ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER

ON SATURDAY

Top Shia cleric calls Iraqis to arms

BAGHDAD: A leading cleric called Iraqis to arms yesterday as US President Barack Obama said he was examining options short of sending troops to help Iraq counter a Sunni militant onslaught. Shia Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani urged the people to defend the country against the offensive spearheaded by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. A representative of Sistani made the call from the Shia shrine city of Karbala. “Citizens who are able to bear arms and fight ter- rorists, defending their country and their people and their holy places, should volunteer and join the security forces to achieve this holy purpose,” the representative said. See also page 5 Qatar to pay former Hamas workers’ salaries

RAMALLAH: Qatar is stepping in tempo- rarily to help the new Palestinian unity gov- ernment pay former employees of Islamist movement Hamas’s disbanded Gaza govern- ment, an official said yesterday. Doha would contribute a total of $60m while the Palestinian Authority grapples with a pay row. Prime minister Rami Hamdallah received a phone call from Qatari Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, who told him that $20m would be transferred each month for three months to pay Gaza employees, govern- ment spokesman Ihab Bseiso said. Dusty, windy conditions expected today DOHA: The weather is expected to be dusty and windy today, with wind speeds ranging from 10 knots to 30 knots in places, the mete- orology department said in a forecast yester- day. Visibility will be poor. Day temperatures are likely to soar to 43 degrees Celsius in Doha, Mesaieed and Al Wakra. Al Ruwais, Dukhan and Abu Samra are expected to witnesses a cooler day, with the mercury levels CUP FEVER forecast at 36 to 38 degrees C. Abu Samra will have a cooler night as the minimum temperature forecast is 29 degrees C. The night temperature in Doha is expected to be 33 degrees C. The seas THE ISSUE will be rough with high waves and wind speeds going up to 30 to 35 knots at times. Tunisia to hold polls The Fifa World Cup 2014 has “I was nervous about the schedule of the not have the tension of attending school the come as a pre-vacation bonanza World Cup matches, but when the schedule next day, as some important matches will at the end of this year was announced some months back, I heaved be during the vacation. So I will be able to for football fans in Qatar. This a sigh of relief. I watched the opening match enjoy the matches without worrying about TUNIS: Tunisia is set to hold separate par- time, the event held once in four between Brazil and Croatia on Thursday and the next day. It is good for the students that Design: Abraham Augusthy liamentary and presidential elections at the I am happy that I will be able to enjoy other the final, semi-finals and other matches are end of the year after political parties resolved years has begun just ahead of matches as well,” he added. falling during the vacations,” said Ahmad a dispute over the election date yesterday, school summer vacations, which The tournament, which is being played in Niaz, a class 10 student at Shantiniketan political sources said. will allow them to watch the Brazil from June 12 to July 13, is being aired Indian School. The agreement allows electoral authorities to live in Qatar between 8pm and 4am. Ahmad, a die-hard football fan, has set an official date for the first election since the games relaxedly. Football is probably the most popular subscribed to a special Ooredoo package North African state adopted a new constitution sport across the globe, and nearly half the to watch live telecast of the World Cup that has been praised as a model of democratic he fact that nearly all the matches world’s population, well over three billion matches. transition in the Arab world. will be telecast starting in the spectators, are expected to watch 32 teams The World Cup also bodes well for busi- See also page 8 evening is the icing on the cake. play 67 games in total during the World Cup. ness. Restaurants, hotels and pubs are TThe timings have made football Students are also happy with the timing of cashing in on the World Cup frenzy and Netherlands, Mexico fans happy because they will not have to the matches because their schools will close screening matches at special venues. Some take leave from work to watch the games. in the first week of July, which will allow cafes are levying additional fees on custom- win at World Cup “The best thing about the World Cup this them to watch the final stages of the tourna- ers who want to watch the matches on large time for me is the timing of the matches. ment without drawing their parent’s wrath. screens at these venues. SALVADOR: Stunning goals from Dutch All the matches will be telecast during the Parents will also be relieved that their chil- Shops selling sports goods have seen a captain Robin van Persie and Arjen Robben PAGEnight. Had the telecast6 been during the day, dren do not have to attend school the next surge in sale of football-related goods — saw the Netherlands destroy Spain 5-1 in I would have had to take leave from office day, and can allow the kids to watch the another proof that the magic of the World Group B at the World Cup yesterday. Earlier, to watch matches,” said football fan Touseef matches late into the night. Cup has cast its spell on Qatar. Mexico beat Cameroon 1-0 in Group A. Hussain, a Najma resident. “The good thing this time is that I will See also page 2 See also pages 19, 20, 21 THE PENINSULA & AGENCIES

Saturday 14 June 2014 • 16 Sha’baan 1435 • Volume 19 • Number 6096 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home

Everyone’s cup of joy

Pics: Qassim Rahmatullah, Salim Matramkot & Abdul Basit The World Cup has brought cheer to all: football fans, hotels, sports retailers and merchandisers

DOHA: It is rare to see Doha in the coming days as World Cup craze for football is increasing,” said streets almost empty of vehicles, fever goes up. Musthafa. especially on a Thursday night. During Ramadan, the screening Even in February, when National But this happened two days ago as would be done in a Ramadan tent Sport Day is celebrated in Qatar, people thronged some popular spots to be set up in the hotel’s ballroom. demand for football gear goes up. or stayed at home, their eyes glued The hotels that are showing Telecommunications companies to television screens, to watch the football matches every day include have also rolled out promotions for launch of the biggest sporting event Sharq Village and Spa, La Cigale, customers to stay up to date on the of the year. InterContinental Doha, Oryx Rotana matches. The Arena Corinthians in Sao Doha, Intercontinental Doha-The Vodafone subscribers are receiv- Paulo erupted in cheers as 61,600 City, Four Seasons Hotel Doha, ing calls from a three-digit number. fans applauded the opening cer- Crowne Plaza, Kempinski Residences Once a subscriber answers the call, a emony of the Fifa World Cup, head- and Suites, Ezdan Hotel, Hilton recorded voice says highlights of the lined by a performance by a trio of Hotel, St Regis Doha, Ritz-Carlton matches can be received by activat- big stars: Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez and Doha and Holiday Villa Hotel and ing a service for QR15. Claudia Leitte. Residences. Postpaid customers currently Though more than 11,000 kilot- Excitement over World Cup 2014 in Brazil to watch the games can metres away from the venue, Qatar has also fuelled a surge in sale of update their loved ones in Qatar at joined in the celebrations and World goods related to football. Shops low roaming rates until July 20. They Cup fever was in the air as people in Qatar have seen a sharp rise can make calls to Qatar, receive calls here got hooked up to the month- in demand for lookalike jerseys of from Qatar or send text messages long football frenzy. Most citizens teams playing in the World Cup, fan for QR1 and access the Internet for and residents here are crazy about T-shirts, training kits, branded foot- 50Dhs per megabyte. football and will be keenly follow- balls, bags and caps. Meanwhile, beIN Sports channel ing the action at the mega sporting “The influence of the World Cup is has announced it is going to broad- event over the coming weeks. easily visible in Qatar and it has led cast 22 World Cup 2014 matches in Souq Waqif and Aspire Park were to a jump in the sale of items related its open channel for football fans in two of the major venues where hun- to football. We have witnessed about Qatar and the MENA region. dreds of people gathered to watch a 25 percent rise in the sale of jer- “It’s my pleasure to obtain the sat- the opening ceremony as well as seys of teams playing in the World isfaction of football fans in MENA the exciting opening game between Cup, fan T-shirts, branded footballs, and this is one of our principles in Croatia and hosts and five-time bags, training kits and caps in the beIN Sports channel, and this group champions Brazil. last one month, compared to the pre- of matches will be well selected,” said “It was awesome! I have always vious month,” said Hadi Iskandarani, beIN Sports Chairman Nasser Al watched the World Cup, and judging director of Galaxy Sport. Khelaifi. from the colourful and vibrant open- “Though the World Cup began on The said matches will be aired ing ceremony, I can say this is one of Thursday, the craze for the tourna- via the channel broadcast through the best,” said football fan Gregory, ment began months before because Suhail Sat 1. clad in a Brazil T-shirt. of the wide media coverage,” saidaid THE PENINSULA Gregory, along with his colleagues, Iskandarani. had joined the multitude of football Football is probably the world’sd’s fans in front of a gigantic screen most popular sport, with nearlyrly installed in Souq Waqif. half the world’s population, well overer “Football, more than any other three billion spectators, expected to sport, unites people. At least for a watch 32 teams play a total of 67 few weeks, we forget our differences matches during the tournament. and just enjoy the excitement of the the fee,” Hamad said. matches every night and they also The magnitude of the World Cupup games,” said Mohammed Abdullah, While some cafes charge a nomi- have special promotions. craze can be gauged from the factct another football fan. nal sum, high-end restaurants and Rath said the World Cup would that demand for football-relateded While many were happy to watch cafes that serve shisha are charging definitely spur business in the com- goods is coming from all age groups.ps. the event in the comfort of their up to QR90. World Cup souvenirs ing days, going by the number of peo- “The customers, who are demandingng homes, others headed to hotels, res- and memorabilia of varying prices ple who came to watch the opening football-related items, are from allall taurants and cafes that have set up are also on sale in different parts of ceremony and game. age groups. From students to profes-es- match screening venues, though not the country, from small souqs to big Champions at Renaissance Doha sionals, everyone wants to enjoy thehe just for love of sport. malls. also attracted a large crowd of World World Cup,” said Iskandarani. As in other parts of the world, the Sena Rath, Assistant Food and Cup revellers on Thursday night, “The phenomenon of rise in thehe World Cup is a highly commercial- Beverage Manager of Radisson Blu according to Daniel, the manager. sale of football-related items is notot ised event here. Some cafes are levy- Hotel Doha, said the World Cup “It was fully booked. We had new for Qatar. In the past also, wewe ing additional charges on customers opening ceremony saw an unprece- around 800 guests at the Copacabana have seen the World Cup leadingng who want to watch the matches. dented influx of guests to Shehrazad, beach party,” he said. to a rise in sales of football-relateded “It was a full house. My friends a popular sports bar at the hotel. For a real Brazilian feel, items,” said Mohamed Musthafa,fa, and I had to sit on the tables,” said “We had to control the guests, who Champions was converted into a managing director of Sportwell, whoho Hamad, who watched the game in a came in huge numbers,” said Rath, beach with real sand, and guests has around 25 years of experience in coffee shop in Muaizer after paying adding that they were not charging enjoyed watching the games pro- the sports industry. a QR10 entry fee. any entry fee, unlike other hotels. jected on 40-inch screens around “Football is now a global sportrt “But if you get shisha, entry is The venue, which has indoor and the area. and the world over the craze for thishis free. But the show was really worth outdoor areas, screens three football Daniel expects increased revenue sport is growing. In Qatar also, thehe Home JUNE 14, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY 1,700 ‘blood donors were A and O Negative last year’ Ministry releases details to coincide with Blood Donation Day

DOHA: A and O Negative blood groups are rare but some seven percent (nearly 1,700) of voluntary blood donors in the country last year were from these groups. The AB Negative blood group is rarest. It is also common to hear announcements for requests for donors from this group on local radio. www.swiss-belhotel.com Official figures show that a Tel vast majority of blood donors in Qatar in 2013 were from O Fax Positive blood group, followed by those with A Positive. Of some 24,303 people who donated blood in 2013, more Tel than a third (41 percent) were Fax from the O Positive Group. A quarter of the total donors (25 percent) were from the A Positive Group. People with negative blood Tel groups were not easy to find as Fax their percentages were quite low: four percent donors were A file photo of staff members of the Landmark Group at a blood donation campaign. from O Negative, while three percent had A Negative, and relative to population in the — up 413,500. Male donors had population is only a third. For Tollfree two percent B Negative. past five years. Per capita blood a 96 percent share in the total, example, there were 377,636 These details were provided donors were one every 97.9 peo- with the ministry citing no rea- women in a population of 1.63m. Fax by the Ministry of Development ple in 2009 — slightly improved sons for the poor percentage of Second, women are not as Planning and Statistics in a to 84.15 in 2013. women donors. mobile in society and or have release yesterday. There were 16,666 donors in Mothers were the largest ben- access to information about Tel It coincided with International 2009, and the number went up eficiaries of blood donation in blood donation drives as men Fax Blood Donation Day today, with to 24,303 in 2013, the ministry 2013, the ministry said. Sources have. the ministry saying that its aim said. But it didn’t cite popula- in the medical fraternity, in Third, they lose a lot of blood is to raise awareness about blood tion figures for 2009 and 2013. remarks to The Peninsula, how- during menstruation so they donation in the country. The population in 2009 ever, attributed several reasons generally avoid donating blood, Tel Figures show there has only was a little over 1.63 mil- for the low turnout of women and lastly, women in general do Fax been a marginal growth in the lion (1,631,728), which grew for blood donation. not like to take injections. number of blood donors in Qatar to 2.04m (2,045,239) last year First, their share in the THE PENINSULA

Tel Fax Al Jazeera bags Dr Al Marri addresses Tunisia symposium www.doha.hilton.com two global awards Tel +974 44233333 DOHA: Al Jazeera has won two Fax +974 44233000 international awards. The Golden Nymph for Best News Documentary at the Monte Carlo Television Festival was awarded to Al Jazeera English series Correspondent for the film Identity and Exile: An American’s struggle with Zionism. Based on the personal jour- ney of Al Jazeera Correspondent Tel Matthew Cassel, the film explores Fax his defiance of cultural norms of his Jewish community, and asks brave questions on the unbend- ing support for Israeli policies, regardless of the cost. Tel In London, Online Media Fax Awards recognised Simon Hooper as Best Freelance Writer, for his outstanding writing, prima- rily on British multiculturalism Tel and community relations for Al Fax Jazeera English online. The inter- Attorney-General Dr Ali bin Fetais Al Marri presenting a paper at Kartaj Presidential Palace in Tunisia active department also received a during the second international symposium on international constitutional court, opened by President special commendation for its dig- Mohamed Munsif Al Marzoki. Dr Al Marri stressed that humanitarian needs are key reasons for estab- ital work over the past one year. lishing international legal institutions. THE PENINSULA Tel Fax

Tel Sealine treats 623 patients during camping season Fax

Tel Fax

Tel Fax

Tel Officials with some of the staff honoured at the ceremony. Fax DOHA: The Sealine transferred to HGH through Group, Ali Al Khater, insurance facilities. Emergency Centre of Hamad LifeFlight helicopter. Executive Director, Corporate Speaking at the ceremony, www.renaissancedoha.com Medical Corporation (HMC) HMC held a special event to Communications, HMC, and Al Khater praised efforts of provided treatment for 623 mark the seventh successful doctors, nurses and staff from Ambulance Service, other Tel +974 44195000 patients, including 44 women, year of its centre, which oper- Ambulance Service. HMC teams and everyone who Fax +974 44195100 431 Qataris and 192 residents, ated throughout the 2013-2014 To provide enhanced serv- participated in the camping during the winter camping camping season. ices to campers this season, season. season. The celebration was held additional doctors, nurses and Forty HMC staff were hon- Twenty-two patients were at Sharq Village and Spa, paramedics were allocated to oured for efforts during the transferred to Hamad General attended by Hamad Nasser the centre, which was also camping period which ran from Hospital (HGH) by Ambulance Al Khalifa, Chief of Facilities provided with advanced emer- October 2013 to April 2014. Service while one case was and Workforce Development gency equipment and health THE PENINSULA JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home

Fire in Ezdan Village

Two cars were burnt in a fire that broke out in the Ezdan Village 5 in Wukair yesterday afternoon. The blaze also damaged a flat. The fire, believed to have been caused by a short circuit, started in furniture kept in the courtyard and spread to the cars parked nearby and the building, said witnesses. Firefighters rushed to the scene and doused the blaze.

86pc of urban wastewater treated in 2012 DOHA: As part of efforts to a result, there was significant consumption of substances that achieve sustainable develop- increase in water production deplete the ozone layer in terms ment, Qatar treated about 86 from 80m cubic metres (mcm) of ozone depleting potential percent of its urban wastewa- per year in 1990 to 437m mcm in (ODP tons). In compliance with ter in 2012, latest official figures 2012 — an average growth of 8 per- the Montreal Protocol, Qatar is show. cent per year. Since 2004, waste- committed to phasing out con- According to the Qatar-Social water treatment infrastructure sumption of CFCs (chlorofluoro- Statistics 2003-2012 report, most has shown an increasing trend in carbons) and substituting it with water used in urban settlements terms of wastewater treatment substances with lower ODP tons. (in 2012) was treated in wastewa- capacity. In 2004, about 54,000 Consumption of ozone deplet- ter treatment plants before dis- mcm of urban wastewater could ing substances (in terms of ODP charge or re-use as treated sewage be treated daily. In 2012, infra- tons) shows a significant down- effluent (TSE). structure for treatment of 337,000 wards trend since 2003 (115.9 ODP A significant amount of TSE mcm urban wastewater per day tons) until 2007 (36.6). Since 2007, is being used for irrigation, and was available. Qatar has witnessed increasing recently the government has made The total protected area has consumption, mainly due to the it mandatory for district cooling increased from 58.15sqkm in 2005 substitute HCFC-22. plants to use it to replace fresh to 3,463.17sqkm in 2011. Since 2009, Consumption of halons was water, which can be used only as there are also 721sqkm of pro- phased out in 2003 and CFCs backup source. tected marine area (AI Thakhira in 2008. Since 2009, hydro chlo- Qatar’s main source of water is and Khor AI Odaid). rofluorocarbons (HCFCs-22) and sea which comes through desalina- Indicators show that in 2011 HFC-134a are the only ozone tion plants. Owing to rapid growth 23.5 percent of land area was des- depleting substances still con- in population (largely due to influx ignated protected areas. sumed in Qatar (which have a low of foreign workers), demand for Among other initiatives to ODP but a very high global warm- water has increase manifold. As help protect the environment is ing potential). THE PENINSULA

FROM LEFT: Carmen De La Pena, Spanish Ambassador, Dr Khalid Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, General Manager, Katara, and Eduardo Lopez Busquets, Director-General, Casa Arabe, during the opening of ‘On a journey: Spanish architecture in the Arab world’ at Katara Art Centre (building 15) on Thursday. SALIM MATRAMKOT Spanish architecture expo opens at Katara

DOHA: An exhibition on Architecture in the Arab World’, it reveals itself at present in the Spanish architecture has the expo is a showcase of projects architectural proposals coming opened in Katara Art Centre. by Spanish architecture firms and from the collaboration between Spanish Ambassador Carmen companies in Arab countries. It is the Arab-Islamic world and de la Pena, Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim presented by Casa Arabe and the Spanish architects. Al Sulaiti, General Manager, Spanish Higher Council of Orders It also highlights Spanish con- Katara, and Eduardo Lopez of Architects. tribution to contemporary archi- Busquets, Director-General, Casa The exhibition seeks to pro- tecture and urban planning in Arabe, opened the week-long expo vide an in-depth analysis of the Arab countries. on Thursday. It was attended by historical relationship between The expo is open to the public heads of missions and VIPs. Spain and the Arab world in the until Wednesday. Entitled ‘On a Journey: Spanish field of architecture and the way THE PENINSULA

Minister inspects exam progress Expat jailed for

DOHA: The Minister of Education and Higher Education stabbing co-worker and Secretary-General of the Supreme Education Council DOHA: A criminal court has for them, failed to prepare the H E Mohammed bin sentenced an Asian worker to meal. Abdulwahed Al Hammadi vis- a month in jail and fined him This infuriated the convict, a ited Al Shamal Independent QR5,000 for stabbing a col- Bangladeshi, and he began shout- Secondary School for Boys league in rage over his failure to ing at the victim. and Al Shamal Independent prepare meal for him. The man later picked a knife Secondary School for Girls. The convict and the victim and assaulted the victim. The vic- He inspected progress of the were working in an animal breed- tim resisted but suffered minor final secondary school certificate ing farm in Abu Nakhla and the injuries. The convict fled the exam and was assured that stu- former always forced the latter to scene after the incident. dents are provided with proper do things for him. Police, however, caught him environment. He also visited an Local Arabic daily Al Raya and referred him to Public expo organised by students of Al reported yesterday that one fine Prosecution which filed charges Shamal Independent Elementary day the victim, who was always against him in the court. School for Girls. QNA asked by the convict to cook food THE PENINSULA

QRC to host Doha Dialogue on Migration DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent 25 Gulf, Arab, southeast Asian, “The conference is a further (QRC) is organising Doha and European national socie- step towards the goals of Qatar Dialogue on Migration 2014 ties and top officials of Qatari National Vision 2030, which seeks from June 15 at Doha Marriott government, private institutions to ensure a high standard of living Hotel. and corporations will attend the for all members of society,” said A delegation from International three-day forum under the theme Dr Mohamed bin Ghanem Al Ali Federation of Red Cross and Red ‘Saving Lives and Preserving Al Maadheed, Chairman, QRC. Crescent, presidents of more than Dignity’. QNA JUNE 14, 2014 Middle East www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY US won’t send combat troops to Iraq Obama pledges help but warns against divisions; top Shia cleric calls Iraqis to arms WASHINGTON/BAGH- DAD: The United States may take military action to support Govt responsible for rebel Baghdad in its battle against Sunni extremists but only if Iraq takes steps to heal its sec- advance: Saudi prince tarian divide, President Barack Obama said yesterday. ROME: A senior Saudi prince blamed the Iraqi government of Obama warned that US ground Nouri Al Maliki for the loss of wide areas of northern Iraq to troops would not be sent back into Islamist militants, saying Baghdad had failed to stop them join- the country they occupied for ing forces with former Baathists from the Saddam Hussein era. eight difficult, violent years, but Prince Turki Al Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief who said recent stunning rebel victo- broadly reflects official thinking in Riyadh, said the radical Islamic ries were a threat to US interests. State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) insurgency should have come Amid reports the Pentagon is as no surprise. drawing up plans for air strikes “The situation in the Anbar area of Iraq has been brewing and against ISIL, the Sunni jihadist boiling for some time and the Iraqi government seemed to be not force that has seized the Iraqi only inactive in putting down the boiling temperature there but city of Mosul, Obama warned that also in some cases seem to have been encouraging events there to Iraq must also help itself. spill over,” he told a meeting of the European Council on Foreign “We will not be sending US Relations in Rome. troops back into combat in Iraq, He said ISIL — Sunni Muslims like the Baathist elite of Saddam’s but I have asked my national rule — did not appear to have enough strength on its own to make security team to prepare a range the inroads it had, with media reports suggesting it had no more of other options that could help than 1,500-3,000 fighters. support Iraqi security forces,” he “The conclusion I come to is that those numbers were simply said. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri added to, not only by the tribal configurations in that area but also Al Maliki’s government has by former Baathists and other groups that have been operating launched its own counter-attack in that part of Iraq not from yesterday but from the time of the against ISIL, but has also asked People shout slogans in support for the call to arms by Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, who is the highest religious American occupation of Iraq (in 2003),” he said. the United States to provide mili- authority for Shias in Iraq, in Najaf, south of Baghdad, yesterday. The prince said the situation in Iraq was changing so swiftly that tary assistance. it was impossible to say what would happen in the coming days and In brief remarks to reporters at involve itself in military action received billions of dollars worth has alienated Sunnis. weeks. But he said it could lead to some unexpected outcomes if the the White House, Obama warned in the absence of a political plan of US equipment and training but Yesterday, Iraq’s leading Shia United States became involved in the fighting three years after its the Baghdad government that it by the Iraqis that gives us some downed arms and fled when ISIL cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Al occupation of Iraq ended in 2011. had harmed itself by failing to assurance that they’re prepared stormed Mosul this week. Sistani urged Iraqis to take up “One of the distinct potential ironies that may come about is to heal the divides between Sunni to work together,” he said. “The fact that they are not will- arms against Sunni militants, see Iranian Revolutionary Guards fighting with American drones and Shia camps in the country. US forces withdrew from Iraq ing to stand and fight and defend while Maliki’s forces prepared to kill Iraqis,” he said. “That is something that will boggle the mind He admitted that having spent in 2011, eight years after they had their posts against admittedly to defend the capital against any and make one wonder where we are going.” so much money and lost so many overthrown Iraqi dictator Saddam hardened terrorists, but not ter- attack. Prime Minister Maliki heads a Shi’ite Muslim-dominated govern- US lives in Iraq over the past dec- Hussein, and the American public rorists who are overwhelming in Prime Minister Maliki, who ment that is backed by Shi’a Iran and which Iraqi Sunnis say has ade, the United States had “enor- is loathe to be drawn into another numbers, indicates that there a travelled to the embattled city of marginalised and persecuted them since Saddam’s fall to the US-led mous interests” in not seeing the conflict in the Middle East problem with morale, a prob- Samarra north of Baghdad, said invasion a decade ago. country fall back into chaos. Obama warned that “any action lem in terms of commitment,” in a statement security forces The prince also said Saudi Arabia firmly opposed ISIL, noting But he warned this did not that we may take to provide he said. “began their work to clear all that it was on the Saudi list of terrorist organisations. imply Washington would inter- assistance to Iraqi security forces “Ultimately that is rooted in our dear cities from terrorists”. “So that may answer some of the questions in people’s minds as vene without a clear commitment has to be joined by a serious and the political problems that have ISIL captured Iraq’s second city to where Saudi Arabia stands vis-a-vis (ISIL),” he said. from Baghdad that it would seek sincere effort by Iraq’s leaders to plagued the country for a very Mosul on Tuesday in a lightning Riyadh has supported other Islamist rebel groups fighting in a broader political settlement set aside sectarian differences.” long time,” he added, in another offensive, before advancing south Syria’s civil war against President Bashar Al Assad. between Iraq’s communities. He also criticised the readiness implicit swipe at Maliki’s towards Baghdad. AFP “The United States will not of the Iraqi security forces, which Shiite-led government, which AGENCIES

