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QATAR | Offi cial Amir congratulates investment in Germany Brazilian president His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim By Peter Alagos has become the third largest world exporter to bin Hamad al-Thani, His Highness Business Reporter Qatar.” the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah “This volume of exchange decreased in 2017 bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the due to temporary regional reasons, which were Prime Minister and Minister of atar is planning to invest 10bn euros in the imposed on us, leading to a short-lived drop in Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser German economy over the next fi ve years, Qatar’s imports from various countries,” the Amir bin Khalifa al-Thani sent yesterday QHis Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin said. cables of congratulations to Brazil’s Hamad al-Thani announced at the opening of the He noted that many German companies have lo- President Michel Temer on his 9th Qatar-Germany Business and Investment Fo- cated to Qatar and are participating in various big country’s Independence Day. rum in Berlin yesterday. ticket projects being undertaken in the country. His Highness the Amir made the announcement “Furthermore, German companies operating in QATAR | Offi cial in the presence of German Chancellor Angela Mer- Qatar play a signifi cant role in the development of kel, the Mayor of Berlin Michael Muller, and other Qatar’s economy. More than 300 companies are FM praises Paraguay’s high-level offi cials representing Qatar and Germa- active in vital sectors such as construction, infra- embassy decision ny’s private and public sectors. structure, and consultancy services, he said. HE the Deputy Prime Minister and “From this forum, we call upon the private sector In his speech, the Amir underscored Qatar’s Minister of Foreign Aff airs Sheikh in Germany to explore the promising Qatari busi- gratitude to Germany’s support for Qatar. Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani ness environment which is teeming with plenty of “I would like to avail myself of this opportunity held a telephone conversation projects in various fi elds,” the Amir said after mak- to extend my thanks and appreciation to Her Ex- with Paraguay’s Foreign Minister ing the announcement. cellency Chancellor Angela Merkel for her support Luis Alberto Castiglioni. During This fresh round of planned investments would and keenness to make this forum a success, refl ect- the call, the two sides reviewed add to the current portfolio of Qatari investments ing the depth and strength of the relations between the relations between the two in Germany, which now stands at more than 25bn the State of Qatar and the Federal Republic of Ger- countries and ways to boost them, euros. many at all levels. in addition to issues of common “These investments include vital projects in the “We are aware of the strength of the German concern. HE the Deputy Prime automobile, Information Technology and banking economy, and Germany’s central active role in Minister and Minister of Foreign sectors,” the Amir said. Europe. We respect its developmental work in Aff airs praised Paraguay’s recent He added: “It should be noted here that air the southern hemisphere, and its thoughtful ra- decision to relocate its embassy transport plays a key role in extending the bridges tional role on the international arena,” the Amir from the occupied city of Jerusalem of co-operation and bilateral interaction in com- said. and to restore the embassy to mercial, tourism, investment and cultural fi elds “Organising this joint forum comes within the the situation that preceded the between our two countries. framework of our interest in consolidating and decision to transfer it to Jerusalem “Qatar Airways’ many fl ights to Germany have strengthening the partnership between our two on May 9, 2018, terming this as an contributed to a rise in the number of German visi- countries in all political, economic and cultural important corrective step in line tors to the State of Qatar, which increased with a fi elds, among others, in order to pursue our de- with international law. high rate in 2017.” velopment march which aims to achieving Qatar His Highness the Amir also noted the volume National Vision 2030 goals, including economic LATIN AMERICA | Politics of trade exchange between Qatar and Germany diversifi cation and transformation towards the His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and German Chancellor Angela Merkel touring has doubled between 2011 and 2016 to reach about knowledge-based economy,” he added. Pages 2, the exhibition at the Qatar-Germany Business and Investment Forum where they are being briefed on Brazil polls chaos aft er 2.8bn euros, “mostly in favour of Germany, which 16 Business Pages 1, 16 the most important projects of Qatar 2022 World Cup. front-runner stabbed Brazil’s presidential race was thrown into chaos yesterday with the far- right front-runner Jair Bolsonaro in serious but stable condition in an intensive care unit after being stabbed at a rally, his wound severe enough that his son said he was unlikely to be able to return to campaigning before the Oct. 7 vote. Bolsonaro, a congressman, was knifed in the stomach while being carried atop supporters’ shoulders in a street rally on Thursday and was being treated at a Sao Paulo hospital. Page 11

ARAB WORLD | Confl ict Russia, Turkey, Iran fail to agree on Idlib truce The presidents of Turkey, Iran and Russia yesterday failed to agree on a ceasefire that would forestall a Syrian government off ensive in the rebel-held Idlib province which the United Nations fears could cause a humanitarian catastrophe His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani meeting with German Chancellor Angela involving tens of thousands of Merkel on the sidelines of the Qatar-Germany Business and Investment Forum in Berlin yesterday. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim civilians. Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan, bin Hamad al-Thani tweeted yesterday: Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Iran’s “Qatar-German partnership jumps Hassan Rouhani, meeting in Tehran Amir ends Berlin visit, thanks president and chancellor into a new phase due to the tangible for a summit of key foreign players success of the Qatar-Germany Forum in Syria’s war, agreed in a final His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim and hospitality accorded to him and the for Business and Investment, which statement that there could be no bin Hamad al-Thani left Berlin yesterday accompanying delegation during the visit, has gained a considerable momentum military solution to the conflict and it evening, after a three-day working visit to which provided the opportunity to meet thanks to the great growth of our could only end through a negotiated the friendly Federal Republic of Germany. and exchange views on issues of mutual political and trade relationships. It political process. Syrian government The Amir sent cables to German President interest, and to discuss ways to boost turned hundreds of the opportunities and Russian warplanes mounted air Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor the friendly relations and co-operation in available on the economic front of strikes in Idlib yesterday morning. Angela Merkel, expressing his deep thanks various fields for the benefit of the two His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani meeting both countries to agreements and Page 3 and appreciation for the warm welcome countries’ peoples. with German President Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the presidential programmes to be implemented by the residence Bellevue Palace in Berlin yesterday. public and private sectors.” Deal to form joint trade, investment task force

By Peter Alagos yesterday in Berlin, Germany. sociation of German Chambers of In- views on the latest regional and inter- a “humanitarian catastrophe” in the to enhance them “in all fields.” Business Reporter The task force, composed of 10 mem- dustry and Commerce CEO Martin national developments, particularly event of renewed attacks on Idlib. They Steinmeier thanked the Amir for bers, fi ve each from the Qatari Busi- Wansleben represented Germany. the humanitarian situation in Yemen, also stressed the importance of resolv- staging the forum in Berlin, and ex- nessmen Association and the Associa- After delivering their opening Syria, Libya, and Palestine. ing the Gulf crisis through dialogue for pressed hope that the event “can deep- wo leading Qatari and Ger- tion of German Chambers of Industry speeches, His Highness the Amir and His Highness the Amir and the Ger- the stability of the region and the adop- en investment ties and increase trade man business organisations and Commerce, was formed after the Merkel met on the sidelines of the fo- man chancellor expressed “regret that tion of political ways to resolve all dif- volume in line with the aspirations of Thave signed an agreement to opening session of the Qatar-Germany rum to discuss various issues, particu- some countries have cut their aid to the ferences. the two peoples.” form a ‘Joint Task Force for Trade and Business and Investment Forum held at larly measures to further strengthen UNRWA, which would negatively aff ect The Amir also met with German The Amir and Steinmeier exchanged Investment’ in the presence of His the Maritim Hotel. bilateral and economic relations, as millions of refugees, while stressing President Dr Frank-Walter Stein- views on the latest regional and inter- Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin On the Qatari side, the agreement well as topics in the cultural and politi- their countries’ continued support for meier at the Presidential residence national developments, and stressed in Hamad al-Thani and German Chan- was signed by QBA chairman HE Sheikh cal fi elds. humanitarian issues.” Bellevue Palace in Berlin to review that regard on the importance of having cellor Angela Merkel in a forum held Faisal bin Qassim al-Thani, while As- The two leaders also exchanged On Syria, the two leaders warned of strategic bilateral relations and ways stability in the region. Page 16 Gulf Times 2 Saturday, September 8, 2018 QATAR Amir holds talks with top German ministers, private sector offi cials

By Peter Alagos and international arenas, par- Business Reporter ticularly the humanitarian situ- ation in Yemen, Palestine, and Syria. fter announcing that Qa- His Highness the Amir also tar is planning to make held talks with German Minis- A10bn euros worth of in- ter of Economy and Energy Pe- vestments in Germany at a busi- ter Altmaier to review areas of ness forum in Berlin yesterday, co-operation and means of pro- His Highness the Amir Sheikh moting and developing them, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met especially in the fi eld of energy, with top government and private economy, and investment. sector offi cials to discuss a range His Highness the Amir also of topics. met with former German foreign On the sidelines of the event, minister Sigmar Gabriel. They His Highness the Amir met with exchanged views on the latest German Minister of Foreign Af- developments on the regional fairs Heiko Maas and reviewed and international arenas. Qatar and Germany’s strategic His Highness the Amir also relations and prospects for de- attended a luncheon together veloping them further in various with chief executive offi c- fi elds. ers of blue chip companies and Maas thanked His Highness businessmen in Germany. the Amir for holding the forum The luncheon was also attend- in Berlin this year, and the con- ed by heads of companies and sequent investment proposals senior offi cials from the econom- that refl ect the strength of eco- ic, investment and trade fi elds in nomic co-operation between Germany. His Highness the Amir the two countries. Their discus- was accompanied by members sions also dealt with the latest of his offi cial delegation in all His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met with German Foreign His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani shaking hands with German Minister developments on the regional meetings held on the sidelines. Minister Heiko Maas in Berlin yesterday. of Economy and Energy Peter Altmaier in Berlin yesterday. QTA signs pact with DER Touristik to DIFI launches promote Qatar as tourism destination book on Arab

By Peter Alagos to include a total of 14 hotels, doors to the public, QTA said. Business Reporter according to QTA. DER Touristik Deutschland QTA chief marketing and pro- managing director Matthias family studies motion offi cer Rashed al-Qurese Rotter said: “Qatar is an excit- atar Tourism Author- said, “We are delighted to col- ing emerging destination that ity (QTA) and Germany’s laborate with a strong partner can be comfortably and easily oha International Fam- review literature that is classi- QDER Touristik Deut- like DER Touristik, which ap- accessed from many hubs across ily Institute (DIFI), a fi ed according to Arab regions schland have signed a partner- preciates the full potential of Germany. Dmember of Qatar Foun- and countries, while the re- ship agreement to further boost Qatar as a destination, and is “Its importance will increase dation (QF), has launched a maining seven focus on the awareness on Qatar as a tour- keen to share Qatar’s story with signifi cantly in the coming years book on Arab family studies main topics related to fami- ism destination, and attract one of our biggest visitor source and the country’s government is containing the contributions lies in all Arab countries. They more visitors “to the most open markets in Europe. matching this expected growth of 28 eminent scholars, with also provide insight into issues country in the region.” “This partnership comes to with a concerted eff ort to make the aim of addressing the gap such as feminism, migration, The agreement comes fol- QTA acting chairman Hassan al-Ibrahim (right) and DER complement our various exist- the visitor’s experience a smooth in global knowledge on the Islamic law, education, media, lowing a 22% year-on-year Touristik Deutschland managing director Matthias Rotter ing promotional activities aimed and seamless one.” Arab family. demography and war, in the growth in German visitors to signing the agreement. at attracting more German Thanks to recent visa facilita- The book, titled Arab Fam- context of the Arab family. Qatar in 2017. Qatar Airways visitors to Qatar.” tion measures, Qatar has waived ily Studies, Critical Review, The book addresses the operates 35 weekly fl ights con- travellers heading farther east, tor brands Dertour and Meier’s Qatar’s tourism infrastruc- visa-upon-arrival requirements edited by Dr Suad Joseph, importance of clarifying the necting Doha to the German while also providing numerous Weltreisen Qatar off ers for the ture is expected to receive a for German citizens granting research professor of anthro- concept of ‘the family’ and the cities of Berlin, Frankfurt, and options for extended weekend 2018-2019 winter season. The major boost in 2019 when the them free access to the country pology and gender and wom- diffi culties surrounding this Munich. stays. existing day trip off er is be- fi rst phase of Doha’s new metro and allowing them to spend up en’s studies at the University defi nition, as well as the chal- Qatar is a six-hour fl ight from As part of the partnership, ing complemented by multi- system comes online and the to 90 days in Qatar, during either of California, and published lenging aspect of developing Germany, making it an attrac- DER Touristik will expand the day tours and accommodation much-anticipated National a single trip or on multiple trips, by Syracuse University, was unifying concepts that col- tive stopover destination for portfolio of its tour opera- options on off er will increase Museum of Qatar opens its QTA added. initiated and funded by DIFI lectively address the dynam- in 2013. ics within and among diverse The publication provides a types of Arab families. comprehensive literature re- It thoroughly researches ex- view that discusses the major isting scholarship on families theories, methods, and case throughout the Arab region HMC training programme helps orthopaedic studies of Arab families over and attempts to lay a founda- the past century, while of- tion for future studies on Arab fering a country-by-country families and inform the deci- surgeons in preparing for exams abroad critical assessment of avail- sions of policy-makers and able scholarship on Arab planners. The book also aims By Joseph Varghese geons in a big way. Before we in orthopaedic surgery, HMC “The course was started for families. to facilitate additional schol- Staff Reporter launched the programme, the surgeons who have attended the the fi rst time in the region in Noor al-Malki al-Jehani, arly research on Arab fami- surgeons had to travel to the US course have 100% pass percent- Qatar by Dr Mohamed al- Kyari, Dr Mazin Abdulaziz executive director, DIFI, said: lies, and encourage govern- or the UK for training. Now, they age in their board examinations. chairman of the course, as it “The publication of this book ment and non-governmental special training pro- can have the training here and The course is very popular in the was found that the surgeons in (Fellowship of the Royal Colleges is a testament to the commit- decision-makers to invest gramme, conceived and can save a lot of time and mon- world,” explained Dr Abdulaziz. the region lacked preparations of Surgeons) examinations. ment of DIFI to encouraging resources in such socially-rel- Aconducted by the Ha- ey,” said Dr Mazin Abdulaziz, HMC conducted the fi fth for board examinations. We had “It reviews all the orthopae- research on Arab families. evant topics. mad Medical Education Center orthopaedic specialist surgeon, course recently and about 120 very good participation from the dic topics and gives updates on “By initiating and funding Despite the centrality of the of Hamad Medical Corporation Hamad General Hospital. surgeons from a number of coun- region. The number of surgeons latest orthopaedic treatments. this book, DIFI has success- family in Arab societies, re- (HMC) is helping the ortho- “The programme helps ortho- tries attended it. The seven-day from outside Qatar was higher Diseases or abnormalities such fully made a signifi cant con- search on the topic is underde- paedic surgeons in Qatar avoid paedic surgeons study and re- course off ers CPD (Continu- than Qataris in some sessions,” as osteoporosis, hip dislocation, tribution to the study of Arab veloped, leading to DIFI mak- travelling abroad for training. view the orthopaedic procedures ing Professional Development) noted the offi cial. and fracture are discussed in the families. This title will be in- ing eff orts to stimulate more “The orthopaedic surgery and topics. It prepares them to points for 54 hours and is one of According to Dr Abdulaziz, course. During the course, there valuable for researchers and research on families through course, in its fi fth year now, is appear for orthopaedic exami- the biggest number of CPD points the course is very helpful for the are workshops for two days,” he students of Arab families.” initiatives such as initiating helping the orthopaedic sur- nations and update their skills allotted for a single course. doctors who appear for FRCS added. Of the book’s 24 chapters, 17 and funding this book project. TTC to hold translation workshops Ooredoo Myanmar, Nokia amad Bin Khalifa acting director, said, “Our force development in Qatar and University’s (HBKU) workshops are open to the the region. HTranslation and community and designed The upcoming workshops Training Centre (TTC) will of- to be in line with TII’s well- will address basic elements showcase voice call over LTE fer public workshops in sports, established standards of within the translation and in- media, audiovisual transla- teaching excellence. They terpretation industry through oredoo Myanmar, which Plaza, Sanjay Vaghasia, chief experience this new technology. tion, and other fi elds until present added value for par- foundational workshops in off ers Myanmar’s fastest technology and information of- Danabalan Amirthalingam, May 2019. ticipants as they would be Professional Translation Ba- O4GPlus network, has be- fi cer at Ooredoo Myanmar, said: country senior offi cer at Nokia TTC is a part of the Transla- trained by our in-house team sics, Interpreting Basics, come the country’s fi rst mobile “Of the many technology buz- Myanmar said, “Working with tion and Interpreting Institute of experienced translation Audio-visual Translation: operator to showcase next gen- zwords that customers hear a lot Ooredoo, Nokia has unleashed (TII) within the College of Hu- and interpreting profession- Subtitling, and The Art of Dub- eration Voice over Long-Term- about today, VoLTE is one that its technology leadership in My- manities and Social Sciences als and faculty members. bing. Additional workshops in Evolution (VoLTE) technology, they will quickly come to appre- anmar by demonstrating next (CHSS) of HBKU. When combined together, the Translation and Technology: in partnership with Nokia, the ciate thanks to the better service generation VoLTE services to The workshops aim to train workshops provide a mul- SDL Trados, as well as Revision global technology leader. it helps deliver.” Ooredoo customers. Nokia is professional translators and tidimensional approach to and Quality Assurance will in- VoLTE will enable custom- “VoLTE technology works fully committed to introducing participants to acquire skills in real-life challenges and so- troduce practical tools to pro- ers to make better quality voice seamlessly to service increasing its latest cutting-edge technolo- the fi eld. Registration is now lutions in the translation and vide a fi rm technical grounding calls as well as use voice and data traffi c carried on the LTE net- An off icial during the technology gies to support Ooredoo as it open to the public and can be interpreting fi elds.” of the material. Finally, fi eld- at the same time. In addition to work, particularly as more peo- showcase at Ooredoo Myanmar’s works to enable further access to completed via: www.tii.qa/ As the premier training and specifi c workshops will prepare superior voice quality, the VoLTE ple migrate to the higher speed, flagship store in Myanmar Plaza. digital technology in Myanmar.” community service destination in the area participants for real-market technology also enables faster higher capacity LTE bandwidth. This is the latest in a series of The four-day workshops are of translation and interpreting, scenarios across a number of call connection time, and allows This technology can be said to the benefi ts of VoLTE technol- innovations from Ooredoo My- spread throughout the aca- TTC provides continuing edu- sectors. These sectors include: customers to switch between contribute to the shift from the ogy to its customers in part- anmar. In June Ooredoo Myan- demic year 2018/19 and will be cation opportunities to indi- Translation in Business and ongoing voice calls and high- traditional fi xed analogue te- nership with Nokia. Ooredoo mar became the fastest network held from 4-7pm at the Liberal viduals, professionals and the Finance; Accessible Hospital- quality video calls as they want. lephony to truly mobile digital Myanmar will showcase this in Myanmar, according to the Arts and Science Building in broader local community, thus ity and Events; Translating Speaking from the technol- technology,” he added. technology at our fl agship Oore- Ookla Speedtest Intelligence Education City. generating a visible impact on Sports; and Translating News ogy showcase at Ooredoo Myan- Ooredoo is the fi rst opera- doo Store in Myanmar Plaza to analysis for the fi rst two quarters Nada al-Mahmeed, TTC the social, economic and work- and Views. mar’s fl agship store in Myanmar tor in Myanmar to demonstrate customers who are interested to of 2018. Gulf Times Saturday, September 8, 2018 3 QATAR/REGION/ARAB WORLD Three art exhibitions get underway at Katara

hree art exhibitions have as well as people from other been opened at Katara communities”, Katara has said in T- the Cultural Village a statement. It is taking place in Foundation by general manager Katara Building 19. Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim al Sulaiti The exhibition features por- in the presence of several diplo- traits of several prominent Qa- mats and other dignitaries. tari fi gures, who have contrib- The exhibitions are running uted signifi cantly to the creation until September 14. of Qatar, as well as public fi gures The ‘Endless Entrust’ exhibi- such as athletes, actors and oth- tion by Turkish artist Fatih Mika ers. was opened in Building 18 by Dr Finally, the ‘N33° Flight’ ex- al-Sulaiti along with Turkish hibition in Building 19 is a com- ambassador Fikret Ozer. It is be- bined eff ort between Kuwaiti ing held in co-ordination with and Iraqi artists - Sara Hassan IKASD Istanbul Intercultural Art and Haider al-Zaeem, respec- Dialogues Association. tively - who have joined hands to Ambassador Ozer delivered a present striking artworks. speech during the opening where Explaining the title of the ex- he stressed the deep-rooted and hibition, Hassan said the geo- strong relations between Qatar graphical border between Iraq and Turkey in several fi elds, es- Artworks from the ‘Ahel Qatar’ exhibition. and Kuwait is located along the pecially the important sector of N33°co-ordinates. A humani- arts and culture. and Qatar Intercultural Art Dia- Meanwhile, the ‘Ahel Qatar’ tarian message is being conveyed Beste Gurso, curator of the logues Project, adding that Mika (‘People of Qatar’ in English) through the paintings featured exhibition, said the event is the will meet visitors on September exhibition by Qatari artist Ali al- at the exhibition, stressing that fruit of bilateral co-operation 14 to give lectures on engraving Mulla has witnessed a “remark- art is a language of peace and Dignitaries at the opening of the ‘Endless Entrust’ exhibition by Turkish artist Fatih Mika. under the umbrella of the Turkey art. able turnout comprising locals humanity. Embassy celebrates Vietnam National Day

By Ayman Adly expecting many delegations ways is also planning to open explore as real estate markets in Staff Reporter and visits to further strengthen directs fl ights to Da Nang in the Vietnam saw growth in the past and enhance the relations be- Central Vietnam, in addition to few years,” Nguyen stressed. tween the two countries. Most the fl ights which have already The ambassador hoped that he Vietnam embassy importantly, His Highness Amir been established to Hanoi and the prevailing Gulf crisis would marked yesterday the Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al- Ho Chi Minh city,” the ambas- be resolved soon peacefully, T73rd anniversary of the Thani is planning to visit Viet- sador said. based on the respect to sover- National Day of Vietnam at a re- nam in late 2018 and both coun- He said that other co-oper- eignty of countries and the prin- ception. tries are making preparations to ation fi elds include Qatar Pe- ciple of non-interference in the Vietnamese ambassador ensure the success of such a his- troleum (QP) signing an agree- internal aff airs of other coun- Nguyen Dinh Thao, senior dip- toric visit,” said the ambassador. ment to supply Vietnam with up tries. An overview of the stalls at the Katara International Hunting & Falcons Exhibition - S’hail 2018, which lomats and offi cers and a number He pointed out that in 2017, to 2mn tonnes per year of LPG He further praised the role of concludes today. of community members took the total trade between the and naphtha. The agreement Qatar in combating terrorism part. two countries reached around will commence with the start of worldwide, stressing that the The envoy stressed the $300mn and said it is expected Vietnam’s fi rst green-fi eld pet- country has “made great contri- achievements of Vietnam in to further increase in the near rochemical complex, which is butions to the security and sta- many fi elds, economy and busi- future. Construction Devel- being constructed on Long Son bility in the region as well as in ness in particular, while focusing opment Company from Qatar Island. the world.” on the importance of the already holds more than 70% capital in “Tourism in Vietnam is one He said “Qatar has played an S’hail 2018 off ers excellent Vietnamese-Qatari the $311.9mn seaport and indus- of the areas which we are look- active role in backing UN eff orts relationships, as it grows from trial park complex in Quang Yen ing forward to strengthen and to support peace-building and strength to strength each year. province of Quang Ninh. develop in the upcoming time. sustainability; the country has “ As we are celebrating the “This co-operation will open Along with tourism, investment also fi nanced many humanitar- 25th anniversary of the diplo- for Vietnam–Qatar much more in real estate in Vietnam like lux- ian projects including the ones abiding memories matic relations between Viet- opportunities in construction, ury hotels, resorts is one of the in Gaza. Such activities should nam and Qatar in 2018, we are investment relations. Qatar Air- new areas for Qatari investors to be appreciated.” he Katara International Hunting weapon deal- diff erent communities were Hunting & Falcons Ex- ers announced that they are also present checking goods Thibition – S’hail 2018 out of stock, despite having on display from 20 countries – is witnessing another year brought in more shipments around the world. of big success with exhibitors this year. They said that the Meanwhile some of the visi- and visitors both expressing demand is very high and that tors expressed great delight on great satisfaction at the event all their goods were sold, and being at S’hail 2018. organised by the Cultural Vil- that due to that the Ministry A group of four from Fin- lage Foundation. The five-day of Interior’s booth at the ex- land — Samu Tikkanen, Tina event will conclude today at hibition has stopped receiv- Manninen, Arto Manninen and 10pm. ing applications to acquire a Julia Rainio — who have been All exhibitors are delighted weapon license. living in Qatar for a while, were with the results so far having Handcrafts, leather gloves, thrilled by the cultural expanse. made outstanding sales and hunting uniforms, safari equip- Samu Tikkanen said, “Though deals, according to a state- ment and many other goods I am not a hunter myself, it is ment issued by Katara yes- displayed at the exhibition also nice to be here and important to terday. Some exhibitors from witnessed huge sales as thou- see how so culturally close it is abroad have sold out all their sands rushed to the exhibition to the Qataris.” products as the turnout has yesterday. Tina said she was excited as been very heavy and thou- The daily auction also had it was her fi rst time at a falcon sands of transactions have many bidders, who joined in exhibition. “This is my fi rst been made. and took part as several rare time here. It is so very excit- The S’hail exhibition aims falcons were put up for show ing to see the falcons and I have to become a commercial and at the exhibition’s huge Falcon taken many, many pictures and international hub for hunting Auction Theater. I am going to share it with all and falconry equipment, and Apart from the large turn- my friends back home. It’s re- Vietnamese ambassador Nguyen Dinh Thao, senior diplomats, off icers and a number of community members at a reception hosted at the is growing in size and in the out of Qataris of diff erent ages ally been very interesting to see embassy to mark the 73rd anniversary of the National Day of Vietnam, yesterday. PICTURE: Jayaram number of participants. at the exhibition, visitors from this exhibition.”

