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WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 • 18 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6541 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Work on first Expats gain 2022 venue to end next year from currency DOHA: Qatar will complete work on Khalifa International Stadium — the first venue for 2022 FIFA World Cup tourna- ment matches — by 2016, offi- depreciation cials said yesterday. The 40,000-seater stadium is scheduled to host group Exchange houses witness huge rush stage, round of 16 and quarter- final matches during the 2022 BY SACHIN KUMAR are expected to weaken further World Cup. It is also the venue as China is expected to further for the 2019 World Athletics DOHA: Nepalese, Indian and devalue its currency,” he added. Championships. Philippine currencies have A depreciating currency augurs “We are very happy with the depreciated the most against well for expatriates because they rapid progress of renovation dollar-pegged Qatari riyal due get additional income because of works at the site,” said project to recent concerns about global decline. For example, a Nepali manager Mansoor Saleh B Al economic slowdown and devalu- who was getting around 27 rupees Muhannadi. Officials said the sta- ation of Chinese currency. for one Qatari riyal at the begin- dium once completed will include The Nepalese rupee has depre- ning of March when the rupee cooling technology on “the field ciated by 7.3 percent since March was quoting 27.18 against riyal, A computer-generated image of the Khalifa International Stadium once existing renovation is completed by end of play, all seats and concourses”. this year, Indian rupee fell by 6.7 is now getting around 29 rupee of 2016. This venue will stage matches of the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be hosted by Qatar. AFP percent while the Philippine peso because the currency is trading See also page 28 depreciated 6 percent in the last weak at 29.15 per riyal. six months. Currencies of Pakistan and The Nepalese rupee is currently Sri Lanka have also weakened trading at 29.15 per Qatari riyal, in the past six months. The around 1.97 rupee weaker than the Pakistani rupee was trading at level of 27.18 per riyal on March 27.98 against riyal on March 1 1, 2015. The Indian rupee is trad- while currently it is trading at Youth to be guided on private sector jobs ing at 18.22 against riyal, about 28.59 per riyal. 1.14 rupee weaker than 17.08 at The Egyptian pound has weak- DOHA: To push its job nation- tell the students that there are Development Department of the Development Department at the start of March. The Philippine ened marginally as it is currently alisation agenda in the private better and diverse employment Labour Ministry and the minis- the Labour Ministry, said at the peso was trading at 12.11 per riyal trading at around 2.15 per riyal sector, the government yester- opportunities like insurance, the try’s guidance section are tasked launch ceremony that the cam- on March 1 this year while yester- slightly lower than 2.09 it was day launched a unique initiative hospitality sector and banking, with making the initiative a paign will help push the govern- day it was trading weaker at 12.84 trading in March this year. for Qatari students of high and among others. success. ment’s job nationalisation agenda against the riyal. The euro and Bangladeshi taka secondary schools. Titled Wajjahni (Guide Me), A dedicated and professionally in the private sector. “Weakening of currencies is have not weakened and are sta- They will be guided to choose the campaign was launched at qualified team will visit schools A national workforce will due to flight of foreign capital ble against riyal. “A month after specific subject areas for spe- the Four-Seasons Hotel at a for- and meet students and guide be built and it would help the because of concerns about global Ramadan is usually slow for cialisation and made aware of job mal ceremony by the Ministry them to select subject areas of national economy. Students will economic slowdown and recent remittances because maximum opportunities in the private sector of Labour and Social Affairs and specialisation at high and second- be provided training, he added. devaluation in yuan by China. remittances happen during the from early stages of their life. school regulator the Supreme ary school levels. Mariam Al Mannai, from the Foreign investors are pulling out Holy Month. But, this time Asian Due to a lack of awareness Education Council (SEC). Seminars and lectures will be Labour Ministry’s guidance sec- their investments from emerging expatriates were seen remitting about private jobs, most Qataris, Some key private sector part- held and booklets and pamphlets tion, said that a lack of awareness economies and other countries money in August to benefit from when they finish their education ners in the campaign include will be distributed and parents about private jobs among young and are investing in US,” said falling currencies,” said a branch and hunt for jobs, tend to show Hassad Food, Al Sharq, Ooredoo, will also be actively involved Qataris was the reason why they Zuber Abdul Rahman, Operations manager of an exchange house. strong preference for certain sec- Doha Bank and Masraf Al in the selection of subjects of preferred certain sectors (read: Manager, Al Zaman Exchange. Continued on page 4 tors (read: public sector). Rayyan, to name a few. specialisation. government). “Currencies across the world THE PENINSULA The idea of the initiative is to The Human Resource Mellak Al Hajri, head of HR THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Qatar keen to exploit youth potential: Minister First Global Youth Consultation summit opens

DOHA: The first-ever Global unleashing their potentials. to exchange insights to contrib- Youth Consultation (GYC) of “We in Qatar firmly believe on ute in shaping humanitarian and the UN’s World Humanitarian the youth’s role in shaping our development polices. Summit (WHS) opened here future and contributing in lay- “Despite the challenges that yesterday confirming the ing the foundation for innovative we are facing across the globe we importance Qatar places on solutions. Qatar also believes in are all hopeful with your contri- the role of youth in shaping the empowering civil society organi- butions that would light the path future of global humanitarian sations to support the youth and of our future.” landscape. provide them with education and The opening ceremony Hosted by Reach Out To Asia necessary tools for their success,” was attended by a number of (ROTA), the two-day event being he said. high-profile local and interna- held at the Hamad bin Khalifa Among the initiatives Qatar tional delegates, including Dr University Student Centre at has launched for the youth was Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh bin Education City gathers over 300 the Education Above All “because Nasser, ROTA Board Member; youth from 82 countries including Qatar believes in education for Jemilah Mahmood, Chief of the 70 from Qatar. the youth to become the builders World Humanitarian Summit H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Cooperation This is the first time Qatar is of civilisations rather than being Secretariat, UN Office for (right), visiting the exhibition as part of the Global Youth Consultation for World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) at hosting this event. The last major a destructive force.” Coordination of Humanitarian Qatar Foundation’s Student Centre yesterday. Also seen are Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh bin Nasser, ROTA Board consultation on humanitarian In light of what’s happening in Affairs (UNOCHA); Ahmad Member; Ahmad Al Hendawi, UN Secretary General’s envoy on Youth and Dr Jemilah Mahmood, WHS Secretariat action took place nearly 25 years Syria, Qatar had also launched Al Hendawi, United Nations Chief. ABDUL BASIT ago. an initiative to educate Syrians Secretary-General’s Special Addressing the opening ses- in refugee camps and other areas Envoy on Youth; and Dr Hany Al to host such a milestone event, by gathering input from youth to be held in Istanbul, Turkey on sion, Assistant Minister of “whereby the gun can be replaced Banna, Executive Director for The as Qatar will be participating in on humanitarian challenges and May 23 and 24 next year. GYC is Foreign Affairs for International by books and pens.” Humanitarian Forum. A number gathering the input of the world’s solutions. sponsored by Qatar National Bank Cooperation H E Sheikh The minister called the of local charity organisations were youth to change the shape of the The consultation will allow the (QNB), Qatar Airways, Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Consultation ‘an added value’ to also present at the opening. future on humanitarian issues.” views of participants to be incor- Petroleum (QP), Nakilat, Sheikh Al Thani said hosting the event the WHS and a significant step “ROTA strongly believes in said Dr Sheikha Aisha. GYC aims porated into the UN Secretary- Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation in Qatar for the first time under- for the youth to have their voices the importance of unlocking to improve global disaster pre- General Ban Ki-moon’ report, and for Humanitarian Services (RAF) scores how the State values the heard. He urged cooperation the human potential, especially paredness and response as well the overall recommendations for and United Muslim Relief. youth and provides support in among the participants in order in the youth. We are very proud as shape the global youth position the World Humanitarian Summit THE PENINSULA

Strong mid-day 60 million people forced off their homes: UN official dusty wind BY RAYNALD C RIVERA evolve in order to keep pace in their promises. She also asked the rapidly changing world. We the youth “to rebuild trust and likely today DOHA: Expressing con- need to involve more actors in hope again because with cur- cern over the millions dis- decision-making, leverage new rent lack of trust in the world, DOHA: The weather placed around the world, the strategies and take advantage of humanitarian needs are not been bureau has forecast high Chief of the United Nations emerging technologies. This is efficiently addressed. winds by midday today and World Humanitarian Summit where I call on you young people She called on the delegates to said it would kick up dust Secretariat yesterday urged the to lead the way.” engage in substantive discussions at places. It will be slightly youth to be actively involved in She lauded “the potential and about the future of humanitarian dusty offshore as well with offering innovative solutions to determination of young people actions, highlight the emerging wind moving at high speed. the worsening global humani- in the most challenging circum- youth priorities in humanitarian Inland, the wind could tarian crisis. stances” as they proactively got settings, present their capacity gather speed up to 40km an “The year 2015 has the highest involved in recent disasters and to be active partners and agents hour by midday at places, number of possibly displaced per- crises such as the earthquake in of change and provide new and said the bureau in its routine sons since World War II. Almost 60 Nepal and the ebola outbreak in innovative ideas on initiating weather forecast for today. million men, women and children Sierra Leone and Liberia. humanitarian actions. Day temperatures will vary were forced off their homes, their Scouts provided relentless sup- “I challenge you to put on your from 40 to 43 degrees while schools and their lands because port to rescue teams in Nepal thinking caps and come up with at night the mercury level of conflicts and natural disasters. while young humanitarians pro- possible and best solutions to great would fall to between 27 and This is just a little below the total vides psychosocial support in humanitarian challenges facing us, 33 degrees. Doha will be the population of Italy and also means Chief of the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit Secretariat Jemilah ebola-hit areas as well as dis- foster increased collaboration and hottest place as the maximum that one person is displaced every Mahmood addressing the first-ever Global Youth Consultation (GYC), tribute nutritional products to shared innovations. I also encour- and minimum temperatures three seconds,” Jemilah Mahmood yesterday. pregnant and lactating mothers age you to create a platform for expected in the city are 43 and told over 300 participants at the in post-earthquake Haiti. your generation to be heard and 33 degrees, respectively. opening of the first-ever Global “If Strategically engaged, ultimately inspire greater actions THE PENINSULA Youth Consultation (GYC) of age of displacement is 17 years. desperate attempt of migrants young people can play critical in involvement of young people. the UN’s World Humanitarian Young men and women are also from Africa and the Middle East role in the success of humani- We need to capture your knowl- Summit (WHS). more vulnerable to recruitment in recent weeks to reach Europe tarian response during conflicts.” edge, energy, experience and best “Almost 50 percent, even more and exploitation,” she explained risking their lives to free them- She urged the youth to keep practices so we can connect as a Galfar to build in some regions, of all people are on the severity of the crisis. selves from poverty and conflicts. governments and international world and learn from each other.” children and youth. The average She cited as an example the “Humanitarian action needs to organisations accountable to THE PENINSULA infrastructure at Al Wakra

DOHA: The Logistic Committee of the Ministry of Economy and Commerce and Manateq signed a contract with Galfar DFI invites jurors to Engineering & Contracting com- pany to build infrastructure for logistic services at Al Wakra Ajyal Youth Film Fest entailing investment of about QR856m. The project is expected to be completed in 24 months. DOHA: The Doha Film active participants in the event The company will create infra- Institute (DFI) has opened the reflects our commitment to nur- structure such as electricity and call for young film enthusiasts ture a deep understanding of film water supply, rainwater manage- to be on the jury for the third in the younger generation and ment, road network and green area. edition of the Ajyal Youth Film open their minds, through cin- The logistic services area will be Festival (AYFF) scheduled ema, to the experiences of young spread over an area of 6.6 kilometers from November 29 to December people around the world.” of which 3.5km is currently being 5 in Katara. Last year, Ajyal welcomed 450 developed under the first phase. The invitation is open to film young jurors of 45 nationalities, lovers aged 8 to 21 years to be who judged the festival films in three members of the jury who will sections – Mohaq (meaning new Movenpick Hotel to watch and analyse films as well as moon), Hilal (crescent moon) and choose the winners of this year’s Bader (full moon). This year’s fes- Qatar University students during orientation programme. mark International Ajyal Competition, made up of tival features an expanded Mohaq short and feature length films section to include feature films in Day of Charity from around the world. competition for the first time. The jury will also meet film Jurors aged 8 to 12 will watch QU admits 3,000 students DOHA: Movenpick Hotel West directors and actors who are a programme of short films and Bay Doha along with Movenpick attending the festival, take part four feature-length films in the DOHA: A total of 3,000 stu- and Economics were provided Welcoming the new students, Hotel Doha is observing the UN in workshops to learn more Mohaq section. Hilal jury is open dents were admitted at the the opportunity to gain relevant QU Vice President for Student International Day of Charity about filmmaking techniques for young people in the 13 to 17 Qatar University for the new information that would ease their Affairs Dr Omar Al-Ansari said, on September 5, by launching a and experience a wide range of years age-group who will watch academic year as new Students’ transition into the new academic “This event is a cornerstone of the weeklong campaign to support fun activities during the seven- and evaluate a programme of Orientation began yesterday. environment. They participated QU experience that our newly- a local charity, Hope Qatar. day festival. short films and five feature- During the orientation students in a number of activities to get admitted students are about to The hotel is inviting guests to Last year’s VIP guests included length films. Bader jurors, in registered into their respective acquainted with their colleagues and embark on. We are excited to con- donate school supplies for the Salma Hayek-Pinault who pre- the 18 to 21 age group, will select programs and were familiarized toured the campus and its facilities. tinue providing our world-class charity and as a small gesture of sented her animated feature film their favourite films from five with the university, its programs, They also got the chance to meet education to a new generation of appreciation; the hotel will give ‘Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet’ features and two programmes academic and extra-curricular with the deans, associate deans, and students and future leaders and one complimentary ice cream in to the Ajyal jurors. Fatma Al of short films. activities, policies, services and administrators of their colleges as we look forward to celebrating return. The charity event, dubbed Remaihi, Chief Executive Officer Registration for the Ajyal Jury campus resources. Students were well as their peers. On the second the innovation and creativity that ‘A Kilo of Kindness for a Treat of of the DFI and Director of the is open until October 25, at doha- obliged to attend the full two days assigned day of their orientation, they will bring to the QU commu- Ice Cream’, will take place from Festival, said: “Our young jurors filminstitute.com/ajyaljury. For of the orientation event on the students will attend a workshop nity and the wider society.” September 5 to 12, with the two are indeed at the heart of the details, contact: ajyaljury@doha- days assigned to them, failing titled “My University 101” during New male and female students Movenpick Hotels taking part. festival and we look forward to filminstitute.com which they will not be allowed to which they will be introduced to the from the colleges of Education, Donation boxes for Hope Qatar welcoming back those who have DFI also offers Ajyal Jury mem- register for or attend classes. university’s academic and non-aca- Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, and are located in L’Espresso Café in participated in the past along bers the opportunity to take part During the first day of the demic policies. They will also receive Shariah and Islamic Studies will the lobby of Mvenpick Hotel Doha with those joining us on this cin- in international events including event, female students from the their QU ID and meet with their participate in similar orientation and at the lobby area at Mvenpick ematic journey for the first time.” the Giffoni Film Festival, the larg- College of Engineering and male academic advisors who will advise exercises which will continue Hotel West Bay Doha for the full “Inviting young people to take est film festival for children in the students from the colleges of them on courses selection for the until September 10. week of September 5– 12. part - not as spectators but as world. THE PENINSULA Arts and Sciences and Business Fall 2015 semester. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Airport rush Emir greets Slovak, Uzbek leaders

DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of greetings to President of the Slovak Republic Andrej Kiska on the occa- sion of his country’s National Day. The Emir also greeted President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on the occasion of the anniversary of his coun- try’s Independence Day. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani also sent similar messages to Slovak and Uzbek leaders. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent cables of congratulations to presidents of Slovak Republic and Uzbekistan. Minister of Transport Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti met yesterday with the Philippines Ambassador to Qatar Wilfredo C Santos. The meeting reviewed ties in the field of transport between Qatar and the Philippines and ways of enhancing and developing them. QNA

A huge rush was witnessed at the arrival terminal of Hamad bin Internationl Airport last night as expatriates started returning after summer vacation. Schools are set to reopen on September 6. ABDUL BASIT Ministry sets Nov 3 deadline to implement online wage system Non-complying companies to face stringent punishment

DOHA: Private companies have been Protection System (WPS), will apply to all in their computer systems and immediately given time until November 3 to comply private companies—as all of them are cov- the screen would show the number of work- with the mandatory online payment sys- ered by the labor law, number 14 of 2004. ers in its employ, their salaries and whether tem for low-paid workers. The Ministry said it would closely moni- or not they have been paid. The labor ministry Companies’ failure to abide by the rule tor the WPS in coordination with the bank- has a dedicated inspection unit only to keep would make them liable to punishment, ing regulator, Qatar Central Bank (QCB). tab on companies and ensure they comply including denial of work visas and refusal The QCB has issued circulars to all banks with the WPS. Inspectors, rigorously trained to endorse workers’ job contracts. and financial institutions in the country to in their job, would catch violations if any, and The Ministry of Labour and Social open accounts for workers who have valid take the violating company to task. Affairs, responsible for implementing and ID card. After opening their accounts All companies must pay their workers supervising the new payment mode, has banks must develop an automated system through the WPS within seven days of the urged all private companies to abide. to transfer worker wages under the WPS, due date. Delays will be punished and a The Ministry said it will stop all trans- said the Ministry. reconciliation would be possible only if a actions with non-complying entities unless This automated system should be such complainant (worker) takes his complaint they mend their ways and rectify their situ- that the labor ministry and the Ministry of of delayed payment back, said the Ministry. ation. “The deadline for the companies to Interior should be able to actively monitor Non-compliers can even be prosecuted, comply with the WPS ends on November 3,” and ensure that all WPS-beneficiary work- as per the amendment to the labor law that said the Ministry on its website. ers are paid salaries. The ministries would were carried out this year to help imple- The new system, called the Wage simply insert a ‘Card Number’ of a company ment the WPS. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Katara to hold Improving skills art workshops this month DOHA: Diverse educational of teachers top workshops targeting various segments and age categories will be launched at Katara Art Studios this month. The work- shops will kick off with paper priority: Minister mache and QatArt workshops. From September 10, Katara Art Studios will organise work- Office to be set up for teachers’ affairs shops every weekend for partici- pants from 10 years and above. DOHA: Minister of Education Khalifa Al Thani. The workshops include silk paint- and Higher Education and The minister was speaking at a ing (Sept 10), basic and advanced Secretary General of the meeting held at the Four Seasons Batik (Sept 12) and Ebru and Supreme Education Council Hotel for holders of Independent marbling art for the basic and H E Dr Mohammad bin Abdul School permits. advanced levels (Sept 17). Wahed Al Hammadi said yes- The meeting reviewed a number Those who are interested in terday that enhancing the skills of initiatives and policies set to be abstract painting may join the of teachers and improving stu- implemented in the new academic Zentangle workshop on September dents’ academic abilities will year. 24 while those interested in floral be top priorities for the coming The Minister also reviewed more arrangement may attend the Roza year. than 70 initiatives implemented harvest workshop on September Minister added that the two by the ministry in previous years. Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Dr Mohammad bin Abdul Wahed Al Hammadi attending a 17. Those who wish to attend any goals were based on the directives Some of those initiatives included meeting held for holders of Independent School permits, at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday. of the workshops may register at: of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim improving the students’ skills in [email protected] bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime languages and Math. years and increasing the number initiative will include establish- skillset of teachers and attract- Minister and Interior Minister H Another initiative was the minis- of Independent Schools. ing an office for teachers’ affairs, ing highly-skilled teachers to E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin try’s strategy for the coming seven The minister noted that new charged with improving the Qatari schools. QNA Partial closure of Al Shamal Road

DOHA: Motorists will expe- Preparations begin for first camel, rience a temporary closure on Al Shamal Road before Al Gharrafa Interchange in the direction from the north to equestrian and falcon exhibition Doha, for eight hours on Friday. The Public Works Authority DOHA: A unique event Management Partner and Doha is bringing in cutting-edge (Ashghal) said in a statement designed around three of the Media who is handling opera- expertise, equipment, technol- that the road Closure will be country’s greatest traditions tions as Event Management ogy, products, knowledge and from 2 am to 10 am, where three is set to be held in Qatar Partner. The consortium is advancements in these fields, lanes will be closed. One lane will soon. Nawasi, an outstand- currently reaching out and con- here to Qatar. Nawasi will be a remain open to traffic. The imple- ing industry exhibition firming participation of exhibi- meeting place for connections, mentation of this partial and that will unite the passions tors from all around the world. for commerce and for busi- temporary closure is to install a of Equestrianism, Camel Among those who are poised ness. We truly believe that an signboard on the road. rearing and racing and to sign-up are top exhibitors industry exhibition in the cal- Ashghal will install all neces- Falconry. from London, Germany, Brazil, iber of Nawasi is exactly what sary signage in the area to notify The exhibition promises to USA, GCC, and MENA region, is needed to nourish and revive drivers during work period. offer Qatar and the GCC a rare as well as organizations from these ancient arts.” and exclusive opportunity to Africa, who have made a stel- Saif Al Mohanadi, General encounter the latest advance- lar name for themselves in the Manager of Manar Events, said: Currency ments, merchandise and devel- industry. “The industries associated opments of these timeless Moutaz Kamal, Managing with Equestrianism, Camels depreciation traditions, all in one location. Director in Siigns Projects and Falconry have been grow- Nawasi is set to draw exhibi- explained the vision behind ing in leaps and bounds but Continued from page 1 tors from the among the world’s Nawasi. “We are proud to most of the owners and those Total remittances by expa- leading manufacturers, suppli- be breaking new ground in engaged in them have to rely triates from Qatar in 2014 was ers, merchandisers, technology this field. The traditions of on going overseas to access around $10bn according to the solution and service providers Equestrianism, Camel rear- quality products, services and World Bank data. that represent the best in the ing and racing and Falconry solutions. Nawasi is happen- Major currencies around the Equestrian, Camel and Falcon go back centuries in this ing because we want to change globe are falling against US dol- industries. region. While here in Qatar that. We will literally bring the lar because of concern regarding The dates for this cur- and the GCC these much- best products and services of slowdown in global economy. tain-raising event in Qatar loved interests will definitely the world here, to our door- Recent manufacturing data have been set from March 2 benefit from a new infusion step. We also want Nawasi to released by China, world’s sec- to March 4 in 2016 and the of energy, around the world be a channel of updating and ond biggest economy, sparked selected venue is the Doha there are great innovations educating everyone on the fears that its economy is slow- Exhibition Centre. Nawasi is and advancements being made advancements in Equestrian, ing down. being organized and presented in these fields. So our vision Camel and Falcon industries On August 11, the People’s Bank by a consortium of three of is to make Nawasi a bridge; a and share knowledge and whip of China surprised markets by Qatar’s leading, local, event and bridge between the best of the up a renewed interest in these executing a one-time two per- media and marketing manage- Equestrian, Camel and Falcon arts among the next genera- cent devaluation of the yuan. The ment companies. Manar Events industries and unite them tion. In this way we will pre- devaluation may start currency who is leading the organizing of with owners and enthusiasts serve history and contribute to war among countries which may this first of kind event, Siigns who passionately pursue these future growth, simultaneously.” allow their currency to weaken. Projects is the Marketing and traditions. That is why Nawasi THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

GU-Q set to lead TradeLab research project

DOHA: In a new research project, Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) will assemble a global network of experts on international trade and trade law to empower smaller stakeholders, such as Qatar, to reap the full development benefits of global trade and investment rules. Known as TradeLab — short for ‘Legal Innovation To Empower Development: Designing and Building an On-Line TradeLab in Qatar’ is sched- uled to begin in Fall 2015 and will run for three years. GU-Q’s Office of Research was approached by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) to host the large collaborative research project funded by the National Priorities Research Programme. Many countries, including Qatar, are members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and have also signed a large number of free trade agreements and investment protection treaties. Trade and investment treaties regulate domestic policies ranging from health and the environment to energy and taxation. However, the rules for such agree- ments are often complex and involve WTO rules and case law, evolving principles in preferential trade agreements, contracts law, and other international agreements to stimu- late or protect foreign direct investment. Stakeholders from both the public and private sector (and especially in develop- ing countries) are often not aware of, or are not sufficiently informed about, these systems. In some cases, access to legal expertise to influence negotiation or implementation of these treaties, or to be successful in the dispute settlement mechanisms set up under trade or investment regimes, is not available or too costly. “With Georgetown University’s tradition of excellence in international law, economics, and public policy, we are a natural host for a project that brings together the best scholars, analysts and policymakers to address these very real concerns,” said GU-Q Director of Research, Dr John Crist. “Essentially, TradeLab will provide useful knowledge for policymakers--in Qatar and around the world--about negotiating, implementing and enforcing trade and invest- ment treaties, along with access to global experts with sub- stantial direct experience who can advise on specific issues and problems,” Dr Crist added. THE PENINSULA WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Gaza could be Protesters evicted from Lebanon ministry BEIRUT: Lebanese police ejected protesters who occupied part of the environment minis- try yesterday to press the min- uninhabitable ister to resign, raising tensions over their campaign against uncollected garbage and a stag- nant political class. Imad Bazzi, one of the organis- ers of the “You Stink” campaign, by 2020: UN said police had shoved a dozen activists from the building shortly after the rest had been driven out Israeli blockade cited as reason in a raid that left several people injured. GENEVA: The Gaza Strip, rav- lowest point since 1967,” when The operation began some aged by wars and nearly a decade Israel seized the territory from six hours after dozens of people of a gruelling Israeli blockade, Egypt in its Six-Day War, accord- entered the ministry in cen- could become uninhabitable for ing to the report. tral Beirut and began a sit-in to residents within just five years, The report estimated that the demand Environment Minister the United Nations develop- three military operations, includ- Mohamed Mashnuq resign. ment agency said yesterday. ing last year’s devastating war “You Stink” activists said police “The social, health and secu- that killed some 2,200 Palestinians had beaten some of their number, rity-related ramifications of the and displaced half a million more, and the Red Cross said medics high population density and over- had caused economic losses close treated several for wounds sus- crowding are among the factors to three times the size of Gaza’s tained in scuffles with security that may render Gaza unliveable local gross domestic product. forces. by 2020,” the UN Conference The 2014 war, which also left The sit-in was an unexpected on Trade and Development 73 Israelis dead, destroyed or escalation of a campaign that (UNCTAD) wrote in its annual severely damaged more than began over the rubbish crisis but report. 20,000 Palestinian homes, 148 has evolved into a broad-based Gaza, a tiny enclave of just schools, 15 hospitals and 45 movement against government 362 square kilometres (about primary healthcare centres, impotence and corruption. 225 square miles) squeezed UNCTAD said. As night fell, several hundred A protester tries to leave after clashing with members of the security forces attempting to expel those occupying between Israel, Egypt and the As many as 247 factories and protesters demonstrated outside the Environment Ministry in downtown Beirut yesterday. Mediterranean Sea that is home 300 commercial centres were fully the ministry in support of the to some 1.8 million Palestinians, or partially destroyed, and Gaza’s last activists who had remained activist was taken to hospital for unprecedented protest. As an interim solution, munici- counts one of the highest popula- only power station sustained inside, occasionally skirmishing treatment, the official added. At the end of the demonstra- palities have been dumping trash tion densities in the world. severe damage, it said. with security forces. The “You Stink” campaign tion, activists gave the govern- in empty lots, river beds and “Gaza could become uninhabit- Even before last year’s conflict, “We will continue! Revolution!” began in response to a crisis ment 72 hours to meet their valleys. able by 2020 if current economic Gaza’s electricity supply was not they chanted. that erupted with the closure demands, but they began their Mashnuq has said he will trends persist,” the report said. even enough to cover 40 percent A security source confirmed of Lebanon’s largest landfill in sit-in several hours before the not resign, but he withdrew on While the high density is not of demand, UNCTAD said, add- the evacuation of protesters was mid-July. deadline expired. Monday from the cabinet com- new, the situation has been exac- ing that 95 percent of water from underway, with police removing a But it has evolved into an outlet “(We began early) for the ele- mittee dealing with the crisis. erbated by three Israeli military coastal aquifers — Gazans main group gradually from the build- for deep-seated frustrations over ment of surprise,” Bourjeily told Media reported that Mashnuq operations in the past six years source of freshwater — was con- ing’s seventh floor. crumbling infrastructure and a AFP, adding additional meas- left the embassy in a motorcade and nearly a decade-long eco- sidered unsafe to drink. An interior ministry source stagnant, confessional political ures could be announced later after the protesters had been nomic blockade. Unemployment in Gaza mean- said some 14 demonstrators system. Last week, the campaign yesterday. evicted. A source close to Prime The blockade had “ravaged the while soared last year to 44 per- remained inside and were insist- set out four key demands and set “It will depend on the response Minister Tammam Salam called already debilitated infrastructure cent — the highest level on record ing police would have to remove a deadline, which coincided with of the government.” on demonstrators “to wait for two of Gaza, shattered its productive — hitting young women especially them by force. the start of the police evacuation. Fellow organiser Marwan or three days” to hear the propos- base, left no time for meaning- hard, leaving more than eight out “You Stink” said on Facebook Mashnuq was to resign, new Maalouf laid the blame directly on als of an ad hoc committee set up ful reconstruction or economic of 10 women out of work. that activist “Lucien Bourjeily and elections were to be held, gar- Mashnuq, who has been criticised Monday and headed by Culture recovery and impoverished the A full 72 percent of all house- a group of people participating in bage collection should become for failing to draw up a solution to Minister Akram Chehayeb. Palestinian population in Gaza,” holds in Gaza are meanwhile the sit-in were beaten and cannot a municipal responsiblity and the trash crisis. “The trash is pil- Throughout the sit-in, a crowd the report said. struggling with food insecurity, be reached.” those responsible for violence ing up in homes everywhere, and of supporters demonstrated out- “Short of ending the block- and the number of Palestinian A Red Cross official said 14 against protesters should be who is responsible for this situa- side the ministry. “We don’t want ade, donor aid... will not reverse refugees who rely entirely on food people were treated at the scene held accountable. On Saturday, tion? It’s the minister of environ- the parliament of trash, or the the ongoing de-development and distribution from UN agency has for light wounds sustained in con- the campaign scored its biggest ment,” Maalouf said. The closure parliament of extension,” they impoverishment in Gaza,” it said. ballooned from 72,000 in 2000 to frontations with police. turnout yet, with tens of thou- of the landfill was announced last sang, referring to the Lebanese Socio-economic conditions in 868,000 by last May. A 15th person was treated for sands converging on a downtown year, but despite the lead time, the legislature which has extended its Gaza today are currently “at their AFP respiratory problems, and one square in Beirut for a virtually government found no alternative. own term twice since 2009. AFP