Iraq crisis TURKEY 50 miles 50 km Iran promises Iraq PM its full support Shi’ite muslims were urged SYRIA on Friday to take up arms to Kurdish TEHRAN: defend themselves against autonomous Iranian President massacre and crimes of the ter- Neither Rowhani nor his for- with its traditional foe Iran on the Tuesday region Hassan Rowhani promised rorists,” his office said. Iran “will eign minister gave any details of crisis in Iraq, despite Washington a relentless advance by The ISIL captures Mosul Arbil Sunni militants known as Iraq’s beleaguered Prime not allow the supporters of ter- the support that Iran was offer- and Tehran’s shared interest in the Islamic State of Iraq and Wednesday Minister Nouri Al Maliki rorists to destabilise Iraq,” he said, ing. But a former army intelli- supporting Baghdad. ISIL surrounds Iraq’s the Levant (ISIL). Kirkuk his government’s full support welcoming a call by top Shia cleric gence officer said Tehran could “No, we are not talking to the largest refinery in Baiji against “terrorism” yester- Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani offer military advice similar to that Iranians about Iraq,” spokes- Saddam’s home town IRAQ day as Sunni Arab militants for Iraqis to volunteer to join the which it has given Syrian President woman Marie Harf told report- of Tikrit captured advanced towards Baghdad. fight against the militants. Bashar Al Assad in his own battle ers when asked about the Thursday Udhaim Jalawla Shia Iran is a key ally of co- Foreign Minister Mohammad against Sunni-led rebels. possibility of any direct or indi- State of control: Amid the conflict, religionist Maliki, whose govern- Javad Zarif telephoned UN chief Iran has had military advis- rect contacts. Samarra IRAN ISIL Peshmerga Kurds Muqdadiya ment has been left in disarray by Ban Ki-moon to express Iran’s ers in Syria since 1980 when Even though the US and Iran capture Kirkuk Unknown Saadiyah the collapse of its security forces deep concern over the offensive, Damascus took Tehran’s side have not had diplomatic relations Falluja Friday since Monday across a swathe of spearheaded by Sunni extrem- when now executed Iraqi dicta- for three decades, the two coun- Peshmerga (Kurds) Baghdad Saadiyah is captured by northern and north-central Iraq, ists of the jihadist Islamic State tor Saddam Hussein sent in his tries held bilateral talks this week the ISIL while Jalawla is including second city Mosul. of Iraq and the Levant group, troops, sparking a devastating in Geneva as they seek to hammer taken by the Kurds Tigris river Rowhani told Maliki in a tel- Iranian media reported. ISIL’s eight-year war. Meanwhile, the out a deal with global powers on Kerbala Source: Reuters ephone call that Tehran would offensive was a “danger that goes US State Department said yes- reining in Tehran’s nuclear ambi- Staff, 13/06/2014 do its utmost to “combat the beyond borders,” Zarif said. terday it was not holding talks tions. AFP

Iran FM warns against Three Israeli teens missing scuttling nuclear deal in West Bank, says army WASHINGTON: Iran’s foreign minister warned critics yesterday not to let “illusions” about his country’s nuclear programme scut- JERUSALEM: Three Israeli teenag- security”, but without referring specifically tle a deal, voicing hope that a historic agree- ers have gone missing near a West Bank to the missing three. ment will be reached soon. settlement, the army said yesterday, and Netanyahu’s office later said he had spo- Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ken to US Secretary of State John Kerry by writing in The Washington Post, said that he held the Palestinian leadership respon- telephone and repeated he held Palestinian President Hassan Rowhani’s reformist govern- sible for their safety. president Mahmoud Abbas responsible for ment has offered “serious” proposals that would “The IDF (Israeli military) confirms the fate of the three. “provide assurances of the exclusively peaceful three teenagers are currently missing,” an “What is happening on the ground since nature of our nuclear program.” army statement said. “The individuals were Hamas joined the Palestinian government Zarif recalled the failure of talks a decade ago, last seen late last night in the area of Gush is destructive. It all results from the entry accusing the George W Bush administration in Etzion,” a Jewish settlement southwest of into government of a terrorist organisation,” power at the time of “mistaking our construc- Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, it Netanyahu said. The Israeli premier also tel- tive engagement for weakness” and pressing said, adding that security forces were trying ephoned Abbas, an official Palestinian source unrealistic demands against uranium enrich- to find them. said. ment that Iran insists serves peaceful purposes. The army gave no further details about the A Palestinian unity government was sworn “It would be tragically shortsighted if illusions disappearance, but refused to say whether in on June 2 after a landmark reconciliation were to again derail progress toward a historic the three had been kidnapped. deal. achievement,” Zarif wrote. “There will be no “We do not give details that could hamper Israeli troops set up checkpoints in the better time to put an end to the unnecessary the investigation,” a military spokesman said, Gush Etzion and Hebron areas on Friday to nuclear crisis than now, when all sides have adding only that a “large scale” search was stop and search cars, a correspondent said. much to gain and before the window of coopera- under way. A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority’s tion and pragmatic reason closes.” Israeli media speculated the three may security services, General Adnan Al Damiri, An interim deal in which Iran agreed to have been kidnapped by Palestinians. One has called Netanyahu’s suggestions “mad”. freeze nuclear work in return for limited sanc- US citizenship, and the American embassy Damiri said that the PA had no authority tions relief expires on July 20. Experts increas- has been informed, public radio said. in the Gush Etzion area, which is under total ingly believe that Iran and six world powers Netanyahu’s office held the Palestinian Israeli civilian and military control. — Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and leadership responsible for the disappearance “Even if there was an earthquake, the United States — will need more time to in the occupied Palestinian territory. Netanyahu would blame the Palestinian reach a permanent deal, although Zarif said he “Israel holds the Palestinian Authority Authority,” he said. Another Palestinian offi- was “reasonably confident” of meeting the dead- responsible for the well being of the 3 miss- cial said the authority’s security services were line. One major sticking point is Iran’s refusal ing Israeli teens,” Netanyahu’s spokesman “cooperating” with Israeli agencies to gather to bow to demands to slash capacities to enrich Ofir Gendelman wrote on Twitter. information on the teenagers’ disappearance. uranium, which Tehran says it needs to provide The Ezzedine Al Qassam Brigades, armed Military radio said they were all students fuel for future nuclear plants but which Western branch of the Islamist Hamas movement at a Jewish seminary or yeshiva, and that Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces following a weekly protest powers say is unnecessary as Tehran is far from ruling the Gaza Strip, issued a statement they went missing late Thursday near a bus against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar building such energy facilities. warning that “the occupier will never have stop. AFP Qaddum, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, yesterday. AFP JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

ESTABLISHED IN 1996

CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KHALID AL SAYED [email protected]

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR HUSSAIN AHMAD [email protected]

EDITORIAL TEL: 44557741 / 44557743 FAX: 44557746 / 44557758 P. O. BOX: 3488, DOHA, QATAR E-MAIL: [email protected]

ADVERTISING: TEL: 44557837 / 780 FAX: 44557870 CLASSIFIED: 44557857 E-MAIL: [email protected]

SUBSCRIPTION / HOME DELIVERY TEL: 44557809 /839 FAX: 44557819 E-MAIL: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ANNUAL QR 675 6 MONTHS QR 340 Editorial

Uber threat Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

HE world has become accustomed to disruptive technologies. Silicon Valley churns them out with a mission, upending people’s lives in varying degrees. TThe latest is the controversial Uber app. Cabbies hate Uber, the California-based company that lets people Why Iraq should consider become unlicensed taxi drivers using their own cars. The new technology threatens to hit the livelihood of tens of thousands of cabbies and sensing the danger to their jobs, taxi drivers in several European cities went on strike on separate Sunni, Shia regions Wednesday, causing traffic chaos from London to Berlin and Paris to Madrid. BY RANJ ALAALDIN controlled, and therefore lack respect Iraq in 2003. They now hold pres- The advantage of Uber is that people can save money and recognition in the Sunni north. tigious government posts, accept the using these services. They can also make some money by HE seizing of Mosul, Iraq’s It is no coincidence that Iraq’s most new Iraq is here to stay, and regret turning around and providing the taxi services themselves, second largest city, by jihad- stable areas are those that are most that it was their mobilisation of using their cars. That’s a wonderful idea many car owners ists has sent shockwaves homogeneous, where security and Sunnis that allowed extremists to would welcome because not all car owners are rich. And taxi Tthroughout the Middle East governance is in the hands of local rise. and the rest of the world. TheIslamic actors seen as legitimate by a sup- The Kurds have proved that auton- drivers have a reason to protest: theirs is a hard-earned job State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), portive local population, as in the omy is not synonymous with parti- in which they have spent years. It’s not easy to learn about now controls or operates with impu- case of the Kurdish north and the tion. It is ironic that the Kurds, long every street of the city and follow all the traffic rules. nity in territory stretching between Shia south. derided by their Arab partners for But can their strikes stop the new technology? It’s highly Syria and Iraq, and will attempt to As the Americans did, the gov- making the most of their autonomy unlikely. New technologies have always upset traditional push to the south, take control of ernment has tried to rely on local and weakening Iraq, are now its most and time-tested professions, and if this one threatens Baghdad and effectively put an end tribes to stabilise Sunni Arab areas. unifying force. to Iraq as we know it. However, they are seen as govern- The Kurdish peshmerga forces are cabbies, it’s their bad luck. Governments all over the But Iraq can still be saved. In the ment proxies. During the course of Iraq’s most organised, effective and world have seldom acted to stop new technologies, as such short-term the country, with the sup- conflict in the north, particularly in disciplined military force and have measures are impractical and counter-productive because port of either regional powers such Anbar, most switched sides to fight deployed heavily in areas that sepa- new technologies have a way as Iran and Turkey or the broader against the state. rate Iraqi Kurdistan from Arab Iraqi of circumventing everything international community, must hit This week in Mosul, Iraq’s Arab areas currently controlled by Isis. In like water flowing around their back fast and Sunnis effectively welcome Isis with Syria’s north-east, the Kurds have Cabbies hard at the Sunni open arms because of a sense of fear fought Isis and other Islamists with obstacles. north. as well as widespread agitations great effect and have proved they are feeling There is no doubt that the The Iraqis have toward the Shia-dominated govern- have the capacity to contain and threatened by the new app will be useful for people already asked the ment in Baghdad. The continued eliminate them. in cities where taxis are in short US for air strikes. rejection of the post-2003 Iraq by If Isis becomes too much of a new app, but they supply or when major events keep Sectarian That could go Arab Sunnis has given Isis the chance threat, then the Kurds will act to a long way. It to capitalise, with maximum effect, protect their own population and ter- all of them busy. For example, must learn to violence could is imperative on feelings of marginalisation among ritory. But the Kurds will not save adapt and move Paris has one of the lowest the government the Sunni Arab community. Iraq at the expense of Kurdish inter- cab-to-person ratios in major dominate Iraq reassures the Giving moderate Sunni Arab lead- ests. They suffered heavily in the past on. European cities and the lowest for years, and Iraqi people that ers the chance to self-govern within in the hands of either dictatorial or levels of consumer satisfaction, Isis is no match an autonomous region, if and when Sunni Islamist entities, and will look with the population of the city the Kurds for it; that Isis extremists elements such as Isis have to avoid being dragged into a conflict is not a force for been contained, constitutes a realistic that is not yet theirs to fight. growing by 20-plus million. Taxi have shown the future, lest it way forward that accepts the Shia- Therefore, unless Kurdistan’s licences are difficult to get and there’s a reported 17-year swells its ranks dominated Baghdad government interests are threatened, a Kurdish wait-list for a licence, which go for as much as $271,000 to autonomy can with more Iraqis lacks the legitimacy and support to intervention can take place only if $338,600 on the secondary market. work. and expands its challenge militants for the hearts and the Kurds’ Arab partners guarantee But one major problem Uber will have to surmount is support bases. It minds of Sunni Arabs. Kurdistan’s interests in Iraq. That that taxi service is a highly regulated business and the must be given a Regionalising Iraq into different means giving the Kurds increased bloody nose. ethno-sectarian regions has been autonomy, energy rights and control new app is sure to threaten this regulation. There are The military proposed in the past. It can no longer over oil-rich disputed territories like other issues to be addressed like insurance for passengers. option in the short-term might be dismissed. Sectarian conflict is no Kirkuk. But the Kurds may now get The governments must be grappling with these issues and empower and give moderate Sunni longer identified simply as a prob- all that anyway. thinking of ways to protect thousands of jobs. Arab forces a chance in the longer lem that came and left with the Control of Kirkuk takes the Kurds Uber has now pushed into 37 countries, and with big run, but for this to happen – and for Americans, but as an Iraqi problem all the more closer to independence. Iraq to sustain itself – the country that will dominate Iraq for decades The Kurds have also proved their money and buzz behind it, it seems unlikely that the must accept that the notion of a cen- to come. worth by taking in more than 700,000 company won’t decisively break into the European market. tralised and unified Iraq has been a Further, moderate Sunni Arab displaced Iraqis from Mosul. The Taxi drivers of developing countries too are likely to feel the failed exercise. actors now welcome the idea of an question and litmus test for them heat of the new technology. The problem is essentially one of autonomous region, accepting that is whether their Arab partners are In short, technology breeds disruption, so we must learn authority. The Iraqi state and its they miscalculated when mobilising ready to reciprocate. to adapt and move on. But with the streets blocked, that armed forces are seen as being Shia their communities to reject the new THE GUARDIAN won’t be easy. The other side Quote of A key moment for the OIC the day

HE upcoming meeting of different from any other person in the where the Muslim community had been jobs has been done by Muslim coun- the Organization of Islamic world. Indeed it is actually the greater subject to murderous attacks clearly tries through the OIC and the Kingdom Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah because these demented terrorists aimed at a form of ethnic cleansing. has been to the fore in its financial and Tcomes at a time when it is claim blasphemously to be acting in Brutal extremism, often spon- physical support for many of these The United States arguable that the Muslim world has the name of Islam. sored by outside forces, feeds upon projects. Unfortunately, as a result of never faced so many serious and In this regard, OIC Secretary-General poverty and social deprivation. It has political breakdown in states such as will do our part, dangerous challenges. Unfairly Iyad Madani will report on his recent visit always been a key platform of the OIC Somalia, Iraq and Syria, the forces of dismissed as a talking shop, it must be to Nigeria where he saw for himself the that it is only through education and evil continue to find the territorial space but understand hoped that the OIC will use the depth atrocities that have been committed by improved economic opportunity that and opportunity to peddle their bigotry and range of its discussions over the these terrorists and took the opportunity this fertile ground will be denied to the and pursue their terrorist evil. that ultimately it’s two days from June 18, to present a to condemn their crimes in no uncer- men of violence. While there can be no In the course of the Jeddah gathering up to the Iraqis as clear message to the non-Muslim world tain terms. This, the 41st session of the doubt that extremist assaults must be there will be break-out meeting of the as to Islam’s fundamentally moderate OIC’s Council of Foreign Ministers will be answered vigorously by the authorities, OIC’s four contact groups, charged with a sovereign nation stance and opinions. For instance, the first to which Madani, a Saudi, will it is also a given that the root causes monitoring and assessing the situation the horror and disgust that Muslims be reporting. Another African trouble of that extremists exploit so wickedly have in Kashmir, Somalia, Mali and among to solve their feel at the depraved crimes of the equal concern for the Council will be the to be addressed. Much coordinated the Rohingya community in Burma. problems. Barack Obama likes of Boko Haram in Nigeria is no situation in the Central African Republic work in schools and in the creation of ARAB NEWS US President JUNE 14, 2014 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Abe might be the world’s best leader

Yasukuni Shrine (where more than 1,000 The Japanese Premier has turned his war criminals are buried), appointing some right-wing historical revisionists, nationalism into something that looks like and generally being a nationalist. But recently he has turned his nation- alism into something that looks like lib- liberal internationalism, standing up for eral internationalism, standing up for the various small Asian countries that small Asian countries bullied by Beijing’s have been bullied by China’s push into the South China Sea. Instead of being an apologist for old Japanese imperialism, push into the South China Sea. Abe is championing the rule of law and the freedom of the seas. BY NOAH SMITH Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, Abe first Michael Cucek, a blogger who writes implemented the biggest monetarist push about Japanese politics (usually very crit- was a Shinzo Abe sceptic. That’s in world history. He went the opposite ically), calls Abe an “idealist liberal icon,” putting it mildly. After all, I was direction of Europe, and — unlike the writing: “Abe Shinzo should perhaps now still living in Japan when Abe’s dis- United States — he gave every indica- be considered the standard bearer of lib- astrous first term in office put a tion that the shift toward monetarism eralism around the world.” To me, Abe halt to the reform process begun was permanent. The result: Japan has looks very much like Japan’s answer to Iby Junichiro Koizumi, and ushered in a escaped deflation. The stock market is Ronald Reagan — an unapologetic nation- return to the bad old days of prime min- up, growth is way up and even wages are Premier Abe gives his opinion during a discussion with journalists at World Economic alist who wants to slash government and ister musical chairs that paralysed Japan finally starting to rise. Forum on January 22, 2014. make a principled stand against a bul- in the 1990s. In other words, unlike everyone else lying rival. And unlike Reagan, Abe is a When Abe swept back into power in in the world, Abe listened to Milton make women more equal in the work- But that’s just the beginning. Abe is full-throated feminist. 2012, I thought he was just going to try to Friedman, and the results are look- place — no small thing in a country where moving to cut Japan’s corporate tax rate, But where Abe really shines is in com- talk down the yen and give a little boost ing good. As the Fed contemplates not corporations have a reputation for follow- which along with the US’s is the world’s parison with previous Japanese leaders. to stocks, increasing his public support whether to taper its quantitative easing ing the government’s wishes. highest. The country’s government-run Those of us who watch Japan could be just long enough to ram through a revi- but how fast, it might want to look at Abe’s detractors dismiss this as empty pension fund will probably invest more forgiven for thinking that nothing ever sion of Japan’s pacifist constitution. I what’s happening in Japan. talk, but talk is never empty, especially of its money in risky but high-yielding changes. At times, Japanese politics thought he was going to ignore Japan’s But monetary policy was just the when you say things that no one has said assets (in an echo of George W Bush’s seems like the movie “Edge of Tomorrow,” moribund economy and long-festering beginning of Hurricane Abe. before. And Abe is putting his money failed plan for Social Security). where everything keeps repeating and social problems in order to throw red Japan’s top social problem is the role where his mouth is, with a raft of meas- Abe has launched a large number of the good guys seem to never win. Koizumi meat to his right-wing backers. of women. The prejudice of corporate ures to improve working women’s access deregulation efforts, and has pushed — so was different, but Koizumi seemed like a Boy, was I wrong. I was wrong, wrong, Japan is legendary, and many millions to affordable day care. far unsuccessfully — for Japan to join the flash in the pan. Now here is Koizumi’s wrong. of Japanese women are underemployed Already, I can sense a shift. When I Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would protégé, continuing and expanding the Let me be blunt: Shinzo Abe is the and out of the labour force; yet instead of lived in Japan 10 years ago, people said lower trade barriers. He is beginning to work his mentor began. most effective national leader in the pushing women back to traditional child- that women’s situation would never curb the powers of Japan’s entrenched The rest of the world should be paying world right now. I never thought I’d say rearing roles, this has mainly just lowered change, and treated women’s second-class bureaucracy. He has even suggested bring- attention. For the first time in 25 years, this, but he’s an example that the rest of the fertility rate to sub-European levels. status as an immutable fact of Japanese ing in 200,000 immigrants a year to sup- Japan looks like it could be at the head the world should be following. But since taking office, Abe — whose culture. Nowadays, when I go back, eve- plement Japan’s shrinking labour force. of the international pack. It’s far from a This time around, Abe didn’t ignore party is famous for gaffes — has become ryone is talking about women’s changing On the foreign policy front, Abe has done deal, of course, but this writer, at the economy. Backed by economic adviser the most feminist leader I’ve ever seen. role, and everyone agrees that Abe is the surprised me as well. Yes, he angered least, is a Shinzo Abe convert. Koichi Hamada and Bank of Japan He constantly talks about the need to prime mover. China and South Korea by visiting the WP-BLOOMBERG

