when temperatures topping 99 degrees with high Then, as now, things haven’t been entirely winger Julian Savea scored a late try. humidity. “For me (Ramadan) is not a big easy for him in Japan. Sumo wrestlers live in The visitors searched desperately for a problem,” Osunaarashi said. “I got used to it communal training stables where all aspects late score, but jet-heeled winger Marshall last year in Nagoya. The biggest problem is of their daily lives from meals to what they dribbled a kick to the left corner in the final water. I can’t drink water during the day. I eat wear are dictated by strict traditions. Like all minutes and bolted half the length of the after midnight, then sleep. But it’s not a big the younger wrestlers in the lower ranks, field to touch it over the line. problem, I am used to it.” Osunaarashi was required to perform a vari- Zac Guildford and Andy Ellis scored the On some occasions, a main meal consists ety of menial tasks that included cleaning toi- two early tries for the Crusaders, who of little more than a rice ball at 3 a.m. during lets and washing the clothes of senior enjoyed good service from in-form flyhalf Tom Marshall in action in this file photo. the fast. That’s not much to go on when your wrestlers.There are six divisions in sumo but SPORTS SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

Flawless Johnson in tie at John Deere Classic

ILLINOIS: Rejuvenated by improved form scores in his last 17 competitive rounds I don’t feel I have to grind as much off the and you’ve got to stay up to him because with his driver, Zach Johnson made a on the par-71 layout. tee box. The consistency of left-to-right I think he’s going to be tough to beat.” strong start to his title defence at the “I am very pleased,” Johnson, a nine- and right-to-left is always nice on these Stricker made an explosive start to his John Deere Classic in Silvis, Illinois as he times winner on the PGA Tour, told Golf tee shots. round, holing out with a sand wedge to surged into a share of the lead in Channel after making four birdies in his “But I still have a lot of work to do. I am eagle his opening hole, the par-five 10th. Thursday’s opening round. last nine holes. “Very few mistakes, one never going to be content. The leader- He got to five under for the round after 11 The 37-year-old American piled up maybe two errant shots. I was very much board here is packed and it will be come holes before recording two bogeys over seven birdies in a flawless display for a siz- in control, and very in control on the Sunday.” his closing stretch. zling seven-under-par 64 at the TPC greens. “I hit my driver beautifully, putted One player who had a grandstand “I kept it going for a little while, then Deere Run, finishing joint top with great and gave myself a lot of good view of Johnson on Thursday was three- ran into a couple of bad holes at four and Colombia’s Camilo Villegas. opportunities. That’s all you can ask for. times former champion Steve Stricker, five on the way in,” said the 46-year-old Burly Zimbabwean Brendon de Jonge Hopefully I can just continue that consis- who was paired with his fellow American American, who was champion at the TPC was a further stroke back, mixing four tency for the remainder of the week.” in a high-profile grouping which also Deere Run for three successive years birdies with an eagle at the par-five 10th Johnson was especially pleased with included Davis Love III. from 2009. “But a good start overall. I to end the round level with Americans his driving, a component of his game “It was a lot of fun, an enjoyable round wish I could have taken a little bit more Matt Bettencourt and Daniel which gave him trouble early on this sea- with two friends and watching Zach play, advantage of that start but I am pretty Summerhays. son when he missed the cut three times Zach played great,” said Stricker, who pleased with the way I finished off the Most eyes, however, will be firmly in his first seven PGA Tour events. charged into contention at one of his round.” South African world number 10 focused on Johnson who triumphed here “It feels tremendous,” he smiled. “It’s favourite events with an opening 67. Louis Oosthuizen, the highest-ranked last year with a birdie on the second hole at the point now with my driver that I “He hit in there (close) a lot of times player in this week’s field, made a roller- of a sudden-death playoff to edge out must have been way off (before). I feel and when he sets the pace like that, you coaster start, mixing five birdies with a compatriot Troy Matteson. very comfortable. don’t want to fall too far behind. You bogey, a double and a triple for a one- Johnson has now posted sub-70 “I’m going to be hitting bad drives but know he’s played well here in years past over 72. — Reuters Power game helps Perry

NEBRASKA: Kenny Perry’s prediction that improved power and accuracy off the tee would put him in contention at the US Senior Open proved correct as he split one fairway after another to move into a seven-way tie for the lead in Thursday’s opening round in Omaha, Nebraska. Seeking a second successive major title on the over-50s Champions Tour, Perry birdied two of the three par-fives in challenging conditions on the way to a three-under-par 67 at Omaha Country Club. ONTARIO: Inbee Park, of South Korea, hits out of a sand Perry, who won last month’s Senior trap beside the 18th green to within four feet of the hole Players Championship by two shots, during the Manulife Financial LPGA Classic. — AP managed to avoid the notoriously thick rough on the hilly layout to end Stanford, Matthew lead the day as one of a record seven co- Park at LPGA Classic leaders after the opening round at the event. WATERLOO: Angela Stanford and Catriona Matthew shot eight- Also carding 67s were Michael