Israel opposes Palestine flag Many killed as Al Shabaab Kuwait charges 24 proposal at UN UNITED NATIONS: Israel attacks AU base in Somalia with plotting attacks yesterday expressed strong opposition to a draft reso- MOGADISHU: Al Shabaab Two local residents were also rather than merely engaging in KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait yes- busted last month while seizing lution that would allow the militants stormed an African wounded in the attack, said Ali crude guerrilla-style asymmetric terday charged 24 people sus- large amounts of weapons, ammu- Palestinian flag to be raised at Union base in southern Somalia Nur, the acting governor of Lower warfare tactics. pected of links to Iran and Shia nition and explosives. the United Nations ahead of yesterday, where they say they Shabelle region. Captain Bilow Idow, a Somali militia group Hezbollah with Officials said at the time that the annual gathering of world killed 50 peacekeepers, in what AMISOM said in a statement military officer based in a town plotting attacks against the three men had been arrested and leaders later this month. the AU mission called a “hei- the militants had forced their way near Janale, said the base had Gulf state, a statement by the confessed to joining an illegal Israeli Ambassador Ron nous” attack. into the camp, which is run by the been effectively cut off as the public prosecutor said. group that local media reported Prosor appealed to UN The Al Qaeda-aligned mili- Ugandan contingent of AMISOM, militants had destroyed a nearby The men were charged with was Hezbollah. Secretary-General Ban tants said one of their fighters and “engaged our soldiers in a bridge. “spying for the Islamic Republic Media had reported that more Ki-moon and Sam Kutesa, the rammed a car bomb into the base, gun battle.” “No reinforcement can reach of Iran and Hezbollah to carry out arrests followed and the prosecu- General Assembly’s president, in Janale, about 90 km south of “Although our troops under- there,” Idow said. “There is much aggressive acts against the State tor said 22 of the suspects charged to block the move, which would the capital, Mogadishu, and then took a tactical withdrawal fol- death and damage.” of Kuwait” by smuggling in and yesterday had received explosives break with the UN practice of gunmen poured inside. lowing the initial vehicle-borne Government officials could not assembling explosives, as well as and weapon training to “achieve flying only the flags of member The African Union peacekeep- explosive attack, they have since be reached for comment. possessing firearms and ammuni- illegal goals”. states. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime ing mission, known as AMISOM, consolidated and regained full “After morning prayers we tion, the statement said. A number of suspects were Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not immediately release control of the base,” it said. heard a big explosion followed by They were also charged with accused of being members of said yesterday he was willing to casualty figures for the attack, Al Shabaab frequently targets heavy gunfire in the AMISOM “carrying out acts that would Hezbollah which “aims to demol- engage in immediate and direct which came roughly a year after AU bases and convoys, as well as base,” Janale resident Ahmed undermine the unity and terri- ish the social and economic peace talks with Palestinian Al Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Somali officials, in its bid to top- Olow told Reuters. torial integrity” of Kuwait, and of foundations of the country”, the president Mahmoud Abbas, Godane was killed in a US air ple the Western-backed govern- Al Shabaab has also carried possessing eavesdropping devices, prosecutor’s statement said. without preconditions. strike. Al Shabaab often exag- ment. Somalia is trying to rebuild out attacks against neighbour- it said. Sunni-ruled Kuwait has tradi- “I am ready now to go to gerates the success of its attacks, after two decades of conflict and ing countries such as Kenya and Two other men were also tionally had better ties with Iran Ramallah or any other place in and officials played down losses. chaos. Uganda to retaliate for troops charged in the same case, one than its fellow Gulf Arab states, order to meet and hold direct But Somalia-focused diplomatic Yesterday’s attack also shows being sent to Somalia as part of with possessing illegal weapons but tensions have been rising. negotiations,” Netanyahu sources said the death toll was that Al Shabaab remains capa- the AU peacekeeping force. and another with failing to inform On Sunday, the head of parlia- told members of Women expected to be “very large”. ble of more conventional warfare, REUTERS authorities about the arms. ment’s foreign relations panel, MP Wage Peace. AFP One of the suspects is Iranian Hamad Al Harashani, described and the rest are Kuwaiti nation- Iran as the “true enemy” of Gulf als. Three who remain at large Arab states and said it sought “to were charged in absentia. spread chaos” in the region. Prosecutors said the suspects This was not the first Iran- were linked with a “terror cell” linked espionage ring to be spoken Rising civilian casualties in Taiz worry UN the interior ministry said it had of in Kuwait. AFP

GENEVA: Nearly 100 civilians have been the number of civil casualties in Taiz in recent killed in the past two weeks in Yemen’s weeks,” Pouilly said. southwestern city of Taiz where a collapsing An “untenable” humanitarian situation was Bashir visits China health care service and outbreak of dengue being made worse by Houthi-linked fighters fever are compounding a dire humanitarian blocking supply routes into Taiz city, she said. situation, the United Nations said yesterday. “We are also concerned about the near col- Yemen’s third-largest city has become the lapse of the health care system in Taiz where latest frontline in a five-month war between all six public hospitals are no longer opera- northern Houthi militiamen and supporters tional due to the fighting,” she said. of Yemen’s exiled government, which is backed Attacks by the Saudi-led coalition on by the West and Saudi Arabia. Hodeidah port, a key entry point for aid sup- The toll of 95 includes 53 civilians who died plies and commercial imports for Yemen, are in Saudi-led air strikes on Taiz on August 21 complicating relief efforts, Pouilly added. that also hit 20 homes. The remainder were Cases in Taiz of dengue fever soared from killed by suspected Houthi-affiliated snipers 145 in mid-August to 421 as of August 25, the and shelling, UN human rights spokeswoman World Health Organization said. Cecile Pouilly told a news briefing. The WHO has sent life-saving medicines to Saudi Arabia in March launched a military Taiz, WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier offensive against the Tehran-allied Houthis, said. The agency called last week for a cease- Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Sudanese President suspecting Shia power Iran of trying to gain fire and humanitarian corridor to allow access Omar Hassan Al Bashir during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of A member of the Houthi militia mans a heavy a foothold in the Arabian peninsula. to 3.2 million people in Taiz deemed at risk the People in Beijing, China, yesterday. machine gun in Sana’a, Yemen, yesterday. “We are alarmed by the steep increase in from fighting and disease. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Turkey police raid anti-govt media group Six arrested in crackdown on offices of Koza-Ipek Media considered close to US-based Fethullah Gulen

ANKARA: Turkish police yesterday staged a major swoop on the Ankara- based offices of a media group critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a day after two British reporters were jailed on hugely controversial terror charges. The raids on Koza-Ipek Media sparked fresh concern about deteriorating press freedoms in Turkey, which is gearing up for a snap November legislative election, its second in five months. Six people have been arrested and an arrest warrant has been issued for the conglomerate’s chief executive, Akin Ipek, who is thought to be in Britain, the state- run Anatolia news agency said. The swoop came a day after a court in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast ordered two British journalists working for US-based Vice News to be remanded in custody on “terror charges”. Ipek Media Group owns the Turkish dailies Bugun and Millet, the television channel stations Bugun TV and Kanalturk and the website BGNNews.com and is close to Erdogan’s political nemesis, the US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. Masked police entered 23 offices as well Employees of Koza-Ipek Media protest on the streets in Ankara yesterday as Turkish police raided offices of the group yesterday. RIGHT: Turkish police officers next to the building as Ipek University in Ankara belonging of the group in Ankara. to its parent company Koza Ipek Holding “as part of a terrorist investigation into his government. Ali Haydar Konca, against him and his supporters. southeastern city of Diyarbakir with newspaper editor-in-chief Can Dundar Fethullah Gulen”, Anatolia said. Turkey’s new EU Affairs Minister from In December, police arrested dozens “engaging in terror activity” on behalf of would “pay a heavy price” over a front- They were accused of “providing the Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic of people in raids on other media out- the Islamic State extremist group. page story which it said proved Turkey financial support to and disseminating Party (HDP), said the raids “cannot be lets with ties to Gulen. The pro-Gulen Vice News condemned the charges as had sent arms to Islamist rebels in Syria. propaganda for a terrorist organisation,” justified”. Samanyolu TV (STV) chief Hidayet “baseless” and “alarmingly false”, while “You can’t hide the truth even if you Anatolia added. “I’m worried that operations target- Karaca has also been remanded leading rights groups have called for the silence all the newspapers,” Dundar Speaking live to Kanalturk yesterday, ing the media will create great con- in custody on charges of leading a immediate release of the reporters. wrote on Twitter yesterday. Ipek denounced the operation as “base- cern across the world about the state of terrorist group. A senior Turkish official said the The front page of the anti-govern- less” and “funny”, adding: “If they (police) democracy in Turkey,” he added. As Erdogan and his ruling Justice Turkish government played no role in ment Sozcu daily carried blank columns are able to find even a cent of illicit For several years Gulen, whose move- and Development Party (AKP) prepare the arrests and is “not pleased” the signed by its columnists in protest at the money, I am ready to hand my company ment brings together a wide range for snap elections on November 1 under three are being held, a senior official said “unprecedented pressure on the media, over to them.” of interests, from schools and media the shadow of a major offensive against yesterday . the likes of which was not seen even dur- The move was the latest targeting to finance, was seen as a close ally of Kurdish militants, opposition journalists The EU’s foreign service expressed ing Turkey’s coup era.” supporters of the powerful “Hizmet” Ergodan and his Islamic-rooted AKP. have complained of a major squeeze on concern over the arrests, calling for Meanwhile, Deniz Ulke Aribogan, (Service) movement headed by Gulen, But in 2013 the authorities blamed all critical media. an “independent and transparent” an academic who hosted a TV show on a former ally-turned-foe whom Erdogan Gulen for corruption allegations that The two Vice News British reporters investigation. state-run broadcaster TRT, said she had accuses of trying to create a “paral- rocked Erdogan and the ruling elite, and and their translator, an Iraqi national, Erdogan caused outrage in the run-up been fired over a tweet criticising the lel state” with the aim of overthrowing the government launched an all-out war have been charged by a court in the to June 7 elections by saying Cumhuriyet latest raids. AFP

Islamic State claims car bomb US remains top enemy, says chief Iran cleric attack near TEHRAN: The United States remains Iran’s “number one enemy” despite a recent nuclear deal with world powers, Tripoli oil firm the chief of Tehran’s top clerical com- Merchants selling clothes mittee said yesterday, Iranian media TRIPOLI: The Islamic State reported. jihadist group yesterday claimed The Assembly of Experts is among Iran’s with US, UK flags arrested a car bomb attack against an oil most influential institutions, comprising 86 company co-owned by Italy’s elected clerics who appoint and can dismiss TEHRAN: Iranian police have hostages during the Islamic revolution Eni in the Libyan capital that the country’s supreme leader. arrested merchants for selling clothing the previous year. However, a July 14 deal wounded one person. It is led by the ultraconservative that featured the flags of the United between Iran and six powers led by the IS said in a statement on Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi. States and Britain, two longtime foes US over Tehran’s controversial nuclear Twitter that one of its “security The nuclear agreement should not of the Islamic republic, local media programme was met by celebrations in detachments targeted the head- “change our foreign policy” of opposition reported yesterday. the capital, particularly among youths quarters of Mellitah Oil and Gas to America, “our number one enemy, whose Garments imprinted with “Satanic keen to end Iran’s isolation. with a car bomb in the Dhahra crimes are uncountable”, Yazdi said in a symbols” were also seized from stores in Despite the warmth toward the deal district in downtown Tripoli”. speech opening the annual two-day assem- Head of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, Ayatollah Tehran, city police chief General Hossein on the streets, Iran’s senior leaders have At least one unidentified per- bly meeting. Mohammad Yazdi, attends a session of Iran’s Sajedinia was quoted by the ISNA news said nothing will change in their approach son was hurt in the explosion on “The US and Israel are the source of the Assembly of Experts yesterday. agency as saying. toward the US. Monday a few metres (yards) situation in the region and (their) goal is Sajedinia said reports about the The leader of the Islamic revolution, away from the offices of the oil to protect the Zionist regime in the Middle other methods,” he added, according to the activity had been received in the past the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, firm, according to a security offi- East,” he was quoted as saying, blaming the Guards website Sepah News. two weeks, leading to surveillance and dubbed the United States the “Great cial in the militia-held capital. two countries for the conflicts in Syria, Iraq President Hassan Rowhani, who as a detentions. Satan” on account of its policies and sup- Islamist extremists have and Yemen. cleric is also a member of the Assembly of “This morning we took these clothes port for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, exploited the turmoil in Libya Echoing Yazdi’s remarks, the leader of Experts, took office in 2013 and has since off leading distributors,” he said, noting the last royal ruler before the Islamic since the fall of veteran leader the Islamic republic’s top military force, the reached out to the West for better relations. that any stores that sell such items “will republic was founded. Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 to Revolutionary Guards, said the US would The nuclear agreement reached on July be closed.” Britain also has a troubled history in establish a foothold in the energy- always be “the Great Satan”. 14 with six world powers — Britain, China, The move underlined the fractious atti- Iran. Along with the United States, it rich North African country. “Do not be fooled by the new American France, Russia, the United States and tude of some authorities regarding the orchestrated a coup that toppled Iranian IS militants in June took over language,” General Mohammad Ali Jafari Germany — has helped revive Iran’s politi- United States. prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh the coastal city of Sirte, 450 kilo- told reporters. cal standing with the European countries. Washington broke off diplomatic rela- in 1953 after he had nationalised the oil metres to the east of Tripoli. “The hostility of the United States Several high-level European delegations tions with Tehran in 1980 after students industry. Over the past few months, the towards the Iranian people has not dimin- have visited Tehran since the deal. seized its embassy and took dozens of AFP group has claimed several attacks ished, but actually increased... they use AFP in the Libyan capital, mostly against embassies. IS did not say why it had tar- geted Mellitah Oil and Gas, which Sandstorm in Baghdad is owned equally by Eni and the Tripoli-based National Oil Kurds suspect IS used Corporation (NOC). Its offices sit on the same street as the shuttered embas- sies of Saudi Arabia and the chemical weapons Netherlands as well as a branch of the Al-Jumhurriya state bank ERBIL, IRAQ: Kurdish being investigated. and a post office. authorities said yesterday they “This is one of an increas- Most embassies in Tripoli have suspected a homemade rocket ing number of attacks in recent been closed because of the unrest. fired by Islamic State at their months suspected of carrying In a statement on Monday, the peshmerga forces in northern chemical substances,” the KRSC NOC said there were no casual- Iraq contained chemical sub- said in a statement. ties among Mellitah’s staff and stances, accusing the Islamist “We remain deeply concerned only minor damage to the side of insurgents of an increasing use with the escalation and delivery the building housing its offices. of chemical weapons. method of these attacks, and “This incident will not affect The Kurdistan Region’s urgently call on the International the operations of the company,” Security Council (KRSC) said Coalition to provide protective it said. Nearby buildings including the attack had taken place along equipment to peshmerga forces,” the bank were also damaged. the front line north of Mosul on it said, referring to the foreign Libya has two rival govern- August 31, and one peshmerga powers, led by the United States, ments and several armed groups fighter was receiving treatment supporting the fight against vying for control of the country in hospital. Islamic State. and its oil wealth. A “considerable amount” of yel- The Organization for the After fleeing Tripoli in low smoke was produced, it said. Prohibition of Chemical Weapons September 2014, Libya’s interna- Samples taken from the site of in The Hague has expressed its tionally recognised government another attack earlier this year concern about the alleged use of and parliament now operate out An Iraqi worker sprays water on the road during a sandstorm in the capital Baghdad yesterday. tested positive for chlorine, and chemical weapons in the region. of the country’s east. AFP at least two other incidents are REUTERS WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 EUROPE / AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Migrant chaos at Budapest train station Angry refugees demand travel to Germany as authorities shut station; confusion over EU asylum rule

BUDAPEST/BERLIN: controls between them. out refugees across European Hundreds of angry migrants The countries where most first states and speed the deportation demonstrated outside enter the European Union — Italy, of unwanted migrants, the bloc’s Budapest’s Eastern Railway Greece and Hungary — say they migration commissioner said. Terminus yesterday demand- have no capacity to process appli- “Some countries that were a bit ing they be allowed to travel cations on such a scale. reluctant ... have changed their on to Germany, as the biggest Germany announced last mind because now they realise ever influx of migrants into the month it would allow Syrians that this problem is not the prob- European Union left its asylum arriving from elsewhere in the EU lem of other countries but theirs policies in tatters. to apply for asylum without being as well,” Dimitris Avramopoulos Around 1,000 people waved sent back to the country where told Reuters. tickets, clapping, booing and they entered the bloc. Thousands of migrants have shouting “Germany! Germany!” “The decision, driven by practi- drowned this year trying to reach outside the station. Later they sat cal considerations ... not, in most Europe across the Mediterranean down, staring at a police blockade cases, to enforce the sending back in rickety vessels, while the peril erected at the entrance. of Syrian asylum seekers to other of the overland journey was ham- “Please, we are human too,” EU member states underlines the mered home when 71 dead bodies said a sign in German held up by humanitarian responsibility of were found in an abandoned truck a young boy in a smaller group Germany for these particularly in Austria last week. which protested into the evening. hard hit refugees,” a German Austrian police said yesterday A refugee crisis rivalling the Interior Ministry Spokesman they had freed 24 teenagers from Balkan wars of the 1990s as said. Afghanistan from a van in Vienna Europe’s worst since World War “Germany has not suspended which had been welded shut, and Two has polarised and confounded Dublin. Dublin rules are still valid arrested the Romanian driver. the European Union, which has and we expect European member “It was like a rolling prison cell.. no mechanism to cope with the states to stick to them.” they were crammed in, sitting and arrival of hundreds of thousands European leaders want the standing on top of each other,” of poor and desperate people. 28-member EU to do more to said Thomas Keiblinger, spokes- Germany is likely to accept by organise the unprecedented man for the police in Vienna. far the largest share. In the case influx. “They would not have made it too of those fleeing the Syrian civil “For those refugees who are much further.” war it has effectively suspended being persecuted or have fled Political parties that oppose an EU rule that asylum seekers war, there should be a fair dis- immigration have gained ground must apply in the first EU coun- Migrants protest in front of the Keleti Railway Station after police closed it in Budapest, Hungary, yesterday. tribution in Europe based on the across Europe, not least in try they reach. economic strength, productivity Hungary where the government But with trainloads of richer countries further north to migrants. The decision was a “We are thousands here, where and size of each country,” German has reinforced the border with migrants rolling into Munich and west. That means illegally reversal from Monday, when should we go?” said Marah, a 20 Chancellor Angela Merkel told a a razor wire fence and deployed and Rosenheim from Austria crossing a bloc with no internal Hungary and Austria let train- year-old woman from Aleppo, joint news conference in Berlin thousands of extra police. More and Hungary, it insisted yester- border controls to stop them. loads of undocumented migrants Syria, who said her family had with Spanish Prime Minister than 140,000 people have crossed day that the rule was nevertheless Hungary has emerged as one head for Germany. bought tickets for a Vienna-bound Mariano Rajoy. into Hungary from Serbia this still in force and urged other EU of the main flashpoints of the Government spokesman Zoltan train. She and Rajoy both said year alone. countries to abide by it. crisis as the primary gateway Kovacs said the closure was an European laws, known as the the bloc’s executive European Antal Rogan, the parlia- The vast majority of refu- for migrants travelling over land attempt to enforce EU law. The “Dublin rules”, require asylum Commission should draw up a list ment caucus leader of Prime gees fleeing violence and other through the Balkans and into presence of about 2,000 people seekers to apply in the country of safe countries, making it easier Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling migrants escaping poverty arrive the EU. camped out in 40 degree-Celsius where they enter the EU and stay to send home migrants who were centre-right Fidesz party, said on Europe’s southern and east- Officials shut the Budapest heat in the square next to the there until their applications are not genuine refugees. on Tuesday “the very existence ern edges but are determined train station altogether yesterday, station showed how hard that processed, even though 26 mem- The EU executive will outline of Christian Europe” was under to press on and seek asylum in then reopened it but barred entry would be. bers of the bloc have no border new plans next week to share threat. REUTERS

Azeri court Cameron calls for more talks to resolve N Ireland crisis jails journalist DUBLIN: London and Dublin Northern Ireland to hold further the militant group that formally increased violence on our streets.” power-sharing government last will hold further talks with urgent talks with the political disbanded in 2005 may have been An end to violence by Irish week over what it described as who exposed Northern Ireland’s political parties in Northern Ireland and involved in the recent killing of a Republican Army (IRA) guer- Sinn Fein’s “lacking of credibility”. parties to try to avert a cri- the Irish Government with the former member. rillas was a central plank of The current crisis follows sis over an IRA-linked murder aim of agreeing a way forward,” Robinson, who has described the 1998 Good Friday accord. disagreements between the two corruption that has led to calls to suspend a statement from Cameron’s the crisis as the most serious in The deal largely ended three sides over parades, flags and Belfast’s parliament, the British office said after the meeting with a decade, said that urgent talks decades of conflict between social welfare reform, which BAKU: A prominent government said yesterday. Robinson. were needed and that his party mostly Catholic nationalists, Northern Ireland Secretary Azerbaijani journalist known Northern Ireland’s First Robinson’s Democratic could take unilateral action if who favoured unification with of State, Theresa Villiers, said for exposing corruption among Minister Peter Robinson asked Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern necessary. It has already threat- the Republic of Ireland, and must now all be solved. “The the country’s ruling elite was British Prime Minister David Ireland earlier sought the permis- ened to quit the government if Protestants wanting to stay in whole system really doesn’t sentenced yesterday to seven- Cameron yesterday to suspend sion of a parliamentary commit- Sinn Fein are not excluded. the United Kingdom. work unless there is trust and and-a-half years in jail, in a case the Northern Irish Assembly for tee to extend the summer recess Northern Ireland deputy first Senior members of Sinn Fein confidence between partners,” rights groups condemned as four weeks to facilitate talks to by a month, but their motion was minister Martin McGuinness of have denied the group still exists. Villiers told Irish broadcaster politically motivated. save the power-sharing executive voted down by Sinn Fein. Sinn Fein, a former IRA com- Police say the IRA is still active RTE, adding that it would be a Khadija Ismayilova, 39, who it leads with the nationalist Sinn The DUP has said it wants Sinn mander, said the proposed sus- in some form, though no longer huge failure if the governance of works for the US government- Fein party. Fein, the one-time political wing pension was not a good idea and engaged in terrorism. Northern Ireland had to revert funded Radio Free Europe/ “The Prime Minister has of the IRA, thrown out of govern- warned that a collapse “would The second-largest pro-Brit- to London. Radio Liberty, has investigated asked the Secretary of State for ment after police said a rump of bring a very real prospect of ish party decided to leave the REUTERS government corruption, business dealings of the president and his family, as well as human rights abuses in Azerbaijan. Blazing sun She was found guilty in Baku of embezzlement, illegal business activities, tax evasion and abuse Bush ratchets up of her position. State prosecutors had sought a nine year sentence. Ismayilova’s defence law- criticism of Trump yer Fariz Namazly told Reuters she planned to appeal against WASHINGTON: Republican Republican presidential candi- the verdict. “The sentencing Jeb Bush offered his most direct dates whose standing has been is not justified and has been assault on Donald Trump to damaged by Trump’s summer pre-ordered,” he said. date yesterday, retaliating for rise. An average of recent polls Rights activists criticised the a series of personal insults with by Real Clear Politics puts Bush ruling and said the case was part a review of his front-running in third place with 9.5 percent, of a broader campaign by veteran rival’s past record of supporting behind Trump at 26.5 percent and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev to Democratic causes. retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson muzzle dissent, including by jailing In a Web video, the Bush cam- at 12 percent. his critics. Baku says the country paign used Trump’s own words The video and other comments — a mainly Muslim former Soviet in support of Democrat Hillary by the former Florida governor republic of 9 million people — Clinton and for a universal suggest that Bush is willing to enjoys full freedom of speech and healthcare system, higher taxes take on Trump in a way other a lively opposition media. and partial-birth abortion to Republicans have thus far avoided, Amnesty International said make the case that he is not a raising the possibility of fireworks Ismayilova was a prisoner of conservative. at the next Republican debate on conscience and that the charges Asked by a TV interviewer September 16 in California. were trumped up to stop her cor- whether he was a Republican or The Bush video came the day ruption investigations, a criticism a Democrat, Trump is seen on the after the Trump organisation echoed by civil liberties group video saying: “You’d be shocked if I issued a Web video that attacked Freedom House. said that in many cases I probably Bush’s belief that immigration is The Organization for Security Two boys at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum look at images that are 48 hours old, coming back identify more as a Democrat.” an “act of love”. and Cooperation in Europe’s from the sun, in Washington, yesterday. The sun’s images, from NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory, show four Bush, 62, is among the REUTERS parliamentary arm said the rul- different wavelengths and deliver data on the sun’s influence on earth. ing was a politically motivated response to her work to hold her country’s leaders accountable. European Union human rights envoy Stavros Lambrinidis said Mass grave found in Mexico may contain 31,000 bone fragments Ismayilova “should have never have been arrested, let alone convicted” and called on Aliyev MONTERREY, MEXICO: A ranch in the town of Salinas from victims and investigations heads the Citizens Supporting It’s what the prosecutor’s office to end such “persecution”. mass grave has been found in Victoria, some 35km north of the by the prosecutor’s office,” Rivas Human Rights (CADHAC), said told us,” said Morales, whose Britain’s minister for Europe, northern Mexico, authorities industrial hub of Monterrey, said told AFP. authorities told her organisa- group represents relatives of David Lidington, said he was said yesterday, as a rights group a spokeswoman for the Nuevo The spokeswoman declined tion that 31,000 bone fragments missing people. troubled by the sentence and indicated it could contain 31,000 Leon state prosecutor’s office, to say how many pieces of bones were found since the grave was She said that her organiza- urged the Azeri authorities to bone fragments corresponding Priscila Rivas. “The ranch was were unearthed or how many detected earlier this year. tion had told the authorities in review her case in a transparent to at least 31 bodies. found through statements by bodies they could represent. “The genetic profiles of 31 peo- January that the ranch may con- manner. 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IL PRICES sank further yesterday on reports that Chinese economy is showing signs of more weakness. According to official data, activity in China’s Omanufacturing sector contracted at its fastest New challenges for Al Sisi as pace in three years in August, reinforcing fears of a sharper slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy despite a flurry of government support measures. Even China’s services sector, which has been one of the few bright spots in the bureaucrats oppose pay cuts sputtering economy, showed signs of cooling, expanding at its slowest pace in more than a year. BY SALMA AL WARDANY and growth,” said Omar Al Shenety, manag- of government cost-cutting. The Chinese economic woes are dealing the biggest blow AHMED FETEHA ing director at Cairo-based investment The law is taking effect ‘’at a time to oil prices. Prices, which were looking up on Monday, bank Multiples Group. of diminishing social safety nets with plummeted yesterday, settling eight percent lower. The market MINA MOSTAFA voted The Civil Service Law fixes annual declining subsidies and government fluctuations are so bad that according to reports, the past for Abdel-Fattah Al Sisi salary increases at 5 percent, in addition services,’’ Al Shimy at Boston University few weeks have been among the most volatile in the modern last year, seeing a “strong to reducing time required for promo- said. oil market’s three-decade history. Prices plunged early last man” who could take Egypt tions and centralizing hiring to prevent Naama Morsi, a 37-year-old employee forward. But after his gov- nepotism. at Egypt’s tax authority, will now week as worries about China’s economic strength sent shivers Aernment moved to cut the wage bill for The Cairo-based Egyptian Center see her monthly salary rise to 2,230 through markets, only to bounce back fiercely as bearish 6 million state employees, she took to for Economic studies estimates the law Egyptian pounds ($285) instead of the traders rushed to cash in short positions. Traders again took the streets in protest. will save as much as Egyptian £22bn 2,400 pounds she expected before the flight yesterday after seeing the weak Chinese economic data. “I have financial commitments and ($2.8bn) compared with projections law was changed. The Chinese turmoil should awaken the global markets to prices are soaring, if the dignity of state based on the past trajectory of wages, Dressed in the red, black and white some hard truths, the most important of which is that China employees is lost then what’s left of this which increased at an annual average colors of Egypt’s flag, Morsi held a photo country?” 42-year-old Mostafa, who 18 percent pace in the past three years. of Al Sisi at the rally to show she was cannot keep racking up double-digit growth rates forever. works at the National Social Insurance Deputy Finance Minister Ayman Al protesting against the government Secondly, when demand slows and company output slows, Authority, said at an August 10 rally in Kaffas didn’t answer phone calls seek- rather than the president. short-term, panic-driven measures by the government cannot Cairo attended by about 2,000 civil serv- ing comment. ‘’Is the size of the bureaucracy today provide a long-term solution. Oil- ants. The demonstration was the big- Egypt’s government employs about normal and suitable for a country like Economic producing countries need to work gest outpouring of discontent with the 25 percent of the country’s workforce, Egypt?” Al Sisi responded to the pro- more assiduously on diversification government’s economic policies during compared to an average of 21 percent in tests in a televised address. He called Al Sisi’s 14 months in office. OECD countries and about 12 percent on demonstrators to accept the law and diversification of their economies. On the In taking on the civil service, which in nations such as Chile, Mexico and make a “sacrifice for their country.” is the only one hand, the global market is eats up a quarter of state spending, Al Turkey. Al Sisi said Egypt only needs El Sisi does have some economic data witnessing a glut with more Sisi is trying to get a bumpy economic a quarter of its state employees, yet on his side. answer as producers entering the market, recovery back on track. Success will the law doesn’t address the size of the The deficit is expected to equal 10.8 and with more countries reporting help him rein in a budget deficit that has bureaucracy. The government “has not percent of gross domestic product in topped 10 percent of economic output and will not” fire or retire civil servants, the year ending June 30, down from 13.7 global energy new oil and gas discoveries, and on since 2010. Failure risks alienating those he said in a speech last month. percent two years ago. Economic growth markets the other, the existing demand has who have stuck with him and further Unemployment in Egypt is running also rose above 4 percent for the first been weakened by weak economic damaging investor confidence. about 13 percent. time since 2010 in the nine months to continue to data. It’s a double whammy for The outcome will be determined, in “It is self-evident that the govern- March on the strength of government slide. which oil producers haven’t been large part, by whether civil servants line ment sector needs to be rethought; it’s infrastructure projects. prepared. up behind the plan. costly, it’s inefficient,” Al Shenety said. Civil servants are typically paid more “It’s a major gamble,” Yasser Al Shimy, “But restructuring the government is than private sector workers and so far, Oil markets are used to their a research fellow at Boston University, no easy task because many people will in public at least, they’re directing their fluctuations and a fall is usually compensated by a rise. But the said in an email. It may “substantially suffer in the process. ire at the government rather than Al current market realities call for a reorganisation of strategy. cut the base of popular support for the Egyptians have endured an average Sisi. Even Opec, the organisation of oil producers, is feeling helpless president,” he said. inflation rate of 10.8 percent over the The trade union of the government’s and is forced to watch as a spectator. In the past, Opec was The protest, and further action prom- past 12 months, even as global commod- sales tax authority is planning a “mil- able to intervene in the market and push up prices with ised by a union of government employ- ity prices plummeted. In addition to lion-man protest” on September 12, ees, is the latest sign that Al Sisi’s lowering fuel subsidies, the government union head Fatma Fouad said by phone. coordinated production cuts. Such cuts are impossible in a promised fiscal overhaul is becoming increased rail and electricity prices to The group is in talks with the govern- glutted market. Leading producers are worried about losing harder to implement, even as he ramps ease the strain on state coffers. ment to suspend the legislation until a their current market share and Opec has been unable to come up spending on megaprojects including a El Sisi’s administration has been parliament is elected, he said. Balloting up with an alternative strategy. Suez Canal expansion. Since taking the accused of favouring expense-cutting is to take place in mid-October. While any rise in global demand is unlikely, the biggest unpopular step of slashing fuel subsidies, rather than raising revenue as it shores El Sisi “was the only answer to the the government has backed down on a up public finances. chaos and political instability into problem is the persistent global supply gut, which is likely to capital gains tax and a bigger levy on In March, officials cancelled a 5 per- which the country was descending,” worsen with the entry of Iranian oil. wealthy Egyptians. cent surcharge on the highest-earning Mostafa, the civil servant, said at last The next few months are very crucial. If the market doesn’t “It’s hard to decipher the strategic Egyptians, just nine months after it month’s rally. “I understand Egypt is show signs of a revival, oil economies will suffer huge damage. economic direction of the government, took effect. The International Monetary going through a difficult time and we At the same time, hopes are very high about a correction in putting investors in a ‘wait and see’ Fund criticized the decision to delay a should make sacrifices, but why should the market because it cannot remain depressed for a long mode that is reflected in slower foreign capital gains tax on stocks, saying it we stand out when we are the power and domestic investments, and therefore would leave the poor to bear the brunt base for this country?” BLOOMBERG time• The other side Quote of An existing road network the day

