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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 SAFAR 5, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait State-owned The Real Fouz: Qatar beat University Indian bank Against Saudi Arabia marks 48th to launch domestic to win anniversary5 Islamic21 fund violence37 Gulf20 Cup Constitutional court rejects Min 10º petition to dissolve Assembly Max 23º High Tide 01:35 & 15:59 Ruling on public gatherings law delayed Low Tide 09:16 & 21:16 40 PAGES NO: 16355 150 FILS By B Izzak

Lebanon mourns KUWAIT: The Constitutional Court yesterday dismissed a petition calling to dissolve the National Assembly ‘songbird’ Sabah over faulty procedures, saying that the procedures tak- en to approve the so-called single vote decree were in BEIRUT: Iconic Lebanese singer and actress Sabah line with the constitution. A large number of MPs died yesterday at the age of 87, after a seven-decade breathed a sigh of relief after the court made its long- career and a colorful love life that kept her in the head- awaited decision and perhaps killed the last hope that lines until the end. A glamorous platinum blonde and opponents of the current Assembly had to see it dis- one of the Arab world’s best-known divas, Sabah died solved. in the hotel where she lived just outside Beirut. Her At the same time, the court dismissed six other elec- death was major news in tion petitions, some of them challenging election and Lebanon, where Sabah is by-election results. The court however delayed until beloved as both a singer Dec 10 another crucial ruling on some articles of the and a movie star who was controversial public gatherings law which is expected never afraid to challenge to explain when gatherings and processions can be social convention. held. Born Jeanette Gergi Ahead of the ruling, rumors on social media net- Feghali on Nov 10, 1927, she works that the court had decided to dissolve the later took the screen name Assembly spread like wildfire, although the rumors Sabah (Morning in Arabic) were published even before the court was due to start but was affectionately its session. The court, which had in the past dissolved known by the diminutive Sabah Sabbuha, or the nickname the Assembly on two occasions, firmly said that proce- Shahrura (songbird). She began performing in the dures adopted by the Assembly elected in Dec 2012 1940s, earning a reputation for her renditions of patri- “were correct and in line with the constitution”. otic songs as well as folkloric ballads, though it was her Lawyer Salah Al-Hashem had filed the petition on light-hearted style that endeared her to fans. the grounds that the procedures of the Assembly But she was also an icon of the big screen, launching approval of the so-called single vote decree were her career in Egypt, the centre of the Arab film industry, wrong and in violation of the charter of the Assembly and appearing in more than 90 movies, including her VATICAN CITY: Kuwait’s National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem meets Pope Francis yesterday. “We and the constitution, and accordingly the election first “The Heart Has One”. — AFP (See Page 40) emphasized in our meeting today that Islam is a religion of peace and that terrorism is an intercontinental process should be nullified. industry not linked to a certain religion, race, ethnicity, people or region,” Ghanem said. — KUNA (See Page 2) Continued on Page 13 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 LOCAL Deputy Amir, PM receive GCC chief, interior ministers

KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Interior Lt General Sulaiman Al-Fahad. Separately, HH the Prime Minister domains, including humanitarian, social and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- Also yesterday, HH Sheikh Nawaf received the GCC interior ministers and GCC cultural ones. He also commended the KAF’s Jaber Al-Sabah received at Bayan Palace yes- received HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Secretary General Zayani. Meanwhile, HH role which serves Kuwait’s foreign policy and terday GCC interior ministers who landed in Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, First Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak received the chief supports principles and values that the Kuwait to attend their 33rd meeting. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and members of the Kuwait-America country abides by. The meeting included Qatar’s Prime Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Foundation (KAF). These values and principles support His Highness the Amir Prince Charles Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al- During the meeting, HH the Prime humanitarian work regardless of origin, sex, Sheikh Sabah Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Sabah and Minister of Communications and Minister expressed his gratitude to the KAF race, religion and sect, and work on spread- Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah UAE’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Essa for its effort in strengthening friendly rela- ing culture, combating all forms of terrorism Interior Lt General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Al-Kanderi. tions between the two peoples in all and renouncing violence. —KUNA Nahyan, and Bahraini Interior Minister Prince Charles Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa. congratulates Amir HH the Deputy Amir also received Oman’s Minister of Interior Sayyid Hamoud on UN honoring bin Faisal Al-Busaid, Undersecretary of the KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Saudi Ministry of Interior Ahmad bin Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received a written letter yesterday from Mohammad Al-Salem and the GCC Britain’s Heir Apparent Prince Charles of Wales, who con- Secretary General Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid gratulated His Highness on being honored by the UN as a Al-Zayani. humanitarian leader. Prince Charles also congratulated HH the Deputy Amir commended efforts Kuwait on being chosen as a global humanitarian center. by the GCC Ministers of Interior, underlining The letter was handed by the UK Ambassador to Kuwait the importance of maintaining security and Mathew Lodge to Acting Deputy Minister of the Amiri stability of the GCC countries and their citi- Diwan Affairs Mohammad Daifallah Sharar. —KUNA zens through concerted efforts and bringing stances closer to enhance the Gulf security in implementation of the directives of the GCC leaderships. Kuwaitis urged The meeting was attended by Kuwait’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior to avoid Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al- KUWAIT: His Highness Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah with the GCC interior ministers. —KUNA Ferguson protests Sabah and Undersecretary of Ministry of Speaker meets Pope Francis: ‘Islam is religion of peace’ WASHINGTON: Kuwait’s embassy in the United States of America urged citizens to avoid areas VATICAN CITY: Kuwait’s National Assembly Speaker Zionist state hostilities have fueled extremism and terrorism, For his part, MP Youssef Al-Zalzalah said that during the where protesters gathered in St Louis Suburb of Marzouk Al-Ghanem met in Vatican City yesterday with Pope making it easy for terrorist groups to attract young people meeting with Pope Francis and Prime Minister Parolin, the Ferguson, Missouri, to express anger over a Grand Francis and Vatican Prime Minister Pietro Parolin. and subject them to brainwash. He lauded the role by delegation was briefed of the Vatican view over the Jury’s decision, triggering violence on Monday Following the meeting, Ghanem stressed the significance Kuwait’s ambassador to the Vatican Bader Saleh Al-Taneeb, Palestinian cause and the tragedies in Arab countries suffer- night. of his visit to the Vatican, also as head of the Arab Inter- facilitating the delegation’s mission and arranging meetings. ing from terrorism, especially Iraq and Syria. —KUNA Parliamentary Union (AIPU) and the Gulf Cooperation The Grand Jury decided not to press charges Council (GCC) parliaments. The visit acquires importance as against Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death it comes amid fears of terrorism “and reports by foreign of Michael Brown, a black, unarmed teenager. While media seeking to link terrorism to our true Islam,” Ghanem most protests across the country have been peace- told KUNA, and Kuwait TV. ful, there was rioting and incidences of looting in The meeting was attended by MPs Faisal Al-Shaya and Ferguson, where the National Guard has been sta- Youssef Al-Zalzalah. “We have emphasized in our meeting tioned for a month in anticipation of the verdict. today that Islam is a religion of peace and that terrorism is an intercontinental industry, not linked to a certain religion, In a statement, the Kuwaiti embassy advised its race, ethnicity, people or region,” he said. citizens to avoid areas where “demonstrations and Kuwait’s Chief Parliamentarian urged the world’s political protests and acts of violence” continue to take leaders to denounce all forms of terrorism and to call for an place, and stressed “the need to follow the instruc- interfaith dialogue. “The meeting with Pope Francis was tions of local authorities in this regard.” fruitful and we as Kuwaitis are proud of living in a country The embassy further appealed to its citizens to and a society where toleration is dominant,” Ghanem added, communicate their concerns and report any emer- noting religious tolerance in Kuwait is a strong reality, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people from several gencies via the following number: +1 202 262 nationalities and faiths. 0758, and expressed its wishes for their safety and Ghanem said that the Israeli aggressions on Muslims and security. —KUNA VATICAN CITY: Marzouk Al-Ghnaem, MPs Faisal Al-Shaya and Youssef Al-Zalzalah with Vatican Prime Christians in Palestine and the massacres targeting innocent Minister Pietro Parolin. —KUNA people have always been a root of terrorism. He said that the IOM’s honoring of Amir unprecedented: Official

GENEVA: A large bevy of ambassadors have congratulated Kuwait on the hon- or bestowed on His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Sabah by the IOM for his humanitarian support of displaced and distressed people everywhere, said a Kuwaiti offi- cial yesterday. In remarks to KUNA, Kuwait’s perma- nent representative to the UN ambassa- dor Jamal Al-Ghunaim said it was a great honor that the diplomatic corps here, and before that the humanitarian organizations, have extolled profusely His Highness the Kuwaiti Amir and his country for their role in helping humani- ty all across the globe. This recent honor GENEVA: Maatouq receives the by the IOM is the first of its kind to be appreciation award from the conferred on a world leader, said the IOM. (inset) The medal awarded ambassador referencing yesterday’s to HH the Amir. —KUNA step by the IOM to honor the Kuwaiti leader for his indefatigable support of refugees worldwide, Maatouq said. He IICO, saying it is operating in 136 coun- people distressed and displaced by noted that the IOM move followed the tries and has a representative at the wars and natural catastrophes. unprecedented UN honoring of HH the UN. He stressed the Organization’s On Monday, UN Secretary-General’s Amir as a Humanitarian Leader and charitable and noble humanitarian Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs Abdullah Kuwait as a Humanitarian Center on 9 message, saying it is keen on enhanc- Al-Maatouq described the IOM honor- September 2014. ing partnerships, exchanging informa- ing of HH the Amir was “as shining as This celebrates Kuwait’s record copi- tion and learning from expertise of ever in Kuwait’s memory.” ous with humanitarian initiatives, con- similar international organizations. He Maatouq, also Chairman of the ferences, developmental summits that expressed pleasure over the IICO sign- Kuwaiti-based International Islamic mustered regional and international ing a MoU with the IOM for exchang- Charitable Organization (IICO) and an efforts to support the poor around the ing expertise and to cooperate on alle- Amiri Diwan Advisor, made the state- globe, he said. viating people’s sufferings “every- ment in his address to the ceremony Generous donations have been where.” held by the IOM Council in its 105 ses- offered by HH the Amir and the State Maatouq commended the efforts by sion in Geneva to honor HH the Amir. of Kuwait to victims of floods, quakes, the IOM mission in Kuwait and its coop- Offering HH the Amir an apprecia- desertification, armed conflicts and eration with the ministries, institutions tion award, the highest order by the famine in various parts of the world, he and public benefit societies. The Amiri IOM, comes in recognition of his dona- said, noting that humanitarian work in Diwan Advisor received an appreciation tions to the Organization’s programs Kuwait is age-old and deep-rooted. award from the IOM Council on behalf caring for the displaced, migrants and Meanwhile, Maatouq referred to the of HH the Amir. —KUNA US commander praises hope journey

MANAMA: Commander of the US 5th Fleet, Vice Admiral John Miller, expressed admiration at the touching humanitarian message that has been carried out by the Journey of Hope expedition. Miller made this remark at a ceremony that honored members of the voyage for their noble expedition aimed at raising awareness about the mentally-chal- lenged. Members of the boat were given US medals of courage as an appreciation of their determination to delve into a seven-month trip before it returns to Kuwait. The ceremony was attended by Kuwait’s Ambassador to Bahrain Sheikh Azzam Al-Sabah, Chief of Kuwait Naval Force Brigadier General Jassem Al-Ansari and the voyage’s executive director MANAMA: Vice Admiral John Miller honors the Journey of Hope Yosuef Al-Jassem. —KUNA crew. —KUNA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 LOCAL Kuwait-India ties well-established

NEW DELHI: Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce and Industry Abdulmohsen Al-Mudej highlighted yesterday the bilateral historical ties with India terming them as “distinguished and set on solid basis of friendship and mutual understanding.” Mudej made the statement at the opening session of the 4th India-Arab Partnership Conference that kicked off in New Delhi yesterday, adding that Kuwait and India have worked hard to deepen relations. He referred to the visit by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to New Delhi in June 2006, during which he confirmed that the Kuwaiti-Indian ties are age-old historical and based on a solid historical ground. On bilateral trade, Mudej said that it dates back to three centuries, when the Kuwaitis realized that their bid to trans- form their country into a trade hub in the Gulf area can be attained through interacting with trade activities in the Indian Ocean, according to a state- ment by the Kuwaiti embassy in India. The Commerce and Industry Minister also referred to a vis- it by His Highness the Prime KUWAIT: The Ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) So Chang Sik visited the Kuwait Times to discuss matters of mutual concern with Editor-in- Minister Sheikh Jaber Chief Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan. The ambassador presented a book about North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un published in the Kuwait Times Press and thanked the Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah press manager and his team for their support and hard work. — Photos by Joseph Shagra to India in November 2013 which “opened a new and fruitful chapter in the grow- ing relations with India.” Kuwait is looking forward to the 3rd Joint Ministerial Committee with India to be convened by the end of the NEW DELHI: Minister year, in a bid to promote eco- Mudej addresses the open- nomic, trade, technical and ing session. — KUNA scientific cooperation. According to Mudej, India is among Kuwait’s top 10 trade partners. He invited Indian companies and investors to take part in the ambitious devel- opment plans in Kuwait. Addressing the session, India’s Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman underscored the importance of cementing the Indian-Arab economic and trade ties. She urged the Arab and also foreign businessmen to invest in India, saying their rights are guaranteed and safeguarded by the government. Sitharaman called for promoting efforts to enhance exporting India’s technological expertise to the member states of the Arab League, in a bid to enhance joint trade and investments as. According to Sitharaman, bilateral trade between India and the Arab World hit USD 185.6 billion in the FY 2013-2014. The two-day 4th India-Arab Partnership Conference, held under “New Horizons in Investment, Trade and Services,” aims at enhancing the flow of investment between India and the Arab World. Three Partnership Conferences were held in 2008, 2010 and 2012 to stimulate trade and investment ties between both sides. The 4th Conference is organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, in association with the Ministry of External Affairs of India, League of Arab States, the General Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture for Arab Countries and Federation of Arab Businessmen. Ministers of Commerce and Industry from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Palestine are taking part in the event together with delegations from other 18 Arab states and heads of diplomatic missions in New Delhi. Senior business- men, investors and industrialists, Arab, Indian and others are also attending. During the opening session, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry signed two MoUs with the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) and the Federation of Arab Businessmen. — KUNA Gulf Bank sponsors NUKS-US Conference Largest gathering of Kuwaiti Students KUWAIT: Gulf Bank announced that it will be a Platinum sponsor of the 31st NUKS-US Conference, which takes place 26-29 November 2014 at the Marriot Marquis San Francisco in California, United States. Over the years the conference has become a gath- ering point for Kuwaiti students enrolled in Colleges and Universities across the United States who once a year convene to get a sense of home away from home for a few days. As the conference has grown, leading Public and Private sector institutions are sending representa- tives to the event to showcase their support. The gatherings have a healthy mix of activities that range from political lectures, elections for the new NUKS Board exercising a democratic process that Kuwait is keen to maintain; economic forums, a career fair, as well as ample opportunity for students to network amongst themselves and institutional representa- tives that will fly in from Kuwait. Gulf Bank has been a consistent supporter of youth initiatives, and has sponsored numerous NUKS-US annual conferences over the years. This year Gulf Bank looks forward to announcing several initiatives that are geared at preparing the students for work in the Kuwait private sector. The Bank believes that it is the educated youth of this country that can create the right condition for the prosperity of the nation, and looks forward to encouraging stu- dents to ‘being the change’. The Bank has recently started a ‘Graduate Development Program’ that has placed the top 20 Kuwaiti employees that have been working at the Bank for the 3 years and under, in a 9 month inten- sive training program with the objective of fast- tracking their careers. Gulf Bank believes that it is only through continuous investing in the youth that the Bank will be able through its Kuwaiti employees to develop the right product and services, through the right channels, to our esteemed customers in a timely manner, and with an unparallel customer experience. Commenting on the event, Salma Al-Hajjaj, General Manager of Human Resources at Gulf Bank said, “We are proud to be taking part in the NUKS conference for the second time in a row after the huge success of our participation last year. Being a part of the largest youth gathering of Kuwaiti stu- dents abroad is a demonstration of our commitment to the youth both from a human resources and busi- ness perspective. The Bank has a delegation attend- ing the conference where a series of surprises will await the attending students at the conference. We wish the organizers and attendees a great confer- ence. The slogan for this year’s conference is “Kuwait The Land of Hope, Is Fulfilled With Us” and on behalf of Gulf Bank we say you are the hope come home safe and all the best in your upcoming finals.” LOCAL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 Drugs found in cricket bats

By Hanan Al-Saadoun and he told police that he fired at his broth- er using an unlicensed weapon, and he KUWAIT: The international drugs fighting handed it over to police. He said that his unit of DCGD completed the supervised brother kept asking him to quit drinking handover of drugs after the arrival of a and that’s why he fired. Police found that Bahraini cricket delegation, resulting in the the suspect has a drugs record. arrest of an Asian driver who brought 500 gm of marijuana from Bangladesh via a Two injured in crash courier, and hid it inside cricket equipment Two drivers were trapped in their cars that arrived in Kuwait via Bahrain. The arrest following a car accident on Airport Road. was made as the suspect was receiving the Firemen were called in and freed the two parcel, and he confessed to the charges. and handed them over to paramedics.

Smuggling attempt foiled Fire drill An Egyptian man was sent to the Drugs Kuwait Fire Services conducted a mock Control General Department for attempt- exercise in Subhan. Meanwhile, three fire ing to smuggle two kilograms of heroin centers honed the skills of firemen on res- while entering Kuwait from Iraq by the cue operations through rapid intervention. truck he drives. The exercise was at the Millennium Hotel in Salmiya which has 18 floors and three Brotherly feud basements with a total area of 5,000 sq m. A security source said a suspect who The ‘fire’ was on the 17th floor and the fired at his brother was arrested yesterday, power room on the roof. Governor Al-Muhanna and senior officials stand up for the national anthem. Kuwait Green Building Conference, Exhibition opens

By Faten Omar

KUWAIT: Capital Governor Mohammed Al- Muhanna inaugurated yesterday the 3rd Kuwait Green Building Conference and Exhibition. Muhanna said the conference aims to raise awareness about eco-friendly buildings and the international green building system, known as the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system. “These conferences, which lead to the deploy- ment of green building and sustainable devel- opment culture, have all our support because of their importance in achieving sustainable devel- opment and the preservation of natural resources and wealth of the country,” he added. The governor explained that this system was promulgated to improve the environmental and economic performance of new and existing commercial, institutional and high-rise residen- tial buildings. KOC CEO Ismail Abdulla honors Mohammed Al-Muhanna. “We were one of the first parties interested in tion and maintenance leading to high perform- try on the subject of green buildings and smart green buildings in Kuwait and we have a num- ance buildings, and will examine best practices energy conservation. We need such projects, ber of serious steps in this area. We have begun and project delivery models that result in more especially since we are in a hot environment. training and rehabilitating engineers and spe- efficient methods of designing sustainability Some may think it’s a curse, but I think it’s a cialists through comprehensive training pro- into any project. It will provide a perfect plat- blessing, as we have many benefits including grams and give them all avenues of support for form to meet face-to-face and network with solar energy,” said Dr Fadhel Safar, former minis- a certificate of professional LEED GA or LEED AP,” industry experts and peers to exchange views, ter of public works and municipality. CEO of Kuwait Oil Co Ismail Abdullah said. debate concepts and develop knowledge about Alongside the conference, a specialized exhi- Kuwait Green Building Forum aims to edu- emerging green building systems, materials and bition will take place showcasing the latest sus- cate, inform, network and unite forces for technologies. tainable and environmentally friendly technolo- spreading the green building movement. It will “This is the third exhibition held in a row and gy, solutions, systems, products, materials and focus on all aspects of green design, construc- this shows interest in many quarters in the coun- supplies that are adopted for green buildings. Kuwait’s KNPC to invest $40 billion to 2022

KUWAIT: Kuwait National Petroleum Co (KNPC) plans to stream. Under the project, the capacity of the Mina al- spend $40 billion in the period to 2022 on projects includ- Ahmadi refinery will drop to 347,000 bpd from 466,000, ing a new refinery and a clean fuels project, its chief execu- while Mina Abdullah’s will rise to 454,000 bpd from tive said on Monday. 270,000. Mutairi said these projects would be completed Mohammed Ghazi al-Mutairi said in a speech at a con- between 2018 and 2022. ference in Kuwait City that the Clean Fuels Project would National Bank of Kuwait said in September that KNPC also include the expansion and modernizing of the Mina had chosen its investment banking arm to advise it on al-Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah refineries, with a focus on financing options for its multi-billion-dollar Clean Fuels producing high-grade products such as diesel fuel and Project. Contracts worth around $12 billion were awarded kerosene for exports. in February to international companies including Japan’s The new refinery, Al-Zour, which is due to be completed JGC Corp, Britain’s Petrofac Ltd and U.S.-based Fluor Corp in 2019, will be the largest in the Middle East with a capaci- for construction work on the project. ty of 615,000 barrels per day (bpd). A 30-billion-dinar ($104.7 billion) four-year Kuwait eco- Kuwait currently has three refineries with a combined nomic development plan expired at the end of March. That capacity of 930,000 bpd. The oldest, Shuaiba, with a capaci- plan had provided for upgrading and expanding two of the ty of 200,000 bpd will be closed after al-Zour goes on country’s largest refineries. — Reuters

No bachelors’ residence Bano Professional Mix sponsors in private areas HORECA By A Saleh Government housing plans slammed MP Hamdan Al-Azmi urged the govern- KUWAIT: Municipality minister, Essa Al- ment to accept its failure in keeping prom- Kandari recently issued a directive con- ises it had made concerning listing the cerning the application of decree law housing problem on top of its priorities number 125/1992 pertaining banning and stressed that minister Yasser Abul will the residence of ‘bachelors’ in some resi- not manage to keep his promises to dis- dential areas. tribute 12,000 housing units annually for Accordingly, Kandari urged all munici- the next ten years because the work pace pality officials to coordinate with con- is too slow and the housing authority cerned governors to put the law into prac- would not be able to meet the schedule. tice and help end the residence of bache- 3,690 vacancies at Jaber Hospital lors in those areas. Mubarak Al-Kabeer Health Zone direc- tor Dr Saud Al-Daraa said that the Civil Conscription bill amendments Services Commission has agreed to allo- The chairman of the parliamentary cate 3,690 vacancies to appoint doctors, interior and defence committee MP employees, nurses and technical staff for Tawfiq Hashawi Abdullah Maayouf said that the commit- the Jaber Al-Ahmed Hospital. He added tee had met with representatives from that most of the staff would be ready KUWAIT: Bano Professional Mix both ministries to discuss the conscription within nine months and that special com- announced participating in the 2015 bill and some suggested amendments. mittees had been dispatched to various HORECA Kuwait exhibition as a sil- countries to select them. ver sponsor. On that regard, Tawfiq NA session to discuss education Hashawi, General Manager, said that A number of lawmakers yesterday 45 new ambulances to be imported demanded holding a special parliamen- Sabah Medical Zone director Adel Al- the decision to participate in the tary session to discuss what they Asfour said that MoH will import 45 new event comes in recognition for its described as the deteriorating educational ambulances once the official and monitor- importance in the development of situation and means to develop it. ing approvals are granted. Kuwait’s hospitality and catering business. Bano Professional Mix’s sponsor- Kuwait chairs UNIDO’s ship of the exhibition also comes after the ‘huge success’ of their par- board of directors ticipation in last year’s event, Hashawi said. He added that the VIENNA: Kuwait was selected to chair the and important” partner of UNIDO, Dhawi event has become widely popular United Nations Industrial Development stressed that the organization is keen on among leading hospitality and Organization (UNIDO)’s board of direc- supporting the industrial aspirations of catering companies. tors, the UNIDO announced yesterday Arab and African countries including The 2015 HORECA Kuwait takes The selection underscores Kuwait’s those of the GCC, and foremost among role in supporting industrial and sustain- the latter Kuwait. place on 19 - 21 January 2015 at the able development, said Mohammad Al- He said he looked forward to visiting Arraya Ballroom in Jumeirah Dhawi, chief of the UNIDO industrial poli- Kuwait in December to meet with the offi- Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa. It is cy program. He spoke to KUNA, on the cials at the ministry of commerce and organized by the Leaders Group for sideline of the organization’s 42nd confer- industry with whom he would discuss Consultations and Development in ence, which started here yesterday and is such issues as boosting SMEs, exporting cooperation with Hospitality scheduled to continue for three days. non-oil-based products, and finding indus- Services. Saying that Kuwait is a “fundamental trial jobs for young job seekers. —KUNA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah with KU graduates, 2012 class. —KUNA photos HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah honors a KU graduate.

An archive photo of KU students during a lecture. His Highness the late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al- HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah during a KU ceremo- Sabah during KU’s inauguration. ny in 2014. Kuwait University celebrates 48th anniversary

KUWAIT: Kuwait University celebrates today the 48th anniversary of its official establishment. The university was opened on November 27, 1966 Kuwaiti students ‘part of Jordanian society’ by His Highness the late Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah in a solemn ceremony. AMMAN: The large number of Kuwaiti 13,000 Jordanian students in Kuwait. Kuwait University was established according to law number 29/1966, students seeking higher education in The official hoped that the two coun- and was officially opened five years after Kuwait gained its independence. Jordan reflected the strong relations tries would continue to further bolster The idea behind founding a university in Kuwait came in 1960 when between our two brotherly nations, said relations within the education and high- the Ministry of Education formed a committee consisting of a number of Jordanian Minister of Higher Education er education domain. experts from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Assuit University in Ameen Mahmoud late Tuesday. The council’s meeting, attended by Egypt, and University of Cambridge. Speaking on the sidelines of a meet- 54 Arab academics, focused on coordi- The first academic years started in September 1964 in two faculties; ing for the Council of Arab Cultural nating efforts within the Arab higher namely the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Sciences, and later in 1966 it Attaches in Amman, Jordan, Mahmoud education arena. The council, headed was officially opened with a total of 418 students and 31 faculty mem- said that the 6,500 Kuwaiti students by Kuwait’s Cultural Office President in bers. seeking higher degrees and education in Amman Dr Mohammad Al-Dhefeeri, AMMAN: Jordanian Minister of Kuwait University later witnessed the launch of a number of new facul- Jordan were treated “as if they were was established in 1978 to provide cul- ties in various disciplines, and in the academic year of 2014/2015, it Jordanians”, affirming that such treat- tural and academic services for Arab Higher Education Ameen Mahmoud offered education to a total of 38,648 students, along with 1,565 faculty ment was surely given to the some students. —KUNA speaks at the meeting. —KUNA members. —KUNA A lecture at KU. 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What we found wasthatArabAmericansremain nationwide telephone pollof400ArabAmericanvot- sioned Zogby AnalyticsofNew York a to conduct this year, (AAI) theArabAmericanInstitute commis- and how theyseetheissuesfacingcountry. but how theyself-identifypersonallyandpolitically stand notonlyhow votes thecommunity inelections poll ofArabAmericanvoters inorder to better under- same time, since 1996we have abiannual conducted written in 1990by my brother, JohnZogby. At the Today” basedonUScensus data, book, awonderful inthisregard,first majoreffort, was “Arab America from, andwhere we are livingintheUStoday. 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Bynotmaking I accept you andIaccept thedifferences (among ideologies inPalestinian butifIlisten to you, parties government.on anationalunity AbbaspersistsdespiteMahmoud theiragreement ment ledby Palestinian Authority president between theIslamistHamasandFatah move- ences amongPalestinians aswell, hesays. Rivalry towardparents act theirchildren,” hesaid. Romney. Butnotunlikethe rest oftheAmerican pub- 25 percent whosay theycasttheirballotfor Mitt claim to have voted for BarackObama,asopposed to 23 percent whosay theyare Republicans. year 44percent identifyasDemocratsopposedto number Republicansby atwo to onemargin. This 2014,asinthepastthreeIn polls, Democratsout- Arabs andMuslims, thegapopenedupeven further. Republican Party’s increasingly harshrhetoric against ofBarackObamain2008andthe the election that margin grew to 8pointsin2002and2004. With a result ofthepoliciesBushAdministration point margin, leanedtoward theDemocraticParty. As are registered asRepublicans. American” are who thosemembersofthecommunity doesnotprefermajority to identifyas “Arab where a theonlysub-group young/old). fact, In (immigrant/native born,Christian/Muslim,and shared withinthecommunity by allsub-groups erence inclaimingan “Arab American” is identity 1990’s to 63percent inthis2014poll. This stated pref- continued to increase from thelow 40’s inthelate age ofthosewhoidentifyas “Arab American” hasalso 30 percent in2002to today’s 43percent. 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The pollalsodemonstrates thatArab is self-aware, proud ofitsheritage, andconfident in that Arab AmericansasanAmericanethniccommunity they have confidence inneitherparty. terrorism/national security, mostArabAmericanssay Israeli-Palestinian issueordealingwith willdobetter inhandlingthe mining whichparty Republicans. Not surprisingly, whenitcomes to deter- believe thatDemocratswilldoabetter jobthan tion offoreign ArabAmericanssay thatthey policy) and terrorism. Onalloftheseissues(withtheexcep- lower are: inimportance, immigration, budget, taxes, thesecondmuch tierofissues,education. In ranking top issue); followed by foreign policy, healthcare, and rank order: jobsandtheeconomy (farandaway the United States today? For ArabAmericans, theyare, in better off inthefuture. are optimisticthattheirchildrenonly one-third willbe the attitudesofAmericanpublicat-large where for generationstandsinmarkedcontrast to thenext future. This ArabAmericanconfidence intheprospects immigrants beingthemostoptimisticabout groups withinthecommunity, withthosewhoare right now. This optimismisshared by allofthesub- their children will have abetter life thantheyhave thirds saying thattheyhave someconfidence that two- personal senseofoptimisminthefuture-with isheadinginthewrongfeel direction. thecountry (55percent)surprising thatamajority say thatthey tive andlegislative branchesofgovernment, itisnot lack ofconfidence oftheexecu- intheperformance a positive rating for itsjobperformance. Given this tive). At thesametime, only13percent give Congress ative jobrating (38percent positive, 59percent nega- lic, ArabAmericans now give President Obamaaneg- respect ourselves?”respect heasked. —The Line Media Bank passingoutsigned copies ofhisbook. equal footing andrespect,” hesays. with theoutsideworld. Butitmustbebasedon good dialogueinternally butultimately adialogue Sway said. “There’s agenuineneedfor arespectful leadership, especiallyspiritualleadership,” Abu There isasenseofcollapse oforder, there’s alackof East,today.Middle to existasituationliketheonethatexistsin ular participation”, hesays it’s “inevitable” for there said. University andIslamicStudiesatAl-Quds Qur’an sion,” MustafaAbuSway, Dean,College ofthe decades withcorruption, lackoffreedom ofexpres- erance, Arabstates mustendcorruption. his bookrequired reading. ofEducationwillmake that thePalestinian Ministry violence andcallingfor tolerance. Healsohopes ture oftolerance by preaching againsttheuseof preach sermonscould helpestablishacul- weekly NOTE: JamesJZogby Dr isthePresident oftheArab Taken together, of thesefindingspaintaportrait issuesfacingthe What are themost important ArabAmericanshaveNevertheless, notlosttheir “If God respects thehumanbeing, Godrespects “If why don’t we Meanwhile, hasbeentouring Metani the West “People reach astagewhere nothingistolerated. Without “good governance, orpop- transparency basicallyplaguedtheregion“Dictators for PalestinianOther analysts say thatbeyond intol- saysMetani imamswholeaddailyprayers and Culture oftolerance HRDY OEBR27,2014 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER washington watch By Abdullah Erakat By DrJamesZogby in my view

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FERGUSON: Protesters vandalize a police vehicle near Ferguson City Hall Tuesday. — AP Guard contain damage in Ferguson Officer says he never wanted to kill

FERGUSON, Missouri: State militia rein- than the previous night. However, officers The toll from Monday’s protests - 12 people disrupted bus and light rail traffic forcements helped contain the latest still used some tear gas and pepper spray, commercial buildings burned to the by walking across a Willamette River protests in Ferguson, preventing a sec- and demonstrators set a squad car on fire ground, plus eight other blazes and a bridge. ond night of the chaos after a grand jury and broke windows at City Hall. dozen vehicles torched - prompted decided not to indict the white police Since the grand jury’s decision, pro- Missouri governor Jay Nixon to send a Clean Conscience officer who killed Michael Brown, an testers in cities throughout the country large contingent of extra National Guard During an interview with ABC News, unarmed black 18-year-old in a case that have rallied behind the refrain “hands up, troops. The governor ordered the initial Wilson said he has a clean conscience has highlighted long-simmering tensions don’t shoot,” and drawing attention to force of 700 to be increased to 2,200 in because “I know I did my job right.” between blacks and police. other police killings. As the tension in the hopes that their presence would help Wilson, 28, had been with the Ferguson Demonstrators returned Tuesday to the Ferguson eased somewhat, officer Darren local law enforcement keep order in the police force for less than three years riot-scarred streets. But with hundreds of Wilson broke his long public silence, St. Louis suburb. “Lives and property before the Aug 9 shooting. He told ABC additional troops standing watch over insisting on national television that he must be protected,” Nixon said. “This that Brown’s shooting was the first time neighborhoods and businesses, the could not have done anything differently community deserves to have peace.” he fired his gun on the job. Asked protests had far less destructive power in the confrontation. Guard units protected the Ferguson whether the encounter would have Police Department and left crowd con- unfolded the same way if Brown had trol, arrests and use of tear gas to local been white, Wilson said yes. officers. In one commercial area yester- Wilson said he “never wanted to take day morning, a soldier was stationed at anybody’s life” and felt sorry about the every few storefronts, and some were on death of Brown. Wilson said he followed rooftops. A total of 58 people were arrest- his training when he shot the unarmed ed at area protests overnight, including black teenager. During their confronta- 45 in Ferguson. Most of those arrests tion, he said, “The only emotion I ever felt were for failure to disperse, but seven was fear and then it was survival and were arrested on felony charges - four for training.” Wilson said he only fired at suspicion of assaulting a police officer Brown when Brown was facing him, and and three for suspicion of committing an never when his back was turned. And he armed criminal action. Thirteen people said he saw in the teenager a high level were arrested at a protest in St Louis, of aggression and anger that was “almost including one for suspicion of assaulting unfathomable”. Wilson said he under- an officer. stands Wilson’s parents’ anger because Outside Ferguson police headquarters, they are grieving their son. He said, “I’m one woman was taken into custody after sorry that their son lost his life.” protesters hurled what appeared to be Attorneys for the Brown family vowed smoke bombs, flares and frozen water to push for federal charges against Wilson bottles at a line of officers. Several other and said the grand jury process was protesters were arrested after defying rigged from the start to clear Wilson. “We police instructions to get out of the street said from the very beginning that the or out of the way of police vehicles. decision of this grand jury was going to Protesters threw rocks, tent poles, and be the direct reflection of the presenta- bottles - some containing urine - at offi- tion of the evidence by the prosecutor’s cers. As the crowd dispersed early yester- office,” attorney Anthony Gray said. He day, some threw rocks through the win- suggested the office of the county’s top dows of a muffler shop and a used-car prosecutor, Bob McCulloch, presented dealership near a painted mural that read certain testimony to discredit the “Peace for Ferguson”. Some streets that process, including from witnesses who had been overrun the previous night did not see the shooting. were deserted, except for the occasional Brown’s parents made public calls for police cruiser or National Guard vehicle. peace in the run-up to Monday’s Some Guard crews monitored empty announcement, and on Tuesday, their parking lots. representatives again stressed that the Large demonstrations were held people setting fires were not on Michael throughout the country for a second day Brown’s side. Videos that were widely cir- Tuesday. Some were peaceful, such as in culated on Tuesday showed Brown’s New York, where Union Square was the mother, Lesley McSpadden, standing jumping-off point for a large protest that atop a car and breaking down as the splintered into smaller groups that announcement of the grand jury decision walked to places like Times Square and blares over the stereo. Her husband, the entrances of the Williamsburg and Brown’s stepfather, comforts her, then Manhattan bridges. Hundreds of Seattle begins angrily yelling “Burn this bitch high school students walked out of class- down!” to a crowd gathered around him. es, and several hundred people marched Asked about the comment at a news con- down a Cleveland freeway ramp to block ference, family attorney Benjamin Crump rush-hour traffic. said the reaction was, “raw emotion. Not Other events weren’t as calm. In appropriate at all. Completely inappropri- Oakland, California, a crowd of protesters ate.” smashed windows at car dealership, The Brown family attorneys said they restaurants and convenience stores. A ral- hope an ongoing federal civil rights ly that drew thousands in Minneapolis investigation leads to charges. But federal took a turn when a car struck a protester investigations of police misconduct face and drove through a pack of others. And a steep legal standard, requiring proof in Portland, Oregon, police used pepper that an officer willfully violated a victim’s spray and made arrests after about 300 civil rights. — AP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Once maligned, Iran Jews find greater acceptance

YAZD: More than a thousand people trekked across have been heartened by the support they’ve Iran this past week to visit a shrine in this ancient received. His government agreed to allow Jewish Persian city, a pilgrimage like many others in the schools to be closed on Saturdays to mark Shabbat, Islamic Republic - until you notice men there wear- the day of rest. ing yarmulkes. Iran, a home for Jews for more than Rouhani also allocated the equivalent of 3,000 years, has the Middle East’s largest Jewish $400,000 to a Jewish charity hospital in Tehran and population outside of Israel, a perennial foe of the invited the country’s only Jewish lawmaker to country. But while Iran’s Jews in recent years had accompany him to the United Nations General their faith continually criticized by the country’s pre- Assembly in New York last year. “We were fearful in vious governments, they’ve found new acceptance the ‘80s. We were feeling the pressure. Now, we are under moderate President Hassan Rouhani. not concerned anymore. We feel secure and enjoy “The government has listened to our grievances freedoms,” said Mahvash Kohan, a female Jewish pil- and requests. That we are being consulted is an grim who came to Yazd from Shiraz. “In the past, important step forward,” said Homayoun Samiah, Israel and others were providing incentives such as leader of the Tehran Jewish Association. “Under for- housing that lured some Jews. Now, it’s not like that. mer President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nobody was And Iranian Jews have better living and working listening to us. Our requests fell on deaf ears.” Most conditions in Iran. So, no one is willing to leave of Iran’s 77 million people are Shiite Muslims and its now.” ruling establishment is led by hard-line clerics who Still, human rights groups say Jews and other preach a strict version of Islam. Many Jews fled the minorities in Iran face discrimination. Last year, offi- country after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Jews cials in Iran’s presidency denied that Rouhani had a linked to Israel afterward were targeted. Today, esti- Twitter account after a tweet that appeared to be mates suggest some 20,000 Jews remain in the from the leader offered a greeting for Rosh country. Hashana, the Jewish New Year. Iranian state televi- Tensions grew under Ahmadinejad, who repeat- sion also has aired anti-Semitic programming. Those edly called the Holocaust “a myth” and even spon- taking part in the recent Yazd pilgrimage to the sored an international conference in 2006 to debate tomb of a famed Jewish scholar, however, praised whether the World War II genocide of Jews took the Iranian government’s new outreach. “We’ve YAZD, Iran: In this Nov 20, 2014 photo, an Iranian Jewish man holds a Torah scroll at the place. Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi once gathered here to pray and celebrate our Molla Agha Baba Synagogue. —AP accused Jews as whole of being drug dealers. But Jewishness,” Kohan said. “We are proud that we since Rouhani took office last year, Jews say they freely practice our religion.” —AP Syrian regime raids on IS ‘capital’ kill 95 Damascus holds talks with ally Russia

BEIRUT: Syrian regime air strikes on and a half years ago as an uprising process” would be high on the was also expected to push for the Islamic State group stronghold against Assad’s regime. The gov- agenda. Russian Foreign Minister delivery of long-sought S-300 anti- Raqqa killed at least 95 people as a ernment has in recent months Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow had aircraft missiles. Last September, government delegation held talks stepped up its air strikes against “many questions concerning the Putin said delivery of the S-300 with key ally Russia yesterday on IS-held towns in the north and prospects of a political settlement” missiles had been suspended with- relaunching peace negotiations. east, with most of the casualties to the Syrian conflict. A second out saying why, though the deci- The bombing on Tuesday was the reported to have been civilians. round of UN-brokered talks was sion came after Israeli Prime deadliest by President Bashar Al- Raqqa has also been the target held in Switzerland in early 2013 Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visit- Assad’s air force in Raqqa since of repeated air strikes by the US- but ended without agreement. ed Russia to ask Moscow to halt Sunni extremist IS fighters seized led coalition fighting the jihadists. A former leader of the National the shipments. The UN and human control of the city last year and Syria’s exiled opposition National Coalition, Moaz Al-Khatib, is rights groups have repeatedly TRIPOLI, Lebanon: In this Oct 27, 2014, file photo, Lebanese men stand near declared it their capital. More than Coalition condemned the strikes reported to have held talks at the called on all sides in the war, buildings damaged due to clashes between the Lebanese army and Islamist including the Assad regime, to stop militants. —AP using weapons that fail to discrimi- nate between civilians and military targets. Tripoli target for IS Scenes of Carnage TRIPOLI: Jamal Hayak is finally fixing up his restau- cial, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line Amateur video footage distrib- rant, damaged a month ago in clashes between with regulations, declined to go into details. So far, uted by activists in Raqqa showed the army and militants in this northern Lebanese it is not clear whether Islamic State militants have several bloodied bodies laid out on city. But he has little doubt violence will erupt actually moved in - only that there is opportunity. a street near an apparent bombing again, and he says he fears next time it will be “There are no IS cells in the real sense of the word, site, as an ambulance rushed to the Islamic State group fighters battling in Tripoli’s but there are many who dream of joining them scene. Aid workers in red overalls streets. “In the beginning we used to say. ‘This is and establishing an emirate in Tripoli,” said one res- bearing the Red Crescent symbol the last time.’ Now we’ve had Round 21 and 22 (of ident who spoke on condition of anonymity, fear- could be seen placing the corpses fighting), so we say God knows,” said Hayak, 56, ing reprisals. into white body bags. Raqqa was grimy with dust as he fixed his shop, shelled dur- the first and only provincial capital ing the four days of fighting in late October that Sunni Victimization to fall from Syrian government killed over 20 people. Nadim Houry, deputy Middle East director at control, but shortly after it was Sunni Muslim-majority Tripoli is seen as partic- Human Rights Watch, said a “sentiment of Sunni captured by rebels, IS jihadists ularly vulnerable to becoming a foothold for mili- victimization creates a terrain where (the Islamic seized the city. They have used it as tants from Syria, including the Islamic State group, State group) could - and I say could, I don’t think the de facto capital of their so- to expand into Lebanon. Years of neglect have they have done it yet - but could try and prey, and called “caliphate” in the territory deepened poverty in the city, Lebanon’s second gain more and more support.” Many Sunnis are they control in Syria and Iraq. largest. Many among its conservative Sunni resi- convinced that the army and the government are German Chancellor Angela dents are bitter over what they see as domination dominated by Hezbollah, the country’s powerful Merkel yesterday described IS as of the central government by Shiites, the Shiite Muslim power. Over the years, the ranks of “one of the most brutal threats to Hezbollah guerrilla group in particular - giving fer- Islamists grew in Tripoli, boosted by the profusion the lives of the people in the tile ground for the sectarian hatred that militants of groups belonging to the ultraconservative Salafi region... that there has ever been”. often feed on. The city also has a geographical sec- movement and the dozens of Gulf-funded free “Their radical lack of inhibition and tarian fault line, worsened by Syria’s civil war. religious schools preaching rigid Islamic doctrines. willingness to murder also threat- RAQQA: An image grab taken from a video yesterday shows smoke rising from burning cars fol- Clashes have erupted some two dozen times in Fighters from Tripoli were among Arab militants ens our security,” she said, voicing the city the past three years, mostly between the who went to fight American troops early in the US- lowing an alleged air strike by Syrian government forces in this Islamic State (IS) group con- concern about foreigners going to neighboring districts of Bab Tabbaneh and Jabal led war in Iraq. trolled Syrian city. —AFP fight in Syria and Iraq. Pro-govern- Mohsen. Bab Tabbaneh is majority Sunni, like While the capital and many of Lebanon’s ment forces in Iraq have recap- Syria’s rebels, and Jabal Mohsen’s residents are mountain resorts have largely rebuilt from the half of the dead were civilians, as a “brutal massacre”, warning Russian foreign ministry on Nov 7. tured some of the territory lost to mostly Alawites, the offshoot of Shiism to which ruins of the 1975-1990 civil war, Tripoli and neigh- according to the Syrian Observatory that “many seem now convinced But the Coalition, which has been the jihadists, but the militants still Syrian President Bashar Assad belongs. boring towns still struggle with squalor and pover- for Human Rights, which monitors that Assad is the major beneficiary internationally recognised but hold large areas of the country October’s fighting was considered the most ty. “We count the paving stones we cross on the the war through a network of of the US-led coalition strikes” lacks influence in Syria, has voiced including the cities of Mosul, Tikrit serious because heavily-armed Sunni militants led street, we’ve got nothing better to do,” said Ali, 24, sources. It was unknown how many against the jihadists. scepticism about prospects for and Fallujah. the clashes, launching attacks on army positions in an unemployed chef, speaking in Tripoli’s bazaar. jihadists were killed. progress. It accuses Syria and France, part of the coalition Tripoli. They were believed to be local residents He requested his family name be withheld so he Raqqa was the first provincial Staunch Russian Support Russia of trying to handpick an fighting IS in Iraq, said six Mirage inspired by the Islamic State group and Syria’s Al- could speak freely. capital to fall from regime control, In Russia, a Syrian delegation opposition with whom to negoti- fighter jets would be deployed Qaeda affiliate, the Nusra Front, security officials The Islamic State group has succeeded in and it was later overrun by IS headed by Foreign Minister Walid ate. “These attempts don’t provide today to Jordan to assist in the have said. The violence raised warnings from sweeping through parts of Iraq and Syria in part which has used it as the capital of Muallem held talks with Assad’s any kind of political path to a solu- strikes across the border. The US politicians that militants are seeking to carve out by appealing to disenfranchised Sunnis, alongside its self-proclaimed “caliphate” key ally President Vladimir Putin at tion in Syria,” Coalition secretary- military said yesterday that its war- an enclave in north Lebanon along the lines of the terrorizing its enemies with violence. When straddling Syria and neighbouring his Black Sea retreat of Sochi yes- general Naser Al-Hariri told AFP. planes had carried out 10 airstrikes Islamic State group’s self-declared “caliphate” in Islamic State group fighters seized the Iraqi city of Iraq. The multi-sided Syrian con- terday. No statement was issued “The representatives of the Syrian against IS fighters in Syria since Syria and Iraq. Mosul in June, some Sunni residents welcomed flict has killed more than 195,000 after the meeting. Ahead of the people are well-known and must Monday while the wider coalition A security official said both groups are actively them out of resentment of the Shiite-dominated people and forced millions from talks, Russia’s foreign ministry said be dealt with.” waged seven strikes against the trying to recruit among disaffected youth in government in Bagdad, which they accuse of dis- their homes since it began three the issue of “mending the political The delegation from Damascus group in Iraq. —AFP impoverished areas of northern Lebanon. The offi- crimination. —AP S Africa says Israel ‘defying world’