Ashraf Ghani’s Kazakhstan: A smooth march to prosperity very American While many countries in the ex-Soviet political problem bloc stumbled in their march to the BY JOSHUA KEATING future, Kazakhstan has emerged as a he fate that befell House Majority Leader Eric regional power, and is aiming higher. TCantor this week may have been shocking, but it’s also BY HUSSAIN AHMAD its economic progress. just an extreme example of an Nazarbayev, who has been the age-old political problem: The Those were hard times,” president since the Soviet disso- more influence a representative remembers Azamat Berdibay, lution in 1991, is the architect of gains in Washington, the easier Ambassador of Kazakhstan modern Kazakhstan and has been it is for his opponents to paint “in Qatar. “Imagine entire credited with steering his country him as out of touch with his cities plunging into darkness at through a period of turbulence. constituents. eight or nine at night due to power While the neighbouring ‘-stans’ This isn’t just an issue for shortage and the chaos it brings.” stumbled in their march to the American politicians. Influential Berdibay was referring to future, Nazarbayev planned his politicians around the world have the days in his youth when steps meticulously and assiduously. often put in time at American Kazakhstan was going through It hasn’t been a journey of universities or “Washington pangs of independence from the roses — the president has been consensus”-type multilateral Soviet rule. It was December and continues to be excoriated in institutions, but generally aren’t 1991. Economy and governance the Western media for some of eager to let this be known during were in tatters. Deprivation his actions, but that didn’t deter election season. reigned. Survival was the word him. If economic prosperity and The most extreme example that swirled in the heads of most internal stability are yardsticks to of this at the moment is Ashraf Kazakhs. measure the progress of a nation, Ghani, one of two candidates Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarus President Alexander Fast forward to 2014. Two Nazarbayev is a highly successful contesting a runoff election for Lukashenko after signing the treaty establishing the Eurasian Economic Union in Astana last month. recent developments shine light statesman, and his country a shin- the Afghan presidency on June on where Kazakhstan stands ing example to its more impover- “Doing Business” rating. resources and create instability at principles. According to constitu- 14. today. First, the Kazakh govern- ished neighbours. Another economic masterstroke home and in the region and bedevil tion, Kazakhstan is a secular state. Having earned a PhD from ment signed an agreement last Kazakhstan’s population of 17 of the president was his decision growth. The future promises to be Columbia, put in time at Berkeley, month with the European Bank for million has grown into the most to move the capital from Almaty Nazarbayev has been able to rosy as well as challenging. With Johns Hopkins and the World Reconstruction and Development prosperous in Central Asia. The to Astana in 1997. The move has rid his country of this scourge by Ukraine in turmoil and tensions Bank, co-founded a DC-based (EBRD), the Asian Development country has the second largest helped breathe some life into the solving border problems with his growing between Russia and the think tank, and co-written an Bank and the World Bank, allow- oil reserves as well as production economies of the northern regions neighbours peacefully, and this is a European Union, countries in the influential policy book, Ghani is ing them access to state funds to among the former Soviet repub- and spread wealth more evenly stupendous achievement consider- Soviet bloc would need to tread about as DC as it gets, a fixture of co-finance projects that promote lics after Russia. It ranks sixth in around the country. Astana is a ing that Kazakhstan is the largest cautiously to avoid getting caught the Massachusetts Avenue think- industry, diversification and com- the world by total amount of its glittering new capital, in the mid- landlocked country in the world. in the crossfire. tank circuit. petitiveness. The government is mineral resources, worth roughly dle of the steppe, which will soon It shares a 4,000-mile border But Kazakhstan follows a bal- But in running for president, providing $2.7bn to the fund. around $46trn. The largest num- be home to the tallest skyscraper with Russia and has borders with anced and multi-pronged foreign Ghani has not only traded in Talking about the deal, Olivier bers of mineral resources are oil in the region. Uzbekistan, China, Kyrgyzstan and policy, necessitated by its strate- his Brooks Brothers for shalwar Descamps, Managing Director and gas, chrome, uranium, zinc Kazakhstan has also trans- Turkmenistan. Nothing contrib- gic geographic location and high kameez, he now says his time in at the London-based EBRD, said and iron. And the income from formed into a venue for interna- utes to growth better than peace. economic ambitions. Astana enjoys DC was all an act. Kazakhstan found a “very clever, these resources has been deployed tional business meetings. It has Secondly, despite its huge ethnic good relations with all neighbours The Washington Post reports: unique way” to work with interna- to build a modern, economically hosted an OSCE Summit, Islamic diversity, Kazakhstan enjoys social and Europe. “I learned English only so I tional banks to have “an enhanced vibrant state. Economic Forum, Congresses of and ethnic harmony. Many coun- Having to share borders with could satisfy the foreigners and chance to increase the pace of The GDP of the country in abso- World and Traditional religions, tries in the world are imploding two superpowers – Russia and defend our national interests,” industrialisation.” lute terms increased from $11bn in Asian Winter Games 2011 and due to ethnic and sectarian strife China – has worked to its advan- Ghani told the sprawling Afghan Second, on May 29, Kazakhstan 1993 to $203bn in 2012; per capita Astana Economic Forum. and multi-ethnicity is often a tage. Russia is its biggest trading meeting hall one recent after- signed a treaty with Russia and GDP increased from $700 in 1994 More importantly, it will host recipe for turmoil. Kazakhstan is partner, with over $26bn in bilat- noon. The crowd cheered. Belarus to form the Eurasian to $14,000 in 2013 and is projected the international exhibition comprised of people from around eral trade last year; it is the main He certainly had this foreigner Economic Union (EEU). The new to touch $20,000 by 2020. EXPO-2017 in Astana, which will 130 ethnicities who happily coexist. consumer of Kazakhstan’s non- fooled. Ghani was painted as too bloc will be a counterweight to The first priority of Nazarbayev have a positive spillover on the “We are different and equal chil- oil exports, which include mining American when he ran in 2009 other regional and international government since gaining inde- development of Astana and the dren of Kazakhstan’s united peo- products and chemicals. and received only 2.9 percent of blocs, and bolster economic ties pendence was to create a busi- whole of Kazakhstan. ple,” the president said recently. China has been Kazakhstan’s the vote. (Hiring James Carville among the members. ness-friendly environment by People in the region too have Nazarbayev has declared 2015 largest investor since 2010. to advise his campaign appar- If the first partnership is a bold implementing systematic political benefited from Kazakh progress. the Year of the Assembly of the During a visit in September 2013 ently didn’t help.) step towards industrialisation and and socio-economic reforms. “We have around a million migrant People of Kazakhstan. This assem- by Chinese President Xi Jinping, This time around, taking the economic diversification, EEU It pursued a path of liberalisa- workers in our country, especially bly will be a consultative and advi- Nazarbayev inked investment deals populist route and playing up speaks of geopolitical ambitions tion and privatisation across the from the neighbouring states,” sory body under the president worth $30bn. China is connected to his Pashtun roots in contrast of Kazakhstan in a fast-changing key sectors of economy, which adds Berdibay. that unites representatives of Kazakh oil via a 1,400-mile pipe- with his part-Tajik competitor world. Together, they are the lat- resulted in a huge inflow of for- practically all 130 nationalities in line, which was opened in 2005. Abdullah Abdullah, he’s obvi- est in a long array of measures eign investment. More than $160bn PEACEFUL BORDERS Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev proposed Kazakhstan’s increasing eco- ously done much better — though President Nursultan Nazarbayev of foreign direct investments has One of the biggest advantages of to establish the assembly in 1992. nomic clout and geopolitical impor- tapping the controversial Uzbek has taken to propel his country to flowed into the country since 1993 Kazakhstan, and this needs to be Around 70 percent of the popu- tance will help it chart a course former warlord Abdul Rashid the pinnacle of progress. and 80 percent of the FDI in the attributed to Nazarbayev’s vision, lation are Muslims, but Islamic of its own, without getting unduly Dostum as his running mate has As regions and countries hur- region went to Kazakhstan. is that it has no border disputes terrorism hasn’t reared its head influenced by major powers in a raised some eyebrows among his tle from one crisis to another, According to the World Bank, with neighbours. Border disputes as the government has been way that will harm its interests. former friends in Washington. Kazakhstan is in the spotlight for Kazakhstan is ranked 47th in the are inevitably a drain on nations’ fiercely protective of its secular THE PENINSULA WP-BLOOMBERG JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East

Sex attacks Egypt cabinet marred Sisi’s inauguration: tomorrow; many Rights group

CAIRO: Human Rights Watch ministers to stay said yesterday that sexual attacks on women “marred” Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s presiden- tial inauguration, as he urged Policeman shot dead in clashes YouTube to remove a video show- ing a woman being assaulted. CAIRO: Egypt is expected to has described him as the only Activists say at least nine cases unveil a new cabinet by tomor- ministry expert able to deal pro- of sexual assault were reported row, three officials said yester- fessionally with the International last week as revellers celebrated day, with the finance minister Monetary Fund during a failed Sisi’s presidential election vic- and others likely to keep their attempt under Mursi to secure a tory and inauguration. posts following the election of $4.8bn loan. But a graphic video footage of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. Mehleb, 65, was appointed a woman being sexually assaulted Keeping the main ministers prime minister in a February at Cairo’s Tahrir Square during could allow Sisi to quickly imple- reshuffle after serving as hous- the celebrations triggered outrage ment the types of reform urged ing minister. A civil engineer, he in Egypt and abroad after it was by the United Arab Emirates — is a former chairman of Arab shared widely on websites includ- one of the Gulf states that gave Contractors, one of the region’s ing YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. billions of dollars in aid after largest construction companies. The footage, apparently filmed Islamist President Mohamed He worked briefly in Saudi on Sunday using a mobile phone, Mursi was ousted by the army. Arabia before joining the govern- shows a mob of men surround- Sisi, the former army chief ment following Sisi’s overthrow ing the young woman, who was who was inaugurated last Sunday of Mursi last July after mass stripped of her clothes and badly reappointed Prime Minister protests against the Islamist bruised in the assault. Ibrahim Mehleb last week. president. The ultra-conserv- Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi taking part in a cycling marathon organised by the Ministry of Youth in Cairo “Gruesome sexual attacks on Consultations on the cabinet ative Salafist Nour party has yesterday. women marred President Sisi’s lineup are ongoing, state radio said it is willing to join a cabinet election and inauguration,” reported yesterday. Mehleb has under Sisi. The alliance regularly calls for sentenced to death in often speedy subsidies — a bill it can no longer said Rothna Begum, women’s said the current government Meanwhile, a policeman was and stages demonstrations against trials. afford. Sisi’s move was met with researcher at Human Rights would stay on in a caretaker role shot dead in the aftermath of the military-installed authorities The new president wants more bemusement in Egypt, where Cairo Watch in a statement. until he forms his cabinet. clashes in Cairo yesterday, Egypt’s since Mursi’s ouster last July. Egyptians to cycle — and to show is seen as hell for those on bicycles “Egypt’s women, and the The new cabinet is expected to interior ministry said, after a State television also reported he means business he took hun- and temperatures can reach 46C. world, are watching to see what be sworn in tomorrow, two min- protest staged by supporters the policeman’s killing, and in a dreds of cyclists, including public But he was welcomed by a small President Sisi will do to put a halt isters said, speaking on condition of ousted president Mohamed separate report the official Mena figures, through Cairo at 5.30am but growing band of cyclists. to the sexual attacks and harass- of anonymity. It is likely to con- Mursi. The policeman was hit by news agency said at least 65 pro- yesterday. A set of surreal photo- “Of course it’s great,” said ment,” she said, urging a com- vene for the first time on Monday, a bullet in the chest as he took testers were arrested nationwide graphs showed a helmetless Sisi Ahmed El Dorghamy, co-founder prehensive national strategy to another government source said. an arrested protester to a police yesterday. straddling a Peugeot bicycle at of Cairo Cycler’s Club, who says combat violence against women. Finance Minister Hany Kadry van after security forces broke up Mursi was ousted by former the head of a vast swath of all- the capital’s flat terrain and Egypt, which had no specific Dimian is expected to stay, as are the protest on the outskirts of the army chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, male bikers as he led them — like sunny weather has the makings law on sexual harassment, only the ministers for planning and capital’s upscale Maadi district, who last month overwhelmingly a puffing Pied Piper — through of a safe place to cycle. “We are recently approved penalties international cooperation, sup- the ministry said on its Facebook won a presidential election that the streets of Cairo. always trying to get celebrities to for such offences to include jail plies, housing, industry, defence page. He was declared dead on was boycotted by the Muslim “This is the only way to build join us - and the ultimate goal is terms, fines or both. and interior, government sources arrival at hospital, it said, adding Brotherhood, the Islamist move- Egypt,” he said before the rally, to get ministers and even presi- Egyptian rights organisations have said. Educated at Columbia that the bullet that killed him was ment to which Morsi belongs. claiming that cyclists would save dents.” Increased bike use, he said, have called for a demonstra- University in the United States, fired from a nearby building. Since Mursi’s removal, a gov- Egypt money. The average two- could help counter a rising obesity tion against sexual violence on Dimian worked as a senior finance The pro-Mursi demonstration ernment crackdown on the way bike trip costs the state about problem - Egypt is the seventh Saturday. Sisi urged YouTube to ministry official for more than came after the Islamist Anti- Muslim Brotherhood and its GBP1.30 less than if the same trip fattest country in the world - as remove the video of the sexual five years until he resigned last Coup Alliance called for a week supporters has killed more than was by car, Sisi said. Egypt spent well as chronic traffic jams and an assault. “The Egyptian embassy year under Mursi. of protests from yesterday under 1,400 people and jailed upwards of 170bn pounds (£14bn), or about unsustainable fuel subsidies bill. in Washington DC and a number A senior European diplomat the slogan “Freedom For Egypt”. 15,000. Hundreds have also been a fifth of its budget, on energy AGENCIES of Egyptian authorities, at the direction of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, have requested the YouTube adminstration to remove the video of the sexual Travel ban on columnist who assault victim,” a statement from his spokesman said. slammed Mursi ouster dropped The footage was still on YouTube late Friday, however. CAIRO: Egypt allowed a prominent columnist, who strongly criti- Sisi’s request came after the cised the army ouster of president Mohamed Mursi, to travel abroad victim herself urged him to do so yesterday, airport officials said, just weeks after blocking him from when he visited her in hospital. leaving. Officials said that police have The name of Fahmy Howeidy was not on any stop list at Cairo air- arrested seven men suspected port, and the columnist for the independent Al Shorouk newspaper of sexually assaulting women was allowed to fly to Casablanca, the officials said. during Sisi celebrations, but it Three weeks ago, he was blocked from flying to Spain, without any was unclear whether the group reason being given. carried out the attack shown in Howeidy, who previously worked for state-run Al Ahram newspaper, the video. Since the revolution is widely known across the Arab world and was strongly critical of the that toppled long-time presi- ouster of Islamist Mursi last July. International rights group have raised dent Hosni Mubarak in 2011, the fears that freedoms could be eroded in Egypt under the presidency of problem of sexual harassment Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, who overwhelmingly won last month’s election. has worsened, with women now Sisi has indicated his priority will be “national security” and fighting regularly attacked during rallies “terrorism” rather than encouraging freedoms as aspired in the 2011 by groups of men in and around uprising that ousted longtime president Hosni Mubarak. Tahrir Square, the epicentre of AFP protests. AFP

Tunisian political party leaders attend the meeting in Tunis yesterday. Tunisia parties agree on vote schedule

TUNIS: Tunisia’s political par- legislative vote first, while their Mahfoudh said the decision had ties yesterday agreed to hold opponents mostly sought the been taken in conjunction with legislative and then presiden- opposite. Lawyer Mohamed the body responsible for organis- tial elections in 2014, a media- Fadhel Mahfoudh, who mediated ing the elections. tor said, the first agreement the talks, said that 12 out of 18 The exact timetable on the on the electoral timetable after bodies represented at the negotia- elections is due to be adopted on months of delays. tions voted for the legislative vote June 23. The decision to hold elec- The order the elections were to to be held first. tions this year was part of a plan be held in had been the subject of “The decision was adopted and agreed by political parties aimed debate between parties. we are going to submit it to the at ending a lingering political cri- Islamists Ennahda, which dom- National Constituent Assembly sis sparked by the killing of two inates the National Constituent for it to vote on the law (fixing opposition politicians in 2013. Assembly, had wanted the the election dates),” he said. AFP JUNE 14, 2014 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY Belgium orders Ukraine drives trial for 46 suspected out rebels from Islamists

BRUSSELS: A Belgian court yesterday ordered that 46 sus- strategic port pected members of a radical Islamist group, believed to be involved in sending young fight- ers to Syria, stand trial later Kiev gears up for looming gas cut this year. Sixteen people alleged to be KIEV: Resurgent Ukrainian Mariupol has wavered between part of Sharia4Belgium, includ- forces hoisted the national flag rebel and Kiev control for weeks ing its head Fouad Belkacem, over a strategic rebel-held port and was also the scene of pitched face charges of leading a terrorist yesterday while the embattled battles on May 9 that killed more organisation, the federal justice leaders in Kiev made urgent than a dozen people. office said. preparations for a looming The bustling port of half a The remaining 30 will be Russian gas cut. million people provides access to tried on charges of belonging to Ukraine’s new Western-backed the main highway linking other Sharia4Belgium, it said. President Petro Poroshenko cel- regions with Russia and is the However, only eight of the 46 ebrated the soldiers’ “heroism” by main export channel for coal and ordered to face trial are currently proclaiming the industrial Sea of industrial products fundamental in Belgium, scene last month of Azov city of Mariupol the new to Ukraine’s economic growth. an attack at a Jewish museum in temporary capital of Donetsk — Ukrainian Interior Minister Brussels that left four people dead an eastern rustbelt region over- Arsen Avakov said that federal and shocked the country. run by pro-Russian gunmen for forces led by the part-volunteer The others are believed to be the past two months. National Guard had inflicted in Syria where some of them may The 48-year-old chocolate “heavy losses” on the rebels while Ukrainian policemen and municipal workers demolish a barricade and remove an APC of pro-Russia rebels that have been killed, the federal jus- baron rose to power in a snap May seeing only four soldiers suffer escaped from Mariupol, Donetsk region, yesterday. tice office said. 25 ballot called after the February light wounds. “The trial is likely to take place ouster of a Russian-backed leader But the prosecutor’s office also The region’s main administra- demanded by Moscow by Monday “We categorically disagree with in September, at the earliest,” a by vowing to move Ukraine closer confirmed that three soldiers tion building in Donetsk remains if Russia settled on a price of $326 the idea that Russia is undermin- judiciary spokesman was quoted to Europe and end fighting that died late Thursday when they under rebel control. per 1,000 cubic metres of gas. ing the negotiations,” spokesman as saying by the Belga news has claimed 270 lives. were ambushed by the militia The tense exchanges between The figure runs in the middle Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s agency. But the battles have since only in the Donetsk region town of Kiev and Moscow have been of the “final price” offer Putin Interfax news agency. Sharia4Belgium, based in the intensified and his calls for dia- Stepanivka. fuelled in part by the lack of any made on Wednesday and the rate “We rather tend to take a dif- northern port city of Antwerp, logue with more moderate sepa- His deputy told reporters that progress in a high-stakes “gas sought by Ukraine. ferent point of view: we still see campaigned for the introduc- ratist leaders have been mostly 30 pro-Russian gunmen had been war”. Moscow is yet to respond to a deficit of desire on the part tion of Sharia Islamic law in the ignored. captured in a coordinated push The dispute—a nagging pres- Kiev’s latest suggestion. of Kiev to settle these issues,” country. Poroshenko’s troubles have involving special forces that saw ence for most of the past two A spokeswoman for Russia’s Putin’s spokesman said. been compounded by the threat rebels driven from the city’s seat decades—flared up again when energy minister also refused to Analysts said the talks’ slow EU should share of Ukraine being cut off from eco- of power they had reoccupied Moscow nearly doubled Kiev’s confirm EU Energy Commissioner progress reflected the complete nomically-vital Russian gas ship- about a month ago. rates in the wake of the February Guenther Oettinger’s earlier sug- loss of trust between the neigh- out rescued ments as early as Monday morning “Thanks to the heroism shown ouster of Ukraine’s Russian- gestion that new negotiations bours and the high stakes involved because of a bitter price dispute. by Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol, backed president. might be held on Saturday. in the broader East-West battle for refugees: UNHCR Prime Minister Arseniy the situation in the city has been Ukraine receives half of its gas “We are not planning any the future of the ex-Soviet state. Yatsenyuk told regional adminis- stabilised,” Poroshenko’s office supplies from Russia and trans- meetings so far,” energy ministry “We see gas talks as the deriva- ROME: European Union coun- trations and the heads of the state said in a statement. ports 15 percent of the fuel con- spokeswoman Olga Golant said. tive of the wider dispute between tries should help Italy absorb energy company to prepare for “In light of this, it would be sumed in Europe. But the Kremlin’s official Russia and Ukraine,” New York’s the huge number of migrants the consequences of a possible gas prudent to transfer the operation The head of Ukraine’s state spokesman rejected charges that Morgan Stanley investment bank arriving by boat from North cut by implementing a plan for of the Donetsk regional admin- energy firm said Kiev was ready to Russia was assuming an obstruc- said in a research note. Africa, by agreeing to take in reduced energy use. istration to Mariupol,” he wrote. make a $1.95bn (¤1.45bn) payment tive stance in the talks. AFP people rescued in international waters, a UN refugee agency spokeswoman said yesterday. The EU law governing asylum seekers — the Dublin Regulation Croatia court — requires the country where Canada court upholds Net users privacy protection a person first arrives to handle their application, putting extra confirms jail pressure on countries, like Italy, OTTAWA: The Supreme Court search when they requested and to store hundreds of sexually the evidence gathered would be on the EU’s outer edge to take in for ex-premier of Canada ruled yesterday that obtained subscriber information explicit images and videos of admitted in a re-trial of Spencer migrants. authorities cannot legally ask attached to a publicly available children. on a charge of knowingly making But those rescued in inter- over oil deal an Internet provider to give IP address from cable company The court said the police, pornographic images and videos national waters could be taken them the names of customers Shaw Communications Inc. armed with a name and address available to others via a file-shar- in by any EU country, perhaps ZAGREB: Croatia’s Supreme and other personal information It also said that Web surfers linked to the account, were able ing program. according to a negotiated quota Court has confirmed a guilty without a warrant, a victory for have a reasonable expectation of to pinpoint Spencer’s usage in While Shaw’s terms of service system, said Carlotta Sami, south- verdict against former Prime online anonymity that puts up privacy that was breached by the breach of his reasonable expecta- allow the company to disclose ern Europe’s spokeswoman for Minister Ivo Sanader for tak- obstacles for police. request. The information obtained tion of anonymity and protection customer information to satisfy the U.N. High Commissioner for ing a bribe from Hungarian The country’s top court from Shaw by police connected from unreasonable search. legal requests, Shaw is also subject Refugees (UNHCR). oil group MOL in exchange for brought down the unanimous rul- the IP address to Spencer and Without the information to privacy laws that require the “This is particularly needed in allowing it a dominant position ing in the case of Matthew David revealed much about his online gleaned from that search, the customer’s knowledge or consent the case of Syrians, but could be in Croatian oil firm INA. Spencer, who was convicted of activity. court said police would not have except in exceptional circum- also (done) for other nationali- The ruling will not automati- possessing child pornography by Spencer gained access to obtained a warrant to physically stances, the court said. ties that in this moment repre- cally annul a disputed INA share- a Saskatchewan provincial court. the Internet from an account search Spencer’s property. The case is R v Spencer, 2014 sent very vulnerable groups,” she holder agreement that Zagreb The court ruled that in the registered in his sister’s name, It said that in this specific case SCC 43, docket number 34644. said. and MOL reached in 2009, but Spencer case, police conducted a but he used his own computer police had acted in good faith and REUTERS AGENCIES may serve as a legal basis for Croatia to start a new court proc- ess to render it null and void. The AMJ assembly in Germany government was not available for an immediate comment. The ruling was confirmed by Hollande urges end to rail Zagreb county court spokesman Kresimir Devcic. “The Supreme Court has modified the original verdict to eight years and six strike; exams at risk months,” Devic told state radio. The Zagreb County Court PARIS: The French govern- will harm work conditions and originally sentenced Sanader to ment called yesterday for a are campaigning for a return to 10 years in prison in 2012. The rapid end to one of the long- a pre-1997 structure where the court said this week it would try est railway strikes in years but SNCF was a single entity. They in absentia MOL chairman Zsolt labour unions vowed to prolong also want the government to take Hernadi on the same charge, after industrial action that risks dis- on ¤40bn ($54.5bn) in debt owed Hungary refused to allow his ques- rupting end-of-school exams by the two firms. tioning, citing national interests. for hundreds of thousands of The unions say news last month Sanader, Hernadi and MOL students. of a mistaken order of hundreds have all denied the charge. A separate strike by baggage of new trains that are too wide to Relations between Croatia and handlers at Charles de Gaulle enter stations provides proof of MOL have been strained in recent airport north of Paris looked set the dangers of deregulation. years. Zagreb accuses MOL of to compound disruption tomor- Prime Minister Manuel Valls failing to make agreed invest- row, with Air France predicting defended the reform, which the ments in its biggest utility. MOL delays but no cuts in flights on a government says is needed to complains about red tape and the day when 150,000 people travel via create a coherent structure for government’s failure take over France’s main air hub. the railways as France and other INA’s loss-making gas-trading Workers at the SNCF train European countries gear up for business as promised. Members of the association Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat (AMJ) perform a prayer in Karlsruhe, Germany, yes- operator voted to continue their full-scale liberalisation of the rail- REUTERS terday. Around 30,000 believers were expected to take part in the meeting under the AMJ motto: ‘Love for three-day stoppage over a rail ways in coming years. Valls said all. Hatred for none.’ reform bill due to go to parliament he was “calmly but firmly” urging next week, annoying President unions to call off their protest. Francois Hollande. But the hardline CGT and Sud “This does not mean the dia- unions stood firm, despite news logue cannot continue but the that other less militant unions Banish sexual violence to dark ages: Kerry time has come and this indus- were backing out after talks trial action must come to an end,” with Transport Minister Frederic Hollande said. Cuvillier. LONDON: US Secretary of star Angelina Jolie and British where it belongs,” Kerry said at of two daughters”, the issue was a Rail services have been cut or The government’s education State John Kerry said it was Foreign Secretary William Hague, the closing press conference “personal matter” for him. scrapped since the strike began department was working on ways time to banish sexual violence has produced a series of propos- alongside Jolie and Hague. Jolie said she was encouraged by on Tuesday evening over govern- to accommodate school children “to the dark ages” as an inter- als to end rape in conflict and to “Make no mistake: we can end the conference, especially by the fact ment plans to bring the SNCF arriving late for the high-pressure national conference on rape in better document attacks to try to this, establish new norms, hold that “so many male leaders from rail operator and the RFF net- “Baccalaureat” exams that mark warzones wrapped up in London increase the number of successful those who commit those acts across the world were prepared to work company under the roof of the exit from secondary school, yesterday. prosecutions. accountable and no longer toler- confront the taboos surrounding one holding company while keep- said Cuvillier. The exams start The four-day gathering of 123 “It’s time to ban sexual violence ate these horrific tactics.” Kerry sexual violence in conflict”. ing their operations separate. next week. countries, co-hosted by Hollywood to the dark ages and history books said as a “war veteran and father AFP The unions fear the reform REUTERS JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia / Philippines 57 hurt in HK Thai junta lifts nationwide curfew ferry crash HONG KONG: More than 50 people were injured when a Prayuth promises temporary constitution, interim government by August Hong Kong ferry crashed into a seawall off the coast of the gam- BANGKOK: Thailand’s ruling address to the nation, Prayuth bling enclave of Macau yester- military government lifted a issued a wide range of promises day, officials said. nationwide curfew yesterday to to make the economy more effi- The accident is the latest to hit bolster the country’s vital tour- cient, streamline energy policy the cities’ busy waterways. ism industry and promised to and improve the lives of ordinary The crash happened when the install an interim government Thais. He pleaded for more time Macau-bound ferry -- reported to in August. to achieve the military’s aims. be a jetfoil boat -- was approach- General Prayuth Chan-ocha, The army staged a bloodless ing the port at around 9.30am who heads the council that has coup after six months of turmoil and hit a concrete breakwater, a overseen the country since taking pitting mainly rural supporters of spokesman for Macau’s marine over on May 22, said that power ousted Prime Minister Yingluck department said. would be handed to a government Shinawatra against her Bangkok- “The vessel was carrying a in August. That, he said, was part based, royalist opponents. total of 220 passengers and 13 of a three-phase plan of reconcili- In his comments to military crew members. Fifty-seven ation, formation of a government officials, Prayuth repeated that a passengers have suffered minor and elections. temporary constitution would be injuries, including two Koreans “A government will be set up drafted within three months. It and one Japanese,” a spokes- by August, or at the very latest would take at least a year until a woman for Shun Tak, which September,” Prayuth told a meet- new general election could take operates the ferry services, said ing devoted to the 2015 national place. in a statement. budget. He did not say whether “In the next three months we Passenger ferries regularly the government would be made must do everything properly, cover the hour-long distance up of civilians or military officials. whether it is the constitution or between Hong Kong and Macau. In an evening television other matters. Everything for the Local broadcaster RTHK said announcement, the National first phase should be complete by the ferry involved was a jetfoil and Council for Peace and Order said August,” Prayuth said. the cause of accident was yet to conditions had improved enough Most Bangkok residents have be determined. – after months of periodically vio- taken the coup in stride. Business It is the third accident on the lent street demonstrations - to has gone on more or less as usual Hong Kong to Macau ferry route lift the curfew across the country. in offices and restaurants and in the past eight months. “As the situation has improved public transport remain packed. Activist Sombat Boonngamanong (centre) gestures as he arrives at a military court in Bangkok on Thursday. In November, a high-speed and there have been no incidents Lifting the curfew was a ferry travelling from Hong Kong that can lead to violence ... and key element to coax back hesi- have been quickly mobilised to unrest, violating cyber laws and A court found Yingluck guilty to Macau hit an “unidentified in order to improve tourism, tant tourists - an industry that snuff out any bid to stage protests. defying the junta’s orders. He had of abuse of power on May 7, for object” near one of Hong Kong’s the curfew will be lifted in all accounts for 10 percent of the The military has rounded up spearheaded an online campaign transferring the country’s secu- small outlying islands, injuring 87 remaining provinces,” the council economy. at least 300 politicians, activists promoting street protests against rity chief to another post so that a people. announcement said. The junta this week also made and journalists. Many are linked the coup. relative could benefit from related And last month a Hong Kong- The curfew, imposed through- a concession to Thailand’s many to exiled former Prime Minister Thailand has been polarised job moves, and ordered her to bound Macau ferry collided with out Thailand after the coup, soccer fans as the World Cup Thaksin Shinawatra, who was for nearly a decade between sup- step down after months of street a mainland Chinese vessel, leaving was lifted over the past week got under way in Brazil, order- ousted by a 2006 coup but is porters of Yingluck Shinawatra protests aimed at toppling her 33 injured. in 30 provinces, including the ing broadcasting authorities to alleged by opponents to have and her brother, former telecom- government. Fears over maritime safety in main tourist destinations. It had ensure all games were shown on directed from abroad the govern- munications tycoon Thaksin, on Military leader Prayuth says he Hong Kong were sparked after a remained in place from midnight free-to-air channels. ment led by his sister Yingluck. the one hand and ultra- royalist stepped in to restore order. He fatal collision between a passenger to 4am in 47 provinces, including But the military has acted On Thursday, police charged groups, mostly made up of mid- has made the economy and the ferry and a pleasure boat carrying Bangkok. firmly to curb dissent. Soldiers, prominent activist Sombat dle-class Bangkok residents, on welfare of farmers a priority. around 120 people claimed 39 lives In a rambling 40-minute barely visible in most districts, Boonngamanong with inciting the other. REUTERS in October 2012. AFP