Allen, under 63s to share the first-round lead at the Manulife Financial Jay Don Blake, Gary Hallberg, Tom LPGA Classic on Thursday, two strokes ahead of top-ranked Inbee Lehman, Mark O’Meara and Fred Funk. Park. Park is trying to become the first golfer to win four straight The previous record for the number of LPGA Tour events since Lorena Ochoa in 2008. Park was joined by co-leaders after the first round was five, OMAHA: Kenny Perry hits his tee shot on the fourth hole during the first round American Irene Cho, Spain’s Belen Mozo and South Korea’s Hee set in the 1997 US Senior Open at of the 2013 US Senior Open Championship. — AFP Young Park and Meena Lee at 65. American Ryann O’Toole and Olympia Fields outside Chicago. South Koreans Jenny Shin, Amy Yang and Ji Young Oh were three Germany’s Bernhard Langer was a as good as I could do.” It’s just a matter of executing and shots off the lead at 66. further stroke back after a 68, along On Wednesday, Perry said in his pre- keeping that driver in play.” Defending champion Brittany Lang opened with a 69. with Australian Peter Senior, American tournament news conference that he Tom Watson, an eight-times major Stanford closed her late-evening round with three straight Rocco Mediate and Taiwan’s Lu Chien- held a “a huge advantage” on the champion on the PGA Tour who has birdies to join Matthew atop the leaderboard under mostly sunny soon. Perry, a 14-times winner on the 6,711-yard, par-70 layout with his pow- added six more majors in the senior skies at Grey Silo Golf Course. “Today I hit it really good,” Stanford regular PGA Tour, was delighted with er game, mainly because of a new driv- ranks, opened with a level-par 70 said. “So it was just one of those days that as a golfer you just his impressive start, having mixed five er he put in his bag two months ago. despite not being in form with his love.” Players took advantage of soft conditions early in the day birdies with two bogeys to climb to the He delivered in style on Thursday approach play. on the 6,330-yard course. Aggressive approach shots were top of the leaderboard. with several booming tee shots as he “The one thing I did very well today rewarded before the greens started to dry up in the afternoon. “I took care of the par-fives today hit nine of 13 fairways and reached 14 was my lag putt,” said the 63-year-old, “We were pretty much able to attack the pins this morning,” and drove it nicely, kept it in the fair- of 18 greens in regulation. who will captain the United States Park said. “The next three days might be a little bit different if we way, kept it in play,” Perry told “It automatically put length on me, Ryder Cup team against holders don’t get any more rain, might play a little harder.” reporters. “Like I said yesterday, if I hit and it put in accuracy,” said Perry of his Europe at Gleneagles, Scotland in Warm temperatures and sunny skies are in the forecast it in the fairway, I really like my chances new driver. “It’s really freed me up off 2014. “I didn’t hit the ball very well through the final round of the $1.3-million tournament on on this golf course. “I only missed a the tee, so I’m very happy with that. with my irons. Sunday. The 24-year-old Park oozed confidence as she strolled couple of fairways today so I was That’s why I’m playing more aggres- Even though I was in the fairway down the fairways, apparently in complete control of her game always attacking the pins. I could have sive. “If you’re off target this week, most of the time, I didn’t get it very on the way to her best first-round score of the season. shot a couple better, but I made two you’re going to shoot a really high close to the hole at all today. “I did a “Golf is a sport where you could miss the cut this week and poor bogeys. I three-putted the par- score. The rough is brutal, and you’re real good job of lag putting and fin- you could win next week,” Park said. “There’s a lot of imbalance in three, five, and the other bogey I going to be in some spots where ishing the deal on the green. That this game and to keep this kind of level going for four weeks, five missed the green and didn’t get up you’re going to struggle to make dou- was the positive.” Englishman Roger weeks, six in a row is a very tough thing to do. We really have to and down. ble (bogey) from. Chapman, who won last year’s US be strong mentally, you have to be physically strong.” “You make five birdies in Open con- “I was lucky. I stayed away from all Senior Open by two strokes in Lake “Everything’s got to work perfect to win that many tournaments ditions, as tough as it was out there, I those areas, I was able to drive it beau- Orion, Michigan, launched his title in a row I think. You could win six, seven tournaments a year, but I was very happy with that. That’s about tifully. I hit my irons okay, putted okay. defense with a 74. — Reuters think it’s really tough to do in a streak, like in a row.” —AP sports SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 Lorenzo clocks fastest time