PRETORIA: Israel is defying the world by tion,” he said. Zuma’s ruling African National set up a forum to exchange views on common “undermining” prospects for a two state solu- Congress is a firm supporter of the political matters, and cooperation in higher tion through its settlements policy, South Palestinian cause, with politicians regularly education and training. African President Jacob Zuma said yesterday comparing Israel to the former racist Abbas’s visit comes days after UN chief Ban as he welcomed visiting Palestinian leader apartheid state in South Africa. The white Ki-moon urged Israel and the Palestinians to Mahmoud Abbas. “The reality is that the minority government had cooperative rela- “step back from the brink” and return to peace overwhelming majority in the world agrees tions with Israel, but when Nelson Mandela talks amid European moves toward recognis- with the position of two states living side by was elected first democratic president in ing Palestine. His comments reflected interna- side in peace, but we have a problem of a 1994, he pledged to support Palestine, say- tional alarm over the spate of violent attacks country that is defying all of that,” said Zuma. ing: “South Africa’s freedom is incomplete in east Jerusalem and the deadlock over “We reiterate our call for the total cessation without the freedom of the Palestinians.” peace talks that are fuelling fear of another of all settlement activities,” he told a joint flareup after the war in Gaza earlier this year. news conference with Abbas. Criticising the Strong Bond With no political solution in sight, govern- way the United Nations works, he added: “I Abbas was greeted with a 21-gun salute at ments and parliaments in Europe are moving don’t think the system should allow that one the Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa’s towards Palestinian recognition, with France’s country can defy the world.” administrative capital. He has visited South National Assembly set to vote on a non-bind- South Africa was ready to assist with nego- Africa before - last year he attended Mandela’s ing resolution on Dec 2. That follows Sweden’s tiations between Israel and the Palestinians funeral -but officials said this is his first state announcement that it will recognise Palestine and had appointed two special envoys for the visit. “People of South Africa and Palestine and non-binding votes in the British and task, Zuma added. Abbas said the have a strong bond built in the trenches of Spanish parliament in favour of recognising Palestinians sought to benefit from South our two struggles, we want to build even Palestinian statehood. South Africa and Africa’s “successful experiences” in building stronger relations and cooperation based on Palestine established diplomatic relations in PRETORIA: South African President Jacob Zuma (right) and Palestinian leader an independent state. “We are the last nation that historical relationship,” said Zuma. In their 1995 following the end of apartheid in 1994. Mahmoud Abbas bestow national orders to each other yesterday. —AFP in the world that is still living under occupa- talks, the two leaders signed an agreement to Abbas ends his visit tomorrow. —AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Pena Nieto forced into action MEXICO CITY: Two months after 43 stu- actions that require a collective effort from dents vanished in the night, change is Congress and society to find the best afoot in Mexico: protests have swept the path” to avoid a repetition. The case has nation, sounding a wake-up call for the become a tragic example of collusion president to finally tackle corruption and between criminals and corrupt officials in police brutality. Facing the biggest crisis of a drug war that has left tens of thousands his two-year-old administration, President of people dead since 2006. In the Iguala Enrique Pena Nieto will announce case, the mayor is accused of having Thursday a new strategy to tackle the unleashed the police on the students over country’s dysfunctional justice system. The fears they would protest a speech by his national soul-searching began in wife, who prosecutors say has links to a September after police in the southern drug cartel. state of Guerrero attacked busloads of col- “This has sparked a civil awakening,” lege students, abducted 43 young men said Jorge Hernandez, a political analyst at and handed them over to drug gang the National Autonomous University of members. Mexico. “The political class is under scruti- The gang members later said they had ny. The country has come face-to-face killed the captives. The government, Pena with the raw reality that many didn’t want Nieto said Tuesday, must take “profound to see.” — AFP

WASHINGTON: A pedestrian uses an umbrella as he walks in front of the White House yesterday. — AP Strange tale of pardoned White House turkeys 67th year of ceremonial presentation WASHINGTON: It is an odd tradition, to be sure. 67th anniversary of the ceremonial presentation birds, 21 weeks of age, for the big day at the Every year, on the eve of Thanksgiving, the presi- of the turkey. The national turkey breeders asso- White House. “This is actually the second time. dent of the United States “pardons” a turkey at ciation got it going after World War II. But back My brother Jim, in 1996, brought them here the White House. For the sixth time, Barack then, there was no pardon - just dinner. Nobody when president Clinton was here,” he told AFP. Obama did the job yesterday, sparing the bird at seems to know, however, exactly when the par- “We are the first two brothers in the history of a ceremony at which he was to be joined by his doning tradition started. Some people say it was this event to do this, and we are also the only (possibly underwhelmed) daughters Sasha and John F Kennedy who was the first to issue a ones from Ohio to ever bring the turkey.” “It just Malia, 13 and 16. The myth behind the tradition turkey pardon in Nov 1963. What we do know is represents another one of the many ways that us is that - after overexposure to the media in that it wasn’t until the White House days of Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, and family, Washington - once pardoned, the rotund turkey George H W Bush in 1989, that pardoning and the tradition.” will spend the rest of its happy days lolling became an annual part of the turkey presenta- around, far from anyone’s plate. (Stuffed turkey is tion. ‘Strange’ the classic US Thanksgiving meal.) In a carefully choreographed media show, But the reality is far less poetic. Commercially North American Bird these high-profile birds are actually staying a raised turkeys have been bred to be large to Quite a bit of US Thanksgiving lore intersects few nights at the posh Willard Hotel, not far from feed a crowd - the massive store-bought birds with this bird - a species native to North America the White House. British comedian John Oliver can barely walk, much less fly. They can be five that was a key food source in colonial times. joked on his HBO show: “I am here to discuss times larger than the wild ones still in American Early settlers learned to survive in the New perhaps the strangest Thanksgiving tradition: I forests. Commercial turkeys also have short lifes- World in part by eating the local staples such as am talking about turkey pardoning. “There is pans. Of the two turkeys pardoned last year, only turkey, corn and pumpkin, which they learned something profoundly strange about a presi- one is still on the farm. “Caramel and his cohort about from Native Americans. People who sur- dent making a show of pardoning one turkey to Popcorn arrived at Morven Park in January after vived harsh winters, illness and fretting over mark a holiday on which everyone, the president spending the holidays at George Washington’s food back then had plenty for which to be grate- included, consumes an estimated 46 million Mt Vernon. Unfortunately, Popcorn died of natu- ful. birds,” he said. “The whole thing is so strange.” ral causes in July,” the Virginia farm where they Gary Cooper, the chairman of the National Animal rights group PETA meanwhile has urged were living said. Turkey Federation, has a turkey facility in Fort the Obama girls to push the president to take The White House says this year will mark the Recovery, Ohio. He will be bringing two big turkey out of the Thanksgiving equation. — AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Islamic State group gains toehold in Libya

TRIPOLI: With Libya engulfed in chaos, the have pledged allegiance to IS and are look- are attracted to IS. But the majority of sen- edly swore allegiance to IS in the search for have gone to fight in Iraq and Syria,” the for- town of Derna in the east of the largely law- ing to associate themselves with it,” said ior jihadists in Libya are former Al-Qaeda a group that could unify the Muslim com- mer official added. According to one resi- less country is emerging as a new strong- State Department spokesman Jeffrey members and there is an ideological fight munity,” said a former Libyan official who dent of Derna, life in the town goes on hold for the Islamic State jihadist group, Rathke. Libyan authorities have struggled to between IS and Al-Qaeda partisans,” said a also asked not to be named for security rea- largely as normal-for most people. “You go experts say. The North African state has control militant groups as well as powerful Libyan expert on jihadists who did not sons. “But ideological differences between out, you do your chores, you visit friends. been wracked by instability since the over- militias which ousted Gaddafi, and the inter- want to be named. The UN this month jihadist groups and the international coali- No one bothers you,” the resident said. “But throw of autocratic leader Muammar nationally recognized government has been branded Ansar Al-Sharia a terrorist organi- tion offensive against IS means these fac- if you are a policeman, a soldier or a lawyer, Gaddafi in 2011, providing a fertile ground forced to take refuge in the far east of the zation owing to its affiliation with Al- tions have so far opted for discretion, or you’re dead.” —AFP for Islamic extremists. IS fighters have oil-rich country. Qaeda’s North African franchise. “The deci- already swept across Iraq and Syria, and sion was based on reliable intelligence,” the their leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi recently ‘Ideological fight’ Libyan expert said. “Ansar al-Sharia has boasted of vows of allegiance from militants Derna and large areas of Benghazi, closer ties to Al-Qaeda than to any other in Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Yemen and Saudi Libya’s second city, have served as strong- group.” Arabia. holds for radical groups including Ansar Al- Some Western observers consider Derna, Sharia, classed by the UN as a terrorist ‘Islamic emirate’ a town of 150,000, to be the home of a third organization. In April, an offshoot of the According to Claudia Gazzini, Libya ana- IS franchise in North Africa, after Jund Al- group announced it had implemented lyst at International Crisis Group, some Khilifa in Algeria and Egypt’s Ansar Beit Al- Islamic sharia law in Derna. The self-pro- Derna factions have pledged allegiance to Maqdis declared their support earlier this claimed “Shura Council of Islamic Youth” has IS, but it is unclear which ones and how year. “The Islamic State is in Derna. It’s well reportedly opened Islamic courts and estab- much support they enjoy. “There is a mis- documented. There’s no doubt,” said lished a religious police force in the town. guided tendency to automatically associate Othman Ben Sassi, a former member of the Dozens of masked members have appeared the establishment of Islamic courts and the now-disbanded Transitional National in military fatigues, regularly parading in killings of soldiers with an IS agenda,” she Council, the political arm of the rebellion pick-up trucks brandishing rocket launchers said. Derna was already considered by that overthrew Gaddafi. and heavy machineguns and toting the many analysts to be a de-facto “Islamic emi- The jihadist group is exploiting “the black and white flag used by jihadists. rate”, entirely free from state control, before absence of state authority and porous bor- In August the Shura Council posted a the reported claims of allegiance to IS. The ders,” he added. Statements and images video online appearing to show the public town has long been suspected of harboring TRIPOLI: Libyans gather next to a house damaged during an airstrike by forces loyal have for several weeks circulated on extrem- execution in a Derna football stadium of an and training foreign fighters who then go to Libya’s internationally recognized government at the area around Tripoli’s Mitiga ist forums claiming to depict gatherings of Egyptian man accused of murder. But the on to fight in Iraq and Syria, where IS has airport, held by anti-government militias. A new air strike hit the Libyan capital’s sole “Libyan jihadists” belonging to IS-prompting group has yet to formally pledge allegiance declared a “caliphate” and imposed its harsh operational airport, a day after a raid claimed by forces loyal to retired general concern in Washington. “We have seen to IS, and analysts say there are divisions interpretation of Islamic law. Khalifa Haftar. —AFP reports that violent extremists (in Libya) within its ranks. “Several extremists in Derna “There are factions in Derna who report- News Secular France confronts in brief

India teenage girl dies after being set on fire jihadists after slow start LUCKNOW: A teenage girl has died in northern India one week after a gang of men set her on fire as punishment for resisting their attempts to molest her, police said yesterday. The horrific incident is the latest in India where sex attacks on women con- Apartment near Paris - on the front line of anti-jihad fight tinue to occur on an almost daily basis despite an international outcry over the fatal gang-rape of a student in 2012. In the lat- est case, police have arrested four men over the attack which SEINE-ST-DENIS: When Guillaume, a 22-year-old in the tough northern suburb of Paris has put her at the Time and money occurred after the 15-year-old girl stepped outside her home in Frenchman, left jail two months ago vowing to die as a forefront of the country’s efforts to “deradicalise” would-be Imloul’s program, which covers the larger Paris region, Uttar Pradesh state on November 16. The girl’s family has told martyr for Islam, community worker Sonia Imloul had a jihadis. France has been slow to respond to the spread of is a pilot for schemes to be rolled out nationally with a police that six men dragged her back inside the house after she few minutes to convince him he was on the wrong path. In jihadist ideology because strict state secularism forbids budget of 800,000-1 million euros for this year, said Pierre objected to their lewd gestures and attempts to touch her, local an exit interview shortly after his release, she appealed to any incursion into individuals’ religious affairs. This has cre- N’Gahane, the official in charge of deradicalisation superintendent RK Sahu said. The men then doused her in a Muslim sense of duty toward his adoptive mother ated a breeding ground that has pulled in converts like nationally. But while such schemes target potential kerosene and set her on fire as punishment in Shahjahanpur vil- Vivienne and persuaded him to attend regular checks by Guillaume, radicalized while in prison for assaulting a jihadis, security officials are increasingly worried about lage, 277 kilometers southeast of New Delhi, according to the educators and psychologists - a soft-touch approach to police officer. attacks by fighters returning from Syria. No approach has family. The girl was taken to a local hospital but died of her deradicalisation. Other EU countries have started their own initiatives yet been determined to deradicalise them. “These people injuries on Sunday night, the officer said. “Four of the six Now Guillaume is back home drinking Coca Cola - with varying levels of success but the patchy approach in should undergo deradicalisation,” said N’Gahane. “But the accused have been arrested. All of them belong to the same vil- taboo for many radical Islamists - and spending time with France and elsewhere highlights the need for a quick and question (of how), is still on table. We make no secret of lage and are of the same caste as that of the girl,” Sahu said. his girlfriend. “She saved my son,” said Vivienne, 73, of coordinated European response, particularly to counter that.” Police are hunting for the other two accused. Imloul, whose years of experience with youth delinquence online propaganda. Fearing attacks on French soil, France Other European countries have moved faster: Britain is now ramping up its efforts, with a hotline for worried set up deradicalisation schemes run by Muslim leaders in parents and tougher laws to stop minors leaving the coun- the early 2000s, but results are lacking and Prime Minister try. The pilot program Imloul set up two months ago from David Cameron has since promised a tougher approach. a secure apartment 40 minutes train ride from Paris is on Germany, which has a state-by-state federal approach, the frontline of the fight. Her team of psychologists and has won plaudits for its Exit program, originally designed educators - a model partly inspired by a Canadian scheme to help neo-Nazis reintegrate into society. Denmark’s - immediately had their hands full. Guillaume’s case alone Aarhus program has also won praise for its success in re- required immediate attention and hours of follow-up socializing Islamist radicals through a mix of psychologi- work. cal help, counseling and mentoring. N’Gahane said Participants leaving jail are not told they are in a derad- France’s strictly secular model was an important factor in icalisation scheme, rather they are offered psychological delaying France’s response. support and help finding jobs as part of a parole agree- “When a family came to us .... we didn’t know what to ment. “It’s a fight against the ideology, but also against answer, we would say it’s a religious problem, that’s in the time,” said Imloul. “If we wait, or if we let too much time private sphere,” he said. “We needed to come up with cri- lapse between meetings, the recruiters win. And if we do teria that allowed us to discern between religious prac- PARIS: French president Francois Hollande CHAMPIGNY: The Mayor of Champigny-sur-Marne nothing, there is a good chance one of these young men tices and radicalism. That took time.” Imloul said it can be (right) greets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah will take action here, in France.” An estimated 1,000 French difficult to spot the signs of radicalism. “None of the guys, Dominique Adenot talks during a press confer- El-Sisi after a joint statement at the Elysee nationals have been linked to fighting in Syria or Iraq, on their way to jihad, are wearing a beard and a khamis palace yesterday in Paris. —AFP ence after a second Frenchman who appeared more than any other Western nation, with 100 of those (traditional garment),” she said. “The only way to know is among Islamic State jihadists in a grisly execution now back in France. Last week Maxime Hauchard, a 22- by talking to them, picking up on the cues that tell you Egypt’s Sisi talks Libya, video was identified as a man from this eastern year-old French convert, appeared in a video of the who belongs to what current.” “For that, we need time. business in French trip suburb of Paris. —AFP beheading of a US aid worker. And money.” —Reuters PARIS: Egypt’s president yesterday begins a two-day trip to France, the second leg of a first European tour aimed at bringing Egypt out of the diplomatic cold after he oversaw a crackdown that damaged Cairo’s international reputation. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was due to hold Siberian air UK unveils anti-terror talks with French counterpart Francois Hollande later likely to focus on the chaos in Libya as well as bilateral economic cooperation. Ahead of the trip, French officials were at pains to stress the impor- passengers get tance of Egypt as a regional player, despite the condemnation that bill despite concerns followed Sisi’s overthrow of his elected Islamist predecessor out and push Mohamed Morsi and deadly crackdown on opponents. “Yes, we LONDON: Britain yesterday unveiled draft legislation to ban tant groups, including Boko Haram, Al-Shebab and Al-Qaeda in consider Sisi as legitimate. But there’s a lot to talk about,” said a frozen plane extremist preachers from universities, increase surveillance on sus- the Arab Peninsula. Among the measures is also a ban on British source close to Hollande, who declined to be named. Egypt is a pected radicals and stem the flow of jihadists joining the Islamic insurers refunding clients who pay out kidnap ransoms when “great country and a big partner for France”. Sisi arrives from Italy, State group. The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill has already there is a suspicion that the money will end up financing mili- where he was hailed as a “strategic partner” of Rome and Europe, in MOSCOW: Siberian air passengers had to get out and the latest sign of Cairo’s international rehabilitation. This is partly push their plane in temperatures of minus 52 degrees come under criticism from Muslim rights campaigners and civil lib- tant groups. The changes come after Britain raised its threat level from due to shared problems and enemies, notably the lawlessness in Celsius after its chassis froze, Russian prosecutors said erties groups who have raised concern about measures not sub- ject to review by the courts. “substantial” to “severe” and as more than 500 Britons are Libya and the Islamic State. Sisi hopes to coordinate an internation- yesterday. The extraordinary story emerged after a “We are in the middle of a generational struggle against a believed to have gone to Iraq and Syria to fight in the IS group’s al response to fighting in Libya between government-backed passenger posted a video on YouTube showing a deadly terrorist ideology,” Britain’s interior minister, Theresa May, ranks. In the latest development, police yesterday said they had troops and Islamist militias. group of cheery travelers pushing the Tupolev plane said. “In an open and free society, we can never entirely eliminate arrested a couple at Heathrow Airport for “Syria-related terrorism on the snow-covered runway in Igarka, which is the threat from terrorism. “But we must do everything possible in offences” after they got off a flight from Istanbul. The govern- Coal mine fire kills beyond the Arctic Circle. “Let’s go,” passengers in thick line with our shared values to reduce the risks,” she said. One of the ment has repeatedly warned that the return of war-trained 26 Chinese miners winter coats shout and whoop as they put their hands most contested proposals is a ban for Britons suspected of fighting jihadists presents an immediate risk to Britain, although critics BEIJING: A fire at a Chinese coal mine killed 26 workers yester- on the wings of the plane and shove it several meters in Iraq and Syria from re-entering the country for up to two years say the measures are more about next May’s general election. day, state media reported, the latest fatal incident to hit the along the runway. “Everyone wants to go home,” one unless they agree to be subjected to strict monitoring. accident-prone industry. The blaze at the mine in the northeast- man says. Critics have said these “temporary exclusion orders” come close ern province of Liaoning also left 50 people injured, the official Transport prosecutors in western Siberia said they to making British citizens “stateless”, a breach of international law Xinhua news agency said, quoting the state-owned Fuxin Coal were investigating the incident, which took place on that could also create a headache for transit states like Turkey. Police Corporation. Among those taken to hospital, mostly with burns Tuesday. “Due to the low air temperatures, the chas- will also have the power to seize passports and travel documents of and respiratory injuries, 30 were seriously hurt and four were in sis’s brake system froze and a tow truck was unable to people thought to be going abroad to engage in terrorism and life-threatening condition. Initial investigations showed that move the plane onto the taxiway to carry out the relocate terror suspects to different parts of the country. David coal dust in a shaft was ignited shortly after a weak earthquake Anderson, the independent reviewer of anti-terror legislation, criti- flight,” prosecutors confirmed in a statement. “The with a magnitude of just 1.6 hit the mine, said the report. cized the plans. “Where are the courts?” he asked at a parliamentary passengers on board got out of the plane and started Rescue operations had been completed, it added, and produc- committee on human rights, adding that there may be a “more sen- tion had been suspended for safety checks. The mine went into pushing it onto the taxiway.” Even for Russians inured sible” way of dealing with those suspected of terrorist activity. operation in 1987 and is one of the biggest coal producers in to long winters of sub-zero temperatures, the passen- the region, with an annual production capacity of 1.5 million gers’ can-do chutzpah has drawn awed admiration. ‘Dumping suspect citizens’ tons, Xinhua said. It employs 4,660 people. China’s mines are “Siberians are so tough that for them pushing a frozen “The role of the courts... is important if you don’t want these among the world’s deadliest because of lax regulation, corrup- plane along a runway is a piece of cake,” said laws being abused,” said Simon Palombi, a consultant for the inter- tion and poor operating procedures. Safety is often neglected Komsomolskaya Pravda daily. national security department at the Chatham House think tank. by bosses seeking easy profits and accidents are common. Social media too was abuzz with praise for the pas- Palombi said the “most controversial” measure was obliging LONDON: The Commissioner of the London Metropolitan sengers. The plane with 74 passengers on board was Internet service providers to hand over data on Internet Protocol Police Bernard Hogan-Howe leaves 10 Downing Street in Jewelry heist in Paris being operated by a Siberian airline called Katekavia (IP) addresses to trace individual smartphone and computer users. London, following a meeting of Cobra.—AP sparks police chase which is part of UTair group. It was flying from Igarka, Making schools and universities legally liable for helping to deter radicalization was also “a very slippery slope”, he warned. “I Human rights watchdog Amnesty International’s legal PARIS: Two men with an AK-47 robbed a Cartier jewelry store around 1,750 miles (2,800 kilometers) northeast of near Paris’s Champs-Elysees on Tuesday, leading to a police Moscow, to the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The tech- think you are going to find a lot of opposition there,” he said. Shami advisor Rachel Logan warned it was “dangerous to rush Chakrabarti, director of rights group Liberty, strongly criticized through this grab-bag of measures without proper scrutiny or chase and a brief hostage-taking when they sought refuge in nical director of Krasnoyarsk-based Katekavia, plans to curb suspected radicals returning to or leaving Britain. challenge”. May earlier this week said that police had foiled 40 a hair salon. The suspects agreed to release the hostage and Vladimir Artemenko, acknowledged the incident took “Dumping suspect citizens like toxic waste, abdicating your attacks in the last nine years, including a Mumbai-style gun turn themselves in, with the entire drama lasting about two place to Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily. “That morning it responsibilities to the international community, is a very strange attack and a planned murder of armed forces personnel and hours. Police recovered a cache of jewels the men had stolen. was minus 52 (minus 61 Fahrenheit). The plane had way of promoting the rule of law,” she said. “Summary powers to tougher laws are needed. But advocacy groups from Britain’s One witness inside the Cartier store located in a busy touristic stood on the runway for 24 hours and the pilots forgot ‘stop and seize’ passports at airports will prove just as divisive and 2.8-million strong Muslim community say the measures will area said the two men, who did not seem “professional”, burst to take off the parking brake. That caused the brake counterproductive as the infamous ‘stop and search’ powers that further marginalize ordinary believers. Cerie Bullivant, a in late in the day and forced the three customers inside and pads to freeze up,” he said. Passengers pushed the preceded them.” spokesman for the Cage group, said the legislation “further about 10 staff to lie down. They then demanded that the plane until it was able to turn and then the tow truck leads to young people not feeling that they’re included in store’s showcases be opened, but were interrupted as they took over, he said. The flight then took off and went ‘Dangerous to rush’ society, not feeling that they have the same rights as the rest gathered jewelry by the sound of police sirens. The suspects smoothly. —AFP The government says the changes are necessary to deal with of society, which only makes radicalization more likely not fled with the store manager. mounting threats from the Islamic State group and other mili- less”. —AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Ghani warns against Afghan ‘proxy war’ South Asian leaders gather at regional summit KATHMANDU: Afghanistan’s new president told the leaders of India and Pakistan he would not let his country become the battleground of a proxy war yes- terday as the enmity between South Asia’s arch rivals cast a shadow over a regional summit. Nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan-bitter and sometimes bloody rivals since gaining independence from Britain in 1947 - have long accused each other of using proxy forces to try to gain influence in Afghanistan. But the imminent departure of NATO combat forces from Afghanistan has raised fears that rivalry could escalate, further destabilizing the two countries’ troubled neighbor as it seeks to rebuild after decades of war. President Ashraf Ghani issued his warning to South Asian leaders meeting in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu to try to reinvigorate regional cooperation held back by decades of rivalry between India and Pakistan. “We will not allow our territory to be used against any of our neighbors. But we will not permit anybody to conduct proxy wars on our soil either,” he told the gathered leaders including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif. KATHMANDU: The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi (right) speaks with the Prime Ghani’s predecessor Hamid Karzai frequently Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay during the opening session of the 18th South Asian BARIYAPUR: Sacrificial buffaloes are seen in a holding pit before being slaughtered accused Islamabad of trying to destabilize the Kabul Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in Kathmandu yesterday. — AFP as offerings to the Hindu goddess Gadhimai in Bariyapur village in Bara district some government by giving sanctuary to Taleban fighters. nourishment and unemployment,” said Pakistan’s ed a more aggressive policy on Pakistan than its cen- 70 kms south of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. — AFP Only last week, former Pakistan president Pervez Sharif. tre-left predecessor. Musharraf warned that the departure of NATO troops But the summit, which comes just weeks after Modi warned during the recent upsurge in vio- Hindus devotees defy outcry at the end of the year could provoke a proxy Indo- some of the worst cross-border violence in the disput- lence in Kashmir that “times have changed and their Pakistan war involving members of Afghanistan’s rival ed region of Kashmir in a decade, is already being old habits will not be tolerated”. “SAARC’s main prob- over mass animal slaughter ethnic groups. Without mentioning Pakistan by name, overshadowed by the rivalry between India and lem is that SAARC is basically about India and Pakistan, Ghani said that state sponsorship of non-state actors Pakistan. During his speech, Modi pointedly referred with the Afghanistan dimension thrown in now,” said KATHMANDU: Sword-wielding Hindu vation is making money, accusing them could have damaging effects. “It should be clear that to deadly attacks in Mumbai exactly six years ago, Sujeev Shakya, chairman of the Nepal Economic devotees will transform a remote corner of increasing the number of sacrifices so such measures have blowback effects, destabilizing which were blamed on Pakistani militants and led to Forum. Modi will hold his first talks with Ghani on the of Nepal into the world’s largest abattoir they can sell the meat. “There is nothing the state system,” he said. the collapse of peace talks between the two countries. summit’s sidelines later as New Delhi seeks to consoli- this weekend when they slaughter hun- spiritual or religious about this. It is all a “In 2008 we felt the endless pain of lost lives. Let us date its influence. dreds of thousands of animals in defiance money game,” Gauri Maulekhi, from ‘Dispute free South Asia’ work together to fulfil the pledge we have taken to India, the largest regional investor in Afghanistan, of a growing chorus of protests. Animal India’s People for Animals group said. The leaders of the eight South Asian Association combat terrorism and transnational crime,” he said. is building a huge new parliament in Kabul and fund- rights activists say the butchering of ani- Unlicensed traders and pilgrims who for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries are meet- ing new roads, dams, infrastructure and reconstruc- mals ranging from buffaloes to rats in the cross the porous border are responsible ing for the first time since the election of a new Indian Ball in India’s court tion. On Tuesday Modi oversaw a $1 billion agreement village of Bariyapur amounts to mass cru- for supplying some 70 percent of the buf- government eager to improve ties in the face of grow- Modi will hold one-on-one meetings with all the to build a hydropower plant in neighboring Nepal, elty while local residents say the stench faloes sacrificed, according to temple ing Chinese influence in its backyard. Regional leaders SAARC leaders except Sharif, according to an Indian where China has invested heavily in recent years, say- of death leaves them struggling to authorities. Around 70 people have been at the meeting stressed the need for greater coopera- official who said Islamabad had not requested a meet- ing he wanted to “move forward” with deals long breathe. arrested and 1,410 animals seized by tion to combat poverty in South Asia, where cross-bor- ing. Sharif said the ball was in India’s court after New delayed by mutual mistrust. Modi said India would But despite intervention from India’s Indian authorities since the court’s deci- der trade remains minimal, held back by mistrust and Delhi cancelled senior-level talks earlier this year. lead a drive to boost regional trade, committing to Hopes of a move towards reconciliation were raised lower his country’s large trade deficit with other South Supreme Court, which has ordered a ban sion in October, according to local police weak infrastructure. “My vision for our region is a dis- pute free South Asia where instead of fighting each when Modi invited Sharif to his swearing-in ceremony, Asian nations and make it easier for goods to cross its on buffalo exports, big crowds are guarding the border. other we jointly fight poverty, illiteracy, disease, mal- but his right-wing nationalist government has adopt- borders. — AFP expected at the two-day Gadhimai Festival in southern Nepal, close to the ‘Difficult to breathe’ border between the two countries. The While some locals say the festival is festival, which takes place every five years an integral part of their history, others and begins Friday, sees hundreds of thou- say it is a source of distress. Pawan sands of worshippers from both countries Kumar Byayut, who lives in the neigh- flock to Bariyapur’s temple in the hope of boring village of Kalaiya, said it was a appeasing the Hindu goddess of power. “disturbing experience”. “The grounds An estimated 300,000 animals, includ- are bloody after the sacrifice. The air car- ing chickens, ducks, pigeons and pigs, ries a strange stench, I can smell it even had their heads chopped off or throats from my home... it gets difficult to slit during the last festival in 2009, mak- breathe,” Byayut said. “It is very heart- ing it the world’s biggest sacrifice of ani- breaking to watch the animals suffer, to mals at any one site. According to legend, see the look in their eyes.” A campaign to the first sacrifices in Bariyapur were con- ban the festival has attracted support ducted several centuries ago when the from celebrities including British actress Hindu goddess Gadhimai appeared to a Joanna Lumley and French movie leg- prisoner in a dream and asked him to end Brigitte Bardot, who has petitioned establish a temple to her. When he Nepal’s president to end the “cruel tradi- awoke, his shackles had fallen open and tion”. Gopal Adhikari, who also lives in he was able to leave the prison and build Kalaiya, acknowledged that pools of the temple, where he sacrificed animals blood could be seen around the temple to give thanks. but claimed local residents were not The practice of ritual sacrifice has a bothered. “It doesn’t affect the people, long history in the conservative, largely we are used to it here,” said Adhikari, Hindu Himalayan nation, with devotees who will himself join in the sacrifice. offering goats and buffaloes to gods dur- Rights activists have taken up posi- ing major festivals in the hope of bring- tions along parts of the border in an ing health and happiness. “There are peo- attempt to dissuade worshippers cross- ple who say we shouldn’t sacrifice ani- ing over. But the activists have them- mals, but we have our beliefs,” Gopal selves been accused of trampling over Adhikari, a 36-year-old civil servant who tradition. “I am not in favor of the ran- is offering up a goat to be slaughtered dom slaughter of animals but we have this year said. “I had asked Gadhimai to to be sensitive to the historical and cul- help solve property complications of my tural aspects” of the festival, Subhash family and she granted my wish” at a pre- Ghimire, editor in chief of Republica vious festival. Local priest Mangal newspaper said. “I have never seen such Chaudhary, who says he is the tenth gen- an outcry for Thanksgiving... Why is the eration of his family to serve at the tem- reaction so different?” While Nepal’s gov- ple, says the number of devotees is ernment has ignored calls for a ban, it increasing. “We don’t force anyone to sac- has not offered any financial support to rifice... People come of their own free will,” the temple trust this year after donating Chaudhary said. 4.5 million rupees (around $45,000) in But activists say organizers’ main moti- 2009.— AFP

Sri Lanka oppn candidate offers unity government

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s main opposi- 1978.Sirisena said he wanted to bring tion presidential candidate expressed about a peaceful constitutional revolu- hope yesterday of forming a unity gov- tion, citing India’s independence icon ernment and ushering in constitutional Mahatma Gandhi and South Africa’s reforms if he defeats the incumbent anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela as Mahinda Rajapakse in January’s elec- his inspirations. “I am a poor farmer’s tion. Maithripala Sirisena, who was son, I am not rich... but I am an admirer sacked as health minister after defect- of both Gandhi and Mandela and will ing from Rajapakse’s party last week, follow their example in leading the said he would welcome former cabinet country to establish a new political cul- colleagues into a coalition if he tri- ture,” he said. umphs in the January 8 contest.”I am Private election monitors said more inviting my former colleagues and all violence was reported overnight, with parties represented in the current par- ruling party loyalists attacking homes liament to join a national government,” of those who had defected to the Sirisena said after his first visit to the opposition. Shots had been fired into opposition United National Party (UNP) the homes of rivals in the central headquarters in the capital. Sirisena’s region, but there were no casualties. shock announcement last week has Rajapakse, the longest serving leader sparked an exodus from the ruling Sri in South Asia, called the election two Lanka Freedom Party. Another SLFP years ahead of schedule in an apparent legislator jumped ship to the UNP yes- bid to seek a fresh mandate before his terday, bringing the total to 10. party’s popularity tumbles further after Sirisena, who was also the SLFP’s dropping over 21 percent in general secretary, vowed to scrap September local elections. While many of the powers that Rajapakse has Rajapakse remains generally popular transferred to the presidency since with voters from the Sinhalese majority coming to power in 2005. He says he after he oversaw the end of a 37-year will return to the former British war against Tamil separatists in 2009, colony’s status as a parliamentary critics say he has become increasingly democracy that existed until authoritarian. — AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 INTERNATIONAL China drafts first domestic violence law

BEIJING: China has drafted its first national law zations. “At the very least, there’s finally move- ‘Not a private issue’ Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China”. from experience that many victims are not nec- against domestic violence, with activists hailing ment on this law,” she said. But advocates also Less than two decades ago, physical abuse “Despite the shortcomings we need to essarily at that point of seeking divorce or some it yesterday as a step forward in a country say the draft law, released by the Legislative was not even acceptable as grounds for divorce acknowledge that this is important legislation other kind of legal action that would be where abuse has long been sidelined as a pri- Affairs Office of China’s State Council on in China. In 2001 the marriage law was amend- and a very important first step towards tackling required to maintain the legal protection rul- vate matter. The new law formally defines Tuesday, excludes unmarried and divorced cou- ed to explicitly ban domestic violence for the this epidemic of domestic violence in China,” ing.” domestic violence for the first time and stream- ples and falls short in some other areas. first time. But without a legal definition of the she said. Currently little protection is available if Nearly 40 percent of Chinese women who lines the process for obtaining restraining Julia Broussard, country program manager term, many victims-if they report abuse at all- a partner threatens violence against a victim are married or in a relationship have experi- orders-measures long advocated by anti- for UN Women, said that UN agencies were have been shuffled from police to women’s fed- who tries to leave, activists note, as restraining enced physical or sexual violence, the state-run domestic abuse groups. “Over the years, we’ve “thrilled” to see the law made public after more eration to neighborhood committee, with orders are rarely issued in China and shelters China Daily newspaper reported yesterday, cit- many times felt powerless ourselves to help vic- than a decade of efforts by Chinese advocates, authorities reluctant to intervene unless serious are nearly non-existent. ing figures from the All China Women’s tims,” said Hou Zhiming, a veteran women’s “but we did note right away that it doesn’t injury is involved. Courts must rule on restraining order Federation. The group, which is linked to the rights advocate who heads the Maple Women’s extend to any non-family relations”. “We know “It’s very important for China to have some requests within 48 hours, according to the draft ruling Communist Party, has previously report- Psychological Counseling Centre in Beijing. that domestic violence is also occurring in the kind of nationwide, targeted domestic violence law-but if one is granted, the victim must start a ed that abuse takes place in nearly a quarter of “If this law is actually enacted-because the context of other relationships not defined as legislation on the books, because it has not had lawsuit within 30 days or it will lapse. Experts Chinese families. “Domestic violence is illegal issuing of a draft means it will now enter the family relationships,” including dating, cohabiting it, and it’s been a real legal barrier for a lot of say that it is rare for domestic violence laws to and affects family members physically and psy- law-making process-we will be very pleased,” and same-sex couples, Broussard said. “And so, women seeking to extricate themselves from require victims to undertake a lawsuit in order chologically,” Tan Lin, head of the federation, said Hou, whose centre is one of China’s our concern is that some of the violence is not very abusive relationships,” said Leta Hong- to obtain or maintain a restraining order. “This is told the China Daily. “It is not a private issue but longest-running anti-domestic violence organi- going to be addressed by the law,” she added. Fincher, author of “Leftover Women: The a bit problematic,” Broussard said. “We know a social problem.” —AFP Afghan police taught how to stay alive as casualties soar Poor tactical awareness blamed for devastating toll