CONFLICT DIALOGUE Palestinian teen Rebels grounded killed by Israeli in Sanaa as fire in Gaza border Leaders fail to agree on ceasefi re for Idlib peace talks falter A Palestinian teenager was shot Long-awaited UN-backed talks be- dead by the Israeli army during Reuters The Turkish leader said he summit. Putin responded: faced a real defeat in Syria and peaceful end to the confl ict. tween Yemen’s warring parties were renewed clashes on the Gaza bor- Tehran feared a massacre and Turkey “The fact is that there are no have not reached their goals,” “The fi ght against terrorism in sputtering yesterday before even der yesterday, the health ministry could not accommodate any representatives of the armed he added. Idlib is an indispensable part starting, with Houthi rebels refusing in the Hamas-run strip said. Bilal more refugees fl ooding over its opposition here around this In the fi nal statement, the of the mission to return peace to travel to Geneva and fresh fight- Khafaja, 17, was shot in the chest he presidents of Turkey, border. Putin said a ceasefi re table. And more still, there are three agreed on the need to and stability to Syria, but this ing breaking out on the ground. during clashes east of Rafah in Iran and Russia yester- would be pointless as it would no representatives of Jabhat eliminate Islamic State, the fi ght should not harm civilians The Houthis, powerful armed tribes southern Gaza, the ministry said Tday failed to agree on a not involve militant groups it al-Nusra or ISIS or the Syrian Nusra Front, and other groups and lead to a “scorched-earth” locked in a war with Yemen’s Saudi- in a statement. Several thousand ceasefi re that would forestall deems terrorists. army.”. linked to Al Qaeda and desig- policy,” Rouhani said. backed government, have refused demonstrators approached the a Syrian government off ensive Rouhani said Syria must re- “I think in general the Turk- nated as terrorists. Erdogan said Turkey no to take off from the rebel-held capi- border in multiple locations yester- in rebel-held Idlib province gain control over all its territo- ish president is right. It would But there were were other longer had the capacity to take tal of Sanaa unless the UN meets day evening, AFP correspondents which the United Nations fears ry. Idlib is the insurgents’ only be good. But I can’t speak for armed opposition groups who in any more refugees from Syr- a list of conditions, which includes said, the latest in months of often could cause a humanitarian remaining major stronghold them, and even more so can’t could join any ceasefi re agree- ia should the government of- securing a safe return from Geneva violent confrontations. At least 45 catastrophe involving tens of and a government off ensive talk for terrorists from Jabhat ment, they said. fensive in Idlib go ahead. to Sanaa for their delegation. people were injured by Israeli fire, thousands of civilians. could be the war’s last decisive al-Nusra or ISIS that they will The communique also called Turkey has accepted 3.5mn the ministry said. East of Gaza City Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan, battle. stop shooting or stop using on the United Nations and the refugees from Syria since the balloons attached to incendiary Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Tehran and Moscow have drones with bombs.” international community to start of the war in 2011. “Mil- UNREST devices were again flown across Iran’s Hassan Rouhani, meet- helped Assad turn the course Iranian Supreme Leader step up humanitarian aid to lions will be coming to Tur- Iraq parliament the border, after being largely ab- ing in Tehran for a summit of of the war against an array of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in Syria and help in restoring ba- key’s borders because they sent in recent weeks. The balloons key foreign players in Syria’s opponents ranging from West- a meeting with Putin yesterday sic infrastructure assets. have nowhere to go. Turkey has set for meeting have started hundreds of fires in- war, agreed in a fi nal statement ern-backed rebels to the mili- that Iran and Russia can work Eff orts must be made to pro- fi lled its capacity to host refu- side Israel, causing major damage that there could be no military tants, while Turkey is a leading together to restrain America tect and to create conditions gees,” he said. Iraqi protesters yesterday torched to farmland. The Israeli military solution to the confl ict and it opposition supporter and has and that Syria is a good exam- for the safe return of refugees, The United Nations Security the Iranian consulate in the south- said in a statement that its aircraft could only end through a ne- troops in the country. ple of how American can be re- it added. Council met to discuss Idlib ern city of Basra in fresh demonstra- targeted two Hamas observation gotiated political process. Their discussions in Tehran strained, according his offi cial Iran’s Rouhani said the bat- yesterday at the request of the tions over poor public services after posts after a grenade was thrown But as Syrian govern- mark a crucial point in a seven- website. tle in Syria would continue United States, and UN Syria parliament called for an emergency and “security infrastructure” ment and Russian warplanes year-old war which has killed “One of the issues that the until rebels were pushed out of mediator Staff an de Mistura session on the unrest. Unidenti- damaged. It said thousands of mounted air strikes in Idlib more than half a million people two sides can co-operate on is the whole country, especially said there were “all the ingre- fied attackers also fired shells into “demonstrators and rioters” had yesterday morning in a pos- and forced 11mn to fl ee their restraining America,” Khame- in Idlib, but he added that any dients for a perfect storm”. Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone in a gathered along the border, with sible prelude to a full-scale homes. nei said. “Because America military operations should “The dangers are profound rare attack on an area that houses some of those involved burning off ensive, Putin and Rouhani Erdogan, in his opening re- is a danger for humanity and avoid hurting civilians. that any battle for Idlib could parliament, government off ices and tyres and throwing rocks, incendi- pushed back against Erdogan’s marks, said a ceasefi re in Idlib there is a possibility to restrain He called on all rebels in be, would be a horrifi c and the US embassy. There were no ary devices and a grenade. call for a truce. would be a victory for their them.” “The Americans have Syria to disarm and seek a bloody battle,” de Mistura said. casualties. Gulf Times 4 Saturday, September 8, 2018 AFRICA Mnangagwa names former banker as fi nance minister

Reuters vestors in lithium mining, will an- Harare chor future economic growth. Mnangagwa also appointed ZANU-PF national chairperson imbabwean President Em- Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri as De- merson Mnangagwa yes- fence Minister, taking away a key Zterday appointed former security portfolio from Vice Presi- banker Mthuli Ncube as fi nance dent Constantino Chiwenga, the minister and kept Winston retired general who led the coup Chitando in charge of mining, against Mugabe. placing two technocrats at the Zimbabwean swimming Ol- helm of plans to rescue the coun- ympic gold medallist Kirsty Cov- try’s battered economy. entry was a surprise pick for the The 75-year-old leader is under youth and sports ministry in a pressure to rebuild an economy hit cabinet that did not include any by lack of foreign investment, un- opposition offi cials. Mnangagwa employment above 80% and acute appointed eight new faces to his dollar shortages that have hobbled cabinet but there was no place some imports. for long serving ministers Patrick Mnangagwa won a disputed Chinamasa, Obert Mpofu, David vote on July 30, the fi rst election Parirenyatwa and Simon Moyo. in the southern African nation “We would want to grow, mod- since Robert Mugabe was removed ernise and mechanise our econ- by the army last November after omy. We believe in the next fi ve nearly four decades in power. years, we will be able to transform In appointing Ncube, Mnan- our people into middle income gagwa wants to show the interna- citizens,” Mnangagwa told report- tional community that he is giving ers after his chief secretary an- priority to the economy and mov- nounced the cabinet list. ing away from the Mugabe years Mnangagwa had earlier received where important cabinet posts support from former President were given on patronage lines. Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa answers questions during a press conference to announce Robert Mugabe who said he now “It sounds very encouraging es- ministers of his new cabinet at State House in Harare, yesterday. accepted him as Zimbabwe’s legit- pecially on the choice of fi nance imate leader after initially accus- minister. That’s a very good foun- the African Development Bank years of operations. The bank’s li- Impala Platinum and Sibanye- ing him of leading a “disgraceful” dation for the country’s economic (AfDB) and was also a lecturer cence was later cancelled. Stillwater joint venture platinum de facto coup that ended his near recovery prospects,” said John in fi nance at the London School Ncube will be tasked with craft- miner Mimosa, was favourite to four-decades rule last year. Robertson, a Harare-based inde- of Economics and Wits Business ing an economic recovery pro- be retained at the mines ministry, On the eve of the July 30 vote, pendent economist. School in South Africa. gramme as well as coming up with to which he was fi rst appointed in Mugabe, 94, said he would vote for “I hope the president will per- He founded Zimbabwe’s Barbi- strategy to pay off Zimbabwe’s Nov 2017. the opposition to remove Mnan- mit those ministers to exercise can Bank and asset management $1.8bn arrears to the World Bank Mining generates more than gagwa’s “military government”, their skills without interference.” company, which were, however, and AfDB. half of Zimbabwe’s foreign export expressing bitterness towards Ncube, 55, is a former chief put into administration by the Chitando, a former manag- earnings and Mnangagwa has said his one-time allies in the ruling economist and vice president at central bank in 2005 after only two ing director and chairman at the the sector, which is attracting in- ZANU-PF party.

Lesotho emerges as unlikely Kenya cops detain Chinese journalist

testbed for 5G revolution AFP Nairobi demanding the docu- the African headquarters of the Nairobi ments of staff before haul- China Global Television Net- ing deputy bureau chief Liu work (CGTN), briefl y detaining AFP formative...it allows us to start Hongjie to the police station eight journalists, as well as fi ve Johannesburg talking about driverless cars, and enyan police yesterday despite having verifi ed his other nationals employed in robots and machines in factories,” briefl y detained a Chi- work permit online. the same building. he said. “I can tell you, the Lesotho Knese journalist, just days “His work permit is valid. The Chinese embassy ex- he mountainous kingdom of people are super-proud of this.” after a raid on another Chinese They even checked it online pressed concern at an increase Lesotho in southern Africa Just 530 employees at the head broadcaster, as part of an im- at his offi ce. But he was still in detentions of its nation- Thas become an unexpected offices of the Central Bank of Le- migration crackdown that has be taken away,” said embassy als even though they hold le- test venue for high-speed 5G mobile sotho and the Letseng Diamond frustrated Bejing embassy of- spokesman Zhang Ghang, add- gal documents. Government technology that is set to revolution- Mining company in Maseru cur- fi cials. ing the journalist was later re- spokesman Erick Kiraithe said ise global communication, transport rently enjoy the 5G speeds, but Vo- Police entered the offi ces of leased. the raid on CGTN was a “mis- and entertainment. dacom plans to extend the scheme. the China Daily newspaper in Police on Wednesday raided take”, without elaborating. Two companies in the country’s The Lesotho network, which is tiny capital Maseru are now using the first in Africa, could mean that one of the world’s fi rst commercial customers on the continent could 5G networks on the long-awaited 3.5 avoid the need for expensive fibre GHz spectrum. cabling, instead “leap-frogging” to The network in Lesotho, set up by the new higher speeds. France charges Liberia ‘ex-militant’ local Vodafone affi liate Vodacom, Other commercial networks have delivers speeds of up to 700 mega- been set up in Qatar and Saudi Ara- bits per second, allowing movies to bia in the race to bring 5G, meaning AFP A legal source said the man, identified as be downloaded in seconds and could “Fifth Generation”, to customers. Paris naturalised Dutch citizen Kunti K, is suspected in future provide safe technology for Lesotho, which is entirely sur- of being a former commander in the United driverless cars. rounded by South Africa, has a Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy “It is a bit of a testbed for us,” population of just 2.2mn. rance has detained a suspected former (ULIMO), which fought during the 1990s. Andries Delport, Vodacom’s chief It is known as the “Kingdom in militant commander from Liberia’s bru- Arrested on Tuesday in the northeast Paris technology officer, said yesterday the Sky” as it largely consists of Ftal civil war and charged him with crimes suburb of Bobigny where he had been hiding after the service was launched. rugged mountains with some vil- against humanity for alleged atrocities in- out at the home of a friend, he is suspected of “With 5G, there is a lot of hype lages accessible only by foot or cluding torture and cannibalism, police said torture, murder, slavery, the use of child sol- based on future use. It is trans- pony. yesterday. diers and cannibalism between 1993 and 1997. Pest-proof bags and bins slim Tanzania’s ‘lean season’

Thomson Reuters Foundation one-third”, Brander said. The rise before selling. The Swiss re- Brander said the biggest losses tions which consist of 68 vil- Kondoa, Tanzania study assessed 1,000 small-scale search, which is scheduled to run of harvested crops in Kondoa, lages where the new technology farmers who were part of a larger until 2020, is one of a number of prior to the introduction of bags is widely used,” he told a group project begun in 2013 by Swiss eff orts by government agencies and metal bins, came during stor- of Kondoa farmers in July, add- mproved storage techniques development group Helvetas. and aid groups, among others, to age, with a quarter of the area’s ing that the cost savings from have shown they can cut the That project trained 50,000 assess post-harvest crop losses maize crop typically lost. these storage options made Iloss of harvested maize by farmers in better crop storage and boost rural household in- Pests and mould were the key them popular. 10% in Tanzania, and help one- techniques using metal bins and comes. worries. Losses of grains such as The bags and bins reduce the third fewer households go hun- hermetically sealed bags. The UN’s Food and Agriculture cereals and pulses — staples for need to mix harvested food with gry in the lean season, Swiss re- Selemani Nyange, a 60-year- Organisation (FAO) says such most of the rural population — pest-killing chemicals and the searchers said. old farmer, said that prior to the losses in sub-Saharan Africa was even higher at 30%, he said. cost of paying workers to do As Africa’s population rises study she would lose three out alone total $4bn a year — enough The losses often meant less that mixing, he said. and climate change threatens of the seven bags of her annual to feed at least 48mn people. food and fewer seeds available for Amina Hussein, one of the more harvests, simple eff orts to maize crop to pests. About 20% of cereal harvests, the following year’s planting. farmers involved in the study, protect what is harvested could These days her losses are near 40 to 50% of tubers, fruits and Rakesh Munankami, a project said storage used to be her big- play a key role in staving off hun- zero, said the farmer from Mne- vegetables, 27% of oilseeds, meat team leader at Helvetas, said his gest problem.Every year, much ger on the continent, they said. nia in central Tanzania. and milk, and 33% of fi sh, are organisation has worked with of the maize harvested from “Improved on-farm stor- The bags, also being used in a lost, the FAO said. 50,000 farmers across Tanzania her five-acre farm would go to age is particularly important in crop-storage project in Malawi, Scientists also warned in Au- on crop storage. waste, she said. the ‘lean season’” — the period have two linings of high-density gust that rising temperatures due “Eighty-two % have adopted “In a good harvest I got 20-30 when one harvest is used up and polyethylene and an outer layer to climate change will see larger the new storage technologies bags of maize, but due to storage the next is not yet available, said of woven polypropylene. numbers of hungrier insects at- — around 2,700 metal silos and problems I would lose almost study co-ordinator Matthias These layers keep out most tacking crops — leaving less to be 50,000 hermetic bags have been half of it to weevils,” she said. Huss. oxygen, preventing insects from harvested. distributed,” he said. That amounted to 86,000 Tan- That “is often a time of in- surviving and reproducing. They said a 2-degree Celsius The university’s research, he zanian shillings ($37), which “is a creased food insecurity and hun- Up to 98% of insects can be (3.6-degree Fahrenheit) tem- added, show the bags and metal big loss for my family,” she said. ger,” he said. eliminated from stored grain perature rise would see insects bins typically extend food sup- The new bags are more robust, The study, which was con- within a month of putting it in consume 213mn tonnes of maize, plies by two months and in- as well as more eff ective, than ducted by the University of Zu- the bag, cutting losses, according wheat and rice by 2050 — up from crease household incomes by the plastic bags she used earlier, rich, assessed how better crop to a 2017 study published in the 166mn tonnes today. about $90. Hussein said. storage would aff ect household journal Plos One. And as the invasive fall army- Philemon Eliabu Ndosi, a “(The old) bags would tear food security and market prices, Bags cost about fi ve dollars worm pest continues to wreak senior programme officer at the very easily and I used to buy said researcher Michael Brander. each and metal bins about twice havoc on crops across Africa Ministry of Agriculture, said (them) almost three times a One year into the study, “the that, Nyange said. — and has now been spotted in more and more farmers know year. But now, with the hermetic most astonishing fi nding so far The improved storage allows India — keeping safe what is har- about the new storage technol- bags, the grains are able to stay is that the number of people farmers to store surpluses long- vested will become even more ogy. fresh for a long period of time,” that go hungry has reduced by er, and wait for market prices to important, experts say. “Currently we have 16 loca- Hussein said. Gulf Times Saturday, September 8, 2018 5 AMERICAS Obama urges Democrats to vote, citing ‘perilous’ times

AFP “They’re undermining our al- ed to make on the campaign trail. supposed to stand up to bullies, as the $1.5tn in tax cuts that Chicago liances, cosying up to Russia,” he Former Obama communica- not follow them,” he said to ap- ballooned the nation’s budget said. tions director Dan Pfeiff er said on plause. defi cit, but which party leaders The party’s “central organising CNN that Obama can eff ectively “And we’re sure as heck sup- hoped would be a winning issue ormer US president Barack principle in foreign policy was reach voters in parts of the coun- posed to stand up clearly and un- during midterm campaigns. Obama returned to the the fi ght against communism try he won in 2012, but which equivocally to Nazi sympathis- “It’s supposed to be the party Fpolitical fray yesterday, and now they’re cozying up to the voted for Trump in 2016. ers,” Obama said, taking aim at ... of fi scal conservatism. Sud- forcefully rebuking his successor former head of the KGB”. “Obama is a great messenger Trump’s failure to quickly con- denly defi cits do not matter,” Donald Trump and the Republi- The former president’s re- to get them to vote for Demo- demn neo-Nazis who marched Obama said. can Party before hitting the cam- marks in Illinois came ahead of crats,” Pfeiff er said. “If I was the last year in Charlottesville, Vir- He implored the audience to paign trail for Democrats. series of campaign stops to help Republicans, I would be very ginia. vote in the upcoming election. Since leaving offi ce, Obama fellow Democrats running in the nervous about this.” In an uncharacteristic move, Historically, midterms are had avoided directly criticising November midterm elections. Obama criticised the divisive Obama directly named Trump, lightly-attended and Obama Trump and made a calculated ef- Democrats are hoping to ride politics of the Trump era, decry- saying that the current president made a point of reminding his fort not to utter his successor’s an anti-Donald Trump “blue ing attacks on the freedom of the was a “symptom, not the cause” audience that only one in fi ve name. wave” to gain seats and secure press, the justice system, and nu- of broader ailments in the na- young people voted in the 2014 But that changed yesterday. control of the House of Repre- merous other controversies. tion’s politics. midterm election. Obama speaks to students at the University of Illinois in Urbana, “What happened to the Re- sentatives, the lower chamber of “It shouldn’t be Democratic or “He’s just capitalising on re- “The biggest threat to our de- Illinois, where he accepted the Paul H Douglas Award for Ethics in publican Party?” Obama asked Congress, and are also battling Republican to say we don’t target sentments that politicians have mocracy is cynicism,” Obama Government yesterday. The award is an annual honour given by the an auditorium packed with col- for seats in the Senate. certain groups of people based on been fanning for years,” he said. said. “You’ve got to do more than university’s Institute of Government and Public Aff airs to recognise lege students who greeted him The speech was a preview of what they look like or how they Obama also criticised recent retweet a hashtag, you’ve got to public off icials who have made significant contributions in public with a roaring standing ovation. the arguments Obama is expect- pray. We are Americans. We’re Republican policy moves such vote.” service.

