SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016 MUHARRAM 5, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Syria declares Portugal’s Rough times Rebel fire kills surprise Guterres poised for Saudi swimmer with easing of to be next retail as govt ‘big dreams’ Aleppo7 assault UN chief9 cuts21 bite in17 Aleppo Kuwaitis to get 75 liters Min 19º Max 37º of free petrol per month High Tide 01:55 & 15:23 Housing allowance of expat teachers cut Low Tide 08:57 & 20:55 40 PAGES NO: 17011 150 FILS Qatar trimming By B Izzak KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- Ghanem yesterday said the government has agreed to cultural plans compensate Kuwaiti citizens for the hike in petrol prices, DOHA: A 24-year-old jazz fan from Qatar, Hanan Al- but a number of lawmakers immediately rejected the Kaabi did not lament the closure this summer of deal. Ghanem told reporters following a three-hour meet- the Gulf state’s only jazz club. Acclaimed trum- ing attended by HH the prime minister and six Cabinet peters and pianists from New York’s Jazz at Lincoln members, in addition to 38 lawmakers, that the govern- Center band had played at the club in the St Regis ment will provide citizens holding a driving license with a Hotel in Doha, a few miles from Kaabi’s house. But a free quantity of petrol every month to compensate them law in Qatar forbidding nationals from entering for the price increase. venues serving alcohol meant she could not attend He said based on calculations, it was found that aver- the club billed as the home of jazz in the Middle age consumption is 220-240 liters monthly per driver, and East. “I tried to go to an event celebrating the the government will provide around 30 percent of this women of jazz,” Kaabi said. “It embarrassed me, the amount to citizens who drive. At present, it was agreed to thought that I was barred from enjoying this provide 75 liters per month to each Kuwaiti driver and this unique art form in Qatar.” amount will be revised monthly as part of a revision of Her experience reflects the delicate balance petrol prices, Ghanem said. struck by Qatar, a future soccer World Cup host, as The decision does not include expatriates, who will it imports Western art and music to raise its global continue to pay the new prices of petrol, which took standing, while also paying heed to local tradition effect at the start of September. Ghanem said the govern- and curbing budgets due to low oil prices. The $20 ment agreed to accept the decision of the National million jazz club, with burgundy couches and a Assembly’s financial and economic affairs committee, which had demanded that citizens be compensated if curved stage modelled on Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola petrol prices are raised. in Manhattan, was founded in 2011 by a Qatari real The speaker said the government’s monthly assess- estate developer and sought to cater to both ment of petrol prices represents a “partial liberalization” of expats and Qataris by holding musical workshops petrol prices, adding that the amount of free petrol given for children and concerts outdoors at alcohol-free to citizens will vary monthly. This practically means that venues that Qataris could attend. KUWAIT: Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah (left) and National Assembly Speaker Marzouq petrol prices will be changed every month, either raising Continued on Page 13 Al-Ghanem attend a meeting between Cabinet members and MPs to discuss the government’s decision to or reducing them in accordance with international oil increase petrol prices. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 (Left) A large sinkhole is seen off Anjefa beach. (Right) Firemen in hazmat suits tackle a gas leak in Wafra. Girl ‘strangles’ herself By Hanan Al-Saadoun ground water main burst. The rupture caused a part of the road to cave in, creating a large hole filled with KUWAIT: A nine-year-old Kuwaiti girl died before water. reaching Jahra Hospital yesterday, said security sources, noting that the girl’s father claimed that the Two hurt in gas leak girl had strangled herself with a rope by mistake The Fire Department’s PR and media department while playing at home. A case was filed and investiga- announced a leak of chlorine gas was detected at tions are in progress. Wafra water plant yesterday. Firemen from Mubarak Al-Kabeer rushed to the scene, where they ventilated Burst pipe creates sinkhole the building and evacuated it until the leak was con- A large sinkhole opened up on the road near trolled. Two plant workers suffered from suffocation Anjefa beach in Salwa yesterday after an under- and were rushed to hospital. Jean-Pierre Sauvage James Fraser Stoddart Bernard Feringa Trio wins Chemistry Nobel for molecular machines STOCKHOLM: A French, British and Dutch trio of scien- nanomachines or nanobots, they can be put to work as tists won the Nobel Chemistry Prize yesterday