Jakarta’s 487th anniversary UN to probe rights violations in Philippines MANILA: Two United Nations displaced persons Dr Chaloka forced evictions, the continuing Meanwhile, lawyer Edre Olalia, special rapporteurs have Beyani is slated to conduct his displacement of super typhoon secretary general of the National expressed their intention to official visit this year. Haiyan victims, and the attacks Union of Peoples’ Lawyers visit the Philippines to conduct Meanwhile, UN Special against human rights lawyers in (NUPL), updated Knaul on the an independent probe into the Rapporteur on the independence the Philippines. escalating tactics employed to human rights situation in the of judges and lawyers Gabriela Representatives of EcuVoice jeopardise, not just the independ- country. Knaul has recently submitted her informed Beyani of the forcible ence of lawyers and judges, but Delegates of the Ecumenical request to visit the country, the evacuations caused by military their very lives and personal secu- Voice for Peace and Human group said. operations in a growing number rity, particularly human rights Rights (EcuVoice) to the 26th UN EcuVoice delegates also called of areas in the country, especially lawyers. Human Rights Council sessions on the independent experts to in Mindanao, where 60 percent He pointed out the continuing said that UN Special Rapporteur look into reports of forced evacu- of government troops are now killings of lawyers and judges. on the human rights of internally ations due to military operations, deployed. THE PHILIPPINE STAR

Japan rejects China’s ‘near clash’ claim S Korea ferry owner’s kin held TOKYO: Japan yesterday China, where bitter memories ministry website. denied Beijing’s claims that its of Japan’s wartime militarism “We believe there is no truth in ANSEONG: South Korean Self-Defence Force planes came run deep, lays claim to Japanese- China’s assertions that Japanese police yesterday arrested the “dangerously close” to Chinese administered islets in the East fighter planes came within 30 brother of a South Korean busi- aircraft in an incident over the China Sea, known as Senkaku in metres of a Chinese plane and nessman linked to a ferry disas- East China Sea on Wednesday, Japan and Diaoyu in China. China severely affected the flight’s ter in April in which hundreds demanding China takes down declared its air defence zone cov- safety,” Japanese Chief Cabinet of schoolchildren drowned, as An Indonesian salesman raises his price promotion sign at the Jakarta the footage allegedly showing ering most of the East China Sea Secretary Yoshihide Suga told the net appeared to tighten Fair during the capital’s 487th anniversary celebration yesterday. the incident. last year despite protests by Japan reporters. around the fugitive’s family. The tit-for-tat accusations and and the United States. “The planes (in the video) are But Yoo Byung-un, 73, a busi- denials are part of a long-running On Thursday, China said two different,” he said in response to nessman and photographer, is territorial dispute between Asia’s Japanese F-15 planes followed a a reporter’s question about the still on the run, eluding one of the largest economies. They follow a Chinese Tu-154 aircraft and came rationale behind Japan’s assertion, country’s biggest and most bizarre Myanmar panel crashes similar incident on May 24, when as close as 30 metres, “seriously adding Japan lodged a protest late manhunts for more than a month, Japan said Chinese aircraft came affecting China’s flight safety.” It on Thursday and demanded that centred on a huge church sect within a few dozen metres of its posted a video allegedly show- Beijing take down the footage. compound south of Seoul. Suu Kyi’s presidential bid warplanes. ing that incident on the defence REUTERS His elder brother, Yoo Byung-il, was arrested near the leafy com- pound in Anseong, where police YANGON: Nobel laureate committee’s affairs are meant to are checking all passing vehicles Aung San Suu Kyi’s hopes of be secret. Return of ‘martyrs’ and pedestrians. Yoo Byung-un’s becoming Myanmar’s president Suu Kyi and her National daughter, Yoo Som-Na, has been next year have been dealt a blow League for Democracy (NLD) held in France since May 28 after as a parliamentary committee party have been pushing for con- Interpol called for her arrest “for voted not to change a constitu- stitutional change ahead of next fraud and embezzlement.” She tional clause that bars her from year’s election, mainly to reduce was denied bail on Wednesday the post, two of the panel mem- the political clout of the military, Yoo Byung-un is wanted on bers said yesterday. which ruled Myanmar for 49 charges of embezzlement, negli- The committee tasked with years until a nominally civilian gence and tax evasion stemming recommending amendments government led by retired gen- from a web of business holdings opted to retain the section that erals took office in 2011. centred on I-One-I, an invest- prevents anyone married to a for- The committee picked to ment vehicle owned by his sons eigner or with children of foreign assess amendments has only that ran the shipping company, citizenship from becoming head two NLD members on it and is Chonghaejin Marine. of state. Most experts believe the comprised mainly of lawmakers Chonghaejin owned the Sewol, clause, 59 (f), was written into the from the ruling Union Solidarity which sank off the southwest military-drafted 2008 constitu- and Development Party (USDP), coast on April 16 killing more tion specifically to sideline Suu which was created from a social than 300 people, many of them Kyi, who became a global icon movement of a similar name set school children, on a routine jour- for her fight against military rule, up by the former junta. ney from Incheon on the main- most of it from house arrest. The USDP has 14 people on land to the southern holiday Her late husband was British, the panel and seven members island of Jeju. as are her two sons. are serving military officers Yonhap news agency said the “Only five of the 31 commit- appointed as lawmakers as part brother received monthly con- tee members voted in favour of a 25 percent legislative quota sulting fees from Chonghaejin of amending the section at the allocated to the armed forces, a People carry the remains of Chinese Expeditionary Army martyrs to Guoshang cemetery in Tengchong. The and was arrested on charges of closed door meeting of the com- clause the NLD, which suffered embezzlement and fraud-related mittee,” said a member who persecution by the former regime, remains of more than 600 martyrs were moved back to their motherland from Myanmar on Thursday. real estate deals. REUTERS requested anonymity because the wants to change. REUTERS JUNE 14, 2014 Pakistan / Afghanistan www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY It’s Abdullah vs Ghani in Afghan poll run-off New president to inherit unfinished war, dull economy

KABUL: Afghans head to the slowing rapidly and faces the He was dropped from the cabinet polls today for the second time prospect of an international in 2005. in 10 weeks to elect a president blacklist later this month because Abdullah’s support base lies who will take office as most of a failure to stem money laun- in the ethnic Tajik commu- foreign forces prepare to leave dering and terror financing. nity, Afghanistan’s second larg- after nearly 13 years of incon- Abdullah, a former leader est ethnic group, although he is clusive war. in the anti-Taliban Northern half-Pashtun. None of the eight candidates Alliance, won 45 percent of the As a young man, Abdullah stud- who contested the first round of vote in April while Ghani got 31.6 ied medicine at Kabul University the election on April 5 won more percent. and worked as an ophthalmologist than 50 percent of the vote mean- But Ghani, an ethnic Pashtun, until 1985. ing the top two contenders have stands to gain more of the A year later he joined the to face off today. Pashtun vote that was splintered Panjshir Resistance Front against The two men aiming to succeed between candidates in the first the Soviet invaders and served as President Hamid Karzai, who is round. Abdullah is part Pashtun an adviser to Masood, a national constitutionally barred from a but more closely identified with hero for many Afghans. third term, are a former foreign the ethnic Tajik minority. Abdullah was foreign minis- minister, Abdullah Abdullah, and ter of the United Front – bet- Villagers carry election materials across a river in the Dara-e-Noor district of Nangarhar province yesterday. an ex-World Bank economist and ABDULLAH ABDULLAH ter known internationally as the former finance minister, Ashraf A former ophthalmologist- Northern Alliance - from 1998 the vote in the 2009 presidential Asia. Within months of the Sept A member of Afghanistan’s big- Ghani. turned-fighter of Soviet forces in and, after Masood’s assassination election. 11, 2001, attacks on the United gest ethnic group, the Pashtuns, The winner will inherit an the 1980s, Abdullah dropped out in 2001, became a leading figure in One of Afghanistan’s best- States, Ghani resigned from his Ghani has defended his decision unfinished war and an economy of a run-off against Hamid Karzai the alliance that helped US forces known intellectuals, Ghani spent international posts and returned to pick Abdul Rashid Dostum, in the doldrums. in the last presidential election, in topple the Taliban. almost a quarter of a century to Afghanistan to become a senior a controversial former guerrilla The Taliban are still strong 2009, citing concern about elec- abroad during the tumultuous adviser to Karzai. strongman from the minority and Afghanistan’s foreign-trained toral fraud. ASHRAF GHANI decades of Soviet rule, civil war Ghani is among the strong- ethnic Uzbek community, as a army has never put to rest ques- An adviser to the assassinated The American-trained anthro- and the Taliban regime. est backers of a crucial bilateral running mate. tions about its effectiveness, espe- Northern Alliance guerrilla leader pologist returned to Afghanistan During that period he worked security deal to keep US troops in “The ticket is a realistic bal- cially in the absence of foreign Ahmad Shah Masood, Abdullah after the Taliban were ousted as an academic in the United Afghanistan beyond 2014, which ance between forces that have troops, the bulk of whom will was appointed foreign minister and held various government States and Denmark, and with Karzai has refused to endorse. been produced in the last 30 years leave by the end of the year. in Karzai’s first government after posts, including finance minister. the World Bank and the United Ghani has said he would sign it and have a base in this society,” Afghanistan’s economy is the Taliban were ousted in 2001. He won about four percent of Nations across East and South swiftly if elected. Ghani said. REUTERS Hepatitis medicines destroyed in airport attack Foreign fighters flee KARACHI: Karachi still seems The order was to be delivered supply has been delayed,” con- to receive the latest batch. to be reeling from the attack at within a week’s time but it has firmed the provincial HPCP pro- “It is the supplier’s responsi- the airport on Sunday night as not been received by the provin- gramme manager, Dr Zahoor bility to provide the medicines Pakistan tribal zone each new day brings more bad cial authority yet. Ahmed Baloch. on time and we are pushing him news for the city. It has recently There are over 20,000 reg- He clarified, however, that to deliver as soon as possible,” MIRANSHAH: Some of the Rumours of a ground offen- come to light that a whole batch istered patients suffering from there was no shortage of vaccines Baloch said. world’s most feared Islamist sive in North Waziristan, one of of vaccines and medication for Hepatitis C across the province. at the hospitals. Dr Baloch added that his fighters are quietly slip- seven tribal regions along the the treatment of hepatitis per- The patients need regular doses Vaccination is a preventative programme was not currently ping away from a Pakistani border, have abounded for years. ished in the fire that destroyed of interferon to cope with the measure while the more impor- affected by the mishap that tribal region ahead of a long- But authorities have held the cold storage facility at the disease. tant medication is the interferon occurred at the airport. rumoured military opera- back from a final push -- pos- office of Gerry’s D’nata. It is feared that the hospitals which is used to treat the disease. “We are not short of the injec- tion, raising questions about sibly fearing the blowback in Officials of the provincial would face a severe shortage of The head office of the provin- tion now,” he claimed. the effectiveness of such Pakistan’s major cities such Hepatitis Prevention and Control the medicine in the coming days cial HPCP in Hyderabad distrib- “I don’t know what the cause intervention. as Karachi, where 38 people Programme (HPCP) had placed if it is not provided to them soon. utes the medicines to health units of delay is. Maybe it was damaged The exodus from the moun- including 10 militants were an order for the medicines on “We were supposed to receive set up in different cities of the but we haven’t been informed tainous North Waziristan dis- killed at the airport. May 28. the batch within a week but the province. They have, however, yet about it yet.” INTERNEWS trict on the Afghan border began However, the sheer numbers in late May following Pakistani of people leaving -- some 60,000, air strikes, locals said. according to official estimates, Sindh budget session But it has been hastened by since late May -- suggest that the Taliban’s all-night siege of this time might be different. Karachi airport this week, which Residents saw foreign mili- all but destroyed a tentative tants leaving the Machis Camp peace process. and Data Khel village near On Wednesday night two US Miranshah, as well as the vil- drone strikes hit the region kill- lages of Musaki, Hurmaz, Hesso ing at least 16 in the first such Khel and Api. attack this year, fuelling suspi- The fighters included cion of coordination between the Chechens, Uzbeks, Turkmen, two countries, with Islamabad’s Tajiks and Uighurs, residents patience for talks seemingly and officials said. exhausted. They arrived during the early But as pressure builds for a 2000s, lured by the fiery rheto- fuller response to the airport ric of Osama bin Laden and the assault, which was joined by mili- chance to fight “infidel” forces in tants from Uzbekistan, residents Afghanistan. and officials in the district’s Married into the local popu- main town of Miranshah said lation, some have erected mud the majority of foreign and local houses in small villages among fighters had already left. the area’s rugged mountains. “Most of them have gone deep Others “have rented houses into the mountains towards the and rooms here but they have Afghan border,” a senior security now left towards the Afghan official said. border”, a grocery shop owner The locals said militant groups in Miranshah bazaar said. were also seen escaping from vil- Another resident in lages that are a known hub of Miranshah estimated that more the dreaded Haqqani network, than 80 percent of local and an Al Qaeda affiliate known for foreign fighters have left North its spectacular attacks against Waziristan. US forces in Afghanistan. AFP Provincial legislators attend a session as the provincial budget is presented at the Sindh assembly in Karachi, Pakistan yesterday.

Moderate quake hits Pakistan likely to lose Indian ‘army injures two in shooting’ parts of Pakistan MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan seven-year-old boy was injured district 65km north of the first QUETTA: A 5.3-magnitude millions in rice tender accused Indian troops yester- due to unprovoked shelling by clash, according to local govern- earthquake struck southwest- LAHORE: The Pakistan higher prices,” he said. day of wounding two civilians, Indian troops in Nakyal sector,” ment official Malik Ayub. ern Pakistan yesterday, but Agriculture Storage and Passco had bought 4 million kil- including a seven-year-old boy, referring to a border district Indian defence officials said officials said there were no Services Corporation (Passco) ogrammes of rice from the open in incidents of "unprovoked fir- 125km from Muzaffarabad city. they had no knowledge of the immediate reports of damage intends to re-invite tenders for market in 2008-09 on the direc- ing" from across the de facto But Indian defence spokesman second incident. or casualties. sale of 2.01 million kilogrammes tive of the federal government border in disputed Kashmir. Manish Mehta said the Pakistani Yesterday’s events, described The epicentre was in the city of of rice as bidders have offered in a bid to keep paddy prices at India’s army blamed Pakistan army was responsible for firing on as a “ceasefire violation” by India, Khuzdar, in Baluchistan province, a maximum price of Rs45 per the level set by the government for firing on its troops, alleging Indian soldiers “using automatic come a day before India’s new at a depth of 26km, meteorologi- kilogrammes in tenders opened and protect farmers from loss, an its arch-rival had breached a weapons and mortars” in the dis- Defence Minister Arun Jaitley cal official Zabih Ullah said. earlier this week. official aware of the developments ceasefire. trict of Rajouri, which borders is scheduled to visit the disputed Pakistan straddles part of Former Passco’s General said but requested anonymity. The clashes were the first in Nakyal. state of Jammu and Kashmir the boundary where the Indian Manager Field Brigadier Rashid Of the total quantity, Passco the Himalayan region since a new Mehta said the Indian army for a security review. The last and Eurasian tectonic plates Mehmood said that they had sold about 2 million kilogrammes right-wing Indian government responded to the firing, which war between both countries was meet, making it susceptible to opened the tenders, but the maxi- at Rs75 per kilogramme in the came to power last month headed continued for about half an hour, in 1999 when Modi’s Bharatiya earthquakes. mum price quoted was Rs45 per open market in the 2009-10 by Prime Minister Narendra adding there were no casualties or Janata Party was in charge of A 7.7-magnitude quake devas- kilogramme. season by inviting tenders. The Modi. They follow cross-border damage on the Indian side. the national government and tated southwestern Baluchistan “It is a very low price and the remaining stock was kept at Hadi skirmishes last year. Aother Pakistani civilian was Pakistan’s current Prime Minister in September last year, killing 370 management is thinking about Rice Mills in Daska. On the Pakistani side, police wounded after Indian troops Nawaz Sharif was in office during people and leaving 100,000 home- floating tenders again to fetch INTERNEWS official Chaudhry Ameen said “a allegedly opened fire in Battal, a a previous stint. AFP less. AFP JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com India

Monsoon fury Man’s fingers Modi clears chopped off, acid poured in eyes

PATNA: Police in eastern India major defence, were searching yesterday for six men who allegedly chopped off a 19-year-old man’s fingers before pouring acid into his eyes following a minor dispute, dam projects an officer said. The man was recovering in hospital following the attack late on Thursday in which most of his Environmental impact ignored fingers were hacked off in a village in Bihar state, local police super- NEW DELHI: India’s new gov- The radar station proposal had intendent Chandrika Prasad said. ernment kicked into gear this earlier been turned down because “He was attacked, beaten half week, clearing billions of dollars the environment ministry under dead, his fingers chopped off worth of long-delayed defence the last government saw a threat and acid poured into his eyes by projects, including a big navy to the Narcondam Hornbill, an some people over a dispute,” said base, as well as approving the endangered bird species. Prasad, from Samastipur district scaling-up of one of the coun- The radar on Narcondam where the attack took place. try’s biggest dams. island is one of 18 that the mili- “Police have began an investi- The decision to give the projects tary has planned, running north gation into the case and raided the go-ahead despite concern about to south along the Andamans, several places to arrest the their environmental and social which straddle the strategic named accused in the case, who impact signals Prime Minister seaway leading to the Malacca are absconding after the shocking Narendra Modi’s no-nonsense Straits. This year, India’s patchy incident,” he said. approach to issues he considers to radar meant it was unable to say Residents watch surging waves near their home in Someshwar Uchil in western Karanataka, yesterday. A Initial police enquiries found be important for national security. whether missing Malaysian air- the man was attacked when resi- portion of a house near the Arabian sea collapsed and a number of coconut trees washed away at the start The clearances were made over lines flight MH370 had passed dents objected to him repairing of the monsoon season as high seas contributed to sea erosion along the coast. several days and were the first over the islands. his motorcycle which had broken major decisions from the gov- Modi met China’s foreign min- down in front of their home in ernment that swept to power on ister this week and is likely to Vanbhaur village, local police offi- May 16 on promises of getting visit Beijing this year, but he is cial Susdhir Kumar Razak said. Asia’s third-largest economy also keen to quickly build up bor- “Some people ordered him not moving and building a stronger der defences that have fallen far PM to address Bhutanese to repair his motorcycle in front country. behind India’s neighbour. of this house but he ignored them, Environment Minister Prakash Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party which angered them,” he said. Javadekar said the government has promised to end a prolonged House in first foreign visit could not compromise on efforts period of paralysis at the defence to build military and civil infra- ministry where weapons acquisi- 4 killed, 10 hurt structure on the border with tions and infrastructure contracts NEW DELHI: Prime Minister are “especially warm” and both agriculture, information com- China as well the west-coast were frozen because of fear of cor- Narendra Modi will address the countries share ties that is in the munication technology projects in LPG explosion naval base as an alternative to ruption scandals. joint session of the Bhutanese “nature of friends and partners”. among others in the landlocked the crowded Mumbai port. Javadekar said he had also parliament and discuss ways to The prime minister would kingdom, also known as the ‘land As well as the $2bn extension cleared the second phase of a naval boost trade with its Himalayan address the joint session of the of the thunder dragon’. KOLKATA: Four people were to the Karwar base in the south- base in Karwar, on the west coast, neighbour, with which India has Bhutanese National Assembly India is also involved in building killed and at least 10 others ern state of Karnataka, Javadekar that had stalled because environ- several hydropower projects, in and National Council, meet his schools, libraries, drinking water injured yesterday after an LPG approved a radar station in the mental activists had warned the his two-day trip to Bhutan, his Bhutanese counterpart Tshering projects and community centres cylinder exploded at a house Andaman and Nicobar islands ecology of the Western Ghats first visit abroad in less than a Tobgay and call on current in Bhutan, a crucial northern in the city’s Park Circus area, in the Bay of Bengal. A defence mountains would be affected. month after assuming office . King Jigme Khesar Namgyel neighbour of just 750,000 peace- police said. source said he also planned to The base is intended to take Accompanying Modi on his Wangchuck, as well as his father, loving people, with which China “Four people have been killed fast-track road building along the the load off Mumbai port, used two-day visit to Bhutan tomor- Jigme Singye Wangchuck. The shares a 500 km border through while 10 others sustained severe disputed border with China. by the navy and civilian ships. row, which is a pointer to the new Bhutanese royal family has Tibet. Beijing is keen to establish burn injuries in the incident,” a Javadekar said China had The navy has also said it wanted government’s keenness to focus always been close to India. He closer ties with Thimphu and has police officer said. built infrastructure in the Coco a more secure base to berth its on the neighbourhood, would be would also meet the Bhutanese been trying to set up an embassy Eight fire tenders were pressed Islands, which are controlled by latest aircraft carrier. External Affairs Minister Sushma opposition leader. in the Bhutanese capital. into service to douse the flames Myanmar and just to the north “Mumbai is a target. We need Swaraj, National Security Advisor Both sides would discuss a To a question on the issue, the which erupted after the explosion. of the Andamans. “If you have a an alternative. It is of strategic Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary “whole gamut” of bilateral issues, foreign secretary said that Bhutan situation where China is sitting in importance,” he said. The environ- Sujatha Singh. said the foreign secretary. India is a sovereign country and it is front and we won’t do anything, ment ministry is also trying to fast- The foreign secretary, address- has committed Rs.4,500 crore up to the Bhutanese leadership to Dissent over how can you run the country like track roads and defence projects ing a media briefing ahead of the (750 mn USD) towards Bhutan’s decide on the issue “keeping their this,” he said in comments made classified as strategic. prime minister’s visit, said rela- 11th five-year plan and is involved interests in mind”. available yesterday. REUTERS tions between India and Bhutan in infrastructure projects, IANS stapled visas