KABUL: At a training centre near focused on improving the survival understand, but they still have a lot impart the importance of avoiding Kabul, one overriding lesson is skills of government forces. During of casualties.” The Afghan army and risks through reconnaissance, disci- drilled into Afghan police by their a mock assault exercise using plas- police have suffered badly in pline and planning. Lessons French instructors-don’t become tic weapons, one wayward recruit recent years, with 4,634 killed in include how to storm a house with- yet another unnecessary battlefield takes a dangerous position oppo- combat from January to the begin- out exposing oneself or colleagues casualty. Every day this year more site a doorway. “Always think of ning of November this year, on top to gunfire, and how to use than a dozen Afghan police and your own safety, guys!” the exas- of 4,350 killed during 2013, accord- weapons safely and accurately. But soldiers have died in the fight perated instructor shouts, before ing to the US military. not all goes to plan as two Afghan against Taleban insurgents, with reflecting: “They just don’t have Lieutenant General Joseph policemen try to show off their poor tactical awareness a key fac- basic training, either for shooting Anderson, the number two US officer best routines. The French instruc- tors use an interpreter to call out “where’s the danger?” and they berate officers who stand in the wrong place with their guns point- ing at the floor rather than held up, ready to fire. “Look, we could easily A Siberian tiger prowls at the Federal Center for rehabilitation of rare gun them all down from here,” species of animals in the village of Alexeyevka in the Russian Far East during whispers one instructor observing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit. A rare Siberian tiger released into the scene. the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin is keeping farmers in north- Then the whole scenario is replayed with the police advised eastern China on edge. —AP how to improve their tactics. On the firing range, the instructors run China blames Putin tiger through the basic shooting posi- tions and stress the need for strict safety standards.”Put your weapon for goat slaughter spree in the belt holster when you are BEIJING: An endangered tiger set free in attacks occurred, known as Bolshoi not on the firing line!” shouts one Russia has killed 18 Chinese goats after Ussuriysky in Russian and Heixiazi in French trainer as a policeman crossing the frontier, with Beijing’s state Chinese, was the subject of a border dispute holds his gun casually by his side. media saying yesterday that the feline felon between the two powers before they The weapons being used-Beretta had been freed by President Vladimir Putin. agreed to divide it in 2004. and P38 handguns-are ancient and The Siberian tiger, named Ustin, wreaked Relations between Beijing and Moscow in bad repair. caprine carnage as it carried out repeated have warmed significantly in recent years, One gun gets a bullet jammed nighttime raids on a farm on a border island, with Russia turning to its Asian neighbor as in the barrel during the exercise, the official Xinhua news agency reported. a trading partner as the US and Europe have and ammunition is in short supply. “Dead goats were everywhere,” farmer enforced harsh sanctions over the crisis in “Ten rounds each is not enough. It Guo Yulin told Xinhua of the scene which Ukraine. Russia is a major exporter of raw is not worth even wasting money greeted him on Monday morning. Five materials to China, often from the Siberian KABUL: In this photograph, Afghan policemen look at targets after a pistol shooting session dur- on petrol to drive us out for so lit- goats were killed on one night and 13 on region which is home to the big cats, also ing a training program by their French instructors at the police training centre in Kabul. —AFP tle,” said one young Afghan police- another, Xinhua said, adding experts were known as Amur tigers. Hundreds of them man after firing off his bullets. pointing the finger at Ustin after its foot- once roamed the lush pine and oak forests tor blamed for the devastating toll. weapons or on the tactical level.” At in Afghanistan, recently said the local Another challenge is the risk of so- prints were found around Guo’s goat house of Manchuria, but due to centuries of poach- The high casualty rate is one of the the invitation of Kabul police chief security forces were increasingly called “green-on-blue” attacks- and on the roof. Xinhua said the tiger was ing only a couple of dozen are believed to biggest concerns for Afghan lead- Zahir Zahir, the RAID team has capable but he admitted the casualty when Afghan soldiers or police one of five big cats released into the wild by still survive in China. ers as the US-led NATO coalition taught practical exercises and live rate was “not sustainable in the long turn their guns on international Putin in May. Listed as “endangered” by the International ends its 13-year war next month firing sessions to several groups of term”. Afghan battlefield tactics are troops-a major problem during But according to the Kremlin’s website Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red and the national security forces 30 police cadets. often still based on the 1980s Soviet NATO’s long years fighting along- and multiple reports at the time, Putin only List, they have fared better in Russia, where take over the task of thwarting the “The purpose of this course is to era, with men sent charging towards side Afghan forces. To prevent any freed three tigers-Kuzya, Borya and Ilona. more than 400 still live, sometimes preying on militants. minimize the loss of human lives,” danger without assessing the situa- such disaster, a French marksman Ustin and another feline, Svetlaya, were set local bears. Local authorities vowed to com- In one effort to help reduce said Eric Petit, a French police com- tion or following an assault plan. stands close by, surveying the les- free in a separate location in June, without pensate the farmer for his lost animals, Xinhua fatalities and injuries, France’s elite mander and expert on internation- son closely. “The first week has giv- the presence of the Russian leader, who is said, but added that he was encouraged “to police unit RAID has been holding al security training. “This is the top Safety first en mixed results... this is an initial known for his outdoor stunts involving ani- relocate his goats or further reinforce the week-long training courses priority of the Afghan police, I The French instructors try to training,” admitted Petit. —AFP mals. All five cubs had been found starving farm,” to avoid further attacks. Meanwhile Guo in the Russian taiga two years ago, and were “is stressed about the tiger and was busy rescued, treated, and taught to hunt before clearing the bodies of dead goats,” Xinhua HK police reopen main road being released. The island where the goat said.—AFP after clearing protest camp ‘I Hate Thailand’: New Thai tourism strategy HONG KONG: Hundreds of Hong Kong police yester- site. The movement’s student leaders Wong and Lester the leadership of the semi-autonomous southern day cleared a pro-democracy protest camp, arresting Shum were arrested at the scene, according to protest Chinese city in 2017. But China has refused to budge BANGKOK: It’s been a bad year for tourism in ing the Tourism Authority of Thailand to issue Joshua Wong and another student leader and reopen- group Scholarism and the Hong Kong Federation of on its arrangements for the poll. Thailand, and at first glance it looked like a a press release Monday saying it was behind ing a main road blocked for almost two months. Students. A well-known protester and member of the Police said they arrested at total of 148 people, new YouTube video was adding to the misery. what it called the “romantic-comedy short Pushing back protesters, police with the help of work- League of Social Democrats party, Raphael Wong, including a 14-year-old boy, in the two-day Mongkok The video called “I Hate Thailand” drew more film.” “There’s been much hype and specula- men removed tents and other obstacles blocking the who was arrested along with the pair said on his operation and that 22 police officers were injured. “If than 1 million views within days of being tion following the release of the I Hate six-lane Nathan Road in Mongkok district. It is seen as Facebook page that they were being held at a police anyone attempts to block reopened roads...police are posted last week. But it turned out the clip Thailand video,” TAT Governor Thawatchai the most significant move so far in efforts to clear station. “I am at the Kwai Chung police station, next to duty bound to take resolute actions,” Police was produced by Thailand’s tourism authority, Arunyik is quoted as saying. “The intention of away protest camps at three separate locations in the me is Joshua and Lester, we have been charged with spokesman Hui Chun-tak told media at a briefing yes- using a counterintuitive strategy to attract this video is solely to depict the renowned city, as public sympathy with the demonstrators contempt of court and obstructing public officers,” terday. Yesterday’s clearance was the third since Hong tourists after the country’s image was bat- Thai hospitality.” wanes. Wong wrote. “It is possible we won’t get bail tonight Kong’s high court granted injunctions ordering the tered by a military coup in May and the brutal The tourism authority said it was inspired Scuffles broke out earlier in the day as police wear- and will be at a magistrates’ court tomorrow.” Police operations, responding to petitions from a building murders of two British tourists on an idyllic by research showing that “unbranded” adver- ing helmets and brandishing batons moved in to pro- were unable to immediately give a reason why the owner and public transport operators. “Please obey beach in September. tisements tend to receive more interest than tect the workmen from the crowds that surged for- three had been arrested when contacted by AFP. the injunction, leave immediately,” a court bailiff told The 5-minute video shows an angry British conventional commercials. The video, which ward to try to stop them tearing down road barri- the crowd before the operation began. Civilians wear- tourist on a beach. He introduces himself as bears no indication of being funded by the cades. The operation went ahead a day after nearly ‘We won’t lose heart’ ing “I love HK” T-shirts and red baseball caps began James and says his bag was stolen: “I hate this Thai government, was posted on a YouTube 150 demonstrators were arrested as authorities Tensions were running high yesterday after scuf- removing barricades blocking the road but protesters place. I hate Thailand,” he tells a handheld account that also gave no clue of ties to offi- cleared a smaller section of the Mongkok protest fles the previous day when police used pepper spray remained defiant. “I won’t leave. It’s (the sit-in) been camera. After mouthing off to a policeman, cialdom. The strategy is part of a massive cam- camp. Hundreds of police quickly pushed protesters on protesters at the site. Mongkok was the scene of illegal from day one with or without the court order,” he meets an attractive Thai woman and finds paign to restore Thailand’s battered image back, and removed wooden and metal barricades, some of the most violent clashes since the sit-ins said one demonstrator, wearing a yellow helmet and reasons to like Thailand. In the end, the overseas and revive tourism, which accounts tents and other obstructions along a 500-metre began in the city on September 28. “If we lose here, we a mask, who refused to give his name. unshaven, bare-chested foreigner cleans up, for about 7 percent of the economy. The stretch of Nathan Road. won’t lose heart. We can go somewhere else (to occu- puts on clothes, befriends the locals and gets tourism authority has forecast that tourist Around two hours after the operation started, only py). It doesn’t need to be here,” Kelvin Ng, 21 said. Waning public support his bag back - wallet, passport and all. arrivals for 2014 will drop for the first time in a handful of protesters remained at the edge of the Demonstrators are demanding fully free elections for The protests on a few occasions drew tens of Several Thai newspapers reported the years, after a record year in 2013 when 26.7 thousands of people onto the streets. But the video as a real news item last week, prompt- million visitors came to Thailand. —AP crowds have dwindled markedly in recent weeks as the movement has struggled to maintain momen- tum and commuters have grown weary of transport disruptions. The Hong Kong Federation of Students, Japan man sues women’s which has led the protests, said it was considering the next step. “The path of communication has run university over rejection its course. If the government continues to resort to collusion with the police, unscrupulously going TOKYO: A young Japanese man who was rejected by ties for education, but that role is no longer necessary.” against the tide, then we can only take the next step an all-women university where he wanted to study Earlier this month, the plaintiff applied to the depart- of action,” it said on its Facebook page without elab- nutrition is suing the college over gender discrimina- ment of food and health sciences at the university for a orating. tion, reports said yesterday. In what is believed to be course that would result in a dietitian’s licence, a nation- Separately, seven police officers who were sus- the first case in Japan challenging the constitutionality ally-recognized qualification, the reports said. pended after a video emerged of them beating and of a publicly-run women’s university, the man is seek- Fukuoka Women’s University was the only public kicking a handcuffed man have been arrested. “Police ing a ruling that would allow him to take an entrance institution in the area to offer the course, and the have arrested seven police officers suspected of exam at Fukuoka Women’s University, the Asahi young man could not afford to apply to a private col- assault causing bodily harm,” police said in a state- Shimbun reported. lege, the Asahi reported. A university official declined ment yesterday, adding that investigations are ongo- “Not allowing men to take the exam violates Article to comment on the specific case, but added: ing. The video that emerged in October showed 14 of the constitution which proclaims equality before “Generally speaking if we receive an application from plainclothes officers hauling a handcuffed and the law,” said the man, who was not identified in the a man we refuse to accept it.” “We have 91 years of unarmed demonstrator to a dark corner of a protest- report. He also wants 500,000 yen ($4,200) compensa- history as a women’s university with the mission of HONG KONG: Pro-democracy protesters shout slogans at police officers (not seen) as hit public park. One officer stands over the man and tion. Kyodo News cited his lawyer as saying: “In the educating the next generation of female leaders, and punches him, as three others are seen repeatedly they retreat from a street in the Mongkok district of Hong Kong yesterday. —AFP past, women’s universities had the role of giving prefer- this remains unchanged to this day,” the spokesman kicking him. —AFP ential treatment to women who had fewer opportuni- said. —AFP NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014

A law enforcement officer watches over Morehouse College students, who marched from campus, raise their fists in the air joining others in a rally and protest at the CNN Center on Tuesday in Atlanta, the day after a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white Ferguson police officer who killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen. -— AP Constitutional court rejects petition... Super material has Continued from Page 1 advised the “former opposition” to reassess their posi- tion after the ruling. MPs hailed the decision as a recipe for stability in the In another development, the court of appeals yes- country. Rulings and decisions by the constitutional terday accepted a request by defense lawyers to hear chink in armour court must be respected and fulfilled by believers in the testimonies of former Assembly speakers Ahmad the rule of law, Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem Al-Saadoun and Jassem Al-Khorafi on the National said. The decision by the constitutional court, and pre- Assembly storming case. Around 70 opposition PARIS: Scientists said yesterday they had found a chink in the permeation as for hydrogen,” said the statement of the find- vious ones, are regarded as final say for constitutional activists, including 11 former MPs, are on trial for taking impermeable armour of graphene, the world’s thinnest mate- ings published in the journal Nature. differences or disputes. “Based on this, they are bind- part in the storming of the Assembly building in Nov rial, and one of the strongest. The team said they were sur- “Despite the pessimistic prognosis, the researchers found ing, regardless of our political views or tendencies,” he 2011. The lower court acquitted all of them, but the prised to see the super material known to repel all gases and that protons pass through the ultra-thin crystals surprisingly said. Ghanem is on an official visit to Italy. public prosecution appealed against the ruling. liquids, let through sub-atomic particles called protons. And easily, especially at elevated temperatures...” This made MP Faisal Al-Kandari said the ruling is a victory for Defense lawyers have insisted that they needed to hear they hailed the unexpected finding as a potential break- graphene an excellent candidate for proton-conducting through for fuel cells - a non-polluting version of a traditional membranes key to efficient fuel cell technology, said the the constitution, the law and democracy in Kuwait, and the testimony of more people in order to have a clear battery. statement. Fuel cells, a kind of battery used in some electric yet another evidence about the integrity of the Kuwaiti picture on the case. “The discovery could revolutionise fuel cells and other cars and backup power generators, for example, use oxygen justice system. MP Ahmad Lari congratulated the Separately, Minister of Information Sheikh Salman hydrogen-based technologies as they require a barrier that and hydrogen as a fuel and convert chemical energy into Kuwaiti people for the ruling and said those who were Sabah Al-Sabah said yesterday he highly respects and only allow protons - hydrogen atoms stripped of their elec- electricity. They require membranes that allow protons to betting on a different decision to dissolve the appreciates the Kuwaiti judiciary as a reference for trons - to pass through,” said a statement from Manchester pass through, but not other particles. Assembly should now understand that Kuwait is a everybody in various issues and disputes. The remarks University, whose researchers took part in the work. Protons, “It looks extremely simple and equally promising. Because country of law and order. by Sheikh Salman Sabah, who is also minister of state along with neutrons, make up the nuclei of atoms, the build- graphene can be produced these days in square metre MP Mansour Al-Dhafiri expressed hope the ruling for youth affairs, came following a court decision rein- ing blocks of matter. sheets, we hope that it will find its way to commercial fuel will close the door permanently for attempts to dis- stating the former director-general and board chair- At just one atom thick - many times thinner than a human cells sooner rather than later,” said study co-author Sheng Hu. solve the Assembly. MP Sultan Al-Shemmari described man of the Public Authority for Youth and Sports hair, graphene is stronger than steel and acts as a barrier to Graphene was aired as a theoretical substance in 1947. But for the ruling as “historic”, adding that it had put an end to (PAYS) Faisal Al-Jazzaf. The Fatwa and Legislation even the smallest of atoms, hydrogen - making it a perfect decades, physicists thought it would be impossible to isolate, speculations and rumors about the fate of the Department has taken legal procedures to challenge ingredient for impermeable coatings and packaging materi- as such thin crystalline sheets were bound to be unstable. The Assembly. MP Abdullah Al-Maayouf said the ruling the court ruling, the minister said in a statement als. Led by physicist Andre Geim, awarded the Nobel in 2010 problem was resolved in 2004 by Geim and Konstantin should silence propaganda campaigns against the released by the Ministry of State for Youth Affairs. for his work on graphene, a research team set out to test Novoselov, who used ordinary sticky tape to lift a layer from a Assembly, while MP Mohammad Al-Barrak said the rul- Earlier on Tuesday, the court of appeals annulled a pre- whether protons, like atoms and molecules, would also be piece of graphite. That layer was itself pulled apart using more ing has confirmed the legality of the Assembly and vious decision by the Civil Service Commission to force repelled by graphene. They “fully expected that protons tape, and the process repeated until just the thinnest of layers removed all suspicions. MP Adnan Abdulsamad the PAYS chief to retire. would be blocked, as existing theory predicted as little proton remained - a graphene sheet. — AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By Shaban Murati

here are very few countries that at the core of their for- eign policy and in relations with other states establish Tthe principle of the right and truth. Among these few countries, Sweden stands at the forefront as the model-state for the protection of the right and truth in the international arena. In this line is the decision, taken by the government of Sweden on Oct 30 for the recognition of Palestine as a state and which had an unusual international echo. This echo is dedicated to Sweden’s moral weight and interna- tional reputation, obtained by a rare and constant commit- ment in defence of freedom, independence, self-determina- tion and democratic rights of all peoples in the world. Comrade Capitalism Sweden’s steps and decisions in the field of foreign policy have the force and influencing effect of the model and argu- ment, because often in forums, debates and international Putin allies channelled billions to oligarch institutions, Swedish position is an argument to prove the right stance to a controversial international issue. In this By Stephen Grey, Tom Bergin, against his government, could not be reached for comment. March 2009, described RUE as a “cash cow” and a “serious source of ... sense, Sweden’s government decision to recognize the state Sevgil Musaieva and Roman Anin political patronage.” In a website posting, RUE said that in 2007 it sold of Palestine is not only just a right decision, a model to fol- The Middleman nearly $10 billion worth of gas and had net income of $795 million. low, but also a prominent contribution of the Swedish gov- n Russia, powerful friends helped him make a fortune. In the From the moment he first became Russia’s president, Putin After Yulia Tymoshenko, herself a former gas trader, became ernment and the state in creating a positive dynamic in the United States, officials want him extradited and put behind bars. moved to take control of his country’s most valuable resource: natu- prime minister of Ukraine in 2008, she reacted to public anger about many efforts to resolve the 66-year conflict between Israel IIn Austria, where he is currently free on bail of $155 million, ral gas. After assuming power in 2000, he replaced the management the gas trade and moved to cut Firtash and RUE out of the business. and Palestine. authorities have yet to decide what to do with him. He is Dmitry of Gazprom, put trusted allies in charge, and ensured the Russian She struck her own gas deal with Putin in 2009. By that time, Firtash Why is this decision of Sweden important? Recent talks Firtash, a former fireman and soldier. In little more than a decade, the state controlled more than half the shares. The corporate behemoth was rich. In the country’s 2010 presidential election, Firtash, by his for peace between Israel and Palestine have been suspend- Ukrainian went from obscurity to wealth and renown, largely by buy- now supplies about a third of Europe’s gas, generating vital revenue own admission, aided the pro-Russian Yanukovich. A US diplomatic ed since April and it is no secret that the main cause of their ing gas from Russia and selling it in his home country. His success for Russia and giving Putin a powerful economic lever. “Gazprom is cable described Firtash as a “major financial backer” of Yanukovich. failure has been the radical attitude of Benjamin was built on remarkable sweetheart deals brokered by associates of very much a tool of Russian foreign policy,” says Rem Korteweg, sen- “Firtash supported Yanukovich in various ways,” said Vadym Netanyahu’s Israeli government. The radical course of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin, at immense cost to Russian taxpayers, ior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform. Every major Karasiov, an aide to Viktor Yuschenko, Ukraine’s president from 2005 Israeli government to continue further expansion of the a Reuters investigation shows. deal that Gazprom signs is approved by Putin, people in the energy to 2010, in an interview. Karasiov said the mogul used his influence Israeli control on the Palestinian territories, by establishing Russian government records reviewed for this article reveal for industry say. in the media to promote Yanukovich. In April 2010, in the aftermath new colonies, in the Eastern Jerusalem as well as in the the first time the terms of recent deals between Firtash and Russia’s Putin’s spokesman rejected such assertions: Gazprom, he said, “is of the election, Karasiov told the Kiev Post: “Without Dmitry Firtash West Bank, has brought up new difficulties and a blocking Gazprom, a giant gas company majority owned by the state. a commercial, public company, which has international shareholders. there wouldn’t have been a (Yanukovich) victory.” climate for peace talks. According to Russian customs documents detailing the trades, It acts in the interests of its shareholders, which also include the With Yanukovich president, Tymoshenko stepped down as prime The undertaking of the disproportional military offen- Gazprom sold more than 20 billion cubic metres of gas well below Russian state.” In normal times, Gazprom’s second biggest customer minister. Business associates of Firtash were appointed to influential sive from the Israeli army in the Palestinian territories dur- market prices to Firtash over the past four years - about four times in Europe is Ukraine; Russian gas was piped directly across the bor- positions in the new administration. He had allies in the corridors of ing this year’s summer, where more than two thousand more than the Russian government has publicly acknowledged. The der between the two countries until Russia cut off supplies earlier power, and ambitious plans to expand his business empire and get Palestinians were killed, and according to the UN over 75 price Firtash paid was so low, Reuters calculates, that companies he this year. In the 2000s, though, Gazprom decided to sell gas not back into the gas trade. His friends in Russia were happy to help him. percent of casualties were innocent civilians, among them controlled made more than $3 billion on the arrangement. directly to Ukraine’s state gas company Naftogaz, but to intermedi- hundreds of children, has further aggravated the circum- Over the same time period, other documents show, bankers aries - in particular Firtash, an international gas dealer who had risen The Loans stances for the achievement of peace. This climate and lack close to Putin granted Firtash credit lines of up to $11 billion. That from humble origins. Tucked away in Nicosia, Cyprus, a bundle of tattered papers of willingness of the Israeli government for the success of credit helped Firtash, who backed pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovich’s Firtash grew up in west Ukraine, where his father worked in edu- wrapped in string records Russian credit agreements made to the talks has drawn over itself US and EU critics of Tel Aviv successful 2010 bid to become Ukraine’s president, to buy a domi- cation and his mother in a sugar factory, according to an account Firtash companies. The documents, reviewed by Reuters, detail a and it is not unknown that the current relations of the nant position in the country’s chemical and fertiliser industry and Firtash gave during a meeting with the U.S. ambassador in Kiev in series of financing deals worth billions of dollars. The deals were Israeli government with American President Barak Obama expand his influence. 2008. Both his parents disdained communism and lacked the con- arranged by a Russian lender called Gazprombank. Despite its and the Secretary of State John Kerry are at a historical low The Firtash story is more than one man’s grab for riches. It tacts needed to get their son into university, he said. He joined the name, the bank is not controlled by Gazprom, which holds only a level. The warning of Kerry that “Israel risks on becoming an demonstrates how Putin uses Russian state assets to create streams army in 1986, then trained to be a fireman. When the Soviet Union minority stake. It is a separate business, overseen by people linked apartheid state” is well-known. of cash for political allies, and how he exported this model to Ukraine collapsed, leading to Ukraine’s independence in 1991, Firtash found to Putin. They include Yuri Kovalchuk, a banker who until March Diplomatic talks between Israel and Palestine should be in an attempt to dominate his neighbour, which he sees as vital to himself having to make a living in an uncertain world, according to 2014 controlled an investment firm that manages a majority stake equal party talks, which take into consideration the inter- Russia’s strategic interests. With the help of Firtash, Yanukovich won his account to the ambassador. With his first wife, he set up a busi- in Gazprombank. ests of both parties and not just of the state which is militar- power and went on to rule Ukraine for four years. The relationship ness in west Ukraine shipping canned goods to Uzbekistan, accord- In a statement, Gazprombank said: “We do not receive any ily stronger and occupies the Palestinian territories. Sweden had great geopolitical value for Putin: Yanukovich ended up steering ing to local media reports researched by the US embassy. instructions from the Kremlin ... The strategy of the bank is devel- understands and wants to help the very functioning of the the nation of more than 44 million away from the West’s orbit and A US diplomatic cable, which summarised Firtash’s discussion oped by its management board and approved by the board of key to success of the negotiations, which is equality towards Moscow’s until he was overthrown in February. with the ambassador, drily noted: “Due to his commodities business, directors. No other influence is possible.” Asked whether Putin had between the parties. As underlined by the Foreign Minister “Firtash has always been an intermediary,” said Viktor Chumak, (Firtash) became acquainted with several powerful business figures any role in issuing the loans to Firtash companies, Kremlin of Sweden Margot Wallstrom in an interview with CNN, chairman of the anti-corruption committee in the previous Ukrainian from the former Soviet Union.” According to the cable, Firtash told spokesman Peskov said: “Putin, as president, does not have any- explaining her government’s decision: “We think it is the parliament. “He is a political person representing Russia’s interests in the US ambassador he had been forced to deal with suspected crimi- thing to do with this.” right time to recognize the state of Palestine. We hope we Ukraine.” A spokesman for Putin rejected claims that Firtash acted on nals because at that time it was impossible to do business in Ukraine Gazprombank began lending money to Firtash companies soon can make the parties less unequal, we can inject a new behalf of Russia. “Firtash is an independent businessman and he pur- cleanly. He said he had needed and received permission from a man after Yanukovich took power in Ukraine in Feb 2010. In June that year, dynamic into suspended peace talks”. sues his own interests, I don’t believe he represents anyone else’s named Semion Mogilevich to establish various businesses. Firtash established a company called Ostchem Investments in Cyprus. In this respect, the recognition of the Palestinian state interests,” said Dmitry Peskov. Mogilevich, an alleged boss of organised crime in eastern Europe, A month later, Gazprombank registered a credit line to the company by Sweden, the sanctioning the right of the Palestinian The findings are the latest in a Reuters examination of how elites is wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation for an alleged of $815 million, according to the Cyprus documents. In September, people for their own state, makes the parties to the Israeli- favoured by the Kremlin profit from the state in the Putin era. In the multi-million-dollar fraud in the 1990s involving a company head- Ostchem Investments bought a 90 percent stake in the Stirol fertiliser Palestinian talks more equal and closer to the achieve- wild years after the fall of the Soviet Union, state assets were seized quartered in the United States. He was indicted in 2003, and plant in Ukraine. It was perfect synergy: Firtash knew the gas busi- ment of the compromise. Sweden’s decision is good for or bought cheaply by the well connected. Today, resources and cash described by the FBI in 2009 as having an “extensive international ness, and natural gas is a major feedstock for making fertiliser. the achievement of the realization of the known formula flows from public enterprises are diverted to private individuals with criminal network.” Firtash has repeatedly denied having any close Further loans and deals with Firtash companies followed. “two states, Israel and Palestine” on the 1967 borders, links to Putin, whether in Russia or abroad. relationship with Mogilevich. Mogilevich could not be Reuters found that by March 2011, Gazprombank had registered which is supported by the US and the EU as well. Putin’s system of comrade capitalism has had huge costs for the contacted for comment. He has previously credit lines of up to $11.15 billion to Firtash companies. The compa- Differences are only for the time when the recognition of ordinary people of Russia: By granting special cheap deals to denied any wrongdoing or any con- nies may not have borrowed that whole sum, but the documents the Palestinian state should be done, but as stressed by Firtash, Gazprom missed out on about $2 billion in revenue it nection to the gas trade in indicate that loans up to that amount were available, according to the foreign minister of Sweden, it could be said that we could have made by selling that gas at market prices, Ukraine. Cyprus lawyers. In the space of seven months in 2011 alone, Firtash are very late in recognizing the State of Palestine. We must according to European gas price data collected by By 2002, a company acquired control of two more fertiliser plants in Ukraine, not forget that Palestine has recognized the state of Israel Reuters. Four industry analysts said that Gazprom called Eural Trans Gas, Severodonetsk Azot and Rivne Azot. He also bought the Nika Tera two decades ago. could have sold the gas at substantially higher prices registered in Hungary, sea port, through which fertiliser and other dry bulk goods are Sweden is the 135th UN member country to recognize to other customers in Europe. was transporting gas shipped. He acquired a lender called Nadra Bank and invested in Palestine as a state. Among European Union countries, At the same time, the citizens of both Russia from Turkmenistan the titanium processing industry. Palestine has been recognized as a state by Poland, Czech and Ukraine have seen unelected oligarchs wield through Russia to Such was his expansion that Firtash became the fifth largest fer- Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Malta. In political influence. Firtash, whose main compa- Ukraine. Its own- tiliser producer in Europe. Being a large employer brought not just addition, Iceland has also recognized it. Since 2009, the EU ny, Group DF, describes him as one of Ukraine’s ership was potential profits but also political clout, he boasted. “We have rela- has confirmed its readiness to recognize the state of leading entrepreneurs and philanthropists, was unclear, but tions with MPs,” Firtash told Die Presse in Austria in May. “We are big Palestine. On Oct 14, 2014 the British parliament, with 274 arrested in Austria on March 12 at the request Firtash repre- employers in the regions that they represent. Entire cities live on our votes in favor and 12 against, voted a resolution asking the of US authorities. The Americans accuse him sented it. In factories. Election candidates seek our support.” British government to recognize Palestine as a state. A of bribery over a business deal in India unre- July 2004, a new When asked in 2011 where the money came from to pay for his week later, the Irish parliament passed a resolution calling lated to events examined in this article. Firtash company, acquisitions, Firtash was coy. At a press conference called to on the Irish government to recognize the state of Palestine. denies those allegations and is currently free RosUkrEnergo, announce his purchase of the Severdonetsk plant, he declined to NOTE: Shaban Murati is the former ambassador of on bail. became the inter- name his major lenders. “It’s a secret,” he told Ukrainian journalists. Albania to Sweden (2002-2007) Firtash imported the cheap Russian gas mediary for gas But a Gazprombank manager told Reuters that the Russian bank through a Cypriot company of which he is deals between Russia had led a consortium of lenders which in 2011 agreed to lend about sole director, and a Swiss one set up by and Ukraine. The $7 billion to Firtash. The official said Gazprombank itself lent Firtash Group DF. He and Group DF declined to owners of RUE were $2.2 billion, and that Firtash still owed the bank $2.08 billion. The answer questions about those two com- unknown at first, but it official declined to name other lenders in the consortium. All articles appearing on these panies and their gas dealings. A later emerged that A $2.2 billion loan was a big commitment for Gazprombank: It pages are the personal opinion of spokesman said Firtash was not available nearly all of the compa- amounted to nearly a quarter of the bank’s total capital, the maxi- to discuss his business operations, and ny was owned by Firtash mum loan allowed by Russian banking rules for any single client or the writers. Kuwait Times takes no that Group DF did not wish to comment on and Gazprom. group. Based on regulatory filings, the loan facility made Firtash the responsibility for views expressed “any of the questions you put forth.” RUE bought gas cheaply biggest single borrower from Gazprombank. Reuters was unable to therein. Kuwait Times invites read- The Kremlin spokesman Peskov said and sold it on at a higher price establish exactly how much in total the Gazprombank consortium ers to voice their opinions. Please Putin has met Firtash but that they are in Ukraine and Europe. This lent to Firtash companies. not close acquaintances. He said Russia arrangement guaranteed In a statement, Gazprombank said that “the aggregate amount send submissions via email to: opin- supplied gas at “lower prices” to Ukraine profits for RUE and was of loans disbursed to Ostchem Group” was “several times lower” [email protected] or via snail because Yanukovich had asked for it and hugely controversial than $11 billion. “And all capital requirements and limitations of the mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Russia wanted to help Ukraine’s petrochemical among Ukrainians who Central Bank of Russia in respect of loans granted have always been industry. Peskov said the deals were arranged saw RUE as an unnec- complied with by Gazprombank, including loans to Ostchem The editor reserves the right to edit through Firtash because “the Ukrainian govern- essary intermediary. Group,” the statement said. The bank declined to give any further any submission as necessary. ment asked for it to be that way.” Yanukovich, who Another US diplo- details, saying it had to protect client confidentiality. The central fled to Russia in February after mass demonstrations matic cable, from bank had no comment. —Reuters THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 SPORTS

US skating team gets Singapore hold Myanmar Gerrard criticism hugely medal fifty years later in AFF Suzuki Cup clash unfair, says Rodgers WASHINGTON: Fifty years after Vivian Joseph and Ronald Joseph skated at the SINGAPORE: Tournament favorites Thailand booked a spot in the semi- SOFIA: Under-fire Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard may not be enjoying his best Innsbruck Olympics, the American pair on Tuesday officially claimed the finals of the AFF Suzuki Cup after edging Malaysia 3-2 following a lengthy spell of form but he is still “a top class player”, manager Brendan Rodgers said. The bronze medal. Two years after the 1964 Games, the International Olympic weather delay on Wednesday, while co-hosts Singapore kick-started their 34-year-old midfielder has come in for particular criticism this season, with fans Committee had awarded the Joseph siblings the bronze medal after disclosing campaign with a nervy 4-2 win over Myanmar. questioning whether it is time for him to be dropped as a regular starter. that the West German pairs team had violated their amateur status by signing Heavy rain and lightning delayed kick-off on the artificial turf at the “People expect Steven to be the type of player he was 10 or 12 years ago,” a professional contract. Canadians Debbi Wilkes and Guy Revell moved up one Jalan Besar Stadium for two-and-a-half hours before the Thais were able Rodgers told a news conference at the Vasil Levski national stadium on Tuesday. spot to the silver medal, while the Josephs, who had finished to record their second win of the eight-team tournament thanks to a 90th “The player who scored 15 a season and made 13 or 14 assists. “But sadly that’s fourth in the competition, claimed bronze. minute winner by substitute striker Adisak Kraisorn. not the case. It’s hugely unfair he gets judged on that level. But in 1987, the IOC said Germans Marika Kilius and Amri Yahyah had put the Malaysians ahead after a swift counter in the “I can safely say he’s the best player I’ve ever worked with. Hans-J¸rgen B‰umler were “rehabilitated” and quietly 28th minute only for Adisak to draw the Thais level three minutes before the His mentality, commitment and loyalty he’s shown to the foot- re-awarded their silver medals. The IOC never break with his first touch. A mazy dribble and neat low finish by Safiq Rahim ball club have been incredible. “It’s easy to manage him explained the medal consequences of its decision. On had the Malaysians back in front on the hour mark, but Charyl Chappuis because he’s a top class professional. He always accepts Tuesday, the IOC announced that the Germans and scored another equaliser before Adisak smashed in from an acute angle to what’s best for Liverpool.” Former Liverpool defender Jamie Canadians are each silver-medal winners, while the win the game. Their second late winner, after having edged Singapore 2-1, Carragher this week added his voice to those calling for Americans are the bronze medalists in the pairs left the Thais on six points at the top of Group B in the Southeast Asian Gerrard not to be deployed as a defensive midfielder, saying event. “An Olympic medal is the ultimate sports championships with Myanmar to play on Saturday. Singapore host he has the ability to inject the team’s flagging attack with symbol of hard work, sacrifice and the persever- Malaysia in the Causeway derby needing only a point to also make it some much-needed inspiration. “Of course he’s coming to the ance of athletes, parents and coaches,” Vivian through to the last four. At the National Stadium, Singapore raced into a 3-0 latter part of his career but he still has a big contribution to and Ronald Joseph said in a statement. “We halftime lead thanks to two volleys from midfielder Harris Harun after make for me,” Rodgers added. “He can play three games a week are happy the issue of our medal has finally Shaiful Esah’s 15th minute whipped free kick had deceived everyone and but not to the level he would like or I would like so it’s up to been resolved.” — Reuters ended up in the corner of the net to open the scoring. —Reuters me to manage that.” —Reuters All Set for Mandela Cricket Cup in Kuwait

KUWAIT: The South African Embassy announced in a media tion was founded in 1996. In 1946 the first cricket game was statement that all arrangements are in place to host the first played in Kuwait in Magwa between the Kuwait Oil Company Nelson Mandela Cricket Cup for Youth Development in collabo- employees and those of the contracting companies. ration with Kuwait Cricket, the official governing body of Prominent local companies and sponsors who volunteered Cricket in the State of Kuwait. This one day cricket carnival will their support and assistance to ensure the success of the feature dedicated ten school teams and top young cricketers Mandela Cup include Golden International Logistics Group, Pro- and is scheduled to take place on 29 November 2014 at the Sports, Bon Voyage Travel and Tourism, Burgan Bank, Sultan Sulaibiya Cricket ground. Centre, IDS, Etihad Airways, Agility, Rotana Hotel, Kavaal According to South Africa’s Ambassador in Kuwait Delarey Security Systems Company and The Times of Kuwait. Van Tonder the Nelson Mandela Cup is aimed at honoring the Murali Kutticode Coordinator of the event and Director for positive international legacy of Nelson Mandela in accordance Cricket Development at Kuwait Cricket confirmed that the with resolutions of the United Nations and in support of South Sulaibiya Cricket Ground is in excellent condition and invited Africa’s international programme in celebrating the country’s Kuwait residents to attend this historic and entertaining event. first twenty years of Freedom and Democracy. In terms of the format of the Mandela Cup he indicated that In this regard Ambassador Van Tonder remarked “South the competing teams (9 players a side) will play seven over Africa is a Good Story. Throughout South Africa’s history sport matches (per side). has played an important role. The international sport sanctions Players are 16 years and younger. Winning teams will to isolate the apartheid regime and the vision by Nelson advance to the next round while losing teams will also continue Mandela of using sport to bring about social cohesion and to play a shorter version of limited overs. Many prizes will be national reconciliation in South Africa’s democratic transition presented to all players including the South African remain important milestones in the country’s history”. Ambassadors Floating Trophy as well as Man of the Match By hosting the Nelson Mandela Cup aimed at the further Awards, Player of the Series, best Batsman, Fielder and Bowler development of this great game among Kuwait’s youth we also and Wicket Keeper and Merit Awards for Sportsmanship. wish to pay tribute to His Highness the Amir of the State of The first match is scheduled to start at 07h30 with the final GLENDALE: Jarome Iginla No. 12 of the Colorado Avalancheskates with the puck during the second period of the Kuwait for his high recognition by the United Nations as a match to take place at 16h00 followed by the Award Ceremony. NHL game against the Arizona Coyotes at Gila River Arena. — AFP Global Humanitarian Leader and in particular the constructive The following teams will participate: efforts by the Minister of Information and State Minister for 1. Future Stars Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al Salem Al-Hmoud Al- 2. FAIPS Titans Predators stop Kings march Sabah in actively promoting the linkages between sport and 3. Bhavan’s cricket youth development in Kuwait”. 4. Kuwait Pakistan XI NASHVILLE: James Neal scored the only off the stick of Coyotes forward Lauri Ducks and New Jersey Devils, spoiled Cricket is one of the fastest developing sports in Kuwait and 5. Cricket Coaching Club (CCC) goal of a six-round shootout to give the Korpikoski and squeezed past Smith at Frederik Andersen’s shutout bid with 8:58 Kuwait’s participation at the Asian Games is an historic event, 6. All Rounders XI Nashville Predators a 4-3 win over the Los 4:05 of the third period. remaining when T.J. Brodie beat him with a given the fact that Kuwait is the first Arab nation to achieve this 7. WKC- Young Masters (Comprising all women cricketers) Angeles Kings on Tuesday night. screened slap shot. Jiri Hudler made it 3-2 milestone. 8. Gladiators Craig Smith, Ryan Ellis and Eric Nystrom CANUCKS 2, DEVILS 0 with 25.4 seconds to play after Hiller was Kuwait Cricket is an associate member of the International 9. FAIPS Warriors scored in regulation for Nashville. In the Ryan Miller made 20 saves for his sec- pulled for an extra skater. Andersen made Cricket Council and a full member of the Asian Cricket Council 10. Bosco Blasters shootout, Neal beat Martin Jones with a ond shutout of the season, helping the 32 saves. and affiliated to the Kuwait Olympic Committee. The associa- 11. The English School wrist shot between the pads. Pekka Rinne Canucks beat New Jersey. Alex Burrows made 18 saves in regulation and overtime, and Shawn Matthias scored for the SENATORS 3, BLUES 2 and then stopped all six Kings shooters in Canucks, who have won three of four. Cory Erik Condra and Alex Chiasson scored the tiebreaker. Jamie McBain, Marian Schneider stopped 34 shots, but the Devils third-period goals for Ottawa. The Gaborik, and Drew Doughty scored for Los lost for the fourth time in five games. Senators, who had lost three of four and six Angeles, which has lost two straight. of eight, trailed by two goals. They were DUCKS 3, FLAMES 2 beaten at home by the Blues on Saturday. AVALANCHE 4, COYOTES 3 Corey Perry, Matt Beleskey and Kyle The Blues, who lost No. 1 goalie Brian Daniel Briere scored 3:16 into overtime, Palmieri staked Anaheim to a big lead, and Elliott to a lower-body injury late in the helping the Avalanche complete a come- the Ducks held on for their 19th straight second period, had won two straight and back from three goals down to get the home victory against Calgary. five of seven. They entered having allowed road win. Briere got help from the Coyotes’ The Flames haven’t won in Anaheim an NHL-best 2.0 goals per game behind the Martin Hanzal, who backhanded Briere’s since Jan. 19, 2004. Only three players who goalie tandem of Elliott and Jake Allen. pass past his own goalie, Mike Smith. played for Calgary in that game are active Elliott left with 6:02 remaining in the Colorado (8-9-5) won for the fourth time in in the NHL. Jonas Hiller, who spent his first second after his right leg bent backward five games after a goalie change in the first seven NHL seasons with Anaheim before during a scramble in the crease. The puck period. Arizona (9-11-3) absorbed another signing with Calgary in July, stopped 29 went in the net, but the goal was waved off late-game home loss. shots in his return. after a review. The Avalanche tied it at 3 when Matt The Flames, coming off a 4-1 homes- Duchene’s pass from behind the net went tand that included shootout wins over the JETS 4, BLUE JACKETS 2 Evander Kane scored two power-play goals, and Winnipeg held on for the road win. Bryan Little and Andrew Ladd each NHL results/standings had a goal and an assist for Winnipeg, which snapped a two-game losing streak. Winnipeg 4, Columbus 2; Ottawa 3, St. Louis 2 (SO); Nashville 4, Los Angeles 3 Blake Wheeler and Jacob Trouba added (SO); Dallas 3, Edmonton 2; Colorado 4, Arizona 3 (OT); Vancouver 2, New two assists apiece. Rookie goalie Michael Jersey 0; Anaheim 3, Calgary 2. Hutchinson made 32 saves to improve to 4-1-1. Jordan Leopold and Ryan Johansen Western Conference Eastern Conference scored for the banged-up Blue Jackets, Pacific Division Atlantic Division who are on a franchise-record pace for W L OTL GF GA TS Montreal 16 6 1 61 57 33 games lost to injuries. Columbus, which Tampa Bay 14 6 2 77 60 30 Anaheim 14 4 5 63 56 33 entered tied for the fewest points in the Detroit 11 5 5 59 52 27 NHL, have lost four in a row and 13 of 15. Vancouver 15 6 1 67 61 31 Boston 13 9 1 59 57 27 Toronto 11 8 2 67 63 24 Calgary 13 8 2 73 64 28 STARS 3, OILERS 2 Los Angeles 11 6 5 60 53 27 Ottawa 10 7 4 58 56 24 Florida 7 6 6 41 51 20 Tyler Seguin scored two goals to give San Jose 10 9 4 62 64 24 Buffalo 6 13 2 36 70 14 him an NHL-leading 17 for Dallas, and Arizona 9 11 3 57 71 21 Metropolitan Division rookie defenseman John Klingberg added Edmonton 6 14 2 51 77 14 Pittsburgh 14 4 2 72 46 30 a goal from center ice and an assist. The Stars have won three in a row for Central Division NY Islanders 15 6 0 69 57 30 NY Rangers 9 7 4 57 58 22 the first time this season. Edmonton, last in Nashville 14 5 2 61 45 30 Washington 9 8 3 56 54 21 the Western Conference, is 0-6-1 in its last St. Louis 14 6 2 59 46 30 New Jersey 9 10 3 53 63 21 seven games. Seguin scored to break a 1-1 Chicago 12 8 1 63 44 25 Philadelphia 8 9 3 57 61 19 tie at 5:59 of the second period, backhand- Winnipeg 11 9 3 49 53 25 Carolina 6 11 3 48 62 15 ing a shot over the right pad of goalie Minnesota 12 8 0 58 44 24 Columbus 6 13 2 51 76 14 Viktor Fasth. His second goal came on a Note: Overtime losses (OTL) are worth slap shot from the deep slot at 17:42 of the Dallas 9 9 4 64 74 22 one point in the standings and are not second. It was Seguin’s fifth multigoal Colorado 8 9 5 57 70 21 included in the loss column (L). game of the season. Kari Lehtonen stopped 35 shots for Dallas. — AP McIlroy has Georgia on his mind Down Under SYDNEY: World number one Rory McIlroy is back to defend his hole last year for his only win of 2013. Scott is back again this Australian Open title in the city where he kickstarted his career year as well and while the tournament has been billed as a last year but admitted on Wednesday that the next US Masters duel between the pair, McIlroy thinks the likes of American is never far from his mind. Jordan Spieth and a host of strong local contenders could The reigning British Open and US PGA Championship title make a mockery of that publicity. “It’s definitely not a two- holder could win a third straight major if he secures the green horse race,” he said. “There’s another 120, 130, 140 players in jacket at Augusta in April and said he was thinking about it the field and they’ll all feel like they have a good chance to do “every day”. “It’s the next big career goal of mine, it would com- well this week.” McIlroy said the victory at Royal Sydney was plete the career grand slam,” the Northern Irishman told the springboard for a stellar 2014, even if he had surprised reporters yesterday. “It’s going to be a great position to be in a himself by getting back to the top of the world rankings by few months’ time driving down Magnolia Lane, having a August. With the likes of Scott in the pack chasing him, though, chance to win my third major in a row, the chance to complete he had no intention of standing still going into 2015 and that the career grand slam at 25, so I’m going to enjoy it. date with destiny at Augusta. “I know there’s going to be a lot of hype but I think you just “I keep trying to get better and better because I know that have to embrace that and I’m just going to go and enjoy the all the guys that I’m competing against are doing the same week as best I can and make sure that I’m prepared for that thing,” said McIlroy, who increased his major tally to four this week next year.” The first order of business for McIlroy at the year. “It’s going to be tough. The Masters is a place where I’ve Australian Golf Club this week, however, is retaining a title he had my struggles in the past and I want to try and put that snatched from the grasp of Australian Adam Scott on the final right next year.” — Reuters THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 SPORTS

HAWAII: In this photo provided by the Association of Surfing Professionals Bianca Buitendag of South Africa, wins her Round 1 heat at the Target Maui Pro in Maui. Buitendag scored one of the highest single wave scores of the day, a near perfect 9.80, out of a possible 10.00, and has advanced directly into Round 3. — AP Warriors cool Heat

MIAMI: Stephen Curry scored 40 points to help and the Golden State Warriors beat the Miami Heat 114-97 NBA results/standings on Tuesday night for their sixth consecutive victory. Golden State scored 14 straight points to open a Atlanta 106, Washington 102; Golden State 114, Miami 97; Milwaukee 98, Detroit 86; Sacramento 107-95 lead with 2:50 to go. Curry and Thompson 99, New Orleans 89; Denver 114, Chicago 109. capped the run with consecutive 3-pointers. Thompson had 24 points for the Warriors, who shot 57 Eastern Conference Western Conference percent. Curry was 12 for 19 from the field, including Atlantic Division Northwest Division an 8-for-11 performance from 3-point range. W L PCT GB Portland 11 3 .786 - Chris Bosh scored 26 points for Miami, and Luol Toronto 12 2 .857 - Denver 7 7 .500 4 Deng had 16. James Ennis’ dunk with 9:11 left was the Brooklyn 5 8 .385 6.5 Utah 5 10 .333 6.5 Heat’s last field goal. Boston 4 8 .333 7 Minnesota 3 9 .250 7 NY Knicks 4 11 .267 8.5 Oklahoma City 3 12 .200 8.5 Philadelphia 0 14 0 12 Pacific Division NUGGETS 114, BULLS 109 Central Division Ty Lawson scored 20 points, including a key Golden State 11 2 .846 - Chicago 9 6 .600 - Sacramento 9 5 .643 2.5 jumper in the waning seconds, as Denver earned its Milwaukee 8 7 .533 1 fifth straight win. Arron Afflalo added 19 points and Cleveland 6 7 .462 2 LA Clippers 8 5 .615 3 Danilo Gallinari had 15 for the Nuggets, who defeated Indiana 6 8 .429 2.5 Phoenix 9 6 .600 3 the Bulls for the eighth straight time in Denver. Detroit 3 11 .214 5.5 LA Lakers 3 11 .214 8.5 Bulls point guard Derrick Rose was limited to 10 Southeast Division Southwest Division Pascal Wehrlein minutes in his second game back from a left ham- Washington 9 4 .692 - Memphis 12 2 .857 - string strain. Rose, who scored 18 points in his return Atlanta 7 5 .583 1.5 Houston 11 3 .786 1 Monday night against Utah after a four-game Miami 8 7 .533 2 San Antonio 9 4 .692 2.5 Mercedes on top in absence, felt tightness in the hamstring during the Orlando 6 10 .375 4.5 Dallas 10 5 .667 2.5 first quarter and didn’t play the rest of the way. Jimmy Charlotte 4 11 .267 6 New Orleans 7 6 .538 4.5 Butler had 32 points for Chicago, and Pau Gasol fin- final 2014 practice ished with 22 points and 11 rebounds.