SACHSENRING: Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo was fastest in the opening practice session at the German MotoGP, yesterday, capping a remarkable comeback just two weeks after surgery on a fractured collarbone. The defending world champion rode his Yamaha around the Sachsenring circuit in a time of 1min 22.47secs to better compatriot and current champi- onship leader Dani Pedrosa on his Honda by 0.174secs. Former world champion Valentino Rossi was third fastest on the second Yamaha and 0.194secs back, as he looks to build on his victory two weeks ago in the Netherlands. Lorenzo appeared back on top form after an operation to repair a shattered collar bone and won the admiration of his peers and fans by finishing fifth behind Rossi at the Dutch GP, just 36 hours after delicate surgery. The 26-year-old, who also won the MotoGP championship in 2010 is second in the world standings, just nine points behind Pedrosa. Lorenzo-whom Rossi described as a “hero” for taking part in Assen-said on Friday that he had riddern against medical advice. “In the Netherlands, I had a lot of pain throughout the race. I admit that I was afraid. But I managed to get fifth place and only concede two points (to Pedrosa),” he told reporters. “That was the most important thing.” Doctors had initially prescribed four weeks’ rest for Lorenzo, SAN FRANCISCO: Emirates Team New Zealand (left) passes by Luna Rossa Challenge (right) of Italy, while training given his injuries after the 200 kilometres (124 miles) per hour for the America’s Cup sailing event on Thursday. —AP crash during practice at Assen. But they did not count on the defending champion’s will to compete, just 36 hours after a two-hour operation in Barcelona Jury sides with America’s under general anaesthetic to repin his shattered left collar bone with a titanium plate and eight screws. “I’m the first rider in history to race 48 hours after breaking Cup challengers a collar bone,” said Lorenzo, who is having several hours of physiotherapy every day. “I’m proud even if I know as well that it could have ended SAN FRANCISCO; Tensions in the trou- Coast Guard to discuss the permit that abide by the existing class rule and safe- badly. I could have fallen and lost everything. I wasn’t thinking bled America’s Cup could be easing after allows racing on the bay. The jury ty rules. “If the teams take this step, it will an international jury sided with chal- ordered Murray to make the views of all ensure the safety plan remains intact and and a little bit foolish.” lengers from New Zealand and Italy in the competitors known to the Coast the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Event Permit Doctors admitted they had a nervous wait as the race took their arguments that regatta director Iain Guard. Emirates Team New Zealand said is unaffected,” he said. place, with a bone fragment from the complex fracture near an Murray overstepped his authority in in a statement that it was pleased the Murray said Emirates Team New artery providing particular concern. making rules changes following the fatal jury “has maintained the sanctity of the Zealand and Luna Rossa are complying Doctor Joaquin Rodriguez said on Friday: “This type of frac- capsize of a third challenger’s catamaran AC72 Class Rule in ruling that it can be with both the AC72 Class Rule and the ture can cause serious damage to the blood vessels under the two months ago. changed only by unanimous consent of safety rules. He said he’ll need to discuss collar bone. One promising sign was that Italy’s the competitors and the Regatta with the teams how the jury decision “We tried to stop him racing but he’s stubborn. We then Luna Rossa ended its boycott and sailed Director.” affects Artemis Racing. Artemis said it gave him a list of movements that he couldn’t do under any its 72-foot catamaran alone around the The Kiwis added that they believe the was disappointed that the jury’s decision circumstances. “In particular we explained the signs which we course on San Francisco Bay to collect its jury’s decision “does not affect the sub- leaves uncertainty but that it remains would raise to force him to stop racing immediately. first point of the Louis Vuitton Cup for stance of the safety plan” submitted with confident a solution will be found. “It (the race) was difficult to watch. My colleagues and I challengers. Luna Rossa’s scheduled the application to the US Coast Guard for “It’s a bit of a tempest in a tea pot,” were very worried. Jorge gave us a lesson in physical and men- opponent, Sweden’s Artemis Racing, a permit or “the excellent work the Ehman said. “There always seems to be tal strength to go through the pain barrier.” remains a no-show while it works to get Regatta Director undertook with the some kind of controversy and they all get Given Rodriguez’s medical assessment, many observers its second boat up to speed following Review Committee.” sorted out. I’m confident this one will as have asked how race doctors gave Lorenzo the all-clear to the capsize on May 9 that killed Andrew The Kiwis also said they’d like to help well.” race. But two race doctors at Assen told AFP that the rider had Simpson and destroyed its first boat. Artemis Racing, which has said it doesn’t The Italians weren’t immediately successfully passed a series of tests that were more demand- Simpson’s death led Murray to make have the proper rudders to comply with available for comment. Oracle Team USA ing than the movements he had to make during the grand 37 safety recommendations. Among the rules. The Kiwis said they have pro- said in a statement that it respected the prix itslef. At Saschenring, Lorenzo has been dubbed “Kaizer them was a highly technical change to posed that when Artemis is ready to race, decision of the jury, continues to support the winglets on the rudders of the fast, it be given dispensation from the class Murray and that it believes all teams Jorge” (Emperor Jorge), a reference to Germany football leg- space-age boats. The New Zealanders rule regarding rudder elevators as long have benefited from his review. end Franz Beckenbauer, who finished the 1970 World Cup and Italians protested, saying the as it otherwise complies with the class Luna Rossa skipper Max Sirena said semi-final against Italy with his arm in a sling and a broken changes were more about performance rule and safety recommendations. last week that the Italians would not race collar bone.