for devel- tiny motors, ratchets, pistons or wheels to produce oping the world’s smallest machines that may one day mechanical motion in response to stimuli such as light act as artificial muscles to power tiny robots or even or temperature change. prosthetic limbs. Jean-Pierre Sauvage of France, Fraser Molecular machines can move objects many times Stoddart of Britain and Bernard Feringa of the their size. “The molecular motor is at the same stage as Netherlands “have developed molecules with control- the electric motor was in the 1830s, when scientists lable movements, which can perform a task when ener- displayed various spinning cranks and wheels, gy is added,” the jury said. unaware that they would lead to electric trains, wash- Inspired by proteins that naturally act as biological ing machines, fans and food processors,” the Nobel machines within cells, these synthetic copies are usually jury said. made up of a few molecules fused together. Also called Continued on Page 13 LOCAL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016 KUNA celebrates 40th anniversary KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday marked The missions were equipped with the 40th anniversary of founding the necessary devices to receive the national media network, Kuwait service, in coordination with Foreign News Agency (KUNA), which has Ministry. Up to 38 embassies and occupied a space on the media map consulates were given the service. In - broadcasting a host of local, region- January 1980, it started broadcasting al and international news, reports news in English, at four hours per day and analyses. Moreover, it has stayed rate. In February 1981, KUNA dou- abreast of latest innovation in the bled the local transmission hours to field, providing latest diverse mod- eight and increased the external ern services, namely SMS’ and the English service time by three hours. website publicizing breaking news, KUNA had continued expanding features and photos. its services till the August 1990 Iraqi KUNA saw the light upon issuing aggression, when the occupiers ran- the Decree-into-Law 70/1976, stipu- sacked its equipment and archive, lating in part that KUNA is entitled to transferring them to Baghdad. broadcast factual and objective news However, KUNA’s managers and staff and reports in face of “misleading succeeded in resuming the service propaganda,” and for sake of “filling from abroad within a short period of the vacuum in the news field in the time. In October 1990, KUNA started region and transmit authentic news broadcasting from London, where it to the world.” According to the succeeded in putting out up to 16,110 Decree, Kuwait News Agency broad- items till November 1991, when it casts commentaries, articles, returned to its headquarters in Kuwait researches, studies, statements on post the liberation. Rebuilding the political, economic, social, cultural, main offices and the facilities had pro- financial and commercial affairs, to ceeded till onset of 1992. newspapers, magazines, radio, televi- KUNA boasts announcing libera- KUWAIT: Gulf waters splash onto a rocky shore. — KUNA sion stations, other media outlets, tion of the State of Kuwait, simultane- public and private authorities as well ously with international news net- as individuals, in line with guidelines works. That is in addition to creating set by its board. rich archive by its photographers that Electricity Ministry signs According to second Article of the chronicle the massive destruction decree, KUNA is headquartered in inflicted by the occupiers. KUNA, Kuwait City, the country’s capital, and since its relaunch in 1992, re-activat- KD 62 million power deal is entitled to establish branches and ed its offices abroad, manning them offices, with correspondents and with qualified nationals, where num- reporters in and outside the State of ber of these bureaus increased to 32 Kuwait. In line with the decree and in 2016. It set up a special training Public Works Ministry seals infrastructure deals the set goals, KUNA in the early years department to sharpen skills of its employed a small number of staff, personnel and staff from other KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water yes- pipes, along with other infrastructure work at a and Al-Riggae areas, in addition to the fourth ring who were serving in other State sec- departments in Kuwait, as well as terday signed a contract worth KD 62 million for cost of KD 13.8 million. Moreover, the second con- road. The project also includes work to repair sev- tors, with monthly payments, to help from other countries. In 1992, it work on a gas turbine cycle system in the Al-Zour tract, worth KD 11.1 million, is for a project to eral manholes and to fix sewer line leakages in in the launching process-when there decided to regularly proclaim person- were no relevant regulations for the ality of the year; a figure renowned Thermal Power Plant.