Dallas off icer kills man in flat she thought was hers A Dallas police off icer arrived in full uniform on Thursday night at an apartment she thought was hers, entered it, and shot Trump urges Sessions to and killed a man who lived there, police said, citing the off icer’s account of what happened. Once inside the wrong apartment, the off icer fired her weapon, striking the victim, a 26-year-old male, who was treated at the scene probe anonymous op-ed by responding off icers and pronounced dead later after AFP author’s anonymity as “very chronicler describes a coalition Woodward. being taken to hospital, the Dallas Fargo unfair”, since it prevented them of like-minded aides plotting to But Trump’s insistence that Police Department said in a from being openly scrutinised. prevent the president from de- the words attributed to him are statement yesterday. The article, which was pub- stroying the world trade system, “made up” hasn’t always stood The 26-year-old off icer told S President Donald lished on Wednesday, said that undermining national security, up to scrutiny. investigators that she thought Trump has urged his at- “unsung heroes” were quietly and sparking wars. Trump’s claim, for example, she had entered her own Utorney general to inves- working within the administra- Woodward’s is not the fi rst that he would never have used residence, the statement said. tigate the anonymous author of tion to frustrate the president’s unfl attering investigation into the word “retarded” to describe The off icer, who was not injured, a damning op-ed, escalating his “worst inclinations”. Trump’s White House, but it has Sessions was quickly under- was placed on administrative long-running battles with both That account was also sup- been particularly resonant com- mined by recordings showing he leave, pending the outcome of the media and leaks from the ported by Woodward’s book, ing from the man who, together had used the term several times a joint investigation by Dallas White House. which Trump dismissed on with Carl Bernstein, authored in the past. police and the local district Trump also took aim at a Twitter as a “scam”. the Watergate expose that While Woodward does not attorney, the statement said. book by investigative journal- “I don’t talk the way I am brought down Richard Nixon. name his sources, he says he The Dallas County Medical ist Bob Woodward which, like quoted. If I did I would not have He is one of the most respect- spoke with many people cur- Examiners Off ice said the man the incendiary unsigned piece been elected President. These ed living US journalists, and has rently or formerly working for killed was Botham Shem Jean, in the New York Times, off ered quotes were made up. The au- written extensively on modern Trump, discussing not just the and that an autopsy was being a damning portrayal of the in- thor uses every trick in the book American presidents, earn- president’s personality but also performed yesterday morning. ner workings of his administra- to demean and belittle,” Trump ing praise from Trump himself major policy debates regarding The St Lucia Times, a newspaper tion, sparking yet another White Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One, on his way to tweeted. “I wish the people in 2013 for his work on Barack North Korea and Afghanistan. published on the Caribbean House crisis and putting the Fargo, North Dakota. could see the real facts – and our Obama. The book depicts Trump aides island of Saint Lucia, said that president on the defensive. country is doing GREAT!” Woodward describes Trump working to head off potential Jean was the son of a former “I would say Jeff (Sessions) they’ve done is virtually, you media over the identity of the Woodward’s Fear: Trump in regularly insulting key members foreign policy disasters, disre- permanent secretary of that should be investigating who the know, it’s treason,” the presi- author, prompting nearly every the White House, a 448-page of his own team, who are in turn garding a call by the president island nation. author of that piece was because dent said in an interview with cabinet-ranked member of the account of an out-of-control contemptuous of the president. for the assassination of his Syr- Dallas police, reached by phone I really believe it’s national secu- Fox News broadcast earlier yes- government to deny involve- administration set to hit book- Attacking the veracity of the ian counterpart, and stealing an yesterday, would not confirm the rity,” Trump told reporters trav- terday. ment. shelves next week, draws on quotes attributed to Trump and order that would have cancelled man’s identity. elling with him in North Dakota. A “whodunnit?” style guess- “We have thousands of people hundreds of hours of insider in- his lieutenants in Fear has been a US-South Korea trade agree- “The Times should never have ing game has raged in the cor- that, in theory, could qualify,” terviews. a central plank of the admin- ment. done that, because really what ridors of power and on social Trump told Fox, describing the The respected White House istration’s attempt to discredit Drake pulls out of Toronto festival

Rapper Drake pulled out of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) at the last minute Mattis in unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday, citing a scheduling conflict on his current music tour. He was due in the evening to AFP Taliban, the country’s largest stan, a key player in the Afghan introduce the film Monsters Kabul militant group. confl ict. and Men, about a Brooklyn Six US soldiers have been He made the remarks after community rocked by the police killed in Afghanistan so far this confi rming that Zalmay Kha- shooting death of a black man, to S Defence Secretary Jim year, the most recent happen- lilzad, a high-profi le former US a Canadian audience. Mattis met with top Af- ing on Monday in an apparent ambassador to Kabul, Baghdad Drake is executive producer of Ughan leaders during an insider attack. and the United Nations, would the film. unannounced visit to Kabul Ghani told Mattis that pre- be appointed to lead peace ef- In a statement, his publicists said yesterday, adding his weight to venting so-called “green-on- forts in Afghanistan. that the film “is a project very a fl urry of diplomatic eff orts to blue” attacks, in which Afghan Miller, who took command of close to Drake’s heart”, adding bring the Taliban to the negoti- soldiers turn their weapons on US and Nato forces at a handover that he feels “strongly about ating table. international troops with whom ceremony in Kabul on Sunday, its ability to positively inspire His trip comes a little more they are working, was a “top na- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (right) with US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis (centre), US ambassador to replaces General John Nichol- dialogue”. than a year after President Don- tional priority”. Afghanistan John Bass (second left), and US General Joseph Dunford at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. son, who rotated out of the role “But due to scheduling ald Trump unveiled a revamped They also discussed other is- after a more than two-year de- commitments on his current tour strategy for Afghanistan that sues including the peace proc- But a recent spate of attacks Trump’s strategy, announced is growing frustrated with the ployment. he unfortunately will not be able saw him commit thousands of ess, security reforms, upcoming by the Taliban and the smaller in August 2017, increased the pace of progress in the country, Nicholson told reporters last to attend and introduce the film additional US forces to the war- parliamentary and presidential but potent Islamic State (IS) US troop presence in the coun- spurring US diplomats and other month that the warring parties at TIFF.” torn country on an open-ended elections, and Pakistan, accord- group that left hundreds of peo- try and now includes a renewed offi cials to intensify their eff orts. now had an “unprecedented” Drake first walked the red carpet basis. ing to a statement from the pres- ple dead has severely dented that push to bring the Taliban to the The Taliban have long insisted opportunity for peace, and in- at the TIFF last year for The Mattis, on his fourth visit to idential palace. optimism. negotiating table. on direct talks with Washington sisted Trump’s strategy for the Carter Eff ect, about NBA player Afghanistan since becoming de- Afghan and international A twin bomb attack on a wres- Speaking to reporters as he and refused to negotiate with the country was working. Vince Carter. fence chief in January 2017, has players have been ratcheting up tling club in a Shia neighbour- headed to Asia this week, Mat- Afghan government, which they But his positive outlook be- His was the second exit from the met with President Ashraf Ghani eff orts to hold peace talks with hood of Kabul on Wednesday tis said he had reason to hope the see as illegitimate. lied recent setbacks on the bat- TIFF this week, after organisers and the new US commander for the Taliban, which was toppled was just the latest in a long line Taliban may be ready for talks. There is speculation that an- tlefi eld, including last month’s nixed director Melanie Laurent’s American and North Atlantic from power by US-led forces in of devastating assaults, killing There’s “still hard fi ghting, other meeting between US and extraordinary raid by the Tali- Galveston from its Gala Treaty Organisation (Nato) forc- 2001. at least 26 people and wound- but right now we have more in- Taliban representatives could be ban on the provincial capital of Presentations line-up, saying she es, General Scott Miller. An unprecedented ceasefi re in ing 91. dications that reconciliation is held this month. Ghazni – just a two-hour drive would be unable to attend due to His arrival in Kabul comes at a June followed by talks between The attack underscored the ... no longer just a mirage”, he US Secretary of State Mike from Kabul. “work commitments”. sensitive time in the 17-year war. US offi cials and Taliban repre- challenges facing Afghanistan’s said, adding that Afghan secu- Pompeo visited Islamabad on Militants held large parts of Toronto requires filmmakers in its The grinding confl ict has sentatives in Qatar in July fuelled beleaguered security forces, rity forces were now taking the Wednesday, where he said he the city for days and Afghan top movie category be present seen little progress by Afghan or hopes that negotiations could which have been beset by cor- fi ght to the enemy. was “hopeful” of resetting the forces needed US air power to for screenings. United States forces against the bring an end to the fi ghting. ruption and low morale. But there are fears that Trump troubled relationship with Paki- push them back. Hollywood pays tribute to ‘a true American icon’

By Jamiles Lartey Sally Field starred with Rey- as we mourn one of our favourite way to transition from being an series BL Stryker, said: “I cannot Guardian News & Media nolds in the 1977 hit Smokey and leading men. athlete to being the highest-paid stop my tears right now. You were the Bandit. “I know we will always remem- actor, and he always inspired me.” one of the greatest guys I ever In a statement, she described ber his funny laugh, that mischie- In a tribute posted to Insta- worked with, u had my back.” s word of Burt Reynolds’ him as the “love of my life”. vous sparkle in his eyes, and his gram, action star Sylvester Stal- The Shield star Michael Chiklis, death spread through Hol- The two dated for many years quirky sense of humour.” lone said: “He had a great sense who also worked on BL Stryker, Alywood, people from all and Reynolds discussed her with Social media was abuzz. of humour and I enjoyed his com- added: “I owe my career, at least corners of television and fi lm took similar fondness in interviews. “He was my childhood,” said pany so much … RIP”. in part, to the great Burt Rey- a moment to off er warm remem- “My years with Burt never leave Oscar winner Viola Davis. Mark Wahlberg, who appeared nolds. Heartbroken to learn of his brances of a “legend”, “icon” and my mind,” Field said. “He will be The director Kevin Smith called with Reynolds in Boogie Nights, passing. “trailblazer”. in my history and my heart, for as Reynolds “a true American icon” shared a picture of them on the “He was one of a kind. A fun The 82-year-old star of De- long as I live. Rest, Buddy.” and lauded him for showing “the movie’s set in a tweet with the loving, charismatic talent who did liverance, The Longest Yard and The actor and singer Dolly Par- fun of movie-making”. caption: “Rest in peace to a legend many good deeds quietly, without This picture taken on December 3, 2015 shows Reynolds posing Boogie Nights, died on Thursday ton said in a statement: “Oh how Arnold Schwarzenegger called and a friend.” personal expectation but rather for a portrait during an interview with Reuters at a hotel in central after going into cardiac arrest at sad I am today along with Burt’s Reynolds one of his heroes: “He Kristy Swanson, who worked out of the kindness of his extraor- London. his Florida home. millions of fans around the world was a trailblazer. He showed the with Reynolds on the 1989 TV dinary heart. RIP.” Gulf Times 6 Saturday, September 8, 2018 ASIA

Lanka on track to be Thailand charges 12 for landmine free by false Facebook post 2020 AFP who has since returned home, group were accused of “com- Neither of the people sought fecting our freedom of expres- Human Rights Watch yester- IANS Bangkok told British media that she was mitting together the crime of are in Thailand, he added. sion,” she said. day said that Thai authorities Colombo drugged and raped while holi- disseminating, broadcasting, Thailand’s Computer Crimes While Thailand’s southern should drop computer crime daying on the island. and sharing false information,” Act is a broadly worded law islands are considered safe and charges against 12 people who welve people arrested Her account has been dis- he said. which forbids uploading “false popular tourist destinations, published and shared online he Sri Lankan government earlier this week for puted by Koh Tao police, who They were all released on data” online. several high-profi le incidents reports about a rape allegation yesterday said the country Tsharing a Facebook post say a rape complaint was not Thursday night on a bond of Critics say the law has been have tarnished their reputation which has been dismissed as Twas on track to achieving about the alleged rape of a Brit- formally fi led. 60,000 baht ($1,830) each. used to stamp out dissent and in recent years. false by the police, DPA reports. its target of being free from land- ish tourist have been charged Winyat Chatmontree of They face up to fi ve years curb free speech. In 2014, the battered bodies “The Thai police appear to be mines by 2020. and bailed, their lawyer said United Lawyers for Rights and in prison if found guilty, said The case against the 12 had of two British backpackers were using computer-related crime Resettlement and Rehabilita- yesterday. Liberty said the 12 hailed from Chatmontree. the potential to justify further found on the beach in Koh Tao. charges against anyone who tion Minister D M Swaminathan The 12 individuals have since all over the country, including Arrest warrants have also prosecutions against social Two Myanmar migrant work- questions their shoddy investi- informed legislators in parlia- Tuesday been hauled down to the capital Bangkok. been issued against the admin- media users in Thailand, said ers were sentenced to death for gation of the Koh Tao island rape ment that majority of lands had the tourist island of Koh Tao af- “They were accused of shar- istrators of two public Facebook Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, di- the murders after a controver- case,” said Brad Adams, Asia di- now been cleared in the north ter allegedly sharing a post de- ing false information,” Chat- pages which shared posts about rector of the advocacy group sial investigation and trial that rector at Human Rights Watch. and east and many families had tailing the woman’s allegations montree said. the alleged rape, said deputy Cross Cultural Foundation. were criticised by observers and “The authorities should im- been resettled. and criticising local police. Charged under Thailand’s tourist police chief Surachet “It is a serious precedent that a family member of one of the mediately drop these bogus He said demining activity The 19-year-old UK national, Computer Crimes Act, the Hakpan. is getting worse and worse in af- victims. charges,” he added. was being carried out by the Sri Lankan army and international demining agencies, Xinhua news agency reported. “Removing deeply-buried ex- Thai Royal Decoration Ceremony plosives is a time-taking activity. Our target is to make Sri Lanka a 2 suspected landmine-free country by 2020. People supporting us in these demining activities help us to fast-track the process,” the min- ister said. extremists He said the explosives found during the demining activity were destroyed safely as per the regulations with the help of the Sri Lanka Army and the interna- shot dead in tional bodies. Following the end of the island’s 30-year confl ict be- tween government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels which ended Bangladesh in May 2009, 2,064 acres of land in the country, mostly in the north and east, had to be AFP Both men were in their cleared off landmines and ex- Dhaka early 30s and alleged plosives which had been buried to be members of by the rebels. Jamayetul Mujahideen Thousands of minority angladeshi police yes- Bangladesh (JMB) Japanese cave diver Shigeki Miyake, Belgian cave diver Ben Reymenants, American cave diver Joshua David Morris, Thai Prime Tamils who had been displaced terday shot dead two Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, Finnish cave diver Mikko Paasi, American cave diver Bruce Konefe and Japanese cave diver Hideki by the war have already been Bsuspected members of taken part in the killing, Alam Furihata pose in front of a depiction of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn at the Royal Decoration Ceremony for aiding the rescue of re-settled back in the cleared an Islamist group blamed for said. the Wild Boars football team from Tham Luang cave, at the Royal Thai Government House in Bangkok yesterday. areas with the help of demining attacks on secular activists The killing of Bachchu, 60, agencies. and foreign targets, offi cials was the fi rst Islamist attack on said. a prominent secular fi gure in The pair were challenged at two years. a rural police checkpoint and Bachchu’s death led to fears killed in an exchange of gun- of a new wave of extremist at- fi re, said Munshiganj police tacks in the Muslim-majority ICC has no jurisdiction to probe exodus: Myanmar chief Zaidul Alam. country. Both men were in their Another JMB regional com- early 30s and alleged to be mander, Abdur Rahman, was DPA leaders to be tried in The Hague. the court’s decision, the ICC said. They are labelled ‘Bengali’ by whom now live in vast camps in members of Jamayetul Mu- killed in a gun battle in the Yangon “Myanmar absolutely rejects More than 700,000 mostly the government and much of Bangladesh. jahideen Bangladesh (JMB). central town of Sirajdikhan the decision which is the result Muslim Rohingyas have fl ed their the Myanmar population to infer Two UN agencies yester- Police have not disclosed in June. He had also been ac- of faulty procedure and is of du- homes into Bangladesh since Au- they are interlopers from Bang- day asked the government to their full names. cused of involvement in Bach- yanmar yesterday bious legal merit,” read a state- gust last year, bringing with them ladesh and are denied access to “urgently” make “substan- The JMB was blamed for the chu’s murder. said the International ment released by the president’s accounts of rape, arson and kill- health care, education and free- tial progress” on an agreement 2016 attack on a cafe in Dhaka Security forces have shot MCriminal Court does offi ce yesterday. ings by Myanmar security forces. dom of movement. signed with the government neighbourhood, during which dead more than 80 alleged not have jurisdiction to investi- Myanmar argued that it was Earlier this month the UN said Myanmar, in yesterday’s three months ago to facilitate 18 foreigners and four other militants over the past two gate the exodus of hundreds of not party to the Rome Statute, the grievous human rights abuses statement, said “allegations of conditions for Rohingya returns. hostages were killed. years. Hundreds more have thousands of Rohingya Muslims which established the ICC. by security forces could amount deportations could not be fur- The UN Development Pro- Alam said one of the two been arrested and scores sen- from Myanmar to Bangladesh. The ruling “created a danger- to genocide and urged prosecu- ther from the truth” and that it gramme and UN High Com- men was the “main master- tenced to death. The ICC on Thursday ruled it ous precedent and erodes the tion of Myanmar by the ICC. was working hard to repatriate mission on Human Rights said mind” of the killing of pub- The JMB, founded by Bang- had jurisdiction over “the crime moral authority of the court,” Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic refugees. the government still needed to lisher and Communist Party ladeshi radicals who took part against humanity of deporta- Myanmar said. minority group in Buddhist-ma- Government spokesperson, ensure access to the area, clear offi cial Shahzahan Bachchu in the Afghan civil war in the tion allegedly committed against The fact that the case involves a jority Myanmar, were stripped of Zaw Htay, yesterday said My- pathways to citizenship, and near Munshiganj in June. 1990s, regrouped after the members of the Rohingya peo- border crossing from one state not citizenship in 1982 and have been anmar stood ready to receive the tackle the root causes of confl ict The other militant was “a execution of its top leaders in ple,” according to a statement, adherent to the court, Myanmar, to long subject to persecution in Ra- fi rst batch of 3,000 Rohingya between Muslim Rohingyas and JMB bomb-maker” who had 2007. paving the way for Myanmar one that does, Bangladesh, justifi ed khine state, where most lived. refugees, more than 1mn of Buddhist Rakhine.

Lanka top bank Ferry travel to intervene if rupee moves on Nepal says China to speculation

Sri Lanka’s central bank will intervene in the foreign exchange allow access to ports markets if its rupee currency moves for any reasons other than global trends, Nandalal Reuters It said China had also more than 2,600km (1,625 Weerasinghe, the bank’s senior Kathmandu agreed to allow Nepal use its miles) from its border. deputy governor, said yesterday. dry (land) ports at Lanzhou, “Nepal must develop proper Currency dealers have said the Lhasa and Xigatse as well as infrastructure for smooth ac- central bank had not intervened hina will allow Ne- roads to these facilities. The cess to Chinese ports. Without much to defend the currency, which pal the use of four of arrangements will come into this simply opening of ports has dropped 5.6% this year, even Cits ports, the Nepalese eff ect when the protocol is will not be useful,” said Anup after it hit record lows for 13 straight government said yesterday, as signed, an offi cial said with- Malla, an exporter of woollen sessions through Thursday. the landlocked Himalayan na- out giving a date. carpets. On Thursday, the central bank cut tion seeks to end India’s mo- “This is one of the mile- China is making fast in- net opening positions (NOP) of nopoly over its trading routes stones because we are getting roads into Nepal with aid and commercial banks after the rupee, by increasing connections with access to four Chinese ports in investment, challenging In- which had weakened 1.2% last month, Beijing. addition to two ports in India,” dia’s long-held position as the hit a record low of 162.65 against the Wedged between China and Rabi Shankar Sainju, a com- dominant outside power. dollar. The currency recovered after India, Nepal depends heavily merce ministry offi cial, said. Beijing and Kathmandu the central bank’s move. on India for the supply of es- He said Nepali cargo from are also in talks for building a “If we think it is moving due to sential goods including fuel Japan, South Korea and other railway link into Nepal, con- several other reasons, rather than and the use of its ports for north Asian countries could be structing an electric transmis- a global trend, obviously we will trade with other countries. routed through China which sion line and are conducting a intervene,” Weerasinghe told But Kathmandu has sought would cut shipping time and feasibility study for a free trade Reuters in an interview. access to Chinese ports to re- costs. agreement. “We will intervene and we will duce dependence on India Overland trade is now rout- China has failed to win In- bring any other measures we since a prolonged blockade of ed mainly through the east dia’s support for its ambitious think appropriate.” its border crossings with India Indian port of Kolkata which Belt and Road infrastructure On Tuesday, the junior finance in 2015 and 2016 left the coun- takes up to three months, of- project, President Xi Jinping’s minister said the government try short of fuel and medicine fi cials said. New Delhi has landmark scheme to connect would leave the level of its rupee for several months. also opened the southern China to the rest of Asia and to market forces to decide. Offi cials from Nepal and port at Vishakhapatnam for beyond, a giant reworking of Banks have been building up China fi nalised a protocol dur- Nepali trade. its old Silk Road. reserves on speculation, however, ing a meeting in Kathmandu Traders say the plan to con- India has not signed up to Weerasinghe said. yesterday giving Nepal access nect the country with China the initiative as parts of one “We have observed banks have to the Chinese ports at Tianjin, could face issues due to a lack key project, the $57bn China- been building up their positions Shenzhen, Lianyungang and of proper roads and customs Pakistan Economic Corridor, and not converting (the dollars). Zhanjiang, a statement from infrastructure on the Nepalese runs through Pakistan-ad- People get into a passenger ferry as they travel to Dhaka in south-central district of Bhola yesterday. Without any fundamental Nepal’s commerce ministry side of the border. The near- ministered Kashmir that India Bhola Island, 116km from capital Dhaka, is the largest island of Bangladesh. reasons, there is no reason to said. est Chinese port is also located considers its own territory. build up reserves.” (Reuters) Gulf Times Saturday, September 8, 2018 7 ASIA/AUSTRALASIA

New Zealand PM Ardern under fi re as broadcast minister quits

AFP in June when she gave birth to ing to declare meetings, said she Ardern had accepted Curran’s and the government.” Another Wellington daughter Neve — becoming only faced “intolerable pressure” and resignation the previous night of Ardern’s ministers, Meka the second female leader in the did not want to become a distrac- but failed to mention it during the Whaitiri, has stood aside from her world to have a baby in offi ce. tion for the government. But it 10-minute interview. Ardern later customs portfolio while under in- ew Zealand Prime Minis- But the lustre surrounding the was the way Ardern dealt with the insisted that she answered the vestigation for an alleged physical ter Jacinda Ardern faced 38-year-old has dimmed in recent problem that drew most criticism, question correctly but opposition altercation with a staff er. Nher fi rst major crisis yes- weeks amid policy squabbles with with opponents accusing her of leader Simon Bridges zeroed in on Meanwhile coalition partner terday over her handling of a coalition partners and plummet- misleading the public. her evasiveness, saying she had New Zealand First, led by Win- gaff e-prone minister’s resigna- ing business confi dence. Asked on talkback radio yes- mishandled the aff air. ston Peters, has undermined her tion. Ardern swept to power on Ardern revealed that her gov- terday morning whether she was “The prime minister needs to election pledge to lift New Zea- a wave of “Jacinda-mania” late ernment had suff ered its first cas- considering fi ring Curran, she re- explain why she misled New Zea- land’s refugee quota. Ardern also last year, with her centre-left ualty, with Broadcasting Minister plied: “No, I think she’s paid her landers this morning by saying came under fi re this week for ar- Labour Party leading a coalition Clare Curran resigning after using price. We want to make sure that Ms Curran’s job was safe when riving late at a Pacifi c summit that promised “a government of a private e-mail account to con- you don’t set the bar so high that Ms Curran says she resigned last in Nauru to minimise time away change”. duct government business. you have a situation where you night,” he said. “This whole saga from her baby, although defend- The optimism surrounding her Curran, who had been disci- show a bit of human frailty and has seriously damaged the cred- ers labelled such criticism petty Jacinda Ardern administration was enhanced plined twice previously for fail- you lose your job over it.” In fact, ibility of both the prime minister and overly partisan. Toll from Japan quake rises to 20