ABU DHABI: World champions Mercedes A difficult season for McLaren ended on HAWKS 106, WIZARDS 102 wrapped up the 2014 season in style yes- a low note as the team’s reserve driver Reserves Mike Scott and Shelvin Mack led a fourth- terday, topping the times in the closing Stoffel Vandoorne was only able to com- quarter surge for the Hawks. Scott and Mack scored practice session of the year in Abu Dhabi. plete a couple of laps due to engine prob- Atlanta’s first 16 points of the final period, sparking a On Sunday the Gulf state’s Yas Marina lems with their new Honda unit. 22-5 run that built a 14-point lead before the Wizards circuit was the setting for Mercedes driver “Although this looked like another diffi- hit a spate of 3-pointers to make the final score close. Lewis Hamilton’s second world title corona- cult day, this is just part of the learning Scott finished with 17 points in 23 minutes, and Mack had 13 in 19 for the Hawks, who have won six of eight. tion. experience...” McLaren racing director Eric Jeff Teague scored 28 points, and Paul Millsap had Now it was the turn of Mercedes’ official Boullier told the sport’s official website. 17 points and 11 rebounds for Atlanta. John Wall had reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein to take the “I’d rather be ironing out these prob- 21 points and 13 assists, and Marcin Gortat had 12 spotlight, the 20-year-old German topping lems here in Abu Dhabi than discovering points and 11 rebounds for the Wizards, who commit- the times on the second and final day of them in Jerez next February.” Marciello ted a season-high 25 turnovers. practice. described his day out on the circuit as “a His best time of 1min 42.624sec kept dream come true”. KINGS 99, PELICANS 89 him ahead of the pack led by Ferrari’s “For an Italian, to jump into a Ferrari, at DeMarcus Cousins had 22 points, 12 rebounds, five young protege and GP2 race winner an official test no less, is a really strong assists and three steals, leading the Kings to their third Raffaele Marciello on his F1 test debut for emotion and I am grateful to the team for straight win. the Italian team. giving me this opportunity.” — AFP Omri Casspi also scored 22 for Sacramento. Casspi, who made his first start of the season in place of the injured Rudy Gay, was with New Orleans for a brief TACK-Huawei T-20 festival squad stretch this offseason before being released in a salary-cap move. Mahmoud Abdulla - TACK KUWAIT XI - Coordinator New Orleans forward Anthony Davis was held to Captain Anil Reddy - TACK INDIA XI - Manager 14 points after he scored 28 in a victory over the Kings Mohamed Naser Imran - TACK SRILANKA - Arif Mohammad Shaik - TACK PAKISTAN XI - last Tuesday. He also had nine rebounds and blocked MANAGER Manager two shots. Tyreke Evans had 22 points, seven Munas Lebe - TACK Sri Lanka - Selctor & Deepal Melvo - TACK SRILANKA - CAPTAIN rebounds and five assist for the Pelicans, who were 3 Asst Manager GAYUR AHMED - TACK INDIA XI - Coach & for 17 from 3-point range. Nadeem Malik - TACK Kuwait XI - Asst Physio Coach Imtiyaz Patel - TACK INDIA XI - Liasion BUCKS 98, PISTONS 86 Nasar Razooniya - TACK SRILANKA - Coach Officer Brandon Knight had 20 points and eight assists to spark the Bucks to the victory. OJ Mayo, making his Rama Raju - TACK INDIA XI - Asst Maanger Khalid Butt- TACK PAKISTAN - CAPTAIN first start of the season, added 17 points as Milwaukee Rishi D Jayan - TACK INDIA XI - Captain Liaqat Ali - TACK Pakistan XI - Coach (8-7) avoided its first three-game slide of the season. Sami Ur Rehman - TACK PAKISTAN XI - Adam Hollioake (TACK-Kuwait XI) Rookie Jabari Parker contributed 14 points and nine Liasion Officer Herschelle Gibbs (TACK-Kuwait XI) rebounds. Sandun - TACK Srilanka - Liasion Officer Scott Styris (TACK- Kuwait XI) Detroit (3-11) has lost five in a row and eight of Serrao John Melwin - TACK KUWAIT XI - Yusuf Pathan (TACK-India XI) nine. Andre Drummond had 23 points and 10 Manager Aravinda de Silva (TACK-Srilanka XI) rebounds for the Pistons, and Greg Monroe added 15 Vinod Nevgi - TACK Kuwait XI - Coach Upul Chandana (TACK-Srilanka XI) points and eight boards. Drummond was averaging Ajith - TACK Srilanka XI -Selector & Azhar Mahmood (TACK-Pakistan XI) 8.7 points coming into the night, but shot 11 of 15 MIAMI: Golden State Warriors forward Harrison Barnes (left) is defended by Miami Heat for- from the floor. — AP ward James Ennis (right) in the second half of an NBA basketball game. — AP Boubyan Bank lifts Cup, KFH bags Plate trophy Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait 7-A-Side cricket tournament

KUWAIT: Boubyan Bank, efficient and athletic in the field After the early round of knock out league matches, 4 taining consistent form and scoring sufficiently fast with Bank of Kuwait presented the Winner & Runner Up tro- and commandingly having an upper hand in all the games teams namely Commercial Bank, Ahli United Bank, gifted timing played confidently, enabling Boubyan to phies as well as individual gifts to Boubyan Bank team and played, successfully lifted the prestigious ABK 7-A-Side tro- Boubyan & National Bank of Kuwait were placed in the notch up 92 runs in their allotted 5 overs. Hisham & Ahli United Bank teams, while Chief Internal Auditing phy sponsored by Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait and organized by CUP semifinal and the early round losers Kuwait Rifkhas played excellent cricket to give Aaamer the need- Officer Balwant Bains handed over the Plate Winner & Kuwait Cricket. International Bank, Burgan Bank, Gulf Bank, KFH & Al Ahli ed support. As always in a shorter version of the game, Runner Up trophies to KFH & Burgan bank teams. Asad As many as 9 Banks to the likes of Al Ahli Bank of Bank to PLATE semifinal. stimulating great expectations, the ABK sponsored 7 A Baig, Director General, Kuwait presented the Player of the Kuwait, Ahli United Bank, National Bank of Kuwait, In the PLATE final Kuwait Finance House prevailed over side tournament generated great excitement & turned out match award to Faraaz & Aamer Javed. Boubyan Bank, Burgan Bank, Commercial Bank of Kuwait, the fighting Burgan Bank to lift the Plate Cup. Faraaz of to be a great success as all the 9 participating teams had Kuwait Umpiring panel did an excellent job in officiat- Kuwait International Bank, Kuwait Finance House and Gulf KFH who played a stellar knock was declared Player of the an opportunity to gather themselves, sharing their views ing the event in a professional manner as the crew headed Bank participated in this tournament which was a curtain Final. In the CUP final against Ahli United Bank, Boubyan and an occasional personal chat as players and officials by Riaz Choudhry, Imran Mustafa Haji, Naveen Dísouza & raiser to the Kuwait Banks Club cricket tournaments being Bank played to their full potential and lifted the first cup of laughingly gathered to have mouthwatering lunch. Zahid Usman lived up to their reputation of being well organized by Kuwait Cricket. the new season. Their prolific scorer Aaamer Javed main- Shiamak Soonawala, Chief Financial Officer of Al Ahli versed in the art of on-field umpiring & scoring. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 SPORTS Hughes critical after surgery

SYDNEY: Australian batsman Phillip Hughes remained in a critical condition yesterday after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain, as play- ers rallied around the bowler who inflicted the damage. The 25-year-old, who was pressing for a Test recall, was knocked out by a Sean Abbott bouncer in a freak incident at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday, crumbling to the ground unconscious after the heavy blow to the lower head. He underwent emergency surgery and was in an induced coma in intensive care at St Vincent’s Hospital. “Philip’s condition is unchanged and he remains critical,” Australian team doctor Peter Brukner said in a brief state- ment yesterday afternoon. Test captain Michael Clarke was one of the first to arrive at the hospital on Wednesday, resuming a vigil at his close friend’s bedside and comforting Hughes’s mother and sister. Hughes made his Test debut in South Africa in 2009, where he made 75 in the second innings at Johannesburg. The left-hander fol- SHARJAH: Pakistanicricket captain Misbah-ul-Haq (left) hits a shot as New Zealand lowed up in the second Test at Durban with cen- turies in both innings, amassing some 275 runs cricketer Tom Latham avoids the ball during the first day of the third and final Test SHARJAH: A file photo taken on October 7, 2014, shows Australian bowler Sean Abbott bowl- match. — AFP at the crease. The runs dried up and despite playing 26 Tests he has never secured a regular ing during a One Day International cricket match. — AFP place in the team, partly due to his perceived have all the support he needs around him.” said: “Feeling for Sean Abbott who was just Hafeez unbeaten ton weakness against the short ball. Cricketers from around the world have rallied bowling a cricket ball.” Cricket Australia aban- But with doubts over the fitness of Clarke for behind not just Hughes but also Abbott. “Stay doned all current domestic Sheffield Shield the first Test against India next month in strong @seanabbott77. Not your fault young matches in the wake of Hughes’s injury, with lifts Pakistan in Test Brisbane, he was seen as a potential replace- man,” tweeted former Australian great Dean official Pat Howard saying “it’s just not the day ment. Shaun Marsh is now the frontrunner. Jones, while former bowler Damien Fleming to be playing cricket”. — AFP SHARJAH: Opener Mohammad Hafeez struck bio-mechanical analysis of his bowling action The popular Hughes was wearing a helmet a dominating century to lift Pakistan to 281-3 reported during the first Test. “That did not during the Sheffield Shield game when he was in the third and final Test against New Zealand deter him and he played a brilliant knock. “We struck but manufacturer Masuri said he did not in Sharjah yesterday. won the toss but needed to score big and we have their most up-to-date model. Ex-India captain offers The 34-year-old anchored Pakistan’s are on course for that, a total of 500 or above “From the footage and pictures currently innings with an unbeaten 178 — his seventh would help us dictate terms.” Younis, who hit available to Masuri, it appears that Phil Hughes Test hundred and second in the series-as three hundreds in Pakistan’s 2-0 rout of was struck by the ball to the rear of the grille tale of hope for Hughes Pakistan dominated the day after winning a Australia last month and one more in the first and below the back of the shell, missing his crucial toss and deciding to bat on a flat, grass- Test of this series, was trapped leg-before by NEW DELHI: As the cricketing world anxiously for the challenge. “I must thank fellow crick- Masuri Original Test model helmet,” the compa- awaits progress from Phillip Hughes, a tale of eters who donated blood for me, and the sur- less Sharjah stadium pitch. left-armer Vettori. Vettori, recalled in place of ny said. “This is a vulnerable area of the head Hafeez added an invaluable 121 for the Jimmy Neehsam, is playing his 112th match hope comes from a man who survived a simi- geon who conducted the emergency opera- and neck that helmets cannot fully protect, fourth wicket with skipper Misbah-ul Haq who for New Zealand, becoming his country’s most lar accident-former India captain Nari tion. I was in the operation theatre for a long was not out on a chancy 38 and 87 for the sec- capped player beating Stephen Fleming who while enabling batsmen to have full and proper Contractor. time.” Few players have been in such dire cir- ond wicket with Azhar Ali (39). played 111. movement.” Cricket New South Wales chief Fifty-two years ago, Contractor was struck cumstances, but New Zealand tailender Ewen It was an aggressive knock during which Vettori also played one Test for an ICC executive Andrew Jones said it was an extreme- on the back of the head by a rising ball from Chatfield was also badly injured on his Test Hafeez drove and pulled with authority, clob- World XI in 2005. He was accorded a guard of ly rare accident. “It’s the cricketing equivalent of West Indies fast bowler Charlie Griffith, during debut in 1975 when he was struck on the tem- bering 23 boundaries and three sixes. honour by New Zealand players as he entered getting hit by a bus,” he told Sky Sports radio. a practice match in Barbados. ple by a delivery from England’s Peter Lever in Misbah, batting in his usual cautious style, the field. “It’s a freak accident. There have been a mil- Contractor, who was not wearing a helmet, Auckland. As he lay on the field, Chatfield was benefitted from a dropped catch on 20 when Hafeez reached his hundred with a couple lion bouncers bowled before and there will be a was helped from the field but he started given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by wicket-keepe BJ Watling failed to hold an edge of boundaries and a single, reaching the mark million bouncers bowled after.” Hughes was bleeding from his nose and ears and vomiting, England physiotherapist Bernard Thomas. He off leg-sppiner Ish Sodhi. in 130 balls aided with 14 boundaries and two attempting a pull shot when he was hit while before an emergency operation that saved his regained consciousness in hospital. New Zealand’s three-spinner attack failed sixes. In the first session, Pakistan had a confi- batting for South Australia against New South life. The player was unconscious for six days After his accident, Contractor was unable to to get any spin with Mark Craig getting 2-67 dent start of 44 before Craig bowled Shan Wales. Medical staff worked on him, including and needed a further operation and blood build on his 31-Test career and he handed the and recalled Daniel Vettori 1-28. New Zealand, Masood for 12. mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and oxygen, for transfusions, but he finally came round and, captaincy to Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi. seeking to level the three-match series after Pakistan made two changes from the more than 30 minutes before he was taken from now aged 80, offered his best wishes to Among those who donated blood was losing the first in Abu Dhabi by 248 runs and Dubai Test line-up, dropping out-of-form the field and rushed to hospital on life-support. Hughes. West Indies legend Frank Worrell, a gesture drawing the second in Dubai, hit back in the opener Taufeeq Umar and Ehsan Adil, who suf- While it remains unclear how badly he may The 25-year-old Australian, also a left-hand- that “showed the game transcended bound- second session by dismissing Ali and in-form fered a side-muscle strain. be hurt, advocacy group Brain Injury Australia Younis Khan for five. Pakistan were comfort- They brought in Hafeez and paceman ed opener, is in critical condition after being aries” said Contractor’s team-mate, Chandu said generally that recovery was a long process, hit on the base of the skull by a bouncer dur- Borde. ably placed at 82-1 at lunch but Ali became Mohammad Talha. New Zealand brought although no two injuries were the same. off-spinner Craig’s second wicket, caught in Vettori, playing his first Test for 28 months, ing a domestic game in Sydney on Tuesday. “Times are different now. There is so much “Recovery from brain injury is a marathon, not a the slip off a loose shot. replacing Jimmy Neesham. Pakistan lead the “I wish Hughes gets well soon, my prayers protective gear,” said the former all-rounder. “In Ali said Hafeez was focused even before three-match series 1-0, after winning the first sprint,” said spokesman Nick Rushworth, who are with him,” Contractor, who vividly remem- our days, when we walked out to face men the Test. “He came back from England a day Test in Abu Dhabi and drawing the second in had his own brush with death in 1996 in a bers that fateful day in 1962, told The Hindu such as Wesley Hall or Griffith without helmets, before the Test,” said Ali of Hafeez who had a Dubai.— AFP cycling accident. newspaper. “Those were days when there were we were not sure whether we would come Up-and-coming bowler Abbott, who made no helmets, no restriction on the number of back alive.” his one-day and Twenty20 debut for Australia in bouncers in an over and no restrictions on The latest hospital update said there was SCOREBOARD October and is just 22, was seen cradling the beamers either,” he said. no change in the condition of Hughes, who injured player immediately after the incident. “It “The pitches were uncovered. But it was the was knocked unconscious and had emergency says a lot about Sean doesn’t it,” Cricket SHARJAH: Scoreboard at stumps on the opening day of the third and final Test same for everyone then and we were prepared surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. — AFP Australia chief James Sutherland said. “Sean will between Pakistan and New Zealand at Sharjah stadium yesterday: Pakistan 1st innings Total: (for three wkts; 90 overs) 281 Mohammad Hafeez not out 178 Fall of wickets: 1-44 (Masood), 2-131 (Ali), Shan Masood b Craig 12 3-160 (Younis) Azhar Ali c Taylor b Craig 39 Bowling: Boult 17-5-47-0 (1w), Southee Younis Khan lbw b Vettori 5 18-3-43-0, Vettori 12-4-28-1, Anderson Misbah-ul Haq not out 38 12-4-28-0 (1nb, 3w), Craig 16-2-67-2, Extras: (lb4, nb1, w4) 9 Sodhi 15-2-64-0. England lose to Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka overcame a brilliant cen- being sent in to bat was built around half-cen- tury by Moeen Ali and a late cameo from Ravi turies from Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Bopara to defeat England by 25 runs in the first Jayawardene and Kusal Perera. one-day international in Colombo yesterday. Dilshan top-scored with 88, Jayawardene Opener Ali smashed 119 off 87 balls with 11 hit a fluent 55 and Kusal Perera made 59 as the boundaries and five sixes as the tourists made hosts took advantage of England’s wayward a spirited chase of Sri Lanka’s 317-6 before and indisciplined attack that produced 17 being bowled out for 292 in the day-night wides. The start of the match at the Premadasa match. The left-hander’s maiden one-day hun- stadium was delayed by an hour due to bad dred was followed by Bopara’s 65 off 62 balls in weather, but the umpires decided to play a full the end overs that left England on the doorstep 50-overs-a-side game. of victory in the first match of the seven-game England’s decision to field first in overcast series. But Bopara was last man out off the first conditions did not bear fruit as Dilshan and ball of the 48th over, caught in the deep off Kusal Perera put on 120 for the first wicket by seamer Thisara Perera, who finished with three the 23rd over to give the hosts a flying start. wickets. England captain Alastair Cook made Dilshan missed his century when he tapped only 10 despite being reprieved twice off suc- a slower ball from Chris Woakes back to the cessive balls in the first over by the TV umpire bowler in the 38th over, ending a 76-run stand after being declared leg-before to Angelo for the third wicket with Jayawardene. Mathews. Sri Lanka were cruising at 253-3 in the 43rd Ali put on 51 for the first wicket with Cook over when off-spinner James Tredwell dis- and 56 for the second with Ian Bell to lift missed Mathews and Jayawardene with his last England to 107-1 in the 16th over. two deliveries in the innings. But three wickets crashed for 17 runs as Sri Lanka plundered 94 runs in the last 10 DHAKA: Zimbabwe cricket captain Elton Chigumbura plays a shot during the third One-Day International (ODI) match against Bangladesh. —AFP Thisara Perera dismissed Bell (35) and Joe Root overs to set England a tough target at the start (two) and Ajantha Mendis bowled Eoin of the series which gives both teams a chance Morgan. Ali was sixth out in the 31st over with to prepare for the World Cup in February- B’desh seal Zimbabwe series the total at 203, offering a tame return catch to March. The second match will be played in spinner Jeevan Mendis. Sri Lanka’s total after Colombo on Saturday. —AFP DHAKA: Opening batsman Anamul Haque top-scored with 95 as Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by 124 runs in SCOREBOARD SCOREBOARD the third one-day international to wrap up the five- match series in Dhaka yesterday. The hosts took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series DHAKA: Scoreboard of the third one-day international between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe at COLOMBO: Scoreboard of the first one-day international between England and Sri after winning the first two ODIs in Chittagong by 87 the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. Lanka in Colombo yesterday: runs and 68 runs respectively. Anamul and Tamim Iqbal Sri Lanka: I. Bell c Jayawardene b T. Perera 35 laid the foundations for a big win, putting up an open- Bangladesh innings T. Maruma c Mortaza b Rubel 8 T. Dilshan c and b Woakes 88 J. Root c Sangakkara b T. Perera 2 ing stand of 121 runs-their second century partnership Tamim Iqbal run out 40 B. Taylor lbw b Shakib 28 K. Perera run out 59 E. Morgan b A. Mendis 1 in as many matches, which guided Bangladesh to 297-6. Anamul Haque c Sub b Kamungozi 95 S. Mire c Rahim b Sunny 12 K. Sangakkara lbw b Ali 2 J. Buttler b Prasad 21 Faced with a massive target in a must-win contest, M Haque c Maruma b Masakadza 15 R. Chakabva b Mahmudullah 14 M. Jayawardene c Buttler b Tredwell 55 R. Bopara c K. Perera b T. Perera 65 Zimbabwe were never up to the task and were bowled Al Hasan c Chigumbura b Panyangara 40 E. Chigumbura not out 53 A. Mathews c Stokes b Tredwell 33 B. Stokes st Sangakkara b Herath 16 out for 173 runs in 39.5 overs. Mushfiqur Rahim b Panyangara 33 P. Moor lbw b Rubel 2 T. Perera c Cook b Woakes 4 C. Woakes st Sangakkara b Herath 7 Mashrafe Mortaza (2-24) had an opening-spell blast Mahmudullah not out 33 N. Mazdiva c Sub b Sunny 11 L. Thirimanne not out 27 J. Tredwell b A. Mendis 6 to leave Zimbabwe 2-22, and spinners did the rest. Sabbir Rahman c Maruma b Madziva 22 T. Panyangara b Sunny 0 J. Mendis not out 30 H. Gurney not out 1 Arafat Sunny mopped up the tail to finish with 4-27, his Mashrafe Mortaza not out 2 T. Kamungozi b Sunny 4 Extras (lb 10, w4, nb3) 17 Extras: (lb2, w17) 19 Extras: (w8, nb1) 9 second four-wicket haul in as many matches. Extras (b8, lb1, w11) 20 Total (for six wickets; 50 overs) 297 Total (for six wickets, 50 overs) 317 Total (all out, 47.1 overs) 292 Skipper Elton Chigumbura staged a lone battle for Total ( all out; 39.5 overs) 173 Fall of wickets: 1-121(Tamim), 2-160 Fall of wickets: 1-120 (K. Perera), 2-128 Fall of wickets: 1-51 (Cook), 2-107 (Bell), 3- Zimbabwe to stay 53 not out. Anamul was named man Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Sibanda), 2-22 (Sangakkara), 3-204 (Dilshan), 4-253 121 (Root), 4-124 (Morgan), 5-159 (Buttler), of the match for his 120-ball innings, which included (Mominul), 3-167(Anamul), 4-239 (Shakib), 5- 244 (Rahim) , 6-290(Sabbir) (Masakadza), 3-39 (Maruma), 4-80 (Mire), 5-82 (Mathews), 5-253 (Jayawardene), 6-263 (T. 6-203 (Ali), 7-243 (Stokes), 8-259 (Woakes), nine fours. Tamim uncharacteristically took the role of (Taylor), 6-119 (Chakabva), 7-126(Moor), 8- Perera). 9-286 (Tredwell), an anchor in the stand before he was freakishly run out Bowling: Panyangara 10-0-54-2(nb1), Madziva 153(Mazdiva) 9-153(Panyangara), 10- Bowling: Woakes 10-0-68-2 (w4), Gurney 10-292 (Bopara). for 40. Shakib al Hasan (40 off 33 balls) and Mushfiqur 9-0-60-1(w2, nb1), Chigumbura 3-0-18-0 (w2, 10-0-66-0 (w6), Tredwell 10-0-52-2, Stokes Bowling: Mathews 3-1-17-0, Prasad 5-0-51-1 Rahim (33 off 22 balls) added 72 runs for the fourth nb1), Kamungozi 10-0-40-1, Maruma 2-0-15-0, 173(Kamungozi) 4-0-36-0 (w4), Ali 10-0-66-1 (w2), Root 2-0- (w1), Dilshan 6-0-33-1 (w1), A. wicket in just eight overs to bring the local crowd to 10-0-64-0, Masakadza Bowling: Mortaza 7-2-24-2, Shafiul 2.1-0-20- 12-0, Bopara 4-0-15-0 (w1) Mendis 9-0-55-2 (w2), Herath 9-0-58-2, T. their feet. Mahmudullah (33 not out off 26 balls) and 5-0-25-1, Mire 1-0-11-0. 0(w2), Rubel 5.5-0-22-2(w1), Sabbir 2-0-16-0, Perera 9.1-1-44-3 (w4, nb1), J. Sabbir Rahman (22 off 13 balls) also enjoyed a run fest Sunny 8.5-0-27-4, Shakib 7-1-19-1(w1), England: Mendis 6-0-34-1. as Bangladesh added 103 runs in the last 10 overs to Zimbabwe innings Mahmudullah 5-0-29-1(w2), Mominul 2-0-7-0 A. Cook lbw b Dilshan 10 Sri Lanka won by 25 runs, lead 1-0 in seven- post their highest total in the series. The last two match- H. Masakadza c Rahim b Mortaza 12 Result: Bangladesh won by 124 and lead the Moeen Ali c and b J. Mendis 119 match series. es of the series will be held at the same ground on V. Sibanda c Sunny b Mortaza 9 five-match series 3-0 November 28 and December 1. — AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 SPORTS Aguero treble keeps Man City hope alive

MANCHESTER: Sergio Aguero scored a sensa- who raced into the box before being brought tional hat-trick as Manchester City stunned 10- down from behind by the sliding Benatia. man Bayern Munich 3-2 on Tuesday to reignite Referee Pavel Kralovec showed the Morocco their hopes of reaching the Champions international a straight red card and although League last 16. Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer went the Aguero scored from the penalty spot mid- right way, Aguero’s penalty eluded him. way through the first half after Mehdi Benatia had been sent off, only for goals from birthday ALONSO EQUALISES boy Xabi Alonso and Robert Lewandowski to Visiting coach Pep Guardiola was forced put Bayern in front at half-time at the Etihad into an unwelcome reshuffle, with Dante com- Stadium. ing on for Rode, while Lampard almost But a mistake from Alonso enabled Aguero extended City’s advantage by shooting nar- to equalise in the 85th minute and six minutes rowly high and wide from a smart free-kick later the Argentine exploited an error by City routine. But Bayern survived, regrouped, and old boy Jerome Boateng to give Manuel by half-time they were ahead. Alonso Pellegrini’s side a dramatic victory. City will equalised in the 40th minute, crowning his now go into their final game away to Roma 33rd birthday by steering a low free-kick past level on points with the Italian side and CSKA a flat-footed Hart after Mangala had upended Moscow, meaning they will qualify if they win Lewandowski. and the Russian champions fail to win at Five minutes later, Lewandowski stole in Bayern, who were already guaranteed to quali- front of Bacary Sagna to meet Boateng’s right- fy as Group E winners. “I always said before this wing cross and although the ball made more night, Sergio is one of the best players in the contact with shoulder than head, it was world, one of the best strikers,” said City man- enough to send it looping over Hart. Alonso ager Pellegrini. gave City a scare early in the second half by “We now have to do our duty and we’ll see curling wide but the home side began to what happens in the other game.” Aguero told press, with Neuer saving smartly from Navas’s ITV: “I am very happy. It is very important for low shot and James Milner curling over from us. The draw was difficult, but we are happy the left. now because this is a very important result With Pellegrini introducing striker Stevan and the next game we have to win.” Jovetic and right-back Pablo Zabaleta for the With Yaya Toure and Fernandinho suspend- final stages, City continued to venture forward. GERMANY: Schalke’s Felipe Santana (left) and Chelsea’s Diego Costa (right) challenge for the ball during the Champions League Group G soccer ed, City lined up with Fernando, James Milner Neuer produced a flying one-handed save to match. — AP and Frank Lampard in midfield, while injury- thwart Lampard and Vincent Kompany scuffed hit Bayern handed starts to Sebastian Rode wide from a corner, before Alonso’s cross-field and 19-year-old Dane Pierre Hojbjerg. Arjen pass was cut out by Jovetic, allowing Aguero Robben was quickly buzzing around the fringe to scuttle through and equalise. Chelsea smash Schalke of the City area and he created two early The Etihad celebrated with wild abandon, chances. but there was more to come. In the first GERMANY: Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea marched into his shot away. Cesc Fabregas floated in the result- raised to a noisy crescendo when the referee end- The Dutchman’s chipped pass forced Joe minute of injury time, Boateng’s poor touch let Hart to save from Rode and he then teed up Aguero in and he held his nerve to beat Neuer, the Champions League last 16 as Group G winners ing corner from which Chelsea captain John Terry ed a miserable half moments later. Rafinha for a shot that Eliaquim Mangala taking his goal tally for the season to 17 and on Tuesday after their emphatic 5-0 win at Robert rose highest to head home barely challenged. With his side facing eight games in a busy blocked. Short of a couple of crosses from giving City unexpected hope. “I feel sad for the di Matteo’s Schalke 04. Cameroon striker Eric Choupo-Moting gave December period, Mourinho replaced Costa, who Jesus Navas that failed to find a sky blue shirt, players. The points don’t really matter,” said Mourinho’s Premier League leaders brushed Di Schalke brief hope on 13 minutes when his shot has netted 11 goals this season, with veteran for- City had created nothing, but without warning Guardiola, whose side had not been beaten Matteo’s ineffective Royal Blues aside in deflected off Gary Cahill’s boot and looped over ward Didier Drogba after an hour. the game tilted in their favour. since August. “We lost the game. We gave Gelsenkirchen as captain John Terry put them Chelsea goalkeeper Thibault Courtois, but it clat- He scored their fourth when Fabregas put Lampard’s pass over the top freed Aguero, them the game.” — AFP ahead within just two minutes of the kick-off. tered off the bar. through a superb pass to Willian, who squared to Further first-half scores by Willian and an own Chelsea were unpicking the Schalke defence present Drogba with a simple tap in on 76 minutes. goal from defender Jan Kirchhoff were followed by with worryingy ease as they doubled their The visitors’ fifth goal followed just two minutes second-half strikes from Didier Drogba and Brazil lead.Hazard timed his pass to Willian perfectly and later as Drogba crossed for Ramires, who out midfielder Ramires. the Brazilian’s low drive under Faehrmann’s dive on jumped the porous home defence. Only good “I am very happy, it was a very impressive per- 28 minutes to put the visitors 2-0 up. keeping by Faehrmann denied Chelsea replace- formance,” beamed Mourinho. “We weren’t coming Boos and whistles echoed around the Veltins ment Andre Schuerrle, then Hazard, in the final five here to see if a point would be enough to put us Arena by the time defensive midfielder Jan Kirchoff minutes as Chelsea hunted a sixth goal. The home through and we showed that from the first minute. turned the ball into his own net on 44 minutes and side were again booed at the final whistle. — AFP “It was 90 minutes of good football.” The result matched Schalke’s record European home defeat when they were hammered 6-1 by Real Madrid in Shakhtar in knockout stage last season’s round of 16, first leg, in February this year. Chelsea remain unbeaten in all 19 matches KIEV: Shakhtar Donetsk lost a game but current situation in Donbass,” Shakhtar’s this season and are now four points clear in the reached the Champions League knockout Brazilian midfielder Taison said. “The people table ahead of their final match at home to second- stage giving an emotional boost to war-torn live in constant fear of dying. I love Ukraine placed Sporting Lisbon in a fortnight. Di Matteo’s Ukraine, highlighted on Thursday by manager and I love Donetsk so much! I have plenty of unbeaten home record after four wins was ended Mircea Lucescu. friends there. And I pray God for the end of by his former club in brutal fashion. The Ukrainian champions cannot play their this conflict every single day,” he added. “It was already a difficult evening for us and we European home games in Donetsk because of Shakhtar have won the last five national cham- made it even harder by conceding so early,” said Di the conflict between pro-Russian rebels and pionships. But playing away from home all the Matteo, who apologised to Schalke fans for the government forces that has ravaged the time has hit their form. The team are currently performance. “I was surprised by our lack of confi- southeastern city. third in the Ukraine Premiership, five points dence, we weren’t aggressive enough and we gave Shakhtar seemed to be barely functioning behind leaders Dynamo Kiev. them far too much space. “We have to look ahead in their 1-0 defeat to Athletic Bilbao on In Europe, Shakhtar have looked more sol- now and put this behind us as quickly as possible.” Tuesday night but had already qualified before id. They blasted 12 goals past BATE Borisov in Schalke drop to third, having been leap-frogged the game started. Group H leaders FC Porto their two group meetings and their Brazilian by Sporting who won 3-1 at home to Maribor, who beat BATE Borisov of Belarus 3-0 meaning the striker Luiz Adriano leads the Champions they must beat in Slovenia in their final game next Ukrainians had second place. League scorers’ chart with nine goals so far. LONDON: Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero (center) keeps the ball as Bayern’s Robert month to stand any chance of progressing. “I’m upset with our performance but happy “It’s hard to live and play away from our Lewandowski (right) and his teammate Franck Ribery try to stop him during the “It’s hard to find words for this,” said Schalke that we’ve make it into the knockout stage,” home for such a long time,” said Adriano, who Champions League Group E soccer match. — AP captain Benedikt Hoewedes. “I can only apologise Lucescu said. “The performance in the recently made his debut for Brazil. for our performance. “We gave Chelsea too much Champions League is our prestige, our image. “But in the existing situation it’s absolutely space to play. They are so good individually and we And we’re all set to keep up our prestige, our impossible to play football in our home city. Cavani, Zlatan see PSG past Ajax let them score too many goals.” image really high.” We are all seriously worried about our city, our Di Matteo, who is just eight games into the The war in southeast Ukraine forced the base, arena and all the people who have to PARIS: Edinson Cavani scored twice and Zlatan cal and dangerous team was PSG,” said Blanc. Schalke job, remains the only Chelsea manager to team to move to Kiev for training and play stay in Donetsk. Ibrahimovic was also on target as Paris Saint- The Dutch champions, with only one player win the Champions League and Mourinho refused their home matches in Lviv, about 1,000 kilo- “But despite all these troubles our objec- Germain beat Ajax 3-1 at the Parc des Princes in aged over 25 in their starting line-up, played the to even talk about him in the match’s build-up. metres (620 miles) away from Donetsk. tives for the season remain the same: win the Champions League Group F on Tuesday. better football for spells but, having already been The self-styled ‘Special One’, who won the Their base in the Donetsk suburbs has been domestic title and a place in the Champions Cavani’s first-half opener was cancelled out by eliminated before this game, now face a home Champions League with Inter Milan in 2010 and Davy Klaassen midway through the second half match with APOEL in two weeks hoping to secure seriously damaged by shelling. Their once glit- League knockout stage.” Porto in 2004, is bidding to win the European as Ajax looked set to leave the French capital with the consolation of a place in the Europa League tering Donbass Arena, which staged matches Lucescu says that Shakhtar were right to a point, but Ibrahimovic scored his first goal for in the new year. crown at the fifth attempt with Chelsea and his for the 2012 European Championship, has also move to Lviv and praised conditions there. the club in nearly three months to put the hosts And coach Frank de Boer, who lost captain side dominated their hosts in Gelsenkirchen. been hit. The squad, which includes 13 Some rumours have said that the 69-year-old back in front in the 79th minute. Nicolai Boilesen to a serious-looking injury after Chelsea needed less than two minutes to take Brazilians, has taken the war fallout to heart. coach will resign at the end of the season. But And Cavani then made sure of the victory as just 10 minutes, cut a frustrated figure with the the lead at Schalke’s Veltins Arena. Eden Hazard put And there is little chance they will be able to he is determined to take Shakhtar as far as PSG moved a step closer to their objective of way his side defended. “In the first half we com- Diego Costa away and the Spain striker tested return home soon. “I grieve deeply over the possible in the Champions League. — AFP advancing to the last 16 as group winners, the mitted too many fouls and made too many ele- Schalke goalkeeper Ralf Faehrmann, who palmed result allowing them to maintain a one-point lead mentary mistakes,” he said. “In the second half we over Barcelona with a trip to the Camp Nou still to deserved our equaliser when it came but the sec- come next month. ond and third goals (for PSG) were stupid.” Barcelona won 4-0 away to APOEL in Cyprus in the night’s other game, and with both sides ABSENTEES already through to the last 16 before this round It was a PSG side missing Thiago Silva, Thiago of matches, the French champions now know Motta, Marco Verratti and Yohan Cabaye that fired that a draw in Spain next month will see them the first real warning shot in the 24th minute, progress in first place. Ibrahimovic playing Ezequiel Lavezzi through The statistics make for impressive reading for with just the goalkeeper to beat only for the Laurent Blanc’s side, who have now won eight Argentine to be denied by a fine Jasper Cillessen games in a row in all competitions and remain save. Only a superb interception by Gregory van unbeaten this season, a status shared only with der Wiel prevented Arkadiusz Milik from closing Chelsea in Europe’s leading leagues. in on goal at the other end before Paris broke the PSG are also now undefeated in 32 European deadlock just after the half-hour mark, outings at the Parc des Princes, a record that Ibrahimovic lofting a pass over the Ajax defence stretches back over eight years, although Ajax for Lavezzi, who squared the ball to Cavani and could count themselves a little unlucky to return allowed the Uruguayan to finish into an empty to Amsterdam with nothing to show for their net. That should have given the hosts a platform efforts. “I think we came up against a team that from which to build but instead they appeared played better football than us but were not that content to try and see the game out, and were dangerous at the end of the day. The more clini- duly punished in the second half. —AFP

LISBON: Sporting’s Mauricio Nascimento (centre) tries to beat Maribor’s goalkeeper Jasmin Handanovic (left) to the ball during a Champions League Group G soccer match. — AP Sporting win over Maribor

LISBON: Winger Nani scored a superb solo goal in a row after taking only one point from their The Portuguese visit Chelsea in their last to help Sporting beat Maribor 3-1 on Tuesday as opening three matches, while an own goal by game where a point will be enough to finish sec- the Portuguese side gave a big boost to their Jefferson kept the Slovenians in the hunt until ond thanks to their better head-to-head record chances of qualifying for the Champions League the last 20 minutes. with Schalke who travel to Maribor. last 16. Sporting are second in Group G with seven Maribor, bottom with three points, have been PARIS: PSG’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic (right) kicks the ball as Ajax’s Davy Klaassen looks Carlos Mane and Islam Slimani were also on points from five matches, two ahead of Schalke eliminated while Chelsea (11 points) top the on during the Champions League Group F soccer match. — AP target for Sporting, who won their second game who were thrashed 5-0 at home by Chelsea. group. — Reuters THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 SPORTS

NEW DELHI: Runners pass by the India Gate monument during the Delhi half marathon in New Delhi in this file BOSTON: In this April 21, 2014 file photo, runners restat Boston Common after completing in the118th Boston photo. Ethiopian runner Guye Adola won the annual half marathon. — AFP Marathon in Boston. — AP Blood, sweat and tears yield ultramarathon joy

LOS ANGELES: Running 135 miles through the enced ultramarathoner Shannon Farar-Griefer, “It’s the innate human desire to push our lim- burning desire to be the best they can be while ning with supplies strapped to her back. searing summer heat of Death Valley in California who has five times raced the gruelling Badwater its,” Holland told Reuters. “I believe many people often competing well outside their comfort zones. Farar-Griefer, a 53-year-old mother of three before ending the route with a cumulative gain of 135 across Death Valley, told Reuters. find incredible personal satisfaction in achieving “The people who finish are not the most physical- who lives in Hidden Hills, California and took up 17,000 feet to reach the slopes of Mount Whitney? “They might say, ‘What’s wrong with you that these challenging goals. “They run a marathon or ly fit but the ones that are mentally strong, those long-distance running at the age of 39, has no Slogging across four desert courses, each 150 you want to run 100 miles? Were you abused or three and then have a need to push their bodies who don’t entertain the possibility of not finish- doubt about her most brutal ultra experience. miles long, in Chile, China, Egypt and Antarctica in were you a drug addict?’ We just love to run. It’s all even further, both physically as well as mentally. ing,” she said. “The 292-mile Death Valley Badwater double, what is known as the Four Deserts Grand Slam? about passion in this sport. Pushing through periods of incredible discomfort Gash, who is featured in the 2013 documen- by far,” she said, referring to her feat in becoming Racing against the clock through 75 control “You know you’re going to hurt, you know and coming out on the other side is extremely tary “Desert Runners” which chronicles the Four the first female to complete the ‘double’ by finish- points in the footsteps of ancient Athenian mes- you’re going to have a long day. That’s why people empowering.” Deserts Grand Slam, gained a massive jolt of self- ing the 135 ultra, then summiting Mount Whitney senger Pheidippidis, with a cut-off of 36 hours to think that we are a little different from the rest belief after her pioneering accomplishments in before returning to the race’s original start. complete the 153-mile Spartathlon? because we keep pushing our bodies. Ultras are A METAPHOR FOR LIFE Chile, China, Egypt and Antarctica. “All the other runners finished at the portals of Risking dehydration, exhaustion, broken all about learning how to be able to accept pain.” Holland is a veteran of several ultras, including “Being (previously) a nobody in the world of Mount Whitney but I continued on and I summit- ankles, kidney failure or the need to throw in the An ultramarathon involves a combination of the Run to the Sun, a 36-mile journey to the ultra running, if I could do something of this size ed Mount Whitney and then I ran back. It was 130 towel and give up-all possible reasons for an ath- running and walking further than the traditional 10,023-foot summit of Haleakala on the island of and scale, it makes you feel that anything’s possi- degrees on the way back. lete to abort the gruelling challenge of an ultra- marathon of 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometres). Though Maui, and he regards the ultra challenge as a ble,” she said of her success in the Four Deserts “At mile 270, I got an edema really bad. I was marathon? For the uninitiated, all of the above most ultras cover distances of either 50 or 100 metaphor for life. “You realize that no matter how Grand Slam. “There were moments when I won- swollen, I couldn’t pee. It was scary because you scenarios suggest a twinning of sadism with sheer miles, many are much longer. bad you think things are at the time, you are dered what I was doing, when I was so dehydrat- could go into total renal failure at that point. lunacy. For the ultramarathoner, however, it is all For Connecticut-based running coach Tom strong enough to push through them and things ed it hurt. I felt new depths of pain. Thank God I had a very experienced crew. about running for joy, setting personal goals and Holland, an exercise physiologist and certified will always get better,” he said. “But I really never let myself contemplate giv- “It’s a sport where you have to be able to trying to overcome every obstacle faced. sports nutritionist who has competed in over 60 Australian Samantha Gash, the first woman to ing up,” said Gash, who had to contend with heat, endure pain and you have to be comfortable step- “People are intrigued by the thought of some- marathons and 21 ironman triathlons, ultras are all complete the Four Deserts Grand Slam in a calen- cold, dehydration and extreme fatigue in some of ping out of your comfort zone. It’s a constant one wanting to run 100 miles, or more,” experi- about achieving objectives. dar year, believes that ultramarathoners share a the world’s most hostile environments while run- mind battle. I love it.” — Reuters British trio on brink of knockout phase Europa League