ERE’S ONE public official who’s guards for the subdivision. The money shootings and numerous murders have economic activity. This has been seen actually doing something is also expected to go to street lighting, been committed in the gated villages. in Makati, where the local government about the traffic mess: road maintenance, cleanliness programs Since city hall collects taxes and even went to court to compel homeowners Parañaque Mayor Edwin and civic activities. garbage collection fees while baran- in some of the most expensive gated HOlivarez is opening to the public roads The performance of these tasks gays collect numerous fees for park- villages to open a few main roads to in several private subdivisions in the city by many homeowners’ associations ing and various commercial activities, the public. Lawmakers, if they want to before the Christmas season. Inspired by has been disappointing, with the local the local government should keep the contribute to easing the traffic mess in Human activity neighbouring Las Piñas, the “friendship government still called in to improve public safe and provide good roads and Metro Manila, can review the decades- routes” of Parañaque will ease traffic in roads, enhance street lighting and clean surroundings to all, without peo- old law governing private gated subdivi- is disrupting the the city’s main thoroughfares. The roads keep premises clean. Private security ple needing to pay additional sums to sions turned over by the developer to in the gated villages are in fact open to guards watch out for vehicles without homeowners’ associations. the homeowners’ association. The law climate, in many anyone – for a fee, which can be up to stickers at the gates but can’t effec- Gated villages can still keep periph- has served as a basis for the collection P1,500 a year for non-residents. Even tively secure the subdivisions. Vehicles eral streets closed to non-residents. of various fees by homeowners’ asso- ways faster than residents have to pay several hundred without stickers are allowed to enter for Opening certain subdivision roads to ciations from households and motor- we thought. pesos a year for vehicle passes from an average fee of P20. Burglaries con- the public will not only ease traffic but ists, adding to the already high costs their homeowners’ associations. The tinue, sometimes with the connivance also boost private property prices in of the daily drive within Metro Manila. Barack Obama millions collected go to private security of the guards themselves. Drive-by the gated villages as well as stimulate THE PHILIPPINE STAR US President WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Refugee crisis Merkel’s biggest challenge All of a sudden it seems, the depth of the refugee crisis is beginning to register in Germany. Merkel is no stranger to crises. Now she must wrestle with a problem that is having a profound effect on communities across Germany. BY NOAH BARKIN the spectre of racist violence that and Germany was in good shape. Germany experienced in the early Now the burden is very much at ETURNING 1990s, the last time asylum num- home,” German weekly Die Zeit from her summer bers surged. wrote this week. “For the first break in mid- Then last Thursday, an time since Merkel came to power, August, German abandoned truck with 71 dead Germany could begin to look like Chancellor Angela migrants was found on a highway a problem country.” Merkel raised in Austria, just as Merkel arrived someR eyebrows by describing in Vienna for a conference on the POLITICAL FALLOUT Europe’s refugee problem as a western Balkans. Merkel remains hugely popular bigger challenge than the Greece She had been jeered as a “trai- after a decade as chancellor that crisis, which had overshadowed all tor” by locals in Heidenau the day has coincided with Germany’s re- else in the first half of 2015. before for showing solidarity with emergence as an economic power No one in Germany is question- refugees there and appeared vis- and influential player in foreign ing her assessment any longer. ibly shaken in Vienna as she spoke affairs. In the past two weeks, the to reporters about the gruesome During the Ukraine and euro country has been shaken by a per- new discovery. zone crises, Europe has looked to fect storm of headlines that have All of a sudden it seems, the her to lead and she has in her own German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a news conference in Berlin on Monday. elevated the refugee issue, long depth of the refugee crisis is cautious step-by-step way. But seen in Germany as primarily a beginning to register in Germany. the refugee crisis is a challenge southern European problem, to Merkel is no stranger to cri- of an entirely different dimension politicians,” Die Zeit said. “They federal vote in 2017, when Merkel politicians referred to immigrants the very top of the public and ses. Her ten years in power have and complexity. must recognise that we are in a is widely expected to run for a as “Gastarbeiter”, or guest work- political agenda. been dominated by the global It is a local, national and new world and find the appropri- fourth term. ers, as if they would return to their First, Merkel’s interior minis- financial meltdown, turmoil in European problem. And it will ate words for it.” Senior Social Democrats (SPD) home countries once the work was ter announced that he expected the euro zone and the conflict likely require the kind of proac- In Germany, the problems start are thinking about ways to pre- done. 800,000 people to seek asylum in with Russia over Ukraine. But tive rally-the-people leadership with towns and cities that have vent the flood of refugees from That illusion persisted until Germany this year, nearly double those crises were distant for most that Merkel has not always been found themselves overwhelmed showing up in the unemploy- quite recently when the realisa- the amount that had been fore- Germans. Now she must wrestle comfortable with in the past. by a flood of asylum seekers who ment statistics ahead of those tion began to set in that Germany cast only a few months before and with a problem that is having a She waited nearly three days need to be housed, fed and treated votes. People in Merkel’s entou- desperately needed immigrants to almost four times last year’s total. profound effect on communities to speak out against the violence for health problems. rage describe the crisis as having cope with a looming demographic Next came the far-right pro- across Germany. in Heidenau, drawing sharp criti- Last week, Merkel’s cabinet “explosive” potential for her party, crisis caused by its low birth rate. tests against refugees in the east- “During the euro crisis people cism and showing that she is still agreed to raise the level of federal which remains far ahead in opin- Still, the main focus was on bring- ern town of Heidenau that left had the impression that it was finding her feet in this crisis. support for local communities to ion polls for now. ing in skilled labour to fill the needs over 30 police injured and revived other countries that had a problem “A lot will be asked of the 1 billion euros. And there is talk of the German “Mittelstand”, or that this sum could be tripled at “OUT OF CONTROL” small business community. a “refugee summit” that the gov- Then there are the concerns Many of the Syrians, Kosovars, ernment will hold on Sept. 24. But about how to handle the far-right Eritreans and Iraqis that are com- experts say this would still fall far backlash against refugees, which ing to Germany now do not fit that short of what is required. has been centred in the former bill. The biggest challenge of all Colouring the debate over communist east of the country, for Merkel may be to lead Europe resources are concerns that if but also led to almost daily arson towards a common asylum policy. Germany does too much — one attacks in western states like German politicians express exas- idea is to provide refugees with Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemburg peration these days at the refusal of special cards so they can visit and North Rhine Westphalia. some EU partners to accept their doctors without first obtaining Most of these attacks have “fair share” of refugees. health insurance — it will only been on empty buildings slated Unless this is resolved soon, encourage more to make the trek to become shelters but politicians they fear, then the openness of north to Germany. admit that it is only a matter of ordinary Germans could van- Too much government sup- time before refugees are injured ish quickly. The optimists in port could also deepen resent- or killed. Berlin point to the euro zone ment among average Germans “Very quickly you could have a and Ukraine crises as examples who are struggling to make ends situation like we had in the early of where Europe has defied the meet, boosting support for right- 1990s where shelters full of refugees odds and remained united. It will wing parties like the Alternative are being attacked,” said one sen- fall primarily to Merkel to deliver for Germany (AfD) at the expense ior official in Berlin who requested the same consensus on refugees. of the ruling parties. anonymity because of the sensitiv- “The asylum issue could be the Already, politicians in Berlin ity of the issue. “Something like next big project where we show Refugees who arrived by train from Hungary via Austria, wait for transportation to one of the refugee reception are worrying about how the cri- this can quickly get out of the con- whether we’re capable of work- centres, at Munich’s central train station, yesterday. sis might affect important state trol of the politicians.” For much ing together,” Merkel said in mid- elections next March and the of the post-war period, German August. REUTERS Japan nuclear power French Socialists head for poll rout

BY INGRID MELANDER Minister Manuel Valls, insist they will outlook bleak keep working on striking alliances with RENCH President Francois the Greens and other left-wing parties BY KENTARO HAMADA and quantities to make up for lost nuclear Hollande’s Socialists, hit by to up their chances, and said they were AARON SHELDRICK capacity, bolstering international mar- internal divisions, splits with confident they could still win. kets for the fuel . other left-leaning parties and But the problem for the Socialist HE NUMBER of Japanese Legal challenges from local residents his own deep unpopularity, face party is that it is not just about losing nuclear reactors likely to have hit all atomic plants, with the coun- Fdefeat in regional elections in December in December. The presidential ballot is restart in the next few try’s most nuclear-reliant utility Kansai that bodes ill for their chances in the 2017 in 2017, and Hollande’s party remains years has halved, hit by Electric Power issued with court rulings presidential race. Meeting in La Rochelle unclear about what message to send to legal challenges and worries preventing the restart of four reactors on the west coast for its annual end-of- voters. Socialist party members backed Tabout meeting tougher safety standards despite two of them already receiving summer gathering last weekend under Hollande’s policies in a party vote in May imposed in the wake of the Fukushima NRA approval to switch on. the motto “Act as one”, the Socialist Party that helped silence rebel backbenchers, disaster, a Reuters analysis shows. Kansai has appealed the judgements appeared everything but. but the scars of that right-ward shift The country has been inching back but the court cases may take years to The leadership had hoped to pull all looked raw in La Rochelle, where dele- to nuclear energy, turning on its first resolve if the rulings are not overturned the Socialists together before the elec- gates reacted badly to Economy Minister reactor in mid-August after a two-year on the first appeal. tion and start patching things up with its Emmanuel Macron’s criticism of the PS’s blackout, with Prime Minister Shinzo Tougher safety standards and estranged Green allies, but the meeting treasured 35-hour workweek. Abe and many in industry looking to stricter implementation of rules since was shaken by a row over economics and Introduced by a previous Socialist gov- cut fuel bills despite widespread public Fukushima have also been hitting marked by pessimism over the ballot. ernment in 2000 in a bid to redistribute French President Francois Hollande giving opposition to atomic power. restarts. Japan Atomic Power has been “The question is not whether the work and create jobs, the 35-hour limit But the analysis shows that of the battling a regulatory ruling that one of regional elections will be a defeat for the a speech during a visit at the Groupe Le is fiercely protected by the French left other 42 operable reactors remaining its reactors sits above an active fault, Socialists but how large the defeat will Marais primary school in Pouilly-sur-Serre, despite pressure from big business to relax in the country, just seven are likely to meaning it must be decommissioned. be,” political analyst Pascal Perrineau said. near Laon, northern France, yesterday. it. The issue has become a rallying point be turned on in the next few years, down And highlighting the pitfalls of “Opinion polls, the current atmosphere for discontent over the pro-business direc- from the 14 predicted in a similar survey rebooting the industry, Kyushu Electric within the left and the divisions within The PS is seen coming in in third tion Hollande has taken. “The Socialists last year. was forced to slow the ramp up of power the Socialist party all point to tough elec- place in the election in that region, far are schizophrenic,” said Gilles Savary. He The findings are based on reactor from its Sendai No. 1 reactor after it tions with a heavy defeat.” behind the FN, but also behind former is among those lawmakers who want the inspection data from industry watch- restarted around mid-August due to The Socialist Party (PS) has lost in conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy’s party to veer to the center as Labour did in dog the Nuclear Regulation Authority, problems with pumping equipment. every major election — local or European Republican party, an Ifop Fiducial poll Britain under Tony Blair in the late 1990s court rulings and interviews with local Engineers warn that firing up reactors — since Hollande came to power in 2012. showed earlier this month. In the Nord- and as other European Socialist parties authorities, utilities and energy experts. that have been offline for prolonged peri- It rules over all but one of mainland Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region in northern have in the past two decades. They also show that nine reactors are ods could be fraught with such troubles. France’s 22 regions, often together with France, where FN leader Marine Le Pen On top of all these troubles, while unlikely to ever restart and that the fate But offering some hope to nuclear the Greens. But the Greens, themselves will be a candidate, the Socialists are also Hollande is likely to be his party’s can- of the remaining 26 looks uncertain. operators, some aging units may be deeply divided, have said they will go it seen coming in third, an OpinionWay poll didate as is the tradition in France for “Four-and-a-half years after the given a new lease of life as the NRA con- alone this time or strike alliances with showed last month. the incumbent, opinion polls consistently events started unfolding at Fukushima siders applications for operation beyond more hard-left parties, even in regions For Yann Galut, one of the Socialist show that he would lose. Daiichi, the Japanese government, the the standard 40 years. like the southeast Provence-Alpes-Cote lawmakers who is critical of the pro-busi- For Perrineau, a veteran analyst of nuclear utilities and the NRA have not Two Kansai units, both around 40 d’Azur where the split would likely hand ness switch Hollande took last year with French elections at the Cevipof research succeeded in overcoming complete plan- years old, are being vetted for exten- victory to the far-right National Front. tax cuts for employers, there is fear in the center and political science professor: “It ning insecurity for investors. The out- sions. The regulator has said it would “We are worried because the National party about how bad the defeat will be. will be very hard for the left in 2017, not look for restarts is as cloudy as ever,” be very strict on granting permission, Front is strong in the region and our can- Predictions of the end result are hard to the least because it’s hard to see what its said Mycle Schneider, an independent but Kansai is pushing for acceptance didates are not very well known. And the make because regions have been merged message will be.” “Will it be the old-style energy consultant in Paris. of less costly measures on fireproofing rest of the left is going there against us, and only 13 will be contested this time, but union of the Left with the Communists ... Japan’s utilities have been burning thousands of kilometres of wiring. it’s a real handicap,” Antibes city council- pollsters say the left may only hold on to or a new Left, a more Blairite Left on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) in record REUTERS lor Michele Muratore said. a handful. Party leaders, including Prime Valls-Macron line?” REUTERS WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA

Explosion at Nepal police kill five protesters China chemical plant kills one Anger deepens over draft constitution; four of the dead from Madhesi community BEIJING: An explosion at a chemical plant in China killed KATHMANDU: Five demon- “Three people were shot dead at least one person, just weeks strators died yesterday after and at least 20 others including after a massive blasts in a being shot by police in Nepal as police were injured during the northern port that killed 159. anger deepened over the coun- clashes,” Bam said. Pictures said to show a fireball try’s draft constitution. Police News of the deaths comes a in Dongying, in the eastern prov- shot dead four people from the week after violent clashes in ince of Shandong, circulated on Madhesi ethnic minority in sep- southwestern Nepal in which social media. Their authenticity arate incidents in the south of eight police officers and an could not be immediately verified. the country. 18-month-old boy were killed, The explosion occurred last Three were killed yesterday prompting the government to Monday night at the Diao Kou after defying a curfew imposed in deploy troops. Xiang Bin Yuan Chemical Co. the town of Birgunj, 90km south The constitution was meant The fire was extinguished about of Kathmandu. A fourth died in to cement peace after a 10-year five hours later and “people in hospital yesterday in Birgunj after insurgency led by former Maoist charge of the company” were being hit the day before. rebels ended in 2006, and to detained by police, the site said. Another man was killed in the draw a line under centuries of The blast came in the wake of nearby town of Kalaiya when inequality. giant detonations at a hazardous officers fired into a crowd trying But plans laid out in the draft goods storage facility that dev- to set fire to a police station, said charter to divide the Himalayan astated a swathe of the city of national police spokesman Kamal nation into seven provinces have Tianjin, a key Chinese port. Singh Bam. sparked fury among histori- The toll rose to 159 yester- Anger has been building for cally marginalised communities day, with another 14 people still weeks in southern Nepal after including the Madhesis, who say missing. lawmakers -- spurred by April’s the new borders will limit their The disaster sparked wide- devastating earthquake to resolve political representation. spread outrage over alleged safety political differences -- struck a The growing discord prompted violations and possible official breakthrough deal on a new lawmakers from a regional party collusion, and fears of pollutants constitution which has angered representing the Madhesis to contaminating the air and water minority communities. walk out of the constituent Activists chant slogans during a protest demanding that Nepal be declared a Hindu state in Kathmandu, yesterday. of Tianjin, home to about 15 mil- “Security forces opened fire at assembly last month and throw lion people. the protesters after they forced their weight behind the protest- with police broke out last month. the Maoist insurgency that left an faltered over the issue of internal Another explosion at another their way into a restricted area,” ers. Yesterday’s deaths bring to 10 Lawmakers began working on estimated 16,000 people dead and borders and the resulting uncer- chemical plant in Shandong killed said Bam, speaking of Tuesday's the number of anti-constitution a new national constitution in brought down the 240-year-old tainty left Nepal in political limbo. one person and injured nine on clashes in Birgunj. protesters killed since clashes 2008, two years after the end of Hindu monarchy. But negotiations AFP August 23. AFP

Nigerian official booked Thailand nabs another foreigner for blast

BANGKOK: Police hunting not elaborate. officers from Sa Kaeo, while the to work with her partner and for illegal rifles, bullets those responsible for Thailand's Television footage of the sus- others worked in the Bangkok child two to three months ago. deadliest bombing arrested a pect showed a thin man in a districts where the security forces Police have been looking into a second foreign suspect yester- baseball cap, sunglasses and with conducted the weekend raids. possible Turkish connection. Fake ABUJA: Nigerian prosecutors weapons included five Tavor rifles, day, Prime Minister Prayuth a short moustache. Thai police chief Somyot Turkish passports were seized and yesterday slapped a charge of 20 magazines, five packets of rifle Chan-ocha said. The arrest came after security Pumpanmuang said he trans- police requested a Turkish trans- unlawful possession of arms service kits, small magazine with The August 17 attack on a forces detained a first foreign sus- ferred the immigration officers lator to assist in questioning the against the former national 16 rounds of 9mm ammunition Bangkok Hindu shrine killed 20 pect in weekend raids on the out- because foreigners were able to 28-year-old man they arrested security adviser of ex-president and bigger magazine with 23 live people and injured more than 100. skirts of Bangkok, in which they enter Thailand illegally in Sa last Saturday. The authorities Goodluck Jonathan. Sambo rounds of 9mm ammunition. Fourteen foreigners were also found explosives. Kaeo. have not confirmed his identity Dasuki was arraigned on a A bullet-proof Range Rover among those killed in a blast the Police said they had transferred “I think when a foreigner ille- or nationality. He is charged with “one-count charge of being in jeep with one magazine, 16 rounds military government said was 22 officers from their posts for gally enters Thailand, those offic- possessing illegal explosives. possession of firearms without and another Range Rover with 36 aimed at dealing a blow to an negligence. ers should be transferred.” Speculation has centered on licence,” Prosecutor Mohammed rounds of live ammunition were already ailing economy. The transfers came a day after Police issued arrest warrants sympathisers of Uighur Muslims, Diri told the federal high court seized. Dasuki pleaded not guilty The man was arrested in Sa the police chief had promised a for a Thai woman and a foreign opponents of the government, in Abuja. and was granted bail after judge Kaeo province, on the border with reward for the effective first man yesterday. The woman, southern ethnic Malay rebels and He said investigators found Adeniyi Ademola confiscated his Cambodia east of Bangkok. arrests made in the case. Wanna Suansuant, has contacted foreign extremists, among other several weapons in Dasuki's resi- passport. The case was adjourned The suspect was being trans- The shrine bombing case had authorities andwould meet police, groups. dence during a raid by security to October 26 for trial. Dasuki, ferred to Bangkok for questioning. attracted widespread criticism for Somyot said yesterday. He gave Thailand drew international agents after his sacking by newly- 60, was national security adviser “We have arrested one more, he the slow pace till last weekend’s no details. outrage last month when it for- elected President Mohammadu from June 2012 until his sacking is not a Thai,” Prayuth said after raids. Her family told police last cibly repatriated more than 100 Buhari in July. Some of the in July. AFP a weekly cabinet meeting. He did Six of the 22 were immigration Monday she travelled to Turkey Uighurs to China. REUTERS

Let the dolphins live Outrage after three journalists shot dead in Philippines

MANILA: Three journalists Before Maestrado, radio Sonny Fernandez said. in the Philippines have been reporter Teodoro Escanilla, 57, Presidential spokesman shot dead just days apart, press was shot inside his home in a Herminio Coloma, “Government groups said yesterday, as they fishing town in rural Sorsogon is taking action to identify and warned of further media blood- province on August 19, according arrest suspects.” shed without serious govern- to local police and the CPJ. Chief Superintendent Wilben ment action. A day earlier, newspaper Mayor said he could not immedi- “We call on President Benigno reporter Gregory Ybanez, 67, was ately provide statistics on arrests Aquino to give top priority to gunned down in front of his house or charges filed in cases of media swiftly resolving these egregious in Tagum city, a banana-growing killings. cases,” said Shawn Crispin, sen- centre in the south, where he also The world's deadliest attack ior Southeast Asia representa- headed the local press association, against journalists took place in tive for the Committee to Protect police said. the Philippines in 2009, when 32 Journalists. The latest killings bring to 29 journalists were among 58 people “Until Aquino demonstrates his the number of journalists mur- killed by a warlord clan intent on government is serious about end- dered since Aquino assumed stopping a rival's election chal- ing the onslaught, the killings will office in 2010, according to the lenge resulting in the gruesome inevitably continue.” National Union of Journalists of massacre. Police and the CPJ said the lat- the Philippines. The chief justice said recently est victim was radio commentator Out of the 168 cases of media she expected verdicts against Cosme Maestrado, 46, shot dead killings since the restoration of more than 100 people on trial for in front of a public market in the democracy in 1986, only 13 sus- the massacre would be announced An animal activist sports a dolphin suit during a rally in front of the Japanese embassy in Manila yesterday to southern port city of Ozamiz on pects had been convicted of mur- early next year. protest against the annual dolphin hunt. The annual controversial dolphin hunt has kicked off in the town of August 27. der and sent to jail, NUJP director AFP Taiji, Japan. In the hunt, people from the southwestern town corral hundreds of dolphins into a secluded bay and butcher them. China to parade military strength at WWII commemoration

BEIJING: Soldiers will march, and vehicles to try to ensure blue with neighbours in the South Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo has promised that 84 percent cost 15 to 20 million lives, and gleaming hardware will roll, skies. China Sea, where it is building Abe. of the firepower on display will Japan has been extended no such and warplanes will fly above President Xi Jinping will over- artificial islands and facilities with John Delury, an expert on be shown for the first time and courtesy. Tiananmen Square at China’s see the spectacle to mark the military uses, and with Japan over Chinese history and politics at according to state media reports “However, Japan is busy hiding WWII anniversary parade, 70th anniversary of the “Chinese disputed outcrops. Yonsei University in Seoul, says the weapons will include carrier- itself from this grand event,” it but major Western leaders are People’s War of Resistance It also coincides awkwardly Beijing very much wants to drive based aircraft, long distance went on, accusing Tokyo of “petti- shunning the show as Beijing against Japanese Aggression and with increasing doubts about the home its growing global impor- bombers and various types of ness”, an “immoral misstep”, and assumes an increasingly asser- the World Anti-Fascist War”, as capability of Xi and the country's tance, what Xi Jinping talks about: missiles. “obviously embarrassing itself”. tive role on the global stage. Beijing officially calls the conflict. other leaders to manage a growth China is wealthy and powerful.” Chinese media seem to have Russian President Vladimir Chinese authorities are pulling China is increasingly influential slowdown that has spooked The parade will showcase grudgingly accepted the absence Putin is by far the most high- out all the stops for Thursday’s in the world, where it is already domestic and foreign financial 12,000 Chinese soldiers as well of a top visitor from Washington, profile foreign leader attending commemoration, mobilising the second-largest economy and markets. as an array of domestically-pro- even ahead of an official trip by Xi after Xi went to a similar event hundreds of thousands of Beijing sees itself as a “great power” equal Absent will be key leaders from duced military hardware, and to the US this month. But Beijing in Moscow in May, which was also citizens, imposing traffic restric- to the United States. Western democracies such as US close to 1,000 foreign troops from sees Tokyo as insufficiently con- shunned by major Western lead- tions -- including closing the But the chest-pumping display President Barack Obama, German countries including Russia will trite for its 20th-century invasion ers over the annexation of Crimea capital's airports -- and curtail- comes as Beijing is engaged in Chancellor Angela Merkel and, participate. and occupation of China, which and fighting in eastern Ukraine. ing pollution-spewing factories high-profile maritime disputes least surprisingly, nationalist The People’s Liberation Army independent historians estimate AFP WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Four die, 42 hurt in NW suicide attack on army Pakistani Taliban, Lashkar-e-Islam claim responsibility