—AFP than safety. “This would require the consent of until the jury ruled, but that they would The syndicates said their boats were the other competitors and we would return regardless of the panel’s decision. designed and built under the old rules strongly urge this be given,” the New They sat out the regatta’s opening race and they didn’t have time to build new Zealand statement said. “Artemis Racing on Sunday against the Kiwis. rudders and, perhaps more importantly, is making a tremendous effort under dif- Now, the regatta could see its first test them. They also said they felt the ficult circumstances to get back on the real race today, when Luna Rossa is change gave an advantage to defending race track and deserve support to help scheduled to face Emirates Team New champion Oracle Team USA, which does- them achieve this.” Zealand. n’t have to race until the start of the 34th Tom Ehman, vice-commodore of the The Kiwis have twice sailed around America’s Cup on Sept. 7. Golden Gate Yacht Club, which is trustee the course alone, including the race the The jury ruled that a regatta notice of the America’s Cup, said Murray’s 37 Italians boycotted and on Tuesday when issued by Murray had the effect of safety recommendations affected the Artemis Racing was the scheduled oppo- changing the AC72 Class Rule and was protocol, the racing rules and the AC72 nent. They have shown remarkable not in accordance with the protocol. Class Rule. The teams agreed to amend speed, reaching nearly 50 mph on Murray was ordered to withdraw that the racing rules and the protocol, but Thursday. Emirates Team New Zealand notice, so the class rule reverts to how it seven changes that affected the class was practicing on San Francisco Bay on was before he made the safety recom- rule weren’t agreed on unanimously. Thursday, appearing to shadow the mendations. Murray thought he could accomplish Italians as they finished their race. GERMANY: Yamaha driver Jorge Lorenzo of Spain Last week, Murray said that if the jury that through the event permit. Artemis CEO Paul Cayard said Saturday steers his bike during the first training session of the sided with the challengers, he would America’s Cup CEO Stephen Barclay that his syndicate was about two weeks MotoGP of the Grand Prix of Germany. —AFP have no choice but to go back to the US said racing can continue if the teams from beginning sea trials.—AP SPORTS SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

Klitschko wary of Photo of the day another Povetkin withdrawal

BERLIN: World champion Wladimir Klitschko has admitted he has concerns whether challenger Alexander Povetkin will meet him in the ring on October 5 in Moscow after the Russian’s two previous withdrawals. Klitschko, 37, was first due to fight Povetkin in 2008, only for the Russian to injure his ankle while training, then the 33- year-old pulled out of a second bout two years later when his father died. October’s clash at Moscow’s Olimpiyski Arena will settle which of the pair is the World Boxing Association’s champion and the fight details were decided 10 days ago after Klitschko insisted that the drugs testing is done in Germany. The Ukrainian, who faces his 24th world title fight, told Hamburg’s Morgenpost he was “cautious in regards to Povetkin. “In the past we twice agreed to fight and he withdrew. With Povetkin, you never know what happens,” added Klitschko, whose WBO, IBF and IBO titles are also up for grabs in Moscow. With Klitschko holding WBA “super” champion status since his 2011 win over Britain’s David Haye and Povetkin deemed the gov- erning body’s regular belt holder, the bout has been ordered to decide which is the true champion. Povetkin, the 2004 Olympic heavyweight champion, has an undefeated record with 18 knock-outs in 26 wins, but Klitschko, who won Olympic heavyweight gold at the 1996 Atlanta games, says he hopes the Russian does not cancel on him for a third time. “He really listens to what other people say, I hope people tell him that he should fight,” said Klitschko, who has 51 knock-outs in 60 Mike Whiddett performs at the NZ Drift Series Final in Taupo, New Zealand. www.redbullcontentpool.com wins with the last of his three defeats having come nearly a decade ago. Both fighters will walk away with a small fortune from the fight, with Klitschko standing to make a career-high 13.13 million euros ($17.1 million, £11.3 million) from the fight and Povetkin 4.4 million. The final date of the fight has only been set back following lengthy negotiations with the Klitschko camp refusing to have the The real cost of Russians take care of the drugs testing, which will be conducted by Germany’s National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). —AFP the NFL’s business

NEW YORK: In the past few months, feeling the heat. And that he was on that his name be withheld because he’s more than two dozen NFL players and a probation after punching a cop during still negotiating deals, the number of sprinkling of front-office executives a fight in the same town a week before headaches a team takes on can gener- have been arrested for crimes ranging the 2012 draft. But let’s not forget, ally be calibrated by how desperate it is from petty to deadly. either - because the Patriots certainly to win. No matter how bad it looks, remem- can’t - that the reason they were able to Think of the Cincinnati Bengals a ber that’s not a crime wave by any fair pluck him all the way down at the sev- few years back, or on a smaller scale, measure, let alone by league standards. enth round of that draft is because how Cowboys owner Jerry Jones hired Think of it instead as just the cost of Dennard had several previous scrapes a bodyguard to make sure wide receiv- doing business. Everybody in the NFL on and off the field. er Dez Bryant didn’t find himself in any already does. To be fair, any company Once you stop to think about it, the more compromising positions. The Wladimir Klitschko with that employs 9,000 