PARIS: Everton, Tottenham and Celtic can wrap up their places in the Europa League knockout stage in today’s penultimate batch of group matches. Red Bull Salzburg, Dinamo Moscow, Fiorentina and Legia Warsaw are already guaranteed their place in the last-32. That leaves 20 places still up for grabs from the group phase with eight third-place finishers from the Champions League also set to parachute into the draw. Roberto Martinez’s Everton side are enjoying a fine return to European foot- ball since their glory days of 1985 when they won the now defunct Cup Winners’ Cup, the same year they became English champions. The Toffees, on eight points, face a daunting trip to Wolfsburg carrying a one point lead over their Bundesliga hosts with French side Lille on three and tackling Turkish side Krasnodar who prop up the group with two draws from four matches. ST. PETERSBURG: Zenit’s Javi Garcia (left) and Benfica’s Nicolas Gaitan struggle for One player Everton will have to keep an eye on is Wolfsburg’s dynamic mid- the ball during the Champions League Group C soccer match. — AP fielder Kevin De Bruyne who has three goals and three assists in the competition so far. The 23-year-old Belgian has been revelation both in the league and on Zenit send Benfica packing the continent since his 20 million euro transfer from Chelsea in the summer. “Surely one of the best players Wolfsburg have ever had,” said his defensive SAINT PETERSBURG: A late goal by Portuguese be a forlorn hope if Monaco win against teammate Marcel Schafer. “Maybe things are going a bit better for me than last international winger Danny gave Russian league Leverkusen. In a game of few chances, the season, but that is the same with other players,” said De Bruyne who came up leaders Zenit St Petersburg a crucial 1-0 win Portuguese champions had the best opening of through the Genk system before a loan spell at Werder Bremen and then finally against Benfica in the Champions League yester- the first half when Nicolas Gaitan concluded a signing with Wolfsburg. “I am young, I can still improve. When I play football, I day. Danny, formerly of Sporting Lisbon, struck great run down the left by crossing to the back always enjoy myself. I am a winner - I am here to win every game,” he added. 11 minutes from the end of a hard-fought post for Eduardo Salvio, whose shot was well The two teams can advance with Everton needing a win to top the pool while encounter to keep the Russian side in the run- saved by Yuri Lodygin. Zenit created little of note a draw could see both sides move forward if Lille fail to win in Turkey. Everton’s ning to qualify for the last 16 for the second sea- and lost both Nicolas Lombaerts and Javi Garcia veteran defender Sylvain Distin says the team are in good spirits and ready for son in succession and end Benfica’s hopes of to injury but Andre Villas-Boas’s side never gave the challenge in Germany. advancing from Group C. up and were rewarded with the winning goal in “We’re full of confidence at the moment. We always have been to be honest. Regardless of the outcome of Wednesday’s the 79th minute. Brazilian forward Hulk, who like Even if things were a bit difficult at the beginning of the season, we were aware other Group C game between Bayer Leverkusen his coach Villas-Boas is formerly of Porto, deliv- of our qualities and knew that things were going to get back on track,” said and Monaco in Germany, Zenit know that a win ered a cross from the right to the near post for Distin. “At the moment, things are going well but it’s going to be a tough game. in Monaco in their final game next month will his captain Danny, who followed up a superb run Wolfsburg are a really, really good team and I’m sure after the game we had here take them through to the knock-out stage. with a fine volleyed finish past Julio Cesar. they’re going to try to reverse that.” Celtic have bounced back following their The best Benfica can now aim for, though, is A disappointing night for Benfica ended in Champions League exit at the qualifying stage and can join already qualifed third place and qualification for the Europa miserable fashion as captain Luisao was sent off League, in which they have reached the final in in stoppage time after being shown a second Salzburg from Group D if they beat their Austrian visitors at Celtic Park. each of the last two seasons. But even that will yellow card. — AFP Tottenham, who won the then UEFA Cup for the second time in 1984, host eliminated Serbian club Partizan Belgrade sharing the Group C lead on eight points with Istanbul’s Besiktas. The White Hart Lane outfit will definitely qualify with a win, while a draw will also be enough if Asteras Tripoli fail to defeat Leicester desperately Besiktas in the Peloponnese region of Greece. In other eye-catching match-ups, Feyenoord on six points and Sevilla on eight meet in a battle of former champions in Rotterdam. need a fox in the box The winner is assured their last-32 place while a draw will also carry the two LONDON: What Leicester City manager what fans look back on as a ‘golden era’ clubs through if HNK Rijeka and Belgian side Standard Liege finish level in Croatia. Sparta Prague and Napoli meet in a top of the table clash in Group I with BELGIUM: Lokeren’s players Gregory Mertens, Killian Overmeire and Nigel Pearson would give for a Tony Cottee, under Martin O’Neill. At 36, age should cer- Koen Persoons attend a training session at the Daknam stadium on Steve Claridge or Emile Heskey right now- tainly be no concern to Pearson, who both teams on nine points and on the brink of qualification. Swiss club Young Boys are their only threat on six points and in action on the road in Slovakia at the eve of an UEFA Europa League football match against Legia the club’s strikers of Premier League yore signed 40-year-old frontman Kevin Phillips Warsaw. — AFP with a predatory eye for goal. in January and who played a part in eliminated Slovan Bratislava. —AFP When Leicester put five goals past a star- Leicester’s run to the second tier title. tled Manchester United on a heady Sunday Former England international Heskey, in late September, mounting a barnstorm- who is playing an ambassadorial role for Female challenge to WCup ing comeback from 3-1 down for an unlikely City since leaving Australia’s Newcastle Jets, 5-3 home triumph, the Foxes looked like said he would be ready should Pearson call. they belonged back in the elite. “It goes without saying, I’d love to come,” But their first season back in England’s Heskey told BBC Radio Leicester this week. stars for goal of the year top flight since demotion in 2004 has since “It is a great club that allowed me to get turned sour. They are mired in the relega- to the platform that I got to. I was an ALBI: There was hardly anyone in the tiny October 20 last year when Peamount United played have until December 1 to vote on FIFA’s website for tion zone with 10 points from 12 games, a England international when I was with Peamount United stadium to see Stephanie Roche Wexford Youths in the Dublin suburbs-far from the the best of the 10 goals nominated-including van point from the safety zone and only two Leicester so that was a great achievement.” score the spectacular goal that now sees her chal- packed stadiums that Rodriguez and the like made Persie’s diving header for the Netherlands at the above bottom side Queens Park Rangers For now, the Leicester management are lenging James Rodriguez, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and their mark. The two sides, coaches and substitutes World Cup and Rodriguez’s volleyed goal for who they visit this weekend. likely to keep faith with big-money signing Robin van Persie for the Goal of the Year award. were the main witnesses when a cross came from Colombia against Uruugay. The top three will be You do not have to look to hard to see Leonardo Ulloa, the Argentine who scored The 25-year-old blonde centrepiece of Ireland’s the right, Roche flicked the ball up with the right put to a new online vote. “It’s just a great honour to why-the goals have dried up. Since giving five goals in his first five games but has fired women’s attack still cannot believe the strike and foot, then the left, turned and blasted the ball in be named among those players and be the only United’s backline nightmares at the King blanks since. the fuss it has caused. The 800 euro ($1,000) a from 25 metres. “It happened so fast it was probably woman as well,” said Roche. “I’m happy and I’m hop- Power Stadium, City have scored twice in If Ulloa has cooled since his flying start, month professional with Albi in the French women’s just instinct,” said Roche, who now is repeatedly ing maybe people will vote and I’ll get to the seven winless games-both coming in the 2- Leicester’s other frontmen have fared league is now dreaming of maybe meeting $80 mil- asked to recreate the strike for television crews. awards. The dream will come true.” Roche, who 2 draw against Burnley. worse, the trio of David Nugent, Jamie lion a year Cristiano Ronaldo at the award ceremo- “It was my first goal of the season so I was just learned her football playing against boys in the Tellingly, neither was scored by a striker Vardy and Chris Wood contributing three ny. “It has just been crazy,” Roche said in an inter- happy to score,” she added.But after the game the streets of Dublin, moved this year to ASPTT Albi, and, while the goals flowed in City’s march goals so far this term. After defeats by view with AFP at her new club in southern France Wexford Youths manager came up and showed newly promoted to the French women’s first divi- to the Championship (second tier)title, the Crystal Palace, Newcastle United, Swansea yesterday. The goal has been viewed on the inter- Roche a film of the goal on his laptop. sion. She says she wants to meet Ronaldo at the lack of firepower has given Pearson a big City, West Bromwich Albion and net millions of times. That could help her beat the awards ceremony. Roche’s goal is also bringing new headache. Southampton, City were again punchless in big name World Cup stars to the Puskas Award GOAL GOES VIRAL attention for women’s football, just ahead of its own Such are Leicester’s striking woes that he a 0-0 stalemate with Sunderland on when it is announced on January 12. Previous win- “And I thought that was quite special. My team- World Cup in Canada next June. “The film has been could be tempted to call on veteran Heskey, Saturday. Pearson will hope that miserable ners of the prestigious honour include Ronaldo, mates actually joked and said I should put it online seen a lot and now people are saying that a girl can who made 196 appearances and scored 46 run ends when City travel to fellow strug- Brazil star Neymar, and last year Paris Saint- ‘It’s going to be viral you will be a superstar!” do as well as a boy. Maybe now they will be more goals for City between 1995 and 2000 in glers QPR on Saturday. — Reuters Germain’s Swedish star Zlatan Ibrahimovic. In the end her coach put the film online interested in women’s football,” said Kimberley The Roche legend has been growing since (http://youtu.be/c0L0WIK2Ync). Football fans now Cazeau, Albi’s attacking midfielder. —AFP Hafeez unbeaten Chelsea ton lifts Pakistan smash in Test Schalke

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Blood, sweat and tears yield ultramarathon joy Page 19 QatarQatar winwin GulfGulf CupCup

RIYADH: Qatar won their third Gulf Cup title after recovering from an early goal to beat hosts Saudi Arabia 2-1 yesterday. Skipper Saud Kariri opened the scoring for the Saudi team, also three-time champions, after 16 minutes at the nearly full King Fahd stadium but Qatar replied with a magnificent header from defender Al Mahdi Ali two minuteslater. Algerian-born Khoukhi Boualem scored the winner for 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar in the 58th minute to hand his team their first Gulf title away from home. Qatar, winners in Doha in 1992 and 2004, made a slowstart to the tournament, failing to win a match at the group stage, but hit form with a 3-1 win in the semis against Oman before capturing the title. — Reuters /AFP Qatar’s sporting ambitions undented by controversy

DOHA: Corruption claims and alleged abuse of migrants build- has employed its wealth to lead Arab countries in hosting global Stadium with a seating capacity of 40,000 and equipped with a individuals, including “international transfers of assets with con- ing facilities for the 2022 World Cup have not dampened Qatar’s sports events. cooling system to overcome the desert country’s temperatures nections to Switzerland”. Moreover, a former member of the appetite to become the “world capital” of prestigious sport It is reaping the benefits of a policy launched in the 1990s that exceed 45 degrees celsius in summer. Qatar-bid team for the World Cup, who testified in the investiga- events. under which it invested tens of billions of dollars in sports, both Meanwhile, the Al Attiya Arena, built in only 18 months to tion over alleged corruption, said last Wednesday the FBI had Cleared last week by FIFA of wrongdoing in gaining the right at home and overseas. host the men’s handball world championship between January offered her protection following threats to her and her children. to host the World Cup, the Gulf emirate last Tuesday won the As a sign of the importance of sports, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the 15 and February 1, boasts digital maps and high-tech screens to Qatar is also facing repeated criticism by human rights right to organise the 2019 Athletics World Championships. president of French champions Paris Saint-Germain, is also a display results. It can be converted into an ice hockey rink within organisations over the conditions of the mostly Asian migrant The International Association of Athletics Federations state minister in Qatar. 48 hours. workers building the infrastructure. (IAAF) announced Doha had beaten off Barcelona and Qatar also owns the BeIN Sports television channel, which Qatari officials say it is inevitable that the country’s success Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch last week Eugene, Oregon, to the dismay of international human rights has an increasingly large audience spread beyond the Middle has courted controversy. “Despite FIFA’s decision to clear Qatar in condemned the IAAF’s decision to grant Qatar the right to hold campaigners. East. The country will organise the world short-course swim- corruption suspicions, the bashing will continue,” said Hassan al- the 2019 athletics tournament. Authorities in Qatar have been The Gulf state, which sits on the world’s third largest gas ming championships in December, the handball World Cup in Thawadi, secretary general of the 2022 World Cup organising also criticised for being slow in introducing promised reforms to reserves, has also offered help - ultimately rejected - organis- early 2015 and the world cycling road championships in 2016, committee. their labour rules, including the Kafala sponsorship law, which ing the Africa Cup of Nations in 2015 after Morocco refused to Ali noted. The busy agenda reflects the “confidence of the inter- “We will respond by continuing to work and win,” he said. subjects foreign workers to the mercy of their employers. Earlier host the tournament over fears of the spread of the deadly national sports community in Qatar’s ability to organise interna- FIFA has not yet closed the file of suspected corruption in the this month, the labour ministry said it would introduce new leg- Ebola virus. tional sporting events,” he said. process of obtaining the right to host the football showcase. islation by early 2015 to improve migrant conditions. Qatar has “Doha will become the world’s capital of sports,” sports minis- Qatar’s 2022 World Cup Organising Committee unveiled in Football’s world governing body lodged a criminal complaint 1.6 million foreign workers out of a total population of 2.2 mil- ter Salah bin Ghanem al-Ali told AFP. The energy-rich country Riyadh on Monday a model of the renovated design for Khalifa with the Swiss attorney general over “possible misconduct” by lion people. — AFP

More history for Messi

NICOSIA: Lionel Messi became the all-time top goalscorer in the Champions League with a hat-trick and Luis Suarez registered his first goal for Barcelona in a routine 4-0 win away at APOEL Nicosia on Tuesday. Suarez finally got on the scoresheet in his fifth appear- ance since a club record move from Liverpool in July with a fine turn and finish on 27 minutes. However, he was upstaged by his Argentine teammate as Messi surpassed Real Madrid legend Raul’s mark of 71 goals, just days after also becoming the top scorer in the history of La Liga, when he stabbed home Rafinha’s mishit shot 10 minutes later. Messi added his second of the evening just before the hour mark before both sides were reduced to 10 men as Rafinha and Joao Guilherme saw second yellow cards. And fittingly it was Messi who had the final word as he turned home Pedro Rodriguez’s low cross three minutes from time to take his tally to 74 Champions League goals in 91 games. “I am happy to have achieved such a great record in such an important competition, but the really important thing is the three points which we won. Barca played a great game,” said Messi. PSG’s 3-1 victory over Ajax means that Barca need to win when they host the French champions in two weeks’ time to secure top spot in Group F. Despite having lost three of their previous four match- es in the group, APOEL had shown plenty of resistence in losing by just the one goal twice against PSG and away to Barca. However, they were swept aside with ease by Luis Enrique’s men, who confirmed an upturn in their form of late after thrashing Europa League champions Sevilla 5-1 on Saturday. Messi had a great chance to break the record inside two minutes when he shot straight at Urko Pardo in the APOEL goal. Barca’s captain for the evening then teed up Suarez with a low cross, but Pardo did well to get down to stop the Uruguayan’s fierce low effort before Jordi Alba volleyed well off target from another wonderful Messi pass. — AFP Japan’s war on deflation faces its toughest battle

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RUMAILA: File photo shows oil personnel work at the Rumaila oil refinery, near the city of Basra, Iraq. OPEC’s purpose is to coordinate oil output to keep prices high and stable, to maximize member countries’ revenue but make sure global demand for oil stays strong. — AP Saudi signals no push for oil cut Pressure grows on non-OPEC to cooperate

VIENNA: OPEC leader Saudi Arabia sig- sanctions over Ukraine. naled yesterday it was unlikely to push But as that meeting with Naimi and News for a major change in oil output at the officials from Venezuela and non-OPEC in brief producer group’s meeting this week, a member Mexico ended, Russia’s most day after Russia refused to cooperate in influential oil official, state firm Rosneft’s any production cut. Saudi Oil Minister Ali head Igor Sechin, emerged with a sur- Court cuts trading fine Al-Naimi said he expected the oil market prise message - Russia will not reduce against local bank chief “to stabilize itself eventually” but did not output even if oil falls to $60 per barrel. DUBAI: Kuwait’s Court of Appeal has reduced a fine comment on talks with Russia held on Sechin added that he expected low oil against the chairman of a local bank on alleged insider Tuesday, which produced no firm pledge prices to do more damage to producing trading charges to KD100,000 ($343,500) from KD1.5 mil- from Moscow to help support flagging nations with higher costs, in a clear refer- lion, a bourse statement from the lender said yesterday. In ence to the shale boom in the United March, the Court of First Instance fined the bank chief, a oil prices. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan member of a powerful Kuwaiti business family, after a com- Zangeneh said some OPEC members, States. Many at OPEC were taken by sur- plaint by the Capital Markets Authority. He said at the time although not Iran itself, were gearing up prise by Sechin’s suggestion that Russia - he was not guilty of wrongdoing and would appeal the rul- for a battle over market share and insist- in desperate need of oil prices above ing. The bank’s shares closed 1.1 percent lower yesterday ed that non-OPEC producers needed to $100 per barrel to balance its budget - ahead of the announcement. participate in any OPEC-led output cut. was ready for a price war. “The most important thing for all of us “Gulf states are less bothered about a is the unity and solidarity of OPEC, and in price drop compared to other OPEC Mabanee to spend $910 this situation I believe we need to have members,” an OPEC source close to Gulf million on mall extension the contribution of non-OPEC producers thinking said, adding that non-OPEC ABU DHABI: Kuwaiti real estate firm Mabanee said for managing the market,” Zangeneh told members ultimately needed to cut out- yesterday it would spend 265 million dinars ($910 mil- reporters. “Some OPEC members believe put if they expected the group to defend lion) on building the fourth phase of its The Avenues that this is the time where we need to prices. OPEC produces 30 million bpd, or defend market share ... All the experts in mall development. The total project cost, including a third of global oil. Its own publications VIENNA: Iran’s Minister of Petroleum Bijan Namdar Zangeneh talks to journalists as the fourth phase, stands at 610 million dinars, the market believe we have oversupply have shown in recent months that global in the market and next year we will have he arrives at a hotel for a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Mohamed Abdelaziz Al-Shayee, chairman of supply will exceed demand by more than Countries, OPEC, in Vienna, Austria yesterday. — AP Mabanee, said in a statement. The company did not more oversupply,” he added. OPEC’s 1 million bpd in the first half of next year. give details on how the scheme would be funded. In a meeting on Thursday will be one of its While the statistics speak in favor of a separate bourse filing, Mabanee said its subsidiary, Al most crucial in recent years, with oil cut, the build-up to the OPEC meeting Rai Real Estate Company, has signed a three-year con- India state-owned bank prices having tumbled some 30 percent on Thursday has seen one of the most struction contract with Al Ahmadiya General Trading since June to below $79 per barrel due to and Contracting Co worth 114 million dinars to build heated debates in years about the next to launch Islamic fund booming U.S. shale oil output and slower policy step for the group. the fourth phase. Opened in 2007, The Avenues is the global economic growth. While price hawks such as Venezuela NEW DELHI: India’s largest state-owned panies linked to alcohol, tobacco, gam- largest shopping mall in Kuwait and currently has Among the 12 members of the have urged an immediate output cut, bank will launch an Islamic equity fund bling and casinos and financial institu- over 800 stores, according to its website. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting some Saudi officials told private briefings next month aimed mainly at attracting tions that earn interest would be exclud- Countries, Venezuela and Iraq have investments from the country’s 170 mil- ed from the fund. “It will be a diversified called for output cuts. Naimi has not in recent months that the kingdom was Most Gulf stock markets prepared to withstand low prices - possi- lion Muslims. The Securities and equity fund, including large cap, mid-cap Slide as Egypt rebounds commented on what the group should Exchange Board of India, the country’s and small cap funds,” said Dinesh Khara, do. OPEC usually faces huge tensions bly $70 a barrel - for a prolonged period. DUBAI: Most stock markets in the Gulf fell in early trade banking regulator, recently allowed the managing director and CEO of the bank’s from within but as talks over Iran’s Those messages have sparked conspira- yesterday as sliding oil prices remained a concern for government-owned State Bank of India SBI Mutual Fund. “We will identify stocks nuclear program ended with no break- cy theories ranging from Saudis seeking investors, while oil importer Egypt posted gains. Saudi and three mutual funds to launch Sharia that meet all aspects of Sharia banking through on Monday, most members felt to curtail the US oil boom, which needs Arabia’s index fell 1.7 percent shortly after opening, largely high prices to remain profitable, to funds. An official said yesterday that the laws,” Khara said. relief they will not have to deal with a bank was expecting to attract an initial 1 India’s stock exchanges have between weighed down by bank stocks. Shares in Al Rajhi Bank deluge of Iranian oil, currently hit by Riyadh looking to undermine Iran and dropped 3.0 percent, Samba Financial Group lost 2.9 per- Russia due to their support of Saudi’s billion rupees ($16.4 million) to the fund 600 and 700 companies that are Sharia- Western sanctions. Non-OPEC member which will launch on Dec 1. compliant. The new fund has the cent and Bank AlBilad tumbled 3.8 percent. The price of Russia, which produces 10.5 million bar- arch-enemy, Syrian President Bashar Al- Brent crude fell towards $78 per barrel yesterday as mar- Assad. “I think even Saudi Arabia doesn’t A large section of India’s Muslim pop- approval of the All India Muslim Personal rels per day (bpd) or 11 percent of global Law Board, an authority that oversees ket players were left guessing whether or not OPEC oil know yet whether a cut can be achieved,” ulation remains outside the banking sys- oil, came to Tuesday’s meeting amid tem, partly because Islamic law known as the observance of Muslim civil laws in ministers would agree on a substantial output cut at their said Virendra Chauhan, an analyst at the hints it might agree to cut output as it Sharia prohibits interest. Shares of com- India. — AP meeting in Vienna today. suffers from oil’s price fall and Western Energy Aspects think tank.— Reuters BUSINESS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 Dinar strengthens

NBK ECONOMIC UPDATE

KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti dinar (KD) has strength- by 6.2%, the yen by 11% and the pound by 5.5%. the dollar, but the Japanese Yen more dramati- ened somewhat over the last few months, in Recent movements in exchange rates are cally so than the euro. A stronger KD should help large part due to the stronger dollar. The dinar, largely a reflection of changes in monetary poli- keep inflation low. Inflation is running at around which is pegged to a basket of major currencies, cy in major economies. The dollar and foreign 3.2% in Kuwait and is expected to remain rela- has declined against the USD since June; howev- exchange markets have finally made large tively modest in 2015. The dinar’s strength er, it has moved up against all other major cur- moves driven primarily by central banks’ diverg- should help keep a lid on price growth. A 1% rencies, and as a result strengthened overall. The ing policies. The US Federal Reserve has finally increase, if sustained over time, in the KD’s value currency’s nominal effective exchange rate ended its QE3 program (quantitative easing), (index basis) could result in a 0.25-0.5% percent- (NEER) has increased by around 2.6% since June. thus paving the way to higher official interest age point decline in the inflation rate. The NEER, estimated by JP Morgan’s KD index, is rates for the US dollar sometime in second half The impact of a stronger dinar on the trade an index of major currencies weighted by their of 2015. The Fed’s updated policy stance reflects surplus is expected to be positive. Oil exports importance in Kuwaiti trade. a now much healthier US economy, poised to will rise as the dinar declines against the dollar. Around 20% of Kuwait’s imports come from grow 3% in the second half of this year. Meanwhile, imports will decline as a stronger KD the Euro-zone, 10% from the US and another 8% The US growth contrasts with the two other results in a smaller import bill; while demand for from Japan. A large part of the rest comes from large economies that are struggling: the Euro- imports is likely to rise as goods become cheap- countries whose currencies are closely tied to zone and Japan. Very weak growth in the Euro- er and thus more attractive, this increase tends the US dollar. The KD has appreciated against zone and a (technical) recession in Japan by to be smaller than the drop in prices. most major currencies by around 5-11% since 3Q14, alongside deflationary pressures are forc- The stronger dollar will also have a small pos- June, though it has slipped against the US dollar. ing the central banks to renew their stimulative itive impact on government revenues. We esti- The dinar has declined against the USD by 3.4% efforts. As the Fed tends toward the end of mon- mate that a 1% decline in the USD/KWD rate since June, falling from 3.55 USD/KWD to 3.43. etary easing, others are becoming more aggres- adds around KD250 million to state revenues, or At the same time, it has gained against the euro sive. Result: both currencies are down against 0.5% of GDP.

IMF welcomes Egypt Nigeria’s naira touches record reforms, urges low after official devaluation flexible exchange rate LAGOS: Nigeria’s naira touched a record low against Jonathan less than three months before what is likely the dollar yesterday; a day after the central bank deval- to be a closely fought presidential election. Though CAIRO: Egyptian economic reforms have begun to turn the econ- ued the currency, complicating efforts to contain infla- Nigeria grows much of its own food, a number of sta- omy around after years of turmoil but the government must tion before presidential elections early next year. The ples, particularly wheat and rice, are largely imported. allow greater exchange rate flexibility to boost growth more, the central bank devalued the naira by 8 percent and The statistics office in 2012 estimated that about 60 International Monetary Fund said. The IMF concluded on Tuesday raised interest rates sharply on Tuesday, trying to stem percent of Nigerians were living on less than a dollar a its first mission to assess Egypt’s financial and economic affairs losses to its foreign reserves spent defending the cur- day in 2010. since 2010, before a popular uprising that toppled Hosni rency as the price of oil - Nigeria’s dominant export - Mubarak and ushered in a period of political turbulence. slides on global markets. The naira fell to a record low Emerging market pullback The government asked for the consultations in the hopes that of 178.85 to the dollar shortly after the market opened, Foreign oil companies, which typically buy naira a positive report would boost Egypt’s image ahead of an interna- but rebounded by around 1 percent to 176.35 after towards the end of the month to fund their Nigerian tional investors conference due in March. The IMF praised Egypt’s two oil companies sold dollars. Nevertheless, that was operations, helped the currency to recoup some of its tax, regulatory, monetary and subsidy reforms and forecast eco- still just below the new target band of 5 percent either losses on Wednesday. Total of France sold $20 million nomic growth of 3.8 percent in fiscal 2014-15, in line with govern- side of 168 to the dollar, announced by Governor and Anglo-Dutch Shell an undisclosed amount, boost- ment predictions. But it expressed concern about Egypt’s Godwin Emefiele on Tuesday. Trading in the next few ing dollar liquidity on the interbank market, dealers exchange rate, which has been kept within a tight range since the days will test whether financial markets believe the said. Dealers also said there were expectations that the beginning of June, after the bank allowed the pound to weaken new target is realistic for a country contending with a central bank would intervene to keep the naira within in May. 30 percent fall in world oil prices since June as well as the band. “A more flexible exchange rate policy focused on achieving a an Islamist insurgency in the northeast. Economists Investors have pulled huge sums out of many market-clearing rate and avoiding real appreciation would welcomed Emefiele’s action as accepting the reality of emerging economies since the US Federal Reserve improve the availability of foreign exchange, strengthen competi- the naira’s sliding value - in common with the curren- began rolling back a policy that kept yields on US debt tiveness, support exports and tourism, and attract foreign direct cies of other oil exporters such as Russia - in trading ultra low. Currencies from economies sensitive to oil investment,” the head of the IMF’s mission, Chris Jarvis, said in a between commercial banks. prices such as the naira and the Russian rouble have statement. The rates at which banks are allowed to trade dollars “Given the move higher in the largely-market been hardest hit. Angola’s kwanza hit a record low of are determined by the results of central bank sales, giving the determined interbank rate ... the widening of the band 100.895 to the dollar yesterday. Falls in the naira have bank effective control over official exchange rates. The govern- around the official mid-rate, and the setting of the spooked bond investors who had been wooed by ment’s control of currency rates has contributed to a flourishing mid-rate at 168 were the right moves,” said Razia Khan Nigeria’s high yields. Africa’s top oil producer relies on black market in the Egyptian pound, which was volatile last week at Standard Chartered bank. Analysts also said crude revenues for 95 percent of its foreign exchange. due to a surge in commercial demand for dollars and concerns Tuesday’s widening of the band from 3 percent either The yield on Nigeria’s 2022 government bond rose over Cairo’s plans to repay a $2.5 billion Qatari deposit. side of the target rate would help to build in some flex- 45 basis point to 14.25 percent, reacting to the Qatar was a key financier for Egypt after Mubarak was top- ibility. The stock market received the devaluation posi- increase in the policy interest rate of 100 basis points pled, but the government under President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi tively, rising by 1.5 percent. However, continued to 13 percent on Tuesday. Trading on the overnight has turned to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, downward pressure on the naira threatens to stoke lending market stopped, as banks awaited informa- which have provided $10.6 billion in the past year in grants and inflation by pushing up the cost of imports, on which tion from the central bank on when a rise in the level petroleum products. The IMF said Egypt would continue to need Africa’s biggest economy relies for around 80 percent of cash reserves they have to keep would come into external aid. “The authorities have already begun to take the of its consumption. force. Nigerian revenues have also been hit by crude action needed... Policies implemented so far, along with a return Over the past two years Nigeria has enjoyed histor- oil theft from pipelines and the disappearance of large of confidence, are starting to produce a turnaround in economic ically low inflation in single digits, a target the central sums from the state oil firm that were highlighted by activity and investment,” Jarvis said. —Reuters bank is keen to keep meeting. A surge in living costs former central bank Governor Lamido Sanusi earlier would be a headache for President Goodluck this year. —Agencies EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.710 Singapore Dollar 0.220897 0.226987 Nepalese Rupees 3.945 South African Rand 0.020555 0.029055 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 87.645 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001917 0.002497 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Japanese Yen 2.478 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 48.035 Taiwan 0.009327 0.009507 Australian Dollar 232.54 229.54 Indian Rupees 4.722 Thai Bhat 9.885 Thai Baht 0.008563 0.009113 Canadian Dollar 263.01 264.01 Pakistani Rupees 2.867 Turkish Lira 131.225 Srilankan Rupees 2.218 Swiss Franc 307.26 305.26 Arab Euro 367.09 368.09 Nepali Rupees 2.947 Bahraini Dinar 0.767944 0.775944 US Dollar 292.15 295.15 Singapore Dollar 225.180 Bahrain Exchange Company Egyptian Pound 0.038425 0.041525 Hongkong Dollar 37.646 Sterling Pound 460.97 463.97 Japanese Yen 2.52 2.54 Iranian Riyal 0.000081 0.000082 Bangladesh Taka 3.757 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Iraqi Dinar 0.000195 0.000255 Philippine Peso 6.502 Bangladesh Taka 3.756 4.026 Jordanian Dinar 0.407701 0.415201 Thai Baht 8.916 Indian Rupee 4.725 5.025 Europe Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Irani Riyal transfer 59.000 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.223 2.658 Belgian Franc 0.007601 0.008801 Irani Riyal cash 116.000 Nepali Rupee 2.945 3.480 British Pound 0.451175 0.460175 Lebanese Pound 0.000143 0.000243 Pakistani Rupee 2.866 2.790 Czech Korune 0.005069 0.017169 Moroccan Dirhams 0.023868 0.047868 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 79.39 79.85 Danish Krone 0.044815 0.049815 Nigerian Naira 0.001182 0.001817 Saudi Riyal 77.884 Bahraini Dinar 775.38 777.45 Euro 0.358189 0.366189 Omani Riyal 0.752288 0.757968 Qatari Riyal 80.239 Egyptian Pound 40.73 41.33 Norwegian Krone 0.038753 0.043953 Qatar Riyal 0.079481 0.080694 Omani Riyal 758.900 Jordanian Dinar 415.11 420.76 Romanian Leu 0.081879 0.081879 Saudi Riyal 0.077217 0.077917 Omani Riyal 757.63 764.93 Bahraini Dinar 775.740 Slovakia 0.008521 0.018521 Syrian Pound 0.001730 0.001950 Qatari Riyal 80.45 81.00 UAE Dirham 79.540 Swedish Krona 0.035204 0.040204 Tunisian Dinar 0.155468 0.163468 Saudi Riyal 77.82 78.22 Swiss Franc 0.295970 0.306170 Turkish Lira 0.129886 0.136886 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.129886 0.136886 UAE Dirhams 0.078506 0.079655 Egyptian Pound - Cash 40.450 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Yemeni Riyal 0.001318 0.001398 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 40.747 Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.363 Australian Dollar 0.240640 0.252140 Tunisian Dinar 159.450 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate New Zealand Dollar 0.221583 0.231083 Al Mulla Exchange Jordanian Dinar 412.180 US Dollar 291.750 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.959 Canadian Dollar 260.085 Canadian Dollar 0.253475 0.261975 Syrian Lira 2.082 Sterling Pound 456.630 US Dollars 0.287850 0.292550 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 33.557 Euro 366.500 US Dollars Mint 0.288350 0.292550 US Dollar 291.350 Swiss Frank 303.035 Asia Euro 365.600 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Bahrain Dinar 775.760 Bangladesh Taka 0.003403 0.004003 Pound Sterlng 460.000 US Dollar Transfer 291.950 UAE Dirhams 79.330 Chinese Yuan 0.046129 0.049629 Canadian Dollar 260.500 Euro 365.810 Qatari Riyals 80.935 Hong Kong Dollar 0.035556 0.038306 Indian Rupee 4.714 Sterling Pound 460.260 Saudi Riyals 77.975 Indian Rupee 0.004447 0.004848 Egyptian Pound 40.730 Canadian dollar 259.140 Jordanian Dinar 411.660 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000020 0.000026 Turkish lira 131.430 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.215 Egyptian Pound 40.707 Japanese Yen 0.002392 0.002572 Swiss Franc 303.800 Bangladesh Taka 3.725 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.225 Kenyan Shilling 0.003227 0.003227 Australian Dollar 250.350 Philippines Peso 6.485 Indian Rupees 4.716 US Dollar Buying 290.750 Korean Won 0.000253 0.000268 Pakistan Rupee 2.865 Pakistani Rupees 2.867 Malaysian Ringgit 0.083858 0.089858 Bahraini Dinar 775.850 Bangladesh Taka 3.759 GOLD Nepalese Rupee 0.002984 0.003154 UAE Dirham 79.350 Philippines Pesso 6.481 20 gram 226.000 Pakistan Rupee 0.002712 0.002992 Saudi Riyal 77.850 Cyprus pound 715.865 Philippine Peso 0.006382 0.006662 10 gram 116.000 *Rates are subject to change 5 gram 59.000 Japanese Yen 3.480 Sierra Leone 0.000063 0.000069 BUSINESS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 Turkey farmers connect with NYC buyers WEST WINFIELD: On a cold and rainy November morn- that. You know a lot about your customers and they ing, farmers Mary Carpenter and Paul Dench-Layton show you pictures and they know your kids’ names.” waded arm-in-arm into the large soggy paddock that’s Buyers say knowing the people who grow their food home to their Broad Breasted Whites, nearly 250 gob- makes a difference. “When you shop at the same vendor bling, barking, and bumbling Thanksgiving turkeys. The for the same thing all the time, you start to develop a husband-and-wife team that owns and operates Violet connection,” said Karma Hara, one of Violet Hill’s regular Hill Farm, a 200-acre spread nestled in upstate New and enthusiastic customers. “I get an email every year, York’s Mohawk Valley, began catching the birds by hand three weeks before Thanksgiving. days ahead of the year’s busiest market week. Together, Mary has my email address, and many other peo- with their two young children close by, they worked ple’s too, but it feels personal, and she sends an email around the clock to slaughter and dress the animals and it says ‘OK we’re starting to take deposits for before a four-hour drive south to Manhattan’s Union turkey now,’ and I don’t get that email from Whole Square Market. There, loyal customers eagerly awaited Foods ... and I wouldn’t give my email to Whole Foods.” their organic, non-GMO fed gobblers. This year’s lot sold But bottom line is the taste. Is fully-pastured fresh out well before anyone thought to pre-heat their ovens. turkey really all that different? “I originally tried one of The work is back-breaking and time is short, but for their chickens and it was probably the best chicken the farmers it is worth it. “The market for me, that’s my I’ve had, ever, and so I started shopping for chicken reset button, because it can get so stressful and over- from them and then they offered turkeys that first whelming and exhausting,” said Carpenter. “We go to year. I ordered one, and the rest is history,” said Hara. “I the market and we have people who bring their families buy my turkey from them every year. Even if I travel for to come meet their farmers. It is like an extended family. Thanksgiving, then I just cook Thanksgiving early on WEST WINFIELD: A gang of Broad Breasted Whites roam their paddock before they are harvested for It sounds cliche and hokey, but it really does become the Saturday before.” — AP Thanksgiving at Violet Hill Farm, in West Winfield, NY. — AP Regulatory concerns curb China stock link volumes Investors weigh so-called Stock Connect scheme