NEW DELHI: India yester- day strongly rebutted China’s stand that its giving stapled visas to the people of Arunachal Legislators’ Pradesh was a “goodwill ges- Most populous Thane district to be split ture” and said there should be World Cup “no discrimination against visa MUMBAI: India’s most popu- has the largest number of seven skyscrapers, swank malls and Vivek Pandit has demanded that applicants on grounds of domi- jaunt cancelled lous district — Thane — will be municipal corporations for any multiplexes, flyovers and wide since the problems of these three cile or ethnicity”. split and a new district Palghar district in the country, nestling roads, and on the other, barely distinct areas are different, the Days after Chinese Foreign carved out of it soon, officials in its 9,600 sq km area. a few score km away are some of state government should have Minister Wang Yi said that after outcry said here yesterday. In Maharashtra, after the most wretched tribal villages split Thane into three districts Beijing has decided to give sta- Pending since 20 years, the Mumbai, it is the second biggest and hamlets in the hilly forested to serve the people better. pled visas to people of Arunachal PANAJI: Goa called off a proposal to split Thane — with in terms of number of assembly regions and tiny fishing villages This is the first major bifurca- Pradesh, which it lays claim over, planned junket for six legisla- a population of over 12 million, segments — 24 in four Lok Sabha on the coast. tion of a district after 1999, when “as a gesture of goodwill”, Foreign tors to Brazil’s football World nearly 10 percent of the state constituencies, and is the third Terming the bifurcation as Gondiya and Gadchiroli were Secretary Sujatha Singh said that Cup yesterday, caving in to population — was approved by most industrialized district in politically motivated in view of created in the eastern Vidarbha “..there should be no discrimina- political pressure over the the state cabinet here yesterday, the state. the ensuing assembly elections, region of the state, taking the tion against visa applicants on “waste” of taxpayers’ money. but immediately sparked protests With history dating it back the Shiv Sena and other parties total count to 35 districts in grounds of domicile or ethnicity. The proposed trip, costing from various opposition parties, to 1817, Thane today offers some had demanded trifurcation on Maharashtra. After all we are one people.” the coastal state about nine mil- including the Shiv Sena. stark contrasts. On one hand, the basis of the coastal, hilly and After the creation of Palghar — “After all, we are one people. lion rupees ($150,000), had come Besides being the most popu- with the ongoing urbanisa- urban make-up of Thane. by Aug 15 — the state will have 36 This is the point we have continu- under sharp criticism as Goa reels lous district in the country, it also tion Thane city is dotted with Vasai Independent legislator districts. IANS ally made (to the Chinese side),” under financial stress, especially she added. She was replying to after a ban on mining two years a query on Wang’s remarks at a ago that significantly dented its press conference in New Delhi, revenues. during which he acknowledged Goa’s sports minister Ramesh the Chinese position that in Tawadkar said next month’s trip Northeast on alert as India’s “eastern sector (Arunachal was intended as a research mis- Pradesh) relatively big area is in sion as Goa is set to host National dispute. It is an objective fact. Games in 2016 and bidding to host malaria kills 20 in week But the people living there need the FIFA U-17 World Cup tourna- to interact with each other, and ment the following year. GUWAHATI: At least 20 peo- thousands, of people die every as a special arrangement we “We wanted to study the con- ple have died from malaria in a year from malaria in India par- have resorted to stapled visas to duct of the game,” said Tawadkar, remote corner of India in the past ticularly during the monsoon sea- address the need of the local peo- who was due to lead the delega- week, putting medical authori- son when the mosquitos carrying ple to travel.. This is a gesture of tion, three of whom were state ties on high alert at the start of the parasite breed. goodwill and flexibility.” ministers. “But considering the the monsoon season, an official India’s remote northeast public sentiments, the govern- said yesterday. region, which is forested and cut ment has decided to drop the pro- Tripura health minister Badal by rivers, suffers heavily from Badal wants probe posal and not to go ahead with the Choudhury said deaths so far in the disease whose symptoms visit,” he told reporters. the northeast state were unusu- include fever, vomiting, diarrhoea into 1984 riots Earlier yesterday one of the ally high, with doctors ordered to and jaundice. Parts of northern state ministers had told local contain the mosquito-borne dis- Tripura bordering Bangladesh are NEW DELHI: Punjab Chief media they would pay for their ease before it “gets out of hand”. the worst hit so far this year, and Minister Parkash Singh Badal own trip to Brazil, without bur- “So far we have received reports teams of doctors have been sent to yesterday called on Prime dening the taxpayer. of 20 deaths and more than 400 the area and fumigation services Minister Narendra Modi here The state government, run by people afflicted with the disease stepped up. and demanded early resolution the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the past one week,” Choudhury “We have put on alert medical of a variety of issues, including that swept to power nationally said by telephone. teams across the state to ensure terrorism, and a probe into the under Prime Minister Narendra “The exact death toll could the disease doesn’t spread to 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Modi last month, had faced scru- be higher as we are still getting newer areas,” the minister said. Badal submitted a detailed res- tiny over the trip from the opposi- reports of malaria deaths from “Most of the casualties were olution for containing terrorism, tion Congress party. interior areas,” he said. in tribal dominated areas of said an official statement issued “When the state has been “We are taking it very seriously Gandachera and the Longtharai by Punjab Bhavan here. resorting to increasing borrow- as we do not get reports of so Valley in the northern district of He demanded a special enquiry ings, we don’t understand the many deaths in the initial stages Dhalai.” According to the World commission under a Supreme reason behind sponsoring this of the monsoon. “So we need to be Health Organisation, hundreds of Court judge to probe official and fun trip,” Durgadas Kamat, a local prepared to fight the disease soon people died from malaria in 2012 political patronage behind the Congress leader, had told report- A child holds up a positive malaria testing strip in Lalitpara village, some before it gets out of hand.” in India out of 627,000 deaths glo- 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the state- ers in Goa on Thursday. AFP 170km north of Agartala, the capital of Tripura, yesterday. Hundreds, and perhaps bally. AFP ment said. AGENCIES JUNE 14, 2014 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY

Britain unveils EU agrees curbs measures to tackle rising on biofuels house prices

LONDON: Britain’s finance minister George Osborne has from food crops unveiled measures aimed at curbing London’s surging house price inflation, as the Bank of England stands ready to finally Deal fixes seven percent limit raise interest rates. It comes as Fitch yesterday LUXEMBOURG: EU energy advanced biofuels, made from affirmed its AA+ credit rating for ministers agreed yesterday waste or algae for example, does Britain and gave it a “stable” out- to limit production of biofuels not raise the same problems, but look, citing the country’s acceler- made from food crops, respond- does require more investment. ating economic recovery. ing to criticism they stoke infla- The compromise supported by In a keynote speech to business tion and do more environmental ministers on Friday includes a 0.5 leaders delivered in the capital late harm than good. percent non-binding target for on Thursday, Chancellor of the The ministers’ endorsement of next-generation biofuels, which Exchequer Osborne announced a compromise deal overcomes a environment campaigners say is plans for up to 200,000 new homes stalemate hit late last year, when nowhere near enough to make a and said he would strengthen European Union governments failed difference. the Bank of England’s ability to to agree on a proposed 5 percent The agreement could mean that impose restrictions on how much cap on the use of biofuels based on the overall goal to get 10 percent home buyers could borrow. crops such as maize or rapeseed. of transport fuel from renewable Osborne appeared to heed Yesterday’s agreement would sources by 2020 is missed, ana- the advice of the International set a seven percent limit on food- lysts say. Currently around 5 per- Bank of England Governor Mark Carney speaks at the Lord Mayor’s Dinner to the Bankers and Merchants of the Monetary Fund (IMF), which based biofuels in transport fuel. cent of EU transport fuel comes City of London, as Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (left) looks on at Mansion House in recently warned that a lack of sup- It still needs the approval from renewable sources. London yesterday. ply was fuelling Britain’s price boom of the newly-elected European Food-based bio-refiners, which that is most pronounced in London. Parliament, expected to begin have invested on the basis of the Osborne meanwhile promised considering it later this year. original 10 percent, say a lower Carney signals earlier rate rise an “urban planning revolution”, “We think this proposal is much target threatens jobs. in which the government could better than nothing,” European And those trying to develop force local councils to build hous- Energy Commissioner Guenther advanced biofuels say they are not LONDON: Britain could Few economists had expected in the economy. It is flying now. ing developments. Oettinger told the Luxembourg been given sufficient incentive. become the first major economy rates to increase until the second Employment is rising at a record “We saw from the last (finan- meeting of ministers. Manuel Sanchez Ortega, CEO of to tighten monetary policy since quarter of next year given the pace and we see no sign of eco- cial) crisis the dangerous temp- “We need to support research Spanish renewable and engineer- the 2008 financial crisis, Bank central bank’s previous guidance nomic growth slowing from its tations for politicians to leave and development in advanced ing firm Abengoa SA said by tele- of England Governor Mark that there was plenty of scope current pace,” said Rob Wood, the punch bowl where it is and biofuels so we can move forward phone the deal was positive in that Carney has signalled, send- for Britain’s economy to expand chief UK economist at German keep the party going on for too from generation one into genera- it reduced uncertainty, but Europe ing sterling shooting towards a further without causing inflation. bank Berenberg. long,” said Osborne, a member of tion two and generation three,” he was in danger of being left behind. five-year high against the dollar A rise in BoE rates this year An interest rate rise before Prime Minister David Cameron’s added, referring to more sophisti- “In the United States there has yesterday. would be the first since 2007 a national election next May Conservative party that heads cated biofuels that do not compete been a revolution (in second-gen- British government bond yields and put it ahead of both the could hurt perceptions of the Britain’s coalition government with growing crops for food. eration ethanol),” he said. “To us it soared, construction stocks tum- US Federal Reserve and the Conservative-led coalition gov- with the Liberal Democrats. “I The proposed seven percent seems that Europe is acting timidly.” bled and interest rate futures European Central Bank. The Fed ernment by raising mortgage want to make sure that the Bank limit is part of a goal to get 10 Thomas Nagy, executive vice- priced in a first hike by December is still pumping extra stimulus costs and eating into dispos- of England has all the weapons it percent of transport fuel from president of Novozymes , which after Carney said rates could rise into the US economy while the able income, which the oppo- needs to guard against risks in the renewable sources by 2020. makes enzymes used in the pro- sooner than markets had thought ECB cut interest rates to record sition Labour party says is housing market,” Osborne said. Initially, the European Union duction of advanced biofuels, said — his most hawkish comment to lows last week and said it may not being eroded by rising prices backed biofuels to contribute to Friday’s decision enabled “a reboot date. have finished easing. for everything from energy to UK mandates efforts to curb greenhouse gas of the decision-making process”. “There’s already great specula- Carney said Britain’s economy transport. emissions and EU dependence on However, he also said there was tion about the exact timing of the still had room to grow without “It is absolutely without ques- banks for maiden imported oil and gas. an “absence of incentives to allow first rate hike and this decision is pushing up inflation, but added tion that those people who are Research has since shown that the conventional biofuel indus- becoming more balanced,” Carney that he saw little sign yet of a right on the edge at the moment sovereign sukuk making fuel out of crops such as try to develop sustainably”. He said in a speech late on Thursday slowdown in the pace of expan- will, with a small increase in maize displaces other crops, forces urged the European Parliament alongside British Finance sion that the central bank had interest rates, be pushed over LONDON: The British gov- the clearing of valuable habitats, to propose amendments when it Minister George Osborne. pencilled in for the second half the edge,” Conservative lawmaker ernment has mandated banks and can inflate food prices. resumes debate of the draft law. “It could happen sooner than of the year. Mark Garnier said. to arrange a five-year £200m The next generation of REUTERS markets currently expect.” “The change reflects the reality REUTERS ($336m) sukuk — the world’s first Islamic bond to be issued by a Western sovereign. The Islamic bond could be issued in the coming weeks, sub- ject to market conditions, The Saudi proposes Opec meets even less often: Delegates Treasury said in a statement late on Thursday. The roadshow will start on June 17 in Jeddah and LONDON: Saudi Arabia has The 12-member cartel used to down the list of supply risks for secretary general,” said a del- output target leaves the door open Kuala Lumpur, then moving to suggested Opec meet just once a give traders more to worry about, oil traders. egate. “But it can’t be changed for Saudi Arabia to tweak output Riyadh, Dubai, Doha, and Abu year, rather than twice, a sharp meeting several times a year, con- Top Opec producer Saudi as internal policy says Opec has unofficially depending on demand Dhabi, ending in London on June reduction from the days when vening emergency meetings at Arabia suggested in the meeting to meet twice a year.” or in response to supply outages 20, lead banks said. the group met for up to seven short notice and sometimes mak- on Wednesday that Opec met just The delegate was referring to in other producer countries. A sovereign sukuk is the cen- times a year in the early 2000s. ing surprise decisions as it tried once a year, three Opec delegates Opec’s Statute, which says the Saudi Arabia holds most of trepiece of Prime Minister David The Opec meetings since 2012 to micro-manage the oil market. said, but other countries rejected group shall hold two ordinary Opec’s idle production capacity Cameron’s bid to position London have produced no policy change But with the biggest consumer, the idea and the next gathering is meetings a year, and its long- and its Gulf allies the United Arab as a leading hub for Islamic and Wednesday’s gathering in the United States, experiencing scheduled for November 27. running deadlock over who should Emirates and Kuwait smaller finance, as competition heats Vienna was no exception, stick- an oil boom and prices comfort- “The meetings are quiet and succeed Abdullah Al Badri as amounts, giving them more up with financial centres in the ing with its production target of ably anchored around $110 a bar- there is nothing much to dis- Opec’s secretary-general. influence. Middle East and Asia. 30 million barrels per day (bpd). rel, OPEC meetings have dropped cuss except for the issue of the The unchanged 30 million bpd REUTERS AGENCIES

China’s economy stabilises Oil rises above $113 on Iraq unrest

LONDON: Brent crude edged analysts expect them to encoun- gained $2.13. Brent was set to gain further above $113 a barrel yes- ter much greater resistance. more than five percent this week, terday, up about $4 since the Iraqi exports from the north the biggest weekly rise since last start of the week, on concerns are considered safe for the July, while US crude was on track that an insurgency in Iraq could moment, analysts said, as the for its biggest jump since December. trigger civil war and eventually major Kirkuk oil hub is held by “You want to have a premium hit oil exports. Kurdish forces. as Iraq is more unstable than last Iraq’s most senior Shia cleric “While the Iraqi military faces week, but with no disruptions, urged his followers to take up low morale issues in the north, Shia how much can you keep,” Jakob arms to defend themselves against fighters would prove much more at Petromatrix said. the advancing Sunni militants, resilient in protecting their homes The United States has threat- potentially escalating the conflict. and provinces in southern Iraq, ened military action against “The market in general is try- and Sunni insurgents have no local Islamist militants who have taken ing to assess the risks on Iraq. support,” Ayham Kamel, director towns and cities in Iraq, raising There was a big market reaction for the Middle East and North concerns over its oil exports. and then the IEA (International Africa at Eurasia Group, wrote in The militants, a Sunni offshoot Energy Agency) said it did not see a research note earlier this week. of Al Qaeda, were moving into a risk to supplies so the volatility Brent was up seven cents at two towns in the eastern prov- is reflecting this,” Olivier Jakob $113.09 per barrel as of 1456 GMT, ince of Diyala after security forces at Petromatrix consultancy said. off a peak of $114.69, its highest abandoned their posts. Iraqi army Most of Iraq’s current oil since September. It gained more helicopters fired rockets on one exports come from south of than $3 on Thursday. of the largest mosques in the city A labourer works on a crane at a construction site for a new building in Beijing, yesterday. China’s economy Baghdad, still far from the US crude was up 12 cents at of Tikrit yesterday, local officials showed some signs of stabilising in May. Islamist rebel fighters. Should $106.65, off a high of $107.68, also a and witnesses said. they reach south of the capital, nine-month peak. A day earlier it REUTERS JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

Wage deal to end OECD sees US growth accelerating South African Steadily falling unemployment rate and rebound in investment to push growth platinum strike

WASHINGTON: The US eco- The OECD is more optimistic housing over the next year. set to decline. The OECD, an eco- increase in the minimum wage to soon: AMCU nomic recovery should accel- on US growth than most private “The US is the bright spot in nomic policy organization that address the issue. erate in coming months as an forecasters and some other interna- the world’s recovery today,” said includes the world’s largest devel- Declining labor force participa- JOHANNESBURG: The energy boom, steadily falling tional organisations, including the OECD head Angel Gurria. “This oped nations, did warn that some tion also poses a problem which leader of South Africa’s AMCU unemployment and a rebound World Bank, which looks for growth has been building up,” as the trends in labor markets could hurt the OECD said could be addressed union said yesterday a wage in investment push growth in 2015 of only three percent. United States worked through the the country’s prospects. through reform of immigration deal with the top three plati- to its fastest pace in a decade, The OECD said it saw several aftermath of the crisis and reces- Despite stronger growth, the laws, or employee tax and training num producers was imminent, the Organisation for Economic positive trends converging to sion and set the stage for domestic group forecast the unemployment programs that encourage people signalling a possible end to a Cooperation and Development make the recovery faster, more demand and investment to take rate would decline only slowly, to work. It recommended specifi- crippling five-month strike that said yesterday. entrenched and more driven by off. “The US is the one country remaining at six percent at the cally a broadening of the earned has disrupted global output of In its latest overview of the US private demand. that has its own growth built in.” end of 2015 — still above the level income tax credit. the metal. economy, the Paris-based group Low energy prices and contin- Notably, the OECD said that typically regarded as full employ- The OECD said the United Workers from the Association said US gross domestic product ued low borrowing costs, coupled the steps taken to rein in federal ment. The jobless rate stood at 6.3 States should also cut its 39.1 of Mineworkers and Construction would expand 2.5 percent this with record corporate stores of spending and debt in recent years percent in May. percent corporate tax rate, the Union (AMCU) begged leader year, a touch below a forecast it cash, should produce a surge of 10 were succeeding. The drag on the The continued stagnation of highest among OECD countries, Joseph Mathunjwa on Thursday released last month. percent in business investment in economy from budget cuts has wages among middle- and lower- and reform the system to broaden to end the country’s longest min- But it maintained its 3.5 per- 2015, the OECD projected, while diminished, while federal debt as income families has stunted the base of corporations paying ing strike and sign the latest offer cent growth projection for next steadily falling unemployment a percentage of GDP was stabilis- demand and worsened income taxes and to give businesses less - an increase of about 20 percent, year, which would be the strong- would mean rising consumer ing at around 106 percent — high inequality, the OECD said. It incentive to book profits abroad. or 1,000 rand ($93) a month. est advance since 2004. demand and a firm recovery in by world standards but perhaps called for tax law changes and an REUTERS Mathunjwa told Johannesburg radio he would take the offer to more AMCU members at mines on Friday, before meeting with management at Lonmin, Anglo American Platinum and Impala Japan to cut corporate Platinum later or over the week- end to relay the response of his miners to their offer. “At least there is light at the tax in growth bid end of the tunnel, which is not the light of a goods train,” he told TOKYO: Japan will slash one of the final tranche of the prime Talk Radio 702. of the world’s highest corpo- minister’s “Abenomics” action plan, The main outstanding sticking rate tax rates as part of a wider which started in early 2013 with point was whether the wage deal bid to shake up the economy a huge public spending spree and should stretch over three or five and drive growth, officials and an unprecedented monetary easing years, he said. media reports said yesterday. campaign by the Bank of Japan. “We are in quite a sensitive Economy Minister Akira That gave the world’s number stage of trying to resolve this and Amari told reporters in Tokyo three economy a shot in the arm reach an agreement. We won’t do that he had reached an agree- and set off a stock market rally things haphazardly,” he said. ment on Thursday evening with as firms’ profitability grew on the Bishop Joe Seoka, who mediated the tax commission head of Prime back of a sharply weaker yen. between miners, companies and Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling But Abe’s much-touted — and polit- the government after the police Liberal Democratic Party. ically more difficult — first attempt killing in August 2012 of 34 wildcat Amari did not give details. But at a package of structural reforms AMCU strikers, said communities media reports said the deal would fell flat last summer, amid accusa- around the Rustenburg mines in see corporate taxes — which vary tions they were too timid at taking the platinum belt, made desperate across the country — cut to below on Japan’s many vested interests. by the strike, were ecstatic. “The 30 percent within several years, as Yesterday, a government panel mood is very jubilant. People are Tokyo reduces the national rate to gave Abe more than 200 deregu- very happy, very excited,” he said. push down regional rates in turn. lation proposals across various “Yesterday I could have flown Japan’s corporate taxes, includ- sectors, including the health and if I’d had wings. If it hadn’t hap- ing a rate of 35.6 percent in agricultural fields, which are pened yesterday, it could never Tokyo, are the second-highest in aimed at snipping Japan’s noto- Pedestrians walk at a scramble crossing at Shibuya shopping district in Tokyo. Japan is planning to cut corporate have happened.” the Organisation for Economic rious red tape. Most are expected tax, its economy minister said yesterday. Investec Asset Management, a Cooperation and Development to be adopted later this month. top 10 investor in all three mining (OECD) behind the United States. “We have received powerful pro- Doubters say that despite his on a powerful agricultural sector rising prices for everyday goods — companies, said a deal would end The conservative Abe was posals designed to boldly cut long- rhetoric, Abe will not be able to that opposes free-trade deals. the result of Tokyo’s bid to stoke a worrying period of uncertainty expected to speak to media about standing regulations,” Abe told the deliver a wider overhaul of the The premier faces a delicate bal- long-absent inflation and April’s but the industry faced major the changes later yesterday. panel. “From now on, I would like economy, including shaking up ance as ordinary Japanese struggle consumption tax hike to 8.0 per- challenges. Cutting business taxes is part to show results,” he added. rigid labour markets and taking with lacklustre wage growth and cent from 5.0 percent. AFP REUTERS

QATARI MARKET IMF urges Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P German inflation hits four-year low Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.44 0.99% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 121.00 1.95% Aa2 AA Sweden to FRANKFURT: Inflation hit a Finland’s inflation rate came in a vicious spiral where businesses Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 114.75 2.41% Aa2 AA four-year low in Germany and at 1.0 percent. and households delay purchases, cool down real Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 110.50 2.95% Aa2 AA was weak in Spain and Italy Eurostat is to release its thus throttling demand and caus- Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 161.75 4.35% Aa2 AA as well, data showed yester- updated reading for May infla- ing companies to lay off workers. Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 123.38 4.80% Aa2 AA day, a week after the European tion on Monday, with the initial Such concerns persuaded the estate market Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 114.13 4.82% Aa2 AA Central Bank revealed a bat- reading showing it had dipped by European Central Bank to cut STOCKHOLM: Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 103.06 0.68% Aa2 AA tery of measures to fight off the 0.2 points to 0.5 percent. interest rates at its monthly pol- The spectre of deflation. Inflation is currently unusually icy meeting last week and launch International Monetary Fund Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 112.63 2.74% Aa2 AA Final data showed that using low across the 18-nation eurozone, a series of other measures to ease yesterday urged Sweden to cool Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 101.88 0.49% A1 A- the ECB’s methodology German fuelling concerns the region could monetary conditions in the single its booming real estate market, Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 1.73% A1 A- inflation tumbled to just 0.6 per- be on the brink of deflation—a currency area. which is causing a high level of QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.00 0.76% NR NR cent in May from 1.1 percent in sustained and widespread drop On Thursday, Portugal said its household debt, warning of an QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.13 0.89% Aa3 A+ April, hitting the lowest level in prices. inflation was minus 0.3 percent “increasing concern” of finan- QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.63 1.60% Aa3 A+ since February 2010. Spain, the eurozone’s fourth in May, while Slovakia said prices cial instability. Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.50 1.81% A2 A- Meanwhile in Spain consumer largest economy, saw prices drop were unchanged using its national House prices rose by as much prices rose by just 0.2 percent in by 0.2 percent in March on an methodology. Ireland reported its as 12.5 percent in April compared Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.25 1.08% A2 A- the year to May, the national sta- annual basis. inflation rate was steady at 0.4 to a year earlier for some types Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 125.63 2.38% A2 A- tistics office INE said. While falling prices may sound percent in May using ECB meth- of homes, the Washington-based Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 109.50 3.16% A2 A- In Italy inflation slid by 0.1 good for consumers, deflation odology, France said its inflation institution said in a prelimi- Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 107.50 4.16% A2 A- point to 0.4 percent in May, Istat is actually dangerous for the rate stayed at 0.8 percent, nary annual report on Sweden’s Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 101.63 -0.23% Aa3 A said. economy because it can trigger AFP economy. Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.75 2.76% Aa3 A The high level of credit growth Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 109.63 3.57% Aa3 A in Sweden pushed up household debt in the country to nearly 175 Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.13 3.87% Aa3 A China scare percent of disposable income in SOVEREIGNS 2013, the IMF warned, suggesting Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P three remedies. Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.50 1.84% Aa2 AA First, it suggested introducing Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 107.50 0.87% NR NR a maximum period for people to take out mortgages, in a country Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 109.50 1.51% NR NR where many households pay back Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 126.00 3.16% NR NR their loans so slowly that they Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 121.38 3.34% NR NR hardly dent them. Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 102.13 0.38% Aa2 AA Last year, the IMF slammed Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.63 2.30% NR BBB Sweden’s average mortgage amor- Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 111.00 3.39% NR BBB tisation schedule for the more Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 105.13 4.74% Caa1 B- solvent households, which was at 140 years. Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 108.63 2.98% NR BBB- Second, the fund proposed an Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 105.63 3.32% NR BBB- unspecified limit to monthly pay-