AFP Tokyo

apanese rescue workers with bulldozers and sniff er dogs Jscrabbled through the mud yesterday to fi nd survivors from a landslide that buried houses after a powerful quake, as the death toll rose to 20. Around 22 people are still un- Passengers go through turnstiles to enter Sapporo station following the resumption of trains connecting accounted for in the small north- to Chitose airport in Sapporo city, Hokkaido prefecture. ern countryside town of Atsuma, where a cluster of dwellings were up from the Self-Defense Forces, Transport services were grad- within two to three days (of a big wrecked when a hillside collapsed handed out emergency water ually coming back on line with one),” said Toshiyuki Matsumori, with the force of the 6.6-magni- supplies and long lines formed at bullet trains resuming operations in charge of monitoring earth- tude quake, causing deep brown petrol stations and supermarkets, late yesterday morning and the quakes and tsunamis at the mete- scars in the landscape. as people stocked up fearing fur- main airport in Sapporo operat- orological agency. “We’ve heard there are peo- ther quakes. ing a partial service after cancel- The risk of housing collapses ple still stuck under the mud, so “Please give your sympathy to ling all fl ights the day before. and landslides had increased, he we’ve been working around the people who spent a dark night in But a football friendly be- said, urging residents “to pay full clock but it’s been diffi cult to res- fear, and do everything you can tween Japan and Chile in Sap- attention to seismic activity and cue them,” a Self-Defense Forces to restore electricity as soon as poro planned was scrapped due to rainfall and not to go into danger- serviceman in Atsuma told public possible,” Prime Minister Shinzo the transport and power chaos in ous areas.” broadcaster NHK. “We will take Abe told a cabinet meeting to dis- Hokkaido. The quake was the lat- Japan sits on the Pacifi c “Ring measures to fi nd them quickly.” cuss the quake. The earthquake, est in a string of natural disasters of Fire” where many of the An elderly woman in Atsuma which scored the maximum on to batter the country. Western world’s earthquakes and volcanic told NHK: “My relative is still Passengers wait for their connection in the Sapporo city subway after trains resumed operations in a Japanese scale measuring the parts of the country are still re- eruptions are recorded. In June, a buried under the mud and has Sapporo city, Hokkaido prefecture. power of a quake’s shaking, also covering from the most powerful deadly tremor rocked the Osaka not been found yet, so I couldn’t collapsed a handful of houses and typhoon to strike Japan in a quar- region, killing fi ve people and sleep at all last night. There were without power after the quake households. “It will take about a urged citizens to conserve energy walls in the main city of Sapporo. ter of a century, which claimed 11 injuring over 350. On March 11, also several aftershocks so it was a damaged a thermal plant sup- week” before the largest thermal by having fewer lights on in shops However, considering the lives and shut down the main re- 2011, a devastating 9.0-magni- restless night.” plying electricity to the region. power plant recovers, “so dur- and restaurants and “for example strength of the quake, the death gional airport. tude quake struck under the Pa- Around 1.6mn households in Yesterday industry minister Hi- ing that period, we are sending family members staying together toll was relatively light, with the And offi cials warned of the cifi c Ocean, and the resulting tsu- the sparsely populated north- roshige Seko said that number power-generating vehicles to in one room”. Some 22,000 rescue majority of victims coming from danger of fresh quakes. “Large nami caused widespread damage ern island of Hokkaido were still should be reduced to 550,000 hospitals,” Seko told reporters. He workers, including troops called the landslide in Atsuma. quakes often occur, especially and claimed thousands of lives.

North Korea lines up celebrations for 70th anniversary Australian PM to face

AFP who observe them closely for invitations for the anniversary hostile parliament in Pyongyang clues about its latest military have gone out around the world, advances. Traditionally they but few heads of state are known see nuclear-armed Pyongyang to be attending. test of leadership orth Korea is preparing show off its latest hardware, Despite speculation that to mark the 70th anni- culminating earlier this year in Chinese President Xi Jinping Nversary of its foundation intercontinental ballistic mis- would go, the delegation from Reuters divides and soften his public this weekend with a series of siles rolling through Kim Il- the North’s key ally and main Sydney image, culminating in a call for festivities, expected to include a sung Square. diplomatic protector will be “Australians to love each other”. military parade and the return of But analysts say the North headed by Li Zhanshu, one of A compromise candidate, he only its renowned ‘Mass Games’ after may not put them on display the seven members of the Po- ustralia’s new Prime won after moderates rallied be- a fi ve-year absence. this time with the peninsula litburo Standing Committee, its Minister Scott Morrison, hind him, enabling the defeat of The Democratic People’s Re- in the throes of a diplomatic most powerful body. But Mau- Aelected to heal his frac- right-wing rival and home aff airs public of Korea, as the North rapprochement, and may in- ritanian President Mohamed tured party, faces his biggest test minister Peter Dutton. is offi cially known, was pro- stead adopt milder messaging Ould Abdel Aziz will attend, on Monday, in steering the gov- But Morrison’s slim victory claimed on September 9, 1948, focussed on the economy and KCNA reported, and French ac- ernment through a hostile fi rst margin of just fi ve votes shows three years after Moscow and technological development. Re- tor Gerard Depardieu was spot- session of parliament. Picked how deep the party divide is. One Washington divided the penin- ports say rehearsals for a mili- ted by AFP at a Pyongyang hotel last month by the ruling Liberal of those votes was cast by Turn- sula between them in the closing tary parade have been spotted yesterday. Party to become the sixth prime bull, whose resignation from days of World War II. at a training ground on the out- More than 120 foreign jour- minister in the last decade, fol- parliament cost Morrison his Such set-piece dates are a skirts of the capital and at night A soldier stands next to his motorcycle ahead of the 70th anniver- nalists have been allowed to go to lowing a backbench revolt that parliamentary majority. With 75 mainstay of the North’s politi- in the city centre. sary of North Korea’s foundation, in Pyongyang. Pyongyang to cover the events, ousted predecessor Malcolm elected lawmakers, the govern- cal calendar, particularly when And at the parade venue, the its largest-scale media invita- Turnbull, Morrison has enjoyed a ment is one shy of an outright round numbers are involved, portraits of the North’s founder ers or more in a spectacular dis- seen streaming out of the sta- tion in recent years. brief honeymooon period. majority. and it is pulling out all the and his son and successor Kim play against an ever-changing dium every evening, and at night But neither the reporters nor “How Morrison performs “There are some bruised peo- stops this time. The military Jong-il have been covered up, backdrop at the May Day sta- the sound of rehearsals echoes resident diplomats have yet been over the next fortnight will be ple in the party,” said Grahame parades – overseen by leader most likely to protect them dur- dium, have been going on for across the city. The show will told of the exact schedule – nor critical,” John Hewson, former Morris, former chief of staff to Kim Jong-un, the third of his ing the preparations. Practices months. be titled ‘The Glorious Country’, even whether a parade will defi - leader of the Liberal Party, told ex-prime minister John Howard. family to rule the country – for the Mass Games, which typi- Hundreds of drum-carrying according to the North’s offi cial nitely go ahead. Such secrecy is Reuters. “Bill Shorten, leader of Desperate to heal the rift, are crucial to Korea-watchers, cally involve 100,000 perform- youths dressed in white can be KCNA news agency. Diplomatic standard procedure in the North. Australia’s Labor Party, will be Morrison has retained in their sitting like a mosquito in a nud- cabinet positions nearly all the ist colony, he has so much to bite conservative activists behind into,” he added. “The only trou- Turnbull’s ouster. ble he will have is deciding where Appointments of infl uential to begin.” conservatives were key to dem- Labor is the largest opposition onstrate the party’s centre-right party. But even before Morrison credentials and heal the deep even faces opposition lawmakers wounds, said former treasurer as leader for the fi rst time, he will Peter Costello. Yet Morrison’s have to contend with Australia’s soothing eff ort will be compli- most prominent political poll, cated by the task of having to due to be published late tomor- defend Dutton against growing row. pressure over accusations of im- The infl uential Newspoll, properly handing out immigra- which has been a key driver in tion visas. the demise of several leaders, Dutton denies the accusation, showed support for Morrison’s although opposition lawmakers government at a decade low last had called for Morrison to re- month. move his home aff airs minister. Keen to minimise the impact, Morrison can ill-aff ord to lose cabinet ministers said the next Dutton, a leading conservative, Newspoll result would improve as he chalks out a route to meet- quickly. But another poor poll ing Paris Accord commitments outcome would step up pressure to cut carbon emissions. on the government. Climate change is domestic A swing in the form of a missile is seen at a kindergarten and day care for employees’ Morrison, a former treasurer, political dynamite in Australia, children at a silk factory during a government organised visit for foreign reporters Workers stand before machines extracting silk from silkworm coccoons during a guided has spent his fi rst two weeks as one of the world’s largest export- ahead of the 70th anniversary celebration in Pyongyang. tour for visiting foreign media to the Kim Jong-suk textile factory in Pyongyang. leader trying to heal factional ers of coal. Gulf Times 8 Saturday, September 8, 2018 BRITAIN/IRELAND Bradley admits ignorance of Northern Ireland politics

Daily Mail alise Unionists would not vote for Her comments were certain to the other side’s votes. The po- deep-seated and deep-rooted is- nationalist communities.” Her blunder was all the more London nationalist parties during elec- undermine her credibility in Bel- litical battles during elections are sues there are in Northern Ire- Bradley said it was a “very dif- baffl ing as her teenage years cov- tions, and vice versa. fast as the government renewed between the nationalist parties land. I didn’t understand things ferent world” from her Staff ord- ered some of the most high-profi le Bradley said it was not until af- eff orts to restore devolved power- – Sinn Fein and the Social Demo- like when elections are fought in shire Moorlands constituency events of the Troubles. She was 14 aren Bradley was accused ter she was appointed to the cru- sharing between the warring DUP cratic and Labour Party (SDLP). Northern Ireland, people who are where she would campaign to win when the IRA bombed the Tory of ‘embarrassing’ igno- cial Cabinet job in January that she and Sinn Fein parties. On the other side of the divide, the nationalists don’t vote for Union- Labour votes. She added: “That conference in Brighton in 1984 and Krance on Northern Ireland learned about the political situa- In an interview with The House Unionist parties – mainly the DUP ist parties and vice-versa. So, the is so incredibly diff erent and it’s 17 when the terror group murdered after she admitted not under- tion. Critics reacted with aston- magazine, Bradley said she was and Ulster Unionists – try to win parties fi ght for election within when you realise that, and you see 12 in a blast in Enniskillen in 1987. standing the sectarian divide be- ishment that she had reached such unaware that Unionists and na- votes off each other. their own community. The Un- that, that you can then start to un- The Omagh atrocity in 1998, fore being made Ulster Secretary. a high offi ce without a seemingly tionalists competed for support Bradley said: “I freely admit ionist parties fi ght the elections derstand some of the things that which killed 29, happened when she In an extraordinary confession, basic understanding of the politics within their own communities, that, when I started this job, I against each other in Unionist the politicians say and some of the was 28 – the same year the Good Fri- Bradley admitted she did not re- of the province. rather than trying to hoover up didn’t understand some of the communities, and nationalists in rhetoric.” day Agreement was signed.

William pays visit to music centre Johnson, wife announce split after 25 years of marriage

Daily Mail appeared to be a bombshell that London could potentially weaken May’s rival. However, several MPs said oris Johnson and his wife they thought it would make little Marina Wheeler yester- diff erence unless Wheeler or an- Bday announced they are other woman decided to attack to divorce after 25 years of mar- his character in public. “This is riage. hardly surprising to people,” said In a joint statement, the cou- one. ple revealed they took the deci- One supporter claimed: “You sion “several months ago” and will start to see daily calls for May that they were still friends. to stand down and an increase The revelation did not appear in the pressure for her to go.” A to derail plotting among John- minister who does not support son’s allies to oust Theresa May Johnson said opposition to Cheq- from the Conservative leader- uers among Conservative activists Prince William meets local schoolchildren during a visit to Sage Gateshead, an international music centre that is hosting part of the Great Exhibition of the North, in ship and try to install him as was so strong that Johnson could Gateshead, Britain,yesterday. prime minister. achieve enough momentum to One supporter said the “toxic- force a confi dence vote in May. ity” of May’s Chequers proposals “I believe there is close to the for Brexit, which caused Johnson number of letters needed to bring to resign as foreign secretary in a vote,” the minister said. July, was a bigger factor in the Privately Cabinet ministers are minds of most Conservatives deeply worried about the “tox- than the state of his marriage. icity” of the Brexit proposals. A Johnson and his wife, both 54, straw poll of Tory activists by the said in their statement: “Sev- ConservativeHome website on eral months ago, after 25 years Thursday gave Johnson a huge British Airways sorry as of marriage, we decided it was lead over Cabinet rivals to be the in our best interests to separate. next Tory leader. We have subsequently agreed to Johnson has had several well- divorce and that process is under publicised extra-marital relation- way. As friends we will continue ships in the past and reportedly to support our four children in fathered a child while mayor of thousands hit by data hack the years ahead. We will not be London, prompting a temporary commenting further.” separation with Wheeler. AFP with the so-called General Data The stolen data comprised tember 5, then they have done ments” that came into force in The announcement came He married fi rst wife Alle- London Protection Regulation (GDPR). customer names, postal address- their breach notifi cation on time, May. within hours of a report in The gra Mostyn-Owen in 1987 and “We’re extremely sorry for es, e-mail addresses and credit which is of course a good thing,” The National Crime Agency Sun that they were no longer liv- Wheeler in 1993. He had a four- what has happened,” Cruz told card information. she said in a statement. “How- said it was assessing the matter, ing together. The newspaper said year aff air with writer Petro- ritish Airways will fi nan- the BBC yesterday. “There was However the 15-day breach ever, customers are obviously not while the UK’s data protection Wheeler had accused Johnson of nella Wyatt and had to resign as a cially compensate cus- a very sophisticated, malicious, did not involve travel or pass- impressed about BA breach man- watchdog, the Information Com- another aff air and that she was shadow arts minister when Tory Btomers whose bank card criminal attack on our website.” port details and has been fi xed, agement at present. Some dis- missioner’s Offi ce, will make its “fi nished with him”. leader Michael Howard felt he had data were stolen in a “sophis- BA took out full-page adverts in the airline added. “The moment covered it on social media, others own enquiries. “The ICO will do Family friends said the couple not told the whole truth about the ticated” and “malicious” hack, newspapers yesterday to apolo- we found out (Wednesday) that reported wasting hours on the its assessment and investigation had been preparing to make the aff air. He was then said to have chief executive Alex Cruz said gise to customers, while the share actual customer data had been phone with their bank, everyone to determine whether to levy a announcement anyway ahead of had liaisons with journalist Anna yesterday as he apologised for price of parent group IAG was compromised, that’s when we expects more from a company fi ne or impose any enforcement court papers being made public Fazackerley in 2005 and art con- the fi asco. down more than 3% in London began an all-out immediate com- that truly cares about its custom- action, but this will take some shortly. sultant Helen Macintyre in 2009. BA late Thursday revealed that deals. “We are 100 % committed munication to our customers. ers.” time and it might be that the reg- They were understood to have Cambridge-educated Wheeler personal and fi nancial details of to compensate them,” Cruz said. That was our priority,” Cruz said. “Terrible handling of the situ- ulator determines that rules were separated while he was for- is a senior human rights lawyer about 380,000 customers who “We will compensate them for However Enza Iannopollo, ation,” tweeted one aff ected cus- not breached,” Iannopollo said. eign secretary and living in his and Queen’s counsel who backs booked fl ights on the group’s any fi nancial hardship that they privacy and security analyst at tomer, Mat Thomas. “The news is a reminder of just grace-and-favour apartment at Johnson’s views on Brexit. A website and mobile phone app may have suff ered,” he told the advisory group Forrester, said Iannopollo said it was too early what a hot issue cyber security re- 1 Carlton Gardens, near Trafal- friend of the MP told The Sun: “I between August 21 and Wednes- broadcaster. BA could have done better on in- to know whether BA would be mains and the importance of com- gar Square. Upon his resigna- know they will always be incred- day had been stolen. BA said it had launched an ur- forming those aff ected. fi ned over the aff air. panies having the right protections tion, Wheeler helped him move ibly close. He doesn’t do anything The revelation comes just a few gent investigation after realising “If the timeline is confi rmed “Regulators will assess the in place to mitigate the risk posed house. politically without consulting months after the European Union that bank cards used to book its and BA became aware of the circumstances of this breach by attacks,” noted Russ Mould, in- Politically, the announcement her.” tightened data protection laws fl ights had been hacked. breach on the evening of Sep- consistently with GDPR require- vestment director at AJ Bell.

Wind farm opened House price growth Hospital ‘covered up picks up: Halifax

Reuters the fi nancial services industry, London with less of an impact in other baby deaths report’ parts of the United Kingdom. A “stable, yet constrained” Daily Mail taken urgent enforcement action infant. In the nine months be- ritish house prices rose supply of new homes was sup- London against the entire trust following tween their critical report and the in the three months to porting prices, as was a gradual an inspection last week. trust fi nally publishing the results, BAugust at their fastest pick-up in wage growth, Hali- The watchdog takes this action two babies and one mother died annual rate since November fax managing director Russell he hospital trust at the if it is very worried about the safe- within the maternity department. last year, figures from ma- Galley said. centre of a maternity ty at a trust and it is an order for Families have accused the trust jor mortgage lender Halifax Looking at the month of Tscandal buried a damn- managers to make immediate im- of a cover-up and questioned how showed yesterday, bolstered August alone, house prices ing report warning that mothers provements. A major investigation they managed to persuade a top by a gradual pick-up in wages rose 0.1% from July, when they and babies were at risk, the Mail is currently underway at the trust medical college to whitewash its and limited supply. jumped by 1.2%. revealed yesterday. into a cluster of deaths spanning own report. Halifax said house prices in Howard Archer, an econo- The document was presented to two decades. At least 60 incidents Rhiannon Davies’ daughter Kate the period were 3.7% higher mist at consultancy EY ITEM bosses at Shrewsbury and Telford have been referred to offi cials al- died at the maternity department than a year earlier, up from a Club, said he did not see an Hospital Trust by a top medical though this number is continuing in 2009, six hours after her birth. 3.3% growth rate in the three upturn on the way for Brit- college last October but they re- to rise as more families are com- She said: “I am no longer months to July but a slightly ish house prices and expected fused to publish it or tell watch- ing forward. The original critical shocked by their behaviour, but I smaller increase than the aver- annual house price growth of dogs. Instead, they sent a team of report exposed a catalogue of fail- am sickened and ground down by age forecast in a Reuters poll. 2.5% this year and next. managers to the London HQ of ings, including how the death rates their deceit because it compounds The fi gures contrast with “Consumer confi dence is report authors, the Royal College of babies delivered at the trust was the pain of Kate’s loss.” data from rival mortgage fragile and appreciable caution of Obstetricians and Gynaecolo- higher than at similar-sized hos- Cathy Smith, who was the lender Nationwide last week, persists over engaging in major gists, to persuade them to write up pitals. trust’s head of midwifery at the which reported prices were up transactions. Potential house a glowing update. Only when this It also warned of dangerous time, was criticised in a damning just 2% on the year in August, buyers may also be concerned second document was produced shortages of midwives, a reluc- review into Kate’s death. the joint-smallest increase in that they are likely to face fur- nine months later in July, did the tance to investigate mistakes and Peter Walsh, chief executive of fi ve years. ther interest rate hikes over the trust publish the fi rst 53-page a ‘constant fear of being blamed the charity Action against Medical Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon stands with Britain’s housing market be- medium term following Au- damning report on its website. when things went wrong’. A team Accidents, said: “It is very disap- piper Norman Fiddes at the inauguration of the European gan slowing in the run-up to gust’s hike,” he said. Even then, it was tucked away from the Royal College had carried pointing if the trust kept the wor- Off shore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) off Aberdeen, June 2016’s Brexit vote. The Bank of England raised behind the 11-page progress report out a three-day inspection. They rying initial report by the Royal Scotland, yesterday. The 93.2MW Aberdeen Bay wind farm The biggest slowdown has interest rates to 0.75 % in Au- which suggested all was well. also examined managers’ inquiries College from regulators and com- off the coast of Scotland will help “turbocharge” growth in been in London, due to re- gust in only its second increase The Care Quality Commission into three cases, two baby deaths missioners for as long as they ap- the industry. duced appetite from foreign since before the global fi nan- on Thursday announced it had and the severe injury of another pear to have done.” investors and concerns about cial crisis. Gulf Times Saturday, September 8, 2018 9 EUROPE