HONG KONG: Concerns by Europe’s top funds Connect’s arrangements meet Europe’s strict custodian, the Hong Kong clearing house, and watchdog that a landmark Hong Kong-China rules governing the safe-keeping of assets man- the Shanghai clearing house. To make matters trading link may not adequately protect aged by mutual funds for retail investors, popu- worse, some lawyers say Chinese law does not investors are preventing thousands of funds lar investment products known as UCITS. explicitly recognize the concept of beneficial from buying Shanghai stocks, threatening the “The Luxembourg regulator is asking the cus- ownership, meaning foreign investors may not success of the project, market participants said. todians to clarify that the custody arrangements be able to prove they own the shares if some- The so-called Stock Connect scheme, launched comply with UCITS rules,” said Jeremy Lam, a thing goes wrong. on Nov 17, allows foreign investors to trade partner at law firm Deacons in Hong Kong. But “Ultimately, fund managers have fiduciary Shanghai-listed shares via the Hong Kong stock some custodians feel unable to provide that responsibilities to the clients,” said Wong. In reply exchange, and mainland investors to invest in reassurance, lawyers and industry participants to a request by Reuters, the Hong Kong stock Hong Kong shares via the Shanghai bourse. said. Contacted by Reuters, the CSSF said in a exchange said in a written response that the But within a week of its launch, trading vol- statement it had had “contacts with some custo- scheme’s custody arrangements are clearly stat- WUZHEN: Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba which recently listed on the umes had dwindled to less than 20 percent of dians (over Stock Connect) and the discussions ed on its website. The exchange has said it will New York Stock Exchange, reacts at the opening ceremony of the World Internet the maximum allowance. Banks, fund managers were related at this stage to general points”. It provide custodians with certificates as proof of Conference in Wuzhen, in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. — AFP and lawyers said that was because many large declined to give further details on these discus- ownership. But it is unclear if this will satisfy the EU-regulated funds are unable to participate sions, but added that it had yet to receive any CSSF’s requirements, custodians said. The until Europe’s main funds regulator, formal application by a UCITS fund to participate Shanghai Stock Exchange told Reuters low trad- Alibaba founder pledges Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du in the Hong Kong-China scheme. ing volumes were caused by a variety of factors, Secteur Financier (CSSF), is satisfied that the without giving details. more investment in India scheme protects investors. About 13,000 global Safe-keeping Mutual funds experienced a similar problem mutual funds, or two-thirds of Europe’s funds Sally Wong, chief executive of the Hong Kong when attempting to invest in China through a NEW DELHI: Alibaba founder Jack Ma, The Economic Times newspaper reported industry, are domiciled in low-tax Luxembourg Investment Funds Association, said funds have quota-based cross-border scheme known as China’s wealthiest man, said yesterday he that Ma’s delegation included 99 business and regulated by the CSSF. These include heavy- been working around the clock with European RQFII first launched in 2011. In this instance, the plans to invest more funds in India and people. Ma, China’s richest individual with a weights such as Blackrock, Templeton and regulators to resolve the issue. Some market par- UCITS funds had to wait nine months for a green believes the Internet can transform the net worth of nearly $30 billion, was set to Fidelity, part of Luxembourg’s 3 trillion euro ticipants said it could take six months to find a light from CSSF. country’s future. Ma, whose Alibaba con- meet several Indian entrepreneurs. ($3.7 trillion) asset management industry. solution to satisfy the CSSF, or longer if China is A similarly long delay in addressing the cus- trols 80 percent of e-commerce in China, Alibaba already has a small presence in The CSSF, market participants say, wants to required to make changes to its securities law. tody issue could throw the rollout of the stock was speaking to a business audience on his the Indian market with a business-to-busi- be sure that the Chinese shares EU savers buy Shares and bonds bought by mutual funds are connect scheme to other asset classes into jeop- first visit to India, two months after his ness start-up launched in 2010, but ana- through the link-up can be adequately recov- typically held by custodians on behalf of the ardy, and may even prompt global index record initial-public-share offering raised lysts expect it to expand in India’s e-com- ered should the bank that guards the stocks - investor, a concept known as beneficial owner- providers such as MSCI to delay inclusion of $25 billion. merce market, possibly through online the custodian bank - or one of the exchanges, go ship. Under EU rules for mutual funds, the custo- mainland China shares in its emerging market “We will invest more in India, work with marketplace Snapdeal.Japan’s SoftBank, bust. The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, dian must be able to identify and monitor the indexes. The Central Bank of Ireland, which over- Indian entrepreneurs and technology com- the largest shareholder in Alibaba with which saw billions of funds’ asset sucked into the client funds at all time. But the China trading sees Europe’s second biggest UCITS hub, told panies,” the billionaire promised in New one-third, became last month the biggest insolvent Lehmans estate, has made investors scheme makes it tough for custodians to fulfill Reuters it could not comment on specific cases, Delhi, without naming any figures. He said single investor in the Indian online retail and regulators highly sensitive over custody these obligations, because Shanghai shares are but “applications must comply with all legislative his Hangzhou-based Alibaba already has on firm. It pumped $627 million into arrangements. Several market participants said physically held in China through an unusually and regulatory requirements applicable to its site a large number of small Indian busi- Snapdeal, which styles itself as the “Indian the CSSF has questioned whether Stock complex three-tiered structure involving the UCITS”. — Reuters nesses selling goods-from spices and version” of Alibaba, and has grown explo- chocolates to tea to more than 400,000 sively in the country’s fast-expanding e- Chinese customers. He forecast more Indian commerce market. goods would be sold on his Chinese site as Local reports said Ma was expected to Japan’s war on deflation his exchanges with India picked up. The 50- meet Kunal Bahl, the 30-year-old co- year-old executive chairman of Alibaba said founder of Snapdeal and its chief execu- there was huge scope for “mutual engage- tive. But Snapdeal declined to confirm any ment” in technology between India and meeting. Speculation has been mounting faces its toughest battle China and that it could “change (the) lives” that Ma might join hands with the Indian of many small businesses. “I was a teacher company to build a bigger e-commerce earlier and the Internet changed my life. presence in India. Ma’s whirlwind 48-hour- TOKYO: As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Right now is a wonderful time for business- trip comes in the wake of other visits by Abe heads to the polls next month, the success es in India and China to work together,” he top e-commerce figures such as Jeff Bezos, of his war on deflation hinges on convincing said. Ma’s entourage was keeping a tight lip founder and chief executive of Amazon. people like 24-year-old Ryo Tatemichi to shrug on the businessman’s itinerary. The execu- Amazon, which has a marketplace model off fears about the future and start spending. tive “will be participating in a number of in India, and Alibaba, which sources from That’s a tough sell when young workers like meetings with local businesses,” said a India, are locked in fierce competition Tatemichi are struggling with insipid wage spokeswoman, declining to disclose more. globally. — AFP growth and declining job security, and as the economy slips into its fifth recession since 2000. “If things keep going like they are, Al-Zayani Co launches salaries could drop. That’s why people need to save now,” said Tatemichi, an information tech- the new generation nology worker who puts aside as much as one- third of a 200,000 yen ($1,700) a month salary before overtime pay. of trucks Tata prima “It would be good if people who do have money spend it... But all we hear about is eco- KUWAIT: Tata Motors, India’s largest auto- or even doing the harshest duty at con- nomic gloom. People are scared of spending mobile manufacturer, yesterday pre- struction sites. their cash.” Japan’s economy shrank between viewed its next-generation heavy trucks The new generation cabins of the Tata July and September, the second consecutive from its PRIMA range of commercial vehi- PRIMA, also offers completely new stylized quarterly contraction, in the wake of an April cles in Kuwait along with its partner, Al interiors, with a focus on driver comfort. sales tax rise that was designed to help pay Zayani Trading Company. The preview The smartly designed dashboard is attrac- down one of the world’s largest public debt event was held at the Tata Motors show- tive and can be comfortably accessed by mountains. The levy hike delivered a body room in Al Rai in the presence of a select- the driver. The cabin is air-conditioned blow to Abe’s efforts to rev up growth, just as ed group of customers and application with ample amount of space for the occu- the world’s number three economy appeared TOKYO: Japanese businessmen and women cross the road in Tokyo. Japan’s economy shrank builders. Having been extensively tested pant, including reclining seats with arm to be turning a corner. between July and September, the second consecutive quarterly contraction, in the wake of an to confirm to the standards of the Gulf rests for added comfort, an adjustable The weaker-than-expected figures con- April sales tax rise that was designed to help pay down one of the world’s largest public debt region in terms of power, durability, pay- steering system for best possible control vinced Abe to put off another sales tax hike, mountains. — AFP load, emissions and safety, these next- in all conditions and a music system as due in 2015, and call a snap election that he corporate profits, but has undermined house- to reverse price drops that gave consumers an generation world-class trucks from Tata standard feature. Tata Prima boasts out- described as a referendum on his policies, hold purchasing power. “The key question is incentive to delay purchases knowing that Motors will continue to offer the Tata standing material and builds quality, com- dubbed “Abenomics”-although observers said Motors advantage of lowest total cost of fort, driving dynamics, economy, as well as how to ensure that the benefits to the corpo- goods would be cheaper down the road. But it was a strategic move to fend off party rivals rate sector are eventually passed on to con- the battle to end deflation isn’t welcomed by ownership to customers. the lowest overall costs. ahead of a leadership vote next year. The move A combination of power, world-class sumers.” Japan Inc, which once led the world in seniors such as 69-year-old Eiji Shimojima, who set off a flurry of speculation about whether performance, fuel efficiency, superior Tata PRIMA 4038K (6X4) innovation, is facing stiff competition from worry that higher prices will erode their retire- Abe’s grand economic experiment had died on technology and safety, the Tata Prima has Construction tipper emerging nations including China, while a ment income. “Deflation might not be good for been built with technical inputs from 18 Cu.M Box Tipper/380HP Cummins the operating table, and sparked questions falling number of working age Japanese is the economy overall, but from an ordinary citi- across the world - an Italian cab design, Engine/9 Speed Eaton Transmission/ about what Japan’s struggle with falling prices shrinking its tax base even as soaring ranks of zen’s perspective it’s actually not so bad engine technology from the USA, gear- 12R24-20PR Tyres / Bogie Suspension. means for the euro-zone as it teeters on the seniors strains the public purse. It’s a demo- because you can afford more things,” box expertise from Europe, chassis frame Suitable for all type of Construction edge of deflation. “The lesson for Europe is that graphic conundrum that exacerbates caution Shimojima said. Niigata University economics know-how from Mexico and sheet metal Applications e.g. Aggregates Movement / what counts most is not to fall into deflation” in among the public, two decades after a stock professor Ivan Tselichtchev added in an e-mail: from Japan and Korea combined with Tankers and some of the municipal appli- the first place, said Atsushi Nakajima, chairman and property price bubble popped, sending “If the BoJ reaches its two-percent inflation tar- Swedish precision on a robotic weld line. cation like Garbage Compactors, Skip of Japan’s Research Institute of Economy, Trade the economy into years of stagnation. get (which is doubtful), it will not necessarily Equipped with strong aggregates and Loaders etc. and Industry. “Many Japanese save a lot because they be a good news for the Japanese economy, a robust chassis frame and suspension, worry as more and more people (hit) retire- especially for households. The major task the Tata PRIMA range can meet the high- Tata PRIMA 4438S (4X2) Spread the wealth ment age, and fewer (people) join the work- should be growth, not inflation. “Abe has made est operating standards under extreme tractor head While many economists say it is still too ear- force, that public pensions and possibly private some progress on growth-oriented reforms- conditions. The driveline comprises of the 44 Ton GCM/380 HP Cummins ly to judge the success or failure of Abenomics, pensions as well will not be able to guarantee the “third arrow” of his plan-such as trying to latest engine technology from Cummins Engine/9 speed Eaton Transmission / changing Japan’s so-called “deflationary mind- them the standard of living today’s retirees are cut farm subsidies and deregulating the elec- Inc. with an output of 380HP, with trans- 315/80 R22.5 Tyres. Suitable for all kind of set” has proven to be a Herculean task for Abe enjoying,” said Robert Dujarric, the director of tricity sector, but his ambitious blueprint has mission and axle technology from leading Applications - General Cargo: Container / and his hand-picked Bank of Japan chief Asian Studies at Temple University’s Tokyo also put him on a collision course with the aggregate manufacturers across the Reefer Van/Car Carriers, Industrial: Haruhiko Kuroda. “The narrative is this: the campus. Abe’s much-touted plan consisted of politically powerful agricultural lobby, among world. The new-age range from Tata Cement/Steel/Machinery Movement, government wants to eradicate deflation, “three arrows”: big government spending such others. “Japan desperately needs drastic struc- Motors offers faster turnaround time and Construction: Tip Trailers/Bulkers etc. Visit which has long-term, structural costs,” said as infrastructure projects - as well as massive tural reform to exit from deflation the first and enhanced profitability for business, mak- the Tata showroom in Al-Rai (Ghazali Marcel Thieliant from Capital Economics. So central bank monetary easing and an overhaul second arrows of Abenomics are phony,” said ing it an ideal workhorse for movement Street) to know more about the world- “the BoJ has provided aggressive stimulus, of the highly regulated economy. The corner- Satoru Madono, a Reitaku University econom- of goods and materials across distances changing PRIMA. which has weakened the yen. This has boosted stone is a 2.0 percent inflation target designed ics professor. — AFP BUSINESS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 ECB outlook lifts Europe shares, Australian dollar sags Asia supported after upward revision to US GDP TOKYO: European shares pushed higher yester- cent on Tuesday from 3.5 percent reported last propelled it to as low as $0.8514 on Tuesday by retreating further a seven-year high of Benchmark Brent futures were at $78.15 a day, bolstered by the prospect of more stimulus month. Economists polled by Reuters had expect- saying it was still overvalued. “There are those 118.98 reached the previous week. The euro barrel at 0900 GMT, off a low of $78 hit earli- from the European Central Bank and as upbeat ed growth would be cut to 3.3 percent. who say the Aussie should bounce from these was little changed at $1.2477. Oil prices er in the day after a meeting of Saudi Arabia US economic growth data calmed investor anxi- “Sentiment is bullish,” Markus Huber, a senior levels but my feeling is if it breaks below (a key steadied around $78 a barrel after a com- and three other nations ahead of Thursday’s ety over a deteriorating global outlook. The trader at Peregrine & Black, said. “We’re long the support) against the kiwi that may be significant,” ment by Saudi Arabia’s oil minister that the summit ended with no deal to curb output. Australian dollar hit a four-year low against its US DAX (German share index) because America has said Daragh Maher, a strategist with HSBC in oil market would stabilize eased pressure on Predictions for the OPEC summit range from counterpart ahead of a clutch of further US data outperformed hugely and even though growth London. the market before an OPEC meeting today. a large output cut to none at all. — Reuters likely to prove crucial for this week’s recovery of a there is strong that is already in the price whereas The 10-year US Treasuries yield dropped to a handful of currencies against the dollar. The pan- in Germany there’s more to come.” one-month low of 2.252 percent, as strong auc- European FTSEurofirst index of leading blue-chip tion results, month-end buying and an unexpect- companies has been rising daily since ECB Aussie slump ed drop in US consumer confidence offset the President Mario Draghi opened the door to more The Australian dollar slumped to a four-year encouraging GDP news. That also helped the US aggressive asset purchases and China cut interest low of $0.8510, deepening this week’s losses dollar pull further away from a seven-year high rates on Friday. against the greenback. The Australian currency against the yen as investors took profits from its The index was up 0.3 percent at 1,393.37, with has been one of the biggest casualties in a rally rally ahead of the Thanksgiving Day holiday investors also encouraged by an upgrade of U.S. for the US currency since July and Reserve Bank of today. third quarter gross domestic product to 3.9 per- Australia Deputy Governor Philip Lowe this week The dollar was down 0.2 percent at 117.72 yen,

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FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank is under plained the television news channel n-tv. private sector instead. The ECB tightened the more investment, the ECB’s policy of negative it will levy a charge of 0.25 percent on all clients fire in Germany because of its policy of negative Some observers think it is only a matter of time screws again in September by lowering the rates is adding to the burden on the economy,” with savings in excess of 3.0 million euros. interest rates, which is prompting some banks to before private retail customers are hit, too. The deposit rate further to minus 0.20 percent. But the agreed Martin Wansleben, president of the DIHK Admittedly that means the rich will be hit, charge customers for holding money in their bank idea behind the ECB’s unprecedented decision in policy has had its critics from the start, not least in federation of chambers of commerce. With the rather than small-time savers. Nevertheless, opinion accounts. In Germany, where saving is considered June to take euro-zone borrowing costs into nega- Germany, where the ECB’s “unconventional” poli- ECB’s key “refi”, or refinancing rate, currently at an is divided whether other banks might follow the a virtue, the announcement by one of the coun- tive territory was to kick-start lending in the euro cies are generally regarded being too risky and all-time low of 0.05 percent, many savers all lead of Commerzbank and Skatbank. Frank Kohler, try’s biggest lenders, Commerzbank, that it will area. In a bank-based economy such as the single overstepping its mandate. Some ECB watchers around Europe are feeling the squeeze. chief executive of Germany’s biggest cooperative start charging clients with high deposits on their currency area, the chronically low level of credit is warned in advance that the largely untested policy But in a country such as Germany, where bank Sparda-Bank Berlin, said at the end of October accounts has angered many. regarded as the main hurdle to a broader recovery. could actually have potentially harmful unfore- households and businesses often prefer to place that negative interest rates could no longer be seri- Commerzbank insists that mom-and-pop So the ECB decided to lower the rate on banks’ seen consequences. And such concerns now their money in safe but unsexy savings accounts ously ruled out in retail banking. But Georg retail customers will not be affected and the so- overnight holdings with the central bank-the so- appear to be backed up by Commerzbank’s move. rather than investing it in bonds and shares, they Fahrenschon, head of the German Savings Banks called “deposit fees” will be levied only on major called deposit rate-to minus 0.10 percent, with the are more painful still. Germany has the highest Association DSGV, insisted that “there will be no corporate clients holding more than 10 million aim of “punishing” banks who park their excess liq- ‘Failure of monetary policy’ savings rate in Europe, and low interest rates are negative interest rates at savings banks”. The euros ($12.5 million) on their accounts. uidity with the central bank. “Punitive interest rates crown the failure of a also eroding people’s private pension provisions. German BdB banking federation also said retail cus- Nevertheless, at a time when savers in particu- The German term for the practice reflects this monetary policy that has made saving increasing- The mass-circulation daily Bild, on one of its front tomers were unlikely to face such charges in view of lar are already feeling the pinch from an thinking: negative interest rates are known as ly unattractive since the start of the crisis,” com- pages, directly linked the ECB’s policies to fears the “fierce competition among banks”. Nevertheless, extended period of ultra-low interest rates, “Strafzinsen” or “punitive rates”. The logic was to plained Lutz Goebel, head of the federation of about poverty in old age. A small bank in the each bank was free to set their own interest rates, a Commerzbank’s move “broke a taboo”, com- give banks the incentive to lend the money to the family-run businesses ASU. “Instead of generating regional state of Thuringia, the Skatbank, has said federation spokeswoman added. —AFP Juncker unveils 315 b euro plan to ‘kickstart’ Europe ‘Europe is back in business’

STRASBOURG: European Commission only re-engineers existing funds, vote in the European Parliament Europe dominated by Germany chief Jean-Claude Juncker unveiled a and of the calculation that the seed on Thursday after eurosceptic law- and austerity,” he said. huge 315-billion euro investment plan money will attract 15 times the makers filed a motion against him, Overall responsibility for the yesterday to “kickstart” the stalling econ- eventual result. but he is almost certain to survive. three-year plan will fall to the omy, saying it would show the world But Juncker rejected them. “I European Investment Bank (EIB), a that Europe is back in business. The often hear what we need is so ‘Drop in the ocean’ little-known EU institution based eagerly awaited plan, the keystone of called fresh money but what I Reaction to the investment in Luxembourg that is often criti- Juncker’s five-year mandate, involves believe we need is a fresh start plan in parliament was mixed. cized for its lack of ambition. the EU setting up a 21 billion euro ($26 and fresh investment,” Juncker Manfred Weber of Juncker’s own Juncker’s plan addresses the key billion) fund with the aim of drawing in said, speaking in a mix of English centre-right European People’s problem for the European econo- 15 times that amount in private invest- and German. “The money we are Party said the plan was “convinc- my, namely a drastic lack of invest- BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel drinks water as she attends the ment. Juncker hopes the proposal will putting forward today comes on ing” but called for EU states to ment, which remains way off pre- second day of a four days debate of a debt free national budget for 2015 at boost desperately needed jobs and top of what already exists.” He said make necessary reforms to their crisis levels, in stark contrast to the parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany. —AP growth amid concerns that Europe’s fail- the plan would not break the EU’s own economies. Gianni Pittella, the United States. A list of projects ure to recover from the financial crisis is dragging the world economy down Germany agrees ‘quota law’ with it. “Europe needs a kickstart and for women board members today the commission is providing the jump cable,” Juncker told the BERLIN: Germany’s biggest companies will quota one of its top priorities. Several CDU European Parliament in Strasbourg, have to fill 30 percent of supervisory board lawmakers had long complained of exces- France. “We need to send a message positions with women candidates from 2016 sive burdens on business and called for to Europe and to the rest of the under a law agreed late Tuesday by the some sectors to be exempt. Merkel’s cabinet world: Europe is back in business.” country’s ruling parties. Enterprises that fail is due to sign off on the bill on December The former Luxembourg prime min- to find suitable female candidates for their 11, after which parliamentary passage ister said he had a vision of children board of directors will have to leave them would be a formality given the grand coali- in the Greek city of Thessaloniki vacant under a so-called “empty chair sanc- tion’s overwhelming majority. going to a school filled with com- tion”. “I’m sure that in the end no chair will puters, and French drivers charging remain empty because there are enough EU economic plan their electric cars by the side of a women who are qualified to do these very In another development, German motorway. His announcement important jobs,” Women’s Affairs Minister Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday she comes a day after Pope Francis said Manuela Schwesig told public radio yester- backed a new multi-billion-euro European in an address to the same parlia- day. “This law is an important step for equali- Commission plan to kickstart the EU’s flag- ment that Europe had become an ty because it will initiate cultural change in ging economy, if the funds are invested “elderly and haggard” grandmother, the workplace.” Chancellor Angela Merkel, wisely. “The German government supports and urged it to reclaim global lead- who had initially opposed the reform, told in principle the package submitted” by new ership. The new European Fund for parliament yesterday: “It has been decided EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, Strategic Investment must be and it is coming. We can’t afford to do with- Merkel told MPs in the Bundestag lower approved by leaders of the 28- out the skills of women.” house of parliament. “Investment is impor- nation EU-which together repre- The rule would apply to about 100 listed tant... but what’s important above all is sents the world’s largest economy companies with employee representatives which projects” it is ploughed into, she said. with a population of more than 500 on the non-executive supervisory board, New EU Commission chief Jean-Claude million people-at a summit in December. while another 3,500 enterprises will have to Juncker earlier unveiled a 315-billion-euro STRASBOURG: EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker (center) unveiled an eagerly awaited publish their gender-equality targets in ($390 billion) investment plan to “kickstart” 315-billion-euro investment plan to “kickstart” the economy yesterday at the European coming years. German Industries Federation the economy, saying it would show the ‘Christmas has come early’ chief Ulrich Grillo said businesses wanted world that Europe was back in business. Juncker took office as head of Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. —AFP more women in leadership positions but The proposal must still be approved by the European Commission-the EU’s called a legal quota “counter-productive”, European leaders in December but would executive branch-on November 1 strict budgetary rules, adding leader of the Socialists and is currently being drawn up by EU adding: “I continue to prefer voluntary solu- entail an investment fund and a scheme to and immediately vowed to unveil however that “money will not fall Democrats, was more cautious, and EIB officials, with the input of tions”. match new projects with private money. the plan by Christmas so that it from the sky, we don’t have a saying that 21 billion euros was member states. Officials hope the Justice Minister Heiko Maas called the German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel could be up and running as soon as money-printing machine.” The merely a “good starting point” and fund can be operational by mid agreement a “historic decision” that would said he was pleased about the EU invest- possible. “I promised to present an run-up to the announcement has that there was “still much to do.” 2015. Once up and running, a “make Germany a more modern country”. ment proposal. “We need more growth in ambitious investment package by been dominated by a controversy Dimitrios Papadimoulis of the team of financial experts at the “The story that there aren’t enough qualified Europe,” he told reporters, after talks with Christmas. Today Christmas has over tax breaks offered by Greens meanwhile said Juncker’s new fund will help decide proj- women is for people who are mentally stuck Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. come early,” he told parliament. Luxembourg to major internation- plan was not enough. “It’s a drop ects, mostly based on their level of in the past century,” he said. But he also stressed the need for some EU There have been criticisms that the al firms when Juncker was pre- in the ocean. Your famous pack- advancement and the likelihood The quota for women was approved in member states to undertake structural fund contains no new money and mier. Juncker faces a confidence age is just business as usual, a to draw in private investors. —AFP principle last year by the two big parties in reforms and said money alone was not Germany’s “grand coalition” government, enough. Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats The new European Fund for Strategic (CDU) and the centre-left Social Democrats Investment will be funded from the EU’s Europe feels sting in the (SPD).However, they were only able to agree budget and from the European on all the details after late-night discussions Investment Bank, although the door is involving Merkel and Vice Chancellor Sigmar open for direct contributions from mem- Gabriel, whose SPD had made the women’s ber states. —Agencies tail of Russia’s sanctions Buckwheat problem gives Companies worried about losing business to China Putin food for thought BRUSSELS: At a technology fair in Moscow almost 2 billion euros, according to the EU’s last month, European executives faced the statistics office Eurostat. Although the data is new reality of doing business in Russia since not adjusted for seasonal swings, exports MOSCOW: As if Russian President Vladimir Putin grocery store out of buckwheat in minutes. In the West imposed sanctions: the number of were also down 18 percent compared to did not have enough to worry about with the frantic buying, one man was seen grab- companies at the international showcase August 2013 at a time of year that is tradi- Western sanctions, falling oil prices and a col- bing at least nine bags. had shrunk by half from a year ago. “The tionally busy for exporters. lapsing currency, there is also now the price of impact on business couldn’t be clearer. The drop partly reflects the food ban buckwheat. Rumors that snow has ruined the Empty shelves, public mood Fewer stands, fewer companies,” said Mark Moscow imposed on the European Union in harvest in the Altai region that grows the fruit Such images evoke memories of the emp- Bultinck, a sales executive for Belgian digital August in response to the West’s sanctions. seed have caused panic-buying in some areas ty shelves of the Soviet communist era when screen maker Barco, which had a booth at But it goes well beyond that. Total EU exports and pushed up the price of one of Russia’s most Moscow was isolated - a situation Putin says the annual expo for the audiovisual industry. fell 12 percent in the first eight months of this popular foods. will not be repeated over Ukraine. Some com- The impact of the sanctions was already year compared to a year ago. In August, EU Stockpiles are plentiful, experts see no rea- mentators even see buckwheat as a barome- clear to Barco. The company lost Russia’s exports of machinery and transport equip- son for concern or shortages, and analysts rule ter of the public mood. “We are a country that biggest shipbuilder as a client when the ment such as cars and tractors fell 23 percent out any link with the sanctions imposed over has always been hungry throughout history,” United States and the European Union black- compared to July. Compared to a year ago, the Ukraine crisis. But Putin still has a problem: Yevgenia Albats, editor of the liberal New listed United Shipbuilding Corporation in those exports fell 21 percent. Manufactured any hint of panic over Russia’s economic down- Times magazine, told Ekho Moskvy radio July, meaning Barco could no longer sell exports fell 16 percent across the 28-nation turn could be exploited by critics at home and which is often critical of Putin. She described screens to the company for its vessel training bloc in August. Germany, which accounts for abroad as a sign that the sanctions are biting stocking up on buckwheat as “quite rational simulators. Barco’s experience shows how one-third of sales to Russia, saw a sharp drop hard. “It’s pure and simple hysterics,” the head of behavior when the rouble is falling.” Opinion sanctions are having a broad impact not just in sales of those goods, while Italy’s manufac- the ProZerno grain consultancy, Vladimir polls show Putin’s popularity ratings are sky- on Russian companies but on European tured exports tumbled by almost half. Petrichenko, said of the panic-buying. high, backed by pliant media that have sup- ones too and at a time when Europe’s weak Appealing for calm over the snowfall, he said: ported his efforts to show the Russian public is economy can ill afford it. The European ‘Dual use’ license “Everybody said everything had been lost, not united over Ukraine and against sanctions. Union and the United States imposed eco- The sanctions are having such an impact just part of the crop.” In response to the panic-buying, media nomic sanctions on Russia in late July, target- because EU companies can no longer sell Russians eat what they call “grechka” in tra- have increasingly got on message, accompa- ing the Russian energy, banking and defense civilian goods that could also have a military ditional dishes as well as everyday meals such nying most reports with comments by experts sectors to punish Moscow’s support for use, no matter how small, without a license. as “kasha” (porridge). Prices doubled almost reassuring viewers there is not cause for con- rebels in eastern Ukraine, the West’s toughest Tractors, cranes, excavators and mechanical overnight after the snow this month in moun- cern. State-run Channel One television steps yet. parts that are needed to repair cars and tainous Altai, near China, Kazakhstan and blamed the situation on “speculators”, a similar As EU governments consider blacklisting trucks all fall under the so-called dual use cat- Mongolia, but ProZerno has predicted a 2014 explanation to one provided for the rouble’s more Ukrainian separatists and potentially egory and need a permit. Failure to obtain a crop of 705,000 tons, more than enough to slide and shifting any blame away from the more Russians and companies over the crisis license can bring a fine of up to 10 percent of meet the annual demand of 550,000 tons. The Kremlin. Underlining the importance of the in Ukraine, anecdotal evidence and new EU the total value of the exported goods, offi- economic impact may ultimately be minimal, buckwheat situation, the Federal Anti- data show the economic costs for Europe of cials say. But obtaining such licenses can but the political damage may already have Monopoly Service in the Altai even launched MOSCOW: A woman walks past a currency exchange point in pressuring the Kremlin. In August, the month delay exports by two to three months been done. Footage shot by a hidden camera - an investigation. It said on Monday it had central Moscow yesterday. The ruble has this year lost after sanctions were imposed, EU exports to because so many more products need found “no signs of collusion” to manipulate and broadcast on state-run Channel One at around a third of its value against the dollar as Russia faces Russia fell 19 percent to 7.9 billion euros licenses and customs are suffering a big the weekend - showed customers buying a prices. —Reuters Western sanctions over Ukraine and falling oil prices. —AFP ($9.91 billion) compared to July, a loss of administrative burden. —Reuters BUSINESS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 NBK receives ‘Outstanding Performance’ award

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has been the first of a kind Visa signature credit card. Last year, awarded by Visa for its “Outstanding performance in also in association with Visa, NBK was the official the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2014”. non-host retail banking partner of the 2014 FIFA The award recognizes NBK as being a leader in the World Cup(tm) in Kuwait and was the first and only cards market in the region offering its customers the bank to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup(tm) Winner’s most exclusive, complete suite of products. Ahmed Trophy on its first visit to Kuwait.” Al Khader, NBK’s Deputy Head, Consumer Banking Paul McCrea VP, Head of Products, Visa CEMEA, Group, received the award from Paul McCrea VP, said: “We are pleased to confer the National Bank of Head of Products, Visa CEMEA, at NBK’s Head Office, Kuwait (NBK) with this prestigious award for its out- in the presence of executives from NBK and Visa. standing performance in the MENA region in 2014. Commenting on the occasion, Al Khader said “NBK is As the global leader in electronic payments, Visa’s committed to providing its customers with the best credit and debit cards are designed to appeal to dif- banking products and services by building on the ferent market segments and we are delighted that long-time relationships with world leading partners NBK’s suite of Visa products has enabled cardholders such as Visa.” to make seamless purchases across multiple chan- “This distinction underpins the excellence of nels in 2014.” NBK differentiates itself as the bank of NBK’s services and its pioneering position in offering choice for customers by offering complete suite of innovative and most convenient products available products. NBK Cards provide an array of benefits in the world today,” Al Khader added. “Our valued that cater to every lifestyle needs, and offer exclusive relationship with Visa has enabled us to provide our services and promotions locally and globally. NBK customers in both Kuwait and the region with Cards are accepted worldwide and are the safest, world-class products and unparalleled offers such as most convenient and rewarding way to pay. Thomas Cook hit by shock CEO departure and slowing growth CEO Green replaced by chief operating officer

LONDON: British holiday company Thomas vious month, was down 17 percent to 113.9 think Green had another job lined yet, but her Cook said chief executive Harriet Green had pence at 0946 GMT. It was languishing at 14p statement in the company’s press release been replaced by its chief operating officer, the when Green joined the company. implied otherwise. “I always said that I would abrupt departure of a woman credited with move on to another company with fresh chal- reviving the business sending its shares tum- What next for green? lenges once my work was complete. That time is bling. Shares in the world’s oldest travel compa- Seeking to explain Green’s departure, Thomas now,” she said in the statement. Green has led ny fell as much as 23 percent on news that Cook’s chairman Frank Meysman said that her the company’s revival, bringing debt under con- Green was leaving plus a warning from the remit had been to overhaul the firm and that it trol and reporting strong growth in profits. company that growth would slow to “a more was always his plan to bring in a new CEO at Job cuts, store closures and a series of dispos- moderate pace” in 2015, to reflect a tougher some stage in the process. “It’s a matter of bal- als to cut debt have underpinned Green’s strate- trading environment. ance, everybody has their own qualities,” gy of lowering costs and improving profit by as Green, who joined Thomas Cook in 2012, will Meysman told reporters. “We now move to a much as 500 million pounds between 2012 and be replaced by company insider Peter new phase where the implementation of that 2015. That represents a recovery from a dramatic Fankhauser with immediate effect. Numis ana- strategy is becoming the more important part, slump in 2011, when the firm was hit by the euro lyst Wyn Ellis said the market was reacting with and therefore we feel it is time to move to some- zone debt crisis, high fuel costs and political tur- LONDON: Shoppers on Oxford Street, central London, stop to watch the “Monty the justifiable skepticism to the timing of Green’s body who has been groomed as a CEO who moil in popular holiday destinations such as Penguin” advert in the window display at the John Lewis department store. — AFP departure. comes from the industry.” Greece, Egypt and Tunisia. Announcing full-year “After all the hype the transformation of Green, formerly chief executive of electronics results also yesterday, the company reported a Pining penguins: UK wallows Thomas Cook is far from complete. The timing is company Premier Farnell, once told a newspaper 44 percent jump in earnings before interest and unfortunate especially as the trading environ- that she had landed the top job at Thomas Cook tax (EBIT) to 323 million pounds ($507.4 million) ment appears to be deteriorating,” he said. The by approaching the chairman and telling him “I for the year ended September, broadly in line in warmth of Christmas ads stock, which had risen 19 percent over the pre- think you need me”. Meysman said he didn’t with forecasts. — Reuters LONDON: As Christmas nears, British tele- gauge the impact of such campaigns, but vision screens are filled with heart-warm- evidence gathered by the IPA advertising Joyalukkas celebrates with 4 exciting offers ing tales of lonely penguins, family industry body is “pretty unequivocal” that reunions and homesick soldiers in an such campaigns work, she told AFP. John KUWAIT: Joyalukkas Group has announced This Offer is valid in all Joyalukkas Outlets in which includes Joyalukkas Jewelry, Jolly Silks & attempt to get customers to part with their Lewis Christmas sales have increased for their first anniversary celebrations at their Kuwait from 27th November 2014 till 29th Joyalukkas Exchange has become one of the cash. More and more retailers are ditching the past three years despite a difficult retail Joyalukkas Jewelry, Jolly Silks & Joyalukkas November 2014. “We opened our first unique favorite destinations for many residents in traditional product adverts for mini movies climate, and the first figures from this sea- Exchange showrooms located at the landmark 3 in 1 concept in Kuwait at Panasonic Tower Kuwait because all three outlets are globally about love and friendship that have son suggest this trend will continue. “All Panasonic Tower in Kuwait City. The grand cel- which is a landmark building in a popular loca- renowned for being one of the best in their become a national talking point, ranked the research suggests that persuading con- ebration is scheduled for 3 days only ie 27th tion. The response we have received from cus- respective offerings. against each other by the media and sub- sumers to buy is a much more emotional November to 29th November, 2014. The excit- tomers has been truly overwhelming and very Through the state-of-the art ambience, pro- ject to parody online. task than you might think,” Hawtin said. ing list of offers includes Free Gifts on every encouraging. We sincerely thank our cus- fessional service, best price policy, innovative High-street department store John jewelry purchase, Zero deduction on Gold tomers in Kuwait for their support and patron- products and services all 3 brands have man- Lewis, which started the trend a few years Anonymous goodwill exchange, Free iPad mini on purchase of age and dedicate our fantastic four offers to aged to win the hearts of residents of Kuwait ago, again leads the pack with a tear-jerk- John Lewis is credited with shifting the Diamond and Polki jewelry worth KD2,500 and them,” said Joy Alukkas, Chairman & MD, and with the exciting anniversary offers the ing tale of a little boy who makes his lonely competition from a battle to sell cut-price free KD5 gift voucher on every garment pur- Joyalukkas Group. Group plans to further its appeal with existing toy penguin’s Christmas by buying him a booze to making consumers feel good chase worth KD25 from Jolly Silks. Joyalukkas Group’s first 3 in 1 concept and prospective customers. mate. The two-minute video, which report- about spending their money on presents. edly cost £7 million (8.8 million euros, $11 Their seasonal offering is now “a mini-movie million), has been watched more than 17 with its own narrative” which gives an “uplift- million times since it went online in early ing, tear-jerking advertising experience”, said F6B Goldwing: Big on November. The retailer is also doing roar- Bryan Roberts, an analyst at Kantar Retail. ing trade in little fluffy toys of loving pen- Viewers have bought into this vision to such guins Monty and Mabel, and a range of an extent that the soundtracks to the last excitement and flair related merchandise. two ads-both breathy covers of famous Hot on their heels are the World War I songs, as is this year’s track-have gone to soldiers imagined by supermarket number one in the charts. Other retailers KUWAIT: As part of its ongoing commitment to Sainsbury’s, whose three-minute ad tells have moved in a similar direction, including offer the absolute best to all Honda and motorcycle the story of the Christmas truce between high-street store Marks & Spencer, which lovers in the country, Alghanim Motors, the sole dis- British and German forces in 1914. previously featured celebrities and a full tributor of Honda vehicles in Kuwait, presents the The video has more than 12 million range of products in its ads. Gold Wing F6B, the unique custom-touring motor- views on YouTube, although it has also This year it heralded the launch of its cycle that’s big on excitement and flair. The Honda been accused of being a crass attempt to Christmas campaign with a series of anony- Gold Wing has always stood alone. Launched as the commercialize the centenary of the start of mous acts of goodwill around Britain. GL1000 in 1975, its horizontally opposed four-cylin- the four-year conflict. Many people also Ranging from covering a primary school in der engine was not only physically different, it felt viewed it as a risk, given that there is no snow overnight to giving gifts to night very different: jet turbine-like, with a silky torque mention of Sainsbury’s until the very end. shift workers, the acts were publicized by a output perfect for long days in the saddle. A six-cylinder, 1500cc overhaul in 1987 saw the But experts say the importance of Twitter account @TheTwoFairies-later Gold Wing once again state its intent and purpose as Christmas in the trading calendar is per- revealed as the two winged stars of the TV the true King of Motorcycles. The GL1800, debuted commercials. The question now is how suading advertising agencies to try new in 2000, further cemented the Wing’s unique status. things. November and December can rep- long customers will accept the saccharine And nothing has changed to this day. But a trend resent up to 50 percent of annual turnover vision of Christmas on offer in favor, say, of appearing over the course of the last decade, mainly for some non-food retailers. “You’ve got a something that makes them laugh. Spoofs in the USA, has seen fully-dressed touring bikes massive corporate pressure to deliver at are proliferating online-in one mash-up, stripped down; a couple of bags on the back, a cut- that time of year, so it creates a new rule Monty the penguin ends up as Christmas down screen and more minimal fairing has injected features a greatly reduced sticker price, making it an bags and a cubbyhole in the center console provide book for campaigns and creativity,” said lunch, while in another his first meeting a custom attitude to what has traditionally been a attractive proposition to a wider range of riders easy-to-access storage space. Lorna Hawtin, head of strategy at the TBWA with Mabel is re-dubbed with Marvin ‘mature’ market. looking for a stylish, useful and unique motorcycle. Precisely metered fuel and air mixture by PGM-FI ad agency in Manchester. It is hard to Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”. —AFP This style of bike has become known as a Indeed, the aim for the Gold Wing F6B’s develop- fuel injection the Gold Wing F6B’s 1,832cc, its “Bagger”. With a combination of cool credibility, use- ment team was to produce a uniquely nimble-feel- smooth power delivery and instant avalanche of ful practicality and exciting style they’ve been ing and agile bike; it had to be comfortable to use torque make it rapidly addictive. The five-speed inspired by, and in turn have attracted, a much on a congested city street and fun on a twisty road gearbox includes an overdrive top gear and delivers China considers suing younger rider. Honda, responding to customers’ and, of course, had to perform on the open highway. the engine’s torque via shaft drive; in the quest to needs and desires, has built a new breed of Gold Hence the CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), strip out the Gold Wing F6B, and, contributing to the ‘economic fugitives’ Wing to sit alongside the original. Stripped, stylish which helped sculpt the Gold Wing F6B’s upper fair- overall weight reduction, the electric reverse has and smooth, part custom, part cruiser the Gold Wing ing, while blacked-outwheels, engine, forks, frame been removed. and lower cowls underpin the striking paintwork Customers are encouraged to test drive and BEIJING: China is considering suing people in Western countries, such as the United F6B is all Bagger: a touring bike distilled to its very and complement its low-slung lines. learn more about this unique bike by visiting Honda suspected of committing economic crimes States and Canada, harbored “prejudice” essence. A further finishing touch was added to burnish Alghanim motorcycles showroom in Shuwaikh - who have fled to the United States and about China’s legal system and were reluc- The 1,832cc six-cylinder engine driving the Gold the bike’s appearance by placing a chromium-plated opposite to the Classic Cars Museum - open elsewhere with billions of dollars, an unusu- tant to return officials and executives sus- Wing F6B is one of motorcycling’s masterworks, its emblem, made exclusively for the Gold Wing F6B, on Saturday to Thursday, from 8:30 AM until 8:30 PM, al step in a widening anti-graft campaign, a pected of corruption. Western govern- very style flows fluidly from front to rear, with mod- the side cover. and on Fridays, from 10:00 AM until 8:00 PM. senior official said yesterday. The move, ments have baulked at setting up extradi- ern and unique seats that provide support for rider The short screen has been carefully designed to Alghanim Motors, the sole distributor of Honda part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti- tion deals with China because human and pillion and the 4-speaker sound system guaran- allow a feeling of freedom yet still give decent automobiles, motorcycles, power products, and corruption drive, underscores the chal- rights groups say torture is often used by tees listening pleasure, even at speed. Built to be at weather protection; larger circular meters, with LCD marine products in Kuwait, is committed to provid- lenges China faces in seeking the return of Chinese legal authorities, and capital pun- home in an urban environment as well as on the indicators underneath, provide relevant information ing customers with flexible payment solutions and so-called economic fugitives. ishment is widely used in corruption cases. open road, the Gold Wing F6B is lighter - 28kgs less in an easy-to-read format, with typical Gold Wing efficient and cost-effective services. For more infor- Xu Hong, director general of the Foreign China has extradition treaties with 39 than the Gold Wing GL1800 - yet with the same style and quality. Meanwhile, the lockable twin rear mation, please call 1822777. Ministry’s Department of Treaty and Law, countries but not the United States or chassis, power and incredible torque output. It also said China tried to persuade the United Canada - among the two most popular des- States to sign an extradition treaty but tinations for suspected economic fugitives, Washington said it was “not ready”. “So in according to Xu. Xu said the legal process this case, we can only think of other alter- for the repatriation of such people from the native methods,” Xu told a news confer- United States, Canada and elsewhere is ence. “One way is to repatriate the relevant “cumbersome and lengthy”. suspects through the mechanism of illegal “So long as the person who has been immigration, the other way is to prosecute asked to be repatriated can afford it, he or them in the United States, so the suspects she can engage in endless litigation and can be tried under US law.” The Washington- repeated appeals,” he said. The government based Global Financial Integrity Group, would not make agreements with corrupt which analyses illicit financial flows, esti- suspects for their return to China, Xu said, mates that $1.08 trillion left China illegally although they would face lighter punish- from 2002 to 2011. ments in exchange for their surrender. China said earlier this month it had cap- “China’s judiciary and law enforcement tured 288 fugitives suspected of commit- agencies will not do business with these ting economic crimes in its campaign called fugitives,” Xu said. “We will work within the “Operation Fox Hunt”. Xu said some judges scope of the law.” — Reuters THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 technology UN moves to strengthen digital privacy

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations on Tuesday United States-members of the so-called Five Eyes It includes a reference to metadata that can be strung in using surveillance and communications adopted a resolution on protecting digital privacy intelligence alliance-who sought to limit the resolu- aggregated to reveal personal information such as interception to prevent terror acts. that for the first time urged governments to offer tion’s scope. the time, date and location from which a user Britain and Australia argued that in addressing redress to citizens targeted by mass surveillance. The five countries are not among the 65 co- accesses his email. online privacy, the United Nations must strike a The resolution presented by Germany and Brazil sponsors of the resolution that included France, “Metadata can be as privacy-sensitive as the balance between respect for individual rights and builds on a landmark text presented last year in the Russia, Turkey and many east European countries content of communications,” said Braun, who raised the obligations of governments to protect their cit- wake of revelations by Edward Snowden of wide- that have grappled with a history of state surveil- concern about how easy it is to compile personal izens from threats. Canada spoke out against the spread surveillance by the US and British govern- lance. profiles by collecting metadata. “narrow focus” of the resolution and said there ments. “Where mass surveillance technology is While the resolution is not-binding, it carries The resolution urges the Human Rights Council should be a broader discussion involving govern- used, a situation can easily be created where no pri- political weight and helps shape the debate on to follow up with action such as naming an envoy ments, industry, civil society and the technology vacy of communications on the Internet exists at online privacy as a human right. The resolution calls for digital privacy who would ensure the issue community on the way forward. all,” German Ambassador Harald Braun told a UN on all governments to adopt national legislation remains on the international agenda. Amnesty International said it was concerned committee. Braun warned that without proper that will ensure their citizens’ right to privacy online Debate over the first resolution last year, also that some countries including the Five Eyes checks, “we risk turning into Orwellian states” where is protected. drafted by Germany and Brazil, was clouded by the “appeared to be more concerned with protecting citizens are being constantly monitored. Snowden affair and revelations of US spying target- their surveillance and intelligence-sharing practice The resolution was adopted by consensus by the REMEDY FOR CITIZENS ing German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian than protecting human rights.” General Assembly’s human rights committee and In a first, the measure urges governments to President Dilma Rousseff. “Mass surveillance of people’s communications now goes before the full Assembly in December. “provide individuals whose right to privacy has With the international focus now on defeating will not end with declarations of good intentions, It followed weeks of tough negotiations with been violated by unlawful or arbitrary surveillance Islamists in Iraq and Syria, opponents of the resolu- states must urgently live up to their obligation to Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the with access to an effective remedy.” tion argued that governments must not be ham- uphold privacy,” the rights group said. — AFP

Sony plans to offer partial refunds for gaming console WASHINGTON: Hundreds of thousands of where with a Wi-Fi connection. people who bought the handheld gaming • That people could engage in “cross- console PlayStation Vita are in line for a par- platform” play by starting a game on a tial refund from Sony because of question- PlayStation 3, pausing it, and continuing able claims in its advertising. The Federal the game with the PS Vita from where they Trade Commission said Tuesday it had left off. reached a settlement with Sony Computer Not really true, the FTC said. “As we enter Entertainment America, the US-based arm the year’s biggest shopping period, compa- of the PlayStation business, over advertising nies need to be reminded that if they make claims that the government contended product promises to consumers - as Sony were misleading. did with the “game changing” features of its As part of the proposed settlement, Sony PS Vita - they must deliver on those will provide refunds to those who bought pledges,” said Jessica Rich, head of the the PS Vita console before June 1, 2012. agency’s consumer protection bureau. They’ll be eligible for either a $25 cash or Sony did not immediately respond to a credit refund - or a $50 merchandise vouch- request for comment. With cross-platform er from Sony. The company will contact play, the commission says the feature was consumers about the refunds or vouchers only available for a few PS3 games, and the via email. pause-save feature varied from game to The advertising claims at issue - Sony game. For “remote play,” the complaint says highlighted “game changing” technology Sony told consumers that PS Vita users features of the PS Vita - were made during could easily access their PS3 games on their the U.S. launch of the product in early 2012. handheld consoles. But most PS3 games, The console sold for about $250. Among the FTC said, were not remote playable on the claims challenged by the FTC: the PS Vita. • That the pocket-sized console would The commission did not provide an revolutionize gaming mobility by allowing exact figure, but said hundreds of thou- consumers to play their PlayStation 3 sands of PS Vita consoles were purchased games via “remote play” on the console any- during the timeframe in question. —AP CAPE CANAVERAL: In this undated photo provided by NASA, International Space Station Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore holds up the first object made in space with additive manufacturing or 3-D printing. Wilmore installed the printer on Nov. 17, 2014, and helped crews on the ground with the first print on Nov. 25, 2014. — AP Space station’s 3-d printer pops out its first creation

CAPE CANAVERAL: The first 3-D printer in space About 20 objects will be printed in the next a rock, it couldn’t have been conceived that one has popped out its first creation. The 3-D printer few weeks, all for return to Earth for analysis, day we’d be replicating the same fundamental delivered to the International Space Station two NASA said. The space agency hopes to one day idea in space,” Aaron Kemmer, chief executive months ago made a sample replacement part use 3-D printing to make parts for broken equip- officer, said in a statement. Similar 3-D items will for itself this week. It churned out a new face- ment in space - “an on-demand machine shop,” be duplicated at the company’s offices in plate for the print head casing. according to project manager Niki Werkheiser. Mountain View for comparison. The stronger- Space station commander Butch Wilmore Made in Space, the Northern California com- than-expected adhesion to the print tray could removed the small plastic creation from the pany that supplied the space station’s 3-D print- mean that the layer-by-layer bonding process is printer Tuesday, a day after its manufacture. er, called it “a transformative moment.” The new- different in weightlessness, NASA noted. Some of the plastic piece stuck to the print tray, ly created, rectangular faceplate - considered The company will replace the orbiting demo said NASA spokesman Dan Huot. He noted it’s functional by the company - includes the Made machine with a much bigger commercial printer part of the learning process and will be further in Space name, as well as NASA’s. next year. The European Space Agency, meanwhile, investigated. “When the first human fashioned a tool from plans to fly its own 3-D printer in 2015. — AP