PESHAWAR: A suicide a huge blast,” Afridi said. attack was revenge for govern- bomber killed at least four peo- “It seemed as if the whole ment operations against them. ple and wounded dozens yes- building had collapsed.” Lashkar-e-Islam spokesman terday in northwest Pakistan, Afridi’s office is on the road Salahuddin Ayubi claimed that where security forces are bat- leading from the city of Peshawar, his group had carried out the tling Islamist militants, officials through the Khyber Pass, to the attack. said. Afghan border. Hundreds of militants have Each of two allied militant At least 42 wounded peo- been killed in ground fighting groups, the Pakistani Taliban ple were taken to hospital in and air strikes, the military says. and Lashkar-e-Islam, claimed Peshawar, about 20km to the east, Some soldiers have also been responsibility for the attack in the hospital doctor Noor Wazir said, killed. Khyber region near the Afghan adding the death toll could rise. It yet to be independently veri- border, where the military has The Pakistani Taliban are allied fied exactly what the actual casu- been battling them since last with the Afghan Taliban and alty figures are as access to the October. fighting Pakistani government area has been strictly controlled The attack targeted a paramili- forces in the hope of establishing and restricted. tary vehicle outside a government strict Islamist rule. Hundreds of militants are said compound in the Jamrud area of Representatives of both the to have taken refuge in Khyber A man injured in the suicide bomb blast receives treatment at a hospital in Peshawar, yesterday. the region, official Shaukatullah Pakistani Taliban and Lashkar- after fleeing a military offensive Afridi, who was metres away from e-Islam claimed to have carried against their stronghold of North The Pakistani Taliban control- operations since 2009. They they launch bombings and other the blast. out the attack. Waziristan, along the Afghan bor- led swathes of territory in the now operate in smaller pockets attacks on Pakistani forces and “I had just entered the office Pakistani Taliban spokesman der to the south, that began in northwest, but they have been in ethnic Pashtun areas near other targets. and sat on my chair when I heard Mohammad Khorasani said the June last year. beaten back by repeated military the Afghan border, from where REUTERS Bureaucrats panic over anti-vice arrests Afghans retake control PESHAWAR: The arrest for local government Inayatullah NAB, where a board authorised A senior official at the min- of several government offi- Khan and has health minis- arrests, the Ehtesab Commission ing department, which has been of Musa Qala district cials by accountability bod- ter Shahram Khan Tarakai as director general gave the go- the subject of NAB and Ehtesab ies in Pakistan’s Khyber member. ahead to arrests on his own. Commission investigations, said LASHKAR GAH: Afghan gov- wounded," Afghanistan's defence Pakhtunkhwa province Jadoon, who is also the presi- He said in the first instance, that every day or second, people ernment forces, backed by US ministry said in a statement. over corruption has caused dent of the Provincial Civil the government officials were of accountability bodies showed air strikes, have regained con- British and Afghan troops first resentment and fear among Service Officers Association, had subjected to the Government up and began quizzing officials on trol of a key district in volatile wrenched Musa Qala, a town of bureaucracy. submitted a working paper about Servants (Efficiency and one matter or the other. Helmand province after days about 20,000 people that strad- Over the last few months, the reforming the accountability law. Discipline) Rules. “If these (accountability) of fierce fighting with Taliban dles opium farms and smuggling National Accountability Bureau “The arrest of Jadoon, who He said government officials guys arrest me on the corrup- insurgents, provincial officials routes, from the Taliban eight and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa led the PCS officers’ movement were reluctant to decide about tion charges and tomorrow such said last Sunday. years ago before the Islamist Ehtesab Commission have against Pakistan Administrative monetary matters. “The finance charges are not proved, even then The fall of Musa Qala in militants won it back four days arrested several senior officials Service, is meaningful as all and planning and development I won’t be able to face my family, Helmand to the Taliban last ago. over the alleged involvement in those arrested so far belong to departments are now not allow- friends and colleagues,” he said, Wednesday put government US aircraft carried out 18 air corrupt practices. the provincial service. There is ing officials to attend meeting of adding that there was no escape forces under more pressure than strikes over the past week trying There are also rumours about resentment among the provincial the department consultant selec- from the label of being a corrupt. at any time since most NATO to push the Taliban from the dis- many more such arrests in near service officers, who feel they are tion committee (DSCS), procure- When contacted, minister combat troops withdrew at the trict, coalition spokesman Brian future. Some officials said on con- being targeted,” the official said. ment and purchase committees,” Shahram Khan Tarakai, also end of last year, with no sign of Tribus said. dition of anonymity that arrest of He said the arrests being made he said. member of cabinet committee on violence abating. A man in Afghan military senior members of bureaucracy by the Ehtesab Commission were A planning and development the Ehtesab law reforms, said the Helmand province in the south uniform opened fire last week had struck fear into their hearts, premature as first, they arrested official said formal directions panel was thoroughly examining has seen some of the fiercest bat- in Camp Bastion, killing two US especially about financial matters. people and later investigated cor- were issued to officials to stay the matter. “We have listened to tles over the course of the war service personnel before being An official said the August 26 ruption charges tarnishing their away from meetings on procure- the government officials as well as that began almost 14 years ago. shot and wounded. arrest of industries secretary image. ments, bid opening and consultant Ehtesab Commission DG on the British forces lost more than 400 Violence increased sharply Sajid Jadoon by the Ehtesab “Jadoon was called for inter- selection in future through a July accountability law issue and are men trying to defeat the Taliban across Afghanistan since the Commission was interesting as view and was picked up by the 13 notification. committed to bringing improve- and some 350 US Marines were US-led military coalition formally he was the member of the cabi- commission,” he said, adding that He said the notification was ments to the law,” he said. “We also killed there. ended its combat mission last year net committee on Ehtesab law ideally, the commission should not issued following the arrest of a heard about premature arrests. "A comprehensive operation and left a contingent of about reforms. arrest those cooperating with deputy secretary of the depart- No one should be arrested with- led by chief of the army staff, 12,000 NATO troops to train and According to him, the com- investigators. ment by the anti-corruption out investigation. managed to retake Musa Qala in assist Afghan forces fighting the mittee is led by senior minister The official said compared to establishment on June 29. INTERNEWS which 220 enemies were killed and Taliban. REUTERS

Talking points Kabul-Islamabad Onion prices up on rise in exports talks to resume KARACHI: Pakistan is poised Under these circumstances, importing 50-60 containers (of 25 this week to fetch higher export orders prices at Karachi’s wholesale tons each) every week, UAE 40-50 for onion this year after India, market at Super Highway have containers, whereas Sri Lanka ISLAMABAD: Contacts its competitor, and Bangladesh shot to Rs1,600/40kg of onions buys 30-40 containers of onion between Pakistan and returned to the interna- from Rs1,000-1,100/40kg a few from Pakistan every week. “On a Afghanistan will resume tional markets to overcome days ago. Accordingly, the com- weekly average, Pakistan exports later this week if Adviser on local shortage in supplies, said modity in retail has increased to 8,000 to 10,000 tons of onion,” he Foreign Affairs and National traders. around Rs40-50/kg from Rs30- said. Ahmed Ali Baloch, another Security Sartaj Aziz leaves “Pakistan has registered an 40/kg a few days ago. exporter, said “I have just received for Kabul to attend the 6th increase in demand from the He linked the hike in the prices an export order from Bangladesh, Regional Economic Cooperation overseas markets in the last cou- with the drop in supplies to the and I am evaluating the export Conference on Afghanistan ple of weeks. India has recently market. “Supplies are sometimes price.” (RECCA). started importing onion from slowed down when the crop fin- Bangladesh usually imports “We are mulling over an invi- Pakistan via the Wagah border,” ishes in one area and harvesting onion from India. The export tation to RECCA conference,” a said Haji Shahjahan, an exporter. begins in other areas country {India}, however, is itself senior diplomat said yesterday. “Total export of the country These days, onions from experiencing shortage in local Two RECCA conferences will would remain steady at 450,000 Balochistan are available in the supplies and price-hike these be held followed by a ministerial to 500,000 tonne this year, which markets nationwide.” Sindh would days. Pakistan has a local pro- meeting, on September 3 and 4. is similar to the previous year,” he begin harvesting the new crop duction at 2.5 million tons. Egypt, A meeting between Pakistani estimated. The country’s annual from October, and will continue Iran, an Afghanistan also export and Afghan officials is expected export size of the commodity in full swing until November- onions. to take place on the side-lines of stood at 250,000 to 300,000 tons December. The crop would last “According to rules, one the events, to address issues that in recent years, he added. till April 2016. exporter cannot load more than have disrupted the process of nor- Shahjahan said that on an aver- He, however, said Malaysia, Sri one container of onion in each malisation of relations between age, some five trucks of onions Lanka, and UAE remain the big- vessel may be each vessel carries the two countries. have been crossing the Wagah gest importers of Pakistani onion. 100 containers.” Shahjahan added Ties between Islamabad and border daily to enter into India Attributing the price fluctua- two to three vessels of onions Kabul were generally improving Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaking at an anti-corruption con- from Pakistan. Each truck carries tion to the demand supply gap, leave the Karachi Port every until the recent attacks in Kabul ference in Kabul, yesterday. According to Transparency International, some 15 tons of onions. Shahjahan said Malaysia has been week. INTERNEWS adversely affected them. Afghanistan ranks 172 in corruption out of 175 countries. President Ashraf Ghani accused Pakistan of failing to cleanse its soil of terrorist bases from where attacks were being launched continuously. Islamabad to get Rs5bn facelift to host OIC summit He also sent a high-level del- egation to Islamabad compris- ing Foreign Minister Salahuddin ISLAMABAD: The govern- yestersday that the Custodian Iraq President Fuad Masum, attend the summit to be held here capital. Rabbani, Acting Defence ment of Pakistan has decided of the Two Holy Mosques King Algerian President Abdel Aziz in Jinnah Convention Centre. The Summit on Science and Minister Masoom Stanekzai, and to hold summit of Organisation Salman bin Abdel Aziz, President Bouteflika, Jordanian King The sources said that President Technology was approved by Intelligence Chief Rahmatullah of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Abdullah II, Kuwait Emir Shaikh Mamnoon Hussain would inau- the Twelfth Session of the OIC Nabil to convey his government’s befitting manner on November President of Iran Dr Hasan Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jabar gurate the summit while Prime held in Cairo in February, 2013. concerns about terrorist attacks 11 this year. Rouhani, President of the UAE Al-Sabah, President Palestine Minister Nawaz Sharif would The Summit will be preceded on in Kabul. It would be third summit of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Mahmoud Abbas, Azerbaijan be the chief guest in the con- 9-10 November, 2015 by meet- However, the delegation the OIC, Pakistan will be host- Nahyan, Indonesian President President Ilham Alyev and cluding session of the Capital ings of the General Assembly received a lukewarm reception ing. The last summit was first Joko Widodo, Malaysian Prime Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said Development Authority (CDA) and the Executive Committee of in Islamabad reportedly because extraordinary summit of the Minister Najib Razzak, Qatar’s al Said and Nigeria’s President to make befitting arrangements COMSTECH. of the allegations levelled at OIC and it was also held during Emir H H Shaikh Tamim bin Muhammad Buhari have accepted for the summit. The Summit would review Pakistan by the Afghan govern- Nawaz Sharif as Prime Minister Hamad Al Thani, Egyptian invitations to attend the summit. An amount of rupees five billion progress in the fields of emerg- ment and its intelligence agency in March 1997. President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi, Secretary General United has been allocated to the CDA for ing sciences. NDS. INTERNEWS Highly placed sources said Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Nations Ban Ki-moon will also the beautification of the federal INTERNEWS WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

‘1965 war was They’re my kids, says Siddharth a misadventure for Pakistan’ Wants Indrani hanged for murder NEW DELHI: Vice President M Hamid Ansari yesterday KOLKATA: Claiming to be Indrani was arrested last said the 1965 war against India the biological father of Sheena month along with her former was a “costly misadventure” for and Mikhail Bora, Siddharth driver Shyam Rai and ex-husband Pakistan. Das, who said he had a live- Sanjeev Khanna on charges of “In the final analysis, the war in relationship with Indrani murdering Sheena and dumping was a costly military and politi- Mukherjea, yesterday said she her remains in Raigad in April cal misadventure for Pakistan,” must be hanged if she did kill 2012. Ansari said in his inaugural their daughter. By then Indrani -- who has speech at a tri-services seminar Forced to come out in the open denied charges of murder -- was here to commemorate the war. after reports emerged that he married to Peter Mukherjea, a “The failure was camouflaged; had fled to Bangladesh, Das, who media baron. even the announcement of cease- lives here, said he never married Describing Indrani as “highly fire was described as fire ‘bandi’ Indrani and blamed the “ambi- ambitious”, Das said he could not rather than ‘jang bandi’ (end of tious woman” of dumping him as provide the high life she aspired. war),” Ansari said. he was not well off. Das said he last spoke to In a speech that revolved Talking to the media with Sheena when she was in Class around the international political his face covered, Das rubbished 10. He did not keep in touch with scenario during the war, the vice reports of his marriage to Indrani, his children as he did not want to president said wars in future were who he met in Shillong, in 1986. rake up the past. He never inter- highly unlikely to be bilateral. She left him in 1989. acted with Mikhail. He quoted the then US ambas- “We did not marry. She was in “I was settled in Kolkata, hap- sador as saying that President a college in Shillong and lived in pily married, so I didn’t want to Ayub Khan was disenchanted the city. Through common friends rake up the past,” he said. with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s “reck- we came to know each other. We “Shocked and heart-broken” less adventurism”, grieved over had a live-in relationship. I stayed over Sheena’s murder, Das, who Siddharth Das (left) speaks to the media as he sits on his motor-cycle at the side of a busy road in Kolkata, yesterday. Pakistan’s losses and looking for at her residence. Her parents came to know about it from the “a sensible way out”. accepted our relationship. media, said money could be have there is a possibility a person Das said he never kept track of The place where I live, people may “Purely bilateral wars are “Sheena was born in 1987 been a motive. driven by greed for money can do Indrani after she left him. ask me to go away. I am a very unlikely in our times,” Ansari and Mikhail in 1988. Sometime “Indrani dreamt of having a anything. If she has done it, then “Since 1989 it has been a closed humble man with a very small said. later, she dumped me,” said Das, nice home, a high life style, so she should be hanged.” chapter. I made no efforts to know job.” Das’s wife said she had no “The decision to initiate hostili- who later moved to Arunachal maybe money could be the reason. Das said he did not come out what she was doing. To whom she knowledge about her husband’s ties may be an autonomous one. Pradesh before making Kolkata In today’s world, anybody can kill in the open earlier as the police was married. past life before the Sheena mur- Thereafter, however, all war-like his home in 1998. for money. probe was headed in the right “My wife and son are now der case hit the headlines. conflicts tend to draw in con- Das said he was willing to pro- “Twenty-five years back when direction, “and I felt I had no role aware about my past but they “I have been married to him for cerned and interested players.” duce birth certificates of Sheena she was with me, maybe she in that”. have said they are not bothered.” 16-17 years. I didn’t know any- Talking about the 1965 situa- and Mikhail and asserted he was couldn’t (murder), but now I can’t “But when it was being reported But Das said the incident had thing about his past. I have noth- tion, the vice president admit- ready to undergo a DNA test to say. It feels strange to believe that that I was hiding, I had to come affected him. “I am hiding my face ing to do with his past,” she said. ted there was a feeling that the affirm he was their father. a mother can kill her child... But out. I have nothing to hide.” (as) I may be sacked by my office. IANS Tashkent agreement denied India political advantage of its military success. “A view subsequently emerged that while the agreement brought the war to an end, it denied India the political advantage of its mili- Punjab to observe Six people die in Manipur violence tary successes because of pressure from major powers,” Ansari said. IMPHAL: Two more people of Manipur People Bill 2015, from the debris at the residence IANS 1965 war anniversary were killed and a police station Manipur Land Revenue and Land of Congress legislator Manga was set afire yesterday, as the Reforms (seventh amendment) Vaiphei of Henglep assembly CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Patton tanks’. Company Quarter death toll rose to six, in the vio- Bill 2015, and Manipur Shops and constituency yesterday, the police government will hold a mega Master Havaldar Abdul Hameed lence that started last Monday Establishment (second amend- official said. Kashmiri leader event at Amarkot village in the showed utmost courage to take in Manipur’s Churchandpur ment) Bill 2015. The mob last Monday frontier district of Tarn Taran the Pakistani tanks head-on and district over three bills passed The bills were unanimously evening also set afire the vehi- re-arrested to mark the 50th anniversary of destroyed four before making the in the assembly. passed in the assembly last cle of Churachandpur Deputy the 1965 India-Pakistan war. supreme sacrifice. He was postho- Violating an indefinite cur- Monday after the ruling Congress Commissioner Lunminthang JAMMU: Hardline Kashmiri The event will be held on mously awarded the Param Vir few in place in the town, a signed an agreement with the Haokip and prevented fire engines separatist leader Masarat Alam September 9, Punjab Chief Chakra (PVC), the highest gal- mob went on a rampage in the Joint Committee on Inner Line from dousing the flames, even as was yesterday re-arrested by Minister Parkash Singh Badal lantry award in war time. streets and set ablaze a police Permit System (JCILPS) on police were forced to resort to a police in Jammu jail premises said at a meeting of senior func- “Our valiant soldiers made the station in Churchandpur town, August 25 to enact three laws to baton charge. after authorities released tionaries here yesterday. supreme sacrifices to protect our as police fired blanks to disperse protect the interest of the indig- Tribal civil society groups -- All him following the Jammu and It was here that a full-fledged borders from the enemy during the mob. enous people. Tribal Students Union Manipur Kashmir High Court’s order. assault by Pakistani Patton tanks, the 1965 war. This commemora- “Two people, who were part of The mob last Monday evening (ATSUM) Kuki Students His Jammu and Kashmir considered the most modern in tive function to mark the 50th the unruly mob, were killed after attacked the residence of five Organisation (KSO) and All Muslim League condemned his their category at that time, was anniversary of India’s great feat we (police) were forced to open Congress lawmakers, including Naga Students Association re-arrest and alleged he was taken repulsed by determined Indian would inculcate a spirit of patri- fire at them in self-defence and that of state Health and Family Manipur, (ANSAM) -- opposed to some unknown destination. forces, inflicting heavy losses on otism and nationalism among our to defend the police station,” dis- Welfare Minister Phungzathang the introduction of the bills, say- Alam, who was arrested on the Pakistanis. youths,” Badal said. trict police chief L Mangkhogin Tonsing and Outer Manipur Lok ing they overlapped with some April 17 for waving Pakistani flags The ‘Battle of Asal Uttar’, as The chief minister asked the Haokip said. With yesterday’s Sabha member Thangsoi Baite. points in the Manipur Hill People in a separatist rally in Srinagar, it is called, resulted in destruc- officers to ensure maximum par- deaths, the toll has risen to six. However, none of the lawmakers Administration Regulation Act, was shifted to Jammu province’s tion of many Patton tanks forcing ticipation of kin of Abdul Hameed Violence erupted last Monday were at their residences. 1947, meant to safeguard the Kot Balwal jail after being booked the Pakistani troops to flee. The as well as other war heroes and evening following the Manipur Three bodies were found in interest of tribesmen in the hill under Public Safety Act (PSA) on area is since known as the ‘grave- decorated and serving army offic- government’s adoption of three Churachandpur town and a areas of Manipur. April 23. yard of Pakistan’s ultramodern ers in the event. IANS landmark bills -- Protection charred body was recovered IANS IANS

Janmasthami performance BPED students cane-charged House to pass decree in Lucknow on AP special status LUCKNOW: Violence erupted in front of the vidhan sabha HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pointing out that he visited in Lucknow yesterday when Pradesh assembly will pass a New Delhi 17 times in the last 15 Bachelor of Physical Education resolution urging the central months, the TDP chief said the (B.P.Ed) students clashed with government to accord spe- state managed to get `2,300cr police. cial status to the state and to towards revenue deficit. The state Agitating over their demands, implement all provisions con- is yet to get another `12,000cr. they began pelting stones at police tained in the Andhra Pradesh Naidu said the central govern- when they were asked to disperse. Reorganisation Act. ment also provided `1,500cr in the Police then resorted to a baton The resolution moved by Chief first year for development of the charge and used water canon. Minister N Chandrababu Naidu state capital besides extending While many women protest- in the assembly yesterday also some incentives. ers suffered injuries in the melee appealed to the central govern- Quoting the 14th Finance that ensued after the baton ment to take steps to fulfill the Commission report, he said charge, about one dozen police- assurances given by then prime Andhra Pradesh will be a rev- men, including superintendent of minister in parliament. enue-deficit state and hence police, East Lucknow, were also Making it clear he will not com- needed all help from the central injured. promise on the issue of special sta- government. One of the protesters’ main tus to the state, special package, He said the Finance demands is to be appointed as tax incentives to industry and all Commission never said that teachers at par with individuals provisions of the Reorganisation Andhra Pradesh should not be working as ‘Shiksha Mitras’. Act, Naidu reiterated that the given special status. The students also set fire to state needs handholding by the “We don’t have a state capital, A schoolgirl has a last minute make-up prior to performing in a Janmasthmi play at the Delhi Public School a police vehicle and attacked central government till it achieves funds, industry and jobs. Don’t in Ghaziabad, east of New Delhi, yesterday. Janmashtami, which takes place this year on September 5, is an policemen. level-playing field with neighbour- compare us with other states,” he annual celebration of the birth of the Hindu deity Krishna. IANS ing states. said, in an obvious reference to He, however, remarked that statements by some central min- special category status has been isters that no state will be given diluted over the years and that special status. Nine sentenced to life for Muthoot murder it was not a solution of all the He recalled that former prime problems. minister Manmohan Singh had Naidu, whose Telugu Desam announced in parliament that THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Satheesh got life terms for direct business family, and his kill- down a two-wheeler. Party (TDP) is a partner in the Andhra Pradesh will be given spe- A special CBI court here yes- involvement in the killing and ing near Alappuzha on August The accused and his friends BJP-led NDA government, said cial category status for five years terday sentenced nine of the 13 were asked to pay `50,000 each 21, 2009, created a sensation in followed George after the acci- his government had achieved to bring the state finances on firm people convicted for the 2009 as fine. The four convicted for Kerala. He was riding a car with dent, stopped him, and after a some progress in its efforts to footing. murder of Paul Muthoot George destruction of evidence were Om Prakash and Rajesh, two men verbal duel, killed him. The killer get central help for the revenue- Voicing concern over some peo- to life imprisonment and the directed to pay fines of `5,000 facing several criminal cases. gang was on its way to eliminate deficit state. ple committing suicides over the remaining four to three-year each. One man was set free. The CBI held that Satheesh another person when they ended He assured the house that he special status, Naidu appealed to jail terms. A bachelor, George, 32, stabbed George to death after up murdering George. will continue to pursue the mat- people not to be driven by emo- Convicts Jayachandran and K belonged to the wealthy Muthoot George’s speeding vehicle knocked IANS ter with the central government. tion. IANS WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Cast out communalists: PM 18 die in Himachal Modi’s special package, like his facts and figures, are thin air: Bihar CM bus crash, 15 hurt

BHAGALPUR: Attacking And he said he had forced and use of facts and figures.” deliver the promises he made Bihar’s ruling JD-U and its ally the alliance of the Janata Dal- The chief minister said that ahead of the Lok Sabha battle. RJD, Prime Minister Narendra United, Rashtriya Janata Dal `2.7 lakh crore would be avail- “Show moral courage. Accept Modi yesterday told the people and the Congress to talk about able to implement the seven pro- insufficiencies in delivering on old of Bihar to defeat those who development. grammes he (Nitish Kumar) had promises,” he said in a series of “spread the poison of commu- “I am happy that development announced in case he won the tweets. nalism and casteism”. has become an issue for them election. “Modiji should relax! “Respect the sentiments of the Addressing his fourth rally also.” “Modi’s talk of health infra- people of Bihar who have been ahead of assembly elections, the But Modi targeted the alliance structure is ironical because it’s troubled by your unkept prom- prime minister also took credit leaders by saying they were silent his government that has reduced ises and unsavoury comments,” for making Chief Minister Nitish at their Patna rally on Sunday on health budget and stopped univer- he said. Kumar speak on the development how to develop Bihar. sal health plan. Asking Modi to take back “your agenda. “All of them only chanted Modi, “Modi must have whipped up derogatory words”, he said. The “The politics of casteism and Modi, nothing else, to target me.” his figures and data today from Bihar CM had launched a cam- communalism has failed Bihar,” The Bharatiya Janata Party the same place he whipped up his paign against Modi for using a he told a huge rally. “Won’t you leader urged the people to ask special package - thin air,” Nitish derogatory reference towards prefer to get rid of those who the “grand alliance” to provide a Kumar added. his state by referring to Kumar's spread the poison of communal- balance sheet of their 25 years of Nitish Kumar reiterated his DNA. ism and casteism?” rule in Bihar. resolve to provide `1,000 a month “Deliver your promise of spe- Both before and after Modi’s Modi said the people of Bihar as unemployment allowance to cial status to Bihar. Don’t mis- 50-minute speech, Nitish Kumar were happy with his central gov- youths in the age group of 20-25 lead with so-called package where took on the prime minister, ask- ernment, and nothing could stop years and loans of up to `4 lakh 86 percent is repackaged old ing him to end his rhetoric and the “victory march” of the BJP through student credit cards. schemes. deliver the promises he made dur- and its allies in the upcoming He said he was also committed “Live up to your 2014 election ing the 2014 Lok Sabha election elections. to setting up `500cr venture capi- promise of decriminalisation and campaign. Nitish Kumar launched a tal fund, and providing free inter- announce (that) no ticket (will be “Development should be the scathing attack on Modi, accus- net in colleges and universities. given) to candidates with criminal main issue (in Bihar),” Modi said ing him of churning out data from And 35 percent of all govern- background.” in Bhagalpur, about 200 km from “thin air”. ment jobs would be reserved for The Bharatiya Janata Party Patna. After Modi ended his election women, he added. and its allies will be pitted in the He reminded people that he rally in Bhagalpur town, the JD-U Earlier, before Modi’s arrival coming assembly elections against had announced a `1.25 lakh crore leader tweeted: “I increasingly in Bihar, Nitish Kumar asked the the ruling Janata Dal-United and special package for Bihar’s devel- wonder if he (Modi) would ever be prime minister to “stop rheto- its allies the Rashtriya Janata Dal opment last month. able to improve his understanding ric (and) chest thumping”, and and the Congress. IANS

Auditor objects Centre will let states amend The mangled remains of a private bus which skidded off the road at Nathpa to Vyapam’s in Kinnaur district, 175 kms from Shimla, yesterday. high travel bills SHIMLA: Eighteen people admitted to Bhavanagar and land act, says Arun Jaitley were k illed and 15 others injured Rampur hospitals. Most of the NEW DELHI: The Madhya yesterday when a private bus dead and the injured were from Pradesh government audi- NEW DELHI: The NDA gov- governments could decide on He said provisions of Article rolled down 200 metres into a Kinnaur and Shimla districts. tor had raised objections ernment will permit states to exemptions from consent and 254(2) clearly provide that a state gorge in Kinnaur in Himachal Kinnaur Deputy Commissioner over inflated travel expenses make amendments to the Land social impact assessment in any government can bring a legisla- Pradesh, police said. The bus Naresh Lath said help was sought claimed by experts hired by Acquisition and Rehabilitation of the five areas including projects tion on a concurrent list subject was on way from Rekong Peo from the army and the state dis- the Professional Examination and Resettlement Act 2013, for national security, rural infra- which conflicts with the central to Rampur town when the acci- aster management authority, Board or Vyapam for an exami- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley structure, affordable housing, legislation, provided, the presi- dent occurred near Nathpa, besides police and Home Guards nation in 2006-07 and sought said yesterday. industrial corridors and infra- dential assent is given to such some 180 km from Shimla. for relief and rescue operations. expeditious investigations, a In an article “The land ordi- structure projects where land legislation. Kinnaur Superintendent of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh reply to an RTI plea says. nance-the obvious answers” ownership is with government. “The states can provide for Police Rahul Nath said over tel- and Transport Minister G S Bali The Directorate of Local Funds posted on the Bharatiya Janata The Modi government in its alternative mechanism which bal- ephone that the bus skidded off expressed grief over the accident. and Audit (LFA) responded to Party’s website, Jaitely said in his new land bill had provided for ances the interests of farmers and the road. He said 15 people died The chief minister ordered a mag- Bhopal-based activist Ajay Dubey opinion the 2013 Act “is a badly these exemptions but the BJP also provides for land required for on the spot and three on the way isterial inquiry into the mishap. that all experts for the “pre-post drafted legislation” with a “lot of subsequently changed its posi- acquisition,” he said. to hospital. The injured have been IANS graduate examination 2006” trav- ambiguities and obvious errors” tion in the joint parliamentary The minister said that effect of elled from Indore to Bhopal on which needed to be corrected. committee which is examining certain provisions in 2013 Act was April 17, 2006, on the Intercity He said the National the bill. contrary to language used and “a Express but claimed reimburse- Democratic Alliance (NDA) gov- Congress chief ministers had series of legitimate difficulties Odisha CM indifferent to ment for travel by “second AC” ernment had made changes to boycotted the Niti Aayog meet- would arise once the Act is seri- class on other trains. the 2013 Act on the suggestion of ing on land bill, with the Congress ously implemented”. The time for travel by experts state governments, but Congress party making it clear that it was “The provisions of Act would shown in their documents coin- changed its position and opposed opposed to changes in the 2013 also prevent development of rural infant deaths: Opposition cided with the timings of Indore- the ordinance first issued in Act which was passed during areas through rural infrastruc- Bhopal Intercity Express, a December last year for “political the rule of United Progressive ture and further prevent job BHUBANESWAR: Opposition was taken by the government to train which has no “second AC” reasons”. Alliance government. opportunities created in those parties in Odisha yesterday tackle the situation, he demanded coaches. He said the ordinance brought Jaitley said that objective of areas by industralisation. trained their guns at Chief the resignation of the health The LFA also said in its reply by the NDA government lapsed 2015 ordinance was to give certain This was the principal object of Minister Naveen Patnaik for minister. that six experts had claimed last Monday and questions were flexibility to the states. the central government when the not visiting Sishu Bhawan even Utkal Bharat Party president money but did not produce any being raised about the nature “That flexibility is made avail- ordinance to amend the Act was after 52 infant deaths were Kharabela Swain said that the documents or tickets to Vyapam and future of land acquisition in able to the states even now under issued on Aug 31, 2014,” Jaitley reported at the referral hospital issues of doctor scarcity and acti- - Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal - India. the decision taken in chief minis- said. in the past two weeks. vation of defunct machinery at for their travel from Indore to Referring to the prime minis- ter’s meeting,” he said. He said provisions relating Holding the state government the premier paediatric institute Bhopal. ter’s interaction with chief min- Jaitley said the present position to ‘social impact assessment’ responsible for the rising deaths should be addressed soon. “Experts hired by Vyapam - Dr isters in Niti Aayog meet on the was that “the 2013 Act occupies require a large timetable which of infants, Pradesh Congress The state BJP has decided to Sandhya Jain, Dr Jaya Joshi, Dr land bill, Jaitley said it had been the field”. could go up to several years and Committee president Prasad stage a sit-in at all 314 blocks in B M Srivastava and Dr Dashrath agreed that states were fully “The (new) bill remains for language in the Act uses word Harichandan said the chief min- the state on September 2 to pro- Jain - provided nine-digit num- empowered to amend the 2013 consideration of the standing “within time period” which needs ister is busy in unveiling plaques test the government’s failure to bers and Dr Chandradata land law and seek presidential committee and if some consensus to be shortened or exempted in while infants are dying every provide adequate health facilities Kulkarni provided an eight-digit assent before the amendment suggestions are made, the same some cases. day due to the negligence of the to the infants, resulting in a spate number. Dr Pradip Jain provided could be effected. would be implemented. He also said that 2013 Act administration. of deaths. a 10-digit ticket number. They “One State has already brought If any state wishes to make required the entire acquired land Harichandan said it shows the Fifty-two infants have died in all claimed a reimbursement of the amendments and some some amendments in the central to be utilised within five years. chief minister’s casual and indif- Sishu Bhawan in the last 12 days, `1,038, which is the rate for sec- others are likely to follow,” Jaitley law, the same would be permit- “Townships cannot be completed ferent approach towards dealing according to health department ond AC ticket,” the audit report said. ted by the central government,” within five years.” with the problem. sources. stated. IANS Jaitley said the state he wrote. IANS Alleging that no concrete step IANS