Kurdish leader jailed for Kosovo, Serbian leaders four years

AFP Ankara cancel Brussels meeting AFP of negotiations led by the bloc to “It’s not the fi rst time we out any detailed plans, but the between the two are becom- Serbia needs a deal to move Turkish court has given Brussels resolve a festering dispute over don’t have a trilateral meeting,” talk has alarmed critics, who ing bigger and although today forward in EU talks, while Ko- the former co-leader of Kosovo’s independence. Thaci told reporters in Brussels. say redrawing the map of the we discussed only through high sovo is hoping for recognition Athe pro-Kurdish Peoples’ A three-way meeting that had “There was no refusal in terms Balkans could wreak havoc in a representative Mogherini, this from Belgrade that would unlock Democratic Party (HDP) Sela- planned face-to-face been expected did not take place, of not meeting, there was just fragile region scarred by war. has become clear,” Thaci said. its path into the United Nations. hattin Demirtas, who ran for the meeting between Kosovo though Thaci played down re- continuation of the normal work Thaci had been open about Earlier, the Kosovo leader Kosovo is recognised by more presidency this year, four years A and Serbia’s presidents ports of a snub by Vucic, saying that we have up to now and the the fact that he wanted to dis- wrote on Facebook that while than 110 countries, but outliers and eight months in jail for mak- in Brussels fell apart at the last instead that they were simply diff erences on the substance cuss the possibility of bringing the “journey will be diffi cult”, it include Russia, China and fi ve ing terror propaganda. minute yesterday, quashing ex- too far apart on key issues for the were big enough not to allow a the Albanian-majority strip of was “indispensable for securing EU countries, including Spain, Demirtas, already held in jail pectations that the former war encounter to go ahead. trilateral meeting.” Serbia, the Presevo Valley, into long-term peace in the Western which would not want to set a since November 2016 on charges foes might move closer to a deal Serbia refuses to recognise The talks have been stalled Kosovo. Balkans”. precedent for its own regions. of links to the outlawed Kurdis- to normalise relations. Kosovo, an Albanian-majority for months but started generat- The speculation is that it “Kosovo is committed to Mogherini acknowledged that tan Workers’ Party, was con- Kosovo President Hashim former southern province that ing attention – and concern – in could be traded for Kosovo’s reaching a fi nal agreement with “diffi culties remain” but said victed of making propaganda for Thaci and his Serbian counter- broke away from the then-Yugo- recent months after Thaci and Serb-dominated north. Serbia, which guarantees mutual she trusted the two presidents’ Kurdish militants, the HDP said. part Aleksandar Vucic each met slav republic in a bloody war in Vucic signalled an openness to “What becomes clear now recognition, EU, North Atlantic commitment to continue talks The court in Silivri outside the EU’s diplomatic chief Feder- 1998-1999 and declared inde- the idea of border changes. is that as we move forward in Treaty Organisation (Nato), and and reach a proper agreement in Istanbul also sentenced former ica Mogherini separately as part pendence a decade later. The presidents have not laid the discussion, the diff erences UN membership,” he wrote. the coming months. HDP lawmaker Sirri Sureyya Onder to three years and six months for the same charge. They were sentenced over speeches they had made during the New Year festival of Newroz Russia tried to spy on satellite: France German forces in March 2013, a HDP offi cial told AFP. “Because they defended AFP she said at France’s National aimed at averting a space arms vres and our daily operations are peace, they were ... sentenced to Toulouse Centre for Space Studies (CNES) race, calling it “hollow and hyp- at risk if we don’t react,” Parly land in Norway jail,” the HDP said on Twitter. in Toulouse, southern France. ocritical”. said. The conviction comes af- “Trying to listen to your neigh- “We are well aware that other She noted the call by US Pres- ter Demirtas was sentenced by Russian satellite at- bours is not only unfriendly. It’s major players in space are de- ident Donald Trump last month a court in February 2017 to fi ve tempted last year to spy an act of espionage.” ploying intriguing objects into to create a new “Space Force” for Nato exercises months in jail for denigrating A on a satellite providing Parly said that offi cials took orbit, experimenting with po- to assert US dominance in orbit the Turkish state and its institu- secure communications for the the “appropriate measures” and tential off ensive capabilities, and protect its satellite-based tions. French military, Defence Min- continued to monitor the satel- conducting manoeuvres which systems. Reuters from Finland and the Baltic Demirtas is currently being ister Florence Parly said yester- lite after it left, and observed it leave no doubt as to their ag- “I’ve heard people laugh” Fredrikstad, Norway Sea in the east to Iceland in the held at a prison in Edirne, in day. manoeuvring near other targets gressive intent,” Parly said. about Trump’s plan, Parly said, west. northwest Turkey, from where The Athena-Fidus satellite, as well, she said. French President Emmanuel but “I’m not among them”. “It’s a test of the collective he campaigned as HDP’s candi- operated jointly with Italy, was Last month Washington ac- Macron has pledged to develop “I see this as an extremely erman troops and vehi- defence mechanisms in the date in the presidential elections approached “a bit too closely” cused Moscow of developing a “space defence strategy” for powerful signal, one of con- cles arrived in Norway Nato, the Article 5 that states on June 24. by Russia’s Luch-Olymp craft, anti-satellite weapons and cited France, and Parly said experts frontations to come, of the in- Gyesterday for the largest ‘One for all, all for one’, where He won 8.4% of the vote and known for its advanced listening “very abnormal behaviour” of were preparing recommenda- creasing importance of space, of exercise on the North Atlantic the Nato countries will come to came third after President Recep capabilities, Parly said. a “space object” deployed by tions she intended to pass on by the future challenges,” she said. Treaty Organisation (Nato)’s the aid of one if attacked,” said Tayyip Erdogan and main oppo- “It got so close that we might Russia last October. the end of the year. “We know that space is becom- northern fl ank since the Cold Colonel Eystein Kvarving of sition Republican People’s Party have imagined it was trying to It also dismissed a proposed “We’re at risk, our communi- ing militarised. We’re not going War – a sign that the alliance Norway’s Joint Headquarters. candidate Muharrem Ince. intercept our communications,” treaty by Russia and China cations, our military manoeu- to stand by and watch.” wants to sharpen its defences Lieutenant Nikolaus Berg- against Russia after years of hammer, leading a logistics cuts and far-fl ung combat company of 60 German sol- missions. diers, said a dozen more ships Russia said last week that are due from Germany in the it plans to hold its biggest war next few weeks, and 70 vessels In front of camera, if not behind, games since the fall of the So- overall. viet Union next month, to- Normally based in Delmen- gether with the Chinese and horst in northern Germany, women shone at Venice fi lm fest Mongolian armies. Berghammer and his team “The focus has changed in were among the fi rst to arrive the last years because the se- in Norway and will be around Reuters curity environment all over the until December. Venice world, but also in Europe, has The exercises, in late Octo- changed,” Norwegian Defence ber and early November, will Minister Frank Bakke-Jensen test the Nato’s logistics and its espite a paucity of female told Reuters as he welcomed ability to fi ght in the fi eld. directors, women were German troops at Fredrikstad They will steer clear of Nor- Dthe stars of the Venice port. way’s northernmost county in Film Festival: from Lady Gaga Watching the hulking Ark the hope of avoiding any ten- stealing the red carpet spotlight, Germania vessel unload 240 sions on the Russian border. to movies about queens, witches vehicles and other equip- A few weeks later, there will and working women with impor- A guest takes a selfie on the red carpet during a photocall for the ment, he said that the Nato be computer-simulated war- tant stories to tell. out-of-competition film Ying (Shadow) on Thursday evening. is increasingly worried about fare aimed at training com- Only one of the 21 movies se- Russia, which in 2014 annexed mand and control procedures. lected to compete for the Golden Left: Actors Yu Aoi and Sosuke Ikematsu at the premiere of the film Crimea from Ukraine. “That’s The Russian exercise next Lion was directed by a woman – Zan (Killing), presented in competition yesterday during the 75th also why we’re exercising the month, called Vostok-2018 earning festival organisers a se- Venice Film Festival. defence of Europe.” (East-2018), will take place in vere backlash. Centred in Norway, the Tri- Russia’s central and eastern However, critics were im- fi lmmaking as a little bit anti- enough impassioned feminist dent Juncture exercise will military districts and involve pressed by strong, unusual fe- women ... but (in) this fi lm (di- rage to fuel 10 festivals”. bring together 40,000 troops almost 300,000 troops, more male roles and feminist themes, rector) Luca Guadagnino just A new take on the rape-re- from over 30 Nato countries than 1,000 military aircraft, even in movies made by men. loves his actresses and they are venge genre, the violent movie and their partners, conduct- two of Russia’s naval fl eets and An infantilised Queen Anne allowed to do really silly things, was heckled at a press screening ing air, sea and land operations all of its airborne units. being courted by two manipula- wife or the girlfriend or the ob- about society’s treatment of even ... and it all makes sense,” where a man yelled out “Shame tive confi dants in The Favourite; ject of desire, and I just felt when women. she said. on you, (expletive), you’re dis- the dignifi ed working class wom- I saw that there’s a real story In The Mountain, Jeff Goldb- One fi lm directed by a wom- gusting!” when Kent’s name ap- en of Alfonso Cuaron’s autobio- about these three very complex lum plays a lobotomist who has an, but shown outside the main peared on the closing credits. graphical Roma; and a witches’ women ... it was something that I a surgical way of dealing with competition, was Charlie Says, Critic Balaga said some audi- coven of supernatural power in wanted to do,” the fi lmmaker told troublesome females, and in the story of the women Charles ences would struggle with wom- Suspiria: some of the best mov- Reuters. German epic Never Look Away, Manson brainwashed into mur- en making fi lms “that maybe are ies were almost exclusively about Marta Balaga, a critic at movie a free-thinking young woman’s der. not exactly pleasant, (that) are women. news agency Cineuropa, loved fate is sealed by a Nazi doctor. “That’s a perspective that no diffi cult hard experiences”. Greek writer-director Yorgos that Lanthimos did not treat his “There is this theme still going one has seen and no one has real- “This is an interesting fi lm- Lanthimos, who directed Ol- characters with undue respect: on that men can be threatened by ly focused entirely on: their story maker – she is trying to say some- ivia Colman, Emma Stone, and “Those characters are just hilari- a woman that maybe expresses or their journey about how they thing else,” Balaga said. “And a Rachel Weisz, said he made The ous, they are funny, they are cer- her opinions ... women who ended up there and why they reaction like that just shows us Favourite because he “wasn’t tainly not perfect in every way, are able to speak out. They still did the things they did,” director that she, in a sense, succeeded. seeing female characters repre- they are quite horrible some- seem to be dangerous to so many Mary Harron told Reuters. She showed something that sented in cinema in an interest- times, but this is what I would people,” Balaga said about the As for The Nightingale, the was unexpected something that ing, complex way as human be- love to see in the cinema.” themes of those fi lms, and also Golden Lion contender directed rubbed people the wrong way.” ings”. Even some of the fi lms that witchy horror remake Suspiria. by Jennifer Kent, critic Jonath- The Venice Film Festival con- A Norwegian soldier stands guard as a German military vehicle is “They’re usually the house- focus on men had things to say “We tend to think about genre an Romney said that it “exudes cludes today. unloaded at Fredrikstad, Norway. Merkel, spy chief clash on ‘foreigner hunt’ reports

Reuters Hans-Georg Maassen, head of tremists hunting down people in sibly to divert the public’s atten- sen to withdraw his comments, him (Maassen) and his super- from Chemnitz “very clearly” Berlin the BfV domestic intelligence Chemnitz.” tion from the murder in Chem- saying reports from colleagues visor (Interior Minister) Horst showed hate, on Thursday ac- agency, aggravated tensions He added: “The domestic in- nitz.” in Chemnitz proved people had Seehofer, clearly in the wrong cused the far-right Alternative about whether politicians and telligence agency has no reliable Interior Minister Horst See- been hunted down and attacked. hands,” Goering-Eckardt added for Germany (AfD) party of using ermany’s domestic spy the authorities are being too information about such hunts hofer said that he had no reason “If Maassen can’t prove his in a statement. violent protests over the stabbing chief expressed scepti- complacent in the face of rising taking place.” to doubt Maassen’s assessment, comments beyond doubt, he is Katja Kipping of the far-left to stir up ethnic tension. Gcism yesterday that mi- xenophobia in Germany, where Maassen’s comments prompt- adding it was important that se- not suitable for such a senior of- Linke also said he should go. Thomas Oppermann, a senior grants had been hounded in many had thought the lessons ed accusations from mainstream curity authorities knew politi- fi ce and should be dismissed as On Thursday, Merkel appeared member of the Social Democrats, Chemnitz after the fatal stabbing of Nazi history had long been politicians that he was sow- cians backed their work. quickly as possible,” the union at odds with Seehofer, who said: junior partner in Merkel’s ruling of a German man, undermining learned. ing confusion about events in Seehofer said Germany would said in a statement. “Migration is the mother of all coalition, said of Maassen: “The Chancellor Angela Merkel who Michael Kretschmer, Saxony’s Chemnitz, known as Karl-Marx- continue to investigate events. Katrin Goering-Eckardt, lead- problems.” president of the domestic intel- has said images from the eastern conservative state premier, said Stadt when it was part of former Asked if he had confi dence in er of the opposition Greens’ in She later responded, saying: ligence agency is causing confu- city “very clearly” showed hate. on Wednesday that migrants had Communist East Germany, and Maassen, Seehofer said: “Yes”. parliament, said that Maassen’s “I say it diff erently. Migration sion at the moment.” Germany has been deeply not been hounded, but Merkel demands that he go. Rolland Woeller, Saxony’s in- decision to focus on the video presents us with challenges and Volker Kauder, head of the shaken by the most violent right- rebuff ed his remark, saying that Maassen said there was no terior minister also supported rather than some protesters per- here we have problems but also conservative group in parlia- wing protests in decades after the pictures had shown “hate and ... evidence that a video circulating Maassen, telling broadcaster forming the illegal Hitler salute successes.” ment, said Maassen should ap- August 26 killing of the German the persecution of innocent peo- on the Internet was authentic, MDR: “The chief public prosecu- in Chemnitz showed he was no Merkel’s spokesman, asked pear before the parliamentary man in Chemnitz, in the state ple”. adding: “Based on my cautious tor in Saxony also has no knowl- longer fi t for his job. about her trust in Maassen, re- committee on internal aff airs to of Saxony, for which two immi- Maassen told Bild newspaper: assessment, there are good rea- edge of witch hunts.” “Two crucial posts for the se- sponded: “Mr Maassen has an face questions about the events grants were arrested. “I share the scepticism about sons to believe that it amounts to But a union representing Ger- curity of the free, democratic important and responsible role.” in Chemnitz and his comments Yesterday’s comments by media reports on right-wing ex- intentional misinformation, pos- man journalists urged Maas- basis of our country are, with Merkel, who has said images to Bild newspaper. Gulf Times 10 Saturday, September 8, 2018 INDIA

CONTROVERSY AVIATION CRIME HEALTHCARE VIOLENCE Congress tweets picture Air India plane lands on Woman accuses Kerala Firm off ers payout over Three men suspected to be of Rahul’s Kailash visit under-construction runway legislator of abuse recalled hip implants kidnappers beaten to death

The Congress yesterday tweeted a picture of An Air India flight yesterday landed on a Having drawn flak from several quarters, the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said it would work In a fresh case of street justice in Bihar, three party chief Rahul Gandhi with Mount Kailash runway which was not commissioned at Kerala CPI-M yesterday said the party is looking with the Indian government to compensate suspected kidnappers were yesterday beaten in the backdrop, along with his walking record, Velana International Airport, Male, Maldives. into allegations levelled by a woman against P K patients who had suffered from hip implants to death by a mob in state’s Begusarai district, amid questions over the authenticity of some According to an Air India official in New Delhi, Sasi, the party legislator from Shornur in Palakkad. that were recalled by the US healthcare firm police said. The incident took place near Goriya of his photographs. “Leaving all the haters the flight operating from Thiruvananthapuram The Communist Party of India-Marxist said the eight years ago after data showed high failure Dharamshala in Narain Pipar village under behind, Congress president Gandhi sets the to Male landed on the runway which was Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party and a section rates. This follows last week’s recommendation Chhaurahi block of the district. According to pace during his Kailash Yatra. Can you keep under construction at 3.55pm and that of the media are making baseless allegations to from a government panel that J&J pay at least district police off icials, the three men were up?” the Congress said on its off icial Twitter all 136 passengers and crew on board the malign the party. “It was on August 14 that the Rs2mn to each patient for the faulty ASR hip suspected to be kidnappers in search of a girl handle. The tweet carried a picture of Gandhi Airbus A320neo aircraft were safe. However, state party unit got a complaint from the woman implant. The government has asked states to student. As the word spread about their presence and his walking record that showed he had two tyres of the aircraft got deflated while against Sasi. He was immediately summoned help patients get relief soon. About 93,000 in the village, they were surrounded and caught covered 34.31km in 463 minutes. BJP leader and landing and the plane had to be towed back and his explanation was taken. “On August 31, a people worldwide received ASR implants hold of by the angry villagers, who beat them to Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium to the parking bay. The official added that the two-member committee of the party was asked to which were recalled in 2010. The Indian panel death with bamboo sticks, bricks and iron rods, Enterprises Giriraj Singh had questioned the aviation regulatory authority of Maldives is look into it. Once the committee submits its report said in its report that about 4,700 of those the off icials said. The police have registered a case authenticity of a photograph from Gandhi’s trip. investigating the incident. action will be taken,” the party said. people were in India. in this regard and investigating the case. Ex-Chennai Hardik Patel hospitalised police chief denies role in tobacco scam

IANS from the commissioner of police Chennai down to the policeman. There are about 300 police stations in Chennai. ormer Chennai Police “Is it possible for a scam to commissioner S George go on just with the blessing of Fyesterday denied having one commissioner of police,” received money from any gutkha he asked. George claimed that (chewing tobacco) manufac- deputy commissioner of police, turer. Jayakumar, did not report the The former city police chief illegal gutkha operations to his told reporters here that the claim superiors despite being aware of was made after the scam sur- the activities under his jurisdic- faced to prevent him and T K Ra- tion. jendran from being appointed as According to George, he held director general of police (DGP). a preliminary inquiry about the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) convener Hardik Patel was yesterday admitted to the Sola Civil hospital, Ahmedabad, on the 14th day of his indefinite fast However, Rajendran was ap- gutkha scam and had written a after he complained of difficulty in breathing Patel later tweeted that the BJP government remained indifferent to the demands of the farmers and Patidars. pointed as the Tamil Nadu DGP. letter to the state government to George said he had not re- conduct a probe citing rumours ceived any money from any of police offi cials being involved gutkha manufacturer. in the racket. Queried about an entry in the George said as the allegations diary of gutkha manufacturer A were against the commissioner of V Madhava Rao listing out a pay- police, it was not possible for him ment of “Rs1.5mn for Christmas to order a probe but there were to a former commissioner of po- several agencies that could have lice”, George claimed someone been entrusted with the task. George claimed he did not Modi silence on rising fuel might have collected the money from the gutkha manufacturer know why the government did falsely claiming that it was in- not act on that report. tended for him (George). As for the seizures by the “Entries might have been CBI after raiding his home, the made in the diary based on former commissioner said, the probe agency took only the sale prices, falling rupee fl ayed someone’s statement. Why should an ex-commissioner be deed of his plot bought from paid any money,” he asked. the state housing board, certain IANS “There has been an unprec- sive Alliance (UPA) government increase in excise duty on pet- Earlier former prime minis- George also disclosed that the lease documents and insurance New Delhi edented hike in the prices of could not make payment to Iran rol and 443% increase in excise ter Manmohan Singh launched Central Bureau of Investigation policies. petrol, diesel and LPG, but the and because of that the prices of duty on diesel,” he added. a scathing attack on Modi ac- (CBI) is carrying out a probe On Thursday, the CBI arrested prime minister is silent as usu- petrol and diesel have gone up,” Singh said that the Septem- cusing the BJP-led government based on entries made by the fi ve persons – three promoters of he Congress yesterday al,” said the Congress spokes- said Singh. ber 10 Bharat Bandh 9shut- of allround failure leading to gutkha manufacturer. the gutkha manufacturing com- demanded that Prime person. “This is another ‘jumla’ (con) down) was not for the Congress agrarian crisis, economic tur- On September 5, the CBI pany Jayam Industries viz Rao, TMinister Narendra Modi “There is no tweet from the of this government. The fact is party alone. “This is being sup- moil and deteriorating ties with raided the houses of George, Uma Shankar Gupta and Srinivas break his silence on rising fuel prime minister and no state- the US sanctions were there till ported by all people,” he said. neighbouring countries. Rajendran, Tamil Nadu Health Rao; food safety department of- prices and falling value of the ment on these burning issues. 2016. This government came to and Family Welfare Minister C fi cial Senthil Murugan and cen- rupee against the dollar and Why is he maintaining com- power in 2014 and this govern- Petrol, diesel price hiked by steepest level in a year Vijayabaskar, gutkha manufac- tral excise superintendent N K said “he owes an explanation to plete silence? This government ment too could not make the turer Rao and several state and Pandyan. the country in this gloomy sce- has failed to such an extent that payment to Iran till 2016 due to Domestic fuel prices witnessed rupee against the dollar. In the central government offi cials in The case is related to an in- nario”. they are unable to speak on the the US sanctions,” he added. its steepest hike in the year national capital, petrol prices Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kar- come tax department raid on “When value of the rupee was issues of larger public interest,” The leader said the govern- so far with a nearly 50-paise rose by 48 paise to Rs79.99 per nataka, Maharashtra and Andhra the offi ces, residences and ware- at Rs60 to a dollar, the prime he said. ment should put the facts before raise yesterday across the litre yesterday, from Rs79.51 per Pradesh. houses of gutkha manufacturer minister had said that the rupee The Congress said the price the people. four metro cities. Both petrol litre on Thursday. Similarly, in George said his name was not Rao in Tamil Nadu in 2016 for was under hospitalisation and of petrol in Delhi is Rs80 per “There was an outstanding and diesel prices have been Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai, mentioned in the First Infor- evading Rs2.5bn in tax. now when the exchange value of litre, whereas in Bhiwandi it amount of Rs430bn, whereas at their all-time high in the cost of petrol rose by 47 mation Report (FIR) fi led by the A diary was seized from Rao’s the rupee has reached Rs72 per was being sold at Rs90 per li- this government has looted country for around a week now, paise, 48 paise and 51 paise to CBI. residence which listed alleged dollar, he is silent on the issue,” tre. “The Petroleum Minister Rs11tn in the form of taxes in due to increase in crude oil Rs82.88, Rs87.39 and Rs 83.13 George pointed out that there bribes paid to various offi cials to said Congress spokesperson R P Dharmendra Pradhan has been the past four-and-a-half-years prices and depreciation in the per litre yesterday, respectively. are several layers of hierarchy the tune of about Rs393.1mn. Singh. saying that the United Progres- of its rule.” “They eff ected 211% Poll panel team to visit Bridge collapse Premier ‘monitoring’ Kerala relief work