KISSIMMEE: In this Monday, Oct. 27, 2014 photo, Gracie Hunter (left) and her Mom, Melissa watch a YouTube video of a toy review. — AP Dotcom claims he Unboxing videos online is broke,faces jail chronicle the big reveal in New Zealand WELLINGTON: Internet mogul Kim Dotcom, accused of pocketing more NEW YORK: Rrrrip goes the packing tape and beauty-fashion between October and than US$175 million from pirated copies of movies and other material, and squeak goes the protective foam. Are December last year. “They’re definitely claimed yesterday he was broke and facing jail in New Zealand. In a live there sweeter, more seductive sounds than integral to the way I buy things,” said 20- video link from his New Zealand mansion to the UnBound Digital confer- the opening of a new toy or gadget? Not year-old Willy James, a fan in Pittsburgh of ence in England, the German-born entrepreneur said he had no money left to unboxers and the millions of people MKBHD (aka Marques Brownlee), one of to defend himself at a bail hearing in Auckland today. who watch their videos on YouTube. the top tech unboxers with nearly 2 million “I’m defenceless and they’re using that opportunity to try and get my For the uninitiated, unboxing is the YouTube subscribers. bail revoked and that’s what I’m facing today,” said Dotcom, who is fighting recording and sharing of the big reveal, “They’re therapeutic. My favorite is extradition to the United States where he is wanted on Internet piracy whether it’s Dad behind the camera on when they’re doing the tablet reviews and charges. Christmas Day or a geek reviewer fawning they peel off the layer of plastic film on the “This might be my last public appearance and if I go back to jail you can for his tech-specific fans. glass. I check the unboxing videos before I tell everybody that was the one.” Dotcom, whose New Zealand lawyers The phenom covers everything from check an actual company website,” he recently quit, claimed he has spent US$10 million on legal costs since he Happy Meals to gaming consoles, usually added. Is unboxing consumerism run was arrested in a dramatic police helicopter swoop on his mansion in in minute detail accompanied by either amok? There’s that, for some, but focused January 2012. great goofiness or hardcore earnestness - on the feels. “They have certainly managed to drain my resources,” he said. Dotcom’s or both. “I’m doing this in spite of a great Megaupload operation, at the centre of the piracy accusations, has been Kim Dotcom - www.wired.com Unboxing videos leave toddlers wide- urgency within myself to rip this box open shut down and he said shares in his new data storage company Mega were now I’m a pariah. eyed by the surprises inside chocolate and get to my iPhone,” declares one held in trust by his wife and children. “The witch-hunt worked, everyone wants to see me burn, and on eggs cracked open by disembodied hands. unboxer who stretched his video - there’s He and his wife separated earlier this year. Dotcom, who was born Kim Thursday I might go to jail because of that.” He also admitted his flamboy- Eager consumers watch the plastic wrap shipping and product packaging - to 18 Schmitz, said he also regretted dabbling in politics when he invested sev- ance made him an easy target. come off plug-ins and cables. Product minutes and 50 seconds. eral million dollars in a new political party which failed to win a seat in “When you travel around on private jets and you go around with cars reviewers young and older soak up adver- He took his mindful time to combine New Zealand’s September general election. that have number plates saying ‘God’, ‘Stoned’ and ‘Mafia’ on them, it’s tising dollars through the unboxing of the experience with that of another “Before I started my political movement, I was quite popular in New probably not the best for keeping a low profile.” swag provided them by the makers of YouTube phenom, ASMR, the video-shar- Zealand. Everyone was cheering for me to win my case,” he said. “But after I The US Justice Department and FBI claim Megaupload and related sites stuff. ing shorthand for the controversial got involved in politics and the prime minister and his party attacked me netted more than US$175 million in criminal proceeds, and cost copyright With the mega-gift holidays nearly autonomous sensory meridian response. viciously, labelling me as a Nazi and saying I’m only going into politics to owners more than US$500 million by offering pirated copies of movies, TV shows and other content. — AFP upon us and the start of the crazed shop- It’s a specific tingling in the body that cult stop my extradition, well the New Zealand public heard that narrative and ping season, unboxing videos are more followers believe is brought on by whisper- popular than ever. So says YouTube, which ing and certain sounds shared in videos estimated 57 percent more views this year also intended to help people fall asleep. Demand for budget phones growing over last. While not the most popular activ- “I wonder if the box sounds any differ- ity on the site, unboxing is up there and ent now that it’s empty?” muses our soft- NEW YORK: It might seem as though everyone slow processors, says Ramon T. Llamas, a phone, but I’m not willing to spend as much has enjoyed steady growth since such spoken sharer, with only his hands present has an iPhone or Galaxy smartphone. But many research manager for phones at IDC. As the costs money on that,” says David Owens, a senior vice videos first surfaced, believed to be in on screen as he presses lightly on the tape- customers are eschewing the best cameras and of parts drop, phone manufacturers are able to president at wireless carrier Sprint Corp. 2006. fringed flaps of his cardboard shipping box screens — and their top-end price tags — and outfit less-expensive models with advanced fea- Joe Liggio, 16, a high school student in New Their allure has not been lost on brands to create a scrape-crunch. choosing models that can get the job done at tures once limited to high-end devices. These York, says many of his friends have iPhones or looking to sell, sell, sell on social media. You’ve got your full-time unboxers in less than a third of the cost. phones lack the latest innovations, such as fin- Samsung phones, but he’s never felt envy carry- One in five consumers in a recent survey search of a living, your companies looking Sales of high-end Samsung and Apple gerprint security sensors and heart-rate moni- ing his $180 Moto G from Motorola. He says it done by Google, which owns YouTube, said to cash in and some professional comics phones remain robust, but demand for budget tors. They aren’t as fast, and their cameras aren’t does everything he needs well, including texting, they’ve watched at least one unboxing looking for a laugh, but you’ve also got phones is growing. About a third of the smart- as sharp. taking pictures, playing music and accessing the video. As of mid-November, there were your random folk who want to freeze that phones sold in the US between July and But the technology is more than adequate for Internet. more than 20 million search results on special moment, said Matt McLernon, a September cost less than $200, up from 18 per- those who just want to check email, look up Besides the Moto G, Motorola has a $129 YouTube for the keyword “unboxing.” Google spokesman. cent a year ago, according to tech research firm sports scores and play video. Many cheaper Moto E as an alternative to its $500 Moto X. Google estimates that all these unbox- “It’s one of the larger trends on IDC. A top-end phone costs $600 to $700 at full phones now even offer the fastest wireless Microsoft Corp.’s Lumia 635 costs $179 or less, ing videos have more than a billion views, YouTube,” he said. “You can unbox a cell- price, before the subsidies some phone compa- speeds on 4G LTE cellular networks, notes Jeff compared with the $550 its flagship Lumia Icon nies offer in exchange for committing to two- Bradley, senior vice president for devices at AT&T. retailed for at launch. The Nubia 5S Mini, ZTE and uploads grew by 50 percent over last phone, a vinyl record, a Happy Meal. It’s year service contracts. “There’s a certain status to carrying an iPhone Corp.’s most expensive phone, retails for $280 year. They’re most watched during the hol- not just over-the-top consumerism as No longer are these cheap smartphones or Samsung Galaxy, as an example, but there are contract-free. ZTE has a few models for just much as it’s feeling this connection with iday season, with 34 percent of views for mostly no-frills devices with small screens and also people who say, ‘I want a good, reliable $100. — AP products related to food, electronics, toys the thing that you’re watching.” —AP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Indian sterilization targets remain in all but name, critics say More tubectomies than vasectomies

BARUAN: India officially abandoned targets for who settled her onto a dirty rug to recover. its mass sterilization program in the 1990s, Nearby, empty water bottles, used tobacco accepting they had put undue pressure on peo- pouches and piles of cow dung littered the ple to undergo surgery and failed to curb popu- ground. lation growth sufficiently. Twenty years on and targets remain in all but name, say doctors, Targets or ‘unmet needs’? healthcare workers and family planning Sabitri Sethi, the health worker, said her experts, meaning that, although below peak supervisor had instructed her to bring at least numbers, more than four million people under- two women to the camp. Some 80 percent of went surgery in 2013-14. In recent years, the Odisha’s family planning budget under the vast majority have been women. National Health Mission was set aside for sterili- The risks the campaign poses were high- zation activity this year, including holding lighted this month when more than a dozen camps and paying compensation, a state women died after having a tubectomy at two health official familiar with the plan said. He sterilization “camps” in the state of added that Odisha, which accounts for some Chhattisgarh. Ongoing investigations point to 3.4 percent of India’s population, is prepared to contaminated drugs given to the women as a carry out sterilizations on as many as 20,000 possible cause of death, but a dirty operating men and 160,000 women this year. The Health room and operations performed in a matter of Ministry is adamant such numbers are not tar- minutes raised new questions about the pro- gets, and that state budget figures for the gram’s efficacy and safety. national program are expressions of “unmet “Targets may have been removed, but the need” for such services. target mindset remains,” said Poonam Muttreja, Critics say the distinction is misleading, executive director of the Population because any objective puts pressure on health- Foundation of India NGO. Wary of a ballooning care workers and lands too many women in population, India launched a family planning “camps” where dozens are operated on in a few program to slow population growth in the hours. “I have done 90 surgeries in a day,” one ALBUQUERQUE: In this July 20, 2012 file photo, the father of a Ciudad Juarez-born boy suffering from a massive tumor who US Homeland 1950s. As the campaign went into overdrive, doctor at the Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Security identified only as “Jose,” examines his shoulder at the First Baptist Church of Rio Rancho. — AP photos some seven million men had vasectomies Sciences admitted. “If I had said no, the govern- between April 1976 and January 1977, accord- ment would have sacked me.” Officials in New ing to the Centre for Health and Social Justice in Delhi add that, in addition to ditching targets, New Delhi. Today, tubectomies on women are the government has promoted alternative Mexican boy who had by far the most common form of birth control options, including condoms and intrauterine in India, and India’s fertility rate, or the average contraceptives, to reduce the number of people number of children a woman has in her lifetime, having surgery. Sterilizations dropped from has fallen from 3.6 in 1991 to 2.4 in 2012. But it well over five million in 2010-11 to over four massive tumor recovering has failed to reach the desired “replacement” million in 2013-14. Critics counter that a pay- level of 2.1, and India, with a population of ments-driven system continues to push more around 1.2 billion, is set to overtake China as people to choose sterilization over other ALBUQUERQUE: An 11-year-old Mexican boy who the world’s largest nation by around 2028, options. At the Odisha clinic, Ojha received 600 had pieces of a massive tumor removed and who according to the United Nations. rupees ($9.70) after her surgery, a significant drew international attention after US officials At a recent sterilization “camp” in the eastern sum in a country where hundreds of millions of helped him get treatment in New Mexico is still state of Odisha, operations went on apace, people live on less than $2 a day. Sethi, the recovering after an 11-hour surgery. And he got a seemingly impervious to negative publicity healthcare worker, said she would also receive surprise visitor while resting. New Mexico Gov after the deaths next door in Chhattisgarh. A money for each woman she brought, but she Susana Martinez visited Jose Antonio Ramirez doctor and five assistants from a nearby hospi- did not say how much. The Odisha state gov- Serrano on Monday a week after the Ciudad Juarez- tal worked flat out, performing 13 tubectomies ernment pays 75 rupees ($1.20) to doctors for born boy underwent the risky procedure to remove in about an hour at the facility in Baruan village. each surgery, 25 rupees to the anesthetist, 15 to what doctors called multiple cysts, spongy-soft tis- After her surgery, 35-year-old patient Renubala the staff nurse and attendant, and 10 to other sue and a conglomeration of blood vessels . Ojha was guided outside by a health worker staff. —Reuters Around a third of the watermelon-sized tumor was expunged and the boy now faces months of Doctor behind ‘free physical therapy, according to doctors at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque. “In the oper- ating room, we encountered more bleeding than radical’ aging theory dies expected,” said Pediatric Surgeon Cynthia Reyes, who led the team with the surgery. But Reyes said the OMAHA: Dr Denham Harman, a renowned sci- Harman’s research inspired thousands of team was able to get the bleeding under control and entist who developed a prominent theory on young scientists, including himself, to work on the 97-pound boy is recovering in an intensive care aging that’s now used to study cancer, aging research. unit. “He’s had an amazing attitude during the whole Alzheimer’s disease and other illnesses, has “Dr Harman is one of the most influential thing,” said Jimmy Windsor, Director of Pediatric died in Nebraska at age 98. Harman, who scientists of the past 50 years, bringing world- Cardiac Anesthesia at the hospital. ALBUQUERQUE: Jose Antonio Ramirez Serrano, right, 11, of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, with his worked into his mid-90s at the hospital in class science to what was once a backwater of In July 2012, US Homeland Security unidentified mother, middle, recovers a week after an 11-hour surgery to remove a large por- Omaha after a brief illness, medical center biology,” Sinclair said Tuesday, adding that Investigations assisted in picking up the boy and his tion of a massive tumor on his shoulder and neck. spokesman Tom O’Connor said. Harman devel- Harman’s theory “is a cornerstone of the aging parents from a neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez - oped the “Free Radical Theory of Aging” in field.” Harman believed that the aging process one of the deadliest cities in the world due to drug 1954, though it took years for additional could be slowed by reducing the production Sierra Leone Ebola burial workers research to prove its importance. The theory of free radicals with a healthy diet, regular cartels. Federal agents helped the family seek care holds that one of the byproducts of oxygen uti- exercise and taking certain vitamins. He also for Jose after First Baptist Church of Rio Rancho dump bodies in pay protest lization is adverse chemical reactions in cells, recommended not smoking and limiting members saw him during a missionary visit. After stories and images of the boy went viral, First which results in aging and, ultimately, death. drinking alcohol. Although he officially retired FREETOWN: Burial workers in Sierra Leone seven weeks. Authorities acknowledged the in 1986, but he worked for more than another Baptist Church officials reported a jump in dona- have dumped bodies in the street outside a money had not been paid but said that all decade on his research at the University of tions to help him raise money for the surgeries. hospital in protest at authorities’ failure to the striking members of the Ebola Burial Nebraska Medical Center - where he worked Martinez then got involved and sought an extend- pay bonuses for handling Ebola victims. Team would be dismissed. “Displaying for 52 years - before again retiring in 2010. ed visa for the boy to receive treatment in New Residents said up to 15 corpses had been corpses in a very, very inhumane manner is Mexico. abandoned in the eastern town of Kenema, completely unacceptable,” said the Biology department During her visit with Jose on Monday, the three of them at a hospital entrance to stop spokesman for the National Ebola Response The director of the National Institute on Republican governor softly touched the boy’s knee people entering. The head of the district Centre, Sidi Yahya Tunis. He added that the Aging, Dr Richard Hodes, said Tuesday that as she spoke to his parents in Spanish. She asked Ebola Response Team, Abdul Wahab Wan, central government had paid the money to Harman was a pioneer of aging research. “The about his condition and asked his parents to keep said the bodies included those of two babies. the district health management team. free radical hypothesis has been a central ele- her updated, Though unconscious, Jose’s heart rate A spokesman for the striking workers, who “Somebody somewhere needs to be investi- ment of the field ever since Dr Harman’s land- rose slightly when told that the governor had asked not to be identified, said they had not gated (to find out) where these monies have mark paper,” Hodes said. “Beyond his own stopped by to visit. He knows you are here,” his been paid their weekly hazard allowance for been going,” he told Reuters. —Reuters work and continued exploration of the free mother told the governor. — AP radical hypothesis, Dr Harman’s contribution to science has helped lay the foundation for important, related areas of inquiry such as the Japan’s new whaling plan mitochondrial and DNA damage hypotheses.” NEBRASKA: In this photo taken on Feb Harman developed his theory of free radi- 14, 2006, Dr Denham Harman smiles at cals while working as a research fellow at the his 90th birthday celebration at the University of California at Berkeley, where he will prove hunt is science University of Nebraska Medical Center had also earned his undergraduate degree in in Omaha. — AP chemistry. Harman contributed to 35 patents while working for Shell Oil’s research facility in TOKYO: A two-thirds cut in Japan’s Antarctic The medical community initially scoffed at northern California. He also helped create the whaling quota announced this month should the theory proposed by Harman, who also American Aging Association trade group in be enough to prove that the hunt is for gen- contributed to nearly three dozen patents 1970, to promote scientific research on aging. uine scientific purposes, the country’s chief between earning his doctorate in chemistry at Harman’s theory remains influential in the negotiator said yesterday. Joji Morishita said the University of California in Berkeley in 1943 field even though later research has identified the world’s anti-whaling nations should com- and his medical degree from Stanford in 1954. other contributors to aging, said Steven promise and recognize that Japan is trying to But by the 1980s, free radicals had become Austad, who leads the biology department at meet them halfway after a ruling by the part of research into cancer, cardiovascular the University of Alabama-Birmingham and International Court of Justice banning the disease and strokes. Free radicals have since focuses on aging research. “That one big idea hunt. “Hopefully this research plan would trig- been linked to Alzheimer’s disease. Harvard he had basically stimulated 60 years of ger or send some message (to international Medical School professor David Sinclair said research,” Austad said. — AP opponents) because we have accepted the ICJ judgement in our research plan,” Morishita told foreign journalists. Lose to get! In March the ICJ-the highest court of the United Nations-ruled that Tokyo was abusing By Maryam Al-Turki to the board of health, it is “lose to get”. a scientific exemption set out in the 1986 You may think of losing weight to get an moratorium on whaling, and was carrying out ince we were little kids we used to attractive body shape because the writer a commercial hunt under a veneer of hear about the general life rule of this article is a dietitian, but the matter research. Japan cancelled its 2014-15 which is “give to get”. That taught us is not really about weight or shape! S Antarctic mission after the ruling, but said it the meaning of giving and how beautiful This is about a whole life style starting from the way you jump out of your bed intends to resume “research whaling” in 2015- in the morning then your work hours, 16. Now, in a new plan submitted to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and JAPAN: Joji Morishita, Japan’s commissioner to the International Whaling Commission (IWC), next eating habits, physical activity, speaks to the press in Tokyo yesterday. — AFP smoking until you crash on your bed its Scientific Committee, Japan has set an again. annual target of 333 minke whales, down to change, he said. “We are happy to talk vation. Despite widespread international What we really have to lose with no from some 900 under the previous program. about conservation or recovery of depleting opprobrium, Japan has continued to hunt regret are those devastating, terrible Tokyo also defined the research period as 12 species or endangered species... we are happy whales using the scientific exemption, habits which are taking us down to the years from fiscal 2015 in response to the to talk about non-lethal methods” as long as although it makes no secret of the fact that core of illness and depression. Sleeping court’s criticism of the program’s open-ended “sustainable utilization” is also on the table for the meat from the creatures caught by tax- late just before Fajer prayer, eating heavy nature. In addition, Japanese whalers will discussion, he said. payer-funded ships ends up on dinner tables. lunch and sleeping the whole afternoon employ more non-lethal methods, including Japan killed 251 minke whales in the But it finds unpalatable the idea of quitting would cause you to have an ugly belly. sighting surveys and biopsy sampling of skin Antarctic in the 2013-14 season and 103 the the IWC, fearing it would send a message that Also sitting for 8 hours or even more tissue, while the participation of foreign scien- previous year, far below its target because of Tokyo does not respect international rules. doing paper or computer work with no tists will be encouraged. direct action by conservationist group Sea Whale meat in Japan long ago ceased to be a single footstep. Snacking on chocolates Shepherd. Tokyo also conducts hunts in the regular feature of most diets, and surveys and candies, starving for the whole day Deadlocked name of science in the Northwest Pacific, show that most people have only rarely, if and then gorging at night and so many “If the IWC is to survive as a conservation where it killed 132 whales in 2013, and off the ever, eaten it. However the vehemence of the other habits need to be lost and new and management international organization, Japanese coast, where it caught 92. The IWC anti-whaling campaign has emboldened sup- ones should be gained instead to correct there should be a new paradigm. First we agreed this year to tighten scrutiny of Atlantic porters, who charge nations like Australia it is when you get something unexpect- what we have damaged and start earn- have to agree to disagree,” said Morishita. The ed by giving something or anything with ing the rewards. To win the life we all are hunts, but rejected a bid to expand protection with cultural imperialism. They point to the love. Today I’m going to add a new rule supposed to live, it is time to lose it! long-running but deadlocked discussion of in the South Atlantic, as it struggles to bal- consumption of huge numbers of cows and “black or white, zero tolerance” at the IWC has ance traditional hunting claims with conser- sheep there. — AFP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE Mental scars for Ukrainians trapped under shelling

mitry took a drag from his cigarette and she’s been sweeping up here despite the boom pulled a box of pills from his pocket. “My of artillery from the frontline not far away. “I’m Dsedatives,” he said, tapping the white and afraid of the bombardments but I’ve got used to blue packaging. “When it’s calm like now then them,” says the cleaner, 41, her face ruddy with it’s ok. But when the bombardments start, my cold. In July, she said, she lived through the heart starts beating fast, I panic and I don’t know worst experience of her life: half an hour under what to do.” A resident of the rebel-held city of direct shelling. “I was here, in this area,” she remi- Donetsk, the forty-year-old market vendor lives nisced. “To begin with I couldn’t move, I was pet- in constant fear of the deadly exchanges of mis- rified and then someone yelled to run.” “I hid in in siles and shells that fly between government the entrance of a building until it got quieter and forces and pro-Russian rebel fighters close to his my husband came to find me.” neighborhood. She left for work the following day, her “legs In mid-September, the market where he trembling” and her husband by her side. “At the worked selling sausages was pulverized by a sal- first sound, we ran to hide,” she said. Little by lit- vo of mortar fire-a clearly traumatizing experi- tle though she managed to get used to the bom- ence for Dmitry. “I couldn’t sleep, I was too anx- bardments. “When it’s calm you should begin to ious,” he said. Now every small noise makes him worry,” she says. Residents in this once-peaceful nervy, as a possible prelude to the frenzied dash city have now managed to distinguish between for cover. Only work and his medication help. the different noises and can tell how far and from “You need to talk, to interact, otherwise you lose where the shots are coming. “Even our children your mind,” he said. are ammunition experts. Do you find that nor- At Donetsk’s main psychiatric hospital, Dr mal?” said a rebel fighter known as Groz, who Mikhail Bero has seen hundreds of patients spends his days on one of the most dangerous check in as the seven months of fighting that has checkpoints in the city. “You’d have to be an idiot cost over 4,300 lives takes its toll. “We receive not to get frightened. Psychologically it is a big people who have been profoundly affected, pressure, huge pressure,” he admit, a hand rest- sometimes they are paralyzed and can’t move ing on his rifle. The former miner says he is not a their arms or legs,” said the aging psychiatrist professional fighter or a “terrorist”, as the authori- wearing a white coat. Other patients have ties in Kiev call the Kremlin-backed fighters. attempted suicide or had suicidal thoughts, he When a shell falls he does not panic but he said. “This is a natural result of post-traumatic makes sure to get to cover as quickly as possible. stress.” “It’s not worth playing the hero,” he said. And in A broom in one hand and a dustpan in the any case, he said, if a shell is headed straight for other, Larisa Zinkovskaya battles with the wind you, you probably will not realize it. “If it does INDIA: In this photograph taken on January 29, 2013, a coal miner smokes a cigarette while taking a break from hauling coal from a deep mine as she sweeps up leaves outside a rickety build- have your name on it, you won’t even hear it shaft near Rimbay village in the Indian northeastern state of Meghalaya. — AFP ing on the edge of Donetsk. For the past 11 days coming.” — AFP India to raise age for tobacco purchases, ban single sales

NEW DELHI: Health campaigners yesterday wel- profit Voluntary Health Association of India, told sticks for ten to 15 rupees (16 to 24 cents), but comed India’s plans to raise the age for tobacco AFP. “It’s going to act as a huge deterrent espe- now they will have to shell out some 200 rupees purchases to 25 and ban unpackaged cigarettes, cially for students and youngsters.” Around ($3) for the full pack, which will not be so easy,” hailing them as a major step towards stopping 900,000 Indians die of tobacco-related illnesses said Mathew. Indians consume tobacco in sever- nearly one million tobacco-related deaths a year. in India each year, the second-highest number al forms apart from cigarettes, including “gutka”- Health Minister J. P. Nadda told parliament on after China, and experts predict that could rise a cheap, mass-produced mix of tobacco, crushed Tuesday he was drawing up legislation to raise to 1.5 million by the end of the decade. An esti- areca nut and other ingredients-and hand-rolled the minimum legal age for buying tobacco prod- mated 70 percent of cigarettes sold in India are sticks called ‘beedis’. ucts, currently 18, and to force vendors only to unpackaged, equating to more than 100 billion New Delhi announced last month that tobac- sell full packets of cigarettes. The plans, pro- sticks in 2012, according to market researcher co companies would have to stamp health warn- posed by an expert panel, will need final Euromonitor. Campaigners say the tradition of ings across 85 percent of the surface of cigarette approval by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cab- selling single cigarettes at street stalls has packets from next year. Several states have also Donetsk: This picture taken on November 24, 2014 shows 13-year-old Denis from inet and parliament to become law. pushed up smoking rates, particularly among banned the sale of gutka, although campaigners Zugres, on his hospital bed at the traumatology department of the Donetsk city “This is a very welcome move by the govern- teenagers and the poor who cannot afford a full say enforcement of anti-smoking legislation hospital. — AFP ment,” Binoy Mathew, spokesman for the non- packet. “These people were easily buying single remains lax. — AFP Overweight linked to Most US HIV cases not under control 500,000 cancer cases per year WASHINGTON: As many as 70 percent of ment, but nevertheless did not have the people infected with HIV in the United infection in check. The CDC said ARVs can PARIS: Overweight and obesity is now causing effort to address the rising trends in obesity,” rate ranged from 90 percent in Canada, States do not have the virus under con- significantly reduce the viral load, the nearly half a million new cancer cases in adults said lead researcher Melina Arnold. “The global Austria, Belgium, Germany and Norway, to just trol, boosting the risk of transmission, point of rendering the infection unde- every year, roughly 3.6 percent of the world’s prevalence in adults has doubled since 1980. If 16-50 percent in Jordan, Lesotho, central according to a study Tuesday. The US tectable. Regular and effective treatment total, a study said yesterday. A quarter of these this trend continues, it will certainly boost the Tunisia, the Indonesian capital Jakarta and Centers for Disease Control and can also reduce the risk of transmitting cases are “realistically avoidable,” said the future burden of cancer, particularly in South Mongolia. In most developed countries as well Prevention (CDC) said the vast majority of the virus by 96 percent. authors of the work published in The Lancet America and North Africa, where the largest as in Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, the five- 1.2 million infected people either were no But only 30 percent of HIV-positive Oncology. Led by scientists at the increases in the rate of obesity have been seen year survival from breast and colorectal can- longer in care or were not taking medica- people in the United States had the virus International Agency for Research on Cancer over the last 30 years.” cers has increased, thanks to earlier diagnosis tion regularly in 2011. “There is untapped under control and were receiving proper (IARC), the paper drew on a range of sources, Measured as a ratio of weight in kilograms- and better treatment. There remains a major potential to drive down the epidemic treatment. In 2009, about 26 percent of including a large database of cancer incidence to-height in meters squared, a body mass gap in the survival rate of cervical and ovarian through improved testing and treatment, infected people had it in check. The and mortality for 184 countries in 2012. In index (BMI) of 25 to 29.9 is considered over- cancer. Five-year survival for these two types but we’re missing too many opportuni- newest data also shows that viral load men, being overweight was blamed for weight, and 30 plus as obese. Elsewhere in The of cancer varies from more than 70 percent in ties,” said Jonathan Mermin, director of increases with age, and among 18 to 24 136,000 new cases, more than two-thirds of Lancet, an updated map of cancer survival Mauritius, South Korea, Taiwan, Iceland and CDC’s Center for HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, year-olds infected with HIV, only 13 per- them cancers of the colon and kidney. shed light on a persisting gulf between rich Norway to less than 40 percent in Libya. STD, and tuberculosis prevention. cent had a handle on it. Among those 65 In women, it was linked to 345,000 cancer and poor countries, as well as within advanced Within Europe, cervical and ovarian cancer “Treatment is crucial. It is one of our and older, 37 percent reported low viral most important strategies for stopping loads. CDC said the main reason for a diagnoses, nearly three-quarters of which economies themselves. The CONCORD-2 study survival is 60 percent or less in Britain, France, new HIV infections.” Among 840,000 peo- higher viral load among younger people were post-menopausal breast, endometrial looked at a key benchmark-the rate for survival Ireland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Poland, Russia and ple who did not have the virus under con- is because almost half of people in that and colon cancers. Mirroring the spread of five years after diagnosis-among 25.7 million Slovakia. The study should be a barometer for trol, 66 percent had been diagnosed but age bracket had not been diagnosed. obesity in developed countries, the tally was patients who had had one of 10 common can- national health policy, said Claudia Allemani at were not getting regular care, while 20 There are about 50,000 new HIV infec- highest in North America, which accounted for cers. the London School of Hygiene and Tropical percent did not know they were infected. tions every year in the United States, nearly a quarter of all the weight-related new Medicine. “In some countries, cancer is far The study said four percent of those according to the CDC, which said the cancer cases. Sub-Saharan Africa had the Better treatment more lethal than in others-in the 21st century, infected were getting care but were not “epidemic continues to threaten the fewest, with 7,300 cases. For acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in chil- there should not be such a dramatic gulf in prescribed anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs). health and wellbeing of many “Our findings add support for a global dren-the most common childhood cancer-the survival.” — AFP Finally, 10 percent were receiving treat- Americans.” — AFP WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 Marina Hotel launches special packages during holiday season

t is time once again to ring in the cheerful holiday Enjoy the international buffet breakfast and the relaxed season, and this year Marina Hotel Kuwait is delight- setting of The Six Palms’ restaurant. The Atlantis restau- Ied to offer guests a host of fun-filled experiences. The rant, which specializes in International cuisines, is the hotel will celebrate upcoming festivities by offering ideal place venue to visit during lunch and dinner. It valuable tailor-made packages which will run from Dec offers a 20 percent discount on lunch and dinner buffet 1, 2014 to Jan 11, 2015. and an exceptional choice for the mouth-watering aroma Marina Hotel Kuwait offers the perfect venue for your of its fresh menu choices with a magnificent sea view. family, friends and loved ones under the twinkling lights With a multitude of facilities and services, guests can and the cool breeze of the Arabian coast. Featuring lav- break the daily routine and enjoy the magnificent sea ish accommodations, guests can enjoy the charm of view and the private beach along with the state of the genuine Arabian hospitality with a room for two persons art Coral Reef Health Club facilities and amenities. In that includes buffet breakfast and free access to the close proximity to Marina Mall, which is amongst the hotel’s health club. best shopping malls in Kuwait, and the Crescent which Throughout the month, the hotel’s culinary team is houses a variety of international restaurants and coffee dedicated to offer guests a unique and diverse selection shops, Marina Hotel is an ideal location for family of cuisines at the hotel’s two renowned restaurants. leisure.

Inauguration of the event by Sunil Jain by lighting the lamp. IEI - Kuwait chapter committee and support group members with dignitaries. IEI celebrates 47th Engineers’ Day and 20th anniversary in Kuwait

he prestigious and the magnificent building in Kuwait - and its proud legacy, which was constituted by the Royal sary was released by the ambassador and the first copy was Guest of Honour Dr Manaf Behbehani spoke extempore, win- Arab Organization’s Head Quarters Building, situated in Charter in 1930. Chairman made a passionate appeal to all received by the chief guest and other dignitaries on the dais. ning the hearts and smiles of all the members in the hall. He TShuwaikh, Kuwait, blends modern architectural tech- engineers and Kuwaiti friends to “Make in India” and to “Educate Jain appreciated the good efforts exerted by Indian engi- mentioned that he was wondering what was the secret of the niques with traditional artisan crafts of various countries. The in India”, considering the strides India is making in all fields and neers in Kuwait and advised that the engineers should facili- success of Indians in various fields like science, mathematics, multifunctional conference hall is the building’s largest meeting the Indian educational institutions are providing quality educa- tate to develop good relations between Kuwait and India. He IT, space technology, medicine, etc. He found that the secret venue and was chosen to celebrate the grand 47th Engineers’ tion “which our Kuwaiti friends can send their children to India reminded of the Indian prime minister’s call of “Make in India”. is the value Indians give to education, parents sacrifice their Day and 20th Anniversary of IEI - Kuwait on Nov 9, 2014. for education”. He stressed that Indian Engineering is world He said Indian companies have won major contracts in entire lives for providing good education to their children and Ambassador of India and IEI patron Sunil Jain was invited to class, as Indians have displayed to the world by sending Kuwait and this is a recognition of Indian engineering capa- because of that education, today Indians are what they are. inaugurate the event by lighting the ceremonial lamp and all Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan by adapting to frugal engineer- bilities and efficiencies. He reminded everybody not to forget the sacrifices of their the dignitaries on the dais joined him during the ceremony. ing at 1/10th cost of other successful missions. Chief Guest Engr Ahmad Almershed appreciated the con- “parents” and their “country” which has made them what they Engr Panicker, Chairman, explained in brief about IEI’s origin The souvenir for the 47th Engineers Day and 20th anniver- tribution of Indian engineers to the development of Kuwait. are and have to take care of them.

Pravasaandhra organizes annual picnic

ravasaandhra Telugu Desam, Kuwait organized its annual picnic in Wafra On and off drizzling added flavor to the enjoyment. Games and sports start- Srinivas Chodary, Peram Ramana, Uday Prakash, Sudarshan Naidu, on Nov 21, 2014. More than 200 Telugu community family members from ed immediately after breakfast, continued with lunch and ran till the evening. Narayanamma, Rama Chandra Naidu, Perugu Srinu, Penchalaiah Naidu, Ramesh Pdifferent parts of Kuwait participated inthe event. The event was a fun Pravasaandhra Telugu Desam, Kuwait president Mulakala Subbarayudu Naidu Babu, Venkateswarlu Naidu, Mohan Babu, Raja Sekhar, Prasad Rao, Damu, filled one with various sports and games such as football, volleyball, tug of war, introduced Pravasaandhra Telugu Desam activities to the attendees. Mulakala Polineni Santaram Naidu Telugu Kala Samiti General Secretary Venkat Koduri one-minute games and specially organized games for children and distribution Jyothy Laxmi Subbarayudu distributed prizes to the children. and others played a leading part in this event’s grand success. of prizes. General Secretary Malepati Suresh Babu Naidu, Vice President Pidikiti

Greetings Hundreds attend free medical camp by MES

appy wedlock Mr and Mrs Hamilton. May God guide and protect you and shower Hon you his blessings. Amen.

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All photos submitted for What’s On should be minimum 200dpi. undreds of less privileged people attended a free Lifestyle Can Change Your Life” and a booklet based on Medical Services was distributed under the supervision Articles must be in plain text and medical screening camp organized by the the topic was released by the Ambassador and the first of the medical wing convenor Nasaruddeen and hun- HMuslim Educational Society (MES) - Malabar Gold copy received by the principal of the school, Zahara dreds of patients from different walks of life benefited should include name and phone & Diamonds in association with Indian Doctor’s Forum Khalida. Experts from various medical specialties from this noble event. numbers. Articles and photos that (IDF), Indian Dentists’ Alliance, Kuwait Heart including orthopaedics, ENT, gynaecology, ophthalmol- MES conducts medical camps every year and this is Foundation, Kuwait Medical Association and supported ogy, diabetes, cardiology, general medicine, paediatrics, the 14th camp organized for the community. IDF fail to meet these requirements will by Al-Rahma Committee for Medical Services (Al-Najat dermatology and dentistry examined the patients. In arranged around 50 doctors, which is the largest con- not be published. Charity Society) on Friday, Nov 21, 2014 at Pakistan addition, many patients utilized the services of ECG, tingent till date for such a camp, covering almost all Excel English School in Abbasiya. Malabar Gold & mammography and scanning. specialties. Around 40 skilled paramedical staff assisted Please send them to Diamonds was the main sponsor of the event. The camp The dedication and hard work put in by the MES vol- the doctors for the preliminary checkups. was inaugurated by Ambassador of India to Kuwait unteers helped the participants to avail camp facilities Blood sugar tests were also arranged for the public [email protected] Sunil Jain. easily. Large quantity of medicines sponsored by Saudi in addition to the blood cholesterol test by the Kuwait The theme of this year’s medical camp was “Healthy Pharmaceutical Company and Al-Rahma Committee for Heart Foundation. WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 AUK students visit Ooredoo

group of AUK students visited Ooredoo’s headquarters in Kuwait City on Tuesday as part of their course work in the mass communications department. The students were given Aa thorough presentation about the scope of work of the company’s Group Communications division, which cover public relations, internal communications, social media, corporate social responsibility, and sponsorships. Ooredoo employees from the Public Relations department explained to the students the different roles they play, which includes developing content for different media channels like newspapers, radio and television, as well as updating the public of the company’s latest activities and various products and offers. Students were also given a presentation about the special role that the Group Communications division played during the rebranding phase in May. The presentation was followed by an open discussion session where students’ questions about the different roles of the division were answered. Ooredoo places great importance on youth, believing that they play an essential role in impacting positive change in the future.

l-Sanabel Al-Thahabiya and Sebamed continue their participation in health awareness campaigns throughout Kuwait. The activities that started at Kuwait University on Sunday continue and will con- clude today with a ceremony to honor organizers, sponsors and participants. Sebamed was also at hand during an activity at Royale Hayat Hospital where lectures and health information were given on ATuesday evening. Meanwhile, Al-Oyoun polyclinic in Jahra focused its activity on diabetes and means of its prevention, and how to live a healthy life.

The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kuwait held a ‘Jazz Evening’ featuring the internationally acknowledged pianist and composer Sebastian Schunke on Nov 24, 2014 at the residence of the German ambassador. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 TV PROGRAMS

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Driver, having knowledge SHARQIA-1 THE CULLING 3:15 PM 360º- 1 of all Kuwaiti area. Contact: DUMB AND DUMBER TO 12:30 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 5:15 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 1:15 PM 55748362. (C 4861) NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 2:45 PM THE CULLING 7:15 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 3:30 PM DUMB AND DUMBER TO 4:45 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 9:00 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 5:45 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 6:45 PM THE CULLING 11:00 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 8:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 8:45 PM THE CULLING 1:00 AM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 10:15 PM CHANGE OF NAME NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 10:45 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 12:30 AM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:45 AM FANAR-4 I, Vonkiraju Subramanyan PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR-3D 11:45 AM 360º- 2 SHARQIA-2 HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 1:45 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 12:15 PM Raju (old name) holder of HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 1:00 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR-3D 3:45 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 2:30 PM Indian Passport No: THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 3:00 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 5:45 PM JESSABELLE 4:45 PM Z1959281 R/o HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 5:30 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 7:45 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 7:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:30 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 9:45 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 9:15 PM Madhavarampodu, HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 10:00 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 11:45 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 11:30 PM Upparapolli, RLY Kodun HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 12:05 AM (MDL) Y.S.R (Dist) A.P FANAR-5 360º- 3 changed my name as SHARQIA-3 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 11:30 AM FALCON RISING 12:00 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 12:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 2:00 PM FALCON RISING 2:15 PM Vankiraju Subramanyam PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 2:30 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 4:30 PM FALCON RISING 4:30 PM Raju. (C 4866) PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 4:30 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:00 PM FALCON RISING 6:45 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 6:30 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 9:30 PM FALCON RISING 9:00 PM FALCON RISING 8:30 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:05 AM FALCON RISING 11:15 PM I, Aneesh Palakkeel FALCON RISING 10:30 PM Valappil , holder of Indian FALCON RISING 12:30 AM MARINA-1 AL-KOUT.1 Passport No. K8441277 FALCON RISING 12:30 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 11:30 AM hereby change my name to MUHALAB-1 THE CULLING 2:45 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 1:30 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:00 PM FALCON RISING 4:45 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 3:30 PM Muhammed Aneesh. FALCON RISING 2:00 PM HAMATI BITHEBINI -Arabic 6:45 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 5:30 PM Address: Kannome Kerala, NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 4:00 PM FALCON RISING 8:45 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:30 PM Ezhome P.O., Kannur Dt, FALCON RISING 6:00 PM THE CULLING 10:45 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 10:00 PM pincode 670334 Kerala. NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 8:00 PM FALCON RISING 12:30 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:30 AM FALCON RISING 10:00 PM (C 4865) NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:05 AM MARINA-2 AL-KOUT.2 PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 12:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:15 PM I, Rosaria Mafalda Nunes MUHALAB-2 NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 2:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 2:15 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 1:00 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 4:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 4:15 PM r/o H.No. 851 Goa-Velha HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 3:00 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 6:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 6:15 PM Morgado. I would like HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 5:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 8:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 8:15 PM change my name from THE CULLING 7:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 10:00 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 10:15 PM Rosaria Mafalda Gomes to HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 8:45 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:05 AM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:15 AM THE CULLING 10:45 PM Rosaria Mafalda Nunes. HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 12:30 AM MARINA-3 AL-KOUT.3 (C 4862) THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 12:45 PM THE CULLING 11:30 AM 24-11-2014 MUHALAB-3 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 3:15 PM FALCON RISING 1:15 PM THE CULLING 11:30 AM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 5:45 PM THE CULLING 3:15 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 1:15 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:45 PM CATCH HELL 5:00 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR-3D 3:15 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 10:15 PM FALCON RISING 7:00 PM SITUATION WANTED PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR 5:15 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 12:15 AM THE CULLING 9:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:15 PM FALCON RISING 10:45 PM IT Technical Support, MB4 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 9:45 PM AVENUES-1 THE CULLING 12:45 AM THE CULLING 12:15 AM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 1:30 PM Graduate, 6 years experi- THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 4:15 PM BAIRAQ-1 ence in desktop technical FANAR-1 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 7:00 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR-3D 12:00 PM support, 1 month in FALCON RISING 11:30 AM CATCH HELL 9:30 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR-3D 2:00 PM Kuwait. MCSE 2008 certi- FALCON RISING 1:30 PM CATCH HELL 11:30 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR-3D 4:00 PM CATCH HELL 3:30 PM PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR-3D 6:00 PM fied, trained in Linux. Visa FALCON RISING 5:30 PM AVENUES-2 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 8:00 PM 18, can join immediately. HAPPY NEW YEAR - HINDI 7:45 PM THE CULLING 12:00 PM THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 10:30 PM Contact: 97482501. FALCON RISING 11:00 PM THE CULLING 2:00 PM FALCON RISING 1:00 AM (C 4863) FALCON RISING 1:00 AM THE CULLING 4:00 PM 112 THE CULLING 6:00 PM BAIRAQ-2 FANAR-2 THE CULLING 8:00 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 11:45 AM M.Com 15 years of experi- NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:30 PM THE CULLING 10:00 PM FALCON RISING 1:45 PM ence in independently NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 2:30 PM THE CULLING 12:05 AM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 3:45 PM handling accounts of medi- Prayer timings NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 4:30 PM FALCON RISING 5:45 PM NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 6:30 PM AVENUES-3 HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 7:45 PM um sized companies up to Fajr: 04:58 finalization level 4, familiar DUMB AND DUMBER TO 8:30 PM FALCON RISING 1:15 PM FALCON RISING 9:45 PM Shorook 06:21 NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 10:30 PM FALCON RISING 3:30 PM HORRIBLE BOSSES 2 11:45 PM with computerized Duhr: 11:36 NORTHMEN - A VIKING SAGA 12:30 AM FALCON RISING 5:45 PM accounting systems, seek- FALCON RISING 8:00 PM BAIRAQ-3 Asr: 14:30 ing suitable position. 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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

You concentrate on money management now. Perhaps you are learning Work, achievement and ambition are on your mind today. You will find that new ways in which to handle your finances. There could be a family conference tomor- your mind and thoughts will be very intense just now. There could be a lot of pressure to row-you will be ready. Outer circumstances are favorable and it should be easy for you to make decisions too quickly. There is, however, an opportunity to talk with higher-ups and push forward in projects and in all aspects of your life. Things may seem almost miracu- to create a better understanding between higher-ups and co-workers today. There is a lous in the way they work out in your favor. This is a great time to organize and get things need to be respected and this may lead to faster than necessary decisions. You develop a accomplished. A relentless getting down to essentials make your sense of practical vision knack for organizing things and people, as a sense of ambition and practicality takes very deep. You have a sense of mass psychology: how to organize and manipulate sensi- hold. Close relationships have a big impact on your life at this time. Old relationships will tive areas of the public mind. A very simple gathering of several friends this evening be transformed or perhaps even ended-new ones come on like gangbusters. A partner reveals you at your most elegant. This is a very full day! has a mesmerizing impact on you . . . Very compelling.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Scorpio (October 23-November 21)