Aspiring soldiers Only nine rebel MLAs are with Congress ex-minister: Assam CM

NEW DELHI: Despite spec- joined the BJP last Friday, the year’s elections,” Gogoi told new- ulation about the possibility state unit of the Congress sus- spersons following the meeting. of the Congress government pended four party legislators for “Some names were floated but in Assam being reduced to a going to the Guwahati airport to nothing has been finalised as yet,” minority after former minister welcome Sarma after his return he said. Himanta Biswa Sarma joined from New Delhi and served Meanwhile, Dutta, in the the BJP, Chief Minister Tarun show cause notice to five other meeting, demanded the resigna- Gogoi yesterday claimed that lawmakers. tion of Sarma as a Conress party only nine party legislators were Of the 78 Congress legisla- legislator for having joined up the in the Sarma camp. tors in the 126-member Assam BJP party despite having won on “Till today, only nine MLAs are assembly, Sarma has claimed the a Congress ticket. with Himanta,” Gogoi, who was support of 40. “I demanded in the meeting summoned here by the Congress Yesterday afternoon, Gogoi, that since Sarma has joined the high command, told the media. along with state Congress presi- BJP, he should resign from the “Even now, these nine are in dent Anjan Dutta, attended a assembly,” he told the media. two minds,” he said after a meet- party core committee meet- He also retiterated Gogoi’s ing with Congress vice president ing with Rahul Gandhi and the claim that not more than nine Rahul Gandhi here yesterday party’s Assam in-charge C P legislators had trucked with the morning. Joshi, and discussed the party’s Sarma camp. “There is no way the Congress prospects in the 2016 assembly “Of the MLAs served show- government in Assam can be elections. cause notice, we might consider Youths look on as a fellow candidate's body measurements are taken at an army recruitment rally in Virar dis- brought down,” he added. “We discussed the formation taking back those who seek for- trict near Mumbai, yesterday. Army provides excellent career opportunities and is one of the largest employers After the former state health of the campaign committee and giveness,” Dutta added. in the country. and education minister officially manifesto committee for next IANS

WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Colour no barrier for India-born French model

By Nivedita ‘let’s work together’ and that is how it all started,” that was published in March. But he would love to Oblette said during his visit to India last week. gain more business opportunities in India as he feels e was adopted by a French couple dur- In the late 1970s, he was adopted by a couple of that “the Indian economy is rising really well and a ing their visit to Pondicherry and was French teachers who were overcoming the trauma huge part of my heart is here”. discovered by designer Jean Paul Gaultier of the death of their second son. Despite the painful “I would love to work for Indian brands or design- that made his mark on the international start, the young Indian was blessed with destiny that ers. I would love for this to act as my bridge between H pictured fashion scene. But Satya Oblette ( ), who opened doors of modelling and haute couture shows. Switzerland and India and it will also compel me has fronted campaigns for luxury fashion houses With over two decades of experience in the field, to travel to India more than I currently do,” said like Kenzo, Gio Ferrari and Dolce & Gabbana, says the 39-year-old, who has emerged as one of the Oblette by adding that he “would love to work in he had trouble getting work initially because of his most famous male faces of fashion internationally, Bollywood movies and I am looking out for options”. “long black hair and complexion”. is recognised as a dark, brooding man with spiky It’s not just fashion that is keeping him busy. The “Modelling was not at all my thing... It actually white hair. model is associated with many social causes too. started as a challenge between my friend and me... He feels that “it is important that you don’t forget In 2012, Oblette joined the association A Child The start was very difficult for me as I had long where you come from even if you are famous in a by the Hand, which helps children born into poor black hair and people commented about my com- particular field” and added that today he is “ready families. plexion and after a while I stopped getting work. to find my real mother and look for answers to the Currently, he is the global ambassador for “Later, when I was in India in Pondicherry, I saw questions I have in my mind”. Heart for India Foundation, founded by Princess this dark Indian man with grey hair and a grey “I would love to give myself to India because for Francoise Sturdza, a businesswoman from Geneva. beard and that is where I got the idea from. I went the French I am the most Indian guy and, similarly Internationally acclaimed Indian designer Pria to my hairstylist and showed him a picture I had for Indians, I am the most French Indian. I would Kataaria Puri is the Indian promoter and ambas- taken of the man and told him to do the same thing like to be the bridge between the two cultures and sador of the foundation. with my hair and beard. try and bring the cultures together,” he said. “I met Princess Francoise Sturdza last year “When I entered Jean Paul Gaultier’s office after His last visit to India was in 2012 when he started through a common friend and that is when they that they were all shocked at first but then he said writing his autobiography titled My Life in Pieces introduced the Heart for India Foundation (HFI)

to me and showed me what they work for and how they contribute towards the Indian society. “When I met Princess, she told me that the HFI is completing 10 years and now has a success rate of almost 95 percent. It is not something wherein the kids will gain education for a few years and then they will be left alone. It’s more like following the kids and making sure they are able to finish their studies and then work on their own,” said Oblette. IANS

rinking too much carbonated bev- erage can increase the risk of fatal Dcardiovascular disease, or out-of- Soda intake can increase fatal heart disease risk hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) of car- diac origin, says a study. Keijiro Saku, professor of cardiology at from the ministry of health, labour and milk beverage, milk and mineral water The study analysed the impact of vari- Fukuoka University in Japan. welfare of Japan, using expenditure on were not significantly associated with ous beverages per person between 2005 “The acid in carbonated beverages beverages as a proxy measure. OHCAs of cardiac origin. and 2011 in the 47 prefectures of Japan. might play an important role in this asso- The researchers found that expen- The findings indicate that limiting con- “Carbonated beverage consumption ciation,” Saku noted. ditures on carbonated beverages were sumption of carbonated beverages could was significantly and positively associated The study involved nearly 800,000 significantly associated with OHCAs of be beneficial for health. with OHCAs of cardiac origin in Japan, patients who had out-of-hospital cardiac cardiac origin. The findings were presented at indicating that beverage habits may have arrests of cardiac and non-cardiac origin. Expenditures on other beverages, European Society of Cardiology (ESC) an impact on fatal CVD (cardiovascu- Data on the consumption of the vari- including green tea, black tea, coffee, Congress 2015 in London. lar disease),” said principal investigator ous beverages per person was obtained cocoa, fruit or vegetable juice, fermented IANS

Potatoes baked in butter, then fried in oil: What’s not to like?

By Joe Yonan potatoes. Slice them as thinly as medium-high heat. Set a cooling possible, preferably using a man- rack over a baking sheet lined ooking potatoes twice doline. Melt 16 tablespoons (2 with paper towels. is rarely a bad idea: sticks) unsalted butter. 5. Remove the potato gratin Think french fries, hash 2. Line the bottom of an from the refrigerator. Fill a sink Cbrowns, even tater tots. 8-inch square baking dish with with an inch of hot tap water, At G by Mike Isabella in DC, parchment paper, and brush it and set the pan in the water chef Elliot Drew takes the con- with a little of the melted but- for a minute to loosen the cake. cept to another level for the ter. Arrange a layer of potatoes Discard the foil, run a knife evening tasting menu. in the dish, overlapping slightly. around the inside edge of the Alongside a cauliflower “steak,” Brush with melted butter and baking dish. Invert on a cutting he offers crisp potato pieces, sprinkle lightly with coarse sea board and pop out the block of creamy and buttery inside, that salt. Repeat with another layer potato gratin (which can remain deserve to become part of any of potatoes, the butter and salt, inverted). dinner-party host’s repertoire. and again until all the potatoes 6. Use a sharp knife to cut it The preparation is straightfor- are used. into 1-inch slabs, then cut each ward enough: After baking thinly 3. Cover the dish with alumi- slab on the diagonal into 1/2-inch- sliced potatoes, you press, chill, num foil; bake in a 350-degree wide strips. cut — then fry them until golden oven until tender when pierced 7. Once the oil registers 375 brown. with a skewer, 60 to 90 minutes. degrees on an instant-read ther- With their beautiful layers, the Remove from the oven. Place a mometer, use a slotted spoon to gratin fries may eclipse whatever plate on top large enough to cover lower each strip of potato gratin you serve them with, so plan the potato gratin (through the into the oil, holding it for a few accordingly. foil), then place cans of tomatoes seconds before releasing (so the or beans on top, as weights. Cool layers won’t break up). Working to room temperature, then trans- in batches to avoid crowding, fry Potato Gratin Fries fer the setup to the refrigerator until the potato gratins are golden to chill overnight. brown, about 5 minutes. Transfer 12 to 16 servings 4. Pour vegetable oil to a depth to the cooling rack. Serve warm. 1. Peel 5 pounds of russet of 4 inches in a deep pot over WP-Bloomberg WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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Primordial sea beast Spiral sculpture resembled warship

WASHINGTON: One of the Pentecopterus is the ear- earliest big predators to prowl liest-known member of an Earth’s primordial waters was extinct arthropod group called a sea scorpion nearly 6 feet long eurypterids that ranged from whose body looked a bit like an small scavengers to large apex ancient Greek warship. predators and were important Scientists yesterday announced members of ancient marine eco- the discovery in northeastern systems. They are most closely Iowa of fossils of a large, active related to modern horseshoe hunter called Pentecopterus dec- crabs and terrestrial arachnids orahensis that lived 467 million such as spiders and scorpions. years ago during the Ordovician The largest-known eurypterids Period. exceeded 8 feet long. Eurypterids “Pentecopterus was an incred- flourished until about 360 million ibly bizarre animal, with a long years ago, when their numbers head that looked somewhat like dwindled drastically, and finally the prow of a ship, a narrow body went extinct about 254 million and massively enlarged limbs that years ago, Lamsdell said. it used to capture prey,” Yale Pentecopterus is 10 million University paleontologist James years older than a small, primitive Lamsdell said. eurypterid called Brachyopterus “It would have been the largest that previously had been the old- predator in its environment and est-known member of the group. would have grabbed prey with its The researchers believe that large, spiny legs and then pulled sea scorpions even older than it towards its mouth,” Lamsdell Pentecopterus are waiting to be added. unearthed. The fossils were exception- “It was a large predator and ally well preserved, showing fine it’s a relatively advanced, highly details of its exoskeleton, and evolved form, indicating that sea the scientists found remains of scorpions had a significant ear- adult and juvenile Pentecopterus lier history of which we presently specimens. have no evidence,” Briggs said. Pentecopterus was named The Pentecopterus remains after a type of galley used by the were found in an ancient mete- ancient Greeks known as a pente- orite impact crater nearly 6km in A sculpture of French artist Thierry Courtadon is on display during the exhibition ‘Une pierre dans mon jardin’ inside the gardens of the Palais Royal conter, which the creature resem- diameter by the Upper Iowa River in Paris, France, yesterday. The exhibition runs until November 23. bles with its narrow body and long and were excavated after the river head, Lamsdell said. was dammed temporarily. The “You would not want one of research was published in the these in your swimming pool,” said journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. Yale paleontologist Derek Briggs, REUTERS another of the researchers. Arctic animals cope with climate change

NY-ALESUND, Norway: two weeks and it’s been that way pre-industrial levels. For now, reindeer, fox and When it comes to coping with ever since,” said Maarten Loonen, On Svalbard, temperatures geese populations in the Arctic climate change in the Arctic a Dutch ornithologist who studies shot up an average of 2.5 degrees are all stable, according to the region, which is warming at the archipelago. Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) International Union of Nature, three times the global average, The revised travel schedule over the last century, far exceed- which tracks at-risk species. some animals are more equal does not seem to pose a problem. ing the global increase of 0.8 C But scientists are tracking than others. Indeed, the number of goslings since the pre-industrial era. them carefully for signs of trouble. Migrating Barnacle geese that that hatch each season has more Other animals have not man- The travails of polar bears, fly north to lay eggs amid the than doubled in two decades, from aged to adapt as well as the geese which no longer have as many Norwegian Arctic’s craggy peaks 15,000 to some 35,000. to these rapid changes. floating ocean perches from and melting glaciers are adapt- But experts caution that the The freezing rain that often which to hunt seals, has been well ing very well, thank you, at least geese may be thriving in spite of falls now instead of snow, for documented. for now. climate change, not because of example, is making it harder for This shrinking hunting ground Reindeer, foxes and polar bears, it: their growing numbers, they foxes and reindeer in Svalbard to may be one reason they have however, are having a harder time suspect, are mainly due to strict get a meal. taken to scarfing down the ready of it. Just finding enough to eat European conservation laws. The animals cannot break supply of goose eggs, a high- can be a struggle. The Arctic has warmed more through the frozen rain to reach protein snack for the lumbering The geese — which leave than any other region on Earth, their food supplies. “During win- carnivores. Their new foraging Scotland each year by the thou- an amplifying effect linked to sea ter the foxes sometimes have habits have also brought polar sands — have come like clockwork ice loss and changes in atmos- trouble accessing their stockpiles bears into closer contact with since time immemorial in the pheric and ocean circulation. of gosling cadavers that they bur- humans, who they slightly out- Spring to Spitsbergen and other In December, 195 nations will ied in reserve,” said Loonen. number here. islands in the Svalbard archipel- gather in Paris with a mandate to Svalbard reindeer, which eat Svalbard — one-and-a-half ago to nest. forge a planet-saving climate pact. lichen and moss, have hoofs times the size of Switzerland — An artist’s impression of a large, active predator called Pentecopterus Until, that is, a few years ago. Their goal: prevent average global designed by evolution to clear the is home to some 3,000 polar bears decorahensis that lived 467 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. “In 2007 they suddenly pushed temperatures from rising more snow off their food supply in winter. and 2,500 homo sapiens. forward their 3,000km trip by than two degrees Celsius above But against ice, they are useless. AFP

Critics vote Mad Max best movie Venice film fest on a roll with Oscar-lucky openers VENICE: The Venice Film hopes to stay on a winning unknown Baltasar Kormakur real-life disaster that befell sev- the transgender film The Danish of the year Festival is having a good run streak when the mountain from Iceland but boasts an eral expeditions on the world’s Girl, Israeli director Amos Gitai’s with opening films winning disaster film Everest kicks off all-star cast, including Jake highest mountain in 1996 — biopic on Yitzhak Rabin, Rabin, MADRID: International crit- Oscars, including best picture the 72nd edition today. Everest Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley filmed in 3D to boot. the Last Day, and Beasts of No ics have voted Mad Max: Fury last year for Birdman, and is directed by the relatively and Josh Brolin re-enacting a It is not competing for the Nation, which stars Idris Elba Road as their best film of “Lion d’Or” top prize, but it is (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) the year, their main federa- just the kind of film that Alberto and is based on a novel about a tion said yesterday. The action Barbera, the festival’s director, is child soldier in Africa. movie shot by Australian looking for as an opener — hav- Out of competition, the festi- director George Miller will be ing scored a hit not only with val will host the premiere of Black awarded the Grand Prix of the Birdman but also with the space Mass, with Johnny Depp portray- International Federation of thriller Gravity the year before. ing the Irish-American gangster Film Critics (FIPRESCI) at the “The most difficult thing is to Whitey Bulger, and Spotlight, San Sebastian film festival in identify the film for the open- starring Michael Keaton as an Spain on September 18. ing night because it’s a sort of a editor involved in the Boston “You could have knocked me special category of film,” Barbera Globe’s Pulitzer-Prize winning over with a feather! It’s lovely said in an interview. “It has to be investigation of priests serving to have this great cohort of crit- spectacular enough, not too vio- in the Roman Catholic church in ics acknowledge our collective lent because the audience of the Boston. labours in this way,” Miller said in opening night is different from “Venice has been doing a really the statement. The vote saw 493 the rest of the festival. good job in the last couple of of the world’s top critics choose “It’s made of guests, repre- years of focusing the lineup,” said from among movies premiered sentatives of the public institu- Scott Roxborough, a European- after July 1, 2014. tions, authorities, whatever, not based critic and reporter for Mad Max: Fury Road, starring cinephiles, so you have to find a The Hollywood Reporter trade Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron mix of elements that combine the publication. — the fourth film in the apocalyp- many expectations of the audi- “It’s not as big as the Toronto tic adventure franchise. ence,” he said. Film Festival, and it doesn’t have AFP Barbera is proud not only of the sort of aura of Cannes or grabbing Everest, showing out of Berlin, which are just massive. competition, but also for luring a Venice is much more limited... raft of prestigious films, directors but they do a good job of balanc- and actors for a festival that in ing a handful of films that will be some film circles, before Barbera interesting later in the year for took the reins a few years ago, Oscar nominations.” was said to be sinking into the There are 21 films in the main lagoon, with the rest of Venice. competition strand this year, Some of the top movies in the and the prizes will be awarded A worker cleans the area in front of the entrance of the venue for the 72nd Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, competition strand include Eddie on Sept. 12. yesterday. Redmayne playing the title role in REUTERS Wednesday 2 September 2015 18 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 Volume 20 Number 6541 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Global woes hit Qatar stocks for second month Index down 1.88pc on month-on-month and 7.09pc year-to-date on China, oil worries; Telecom worst hit in Aug BY SATISH KANADY 4.98 percent and 1.23 percent, dampened the near term sentiment, steep decline in the petrochemi- performers in terms of value in Reuters. Saudi Arabia’s main stock respectively. analysts told The Peninsula. cal sector. The Qatar stock mar- August. Sector-wise, Banks and index fell 1.1 percent with all sec- DOHA: Weighed by oil slump Of the telecom stocks, Ooredoo The positive correlation with ket recorded highest half yearly Financial services was the value tors in the red. China is the second- and China worries, Qatari tumbled 13.77 percent and Vodafone oil price and geopolitical tension earnings growth at 14 percent in leader, accounting for 41.37 percent biggest market for the kingdom’s stocks ended in red for the crashed 10.04 percent. Gulf were the main reasons behind the the GCC equity markets”, QNB of the total traded value. exports and a hard landing for its second consecutive month in International, Commercial Bank weakness for GCC Equity market noted in its ‘investment outlook’ Ending a five-day rally, the mar- economy would have a big impact August. Shares in telecom and Barwa Real Estate were the in August. The volatility in the oil yesterday. ket declined 1.28 percent yesterday on Saudi Arabia. stocks crashed 12.66 percent in top losers. Barwa was down by 12 prices kept investors uncertain of “The lackluster performance of to finish at 11,563 points. Again, tel- Dubai’s benchmark dropped 2.1 the past month. The benchmark percent compared to the previous the market direction and limit their Qatari equities in 2015 was fur- ecom was the main drag. The sector percent in another broad sell-off index was down 1.88 percent on month. Nearly QR18bn evaporated participations, QNB analysts said. ther compounded by the China- plunged 3.69 percent, with Ooredoo which affected all sectors. Abu month-on-month; and 7.09 per- from the market, as the market cap “The first half earnings in induced global equity sell-off last tumbling 4.89 percent. Vodafone Dhabi’s bourse fell 2.6 percent. cent year-to-date yesterday. plummeted to QR608bn from the Saudi, the biggest market in the week, falling to 8 percent year-to- slipped0.99 percent. Egyptian stocks were down 0.7 The entire stocks, barring four, previous month’s QR626bn. region, witnessed a decline of 12 date (ytd) as of August 27”, said Stock markets across the Middle percent after a 2.8 percent jump the ended in red in August and the The slump in oil prices com- percent compared to the same analysts at NBK. East fell yesterday alongside steep previous day triggered by the dis- Industrials and Banking stocks, pounded by Chinese imbro- period last year in spite of good The Commercial Bank, Masraf drops in global stock prices because covery of a potentially huge gas field two sectors which have maximum glio, is continuing to send jitters results recorded by the banking Al Rayan, Gulf International, of renewed uncertainty about the off the country’s Mediterranean weightage in the index, tanked among traders. Oil price drop has sector which were offset by the QNB and Barwa were the top five state of China’s economy, reported coast. THE PENINSULA QDB launches Al-Fikra for start-ups Opec Bulletin article that fuelled rally baffles insiders

LONDON: An Opec publication written by the exporter group’s public relations team helped oil prices jump and prompted spec- Oil tumbles 8pc as ulation over a possible shift in output policy — to the bafflement of some Opec insiders. weak China data The commentary on Monday in the Opec Bulletin, a magazine issued by Opec’s Vienna revives growth fears headquarters, said downward pressure on prices due to higher production “remains a NEW YORK: Oil prices tumbled 8 cause for concern” and Opec “stands ready percent yesterday in volatile trading to talk to all other producers”. that sent Brent futures back below $50 While the 799-word article helped add a barrel as weak Chinese data revived another 8 percent to oil’s three-day surge, concerns about demand for petroleum by yesterday it seemed clear there was no after crude’s three-day rally of more sign of a significant shift in Opec policy or than 20 percent. “It was primarily the any indication of a fresh push to shore up China fear factor,” Carsten Fritsch at markets, analysts and Opec insiders said. Commerzbank in Frankfurt told the A Gulf delegate said the Bulletin reflected Reuters Global Oil Forum. Officials attending a press briefing to announce the programme. SALIM MATRAMKOT genuine concern in the Opec about falling Brent crude slumped $4.59, or 8.48 prices but it did not signal a policy shift or percent, to settle at $49.56 a barrel, after DOHA: Qatar Development Bank chose an idea and a plan. After that, enterprises sector.” pending production cut. falling as low as $49.24. Brent rose $4.10, (QDB) yesterday announced the the selected entrepreneurs go through Phinda Vilakazi, President Sasol Qatar “I see it as a message sent to the market or 8.2 percent, on Monday, extending its launch of the fourth edition of the a final phase of assessment. said: “Sasol Qatar is honoured to be the that we are willing to talk to non-Opec, we rally to a third day as oil prices recovered “Al-Fikra” competition for start-ups, The competition is designed to main sponsor of this year’s “Al-Fikra” are concerned about prices and we are not from their lowest since the global finan- in collaboration with a host of spon- encourage people to start their own busi- competition for start-ups, a platform closing our eyes to what’s going on.” cial crisis. Brent fell to a 6-1/2-year low at sors and partners. ness and to spread the culture of entre- we have long supported where youth Another Opec insider said: “I found it sur- $42.23 on August 24 as plunging Chinese The competition aims at nurturing preneurship in Qatar, as the competition can present their innovative ideas and prising,” referring to the jump in prices on equities markets battered global markets. Qatari entrepreneurs’ talent through reflects the great value of owning busi- receive the support they need to further Monday. “The Bulletin wasn’t saying anything US crude fell $3.79, or 7.7 percent, to mentoring their innovative businesses, ness relationships with investment develop their projects. Sasol has always new.” The Bulletin, a glossy magazine, is writ- settle at $45.41, after dropping as low as which will contribute to the economic and banking institutions and strategic believed in the potential of the Qatar’s ten by Opec’s PR department based in Vienna $45.13 following an 8.8 percent gain on diversification QDB targets. The compe- partners. youth and their ideas through our many and lists 12 editorial staff. It is reviewed by Monday. REUTERS tition will take place for three months, Abdul Aziz Bin Nasser Al Khalifa, community initiatives. We are pleased to senior officials at the Opec secretariat before from September till the third week of Chief Executive Officer of QDB said : be supporting this great initiative.” publication. with the policy adopted in 2014 of defend- November 2015. The bank has collabo- “Organising “Al-Fikra” competition Said Alistair Routledge, President and In the magazine, the following disclaimer ing market share, even after the slide in oil rated with Sasol, the international inte- comes within the framework of our General Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar: appears under the heading “editorial policy”: prices to their lowest in more than six years grated energy and chemical company, commitment to support entrepreneurs “ At ExxonMobil Qatar, we’re committed “The contents do not necessarily reflect the last month. as the official sponsor of the national and SMEs. “Al-Fikra” competition is to providing the energy to drive human official views of Opec nor its member coun- While Saudi Arabia has not commented competition, and ExxonMobil Qatar as designed to attract the largest possible ptential by helping to build a workforce tries.” While the Bulletin has included simi- publicly, some had seen the Bulletin as indi- a platinum sponsor. The bank is also col- number of entrepreneurs and SMEs to that can sustain Qatar’s future- a feat lar commentaries on the market before — in cating a shift. “Yesterday the market got laborating with Qatar University and add value to Qatar’s economy. Qatar which will only be achievable through April it criticised unidentified non-member somewhat excited by the editorial of the Opec Carnegie Mellon University to provide Development Bank’s role is to support close collaboration with partners such as countries for not cooperating in propping up Bulletin,” said Olivier Jakob, oil analyst at academic support for the contestants. them in every possible way, and to con- Qatar Development Bank, and initiatives prices — it does not tend to move oil prices. Petromatrix. “This was read by some market “Al-Fikra” competition is divided tribute to the economic diversity of the such as the Al Fikra Business competi- Traders are wondering whether Opec and participants as making a first overture for a into two phases, the first phase is too state and to support small and medium tion.” THE PENINSULA its de-facto leader Saudi Arabia will stick change of policy.” REUTERS

Be vigilant on China as global economic growth weakening: IMF

JAKARTA: Global economic university students at the start Indonesia for the first time in growth is likely to be weaker of a two-day visit to Indonesia’s three years, said Southeast Asia’s than earlier expected, the head capital. largest economy had the “right of the International Monetary The IMF in July forecast glo- tools to actually react” to the glo- Fund said yesterday, due to a bal growth at 3.3 percent this bal volatility. slower recovery in advanced year, slightly below last year’s Indonesia has never been economies and a further slow- 3.4 percent. Lagarde said China’s more prepared to handle global down in emerging nations. economy was slowing, although economic uncertainty, stemming IMF Managing Director not sharply or unexpectedly, as from concerns like China’s slow- Christine Lagarde also warned it adjusts to a new growth model. down and depressed commodity emerging economies like “The transition to a more prices, she said. Indonesia to “be vigilant for spill- market-based economy and the “You have very sound pub- overs” from China’s slowdown, unwinding of risks built up in lic finances with overall gov- tighter global financial conditions, recent years is complex and could ernment debt in the range of and the prospects of a US inter- well be somewhat bumpy,” she twenty-ish percent relative to est rate hike. “Overall, we expect said. “That said, the authorities GDP, you have a relatively small global growth to remain moderate have the policy tools and financial deficit,” she said before meeting IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (left) gestures to Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo during a press and likely weaker than we antic- buffers to manage this transition.” with Indonesian President Joko conference at the presidential palace in Jakarta yesterday. ipated last July,” Lagarde told Lagarde, who is visiting Widodo. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Major powers Trade union protest in Indonesia Automakers post solid call for rethink US sales in August