people is cynicism that underpins the whole problems in New England at the bound to have some bad apples. And “crime-in-the-NFL” phenomenon is moment may spring from a different this year’s number of arrests, give or almost breathtaking. source - hubris, or as the agent put it, Germany’s women take a few, lines up with last year’s A respected agent said earlier this “too much faith in the ‘Patriot Way.’” pace. week that just about every time he But in every case, teams know exactly held by Dutch So no one should have been sur- meets with one of the league’s general what they’re doing when they draft, prised to awake Thursday morning to managers or personnel chiefs, the guy trade or take a flyer on a knucklehead STOCKHOLM: Holders Germany were surprisingly held to a news reports that Patriots cornerback knows exactly how many potential like Dennard. The only thing they can 0-0 draw by a tenacious Netherlands side in their opening Alfonzo Dennard was arrested on sus- troublemakers are on his roster. There’s truly be “extremely disappointed” Group B game at the women’s European Championship in picion of drunken driving in Lincoln, even a code word for those players: about is when one or another does Sweden on Thursday. Neb. But because the NFL is all about “turds,” as in “I can’t risk a chance on something stupid or dangerous while Dutch striker Manon Melis had the best of her side’s image, about “protecting the shield,” another turd. We’ve already exceeded they were his enablers. chances when she was one-on-one with goalkeeper Nadine as commissioner Roger Goodell never our quota.” There were at least 17 different Angerer but the Germany captain made a marvellous save tires of saying, Dennard’s team pre- There’s upwards of 10 on just about teams touched by the more than two with her right foot. Germany created plenty of chances but tended to be. every squad, the agent estimates. He dozen arrests these past few months, poor finishing stopped the seven-times European champi- Another jersey trade-in offer may be said they tend to be clustered around a and anytime a problem extends that ons starting with a win. In Thursday’s early Group B game, in the works even as you read this. “The handful of defensive positions where wide, it usually runs top to bottom as Iceland scored a late penalty to snatch a share of the points New England Patriots are extremely meanness and a short memory are well. As noted above, this is first and in a 1-1 draw with Norway. disappointed to learn of Alfonzo essential, with wide receivers being the foremost about personal responsibility. Kristine Hegland had given the Norwegians the lead in Dennard’s arrest,” a team statement most notable exception on the other And to be fair, Goodell hasn’t been shy the first half, deftly steering the ball home past onrushing said. “We take this matter very seriously side of the ball. about doling out harsh punishment to keeper Gudbjorg Gunnarsdottir. But with four minutes left, and are working to get more informa- “They want guys who say ‘gimme any employee, and even harsher pun- Sara Gunnarsdottir was felled in the box by Norway defender tion on the incident.” the damn ball,” and guys who can turn ishments to the league’s higher-ups. Marit Christensen and Margret Vidarsdottir slotted home the Please. Let’s not forget the bottom around the play after they get beat and But what’s clear is that his message, no penalty to claim a point for Iceland. With hosts Sweden draw- line is always personal responsibility, start talking trash right away about matter how many times he warns rook- ing 1-1 with Denmark and Italy opening the tournament with and that Dennard climbed into his car how it won’t ever happen again,” he a goalless encounter against Finland in Group A, no team has ies to “protect the shield,” is still being won a match yet at Euro 2013. Group C gets underway on likely knowing that the entire league said. “Without those nasty, selfish guys, greeted in too many corners of the Thursday, when France face Russia and England take on and his team in particular - former Pats competing on a regular basis is practi- league with little more than a wink and Spain at the 12-team tournament. —Reuters tight end Aaron Hernandez is being cally impossible.” a nod. So why not just spare us the lec- held on a murder charge - was already According to the agent, who asked ture? —AP SPORTS SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

City and Erdre teams vie for the ball Pinocho and City emerge victorious

By Abdellatif Sharaa the start of the second half and depended on counter attacks but failed as the KUWAIT: The Kuwait Mini World Futsal Argentines were able to quickly return to Club Tournament continued its activities defending. Bahrain’s coach sent his experi- with matches of the second group that saw enced player Mohammad Abdelrahman Bahrain’s Al-Muharraq team pay the price (Ringo) into the attack and proved danger- for missing several scoring opportunities ous on Pinocho, as the goal keeper was and lost to Argentina’s Pinocho 1-2. outstanding. Pinocho’s Corazza Sebastian Meanwhile Romania’s City’Us excelled over was able to score the winning goal. In the second match which proved to be the best so far Romania’s team City’Us Tirgu-Mures lived up to its reputation with its strong performance scoring six goals against Franc’s Erdre. It took only one minute for City to score its first goal through Stoica Dumitru Mimi as the French goal keeper failed to make a save. The early goal shocked the players of Erdre who were not able to regroup and allowed City to penetrate their goal several times which resulted in the second goal in the fourth minute, while the French remained stunned. City scored its third Bahrain's Muharraq goal in the seventh minute making it hard- er and harder