In many respects, the work you do and the ways in which you take care of Your business expertise is highlighted today. You are dynamic and outgo- yourself or present yourself to others are important keys to your best potential now. ing, wanting to hurry and get your work completed-you work at a fast pace most of the There is a need for focus in your life at this time. Set up systems and schedules and stick day long. You are motivated to achieve. Understanding inner motivations, seeing to them! You put forth a lot of effort, particularly regarding your career. Your drive and through to the core: that’s your real path of power and enlightenment now. As you try to ambitions work well with whatever management skills and practical ability you have, pro- balance errand-running, work and coordinating events for the seasonal celebrations, see ducing a harmonious work environment. Circumstances should work together to help if you cannot allocate some of your chores. Your work will move along much smoother if bring out your skills-making it easier to make your dreams real. You may find yourself you take on a helping hand in your private world. Emotional security and a sense of examining and testing ideals. Generally, this is a good time to project your image. At belonging and nurturing are the issues that are felt instinctively now. Unfinished work at home this evening, emphasize your own needs in a partnership. home can be finished by willing volunteers-ask.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) More than likely, the economy is the reason you have moved closer to You can smile all the way to the bank today-a lucrative turnaround is work. Wise choices and changes that you create are part of this new birth expected where you dared to invest a few months ago. If you are not invest- year. Positive things happen and people, places and events are high on the list of things ACROSS DOWN ing-this is a lucky day. Work is easy now. There are very few interruptions and this is good you will want to remember this year. Animals seem to have descended into your space since you may not be as patient as usual. Much can be accomplished. There is a real and you might want to spend a little money and time providing a proper place to keep 1. Something acquired without compen- 1. A genus of Accipitridae. insight into your own inner workings or psychology, and it’s in a manageable form. You sation. them safe or find a way to keep them off your property. Either way, a new look is in and an 2. The United Nations agency concerned may be in the mood for deep and penetrating conversations. Take time to meditate-it will addition of plants or flowers can make smiles happen. You can begin planting the seeds 5. Regional and archaic. with atomic energy. give you peace of mind as you move through your day. Perhaps it is your turn to cook this for that garden without animals digging or eating the plants away. An exciting event this 12. Light informal conversation for social 3. Any broad thin and limber covering evening-make it colorful! There is time for a new understanding among friends and to afternoon ends in pleasant surprises. A social gig is for you tonight. also enjoy the company of a loved one. Enjoy a quiet evening. occasions. attached at one edge. 15. River in eastern Asia. 4. Eurasian perennial bulbous herbs. 16. A bar to which heavy discs are 5. A loose sleeveless outer garment made attached at each end. from aba cloth. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. A city in the European part of Russia. 6. Genus of South and Central American Issues of fairness come into play today-you may go out of your way to be Someone could challenge you on a very sensitive issue, resulting in a very 18. A deep prolonged sound (as of thun- heathlike evergreen shrubs. just. You appreciate others who have been successful and may surround intense discussion. Make it a point to think first before you come to any conclusions about der or large bells). 7. (Greek mythology) Goddess of discord. yourself with those in power; be they politicians, officials or what have you. The way you 19. True firs. a touchy situation. There may be no surefire answers-compromise may be in order. You feel about something is crucial and if someone does not feel right to you, they might as 8. Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829). enjoy working hard most of the time and today is no exception. You exercise skill and dis- well not be there. Emotions are the glue that holds you together. Your sense of quality, 20. A republic in southeastern Europe on 9. Any plant of the genus Reseda. cipline in your career and reputation. There is a need for a timeout period occasionally-you whether it is in the character of another, a good business deal or the purchases you make, the southern part of the Balkan peninsula. 10. Angular distance above the horizon can become rather intense. Being successful in life is easy-you have a built-in sense of how tests your ability to discriminate. You could make your living with your good taste. You 22. Full of flavor. to unravel the most difficult problems. This evening will find you involved in helping older may be called upon to teach others the ability to make decisions regarding finances. You (especially of a celestial object). 24. A small island. people-perhaps in some volunteer program. understand the choices and can spot the right ones. 11. A chronic skin disease occurring pri- 25. A river in north central Switzerland marily in women between the ages of 20 that runs northeast into the Rhine. and 40. 26. Large burrowing rodent of South and Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 12. A Russian prison camp for political Central America. prisoners. You are a true progressive, especially in group work, you are democratic to Although the winter celebrations are near at hand, today is a great time to get things accomplished. Your career or life-path may depend on your tal- 27. Locate and correct errors in a comput- the point of being radical-an idealist. You may be untroubled when it comes to being fair, 13. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great ent for responding and making something out of ideas, insights . . . Whatever is new and er program code. with a great interest in new trends and world affairs. You are future-oriented and applica- challenging. The business world may call for your ability to react and build on opportuni- distance. tion-minded. Your tendency to compromise and settle for less than you dreamed can be a 29. The part of the eye that contains the ties. This could involve travel or management responsibilities. Your urge to organize and 14. Serving as or forming a base. problem just now. Given the opportunity, you may choose the path of least resistance, iris and ciliary body and choroid. be practical with your responsibilities amounts to a minor obsession today. Your career 21. Cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as willing to bypass some of the things you always wanted in favor of expediency. Career motivation is constant and relentless-you may reach new highs of determination. This will 32. Submerged aquatic plant having nar- moves must be given special attention, especially today. Tension results when you ignore row leaves and small flowers. soap, and water. bring great discipline and a concentration or focus that could make or break you-the ability your own desires-the things you need and want. It is time to request a promotion. This to work hard. A love relationship will blossom this evening. 36. A writing implement with a point from 23. An official prosecutor for a judicial dis- evening you may spend time with new computer software. which ink flows. trict. 39. Of or relating to the process of hear- 28. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in ing. balls. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 41. West Indian tree having racemes of fra- 30. Included seven times in every 19 years. grant white flowers and yielding a durable 31. Spin or twist together so as to form a Outer circumstances are favorable and it should be easy for you to push Work issues may not be easily solved but you will find the solutions you cord. forward in projects and in all aspects of your life. Things may seem to work out well for need. You rush to finish work a little early so that you can go through the preliminaries for timber and resinous juice. you just now. You could be working with groups in a spirit of cooperation. You may find some family plans. The opportunity is perfect to stop and enjoy an evening meal with fami- 43. A ballistic missile that is capable of 33. Type genus of the Amiidae. yourself succeeding and moving ahead by using your mind. Also, communication and ly members. Perhaps someone will help you with the errand running before the big social traveling from one continent to another. 34. A medical establishment run by a research in all forms could be a key area for career growth. You have great insight into coming up soon. You have a natural sense for communicating with others, especially those 46. English essayist (1775-1834). group of medical specialists. matters of personal freedom. You come up with brilliant ways to express, emote or act out younger than yourself. Clear thoughts about the past may also be flowing in today. Making things. New methods of lovemaking, raising kids and caring for animals are yours. You are peace with the past is essential now and it’s the only way you can get to the future you 47. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian 35. Causing or capable of causing death. outspoken, very dramatic, impressive and even regal. You relax with children, sports, act- want. Home, family or real estate is one of the interests that require a lot of discipline now. mythology. 37. A metallic element having four ing, singing and such this evening. It would help to make a to-do list for tomorrow. 48. God of death. allotropic forms. 49. The basic unit of money in South 38. A white metallic element that burns Africa. with a brilliant light. WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution 50. A small soft bag containing perfumed 40. Tropical American tree grown in powder. southern United States having a whitish 52. A French abbot. pink-tinged fruit. 54. A unit of length equal to one thou- 42. A member of the Semitic speaking sandth of an inch. people of northern Ethiopia. 55. Something considered choice to eat. 44. A steep rugged rock or cliff. 59. (in a digital numeration system) The 45. A small cake leavened with yeast. positive integer that is equivalent to one 51. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet. in the next higher counting place. 53. (Scotland) A slope or hillside. 60. Title for a civil or military leader (espe- 56. Stout-bodied insect with large mem- cially in Turkey). branous wings. 61. A Chadic language spoken south of 57. Ticks having a hard shield on the back Lake Chad. and mouth parts that project from the 64. A dense growth of bushes. head. 67. Characteristic of false pride. 58. Washing out a hollow organ (especial- 71. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike ly the stomach) by flushing with water. part of an organism. 74. Not in accordance with the fact or real- 62. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising ity or actuality. solely the razorbill. 75. Being one hundred more than two 63. Consideration in dealing with others hundred. and avoiding giving offence. 76. A tricycle (usually propelled by ped- 65. A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing. alling). 66. The act of scanning. 78. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the 68. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans 69. Goddess of fertility. in ancient mythology. 70. Clean or orderly. 79. Headdress that protects the head from 72. An accountant certified by the state. bad weather. 73. (informal) Informed about the latest 80. The great hall in ancient Persian trends. palaces. 77. A soft silvery metallic element of the 81. At a previous time. alkali earth group.

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ention African style and the fashion crowd my mother and realised there’s so much to it, it is not thinks Lagos, or Johannesburg. But Uganda’s just about making tourist souvenirs,” said Hendo, who Memerging designers—using a mix of local craft has developed far more complex designs than the and global savvy—are hoping to give them a run for ubiquitous bark cloth hats and place mats usually on their money. Fashion in the east African nation may be sale. “What is exciting is that it is organic, the process of viewed as frivolous by many, with the industry under making it has never changed in 600 years.” resourced and local designers facing fierce competi- In Uganda’s royal kingdom Buganda, bark cloth is tion from cheaper secondhand clothes and Chinese worn for coronations and other important cultural imports. But tickets for Kampala’s first ever Fashion ceremonies. Making it is an ancient craft, listed on Week earlier this month sold out swiftly, with models UNESCO “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” strutting the catwalk showing everything from se- Hendo is now selling her creations in Uganda and quined hot pants to accessories made from cow horn, Britain, where she has three shops. to a dress made from the country’s unique bark cloth. Kampala’s show ended with Ugandan model Stacie “In so many ways anything to do with being artistic Aamito strutting the runway in Hendo’s breathtaking is a struggle here, people don’t take it seriously,” said “fairy dress”, featuring a bodice made from bark. Aami- Ugandan-born designer Jose Hendo, now based in to, 21, had a “humble” upbringing in northern Uganda, Britain, who showcased her work in Africa for the first before winning the African franchise of the “Next Top time at the show. It follows similar successful recent Model” reality TV show earlier this year. The beauty is fashion weeks in Burundi and Rwanda, while Kenya’s now signed to an elite agency in New York, where she opens this week in Nairobi, as east Africa moves to lives. But she said her family had been doubtful of her boost its stake among the continent’s designers. career choice at first, telling her that “’you need to be a The show had international backing, with the same lawyer, you need to study and be something, because production crew—LDJ Productions—who provide if you’re a model you’re not anything’,” she told AFP. technical support for New York fashion week helping “Most people do not take fashion seriously” in Uganda, out in Kampala. she said, but insisted the trade could “definitely be a LDJ Productions CEO Laurie De Jong, whose team big earner” for the nation. have also helped Mumbai, Miami, Toronto and Los An- geles get fashion weeks off the ground, said New York’s Ankole cow horn version was now one of the city’s top three revenue- Kampala Fashion Week founder Gloria Wavammuno, A file photo shows a models presenting a creation by A file photo shows a model presenting a creation producing events. De Jong said Uganda’s talented 29, said her tailor aunts, who lived during the era of fashion designer Kwesh during the first fashion week by designer Martha Jabo during the first fashion designers and others working in the industry could dictator Idi Amin—a time of “very long skirts and no show held in Kampala. week show held in Kampala.—AFP photos offer the country a “huge, huge economic boost” if trousers”—were supporting their families through the supported more. The Kampala Fashion Week show fea- local trade. “One of my aunts is sending her children to tured 10 Ugandan women and menswear designers, very good schools, two of them have gone to college many self-taught, and marked a comeback for Natasha in America and Canada,” she said. Some designers Karugire, the daughter of President Yoweri Museveni. travel to China to source their fabrics but Wavammuno “My prayer and hope is that Ugandans will all wear our wants to support the local sector. Wavammuno, who own clothes and that the second hand clothes market interned for British men’s designer Ozwald Boateng will fizzle out of our society,” said Karugire, whose label and has participated in fashion weeks in New York and J&kainembabazi sent out bright, floral dresses with Paris, showed off her jackets, raincoats and “woolly traditional beading at the collar. things” made from “furniture materials for sofas and curtains.” ‘Big earner’ They were teamed with sandals, handbags and col- A file photo shows models Hendo’s collection for the show featured jackets, lars created from Uganda’s famous giant Ankole cow presenting creations trousers, coats, headpieces and other accessories horn and fish, sheep and cow leather. Designers are made of bark cloth mate- made out of the bark cloth from local trees, mixed hopeful, even though Wavammuno admits Uganda’s rial by fashion designer with cotton, silk and denim. The award-winning ethical fashion industry is starved of resources. “Our fashion Jose Hendo during the designer came up with the idea of using bark cloth school doesn’t even have a seamstress,’ she said. “It first fashion week show after a 2001 trip to Uganda with her family. “I spoke to doesn’t even have machines.”—AFP held in Kampala.

auctions set artist records bronze sculpture by Fernando Botero has set from the collection of Mexican businessman and arts Latina new auction record for the ColombianAmerican artist. patron Lorenzo Zambrano. The highlight of theart sale A “Adam and Eve” sold for $2.5 million at Christie’s was “Towards the Tower” by the Spanish-Mexican artist on Monday. Another edition of the work decorates the Remedios Varo (ray-MAY’-day-ohs VAH’-roh). It sold for lobby of the Time Warner Center in New York City. The $4.3 million. Sotheby’s says it’s the second highest price previous record for Botero was $2 million for his paint- for a Latin American female artist at auction.—AP ing “Four Musicians,” which sold in 2006. At Sotheby’s, the sale of Latin American art set 12 artist records Monday evening. The works came

This image released by Sotheby’s shows “The Temptation of St. Anthony” an oil on canvas by Mexican artist Leonora Car- rington.

This image released by Sotheby’s shows “Still Life” an oil on canvas by Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo.

This image released by Sotheby’s shows “Pescadores de Acapulco,” (The Fishermen) an oil on canvas by Mexican artist Diego Rivera.

This image released by Chris- This image released by So- tie’s shows “Mujeres con flores,” theby’s shows “Hacia la torre” (Women with Flowers) and oil an oil on masonite by Spanish- on canvas, circa 1938, painted Mexican artist Remedios Varo. This image released by Sotheby’s shows “Ofrenda de Frutas,” by Mexican artist Alfredo Ra- This image released by Sotheby’s shows “Portrait of Miriam Penansky,” an oil on mos Martínez. (Offering of Fruits) an oil and sand on canvas by Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. canvas by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.—AP photos LIFESTYLE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 Features37 Breaking silence against domestic violence s human beings we deserve to love and another option you can take to protect yourself and beloved. It’s human nature, the more loving your child/ren. Mothers always come first, because Ayou are, the more love you will receive, and children should never suffer or whiteness violence. all week this has been the topic that inspired me: Children who do come from a background of abu- “International End Violence Against Women Day”. sive parents tend to become a violent individual as This event was a walkathon on the 25th of Novem- an adult or even towards their partner. ber, where many women joined forces and emo- The role of our society is to educate young tional support to break the silence and encourage girls, and even boys about domestic violence, and young girls and women to talk about their experi- encourage people to talk about such issues, to help ences with domestic violence, whether it was verbal family members or friends. Violence prevention or physical. Many doctors, psychologists, specialists programs should be supported at high schools and and political figures were present to show their sup- universities. The Walkathon that took place is a huge port to these women and cause. Such events inspire step forward to helping women talk to lawyers and women to help themselves out of an unhealthy specialists that will guide them through the process situation, or even to help their friend, sister, mother of stopping the violence, which is a life changing or cousin to take the first step to leading healthy decision to make. lives and be in positive relationships. Break your silence Emotionally exhausting If you have a family member or friend going I don’t think anyone can disagree with the fact through such a problem, talk to them, help them that violence against women is a global issue, not realize the signs and encourage making a change. limited to a specific age group, women of society, As women, we love a challenge, and situations like religion, nationality, beliefs nor lifestyles. Violence these are sometimes considered a challenge to us, against women is triggered by an unequal power- we always feel like we could’ve done more, given struggle relationship between a male and female. more, waited a bit longer, and come up with a mil- One in every four women experience violence, lion excuses to make it feel right. You couldn’t have (physical or verbal), up to 50% are under the age of done worse. It is easier said than done of course, but 16. Reading those facts are mind-blowing. Keep in in order to have a healthy relationship, you should mind, we might not see a lot of it happening in our love yourself first, in order to be capable of loving environment, however, globally it is the number someone else. If you don’t love yourself then you one cause of violence. This topic is more emotional allow others to use and abuse you. to me because I have a friend who has been abused I am extremely proud to see young, driven by her husband, and hearing the stories behind all Kuwaiti girls, most importantly Middle Eastern the abuse can really take its toll on you and how women taking such steps to spread awareness of you start perceiving relationships. such a global issue. No one deserves to go through Getting free from abuse is a long process and can domestic violence, sometimes it is the other way be very emotionally exhausting. Most women who around, men can sometimes be abused, however, leave a toxic relationship tend to go back, feeling numbers are skyrocketing when it comes to abused guilty that they could’ve fixed the problem, or fix women, but it does happen with men too. No one him. Not to mention, many societies and cultures should ever go through such traumatic situations. look down upon women who break-free, or decide Seek help, talk to someone, which is the least you to take matters into their own hands and just leave. can do. Break your silence, fight for humanity. Some women still believe that it is their job to stay quiet about the abuse, and adapt, sometimes even I promise you a lighter topic next week! accept it to become a “good wife”. It kills me, we Love, women are very powerful, and we tolerate so much Fouz xo pain, physically, emotionally and mentally. Why allow someone so small destroy you? The law is Get obsessed with trendy Met winter fashion at Museum gets major gift inter isn’t a time to dread, it’s just another shell tops, shirt dress, pencil skirts, mannish and cuff fashionable season to look forward to with pants. 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Not necessarily leaning towards the Goth side the textures and shapes remain romantic with pieces like boxy tops, Kurt Cobain urt Cobain is the focus of a new documentary that probes the life and untimely death of the Nirvana singer-guitarist. It Kwill be released in theaters next year and air exclusively on HBO, the network said Tuesday. Co-produced by HBO Documen- tary Films, “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck” is the first documentary made with the cooperation of Cobain’s family. It draws on home movies, journals and other personal archives. It features Nirvana songs and performances and previously unheard Cobain originals. The film’s director-producer, Brett Morgen, has previously made the documentaries “Crossfire Hurricane,” about the Rolling Stones, Lead singer of the US rock band Nir- and “The Kid Stays in the Picture.” Cobain formed Nirvana in 1985, vana Kurt Cobain is shown in a 1993 and by the early 1990s was decreed the spokesman of Generation file photo. --AP X. He died of suicide in 1994 at age 27.—AP LIFESTYLE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 Music38 & Movies Film Review Horrible Bosses 2’ doesn’t work he characters of the modern work- place comedy, like the rest of us, Vulgar gags Tdon’t know how to make a living “Horrible Bosses 2,” directed and co- anymore. Having haplessly tried to murder written by Sean Anders, is built on its their bosses in the first “Horrible Bosses,” hydra-headed leads who appear almost Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason tethered together, crowding the frame Sudeikis return in “Horrible Bosses 2” as like the Three Stooges. Bateman, Day and hopeful inventors. “Let’s bet on ourselves,” Sudeikis are each talented comic actors they tell each other, making a clearly who have their riffing rhythm down, questionable wager. They go into busi- skillfully weaving and overlapping their ness with a bath product dubbed “Shower idiotic antics. But this gratuitous sequel Buddy,” and with their abysmal guest fails most because their triangle offense, spot on a morning show promoting it, it’s while smooth, isn’t dynamic enough. With clear they may have backed the wrong Bateman playing the straight man and horse. It’s become a familiar genre trope Sudeikis’ smiley, glib shtick wearing thin, of recent years: The idealistic self-starter the only source of laughs is the slapstick of business that almost certainly wouldn’t Day - a reliably funny, high-pitched ball of stand a chance in real life. Dwarfed by anxiety. The “It’s Always Sunny in Philadel- corporations or left behind by the digital phia” star is like an electrocuted chipmunk, economy, comedies are routinely littered his fearful eyes always darting. with plucky upstarts, from Kristen Wiig’s So “Horrible Bosses 2” goes for what- would-be baker in “Bridesmaids” to Vince ever cheap, vulgar gags it can collide Vaughn and Owen Wilson’s middle-aged into. Most unfortunate is the sex-crazed Google aspirants of “The Internship.” debasement of Aniston, who lights up While the first “Horrible Bosses” tried the movie but suffers some of its lowest to tap into the widely held fantasy of kill- jokes. Really, it’s an altogether likable cast, ing the overloads of the office, its sequel all of whom appear quite game despite mines the farce in being your own boss. the lacking material. That the film skitters The entrepreneurial efforts of the film’s aimlessly away from the office is a wasted ever-yammering trio, of course, fail, and opportunity, too, since today’s workplaces the film descends into a thinly sketched could use the levity. Someone should have kidnapping plot that serves mainly to given “Horrible Bosses” a real job. “Horrible space its celebrity cameos. Hoodwinked Bosses 2,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated by a rich distributor (Christoph Waltz), the PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association guys - Nick, Kurt and Dale - plan to kidnap of America for “some sexual references, the executive’s playboy son (Chris Pine). mature thematic material and historical The ill-conceived scheme returns them to smoking.” Running time: 108 minutes. One their criminal adviser (Jamie Foxx, who the and a half stars out of four.—AP film could have used more of), Nick’s now imprisoned former boss (Kevin Spacey) and Dale’s old torturer dentist (Jennifer In this image released by Warner Bros Pictures, Charlie Day, from left, Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman and Chris Pine appear in a Aniston). scene from “Horrible Bosses 2.”—AP Mitchell ‘Squelched’ lights up Australian music industry awards possible Swift Sia ia and her “Chandelier” lit up in a lot of effort. “It might seem like an Australia’s Aria music awards, even overnight success, but we’ve been work- casting in biopic Swithout appearing on stage. The ing at this for five years or more, so we singer-songwriter won album of the work hard,” she said. Boy band 5 Seconds oni Mitchell revealed that she shook off the pos- year for “1000 Forms of Fear” as well as of Summer opened the ceremony with sibility of having Taylor Swift portray her in biopic best pop release, best video and best “She Looks So Perfect,” which won the J“Girls Like Us,” according to an interview with the female artist. She didn’t attend yester- public vote for song of the year. “Every Sunday Times. “I squelched that,” Mitchell told the day’s ceremony in Sydney, but Katy Perry single Australian has been behind our newspaper. “I said to the producer, ‘All you’ve got is a accepted the best female artist gong on band and we’re just from Sydney and girl with high cheekbones.’ It’s just a lot of gossip, you her behalf. Iggy Azalea was named best we can’t believe what’s happened to us,” don’t have the great scenes.” “Girls Like Us” was the breakthrough artist, and “Fancy” col- Ashton Irwin said. would-be film adaptation of Sheila Weller’s book of laborator Charli XCX accepted the award One Direction caused hysteria on the the same name that examines the lives and music of in her absence. red carpet before accepting the publicly Mitchell, Carly Simon and Carole King. Mitchell also “I’m going to drop it off to her and voted award for best international artist, commented on the Weller book itself, having nixed the she’s going to enjoy it,” Charli XCX said. to whoops and cheers from the crowd. biopic. Best male artist was electronica musician The host of a long-running TV show “There’s a lot of nonsense about me in books. . Chet Faker and Sheppard was named “Countdown,” Molly Meldrum, received .assumptions, assumptions, assumptions,” she said. best group. On the red carpet, Faker a standing ovation as he was inducted Variety reported that Swift was circling the role in April talked about his excitement. “It’s cool to into the Australian Record Industry As- 2012. Allison Pill (“Midnight in Paris”) was reportedly be here, this is my first Aria’s so I’m not sociation’s Hall of Fame. “I am just like in talks to play Simon at the time. Swift said in October really looking at winning anything. I’m everyone in this room. I am here because 2012 that she was eager to play the role, but it had not just here,” he said. I love music,” he said.—AP been confirmed yet. Swift has since appeared in “The Boy Band 5 Seconds of Summer arrive for the Australian Recording Industry As- Amy Sheppard said the band put Giver,” another book-to-film adaptation.—Reuters sociation (ARIA) awards in Sydney, Australia yesterday. –AP photos Talking songs with She & Him he musical duo She & Him - that’s Zooey record is pretty timeless, and I think she gets it a treat. “We recorded it live with three Deschanel and M Ward - convened a put in a bubble of ‘80s music because of microphones in the same room and did only T20-piece orchestra to make “Classics,” ‘Smooth Operator,’” he said. one take,” she said. “There’s something very a collection of songs written between 1930 Deschanel’s choice: “I Like It” by DeBarge. special about not just recording a song, but a and 1974. It’s an eclectic list of compositions “The song is really well written and versatile. single moment in time as well.”—AP popularized by the likes of Frank Sinatra, I think it would actually make a great country Australian singer Megan Washington Australian singer Delta Goodrem Herb Alpert, the Righteous Brothers and song,” she said. Honorable mention is Mariah Dusty Springfield. So we thought it would Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” “I be fun to talk to the artists about songs that would really like to hear it without those stick out in their minds for various reasons. keyboards.” Latin pop star Prince Royce Q: A song you’d like to cover but intimi- dates you Q: The hardest song you’ve ever had to Ward’s choice: “This Is Radio Clash” by the sing hopes to cross over Clash. It’s one of his favorite bands, but he Deschanel’s choice: “Sleigh Ride,” written doesn’t think it’s in his vocal range. “There is by Leroy Anderson. (The Andrews Sisters rince Royce says although he’s a certain attitude to their music and to the recorded the first vocal version in 1950.) “It working on his first album in Ramones’ music, that I think is untouchable,” seems like it would be simple, but it changes PEnglish, his fans can still expect he said. keys twice in the bridge so it’s quite difficult,” to hear his signature Latin and tropical Deschanel’s choice: “Paris 1919” by John she said. “In spite of its trickiness it’s worth it sound in his new music. The 25-year- Cale. “I don’t think I could pull it off,” she said. because it’s a fantastic song.” old star released his first English Ward’s choice: “The Red and the Black” language single, “Stuck on a Feeling,” Q: A song from the last 20 years or so that by Blue Oyster Cult. He still has nightmares on Monday. It features rapper Snoop will someday be seen as a classic about the time Mike Watt invited him Dogg and samples R&B group 112’s hit Deschanel’s choice: “Open up Your Door” onstage to cover it, and it turned out to be song “Dance With Me.” “It’s a fusion of urban, it’s a fusion of R&B, it’s pop, it by Richard Hawley. She also loves Hawley’s much faster than he remembered. This photo provided by Columbia has some Spanish,” he said in a recent “Tonight the Streets Are Ours.” “I’m a huge Records shows the cover of the album, interview. fan,” she said. Q: Favorite song to do from the new “Classics,” by She & Him, musicians, Royce is from the Bronx, New York, Ward’s choice: “Kool Thing” by Sonic Youth. album, ‘classics’ Zooey Deschanel and M Ward. The raised by Dominican parents. He was He’s moved by the guitar and contribution Ward’s choice: “Oh No, Not My Baby,” writ- album releases Tuesday.—AP from Public Enemy’s Chuck D. “The future ten by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. “It’s my nominated for four Latin Grammys last of music is combining things that don’t re- favorite blend of strings and brass that I’ve week, including song and record of ally belong together,” he said. “That’s what ever produced,” he said. “It reminds me of the year for “Darte un Beso.” His English the best artists have been doing since time some of my favorite productions by George album will be available next year. began.” Martin or Phil Spector - producers whose mu- Royce, whose hits include “Corazon Sin sic I could listen to forever.” Cara” and “Las Cosas Pequenas,” is also Q: A song that’s been unfairly trapped in Deschanel’s choice: “Unchained Melody,” working on his fourth Spanish album. Prince Royce performs at the iHeart Ra- its time written by Alex North and Hy Zaret. Record- “The intention is to go 50-50,” he said. dio Fiesta Latina concert at The Forum Ward’s choice: “Lovers Rock” by Sade. “The ing vocals with the Chapin Sisters made “It’s definitely double the work, but I on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, in Ingle- think it’s worth it for me.”--AP wood, Calif.—AP LIFESTYLE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014 Music39 & Movies In Pakistan new TV show lifts veil on octor Nadim Uddin Siddiqui sex taboos fixes his gaze on a camera in the Pushing boundaries Dshiny new studios of Health TV Part of the Ziauddin network of in Karachi, Pakistan’s economic hub, and private hospitals, Health TV says its mis- prepares to take the day’s first question. sion is to improve health awareness in a “My husband doesn’t want to make love country where access to a doctor can be anymore, what should I do doctor?” the difficult in rural areas and for those with- housewife asks over the phone. In strait- out financial means. Sometimes religious laced Muslim Pakistan, a new TV show is conservatism can play a part in igno- trying to deal with the delicate subject of rance and poor health: gynaecologists sex and embarrassing illnesses without are known refuse to examine unmarried angering conservatives. Most of Paki- women, who according to them should stan’s 80-odd television stations fill their not be having sex. “In our society, the airtime with cooking shows, soap operas, woman, if she comes from a very conser- cricket and interminable chatshows vative background, someone would have debating the country’s myriad political to take her to the doctor—her mother, dramas. her sister,” says Faizan Syed, the chan- But once a week, for an hour, Health nel’s director. “This (the show) gives them TV does something very different: it that comfort of a hidden identity.” Syed takes questions from viewers on sex. stresses that the channel provides only Or more precisely, sexual problems. an advisory role and people should still “My husband only wants to do it once a visit a doctor if they are concerned. And week, sometimes once a fortnight, and it the channel also offers advice to men. doesn’t last very long,” continues Ayesha “We are living in a conservative soci- the housewife, calling from the eastern ety and we hesitate to talk on such issues city of Lahore. The portly Siddiqui, his with our doctors,” a laptop salesman pearly white teeth glistening under the and Health TV viewer Mehboob Ahmed, studio lights, doesn’t miss a beat. “We from Karachi, told AFP. Other programs call this loss of libido...it occurs when deal with topical subjects like polio, the you have a low level of testosterone. crippling disease still blighting Pakistan You should work on your husband’s thanks in part to Taliban opposition to diet, feed him more fish and push him vaccination. Even sensitive issues like to exercise,” he says. “God willing your abortion and breast cancer are covered. husband will get better.” Each Thursday “There was a time you couldn’t even “Clinic Online”, which began airing a year discuss breast cancer, because women ago, takes dozens of calls on subjects didn’t want to talk about their breasts, ranging from loss of libido and erectile they didn’t want to talk about their body In this picture taken November 13, 2014, Anoushey dysfunction to questions about sexually- because their husband might get upset,” Ashraf, hosts a morning show on Health TV in Kara- transmitted diseases, micro-penises and says Anoushey Ashraf. chi.—AFP photos nymphomania.“Sex is a very difficult Ashraf hosts a morning show where a matter in Pakistan, here it is very difficult cleric, a psychiatrist and a social worker to talk in open forum, in media, in any have gathered to discuss abortion—il- seminar. So whenever you talk about sex legal in Pakistan except to save the With shake- you should be very careful,” Siddqui told mother’s life. The opinion of religious AFP after the show. leaders carries a lot of weight in Pakistan He attributes the programm’s success and can add significantly to a doctor’s ar- ups, AC/DC in part to highlighting issues around guments. What, for example, does Islam sexual diseases, which he says resonates make of abortion? “If anything like this perseveres with album, tour even with the deeply religious, and takes is done to save the life of a mother, then pride in having avoided controversy—so sharia (Islamic law) allows abortion,” says C/DC finally joined iTunes in 2012 after years of far. “I have never seen a single person cleric Shahid Madani. The public appear refusing to do so, but make no mistake, the Aus- who is having any objection (to) me. to agree, if the dozens of calls to each tralian rock band is still old school. “I would like They appreciate me because...if it is a show are anything to go by—though A everybody to buy vinyl again,” guitarist Angus Young disease, you have to treat (it). You must Pakistani channels guard their ratings said in an interview. “That’s my favorite.” He continued try to propagate your knowledge,” he jealously. Health TV knows it is far from with a loud laugh: “They ought to make them portable said. Founded three years ago, Health TV dethroning the biggest national chan- - iVinyl.” AC/DC, which has enjoyed four decades of is something of an odd fit in Pakistan, a nels. But it is confident of quietly grow- success, will release “Rock or Bust,” its first album in six conservative Islamic state of 180 million ing its market share thanks to shows by years, on Dec 2. It is the follow-up to “Black Ice,” which people which saw an explosion of private the likes of Siddiqui and the glamorous sold 784,000 units during its first week in 2008. broadcasters in the early 2000s following Anoushey.—AFP The band has yet to join Spotify, something Young the liberalisation agenda of former ruler Doctor Nadim Uddin Siddiqui answers a question as he gives health tips said is possible. “I guess, if it’s doing a good service. I Pervez Musharraf. on a Health TV show. mean, we’ll certainly entertain the idea, I suppose,” he said, though Cliff Williams followed with the question: “Is it like Pandora? I’ve heard of it.” “Rock or Bust,” which Children’s’ music star has received favorable reviews, is a typical AC/DC album and one the band hopes fans will listen to on record players, in addition to iPhones. It was recorded new plan in May. “You want people to put it on and go, ‘That’s Laurie Berkner Prince AC/DC and no one else,’” Young said. vanishes from social In a recent interview, the two members were full his fall, Laurie Berkner has been on a Music Together. Since starting in the mid- of laughter and good energy as they discussed their mission that likely will make children 1990s, Berkner has written about 140 songs new music and upcoming world tour, planned for and parents happy: making more and has been experimenting with lesson media T rince, whose distaste for the music industry’s conventions is well next year. But the band is in the midst of turmoil and Laurie Berkners. The singer-songwriter, plans to highlight them. Her program offers known, has abruptly disappeared from social media after tenta- tragedy despite its success: Drummer Phil Rudd was who Time magazine dubbed “the queen of suggestions on when and how to introduce recently charged with threatening to kill, and guitarist children’s music,” has been training teachers them, and in what sequence, always mixing Ptive efforts to promote his two new albums. As of late Tuesday, Malcolm Young, who has dementia, left the group in to use her songs in a new music program slow songs and activity tunes up to keep the megastar’s Twitter and Facebook accounts had both disappeared and almost all videos from his official account had been taken off September. Rudd, who showed up late to court in New for kids up to 4 years old. The classes, called things interesting. Zealand this week and clowned around by jumping on “The Music in Me,” are like having a Berkner YouTube. Prince offered no immediate commentary—on social media or elsewhere—on the reasons for the action. the back of one of his security guards, is also charged in the room. “I’m trying to bottle it and pass Comes naturally with possessing methamphetamine and marijuana. it on to someone else,” the musician and “If you don’t follow that natural heart- But Prince’s two latest albums, which he released simultaneously in educator said. While still beat-walking-talking hu- September, remained on the streaming service Spotify. The move puts Prince at odds with most musicians, both newcomers and longtime Rock or Bust in its infancy - a pilot man rhythm, then you’re Young said Rudd was acting strangely as the band program is being used at not giving a 3-year-old stars, who have considered social media a virtual obligation to reach out to fans. A number of stars—most famously Taylor Swift—have recorded “Rock or Bust” and were starting to promote four Manhattan loca- what they need to be it. They plan to go tour without him, he said. Ironically, tions - Berkner hopes it doing at that moment,” criticized Spotify, accusing it of insufficient payouts to artists, but have nonetheless invested sustained energy in Facebook, Twitter and Rudd’s next court appearance is set for the same day can one day go national, she said “They’ll just do that “Rock or Bust” will be released. Young, 59, said his spreading her songs and something else.” Jaclyn YouTube. Prince had entered social media to promote the latest two albums older brother, Malcolm, is doing fine, but couldn’t play philosophy. Dima, a music and move- any longer. “It was progressing further, but he knew he She got the idea after ment teacher who has but had barely disguised his lack of enthusiasm. He advertised a Face- book question-and-answer session after he joined the site but, after couldn’t do it. ... He had continued as long as he could, so many people told her been following Berkner’s still writing. But he said to me, ‘Keep it going,’” Young they were happily using program, marvels at the hours of queries, he responded to just one—an esoteric matter about audio tuning—by offering a link to an article. The “Purple Rain” legend said. her songs like “Victor way the lyrics and melody Malcolm, 61, is being replaced by their nephew, Vita” and “Rocketship stick with kids. “The words is known for bristling at the commercial advice of the music indus- try. Two decades ago, he wrote “slave” on his cheek and changed his Stevie Young, who filled in for Malcolm during AC/DC’s Run” in classrooms, will tell you what to do. US tour in 1988. Stevie also plays on “Rock or Bust.” libraries and day cares. The music will tell you name to the unpronounceable “love symbol” to protest his contrac- tual terms with Warner Brothers. “He’s about the closest who plays like Malcolm and he That got Berkner curi- what to do,” she said. “It knows that style. ous: “If everyone’s using just comes naturally.” That But Prince returned to Warner Brothers for his latest two albums— “Art Official Age” and “Plectrumelectrum,” the latter performed with And for him it’s them, does anyone actu- natural skill was hard-won: natural the way he ally use them the way I Berkner was in a rock band the all-female trio 3rdEyeGirl. Prince was an early propo- plays,” Young said. was hoping they would File photo shows performer that played downtown “Malcolm has that be used? Maybe I should Laurie Berkner of Sprout’s “Sing and an all female cover band nent of the Internet but later campaigned to crack down hard-rhythm solid start teaching some it, Laurie!” arrives at the 2013 when she applied to be a sound and Stevie people how to do that,’” NBCUniversal Summer Press music teacher at Rockefelller on unauthorized use of his songs. Prince released his last ... he grew up on she said. The education Day in Pasadena, Calif.—AP University’s Child and Family that. That’s who program comes at a time Center. album in 2010 on a CD dis- tributed as an insert to sev- he emulated. He of flowering for all things Berkner: Her new “I didn’t know what to do with them,” stuck to that style, musical “The Amazing Adventures of Harvey she said. Berkner learned a lot of folk songs, eral European newspapers. In an interview at the time which is a unique and the Princess” is playing at New York City but “Old MacDonald” just wasn’t cutting it. thing.” “Stevie’s Children’s Theater, she has two CDs - one of “They would run around the room. I couldn’t with one of the newspapers, Britain’s Daily Mirror, Prince personality is very lullabies and a second hits compilation - and control them,” she said. So she asked the much like Malcolm’s as well, and you kind of play how she’s got the animated musical preschool kids what they liked, got them to stand up, declared the Internet to be “completely over” and said you are,” Williams, 64, chimed in. The band members series “Sing It, Laurie!” on Sprout. march around, roar and the song “We Are said they’re extremely happy with the outcome of the But the training program is the thing The Dinosaurs,” her first real children’s song, of digital gadgets: “They just fill your head with numbers new album, especially Brian Johnson’s vocals. “He was closest to her heart as she tries to put into was born. Her philosophy hasn’t changed sounding great from (the) get-go. He was a bit wor- words all that she’s learned at preschools, much since then. “A lot of it is about follow- and that can’t be good for you.”—AFP ried,” Young said. “We were upstairs, but we could hear YMCAs and private music classes. Her at- ing them, but also using the music to let him from downstairs. He was sounding great. He still ... tempt to make a curriculum from songs is them follow it,” she said.—AP sounds rather angelic in a rough sort of way,” he said, part of a trend that includes Dan Zanes and Prince laughing again.—AP THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Brazen, beloved Lebanese singer Sabah dies at 87

In this June 2009, eloved for her powerful voice and brazen in the conservative Arab famous Lebanese world for her multiple marriages, Lebanese singer, actress and singer Sabah Bentertainer Sabah never seemed far from the limelight during her poses for a pho- six-decade career. And even while playfully mocked in her later years for tograph at the clinging to youth through plastic surgeries, flings with far-younger men In this 1987 photo, Comfort Hotel and garish outfits, Sabah remained cherished for her love of life and posi- Lebanese singer and where she has tive outlook even into old age. “I’m proud that I’m a village girl but I had a actress Sabah, an icon been living, in lot of ambition,” Sabah once said in 2008. of Arab music, poses Beirut, Lebanon. Sabah, whose real name was Jeanette Feghali, died yesterday morn- for a picture in Beirut, ing at age 87, the Lebanese National News Agency reported, without Lebanon. offering a cause of death. Her health had been declining in recent years. A peroxide-blond with a throaty laugh and playful smile, she took the stage name Sabah, Arabic for morning. Her many other nicknames included shahroura, Arabic for singing bird, and the Sabbouha, a play on Sabah that millions of fan used for her across the Middle East. Others simply called her al-Ustura, or the Legend. Born to a Christian family in the village of Bdedoun near Beirut in 1927, Sabah came to prominence in the 1940s as a singer and actress in the Egyptian movies that dominated the Arab world at the time. She ulti- mately participated in at least 25 plays, four radio musicals, 85 films and sang 3,000 songs, according to Charbel Alasmar, a Lebanese-Canadian composer who goes by Charbel Moreno and has documented Sabah’s career. “She broke so many taboos. I don’t know if she was even aware of it,” said Chady Maalouf, head of programming at Voice of Lebanon radio. A file picture taken “She was the example of a star, she was totally complete: in her appear- in Cairo in the 1950s ance, behavior and voice. She shocked people all the time.” She worked shows Lebanon’s late with a string of legendary Egyptian composers, including the late Mo- diva Sabah at the hammed Abdul-Wahhab, acquiring the grace and breadth demanded to peak of her career in master classical Arabic music. She was a queen of the Lebanese folkloric Egypt’s musical film form, called the mawal, nostalgic of a time before Lebanon’s decimating industry. 15-year civil war that ended in 1990. Some of her most famous songs include “Zay El-Assal,” or “Your Love is Like Honey on my Heart,” and Akhadou El-Reeh, “They Took the Wind.’ Her In this June 2009, last well-regarded song, a duet released in 2006, showed she could out- famous Lebanese sing her younger contemporaries. singer Sabah poses for a pho- Farewell our shahroura A file picture taken on tograph at the News of her death filled Lebanese radio and television broadcasts November 30, 2004 Comfort Hotel yesterday and condolences poured in. The US Embassy in Beirut issued shows Egyptian actor where she has a statement on its Facebook page calling Sabah “a bright, shining image Tamer Hagras present- been living, in of the Lebanese people.” On Twitter, Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt ing Lebanese legendary Beirut, Lebanon. wrote: “She was a great singer of a Lebanon that my generation knew that singer Sabah at the open- th will never come back.” “Our giants are leaving, our cedars are diminish- ing night of Cairo’s 28 In- ing,” Lebanese singer Ragheb Alameh also wrote on Twitter. “Farewell our ternational Film Festival shahroura, our beloved, rest in peace.” Sabah also held US and Egyptian at the Opera House in the citizenship. Egyptian capital. Amid her professional success, Sabah often set tongues wagging with her flamboyant life and her gregarious confessions to entertainment reporters. She frequently married and divorced - at least nine times, the National News Agency reported. Her relationships ran from a month and to 17 years, that marriage to a dancer known as Fadi Lebanon. He was an indeterminate number of years younger than her. One of her husbands, A file picture parliamentarian Joe Hamoud, divorced her in the 1970s after she scandal- taken on June ized Beirut society by appearing in tiny shorts for a theater role, Maalouf 29, 2003 shows said. In her 70s, she dated a 25-year-old Mr Lebanon, Omar Mehyo. Lebanese veter- Well into her 80s, she appeared with thick, tumbling blonde locks, an singer Sabah sparkly dresses, red lipstick and heavy black eyeliner. She broke a Leba- performing at nese taboo on plastic surgery - now almost a national pastime - constant- An undated file the Alexandria ly updating her features with facelifts. In her last months amid rumors picture from the International she had died, Sabah was tickled to discover journalists were in a frenzy to 1990s shows late Music Festival in find out her health condition, Maalouf said. “She said, ‘Even in my death, Lebanese singer Egypt’s Mediter- I’m making people busy,’” he said. Sabah is survived by a son, Sabah and Sabah arriving at ranean port city. a daughter, Huwaida. A funeral will be held on Sunday in downtown an official func- Beirut.—AP tion in a designer winter outfit in Beirut.