Telangana on Sept 11 chlorine tablets and 80MT IANS Kochi bleaching powder. IANS visiting Hyderabad on Septem- ruled clearly that in case of the Insecticides/larvicides and New Delhi ber 11, 2018, and will give the re- House dissolution, polls should fogging machines have also port to the election commission be held on the fi rst occasion ll possible steps for ex- been mobilised. As many as after the completion of the visit.” because caretaker governments tending relief to fl ood- 18,00,000 capsules for treat- pparently preparing to Rawat appeared to hint at the cannot continue and get the Aaff ected Kerala are being ment of leptospirosis or rat fever hold early polls in Tel- possibility of holding Assem- advantage. You cannot dissolve taken under the guidance of have been supplied. Nadda said Aangana along with four bly elections in Telangana along the House and continue for six Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that norms were relaxed and ad- other states in December, the with the polls due in four other months as a caretaker govern- who is personally monitoring ditional Rs187.1mn approved for election commission yesterday states in December this year. ment,” Rawat told the media the situation, Union Minister J P the state through the National decided to send a team of offi - After the meeting, he said the hours before the commission’s Nadda said yesterday. Health Mission. cials to Hyderabad on Septem- commission would review the meeting on the demand for an As many as 50 doctors have He said that a 40-member ber 11 for making an assessment ground-level status with the early election following the dis- been kept on standby for de- team from the National Institute of the poll preparedness of the chief electoral offi cer of Telan- solution of the Telangana As- ployment in aff ected areas at of Mental Health and Neuro- machinery in the state where gana and make up its mind about sembly on Thursday. short notice while 12 public Sciences, Bengaluru, had been the ruling party has sought early the timing of elections to be an- “Elections have to be held as health teams – each comprising deployed to undertake psycho- elections by dissolving the as- nounced in due course. soon as possible. A decision will public health specialist, micro- social assessment and commu- sembly. “Whenever House is dissolved be taken keeping in mind various biologist, and an entomologist – nity-based care. The decision was taken at a prematurely, as per Supreme court rulings on the issue and have been kept ready, the minis- The National Centre for Dis- full meeting of the commission Court guidelines laid down in prevailing ground reality,” the ter for health and family welfare ease Control in Delhi is moni- chaired by chief election com- 2002, the ECI is required to ini- CEC said, adding that the com- told the media during his visit toring the situation vis-a-vis missioner O P Rawat. tiate immediate steps for hold- mission holds polls within the to a city hospital and a few relief disease outbreak, the minister An offi cial press note issued ing elections for constituting legal framework to ensure they camps near here. said. Event-based daily report- after the meeting said: “In view the legislative Assembly on the are free, fair and credible. The minister said a stock of ing for epidemic diseases is be- of the dissolution of the state fi rst occasion and in any case, Assembly elections are due 48 essential drugs was also kept ing followed from August 21. legislative assembly of Telanga- within six months from the date in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, ready for dispatch in case of Earlier state Industries Min- na, the commission has decided of premature dissolution of the Chhattisgarh and Mizoram later emergency. ister E P Jayarajan, the de facto to send a team of ECI offi cials to assembly,” he said. this year. The term of the Te- He said that on the state’s chief minister after Vijayan left assess the situation in the state However, ahead of the meet- langana Assembly was to end Rescue workers and villagers gather near a collapsed bridge request, a fi rst tranche of 48 es- for the US for treatment, said regarding poll preparedness. A ing he said it could be diffi cult if on June 19, 2019, but the Telan- in Phasidewa village near the India-Bangladesh border on sential drugs, weighing about 73 that there are 2,267 families team of ECI offi cials headed by more states decide to go for early gana Rashtra Samiti government the outskirts of Siliguri, West Bengal, yesterday. No casualties metric tonnes, was airlifted by still housed in 146 camps in the Umesh Sinha, senior deputy polls in view of the logistics. chose to dissolve it, seeking early were reported in the collapse. the Indian Air Force to Kerala. state. The maximum camps are election commissioner, will be “The Supreme Court has polls. These included a total of 22.5mn in Alappuzha district. Gulf Times Saturday, September 8, 2018 11 LATIN AMERICA

DECISION MYSTERY LEGAL WARNING FORECAST Pilots sacked over New search for sunken Argentina’s ex-president El Nino to reach Colombia Brazil automakers body Aeromexico crash Argentine sub begins to face graft trial in February in November: minister may cut exports estimate

Mexican airline Aeromexico has sacked three A US vessel will begin a new search for the missing Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernandez The drought-causing El Nino weather Brazil’s automakers’ association said it would pilots in the wake of a crash in the north of Argentine submarine that disappeared last year de Kirchner will face her first, corruption- phenomenon will return to Colombia in likely cut its 2018 export estimate as the Argentina the country in July, the carrier announced. with 44 crew members on board. The Seabed related trial on February 26, the judiciary said. November, the country’s environment minister crisis dampens demand in the neighbouring A twin-engined Embraer 190 Aeromexico jet Constructor, owned by the company Ocean Infinity, Fernandez, who was president from 2007 to said, warning that agriculture, energy production country, the largest buyer of Brazilian cars. A left the runway in stormy weather on take-off set out yesterday from the port of Comodoro 2015, is facing a string of corruption-related and water provision could be aff ected by review is expected next month, the trade group at Durango airport on July 31 and caught fire. Rivadavia carrying both Argentine sailors and judicial proceedings. The trial that starts in the predicted lack of rain. El Nino, a warming Anfavea told journalists at a news conference. Nobody was killed in the incident but dozens relatives of the missing submariners. “We feel this February deals with public work contracts given of ocean surface temperatures associated Until July, when it changed its industry outlook of people were injured. The accident is thought is the last opportunity to find them. And we want to entrepreneur Lazaro Baez, who was close with crop damage, fires and flash floods, has to stable, Anfavea was foreseeing exports would to have been caused by wind shear, according to find out what happened,” said Luis Tagliapietra, to Fernandez’ family, during her presidency. damaged coff ee and banana crops in Colombia go up in 2018. Automobile exports were up 9.2% to an initial investigation. Apparently a trainee whose son Alejandro was a lieutenant on the San The accused also include former federal in recent years and also contributed to a spike in August from a month ago, but tumbled 16.6% pilot was in the co-pilot’s seat during the Juan. Ocean Infinity was also assigned the task of planning minister Julio de Vido, former public in food prices that stoked inflation figures. The from the year-ago period. Overall, automobile attempted take-off , a move that the airline’s searching for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 works off icial Jose Lopez and Baez himself. As country was nearly forced to ration energy production in Brazil jumped 18.6% in August from director, Andres Conesa, said went against which vanished without trace in March 2014 en a senator, Fernandez enjoys immunity from during the most recent El Nino, which lasted July, while sales climbed 14.3%, led by domestic airline policy and was unacceptable. route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. imprisonment, but not from having to face trial. from the second half of 2015 through April 2016. demand, the trade group said.

Mass grave Heavy rains wreak havoc site with Knife attack 166 bodies discovered plunges Brazil in Mexico

AFP Coatzacoalcos, Mexico presidential

exican authorities have discovered at least 166 Mbodies at a mass grave site in Veracruz state, prosecu- tors said, the latest horrifying polls into chaos fi nd in a region hit by bloody drug cartel turf wars. Reuters October 7, but loses to most rivals will win in the fi rst round,” Flavio Home to the city of Veracruz, Sao Paulo/Juiz de Fora in simulated run-off votes, which Bolsonaro, Bolsonaro’s son, said one of Mexico’s largest ports, would take place on October 28 if yesterday. the eastern state has a history of no candidate wins a majority in His campaign could be ham- corrupt politics and grisly power razil’s presidential cam- the fi rst balloting. pered by not being able to hold struggles between rival cartels paign was thrown into Some analysts forecast that street rallies. – a toxic mix that has caused an Bchaos yesterday as the far- Bolsonaro could get a boost from Under Brazil’s campaign laws, explosion of violence. right front-runner was in serious the attack, a gruesome example Bolsonaro’s tiny coalition has “The remains of at least 166 condition after he was stabbed at a of the violence he rails against, es- almost no campaign time on people have been found” in the rally, just a month before the vote, pecially as support for his leftists government-regulated candidate latest mass grave site discovered raising fears of increased violence rivals is split among three candi- commercial blocs on television in Veracruz, state prosecutor in the wide-open race. dates. and radio. Jorge Winckler told journalists, Congressman Bolsonaro has Others, however, question if a He must rely on social media making it one of the largest such angered many Brazilians by say- such a polemical politician will and rallies around the country to sites so far. ing he would encourage police to gain any sympathy from voters drum up support. The grave is located in central ramp up their killing of suspected who do not already back him. Bolsonaro is running as the Veracruz, but authorities are not drug gang members and armed Speaking from his hospital bed law-and-order candidate and releasing the exact location for criminals, but he has a devoted in Juiz de Fora in an online video, has positioned himself as the security reasons, he said. following among conservative the retired army captain com- anti-politician, though he has Forensic specialists are still voters. pared the pain at fi rst to being spent nearly three decades in working at the scene. He could need two months to hit by the ball in a soccer game. Congress. Winckler said investigators fully recover from Thursday’s at- “It was intolerable and it seemed He has long espoused taking a had also found 200 articles of tack and will spend at least a week like maybe something worse was radical stance on public security in clothing, 144 ID cards and other in the hospital, following the life- happening,” he said, talking in a Brazil, which has more homicides personal belongings at the site threatening injuries, doctors said. weak, raspy voice with a tube in than any other country, according since exhumations began on Au- Bolsonaro was fl own from Juiz his nose and monitors beeping to United Nations statistics. gust 8. de Fora in Minas Gerais state yes- nearby. “I was preparing for this Bolsonaro, whose trademark An informer told authori- terday morning, and is now in sort of thing. You run risks.” pose at rallies is a “guns up” ges- ties that hundreds of people in the Sirio Libanes hospital in Sao The attack on Bolsonaro, 63, is ture holding both hands like pis- all were buried at the site, the Paulo, one of the nation’s elite in- a twist in what was already Brazil’s tols, has said he would encourage state prosecutor’s offi ce said in a stitutions. most unpredictable election since police to kill suspected drug gang statement. Dr Luiz Henrique Borsato, who the country’s return to democracy members and other armed crimi- “Based on forensic analysis of operated on the candidate, said three decades ago. nals with abandon. the discoveries, it had been de- the internal wounds were “grave” Scores of businessmen and pol- He has openly praised Bra- termined that these are clandes- and “put the patient’s life at risk” iticians have been jailed in corrup- zil’s military dictatorship and in tine burial sites which are at least but that he was stable early yes- tion investigations in recent years the past said it should have killed two years old,” it said. terday. and alienated voters. more people. Authorities have used drones Doctors were worried about an Imprisoned former president Bolsonaro faces trial before the and ground-penetrating radar to infection since Bolsonaro’s intes- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would Supreme Court for speech that help them locate the bodies. tines were perforated, he added. easily win the election, polls prosecutors said incited hate and They released photographs of The knife reached 12cm inside his found, but he was barred from rape. He has called the charges investigators combing through abdomen and the candidate lost 2 running because of his corruption politically motivated. the thick vegetation at the site, litres of blood, the family said. conviction, scattering voter sup- His stabbing is the latest in- wearing white protective suits Meanwhile, fears of a fl are-up port among fi ve main candidates. stance of political violence, which and gloves. in violence following the stabbing Rival candidates called off cam- is particularly rampant at the local There are at least 32 separate cast a shadow over Brazil yester- paign activities yesterday. level. grave sites, they said. day as the nation celebrated Inde- “I just want to send a message Earlier this year, Marielle Fran- Activists accuse the state’s pendence Day with political rallies to the thugs who tried to ruin the co, a Rio city councilwoman who jailed ex-governor, Javier Duarte, A pick-up truck lies submerged in a sinkhole on a street damaged by heavy rains in Ciudad in hundreds of cities. life of a family man, a guy who is was an outspoken critic of police of presiding over a rash of human Juarez, Mexico. Bolsonaro leads polling sce- the hope for millions of Brazilians: violence against slum residents, rights abuses in Veracruz. narios for the fi rst-round vote on You just elected him president. He was assassinated. Venezuelans in Peru Coca crops destroyed Ex-Farc leaders leave reintegration zones seek to return home Reuters their responsibilities to approxi- Bogota mately 1,500 ex-combatants who live there,” the UN said in a Reuters ternal displacement in modern who now lives in Peru and statement. Lima Latin American history — has advocates on behalf of Ven- he United Nations mission “Despite the leaders’ depar- strained public services, satu- ezuelan migrants, called the charged with overseeing ture, the ex-combatants and rated informal job markets and repatriations a “new show” by TColombia’s peace accord their families continue to live, ozens of Venezuelans fuelled social tensions in host Maduro intended to discredit with former Farc rebels said that study and work there, committed who fl ed their crisis- countries. his regional critics. six ex-guerrilla commanders to the reincorporation process,” Dstricken country for Venezuelan migrant En- “It’s a perverse plan. Ma- were failing to fulfi l their obliga- it added. “Independent of what Peru are looking to take up a dri Avendano, a 30-year-old duro is off ering jobs in public tions under the deal and had left motivated the ex-commanders to Caracas off er to fl y them home, former medical technician, said administration, repatriation reintegration camps. take this decision, they are failing as Venezuelan President Nico- he eked out a living as a waiter cards, social welfare for those The Revolutionary Armed to fulfi l their obligation.” las Maduro seizes on hardships and by selling food on the that support him,” Perez said. Forces of Colombia (Farc) signed The six missing commanders migrants face abroad to shore street when he arrived in Lima Maduro said on Wednes- an accord in late 2016 to end more include Hernan Dario Velasquez, up domestic support. in May. “You have to work more day that a plane carrying Ven- than 52 years of war with the gov- known as by his nom de guerre Around 100 Venezuelans than eight hours, sometimes 12 ezuelans seeking to return from ernment. It is now a political par- El Paisa, and Henry Castellanos, were waiting in line outside the hours” a day, Avendano said, Quito had already arrived in ty that uses the same acronym. known as Romana, a source who Venezuelan embassy in Lima adding he could no longer fi nd Caracas, and that another was The UN Verifi cation Mission is works at an organisation that to secure ‘repatriation cards’ work. He was seeking to return expected shortly from Lima. charged with managing two dozen closely follows the peace proc- needed for a free fl ight home, to Venezuela even though food A group of 89 Venezuelans re- zones around the country where ess said. according to a Reuters witness. was scarce and expensive there, turned home from Lima last former fi ghters can live and take Velasquez was convicted in Several Venezuelans in the he said. week, Maduro said. part in reintegration projects. absentia for ordering the 2003 line that Reuters spoke to de- Maduro has denied his citi- The exodus of Venezuelans Most fi ghters were given am- bombing of an upscale club in scribed suff ering discrimina- zens are fl eeing to escape food to South American countries is nesty and fi nancial help under the Bogota that killed 36 people. tion and poor working con- and medical shortages in Ven- building toward a “crisis mo- deal, but commanders are expect- Castellanos is alleged to have ditions in Peru, an Andean ezuela. He said on Monday that ment” comparable to events ed to be tried at a special tribunal been involved in drug traffi cking country of 32mn people where opposition street protests and involving refugees in the Medi- for alleged war crimes and human and well-known kidnappings some 300,000 Venezuelan mi- US fi nancial sanctions had led terranean, the United Nations rights violations and to serve al- during his time in the Farc. grants have migrated this year some Venezuelans to “try their said last month. Bolivian soldiers work on the eradication of illegal coca crops ternative sentences if convicted. The other commanders’ noms alone. luck” in other countries, but Some 2.3mn Venezuelans are in the Chapare region, Cochabamba department. Bolivia In recent weeks, six former de guerre are Ivan Ali, Albeiro The mass exodus of Vene- that most now regret doing so. living abroad and more than aims to surpass its annual goal of eradicating 8,000 hectares commanders in the country’s Cordoba, Enrique Marulanda zuelan migrants in recent years Oscar Perez, a former oppo- 1.6mn have left since 2015, ac- of illegal coca plantations, authorities said. southeast “took the decision and El Zarco Aldinever, the — considered the largest ex- sition lawmaker in Venezuela cording to the UN. to leave the zones and abandon source said. Gulf Times 12 Saturday, September 8, 2018 PAKISTAN Pakistan can store Govt reverses water for 36 days

Internews Imran launches fundraising appeal for dams Islamabad Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched a fundraising appeal to construct new water storage dams to tackle droughts, warning that the appointment of akistan has the capacity of country’s current capacity would not last beyond a month. storing water for a maxi- Off icial estimates show that by 2025 Pakistan will be facing an “absolute Pmum of 36 days, while the scarcity” of water, with less than 500cu m available per person – just one- rest of the world can hold water third of the water available in parched Somalia, according to the UN. for use for 130 days, offi cials of The country has massive Himalayan glaciers, rivers, monsoon rains and ministry of water resources in- floods – but just three major water storage basins, compared with more formed the Senate Special Com- than a thousand in South Africa or Canada. mittee on Water Scarcity here In a televised message, Khan announced the launch of a fund to address adviser to PM yesterday. shortages, warning that the country has “water storage capacity only for Water Resources Secretary 30 days”. AFP/Reuters ‘No media law amendment without consultation’ by 2025 Pakistan will be facing Shumail Ahmed Khawaja, while “I appeal to all Pakistanis especially those living abroad to donate gener- Islamabad an “absolute scarcity” of water briefi ng the committee regarding ously to the fund,” he said. The government has no plans to amend media legislation without con- (see accompanying reports). water availability in the country “Expatriate Pakistanis living in western countries and Europe should sulting the media, and obtaining the consent of media representatives Yesterday’s decision to with- and its storages, said that cur- donate at least $1,000 to the fund, while those engaged in labour and rime Minister Imran and other stakeholders, Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad draw Mian’s nomination di- rent available water resources other low-salaried jobs in Middle East and other countries should also Khan’s government has Hussain Chaudhry said yesterday. vided social media, with the is 138mn acre feet (MAF), with contribute according to their financial situation,” he added. Pbacked down over its de- “The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government will not amend or hardliners praising it while oth- a storage capacity of 13.7 MAF, The funds will be used to construct dams in northern and northwestern cision to appoint a member of introduce any new law about media unilaterally,” the minister said. ers slammed the government’s which is only 10% of available Pakistan, including the massive Diamer-Bhasha hydropower project, a religious minority as an eco- “The government has decided to constitute an information commis- “cowardice” and Khan’s failure water resources. which is expected to produce over 4,000MW of electricity on completion nomic adviser. sion under the Right to Information (RTI) Act enacted last year, and the to hold fi rm under pressure. The meeting of the Senate in 2023. – AFP Atif Mian, a Massachusetts first information commissioner will be appointed within one month to “This is sad and shameful. Special Committee on Water Institute of Technology (MIT)- ensure access to information.” Pakistan should be for all not a Scarcity was convened by Sena- educated Pakistani-American Chaudhry was speaking at a meeting of the Council of Pakistan News- hostage to some hate mongers,” tor Moula Bux Chandio. ble in the current context. Palijo said that since yearly rain- economics professor at Prin- papers’ Editors (CPNE). wrote consultant and columnist Khawaja said that in order to According to various reports, fall is rare in the province, the ceton University, was recently The minister reiterated that the government believed in the freedom of Yousuf Nazar. come to a consensus on this all- 8-9 MAF of water can be con- people of Sindh depend on its named member of a new eco- expression, and that regulation did not mean censorship. But another user, Farkhi, important water issue, sessions served if this wastage is control- river systems for water. nomic advisory council. He said that access to information for media and the public is vital to tweeted: “Those who are with the chief ministers of all led. She stressed the need for equal Aged 43, and a scholar in the ensure transparency and good governance. ashamed can go to hell with four provinces were held under Khawaja further said that the distribution of water and imple- fi eld of fi nance and macroeco- their thoughts.” the Council of Common Inter- National Water Council was es- mentation of the Water Appor- nomics, Mian is regarded as one The decision came after Is- ests (CCI). tablished to achieve this goal. tionment Accord 1991 to address of the world’s top young econo- not appropriate,” Information with Pakistan and I will always lamists also forced the federal After rigorous deliberations, The panel is headed by the grievances of smaller provinces. mists. Minister Fawad Chaudhry said be ready to help it,” he added. law minister to resign following a consensus was achieved after prime minister and includes the While discussing Senator He is an Ahmadi, a religious on Twitter. “Whenever and wherever any anti-blasphemy protests last which the National Water Policy chief ministers of the four prov- Sherry Rehman’s notice on July minority in Pakistan, and the Government offi cials initially Ahmadi is needed to serve the November, in a deal brokered by was conceived. inces, the prime minister of Azad 23 regarding the need for the in- announcement sparked swift defended the decision, with In- nation they will be the fi rst to the military. All provinces agreed to a Wa- Jammu Kashmir, and the chief stallation of water desalination backlash from Islamist groups. formation Minister Chaudhry off er their services,” community Those protests were led by ter Charter according to which minister of Gilgit-Baltistan. plants in the country, the Paki- Ahmadis consider themselves vowing that “Pakistan belongs spokesman Salim Ud Din told Khadim Hussain Rizvi, a radical no matter which party holds the Some ministers and secretar- stan Council of Research in Wa- Muslims, but they are designat- as much to minorities as it does Reuters when asked to com- preacher whose political party, reins of power, there shall be no ies were also part of the team. ter Resources (PCRWR) informed ed non-Muslims in Pakistan’s to the majority ... we will not ment on Mian’s removal from the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan change in the policy until 2030 Following deliberations, it was the committee that when faced constitution: they are forbidden bow to extremists” in a video the council. (TLP), also contested the July 25 on account of the UN Sustainable suggested that water distribu- with acute water shortage, de- from calling themselves Mus- clip which went viral. Analysts have warned that election which brought Khan’s Development Goals (SDGs). tion systems around the country salination is the last option due lims or using Islamic symbols in Three days later his govern- Pakistan’s economy is the most government to power. Agreement on the construc- be developed. to exorbitant costs. their religious practices. ment caved to mounting pres- urgent challenge facing Khan’s The TLP won more than tion of Mohmand and Bhasha However, the lack of co-or- It was revealed that invest- The prime minister’s adviser sure from the religious groups. new government, which has 2.23mn votes in the National Dams were achieved as a result of dination resulted in a failure to ment costs for a large plant is on media, Iftikhar Durrani, con- “The government has decided said that it will decide by the Assembly and more than 2.38mn this meeting as well. achieve anything. between $900 $1,200 per cubic fi rmed that Mian’s appointment to withdraw the nomination of end of this month if it will seek provincial votes – a spectacu- Apart from construction of Senator Azam Khan Swati metre and $2,500 per cubic me- had been revoked, while the Atif Mian from the economic a bailout from the International lar rise for an organisation that dams, Khawaja stressed the need stressed on the need for empow- tre for a small plant. government’s main spokesman advisory committee,” Chaudhry Monetary Fund (IMF). gained national prominence less to conserve water. ering offi cers working on this The cost of desalination itself alluded to the pressure the gov- tweeted. Hours after yesterday’s an- than a year earlier. He stated that 90-95% of Pa- daunting challenge. would come up to $1 per cubic ernment had come under from Mian later tweeted to say that nouncement, Khan appeared Khan and his cabinet face a kistan’s water is being used for He also said that for any metre for a small plant. religious quarters. he had stepped down “as the on television to appeal for Paki- myriad of challenges, including irrigation, with 50% lost during progress to be made, it is impera- Senator Brigadier (retired) “The government wants to government was facing a lot of stanis to donate money to help a faltering economy, militant canal diversion. tive that awareness about this John Kenneth Williams was of move forward with the religious adverse pressure ... from the build new water storage dams, extremism, water shortages, According to the National Wa- issue is created at every tier of the view that the option of in- leaders and all segments of soci- Mullahs (Muslim clerics) and underscoring the government’s and a rapidly growing popula- ter Policy until 2030, 33% of wa- society. stallation of fi ltration plants on ety, and if one nomination gives their supporters”. fragile economic position. tion negating growth in the de- ter should be conserved. While highlighting the prob- the coastal belt must also be ex- a diff erent impression, then it’s “My prayers will always be Offi cial estimates show that veloping country. However, this seems impossi- lems of Sindh, Senator Sassui plored.