NEW YORK: Automakers of EU bond rule posted strong US auto sales in August, with crossover vehicles and pickups contin- Germany, France, UK against move uing to see robust demand amid low gasoline prices and LONDON: Germany, France offered and traded prices for “liq- an improving jobs market. and Britain are seeking amend- uid” or heavily traded debt. General Motors, the larg- ments to new EU rules that aim The three countries believe that est US automaker, said it sold to increase transparency in bond too much transparency could be 270,480 vehicles last month, trading, arguing that the cur- harmful and cause investors to pull a gain of 6 percent from rent proposals could have nega- out. Banks say too much transpar- August 2014. “GM’s retail tive unintended consequences for ency would see bond markets dry sales increase far outpaced investors and markets. up at a time when policymakers the industry in August, and In a joint letter to the European already worry liquidity is too low to we have grown our retail share Commission, the three countries cope with stresses such as expected Indonesian trade union supporters march towards the Presidential Palace in Jakarta yesterday. Thousands for five months in a row com- said the rule changes now proposed rises in interest rates. of workers protested against job cuts and called for higher wages, raising pressure on the government as it pared to last year,” said Kurt could result in “significant negative Brussels is also launching a struggles to kickstart an economy growing at its slowest in six years. McNeil, GM’s US vice presi- implications for the proper func- “capital markets union” to raise dent of Sales Operations. tioning of these vital markets”. more funds for growth from bonds GM said it had adjusted the Conversely, some financial and stocks to ease the continent’s month’s sales for the shifting instruments that should face heavy dependence on banks. Labor Day holiday, which left greater transparency have not The three countries also this year’s August period with been included, they said in the expressed concern in their letter Central banks to dump $1.5trn 26 selling days, compared with letter dated August 25. It was also that ESMA’s draft rules would lead 27 for last year. In unadjusted addressed to the EU securities to a “de-facto ban on non-inde- numbers, GM’s August sales watchdog, the European Securities pendent investment advice as com- fell 0.7 percent. and Markets Authority (ESMA). monly practiced today throughout forex reserves by end-2016 Ford Motor said it had its The rule changes are due to numerous member states”. best August US sales in nine come into effect in January 2017. The rules would also introduce a LONDON: Central banks co-author of the report, said the almost $4 trillion. China and years. The number-two US They are part of a revamp by the “new ban” on investment research will sell $1.5 trillion foreign $1.5 trillion estimate is based on emerging markets led the build automaker said it sold 234,237 European Commission and ESMA being paid from trading commis- exchange reserves by the end of the pace that emerging markets up in global forex reserves follow- vehicles, a 5 percent increase of the EU’s Markets in Financial sions, which the countries said was next year as they try to counter — especially China — have been ing the 1997 Asian crisis to a peak year-on year. Sales of F-Series Instruments Directive (MiFID II), “not foreseen” in the framework capital outflows stemming from drawing down their FX reserves of $12 trillion last year. pickup trucks jumped 5 per- to set new standards for trading law. Draft rules on access of trading slowing growth in China, low recently to counter capital flight. This cash pile shielded them cent to 71,332 units, the best financial instruments that take platforms to clearing houses, and oil prices and an impending rise “The risks are it’s actually from the 2007-08 crisis, and monthly result since 2006. The into account lessons from the the need to take into account phys- in US interest rates, Deutsche faster than that,” Saravelos said. looks like it is once again being company is stepping up pro- financial crisis and advances in ical trading activity when deciding Bank said yesterday. Also yesterday, analysts at deployed. duction of its new aluminum- trading technology. which firms come under the scope This would mark a major shift Dutch bank Rabobank published The Deutsche estimate is the bodied F-150 pickup. Germany, France and Britain of MiFID, also need revisiting, they in global capital flows, ending two a report estimating that China latest of many from analysts try- Italian automaker Fiat said the proposals “do not reflect said. The three countries said their decades of reserve accumulation sold up to $200bn of reserves ing to determine just how much Chrysler Automobiles’s US the agreement” made by mem- points should be addressed before by emerging markets and poten- in the last few weeks of August China’s slowdown and recent cur- unit, FCA US, said it had its ber states and the European the draft rules are submitted to tially forcing the Federal Reserve alone. China is by far the biggest rency devaluation, low commodity best August sales in the United Parliament in the framework law member states for approval. The into slowing down the unwinding holder of FX reserves in the world prices, the prospect of higher US States since 2002 at 201,672 that has been approved. European Parliament has also of its “quantitative easing” crisis- with around $3.65 trillion, mostly rates and recent market volatility vehicles. The results were Many bonds are traded bilater- raised concerns about the poten- fighting stimulus. thought to be in dollar-denomi- will deplete global reserves. driven higher by an 18 percent ally but ESMA has proposed that tial consequences of ESMA’s draft George Saravelos, currency nated assets like US government Bond and currency markets jump in its Jeep brand. AFP traders should publicly display the rules. REUTERS strategist at Deutsche and bonds and bills. Last year, it had will feel the impact. REUTERS

No plans to Dutch Central Bank gives pension funds 12 years to recoup impose tax on AMSTERDAM: The The longer recovery plans the coverage ratio of the aver- considered one of the most robust the central bank is not taking Netherlands’ Central Bank will allow 154 troubled funds to age Dutch fund was 104 percent in the world. a hard line on the other side of yesterday gave Dutch pension restore their solvency gradu- at the end of July. The largest In July, the central bank the equation, expected returns. individuals, funds, which include some of the ally and “almost entirely from Dutch fund, ABP, with more than announced it would measure It is allowing funds to calculate largest in the world, 12 years to expected returns on investments.” €300bn of assets under manage- pension liabilities more strictly a return of 7 percent on equities says Kuwait rectify low funding ratios. It did not name the funds. ment, reported a coverage ratio of than required by European rules, and a 4.7 percent overall average In the past, funds had been Dutch funds are considered 100.9 percent as of July 31. by assuming that interest rates return. KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Deputy required to repair their funding under stress when their coverage The DNB announcement comes will remain low into the distant “A number of mostly larger Prime Minister and Minister of ratios — their current estimated ratio falls below 104 percent; they seven years since the onset of the future. The Aon Hewitt analysis funds are choosing to assume Finance Anas Al Saleh said that assets compared with their esti- are only allowed to increase pen- financial crisis, after the central estimated that coverage ratios at this maximum allowed return on there is no government plans to mated future obligations — within sion payments to match inflation bank completed a review of recov- Dutch pensions fell by about 4 investments,” the bank said in a impose taxes on individuals. three years by cutting pension once their coverage rate returns ery plans for funds that needed percentage points as a result of statement. “Whether this return Speaking to Al-Rai newspaper payouts and increasing premiums. to above 110 percent. to restore their funding ratios. the change. will actually be achieved is of yesterday, Al Saleh said the gov- But the central bank said neither An analysis by Aon Hewitt Roughly two-thirds of Dutch pen- But the announcement of the course dependent on development ernment is considering impos- would be necessary. published last month found that sions are under stress, in a system results of the DNB review show in the markets.” REUTERS ing taxes on national and foreign companies not individuals. The minister also noted that value added tax would not be Fully automated fast food restaurant applied in Kuwait till an agree- ment was reached among GCC Google changes logo countries to apply in all GCC member states as per the recom- mendations of the IMF. He said the governmental sub- to suit mobile devices sidy on items and services need reforms, adding that it should only SAN FRANCISCO: be provided to those in need to Google yesterday reduce the government spending. refreshed its logo to bet- As for following the UAE’s footstep ter suit mobile devices in lifting subsidy of fuel, Al Saleh that are supplanting said that the ministry is awaiting desktop computers when the results of a study conducted by it comes to modern a consultative body on the conse- Internet lifestyles. quences of the lifting fuel, electric- Google’s logo keeps its ity and water subsidy. QNA four-colour scheme but shifts to a soft sans-serif font. The company is also replacing the well-known Iraq’s southern blue lower case “g” icon with an a newly formed parent company upper-case “G” combining blue, called Alphabet. The plan calls oil exports slip green, red and yellow. for Alphabet to be the corpo- The 17-year-old Internet com- rate parent, with an operating slightly in Aug pany is keen to follow users of its unit for Google and its related A customer picks up her lunch from an automated cubbie at eatsa, a fully automated fast food restaurant online products onto new genera- search operations, and a handful BASRA: Iraq’s southern oil in San Francisco, California. eatsa, an automated fast food restaurant that has no servers, wait staff and a tions of Internet-linked devices of other operating firms created exports in August fell to 3.021 virtual cashier that offers fresh quinoa bowls opened in San Francisco’s Financial District. such as smartphones, tablets and for projects in health, Internet million barrels per day (bpd) on watches. “We’re introducing a delivery, investment and research. average from 3.064 million in new logo and identity family that While Google is known as July, officials from the state-run reflects this reality and shows you the dominant player in Internet Southern Oil Company said. when the Google magic is work- search, it has launched a variety Shipments reached a record in Saudi Telecom to spend $1bn for network ing for you, even on the tiniest of projects in recent years that July after Iraq’s decision to split screens,” the California-based are marginally related at best to crude stream into two grades, DUBAI: Saudi Telecom Co (STC) expects to spend STC, the Gulf’s largest telecom operator by market firm said in a blog post. its core operation. Basra Heavy and Basra Light, to another $1bn in the second half of 2015 on enhanc- value, is the dominant force in the kingdom’s telecoms “We’ve taken the Google logo The projects include self-driv- resolve quality issues. Some com- ing its networks as it tries to meet surging demand market. Rival operators Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) and and branding, which were origi- ing cars, Google Glass, Internet panies working in Iraqi oilfields for web-based services, its chief executive said Zain Saudi are both loss-making. nally built for a single desktop balloons, drones, health care, increased production following yesterday. Biyari, who became CEO in April, predicted services browser page, and updated them Google TV, mobile payments, the move. Oil ministry attributed The SR3.9bn outlay repeats STC’s capital expendi- for corporate clients would be “the engine of growth” for a world of seamless comput- home automation and its Google+ the dip to “some limited techni- ture in the first six months of 2015 and lifts this year’s for STC because Saudi’s consumer telecoms market is ing across an endless number of social network, among others. cal problems”. Exports from Iraq’s spend to a four-year peak. “STC is continuing to invest saturated. There are 1.8 mobile phone subscriptions per devices and different kinds of The Google unit, to be headed north via Ceyhan in Turkey aver- in both mobile and fixed (networks) and modernising resident, one of the highest penetration levels globally. inputs — such as tap, type and by current company vice presi- aged 57,000 barrels bpd, bringing our IT systems — we want to ensure our network is STC, which own stakes in operators in the Gulf, talk.” dent Sundar Pichai, will include the nationwide total exports to second to none,” STC chief executive Khaled al-Biyari Turkey, South Africa and Asia, has switched its focus The unveiling of the new logo search, ads, maps, YouTube, 3.078 million bpd, the oil ministry said. “The growth in data traffic we’re experiencing is to the domestic market in recent years, a decision that came just weeks after a surprise Android and related technology statement said. REUTERS unmatched ... which is putting stress on the network.” helped revive the company’s fortunes. REUTERS reorganisation of Google under infrastructure. AFP WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 China contracts, eurozone and US slow China PMI at 3-year low; Markit reading at 6-1/2 yr low

LONDON: China’s giant man- analysts. A reading below 50 sug- export orders again contracted, ufacturing industry contracted gests contraction in activity. even if at a less rapid pace than and eurozone and US growth A private survey from Markit/ before,” Neumann, co-head of eased in August in data pub- Caixin showed China’s factory Asian Economics research, said. lished yesterday, while the sector shrank at its fastest pace Eurozone manufacturing International Monetary Fund in almost 6-1/2 years last month, growth eased in August, adding cut its forecast for world growth with the PMI dropping to 47.3, to the ECB’s woes as it battles to this year. the lowest since March 2009, from spur expansion and inflation with Stocks on major markets tum- July’s 47.8. Even China’s services an asset purchase program. bled along with commodity prices sector, which has been one of the Markit’s final manufacturing following the data, with markets few bright spots in the sputtering PMI for the eurozone was 52.3 still trying to gauge the likelihood economy, showed signs of cooling, last month, down from 52.43 in of a September interest rate hike expanding at its slowest rate in July, though it has been above the by the Federal Reserve. “It’s all more than a year, Markit said. 50 mark that separates growth consistent with a global economy “Today’s reading suggests that from contraction for over two which clearly is struggling to manufacturing activities in China years. The disappointing readings make any significant headway,” remain weak. We now expect GDP come almost half a year after the said economist Peter Dixon at to grow by an annual 6.4 percent ECB began pumping 60 billion Commerzbank. “As a consequence in the third quarter,” ANZ bank euros a month of fresh cash into central banks which are thinking economists said. the economy and a day after offi- about raising interest rates in the Indian manufacturing growth cial data showed inflation in the near future will be looking at these slowed but remained positive 19-country bloc at just 0.2 per- numbers and it will maybe give with the Nikkei India manufac- cent. In one bright spot, eurozone them a little pause for thought.” turing PMI compiled by Markit unemployment unexpectedly fell Global economic growth is at 52.3 from July’s 52.7. Japanese to its lowest level in more than likely to be weaker than earlier data went against the trend, with three years in July, official data expected, the head of the IMF its manufacturing growth the showed. However, a two-year Employees work on an assembly line producing Mercedes-Benz cars at a factory of Beijing Benz Automotive said, due to a slower recovery in strongest in seven months, rein- spell of jobs growth across British Co in Beijing. Activity in China’s manufacturing sector contracted at its fastest pace in three years in August, an advanced economies and a further forcing expectations the economy factories came to an end last official survey showed yesterday, reinforcing fears of a sharper slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. slowdown in emerging nations. will rebound from a second-quar- month as manufacturing activ- Activity in China’s manufac- ter contraction. ity expanded at a slower pace, turing sector contracted at its In a sign of slowing global suggesting the sector is unlikely manufacturing sector slowed to pressures are keeping the recov- growth slowing in August, with fastest pace in three years in demand, exports from South to boost economic growth much its weakest in almost two years in ery on track,” said Tim Moore, its PMI at 51.1 from 52.7. August, according to official data, Korea dropped nearly 15 percent there this quarter. August, with the Markit PMI fall- senior economist at Markit. Canada’s factory activity con- reinforcing fears of a sharper in August from a year earlier, “Sterling’s appreciation and ing to 53.0 in August, down from “Reflecting this, new orders tracted in August, with the slowdown in the world’s second- with shipments to China, the the continued sluggishness of 53.8 in July. from abroad have now fallen Markit/RBC PMI falling to a 49.4 largest economy despite a flurry United States and Europe all the eurozone economy’s recovery “August’s survey highlights in four of the past five months, from 50.8 in July. Brazil’s Markit/ of government support measures. weaker, a trend HSBC’s Frederic suggest that a sustained revival that the US manufacturing sec- which represents the weakest HSBC PMI fell further in August The Chinese government’s Neumann called worrisome for in the export-orientated manu- tor continues to struggle under phase of manufacturing export to 45.8 from 47.2 in July. Brazil’s Purchasing Managers’ Index the global trade cycle. facturing sector will remain a the weight of the strong dollar performance since late 2012.” economy shrank 1.9 percent in the (PMI) fell to 49.7 in August from “The country, after all, has long distant prospect,” said Samuel and heightened global economic A reading from the US Institute second quarter from the previous the previous month’s reading of been a reliable bellwether. Korea’s Tombs at Capital Economics. uncertainty, but resilient domes- of Supply Management (ISM) three months, government data 50.0, in line with expectations of PMI is still negative, and new Growth in the US tic spending and subdued cost also showed US factory activity showed on Friday. REUTERS

AfDB chief to focus on powering Africa India regulator accuses

ABIDJAN: The African a total of 67.22 billion Units of Development Bank (AfDB) Account or about $94bn. “Africa Google of search abuse will focus in coming years on could easily be growing at dou- tackling Africa’s chronic power ble-digit GDP rates if we solve shortages to try to unlock its this problem of energy,” said NEW DELHI: India’s competi- ongoing investigation. But the economic potential and end its Akinwumi Adesina, a former tion investigators have accused company, which dominates vulnerability to fluctuations in Nigerian agriculture minister, Google of abusing its market searches of India’s 300 million commodity prices, its new pres- who was sworn in as the AfDB’s dominance in online searches in Internet users, said it remained ident said. eighth president yesterday. the country, deepening the US confident it complied with Indian Though it boasts nearly a bil- “Energy poverty on the conti- Internet giant’s woes with gov- competition law. lion people, sub-Saharan Africa nent has to be solved as a mat- ernments around the world. “Regulators and courts around consumes about as much power ter of urgency, as a matter of Three years after starting its the world, including in the US, as Spain, with less than five per- scale. This is going to be my investigation, the Competition Germany, Taiwan, Egypt and cent that number, due to poor most important priority,” he told Commission of India’s prelimi- Brazil, have looked into and found generating capacity and limited Reuters in an interview last week. nary report said Google favoured no concerns on many of the issues transmission networks. Two- A development economist its own services when customers raised in this report,” a Google thirds of Africans have no access with a doctorate from Purdue ran searches, suggesting breaches spokesman said in a statement. to electricity. University in the United States, of competition law. “The conduct The report comes as Google The lack of reliable power grids the 55-year-old was elected in of Google is found to be unfair and faces an antitrust case in Europe is a major obstacle to industrialis- May to head the Ivory Coast- discriminatory,” the commission’s where regulators are investigating ing the continent’s economies at a based institution for a five-year 714-page report said. “Google allegations it cheated its rivals by time when Africa hopes to make a term. “Africa has to industrialise,” steers users to its own products distorting Internet search results transition from commodities pro- he said. “We have to add value ... and services, and produces biased in favour of its shopping service. ducer to a manufacturing hub and so that (Africa) does not expose results,” according to the report. Google, which has denied the challenge Asia where labour costs itself to the continued volatility ... The commission, which has allegations, faces a billion-euro are rising. of global prices for commodities.” received but not publicly released fine if found at fault under EU According to the International Africa needs to mimic China the report, is yet to make a final antitrust rules. Energy Agency, Africa requires and other Asian countries’ use The new president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi ruling on the Internet giant. Google has for years been the an additional $450bn in power of an abundant supply of cheap Adesina (right) of Nigeria speaks next to Zambia’s Minister of Finance But the regulator, which leader in Internet search and has sector investment to halve black- labour to take advantage of glo- Alexander Chikwanda during his investiture ceremony in Abidjan yesterday. declined to comment yesterday, turned advertising linked to those outs and achieve electricity access balisation and attract investment, has the power to impose multi- searches into a highly lucrative for all in urban areas by 2040. Adesina said. And as wages rise by over 10 percent annually Africa today to take advantage of million dollar fines on companies business. US regulators concluded As of 2013, the bank — founded in China and elsewhere in Asia, over the past decade, according these wage differentials, especially found guilty of violating com- in 2013 there was not enough evi- in 1964 and funded by African Africa can offer a competitive to China’s National Bureau of in terms of light manufacturing, petition law. Google said it was dence to show the brand manip- nations and shareholder countries edge with its cheaper workforce. Statistics. textiles, footwear and others,” he reviewing the report and coop- ulated its search results to the outside the continent — had lent Wages in China have increased “There’s a lot of opportunity in said. REUTERS erating with the commission’s detriment of competitors. AFP Canada falls into recession OTTAWA: Canada fell into recession in the first half of the year, posting its weakest results since the 2008 global financial crisis, government data con- firmed yesterday. The figures add to escalating fears about the health of the global economy, with world stock mar- kets plunging farther yesterday as more gloomy evidence emerged of China’s economic slowdown — China has been a major engine of global growth. The grim numbers were also bad news for Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, just weeks before elections. The Canadian economy contracted 0.5 percent in the second quarter after retreating 0.8 percent in the previous three months, according Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at Laurel Steel in to Statistics Canada. Burlington, Ontario, yesterday. By comparison, the US econ- omy grew 3.7 percent in the first quarter. where economic management has recession in six years and it is Canada, the world’s fifth-larg- become a defining issue, the fig- the only G7 nation in economic est oil producer, has been hit hard ures were expected to put Harper retreat. by the plunge in world oil prices on the defensive, while bolstering Harper has insisted that, oil from above $100 last year to about opposition calls for a change of aside, the rest of the economy is $52 now. administration. doing well, although the figures On the political campaign trail, This is Canada’s second point to broad declines. AFP WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Beating state debt addiction proves hard for banks UAE central bank requires banks to meet exposure limit by 2019; little progress in developing portfolios

DUBAI: Banks in the United The central bank met with said Jean-Michel Saliba, econo- to prevent any financial collapse, Corporation of Dubai, has increased prepared for more difficult con- Arab Emirates are finding it banks early this summer to mist at BofA. as it did during Dubai’s 2009 debt its lending to the Dubai govern- ditions. “Banks are in a better hard to wean themselves off remind them of the importance In a statement, National Bank crisis. ment by almost $2 billion since position to deal with reduced lending to the government, of moving towards the target of Abu Dhabi said it was “fully Nevertheless, failure to enforce the end of last year, according to foreign liquidity than in 2008 as raising concern about the finan- rather than waiting until the last compliant with the GRE expo- the state exposure rule could be its financial statements. The bank’s then their foreign liabilities were cial sector’s vulnerability if moment, said a senior UAE com- sure limits of the central bank”; seen by foreign investors as an government exposure represents larger than their foreign assets, the state-dominated economy mercial banker. it didn’t elaborate. Officials at indicator of risk in the UAE — over 40 percent of gross loans. whereas now their foreign assets slows. But recent data point towards Emirates NBD and the cen- and a worrying failure of the cen- The Dubai government’s hun- match their foreign liabilities.” During the global credit cri- growing links between banks and tral bank were not available to tral bank to impose its regulatory ger for loans is only likely to But reducing sovereign loan sis of 2009-10, UAE banks were the government, suggesting some comment. will in the face of political obsta- increase in the next few years as exposure does not appear to be hobbled by their links to heavily of the country’s biggest lenders The International Monetary cles. The central bank has not the emirate prepares to host the a major part of many banks’ indebted companies that were may miss the deadline. Fund said in a report last month said how it might penalise banks 2020 World Expo. By then, Dubai’s preparations. wholly or partly owned by gov- Banks’ exposure to the public that it would be “challenging” for that fail to meet the deadline. debt may balloon to $168.5bn from One possible way for banks to ernments of the seven emirates in sector as a percentage of capital banks to obey the rule. The UAE Local governments own large $142bn in 2012, according to the meet the requirement would be for the UAE, especially Dubai. stood at 128 percent in May, up banker estimated as many as five stakes in most of the UAE’s big Institute of International Finance. them to sell part of their loan port- To prevent any repeat, the cen- from 104 percent in 2013 and the banks would be unable to comply banks; this may make it harder Meanwhile, low oil prices folios to other banks; also, govern- tral bank in 2014 required each highest since the late 1970s, ana- by 2019. for the central bank to assert its are expected to slow economic ments could reduce their reliance on bank to limit its exposure to local lysts at Bank of America Merrill With sovereign wealth fund authority, especially if the banks growth, and the start of US bank lending by developing a UAE governments and government- Lynch (BofA) calculated. assets estimated at nearly $800bn, are key to local governments’ eco- interest rate rises as soon as this domestic debt market. But little related enterprises (GREs) to 100 “For banks such as National the government of the biggest nomic plans. month could complicate Dubai’s progress has been made in either of percent of its capital, giving lenders Bank of Abu Dhabi and Emirates emirate, Abu Dhabi, has plenty Emirates NBD, 56 percent servicing of its debts. these areas, the UAE banker noted. a five-year grace period to comply. NBD, it will be difficult to comply,” of money to intervene if needed owned by state fund Investment Saliba said UAE banks had REUTERS

Kazakhstan Aeroflot set to buy struggling agrees $23bn competitor Transaero economic deals

MOSCOW: Russia’s state-con- the symbolic price of one ruble media reported that officials were with China trolled flagship airline Aeroflot (one US or euro cent), citing a reluctant and Aeroflot opposed is set to buy its struggling com- source present at the talks with aid on the grounds that the air- ALMATY: Kazakhstan and petitor Transaero, sources said Shuvalov. Aeroflot is 51 percent lines had got into difficulties due China have signed 25 agree- yesterday. owned by the Russian govern- to their excessive borrowing and ments worth $23bn, aiming to The decision to make an offer ment. It grew out of the Soviet slashing ticket prices. move cooperation dominated by for 75 percent of the capital of monopoly of the same name. The falling spending power of raw materials to products with Transaero was taken at a meet- Transaero, which began operat- Russians has hit international greater added value, the official ing led by First Deputy Prime ing in 1991, is the second-largest carriers and pushed them to site of the Kazakh president Minister Igor Shuvalov and must Russian airline and the country’s reduce their margins and to sell and the state-run wealth fund now be finalised by Aeroflot’s largest privately-owned carrier. In cut-price tickets to fill planes. said yesterday. board, a source close to the gov- the first half of 2015, it carried 5.7 The ruble’s plunge in value has Kazakhstan, a Central Asian ernment said. Aeroflot’s press million passengers compared to also increased costs linked to the nation of 17.5 million, is the secretary Maxim Fetisov con- 10.9 million who flew on Aeroflot. dollar, such as rental and mainte- second-largest post-Soviet oil- firmed to Echo of Moscow radio Transaero has incurred mas- nance of aircraft as well as paying producer after Russia. China has station that “we can say it’s sive debts in recent years as it back dollar-denominated loans. invested billions in mineral-rich true the possibility of consoli- modernised its fleet of mostly Aeroflot has made huge strides Kazakhstan, mainly in oil and dation with Transaero is being Boeing planes and was threat- in recent years to lay to rest its gas, and in infrastructure projects discussed.” ened with bankruptcy. It has no image as a disaster-plagued Soviet serving the industry. Transaero confirmed that a choice but to accept Aeroflot’s carrier, becoming a member of the “We have actively cooperated meeting with Shuvalov took place. offer in order to survive, wrote Sky Team alliance along with Air with China for more than 20 The meeting backed “the con- the Vedomosti business daily. France-KLM and winning inter- years, mainly in the energy sec- solidation of Transaero into the With a fleet of 106 planes, national awards for its service. tor and in extracting other raw Aeroflot group,” the airline said in Transaero serves domestic des- It has resisted the crisis better materials,” Kazakh President a statement on its website. tinations, most European capitals than its peers, but still reported a Nursultan Nazarbayev’s site The airline said the measure as well as long-haul destinations net loss of 3.5 billion rubles ($52.9 quoted him as saying during a would be “in the interests of fur- popular with Russian holiday- million) in the first half of the meeting with Chinese business- ther development of civil aviation makers such as Thailand. It has year. That loss was up 86 percent men in Beijing. and to create one of the largest particularly suffered as Russians from the same period last year. “Yesterday during our con- aviation groups in the world.” have tightened their belts in the However Aeroflot increased structive talks with President Xi It would also be “in the inter- economic crisis and has been hit its passenger numbers by 14 per- Jinping we agreed to create 45 ests of passengers, staff and part- with serious financial losses in cent and its market share by 5.8 joint facilities, and agreements ners of the airline,” Transaero recent months. percent to 37 percent in the first were signed on 25 of them worth said, citing its shareholders. Along with Russia’s third- half of this year thanks to boost- a total of $23bn.” Russian news agency Interfax largest carrier UTair, Transaero ing domestic flights and launching He gave no details. The Chinese reported that Aeroflot was plan- had asked for a financial lifeline a low-cost airline, Pobeda. A composite image of an Airbus A330 of Aeroflot (top) and a Boeing 747 of government did not provide ning to acquire Transaero for from the government but Russian AFP Transaero at the resort island of Phuket, southern Thailand. any details on the agreements reached. Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna issued a Amsterdam boat show statement later, saying it had signed deals worth $5.1 billion Australia keeps rates with Chinese companies as part of the package of contracts agreed during Nazarbayev’s visit. The deals included transport at record low 2pc and energy projects and also covered nuclear, metallurgical SYDNEY: Australia’s central Australian economy was likely to and chemical industries, said bank kept interest rates at a his- be operating with a spare degree Samruk, which manages state- toric low of two percent yester- of capacity for some time, infla- owned stakes in branches of the day, playing down recent global tionary pressures were contained economy. volatility as it noted the econ- and low interest rates were sup- omy was moderately expanding porting borrowing and spending. Total sells filling and inflation contained. “The Australian dollar is adjust- The Reserve Bank of Australia ing to the significant declines in stations in Turkey (RBA), which last lowered rates key commodity prices,” Stevens from 2.25 percent in May, said said of the currency, which has for €325m the Australian dollar was also fallen solidly over the past year. adjusting to lower commodity Analysts said the decision to PARIS: French oil giant Total prices as a decade-long mining leave rates on hold suggested the said yesterday it had agreed to boom unwinds. “The board today prospect of further rate cuts had sell its filling station network judged that leaving the cash rate receded further. in Turkey to the local conglom- unchanged was appropriate at this Capital Economics said while erate Demiroren for ¤325m meeting,” RBA governor Glenn the RBA had mentioned the ($366m). Stevens said in a statement. recent turmoil in global markets, “After operating in Turkey for Visitors on the first day of the international boat exhibition HISWA on water at the Marina-shipyard in Amsterdam, Stevens said the global econ- it had previously stated it did several years, we conducted an in- Netherlands, yesterday. The HISWA fair is the largest water boat show in Europe which runs until September 6. omy was expanding at a moder- not expect falls in equity prices depth review of our position and ate pace, assisted by stronger US in China to have a major impact the competitive environment. We growth as he noted recent soften- on real activity there. concluded that it would be diffi- ing in China and East Asia. “What would really worry the cult to attain a large enough retail He said despite volatility associ- RBA would be signs of a marked market share to achieve the level Skai secures $299m loan for hotels ated with developments in China slowdown in actual economic of profitability expected for our — where stock markets have growth in China,” it said. operations worldwide,” Philippe plunged, sparking fears about TD Securities said the RBA kept Boisseau, Total’s president of DUBAI: Chinese and Arab provided the loan which was will offer rooms and serviced the health of the country’s pow- a “cool head”, and it was under- marketing and services, said in banks have helped Dubai split between Islamic and con- apartments in a development erhouse economy—other financial standable the central bank was a statement. real estate investment firm ventional financing, Skai said in on the manmade island, and markets were relatively stable. comfortable with the Aussie dol- Total will sell 100 percent of Skai Holdings raise a Dh1.1bn a press release. SKAI will also upgrade a hotel “In Australia, most of the avail- lar tracking lower, meaning it did Total Oil Turkiye, which is cur- ($299.5m) loan to build a new It said the issue saw strong in Viceroy Dubai Jumeirah able information suggests that not have to cut the cash rate fur- rently the fifth-largest distribu- resort development on the demand, drawing Dh2.2bn in Village to turn it into a five- moderate expansion in the econ- ther and risk adding further fuel tor of fuel on the Turkish market emirate’s palm-shaped man- subscriptions, suggesting inves- star resort. omy continues,” he said, ahead of to booming Sydney house prices. with its network of 440 filling sta- made island and upgrade an tor confidence in the local real Dubai is seeing strong growth the release of June quarter eco- Westpac’s Bill Evans said he tions. Its share of the market is existing hotel, the company said estate market remains firms in tourists from China. Their nomic growth data on Wednesday. expected rates to be on hold over estimated at 5.5 percent. yesterday. despite depressed oil prices and numbers jumped 27 percent “While growth has been some- the course of 2015 and 2016. Total said it will stay in the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, concerns about a slowdown in the last year, according to Dubai’s what below longer-term averages “Risks around that view are petroleum product market in Industrial and Commercial property market. Department of Tourism and for some time, it has been accom- clearly to the downside with the Turkey through its lubricant Bank of China, Agricultural China State Construction Commerce Marketing. panied with somewhat stronger labour market; momentum in domes- activities, including a blending Bank of China, Bank of China, Engineering Corp (Middle East) Terms of the loan deal, includ- growth of employment and a tic demand; the global economy and plant in Menemen and odor- China Minsheng Banking is the main contractor and a key ing its lifespan and pricing, were steady rate of unemployment over the Australian dollar remaining key less liquefied petroleum gas Corp, Invest Bank and Arab investor in both of Skai’s projects. not disclosed by the company. the past year.” swing factors,” Evans said. operations. African International Bank Viceroy Dubai Palm Jumeirah REUTERS Stevens added that while the AFP AGENCIES WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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LOS ANGELES: Former Los spilled into public view many “Having our debates within the Angeles Lakers team-mates and years ago. press was something I wished one-time bitter rivals Shaquille “I just want people to know would been avoided.” O’Neal and Kobe Bryant have that I don’t hate you. I know you Bryant also recalled an In this May 7, buried the hatchet in an online don’t hate me,” O’Neal, 43, told exchange where he almost came 2003 file photo podcast released yesterday Bryant on the podcast. to blows as a 21-year-old with the Los Angeles where both men addressed their “I call it today a ‘work beef,’ is older, bigger O’Neal. Lakers’ Shaquille long-running feud. what we had. I was young, you “And I realized that I prob- O’Neal (left) and O’Neal and Bryant’s tense was young. But then as I look at ably had a couple of screws loose Kobe Bryant sit relationship was a staple of it, we won three (championships) because I nearly got into a fist- on the bench NBA debate for years during the out of four so I don’t really think fight and I actually was willing during the fourth Lakers successful period of domi- a lot was done wrong. to get into a fight with this man,” quarter of the nance in the early 2000s, when “We had a lot of disagreements, Bryant said. NBA Western the team won three champion- we had a lot of arguments. But I “I went home and I was like, Conference ships and lost a fourth. think it fuelled us both.” ‘Dude, I’ve either got to be the Semi-Finals O’Neal eventually moved to the Bryant, 37, meanwhile said he dumbest or the most courageous Playoff game Miami Heat in 2004 while Bryant wished the frequent rows with kid on the face of the Earth.’” remained at the Lakers, where O’Neal could have been kept O’Neal said he had actually against the San he continues to play as his career private. been left impressed by Bryant’s Antonio Spurs at draws to a close. “To me, the most important nerve in standing up to him. the SBC Center In a lengthy discussion on thing is you keep your mouth “That just showed me ‘You in San Antonio. O’Neal’s “The Big Podcast with shut. There’s no need to go to know what, this kid ain’t going Shaq”, both men expressed regret the press. You keep it internal,” to back down to nobody,” O’Neal at the way their bickering often Bryant said. said. REUTERS