*Periodic Distribution Amount ments based on income. IMPORTANT NOTE: The final proposal was to Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which increase the minimum deposit on is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services a house to 25 percent of the total Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary price, from 15 percent currently. data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not The IMF also urged Sweden take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds to accelerate new construction, can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant arguing that “the demand for liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not housing is outstripping sup- a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. ply, reflecting ongoing rapid urbanisation and immigration trends”. A Chinese national flag in front of a GlaxoSmithKline office building in Shanghai. China’s crackdown on cor- The Fund lowered its 2014 ruption in the pharmaceutical sector has frightened foreign executives so much that some fear they could growth forecast for Sweden by be jailed and have asked their lawyers if they should leave the country for six months. 0.2 points to 2.6 percent. AFP

JUNE 14, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Classifieds ON SATURDAY 16

SERVICES

ACCOUNTING SOFTWARES CARPET COMPUTER & IT EDUCATION ARTECH KASHMIR HANDICRAFT EMPORIUM Sage Accounting, Peachtree, QuickBooks, Dynacom, )BOENBEF
$BSUQFUT
)BOEJDSBGUT

'VSOJUVSF
%BD&BTZ
5BMMZ
104
#BS
$PEF
'JYFE
"TTFUT
4PGUXBSFÚT "M
.JSHBC
4USFFU
"M
/BTFS
5FM
44432761 GSM: 55553407 Tel: +974 44375654 E-mail: [email protected] ADVERTISING OVERSEAS COMPUTER TRAINING CENTRE NEWSPAPER FAMILY COMPUTER CENTRE GEM ADVERTISING & PUBLICATIONS "M
3BZZBO
$PNQMFY
3BZZBO
3PBE (Overseas Newspaper Advertisements) 5FM
44435361/44370779 - 'BY
44449130 5FM
44442001 - GSM: 55783303

ATTESTATION CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE

DENTAL

AL MASA DENTAL COMPLEX %3
4BFFE
.PIBNNFE
"CEFMLIBMFL
.4
1SPTUIPEPOUJDT
0QQPTJUF
7JMMBHJP
5FM
44513289
'BY
44693086 AL MASA DENTAL COMPLEX %3
4BNJ
,IBMJM
&MNPSTJ
&MTIBSPVE
.4
3FTUPSBUJWF
%FOUJTUZ

&OEPEPOUJDT 0QQPTJUF
7JMMBHJP
5FM
44513289
'BY
44693086 AL MASA DENTAL COMPLEX %3
.PIBNNFE
/BWFFE
:BXBS
(#
(FOFSBM
4DPQF
%FOUJTU
3BKJW
(BOEIJ
6OJWFSTJUZ
PG
)FBMUI
4DJFODFT 
0QQPTJUF
7JMMBHJP
5FM
44513289
'BY
44693086

DECORATION

YATHRIB DECORATION & FURNITURE W.L.L. (ZQTVN
#PBSE
%FDPSBUJPO
$FJMJOH
8PSLT
1BSUJUJPO
KPCT
BSF
BU
ZPVS
DPOWFOJFODF
6TJOH
RVBMJUZ
NBUFSJBMT
$BMM
77841241/55570692 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION

ELECTRONICS

FLORIST

HELPLINE GROUP OF COMPANIES $FSUJûDBUF
BUUFTUBUJPO
GSPN
*OEJB
6,
64"
"VTUSBMJB
(VMG
$PVOUSJFT
BOE
$BOBEB

8F
IBWF

ZFBST
FYQFSJFODF

BQQSPWFE
"HFODZ GSM: 77711129
5FM
44351974/44919213 - www.helplinegroups.com ASIA ATTESTATION & TRANSLATION SERVICES CENTRE 4JODF

-FBEJOH
%PDVNFOU
-FHBMJTBUJPO
BOE
5SBOTMBUPST
*OEJBO
$FSUJûDBUF
"UUFTUBUJPO
JO

8PSLJOH
%BZT
.PCJMF

4PûUFM
'JSTU
'MPPS
/P
5FM
 A/C MAINTENANCE & SERVICES FURNITURE

SAMA COOL APOLLO FURNITURE *OTUBMMBUJPO
.BJOUFOBODF
".$

0O
$BMM
BOE
4FSWJDJOH
PG
BMM
LJOET
PG
4QMJU
1BDLBHF
6OJUT
'$6
")6
737
VOJU
BOE
$IJMMJFST
4BMXB
3PBE
"O
JOJUJBUJWF
PG
4BNB
(SPVQ
8--
5FM
44433199 5FM
44689522 (3 Lines) .PC
66797555 'BY
4444 7709 - &NBJM
[email protected] XXXBQPMMPGVSOJUVSFPOMJOFDPN

ART & HANDCRAFT SUPPLIES GARDENING

COLOUR NOTE CO. AL TAMOOH GARDENS 4VQQMJFST
PG
"SU

)BOEJDSBGU
DMBTT
BDUJWJUJFT
GPS
4DIPPMT

/VSTFSJFT
&OKPZ
ZPVS
(BSEFO
1MBOOJOH
%FTJHOJOH
1SFQBSBUJPO
OFYU
EBZ
EFMJWFSZ
5FM
44322868, 'BY
44430640, GSM: 77181874 1MBOUBUJPO
BOE
.BJOUFOBODF
&WFSZUIJOH
SFMBUFE
UP
(BSEFOJOH
$BMM
"INFE
4BNJ
70136032/55089846 BLASTING AND PAINTING GLASS COATING M. PALLONJI QATAR 10
#09

&NBJM
NQBMMPOKJ!RBUBSOFURB 5FM
44606822
'BY
44606977 GSM:55879234 APOLLO ENTERPRISES $SZTUBM
#POE
(MBTT
$PBUJOH
"HBJOTU
5IF
4VOÚT
)BSNGVM
3BZT
)FBU
3FTJTUBODF
4BMXB
3PBE
5FM
44426664 BICYCLES & WATER SPORTS GSM: 55830870/33599574 &NBJM
[email protected] GENERAL TRADING SKATE SHACK SERVICES "M
"JO


4BMXB
3PBE
'PS
%JSFDUJPO
DBMM
5FM
446-92532 GSM: 552-47885/779-36152 - www.skate-shack.com AL MUTWASSIT CLEANING & PEST CONTROL ,IBSBCB
4USFFU
#FIJOE
8IJUF
.PTRVF
BLINDS, CURTAINS AND 5FM
44367555 'BY
44367999 GSM: 55875920/55860432 UPHOLSTERY PRESTIGE GENERAL SERVICES (FOFSBM
$MFBOJOH
GPS
7JMMBT
'MBUT
4PGB
$BSQFUT
'MPPS
5JMFT
.BSCMF
1PMJTI
%BJMZ
8FFLMZ
.POUIMZ

:FBSMZ
$POUSBDUT GSM: 66752291 5FM
44323040 'BY
44131012 &NBJM
QSFTUJHFQBSUOFS!ZBIPPDPN

XXXQSFTUJHFHFOFSBMTFSWJDFTDPN

AL SADEQ TRAD. & MAINTENANCE CO. (FOFSBM
$MFBOJOH
GPS
7JMMB
'MBU
#VJMEJOH
$BSQFU
4IBNQPPJOH
4PGB
4FUT
.BSCMF
1PMJTI
.BOQPXFS
4VQQMZ

1FTU
$POUSPM

%BJMZ
8FFLMZ
.POUIMZ

:FBSMZ
$POUSBDUT

)PVST
4FSWJDF 
GSM: 33020107/33020108 5FM
4436068 'BY
44353336 &NBJM
BMTBEFR!IPUNBJMDPN
BMTBEFR@!ZBIPPDPN

CAPITAL CLEANING COMPANY W.L.L. For advertisements, $PNQMFUF
(FOFSBM
$MFBOJOH
4FSWJDFT
GPS
0ME
BOE
/FX
7JMMBT 5FM
44582257 .PCJMF
33189899/ 55565328/77609026 E-mail: [email protected] call: 44557857 JUNE 14, 2014 Classifieds www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 ON SATURDAY

SERVICES

IMMIGRATION SERVICES INSTRUMENTATION MASSAGE POULTRY

AL TAMOOH GARDENS %VDLT
BOE
3BCCJUT
'SFTI
GSPN
'BSN
0SHBOJD
'FFE
%FMJWFSZ
UP
ZPVS
-PDBUJPO
$BMM
&OH
"ZNBO
55591973 REAL ESTATE

AL MUFTAH SERVICES & RENT A CAR WLL $
3JOH
3PBE
.BJO
0GûDF
5FM 44328100/44442003, 'BY
44414339

.VTIFSJC
#SBODI
0GûDF
5FM
44326840/ 44426649, 'BY
44312899 &
.BJM
SBD!RBUBSOFURB
8FCTJUF
XXXSBDRBUBSDPN ADAM REAL ESTATE COMPANY "M
,VXBSJ
#MHE
UI
'MPPS
"M
4BEE
/FBS
4FCTUBJO
3FTU
5FM
44366932
'BY
44366931 JEWELLERY (4.
55500789 / 55803731 APOLLO REAL ESTATE CANARA JEWELLERY 4BMXB
3PBE
(4.

55864352/55506803/ 55872145 "M
.BOTPVSB
#JO
%JSIBN
4USFFU
5FM
44689522 XXXBQPMMPQSPQFSUJFTPOMJOFDPN
5FM
44422071, 44357283
&NBJM
DBOBSBKFXFMMFSZ!ZBIPPDPN &NBJM
BQPMMPQSPQ!RBUBSOFURB DBOBSBKFXMMFSZ!HNBJMDPN

XXXDPN RENT A CAR MOVERS

GOLDEN WINGS DOOR TO DOOR 8PSMEXJEF
%PPS
UP
%PPS
4FSWJDFT
*OEJB
*OEPOFTJB
/FQBM
1IJMJQQJOFT 
0GûDF)PNF
1BDLJOH

4IJGUJOH
Call: 44501644 SIGNATURE DOHA COMPANY 55815487/33991967 &NBJM RBUBSHPMEFOXJOHT!IPUNBJMDPN 0QFO
GPS
ZPV
8F
QSPWJEF
B
#VTJOFTT
7JTB
WBMJE
GPS

NPOUIT  5FM
+974 4411 1560 / +974 4411 1561 / +974 4016 5555 NORTH OCEAN COMPANY W.L.L. .PC
+974 33510958 &NBJM
TJHOBUVSFEPIB!HNBJMDPN 8PSMEXJEF
EPPS
UP
EPPS
4FSWJDF
"JS4FB-BOE
1BDLJOH

3FNPWBMT
1SPGFTTJPOBM
0GûDF
4IJGUJOH
4UPSBHF
$BMM 4437 4437/6695 3737 IT SOLUTION &NBJM
QBDLONPW!OPSUIPDFBO4$.DPN
XXX
OPSUIPDFBO4$.DPN MARBLE

BECKINGHAM MARBLE 5VSLJTI
.BSCMF
4QBOJTI
.BSCMF

*UBMJBO
.BSCMF
BWBJMBCMF
GPS
TBMF
$BMM
33126121

MANPOWER SUPPLY

AL SULAIMAN RENT A CAR .BJO
0GûDF
%Ú
3JOH
3PBE
5FM
44911711/44911710 'BY
44911699. &NBJM
JOGP!BMTVMBJNBODBSDPN
.VTIFSJC

'BY

"M
,IPS

'BY
 AL MUFTAH RENT A CAR WLL .BJO
0GûDF
%Ú
3JOH
3PBE
5


#SBODI
"JSQPSU


(SBOE
)BNBE

"[J[JZB

3BT
-BGGBO

"M
,IPS

&
.BJM
SBD!RBUBSOFURB

8FCTJUF
XXXSFOUBDBSEPIBDPN LEADERSHIP LIMOUSINE 
)PVS
4FSWJDF

3FOU
"
$BS
.BJO
0GûDF
4BMXB
3PBE

5FM
44440112 (4.
33047637

&NBJM
BCPEBIJTI!IPUNBJMDPN KOTTAKKAL AYURVEDIC MASSAGE CENTRE JABRCO RENT A CAR "ZVSWFEJD
.BTTBHF
1IJMJQQJOF

5IBJ
.BTTBHF 8F
IBWF
NBOZ
WFIJDMFT
MJLF




NPEFMT
GPS
SFOU
XJUI
B
DPNGPSUBCMF
/FBS
#BESJZB
4JHOBM
#JO
.FINPPE QSJDF
PO
EBJMZXFFLMZ
BOE
NPOUIMZ
.BJO
PGûDF

(4.


#SBODI
5FM 44360061 (4. 33453697 #BSXB
7JMMBHF

(4.

&NBJM
KBCSDPDPNQBOJFT!IPUNBJMDPN INTERNATIONAL MASSAGE CENTER (AYURVEDIC) OASiS RENT A CAR AND TRANSPORTATION *OEJBO

5IBJMBOE
3FKVWBOBUJPO
#BDL

+PJOUT
1BJO
Y06
R&/5
M03&
T)"/
A CAR W*5)
O"4J4
'BY: 44130033 1BSBMZTJT
3IFVNBUJD
%JTFBTFT
)PNF
4FSWJDFT
0QQPTJUF
5FM
44130011/44130022 (4. 55157587 (Rental)/ 55129615 "M
+B[FFSB
57
#JO
0NSBO
5FM 44218166 (4. 77702421 (Transportation) 3FOUBM!0BTJT$BST$PN

0BTJT$BSTDPN NICE RENT A CAR NURSERY 4PMVUJPO
GPS
5SBOTQPSU

-FBTJOH
BMM
UZQFT
PG
WFIJDMF

)FBWZ
&RVJNFOU Software Lab Qatar 5FM
44413392 (4.
55514223 'BY
44317896 8FCTJUF
niceqatar.com 10
#PY


%PIB
2BUBS &NBJM
[email protected]/ [email protected]

4PGUXBSF Labs Tel: +974 44622703, 44622705 GSM: 66836037 &NBJM
HPQJOBUI!TPGUMBCRBUBSDPN
8FCTJUF
XXXTPGUMBCRBUBSDPN REGENCY FLEETS "
3FHFODZ
(SPVQ
$P 4QFDJBM
$PSQPSBUF
MFBTJOH
BOE
3FOUBM
SBUFT
1SJDF
JODMVEFT
$PNQSFIFOTJWF
*OTVSBODF
HR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM .BJOUFOBODF
3FQMBDFNFOU
7FIJDMF
FUD
%SJWFO
CZ
7BMVFT
&NBJM
JOGP!SFHFODZüFFUT (DEVELOPED SPECIFICALLY FOR QATAR) DPN

5FM
44433822/44554046
'BY
44554047 Branches: "JSQPSU

5FM
44153086 á
%PDVNFOU
.BOBHFNFOU
4ZTUFN

á
*OWFOUPSZ
.BOBHFNFOU
4ZTUFN

á
1MBOU
.BOBHFNFOU
4ZTUFN #FWFSMZ
)JMMT

5FM
44122131 .PWFOQJDL
5PXFS

4VJUFT
5FM
44966107/30122300 Expertise and capability to develop any kind of Software to suit your specific business needs!!! AVIS RENT A CAR .BJO
0GûDF
BU
"M
4IBSJG
5SBEJOH

$POUSBDUJOH
$P
#MEH
BU
MEDICAL SERVICES UIF
KVODUJPO
PG
"JSQPSU
4USFFU
BOE
4VIBS
4USFFU
3PBE
5FM
44667744 / 44622180
'BY
44657626

BUDGET RENT A CAR 5IF
#FTU
$BS
3FOUBM
4FSWJDF
JO
2BUBS
THE LITTLE HANDS NURSERY )FBE
0GûDF

44310411
"JSQPSU
"SSJWBM

44153048 "HF
HSPVQ

NPOUIT
UP

ZFBST
4FQBSBUF
DMBTTFT
GPS
CBCJFT
UPEEMFST

TUVEFOUT
Airport Departure - 44622678/55808638 (24 Hrs) SPIRAL DUNES SOLUTIONS W.L.L. XJUI
TQBDJPVT
QMBZ
BSFB
#SJUJTI
.BOBHFNFOU

$BNFSB
1SPUFDUJPO
-PDBUJPO
/FX
4BMBUB

"M
.BBIFE
4USFFU
BU
UIF
CBDL
PG
#JSMB
1VCMJD
4DIPPM
(4.
55312803 8FC
BOE
.PCJMF
%FWFMPQNFOU
"OJNBUJPO
#SBOEJOH

4PGUXBSF
NATIONAL CAR RENTAL %FWFMPQNFOU
Mob: 55712761 - E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.spiraldunes.com PARTY ITEMS & $BST

8%T

1JDLVQT

#VTFT

$IBVGGFVS
%SJWF
BALLOON DECORATION $BMM
5547 8150/5547 8151 &NBJM
JOGP!OBUJPOBMRBUBSDPN INVEST IN QATAR PARTY KINGDOM /FBS
+BJEBI
'MZPWFS
/BTSBMMBI
$FOUSF
GO RENT A CAR LEADER MIDDLE EAST W.L.L. 5FM
44353501/ 44366431 E-mail: [email protected] $PNQFUJUJWF
3BUFT
GPS
$BS
3FOUBM

-FBTJOH
'PS
GBTU

SFMJBCMF
#64*/&44
4&561
-0$"-
410/4034
5SBEF
5FM +974 44325500 'BY

44375753
(4.
33697075/ -JDFODFT
+PJOU
7FOUVSFT
1VCMJD
3FMBUJPOT
7JTBT

3FBM
&TUBUF
4FSWJDFT METAL REPAIRS 66971703/55241629 &NBJM
JOGPHPRBUBS!HPSFOUBDBSNFDPN 5FM
+974 55745147 &NBJM
CJ[RBUBS!ZBIPPDPN
PORTABLE/CHEMICAL TOILETS HELPLINE GROUP OF COMPANIES APOLLO ENTERPRISES AL DAR CAR RENTAL 8F
QSPWJEF
"
UP
;
TVQQPSU
GPS
UIF
$PNQBOZ
'PSNBUJPO
$PNNFSDJBM
#FM[POB
1PMZNFSJDT

5FM
44426664 BEAM CONSTRUCTION 
)PVST
#JO
0NSBO
"INFE
#JO
"MJ
4U
10
#PY

3FHJTUSBUJPO
130
4FSWJDFT

3FBM
&TUBUF
4FSWJDFT
$BMM
/PX
(4.
55871914/ 55524897 &NBJM
BQPMMP!RBUBSOFURB

/FBS
"M
4BMJZB
4QPSUT
4UBEJVN
5FM
44901760 'BY
44901566 5FM
44877789
(4.
55599972/55732070

'BY
44866637 77711129/44351974/44919213 - www.helplinegroups.com JORVJSZ!BQPMMPDIFNJDBMTDPN (4.
33138018 &NBJM
[email protected] BMEBSDBSSFOUBM!IPUNBJMDPN JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Spurs one victory away from title Heat go down 107-86 in own backyard

MIAMI: The visiting San Antonio Spurs again torched two-time defending champi- ons Miami Heat in their own backyard, moving to within one victory of clinching the NBA championship after a 107-86 win in game four on Thursday. The one-sided win gave the Spurs, who clinched Game Three by 19 points in Miami, a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals and put them in position to claim a fifth cham- pionship in 15 years when the series shifts to San Antonio for Game Five tomorrow. No team has ever prevailed in the NBA finals after falling behind 3-1. Kawhi Leonard led San Antonio’s balanced, ball-sharing attack with 20 points along with 14 rebounds and Tony Parker added 19 points as all 13 players on the roster joined in the scoring spree for the Spurs. “I just think we’re playing Spurs basketball. We’re just mov- ing the ball, and we’re just play- ing the way we’ve been playing all San Antonio Spurs’s guard Tony Parker (centre) is surrounded by Miami season,” said Parker. Heat players as he goes for the basket during game four of the NBA “We just have to stay focused, Finals at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, on Thursday. The and we’ll be ready. We just have Spurs beat Miami Heat 107-86, moving to within one victory of clinching to think about last year. We don’t the NBA championship. need more motivation than that,” the Frenchman added in refer- ence to last year’s Finals defeat Heat with 28 points, with Chris about as far as it goes,” he said. by Miami in an epic series decider. Bosh next highest with 12. “Now we’ve got to go back home LeBron James, a shadow of Looking ahead to Game Five and play as well or better.” himself during the first half, came and possibly beyond, San Antonio San Antonio put on a sensa- alive in the third quarter in scor- coach Gregg Popovich said “every tional offensive show in Game ing 19 of Miami’s 21 points but it closeout game is very difficult”. Three by shooting an NBA Finals was not enough to slow the daz- “I’m pleased that they per- record of 76 percent in the first zling Spurs. Four-time NBA most formed as well as they did while half of that runaway road win. valuable player James led the we’ve been in Miami, and that’s REUTERS Sterling goes after NBA bosses LOS ANGELES: Donald Silver has worked in a high-level Sterling (pictured), the embat- position for a long time.” tled Los Angeles Clippers owner In April, Sterling made com- banned for life by the NBA over ments to his erstwhile girlfriend racist remarks, has reportedly saying he did not want her to hired investigators to look into bring black people to Clippers fellow team owners and league games or put photos of her- officials. self with black people on social NBC and ESPN reported yes- media, comments that were terday that the 80-year-old real recorded and later made public estate tycoon is fighting back as by celebrity website TMZ. the league tries to force a sale of Sterling’s remarks prompted the club or strip ownership of the a player protest by the Clippers, Clippers from him. sponsor pullouts from the team Both US television networks, Sterling wants to examine the and sparked Silver to ban Sterling citing unnamed sources in web- NBA’s history of dealing with dis- from the NBA for life and site reports, said Sterling has crimination, specifically in law- fine him the maximum $2.5m hired four high-level firms to suits by NBA employees claiming allowed as well as begin the proc- look into commissioner Adam discrimination based on gender. ess of removing him as an owner. Silver, former commissioner “His objective is to demon- An owners vote was sched- David Stern and the other 29 strate for everybody that the uled earlier this month to con- club owners. NBA is a damned hypocrite,” sider the matter but called off Sterling wants to look into Sterling attorney Bobby Samini by Sterling’s wife Shelly, acting prior legal disputes involving the told ESPN. on behalf of the family trust league, comments that have been “We’re going to pull every case that owns the team and with controversial or could be taken against the NBA. Then we’ll her husband’s permission, negoti- as discriminatory by other club demonstrate that the culture of ated a sale deal worth $2bn with owners and NBA finances and racism and gender discrimination former Microsoft executive Steve revenues. is born at the NBA, where Adam Ballmer. AFP Federer into Halle last Froome retains Dauphine lead four after Lu pulls out despite crash HALLE WESTFALEN (GERMANY): Defending DAUPHINE: Briton Chris champion Roger Federer (pic- Froome suffered a late crash on tured) reached the semi-finals the sixth stage of the Criterium of the Halle grass-court cham- du Dauphine yesterday, but he pionships yesterday without retained his overall lead with appearing on court as quarter- two stages remaining. final opponent Lu Yen-huen Jan Bakelants from Belgium of Taiwan withdrew through won the 178.5km stage from injury. Grenoble to Poisy after a Lu, who had self-deprecatingly breakaway, but the real drama announced that he faced a mis- came late on in the peloton sion impossible against the Swiss where Tour de France champion former world number one when Dustin Brown 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (18/16). Froome crashed on a high-speed he said: “If I’m 150 percent and Kohlschreiber, who was on the descent. he’s 100 percent I think I’d still losing end of a five-set marathon The Team Sky rider was forced lose”, pulled out with a recurrence against Britain’s Andy Murray at to change bikes, but worked his of a back problem. the French Open, prevailed after way back to the peloton which Federer, a six-tine winner an epic third set tie-break against had slowed after hearing that the of the tournament, now faces world number 85 Brown. race leader had crashed. Japan’s world number 12 Kei Kohlschreiber, the 2011 cham- A bruised Froome remains Nishikori, who beat American pion, now plays 69th-ranked 12 seconds ahead of Spain’s Steve Johnson 6-1, 7-6 (7/4), for Alejandro Falla for a place in the Alberto Contador, who will be a place in the semi-final. final after the Colombian over- one of his main rivals at the Earlier, Philipp Kohlschreiber came another German Peter Tour de France which starts in fought his way into the semi-finals Gojowczyk 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/2). England next month. by edging past fellow-German AFP AFP JUNE 14, 2014 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 ON SATURDAY Lanka defiant after Root double ton takes England to 575-9 Silva and Sangakkara offer stubborn resistance on second day of the opening Test