Six on the beach First Pakistan-born Chinese president to assume minister in offi ce tomorrow Pakistan

Internews DPA Islamabad Islamabad

arachi’s renowned den- akistan will seek to rene- tist, Dr Arif Alvi, is the gotiate a $62bn Chinese Kfi rst Pakistan-born Pinvestment plan over the president of the country, born weekend, as Beijing’s top diplo- after the establishment of Pa- mat begins a visit to Islamabad, kistan. a Pakistani offi cial said. He will be assuming the of- Chinese Foreign Minister fi ce tomorrow (September 9). Wang Yi was due to arrive in Is- Outgoing President Mam- lamabad yesterday and start his noon Husain will attend the offi cial engagements today, said swearing-in ceremony of his Alvi: his predecessors were Mohamed Faisal, spokesman for successor. either born before the creation Pakistan’s foreign ministry. The country had 12 presi- of Pakistan or their birth places China has already started dents before Alvi, and they all were in the areas which are not building the China-Pakistan were either born before crea- part of Pakistan now. Economic Corridor (CPEC) – an tion of Pakistan or their birth ambitious series of infrastruc- places were in the areas which ing as member of the National ture projects, including road are not part of Pakistan now. Assembly. and sea routes through Pakistan Two of the four former mili- However, security offi cials to reach markets in the Middle tary presidents of Pakistan have made it clear that it would East, Europe and Africa – after were also born at the places be extremely diffi cult for them signing an agreement with the which are not part of Pakistan. to place security befi tting for administration of former prime Alvi has informed the au- the head of state in the lodges, Pakistani naval soldiers take part in a drill during celebrations on Thursday to mark Defence Day at Karachi’s Clifton Beach. Pakistan minister Nawaz Sharif in 2015. thorities concerned that he since the movement of the celebrated on Thursday the 53rd anniversary of its second war with India. The major fighting of the war took place between August and However, secrecy around the would be staying in the Par- members of the legislation and September 1965, with both sides claiming victory after it ended in stalemate following the intervention of the United States and Soviet project has triggered doubts liament Lodges of the federal their guests could not be con- Union. about the CPEC, and the admin- capital where he has been stay- trolled in the vicinity. istration of current Prime Min- ister Imran Khan has decided to review the plan after taking of- fi ce last month. “We believe the agreement is highly-biased in favour of PTI plans fresh local govt polls in Punjab, says minister China,” a Pakistani minister told DPA. “We will certainly be looking Internews administrative nor fi nancial execute development schemes the prime minister’s meeting,” mographic, infrastructural and Responding to a question, he at renegotiating terms to make Lahore powers to the elected repre- through them at the grassroots Khan said. cultural needs, ensuring that said that the political parties the project more benefi cial for sentatives, many Pakistan Mus- level. “The prime minister is highly powers be devolved at the grass- themselves would run their can- us,” the minister said, on condi- lim League – Nawaz (PML-N) “The PTI will take active, sensitive towards devolving ad- roots level. didates’ campaigns. tion of anonymity. he Pakistan Tehreek-e- backed nazims, chairmen and honest and hardworking may- ministrative and fi nancial pow- “While the local government He said that the Punjab gov- Wang is visiting Pakistan days Insaf (PTI) government their deputies wanted the ex- ors, nazims, chairmen, their ers at the grassroots level and system being proposed by the ernment is also considering re- after US Secretary of State Mike Tin Punjab has plans to isting system be wound up, said deputies and councillors in its has already held two meetings incumbent government will give placing the union council system Pompeo met the country’s polit- scrap the existing “powerless” senior Punjab minister Abdul fold,” he said. on the subject,” he said. administrative and fi nancial with village councils, following ical and military leaders, in what local government system and Aleem Khan, who is in charge of Stating that the Punjab gov- The Punjab cabinet has also powers to the elected represent- the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) both sides described as a reset hold fresh party-based elections the local government and com- ernment is actively working on a decided to review the existing atives, they will also be held ac- model. after a year of tense relations. in the province, if its legal team munity development (LG and new “potent” local government local government system in the countable through third-party “We have a lot of things to Pakistan’s new government gives a go-ahead to it in this re- CD) department. system, the senior minister said province by September 20, pro- validation by foreign auditing learn from KP’s village council has said it needs at least $10bn to gard. Speaking with the media on that Prime Minister Imran Khan pose a blueprint by October 15 fi rms annually,” the senior min- system,” the senior Punjab min- avoid a balance of payment crisis Otherwise, new legislation Thursday, Khan said that most had called a meeting of all prov- to revamp it, and come up with a ister said. ister said. and bridge its fi scal defi cit. will be implemented in the ex- PML-N-backed nazims (local inces on this subject at Islama- draft legislation by November 15 Revealing other features of the About tickets for by-election Experts have said money isting local government entities, government offi cial), chairmen bad tomorrow. this year to amend the relevant new local government system, in central Punjab, Khan said could either be raised from mul- which will complete their tenure and their deputies were in con- “The representatives from law. Punjab minister Aleem Khan he would give his recommen- tilateral donors with US backing, in November, 2019. tact with, and wanted to join, the Punjab as well as other prov- He said that the respective said the mayor’s election would dations, but the fi nal decision or Islamabad could seek the re- Since the existing local gov- PTI, considering it had plans to inces will meet for a preliminary provinces might have their own be “direct” – all voters in the city would be taken by the party scheduling of previous Chinese ernment system gave neither empower local governments to meeting today before attending systems according to their de- would elect a mayor. chairman. loans. Gulf Times Saturday, September 8, 2018 13 PHILIPPINES

Foreigners Malacanang to wait for arrest held over ‘black dollar warrant against Trillanes scam’

By Catherine S Valente Oakwood mutiny, is scheduled osdado Peralta in-charge of the Manila Times to hold a hearing on September case. By Roy Narra 13 at the Justice department’s The senator has branded the Manila Times request for the issuance of an proclamation as a “clear case id the president blink alias warrant and hold depar- of political persecution” while fi rst? ture against Trillanes. some members of the House of olice arrested on Thursday D Opposition Senator Despite Roque’s announce- Representatives have urged Du- night two Cameroonians and Antonio Trillanes will not be ar- ment, the Department of Justice terte to recall it. Pa Filipina for their involve- rested by the military or police yesterday fi led another “very Roque said Trillanes might ment in the “Black Dollar Scam.” until the courts issue an arrest urgent” request for the issu- have become critical of Duterte Police Director Guillermo warrant against him, Malaca- ance of an alias warrant of ar- since his request to become the Eleazar identifi ed the suspects nang said yesterday, days after rest against Trillanes before the ex-Davao City mayor’s running as Samuel Djumba, Patian Li- the government nullifi ed the Makati RTC Branch 150, which mate in the 2016 elections was bukan and Sarah Miranda. The ex-navy offi cer’s amnesty. handled the rebellion charges not granted. National Capital Region Police In a news briefi ng in Am- against Trillanes in connection “If the president is evil as al- Offi ce-Regional Special Opera- man, Jordan, Palace spokesman with the Manila Peninsula siege. leged by Senator, may I ask the tions Unit (NCRPO-RSOU) ar- Harry Roque Jr announced that Roque expressed confi dence senator, ‘Why did you want rested them in an entrapment President Rodrigo Duterte had that the government would to run as his vice president?’” operation at around 8:55pm in a decided to “abide by the rule of pursue a strong case against Roque said. hotel in Makati City. law” and wait for the court to Trillanes, insisting that the The Palace offi cial admit- In the ‘Black Dollar Scam,’ the issue an arrest warrant against senator fell short of meeting the ted that Duterte was impressed suspects convince their victims Trillanes. requirements for the amnesty with the courage of Trillanes to that there is a safe with piles of Roque said the president also programme. die for the country in the past money that were dyed in order to preferred that the matter be He then again challenged the but was opposed to his upris- avoid detection by authorities. settled by civilian, not military opposition senator to present ings against the government. Then they persuade their victims courts. proof that he indeed has a duly “He doesn’t consider what he to give them money to purchase He said the president made received application form and did as bad. He admired his cour- chemicals to wash the dye off the the decision when he met with has admitted guilt for the past age but he did not approve of the money promising them a 50% Cabinet members who joined two coup attempts. means to express their senti- share. During the operation, a vic- him in his Jordan trip on Thurs- On Thursday, Trillanes ment,” Roque said. tim identifi ed as Delozcarlos Cruz day. showed reporters at the Senate a Trillanes yesterday claimed posed as an investor. Accompa- “After a long discussion, the Senator Antonio Trillanes speaks during a press conference at the senate in Manila, yesterday. copy of a list of military person- Duterte wanted him arrested nied by two operatives, Miranda president decided that he will nel who applied for amnesty on and detained before he returns introduced them to Djumba and abide by the rule of law. He will alleged failure to formally apply warrant against Trillanes even if to make the Senate his sec- January 5, 2011. from his trip to Israel and Jor- Libukan then they proceeded for await the decision of the Re- for it and admit guilt. Duterte’s it might be a longer process. ond home was just drama since The list was drawn up by the dan. But the senator said his a demonstration on how to wash gional Trial Court if it will issue proclamation ordered police “To tell you the truth, I myself there was no arrest warrant Department of National De- bags were packed in case the defaced money and clean black a warrant of arrest against (Tril- and the military to arrest him, felt that we should ask the mili- against him yet. fence Ad Hoc Amnesty Com- courts issued arrest orders dollars. They were then advised lanes),” Roque told reporters. as it in eff ect revived coup d’etat tary court to issue a warrant of “It is clear that because we mittee. Trillanes was listed at against him. to give $50,000 and promised the “The president’s decision is and rebellion charges that Tril- arrest. The president thumbed are waiting for the decision of No 8. “I would be the last person amount will be tripled. he will allow the judicial process lanes faced for leading military it down. He wanted the civilian the Regional Trial Court if it will His legal counsel Reynaldo who would want anybody to get Authorities confi scated 199 to proceed and he will await the uprisings in 2003 and 2007. court. Really, he wants to abide issue a warrant of arrest, Tril- Robles fi led before the Supreme hurt for my welfare. I will guar- pieces of alleged fake US dollars, issuance of appropriate war- The proclamation directed by the rule of law. He himself lanes’ stay in the Senate does Court on Thursday a petition antee that such process will be fi ve pieces of washed fake US rant of arrest, if there is indeed the Department of Justice and was once a fi scal, so he knows not have basis,” he said. for certiorari and prohibition to proper. I believe it will not go to dollars, among others. one to be issued before Senator the military court to pursue what the procedures will be,” he “That’s only drama. No one challenge the constitutional- that point,” Trillanes said when The confi scated suspected Trillanes is arrested and appre- administrative and criminal added. “Even if issuance of the will really arrest him without a ity of Proclamation 572, which asked whether he would resist fake US dollars will be turned hended,” he said. charges against Trillanes. warrant takes longer, let it be warrant,” Roque added. nullifi ed the amnesty granted arrest. He said he would meet over to the Currency Issue and Trillanes has holed up in his Roque said Duterte preferred because that’s the rule of law,” The Makati RTC Branch 148, by then-President Benigno with family, friends and sup- Integrity Offi ce of the Central Senate offi ce since Tuesday af- to let the civilian court rather the Palace offi cial said, quoting which heard and dismissed the Aquino. porters over the weekend “so Bank of the Philippines to deter- ter Duterte nullifi ed in a procla- than the military court decide the president. coup d’etat charges against Supreme Court justices ap- that we can map out our moves mine if these currencies are au- mation his amnesty grant for his on the issuance of an arrest Roque said Trillanes’ move Trillanes in connection with the pointed Associate Justice Di- in the coming days.” thentic or not.

Foreign dept to off er assistance Go says report on kin’s projects ‘politically motivated’ to Filipina under arrest for felony By Catherine S Valente Go denied that he used his wrote in its headlines: “Firms Being related to me does not Manila Times infl uence to secure contracts of Bong Go kin, top contrac- disqualify them to bid. These for construction fi rms owned tor: Many JVs, delayed” and projects are publicly bided an- Manila Times “Ulambai and her family here in the Philippines by his kin. “Firm of Bong Go’s relatives,” yway. I never intervened nor Manila have our assurance that the DFA will provide her resident Rodrigo Du- “I fi nd myself once again a “despite the fact that PCIJ ad- influenced the DPWH (De- with legal and other assistance that she may re- terte’s top aide yester- victim of fake news and biased mitted my non-involvement partment of Public Works and quire,” she said. Pday lashed out a report reporting. PCIJ is raising mali- in said businesses.” Highways) on how they bid or he Department of Foreign Aff airs (DFA) will Chargé d’Aff aires Charleson Hermosura said that his relatives were among cious issues against me based “My father has been in the award these projects. My of- extend all possible assistance to a Filipina Singgayan was facing felony charges and currently the top contractors for public purely on unsubstantiated alle- industry long before I was fice does not control DPWH to Tdomestic helper in Kuwait being held by au- under hospital arrest. works in Davao City. gations and hasty conclusions,” born. Out of delicadeza, he begin with,” he added. thorities there for allegedly stabbing her employer. “The employer is alive,” said Elmer Cato, Foreign Special Assistant to the Pres- he said in a statement. did not bid in the projects of The president’s top aide in- In a statement, the DFA said the Philippine Em- Aff airs assistant secretary for public diplomacy. ident Christopher Lawrence “These false news, guised as the City Government of Davao sisted that he had “never been bassy in Kuwait was assisting Ulambai Singgayan, Arriola said that as soon as the embassy learned “Bong” Go made the statement ‘investigative reports,’ seem to in all the 15 years when PRRD involved in corruption in the the distressed household service worker from about the incident, it sent a team to the hospital after the Philippine Center for be politically motivated as the (President Duterte) was may- government.” Maguindanao, and was in touch with Kuwaiti au- where Singgayan was being treated for injuries in- Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) reports suspiciously surfaced or,” Go said. ” I have protected my name thorities investigating her case. fl icted on her by members of her employer’s family. reported that Duterte gave around the same time when “When my father and half over the years. If anyone can “Our embassy in Kuwait continues to look after Initial investigation showed that Singgayan was Davao City the largest share of some groups clamoured for my brother participated in the prove that I spoke with DPWH our kababayan Ulambai Singgayan and is co-ordi- beaten up after she allegedly stabbed her employer, public works funds in the 2017 Senate bid,” he added. bidding of projects, either as or any other agency in- nating with authorities to ensure that her rights are who she claimed threatened to have her visa re- national budget, the fi rst pro- The president’s top aide sole contractor or as JV (joint volved in the funding of these protected,” said Sarah Lou Arriola, Foreign Aff airs voked and move her to another house where she posed and passed under his claimed that the PCIJ and venture) partner, they were projects, I will resign immedi- undersecretary for migrant workers aff airs. would be killed. watch. GMA News Online maliciously just exercising their rights. ately!” he said. Jordan pledges $60mn investment, two copters

By Catherine S Valente among members and increase Duterte was in Jordan for an Manila Times bilateral trade volume between offi cial visit upon the invitation Duterte offers troops the two countries. of King Abdullah. to fight militants The letters of intent, mean- Duterte was scheduled to he Philippines bagged while, were submitted by Nafi th meet with the Filipino commu- Philippine President Rodrigo $60.675mn worth of in- International, which aims to ex- nity in Jordan before fl ying back Duterte has off ered to send Tvestment pledges from plore opportunities in logistics to the Philippines later. troops to Jordan to help combat Jordanian companies during planning and operations and to The president cut short his militants, after agreeing to President Rodrigo Duterte’s locate its regional offi ce in the trip by a day. The Palace ex- deepen military co-operation historic visit to the Hashemite Philippines; and by Universal plained that the president’s en- with the Middle Eastern nation kingdom. Labs Ltd., which is planning to gagements were over. to fight extremism. Filipino and Jordanian busi- explore opportunities in manu- Meanwhile, Jordan promised Both countries have been bat- nessmen signed at least two facturing and set up a produc- to donate two refurbished Bell tling Islamic State’s influence, memoranda of understanding tion facility for Dead Sea prod- A-H1 Cobra attack helicopters with Jordan playing a key role (MoU) and seven letters of in- ucts for export. and other military equipment to in an international coalition, and tent (LoI) during a forum with Dinarak inked an LoI for the the Philippines. the Philippines on alert after a Duterte at the Intercontinental exploration of opportunities for “The Cobra helicopters, in five-month occupation of a city Hotel in Amman on Thursday. digital cross-border remittances particular, will help in the Armed by rebels — its worst conflict The deals, signed before the from Jordan to the Philippines. Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) since World War Two. president, are expected to gen- The project has an estimated ongoing campaign against ter- “If there is anything that we erate 434 jobs in various fi elds cost of $2mn and is expected to rorism and violent extremism,” can do, if you are short in your such as information technology, create 25 jobs by 2023. according to Arsenio Andolong, army, let me know,” Duterte software and mobile develop- An LoI from Arabia Cell that spokesman for the Department said on Thursday at a business ment, manufacturing, digital seeks to pursue a $2.4mn project of National Defence. forum in Amman in a comment cross-border remittances and on mobile-related services and The Bell AH-1 helicopter, a to King Abdullah, who earlier genomic testing. solutions, information technol- two-blade, single-engine at- lamented the “evil” both states An MoU was signed between ogy, software and mobile devel- tack helicopter manufactured were facing. the Philippine Chamber of Com- opment in the Philippines will Jordan’s King Abdullah shows military hardware to President Rodrigo Duterte at the King Abdullah by Bell Helicopter, belongs to “You need one battalion...I will merce and Industry (PCCI) and also generate 22 jobs by 2020. Special Operations Training Centre in Amman, Jordan, on Thursday. the Huey helicopter family and send them to you. I will commit the Jordan Chamber of Com- Reprogene, in its LoI, ex- is also referred to as Huey Cobra my government in the right side merce to promote, strengthen pressed intent to explore op- ted its LoI to allocate around The president also guaranteed you do not have to travel from one or Snake. of history.” and expand trade, economic, sci- portunities in genomic testing $25,000 in technology and ro- return on investment and that place to another to get a permit or Special Assistant to the Presi- entifi c, technological co-opera- services for hospitals and clinics botics, ICT development, cy- there would be no corruption. clearance wherever,” he added. dent Christopher Lawrence tion and other business relations in the Philippines by investing bercrime, artifi cial intelligence, “There is one thing which “I will create a department “Bong” Go confi rmed to Ma- as an escort for troop-carrying between the two groups and their some $1mn and creating 10 jobs green energy and electronic ed- I would like to guarantee you. just to receive your application. nila Times in a Viber message helicopters.” The helicopter is concerned organisations. by 2019. ucation in the Philippines. Maybe you’ve heard some other We will do the processing. We yesterday that aside from the also said to be “one of the most The PCCI also inked an MoU An LoI from Mobile Z Nation This was projected to produce time about the Philippines being will give you a list, a shopping helicopters, Jordan had given valuable” weapons of the United with the Jordan Chamber of In- proposed a $200,000 deal for jobs by 2020. corrupt. Yes, most of them in the list of what to produce.” the Philippine military mortars States during the Vietnam War. dustry for the establishment of the Information and Communi- In his speech during the fo- past,” he said. Duterte said a colour-coded and rocket-propelled grenades, It has a maximum speed of 277 linkages between businesses and cations Technology (ICT) sector rum, Duterte gave a “solemn “But I tell you now, I give you “roadmap” would be given to among others. kilometres per hour. industrial sectors in the Philip- related to healthcare and insur- commitment” to Jordanian in- the solemn commitment that if foreign businessmen, telling According to military-today. Duterte is the fi rst sitting pines and Jordan to facilitate ance. vestors of ease in doing business you go there, it will be business them which area would be good com, the Bell A-H1 attack heli- Philippine president to visit the co-operation and joint ventures Galaxy Organisation submit- in the Philippines. with ease. And as a matter of fact, for which business. copter is “especially designed Arab state. Gulf Times 14 Saturday, September 8, 2018 COMMENT

CHAIRMAN Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka Setting record straight Deputy Managing Editor K T Chacko Production Editor Amjad Khan on secular stagnation