Baseball Results Tampa Bay 6 Baltimore 3 Members of the Young Ideas Cleveland 4 Toronto 2 rugby team warm up before Day is in pursuit Boston 4 NY Yankees 3 a club match in Langa, Cape Miami 4 Atlanta 0 Town’s oldest black township. NY Mets 3 Philadelphia 1 Cincinnati 13 Chicago Cubs 6 of world number Houston 8 Seattle 3 St Louis 8 Washington 5 Colorado 5 Arizona 4 Oakland 11 LA Angels 5 one ranking LA Dodgers 5 San Francisco 4 San Diego 7 Texas 0 EDISON, NEW JERSEY: I felt like, ‘you paid your dues, Jason Day had made a habit of now it’s time to go out and win getting close to the big victory, tournaments.’ Ortiz feasts but now that the Australian “It’s just something that you is closing the deal on the golf have to fail. You fail and you course he has joined Rory learn.” on Big Apple McIlroy and Jordan Spieth at Now Day feels it is his time to the top of the game. thrive. Day’s massive six-stroke romp At Plainfield Country Club on to close on to victory at The Barclays on Sunday, he left the field in his Sunday gave him three wins in dust with eight birdies in a bogey- 500 homers his last four events, including free 62, rolling in long birdie putts the PGA Championship for his on the back nine with a new belief NEW YORK: After hitting maiden major, and sent him to in his stroke. two home runs against the New No place for Trimble in first place in the FedExCup play- “The last six weeks (have) been York Mets over the weekend, off standings. crazy,” he said. Boston Red Sox designated hit- The 27-year-old Day, who has “US Open, The Open ter David Ortiz slugged another battled illness and injuries over Championship, you mix that in against their crosstown rivals, the seasons, felt a turning point at with three other wins. The good the New York Yankees, in a 4-3 Ireland World Cup squad this year’s British Open, where he thing about it is it’s not over. I win at Fenway Park on Monday finished one-shot short of a play- have this great momentum going Ortiz’s blast in the opener of a DUBLIN: Ireland have chosen off at St. Andrews and has been into next week (the Deutsche three-game series was the 495th to go with just two scrum-halves Ireland World Cup Squad unstoppable since. Bank Championship near Boston) of his career, inching him ever for the World Cup, and have “I’m not going to say in the to a course I absolutely love.” DUBLIN: Ireland 31-man squad announced yesterday for the closer to the 500-home run club. omitted experienced winger future it’s going to be like this all Day said before the tournament 2015 Rugby World Cup: He now has 14 homers since the Andrew Trimble. the time, because it’s very difficult that winning the FedExCup could All-Star break and 29 total in Head coach Joe Schmidt opted Backs (14) to win,” said Day, who went to a thrust his name into the Player 2015. to go with with just Conor Murray Full-backs: Rob Kearney (Leinster) hospital this week for an MRI test of the Year discussion that had “It’s exciting for every one of and Eoin Reddan at No.9 in his on his back after feeling a tweak previously seemed reserved for Wings: Tommy Bowe (Ulster), Luke Fitzgerald (Leinster), David Kearney (Leinster), Simon Zebo us,” Red Sox interim manager 31-strong squad, a move which that forced him to withdraw from Masters and US Open winner (Munster) Torey Lovullo said about Ortiz’s allowed him to make room for an The Barclays Pro-Am. Spieth. pursuit of 500. “It’s bigger than extra centre in Ulster’s Darren Centres: Darren Cave (Ulster), Keith Earls (Munster), Robbie Henshaw (Connacht), Jared Payne (Ulster) He said the key was “the men- “I’m currently ranked number a lot of things that are happen- Cave. Fly-halves: Paddy Jackson (Ulster), Ian Madigan (Leinster), Jonathan Sexton (Leinster) tality of ... just keep pushing for- one in the FedExCup, which is ing right now.” Ortiz had two hits, Isaac Boss and Kieran Marmion Scrum-halves: Conor Murray (Munster), Eoin Reddan (Leinster) ward, not being okay with okay. fantastic. There’s three more center fielder Mookie Betts hit a miss out as a result, with props Just keep pushing and pushing tournaments I would love to win, two-run homer and third base- Nathan White and Tadhg Furlong Forwards (17) and pushing.” and I’d love to win the FedExCup,” man Pablo Sandoval also drove in both included as expected. Back-row: Jamie Heaslip (Leinster), Chris Henry (Ulster), Jordi Murphy (Leinster), Sean O’Brien Not only has Day pushed his he said about the series that pays a run as Boston (61-70) ended the “The players have worked (Leinster), Peter O’Mahony (Munster) way past a reputation as a nearly a $10m bonus to the overall points month on a high note. incredibly hard over the past two Locks: Iain Henderson (Ulster), Paul O’Connell (Toulon/FRA, capt), Donnacha Ryan (Munster), Devin man who had a pair of top threes winner. The last-place Red Sox went months,” said Schmidt. Toner (Leinster) at the Masters, two top twos at “I think I have the opportu- 15-12 in August, only their second “Sunday was a difficult and the US Open and tie for fourth nity to get to number one (in the Hookers: winning month of the season. very long day for the coaching Rory Best (Ulster), Sean Cronin (Leinster), Richardt Strauss (Leinster) at the British Open, but he has world) if I play some good golf Eduardo Rodriguez (8-5) sur- team and an anxious one for many Props: Tadhg Furlong (Leinster), Cian Healy (Leinster), Jack McGrath (Leinster), Mike Ross (Leinster), thrust himself into the chase for over the next three or four weeks. vived two bases-loaded jams with players. Nathan White (Connacht) world number one. It’s been a goal of mine. nobody out in his brief five-inning “There were some very tight “I felt like it was my time,” Day “I’m definitely, by far, play- outing, as the Boston left-hander decisions, particularly in the clash, having defeated Scotland career after 16 years and 82 caps. said after his near miss in the ing the best golf of my life.” allowed just two runs -- one back-three and it was also chal- and shared the spoils in two Munster winger Keith Earls is Open at St. Andrews. “Mentally REUTERS earned -- on seven hits and three lenging to make sure that key games against Wales. in the squad despite suffering a walks while striking out four. positions were covered as much Loosehead prop Cian Healy is worrying blow in Saturday’s 16-10 Jason Day of “I just try to get out of that as a squad of 31 players allows. included despite his continued Dublin defeat to Wales. Australia poses inning, try to do the best I can do “A number of players were very fight to recover from neck surgery Schmidt’s biggest call though with the winner’s so I don’t give up too many runs unlucky to miss selection.” in May, while Leinster tighthead was in opting against including a in those innings,” Rodriguez said. Ireland, who are in World Marty Moore misses out owing to third specialist scrum-half, which trophy on the New York (72-58), meanwhile, Cup Pool D up against France, foot trouble. could pose him problems if there 18th green squandered ample opportunities Italy, Canada and Romania, But there was no place for vet- are injuries at the position. alongside his son to win the game by stranding 14 face England at Twickenham on eran centre Gordon D’Arcy, which New Zealand-born prop White Dash and wife runners on base. Saturday in their final warm-up likely means the end of his Test became Ireland’s third-oldest Ellie after his Yankees shortstop Didi debutant of all time last month, six-stroke victory Gregorius (4-for-5) nearly played and has impressed suitably to at the Barclays the hero, barely missing a grand New Zealand flag designs take earn himself a spot in Ireland’s at Plainfield slam with his fly ball to the warn- final 31-man squad. Country Club ing track in right with the bases leaf from rugby union Fast-developing Leinster prop in Edison, New loaded and two outs in the ninth. Furlong only made his Test debut Jersey, on “I thought it had a chance,” WELLINGTON: New Zealanders were presented with four against Wales at the weekend, Sunday. Yankees manager Joe Girardi options for a new flag yesterday, three of them depicting a silver and now finds himself thrust into said. “But obviously it’s a big ball- fern leaf similar to that used on the All Blacks rugby jersey. a World Cup party. park when you start going that The flags were whittled down from more than 10,000 entries in a The 22-year-old did enough in way. I’m not sure how many feet government-sponsored effort to find an alternative to New Zealand’s Dublin at the weekend to dislodge Golf-World Rankings it was from the wall but I thought current banner, which features Britain’s Union Jack in the corner. Michael Bent, whose versatility in it had a chance.” Three of the designs show the silver fern leaf, the informal national covering both sides of the scrum 1. (2) Rory McIlroy (Britain) ...... 12.36 Red Sox closer Jean Machi emblem, with various backgrounds combining red, blue, black and had given him a perceived selec- 2. (1) Jordan Spieth (US) ...... 12.22 pitched the ninth and picked up white. The fourth depicts a spiralling black-and-white koru, or fern tion advantage. 3. (3) Jason Day (Australia) ...... 10.99 the save despite allowing a hit and frond, a traditional Maori symbol of new life and creation. Lock Paul O’Connell cap- 4. (4) Bubba Watson (US) ...... 8.84 three walks and forcing in a run Kiwis will pick their favourite among the four at a referendum tains the squad, fresh from his 5. (5) Justin Rose (Britain) ...... 7.22 with a bases-loaded walk in his later this year and the winner will then go head-to-head against the final Premiership appearance in one inning of work. Ivan Nova existing flag in a second vote next March. Project head John Burrows Ireland colours against Wales. 6. (6) Jim Furyk (US) ...... 7.06 (5-7) was an unlucky loser for said the aim was to find a flag that was “unmistakably New Zealand”. The 35-year-old will retire from 7. (7) Dustin Johnson (US) ...... 6.85 New York. The right-hander gave “It should celebrate us as a progressive, inclusive nation that’s the Test arena after the tourna- 8. (9) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) ...... 6.73 up three runs on seven hits and connected to its environment, has a sense of its past and a vision of ment, and swap home province 9. (8) Rickie Fowler (US) ...... 6.57 struck out three in six innings. its future,” he said. REUTERS Munster for European aristocrats REUTERS Toulon. REUTERS 10. (10) Sergio Garcia (Spain) ...... 5.48 WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT India bag Test series in fine style Visitors end 22-year series drought in Sri Lanka after winning the third and final Test

COLOMBO: India overcame a Virat Kohli, enjoying a series gallant century by Sri Lankan win for the first time as Indian captain Angelo Mathews to win Test captain, said he was delighted the final Test by 117 runs yester- to see the team bounce back after day and end a 22-year wait for a losing the first match. series win on the island. “Being 0-1 down was never The hosts, set a victory target easy,” he said. “I was told it had of 386, were bowled out for 268 never been done before by us after tea on the fifth day at the abroad, so we managed to create Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo a bit of history. to hand the tourists a 2-1 series “It feels nice, especially with scoreline. such a young team early in our Sri Lanka were revived by a careers, to achieve a magnificent 135-run stand for the sixth wicket milestone and win a series here between Mathews and debutant for the first time in 22 years. Kusal Perera, but the dismissal “The attitude has been bril- of both batsmen on either side of liant. That is why we are playing tea sealed their fate. the kind of cricket we are play- Off-spinner Ravichandran ing. There are areas we want to Ashwin finished with four for 69 improve on, but the number of and was named man of the series bad sessions we had in the series for taking 21 wickets in the three were few. I am really proud of the Tests. boys.” Seamer Ishant Sharma took Sri Lanka had slipped to a three wickets in the innings, shaky 107-5 before lunch when including the vital scalp of Mathews and Perera joined Mathews after tea, to take his hands to bat out a major part of tally to 200 wickets in his 65th the afternoon session and lift the Test. hosts to 249-6 by tea. India had fought back after los- Mathews made 110, his seventh ing the opening Test in Galle by Test century and the second in 63 runs to win the second at the successive matches after scoring P Sara Oval in Colombo by 278 102 in the second Test, before he runs and then took the enthral- was trapped leg-before to Sharma ling final Test in the last session in the first over after tea with the of play. second new ball. India’s last series success in Sri Left-handed Perera followed Lanka came under Mohammad his 55 in the first innings with Azharuddin’s captaincy in 1993 70, becoming only the second Sri when they won 1-0. Lankan after Dinesh Chandimal to score two half-centuries in his Scoreboard debut Test. Perera looked set for a bigger India (I innings): ...... 312 score when he was dismissed Sri Lanka (I innings): ...... 201 shortly before tea, playing a India’s cricket team players pose for photographs after their victory during the final day of the third and final Test match against Sri Lanka at the India (II innings): ...... 274 reverse sweep off Ashwin straight Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) in Colombo yesterday. India defeated Sri Lanka by 117 runs in the third and final Test in Colombo to win a series on the Sri Lanka (II innings): to Rohit Sharma at point. U Tharanga c Ojha b I Sharma ...... 0 India grabbed the last five wick- island for the first time since 1993. India won 2-1. K Silva c Pujara b Yadav ...... 27 ets for 26 runs after Sri Lanka D Karunaratne c Ojha b Yadav ...... 0 were sailing at a comfortable D Chandimal c Kohli b I Sharma ...... 18 242-5 before Perera’s dismissal. said. “Our batting flopped again A Mathews lbw I Sharma ...... 110 Sri Lanka began the final ses- although the bowlers were out- L Thirimanne c Rahul b Ashwin ...... 12 sion with a reasonable hope of standing. India batted well but surpassing the difficult target our batting in the first innings England’s Morgan glad K Perera c R Sharma b Ashwin ...... 70 R Herath lbw Ashwin ...... 11 -- needing 137 runs more with a was crucial. We needed to get T Kaushal (not out) ...... 1 possible 36 overs remaining -- but close to 300. D Prasad c Binny b Ashwin ...... 6 India tightened the screws after “If Kusal and I had stayed a bit N Pradeep lbw Mishra ...... 0 tea to emerge victorious. longer at the crease today, it could Mathews said he was disap- have been a different story. to justify Fraser’s faith Extras (B-4, LB-2, NB-7) ...... 13 Total (all out) ...... 268 pointed after gaining the advan- “But India bowled well in the CARDIFF, UK: Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-2, 3-21, 4-74, tage of winning the toss and end.” England 5-107, 6-242, 7-249, 8-257, 9-263. asking India to bat first on a India next host South Africa Twenty20 captain Eoin Morgan Bowling: I Sharma 19-5-32-3 (nb4); Yadav seaming wicket. for a full tour in October, while thanked his county boss Angus 15-3-65-2; Binny 13-3-49-0; Mishra 18-1- “We got them to bat in demand- Sri Lanka play a home series Fraser after marking his return 47-1 (nb3); Ashwin 20-2-69-4. ing conditions, that is why we are against the West Indies at the to cricket with a fine 74 in his very disappointed at losing,” he same time. AFP side’s five-run win over Australia in Cardiff on Monday. Morgan had been struggling Ishant and for runs at domestic level ear- lier in the season, averaging Chandimal 26 in Twenty20, 10.16 in first- class cricket and just 6.66 in the handed 50-over cup. He came into the county season having had a busy period where 1-match bans he led England in their woeful 50-over World Cup campaign in COLOMBO: Ishant Sharma Australia and New Zealand before and Dinesh Chandimal have heading to the Twenty20 Indian been handed one-match sus- Premier League. pensions for behaviour that It led him to ask Fraser, his breached the ICC code of con- boss at Middlesex and also an duct during the SSC Test, while England selector, if he could take Dhammika Prasad and Lahiru some time off from playing for the Thirimanne were fined 50% of Lord’s-based county in a bid to get their match fees. himself in the right frame of mind This means that Ishant will for England duty. miss India’s first Test against The result was Monday’s South Africa, in Mohali, in innings and a stand of 135 in just November, while Chandimal will 75 balls with fellow left-hander England’s Eoin Morgan (left) and Moeen Ali (right) miss Sri Lanka’s opening ODI Moeen Ali (72 not out) that was congratulate England’s Ben Stokes after his three-wicket, against West Indies in November. the centrepiece of England’s 182 Chandimal received “one sus- for five. last over during the Twenty20 (T20) International match pension point”, an ICC release “Before the rest it had been against Australia at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff, south stated, for a breach relating to about 11 months since I’d had a Wales, on Monday. “inappropriate and deliberate break, which is quite a long time physical contact with a player”. to go,” said Morgan. The incident occurred in “If I’d have known I was going dismiss Nathan Coulter-Nile and out. I was trying to get the side the 76th over of India’s second to be that busy in October, hav- complete two run-outs. home and it didn’t work out today. innings, when Chandimal made ing the (England) captaincy role “I hadn’t earmarked Ben, “They finished off just a little what was deemed to be deliber- as well, I would have earmarked before the day had started, for bit better than us with the bat.” ate physical contact with Ishant, a break before then. I’ve never bowling the last over of the game,” England’s innings also saw who was batting at the time, even asked for a break before and this Morgan said. leg-spinner Cameron Boyce bowl while the batsman was in the Indian Test captain Virat Kohli smiles as he holds the trophy after his time Gus and Middlesex were “It was a tough one but he took one over for 19 runs, having trav- middle of an exchange of words exceptional. on the responsibility of bowling elled to Wales all the way from team’s victory during the final day of the third and final Test match against with bowler Dhammika Prasad. “We earmarked this one-day that over really well.” India, where he was playing for Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) in Colombo yesterday. India The ICC release said series, I need to be fresh for that, Morgan also praised Willey, Australia A. Thirimanne had also got involved defeated Sri Lanka by 117 runs in the third and final Test. It was India’s so it’s worked out well.” who starred in England’s T20 win It will likely be his solitary over at this time, despite two warnings first series win in Sri Lanka since 1993. Morgan praised the way inex- over New Zealand in June. of the tour as he has not been from the umpires not to, and he perienced all-rounders David “He’s brilliant,” said Morgan. selected for the upcoming five- hence was fined. Prasad too was from a batsman upon his/her Yesterday in Colombo, Sharma Willey and Ben Stokes bowled at “A bit like Stokesy he just loves match one-day series. fined for his role in this incident. dismissal during an international took three wickets in the innings, the death. responsibility, he likes the lime- Ali and Morgan were well set Ishant received “two suspen- match”. Ishant had also been fined including the vital scalp of Sri Australia’s new Test captain light, he doesn’t shy away from when he came on in the 14th over, sion points” for a separate inci- for two separate incidents dur- Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews Steven Smith was threatening to taking it on.” with Ali striking Boyce for two dent in the final innings of the ing the second Test, when he was after tea, to take his tally to 200 win the match off his own bat and For Smith there was the double sixes and a four. Test, wherein he gave Sri Lanka fined a total of 65% of his match wickets in his 65th Test. had reached 90 off just 53 balls frustration of a defeat and miss- “He was over here for one opener Upul Tharanga a send-off fee for having given send-offs to Sharma joins Anil Kumble, when Willey had him caught at ing out on a maiden T20 hundred. game and I thought he deserved after dismissing him. Thirimanne and Chandimal. Kapil Dev, Harbhajan Singh, mid-wicket. “I thought we timed our run a crack, and (he) tried to get a By doing so, he had breached Hence he received a suspension Zaheer Khan, Bishen Bedi, BS Ashes-winner Stokes then held pretty well. It would have been wicket,” said Smith. “It was quite the ICC codes relating to “using this time. Another such breach Chandrasekhar and J Srinath his nerve when, with Australia nice to have been 100 not out and hard going for him and they got language, actions or gestures in the next 12 months could have as bowlers who have taken more needing 12 off the last over, he win that game for us but it wasn’t him away a bit, but he’ll certainly which disparage or which could him suspended for a fixed period than 200 Test wickets for India. restricted them to six runs. to be,” he said. learn from that and continue to provoke an aggressive reaction going up to a year. AGENCIES Stokes also kept his cool to “I was disappointed when I got get better.” REUTERS WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Serena, Djokovic in easy wins I feel so good. I’m so ready. I’m at home where it all began for me in ’99: Serena

NEW YORK: Three-time defending champion Serena Monday Wrap Williams launched her quest for one exited the US Open at the a historic title Monday by over- first match for the third time in whelming 86th-ranked Russian five years as France’s 41st-ranked Vitalia Diatchenko and advanc- Benoit Paire saved two match ing to the second round of the points to win 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6 US Open. (8/6), 6-4. The world number one was “To beat Nishikori, for me, it a 6-0, 2-0 winner after only 30 was impossible to imagine this,” minutes at Arthur Ashe Stadium Paire said. when Diatchenko retired with “I’m really happy.” a left foot injury, advancing Paire, who had never before Williams into a second-round beaten a top-five foe, fired 21 aces match against Dutch qualifier to only three for Nishikori and Kiki Bertens. blasted 64 winners, 30 more than “If I can just stay relaxed and Nishikori. stay in the points and stay calm “He was very aggressive, so and happy out there, I have to there were many rallies and it was look at it as I have nothing to tough to get rhythm,” Nishikori lose,” Williams told reporters said. afterwards. Nishikori led the tie-breaker The 33-year-old American 6-4 but swatted a forehand long, chases the first calendar Grand watched Paire smack two service Slam since Steffi Graf in 1988 and winners and then Nishikori net- a 22nd career major title to match ted a forehand to force a fifth set. Graf’s Open Era record, two shy Paire, who won his first ATP of Australian Margaret Court’s title last month at Bastad, broke Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia during play against Ana Ivanovic of all-time mark. for a 3-2 lead and held to the fin- Serbia in their 2015 US Open singles match at the USTA Billie Jean King Williams praised the loud New ish to win after three hours and National Tennis Center in New York. York crowd, which has adored 14 minutes. her since she captured her first Reigning champion Marin Cilic major title at the 1999 US Open of Croatia won his opener 6-3, 7-6 “Defending a Grand Slam title Williams lost plenty of poten- as a teen prodigy. (7/3), 7-6 (7/3) over Argentine for the first time for sure is some- tial obstacles in her march to his- “I felt the support and love on qualifier Guido Pella. thing I will learn from,” Cilic said. tory on day one as top-10 women’s this journey and milestone I’m seeds Ana Ivanovic, Karolina trying to take one match at a Pliskova and Carla Suarez time,” Williams said. Navarro exited with opening- “I feel so good. I’m so ready. I’m match losses. at home, where it all began for That left 12th seed Belinda me in ‘99. Bencic -- who ousted Bulgarian “It all feels great,” she added Sesil Karatancheva 6-1, 6-2 -- as on Monday. the top-rated foe in Williams’ half Top-ranked Novak Djokovic of the draw. and eighth seed Rafael Nadal Williams, who lost to Bencic also cruised into the second round in the Toronto semi-finals, could on the men’s side but Japanese see the Swiss teen again in a fourth seed Kei Nishikori crashed quarter-final. out after his US Open runner-up Williams, who owns six US and effort last year. Australian Open and Wimbledon Djokovic needed only one hour titles plus three French Open and 11 minutes to capture a 6-1, crowns, won her 22nd US Open 6-1, 6-1 victory over Brazil’s Joao match in a row since her last loss, Souza. to Aussie Samantha Stosur in the “There’s something I love 2011 final. Williams has won eight about number one for sure,” said Slam titles since then. Djokovic, who plays Austrian Slovakia’s 50th-ranked Andreas Haider-Maurer next. Dominika Cibulkova ousted sev- “Hopefully I can keep it up. If enth-seeded Ivanovic 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, I can, I feel I have a really good delivering the Serb star’s earliest Rafael Nadal of chance against anybody,” Djokovic US Open exit since 2009. Spain reacts after said. After the injury-forced with- defeating Borna Nadal, in his first US Open drawal of Russian third seed Coric of Croatia match since winning in 2013 Maria Sharapova, Ivanovic had during their match after missing 2014 with an injury, been Williams’ top-ranked rival avenged a loss last year at Basel in her half of the draw. on the first day to Croatian teen Borna Coric with That status fell to Czech eighth of the 2015 US a 6-3, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 victory, book- seed Pliskova, who promptly lost Open at the USTA ing a date with Argentina’s Diego to American Anna Tatishvili 6-2, National Tennis Schwartzman. 6-1, and then to 10th seed Suarez Center in Flushing “I missed a lot this fantastic Navarro, who fell to Czech Denisa Meadows, New crowd that gave me unbelievable Allertova 6-1, 7-6 (7/5). support,” Nadal said. One Williams rival who York. The US “Very happy to be back and be advanced was her older sister Open runs through through,” he added. Serena Williams of the US waves after her victory over Vitalia Diatchenko Venus, a seven-time Grand Slam September 13. Djokovic’s highest-ranked of Russia after Diatchenko retired from their match due to an injury at champion. The US 23rd seed out- possible semi-final foe had been the US Open in New York. lasted Puerto Rico’s Monica Puig Nishikori, but the Asian number 6-4, 6-7 (7/9), 6-3. REUTERS Game, set, chat in US Open Superstar Serena credits Graf TV first NEW YORK: Coco Vandeweghe defeated Sloane Stephens 6-4, 6-3 at the US Open on Monday but it was her decision to grant a influence for mental focus television interview mid-match that caused a stir. After wrapping up the first set on Louis Armstrong Court, the NEW YORK: Three-time country I think I would still love 23-year-old American was joined by ESPN pundit and former player defending champion Serena it, but it’s not the same as being Pam Shriver for a courtside chat during the changeover. Williams, chasing tennis mile- an American playing in New York, Vandeweghe admitted she could not remember what she told stones set by Steffi Graf, cred- playing for that ultimate goal.” Shriver but insisted that although she had agreed to ESPN’s request ited the retired German star Williams credits her ability to on the eve of the match, she retained the option to change her mind with inspiring her mental dis- focus and dig deep to find con- at the last minute. cipline on Monday after reach- sistency in her game, “old school” “I could say it two seconds before I walked out on the court. I gave ing the second round of the US traits she admits came from her the nod to go ahead, and then it happened,” she added. Open. watching the grit and toughness Vandeweghe said that she believed the brief 30-second interview, World number one Williams of stars Graf and Monica Seles which covered basic tennis conversation fillers such as being focussed needed only 30 minutes to as a child. and aggressive, could be a winner with fans. advance 6-0, 2-0 over 86th- “I think maybe it just comes “Well, before it happened I was thinking maybe I might lose focus ranked Vitalia Diatchenko at from just growing up and just doing it. But then at the same time we have on-court coaching for Arthur Ashe Stadium, taking watching so much tennis, just WTA events,” she said. her 22nd consecutive US Open enjoying Steffi and Monica, that “You could also lose focus in that way because you’re speaking to triumph since losing the 2011 final era where it was just them,” someone. I think it’s a positive. I think any innovation, it is a posi- to Australian Samantha Stosur Williams said. tive. So I see no harm in it.” when the Russian retired with a “They were such mental players However, not all players shared her enthusiasm, with former world left foot injury. -- just looking at that and being so number one Caroline Wozniacki dismissing it as a fad. Williams is trying to complete influenced by that, thinking one Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin speaks to two women during a changeover “Did I just see Coco do an interview on court, mid match, after the first calendar year Grand day I’m going to be there.” as Borna Coric of Croatia plays Rafael Nadal of Spain in New York. the first set?? Surely you would wanna focus on the game out there? Slam since Graf did it in 1988 and Williams dislikes one poten- No?” tweeted two-time runner-up Wozniacki. But men’s top seed match Graf’s Open Era record of tially distracting idea, that of tel- about what I want to do. I don’t to tap into to do the best that I Novak Djokovic said the idea had merits, although he would not be 22 Grand Slam singles crowns, evision interviews during matches necessarily want to answer ques- can.” tempted to break his routine, especially at a Grand Slam contest. two shy of Aussie Margaret such as one Coco Vandeweghe did tions about anything.” Williams, 33, advanced to a sec- “What I think they’re trying to do here is kind of implement the Court’s all-time record. Monday. Williams says she needs to ond-round match against Dutch same kind of media interaction as in, for example, other sports, like “It’s great to be here in Arthur “Hopefully they don’t make match the fiery inspiration of qualifier Kiki Bertens. basketball after the first or second quarter,” said Djokovic. Ashe Stadium, to be American, that mandatory,” Williams said passion with the calm and focus She would face an American “I don’t know how much it can really work in tennis, but I think just to be on this journey in my on Monday. of discipline to play at her best. in the third round, either the impression of this first interview has been made. I think most life,” Williams said of her pursuit “I think it’s great for some “I definitely feel like sometimes Vandeweghe or Bethanie players in the locker room are talking about. of history. viewers. Get in the mind of the if I’m down I need to have a little Mattek-Sands. “It’s going to be interesting to see if somebody is going to follow “It’s kind of awesome that this athletes. But I also think, for me, fight extra, a little more power “She’s playing well,” Williams up and accept to do the same. I will not, definitely, this tournament. is the last Grand Slam of the year, I’m really focused the whole time. and passion,” she said. “But also, said of Bertens. “She does a lot of But who knows? Who knows what the future brings?” REUTERS because if it were in a different “I’m really trying to think there’s also a calm that I also need things well.” REUTERS WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Halep eases into second round US Open: Safarova joins casualty list after defeat in first round, Wozniacki advances