for their opponents to recov- French fans er. Franc’s Erdre 6-4 in the strongest and most Erdre manager asked for a time out, and enjoyable matches so far. its player Javier Moreno scored the first Al-Muharraq began the match with hes- goal in the 12th minute which gave them a itation and fear in front of Pinocho allow- new confidence. ing to have virtual control of the match But the joy was short lived as City was from the start and threatened to score sev- able to score the fourth goal through Lupu eral times, as Muharraq’s goalkeeper Robert, City then netted their second goal, denied several chances coupled with bad City again counter attacked when Cosmin- luck for the Argentines. Marius scored the fifth goal ending the first Pinocho finally succeeded in scoring its half 5-2. first goal through Martinez Lucas, prompt- Erdre’s performance improved in the ing Muharraq to change its strategy and second half and had total control for some- threaten Pinocho’s goal through Jassim time and scored its third goal in the 30th and Ahmad Saleh in addition to Abdallah minute by its outstanding player Moreno, Abbas and were able to force the who then scored the fourth goal in the Argentine team to defend in order to main- 37th minute before City sealed the match tain their score. The relentless pressure with its sixth goal in the dying minutes. resulted in the equalizer by Ali Saleh in the Today’s matches are as follows: 17th minute before the first half ended. Santiago Futsal v/s Kazema and MNK Pinocho forced Muharraq to defend at Alumnus v/s Chonburi. Pinocho and Muharraq teams in action. SPORTS SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013

FIFA: Player market recovers as economies improve LONDON: Transfer spending is increasing globally as from Shakhtar Donetsk by Manchester City for 30 million Uruguay where payers are moving for free and then some countries recover from the economic downturn, a pounds ($45 million). being loaned out, where the money resides in the tax FIFA official said on Thursday, while questioning if clubs Registering cross-border deals with FIFA’s Transfer haven of Uruguay,” she said. “And that’s something we are hiding money from some player moves. Matching System has been mandatory since 2010 in a bid are looking at and considering why it is happening.” The first half of 2013 saw $929 million of international to curb money laundering and corrupt deals. The online FIFA has shown it will sanction clubs which break its player trading, 40 percent more than the $664 million system requires buying and selling clubs to input match- transfer rules, with Argentine club Independiente and spent between January and June last year, and closer to ing information, including payment schedules, before a Italian side Genoa fined this year. the 2011 figure of $855 million. transfer is approved. Speaking at a World Sports Law In a blocked deal for defender Julian Velazquez, “Certainly the economic fortunes of certain countries Report conference in London, Morris questioned why the Independiente tried to charge buying club Genoa for a are getting better, others are falling,” Kimberly Morris, $929 million this year has been generated by only 12 per- document that should have been provided for free. who oversees integrity at FIFA’s transfer unit, told The cent of deals, with the rest appearing to be free moves. Genoa was also fined 35,000 Swiss francs ($37,000) for Associated Press. “I think people are maybe feeling a bit Morris highlighted how the “bulk of transfers don’t gen- failing to submit documents to FIFA’s online process. more optimistic on the whole and that may be the reason erate the bulk of wealth.” “As a lawyer and as a compli- “What you are seeing is a much bigger appetite at the there is an increase. There is certainly a clear increase.” ance person I’m curious to know whether ... that’s actual- disciplinary committee level - as you saw with the Genoa- The costliest deal in the summer transfer window in ly representative or whether there’s a lot of money that’s Independiente case - to impose sanctions that have some Europe so far has seen Brazil forward Neymar join not being captured. Because 12 percent and almost a bil- teeth,” Morris said. “Because if you fine a club 35,000, Barcelona from Santos for 57 million euros ($74 million). lion dollars is a really interesting discrepancy.” that’s going to maybe have a difference to their bottom English clubs tend to be the biggest spenders, and the Morris is also concerned that some free transfers line rather than just 5,000. If the fines get bigger and the most expensive Premier League import this summer is might be used to avoid taxes. “There is very interesting fines get more pronounced it’s going to have a knock-on currently Brazil midfielder Fernandinho, who was bought activity, particularly with Brazil-Uruguay and Argentina- effect in terms of the behavior you see.” — AP Panama in Gold Cup q-finals Belize players reveal bribe attempt