P.O.Box 2888, Doha, Qatar By Lawrence H Summers November 19, 2008 letter also signed by under-regulation of the economy in its Chase and by allowing the US Federal Cambridge noted progressives James K Galbraith, pre-crisis days” and expected them “to Reserve to open its discount window [email protected] Dean Baker, and Larry Mishel calling for fi x what they had helped break.” I fi nd for Morgan Stanley and Goldman when 44350478 (News), a stimulus of $300-$400bn – less than this a bit rich. Under the auspices of the they otherwise could have been sources oseph Stiglitz recently dismissed half of what the Obama administration government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) of systemic risk. 44466404 (Sport), the relevance of secular stagna- proposed. So matters were less clear in Fannie Mae, Stiglitz published a paper The other principal attack on the 44466636 (Home delivery) tion to the American economy, and prospect than in retrospect. in 2002 arguing that the chance that Clinton administration’s record targets in the process attacked (without We on the Obama economic team the mortgage lender’s capital would be the deregulation of derivatives in 2000. 44350474 J naming me) my work in the adminis- believed that a stimulus of at least depleted was less than one in 500,000, With the benefi t of hindsight, I wish facebook.com/gulftimes trations of Presidents Bill Clinton and $800bn – and likely more – was desir- and in 2009 he called for nationalisation we had not supported this legislation. Barack Obama. I am not a disinterested able, given the gravity of the economic of the US banking system. So I would But, given the extreme deregulatory twitter.com/gulftimes_Qatar observer, but this is not the fi rst time situation. We were told by those on the expect Stiglitz to be well aware that approach of President George W Bush’s that I fi nd Stiglitz’s policy commentary new president’s political team to gener- hindsight is clearer than foresight. administration, it defi es belief to sug- as weak as his academic theoretical ate as much validation as possible for What about the Clinton administra- gest that it would have created major work is strong. a large stimulus because big numbers tion record on fi nancial regulation? new rules regarding derivatives but Stiglitz echoes conservatives like approaching $1tn would generate With hindsight, it clearly would have for the 2000 act; so I am not sure how GULF TIMES John Taylor in suggesting that secular “sticker shock” in the political system. been better if we had foreseen the need consequential our decisions were. It is stagnation was a fatalistic doctrine So we worked to encourage a variety of for legislation like the 2010 Dodd-Frank also important to recall that we pursued invented to provide an excuse for poor economists, including Stiglitz, to off er reforms and had a way to enact it with the 2000 legislation not because we economic performance during the larger estimates of what was appropri- a Republican-controlled Congress. wanted to deregulate for its own sake, Obama years. This is simply not right. ate, as refl ected in the briefi ng memo I And certainly we did not foresee the but rather to remove what the career India soars above The theory of secular stagnation, as ad- prepared for Obama. fi nancial crisis that came eight years lawyers at the US Treasury, the Fed, and vanced by Alvin Hansen and echoed by Despite the incoming president’s after we left offi ce. Nor did we antici- the Securities and Exchange Commis- me, holds that, left to its own devices, popularity and an all-out political pate the ways in which credit default sion saw as systemic risk arising from the private economy may not fi nd its eff ort, the Recovery Act passed by the swaps would mushroom after 2000. We legal uncertainty surrounding deriva- global average in way back to full employment, which thinnest of margins, with doubts about did, however, advocate for GSE reform tives contracts. makes public policy essential. I think its ultimate passage lingering until the and for measures to rein in predatory More important than litigating the this is what Stiglitz believes, so I don’t last moment. I cannot see the basis for lending, which, if enacted by Congress, past is thinking about the future. Even understand his attacks. the argument that a substantially larger would have done much to forestall the if we disagree about past political judg- hiring female pilots In all of my accounts of secular fi scal stimulus was feasible. And the ef- accumulation of risks before 2008. ments and about the use of the term stagnation, I stressed that it was an ar- fort to seek a much larger one certainly I have not seen a convincing causal “secular stagnation,” I am glad that an gument not for any kind of fatalism, but would have meant more delay at a time argument linking the repeal of the eminent theorist like Stiglitz agrees When Shweta Singh wanted to become a pilot in India rather for policies to promote demand, when the economy was collapsing – Glass-Steagall Act and the fi nancial with what I intended to emphasise in 20 years ago, she had to fi rst persuade her parents to let especially through fi scal expansion. In and could have led to the defeat of fi scal crisis. The observation that most of the resurrecting that theory: We cannot her pick an uncommon profession for women, then deal 2012, Brad DeLong and I argued that expansion. While I wish the politi- institutions involved – Bear Stearns, rely on interest-rate policies to ensure with unwelcoming male colleagues in the cockpit. fi scal expansion would likely pay for cal climate had been diff erent, I think Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, the full employment. We must think hard Today, she says, it would be a much easier career to itself. I also highlighted the role of ris- Obama made the right choices in ap- GSE Freddie Mac, AIG, WaMu, and about fi scal policies and structural ing inequality in increasing saving and proaching fi scal stimulus. It is of course Wachovia – were not covered by Glass- measures to support sustained and embrace. the role of structural changes toward also highly regrettable that after the Steagall calls into question its central- adequate aggregate demand. - Project More Indian women want to become pilots, and more the demassifi cation of the economy in initial Recovery Act, Congress refused ity. Yes, Citi and Bank of America were Syndicate benefi ts await them: union-mandated equal pay, a safe reducing demand. to support a variety of Obama’s propos- centrally involved, but the activities workplace, day care services and a booming aviation sec- What about the policy record? als for infrastructure and targeted tax that generated major losses were fully Lawrence H Summers was US tor. Stiglitz condemns the Obama admin- credits. permissible under Glass-Steagall. Secretary of the Treasury (1999-2001), India has the highest proportion of female commercial istration’s failure to implement a larger Unrelated to the topic of secular stag- And, in important respects, the repeal Director of the US National Economic pilots in the world at 12%, despite the country’s patriar- fi scal stimulus policy and suggests nation, Stiglitz takes a swipe at me by of Glass-Steagall actually enabled the Council (2009-2010), and President of that this refl ects a failure of economic saying that Obama turned to “the same resolution of the crisis, by permit- Harvard University (2001-2006), where chal society, which typically frowns on women in such understanding. He was a signatory to a individuals bearing culpability for the ting the merger of Bear and JPMorgan he is currently University Professor. jobs. “It was diffi cult,” Singh said, recalling her early days of being a pilot. “It was a male-dominated area and not easy to break into.” But society is changing, said Singh, a senior trainer at Jet Airways Ltd on temporary assignment to India’s avia- tion regulator as deputy chief fl ight operations inspector. The percentage of female pilots in India is twice as high as in most Western countries, including the United States and Australia. India is the world’s fastest-growing aviation More Indian market, with domestic capacity growing 22% in women want to the fi rst half of the year, become pilots so airlines there are un- der particular pressure. Recruiting more women is an obvious way to help solve the pilot shortage, but social constraints have worked against that, said Maria Bucur, a professor of history and gender studies at Indiana University. “The training and stressful work needed to become and work as a pilot require choices of women that go against most of the gendered expectations our society has of them at that age: to have babies,” she said. Because pilot pay is based on seniority and fl ying hours under union agreements, it is one of the rare professions in India where there is no gender pay gap. The starting salary, including fl ying allowance, for pi- lots there is $25,000 to $47,000 a year depending on the airline and type of aircraft. About 13% of the pilots at IndiGo, operated by Inter- Globe Aviation Ltd, are women, up from 10% fi ve years ago, the company said. Some of IndiGo’s 330 female pilots are also managers. At SpiceJet Ltd, 12% of pilots are women, including some department heads, and there is a mandate to grow that to 33% in the next three years, chairman Ajay Singh Obama “made the right choices in approaching fiscal stimulus”. said this year at the Farnborough Airshow in Britain. The company also gives women a fi xed monthly fl ying schedule. Because everyday safety can be a concern for women in India, airlines off er a pick-up and drop-off service from 6pmto 6am. Final thoughts on secular stagnation Women are accompanied by an armed guard — a prac- tice introduced after a horrifi c rape in New Delhi in 2012. “It is the safest job. Women are more protected here By Lawrence H Summers should, however, be able to agree on I am not sure what point Joe is saving patterns. Where does Stiglitz than in any other place,” Singh said. Cambridge what texts say. The New York Times making with respect to derivatives. I disagree? commentary that Stiglitz proudly cites was clear in my article to which he is Farmer, in his thoughtful commen- Women contribute 18% to India’s gross domestic prod- calls for a stimulus of “at least $600bn responding that I wish we had not sup- tary, argues that models of the type uct, and only a quarter of India’s workforce is female, oseph Stiglitz, Roger Farmer, and to $1tn over two years.” The Obama ported the 2000 legislation. But I also he has pioneered in recent years are according to a report by consultant McKinsey. I are now and have long been in administration called for and received noted that there is no reason to think the right way to think about chroni- In China, women contribute 41% of the country’s agreement on what are probably stimulus totalling some $800bn, a fi g- that, in the absence of the legislation, cally excessive unemployment and economy and make up nearly half the workforce. Jthe most important points. The ure well within Stiglitz’s range, despite the Commodity Futures Trading Com- that, with the right microfoundations, Recruiting more women to work could help India boost “New Keynesian” paradigm that sees being politically constrained by the mission under the Bush administration one can conclude that fi scal policies its GDP by 18%, or $770bn, over the usual annual growth, business cycles as arising from tem- necessity of Congressional approval. would have asserted sweeping new are ineff ective. I think his modelling McKinsey said. porary rigidities in wages and prices So I’m not sure what he is claiming. authority over derivatives and pointed approach may well prove very fruitful, is insuffi cient to account for events Stiglitz asserts that the study Fannie to the legal certainty problem that and I wish I understood it better. But, like the Great Depression and the Mae hired him to write in 2002 said career lawyers thought was important for now, I fi nd the empirical evidence, Great Recession. Too little was done only that its lending practices at that to address. international comparisons, time- To Advertise in the aftermath of the fi nancial crisis time were safe. That is not how I read What about secular stagnation series studies, and studies of local a decade ago to stimulate aggregate it. It speaks to ten-year default prob- theory? Stiglitz and I agree that variation within the United States [email protected] demand. A more equal income distri- abilities of less than one in 500,000; Alvin Hansen’s prediction was not compelling in suggesting that fi scal bution operates to increase aggregate notes that even if the analysis is off borne out after World War II because policy works. I do think, however, that Display demand. Substantially stronger fi nan- by an order of magnitude, any risks of a combination of expansionary Farmer’s views on the use of monetary 44466621 44418811 cial regulation than was in place before to government are very modest; and policy and structural changes in the policy to stabilise asset prices deserve 2008 needs to be adopted to minimise appeals to the regulatory system in economy. This was my point five years serious consideration. Classified the risks of future crises. place at the time to minimise that ago in renewing the idea of secu- Finally, I hope Stiglitz will respond I continue to have disagreements their model missed risks. He makes lar stagnation – to suggest that the positively to my repeated suggestions 44466609 44418811 with Stiglitz on the record of policy arguments against the Congressional economy as it was in 2013 required that we debate these matters in person advice, and with both Stiglitz and Budget Offi ce, the Department of the some combination of fiscal expansion at Columbia or Harvard or some other Subscription Farmer on some points of theory re- Treasury, and the Federal Reserve, and structural change to sustain full suitable venue. We can all agree that [email protected] garding secular stagnation. all of which had suggested – based employment. My discussions of secu- the stakes in a better understanding of Starting with the policy record, on the same information available to lar stagnation have all emphasised a the lessons of macroeconomic history, Stiglitz is right to assert that econo- Stiglitz when he wrote his paper – that variety of structural factors, includ- and in avoiding future events like those © 2018 Gulf Times. All rights reserved mists should not be expected to agree implicit guarantees to Fannie Mae were ing inequality, high profit shares, of the last decade, are very high. — on issues of political feasibility. They potentially costly. changes in relative prices, and global Project Syndicate Gulf Times Saturday, September 8, 2018 15 COMMENT The missing link of refugee response

As the world’s refugee crises con- both to their host societies and to their home- tinue to deepen and multiply, more lands whenever peace allows them to return. This long-term potential makes education a displaced children will be at risk of key tool for solving the world’s crises. We have missing out on a basic education watched young refugees who receive an educa- tion go on to become surgeons, pilots, lawyers, statisticians, journalists, community leaders, By Filippo Grandi molecular biologists, and the teachers of the Geneva next generations. But we have also seen too many young refu- gees’ dreams be thwarted. Less than one-quar- n early July, I travelled to the Kutupalong ter of the world’s refugees make it to secondary refugee settlement in Bangladesh, which school, and just 1% progress to higher educa- is now host to hundreds of thousands of tion. The problem is that 92% of the world’s IRohingya who have fl ed horrifi c violence school-age refugees are hosted by develop- in Myanmar. With the monsoon rains hammer- ing countries with woefully underfunded ing on the roof, I watched girls and boys learn schools. Some governments are already trying the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic to integrate refugee children into their national for just two hours a day. After that, it was time education systems. But to succeed, they will to hand the room over to the next group of need far more support to expand the necessary children. infrastructure. It was heart-rending to witness this faint The solution to the refugee education prob- semblance of proper schooling – all the more so lem cannot be to shunt children into a parallel because the children clearly valued their educa- system of schooling that relies on outdated tion. Without it, their future, and that of their materials, makeshift classrooms, or untrained communities, will be irreparably damaged. teachers. Improvised education will never be More than half of the world’s refugees are good enough. children; yet, among school-age refugees, more That is why humanitarian organisations, than half are not getting an education. All told, governments, and the private sector must come 4mn young minds are not receiving the school- together to increase funding for education, and ing that they need to realise their potential. to design innovative and sustainable programs And, worse still, the number of out-of-school to support refugees’ particular educational refugee children has increased by 500,000 in needs. We must build on the promise of the the last year alone. If current trends continue, These stateless Rohingya children were born in UNHCR’s Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. Without proper schooling, their future, and that of New York Declaration and start turning words hundreds of thousands more refugee children their communities, will be irreparably damaged. into deeds. will be added to the ranks of the educationally Later this year, the UN General Assembly will deprived. people from their homes, destroy stable fam- entire childhood before returning home. tions needed for university or higher vocational adopt the Global Compact on Refugees, which Clearly, there is an urgent need for more ily lives, and force many into poverty can also Moreover, young refugees tend to be dis- training. outlines a framework for achieving the New investment in refugee education. As part of damage children’s physical and psychologi- placed several times before they cross a border. For that to happen, refugee children must be York Declaration’s goals of improving refugees’ the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Develop- cal well-being. As the world’s refugee crises For children whose lives have been disrupted included in their host countries’ national edu- self-reliance and easing the burden on host ment, United Nations member states pledged deepen and multiply, children are often the in this manner, school is often the fi rst place cation systems. In Bangladesh, many Rohingya countries. to promote “lifelong learning opportunities for worst aff ected. where they start to regain a sense of security, girls and boys are going to school for the fi rst To that end, any eff ort to transform the lives all.” And in the 2016 New York Declaration for But children are extraordinarily resilient. By friendship, order, and peace. time. This is welcome progress. But the lack of refugees must include a concerted push for Refugees and Migrants, governments pledged to learning, playing, and exploring, they fi nd ways Regardless of their nationality or legal status, of trained teachers and formal curricula will more educational opportunities and resources. share responsibility for the world’s refugees, and to cope. And if given the opportunity, they can or that of their parents, refugee children have severely limit their future prospects. That is the only way to restore refugees’ futures to improve access to education for refugee chil- even thrive. That is why we at the UN Refugee the right to the formal lessons that will enable Of course, the power of education runs – and one of the best ways to ensure a better dren. These were important commitments. But Agency regard education as a fundamental them to prosper. But two hours per day is not deeper than academic qualifi cations. Learning world for us all. – Project Syndicate they will ring hollow until young refugees have part of refugee response. Because displaced enough. Children need a proper curriculum can help young people heal and revive entire the same opportunities as others to go to school. populations now spend years and even decades all the way through primary and secondary countries. Refugee children who are aff orded Filippo Grandi is the United Nations High Acts of violence and persecution that drive in exile, a refugee child could live out his or her school, so that they can acquire the qualifi ca- a proper education will grow up to contribute Commissioner for Refugees.

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in the event of a default which may in- il Law, the landlord shall not disturb received my entitlements through MONDAY By Dr Nizar Kochery clude encashment of the cheque issued the tenant or challenge his utilisation the Department of Labour. In such Maximum Temperature : 390c Doha by the borrower in favour of the bank for all the tenancy period and landlord a case, do I need to wait for two Minimum Temperature : 320c against the loan along with any other shall not be allowed to make any years to get a new visa? Do I need Fisherman's forecast Question: There was a criminal securities provided by the borrower. change in the premises in a way that to collect NOC from employer to case against me and I was having a aff ects or prevents the tenant from its waive the ban? Please advise. WARNING witness in the court. The witness’ utilisation. The tenant can seek for Inshore : Nil statement was also recorded by the Landlord shall not termination of the lease contract as NJ, Doha police at that time. I left country per Article 591 of the civil law. Where Offshore : Nil disturb the tenant WEATHER as there was no call from the court. the leased property is delivered in a A: As per the entry-exit law, the Inshore : Hot daytime and Now on arrival on a new visa the condition unfi t for its intended use, or person will be able to return to Qatar relatively by night police caught me and the case is in Q: We have rented an offi ce build- if such condition may considerably af- to take up employment immediately trial now. The court ordered the ing in Doha and are operating from fect such use, the tenant may demand after being granted a new visa in case Offshore : Fine. WIND witness to attend. But he says he there for the last six months. Now termination of the lease contract or of cancellation of the residency per- Inshore : Northwesterly-North- doesn’t remember the matter now. the landlord has occupied certain a reduction in the rent to the extent mit. The new law abolished the earlier easterly 05-15 KT What will happen in such a case? area of building for some other that the property is so aff ected, and in two-year ban on expatriates who want Offshrore : Northwesterly-North- works and he restricted the free use either case, payment of indemnity, as to come back to the country on a new easterly 03-13 KT ST, Doha of the premises. Based on this he applicable, without prejudice to the visa. An expatriate who has got a new refused to reduce the rent when re- tenant’s right to bind the landlord to contract to work in Qatar can come Visibility : 4-8 KM Answer: According to Article 202 quested. When a property is rented, perform all necessary repairs to render back even the next day. 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I to fulfill all debts of the creditors’ their debt. The judge shall file this list at got a new off er letter from a com- distrainers and those who were the off ice of the Registry of the court. pany. However, I doubt whether I regarded as part of the proceedings, The Registry of the court shall summon will be able to pay the next instal- the one who possesses these amounts the debtor, possessor, creditors’ ment. Can I get any concession shall pay the debt of each creditor distrainers and distrainers who have from bank as I lost my job? What after submission of the executive deed registered rights to appear before will be the action initiated by bank and the remainder shall be returned to the court in a hearing to be held on a on defaults? 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His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani addressing the opening session of the Qatar-Germany Business and Investment Forum in Berlin yesterday. Right: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended yesterday the signing ceremony of establishing the Qatari-German Business Council during the opening session of the Qatar-Germany Business and Investment Forum in Berlin. The agreement was signed by Chairman of Qatari Businessmen Association HE Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim al-Thani and CEO of the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce Martin Wansleben. Merkel welcomes Qatari investments, hails economic ties

QNA bilateral trade reaching more than Berlin 2.5bn euros. More than good trade rela- tions, she is pleased that Qatar is erman Chancellor An- increasingly interested in invest- gela Merkel welcomed ing in Germany, adding that that Gthe Qatari investments this interest is not coincidental, announced by His Highness the as Germany is among the most Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad trusted investment destinations al-Thani at the opening of Qatar- in the world. Germany Business and Invest- She pointed out that this is not ment Forum. The Qatari invest- only due to the political stability ments amount to 10bn euros and of Germany, but the credit also will be pumped into the German goes to the German companies, economy during the next fi ve German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressing the Qatar-Germany which have a good reputation in years. Business and Investment Forum in Berlin yesterday. the world markets, especially in At the opening session of Qatar the fi eld of heavy industries and Germany Business and Invest- confl icts and avoid them in the portant country,” Merkel said. She automobiles. Germany is also a ment Forum, Merkel said Qatar future. The current crisis has re- added that during her visit to Qa- leader in environment and medi- will fi nd in Germany competent vealed the importance of a Gulf tar in 2010 she managed to visu- cal technologies and it has seen business partners in addition to Co-operation Council capable of alise the growing economy, and a rapid growth in the number of the appropriate economic and operating without restrictions as during her visit to the Museum of companies in the fi eld of informa- regulatory conditions adding that security and stability are indis- Islamic Art in Doha, she was able tion technology. there are many opportunities for pensable foundations for eco- to learn about the cultural rich- The German Chancellor strengthening and expanding nomic prosperity. ness of the country. “Since its stressed that the economic rela- economic relations between the She added that Germany is in- independence in 1971, Qatar has tions between the two countries two countries. “We must exploit terested in deepening economic developed into one of the rich- do not go in one direction as Qatar these opportunities, especially co-operation with Qatar, which est countries in the world, so the off ers great potential for German if we look at the tense situation is refl ected in the great resonance economic relations between our companies. And this is charac- in the Gulf region, which nega- of this forum. The German Chan- two countries have grown signifi - terised by German companies’ tively aff ects the trade relations cellor said that she is delighted cantly,” she said. great expertise and international between the Gulf states,” she said. that Qatar Germany Business and Merkel pointed out that Ger- experience, which are prereq- Merkel also affi rmed her coun- Investment Forum is once again many is the most important eco- uisites for the expansion of the try’s support for all constructive taking place in Berlin and Qatar nomic and trading partner of infrastructure sector and the in- eff orts to settle the Gulf crisis, demonstrates the importance it Doha after the United States and dustrial sector in Qatar, especially including the eff orts of the State attaches to co-operation with China. She also stressed that Qa- in the fi eld of energy. Qatar is the of Kuwait, adding that we need Germany on the economic level. tar is one of the most important largest source of LNG and plans to a strong security structure in “Qatar is geographically small economic partners of Germany in expand its production potential in the Gulf to depend on, to solve but economically Qatar is an im- the Gulf region with the volume of the coming years. QTA signs agreement with German, Italian cruise fi rms

By Peter Alagos The luxury AIDAprima is nies in the world to start regular ceived and the exceptional hos- Business Reporter holding port bookings for eight cruises in the Arabian Gulf back pitality we experienced show us calls in Doha during the 2018- in 2006. During winter sea- that we made the right decision 2019 season and will make sev- sons, both companies off er one- in coming to Qatar.” atar Tourism Authority eral more calls in the 2019-2020 week cruises in the area with the The strategic initiative fol- (QTA) signed yesterday season. Between them, the two ‘fl y&cruise’ formula. lows a round of talks between Qa memorandum of un- cruise lines will potentially bring The majority of guests come QTA officials and major cruise derstanding (MoU) with German up to 45,000 passengers in the from Europe with Germans for lines, which shed a spotlight Aida Cruises and Italian Costa coming season. Aida, and Italians, French, Span- on Qatar’s growing tourism Cruises to establish a partnership The signing ceremony was ish, Austrian, and the Swiss for offering, and the significant aimed at developing cruise tour- held on the sidelines of the Qa- Costa. efforts underway to provide ism with the State of Qatar. tar-Germany Business and In- “Costa Cruises is very well cruise visitors with smooth and The MoU also includes the vestment Forum held in Berlin known and appreciated for being seamless experiences at the possibility of co-operation to yesterday, further strengthening a pioneering company, constant- port of entry and throughout build attractive packages and QTA’s ties with industry stake- ly innovating its product in order the country. special services dedicated to holders to promote Qatar as an to deliver guests an unforgettable Qatar welcomed over 65,000 Costa Cruises and Aida guests, attractive tourism destination in cruise experience. Therefore, we cruise passengers last season — in addition to joint communica- the region. are glad to explore the possibility a 39% increase from the 2016- tions, co-marketing actions and “We are delighted to announce to develop an interesting desti- 2017 season. The majority of familiarisation trips. these new developments and nation such as Qatar, which has passengers were Germans and The initiative will focus on additions to the fl eet of cruise a big potential for the cruise in- Italians. The growth is support- Doha, which already provides a ships arriving at Doha Port over dustry,” said Costa Cruises presi- ed by the Doha Port Redevelop- state-of-the-art cruise termi- the coming seasons. “After the dent Neil Palomba. ment Project, which will con- nal, and aims at building a strong exceptional success of the last Aida Cruises president Felix vert the port at the heart of the relationship between the cruise cruise season, this agreement is Eichhorn added: “Qatar has been capital’s cultural district into a lines and Qatar in preparation for another step towards our target on our radar for quite a while. We permanent cruise terminal and the 2022 FIFA World Cup. of 200,000 cruise visitors by HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti witnesses the agreement are delighted to off er this up- tourist destination in its own Costa Mediterranean will in- 2020, and we are looking for- signing with Costa Cruises and Aida Cruises during a press conference held yesterday on the sidelines of and-coming cruise destination right. augurate Costa’s presence in ward to work with our partners the Qatar-Germany Business and Investment Forum held in Berlin, Germany. as an extra highlight to our guests QTA said it is working with de- Qatar with one call set on March on the ground in Qatar to pro- next winter. The new itinerary for velopers to ensure facilities are in 6, 2019, while the fl eet fl agship vide unforgettable experiences He added: “Qatar’s authen- visitors, and we believe that will be a frequent destination AIDAprima is a perfect addition place to receive two ships per day, Costa Diadema will off er 16 calls to each and every passenger,” tic experiences and traditional once Aida and Costa, two lead- on their itineraries.” to our successful Arabian Gulf and the and a new terminal is in to Doha during her seven-day said QTA acting chairman Has- hospitality have proven im- ing brands in the industry, have Costa Cruises and Aida Cruis- programme. the pipeline, expected for com- 2019-2020 winter programme. san al-Ibrahim. mensely popular with cruise made these initial visits, Qatar es were the fi rst cruise compa- The warm welcome we re- pletion within 2020.