NEW YORK: Romanian sec- Fourth seeded Caroline ond seed Simona Halep followed Wozniacki reached the second US Open Results the same express path into the round by beating American col- Results from the US Open second round of the US Open lege champion Jamie Loeb 6-2, Women’s Singles Round 1 matches yesterday. as Serena Williams, advancing 6-0. 6-2, 3-0 after New Zealand’s Wozniacki, the 2009 and Elena Vesnina (Russia) bt Marina Erakovic retired with a 2014 runner-up, will face either Simona Halep Laura Robson (Britain) 3-6, 6-3, 7-5; 4-Caroline Wozniacki knee injury yesterday. Christina McHale of the United of Romania (Denmark) bt Jamie Loeb (US) The in-form Halep, who States or Petra Cetkovska of the hits balls to 6-2, 6-0; Karin Knapp (Italy) reached the finals at US Open Czech Republic for a place in the spectators after bt Ajla Tomljanovic (Croatia) tune-up events in Toronto and last 32. her opponent 6-7(1) 6-2, 6-4; Olga Govortsova Cincinnati, barely broke a sweat However, Lucie Safarova joined Marina Erakovic (Belarus) bt 28-Irina Begu on a sunny Arthur Ashe Stadium the US Open seeds casualty list of New Zealand (Romania) 6-1, 0-6, 7-6(3); court, needing a mere 47 minutes yesterday when the Czech left- retired during Wang Qiang (China) bt Maria to see off the 99th ranked New hander became the fourth top-10 their 2015 US Sakkari (Greece) 7-5, 6-2; Zealander. player to lose in the first round. Open Women’s Varvara Lepchenko (US) bt Kirsten Flipkens (Belgium) Top seed Williams, bidding to Sixth-seeded Safarova slipped singles round complete a calendar sweep of to a 6-4, 6-1 defeat to Ukraine’s 6-1, 6-1; Barbora Strycova one match at the the four Grand Slams, advanced Lesia Tsurenko, the woman she (Czech Republic) bt 14-Timea USTA Billie Jean on Monday in similar fashion as defeated in the semi-finals in New Bacsinszky (Switzerland) she was up 6-0 2-0 when Russia’s Haven just last week. King National 7-5, 6-0; 11-Angelique Kerber (Germany) bt Alexandra Vitalia Diatchenko was forced to “I talked with my coach Tennis Center Dulgheru (Romania) 6-3, 6-1; retire hurt. about what to change. I changed in New York, yesterday. Lesia Tsurenko (Ukraine) “I had a good start. I was the serve a little bit, made it a bt 6-Lucie Safarova (Czech aggressive and played my best more active movement,” said Republic) 6-4, 6-1; 2-Simona tennis today,” said Halep who has the 26-year-old Tsurenko of the Halep (Romania) bt Marina yet to get beyond the fourth round tweaks she made from last week’s Erakovic (New Zealand) 6-2, in New York. clash with the Czech, who had 3-0 (Erakovic retired); Johanna “I know I can play my best ten- also beaten her in New York in Konta (Britain) bt Louisa nis here. I have no expectations. 2013. Chirico (US) 6-3, 6-0. Serena is there. I just want to play “I received pretty bad because my best tennis.” she was a lefty. This time I was Navarro, the 10th seed, in failing served to ease Serena Williams’s Five-time champion Roger won five years in succession at Romanian 23-year-old Halep playing at the back more.” to get out of the first round. path to a calender Grand Slam. Federer was to get his bid to Flushing Meadows from 2004- goes on to face either Kateryna Safarova, the French Open With world number three Meanwhile, German 11th seed become the oldest US Open win- 2008, was scheduled to start Bondarenko of Ukraine or Yulia runner-up, joins seventh seed Ana Maria Sharapova having pulled Angelique Kerber, a 2011 semi- ner in 45 years under way, later against Leonardo Mayer, the Putintseva of Kazakhstan for a Ivanovic, eighth-ranked Karolina out of the tournament through finalist, who saw off Romania’s yesterday. 34th-ranked Argentine. place in the last 32. Pliskova and Carla Suarez injury, Safarova’s defeat also Alexandra Dulgheru 6-3, 6-1. Federer, the second seed who AGENCIES Tokyo Olympic committee scraps Action during the scandal-hit logo for 2020 Games friendly match between TOKYO: Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics Qatar SC organisers yesterday scrapped and Al the event’s scandal-hit logo in Markhiya, the latest mishap for the Games recently in after a costs furore forced plans Doha. Qatar for a $2bn new national stadium SC won 3-0. to be torn up. The decision – which comes An employee amid plagiarism claims and takes down a mounting questions about the logo banner with designer’s credibility – caps an the Tokyo 2020 embarrassing month for Olympic Olympic Games officials as the ditching of the sta- emblem during dium means a new showpiece may staged event Qatar SC, Mesaimeer only be ready a few months before for the media the global event. at the Tokyo Japanese Olympic bosses Metropolitan announced their decision at a post preseason wins Government hastily arranged press conference, in a stark reversal just days after Building in Tokyo, DOHA: Qatar Sports Club and new QSL campaign. Meanwhile, they vowed to stand behind the yesterday. Mesaimeer ensured they will Al Gharafa introduced their new logo and designer Kenjiro Sano. go into the new Qatar Stars Iranian signing Masoud Shojaei Officials said their decision League (QSL) season with con- at a press conference on Monday. was not in response to a Belgian fidence by registering impres- Shojaei will replace Australian designer’s lawsuit that alleged sive victories in their friendly midfielder Mark Bresciano. Sano copied his work. matches in Doha. Team Manager Saoud Fath and Instead, they pointed to slump- Qatar SC who enjoyed a suc- the club’s Media Officer Taha Al ing public confidence and evidence cessful run last season by finish- Muhazaa were also present at the that Sano had improperly swiped ing fourth in the lucrative event, press conference. Internet images to highlight loca- and supported by the public,” In recent days Olympic sponsors Tokyo’s emblem is based around thrashed Al Markhiya 3-0 after a Fath informed Shojaei is the tions where his logo could be Tokyo’s Olympic boss said. including national carrier Japan the letter “T” – for Tokyo, tomor- commanding display. fourth and final foreign player to displayed. While Sano has denied copy- Airlines have started using the row and team – with a red circle Ibrahim Jamal, Hamdi Harboui be signed this summer following “We’re certain the two logos are ing Debie’s work, he has admit- logo in their advertising cam- said to represent a beating heart. and Ismail Belmeallem were the the acquisitions of Tunisian Al different,” Toshiro Muto, director ted that his team copied someone paigns, and the changes could The theatre’s design features a goal scorers in one-sided win. Chikhani, the Congolese striker general of the Tokyo Organising else’s designs for work they did on deal a blow to lucrative sponsor- similar shape in white against a Meanwhile,, Mesaimeer who Dioko and the Brazilian defender Committee, said of Belgian Olivier a beer promotion campaign for ship deals. black background. will make their QSL debut this Anderson. Debie’s plagiarism claims. Japanese drinks giant Suntory. The stadium and logo scandals Japanese Olympic officials are season defeated the Bahraini club The star said: “I am so happy “But we became aware of new In online petition with more have become a major embarrass- still smarting over the national Al Muharraq 3-1 in their friendly to join Al Gharafa after repre- things this weekend and there than 22,000 signatures has called ment for Japan, which hosted the stadium fiasco after Abe ordered match at the Al Gharafa ground. senting Al Shahaniya during the was a sense of crisis that we on officials to choose another 1964 Summer Games. plans to be torn up in the face of Abdel Aziz Sherif, Saoud Al Ali previous season. I have encoun- thought could not be ignored. image. When Tokyo beat Madrid and growing anger over its cost. and the Iranian Mohamed Nouri tered Al Gharafa and witnessed “The reason we’re withdrawing Tokyo governor Yoichi Masuzoe Istanbul to host the 2020 event, It was on track to become the scored goals for the winners while some of their matches. It is a big (the logo) is because it no longer reacted angrily to news that the Japan’s capital was widely seen as most expensive sports stadium in Karim Butajin was the lone scorer team with a huge reputation in has public support.” committee was going to scrap the a safe choice with little chance of history. for the losing side. the Qatar Stars League.” Sano himself has asked that his emblem. major delays or funding problems. Last week, Japan said it would Mesaimeer’s Head Coach “I had several offers but logo be pulled to avoid damaging “This is a matter of credibility, Meanwhile, the IOC has slash the cost of the showpiece Rodion Gaanin was keen to field my decision was to go with Al the Tokyo Games, Muto added. and I want first and foremost for rejected the claims and the com- venue by more than 40 percent, several players during the game Gharafa because of their reputa- “We want to create a new Mr. Sano to explain this fully -- mittee’s Muto last week insisted setting a cap of 155 billion yen in order to enhance the players’ tion and the quality players they emblem that represents the I feel I have been betrayed,” he they had no plans to change the ($1.28bn) on construction costs. readiness for the start of the have.” THE PENINSULA Tokyo Olympics and that is loved told reporters earlier yesterday.. logo. AFP Rogers finally receives Athens Games bronze

BERLIN: Australian cyclist attended by This bronze athletes who are awarded an Michael Rogers (pictured) was IOC President medal gives me Olympic medal following a dop- officially awarded an Olympic Thomas Bach, great satisfaction ing case. bronze medal on Monday – 11 Vice-President and adds some- American Hamilton was ini- years after the ride in which he John Coates – thing tangible to tially allowed to keep his medal in earned it. who at the time my great memo- 2004, despite testing positive for The 35-year-old finished fourth was head of ries,” said the blood doping, because the labora- in the men’s individual time trial the Australian Aussie cyclist. tory accidentally destroyed his B in Athens in 2004 but after win- team – and “ I am very sample by deep-freezing it. ner Tyler Hamilton was stripped International delighted after The following year, Hamilton of his gold three years ago for Cycling Union getting the cov- tested positive for a blood trans- doping, Rogers was elevated to (UCI) chief eted medal,” he fusion and was banned for two third place. Brian Cookson. added. years. “What a great honour,” Rogers “When I rem- The IOC He again tested positive in 2009 said during a ceremony at the inisce about that passed a new rule and was banned for eight years, Al Gharafa officials introduce their new Iranian signing Masoud Shojaei International Olympic Committee day 11 years ago in Athens, my as part of its Agenda 2020 reforms finally admitting doping in an (centre) at a press conference in Doha on Monday. (IOC) headquarters in Lausanne, first reaction is that of a smile. last year, aiming to honour clean interview in 2011. REUTERS WEDNESDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Real Madrid blame United for De Gea deal collapse

MADRID: Real Madrid have the transfer of David de Gea, not whether they intend to appeal to manager Louis van Gaal claiming blamed Manchester United for those for Keylor Navas, at 00:00 football’s governing body FIFA in the 24-year-old wasn’t focused at the collapse of goalkeeper David Spanish time, sending simultane- an attempt to force the transfer the English giants due to Madrid’s de Gea’s move to the Spanish ously to Real Madrid the signed through. interest. giants, claiming the English transfer contracts. FIFA refused to comment on Madrid were in the market for side sent the documents needed Real Madrid received the com- the specific details of the case a goalkeeper after Spain captain A picture taken to complete the deal after the plete documentation at 00:02 and when contacted but confirmed Iker Casillas ended his 25-year Spanish transfer deadline had tried to access the TMS but this that no appeal had been lodged association with the club by mov- on December passed. was already closed,” Madrid said by any of the parties involved. ing to Porto in July. 14, 2014 shows Madrid seemed set to conclude in a lengthy statement posted on “Up until now, we do not appear De Gea joined United from Manchester the long-running transfer saga their website yesterday. to have been contacted by either Real’s city rivals Atletico Madrid United’s Spanish with a deal that would see the “Madrid, facing the possibility of the parties in this matter,” said in 2011 and, despite a shaky start goalkeeper Spanish giants pay a significant of a contentious situation in the a FIFA spokesperson. went on to shine, winning the David de Gea transfer fee for De Gea and send transfer of the player, decided to De Gea has just one year left club’s fans’ and players’ player of looking on during Costa Rican international goal- send the contracts to the Spanish on his contract at Old Trafford the year awards for the past two the EPL match keeper Keylor Navas to United as Professional League, even know- meaning he could join Madrid seasons. against Liverpool part of the deal. ing the deadline had already for free next year if the transfer However, he refused to sign a at Old Trafford However, Spanish league passed. doesn’t go through now. new deal with United due to his in Manchester, sources confirmed that the “In conclusion, Real Madrid The Spanish press slammed desire to return to Spain with north west player hadn’t been registered did everything necessary in every Madrid’s failure to deliver their Real. England. and Madrid admitted they had moment to try to finalise these prized target in the transfer mar- A standoff between the two sent the required documentation two transfers.” ket this summer with the front clubs ensued with United also to the league after the window Despite Madrid’s prolonged pages of sports newspapers Marca expressing their interest in Real closed at midnight local time interest in De Gea, they claim and Sport describing the situation captain Sergio Ramos over the (2200GMT) on Monday. negotiations between the two as “ridiculous.” summer before he ended specu- “Manchester United intro- clubs for the player didn’t begin The Spanish international lation over his future by signing duced into the Transfer Matching until Monday morning. hasn’t featured in any of United’s a new five-year deal with Los System (TMS) the details for Real Madrid haven’t indicated six games so far this season with Blancos. AFP Qatar ready for Bhutan as HK, Guam face stern tests World Cup Qualifiers: Maroons host South Asians, Hong Kong face China Joachim Loew

SINGAPORE: Qatar are Loew backs hoping for full points against Bhutan at home as surprise early Asian pace-setters Guam Schweinsteiger and Hong Kong face daunt- ing World Cup qualifying road after shaky trips to Iran and China tomor- row that will better gauge the progress the two minnows claim United start to have made. BERLIN: German coach Boosted with a 4-0 win over Joachim Loew is backing Bastian Singapore in a friendly earlier Schweinsteiger to brush off this week, Qatar , coached by his shaky start at Manchester Coach Daniel Carreno will go United when he captains his as favourites against the South country in Friday’s key Euro Asian nation. 2016 qualifier against Poland. Meanwhile, Guam, a tiny US The world champions host territory in the Pacific Ocean, Poland in Frankfurt with Adam travel to Tehran talking of a pos- Nawalka’s visitors top of Group D sible upset against a side that by a point from Loew’s Germany, thrashed them 19-0 in qualifying who then face third-placed for the 2002 World Cup. Scotland in Glasgow on Monday, Buoyed by their first ever wins in two important qualifiers for at this level in June – 1-0 over Schweinsteiger’s side. Turkmenistan and 2-1 against An historic 2-0 defeat to India – English coach Gary White Poland in Warsaw last October - believes his side, who top Group the German’s first loss to their D, are ready to take on the three- neighbours - highlighted their times Asian champions. post-Brazil hangover as Germany “We know the size of the struggle to rediscover the form challenge we are faced with, up which carried them to the 2014 against a team that has won sev- World Cup title. eral Asian Cups and which has Schweinsteiger will lead been a regular qualifier for World Germany for the first time since Cups,” he told Pacific Daily News. Qatari players train at the Aspire Academy Football Ground in Doha, ahead of their World Cup Qualifying his transfer from Bayern Munich “(But) that’s the position that match against Bhutan. LEFT: Qatari coach Daniel Carreno during training session. The match will be to United in July. we want to put ourselves in.” played in Doha tomorrow. Loew has described the The fixture was in doubt at 31-year-old as “world-class” one point after Guam complained despite criticism of his fitness in that Iran were delaying visa The fixture is likely to be a rare successes against China Frenchman was quoted as saying Four-times Asian champi- United’s 2-1 defeat to Swansea on applications, requiring the Asian tense affair after Hong Kong when they won a World Cup by the South China Morning Post. ons Japan host lowly Cambodia, Sunday, his first full appearance Football Confederation to step in fans booed the Chinese anthem, qualifier in Beijing 30 years ago, They are two of 15 matches perennial World Cup qualifi- for his Premier League club, after and mediate. adopted by the territory in 1997, but China boss Alain Perrin is not taking place tomorrow in the ers South Korea welcome Laos, their goalless draw at home to Some in Hong Kong have also before they beat Bhutan 7-0 and expecting an upset nor five days joint 2019 Asian Cup qualifying Saudi Arabia, under the guidance Newcastle, which left them fifth been angered ahead of their Maldives 2-0 in June to top the later when they host Maldives. campaign that has minnows and of Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk in the table. Group C fixture in China, with group with FIFA warning of pun- “Our target is to collect six giants clashing but only the eight for the first time, take on East “When push comes to shove, complaints that tickets for the ishments if there is a repeat. points in the two matches and to group winners guaranteed a spot Timor, while Asian champions Bastian is still a world-class Shenzhen clash have been made The tie has seen Hong Kong score as many goals as possible in the second round of Asian qual- Australia host Bangladesh. player,” said Germany’s head unnecessarily difficult to buy. fans reminisce over one of their against the weaker teams,” the ifying for Russia 2018. REUTERS coach. “He is adaptable and his physi- cal robustness is one of his great- est strengths. “When he’s physically fit, you Wales, Cyprus eye entry at European finals know what he brings to the team: he’s a strategist, he leads the team NICOSIA: Wales and Cyprus (9) and Bosnia (8) with the top individually talented players, and he’s equipped with an unbe- have always finished among the two qualifying for the finals in some of the best players we have lievable will to fight and win.” also-rans in the qualifiers for France automatically along with ever seen in a Welsh shirt,” he After 14 years in Munich, eight the European Championship the third best-placed side in the said. Bundesliga and seven German but when they meet in Nicosia qualifiers. Bale, the world’s most expen- Cup titles, plus the 2013 treble of tomorrow both will be hoping to The eight remaining third sive footballer, has recovered Champions League, Bundesliga take another step towards end- placed teams contest the play-offs. from a toe injury, while defend- and domestic cup wins with ing their long wait for a place in Wales have slipped up badly ers James Collins and Ben Davies, Bayern, Schweinsteiger says he a major finals. in the past with places in vari- who both missed the win over is enjoying his new challenge at A wave of excitement has ous finals seemingly within their Belgium through injury, are back United. gripped Wales who top Group B grasp, but Chris Coleman’s side in the squad. “It’s been a lot of fun and it’s a with an unbeaten record of four overcame a huge psychological Cyprus’ coach Pambos great feeling to play for United,” wins and two draws, with Gareth barrier when they beat Belgium Christodoulou does not have said Schweinsteiger. Bale and his team-mates knowing 1-0 in Cardiff in June. any major selection headaches “We’ve given away five points in that if they beat Cyprus and then They were then included among although he will be without expe- our last two league games, despite Israel on Sunday they will reach the top seeds for the qualifying rienced 30-year-old French-born having the game under control their first major finals since the round draw for the 2018 World midfielder Vincent Laban, serving at Swansea and failing to get the 1958 World Cup. Cup finals in St Petersburg in a one-game suspension. goals against Newcastle, but we’re Cyprus have more to do, hav- July, and there is real optimism The Cypriots will be hoping on the right path and have quali- ing won three and lost three of that their near 60-year wait for a to claim another scalp after an fied for the Champions League. their six matches, but if they return to a major finals is finally impressive 2-1 win in Bosnia in “These two games now for were to beat Wales and then coming to an end. the opening fixture. Germany are certainly a chal- upset Belgium on Sunday they Former international Craig Having completed the double lenge and perhaps we can get too would boost their chances Bellamy told BBC Wales this week over minnows Andorra the last some revenge for our defeat in enormously. he is “100 per cent certain” Wales time out, Cyprus go into the Team Wales’ Gareth Bale (right) and Joe Ledley during training session Poland last year. Wales have 14 points, followed will qualify for the finals. upcoming two matches in good at the Vale Resort, Hensol, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales on Monday. “We’ll be doing all we can to go by Belgium (11), Israel (9), Cyprus “We have a squad with spirits. REUTERS top of the group.” AFP Wednesday 2 September 2015 18 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 Volume 20 Number 6541 Sport Price: QR2

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A panaroma view showing construction work on Qatar’s iconic Khalifa Stadium, one of venues for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The stadium will have the capacity to accommodate 40,000 spectators. Khalifa Stadium nears completion Work on iconic 2022 FIFA World Cup venue to be finished by the end of 2016

DOHA: The historic Khalifa International Stadium is one step closer to being the first proposed host venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar to be completed. With the concrete structure approaching conclusion and new levels of seating areas adding to the height of the stadium, approx- imately 90 percent of the struc- tural concrete has been laid and is expected to be fully completed within two months. Located in Al Rayyan Municipality, Khalifa International Stadium has long played a leading role in Qatar’s development as a premier host of major sporting events. The Aspire Zone Foundation, one of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC)’s stake- holders, is leading construction works on Khalifa International Stadium. Engineer Mansoor Saleh B Al – Muhannadi, Project Manager at Aspire Zone Foundation, said: “We are very happy with the rapid progress of renovation works at the site,” he said. “Khalifa International Stadium is moving to new heights with structural work in concrete and Computer generated pictures show the iconic Khalifa Stadium which will be completed by the end of 2016. It steel, and the vertical structure is will be the first World Cup venue to be completed.

Khalifa Stadium now at level eight while strength- Originally built as a and concourses. The redevelop- assembled in Mexico. It will soon Museum. Food courts, shops, ening works are also under way. 20,000-seater stadium in 1976, ment will allow the stadium to be shipped to Doha to be fixed multi-purpose rooms, VIP lounges Factbox We expect the stadium to be Khalifa International Stadium host group stage, round of 16 and using cabling made in Germany. and a health centre will also be Capacity in Tournament Mode: 40,000 handed over by the main contrac- hosted the Gulf Cup that year. It quarter-final matches. So far around 42,000 cubic metres available on the upper and lower tor at the end of 2016,” he added. returned to hosting prominence Work continues to advance of structural concrete have been concourses to be built in the East Location: Al Rayyan Municipality The arc and undulating roof in 1992, receiving an upgrade to with a priority placed on health poured. wing. In addition, a new road net- Design revealed: November 2014 of Khalifa International Stadium once-more host the Gulf Cup. and safety practices on site, with Ghanim Al Kuwari, SC work along with two new metro Construction start date: Q2 2014 are visible from afar, providing The stadium is currently around 3,300 construction work- Competition Venues Executive stations in the surrounding area Expected completion: End of 2016 a prominent introduction to the undergoing a comprehensive ers having completed a total of Director, added: “With this reno- will connect the stadium. Project Management Consultant: Projacs Aspire Zone. The large arch on renovation to meet the FIFA 3,234,709 man-hours worked vation, the stadium will not only A joint venture between Main Construction Contractor: Joint the Eastern side which was used standards for World Cup sta- without a recordable accidents. be refurbished, but also enhanced Midmac Contracting and a venture between Midmac Contracting and as a platform for the launch of diums, which includes adding a The skeleton of the new sta- with new features, maintaining subsidiary of the Belgian Besix Six Construct fireworks during the 2006 Doha new building to the east wing, and dium is on track for completion its position as a global sports Group, Six Construct, is oversee- Designer and Engineering Consultants: Asian Games opening ceremony building a single roof to cover the by the end of the year. centre and also improving its ing the main contractor works on Dar Al-Handasah has already been removed, and is whole seating area. Meanwhile, a new tent which role as a focal point for the local the stadium. Dar Al Handasah currently being replaced by two The venue will fit 40,000 spec- will cover approximately 70 per- community.” and Projacs are the Design and Matches up to and including: Quarter- arches which are further visible tators and be completely cooled, cent of the stadium was fabricated The venue will house the Project Manager Consultants finals signs of progress on the site. including the field of play, all seats in the USA and is currently being 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports respectively. THE PENINSULA QSL gears up for new season

DOHA: As part of the prepa- won’t be able to In addition, Qatar Stars League season which rations for the Qatar Stars make the QSL’s the league organ- is set to kick off on September 11. League (QSL), the competition’s media days due isers convened There will be some great activi- organisers put together three to representing meetings with ties in the new Gulf Mall starting media, days to capture photos their various all 14 club media next Thursday until the 10th of of the players in their new kits national teams officers partici- September - daily from 4pm until and other relevant data. in Asian quali- pating the QSL 10pm. The activities include pro- The league organisers have sent fiers for the this season to motional videos via TV monitors invitations for the event which 2018 World Cup stress the impor- and interviews with the stars in started yesterday to all Qatar Finals. tance of the play- the mall itself. Stars League players. However, the ers’ attendance The Qatar Stars League is The players and coaches will QSL has also during the media also set to hold its annual launch attend wearing their teams’ offi- prepared auxil- days as well as ceremony which will take place cial kit; they will be interviewed iary media days cooperating fully on September 7 at the iconic for both QSL TV (which can be so that any players who missed with the local media. Sheraton Hotel from 10:30am. Lekhwiya players celebrate with the QSL trophy after beating Al Ahli in found on YouTube), and for the the media days set to take place The league organisers have also Clubs Presidents, officials and all the penultimate round of the 2014-15 season, in this April 13, 2015 file QSL’s official website www.qsl. over the next few days will also ensured that there will also be a 14 QSL member clubs’ techni- photo. The next QSL season will start on September 11, 2015. com.qa. have their photos and data number of promotional events cal staff have been invited to the Some international players captured. leading up to the start of the new event. THE PENINSULA