SEATTLE: Gabriel Torres converted an 85th minute penalty to guide Panama into the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarter- finals with a 1-0 win over Martinique on Thursday, before Mexico beat Canada 2-0 to pick up their first victory of the competition. Panama top Group A on six points from two games, ahead of Martinique and Mexico on three points apiece with Canada propping up the standings after two straight losses. Martinique produced a big upset on the opening day of THAILAND: This file picture taken on July 11, 2013 shows the 12-team competition by beating Canada 1-0 and they Manchester United football player Wayne Rooney arriving again showed levels of skill and organisation well beyond at the hotel in Bangkok. — AFP expectations for one of the tournament’s supposed min- nows. Rooney’s ours, Utd Panama were frustrated and created few chances but the game played at Seattle’s CenturyLink Field turned in boss tells Mourinho their favor when Martinique were reduced to 10 men after Jacky Berdix was sent off for a second bookable offence in BANGKOK: Manchester United boss David Moyes testily repeated the 72nd minute. that Wayne Rooney is not for sale Friday after he abruptly quit their Five minutes from the end, Panama substitute Jairo Asian tour and Chelsea’s Jose Mourinho voiced his admiration for the unsettled star. Jimenez was brought down inside the box by a reckless Moyes was careful not to be dragged into a row with Mourinho Sebastien Cretinoir challenge and Torres squeezed the but he showed signs of impatience as he underlined his position that penalty just past Martinique keeper Kevin Olimpa. Rooney, who flew home with a hamstring injury just hours after arriv- After their opening loss to Panama, six-times Gold Cup ing in Bangkok, would not be sold. winners Mexico could ill-afford another setback and they “Unless I was speaking Double Dutch, I think we’ve said Wayne attacked Canada from the outset in the second match of Rooney is not for sale,” Moyes told a packed press conference in the Thai capital, where he will make his debut as manager today.He the Seattle double-header. added: “It’s hard to keep repeating myself but I will do-Wayne’s a ‘El Tri’ grabbed the lead in the 42nd minute when Jorge Manchester United player and will remain that.” Enriquez’s delightful near post flick on from a Luis Montes Moyes, Rooney’s former boss at Everton, said the England striker corner set up Raul Jimenez for a thundering diving header. would be out for two to three weeks but will be fit for the start of the Mexico’s second was controversial though, when Canada season on August 17. “It’s a blow that we’ve lost him because he’s defender David Edgar was adjudged to have brought down been training well and looked very good,” said Moyes. “But unfortu- Marco Fabian when it appeared the Mexican had fallen as nately he just felt something in his hamstring, we double-checked it SEATTLE: Jean-Sylvain Babin no. 22 of Martinique (left) and he has a slight grade one injury there that’ll probably keep him he stretched for the ball without any contact. dribbles against Cecilio Waterman No. 11 of Panama at out for two to three weeks... I don’t foresee any problem with Wayne Fabian converted the penalty and Edgar’s frustration CenturyLink Field. — AFP starting the season.” spilled over in the 67th minute when he kicked out at Rooney’s sudden departure did not ease speculation about his Jimenez and was lucky to escape with just a yellow card. Portland, Oregon for a group stage fixture of the regional future which has been swirling since former United manager Alex Both teams hit the bar late on with Canada’s Marcel De tournament. Ferguson said the striker had asked for a transfer. The Confederation of North, Central America and The 27-year-old has denied asking to leave the club but he has Jong’s superbly struck 89th minute free-kick finding the not confirmed his intentions either. Britain’s Daily Mail has reported woodwork before Javier Orozco’s header rebounded off the Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) said it has that Chelsea are preparing a 60-million-pound ($90-million) bid. frame of the goal a minute later. Mexico face Martinique in launched a full investigation into the matter alongside FIFA. Mourinho, who also arrived in Bangkok with Chelsea on Friday, was the final round of Group A matches in Denver on Sunday, Details of the bribe attempt were not disclosed but CON- warm in his praise for Rooney and is also looking for a striker, but he after Canada take on Panama at the same venue. CACAF referred to “match manipulation” in their statement stopped short of saying he wanted to sign the Liverpudlian. “It’s a The tournament continues in Miami on Friday with the and said they have discovered who was behind the funny, tricky question because from the ethical point of view, I can- attempt. not speak about players from other teams,” Mourinho said. Group B clashes between Central American rivals Honduras “But again you know me and you know it’s not my kind of charac- and El Salvador and an all-Caribbean affair as Trinidad and “Initial findings of this investigation have resulted in a ter to speak with a little bit of hypocrisy. I always say what I feel, what Tobago play Haiti. positive identification of the individual attempting the I think. “I’ve always said he’s a player that I like very, very much but I Meanwhile, two players from the Belize men’s national bribery,” CONCACAF said in a statement. cannot say more than that. Being fast and direct, I like him very much team have revealed that they were offered a bribe ahead of “We want to thank Woodrow West and Ian Gaynair and but he’s a Man United player.” their CONCACAF Gold Cup opener against the United recognize them for their bravery and commitment to pre- Mourinho may be mindful of a notorious “tapping-up” incident in serving the integrity of our game.” Internationally, soccer 2005 when Chelsea were hit with heavy fines for holding a meeting States, the confederation said on Thursday. Woodrow West with Ashley Cole, then at Arsenal. But Moyes, when asked about and Ian Gaynair notified CONCACAF that they were has been dealing with the growing problem of attempts to Mourinho’s comments, refused to rise to the bait. —AFP approached ahead of Tuesday’s 6-1 loss to United States in fix games by betting syndicates. — Reuters Lorenzo clocks fastest time at

SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2013 JULY SATURDAY, German MotoGP 44 SportsSports SCOREBOARD PORT OF SPAIN: Scoreboard of the Tri-Nation Series final between India and Sri Lanka at Queen’s Park Oval on Thursday: Sri Lanka U. Tharanga c Dhoni b B. Kumar 11 M. Jayawardene c Ashwin b B. Kumar 22 K. Sangakkara c V. Kumar b Ashwin 71 L. Thirimanne c B. Kumar b I. Sharma 46 A. Mathews c V. Kumar b I. Sharma 10 K. Perera st Dhoni b Ashwin 2 D. Chandimal c Ashwin b Jadeja 5 R. Herath st Dhoni b Jadeja 5 S. Eranga not out 5 L. Malinga c B. Kumar b Jadeja 0 S. Lakmal st Dhoni b Jadeja 1 Extras (4b, 6lb, 13w) 23 Total (all out, 48.5 overs) 201 Fall of wickets: 1-27 (Tharanga), 2-49 (Jayawardene), 3-171 (Thirimanne), 4-174 (Sangakkara), 5-176 (Perera), 6-183 (Chandimal), 7-193 (Mathews), 8-196 (Herath), 9-196 (Malinga), 10-201 (Lakmal). Bowling: B. Kumar 8-4-24-2 (1w), V. Kumar 6-1- 15-0, I. Sharma 8-1-45-2 (1w), Kohli 3-0-17-0 (1w), Raina 6-0-25-0, Ashwin 10-0-42-2 (1w), Jadeja 7.5-1-23-4 (1w) India R. Sharma b Herath 58 S. Dhawan c Sangakkara b Eranga 16 V. Kohli c Sangakkara b Eranga 2 K. Karthik c Jayawardene b Herath 23 S. Raina c Sangakkara b Lakmal 32 M. Dhoni not out 45 R. Jadeja lbw b Herath 5 R. Ashwin lbw b Herath 0 B. Kumar lbw b Malinga 0 R. Kumar c sub (Senanayake) b Mathews 5 I. Sharma not out 2 Extras (b2, lb2, w11) 15 Total (9 wickets; 49.4 overs) 203 Fall of wickets 1-23 (Dhawan), 2-27 (Kohli), 3-77 (Karthik), 4-139 (R Sharma), 5-145 (Raina), 6-152 (Jadeja), 7-152 (Ashwin), 8-167 (B Kumar), 9-182 (R Kumar) Bowling: Eranga 9.4-2-50-2 (1w), Lakmal 10-1-33-1 (3w), Mathews 10-1-38-1, Malinga 10-1-58-1 (3w), Herath 10-2-20-4 PORT-OF-SPAIN: India’s captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (left) and teammate Virat Kohli hold the trophy after winning the final match of Result: India win by one wicket the Tri-Nation cricket series. India beat Sri Lanka by one wicket with two balls remaining. — AP Dhoni blasts India to tri-series title

PORT-OF-SPAIN: Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit an (Angelo) Mathews, I would take it to the end and take a chance the series when he strained a hamstring just over a week ago in unbeaten 45 off 52 balls to give India a thrilling one-wicket vic- against someone who is not so experienced. It worked and I’m Jamaica. But he batted with typical calm to see his side through. tory over Sri Lanka in the Celkon Mobile Cup final at Queen’s happy it worked.” Earlier, the Sri Lankan innings was in good shape at 171-2 in Park Oval on Thursday. Dhoni changed his bat for the final flourish. “It was a very the 38th over before Ashwin, Jadeja and Ishant Sharma inspired Dhoni, returning from an injured hamstring, shared a last- heavy bat that was needed at that point of time. The weight of the decline. wicket stand of 20 with Ishant Sharma as India reached its win- the bat was perfect for slogging,” he said. India’s run chase was Bhuvneshwar Kumar had made two early strikes after Dhoni ning target at 203-9 with two balls to spare. set back early by Eranga, who claimed two early wickets with won the toss and chose to bowl. The seamer claimed both Opener Rohit Sharma anchored the run chase with 58 off 89 the new ball. Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli both fell to out- openers in a lengthy opening spell. Upul Tharanga (11) was first deliveries while Suresh Raina (32) and Dinesh Karthik (23) side edges to wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara. Left-hander to go, at 29-1 in the seventh over, advancing down the pitch scored crucial middle order runs. Left-arm spinner Rangana Dhawan (16) got a big nick while Kohli (2) feathered a drive to but only inside edging his aggressive stroke through to wicket- Herath was Sri Lanka’s trump card with a career-best 4-20. Fast leave India on 27-2 in the 11th over. Rohit Sharma and Karthik keeper Dhoni. Jayawardene followed at 49-2 when he chased a bowler Shaminda Eranga claimed 2-50 but was pounded for rebuilt in a 50-run third wicket stand. Karthik edged a cut hard wide outswinger and provided an easy catch for Ashwin at slip. two sixes and a four by Dhoni, who scored 16 in the decisive to slip but India consolidated with Rohit finding another solid Sangakkara and Thirimanne had a bit of luck early as they final over. ally in Raina, the pair adding 62 for the fourth wicket before forged a third-wicket stand of122 to tilt the balance towards Sri Earlier, Kumar Sangakkara’s top-score of 71 led Sri Lanka but Herath turned the match on its head by ripping through the Lanka. its last eight wickets subsided for 30 runs and it was bowled out middle order. Thirimanne was just on 2 when he was dropped by Ashwin for 201 off 48.5 overs. Sharma hit five fours and a six before he was bowled playing at slip off Ishant Sharma, while Sangakkara was 23 when Suresh Dhoni said he was always confident of getting his side over back to a Herath delivery which crept along the ground. Raina grassed a difficult return catch. the line despite the tense finish. “I think I’m blessed with good Suranga Lakmal also chipped in with the wicket of Raina, Veteran Sangakkara went past Sourav Ganguly into sixth cricketing sense,” he said. who edged a big drive, and the innings was in crisis. India was place in the leading run-scorers in one-dayers when he reached “I thought 15 runs was something I can look for, the reason 152-7 in the 38th over. India fell further behind when 9 and played a masterful knock to anchor the innings. being the opposition bowler was not someone who was very Bhuvneshwar Kumar (0) and Vinay Kumar fell to Malinga and Thirimanne was less fluent but they put their team in a fine experienced like (Lasith) Malinga or some of the other bowlers. I Mathews respectively. India needed 20 off 22 deliveries. position before the dramatic late collapse. Dhoni claimed three thought rather than taking chances against a Malinga or a Dhoni, who turned 32 four days ago, had been ruled out of stumpings as Jadeja ran through the lower order. — AP