LONDON: Sri Lanka’s Kaushal Silva and Kumar Sangakkara Scoreboard offered stubborn resistance on England (I innings): the second day of the opening A Cook b Kulasekara ...... 17 Test after Joe Root put England S Robson c P Jayawardene b Pradeep...... 1 in control by hitting his maiden G Ballance c P Jayawardene b Pradeep ..23 Test double ton yesterday. I Bell lbw Eranga ...... 56 The 23-year-old Root, dropped J Root (not out) ...... 200 for the final Ashes Test during Moeen Ali c M Jayawardene b Herath ....48 England’s 5-0 whitewash Down M Prior c Silva b Eranga ...... 86 Under, brought up his 200 with C Jordan c P Jayawardene b Eranga ...... 19 a dab behind square after a well S Broad c Karunaratne b Pradeep ...... 47 compiled innings that featured 16 L Plunkett C Silva b Pradeep ...... 39 boundaries from 298 balls. J Anderson (not out) ...... 9 Alastair Cook immediately Extras (B-12, LB-12, NB-6)...... 30 declared the innings on 575-9, Total (for 9 wkts decl) ...... 575 leaving Sri Lanka openers Silva Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-22, 3-74, 4-120, and Dimuth Karunaratne to 5-209, 6-380, 7-402, 8-466, 9-547. negotiate a tricky spell before tea. Bowling: Kulasekara 22-3-83-1; Pradeep Karunaratne, who successfully 29-2-123-4 (nb-2); Eranga 30-3-163-3(nb- overturned an lbw appeal off 4); Mathews 11-2-39-0; Herath 37.3-2- James Anderson in the first over 136-1; Thirimanne 1-0-7-0. and offered a chance to the slips Sri Lanka (I innings): soon after, fell to Chris Jordan’s D Karunaratne c Prior b Jordan ...... 38 third ball in Test cricket when on K Silva (batting) ...... 62 38, edging to Matt Prior behind K Sangakkara (batting) ...... 32 the stumps. Extras (B-4, W-4) ...... 8 However, Silva (62) and Total (for 1 wkt) ...... 140 Sangakkara (32) battled their Fall of wicket: 1-54. way through to 140-1 at the close, To bat: M Jayawardene, L Thirimanne, A although the former was lucky to Mathews, P. Jayawardene, N Kulasekara, R survive a caught behind appeal Herath, N Pradeep, S Eranga. off Stuart Broad on his way to Bowling: Anderson 10-1-43-0; Broad his fourth half-century, with the 10-2-39-0(w-1); Jordan 10-3-26-1 (w-1); third umpire ruling Prior had not Plunkett 7-1-25-0 (w-2); Moeen 3-1-3-0. claimed the catch cleanly. Root, yet to nail a position in the line-up during his short Test hopeful that the England bowlers career, was offered good sup- would be able to do the job for the port by Jordan, Broad and Liam team on the third day, despite the Plunkett as the hosts looked to wicket offering little assistance. bat Sri Lanka out of the match “We have played on wickets like against a bowling attack that this. It’s slow, but its two-paced lacked any real threat after an England’s Joe Root acknowledges the crowd after his double century during the second day of the first Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s in London and that gives you a bit of chance. early three-wicket blast on the yesterday. The wicket is quite dry and we first morning of the Test. aren’t not going to blast anyone Root’s 200 beat his previous out on that wicket. We have to best of 180, also scored at Lord’s day, Sri Lanka’s bowlers set out Prior, who passed 4,000 Test pair having put on 171 runs for Broad (47) and Plunkett (39) build the pressure, dry out the against Australia last year, and to bombard Root and Prior, also runs early in the day, never looked the sixth-wicket. also ticked the total along to help runs and get wickets that way. helped rescue his side after they returning after injury and being entirely comfortable, eventually Jordan, who along with Sam England to their highest score When you get a big score you were struggling at 120 for four dropped against Australia, with falling for 86 when he could only Robson and Moeen Ali is making against Sri Lanka, for whom want to attack and the guys soon after lunch on the first day. short balls on a pitch that appears fend a well-directed bouncer his Test debut, struck a breezy 19 Nuwan Pradeep finished with a learned a lot from that session Having had little luck tossing set to become easier to bat on as from Shaminda Eranga to Silva before becoming Eranga’s third career-best haul of four wickets. and we want to build the pres- the ball up late on the opening the match progresses. at forward short-leg, with the victim, while fellow fast bowlers At the end of the day, Prior was sure tomorrow.” REUTERS Brazil earns US Open: Kaymer off approval to a perfect start of Qatar minister PINEHURST: Martin Kaymer matched the lowest opening 36 SAO PAULO: Qatar’s Minister holes in major golf championship of Youth and Sports H E Salah history, firing a second consecu- bin Ghanim bin Nasser Al Ali tive five-under par 65 yesterday has congratulated the govern- to seize an eight-stroke lead at ment of Brazil and its people on the US Open. the occasion of the 20th edition The 29-year-old German of the Fifa World Cup. posted the lowest 36-hole score The opening ceremony was Czech Republic’s Radek Stepanek returns to South Africa’s Kevin in US Open history with a bogey- held on Thursday at the Arena Anderson during their quarter-final match on day five of the ATP Aegon free round to stand on 10-under Corinthians stadium in the city par 130 at Pinehurst. of Sao Paulo. Championships tournament at the Queen’s Club in London yesterday. No player in major golf history H E Al Ali, who attended the had ever gone as low as 65 in each opening ceremony of the Fifa of the first two rounds. World Cup, offered congratula- “Somebody has to do it at one tions to the Brazilian Minister Stepanek claims one stage,” Kaymer said. “You need to of Youth and Sports and to the play very solid and you need a lit- World Cup 2014 local organ- tle bit of luck here or there.” ising committee, referring to more scalp at Queen’s The only other players to score the efforts that have been made 130 in the first two rounds of a since Brazil won the honour LONDON: Czech veteran victory against Wimbledon cham- major event were England’s Nick of hosting the tournament in Radek Stepanek claimed pion Murray during a lethargic Faldo and American Brandt Martin Kaymer of Germany tips his cap after finishing the second round of 2007. another impressive scalp at first set display that saw the big- Snedeker, who each opened on 66 the US Open Championship golf tournament in Pinehurst, North Carolina, The minister praised the open- Queen’s Club as he followed his serving 6-feet-8-inch Anderson and followed with 64 at the British yesterday. ing ceremony, which introduced shock win over Andy Murray by overpower his opponent with ease. Open, Faldo in 1992 at Muirfield the world to the culture and civi- defeating South Africa’s Kevin But Stepanek, supported again and Snedeker at Lytham in 2012. Phil Mickelson, will make a run But Kaymer is far from com- lization of the Brazilian people. Anderson 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the by compatriot and Chelsea goal- “It’s just very satisfying,” at trimming his epic eight-shot placent, aware that difficult con- “This country has great passion quarter-finals yesterday. keeper Petr Cech, wrestled the Kaymer said. “The way I worked edge, which would be the largest ditions are a trademark of US for football and is capable of pro- Stepanek, ranked 42nd, ended momentum back to seal his latest my way around the course, I hit 36-hole lead in US Open history Opens and disaster could lurk viding an ideal championship,” H defending champion Murray’s impressive win after surviving a some smart shots and didn’t play if it stands. over the last two rounds. E Al Ali said. 19-match winning run on grass 15-ace barrage from the seventh too aggressive. I didn’t make Zimbabwe’s Brendon de Jonge “It’s not a done deal,” Kaymer On the sidelines of the open- in the previous round. seed. many mistakes.” and Americans Dustin Johnson, said. “You don’t approach ing, the minister met his Algerian And the 35-year-old contin- “It’s great to beat a top guy, Kaymer’s 130 was one stroke Keegan Bradley and Brooks Saturday and Sunday in a relaxed counterpart, Mohamed Tahmi, ued his giant-killing streak by but it’s even tougher to back it up below the old 36-hole US Open Koepka shared second in the club- way. On Sunday afternoon and wished the Algerian team fighting back from a set down with a win again,” said 15th seed mark set by Rory McIlroy at house on 138. when you lift the trophy you can success. Algeria is the only rep- to eliminate world number 18 Stepanek, who is bidding to win Congressional on his way to win- “He’s as dialed in as I’ve seen,” relax. You have to keep playing resentative of the Arabs in the Anderson to reach the last four his first singles’ title since 2011 in ning the 2011 title. said Bradley. “He’s steady and well.” tournament. H E Al-Ali hoped at the Wimbledon warm-up for Washington. “Very solid again,” Kaymer said. doesn’t seem to get too down. But even world number one that its stars would give a per- the first time in nine years. “In the first set Kevin played “I didn’t make a bogey which is That’s a good combination for a Adam Scott, who fired a 67 to formance reflecting the evolution Stepanek will play Feliciano perfect tennis. For a half hour I nice. I got tired the last three US Open.” stand on level par, 10 strokes of football in the Arab world and Lopez tomorrow for a place in really had no chance. or four holes but I didn’t make The largest US Open leads adrift, admits overtaking Kaymer live up to the expectations of the Sunday’s final after the Spanish “But I once won a match where any mistakes. Didn’t miss many after two rounds have been the will be a difficult task. Arab masses who are supporting 10th seed enjoyed a surprise 6-4, I faced 78 aces. That was against fairways. Didn’t miss many six-stroke edges enjoyed by Tiger “Potentially, he goes out tomor- them. 7-6 (9/7) success against world Ivo Karlovic in the Davis Cup in greens.” Woods on his way to victory at row and plays better than every- Algeria is in Group H along number six Tomas Berdych. 2009, so I knew I just had to wait Afternoon starters, including Pebble Beach in 2000 and McIlroy one again and this thing’s over,” with Belgium, Russia and South Stepanek seemed to be suffer- and take my first chance.” reigning British Open champion in 2011. Scott said. REUTERS K o r e a . AGENCIES ing a hangover from his stunning AFP JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Five classic England-Italy Group D: England, Italy lock clashes Ahead of their Group D clash in Manaus today, we take a look at five classic England-Italy matches: ‘Battle of Highbury’, London, November 14, 1934: England 3 Italy 2 horns for rumble in jungle Five months after Italy triumphed in the 1934 edition of the World Cup the Azzurri played England at Highbury in London in a friendly which was anything but. England, who had Italy lose De Sciglio ahead of clash; Rooney urges team to stick to plans not taken part in the World Cup, faced fero- cious tactics throughout on their way to a win that ultimately prompted calls for international MANAUS, Brazil: Cloying friendlies to be banned. humidity and a parched pitch Turin, May 16, 1948: Italy 0 England 4 will add to the sense of danger England’s 4-0 win away to Italy is consid- when England and Italy launch ered one of their best performances against their World Cup campaigns in the Azzurri. World champions Italy had been the steamy Amazon jungle city Italy’s defender Mattia De Sciglio during a training preparing for months with a squad featuring of Manaus today. several players from the great Torino side that session at “Portobello With South American cham- had dominated Italian football but, only a year pions Uruguay also lurking in Resort” in Mangaratiba later, tragically disappeared in the Superga air- Group D, along with Costa Rica, on Thursday. De Sciglio plane crash disaster. While Italy were led by both Roy Hodgson’s England and will not play in their match long-standing coach Vittorio Pozzo, England Cesare Prandelli’s Italy approach against England due to had only just appointed their first coach, Walter the game knowing they can injuries sustained during Winterbottom, who had no say in selecting play- scarcely afford to lose if they are a training session.RIGHT: ers. Stan Mortensen opened the scoring in the to reach the last 16. Midfielder Steven Gerrard fourth minute, Tommy Lawton added a second Italy suffer a setback on the (second right) stretches on 23 minutes and Tom Finney hit a double eve of big clash when right back as forward Wayne Rooney inside two second-half minutes. Mattia De Sciglio ruled out of the (right) and midfielder Frank Turin, June 14, 1973: Italy 2 England 0 game due to left thigh injury. Having failed to beat England in their four meet- The rainforest humidity, which Lampard (second left) ings following the 4-0 rout of 1948, Italy finally hovers at around 80 percent, is look on during England’s beat the Three Lions for the first time in a 2-0 likely to weigh heavily on the training session at the friendly win thanks to goals from Pietro Anstasi tempo of the game and the two Urca military base in Rio and Fabio Capello, who would later spend four sides must also get to grips with de Janeiro on Thursday. years as England manager from 2008 to 2012. a desiccated playing surface at the Bari, July 7, 1990: Italy 2 England 1 purpose-built Amazonia Arena. Head groundsman Carlos Having narrowly failed to make the World Cup Botella has admitted that the final following semi-final defeat to Germany on pitch is in “bad shape” and emer- penalties, England’s bid to claim a third-place gency work was required to cover finish came undone at the end of a dramatic up its dry brown patches with football, you can’t just go out line up in attack alongside Rooney upon his final World Cup. Panenka. “They have good run- 15-minute spell in the second half which saw green dye. there and attack, attack, attack. and club-mate Daniel Sturridge. Italy are seeking to atone for ners, but we know how to face three goals. Roberto Baggio opened Italy’s The teams last met in the quar- We have to be a bit cautious. With Danny Welbeck an injury their wretched showing at the them and have been studying account on 71 minutes and although David ter-finals of the 2012 European “This is the top end of foot- doubt due to a thigh problem and 2010 World Cup in South Africa, England over the last few days,” Platt levelled 10 minutes later, the Azzurri took an 86th minute lead when Toto Schillaci fired Championship in Kiev, when Italy ball and you might get picked Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain recov- when the holders crashed out in he said and added:. past Peter Shilton from the penalty spot. prevailed on penalties after a 0-0 off. We have to stick to our plans ering from knee ligament dam- the first round. “Italy have always had great draw that they largely domi- that we’ve worked on the last age, Southampton’s Adam Lallana Notoriously slow starters, the games against England.” Kiev, June 24, 2012: Italy 0 England 0 nated. Possession of the ball will few weeks and pick the right seems likely to occupy one of the Azzurri were held to draws by Italy, who are due to arrive (Italy win 4-2 on penalties) be key amid the intense heat, but moment.” flanks. the Republic of Ireland and lowly in Manaus yesterday, have been In the quarter-finals of Euro 2012, an Andrea England striker Wayne Rooney While expectations of an Rooney and the livewire Luxembourg in their only official spared England’s injury concerns, Pirlo-inspired Italy were held to a scoreless draw is convinced that his side now English triumph in the final on Sterling are vying for the number warm-up matches, but Pirlo has with Marco Verratti overcoming after extra-time by England, prompting manager possess the weapons to unsettle July 13 are low, Hodgson’s squad is 10 role in England’s 4-2-3-1 for- promised that they will be ready a fever and reserve goalkeeper Roy Hodgson to later claim they had under- opponents of Italy’s calibre. dotted with exciting young players mation, and whoever plays there for England. Salvatore Sirigu fit after damag- performed. England went ahead 2-1 on penal- “We’ve got a lot of energy, a lot who thrilled neutrals during the will have the responsiblity of “We know England are a great ing his ribs. ties when Riccardo Montolivo missed but when of pace in the team, and if we can 2013-14 Premier League season. keeping Andrea Pirlo under close team who have improved a lot Under Prandelli, Italy have Ashley Young missed for England, Pirlo beat pick the right moments, we can Everton midfielder Ross surveillance. with new, young players com- become accustomed to using sev- England’s Joe Hart with a cheeky ‘Panenka’ chip really hurt teams with the pace Barkley, 20, and 18-year-old left- Eight years after mastermind- ing in,” said the Juventus play- eral different systems. They are to level. Azzurri goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon then and tempo that we can hit them back Luke Shaw will start on the ing Italy’s triumph at the 2006 maker, who tipped the balance predicted to set up in a 4-1-4-1 saved from Ashley Cole, with Antonio Nocerino at,” said the Manchester United bench, but 19-year-old Liverpool tournament in Germany, the of the Euro 2012 shoot-out in shape today with Mario Balotelli and Alessandro Diamanti scoring their efforts to forward. “But in international winger Raheem Sterling could 35-year-old Pirlo is embarking Italy’s favour with an audacious the lone striker. AFP send Italy to the final with a 4-2 win. Greece eye upset over Uruguay braced for winning Colombia start despite Suarez’s absence

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil: FORTALEZA, Brazil: Luis In Keylor Navas, they boast Containing Colombia’s potent FACTBOX Uruguay Suarez looks certain to sit out one of the best goalkeepers in the attacking game, even without Uruguay’s World Cup Group competition. He was instrumen- injured striker Radamel Falcao, vs Costa Rica D opener against Costa Rica tal in securing a mid-table finish will be key to defensive-minded today but in Edinson Cavani for his modest Spanish club side Greece’s attempt to upset the Uruguay play Costa Rica in a World Cup Group and Diego Forlan the South Levante last season. World Cup Group C favourites D match in Fortaleza today. Americans still boast a formi- So much so that the official La today. PROBABLE TEAMS dable attacking partenership. Liga website hailed him as “the The Greeks, who also play Suarez had keyhole surgery league’s best” goalkeeper ahead A combination of file pictures shows Ivorian striker Didier Drogba (left) Japan and Ivory Coast in the Uruguay: 1-Fernando Muslera; on his left knee just three weeks of more illustrious peers at Real Japan’s Shinji Kagawa in action during last week’s warm-up matches. 16-Maximiliano Pereira, 2-Diego Lugano, group, have long said their first ago and although he appears to Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Ivory Coast will face Japan in their Group C football match today. game will be the most crucial one 3-Diego Godin, 22-Martin Caceres; 17-Egidio be recovering well, coach Oscar Barcelona. with Colombia. Arevalo Rios, 5-Walter Gargano, 11-Christian Tabarez is unlikely to risk him But the Costa Ricans have been “We have it in our own hands Stuani, 7-Cristian Rodriguez; 10-Diego Forlan, against what promises to be the hit hard by injuries on the road to to beat them,” said Greece’s ver- 21-Edinson Cavani weakest team in the group. Brazil 2014. Japan, Ivory Coast satile defender Giorgos Tzavellas. Costa Rica : 1-Keylor Navas; 16-Cristian The Liverpool striker was sen- Everton leftback Bryan Oviedo, “Colombia will have to find a way Gamboa, 3-Giancarlo Gonzalez, 4-Michael sational in the English Premier arguably their best defender, to score against us and that will Umana, 6-Oscar Duarte, 15-Junior Diaz; League last season, scoring 31 failed to recover from a broken meet in clash of styles be very difficult. 22-Jose Miguel Cubero, 5-Celso Borges, goals in 33 appearances, way more leg in time to make the squad, and Greece, who 10 years ago 10-Bryan Ruiz, 21-Marco Urena; 9-Joel than any other player. Alvaro Saborio, their top scorer staged a major upset by becoming Campbell But although his absence is a in the qualifying campaign, has RECIFE, Brazil: Japan’s tech- A group that also contains European champions, have forged concern for the Uruguayans, they dropped out with a broken toe. nicians must try to outfox a Greece and a Colombia side a reputation as a hard-working KEY STATS are blessed with an abundance of First-choice rightback Heiner powerful Ivory Coast as the deprived of the injured Radamel defensive team, conceding just % Costa Rica have never beaten Uruguay in attacking riches. Mora travelled to Brazil only to Asian and African powerhouses Falcao could be one of the most four goals in their 10 qualifiers. eight attempts in all competitions Cavani comes to Brazil after a suffer a broken heel in training on meet in a clash of styles here open of this World Cup, but Ivory “They have a high qual- successful first season at Paris St Tuesday. Coach Jorge Luis Pinto today. Coast coach Sabri Lamouchi is % ity attack but everyone of us is Uruguay deprived Costa Rica of a place at Germain and while Forlan’s star has called up journeyman Dave The Blue Samurai have estab- hopeful his side can progress. experienced. We will only play to the 2010 World Cup, beating them 2-1 over has faded somewhat since the Myrie as a replacement. lished themselves as the leading “Our ambition is to go beyond win,” said Greece defender Kostas two legs in a play-off at the end of the qualify- 2010 World Cup in South Africa, With Saborio absent, they will force in Asia while the Ivorians’ the first phase as it is something Manolas. “We are a good team ing campaign he still has the intelligence and look to young Olympiakos striker rely on the power and driving the Ivory Coast have never man- and we will prove it on Saturday.” % This will be Uruguay’s first World Cup match dead-ball expertise to unlock any Joel Campbell for goals in today’s runs of African Player of the Year aged before,” said the Frenchman, For 64-year-old Colombia on Brazilian soil since their famous 2-1 vic- defence. clash at the Castelao arena. Yaya Toure and exciting young who is the youngest coach at the coach Jose Pekerman any result tory over the hosts in the final of the 1950 He will need it because if there He will be watched closely by full-back Serge Aurier. finals at the age of 42. other than victory would be a tournament is one thing that Costa Rica do experienced Uruguayan defence Whether it is Japan’s guile or The Asian champions will disappointment. Previous meetings: The two have played well it is defending. led by the two Diegos - Lugano the Elephants’ physical force, look to the creative spark of “Colombia cannot simply eight times with Uruguay winning six and two The Ticos conceded fewer and Godin. whoever comes out on top in the Manchester United’s Shinji change its playing style,” said cap- matches drawn. goals than any other team in the This will be Uruguay’s first Pernambuco Arena on Brazil’s Kagawa and Keisuke Honda of AC tain Mario Yepes. “Throughout CONCACAF World Cup qualifi- World Cup match in Brazil since north-east coast will put them- Milan, but Italian coach Alberto the qualifiers we relied on posses- Last meeting: November 18 2009, ers, averaging well under one goal their famous 2-1 victory over selves in a fine position from Zaccheroni will know his defence sion of the ball and that is what Montevideo, Uruguay (World Cup qualifier) - a game to finish as runners-up to hosts in the 1950 final, that trau- which to go on and qualify for could struggle against the quality makes us strong.” AFP Uruguay 1 Costa Rica 1 the United States. matised a nation. REUTERS the last 16. of Drogba AFP JUNE 14, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

Dutch humiliate champions Standings

Spain with 5-1 thrashing TEAMS P W D L GF GA Pts Read as Match played, Won, Draw, Lost, Goals for, Goals against and Points Van Persie, Robben score brace each in heaviest defeat for title holders GROUP A BRAZIL 1 1 0 0 3 1 3 SALVADOR, Brazil: Robin van gave the Spanish a first-half lead space to loop his header over the CROATIA 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 Persie and Arjen Robben both when he drilled home a penalty stranded Casillas. scored twice as the Netherlands after a foul on Diego Costa. The Netherlands took control MEXICO 1 1 0 0 3 1 3 avenged their 2010 World Cup But Van Persie’s diving header soon after the break when Ajax’s CAMEROON 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 final defeat by routing holders 90 seconds from the break put Blind again provided a superb GROUP B Spain 5-1 yesterday in a record- the Dutch level before goals by pass to Robben in the area. breaking humiliation. Robben, centre-back de Vrij and The winger got the better of SPAIN 1 0 0 1 1 5 0 As well as it being the worst Persie again completed the rout. both Spain centre-backs Gerald NETHERLANDS 1 1 0 0 1 5 3 ever mauling inflicted at a World The Netherlands triumvirate Pique and Sergio Ramos to fire CHILE ------Cup on the reigning champions, it of Robben, Van Persie and Wesley the Oranje into a 2-1 lead on 53 was the worst defeat suffered by Sneijder caused the Spanish minutes. AUSTRALIA ------Spain in more than half a century, defence all manner of problems, Van Persie then rattled the GROUP C coming 51 years after a 6-2 defeat but it was Daley Blind’s superb crossbar with an hour gone before COLOMBIA ------to Scotland in 1963. long passes which created their De Vrij grabbed the third on 64 Manchester United striker van two opening goals. minutes. GREECE ------Persie produced a stunning first- The best chance of the opening Van Persie claimed his second CÔTE D’IVOIRE ------half header and slotted home the exchanges fell to the Netherlands and the Netherlands’ fourth when JAPAN ------Netherlands’ fourth. when a Robben pass put Sneijder he beat Casillas to a loose ball and, Not to be outdone, Bayern in behind the defence, but Ilker aided by a helpful bounce. GROUP D Munich star Robben scored two Casillas blocked the Galatasaray Robben, who could have fin- URUGUAY ------second-half goals with Stefan De star’s shot. ished with a hat-trick, netted his COSTA RICA ------Vrij compounding the misery for Van Persie levelled on 44 second on 80 minutes by again Vicente del Bosque’s world and minutes when Blind’s pin-point dancing around Spanish defend- ENGLAND ------European champions. pass from the left wing found ers to claim his team’s fifth goal Netherlands’ forward Arjen Robben (right) celebrates with forward Robin ITALY ------van Persie (centre) after scoring his team’s fifth against Spain yesterday. Veteran midfielder Xabi Alonso the Manchester United star in of a stunning night. AFP GROUP E FIFA defends SWITZERLAND ------Mexico win despite refereeing blunders ECUADOR ------referee over FRANCE ------NATAL, Brazil: Mexico beat Cameroon had a goal chalked off for offside although this Tuesday with Cameroon taking on Croatia HONDURAS ------Brazil penalty 1-0 at a rain-drenched Natal yesterday in a time the referee made the right decision. the following day. GROUP F World Cup Group A match scarred by more The blunders came just a day after Japanese The possibility of yet another refereeing ARGENTINA ------refereeing blunders. referee Yuichi Nishimura controversially blunder appeared to have crossed the mind RIO DE JANEIRO: FIFA yes- Oribe Peralta grabbed the only goal after 61 awarded a penalty which set Brazil on their of Mexico’s coach Miguel Herrera, who said BOSNIA ------terday defended Japanese referee minutes but Mexico will consider themselves way to a 3-1 win over Croatia. afterwards: “I told the boys before the match IRAN ------Yuichi Nishimura’s controversial unlucky not to have been more comfortable Eto’o had Cameroon’s best chance of the to keep their focus on our gameplan, whatever NIGERIA ------decision to award Brazil a pen- winners after Giovani Dos Santos had two first half after 21 minutes but narrowly went happens. alty in the World Cup opening goals ruled out for dubious offside decisions wide of the post. “Human error exists. We have to learn to GROUP G game but refused to confirm if in the first half. Early in the second period, Mexico had a put up with whatever comes our way. We GERMANY ------he would officiate more games in On both occasions, it was former Tottenham golden opportunity when Peralta was clean didn’t think about the referee when we went PORTUGAL ------the tournament. striker Giovani Dos Santos who was the through on goal, but he fired the ball straight back to dressing room (at half-time). Nishimura was widely criticised victim. at Charles Itandje in the Cameroon goal. Volker Finke, the German coach of a GHANA ------for the game-changing spot-kick In the 11th minute, the Villarreal player Peralta deservedly put Mexico in front just Cameroon side whose pre-World Cup was USA ------which put Brazil on the way to a found the target with a sweet, stabbed volley after the hour mark. Dos Santos’s shot was marred by a bitter row over bonuses, refused GROUP H 3-1 victory over Croatia. from a cross by Porto’s Hector Herrara but parried into his path and the Club Santos to use the “difficult” playing conditions as an But FIFA referees chief Massimo his effort was ruled out by Colombian referee Laguna striker slotted in from close range. excuse. BELGIUM ------Busacca insisted Nishimura had Wilmar Roldan On the 30-minute mark, a Dos Cameroon’s Benjamin Moukandjo had a “The conditions weren’t an excuse,”said ALGERIA ------been justified in ruling Croatia’s Santos header from a corner by Miguel Layun chance to rescue a point in injury time but Finke, who admitted Cameroon, relatively late RUSSIA ------Dejan Lovren had pushed Brazil was also not allowed to stand. his header was well-saved by Guillermo Ochoa. arrivals in Brazil, had found Mexico’s 5-3-2 striker Fred. AFP In between, Cameroon skipper Samuel Eto’o Mexico next face Brazil in Fortaleza on system a tough nut to crack. AFP KOREA ------Worldcup Photo of the day FIFA bans Beckenbauer over Qatar inquiry rejection

RIO DE JANEIRO: FIFA yes- decision on the main issue may terday banned German football not be taken early enough. legend Franz Beckenbauer from “The apparent breach relates any football-related activity to Mr Beckenbauer’s failure for 90 days after he refused to to cooperate with an Ethics speak to an inquiry into allega- Committee investigation despite tions over Qatar’s 2022 World repeated requests for his assist- Cup bid. ance, including requests that he “Franz Beckenbauer was today provide information during an in- provisionally banned from taking person interview or in response part in any football-related activ- to written questions provided in ity, at any level, for 90 days,” said both English and German,” said a statement released by football’s the statement. governing body. A formal investigation of the The 68-year-old Beckenbauer, Beckenbauer case has now been who won the World Cup as a started by investigatory chamber player in 1974 and as a coach in member Vanessa Allard, added 1990, was on the FIFA executive the FIFA statement. board in 2010 when the 2022 tour- In an interview with Bild nament was awarded to Qatar. newspaper published this week, He has always refused to Beckenbauer complained that declare who he voted for, but has Garcia had refused to pose his expressed surprise at Qatar’s vic- questions in his language. tory. Beckenbauer left the FIFA “I have absolutely nothing to executive in 2011, but remains on hide and I am clearly also of the FIFA’s football committee. opinion that there must be sanc- Beckenbauer, known as “the tions for those responsible when Kaiser”, refused to cooperate with corruption is proved,” he said. Michael Garcia the former US “I was ready to answer all per- federal prosecutor who headed tinent questions, but they sent an investigation in the votes for them to me in a legal English the Qatar vote and another that that I could not understand in awarded the 2018 World Cup to such a compex case. “So I politely Russia. asked that the interview be held The ban was ordered by FIFA’s in German and I was refused. So Ethics Committee adjudicatory I said: ‘Never mind,’” Beckenbauer Hector Herrera (left) of Mexico in action with Dany Nounkeu of Cameroon during the FIFA World Cup 2014 group A preliminary round match chamber because a breach of added before saying he had a right between Mexico and Cameroon at the Estadio Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil yesterday. FIFA’s code of Ethics “appears to keep his FIFA vote in 2010 to have been committed and a secret. AFP JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Break Time

Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER (3D/Animation) – 2.30pm TEL: 444933989 444517001 TV LISTINGS How To Train Your Dragon-2 (3D/Action) – 4.00pm 1 Marati We Zawjati (2D/Arabic) – 6.00pm How Old Are You? (2D/Malayalam) – 8.00pm The Raid 2 (2D/Action) – 10.30pm 0500 Athletics Diamon 9:00 Witness 09:40 Meteorite Men 08:00 Buddha League Rome News 13:00 Things That 08:00 Soul Music Blended (2D/Comedy) – 2.30 & 7.00pm 10:00 0700 This Is Paris 10:30 Inside Story Move 08:30 Khana khazana The Fault In Our Stars (2D/Romantic) 0900 F1 Canada 11:00 News 13:30 You Have Been 09:00 10 on 10 MALL 2 – 4.45pm 1030 Atp Magazine 11:30 Listening Post Warned 09:30 Science with Edge Of Tomorrow (3D/Action) – 9.15pm 1100 Table Tennis Ittf 12:00 News 14:20 Sci-Trek Brain Café Open China Qf 12:30 Counting the Cost 15:10 Junk Men 10:00 LOL - Fool N Marati We Zawjati (2D/Arabic) – 11.15pm 1630 Gp Inside Line 13:00 NEWSHOUR 15:35 Junk Men Final How To Train Your Dragon-2 (3D/Action) 1700 F1 Canada 14:00 News 16:00 World’s Top 5 12:00 DID Lil Masters – 2.30pm 1800 Athletics Diamond 14:30 Inside Story 16:50 Redesign My Season 3 Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return League Rome 15:00 Goldman Sachs - Brain 17:00 Teenovation (3D/Animation) – 4.15 & 6.00pm 2000 F1 Canada The Bank That Rules 18:30 The Future Of... 17:30 Zee Connect 2130 Stars Show Yaya The World 19:20 Last Flight Of Season 4 3 Bad Words (2D/Comedy) – 7.45pm Toure 16:00 NEWSHOUR The Space 19:00 Top Guns Maleficent (2D/Action) – 9.30pm 2200 Atp Magazine 17:00 News Shuttle Season 3 21:00 Prophets Of 19:30 DID L’il Masters 7500 (2D/Horror) – 11.30pm 2230 Futbol Mundial 17:30 The Cure 2300 Football Friendly 18:00 NEWSHOUR Science Fiction Season 3 How To Train Your Dragon-2 (3D/Action) Spain V Elsalvador 19:00 News 22:15 Sci-Fi Science 21:00 Qubool Hai – 2.30 & 4.30pm 0100 Football Friendly 19:30 People & Power 22:40 Time Warp 21:30 Aur Pyaar 7500 (2D/Horror) – 6.30pm Brazil V Serbia 20:00 News 1 0300 Nba Basketball 20:30 Inside Story How Old Are You? (2D/Malayalam) – 8.00pm Finals 21:00 NEWSHOUR Mudasupatti (2D/Tamil) – 10.30pm 0530 Transworld Sport 22:00 News Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 0630 F1 Canada 22:30 Listening Post 03:00 Gambit-PG15 10:30 Nat Geo’s Most (3D/Animation) – 3.00 & 4.45pm 23:00 Al Jazeera World 05:00 A Cat In Paris- Amazing Photos Maleficent (2D/Action) – 6.30pm 09:00 Cirque Du 12:00 Situation Critical LANDMARK 2 Soleil: Worlds 14:00 Maya The Raid 2 (2D/Action) – 8.15pm Away-PG Underworld: The Marati We Zawjati (2D/Arabic) – 11.15pm 11:00 Despicable Me Real Doomsday 12:45 Anna Karenina- 15:00 Naked Science Blended (2D/Comedy) – 2.30 & 4.45pm PG15 17:00 The Truth Behind The Fault In Our Stars (2D/Romantic) 15:00 Cirque Du 18:30 Nat Geo’s Most 3 – 7.00pm Soleil: Worlds Amazing Photos Edge Of Tomorrow (3D/Action) – 9.15pm 0530 World Cup Stories 08:15 Doctor Who Away-PG 19:00 Hard Time 0745 Football Friendly 09:00 The Mimic 17:00 Argo-PG15 20:00 Family Guns Bad Words (2D/Comedy) – 11.30pm Chile V N Ireland 09:25 The Job Lot 19:00 Olympus Has 21:00 D-Day Sacrifice How To Train Your Dragon 2 (3D/Action) 0930 Stars Yaya Toure 09:50 My Family Fallen-PG15 22:00 Somewhere In – 2.30 & 4.30pm 1000 Road To 2014 Fifa 10:20 Last Woman 21:00 Escape Plan China Maleficent (3D/Action) – 6.30pm World Cup Standing 23:00 Hunter Hunted 1 1030 Fifa Film 1998 11:15 The Cafe Edge Of Tomorrow (3D/Action) – 8.30pm 1200 World Cup Stories 11:40 The Weakest Link The Raid 2 (2D/Action) – 10.30pm 1230 Football Friendly 12:25 Doctor Who Russia V Morocco 13:10 Casualty Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 1415 Short Programme 14:00 Eastenders (3D/Animation) – 2.30, 4.15 & 6.00pm 1430 English Magazine 16:00 The Mimic 12:30 Seinfeld 08:15 Too Cute! ROYAL 7500 (2D/Horror) – 7.45pm Tba 16:55 The Mimic 13:30 Breaking In 09:10 Gator Boys 2 Fifa Film 2002 Doctor Who: Best Enlisted Call Of The Marati We Zawjati (2D/Arabic) – 9.30pm 1530 18:15 14:30 10:05 PLAZA 1700 Stars Yaya Toure Of The Doctor 15:00 The Michael J. Wildman Bad Words (2D/Comedy) – 11.30pm 1730 How The World Cup 19:00 Being Erica Fox Show 10:30 Swamp Brothers Rio - 2 (2D/Animation) – 2.30pm Was Won 2010 19:45 Alan Carr: Chatty 15:30 The Daily Show 14:40 Buggin’ With 1930 Football World Stars Man With Jon Stewart Ruud Blended (2D/Comedy) – 4.15 & 11.15pm 2000 World Cup Preivew 20:30 Bedlam 17:00 Late Night With 19:15 Preposterous 3 The Fault In Our Stars (2D/Romantic) Show 21:15 Threesome Seth Meyers Pets – 6.30pm 2100 World Cup Stories 21:40 Him & Her 18:00 Growing Up 20:10 Animal Maternity The Raid 2 (2D/Action) – 8.45pm Glenn Hoddle 22:10 Hunderby Fisher Ward

HYPER C RSO S W O RD 123 4567 8910111213 5 “Uncle ___ 39 “___ will be wants you” done …” 14 15 16 6 Boxer (Lord’s Prayer Muhammad phrase) 17 18 19 7 “The Lord is my 41 “Hmmm …” shepherd …,” 42 Honolulu’s 20 21 22 23 e.g. home 8 Wooden ducks 43 Sir’s 24 25 26 27 9 Pie ___ mode counterpart, 10 Long, thin cigar informally 28 29 30 11 Mottled horse 48 Bird mimics 12 Huge, in poetry 49 One calling the 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 kettle black, in a 13 Adjust the saying margins again 40 41 42 43 51 Metal waste 18 Opposite of Yesterday’s answer mini- 52 ___ Picchu 44 45 46 (Incan site) How to play Hyper Sudoku: 22 Brit. record label 53 Had dinner at A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle is solved by filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into the blank cells. A Hyper 25 Artist Joan 47 48 49 50 51 home Sudoku has unlike Sudoku 13 regions (four regions overlap with the nine standard regions). In all 26 Japanese soup regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like 54 Light fogs noodles a normal Sudoku. 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 55 Official 27 Meagerly language of 29 Barnum’s circus 60 61 62 Cambodia How to play Kakuro: partner The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any 57 Scent 31 Friend of size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells 63 64 65 66 67 58 Made a cow call François like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, 59 Tennis’s Agassi 32 “I Will Follow some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some 68 69 70 cells will contain two numbers. ___” (1963 #1 62 Bullets, BB’s However, in a crossword the numbers reference hit) and such 71 72 73 clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! 33 Mont Blanc, e.g. 64 Co. that makes They denote the total of the digits in the row or A.T.M.’s 35 White House column referenced by the number. ACROSS 45 False god financial 66 1011, in old Within each Rome collection of cells 1 Man-goat of myth 46 Timid advisory grp. 67 McDonald’s Big - called a run - any 4 “Make it snappy,” on an order 47 Office worker just for the day 37 Surgery sites, ___ of the numbers 1 8 Smartly dressed 50 Makes bales on a farm for short to 9 may be used 14 Media inits. since 1958 52 Dogpatch matriarch 38 Educ. facility but, like sudoku, each number may 15 Guys’ counterpart 56 Tibetan priest PIZZAJOINT WIFE only be used once. 16 Mike Nichols’s comedy partner 60 Even, after “in” ANT IMATTER ALAS ___ May 61 Math’s highest degree? WH I T E NO I S E L L C S Yesterday’s 17 Abba-inspired hit musical 62 Baseball’s Hammerin’ Hank answer 19 Is unable to 63 Many a corporate plane NIL SEESTO KATO 20 Loud, as a crowd 65 Classic advertising slogan … SET SNL GOT 21 Sign before Virgo and a hint to 17-, 25-, 40- and HTS T I EONEON Baby Blues By Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman 23 Gillette razor brand 52-Across INHERIT NEWWAVE 24 River of the underworld, in myth 68 Very advanced, computerwise BIODATA GREASES 25 Movie starring Lon Chaney Jr., 69 Test ATTACKS S I STERS with “The” 70 Mal de ___ 28 Footnote abbr. 71 Al and Al Jr. of auto racing RETREATS ETE 30 ___ of Wight 72 Puerto ___ OKS EPS RAW 31 “Now I get it!” 73 Suffix on juice drinks LOTS STEPON SAY 34 Suffix with buck DOWN YUR I RENONEVADA 36 “Since ___ My Baby” (1965 1 Mountain cats or sneakers IZOD ISCREWEDUP Temptations hit) 2 Miles ___ (not even close) NOTE STEE L TRAPS 40 Washington rally of 5/14/00 3 Leonard who played Mr. Spock 44 Push 4 Medium in bio labs ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

JUNE 14, 2014 ON SATURDAY 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Morning Break

PRAYER TIME Tourism boost

Fajr (Dawn) 3:14 Shorook (Sunrise) 4:43 Zuhr (Noon) 11:34 Asr (Afternoon) 2:57 Maghrib (Sunset) 6:26 Isha (Night) 7:56

WEATHER

Today Sunday Monday Weather Conditions: Clear Clear Clear Hot during day with High: 43° High: 42° High:45° slight dust to Low: 32° Low: 30° Low: 30° blowing dust.

DOHA - SUN & SEA

SUN TIDE SEA SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND 04:43 18:26 04:30 & 18:30 00:45 & 10:45 10-20/25 KT

THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW

HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER

MUSCAT 39/28 Partly cloudy 38/30 Partly cloudy MAKKAH 40/27 Partly cloudy 39/26 Partly cloudy Elephants perform to celebrate the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, along the Khaosan tourist street, in Bangkok yesterday. The performance was part KUWAIT 42/26 Clear 43/28 Clear of an event arranged by the Khaosan Road business association in a bid to boost tourism under the current curfew, according to the association. BAHRAIN 41/27 Partly cloudy 41/29 Partly cloudy SANAA 31/16 Partly cloudy 30/18 Chance of storm RIYADH 40/27 Partly cloudy 40/28 Partly cloudy DUBAI 38/28 Mostly cloudy 38/30 Partly cloudy BAGHDAD 38/27 Partly cloudy 40/27 Partly cloudy Wealthy Chinese buy space flight tickets

THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW BEIJING: More than 300 two-man craft that remains in tickets was only available on June China has its own military-run HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Chinese space enthusiasts have space for five to six minutes, giv- 12th, a spokesman for the website space programme, which in the booked tickets costing nearly ing the tourist a rarely seen view said. A screenshot showed that last decades has sent astronauts $100,000 for a five minute trip and the experience of weightless- transactions had been made. into orbit and landed a rover on ATHENS 30/22 Clear 30/22 Partly cloudy to outer space, official media ness, the report said. No date for the trip was given. the moon, but so far has no com- WASHINGTON 27/17 Partly cloudy 30/19 Clear reported yesterday. The tickets were sold for Despite a flurry of interest in mercial space firms. SYDNEY 19/10 Partly cloudy 18/08 Clear The 305 buyers snapped up 599,999 yuan ($96,000) it space tourism in recent years, no Ticket broker Zhang Yong LONDON 20/08 Chance of storm 20/09 Partly cloudy tickets for a trip with Dutch said, adding that four entre- private firms have yet been able told the China Daily: “It is excit- PARIS 22/13 Thunderstorm 21/13 Partly cloudy firm Space Expedition Corp preneurs from the southwest- to launch regular trips. ing that Chinese can enjoy space ISTANBUL 25/19 Clear 27/19 Partly cloudy (SXC) when they went on sale ern city of Chengdu and two Participants — who must weigh travel with a click of a mouse. on Taobao, an online retail web- from the commercial hub of no more than 125kg (275 pounds) Hopefully it will usher in a new MANILA 31/26 Chance of storm 30/26 Chance of storm site, the state-run China Daily Shanghai were among those — are required to receive flight chapter for Chinese to explore DHAKA 39/29 Chance of storm 38/29 Chance of storm reported. who signed up. simulation and weightlessness outer space.” DELHI 40/31 Partly cloudy 43/31 Partly cloudy The trips will take place in a The Taobao page selling the training before their trip. AFP ISLAMABAD 43/29 Clear 43/30 Clear Laser to Mojito marvel strike down wins pasta world drones soon championships a reality WASHINGTON: It’s ben imagined for long by sci-fi ROME: A Mojito spaghetti chef in Cape Town and winner of novelists and gamers and special triumphed at the pasta the 2013 edition, who presented is now a reality. The US world championships yester- the judges with the recipe “Cape military is developing a day, as a chef from Switzerland Town Peppadew meets the best laser weapon to shoot down snatched the top prize from of Parma.” enemy drones or unmanned rivals of Shanghai, South Africa Armando Capochiani, a chef in aerial vehicles (UAVs). and Malta. Shanghai, made it into the finals The US Navy has already Luca Torricelli, chef at the with a smoked cheese and white developed such a laser and, “Argentino” in the Swiss city of truffle rigatoni, as did Giuseppe according to the Office of Lugano won the third edition Zanotti, a restaurant consultant Naval Research (ONR) in of the championships in Parma, in Malta, who dished up orecchi- Arlington, Virginia, they are Italy, with his dish “Sicily prawns ette with pork sausage and violet now interested in developing spaghetti with Mojito”. potato chips. a similar weapon for ground Attended by 25 chefs from 23 The competition is open only to vehicles. countries, the annual event was chefs who are certified as Italian Luca Torricelli (left), 29, Chef of Swiss restaurant l’Argentino in Lugano, with Paolo Barilla, deputy Chairman of “We can expect that our founded to celebrate the iconic Cuisine Master Chefs (ICMC), the Barilla food company as he receives the trophy of the Pasta World Championship, in Parma, Italy, yesterday. adversaries will increasingly Italian ingredient. according to the Barilla Academy, use UAVs and our expedi- Torricelli beat off stiff com- which organised the event. said Paolo Barilla, vice president ambassadors of our cuisine.” popular in the world, as a symbol tionary forces must deal petition from three other final- “Pasta has always been one of the Barilla Group, describ- “The idea of this championship of our culture and identity,” he with that rising threat,” Col. ists, including Giorgio Nava, a of the world’s most loved foods,” ing the chefs as “the greatest is to make this product even more said. AFP William Zamagni, acting head of ONR’s expedition- ary maneuver warfare and combating terrorism depart- ment, was quoted as saying in media reports. The system has been Massive ‘ocean’ lies beneath the Earth’s surface developed as a part of the GBAD (Ground-Based Air LONDON: Scientists say Jacobsen from Northwestern been looking for this missing deep Scientists used data from the act as a buffer for the oceans on Defence Directed Energy they have found a vast res- University in the US, who co- water for decades.” USArray, a network of seismom- the surface, explaining why they On-the-Move) programme. ervoir of water, enough to fill authored a study in the journal Jacobsen and his colleagues eters across the US that measures have stayed the same size for mil- It aims to provide “an the world’s oceans three times Science. are the first to provide direct the vibrations of earthquakes, and lions of years. affordable alternative to tra- over, trapped hundreds of miles Jacobsen said the discovery evidence that there may be a series of laboratory experiments “If (the stored water) wasn’t ditional firepower” to guard beneath the crust of the Earth suggested the Earth’s water may water in an area of the Earth’s on rocks simulating the high pres- there, it would be on the surface against UAVs, ONR officials —potentially transforming have come from within, driven to mantle known as the transition sures found more than 400 miles of the Earth and mountaintops said. our understanding of how the the surface by geological activity, zone. They based their findings underground. would be the only land poking The laser system includes planet was formed. rather than being deposited by on a study of a vast underground It produced evidence that the out,” he said. a beam director, batteries, The water is locked up in a icy comets hitting the forming region extending across most of melting and movement of rock The latest research follows the radar, cooling system, com- mineral called ringwoodite about planet as thought in prevailing the interior of the US. in the transition zone — hun- finding of a small diamond in a munications and control. 400 miles beneath the surface of theories. The mineral ringwoodite, dreds of miles down, between the shallow riverbed in Brazil that The system can be used on the Earth, said geophysicist Steve “Geological processes on the named after the geophysicist upper and lower mantles - led scientists discovered contained lightweight military vehicles Earth’s surface, such as earth- Ed Ringwood who first identi- to a process where water could ringwoodite, offering the first such as the Humvee and quakes or erupting volcanoes, are fied it, has a crystal structure become fused and trapped in the strong evidence that there was Joint Light Tactical Vehicle an expression of what is going on that acts like a sponge, making rock. lots of water in the transition (JLTV). Various components inside the Earth, out of our sight,” it attract hydrogen and trap The discovery is remarkable zone . of the laser have already he said. water. because most melting in the Researchers said the gemstone, been tested in detecting and “I think we are finally see- If just 1 percent of the weight of mantle was previously thought to which is oblong and about 5mm tracking drones. ing evidence for a whole-Earth mantle rock located in the tran- occur at a much shallower dis- long, was blasted to the surface The laser system is likely water cycle, which may help sition zone was water it would tance, about 50 miles below the from a depth of about 300 miles to be ready for field testing explain the vast amount of liq- be equivalent to nearly three Earth’s surface. during a volcanic eruption of mol- by 2016. uid water on the surface of our times the amount of water in our Jacobsen told the New Scientist ten rock called kimberlite. IANS habitable planet. Scientists have oceans, Jacobsen said. that the hidden water might also GUARDIAN NEWS